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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.1.3
nbvb
submitted what I'm pleased to say is our first
apple.slashdot.org
story. We'll be posting more news for our sizable
Apple population there in the future. Anyway, He says
"Apple today released Mac OS X 10.1.3. Be sure to click your "Software Update" and "Install" buttons! (Hey, if we can get an announcement every time a new point rev of a development kernel hits the FTP sites, can't we hear about Mac OS X?)" As usual, user reports of the new release have been both positive and negative.
I like the graphics change
Me email iz skyewalkerluke at microsoft's free email service.
Can we have this theme on the other pages?
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
what's apple.slashdot.org... Or am I out of the loop?
What's next a Micro$oft.Slashdot.org???
The new DVD player can show movies on the external monitor attached to my PowerBook G4. That was the only remaining regression OS X had versus OS 9 on my machine. I'm a happy sometimes-OSX user now :)
where's the "first post EVER" and "AppleSeed Cluster" posts? :P
Warning, Slashdot Conspiracy Theory:
I think someone just wanted to use the new apple icons...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Now, I'm a Mac user and do the rounds off all the Mac info and rumors sites each day as well as thoroughly reading evey article on /. having to do with Apple, so don't get me wrong. But, I guess I'm wondering why Apple stuff is being broken out? What's the reasoning? Will we have a windows.slashdot.org soon? Isn't this just going to make it possible to hide possibly interesting articles from people on the main page that don't visit apple.slashdot?
"Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average." - A. W. Tozer
-- Dan
I hit the update button in the tools menu, and it didn't mention anything about 10.1.3.
:-(
All it gave me was some "Welcome to Windows Update" page.
alias uptime="echo '5:33pm up 22342352324 days, 6:28, 2124315623 users, load average: 2432.40, 12312.31, 123123.19'"
Apple has released Mac OS X 10.1.3 via the software update mechanism, which delivers enhancements that improve the reliability of Mac OS X applications, important security features and includes new and updated support for a variety of Digital Hub peripheral devices. Specific updates include:
CD Disc Recording Peripherals: Expanded support for QPS, EZQuest, LaCie, Yamaha, MCE Technologies and Sony devices
Image Capture and iPhoto: Improved support for several digital camera models from Canon, Kodak and Sony
DVD Playback on external VGA displays on PowerBook G4 (Graphics/OpenGL)
PowerBook video mirroring will be on by default when connecting to a new display
(Graphics/OpenGL)
Improvements for iTunes when the full screen visualizer is used (Graphics/OpenGL)
Login authentication support for LDAP and Active Directory services (networking/improvements)
OpenSSH version 3.0.2p1 (networking/improvements)
WebDAV support for Digest authentication (networking/improvements)
Mail includes support for SSL encryption (networking/improvements)
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Call me when they release OS X for x86, otherwise I'm not interested.... (The weight of both linux and OS X might just might be just enough critical mass for swaying the desktop!!!)
Can we have this on the main page? This is just coool!
:-) ), or whatever are in the making, why the apple-centricity?
That said, i'm not sure why apple.slashdot.org exists. Unless bsd.slash, win.slash (ooh, flame target, bad example
Considering how much Apples are used in Marketing and Advertising, you'd think Apple would already be infected with crap and gayness. ;-)
Help, I'm Dying! Apple.Slashdot.org? Where's Linux.Slashdot.org?
. becoming...less...responsive...someone...please... hel
All this time the trolls were saying that BSD was dying but in reality it was Linux! My...Linux...system...is...slowly...dying...and..
[NOCARRIER]
;-)
The Apple dorks get apple.slashdot.org. What about the Microsoft dweebs. Where is microsoft.slashdot.org. Or how about a linux.slashdot.org.
What is so special about apple that they get their own subdomain?
I look forward to the day when we get a story every time M$ release a 'critical update'.
I look forward to the day when we don't get a story every time Linux increments by 0.0.1.
A Mac-branded portion of Slashdot, complete with oogly googly prettiness in the form of gradients and rounding.
.slashdot.orgs would have to be:
The message being broadcast to me on a quick hop around the
Apple = Pretty, ooh, ooh
Linux = Ugly, stinky, green
BSD = Red
Hm.
Anyway, this is far too hi-fi for me. Back to ugly, stinky, green.
-l
p.s. Why is Science ugly, stinky, green, too? Science and Linux don't look even nearly similar, I dual boot them!
bsd.slashdot.org
Best Slashdot Co
That will happen right after the next time they\
release a unix. (Yes, I know about SCO.)
Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
If you don't like apple.slashdot.org then go there. It's as simple as that.
Maybe not XP solid, but much better than Linux, no doubt about it.
Troll alarm bells are ringing here, so I'll cut short my response, as I don't have any mod points at the moment to slap this one with.
Suffice to say, try printf()ing a few tabs and backslashes in quick succession under 200 or XP ad then tell me it's stable. After you've rebooted and reconnected to the internet that is...
hmm... Finally OS X achieves what a portion of the linux community was dreaming for, a stable, configurable unix-based OS with a user-friendly GUI. OS X will make my job a lot easier, users get access to MS Office and I get NIS, vi, ipfw, etc.
You may remember when Apple permitted clones that Apple almost went under. This was because the clones were causing Apple's finances to hemorage like a hemophilliac.
I agree it would be nice to have OSX for my PC. I'd dump Windows in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, doing this would also mean the end of Apple, so its nothing but wishful thinking.
*sigh*
Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
Dear Mr. Robert Malda:
This law firm is the intellectual property and litigation counsel to Apple Computers (NASDAQ: APPL). It has come to our attention that you are the registrant and primary owner/operator of http://slashdot.org, a renowned site for open source and free software fanatics. Your new web site graphics scheme at http://apple.slashdot.org is in violation of Apple's copyright of any and all things computer-related and translucent in appearance.
Please be advised that Apple Computer is the holder of "combined translucency and sex appeal" which the United States Patent and Trademark office has accepted for registration on the Principal Register. Since the late 1970s, my client has created beautiful engineering miracles of this aesthetic design. Apple Computer, courtesy of their marvelous, refined, and sexy produts, have an outward appearance that has become famous worldwide. Consumers looking for lime, flamingo, tangerine, and/or neon-colored computing devices have come to find my company's products, and only their products and parallel websites for advertising and selling said products.
You are hereby warned and notified to CEASE AND DESIST your use of attractive shiny graphics, which you continue to use in bad faith. If you do not immediately remove them, we will take all action necessary to protect our mark. Your failure to comply will result in my client's full and forceful prosecution of all of its rights, and you could incur liability for damages in excess of $11,371,137 and responsibility for our attorneys' fees.
