I dont know why everyone has this carbon versus cocoa debate. Carbon and Cocoa are just different API's for the same functions. Carbon. actually is a framework on top of Cocoa, and you can access most, if not all the features through Carbon This article, is the first one i found on it, google will probably turn up more in the carbon versus cocoa debate.
I think one problem with the open source philosophy is that is opens the door for companies like openosx. The people at openosx simply repackage unix apps to run on osx. however, they seem to make no mention of who wrote the software. for example if you look at this page they make no mention that they didnt write any of the software. Then they decide to charge $30 for their repackaging, and give nothing back to the community.
you can make the argument that the various linux distros do the same, but any of the good ones always give back to the community.
I feel that this practice will become even more of a problem in the future when a lot of the major open source apps come to maturity.
Since i use mozilla i wanted to see if their ads would work on it. The reason they work, is that the demos are completely done in flash. Just look at the source, its only about ten lines, and only contains the swf file.
I think it is a bit strange that they arent using the actual html to perform their dog and pony show.
As i was reading the article, i thought the item was a fake (all those badly rendered images), so i went to archos's site and here is the official page on the device. however, it still sounds like vapor to me.
I have 8 or so domains registered with dotster, and i have had no problems in the year i have used them. Their web interface is great also, i highly recommend this website.
the announcers are awful, they look and sound like they came from a baseball game. at least get someone who knows something about food. I mean with comments like 'What is that, a blender with ice?' when reffering to an ice cream maker. and 'It looks like sauteed ho ho's' when the chef was obviously frying the item.
this is turning out to be one awful show.
well, after the first fifteen minutes i perhaps saw 9 minutes of cheesy video effects. it looks like someone decided to use every transition effect in premier. Plus the seizure inducing pallette cycling when they display the names, looks like a bad shareware game. they could have at least put some production values into the show, instead of making it a mishmosh of horrible video effects.
I guess they spent all their money on shatner.
totally offtopic, but anyway, no mac laptop ever caught fire outside of a lab, but, one dell did. Dell had to recall almost
300,000 batteries. Whereas apple only had to pull about 1000.
What is even worse on the discovery channel, is when they put up links to their website. they first make a fairly loud chime, which most of the time makes the dialog unintelligible, then they shrink the screen to put the link on a black background. it was one of the most intrusive logo i have ever seen.
as for the small translucent logo's in the corner, they dont bother me. as many other people said, they are actually useful when channel surfing because you can tell right away what channel you are watching. and when cable and satellite systems have well over 100 channels, it helps in locating any interesting programming.
You asked for someone to set up a domain where everyone can catalog all the copy protected cds. i just registered the domain, and as soon as i can throw some perl together the site will be up.
and thanks ryanvm for the idea and the domain name.
i woke up this morning, it was a normal day. Then, i read slashdot and saw what happened. As i stared in disbelief at the newscast from cnn, i realized that a large part of my life will be changed for a long time. I live a short ride from new york city, up until recently i worked mere blocks from the towers. I saw them everyday when i drove the williamsburg bridge, i never thought they would be gone in my lifetime. I, as many other long islanders feel that the city was our city. At any moment i could go and experience the wonders of one of the greatest cities in the world.
i have memories, from my entire life, about going to the city to just look around, shop, and go to shows. Now, the twin towers, one of the symbols of nyc is gone. my life, as the lives of thousands, has been forever changed.
throughout the day, my phone was ringing all day, with people concerned about my family, and other people we knew. Thankfully, noone i knew was hurt. But others werent as fortunate.
Roads all throughout the area were closed, everything ground to a standstill.
Then, during the afternoon, around 2, i hear the sound of a plane. i ran to find the source, worried that another plane was going to hit. I have not felt fear like that in a long time.
The world is forever changed by the acts of a few. I give my condolences to all who died, and to those who helped save lives.
I have been using linux on my Powerbook laptop for over a year. I have a website dedicated to getting Linux running on my particular laptop. I just recently nuked my old hacked LinuxPPC partition, and began to search for a replacement.
