Application Switcher Menu has been updated, and while the installer warns that it is not supported, it works. I as an old school OS 9 guy, I love ASM, it makes the OS X UI work so much better. ASM's 'Classic Window Mode' that brings all windows associated with an app to the front when you click on one kicks butt. is another app I use all the time that has been updated for Jag.
Jail time for non-violent offenders is really not an option I would want to see. Fine them to no end. Then fine them some more. Take money out of their hands and either give it to victims or put it into a system that will fight them. Sign them of for decades of community service (community service is way underused as a punishment). Make them teach reading to inner city kids for fifteen years, and pay back their debt to society in a real way. But don't lock them up and make taxpayers pay the bill. Jail costs a lot of money and is a social club for criminals, hardening criminals all the more, and helping to build criminal networks. We really need to come up with alternative penalties that work but cost less.
For those not interested in installing a haxie (esp. considering that it does seem to have issues with some Carbon apps), Mozilla already has support: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149427
I am running 20020607 right now it and it looks very nice.
Perl and AppleScript can both call each other, so you can wire up an interface in AppleScript Studio and call 'do shellscript "script.pl"' do the get Perl bits running. It's an easy approach, and I know a lot of folks who are doing this with minimal pain. AppleScript has access to the authentication model so you can even run stuff as root with a system dialog handling the authentication.
If you need to call AppleScript stuff from a Perl script you can use the various AppleScript bindings mentioned by others, or just do a system("echo 'tell app to do thing' | osascript"); which will run applescript commands, if a little indirectly. I have done this for things like cleanly quitting GUI apps, and it works great. Of course TMTOWTDI, so you could also open a pipe to osascript and dump in AppleScript commands, which might work nicely in some cases.
Honestly, you have problems with your system if Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, Omniweb and iCab crash within a minute of launch. I use Mozilla mostly, spend some time with the beta of OmniWeb and the alpha of Chimera, and toy with with Opera and iCab occasionally - all are plenty stable. Most folks at work use either iCab, Mozilla, or Explorer, and nobody sees stability problems. Some nightlies of Mozilla are a bit unstable, but the Netscape 6 is solid. You might want to trim out some plists, look into the possibility of a naughty kext, or something, because what you are seeing is not normal.
A few weeks ago I bought a Tele-Games (Sear's rebrand of the 2600) at a garage sale for $2, and have been having a lot of fun playing the Atari games. Sure the graphics are not great, but the game play is really good (esp. 2 player Combat), and the nostalgia factor is fun. My four year old has a lot easier time with the simple control, so it works great for the fam. Just because you think that the games are "shite" does not mean nobody wants to play them.
I have been on the APD list for a while, so I cannot make an account (I have gone out of my way to avoid posting anything regarding Novak to avoid the barratry).
The admins of those boards ban anyone on the APD lists, delete critical posts, and ban anyone who posts anything critical. It would be fun to see if the boards got slammed with a lot of new posts, but keep in mind that they would disappear fast.
Interestingly the developers of gobe were the original team that wrote ClarisWorks (I believe they left aroud the time when Apple killed Claris and ClarisWorks was rebadged AppleWorks). While AppleWorks has spiraled into the visionless mess that it is today (though honestly the word processor works fine for my needs), gobe on BeOS was really nice and I would love to see it running on Mac OS X. It might even give the AppleWorks team some incentive to develop some nicer features in the product and clean up their UI.
The release notes for Palm Desktop for Mac OS X said the Clie was supported, and I can synch my Handspring via USB just fine. There are also a lot of conduits available or in progress on the page.
Lest one thinks books are a safe repository of knowledge, do not forget that even these can easily be lost in time. Petrarch (1304-1374) travelled Europe searching libraries and monasteries gathering works that were molding away. Many of Cicero's works were saved by him, hand copied from moldy disintegrating manuscripts that might not have lasted another generation. Many ancient Latin works that helped pave the way to the Renaissance were rediscovered by him forgotten in various monastery libraries.
When he went to the library of Monte Cassino he found many rare and then unknown works, but pages were missing from many of the books, and many had strips torn from their pages. He discovered that the monks had been taking pages of the books to make into psalters and turning strips into amulets to sell.
