Could you perchance recommend an SSH/SFTP client for an iMac?
The command-line 'ssh' should do you just fine for remote logins and tunnels and such. But for SFTP, I'd highly recommend Transmit. It's an awesome FTP and SFTP client - probably the best solution you'll find short of Apple getting the Finder fixed up for real FTP access.
If you don't like shareware (Transmit is $24.95) my runner-up recommendation would be Cyberduck. It has a rather nice UI, development is rather rapid (bug fixes and feature refinements every month or so), and it is open source under the GPL. It's not as speedy as Transmit, and it has a ridiculously ugly rubber duck icon, but it's still a nice FTP and SFTP client.:-)
Quoth Wikipedia: The "ii" ending only occurs in the plural of words ending in "ius". For instance, take radius, plural radii: the root is radi-, with the singular ending -us and the plural -i. The ending -i is used only for masculine nouns, not neuter ones such as virus; moreover, viri is the plural of vir, and means "men"
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C does an excellent job at easing you into programming on OS X. I bought it around a year ago, and it really helped me get up to speed on how OS X applications are written, how to use Interface Builder, etc. There's a lot of good detail on Objective-C, of course, but I'd say that's only about 50% of the content. The rest helps you understand how to hook code up to the UI, work with bundle files, and so forth.
It's a great book to start with, and anyone who's programmed before will likely not need anything beyond that and the reference documentation to build decent apps.
Then why can't we just, like, launch a lawsuit demanding the FCC is bound by their own rules to prohibhit "DRM" from being broadcast on public airwaves?
Because "we" do not have nearly as much money or political influence as the RIAA, the MPAA, Sony, etc.
Yeah, and that coaster^Wcompact-disc you just bought is a PERFECT reproduction of the EXACT sound of the performance. Uh huh... Here's a hint: a lot of people obviously do not seem to notice it being any more lossy than a CD. If they do, they do not care, because they keep buying.
And last time I checked, it can be a lot more "versatile" than walking into Best Buy and buying an album. I can pick and choose the songs I want, and I can burn them to a CD if I wish and play it anywhere. This is the problem: you (and many others) assume that there is NO value in music like the iTunes music store. The value is in picking and choosing! I pay 99 for a track because I want only that track, and whatever other individual tracks I like. That is the value.
If they want to do business with USA/EU companies, you can be pretty sure they are. You act like China is some lawless country full of thieves and bandits running around pirating everything in sight, and somehow ignoring the influence of countries when buying/selling/trading with them.
I second the HTML version. Good old Adobe - popped up a nice little window in the background bugging me to update and stalled the IE process. Since the window went to the background, all I could see was the stalled process, and I killed IE, which, of course, closed all my windows. I hate pdf files..
How is this a fault of PDF files? This is a fault of Adobe's software and perhaps Windows not notifying you about the window Adobe popped up. PDF files work great if you have softwarethatdoesn't suck.:)
Twice a year? I get a receipt from them every time I buy a single iTune, and they continually put me back on the new music emails. No, don't bother me if I've spent.99
I really just meant Apple newsletters and the like - things most people might consider spam. Every online store sends e-mail receipts, and a lot of people (myself included) keep them for record of online transactions.
I'm not sure what the big deal is - it's not as if you can't easily make a rule to throw anything with the matching subject or source address into the trash. Receipts are not spam to most people. In the time it took you to type your rant here, you could have added a rule to delete them if they really bothered you.
Did you check your "rules" preferences? Mail.app by default includes a rule to "Stop evaluating rules" for mail from a whole host of Apple e-mail addresses. I've never tried deleting it to see if I can get Apple mail to get filed as spam because... well, they e-mail me maybe twice a year and it's always been worth reading. But you might want to check out that rule, it could be what's fouling you up.
I know that the enlightenment window manager had translucent windows in the late 90's
To the best of my recollection, those translucent windows only showed the desktop background, not other windows that were behind the translucent ones. I'm not sure if that counts in this case - I haven't looked at what Apple is patenting here. But none of the translucent windows I saw on Linux showed anything but the background. Contrast this to Apple's Terminal app, which shows windows underneath. And this translucency is real-time: if the window is playing video or something, it shows through.
Remember, it intelligent life isn't dependent on a planet. Any advanced race probably left their world eons ago.
I love these two common assumptions that people mistakenly make about efforts to find other life-friendly planets. Firstly, who said we're looking only for "intelligent" life? I'd be tickled if we found a planet with silicon-based bunny rabbits or something. And secondly, who's to say any "intelligent" life we find has to be "advanced" relative to us? Perhaps we will discover some stone-age culture that barely comprehends what their world is, much less how to have left it "eons ago."
isn't love a journaling filesystem? My girlfriend can remember every little issue I would like to delete.
You think that's bad? Wait until you upgrade to the wife filesystem. It won't even let you delete entries for mowing the lawn, etc. from your crontab! Talk about rights management...
