Being one who works with PCs and Macs everyday as an IT job:
PPC Macs have the same quality as Intel Parts. Some models are good and some are total crap. A good example of a very crappy designed macintosh is a generation one imac. Tray loading thing that had all sorts of wierd problems.
Didn't electo shock therapy work for depression as well? It did not work for other "disorders", but I took an adormal psycology class and it was know to cure Dipression in certain instances. Of course, it has some real negatives like killing brain cells, etc. I don't know if this is related but it sounds similar.
-R
I added one more step to this hosts fix: add an apache web server that only allows connections from local host. This will keep sites that have links embeded to be able to load. Then when something is referred to 127.0.0.1 it has "something" to load. If you are really crafty you can set up a squid proxie on one machine in the household and point everything to that.
-R
I think a lot of companies are using OSS as free development; if this really works or not I don't know (most of the developers are the companies own). To a large corporation such as Apple Computer, free development is the holy grail because of high production costs, once they are done with that (base development) what do they need OSS for?
I am sure 20 slashdot users will say STFU troll but doesn't Wine http://www.winehq.org/ run photoshop? I have been using wine a lot lately and most programs that I don't have windows versions for started really running well with current wine versions 9.5+. I have not tried photoshop in wine, but I would be really suprised if it did not run.
I use Mac OSX, Windows and Linux everyday -- I have to support Mac and Windows users everyday at my job and I sure as hell would be happier if I could have both OSes on one computer that I could take with me without all the KVM bullshit,emulators or a multitude machines.
Apple has had a many chances since 1978-79 to take over the market with either better interfaces,better machines, or better ways of doing things, but always manage to "fuck it up" because of either arrogance of Macintosh users or Apple's own "I want to controll everything attitude".
Why not help the community by helping Apple embrace more openess; please make it easier to install what we want, when we want, on our computers. Anything else is just crap. TPM, EFI with no backward compatibility modes, shame on Apple.
Take a MOS 6510 core on 65nm process and pump up the Mhz. Add some 32bit instructions and build a modern C64 with a modern chipset and PCI bus. It could be done, and I think it would be interesting because Commodore never really made processor updates to the C64 or increased it's ram (unless you count the commodore 128). It would be completely impractical and useless, but it would have a very high cool factor.
-R
I work with many new users on Windows. They see a popup or an advertisment for "antispyware" software or "antivirus"; they click on it and install it because they read articles about "not having spyware protection", so then they install the software thinking they are doing the right thing. Then they start getting tones of spyware on their machines; it just happens to be that the "antispyware" software they installed is a trojan horse. So then I have to use real antispyware software such as adawareSE or Microsoft Antispyware to remove the other "antispyware" software. Sometimes I have to even use regedit to remove many keys within the registry. Deleting run key entries and removing installed services. Sometimes it even requires a boot disk to remove the really nasty ones. New users do not know good security from bad -- Firewall and antispyware protection programs can be the modern vehicle for a good trojan horse. What happened to the good 'ole days of the boot block virus? I just recommend to many new users that they don't install anything from the internet, and avoid outlook and IE.
-R
They only have to pay indian workers 1/5 that the rest of the devoloping world has to pay for computer science people. Senior developers only getting 10 - 14 dollars an hour. 3000 developers cost the same as 400 or 500 workers would cost in Europe or U.S; I don't understand how this is a good thing for india. They are still being underpaid by the rest of the world standards.
Also, It has nothing to do with _how_ _much_ they can underpay indian workers and get away with it. I am sure this is the motive for india investment more than anything else.
1997 - http://www.sigpc.net/v1/n7.htm
Office for Java never got beyond alpha; what happened to it? Isn't this what people want to do? How come people think these ideas are new when Corel and Microsoft activly developed software for Java and never created finished products?
-R
They can improve on perfection; they can fix the f***ing finder! People rag on linux and windows all the time, but the mac has a lot of crappy sh** that gets passed off because the mac is so cool. I like Macintosh computers and use one all the time. Please people quit kissing Apple's ass! I always wonder reading Slashdot if it is not Apple's marketing team posting here!
Examples of finder problems:
I love when you go to open a network drive and you get the spinning candy colored wheel and can't do anything else. Sometimes the finder will get frozen.
