Illustrator 10 for OS X is in stores now (well, it was on sale at the London Computer Arts show last week).
Adobe said recently that Photoshop for X would be due at the beginning of next year, and apparently (don't quote me on this - i don't use it) Quark is due before Christmas.
Far too many reviews concentrate on the lack of Carbon apps for X. Of course this is a big deal, but it also shouldnt be any surprise - its a completely new OS. Besides, by next year, every major Mac application will be carbonized.
I recently started a new job and could choose between Windows, Linux and OS X. I thought, what the hell, I've never worked with Macs much, I wanna have a play with X, and if it sucks I can just slap Linux on there anyway.
After the first day of using it, I've never really thought about using anything other than X. Its a dream. As far as I'm concerned, its the best mix of Mac-style GUI, and a unix workhorse core. Who could ask for anything else?
Yeah, theres still some rough edges, things that should be there but arent, but theres also some damn nice stuff in there. I'd say I'm pretty neutral - I use Windows and Linux at home, and OS X at work with the occasional recourse to OS 9. I'm saving my pennies for a new 667MHz tiBook.
Os X is a Good Thing (tm). Bringing unix and open source to the masses. Stop pissing and moaning about what it lacks compared to Linux. OS X is nothing like Linux in user and market terms.
And, please, I implore, no one-button-mouse cracks.
I installed it today, and it broke Apache, because I'd installed the Apple WebSharing update, which seems mighty odd.
It also went ahead and installed an older build of PHP over my existing one.
But, the problems werent that huge. A simple edit Apache edit and a rebuild of PHP and everything was up and running again.
Other people may well have more problems with stuff like C and Perl though, until they start using Developer Tools 10.1 - a whole bunch of modules have been renamed, and GCC seemed to be all screwed up until Dev tools 10.1 was installed.
I've recently started using Mac OSX for dev work, and so I've only just really got accustomed to the OS.
This isn't a OS10.1-specific thing. Straight OS10 does exactly the same thing.
It is dumb, but you can turn it off in the preferences panel. My guess would be that most users would turn it off when they go into the Prefs to change the default download location (as MacIE5 doesnt ask you for a download folder) to something more sensible.
Ppfffff.
Personally, I don't think this is an *enormous* worry for the average user. Imagine if PC IE6 did this. All hell would break loose. But, theres just not that many nasties lurking for the Mac OSX user, really. And besides, the more savvy users will shut this feature off.
It is mighty dumb though. And not even that userfriendly. When StuffIt starts up to expand your files, it steals focus from what you're doing and makes your system chug like hell on OS10.1.
Well, I'm no expert on viruses, but as I say, it went like this:
visited site.
desktop background changes.
i pull out eth. cable.
download new virus definitions.
scan.
i have Nimda.
now, my weekly virus scan had happened 2 days earlier, and all was fine. Maybe the desktop thing wasnt Nimda, and I'd already been affected, but it seems like a bit of a coincidence to me.
Maybe a Nimda variant?
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Thats simply not true.
I run w2k pro sp2 with IE6 at home (dual-booted with slackware), with all of the various MS patches installed, behind a firewall - I know the dangers of IIS.
Last week, I was browsing through some UK web agencies, and one of them had been infected with Nimda. Unlike most other people who got hit by Nimda, when I hit that IIS server, I didn't get a "save as..." dialogue. My firewall didn't notice anything amiss either.
All that happened was :
My desktop background changed to a chessy pic of a skeleton over a forest background.
My machine started grinding away like hell.
I muttered "Oh fuck." under my breath and whipped the cable out of my ethernet card so my girlfriends machine didnt get affected, as far as I could manage.
I'm no sysadmin guru, but I'm a pretty savvy user, and had patched my system up fully, and I still got dicked. Yes, it wouldnt have happened if I was under *nix, but I do a lot of work with Shockwave and Flash, so 9 times out of 10 I'm running win32 rather than linux.
I develop on Mac OSX on a daily basis (I work for a design house as their sole nerd - Macs only at our place), and I can't wait for 10.1.
But, in every discussion I've read about 10.1, everyobdy refers to ordering their CD, delivery times, getting it at BestBuy, Micro Anvika, or whatever.
