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No. You don't get what I'm saying, at all.

Slashdot Example:

FF2: I start typing in sl and the first 2 hits are
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://slashdot.org/~0100010001010011/

In FF3: I get
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.macslash.org/

You Porn Example:
FF2: I start typing youp and the first 2 hits are:
http://www.youporn.com/?submit=Enter
http://www.youporn.com/

FF3:
http://www.youporn.com/

They use a GET for their form submit so you can go directly to that second page. I can clear cookies, change browsers, use a different computer and that link still goes to the 'main page' and skips the "Ok".

Here's another real quick example I just tried:
new goes to "News for Nerds and not "newegg".

These are sites that I'm not going to book mark because that's not what bookmarks are for. I visit them daily or weekly and for the last X years I've know how to get to them without looking. Hell even IE does this better. If I start typing into the URL bar "new" why the hell would I want to go to a URL that starts with "slash".

I have quite a few servers on my home network. When I start typing in 192 do you think I really want to go to Fark thread 3219040?

Make it another bar, even enable it by default, but I want my url bar back.

Notes regarding this scanned and uploaded here.

> In the last couple of years with GarageBand etc providing the ability for anyone to make reasonable music at home

Oh wow; just checked if GarageBand supports SoundFonts2; support was added in v1.1 back '04.

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/20/0921224

http://www.thegaragedoor.com/tutorials/sftutorial.html

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/06/1654252&mode=nested

I am coming to believe that the rabid fanboi is a mythological figure. I have never once actually encountered such a person.

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That's true. For sleep/hibernation, Apple's laptops are still far ahead of Windows and Linux, both in speed and stability (but even an old Powerbook will instantly crash on sleep if you for instance use a Ralink based PCMCIA wireless card, in my experience). From what I've read, some of the stability has been lost with the MacBooks (Pro), though (random link to prove point). I guess this is because ACPI generally is a buggy piece of shit, whereas the PMU was good and consistent. But even if YMMV a bit with Apple's Intel based laptops, YMWV much more with other random laptops, that's for sure.

Linky: http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/05/174217

For those who don't want to read AFA here is the short version: More copies of Halo for Mac have been pirated than sold. Mostly out of spite from mac fan boys for the fact that originally Halo was to be a Mac first title (some say Mac-only, but...) before Microsoft bought Bungie and had it developed as the "killer app". I generally assumed that enough of geekdom around here knew the story...

Safari has always been based on KDE's KHTML, and they do contribute back to the community via the WebKit project.

See also:

KDE adds Safari feel to desktop Linux - The KDE Project has released a significant update to its K Desktop Environment software that includes refinements to the Konqueror Web browser derived from collaboration with Apple's Safari browser team.

KDE's Konqueror Browser Reaps Safari Benefits - In a perfect example of how open source and proprietary software can benefit each other, Apple got a significant headstart by basing Safari on established technologies like KHTML & Konqueror. And in return, Apple's contributions back to the open source community have benefitted Konqueror.

Haha http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=6626&cid=11708 5 . Hypocritical bandwagon jumpers!!! Very sad :P

The artists moved to the Mac in 1984 for the user interface to make their art. They generated applications, hypercard stacks,applescripts, performance spaces like the apple store soho would eventually become, text and picture clippings, art galleries (tekserve).etc., due to their highly developed aesthetics.

these artists-- these creative designers, musicians, scientists, and programmers-- stayed on the Mac during the interregnum when apple was a decaying mess and, respecting the Gestalt manager, built their applications out of dilapidated but beautiful Toolbox code.

The pencil-pushers and accountning brats saw all of this and said, "Hey, that looks cool." "Daddy buy me some of that." But these switcheurs have nothing to contribute except a talent for demanding crap like glossy screens. just what the fuck are you spreadsheet fiddlers doing? nothing beyond fueling the demand for ugly, tragically misdesigned, cookie-cutter applications like Firefox and Azureus. That is why the Mac community has so rapidly gone into its Rococco stage.

The Mac community continues to change and it is becoming very clear that we are loosing our edge-- the subcultures that once thrived on the Mac are all loosing steam to the mainstream. art, music, nightlife, web development. The Mac is so over. very sad indeed.

mailto:acaben@macslash.org

Dammit, we have macslash for posts consisting of nothing but wanking over Jobs, you fucking fanboys.
Now go and spend your pink pounds on the new version of some apple fashion accessory that's almost the same as what you already have.

