4. Click the button in iTunes that says "let iTunes manage my library" so that it is disabled - then you can put your music where you want, and organise it on a file/folder level however you choose.
Don't let genuine options get in the way of a good troll though. The iTunes automatic organisation is optional, and always has been. For normal users, it is fine - it will take care of the files for you. If you want to do it yourself though, it is trivially easy to do so.
You'll just have to take my word for it that I didn't uncheck that into the current state - also note that that option to change the root password is disabled since the root account is not enabled.
The root user, or superuser, is a special user account in Mac OS X that has read and write privileges throughout the file system. By default the root account is not active.
So, it seems I am "right", since that is exactly what I said initially.
I has always been this way. I have been using OS X since 10.1. I have definitely reset the admin password on Jaguar using the install CDs - it's a feature of the utilities on the installer program.
You can do it via the shell, if you boot with command+s, but root is switched off by default. You need to enable it in from the Directory Services app in the utilities folder (in 10.1 to 10.5), or in System/Library/Coreservices in 10.6. Unlock the app with your admin password and check "Enable Root user". You then need to set a password for the root user. It is disabled by default on all OS X installs, and always has been.
You can also use the Terminal > sudo passwd root
The single user mode you get dropped too by booting with command+s doesn't give you root (unless you know an admin password) - you need to either provide one with the install disc, or already know an admin password on the machine that can run commands as su.
Either way, it's not a magic box (as much as Steve might say so) - it's BSD with a nice GUI, so it has all the same issues as any other BSD if something breaks.
Put in the install CD that came with the Mac, go to the utilities menu at the top, select "reset password". Takes about 10 minutes to do, including fumbling about with the silly paper packet the CD comes in, especially if the lip of it is still stuck down.
It says this in the manual, and if you google it.
You don't need to fuck about in single user/root mode (which is disabled by default), you just need to look at some very simple instructions. "Starting critical services" is a total red herring.
They removed the firewire port from *one* model - the base level Macbook, which is somewhat annoying, but it does enable them to offer 2 USB ports on the same side. They removed the FW port on it since it saved space (externally and internally) and reduced the cost, for a port that most people that have a MacBook never used (unless using target disk mode, which is now supported over USB). I personally don't like that they removed FW though - it has been one of the staple ports on all Macs since the original iMac.
The original Mini didn't have HDMI either - none of their machines do. It does have a Mini-DVI port though, as well as the minidisplay port. It also includes an adapter in the box to convert it to a standard DVI port, so all you need is a DVI-HDMI lead, although there is obviously no audio over this connection (or over the minidisplay port) - you have to use the optical/analog outputs. While it's the right size to be an HTPC, it's not really designed that way.
Show me an iPad equivalent (size, weight, featureset) that is not vaporware that I can buy *today* that costs 3 times less than the iPad.
It's not cheap - no one is saying it is, but all these proclamations of 3x the price are clearly distortions.
I hear that a Geo Metro is a lot cheaper than a Chrysler Voyager. They're both cars right? Why is one much cheaper than the other? They should be the same price!
No, but it is twice the sales rate of the iPhone when it launched, and there are now 80 million iPhones in existence.
Just because they didn't sell an integer percent of the global computer market (which has been in existence for 30+ years) in 2 months doesn't mean it hasn't been a success.
So you take it to an Apple store (or send it away if you live too far to drive) and Apple will give you a new one for free.
Applecare lasts for 1 year from the date of purchase (unless you optionally extend to 3 years), and a dead battery after 2 months is definitely covered. If you live within range of an Apple store you can pick a new one up the same day (functionally equivalent to walking in a picking up a new battery for a device with a removable battery).
So libdispatch was "repackaged and had an Apple logo slapped on", and so was Quicktime, and the totally rewritten JS engine for Webkit, and the iPhone's UI....
He didn't say it was perfect - ideally you would be able to change the default behaviour for window sizing if you want, just as you should be able to change the organisation in column view by more than one variable (eg, alphabetical and by type, or by type and modification date etc), but I would hardly call them "years behind". You should also be able to move the Finder's icon to any position in the Dock by default, although I understand why it is fixed on the far left.