Also, any network based application that crashes in osx when accessing network resources results in the finder being unusable, even a bad disk such as a cdrom can cause this sort of thing. Then you have to reboot many times. I had typed up a paper and was going to save it and had the finder give me the nice spinning candy ball. Sitting forever. I had to then give it the ctrl-apple-option-esc after about 20 minutes, loosing all my work. Now some people would say that is not a "crash" or a BSOD. I disagree... It is just as bad.
I also love how cut and paste does not always work from application to application within the finder. I tried to cut and paste from a terminal session to Apple Works and it would not let me. I tried to cut from Internet Explorer to Safari and the same thing happend. Sometimes it works fine to cut and paste and sometimes it won't.
Also, the control or right-click context menus are not always consistant and the dock has a tendancy to get in the way of applications even when it is in hide mode. The UI can be confusing to new users because on the mac many people don't relize that often you need to do a close of the application instead of just click an X. And sometimes clicking an X closes the Applications. This gets confusing when you have a lot of applications open, and even causes me some problems at times. It shows lack of consistancy and some poor design. Classic mode applications can sometimes cause the finder to hang with the spinning ball as well and many carbon lib based applications have poor placement on the screen (don't work well with the doc) and get in the way.
If you think this is only my opinion you should read the internet. Here is a good one:
Of course all these bugs seem to be related to the finder and are directly caused by the UI. I would think after 5 years apple would fix them because they have been there since 10.0 and still seem to be there in 10.4.
With all that said the underlying system is very stable and even with the finder unusable at times shell scripts and unix related stuff seems to never have problems. Which tells me it is all the Finder and they should fix it.
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 were the two most pirated oses ever. All it did was make microsoft a monopoly.
I love the easy to crack Windows 95A key:
1234-12345 (hmmm... I wonder if this was on purpose to kill OS2)
People are more likely to buy apple if they see apple in the houses of others. People that try a cracked copy of Mac OS (if they like it) are much more likely to buy an intel based mac. The fact that they would try beta cracked copies shows they are interested in it. I am suprised it took apple this long to switch to intel. It increases the over all use. I don't even know why apple even spends the money on puting any kind of protection on it--they should let people have at it; just don't support anything except apple computers.
NextStep was on X86. They did not have to "rewrite" anything;). OSX has been on X86 the whole time, why do you think darwin was being activly developed. I don't think there was any conspiracy there. I think Jobs had planned to do this from day one but did not want to hurt the floundering Apple. Apple was bankrupt.
1) (native aqua that uses mac fonts) OpenOffice for Macintosh and we need an easy way for teachers, students and staff to have one standard suite for both PC and Macintosh (Windows and OSX)
2) SMS (Student Management systems that we seem to be using are locked into MS Office) -- they always link through some sort of Sqlserver foxpro type driver. Most SMS products are this way probably because people write them in Visual Basic. Unfortantly, the ones that fit what educators need fall in this category.
3) Open Office is dog slow on the PC (Windows and Linux). Also it does not run well on the Macintosh.(Extra X11 stuff). the best verion of Open Office for the Mac is still neooffice/j. Open Office 1.9 and 2.0 beta is a lot better in this respet. I am sorry but Open Office is slow.Abiword is fast, but it lacks a presentation and spreadsheet.
4) We need more than word processing otherwise we would could use abiwork or the ilk.
5) People were trained on Microsoft Office or Word Perfect. Retraining is difficult with staff and teachers because we have become such a "Standards" based place which eats up most of their time. Also , training can traditionally cost more than the products and it is not like Teachers are usually technically savvy and many have trouble "learning it" on their own.
6) Most important is that it takes goverment organizations a long time to change; corporations will change faster than we will.
7) Many educational database programs and the like interface only with office (thank those dot coms for that one).
8) There is a version of office for every os that we use: Mac OS 9 and 8 - Mac OS X, and Windows 98, and XP.
I say this all and I am an avid linux user. I think Linux and Open Office is the future because it is a software evolution not a revolution. People will not "switch" to linux -- it will just be there... I don't even think it will "wow" people like longhorn or tiger. It will get them on the internet, do some word processing, and that is what education really needs.It is just going to take time that is all.
This is a common problem: http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid= 665&pid=25 29 I don't think they were using "quality" capictors.
I also have an entire series of imacs where I work that almost every one has had a hard disk failure. Granted they are 5 years old, purchased in 2000 and are only 400mhz. But started failing one by one after we purchased them, 1 or 2 every month until almost all 60 had hard drives replaced.
