One of the best reasons for change to this is the layout of the page on small screens. Use of lists and divs and real titles and so on gives products like
the Nokia Access Mobilizer (ex Eizel)
a much better chance to guess what is going on and reformat the page intelligently.
You've had a lot of people say don't bother, which is not that helpful really.
Here's what I recommend
If you have an original machine with version 1 firmware ROM, be scared. It works perfectly once upgraded, but the install CD itself has problems. Options:
Do the install on you disk on a friends newer machine - remember the install parition must be the first one, and under 8 gig, and that you will need a class installation as well, probably on your second or other partition.
Upgrade the ROM if you can - then the install will work.
With no new hardware...you will find horrible horrible tips on support.apple.com lists, including stripping the machine back to basic hardware, using a single reliable sim, zapping pram, pressing the pci reset switch, installing minimal options and so on, all to try to delay a black screen crashing bug on the jag install CD for long enough to do finish the install. Some people reckon that XPostFacto helps, but it just hindered me.
Whatever you do, learn about certain debugging features... CMD-S at startup for single user, CMD-V for verbose booting, CMD-OPT-O-F for boot to open firmware.
Yes - add RAM. 256M will do.
Processor speed - you can probably crank up the 266 to 315MHz as I did.
Add a USB card, you'll need it sooner or later. Don't worry about firewire. You may need a new shiny printer too unless you want to fight with the machine for hours. Apple no longer support serial printers. This is frustrating. The serial interface is still exposed in unix if you want to mess with the barely supported cups and gimpprint stuff.
I really valued the boost from my new video card with 10.0... but jaguar makes an OK job of using the RageII you have. It depends how much you want to spend. If you stick with onboard video, you want to seek out info on turning off the bells and whistles to speed things up.
You may find it useful to be able actually to use your floppy drive. This driver was derived from Darwin code.
I posted about some of this before... rejected on the 23rd April:-)
Real free energy exists and has been patented, and is science, not pseudoscience - this man understands Maxwell equations. However, this seems to be a different technique, if we believe the grain of truth in the pseudoscience above. The batteries could charge themselves if time was reversed, and this was scientifically discussed by real, self respecting scientists and psychologists at a conference in eastern Europe early this year, but I can't find a reference for it. It was probably linked here.
My understanding is that, in this case, Domes'day means home day. As in Domes'tic. I assue that domes nevertheless derives from dom, where 'home' can be defined as 'of the master', one's own place.
On this day, in a similar fashion to that described in the bible around the time of Jesus' birth, people were required to be in their home town for counting.
Alternatively, again, taking the correct meaning of domes as not just one's place of abode, but also one's property (of the master), then Domes'day might be reasonably translated as property day.
Apple does do this, its frustrating. I upgraded tp MacOS X 12 months ago and put a floppy idisk in my drive last week to find out that it is not supported any more.
Regarding Apache for MacOS X - it is installed by default, and individual users can share "~/Sites" (equivalent to ~/public_html) using the GUI control panel.
The best part about this is that Apple configured httpd.conf so that it includes the appropriate user configs as extra files; you can edit httpd.conf yourself without fear of the changes being lost. Furthermore, you can replace the apache binaries if you need to upgrade. Apple provides ( understand ) an apache module to better work with the non-case sensitive file system which should also work with newer versions, but worst case is that this is lost.
I added Tomcat yesterady, apache.org have a binary download.
Outlook will work with POP3 and LDAP, and will allow you to exchange calendar and any folder sharing info using mail (which is easier because you don't have to do any admin on the server, and calendars can be shared between heterogenous mail systems). You don't need exchange.
BTW - it seems to lack IMAP, which is a shame. Outlook express does IMAP. Does anyone know if IMAP client is available for outlook?
The point of this, surely, is not whether or not the GUI is easy - rather whether you are sacrificing something else to make it so, ie
Power
Intuitive extrapolation and cohesiveness through metaphor
Metaphor
So, you know when you double click on a folder and it opens a window, and then you double click on a file, and it opens the file...?
