(Anyone else get bit by the Linux will reboot with CRTL-ALT-DEL, but Win NT 4-XP will ask for Logon? I've rebooted machines on KVM switches by accident many a time, especially if I can't remap the salute like I usually do!)
You mentioned remapping the salute, but it was vague on which OS you meant, so I thought I'd just clarify.
You can change the program that is run when you press CTL-ALT-DEL on Linux by editing/etc/inittab
I was actually under the impression that osx didn't do subpixel rendering at all, just very good full-pixel antialiasing. Perhaps it only occurs on displays which use the less popular ordering of subpixel elements?
OSX has done subpixel rendering since Jaguar (what I'm using). I'm thinking it does only occur on displays which use a different ordering of RGB elements.. but this is a powerbook.. Apple should know what LCD this is, and if they don't, then Apple is failing to do its job.
In related news, here is a comparison of Apple's anti-aliasing versus Window's anti-aliasing:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/aa-compare2 .g if
The top line is Panther, the bottom is XP. I'd say XP is far superior to Panther, and that's just plain sad.
that you could buy a $10 adapter and play your old Sega Master System games! Had my friends and I known this much earlier in its life, we ALL would have owned one.
I knew this at the time, but still didn't buy it. Mainly because the Game Gear came out a year after I bought my Genesis.. and I, like a lot of people, took advantage of the amazing trade in deals going. Trade in 3 SMS games for 1 genesis game.
When the Game Gear came out, I didn't have any SMS games left.
I think I still have the drool marks on my old copies of Gamepro.
Somewhere around here I still have a clipping from VG&CE (the best game magazine ever) that was announcing the Turbo Express.. damn I wanted that thing so bad.
Every now and then I think about picking one up off of ebay.
Heh, at least its not a bomb with burning wick and the message "an error has occured [ok]".
Now it's "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the reset button"
I must see that every 3 days or so.. this powerbook definately hates it when I put it to sleep and wake it back up several times a day.
(And yes, it's caused by the sleep.. i turned sleep off and never closed the powerbook and it ran for a week just fine.. so I turned sleep back on, and it crashed the very next day)
Now, if I want to do MS development (.NET, etc.), guess what, I'm seriously locked in. I have NO CHOICE on where to run my apps. If I don't like it, tough. For that matter, I'd be locked into the Dev environment for the most part as well.
Dude,.NET apps run under linux using Mono. They work quite well (I may be biased since I've written a few classes in the Mono Class Library).
The only part of.NET that doesn't work under Linux well (it works, just not well) is Windows.Forms.
But its pretty silly to complain that Windows.Forms doesn't work on Non-MS OSes when Cocoa doesn't work on Non-Apple OSes.
Every single Mac Laptop I've had in the last 5 years has worked the exact same way. In the space that you insert the airport card is a little metal cover. Ya unscrew it, pull on the handle provided and lift it off.
That's not how the iBooks work. The powerbooks have the harddrive under the keyboard, the ibooks require you to take the entire fucking thing apart. You have to take the back off, and unplug the screen, keyboard and trackpad, and remove about 40 screws.
Using any of the window managers that ship with Linux makes me love my OS X box even more.
Not me. Using OS X makes me miss virtual desktops, window blinds, and sloppy focus.
Given the choice between OS X and XD2, I'll pick XD2 every time.
Here are just a few reasons why I think XD2 is more polished than OSX:
Red Carpet will update everything I have installed.. OS X's system update is no better than MS's.. it won't update things not made by Apple. It won't get the latest version of Mozilla or Open Office for me. Red Carpet will. Red Carpet will let me install individual updates separately. OSX rolls all its security updates into one nebulous update.
XD2 is the only UI i've ever used that automatically probed my monitor and set the DPI setting correctly. Under Gnome 12pt fonts are really 12 pts. You can hold a pica pole up to the monitor and verify this for yourself. OS X just defaults to 72 dpi...reguardless of monitor or resolution.
