Along these lines, it would also be nice to have an easier way to start gui apps as an admin - sort of a graphical sudo. Of course I can do something like sudo open/path/to/Finder.app or whatever but it's a pain.
I tend to agree with a large chunk of what you said:)
And thought I might point out that you should try Pseudo,
Its a graphical sudo, you basically drag an app on to it and it launches with su privs,
I'm using OmniWeb SP67 right now.. (beta2 is just to crashprone)
BUT, when I install OSX for... my grandmother... etc I don't install OmniWeb, I let them be with IE.
IE works most of the time, and if it doesn't work, its the website's fault. Whereas OmniWeb sometimes just doesn't work, and then I'd have to explain how you have to use IE for some websites (and I'm not talking about how websites check for IE, I'm talking about serious flaws in Omni's rendering)
Try press+drag in an xterm: it selects text. Now try double-click+drag, notice how it now selects by word. Triple-click+drag does whole lines.
you know, that's probably a bad argument:)
I don't know when it was introduced, but double click selecting in text has been in macos FOREVER...
and triple click has been around for a long time... It was probably introduced with MacWrite, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was built into TextEdit (the built in text editing system)
Anywho, point is, single, double, triple click drag text selection has been in macos for ever... at least since 87... probably MUCH earlier.
I have had two crashes (I suppose I should call them kernel panics now). Once on this machine when I first installed X (about a year ago) and once on a machine at work that I was messing around with. Other than that, my experience has been rock solid.
Not necessarily:)
You should only call it a kernel panic, if it was in fact a kernel panic... if you're not sure if it was a kernel panic... then it wasn't:)
They're very memorable;)
But also very very rare...
A kernel panic says "kernel panic" in white text, on black lines, which is superimposed over your gui...
could be quite scary to a new user:)
the entire machine is then dead... waiting for remote debugger connection;)
No, a better analogy is "since shoplifting is common and unstoppable, the government will collect taxes and just give them to the parent companies of the stores."
No:)
A better analogy is "since shoplifting is so common and unstoppable, the government will collect taxes on sales of large pocketed jackets and give them to the largest conglomeration of superstores"
The Google search engine company, refuses to advertise businesses related to the gun or knife industry
Why is this news? Because gun and knife owners are being discriminated against. Just imagine a storeowner who posts a sign on his door saying "No Firearms Allowed". While still open to the public, anybody can walk in and shop for products. However, the store owner is saying to you, the gun owner, that while your business and your money is welcome here, your firearms are not.
Oh I love it.
[BEGIN BROADSWEEPING GENERALIZATION] BTW, in the real world, this is what most people would EXPECT.
Perhaps the realworld doesn't quite extend to the US, I don't know.
BUT in the RoTW a shop owner can easily decide to put up a sign which says "No Firearms Allowed" and expect it to be respected... But what's more, they don't have to... BECAUSE THAT'S THE DEFAULT!
So, I have no problem with the shop owner deciding to ban firearms... its 'his shop' he can do whatever he wants, if you don't like it, don't give him your money. Your loss.
Meanwhile, I'm quite pleased that Google refuses to accept money to host gun and gun part ads.
Go Google:)
Gun Owners can be a funny bunch... this one uses some very nasty, angry, retalitory and confrontational language...
having played with PS betas, I'm pretty confident in saying that Adobe Photoshop 7 for OSX is a Carbon application.
All this means is that its linked to the Carbonlib (think share library)
rather than the Cocoa frameworks.
They're both native, its just that Cocoa apps get more features for free from the OS, which means they implement more of the standard OSX features.
Carbon apps can implement just as many of those features... but tend not to because it takes a lot of work to implement them (for instance, BBEdit supports the Services menu)
Photoshop will probably implement a lot of the Cocoa features even though its a Carbon app, simply because Adobe has the resources to do this (Just like Microsoft)
Another serious difference is that Cocoa can only currently be targetted via Objective C (ObjC++ too), Java and AppleScript (this is another major reason to use Carbon for Photoshop.
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Along these lines, it would also be nice to have an easier way to start gui apps as an admin - sort of a graphical sudo. Of course I can do something like sudo open /path/to/Finder.app or whatever but it's a pain.
:)
:)
I tend to agree with a large chunk of what you said
And thought I might point out that you should try Pseudo,
Its a graphical sudo, you basically drag an app on to it and it launches with su privs,
Nice.
And I love its icon
Because IE works more often.
... my grandmother... etc I don't install OmniWeb, I let them be with IE.
I'm using OmniWeb SP67 right now.. (beta2 is just to crashprone)
BUT, when I install OSX for
IE works most of the time, and if it doesn't work, its the website's fault. Whereas OmniWeb sometimes just doesn't work, and then I'd have to explain how you have to use IE for some websites (and I'm not talking about how websites check for IE, I'm talking about serious flaws in Omni's rendering)
So for a normal user IE is just easier.
And this is why Apple just ships IE with OSX.
Their other important message, just not this time...
is "UNIX with Photoshop"
(and don't reply back "Use the Gimp")
Of course, another message they have is "UNIX you can use"
My OWN computer on the other hand is Bullet Proof. Hand built, dirt cheap.
;)
PCs are NOT that hard to assemble.
Funny thing is, (According to Apple) Mac's are made out of bullet-proof plastic
Try press+drag in an xterm: it selects text.
:)
Now try double-click+drag, notice how it now selects by word.
Triple-click+drag does whole lines.
you know, that's probably a bad argument
I don't know when it was introduced, but double click selecting in text has been in macos FOREVER...
and triple click has been around for a long time... It was probably introduced with MacWrite, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was built into TextEdit (the built in text editing system)
Anywho, point is, single, double, triple click drag text selection has been in macos for ever... at least since 87... probably MUCH earlier.
