If you look at any Finder window, you have a bar on the left hand side. If you right-click on the iDisk icon, you get a pulldown menu with the Eject option...
At least this works for my own iDisk on my own Mac.
If you don't see the bar on the left, you should activate it with the tiny rounded-rectangle button on the upper right of the Finder window.
Updates by default are not automatic. You will be prompted to accept them or not. Also, "restart" updates (about 50% or less) are marked so. See under "System Preferences"->"Software Update"
You can manually start an update: [Apple-Menu]->Software Update
To see which updates have been installed, open/Applications/Utilities/Console, and look under Logs->Software Update.log
In some cases, you can re-install an update by
1) removing the corresponding "package" at/Library/Receipts/
2) running Software Update again, which should list the offending/removed update.
I use plain rsync from the std installation, without the -E option. On the Xserve at work I only backup ASCII text files, so it doesn't matter. However, even on my home Macs it looks like all types of files I tried, backed up with rsync sans resource fork, can be recovered. These include Photoshop, AppleWorks, Office, etc.
Am I being over-confident?
Using the -E option with "Apple's" rsync is a bit of a pain because the resource fork dates change all the time even if the file is not accessed.
You can have all of it. I use Mac OS, X11 and FVWM all at the same time on my Mac. I do think KDE and GNOME are a waste of time and effort, though. I only use FVWM on my Linux laptop as well.
It's diffucult to find hard facts, but it looks like Codewarrior is not going to be developed any further for the intel Macs (i.e. for the Mac tout cour). The last version is 10.
So you are stuck with the free Apple development tools. Should you wish to spend money as a developer, you can always join the Apple Developer Connection as a Select or Premier member.
The reason this is bad news for education in Europe, particularly Switzerland and France
We are doing just fine here, thank you very much.
You can play whatever you want on the iPod.
Mac OS X is *nix. There is a good implemetation of X11 out of the box. You get Perl, Python, Apache, MySQL, etc. out of the box (no need to install Cygwin). With the native GUI applications you get, again out of the box, you can do pretty much anything you want. I can't think of a better system for Education.
On a Mac you can still install Linux, as in the past. On the intel Macs, there is a good change you will be able to install Windows too, which was not possible in the Hypercard days you cherish so much.
Why do you want to have a range of mediocre choices when you can have one good system?
Far from it, I was deeply moved by Steve's speech, *and* your experience, and I thank you for sharing it.
And even if a single life if saved... but that may sound like a cliche' by now.
By the way, now that I have a little more time to write without hopefully running the risk of sounding sarcastic...
We should consider that Bill Gates is by-and-large a retired gentleman, by now. By contrast, Steve Jobs is running Apple hands-on, was running Pixar until now, and may be busy with Disney soon. While he may or may not donate to charity anonimously, certainly he has no time to play the big-time philanthropist at Davos and what not, as Gates does. And if Steve does find the time to give a speech that helps people getting on with their lives, that's even more remarkable.
Just go download the Windows Remote Desktop Connector and get cooking
I use RDC on my Mac to access a W2K server that has Terminal Services ON -- but wasn't set up by me. Would you know how to set up Terminal Services on a PC running W2K Professional? Thanks!
But its [sic] slow, the gui can't do half of what KDE/Gnome can do, and all my apps are X11 apps so it doesn't really make sense to run an Xserver over the top of a GUI system and then put another one on top of that......
OSX is good, but only if you use it like a mac...
If find Apple's X11 to be quite comparable with "native" varieties on PPC or x86. X11 used to be awful on a Mac until Apple got things goings. Similar story as with the Safari browser. I use production X11 apps on Linux and OS X, so I should be able to tell.
Granted, I would like to run KDE *with* Apple's X11, to have a more comparable environment with my Linux installation (indeed to ease the transition *away* from Linux).
Linux however is still IMHO better as a server platform because it enables you to cut out all the crap that goes with the OSX gui. Its much easier to set-up , configure and run in headless operation. Its easier to patch and keep up to date. OSX can be more expensive to keep running if you manage to get yourself into the upgrade cycle.
