You must have missed my Grandma's funeral. We got all 16 grand children there, 16 to 32, this hasn't happened since we were very young as we are geographically all across the country.
Uncle: "Alright, everyone line up according to age, this is probably the last time we'll all be together" My Mom: "Yeah, grandma's only going to die once".
Was she crying, yes, were all of us crying, yes. But it was still funny. And this was just one such instance, the whole day was like this. Yes the actual ceremony was very somber, but the rest of the time was spent recalling crazy stuff grandma would do. I didn't realize it until I was much older, but she almost always had a bottle of Bailey's on her, etc, etc.
Speak for yourself. Don't speak for the rest of us.
Can I detach an X-Forwarding session? It's a serious question. Everytime my network burps X11 goes down like a whore. And if I'm going to be running the GUI from my Mac and have to keep it on anyway, I'm just going to use iTunes.
Touche, I want the same thing. I just want a linux program that works(tm) with my iPod so I can quit syncing via NFS+Wireless
(See the rest of my posts around here)
Return it? Maybe my family is a bit un orthodox when it comes to gifts but I've never seen anyone upset when you told them you were going to return gifts. I can remember opening stuff on christmas, taking one look at it and telling my parents I didn't like it and it was getting returned for another model/color/size.
My parents, friend, etc bought me a portable music device, tool, article of clothing. I didn't like that specific model so I went and got what I wanted. They still 'gave' me a gift and I still got what I wanted. However I do remember my girlfriend getting a bit upset when I told her the same thing, maybe it's just the way I was raised.
Each would do what they're supposed to do *very* well. They could have some command line flags that would let you do about anything ipod_mount ipod_video_sync -device/mnt/ipod -folder/user/me/Videos/ ipod_music_sync -device/mnt/ipod -file LedZepplin.mp3 ipod_unmount.
Then you could write a nice pretty wrapper around that. In my opinion nothing would be very bloated because each program would do one thing and one thing very well. You also get the nice 'feature' of having command line tools available to anyone that wanted to use SSH or a Web interface or an Ncurses interface.
I'm a die hard OS X fan. It does everything I need to and I don't have to fight it. I also love the command line if there's a way to do it via command line I probably do. My debian server is headless I only have SSH access. I'd love to be able to plug my iPod into its cradle go back to my chair and do everything via ssh. Most new applications I find are KDE or GNOME only. I finally found someone who wrote a nice perl script to convert *.avi to iPod video files. I wrapped that in a shell script to create iPod videos.
to_ipod.sh Transformers.avi Pulp\ Fiction.avi
And in a few hours I have Transformers.mp4 and Pulp\ Fiction.mp4, but then I have to transfer them to my Mac to sync them via iTunes.
Because my torrent client is rTorrent, I can set it up with a watch folder. Currently my workflow (very lame) is:
TVShows downloads torrent to temp directory on my Mac. Mac runs a LaunchD instance that checks for new files. Mac rsyncs torrents to the debian watch folder. Rtorrent starts the shows.
It works fine an dandy as long as my MacBookPro is home, plugged in and not asleep.
Why would you buy an iPod and expect it to work with something else? Look at Apple's website, look at the box, google "iPod linux".
Tech specs on Apple's site: Mac system requirements * Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later * iTunes 7.4 or later5
Windows s * Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later * iTunes 7.4 or later
I don't see a Linux option. I don't see a "non iTunes" option. And apple sells the whole package as they do with everything they sell.
Off topic---- Note: I am an Apple user. I have both a MacBookPro and a Debian server. I tried for the longest time to get stuff onto my iPod from the debian server since that's where my music resides. I couldn't find any command line programs to do it. I even had conceptualized a nice little bash script that after I plugged my iPod in, I'd run it and it'd sync everything. I gave up and just use iTunes over an NFS share over Wireless, sure it takes a while but I set it before I go to bed. (Initial sync was over ethernet).
Where are all the linux developers making nice stable non 'flair' programs? Why can't someone make a nice stable cli interface to the iPod and then write a GUI wrapper around that? I've been looking *forever* for CLI RSS torrent grabber. It doesn't even have to be a program, just a simple script will due. OS X has a nice program called TVShows.app, it's just a nice GUI wrapped around a ruby script that reads an XML file. I tried but the script doesn't run under Debian. Shiny programs are nice to keep up with the OSX/Vista crowd but what happened to the developers that make good dependable programs for the command line?