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You can add LPR printers to a NetInfo parent, we do this at my work and it is a lot nicer than remembering the IPs of the printers when setting things up initially. Systems that bind to the parent can find the printer in Print Center in Directory Services. I think that if you set up LDAP corretly you can do the same thing, though I never tried it.
As far as USB printers go though, it won't work, it only works with IP printing. However with X Server's print server you can share any kind of printer Mac OS X can print to (LPR, AppleTalk, USB), though you have to print to the print server via IP or SMB, no AppleTalk printing, which is unfortunate since AppleTalk makes printer discover very easy on a network.
That's what he told me, but looking into it more today it looks like he was not correct. I got a copy of a beta today, and they did not work. AlienSkin and Andromeda sites mention Carbonizing their plugs, so it looks like PS does not have support for legacy ones. Dang.
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My contact at Adobe said that Carbonizing the app and getting the interface Aquafied took very little time. In fact when Adobe's CEO said at a MacWorld long ago that it took them a weekend to Carbonize PS that was not too far off. But. There was no support for plugins unless they were recompiled for OS X. The thing that took them forever was integrating support for Plugins that were written for Mac OS 9, and there are tons of 3rd party plugins that would be caught in the lurch, quite a few of which are not maintained by the companies that made them, though thay are used by a lot of artists. Those plugs are compiled, so they basically had to implement their own mini-Classic and create a virtual runtime that acted like OS 9 for them.
You cannot "run" them directly from the Terminal, but there are a few tricks that you can use to control them from the Terminal a little less directly. As was mentioned above you can use the 'open' command to launch a GUI app. Beyond that if the app is scriptable to do what you want you can use 'osascript' and its brethren to execute AppleScript commands for the command line (making it possible to use shell/Perl scripts to automate functions of GUI apps). 'apropos osa' will find you all the relevant commands, which have man pages. Photoshop in the past was very scriptable, so as long as they have maintained this, you should be able to write shell and perl scripts that take advantage of this, or fire off oneliners in the shell. Since you are using a shell command to execute an applescript it might be a little more complicated in a oneliner than just selecting something from a menu or clicking a button or two. But automating a task in a script could be more worthwhile since you can perform repetitive tasks.
On my PowerBook I use my right hand on the trackpad, so my left hand is already on the keyboard. On a portable there is no having to "reach all the way over," since the trackpad is an inch away from the keyboard. On a desktop a multi-button external mouse works nicely, and in OS X there is a contextual menu for copy/cut/paste in text areas. As a matter of fact, an external mouse works nicely on a portable too, though I realize that this is anathema to some.
dpkg is nice, and I have not found it to be as dangerous or as buggy as you, though I have not delved deep in the details. I have been running Debian testing and so far have never managed to do anything awful to it (though maybe I can just count myself lucky). Design aside, it has a fatal flaw which is the licensing. Since it is GPL, Apple has to be cautious about it. While personally I doubt that there really is an issue with infecting the whole system, since NeXT and Apple have both suffered the wrath of the FSF's attacks (FSF sued Next over not releaing ObjC changes to gcc, and Stallmans rants about porting GNU software to A/UX seemed downright hostile) I can see why their lawyers are cautious. Plus Apple has a lot of IP on the line that they really do need to protect, since they could get sued by their shareholders, even if legal did not balk.
BTW - You can actually use dpkg already with Mac OS X by installing fink though it is an external project. It works well, has a fair number of packages. I use it and highly recommend it.
I used to live in Huntington Beach which roughly borders Garden Grove. To get any real perspective on this story you really do need to see the place. There is a reason it is called 'Little Saigon'. It is surreal seeing block after block of shops with Vietnamese names. You are far better of speaking French than English if you want to talk to the locals.
The Vietnamese gangs out of that area are peculiarly savage. I was once eating with my wife and son at my favorite Pho place in a big shopping center when a gang fight broke out in the parking lot - next to my car I might add. We were essentially trapped in the restaurant as these thugs beat the crap out of a guy (his friends had fled) on the ground with a baseball bat for twenty miuntes. They all had guns, and ninja weapons (Shuriken, other weird knife things), but they appeared to be enjoying killing him slowly with the bat. Eventually the guy had stopped moving long enough that it was clear he was dead and they left. The cops (despite being called) never came.
