The following from Macfixit.com: Some readers have had problems with their Microsoft Intellimouse losing its settings and behaving like a standard Apple mouse.
One reader writes "The two side button for forward and backward for browser do not work and in the intellipoint control panel the mouse icon (on the buttons panel) has a large red X. ( Intellipoint mouse 5.0)"
In this particular reader's case, and probably others', re-installing the Intellipoint 5.0 software can resolve the issue.
I have not yet installed 10.3.6 for the following reasons....
Can someone tell me if "upgrading" from 10.3.4 to 10.3.6 will break features of my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB driver?
I'm presently using the Intellipoint mouse driver/application version 2.1.0
When 10.3.5 came out, I saw posts that said something about 10.3.5 forced users to upgrade to the latest Intellipoint driver which in turn disabled multibutton/scroll wheel features which in turn encouraged the user to purchase a new MS mouse to get those features back. Thus I never installed 10.3.5.
Also, has Apple fixed the bug that prevents "Notify me of incoming calls while connected to the internet" from working properly? The last time this feature worked for me was in 10.2.x (and it was flakey back then too). The feature is located under the Network Pref pane/modem settings. The expected behavior is a dialog box warning of the incoming call. Im calling from a v.92 modem to a v.92 modem and I don't get a dialog box when incoming calls come into my home line.
Have you looked at Cocoa and Interface Builder? They are beautiful. I've been able to quickly throw together great OS X applications without much programming experience.
For all those interested I recommend the book at: http://www.cocoaprogramming.net
Also, how can you or anyone ignore the onslaught of viruses and security lapses in all 9 of Microsofts completely different operating systems (e.g. MS-DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win NT, Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, etc.)?
OpenBSD calls these exploits "Bugs". Keeping OpenBSD "Bug free" has been a goal from its inception. Hence it is the most secure OS in the world.
Apple's OS X is not OpenBSD, but it shares a common heritage and certainly has better security than any OS Microsoft has ever released.
You can remotely control iTunes through perl or applescript. I read that someone used an old serial terminal and a keyspan serial-usb adapter to build a remote iTunes controller. Hardware like that is practically free.
iTunes plus+iMac+OSX is the solution you want. Its cheap and powerful. I bet you can get an iMac with OS X for under $100. Gussy it up with Apple Airtunes and you have multiple rooms with music.
Optics detract from resolution. A great lens can make a huge difference.
I once read in a book on sensors that Fuji Velvia slide film has a theoretical resolution of over 19 megapixels.
The problem is finding a lens that can resolve that much detail... so in practice (especially when shooting hand held) you might expect to get more like 10 megapixels out of a Velvia slide. Then if you want to digitize it, you have to scan it....through yet another optical system, onto a sensor, sacrificing more quality.
If you look at the problem that way... digital cameras surpassed film way back at about 6-10 megapixels. Which is exactly what people were saying when the original Canon EOS 1Ds came out.
But Velvia is not the highest resolution film, and film photographers have the option of using heavy tripods and great lenses (the same ones available for digital cameras)...and you dont have to digitize your slides/transparencies. You can, for example, project them with an analog projector.
This calls into question, how would you project a 16 megapixel digital image? You can't as far as I know, without throwing away data. You could always write the digital image back out to transparency film and project it analog... in fact, thats the only way I can think of that would have results equal to a traditional slide.
Projecting slides is bad for them, so you then have to consider that you need to duplicate a slide before projecting it. This cuts down on resolution as well... so maybe, a 16 megapixel image written to film is higher quality than a slide thats been duplicated. (the process of duplicating a slide involves re-photographing it with yet more questionable optics.).
And in the end, wether you are projecting a duplicated slide or a digital image that has been written to film, they are both subject to the optics of the analog projector...maybe even making the whole debate moot (if you have a bad lens on the projector).
Why not just get a cheap computer with a nice sound card and power a sweat system with it. You should be able to get optical audio out without too much of a problem.
>Uh, why not? Because the Airport Express is all of that and more for $120.00. Have you even looked at what the airport express offers?
