2) The integrated Google search doesn't have buttons that let me search directly to images and/or discussions, and when the search comes up, there aren't buttons of the words that I just searched for allowing me to search within that document.
I don't know if this answers your question, but if you cmd+F, (or choose Find... from the menu), the words you searched for Google is in the Find dialogue. It can be annoying because those words show up in other Cocoa apps' Find dialogues, but can be useful.
As a workaround for google search only going to regular search when I actually want to look for images, etc., I would just click one of the tabs on top of the Google result page. I would also often cmd+return to open the google results in another tab in Safari.
BTW, did you know that many emacs key-bindings work in Cocoa text edit fields? Like the one in Safari?
11) The spell checking thing doesn't let you bring up a quick selection of the word/words that it suggests - innstead you have to open the full spell window and then it wants to continue on - I miss the ability in Windows to right click and the first few words on that menu were the suggested words and you could just choose one and move on.
If the spellchecker suggests that a word is misspelled with dotted red underline, (like the "innstead" above), you can ctrl+click on it, and it will show contextual menu with suggestions, etc. You can right click to do the same thing if you have more than one button mouse.
In addition, when you are not sure about the word you want to spell, you can option+esc to see candidates of the word you started spelling. Nifty feature added in Panther.
7) FreeBSD command line - nuff said there.
I noted that many commands are now replaced with GNU tools or other popular open source alternatives, eg., more is less, vi is vim, sh is bash... Not that those are huge losses because I would use less instead of more, vim for vi anyway. Still, I kind of liked the fact that I had real spartan vi and real sh from BSD up to OS X 10.2.
As a poster above said to another post, very well written. It is the classic apps and to some extent Carbon apps that degrades the OS X experiences. I'm glad that as with Panther OS X is no more pretending to be an evolution of System 7, but looking like logical evolution of NeXTSTEP.
I wonder anyone else has noticed the lack of mention of Carbon in Panther literature. After Classic, Carbon has to go.
Apple's support in Europe is virtually non-existent. I don't even see their existence. I'm waiting for my iBook to be repaired for 1.5 months! It's simply the regular power supply, AirPort antenna, and backlight cable problems. Why the hell does it take so long? It took three days for Apple Japan to pick up in a hotel in Tokyo, fix the backlight cable and send the iBook to Nagasaki where my parents live.
Maybe that's because I'm living in a small city in the Netherlands, but the support here makes me seriously consider switching to PC. At least when I was living in Hamburg, I saw a lot of ads and some shops that deal with Apple.
But as a second thought, that may not help much, either. From my experience in the university I work for, the people here are simply backwards. Unskilled, ignorant, arrogant Windows admins taking care of the network. Disruption of services happens at daily basis, and ridiculous policies, etc... It simply seems that technology-wise, people here do not care much.
Claris at one point handled HyperCard. HyperCard went back and forth between Apple and Claris.
You may have a point, but my understanding is that HyperCard became antiquated when everybody began to have a color monitor. I still believe that HC is best fit for 9" b&w monitors. The integration of color was clumsy and nobody wanted to use it any more.
I still keep a copy of HC 2.1 on 12" PB:) And it runs fast like it never did before on any 68K Macs;-)
I was also one of those who were fascinated by HyperCard...
Anyway, I have a vague impression that the combination of the Interface Builder and Project Builder was a HyperCard on steroid on NeXTSTEP that still lives in the Mac OS X.
I'm not keeping up with what's happening in Japan, either. But Macs were admired 10 years ago. Japan was the country where the Mac had the biggest market share in those days (15%?). Things changed in '95. Perhaps you are talking about that period?
Still, when iMac debuted, it stayed the best selling personal compter quite a while.
Or, spend your time and energy (and money?) to upgrade to something else than Windows and stop worrying about patches?
What's the point of using Windows anyway? What Windows can do that other OSes cannot? I can't think of anything but worrying users about the latest worms/trajan horses/viruses and playing games.
To me, having Windows machine makes sense only if I want to play games...
In this age of internet when computers are connected in one way or another, I don't think Windows by itself is the source of the problem. Rather, the problems seems to be the lack of diversity of OSes. The biological analogy seems to work here, as well. When a species have little genetic diversity, it is more likely to be wiped out by one epidemic...
