Notice there's no XP server? If you really want to get into it, you can look at as
win2k -> win2k3... win 9x->xp
No, no, you've got it all messed up:
Windows 2000 = Windows NT 5.0 Windows XP = Windows NT 5.1 Both are the descendants of NT 4.
Windows ME was the last nightmare of the "classic" Windows legacy (3.xx -> 95 -> 98 -> 98 SE -> ME).
So things are more as: NT 4 Server -> Windows 2k Server -> Windows Server 2003 NT 4 Workstation -> 2k Professional -> XP Professional Win 9x -> Win ME -> XP Home
The last part covers the transition from "Windows" to "Windows NT".
On the Mac side: OS 8 -> OS 9 -> Nothing (thankfully) OS X 10.0 (Cheetah, ironically) -> 10.1 (Puma) -> 10.2 (Jaguar) -> 10.3 (Panther) A similar lineup for the Server version of each cat, except that there was a pre-Cheetah version of Server.
The improvements from one cat to the next one are comparable to the changes in 2k -> XP.
And finally, the transition you made before (XP SP1 to XP SP2) is actually comparable to the point releases of each cat (for example, 10.3.0 -> 10.3.1 ->... -> 10.3.4), only that Apple releases the new features in more frequent, smaller packages.
I suppose the confusion arises because it shares its name with two continents that contain other countries as well. In conclusion, America needs a new name dammit!
I know that you were trying to be funny, but if I had mod points I would mod you as insightful.
Yes, the problem is that when the country got it's name, the people who chose the name made a very poor choice: they didn't realize that a few decades later the rest of the continent(s) would also gain independence and form separate countries that would not be part of the Union.
So the country should better be renamed. But renaming the most powerful country, (and also a very stable one), is impossible.
Your suggestion was kind of cool, though! (Yeah, I'm kidding. Please don't get me deported for being "unAmerican".)
If you can't build a package that understands its own paths, and is re-locatable to any location, then its -not- finished, and you shouldn't release it.
I agree that all packages should be re-locatable. Unfortunately there are lots of *excellent* Unix/Linux and (gasp) Windows applications that are path dependent. I agree that they should be fixed when porting them to OS X, but meanwhile I prefer to have them even if they are "the result of laziness".
OSX is a Unix for Users. Use it that way!
Yes, but please don't break Unix in the process. Linking/proc to ~/proc is a terrible idea. MacOS X is finally a good multiuser system. Finally, all the members of a family or a workgroup can have their files in their own accounts without creating chaos and endangering the system. That's the goal of the users home directories.
By linking proc to ~/proc, you will limit the use of Mono (or whatever is installed in/proc) to one user (unless you duplicate it in every user account). Programs that should be available to all users should NOT be installed in a particular user's directory. That's a terrible practice. If you are so convinced in thinking different(ly), link it to/Users/Share/proc, but then again you have an absolute path.
...or doing the album art (not sure about this yet... I may try to use one of the third-party utils this time around).
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but if you are talking about using a third party utility to get the album art, I recommend Clutter. Well, I guess you already know about it, I'm just making sure...
To get the album covers using Clutter rapidly, you can make a smart playlist in iTunes that selects the first song of each album. Then use Clutter to jump to the next song as soon as the current CD cover is downloaded (a matter of seconds normally).
That's an increase of 25% x 7.3% x 38.7%, or 86.1% in volume. That's almost twice the volume, far more than you think.
And that percentual increase in volume is huge: the white iPod is only 69.5% bigger than the iPod Mini (2" x 3.6" x 0.5"), and clearly the Mini has been such a success due to it's size (not so much for it's colors).
I can't believe you got modded up for such stupidity.
If you read his post carefully you will notice that he didn't say "buy an Xserve mini cluster". He said "follow Apple's example", and then he showed several things that Apple did right with their Workgroup Cluster.
Many of those things can be achieved by using cheaper hardware and not getting all the goodies that you don't need (e.g., the truckload of software), so you can follow Apple's example without spending $28,000.
There may be some similar way to trick the Mac games.
Actually, there is no need to trick the Mac games. jht (the user you responded to) made disk images of all the CDs, so he actually doesn't need the physical disks. You can mount any number of disk images simultaneously and that works as having the CDs mounted at the same time. Additionally, he made them automount at startup, so all his son's games are automatically available all the time.
jht is complaining because you can't just copy the CDs content to a directory without some weird trick like disk images or scripts like the ones you wrote.
Well, if I may make the obvious point, you don't have to have an administrator password to do damage to someone's files on a Mac or any other system. [...]