Acutally, AE doesn't provide the kind of underarm perspiration that a hot pc in a small room could generate...
When you get your USB-ADB adapter dont get the Griffin. There's nothing too terribly wrong with it, but there are strange bugs with the OS X login panel while using the Apple Extended Keyboard II.
The bug is that when the computer wakes from sleep the first field is usually full of space characters. A simple select all and delete works around the problem.
In my investigations, people prefer the keyspan brand USB-ADB adpater. (I was also trying to get a Lightsource Colortron II to work in OS X...succeeded with the Griffen but was reccomended the keyspan)
You have to engineer the process of winning, not just the technology to win.
I worked on a solar powered race car that was to cross the country. Our superior car won the first few days, but eventually crashed.
I learned a lot more about team work and egos than I did about technology. The technology was there, the money was there, the open-minded cooperation was not there. The car was engineered very well, the win was not engineered at all.
I had the same expereience. I was on top of a foothill in the Santa Cruz mountains, overlooking the San Francisco bay area. I was used to seeing 20 planes all the time too. That night, there were one or two international flights coming in...747s but they werent even stopping at the bay area airports...probably rerouted.
Then there were the fighter planes looping over the whole bay area in formation.
I had an unprecedented view of a silent city of millions and I will never forget the chills that I fealt wondering what would be next. I remember hoping that America would change their greedy ways, only to be disheartened by parades of evil SUVs with giant american flags the next morning. Instead of peacful introspection, I saw wanton agression and the desire to kill others.
You wouldn't expect a trained pianist to be happy with it...
If you want a great feeling keyboard, that is pretty close to a piano (almost nothing out there replicates the feel of a real piano), the Fatar keyboards are great. I have an SL 1100/C. Its pretty nice. eBay has much better prices than the list price.
http://www.studiologic.net/fatar-menu.htm
If you want the sound of a real piano... then look on eBay for a RealPiano expander. "Among many musicians rated as the best sounding piano module on the market."
http://www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/piano.html
Finally, if you are made of money, and want a combination of the two, get a GEM Pro Mega
Boeing used to be one of the biggest Apple customers on the planet. I think Lockheed had the record for owning more than 50,000 Macintoshes. But Boeing was on that scale too. Boeing used to run a Macintosh training facililty at, I think, Shoreline Community College in Seattle. Now Boeing has surplussed a lot of their old macs...but the macs are beginning to come back. I do a lot of consulting for Boeing contractors that are showing interest in mac hardware. The problem is that a lot of software has yet to be made for OS X, like specific finite element analysis packages and CAD packages (AutoCAD, ProEngineer). These software packages require large amounts of (government standardized) testing everytime they are ported to a new platform. So even though they are already UNIX based, its not a simple matter of just getting the code up and running.
If you have ever worked in a software company you would know how incredibly difficult it is to syncronize the release of components...even within the same product. Even if everything is on a schedule, last minute bugs can delay a component for several days.
Apple is doing the right thing by releasing updates as they become available instead of what you propose (batching updates).
As others have said, a restart is not required in many cases, and maybe apple could eventually eliminate the need to restart. But restarting is fairly harmless in most cases.
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The following from Macfixit.com:
Some readers have had problems with their Microsoft Intellimouse losing its settings and behaving like a standard Apple mouse.
One reader writes "The two side button for forward and backward for browser do not work and in the intellipoint control panel the mouse icon (on the buttons panel) has a large red X. ( Intellipoint mouse 5.0)"
In this particular reader's case, and probably others', re-installing the Intellipoint 5.0 software can resolve the issue.
I have not yet installed 10.3.6 for the following reasons....
Can someone tell me if "upgrading" from 10.3.4 to 10.3.6 will break features of my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB driver?
I'm presently using the Intellipoint mouse driver/application version 2.1.0
When 10.3.5 came out, I saw posts that said something about 10.3.5 forced users to upgrade to the latest Intellipoint driver which in turn disabled multibutton/scroll wheel features which in turn encouraged the user to purchase a new MS mouse to get those features back. Thus I never installed 10.3.5.
