Just as easily as someone could bring their own laptop to the local Panera and send the email. Perhaps all open WiFi hotspots should filter out social websites also? You know, just in case?
Just an FYI, you can get the same functionality as a tabbed editor in XCode by setting the editor to use only one window. Double click on a file in XCode, then on the right side of the toolbar is a button which will change the editor mode and open all of the editors in one window. Then you can use Control-1 to switch between editors.
The difference is that the admin user is in the admin group. This allows the admin user to make changes in some areas of the system that the normal user cannot. Specifically the/Applications directory. As an admin you can change things in there without authentication, as a normal user you cannot.
At the terminal level, an admin user is in the sudo list, a normal user is not.
As another Independent Macintosh Developer I will be happy to respond. If it makes sense, switch now. Don't put it off any longer. Every day you continue developing for Windows is another day of pain compared to switching to Cocoa and Objective-C development.
There are so many arguments for switching. One of the best was laid out by Wil Shipley. If you have not read his blog, I strongly suggest that you do.
I have been a developer for over 20 years. I have gone through numerous languages and operating systems in that time. When I started working with Objective-C and Cocoa is was like coming in from the cold.
I think Shipley said it best in a podcast interview over at Cocoa Radio (paraphrased):
Microsoft is it's own best customer. As long as their development tools work for them, they do not really care if they are hard to use by anyone else. The harder their tools are to use, the less competition they will have. Apple needs developers. It is incumbent upon them to make development for OS X as easy as possible.
If you want to get into Objective-C Aaron Hillegass has an excellent book out. Follow through the examples in that book and you will be up to speed in no time. If you already have Java, C and/or C++ under your belt, the transition is simple.
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Button in the lower right hand corner of the main window. Hover over it and it says Show/Hide mini store. Click on that and you are done.
(Now, say the same thing about people buying full-sized SUVs instead of minivans, and I can give you a real good case on that one... There the difference appears to be pure shallow vanity for the vast majority of buyers.)
Unless you live in snow country. I used to think SUVs were a waste of materials until I moved to Colorado.
Calling someone an asshole is flamebait even if they are an asshole. Even if you consider me a zealot, calling someone a zealot in this context is flamebait. It sets the tone for your entire comment.
Where did I say you hated macs? If you want to have an intelligent debate, then respond to what I have said and do not assume or claim I stated something that I did not.
I do not consider myself a zealot for OS X. I use OS X machines over windows machines due to my experience. Windows is a waste of time to develop on. This is my experience and yours obviously may vary. Do I care that you get better performance on your machine? Nope, couldn't give a flying fuck. I was commenting on my experience with the windows machine I am forced to use.
The advances you speak of with regard to virus scanners having nothing to do with an environment that has no currenct vectors for attack. It is simply not possible for a current piece of virus protection software to protect against a virus from an unknown vector. Virus protection software for windows may be able to auto detect new viruses in some events due to the new viruses using a known vector. There are no known vectors on OS X therefore any virus would be using something that is at this point unknown.
As for corporate versus personal, give me a break. Corporate images are generally set up to be the ideal environment to avoid stupid users. They install all of the suggested protections against ad ware, spy ware, viruses, etc. If you are not running these same programs on your personal machine, good for you, glad you have the technical knowledge to be able to avoid them. However my example is one of the "recommended" path. The software on this corporate image is recommended for both personal and corporate use.
In the few months that I have been forced to use this machine I have not gotten infected with anything. However the software that is there "just in case" is what drags this machine to the ground. Perhaps your usage varies from mine. Who knows, who cares.
Do not kid yourself that there are not people trying to break OS X right now. Being able to release a virus on OS X is big money. Just for fuck's sake, let us imagine that there are only 10 million OS X machines today. A virus gets released into the wild and your virus protection software will protect these machines for a minor cost of $30.00. That is a potential $300,000,000.00 revenue for your company. You would be mad not to be looking for vulnerabilities and trying to instill FUD into OS X users so that they will buy your software.
