rely on OSX features itself and thus can't be ported to KHTML without a full rewrite
That's not entirely true. There was a <canvas> functionality that relied on an OS X API, but Apple has wrapped it in a platform agnostic API. KHTML developers will need to write this portion for the wrapper. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147630&cid=123 78765
I tried zsh in the past, but the man pages made learning it cumbersome. Zsh had 1 man page that references others much like Perl. I prefer to have one page with all the options listed so I don't have to have all of them opened concurrently--made searching a drag. Maybe zsh has changed, but I have grown to be comfortable with bash.
Interesting. I have very recently thought about window size. For the longest time, I have used 80x48. But very recently I had to go through a lot of data to spot check some stuff (too lazy/not enough time to write another program to check) and a lot of the rows are 2 lines' worth. It was difficult looking at the screen while using less and see the lines flip from one line to the next on alternating screens. I have begun to use 80x49, reserving 1 line for pager status. I guess that's why IBM chose, in part, 80x25 as their original monochrome display size.
Path is the most important, then followed by machine name. I do access other machines, but hardly ever more than 4 at a time. A more important thing is to set cd aliased so it changes the window title of your terminal emulator. It is absolutely required if you have 8 or 9 windows and you want to get back at some window you were using 20 or even 5 minutes ago.
Another thing I do is set ls, ll, and lr aliases and include -aF switches in addition to the -l and -R for the latter two, respectively (I just set ls to what I want and have ll/lr reference my ls alias).
Next, I have a huge command line history--10K lines. It really sucks if I lose my.bash_history file. But I almost can always refer to stuff in history and (almost) never have to write down an obscure command again. But doing this makes working with many windows to a login a challenge. I must use exit or explicitly ^Ding to have my history saved. If I X-out my history is lost. May be a terminal emulator thing--I use tterm w/ ttssh.
My prompt is 2 lines. A bit over kill, but I traverse to lengthy paths and I like to see the complete path. First line is machine + path, second is just my shell name. I really like editing my command line with bash's v command.
Director's Guild rules by not opening with production and director credits
Is there such a rule? I have often times noticed a few movies where no credits are displayed at a movie's opening sequence. Just some weird thing I notice.
Dave Hyatt says the following in his reply of his blog entry.
The CANVAS element does use OS X APIs, but behind an abstraction layer that is platform-agnostic. Mozilla has in fact implemented CANVAS on top of Cairo in Firefox. The code can be easily merged for CANVAS if a suitable back-end graphics library exists underneath.
Posted by hyatt at April 28, 2005 12:00 PM
So I gather that Apple has done quite a bit of work to help out but time is something of a luxury that the KHTML team doesn't have a lot of.
Looks like the truth is somewhere in the middle (is this a truism?). I haven't even seen KHTML so the following is speculation.
Zack described Apple using OS X-specific APIs in the KHTML core--which is unfortunate. I also get the feeling that some of Apple's patches does not work well without help from Apple's proprietary libraries. I know I have sometimes rushed something out by making a fix in an area outside a "core" piece so that if I took the core out, it would break in certain situations. Sometimes, it would even prevent "core" from compiling.
As OSS developers, the KHTML team should be diligent in pursuing their cause with Apple. If they (KHTML developers) do not, the situation will get worse as patches pile on top of patches.
Another braindead application is the Date and Time properties. Sometimes it is just convenient to double-click and look at the calendar. A normal user will not even be able to see the time and date but is greeted with an insufficient privileges dialog. Stupid.
Some applications/drivers write to non-"My Documents"/-HKLU paths for their settings cause trouble for normal users. XP SP2 associates Image Editor (or something like that) with JPEG, GIF files by default. A normal user will not be able to launch it but is greeted with an invalid type or some obtuse dialog because it needs write access to an HKLM path within the registry. Lame. Why it didn't associate those images with Preview is beyond me, but doing this would be a bandaid. I thought XP and SP1 did. Older (not sure about newer) nVIDIA drivers write directly to HKLM when you change your display's settings. Why couldn't it use HKLU?
Just finished watching the keynote. Thanks for the link.