I first tried the beta of mandrake, and what i found was that despite its faults, it could shape up to be the easiest distro to set up on ppc processors. One item i found in the install that no other distro's included was the option to set and choose what keys you wanted to use to emulate the second and third buttons (e.g. f12, f13). And once it was installed, even though there were som rough edges, you could see the hard work the mandrake team went through. The one thing i find strange about the distro, is that all Drak* utilities are written for GTK, rather than QT, it just seems out of place in this kde centered distro.
now on to ydl 2.0. i was dissapointed in this release, because, i went through two installs (to see if i missed anything the first time round) and there was NO individual package selection. This is a big minus in my book. Plus after the system was up, even though this is subjective, it seemed much slower than my hand upgraded linuxppc distro. But, other than thos two faults, it is a good distro overall.
ok, on to suse. This mega distro with four cd's worth of stuff is a really good all inclusive distro. It had so many packages, everything you could want. I think this is a great power user's distro, because there are so many esoteric packages, and you can customize it all you want. The only item which can be considered a drawback, but i dont think so, is that the suse way of doing things is slightly different than the other rpm based distros. Its all up to personal preference.
Well, these are my short list of opinions on linux on PPC based machines, and if Mandrake fixed all the rough edges that were in their beta distro, it will IMHO be the best PPC distro out there.
You say that there are clients out there, but what if you dont use one of their supported OS's. I run LinuxPPC and the linux client is only an x86 binary. I know there is a Tk client but that programs is severely lacking. Also up until March 29th there was no OS X client, so i had to use the alternatives, then they released a client that is not even near the aim functionality of Fire, which is not even at version 1 yet.
From my perspective aol hasnt been making much of an effort to make me a fully functional client.
i am a big promoter of free speech,and i am in no way saying that anyone should regulate what is said on the internet. but, the suicide link today was a bit tempting to me.
yesterday i was in the emergency room, because i was planning on killing myself. i didnt end up in the hospital. so today i am here. but still suicidal. and looking at those links gave me more ideas, and statistics on suicide. so, now im sitting home, contemplating if i attempt suicide one more time.
now you can see what negative impact this can have on someone, but i would never ever take someone's right away to post what they want.
I saw the announcement for Kivio on freshmeat yesterday, and i eagerly went to download it from their site. Since i use linuxppc, i look for the source or an srpm. Failing to find an srpm i downloaded the tarball thinking it was the source, it wasn't.
I emailed them about the source or a ppc rpm, and they said "the source will be released with our next version in the next couple weeks"
oh well, i dont get to play
cristiana
hey, i sent this story in over a month ago
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i sent this same exact thing over a month ago, just a day after the watch came out in stores and it was rejected. dont you love the/. system
you can resize the dock by grabbing the vertical line betwen the trash can (or minimized apps) and the rest of the icons and pulling up to make it bigger or down to make it smaller. You can also resize it in one of the control panels (i forgot which, im not in X now)
I bought my imac a year ago just because it was pink, with all the intentions of putting linux on the box and tossing MacOS. I, however became lazy and kept macos on the system and used it soley as an internet terminal, and didnt install linux.
Over the course of time i came to realize that macos is a very well designed gui, almost everything is intuitive. Take for example drag and drop.
You highlight a clip of text and then drag it onto anything and it puts it where you expect it. Like if you put it on the desktop, it will give you a text clipping. DND for graphics also work well.
You grab a graphic and your cursor turns into a transparent version ofthe graphic and you can then drop it anywhere, like the text.
Another thing is is what some people call a limitation, it's the one mouse button, but i think its a feature. You never have to worry about which mouse button to press. For example in gnome (i am using helix gnome 1.2) i occaisonaly have too go through all three buttons to get to the menu i want, that is not intuituve. When i use macos the menus are either the menus in the menubar or available through holding down the button for a context submenu (or ctrl-click).
Another important feature is font smoothing, that makes reading anything a pleasure. The fonts are rendered perfectly on my imac and my powerbook. And i believe the font smoothing is better than the smoothing in windows.
this is just my minimal comparison of gnome 1.2 and macos 9. some features may be in other window managers or operating systems, these are just the ones i use on a daily basis.
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I dont know why everyone has this carbon versus cocoa debate. Carbon and Cocoa are just different API's for the same functions. Carbon. actually is a framework on top of Cocoa, and you can access most, if not all the features through Carbon This article, is the first one i found on it, google will probably turn up more in the carbon versus cocoa debate.