Under OS X, fonts aren't nearly as nice as FreeType2's fonts. FreeType actually does subpixel antialiasing correctly, whereas on OS X there is a bug or something because it does it completely wrong, causing fonts to have little colored pixels on the edges. (I hear they've fixed this in panther)
I would definitely disagree with this statement. I used to use Linux almost exclusively (making brief ventures into the world of Windows to play games and watch DVDs) up until the Mac OS X Public Beta came out, and I haven't really looked back since.
Let's see, public OSX beta was 1999? So you haven't looked at linux in nearly 5 years?
In our day and age, we have the ability to dash things off at fifty to a hundred words a minute (depending on typing ability), and we make nearly everything we compose direct to the point of sterility.
In fact the virtual boy only did poorly because of the evil red and black screen. If nintendo did the virtual boy with two backlit color LCDs today, it might do quite well.
But with multitasking, all the windows from different programs are on the desktop, yet there is no visual mapping from the menubar to its associated windows in the foreground program.
This is true. The single menu bar does save space, and it is consistent (two bonuses in my book), but it does feel like it isn't part of the app. I think that most users forget the menu is even up there.
To many people, the toolbar has become the menubar.. originally the toolbar was a place to put the most common things from the menubar, but now it has become a place to jam everything. The menubar has become almost completely redundant.
It also violates HIG which says that UI elements shouldn't ever be context sensitive. i.e. a button shouldn't disappear and reappear based on what you are doing (it should grey out instead).
The reduction of mouse buttons to one makes such things as "Press the right-click... nono the button on the right... no, don't double click it, only click it once... no, press Control-Z to undo that... no, just stop touching the computer until I can come over, mom" a thing of the past.
First of all, Apple invented the double click, which totally breaks the motif that Apple intended to create with the introduction of the mouse.
Secondly, by getting rid of the right mouse button, Apple introduced things such as "control click.. no, control, not option.. no, not alt.. control.. yeah" You will never convince me that control clicking, or click-and-hold (which doesn't even work outside of the finder) is an adequate replacement for a second mouse button.
Of course you can plug in a multibutton mouse into the mac and it works, this doesn't help people with laptops.
The lack of a right mouse button and a scrollwheel on mac laptops makes things very frustrating.. and we have to resort to installing things like SideTrack to do things with the touchpad that PC touchpads do by default.
In fact, Apple should just integrate SideTrack into the OS, or add a damn scrollwheel.
Don't forget other UI disasters Apple is responsible for like Home and End keys that never seem to do what you expect.
For example, in Safari, I expect that when I'm editing a text field, if I hit home, the cursor should move to the beginning of the field, not scroll to the top of the page. If I'm selecting emails in mail.app, hitting up and down selects the next and previous emails, but hitting home doesn't take me to the top of the email list, it scrolls the currently selected email.
The biggest weakness of this system is that it doesn't protect against some user's system sitting on a broadband DSL/Modem line that has a Trojan Horse used to e-mail the spam.
So, there are other solutions for this. For example, Cox broadband users will notice that they cannot connect to port 25 of any server other than cox's own mailservers.
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Then he sits back, utterly unsurprised by the plot twists he saw coming a mile off, and crows about how he saw it all coming.
So what you're saying is that he watches movies alone, eh?
I think Microsoft should BUY Nintendo.
Nintendo has $6 billion in the bank, so MS won't buy Nintendo, it would cost them way too much and the shareholders wouldn't approve of the deal.
You wussies don't even have a command key!!!
That key is, was, and shall always be the "open apple" key.
and I paint little closed apples on my option keys too.
(Anyone else get bit by the Linux will reboot with CRTL-ALT-DEL, but Win NT 4-XP will ask for Logon? I've rebooted machines on KVM switches by accident many a time, especially if I can't remap the salute like I usually do!)
/etc/inittab
You mentioned remapping the salute, but it was vague on which OS you meant, so I thought I'd just clarify.
You can change the program that is run when you press CTL-ALT-DEL on Linux by editing
I was actually under the impression that osx didn't do subpixel rendering at all, just very good full-pixel antialiasing. Perhaps it only occurs on displays which use the less popular ordering of subpixel elements?
