Kind of interesting to read the CEO's comments considering Verizon has already blanketed New York City in phonebooth hotspots. They work pretty well, and are free (for now) if you use Verizon DSL. Wouldn't be a stretch to see Verizon rolling similar networks out in other metro areas (and charging), in which case the muni's would kill them.
The case could be made that/.'s traffic totals are depressed compared to other sites because of the more techy crowd that visits. They're not likely to have the alexa spyware installed.
MSIE/Safari/iCab/OmniWeb/any browser on the mac has had basic voice recognition based navigation for years. I think it was introduced system wide w/ OS 9, which came out 5 years ago? Sure it's neat, but it's not terribly useful or innovative.
Colloquy - Webkit based IRC client. not too newbish.
It's a nice app... looks great and works well, except for a big problem under the hood. It had MASSIVE memory leaks last time I tried it. If you don't like restarting to get RAM back, take a look at the (perhaps overly simplistic) app Conversation. It gets most IRC jobs done well. However, if you're looking for a little more power, just stick to BitchX:-)
OmniGraffle by the good folks at the OmniGroup Is the best diagramming software I have seen or used. Very slick interface, and easy to use but powerful at the same time. Can't export to PS, but you can always use pdf2ps to convert exported PDF's.
If your kids _DO_ break the rules, what are you going to do about it? If your kids have an ounce of brains, they will get around any limits you put in place. The most important thing is trust... you obviously trust them enough to put computers in their rooms. Stop kidding yourself into thinking they won't look at pr0n if you put safe guards in place.
The one time my dad tried something on me (yanked the Cat 5e out of the keystone), I decided to have some fun and SSH'ed into his box from school, null routing his SMTP server. Not being to send email for 6 hours was a big enough deal that he has never disconnected me again.
Is it just me, or does it seem like, in an effort to make the portrait fill the larger space on the new bill, someone just extended his cloak type thing? Look momma, no arms! Just a homogeneous blob where they should be...
You forgot to mention your local State Attorney General. Once I sick Mr. Spitzer on VS, they'll start shaking... he's famous for persuing cases that other AGs won't touch.
Inside Panther: A look at the Finder and System, part one (images)
By Nick dePlume, Publisher and Editor in Chief
June 30, 2003 - This is the first installment of our "Inside Panther" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.3. Check back frequently for additional Panther coverage. Today, we begin looking at updates to the Finder and System.
Before we begin our first report, one important note -- Panther includes a significant number of changes to the Finder and System. As such, we're splitting the Finder/System portion of our "Inside Panther" series into a number of separate parts. Today's report largely deals with the new Finder window, as well as a few notes about installation, but much, much more is in the pipeline.
One of the most significant changes in Panther is the revised Finder interface. The new Finder features the brushed-metal look from iTunes and a new Places sidebar along the left, with quick links to volumes and removable media at the top; and applications, files, and folders at the bottom. With these shortcuts, the Places sidebar replaces some of the previous functionality of the Finder toolbar.
To be quite clear: The brushed-metal look cannot be removed, and is not an "option" that can be switched with an Aqua Finder. However, the Places sidebar is not a required feature, by any means. By clicking on the widget at the upper right-hand corner of the Finder window, it is immediately removed, along with the toolbar. Additionally, the Finder toolbar can still be hidden from a menu, separately from hiding the Places sidebar.
In our screenshots, we show the three basic Finder views, both with and without the Places sidebar. As with Jaguar, Finder windows remember their appearance settings fairly well. While the format of a Places sidebar won't appeal to everyone, just as column view doesn't appeal to everyone, Apple is providing users with a number of ways to customize the look and function of windows. A user who simply wants a plain window with no toolbar or sidebar, with basic folder icons that open up new windows when clicked, like in Mac OS 9, can still do that.
The Places sidebar scales dynamically when Finder windows are resized. All of the items can be rearranged. Files, folders, and applications can be added to the bottom portion, customizing it individually, and files/folders can be moved or copied into folders and volumes that are on the list. However, files cannot be dragged into listed applications to open them in that application. Removable media are listed with a clickable "eject" button to the right.
The new Finder layout is also present in open/save dialog boxes, providing a consistent interface throughout the system.
The new Action menu is included by default in the Finder toolbar -- it does exactly what control-clicking or right-clicking does, by calling up a contextual menu.
File/folder labels can be added through the Action menu or the File menu, and are displayed as the background for the file name in both icon and column view. Both views have their own way of displaying the labels, which differs when the labeled files/folders are selected. See our collection of images for details.
Preview in Panther's column view now displays expanded information, as compared to Jaguar.
The new file search is indeed "live," similar to searching a library of iTunes music, but its response speed is, of course, less than that of searching an iTunes music library, and depends largely on the system. Searches can be applied to local disks, the Home directory, "everywhere," or just folders that have been selected in the Finder.
Icon selection is considerably different in Panther, giving folder and file names a blue background, and highlighting a square area around the icon instead of just highlighting the icon. This is also used, of course, when copying and moving files and folders.