Both Xserves I had purchased has had bad slot loading cdrom drives that I had Apple replace. I tried the firmware update that supposidly fixes the problem, but the drives still did not work. Powerbooks with the same type cdrom seemed to be having similar problems. Ended up sending the drives in to be replaced.
We have had several other Macintosh Computers that could not keep time even after firmware resets and battery replacements.
I have had lots of bad memory, capicitors, and power supply failures -- much higher than all other computers combined (PCs, PPC IBM Servers). Failure has increased with newer models.
Apple used to produce quality computers back in the early 90's that would last for years. Now they are on par with emachines or packard bell.
We purchase many computers and it is not uncommon to see entire series of Macintosh Computers to have to same failure again and again. That does not mean a consumer can see this because he or she may have the "lucky" computer that is not the lemon.
I hope they did not tie this (launchd) into the netinfo database. I hate that thing because it reminds me of the Registry (Yes... the thing that Macintosh computers "do not" have). The netinfo database is the registry, but it is just the Macintosh version.
How come Mac OSX does not have standard useradd userdel? Did they add this in tiger? Can we fix the lack of real command line admin tools?
I hope they finally get this right. It is annoying because many times I just want to ssh into a mac server use a couple of quick command line commands.. and uggh.. I have to remember some archiac netinfo database commands, or I have to fish around on the internet and find some replacement utilities.
Also, I would love it if the would get their teams together and make cp, scp, tar and the like work out-of-the-box with metadata. I have to use ditto, hfstar, hdiutil to do a bunch of things that a simple cp should be able to do without loosing any "metadata".
(I wont even get started on finder bugs that are really annoying)
Yes, Mac OS runs on "Unix"... and they have contributed to many "open source" projects, but come on and quit hyping Unix and give us some fairly standard features that should work without hassles. Sometimes I just want to wipe-out my XServe Mac OSX Server partition and "switch" to some other OS.
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Being one who works with PCs and Macs everyday as an IT job: PPC Macs have the same quality as Intel Parts. Some models are good and some are total crap. A good example of a very crappy designed macintosh is a generation one imac. Tray loading thing that had all sorts of wierd problems.
Didn't electo shock therapy work for depression as well? It did not work for other "disorders", but I took an adormal psycology class and it was know to cure Dipression in certain instances. Of course, it has some real negatives like killing brain cells, etc. I don't know if this is related but it sounds similar. -R
I added one more step to this hosts fix: add an apache web server that only allows connections from local host. This will keep sites that have links embeded to be able to load. Then when something is referred to 127.0.0.1 it has "something" to load. If you are really crafty you can set up a squid proxie on one machine in the household and point everything to that. -R
I don't think it is about TPM or hacking:
I think a lot of companies are using OSS as free development; if this really works or not I don't know (most of the developers are the companies own). To a large corporation such as Apple Computer, free development is the holy grail because of high production costs, once they are done with that (base development) what do they need OSS for?
-R
I am sure 20 slashdot users will say STFU troll but doesn't Wine http://www.winehq.org/ run photoshop? I have been using wine a lot lately and most programs that I don't have windows versions for started really running well with current wine versions 9.5+. I have not tried photoshop in wine, but I would be really suprised if it did not run.
*Television* ... I cut the cable for a year and a half and lost 100 pounds. So I guess that must be the virus.
-R
I use Mac OSX, Windows and Linux everyday -- I have to support Mac and Windows users everyday at my job and I sure as hell would be happier if I could have both OSes on one computer that I could take with me without all the KVM bullshit,emulators or a multitude machines.
,better machines, or better ways of doing things, but always manage to "fuck it up" because of either arrogance of Macintosh users or Apple's own "I want to controll everything attitude".
Apple has had a many chances since 1978-79 to take over the market with either better interfaces
Why not help the community by helping Apple embrace more openess; please make it easier to install what we want, when we want, on our computers. Anything else is just crap. TPM, EFI with no backward compatibility modes, shame on Apple.
-Ron
It is called slavery, pure and simple.
