> Apple's PR machine is telling everyone that only Steve Jobs matters
Sources please? Media hype may be telling everyone, but Apple PR doesn't. Just like Apple was attacked for hyping the iPhone, while all they did was 1 announcement at a keynote and 1 press release; the hype was from the media, which apparently didn't have better things to cover.
Of course Pystar can sell hardware capable of running OSX. What they can't do is create OSX. Part of Apple's hardware price is covering the R&D for creating OSX. In buying Apple hardware the purchaser is also buying the right to run OSX as created by Apple.
Sorry; I must admit a little knowledge of (non-USA) geography is useful here. Add a little history for flavour.
There is the slight issue of natural gas & oil resources in the
Caspian Sea, bordering on Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. A pipeline through Afghanistan is the shortest route to get that oil to more civilized, democracy-loving nations.
Efforts to revive the trans-Afghanistan pipeline began soon after the U.S. incursion into that country. The pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan was first discussed in the late-1990s, with a consortium led by Unocal pushing the project.
Hamed Karzai worked as a consultant for the huge US oil group Unocal, which had supported the Taleban movement and sought to construct a pipeline to transport oil and gas from the Islamic republics of Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. He is now president in Afghanistan.
Vice President Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world's largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron. Halliburton's global network of investments includes projects in politically volatile areas including the Caspian Sea region. Dick Cheney was instrumental in negotiating a Caspian Sea pipeline for Chevron. The Bush Administration declared war in Afghanistan, not necessarily to combat terrorism, but to make it possible for U.S. oil interests to construct gas and oil pipelines from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to Pakistani harbors on the Indian Ocean
From 1989 to 1992 National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was on the board of directors of Chevron, and was its main expert on Kazakhstan.
Even Bush himself is rumoured to have some connections to oil... (though never very succesfully)
The very point of these carriers will be to help control the regions on earth where the last oil is to be had. As is obviously already happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Jobs worked at Apple for several years with an annual salary of $1, and this earned him a listing in Guinness World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer". At the 2001 keynote speech of Macworld Expo in San Francisco, the company dropped the "interim" from his title. His current salary at Apple officially remains $1 per year, although he has traditionally been the recipient of a number of lucrative "executive gifts" from the board, including a $90 million jet in 1999, and just under 30 million shares of restricted stock in 2000-2002. As such, Jobs is well compensated for his efforts at Apple despite the nominal one-dollar salary.
Moving slightly offtopic here, but Paxman asked Howard the question "Did you threaten to overrule him?" 12 times, according to Newsnight: Paxman versus Howard (includes the video!)
In it, Jeremy asked Mr Howard the same question 12 times - not the widely believed 14 times. The interview was first broadcast on 13 May 1997
I assume by "firewall by default" you mean "comes with firewall running by default", which should be fine if there are also no services running...
OSX, of course, has a firewall out of the box; but both it and all network services are off by default. Furthermore, with a clean install there are no options along the way to turn firewall or services on.
both Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) and Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) come with bash installed; and in Panther, it is the default shell.
for a simple backup script, bash is not essential of course, though if you prefer it's easy to install in 10.1 or earlier. (Upgrading to 10.3 is an even beter idea;-)
Apple also offers its.Mac subscribers a backup program called... wait for it... Backup ! But that's more suited for simpler needs, probably doesn't support tape drives let alone tape jukeboxes/auto-loaders.
Unix scripts, rsync and external harddisks may be cheaper, but I for one welcome more "industrial-strenght" options, simply because it helps with platform mindshare.
Dr. Bull says, "It gives people totally private worlds." While that may be true, it also removes people from social interaction, which is vital for mental health
Too much social interaction is bad for mental health. We are, in the most literal sense, still animals, products of millions of years of evolution, with deeprooted survival instincts.
Every unknown living entity we encounter needs to be assessed, subcounsciously, as to whether it is a potential threat to our wellbeing. Thus moving through large crowds of unknown people in modern cities is very tiring & stressfull, even though we don't realize why.
iPods or drugs can numb the effect, and be a positive influence... "reality is for people who can't handle drugs". Those who buy competing brands instead of iPods have no mental health to start with, so they're lost anyway
sudo tar -cvPpf dockbackup.tar/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/
will create a backup of the Dock, and:
sudo tar -xvPpf dockbackup.tar
will restore it. You need to make the backup before installing 10.2.8, obviously, or on another not-yet-updated machine.
TransparentDock apparently can make a backup itself as well, and restore it... but I was just helping a user who had already deleted the TransparentDock app in trying to solve the problem;-)
use the option key (with a step-like icon, also mis-labelled "alt" on some keyboards)
As we're so intensly discussing the option/alt key, here's a little-known fact: the icon for that key does not symbolize a "step", but a train-track-switch.
