I used to always ask people who insisted that the classic Mac OS was just as vulnerable as any other OS how they would get around the fact that the classic Mac OS had no command line.
That usually stopped them fast in their tracks.
They other thing that I asked anyone who was questioning the security of the classic Mac OS was to name one instance -- just one -- where a classic Mac OS machine had been cracked.
Of course, they couldn't.
You've written a nice post. I wish your grammer, spelling, and capitalization were better since your errors in prose cast a shadow on your technical credibility.
Funny you should mention this cause I know exactly what you mean.
I attended a dinner meeting last spring in a nearby town and I brought my old Lombard (G3/400) PowerBook running OS X. After we were done eating, I pulled it out and woke it up, ready to start the serious part of our meeting.
A guy I was sitting with was slack-jawed, "Man that thing boots up fast!"
I told him that it didn't boot up and that I merely woke it from its sleep state. I didn't think anything more about it until my drive home.
It ocurred to me that I NEVER shut my PowerBook down... never.
>> You've hit the mark. The only way people are going to >> dump Windows for Linux or any other OS is if that OS >> has a compelling difference that makes it worth the >> change.
Could you follow up on this please?
I just can't think of an example of when any large group of people dropped Windows for anything. I pre-date Windows myself, and my observations are that DOS users (who later became Windows users) claim that they don't need what they don't have until they get it.
Example: ten years ago, a DOS-user friend of mine ragged on Macs because they used this "mouse pointer thingy".
He's probably using one of those thingys today.
No one's going to switch from Windows based on mere merits of functionality.
Yes, I immediately thought about DS1's ion engines.
I'm not up on the specs at all, but if they were able to use Hubble's solar panels for power, wouldn't the ion engine(s) have a lot more power than they did on DS1?
It's not that it can't be done. It's always a question of money.
--Richard
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My problem with what you have written is that you sound as though you are reinterating 10 "truths".
However, you do come off sounding very American.
1. Usually, but by no means always. 2. Depends on where you look. 3. Okay, but given their freedom, don't you think we deserve better press? 4. Irrelavent if you can't afford it. 5. Used to be true, but not anymore. 6. Most other countries tend to think the world should be like them, too. 7. True, until they see the cost. 8. What? 9. America has no public school system. 10. Church and state are not separate in America.
"To succeed on the desktop, you need a UI designed for the LEAST computer-literate people out there, it has to support ANY hardware they can throw at it, installing/removing software has to be easy, etc., etc., ad nauseum."
Better or easier have nothing to do with anything.
Network marketing is everything. Absolutely everything.
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It will be true for a while.
Then it won't be.
What's your point?
Well, at just $6.5-million dollars for the rocket, essentially they come free.
That's the coffee tab for NASA for a month.
Can anyone enlighten us on how it's possible to have a credible space program based on rockets that cost 6.5-million dollars?
>> 3. Profit.
Not quite. No one can make money by saving money. Ask Motorola.
Just released?
I used an OS X native version of MacDraft a year ago.
--Richard
I've used MacDraft for OS X. I measured off the first floor of my house and created a version my actual floorplan in MacDraft.
Worked great. Simple and cheaper than everything else I see suggested.
--Richard
Okay, MacFoxes was funny as shit.
Someone ought to be able to do an OS X equivalent rather easily... the animation was ridiculously primative but very entertaining.
So, does anyone know where I can score the original version???
All I have are about eight sounds that I extracted from it years and years ago ("All this cheering is making me hot!")
--Richard
"It's not that Macs are immune to attack, it's just that there are far less people writing exploits to attack Mac systems."
I sure wish I had a better memory... Last spring, a study was published on this exact claim.
Turns out that even when volume weighting adjustments are considered, Macs ARE more secure than Windows (as was Unix/Linux).
It's time to put this myth to bed.
--Richard
I used to always ask people who insisted that the classic Mac OS was just as vulnerable as any other OS how they would get around the fact that the classic Mac OS had no command line.
That usually stopped them fast in their tracks.
They other thing that I asked anyone who was questioning the security of the classic Mac OS was to name one instance -- just one -- where a classic Mac OS machine had been cracked.
Of course, they couldn't.
You've written a nice post. I wish your grammer, spelling, and capitalization were better since your errors in prose cast a shadow on your technical credibility.
Rewrite/revise and resubmit.
--Richard
"Do you not read the newspapers?"
I can't believe that you asked that question on Slashdot.
--Richard
" I know broadband usage is on the rise but really ... I use a modem. You know ... the kind that attaches to a phone line?"
Yeah, I remember those. My dad used to have an 8-track player in his truck, too.
