I mean, really, with all those people complaining about the GIMP's UI, maybe the only thing you need is someone who says "let's begin". You know, setting a wiki, a forum, a sourceforge project and the like. See if some Slashdot 'usability experts' really have ideas
Maybe it will fail miserabily, but maybe it won't.
From the page linked on you sig :
------------ Before you panic because I'm picking on Slashdot, let me inform you that I asked Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, the guru behind Slashdot, for permission to post this information, and he stated in his reply email: Have fun. Feel free to submit patches back to us if you come up with anything useful. Slashdot's source code is open source and available at http://www.slashcode.com.
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Did you or anyone else involved with alistapart submit a patch to the slashcode? I'd love a 2004-compliant/.!
Now, we only need some frequent./ posters to link the alistapart site. Let's begin lobbying Taco right now! Who's with me?:-)
Since Adium (can't speak for Fire & Proteus) is nothing but a nicely done GAIM port, for me it IS GAIM on OS X.
What would be interesting, now, would be to get Adium ported to Linux (and, why not, Windows), using Qt, for instance.
GAIM has a real problem of being ugly, has usuability issues, and lacks the general polish you get with Adium. The Kopete project looks interesting, but it's not there yet : missing buddy icons and file transfers in everything but MSN Messenger - and even there, it has issues with NATs and can't display a MSN picture full size (yes, real people want that).
Has anyone experience in porting Cocoa (Obj-C) apps to Qt?
Since it will have a G5 and (if I'm not mistaken) and probably something from ATi or nVidia, so we can assume that it will be transformable into a Mac clone without too much effort.
Contrary to the legend, there's nothing proprietary in today's Macs, except for the G5 itself. The rest is well documented (PearPC helped a lot in that array).
...and release the plug-ins themselves (hear Flash) under an open source license.
I'm not playing the open source fanatic here, but I'd really like them (*cough* macromedia *cough*) to realize that Linux is more than Red Hat.
Being a Gentoo PPC user, I still have no way to play flash on my iBook (well, I can boot it on OS X).
If really they want to protect their trade secrets (are there any? Isn't.swf more or less an open standard?), at least, could they release their plug-in for other archs?
That's not Jobs' fault. That's Sculley's, and that's the dispute that caused Steve to leave Apple. Steve and Steve started Apple to make computers For the Rest of Us. Computers that people could use; not room-size boxes hidden away in an industrial building.
Sculley had a vision of using Apple's superior technology to make products with high margins and turn Apple into a billion dollar company. And he did. And he gave up marketshare for that.
Jobs came back in 1997, that's 7 years ago. Sculley quit in 93. Eleven years. 7 years, in computer time, is soooo long. Where are my unexpensive Macs?
> What really bad ones? You say there were a lot...
I don't want to start a flame war here. The worst thing he has done, is to stick that elitist reputation to the Mac. Where I live (Belgium, Europe), nobody gives a shit about Macs anymore. When tell people I prefer working on a Mac than on anything else, people look at me as if I were a perfect ass. Some of my friends don't speak of computers with me anymore, they just think I've become some kind of extremist who can't see how Macs are doomed.
In my book, that's bad.
> And NeXT was fucking fantastic
Agreed. Mac OS X still _is_ fucking fantastic.
> Emacs don't cost near 2k
Nope, 'only' 1k. For a all-in-one underpowered (1Ghz) machine. $300 for a complete walmart PC, including the screen. OK, Macs are better. Better hardware. Better software. But you have more than 3 low end expandable PC's for the price of an eMac. People care. Then again, I'm talking about us Europeans.
> Installed base is a much more useful number than market
> share, unless you really think real computing advancement
> comes from the hundreds of mid to low end machines typically
> deployed in corporations
So why are most of those corporation renewing their computer base with less expensive PC's? (hint: because they are cheaper).
> I realize you are doing the anti-popular opinion troll for mod points
I know I'll be seen as a troll for this, but I have to ask.
Why do so many people worship this one guy? OK, he invented to Mac... it was twenty years ago. Then again, others have done great things and aren't worshiped as he is. Is this because he is such an egomaniacal elitist control freak?
Since 1984 he has done some good things (NeXT, the first iMac, OS X), but a lot of really bad ones.In the meantime, the Mac's marketshare fell below 2% and has been overtaken by Linux Desktop's share.
Lots of people agree that the real reason of the Mac slow but sure descent into Hell is Job's elitist vision and its results, overpriced hardware, rumor cult(ure) at Apple, etc.
Today the guy seems more interested in selling online muzak than selling less-than-$2000 computers. iMac's and eMac 's used to be nice, but please! It's 2004 and this hardware has lived.
The computer and (especially!) Mac lover in me is really hurt by his policy. Am I alone?
