Your post is a piece of unbridled invective and unabashed FUD the likes of which I seldom see here in WinBash country, and that's saying a lot. In fact, it's so "out there", it's even slightly funny, especially if we turn it around and apply it to you.
Apparently obvious satire translates into "out there" for you. Perhaps I only proved my point about your flock's inherent dullness.
- No new features that you will actually use. Most of them you will probably end up hiding away in some toolbar far away, simply because it annoys the hell out of you to see.
- More zany XP balloon like menu bars. In addition, even more light blue and Aqua-like design rip offs.
- Like Office XP, and Office 2000, you definitely won't rush to buy this release, however the minute you, or your friend warezes it on IRC, you will most likely install it -- just because.
- You will be further annoyed by the traditionally bland Windows GUI design. Recent attempts in XP to spruce it up only look like JeffK was hired as a designer at Microsoft.
- If you are an owner of a Mac you fold your hands together, thankful for OS X, and its great design. If you are Linux or BSD user, you are likewise happy that you have a beautiful design. If you are a Windows user, you are most likely reading this from your corporate headquarters, feeling constrained by the tie around your neck, and uncomfortable dress shoes. However, you are refreshed knowing that through your extreme conformity, and love of mediocrity, you will make much more than your neighbor yearly, and are anxiously awaiting to moment you can upgrade all of your machines to this marvelous new piece of Microsoft engineering -- but you still don't know why. Now if only you could find time for sexual relations within your 9 AM to 10 PM daily work schedule . . .
Nonsense. That was Apple's plan with having Apple ][s and Macs in all the schools. The plan didn't work too well.
Well, it probably didn't translate into money being made, but I can say for a very long time during my elementary school and Jr. High years I had a special love for Apple computers, mostly because of my daily exposure to them in the classroom. The problem was, even then, they were out of my (well, my father's) price range. A Commodore 64 (and later on PC clone) was a lot cheaper than an Apple II or Mac.
Nowadays I'm using a G4, mostly because I think OS X is great, but I think brand recognition from those early days probably pushed me to switch as well. So the main difference between Linux and Apples in schools is that Linux costs the student, or end consumer, absolutely nothing to try out at home; if a student wants to continue his or her work after school, it's no problem -- just download the ISOs and install.
It seems Apple has finally fixed support for secure proxies in this release too. In previous versions if you were using a secure proxy the page just wouldn't load. I still can't login (properly) to PHPNuke sites though.
I've found that Apple's officially released versions of Safari have been more stable than the other betas, so I'll probably just stick with v60 for the time being. Funny thing is, as someone else mentioned, after not having tabs for a month or two I've grown accustomed to just opening new windows.
For example, Apple's 15 inch MultiSync monitor often was effected by something which everyone referred to as "the tint issue". If a customer brought one in, and we verified tint was indeed wrong, we'd simply call up Apple. They'd say, 'What's up?" We'd say, "Tint issue." They'd say, "Give us two days."
I have a 15" MultiSync (acquired through a friend) that has this issue. When I keep using it for an hour or two it changes back to the normal color, and looks perfectly fine. Could you tell me how to fix this possibly?
. . . to find out who you really are. Don't listen to what your father or mother, or neighbors, aunts or uncles think you should become. Sure, you might be good at computers -- but maybe you'd make a better social worker. Which leads to the second point:
#2 Don't base your life around money. If living at your mom's house a few extra years means you're happier with your life in the long run -- do it. Being rich is no good if all you do is work and never have time to enjoy it.
#3 Be yourself early on in life, because when you're 40 it's a hell of a lot harder to go back and change things. Experiment enough and TRY DIFFERENT THINGS very early on -- as early as possible. Take a middle approach to everything -- don't rule anything out, but don't blindly accept it either. If you find something that attracts your heart, and it feels right, then follow it until you find out it's not for you; you've lost nothing, and gained the experience of doing it.
#4 Education IS NOT WHAT YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL: Take enough from school to become functional in society (i.e. learn to read, learn basic mathematics). Ignore all culture aspects of your education. Contrary to what you think you are not inherently a citizen of any country; boundaries are false. Instead of learning American history there's no reason you shouldn't be learning Egyptian or Chinese history on your own. School makes you into a conformist, and a consumer. Pimp education enough to get your degree, and find work to progress in society -- but don't take it to heart. Don't be a blind follower. Look to role models outside of your closest circle. When you leave the world, leave something positive behind, otherwise you haven't accomplished anything.
