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Zarf in Mac OS X Land

Posted by pudge on from the go-steve dept.

baruz writes "Andrew Plotkin (aka Zarf), award-winning interactive fiction author and Mac and Unix programmer, has not-so-recently posted a secret diary of his experiences installing and using Mac oh ess ex."

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  1. Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bill gates will eat it for his lunch.

  2. Gay OSX Slashdot www theme. shoo fly shoo. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Started Terminal app. Unix shell! Go Steve! Emacs! (Okay, Emacs 20, not 21. Close enough.)

    w00t, ida thinx i'm 133t3r /w xemacs, b_1 t44t's 0k.

  3. Juggling clowns� by pinkUZI · · Score: -1, Troll

    Man... and I thought Microsoft was making everyone out to be a moron with their progressivly ultra simplistic super think-you-not interface.
    A scary peek into the one-button world of the Macuser...

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  4. Start Button? by KingKire64 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I should quickly explain his "One True Way". Basically, whenever he gets a Mac, he arranges the applications according to his own personal prejudices. He creates a top-level applications folder, called "Packages", and then creates a dozen subfolders inside that: Text, Video, Image, Sound, Disk, File, and so on. All applications go into one of these subfolders. He then puts an alias to Packages into the Apple menu. The Apple menu also contains a folder containing links straight to the top ten or so apps. So from the Apple menu, he can get to those apps very quickly; or he can also take the long route, and navigate anywhere in the Packages tree. I've tried this, and it really is pretty handy -- you can open "Packages:Image", for example, and see all the image-editing apps on the machine listed together. The standard all-in-one "Applications" folder of OSX seems very cluttered in comparison.


    I know im going to get a troll for this but what he is describing sounds alot like the start button on Windows and Xwindows... That is one thing that always buggerd me about macs...

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  5. Re:Emacs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't emacs just an early, obsolete version of 'vi'?

  6. Hmmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ....this guy is a dumbfuck.

  7. This "review" is a joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...you Johnny come-latelys don't get it.

    Go back to fucking with the Windows registry.

    If you want an OS to move around apps in the apps folder over and over again then fuck around with Linux for the rest of your loser life.