I didn't mean that tap click is a security risk. I meant that having root in the list of available users by default would be. I agree that Apple should probably change the default in this case, since there's so little to click on at the login screen, it's unlikely anyone, even those who hate trackpad clicking, will be annoyed by an accidental click. Anyhow, I'm glad that you fixed the problem.
The trackpad click doesn't work because those are your preferences, not the root's. You'll have to log in as root and change the trackpad setting there to get the trackpad click to turn on.
I spent a couple hours earlier today reading it, and I gotta say, the article is right on about the Finder and metadata. How cool would it be if Finder had a "Keywords" utility palette that let you "tag" files in a Gmail-esque manner? Instead we get to deal with the continued inconsistent behavior of Finder. Their video of the "Smart Folder" constantly jumping around after being opened and closed is hilarious, but sadly accurate. Here's hoping the 10.5 will be the release where Apple digs up the Finder and rebuilds it from scratch in Cocoa. It seems like lately Apple's been really lax in the HIG department. (Mail 2.0 buttons, anyone?) Someone in that department needs to find religion and start cracking the whip on their projects.
Still, Tiger is really, really impressive compared to their competition. While Longhorn continues to look more and more like a cross between Copland and the White Whale, Apple delivered its project on-time and with all the features they promised. It looks like the computing mainstream is finally starting to give Apple some credit for their accomplishments, too. Even the New York Times put out an editorial about how cool it is to upgrade to Tiger! It's just interesting to think about how much more it could be.
A truly spacial Finder with real metadata? Incomparable!
People thought of bell-ing the cat in the 20th century.
Apple bell-ed it in the 21st.:D
Hopefully though, someday everything good about OS X today will be available in a GNU OS. In the long run, operating systems should be a commodity standard. Arguing about OS X v. Windows will make as much sense as arguing for Edison's AC v. Telsa's DC. We'll all have a standard, free OS that will be able to do everything right. AC in homes; DC in batteries. It all "just works."
However, that day is far in the future, and until that day, I intend to pay Apple to invent the ideas that will go into the free OS of 2015.
I'm not a programmer, so any bug I file will look exactly like a bug you file, and at this point I don't even understand the question.
Ah, now we're getting somewhere... If I may be so bold, what do you do at Apple? I (and others) have noticed you posting a lot on Slashdot-- are you here as part of a PR campaign or does Steve know that you're spending so much time here? (Of course, I haven't been looking at your timestamps, maybe you're just off the clock, but it seems like to post as much as you do, you must be posting during work.)
Feel free to ignore my question if you find it rude, but I'm just curious about why you're so open about working for Apple when you post here. I would imagine most Apple people on slashdot just try to keep their heads down and only comment on things like "build a potato gun from tin foil" and the like for fear of breaking their NDA.
Even cooler, it should be design for use on the internet with features like hyperlinks and embedded objects. That would be cool! And we wouldn't have to worry about different implementations rendering things differently, since it would be an open standard that anyone could implement! We could even use those XML documents to help us mini-applications or even entire UI structures. That would be boss!
Someone should really make some XML standards like that.
By the same token, you could say that other operating systems shouldn't have been developed, since Windows was already such a standard.
You make a strong point. As we all know, Windows was the first OS ever, and all other OSes have just been different versions of the same thing with no significant new features added in.
Anyway, no offense to you--assuming you are really an Apple employee--but the amount of new technology going into 10.4 isn't much compared to that which was (at least supposed) to go into Longhorn. Other than new developer APIs and some cool bundled applications--oh, and encrypted swap--are there any serious features added to the core OS?
Are you saying, "Other than the new APIs and features, what are the new APIs and features"?
For the record, I would say that CoreData qualifies as a pretty big feature, what with it meaning that in the future new file formats can be implemented that use all of two lines of code. CoreVideo sounds cool too, but since it's a step on the path to resolution independence.
Apparently, even though XP came out in 2001, they're still using 32x32 16-color icons for the Control Panel, Printer, and a few others. This raises a couple of interesting questions:
1) Is there a person in charge of making icons for them? 2) Is that person in a coma of some sort? 3) If not, are they paid to not draw new icons? 4) Finally, how do I sign up to not draw icons for Microsoft? It sounds like a very lucrative career path, and I'm well qualified. I've been not drawing icons for them for years!
Yeah, but the problem is market penetration. No one is going to make software that uses thumb scanners until people have them, and no one is going to buy thumb scanners until there's software that uses them.
Putting the scanner onto the encryption stick solves that problem, by integrating the software and hardware into a single unit. There's no reason the thumb scanner stick couldn't pass fingerprint info on to other applications, if there were demand for it, but of course, today there isn't.
Most users would rather buy just a thumb scanner/key instead of buying a key and a keyboard with thumb scanner and then throwing out their existing keyboard.
For a while, I used a custom.css file to block ads, and that worked really well. So well, in fact, that I felt guilty about never ever seeing any ads. So, I turned off my custom stylesheet, but also turned off plugins. Now, I don't have to worry about flash ads (the most annoying kind of ad), but when I do want to see something flash, it's just a quick cmd-, + space away. I might like it if I could turn off animated.gifs in Safari though. Does anyone know how to do that?
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I didn't mean that tap click is a security risk. I meant that having root in the list of available users by default would be. I agree that Apple should probably change the default in this case, since there's so little to click on at the login screen, it's unlikely anyone, even those who hate trackpad clicking, will be annoyed by an accidental click. Anyhow, I'm glad that you fixed the problem.
It's not enabled by default for security reasons. I forget the exact method to turn it on, but google is your friend.
