While the above information is marginally interesting to bring business to his local pizza, flower, dildo delivery guys, what i'd really like to know is:
Any class C of ip addresses assigned to this nice T1 line he's installing at his home.
well. i'm a pretty savvy user too, and i've found OS X to dramatically increase my productivity at work, whether it is for J2EE development, surfing the web, fooling around in office suites. And i'm not the only one at my work to think that way. *A lot* of senior engineers, may they be unix/solaris geeks, linux fanatics, windoz sluts, just happen to find OS X a better platform.
The Dock is a truly inovative and powerful application-launching *and* context-switching all-in-one metaphore: Hold the ctrl key while clicking on a running app's icon (or use the right mouse button) (yes OS X natively supports pretty much all two-button USB mice). Lately i'm trying to further maximize my desktop real estate by putting it on the right side of the screen, turning off magnification, making it very small, and always leaving it on. i had it at its default position before, worked pretty well too, so we'll see how that goes.
Having multiple terminal windows opened with tcsh, and, sporadically, with bash, allows me to use all the utilities i like, such as find, sed, awk, grep, xargs, vi, emacs and even... pico. heh. Those of you who have tried to get a development environment set-up with tomcat while fooling around with classpaths must be intimately familiar with how GAY and RETARDED the DOS shell is, and while cygwin is a very nice tool, any time there needs to be interactions between windows OS and cygwin layers, dealing with 'cygpath' is still highly gay.
For those of you familiar with BareBones Software's BBEdit, one of the Macintosh Platform's most old-school text-editor/code-authoring software (i still have my BBEdit, it doesn't suck t-shirt), it comes with a command-line executable called "bbedit" that gets installed with the app, and you can use it to open files from the shell:
Anyway, there are a ZILLION ways you can customize OS X to work better for you, check out sites such as macosxhints.com and of course, Fink.
Of course, you should have Apple's Developer Tools installed, which is a CD that comes with your OS X package.
The bottom-line is, once you install Developer Tools, OS X comes out-of-the-box equipped with a slew of geek power tools, with a *all* the unix utilities you are accustomed to, plus a slew of application development IDEs and utilities, such as Project Builder, MallocDebug, ThreadViewer. Beyond that, you can easily install additional unix tools such as X-Windows, Gnome, KDE, Gimp via Fink. I've got those running on my TiBook 400mhz 384MB RAM.
To further customize your working environment, the finder's "favorites" (heart icon on a finder window toolbar) are also highly useful, as you can quickly make any folder or drive or shortcut a "favortie", which will be listed in any dialog box that asks you to save or open a file.
My entourage email DB file was about 400+MB... I have a back-up of a few
months ago somewhere. It still sucks. It was that big because i had imported a couple of years' worth of e-mail. anyway.
Last nite I ran the 10.2.2 update.
Rebooted.
Did a 'df' in a terminal and noticed I had a lot more hard drive space. Gone
down from 83%+ full to 77% full. It was late. Didn't think much of it.
This morning I start entourage and all my account settings, email, folders,
filters, addresses are *gone*. The DB in microsoft user data was brand new
from scratch. It even popped the set-up assistant.
What did stick around was my signature and rules. Weird.
I called apple they're supposed to get back to me today.
Can anyone think of any issue with the new journaling file system and a big file?
Uuuugh:( note to self. Always back-up before update.
"
dyke1: so whatche in for?
dyke2: i had steamy sex with one of my horny high-school bi-curious student bimbos, who subsequently ratted me out after i gave her a C on a shitty paper.
dyke1: ow. that's harsh.
dyke2: you?
dyke1: dildo fetish.
dyke2: *blink*. i guess i'm headed for deathrow.
dyke1: *nod*. you shoulda stayed in california
"
I've been using Bank of America online banking since it first came out back in '95 and have been very happy with it. I've used that site in many alternative browsers including exotic versions of netscape and mozilla without too much headache. they do want you to have a fairly up-to-date netscape. and mozilla works just fine.