And neither of these work for me. For some reason I get a memory error. Sometimes it doesn't even work and when it does what ever I paste into paint is black and white (not even gray scale).
Some additional thoughts: How many cars do you see advertised on TV "Now with cruise control?". It's just assumed to most knowledgeable Mac Users that you can do this. Apple wants to show off their latest and greatest. Spaces, Expose, etc, this is old news to us.
Being able to take screenshots of the entire screen and saved to a file on the desktop. Later versions (9.1?) added the ability to take screen shots of areas selected by the mouse. I'm still fighting to find a decent screen capture program in XP.
Universal spell checking for Cocoa apps (as another poster mentioned)
Sleep mode that actually works. My XP laptop won't hibernate half the time because of some error. Another 25% of the time it'll unhibernate itself and run the battery dead and nearly bake itself in my laptop bag.
Dual Monitor support. I don't ever remember a time this wasn't available. XP insists that my secondary monitor (my LCD screen) is to the right of my laptop. Every.Single.Time.I plug it in. That's another 30 seconds a day that I have to fight with XP because it can't remember my settings. I was showing some friends my MacBookPro and plugged in my Dell monitor. It automatically came up and to the native resolution. Why do I have to "enable" a second monitor when I plug it in and then fight to get the right resolution?
Most of the time when I tell people "it just works" they don't believe me. They think I'm trying to trick them. (Note, before I get flamed, I said "it just works" I didn't say "it just lets you configure it to your hearts delight like Gnome/KDE.") I had a friend who bought a MacBook recently, I never had a friend with one so we decided to try out iChat. We both signed in and it just worked. I didn't fight with the router or any settings. I just clicked "Video Chat". 50% of the time when I try that with Yahoo or MSN in Mac OR XP I get "Connection failed. Is your party sharing video?".
I know there are some rabid fanboys, but there are some people out there who really want to show other people how much we like or Macs. When I tell people I get around 50 MPG in a car 9 years old (or that I got 45 mpg in a car 15 years old) they thought it was a trick. They think it's some magic concoction that I made myself. "It's a diesel." They think it won't start in the winter (tested down to -20F just fine). They think that it's loud. (I turn 2000 RPM on the highway, so it's slightly louder at idle, I spend more time *driving* my car than idling it). They think that you can't find fuel anywhere (just look for that diesel pump at 75% of stations). I had one person tell me flat out I was a liar because I told her that I could run my car on vegetable oil (I won't and don't modern injection systems don't like it too well for long periods of time).
When was the last time you asked an advanced Mac user what his/her computer could do?
Because the feature first showed up in 1991. Starting first with SCSI Disk Mode and evolving into Firewire Disk Mode in 2000. Here are a list of other features that I wish my XP laptop had that Mac has had as long as I've run them (Since system 7.1).
You can rename a file while it's open. You can move a file while it's open. (Mac programs track it accurately, stuff like jEdit doesn't). You can rename a program while it's running. You can open a folder that is in the trash and move a file out of it without having to restore the folder, get the file and then delete the folder again.
You can even build your own XPC boxes from old scrap PCs. The little blue XPC boxes are nice but expensive and have limited IO. Our company just did this to save some money, works great. You can bootload them so that they're always running too.
And you know full well beforehand that it doesn't run on a gas where you live. It's stamped all over the side of the car. It's everywhere in the marketing. However you just read through the internet about this funnel and buy the car anyway.
I'm tired of this "Apple's the bad guy bricking phones on purpose." They sold you a product that did X. They released an update for X that does Y. In their test labs they tested the update Y with product X. It would be impossible to test the firmware update with every single method of unlocking. Jobs likes to sell the 'whole experience'. He sold you a product that you knew before hand that it was AT&T only. If you bought the phone for the purpose of unlocking, WHY? Why isn't the same crowd crying fowl that every bug fix and software update breaks OSx86. You have to do near the same amount of hacking/tweaking to get OS X on generic hardware. Whenever apple releases an update something usually breaks.
Bad Car analogy:
I buy a brand new Chevy. I go home tear out the Chevy engine and put in a Ford engine. A few month / weeks later there's a recall on some part OR I go in for warranty work. The Chevy dealer is going to refuse the work.
