I use Carbon Copy Cloner, even though I've also purchased Super Duper which was Tiger-compatible first and seems to have great reviews. I'm just not sure about which script to use. I can't get Psync to work in CCC, so it just backs up the whole drive each time rather than just the changes. Super Duper is supposed to have all that sorted out.
I like to do clean installs for upgrades because I'm under the impression that it frees up space compared to a simple upgrade. It's a bitch to manually do things like transfer email mailboxes, bookmarks, GPG keys, and re-enter keychain passwords, but it seemed to free up a couple of gigs for some reason. There's a feature in Tiger that lets you transfer everything over from an older computer, for people that are upgrading their hardware. If you created a bootable backup, you can trick Tiger into recognising that backup drive as an older computer that you want to transfer everything over from. That doesn't free up as much space as a manual transfer either, though.
I do believe Apple now gives away Web Objects with Tiger, which may help you with your issues in Web design. I should mention that the iTunes Music Store was constructed using that framework.
But if you are having problems syncing with your Palm device, there are good solutions. iSync is one really good one that I am currently using now, instead of Palm's Desktop.
That's exactly what I'm doing. And I noticed that if you do a clean OS install and you do a sync, you have to make sure "Force Slow Synchronization" is ticked under the icon for your Palm device in iSync to make sure data is copied over from your Palm device to your computer. Otherwise it overwrites all your data on your Palm with blank data. When I upgraded to Tiger, I had to do some strange thing to get the latest Palm Desktop to work with the iSync conduit- Palm released an update even though they officially were no longer supporting OS X. Palms are basically the only viable PDA option for Macs- I know Missing Sync can allow you to use WinCE PDAs, but I've tried out Missing Sync and actually prefer iSync (having to enter a password every time you sync is annoying). I was thinking Treo+Java+GPRS+Socket Barcode reader = inventory stock-take device for the Mac platform.
I actually have WebObjects installed and just looked at WebObjects Builder. Is it the Apple equivalent of FrontPage? I thought that WebObjects was all back-end stuff, and didn't include a WYSIWYG layout editor. I noticed that it says "Help isn't available for WebObjects builder" when you select the Help menu. I just bookmarked the WebObjects Documentation page on Apple's site. That's pretty cool- they really understate the development tools they give away with OS X.
I was planning on getting a Treo and setting it up with a Socket Communications barcode reader to explore that kind of functionality in a PDA. I hope they don't outright kill the Palm OS on their devices but rather carry both. I'd like to have an alternative to Microsoft when trying out those kinds of device setups. I keep coming across hardware I want that only works with Windows, like mobile phones and sheet-feed scanners, and it is frustrating.
Years ago, I had a top-of-the-range Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 95. When I upgraded to Windows 98, all of a sudden, the power management got all screwed up. To turn the machine off, I had to Shutdown, wait for it to hang, unplug the AC power adaptor, and pull out the battery. This was extremely frustrating, considering it wasn't exactly an obscure brand that was unsupported. Because of those kinds of experiences, I would really like to use another company's product.
Yes, there were things about their products that I did like. Despite the major security problems that came with it, I did like the whole COM thing from a development perspective. Being able to use the same controls in Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Internet Explorer did have a nice consistency. And I don't recall having problems with my Palm on Windows the way I do now on OS X. If anything happened to your computer, all your PIM data was backed up on the Palm, so all you had to do was re-install the system and hit a button to restore it on the computer. But on OS X, I've had the computer wipe the data from my Palm when I did clean OS upgrades. They also managed to include programs along with their main products that helped you do more, like a graphics application that came with Office which was useful for web design. On the Macintosh, it seems like it costs much more to do really basic web design compared to Windows.
But that power management thing was really a bitch to deal with. I couldn't believe that any company would be so incompetent as to cripple a computers ability to simply turn off. The security problems were also unbearable. Allowing remote code to install itself on your computer automatically was just pure brainlessness. I can recall that there was an exploit in which an attachment could open itself up automatically in the preview pane in Outlook Express, and I had read about it as a proof-of-concept security hole possibly a year or two before virus writers actually started using it. The fact that a company would allow a common-knowledge exploit to go unpatched for so long was ridiculous. I've seen friends who's jobs depended on their computers lose all their data because of exploits like that.