Of note, they were one of the first big corporations to use a java-based enterprise application server, using netscape enterprise, as you could figure out from the very telling AppLogic+FooAppLogic URLs. They upgraded a couple of years ago and I think they're using the upgraded iPlanet now.
Anyway. I am glad that my bank does not use a microsoft "solution" for any mission-critical application. That would make me *very* nervous to say the least. It looks like they've got some geeks who know their shit running their apps. Even the markup/front-end HTML/JavaScript throughout their site looks good to me (and i would know, i like to pick apart this kind of shit) while they've managed to keep the user interface fairly simple and intuitive.
Anyway. go bofa.
On an unrelated and fairly inconsequential note: i just refinanced my home loan and my lender is now bofa. i work for a fairly large corporation whose bank is bofa. my personal bank is bofa. so every two weeks, my company sends a direct deposit from their bofa account to my bofa checking account, a good chunk of which goes rite back to yet another bofa mortgage account. i'm bofa's bitch:o you'd think they'd give me free interest checking?
Yup. Plus, aside from gaming, most of your beloved windoz applications have either been ported to OS X or have better equivalents, of note are the recent ports of audio/music programs which sent a couple of my music-authoring friends running to the nearest Apple Store. I would like to point out that Microsoft actually writes some pretty damn good software for Mac. They've got some old school Apple developers working for them. Office X works really well, I really like Entourage. Internet Explorer 5.2 is also a good browser to get you started with a familiar program until you explore the many nifty lightweight tab-supporting spam filtering OS X browser alternatives such as Omniweb, Chimera and Mozilla.
Another nice thing is plugging your mac on any network, hit the "connect" menu and instantly see:
all the samba shares on your network
all the apple shares on your network
all the unix nfs shares on your network
And if you are like me and you actually use your computer to work for a living, you get the added perk of having a stable, reliable, dependable UNIX operating system lying at the core of a very intuitive and powerful environment, with a slew of goodies for developers: Java 1.3 SDK (don't pester about 1.4, it's still in beta anyway), Apple Developer Tools (comes with OS X package), with gcc 3.1, cvs. I highly recommend BBEdit from Barebones Software which is a very powerful text editor that has been around for the mac for about 7 years (I still proudly wear my BBEdit, it doesn't suck T-shirt). Note that BBEdit installs a command-line executable at/usr/bin/bbedit that allows you to open files directly in BBEdit from the command line. All files matching the argument pattern to the command are open in separate BBEdit windows, which I find highly powerful:
Many more open-source *nix-flavored packages can be easily installed via Fink, they already have well over 600 packages. I've got X11, Gnome and Gimp running in OS X on my old 400mhz TiBook.
If you ask me, such a set-up beats the *crap* out of using cygwin in windows. It also beats running linux on a laptop.
Oh... one more thing. Aside from CPU clock speed considerations (as in, you spec two laptops with the fastest cpu available for each vendor, knowing that *yes* pentiums will give you slightly more bang), if you are comparison-shopping for a dependable high-end laptop to do serious work, if you add to a PC laptop all the features that come standard on Apple powerbooks, you'll see that both systems come at about the same price. Oh and the PC laptop will be thicker and heavier. If they are lighter it means they're missing a cd/dvd/rw combo drive. I'm not sure about the Porsche one.
Hey i'm not a zealot. I used macs for years, at work and at home, then i used windows NT on some 500mhz P3 dell laptop at work which i then upgraded to windoz 2k, it served its purpose for a while, cygwin was, after all, a very good compromise... Until Mac OS 10.1 came out, i no-longer needed to compromise and i switched. And it has been fun ever since.
Actually I have seen the Porsche Bikes for sale here in the U.S., in Beveryly Hills, California, at the Porsche Design store near rodeo dr. up on that street that goes up and off to the side with a fountain at the end of it. Also BMW makes a pretty damn nifty bicycle.
PanIP.com appears to have been slashdotted. they suck. Their host is failing to respond to connection attempts, and when the http request does get thru, it is only to serve a page with a directory listing containing an HTTP-basic-auth-protected "stats" folder.