WTF? Are Apple going to charge us for an update the same way they charged us for a public beta? If they're not going to charge us, will be able to download it? If I can download 1.5Gigs worth of Linux RedHat off the web, why the hell can't I download OS 10.1?
If they're really going to charge/disallow downloads, then my G4's going in the dumpster and the mp3 server is getting Linux on it for my workstation.
" Since Netscape 6.1 no longer supports the tag"
uh....?
what the screaming fuck are you talking about? You must have been smoking some really bad shit.
Of course N6.1/Moz. 0.9.x support the select tag. Have you not been closing it or something? It'll be a cold day in Hell before Netscape/Mozilla stop supporting an HTML 3.0 standard tag.
I'm a web developer. The vast majortity of stuff I do requires hefty form usage. The select tag works just fine. It even responds to CSS style commands just fine.
A collaborative "data cloud" effort has been slowly building up over the last couple of years.
if I had access to my roof and a spare few quid, I know I'd be jumping into this.
personally I find the huge fucking Flash ads in the middle of article text far more annoying than popups.
that and window.onclose() shit from pr0n sites.
There's a very good reason why Mozilla takes so much longer to start up than IE5.
IE is part of the OS. Hell, it basically is the OS nowadays. When you start up IE in windows, you're not opening a browser, just opening a standard explorer window. Mozilla is a seperate application. What do you expect?
And someone was talking about how Netscape abandoned their customers by killing NN4.x and releasing nothing for 3 years while they worked on N6. There was a very good reason for that. Netscape 4 is a cancerous boil on the ass of the web. They knew this. So they killed it, as far as is commercially viable.
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Illustrator 10 for OS X is in stores now (well, it was on sale at the London Computer Arts show last week).
Adobe said recently that Photoshop for X would be due at the beginning of next year, and apparently (don't quote me on this - i don't use it) Quark is due before Christmas.
...such an informed review of OS X finally.
Far too many reviews concentrate on the lack of Carbon apps for X. Of course this is a big deal, but it also shouldnt be any surprise - its a completely new OS. Besides, by next year, every major Mac application will be carbonized.
I recently started a new job and could choose between Windows, Linux and OS X. I thought, what the hell, I've never worked with Macs much, I wanna have a play with X, and if it sucks I can just slap Linux on there anyway.
After the first day of using it, I've never really thought about using anything other than X. Its a dream. As far as I'm concerned, its the best mix of Mac-style GUI, and a unix workhorse core. Who could ask for anything else?
Yeah, theres still some rough edges, things that should be there but arent, but theres also some damn nice stuff in there. I'd say I'm pretty neutral - I use Windows and Linux at home, and OS X at work with the occasional recourse to OS 9. I'm saving my pennies for a new 667MHz tiBook.
Os X is a Good Thing (tm). Bringing unix and open source to the masses. Stop pissing and moaning about what it lacks compared to Linux. OS X is nothing like Linux in user and market terms.
And, please, I implore, no one-button-mouse cracks.
Except that Snopes is wrong this time.
This is an official Government document.
Oh, anybody having troubles with 10.1 breaking things - this has a whole bunch of handy pointers.
it does indeed break things.
I installed it today, and it broke Apache, because I'd installed the Apple WebSharing update, which seems mighty odd.
It also went ahead and installed an older build of PHP over my existing one.
But, the problems werent that huge. A simple edit Apache edit and a rebuild of PHP and everything was up and running again.
Other people may well have more problems with stuff like C and Perl though, until they start using Developer Tools 10.1 - a whole bunch of modules have been renamed, and GCC seemed to be all screwed up until Dev tools 10.1 was installed.
uh......
what the fuck is this then?
Mactopia.
*snicker*...
...this always struck me as a little odd.
I've recently started using Mac OSX for dev work, and so I've only just really got accustomed to the OS.
This isn't a OS10.1-specific thing. Straight OS10 does exactly the same thing.
It is dumb, but you can turn it off in the preferences panel. My guess would be that most users would turn it off when they go into the Prefs to change the default download location (as MacIE5 doesnt ask you for a download folder) to something more sensible.
Ppfffff.