Maybe *your* productivity is lower on an unfamiliar UI, but you are perhaps not most people. I find the Menu-docked-to-window approach of Windows very annoying - on Mac OS I know exactly where it is at all times, even on multi-windowed apps. A quick flick of the mouse upwards and the cursor will stop on the menu. It's not necessarily "better" than a per-window system - you need to have the app you want the menu for as the foreground app (which you likely want anyway if you're issuing a command to it), so you need an extra step if it's not the active app, which is only one click on Windows if you can see part of the menubar you want.
So, you wanted improvements in UI design:
Stacks - arguments that these are very similar to an older concept, but in OS X they are very handy. The GUI - not all PARC's work. Multitouch - not just on the phone (and hey, if it was "so obvious and done before" where are the slew of multitouch phones before the iPhone - while they clearly did not invent multitouch itself, they paired it with an interface that has spawned a ton of imitators. Touch control on portable devices was *woeful* before the iPhone. Apple are very good at looking at what's out there and saying "we can make that better". Exposé and Dashboard are also a couple of those things you just use without thinking about - again, I am not claiming they invented the concept of displaying your open windows in a grid, or by app name etc, but they created an implementation that is dead simple and intuitive to use.
I know I can list several things, like the few I have above and your counter will be "they did not invent those things, multitouch was described in a journal in 1947, they just stole it!" or some such similar things, so in that we are never likely to agree. Where Apple really excels is in taking concepts that are long established, like the terrible state of touch control and the UI on mobile devices and saying "why does it have to be that way" and changing it, combining the best of lots of ideas, and unexpectedly combining others in a way that later looks obvious.
Wow. You got +2 insightful for the most inventive troll post I have ever seen.
Are the mods on crack? If so, where can I meet their dealer?
I'm trying to understand if the story about moving files onto an external drive is either a) a total lie (most likely) b) severe incompetence on your part (also possible, but less likely), c) hardware failure that you are blaming on the OS (see point [b]).
One button mice were phased out...oh many years ago, and the OS has supported multi button and scrollwheels since OS 9 or before.
Dragging a drive to the trash does whatever the icon shows (and the tooltip if you hover). There's nothing "random" about it. If you drag a burn folder it changes into a larhe "Burn Disc" icon (and text), if you drag a mounted volume it turns into a giant "Eject" symbol (with hover text). You don;t have to use these shortcuts if you are unsure what an eject symbol looks like, or you cannot read. There are alternative ways to accomplish both tasks that don't involve dragging them to a context-sensitive icon.
The UI is not perfect - it has some serious issues with the Finder (especially in column view), but your failure to understand some simple issues (and presumably the fact that you still think Macs ship with a one button mouse - I could be generous and put that down to your trolling, but it's probably something you believe through ignorance) does not make Apple "shitty at put together a UI".
Wait, I thought all "Apple fans" were mindless sheep who thought their Apple products were magical white shiny boxes powered by unicorn farts. Why would they know the difference between an ARM A8 and A9?
Or are you saying that Apple fans do actually have some discerning knowledge about the hardware they use?
They didn't include it because now everyone just clicked on that link. The server just melted.
The free version of Portal is the very first thing shown to you after you install the Mac Steam client, which you need to have running to make use of that page.
And if *you* don't know the difference between a sarcastic post designed to highlight the original post's sweeping generalisations about an entire nation's engineering abilities then you're really not that bright are you.
I guess that's why you posted AC. Better to stay quiet and just let people think maybe you're an idiot rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt entirely.
I don;t have a Droid (I have an iPhone) but from what I understand from looking (I may be in the market soon) the google app caches the data it needs for the whole route when it has a decent connection, so unless you alter the route or set it when out of a wifi hotspot, it could be pretty sluggish. As long as it can retrieve data more quickly than you can drive, I assume it would be fine - better hope you get caught in traffic.
