I think all ads should have a "comments" link below them, so that when they are clicked on, people can see what other users think about the product/service being hawked... At least that would be somewhat useful to potential buyers.
Someone else already pointed out that in the Omnigroup OSX-talk list. Apparently, the latest version of the flash plugin fixes the problem too, tho I don't use internet explorer.
This was said to be a problem related to having quicktime buried low in the system.
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Embarrassing, as it is something that many poke fun at win2k users about.
Command-Option-Esc often doesn't work, as it isn't as necessary as the ctrl-alt-delete for windows. Command Option Power reboots however.
While OS X is as stable as any other *nixy system, if aqua poops out on you it is essentially a crash, as there are no virtual consoles or key combinations that get you out of it. If you go to this page the flash content will freeze the desktop (using internet explorer). In linux, you can simply go to a different virtual console and kill stuff, but in OS X you have to SSH in from another box or reboot.
I'm not advocating virtual consoles, but it would be nice to have a key combination that killed the loginwindow process.
browsing his entire site i found an interesting page about how a pulsejet works. it's a brief explanation, considering a pulsejet is a pipe full of hot flaming stuff.
Actually, the disk images of the 10.1/5D15/Puma release I saw on Hotline Servers (rather one guy's, who required users to sign up for a pr0n site, then look at certain word's of the confirmation note for the l/p) were ~560MB in size, probably because they changed a lot of the OS. I doubt there will be an update of any size that's manageable for 56k users.
Well, the G4 (or the G4e, if i want sound leet and technical) beat out the P4 in MediaCleaner and Photoshop tests, which _are_ relevent to most G4 users... I still wouldn't say the G4 had completely 'Spanked' the Intel. I'm sure there's _something_ the 20 stage thing is good at:).
When Mac OS X boots up you see a box come up somewhat early in the boot process with a progress bar also labels what is being started as boot progresses ("Welcome To Macintosh", "Tuning System","Starting Network Services","Starting Apache","Starting Sendmail" etc). The progress bar itself looks really nice too, as it has that cool aqua water animation pulsing through it as it moves (cool!)... This to me seems a better mix between "eye candy" and functionality than simply throwing a full screen windows logo or a penguin on the screen.
Of course, you can boot up in "verbose mode" (scrolling text) by holding down command-v or something.
you cannot call my moral crusade moral! it's so high, you can't get around it! so low, you can't get UNDER IT! so WIDE, you can't get aROUND it, and all THAT!
naked japanese men on tv relying on magazine clippings for survival!? will SOMEBODY think of the CHILDREN!?
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Perhaps porting GUI apps to Mac OS X will also raise the bar for GUI design on non-OS X platforms.
Perhaps, or maybe the opposite will happen, rather, the opposite is already happening; previously non-mac apps corrupting the mac UI. Take for instance, any cocoa app, like OmniWeb, which brings NeXTStep UI conventions into Aqua. When you switch into the window, the click is passed on to the application, including scroll bar clicks, links, and toolbar buttons. While that's not entirely bad in itself, it is inconsistant with the mac-like behavior of carbon apps; clicks into the window are not passed on to the application (except for in the old finder).
There is also the possibility of GTK (like GIMP!) and KDEish (wtf?) apps being ported to OS X. That's weirdness too, as their respective UI baggage will furthur dilute what used to be mac OS's ultra consistancy.
Oh well, who cares as long as its got shiny widgets...
But where will it all lead? It's possibly worth remembering at this juncture that Mr Tony himself is a complete, self-confessed and unabashed technoklutz. He is, furthermore, total jail-bait when it comes to photo-opps with the rich and famous. Which is a disastrous and expensive combination when it runs up against Bill Gates at the head of Microsoft's government sales Spetsnaz.
Bill Gates wooing those with little technical knowledge, but at the top of the power chain, isn't at all a new thing.
Here's a quote about a similar phenomenon on the article I linked to over at Brill's Content by Nicholas Petreley [InfoWorld]:
Microsoft "bend[s] the ear of those people at the top of the press chain, the people who have the least amount of technical knowledge," says Petreley, now an InfoWorld contributing editor. The company "presents its case as strongly as possible at that level, and works its way down, and [tries] to get its results that way. It's very clever."
Well, it's a good strategy, albeit a bit on the evil side...
As of 5.13.2001 (8:06 PDT), the district web site is slashdotted, and I'm sure they have no clue as to why their servers are suddenly being overloaded with requests from strange places.
I think by the time OS X is bundled with new systems (MacWorld New York, I think), the updates will become less frequent. March 24th may have been a trifle early for the OS to come out, so in a sense, it is still 'under construction'.
These updates have been mostly things that I would think apple would have done otherwise before releasing the thing, such as optimize quartz, improve app stability, fix ftpd, and enable CD burning. (Not to mention fix a list view bug in the finder, 10.0.3)
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What can be done to mozilla to reconcile the nonstandard widgets with aqua? No matter how cool it may be, i'm sure many people will refrain from using it, because it looks kinda shitty compared to the rest of aqua.
*sigh*
I'll stick with Omniweb for now.
I must say, it _is_ much faster, and looks kinda sweet when running under gnome...