#5 Before you try to love the opposite sex and get married, or find a girlfriend -- learn to deal with people NOT close to you in a loving manner, otherwise you're destined for failure.
#6 Don't be afraid to just BE. When you throw out society's norms you're going to face rejection -- LOVE IT. You'll be most despised during your High School years, and maybe even during college. It's OKAY. It's better to live your life believing in something, and trying to make it happen; in the end you'll think much more highly of yourself, especially when you see the results amongst your peers who took another path.
#7 Be moral. When someone does a favor for you, remember it. When you borrow money from someone, pay it back. Do acts of kindness to those you love the most. What goes around comes around; try to be an overall good person -- especially to those you love the most. If you love someone let them always know it, because they might not be around tomorrow.
I had this problem with the dock going back to its default settings once. It happened after I woke my PowerMac from a sleep -- it hung, so i rebooted it. Upon reboot all my preference files somehow got trashed. I then deleted the plist files and repaired permissions -- things were back to normal.
For some reason all the entries in my Address Book were recently deleted. This happened shortly after 10.2.4 was installed, but I don't know that it was correlated. Anyway, it's happened before too; I have no idea why, and I don't move the locations of my apps from their default locations.
A lot of people have probably already mentioned that what made BBS'ing great was its sense of locality. Has anyone ever considered starting a web project to encourage local development of BBS'es in areas again? I'd love to have at least one board to dial into locally; I'd probably call it every day. The only issue with Telnet boards is that they don't really keep the sense of community you'd have in a dial in only situation.
Well, when I accessed this site a few months ago I had an issue where it wouldn't let me login if I accessed it through my Squid/Junkbuster proxy (cookies passed through, of course). No problem, I bypassed the proxy just for this one site. I wrote them an E-Mail about it but I doubt they cared.
Today it won't let me login or do anything no matter which browser I use (Mozilla, Mac IE, Safari). The site idea though is really cool, though I haven't been able to hook up with anyone from the past yet.
Most people who spam setup their own mail servers. Hell, many spammers aren't even in the US. How is charging people to send E-Mail going to solve the spam problem?
Sure, M$ could meter activity on port 25, but to send E-Mail SMTP can be running on any old port as far as I know ..
Well, it's kind of like being a prisoner who was abused by guards and staff during a 15 year sentence -- you'll come out with a tendency to distrust authority. Or maybe kind of like a black who lived in segregationist South making a white friend -- it's a slow, difficult process.
Likewise, after 10 years of Microsoft garbage flooding the market, people have developed a hatred of large computer corporations (at least here on/.) So, even when Apple does a few nice deeds it's only right that people feel a little awkward about it.
The thing is, at my house I have 6 computers hooked up to a cable connection. However, one of those computers is my firewall, and the others only speciality machines I turn on occasionally (like my Sparc running Solaris, an old Windows 95 laptop, etc). The main machine I'm constantly using (and subsequently consuming bandwidth on) is my PowerMac. So I'm not sure how the fact that I have more than one computer sharing your ISP's connection really means any more financial loss for you.
I'd also take another guess that those that share one connection amongst their roommates or family tend to meter themselves in other ways. For example, say a roommate is leeching on some p2p client, using up all my upstream bandwidth so I can barely load a web page at a reasonable speed. Chances are, I'd go into the other room and complain about it, and he'd stop -- problem solved.
Here's yet another angle -- if you're judging who's using multiple computers behind a NAT simply on bandwidth consumption, I'd take a good guess that those with multiple computers connected to the Internet in one household are actually using less than many who are not behind a NAT. My reasoning? Unless you're a household of geeks, chances are if you live with others you're socializing, with your wife, kids, girlfriend, whatever. In other words, not everyone in the house is just sitting at their individual terminals leeching movies and mp3s all day.
I think your static IP idea is good though. I'd definitely be willing to pay a measly $12 for that if my ISP offered such a thing; the ability to run a server without violating the TOS is another bonus. I mean, I think the RIAA's nazism should be a good revelation to anyone involved in business that instead of becoming more authoritarian with your services you need to become more innovative.
(Just like shared memory video is an acceptable solution for _somebody_ out there.)
Whoa, they actually do this on PC's? It's been a while since I've built a PC from scratch, but I haven't encountered the shared video memory thing yet. It reminds me of this Macintosh Performa I had that shared it's video memory; mind you, this is a computer from 1996. Apparently Apple can be the first to adopt ideas that suck, too (though none of the current machines do this, thankfully).