From a spammer's point of view, OS X is a virgin ripe for the taking. Any spammer that can zombie OS X machines is going to be one happy man. Imagine how much a spammer would love to get ahold of those theoretical 10 million OS X machines that have no protection on them whatsoever.
People are looking and they are looking hard. When/if someone finds a vulnerability then the users can respond by purchasing software to protect them or patching their systems or whatever else is needed to fight the attack. But until then why walk around with garlic around your neck?
I suppose you also sleep with a gun under your pillow as well? You know, just in case?
Fact. None of the virus protection software packages that exist today will do anything for a new virus. They do nothing. They are a complete waste of CPU cycles. Snake oil for the paranoid.
Macintosh computers are in corporate environments. Just because you have not seen them does not make your perspective the only perspective. And I most certainly will compare my personal Powerbook's performance to the performance of the windows machine I am saddled with at the office. Everything that is on this windows machine is exactly what everyone recommends you put on your windows machine to "protect" it from the baddies out there. As a result it runs like shit. It does not matter if it is in a corporate environment or a personal environment. You have two choices:
1. Run all this crap and slow the computer down to near uselessness. 2. Be infected by every virus in the wild and the computer becomes worse than useless.
Compare this with the current OS X install:
1. Don't run any of that crap because there are no viruses and if/when a virus surfaces they won't protect you against it anyway!
Do I believe any system is 100% secure? No, nor did I ever say that. Calling someone a zealot because they disagree with you is just flame-bait and you know it. Grow up.
OS X is the most secure environment that is in wide spread use today. It has been running strong for 5 years now with no viruses to speak of and very few potential security holes. It is designed to be secure by default and no one has found a way to break into it yet. Do not kid yourself by thinking they are not trying. The virus protection companies are working furiously to find a hole so that they can sell their products. The spammers are working to tap that resource so they can zombie all of the "zealots" computers out there. People are working on it and they are not finding a way in. If someone gets in you can bet it will be known FAST.
So go ahead, continue to drink your snake oil and keep that gun under your pillow. Live in fear. That is what these companies want.
There is a big difference between an admin account and the root account on OS X. I know that on windows people are used to admin accounts having full access but on OS X an admin account has only minor differences compared to a regular user account. Even logged in as an admin you must still authenticate to confirm you want to make system changes. If you are logged in as a regular user you still must authenticate with an admin account to make system changes. The difference? When logged in as an admin the username is prepopulated for you.
At most as an admin you can delete applications without warning. The system is still owned by root and not an admin.
the same problem exists everywhere, just in different amounts.
If you have 0% of the "same problem", do you have that problem?
There are zero viruses for OS X. People are switching to OS X because they are tired of the crap with windows. Viruses are part of the crap but not all of the crap. Windows itself is crap.
Having to run a virus scanner, adware scanner, etc. is just more of the crap you have to put up with on a windows machine. I switched my household over to OS X years ago because I was tired of ALL of the crap windows expects you to put up with. Net result? More work done, less maintenance and I don't need to worry about ad junk, viruses or any of the other windows crap.
One of my current contracts forces me to use a windows machine for some development work. 3+ ghz machine with all of the niceties. But with all of the scanners and other corporate protection crap on it, it runs slower than my 2 year old powerbook. The vulnerabilties in windows not only require you to do more maintenace but they mean you have to run with 3x the hardware just to get half of the performance.
Not really, since safari gives that warning for *every* zip... so the users ignore it. Same problem happened with Windows. Users were trained to just go ahead and click OK.
Wrong. Safari only pops up the warning when you are downloading an application. If the zip file contains an application then it will give you the warning. If the zip file contains something other than an executable (.app directory structure) no warning is given.
1. Double click on the playlist you want to modify (opens a new window) 2. position the two windows so you can see both 3. Search in one window 4. Drag song from search window to playlist window
Things are not as difficult as you make them out to be.
1. Open spotlight preferences, select privacy tab 2. Open finder window 3. Select go to folder in the finder menu 4. Type/tmp 5. Drag tmp folder to privacy list in spotlight preferences tab. 6. profit!
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And your statistical backing for that statement is?
