Because "Freinds Only" posts fall into "non-public". So you could have a group who all friends each other and can read their subversive posts, while none of those posts are "public".
LJ lets you get pretty granular with groups of friends as well. Or at least "more granular" than other sites I've seen. So you have posts that can be seen by one group of friends which can't be read by your other friends. So yeah, having ownership of the machines would let you see all that stuff, which, if there was going to be anything "subversive", that's where it would be.
Wow, that's as poorly written as anything I've ever typed. Ah well it's 3, and I'm on the Internet, what's the worst that can happen?
I have exactly the same config minus the expensive as hell monitor. Instead I have two Samsung 204b's (not that it matters). I don't have the problems you describe at all, though in window mode VLC messes up the in-window movie controls unless the window is sized full-screen (as opposed to full-screening the movie). I have plenty of other problems, Safari crashing or "beachballing" indefinitely when I switch to it or close a tab being one of the major ones.
There are also issues which seem specific to multi-head, such as much of the abysmal state of X11.app. In addition to crashing constantly, which isn't really new, it is non-multihead capable. Another example (though I'm sure it's not a bug since I think I'm one of about 6 people worldwide who are pissed about it) is that Spaces can't be configured for multiple, independent desktops. It flips both monitors, which annoys me greatly, coming from Linux instead of Windows as I do.
Overall, I'd say that Leopard is "slightly less stable" than Tiger, though not by much. The Safari thing was happening before, and I think might be a function of SIMBL. I just read this earlier this evening and haven't tested it thoroughly yet. I use SafariStand only because when you open many tabs in Safari, and it runs out of room in the tab bar, you cannot close tabs that aren't shown in that bar without going to the file menu or reaching for the keyboard.
It's worse than that. I was thinking of the couple times I've dashed in to grab something quick at 3:00am (seamstress measuring tape [$0.88, and at 3am no less], or a soda or whatever), and I totally forgot that I bought a TV there 6 or 7 years ago. There goes all that hipster cred, d'oh.
My wife and I pointed out an entire 8' section of the WalMart meat cooler that was at least 10 days out of code, and very brown/green/fuzzy.
The employee did nothing about it and went back to what they were doing. I (in my former capacity as a supermarket employee) would have flown over there and scooped it all out, no matter what department I worked in. So would any of my coworkers.
I've happily spent less than $1/year at WalMart in the last decade, but I feel that even that is too much.
See, told you I'm not Capt. Office. Oh well. I guess "We could have figured out why the checkbox turning clippy off didn't work". Doesn't have the same ring to it.
But couldn't you free yourself from the Evil Clippy with a single click of a checkbox? He could make that analogy better and more current by saying "You know the 65535 issue? Programmers could find that and help fix it rather than waiting however long for an official patch"
I know it's doable, but Amarok is the only Free application that I know of to allow this without resorting to figuring out how the files are renamed (or, indeed, WHY they are renamed). When I had to backup a coworkers iPod (formatted for Mac), and did not yet have a running Amarok on my laptop, it was a challenge in finding the Demo copy of the program that crashed least, and getting it backed up before the demo expired. What a mess.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I do like my Macs and iPod (and you can scrobble from it), but some of Apple's decisions just baffle me. I think it's because I didn't "switch" from Windows, but from Linux, and none of these features would have gone down like this in an open source project, because open source people aren't trying to tie you to their platform, they're trying to make their platform as interoperable as possible.
Cool. It seemed, from the tone of the article (/., not the original) that they were actively trying to lock out other providers with an iPod refresh. Which, really, isn't out of the realm of possibility. I'm sure as ever that everyone will have a valid key within a release, but it's just annoying to people who were following the spec, as best they could engineer it, and then it changed. Which, while Apple's right, is nonetheless annoying.
I don't think it's iTunes that does it, or firmware updates, but the shipped software on the new iPods themselves. I don't do firmware updates because it would require that the iPod be Mac Formatted (or so iTunes tells me), and I want to be able to plug it into PCs, but I update iTunes all the time, and no problems yet with Amarok on Apple's X11. Actually, indeed since I can't update firmware, there's no way iTunes should be able to fuck with the iPod software-wise since if it can't write to it to update, it can't write to it to castrate it either.
I really hope they don't roll this out retroactively to older units, that would really just be dirty.
Can you scrobble from it? My iPod works well with Amarok and iTunes to upload my recently played tracks. Actually, better with Amarok because I didn't have to create a smart playlist on it, it "Just Worked", not like Apple's solution.
