I know quite some of people who still use a mix of OS9 and OSX Software. Antique stuff works quite seamlessly on OSX due to the bluebox/classic environment.
The Question was is there is an outlook for macintosh not if there is a native cocoa outlook.
Well, actually all my british friends (who are okay, thank $DEITY) don't seem to be longing for sympathy. The lack of panic and hysteria is amazing - they are angry and the Londoners are quite annoyed about the inconveniencies and that somebody really tried to kill them, yes, but they seem to be calm in general. Calmer even than my Spanish freinds who didn't freakt out after the Madrid bombings. Maybe the history of local terror groups and WW2 still are present in the subconscious of old Europeans, thus we already know that we can be killed on home ground?
Well, I live in Germany which was flattened in big parts in WW2 for obvious reasons and in the eighties we had the RAF as a (compared to the ETA and IRA) minor local terror group. So people of my age (mid 30) grew up with the tales of the war's bombings and the idea of having your own, local terrorists. I'm wondering how we will react when the bombing/whatever in Frankfurt/Cologne/Düsseldorf/Berlin/wherever finally happens.
Actually I think we'll be quite okay, but what I'm really afraid of is that our emergency services and structures will be proven a lot less effective than in Spain or England. There will be a lot more chaos and a lot more deaths because of this.
And this is something that is definitively avoidable.
To me "boring" means that the developer tried to add bells and whistles but didn't think about hof to make her application perfect in a minimalistic approach.
It's the in beauty of perfectionistic design that it gets all the bells and whistles out of your way.
While Windows - and most of the applications on it - is just standing right in your way all the time. ("It looks like you are writing a letter" "there are unused items on your desktop" "new hardware found")
And of course - since the minimalism and perfectionism is the design approach of apple itself - people who buy these computers tend to appreciate this and to develop software in a similar fashion. You don't want to feel ashamed of your breed...
Well, you usually aren't logged in as root on Mac OSX. In fact, the root account is deactivated for login by default.
What you see is a mechanism that is named "sudo" on the unix command line that requires you to enter your password (not: a specific admin password) to escalate something to be executed as root. It checks if you (your user account) are eligable to do so.
However, you can work as a non-priviliged user on OSX, actually you do it 99.9% of all the time.
Can any Sovjet-American go to microsoft now, take their anti virus software for Linux that they don't publish anymore (so they don't make a penny of it) and publish it myself? ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/22/175123 3 )
Or what about recordings of an artist that aren't published?
If I got it right: It isn't just a fulltext-search on your data but it searches file metadata. Any application can provide a kind of a simple plugin - invisible for the user - that enables spotlight to analyze this applications exotic data, too.
There's even more: 1778 signing treaties of alliance with America, agreeing on staying at war until America was independend. To abandoned by their allies later on.
I remember that there were some difficulties running vnc on a Windows box in a way that enables the vnc user to login remotely on the windows login screen (the ctrl+alt+del login process, not the login within vnc). But I'm happy for all the Windows admins to hear that I might be wrong and I must admit that I have had minimal contact to Windows guts within the last 6 years.
However, I cannot tell weather this is possible on osx or not, I haven't used VNC in this way on osx, yet. So it might - contrary to my guess - be a very common task with a very simple solution.
OSX uses an advanced startup system and is able to determine which sequence is the best from some configuration files.
Read more about it at http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter /How To/Startup/index.ws and http://developer.apple.c om/documentation/MacOSX/Co nceptual/BPSystemStartup/Tasks/CreatingStartupItem s.html
Actually, there's a LOT of useful information available at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOS X/in dex-date.html
But I doubt that there is an easy way to have a VNC server with the systems loginwindow. I remember that that's a problem on Windows, too. At least there must be _some_ things that are easier on Linux:-)
Switching components on and off is done best using "Diablotin". Look for it at macupdate.com. And be careful, you can switch off some essential stuff using it...
> I couldn't figure out how to enable the ssh daemon > For example, I tried adding it to the/etc/inetd > sshd how-to for OS
Well, I'm not really sure whether your question is real...
SSH on OSX Howto: Take the MOUSE. Navigate to Apple-Menu-> System-Preferences-> Sharing. There is a checkbox-item named "Enable remote login (ssh)" or similar.
Thats it. You could enable apache there, too. Or Samba.
The root-account is not activated by default. Use sudo $COMMAND instead - it's much more save. If you really really need it - activate it in directory services / do a sudo passwd. But sudo is safer and safety matters.
