I wouldn't know specificaly, but I would be willing to bet you could get most of your costomizations from www.macosxapps.com Granted it's not a built in feature, but you have to consider that sometimes, espesialy when you're developing a system for new users. One of the big problems with Linux is the myriad of options. Sometimes you never know what to do. Linux should really have a simple GUI option, sort of like the mac OS Simple Finder option. That could potentialy bring more desktop users to the OS.
As for your father, I'm not going to assume anything before I know the exact problem because that would be rude. But from what you described, all he would need to know how to do is to start the program, press play stop and skip and quit. Is there somethign else he needed because I know all of those are clearly marked buttons.
I haven't tried it and unfortunately my iBook is in the shop, but does command Fkey work in OS X for switching to virtual terminals? That would at least give you 8 terminals
Like highlighting the text to copy then just middle clicking to paste
If I recall correctly, this feature existed in the Sparc 2 which we had at our highschool which ran solaris. This is not a linux development. It may be a *NIX varient development, but not linux.
Linux is completely customizable, you can change everything about the desktop, kde and gnome are very flexable. If you dont like something you can pull the src apart and change it. (I wrote a couple patches my self because I like to use the mouse scroll to shade and unshade windows on the top bar)
All of this can be done with OS X too. You can even kill Aqua and just use it for apps that require Agua and use another windower in it's place for most of your work.
We have also made our own freetype fonts. So we dont have to steal them from microsoft. But we can also install the microsoft fonts if we want our desktop to look like a windows box.
Apple has their own fonts too, what's your point?
Linux developers are very innovative we have more updates and enhancements than macosx and windows put together
And how many of those updates were because they were nessesary to get a feature that has been availible in other OSes for a long time? Seriously, most of linux updates have just brought it closer to being comparable with the modern OSes, not major improvements.
A good Itunes replacement would be xmms, yes its a clone of winamp, but there is nothing wrong with that, FREE THEMES!
Themes don't replace functionality. You have no idea how useful something like a live search feature is untill you've become used to it iTunes is far superior to WinAMP
I will grant that linux developers are innovative and that Linux is a fun system to toy arround with, but they are no more innovative than paid programmers and sadly do make most of their software from other peoples ideas (because otherwise no one would use Linux because people are too fricken dumb to learn a new OS, but that's an entirely differnt rant)
while you still can. If it's downloaded everywhere and thousands upon thousands of us have the code, even if it goes the way of DeCSS it couldn't be stopped. Print the source code on T-Shirts, mousepads and mugs. Distribute the binaries via email and AIM and Kazza. They won't stop this one
Any ecryption that has to be decrypted to human readable format is breakable and copyable. While you cannot understand data on a CD or in bits and bytes on your computer, and you cannot understand the digital pulses that comminicate to your computer and TV and speakers what to do. However, the light that travles from your screen to your eyes and the sound that moves from the speaker to your ears are readable by any human, and therefore can be copied and duplicated. Maybe the technology does not yet exist to make these copies great, but if a demand arises, then they will be made.
As a current electrical/computer engineer, who has touched many bits an pieces of equipment and electronics, and has read through service manuals on electronics for fun, I resent your statement. You may not need a college dgree to be smart, but they sure as hell aren't hiring highschool grads. IBM et al work very closely with many colleges to provide work experience before you graduate.
It has come to our attention here at Microsoft, that you have recently purchased a Macintosh. This explicitly violates the "No other vendors because I like the way Microsoft bites by balls" contract which you signed when you first became a Bill Gates Male Groupie. We must ask you to cease all contacts with Apple and related machines, or we will be forced to cut back on your supply of custom Soiled Bill Gates Boxers. Further violations will cause you to loose all access privlages to the BOHICA box.
Signed Microsoft Corporate Sex Toy #1265
[note to moderators: I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes you just gotta]
As a follow up to me ealier response, I finaly have the time to sit down and read th earticles you linked. From the first one:
We could move forward powerfully, but to do so, we are going to have to let go of a lot of old ideas that aren't serving us well.
That mean OS X can't support the quadra natively, my iBook can't support OS 3 natively, and when we start moving forward and 32 bit becomes a hinderence, 32 bit will die. Plain and simple. Unlike PC users, mac users don't always hang on to the old. Case in point, until Win2k, windows still relied havily on DOS. That became a hinderance. In the same way, OS 9's legacy code was becoming and hinderance, hence OS X. OS 9 chews up resources, and developers have had a long time to get to X compatability. It's time to move on, and part of that step is not booting into OS X.
The second article had no evidence of developers getting screwed at all, with one exception of a brief foray into the early 1990's of Apple's history which was a dark time.
Same with the third article. None of your references point to devlopers getting screwed with the switch to OS X. I think you're just looking to bash apple, bu tyour really reaching here.
I still have a choice. I can run the old OS on my current system. My current system won't boot into OS 3, too fucking bad, I have an emulator which works just fine if I want to run OS 3. At some point you have to change in order to move forward. And if people won't change with you, you force them to change or leave them behind.
People went apeshit when Apple started doing only USB on their computers. Now look at it, there's hundreds of USB devices where before there were so few I could count them on my hands. Sometimes change is a good thing, PC users have yet to realize this.