--Richard
"I rarely turn it 'off'"
Funny you should mention this cause I know exactly what you mean.
I attended a dinner meeting last spring in a nearby town and I brought my old Lombard (G3/400) PowerBook running OS X. After we were done eating, I pulled it out and woke it up, ready to start the serious part of our meeting.
A guy I was sitting with was slack-jawed, "Man that thing boots up fast!"
I told him that it didn't boot up and that I merely woke it from its sleep state. I didn't think anything more about it until my drive home.
It ocurred to me that I NEVER shut my PowerBook down... never.
Is that a Mac user type thing or what?
--Richard
>> You've hit the mark. The only way people are going to
>> dump Windows for Linux or any other OS is if that OS
>> has a compelling difference that makes it worth the
>> change.
Could you follow up on this please?
I just can't think of an example of when any large group of people dropped Windows for anything. I pre-date Windows myself, and my observations are that DOS users (who later became Windows users) claim that they don't need what they don't have until they get it.
Example: ten years ago, a DOS-user friend of mine ragged on Macs because they used this "mouse pointer thingy".
He's probably using one of those thingys today.
No one's going to switch from Windows based on mere merits of functionality.
--Richard
I know that I'm not going to spring real news on anyone here when I timidly remind everyone that Apple's iChat AV uses SIP.
About every other night I do a video chat with my dad, 240 miles away, for free. Until we get sick of each other.
He has a home router and I have a home router (different brands) and didn't have to do a damn thing to get it working.
SIP is described by RFC 3261.
How about this fact:
H.323 standard is 1,400 pages long.
SIP standard is 250 pages long.
Which would your rather code for?
Yes, H.323 specifies (does) more, but then that's what makes so rigid.
I say, out with the old and in with the new!
--Richard
"Development cost of Hubble: $2 billion
Cost of one space shuttle launch: $600 million"
You forgot something...
If you're going to replace the Hubble with another telescope, add another 2-billion dollars to that launch cost.
--Richard
Yes, I immediately thought about DS1's ion engines.
I'm not up on the specs at all, but if they were able to use Hubble's solar panels for power, wouldn't the ion engine(s) have a lot more power than they did on DS1?
It's not that it can't be done. It's always a question of money.
--Richard
My problem with what you have written is that you sound as though you are reinterating 10 "truths".
However, you do come off sounding very American.
1. Usually, but by no means always.
2. Depends on where you look.
3. Okay, but given their freedom, don't you think we deserve better press?
4. Irrelavent if you can't afford it.
5. Used to be true, but not anymore.
6. Most other countries tend to think the world should be like them, too.
7. True, until they see the cost.
8. What?
9. America has no public school system.
10. Church and state are not separate in America.
--Richard
True coincidence...
I used to have a Microsoft Windows CD. I haven't seen it for years and have no idea where it is.
"To succeed on the desktop, you need a UI designed for the LEAST computer-literate people out there, it has to support ANY hardware they can throw at it, installing/removing software has to be easy, etc., etc., ad nauseum."
Better or easier have nothing to do with anything.
Network marketing is everything. Absolutely everything.
In the end, nothing else matters.
I wish it weren't so, but it is.
"no, no matter what anyone says Mozilla doesn't perform anything close to how IE does..."
And that's a bad thing?
"The machine appears to be targeted to business users, although it's on the lower-end of the scale..."
Yes that was a very weird statement.
Just how much power does someone need to type a Word document or send an email?
--Richard
You overlooked its greatest feature: A floppy drive.
Computers should have floppy drives because they provide a handy place to store a floppy disk.
Think of a floppy drive as a computer's version of a glove box.
--Richard
Well, your message was modded to 0. I think it deserves a 1.
Your assumption about OpenOffice not being worth much until Apple's X11 hits version 1 is wrong.
I've been using it for a couple months and it's excellent. No crashes or other bad things.
Your hang-up is with the "beta" label... I share your grief. Nowadays, many developers use alpha/beta/release version names correctly.
Let me state this for the record: If you release it, it's not beta.
Quit sucking on that lemon and try it before condemning it.
--Richard
I've been using Macs since '87 and I think that letter to Apple was funny.
--Richard
"Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!"
Logan's Run, right?
--Richard
"There are many things on the shelves of Fry's that you've never heard of. Being one box on a shelf of hundreds of titles isn't visibility."
I agree, however, go out on the street and ask around.
As a long-time Mac user, the visibility issue has been close to my heart for fifteen years.
The first complaint that all Mac critics have: no software. Why? Cause they don't see it on store shelves.
So, while you and I agree with each other, most people don't.
--Richard