I like Proteus myself: nice user interface, support for all the major IM protocols (including Jabber!), and some nice features to integrate them. I've also found it to be very stable, even though it's still in development. There are a couple things that still need to be addressed, the biggest of which is the lack of support for file transfer. If they can integrate that into it as well as they have everything else, it'll be a great app.
BTW, do you have any clue where the developer disappeared to? He hasn't been heard from in ages...
I don't see the CD-ROM only model sold in the education market being the best idea for a general release, but I can't for the life of me figure out why they aren't making the combo drive configuration (also available to education customers) available generally. Is there such a high demand for it in the edu market that they don't have enough units? That's never stopped Apple before... Or maybe they're just trying not to cannibalise iMac sales.
Mod the parent to this up! He almost stole the words from my mouth!
On the Mac OS, when specifying the apps to be used as http/ftp/mailto/etc. helpers, literally *any* app can be specified, just by browsing to it. And yet, now Microsoft is saying that you have to use their APIs to register as a helper, but they've said nothing about how you get access to the documentation for those APIs!
And I wouldn't be surprised if there were some sort of anti-GPL clause in the access agreement for the documentation...
I specifically remember such a program in late 2000, but it wasn't just a trade-in for cash discount. It was an actual exchange; ie., exchange your 5300 or 190 for a working Pismo, free of charge. Bear in mind that the Pismos were, at the time, the professional models, as this was after the release of the first iBooks.
And, of course, now all three models of G3 PowerBooks (Wall Street/Main Street, Lombard, and Pismo) are developing display hinge problems, which Apple won't fix even under AppleCare... *sigh*
Nice idea. One small problem: in many licence agreements of this type, there is a sentence in the "Termination" clause which reads something like, "Sections X, Y, and Z will survive termination of this Agreement." So even if you terminate the agreement, they still have many rights over you under it...
Of course, IANAL.
As a matter of fact, I have a question for the lawyers and otherwise out there: what would be involved for MS to make the licence perpetual ie. you are not legally permitted to withdraw from the agreement under any circumstances or at any time?
My understanding is that the Red Book standard defines the Compact Disc: Digital Audio format specifically. In other words, Red Book specifically defines, not the Compact Disc, but the format used to store audio data on a compact disc, thus making it an "Audio CD." It is this standard to which the "copy-protected CDs" do not comply. For this reason, they can be properly called CDs, but not "Compact Disc: Digital Audio," and so cannot bear Philips's logo.
In OS X root still has to give his password for authentication screens.
Actually, this is not the case. The whole reason why a non-root admin user has to give his password to invoke admin powers is to confirm that root powers are being invoked; it's basically like a sort of weird "sudo" command. When actually logged in as the superuser, this step is not necessary.
(The only exception is in some badly-designed apps that don't realise that they're running as root processes when you open them in root, and still ask you for the root password... arrgh! Take note of this rant, OS X developers!)
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This is just my opinion, but given the magnitude of the changes happening in the Jaguar release, I strongly suspect that it will not be a repeat of 10.1.
My prediction is that Jaguar will be released, not as Mac OS X 10.2, but as Mac OS X 10.5. As such, it will be subject to a $100 upgrade charge.
In this article, and in the ensuing discussion, the assertion has been made and supported that these particular optical discs are not technically CDs. My understanding, however, was that these discs were CDs, but did not comply with the Red Book standard (and thus could not be called CD:DA discs).
A minor distinction, I know... either way, these things are not true audio CDs, and should not be advertised as being such. But could someone please clear this up for me?
The Centris 610 and 650 were released to the general market in the beginning of 1994. The Quadra 610 and 650 were released a few months later, replacing the Centris units; these were the same systems, only with slightly faster processors.
The Quadra 660av was a completely different machine. Its only similarity to the Centris/Quadra 610 was in the form factor. And it was actually released after the Centris 610 (though before the speedbumped Quadras, IIRC).
I have a Pismo/400 running Mac OS X 10.1.4, and it runs beautifully. I'm starting to get "hinge-itis" now, but that can be fixed. (I'm in Canada, so I can have a dealer do it for me. This is a good thing.)
One suggestion, though: beef up the RAM. Substantially. I have 192, and I'm paging out fairly often. I'm going to upgrade that to 640 this summer, most likely.
On the main topic, now:
I have several friends who have iBooks running X, and they're great machines. You won't be disappointed.
Except that the final version won't include the Terminal in a default install... it will indeed be available to anyone who wants it, but you will have to install it manually yourself. In that way, though we can get at it with no problem, the average mortal will never see it.
<P>If you do, be forewarned: setting up a dualboot on the new PowerBooks (or any other machine with a New World ROM) is a difficult task. You must actually make changes in Open Firmware to make it work. Linux runs fine on it, don't get me wrong; the trick is being able to easily switch between them.</P>
<P>Another option might be Mac-on-Linux, but whether you'll be able to use that for video editing... probably not.</P>
Actually, for the record, Apple lost over $200 million last quarter. The reasons for this loss are manifold... but you can find info on those on any Mac info site, if you're interested. One place to look might be in the archives on Go2Mac.com.
