I use a 5 button mouse. The forward and back buttons (by your thumb), I program to do All Windows and Show Desktop.
So I can click one button to show the desktop, grab a file, click the other to show all windows, hover over the window I want, click show all windows again, then drop the icon on the app/window. It has had an enormous effect on the speed at which I can do things in OS X. I feel crippled with anything less than a 5 button mouse when using OS X now.
I would recommend a bluetooth mouse for an Apple laptop (assuming you have the BT module in the laptop). People always look surprised when I don't have to plug anything into my laptop to use my wireless mouse.
1. Never do another headless install. 2. Never use the command line to change settings again, use X! 3. Don't pick specific software you want installed, pick broad categories so that lots of crap you don't want gets installed too. 4. up2date -u
I just ordered a refurbed 2.0Ghz G5 earlier today for $2000. I've been waiting for this rev because I knew the refurb prices would drop.
This will be my third refurb purchase from Apple. My first two were a 12" Powerbook and a 20GB iPod. I've been very happy with both (althought the iPod battery life has degraded a bit after a year). Apple refurbs have all exterior components replaced, so they at least appear brand new. They also have the same 1 year warranty as new products. If you are paranoid you can also purchase applecare contracts for refurbed items.
I highly recommend purchasing refurbed Apple products if you want significant savings off the retail price.
My solution was to buy a 5 button bluetooth mouse for my powerbook(yes, the Microsoft one, Logitech didn't have their BT model out at the time). No cord or adapter necessary (if you have a PB with the BT module). It works like a charm, and I can map the two thumb buttons to Expose functions (Bonus!).
When I saw this story it immediately made me think of this story from back in November on macrumors.
This snippet is what I recalled: Toshiba plans to expand into 1" hard drives in the future. 1" form factor drives are already being produced by Hitachi at this time.
Toshiba supplies 1.8" drives for the current iPods. Seems a 1" drive is more likely than solid state memory for the new miniPods.
I really think there could be an enormous market for buying DVDs electronically. They could use a similar DRM scheme as ITMS (can only play on 3 computers, limit the number of burns). The big thing is they would need to format the disc images to fit a DVD-R, which wouldn't be that difficult.
I bet Steve is being a little deceptive with his answer to that question. If something like this were to happen, its still a ways off, so he wouldn't want to tip his hand this early.
The refurbs will have their batteries tested before they are reassembled for shipment, so if the battery is not in good shape it will be replaced. Worst case you can replace it for $50 yourself down the road if need be.
I bought a 20GB iPod (old style, firewire on top) for $270. You pretty much have to camp that page daily to have a chance at getting one. They only list products on that page that they have in-stock at that moment, so the contents often change many times during one day. Luckily I have a coworker who is on a Mac mailing list and someone mentioned that some iPods were available.
I wasn't trying to say that refurbs are always going to be just as good as brand new gear. What I was trying to do was dispel the notion that their refurbed gear is just used equipment which is tested to work, then shipped out. They break down the product into its parts, replace the external parts and test each internal part individually, then reassemble.
But thanks for the assumptions and veiled insults.
Well, since opening the iPod requires actually prying the case open, I can understand why they wouldn't offer an option to just buy the battery.
Also getting a refurbed iPod back is not a bad thing. Apple's refurbed products have the same testing & quality requirements before being shipped out as their new equipment does (same warranty too). I recently bought a refurbed 12" PowerBook and a refurbed 20GB iPod (old style), and I've been extremely happy with both. I honestly wouldn't have known that either weren't brand new if they didn't have the red "Reconditioned Product" stickers on the boxes. I saved over $500 as compared to buying the two items new.
Welcome to the club:) I just recently bought a 12" PB and I'm loving it.
6) I have yet to figure out where the graphical FTP client is - so far I am largely just treating this like a Linux laptop and using a lot lof command line stuff.
Fetch is no longer included in the OS, and its not free. You can find freeware clients at Version Tracker. I've never found a need for a graphical client, since I use ftp so rarely.
Also check out Fugu. Its a graphical SFTP, SCP and SSH tunneling client. Its also under a BSD style license:)
8) The trackpad is not responsive - it is almost like accelaration is turned on, but I didn't see anything that would indicate that in any mouse menu.
This is less of a problem in Panther than it was in Jaguar, but the fastest speed is still too slow for some. There is a nice little freeware PrefPane wigit called MouseZoom that will let you increase the acceleration number above the max that the Keyboard & Mouse PrefPane will.
