Would probably be more funny if it was true. So what are some of these AJAX widgets that don't work in Mac browsers?...And why do you need to "boot" QuickTime?...And why would a Mac user need to run a non-Flash page when Macs come with Flash support already built-in?
At least for mac users, there are quite a few very well designed and maintained products that are shareware and rival Adobe's offerings in both features and pizazz.
RapidWeaver is an industrial-strength alternative to Dreamweaver which includes an SDK, full drag-n-drop designing interface, coding panel, Flash integration, and site maintenance. Currently it's $49.
Coda is the newcomer on the block, built by one of the best Mac shareware coding companies. As with the others, it allows for drag-n-drop designing and fully supports XHTML. Panic Software's tagline "shockingly good Mac software" is evident here cause they integrate the features of Transmit (their excellent FTP utility) including site/filepath synchronization, drag-n-drop uploading from the Dock... Coda also includes a console that's integrated into the app window that allows for split terminal shells for SSH and other functions. Coda includes a GUI CSS editor and comprehensive HTML programmer's guide in the application itself. $79.
TextMate is the Mac's premiere enterprise-level, yet shareware price text editor that does... pretty much anything. It can handle just about as many language bundles as jEdit but is purely Mac. It integrates well with Transmit, the shell, Subversion, and has a fully customizable code snippet library for full programmer control. I can't even begin to summarize all the features that sets this editor apart from the others, but it easily shames Dreamweaver's code window. Just watch the screencasts on the website. It costs 39.
CSSEdit by MacRabbit is a GUI-powered CSS editor which has a snooping mode called X-Ray that can analyze a website's design similar to Firefox's 3rd party Web Developer addon, except with style, polish, and features that you've come to expect from Mac applications. It includes a CSS "builder" workflow that allows you to use some natural language and object-oriented programming (in the most basic sense) to build CSS effects. $29.95
There are many others including Apple's own iWeb (which is included with every new Macintosh, is VERY easy to use, and puts out bloated-yet XHTML compliant code) and BBEdit by Bare Bones Software which is very comparable to TextMate in many ways.
Somehow the way comm badges work in Star Trek doesn't make any sense. Take the scenario which is frequently done on the show:
(1) Enterprise bridge crew is watching an away team's planet survey on the main viewscreen. Captain Piccard decides to ask Commander Riker (who is on the away team) a question.
(2) Scene cuts to the planet. You see Riker with his away team. Suddenly you hear Piccard's voice on Riker's comm badge "Piccard to Riker: Report!"
Now tell me this... In this scenario, Piccard supposedly hails Riker and even though there is no "routing" done with the message beforehand, Piccard's entire vocal request automatically goes to Riker and ONLY Riker, though everyone on the away team has a comm badge. In fact, you hear the initial request for Riker on his own badge. Did the comm badge psychically know to message Riker solely at the instant Piccard clicked his comm badge to transmit?
I don't see how this is saying Bush sucks. It blamed congress for the change in Daylight savings time, and last I checked, congress is run by the Democrats.
BZZZZT! You lose. Maybe you should wind back the clock and note who was in control of Congress when this bill was signed. Can you guess which party had control of both the House and the Senate at the time?
Well, at the very least it's nice to know that there are more than two people actually in the room listening to proposals. Have you ever seen the room BEHIND the person on the mic? Nearly all those chairs are EMPTY most of the time!
The rewards for casual players when they first start in BC are nice (although how nice depends on your class) but it still puts you leagues behind the hardcore players who will still gank you in 5 seconds flat even with no tactics.... As a casual gamer I was excited for BC but quickly found it to be the same ol' crap with new zones and now the power gamers can gank you without you ever seeing them most of the time (unless you spend a lot of time starring up at the sky) thanks to flying mounts.
Sounds like someone needs to reroll on a carebear^H^H^H^H PVE server. Ganking lowbies isn't new. It's happened to me quite a few times, but I've accepted that being on a PVP server. It just teaches me to keep watching my back and assessing the threat from opposing factions questing in the same area.
