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Are you stating I can't install my own memory, my own hard drive, my own optical disk, MP3's, MP4's, Blu-Ray rips (yes you can also rip those on a Mac), DVD's, Operating Systems, etc, etc. ad-nauseum? Need hardware? It's just a click away on Amazon, just as it is for every laptop and PC out there.

There is a plethora of Mac and Unix FOSS available, just as there is for Linux.

http://www.macupdate.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
http://www.sourceforge.net/
http://mac.softpedia.com/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

Your argument is patently ridiculous and reeks of trolling.

here let me give an example that happens FAR too often in Linux and really makes the OS look bad. Wireless networking. [...] In Windows? I install the nice driver that came on the CD and it"just works".

And that's why there are dozens of utilities trying to fix the shortcomings of the built-in Windows wireless tools? That's why for every f*cking 3G modem and provider, I need a separate driver CD? That's why Windows fails to connect reliably to some of our corporate WPA access points at all on any hardware?

Do you honestly think they should HAVE TO go CLI just to change wireless settings and get them to stick? [..] Simple things that can and more importantly SHOULD be done easily with a GUI more often than not ends up with NO CHOICE but CLI.

Either you haven't used a modern Linux system or you are lying through your teeth. I haven't had to go to the command line to configure wireless for years. Ubuntu has a clean, streamlined GUI for network configuration. It allows you to configure wired, wireless, 3G, and VPN all in the same UI. Ubuntu's UI is vastly superior to the inconsistent and cumbersome mess that Windows 7 has for wireless configuration, and I speak from experience here.

A wise man once said "Linux is free if you time is worthless" and I'm afraid I have to agree.

Instead, using Windows means that you waste both your time and your money.

Mark my words: In 5 years we will STILL be hearing "next year is the year of the Linux desktop!"

Yeah, another stupid marketing campaign from Microsoft.

while Linux rots at 2-4%, if you are lucky. Growth that small should be considered a total failure.

You can consider it whatever you want, but it is slowly but steadily eating into Microsoft's market share. In another five years, Linux desktop market share will probably be at around 10%. And Linux has already thwarted Microsoft's aspirations in consumer electronics, mobile computing, and servers.

What a Microsoft employee/fanboy like you should be concerned with is Microsoft's failures in consumer electronics, mobile computing, gaming, cell phones, web services, and servers. Microsoft should have owned all those markets, but they keep losing them one by one. The stench of failure surrounds Microsoft, and the rotting corpse of Windows is contributing to it.

Agreed. I simply feel no need to peddle on warez sites. Open source, freeware as well as low cost payware are abundant enough and fill the gaps for a decently low price. Why take the risk?

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
http://mac.softpedia.com/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
http://www.macorchard.com/
http://www.macupdate.com/

I've purchased 3 apps since switching to Mac last year. VMWare Fusion, an encoding app, and another to sync my gmail calendars to OS X Mail's calendars. Everything else I've needed has been free via Open Source sites found above. Gimp and OpenOffice handle the other basics. Why would you need warez?

Almost anything written well for 'Linux' that runs on *BSD or Solaris, can be compiled for OS X.

I just got into GeoTagging my photos. There are 3-4 GUI programs which 'Just Work'. In addition to exiftool and gpsbabel which are can be run from the command line plus BT747 which is OSS but Java. And most of the stuff I can install with MacPorts so everything is managed.

TrailRunner is a VERY well made piece of freeware.

http://macupdate.com/
http://versiontracker.com/

Search both for 'Free' and there are quite a bit of good apps.

I paid for TextMate because it's one of the best programs I've used. Same with Graphic Converter.

You really ended up purchasing lots of "small" apps for the Mac? I've found that Shareware in the Mac community blows away the Windows community by about x100. There are a TON of non-crippled apps for the Mac that are shareware, way more so then on Windows.

http://macupdate.com/
http://versiontracker.com/

Not true. If another display is attached, they can go into clamshell mode. Or you can just install InsomniaX

I am on OS X Tiger (10.4) now which is 1 generation older than Leopard. Even Tiger supports 9% of OpenGL 3 specs on a very old NVidia 6600 card/GPU. So, 2 of 21 extensions are already here.