I used to shoot commercial video for a living; do you think I used a consumer grade TV as a viewing monitor in the studio or on OB?
I certainly did sort my screens into "good for using while shooting video" and "good for watching finished product on".
Funnily enough, I sorted my computers that way too, since I didn't need a multi core behemoth for browsing the net on the sofa. I got by with a small laptop.
Apple do not control USB, Firewire, SP/DIF, 3.5mm jack, DVI, Ethernet - all ports on their current hardware.
In terms of standard formats: TCP/IP, NFS, Bluetooth (limited on iPhone OS, fully standard on OS X), HFS, AAC, H.264, HTML5, CSS, GCC, OpenGL, PDF are just a few of the things that they support but do not control.
They do "control" Minidisplayport, which they licence for no fee. Perhaps that was what you meant.
I think you misspelled "one port" - there's no "any" in "one" .
The slashdot crowd has been the vocal bunch that come out in every Apple article and moan and moan about how terrible all their products are, rather than simply skipping past.
Bonus points for "not another apple article" comments. You think the scroll wheel or page down key had never been invented.
Just look back over the early articles leading up to the launch - the overwhelming consensus was that it would tank, with some saying "it'll be great" some saying "who knows?" and some saying "only retards will buy one".
Now that it's flying off the shelves faster than the iPhone those opinions have all gone, to be replaced with "what is it for?" and "only yuppies are buying them".
I don't care one way or the other whether it succeeds, but a large portion of people here just can't leave it alone - it's not enough to just not buy one, it somehow must be killed with fire.
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4. Click the button in iTunes that says "let iTunes manage my library" so that it is disabled - then you can put your music where you want, and organise it on a file/folder level however you choose.
Don't let genuine options get in the way of a good troll though. The iTunes automatic organisation is optional, and always has been. For normal users, it is fine - it will take care of the files for you. If you want to do it yourself though, it is trivially easy to do so.
That is single user mode - like I said - command+s while booting, as written in my post.
You need an admin account to invoke root-level commands though, like changing the password.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6517/dirservice.jpg
You'll just have to take my word for it that I didn't uncheck that into the current state - also note that that option to change the root password is disabled since the root account is not enabled.
Here is a page direct from Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/11778.html
Salient point (emphasis mine):
The root user, or superuser, is a special user account in Mac OS X that has read and write privileges throughout the file system. By default the root account is not active.
So, it seems I am "right", since that is exactly what I said initially.
I has always been this way. I have been using OS X since 10.1. I have definitely reset the admin password on Jaguar using the install CDs - it's a feature of the utilities on the installer program.
You can do it via the shell, if you boot with command+s, but root is switched off by default. You need to enable it in from the Directory Services app in the utilities folder (in 10.1 to 10.5), or in System/Library/Coreservices in 10.6. Unlock the app with your admin password and check "Enable Root user". You then need to set a password for the root user. It is disabled by default on all OS X installs, and always has been.
You can also use the Terminal > sudo passwd root
The single user mode you get dropped too by booting with command+s doesn't give you root (unless you know an admin password) - you need to either provide one with the install disc, or already know an admin password on the machine that can run commands as su.
Either way, it's not a magic box (as much as Steve might say so) - it's BSD with a nice GUI, so it has all the same issues as any other BSD if something breaks.
Put in the install CD that came with the Mac, go to the utilities menu at the top, select "reset password". Takes about 10 minutes to do, including fumbling about with the silly paper packet the CD comes in, especially if the lip of it is still stuck down.
It says this in the manual, and if you google it.
You don't need to fuck about in single user/root mode (which is disabled by default), you just need to look at some very simple instructions. "Starting critical services" is a total red herring.
Literally 0.21 seconds with Google (according to the timer on the search results): http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_root_password.html
They removed the firewire port from *one* model - the base level Macbook, which is somewhat annoying, but it does enable them to offer 2 USB ports on the same side. They removed the FW port on it since it saved space (externally and internally) and reduced the cost, for a port that most people that have a MacBook never used (unless using target disk mode, which is now supported over USB). I personally don't like that they removed FW though - it has been one of the staple ports on all Macs since the original iMac.