Whether they give cash to the RIAA oe head to Hilary Rosen, they ARE affiliated with the RIAA. They directly contribute to its power base. They enjoy benefits from being a "reporting affiliate" or whater stupid wordgame you'd like to play as you delude yourself that you are not supporting the very people you claim to revile just so you don't have to go without your debbie gibson fix.

I could have listed 100 examples fo you but its oibvious even that wouldn't be enough, because you CHOOSE TO BELIEVE. Ah well, then I guess those old press releases won't make any differnce either... you know, the ones where emusic openly admit they are RIAA affiliated by way of the labels they represent.

Oh yeah... and they're OWNED by fucking Vivendi... er, they were. Until they were bought up by some obscure LLC partnership (an old trick for hiding parent company ties) that also owns "The Orchard" - a company that, itself, has a very bad reputation for screwing artists. So it goes from being owned outright by one of the largest RIAA partners to being owned by a secret partnership with a reputation for being pretty much as bad to artists as the "majors."

Now, repeat after me: Bahhh... Bahhh.

http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2003/0 8/emusic_is_a_freedomproof_busin.html
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/151021 1&mode=thread

A mac user got nailed with this too.

MS has a Family Program, where if you buy a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate (the high end version), you can then also purchase up two two licenses of Windows Vista Home Premium at $50 each for additional machines in your home using a special web site. This is only offered for those who purchase their copy of Vista Ultimate through a retail channel.

I purchased the Ultimate copy via Amazon for my Macbook Pro at work ($400) and then when I got home, I purchased one additional license ($50) for Home Premium through the Microsoft web site for my iMac at home. That's $450 that I gave Microsoft.

The online sale went fine and I was issued a license key for my second machine. The problem was that the key didn't work. I re-entered and double-checked it at length with no luck. Time to go to support. In the email I received it had a web link to follow if you need help, so I clicked. It goes to a non-existant page at microsoft.com, and still does today.

So, next I called the toll-free number in the email. It turns out that this is a Microsoft number, but for a different project. The person who answered my call was unusually candid with me. The poor people working at that number were not equipped for the deluge of calls they were receiving. They were not even supposed to be getting these calls. They had not been trained themselves on how to use Vista yet and had no idea what to do to remedy the problem. He told me that they've been getting "thousands" of calls all day long for this very same issue and that he can confirm for me that the keys being generated by the web site are not working for anyone.

He said all he could do was to take my name and number, which he wrote down on physical paper to deliver to his supervisor (I thought Microsoft had email, silly me). He said they were trying to get the attention of someone "higher in the food chain" to do something about it - or at least shut down the offending web page that's issuing the invalid keys. He told me he hoped that someone would get back to me "within a few days" and that he's very sorry but has nothing more to offer.

Microsoft does not offer refunds for purchases made through their web site and they are sticking to that policy, leaving users like me who already paid them hundreds of dollars with no recourse and unable to affect the remedy to this horrible situation.

On the very day that an OS is released that's been in development for half a decade, the least I expect is that their ordering systems are working correctly and their staff is properly prepared.

This has one again reinforced my impression of Microsoft as being an unresponsive company that makes crap software.

and a follow up from another poster:

Last night, I received an email from MS Support. The person sending it was telling me that she is taking "ownership" of my case and provided me her direct email address. Finally, I thought, I'm getting somewhere.

Having heard nothing more, this morning I sent her an email asking for the status of my case. No response yet. I sent another around lunchtime, still no response. So, this afternoon, I phoned them back at the number given to me in the email last night.

I was horrifed to find out that MS claims my case is closed and resolved! They transferred me to someone who could open my case back up for me, and then back to Customer Service. Being unable to help me, Customer Service transferred me to Tech Support.

After explaining the whole story from scratch again, t

It's true, we Mac users are a special bunch. And yes, some even say it's genetic.

> From what I hear, PPC programs run twice as fast on a MacBook Pro as a Powerbook, and Universal binaries run four times as fast.