Even flashlight apps bring in more than $1,000 over the life of the application.
You want to Export not Save As. Export will give you plenty of file format options.
FYI, all of those are turned off by default. Ruby, and PHP are not even active in the httpd.conf file in case you wanted to turn Apache on.
Hell, even SSH is installed by default but it also is turned off by default.
Just as easily as someone could bring their own laptop to the local Panera and send the email. Perhaps all open WiFi hotspots should filter out social websites also? You know, just in case?
Just an FYI, you can get the same functionality as a tabbed editor in XCode by setting the editor to use only one window. Double click on a file in XCode, then on the right side of the toolbar is a button which will change the editor mode and open all of the editors in one window. Then you can use Control-1 to switch between editors.
Not sure if you were aware of that feature.
The difference is that the admin user is in the admin group. This allows the admin user to make changes in some areas of the system that the normal user cannot. Specifically the /Applications directory. As an admin you can change things in there without authentication, as a normal user you cannot.
At the terminal level, an admin user is in the sudo list, a normal user is not.
There are so many arguments for switching. One of the best was laid out by Wil Shipley. If you have not read his blog, I strongly suggest that you do.
I have been a developer for over 20 years. I have gone through numerous languages and operating systems in that time. When I started working with Objective-C and Cocoa is was like coming in from the cold.
I think Shipley said it best in a podcast interview over at Cocoa Radio (paraphrased):
Microsoft is it's own best customer. As long as their development tools work for them, they do not really care if they are hard to use by anyone else. The harder their tools are to use, the less competition they will have. Apple needs developers. It is incumbent upon them to make development for OS X as easy as possible.
If you want to get into Objective-C Aaron Hillegass has an excellent book out. Follow through the examples in that book and you will be up to speed in no time. If you already have Java, C and/or C++ under your belt, the transition is simple.
Button in the lower right hand corner of the main window. Hover over it and it says Show/Hide mini store. Click on that and you are done.
Tyranny and oppression do not happen all at once. They come in small easily digestible bites.
There is already a term that differentiates the new iPods. The term is 5G as in the 5th generation of the iPod.
Calling someone an asshole is flamebait even if they are an asshole. Even if you consider me a zealot, calling someone a zealot in this context is flamebait. It sets the tone for your entire comment.
Where did I say you hated macs? If you want to have an intelligent debate, then respond to what I have said and do not assume or claim I stated something that I did not.
I do not consider myself a zealot for OS X. I use OS X machines over windows machines due to my experience. Windows is a waste of time to develop on. This is my experience and yours obviously may vary. Do I care that you get better performance on your machine? Nope, couldn't give a flying fuck. I was commenting on my experience with the windows machine I am forced to use.
The advances you speak of with regard to virus scanners having nothing to do with an environment that has no currenct vectors for attack. It is simply not possible for a current piece of virus protection software to protect against a virus from an unknown vector. Virus protection software for windows may be able to auto detect new viruses in some events due to the new viruses using a known vector. There are no known vectors on OS X therefore any virus would be using something that is at this point unknown.
As for corporate versus personal, give me a break. Corporate images are generally set up to be the ideal environment to avoid stupid users. They install all of the suggested protections against ad ware, spy ware, viruses, etc. If you are not running these same programs on your personal machine, good for you, glad you have the technical knowledge to be able to avoid them. However my example is one of the "recommended" path. The software on this corporate image is recommended for both personal and corporate use.
In the few months that I have been forced to use this machine I have not gotten infected with anything. However the software that is there "just in case" is what drags this machine to the ground. Perhaps your usage varies from mine. Who knows, who cares.
Do not kid yourself that there are not people trying to break OS X right now. Being able to release a virus on OS X is big money. Just for fuck's sake, let us imagine that there are only 10 million OS X machines today. A virus gets released into the wild and your virus protection software will protect these machines for a minor cost of $30.00. That is a potential $300,000,000.00 revenue for your company. You would be mad not to be looking for vulnerabilities and trying to instill FUD into OS X users so that they will buy your software.