Still, don't delude yourselves... Apple isn't going to just roll over and die that easily. That doesn't mean they're immortal, but they're nowhere near dead yet.
The only way to set up a dualboot between the Mac OS and LinuxPPC on a New World machine (that is, an iMac, an iBook, a Lombard or Pismo PowerBook, a Yosemite G3, or any G4-based system) is to make changes directly in Open Firmware. BootX does not work on these machines, and yaboot does not support any kind of dual booting.
This leads to my question:
Is there anything in the works to provide dualboot support for machines with New World ROMs?
There's something called yaboot out now, which allows a Linux system to boot directly from Open Firmware. So it is doable... the trouble is, you can't use yaboot to create a dual-boot system... and, unfortunately, yaboot is the only way to get a New World machine to boot into Linux... but I'll deal with that in *my* question...
Of course, that's because it's formatted for Windoze standard character assignments... which reminds me of another scary part:
2.5 You will ensure that any hardware or software you provide is compatible with the Services.... If Sprint notifies you that hardware or software provided by you... is likely to impair the Services, you agree to immediately eliminate the impairment. Sprint may suspend the Services until the impairment is corrected.
So, in other words, if they decide that they want only Windoze on their network (read: Microsoft leans on them a bit...), can they just boot all MacOS/Linux/BSD/etc. users off, saying that they might "impair the Services?!"
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Actually, Apple didn't really rip Xerox off; they bought the original prototypes, etc., from Xerox, because Xerox wasn't interested in marketing them. So yes, the original concept came from Xerox, but Apple didn't rip anyone off.
(In fact, Apple did a great deal of work on the original Xerox concept to come up with the actual Macintosh concept and OS, so...)
GORDOOM "...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Actually, if I understand, the real reason why the title was changed was because there were two movies coming out within a year of each other, each with similar titles. (For the record, the two were "Star Wars Episode VI: Revenge of the Jedi," released in 1983, and "Star Trek II: The Vengeance of Khan," released in 1982.) Because of the similarity in titles, it was decided (separately, I think) to change both names: Star Wars Episode VI became "Return of the Jedi" and Star Trek II became "The Wrath of Khan."
(I could be wrong, mind you...)
GORDOOM
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Unfortunately, anytime I've flown, the flight attendants insist that the windows be closed, to improve the viewing experience for the inflight movie... needless to say, it infuriates me every time.
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
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I like Proteus myself: nice user interface, support for all the major IM protocols (including Jabber!), and some nice features to integrate them. I've also found it to be very stable, even though it's still in development. There are a couple things that still need to be addressed, the biggest of which is the lack of support for file transfer. If they can integrate that into it as well as they have everything else, it'll be a great app.
BTW, do you have any clue where the developer disappeared to? He hasn't been heard from in ages...
Very good point.
I don't see the CD-ROM only model sold in the education market being the best idea for a general release, but I can't for the life of me figure out why they aren't making the combo drive configuration (also available to education customers) available generally. Is there such a high demand for it in the edu market that they don't have enough units? That's never stopped Apple before...
Or maybe they're just trying not to cannibalise iMac sales.
Umm... shouldn't that be "version-controlling-y-goodness?"
(Sorry! Couldn't resist!)
Mod the parent to this up! He almost stole the words from my mouth!
On the Mac OS, when specifying the apps to be used as http/ftp/mailto/etc. helpers, literally *any* app can be specified, just by browsing to it. And yet, now Microsoft is saying that you have to use their APIs to register as a helper, but they've said nothing about how you get access to the documentation for those APIs!
And I wouldn't be surprised if there were some sort of anti-GPL clause in the access agreement for the documentation...
I specifically remember such a program in late 2000, but it wasn't just a trade-in for cash discount. It was an actual exchange; ie., exchange your 5300 or 190 for a working Pismo, free of charge. Bear in mind that the Pismos were, at the time, the professional models, as this was after the release of the first iBooks.
And, of course, now all three models of G3 PowerBooks (Wall Street/Main Street, Lombard, and Pismo) are developing display hinge problems, which Apple won't fix even under AppleCare... *sigh*
Nice idea. One small problem: in many licence agreements of this type, there is a sentence in the "Termination" clause which reads something like, "Sections X, Y, and Z will survive termination of this Agreement." So even if you terminate the agreement, they still have many rights over you under it...
Of course, IANAL.
As a matter of fact, I have a question for the lawyers and otherwise out there: what would be involved for MS to make the licence perpetual ie. you are not legally permitted to withdraw from the agreement under any circumstances or at any time?