Sincerely,
The Law Firm of Geoffrey R. Morris,
Washington/Tokyo/London/San Francisco
(adapted from webtechniques.com's Bret A. Fausett)
EricKrout.com
More proprietary software. OS X: lets sell out freedom for eyecandy.
;)
Nope, sells out freedom for the ability to run mainstream software. Actually only the GUI half is proprietary and only half the proprietary software is ported. Coincidence?
Apple Macintosh:
1. Nope
2. Work
3. Home
4. Work and Home
5. Cowboy Neal eating an apple. Yum.
Why has /. suddenly put up 11 Apple topics? There's only enough Apple news to fit in one topic. I thought that if /. was going to put up 11 topics about anything it would be Linux!
I guess this counts as a First Story, not a First Post? :-)
--NBVB
(Whee, my first accepted submission, too!)
Why are there 10 seperate apple topics?
Are you guys paid by apple?
Isn't 10 topics for apple overkill?
It's true: you have the freedom to suck.
Anyone know if, by chance, they have fixed the annoying finder issue where folder views are not kept?
This is an issue with me that's actually addressed in the KB. They state it will be fixed in a future OS revision. Anyone else think that's kind of lame?
I happened to be in the process of downloading 10.1.3 when I came across this discussion on Slashdot. The installation was effortless, and it's great to have system software that's less than 24 hours old. But when I rebooted and selected "About This Mac," the box came up saying 10.1.3 is installed, "Copyright 1983-2001 Apple Computer."
Oops! Fortunately, other than that little oversight, 10.1.3 seems amazing so far. Rock solid and gorgeous.
I'm generally "Interesting," "Insightful," and even "Funny" here. What the hell happens to me at parties?
Slashdot got Aquified!! i hope this isn't some sort of plot to keep us apple-ites separated from you "real" computer enthusiasts ;) J/K, I have noticed a lot more coverage of Apple stuff since OS X started gaining steam in the tech community, and I really appreciate it. Also i think its funny that you guys remade the UI elements in aqua fashion.
:)
Mac users may have to fight for respect and fend off the "condolences" of our Windows counterparts a lot of the time, but its nice to know that we have Slashdot on our side, or at least not berating us. Thanks for the recognition guys!!!
Oh, and 10.1.3 RULES. easy flawless upgrade. System keeps getting snappier and more impressive. I'm dying to see 10.2: The Return of Sping-Loaded Folders! Excuse me while i trip out to my killer iTunes visuals on my 27" television
Do we REALLY have to put up with this ass end UGLY interface?
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I stick with PCs because I -CANNOT STAND BLUE FRIGGIN CURVY EDGES INTERFACES-
I do NOT want to have to put up with it on a site that is dedicated (more or less) to an OS known for its CLI. . .
Help. . .
(this would be one good reason to disable images. . .
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At home, I run fetchmail, UW Imap/pop3, and postfix. (Some excellent instructions for installing it are here at Stepwise), Image Magick, Gimp, and some other Open Source programs on OS X. I also use BBedit and Microsoft Office X. (And I can say that Entourage is a far superior program to the one I have to use with Windows.)
The good news: Nothing broke. 10.1.3 didn't rewrite any mail settings, so all of my mail continued to come in/get sent out just fine.
The bad: Still no focus-follows-mouse, multiple desktops, or the ability to connect to my wife's printer on her Windows 98 box.
I did have a problem with Samba for a little bit (I have another computer running Win98 I use just for games playing). Once I turned off the SMB service and turned it back on, it worked fine.
Some of these things comes from a former KDE user (ie: focus-follows-mouse, etc), but overall, since it didn't break anything, I'm assuming all went well. As person who used Linux 90% of the time up until last week, OS X is still surprising me by all the little nice things they put in.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
I tried this a couple of different ways on Windows 2000 a minute ago and it works fine and didn't crash my system. I used Visual Studio 6 w/ service pack 5. What's the trick? Here's my last attempt:
...
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
printf("\t\t\t");
printf("\\\\\\");
printf("\t\t\t");
printf("\\\\\\");
return 0;
}
<i>try printf()ing a few tabs and backslashes in quick succession under 200 or XP ad then tell me it's stable.</i>
... \\\ Press an
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
for (int i=0; i<100; i++)
{
int a = rand();
if (a % 2)
printf("\t");
else
printf("\\");
}
return 0;
}
Compiling with VC6 on Win2K SP2.
Results:
\\
y key to continue
Nary a crash to be found.
But I found this problem with the compression filter when I tried to post this...
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
Well, obviously that isn't enough. Maybe I just ought not post that series of slashes and tabs? In any case, I think if I keep adding text that doesn't repeat or have too much whitespace this comment will make it past the stupid lameness filter.
Forget it. I'm just going to remove most of the slashes and tabs. The ellipses will stand for all the things that didn't make it into this post because of the lameness filter.
I think it is a cool idea since now, because of Apple, BSD has a 3 to 1 lead over Linux on the Desktop. Take that Tux!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Now, because I'm at work I haven't had a chance to install the 10.1.3 update. Someone please tell me they did some Aqua or ATI 3D optimization on the Rage chipset in the new iBooks. That is -all- I want! Also, I haven't really seen much comments or reports on the update, since Apple doesn't publish a really big CHANGELOG. But Macintouch has a fairly huge reader reports section. If not, I guess I'll have to wait for the next 10.2 beta.
Anyone know how to make non-supported DVD drives play with OS X DVD player.app? I have an LG 12x burner 8x DVD that is supposed to work according to xlr8yourmac.com - it'll work fine in OS 9 but no love from 10.1.2. Cool. Have fun!
-Pat
Worse..Graphics..ever.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
It's because they're tired of Apple user's tireless honest answers to stupid flames:
CmdrTaco: Oh yeah, the new xMac is out. It can burn DVDs and run BSD software while preparing you a tasteful, healthy meal for you every day and never needs to be taken for a walk, and it actually looks halfway decent, but I won't ever use it because it ships with a one-button mouse.
Mac-using hordes: BUY A GODDAMN $10 3-BUTTON MOUSE ALREADY!
Taco: All right, I'm sectioning off a Mac ghetto and sending you there so I don't have to listen anymore.
BTW, I couldn't post to this article without going through apple.slashdot.org. That's annoying. And a shiny ugly green theme is still an ugly green theme.
I have a positive modifier on Troll. When I mod someone Troll their karma should go UP!
Linux is already available for the PPC.
