And Winamp hasn't skipped on my computer either, regardless of load.
Yeah, I remember a few times when Lightwave locked my machine up, you could hear hundreds of megs being swapped to disk. The mouse pointer wouldn't even move, yet my mp3s continued to play just fine.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere, that it was actually an X related feature where it calculates the actual pixel heights/widths based on the DDC info from the monitor that contained the monitor's actual height/width
I don't know if that's part of X or not, but Gnome uses the monitor info to determine the DPI for the current resolution and thus, all gnome fonts are drawn at proper size regardless of what resolution or monitor you're on.
You can hold a pica pole up to the screen and see that yes, indeed, the font is 12pt.. etc.
(I work for a newspaper, and so I happen to have a pica pole handy)
As far as I know, no other OS does that. OS9 assumes everything is 72 dpi, OSX assumes everything is 100dpi, and windows assumes everything is 96dpi. Windows does let you change it though.
The HHKB was around $70, I think, and the trackball $20.
The Apple Pro keyboard (with black keys, from 3 years ago) was $80.
The white-key keyboards are now $30.. but they're cheaply made. Every one I've used has the 'sd' echo problem. (The 'd' and 's' keys are sketchy and so you'll often 'lss' or 'cdd' instead of 'ls' or 'cd').
That's one thing mac users never seem to do. Sure comparing a new mac with a new PC is one thing, but we're talking about people *switching* from PC to mac. They have thousands of dollars in software already for the PC.
Legacy apps are the thing that has kept the x86 around.. and will continue to do so.
My mom needs Peachtree.. she will never switch to a mac as long as peachtree and quickbooks aren't available.
My wife has tons of software that she uses that is windows-only, yes there is some stuff available for OSX (like Avery Label Maker) but then I'd have to not only buy the machine, but re-purchase all that software as well.
I swear, mac users seem to think the only things anyone uses their computers for is photo editing and web browsing.
Repeated trips to 'ps -ax | grep Sunbird' reveals that Sunbird is caught in a nice little loop that spawns a new PID and then kills it each time it appears in my Dock. By the time I try to kill it, it's already killed itself and grabbed a new PID.
Ah, OSX.. allowing the masses misunderstand unix.
You're killing off Sunbird's children. Look at a child's parent pid and kill -TERM that one.
When someone else is physically present, they are aware of what else is going on; they will make allowances for this in the conversation. It's naturally what we do.
Mommy mommy look at me! mommy mommy! I'm hungry are we there yet? Mommy! Come on! David's on my side! Mom!!!!!
I've heard that women are more adept at multitasking
That is only if they are *not* on the phone. Women lose their ability to multitask as soon as they pick up the phone.. the house could be on fire and they wouldn't notice.
By Autumn of 1986, when the IIGS came out, the Mac was well-established as the graphics machine. MacDraw was incredible.
If you say so. By Autumn of 86, the mac was still Black and White. The IIgs supported 16 colors per scanline (and some software took advantage of this to display 3200 color images).
Only minor tweaks were needed to enable memory to grow past 8 Megabytes
The IIgs's addressing scheme supported 16 megs of addressable memory. The top 128k of that was ROM though.
By 1987, it was clear that the 65816 processor would never develop "legs". Apple, by itself, was too small to keep Western Design Center in business and making competitive processors.
And yet they stayed in business and the 65816 found its way into the SNES.
Given that, making the IIGS into a "Fake Mac" (and it was a better Fake Mac than most of the compeititon) was a big mistake.
It was a better fake mac than the real macs. It had better graphics and sound than the real mac at the time. It had better sound that virtually anything else at the time.
the functionality of the right click is the intuitive one for this action, which is what the grand-parent was challenging to be found.
I agree with you. I like the right mouse button (and the scroll wheel, and the middle click for opening new links in tabs)
As for the "you are not supposed to save files on the desktop"... yeah right! Tell that to someone who is creating 10+ new docs every day and reusing them at least a couple of times.
Every app I've used defaults to My Documents for saving and opening files. In fact, every app I've used remembers your last directory. I don't see why you need to save files to the desktop... I don't see how that is any more convenient.
SideTrack is a replacement driver for the Apple PowerBook and iBook trackpads.
When my laptop was kernel panicing literally every other day, we tracked it down to SideTrack, this was before Panther came out, so I'm sure they've fixed it since.
But my trackpad is small enough as it is, SideTracak makes it really tough to use (this is a Pismo Powerbook, the trackpad is the smallest I've seen on any laptop anywhere).
That and software hacks are no replacement for a real second or third mouse button (I middle click links to open them in new tabs).
Here are 3 different ways to create a new folder on the desktop of XP without using the context menu:
One. In whatever program you're in (notepad, etc) click save as, click on Desktop, then click the New Folder icon.
Two. Start->My Documents, click on Desktop, File->New->Folder
Three. Create the folder anywhere and drag it to your desktop.
