Where are the second and third mouse buttons on the Macbooks? Am I supposed to squeeze its sides? For the second button, click the trackpad button while touching the trackpad with two fingers. This feature may need to be turned on in the Keyboard & Mouse pane of System Preferences, I can't remember if it's on by default. You can also scroll by dragging with two fingers.
Apple has not "screwed" Java. Java5 works on Leopard, and for that matter, no one is holding a gun to Mac-using Java developers' heads forcing them to upgrade.
Historically, Java releases on OS X have not been aligned exactly with updates to the OS as this timeline shows. Yeah, it would be great if Apple would announce an estimated release date for Java6 on Leopard, but it would have been the wrong decision to delay Leopard in order to get Java6 finished for inclusion.
I've yet to hear someone defend the problematic firewall.
OK, here you go! Start with this surprisingly level-headed thread over in the ArsTechnica forums. The c't article seems to have been written by people with a limited understanding of nmap and an axe to grind. The bottom line is the functionality Leopard firewall is no different from the one in Tiger, except that it adds a third setting which allows exceptions for ports to be added on-the-fly as applications request them. I do agree that the firewall should come enabled by default, but at least OS X has a very small number of open ports out-of-the-box, which mitigates the issue. But regardless, the hysteria over Leopard's firewall is unwarranted.
IANAEnvironmentalL, but my guess is that the law is intended to work in the opposite direction (levying fines against anyone trying to sell a car that doesn't meet CARB standards in a CARB state) and was worded vaguely enough so that it also ended up applying to selling CARB-compliant cars anywhere else.
But since the author of the article decided that citing the specific statute wasn't necessary it's hard to say for sure.
Seriously, this whole sorry saga has been hashed and rehashed all over the web. Why should/. give these clowns any more publicity? See John Gruber's blog for an excellent debunking of Maynor, Ellch, and Ou's claims.
It surprised me to see Ultimate Vista so high on the charts.
It suggests that the price and the hardware requirements for Vista are not the barriers some geeks believe.
Or that people are so confused by the multiple versions of Vista available that they're just saying "f-- it" and plunking down the extra cash for Ultimate rather than risk getting stuck with a version missing some crucial feature.
I was under the impression that Windows XP can not be run from an external drive, be it USB or FireWire?
Any thoughts about that?
XP may, but Parallels can't use a VM file stored on an external USB drive according to the article. Other posters have indicated that running a VM stored on a FireWire drive does work.
I've been using Parallels for a couple of months now on my 2.0 Ghz Intel iMac. Parallels can access a special shared folder, or you can turn on Windows networking on yoru Mac and the VM can connect to it as a server (my preferred method as it doesn't require that you create a special folder and move things in and out of it just so you can access them from the VM).
I run WinXP Pro on my VM and have 512MB of RAM assigned to it (out of a total of 2 gigs in the iMac) and performance is quite acceptable for running Office apps and testing web sites with different versions of IE. Naturally, the more RAM the better, and in an ideal world my iMac would have 4gigs of RAM with 1 gig given to the VM, but that's mostly because I often have Safari, Firefox, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver running under OS X and that doesn't leave a lot of room for Parallels without a lot of swapping.
I know that Parallels is planning to improve USB device support in future releases, but for now connecting to devices over the network works for me.
Often stated and often ignored in the posts above is the fact that you have to knowingly commit yourself into service in the united states military. When you do so, you are made to understand that your life no longer belongs to you at that point. Your raison d'etre at that point is to support and defend the constitution and obey the orders of the officers appointed over you, in that order.
If all this is true, then explain how this partisan censorship squares with Amendment 1 of the Constitution. Signing up for military service neither requires your enlistment in the Republican party nor your allegiance to any partisan or ideological cause beyond that of protecting the sovereignty of the USA. To my knowledge Democrats are just as in favor as the national sovereignty of the USA as the Republicans, and no one has shown that Republicans make better soldiers than Democrats.