But you don't have the right to revolt! It's actualy a rather interesting bit of history but look at the constitution, there is no provision in there for the right of the people to revolt. It is in the delaration of independence, but nor in the constitution.
You obviously have never taken a political science course have you? The biggest impact of any federal ruling or court decision or action is not the immediate impact but the precident it sets further down the road. For example, the creation of a national bank was not provided for in the constitution, and when the idea first came up, it was a heavy legal battle fought all the way to the supreme court. There, the decision was made based on a 3 part test. 1) Does the law explicitly violate the constitution? 2) Is the purpose bennificial to the people as individuals, the states as entities and the US as a whole? 3) Is there a better way to reach the same ends?
All this ruling did was create a national bank, but the precident for deciding how to rule on controversial laws is still in use today. Those same 3 steps, established in one of the first supreme court cases is a method that is used for many many laws today.
Likewise, there was a ruling which established that there is no such thing as an absoulte right to free speech (can't yell fire in a theater). This ruling allows for the supression of anti government propaganda durring a war. That is a scary precident.
SO is this one. If they can read your borrowing logs today, why shouldn't they be able to read your credit history tomorrow? And read your phone logs the next day? What's the difference? It's all part of the better good to save your life. Better to die young and free than old and opressed.
A few notes, technicaly they can't, they need probable cause to search you. Being pulled over is not being searched. If you truely felt wronged, you could take it to court.
On the driving too straight, perhaps they ment driving to deliberately, which is a legitimate reason to pull you over. They have found that drunk drivers don't weave arround like a house fly, they very deliberately shift from one side of the lane to the other, usualy very slowly. This is often considered a tell tale sign of a drunk driver,and thus is a reasonto pull you over.
Follow microsoft? Oh yeah, god OS X was such a blatent Windows clone, I can't imagine why M$ hasn't sued the living crap out of Apple for it. Apple has been looking into true 64 bit chips for a long long time now, they aren't following Intel here at all. Apple is doing what apple does, making their computers and selling them to mac users.
So? What does that have to do with anything (assuming for a second it's even real). How does that change that for at least the next 2 or 3 years, Apple is going to be continuing with the PPC design.
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http://www.macosxapps.com/article.php?story=200
http://www.macosxapps.com/article.php?story=200
I wouldn't know specificaly, but I would be willing to bet you could get most of your costomizations from www.macosxapps.com Granted it's not a built in feature, but you have to consider that sometimes, espesialy when you're developing a system for new users. One of the big problems with Linux is the myriad of options. Sometimes you never know what to do. Linux should really have a simple GUI option, sort of like the mac OS Simple Finder option. That could potentialy bring more desktop users to the OS.
As for your father, I'm not going to assume anything before I know the exact problem because that would be rude. But from what you described, all he would need to know how to do is to start the program, press play stop and skip and quit. Is there somethign else he needed because I know all of those are clearly marked buttons.
I haven't tried it and unfortunately my iBook is in the shop, but does command Fkey work in OS X for switching to virtual terminals? That would at least give you 8 terminals
Umm, tab complete is in the OS X terminal. I don't see what the problem is? If you just want to use the text based system log in as
>console
Because text OSes always launch faster than GUI OSes. Come back when you're using Gnome or KDE
Like highlighting the text to copy then just middle clicking to paste
If I recall correctly, this feature existed in the Sparc 2 which we had at our highschool which ran solaris. This is not a linux development. It may be a *NIX varient development, but not linux.
Linux is completely customizable, you can change everything about the desktop, kde and gnome are very flexable. If you dont like something you can pull the src apart and change it. (I wrote a couple patches my self because I like to use the mouse scroll to shade and unshade windows on the top bar)
All of this can be done with OS X too. You can even kill Aqua and just use it for apps that require Agua and use another windower in it's place for most of your work.
We have also made our own freetype fonts. So we dont have to steal them from microsoft. But we can also install the microsoft fonts if we want our desktop to look like a windows box.
Apple has their own fonts too, what's your point?
Linux developers are very innovative we have more updates and enhancements than macosx and windows put together
And how many of those updates were because they were nessesary to get a feature that has been availible in other OSes for a long time? Seriously, most of linux updates have just brought it closer to being comparable with the modern OSes, not major improvements.
A good Itunes replacement would be xmms, yes its a clone of winamp, but there is nothing wrong with that, FREE THEMES!
Themes don't replace functionality. You have no idea how useful something like a live search feature is untill you've become used to it iTunes is far superior to WinAMP
I will grant that linux developers are innovative and that Linux is a fun system to toy arround with, but they are no more innovative than paid programmers and sadly do make most of their software from other peoples ideas (because otherwise no one would use Linux because people are too fricken dumb to learn a new OS, but that's an entirely differnt rant)
while you still can. If it's downloaded everywhere and thousands upon thousands of us have the code, even if it goes the way of DeCSS it couldn't be stopped. Print the source code on T-Shirts, mousepads and mugs. Distribute the binaries via email and AIM and Kazza. They won't stop this one
Any ecryption that has to be decrypted to human readable format is breakable and copyable. While you cannot understand data on a CD or in bits and bytes on your computer, and you cannot understand the digital pulses that comminicate to your computer and TV and speakers what to do. However, the light that travles from your screen to your eyes and the sound that moves from the speaker to your ears are readable by any human, and therefore can be copied and duplicated. Maybe the technology does not yet exist to make these copies great, but if a demand arises, then they will be made.