But you aren't supposed to save files on your desktop anymore, they're supposed to go into My Documents.. which is why that's the default for saving files. It's actually retraining people. My wife used to have everything on her desktop. Now she's only got the few programs she runs, everything else is in folders in My Documents.
Btw, I did just find one thing in OSX that requires the context menu. Control-click on a item in your dock and pick Show In Finder. I can't find a way to do that without the context menu.
developers can't add features that exist ONLY in the right-mouse click menu
Find me a windows app that does this. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a windows app that has options hidden in a right click that can't be found elsewhere. I'm positive that you can hook a one button mouse up to Windows and still be able to do everything that grandma needs to do.
Except for something like Maya which requires a 3 button mouse on both OSX and Windows.
In 20 years your grandma is going to be dead, and then Apple will be out of reasons to stick with a one button mouse.
sidetrack is buggy nagware and it's "scroll zone" is hard to hit. The idea that mac users find a $15 shareware program to be a valid solution to a hardware problem is telling.
I specifically mentioned a larger trackpad for a dedicated scroll area. My powerbook's trackpad is small enough as it is.
Well, to spread it specifically uses weak default/unset DB admin passwords and MySQL running as a system or admin level task with write access to everything.
The default MySQL admin account only allows connections from localhost. So it sounds like it only affects people who purposely created an admin account with a host of '%' and no password.
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CREATE TABLE message (text char(15));
INSERT INTO message (text) VALUES ('Hello, world!');
SELECT text FROM message;
DROP TABLE message;
Kids today don't know optimization.
SELECT 'Hello, world!';
That's all there is too it.
And Winamp hasn't skipped on my computer either, regardless of load.
Yeah, I remember a few times when Lightwave locked my machine up, you could hear hundreds of megs being swapped to disk. The mouse pointer wouldn't even move, yet my mp3s continued to play just fine.
It's the window properties button. Clicking it will pop a menu that lets you change window properties.
You know, lets you do things like "move this window to another desktop" or "make window always on top".
I didn't think there could be much room left for new invention in volume controls.
Sure there is.. someone out there needs to invent a volume control that will mute Flash without muting itunes/rhythmbox etc.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere, that it was actually an X related feature where it calculates the actual pixel heights/widths based on the DDC info from the monitor that contained the monitor's actual height/width
I don't know if that's part of X or not, but Gnome uses the monitor info to determine the DPI for the current resolution and thus, all gnome fonts are drawn at proper size regardless of what resolution or monitor you're on.
You can hold a pica pole up to the screen and see that yes, indeed, the font is 12pt.. etc.
(I work for a newspaper, and so I happen to have a pica pole handy)
As far as I know, no other OS does that. OS9 assumes everything is 72 dpi, OSX assumes everything is 100dpi, and windows assumes everything is 96dpi. Windows does let you change it though.
The HHKB was around $70, I think, and the trackball $20.
The Apple Pro keyboard (with black keys, from 3 years ago) was $80.
The white-key keyboards are now $30.. but they're cheaply made. Every one I've used has the 'sd' echo problem. (The 'd' and 's' keys are sketchy and so you'll often 'lss' or 'cdd' instead of 'ls' or 'cd').
Remember to factor in software
That's one thing mac users never seem to do. Sure comparing a new mac with a new PC is one thing, but we're talking about people *switching* from PC to mac. They have thousands of dollars in software already for the PC.
Legacy apps are the thing that has kept the x86 around.. and will continue to do so.
My mom needs Peachtree.. she will never switch to a mac as long as peachtree and quickbooks aren't available.
My wife has tons of software that she uses that is windows-only, yes there is some stuff available for OSX (like Avery Label Maker) but then I'd have to not only buy the machine, but re-purchase all that software as well.
I swear, mac users seem to think the only things anyone uses their computers for is photo editing and web browsing.
I hear WB bought the rights to the stories and have hired Travolta.
it's possible to make iCal a lot better, but the groundwork is there.
Groundwork for who? iCal isn't opensource. I can't improve it. The only one who can improve it is Apple.. doesn't sound like decent groundwork to me.
Repeated trips to 'ps -ax | grep Sunbird' reveals that Sunbird is caught in a nice little loop that spawns a new PID and then kills it each time it appears in my Dock. By the time I try to kill it, it's already killed itself and grabbed a new PID.
Ah, OSX.. allowing the masses misunderstand unix.
You're killing off Sunbird's children. Look at a child's parent pid and kill -TERM that one.
Note, in particular, the date on that article. That's right. It was more than five years ago. It's still running WebStar today.
They still need to keep it updated. A quick search finds multiple remote root vulns for WebSTAR 5.3.2
The Crack a Mac story doesn't prove that there aren't exploits, it proves that not many folks know what they are.
Plus the Crack a Mac story is talking about a server running OS9, and they mention that people were easily able to crash the box via Ping of Death.