Personally, I don't think this is an *enormous* worry for the average user. Imagine if PC IE6 did this. All hell would break loose. But, theres just not that many nasties lurking for the Mac OSX user, really. And besides, the more savvy users will shut this feature off.
It is mighty dumb though. And not even that userfriendly. When StuffIt starts up to expand your files, it steals focus from what you're doing and makes your system chug like hell on OS10.1.
Well, I'm no expert on viruses, but as I say, it went like this:
visited site.
desktop background changes.
i pull out eth. cable.
download new virus definitions.
scan.
i have Nimda.
now, my weekly virus scan had happened 2 days earlier, and all was fine. Maybe the desktop thing wasnt Nimda, and I'd already been affected, but it seems like a bit of a coincidence to me.
Maybe a Nimda variant?
Thats simply not true.
I run w2k pro sp2 with IE6 at home (dual-booted with slackware), with all of the various MS patches installed, behind a firewall - I know the dangers of IIS.
Last week, I was browsing through some UK web agencies, and one of them had been infected with Nimda. Unlike most other people who got hit by Nimda, when I hit that IIS server, I didn't get a "save as..." dialogue. My firewall didn't notice anything amiss either.
All that happened was :
My desktop background changed to a chessy pic of a skeleton over a forest background.
My machine started grinding away like hell.
I muttered "Oh fuck." under my breath and whipped the cable out of my ethernet card so my girlfriends machine didnt get affected, as far as I could manage.
I'm no sysadmin guru, but I'm a pretty savvy user, and had patched my system up fully, and I still got dicked. Yes, it wouldnt have happened if I was under *nix, but I do a lot of work with Shockwave and Flash, so 9 times out of 10 I'm running win32 rather than linux.
It blows.
So, it seems fairly established that US Macheads will be able to walk into a Mac store/reseller and pick up a 10.1 CD on Saturday...
What about the UK? Will I be able to go into Micro Anvika in London with my G4 invoice on Saturday and pick it up?
Why doesnt apple.com/uk give any info about getting it in the UK? It just has a link to the US page.
I develop on Mac OSX on a daily basis (I work for a design house as their sole nerd - Macs only at our place), and I can't wait for 10.1.
But, in every discussion I've read about 10.1, everyobdy refers to ordering their CD, delivery times, getting it at BestBuy, Micro Anvika, or whatever.
WTF? Are Apple going to charge us for an update the same way they charged us for a public beta? If they're not going to charge us, will be able to download it? If I can download 1.5Gigs worth of Linux RedHat off the web, why the hell can't I download OS 10.1?
If they're really going to charge/disallow downloads, then my G4's going in the dumpster and the mp3 server is getting Linux on it for my workstation.
The Airlines were more likely chosen because:
They were internal flights. There is much lower security on internal flights than international.
The planes that hit the WTC took off from Boston - fully loaded with fuel, and very near, providing the most fuel for an enormous explosion.
" Since Netscape 6.1 no longer supports the tag" uh....? what the screaming fuck are you talking about? You must have been smoking some really bad shit. Of course N6.1/Moz. 0.9.x support the select tag. Have you not been closing it or something? It'll be a cold day in Hell before Netscape/Mozilla stop supporting an HTML 3.0 standard tag. I'm a web developer. The vast majortity of stuff I do requires hefty form usage. The select tag works just fine. It even responds to CSS style commands just fine.
Damn links..... real link here
A collaborative "data cloud" effort has been slowly building up over the last couple of years. if I had access to my roof and a spare few quid, I know I'd be jumping into this.
personally I find the huge fucking Flash ads in the middle of article text far more annoying than popups. that and window.onclose() shit from pr0n sites.
There's a very good reason why Mozilla takes so much longer to start up than IE5.
IE is part of the OS. Hell, it basically is the OS nowadays. When you start up IE in windows, you're not opening a browser, just opening a standard explorer window. Mozilla is a seperate application. What do you expect?
And someone was talking about how Netscape abandoned their customers by killing NN4.x and releasing nothing for 3 years while they worked on N6. There was a very good reason for that. Netscape 4 is a cancerous boil on the ass of the web. They knew this. So they killed it, as far as is commercially viable.