NO, it doesn't. We use these words, we image the metaphor, be it is not presented as such.
When you double click on a folder, it doesn't open at all. On a Mac, or in pc multi window, another window opens representing it's contents, but there is no ongoing link with the folder icon. In a tree representation, things are worse, because you both tree and contents, and the same item can be shown multiple times, in the tree and in the pane, or in the pane and in a document window. Let's try again...
Double click on a home folder or disk icon. It expands to fill a good part of the screen, so that you can see the plain cardboard surface of the folder. The location in which it was sitting shows only the dust outline where it was. It contains a file. You double click on the file, it also expands to fill a large window. There are no cluttering bars around the document, simply a shadow against the background to delineate it, and a transparent attached dragbar. The dragbar also contains the original file icon in the top left corner: This window IS the object. The dusty outline of the file remains in the folder, but is not an icon in it's own right, simply a reminder of where the file will return when you out it away.
The document is open for editing. There is no "save" command, only close. Like the real world, changes are persistent by default. But you can make backups, and you have an undo facility. The icon (top left on dragbar), if clicked, puts the file away - this is the same operation as minimising in effect, because there is no concept of saving the file.
You want to diverge from the form letter you are editing to make changes for a particular occasion. okay...
Drag the document's icon in the top left of the dragbar to the photocopier tray on screen and let go.
Now you have two identical documents, the original and the new one
(Of course, you could have done the same with the closed icon...)
The new document is open on the desktop, just like the old one. It has no name or location yet.
Make your changes to each document - remember, all changes go direct to disk.
Close or 'put away' your documents. The new document has no name or default location, but the UI drops it on the desktop for you with a name reflecting it's creation. You should probably put it away someplace, but the UI should never interfere in simply minimising and maximising documents.
There are no save or open dialogs. Ever. Just drag documents to the correct place. Or find and double click to open
You want to open in a different application? Just drop the document on the app or tool (which is also an object).
You want spell check your document while open? Drag it's dragbar icon to the dictionary object. (You and it both know that the app needs to make write any cached changes - the user doesn't).
Objects
I've just described object orientedness on the desktop. Objects are unique without necessarily having (displayed) filenames. Objects have one storage location, and a copy in memory would be just that - a copy - if allowed to diverge from the disk copy.
Utopia
What does this sound like to you? SOme final thoughts...
MacOS 9 does a lot of dragging and dropping, and a single menu bar removes a lot of clutter so that a document icon could almost be stretched to a window in a graphical move. Folder icons exist in dragbars, but only in the finder.
OpenWIndows has (had) the best 'document content' icons that can dragged to the file system windows to save.
Discrete copier tools, dictionary, send a file to it by dragging from any app? Sounds like a graphical representation of Unix tools to me. Devised properly, all you would need to build a grep machine on the desktop would be to draw a picture with a parameter text field.
MacOS X. Beautiful lightweight windows, menu bar, dock for objects, graphical representation. Inconsistent metaphor in other locations, and they still need to lose the save dialog boxes.
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One of the best reasons for change to this is the layout of the page on small screens. Use of lists and divs and real titles and so on gives products like the Nokia Access Mobilizer (ex Eizel) a much better chance to guess what is going on and reformat the page intelligently.
You've had a lot of people say don't bother, which is not that helpful really.
Here's what I recommend
Regards,
Greg
Try this...
It is of course a piece of lame commercialism that make M$ choose to make Exchange and IMAP connectivity mutually exclusive in Outlook.
Regards... Greg
I posted about some of this before... rejected on the 23rd April :-)
Real free energy exists and has been patented, and is science, not pseudoscience - this man understands Maxwell equations. However, this seems to be a different technique, if we believe the grain of truth in the pseudoscience above. The batteries could charge themselves if time was reversed, and this was scientifically discussed by real, self respecting scientists and psychologists at a conference in eastern Europe early this year, but I can't find a reference for it. It was probably linked here.
My understanding is that, in this case, Domes'day means home day. As in Domes'tic. I assue that domes nevertheless derives from dom, where 'home' can be defined as 'of the master', one's own place.