So in the end, I opted for a more expensive computer setup that had less third-party hardware support, but could turn on and off like a television and actually allow me to do other things instead of having to constantly patch and implement work-arounds for newly discovered exploits. I got a computer I could use rather than one I had to maintain. Maybe things have been different since, but I think that it is just a fundamental issue that consumers have alternatives when piecing together computer systems.
I was planning on getting a Treo and setting it up with a Socket Communications barcode reader to explore that kind of functionality in a PDA. I hope they don't outright kill the Palm OS on their devices but rather carry both. I'd like to have an alternative to Microsoft when trying out those kinds of device setups. I keep coming across hardware I want that only works with Windows, like mobile phones and sheet-feed scanners, and it is frustrating.
Years ago, I had a top-of-the-range Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 95. When I upgraded to Windows 98, all of a sudden, the power management got all screwed up. To turn the machine off, I had to Shutdown, wait for it to hang, unplug the AC power adaptor, and pull out the battery. This was extremely frustrating, considering it wasn't exactly an obscure brand that was unsupported. Because of those kinds of experiences, I would really like to use another company's product.
Yes, there were things about their products that I did like. Despite the major security problems that came with it, I did like the whole COM thing from a development perspective. Being able to use the same controls in Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Internet Explorer did have a nice consistency. And I don't recall having problems with my Palm on Windows the way I do now on OS X. If anything happened to your computer, all your PIM data was backed up on the Palm, so all you had to do was re-install the system and hit a button to restore it on the computer. But on OS X, I've had the computer wipe the data from my Palm when I did clean OS upgrades. They also managed to include programs along with their main products that helped you do more, like a graphics application that came with Office which was useful for web design. On the Macintosh, it seems like it costs much more to do really basic web design compared to Windows.
But that power management thing was really a bitch to deal with. I couldn't believe that any company would be so incompetent as to cripple a computers ability to simply turn off. The security problems were also unbearable. Allowing remote code to install itself on your computer automatically was just pure brainlessness. I can recall that there was an exploit in which an attachment could open itself up automatically in the preview pane in Outlook Express, and I had read about it as a proof-of-concept security hole possibly a year or two before virus writers actually started using it. The fact that a company would allow a common-knowledge exploit to go unpatched for so long was ridiculous. I've seen friends who's jobs depended on their computers lose all their data because of exploits like that.
So in the end, I opted for a more expensive computer setup that had less third-party hardware support, but could turn on and off like a television and actually allow me to do other things instead of having to constantly patch and implement work-arounds for newly discovered exploits. I got a computer I could use rather than one I had to maintain. Maybe things have been different since, but I think that it is just a fundamental issue that consumers have alternatives when piecing together computer systems.
In your link to currently planned features, it mentions a "new sleep mode". What is that? I hopped onto a PowerBook years ago after being sick of Windows 98 constantly hanging upon shutdown. I was jealous of seeing friends who weren't into computers using PowerBooks and turning their laptops on and off like televisions. I had to wait 15 minutes for mine to start up and hook up to the internet, and to shut it down I would have to wait for the laptop to hang and the drive light to stop blinking, then unplug the AC power adapter and pull out the battery. This happened every time I used the computer. I thought that this would be fixed with laptops sold with Windows XP and they had sleep modes just like PowerBooks. Is this "new sleep mode" just like the Macintosh sleep mode that has been around for years?
Also, as weird as it sounds, I feel a lot of the eye candy on the Mac serves a purpose.
I didn't realise this until I saw it happening to someone; the way icons in the dock bounce to catch your attention isn't just an effect. If you have it set to automatically hide and show the dock and the dock is hidden, the bouncing icons bounce into your view form off-screen. They catch your attention whether the dock is visible or not with the same method, so what just seems like eye candy actually kills two birds with one stone.
You're right about the eye candy serving a purpose- I've read about the drop shadow thing on the web before. I've also read that the purpose of the Genie Effect for minimising windows is to make it clear to the user where the minimised window is located.