The application which I use check is: OpenGL extensions viewer 3.11 which is clean freeware by a known company. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/55098

If I know Apple well after all these years, if there is a particularly impressive feature of OpenGL 3.x which is related to their frameworks, they will sure use it. At least on Snow Leopard. OS X does have massive opengl 2d acceleration already in use.

Well, there's FreeMacWare.com, OpenSourceMac.org, Fink, MacPorts, and even VersionTracker lets you sort by license.

I agree that iTunes has a bunch of features that the other players don't have that are more important than the "missing" features he listed. But one might also point out that iTunes isn't even really missing these features.

It's missing, extensions, monitor folders, and themes?

Then how come I'm listening to an Ogg Vorbis file in iTunes via xiph, while watching it in the Ultragroovalicious iTunes Visualizer?

Re: watch folders- OSX has folder actions, and comes with Automator. Making a watch folder for any application is trivial. It took me less than 30 seconds to turn a random folder into an iTunes watch folder. You can make as many of them as you want for as many applications as you want in seconds.

And you may want to explain the fact that iTunes doesn't have themes to some of the guys who write iTunes themes?

OK, on the last count, it's not fully them-able and there aren't many themes out there, but seriously, this is OSX. User interface consistency is (supposedly) a hallmark of the platform- hardly anything has skins, instead they have standard looks and user-interface guidelines, and that's supposed to be a feature.

I agree that iTunes has a bunch of features that the other players don't have that are more important than the "missing" features he listed. But one might also point out that iTunes isn't even really missing these features.

It's missing, extensions, monitor folders, and themes?

Then how come I'm listening to an Ogg Vorbis file in iTunes via xiph, while watching it in the Ultragroovalicious iTunes Visualizer?

Re: watch folders- OSX has folder actions, and comes with Automator. Making a watch folder for any application is trivial. It took me less than 30 seconds to turn a random folder into an iTunes watch folder. You can make as many of them as you want for as many applications as you want in seconds.

And you may want to explain the fact that iTunes doesn't have themes to some of the guys who write iTunes themes?

OK, on the last count, it's not fully them-able and there aren't many themes out there, but seriously, this is OSX. User interface consistency is (supposedly) a hallmark of the platform- hardly anything has skins, instead they have standard looks and user-interface guidelines, and that's supposed to be a feature.

Well, if it didn't add DRM, it sounds useful to me. There are currently too many unnecessary steps involved in backing up a DVD. I've got two optical drives- it would be nice to have software that let me put a DVD in one drive, a blank in the other, and click the "copy" button and get an identical copy fast, without messing around with DeCSS ripping to my hard drive and then burning back to disc manually.

Although there already is a program that does this or OSX, without any DRM crap, called Fast DVD Copy. Not only does it not add DRM, it DeCSS's and then can also de-macrovision, remove navigational restrictions, and extract tracks and recompress video to compress double layer DVD's onto single layer media. But the developer wants $100 for it, and ironically, the program itself is highly protected, calling home to its servers to check registration.

How many processors you have? I got 4 PPC G5s running on 4,5 GB of RAM. Thanks to Adobe, Flash 10 now uses all 4 of them in SMP fashion to cope with complex effects etc.

Adobe must be behind the times to spare such development time to "obsolete" hardware.

Apple WON'T release Snow Leopard for PowerPC because of a basic reason: There is no speed advantage of pure 64bit code/kernel on PPC64bit hardware because PPC was designed with 64bit in mind from the start. There are no "extra registers" and so on. Even funnier, same code may run SLOWER if it is pure 64bit on PPC64 because of design.

Another reason? The idea of GPU computing is way more advanced on x86 World, not PPC. They won't spare their development time to port those massive libraries to PPC.

There is no Silverlight 2 for for PPC also means they don't plan to release XBox 360, PS3 support in near future. They aren't PPC but they are not so distant cousins of my "obsolete" hardware.

