Also it has been said here before and I will say it again that the kernel in MacOSX is not Freebsd based!
Yes and no. The kernel has a modified Mach3.0 microkernel in it, true. However, the kernel also has a good part of the FreeBSD kernel. Normally , the FeeBSD kernel would be as a server running on Mach but, Apple combined the two so, you have the FReeBSD kernel running in the same address space as Mach.
Its based on Mach and Nextstep! Only some of the libraries and a few programs have been ported. All the i/o code is based on Mach and not FreeBSD. Its the i/o code that needs some work.
Actually, the old NeXT kernel is toast. xnu is new and is a hybrid kernel. As another poster noted xnu uses IOKit not the Mach I/O.
Also I expect a micro-kernel vs a macro-kernel flamewar to show up on this thread to explain why this is. Since both FreeBSD and Linux are macrokernel based, all of the i/o code runs in the kernel. On MacOSX most of the i/o runs in userland. They really are apples to oranges.
xnu isn't a true microkernel. Apple keeps Mach separate in code simply for porting purposes to keep the code portable. In other words, xnu could be considered monolithic.
Try opening a.doc file produced by the most recent version of Word for Windows under Windows 2000. I think you will be surprised to find it won't be readable.
PDF is an open specification, anyone can write their own PDF creation tool as well as reader.
The security thing is a bad idea though, as is the attachments in PDF files that Adobe just added support for in their apps. Ah, the coming the the PDF virus era....
No one has the right to monitor what you aredoing on your computer and then put a little thing in the EULA that makes it look like they have a legal right. They don't. Spyware is a breach of a person's privacy period.
As for your ability to arrest someone I agree with you but, you had better have good evidence if you do it.
Chevy Chase Bank is the largest bank in the DC and Maryland areas.
Now before they redesigned their site it would block any browser not identifying itself as IE or Netscape. I e-mailed them a couple of times but, this seems to be a policy decision as it did work if you spoofed.
Now with the redesign the site is even worse, as it has these iffy Javascript based menus etc. The old version worked with OmniWeb not so with this version (used to spoof to get in).
Now Mozilla works as does Netscape 7 and IE but, that is it.
Their reasoning when I e-mailed them was that other browsers weren't "secure" (their word).
Chevy Chase has always had iffy Mac support. In the old days they used a stand alone program for banking instead of the web and you could download the Windows version but, had to get the Mac version on a floppy. The Mac version was not a well designed app (to put it mildly).
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Yes and no. The kernel has a modified Mach3.0 microkernel in it, true. However, the kernel also has a good part of the FreeBSD kernel. Normally , the FeeBSD kernel would be as a server running on Mach but, Apple combined the two so, you have the FReeBSD kernel running in the same address space as Mach.
Actually, the old NeXT kernel is toast. xnu is new and is a hybrid kernel. As another poster noted xnu uses IOKit not the Mach I/O.
xnu isn't a true microkernel. Apple keeps Mach separate in code simply for porting purposes to keep the code portable. In other words, xnu could be considered monolithic.Yeah.
.doc file to either PDF or AppleWorks.
I just mentioned that becuase I actually have tried that WordPad trick at work.
Don't use Windows at home. Just convert the
Stone Design makes a free front end app to antiword.
JPEGs are bitmaps.
The thing is that you can use compression with images in the file to make it smaller.
Basically, this is just used to make the file size smaller.
I can't remember now how long this has been around but, at least a couple of years as a means to make the files smaller.
The poster could have said Unicode text but, it is still not a good idea.
PDFs are optimized for printing and a lot of print shops will take them these days.
Text is just that, text. There aren't any images, or anything.
And WordPad will work with all versions of Word's file format?
.doc converter like one based on antiword.
I don't know about Win XP but, Win2000 and Win98SE can't do it with the version included with the OS.
You could use a
Are you sure it will open that word file?
I can't rember now if XP Home updated WordPad but, the version that comes with Win2000 can't open the latest version of MS's Word format.
Not exactly.
.doc file produced by the most recent version of Word for Windows under Windows 2000. I think you will be surprised to find it won't be readable.
Try opening a
Stone Design's Create under OS X produces much smaller files.
As does PrintToPDF under MacOS 9.
It is a matter of using compression on the images. Likes say JPEG compression.