I beg to differ. I run my Xserves mostly from the network through my Linux box. In my experience OS X is *way* easier to setup, patch, keep up to date -- on desktops and servers -- than Linux. If you have OS X Server (bundled with any Xserve) you can setup and upgrade any number of servers/desktops with GUI from a head node. For grid computing, the scheduling software from Apple (Xgrid) is free, easy to install and use, and will be built in the next OS version.
Regards from a humble research scientist working with Linux and OS X, and wishing to be able to get rid of the former to concentrate more on the research.
Looking at my Xserve, it's hard to imagine how the OS could fail to control the heat. There are temperature sensors everywhere. I can check the temperature at various points inside the enclosure, e.g. at the CPU, at the DIMMs, etc., and get a numeric and graphic report from a software application. On the other hand, when the OS doesn't load, as it happened once, the fans start spinning full blast automatically.
Assuming a desktop G5 has similar heat controls, I would think that
1) the OS can control very well the heat, if it's working and properly designed
2) in case of outright failure -- or under well-designed error traps -- the fans will kick in and save the day.
If it's like the Xserve, in the absense of OS control, the fans will run at full blast (as mentioned by the previous poster). This is unbearably loud in the case of the Xserve, as I have experienced. It's probably bad for the fans, which will eventually fail. So if the analogy with the Xserve holds, you better not do it. You can try for fun for a few minute.
It's an obvious combination for somebody who prefers PPC architecture to Pentium, but doesn't want to deal with MacOS. Mac diehards would never concede that anybody can design a user interface better than Apple -- but some of us are thoroughly adjusted to an X- or Windows-style user interface, and don't find it worthwhile to retrain ourselves.
You can do many things with different architectures. It's a matter of cost/benefit. For me it's not worth putting up with the complexity of Linux installation/maintenace/upgrade, when I can run all the UNIX/X11 apps I need under OS X.
You may have other concerns and requirements. But if you can honesty say that running Linux on Apple hardware is better than on intel, then you have a winner.
Apple store is charging $1299 for the 20" monitor, but only $1899 for the iMac with the 20" monitor. Does that make sense to anyone?
Cinema Display Monitors are much better than the screeens found in the iMacs, for the same size. I am talking about current models of course, but I assume it will be the same for the upcoming ones. The viewing angle is much wider, the backlighting much more uniform, etc. iMac screens are essentially laptop screen.
Those Xserve bastards are so darn quiet, not to mention fast. If, as it seems, they are putting Xserve technology into an iMac, this may be a huge winner.
Indeed I was wondering why would Apple bother about noise for a server destined to be locked away in a climatized room. Now I can see the answer: optimize technology across the board so that both the high-end, low-volume and the low-end, high-volume products can benefit. If you can speak of low-end for Apple, that is.
The article is based on the false assumption that Apple is trying to protect
its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in itself. The idea is that the iTMS is an
as-yet-untapped, but in the future huge, source of revenues, hence Apple's
strong stance against Real. On the contrary, Apple sees no
opportunity in making money out of digital contents, be it music of software.
Its focus is on hardware and so has been for a while, to tell a long story
short. True, they make great software, but only to sell (great) hardware.
As far
as the iPod and Real are concerned, Apple wants to avoid, a) in the short term
that Real's or somebody else's software interferes with the iPod's workings, a
potential headache for Apple's customer support, and b) in the long term that
Real or a third party highjacks the iPod to foster the success of an alternative
to the iTMS, which in a second time -- and only then -- would turn customers
away from the iPod by promoting and supporting alternative players.
I have a few GBs of non-protected MP3s and ACCs on my iPod, and I play them all the time.
Not to mention MS Office viruses...
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My Virex found MS Office viruses hidden in ancient Word documents from the OS 7 era -- on an OS X computer. They were still able to damage Word X's menu layout. These viruses may originate on Windows, but affect both systems.
Incidentally, I posted this information some time back, and my post was branded "flamebait". Go figure...
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If you look at any Finder window, you have a bar on the left hand side. If you right-click on the iDisk icon, you get a pulldown menu with the Eject option...
At least this works for my own iDisk on my own Mac.
If you don't see the bar on the left, you should activate it with the tiny rounded-rectangle button on the upper right of the Finder window.