The files I have that I don't want it deleting are the files I made myself [...]
Well, there are other files that may be stored in your computer and that you don't want deleted by a Trojan you trigger: the documents of other users of your computer (say your spouse, children or parents, etc). Conversely, you don't want your files to be deleted by a Trojan triggered by your ten-year-old daughter.
But fortunately, in decent operating systems that won't happen because you can't access other's files, even as an "administrator" (in that case you need to supply a password).
Of course normal Windows NT/2k/XP users can't access others' files, but in pre-XP Windows the primary user normally configures administrative privileges for himself (or administrating the machine would be hell), and many I know continue to do just that in XP although they have fast user switching... I guess they are used to it. When they trigger a Trojan/virus (and they regularly do), they affect the other users of the machine as well.
Windows WMA: [...] Macs(Yes they have WMP), [...] and you can burn on CDs (depends on who you buy from and what rights you have
Dont talk trash unless you really know what you are talking about....
Pitiful answer actually
Apart from the Mac WMP's inability to play WMA files (mentioned by six replies already), iTunes always allows you to burn on CDs. (Up to 10 copies per playlist. If you need more, change the playlist. But if you do, you are probably pirating the music.)
Dont talk trash unless you really know what you are talking about....
did your staff notice him coming in and leaving at the time the logs said, or was he just the most suspicious person there during that time?
The part of the story you missed is this (after the mail headers that matched the sysadmin's logs):
I asked around, and a man, described as being black (or is the word African-American these days?), roughly 30, with an accent which seemed half London and half African had been in the cafe with a laptop and had a number of visitors call into his booth and had been there at the given
time.
So yes: the staff noticed him at that time.
And yes: he was the most suspicious person at that time (ignoring the idiotic racial commentary), because he reserved a "somewhat secluded booth" (this can be implied since he wanted that specific booth the second time) and received what appears to be an unusual number of visitors calls.
The fact is that in common usage the term "America" refers to the United States.
Hummm... please forgive my stubbornness, but... precisely the point of the whole football vs soccer issue is that "common usage" is not really common at all, meaning not universal.
In the USA, the term "America" refers to the United States. In other places, "America" refers to the continent, and people from other "American" countries call themselves "American". When referring to U.S. citizens, they use other terms.
This goes as far as replacing the terms in translations of Hollywood movies (which looks rather funny when the movies are subtitled). And they will look at you as if you had lost your mind if you use the America==USA definition. Also, they have never heard of a sport called "soccer".
But, well, I guess we are all entitled to have diverging opinions...:)
Sorry, I don't get you... a weak argument for what?
Vespucci did come to America, only it was South America and not North America. He was a cartographer sent by the Spanish crown to map the "New World", and he was the one who realized that it was a whole new continent, and not some part of Asia as Columbus thought. (Columbus' calculations for the distance to Asia were way off).
Therefore, Americo Vespucci was the one who actually "discovered" America (the continent), so it was eventually named after him.
Maybe the argument you disagree with is my opinion that "American" Football is a little misleading since the people of most of the countries of the continent that Americo "discovered" do not know or care about that sport.
It is relevant because we have two mayor games that share the same name (football). One is fully described by it's name, and the other one isn't. Which one should keep the name?
Sports don't have to be described by their names but it's really useful (basketball, baseball, athletism...), and it's awfully confusing when the name describes a different thing.
Regarding cricket: Wherever the name 'cricket' came from - and from the various theories 'cricce', Anglo-Saxon for a stick, is the generally accepted origin. It can be assumed that it was played before it was called cricket.
Assuming that, it's a reasonable name for a game played with a (very big and heavy) stick.
Sorry to nitpick, but Americo Vespucci was also Italian, not Spaniard. And as far as I know, he never came to the land now know as the USA, so even the "American" in American Football is debatable.
I agree with you. In one sport, a spherical object (a ball) is mainly propelled by the feet of the players.
In the other sport, a pointy object that isn't even oval shaped (called by some a ball, but that's pushing the definition of ball way too much) is only occasionally kicked, and is almost always carried or thrown by the players' arms.
Obviously, if one of these sports is to be called football, it's the first one (and most of the world does just that).
The other one could be called "American Rugby" since it certainly resembles the sport played in most other former British colonies.
Apparently the difference is that he configured the system through the medium & large businesses link (starting at $3474) while you used the small businesses configuration (starting at $1499).
I think the difference lies in the warranty and/or service contract.
The fastest Apple G5 has a 1 GHz bus. The slowest Opteron has a 1.4 GHz bus, and the fastest has a 2.2 GHz bus.