The original Mini didn't have HDMI either - none of their machines do. It does have a Mini-DVI port though, as well as the minidisplay port. It also includes an adapter in the box to convert it to a standard DVI port, so all you need is a DVI-HDMI lead, although there is obviously no audio over this connection (or over the minidisplay port) - you have to use the optical/analog outputs. While it's the right size to be an HTPC, it's not really designed that way.
Show me an iPad equivalent (size, weight, featureset) that is not vaporware that I can buy *today* that costs 3 times less than the iPad.
It's not cheap - no one is saying it is, but all these proclamations of 3x the price are clearly distortions.
I hear that a Geo Metro is a lot cheaper than a Chrysler Voyager. They're both cars right? Why is one much cheaper than the other? They should be the same price!
No, but it is twice the sales rate of the iPhone when it launched, and there are now 80 million iPhones in existence.
Just because they didn't sell an integer percent of the global computer market (which has been in existence for 30+ years) in 2 months doesn't mean it hasn't been a success.
Or they'll use a bluetooth keyboard. Either the one designed for the iPad itself, or a different one.
If they use *only* the iPad as their main internet machine, it seems like an ideal accessory to add.
So you take it to an Apple store (or send it away if you live too far to drive) and Apple will give you a new one for free.
Applecare lasts for 1 year from the date of purchase (unless you optionally extend to 3 years), and a dead battery after 2 months is definitely covered. If you live within range of an Apple store you can pick a new one up the same day (functionally equivalent to walking in a picking up a new battery for a device with a removable battery).
So libdispatch was "repackaged and had an Apple logo slapped on", and so was Quicktime, and the totally rewritten JS engine for Webkit, and the iPhone's UI....
oh never mind.
He didn't say it was perfect - ideally you would be able to change the default behaviour for window sizing if you want, just as you should be able to change the organisation in column view by more than one variable (eg, alphabetical and by type, or by type and modification date etc), but I would hardly call them "years behind". You should also be able to move the Finder's icon to any position in the Dock by default, although I understand why it is fixed on the far left.
Maybe *your* productivity is lower on an unfamiliar UI, but you are perhaps not most people. I find the Menu-docked-to-window approach of Windows very annoying - on Mac OS I know exactly where it is at all times, even on multi-windowed apps. A quick flick of the mouse upwards and the cursor will stop on the menu. It's not necessarily "better" than a per-window system - you need to have the app you want the menu for as the foreground app (which you likely want anyway if you're issuing a command to it), so you need an extra step if it's not the active app, which is only one click on Windows if you can see part of the menubar you want.
So, you wanted improvements in UI design:
Stacks - arguments that these are very similar to an older concept, but in OS X they are very handy.
The GUI - not all PARC's work.
Multitouch - not just on the phone (and hey, if it was "so obvious and done before" where are the slew of multitouch phones before the iPhone - while they clearly did not invent multitouch itself, they paired it with an interface that has spawned a ton of imitators. Touch control on portable devices was *woeful* before the iPhone. Apple are very good at looking at what's out there and saying "we can make that better".
Exposé and Dashboard are also a couple of those things you just use without thinking about - again, I am not claiming they invented the concept of displaying your open windows in a grid, or by app name etc, but they created an implementation that is dead simple and intuitive to use.
I know I can list several things, like the few I have above and your counter will be "they did not invent those things, multitouch was described in a journal in 1947, they just stole it!" or some such similar things, so in that we are never likely to agree. Where Apple really excels is in taking concepts that are long established, like the terrible state of touch control and the UI on mobile devices and saying "why does it have to be that way" and changing it, combining the best of lots of ideas, and unexpectedly combining others in a way that later looks obvious.
Wow. You got +2 insightful for the most inventive troll post I have ever seen.
Are the mods on crack? If so, where can I meet their dealer?