Another reason could be, Silverlight is a FLOP on OS X, nobody cares about it. Check versiontracker.com numbers
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31433 ---> Silverlight
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11622 ---> Adobe Flash 10 beta which any sane or non technical user knows they should stay away until "final" ships. It beats Silverlight by factor 3, the BETA version (previously alpha)

How many processors you have? I got 4 PPC G5s running on 4,5 GB of RAM. Thanks to Adobe, Flash 10 now uses all 4 of them in SMP fashion to cope with complex effects etc.

Adobe must be behind the times to spare such development time to "obsolete" hardware.

Apple WON'T release Snow Leopard for PowerPC because of a basic reason: There is no speed advantage of pure 64bit code/kernel on PPC64bit hardware because PPC was designed with 64bit in mind from the start. There are no "extra registers" and so on. Even funnier, same code may run SLOWER if it is pure 64bit on PPC64 because of design.

Another reason? The idea of GPU computing is way more advanced on x86 World, not PPC. They won't spare their development time to port those massive libraries to PPC.

There is no Silverlight 2 for for PPC also means they don't plan to release XBox 360, PS3 support in near future. They aren't PPC but they are not so distant cousins of my "obsolete" hardware.

Another reason could be, Silverlight is a FLOP on OS X, nobody cares about it. Check versiontracker.com numbers
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31433 ---> Silverlight
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11622 ---> Adobe Flash 10 beta which any sane or non technical user knows they should stay away until "final" ships. It beats Silverlight by factor 3, the BETA version (previously alpha)

"AKAIK the DVD plays in an "overlay" layer... it's not rendered to the player's window like normal windows graphics but it's rather placed on top of it (in a similar fashion to directX, I assume). That would explain why screen captures (which must work at windows UI graphic level) don't capture DVD or divX frames." ...Yet, freeware/shareware utilities like Capture Me have no issues whatsoever taking screen shots of such content entirely at run time without requiring any additional drivers to facilitate this ability. It's not that Apple's screen shot tools can't/couldn't do this, it's simply been designed specifically not to do it as a trade-off for having an MPAA approved DVD player as part of Mac OS X.

When you write a story about open source and Google on Mac, you don't miss QuickSilver.app which is a record breaking download which turned to open source and Alcor, the developer is a Google employee.

See the numbers just at its versiontracker page
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22549

Also here is its source along with various Alcor programs:
http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/

There is no chance you miss a 200.000 downloaded (just a single site!), used by newbie to advanced developer profile utility. Unless you have never used Mac regularly and sit there and write a story about Google and Mac code of course. Another thing to include in that story is the fiasco of Google Desktop search which seriously made everyone paranoid with its method of install, method of running and the idea of shipping that Windows wonder to an OS which invented dynamic/extended search in its core.

If I was Adobe, I would be very mad of tools which are native OS X apps (which uses latest technologies) and communicate with non GUI Unix tools (like imagemagick) which can be run as 64bit since Tiger 10.4.0. Add the Apple CoreImage to the program, you have something very powerful in hand.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26426 (iMaginator)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30452 (ChocoFlop)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33411 (Pixelmator which uses imagemagick)

They weren't seeing imagemagick or Core Image as threat until some gifted, real OS X developers started to take advantage of them. If Adobe coded their application in same manner (which Apple expected them to do), they could ship 64bit Photoshop in Tiger 10.4.0 ages.

If I was developing them, I would release a 64bit version tomorrow right while people argue about 64bit Photoshop. It could be simple as a single click in XCode 3.

Isn't Adobe making sure that they can't release a Linux/OpenStep based version by ignoring Cocoa BTW? Wouldn't it be lot simpler to port to Linux/OpenStep from Cocoa?

If I was Adobe, I would be very mad of tools which are native OS X apps (which uses latest technologies) and communicate with non GUI Unix tools (like imagemagick) which can be run as 64bit since Tiger 10.4.0. Add the Apple CoreImage to the program, you have something very powerful in hand.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26426 (iMaginator)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30452 (ChocoFlop)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33411 (Pixelmator which uses imagemagick)

They weren't seeing imagemagick or Core Image as threat until some gifted, real OS X developers started to take advantage of them. If Adobe coded their application in same manner (which Apple expected them to do), they could ship 64bit Photoshop in Tiger 10.4.0 ages.

