When Miro has editing capabilities, it'll truly be remarkable considering all applications like that are mostly closed-source. It is a viewer, a easy download manager and a Library assistant serving one great idea: A true independent broadcast. It is nothing more. I would wish it could offload its downloads to other engines, preferably Azureus so it wouldn't get compared to truly advanced, high end clients for download.
It is open source, platform neutral, no shadowy fortune 500 sponsors and also politically neutral since ANYONE can start a channel. I personally wished they didn't drop the deserving "Democracy" name because of some idiotic trolls.
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You know you can add RSS feeds of torrents right... tvrss.net is your friend.
You know you can add RSS feeds of torrents right... tvrss.net is your friend. You don't get point of Miro (ex Democracy). It is not about the NBC etc. junk, it is one of first things allows true independent TV. No Akamai contracts, no cryptic RSS sites, no copying pasting torrent URLs.
That is the true intention of P2P/Torrent before they got abused by pirates and even their founders (bittorrent.com).
Given that the only popular Java application on Mac OS X, Azureus, is universally regarded as being slow, bloated, and ugly, I'd say the GP's impression is not at all outdated. I am using it on Mac Mini G4 1.42 Ghz with 1 Gig RAM. It works. The "bloat" is gone in Version 3, it is there for interested in "Advanced" tab which is off by default. I have no clue what people call "bloat", it is in fact a fire and forget type of client, it can be used without any settings.
Limewire which is another pure Java Application is always at top 10 of Apple downloads.
Java is not just file sharing. If Apple wants to make sense in business/science/military, they have to fix their Java or give it to someone who can. Linux/PPC has Java 6 for ages thanks to IBM.
Let them close it. As long as the open source community doesn't use it to distribute isos, I'm happy. In fact, Bittorrent.com is trying to make sure that MPAA/RIAA puppet ISPs don't filter their Wmedia DRM content but they can easily filter absolutely legal p2p downloads of large ISOs, open/free movies, free music. It will be like old times again... If you can't afford Akamai or a huge server farm, don't release anything free.
It is what I understand from closed source, non documented protocol extensions.
So the biggest enemy of Bittorrent became bittorrent.com itself.
If the protocol is open-sourced, I don't care if he writes a closed-source implementation. However, the current protocol that they claim to be writing isn't published on the wiki. They're keeping it a secret... so, screw BitTorrent.
I vote that we write one of our own. I've written a BitTorrent client before, and have written a protocol extension. I'm just beginning to ponder a completely new protocol. Any interest? Are you sure Bittorrent official client really breaks own bittorrent protocol with undocumented extensions?
I wouldn't care about Bram Cohen or Bittorrent.com drama but as a user of a complete open source client (Azureus), I think about filtering the effected versions and suggest Azureus guys to do same thing by default.
If they choose to become "media defender" against their own protocol, they belong to single place. IP Filters.
I use Azureus here and I noticed huge amount of outdated uTorrent clients. You know the reason? People has so little trust to original Bittorrent so they decided to wonder around with outdated software rather than installing Bittorrent one.
I haven't yet seen a up-to-date uTorrent on very popular downloads. Azureus people keep theirs updated because Azureus managed to keep a distance from MPAA while offering Vuze platform (Az 3.x).
On the other hand, here is what I see as a OS X user 1) Bittorrent offers everything in Windows Media DRM which shows a clear influence of Wmedia department of MSFT, one of the most evil MS departments you would ever see. 2) Bittorrent.com used pirate search engines to gain popularity of website showing pirated content on search results. With such a huge launch campaign, they lost the tiny credibility among big media companies. Imagine you are Sid Meier, a very important figure on game scene and you check bittorrent.com , you see "Sid Meier's.... game" spotlighted. I didn't hear Sid Meier or his publishers donating their commercial content to Bittorrent.com for free.
On many client addons for privacy, bittorrent.com trackers and DHT are filtered by default. I have checked some private trackers, they also filter those clients. When client offered by inventor of software is filtered for security, that really means trouble.
I have also seen many uTorrent fans claiming Bittorrent purchased the code because it was "too clean" and more popular than their official client.
I have purchased stuff from Vuze, commercial arm of Azureus but I will never touch bittorrent.com with my CC. I have serious questions about my privacy. Unlike such companies think, I am only downloading free, distributed, unlicensed stuff and I pay for good HD Content.
Slashdot has already a solution for large companies. Intel used it. They setup a special topic page (intel.slashdot.org) with Intel stories submitted by Intel. Besides it is obvious that Intel paid for it (it is made clear), there is a interesting side-effect. Stories have comments and they are run just like ordinary Slashdot stories. Some people (including AMD die hards) have moderation power, people can post comments being critical of the vendor and they are still safe since there is meta-moderation system in charge. Intel also showed their trust to themselves by allowing such thing and it was also mentioned couple of times.