The article says both eggs are fertilised, but the genes resulting from the process will be from two women and one man. And mitochondria actually contains its own DNA separate from the nucleus that comes from the mother only. So it's "egg with mitochondria DNA from one (woman with healthy mitochondria), with nucleus DNA from another (woman with unhealthy mitochondria and man)".
"Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit. The basic idea is that if someone patents software, he loses the right to use free software. It's like a patent retaliation clause," Greve said.
Does this mean that if you own any software patents, you can't use GPL software? Or does it mean they are just including a clause in the GPL that prevents software patent restrictions from hindering GPL software, while allowing people to still apply them to proprietary licensed software? I have a suspicion that it is the latter, but the article just wasn't clear enough and took the quote out of context.
Just curious, but do you have any particular examples in mind? I know that there are tons of gadgets that come out in the Japanese consumer market first that rarely get introduced to other markets, but in terms of marketing software, what do they have that is different?
I actually thought that, since iPods can also be used as external disks, there probably isn't a reason this couldn't happen to iPods as well, if a virus somehow got onto the assembly line process. But I think that iPods are formatted to the filesystem of the computer you hook them up to initially (that's how I recall it working). If you hook it up to a Macintosh, it uses HFS+, and if you hook it up to a PC, it uses NTFS. I recall reading that some people had problems if they wanted to use iPods as external disks between Macs and PCs because of this.
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I use Carbon Copy Cloner, even though I've also purchased Super Duper which was Tiger-compatible first and seems to have great reviews. I'm just not sure about which script to use. I can't get Psync to work in CCC, so it just backs up the whole drive each time rather than just the changes. Super Duper is supposed to have all that sorted out.
I like to do clean installs for upgrades because I'm under the impression that it frees up space compared to a simple upgrade. It's a bitch to manually do things like transfer email mailboxes, bookmarks, GPG keys, and re-enter keychain passwords, but it seemed to free up a couple of gigs for some reason. There's a feature in Tiger that lets you transfer everything over from an older computer, for people that are upgrading their hardware. If you created a bootable backup, you can trick Tiger into recognising that backup drive as an older computer that you want to transfer everything over from. That doesn't free up as much space as a manual transfer either, though.
I do believe Apple now gives away Web Objects with Tiger, which may help you with your issues in Web design. I should mention that the iTunes Music Store was constructed using that framework.
But if you are having problems syncing with your Palm device, there are good solutions. iSync is one really good one that I am currently using now, instead of Palm's Desktop.
That's exactly what I'm doing. And I noticed that if you do a clean OS install and you do a sync, you have to make sure "Force Slow Synchronization" is ticked under the icon for your Palm device in iSync to make sure data is copied over from your Palm device to your computer. Otherwise it overwrites all your data on your Palm with blank data. When I upgraded to Tiger, I had to do some strange thing to get the latest Palm Desktop to work with the iSync conduit- Palm released an update even though they officially were no longer supporting OS X. Palms are basically the only viable PDA option for Macs- I know Missing Sync can allow you to use WinCE PDAs, but I've tried out Missing Sync and actually prefer iSync (having to enter a password every time you sync is annoying). I was thinking Treo+Java+GPRS+Socket Barcode reader = inventory stock-take device for the Mac platform.
I actually have WebObjects installed and just looked at WebObjects Builder. Is it the Apple equivalent of FrontPage? I thought that WebObjects was all back-end stuff, and didn't include a WYSIWYG layout editor. I noticed that it says "Help isn't available for WebObjects builder" when you select the Help menu. I just bookmarked the WebObjects Documentation page on Apple's site. That's pretty cool- they really understate the development tools they give away with OS X.
Yup, it doesn't matter how many times you hit "Preview" if you're typing your comment in the wrong tab.
(Okay, I accidentally hit "reply" in the wrong fucking tab so this comment is actually posted in the "Developers: RMS Previews GPL3 Terms" story.)