My understanding is that the Red Book standard defines the Compact Disc: Digital Audio format specifically. In other words, Red Book specifically defines, not the Compact Disc, but the format used to store audio data on a compact disc, thus making it an "Audio CD." It is this standard to which the "copy-protected CDs" do not comply. For this reason, they can be properly called CDs, but not "Compact Disc: Digital Audio," and so cannot bear Philips's logo.
Again, if I'm wrong, please correct me.
Actually, this is not the case. The whole reason why a non-root admin user has to give his password to invoke admin powers is to confirm that root powers are being invoked; it's basically like a sort of weird "sudo" command. When actually logged in as the superuser, this step is not necessary.
(The only exception is in some badly-designed apps that don't realise that they're running as root processes when you open them in root, and still ask you for the root password... arrgh! Take note of this rant, OS X developers!)
This is just my opinion, but given the magnitude of the changes happening in the Jaguar release, I strongly suspect that it will not be a repeat of 10.1.
:)
My prediction is that Jaguar will be released, not as Mac OS X 10.2, but as Mac OS X 10.5. As such, it will be subject to a $100 upgrade charge.
Of course, I wouldn't mind being wrong...
In this article, and in the ensuing discussion, the assertion has been made and supported that these particular optical discs are not technically CDs. My understanding, however, was that these discs were CDs, but did not comply with the Red Book standard (and thus could not be called CD:DA discs).
A minor distinction, I know... either way, these things are not true audio CDs, and should not be advertised as being such. But could someone please clear this up for me?
Wrong.
The Centris 610 and 650 were released to the general market in the beginning of 1994. The Quadra 610 and 650 were released a few months later, replacing the Centris units; these were the same systems, only with slightly faster processors.
The Quadra 660av was a completely different machine. Its only similarity to the Centris/Quadra 610 was in the form factor. And it was actually released after the Centris 610 (though before the speedbumped Quadras, IIRC).
I have a Pismo/400 running Mac OS X 10.1.4, and it runs beautifully. I'm starting to get "hinge-itis" now, but that can be fixed. (I'm in Canada, so I can have a dealer do it for me. This is a good thing.)
One suggestion, though: beef up the RAM. Substantially. I have 192, and I'm paging out fairly often. I'm going to upgrade that to 640 this summer, most likely.
On the main topic, now:
I have several friends who have iBooks running X, and they're great machines. You won't be disappointed.
Except that the final version won't include the Terminal in a default install... it will indeed be available to anyone who wants it, but you will have to install it manually yourself. In that way, though we can get at it with no problem, the average mortal will never see it.
And not to develop Quicktime for any OS other than the Mac OS and Windoze... which explains why there is no QT for Linux. (IIRC, of course...)
<P>If you do, be forewarned: setting up a dualboot on the new PowerBooks (or any other machine with a New World ROM) is a difficult task. You must actually make changes in Open Firmware to make it work. Linux runs fine on it, don't get me wrong; the trick is being able to easily switch between them.</P>
<P>Another option might be Mac-on-Linux, but whether you'll be able to use that for video editing... probably not.</P>
Actually, for the record, Apple lost over $200 million last quarter. The reasons for this loss are manifold... but you can find info on those on any Mac info site, if you're interested. One place to look might be in the archives on Go2Mac.com.
Still, don't delude yourselves... Apple isn't going to just roll over and die that easily. That doesn't mean they're immortal, but they're nowhere near dead yet.
Actually, I have a comment about this:
The only way to set up a dualboot between the Mac OS and LinuxPPC on a New World machine (that is, an iMac, an iBook, a Lombard or Pismo PowerBook, a Yosemite G3, or any G4-based system) is to make changes directly in Open Firmware. BootX does not work on these machines, and yaboot does not support any kind of dual booting.
This leads to my question:
There's something called yaboot out now, which allows a Linux system to boot directly from Open Firmware. So it is doable... the trouble is, you can't use yaboot to create a dual-boot system... and, unfortunately, yaboot is the only way to get a New World machine to boot into Linux... but I'll deal with that in *my* question...
Of course, that's because it's formatted for Windoze standard character assignments... which reminds me of another scary part:
So, in other words, if they decide that they want only Windoze on their network (read: Microsoft leans on them a bit...), can they just boot all MacOS/Linux/BSD/etc. users off, saying that they might "impair the Services?!"
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Actually, Apple didn't really rip Xerox off; they bought the original prototypes, etc., from Xerox, because Xerox wasn't interested in marketing them. So yes, the original concept came from Xerox, but Apple didn't rip anyone off.
(In fact, Apple did a great deal of work on the original Xerox concept to come up with the actual Macintosh concept and OS, so...)
GORDOOM
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
For the record, only oral statements can be referred to as slander. A written statement of a similar nature is properly referred to as libel.
Just thought I'd clarify that little point.
GORDOOM
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
(I could be wrong, mind you...)
GORDOOM
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Unfortunately, anytime I've flown, the flight attendants insist that the windows be closed, to improve the viewing experience for the inflight movie... needless to say, it infuriates me every time.
"...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."