Disclaimer: I'm a suit. A VP in a Really Huge Company, in Marketing, no less. Get your weasel on!
So, here's the pitch: you already have paid subscribers. I'm one and have been for a long time.
Sell me a Gold subscription. What do I get? HTTPS access? No thanks, my work-mandated copy of IE6 complains on every page refresh with that anyway. No, sell me what I want.
Mod points.
For USD$10 a month, I get 3 mod points a week, guaranteed.
For USD$25 a month, I get 10 mod points a week, guaranteed.
Would that destroy the socialism of/.? Probably not destroy, but possibly influence. But if that small sell-out allowed you to fend off paid content, then so be it.
Just an idea. It would generate a huge mess of conspiracy theroies. I have good reasons to believe the thing you mention is already done on a very highly dynamic site with infinite karma.
Everyone modded down would claim some corporate suit did it by donating a gold member account or something. That would mark the end of slashdot in long term.
I better say once again: people who "pays" to filter ads or https access (didn't even know it exists) doesn't really pay to filter ads. There are like 3 layers of software I am using (which is worth like $150) who would filter ads on any site. I keep them disabled and pay for being member. Why? I want to do my part of keeping site neutral, as far as it goes. I don't want to see a story attacking some other vendor while the competing vendors huge tower ad is in place on same page.
Look to Spamcop.net , they got into very major trouble with millionaire spammers and have setup a legal defense fund. Despite the fact they are owned by IronPort and IronPort is owned by Cisco giant, there are still conspiracy theroists (some actually spammers) who believes that "Donate button" is for Spammers wanting to set themselves free of Spamcop.
It sounds silly at first, but it's highlighting a fact those of us technically inclined have always known - each version of OS X is faster than the last given the same hardware. There is a trend in newly switched Windows users, especially Vista victims to ignore Leopard update thinking it will make their machine slower or it will need some extra RAM etc.
Apple is doing that on purpose, to make them understand a new OS doesn't mean that.
The story writer seems to have some pretty deep hatred for the interface changes to the dock, menu boxes, etc. Sure makes me want to skip upgrading my two 10.4 boxes. I have barely used OS X 10.2-10.4 stock desktop. Always Shapeshifter and Candybar to rescue...
Apple doesn't understand one thing: Not everyone on Earth shares others , especially Steve Jobs graphical taste.
Now I am buying a 10.5 Family Pack and will be following Unsanity weblog for first Shapeshifter beta. Candybar is easy, I bet it will only take weeks.
The theme I will use at most of the times? Gershwix of course:) Reason may surprise you and people doesn't get point of themes: It is really low profile and simple which means easy on eyes.
The story writer wouldn't spare 3 pages if Apple finally allowed "themes" and didn't come up with Sci-Fi looking ideas like 3d Dock. On 3D Dock they are breaking their _own_ interface guidelines.
Wrong. That problem would create the situation where you couldn't log into a given account because the password would be rejected. It would absolutely positively not cause a problem that manifests as not being able to log in for a few hours. Really, they're unrelated.
I am one of the persons who lived the BSOD problem back in 10.4.something days and thanks to my bug report and the responsible companies responsibility it was instantly fixed.
The BSOD they speak about is, system can't boot to windowmanager and says stuff on a Terminal like fullscreen window. When user account credentials rejected and auto login is on, a similar situation happens. System does not fallback to login screen. The FreeBSD like text only "login" (if appears) doesn't help anything, even if you give right credentials.
I am not flaming Apple on this, for example nobody on OS X developer scene knew a issue with a quicktime component may create huge problem on system which can be only recovered via rm -rf the component in single user mode. That is almost a phonemenon. I am just against the horrible FUD campaign against a freeware Framework which in some situations does great things as securing the system from zero day attacks (MOAB) or sometimes helps disabled people use OS X more conviniently.
On their semi official blog I have called them to sue at least the most popular anti-APE site for $1 to end this junk, the never seen FUD about a commercial/freeware product in IT history.
The people hating APE for some reason have even coded the first ever trojan for OS X using Input Manager functionality. For that reason, at least on connected Workstations, we have to run commercial and fairly expensive Intego Virusbarrier or other alternatives since the actual file exists and it may popup from a random place on web.
If there are people calling desktop themes etc. lame, I invite them to tell their points to Gnome, KDE and even WindowMaker which is based on same thing OS X based on. Developing a trojan to prove their point or still spreading FUD even after Leopard ships is not the way to go.
