More software doesn't mean better software. What good are hundreds of text editors and graphics apps compared to BB Edit, GraphicConverter, the Gimp, and a dozen other tools?
Most Mac apps run just as well in Classic on Mac OS X as they do on Mac OS 9. See http://guide.apple.com/ if you'd like to search for something.
What does WinXP have that could possibly be attractive to a Mac user? I really haven't seen anything particularly promising; did I miss something?
Having apps set type/creator codes adds functionality and flexibility; it doesn't take anything away. Having apps require type/creator codes is problematic, of course, but that's not being suggested here. Pure Java apps can't set type/creator codes? Well, what do Java apps do on Mac OS 9? They should do the same thing on Mac OS X. If it's not appropriate to set type/creator codes, fine, but it almost always is.
File types and creator codes are one of the defining aspects of the Macintosh experience, until you try to share your work with other people.
You're REALLY not a Mac user. Type/creator codes NEVER affect my ability to transfer files between platforms. Sure, it's possible that I'll receive a file that Mac OS doesn't recognize, and it'll have the wrong type/creator code set. Guess what? I have some of my apps configured to fix the type/creator automatically (GraphicConverter and SoundApp, for example) and there are others I set manually (Perl scripts, for example). What Apple has done doesn't make the problem go away - it actually makes things worse, by making it more likely that I'll have these problems. Now, not only will files from other people have bad type/creator codes, but now files I create myself, on my Mac, will have bad type/creator codes!
Apple expects me to stop taking advantage of the functionality because Steve Jobs doesn't think type/creator codes are hip these days. I refuse.
I wasn't doubting the existence of AT&T's equipment; I was doubting that it still worked after the collapse on 9/11/01. This article is talking about the explosion in 1993.
It was working perfectly (it was switching emergency calls) until 4pm sept 11th when it's batteries failed. All that with 110 floors piled on top of it. WOW.
I do remember that; I was doing dialup tech support for an ISP in Phoenix at the time, and I remember telling a customer that that's why the Web site they were trying to get to was down (traceroute stopped in Canada somewhere).
Does this mean that the FreeBSD coders would be able to hack kernel.org and delete the v2.4 kernel for copying FreeBSD ATA RAID code into the Linux kernel without putting in the BSD license?
Actually it looks like they could wipe out the whole thing, not just the 2.4 kernel. Render the FTP servers unbootable.
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Agreed. It looks like some of the work has been done, but large chunks have not been ported yet. More information here.
The Rajneesh bunch wore red, and they had a band or something, with a drum set, with red drums (bass drum and toms). That drum set is now in my house. My mom bought it at auction or something. I feel so special.:-)
Ah well, I didn't need that karma anyway. Score: -47 (Off topic)
However there is a problem that can happen here: No matter what, you can't get around the fact that OS X needs a bucketload of memory, and many machine, like my 6400, max out at laughable amounts like 128mb, which is the bare official minimum for OX X.
Not only that, but RAM for certain older Macs is ungodly expensive.
There are Linux apps that can play QuickTime movies. Have been for a long time. The problem is, the Sorenson codec is proprietary, and without that, what good is QuickTime to most people?
I wonder what happened to make them change their minds. Corporations aren't usually known for doing the right thing simply because it's, well, the right thing.
Apple is trying to change what they are known for. Five years ago, they were known for having a proprietary operating system that ran on proprietary hardware. Three years ago they got rid of the proprietary hardware, and now they've got an open-source OS. There's still a proprietary GUI on top of the OS, but there's a pretty open feel to parts of it. Storing preferences in XML. Bundling Apache and OpenSSH. I compiled WindowMaker!
Let them pronounce "Puyallup". Heck, since most of the US can't pronounce Yakima or Spokane right...
I don't remember how to pronounce Puyallup myself. Not someplace I hear about often; I don't know that I've even been there. I do remember seeing it not too long ago and realizing that I didn't know how to pronounce it.
I always thought that PowerPoint was already at least as destructive as macro viruses to corporate productivity. You ever watch a suit fiddle with his presentation?
How does that hurt productivity? You seem to be implying that the suit would be doing something productive if he weren't using PowerPoint.
It's kinda neat to see Intel using familiar places in the Northwest as their product names. Willamette (which nobody knows how to pronounce - it's "wil-LAM-et", not "wil-la-MET"), Tualatin... what can we expect next? Multnomah? Clackamas? Columbia perhaps.