This logo appeared in 7B74. 7B81, which was seeded today (or maybe yesterday) is rumoured to be the GM since it is the first version not to mention "(Pre-release)" in the 'About this Mac' box.
We don't know yet if 7B81 has the new cracked logo or if it was changed.
NAME
sendmail - Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface
SYNOPSIS
sendmail [option...] [recipient...]
mailq
sendmail -bp
newaliases
sendmail -I
DESCRIPTION
The sendmail program implements the Postfix to Sendmail compatibility
interface. For the sake of compatibility with existing applications,
some Sendmail command-line options are recognized but silently ignored.
(...)
Also in the Cool-Chimera-Feature-I-d-Like-To-See-In-Safari Dept.: Chimera has a "open this link in a new tab behind this one" accessible using the middle mouse button (that is its scrollwheel).
I don't think Apple will implement it (it would mean that they actually acknowledge that mice have more than one button), but it is a killer feature.
Is there any psychologist out there willing to explain what we are suffering from?
Unfortunately still no tabs
on
Safari Beta Updated
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
OK, I'm not trolling here, it would have been really amazing if Apple had added supports for tabbed browsing in only two days. And I understand they haven't.
I've read somewhere that David Hyatt himself told that the tabs were planned for the final release and that the lack of tabs in current beta's is only due to their deadline. Allegedly, they wouldn't have had time to program tabs support (which is strange since they are working on it for one year now and that Cocoa should make things like adding tabs support quite easy to implement).
But I can't say I'm a big fan of them. It's so... too much: too much prefs, too much options, too many things on the screen.
I like slick and efficient IM, as iChat (of course) and Messenger (on a PC).
Since Fire is open source (and maybe Proteus, I haven't checked), it would be really cool if someone took the code, removed other IM's support and made it a visual clone of Messenger.
Dear MacBU, if you read this (and I know you do), please fix that stupid MSN Messenger 3 for OS X. It's slow as hell. Sometimes I have to wait ~30 seconds before thinking of writing an answer to a correspondant.
Note: I know iChat & co. work better and are made especially for Mac but my contacts are using MESSenger. And I won't change of friends because of the OS/IM they use.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, start a fork.
I mean, really, with all those people complaining about the GIMP's UI, maybe the only thing you need is someone who says "let's begin". You know, setting a wiki, a forum, a sourceforge project and the like. See if some Slashdot 'usability experts' really have ideas
Maybe it will fail miserabily, but maybe it won't.
1. type about:config in the addressbar
...
2. set image.animation_mode to none
and, assuming of course you use FireFox,
3.
4. profit!
Now Intel just has to come with a new acronym -- say 'Advanced Multimedia Device'-64 so that it becomes Intel's AMD-64.
See my sig, use it as your sig too, and let's beggin an agressive lobby for a well-written xhtml slashdot. :)
From the page linked on you sig : /.! ./ posters to link the alistapart site. Let's begin lobbying Taco right now! Who's with me? :-)
------------
Before you panic because I'm picking on Slashdot, let me inform you that I asked Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, the guru behind Slashdot, for permission to post this information, and he stated in his reply email:
Have fun. Feel free to submit patches back to us if you come up with anything useful. Slashdot's source code is open source and available at http://www.slashcode.com.
------------
Did you or anyone else involved with alistapart submit a patch to the slashcode? I'd love a 2004-compliant
Now, we only need some frequent
Since Adium (can't speak for Fire & Proteus) is nothing but a nicely done GAIM port, for me it IS GAIM on OS X.
What would be interesting, now, would be to get Adium ported to Linux (and, why not, Windows), using Qt, for instance.
GAIM has a real problem of being ugly, has usuability issues, and lacks the general polish you get with Adium. The Kopete project looks interesting, but it's not there yet : missing buddy icons and file transfers in everything but MSN Messenger - and even there, it has issues with NATs and can't display a MSN picture full size (yes, real people want that).
Has anyone experience in porting Cocoa (Obj-C) apps to Qt?
Since it will have a G5 and (if I'm not mistaken) and probably something from ATi or nVidia, so we can assume that it will be transformable into a Mac clone without too much effort.
Contrary to the legend, there's nothing proprietary in today's Macs, except for the G5 itself. The rest is well documented (PearPC helped a lot in that array).
*That* would be an interesting mod!
You mean, like this one? :-)
...and release the plug-ins themselves (hear Flash) under an open source license.
.swf more or less an open standard?), at least, could they release their plug-in for other archs?
I'm not playing the open source fanatic here, but I'd really like them (*cough* macromedia *cough*) to realize that Linux is more than Red Hat.
Being a Gentoo PPC user, I still have no way to play flash on my iBook (well, I can boot it on OS X).
If really they want to protect their trade secrets (are there any? Isn't
What you are describing looks exactly like Mac OS X's Dock. See, you can even play a video with the player minimized.