I was planning on getting a Treo and setting it up with a Socket Communications barcode reader to explore that kind of functionality in a PDA. I hope they don't outright kill the Palm OS on their devices but rather carry both. I'd like to have an alternative to Microsoft when trying out those kinds of device setups. I keep coming across hardware I want that only works with Windows, like mobile phones and sheet-feed scanners, and it is frustrating.
Years ago, I had a top-of-the-range Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 95. When I upgraded to Windows 98, all of a sudden, the power management got all screwed up. To turn the machine off, I had to Shutdown, wait for it to hang, unplug the AC power adaptor, and pull out the battery. This was extremely frustrating, considering it wasn't exactly an obscure brand that was unsupported. Because of those kinds of experiences, I would really like to use another company's product.
Yes, there were things about their products that I did like. Despite the major security problems that came with it, I did like the whole COM thing from a development perspective. Being able to use the same controls in Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Internet Explorer did have a nice consistency. And I don't recall having problems with my Palm on Windows the way I do now on OS X. If anything happened to your computer, all your PIM data was backed up on the Palm, so all you had to do was re-install the system and hit a button to restore it on the computer. But on OS X, I've had the computer wipe the data from my Palm when I did clean OS upgrades. They also managed to include programs along with their main products that helped you do more, like a graphics application that came with Office which was useful for web design. On the Macintosh, it seems like it costs much more to do really basic web design compared to Windows.
But that power management thing was really a bitch to deal with. I couldn't believe that any company would be so incompetent as to cripple a computers ability to simply turn off. The security problems were also unbearable. Allowing remote code to install itself on your computer automatically was just pure brainlessness. I can recall that there was an exploit in which an attachment could open itself up automatically in the preview pane in Outlook Express, and I had read about it as a proof-of-concept security hole possibly a year or two before virus writers actually started using it. The fact that a company would allow a common-knowledge exploit to go unpatched for so long was ridiculous. I've seen friends who's jobs depended on their computers lose all their data because of exploits like that.
So in the end, I opted for a more expensive computer setup that had less third-party hardware support, but could turn on and off like a television and actually allow me to do other things instead of having to constantly patch and implement work-arounds for newly discovered exploits. I got a computer I could use rather than one I had to maintain. Maybe things have been different since, but I think that it is just a fundamental issue that consumers have alternatives when piecing together computer systems.
Um... I think I hit "Reply" on the wrong story (shit, I'm so fucking embarrassed)- this was supposed to be submitted to the Palm Treo WinCE story!
I was planning on getting a Treo and setting it up with a Socket Communications barcode reader to explore that kind of functionality in a PDA. I hope they don't outright kill the Palm OS on their devices but rather carry both. I'd like to have an alternative to Microsoft when trying out those kinds of device setups. I keep coming across hardware I want that only works with Windows, like mobile phones and sheet-feed scanners, and it is frustrating.
Years ago, I had a top-of-the-range Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 95. When I upgraded to Windows 98, all of a sudden, the power management got all screwed up. To turn the machine off, I had to Shutdown, wait for it to hang, unplug the AC power adaptor, and pull out the battery. This was extremely frustrating, considering it wasn't exactly an obscure brand that was unsupported. Because of those kinds of experiences, I would really like to use another company's product.
Yes, there were things about their products that I did like. Despite the major security problems that came with it, I did like the whole COM thing from a development perspective. Being able to use the same controls in Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Internet Explorer did have a nice consistency. And I don't recall having problems with my Palm on Windows the way I do now on OS X. If anything happened to your computer, all your PIM data was backed up on the Palm, so all you had to do was re-install the system and hit a button to restore it on the computer. But on OS X, I've had the computer wipe the data from my Palm when I did clean OS upgrades. They also managed to include programs along with their main products that helped you do more, like a graphics application that came with Office which was useful for web design. On the Macintosh, it seems like it costs much more to do really basic web design compared to Windows.
But that power management thing was really a bitch to deal with. I couldn't believe that any company would be so incompetent as to cripple a computers ability to simply turn off. The security problems were also unbearable. Allowing remote code to install itself on your computer automatically was just pure brainlessness. I can recall that there was an exploit in which an attachment could open itself up automatically in the preview pane in Outlook Express, and I had read about it as a proof-of-concept security hole possibly a year or two before virus writers actually started using it. The fact that a company would allow a common-knowledge exploit to go unpatched for so long was ridiculous. I've seen friends who's jobs depended on their computers lose all their data because of exploits like that.
