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I had no idea there was a beta. Of course it is not available from their web site (or at least, I could not find it), but VersionTracker seems to know about it. Is that correct?

...And if I can run it on Macs then how do I do vertical scaling of my system? What about Fault Tolerance and Availability

http://www.apple.com/xserve/
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
I would wait for the intel versions to be released unless you're in a hurry.

what are commercial network management applications like Unicenter or Tivoli available for enterprise deployment of Macs.

I've never heard of either.
Unicenter: Just don't know.
Tivoli: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 14384

Are there any reliable management softwares there for Macs that guarntee me 24*7 operations with easy to use backups and restoration of whole deployment? May be I am wrong but Macs are not meant for enterprise scenario. Correct me whereever I wrong.

http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/High_Availabil ity_Admin_v10.4.pdf

OS X is unix in the same way that linux is unix. Neither of them is unix, but they do the same thing. This conversation started talking about the desktop (which I feel isn't ready in Ubuntu land, but I should check out kubuntu). XServes are "good enough" for any medium sized business, and good enough for most large businesses. But they're probably not enough for fortune 500 - at least not alone. I think that Apple still runs Oracle on some of SUNs big iron - but most (maybe all) of the webservers are probably xserves by now. As you know, OSX primary target is the home user, but there is unix under there - and it is up to most of the big tasks; just not some of the huge ones, I think.

For example, if you search on "Quark", the application comes up, as well as a ton of plug-ins ("XTensions" in Quark-speak).

Uno does a pretty good job at unifying everything to be more Aqua-ish.

They don't even care for OS X version.

That piece of shame isn't updated so it has some OS problems. A caring end user posted a patch to versiontracker and everyone installed it. I mean the people who need it.

Patch: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 29522

Yahoo Messenger (the scandal, check comments there!) http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 14474

They don't even care for OS X version.

That piece of shame isn't updated so it has some OS problems. A caring end user posted a patch to versiontracker and everyone installed it. I mean the people who need it.

Patch: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 29522

Yahoo Messenger (the scandal, check comments there!) http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 14474

If the songs are already on your iPod, you can get them back at any time. If you run a Mac, check out Senuti at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 23390/.

If you are using Mac OS X, you can download your del.icio.us bokmarks into Safari with the freeware delicious2safari.

If you aren't on a mac or don't want to bother with del.icio.us, you can always curl http://del.icio.us/rss/$USERNAME > bookmarks.xml, which will pull your bookmarks down from del.icio.us as an RSS XML file.

You might want to read some of the feedback left on VersionTracker for RB2005 and up. (Keep in mind the 4-star rating is based on an average of all versions of RB, from 2006 and lower.) There are very few positive reviews of the software past RB5.x, aside from a few token pity ratings for it.

There are a number of ways around this. You're right, it's annoying for the average user, but not so annoying that it offsets all the benefits of iPod + iTunes.

Just copy those to your iPod and feel free to share Music with your friends if you are so inclined. Actually, I found a better piece of Windows freeware (well, maybe better...I have never used vPod), but VersionTracker is being slow for me at the moment, so I can't find it.

If you use a Mac, there's a great program called Tofu that'll put text in columns. It doesn't work right in your browser, of course, but you highlight the text and drag it into Tofu (no need to even use copy & paste). I'm sure there's something similar for Windows/Linux, I just don't know about them.

Looking to http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 28184 download numbers,rating and comments, story (Rumor!) could be right.

That is a pro market application. Versiontracker isn't very much abused by pros.

Yea, http://www.download.com/RealPlayer/3000-2139_4-102 55189.html (23 million downloads), helix itself is installed on 60 million Symbian handhelds and http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 15540 http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/8428 (419.000+122.000 downloads on OS X).

Good morning already.

Welcome to the other side :)

I think the tools you are looking for are:
    - HandBrake (free, but donations welcome)
    - Toast ($$)
For your Unix stuff:
      - Darwin Ports
      - Fink
and for others:
      - Version tracker
and mac games:
      - Inside Mac Games

Also be sure to check out Adiumx.com, vlc, MPlayer OS X and the software from omnigroup.com

If you get to old enough stuff, you can run just about anything fine on a Mac or a PC, as long as there's an emulator, because as systems keep getting faster, even the emulation speed is faster than the old hardware ever was. What you need vendor software support for is relatively recent stuff. I'm just saying that I've come across more software that wouldn't run on different versions of Windows than I've ever come across that wouldn't run on different versions of Mac OS, yet I've used a lot more total Mac software. Given all the times I've heard someone complaining that they can't run such-and-such because it's for a different version of Windows than they have, I can't see why Microsoft wins the compatibility war.

http://macupdate.com/
http://macskill.com/?q=softwareupdate
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

Macupdate
Version tracker

So - you install a version of the gimp - you get a copy of gtk, install eog - you get a copy of gtk, install.... well I think you get my point.

