Re:MacOS X sees Linux as direct competition.
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Is UNIX An OS?
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Linux has MANY GUI's to satisfy user choice, MacOS only has what used to be called The Finder. Besides, I just bet that MacOS X may be run without gui... with a hack or two, probably. Is it less of an OS?
if you enter ">console" instead of an user name at the login window, you get just to the core OS without any GUI. You can even start X-Windows from there:-)
There is only one good OS, MacOS, and the rest is crap.
This is Macweek after all. Windows pages don't even mention that there is something other that M$ Windows and if you double click on 'Internet' you get Internet Explorer, what else?
In the Mac OS X beta, as in previous versions, opening a Classic Mac OS application first launches the Classic application, which loads a virtual Mac OS 9 environment -- a process sources said takes several minutes.
Only if "several" means "less than one".
I don't know what kind of supercomputer you own, but my Classic.app takes 5 minutes to start, blocking the system (if you don't count some seconds response time on every click as work).
I've got a 300MHz G3 w/ 192MB RAM.
At least I've got many MacOS X-Apps, so I don't have to start it that often (Stuffit Expander is one of those apps, but it seems like this issue is solved!).
I've got three macs: a 7100 - too old for BeOS, a PowerBook G3 - too young for BeOS and a PowerMac G3 - too young for BeOS. Great PowerPC-support.
BeOS/PPC was dead the moment Apple refused to buy Be.
OS X will be an improvement... that brings me to a good point i haven't seen anywhere before, will Photoshop be available for OS X? if so, wouldn't that mean that photoshop has been/will be ported to BSD? how far away is a linux port then? does it exist?
No, Photoshop won't be ported to BSD, but to Carbon, which is a kind of MacOS-Emulation for MacOSX (at API-Level), which even uses another windowing system (the one from NeXTSTEP).
But either way, who cares? Without something like Colorsync Photoshop wouldn't be worth a cent. Imagine drawing something in green, print it and on the paper it's yellow!
The other pro of MacOS X to Linux is that it can even be used by artists. There's even no need for Redhat's autodetection, the most complicated part of the installation is choosing a root password.
On the programmer's side (which is what I see every day), Cocoa is simply the best API I've ever seen. Complete object-oriented, most of the things you want to implement don't even need one line of code!
Next: Java support. My Cocoa-app uses a Java package, but the end user won't notice it! No Swing or AWT, just pure MacOS X GUI. This package can be used by any other platform (it's a plain.jar).
I can see 1280x1024 on a 15" screen, but 1600x1200 is pretty scary... I find a lot of things to small at that res on a 21" monitor.
And when Apple releases an OS with 128x128 icons everybody whines that they are huge...
Maybe Apple will include a high resolution TFT with their first MacOS X-only-Powerbook:-)
Re:hardware time is cheaper than programmer time
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Java Rocks On Linux
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Thanks! Maybe some day my java apps will run so fast I can actually use them on my g3/300;-)
Remembers me on my old pascal/assembler days, when I actually counted processor cycles and optimized until my code was totally unreadable (but very fast on my 386DX25).
This was the only way to go. *sniff* I think they're back with Java!;-)
Re:hardware time is cheaper than programmer time
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Java Rocks On Linux
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So what should I use instead of '+'?
String.concat()? Does this make any difference?
It took me about 2 days to 'learn' Java. It's just C++ done better (GC, interfaces, hierarchy).
And no, I didn't do any tutorial, I just looked at the source of a co-worker and began writing my own.
> I can't imagine that running your system only in the terminal is even worth it - why not just shut it off?
Maybe it's just a router. I've got a FreeBSD-machine without X as my firewall and a MacOS X machine behind it for everyday use.
It's very nice because you can keep your working machine running while you install a new kernel on your router. And you don't get slower when someone tries to DOS you:)
wmNetscapeKiller is a WindowMaker dockapp for killing Netscape when
it freezes (so many times) !
Just one click on this dockapp : Netscape will be shut down and restart
! You can now (version 0.3) specify the program to kill and if you want to
restart it or not.
In Objective-C, objects are identified by a distinct data type, id. [...] All objects, regardless of their instance variables or methods, are of type id.
id anObject;
Everything's id?
That's why Carmack likes MacOS X so much! He must be very proud having his own data type...
As for cellular, in Finland everybody has a cellphone, and this is somehow bad for this US? Who wants to access the Internet through a stupid cell phone with a numeric keypad? WAP sucks and everybody in the know, knows it.
Maybe you can't believe it, but cellphones aren't bought for surfing. They're bought for voice conversation and Short Message Service! Most of the people I know (in Europe) pay 90% of their bill for sending SMS, even if they could send it via the Internet for free.
wap sucks and I didn't ever see anybody surfing the web from a phone, but I do see people who use their cellphone in the tram every day.
In my driving license course, out of about 40 people only 2 (including me) didn't own a cellphone!
Some friends of mine even think about buying me one because they want to call me (no way!:).
This is a big major pain in the *ss here in Germany and an obvious abuse of German law.
I think the problem is how you should define what's a 'correct' name. Just because any company on the world uses "Explorer" you can't be forced to use anything else for your own brand name.
I've heard of a case in germany where someone got sued because he linked to another web site where the sueing person was offended. That's ridiculous! Something's pretty wrong with german law. I live in Austria, which is next to Germany, and I always read c't and there are lots of articles about things like that! I hope Austria's law is different in this case.