I'm reminded of Tiger as the demo was progressing because the search, virtual views, and Metro was very similar to what Tiger has. Search was very rough because there was no real-time update, unlike Tiger. I am not fond of the fact that the Start Menu has become a kitchen sink of scroll bars, dialogs, and dynamic search content--what a mess. Overall, the demo is short on "coolness" and definitely not even in the same ballpark as an S.J. RDF(tm). MS has lots of work to do.
It's strange how the guy who was demoing desktop search, Metro, etc uses Steve Jobs mannerisms. His hands does the classic tent and says "boom" in various places. I _think_ maybe even his cadence is the same as Steve's but quite obvious not as articulate. Maybe generating a 0.2 S.J. RDF.
Longhorn will probably have more robust search features than Tiger has today (mid 2005). But what will happen with an upcoming version of OS X? It's easy to make predictions with an unreleased/beta product.
Most of the time, thumbnail view of movies is a black screen, not very useful either. Film clips, on the other hand are more useful. I remember in OS 9 you can modify what frame the thumbnail picture is for QuickTime movies. Not sure how to do that for AVI/WMA files.
I could never understand why sort by name in details separates folders from files. How can I change this? It's one of the most stupid thing ever. I mean, sort by name, not by type.
I have such a links attached to my taskbar, too. The reason why we need it is because Windows doesn't have a favorite folder menu/button in the open/save dialog boxes. It sure is a pain because not all applications remember your last accessed folder. The last accessed folder is nice, but not as nice as a favorites (Mac OS 9/X).
My advice: turn it off. I do it on all my machines that I'm forced to run XP. Also turn off the fade, slide, etc. animations.
Its default theme's minimize, maximize, and close boxes are way too big. Does MS think everyone needs glasses? The other thing is that they're much too close together and it is easy to click one when you meant something else--unlike OS X where the widgets are further apart.
See? Functional after that. I do admit that I use ClearType. First time I did it on an LCD I thought something was wrong with the display because of the color fringes it adds.
NS had a lot of old bugs due to its use of 4.2BSD. People would report it but hardly any would get fixed/patched/updated. So I would not be surprised if some of these bugs were not purged by OS X's use of a more up-to-date version of BSD and its subsequent kernel reorg.
Well, a lot of tier-1 tech support people do sound like they're reading off a cheat sheet.
. running Windows? . Windows 2000/XP? . relaunch IE . go to Internet Options, clear cache . connect only 1 computer . ping gateway . ping DNS . power cycle machine . power cycle router . Oh, OK, you have a problem I cannot fix, I'll transfer you to tier-2
Maybe you're tier-2/-3? Basically, it takes an act of God for me to reach you as I spend 30-50 minutes talking to tier-1.
Someone here posted that mass extinction via gamma rays is a scary thought.
Another scary thought is that if we're currently living within a false vacuum and when it decays, everything within this universe would be destroyed as the destruction travels at the speed of light from the point of decay.
We use this one, too. There was actually an article a while back here and quite a few folks liked software RAID because CPUs are now fast enough to support it without causing significant degradation. After skipping over the low end Adaptec (the $150 product), Promise, and Highpoint; the middle ground came up and the LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4 made a lot of sense. We currently use it under Windows 2000 and the product is supported under Linux. Unfortunately it's not supported under *BSD.
We ran into a problem where copying a large set of files result in that Windows Explorer window freezing up and the disk activity light was on solid for around 30-60 seconds. Tech support said this was normal, but several months later, a new BIOS/driver update acknowledged and fixed this problem. Don't know if this is good or bad. Bad that tech support doesn't talk to their developers; good that their developers scour their tech support database and fix bugs.
I originally wanted to buy this product from Germany but they only sell there and it's not available in the U.S. 3ware was a candidate but I recall that some parts of their performance was not as good as the LSI.
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Yup. It was interesting the first 2 times they did this but backpeddled. Now it's like the kid crying wolf. You hit it right on the head.
A long time ago (20 years ago or thereabouts) I spoke with the owner of an arcade about buying some of his machines (video games as well as pinball). He didn't recommend me buying a pinball because the maintenance is very high. A lot of parts are mechanical--they wear out and require constant tuning. The most time-consuming part was that the playfield need to be waxed on a regular basis. When I first visited the arcade there were a 50-50 ratio between video games and pinballs. When it came time for me to buy, it was maybe 80-20 in favor of video games. Several years afterward, it was 100% video games.