Updates by default are not automatic. You will be prompted to accept them or not. Also, "restart" updates (about 50% or less) are marked so. See under "System Preferences"->"Software Update"
/Applications/Utilities/Console, and look under Logs->Software Update.log
/Library/Receipts/
You can manually start an update: [Apple-Menu]->Software Update
To see which updates have been installed, open
In some cases, you can re-install an update by
1) removing the corresponding "package" at
2) running Software Update again, which should list the offending/removed update.
I use plain rsync from the std installation, without the -E option. On the Xserve at work I only backup ASCII text files, so it doesn't matter. However, even on my home Macs it looks like all types of files I tried, backed up with rsync sans resource fork, can be recovered. These include Photoshop, AppleWorks, Office, etc.
Am I being over-confident?
Using the -E option with "Apple's" rsync is a bit of a pain because the resource fork dates change all the time even if the file is not accessed.
You can have all of it. I use Mac OS, X11 and FVWM all at the same time on my Mac. I do think KDE and GNOME are a waste of time and effort, though. I only use FVWM on my Linux laptop as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_government
Yeah, I don't believe basic input devices will be a general problem in the PPC-intel transition. Some isolated glitches, maybe.
Mac OS X runs any 1- to 15-button mouse out-of-the-box. Laptops don't ship with mice anyway.
It's diffucult to find hard facts, but it looks like Codewarrior is not going to be developed any further for the intel Macs (i.e. for the Mac tout cour). The last version is 10.
So you are stuck with the free Apple development tools. Should you wish to spend money as a developer, you can always join the Apple Developer Connection as a Select or Premier member.
I don't see Switzerland being turned into a Stalinist dictatorship by Apple any time soon.
The reason this is bad news for education in Europe, particularly Switzerland and France
We are doing just fine here, thank you very much.
You can play whatever you want on the iPod.
Mac OS X is *nix. There is a good implemetation of X11 out of the box. You get Perl, Python, Apache, MySQL, etc. out of the box (no need to install Cygwin). With the native GUI applications you get, again out of the box, you can do pretty much anything you want. I can't think of a better system for Education.
On a Mac you can still install Linux, as in the past. On the intel Macs, there is a good change you will be able to install Windows too, which was not possible in the Hypercard days you cherish so much.
Why do you want to have a range of mediocre choices when you can have one good system?
I think you were trying to be sarcastic, right?
Far from it, I was deeply moved by Steve's speech, *and* your experience, and I thank you for sharing it.
And even if a single life if saved... but that may sound like a cliche' by now.
By the way, now that I have a little more time to write without hopefully running the risk of sounding sarcastic...
We should consider that Bill Gates is by-and-large a retired gentleman, by now. By contrast, Steve Jobs is running Apple hands-on, was running Pixar until now, and may be busy with Disney soon. While he may or may not donate to charity anonimously, certainly he has no time to play the big-time philanthropist at Davos and what not, as Gates does. And if Steve does find the time to give a speech that helps people getting on with their lives, that's even more remarkable.
Yes, that speech by Steve is worth a few billons given to charity.
[...]looks less like an Apple product and more like a laptop from a company that rhymes with "Hell"
The guy's got x-ray vision... he can see the intel, inside.
Just go download the Windows Remote Desktop Connector and get cooking
I use RDC on my Mac to access a W2K server that has Terminal Services ON -- but wasn't set up by me. Would you know how to set up Terminal Services on a PC running W2K Professional? Thanks!
But its [sic] slow, the gui can't do half of what KDE/Gnome can do, and all my apps are X11 apps so it doesn't really make sense to run an Xserver over the top of a GUI system and then put another one on top of that...... OSX is good, but only if you use it like a mac...
If find Apple's X11 to be quite comparable with "native" varieties on PPC or x86. X11 used to be awful on a Mac until Apple got things goings. Similar story as with the Safari browser. I use production X11 apps on Linux and OS X, so I should be able to tell.
Granted, I would like to run KDE *with* Apple's X11, to have a more comparable environment with my Linux installation (indeed to ease the transition *away* from Linux).
Linux however is still IMHO better as a server platform because it enables you to cut out all the crap that goes with the OSX gui. Its much easier to set-up , configure and run in headless operation. Its easier to patch and keep up to date. OSX can be more expensive to keep running if you manage to get yourself into the upgrade cycle.
