It's been a while but unless I'm mistaken, it was never possible to post to BugZilla without an account.
And I use a special account for Apple.com e-mail and haven't gotten a *single* unsolicited e-mail message from them (or anyone else, to that account) in years...
But I don't want to needlessly rehash this discussion;-) I agree with your point that they should fix it.
2) Safari 1.3 and Xcode 1.5 will make it to Panther, and Panther will receive at least one more point release (10.3.5). Safari 2.0 and Xcode 2.0 will be Tiger-only, however, as they make use of updated frameworks.
3) If you don't see why you need to upgrade, then just don't - 10.3 will continue to work fine and they will continue to supply you with security fixes.
Well, as you figured out yourself, Smart Folders are just dynamic search queries. The e-mail physically remains at the same place. Think of Smart Folders as a way to store search queries that you do frequently.
Not true. Apple's Rendezvous has been partially released for non-Mac OS X platforms since late 2002, actually.
In addition, several projects such as Howl have been working on a cross-platform implementation that does not rely on any Apple code.
Finally, as all of Rendezvous is a set of IETF standards known as "ZeroConf", nothing ever stopped people from making Rendezvous-compatible implementations... Apple was simply the first to make it public and use it well.
- automatic link-local IP addressing for cases where DHCP fails (like APIPA) - multicast DNS for announcing device names (.local domain) - service announcements and discovery via DNS-SD
Mac OS X also supported SLP, but Rendezvous / ZeroConf is clearly the more comprehensive technology, as several projects (such as GNOME) are actually moving *over*.
Agreed. As to NetNewsWire, the complaint is even more ridiculous considering the response of the developer to Safari RSS: http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2872 - where he even *praises* Apple for doing this, with the reasoning that this will spread the message of RSS.
I'd also like to add on "It's more like stealing from Longhorn than it is stealing from LaunchBar." that Longhorn (or Microsoft, for that matter) was hardly the first project / company to figure this idea out. BeOS had most of this long ago with Smart Queries. The GNOME project has been thinking about this with GNOME Storage. Apple has had patents on things like this since the Copland project of the early 90s. NONE of that has anything to do with LaunchBar, and NONE of it is "innovation from Microsoft".
QuickTime Broadcaster is more of an example app on how to use the Streaming Server. For any serious streams, you will end up wanting to use something more professional (and not free) anyway.
The point of OS X Server is that it adds a beautifully-done GUI to typical Unix services out there. The "if you don't need AFS" argument doesn't count; might as well get Darwin then which has the very same AFS Server.
- Konfabulator: You may have a point there; the concepts are similar, and even the coding style is almost the same.
- LaunchBar: Has got *nothing* to do whatsoever with Spotlight. LaunchBar is a launcher for applications, address book entries, etc. Spotlight is a file metadata indexing and searching tool, like "SmartQueries" in BeOS or somewhat similar to "WinFS" in Longhorn.
- NetNewsWire: as the author of it pointed out, he sees Safari RSS as an *opportunity* for RSS application developers, as it will further spread the message of RSS.
- Watson: my opinion on this has always been that doing that was the next obvious step after Sherlock 2.
Remember that this is a developer conference. Apple wants developers to pick up the new APIs early. That's why they've been given lots of SDKs - for.mac sync'ing, for CoreImage, for CoreVideo, for Dashboard, for Spotlight plug-ins,...
As the Apple *wired* Keyboard and Mouse work just fine with most USB-supporting operating systems (the Apple button gets turned into a Windows button, etc.) without any need for additional drivers, I doubt it'd be different for the Bluetooth versions.
On the other hands, the FireWire iSight does currently, AFAIK, *not* work with other operating systems.
Carbon, however, will never be deployed on other platforms. It's a horrible, messy kludge composed of about 15 years of Macintosh API evolution plus the necessary changes to make it work on OS X. There's nothing about it that's appealing from a "beginning to code for" standpoint... it's just there for transition.
Except for single applications like QuickTime Player for Windows and iTunes for Windows, which *do* essentially contain large chunks of Carbon.
iTunes 4.5 and QuickTime 6.5.1 haven't been put on the Software Update servers yet because the actual announcement has yet to take place (probably in an hour or so, I don't remember).
iChat doesn't litereally *require* a restart. It's just recommended. You can skip it by force quitting SoftwareUpdate. Things *might* go wrong but they probably will *not*.
The reason Apple recommends a restart is that the private "InstantMessaging" framework - the backend of iChat, which Mail.app and others use as well - gets updated, and it can obviously cause instabilities to do so while the apps continue to run. Just like your OS *might* crash if stuff close to the kernel gets replaced;-)
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It's been a while but unless I'm mistaken, it was never possible to post to BugZilla without an account.
;-) I agree with your point that they should fix it.
And I use a special account for Apple.com e-mail and haven't gotten a *single* unsolicited e-mail message from them (or anyone else, to that account) in years...
But I don't want to needlessly rehash this discussion
You do realize that ADC membership is free, unless you want to participate in advanced programs such as seeding?
Also, OS X moved to CUPS about 18 months ago, so how could it have been "years ago"?
1) Tiger includes a new indexing daemon, "mds", for this purpose.
2) The daemon only becomes active when it notices that files have changed. The performance loss is minimal.
3) Applications obviously need to make use of the provided APIs. That's what they're for.
1) Tiger won't be out until spring 2005.