Because Bluetooth is a lot more expensive than printing a friggin barcode? Why use a dynamic, electronic, and (relatively) complicated wireless system for what is, by and large, going to be static data? This is like saying I should include a little Bluetooth "beacon" on every one of my hundreds of business cards, rather than just printing my damn URL and e-mail address on the cards.
The effect would be that CD's produced in 1981 would become unreadable in ten years or so. I'm given to understand that aluminum is now used, but I wonder what ever became of those early CD's.
I have a number of CDs from the early- and mid-1980s, and they all play fine. Of course, they're in good condition too, because I don't mistreat them.:) I love going to peoples' houses and seeing bare CDs strewn about the living room, and then they wonder why they can't find a given CD, or why it won't play after they do find it...
When will they get rid of this theming junk and integrate things with MacOS X the way it does things?
Hell, I'd be happy with the OS X-ish theme if only I could use the systemwide address book and keychain. I use Camino for web browsing, because it supports the system keychain for site passwords and such. FireFox doesn't. The last time I tried Thunderbird, I had to use its built-in Address Book, which was a major reason I did not switch over to it.
So yeah, as long as the UI is passable and reasonably consistent with Aqua, I care far more about the lower level compatibility. I'm beyond putting the effort into different address books for different programs - it's one of the reasons I switched to the Mac in the first place.
Photoshop on Windows... a GOOD port? That's a joke, right?
You bring up some good points, but they fail to counter what I said - the majority of your Windows UI expectations translate just fine to Photoshop. It has its inconsistencies on the Mac too (Ctrl-Cmd-H for hiding the app, instead of Cmd-H like every other app on OS X? what the...), but it still follows the majority of the conventions users expect.
By the way, the "more or less arbitrarly grouped" tabs shouldn't be a problem. The first thing most serious Photoshop users do is organize the palettes to suit their workflow. I don't think the defaults are that horrid, but after a while you get a good idea of how you want things arranged, and Adobe provides a UI that is more than capable of adapting.
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Could you perchance recommend an SSH/SFTP client for an iMac?
The command-line 'ssh' should do you just fine for remote logins and tunnels and such. But for SFTP, I'd highly recommend Transmit. It's an awesome FTP and SFTP client - probably the best solution you'll find short of Apple getting the Finder fixed up for real FTP access.
If you don't like shareware (Transmit is $24.95) my runner-up recommendation would be Cyberduck. It has a rather nice UI, development is rather rapid (bug fixes and feature refinements every month or so), and it is open source under the GPL. It's not as speedy as Transmit, and it has a ridiculously ugly rubber duck icon, but it's still a nice FTP and SFTP client. :-)
Hope that helps!
The plural of "viruses" is not "virii"!
Quoth Wikipedia:
The "ii" ending only occurs in the plural of words ending in "ius". For instance, take radius, plural radii: the root is radi-, with the singular ending -us and the plural -i. The ending -i is used only for masculine nouns, not neuter ones such as virus; moreover, viri is the plural of vir, and means "men"
It's viruses! </rant>
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C does an excellent job at easing you into programming on OS X. I bought it around a year ago, and it really helped me get up to speed on how OS X applications are written, how to use Interface Builder, etc. There's a lot of good detail on Objective-C, of course, but I'd say that's only about 50% of the content. The rest helps you understand how to hook code up to the UI, work with bundle files, and so forth.
It's a great book to start with, and anyone who's programmed before will likely not need anything beyond that and the reference documentation to build decent apps.
Then why can't we just, like, launch a lawsuit demanding the FCC is bound by their own rules to prohibhit "DRM" from being broadcast on public airwaves?
Because "we" do not have nearly as much money or political influence as the RIAA, the MPAA, Sony, etc.
It's lossily encoded
Yeah, and that coaster^Wcompact-disc you just bought is a PERFECT reproduction of the EXACT sound of the performance. Uh huh... Here's a hint: a lot of people obviously do not seem to notice it being any more lossy than a CD. If they do, they do not care, because they keep buying.
And last time I checked, it can be a lot more "versatile" than walking into Best Buy and buying an album. I can pick and choose the songs I want, and I can burn them to a CD if I wish and play it anywhere. This is the problem: you (and many others) assume that there is NO value in music like the iTunes music store. The value is in picking and choosing! I pay 99 for a track because I want only that track, and whatever other individual tracks I like. That is the value.
Are they even _paying_ patent fees now?
If they want to do business with USA/EU companies, you can be pretty sure they are. You act like China is some lawless country full of thieves and bandits running around pirating everything in sight, and somehow ignoring the influence of countries when buying/selling/trading with them.
Three words: X Window System. There is no such thing as "X Windows."
I second the HTML version. Good old Adobe - popped up a nice little window in the background bugging me to update and stalled the IE process. Since the window went to the background, all I could see was the stalled process, and I killed IE, which, of course, closed all my windows. I hate pdf files..