2 .g if
OSX has done subpixel rendering since Jaguar (what I'm using). I'm thinking it does only occur on displays which use a different ordering of RGB elements.. but this is a powerbook.. Apple should know what LCD this is, and if they don't, then Apple is failing to do its job.
In related news, here is a comparison of Apple's anti-aliasing versus Window's anti-aliasing:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/aa-compare
The top line is Panther, the bottom is XP. I'd say XP is far superior to Panther, and that's just plain sad.
the kid who goes to the 7/11 in 1986 and sees shelves of "new coke".
Yeah, but if you switched to Pepsi after trying New Coke, then you're an idiot.
that you could buy a $10 adapter and play your old Sega Master System games! Had my friends and I known this much earlier in its life, we ALL would have owned one.
I knew this at the time, but still didn't buy it. Mainly because the Game Gear came out a year after I bought my Genesis.. and I, like a lot of people, took advantage of the amazing trade in deals going. Trade in 3 SMS games for 1 genesis game.
When the Game Gear came out, I didn't have any SMS games left.
Launch System Preferences. Select Keyboard & Mouse. Click "Keyboard Shourcuts" and select "Turn on full keybord access."
Doesn't do a thing in Safari... so technically I guess this could be classified as a Safari bug, and not an OS bug.
I think I still have the drool marks on my old copies of Gamepro.
Somewhere around here I still have a clipping from VG&CE (the best game magazine ever) that was announcing the Turbo Express.. damn I wanted that thing so bad.
Every now and then I think about picking one up off of ebay.
Heh, at least its not a bomb with burning wick and the message "an error has occured [ok]".
Now it's "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the reset button"
I must see that every 3 days or so.. this powerbook definately hates it when I put it to sleep and wake it back up several times a day.
(And yes, it's caused by the sleep.. i turned sleep off and never closed the powerbook and it ran for a week just fine.. so I turned sleep back on, and it crashed the very next day)
They used an open (if not common) format for their audio (sorry, does Ogg have DRM? No? Then Apple can't use it).
Ogg can have DRM, and AAC has huge royalties.. in fact AAC is more expensive to license than WMA.. and that's saying something.
And I'd rather use Expose than multiple desktops any day.
Not me.. you ever see what Expose does to 8 terminal windows? How about a couple of papers?
Text documents make expose completely useless.
Trying to fill out web forms with just the keyboard is impossible
Yeah, that one suprised me. "What? You can't tab to a button? What the hell is that?" You can't even tab to a checkbox.. only between text areas.
You "get what you pay for.." is an insult to all the hardworking OSS coders and the academic ones before them
It's definately an insult to all the KDE programmers who handed Safari to Apple on goddamn platter.
OS X wouldn't exist without open source.
Now, if I want to do MS development (.NET, etc.), guess what, I'm seriously locked in. I have NO CHOICE on where to run my apps. If I don't like it, tough. For that matter, I'd be locked into the Dev environment for the most part as well.
.NET apps run under linux using Mono. They work quite well (I may be biased since I've written a few classes in the Mono Class Library).
.NET that doesn't work under Linux well (it works, just not well) is Windows.Forms.
Dude,
The only part of
But its pretty silly to complain that Windows.Forms doesn't work on Non-MS OSes when Cocoa doesn't work on Non-Apple OSes.
Every single Mac Laptop I've had in the last 5 years has worked the exact same way. In the space that you insert the airport card is a little metal cover. Ya unscrew it, pull on the handle provided and lift it off.
That's not how the iBooks work. The powerbooks have the harddrive under the keyboard, the ibooks require you to take the entire fucking thing apart. You have to take the back off, and unplug the screen, keyboard and trackpad, and remove about 40 screws.
Using any of the window managers that ship with Linux makes me love my OS X box even more.
Not me. Using OS X makes me miss virtual desktops, window blinds, and sloppy focus.
Given the choice between OS X and XD2, I'll pick XD2 every time.