Ah geez people:
s oft.slashdot.NET
/. is all about? It's a multiculture (well, geek-culture of course) discussion and news forum. Maybe it has it's own mind, but at least every opinion is hosted.
/.
apple.slashdot.org
windows.slashdot.COM
micro
freebsd.slashdot.edu
what's the point in separating ourselves from the rest in what
First poll suggestion:
cease apple.slashdot.org?
O Yes, please post all mac news on the real
O Maybe, I dunno
O No, I don't care about the rest, Apple is my leader
O what's a poll?
Do apple.slashdot.org users not get a poll? That is the only reason to come to /.
Question: What does this do to Macslash? I've always looked to them for info first (although the conversations were admittedly dead and moderation points were nonexistant) and they're apparently in a bit of a financial scrape. Personally, I'd rather an active discussion here than dead air there, but I'm still curious. Triv
It's probably a very strategic move into the space of mac info/rumors sites, ~because~ those sites have a dedicated following like /., but with a splintered offering of niche info. In other words, Can /. rule the mac weblog space?
/. will have to deal with or risk dissolving its brand.
Slashdot was probably asking themselves "Why not use our brand and slashcode to bring a superior geek news site to a community that has demonstrated their desire for this kind of content."
The problems you bring up are going to be issues
P.S. I used to visit macosrumors everyday, then they posted a link to this new site "Slashdot"... 1997?
You said
try printf()ing a few tabs and backslashes in quick succession under 200 or XP ad
Well I've heard of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 but not Windows 200. And you probably want to run a program in Windows XP and not an XP advertisement. You'll get better results.
I just tried your code with i
Then Just Download LYNX
Locked up during the "Optimizing OS X" portion of the install. Cursor moved, but no apps responded. I almost expected this, as I read about install lockups with tibook users. I was not immune.
Powered off, and rebooted. Ran 'sudo update_prebinding -root', which is what "Optimizing OS X" usually means. Seems to work like a champ, now. I notice a little speed increase.
% uname -a
Darwin neptune.sps.lane.edu 5.3 Darwin Kernel Version 5.3: Thu Jan 24 22:06:02 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
All "green title bars" should have the Aqua-ish gradient background to them.
Honestly, I think the kudos for this new theme show that's time for Slashdot to receive a minor face-lift. Nothing radical. Just a bit of spit'n'polish.
I swear by MacOS X. Although I use to swear *at* MacOS 9...
I just tried your code with i
I'm going to assume you didn't finish your comme
Possible explanations:
Even a different section might be worthwhile.
major
1. finder views not sticking - AMEN!
2. springloaded folders
3. windowshade (is a haxie, *should* be a feature)
***are these three so christlessly difficult?***
minor - could live with haxie but why?
4. detent in the icon zoom
5. where the *&^%@! is my os9 desktop in a std file dialog?
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Ooops should have previewed...I just tried your code with i<1000000 and it's still running while I post this and obviously hasn't crashed yet.
first of all, it's not blue, idiot, it's green. Secondly if you don't like it, don't read it. Thirdly Linux isn't known for it's CLI, it's known for Gnome and KDE and being a cheap knock off of a commercial unix.
cheese logs keep my wang warm at night.
Never ceases to amaze me how much people dismiss Apple out-of-hand simply because its not a free OS.
... heh.
e .com/easier
I love Linux and what it represents, but it is NOT a viable alternative for people who just want a computer to WORK out of the box when they bring it home.
It is NOT a viable alternative for graphics professionals, video professionals, and although can be suited for use as a desktop OS in a corporate "office" type environment, it lacks the easy-to-install-and-configure aspect that is holding it back from displacing Windows entirely in corporate America (who could save billions every year by switching to Linux if they were smart).
Apple, to be fair, is more pricey. But as has been noted MANY times, the total cost of ownership over time is dramatically lower. Linux and Apple should co-exist peacefully. If I want a box for internet surfing and mail checking and light office work and didn't want to spend much $, you're damn right I'd build a cheap linux box. But if I want a computer I can use for EVERYTHING, that works as advertised, with minimal effort in maintenance, where everything i do and need and use on a daily basis is provided immediately upon opening the box and plugging it in, I'll take a Mac, thank you.
Oh, and as a side note, i have never in over 2 years recieved a single bit of spam at my Mac.Com email address. Wanna know why? They don't sell out their customers.
And don't give me the upgradability thing..... I just took my B&W G3 350 purchased almost 3 years ago and once again made it a screamer with 1GB of RAM, a new G4 500 proc., an 80GB drive, and a new Radeon 7000. Plus a nice FireWire 16x10x40. It can still crush a P4 1GHz easy. yes, I know they're up to 2.2 Ghz, but Apple's got dual 1GHz
check out:
http://www.apple.com/myths
http://www.appl
what exactly is so unuser-friendly about KDE? and why are you saying the linux community as if the BSDs are left out? thought OSX uses freebsd (in some mangled form) i dont see fbsd or any other bsd getting a new gui facelift. but then again, i find Aqua and Luna to distracting to do any real work. BUT if you really need eyecandy, Enlightenment or Sawfish fit your bill, and are a lot faster than the whole Aqua contraption.
its:
:)
#include
int main(void)
{
printf("\t\b\b");
return 0;
}
I just BSOD'ed my machine with it...
enjoy
-jsnyder
Don't forget about all of the network admins who have a few apples spotted amongst windows/*nix/solaris and other machines. It sure is nice to rely on /. for all important info regard all major os's. just my $.02.
What I would really like is a topic where all these Linux 2.2.0.2.3.4.1.3 and MacOS X 10.1.3 updates are posted so I can skip them. I like to read about a substantially new version of an OS, but why should we be bothered with these minor bug-fixes. The people who use the respective OS's will learn about the update from their own sources (I learned about this update from 5 sites before Slashdot told me about it) and the others couldn't care less about minor fixes that don't affect them.
Besides, the most important reason to read slashdot is for the comments and these topics get the worst comments of all. It's mostly trolling (Mac/Linux/BSD rulez/sucks) and uninteresting trivia (did you know that this update fixes DVD on external monitors?). Get me some serious technology news that illicits comments about the problems of EPIC or an ethical story about censorship.
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
...when Microsoft is cool enough to get a microsoft.slashdot.org
No, it is aqua blue.
Or a blue green.
Most most DEFINTLY some short of shade of blue.
Defintly alot of green in there too though, but also some blue.
Need help treating your acne? Come here!
does anyone know why perl 5.4 in os X does not run like in Linux. The routines I am using are found in learning perl work great in linux ,but put them in osx they do not work....