I use SpamAssassin and train it regularly against obvious spam. I've heard that this new crop of spam GIFs accompanying seemingly-normal text is mean to get through or even de-train Bayesian filters, but wouldn't SpamAssassin be able to recognize [snip]...
Yes and no. I use SA on my mail server with the additional SARE plugins. SA does recognize email with an attached GIF but really, it cannot detect much else beyond that. An attached GIF on a seemingly spam-like message (on my system) counts as 1.3 out of 6.0 (spam threshold) points. That's the SARE_GIF_ATTACH rule firing but beyond that, if that's all the message contains, there isn't anything for SA to count against that message except RBL and reverse DNS checks on the sender.
On the flipside (and maybe I'm too generous in my scoring) stuff that gets into my Spam folder (6.0 points or higher, less than 7.0) is mostly text spam where the BAYES_99 rule fires. However, no other rule is violated and the message gets 6.0 points. I wonder if BAYES_99 is foolproof enough where I can score it 7.0 and will get auto-dumped to/dev/null in the future.
Instead of trying to innovate the outside which everyone has tried (and many fail to do), why don't people work on getting the INSIDE fixed?
I've seen many so-called "pretty" ATX cases that look fancy but the moment you open them up its like staring at the devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Cables snaking and twisting everywhere, sharp metal edges and plastic tabs, screws... its a geek nightmare.
Some may deride Apple for the design of the Mac Pro case, but if you open it, you will immediately notice that they REALLY spent some time designing the layout of the interior parts. Heck even the the old Sawtooth generation G3/G4 towers (circa 1999) had that nifty side-handle design where the motherboard sat on a hinged door.
All you have to do is compare the year-over-year numbers. Q3 may be low every year, but the numbers get larger year-over-year. The guys at the Guardian obviously understand NOTHING about market and fiscal trends.
Podcasts and video podcasts are now being used in several new open source apps that allow independent journalist shows, the foremost being the Democracy player. You get Media Matters for America, Democracy Now!, MediaRights, Willie Nelson (!!), ActiveFreeMedia, the Echo Chamber Project, N.O. TV, and more.
The player is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
They did increase the number of computers that can be "authorized", but what about users who are not happy with this change? Apple did not give them a choice about this. What if Apple reduced the number of CDs that could be burnt to 0, but increased the number of computers that could be authorized to 7. Would that be fair, too?
Then do what everyone else does. Change the playlist... then change it back. Playlist restrictions get reset (back to seven). They're just keeping people from easily making one-step pirate CD-burning factories out of iTunes. Apple's implementation was made to keep honest people honest, to stop the casual pirate. They don't blatantly stop people in their tracks; they give wiggle room for users. Notice that you can load an iPod with as many songs as you want from ANYONE's computer? You just can't casually unload all of them onto any one machine. However, they haven't stopped anyone from working out their own solution. And with authorized machines, you can deauthorize and reauthorize specific computers anytime you want.
My parents would but they do not like change. They had enough issues upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP. This is more a matter of social engineering. Some people fear change, while other are taught only applications, not resourceful thinking.
My brother would but he plays WoW and he is not texh savy to get OSX to run on his PC. Take the same WOW cds and put into your Mac. Double-click the install icon. Did you forget that WOW (and pretty much every Blizzard title) is cross-platform?... enjoy!
The article sadly never expands upon Apple's own college offering, iTunes U, which is supposedly free for Colleges. Not only do students have access to music collections and the iTunes Music Store, but they also can listen to and download class lectures, professor podcasts, etc. They've recently added three more schools to the iTunes U roster including Duke, North Carolina Central University, and Butte College.
What do you mean "surely not"? Can I run City of Heroes/Villains or DDO natively on an Apple machine IN OS/X (NOT in Windows dual-booted, and NOT in VirtualPC/VMWare/Other Emulation Software)?