Garden Grove is a unique place, and unless you understand the situation there, you can't understand the rules that are laid down. I dounbt that any reporter in Sacramento has a clue.
You can pretty much get away with saying what you want in ads. Otherwise MS would be in deep legal doodoo for suggesting that you will fly after installing XP.
Anyone who has spent some time with a Palm V/M50x can tell you this. Those PocetPC things are big bloated irritating lumps in your pocket. Big screens look flashy and are great for showing off a game, or editing a spreadsheet (though when you get to SS editing, it is time to get a laptop), or something, but a PDA spends a lot of its life in a pocket. I had a Cassiopea, and ditched it quite soon after getting it due to horrid size. No PPC is is small enough. The M505 could even use a little shrinking still. PocketPC devices are not addressing shrinking form factor, but rather are adding bloatware bells and whistles. I would not even consider looking at one if I couldn't leave it in my shirt pocket comfortably.
Jeez, I hate abuse of the term FUD, but that is the most blatant FUD I have seen in a while.
Novell might not be as big a player as they were in the past, but there are a lot of sites that are using Novell and are not planning on dropping support. In the K-12 arena Netware has a very strong hold that is not likely to slip, despite MS's efforts at 'charity,' and most Netware admins I know do not see Active Directory as being anywhere near as well designed as NDS. Make your decisions based on technical merit, cost, or other actual crietria, but don't make them based on the notion that you may as well go with MS even if it is more expensive and lower quality because, "well, you know, MS is the only one that will be left in a few years" - that's a self fulfilling prophecy. With that attitude we may as well stop working on Linux, *BSDs, office applications, web servers, compilers, and well, software.
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Application Switcher Menu has been updated, and while the installer warns that it is not supported, it works. I as an old school OS 9 guy, I love ASM, it makes the OS X UI work so much better. ASM's 'Classic Window Mode' that brings all windows associated with an app to the front when you click on one kicks butt. is another app I use all the time that has been updated for Jag.
Apple-Evil-Proprietory-Boot = IEEE 1275. An open standard used by Sun, IBM, and Apple.
The Open Group has loosened up with the UNIX trademark as time has gone on, and do include Apple as a vendor complaint to the UNIX specification.http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_ unix/single_unix_specification.html#platform
Mac OS X is UNIX.
Jail time for non-violent offenders is really not an option I would want to see. Fine them to no end. Then fine them some more. Take money out of their hands and either give it to victims or put it into a system that will fight them. Sign them of for decades of community service (community service is way underused as a punishment). Make them teach reading to inner city kids for fifteen years, and pay back their debt to society in a real way. But don't lock them up and make taxpayers pay the bill. Jail costs a lot of money and is a social club for criminals, hardening criminals all the more, and helping to build criminal networks. We really need to come up with alternative penalties that work but cost less.
For those not interested in installing a haxie (esp. considering that it does seem to have issues with some Carbon apps), Mozilla already has support:7
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14942
I am running 20020607 right now it and it looks very nice.
Perl and AppleScript can both call each other, so you can wire up an interface in AppleScript Studio and call 'do shellscript "script.pl"' do the get Perl bits running. It's an easy approach, and I know a lot of folks who are doing this with minimal pain. AppleScript has access to the authentication model so you can even run stuff as root with a system dialog handling the authentication.
If you need to call AppleScript stuff from a Perl script you can use the various AppleScript bindings mentioned by others, or just do a system("echo 'tell app to do thing' | osascript"); which will run applescript commands, if a little indirectly. I have done this for things like cleanly quitting GUI apps, and it works great. Of course TMTOWTDI, so you could also open a pipe to osascript and dump in AppleScript commands, which might work nicely in some cases.
Honestly, you have problems with your system if Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, Omniweb and iCab crash within a minute of launch. I use Mozilla mostly, spend some time with the beta of OmniWeb and the alpha of Chimera, and toy with with Opera and iCab occasionally - all are plenty stable. Most folks at work use either iCab, Mozilla, or Explorer, and nobody sees stability problems. Some nightlies of Mozilla are a bit unstable, but the Netscape 6 is solid. You might want to trim out some plists, look into the possibility of a naughty kext, or something, because what you are seeing is not normal.