Apple have also put their users to a fair dangerous situation since they showed they can be dictated by trojan software authors what to put to their new OS upgrade. Like anything removed from OS X next upgrade? Code a trojan and spread FUD to couple of sites, Apple removes it instantly.
As a customer of them, I have warned Apple months ago that this thing they showed is a complete weakness. They should use their billions dollar law resources to trace down and sue that idiot who coded Input Manager trojan.
Apple OS X Leopard has lost a very significant feature which makes it ages ahead from competing operating systems. That is what happened.
I am glad the person coded the lame mp3 trojan couldn't force them to remove the excellently unique launch services arch. After this sign of weakness? Who knows? Maybe mp3 trojan II is coming.
Well they will ship a Leopard version of theme etc. software in a while. If I was Apple, I would even help them on the process since other alternative is overwriting system files. How many hours it would take for an advanced developer house like Unsanity to get such "backup and overwrite" method working? I'd bet for 40 hours.
They were doing a favour to Apple by living all that hassle to do things in memory.
I openly told them to stop doing favour and start binary hacking OS binaries.
The security "hole" InputManagers present can be fixed by a single chmod command and nothing else. Anyway, Apple decided to be dictated by trojan authors instead, it is their wish. Lets hope nobody codes a launch services "trojan" to make Apple ship OS X 10.6 more like backwards Linux or Windows. They already showed they can be dictated via trojan horses.
I am in process of moving to Opera 9.5 for Leopard BTW since another legit software, which is really an input manager based on every kind of term is losing functionality. Cocoa Gestures. Kudos to Apple for removing a part of $500 M NeXT instead of calling freaking FBI or extending permissions scheme to home directory.
My password is longer than 8 characters and I did a straight upgrade with no issues so this certainly isn't universally true for pw > 8 chars.
My password is longer than 8 characters and I did a straight upgrade with no issues so this certainly isn't universally true for pw > 8 chars. It is 8+ char password set in 10.2.x times and NEVER got changed in 10.3.x or 10.4.x
APE fud may be coming from people who knows how to use their system (e.g. setting 8 char pwd) also happens to get sick of same desktop look for 2 years and decide to do something about it. Safest method is Shapeshifter with APE since it runs in user mode without any OS files touched or kernel extensions added.
Tragi-comic thing is, because of some nerds hating the fact that people change how their OS looks, APE had major FUD problem. They figured it is not enough and one of them coded a trojan horse abusing Input Manager function resulting in removal of the Input Manager functionality. As you probably know, if something is not supported on major OS upgrade, it simply gets ignored. Leopard ships and Apple forgets a very basic fact that majority of Apple users upgraded to OS X in 10.2.x times and set their password back that time, it breaks because of lack of wisdom and ignorant attitude of Apple, who gets blamed? APE which is not even loaded on system init.
I only use Mac even for my hosting needs, I sometimes feel I would be happier if some parts of this community and especially FUD mongering sites who have very close connections with Apple didn't exist. Remember ActiveWin.com the disgusting MS Fanboy site which even MS hates? We have dozens of ActiveMac.coms and they are wondering around as respected publications/blogs.
my bad. APE acts like a kernel mod which is why I think of it as one. It lets you do things you "shouldn't" be able to do without a kernel mod by playing some funky games. That is where its safety comes from. It is user mode, uses Input Manager functionality to do things which normally would require kernel mods or plain old binary hacking.
Apple removed the functionality which makes APE work by the reason of one anonymous idiot coding a horribly coded Trojan horse abusing Input Managers.
I don't know if US law supports it but Unsanity should sue Macfixit or a similar FUD spreading company for $1. Let them prove APE does anything bad to OS scientifically or pay the $1.
As I am preparing for Leopard on this system, I uninstalled APE (Unsanity recommends not doing it) and see how "evil" "performance killing", "system crashing" thing APE was. No, the idiotically coded Applications still crash with trivial reasons, System still boots in exact time which it booted before and I am staring at Mr. Jobs favorite widget graphics knowing the fact that I will stare at them for a long time until Unsanity codes shapeshifter for leopard.
My FreeBSD/Debian/Slackware using nerd friends and system admins happily changes how their desktop looks but on a $190 (family license) OS, I am not allowed. I can't even change mouse pointer which I did back on Windows 95 and even X11 on AIX allows!
Apple invited thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who aren't happy with their desktop look to binary hack their OS resource files. That is what they did instead of removing InputManagers from home directory or secure them.
No, too much hassle for nothing. If you never hacked your OS binary files, just ordinarily updated via Software Update or hand downloaded disk images, there is no reason to live that hassle.
