Re:Simple Actions macros -- Applescript
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Photoshop 6 is Applescriptable. Take a look at Apple's Applescript page for examples.
Re:Graphics apps on the Mac -- Great App!
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This is one of the nicest apps I've ever used!
It will read and write just about anything, Handles most batch processing tasks from it's "convert" option, and now supports Applescript which should allow users to further automate their work...
This isn't like hopping ports, which theoretically might be able to do the same thing.. You're hopping IP's which means that the DNS server needs to know where the hell you are. If the DNS server knows where you are, then what's stopping me from querying the DNS server to find you?? I like the idea of hopping ports every few seconds, and firing encrypted packets that contain the next port, or a random seed included with the original request that defines the jump sequence...
Re:You Linux-loving morons, here's some reality
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You don't need to write cross-platform apps! You can write anything you want.. If it's any good it'll end up being copied! So why not do it right in the first place..
Hemp has 4 times the cellulose of corn and can make 4 times as much ethanol/methanol as corn. Corn ethanol would cost about $2.50/gal, I believe. 2.50/4 = $.625. So if we could legalize hemp, the gas "crisis" would be over, although people who buy the Excursion, which gets 3 mpg city/8mpg highway, write in letters to newspapers complaining about how they have no money.
Just a couple questions:
How many square acres of land is suitable, within the US, for corn/hemp production?
What percentage of that land area is needed to satisfy the food requirements of the population?
What is the energy density of corn/hemp ethanol/methanol in comparison to gasoline?
How many gallons of gasoline are consumed on an annual basis in the US?
How much energy is required to extract ethanol/methanol from corn/hemp in comparison to the refinig of oil to obtain gasoline?
I don't know how the numbers would work out here, but I'm really tired of hearing wild speculation about energy alternatives without any discussion of feasibility.. Answer these questions, crunch through the numbers, and if it works out that hemp could be used as a replacement to oil then I'd recommend buying some land and sending a plan to Bush.. If he's got a brain in his skull he'll sell the oil rigs, buy farmland and push to get the legislation through congress..
I don't think the iDVD software works with any other drive. Which, unfortunately, ties in with the other point of too many competing DVD standards that are going to kill each other off.
I'm not so sure this is a competing standards problem. I'm betting that Apple has only included drivers for the superdrive, because that's the only drive they sell. I'll bet Apple would be willing to work with Lacie, QPS, etc. to get iDVD working on those also.. Keep in mind that Disk Burner only works (as shipped) with the CD-R drives that Apple ships. However, if you install Toast on you machine, Disk Burner can write to any CD-R that Toast supports.
School's probably out, and this story may very well have been submitted by a grad student who was looking for a quick way to stress test the server.. Then again this is pretty good advertising.. Hmm, come to think of it, maybe I should post the link to a little project OS some friends and I have been toying around with for the last few months: PorthOS!.. Nah, you guys just aren't ready for this quite yet..
*Nothing* is secure out of the box. This deserves repeating. *Nothing* is secure out of the box. Really. Good security requires tweaking the system -- any system -- for your particular situation.
There aren't any services turned on, including File sharing over tcp/ip, by default!
There's a big difference between Apple's inclusion of Quicktime, iTunes, iMovie, SimpleText, DVD Player, Disc Burner, Mail, Stuff-it, Script Editor, etc. and Microsoft's integration of IE into Windows 98!!
I can turn off or throw out every single app mentioned above, and my Mac will happily start up.. I suggest you make up a new extension set, and see just how minimal you can go..
Quicktime is interesting, because a lot of applications rely on it's availablity. For example: iCab uses Quicktime handle images, iTunes uses the MP3 decoder included in the Quicktime API to play music, and even SimpleText allows you open movie clips.. But if you don't like it and want to get rid of Quicktime, it's not an essential to the OS.. Drag it to the trash, then open up extensions manager, and turn off the Quicktime extensions! Done!
If you want to see an example of just how slim the Mac OS can get, take a look at the Mac OS 9.1 system CD. The system folder on there is under 30MB (including Quicktime so that it can display the desktop picture), but very few other frills..
Note: Disk Burner actually uses Toast to access interact with unsupported CD-Rs or CD-Rs sitting SCSI drives.
Uhm.. You can already smack the compress attribute for any folder and navigate that compressed archive seemlessly, in NT 4.0 and newer.
As for browsing zipped archives, Aladdin's stuff-it deluxe has been doing this on the Mac for years, and it's far more seemless than WinZip's implementation.