But there's the big problem: law and computers don't mix. Laws are much too slow evolving for this industry.
Maybe because it was crap. I never saw a more unstable os from any company before and after system 7.6. I believe they don't want anybody to use it, btw it doesn't even work on a MacPlus because it requires a 68040 processor. 7.5.5 is good.
Looking at this picture I think I'll keep my MacOS X machine:-) There's only one bug known (which is already fixed). I think you shouldn't use a product with known vulnerabilities in a production environment.
But maybe if you add a '#' to every line in/etc/inetd.conf you're pretty safe with linux too. I couldn't sleep well if I had to hope that nobody would try this or that exploit on my server.
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if you enter ">console" instead of an user name at the login window, you get just to the core OS without any GUI. You can even start X-Windows from there :-)
There is only one good OS, MacOS, and the rest is crap.
This is Macweek after all. Windows pages don't even mention that there is something other that M$ Windows and if you double click on 'Internet' you get Internet Explorer, what else?
Only if "several" means "less than one".
I don't know what kind of supercomputer you own, but my Classic.app takes 5 minutes to start, blocking the system (if you don't count some seconds response time on every click as work).
I've got a 300MHz G3 w/ 192MB RAM.
At least I've got many MacOS X-Apps, so I don't have to start it that often (Stuffit Expander is one of those apps, but it seems like this issue is solved!).
I've got three macs: a 7100 - too old for BeOS, a PowerBook G3 - too young for BeOS and a PowerMac G3 - too young for BeOS. Great PowerPC-support.
BeOS/PPC was dead the moment Apple refused to buy Be.
No, Photoshop won't be ported to BSD, but to Carbon, which is a kind of MacOS-Emulation for MacOSX (at API-Level), which even uses another windowing system (the one from NeXTSTEP).
But either way, who cares? Without something like Colorsync Photoshop wouldn't be worth a cent. .jar).
Imagine drawing something in green, print it and on the paper it's yellow!
The other pro of MacOS X to Linux is that it can even be used by artists. There's even no need for Redhat's autodetection, the most complicated part of the installation is choosing a root password.
On the programmer's side (which is what I see every day), Cocoa is simply the best API I've ever seen. Complete object-oriented, most of the things you want to implement don't even need one line of code!
Next: Java support. My Cocoa-app uses a Java package, but the end user won't notice it! No Swing or AWT, just pure MacOS X GUI. This package can be used by any other platform (it's a plain
And when Apple releases an OS with 128x128 icons everybody whines that they are huge... :-)
Maybe Apple will include a high resolution TFT with their first MacOS X-only-Powerbook
Remembers me on my old pascal/assembler days, when I actually counted processor cycles and optimized until my code was totally unreadable (but very fast on my 386DX25). ;-)
This was the only way to go. *sniff* I think they're back with Java!
So what should I use instead of '+'?
String.concat()? Does this make any difference?
No I'm writing an irc-client. A bit more work :-)
And no, I didn't do any tutorial, I just looked at the source of a co-worker and began writing my own.
Maybe you're at the wrong job?
As if FreeBSD was taken over by Apple by creating MacOS X.
Example:
für a=1 bis 10
druck "Hello"
ende für
I had to program this at school. After some minutes I couldn't stop laughing and so I had to give up.
Sorry, I signed the NDA.
Maybe it's just a router. I've got a FreeBSD-machine without X as my firewall and a MacOS X machine behind it for everyday use. :)
It's very nice because you can keep your working machine running while you install a new kernel on your router. And you don't get slower when someone tries to DOS you
From the page:
wmNetscapeKiller is a WindowMaker dockapp for killing Netscape when it freezes (so many times) !
Just one click on this dockapp : Netscape will be shut down and restart ! You can now (version 0.3) specify the program to kill and if you want to restart it or not.
In Objective-C, objects are identified by a distinct data type, id. [...] All objects, regardless of their instance variables or methods, are of type id.
id anObject;
Everything's id?
That's why Carmack likes MacOS X so much! He must be very proud having his own data type...
Maybe you can't believe it, but cellphones aren't bought for surfing. They're bought for voice conversation and Short Message Service! Most of the people I know (in Europe) pay 90% of their bill for sending SMS, even if they could send it via the Internet for free. :).
wap sucks and I didn't ever see anybody surfing the web from a phone, but I do see people who use their cellphone in the tram every day.
In my driving license course, out of about 40 people only 2 (including me) didn't own a cellphone!
Some friends of mine even think about buying me one because they want to call me (no way!
I think the problem is how you should define what's a 'correct' name. Just because any company on the world uses "Explorer" you can't be forced to use anything else for your own brand name.
I've heard of a case in germany where someone got sued because he linked to another web site where the sueing person was offended. That's ridiculous!
Something's pretty wrong with german law. I live in Austria, which is next to Germany, and I always read c't and there are lots of articles about things like that! I hope Austria's law is different in this case.
But there's the big problem: law and computers don't mix. Laws are much too slow evolving for this industry.
Maybe because it was crap. I never saw a more unstable os from any company before and after system 7.6.
I believe they don't want anybody to use it, btw it doesn't even work on a MacPlus because it requires a 68040 processor.
7.5.5 is good.
I think you shouldn't use a product with known vulnerabilities in a production environment.
But maybe if you add a '#' to every line in /etc/inetd.conf you're pretty safe with linux too. I couldn't sleep well if I had to hope that nobody would try this or that exploit on my server.