Has anyone figured out how to stop Safari from spawning its windows anywhere and everywhere, randomly on both my monitors? Does anyone else have this problem?
At least in Omniweb they finally included a Save Window Position option. Safari is just weird.
Which brings me to another problem. When I hit the + gumdrop, I sometimes get a window that is maximized to the dimensions of my smaller screen (1280x854) instead of 1280x1024! That happens a lot though with a bunch of different applications. Does anybody know how to make a Cocoa app's window take up both screens without having to do the little dance of maximizing it, nudging the window over onto the other display a little (like 1 or 2 pixels) and then grabbing the resize handle and finally making it the desired size?
Everyone loves and remembers the silly kernel panic from OS 10.2. I never got it to work on my machine. Maybe this problem with Safari is the same sort of thing. I know that 10.2 must use the VFS "virtual filesystem interface", so from this I will make some very gross assumptions.
1. The VFS UFS implementation is pretty stable. Lacking softupdates at this point, but still both mature and robust.
2. The VFS HFS / HFS+ implementation is newer, and a bit slower (quite subjectively), and seems to me to be somehow weak, or flimsy, or not-quite robust.
I get the same feeling from the VFS HFS+ layer that I did from the P/T Cruiser and the Ford Focus. No offense to anybody who worked on the code, but it doesn't feel right.
I'll take this opportunity again to tell Apple to just put a kibosh on HFS+ for good. Go FFS+S, or something else but for heaven's sake, if you're going to remodel the house, you might as well finish!
Not a troll. You can only play back recorded video on the computer it was recorded on. Microsoft may announce playback on other devices in the future. For now, it's drm city baby!
Bear in mind the mission of any bureaucracy is to perpetuate itself and expand infinately. How could they fulfill their mission by making everything easy and automatic?
Sure, great. The cable taking data to your disk could run at freakin 10 Tb but the slowest link here is your hard drive. A good hard drive in a Firewire enclosure will IN NO WAY give you full saturation. ATA/100 (or 133) don't run at 100 (or 133) MB/S in real life. This certain one of the analyst's comments was relevant, because unless you jimmy up a Firewire ram drive or something equally fast and impressive, Firewire is good enough.
It is a good idea just to have everything use IP. However, when HPaq gets their shitty printers out there with 0Conf, and everyone's networks grind to a halt because of the nuttiness in the code that HP churns out (consumer level stuff), then i'll just laugh.
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Yep. Antelope, deer, and various small game.
It's safe to say that when you are butchering a large mammal there will be gore all over everything nearby. Blood does sometimes spurt or spray. And, my trollish AC friend, the only animal you have processed is dear old grandmother, and I hear yours sprays gore in a 30' by 8' cone.
It was a joke. I know all about where your little countries are at. My point is that you can't have a meeting in Belgium and Luxembourg without somehow being in both countries at once - i.e. at a table with one half in Belgium and one half in Luxembourg.
If you ever watched the excellent documentary about the Chernobyl (I think it was the Nightline one) disaster with the old chap who was a nuclear scientist of some kind, if you're attentive, you'll notice that he (the older chap) has his fly down in about 1/3 the shots of the movie.
People running OS X on their Macs right now wouldn't mind being able to run Quark XPress natively!
Ain't gonna happen, though. I don't really think they have jack or shit in their code repository. Their CEO's latest actions kind of confirm this, as he basically told the Mac folks to fuck off and look at Windows as an alternative.
Their API isn't just emulated, it's already implemented. It's called GNUstep and it runs on almost any *nix platform, and quite a few non-*nixes as well. Most, but not all, OS X (cocoa) applications will run just peachy with a recompile on many platforms.
Darwin with GNUstep implements approximately 75% of the functionality of OS X, right down to the resolution independant rendering (GNUstep uses Postscript, OS X uses PDF).
If everyone is so up in arms about running OS X on their Intel computer, just fucking get Linux or Darwin and run GNUstep. Most freeware for OS X should work just fine if you compile it. Due to the great object-oriented nature of Openstep, you could probably fix any that didn't in a matter of minutes or hours.
I was running GNUstep (with the Ghostscript back-end) and Windowmaker for a while before I got my Powerbook G4.
Actually, by all accounts, the speed competition between OS 10.1 (haven't seen benchmarks for 10.2 yet) and Linux is a foregone conclusion. Linux wins in almost every way. I would imagine that NetBSD is competitive with Linux on speed, as well. With this software you may be able to run your OS X applications on NetBSD or (possibly) LinuxPPC at a faster-than-OSX speed. Neat.
Really? References here, please. I am assuming you are referencing the debates between Stallman and Gilmore (maybe even before this). I would be ever so grateful if you would point me in the direction of some of the debates.
Remember how much trouble Garion got in with Belgarath for moving that one cloud away from Aunt Pol's farm? Yeah. I don't want an angry Belgarath showing up at MY house either.
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Has anyone figured out how to stop Safari from spawning its windows anywhere and everywhere, randomly on both my monitors? Does anyone else have this problem?
At least in Omniweb they finally included a Save Window Position option. Safari is just weird.
Which brings me to another problem. When I hit the + gumdrop, I sometimes get a window that is maximized to the dimensions of my smaller screen (1280x854) instead of 1280x1024! That happens a lot though with a bunch of different applications. Does anybody know how to make a Cocoa app's window take up both screens without having to do the little dance of maximizing it, nudging the window over onto the other display a little (like 1 or 2 pixels) and then grabbing the resize handle and finally making it the desired size?