On this day, in a similar fashion to that described in the bible around the time of Jesus' birth, people were required to be in their home town for counting.
Alternatively, again, taking the correct meaning of domes as not just one's place of abode, but also one's property (of the master), then Domes'day might be reasonably translated as property day.
Apple does do this, its frustrating. I upgraded tp MacOS X 12 months ago and put a floppy idisk in my drive last week to find out that it is not supported any more.
But you can always roll your own kernel.
Regarding Apache for MacOS X - it is installed by default, and individual users can share "~/Sites" (equivalent to ~/public_html) using the GUI control panel.
The best part about this is that Apple configured httpd.conf so that it includes the appropriate user configs as extra files; you can edit httpd.conf yourself without fear of the changes being lost. Furthermore, you can replace the apache binaries if you need to upgrade. Apple provides ( understand ) an apache module to better work with the non-case sensitive file system which should also work with newer versions, but worst case is that this is lost.
I added Tomcat yesterady, apache.org have a binary download.
GregOutlook will work with POP3 and LDAP, and will allow you to exchange calendar and any folder sharing info using mail (which is easier because you don't have to do any admin on the server, and calendars can be shared between heterogenous mail systems). You don't need exchange.
BTW - it seems to lack IMAP, which is a shame. Outlook express does IMAP. Does anyone know if IMAP client is available for outlook?
Greg
The point of this, surely, is not whether or not the GUI is easy - rather whether you are sacrificing something else to make it so, ie
- Power
- Intuitive extrapolation and cohesiveness through metaphor
MetaphorSo, you know when you double click on a folder and it opens a window, and then you double click on a file, and it opens the file...?
NO, it doesn't. We use these words, we image the metaphor, be it is not presented as such.
When you double click on a folder, it doesn't open at all. On a Mac, or in pc multi window, another window opens representing it's contents, but there is no ongoing link with the folder icon. In a tree representation, things are worse, because you both tree and contents, and the same item can be shown multiple times, in the tree and in the pane, or in the pane and in a document window. Let's try again...
Double click on a home folder or disk icon. It expands to fill a good part of the screen, so that you can see the plain cardboard surface of the folder. The location in which it was sitting shows only the dust outline where it was. It contains a file. You double click on the file, it also expands to fill a large window. There are no cluttering bars around the document, simply a shadow against the background to delineate it, and a transparent attached dragbar. The dragbar also contains the original file icon in the top left corner: This window IS the object. The dusty outline of the file remains in the folder, but is not an icon in it's own right, simply a reminder of where the file will return when you out it away.
The document is open for editing. There is no "save" command, only close. Like the real world, changes are persistent by default. But you can make backups, and you have an undo facility. The icon (top left on dragbar), if clicked, puts the file away - this is the same operation as minimising in effect, because there is no concept of saving the file.
You want to diverge from the form letter you are editing to make changes for a particular occasion. okay...
- Drag the document's icon in the top left of the dragbar to the photocopier tray on screen and let go.
- Now you have two identical documents, the original and the new one
- (Of course, you could have done the same with the closed icon...)
- The new document is open on the desktop, just like the old one. It has no name or location yet.
- Make your changes to each document - remember, all changes go direct to disk.
- Close or 'put away' your documents. The new document has no name or default location, but the UI drops it on the desktop for you with a name reflecting it's creation. You should probably put it away someplace, but the UI should never interfere in simply minimising and maximising documents.
- There are no save or open dialogs. Ever. Just drag documents to the correct place. Or find and double click to open
- You want to open in a different application? Just drop the document on the app or tool (which is also an object).
- You want spell check your document while open? Drag it's dragbar icon to the dictionary object. (You and it both know that the app needs to make write any cached changes - the user doesn't).
ObjectsI've just described object orientedness on the desktop. Objects are unique without necessarily having (displayed) filenames. Objects have one storage location, and a copy in memory would be just that - a copy - if allowed to diverge from the disk copy.
UtopiaWhat does this sound like to you? SOme final thoughts...
Greg.