A few weeks ago I bought a Tele-Games (Sear's rebrand of the 2600) at a garage sale for $2, and have been having a lot of fun playing the Atari games. Sure the graphics are not great, but the game play is really good (esp. 2 player Combat), and the nostalgia factor is fun. My four year old has a lot easier time with the simple control, so it works great for the fam. Just because you think that the games are "shite" does not mean nobody wants to play them.
from: http://www.apple.com/xserve/
Serial console for UNIX-savvy administrators
Prefer to rule your domain through command line server management tools? The serial port lets you do just that.
I have been on the APD list for a while, so I cannot make an account (I have gone out of my way to avoid posting anything regarding Novak to avoid the barratry).
The admins of those boards ban anyone on the APD lists, delete critical posts, and ban anyone who posts anything critical. It would be fun to see if the boards got slammed with a lot of new posts, but keep in mind that they would disappear fast.
Interestingly the developers of gobe were the original team that wrote ClarisWorks (I believe they left aroud the time when Apple killed Claris and ClarisWorks was rebadged AppleWorks). While AppleWorks has spiraled into the visionless mess that it is today (though honestly the word processor works fine for my needs), gobe on BeOS was really nice and I would love to see it running on Mac OS X. It might even give the AppleWorks team some incentive to develop some nicer features in the product and clean up their UI.
There is a beta that has been out since late December, Apple even has a page dedicated to it:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/palm/
The release notes for Palm Desktop for Mac OS X said the Clie was supported, and I can synch my Handspring via USB just fine. There are also a lot of conduits available or in progress on the page.
It is nice to see a technology demo of this tool, but mozilla already has a tool for finding memory leaks (among other things) called spaceTrace:
which you can find out about here
Lest one thinks books are a safe repository of knowledge, do not forget that even these can easily be lost in time. Petrarch (1304-1374) travelled Europe searching libraries and monasteries gathering works that were molding away. Many of Cicero's works were saved by him, hand copied from moldy disintegrating manuscripts that might not have lasted another generation. Many ancient Latin works that helped pave the way to the Renaissance were rediscovered by him forgotten in various monastery libraries.
When he went to the library of Monte Cassino he found many rare and then unknown works, but pages were missing from many of the books, and many had strips torn from their pages. He discovered that the monks had been taking pages of the books to make into psalters and turning strips into amulets to sell.
You can add LPR printers to a NetInfo parent, we do this at my work and it is a lot nicer than remembering the IPs of the printers when setting things up initially. Systems that bind to the parent can find the printer in Print Center in Directory Services. I think that if you set up LDAP corretly you can do the same thing, though I never tried it.
As far as USB printers go though, it won't work, it only works with IP printing. However with X Server's print server you can share any kind of printer Mac OS X can print to (LPR, AppleTalk, USB), though you have to print to the print server via IP or SMB, no AppleTalk printing, which is unfortunate since AppleTalk makes printer discover very easy on a network.
That's what he told me, but looking into it more today it looks like he was not correct. I got a copy of a beta today, and they did not work. AlienSkin and Andromeda sites mention Carbonizing their plugs, so it looks like PS does not have support for legacy ones. Dang.
My contact at Adobe said that Carbonizing the app and getting the interface Aquafied took very little time. In fact when Adobe's CEO said at a MacWorld long ago that it took them a weekend to Carbonize PS that was not too far off. But. There was no support for plugins unless they were recompiled for OS X. The thing that took them forever was integrating support for Plugins that were written for Mac OS 9, and there are tons of 3rd party plugins that would be caught in the lurch, quite a few of which are not maintained by the companies that made them, though thay are used by a lot of artists. Those plugs are compiled, so they basically had to implement their own mini-Classic and create a virtual runtime that acted like OS 9 for them.
You cannot "run" them directly from the Terminal, but there are a few tricks that you can use to control them from the Terminal a little less directly. As was mentioned above you can use the 'open' command to launch a GUI app. Beyond that if the app is scriptable to do what you want you can use 'osascript' and its brethren to execute AppleScript commands for the command line (making it possible to use shell/Perl scripts to automate functions of GUI apps). 'apropos osa' will find you all the relevant commands, which have man pages. Photoshop in the past was very scriptable, so as long as they have maintained this, you should be able to write shell and perl scripts that take advantage of this, or fire off oneliners in the shell. Since you are using a shell command to execute an applescript it might be a little more complicated in a oneliner than just selecting something from a menu or clicking a button or two. But automating a task in a script could be more worthwhile since you can perform repetitive tasks.