You should watch Installer.app on a large OS upgrade (via its console), it knows what it is doing and unless you have horribly broken-in-leopard startup items (e.g. non updated IM client), there is nothing on your part to do.
If you ever listened to those Macfixit.com advices which means overwriting kernel modules with older versions, you _will_ have to archive and install. Funny is, the site spreading FUD about APE for about a year is in fact responsible for horrible failures upgrading to Leopard. What happens if you mix 2.2 kernel modules with current Linux kernel? That is what they sometimes suggest.
MAcfixit.com broke the FAKE story, a FUD of "APE responsible for this". I have even risked my VT Pro, $50 year account and called the editor openly to resign.
APE has nothing to do with it. In fact, Unsanity recommends latest APE to be on OS while upgrading to Leopard since believe or not, APE is not just couple of themes or pointers, there are many companies using that functionality and their software may break when linked library is not there.
It doesn't change the fact that APE will be ignored by Leopard btw.
Macfixit has even surpassed itself and was openly called "Depictable" http://www.macjournals.com/news/despicable.html because of their horrible FUD mongering, calling people to ERASE and INSTALL and after CNET buyout, some people think they do it on purpose to make people afraid to use OS X or Mac.
If there is apple.slashdot.org, it should have better hand picked stories, no fanboy idiotic stuff, no "maccies are idiots" stuff, just "news for Mac nerds".
This story was sitting on Digg.com for hours and even couldn't make to being popular (like slashdot accepted) because people simply didn't buy it, especially APE reason.
We rarely get new non-ipod etc. stuff on Apple.slashdot.org and I wished the second one after Leopard shipment wasn't FUD with false information.
Unsanity warns you that they are making deep modifications to the user interface and patching applications dynamically when they are loaded. They are not "just apps", they are not even like Parallels which does come with a kernel extension... because it runs as a regular application otherwise. Not to mention that Apple considers Parallels a key player, but has a definite problem with Unsanity.
I'm not saying that people who are having this problem are morons, but I don't think they should be so quick to blame Apple for this... unless you're suggesting that Apple actively broke APE or something? Apple does not break APE nor APE is responsible for this. The functionality makes APE work has been REMOVED on Leopard which means it will simply IGNORE APE, won't load it.
The issue happens because of 8+ char password having user accounts created back in 10.2.x , Apple changed the hash function securing the password rendering main account unusable.
You forget to mention why people hack their OS. To get THEMES, to get MOUSE POINTERS, to make OS X act more like NeXT (WindowShade). If there is someone to blame for having to memory hack an OS to get these functionality I would look nowhere else than Apple which is a complete fascist on this matter. Gnome and KDE , especially KDE went past the "Themes" thing and you can even change the OS interaction with User without hacking anything. These Desktop environments are widely claimed to be "Nerd" things.
Unsanity could code a kernel extension just like Parallels and live the pseudo comfort on Leopard, they have chosen harder but safer way. In fact I feel obliged to say, even if Apple didn't remove the functionality which makes APE work, APE would STOP itself from loading as there is a major OS upgrade.
Apple, instead of calling FBI and Interpol about the Input Manager trojan coding moron, sick bastard or simply extent the "repair permissions" functionality to user $HOME directory, they removed their own invention from OS. Now that is another story.
The power of OS X comes from being usable as pure GUI or a pure Terminal or mix of both without losing anything. That is how Apple manages to sell Mach/FreeBSD/NeXT hybrid to general public. That's fine, but do you realise that the very same comment applies to linux, don't you? I don't think anyone's arguing with the virtues of MacOSX - we're just amused that after twenty-something years of dissing the command-line, now it's suddenly the latest and greatest thing about the Mac.:) Well I don't have any issue with command line, I like OS X having standard Unix tools to manage via command line. I just have serious issue with people who thinks everyone who doesn't care to use command line or simply doesn't see any meaning to it as "beige box idiots", "maccies".
Apple dismissed the MS-DOS command line which is simply backwards. NeXT came with the same architecture as OS X, it is Unix. MS DOS is a very different approach and it is really a great candidate to dismiss as "backwards".
Old timer Mac people, especially DTP professionals still choose GUI tools rather than command line.
I still don't get the difference from manually typing fsck -fy or letting a easy script like Applejack(sourceforge.net) manage it.
How many potential users Linux lost by dictating the need for chmod/dev/dsp 666 just to get audio old times?
Is this sarcasm that went over everyone's head? It's always the first complaint about Linux systems. "I don't want to use a command line!" (I'm a long-time user and prefer the command line for many things,though) There will be a simple Applescript utility shipped for it or that feature will be added to already working applications like Onyx (Freeware) or commercially supported Cocktail.