Take a MOS 6510 core on 65nm process and pump up the Mhz. Add some 32bit instructions and build a modern C64 with a modern chipset and PCI bus. It could be done, and I think it would be interesting because Commodore never really made processor updates to the C64 or increased it's ram (unless you count the commodore 128). It would be completely impractical and useless, but it would have a very high cool factor. -R
Lust - Porn = $$
I work with many new users on Windows. They see a popup or an advertisment for "antispyware" software or "antivirus"; they click on it and install it because they read articles about "not having spyware protection", so then they install the software thinking they are doing the right thing. Then they start getting tones of spyware on their machines; it just happens to be that the "antispyware" software they installed is a trojan horse. So then I have to use real antispyware software such as adawareSE or Microsoft Antispyware to remove the other "antispyware" software. Sometimes I have to even use regedit to remove many keys within the registry. Deleting run key entries and removing installed services. Sometimes it even requires a boot disk to remove the really nasty ones. New users do not know good security from bad -- Firewall and antispyware protection programs can be the modern vehicle for a good trojan horse. What happened to the good 'ole days of the boot block virus? I just recommend to many new users that they don't install anything from the internet, and avoid outlook and IE. -R
They only have to pay indian workers 1/5 that the rest of the devoloping world has to pay for computer science people. Senior developers only getting 10 - 14 dollars an hour. 3000 developers cost the same as 400 or 500 workers would cost in Europe or U.S; I don't understand how this is a good thing for india. They are still being underpaid by the rest of the world standards.
Also, It has nothing to do with _how_ _much_ they can underpay indian workers and get away with it. I am sure this is the motive for india investment more than anything else.
How long before manufactures just make players and writers detect and support all formats?
1997 - http://www.sigpc.net/v1/n7.htm Office for Java never got beyond alpha; what happened to it? Isn't this what people want to do? How come people think these ideas are new when Corel and Microsoft activly developed software for Java and never created finished products? -R
They can improve on perfection; they can fix the f***ing finder! People rag on linux and windows all the time, but the mac has a lot of crappy sh** that gets passed off because the mac is so cool. I like Macintosh computers and use one all the time. Please people quit kissing Apple's ass! I always wonder reading Slashdot if it is not Apple's marketing team posting here!
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Examples of finder problems:
I love when you go to open a network drive and you get the spinning candy colored wheel and can't do anything else. Sometimes the finder will get frozen.
Also, any network based application that crashes in osx when accessing network resources results in the finder being unusable, even a bad disk such as a cdrom can cause this sort of thing. Then you have to reboot many times. I had typed up a paper and was going to save it and had the finder give me the nice spinning candy ball. Sitting forever. I had to then give it the ctrl-apple-option-esc after about 20 minutes, loosing all my work. Now some people would say that is not a "crash" or a BSOD. I disagree... It is just as bad.
I also love how cut and paste does not always work from application to application within the finder. I tried to cut and paste from a terminal session to Apple Works and it would not let me. I tried to cut from Internet Explorer to Safari and the same thing happend. Sometimes it works fine to cut and paste and sometimes it won't.
Also, the control or right-click context menus are not always consistant and the dock has a tendancy to get in the way of applications even when it is in hide mode. The UI can be confusing to new users because on the mac many people don't relize that often you need to do a close of the application instead of just click an X. And sometimes clicking an X closes the Applications. This gets confusing when you have a lot of applications open, and even causes me some problems at times. It shows lack of consistancy and some poor design. Classic mode applications can sometimes cause the finder to hang with the spinning ball as well and many carbon lib based applications have poor placement on the screen (don't work well with the doc) and get in the way.
If you think this is only my opinion you should read the internet. Here is a good one:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars
Of course all these bugs seem to be related to the finder and are directly caused by the UI. I would think after 5 years apple would fix them because they have been there since 10.0 and still seem to be there in 10.4.
With all that said the underlying system is very stable and even with the finder unusable at times shell scripts and unix related stuff seems to never have problems. Which tells me it is all the Finder and they should fix it.
-R
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 were the two most pirated oses ever. All it did was make microsoft a monopoly.
I love the easy to crack Windows 95A key:
1234-12345 (hmmm... I wonder if this was on purpose to kill OS2)
People are more likely to buy apple if they see apple in the houses of others. People that try a cracked copy of Mac OS (if they like it) are much more likely to buy an intel based mac. The fact that they would try beta cracked copies shows they are interested in it. I am suprised it took apple this long to switch to intel. It increases the over all use. I don't even know why apple even spends the money on puting any kind of protection on it--they should let people have at it; just don't support anything except apple computers.
NextStep was on X86. They did not have to "rewrite" anything ;). OSX has been on X86 the whole time, why do you think darwin was being activly developed. I don't think there was any conspiracy there. I think Jobs had planned to do this from day one but did not want to hurt the floundering Apple. Apple was bankrupt.
