I was at MacWorld in San Francisco recently because my company had a exhibition booth there, and a Symantec employee came to our booth. We were conversing for awhile, and then he proceeded to claim that there are viruses for OS X and went on to claim that there are malwares/spywares for OS X as well.
What rot. There's not *one" example of either a virus or malware/spyware for OS X in the wild that I am aware of.
I hate Symantec and Intego as well. Both purveyors of useless softwares for OS X who also engage in scaremongering. In the case of Symantec, it is well documented that their antivirus app can do some serious damage to an OS X volume. Assholes.
Anyone that votes for Bush is a dupe and a fascistic fuckhead. There is NOTHING conservative about this rightwing nutcase.
My opinion can of course be debated, but I see little point in debating what is obvious.
Example: supposedly 95% of the installed user base is using Windows. They are demonstrably ignorant given the overwhelming evidence that Windows is nothing but garbage.
Case closed. Good night. Have a wonderfully hellish life, all of you in the USA! Yes, the rest of the world hates you, sleep well!
i am beyond exasperation re: the DOJ... those goddamned lackeys.
even a jurist i do not particular care for, Robert H. Bork, finds the proposed settlement to be utterly unacceptable in its weaknesses... he was interviewed some months ago and the interview was posted at some Linux website... Bork was more than damning of the proposed settlement.
i know *just* what you mean... i've looked at the earth from 30,000 miles up, and i swear there's no sign of intelligent life/sentient beings... of course, i arrive at the same conclusion by just walking down the street...
not if you know what you are up to, or maybe your Mac is ancient? i'm running OS X on a beige G3 minitower @ 500MHz/512MB RAM (among many other Macs i am running it on, but that one is putatively the "slowest" and it kicks ass)
first, delete the three files named LSSchemes, LSClaimedTypes, and LSApplications; you'll find them in the Preferences folder of your home directory's Library folder. to rebuild the desktop in OS X, trash these three files, log out, and log back in again. bingo.
and, get these freewares at versiontracker.com: SwapCop Process Wizard MachSpeed Control
there are others, get to work and do your homework. no OS will do everything for you (they all require user intervention/tweaking), and i surely won't either. and, if you can, get a killer IBM UltraSCSI HD (get a card if ya need it) to run OS X on. it will love you for it.
Good. Fuck 'em. Better yet, kick 'em when they're down.
Has anyone noted that the major labels' online music distro schemes do NOT pay the artists a DAMN THING? (I KNOW you slashdotterz have, this is a RHETORICAL question).
to clarify: there is surely such a thing as "bad' and there is surely such a thing as "good" but there are infinite shades of grey in between. which is to say that there are absolutes, but between those absolutes you'll find those infinite shadings.
so, no i am not being contradictory in my post previous to this post. have an absolutely damn fine day.
yes, so shoot/maim/flame/- mod me because i am about to ruin the *whole* world with this post (sarcasm)... this may seem a troll or a flamebait but i assure you it is my opinion, that's all.
thing that bugs me most is people that are angered that there are people that are less savvy/computer literate/call it what you will about using comps/OSes that are not the choice of these elitist geekoids who decry the existence of those less geeked out than said elitists.
the world is not simply black and white, as much as it *might* be desirable that it were so. and exclusion is NOT good, inclusion is.
stop whinging that there are things (like Photoshop and Macs) that are important to many in the world who do not share your techno worldview. the fact that there are entities like Apple and Adobe does not constitute a conspiracy to force you to do anything you do not want to do. CHOICE is GOOD, you have yours and others have theirs.
get over yourselves. you know who you are.
that said, supporting MS is surely supporting a criminal endeavor (see: 800 lb. gorilla stifling competition illegally to the EXCLUSION of other solutions... there's that "exclusion" word again). some people don't mind that. ok, fine. heh, extend and embrace, to use the MS Orwellian doublespeak.