I agree it is possible to build a more efficient highly-dynamic and mediatized GUI in flash. I would say it works best for self-contained applications such as games, interactive movie trailers and such, where content is primarily self-contained entertainment versus information meant for in-depth navigation.
Many developers use flash as an easy subsitute to web standards as their strengths lie more in graphics and animation, while programming, coding arguably obscure HTML code tends to limit their creative abilities. That's because they are retards. Just kidding.
Such developers will inevitably drive traffic away from their site:
Linear browsing: when a site contains large amounts of text information with numerous references and navigation to entire other sections, the flash author needs to "re-implement" basic HTML functionality such as Back and Forward. Most authors don't even bother. Users get forced to fully leverage a navigation interface that is imposed to them, they have to learn new navigation paradigms to supplant those they had previously gotten accustomed to through their web browser. When a user browses a site authored in HTML a user can choose to leverage the site author's navigation bar, or use the oh-so-familiar browser's back button to quickly return to the previous page they were looking at. No such thing in flash.
Information Accessibility: A flash file is essentially binary data. Search engines do not process those as of yet, though google does process PDF documents, but there's a mildly open API for PDF, none for flash. That's because flash is Gay. Just kidding. Any information contained in a flash file will NOT get indexed by search engines.
Page Load: Depending on how big and prominent your flash file is, users will not be able to read or interact with any portion of your content until the flash file is fully downloaded. Using W3 standards, a browser will first download all of the HTML text data, render a document framework which allows the user to start reading information, while images get loaded separately in placeholder boxes sized according to their width and height attributes.
Poor Navigation Design / Hybrid Content: I have seen many "flash-powered-sites" which offer you a flash-animated introduction when you first load their site. When that animated introduction is done loading, it subsequently "flies-in" navigation elements to allow the user to navigate to other sections of the site. Upon clicking any of the "hot" regions, you get directed to a new HTTP URL which loads an HTML document. Once you are done reading, and hit your browser's Back button you are AGAIN greeted by the obnoxious introduction before being granted access to the other navigation elements. This is a typical example of a developer taking a shortcut to what should have been though-out user interface design decisions.
Yup I agree with most of your concerns. With some luck and enough press-coverage about users not being able to run the software they want on their computer, people will look to alternatives. Apple just may gain a wee bit more marketshare, especially since they're looking to use IBM's 64-bit chip, freeing them from their aged motorolla processor, and most likely enabling them to hop on the whole "Gigahertz-whiz-bang" bandwagon. Prices might come down too as they'd gain marketshare.
I dare you to actually do that! if you did do that, and even put-up a page with blonde jokes on it, i swear i'll add you to my fans list:)
Now, if you can tell me within 12 hours of this post going out there what exactly your new DNS records are guna look like, and which configuration changes you'd need to make to httpd.conf, you might actually impress me. I read the Salon story, while highly entertaining, my 16-year-old sister can put-up a web site like yours and use hushmail, as well as point out inherent flaws in Netscape's early designs of their Document Object Model. I was pretty impressed by the information you did manage to get out of the guy's office DSL connection, but i'm wondering if you had some serious help there.
Slashdot Mirror
i do think it *is* him. His middle name is Murray. Alan Murray Ralsky as i've also found him on another listing.
While the above information is marginally interesting to bring business to his local pizza, flower, dildo delivery guys, what i'd really like to know is:
whooaa really cool, moderators please mod parent up!
The Dock is a truly inovative and powerful application-launching *and* context-switching all-in-one metaphore: Hold the ctrl key while clicking on a running app's icon (or use the right mouse button) (yes OS X natively supports pretty much all two-button USB mice). Lately i'm trying to further maximize my desktop real estate by putting it on the right side of the screen, turning off magnification, making it very small, and always leaving it on. i had it at its default position before, worked pretty well too, so we'll see how that goes.
Having multiple terminal windows opened with tcsh, and, sporadically, with bash, allows me to use all the utilities i like, such as find, sed, awk, grep, xargs, vi, emacs and even ... pico. heh. Those of you who have tried to get a development environment set-up with tomcat while fooling around with classpaths must be intimately familiar with how GAY and RETARDED the DOS shell is, and while cygwin is a very nice tool, any time there needs to be interactions between windows OS and cygwin layers, dealing with 'cygpath' is still highly gay.