The last two or three Maxtor drives I bought came with the install software both on floppy and on CD. Besides, what do you need those disks for anyway except to install ez-bios on older PC's that can't recognize bigger HD's?
Now even more DALNet refugees will be joining my favorite EFNet and Undernet channels. As if it wasn't bad enough before with the once every five minutes (and usually repeating over and over in bold or colored text until answered) "What happened to DALNEt???" questions.
DALNet has always been the lowest on the IRC evolutionary totem pole, with all kinds of goofy restrictions on people, that's of course "for their own protection." Even before this you couldn't actually receive a file by DCC without first registering your nick, a process that was too long for me to bother with in the first place. Oh, and don't let me forget the asinine regulation added recently where only clients using identd may connect. Come on, please, what purpose does identd actually serve in 2003?
And if nickserv doesn't annoy you to all hell, the five hundred msgs from users of Turkish IRC scripts probably will. Literally, I've left my IRC client on DALNet idling for a little while and have come back with about 20 spam messages. And if you can somehow manage to bear the spam, you'll probably end up being annoyed by the other 50 morons trying to DCC you viruses, that, of course only affect Windows users.
Can someone explain to me what banning file-sharing channels over IRC actually does to make its quality any better? I seriously don't see the warez kiddies being the perpetrators of DOS attacks, that is until now. Warez on IRC isn't going to go away because of this regulation, it's only going to change form. Instead of offer bots you'll have individuals advertising their Hotline or Directconnect servers; I've already seen this on a certain unnamed Undernet warez channel.
People are talking about DALNet sucking now? It's sucked as long as I can remember. It's almost a perfect example of what happens when a government thinks improving life and security only occurs by creating more and more regulations (instead of changing the people themselves). What you end up having is a huge group of disenfranchised people who end up attacking you.
DALNet admins: can you make a splinter network especially for those people kicked off of DALNet, just so they don't fill up my queues on EFNet. Also, when I'm looking for movies to download I'd prefer to be able to actually read the offer bots, so can you inform your users that not everyone on IRC can view mIRC colors? Thanks, love you baby.
Oh, and if I offended any DALNet users out there, please try to resist the urge to begin your reply with "m/Turkish/25 ASL!!?!!???"
Re:Quick, how can I apply for Vincent College??
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It's actually Saint Vincent, in Latrobe Pennsylvania (that's about 30 minutes or so from Pittsburgh); think it's a Catholic college too.
Anyway, you'd be surprised how easy it is to get grants like this at many universities. Sometimes it's not about how great or elaborate a proposal is, but whether or not it seems interesting to faculty. Since you're a/. user something like this probably doesn't seem too complicated, or maybe even original, but for a middle-aged professor it's something new.
Just downloaded this; thanks for the link. My only complaint is that it can't play Quicktime DivX.
Do you know of any free Dreamcast VCD players? I found one, but it required that I burn the player on the same disc as the VCD -- which is pretty inconvenient.
Hmm, I wondered why I couldn't connect to any secure pages in Safari; now I know why. For a work around I just disabled the secure proxy temporarily.
I still can't login to phpnuke sites correctly. Also for some reason my university's scheduling system reports that I don't have cookies enabled, even though I do (and the cookie is actually showing up in Safari's manager) -- not sure how I could report that bug easily though.
It looks like this update mainly addresses the home directory and printing issues. Overall though I'm really impressed by the browser and have been using it since 24-7 since its release.
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Not to mention that since a lot of musicians and artists use Macs, the ability to import content and manipulate it is pretty important -- something that DRM would prevent.
couple
n 1: a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
So how doesn't 2-3 years meet this definition?
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Most of us have probably read tons of articles about what MS is planning in future releases in regards to copy protection, phoning home, etc, but what about an article for the common user? Is there something out there that breaks down all of their plans into a kind of top-ten list, that could easily be sent to Microsoft-using friends? Maybe something to convince the average user to make some changes before it's too late.
Not to mention with every release of OS X my system has actually been getting faster, or gaining features that make it even more reliable (like journaling). When's the last time a Windows release made your older hardware run/better/?
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Your post is a piece of unbridled invective and unabashed FUD the likes of which I seldom see here in WinBash country, and that's saying a lot. In fact, it's so "out there", it's even slightly funny, especially if we turn it around and apply it to you.