(the preceding paragraph and ONLY the preceding paragraph has been a Public Service Announcement)
/end rant/
ok, now flame me or whatever, but do read my email addy first.
if you're comfy with GIMP, you're not really doing any serious work with it (read: stuff that pays the rent).
other posters have rightly pointed out that there are such things as CMYK, Pantone, etc (ColorSync, anyone?!?!?) that are missing from GIMP. nifty as it is, it is no substitute for the real thing.
and lest we forget, Gamma on a PC is atrocious, or it damn well used to be. just another reason to use the de facto standard in the graphics biz: Mac.
as the poster remarked in his reply to you, previous to mine here, Aqua and Quartz are two different animals...
Mousing? ha! MouseZoom, freeware. Great.
Do not confuse yourself by assuming that i am conceding the mouse action in OS X is not up to snuff, it is. But Mousezoom is for freaks like myself who want ridiculous mouse speeds, and don't care to spend any time cooking up their own solutions when they could be doing something more important like using their comps to pay the rent or posting at/.
heh.
just another reason to appreciate OS X, there are so many people making great little apps and tweaks for it...
"lest we forget, the world is so much more than black and white, there are infinite shades of grey" (attribution: me)
Well, aren't we just full of ourselves today, eh AirLace? Love that sweeping generalization of yours:"This is some photo editing software for an OS designed for the computer-illiterate."
Hmm! Comes as a surprise to me. Gosh, I guess that having thrashed at mainframes for years (my first job at age 18, fresh from highschool, IBM Systems 360 and 370 and later, though not exactly a mainframe, PDP-11's... etc) throughout the late 60's and all through the 70's makes me computer illiterate all because i prefer to use a more human computer *and* not support the wintel alliance (half of which is criminal and the other half antiquated)?
sorry, you are more than dead wrong... i have had exactly ZERO apps broken by subsequent Mac OS upgrades over a period of many years (maybe seven, who knows, after so many years one loses track), UNTIL OS X... and that is because OS X is a sea change of the most monumental proportions. and thank god for that.
10.1.3 works flawlessly for my four Macs. All OS X updates have worked quite well for me, since 10.1... You say you used OS X before 10.1? You have my sympathy.
wanna tip? well, you're gonna get one though you may not particularly like it. come to think, you are NOT gonna like it. here's what i did to insure a glitch-free OS X experience: Reinitialize your HD using the "Zero all Data" option in Drive Setup, yes, Drive Setup... use the latest version of it that you have on a Mac OS installer CD. Now, partition the HD into two partitions. You will have to decide what sizes you want your partitions to be. I'd suggest making the OS X partition the largest of the two. Install OS X on the first (largest) partition, install Mac OS 9.2.2 on the other partition. Boot up to your OS X partition and download SwapCop. Use it to make your swapfile partition reside on the second partition (the partition that has OS 9.2.2 on it).
Bingo, you're set. Of course, this procedure assumes that 1) your Mac is brand-new, just out of the box it came in, or 2) you have an easy way to backup your existing data and don't mind doing it (but of course you backup your data frequently, right? right!?!?), or 3) you have several HD's in your tower, one of which you just installed for OS X, and 4) you want to do things right.
I have done this procedure to each and every Mac I provide support for, done it to those Macs first thing RIGHT out of the box. It saves headaches down the road. Been doing it for years. You should too. Stop whining. Thanks.
btw, see my email addy? don't bother flaming me. use that energy elsewhere. slam M$ or something, there's a good lad.
"Ernest Prabhakar of Apple Computer informed attendees at the USENIX BSD Conference earlier this week that BSD (upon which Mac OS X is based) is now "three times more popular" than Linux on desktop computers."
Slashdot Mirror
If more people just knew the difference between memory (RAM) and storage (Hard Drive), I'd be happier.
Sheesh!
I was at MacWorld in San Francisco recently because my company had a exhibition booth there, and a Symantec employee came to our booth. We were conversing for awhile, and then he proceeded to claim that there are viruses for OS X and went on to claim that there are malwares/spywares for OS X as well.
What rot. There's not *one" example of either a virus or malware/spyware for OS X in the wild that I am aware of.
I hate Symantec and Intego as well. Both purveyors of useless softwares for OS X who also engage in scaremongering. In the case of Symantec, it is well documented that their antivirus app can do some serious damage to an OS X volume. Assholes.
And there's at least two freewares to defeat this Euro volume limiter.
Go figure.
Anyone that votes for Bush is a dupe and a fascistic fuckhead. There is NOTHING conservative about this rightwing nutcase.