2) Safari 1.3 and Xcode 1.5 will make it to Panther, and Panther will receive at least one more point release (10.3.5). Safari 2.0 and Xcode 2.0 will be Tiger-only, however, as they make use of updated frameworks.
3) If you don't see why you need to upgrade, then just don't - 10.3 will continue to work fine and they will continue to supply you with security fixes.
Well, as you figured out yourself, Smart Folders are just dynamic search queries. The e-mail physically remains at the same place. Think of Smart Folders as a way to store search queries that you do frequently.
Try hitting "F12". To change the shortcut, go to the Expose prefs.
And Flash for Linux works on ppc *how*?
"Tell me a way, I buy it right now."
:-)
Well, surely you know someone from a country they *do* ship to. Have him or her buy it for you, and ship it to you.
Well, if you want to do illegal, at least do it the right way and get Acquisition, Shareaza or the likes.
allofmp3.com songs are *not* legal under European or American terms, just under Russian terms.
Did you try at all to fill out their sales form at http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=shop_contact ?
"Until now, Rendezvous meant "OS X only""
Not true. Apple's Rendezvous has been partially released for non-Mac OS X platforms since late 2002, actually.
In addition, several projects such as Howl have been working on a cross-platform implementation that does not rely on any Apple code.
Finally, as all of Rendezvous is a set of IETF standards known as "ZeroConf", nothing ever stopped people from making Rendezvous-compatible implementations... Apple was simply the first to make it public and use it well.
And yes, Hydra (SubEthaEdit) rockz.
Rendezvous is three things:
- automatic link-local IP addressing for cases where DHCP fails (like APIPA)
- multicast DNS for announcing device names (.local domain)
- service announcements and discovery via DNS-SD
Mac OS X also supported SLP, but Rendezvous / ZeroConf is clearly the more comprehensive technology, as several projects (such as GNOME) are actually moving *over*.
Agreed. As to NetNewsWire, the complaint is even more ridiculous considering the response of the developer to Safari RSS: http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2872 - where he even *praises* Apple for doing this, with the reasoning that this will spread the message of RSS.
I'd also like to add on "It's more like stealing from Longhorn than it is stealing from LaunchBar." that Longhorn (or Microsoft, for that matter) was hardly the first project / company to figure this idea out. BeOS had most of this long ago with Smart Queries. The GNOME project has been thinking about this with GNOME Storage. Apple has had patents on things like this since the Copland project of the early 90s. NONE of that has anything to do with LaunchBar, and NONE of it is "innovation from Microsoft".
QuickTime Broadcaster is more of an example app on how to use the Streaming Server. For any serious streams, you will end up wanting to use something more professional (and not free) anyway.
Apple don't really advertise their OS.
The point of OS X Server is that it adds a beautifully-done GUI to typical Unix services out there. The "if you don't need AFS" argument doesn't count; might as well get Darwin then which has the very same AFS Server.
- Konfabulator: You may have a point there; the concepts are similar, and even the coding style is almost the same.
- LaunchBar: Has got *nothing* to do whatsoever with Spotlight. LaunchBar is a launcher for applications, address book entries, etc. Spotlight is a file metadata indexing and searching tool, like "SmartQueries" in BeOS or somewhat similar to "WinFS" in Longhorn.
- NetNewsWire: as the author of it pointed out, he sees Safari RSS as an *opportunity* for RSS application developers, as it will further spread the message of RSS.
- Watson: my opinion on this has always been that doing that was the next obvious step after Sherlock 2.
Remember that this is a developer conference. Apple wants developers to pick up the new APIs early. That's why they've been given lots of SDKs - for .mac sync'ing, for CoreImage, for CoreVideo, for Dashboard, for Spotlight plug-ins, ...
No, it's not. Instead, OS X has FreeBSD's "ipfw".
As the Apple *wired* Keyboard and Mouse work just fine with most USB-supporting operating systems (the Apple button gets turned into a Windows button, etc.) without any need for additional drivers, I doubt it'd be different for the Bluetooth versions.
On the other hands, the FireWire iSight does currently, AFAIK, *not* work with other operating systems.
Winamp 5 was *not* able to decode iTunes AACs until I manually installed a plug-in from http://www.audiocoding.com/ .
Maybe it only supports MPEG-2 AACs?
Carbon, however, will never be deployed on other platforms. It's a horrible, messy kludge composed of about 15 years of Macintosh API evolution plus the necessary changes to make it work on OS X. There's nothing about it that's appealing from a "beginning to code for" standpoint... it's just there for transition.
Except for single applications like QuickTime Player for Windows and iTunes for Windows, which *do* essentially contain large chunks of Carbon.
iTunes 4.5 and QuickTime 6.5.1 haven't been put on the Software Update servers yet because the actual announcement has yet to take place (probably in an hour or so, I don't remember).
Wait, what's XML-ey about Apple's Address Book? The internal format is binary; vCard is a plaintext format.
As to dialing, you can if your cellphone does Bluetooth...
iChat doesn't litereally *require* a restart. It's just recommended. You can skip it by force quitting SoftwareUpdate. Things *might* go wrong but they probably will *not*.
;-)
The reason Apple recommends a restart is that the private "InstantMessaging" framework - the backend of iChat, which Mail.app and others use as well - gets updated, and it can obviously cause instabilities to do so while the apps continue to run. Just like your OS *might* crash if stuff close to the kernel gets replaced