Apparently obvious satire translates into "out there" for you. Perhaps I only proved my point about your flock's inherent dullness.
- No new features that you will actually use. Most of them you will probably end up hiding away in some toolbar far away, simply because it annoys the hell out of you to see.
- More zany XP balloon like menu bars. In addition, even more light blue and Aqua-like design rip offs.
- Like Office XP, and Office 2000, you definitely won't rush to buy this release, however the minute you, or your friend warezes it on IRC, you will most likely install it -- just because.
- You will be further annoyed by the traditionally bland Windows GUI design. Recent attempts in XP to spruce it up only look like JeffK was hired as a designer at Microsoft.
- If you are an owner of a Mac you fold your hands together, thankful for OS X, and its great design. If you are Linux or BSD user, you are likewise happy that you have a beautiful design. If you are a Windows user, you are most likely reading this from your corporate headquarters, feeling constrained by the tie around your neck, and uncomfortable dress shoes. However, you are refreshed knowing that through your extreme conformity, and love of mediocrity, you will make much more than your neighbor yearly, and are anxiously awaiting to moment you can upgrade all of your machines to this marvelous new piece of Microsoft engineering -- but you still don't know why. Now if only you could find time for sexual relations within your 9 AM to 10 PM daily work schedule . . .
This would fit in nicely with a home entertainment center, especially if some of your other components have the classic 80's silver finish.
Nonsense. That was Apple's plan with having Apple ][s and Macs in all the schools. The plan didn't work too well.
Well, it probably didn't translate into money being made, but I can say for a very long time during my elementary school and Jr. High years I had a special love for Apple computers, mostly because of my daily exposure to them in the classroom. The problem was, even then, they were out of my (well, my father's) price range. A Commodore 64 (and later on PC clone) was a lot cheaper than an Apple II or Mac.
Nowadays I'm using a G4, mostly because I think OS X is great, but I think brand recognition from those early days probably pushed me to switch as well. So the main difference between Linux and Apples in schools is that Linux costs the student, or end consumer, absolutely nothing to try out at home; if a student wants to continue his or her work after school, it's no problem -- just download the ISOs and install.
It seems Apple has finally fixed support for secure proxies in this release too. In previous versions if you were using a secure proxy the page just wouldn't load. I still can't login (properly) to PHPNuke sites though.
I've found that Apple's officially released versions of Safari have been more stable than the other betas, so I'll probably just stick with v60 for the time being. Funny thing is, as someone else mentioned, after not having tabs for a month or two I've grown accustomed to just opening new windows.
For example, Apple's 15 inch MultiSync monitor often was effected by something which everyone referred to as "the tint issue". If a customer brought one in, and we verified tint was indeed wrong, we'd simply call up Apple. They'd say, 'What's up?" We'd say, "Tint issue." They'd say, "Give us two days."
I have a 15" MultiSync (acquired through a friend) that has this issue. When I keep using it for an hour or two it changes back to the normal color, and looks perfectly fine. Could you tell me how to fix this possibly?
. . . to find out who you really are. Don't listen to what your father or mother, or neighbors, aunts or uncles think you should become. Sure, you might be good at computers -- but maybe you'd make a better social worker. Which leads to the second point:
#2 Don't base your life around money. If living at your mom's house a few extra years means you're happier with your life in the long run -- do it. Being rich is no good if all you do is work and never have time to enjoy it.
#3 Be yourself early on in life, because when you're 40 it's a hell of a lot harder to go back and change things. Experiment enough and TRY DIFFERENT THINGS very early on -- as early as possible. Take a middle approach to everything -- don't rule anything out, but don't blindly accept it either. If you find something that attracts your heart, and it feels right, then follow it until you find out it's not for you; you've lost nothing, and gained the experience of doing it.
#4 Education IS NOT WHAT YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL: Take enough from school to become functional in society (i.e. learn to read, learn basic mathematics). Ignore all culture aspects of your education. Contrary to what you think you are not inherently a citizen of any country; boundaries are false. Instead of learning American history there's no reason you shouldn't be learning Egyptian or Chinese history on your own. School makes you into a conformist, and a consumer. Pimp education enough to get your degree, and find work to progress in society -- but don't take it to heart. Don't be a blind follower. Look to role models outside of your closest circle. When you leave the world, leave something positive behind, otherwise you haven't accomplished anything.
#5 Before you try to love the opposite sex and get married, or find a girlfriend -- learn to deal with people NOT close to you in a loving manner, otherwise you're destined for failure.