For those of you familiar with BareBones Software's BBEdit, one of the Macintosh Platform's most old-school text-editor/code-authoring software (i still have my BBEdit, it doesn't suck t-shirt), it comes with a command-line executable called "bbedit" that gets installed with the app, and you can use it to open files from the shell:
find . -path "*some/path*" -name "*.html"" |xargs bbedit
incredibly cool.
Anyway, there are a ZILLION ways you can customize OS X to work better for you, check out sites such as macosxhints.com and of course, Fink.
Of course, you should have Apple's Developer Tools installed, which is a CD that comes with your OS X package.
The bottom-line is, once you install Developer Tools, OS X comes out-of-the-box equipped with a slew of geek power tools, with a *all* the unix utilities you are accustomed to, plus a slew of application development IDEs and utilities, such as Project Builder, MallocDebug, ThreadViewer. Beyond that, you can easily install additional unix tools such as X-Windows, Gnome, KDE, Gimp via Fink. I've got those running on my TiBook 400mhz 384MB RAM.
To further customize your working environment, the finder's "favorites" (heart icon on a finder window toolbar) are also highly useful, as you can quickly make any folder or drive or shortcut a "favortie", which will be listed in any dialog box that asks you to save or open a file.
So like ... how is OS X frustrating to you?
Anyone care to spend a buck?
err whoaaa so u think the fsck process when i rebooted nuked that big-ass 400+MB file? can u give me some background?
Last nite I ran the 10.2.2 update.
Rebooted.
Did a 'df' in a terminal and noticed I had a lot more hard drive space. Gone down from 83%+ full to 77% full. It was late. Didn't think much of it.
This morning I start entourage and all my account settings, email, folders, filters, addresses are *gone*. The DB in microsoft user data was brand new from scratch. It even popped the set-up assistant.
What did stick around was my signature and rules. Weird.
I called apple they're supposed to get back to me today.
Can anyone think of any issue with the new journaling file system and a big file?
Uuuugh :( note to self. Always back-up before update.
" dyke1: so whatche in for?
dyke2: i had steamy sex with one of my horny high-school bi-curious student bimbos, who subsequently ratted me out after i gave her a C on a shitty paper.
dyke1: ow. that's harsh.
dyke2: you?
dyke1: dildo fetish.
dyke2: *blink*. i guess i'm headed for deathrow.
dyke1: *nod*. you shoulda stayed in california
"
would you mind backing-up your allegations about EarthLink with more substantive meat? i am curious.
OS X supports a slew of foreign languages.
Of note, they were one of the first big corporations to use a java-based enterprise application server, using netscape enterprise, as you could figure out from the very telling AppLogic+FooAppLogic URLs. They upgraded a couple of years ago and I think they're using the upgraded iPlanet now.
Anyway. I am glad that my bank does not use a microsoft "solution" for any mission-critical application. That would make me *very* nervous to say the least. It looks like they've got some geeks who know their shit running their apps. Even the markup/front-end HTML/JavaScript throughout their site looks good to me (and i would know, i like to pick apart this kind of shit) while they've managed to keep the user interface fairly simple and intuitive.
Anyway. go bofa.
On an unrelated and fairly inconsequential note: i just refinanced my home loan and my lender is now bofa. i work for a fairly large corporation whose bank is bofa. my personal bank is bofa. so every two weeks, my company sends a direct deposit from their bofa account to my bofa checking account, a good chunk of which goes rite back to yet another bofa mortgage account. i'm bofa's bitch :o you'd think they'd give me free interest checking?