So it's the spot where a train has the "option" (choice), to take an "alt"ernative route: to go left or right. This symbolizes what use of the option key nearly always comes down to: do the same thing in a slightly different way.
Once you know it, it's very logical, but it's one of those rare cases where Apple's visual design hasn't succeeded in being obvious to users in general.
The option key has many very powerfull other uses, for instance: - option-command-W closes *all* windows - option-command-M minimizes *all* windows - option-double-click on a folder opens the folder but also closes the parent folder
Not everyone is sitting at 10.2.5. New computers on the shelf, as an example, are at 10.2.3.
Like I said: The too-long list in the parent is probably the full list of changes from 10.2 to 10.2.6. What part of 'probably' in the parent caused you confusion;-?
But seriously, in the context of this specific update that's just come out it's not very interesting (not to say misleading) to list all changes of earlier updates, attributing them all to 10.2.6.
For the specific changes from 10.2.1 to 10.2.5, if that's what you're interested in, just check these Apple knowledgebase articles: 107036, 107140, 107263, 107362, 25405 (for instance 107036)
I could make you a list of changes since 10.0, or even Mac OS 7.5.... that would look even more impressive. But it wouldn't help anybody much.
The above list is not correct for the 10.2.6 update. Software Update just says:
The 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: Address Book, Graphics, Printing, OpenGL, and PC Card and USB hub device compatibility.
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25448
The too-long list in the parent is probably the full list of changes from 10.2 to 10.2.6
It can be more than a portable HD: you can even startup your computer (Mac) from the iPod, either in OS 9 or OS X.
I fix Mac for clients; it's fun to walk in the door using the iPod as an MP3-player, then attach FireWire and boot & fix their system from the iPod. And make an emergency backup to the iPod if necessary.
And iPods cans also double, euh triple as (readonly) PDA's
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> Apple's PR machine is telling everyone that only Steve Jobs matters
Sources please? Media hype may be telling everyone, but Apple PR doesn't. Just like Apple was attacked for hyping the iPhone, while all they did was 1 announcement at a keynote and 1 press release; the hype was from the media, which apparently didn't have better things to cover.
Of course Pystar can sell hardware capable of running OSX. What they can't do is create OSX. Part of Apple's hardware price is covering the R&D for creating OSX. In buying Apple hardware the purchaser is also buying the right to run OSX as created by Apple.
Journalist: "Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Western civilization?"
Ghandi: "I think it would be a very good idea"
Sorry; I must admit a little knowledge of (non-USA) geography is useful here. Add a little history for flavour.
There is the slight issue of natural gas & oil resources in the Caspian Sea, bordering on Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. A pipeline through Afghanistan is the shortest route to get that oil to more civilized, democracy-loving nations.
Efforts to revive the trans-Afghanistan pipeline began soon after the U.S. incursion into that country. The pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan was first discussed in the late-1990s, with a consortium led by Unocal pushing the project.
Hamed Karzai worked as a consultant for the huge US oil group Unocal, which had supported the Taleban movement and sought to construct a pipeline to transport oil and gas from the Islamic republics of Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. He is now president in Afghanistan.
Vice President Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world's largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron. Halliburton's global network of investments includes projects in politically volatile areas including the Caspian Sea region. Dick Cheney was instrumental in negotiating a Caspian Sea pipeline for Chevron. The Bush Administration declared war in Afghanistan, not necessarily to combat terrorism, but to make it possible for U.S. oil interests to construct gas and oil pipelines from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to Pakistani harbors on the Indian Ocean
From 1989 to 1992 National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was on the board of directors of Chevron, and was its main expert on Kazakhstan.
Even Bush himself is rumoured to have some connections to oil... (though never very succesfully)
The very point of these carriers will be to help control the regions on earth where the last oil is to be had. As is obviously already happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.
they also get access (being old steady allies) to really fancy avionics and electronics packages which have no peer in the world of weaponry
But which do not manage to intercept 4 big planes flying around for over an hour. There may of course be other explanations for this.
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Jobs could be milking Apple for a lot more than $1 per year, if he was really motivated by money....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Jobs worked at Apple for several years with an annual salary of $1, and this earned him a listing in Guinness World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer". At the 2001 keynote speech of Macworld Expo in San Francisco, the company dropped the "interim" from his title. His current salary at Apple officially remains $1 per year, although he has traditionally been the recipient of a number of lucrative "executive gifts" from the board, including a $90 million jet in 1999, and just under 30 million shares of restricted stock in 2000-2002. As such, Jobs is well compensated for his efforts at Apple despite the nominal one-dollar salary.
Moving slightly offtopic here, but Paxman asked Howard the question "Did you threaten to overrule him?" 12 times, according to Newsnight: Paxman versus Howard (includes the video!)