I'm sure other posters are correct--demand is low. But I think the demand is low because of required high maintenance.
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That's not entirely true. There was a <canvas> functionality that relied on an OS X API, but Apple has wrapped it in a platform agnostic API. KHTML developers will need to write this portion for the wrapper. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147630&cid=123 78765
I tried zsh in the past, but the man pages made learning it cumbersome. Zsh had 1 man page that references others much like Perl. I prefer to have one page with all the options listed so I don't have to have all of them opened concurrently--made searching a drag. Maybe zsh has changed, but I have grown to be comfortable with bash.
Interesting. I have very recently thought about window size. For the longest time, I have used 80x48. But very recently I had to go through a lot of data to spot check some stuff (too lazy/not enough time to write another program to check) and a lot of the rows are 2 lines' worth. It was difficult looking at the screen while using less and see the lines flip from one line to the next on alternating screens. I have begun to use 80x49, reserving 1 line for pager status. I guess that's why IBM chose, in part, 80x25 as their original monochrome display size.
Another thing I do is set ls, ll, and lr aliases and include -aF switches in addition to the -l and -R for the latter two, respectively (I just set ls to what I want and have ll/lr reference my ls alias).
Next, I have a huge command line history--10K lines. It really sucks if I lose my .bash_history file. But I almost can always refer to stuff in history and (almost) never have to write down an obscure command again. But doing this makes working with many windows to a login a challenge. I must use exit or explicitly ^Ding to have my history saved. If I X-out my history is lost. May be a terminal emulator thing--I use tterm w/ ttssh.
My prompt is 2 lines. A bit over kill, but I traverse to lengthy paths and I like to see the complete path. First line is machine + path, second is just my shell name. I really like editing my command line with bash's v command.
Is there such a rule? I have often times noticed a few movies where no credits are displayed at a movie's opening sequence. Just some weird thing I notice.
So I gather that Apple has done quite a bit of work to help out but time is something of a luxury that the KHTML team doesn't have a lot of.
Looks like the truth is somewhere in the middle (is this a truism?). I haven't even seen KHTML so the following is speculation.
Zack described Apple using OS X-specific APIs in the KHTML core--which is unfortunate. I also get the feeling that some of Apple's patches does not work well without help from Apple's proprietary libraries. I know I have sometimes rushed something out by making a fix in an area outside a "core" piece so that if I took the core out, it would break in certain situations. Sometimes, it would even prevent "core" from compiling.
As OSS developers, the KHTML team should be diligent in pursuing their cause with Apple. If they (KHTML developers) do not, the situation will get worse as patches pile on top of patches.
Another braindead application is the Date and Time properties. Sometimes it is just convenient to double-click and look at the calendar. A normal user will not even be able to see the time and date but is greeted with an insufficient privileges dialog. Stupid.
Some applications/drivers write to non-"My Documents"/-HKLU paths for their settings cause trouble for normal users. XP SP2 associates Image Editor (or something like that) with JPEG, GIF files by default. A normal user will not be able to launch it but is greeted with an invalid type or some obtuse dialog because it needs write access to an HKLM path within the registry. Lame. Why it didn't associate those images with Preview is beyond me, but doing this would be a bandaid. I thought XP and SP1 did. Older (not sure about newer) nVIDIA drivers write directly to HKLM when you change your display's settings. Why couldn't it use HKLU?
Just finished watching the keynote. Thanks for the link.
I'm reminded of Tiger as the demo was progressing because the search, virtual views, and Metro was very similar to what Tiger has. Search was very rough because there was no real-time update, unlike Tiger. I am not fond of the fact that the Start Menu has become a kitchen sink of scroll bars, dialogs, and dynamic search content--what a mess. Overall, the demo is short on "coolness" and definitely not even in the same ballpark as an S.J. RDF(tm). MS has lots of work to do.
It's strange how the guy who was demoing desktop search, Metro, etc uses Steve Jobs mannerisms. His hands does the classic tent and says "boom" in various places. I _think_ maybe even his cadence is the same as Steve's but quite obvious not as articulate. Maybe generating a 0.2 S.J. RDF.
Oh, you mean more eye candy?
Damn straight it's their fault! Their fault I lost money in the .com bust, too.