My opinion can of course be debated, but I see little point in debating what is obvious.
Example: supposedly 95% of the installed user base is using Windows. They are demonstrably ignorant given the overwhelming evidence that Windows is nothing but garbage.
Case closed. Good night. Have a wonderfully hellish life, all of you in the USA! Yes, the rest of the world hates you, sleep well!
OS X (OS SEX).
Definitely.
My wife walks around with a dreamy smile on her face, every waking hour.
that you'll ALSO have the crappiest possible solution.
MS: "We will shove our crap *right* down your pipe. We *have* no shame, nor fear! Who will dare stop us? The DOJ? Don't make us laugh!!"
*yawn*
and it got a 5... shows you how ignorant most people truly are.
i am beyond exasperation re: the DOJ... those goddamned lackeys.
even a jurist i do not particular care for, Robert H. Bork, finds the proposed settlement to be utterly unacceptable in its weaknesses... he was interviewed some months ago and the interview was posted at some Linux website... Bork was more than damning of the proposed settlement.
i know *just* what you mean... i've looked at the earth from 30,000 miles up, and i swear there's no sign of intelligent life/sentient beings... of course, i arrive at the same conclusion by just walking down the street...
and i suppose you have some hard facts and figures to back up the claim that the looks cost so much?
i thought not.
pffft! on yer bike.
ha. slow, my lily-white butt.
not if you know what you are up to, or maybe your Mac is ancient? i'm running OS X on a beige G3 minitower @ 500MHz/512MB RAM (among many other Macs i am running it on, but that one is putatively the "slowest" and it kicks ass)
first, delete the three files named LSSchemes, LSClaimedTypes, and LSApplications; you'll find them in the Preferences folder of your home directory's Library folder. to rebuild the desktop in OS X, trash these three files, log out, and log back in again. bingo.
and, get these freewares at versiontracker.com:
SwapCop
Process Wizard
MachSpeed Control
there are others, get to work and do your homework. no OS will do everything for you (they all require user intervention/tweaking), and i surely won't either. and, if you can, get a killer IBM UltraSCSI HD (get a card if ya need it) to run OS X on. it will love you for it.
Good. Fuck 'em. Better yet, kick 'em when they're down.
Has anyone noted that the major labels' online music distro schemes do NOT pay the artists a DAMN THING? (I KNOW you slashdotterz have, this is a RHETORICAL question).
So once again I say, FUCK 'em.
Thanks.
to clarify: there is surely such a thing as "bad' and there is surely such a thing as "good" but there are infinite shades of grey in between. which is to say that there are absolutes, but between those absolutes you'll find those infinite shadings.
so, no i am not being contradictory in my post previous to this post. have an absolutely damn fine day.
yes, so shoot/maim/flame/- mod me because i am about to ruin the *whole* world with this post (sarcasm)... this may seem a troll or a flamebait but i assure you it is my opinion, that's all.
thing that bugs me most is people that are angered that there are people that are less savvy/computer literate/call it what you will about using comps/OSes that are not the choice of these elitist geekoids who decry the existence of those less geeked out than said elitists.
the world is not simply black and white, as much as it *might* be desirable that it were so. and exclusion is NOT good, inclusion is.
stop whinging that there are things (like Photoshop and Macs) that are important to many in the world who do not share your techno worldview. the fact that there are entities like Apple and Adobe does not constitute a conspiracy to force you to do anything you do not want to do. CHOICE is GOOD, you have yours and others have theirs.
get over yourselves. you know who you are.
that said, supporting MS is surely supporting a criminal endeavor (see: 800 lb. gorilla stifling competition illegally to the EXCLUSION of other solutions... there's that "exclusion" word again). some people don't mind that. ok, fine. heh, extend and embrace, to use the MS Orwellian doublespeak.
(the preceding paragraph and ONLY the preceding paragraph has been a Public Service Announcement)
/end rant/
ok, now flame me or whatever, but do read my email addy first.
if you're comfy with GIMP, you're not really doing any serious work with it (read: stuff that pays the rent).
other posters have rightly pointed out that there are such things as CMYK, Pantone, etc (ColorSync, anyone?!?!?) that are missing from GIMP. nifty as it is, it is no substitute for the real thing.
and lest we forget, Gamma on a PC is atrocious, or it damn well used to be. just another reason to use the de facto standard in the graphics biz: Mac.
as the poster remarked in his reply to you, previous to mine here, Aqua and Quartz are two different animals...
