Damn, if only you could have clicked the "reply" link instead of having to type the URL in in manually for security reasons, you could have gotten first post. Curse you, IE!
Yeah, I was wondering about that. The article gives absolutely no mention of what they'll get. Actually, this is the most obvious advertisement posing as an article I've ever seen. It contains almost no information, beyond the first few sentences.
I agree. For me (and for most Mac users I know), there's no reason to run Windows over OS X any more. I've been using OS X for almost two years, and there's only been one program for the PC I wanted to run that didn't have a Mac port or Mac equivalent. And that was a game.
I actually think for what I do (audio editing, sequencing, plus all the normal day-to-day stuff like web, email, etc.) the quality of the software avaliable for OS X is better than what you might get on PC. For example, there are a lot more indivdual music programs avaliable for PC, but most of them are low-end, and kinda sucky. And don't forget Microsoft's ports of Office and IE which are arguably better than their Windows twins.
Were these people on corporate, or personal computers?
If it was their own computer (that they bought with their own money), then yes, they're stupid. On the other hand, if they recieved this attachment while browsing mail at their cubicle, and they knew it was a real virus, doesn't that insinuate that they aren't stupid, but rather that they just have no respect for the property of the company they work for?
According to this PDF from Apple, Mac OS X Server already carries both Apache 1.3 and 2.x. If you only have OS X client, you can also download a bundled Apache 2 package from Server Logistics here, if you really want it. I tried it about a year ago, I remember it has a nice preferance pane with which you can change some settings, restart the server, and view and edit your httpd.conf (although it was a little buggy with saving the file, TextEdit had problems with the permissions)... It couldn't do anything that wasn't just as easy to do from the command line, though.
The article mentions that a possible frequency range for this new standard might be 2.5 to 2.7 GHz. If you look on Wikipedia, their article for 802.11 states that 802.11b and 802.11g both have a frequency band of 2.4 GHz. That's only a difference of about 4%.
Has anyone had luck getting a Live CD for PPC to work? I've tried Gentoo's, and it didn't boot properly on my PowerBook--but oddly enough booted up in my roommate's CD drive just fine... which is really odd considering we both have the exact same model PowerBook!
I loved the original Thief (still have it on my parents' computer at home), but I have no idea at all what "consolified" means. Would someone mind enlightening me? (google was no help, for once)
There are also a lot of advanced settings that aren't available (or close enough for mere mortals) in non-server, such as the ability to make and manage multiple AFP and SMB mount points. For example, if you connect to a non-server server via AFP, you can mount your own home directory, anyone else's public directory, or a volume. That's it. No more "make a folder and share it out as..." like Windows and OS 9 have. (Although snb.conf will do whatever you tell it.)
I cannot agree more. I go to a school that has Finale on all the computers for us to use, and the UI is a constant headache. I'm not stupid. I can figure out most things. But when it takes me a half hour to figure out how to copy and paste one bar of a drum grove, or I have to ask the guy at the lab's front desk how to add a legato mark to a passage, there is DEFINITELY something wrong. Many people I've talked to agree with me.
I've had 2 Macs. I go to a college that now requires every entering student to own a Mac. I started out with a 15" Flatpanel iMac and now I have a 15" Titanium Powerbook.
First of all, I double click often to open programs in the background. I should have just said "click", but you can double click on the dock. And are you sure that dragging the mouse on the border doesn't do anything? I left my Powerbook at school (I'm on Winter break) so I can't check, but I was pretty sure that was all I did to resize it. Maybe it changed in Panther (which I don't yet have, my school was supposed to give it to me for free but they are dragging their feet.)
I double click sometimes to open stuff in the background. And I have accidentally dragged stuff off the dock, only because sometimes my computer (most recently a 15" TiBook) stops to think right as I'm doing something, so my mouse movements end up not doing what I wanted.
>>2. When icons are dragged off the dock, instead of going *poof* they should be moved to the desktop
>This is a poor idea, IMO.
I agree. One reason not to do this is that almost every time I see an OS X desktop (including mine), it only has one icon on it: the HDD. It seems most people who use OS X don't like to store much of anything on their desktop besides links to hard drives, and maybe one or two other shortcuts. Here's some evidence.
If you notice in Windows XP, you can't change the size of the taskbar unless you right click on it and deselect "lock thetaskbar." For the OS X dock this would be a good feature beacuse it is easy to accidentally remove programs from the dock by slightly dragging the mouse when you double click, and it is easy to change the size of the dock by accidentally dragging the mouse on the border.
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just played the point-'n' click adventure game Pleurghburg, dark ages, and despite its Commodore 64-like graphics it was lots of fun to play!
*sigh* Yet another game that isn't ported to the Mac : (
Damn, if only you could have clicked the "reply" link instead of having to type the URL in in manually for security reasons, you could have gotten first post. Curse you, IE!
Yeah, I was wondering about that. The article gives absolutely no mention of what they'll get. Actually, this is the most obvious advertisement posing as an article I've ever seen. It contains almost no information, beyond the first few sentences.