In it, Jeremy asked Mr Howard the same question 12 times - not the widely believed 14 times. The interview was first broadcast on 13 May 1997
OSX, of course, has a firewall out of the box; but both it and all network services are off by default. Furthermore, with a clean install there are no options along the way to turn firewall or services on.
Maybe your "handle" being "IO ERROR" has something to do with this ;-?
the default rsync included with OS X isn't aware of resource forks at all...
RSyncX will copy resource forks, but only to another OS X system running RSyncX with a HFS(+) filesystem.
I do not believe that all OS X come with bash
;-)
.Mac subscribers a backup program called... wait for it... Backup ! But that's more suited for simpler needs, probably doesn't support tape drives let alone tape jukeboxes/auto-loaders.
both Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) and Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) come with bash installed; and in Panther, it is the default shell.
for a simple backup script, bash is not essential of course, though if you prefer it's easy to install in 10.1 or earlier. (Upgrading to 10.3 is an even beter idea
Apple also offers its
Unix scripts, rsync and external harddisks may be cheaper, but I for one welcome more "industrial-strenght" options, simply because it helps with platform mindshare.
Dr. Bull says, "It gives people totally private worlds." While that may be true, it also removes people from social interaction, which is vital for mental health
Too much social interaction is bad for mental health. We are, in the most literal sense, still animals, products of millions of years of evolution, with deeprooted survival instincts.
Every unknown living entity we encounter needs to be assessed, subcounsciously, as to whether it is a potential threat to our wellbeing. Thus moving through large crowds of unknown people in modern cities is very tiring & stressfull, even though we don't realize why.
iPods or drugs can numb the effect, and be a positive influence... "reality is for people who can't handle drugs". Those who buy competing brands instead of iPods have no mental health to start with, so they're lost anyway
The terminal command:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/
;-)
sudo tar -cvPpf dockbackup.tar
will create a backup of the Dock, and:
sudo tar -xvPpf dockbackup.tar
will restore it. You need to make the backup before installing 10.2.8, obviously, or on another not-yet-updated machine.
TransparentDock apparently can make a backup itself as well, and restore it... but I was just helping a user who had already deleted the TransparentDock app in trying to solve the problem
use the option key (with a step-like icon, also mis-labelled "alt" on some keyboards)
As we're so intensly discussing the option/alt key, here's a little-known fact: the icon for that key does not symbolize a "step", but a train-track-switch.
So it's the spot where a train has the "option" (choice), to take an "alt"ernative route: to go left or right. This symbolizes what use of the option key nearly always comes down to: do the same thing in a slightly different way.
Once you know it, it's very logical, but it's one of those rare cases where Apple's visual design hasn't succeeded in being obvious to users in general.
The option key has many very powerfull other uses, for instance:
- option-command-W closes *all* windows
- option-command-M minimizes *all* windows
- option-double-click on a folder opens the folder but also closes the parent folder
To answer own question, the very long list is indeed here 70174, but it's for the Combo Updater which lists all changes since 10.2
It's not Apple's list actually, but a copy/paste from www.macintouch.com website
If it's Apple's list, please tell us where on Apple's website we can find that list.
Not everyone is sitting at 10.2.5. New computers on the shelf, as an example, are at 10.2.3.
;-?
Like I said: The too-long list in the parent is probably the full list of changes from 10.2 to 10.2.6. What part of 'probably' in the parent caused you confusion
But seriously, in the context of this specific update that's just come out it's not very interesting (not to say misleading) to list all changes of earlier updates, attributing them all to 10.2.6.
For the specific changes from 10.2.1 to 10.2.5, if that's what you're interested in, just check these Apple knowledgebase articles: 107036, 107140, 107263, 107362, 25405 (for instance 107036)
I could make you a list of changes since 10.0, or even Mac OS 7.5.... that would look even more impressive. But it wouldn't help anybody much.
The above list is not correct for the 10.2.6 update. Software Update just says:
The 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: Address Book, Graphics, Printing, OpenGL, and PC Card and USB hub device compatibility.
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25448
The too-long list in the parent is probably the full list of changes from 10.2 to 10.2.6
Then, wonder off and get TeXShop
;-)
TeXShop runs just fine without X11
1. ???
2. ProFit !!!
3. ???
It can be more than a portable HD: you can even startup your computer (Mac) from the iPod, either in OS 9 or OS X.
I fix Mac for clients; it's fun to walk in the door using the iPod as an MP3-player, then attach FireWire and boot & fix their system from the iPod. And make an emergency backup to the iPod if necessary.
And iPods cans also double, euh triple as (readonly) PDA's
The article seems to mention FreeBSD rather than Linux....