I heard a couple years ago that NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) was working on amourphous silca (photovoltaic) shingles that were tied together electrically by nailing through a copper band on the underside of the shingle. The idea was that you'd just reshingle every house in America with these things.. I don't know exactly what happened with that project..
Most laptops weigh about twice this much! The exception are the ultralight notebooks, that are generally little more than puffed up PDAs. (which is really about all most of us really need, but that's another issue..)
DARPA has been funding a lot of research over the last few years with the hope of finding a viable power source for their urban soldier armored suits (among other projects)... I'd be surprised if this didn't spin out of some of that.
54.7W? Damn! I remember hearing that these things were going to be hot, and I've joked with the guy with the Athlon cluster up stairs that he better not fall asleep with the door to his office closed, or he'll cook, but Damn!
As a point of reference, take a look at page 5 of 6 of this PDF document from Motorola:
PowerPC MPC7450 @ 733MHz (Full-on Mode)
Typical : 20.8 W
Maximum (w/o Altivec): 22.0 W
Maximum (w/Altivec): 26.0 W
However if people are already used to the MP3 scene and have invested lots of time creating a collection (and buying portable mp3 players) then this tactic may not work as expected. If Microsoft did start messing with third party software then I would expect that antitrust lawyers would have a field day.
Microsoft doesn't need to mess with third party porducts! All they need to do is make it extremely easy (one click of the mouse) to convert the user's mp3 collection into a windows format. If the media player, can rip songs into the windows media format AND convert high quality MP3s into that same format, without loss of quality, then Microsoft will get their format adopted by the masses without having to mess with any of the third party apps.
They might as well do it right.. There's an article on the National Instruments page (it's a customer application of they're using to promote their product) about the Redwood City Police, using a network fo microphones to to sense and triangulate the location of gun fire in the city.. the Link is here
If we're going to have cameras installed in the cities, then they should be linked to accoustic, air velocity, air chemistry, and IR sensors. Give each camera enough memory to buffer 15 seconds of video (~450 images), and use the combined sensory infomation to monitor the urban areas for gun shots, chemical agents, and fires.. When any of these sensors are triggered, extra-sensory information can be used to triangulate the area of interest, and the video from those cameras can be then be studied..
Of course this is also has the benefit of providing on-line SMOG, and traffic monitoring..
I've seen hundreds of codes, not much more complex than Hello World, that ran great, but did't achieve the correct solution due to a mistake made when formulating the problem.. In other words, the Bug in the V-22 code may simply have been an improperly computed gain setting. Something that the engineers, and not coders, were responsible for..
Uhm.. It works great on my Lombard g3/400, and the Lombard g3/333 in the office next door.. If I had to make a suggestion, I would tell you to pass DiskWarrior over everything before (make sure the directory structure is correct first), and after (clean up the diretory structure after the OS X install stomps all over it) the install..
Good luck!
I agree that Apple has sort of left Lombard and Wallstreet users out in the cold, but that could be said for beige and b&w G3 desktop users as well..
802.11b also has other problems. Most 802.11b client antenae are huge (the one on my Dell laptop bulges a good inch out the side, presumably to cut down on radio interference).
This will get better as companies start integrating 802.11 electronics into their products. The entire Apple product line is now capable of accepting an 802.11 airport card which uses antenae integrated into the design of the machine. Note: the tiBook apparently is having some problems with the metal case interfering with the range.. The point is, that while 802.11 has some problems, they're being worked on, and getting better.
OSX runs the BSD kernel. The distinction between it and freeBSD is like the distinction between Debian and Mandrake.
Nope.. Mac OS X runs on top of a Mach kernel, not a BSD kernel.. Darwin is the underbelly of OS X (with the Aqua display manager upstairs) and the "BSD" equivilent to mkLinux (initially supported by Apple)..
Second, When was the last time a copy of Red Hat, Suse, Debian, shipped with a DVD-R app? If you want to burn a DVD-R you'll have to wait a couple months, big flippin' deal.. This is not an OS level concern. It's an application level concern.. Who do you work for? Microsoft?.. There's a difference between applications, and the OS. I thought atleast this crowd would understand that..
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There are a few efforts underway to reduce fuel consumption..
Here's a link: http://www.clarkson.edu/~visser/research/drag/truc k/index.html to a NY State funded project to do just that. Initial results from a cross-country test suggest that a 1/2mpg savings on a truck that burns 5mpg normally.
Photoshop 6 is Applescriptable. Take a look at Apple's Applescript page for examples.
This is one of the nicest apps I've ever used!