I think one problem with the open source philosophy is that is opens the door for companies like openosx. The people at openosx simply repackage unix apps to run on osx. however, they seem to make no mention of who wrote the software. for example if you look at this page they make no mention that they didnt write any of the software. Then they decide to charge $30 for their repackaging, and give nothing back to the community.
you can make the argument that the various linux distros do the same, but any of the good ones always give back to the community.
I feel that this practice will become even more of a problem in the future when a lot of the major open source apps come to maturity.
Since i use mozilla i wanted to see if their ads would work on it. The reason they work, is that the demos are completely done in flash. Just look at the source, its only about ten lines, and only contains the swf file.
I think it is a bit strange that they arent using the actual html to perform their dog and pony show.
As i was reading the article, i thought the item was a fake (all those badly rendered images), so i went to archos's site and here is the official page on the device. however, it still sounds like vapor to me.
I have 8 or so domains registered with dotster, and i have had no problems in the year i have used them. Their web interface is great also, i highly recommend this website.
the announcers are awful, they look and sound like they came from a baseball game. at least get someone who knows something about food. I mean with comments like 'What is that, a blender with ice?' when reffering to an ice cream maker. and 'It looks like sauteed ho ho's' when the chef was obviously frying the item.
this is turning out to be one awful show.
well, after the first fifteen minutes i perhaps saw 9 minutes of cheesy video effects. it looks like someone decided to use every transition effect in premier. Plus the seizure inducing pallette cycling when they display the names, looks like a bad shareware game. they could have at least put some production values into the show, instead of making it a mishmosh of horrible video effects.
I guess they spent all their money on shatner.
totally offtopic, but anyway, no mac laptop ever caught fire outside of a lab, but, one dell did. Dell had to recall almost
300,000 batteries. Whereas apple only had to pull about 1000.
What is even worse on the discovery channel, is when they put up links to their website. they first make a fairly loud chime, which most of the time makes the dialog unintelligible, then they shrink the screen to put the link on a black background. it was one of the most intrusive logo i have ever seen.
as for the small translucent logo's in the corner, they dont bother me. as many other people said, they are actually useful when channel surfing because you can tell right away what channel you are watching. and when cable and satellite systems have well over 100 channels, it helps in locating any interesting programming.
just go to apple.com to see the new device
You asked for someone to set up a domain where everyone can catalog all the copy protected cds. i just registered the domain, and as soon as i can throw some perl together the site will be up.
and thanks ryanvm for the idea and the domain name.
cristiana
i woke up this morning, it was a normal day. Then, i read slashdot and saw what happened. As i stared in disbelief at the newscast from cnn, i realized that a large part of my life will be changed for a long time. I live a short ride from new york city, up until recently i worked mere blocks from the towers. I saw them everyday when i drove the williamsburg bridge, i never thought they would be gone in my lifetime. I, as many other long islanders feel that the city was our city. At any moment i could go and experience the wonders of one of the greatest cities in the world.
i have memories, from my entire life, about going to the city to just look around, shop, and go to shows. Now, the twin towers, one of the symbols of nyc is gone. my life, as the lives of thousands, has been forever changed.
throughout the day, my phone was ringing all day, with people concerned about my family, and other people we knew. Thankfully, noone i knew was hurt. But others werent as fortunate.
Roads all throughout the area were closed, everything ground to a standstill.
Then, during the afternoon, around 2, i hear the sound of a plane. i ran to find the source, worried that another plane was going to hit. I have not felt fear like that in a long time.
The world is forever changed by the acts of a few. I give my condolences to all who died, and to those who helped save lives.
I think its funny that there is a PDF version of the petition, considering PDF is an adobe created product
I have been using linux on my Powerbook laptop for over a year. I have a website dedicated to getting Linux running on my particular laptop. I just recently nuked my old hacked LinuxPPC partition, and began to search for a replacement.