I have 8 people using sunbird/sunbird-firefox/iCal/phpiCal/RSS since october on 4 files shared using webDAV.
Though I had to write some very simple scripts to fix some line ending quirks (iCal seems to be a little choosy) it works fine, stable and is exactly the right solution in this case. It's a small non-profit organisation where people with very different computer skills living in different towns have to coordinate.
I planned to install ogo first, but this seemed to be overkill though ogo a very decent product for more complex calendaring and real groupware issues. And I was wary at first because I already made some bad experiences using mozilla-calendar and ogo together.
But if you just need a little shared calendaring, firefox-sunbird/WebDAV works quite well.
> I don't care what you or the rest of the world thinks.
Then you might feel very alone when the next plane crashes into some of your buildings.
Actually ignorant bullies like you now are perceived as the prototype of the typical USAmerican in wide parts of the world; even in those parts of the world where people froze crying in front of the TV on 9/11.
You actually WILL be very alone if you go on like this.
Though I still doubt that 10G x 90s (=4860 KM/h) are something I might survive in an acceptable condition it seems as if trained fighter-pilots wearing the appropriate Anti-G equipment could do this.
> For humans, J. Storrs-Hall [...] proposed a space railway [...] > You drive your spaceship up a ramp to one end, and the > motor accelerates you along the railway at about 10G for about 90 seconds
Well, you might have been human at one end of the ramp, but you definitely ceased being human leaving the other end....
> Hullo?! It's not ignorance at work it's physics.
I ride a motorcycle of 230KG, it does 200KM/h, which is highway-speen (actually: Autobahn-Speed) and picking it up is as hard as picking up a box of beer. You just have to know how to do it, and that's just pure physics.
Unfortunately my english-skills might be too bad to explain it properly, but basically you just have to turn the handle bar into the maximum position. This brings the lower end of the handle bar into maximum distance to the motorcycle's center Now go down into knee bend and use the handle bar's lower end as a lever to pick up the motorcycle as you would pick up a heavy box from your knees - and don't drop it over on the opposite side:-)
Actually this works as simple on most motorcycles - and since HD-motorcycles are usually made for posing instead of driving, they tend to have veeeery wide handle-bars which make a good lever:-) (duck and run:-) )
> too young to properly write their names and addresses in Japanese > a problem in Japan where one needs at least 2000 characters.
Nice point, but wrong. I doubt that Japanese kids have names containing 2000 distinct characters:-) So I'd guess that even a Japanese kid of 4 years should be able to SPEAK his/her name/address./telephonenumber. And a Japanese 2nd grader should be able to write down his/her name.
> people in Japan are not supposed to learn to make use of freedom!
That's what I'd guess firstly. But I see similar tendencies over here in Europe. Companies that are selling spying equipment to parents. But I think that even if the effect is that kids don't get used to things like privatsphere and freedom the action taken by the parents was caused by a false perception of security and risk. It's like the difference between teaching your kids swimming and telling them how to decide whether they can go swimming in a particular situation and keeping them away from water at all. Keeping them away from water might seem the perfectly safe choice for some parents.
Life is risky, even for kids. And caging them electronically will just lead them to do make stupid and then even more dangerous mistakes when they are 18/21yo.
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I know quite some of people who still use a mix of OS9 and OSX Software. Antique stuff works quite seamlessly on OSX due to the bluebox/classic environment.
The Question was is there is an outlook for macintosh not if there is a native cocoa outlook.
There is no outlook for Macintosh?
k formac/outlookformac.aspx?pid=outlookformac
Quick, go tell Microsoft, they don't know yet!
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/outloo
Well, actually all my british friends (who are okay, thank $DEITY) don't seem to be longing for sympathy.
The lack of panic and hysteria is amazing - they are angry and the Londoners are quite annoyed about the inconveniencies and that somebody really tried to kill them, yes, but they seem to be calm in general.
Calmer even than my Spanish freinds who didn't freakt out after the Madrid bombings.
Maybe the history of local terror groups and WW2 still are present in the subconscious of old Europeans, thus we already know that we can be killed on home ground?
Well, I live in Germany which was flattened in big parts in WW2 for obvious reasons and in the eighties we had the RAF as a (compared to the ETA and IRA) minor local terror group.
So people of my age (mid 30) grew up with the tales of the war's bombings and the idea of having your own, local terrorists.
