OS X has all the power of Linux coupled with a better UI and greater availability of commercial applications.
Depends on your definition of power. OS X is nice but XNU is a piece of crap. XNU's poor scheduler and extremely poor IO means I would never use OS X as a server. The kernel just can't make full use of the hardware.
300,000 registered developers (and a number of unregistered developers for their own use) for a platform that has under 5 % of market share is a pretty good number.
I'm a registered developer on OSX, yet I don't develop on OSX.. You need to be a registered developer just to download GCC. Just because I wanted to compile an app on OSX doesn't mean I'm an OSX developer.
You need to be a registered developer to download the source for Darwin Streaming Server (so even if you run it on Linux you're still considered an "OSX developer")
You know, most PC technicians don't even know how to detect AppleTalk. There's a good chance that you could just turn it on and they'd never know that you'd violated a buzzword.
Two points.
One. Appletalk doesn't route on most routers by default, so if you have more than one subnet (and any company should) you're screwed.
Two. They may not detect AppleTalk but they'd detect the broadcast storms that AppleTalk creates.. and they'd be asking you if you're running some malware since you're spamming the subnet.
The first ones had the magic marker which you used to unveil the clue. The later ones had red cellophane. And finally there were some really neat ones made by Magnetic Scrolls where you were given an encrypted string which you typed into the game and it would reveal the answer if you had progressed far enough into the game.
God I loved those. I think I have Kings Quest I-V hintbooks somewhere.. faded beyond use.
Hello people, this comment is a great example of how to use a lot of words and say absolutely nothing.
Sounds like management material to me, this guy will go far.
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a) FC1 updates RH9 fine
Yup. In fact, I went insane yesterday and installed yum on my RH9 box. I then used it to upgrade to FC2test2 while everything was running (including X), I then restarted X and boom, I'm running FC2test2.. including the x.org X11. I still need to reboot to use the 2.6 kernel instead of RH9's 2.4 kernel.
The only problem I had was I had ximian installed, and had to uninstall a couple of ximian packages.
Your examples, by and large, would have issues using a standard car as well.
What about a week's worth of groceries? How do you take them on the bus? There's a reason why no one cooks in new york... they can't get their groceries home.
not really. I live a block from a parkway, speed limit is 50mph. I take the parkway for 2 miles to the freeway, where the speed limit is 75mph, I stay on the freeway for 12 miles and then get off onto a street where the speed limit is 45mph. I drive on that street for a mile and a half and turn into my work's parking lot.
Obeying the speed limit the trip takes 13 minutes. Add in another 2 minutes for stoplight on the last street (the only place this a stoplight on my entire route) and walking from the parkinglot and it really does only take me 15 minutes... give or take a minute.
Of course, if everyone just used public transit, then public transit would be faster and we could put parks in place of parking lots.
How would public transit be faster for 90% of the US? I take the freeway to work, I drive 15 miles each way, it takes me 15 minutes.. that's an average of 60 mph door-to-door.
If I took the bus or some rail system, it would take me more than hour because, unlike mass transit, I don't have to stop every mile to pick up and drop off passengers.
While a laptop is nice and portable, is a laptop with a one hour battery life really practical?
It is for me. My laptop doesn't leave the house. I can do work while sitting on the couch, instead of sitting in my office. I can take it outside for a smoke break.
99% of the time I'm on the computer, I'm on the internet. If I'm close enough to an access point, odds are good I'm close enough to a power outlet.
My laptop spends a majority of its time plugged into the wall next to the couch. You couldn't replace it with a PC.
That "just works" is something I really like the idea of
Too bad it doesn't exist anywhere.. except for consumer devices like TiVo.
My D-Link 802.11b wireless card doesn't "just work" on OSX.. in fact I had to *pay* for a driver for it. iChat AV doesn't "just work" for 99.99% of all cameras out there.. it requires a firewire camera.
My friend has an gen2 iPod which will crash whenever he plugs it into his G4.. it works fine when hooked up to his XP box.
A co-worker has a 12" iBook which will always go to sleep when the lid is closed, even if a keyboard and monitor are plugged into it.. so he has to keep it open and dim the display.
OSX will "just work" as long as you only buy Apple products and never try to do something like use iSync with a P800.
all I really wanted to do was burn a bunch of files to a CD-RW. Would drag-and-drop really be harder or less powerful or more inconvenient to use than the command line?