Another nice thing is plugging your mac on any network, hit the "connect" menu and instantly see:
- all the samba shares on your network
- all the apple shares on your network
- all the unix nfs shares on your network
And if you are like me and you actually use your computer to work for a living, you get the added perk of having a stable, reliable, dependable UNIX operating system lying at the core of a very intuitive and powerful environment, with a slew of goodies for developers: Java 1.3 SDK (don't pester about 1.4, it's still in beta anyway), Apple Developer Tools (comes with OS X package), with gcc 3.1, cvs. I highly recommend BBEdit from Barebones Software which is a very powerful text editor that has been around for the mac for about 7 years (I still proudly wear my BBEdit, it doesn't suck T-shirt). Note that BBEdit installs a command-line executable atfind ./code/java/net -name "*Factory*java" | xargs bbedit
bbedit *.xml
Vim is also available as a native OS X application.
Many more open-source *nix-flavored packages can be easily installed via Fink, they already have well over 600 packages. I've got X11, Gnome and Gimp running in OS X on my old 400mhz TiBook.
If you ask me, such a set-up beats the *crap* out of using cygwin in windows. It also beats running linux on a laptop.
Oh ... one more thing. Aside from CPU clock speed considerations (as in, you spec two laptops with the fastest cpu available for each vendor, knowing that *yes* pentiums will give you slightly more bang), if you are comparison-shopping for a dependable high-end laptop to do serious work, if you add to a PC laptop all the features that come standard on Apple powerbooks, you'll see that both systems come at about the same price. Oh and the PC laptop will be thicker and heavier. If they are lighter it means they're missing a cd/dvd/rw combo drive. I'm not sure about the Porsche one.
Hey i'm not a zealot. I used macs for years, at work and at home, then i used windows NT on some 500mhz P3 dell laptop at work which i then upgraded to windoz 2k, it served its purpose for a while, cygwin was, after all, a very good compromise ... Until Mac OS 10.1 came out, i no-longer needed to compromise and i switched. And it has been fun ever since.
Actually I have seen the Porsche Bikes for sale here in the U.S., in Beveryly Hills, California, at the Porsche Design store near rodeo dr. up on that street that goes up and off to the side with a fountain at the end of it. Also BMW makes a pretty damn nifty bicycle.
And yes, let it be known for the record: it is my personal belief that Lawrence Lockwood, the guy behind PanIP, is a dick
I agree it is possible to build a more efficient highly-dynamic and mediatized GUI in flash. I would say it works best for self-contained applications such as games, interactive movie trailers and such, where content is primarily self-contained entertainment versus information meant for in-depth navigation.
Many developers use flash as an easy subsitute to web standards as their strengths lie more in graphics and animation, while programming, coding arguably obscure HTML code tends to limit their creative abilities. That's because they are retards. Just kidding.
Such developers will inevitably drive traffic away from their site:
*clinching blanket and pulling it towards face*
"I can hear dead boxen".
[/haleyjoel]
imagine a paradoxally silently humming, mysteriously stealth, decibel absorbing, reality distorting beowulf cluster of those.
Yup I agree with most of your concerns. With some luck and enough press-coverage about users not being able to run the software they want on their computer, people will look to alternatives. Apple just may gain a wee bit more marketshare, especially since they're looking to use IBM's 64-bit chip, freeing them from their aged motorolla processor, and most likely enabling them to hop on the whole "Gigahertz-whiz-bang" bandwagon. Prices might come down too as they'd gain marketshare.
dewd. where do u live. heh. i wanna move there!
i agree it's pretty damn funny hehe :)
Name: brainyblonde.com
Address: 64.71.153.74
Aliases: oxymoron.brainyblonde.com
http://oxymoron.brainyblonde.com/
I dare you to actually do that! if you did do that, and even put-up a page with blonde jokes on it, i swear i'll add you to my fans list :)
Now, if you can tell me within 12 hours of this post going out there what exactly your new DNS records are guna look like, and which configuration changes you'd need to make to httpd.conf, you might actually impress me. I read the Salon story, while highly entertaining, my 16-year-old sister can put-up a web site like yours and use hushmail, as well as point out inherent flaws in Netscape's early designs of their Document Object Model. I was pretty impressed by the information you did manage to get out of the guy's office DSL connection, but i'm wondering if you had some serious help there.
HTTP Error 500: Application Error:
Stack Trace Follows:
NullPointerException at brainInstance.think()