The people who wants a complete nerd, unusable by general public OS X will mock those utilities and their users as usual of course.
I think if Apple gets enough bad feedback about "new" Dock, they will add a better accessible (e.g. right click menu or prefpane) Dock pref for it in a next build.
The power of OS X comes from being usable as pure GUI or a pure Terminal or mix of both without losing anything. That is how Apple manages to sell Mach/FreeBSD/NeXT hybrid to general public.
"A customer called saying he was getting an error in Windows 95. He told me what the error was, and I recognized this as a typical error that occurs after installing MS Office 97.
Tech Support: "Sir, did you just install Office 97?" Customer: "YOU'RE IN MY COMPUTER, AREN'T YOU?????" (click)"
Considering how much more successful than yours his career has undoubtably been, without having had to conform to arbitrary standards of professionalism, I think it's safe to say that denouncing his work because of what he wears constitutes an almost criminal ineptitude on your part. Funny is, nobody changed the IT scene are considered very normal with formal suits. Apple boss wonders around with T-Shirts, BillG dressed awfully cheap and didn't change his eyeglasses until he got married, Woz can be easily turned down in any high end restaurant.
I have seen some article (I guess Forbes or CNET) showing 100 important figures in IT scene. It was like eccentric dressing show. There were even a cowboy guy.
Funny is someone made a career or wage with these peoples work/ideas sits in some office 9 to 5 sits there with his suit and critiques GNU Founder. A completely bureaucrat way of thinking.
Sure, ditch the suit and tie. After all, it's not like Steve Jobs wears them to special events. But why go barefoot? The guy probably wears shoes outside his home, so why take them off to get on stage and deliver a speech to respected academics?
Respectable/serious attire are necessary not to convince your audience that you are right, but to convince them that you are "normal" by everybody else's standards. It's a big part of the fight right now.. to show that crippled, proprietary code is not the norm and that it is possible to have a system based on free - or at least open - code in the "real world". To show that it's not an outrageous idea. And it doesn't help when your leaders are barefoot lunatics who dislike shampoo and don't cut their hair. That is how a Yale Academic speech makes into major Tech sites. Publicity.
The idea he started has made into billion dollar companies run by suits wearing $10k Italian stuff. They RELY on his idea. It doesn't matter if he wears shoes or not. They are running GNU software on their $100m server farms.
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It is open source, platform neutral, no shadowy fortune 500 sponsors and also politically neutral since ANYONE can start a channel. I personally wished they didn't drop the deserving "Democracy" name because of some idiotic trolls.
That is the true intention of P2P/Torrent before they got abused by pirates and even their founders (bittorrent.com).
Limewire which is another pure Java Application is always at top 10 of Apple downloads.
Java is not just file sharing. If Apple wants to make sense in business/science/military, they have to fix their Java or give it to someone who can. Linux/PPC has Java 6 for ages thanks to IBM.
It is what I understand from closed source, non documented protocol extensions.
So the biggest enemy of Bittorrent became bittorrent.com itself.
" It would be nice to see a really good real-time audio/video streaming implementation. "
Azureus guys did it. On Vuze flavour, Version 3.+
It says "Stream" on some torrents.
I think they will release specs once they believe they are completely mature. (If not already)
I vote that we write one of our own. I've written a BitTorrent client before, and have written a protocol extension. I'm just beginning to ponder a completely new protocol. Any interest? Are you sure Bittorrent official client really breaks own bittorrent protocol with undocumented extensions?
I wouldn't care about Bram Cohen or Bittorrent.com drama but as a user of a complete open source client (Azureus), I think about filtering the effected versions and suggest Azureus guys to do same thing by default.
If they choose to become "media defender" against their own protocol, they belong to single place. IP Filters.
I use Azureus here and I noticed huge amount of outdated uTorrent clients. You know the reason? People has so little trust to original Bittorrent so they decided to wonder around with outdated software rather than installing Bittorrent one.
.... game" spotlighted. I didn't hear Sid Meier or his publishers donating their commercial content to Bittorrent.com for free.
I haven't yet seen a up-to-date uTorrent on very popular downloads. Azureus people keep theirs updated because Azureus managed to keep a distance from MPAA while offering Vuze platform (Az 3.x).
On the other hand, here is what I see as a OS X user
1) Bittorrent offers everything in Windows Media DRM which shows a clear influence of Wmedia department of MSFT, one of the most evil MS departments you would ever see.
2) Bittorrent.com used pirate search engines to gain popularity of website showing pirated content on search results. With such a huge launch campaign, they lost the tiny credibility among big media companies. Imagine you are Sid Meier, a very important figure on game scene and you check bittorrent.com , you see "Sid Meier's
On many client addons for privacy, bittorrent.com trackers and DHT are filtered by default. I have checked some private trackers, they also filter those clients. When client offered by inventor of software is filtered for security, that really means trouble.