Oh I don't know, but I'm with most of the millions of others who would rather play World of Warcraft and Starcraft... (the most popular games in history) lo and behold they work just fine on my Mac, even with the same discs from the PC version! Imagine that!
Would this be an issue if the VA started using Apple MacBook Pro systems with FileVault turned on?
FileVault secures your home directory by encrypting its entire contents using the Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit keys. This high-performance algorithm automatically encrypts and decrypts in real time, so you don't even know it's happening.
The availability of PPC builds is encouraging. However, the lack of Universal Binary versions is not... I hope SETI will get Intel versions out quickly. It's been nearly seven months since the first Intel-based Macs were made available to the public.
Bush quote: Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution. -- April 20, 2004 in Buffalo, New York.... so much for that assertion, we find out later!
2005... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamn piece of paper!
The whole reason a lot of Mac clients dropped out a while back is because SETI officials REFUSED to update the client to take full advantage of the PowerPC G4 and its SIMD unit(s). What's the use of running a client that doesn't efficiently run on the system. It then becomes a waste of CPU time and power.
Does anyone know if recent clients are _fully_ optimized for the PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 (dual cpu and dual core), and Intel Macs (Universal Binary and dual core) ?
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Would probably be more funny if it was true. So what are some of these AJAX widgets that don't work in Mac browsers? ...And why do you need to "boot" QuickTime? ...And why would a Mac user need to run a non-Flash page when Macs come with Flash support already built-in?
At least for mac users, there are quite a few very well designed and maintained products that are shareware and rival Adobe's offerings in both features and pizazz.
RapidWeaver is an industrial-strength alternative to Dreamweaver which includes an SDK, full drag-n-drop designing interface, coding panel, Flash integration, and site maintenance. Currently it's $49.
Coda is the newcomer on the block, built by one of the best Mac shareware coding companies. As with the others, it allows for drag-n-drop designing and fully supports XHTML. Panic Software's tagline "shockingly good Mac software" is evident here cause they integrate the features of Transmit (their excellent FTP utility) including site/filepath synchronization, drag-n-drop uploading from the Dock... Coda also includes a console that's integrated into the app window that allows for split terminal shells for SSH and other functions. Coda includes a GUI CSS editor and comprehensive HTML programmer's guide in the application itself. $79.
TextMate is the Mac's premiere enterprise-level, yet shareware price text editor that does... pretty much anything. It can handle just about as many language bundles as jEdit but is purely Mac. It integrates well with Transmit, the shell, Subversion, and has a fully customizable code snippet library for full programmer control. I can't even begin to summarize all the features that sets this editor apart from the others, but it easily shames Dreamweaver's code window. Just watch the screencasts on the website. It costs 39.
CSSEdit by MacRabbit is a GUI-powered CSS editor which has a snooping mode called X-Ray that can analyze a website's design similar to Firefox's 3rd party Web Developer addon, except with style, polish, and features that you've come to expect from Mac applications. It includes a CSS "builder" workflow that allows you to use some natural language and object-oriented programming (in the most basic sense) to build CSS effects. $29.95
There are many others including Apple's own iWeb (which is included with every new Macintosh, is VERY easy to use, and puts out bloated-yet XHTML compliant code) and BBEdit by Bare Bones Software which is very comparable to TextMate in many ways.
Somehow the way comm badges work in Star Trek doesn't make any sense. Take the scenario which is frequently done on the show:
(1) Enterprise bridge crew is watching an away team's planet survey on the main viewscreen. Captain Piccard decides to ask Commander Riker (who is on the away team) a question.
(2) Scene cuts to the planet. You see Riker with his away team. Suddenly you hear Piccard's voice on Riker's comm badge "Piccard to Riker: Report!"
Now tell me this... In this scenario, Piccard supposedly hails Riker and even though there is no "routing" done with the message beforehand, Piccard's entire vocal request automatically goes to Riker and ONLY Riker, though everyone on the away team has a comm badge. In fact, you hear the initial request for Riker on his own badge. Did the comm badge psychically know to message Riker solely at the instant Piccard clicked his comm badge to transmit?