If I was developing them, I would release a 64bit version tomorrow right while people argue about 64bit Photoshop. It could be simple as a single click in XCode 3.

Isn't Adobe making sure that they can't release a Linux/OpenStep based version by ignoring Cocoa BTW? Wouldn't it be lot simpler to port to Linux/OpenStep from Cocoa?

If I was Adobe, I would be very mad of tools which are native OS X apps (which uses latest technologies) and communicate with non GUI Unix tools (like imagemagick) which can be run as 64bit since Tiger 10.4.0. Add the Apple CoreImage to the program, you have something very powerful in hand.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26426 (iMaginator)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30452 (ChocoFlop)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33411 (Pixelmator which uses imagemagick)

They weren't seeing imagemagick or Core Image as threat until some gifted, real OS X developers started to take advantage of them. If Adobe coded their application in same manner (which Apple expected them to do), they could ship 64bit Photoshop in Tiger 10.4.0 ages.

If I was developing them, I would release a 64bit version tomorrow right while people argue about 64bit Photoshop. It could be simple as a single click in XCode 3.

Isn't Adobe making sure that they can't release a Linux/OpenStep based version by ignoring Cocoa BTW? Wouldn't it be lot simpler to port to Linux/OpenStep from Cocoa?

You probably downloaded iAlertU, which is quite free and has most of the same features.

Ask & ye shall receive...

Try Witch:

They can license the right to use to Serenity systems but they don't "own" it totally. A clue about how deep MS ties is: HPFS is owned by MS, invented by own engineer. http://www.2ka.mipt.ru/~alexp/docs/programming/formats/hpfs.pdf

IBM also have a good clue how evil MS can be. MS did everything to undermine the OS/2, they didn't give a shit to Big Blue. They undermined their OWN OS, can you believe? I think IBM, being almost century old has enough experience with MS.

Let me give another example. http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/3046 (Mulberry) The author of it had to purchase his OWN CODE to make it open source. I also think he deserves more recognition for that.

As far as I remember, Pegasus had similar problems resulting from 3rd party frameworks but I don't follow Windows scene these times so I could be wrong.

You're quite mistaken about software. There are thousands of quality free software for the Mac. Thousands of quality shareware too. And thousands of commercial apps with high price tags.

Try http://www.macupdate.com/ or http://www.tuaw.com/ or http://www.versiontracker.com/ to start. You can also install thousands of free apps from sourceforge or freshmeat that were originally meant for linux or the command line... you even have access to X11 apps!

" I'd bet anything that if we saw more linux pcs at stores like best buy and walmart, the cheaper linux PC would CLOBBER in sales, because people really do care about cost.

I completely disagree. Many would much rather have an easy to use computer with great support. No doubt. I used to work at a "computer store", and "what can this do for me" and "what happens when I need help" was by far the more asked questions. The price was the last question. Besides, with Apple making computers that are on par with similar PCs today as far as price goes (and no, Apple does not make cheap VERSIONS of their computers, so stop the flame bus now), the only thing, and I mean the only thing Linux would give a general computer user is a good price, and that's simply not good enough.

Imagine your mother, grandmother, father, little kid, etc... running Linux at home... oh the humanity. It just wouldn't happen, at least not today. Not willing to switch from Windows, and want a cheap computer? Fine, Best Buy is down the road. Want a computer with a great OS, great bundled apps, and great support for both the hardware and software, under one roof? Get a Mac. Linux is still in the niche desktop market, aimed at geeks, nothing more.

Want free software for Mac without going to piratebay? See VersionTracker. You'll find 10's of thousands of pieces of software, for free, that do almost anything you want.

And what the hell does "potential software base" mean? I have no idea, but I do know that lots of Mac applications exist. That doesn't even count some of the big ones, like those produced by Omni or something like Delicious Library and DEVONtechnologies.

I was helping a friend debug a problem a couple of weeks ago and logged into her machine and thought "Hey, I don't have ccache or Valgrind." Fortunately I had sudo access.

I'm sure it's not too much bother to remember ccache.samba.org or valgrind.org, but I didn't even have to remember that much.

