Either way, in a few years you will look back on whatever you coded today and shake your head in shame.
Boy, ain't that the truth.
Depending on how strong each of the Three Virtues is, though, you'll probably go back and rewrite whatever old code is still in use, until it meets your current standards.
Here's a link to the System 7.5 Network Access boot disk, plus instructions on how to write it to a floppy in Windows. Used to be available on Apple's FTP site, but Google found this first and I'm too lazy to look further.
Anyway, yes, it has AppleTalk, but not TCP/IP.
Apple also has a Mac OS 8.1 Disk Tools floppy image you can download, which is a seriously hacked-up version of Mac OS (without the Mac OS 8 Platinum theme; it looks like System 7) with HFS+ support, but no network access. Includes Disk First Aid and Drive Setup.
I voluntarily installed RealPlayer on my Mac and use it quite often to listen to radio streams (mostly the BBC's Radio Five Live and NPR). It never gets in my way, doesn't run in the background, doesn't trash my file associations, and uninstallation is as simple as dragging the application to the Trash. The most obnoxious thing is having to provide an e-mail address and signing up for an account on real.com, but once you've been through that hassle, you don't have to deal with it again.
Seriously, all the other complaints about RealPlayer for Windows do not apply to the Mac.
On the other hand, nothing prevents you from removing iTunes or iPhoto, or even QuickTime from MacOS,
It occurred to me that although it was very easy to remove QuickTime from classic Mac OS, I have no idea how to remove it from Mac OS X. So, upon a bit of digging, I found what appear to be at least the major parts of it:/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/System/Library/QuickTime/System/Library/QuickTimeJava/System/Library/PreferencePanes/QuickTime.prefPane/Applications/QuickTime Player/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin
The QuickTime Player application and the browser plugin can be easily removed by the user, but as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), the only ways to remove the rest of it are:
1) Use a third-party utility (I'm not aware of anything specific) 2) Open the Terminal and enter UNIX commands with sudo 3) Change the permissions on the affected files and folders by selecting Get Info, Ownership & Permissions, Details, clicking the padlock button, changing the permissions to allow you to modify the files, entering your password to authenticate as an Administrator when prompted, deleting the files, and resetting permissions on whatever you may have changed (or using the Repair Permissions feature in Disk Utility).
So yes, it's probably much simpler than doing the equivalent on Windows (isn't everything?) but not something I'd expect most users to be capable of.
Of course, if you were to do this, all kinds of things that depend on QuickTime would stop working; I'm not sure how much this includes.
Slight addendum to that: MobileCoffeeCo's coffee makers offer the choice of a fine gourmet espresso, cappuccino, latte or mocha, while BMW's coffee makers only produce scalding hot coffee with a slight but noticeable metallic aftertaste.
Now that MobileCoffeeCo has been forced out of business, guess what drivers are stuck with?
Another question to ponder is what happens to Apple if Jobs if occupied doing other things?
Um, hasn't Apple become vastly more successful now than they were when Steve Jobs took over in 1997? And um, hasn't Jobs been busy at Pixar the whole time?
The board "turned down" a hostile takeover bid? Isn't the whole idea of a hostile takeover that the current board doesn't want to go along with it? If the board agreed, then it would be more of an "amenable takeover" or something.
I believe it does that for \r (CR), which is the Mac standard. \n (LF) is the UNIX standard, and that's where this bug comes up. I might have these backwards, but I don't think so...
Hmm, well, it was on a school computer, and I wouldn't expect the campus IT staff to install a third-party "ls" program. However, my friend's Server2k3 box doesn't have it, so... I dunno.
I think I know the bug you mean; it is fixed in WinXP, don't know about Win2K.
Ah! It occurred to me after posting that it might be; Microsoft has definitely been moving towards Linux compatibility lately (I discovered this week that "ls" now works in XP, which is great because I've been typing it by mistake in Windows since about 1997).
Given this, I doubt the usefulness of Linux compatibility in Mac OS X. How many commercial software vendors release ppc-linux versions of their software? Better question, how many software vendors release ppc-linux versions of their software but not native Mac OS X versions of their software? Not too many.
There's still some open-source software designed for Linux that doesn't build cleanly on Mac OS X; the situation has vastly improved over the past few years but a lot of that is because all the major open-source projects have been ported. I don't think Apple would be aiming for PPCLinux binary compatibility, but rather just source compatibility, so open-source Linux apps wouldn't have to be hacked in order to build properly on OSX. I'm not a developer so I don't know what the issues are.
For instance, Apple already provides their multicast DNS server software for free and it works fine with Linux.
I set it up last night, and once I took care of a couple firewall problems, it worked flawlessly. Darwin Streaming Server is another good example.
As for the other items, they would need complete rewrites to work on Linux unless Apple is going to be using something like GNUStep (which I understand is somewhat incomplete, so this is unlikely). This is a huge amount of work, so it's unlikely.
iTunes is Carbon, not Cocoa, so GNUStep wouldn't help. However, since they've already ported it to Win32, one more port shouldn't be nearly as hard as if they didn't already have a lot of experience porting that code.
iTunes and Quicktime are probably the most likely candidates. iTunes makes sense since they could then sell more iPods to Linux users and Linux users are certainly the demographic for iPods. Quicktime would make some sense strategically since it would further legitimize it as an open standard competing with Windows Media.