For those of you not familiar with local geography, the Clackamas river flows into the Willamette river (a mile from my house), which flows north through downtown Portland into the Columbia, which of course flows into the Pacific. The Portland metropolitan area spans Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Multnomah Falls is the second highest year-round waterfall in the country. Most things in the Northwest have either Native American names (mmm, Tillamook cheese), or names that were brought from the east coast by Lewis & Clark, John McLaughlin and other settlers.
IBMs power4?
or what about the PowerPC and its variants?
2 VERY nice architectures, and arguably the only ones other then sparc that dont seem likely to get gobbled up by chipzilla
Interesting that you refer to the Power4 and the PowerPC as two seperate architectures. They're basically variants on the same architecture; IBM makes both of them, and Motorola also makes PowerPCs. This is why you can run the same Linux distribution on an RS/6000 as an iMac.
I think that the smartest thing that Apple could do would be to release a full version of OSX for the PC.
Smartest thing for whom?
Keep in mind that Darwin/x86 currently doesn't support VIA or AMD motherboards, and doesn't support IDE hard drives. They've got a loooong way to go before it's ready for the market.
The best they can do is issue a RECALL on IIS and everything that comes bundled with IIS. Issuing advisories that people aren't reading and patches that people aren't downloading isn't going to get people's attention.
Ha! Funny. So instead of security advisories that people ignore, and patches that people ignore, you're proposing a recall that people will ignore? Great idea!
Unless you're suggesting that Microsoft exploit one of their own backdoors, and remotely disable all IIS servers? Better hope they've installed Windows Media Player so they can't sue for that. Wouldn't it be great if a third of the Web suddenly dropped offline, though?
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TrollTech has a beta of Qt for Mac OS X.
GTK+ has been ported and GIMP runs on it.
I've compiled and run WindowMaker myself.
More software doesn't mean better software. What good are hundreds of text editors and graphics apps compared to BB Edit, GraphicConverter, the Gimp, and a dozen other tools?
Most Mac apps run just as well in Classic on Mac OS X as they do on Mac OS 9. See http://guide.apple.com/ if you'd like to search for something.
What does WinXP have that could possibly be attractive to a Mac user? I really haven't seen anything particularly promising; did I miss something?
I don't think you're a Mac user.
Having apps set type/creator codes adds functionality and flexibility; it doesn't take anything away. Having apps require type/creator codes is problematic, of course, but that's not being suggested here. Pure Java apps can't set type/creator codes? Well, what do Java apps do on Mac OS 9? They should do the same thing on Mac OS X. If it's not appropriate to set type/creator codes, fine, but it almost always is.
File types and creator codes are one of the defining aspects of the Macintosh experience, until you try to share your work with other people.
You're REALLY not a Mac user. Type/creator codes NEVER affect my ability to transfer files between platforms. Sure, it's possible that I'll receive a file that Mac OS doesn't recognize, and it'll have the wrong type/creator code set. Guess what? I have some of my apps configured to fix the type/creator automatically (GraphicConverter and SoundApp, for example) and there are others I set manually (Perl scripts, for example). What Apple has done doesn't make the problem go away - it actually makes things worse, by making it more likely that I'll have these problems. Now, not only will files from other people have bad type/creator codes, but now files I create myself, on my Mac, will have bad type/creator codes!
Apple expects me to stop taking advantage of the functionality because Steve Jobs doesn't think type/creator codes are hip these days. I refuse.
Sorry for ranting; it's 3am.
I wasn't doubting the existence of AT&T's equipment; I was doubting that it still worked after the collapse on 9/11/01. This article is talking about the explosion in 1993.
It was working perfectly (it was switching emergency calls) until 4pm sept 11th when it's batteries failed. All that with 110 floors piled on top of it. WOW.
I'm skeptical; can anyone confirm or deny?
I do remember that; I was doing dialup tech support for an ISP in Phoenix at the time, and I remember telling a customer that that's why the Web site they were trying to get to was down (traceroute stopped in Canada somewhere).
The Debian HURD iso images are now available from your local ftp.gnu.org mirror.
Shouldn't that be Debian GNU/HURD, just to be fair?
I only see one problem: you can't get DSL on a cell phone. :-\
Does this mean that the FreeBSD coders would be able to hack kernel.org and delete the v2.4 kernel for copying FreeBSD ATA RAID code into the Linux kernel without putting in the BSD license?
Actually it looks like they could wipe out the whole thing, not just the 2.4 kernel. Render the FTP servers unbootable.
Agreed. It looks like some of the work has been done, but large chunks have not been ported yet. More information here.