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I think all ads should have a "comments" link below them, so that when they are clicked on, people can see what other users think about the product/service being hawked... At least that would be somewhat useful to potential buyers.
Eh, I don't think most X desktops/window managers even double buffer all their windows...
I think what he means is a cocoa native web browser using Gecko. Right now Mozilla for OS X is basically the OS 9 app with Aqua Support tacked on
... has been quoted blaming 'dirty spaniards' for the destruction of the towers.
Someone else already pointed out that in the Omnigroup OSX-talk list. Apparently, the latest version of the flash plugin fixes the problem too, tho I don't use internet explorer.
This was said to be a problem related to having quicktime buried low in the system.
:\
Embarrassing, as it is something that many poke fun at win2k users about.
Command-Option-Esc often doesn't work, as it isn't as necessary as the ctrl-alt-delete for windows. Command Option Power reboots however.
While OS X is as stable as any other *nixy system, if aqua poops out on you it is essentially a crash, as there are no virtual consoles or key combinations that get you out of it. If you go to this page the flash content will freeze the desktop (using internet explorer). In linux, you can simply go to a different virtual console and kill stuff, but in OS X you have to SSH in from another box or reboot.
I'm not advocating virtual consoles, but it would be nice to have a key combination that killed the loginwindow process.
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. . . and OS X air only runs Concord Supersonic jets, giving way to obscenely overpriced tickets.
News at 11.
browsing his entire site i found an interesting page about how a pulsejet works. it's a brief explanation, considering a pulsejet is a pipe full of hot flaming stuff.
Actually, the disk images of the 10.1/5D15/Puma release I saw on Hotline Servers (rather one guy's, who required users to sign up for a pr0n site, then look at certain word's of the confirmation note for the l/p) were ~560MB in size, probably because they changed a lot of the OS. I doubt there will be an update of any size that's manageable for 56k users.
Well, the G4 (or the G4e, if i want sound leet and technical) beat out the P4 in MediaCleaner and Photoshop tests, which _are_ relevent to most G4 users... I still wouldn't say the G4 had completely 'Spanked' the Intel. I'm sure there's _something_ the 20 stage thing is good at :).
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I wonder why the athlon is never discussed
Why not ' KILL ustrator'?
Yea, but this isn't Mac OS 8 :)
Besides, if you were the kind of person who'd want to see that kind of system text during the boot process, you'd be smart enough to activate it.
When Mac OS X boots up you see a box come up somewhat early in the boot process with a progress bar also labels what is being started as boot progresses ("Welcome To Macintosh", "Tuning System","Starting Network Services","Starting Apache","Starting Sendmail" etc). The progress bar itself looks really nice too, as it has that cool aqua water animation pulsing through it as it moves (cool!)... This to me seems a better mix between "eye candy" and functionality than simply throwing a full screen windows logo or a penguin on the screen.
Of course, you can boot up in "verbose mode" (scrolling text) by holding down command-v or something.
Uh, I was JOKING.
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Performance is a little shakey on most g3 macs and on some g4s. I would think that quartz performance would take quite a blow when run on a 386.
heathen!
you cannot call my moral crusade moral! it's so high, you can't get around it! so low, you can't get UNDER IT! so WIDE, you can't get aROUND it, and all THAT!
mmmmhmmm!
naked japanese men on tv relying on magazine clippings for survival!? will SOMEBODY think of the CHILDREN!?
Perhaps, or maybe the opposite will happen, rather, the opposite is already happening; previously non-mac apps corrupting the mac UI. Take for instance, any cocoa app, like OmniWeb, which brings NeXTStep UI conventions into Aqua. When you switch into the window, the click is passed on to the application, including scroll bar clicks, links, and toolbar buttons. While that's not entirely bad in itself, it is inconsistant with the mac-like behavior of carbon apps; clicks into the window are not passed on to the application (except for in the old finder). There is also the possibility of GTK (like GIMP!) and KDEish (wtf?) apps being ported to OS X. That's weirdness too, as their respective UI baggage will furthur dilute what used to be mac OS's ultra consistancy.
Oh well, who cares as long as its got shiny widgets...
Actually, IE 5 seems to work nicely on Win 3.1, but likely the hardware that runs 3.1 can't handle IE 5.
As of 5.13.2001 (8:06 PDT), the district web site is slashdotted, and I'm sure they have no clue as to why their servers are suddenly being overloaded with requests from strange places.
I think by the time OS X is bundled with new systems (MacWorld New York, I think), the updates will become less frequent. March 24th may have been a trifle early for the OS to come out, so in a sense, it is still 'under construction'.
These updates have been mostly things that I would think apple would have done otherwise before releasing the thing, such as optimize quartz, improve app stability, fix ftpd, and enable CD burning. (Not to mention fix a list view bug in the finder, 10.0.3)
What can be done to mozilla to reconcile the nonstandard widgets with aqua? No matter how cool it may be, i'm sure many people will refrain from using it, because it looks kinda shitty compared to the rest of aqua. *sigh* I'll stick with Omniweb for now. I must say, it _is_ much faster, and looks kinda sweet when running under gnome...