Don't know where you heard...

http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=5552&cid=97873

People who value a nice, open development environment and the integrated and synergistic environment which such creates. Consider a typical work-flow in NeXTstep:

  - write an article in TeXview.app
  - select a word, hit = and get a definition / thesaurus entry while writing it
  - create a drawing in Altsys Virtuoso which needs an equation in a label
  - copy the proper equation out of your .tex file from the TeXview.app window
  - paste in the equation into Altsys Virtuoso
  - invoke the Service TeX eq -> eps in Altsys Virtuoso and get a .eps of the typeset equation (you can send the source to a background layer for reference (what I usually do) or delete it.
  - select the address of the journal receiving the article
  - invoke Poste.app to bring up a window from you you can print an envelope to mail it for submission

The environment affords similar integration w/ Mail.app as well if desired.

The commercial developer Nova Mind, http://www.nova-mind.com/ uses it to get a Windows version of their Mac OS X software.

And for those who say just use Mac OS X (I do at work):

(from: http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=4190&cid=63590 )

    - monolithic main menu bar w/ wasted blank space between the menus and the (optional) information / settings menus for Airport &c.

    - verbose Mac-style shortcut descriptions w/ arcane symbols instead of concise NeXT-style shortcuts (in NeXTstep, Save is indicated by ``s'' and Save as by ``S'', no Command symbol (it's assumed---Control only as a modifier is reserved for personal shortcuts / Unix-use), Shift by case)

    - Print, Hide, Services and Quit are no longer top-level menus where they made more sense and were quicker to get at.

    - scroll bars on wrong side (this can't be fixed by theming 'cause Carbon apps are responsible for deciding where scroll bars are placed :( having them on the left means a window is more useful when partially dragged off-screen and results in less-frequent need to resize a window

    - no Webster.app (this has since been addressed w/ 10.4), Digital Librarian / Shakespeare or Oxford's Book of Quotations --- in NeXTstep this meant one was guaranteed to have Command = _not_ used in an app so it'd be available for looking things up in Websters

    - Pantone colour library --- used to be this was licensed w/ the system, now each graphic app which needs it has to pay a license, and one _doesn't_ get them in one's office apps (major negative for adhering to corporate identity programs where such is specced)

    - vertical menu

    - pop-up main menu --- this is wonderfully fast / efficient / elegant. For me, ``Punch'' in Altsys Virtuoso is pretty much a gesture, right-click, down a bit, then straight over and release

    - repositionable sub-menus --- no need for inscrutable button bars, and one can make a given command easy to get to as needed (when doing lots of envelopes I tear off the poste.app Services menu, put it in the bottom left corner, then an envelope is merely a selection, mouse move to bottom left, click, shift right to the print menu (also aligned on the bottom edge for this) click away. (takes longer to say / type than to do)

William
(who really should save all that and put it on a web page or something instead of typing it up each time --- check my rants at http://groups.google.com/ in comp.sys.next.advocacy to see if I forgot anything...)

taken in the name of http://www.macslash.org/

ph33r teh gayn3ss!

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20. 02/PICMicrocontroller/index.html

http://polarfront.org/archives/000537.html

http://blog.paddlefish.net/archives/2004/12/usb_pi ckit_tool.html

http://robrohan.com/projects/PIConOSX/

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/011123 8

http://www.teammojo.org/PICkit/pickit1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPUTILS

http://lawlor.cs.uaf.edu/~olawlor/projects/2003/mi crochip/

http://www.gnupic.org/

I suppose 5% is less than 12%.

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/131722 3

"Why is it that 100% (or less) marketshare for Apple computers..." is equally correct.

Story here.

Story here,

This is what it's all about, right here.

Linux corn!!!

Here is an interesting comment from MacSlash poster who noticed what he says is a rootkit potential in the Linux client of Parallels. I'd be interested in hearing from some knowledgable people whether they think this might be a problem in the OS X client as well.

There are 2 separate file optimizations going on here.

The first is automatic file defragmentation. When a file is opened, if it is highly fragmented (8+ fragments) and under 20MB in size, it is defragmented. This works by just moving the file to a new, arbitrary, location. This only happens on Journaled HFS+ volumes.