Humm... Could you please point me to the source of that info? I've never heard of Opterons with buses over 800 MHz shipping... Actually, the speeds you give correspond to the processor speed of current Opterons, so you are implying that the speed ratio is 1:1, which is wonderful (if true).
On the other hand, I think that dual Opteron systems share the bus, while the PPC 970's in the PowerMac G5 have separate buses, but don't quote me on that.
Apparently your friend has a faulty Mac or a very old one.
I got my PB on September and I can assure you that, depending on the codec, installing it on OS X is either moving a file to/Library/Quicktime (for example the Ogg Vorbis codec), or running a normal installer that behaves exactly like the ones for Windows (DivX, 3ivX, although I suspect that the installer actually only copies the codec to the said directory and installs some unnecessary crap in/Applications). And yes, I routinely help friends to install codecs and players on their Windows PCs, so I know how the process goes.
Of course, that is if you insist on using the Quicktime player. VLC and MPlayer are trivial to install (just move an application bundle from a disc image to wherever you want), and will open almost anything you throw at them. And they do full screen in any screen (not only the main one), and are free.
One last thing: QuickTime for Mac is far superior than QT for Windows (quality-wise). Last week I gave in and bought QT Pro, and was pleasantly surprised by how much more I got for those $30, including the ability to do basic video editing, transcoding to a lot of formats (including DivX and 3ivx due to the codecs I mentioned), saving internet videos without obscure tricks... (And before you ask, QT Pro also does full screen on any monitor).
If your friend has at least Jaguar, I am willing to point him/her towards the information to configure his/her Mac properly. (Assuming you are not just trolling, of course).
Are you serious? You can't move music from your iPod to your PC ?
Just in case you are not being sarcastic or trolling, the grandparent of your post tells you how to do it in Windows (simply enable "show hidden files and folders").
On Macs, you can use the Terminal application and copy the files in one line, then import to iTunes (or whatever you use). And for both platforms you find freeware that does this for you without getting technical.
You see, there is a classic Slashdot troll that uses to post a modified version of the parent post in Mac stories, both in Slashdot and Macslash. He usually says that it takes him 20 minutes to copy a 7 MB file in his G4 or G5, or something along those lines. The text is based on a comment made by someone in his webpage back in 1998 referring to a seriously ill PowerMac 8600.
On a second thought, the parent post is not a troll, but a parody...
I'm not interested in running a spanned desktop using both the LCD and an external monitor, and if you mirror, sure you can put it to a higher res, BUT it will just appear with on the external monitor with black borders and the desktop inside of it, thus the actual desktop still runs only 1024x786 even though the monitor runs 1280x1024!
After installing the "hack", you can connect the second monitor in spanning mode and set the resolution to 1280x1024. On the main (laptop) monitor a new "Arrangement" tab will appear in the Displays control panel. In it, you can drag the menu bar to the external monitor so that it becomes the main one. Then you can move the remaining windows to the external monitor and simply ignore the internal one.
After that, every time you disconnect the external monitor, the internal one will automatically become the main one and all the windows will be transported there (even the ones that are out of the 1024x768 corner). And when you reconnect it, the process is reversed. All this happens automatically, after a ~3 second delay.
If having the internal monitor you are trying to ignore at a border of the (main) external one bothers you, simply use the same "Arrangement" tab to place it at a corner of the big one. That way you minimize the possibility of having the pointer wander out.
Now, can you please tell me why you are not interested in using both monitors in a spanned desktop?
Extended warranty: Normally you get one year, with AppleCare you get three.
Extended free phone support: Normally you get 90 days, with AppleCare you get it for the full three years.
AppleCare is usually regarded as a good thing, specially for laptops. But unless you really need the phone support, it is something that can wait. You can buy it at any time during the *first* year.
So no, if you (or I) get the spots, we will NOT get screwed because our machines are still covered by the one year warranty. I would suggest that you get AppleCare sometime in this year, though...
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No, no, you've got it all messed up:
Windows 2000 = Windows NT 5.0
Windows XP = Windows NT 5.1
Both are the descendants of NT 4.
Windows ME was the last nightmare of the "classic" Windows legacy (3.xx -> 95 -> 98 -> 98 SE -> ME).
So things are more as:
NT 4 Server -> Windows 2k Server -> Windows Server 2003
NT 4 Workstation -> 2k Professional -> XP Professional
Win 9x -> Win ME -> XP Home
The last part covers the transition from "Windows" to "Windows NT".
