Cocoa is being advanced for the main point that Carbon is being phased out, slowly.
Check out the expansion of Cocoa versus Carbon Sessions at this years WWDC. Last year was much more Carbon, and the year before that even more Carbon. Steve is finally calling in on his statement back in 1997 WWDC that Carbon, introduced by Avie, is a Transitional API.
It will never happen, Gecko use that is. They passed on Gecko specifically for the fact KHTML is much lighter and allowed them to augment it without having to fork and blow it up/rip out what they don't like.
Add Subversion with latest CVS but set Subversion as the default.
Include Version control into.Mac
Make no one a member of wheel, other than root.
Update passwd-already mentioned.
Include LaTeX/MacTeX the most current with all the macros/classes/packages currently possible with a Custom Editor interface
Add.profile in conjunction with.bashrc
DO NOT ADD Virtual Desktops as part of the Manager--Add command key options ala NeXTSTEP that commandkey-dblclick autohides ALL OTHER APPS BUT THE ONE YOU WANT TO WORK ON
Option for Vertical Tear Off Menus ala NeXTSTEP and option to Hide the Apple Menu
Include Shorewall firewall option with a solid UI
Include tinyDNS
Provide IDE support, out-of-the-box for Apache XML Cocoon 2 Frameworks to interface seemlessly with WebObjects as one AppServer option
Add Self-Signing Certs from private Cert Maintainers that don't have to fake out that support for TLS in Mail.app.
Option to Change the Sheets Interface of Mail.app to drop down below the Mail View and select from a Hierarchical View to a Column View of your Folders whether local or IMAPd
IMAP support in Thunderbird stomps all over KMail. Whenever the hell KDE gets around to filtering on IMAP folders than I'll use it for Dev Listings, etc.
TLS Certs Management configuration absolutely blows in KMail, but that's a separate issue. If I run PIII with a fraction of the speed the adjacent poster with his AMD has running I've got to question his configuration. Thunderbird runs just fine on Debian Sid. And I'm not on DSL or greater, but a freakin' dial-up, unfortunately.
Until LyX 1.4 is released and has full-native support for Memoir and other packages I have been using Kile LaTeX Editor for KDE 3.2.2 (1.7a version currently).
When I want to see exactly what code is doing what Kile is that sort of LaTeX editor but with many helpful features that don't completely hide the code that LyX does for you.
When LyX releases 1.4 and subsequent 1.4.x releases to refine it my time will be 50/50 along-side Kile.
Besides the texts that are currently being listed I didn't read anywhere about the INDIAN TEX USER GROUP TUTORIALS, available http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia/
You won't be disappointed when you view these.
The print versions are ones I prefer but having both shows one the versatility in LaTeX/TeX.
All I can say after reading several hundred pages of LaTeX this past month, the more you read the more you want to never use anything else for large document processing.
Who the hell would port the subgraphics engine for Quartz/Quartz Extreme to Linux? Apple has been offered Billions for QuickTime and turned it down-ask Avid about it.
What Apple should do is open up the.NIB and help GNUstep folks by providing the Cocoa Hooks for KDE and Company.
GNUstep UI is a partial hack of Openstep--I used to support that beautiful OS at NeXT and Apple and trust me it is a hack, but don't blame the folks for not having the money to pay Keith Ohlfs to help.
Apple has helped with WebKit Core but if it would provide PDO(Portable Distributed Objects) on Linux you'd see a nice bedfellow who would help improve the computing landscape for both as benefactors.
More and more of Apple's applications are becoming Cocoa only Applications and come WWDC bet your ass with the lack of Carbon Sessions and multitude of Cocoa Sessions, Apple's promise of Carbon as a Transition API back in 1998 WWDC will come to peak with I am bettin' an End of Life (EOL) tag on it.
More elaborately, it would first be ported to GNUstep and then brought over to OS X. It is a project that interests me but my level of Objective-C is not up to snuff, at the moment.
Two applications I want to work on porting are GIMP Cocoa and LyX Cocoa.
Ok troll I'll bight, the reason that using the Gimp in OS X or in Windows is a bad idea is that in both cases the window management sucks. The Gimp is designed to take advantage of the capabilities of the typical window manager under X.