Nope, it'd be easier, because you want to do something fairly simple.. add files to a CD-RW.
But what if you wanted to burn files to a CDR.. and you only had a few files, and didn't want to waste an entire CD for it. You can burn the files and leave the session open so you can add more files to it later.
Unfortunately, OSX doesn't provide a way to leave a session open. So under OSX the scenario I described isn't "difficult", it's impossible.
Stop bitching and hit the customize toolbar button. Insert a path icon, and get on with life.
The customize toolbar is a perfect example of Apple's UI "easiness" actually making things worse. I'd go so far as to say the customize toolbar sheet is absolutely braindead.
Drag the path icon up, and oops, the search box doesn't fit on the bar anymore, and you get the >> pullout. Now you can't drag the search box out of the toolbar. There's no way to delete things out of the pullout.
You have to resize the window so that the search box can fit in the window, then you can drag it out. Or you have to start deleting things you don't want to delete in order to get to the things in the pullout. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Also, to save your changes you click "Done" at the bottom. What if I didn't want to save my changes? What if I decided that I wanted to cancel? I can't do it. There is no cancel button!
This is absolutely horrible. It's the last thing you expect. You would be horrified if you opened a document to read it, inadvertently made some changes, then closed the app only to have the app save your changes without saying a word. Yet this is exactly what preference sheets do in OS X. There's no way to undo your changes.. not even Cmd-Z works.
This is an example of where OSX just doesn't work. It's broken by design.
Also, there is window behavior. Perhaps this never, ever happens to anyone else, but daily I get modal Windows coming up behind things (outlook is particularly evil abut this) and making me take time to figure out what window is stopping input from all the others (the OS X sheets are a way better way to do modal).
This is a good demonstration of the tunnel vision a lot of OSX users have. Not a single mention of iChat "chat request" windows popping up and staying *above* all other windows until you specifically deal with them.
There's a related thing in Gnome that does something similar. I hate how new windows get focus even though my mouse isn't in them.. it's frustrating and I haven't found a way to turn it off.
That way you can move a mouse over a window without giving focus, then click if you want focus without bringing it to the front, but still easily be able to bring it to the front with just a doubleclick. I don't know if that's available on any other OS?
Gnome 2.5/2.6 does this, sort of. Clicking on a window will NOT bring it to the front. You need to either click the titlebar, or WindowsKey-click the window in order to bring it to the front. Takes a little getting used to, but it's very handy.
I see a lot of comments glowing with praise for the legendary "productivity boost" you get from using a Macintosh. But how much of this is just hype?
As a programmer, I can say for me, 90% of it is hype. It's the little things.
I prefer multiple desktops.. because I think spacially. Expose is useless for me because it moves windows around. When I switch desktops, my windows are right where I left them. Often grouped by usage.
I don't have sloppy focus or even focus follows mouse. I can't mouse over a browser, and use the scrollwheel to move down, then type into another window.
I'm also am amateur musician. Today I was messing around in GarageBand. GarageBand is what you would get if you took Sonar3, stripped out the ability to keyframe effects, import audio, record knob positions, scrub, and a dozen other features I would consider "essential".
It really exemplifies Apple's philosophy, which is "you do it our way, or you don't do it at all".
I think of OSX as basically a "Photoshop and iLife Execution Environment". Because most people I see using OSX spend 90% of their time in Photoshop and iLife, and rarely use the rest of the OS at all.
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OS X has all the power of Linux coupled with a better UI and greater availability of commercial applications.
Depends on your definition of power. OS X is nice but XNU is a piece of crap. XNU's poor scheduler and extremely poor IO means I would never use OS X as a server. The kernel just can't make full use of the hardware.
unlike microsoft who charges you a few grand for the privilege of developing windows software.
.net comes with csc (the C# compiler) for free. Add SharpDevelop and you have a very high class IDE for free.
Actually,
But you're obviously talking about Visual Studio, which, if MS started giving away for free, people would start screaming antitrust.
300,000 registered developers (and a number of unregistered developers for their own use) for a platform that has under 5 % of market share is a pretty good number.
I'm a registered developer on OSX, yet I don't develop on OSX.. You need to be a registered developer just to download GCC. Just because I wanted to compile an app on OSX doesn't mean I'm an OSX developer.