I have also seen many uTorrent fans claiming Bittorrent purchased the code because it was "too clean" and more popular than their official client.
I have purchased stuff from Vuze, commercial arm of Azureus but I will never touch bittorrent.com with my CC. I have serious questions about my privacy. Unlike such companies think, I am only downloading free, distributed, unlicensed stuff and I pay for good HD Content.
Slashdot has already a solution for large companies. Intel used it. They setup a special topic page (intel.slashdot.org) with Intel stories submitted by Intel. Besides it is obvious that Intel paid for it (it is made clear), there is a interesting side-effect. Stories have comments and they are run just like ordinary Slashdot stories. Some people (including AMD die hards) have moderation power, people can post comments being critical of the vendor and they are still safe since there is meta-moderation system in charge.
Intel also showed their trust to themselves by allowing such thing and it was also mentioned couple of times.
So, here's the pitch: you already have paid subscribers. I'm one and have been for a long time.
Sell me a Gold subscription. What do I get? HTTPS access? No thanks, my work-mandated copy of IE6 complains on every page refresh with that anyway. No, sell me what I want.
Mod points.
For USD$10 a month, I get 3 mod points a week, guaranteed.
For USD$25 a month, I get 10 mod points a week, guaranteed.
Would that destroy the socialism of
Just an idea. It would generate a huge mess of conspiracy theroies. I have good reasons to believe the thing you mention is already done on a very highly dynamic site with infinite karma.
Everyone modded down would claim some corporate suit did it by donating a gold member account or something. That would mark the end of slashdot in long term.
I better say once again: people who "pays" to filter ads or https access (didn't even know it exists) doesn't really pay to filter ads. There are like 3 layers of software I am using (which is worth like $150) who would filter ads on any site. I keep them disabled and pay for being member. Why? I want to do my part of keeping site neutral, as far as it goes. I don't want to see a story attacking some other vendor while the competing vendors huge tower ad is in place on same page.
Look to Spamcop.net , they got into very major trouble with millionaire spammers and have setup a legal defense fund. Despite the fact they are owned by IronPort and IronPort is owned by Cisco giant, there are still conspiracy theroists (some actually spammers) who believes that "Donate button" is for Spammers wanting to set themselves free of Spamcop.
Apple is doing that on purpose, to make them understand a new OS doesn't mean that.
Same people are afraid of OS X free updates too.
Apple doesn't understand one thing: Not everyone on Earth shares others , especially Steve Jobs graphical taste.
Now I am buying a 10.5 Family Pack and will be following Unsanity weblog for first Shapeshifter beta. Candybar is easy, I bet it will only take weeks.
The theme I will use at most of the times? Gershwix of course
The story writer wouldn't spare 3 pages if Apple finally allowed "themes" and didn't come up with Sci-Fi looking ideas like 3d Dock. On 3D Dock they are breaking their _own_ interface guidelines.
Wrong. That problem would create the situation where you couldn't log into a given account because the password would be rejected. It would absolutely positively not cause a problem that manifests as not being able to log in for a few hours. Really, they're unrelated.
I am one of the persons who lived the BSOD problem back in 10.4.something days and thanks to my bug report and the responsible companies responsibility it was instantly fixed.The BSOD they speak about is, system can't boot to windowmanager and says stuff on a Terminal like fullscreen window. When user account credentials rejected and auto login is on, a similar situation happens. System does not fallback to login screen. The FreeBSD like text only "login" (if appears) doesn't help anything, even if you give right credentials.
I am not flaming Apple on this, for example nobody on OS X developer scene knew a issue with a quicktime component may create huge problem on system which can be only recovered via rm -rf the component in single user mode. That is almost a phonemenon. I am just against the horrible FUD campaign against a freeware Framework which in some situations does great things as securing the system from zero day attacks (MOAB) or sometimes helps disabled people use OS X more conviniently.
On their semi official blog I have called them to sue at least the most popular anti-APE site for $1 to end this junk, the never seen FUD about a commercial/freeware product in IT history.
The people hating APE for some reason have even coded the first ever trojan for OS X using Input Manager functionality. For that reason, at least on connected Workstations, we have to run commercial and fairly expensive Intego Virusbarrier or other alternatives since the actual file exists and it may popup from a random place on web.
If there are people calling desktop themes etc. lame, I invite them to tell their points to Gnome, KDE and even WindowMaker which is based on same thing OS X based on. Developing a trojan to prove their point or still spreading FUD even after Leopard ships is not the way to go.