11) The spell checking thing doesn't let you bring up a quick selection of the word/words that it suggests - innstead you have to open the full spell window and then it wants to continue on - I miss the ability in Windows to right click and the first few words on that menu were the suggested words and you could just choose one and move on.
My advice: Invest in a Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse. Right clicking does bring up a list of suggested words (command-click has the same effect). The sweetest thing about the MS bluetooth mouse is that it has 5 buttons, so you can map Expose functions to the two thumb buttons. Having a scroll wheel is also something that I can't live without. Its also very nice to not have to plug in anything to use an external mouse.
I was about to scream when I saw the 12" G4 iBook for $1100. I paid $1200 for a refurbed 12" 867Mhz PB (Direct from Apple, got a 20GB iPod for $270, too!). Then I realized that if I added the bluetooth module (yes, I use it) and bumped the HD to 40GB (what I have in the PB), it would only be about $25 cheaper. I'm not upset now. I'd still buy the refurbed PB for the slight speed bump and cool design.
"The inconsistencies between what the language allows and what the standard library actually does bother me. If operator overloading is so bad, why does the String class do it?"
This bothered me from the first day I started programming JAVA in a class in college. I always felt if they weren't going to allow us to do something, then they shouldn't do it themselves.
Why isn't this a possibility? Didn't AMD's fab in Dresden take over some slack for Motorola at some point in the past?
I think its quite possible that Apple wants AMD to fab some chips with some spare production time they might have. IBM might not be able to fab the amount of chips that Apple wants to have ready by September.
Seems like a reasonable non-conspiracy related theory to me.
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I doubt this is being reported anywhere. I work at the National Press Building in downtown D.C. Al-Jazeera has an office in the building. On Tuesday at about 6:00PM I noticed that our connection to our ISP's router was not responding. We have a 100mb line directly to an ISP in the building's main router (we buy bandwidth by the megabit from them). Most offices in the building buy per seat connectivity and phone service from them. I talked to their head network admin, who knew that there was an attack going on against 'a news agency in the building', but their IDS system wasn't picking it up. It turns out that someone was using an unsecured (no WEP) wireless access point to gain access to the network. Someone in the building plugged in a WAP and just didn't configure it at all. Now I'm not entirely sure that it was Al-Jazeera getting attacked, but I'm willing to bet it was.
There's also one in the Air & Space Museum. They are not all attached to educational institutions, but I think most are. For example there are a couple at casinos in Las Vegas.
I have two machines connected to a 2 port USB KVM switch. That way I can quickly move between my two machines here at work, one FreeBSD and one Windows 2000. I spend probably 95% of the time in FreeBSD (thank you VNC!), but some things are just easier in Windows (SQL Enterprise Manager sucks over VNC). Occasionally I go to Windows to open a website that Mozilla can't handle (screw you, WebTrends). It makes my life as a System Administrator much easier, takes 2 seconds to go from FreeBSD to Windows.
What prevents both companies from doubling their monthly fees or adding 20 minutes of commercials per hour?
Nothing, but they will lose a lot of business if they do that.
look how people have been grudgingly accepting obscene TV-cable rate hikes.
And alot have moved to satellite for just that reason.
What happens when a ClearChannel-owned XM pays Honda scads of money to drop support for AM/FM-radios?
I find that pretty unlikely. Every TV sold today (save some very high end monitors) still has a broadcast tuner built in. People are very attached to their local programming. That was one of the biggest concerns with DirecTV. People still want what they have been getting, they just want more in addition to it.
The moronic masses will consume as usual until the market share is large enough to screw those who have been holding out.
Like people who still use VHS are getting screwed right now? Or people who still buy analog audio tapes? Most new titles are still sold in both these formats. Technology in the mass consumer space never moves that fast. There is always a significant period of overlap. Maybe XM will take over one day, but by then there will probably be competition within XM, or competing satellite radio networks. I wouldn't cry wolf just yet.
Sirius Radio also offers 100 channels (60 commercial-free music and 40 news, sports, talk, and entertainment programming).
This is why they charge a monthly fee. I don't hear anyone complaining about HBO charging a monthly fee. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it. Its that simple. Normal radio broadcasts won't go away. Broadcast TV didn't disapear because of cable and satellite.
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Damnit, you stole my thunder. I was about to come in here and mention that.
I messed around with a lot of 3rd party app launcher/menu programs before I realized I could do that. It works like a charm.
I use a 5 button mouse. The forward and back buttons (by your thumb), I program to do All Windows and Show Desktop.