Also, has Apple fixed the bug that prevents "Notify me of incoming calls while connected to the internet" from working properly? The last time this feature worked for me was in 10.2.x (and it was flakey back then too). The feature is located under the Network Pref pane/modem settings. The expected behavior is a dialog box warning of the incoming call. Im calling from a v.92 modem to a v.92 modem and I don't get a dialog box when incoming calls come into my home line.
Dear Jeff Raskin,
Have you looked at Cocoa and Interface Builder? They are beautiful. I've been able to quickly throw together great OS X applications without much programming experience.
For all those interested I recommend the book at:
http://www.cocoaprogramming.net
Also, how can you or anyone ignore the onslaught of viruses and security lapses in all 9 of Microsofts completely different operating systems (e.g. MS-DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win NT, Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, etc.)?
OpenBSD calls these exploits "Bugs". Keeping OpenBSD "Bug free" has been a goal from its inception. Hence it is the most secure OS in the world.
Apple's OS X is not OpenBSD, but it shares a common heritage and certainly has better security than any OS Microsoft has ever released.
unidirectional bandwidth of 931 million bytes per second is equal to 887 MegaBytes per second. More than an entire CD-ROM per second.
The competition was hosted by an org/company called Top Coder, not by Google.
The first round was in Java, which is relatively platform independent.
You can remotely control iTunes through perl or applescript. I read that someone used an old serial terminal and a keyspan serial-usb adapter to build a remote iTunes controller. Hardware like that is practically free.
iTunes plus+iMac+OSX is the solution you want. Its cheap and powerful. I bet you can get an iMac with OS X for under $100. Gussy it up with Apple Airtunes and you have multiple rooms with music.
Take note that Airtunes as digital SPDIF i/o!
We created Burning Man.
Optics detract from resolution. A great lens can make a huge difference.
I once read in a book on sensors that Fuji Velvia slide film has a theoretical resolution of over 19 megapixels.
The problem is finding a lens that can resolve that much detail... so in practice (especially when shooting hand held) you might expect to get more like 10 megapixels out of a Velvia slide. Then if you want to digitize it, you have to scan it....through yet another optical system, onto a sensor, sacrificing more quality.
If you look at the problem that way... digital cameras surpassed film way back at about 6-10 megapixels. Which is exactly what people were saying when the original Canon EOS 1Ds came out.
But Velvia is not the highest resolution film, and film photographers have the option of using heavy tripods and great lenses (the same ones available for digital cameras)...and you dont have to digitize your slides/transparencies. You can, for example, project them with an analog projector.
This calls into question, how would you project a 16 megapixel digital image? You can't as far as I know, without throwing away data. You could always write the digital image back out to transparency film and project it analog... in fact, thats the only way I can think of that would have results equal to a traditional slide.
Projecting slides is bad for them, so you then have to consider that you need to duplicate a slide before projecting it. This cuts down on resolution as well... so maybe, a 16 megapixel image written to film is higher quality than a slide thats been duplicated. (the process of duplicating a slide involves re-photographing it with yet more questionable optics.).
And in the end, wether you are projecting a duplicated slide or a digital image that has been written to film, they are both subject to the optics of the analog projector...maybe even making the whole debate moot (if you have a bad lens on the projector).
Yes indeedy, you're the only one.
never ever make a joke about s/o who has a fucking unbelievable TWO-DIGIT slashdot id!
No silly, bigger is better!
I saw that bill board in downtown Seattle. My immediate reaction was, "That's dumb... Why would anyone want the URL http://www.7427466391.com/ ?"
"much like small insects, bugs, and of course, Jesus"
You mean the Jesus Lizard:
http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/ 9603/leapin_lizards/
Will it simulate mopping the commodes?
Why not just get a cheap computer with a nice sound card and power a sweat system with it. You should be able to get optical audio out without too much of a problem.
>Uh, why not? Because the Airport Express is all of that and more for $120.00. Have you even looked at what the airport express offers?