You have 14 days to exchange the machine for the newer one at an Apple Store and pay just a restocking fee. Better get on it!
I don't see how this is saying Bush sucks. It blamed congress for the change in Daylight savings time, and last I checked, congress is run by the Democrats.
BZZZZT! You lose. Maybe you should wind back the clock and note who was in control of Congress when this bill was signed. Can you guess which party had control of both the House and the Senate at the time?
Well, at the very least it's nice to know that there are more than two people actually in the room listening to proposals. Have you ever seen the room BEHIND the person on the mic? Nearly all those chairs are EMPTY most of the time!
The rewards for casual players when they first start in BC are nice (although how nice depends on your class) but it still puts you leagues behind the hardcore players who will still gank you in 5 seconds flat even with no tactics. ...
As a casual gamer I was excited for BC but quickly found it to be the same ol' crap with new zones and now the power gamers can gank you without you ever seeing them most of the time (unless you spend a lot of time starring up at the sky) thanks to flying mounts.
Sounds like someone needs to reroll on a carebear^H^H^H^H PVE server. Ganking lowbies isn't new. It's happened to me quite a few times, but I've accepted that being on a PVP server. It just teaches me to keep watching my back and assessing the threat from opposing factions questing in the same area.
LOL that's nothing. What about the other news item of the day: Intel founder gets his wish and receives his dream computer -- an Apple MacBook Pro 17" ...best part is the photo of him smiling ear-to-ear! ...keep'em coming!
How about a more comprehensive list from Apple itself?
It ships with a lot of stuff, but very little of it is turned on by default
Actually, NONE of it is turned on by default.
I would like to see a mac mini with TiVo-killer hardware and software, but I doubt it will exist as long as Apple is selling TV shows in their store.
The movies and TV shows are in crappy quality aimed at the iPod screen size too, so they're a gross ripoff given that they're priced like DVDs.
You mean this one? Apple demo'd it back in September 2006.
I use SpamAssassin and train it regularly against obvious spam. I've heard that this new crop of spam GIFs accompanying seemingly-normal text is mean to get through or even de-train Bayesian filters, but wouldn't SpamAssassin be able to recognize [snip] ...
/dev/null in the future.
Yes and no. I use SA on my mail server with the additional SARE plugins. SA does recognize email with an attached GIF but really, it cannot detect much else beyond that. An attached GIF on a seemingly spam-like message (on my system) counts as 1.3 out of 6.0 (spam threshold) points. That's the SARE_GIF_ATTACH rule firing but beyond that, if that's all the message contains, there isn't anything for SA to count against that message except RBL and reverse DNS checks on the sender.
On the flipside (and maybe I'm too generous in my scoring) stuff that gets into my Spam folder (6.0 points or higher, less than 7.0) is mostly text spam where the BAYES_99 rule fires. However, no other rule is violated and the message gets 6.0 points. I wonder if BAYES_99 is foolproof enough where I can score it 7.0 and will get auto-dumped to
Instead of trying to innovate the outside which everyone has tried (and many fail to do), why don't people work on getting the INSIDE fixed?
I've seen many so-called "pretty" ATX cases that look fancy but the moment you open them up its like staring at the devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Cables snaking and twisting everywhere, sharp metal edges and plastic tabs, screws... its a geek nightmare.
Some may deride Apple for the design of the Mac Pro case, but if you open it, you will immediately notice that they REALLY spent some time designing the layout of the interior parts. Heck even the the old Sawtooth generation G3/G4 towers (circa 1999) had that nifty side-handle design where the motherboard sat on a hinged door.
According to Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH, 17th) the cost is about $11.5 million/hour in Iraq.