Longhorn will probably have more robust search features than Tiger has today (mid 2005). But what will happen with an upcoming version of OS X? It's easy to make predictions with an unreleased/beta product.
And so it is.
But
HKLM\software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 is still there
HKCU\software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 is still there
Still
HKLM\software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\1.0.2 (en-US) is gone
HKCU\software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\1.0.2 (en-US) is gone
Two out of 3 ain't bad.
Most of the time, thumbnail view of movies is a black screen, not very useful either. Film clips, on the other hand are more useful. I remember in OS 9 you can modify what frame the thumbnail picture is for QuickTime movies. Not sure how to do that for AVI/WMA files.
I could never understand why sort by name in details separates folders from files. How can I change this? It's one of the most stupid thing ever. I mean, sort by name, not by type.
I have such a links attached to my taskbar, too. The reason why we need it is because Windows doesn't have a favorite folder menu/button in the open/save dialog boxes. It sure is a pain because not all applications remember your last accessed folder. The last accessed folder is nice, but not as nice as a favorites (Mac OS 9/X).
My advice: turn it off. I do it on all my machines that I'm forced to run XP. Also turn off the fade, slide, etc. animations.
Its default theme's minimize, maximize, and close boxes are way too big. Does MS think everyone needs glasses? The other thing is that they're much too close together and it is easy to click one when you meant something else--unlike OS X where the widgets are further apart.
See? Functional after that. I do admit that I use ClearType. First time I did it on an LCD I thought something was wrong with the display because of the color fringes it adds.
I suppose it can also be the case where it's not obvious until somebody shows you and then... "of course... a child could do it."
Until they actually use the radio and realize they get inferior reception.
NS had a lot of old bugs due to its use of 4.2BSD. People would report it but hardly any would get fixed/patched/updated. So I would not be surprised if some of these bugs were not purged by OS X's use of a more up-to-date version of BSD and its subsequent kernel reorg.
Well, a lot of tier-1 tech support people do sound like they're reading off a cheat sheet.
. running Windows?
. Windows 2000/XP?
. relaunch IE
. go to Internet Options, clear cache
. connect only 1 computer
. ping gateway
. ping DNS
. power cycle machine
. power cycle router
. Oh, OK, you have a problem I cannot fix, I'll transfer you to tier-2
Maybe you're tier-2/-3? Basically, it takes an act of God for me to reach you as I spend 30-50 minutes talking to tier-1.
Someone here posted that mass extinction via gamma rays is a scary thought.
Another scary thought is that if we're currently living within a false vacuum and when it decays, everything within this universe would be destroyed as the destruction travels at the speed of light from the point of decay.
We use this one, too. There was actually an article a while back here and quite a few folks liked software RAID because CPUs are now fast enough to support it without causing significant degradation. After skipping over the low end Adaptec (the $150 product), Promise, and Highpoint; the middle ground came up and the LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4 made a lot of sense. We currently use it under Windows 2000 and the product is supported under Linux. Unfortunately it's not supported under *BSD. We ran into a problem where copying a large set of files result in that Windows Explorer window freezing up and the disk activity light was on solid for around 30-60 seconds. Tech support said this was normal, but several months later, a new BIOS/driver update acknowledged and fixed this problem. Don't know if this is good or bad. Bad that tech support doesn't talk to their developers; good that their developers scour their tech support database and fix bugs. I originally wanted to buy this product from Germany but they only sell there and it's not available in the U.S. 3ware was a candidate but I recall that some parts of their performance was not as good as the LSI.
Yup. It was interesting the first 2 times they did this but backpeddled. Now it's like the kid crying wolf. You hit it right on the head.
A long time ago (20 years ago or thereabouts) I spoke with the owner of an arcade about buying some of his machines (video games as well as pinball). He didn't recommend me buying a pinball because the maintenance is very high. A lot of parts are mechanical--they wear out and require constant tuning. The most time-consuming part was that the playfield need to be waxed on a regular basis. When I first visited the arcade there were a 50-50 ratio between video games and pinballs. When it came time for me to buy, it was maybe 80-20 in favor of video games. Several years afterward, it was 100% video games.
I'm sure other posters are correct--demand is low. But I think the demand is low because of required high maintenance.