Everyone loves and remembers the silly kernel panic from OS 10.2. I never got it to work on my machine. Maybe this problem with Safari is the same sort of thing. I know that 10.2 must use the VFS "virtual filesystem interface", so from this I will make some very gross assumptions.
1. The VFS UFS implementation is pretty stable. Lacking softupdates at this point, but still both mature and robust.
2. The VFS HFS / HFS+ implementation is newer, and a bit slower (quite subjectively), and seems to me to be somehow weak, or flimsy, or not-quite robust.
I get the same feeling from the VFS HFS+ layer that I did from the P/T Cruiser and the Ford Focus. No offense to anybody who worked on the code, but it doesn't feel right.
I'll take this opportunity again to tell Apple to just put a kibosh on HFS+ for good. Go FFS+S, or something else but for heaven's sake, if you're going to remodel the house, you might as well finish!
It's funny. People really mean "my graphics workstation" when they say production machine.
Not a troll. You can only play back recorded video on the computer it was recorded on. Microsoft may announce playback on other devices in the future. For now, it's drm city baby!
Bear in mind the mission of any bureaucracy is to perpetuate itself and expand infinately. How could they fulfill their mission by making everything easy and automatic?
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Check out www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ for a little extra treat! X11 on OS X with hardware acceleration! Holy cow!
I know of many folks who find the text mode version of many web sites to be the least retarded of them all.
There should be a drives between the ATA/100 (or 133) and the don't.
Sorry for the DP.
Sure, great. The cable taking data to your disk could run at freakin 10 Tb but the slowest link here is your hard drive. A good hard drive in a Firewire enclosure will IN NO WAY give you full saturation. ATA/100 (or 133) don't run at 100 (or 133) MB/S in real life. This certain one of the analyst's comments was relevant, because unless you jimmy up a Firewire ram drive or something equally fast and impressive, Firewire is good enough.
It is a good idea just to have everything use IP. However, when HPaq gets their shitty printers out there with 0Conf, and everyone's networks grind to a halt because of the nuttiness in the code that HP churns out (consumer level stuff), then i'll just laugh.
Yep. Antelope, deer, and various small game.
It's safe to say that when you are butchering a large mammal there will be gore all over everything nearby. Blood does sometimes spurt or spray. And, my trollish AC friend, the only animal you have processed is dear old grandmother, and I hear yours sprays gore in a 30' by 8' cone.
It was a joke. I know all about where your little countries are at. My point is that you can't have a meeting in Belgium and Luxembourg without somehow being in both countries at once - i.e. at a table with one half in Belgium and one half in Luxembourg.
I think it's called Microsoft Benelux by the way.
If you ever watched the excellent documentary about the Chernobyl (I think it was the Nightline one) disaster with the old chap who was a nuclear scientist of some kind, if you're attentive, you'll notice that he (the older chap) has his fly down in about 1/3 the shots of the movie.
This work is by Douglas Dixon. ISBN 0312011636 published in 1981 by St. Martin's press in NY.
If it was a Douglas Adams book we (being the Slashdot Mental Collective) would have heard about it and read it by now.
People running OS X on their Macs right now wouldn't mind being able to run Quark XPress natively!
Ain't gonna happen, though. I don't really think they have jack or shit in their code repository. Their CEO's latest actions kind of confirm this, as he basically told the Mac folks to fuck off and look at Windows as an alternative.
iCal might, but iTunes sure wouldn't. It's a carbon (old Mac API) app.
Their API isn't just emulated, it's already implemented. It's called GNUstep and it runs on almost any *nix platform, and quite a few non-*nixes as well. Most, but not all, OS X (cocoa) applications will run just peachy with a recompile on many platforms.
Darwin with GNUstep implements approximately 75% of the functionality of OS X, right down to the resolution independant rendering (GNUstep uses Postscript, OS X uses PDF).
If everyone is so up in arms about running OS X on their Intel computer, just fucking get Linux or Darwin and run GNUstep. Most freeware for OS X should work just fine if you compile it. Due to the great object-oriented nature of Openstep, you could probably fix any that didn't in a matter of minutes or hours.
I was running GNUstep (with the Ghostscript back-end) and Windowmaker for a while before I got my Powerbook G4.
If you really want to get crazy, you can run Fink and Darwin Ports together!
Actually, by all accounts, the speed competition between OS 10.1 (haven't seen benchmarks for 10.2 yet) and Linux is a foregone conclusion. Linux wins in almost every way. I would imagine that NetBSD is competitive with Linux on speed, as well. With this software you may be able to run your OS X applications on NetBSD or (possibly) LinuxPPC at a faster-than-OSX speed. Neat.
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What, like straddling the border, with one side of the table in Luxembourg and the other half in Belgium?
Really? References here, please. I am assuming you are referencing the debates between Stallman and Gilmore (maybe even before this). I would be ever so grateful if you would point me in the direction of some of the debates.
You make it sound like MS fears litigation. They revel in it. It's how they destroy you.
I think Hank has a w2k2 bug.
Sshhhh! Don't tell people about Minnesota. The first rule of Minnesota club is that you don't talk about Minnesota club!
Remember how much trouble Garion got in with Belgarath for moving that one cloud away from Aunt Pol's farm? Yeah. I don't want an angry Belgarath showing up at MY house either.