#6 Don't be afraid to just BE. When you throw out society's norms you're going to face rejection -- LOVE IT. You'll be most despised during your High School years, and maybe even during college. It's OKAY. It's better to live your life believing in something, and trying to make it happen; in the end you'll think much more highly of yourself, especially when you see the results amongst your peers who took another path.
#7 Be moral. When someone does a favor for you, remember it. When you borrow money from someone, pay it back. Do acts of kindness to those you love the most. What goes around comes around; try to be an overall good person -- especially to those you love the most. If you love someone let them always know it, because they might not be around tomorrow.
I had this problem with the dock going back to its default settings once. It happened after I woke my PowerMac from a sleep -- it hung, so i rebooted it. Upon reboot all my preference files somehow got trashed. I then deleted the plist files and repaired permissions -- things were back to normal.
For some reason all the entries in my Address Book were recently deleted. This happened shortly after 10.2.4 was installed, but I don't know that it was correlated. Anyway, it's happened before too; I have no idea why, and I don't move the locations of my apps from their default locations.
A lot of people have probably already mentioned that what made BBS'ing great was its sense of locality. Has anyone ever considered starting a web project to encourage local development of BBS'es in areas again? I'd love to have at least one board to dial into locally; I'd probably call it every day. The only issue with Telnet boards is that they don't really keep the sense of community you'd have in a dial in only situation.
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Just an idea .
Well, when I accessed this site a few months ago I had an issue where it wouldn't let me login if I accessed it through my Squid/Junkbuster proxy (cookies passed through, of course). No problem, I bypassed the proxy just for this one site. I wrote them an E-Mail about it but I doubt they cared.
Today it won't let me login or do anything no matter which browser I use (Mozilla, Mac IE, Safari). The site idea though is really cool, though I haven't been able to hook up with anyone from the past yet.
Most people who spam setup their own mail servers. Hell, many spammers aren't even in the US. How is charging people to send E-Mail going to solve the spam problem?
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Sure, M$ could meter activity on port 25, but to send E-Mail SMTP can be running on any old port as far as I know .
This is just dumb . . .
UBB might work correctly (though I don't remember having a problem with it in the past), but I still can't properly login to PHPnuke sites.
Well, it's kind of like being a prisoner who was abused by guards and staff during a 15 year sentence -- you'll come out with a tendency to distrust authority. Or maybe kind of like a black who lived in segregationist South making a white friend -- it's a slow, difficult process.
/.) So, even when Apple does a few nice deeds it's only right that people feel a little awkward about it.
Likewise, after 10 years of Microsoft garbage flooding the market, people have developed a hatred of large computer corporations (at least here on
The thing is, at my house I have 6 computers hooked up to a cable connection. However, one of those computers is my firewall, and the others only speciality machines I turn on occasionally (like my Sparc running Solaris, an old Windows 95 laptop, etc). The main machine I'm constantly using (and subsequently consuming bandwidth on) is my PowerMac. So I'm not sure how the fact that I have more than one computer sharing your ISP's connection really means any more financial loss for you.
I'd also take another guess that those that share one connection amongst their roommates or family tend to meter themselves in other ways. For example, say a roommate is leeching on some p2p client, using up all my upstream bandwidth so I can barely load a web page at a reasonable speed. Chances are, I'd go into the other room and complain about it, and he'd stop -- problem solved.
Here's yet another angle -- if you're judging who's using multiple computers behind a NAT simply on bandwidth consumption, I'd take a good guess that those with multiple computers connected to the Internet in one household are actually using less than many who are not behind a NAT. My reasoning? Unless you're a household of geeks, chances are if you live with others you're socializing, with your wife, kids, girlfriend, whatever. In other words, not everyone in the house is just sitting at their individual terminals leeching movies and mp3s all day.
I think your static IP idea is good though. I'd definitely be willing to pay a measly $12 for that if my ISP offered such a thing; the ability to run a server without violating the TOS is another bonus. I mean, I think the RIAA's nazism should be a good revelation to anyone involved in business that instead of becoming more authoritarian with your services you need to become more innovative.
(Just like shared memory video is an acceptable solution for _somebody_ out there.)
Whoa, they actually do this on PC's? It's been a while since I've built a PC from scratch, but I haven't encountered the shared video memory thing yet. It reminds me of this Macintosh Performa I had that shared it's video memory; mind you, this is a computer from 1996. Apparently Apple can be the first to adopt ideas that suck, too (though none of the current machines do this, thankfully).