I'm wondering how we will react when the bombing/whatever in Frankfurt/Cologne/Düsseldorf/Berlin/wherever finally happens.
Actually I think we'll be quite okay, but what I'm really afraid of is that our emergency services and structures will be proven a lot less effective than in Spain or England. There will be a lot more chaos and a lot more deaths because of this.
And this is something that is definitively avoidable.
k2r.
To me "boring" means that the developer tried to add bells and whistles but didn't think about hof to make her application perfect in a minimalistic approach.
It's the in beauty of perfectionistic design that it gets all the bells and whistles out of your way.
While Windows - and most of the applications on it - is just standing right in your way all the time. ("It looks like you are writing a letter" "there are unused items on your desktop" "new hardware found")
And of course - since the minimalism and perfectionism is the design approach of apple itself - people who buy these computers tend to appreciate this and to develop software in a similar fashion. You don't want to feel ashamed of your breed...
k2r
> Oh - by the way - those extensions (tabbed browsing,
:-)
> adblocking, etc) ARE NOT FREE.
Tabbed browsing only isn't free if you need to employ somebody to switch it on for you in Menubar->Safari->Preferences.
Yes, Menubar->Safari->Preferences, it's really a weird place for this
k2r
Well, you usually aren't logged in as root on Mac OSX.
In fact, the root account is deactivated for login by default.
What you see is a mechanism that is named "sudo" on the unix command line that requires you to enter your password (not: a specific admin password) to escalate something to be executed as root.
It checks if you (your user account) are eligable to do so.
However, you can work as a non-priviliged user on OSX, actually you do it 99.9% of all the time.
Well, this is slashdot...
3 3 )
Can any Sovjet-American go to microsoft now, take their anti virus software for Linux that they don't publish anymore (so they don't make a penny of it) and publish it myself?
( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/22/17512
Or what about recordings of an artist that aren't published?
k2r
If I got it right: It isn't just a fulltext-search on your data but it searches file metadata.
Any application can provide a kind of a simple plugin - invisible for the user - that enables spotlight to analyze this applications exotic data, too.
k2r
iTunes on MacOSX manages the Rio500 like a charme - you might want try whether iTunes on Windows does it, too.
k2r
There's even more:
1778 signing treaties of alliance with America, agreeing on staying at war until America was independend. To abandoned by their allies later on.
Thanks.
I remember that there were some difficulties running vnc on a Windows box in a way that enables the vnc user to login remotely on the windows login screen (the ctrl+alt+del login process, not the login within vnc).
But I'm happy for all the Windows admins to hear that I might be wrong and I must admit that I have had minimal contact to Windows guts within the last 6 years.
However, I cannot tell weather this is possible on osx or not, I haven't used VNC in this way on osx, yet. So it might - contrary to my guess - be a very common task with a very simple solution.
All the best,
k2r
OSX uses an advanced startup system and is able to determine which sequence is the best from some configuration files.
r /How To/Startup/index.wsc om/documentation/MacOSX/Co nceptual/BPSystemStartup/Tasks/CreatingStartupItem s.html
S X/in dex-date.html
:-)
...
Read more about it at
http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCente
and
http://developer.apple.
Actually, there's a LOT of useful information available at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacO
But I doubt that there is an easy way to have a VNC server with the systems loginwindow. I remember that that's a problem on Windows, too. At least there must be _some_ things that are easier on Linux
Switching components on and off is done best using "Diablotin". Look for it at macupdate.com. And be careful, you can switch off some essential stuff using it
k2r
> I couldn't figure out how to enable the ssh daemon /etc/inetd
There is a checkbox-item named "Enable remote login (ssh)" or similar.
> For example, I tried adding it to the
> sshd how-to for OS
Well, I'm not really sure whether your question is real...
SSH on OSX Howto:
Take the MOUSE.
Navigate to
Apple-Menu->
System-Preferences->
Sharing.
Thats it.
You could enable apache there, too. Or Samba.
The root-account is not activated by default. Use sudo $COMMAND instead - it's much more save.
If you really really need it - activate it in directory services / do a sudo passwd. But sudo is safer and safety matters.
k2r
> Can I use it to schedule the presentation rooms?
d =109 92754
If a simple solution ist what she needs - give the calendar-plugin a try and share a calendar file for every ressource to schedule.
It might not be enough for you/her - or it might be just right.
Have a look at my previous posting on
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131547&ci
k2r
Well, obviously my mileage does vary :-)
I have 8 people using sunbird/sunbird-firefox/iCal/phpiCal/RSS since october on 4 files shared using webDAV.