1. Apple will never release OS X for Intel although it would be cool, they make most of their money from hardware!
2. Apple.slashdot.org should not a high priority. No equal representation.
3. Aqua/OS X theme is cool.
4. Don't complain about OS X, its Unix and its cool.
5. return this/self;
This Wiki Feeds You TV and Anime - vidwiki.org
Are we going to see some syndication here? I mean - like the /. XML file found on the main site?
I like to browse the headlines, and not go back and revisit every stinking discussion site I watch every single day.
- passion
Finally, even as a corporate manager, I was able to go to a UNIX on my laptop without dual-booting, etc. It's what I needed -- a UNIX with MS Office! While there's still some corner cases where not having a windows machine is annoying, they aren't every day occurances.
It *is* all about the applications.
Man, you're now in the history books, as the über-poster of slashdot.
I'm just glad that my old SCSI Yamaha 8x4x24 actually works in OS X using the built in Disc Burner and iTunes. Burning CDs was just about the last thing justifying keeping OS 9 on my G4.
t'nera semordnilap
In my case you have to run that like 3 times before the machine goes, maybe something like this is more appropriate:
#include
int main(void)
{
int i;
for (i=0; i100; i++) {
printf("\t\b\b");
}
return 0;
}
Check out Space for multiple desktops. Not quite true multiple desktops but I can't imagine OS X without it.
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Carbonized or rewritten completely in Cocoa?
(I really tried, I just couldn't help myself)
This
Thus far, 10.1.3 has locked up *every* G4 system I have tried it on... first gen "Yikes" G4, Sawtooth G4, and PowerBook G4.
Beware! It seems Apple has not tested this release and we the users are going to pay dearly for it. This is not acceptable.
Sapere aude!
Actually the base color used for the gradient, is the same exact color as the normal slashdot theme.
cheese logs keep my wang warm at night.
It really seems much snappier. I updated a G4/450 and a G3/350 without problem, and all window functions and menu functions are really faster. It is most apparent on the G3. THe G4 has a gig of ram, and the g3 has 128, but without classic on the machine, it runs very well and can convert MP3's to an audio CD in iTunes at 8x speed. Not bad for old hardware.
today is spelling optional day.
Dear Sir,
It has come to my attention that you are a annoying grammar nazi. Being that this a free form BB where grammar and spellings come second to a comment's underlying meaning, we the poor spelling, run on sentance writers, misusers of the english language, would kindly ask you to fuck off and stick to the classroom where children can throw spit balls at you and make fun of your name. That is all.
I'm very pleased to say it also works great on the Powerbook G3 (Pismo/Firewire) ;-)
Just tested it on my TV and on an external monitor, all I can say is SWEEEEEET
Together with an Cordless Optical Mouse from Logitech it's the ideal makedue DVD platform
Now al we need is support for VCD and SVCD under OSX. And maybe mp3 audio support in quicktime so we can play Divx without all that conversion stuff.
Apple really dropped the proverbial ball on that one if you ask me. I thought it was THE multimedia OS ?
Oh, well I'm already happy I can play my copy "Hackers" when I'm in need of my regular fix of pure Bullshit.
blaah !
Good clarification. I was going to call you a liar (and the guy who originally posted the vulnerability incorrectly), but you only need to count to 3 kill Windows.
I didn't get a bluescreen, though, just a reboot.
What impressed me, was that the update was instantly availible in the german language version also. I (Mac user since two weeks) expected to have to wait at least a few days.
Does apple always release all language versions at the same time?
Would be nice.
BTW: hasnt anybody sayed recently that Star Wars Episode II will premire in europe on the same day as in US. Do i see the trend here that US companies stop treating ther non US customers as second class people, or is it just apple.
P.S. I used to visit macosrumors everyday, then they posted a link to this new site "Slashdot"... 1997?
/. That's how I ended up here.
It was January 1998. BlackLightMedia - parent company of MOSR - used to do ad sales for
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
No Wonder. :p
K7? Gesh, them AMDs are always so unstable
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Hmmmm. I'm wondering if, with the advent of apple.slashdot.org, I'll be able to come here, make pro-apple comments, and more easily get Karma.
Not that I don't have better things to do with my time... and most Apple fans I know really aren't drooling idiots.... but one has to wonder if segmenting the audience would lead to this kind of change in moderation.... kindof like talk radio shows don't tend to attract people whose views diverge wildly....
Just a thought...
Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.
apple.slashdot.org has been around for over a year. It is called MacSlash and it is run by actual Mac users.
Forgive me for stifling a snigger. It's a sad day when your flagship multimedia viewer is actually prettier than any content you can get to run using its horrible, proprietary movie format from hell. I think the majority of people purchasing Quicktime Pro are doing so for the 'Export' feature now, which enables them to get all the bloody .movs off their machine and into a sensible, compact, free format.
Of course the fact that Apple insists you do this via translation to horrid old formats like Cinepak is a bit annoying. Far less annoying than a media player which won't even render its interface properly on my machine, continues to fail to support easy fullscreen switching, and takes longer to load than Windows MP. Arrrrg.
- Chris
If you look to your left, you'll see that there's also ask.slashdot.org, features.slashdot.org, books.slashdot.org, interviews.slashdot.org, etc.
rooooar
this would be one good reason to disable images
:)
This might also be a good reason to stand up, step slowly away from the computer, and walk outside for a deep breath.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I wouldn't laugh... out here at the Farm we are having the same problem. We had to kill net access to a whole floor in CoNo where the web and graphic designers are as their stock adapters are now talking trash all over and spiking the routers. It's not funny. I am going to be here all night backing this crap off machines.
I honestly don't give a shit if apple is easier to use than free software. Apple is just another proprietary software company, just as bad as Microsoft. The only reason slashdot-dwellers don't hate 'em as much as MS is that Jobs is a crappier saleman than Gates.
You forgot the decimal point, perhaps? 7.5
First, I have to say, I've had no problems with 10.1.3, and it works fine on my PowerBook G4.
About the apple.slashdot.org site: does this mean that Apple stories won't be cross-posted to the regular slashdot site? If they are still cross posted, then that's cool.
If not, I see a problem: partitioning Apple-related stories away in a separate site from general science, technology, YRO, and other non-Linux stories seems counterproductive and silly. I mean, there's a reason why MacSlash doesn't get a tenth of the traffic as Slashdot. That is, as a Mac user (and Linux and Windows user), I don't care to visit another site that only covers Mac stuff; that's what Macintouch and MacCentral are for.