Or you could use a package manager like Fink or DarwinPorts.

On the Mac you have scour the web deciding Free or Paid, can I trust this site? Am I downloading a trojan. Oh, this is windows only....

VersionTracker and MacUpdate keep track of "official" software sources. Apple has a directory as well.

In addition to the other advice given:

> * SMB can't network share anything but user directory (what about mounted disk images, CD's, single folders?)

This is false. You have serveral options beyond the the sharing pane in System Preferences. If you only know how to use Microsoft Windows you can investigate software like Sharepoints, you can use OS X Server which has sharepoint management built into its amazingly great administration tools, or if you are old school Linux user you can just edit your samba.conf by hand, which seems pretty painless to me.

For "command prompt here" I just wrote a tiny Applescript and dropped it in the Finder's tray (something like "tell application "finder" set mypath to (folder of the front window as string); end tell; tell application "terminal" activate; do script "cd " & mypath in front window; end tell;"). Pardon me if I got any of that syntax wrong, I rarely write applescipts :-p

So yeah. Short version: sharepoints or OS X Server will solve your GUI smb/ftp admin needs (easier than cli netinfo or editing confs), and you can use applescripts to customize your interface.

Here, http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 12512 looked it up for you too!

The fan only spins up, however, once the internal temperature hits a certain threshold, which is probably why you haven't noticed it's there. My Rev. A 12" PowerBook fan runs pretty much constantly.

No longer! Download Silent Night, and use Pacifist to install it. Then reset the PRAM by holding CMD-Opt-P-R when booting until it chimes twice.

Silent Night is just a package containing the original fan drivers for the Rev. A 12" PowerBook. The only real difference is the fan-on/fan-off temperatures, which are significantly higher than the existing drivers. Unfortunately, installing the package alone never seems to work, but using Pacifist does. Resetting the PRAM seems to be necessary, too, though I couldn't explain why.

I've been using this method ever since the update that changed the fan temperatures, without any trouble. The case does get much warmer, of course, but unless you're constantly running a full load, it's unlikely to get unbearably hot.

My killer app for Windows is Quicken. I've been using it since version 1, back before Linux's kernel hit 1.0 and before GNUcash development was started. My file is something like 12 MB in size. Whenever the topic of "how do I migrate from Quicken for Windows to GNUcash?" comes up, the solution involves a very tedious and lossy export/import of QIF files, usually with some childish jabs as to why I would ever use such a closed platform.

I bought a Windows PC specifically to run Quicken after seeing how unbelievably awful Quicken for Mac is: the migration process from Quicken/Windows to Quicken/Mac is nearly as bad as the one from Quicken/Windows to GNUcash.

Show me a program that can import my whole Quicken for Windows file into a Free Libre Software program format, and I'll go down on you.

1: dunno.
2: dunno.
3: sure. any dual+ core helps with things like that, if you stay off the swap hard drive. but what really helps things like that is the old-fashioned trick of renicing: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 9473.
4: ha! no.

You might also want to try Shiira, http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 23619.

Personally, I go for BitsOnWheels. It has a nice informative interface with a really funky 3D view of your torrent download, and it rarely gives me any problems. The only thing I have noticed about it is that it seems to develop a memory leak when downloading a torrent with lots of (as in thousands of) peers (say a Slashdotted torrent). Other than that it works well and looks kind of cool.

Personally, I have had almost no success with the latests releases of the official BitTorrent Client. It always starts the download and seems fine for a few seconds and then just stops receiving any data...

ClamXav? Worth a look, but http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/7191 6 not protecting Classic. More info here http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 24449 and don't forget to update the http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/clamavEngineIns taller_0.88.zip engine. Disinfectant saved a lot of computers! (having worked as a tech, and being paid to clean out infected macs :-))

Oh really? Well, first off, I'm not terribly sure that 'educational software' is really a market a truly small developer could easily tackle, depending on what we're talking about... but as a programmer who writes Cocoa-based Objective-C code most days, I'm *certainly* interested in learning about any gaps in the available OS X software. What are people still running in Classic mode that they can't find a suitable OS X replacement for ? Somehow I suspect it's software put out by Autodesk or some similar larger outfit that really actually wouldn't be too easy for one or two developers to slap together. That, or the end user doesn't want to pay for another copy of somethign they already own.

But really, I am curious because there do seem to be a good number of educational OS X programs... could you provide a link to the forums you're talking about, or give me the name or description of the software they're looking for ? I'd love to write it... just looking for that niche, you know...

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 13443

Change your mouse acceleration.

Just in case anyone isn't in the mood to hunt it down, here's a few links for Little Snitch:

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/10426
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 17642

Developer's Site:
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.ht ml

Add Little Snitch and Cookie Assassin to your toolbox ...

