Please do not comment about what is going on underneath the hood of the OS unless you know something about the underlying architecture.
I am well aware of this, so I'm not sure why you are flaming me.
I am also aware that users are "admin" by default, and can write to "Applications" and numerous other directories without a sudo login, which is the only access required for a trojan. This is unlike almost every other Unix setup and seems to be overlooked by all you smarty-pants Mac users.
There's proof-of-concept "viruses" out there that work without a sudo login so it's not even a debatable point.
Most people who use "Alt-F" would just directly for the next shortcut (Alt F S to save) and not the arrows. The nice thing about this is that it's universal for all menus, no memorizing required.
That's nice in theory. But in practice many Mac applications use copyprotection systems that get integrated deeper into the OS.
Also, does MacOS X have something like COM? The main reason you need an uninstaller on Windows is because components are registered with the system for use with other programs. Otherwise you could just trash a couple directories.
Do you Smug Mac Guys ever consider that it conceivably possible that Microsoft thought up something that simply works better than what Apple thought up? Rather than consider criticism it seems like most of you turn into flaming assholes and repel people away from your beloved computer.
Well here it is from a long time Mac user: Apple's program launching process is largely a relic of 400K Floppy Drives, and I'm not conviced it has scaled well to modern systems. They never really re-thought the process, it's just "the way it's always been done". The original Mac did have a "Start" function. You stuck a floppy into a drive and a window popped up with the program icons. When they switched to hard drives, that simplicity was lost.
Just on a superficial level, which looks easier: [START] <== Click here stupid versus [======] Macintosh HD
I guess Apple is one lying to me because their control panel says I'm "Admin". Either that or you don't really understand Mac security.
And there's plenty of stuff that can be done without invoking sudo privileges, more than enough to spread a virus or send spam. Please stop spreading misinformation.
The last time one of these came around, there was an aggressive dis-information campaign by Mac zealots claiming that it required the admin password. The problem was that it didn't -- at least for most Mac users (admin by default).
I agree that malware is largely a non-issue for Mac users, but one of the worst myths that could be spread to innocent Maccies is that the admin password is real protection. Most trojans do not need elevated privledges.
I have to agree. It's a pretty fine line, but these ads seem to fall into the "observational humor" category without being too over the top.
I think Apple's last advertisment where they talk about "dull little PCs performing dull little tasks" (by dull little people?) was a lot worse, pretty much only appealing to the Smug Mac User crowd.
That's not true, Apple and others used the generic term personal computer for years before IBM came out with their "PC".
In retrospect it was a huge mistake for IBM because they were using a brandname that they could not trademark, which only assisted with the product becoming genericized.
There's been many Mac "viruses" over the last 5 years, they just don't spread very fast or very far, probably due to a dispersed userbase.
Unless you can find a situation where a virus could easly jump from one Mac to hundreds of others, it will likely remain that way. As someone's joke goes "You could potentially take out an art school or a small advertising agency".
Note I have "virues" in quotes because like most Windows "virues" they are acutally stupid trojans along the lines of "HAY! RUN THIS!".
Well, that's totally revisionist history. There's been a "PC Magazine" since about 1982, and it's always focused on IBM-compatible machines (or "PC Clones").
People got away from the term "100% IBM-Compatible", because every machine met the standard so there was no point in advertising it, and after about 1990 IBM never did a single thing to advance the state of PC hardware.
Find your Applications folder. Drag it into your Dock just beside your trash can.
Bingo! You can also just hold down the left (single) button to use it.
Now we just need to get Apple to start shipping systems this way. The root post is right -- Windows users do not find using the Finder to launch apps to be easy or intutitive. They expect there to be some sort of abstraction.
Apple uses Akamai, so they already have a functional mirroring system close to your ISP network. They also have never had a problem saturating my DSL. And frankly, if they're selling content, infrastructure costs are their problem, not mine.
peers inside your isp's network can deliver bits of content much faster through fewer hops
This is untrue for most if not all ISP networks. Customers are uplink limited to 128K or whatever even to people next door. BitTorrent will do nothing to improve your download speed of Apple content.