Also note that iTunes depends on QuickTime; they can't port iTunes without porting QuickTime first. That probably would take a lot of work; I understand QuickTime for Windows actually includes a substantial chunk of the Carbon APIs.
As for XCode, iChat or any of the other iApps, it makes zero sense for Apple port them to any other OS. Goodwill alone is not worth such a massive effort.
This was on Mac OS Rumors two weeks ago; since they no longer have archives I pulled it from the Google cache:
One of the biggest Mac OS X 10.4 features: Linux? It's that time of year again, folks - last year's big operating system release, Panther, is about to get by far its largest and most mature update yet in the form of 10.3.3 and Safari 1.2 in the next couple of weeks, and Apple's attention is beginning to turn to its next major release.
One of our oldest sources has reported in on the beginning stages of this process, and the first item on his bullet list: Linux. Mac OS X 10.4 will more closely merge the Apple experience with that of Linux in several key ways that will visible to users as well as developers. Panther already implements a number of Linux APIs, but Apple hopes to make 10.4's adoptions higher-profile and therefore mirror (rather than cannibalize, we can hope!) Linux's success in creating an "opening wedge" into the Windows world.
We expect to get more details as Apple fleshes out its concept work and gets coding. Stay tuned....
Interesting follow-up to that:
Apple's 10.4 "Linux initiative" could work both ways. Today's crop of new reports on this topic not only provide considerable confirmation that Apple is indeed pondering a "Linux adoption" move, but hint at an angle we haven't covered yet. It has been suggested that Apple could gain quite a bit of attention and support from the GNU/Linux/OSS communities by porting more of its key pieces of software to Linux: Xcode, Rendezvous, QuickTime, iTunes, and iChat have all been mentioned. More on this later in the week as we continue to analyze this particularly tantalizing line of inquiry....
Back in 1996 I reverse-engineered the bitmap format using a hex editor and wrote a Q-BASIC program to read and render them. I think I only worked with a fixed size or fixed bit depth or something, so I didn't bother trying to figure out the complete spec, but could have with more time.
Did you know BMP files are written upside-down? The bottom row is written first (after headers) and the top row last.
Actually come to think of it, Notepad does have a rather annoying bug, as I recall - if you try to open a text file that uses UNIX line endings (i.e. \n instead of \r\n), it gets all confused (overlapping text, text drawing in the wrong place and moving when you highlight, etc.). Maybe somebody could fix this?
THere may not be enough code to build an OS, but what about the individual apps that come with it? If the source to notepad.exe is there, could someone build that?
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Either way, in a few years you will look back on whatever you coded today and shake your head in shame.
Boy, ain't that the truth.
Depending on how strong each of the Three Virtues is, though, you'll probably go back and rewrite whatever old code is still in use, until it meets your current standards.
Here's a link to the System 7.5 Network Access boot disk, plus instructions on how to write it to a floppy in Windows. Used to be available on Apple's FTP site, but Google found this first and I'm too lazy to look further.
Anyway, yes, it has AppleTalk, but not TCP/IP.
Apple also has a Mac OS 8.1 Disk Tools floppy image you can download, which is a seriously hacked-up version of Mac OS (without the Mac OS 8 Platinum theme; it looks like System 7) with HFS+ support, but no network access. Includes Disk First Aid and Drive Setup.
Life imitates satire...
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While I definitely think he should qualify for a regular Oscar, the Technical Oscars aren't the place for actors like him.
"More than 1,107 Target stores operate in 47 states"
I voluntarily installed RealPlayer on my Mac and use it quite often to listen to radio streams (mostly the BBC's Radio Five Live and NPR). It never gets in my way, doesn't run in the background, doesn't trash my file associations, and uninstallation is as simple as dragging the application to the Trash. The most obnoxious thing is having to provide an e-mail address and signing up for an account on real.com, but once you've been through that hassle, you don't have to deal with it again.
Seriously, all the other complaints about RealPlayer for Windows do not apply to the Mac.
On the other hand, nothing prevents you from removing iTunes or iPhoto, or even QuickTime from MacOS,
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework /System/Library/QuickTime /System/Library/QuickTimeJava /System/Library/PreferencePanes/QuickTime.prefPane /Applications/QuickTime Player /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime Plugin.plugin
It occurred to me that although it was very easy to remove QuickTime from classic Mac OS, I have no idea how to remove it from Mac OS X. So, upon a bit of digging, I found what appear to be at least the major parts of it:
The QuickTime Player application and the browser plugin can be easily removed by the user, but as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), the only ways to remove the rest of it are:
1) Use a third-party utility (I'm not aware of anything specific)
2) Open the Terminal and enter UNIX commands with sudo
3) Change the permissions on the affected files and folders by selecting Get Info, Ownership & Permissions, Details, clicking the padlock button, changing the permissions to allow you to modify the files, entering your password to authenticate as an Administrator when prompted, deleting the files, and resetting permissions on whatever you may have changed (or using the Repair Permissions feature in Disk Utility).