Could you make any more of a bullshit comment? Window Management in OS X is arguably far superior to X, currently though the gap is narrowing. What perhaps should be said is, "The Window Management for GIMP on OS X is akin to being a Stranger in a Strange Land, due to the fact that GIMP on OS X is not Quartz Native, non-Cocoa and therefore relies upon the developers porting GIMP to the X11 for OS X that Apple has customized. Somewhere between the unfamiliarity with the differences in XFree86 for OS X and that of standard Linux, compounded upon the limited exposure of how Window Interaction between X11 and Quartz/WindowServer is handled only opens up for more errors leaving one to label such development naively as poor design, or worse arrogantly denouncing the OS Window Management and not the application design."
And very few people know that Photoshop was in a wait and see state before the Executives saw an application called, "TIFFany" during MacWorld 1997 and subsequently copied several pieces of functionality of this wonderful Graphics Editing Software that version 3.0 is still available.
The reason for it being stopped is private but suffice it to say the developers work for APPLE.
The main algorithm expert has had a huge part in Quartz/Quartz Extreme.
I'm a programmer, server-side developer (Cocoon 2), graphic designer and site designer.
Operating Systems I learned include HP-UX, IRIX for Wavefront during Animation at WSU while persuing second B.S. in Cptr Science. First was in Mech. Engineering (I understand Design applied to Systems and Machines), NeXTSTEP(self-taught, loved it so much left my second B.S. behind to work at NeXT Software), Mac OS 6 - 9 (Used it sparingly while working at Apple focused on Rhapsody than OS X), Windows(95/98/NT/2k/XP), worked with various graphics applications on various operating systems.
All my graphics are now done with the following products:
The GIMP 2.x prior was 1.3.x
SodiPodi/Inkscape for SVG and other Vector Based Graphics Needs
Xfig (I'm an Engineer by education and it was like a warm welcome after years of no machine design)
CinePaint for 16bit needs for Photo quality for Unsigned Integer/RnH Short Float up to 32-bit IEEE Float supported.
I picked up LyX about 9 months prior and then Kile LaTeX editor to write everything from Technical Manuals to Novels to Resumes. Professional Publishing bar none. I publish in PS, PDF, DVI, HTML, Docbook, etc..
Blender for Animation
Cenon 3.6 for GNUstep that has to be used to appreciate its applications for Technical Designs and Product Manual uses
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What they all have in common is I run them on Debian GNU/Linux via KDE 3.2.2 along with GNOME and GNUstep.
When I use OS X which is becoming more often doesn't mean I'm going to not use Linux. I'll leverage them both and make myself as productive and useful as my damn mind can handle.
Stop fucking whining, become a Keith Ohlfs and contribute your ideas of UI Design so that people can benefit from these vast wellsprings of insight.
I see a need I research tools available and I learn new skills. Jack of All Trades, but I tell you my M.E. background has taught me to produce first rate results and learn on-the-fly.
The GIMP needs a more cohesive UI but if you can get your Mind around Photoshop you can get your Mind around the GIMP. User Tutorial Documentation also needs to be massively increased. If one doesn't know Python the odds of fully leveraging the GIMP with scripts on Images is very remote.
On OS X I will reach for the Stone Design CD, use Create and all the other apps that come with it, and continue on my merry ways.
The Best Applications on OS X aren't the ones from Adobe, Macromedia, etc... They are from the Minds of Developers who had the headstart of Getting Cocoa and its Capabilities. Apple is making it clear how to do it, finally!!
Personal observation after having to downgrade from working at NeXT to merging with the Zealots at Apple, YOU WASTED 4 YEARS WHINING AND WHAT WE HAVE IN A BEAUTIFUL OS IS NOT EVEN WHERE IT SHOULD BE. BUT COMPROMISE IS A BITCH AINT IT?
Linux TTF support grows by leaps and bounds with each revision of freetype and accompanying packages.
With that being said, most Windows users are under the illusion that Windows Font Management is phenomenal when it is not. But drag n' drop or import to/Fonts under Windows makes it seem so as opposed to most Linux approaches to Font Management.
Neither one compares to OS X's Font Management, but I'll take Linux after OS X for Desktop Publishing needs. It just requires a bit more "out-of-the-box" thinking to really understand one's productivity outputs increase with Linux and OS X and decreases with XP.