A few quick notes on installation: As with Jaguar, Panther has two CDs, the second being an optional installation of additio
I'm disappointed that Apple has forced the extremely ugly brushed metal on us. Aqua is beautiful; why dilute that beauty by replacing it with some ugly, unrealistic looking texture?
Isn't Apple violating it's own HIG by making the Finder metal? I though you could only make programs that emulate physical devices metal.
Even though/. has chosen to spotlight this week's State of the Art, it is almost always worth reading. It is very well written, like all of Pouge's books and other columns.
Mossberg's and Pouge's columns are my Wednesday night reading.
Interesting to see how the Vietnamese catfish issue has panned out.
Just to give you a little background, the catfish being farmed in Vietnam are in the family Pangasiidae, with the species most commonly farmed Pangasius sansitwongsi. The catfish farmed in the States are members of the family Ictaluridae. The U.S. farmers began feeling the competition a few years ago, and lobbied their local senator (the name escapes me). The senator tacked a rider onto some major bill, forcing all catfish imported from Vietnam to be labeled as "basa". To make things worse, only members of Ictaluridae may be called catfish, according to the rider. There are over 3000 species in the order Siluriformes, all of which are catfish. A prominent catfish ichthyologist even went to the Hill to argue that point, without any luck.
The U.S. has got to stop it's hypocritical treatment of other countries trade relations now, before matters get even more out of hand. Steel, bananas, and now computer chips and catfish are the first victims. What next?
Where I work, there is a 500 node Linux cluster for cladistic tree generation, which takes a lot of brute force and specialized tools to make happen. It is arguably much more complex then launching a rocket.
Just because you don't need it, or can't envision needing it, doesn't mean nobody else needs that kind of power.
I can vouch for Little Machines. I have over 30,000 pieces of mail in my Inbox alone, and Outlook2Mac worked almost flawlessly.
You can also try this hint, but I couldn't get it to work.
To the previous poster suggesting libdbx: it converts Outlook Exprees data files, not Outlook.pst files. For conversion of.pst files to mbox, you'll nedd libPST. Only problem is, the released version of libPST doesn't support little endian machines w/o a code rewrite. The maintainer did release an OS X friendly version (0.4) but M$ threatened with a cease and desist letter.
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Kind of interesting to read the CEO's comments considering Verizon has already blanketed New York City in phonebooth hotspots. They work pretty well, and are free (for now) if you use Verizon DSL. Wouldn't be a stretch to see Verizon rolling similar networks out in other metro areas (and charging), in which case the muni's would kill them.
The case could be made that /.'s traffic totals are depressed compared to other sites because of the more techy crowd that visits. They're not likely to have the alexa spyware installed.
Err, Nike bought Converse over a year ago. Way to shoot your own point in the foot.
MSIE/Safari/iCab/OmniWeb/any browser on the mac has had basic voice recognition based navigation for years. I think it was introduced system wide w/ OS 9, which came out 5 years ago? Sure it's neat, but it's not terribly useful or innovative.
We don't need trillian for Mac. Adium (site seems to be down ATM) is the best IM client out there on any platform IMO.
IIRC, the 970FX uses strained silicon on insulator (SSoI) cores, also increasing power effeciency.
Colloquy - Webkit based IRC client. not too newbish.
:-)
It's a nice app... looks great and works well, except for a big problem under the hood. It had MASSIVE memory leaks last time I tried it. If you don't like restarting to get RAM back, take a look at the (perhaps overly simplistic) app Conversation. It gets most IRC jobs done well. However, if you're looking for a little more power, just stick to BitchX
OmniGraffle by the good folks at the OmniGroup Is the best diagramming software I have seen or used. Very slick interface, and easy to use but powerful at the same time. Can't export to PS, but you can always use pdf2ps to convert exported PDF's.
Another handy Mailinator or SpamGourmet type service is spam.la. <anything>@spam.la shows up on spam.la's front page. No brainer to use.
The one time my dad tried something on me (yanked the Cat 5e out of the keystone), I decided to have some fun and SSH'ed into his box from school, null routing his SMTP server. Not being to send email for 6 hours was a big enough deal that he has never disconnected me again.
Is it just me, or does it seem like, in an effort to make the portrait fill the larger space on the new bill, someone just extended his cloak type thing? Look momma, no arms! Just a homogeneous blob where they should be...
You forgot to mention your local State Attorney General. Once I sick Mr. Spitzer on VS, they'll start shaking... he's famous for persuing cases that other AGs won't touch.
As if tath's stpoped aonnye on Sasldoht boeefr.
You cna't eevn get the fekucd up snleiplg rghit!!!
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in db/db.php on line 88"
So... anybody got a mirror?
FP!!!!
Inside Panther: A look at the Finder and System, part one (images)
By Nick dePlume, Publisher and Editor in Chief
June 30, 2003 - This is the first installment of our "Inside Panther" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.3. Check back frequently for additional Panther coverage. Today, we begin looking at updates to the Finder and System.