So if this site is going to be like the latter, you should have done a poll to see which topic had to get off the swingset and play by itself.The Aqua-fied slash look is pretty cool, though.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
Wow - I didn't realise AOL had branched into Linux. Or are you surfing slashdot on your Dreamcast?
I use Linux on a daily basis, but my start menu contains fifty or sixty reasons why I'll not be using it on the desktop for the foreseeable future. Aside from the fact that I hate the way that every non-MS browser renders webpages, which is just as important to me.
- Chris
Yeh this caused my machine to reboot too. Just for clarification the original poster said tab and backslash, \b is backspace.
02/02/02-20:02
It was close.
Maybe next time
10 12 2101
BTW, I found a nice page with palindrome date It's in french but very easy to read.
Some palindromes, just for fun:
"So many dynamos!"
"Too hot to hoot."
"A man, a plan, a canal--Panama."
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
"Dubya won, no way bud!"
Is this
It provides an alternative to other Mac sites with a discussion-based theme. Macslash and the other / sites are cool, but it's a pain to have accounts at all those sites, whereas here, we can just use our /. accounts and post with the convenience of the /. cookie in your Browser's cookies. It makes it convenient for all these Mac users to join the discussion and comment on different stories. Due to this, I'm sure we will get rich discussions here, not available on other Mac sites, due to the volume of /. users. If the main stories keep getting posted to the main /. page, and if they get some additional Mac heads to post interesting Mac-related articles to this section exclusively, this could be a good alternative to other Mac news sites. I'm all for it, as long as they don't stop posting important Apple stories to the main page.
"I like systems, their application excepted", George Sand (French)
... is in the Detect Displays button on the Displays System Preferences pane. Previously, to get my laptop to recognize an external display, you'd have to put it to sleep & wake it back up. This wasn't a big deal, since OS X can go to sleep & wake back up in about 4 seconds total. But, it's nice to have a button to detect other monitor(s) on the fly.
And on a random external-monitor point, it blows people away when you're doing an Powerpoint presentation, then you pull up a pretty translucent terminal for a Unix-y CLI demo, then you start up an X-served app, all from a little Mac laptop. It amazes me that so many *nix folk still don't appreciate the phenomenal job Apple has done w/ OS X.
--Mid
You will need 300MB of free space on your macosx volume to download and because I partitioned my disk and there is no way in the updater to specify a different volume, well I am fscked. The installer will start filling up what ever free space you have before giving you the error message, so you lose all that time before finding out. Bug!
I've got two (2) ibooks here. And YES, if you have two or more machines, you will need to do the download n times because the file can't be opened after download.
apple.slashdot.org: I think it sucks. It just put people like me who use both Linux and OS X on the tip toe. Please do something about that and remove this alienated walls around mac stuff.
PPA, the girl next door.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
It's seriously not blue at all. Do you suffer from some form of color blindness or is it simply your uncalibrated PC monitor?
Turn off auto reboot in the System Properties->Advanced->Startup and Recovery dialog.
It's a user-mode blue screen, which is quite unusual.
I'm with tomblackwell. This is more fundamental than a transparent spelling or grammar hiccup. Because the original author used a phrase with a very particular meaning without, it seems, knowing what it means, his comment is just confusing: whatever he intended to say (the "underlying meaning") is lost. Think of it this way: do I assume that he uses the phrase to mean what it actually means, and try to figure out what he could possibly be thinking? Or do I try to guess just in what way he is confused as to the meaning of the phrase, and work out his intention that way? There's not much chance in getting your "underlying meaning" across, you see, if you make up your own definitions for words and idioms.
Ahhh... finally, someone at /. realizes that there is only one true computing platform and that all others are mere shams.
You should all get on bended knee and pray to Mr. Jobs, the hallowed saint of psychadelic computers and nightly cat litter eating.
Mac goodness... it doesn't get any better than this!
I am having a hard time believing that the Mac fans that regularly read slashdot are not fit for a serious discussion. The "Oooh, shiny" group you speak of would never read slashdot and in fact probably are graphic designers or musicians. A person that has the integrity to read slashdot and also run Mac OS X knows a thing or two about technology.
also while you mention nerds, there are many types of nerds. There are the "converting polor to cylindrical" type nerds, the "two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen" type nerd, and even the "and one time...at band camp" type. Regularly slashdot posts stories about the solar system and phyics. The nerds that you speak of would hardly fit that discussion.
Taco IS getting payed by Apple, they even created apple./..com!
--joshua
Why yes. If someone doesn't like this tired look they 'll surely be happy with text-only - good one, hippy.
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
Sorry man, I don't have any mod points right now. How about a binhexed .mp3 of Take California instead? :^)
It's all 0s and 1s. Or it's not.
When I was home for Christmas, I noticed that Mom had an unopened OSX box on her shelf. She didn't know she had it. She's the kind of person that still asks me about "memory" when she means to talk about HD space and it seems that OSX would protect her from herself much better than OS 9.1 does. The only problem is that HP doesn't have printer drivers for her printer under OS X. She would get extremely confused if some apps could use the printer but others gave her error messages.
I end up solving printer issues for her every few months. Last time, I had to talk her though downloading and reinstallilng the printer drivers over the phone. (Thank God she has a second line for the modem.) Over Christmas, it was a cable that had giggled itself loose, but almost everything else seems to have been either stability or protection issues with OS 9.
BTW, those Apple guys are masters of (relatively) seamless transitions off of legacy Hardware/Software/APIs. I wish things were so good for things I can afford on my student budget. Maybe CLR/Mono will do better than Java for this problem, although I think we're going to start seeing legacy VMs being a problem. Anyone working on coding up a good java JIT to run under Mono or a bytecode cross compiler from JVM to CLR?
Copyright Violation:"theft, piracy"::Anti-Trust Violation:"thermonuclear price terrorism"<-Overly dramatic language.
If you're kind of person who really wants to know how much is in an "update" (Measly bullet points doesn't do it justice): /Library/Receipts/MacOSXUpdate10.1.3.pkg/Contents/ Resources/MacOSXUpdate10.1.3.bom"
"lsbom
Will produce a file listing... piped to WC, there's 1832 files/folders involved in this "litte" fix.
What happened to MacSlash.org
If thsi si the same thing, why the "new" site?
If it isn't, why don't you leave this to them?
When you're old enough to have a social security number, you might want to work for a living. This may require you to make some money out of things.
Apple makes its money out of selling Macs, not selling MacOS. Seeing as they make all the damn hardware, they don't owe you a damn thing as regards to other ways to use it - I don't see people bitching that the schematics to their microwave firmware aren't open-sourced.