Still with that being said, Openstep had me more productive with its marriage of simplicity, elegance of a clean UI and openness of its UNIX underpinnings.
I wonder if this application inflation is part of some nefarious Jobsian plot to make us buy those gigantic cinema displays...
No. It's more of a "Let's hope we make the interface spacing easiest on the eyes without overloading the per square inch of screen real estate so not as to alienate individuals who find such crammed UI's as complex and intimidating.
These are just guesses but ones that have persisted since NeXTSTEP.
MVC for J2EE via WOF is what you want, but if you want Linux than one can see the popularity of Struts and other MVC frameworks on none Apple supported platforms.
Apache Cocoon2 Frameworks are much more interesting than Struts, personally.
Oh you mean, Jesus of the Nazarene, whom the entire Mythos of the New Testament is based upon and unlike prior Prophets of the Hindus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, etc., who all actually have records of existence this one becomes the the Saviour of Mankind?
Not to mention the blantant plagiarism of the Osirian Mythos that the New Testament does when it suits itself, along with the First Testament. What of course to follow is Horus connection.
Here is to the Aeon of the Dying God now passed and on to the Conquering Child (Mankind itself, literally, from within).
Perhaps finally our beloved Universe can get back to doing what it is designed to do, Change.
I haven't set up Postfix on Panther client or even bothered to verify if, out-of-the-box, it is there, but for sure we know that OS X Server version of Panther has Postfix standard.
The Powerbook is the only laptop I would even think of buying. It allows me if I even wanted to, to run either OS X or Linux, though personally I'd only run OS X on it.
On the other hand, why would anyone would want to develop Web Sites using XP is beyond me. After first going from NeXTSTEP to NT4/2k/XP than recently to Debian Linux (2 years and counting) and finally getting to work back with OS X it is clear to me with regard to computer efficiency:
XP is out. Configuring Apache2 with mods on Linux and OS X is painless and a refreshing experience, along side dealing with Tomcat/JBoss, etc.
Writing XHTML/XML/XSLT/CSS using say Kate via KDE 3.2.2alpha or with Quantra is a pleasurethe apps are non-intrusive and years of knowing the meta languages means you aren't slowed down by WYSIWYG
Publishing Book Quality documentation and then ripping it to DVI/PS/PDF using LaTeX via LyX or Kile LaTeX Editor puts large document publishing on Windows to Shame (OS X is just as painless doing LaTeX as Linux). LyX on XP run through Cygwin is thankfully available but definitely not a first class citizen, as well as TeX/LaTeX/TeTeX/Ghostscript/DVI, etc.
Developing Java/Objective-C are both enjoyable on Linux and clearly more on OS X due to Apple's commitment to Engineering OOA/OOD APIs that have made Sun's Java easier than programming on Sun's Tools.
Shell ProgrammingCygwin is nice but not seemless
Database development say with MySQL and PostgreSQL besides the obvious Oracle, DB2, Informix and Sybase are much more pleasant at home on UNIX systems.
I spend about 2% of my time playing games, if that. There are only so many first person shooter games one can play before reverting back to old fashioned Card Games and Chess.
From the look of my reply I take more time in well-formatted documentation than most I'm sure.
Slashdot Mirror
Good to know. One extra keystroke but I think I'll live. (sarcasm intentional).
Thanks for that information. Makes perfect legal sense.
Catch a clue with regards to Carbon.
Cocoa is being advanced for the main point that Carbon is being phased out, slowly.
Check out the expansion of Cocoa versus Carbon Sessions at this years WWDC. Last year was much more Carbon, and the year before that even more Carbon. Steve is finally calling in on his statement back in 1997 WWDC that Carbon, introduced by Avie, is a Transitional API.
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In response to Number 2.
Screen responsiveness. You cannot compare PDF line by line Display PDF drawing of the Screen refresh/redraw to that of Bitmap screen dumping.
It will never happen, Gecko use that is. They passed on Gecko specifically for the fact KHTML is much lighter and allowed them to augment it without having to fork and blow it up/rip out what they don't like.
In response:
I can think of two dozen more off-hand.