I read the original japanese nikkei article. Looks like the special LCD is not on ``top'' of the regular monitor, but ``over,'' or covering the first one. I assume that those two screens can produce slightly different images producing 3D illusion.
After doing a bit of research I discovered that at some point, microsoft decided that ACPI needs to behave differently, and forced all BIOS's to be upgraded to work with XP.
Could you give us a reference?
It's a bit long story, but... I'm not a regular Windows person, but I've got a brand-new thinkpad at home to take care of. That was last Friday. On Saturday, it began to show the symptom. After reading/. yesterday, I looked for msblast.exe with no avail.
I was wondering if the worm had an ability to hide deep...
I think it's silly that a brand-new machine comes with un-patched OS. How would a new user know the macine (s)he just turned on is vulnerable?
I can't think of using any other laptops from Apple, and I do own an iBook and writing this on an 12 inch PowerBook, but I wish they were made in Japan.
I saw a lot of QC problems with the iBook (breaking off the backlight cable, twice (!), breaking off the AirProt antenna, and power supply acting funky) and this PowerBook is also showing QC problem (case not fitting right, and of course the heat).
Still, it would be unaffordably expensive if they were made in some other places like Japan.
I actually just read that Germany was giving away MiGs to Poland, but I understand that it has a lot to do with logistics and infrastructure. There were like about 30? MiGs in the former DDR, and I'm more than certain that everything needed to keep them going was different from what they used and still use in the BRD. Thus, just to get rid of logistics nightmare, it seems like a good idea for Germany to give them away for free, from military standpoint.
OTOTH, the Poles have been flying MiGs for decades. They have the infrastructure.
And BTW, if you want to compare Soviets and Western fighter planes, one should bring up the Su-27, 29, 31, 33, 35, etc. Those are much superior to anything the West could offer.
You have a good point. But there was a Sony laptop that ran Mac OS. That was the PowerBook 100. Sony manufactured it for Apple. It can't run OS X though.
There even was an IBM Japan designed PowerBook (1400? 2400?)
In addition to the brother post, this Bodhisattva tradition is the core of the Mahaayaana (greater vehicle) Buddhism that spread to the East Asia.
In addition to the concept of Bodhisattva, many tales of Buddha's former lives tell stories when Buddha was such and such animal and sacrificed himself for the sake of others--those stories conclude that by accumulating good karma that way, Siddhaartha was born the last time to become the Buddha.
(I just remembered the movie "Little Buddha" in which Keanu "Whoa" Reaves starred as well.)
Many scholars find interesting parallels between Buddhism and Christianity. Too numerous to enumerate, but many events in Buddha's life have parallel in Jesus' life. One may add that the composition of Buddha's life stories predate the New Testament a few centuries.
This beta reads/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and follows what it says to do. Readme says that installer backs up the directory if it exists. But apparently mine was left intact. Thus twm launching at start-up. I just moved/etc/X11 to/etc/_X11 and everything is cool.
For those who haven't installed XDarwin before shouldn't have this problem.
I have experiences with university educations in both countries (as well as some others--Japan, Germany).
I don't find one is better than the other as systems. Both seem to maintain high standards. But of course it depends on the school, teacher, etc.
One surprising thing about the Dutch university classes: the Dutch students seem to have much shorter attention span than American students. There are classes that are on the schedule 2 hours. But in practice, the class starts 15 minutes after the posted time, and after 45 mins. the class actually started, there is a 15 mins. pose. Then the class ends 15 mins. before the posted time. How many total minutes do we have now? 75 mins. out of posted 120 mins.
If you'd do that in the States (as a teacher), you'll get a lot of complaints from students. They are paying customers after all.
By the way, did those colleges/university posted job advertisements for anime classes? I can teach one.
XFree86 (beta) is now available from Apple. You can tell that you are running two display system just by the ugly fonts on one.
I compile xemacs from the source. I found that a lot easier than looking for appropriate binaries that fills my need (mule). If I am lucky, it just compiles and runs. If I am not, I will try an older version.
Compiling from the source may sound a lot of work, but somehow I came to avoid fiddling with packaging system. I don't need to install XEmacs so often.