> What really bad ones? You say there were a lot...
I don't want to start a flame war here. The worst thing he has done, is to stick that elitist reputation to the Mac. Where I live (Belgium, Europe), nobody gives a shit about Macs anymore. When tell people I prefer working on a Mac than on anything else, people look at me as if I were a perfect ass. Some of my friends don't speak of computers with me anymore, they just think I've become some kind of extremist who can't see how Macs are doomed.
In my book, that's bad.
> And NeXT was fucking fantastic
Agreed. Mac OS X still _is_ fucking fantastic.
> Emacs don't cost near 2k
Nope, 'only' 1k. For a all-in-one underpowered (1Ghz) machine. $300 for a complete walmart PC, including the screen. OK, Macs are better. Better hardware. Better software. But you have more than 3 low end expandable PC's for the price of an eMac. People care. Then again, I'm talking about us Europeans.
> Installed base is a much more useful number than market
> share, unless you really think real computing advancement
> comes from the hundreds of mid to low end machines typically
> deployed in corporations
So why are most of those corporation renewing their computer base with less expensive PC's? (hint: because they are cheaper).
> I realize you are doing the anti-popular opinion troll for mod points
Nope... I'm playing the betrayed lover.
I know I'll be seen as a troll for this, but I have to ask.
Why do so many people worship this one guy? OK, he invented to Mac... it was twenty years ago. Then again, others have done great things and aren't worshiped as he is. Is this because he is such an egomaniacal elitist control freak?
Since 1984 he has done some good things (NeXT, the first iMac, OS X), but a lot of really bad ones.In the meantime, the Mac's marketshare fell below 2% and has been overtaken by Linux Desktop's share.
Lots of people agree that the real reason of the Mac slow but sure descent into Hell is Job's elitist vision and its results, overpriced hardware, rumor cult(ure) at Apple, etc.
Today the guy seems more interested in selling online muzak than selling less-than-$2000 computers. iMac's and eMac 's used to be nice, but please! It's 2004 and this hardware has lived.
The computer and (especially!) Mac lover in me is really hurt by his policy. Am I alone?
If only you attended those occlumency classes...
This logo appeared in 7B74. 7B81, which was seeded today (or maybe yesterday) is rumoured to be the GM since it is the first version not to mention "(Pre-release)" in the 'About this Mac' box. We don't know yet if 7B81 has the new cracked logo or if it was changed.
From Panther 7B44:
...] [recipient ...]
Gros-Chat:~ majortom$ man sendmail
SENDMAIL(1) SENDMAIL(1)
NAME
sendmail - Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface
SYNOPSIS
sendmail [option
mailq
sendmail -bp
newaliases
sendmail -I
DESCRIPTION
The sendmail program implements the Postfix to Sendmail compatibility
interface. For the sake of compatibility with existing applications,
some Sendmail command-line options are recognized but silently ignored.
(...)
Also in the Cool-Chimera-Feature-I-d-Like-To-See-In-Safari Dept.: Chimera has a "open this link in a new tab behind this one" accessible using the middle mouse button (that is its scrollwheel).
I don't think Apple will implement it (it would mean that they actually acknowledge that mice have more than one button), but it is a killer feature.
Count me in!
Is there any psychologist out there willing to explain what we are suffering from?
OK, I'm not trolling here, it would have been really amazing if Apple had added supports for tabbed browsing in only two days. And I understand they haven't.
I've read somewhere that David Hyatt himself told that the tabs were planned for the final release and that the lack of tabs in current beta's is only due to their deadline. Allegedly, they wouldn't have had time to program tabs support (which is strange since they are working on it for one year now and that Cocoa should make things like adding tabs support quite easy to implement).
Does anyone have real information about that?
FWIK, Apple doesn't offer "iTools" anymore.
They renamed them ".mac" (pretty stupid name IMHO).
False ! Hergé was from Brussels and can't be a Walloon then.
Here in Belgium, there's a controversy about Hergé having been close to nazi's ideas in his early years.
This explains that.
Yup... that and Proteus.
But I can't say I'm a big fan of them. It's so... too much: too much prefs, too much options, too many things on the screen.
I like slick and efficient IM, as iChat (of course) and Messenger (on a PC).
Since Fire is open source (and maybe Proteus, I haven't checked), it would be really cool if someone took the code, removed other IM's support and made it a visual clone of Messenger.
Dear MacBU, if you read this (and I know you do), please fix that stupid MSN Messenger 3 for OS X. It's slow as hell. Sometimes I have to wait ~30 seconds before thinking of writing an answer to a correspondant.
Note: I know iChat & co. work better and are made especially for Mac but my contacts are using MESSenger. And I won't change of friends because of the OS/IM they use.