The Rajneesh bunch wore red, and they had a band or something, with a drum set, with red drums (bass drum and toms). That drum set is now in my house. My mom bought it at auction or something. I feel so special. :-)
Ah well, I didn't need that karma anyway. Score: -47 (Off topic)
yeah, yeah, I know. And there was a card to make it work with 80-column text (PR#3, was it?). Just being silly.
Yeah, it uses a port of aalib to display alpha-channel drop-shadows on a 40-column text screen. ;-)
Considering that the LCII has a 68LC020 processor and maxes out at 10MB RAM, I'd have to say no. Try Linux, though!
However there is a problem that can happen here: No matter what, you can't get around the fact that OS X needs a bucketload of memory, and many machine, like my 6400, max out at laughable amounts like 128mb, which is the bare official minimum for OX X.
Not only that, but RAM for certain older Macs is ungodly expensive.
Now if only they'd come out with a linux version.
There are Linux apps that can play QuickTime movies. Have been for a long time. The problem is, the Sorenson codec is proprietary, and without that, what good is QuickTime to most people?
Not the first time, but maybe the last?
Yep, the beleagured Apple is dying again! They'll be gone within a year.
Oh wait, they were gonna die within a year five years ago? And ten years ago? Yet they're still here? Hmm.
I wonder what happened to make them change their minds. Corporations aren't usually known for doing the right thing simply because it's, well, the right thing.
Apple is trying to change what they are known for. Five years ago, they were known for having a proprietary operating system that ran on proprietary hardware. Three years ago they got rid of the proprietary hardware, and now they've got an open-source OS. There's still a proprietary GUI on top of the OS, but there's a pretty open feel to parts of it. Storing preferences in XML. Bundling Apache and OpenSSH. I compiled WindowMaker!
Let them pronounce "Puyallup". Heck, since most of the US can't pronounce Yakima or Spokane right...
I don't remember how to pronounce Puyallup myself. Not someplace I hear about often; I don't know that I've even been there. I do remember seeing it not too long ago and realizing that I didn't know how to pronounce it.
Care to enlighten us?
(YAK-ih-mah, spo-KAN, for those that didn't know)
I always thought that PowerPoint was already at least as destructive as macro viruses to corporate productivity. You ever watch a suit fiddle with his presentation?
How does that hurt productivity? You seem to be implying that the suit would be doing something productive if he weren't using PowerPoint.
It's kinda neat to see Intel using familiar places in the Northwest as their product names. Willamette (which nobody knows how to pronounce - it's "wil-LAM-et", not "wil-la-MET"), Tualatin... what can we expect next? Multnomah? Clackamas? Columbia perhaps.
:-)
For those of you not familiar with local geography, the Clackamas river flows into the Willamette river (a mile from my house), which flows north through downtown Portland into the Columbia, which of course flows into the Pacific. The Portland metropolitan area spans Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Multnomah Falls is the second highest year-round waterfall in the country. Most things in the Northwest have either Native American names (mmm, Tillamook cheese), or names that were brought from the east coast by Lewis & Clark, John McLaughlin and other settlers.
Sorry for babbling off-topic.
IBMs power4?
or what about the PowerPC and its variants?
2 VERY nice architectures, and arguably the only ones other then sparc that dont seem likely to get gobbled up by chipzilla
Interesting that you refer to the Power4 and the PowerPC as two seperate architectures. They're basically variants on the same architecture; IBM makes both of them, and Motorola also makes PowerPCs. This is why you can run the same Linux distribution on an RS/6000 as an iMac.
Don't forget the Z-80.
I think that the smartest thing that Apple could do would be to release a full version of OSX for the PC.
Smartest thing for whom?
Keep in mind that Darwin/x86 currently doesn't support VIA or AMD motherboards, and doesn't support IDE hard drives. They've got a loooong way to go before it's ready for the market.
Sorry, saw that on their site just after posting. I stand corrected. ;-)
The best they can do is issue a RECALL on IIS and everything that comes bundled with IIS. Issuing advisories that people aren't reading and patches that people aren't downloading isn't going to get people's attention.
Ha! Funny. So instead of security advisories that people ignore, and patches that people ignore, you're proposing a recall that people will ignore? Great idea!
Unless you're suggesting that Microsoft exploit one of their own backdoors, and remotely disable all IIS servers? Better hope they've installed Windows Media Player so they can't sue for that. Wouldn't it be great if a third of the Web suddenly dropped offline, though?