On the Mac side:
OS 8 -> OS 9 -> Nothing (thankfully)
OS X 10.0 (Cheetah, ironically) -> 10.1 (Puma) -> 10.2 (Jaguar) -> 10.3 (Panther)
A similar lineup for the Server version of each cat, except that there was a pre-Cheetah version of Server.
The improvements from one cat to the next one are comparable to the changes in 2k -> XP.
And finally, the transition you made before (XP SP1 to XP SP2) is actually comparable to the point releases of each cat (for example, 10.3.0 -> 10.3.1 ->
Yes, the problem is that when the country got it's name, the people who chose the name made a very poor choice: they didn't realize that a few decades later the rest of the continent(s) would also gain independence and form separate countries that would not be part of the Union.
So the country should better be renamed. But renaming the most powerful country, (and also a very stable one), is impossible.
Your suggestion was kind of cool, though! (Yeah, I'm kidding. Please don't get me deported for being "unAmerican".)
By linking proc to ~/proc, you will limit the use of Mono (or whatever is installed in /proc) to one user (unless you duplicate it in every user account). Programs that should be available to all users should NOT be installed in a particular user's directory. That's a terrible practice. If you are so convinced in thinking different(ly), link it to /Users/Share/proc, but then again you have an absolute path.
Whose "utter"?
To get the album covers using Clutter rapidly, you can make a smart playlist in iTunes that selects the first song of each album. Then use Clutter to jump to the next song as soon as the current CD cover is downloaded (a matter of seconds normally).
The HD format that they have been talking about is the 100 Mbps Panasonic format you mention.
Of course your Firewire equipped laptop PC can handle that bitrate, but it is *not* the 19 or 25 Mps formats that you are currently using.
iPod: 2.4" x 4.1" x 0.62"
Zen Xtra: 3" x 4.4" x 0.86"
That's an increase of 25% x 7.3% x 38.7%, or 86.1% in volume. That's almost twice the volume, far more than you think.
And that percentual increase in volume is huge: the white iPod is only 69.5% bigger than the iPod Mini (2" x 3.6" x 0.5"), and clearly the Mini has been such a success due to it's size (not so much for it's colors).
If you read his post carefully you will notice that he didn't say "buy an Xserve mini cluster". He said "follow Apple's example", and then he showed several things that Apple did right with their Workgroup Cluster.
Many of those things can be achieved by using cheaper hardware and not getting all the goodies that you don't need (e.g., the truckload of software), so you can follow Apple's example without spending $28,000.
Actually, there is no need to trick the Mac games. jht (the user you responded to) made disk images of all the CDs, so he actually doesn't need the physical disks. You can mount any number of disk images simultaneously and that works as having the CDs mounted at the same time. Additionally, he made them automount at startup, so all his son's games are automatically available all the time.
jht is complaining because you can't just copy the CDs content to a directory without some weird trick like disk images or scripts like the ones you wrote.
But fortunately, in decent operating systems that won't happen because you can't access other's files, even as an "administrator" (in that case you need to supply a password).
Of course normal Windows NT/2k/XP users can't access others' files, but in pre-XP Windows the primary user normally configures administrative privileges for himself (or administrating the machine would be hell), and many I know continue to do just that in XP although they have fast user switching... I guess they are used to it. When they trigger a Trojan/virus (and they regularly do), they affect the other users of the machine as well.
Apart from the Mac WMP's inability to play WMA files (mentioned by six replies already), iTunes always allows you to burn on CDs. (Up to 10 copies per playlist. If you need more, change the playlist. But if you do, you are probably pirating the music.)
Dont talk trash unless you really know what you are talking about....
In the USA, the term "America" refers to the United States. In other places, "America" refers to the continent, and people from other "American" countries call themselves "American". When referring to U.S. citizens, they use other terms.
This goes as far as replacing the terms in translations of Hollywood movies (which looks rather funny when the movies are subtitled). And they will look at you as if you had lost your mind if you use the America==USA definition. Also, they have never heard of a sport called "soccer".
But, well, I guess we are all entitled to have diverging opinions... :)
Vespucci did come to America, only it was South America and not North America. He was a cartographer sent by the Spanish crown to map the "New World", and he was the one who realized that it was a whole new continent, and not some part of Asia as Columbus thought. (Columbus' calculations for the distance to Asia were way off).
Therefore, Americo Vespucci was the one who actually "discovered" America (the continent), so it was eventually named after him.
Maybe the argument you disagree with is my opinion that "American" Football is a little misleading since the people of most of the countries of the continent that Americo "discovered" do not know or care about that sport.