The trackpad click doesn't work because those are your preferences, not the root's. You'll have to log in as root and change the trackpad setting there to get the trackpad click to turn on.
On a modern desktop OS, how often do you start the system without cron or inetd?
Oh, that's right: never.
For OS X users, combining the functions into one program that handles failure gracefully is the right call.
I'd give the link, but it's in the future.
Be careful! Pi also contains an infinite number of blueprints that look like an infinite improbability drive, but actually explode and kill you.
...now I can't get the opening theme to Deep Space 9 out of my head.
Can you apply it to multiple files at once? While preserve existing comments?
I spent a couple hours earlier today reading it, and I gotta say, the article is right on about the Finder and metadata. How cool would it be if Finder had a "Keywords" utility palette that let you "tag" files in a Gmail-esque manner? Instead we get to deal with the continued inconsistent behavior of Finder. Their video of the "Smart Folder" constantly jumping around after being opened and closed is hilarious, but sadly accurate. Here's hoping the 10.5 will be the release where Apple digs up the Finder and rebuilds it from scratch in Cocoa. It seems like lately Apple's been really lax in the HIG department. (Mail 2.0 buttons, anyone?) Someone in that department needs to find religion and start cracking the whip on their projects.
Still, Tiger is really, really impressive compared to their competition. While Longhorn continues to look more and more like a cross between Copland and the White Whale, Apple delivered its project on-time and with all the features they promised. It looks like the computing mainstream is finally starting to give Apple some credit for their accomplishments, too. Even the New York Times put out an editorial about how cool it is to upgrade to Tiger! It's just interesting to think about how much more it could be.
A truly spacial Finder with real metadata? Incomparable!
welco... AHHH!! *mauled to death by a tiger for using a slashdot cliche*
Word. I momentarily forgot that Edison lost.
But that's the problem with the new ones!
Geh, agree to disagree.
People thought of bell-ing the cat in the 20th century.
:D
Apple bell-ed it in the 21st.
Hopefully though, someday everything good about OS X today will be available in a GNU OS. In the long run, operating systems should be a commodity standard. Arguing about OS X v. Windows will make as much sense as arguing for Edison's AC v. Telsa's DC. We'll all have a standard, free OS that will be able to do everything right. AC in homes; DC in batteries. It all "just works."
However, that day is far in the future, and until that day, I intend to pay Apple to invent the ideas that will go into the free OS of 2015.
Ah, now we're getting somewhere... If I may be so bold, what do you do at Apple? I (and others) have noticed you posting a lot on Slashdot-- are you here as part of a PR campaign or does Steve know that you're spending so much time here? (Of course, I haven't been looking at your timestamps, maybe you're just off the clock, but it seems like to post as much as you do, you must be posting during work.)
Feel free to ignore my question if you find it rude, but I'm just curious about why you're so open about working for Apple when you post here. I would imagine most Apple people on slashdot just try to keep their heads down and only comment on things like "build a potato gun from tin foil" and the like for fear of breaking their NDA.
Finally, someone from Apple acknowledges that the new Mail.app toolbar icons are "nothing special." ;-p
Seriously, I like the new NSToolbar, but I hate those Mail icons. What was wrong with the old ones?
Yeah, I think it would be cool if someone made an XML based display format.
Even cooler, it should be design for use on the internet with features like hyperlinks and embedded objects. That would be cool! And we wouldn't have to worry about different implementations rendering things differently, since it would be an open standard that anyone could implement! We could even use those XML documents to help us mini-applications or even entire UI structures. That would be boss!
Someone should really make some XML standards like that.
You make a strong point. As we all know, Windows was the first OS ever, and all other OSes have just been different versions of the same thing with no significant new features added in.
To misquote Ingo Montoya, "I do not think that compound word means what you think it means."
Ironically, No one know what "Irony" means any more. Or How to capitalize. /grammar nazi
Are you saying, "Other than the new APIs and features, what are the new APIs and features"?
For the record, I would say that CoreData qualifies as a pretty big feature, what with it meaning that in the future new file formats can be implemented that use all of two lines of code. CoreVideo sounds cool too, but since it's a step on the path to resolution independence.
Apparently, even though XP came out in 2001, they're still using 32x32 16-color icons for the Control Panel, Printer, and a few others. This raises a couple of interesting questions:
1) Is there a person in charge of making icons for them?
2) Is that person in a coma of some sort?
3) If not, are they paid to not draw new icons?
4) Finally, how do I sign up to not draw icons for Microsoft? It sounds like a very lucrative career path, and I'm well qualified. I've been not drawing icons for them for years!
See, I knew the *AA people read Slashdot!!
Yeah, but the problem is market penetration. No one is going to make software that uses thumb scanners until people have them, and no one is going to buy thumb scanners until there's software that uses them.
Putting the scanner onto the encryption stick solves that problem, by integrating the software and hardware into a single unit. There's no reason the thumb scanner stick couldn't pass fingerprint info on to other applications, if there were demand for it, but of course, today there isn't.
Most users would rather buy just a thumb scanner/key instead of buying a key and a keyboard with thumb scanner and then throwing out their existing keyboard.
The installer is a full version, not an "upgrade" version, so you can install to a blank volume by booting from the CD.
For a while, I used a custom .css file to block ads, and that worked really well. So well, in fact, that I felt guilty about never ever seeing any ads. So, I turned off my custom stylesheet, but also turned off plugins. Now, I don't have to worry about flash ads (the most annoying kind of ad), but when I do want to see something flash, it's just a quick cmd-, + space away. I might like it if I could turn off animated .gifs in Safari though. Does anyone know how to do that?