Though I know a little about Linux I know nothing about most of these. I know sudo allows the user to switch to superuser and that samba is something like Windows file sharing protocol but ccache and all the others I have no idea what they are. How is anyone who knows nothing about them or Linux supposed to be able to install software in Linux? As it is now the Mac offers the easiest method for computer users to install software. Linspire's Click N Run, CNR, may change that seeing as how all it requires, other than net access, is to click to install programs. CNR doesn't work with many Linux distros though. It only works, in beta, with Freespire/Linspire, Debian, Fedora, openSuse, and Ubuntu. However Version Tracker offers something similar for Macs, as does Fink and MacPorts.

Hell, my G4 PowerBook can do that.

Ah, now there you have me. I haven't used newsgroups for a while, and nowadays use the Google interface when I do. However here's a pretty comprehensive list of news readers for OS X. Maybe something will fit the bill.

Does the job. Still fits on a floppy easily.... found here!

Go to either MacUpdate or Version Tracker for Mac software with user ratings and reviews

No worse than OS X, huh?

I recently went through my old PC to remove the unused software it has collected over the years. Not only was this a long and painful process involving questions about shared DLLs that no end-user is even remotely qualified to answer, but nearly half of the uninstallers failed out-right. On top of that, my PC was still littered with registry settings, program files, and cache files from applications that were supposedly uninstalled successfully.

Do you think the App-Zapper people will develop a version for Windows? I'd pay $20 for that!

The reality is that most Windows uninstallers do little more than what is accomplished from dragging an application bundle to the trash. The reason it works on OS X (and NEXTSTEP) is because the program files and system configuration settings are contained entirely within the application bundle, as opposed to being scattered throughout the file system and registry. That is why Windows needs an uninstaller.

The reason the situation is better on OS X is because OS X doesn't obfuscate the file system the way Windows does. For people who are paranoid about a clean computer it's relatively trivial to go into ~/Library/Caches, ~/Library/Application Support, and ~/Library/Preferences and clear out stuff. Average users do this, and it's this simplicity that allows programs like App-zapper to exist. Writing such a tool for Windows would be practically impossible.

Given the choice between Application/Framework Bundles vs. requiring an installer/uninstaller program for even the simplest application, I'll choose bundles every time. It's a valid point that OS X could include a catalog of legitimate uninstallers for applications that do provide them, but on the other hand, I've been getting along just fine with /Library/Receipts for the two and a half years I've been using OS X. You know that you can select 'File->Show Files' from an OS X installer packages to view all files contained within the package, right? Another feature I wish Windows had.

But if that's all too much for Grandma then perhaps she should stick with Windows.

(By the way AppTrap does what App-Zapper does, and it's free and open source.)

I had a good clue about why Apple wants CUPS and its author in OPEN WAY.

This just appeared at Versiontracker.com ( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 32100 )
"What's new in this version:
CUPS 1.3 adds Kerberos and mDNS (Bonjour) support along with over 30 new features. Full release notes can be found at http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L479 "

I think their "evil plan" started to work! How an evil thing to add Zeroconf (yes, it is open) and Kerberos to poor CUPS :)

I wanted to add this reply before story gets archived.

No freeware for OS X? Look around in here and you'll see most everything you need - without spyware:
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

• http://coolosxapps.net/
• http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
• http://osx.iusethis.com/
• http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/cats.php
• http://www.macosxapps.com/

Also, there is a free version of BBedit called TextWrangler. It contains most of the features found in the full version including syntax highlighting and tabs. It is comparible to Nedit on Linux. Definately worth a look.

http://www.versiontracker.com/

http://www.macupdate.com/

I'm far from a whiny Mac fanboy, but the linked article is heavy on generalities and short on specifics.

Just what ARE his Word-processing requirements - if he won't buy MS Word, doesn't want to pony-up for the cheaper iWork, and can't stand TextEdit - AND he doesn't want to bother test-driving the WONDERFUL Nisus Writer:

http://www.nisus.com/

Shareware / Freeware? Christ, here's a whole heap of goodness, neatly organized and searchable:

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

And what the FUCK is wrong with making a computer that is supposed to run as sold - e.g., so you can't take the OS off and slap it on another piece of hardware?

