[ydl-gen] Linux yellow dog manual for dummies

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On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:34:23 -0500
Derick Centeno wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:37:34 -0800
> Warren Nagourney <warren at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Derick.
> > 
> > Although this is a YDL forum, I am afraid to say that there is no  
> > comparison between any linux on PPC and OS X. The former simply  
> > doesn't have the software base that I need. I used to think that it  
> > would be faster than OS X, but after a few installations of linux on  
> > Apple computers, I discovered that OS X wins hands down in the speed  
> > area as well. I think that linux is optimized for x86 and of course  
> > things like flash are only available on x86 linux (I hate flash, but  
> > it unfortunately has become a standard for internet video). There
> > are still some PPC optimizations in OS X apps and maybe even some
> > Altivec usage (which allows Quicktime to smoothly run at 1080p on my
> > PPC machines). The tasks involved in writing my book would have been  
> > enormously greater if I had used linux instead of OS X.
> 
> Prior to my relationship with TSS, I tried my hand at being an Apple
> developer.   Every course Apple offered (beyond the one free
> introduction in programming for the Mac) were expensive. Beyond that 
> you had to complete specialized seminar training at the
> Apple Campus at Cupertino!! Add to that costs for travel, hotels and
> accommodations, etc an individual developer like myself could not do
> that. Corporations and Universities with deep budgets however are
> another matter.
> 
> Within YDL however I could write and create things which ran and
> explore my own technical interests occasionally sharing them as open
> source projects which may or may not have interested others -- without
> it costing blood money, mainly mine.
> 
> There are entertaining applications for OS X, however if you really
> get into the source of how Apple did things then and does things still,
> and requires that they be done, nearly any careful programmer would see
> "spaghetti" code -- meaning inexplicable layers between the executing
> program within Apple's operating system and how that program must
> function to implement hooks into established and approved Apple tools.  
> 
> This is really the secret reason why you see no improvement in
> efficiency between your version of the Mac OS and the current or recent
> versions of Mac OS. The spaghetti has gotten "longer" and there aren't
> enough cores or processing speed to "eat" or process it all.
> 
> The TSS team avoided the spaghetti method of programming implemented by
> Microsoft and Apple.  YDL and other TSS products are faster because all
> that junk -- that spaghetti -- doesn't exist.
> 
> Although nearly everyone wants to have the functionality without the
> spaghetti, it isn't easy to do as Apple and Microsoft have proven by
> regularly losing their products into baffling code which not only
> wastes computer cycles, but also costs consumers money by costing time.
> Straightforward and intentionally well designed programming helps any
> processor, but with all that junk removed PowerPC systems running YDL
> have no peer -- period. 
> 
> Consider also that it is rather sad that even all the work Apple has
> done, in professional settings where operating systems are tested
> yearly for efficient processing and security -- Linux comes in First,
> Windows comes second and the Mac sometimes doesn't come in third place
> because other operating systems are stronger.  These tests have
> been going on for at least 10+ years!!  No Apple operating system
> has ever achieved second place!!  Allow me to be clear about this, there
> is no point on working on any computer whose data can be compromised via
> theft by breeches in wireless or other network, or system access
> vulnerabilities. Why would anyone risk it? Yet people do all the time
> because they are lulled into forgetting how vulnerable their data is as
> well as intentionally misdirected regarding how strong the operating
> system they choose to use actually is regarding protecting their
> personal and business work.  You would think that many would understand
> by this date the threat of theft of their work and their personal and
> work related identities, but no.  
> 
> That however is a whole different problem.  In consideration of
> the talent which was at Apple or Microsoft, they could and should have
> done much, much better. 
> 
> Spaghetti is fine for humans to consume as an enjoyable meal together
> with meat balls, sauces, etc. -- it is not intended for processors which
> would have to follow Moore's Law advanced infinitely every microsecond
> to successfully digest all the spaghetti humans can generate just by
> sheer imagination.

The old saying comes to mind....
"What Intel giveth Microsoft taketh away." Add to that Apple now too.

> 
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> Refranes/Popular sayings:
> The Taino say:No hay mal que por bien no venga.
> There is no evil out of which good cannot blossom.