I first tried the beta of mandrake, and what i found was that despite its faults, it could shape up to be the easiest distro to set up on ppc processors. One item i found in the install that no other distro's included was the option to set and choose what keys you wanted to use to emulate the second and third buttons (e.g. f12, f13). And once it was installed, even though there were som rough edges, you could see the hard work the mandrake team went through. The one thing i find strange about the distro, is that all Drak* utilities are written for GTK, rather than QT, it just seems out of place in this kde centered distro.
now on to ydl 2.0. i was dissapointed in this release, because, i went through two installs (to see if i missed anything the first time round) and there was NO individual package selection. This is a big minus in my book. Plus after the system was up, even though this is subjective, it seemed much slower than my hand upgraded linuxppc distro. But, other than thos two faults, it is a good distro overall.
ok, on to suse. This mega distro with four cd's worth of stuff is a really good all inclusive distro. It had so many packages, everything you could want. I think this is a great power user's distro, because there are so many esoteric packages, and you can customize it all you want. The only item which can be considered a drawback, but i dont think so, is that the suse way of doing things is slightly different than the other rpm based distros. Its all up to personal preference.
Well, these are my short list of opinions on linux on PPC based machines, and if Mandrake fixed all the rough edges that were in their beta distro, it will IMHO be the best PPC distro out there.
Right at the bottom of the article there is a link to:
n ix_specification.html#platform
http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix/single_u
Which includes apple in their lists of vendors who support their UNIX specification.
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You say that there are clients out there, but what if you dont use one of their supported OS's. I run LinuxPPC and the linux client is only an x86 binary. I know there is a Tk client but that programs is severely lacking. Also up until March 29th there was no OS X client, so i had to use the alternatives, then they released a client that is not even near the aim functionality of Fire, which is not even at version 1 yet.
From my perspective aol hasnt been making much of an effort to make me a fully functional client.
Actually the chevy nova story is an urban legend
the barcode on the back of my neck
i am a big promoter of free speech,and i am in no way saying that anyone should regulate what is said on the internet. but, the suicide link today was a bit tempting to me.
yesterday i was in the emergency room, because i was planning on killing myself. i didnt end up in the hospital. so today i am here. but still suicidal. and looking at those links gave me more ideas, and statistics on suicide. so, now im sitting home, contemplating if i attempt suicide one more time.
now you can see what negative impact this can have on someone, but i would never ever take someone's right away to post what they want.
Dia is another open source visio replacement. I never used it for network diagrams, but it has the capability. You can get it at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia /di a.html
cristiana
I saw the announcement for Kivio on freshmeat yesterday, and i eagerly went to download it from their site. Since i use linuxppc, i look for the source or an srpm. Failing to find an srpm i downloaded the tarball thinking it was the source, it wasn't.
I emailed them about the source or a ppc rpm, and they said "the source will be released with our next version in the next couple weeks"
oh well, i dont get to play
cristiana
i sent this same exact thing over a month ago, just a day after the watch came out in stores and it was rejected. dont you love the /. system
cristiana
you can resize the dock by grabbing the vertical line betwen the trash can (or minimized apps) and the rest of the icons and pulling up to make it bigger or down to make it smaller. You can also resize it in one of the control panels (i forgot which, im not in X now)
cristiana
any word on a ppc version?
cristiana
I bought my imac a year ago just because it was pink, with all the intentions of putting linux on the box and tossing MacOS. I, however became lazy and kept macos on the system and used it soley as an internet terminal, and didnt install linux.
Over the course of time i came to realize that macos is a very well designed gui, almost everything is intuitive. Take for example drag and drop.
You highlight a clip of text and then drag it onto anything and it puts it where you expect it. Like if you put it on the desktop, it will give you a text clipping. DND for graphics also work well.
You grab a graphic and your cursor turns into a transparent version ofthe graphic and you can then drop it anywhere, like the text.
Another thing is is what some people call a limitation, it's the one mouse button, but i think its a feature. You never have to worry about which mouse button to press. For example in gnome (i am using helix gnome 1.2) i occaisonaly have too go through all three buttons to get to the menu i want, that is not intuituve. When i use macos the menus are either the menus in the menubar or available through holding down the button for a context submenu (or ctrl-click).
Another important feature is font smoothing, that makes reading anything a pleasure. The fonts are rendered perfectly on my imac and my powerbook. And i believe the font smoothing is better than the smoothing in windows.
this is just my minimal comparison of gnome 1.2 and macos 9. some features may be in other window managers or operating systems, these are just the ones i use on a daily basis.
cristiana