No backpedel, most of Nintendo's sales go to younger children, while Sony/MS are biased towards older teens and young adults. Bet on it. That doesn't mean you personally have to feel bad about purchasing and enjoying a Wii.
Yeah, Google employs Firefox developers directly and indirectly pays Mozilla salaries. I suppose technically they're independant, but realistically Mozilla.org is a division of Google, Inc.
If so, congrats! You've taken step 1 in dealing with IE and now width/padding/border/margin works for most cases. But it's still filled with all sorts of annoying bugs. Here's a really comprehensive list:
I'm just a home powerbook user, so I have very little need for ZFS or whatever, but I do need occassional SMB networking, and OS X really comes up short. Lots of hangs, freezes, kernel panics, wierd errors, and so on. CIFS==Crash-A-Mac. (Things are getting slowly better, with the keyword being slow.)
AFAICT, the "best" networking solution on MacOS X is to stick to ye olde AppleShare (eg Win2K Server running SFM). However that's too cumbersome for most home networks.
The Mac File Code (eg "WDBN" instead of "DOC") is not stored in the resource fork -- it is in the file index. It's almost identical to MS-DOS extentions except there's no easy way to change them, and they get lost if you copy the file to a non-HFS system.
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Please do not comment about what is going on underneath the hood of the OS unless you know something about the underlying architecture.
I am well aware of this, so I'm not sure why you are flaming me.
I am also aware that users are "admin" by default, and can write to "Applications" and numerous other directories without a sudo login, which is the only access required for a trojan. This is unlike almost every other Unix setup and seems to be overlooked by all you smarty-pants Mac users.
There's proof-of-concept "viruses" out there that work without a sudo login so it's not even a debatable point.
Most people who use "Alt-F" would just directly for the next shortcut (Alt F S to save) and not the arrows. The nice thing about this is that it's universal for all menus, no memorizing required.
That's nice in theory. But in practice many Mac applications use copyprotection systems that get integrated deeper into the OS.
Also, does MacOS X have something like COM? The main reason you need an uninstaller on Windows is because components are registered with the system for use with other programs. Otherwise you could just trash a couple directories.
1) Start menu - Ha ha! Good one!
Do you Smug Mac Guys ever consider that it conceivably possible that Microsoft thought up something that simply works better than what Apple thought up? Rather than consider criticism it seems like most of you turn into flaming assholes and repel people away from your beloved computer.
Well here it is from a long time Mac user: Apple's program launching process is largely a relic of 400K Floppy Drives, and I'm not conviced it has scaled well to modern systems. They never really re-thought the process, it's just "the way it's always been done". The original Mac did have a "Start" function. You stuck a floppy into a drive and a window popped up with the program icons. When they switched to hard drives, that simplicity was lost.
Just on a superficial level, which looks easier:
[START] <== Click here stupid
versus
[======] Macintosh HD
I guess Apple is one lying to me because their control panel says I'm "Admin". Either that or you don't really understand Mac security.
And there's plenty of stuff that can be done without invoking sudo privileges, more than enough to spread a virus or send spam. Please stop spreading misinformation.
Keep in mind that right-click is a foreign concept to most Mac users.
[IE, Not the crowd that hangs on slashdot or bought a Mac to run Unix commands.]
The last time one of these came around, there was an aggressive dis-information campaign by Mac zealots claiming that it required the admin password. The problem was that it didn't -- at least for most Mac users (admin by default).
I agree that malware is largely a non-issue for Mac users, but one of the worst myths that could be spread to innocent Maccies is that the admin password is real protection. Most trojans do not need elevated privledges.
I have to agree. It's a pretty fine line, but these ads seem to fall into the "observational humor" category without being too over the top.
I think Apple's last advertisment where they talk about "dull little PCs performing dull little tasks" (by dull little people?) was a lot worse, pretty much only appealing to the Smug Mac User crowd.