Most places only get once a year to test a system. Imagine if you only got to compile once a year. No matter how much bug and error checking you did, something would probably come up. We can't even get 25% of the population to vote in the US. Military, Bank, Stocks. Those happen daily at millions of transactions per minute. If something is wrong, it becomes apparent rather quickly.
No. I officially have 1 "Card". When I want another card I login to Citicards.com and go to the VAN (Virtual Account Number). They have a Flash online version or a 'local' version for XP. You then get a credit card number is defaulted to expire the next month. Even if it's the last day of the month (it's designed to be used immediately). The numbers can only be used once and you can additionally set up a limit on how much money the card is limited to and in how long it should expire. I usually just accept the defaults with reputable businesses. If the website looks a bit shady, I can limit the useage to Cost + $1.
Everything is tied to your main account, but if 'they' get the temp number, it's useless. It doesn't count towards having a new line of credit, maxing out your card (unless you max out your Account) or how long you've had the card. I think in the last year I've made 100+ of them. Used for everything for bills (Who in their right mind would send valid credit card information though the mail, then they have *everything*) To online orders.
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You must have missed my Grandma's funeral. We got all 16 grand children there, 16 to 32, this hasn't happened since we were very young as we are geographically all across the country.
Uncle: "Alright, everyone line up according to age, this is probably the last time we'll all be together"
My Mom: "Yeah, grandma's only going to die once".
Was she crying, yes, were all of us crying, yes. But it was still funny. And this was just one such instance, the whole day was like this. Yes the actual ceremony was very somber, but the rest of the time was spent recalling crazy stuff grandma would do. I didn't realize it until I was much older, but she almost always had a bottle of Bailey's on her, etc, etc.
Speak for yourself. Don't speak for the rest of us.
Links? I googled and googled...
Can I detach an X-Forwarding session? It's a serious question. Everytime my network burps X11 goes down like a whore. And if I'm going to be running the GUI from my Mac and have to keep it on anyway, I'm just going to use iTunes.
Ok. iPod plugged in. Where is it supposed to 'show up' at? My ssh session is still just showing:
[~]:user@debian$
Is there a trick to rythmbox?
Or maybe you missed this: "I couldn't find any command line programs to do it."
The debian machine has no monitor attached.
I'd imagine he's going to do it digitally and non destructively to the painting.
Touche, I want the same thing. I just want a linux program that works(tm) with my iPod so I can quit syncing via NFS+Wireless (See the rest of my posts around here)
And in switching part of your decision wasn't evaluating what would and wouldn't work afterwards?
I buy a sports car when I'm living in Florida. I move to Canada and I'm surprised that the sports car doesn't do so well in the snow?
Return it? Maybe my family is a bit un orthodox when it comes to gifts but I've never seen anyone upset when you told them you were going to return gifts. I can remember opening stuff on christmas, taking one look at it and telling my parents I didn't like it and it was getting returned for another model/color/size.
My parents, friend, etc bought me a portable music device, tool, article of clothing. I didn't like that specific model so I went and got what I wanted. They still 'gave' me a gift and I still got what I wanted.
However I do remember my girlfriend getting a bit upset when I told her the same thing, maybe it's just the way I was raised.
To each their own.
Why not lots of tools that that do one thing instead of one tool that does lots of things? I thought this was the Unix/Linux way.
/mnt/ipod -folder /user/me/Videos/ /mnt/ipod -file LedZepplin.mp3
Developers could create 5 tiny applications:
ipod_mount
ipod_music_sync
ipod_video_sync
ipod_pictures_sync
ipod_unmount
Each would do what they're supposed to do *very* well. They could have some command line flags that would let you do about anything
ipod_mount
ipod_video_sync -device
ipod_music_sync -device
ipod_unmount.
Then you could write a nice pretty wrapper around that. In my opinion nothing would be very bloated because each program would do one thing and one thing very well. You also get the nice 'feature' of having command line tools available to anyone that wanted to use SSH or a Web interface or an Ncurses interface.