Apple have also put their users to a fair dangerous situation since they showed they can be dictated by trojan software authors what to put to their new OS upgrade. Like anything removed from OS X next upgrade? Code a trojan and spread FUD to couple of sites, Apple removes it instantly.
As a customer of them, I have warned Apple months ago that this thing they showed is a complete weakness. They should use their billions dollar law resources to trace down and sue that idiot who coded Input Manager trojan.
Apple OS X Leopard has lost a very significant feature which makes it ages ahead from competing operating systems. That is what happened.
I am glad the person coded the lame mp3 trojan couldn't force them to remove the excellently unique launch services arch. After this sign of weakness? Who knows? Maybe mp3 trojan II is coming.
Well they will ship a Leopard version of theme etc. software in a while. If I was Apple, I would even help them on the process since other alternative is overwriting system files. How many hours it would take for an advanced developer house like Unsanity to get such "backup and overwrite" method working? I'd bet for 40 hours.
They were doing a favour to Apple by living all that hassle to do things in memory.
I openly told them to stop doing favour and start binary hacking OS binaries.
The security "hole" InputManagers present can be fixed by a single chmod command and nothing else. Anyway, Apple decided to be dictated by trojan authors instead, it is their wish. Lets hope nobody codes a launch services "trojan" to make Apple ship OS X 10.6 more like backwards Linux or Windows. They already showed they can be dictated via trojan horses.
I am in process of moving to Opera 9.5 for Leopard BTW since another legit software, which is really an input manager based on every kind of term is losing functionality. Cocoa Gestures. Kudos to Apple for removing a part of $500 M NeXT instead of calling freaking FBI or extending permissions scheme to home directory.
APE fud may be coming from people who knows how to use their system (e.g. setting 8 char pwd) also happens to get sick of same desktop look for 2 years and decide to do something about it. Safest method is Shapeshifter with APE since it runs in user mode without any OS files touched or kernel extensions added.
Tragi-comic thing is, because of some nerds hating the fact that people change how their OS looks, APE had major FUD problem. They figured it is not enough and one of them coded a trojan horse abusing Input Manager function resulting in removal of the Input Manager functionality. As you probably know, if something is not supported on major OS upgrade, it simply gets ignored. Leopard ships and Apple forgets a very basic fact that majority of Apple users upgraded to OS X in 10.2.x times and set their password back that time, it breaks because of lack of wisdom and ignorant attitude of Apple, who gets blamed? APE which is not even loaded on system init.
I only use Mac even for my hosting needs, I sometimes feel I would be happier if some parts of this community and especially FUD mongering sites who have very close connections with Apple didn't exist. Remember ActiveWin.com the disgusting MS Fanboy site which even MS hates? We have dozens of ActiveMac.coms and they are wondering around as respected publications/blogs.
Apple removed the functionality which makes APE work by the reason of one anonymous idiot coding a horribly coded Trojan horse abusing Input Managers.
I don't know if US law supports it but Unsanity should sue Macfixit or a similar FUD spreading company for $1. Let them prove APE does anything bad to OS scientifically or pay the $1.
As I am preparing for Leopard on this system, I uninstalled APE (Unsanity recommends not doing it) and see how "evil" "performance killing", "system crashing" thing APE was. No, the idiotically coded Applications still crash with trivial reasons, System still boots in exact time which it booted before and I am staring at Mr. Jobs favorite widget graphics knowing the fact that I will stare at them for a long time until Unsanity codes shapeshifter for leopard.
My FreeBSD/Debian/Slackware using nerd friends and system admins happily changes how their desktop looks but on a $190 (family license) OS, I am not allowed. I can't even change mouse pointer which I did back on Windows 95 and even X11 on AIX allows!
Apple invited thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who aren't happy with their desktop look to binary hack their OS resource files. That is what they did instead of removing InputManagers from home directory or secure them.
No, too much hassle for nothing. If you never hacked your OS binary files, just ordinarily updated via Software Update or hand downloaded disk images, there is no reason to live that hassle.
You should watch Installer.app on a large OS upgrade (via its console), it knows what it is doing and unless you have horribly broken-in-leopard startup items (e.g. non updated IM client), there is nothing on your part to do.
If you ever listened to those Macfixit.com advices which means overwriting kernel modules with older versions, you _will_ have to archive and install. Funny is, the site spreading FUD about APE for about a year is in fact responsible for horrible failures upgrading to Leopard. What happens if you mix 2.2 kernel modules with current Linux kernel? That is what they sometimes suggest.
MAcfixit.com broke the FAKE story, a FUD of "APE responsible for this". I have even risked my VT Pro, $50 year account and called the editor openly to resign.