Sports don't have to be described by their names but it's really useful (basketball, baseball, athletism...), and it's awfully confusing when the name describes a different thing.
Regarding cricket: Wherever the name 'cricket' came from - and from the various theories 'cricce', Anglo-Saxon for a stick, is the generally accepted origin. It can be assumed that it was played before it was called cricket.
Assuming that, it's a reasonable name for a game played with a (very big and heavy) stick.
(In short: yes, I agree with you).
In the other sport, a pointy object that isn't even oval shaped (called by some a ball, but that's pushing the definition of ball way too much) is only occasionally kicked, and is almost always carried or thrown by the players' arms.
Obviously, if one of these sports is to be called football, it's the first one (and most of the world does just that).
The other one could be called "American Rugby" since it certainly resembles the sport played in most other former British colonies.
I think the difference lies in the warranty and/or service contract.
Wow, that's quite impressive. I wonder why AMD and the companies that manufacture Opteron based systems don't make a bigger deal out of it.
Thanks for the info!
Humm... Could you please point me to the source of that info? I've never heard of Opterons with buses over 800 MHz shipping... Actually, the speeds you give correspond to the processor speed of current Opterons, so you are implying that the speed ratio is 1:1, which is wonderful (if true).
On the other hand, I think that dual Opteron systems share the bus, while the PPC 970's in the PowerMac G5 have separate buses, but don't quote me on that.
Apparently your friend has a faulty Mac or a very old one. I got my PB on September and I can assure you that, depending on the codec, installing it on OS X is either moving a file to /Library/Quicktime (for example the Ogg Vorbis codec), or running a normal installer that behaves exactly like the ones for Windows (DivX, 3ivX, although I suspect that the installer actually only copies the codec to the said directory and installs some unnecessary crap in /Applications). And yes, I routinely help friends to install codecs and players on their Windows PCs, so I know how the process goes.
Of course, that is if you insist on using the Quicktime player. VLC and MPlayer are trivial to install (just move an application bundle from a disc image to wherever you want), and will open almost anything you throw at them. And they do full screen in any screen (not only the main one), and are free.
One last thing: QuickTime for Mac is far superior than QT for Windows (quality-wise). Last week I gave in and bought QT Pro, and was pleasantly surprised by how much more I got for those $30, including the ability to do basic video editing, transcoding to a lot of formats (including DivX and 3ivx due to the codecs I mentioned), saving internet videos without obscure tricks... (And before you ask, QT Pro also does full screen on any monitor).
If your friend has at least Jaguar, I am willing to point him/her towards the information to configure his/her Mac properly. (Assuming you are not just trolling, of course).
Just in case you are not being sarcastic or trolling, the grandparent of your post tells you how to do it in Windows (simply enable "show hidden files and folders").
On Macs, you can use the Terminal application and copy the files in one line, then import to iTunes (or whatever you use). And for both platforms you find freeware that does this for you without getting technical.
You see, there is a classic Slashdot troll that uses to post a modified version of the parent post in Mac stories, both in Slashdot and Macslash. He usually says that it takes him 20 minutes to copy a 7 MB file in his G4 or G5, or something along those lines. The text is based on a comment made by someone in his webpage back in 1998 referring to a seriously ill PowerMac 8600.
On a second thought, the parent post is not a troll, but a parody...
After installing the "hack", you can connect the second monitor in spanning mode and set the resolution to 1280x1024. On the main (laptop) monitor a new "Arrangement" tab will appear in the Displays control panel. In it, you can drag the menu bar to the external monitor so that it becomes the main one. Then you can move the remaining windows to the external monitor and simply ignore the internal one.
After that, every time you disconnect the external monitor, the internal one will automatically become the main one and all the windows will be transported there (even the ones that are out of the 1024x768 corner). And when you reconnect it, the process is reversed. All this happens automatically, after a ~3 second delay.
If having the internal monitor you are trying to ignore at a border of the (main) external one bothers you, simply use the same "Arrangement" tab to place it at a corner of the big one. That way you minimize the possibility of having the pointer wander out.
Now, can you please tell me why you are not interested in using both monitors in a spanned desktop?
Extended warranty: Normally you get one year, with AppleCare you get three.
Extended free phone support: Normally you get 90 days, with AppleCare you get it for the full three years.
AppleCare is usually regarded as a good thing, specially for laptops. But unless you really need the phone support, it is something that can wait. You can buy it at any time during the *first* year.
So no, if you (or I) get the spots, we will NOT get screwed because our machines are still covered by the one year warranty. I would suggest that you get AppleCare sometime in this year, though...