I'd consider something other than an iPod if it would keep stats and stuff. It's not important, in the grand scheme of things, but you kind of get hooked in a geeky way on getting stats of everything you do. I know RockBox will do this with some apps, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle. I have an Archos that GMINI 120 that if it wasn't "almost supported", would have Rockbox on it, but it's probably too old for them to complete the port now.
Well, until very recently (this article), they DIDN'T lock you down to using iTunes. Amarok worked very, very well with my iPod, in fact, I loathe iTunes in comparison. Apple won't let you copy music from your ipod with itunes, Amarok allows this, case closed.
I hate this decision, and see no benefit to Apple from it except to "drive eyeballs" to iTunes, which is horrible, and thus ITMS. So between that and making the recording industry feel more comfortable, since they just broke all the third party apps to let people copy THEIR OWN MUSIC off of their iPod, I'd say it's "Lose/Lose" to the users.
Still happy I bought my Mac, still like my iPod, probably will skip a new one if this doesn't get fixed. What other players allow music to be Scrobbled when you plug them into your machine, and what apps support these properly? Amarok? I hope?
Our ideas of "cool" differ in extremely fundamental ways. Good to know. Usually someone might say something is "cool" and I might think "wow that's complete crap", but it's actually as if I have found my perfect opposite here. Congratulations.
I never expected to like Mail on the Mac, but it's actually very good at dealing with...mail. I have one glitchy issue with message duplication using UW-IMAP, but as far as fast searching of my mail and speed searching on large folders, it beats the hell out of Outlook + Exchange (because it stores a local copy of my remote IMAP folders).
I like the idea of having Calendaring and Contacts split out, primarily because I never use either. I am a convert from Evolution on SuSE, so I spent a while trying to get that to run well, and ended up using Mail.app, and being happy with it.
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Because "Freinds Only" posts fall into "non-public". So you could have a group who all friends each other and can read their subversive posts, while none of those posts are "public". LJ lets you get pretty granular with groups of friends as well. Or at least "more granular" than other sites I've seen. So you have posts that can be seen by one group of friends which can't be read by your other friends. So yeah, having ownership of the machines would let you see all that stuff, which, if there was going to be anything "subversive", that's where it would be. Wow, that's as poorly written as anything I've ever typed. Ah well it's 3, and I'm on the Internet, what's the worst that can happen?
I have exactly the same config minus the expensive as hell monitor. Instead I have two Samsung 204b's (not that it matters). I don't have the problems you describe at all, though in window mode VLC messes up the in-window movie controls unless the window is sized full-screen (as opposed to full-screening the movie). I have plenty of other problems, Safari crashing or "beachballing" indefinitely when I switch to it or close a tab being one of the major ones.
There are also issues which seem specific to multi-head, such as much of the abysmal state of X11.app. In addition to crashing constantly, which isn't really new, it is non-multihead capable. Another example (though I'm sure it's not a bug since I think I'm one of about 6 people worldwide who are pissed about it) is that Spaces can't be configured for multiple, independent desktops. It flips both monitors, which annoys me greatly, coming from Linux instead of Windows as I do.
Overall, I'd say that Leopard is "slightly less stable" than Tiger, though not by much. The Safari thing was happening before, and I think might be a function of SIMBL. I just read this earlier this evening and haven't tested it thoroughly yet. I use SafariStand only because when you open many tabs in Safari, and it runs out of room in the tab bar, you cannot close tabs that aren't shown in that bar without going to the file menu or reaching for the keyboard.
They got MD5Sums with that? I don't want to spend 20 years compiling just to end up building and executing some virus.
I thought they'd released the source code for Ken Thompson. Neat trick.
You folks make me sad. I guess I really do need to put :-) :-) :-) Get it? huddlah huddlah honk honk the next time.
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This, this right here, is the difference between programmers and admins.
Is it that hard to translate from Canadian to English?
It's worse than that. I was thinking of the couple times I've dashed in to grab something quick at 3:00am (seamstress measuring tape [$0.88, and at 3am no less], or a soda or whatever), and I totally forgot that I bought a TV there 6 or 7 years ago. There goes all that hipster cred, d'oh.
True story. Just remember what my fridge magnet says "Red meat won't kill you. Fuzzy, green meat will kill you".
Exactly the same thing happened to me, except not at a WalMart, but at a well known Canadian grocery chain, Zehrs, which is actually Loblaws
You could call Bob Loblaw, he might write it up on his Law Blog.
My wife and I pointed out an entire 8' section of the WalMart meat cooler that was at least 10 days out of code, and very brown/green/fuzzy. The employee did nothing about it and went back to what they were doing. I (in my former capacity as a supermarket employee) would have flown over there and scooped it all out, no matter what department I worked in. So would any of my coworkers. I've happily spent less than $1/year at WalMart in the last decade, but I feel that even that is too much.