And every bloody peripheral I own works without drama. Plug it in, the hard drive mounts, the scanner scans, the digital camera disgorges its pictures.

The one real issue he mentions that drives me crazy is the wonky memory-management issues in OSX. When it has enough memory, all is good. When it runs dry, bad things happnen - rather, nothing happens and the machine grinds to a halt. Let's hope Leopard sorts this out.

Not sure he's heard of MacPorts:

http://macports.org/

nor Fink:

http://finkproject.org/

nor version tracker:

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

There are many freeware options to manage files on an iPod, just check versiontracker.com. However, iTunes is the simplest solution. That doesn't mean you have to use only DRMed songs from the iTunes Store, however. You can use any mp3, aac, etc. Additionally it will convert windows media files on import.

Flash does show signs of horrible quality control which you can see at my Versiontracker post:
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article .php?story=20070416075853952

The issue is, Internet Plugin arch is archaic on Apple too as told very nicely and openly by Webkit developers
http://webkit.org/blog/96/background-music/

It was designed in a time while a plugin designed to do vector graphic based UIs and Apps wasn't abused as a media plugin. That is my observation of course and sorry, I might be old fashioned but I still miss the times when Realplayer plugin opened its own UDP ports, switched bandwidth based on user latency and Quicktime extends itself with new codecs.

I am not very sure about the CPU optimisation since even Photoshop Elements V 3.0 comes with its own Altivec support plugin. Yes, the cheap Photoshop and horribly outdated.

Check out RCDefault App It adds a System Preference Pane that allows you to manage default applications and file type associations with a GUI!

Just to add that the one thing that lets me function in Camino (or Safari) at all, is Cocoa Gestures, although if anyone can tell how to tie this into "top of page" and "bottom of page" actions I'd be a happy man.

Replying to myself cause I just found the CLI GUI wrapper for you:

ChapterToolMe

ChapterToolMe is a nice interface for the Apple ChapterTool utility to make simply chaptered AAC file for your podcast. You can add pictures and link to your chapter in one click.

Feeder is a fully featured application for creating, editing and publishing RSS and iTunes podcast feeds. Here are just some of its many features:
Create, download and import RSS 2.0 and iTunes podcast feeds
Full support for the iTunes RSS podcasting extensions
Drag and drop enclosure files to create new items
Automatically tag audio and video files with artwork, artist, etc in all popular podcast formats including MP3s, M4As, M4Vs (iPod video) and QuickTime movies
Quick and easy feed editing with auto-complete, templates, HTML tags and previews
Customizable interface easily adapts to the task at hand
Validates feeds to the RSS and iTunes specifications
Upload artwork and enclosure files when publishing
Publish with FTP, SFTP, .Mac or to folders on disk
Ping online services after publishing to notify them of changes

Since you've never heard of Final Builds (which gives 11 mirrors for Quicktime Alternative), here's some more links for Quicktime Alternative:

• VersionTracker
• CNET Download.com
• PC World
• codecs.com
• VideoHelp.com
• afterdawn.com

I was mostly having problems with WMV files (though also with some MPEG's), hopefully this will make things better (my only Windows machine is for gaming, so I tend to be using it to look at game related info when I'm browsing - which is where a lot of the crappy WMV files come from).

The decision to use WMV is undoubtedly a stupid one borne of ignorance though. From experience, I know there are plenty of ways to do streaming video in a non proprietary way that work fine in WMP, QT and other native video players

People outside OS X thinks Quicktime is just that dumb looking player. It is a framework which is installed systemwide.

If they want Ogg support, they can install the Xiph component http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 29804 and have Ogg support all over the system. They can even drag a ogg file to Textedit window and it will "show" (!) there.

I just did to watch Novell videos and they show perfectly in my Quicktime plugin.

There's a decent TCL scripted sudoku solver over here: http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2850 1

Don't let the link fool you, it runs anywhere you can install the TCL shell environment.

magic lantern rocks

I wandered around Western Europe with no knowledge of any of the languages (save English), and Metro installed on my PalmPilot. I never missed a train anywhere. I never went to the wrong place.