All you have to do is compare the year-over-year numbers. Q3 may be low every year, but the numbers get larger year-over-year. The guys at the Guardian obviously understand NOTHING about market and fiscal trends.
iPod unit sales:
----- 2004
Q4 03: 336,000
Q1 04: 733,000 (holiday quarter)
Q2 04: 807,000
Q3 04: 860,000
Q4 04: 2,016,000
----- 2005
Q1 05: 4,580,000 (holiday quarter)
Q2 05: 5,311,000
Q3 05: 6,155,000
Q4 05: 6,451,000
----- 2006
Q1 06: 14,043,000 (holiday quarter)
Q2 06: 8,526,000
Q3 06: 8,111,000
Podcasts and video podcasts are now being used in several new open source apps that allow independent journalist shows, the foremost being the Democracy player. You get Media Matters for America, Democracy Now!, MediaRights, Willie Nelson (!!), ActiveFreeMedia, the Echo Chamber Project, N.O. TV, and more.
The player is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
They did increase the number of computers that can be "authorized", but what about users who are not happy with this change? Apple did not give them a choice about this. What if Apple reduced the number of CDs that could be burnt to 0, but increased the number of computers that could be authorized to 7. Would that be fair, too?
Then do what everyone else does. Change the playlist... then change it back. Playlist restrictions get reset (back to seven). They're just keeping people from easily making one-step pirate CD-burning factories out of iTunes. Apple's implementation was made to keep honest people honest, to stop the casual pirate. They don't blatantly stop people in their tracks; they give wiggle room for users. Notice that you can load an iPod with as many songs as you want from ANYONE's computer? You just can't casually unload all of them onto any one machine. However, they haven't stopped anyone from working out their own solution. And with authorized machines, you can deauthorize and reauthorize specific computers anytime you want.
I'm a SQL Server DBA.
... enjoy!
Install the free Aqua Data Studio database admin tool.
My parents would but they do not like change. They had enough issues upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP.
This is more a matter of social engineering. Some people fear change, while other are taught only applications, not resourceful thinking.
My brother would but he plays WoW and he is not texh savy to get OSX to run on his PC.
Take the same WOW cds and put into your Mac. Double-click the install icon. Did you forget that WOW (and pretty much every Blizzard title) is cross-platform?
The article sadly never expands upon Apple's own college offering, iTunes U, which is supposedly free for Colleges. Not only do students have access to music collections and the iTunes Music Store, but they also can listen to and download class lectures, professor podcasts, etc. They've recently added three more schools to the iTunes U roster including Duke, North Carolina Central University, and Butte College.
What do you mean "surely not"? Can I run City of Heroes/Villains or DDO natively on an Apple machine IN OS/X (NOT in Windows dual-booted, and NOT in VirtualPC/VMWare/Other Emulation Software)?
Oh I don't know, but I'm with most of the millions of others who would rather play World of Warcraft and Starcraft... (the most popular games in history) lo and behold they work just fine on my Mac, even with the same discs from the PC version! Imagine that!
Would this be an issue if the VA started using Apple MacBook Pro systems with FileVault turned on?
FileVault secures your home directory by encrypting its entire contents using the Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit keys. This high-performance algorithm automatically encrypts and decrypts in real time, so you don't even know it's happening.
The availability of PPC builds is encouraging. However, the lack of Universal Binary versions is not... I hope SETI will get Intel versions out quickly. It's been nearly seven months since the first Intel-based Macs were made available to the public.
Bush quote: ... so much for that assertion, we find out later!
... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamn piece of paper!
Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution. -- April 20, 2004 in Buffalo, New York.
2005
The whole reason a lot of Mac clients dropped out a while back is because SETI officials REFUSED to update the client to take full advantage of the PowerPC G4 and its SIMD unit(s). What's the use of running a client that doesn't efficiently run on the system. It then becomes a waste of CPU time and power.
Does anyone know if recent clients are _fully_ optimized for the PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 (dual cpu and dual core), and Intel Macs (Universal Binary and dual core) ?
Also see #21 COLSA uses a cluster of Apple Xserves http://www.top500.org/system/7741