IMO Windows is the one that should switch. Using the Control key for key combos puts unnatural stress on your little finger that can lead to very real RSIs. Using the thumb instead, as you do when using Apple's Command key, is much more ergonomically sound.
Let us never forget that pretty software does not automatically mean functional software, and please God let us never make well structured code and functionality less of a priority than UI "prettyness".
That's the problem right there. People think that good code and good interface design are separable and you can get away with one without the other.
Well, guess what? You can't. It doesn't matter how perfect your code is if no one can figure out how to use the software, and no interface, no matter how beautiful and intuitive, will save rotten code.
Great software demands good code and good UI. Looking down your nose at code as "too geeky" or UI design as "too artsy" will just get you half-baked software.
Are you trying to tell me that Apple can do search better than Google or Yahoo?
That's exactly right. What Spotlight does and what Google/Yahoo/MSN Desktop Search can't is update the index in real time as changes are made to the file system. There's no scheduled indexing after the first time you connect a drive to the computer. Changes to the file system are reflected in the Spotlight search database immediately.
The other thing Spotlight has that others don't is a dedicated set of metadata for each file system object that can be edited by the user to organize his or her data to his liking. Google/Yahoo et. al. do a pretty good job, but Spotlight is hooked right in to the FS at a very low level which gives it a huge advantage.
Oh, and while all those advances from Win9X to XP you listed are great, the parent was talking about usability improvements specifically. Under-the-hood changes are great but this is a discussion about user interface and usability, and I have to agree that Windows has been wandering in the wilderness for the past ten years when it comes to that department.
Why should the US send people that have such a bitter hatred for the president?
Campaign contributions != bitter hatred. And besides, WTF do your politics have to do with telecommunications tech? I daresay that telecom companies would be trying to accomplish the same things regardless of who was sitting in the Oval Office.
Mr. Clanton was referring to the possibility of taking legal action against Sinclair for violating campaign advertising laws (the reasoning was that Sinclair's "documentary" could be construed as an in-kind donation to the Bush campaign, and therefore illegal).
The Bush administration, on the other hand, is punishing U.S. citizens for exercising their first amendment rights.
Before you rant on in the lastest bash-Bush thread, ask yourself honestly: is this any different?
It is, and here is why: Members of the Cabinet, Ambassadors, Judges, etc. are all offices that the President is given the power to fill by the Consitution (provided the Senate gives its consent).
Deciding who is allowed to attend a non-political, non-partisan industry event based on their history of campaign contributions is not a power given to anyone by any law of the United States. In fact, the opposite is true: this violates amendment one of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees U.S. citizens the freedom of speech.
President Bush can certainly appoint whom he likes to those offices which the law allows him to, but he cannot "punish" people who supported his political opponents by denying them access to events for no other reason.
Find me ONE other instance of a Presidential Administration (other than George W. Bush's) denying access to an event based on which political campaigns people contributed money to.
Not exactly, IIRC and you haven't changed the default settings
I think the OP was talking about the Location Manager, which makes it possible to define profiles for multiple network locations (including TCP/IP configuration, sharing settings, which network interfaces are active, etc.) and switch between them from the Apple menu (or the Control Strip in OS 9). IIRC it's been around since the Mac OS 8 days.
Mike Bombich is not an "enthusiast", he is an Apple Employee and his tools NetRestore and Carbon Copy Cloner form the basis for Apple's new Setup Assistant and network imaging tools. I have his Apple business card on my desk as I type.
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Apple has not "screwed" Java. Java5 works on Leopard, and for that matter, no one is holding a gun to Mac-using Java developers' heads forcing them to upgrade.
Historically, Java releases on OS X have not been aligned exactly with updates to the OS as this timeline shows. Yeah, it would be great if Apple would announce an estimated release date for Java6 on Leopard, but it would have been the wrong decision to delay Leopard in order to get Java6 finished for inclusion.
I've yet to hear someone defend the problematic firewall.