IMAP support in Thunderbird stomps all over KMail. Whenever the hell KDE gets around to filtering on IMAP folders than I'll use it for Dev Listings, etc.
TLS Certs Management configuration absolutely blows in KMail, but that's a separate issue. If I run PIII with a fraction of the speed the adjacent poster with his AMD has running I've got to question his configuration. Thunderbird runs just fine on Debian Sid. And I'm not on DSL or greater, but a freakin' dial-up, unfortunately.
Until LyX 1.4 is released and has full-native support for Memoir and other packages I have been using Kile LaTeX Editor for KDE 3.2.2 (1.7a version currently).
When I want to see exactly what code is doing what Kile is that sort of LaTeX editor but with many helpful features that don't completely hide the code that LyX does for you.
When LyX releases 1.4 and subsequent 1.4.x releases to refine it my time will be 50/50 along-side Kile.
Besides the texts that are currently being listed I didn't read anywhere about the INDIAN TEX USER GROUP TUTORIALS, available http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia/ You won't be disappointed when you view these.
The print versions are ones I prefer but having both shows one the versatility in LaTeX/TeX.
All I can say after reading several hundred pages of LaTeX this past month, the more you read the more you want to never use anything else for large document processing.
And X11.mpkg is just a download, double-click and auto-install.
Double-click on GIMP for Mac autolaunches X11 for you. A five year old could manage that one.
Who the hell would port the subgraphics engine for Quartz/Quartz Extreme to Linux? Apple has been offered Billions for QuickTime and turned it down-ask Avid about it.
What Apple should do is open up the .NIB and help GNUstep folks by providing the Cocoa Hooks for KDE and Company.
GNUstep UI is a partial hack of Openstep--I used to support that beautiful OS at NeXT and Apple and trust me it is a hack, but don't blame the folks for not having the money to pay Keith Ohlfs to help.
Apple has helped with WebKit Core but if it would provide PDO(Portable Distributed Objects) on Linux you'd see a nice bedfellow who would help improve the computing landscape for both as benefactors.
More and more of Apple's applications are becoming Cocoa only Applications and come WWDC bet your ass with the lack of Carbon Sessions and multitude of Cocoa Sessions, Apple's promise of Carbon as a Transition API back in 1998 WWDC will come to peak with I am bettin' an End of Life (EOL) tag on it.
In short. "It takes time."
More elaborately, it would first be ported to GNUstep and then brought over to OS X. It is a project that interests me but my level of Objective-C is not up to snuff, at the moment.
Two applications I want to work on porting are GIMP Cocoa and LyX Cocoa.
If and when a Cocoa version of GIMP appears it will most likely come from APPLE.
Could you make any more of a bullshit comment? Window Management in OS X is arguably far superior to X, currently though the gap is narrowing. What perhaps should be said is, "The Window Management for GIMP on OS X is akin to being a Stranger in a Strange Land, due to the fact that GIMP on OS X is not Quartz Native, non-Cocoa and therefore relies upon the developers porting GIMP to the X11 for OS X that Apple has customized. Somewhere between the unfamiliarity with the differences in XFree86 for OS X and that of standard Linux, compounded upon the limited exposure of how Window Interaction between X11 and Quartz/WindowServer is handled only opens up for more errors leaving one to label such development naively as poor design, or worse arrogantly denouncing the OS Window Management and not the application design."
JPEGOPTIM- Great utility that does wonders on those jpgs. Nothing flashy, just works.
And very few people know that Photoshop was in a wait and see state before the Executives saw an application called, "TIFFany" during MacWorld 1997 and subsequently copied several pieces of functionality of this wonderful Graphics Editing Software that version 3.0 is still available.
The reason for it being stopped is private but suffice it to say the developers work for APPLE.
The main algorithm expert has had a huge part in Quartz/Quartz Extreme.
I'm a programmer, server-side developer (Cocoon 2), graphic designer and site designer.
Operating Systems I learned include HP-UX, IRIX for Wavefront during Animation at WSU while persuing second B.S. in Cptr Science. First was in Mech. Engineering (I understand Design applied to Systems and Machines), NeXTSTEP(self-taught, loved it so much left my second B.S. behind to work at NeXT Software), Mac OS 6 - 9 (Used it sparingly while working at Apple focused on Rhapsody than OS X), Windows(95/98/NT/2k/XP), worked with various graphics applications on various operating systems.