They're kind enough to let you run Linux on it if you want, which is of course what you and your 1337 friends will have to do, assuming you can make enough at McDonalds to buy a Mac.
I have zero desire to see the source to my OS, as long as it works the way I want it to. I get no joy from compiling other people's programs. I will never be submitting patches to Linus Torwalds. This bothers me not one jot.
Alas, you believe that the world owes you a favour and an OS and if it does stump up then it 5uckz. I'm sure the world isn't too bothered.
- Chris
"And a shiny ugly green theme is still an ugly green theme."
:-)
What are you talking about? apple.slashdot.org gives me exactly the same, widgetless, dingbatless, minimal HTML representation as the regular slashdot.org.
When your old enough to debate without ad hominem attacks you may come back. Go do some growing up.
I just installed 10.1.3: the install froze on my titanium g4 about 1/3 of the way through the "optimization" phase. I rebooted after the system became unresponsive and it looks like all the updates are in place, although 10.1.3 isn't listed as having been installed on my Software Update Log.
Getting IMAP+SSL support in Mail is huge for me since that's the only way into my mail server (short of pine over SSH!). Unfortunately, Mail doesn't seem to support SMTP+SSL, so I have to rely on local relays which change depending on my connection. What a simple feature to add and what a joy that would bring to me!
It's a good update, but some loose ends remain.
David E. Weekly
Code / Think / Teach / Learn
h4x0r for
[root@loki /root]# nslookup www.slashdot.org
/root]# nslookup apple.slashdot.org
/root]# nslookup bsd.slashdot.org
-snip-
Name: slashdot.org
Address: 64.28.67.150
Aliases: www.slashdot.org
[root@loki
-snip-
Name: slashdot.org
Address: 64.28.67.150
Aliases: apple.slashdot.org
[root@loki
-snip-
Name: slashdot.org
Address: 64.28.67.150
Aliases: bsd.slashdot.org
They're just aliases, a neat way to filter out topics without doing any extra work.
Black holes are where the Matrix raised SIGFPE
Insightful? Someone been handing out mod status to the script kidz again?
- Chris
Those dates merely establish the start date for copyright protection in the author's opinion. I doubt anyone's gonna care about OS X 10.1.3 in seventy odd years.
Worked fine via software update on my TiBook 667.
Steve M
whole bunch of them,
apache, apple, askslashdot, books, bsd, developers, features, interviews, radio, science, yro
It allows slashdot to post stories about those topics without having to put them on the front page.
Slashdot might figure there are already enough high quality Linux and Windows news sites.
Go out and get sailing!
is here
"Apple is just another proprietary software company"
/ da rwin/1.4/release.html... oh look I can download all of the source for the unix end that powers my mac...and I can get it for x86 too...man that's rough huh?...how about from now on: less whining and more research be fore you soput you yap off?
Huh?...http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects
Nope d00d, that doesn't work. Trust me. It's the same as that urban legend a few years back about something on a floppy being able to blue-screen NT 3.5. OS zealots like those funny stories but they're very rarely true.
Hope this helps.
Oh, we're so sorry.
/, the world's smallest violin playing, "My Heart Bleeds for You".
Drip...
Drip....
Drip.....
OK, so when is slashdot gonna get sued for using a transparent logo ala OSX, not to mention you used the word apple. OMG!
;-)
/* Lobster Stick To Magnet!*/
I did a blind lick test and couldn't tell the
difference in lickability.
Actually, it does. He's got the gist of it down, but it's actually 'backspace', not 'backslash'.
Try this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
for (int i=0; i<100; i++)
{
printf("\t\b\b");
}
return 0;
}
Once it backs past the beginning of the buffer by 3 spaces you'll get a user-mode blue screen.
It shouldn't happen because of protected memory and all that, but it does.
I love the look and feel of this web site, it makes me feel all squishy inside! Maybe Slashdot should have skins for each user! What does everyone else think?
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
links to macintouch and macnn?!
cmdrtaco is speaking to the heart of mac fans, even those who prefer macfixit and mwj ^_^;
welcome to a kinder, cooler, wetter slashdot?
I think we have a winnner.
(personally i'm getting sick of it already)
-Jon
this is my sig.
It might be possible to work out a scheme using mouse acceleration to determine whether the user is shooting for the menubar at the top or a window. If there were certain characteristics of the mouse pointer accelerating towards the menubar that are different from those of a mouse pointer accelerating towards a window, it might be possible to use the differences in acceleration to make a distinction between the two situations and be able to apply the following focus to only when the pointer is meant to hit the window.
Of couse, this would probably require serious quantities of HCI experiments and a damn fine usability lab. Some AI work might also be necessary. But it is theoretically possible.
I had a hard drive that hadn't been recently erased by an apple installer! This makes it so much easier!
This site is green and OS X is primarily white. I can think of one operating system that uses blue curvy edges pervasively, however...
"Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity" -Alvy Ray Smith
I see apple.slashdot.org is running on a linux server. Further evidence that OS X is really a client-side unix build.
I'd expect a dual gigahertz Mac would handle the traffic, why not give it a go?
http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
...i pre-emptively laugh.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
I am not Kiki. I am, however, a Mac OS X fan.
Here are some of the things I like about Mac OS X:
That's just the things that matter most to me right now, out of the box.
Oh... one final point I almost forgot - the Aqua interface looks pretty cool. For a while. Failing all else, you can pick up "themes" through MetamorphX from CharonSoft.
Mac OS X is very functional. It's as functional for my purposes than Linux on my PC running WindowMaker or Enlightenment.
As for your last statement - can you provide evidence to support this claim? I don't think Sony approaches the topic the same way you do. I don't think the Ubiquitous Computing folks approach this topic the same way you do either.
On your OS 9 volume, named Desktop Folder.
Out of curiosity, what do you think XP is? Hey, that one is on your platform ;-)
Yes, I'm sorry, I mean backspace, yes I have tried it, I killed my machine again doing it right after I posted that comment, just to prove to myself that I wasn't talking bollocks.
Huh? Why is that? Apple is not worried about Slashdot using Aqua-ish themes, they are worried about other _desktops_ using Aqua-ish themes. Nobody ever said "Well, I like OS X, but I think I'm gonna switch to Slashdot..."
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
Nobody gets it?
Apple's address is:
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
I fell out of my chair laughing at that one.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
People go on about proprietary software without realising what the implications of this are. There's nothing wrong with proprietary software and you damn well know it. If you're on x86 you use proprietary software even if you run Linux.
Who made your BIOS? You?
And the hardware is neither Free or free on x86 so...give up already. It's not "if" you like Mac OS X but rather "when".