The last two or three Maxtor drives I bought came with the install software both on floppy and on CD. Besides, what do you need those disks for anyway except to install ez-bios on older PC's that can't recognize bigger HD's?
Now even more DALNet refugees will be joining my favorite EFNet and Undernet channels. As if it wasn't bad enough before with the once every five minutes (and usually repeating over and over in bold or colored text until answered) "What happened to DALNEt???" questions.
DALNet has always been the lowest on the IRC evolutionary totem pole, with all kinds of goofy restrictions on people, that's of course "for their own protection." Even before this you couldn't actually receive a file by DCC without first registering your nick, a process that was too long for me to bother with in the first place. Oh, and don't let me forget the asinine regulation added recently where only clients using identd may connect. Come on, please, what purpose does identd actually serve in 2003?
And if nickserv doesn't annoy you to all hell, the five hundred msgs from users of Turkish IRC scripts probably will. Literally, I've left my IRC client on DALNet idling for a little while and have come back with about 20 spam messages. And if you can somehow manage to bear the spam, you'll probably end up being annoyed by the other 50 morons trying to DCC you viruses, that, of course only affect Windows users.
Can someone explain to me what banning file-sharing channels over IRC actually does to make its quality any better? I seriously don't see the warez kiddies being the perpetrators of DOS attacks, that is until now. Warez on IRC isn't going to go away because of this regulation, it's only going to change form. Instead of offer bots you'll have individuals advertising their Hotline or Directconnect servers; I've already seen this on a certain unnamed Undernet warez channel.
People are talking about DALNet sucking now? It's sucked as long as I can remember. It's almost a perfect example of what happens when a government thinks improving life and security only occurs by creating more and more regulations (instead of changing the people themselves). What you end up having is a huge group of disenfranchised people who end up attacking you.
DALNet admins: can you make a splinter network especially for those people kicked off of DALNet, just so they don't fill up my queues on EFNet. Also, when I'm looking for movies to download I'd prefer to be able to actually read the offer bots, so can you inform your users that not everyone on IRC can view mIRC colors? Thanks, love you baby.
Oh, and if I offended any DALNet users out there, please try to resist the urge to begin your reply with "m/Turkish/25 ASL!!?!!???"
It's actually Saint Vincent, in Latrobe Pennsylvania (that's about 30 minutes or so from Pittsburgh); think it's a Catholic college too.
/. user something like this probably doesn't seem too complicated, or maybe even original, but for a middle-aged professor it's something new.
Anyway, you'd be surprised how easy it is to get grants like this at many universities. Sometimes it's not about how great or elaborate a proposal is, but whether or not it seems interesting to faculty. Since you're a
Just downloaded this; thanks for the link. My only complaint is that it can't play Quicktime DivX.
Do you know of any free Dreamcast VCD players? I found one, but it required that I burn the player on the same disc as the VCD -- which is pretty inconvenient.
Hmm, I wondered why I couldn't connect to any secure pages in Safari; now I know why. For a work around I just disabled the secure proxy temporarily.
I still can't login to phpnuke sites correctly. Also for some reason my university's scheduling system reports that I don't have cookies enabled, even though I do (and the cookie is actually showing up in Safari's manager) -- not sure how I could report that bug easily though.
It looks like this update mainly addresses the home directory and printing issues. Overall though I'm really impressed by the browser and have been using it since 24-7 since its release.
Not to mention that since a lot of musicians and artists use Macs, the ability to import content and manipulate it is pretty important -- something that DRM would prevent.
couple
n 1: a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
So how doesn't 2-3 years meet this definition?
Most of us have probably read tons of articles about what MS is planning in future releases in regards to copy protection, phoning home, etc, but what about an article for the common user? Is there something out there that breaks down all of their plans into a kind of top-ten list, that could easily be sent to Microsoft-using friends? Maybe something to convince the average user to make some changes before it's too late.
Not to mention with every release of OS X my system has actually been getting faster, or gaining features that make it even more reliable (like journaling). When's the last time a Windows release made your older hardware run /better/?
I can't speak for the iPhoto stuff, but PHP iCalendar handles iCal quite nicely. You can find it here:
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.Mac does.
http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke/
For instructions on setting up WebDAV to play well with iCal see this:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
In many respects it's actually better doing this from your own server, letting you customize a lot more than