How is this a fault of PDF files? This is a fault of Adobe's software and perhaps Windows not notifying you about the window Adobe popped up. PDF files work great if you have software that doesn't suck. :)
Twice a year? I get a receipt from them every time I buy a single iTune, and they continually put me back on the new music emails. No, don't bother me if I've spent .99
I really just meant Apple newsletters and the like - things most people might consider spam. Every online store sends e-mail receipts, and a lot of people (myself included) keep them for record of online transactions.
I'm not sure what the big deal is - it's not as if you can't easily make a rule to throw anything with the matching subject or source address into the trash. Receipts are not spam to most people. In the time it took you to type your rant here, you could have added a rule to delete them if they really bothered you.
Did you check your "rules" preferences? Mail.app by default includes a rule to "Stop evaluating rules" for mail from a whole host of Apple e-mail addresses. I've never tried deleting it to see if I can get Apple mail to get filed as spam because... well, they e-mail me maybe twice a year and it's always been worth reading. But you might want to check out that rule, it could be what's fouling you up.
I know that the enlightenment window manager had translucent windows in the late 90's
To the best of my recollection, those translucent windows only showed the desktop background, not other windows that were behind the translucent ones. I'm not sure if that counts in this case - I haven't looked at what Apple is patenting here. But none of the translucent windows I saw on Linux showed anything but the background. Contrast this to Apple's Terminal app, which shows windows underneath. And this translucency is real-time: if the window is playing video or something, it shows through.
Still, between my bike and my Ford Taurus, I'm averaging about 120 MPG the last couple of weeks :-)
Does that include gallons of Gatorade, too? :)
Remember, it intelligent life isn't dependent on a planet. Any advanced race probably left their world eons ago.
I love these two common assumptions that people mistakenly make about efforts to find other life-friendly planets. Firstly, who said we're looking only for "intelligent" life? I'd be tickled if we found a planet with silicon-based bunny rabbits or something. And secondly, who's to say any "intelligent" life we find has to be "advanced" relative to us? Perhaps we will discover some stone-age culture that barely comprehends what their world is, much less how to have left it "eons ago."
isn't love a journaling filesystem? My girlfriend can remember every little issue I would like to delete.
You think that's bad? Wait until you upgrade to the wife filesystem. It won't even let you delete entries for mowing the lawn, etc. from your crontab! Talk about rights management...
RFID?
And that would be cheaper than ink...? :)
Why not use BlueTooth for this?
Because Bluetooth is a lot more expensive than printing a friggin barcode? Why use a dynamic, electronic, and (relatively) complicated wireless system for what is, by and large, going to be static data? This is like saying I should include a little Bluetooth "beacon" on every one of my hundreds of business cards, rather than just printing my damn URL and e-mail address on the cards.
Only on Slashdot can you post LYRICS to a song and get moderated "Insightful" :)
It would be wise to provide patches for everyone.
Yeah, but Microsoft is a corporation. Wise != Profitable.
Let's buy a great channel
Yeah, but they also bought TechTV. Try to keep on topic here. :)
What media lasts LONGEST?
A wife's memory can store your screw-ups for perhaps an indefinite amount of time. :) Does that count?
The effect would be that CD's produced in 1981 would become unreadable in ten years or so. I'm given to understand that aluminum is now used, but I wonder what ever became of those early CD's.
I have a number of CDs from the early- and mid-1980s, and they all play fine. Of course, they're in good condition too, because I don't mistreat them. :) I love going to peoples' houses and seeing bare CDs strewn about the living room, and then they wonder why they can't find a given CD, or why it won't play after they do find it...
Slashdot keeps its archives on CD-R. Each time they go to check for dupes before posting, they come up with nothing. :)
When will they get rid of this theming junk and integrate things with MacOS X the way it does things?
Hell, I'd be happy with the OS X-ish theme if only I could use the systemwide address book and keychain. I use Camino for web browsing, because it supports the system keychain for site passwords and such. FireFox doesn't. The last time I tried Thunderbird, I had to use its built-in Address Book, which was a major reason I did not switch over to it.
So yeah, as long as the UI is passable and reasonably consistent with Aqua, I care far more about the lower level compatibility. I'm beyond putting the effort into different address books for different programs - it's one of the reasons I switched to the Mac in the first place.
or maybe even defenistratred
Wait, he doesn't have to use Windows anymore? I wouldn't consider that much of a punishment. :)
Photoshop on Windows... a GOOD port? That's a joke, right?
You bring up some good points, but they fail to counter what I said - the majority of your Windows UI expectations translate just fine to Photoshop. It has its inconsistencies on the Mac too (Ctrl-Cmd-H for hiding the app, instead of Cmd-H like every other app on OS X? what the...), but it still follows the majority of the conventions users expect.
By the way, the "more or less arbitrarly grouped" tabs shouldn't be a problem. The first thing most serious Photoshop users do is organize the palettes to suit their workflow. I don't think the defaults are that horrid, but after a while you get a good idea of how you want things arranged, and Adobe provides a UI that is more than capable of adapting.