Just thought I'd preempt a religous war about the ease of installation of modern linux distros. It doesn't matter how easy linux gets to be to install, windows comes pre-installed on most computers. Linux doesn't. Pre-installed beats install it yourself everytime, no matter what.
that is all
there is a bsd.slashdot.org already, so enough of your spouting off. think of this as a different type of bsd. besides, what do you care?
::checks::
::done::
Rode bike.
Still think gradiant curved interfaces look like dog shit.
It is the pseduo transparency that really gets to me though. Can't stand it. Ugh.
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Yah but unlike MacOS it is not shipped as part of the system unless I want it to be.
:)
I also do not plan on BUYING WinXP.
Hell I refuse to even PIRATE it.
I am that f*cking opposed to blue curvy shit.
I actualy don't care WHAT color it is. It is the curvy shit part that gets to me. That and the pseudo-transparency.
Oh, and by the way. The base color of the fade is color is r21, g105, b103.
By comparison, slashdot by default uses r0, g102, b102 (which is close, the curvy thing has r8, g102, b103 on its upper left curved boarder).
r0, g102, b102 is obviously equal parts green and blue though.
Mabye the blue amplifier[1] in the brains of these AC respondants are outa synch?
[1] may be bullshit, just found that link a few minutes ago.
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10.1.3 works flawlessly for my four Macs. All OS X updates have worked quite well for me, since 10.1... You say you used OS X before 10.1? You have my sympathy.
wanna tip? well, you're gonna get one though you may not particularly like it. come to think, you are NOT gonna like it. here's what i did to insure a glitch-free OS X experience: Reinitialize your HD using the "Zero all Data" option in Drive Setup, yes, Drive Setup... use the latest version of it that you have on a Mac OS installer CD. Now, partition the HD into two partitions. You will have to decide what sizes you want your partitions to be. I'd suggest making the OS X partition the largest of the two. Install OS X on the first (largest) partition, install Mac OS 9.2.2 on the other partition. Boot up to your OS X partition and download SwapCop. Use it to make your swapfile partition reside on the second partition (the partition that has OS 9.2.2 on it).
Bingo, you're set. Of course, this procedure assumes that 1) your Mac is brand-new, just out of the box it came in, or 2) you have an easy way to backup your existing data and don't mind doing it (but of course you backup your data frequently, right? right!?!?), or 3) you have several HD's in your tower, one of which you just installed for OS X, and 4) you want to do things right.
I have done this procedure to each and every Mac I provide support for, done it to those Macs first thing RIGHT out of the box. It saves headaches down the road. Been doing it for years. You should too. Stop whining. Thanks.
btw, see my email addy? don't bother flaming me. use that energy elsewhere. slam M$ or something, there's a good lad.
And a shiny ugly green theme is still an ugly green theme.
To further add, it's a pet-peeve of mine to have white font n bright background. I think it would be nicer if the bottom of the title bars were a bit darker so the font would stand out more.
Just a suggestion.
Still no localtalk support and none in sight. IYAM, the forced upgrade to usb/network printers will do more to keep power users in 9.2.1 than anything else. I love OSx, but I still can't print. :P Isn't there some BSD geek out there who wants to have a statue erected in his/her honor? Bring localtalk to to OSx!
Anybody else the redundancy in Mac OS X 10.1.3? "Mac OS Ten Ten point one point three."
It's kinda up there with "ATM Machine"
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uh...you arent forced to use the Luna interface in XP. Easily set to the win2k look.
My blog: http://jkratz.dyndns.org/~jason/blog/
-- if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic - Lewis Carrol
Yes but how many OSX users are there that actually know that BSD is there and/or take advantage of OSX's *NIX comapatibility?
The early adopters (those who used the beta or bought Mac OS X right when it came out) all started using it because it had BSD behind it. It certainly wasn't because of the apps. When I first got Mac OS X, IE Explorer was about the only one that was 'carbon-based', and half of the programs I kept started up with OS 9.
As time goes by, I expect more 'normal people' (ie, those who wouldn't know a daemon from a zombie) to be using OS X.
Apple was very bright to support both 9 and X this past year. My mother and wife are still using OS 9 and are very happy. By the time they're ready to upgrade, OS X will be at 10.2 or even 10.3 and there will be all sorts of native apps and performance will be good and bugs will be squashed.
They won't have to use the Terminal app, but they will probably learn how to do a few things. Learning how to use the command line isn't impossible, and open source software is a powerful motivator (for instance, if the choice is waiting for and buying Photoshop or learning how to download/install XDarwin and the Gimp, guess what I'm going to do?)
My father is a blogger.
I really don't see MacOS as an OS where I can do /everythig/. Never really tried, but ...
Suffice to say, try printf()ing a few tabs and backslashes in quick succession under 200 or XP ad then tell me it's stable. After you've rebooted and reconnected to the internet that is...
This is fixed in Windows XP SP1 (according to my friends at the Borg). It basically kills the windows subsystem process; as a result, as there's no running subsystem on top of the kernel, the kernel shuts the machine down (it's useless keeping the machine around if the kernel's running happily, but no processes are running on top of it).
Si
Coming soon - pyrogyra
Is 2K going to get this fix as well?
All my borg friends rolled off of Whistler onto other things...
This is not a forking of slashdot, it's merely a section just like apache.slashdot.org, ask.slashdot.org, or interviews.slashdot.org. I believe this is a new configuration for URLs of sections. So, all this is is a new section -- which is probably warranted, especially now that such a large segment of the current UNIX users are using OS X.
::bangs head on wall::
I am opposed to its very EXISTENCE at ALL within the OS.
The fact that there would BLOATED CODE on my HD SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO SUPPORT a pretty boy OS is what I am opposed to.
The fact that time spent CODING IN SUPPORT FOR 32BIT COLOR ICONS rather then fixing bugs or making additional optimizations to Windows XP, -THAT- is what I am opposed to.
The lack luser way that the OS is shoved together (does a default install really need to include EXEs to check for things like the Pentium Bug? Seriously now. . . . ), a 2GB default install is overkill, by about, oh, say, 1.5GB.
(if you do a 2gb install of any decent OS you will get a complete computer SYSTEM, you do a 2GB install of WindowsXP and you get to fork out another few hundred bucks for a Microsoft Approved Compiler, err, I mean development environment, and then have yet ANOTHER few hundred megs of your hard drive given away to it. Then don't forget the _5_ cds that their word processing 'suite' now comes in. Oh wow.)
It is a principles thing buddy. The interface is just the physical manifestation of that which I am opposed to.