What don't you like about Chimera? It's small(10MB last time I downloaded it), fast(mozilla rendering is slightly faster than IE, the "industry standard"), it's extremely pretty(perfectly integrated into OS X, including using Aqua widgets in web pages, OS X style sidebard, etc), standards compliant(moz is definately the most standards compliant browser out there today), stable(now. safari is still beta quality).
I'm not the poster you were asking the question, but...
- Chimera (Navigator) is huge, compared to other browsers:
[me@host:Applications]% du -sk/Applications/Safari.app 7368/Applications/Safari.app [me@host:Applications]% du -sk/Applications/OmniWeb.app 9196/Applications/OmniWeb.app [me@host:Applications]% du -sk ~/Applications/Navigator.app 22052/Users/kengo2/Applications/Navigator.app
- Chimera (Navigator) renders buttons incorrectly. (The font inside widgets don't honour the font size setting, at leat on me. It's always 14pt.)
- Unconventional keybindings for page up/down, go back. Safari and OmniWeb share the same keys to page down/up (space/shift + space) and go back (backspace). Mail.app and Preview.app use, to some degree, compatible key strokes to go up and down a page. I can't even figure out how to page down in Chimera. (Is it cmd+space? In that case, that's too bad. The key combo is taken to change script.) Don't tell me to use pgup and pgdn. I need to press two keys to do that. I'm on an iBook.
- In Chimera, when I page down, it leaves about three lines of the bottom of the window at the top of the window. That forces me to look for the line I just finished reading. This is unacceptable.
- Chimera does not support AppleSpell service.
It's not like I hate Chimera. I just notice some rough edges. And to me, it seems that the things I don't like about Chimera comes from exactly the fact that it uses Gecko, a cross-platform rendering engine. I sense slight un-Macness in Chimera.
I have often wanted just a small built in light for my keyboard on my notebook computer so I could see the keyboard with the roomlights off and not be blinded by the screens light.
I doubt anybody would read this post, but it turned out one of your idea was right on--the keyboard of the new Powerbook that illuminates according to the ambient light. That was apparently what this patent was all about.
Slashdot Mirror
2) The integrated Google search doesn't have buttons that let me search directly to images and/or discussions, and when the search comes up, there aren't buttons of the words that I just searched for allowing me to search within that document.
I don't know if this answers your question, but if you cmd+F, (or choose Find... from the menu), the words you searched for Google is in the Find dialogue. It can be annoying because those words show up in other Cocoa apps' Find dialogues, but can be useful.
As a workaround for google search only going to regular search when I actually want to look for images, etc., I would just click one of the tabs on top of the Google result page. I would also often cmd+return to open the google results in another tab in Safari.
BTW, did you know that many emacs key-bindings work in Cocoa text edit fields? Like the one in Safari?
11) The spell checking thing doesn't let you bring up a quick selection of the word/words that it suggests - innstead you have to open the full spell window and then it wants to continue on - I miss the ability in Windows to right click and the first few words on that menu were the suggested words and you could just choose one and move on.
If the spellchecker suggests that a word is misspelled with dotted red underline, (like the "innstead" above), you can ctrl+click on it, and it will show contextual menu with suggestions, etc. You can right click to do the same thing if you have more than one button mouse.
In addition, when you are not sure about the word you want to spell, you can option+esc to see candidates of the word you started spelling. Nifty feature added in Panther.
7) FreeBSD command line - nuff said there.
I noted that many commands are now replaced with GNU tools or other popular open source alternatives, eg., more is less, vi is vim, sh is bash... Not that those are huge losses because I would use less instead of more, vim for vi anyway. Still, I kind of liked the fact that I had real spartan vi and real sh from BSD up to OS X 10.2.
As a poster above said to another post, very well written. It is the classic apps and to some extent Carbon apps that degrades the OS X experiences. I'm glad that as with Panther OS X is no more pretending to be an evolution of System 7, but looking like logical evolution of NeXTSTEP.
I wonder anyone else has noticed the lack of mention of Carbon in Panther literature. After Classic, Carbon has to go.
I'm with you.
Apple's support in Europe is virtually non-existent. I don't even see their existence. I'm waiting for my iBook to be repaired for 1.5 months! It's simply the regular power supply, AirPort antenna, and backlight cable problems. Why the hell does it take so long? It took three days for Apple Japan to pick up in a hotel in Tokyo, fix the backlight cable and send the iBook to Nagasaki where my parents live.