Before we begin our first report, one important note -- Panther includes a significant number of changes to the Finder and System. As such, we're splitting the Finder/System portion of our "Inside Panther" series into a number of separate parts. Today's report largely deals with the new Finder window, as well as a few notes about installation, but much, much more is in the pipeline.
One of the most significant changes in Panther is the revised Finder interface. The new Finder features the brushed-metal look from iTunes and a new Places sidebar along the left, with quick links to volumes and removable media at the top; and applications, files, and folders at the bottom. With these shortcuts, the Places sidebar replaces some of the previous functionality of the Finder toolbar.
To be quite clear: The brushed-metal look cannot be removed, and is not an "option" that can be switched with an Aqua Finder. However, the Places sidebar is not a required feature, by any means. By clicking on the widget at the upper right-hand corner of the Finder window, it is immediately removed, along with the toolbar. Additionally, the Finder toolbar can still be hidden from a menu, separately from hiding the Places sidebar.
In our screenshots, we show the three basic Finder views, both with and without the Places sidebar. As with Jaguar, Finder windows remember their appearance settings fairly well. While the format of a Places sidebar won't appeal to everyone, just as column view doesn't appeal to everyone, Apple is providing users with a number of ways to customize the look and function of windows. A user who simply wants a plain window with no toolbar or sidebar, with basic folder icons that open up new windows when clicked, like in Mac OS 9, can still do that.
The Places sidebar scales dynamically when Finder windows are resized. All of the items can be rearranged. Files, folders, and applications can be added to the bottom portion, customizing it individually, and files/folders can be moved or copied into folders and volumes that are on the list. However, files cannot be dragged into listed applications to open them in that application. Removable media are listed with a clickable "eject" button to the right.
The new Finder layout is also present in open/save dialog boxes, providing a consistent interface throughout the system.
The new Action menu is included by default in the Finder toolbar -- it does exactly what control-clicking or right-clicking does, by calling up a contextual menu.
File/folder labels can be added through the Action menu or the File menu, and are displayed as the background for the file name in both icon and column view. Both views have their own way of displaying the labels, which differs when the labeled files/folders are selected. See our collection of images for details.
Preview in Panther's column view now displays expanded information, as compared to Jaguar.
The new file search is indeed "live," similar to searching a library of iTunes music, but its response speed is, of course, less than that of searching an iTunes music library, and depends largely on the system. Searches can be applied to local disks, the Home directory, "everywhere," or just folders that have been selected in the Finder.
Icon selection is considerably different in Panther, giving folder and file names a blue background, and highlighting a square area around the icon instead of just highlighting the icon. This is also used, of course, when copying and moving files and folders.
A few quick notes on installation: As with Jaguar, Panther has two CDs, the second being an optional installation of additio
Quote: "Posted by CmdrTaco on Tue Jul 01, '03 10:34 AM" /.'ed by 10:40. Not too far off the mark!
I'm disappointed that Apple has forced the extremely ugly brushed metal on us. Aqua is beautiful; why dilute that beauty by replacing it with some ugly, unrealistic looking texture?
Isn't Apple violating it's own HIG by making the Finder metal? I though you could only make programs that emulate physical devices metal.
Mossberg's and Pouge's columns are my Wednesday night reading.
Bob
Still no and support. This is my biggest peeve right now with 1.0. Other then that, I love it. Works beautifully in most cases.
Interesting to see how the Vietnamese catfish issue has panned out.
Just to give you a little background, the catfish being farmed in Vietnam are in the family Pangasiidae, with the species most commonly farmed Pangasius sansitwongsi . The catfish farmed in the States are members of the family Ictaluridae. The U.S. farmers began feeling the competition a few years ago, and lobbied their local senator (the name escapes me). The senator tacked a rider onto some major bill, forcing all catfish imported from Vietnam to be labeled as "basa". To make things worse, only members of Ictaluridae may be called catfish, according to the rider. There are over 3000 species in the order Siluriformes, all of which are catfish. A prominent catfish ichthyologist even went to the Hill to argue that point, without any luck.
The U.S. has got to stop it's hypocritical treatment of other countries trade relations now, before matters get even more out of hand. Steel, bananas, and now computer chips and catfish are the first victims. What next?
Just because you don't need it, or can't envision needing it, doesn't mean nobody else needs that kind of power.
Bob
You can also try this hint, but I couldn't get it to work.
To the previous poster suggesting libdbx: it converts Outlook Exprees data files, not Outlook .pst files. For conversion of .pst files to mbox, you'll nedd libPST. Only problem is, the released version of libPST doesn't support little endian machines w/o a code rewrite. The maintainer did release an OS X friendly version (0.4) but M$ threatened with a cease and desist letter.
Hope some of my blabbing has helped...
Bob
Kind of funny how this was published just yesterday...
The number of dupes in the past four months has been more then in the past four years combined...