/.
Mousing? ha! MouseZoom, freeware. Great.
Do not confuse yourself by assuming that i am conceding the mouse action in OS X is not up to snuff, it is. But Mousezoom is for freaks like myself who want ridiculous mouse speeds, and don't care to spend any time cooking up their own solutions when they could be doing something more important like using their comps to pay the rent or posting at
heh.
just another reason to appreciate OS X, there are so many people making great little apps and tweaks for it...
"lest we forget, the world is so much more than black and white, there are infinite shades of grey" (attribution: me)
Well, aren't we just full of ourselves today, eh AirLace? Love that sweeping generalization of yours:"This is some photo editing software for an OS designed for the computer-illiterate."
Hmm! Comes as a surprise to me. Gosh, I guess that having thrashed at mainframes for years (my first job at age 18, fresh from highschool, IBM Systems 360 and 370 and later, though not exactly a mainframe, PDP-11's... etc) throughout the late 60's and all through the 70's makes me computer illiterate all because i prefer to use a more human computer *and* not support the wintel alliance (half of which is criminal and the other half antiquated)?
you are ridiculously presumptuous.
sorry, you are more than dead wrong... i have had exactly ZERO apps broken by subsequent Mac OS upgrades over a period of many years (maybe seven, who knows, after so many years one loses track), UNTIL OS X... and that is because OS X is a sea change of the most monumental proportions. and thank god for that.
nice try, fudster.
hmm... well... when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
damn, his 'toons were the best. all the junk put out since then is just that, junk.
10.1.3 works flawlessly for my four Macs. All OS X updates have worked quite well for me, since 10.1... You say you used OS X before 10.1? You have my sympathy.
wanna tip? well, you're gonna get one though you may not particularly like it. come to think, you are NOT gonna like it. here's what i did to insure a glitch-free OS X experience: Reinitialize your HD using the "Zero all Data" option in Drive Setup, yes, Drive Setup... use the latest version of it that you have on a Mac OS installer CD. Now, partition the HD into two partitions. You will have to decide what sizes you want your partitions to be. I'd suggest making the OS X partition the largest of the two. Install OS X on the first (largest) partition, install Mac OS 9.2.2 on the other partition. Boot up to your OS X partition and download SwapCop. Use it to make your swapfile partition reside on the second partition (the partition that has OS 9.2.2 on it).
Bingo, you're set. Of course, this procedure assumes that 1) your Mac is brand-new, just out of the box it came in, or 2) you have an easy way to backup your existing data and don't mind doing it (but of course you backup your data frequently, right? right!?!?), or 3) you have several HD's in your tower, one of which you just installed for OS X, and 4) you want to do things right.
I have done this procedure to each and every Mac I provide support for, done it to those Macs first thing RIGHT out of the box. It saves headaches down the road. Been doing it for years. You should too. Stop whining. Thanks.
btw, see my email addy? don't bother flaming me. use that energy elsewhere. slam M$ or something, there's a good lad.
"(it's basically quicktime)"
NOT.
Explain, o wizard, just why the hell Apple can't release QT6, which is most certainly ready to be released and has been announced as such?
Answer: Because it has MPEG-4 support and Apple does not own the rights to MPEG-4.
You *COULD'VE* looked this up.
Further, MS has no more rights to MPEG-4 than does Apple.
"Apple hired the guys who invented most of it and did enough to make it work in the real world."
you are a revisionist chump without the slightest grasp of the real history of the GUI in question.
you have richly demonstrated it twice now.
you moron... there's no connection, as i said.
but no, you had to make a fool of yourself yet again.
nice work.
"Ernest Prabhakar of Apple Computer informed attendees at the USENIX BSD Conference earlier this week that BSD (upon which Mac OS X is based) is now "three times more popular" than Linux on desktop computers."
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16382.html
YOU are wrong.... see www.apple.com/macosx