So I can click one button to show the desktop, grab a file, click the other to show all windows, hover over the window I want, click show all windows again, then drop the icon on the app/window. It has had an enormous effect on the speed at which I can do things in OS X. I feel crippled with anything less than a 5 button mouse when using OS X now.
I would recommend a bluetooth mouse for an Apple laptop (assuming you have the BT module in the laptop). People always look surprised when I don't have to plug anything into my laptop to use my wireless mouse.
Karma be damned, I can't resist.
1. Never do another headless install.
2. Never use the command line to change settings again, use X!
3. Don't pick specific software you want installed, pick broad categories so that lots of crap you don't want gets installed too.
4. up2date -u
I just ordered a refurbed 2.0Ghz G5 earlier today for $2000. I've been waiting for this rev because I knew the refurb prices would drop.
This will be my third refurb purchase from Apple. My first two were a 12" Powerbook and a 20GB iPod. I've been very happy with both (althought the iPod battery life has degraded a bit after a year). Apple refurbs have all exterior components replaced, so they at least appear brand new. They also have the same 1 year warranty as new products. If you are paranoid you can also purchase applecare contracts for refurbed items.
I highly recommend purchasing refurbed Apple products if you want significant savings off the retail price.
I saved:
iPod ($400 retail - $280 refurb) = $120
12"PB ($1600 retail - $1200 refurb) = $400
G5 ($2500 retail - $2000 refurb) = $500
So then, so far I have saved $1,020 by purchasing refurbished Apple products rather than buying new.
My solution was to buy a 5 button bluetooth mouse for my powerbook(yes, the Microsoft one, Logitech didn't have their BT model out at the time). No cord or adapter necessary (if you have a PB with the BT module). It works like a charm, and I can map the two thumb buttons to Expose functions (Bonus!).
To first big biker: Aren't you Richard Simmons?
To second big biker: Aren't you Richard Simmons' best friend.... Richard Simmons?
When I saw this story it immediately made me think of this story from back in November on macrumors.
This snippet is what I recalled:
Toshiba plans to expand into 1" hard drives in the future. 1" form factor drives are already being produced by Hitachi at this time.
Toshiba supplies 1.8" drives for the current iPods. Seems a 1" drive is more likely than solid state memory for the new miniPods.
I really think there could be an enormous market for buying DVDs electronically. They could use a similar DRM scheme as ITMS (can only play on 3 computers, limit the number of burns). The big thing is they would need to format the disc images to fit a DVD-R, which wouldn't be that difficult.
I bet Steve is being a little deceptive with his answer to that question. If something like this were to happen, its still a ways off, so he wouldn't want to tip his hand this early.
The refurbs will have their batteries tested before they are reassembled for shipment, so if the battery is not in good shape it will be replaced. Worst case you can replace it for $50 yourself down the road if need be.
I bought a 20GB iPod (old style, firewire on top) for $270. You pretty much have to camp that page daily to have a chance at getting one. They only list products on that page that they have in-stock at that moment, so the contents often change many times during one day. Luckily I have a coworker who is on a Mac mailing list and someone mentioned that some iPods were available.
I got my 20GB iPod for $270 from the refurbed section of Apple's store. Its a great place to get Apple gear if you don't want to pay full price.
I wasn't trying to say that refurbs are always going to be just as good as brand new gear. What I was trying to do was dispel the notion that their refurbed gear is just used equipment which is tested to work, then shipped out. They break down the product into its parts, replace the external parts and test each internal part individually, then reassemble.
But thanks for the assumptions and veiled insults.
Well, since opening the iPod requires actually prying the case open, I can understand why they wouldn't offer an option to just buy the battery.
Also getting a refurbed iPod back is not a bad thing. Apple's refurbed products have the same testing & quality requirements before being shipped out as their new equipment does (same warranty too). I recently bought a refurbed 12" PowerBook and a refurbed 20GB iPod (old style), and I've been extremely happy with both. I honestly wouldn't have known that either weren't brand new if they didn't have the red "Reconditioned Product" stickers on the boxes. I saved over $500 as compared to buying the two items new.
Welcome to the club :)
:)
I just recently bought a 12" PB and I'm loving it.
6) I have yet to figure out where the graphical FTP client is - so far I am largely just treating this like a Linux laptop and using a lot lof command line stuff.
Fetch is no longer included in the OS, and its not free. You can find freeware clients at Version Tracker. I've never found a need for a graphical client, since I use ftp so rarely.
Also check out Fugu. Its a graphical SFTP, SCP and SSH tunneling client. Its also under a BSD style license
8) The trackpad is not responsive - it is almost like accelaration is turned on, but I didn't see anything that would indicate that in any mouse menu.