It will read and write just about anything, Handles most batch processing tasks from it's "convert" option, and now supports Applescript which should allow users to further automate their work...
I'm curious does technological literacy mean web surfing? Or does it do deeper into things like ftp, finger, Ssh, etc?
What kind of question is that, eh?
Damn, it's good to know that I'm not the only one out there worried that a angry hoard of nymphomaniacs are going to attack me..
Good question!..
This isn't like hopping ports, which theoretically might be able to do the same thing.. You're hopping IP's which means that the DNS server needs to know where the hell you are. If the DNS server knows where you are, then what's stopping me from querying the DNS server to find you?? I like the idea of hopping ports every few seconds, and firing encrypted packets that contain the next port, or a random seed included with the original request that defines the jump sequence...
You don't need to write cross-platform apps! You can write anything you want.. If it's any good it'll end up being copied! So why not do it right in the first place..
Hemp has 4 times the cellulose of corn and can make 4 times as much ethanol/methanol as corn. Corn ethanol would cost about $2.50/gal, I believe. 2.50/4 = $.625. So if we could legalize hemp, the gas "crisis" would be over, although people who buy the Excursion, which gets 3 mpg city/8mpg highway, write in letters to newspapers complaining about how they have no money.
Just a couple questions:
- How many square acres of land is suitable, within the US, for corn/hemp production?
- What percentage of that land area is needed to satisfy the food requirements of the population?
- What is the energy density of corn/hemp ethanol/methanol in comparison to gasoline?
- How many gallons of gasoline are consumed on an annual basis in the US?
- How much energy is required to extract ethanol/methanol from corn/hemp in comparison to the refinig of oil to obtain gasoline?
I don't know how the numbers would work out here, but I'm really tired of hearing wild speculation about energy alternatives without any discussion of feasibility.. Answer these questions, crunch through the numbers, and if it works out that hemp could be used as a replacement to oil then I'd recommend buying some land and sending a plan to Bush.. If he's got a brain in his skull he'll sell the oil rigs, buy farmland and push to get the legislation through congress..I don't think the iDVD software works with any other drive. Which, unfortunately, ties in with the other point of too many competing DVD standards that are going to kill each other off.
I'm not so sure this is a competing standards problem. I'm betting that Apple has only included drivers for the superdrive, because that's the only drive they sell. I'll bet Apple would be willing to work with Lacie, QPS, etc. to get iDVD working on those also.. Keep in mind that Disk Burner only works (as shipped) with the CD-R drives that Apple ships. However, if you install Toast on you machine, Disk Burner can write to any CD-R that Toast supports.
School's probably out, and this story may very well have been submitted by a grad student who was looking for a quick way to stress test the server.. Then again this is pretty good advertising.. Hmm, come to think of it, maybe I should post the link to a little project OS some friends and I have been toying around with for the last few months: PorthOS!.. Nah, you guys just aren't ready for this quite yet..
*Nothing* is secure out of the box. This deserves repeating. *Nothing* is secure out of the box. Really. Good security requires tweaking the system -- any system -- for your particular situation.
There aren't any services turned on, including File sharing over tcp/ip, by default!
There's a big difference between Apple's inclusion of Quicktime, iTunes, iMovie, SimpleText, DVD Player, Disc Burner, Mail, Stuff-it, Script Editor, etc. and Microsoft's integration of IE into Windows 98!!
I can turn off or throw out every single app mentioned above, and my Mac will happily start up.. I suggest you make up a new extension set, and see just how minimal you can go..
Quicktime is interesting, because a lot of applications rely on it's availablity. For example: iCab uses Quicktime handle images, iTunes uses the MP3 decoder included in the Quicktime API to play music, and even SimpleText allows you open movie clips.. But if you don't like it and want to get rid of Quicktime, it's not an essential to the OS.. Drag it to the trash, then open up extensions manager, and turn off the Quicktime extensions! Done!
If you want to see an example of just how slim the Mac OS can get, take a look at the Mac OS 9.1 system CD. The system folder on there is under 30MB (including Quicktime so that it can display the desktop picture), but very few other frills..
Note: Disk Burner actually uses Toast to access interact with unsupported CD-Rs or CD-Rs sitting SCSI drives.
Uhm.. You can already smack the compress attribute for any folder and navigate that compressed archive seemlessly, in NT 4.0 and newer.
As for browsing zipped archives, Aladdin's stuff-it deluxe has been doing this on the Mac for years, and it's far more seemless than WinZip's implementation.