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Let me just tell you, cordless optical mice are the greatest, although it took some time for my ears to stop ringing after I got mine...
Quoth my wife, "YOU SPENT HOW MUCH ON A MOUSE?"
I give ya a week before the legal lackies at apple send you a cease & decist on the slashdot aqua theme.. ;)
- Jimbob
Here's a serious QuickTime bug that was introduced by 10.1.3.
I use QuickTime Player in full-screen mode to view movies. Under 10.1.2 (and before) it did this in whatever resolution my screen was set to.
With 10.1.3 it tries to reset my screen to some non-standard resolution, which causes my monitor to squeeze the image into the right 2/3rds of the screen.
Does anyone know how to disable monitor resolution-changing with QuickTime Player full-screen playback?
Wow! You are completely, overwhelmingly, thoroughly fucked up.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Did /. get a new corporate sponser? Why do I see 11 different topics dealing with Apple? Why only 5 with Linux in them? oh
If the hardware wasn't so expensive I'd be running OSX right now. As it is, it's just something I will admire from afar. They need to port it to Intel, so it will run faster and offer lower TCO than Apple's proprietary hardware.
isn't slashdot taking things a little too far? let the apple people do their own thing and run their own sites like they always have. you guys don't really need the ad revenue, do you?
p.l.u.r.
Is there any fix for a bug in the dial-up internet connection? I travel a lot with my iBook,and in some countries have up to ten different ISPs to dial-up. I've got tired with half-ass fixes to these issues in OSX and switched back to OS9. Have anybody checked 10.1.3 for this?
tnx
Is 2K going to get this fix as well?
All my borg friends rolled off of Whistler onto other things...
Not a clue. I'd hope so. But hopes have a habit of being dashed.
Si
Coming soon - pyrogyra
Can we get timothy.slashdot.org and michael.slashdot.org too, so we can avoid these village idoits?
;-)
Using CTRL in place of button 2 and ALT in place of button 3 doesn't work. Try running GIMP where you need CTRL-ALT-BUTTON2 and worse. X based apps assume at least three buttons on the pointer.
Know two people who bought TiBooks around when I was looking to buy a new notebook and seriously considered being the the 3rd TiBook on the block. The pointer issue decided it in favor of a Thinkpad with a three button trackpoint. One button and a glidepoint (even though the TiBook has the best glidepoint I have played with, I still don't really like them) was just too many negatives to bear when paying 50-100% more for a Mac in the first place.
The TiBook is a beautiful machine, superior in many ways over my Thinkpad. It gets more runtime out of less expensive batteries. The screen is stunning. A pretty good X/UNIX/GNU environment will run alongside OS X apps and Yellowdog/etc are available for the full Linux experience. But Apple laptops are crippled with an unusable pointer. And apple desktop hardware, where replacing the bundled mouse is trivial just don't have a good price/performance ratio vs. cheap Athlons.
Democrat delenda est
10.1.3 is nice, but when will universal VPN be supported through airport? Surfing the web in class would be so nice with IU's wireless network.
I have no idea when that last time you looked into buying an Apple was, but ADB was dicontinued in '98. The hockey puck was a bad design, true, but the newer mice are awsome. I am currenlty writing this on an apple laptop and i couldn't be happier and i have six ADB keyboards hooked through a Cybex switch that have no problem "talking" with the Unix boxes they command.
I just updated my iMac DV SE, and things went very smoothly. Oddly enough, I noticed after I logged back in that the menu clock was set to 24-hour time, with no option to change it back in the Date & Time control panel.
I went to International->Time, and saw that I did still have 12-hour time set...and as I watched, the clock changed back spontaneously. Looks like there may be a preference value that's not being set correctly....
every time i get my mod points up i have to go and say something that gets modded down like a red-headed stepchild.
like, today, i got a 4 for a post i made on this very thread and felt the warm satisfaction inside that comes from being a productive contributor to the Chronicle of our Times, Slashdot.
And later on, I'll make a post that will get me modded down, something like:
biZoTchEZ b up in MaH SHEEE-it 'bOuT sUm LiNuX juNK, man DeM fOOlZ dOnT kNoW Shiz-NiT n MaX bEEt yo' WinDoZe bOx FooLz!
... damn, i did it again, didn't I?
Man, this is cool stuff -I always hated having to reboot my 8600 to get it to recognize the TV plugged into the A/V ports on back.
... I mean, the beige G3 has 'em too, it would be REAL nice if they could enable those ... can't imagine it would be TOO hard ... and now that OS X is open source, i really should just start doing it myself i guess ;)
I wonder if Apple will ever implement support for those lovely A/V ports in OS X
They cannot have the CapsLock key reprogrammed to be a Ctrl key, and as a long-time Unix user, that is what I need.
Also, all Apple laptops still have built-in ADB keyboards ... not USB keyboards.
Because of the non-programmability of the CapsLock key on ADB keyboards, and because as a Unix user I need to reprogram the CapsLock key to be a Ctrl key, I cannot use ADB keyboards, and will not be buying the Apple hardware (laptops) that I am interested in. Apple is losing sales to me, because of their horrible keyboard design.
isn't it past your bedtime, 12 year old?
Do you mean serial printers? LocalTalk is Apple's name for old-style networking through serial ports.
They made the fullscreen mode for the visualizer in iTunes way smarter. It used to cause the music to skip when it came on, but now it comes on a bit more slowly and the music plays on, uninterrupted. This was one of my only gripes with iTunes, and I'm quite pleased to find that they fixed this relatively minor thing-especially since they could very easily have gotten away with leaving it as it was.
My 2.
I think you mean X11 users |-p
There is obviously a work-around or A/UX would have never worked.
>80 column hard wrapped e-mail is not a sign of intelligent
>life
It's nice to see things being cleaned up but...
I manage a number of servers with various flavours of Ultrix to Compaq Tru64Unix (ehhh I miss DEC). Every one of them can print to just about anything. How about some 'generic' printers?
Yes, I'm bitter and cheap. My Epson 600 works perfectly, why fork out for a new printer!
My $0.05 (AUD - we don't have pennies any more)
Hoorah! Now I can use it!
Powerbook G4/1.5GHz 12", Toshiba Satellite 1135-S1554
amiga.sourceforge.net
:-)
come on, you KNOW its gotta happen
Oh Lord,
/. to rule them all, One /. to find them. One /. to bring them all and on the internet bind them." etched into all of our monitors?
Does this mean we're now going to have the saying "One
"Genius may shine aloof and alone, like a star, but goodness is social, and it takes two men and God to make a Brother."