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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.
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I like the new interface. Can I get it in Bondi Blue?
As for OS 10.x, it's good news for those users of Mac. Mainly, it's just a few bug fixes, because OS X is pretty solid as-is.
Maybe not XP solid, but much better than Linux, no doubt about it.
In any case, great new interface, guys. And thanks to Apple for timely updating of their software!
So OSX updates are 'News for Nerds' now?
I look forward to the day when we get a story every time M$ release a 'critical update'.
-Ciaran
-- Dan
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?
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All this time the trolls were saying that BSD was dying but in reality it was Linux! My...Linux...system...is...slowly...dying...and..
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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?
/. is supposed to be news for nerds. And no self-respecting nerd uses Apple's bloated, highly-inferior hack of BSD.
No, because
Slashdot isn't a website run by college students in their spare time, and has had 2 corporate masters over the past 3 years or so. Yet it still uses the amateur slashcode, page layout, and various graphics (in gif format!) pilfered from wherever, with no unification whatsoever.
Everytime slashcode is updated, things break, users can't post, valid comments get filtered out, and crap flooding becomes more prevalent. So as much as it sucks now, let it be or outsource the work to someone who won't $%** up.
The icons: come on, now. Ditch the gifs. Use jpeg or png. And can't you afford a graphic design type person to create a consistent and unified set?
The scheme: OK, so the Mac/Aqua graphics are a ripoff. So what. It looks a lot nicer than the butt-ugly color schemes you use for the other categories.
OMG... my wife just called. Their company techs just had to halt the download of the patch for their 50+ OSX boxes...
It breaks the network hard apparently with the ethernet adapter they have installed... apparently someone didn't test it with Netware 5 servers! Their whole network came down in flames after the first box rebooted. They also lost some functionality with some Adobe package they were using! LOL... way to go Apple!
HAHAHAHAHA... sooooo true. Jobs is an idiot! What person would purchase a Mac from a man who was hired, fired, hired again and makes stuff that's smooth, clear, and white. Pretty doesn't mean anything when it comes down to performance, and performace is all that counts, and Apple's are so far behind Windows world in performance it's pathetic. I hope IBM buys 'em out cause then they can shove 'em in the same hole they are putting the nuclear waste these days.
Abso*frikkin*lutely. My Q3A play with the trackpad is making my hand claw up. 6... count 'em... WE NEED SIX TRACKPAD BUTTONS!! Are you listening Apple???
Wow! You are completely, overwhelmingly, thoroughly fucked up.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
And totally clueless from a technology perspective. Their technical ability amounts to the ability to plug in a toaster.
Apple Input Devices are Unacceptable to Unix Users
Apple makes horrible input devices:
My main point is about keyboards, but first just a quick note on mice.
Mice
Admittedly, one button mice are not much of a problem on desktop machines. You can (for some small extra expense) buy a 3-button USB mouse. Apple's refusal to package a 3-button mouse only raises the effective price of their desktop machines.
However, on a laptop, a one-button mouse is a hardship. Carrying an extra mouse with you is a real pain. In general, carrying anything extra with a laptop is unacceptable. (You can redefine a couple of keyboard keys to be mouse keys, but then you lose those keyboard keys.)
Keyboards
My main point is about keyboards. Apple designs horrible keyboards. ADB keyboards (which are still used on all of Apple's laptops) are unusable to unix users. Even more so than with a mouse, carrying an extra USB keyboard along with your laptop just to make the laptop usable is absolutely unacceptable .
Proper Keyboard Design
- When a key is pressed, the keyboard sends a keyPress
event.
- When a key is released, the keyboard sends a keyRelease
event.
- Each key is assigned a different keycode.
Nothing more, nothing less.ADB Keyboard Mis-design
- When the key to the left of the 'A' (CapsLock) is
pressed, the ADB keyboard sends both a keyPress event
and a keyRelease event.
- When the CapsLock key is then released, the ADB keyboard
sends NO events.
- When the CapsLock key is next pressed, the ADB keyboard
sends NO events.
- When the CapsLock key is then released, the ADB keyboard
sends both a keyPress event and a keyRelease
event.
This is WRONG ! Apple's ADB keyboards are broken by design.Unix Users Cannot Use Apple's ADB Keyboards
What this means is that unix users who need the key to the left of the 'A' to be a Ctrl key cannot use Apple ADB keyboards. You can easily reprogram the CapsLock key to be a Ctrl key and get rid of the badness of the CapsLock key, but you can't get the required goodness of the Ctrl key to the left of the 'A'.
Early Apple USB Keyboards Can't Tell Right from Left.
Apple USB keyboards do not have the CapsLock<->Ctrl problem, but some have another minor problem.
Early Apple USB keyboards (without the number pad) did not distinguish between the left and right sides of the keyboard; the Shift key on the right side of the keyboard reported LeftShift events just like the Shift key on the left side of the keyboard. In other words, the duplicated keys (like Shift, CapsLock, Ctrl, and Command) on the right side of the keyboard had the same keycodes as the keys on the left side of the keyboard.
Apple Loses Sales to Unix Users
All Apple laptops have the horrible broken-by-design ADB keyboards which are unusable to unix users. I want to buy an Apple laptop, but I cannot and will not until Apple builds input devices usable by unix users.