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.ht ml

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 28428&vid=246854

1st off you don't know the button on the MacBook Pro (I hate that name) doesn't support multi-button functionality. They can tell which side you are clicking on.

Secondly, http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 20854

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 22933 cheers!

Well, to be honest, far it's more reasonable and intelligent. Not to mention the fact that it's written in grammatically correct English r4+3|-|r +|-|4n 1337 $|>33(|-|. (The last part was written using a "1337" translator. it can also translate from "1337" to English, useful if you read Slashdot commentary.

Also, as for PhotoShop files, there's a preference item (Preferences -> "File Handling", select "Full Size") to have it generate the preview icons automatically when it first saves the file.

* I like versiontracker
** e.g. GraphicConverter has a function for this

Mac Bittorrent (official client) looks like it is completely written in Python and it is getting good feedback from Mac community, especially casual bittorrent users.

For feedback: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 18286

I used it and it really "feels native".

ps: I am not a developer.

Broderbund and Software MacKiev have quite a bit of fairly good quality children's software for the Mac. (KidPix 3X is a gem.) You can occasionally turn up something else on Amazon as well. As a last resort, choose "Mac OS X Software" from the Apple menu; Apple's own database is sometimes out of date and doesn't distinguish marketing hype froom reality.

Someone else mentioned Versiontracker and MacUpdate, the major Mac shareware sites. Shareware was never unique to DOS or Windows. CompuServe and many BBS's had Mac shareware areas, too.

And it never hurts to Google for "mac WindowsSoftwareTitle"; you may not find an actual Mac version, but you just might find an equivalent.

No, the quantity will never match that of The Dominant Platform, but the quality is often as good or better than anything for Windows. The developers that do target the Mac are usually more established players with offerings that have proven themselves in the marketplace. Mac users aren't tolerant of low-quality ports; Microsoft learned this the hard way a few years back. I'm not sure I'd want hordes of Visual Basic programmers rushing into the Mac marketplace; it would probably result in a lot of disappointed users and almost as many disappointed developers. Writing Mac software that is successful requires a lot of attention; many popular Windows titles (WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 in the early '90s, CorelDraw more recently) flopped on the Mac.

There are fully functional Skype and Gizmo clients on Mac in addition to many other solutions available for voice chat.

Yahoo messenger for OS X is a JOKE. It should never have "yahoo" name on it! If you don't know what I speak about, check its versiontracker page and read comments:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 14474

One of the funniest things about it is... It has quicktime supported cam functionality WITHOUT voice. I know one guy "video chats" running Skype and Yahoo videocam same time.

Imagine, people on Mac scene are happy that they are merging with MSN since they hope Mac unit of Microsoft will help a bit.

Just the Mac gives a clue about how serious they are... They are NOT serious.

You can always use Safari Enhancer on versiontracker. It turns off the cache, and allows it to spoof it's user-agent.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 17776

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 20277

hmmm might work

http://www.versiontracker.com/macos/cat/mathscient ific

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science /

http://www.apple.com/science/

http://www.hmug.org/Sci.php

FU Tivo.

"Dream?" Fantasize is more like it. If "recompiling" was all it takes, there would be no differences between what is available under OS X from anything else. Recompiling of C or C++ code (so long as it doesn't need to interact with Quartz/Aqua) targeting PPC has been available since Day One for OS X.

There probably shouldn't be much difference in how Common Lisp looks from one implementation or platform to another. Or at least that's the portability argument. I'll deal with this first, then return to whether this looks "satisfactory".

Several Common Lisp implementations on POSIX systems are highly portable in terms of functionality; many more are not. Portabiilty is at the Lisp level, performance is in the implementation. So, it really is a question of "recompiling" your portable Lisp source. Your interaction with Quartz/Aqua/The Mac in General can be mediated by e.g. CLUI or by CLX+X11 or some combination, and look and behave pretty much exactly the same as on a host Windows or Linux or NetBSD system.

Moreover, modern CL compilers target several ISAs, and modern runtimes can cope with the performance tradeoffs among various architectures, although with varying performance and possible extension gaps from one host system to another. Consequently, non-standard libraries made available by a portable implementation can also be used cross-platform.

However, that said, there are useful non-standard libraries which aren't (yet) portably cross-platform. Many of these are experimental. One in particular is the OpenMCL Cocoa programming environment, which is obviously Mac OS X centric.

While it is one thing to run faceless software that can connect to the BSD guts of OS X, once it needs to talk to the user it will have to interact with the Cocoa (Objective C) GUI layer, or be retricted to running from the Terminal window or X11 or maybe use a Java presentation layer -- none of which are completely satisfactory (assuming there is a significant amount of user interaction).