Maybe that's because I'm living in a small city in the Netherlands, but the support here makes me seriously consider switching to PC. At least when I was living in Hamburg, I saw a lot of ads and some shops that deal with Apple.
But as a second thought, that may not help much, either. From my experience in the university I work for, the people here are simply backwards. Unskilled, ignorant, arrogant Windows admins taking care of the network. Disruption of services happens at daily basis, and ridiculous policies, etc... It simply seems that technology-wise, people here do not care much.
Claris at one point handled HyperCard. HyperCard went back and forth between Apple and Claris.
:) And it runs fast like it never did before on any 68K Macs ;-)
You may have a point, but my understanding is that HyperCard became antiquated when everybody began to have a color monitor. I still believe that HC is best fit for 9" b&w monitors. The integration of color was clumsy and nobody wanted to use it any more.
I still keep a copy of HC 2.1 on 12" PB
I was also one of those who were fascinated by HyperCard...
Anyway, I have a vague impression that the combination of the Interface Builder and Project Builder was a HyperCard on steroid on NeXTSTEP that still lives in the Mac OS X.
And the codename is ``tejas''? That means ``heat'' in Sanskrit.
I'm not keeping up with what's happening in Japan, either. But Macs were admired 10 years ago. Japan was the country where the Mac had the biggest market share in those days (15%?). Things changed in '95. Perhaps you are talking about that period?
Still, when iMac debuted, it stayed the best selling personal compter quite a while.
Or, spend your time and energy (and money?) to upgrade to something else than Windows and stop worrying about patches?
What's the point of using Windows anyway? What Windows can do that other OSes cannot? I can't think of anything but worrying users about the latest worms/trajan horses/viruses and playing games.
To me, having Windows machine makes sense only if I want to play games...
In this age of internet when computers are connected in one way or another, I don't think Windows by itself is the source of the problem. Rather, the problems seems to be the lack of diversity of OSes. The biological analogy seems to work here, as well. When a species have little genetic diversity, it is more likely to be wiped out by one epidemic...
I read the original japanese nikkei article. Looks like the special LCD is not on ``top'' of the regular monitor, but ``over,'' or covering the first one. I assume that those two screens can produce slightly different images producing 3D illusion.
Couldn't find anything about this at NEC site
yeah, obviously i wasn't paying attention :(
Funny that no one has mentioned Rojin Z yet.
The creator of Akira saw this coming...
Could you give us a reference?
It's a bit long story, but
I was wondering if the worm had an ability to hide deep...
I think it's silly that a brand-new machine comes with un-patched OS. How would a new user know the macine (s)he just turned on is vulnerable?
I got to agree to ACs above.
I can't think of using any other laptops from Apple, and I do own an iBook and writing this on an 12 inch PowerBook, but I wish they were made in Japan.
I saw a lot of QC problems with the iBook (breaking off the backlight cable, twice (!), breaking off the AirProt antenna, and power supply acting funky) and this PowerBook is also showing QC problem (case not fitting right, and of course the heat).
Still, it would be unaffordably expensive if they were made in some other places like Japan.
I actually just read that Germany was giving away MiGs to Poland, but I understand that it has a lot to do with logistics and infrastructure. There were like about 30? MiGs in the former DDR, and I'm more than certain that everything needed to keep them going was different from what they used and still use in the BRD. Thus, just to get rid of logistics nightmare, it seems like a good idea for Germany to give them away for free, from military standpoint.
OTOTH, the Poles have been flying MiGs for decades. They have the infrastructure.
And BTW, if you want to compare Soviets and Western fighter planes, one should bring up the Su-27, 29, 31, 33, 35, etc. Those are much superior to anything the West could offer.
You have a good point. But there was a Sony laptop that ran Mac OS. That was the PowerBook 100. Sony manufactured it for Apple. It can't run OS X though.
There even was an IBM Japan designed PowerBook (1400? 2400?)
Apparently the screenshot below the Exposé controel panel shot was shot when it was active. Notice all the windows are much smaller than usual? As the screenshot seems to be in the normal resolution (judging from the font size of the menu bar), I say all the windows are 1/4 of the normal size.