I don't know any mac users who would ever recommend running OS9 as a server.
When someone else is physically present, they are aware of what else is going on; they will make allowances for this in the conversation. It's naturally what we do.
Mommy mommy look at me! mommy mommy! I'm hungry are we there yet? Mommy! Come on! David's on my side! Mom!!!!!
I've heard that women are more adept at multitasking
That is only if they are *not* on the phone. Women lose their ability to multitask as soon as they pick up the phone.. the house could be on fire and they wouldn't notice.
By Autumn of 1986, when the IIGS came out, the Mac was well-established as the graphics machine. MacDraw was incredible.
If you say so. By Autumn of 86, the mac was still Black and White. The IIgs supported 16 colors per scanline (and some software took advantage of this to display 3200 color images).
Only minor tweaks were needed to enable memory to grow past 8 Megabytes
The IIgs's addressing scheme supported 16 megs of addressable memory. The top 128k of that was ROM though.
By 1987, it was clear that the 65816 processor would never develop "legs". Apple, by itself, was too small to keep Western Design Center in business and making competitive processors.
And yet they stayed in business and the 65816 found its way into the SNES.
Given that, making the IIGS into a "Fake Mac" (and it was a better Fake Mac than most of the compeititon) was a big mistake.
It was a better fake mac than the real macs. It had better graphics and sound than the real mac at the time. It had better sound that virtually anything else at the time.
It was just really really slow.
the functionality of the right click is the intuitive one for this action, which is what the grand-parent was challenging to be found.
I agree with you. I like the right mouse button (and the scroll wheel, and the middle click for opening new links in tabs)
As for the "you are not supposed to save files on the desktop"... yeah right! Tell that to someone who is creating 10+ new docs every day and reusing them at least a couple of times.
Every app I've used defaults to My Documents for saving and opening files. In fact, every app I've used remembers your last directory. I don't see why you need to save files to the desktop... I don't see how that is any more convenient.
SideTrack is a replacement driver for the Apple PowerBook and iBook trackpads.
When my laptop was kernel panicing literally every other day, we tracked it down to SideTrack, this was before Panther came out, so I'm sure they've fixed it since.
But my trackpad is small enough as it is, SideTracak makes it really tough to use (this is a Pismo Powerbook, the trackpad is the smallest I've seen on any laptop anywhere).
That and software hacks are no replacement for a real second or third mouse button (I middle click links to open them in new tabs).
Here are 3 different ways to create a new folder on the desktop of XP without using the context menu:
One. In whatever program you're in (notepad, etc) click save as, click on Desktop, then click the New Folder icon.
Two. Start->My Documents, click on Desktop, File->New->Folder
Three. Create the folder anywhere and drag it to your desktop.
But you aren't supposed to save files on your desktop anymore, they're supposed to go into My Documents.. which is why that's the default for saving files. It's actually retraining people. My wife used to have everything on her desktop. Now she's only got the few programs she runs, everything else is in folders in My Documents.
Btw, I did just find one thing in OSX that requires the context menu. Control-click on a item in your dock and pick Show In Finder. I can't find a way to do that without the context menu.
developers can't add features that exist ONLY in the right-mouse click menu
Find me a windows app that does this. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a windows app that has options hidden in a right click that can't be found elsewhere. I'm positive that you can hook a one button mouse up to Windows and still be able to do everything that grandma needs to do.
Except for something like Maya which requires a 3 button mouse on both OSX and Windows.
In 20 years your grandma is going to be dead, and then Apple will be out of reasons to stick with a one button mouse.
the Cube just shipped with a floppy drive.
Not true, we had a cube, it came with an optical drive, and didn't have a floppy.
Which was its downfall.. because the optical drive was a piece of crap and when our harddrive crashed, we couldn't reinstall the OS.
We ended up burning it (literally.. oooh. purple!) and replaced it with a cheap linux box in 97 or so.
Neither OSX nor the PPC hardware have any sort of page execution protection.
Saying "XP's No eXecute can be foiled so I'll switch to a platform that doesn't even offer it" seems a little odd to me.
Plus, AMD's NX bit will catch this, so XP2 on AMD64 doesn't have this problem.
If the powerbook g5 was just around the corner, the imac g5 would've been a *lot* thinner.
Unless, of course, it's going to be called the "PowerTome G5"
sidetrack is buggy nagware and it's "scroll zone" is hard to hit. The idea that mac users find a $15 shareware program to be a valid solution to a hardware problem is telling.
I specifically mentioned a larger trackpad for a dedicated scroll area. My powerbook's trackpad is small enough as it is.
Well, to spread it specifically uses weak default/unset DB admin passwords and MySQL running as a system or admin level task with write access to everything.
The default MySQL admin account only allows connections from localhost. So it sounds like it only affects people who purposely created an admin account with a host of '%' and no password.