I'm a die hard OS X fan. It does everything I need to and I don't have to fight it. I also love the command line if there's a way to do it via command line I probably do. My debian server is headless I only have SSH access. I'd love to be able to plug my iPod into its cradle go back to my chair and do everything via ssh. Most new applications I find are KDE or GNOME only. I finally found someone who wrote a nice perl script to convert *.avi to iPod video files. I wrapped that in a shell script to create iPod videos.
to_ipod.sh Transformers.avi Pulp\ Fiction.avi
And in a few hours I have Transformers.mp4 and Pulp\ Fiction.mp4, but then I have to transfer them to my Mac to sync them via iTunes.
(See also off topic rant in same thread)
Because my torrent client is rTorrent, I can set it up with a watch folder. Currently my workflow (very lame) is:
TVShows downloads torrent to temp directory on my Mac.
Mac runs a LaunchD instance that checks for new files.
Mac rsyncs torrents to the debian watch folder.
Rtorrent starts the shows.
It works fine an dandy as long as my MacBookPro is home, plugged in and not asleep.
Why would you buy an iPod and expect it to work with something else? Look at Apple's website, look at the box, google "iPod linux".
Tech specs on Apple's site:
Mac system requirements
* Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later
* iTunes 7.4 or later5
Windows s
* Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
* iTunes 7.4 or later
I don't see a Linux option.
I don't see a "non iTunes" option.
And apple sells the whole package as they do with everything they sell.
Off topic----
Note: I am an Apple user. I have both a MacBookPro and a Debian server. I tried for the longest time to get stuff onto my iPod from the debian server since that's where my music resides. I couldn't find any command line programs to do it. I even had conceptualized a nice little bash script that after I plugged my iPod in, I'd run it and it'd sync everything. I gave up and just use iTunes over an NFS share over Wireless, sure it takes a while but I set it before I go to bed. (Initial sync was over ethernet).
Where are all the linux developers making nice stable non 'flair' programs? Why can't someone make a nice stable cli interface to the iPod and then write a GUI wrapper around that? I've been looking *forever* for CLI RSS torrent grabber. It doesn't even have to be a program, just a simple script will due. OS X has a nice program called TVShows.app, it's just a nice GUI wrapped around a ruby script that reads an XML file. I tried but the script doesn't run under Debian. Shiny programs are nice to keep up with the OSX/Vista crowd but what happened to the developers that make good dependable programs for the command line?
You mean it would be nice if people would buy hardware media players that worked on the computer they used?
Last I checked Apple doesn't support Linux. If you bought an iPod, you knew it didn't support Linux, so why did you buy it?
This is akin to the people that buy houses next to airports then complain to the city about the noise.
I know about Print screen. It just doesn't work on 2/3 of my XP machines. When it does work it's in black and white.
Hibernation doesn't just work on 3/3 of my XP machines. It always wakes itself up.
And neither of these work for me. For some reason I get a memory error. Sometimes it doesn't even work and when it does what ever I paste into paint is black and white (not even gray scale).
I'm pretty sure target disk mode was in my manual.
Some additional thoughts:
How many cars do you see advertised on TV "Now with cruise control?". It's just assumed to most knowledgeable Mac Users that you can do this. Apple wants to show off their latest and greatest. Spaces, Expose, etc, this is old news to us.
Being able to take screenshots of the entire screen and saved to a file on the desktop. Later versions (9.1?) added the ability to take screen shots of areas selected by the mouse. I'm still fighting to find a decent screen capture program in XP.
Universal spell checking for Cocoa apps (as another poster mentioned)
Sleep mode that actually works. My XP laptop won't hibernate half the time because of some error. Another 25% of the time it'll unhibernate itself and run the battery dead and nearly bake itself in my laptop bag.
Dual Monitor support. I don't ever remember a time this wasn't available. XP insists that my secondary monitor (my LCD screen) is to the right of my laptop. Every.Single.Time.I plug it in. That's another 30 seconds a day that I have to fight with XP because it can't remember my settings. I was showing some friends my MacBookPro and plugged in my Dell monitor. It automatically came up and to the native resolution. Why do I have to "enable" a second monitor when I plug it in and then fight to get the right resolution?