You need to be a registered developer to download the source for Darwin Streaming Server (so even if you run it on Linux you're still considered an "OSX developer")
So that 300,000 number is grossly inflated.
If you swap headers of an m4a file and an m4p file, QuickTime, iTunes and the iPod all crash while reading it also.
You know, an enterprising hacker would take this as a sure sign of buffer overflows being present in QuickTime.
Then again we all know hackers only use windows so there's nothing to worry about.
so where is this linux music store client?
Still on my harddrive. I'll put it on sourceforge when I get it a little more fleshed out.
You know, most PC technicians don't even know how to detect AppleTalk. There's a good chance that you could just turn it on and they'd never know that you'd violated a buzzword.
Two points.
One. Appletalk doesn't route on most routers by default, so if you have more than one subnet (and any company should) you're screwed.
Two. They may not detect AppleTalk but they'd detect the broadcast storms that AppleTalk creates.. and they'd be asking you if you're running some malware since you're spamming the subnet.
I'm picturing a cross between a stratocaster and a Stradivarius...
A Jordan?
in a speaker cone the only two factors that make a good one are lightness and stiffness.
Funny, I wouldn't think that any alcohol would be associated with stiffness...
I will use those speakers specifically for watching anime.
Nah, put them in your rice burner.
It's really kinda sad.
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
Yup, it sure is a very very mad world.
What if the next version of WMA encryption were as secure as AES?
There we go again. Thinking that the encryption method will get rid of the entire "client-not-to-be-trusted" problem.
Apple uses AES to encrypt the iTunes Music Store. That didn't prevent me from cracking it (so I could write a linux music store client)
Want proof? Here's the AES key used to decrypt iTMS:
8a 9d ad 39 9f b0 14 c1 31 be 61 18 20 d7 88 95
That doesn't mean AES isn't secure, it means that if the client can decrypt it, so can I.
Bring back InvisiClues!
Now those were game guides!
Which ones?
There are 3 generations of invisiclues.
The first ones had the magic marker which you used to unveil the clue. The later ones had red cellophane. And finally there were some really neat ones made by Magnetic Scrolls where you were given an encrypted string which you typed into the game and it would reveal the answer if you had progressed far enough into the game.
God I loved those. I think I have Kings Quest I-V hintbooks somewhere.. faded beyond use.
don't forget that there's an entire section devoted to Quicktime
Hello people, this comment is a great example of how to use a lot of words and say absolutely nothing.
Sounds like management material to me, this guy will go far.
a) FC1 updates RH9 fine
Yup. In fact, I went insane yesterday and installed yum on my RH9 box. I then used it to upgrade to FC2test2 while everything was running (including X), I then restarted X and boom, I'm running FC2test2.. including the x.org X11. I still need to reboot to use the 2.6 kernel instead of RH9's 2.4 kernel.
The only problem I had was I had ximian installed, and had to uninstall a couple of ximian packages.
Your examples, by and large, would have issues using a standard car as well.
What about a week's worth of groceries? How do you take them on the bus? There's a reason why no one cooks in new york... they can't get their groceries home.
not really. I live a block from a parkway, speed limit is 50mph. I take the parkway for 2 miles to the freeway, where the speed limit is 75mph, I stay on the freeway for 12 miles and then get off onto a street where the speed limit is 45mph. I drive on that street for a mile and a half and turn into my work's parking lot.
Obeying the speed limit the trip takes 13 minutes. Add in another 2 minutes for stoplight on the last street (the only place this a stoplight on my entire route) and walking from the parkinglot and it really does only take me 15 minutes... give or take a minute.
Of course, if everyone just used public transit, then public transit would be faster and we could put parks in place of parking lots.
How would public transit be faster for 90% of the US? I take the freeway to work, I drive 15 miles each way, it takes me 15 minutes.. that's an average of 60 mph door-to-door.
If I took the bus or some rail system, it would take me more than hour because, unlike mass transit, I don't have to stop every mile to pick up and drop off passengers.
While a laptop is nice and portable, is a laptop with a one hour battery life really practical?
It is for me. My laptop doesn't leave the house. I can do work while sitting on the couch, instead of sitting in my office. I can take it outside for a smoke break.
99% of the time I'm on the computer, I'm on the internet. If I'm close enough to an access point, odds are good I'm close enough to a power outlet.