I'm trying to understand if the story about moving files onto an external drive is either a) a total lie (most likely) b) severe incompetence on your part (also possible, but less likely), c) hardware failure that you are blaming on the OS (see point [b]).
One button mice were phased out...oh many years ago, and the OS has supported multi button and scrollwheels since OS 9 or before.
Dragging a drive to the trash does whatever the icon shows (and the tooltip if you hover). There's nothing "random" about it. If you drag a burn folder it changes into a larhe "Burn Disc" icon (and text), if you drag a mounted volume it turns into a giant "Eject" symbol (with hover text). You don;t have to use these shortcuts if you are unsure what an eject symbol looks like, or you cannot read. There are alternative ways to accomplish both tasks that don't involve dragging them to a context-sensitive icon.
The UI is not perfect - it has some serious issues with the Finder (especially in column view), but your failure to understand some simple issues (and presumably the fact that you still think Macs ship with a one button mouse - I could be generous and put that down to your trolling, but it's probably something you believe through ignorance) does not make Apple "shitty at put together a UI".
Wait, I thought all "Apple fans" were mindless sheep who thought their Apple products were magical white shiny boxes powered by unicorn farts. Why would they know the difference between an ARM A8 and A9?
Or are you saying that Apple fans do actually have some discerning knowledge about the hardware they use?
The black Wii has been on sale in the UK for a very long time, so probably the same in other countries.
They didn't include it because now everyone just clicked on that link. The server just melted.
The free version of Portal is the very first thing shown to you after you install the Mac Steam client, which you need to have running to make use of that page.
And if *you* don't know the difference between a sarcastic post designed to highlight the original post's sweeping generalisations about an entire nation's engineering abilities then you're really not that bright are you.
I guess that's why you posted AC. Better to stay quiet and just let people think maybe you're an idiot rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt entirely.
And for an illustration of why you should not follow American mining or waste disposal techniques, look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
This thing has also been burning for 40 years.
I don;t have a Droid (I have an iPhone) but from what I understand from looking (I may be in the market soon) the google app caches the data it needs for the whole route when it has a decent connection, so unless you alter the route or set it when out of a wifi hotspot, it could be pretty sluggish. As long as it can retrieve data more quickly than you can drive, I assume it would be fine - better hope you get caught in traffic.
I prefer using Horses per Submarine as my units.
Anything else is just pandering to the SI crowd!
I used to shoot commercial video for a living; do you think I used a consumer grade TV as a viewing monitor in the studio or on OB?
I certainly did sort my screens into "good for using while shooting video" and "good for watching finished product on".
Funnily enough, I sorted my computers that way too, since I didn't need a multi core behemoth for browsing the net on the sofa. I got by with a small laptop.
Amusing.
+4 insightful? Jesus the mods are stupid today.
Apple do not control USB, Firewire, SP/DIF, 3.5mm jack, DVI, Ethernet - all ports on their current hardware.
In terms of standard formats: TCP/IP, NFS, Bluetooth (limited on iPhone OS, fully standard on OS X), HFS, AAC, H.264, HTML5, CSS, GCC, OpenGL, PDF are just a few of the things that they support but do not control.
They do "control" Minidisplayport, which they licence for no fee. Perhaps that was what you meant.
I think you misspelled "one port" - there's no "any" in "one" .
The slashdot crowd has been the vocal bunch that come out in every Apple article and moan and moan about how terrible all their products are, rather than simply skipping past.
Bonus points for "not another apple article" comments. You think the scroll wheel or page down key had never been invented.
Just look back over the early articles leading up to the launch - the overwhelming consensus was that it would tank, with some saying "it'll be great" some saying "who knows?" and some saying "only retards will buy one".
Now that it's flying off the shelves faster than the iPhone those opinions have all gone, to be replaced with "what is it for?" and "only yuppies are buying them".
I don't care one way or the other whether it succeeds, but a large portion of people here just can't leave it alone - it's not enough to just not buy one, it somehow must be killed with fire.
If you wear an outrageously silly beanie hat, it will compensate for the lack of tight trousers.
You've never heard of marketing?
How strange.