Though I had to write some very simple scripts to fix some line ending quirks (iCal seems to be a little choosy) it works fine, stable and is exactly the right solution in this case.
It's a small non-profit organisation where people with very different computer skills living in different towns have to coordinate.
I planned to install ogo first, but this seemed to be overkill though ogo a very decent product for more complex calendaring and real groupware issues.
And I was wary at first because I already made some bad experiences using mozilla-calendar and ogo together.
But if you just need a little shared calendaring, firefox-sunbird/WebDAV works quite well.
k2r
> Give it up, people. It's not thoughtful; it's just illiterate. ®
Using male and female pronouns to generate a more gender neutral and life-like (sp?) text has quite a tradition specifically in system administration.
I'm quite amazed that this must be new and controversial to all those old-school hackers on slashdot...
k2r
> I don't care what you or the rest of the world thinks.
Then you might feel very alone when the next plane crashes into some of your buildings.
Actually ignorant bullies like you now are perceived as the prototype of the typical USAmerican in wide parts of the world; even in those parts of the world where people froze crying in front of the TV on 9/11.
You actually WILL be very alone if you go on like this.
k2r
Excellent analysis.
But "Hosen" is Plural, one would most likely say it in singular:
"Ich habe Gemüse in der Lederhose!".
It could be a weird bavarian saying someting about one's dicksize, but actually it sounds more like Monty Python.
My hovercraft is full of eels,
k2r
well, luckily not on systems with proper access-rights.
/konqueror seems to save its browser-cache as files labelled by sitename.
But you are right in a way:
KDE
KDE + sloppy access rights + locate
= global browser history for anyone
k2r
> In UNIX, I could use "locate" to find out whether a
> co-worker has cookies from porn sites
No, that's wrong. Locate searches a database of filenames not a files content.
k2r
I must admit that I'm impressed.
Though I still doubt that 10G x 90s (=4860 KM/h) are something I might survive in an acceptable condition it seems as if trained fighter-pilots wearing the appropriate Anti-G equipment could do this.
Thanks,
k2r
> For humans, J. Storrs-Hall [...] proposed a space railway [...]
....
> You drive your spaceship up a ramp to one end, and the
> motor accelerates you along the railway at about 10G for about 90 seconds
Well, you might have been human at one end of the ramp, but you definitely ceased being human leaving the other end
k2r (It's not easy being liquid)
> Hullo?! It's not ignorance at work it's physics.
:-)
:-) (duck and run :-) )
I ride a motorcycle of 230KG, it does 200KM/h, which is highway-speen (actually: Autobahn-Speed) and picking it up is as hard as picking up a box of beer. You just have to know how to do it, and that's just pure physics.
Unfortunately my english-skills might be too bad to explain it properly, but basically you just have to turn the handle bar into the maximum position. This brings the lower end of the handle bar into maximum distance to the motorcycle's center
Now go down into knee bend and use the handle bar's lower end as a lever to pick up the motorcycle as you would pick up a heavy box from your knees - and don't drop it over on the opposite side
Actually this works as simple on most motorcycles - and since HD-motorcycles are usually made for posing instead of driving, they tend to have veeeery wide handle-bars which make a good lever
k2r
Well, you can't have it all - at least you still get the coolest cluster bombs, assault guns and chemical weapons.
:-)
k2r
(some of my best friends are American
> too young to properly write their names and addresses in Japanese
:-)
> a problem in Japan where one needs at least 2000 characters.
Nice point, but wrong. I doubt that Japanese kids have names containing 2000 distinct characters
So I'd guess that even a Japanese kid of 4 years should be able to SPEAK his/her name/address./telephonenumber. And a Japanese 2nd grader should be able to write down his/her name.
> people in Japan are not supposed to learn to make use of freedom!
That's what I'd guess firstly. But I see similar tendencies over here in Europe. Companies that are selling spying equipment to parents. But I think that even if the effect is that kids don't get used to things like privatsphere and freedom the action taken by the parents was caused by a false perception of security and risk. It's like the difference between teaching your kids swimming and telling them how to decide whether they can go swimming in a particular situation and keeping them away from water at all. Keeping them away from water might seem the perfectly safe choice for some parents.
Life is risky, even for kids. And caging them electronically will just lead them to do make stupid and then even more dangerous mistakes when they are 18/21yo.
k2r