The really big PDFs don't tend to use any (or very little) compression.
PDF isn't open?
Thats news to me.
PDF is an open specification, anyone can write their own PDF creation tool as well as reader.
The security thing is a bad idea though, as is the attachments in PDF files that Adobe just added support for in their apps. Ah, the coming the the PDF virus era....
Um, Apple created OpenDarwin.org
Not entirely true.
Darwin includes the *entire* BSD layer.
This means pretty much all of your comman dline stuff.
An install of XFree86 is also provided (not a window manager though)
On PPC Darwin would make a pretty good server for serving stuff up.
On i386 there isn't enough hardware support for that. If someone really was interested in that they could fix some of that hardware support for i386.
The truth is that most people who decide to work on Darwin are people who work on PowerPC.
:sigh:
Even if Apple maintains an internal i386 build of OS X it is only for two reasons:
Testing of portability/good code
Negotiating leverage
Yep.
Though, if you were a kenrel coder, you could improve the i386 support.
You may disagree with Apple decision but, they were justified to ban that 17 year old (as you call him) from the CVS.
The Apple Darwin CVS is current.
OpenDarwin.org is just a more public CVS that others can commit to that is headed by Apple employees.
Okay.
:shrugs:
Maybe, my memory was playing tricks on me.
:sigh:
I really hate people who want to be anal. You could have searched OSopinion or even called the Open Groups but, noooo.
here is the link to the stories
Can't find the other follow up article.. It was there.
Hate to reply to my own post.
No one has the right to monitor what you aredoing on your computer and then put a little thing in the EULA that makes it look like they have a legal right. They don't. Spyware is a breach of a person's privacy period.
As for your ability to arrest someone I agree with you but, you had better have good evidence if you do it.
They didn't always use spyware. There were cases where they actually broke into computers.
That was in the news a while back.
Then why did the Open Group say they didn't have a problem with Apple calling MacOS X UNIX?
As I said before either it is UNIX or the Open Group is contradicting itself.
Note that in my previous post I said the Open Group told OSopinion over the PHONE that MacOS X was UNIX.
:shakes head:
A lot of what the RIAA is doing is borderline legal at best. Some of it is illegal (like spying on other people).
What the RIAA seems to have forgotten is that they are not law enforcement.
To be truthful, the only reason the RIAA gets away with what they do is friends in high places.
I mean what makes them think they have the right to break into someone's computer?
No it doesn't.
As I have said in the past invoking that joke of a statistical law is akin to censorship.
Chevy Chase Bank is the largest bank in the DC and Maryland areas.
Now before they redesigned their site it would block any browser not identifying itself as IE or Netscape. I e-mailed them a couple of times but, this seems to be a policy decision as it did work if you spoofed.
Now with the redesign the site is even worse, as it has these iffy Javascript based menus etc. The old version worked with OmniWeb not so with this version (used to spoof to get in).
Now Mozilla works as does Netscape 7 and IE but, that is it.
Their reasoning when I e-mailed them was that other browsers weren't "secure" (their word).
Chevy Chase has always had iffy Mac support. In the old days they used a stand alone program for banking instead of the web and you could download the Windows version but, had to get the Mac version on a floppy. The Mac version was not a well designed app (to put it mildly).
Naturally, I'm not happy with them.
Back in 2001 OSopinion published an article about this and then the Open Group updated their vendor list to include Apple.
Open Group Platform list (Apple is listed)
Now, they later had a talk with the Open Group and they have no problem with Apple using the UNIX brand.
Note that Apple was NOT on that list before that article in 2001.
So, unless the Opoen Group is contradicting itself, it is UNIX.
um the Open Group says MacOS X is UNIX.
As for the BSDs (what I was talking about), they are UNIX based. I didn't say UNIX certified or UNIX, big difference.
UNIX based means the BSDs share a heritage with UNIX, as SysV even borrowed some BSD related things.
Apple owns xnu (the kernel) as they wrote it.
Other stuff in Darwin:
- Working HFS+ in a UNIX
- Various utilities not present elsewhere
- NetInfo (from NeXT)
Other projects Apple works on:All of that is Apple created stuff and is under Apple copyright so, I would say you are not correct about the Apple not owning the copyright.