From a spammer's point of view, OS X is a virgin ripe for the taking. Any spammer that can zombie OS X machines is going to be one happy man. Imagine how much a spammer would love to get ahold of those theoretical 10 million OS X machines that have no protection on them whatsoever.
People are looking and they are looking hard. When/if someone finds a vulnerability then the users can respond by purchasing software to protect them or patching their systems or whatever else is needed to fight the attack. But until then why walk around with garlic around your neck?
I suppose you also sleep with a gun under your pillow as well? You know, just in case?
Fact. None of the virus protection software packages that exist today will do anything for a new virus. They do nothing. They are a complete waste of CPU cycles. Snake oil for the paranoid.
Macintosh computers are in corporate environments. Just because you have not seen them does not make your perspective the only perspective. And I most certainly will compare my personal Powerbook's performance to the performance of the windows machine I am saddled with at the office. Everything that is on this windows machine is exactly what everyone recommends you put on your windows machine to "protect" it from the baddies out there. As a result it runs like shit. It does not matter if it is in a corporate environment or a personal environment. You have two choices:
1. Run all this crap and slow the computer down to near uselessness.
2. Be infected by every virus in the wild and the computer becomes worse than useless.
Compare this with the current OS X install:
1. Don't run any of that crap because there are no viruses and if/when a virus surfaces they won't protect you against it anyway!
Do I believe any system is 100% secure? No, nor did I ever say that. Calling someone a zealot because they disagree with you is just flame-bait and you know it. Grow up.
OS X is the most secure environment that is in wide spread use today. It has been running strong for 5 years now with no viruses to speak of and very few potential security holes. It is designed to be secure by default and no one has found a way to break into it yet. Do not kid yourself by thinking they are not trying. The virus protection companies are working furiously to find a hole so that they can sell their products. The spammers are working to tap that resource so they can zombie all of the "zealots" computers out there. People are working on it and they are not finding a way in. If someone gets in you can bet it will be known FAST.
So go ahead, continue to drink your snake oil and keep that gun under your pillow. Live in fear. That is what these companies want.
Perhaps your google-foo is insufficient or you just have blinders on.
There is a big difference between an admin account and the root account on OS X. I know that on windows people are used to admin accounts having full access but on OS X an admin account has only minor differences compared to a regular user account. Even logged in as an admin you must still authenticate to confirm you want to make system changes. If you are logged in as a regular user you still must authenticate with an admin account to make system changes. The difference? When logged in as an admin the username is prepopulated for you.
At most as an admin you can delete applications without warning. The system is still owned by root and not an admin.
There are zero viruses for OS X. People are switching to OS X because they are tired of the crap with windows. Viruses are part of the crap but not all of the crap. Windows itself is crap.
Having to run a virus scanner, adware scanner, etc. is just more of the crap you have to put up with on a windows machine. I switched my household over to OS X years ago because I was tired of ALL of the crap windows expects you to put up with. Net result? More work done, less maintenance and I don't need to worry about ad junk, viruses or any of the other windows crap.
One of my current contracts forces me to use a windows machine for some development work. 3+ ghz machine with all of the niceties. But with all of the scanners and other corporate protection crap on it, it runs slower than my 2 year old powerbook. The vulnerabilties in windows not only require you to do more maintenace but they mean you have to run with 3x the hardware just to get half of the performance.
1. Double click on the playlist you want to modify (opens a new window)
2. position the two windows so you can see both
3. Search in one window
4. Drag song from search window to playlist window
Things are not as difficult as you make them out to be.
Damn you!
You need to post this kind of stuff when people have mod points! Now I have to just reply and say:
damn funny
(pretend that is in all caps)
No, Safari caches at ~/Library/Caches/Safari
You would need to add that one as well.
Unless you really want to write it... then nevermind.
Guess we will never know...
1. Open spotlight preferences, select privacy tab /tmp
2. Open finder window
3. Select go to folder in the finder menu
4. Type
5. Drag tmp folder to privacy list in spotlight preferences tab.
6. profit!
Microsoft is no longer invested in Apple.
When they were invested, they were non-voting shares.