Most of the time when I tell people "it just works" they don't believe me. They think I'm trying to trick them. (Note, before I get flamed, I said "it just works" I didn't say "it just lets you configure it to your hearts delight like Gnome/KDE.") I had a friend who bought a MacBook recently, I never had a friend with one so we decided to try out iChat. We both signed in and it just worked. I didn't fight with the router or any settings. I just clicked "Video Chat". 50% of the time when I try that with Yahoo or MSN in Mac OR XP I get "Connection failed. Is your party sharing video?".
I know there are some rabid fanboys, but there are some people out there who really want to show other people how much we like or Macs. When I tell people I get around 50 MPG in a car 9 years old (or that I got 45 mpg in a car 15 years old) they thought it was a trick. They think it's some magic concoction that I made myself. "It's a diesel." They think it won't start in the winter (tested down to -20F just fine). They think that it's loud. (I turn 2000 RPM on the highway, so it's slightly louder at idle, I spend more time *driving* my car than idling it). They think that you can't find fuel anywhere (just look for that diesel pump at 75% of stations). I had one person tell me flat out I was a liar because I told her that I could run my car on vegetable oil (I won't and don't modern injection systems don't like it too well for long periods of time).
When was the last time you asked an advanced Mac user what his/her computer could do?
Because the feature first showed up in 1991. Starting first with SCSI Disk Mode and evolving into Firewire Disk Mode in 2000. Here are a list of other features that I wish my XP laptop had that Mac has had as long as I've run them (Since system 7.1).
You can rename a file while it's open.
You can move a file while it's open. (Mac programs track it accurately, stuff like jEdit doesn't).
You can rename a program while it's running.
You can open a folder that is in the trash and move a file out of it without having to restore the folder, get the file and then delete the folder again.
The first one refers to when Scientology used the DMCA to get comments deleted.
Not sure what the secret service one was (and we'll probably never find out).
More Specifically: Simulink & XPC.
You can even build your own XPC boxes from old scrap PCs. The little blue XPC boxes are nice but expensive and have limited IO. Our company just did this to save some money, works great. You can bootload them so that they're always running too.
Fun stuff.
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Indeed, just like the iPhone 'broke' some networks. I bet it's something else's fault and Halo 3 just highlighted the issue.
And you know full well beforehand that it doesn't run on a gas where you live. It's stamped all over the side of the car. It's everywhere in the marketing. However you just read through the internet about this funnel and buy the car anyway.
I'm tired of this "Apple's the bad guy bricking phones on purpose." They sold you a product that did X. They released an update for X that does Y. In their test labs they tested the update Y with product X. It would be impossible to test the firmware update with every single method of unlocking. Jobs likes to sell the 'whole experience'. He sold you a product that you knew before hand that it was AT&T only. If you bought the phone for the purpose of unlocking, WHY? Why isn't the same crowd crying fowl that every bug fix and software update breaks OSx86. You have to do near the same amount of hacking/tweaking to get OS X on generic hardware. Whenever apple releases an update something usually breaks.
Bad Car analogy:
I buy a brand new Chevy. I go home tear out the Chevy engine and put in a Ford engine. A few month / weeks later there's a recall on some part OR I go in for warranty work. The Chevy dealer is going to refuse the work.
Most places only get once a year to test a system. Imagine if you only got to compile once a year. No matter how much bug and error checking you did, something would probably come up. We can't even get 25% of the population to vote in the US. Military, Bank, Stocks. Those happen daily at millions of transactions per minute. If something is wrong, it becomes apparent rather quickly.
No. I officially have 1 "Card". When I want another card I login to Citicards.com and go to the VAN (Virtual Account Number). They have a Flash online version or a 'local' version for XP. You then get a credit card number is defaulted to expire the next month. Even if it's the last day of the month (it's designed to be used immediately). The numbers can only be used once and you can additionally set up a limit on how much money the card is limited to and in how long it should expire. I usually just accept the defaults with reputable businesses. If the website looks a bit shady, I can limit the useage to Cost + $1.
Everything is tied to your main account, but if 'they' get the temp number, it's useless. It doesn't count towards having a new line of credit, maxing out your card (unless you max out your Account) or how long you've had the card. I think in the last year I've made 100+ of them. Used for everything for bills (Who in their right mind would send valid credit card information though the mail, then they have *everything*) To online orders.
MOD PARENT UP.
I use these things all the time online. Anything online. Even bills (I give it a 2 month expiration). Randomly generated credit cards rock.