I heard a couple years ago that NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) was working on amourphous silca (photovoltaic) shingles that were tied together electrically by nailing through a copper band on the underside of the shingle. The idea was that you'd just reshingle every house in America with these things.. I don't know exactly what happened with that project..
Most laptops weigh about twice this much! The exception are the ultralight notebooks, that are generally little more than puffed up PDAs. (which is really about all most of us really need, but that's another issue..)
DARPA has been funding a lot of research over the last few years with the hope of finding a viable power source for their urban soldier armored suits (among other projects)... I'd be surprised if this didn't spin out of some of that.
54.7W? Damn! I remember hearing that these things were going to be hot, and I've joked with the guy with the Athlon cluster up stairs that he better not fall asleep with the door to his office closed, or he'll cook, but Damn!
As a point of reference, take a look at page 5 of 6 of this PDF document from Motorola:
PowerPC MPC7450 @ 733MHz (Full-on Mode)
Typical : 20.8 W
Maximum (w/o Altivec): 22.0 W
Maximum (w/Altivec): 26.0 W
However if people are already used to the MP3 scene and have invested lots of time creating a collection (and buying portable mp3 players) then this tactic may not work as expected. If Microsoft did start messing with third party software then I would expect that antitrust lawyers would have a field day.
Microsoft doesn't need to mess with third party porducts! All they need to do is make it extremely easy (one click of the mouse) to convert the user's mp3 collection into a windows format. If the media player, can rip songs into the windows media format AND convert high quality MP3s into that same format, without loss of quality, then Microsoft will get their format adopted by the masses without having to mess with any of the third party apps.
They might as well do it right.. There's an article on the National Instruments page (it's a customer application of they're using to promote their product) about the Redwood City Police, using a network fo microphones to to sense and triangulate the location of gun fire in the city.. the Link is here
If we're going to have cameras installed in the cities, then they should be linked to accoustic, air velocity, air chemistry, and IR sensors. Give each camera enough memory to buffer 15 seconds of video (~450 images), and use the combined sensory infomation to monitor the urban areas for gun shots, chemical agents, and fires.. When any of these sensors are triggered, extra-sensory information can be used to triangulate the area of interest, and the video from those cameras can be then be studied..
Of course this is also has the benefit of providing on-line SMOG, and traffic monitoring..
I've seen hundreds of codes, not much more complex than Hello World, that ran great, but did't achieve the correct solution due to a mistake made when formulating the problem.. In other words, the Bug in the V-22 code may simply have been an improperly computed gain setting. Something that the engineers, and not coders, were responsible for..
It won't even run on my G3 Lombard Powerbook.
Uhm.. It works great on my Lombard g3/400, and the Lombard g3/333 in the office next door.. If I had to make a suggestion, I would tell you to pass DiskWarrior over everything before (make sure the directory structure is correct first), and after (clean up the diretory structure after the OS X install stomps all over it) the install..
Good luck!
I agree that Apple has sort of left Lombard and Wallstreet users out in the cold, but that could be said for beige and b&w G3 desktop users as well..
802.11b also has other problems. Most 802.11b client antenae are huge (the one on my Dell laptop bulges a good inch out the side, presumably to cut down on radio interference).
This will get better as companies start integrating 802.11 electronics into their products. The entire Apple product line is now capable of accepting an 802.11 airport card which uses antenae integrated into the design of the machine. Note: the tiBook apparently is having some problems with the metal case interfering with the range.. The point is, that while 802.11 has some problems, they're being worked on, and getting better.
-Ellen (Posting anonymously to preserve my precious reputation as an objective Slashdot admin.)
Uhm.. Ellen? I think you forgot to check the little 'Post Anonymously' box, before smakcin' the submit button.. better luck next time.
OSX runs the BSD kernel. The distinction between it and freeBSD is like the distinction between Debian and Mandrake.
Nope.. Mac OS X runs on top of a Mach kernel, not a BSD kernel.. Darwin is the underbelly of OS X (with the Aqua display manager upstairs) and the "BSD" equivilent to mkLinux (initially supported by Apple)..
I use iCab to knock out 90% of the banners found at the top of sites like /.
First, classic mode works pretty damn well..
Second, When was the last time a copy of Red Hat, Suse, Debian, shipped with a DVD-R app? If you want to burn a DVD-R you'll have to wait a couple months, big flippin' deal.. This is not an OS level concern. It's an application level concern.. Who do you work for? Microsoft?.. There's a difference between applications, and the OS. I thought atleast this crowd would understand that..