Here are just a few reasons why I think XD2 is more polished than OSX:
Red Carpet will update everything I have installed.. OS X's system update is no better than MS's.. it won't update things not made by Apple. It won't get the latest version of Mozilla or Open Office for me. Red Carpet will. Red Carpet will let me install individual updates separately. OSX rolls all its security updates into one nebulous update.
XD2 is the only UI i've ever used that automatically probed my monitor and set the DPI setting correctly. Under Gnome 12pt fonts are really 12 pts. You can hold a pica pole up to the monitor and verify this for yourself. OS X just defaults to 72 dpi...reguardless of monitor or resolution.
Under OS X, fonts aren't nearly as nice as FreeType2's fonts. FreeType actually does subpixel antialiasing correctly, whereas on OS X there is a bug or something because it does it completely wrong, causing fonts to have little colored pixels on the edges. (I hear they've fixed this in panther)
I would definitely disagree with this statement. I used to use Linux almost exclusively (making brief ventures into the world of Windows to play games and watch DVDs) up until the Mac OS X Public Beta came out, and I haven't really looked back since.
Let's see, public OSX beta was 1999? So you haven't looked at linux in nearly 5 years?
Nah, it's hard to read because back then, they spoke in Perl.
In our day and age, we have the ability to dash things off at fifty to a hundred words a minute (depending on typing ability), and we make nearly everything we compose direct to the point of sterility.
No we don't.
The virtual boy wasn't portable.. it had a stand.
In fact the virtual boy only did poorly because of the evil red and black screen. If nintendo did the virtual boy with two backlit color LCDs today, it might do quite well.
But with multitasking, all the windows from different programs are on the desktop, yet there is no visual mapping from the menubar to its associated windows in the foreground program.
This is true. The single menu bar does save space, and it is consistent (two bonuses in my book), but it does feel like it isn't part of the app. I think that most users forget the menu is even up there.
To many people, the toolbar has become the menubar.. originally the toolbar was a place to put the most common things from the menubar, but now it has become a place to jam everything. The menubar has become almost completely redundant.
It also violates HIG which says that UI elements shouldn't ever be context sensitive. i.e. a button shouldn't disappear and reappear based on what you are doing (it should grey out instead).
The reduction of mouse buttons to one makes such things as "Press the right-click... nono the button on the right... no, don't double click it, only click it once... no, press Control-Z to undo that... no, just stop touching the computer until I can come over, mom" a thing of the past.
First of all, Apple invented the double click, which totally breaks the motif that Apple intended to create with the introduction of the mouse.
Secondly, by getting rid of the right mouse button, Apple introduced things such as "control click.. no, control, not option.. no, not alt.. control.. yeah" You will never convince me that control clicking, or click-and-hold (which doesn't even work outside of the finder) is an adequate replacement for a second mouse button.
Of course you can plug in a multibutton mouse into the mac and it works, this doesn't help people with laptops.
The lack of a right mouse button and a scrollwheel on mac laptops makes things very frustrating.. and we have to resort to installing things like SideTrack to do things with the touchpad that PC touchpads do by default.
In fact, Apple should just integrate SideTrack into the OS, or add a damn scrollwheel.
Don't forget other UI disasters Apple is responsible for like Home and End keys that never seem to do what you expect.
For example, in Safari, I expect that when I'm editing a text field, if I hit home, the cursor should move to the beginning of the field, not scroll to the top of the page. If I'm selecting emails in mail.app, hitting up and down selects the next and previous emails, but hitting home doesn't take me to the top of the email list, it scrolls the currently selected email.
Anakin Skywalker becomes 'Darth Vader'!!!
Knowing the way George Lucas likes to rewrite history, Anakin Skywalker will probably become a Walkie-Talkie that shoots first.
The biggest weakness of this system is that it doesn't protect against some user's system sitting on a broadband DSL/Modem line that has a Trojan Horse used to e-mail the spam.
So, there are other solutions for this. For example, Cox broadband users will notice that they cannot connect to port 25 of any server other than cox's own mailservers.