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Philo Farnsworth called the technology Image Dissection. I hear they get pretty bitchin' range with it too. AFAIK it now also handles HD content.
Hey, if the pizza delivery gets fucked up, Uncle Enzo will disappear you, don't forget it. I bet their customer database is tighter than e911.
Speaking of which, where was Enzo's on the Fictional Company poll?
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See, told you I'm not Capt. Office. Oh well. I guess "We could have figured out why the checkbox turning clippy off didn't work". Doesn't have the same ring to it.
But couldn't you free yourself from the Evil Clippy with a single click of a checkbox? He could make that analogy better and more current by saying "You know the 65535 issue? Programmers could find that and help fix it rather than waiting however long for an official patch"
You're not the only one, don't worry. Damn "life" getting in the way of my /. time.
Oh, brilliant, I'll give that a shot. I wonder how people can sell apps for $15 to do that :-)
I agree, it makes sense to have some integrity checks on a big library, I hope they publish that or that it's not hard for people to figure out.
I know it's doable, but Amarok is the only Free application that I know of to allow this without resorting to figuring out how the files are renamed (or, indeed, WHY they are renamed). When I had to backup a coworkers iPod (formatted for Mac), and did not yet have a running Amarok on my laptop, it was a challenge in finding the Demo copy of the program that crashed least, and getting it backed up before the demo expired. What a mess. As I mentioned elsewhere, I do like my Macs and iPod (and you can scrobble from it), but some of Apple's decisions just baffle me. I think it's because I didn't "switch" from Windows, but from Linux, and none of these features would have gone down like this in an open source project, because open source people aren't trying to tie you to their platform, they're trying to make their platform as interoperable as possible.
Cool. It seemed, from the tone of the article (/., not the original) that they were actively trying to lock out other providers with an iPod refresh. Which, really, isn't out of the realm of possibility. I'm sure as ever that everyone will have a valid key within a release, but it's just annoying to people who were following the spec, as best they could engineer it, and then it changed. Which, while Apple's right, is nonetheless annoying.
I don't think it's iTunes that does it, or firmware updates, but the shipped software on the new iPods themselves. I don't do firmware updates because it would require that the iPod be Mac Formatted (or so iTunes tells me), and I want to be able to plug it into PCs, but I update iTunes all the time, and no problems yet with Amarok on Apple's X11. Actually, indeed since I can't update firmware, there's no way iTunes should be able to fuck with the iPod software-wise since if it can't write to it to update, it can't write to it to castrate it either.
I really hope they don't roll this out retroactively to older units, that would really just be dirty.
Can you scrobble from it? My iPod works well with Amarok and iTunes to upload my recently played tracks. Actually, better with Amarok because I didn't have to create a smart playlist on it, it "Just Worked", not like Apple's solution.
I'd consider something other than an iPod if it would keep stats and stuff. It's not important, in the grand scheme of things, but you kind of get hooked in a geeky way on getting stats of everything you do. I know RockBox will do this with some apps, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle. I have an Archos that GMINI 120 that if it wasn't "almost supported", would have Rockbox on it, but it's probably too old for them to complete the port now.
Well, until very recently (this article), they DIDN'T lock you down to using iTunes. Amarok worked very, very well with my iPod, in fact, I loathe iTunes in comparison. Apple won't let you copy music from your ipod with itunes, Amarok allows this, case closed.
I hate this decision, and see no benefit to Apple from it except to "drive eyeballs" to iTunes, which is horrible, and thus ITMS. So between that and making the recording industry feel more comfortable, since they just broke all the third party apps to let people copy THEIR OWN MUSIC off of their iPod, I'd say it's "Lose/Lose" to the users.
Still happy I bought my Mac, still like my iPod, probably will skip a new one if this doesn't get fixed. What other players allow music to be Scrobbled when you plug them into your machine, and what apps support these properly? Amarok? I hope?
Our ideas of "cool" differ in extremely fundamental ways. Good to know. Usually someone might say something is "cool" and I might think "wow that's complete crap", but it's actually as if I have found my perfect opposite here. Congratulations.
I never expected to like Mail on the Mac, but it's actually very good at dealing with...mail. I have one glitchy issue with message duplication using UW-IMAP, but as far as fast searching of my mail and speed searching on large folders, it beats the hell out of Outlook + Exchange (because it stores a local copy of my remote IMAP folders). I like the idea of having Calendaring and Contacts split out, primarily because I never use either. I am a convert from Evolution on SuSE, so I spent a while trying to get that to run well, and ended up using Mail.app, and being happy with it.
That's why I use IMAP.
Steve, whatever you do... Don't Eat It.