All my graphics are now done with the following products:
What they all have in common is I run them on Debian GNU/Linux via KDE 3.2.2 along with GNOME and GNUstep.
When I use OS X which is becoming more often doesn't mean I'm going to not use Linux. I'll leverage them both and make myself as productive and useful as my damn mind can handle.
Stop fucking whining, become a Keith Ohlfs and contribute your ideas of UI Design so that people can benefit from these vast wellsprings of insight.
I see a need I research tools available and I learn new skills. Jack of All Trades, but I tell you my M.E. background has taught me to produce first rate results and learn on-the-fly.
The GIMP needs a more cohesive UI but if you can get your Mind around Photoshop you can get your Mind around the GIMP. User Tutorial Documentation also needs to be massively increased. If one doesn't know Python the odds of fully leveraging the GIMP with scripts on Images is very remote.
On OS X I will reach for the Stone Design CD, use Create and all the other apps that come with it, and continue on my merry ways.
The Best Applications on OS X aren't the ones from Adobe, Macromedia, etc... They are from the Minds of Developers who had the headstart of Getting Cocoa and its Capabilities. Apple is making it clear how to do it, finally!!
Personal observation after having to downgrade from working at NeXT to merging with the Zealots at Apple, YOU WASTED 4 YEARS WHINING AND WHAT WE HAVE IN A BEAUTIFUL OS IS NOT EVEN WHERE IT SHOULD BE. BUT COMPROMISE IS A BITCH AINT IT?
With that being said, most Windows users are under the illusion that Windows Font Management is phenomenal when it is not. But drag n' drop or import to /Fonts under Windows makes it seem so as opposed to most Linux approaches to Font Management.
Neither one compares to OS X's Font Management, but I'll take Linux after OS X for Desktop Publishing needs. It just requires a bit more "out-of-the-box" thinking to really understand one's productivity outputs increase with Linux and OS X and decreases with XP.
Still with that being said, Openstep had me more productive with its marriage of simplicity, elegance of a clean UI and openness of its UNIX underpinnings.
No. It's more of a "Let's hope we make the interface spacing easiest on the eyes without overloading the per square inch of screen real estate so not as to alienate individuals who find such crammed UI's as complex and intimidating.
These are just guesses but ones that have persisted since NeXTSTEP.
Poor Man's WebObjects.
MVC for J2EE via WOF is what you want, but if you want Linux than one can see the popularity of Struts and other MVC frameworks on none Apple supported platforms.
Apache Cocoon2 Frameworks are much more interesting than Struts, personally.
Oh you mean, Jesus of the Nazarene, whom the entire Mythos of the New Testament is based upon and unlike prior Prophets of the Hindus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, etc., who all actually have records of existence this one becomes the the Saviour of Mankind?
Not to mention the blantant plagiarism of the Osirian Mythos that the New Testament does when it suits itself, along with the First Testament. What of course to follow is Horus connection.
Here is to the Aeon of the Dying God now passed and on to the Conquering Child (Mankind itself, literally, from within).
Perhaps finally our beloved Universe can get back to doing what it is designed to do, Change.
Well all that says is the dev team producing Slashdot hasn't got off its ass to convert to png.
I haven't set up Postfix on Panther client or even bothered to verify if, out-of-the-box, it is there, but for sure we know that OS X Server version of Panther has Postfix standard.
That changes with the very recent release of GCC 3.4 and moreso when GCC 3.5 is released.
The Powerbook is the only laptop I would even think of buying. It allows me if I even wanted to, to run either OS X or Linux, though personally I'd only run OS X on it.
On the other hand, why would anyone would want to develop Web Sites using XP is beyond me. After first going from NeXTSTEP to NT4/2k/XP than recently to Debian Linux (2 years and counting) and finally getting to work back with OS X it is clear to me with regard to computer efficiency:I spend about 2% of my time playing games, if that. There are only so many first person shooter games one can play before reverting back to old fashioned Card Games and Chess.
From the look of my reply I take more time in well-formatted documentation than most I'm sure.
Of course Linux is Trademarked and that owner being Linus Torvalds. To not trademark it would have sealed its fate long ago.