As a current electrical/computer engineer, who has touched many bits an pieces of equipment and electronics, and has read through service manuals on electronics for fun, I resent your statement. You may not need a college dgree to be smart, but they sure as hell aren't hiring highschool grads. IBM et al work very closely with many colleges to provide work experience before you graduate.
Dear Father Randy,
It has come to our attention here at Microsoft, that you have recently purchased a Macintosh. This explicitly violates the "No other vendors because I like the way Microsoft bites by balls" contract which you signed when you first became a Bill Gates Male Groupie. We must ask you to cease all contacts with Apple and related machines, or we will be forced to cut back on your supply of custom Soiled Bill Gates Boxers. Further violations will cause you to loose all access privlages to the BOHICA box.
Signed
Microsoft Corporate Sex Toy #1265
[note to moderators: I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes you just gotta]
Probably to avoid being associated with users who ask such dumb questions...
As a follow up to me ealier response, I finaly have the time to sit down and read th earticles you linked. From the first one:
We could move forward powerfully, but to do so, we are going to have to let go of a lot of old ideas that aren't serving us well.
That mean OS X can't support the quadra natively, my iBook can't support OS 3 natively, and when we start moving forward and 32 bit becomes a hinderence, 32 bit will die. Plain and simple. Unlike PC users, mac users don't always hang on to the old. Case in point, until Win2k, windows still relied havily on DOS. That became a hinderance. In the same way, OS 9's legacy code was becoming and hinderance, hence OS X. OS 9 chews up resources, and developers have had a long time to get to X compatability. It's time to move on, and part of that step is not booting into OS X.
The second article had no evidence of developers getting screwed at all, with one exception of a brief foray into the early 1990's of Apple's history which was a dark time.
Same with the third article. None of your references point to devlopers getting screwed with the switch to OS X. I think you're just looking to bash apple, bu tyour really reaching here.
I still have a choice. I can run the old OS on my current system. My current system won't boot into OS 3, too fucking bad, I have an emulator which works just fine if I want to run OS 3. At some point you have to change in order to move forward. And if people won't change with you, you force them to change or leave them behind.
People went apeshit when Apple started doing only USB on their computers. Now look at it, there's hundreds of USB devices where before there were so few I could count them on my hands. Sometimes change is a good thing, PC users have yet to realize this.
But I can't play paintball in canada.
But you don't have the right to revolt! It's actualy a rather interesting bit of history but look at the constitution, there is no provision in there for the right of the people to revolt. It is in the delaration of independence, but nor in the constitution.
You obviously have never taken a political science course have you? The biggest impact of any federal ruling or court decision or action is not the immediate impact but the precident it sets further down the road. For example, the creation of a national bank was not provided for in the constitution, and when the idea first came up, it was a heavy legal battle fought all the way to the supreme court. There, the decision was made based on a 3 part test.
1) Does the law explicitly violate the constitution?
2) Is the purpose bennificial to the people as individuals, the states as entities and the US as a whole?
3) Is there a better way to reach the same ends?
All this ruling did was create a national bank, but the precident for deciding how to rule on controversial laws is still in use today. Those same 3 steps, established in one of the first supreme court cases is a method that is used for many many laws today.
Likewise, there was a ruling which established that there is no such thing as an absoulte right to free speech (can't yell fire in a theater). This ruling allows for the supression of anti government propaganda durring a war. That is a scary precident.
SO is this one. If they can read your borrowing logs today, why shouldn't they be able to read your credit history tomorrow? And read your phone logs the next day? What's the difference? It's all part of the better good to save your life. Better to die young and free than old and opressed.
A few notes, technicaly they can't, they need probable cause to search you. Being pulled over is not being searched. If you truely felt wronged, you could take it to court.
On the driving too straight, perhaps they ment driving to deliberately, which is a legitimate reason to pull you over. They have found that drunk drivers don't weave arround like a house fly, they very deliberately shift from one side of the lane to the other, usualy very slowly. This is often considered a tell tale sign of a drunk driver,and thus is a reasonto pull you over.
Um, quadras were pre-steve's return. No one bought a quadra to run OS X.
Follow microsoft? Oh yeah, god OS X was such a blatent Windows clone, I can't imagine why M$ hasn't sued the living crap out of Apple for it. Apple has been looking into true 64 bit chips for a long long time now, they aren't following Intel here at all. Apple is doing what apple does, making their computers and selling them to mac users.
Ne, how do you figure?
Not quite, so far nothing about Apple joining the DRM brigade. I still hear the 1984 not like 1984 chant in the background
So? What does that have to do with anything (assuming for a second it's even real). How does that change that for at least the next 2 or 3 years, Apple is going to be continuing with the PPC design.
But when you're using the screen as a second monitor for your powerbook, you can't well use the screen to see if the G4 is on now can you?