I have had two crashes (I suppose I should call them kernel panics now). Once on this machine when I first installed X (about a year ago) and once on a machine at work that I was messing around with. Other than that, my experience has been rock solid.
:)
:)
;)
:)
;)
Not necessarily
You should only call it a kernel panic, if it was in fact a kernel panic... if you're not sure if it was a kernel panic... then it wasn't
They're very memorable
But also very very rare...
A kernel panic says "kernel panic" in white text, on black lines, which is superimposed over your gui...
could be quite scary to a new user
the entire machine is then dead... waiting for remote debugger connection
You know... used for Pong ;)
:)
:)
Or Apple ][ Paddle Controllers
If I remember correctly, from programming them, they would emit 2 bytes, 0..255 for one, and 0..255 for the other...
Of course, the Joystick's were exactly the same... just the two paddles combined into one housing
No, a better analogy is "since shoplifting is common and unstoppable, the government will collect taxes and just give them to the parent companies of the stores."
:)
No
A better analogy is "since shoplifting is so common and unstoppable, the government will collect taxes on sales of large pocketed jackets and give them to the largest conglomeration of superstores"
The Google search engine company, refuses to advertise businesses related to the gun or knife industry
:)
Why is this news? Because gun and knife owners are being discriminated against. Just imagine a storeowner who posts a sign on his door saying "No Firearms Allowed". While still open to the public, anybody can walk in and shop for products. However, the store owner is saying to you, the gun owner, that while your business and your money is welcome here, your firearms are not.
Oh I love it.
[BEGIN BROADSWEEPING GENERALIZATION]
BTW, in the real world, this is what most people would EXPECT.
Perhaps the realworld doesn't quite extend to the US, I don't know.
BUT in the RoTW a shop owner can easily decide to put up a sign which says "No Firearms Allowed" and expect it to be respected... But what's more, they don't have to... BECAUSE THAT'S THE DEFAULT!
So, I have no problem with the shop owner deciding to ban firearms... its 'his shop' he can do whatever he wants, if you don't like it, don't give him your money. Your loss.
Meanwhile, I'm quite pleased that Google refuses to accept money to host gun and gun part ads.
Go Google
Gun Owners can be a funny bunch... this one uses some very nasty, angry, retalitory and confrontational language...
Funny Americans.
[END BROADSWEEPING GENERALIZATION]
MS Office for OSX is as far away from Unix land as MS Office for Windows.
;)
The Carbon APIs are the exact analog of Win32, but in Mac-land.
Put simply, just because it runs on OSX doesn't mean its a recompile away from running on Linux...
What it means is Linux apps are a recompile away from running on OSX...
BUT, until Linux has a reverse engineered Carbon API, it will be just as hard to port Carbon apps to Linux as it is to port Win32 apps...
Of course, Linux does actually have a Win32 API thingy (WINE), but just pretend that doesn't exist for the moment
This and a 24/7 star trek channel...
:))
Mmmm, no reason to ever turn off the TV... (hell it'd be reason to turn ON the tv
Well, actually, I think its a taco-ism which means the channel he watches the most is Toonami (well CN)
They played all of Eva on SBS (special broadcast service or somesuch) in Australia.
:)
:)
:)
:))
SBS is a government channel.. and carries french, italian etc foreign material... as well as lots of arty type material...
And is the only channel to catch the occasional anime
And I think its normally fairly uncut
I like SBS
(no ads during the shows either
Also, CN has formulated their guidelines for producing a US palatable version of Anime shows, and they probably consider this to be a trade secret...
Of course, any other network wanting to do similar cuts of anime could work them out quickly.
But I do agree with the legal reasons. If you say what your standards are, then you can get held to those standards.
A better way would be to leave your dock up all the time... which is what most people do if they're serious OSX users ;)
:)
its only those OS9.1 converts which hide it
;)
They do :)
Nice,
pitty it gives me a bus error...
open is crap that way
In the OSX Finder, choose connect to server and try
;)
smb://workgroup;username:password@server/share
fill in the gaps
I think I got that url right...
Except... NOT.
I have 3 160GB drives, G4/800DP and OSX and the acard card... the drives are stuck in 128GB land...
Any suggestions?
4 times
Color QuickDraw.
:)
I know the NZ$ is weaker than the AU$ but not by that much.
Buying an iBook AV cable from an Apple centre in Sydney costs about AU$45
The NZ$ can't be *THAT* much less than the AU$
So you're getting raked... go to a different dealer, pay a different price.
"open /Applications/SomeGuiApp.app"
having played with PS betas, I'm pretty confident in saying that Adobe Photoshop 7 for OSX is a Carbon application.
All this means is that its linked to the Carbonlib (think share library)
rather than the Cocoa frameworks.
They're both native, its just that Cocoa apps get more features for free from the OS, which means they implement more of the standard OSX features.
Carbon apps can implement just as many of those features... but tend not to because it takes a lot of work to implement them (for instance, BBEdit supports the Services menu)
Photoshop will probably implement a lot of the Cocoa features even though its a Carbon app, simply because Adobe has the resources to do this (Just like Microsoft)
Another serious difference is that Cocoa can only currently be targetted via Objective C (ObjC++ too), Java and AppleScript (this is another major reason to use Carbon for Photoshop.
And thats about it.
And in fact, in the early days of cable modems you could break your cap by cloning the MAC address of your cable modem :)
:(
Twas cool...
Its fixed now
The best beer in the world comes from Belgium.
My personal favourite is Kasteel beer, tied with Westmalle Tripel
An Australian.