This thing turned out to be a password hash issue related to accounts created back in 10.2 and never changed. Documented here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306840
APE has nothing to do with it. In fact, Unsanity recommends latest APE to be on OS while upgrading to Leopard since believe or not, APE is not just couple of themes or pointers, there are many companies using that functionality and their software may break when linked library is not there.
It doesn't change the fact that APE will be ignored by Leopard btw.
Macfixit has even surpassed itself and was openly called "Depictable" http://www.macjournals.com/news/despicable.html because of their horrible FUD mongering, calling people to ERASE and INSTALL and after CNET buyout, some people think they do it on purpose to make people afraid to use OS X or Mac.
If there is apple.slashdot.org, it should have better hand picked stories, no fanboy idiotic stuff, no "maccies are idiots" stuff, just "news for Mac nerds".
This story was sitting on Digg.com for hours and even couldn't make to being popular (like slashdot accepted) because people simply didn't buy it, especially APE reason.
We rarely get new non-ipod etc. stuff on Apple.slashdot.org and I wished the second one after Leopard shipment wasn't FUD with false information.
I'm not saying that people who are having this problem are morons, but I don't think they should be so quick to blame Apple for this... unless you're suggesting that Apple actively broke APE or something? Apple does not break APE nor APE is responsible for this. The functionality makes APE work has been REMOVED on Leopard which means it will simply IGNORE APE, won't load it.
The issue happens because of 8+ char password having user accounts created back in 10.2.x , Apple changed the hash function securing the password rendering main account unusable.
You forget to mention why people hack their OS. To get THEMES, to get MOUSE POINTERS, to make OS X act more like NeXT (WindowShade). If there is someone to blame for having to memory hack an OS to get these functionality I would look nowhere else than Apple which is a complete fascist on this matter. Gnome and KDE , especially KDE went past the "Themes" thing and you can even change the OS interaction with User without hacking anything. These Desktop environments are widely claimed to be "Nerd" things.
Unsanity could code a kernel extension just like Parallels and live the pseudo comfort on Leopard, they have chosen harder but safer way. In fact I feel obliged to say, even if Apple didn't remove the functionality which makes APE work, APE would STOP itself from loading as there is a major OS upgrade.
Apple, instead of calling FBI and Interpol about the Input Manager trojan coding moron, sick bastard or simply extent the "repair permissions" functionality to user $HOME directory, they removed their own invention from OS. Now that is another story.
Apple dismissed the MS-DOS command line which is simply backwards. NeXT came with the same architecture as OS X, it is Unix. MS DOS is a very different approach and it is really a great candidate to dismiss as "backwards".
Old timer Mac people, especially DTP professionals still choose GUI tools rather than command line.
I still don't get the difference from manually typing fsck -fy or letting a easy script like Applejack(sourceforge.net) manage it.
How many potential users Linux lost by dictating the need for chmod
The people who wants a complete nerd, unusable by general public OS X will mock those utilities and their users as usual of course.
I think if Apple gets enough bad feedback about "new" Dock, they will add a better accessible (e.g. right click menu or prefpane) Dock pref for it in a next build.
The power of OS X comes from being usable as pure GUI or a pure Terminal or mix of both without losing anything. That is how Apple manages to sell Mach/FreeBSD/NeXT hybrid to general public.
Here is a treasure I bookmarked back at 2000 or something.
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_paranoia.shtml
Stuff like these:
"A customer called saying he was getting an error in Windows 95. He told me what the error was, and I recognized this as a typical error that occurs after installing MS Office 97.
Tech Support: "Sir, did you just install Office 97?"
Customer: "YOU'RE IN MY COMPUTER, AREN'T YOU?????" (click)"
I have seen some article (I guess Forbes or CNET) showing 100 important figures in IT scene. It was like eccentric dressing show. There were even a cowboy guy.
Funny is someone made a career or wage with these peoples work/ideas sits in some office 9 to 5 sits there with his suit and critiques GNU Founder. A completely bureaucrat way of thinking.
Respectable/serious attire are necessary not to convince your audience that you are right, but to convince them that you are "normal" by everybody else's standards. It's a big part of the fight right now.. to show that crippled, proprietary code is not the norm and that it is possible to have a system based on free - or at least open - code in the "real world". To show that it's not an outrageous idea. And it doesn't help when your leaders are barefoot lunatics who dislike shampoo and don't cut their hair. That is how a Yale Academic speech makes into major Tech sites. Publicity.
The idea he started has made into billion dollar companies run by suits wearing $10k Italian stuff. They RELY on his idea. It doesn't matter if he wears shoes or not. They are running GNU software on their $100m server farms.