OK, here you go! Start with this surprisingly level-headed thread over in the ArsTechnica forums. The c't article seems to have been written by people with a limited understanding of nmap and an axe to grind. The bottom line is the functionality Leopard firewall is no different from the one in Tiger, except that it adds a third setting which allows exceptions for ports to be added on-the-fly as applications request them. I do agree that the firewall should come enabled by default, but at least OS X has a very small number of open ports out-of-the-box, which mitigates the issue. But regardless, the hysteria over Leopard's firewall is unwarranted.
IANAEnvironmentalL, but my guess is that the law is intended to work in the opposite direction (levying fines against anyone trying to sell a car that doesn't meet CARB standards in a CARB state) and was worded vaguely enough so that it also ended up applying to selling CARB-compliant cars anywhere else.
But since the author of the article decided that citing the specific statute wasn't necessary it's hard to say for sure.
Seriously, this whole sorry saga has been hashed and rehashed all over the web. Why should /. give these clowns any more publicity? See John Gruber's blog for an excellent debunking of Maynor, Ellch, and Ou's claims.
It surprised me to see Ultimate Vista so high on the charts.
It suggests that the price and the hardware requirements for Vista are not the barriers some geeks believe.
Or that people are so confused by the multiple versions of Vista available that they're just saying "f-- it" and plunking down the extra cash for Ultimate rather than risk getting stuck with a version missing some crucial feature.
I was under the impression that Windows XP can not be run from an external drive, be it USB or FireWire?
Any thoughts about that?
XP may, but Parallels can't use a VM file stored on an external USB drive according to the article. Other posters have indicated that running a VM stored on a FireWire drive does work.
2. Direct HD partition support so we can boot off the same 'system' and have the same applications and data
It's coming in a future release.
Lots of more info at the official Parallels blog.
Pausing my XP Pro VM drops Parallel's usage from ~15% (idle) to ~7% on my 2Ghz iMac.
I've been using Parallels for a couple of months now on my 2.0 Ghz Intel iMac. Parallels can access a special shared folder, or you can turn on Windows networking on yoru Mac and the VM can connect to it as a server (my preferred method as it doesn't require that you create a special folder and move things in and out of it just so you can access them from the VM).
I run WinXP Pro on my VM and have 512MB of RAM assigned to it (out of a total of 2 gigs in the iMac) and performance is quite acceptable for running Office apps and testing web sites with different versions of IE. Naturally, the more RAM the better, and in an ideal world my iMac would have 4gigs of RAM with 1 gig given to the VM, but that's mostly because I often have Safari, Firefox, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver running under OS X and that doesn't leave a lot of room for Parallels without a lot of swapping.
I know that Parallels is planning to improve USB device support in future releases, but for now connecting to devices over the network works for me.
OS X doesn't use VNC for desktop sharing, it uses Apple Remote Desktop, which is a proprietary protocol and shares no code with VNC.
I'm assuming that since this bug is specific to RealVNC 4.1.1, OS X VNC servers like OSXVnc aren't either.
Often stated and often ignored in the posts above is the fact that you have to knowingly commit yourself into service in the united states military. When you do so, you are made to understand that your life no longer belongs to you at that point. Your raison d'etre at that point is to support and defend the constitution and obey the orders of the officers appointed over you, in that order.
If all this is true, then explain how this partisan censorship squares with Amendment 1 of the Constitution. Signing up for military service neither requires your enlistment in the Republican party nor your allegiance to any partisan or ideological cause beyond that of protecting the sovereignty of the USA. To my knowledge Democrats are just as in favor as the national sovereignty of the USA as the Republicans, and no one has shown that Republicans make better soldiers than Democrats.
IMO Windows is the one that should switch. Using the Control key for key combos puts unnatural stress on your little finger that can lead to very real RSIs. Using the thumb instead, as you do when using Apple's Command key, is much more ergonomically sound.
2k/XP have had user editable meta-deta for quite a while now, longer than Apple's OSes have.
Not true--things like file labels and comments have been in the Mac OS since System 7, which came out in 1991.
Let us never forget that pretty software does not automatically mean functional software, and please God let us never make well structured code and functionality less of a priority than UI "prettyness".