My laptop spends a majority of its time plugged into the wall next to the couch. You couldn't replace it with a PC.
That "just works" is something I really like the idea of
Too bad it doesn't exist anywhere.. except for consumer devices like TiVo.
My D-Link 802.11b wireless card doesn't "just work" on OSX.. in fact I had to *pay* for a driver for it. iChat AV doesn't "just work" for 99.99% of all cameras out there.. it requires a firewire camera.
My friend has an gen2 iPod which will crash whenever he plugs it into his G4.. it works fine when hooked up to his XP box.
A co-worker has a 12" iBook which will always go to sleep when the lid is closed, even if a keyboard and monitor are plugged into it.. so he has to keep it open and dim the display.
OSX will "just work" as long as you only buy Apple products and never try to do something like use iSync with a P800.
all I really wanted to do was burn a bunch of files to a CD-RW. Would drag-and-drop really be harder or less powerful or more inconvenient to use than the command line?
Nope, it'd be easier, because you want to do something fairly simple.. add files to a CD-RW.
But what if you wanted to burn files to a CDR.. and you only had a few files, and didn't want to waste an entire CD for it. You can burn the files and leave the session open so you can add more files to it later.
Unfortunately, OSX doesn't provide a way to leave a session open. So under OSX the scenario I described isn't "difficult", it's impossible.
Stop bitching and hit the customize toolbar button. Insert a path icon, and get on with life.
The customize toolbar is a perfect example of Apple's UI "easiness" actually making things worse. I'd go so far as to say the customize toolbar sheet is absolutely braindead.
Drag the path icon up, and oops, the search box doesn't fit on the bar anymore, and you get the >> pullout. Now you can't drag the search box out of the toolbar. There's no way to delete things out of the pullout.
You have to resize the window so that the search box can fit in the window, then you can drag it out. Or you have to start deleting things you don't want to delete in order to get to the things in the pullout. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Also, to save your changes you click "Done" at the bottom. What if I didn't want to save my changes? What if I decided that I wanted to cancel? I can't do it. There is no cancel button!
This is absolutely horrible. It's the last thing you expect. You would be horrified if you opened a document to read it, inadvertently made some changes, then closed the app only to have the app save your changes without saying a word. Yet this is exactly what preference sheets do in OS X. There's no way to undo your changes.. not even Cmd-Z works.
This is an example of where OSX just doesn't work. It's broken by design.
Also, there is window behavior. Perhaps this never, ever happens to anyone else, but daily I get modal Windows coming up behind things (outlook is particularly evil abut this) and making me take time to figure out what window is stopping input from all the others (the OS X sheets are a way better way to do modal).
This is a good demonstration of the tunnel vision a lot of OSX users have. Not a single mention of iChat "chat request" windows popping up and staying *above* all other windows until you specifically deal with them.
There's a related thing in Gnome that does something similar. I hate how new windows get focus even though my mouse isn't in them.. it's frustrating and I haven't found a way to turn it off.
That way you can move a mouse over a window without giving focus, then click if you want focus without bringing it to the front, but still easily be able to bring it to the front with just a doubleclick. I don't know if that's available on any other OS?
Gnome 2.5/2.6 does this, sort of. Clicking on a window will NOT bring it to the front. You need to either click the titlebar, or WindowsKey-click the window in order to bring it to the front. Takes a little getting used to, but it's very handy.
I see a lot of comments glowing with praise for the legendary "productivity boost" you get from using a Macintosh. But how much of this is just hype?
As a programmer, I can say for me, 90% of it is hype. It's the little things.
I prefer multiple desktops.. because I think spacially. Expose is useless for me because it moves windows around. When I switch desktops, my windows are right where I left them. Often grouped by usage.
I don't have sloppy focus or even focus follows mouse. I can't mouse over a browser, and use the scrollwheel to move down, then type into another window.
I'm also am amateur musician. Today I was messing around in GarageBand. GarageBand is what you would get if you took Sonar3, stripped out the ability to keyframe effects, import audio, record knob positions, scrub, and a dozen other features I would consider "essential".
It really exemplifies Apple's philosophy, which is "you do it our way, or you don't do it at all".
I think of OSX as basically a "Photoshop and iLife Execution Environment". Because most people I see using OSX spend 90% of their time in Photoshop and iLife, and rarely use the rest of the OS at all.