On my PowerBook I use my right hand on the trackpad, so my left hand is already on the keyboard. On a portable there is no having to "reach all the way over," since the trackpad is an inch away from the keyboard. On a desktop a multi-button external mouse works nicely, and in OS X there is a contextual menu for copy/cut/paste in text areas. As a matter of fact, an external mouse works nicely on a portable too, though I realize that this is anathema to some.
dpkg is nice, and I have not found it to be as dangerous or as buggy as you, though I have not delved deep in the details. I have been running Debian testing and so far have never managed to do anything awful to it (though maybe I can just count myself lucky). Design aside, it has a fatal flaw which is the licensing. Since it is GPL, Apple has to be cautious about it. While personally I doubt that there really is an issue with infecting the whole system, since NeXT and Apple have both suffered the wrath of the FSF's attacks (FSF sued Next over not releaing ObjC changes to gcc, and Stallmans rants about porting GNU software to A/UX seemed downright hostile) I can see why their lawyers are cautious. Plus Apple has a lot of IP on the line that they really do need to protect, since they could get sued by their shareholders, even if legal did not balk.
BTW - You can actually use dpkg already with Mac OS X by installing fink though it is an external project. It works well, has a fair number of packages. I use it and highly recommend it.
This cracked me up :"Some of those were advertisements - known as ``spam,''"
I know I am going to be looking for the Schifman resume.
" - and at least one e-mail contained pornography"
I wonder if they are going to require an 'I am over 18' splash page to view the comments.
I used to live in Huntington Beach which roughly borders Garden Grove. To get any real perspective on this story you really do need to see the place. There is a reason it is called 'Little Saigon'. It is surreal seeing block after block of shops with Vietnamese names. You are far better of speaking French than English if you want to talk to the locals.
The Vietnamese gangs out of that area are peculiarly savage. I was once eating with my wife and son at my favorite Pho place in a big shopping center when a gang fight broke out in the parking lot - next to my car I might add. We were essentially trapped in the restaurant as these thugs beat the crap out of a guy (his friends had fled) on the ground with a baseball bat for twenty miuntes. They all had guns, and ninja weapons (Shuriken, other weird knife things), but they appeared to be enjoying killing him slowly with the bat. Eventually the guy had stopped moving long enough that it was clear he was dead and they left. The cops (despite being called) never came.
Garden Grove is a unique place, and unless you understand the situation there, you can't understand the rules that are laid down. I dounbt that any reporter in Sacramento has a clue.
You can pretty much get away with saying what you want in ads. Otherwise MS would be in deep legal doodoo for suggesting that you will fly after installing XP.
Anyone who has spent some time with a Palm V/M50x can tell you this. Those PocetPC things are big bloated irritating lumps in your pocket. Big screens look flashy and are great for showing off a game, or editing a spreadsheet (though when you get to SS editing, it is time to get a laptop), or something, but a PDA spends a lot of its life in a pocket. I had a Cassiopea, and ditched it quite soon after getting it due to horrid size. No PPC is is small enough. The M505 could even use a little shrinking still. PocketPC devices are not addressing shrinking form factor, but rather are adding bloatware bells and whistles. I would not even consider looking at one if I couldn't leave it in my shirt pocket comfortably.
Jeez, I hate abuse of the term FUD, but that is the most blatant FUD I have seen in a while.
Novell might not be as big a player as they were in the past, but there are a lot of sites that are using Novell and are not planning on dropping support.
In the K-12 arena Netware has a very strong hold that is not likely to slip, despite MS's efforts at 'charity,' and most Netware admins I know do not see Active Directory as being anywhere near as well designed as NDS. Make your decisions based on technical merit, cost, or other actual crietria, but don't make them based on the notion that you may as well go with MS even if it is more expensive and lower quality because, "well, you know, MS is the only one that will be left in a few years" - that's a self fulfilling prophecy. With that attitude we may as well stop working on Linux, *BSDs, office applications, web servers, compilers, and well, software.