That's the problem right there. People think that good code and good interface design are separable and you can get away with one without the other.
Well, guess what? You can't. It doesn't matter how perfect your code is if no one can figure out how to use the software, and no interface, no matter how beautiful and intuitive, will save rotten code.
Great software demands good code and good UI. Looking down your nose at code as "too geeky" or UI design as "too artsy" will just get you half-baked software.
Are you trying to tell me that Apple can do search better than Google or Yahoo?
That's exactly right. What Spotlight does and what Google/Yahoo/MSN Desktop Search can't is update the index in real time as changes are made to the file system. There's no scheduled indexing after the first time you connect a drive to the computer. Changes to the file system are reflected in the Spotlight search database immediately.
The other thing Spotlight has that others don't is a dedicated set of metadata for each file system object that can be edited by the user to organize his or her data to his liking. Google/Yahoo et. al. do a pretty good job, but Spotlight is hooked right in to the FS at a very low level which gives it a huge advantage.
Oh, and while all those advances from Win9X to XP you listed are great, the parent was talking about usability improvements specifically. Under-the-hood changes are great but this is a discussion about user interface and usability, and I have to agree that Windows has been wandering in the wilderness for the past ten years when it comes to that department.
Summary - Energy Balance/Energy Life Cycle Inventory
Fuel Energy yield* Net Energy (loss) or gain
Gasoline 0.805 (19.5 percent)
Diesel 0.843 (15.7 percent)
Ethanol 1.34 34 percent
Biodiesel 3.20 220 percent
* Life cycle yield in liquid fuel Btus for each Btu of fossil fuel energy consumed.
Why should the US send people that have such a bitter hatred for the president?
Campaign contributions != bitter hatred. And besides, WTF do your politics have to do with telecommunications tech? I daresay that telecom companies would be trying to accomplish the same things regardless of who was sitting in the Oval Office.
Mr. Clanton was referring to the possibility of taking legal action against Sinclair for violating campaign advertising laws (the reasoning was that Sinclair's "documentary" could be construed as an in-kind donation to the Bush campaign, and therefore illegal).
The Bush administration, on the other hand, is punishing U.S. citizens for exercising their first amendment rights.
Before you rant on in the lastest bash-Bush thread, ask yourself honestly: is this any different?
It is, and here is why: Members of the Cabinet, Ambassadors, Judges, etc. are all offices that the President is given the power to fill by the Consitution (provided the Senate gives its consent).
Deciding who is allowed to attend a non-political, non-partisan industry event based on their history of campaign contributions is not a power given to anyone by any law of the United States. In fact, the opposite is true: this violates amendment one of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees U.S. citizens the freedom of speech.
President Bush can certainly appoint whom he likes to those offices which the law allows him to, but he cannot "punish" people who supported his political opponents by denying them access to events for no other reason.
Kerry wouldn't have done the same.
Find me ONE other instance of a Presidential Administration (other than George W. Bush's) denying access to an event based on which political campaigns people contributed money to.
This is a blatant violation of the first amendment. More discussion from this morning's thread on Ars.
Not exactly, IIRC and you haven't changed the default settings
I think the OP was talking about the Location Manager, which makes it possible to define profiles for multiple network locations (including TCP/IP configuration, sharing settings, which network interfaces are active, etc.) and switch between them from the Apple menu (or the Control Strip in OS 9). IIRC it's been around since the Mac OS 8 days.
So yes, $499 includes the latest version of Mac OS X.
As a side note, all Apple servers include a copy of OS X Server UNLIMITED Client. Factor that in every time you compare a Windows Server to an XServe!
Mike Bombich is not an "enthusiast", he is an Apple Employee and his tools NetRestore and Carbon Copy Cloner form the basis for Apple's new Setup Assistant and network imaging tools. I have his Apple business card on my desk as I type.
Courtesy of Thebogey:
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_macX.cfm
Direct linking doesn't work because you have to agree to an acceptable use policy before downloading the article.