Curious thing is that the content of the active Safari window is censored as well. Why would that be?
Also, iChat seems to do video chat, judging from its icon.
In addition to the brother post, this Bodhisattva tradition is the core of the Mahaayaana (greater vehicle) Buddhism that spread to the East Asia.
In addition to the concept of Bodhisattva, many tales of Buddha's former lives tell stories when Buddha was such and such animal and sacrificed himself for the sake of others--those stories conclude that by accumulating good karma that way, Siddhaartha was born the last time to become the Buddha.
(I just remembered the movie "Little Buddha" in which Keanu "Whoa" Reaves starred as well.)
Many scholars find interesting parallels between Buddhism and Christianity. Too numerous to enumerate, but many events in Buddha's life have parallel in Jesus' life. One may add that the composition of Buddha's life stories predate the New Testament a few centuries.
So, this was the announcement. Note the mention of new iPod.
Apple didn't choose twm as the default wm.
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and follows what it says to do. Readme says that installer backs up the directory if it exists. But apparently mine was left intact. Thus twm launching at start-up. I just moved /etc/X11 to /etc/_X11 and everything is cool.
This beta reads
For those who haven't installed XDarwin before shouldn't have this problem.
Honestly, I'm envious...
I got a degree in another area of Asian studies (Indic, Sanskrit) and I grew up watching animes in Japan. And someone gets a job for studying animes?
Perhaps I should start writing a book titled Anime from Norakuro/Sazaesan to Sen-to-Chihiro.
Can't tell if this guy is serious or not...
I have experiences with university educations in both countries (as well as some others--Japan, Germany).
I don't find one is better than the other as systems. Both seem to maintain high standards. But of course it depends on the school, teacher, etc.
One surprising thing about the Dutch university classes: the Dutch students seem to have much shorter attention span than American students. There are classes that are on the schedule 2 hours. But in practice, the class starts 15 minutes after the posted time, and after 45 mins. the class actually started, there is a 15 mins. pose. Then the class ends 15 mins. before the posted time. How many total minutes do we have now? 75 mins. out of posted 120 mins.
If you'd do that in the States (as a teacher), you'll get a lot of complaints from students. They are paying customers after all.
By the way, did those colleges/university posted job advertisements for anime classes? I can teach one.
I never installed fink and (I hope) I never will.
XFree86 (beta) is now available from Apple. You can tell that you are running two display system just by the ugly fonts on one.
I compile xemacs from the source. I found that a lot easier than looking for appropriate binaries that fills my need (mule). If I am lucky, it just compiles and runs. If I am not, I will try an older version.
Compiling from the source may sound a lot of work, but somehow I came to avoid fiddling with packaging system. I don't need to install XEmacs so often.
I'm not the poster you were asking the question, but...
- Chimera (Navigator) is huge, compared to other browsers:
[me@host:Applications]% du -sk
7368
[me@host:Applications]% du -sk
9196
[me@host:Applications]
22052
- Chimera (Navigator) renders buttons incorrectly. (The font inside widgets don't honour the font size setting, at leat on me. It's always 14pt.)
- Unconventional keybindings for page up/down, go back. Safari and OmniWeb share the same keys to page down/up (space/shift + space) and go back (backspace). Mail.app and Preview.app use, to some degree, compatible key strokes to go up and down a page. I can't even figure out how to page down in Chimera. (Is it cmd+space? In that case, that's too bad. The key combo is taken to change script.) Don't tell me to use pgup and pgdn. I need to press two keys to do that. I'm on an iBook.
- In Chimera, when I page down, it leaves about three lines of the bottom of the window at the top of the window. That forces me to look for the line I just finished reading. This is unacceptable.
- Chimera does not support AppleSpell service.
It's not like I hate Chimera. I just notice some rough edges. And to me, it seems that the things I don't like about Chimera comes from exactly the fact that it uses Gecko, a cross-platform rendering engine. I sense slight un-Macness in Chimera.
Darn, whey Hemos had to abbreviated KHTML to KH? It's not like the headline was too long or something.
Anyhow, the same article appeared at C|Net. Is it normal?
Posting from Safari...
I doubt anybody would read this post, but it turned out one of your idea was right on--the keyboard of the new Powerbook that illuminates according to the ambient light. That was apparently what this patent was all about.