I agree. For me (and for most Mac users I know), there's no reason to run Windows over OS X any more. I've been using OS X for almost two years, and there's only been one program for the PC I wanted to run that didn't have a Mac port or Mac equivalent. And that was a game.
I actually think for what I do (audio editing, sequencing, plus all the normal day-to-day stuff like web, email, etc.) the quality of the software avaliable for OS X is better than what you might get on PC. For example, there are a lot more indivdual music programs avaliable for PC, but most of them are low-end, and kinda sucky. And don't forget Microsoft's ports of Office and IE which are arguably better than their Windows twins.
Oh god, the humanity. I saw that for the first time this morning, and I just know I'm going to have nightmares about it tonight.
Were these people on corporate, or personal computers?
If it was their own computer (that they bought with their own money), then yes, they're stupid. On the other hand, if they recieved this attachment while browsing mail at their cubicle, and they knew it was a real virus, doesn't that insinuate that they aren't stupid, but rather that they just have no respect for the property of the company they work for?
The article already states that these flowers cannot reproduce.
According to this PDF from Apple, Mac OS X Server already carries both Apache 1.3 and 2.x. If you only have OS X client, you can also download a bundled Apache 2 package from Server Logistics here, if you really want it. I tried it about a year ago, I remember it has a nice preferance pane with which you can change some settings, restart the server, and view and edit your httpd.conf (although it was a little buggy with saving the file, TextEdit had problems with the permissions)... It couldn't do anything that wasn't just as easy to do from the command line, though.
The article mentions that a possible frequency range for this new standard might be 2.5 to 2.7 GHz. If you look on Wikipedia, their article for 802.11 states that 802.11b and 802.11g both have a frequency band of 2.4 GHz. That's only a difference of about 4%.
Has anyone had luck getting a Live CD for PPC to work? I've tried Gentoo's, and it didn't boot properly on my PowerBook--but oddly enough booted up in my roommate's CD drive just fine... which is really odd considering we both have the exact same model PowerBook!
I agree. We should use this simple three-pronged tool on spammers.
Oh c'mon, do you really disagree?
I'm not the only one who uses fake information on some of these cards, am I?
Does this mean Monday my cat's going to get a call from Safeway?
Thanks Anonymouse Coward. I forgive you for all those mean things you've said about BSD.
Slashdot, apparently...
I loved the original Thief (still have it on my parents' computer at home), but I have no idea at all what "consolified" means. Would someone mind enlightening me? (google was no help, for once)
There are also a lot of advanced settings that aren't available (or close enough for mere mortals) in non-server, such as the ability to make and manage multiple AFP and SMB mount points. For example, if you connect to a non-server server via AFP, you can mount your own home directory, anyone else's public directory, or a volume. That's it. No more "make a folder and share it out as..." like Windows and OS 9 have. (Although snb.conf will do whatever you tell it.)
Fortunately, there's also a nice, free, GUI utility that'll configure that in OS X client. I used it on 10.2 with excellent results, but I haven't had to use it in 10.3 yet so I don't know if it'll still work.
I agree. What a horrible movie. I was stoned off my ass and I still thought it was one of the worst movies I had ever seen. Yeesh.
I cannot agree more. I go to a school that has Finale on all the computers for us to use, and the UI is a constant headache. I'm not stupid. I can figure out most things. But when it takes me a half hour to figure out how to copy and paste one bar of a drum grove, or I have to ask the guy at the lab's front desk how to add a legato mark to a passage, there is DEFINITELY something wrong. Many people I've talked to agree with me.
I've had 2 Macs. I go to a college that now requires every entering student to own a Mac. I started out with a 15" Flatpanel iMac and now I have a 15" Titanium Powerbook.
First of all, I double click often to open programs in the background. I should have just said "click", but you can double click on the dock. And are you sure that dragging the mouse on the border doesn't do anything? I left my Powerbook at school (I'm on Winter break) so I can't check, but I was pretty sure that was all I did to resize it. Maybe it changed in Panther (which I don't yet have, my school was supposed to give it to me for free but they are dragging their feet.)
I double click sometimes to open stuff in the background. And I have accidentally dragged stuff off the dock, only because sometimes my computer (most recently a 15" TiBook) stops to think right as I'm doing something, so my mouse movements end up not doing what I wanted.
>>2. When icons are dragged off the dock, instead of going *poof* they should be moved to the desktop
>This is a poor idea, IMO.
I agree. One reason not to do this is that almost every time I see an OS X desktop (including mine), it only has one icon on it: the HDD. It seems most people who use OS X don't like to store much of anything on their desktop besides links to hard drives, and maybe one or two other shortcuts. Here's some evidence.
If you notice in Windows XP, you can't change the size of the taskbar unless you right click on it and deselect "lock thetaskbar." For the OS X dock this would be a good feature beacuse it is easy to accidentally remove programs from the dock by slightly dragging the mouse when you double click, and it is easy to change the size of the dock by accidentally dragging the mouse on the border.
Wow. You're right. That's fucked up.
One reason is that ISPs, corporate servers, or some other body might have implemented the filtering, and not the one reading the mail.