Acutally, AE doesn't provide the kind of underarm perspiration that a hot pc in a small room could generate...
And uh, um, 27 comments mention exercise... oops.
There are 224 comments and only one(!) mentions the word excercise!
If you eat crap and drink crap and dont get excercise, your life will be hell regardless of pay check size.
WMA becomes the standard.
Wouldnt piracy of AAC help establish it as a standard?
I mean, GIF was a pirated form of compression from Compuserve...
Mp3 was also a pirated form of compression from Fraunhoffer AG.
Its kind of like metcalfs law... the more people that use your widget the more valuable your widget is...
When you get your USB-ADB adapter dont get the Griffin. There's nothing too terribly wrong with it, but there are strange bugs with the OS X login panel while using the Apple Extended Keyboard II.
The bug is that when the computer wakes from sleep the first field is usually full of space characters. A simple select all and delete works around the problem.
In my investigations, people prefer the keyspan brand USB-ADB adpater. (I was also trying to get a Lightsource Colortron II to work in OS X...succeeded with the Griffen but was reccomended the keyspan)
You have to engineer the process of winning, not just the technology to win.
I worked on a solar powered race car that was to cross the country. Our superior car won the first few days, but eventually crashed.
I learned a lot more about team work and egos than I did about technology. The technology was there, the money was there, the open-minded cooperation was not there. The car was engineered very well, the win was not engineered at all.
I had the same expereience. I was on top of a foothill in the Santa Cruz mountains, overlooking the San Francisco bay area. I was used to seeing 20 planes all the time too. That night, there were one or two international flights coming in...747s but they werent even stopping at the bay area airports...probably rerouted.
Then there were the fighter planes looping over the whole bay area in formation.
I had an unprecedented view of a silent city of millions and I will never forget the chills that I fealt wondering what would be next. I remember hoping that America would change their greedy ways, only to be disheartened by parades of evil SUVs with giant american flags the next morning. Instead of peacful introspection, I saw wanton agression and the desire to kill others.
I think its disgusting that they arent using Quicktime. NASA, please fix that snafu.
You wouldn't expect a trained pianist to be happy with it...
If you want a great feeling keyboard, that is pretty close to a piano (almost nothing out there replicates the feel of a real piano), the Fatar keyboards are great. I have an SL 1100/C. Its pretty nice. eBay has much better prices than the list price.
http://www.studiologic.net/fatar-menu.htm
If you want the sound of a real piano... then look on eBay for a RealPiano expander. "Among many musicians rated as the best sounding piano module on the market."
http://www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/piano.html
Finally, if you are made of money, and want a combination of the two, get a GEM Pro Mega
http://www.generalmusic.us/
Boeing used to be one of the biggest Apple customers on the planet. I think Lockheed had the record for owning more than 50,000 Macintoshes. But Boeing was on that scale too. Boeing used to run a Macintosh training facililty at, I think, Shoreline Community College in Seattle. Now Boeing has surplussed a lot of their old macs...but the macs are beginning to come back. I do a lot of consulting for Boeing contractors that are showing interest in mac hardware. The problem is that a lot of software has yet to be made for OS X, like specific finite element analysis packages and CAD packages (AutoCAD, ProEngineer). These software packages require large amounts of (government standardized) testing everytime they are ported to a new platform. So even though they are already UNIX based, its not a simple matter of just getting the code up and running.
If you have ever worked in a software company you would know how incredibly difficult it is to syncronize the release of components...even within the same product. Even if everything is on a schedule, last minute bugs can delay a component for several days.
Apple is doing the right thing by releasing updates as they become available instead of what you propose (batching updates).
As others have said, a restart is not required in many cases, and maybe apple could eventually eliminate the need to restart. But restarting is fairly harmless in most cases.
>>The art is to leave it a few days then check macfixit.com for fallout.
>SHHH!!! Now all the victims *cough*, I mean, "early >adopters" won't be posting any feedback on MacFixit.
>Great job.
If something does go seriously wrong, they won't be posting any feedback anyway...