So in the end, I opted for a more expensive computer setup that had less third-party hardware support, but could turn on and off like a television and actually allow me to do other things instead of having to constantly patch and implement work-arounds for newly discovered exploits. I got a computer I could use rather than one I had to maintain. Maybe things have been different since, but I think that it is just a fundamental issue that consumers have alternatives when piecing together computer systems.
Then... Profit!!!
In your link to currently planned features, it mentions a "new sleep mode". What is that? I hopped onto a PowerBook years ago after being sick of Windows 98 constantly hanging upon shutdown. I was jealous of seeing friends who weren't into computers using PowerBooks and turning their laptops on and off like televisions. I had to wait 15 minutes for mine to start up and hook up to the internet, and to shut it down I would have to wait for the laptop to hang and the drive light to stop blinking, then unplug the AC power adapter and pull out the battery. This happened every time I used the computer. I thought that this would be fixed with laptops sold with Windows XP and they had sleep modes just like PowerBooks. Is this "new sleep mode" just like the Macintosh sleep mode that has been around for years?
Also, as weird as it sounds, I feel a lot of the eye candy on the Mac serves a purpose.
I didn't realise this until I saw it happening to someone; the way icons in the dock bounce to catch your attention isn't just an effect. If you have it set to automatically hide and show the dock and the dock is hidden, the bouncing icons bounce into your view form off-screen. They catch your attention whether the dock is visible or not with the same method, so what just seems like eye candy actually kills two birds with one stone.
You're right about the eye candy serving a purpose- I've read about the drop shadow thing on the web before. I've also read that the purpose of the Genie Effect for minimising windows is to make it clear to the user where the minimised window is located.
But, if Internet Archive is a valid legal source, then by all means Wikipedia is.
Here's a scary thought- Slashdot as a valid legal source.
... Clippy?
The article says both eggs are fertilised, but the genes resulting from the process will be from two women and one man. And mitochondria actually contains its own DNA separate from the nucleus that comes from the mother only. So it's "egg with mitochondria DNA from one (woman with healthy mitochondria), with nucleus DNA from another (woman with unhealthy mitochondria and man)".
It also holds all your addresses and calendars from your iBook
The new version of iTunes can also get that data from Outlook and Outlook Express in Windows now.
The Nano doesn't have a radio, but it does have a stopwatch. It's mentioned somewhere in the webcast.
FTA...
Does this mean that if you own any software patents, you can't use GPL software? Or does it mean they are just including a clause in the GPL that prevents software patent restrictions from hindering GPL software, while allowing people to still apply them to proprietary licensed software? I have a suspicion that it is the latter, but the article just wasn't clear enough and took the quote out of context.
Apple migrating to Intel and a multi-button mouse.
Here's a link to E Ink's technology.
The Japanese have perfected everything, really...
You should see the STUFF they have.
Just curious, but do you have any particular examples in mind? I know that there are tons of gadgets that come out in the Japanese consumer market first that rarely get introduced to other markets, but in terms of marketing software, what do they have that is different?
But I do want the option of encrypting a folder.
What you do is you create an encrypted disk image and use it like a folder. I picked that hint up from some magazine.
Moral: redundant topics will generate MANY redundant posts
It reads Australiam scientists. That should be Australiam sciemtists.
"rediculous" is a perfectly cromulent word.
I actually thought that, since iPods can also be used as external disks, there probably isn't a reason this couldn't happen to iPods as well, if a virus somehow got onto the assembly line process. But I think that iPods are formatted to the filesystem of the computer you hook them up to initially (that's how I recall it working). If you hook it up to a Macintosh, it uses HFS+, and if you hook it up to a PC, it uses NTFS. I recall reading that some people had problems if they wanted to use iPods as external disks between Macs and PCs because of this.
Well this doesn't exactly help Creative Zen being marketed as an "iPod Killer". 3,700 of them. Ouch.
Um... REALbasic?