The second is the "Adaptive Hot File Clustering". Over a period of days, the OS keeps track of files that are read frequently - these are files under 10MB, and which are never written to. At the end of each tracking cycle, the "hottest" files (the files that have been read the most times) are moved to a "hotband" on the disk - this is a part of the disk which is particularly fast given the physical disk characteristics (currently sized at 5MB per GB). "Cold" files are evicted to make room. As a side effect of being moved into the hotband, files are defragmented. Currently, AHFC only works on the boot volume, and only for Journaled HFS+ volumes over 10GB.

someone that knows more than me please comment on

http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=6136&op=&thres hold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=110387

go to macslash and ask Trollaxor about Ben's 2 in peppis!

TEH NUE JESUSGEEKS -> http://macslash.org/

Apple should not persecute F/OSS users

Apple should not persecute F/OSS users for attempting to interoperate with their products.

Since OS X.3, I believe the kernel has defragmented files under 20 MB on the fly.

http://www.macslash.org/

In the beginning there was PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform

A year or two later this was revised to CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform

Parent is correct. CHRP was a successor of PReP. PReP was quite flawed from Apple's perspective, and while CHRP was better, probably only few boxes actually complied with it. Some of those that did were Motorola's StarMax Pro 6000s, running 233 or 266 MHz G3s.

Those systems were announced at mid-1997, but they never shipped, as Apple decided to kill the clones. Some are still using those few that were made, though.

After listening to it,

Yeah, yeah.. You listened to it for three seconds, so you're an authority on the subject.

-jcr

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/25/113421 1&mode=thread

You may want to use the search on that site with a few other keywords. This subject comes along every once in a while so there's likely more than one thread about it.

The headline, "Apple Launches 1 GB Nano, Slashes Shuffle", makes it sound like Apple has stopped selling the Shuffle

There's a good piece running over here that talks about all the nitty-gritty that led Apple to switch to Intel.

You can't record with an iPod?

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/22/i pod_recorder.html
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/04/23/cx_ah_ 0423tentech.html
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/118245 &mode=thread
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com _content&task=view&id=130

Close but no cigar. From http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=5452&cid=95502
"Don't you get it? There is no Otto Z Stern. Every week, one of the staff at The Register writes some total flamebait and posts it under Otto's name. They've insulted lesbians, the French, female managers and now Mac users. The articles aren't particularly funny. The funny part is seeing all the letters sent in by enraged readers."

Oh yeah? What about the time 10.3.6 f-ed up everyone's (with the Oxford 911) Firewire drives? Pretty shitty treat if you ask me; har har.

Click here.

This item belongs to macslash, the source of Zonk news.

what's wrong with you Zonk??? are you in apple payroll?

I'm willing to bet IE is more secure then Firefox. Think about all the patches and updates they've had to do because of attacks on exploits.

FireFox is less targeted for attacks, that's why I use it.

Just like the Mac Myth, "Mac's don't get viruses or spyware because they're secure."

MacSlash, a horribly bias type /. for Mac users, clames "...truth be more readily told: the Mac doesn't have "few" viruses; it has "NO" viruses. Big difference."

Mac's don't get viruses or spyware as often as PC's because they're not being targeted. They only have 3.7% of the market share.

I was willing to bet that the vPod was going to be announced at the Nano announcement, but I was wrong. At least I put it in writing for once!

For more info about OS X on-the-fly defraging, check out: http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/29/190237 There is a lot of discussion about it in various places.

like a p-nus?

http://www.macslash.org/

This wasn't too well received over at Macslash. There seemed to be some questions as to whether he was in violation of the ADC's NDA, so he took the page down: here

Good to see he brought it back up.

-Scott

True. Essentially what Apple is saying that you need to be on GCC.

Technically speaking, Metrowerks could incorporate an x86 compiler into Codewarrior... however, seeing as how they sold off all their x86 compiler IP, that seems very unlikely, and Codewarrior has been slowly transitioning from *the* way to code Mac OS apps to more of an embedded/console development platform anyway, that is, when they haven't been running the company into the ground...

This MacSlash thread goes into some rather sobering details.

it is clear that they've developed x86 emulation as a part of their technology portfolio

Had the convenient side effect of being able to nobble window emulation on the G5 as well.
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/13/195422 8

60% percent of mac users like anul secks!!!

see http://www.macslash.org/ for proof ,,,

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That's because M$ ended production of IE for the Mac, also here.

And if you weere designing pages on the Mac, and testing them in IE Mac and expecting them to look the same on a Windows box, I have some prime realestate under Manhattan for you.