The Mac OS X "way" is cooperating processes. A GUI front ends for scripted or compiled programs, exchanging data with it via XML, text or binary streams, or even shared memory/CoreData storage. Most apps that you'd find on VersionTracker for example, are exactly like this. Some of the apps are trivial GUIs for Apple-provided "command line tools" and the like. Many more are a mix of GUI and backend. Few are completely integrated within the same single program.

There is no particular reason why a bundle could not contain one or more fat binaries supporting x86 and PPC, some ruby or python scripts, and multiple GUIs -- one native Aqua/Quartz, one X11 (useful for remote X servers), one that runs an HTML server... The binaries could be standalone compiled Lisp code.

The code base that generates this would make delivery to a platform that is only X11 and x86 pretty easy... you just make new binaries (scripts and resources probably stay the same) and omit the Mac-specific stuff.

Windozers apparently need not apply.

There are CL implementations for Windows that would gladly compile the Lisp backends without significant change to the source. The work would be in building the Windows-like GUI frontend.

Personally, I also far prefer the high-end G5 to any x86-derived implementation. However, I don't write Lisp (or Scheme or Python or shell scripts) specifically targetting the G5 or PPC... Most people writing Objective-C, C++ or even C probably aren't really writing non-portable code. So, having two Mac OS X platforms is probably not going to be as big a bear as supporting code for Mac OS X and any other platform, in some cases even including Linux/PPC.

Aggressive cross-platform thinking is a good move; abstracting away the pro

Nope, installed it on OS 9, and they now even support a Carbonised version: http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode= basic&action=search&str=starcraft&plt%5B%5D=macosx &x=18&y=3Starcraft on versiontracker.com.
Back on topic: is Linspire localised? In all the possible dialects Korea has? That could give them one hell of an advantage.

If you're using a TIVO series 2 box, then this is what you want to try: TIVO Desktop. The Mac support has ended, but the software is supposed to work very well under the latest incarnation of Tiger.

Cheers,
Ian

Very worky. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 22715&page=10

Where that "hate" coming from? All I see is a $35 shareware email client http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 3046

It got 3.8 rating from Versiontracker users which is really hard to get.

What do you suggest for people needing its features or happy with the program? e.g. I use Eudora here on OS X and waiting for its Cocoa release to buy, should it die too?

Eh, Qualcomm at its back, a bit hard :)

iTunes's default MP3 encoder is awful at VBR and makes its good AAC encoder sound better in comparison. I suggest changing iTunes's MP3 encoder to LAME, then comparing the results with AAC.

If you compare LAME VBR MP3 and iTunes AAC, you won't hear a difference (especially on an iPod) and MP3 is the accepted de facto standard. Of course, you might think AAC sounds better if you've drunk the Kool-aid and have been exposed to the Reality Distortion Field.

I'm hoping all devices play AAC eventually, but if you are encoding now, wouldn't it be better to encode in the format that plays in all devices and software?

For a media center, try a modified xbox with XBMC. Unfortunately I don't think that XBMC can rip movies yet, so you would still need to do the ripping on a computer. I use AutoGK to do my ripping on my windoze pc, and store the files in numerous places, like the windoze pc, a linux box, or on the xbox itself.

I'm sure there has to be some ripping software for a Mac as well... A friend of mine does his ripping on a Mac, and has mentioned a program called Mac the Ripper.

If it's based on XML, it had better specify a compression standard. Declarative prgramming a graphical object can make for some absolutely huge files.

On OS X, there was this program floating around on Versiontracker that would convert any picture into an html document by converting each pixel into a table-cell that was styled 1px by 1px and colored. This prevened easy downloading of the image, but caused what might have been a 100k image to take up 4 megs in an html file.

Of course, XAML is vector-based, but knowing the kinds of schemas MS likes to promulgate, the possiblity of bandwidth-chewing "rich web content" is quite real.

They exist only as source data in my home. The first thing done with any CD is to rip it, the first thing done with any DVD is to rip it. CDs get put into iTunes then streamed into my amp via an Airport Express, DVDs get converted to MP4 and streamed via an Elgato eyeHome. I have a (UK, so Series 1) hacked Tivo which handles VCR-type needs and then some. With a few hacks here and there, that also handles streaming of recently recorded video and I wrote a quick app to handle creation of a podcast from any radio programmes I'm interested in (here, if you're interested. Perl so should be cross-platform).

Obviously that's an OS X set-up I'm talking about, but that kind of thing is possible on Linux and Windows too. It's also not an especially hard process. My bits and pieces to produce it accumulated over the years, were I starting from scratch now I think MythTV would be what I'd look at.

Anyway, regardless of specific tools or platform the idea of no CDs or DVDs in the home is a reality right now for me. And I doubt I'm unique in this.

Cheers,
Ian