That's not true, Apple and others used the generic term personal computer for years before IBM came out with their "PC".
In retrospect it was a huge mistake for IBM because they were using a brandname that they could not trademark, which only assisted with the product becoming genericized.
There's been many Mac "viruses" over the last 5 years, they just don't spread very fast or very far, probably due to a dispersed userbase.
Unless you can find a situation where a virus could easly jump from one Mac to hundreds of others, it will likely remain that way. As someone's joke goes "You could potentially take out an art school or a small advertising agency".
Note I have "virues" in quotes because like most Windows "virues" they are acutally stupid trojans along the lines of "HAY! RUN THIS!".
Well, that's totally revisionist history. There's been a "PC Magazine" since about 1982, and it's always focused on IBM-compatible machines (or "PC Clones").
People got away from the term "100% IBM-Compatible", because every machine met the standard so there was no point in advertising it, and after about 1990 IBM never did a single thing to advance the state of PC hardware.
There was a SANS report on the rising number of Mac security bugs, so this isn't entirely some media conspiracy.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31394
Find your Applications folder. Drag it into your Dock just beside your trash can.
Bingo! You can also just hold down the left (single) button to use it.
Now we just need to get Apple to start shipping systems this way. The root post is right -- Windows users do not find using the Finder to launch apps to be easy or intutitive. They expect there to be some sort of abstraction.
If you look around, there's quite a few sites that allow you to save videos from YouTube etc.
Help + Contents.
(J/K -- try File + Import/Export).
Apple uses Akamai, so they already have a functional mirroring system close to your ISP network. They also have never had a problem saturating my DSL. And frankly, if they're selling content, infrastructure costs are their problem, not mine.
peers inside your isp's network can deliver bits of content much faster through fewer hops
This is untrue for most if not all ISP networks. Customers are uplink limited to 128K or whatever even to people next door. BitTorrent will do nothing to improve your download speed of Apple content.
No backpedel, most of Nintendo's sales go to younger children, while Sony/MS are biased towards older teens and young adults. Bet on it. That doesn't mean you personally have to feel bad about purchasing and enjoying a Wii.
Yeah, Google employs Firefox developers directly and indirectly pays Mozilla salaries. I suppose technically they're independant, but realistically Mozilla.org is a division of Google, Inc.
People have been complaining about this since the Mac came out in 1984 (it took ~10 years before the Finder actually had a "find" command).
Supposedly, the Finder is named after a camera's view finder.
IE will still export a Nutscrape-style Bookmark HTML file.
Well, the first question is (as I said), are you using the right box model? If not, width/padding/border will not work according to CSS rules.
m l/cssenhancements.aspo del.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnie60/ht
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/about-boxm
If so, congrats! You've taken step 1 in dealing with IE and now width/padding/border/margin works for most cases. But it's still filled with all sorts of annoying bugs. Here's a really comprehensive list:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
And the W3C validator only checks for syntactical correctness and does not prove your page is rendering correctly or incorrectly.
I'm just a home powerbook user, so I have very little need for ZFS or whatever, but I do need occassional SMB networking, and OS X really comes up short. Lots of hangs, freezes, kernel panics, wierd errors, and so on. CIFS==Crash-A-Mac. (Things are getting slowly better, with the keyword being slow.)
AFAICT, the "best" networking solution on MacOS X is to stick to ye olde AppleShare (eg Win2K Server running SFM). However that's too cumbersome for most home networks.
The Mac File Code (eg "WDBN" instead of "DOC") is not stored in the resource fork -- it is in the file index. It's almost identical to MS-DOS extentions except there's no easy way to change them, and they get lost if you copy the file to a non-HFS system.
Do MS Office and other major Mac apps run from UFS volumes now?
I stopped paying attention to UFS around 10,1, but at that point there was no support for the Mac Resource Fork, which was still widely being used.
Here's another version from a pro-Mac paper:
/ 05/01/BUGK7IHGOC1.DTL
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006
Sourced mainly from SANS, which is for real.