Seems that they are using a X86 darwin. How hard would it be to "patch" the software to not look for the chip? Really?
Wintel to Appletel to Suntel ;)
STOP LAYING PEOPLE OFF!
Things that keeps us on MS office:
1) (native aqua that uses mac fonts) OpenOffice for Macintosh and we need an easy way for teachers, students and staff to have one standard suite for both PC and Macintosh (Windows and OSX)
2) SMS (Student Management systems that we seem to be using are locked into MS Office) -- they always link through some sort of Sqlserver foxpro type driver. Most SMS products are this way probably because people write them in Visual Basic. Unfortantly, the ones that fit what educators need fall in this category.
3) Open Office is dog slow on the PC (Windows and Linux). Also it does not run well on the Macintosh.(Extra X11 stuff). the best verion of Open Office for the Mac is still neooffice/j. Open Office 1.9 and 2.0 beta is a lot better in this respet. I am sorry but Open Office is slow.Abiword is fast, but it lacks a presentation and spreadsheet.
4) We need more than word processing otherwise we would could use abiwork or the ilk.
5) People were trained on Microsoft Office or Word Perfect. Retraining is difficult with staff and teachers because we have become such a "Standards" based place which eats up most of their time. Also , training can traditionally cost more than the products and it is not like Teachers are usually technically savvy and many have trouble "learning it" on their own.
6) Most important is that it takes goverment organizations a long time to change; corporations will change faster than we will.
7) Many educational database programs and the like interface only with office (thank those dot coms for that one).
8) There is a version of office for every os that we use: Mac OS 9 and 8 - Mac OS X, and Windows 98, and XP.
I say this all and I am an avid linux user. I think Linux and Open Office is the future because it is a software evolution not a revolution. People will not "switch" to linux -- it will just be there... I don't even think it will "wow" people like longhorn or tiger. It will get them on the internet, do some word processing, and that is what education really needs.It is just going to take time that is all.
This is a common problem:= 665&pid=25 29
http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid
I don't think they were using "quality" capictors.
I also have an entire series of imacs where I work that almost every one has had a hard disk failure. Granted they are 5 years old, purchased in 2000 and are only 400mhz. But started failing one by one after we purchased them, 1 or 2 every month until almost all 60 had hard drives replaced.
Both Xserves I had purchased has had bad slot loading cdrom drives that I had Apple replace. I tried the firmware update that supposidly fixes the problem, but the drives still did not work.
Powerbooks with the same type cdrom seemed to be having similar problems. Ended up sending the drives in to be replaced.
We have had several other Macintosh Computers that could not keep time even after firmware resets and battery replacements.
I have had lots of bad memory, capicitors, and power supply failures -- much higher than all other computers combined (PCs, PPC IBM Servers). Failure has increased with newer models.
Apple used to produce quality computers back in the early 90's that would last for years. Now they are on par with emachines or packard bell.
We purchase many computers and it is not uncommon to see entire series of Macintosh Computers to have to same failure again and again. That does not mean a consumer can see this because he or she may have the "lucky" computer that is not the lemon.
APPLE, PLEASE GET BACK TO QUALITY!
I hope they did not tie this (launchd) into the netinfo database. I hate that thing because it reminds me of the Registry (Yes... the thing that Macintosh computers "do not" have). The netinfo database is the registry, but it is just the Macintosh version.
.. and uggh.. I have to remember some archiac netinfo database commands, or I have to fish around on the internet and find some replacement utilities.
... and they have contributed to many "open source" projects, but come on and quit hyping Unix and give us some fairly standard features that should work without hassles. Sometimes I just want to wipe-out my XServe Mac OSX Server partition and "switch" to some other OS.
How come Mac OSX does not have standard useradd userdel? Did they add this in tiger? Can we fix the lack of real command line admin tools?
I hope they finally get this right. It is annoying because many times I just want to ssh into a mac server use a couple of quick command line commands
Also, I would love it if the would get their teams together and make cp, scp, tar and the like work out-of-the-box with metadata. I have to use ditto, hfstar, hdiutil to do a bunch of things that a simple cp should be able to do without loosing any "metadata".
(I wont even get started on finder bugs that are really annoying)
Yes, Mac OS runs on "Unix"
My interpretation was ... "go steal it from the linux code" -- means there is no documentations, it is writen "ad-hoc"
-Ron