I beg to differ. I run my Xserves mostly from the network through my Linux box. In my experience OS X is *way* easier to setup, patch, keep up to date -- on desktops and servers -- than Linux. If you have OS X Server (bundled with any Xserve) you can setup and upgrade any number of servers/desktops with GUI from a head node. For grid computing, the scheduling software from Apple (Xgrid) is free, easy to install and use, and will be built in the next OS version.
Regards from a humble research scientist working with Linux and OS X, and wishing to be able to get rid of the former to concentrate more on the research.
Looking at my Xserve, it's hard to imagine how the OS could fail to control the heat. There are temperature sensors everywhere. I can check the temperature at various points inside the enclosure, e.g. at the CPU, at the DIMMs, etc., and get a numeric and graphic report from a software application. On the other hand, when the OS doesn't load, as it happened once, the fans start spinning full blast automatically.
Assuming a desktop G5 has similar heat controls, I would think that
1) the OS can control very well the heat, if it's working and properly designed
2) in case of outright failure -- or under well-designed error traps -- the fans will kick in and save the day.
If it's like the Xserve, in the absense of OS control, the fans will run at full blast (as mentioned by the previous poster). This is unbearably loud in the case of the Xserve, as I have experienced. It's probably bad for the fans, which will eventually fail. So if the analogy with the Xserve holds, you better not do it. You can try for fun for a few minute.
It's an obvious combination for somebody who prefers PPC architecture to Pentium, but doesn't want to deal with MacOS. Mac diehards would never concede that anybody can design a user interface better than Apple -- but some of us are thoroughly adjusted to an X- or Windows-style user interface, and don't find it worthwhile to retrain ourselves.
You can do many things with different architectures. It's a matter of cost/benefit. For me it's not worth putting up with the complexity of Linux installation/maintenace/upgrade, when I can run all the UNIX/X11 apps I need under OS X.
You may have other concerns and requirements. But if you can honesty say that running Linux on Apple hardware is better than on intel, then you have a winner.
but some of us are thoroughly adjusted to an X- or Windows-style user interface
You can run X11, and KDE, etc. on Mac OS X no problem.
No, you can't run MS Windows on a Mac. But that really wouldn't make sense.
Apple store is charging $1299 for the 20" monitor, but only $1899 for the iMac with the 20" monitor. Does that make sense to anyone?
Cinema Display Monitors are much better than the screeens found in the iMacs, for the same size. I am talking about current models of course, but I assume it will be the same for the upcoming ones. The viewing angle is much wider, the backlighting much more uniform, etc. iMac screens are essentially laptop screen.
Amazing, even the blowers look the same!
Those Xserve bastards are so darn quiet, not to mention fast. If, as it seems, they are putting Xserve technology into an iMac, this may be a huge winner.
Indeed I was wondering why would Apple bother about noise for a server destined to be locked away in a climatized room. Now I can see the answer: optimize technology across the board so that both the high-end, low-volume and the low-end, high-volume products can benefit. If you can speak of low-end for Apple, that is.
Well, time to configure my cluster.
The article is based on the false assumption that Apple is trying to protect its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in itself. The idea is that the iTMS is an as-yet-untapped, but in the future huge, source of revenues, hence Apple's strong stance against Real. On the contrary, Apple sees no opportunity in making money out of digital contents, be it music of software. Its focus is on hardware and so has been for a while, to tell a long story short. True, they make great software, but only to sell (great) hardware.
As far as the iPod and Real are concerned, Apple wants to avoid, a) in the short term that Real's or somebody else's software interferes with the iPod's workings, a potential headache for Apple's customer support, and b) in the long term that Real or a third party highjacks the iPod to foster the success of an alternative to the iTMS, which in a second time -- and only then -- would turn customers away from the iPod by promoting and supporting alternative players.
I have a few GBs of non-protected MP3s and ACCs on my iPod, and I play them all the time.
My Virex found MS Office viruses hidden in ancient Word documents from the OS 7 era -- on an OS X computer. They were still able to damage Word X's menu layout. These viruses may originate on Windows, but affect both systems.
Incidentally, I posted this information some time back, and my post was branded "flamebait". Go figure...