This is less of a problem in Panther than it was in Jaguar, but the fastest speed is still too slow for some. There is a nice little freeware PrefPane wigit called MouseZoom that will let you increase the acceleration number above the max that the Keyboard & Mouse PrefPane will.
11) The spell checking thing doesn't let you bring up a quick selection of the word/words that it suggests - innstead you have to open the full spell window and then it wants to continue on - I miss the ability in Windows to right click and the first few words on that menu were the suggested words and you could just choose one and move on.
My advice: Invest in a Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse. Right clicking does bring up a list of suggested words (command-click has the same effect). The sweetest thing about the MS bluetooth mouse is that it has 5 buttons, so you can map Expose functions to the two thumb buttons. Having a scroll wheel is also something that I can't live without. Its also very nice to not have to plug in anything to use an external mouse.
Hope you find some of this useful.
Because as far as /. is concerned RFID == evil.
It doesn't matter if its used for a reasonable purpose.
I was about to scream when I saw the 12" G4 iBook for $1100. I paid $1200 for a refurbed 12" 867Mhz PB (Direct from Apple, got a 20GB iPod for $270, too!). Then I realized that if I added the bluetooth module (yes, I use it) and bumped the HD to 40GB (what I have in the PB), it would only be about $25 cheaper. I'm not upset now. I'd still buy the refurbed PB for the slight speed bump and cool design.
Why isn't this a possibility? Didn't AMD's fab in Dresden take over some slack for Motorola at some point in the past?
I think its quite possible that Apple wants AMD to fab some chips with some spare production time they might have. IBM might not be able to fab the amount of chips that Apple wants to have ready by September.
Seems like a reasonable non-conspiracy related theory to me.
I doubt this is being reported anywhere. I work at the National Press Building in downtown D.C. Al-Jazeera has an office in the building. On Tuesday at about 6:00PM I noticed that our connection to our ISP's router was not responding. We have a 100mb line directly to an ISP in the building's main router (we buy bandwidth by the megabit from them). Most offices in the building buy per seat connectivity and phone service from them. I talked to their head network admin, who knew that there was an attack going on against 'a news agency in the building', but their IDS system wasn't picking it up. It turns out that someone was using an unsecured (no WEP) wireless access point to gain access to the network. Someone in the building plugged in a WAP and just didn't configure it at all. Now I'm not entirely sure that it was Al-Jazeera getting attacked, but I'm willing to bet it was.
They just want to be like Apple with the next release.
There's also one in the Air & Space Museum. They are not all attached to educational institutions, but I think most are. For example there are a couple at casinos in Las Vegas.
I have two machines connected to a 2 port USB KVM switch. That way I can quickly move between my two machines here at work, one FreeBSD and one Windows 2000. I spend probably 95% of the time in FreeBSD (thank you VNC!), but some things are just easier in Windows (SQL Enterprise Manager sucks over VNC). Occasionally I go to Windows to open a website that Mozilla can't handle (screw you, WebTrends). It makes my life as a System Administrator much easier, takes 2 seconds to go from FreeBSD to Windows.
Super Monkey Ball! :)
Great party game.
Then I could run Oracle on FreeBSD on Sparc hardware when the port gets finished.
*drools*
What prevents both companies from doubling their monthly fees or adding 20 minutes of commercials per hour?
Nothing, but they will lose a lot of business if they do that.
look how people have been grudgingly accepting obscene TV-cable rate hikes.
And alot have moved to satellite for just that reason.
What happens when a ClearChannel-owned XM pays Honda scads of money to drop support for AM/FM-radios?
I find that pretty unlikely. Every TV sold today (save some very high end monitors) still has a broadcast tuner built in. People are very attached to their local programming. That was one of the biggest concerns with DirecTV. People still want what they have been getting, they just want more in addition to it.
The moronic masses will consume as usual until the market share is large enough to screw those who have been holding out.
Like people who still use VHS are getting screwed right now? Or people who still buy analog audio tapes? Most new titles are still sold in both these formats. Technology in the mass consumer space never moves that fast. There is always a significant period of overlap. Maybe XM will take over one day, but by then there will probably be competition within XM, or competing satellite radio networks. I wouldn't cry wolf just yet.
Sirius Radio also offers 100 channels (60 commercial-free music and 40 news, sports, talk, and entertainment programming).
This is why they charge a monthly fee. I don't hear anyone complaining about HBO charging a monthly fee. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it. Its that simple. Normal radio broadcasts won't go away. Broadcast TV didn't disapear because of cable and satellite.