So yes, it's probably much simpler than doing the equivalent on Windows (isn't everything?) but not something I'd expect most users to be capable of.
Of course, if you were to do this, all kinds of things that depend on QuickTime would stop working; I'm not sure how much this includes.
Slight addendum to that: MobileCoffeeCo's coffee makers offer the choice of a fine gourmet espresso, cappuccino, latte or mocha, while BMW's coffee makers only produce scalding hot coffee with a slight but noticeable metallic aftertaste.
Now that MobileCoffeeCo has been forced out of business, guess what drivers are stuck with?
Another question to ponder is what happens to Apple if Jobs if occupied doing other things?
Um, hasn't Apple become vastly more successful now than they were when Steve Jobs took over in 1997? And um, hasn't Jobs been busy at Pixar the whole time?
Oh come on, you can always buy a third-party USB mouse... ;-)
The board "turned down" a hostile takeover bid? Isn't the whole idea of a hostile takeover that the current board doesn't want to go along with it? If the board agreed, then it would be more of an "amenable takeover" or something.
I believe it does that for \r (CR), which is the Mac standard. \n (LF) is the UNIX standard, and that's where this bug comes up. I might have these backwards, but I don't think so...
Hmm, well, it was on a school computer, and I wouldn't expect the campus IT staff to install a third-party "ls" program. However, my friend's Server2k3 box doesn't have it, so... I dunno.
I think I know the bug you mean; it is fixed in WinXP, don't know about Win2K.
Ah! It occurred to me after posting that it might be; Microsoft has definitely been moving towards Linux compatibility lately (I discovered this week that "ls" now works in XP, which is great because I've been typing it by mistake in Windows since about 1997).
Given this, I doubt the usefulness of Linux compatibility in Mac OS X. How many commercial software vendors release ppc-linux versions of their software? Better question, how many software vendors release ppc-linux versions of their software but not native Mac OS X versions of their software? Not too many.
There's still some open-source software designed for Linux that doesn't build cleanly on Mac OS X; the situation has vastly improved over the past few years but a lot of that is because all the major open-source projects have been ported. I don't think Apple would be aiming for PPCLinux binary compatibility, but rather just source compatibility, so open-source Linux apps wouldn't have to be hacked in order to build properly on OSX. I'm not a developer so I don't know what the issues are.
For instance, Apple already provides their multicast DNS server software for free and it works fine with Linux.
I set it up last night, and once I took care of a couple firewall problems, it worked flawlessly. Darwin Streaming Server is another good example.
As for the other items, they would need complete rewrites to work on Linux unless Apple is going to be using something like GNUStep (which I understand is somewhat incomplete, so this is unlikely). This is a huge amount of work, so it's unlikely.
iTunes is Carbon, not Cocoa, so GNUStep wouldn't help. However, since they've already ported it to Win32, one more port shouldn't be nearly as hard as if they didn't already have a lot of experience porting that code.
iTunes and Quicktime are probably the most likely candidates. iTunes makes sense since they could then sell more iPods to Linux users and Linux users are certainly the demographic for iPods. Quicktime would make some sense strategically since it would further legitimize it as an open standard competing with Windows Media.
Also note that iTunes depends on QuickTime; they can't port iTunes without porting QuickTime first. That probably would take a lot of work; I understand QuickTime for Windows actually includes a substantial chunk of the Carbon APIs.
As for XCode, iChat or any of the other iApps, it makes zero sense for Apple port them to any other OS. Goodwill alone is not worth such a massive effort.
I completely agree.
Interesting follow-up to that:
Well, we've already got Vigor...
Back in 1996 I reverse-engineered the bitmap format using a hex editor and wrote a Q-BASIC program to read and render them. I think I only worked with a fixed size or fixed bit depth or something, so I didn't bother trying to figure out the complete spec, but could have with more time.
Did you know BMP files are written upside-down? The bottom row is written first (after headers) and the top row last.
Actually come to think of it, Notepad does have a rather annoying bug, as I recall - if you try to open a text file that uses UNIX line endings (i.e. \n instead of \r\n), it gets all confused (overlapping text, text drawing in the wrong place and moving when you highlight, etc.). Maybe somebody could fix this?
THere may not be enough code to build an OS, but what about the individual apps that come with it? If the source to notepad.exe is there, could someone build that?
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Use it to download a WAV file of a car engine.
I dunno, but they make fun of him on AtAT all the time. Search the Reruns section.
Damned entertaining site. I recommend reading it daily, even if you're not a Mac user.
Yeah, talking people down from suicide SUCKS. It's tiring. Taxes your mind and drains your body. Gotta do it though, or this can happen.
Probably. I can't connect either (worked fine before about 2pm PST / 10pm UTC Monday).