D'oh. Just to test it before I submit this reply I 'option clicked' a link on this page. It downloads the link. You mean 'command click'.
I recommend adding Stand to Safari as soon as possible. It contains an option to override all requests to open a link in a new window and redirects them all to new tabs, unfocussed but you can probably alter that.
It's a very difficult setting to stop using once you're used to it.
I'd sign a petition for out of the box support for jpeg2000 image formats. This would do so much for a format that performs above itself in terms of small file sizes and full features, yet the hassle for users means the format is going to stay relatively obscure.
Instead of requiring extensions, or getting special programs to view them (I know I got ToyViewer for Panther, but now Preview can open them - I don't know if it did before Tiger) why couldn't IE7 do something reallly great for the dialup users who could have 300 KiB images reduced to 70 KiB on a typical webpage, even if the browser will still lose ground to Firefox.
To give IE7 an advantage, they could try engineer a new VHS/Betamax conflict of interest. See if there's a way to make pornographic images bigger and clearer, but smaller in filesize so the sites are a little faster, but by using jpg2000 you either need IE7, or you need to extend all your other browsers. (I'm unsure if Opera supports it out of the box either, but there are extensions for every browser now... well, except Lynx I guess).
1. insert DVD, hold Option, boot
2. select to boot from DVD
3. follow steps on screen:
a. choose operating system language; b. accept the license agreement; c. choose partition to put root on; d. choose which software you want to accompany the BSD subsystem; e. choose whether you want fonts for other alphabets and which common printer drivers to include
4. Hit continue
/* To install Panther with the minimum extras on a 8x SuperDrive takes about 1 minute for the menus, and then 4 minutes to put in the system. */
5. Go through Apple registration process
6. Cue setup screen where you can hook up an old computer by firewire and import everything with a few clicks, alternatively you can obtain copies of everything from an installation on an existing partition on the same computer.
So a clean installation can be done by a barely literate Luddite in under 6 minutes.
/*I see the humour, but didn't find it that funny. I'll get off my OS X soapbox now. */
I have more than 5,000 fonts. I tend to remove them. If I'm getting rid of them it's because they are crap. When you have that many fonts, you don't end up with much quality control.
But the point was - you can remove system fonts, leading to instability. Oh, and if you use Font Agent Pro fonts that are disabled or deactivated can auto activate and they do show up in programs.
First, if you read the article, he is hardly recommending Apple. Second,
"He spends an hour a weekend removing spy ware from his daughter's computer."
Wow, is he the last person to have heard of 'Search and Destroy' or even MS's new anti-spy ware programs? Is it really a good sign that his daughter can't keep the computer clean? If she is old enough to browse the sites that have a lot of spy ware on them (an hours worth of work every week), she should be old enough to do something about it. If not, they should have some parental controls (won't fix it, but will help). Firefox anyone?
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The translation was obtained here, and the details on the ridiculous encryption method is available from the Wiki. It's a Caesar Cipher, and about as difficult to break as reading "HAL" as "IBM" in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A more valid point would be, should a person have administrative access (with the superuser password) then even experienced users have made mistakes rendering the system unusable.
Most US and European users would think they could do without Japanese and Korean fonts for example. I'm not even sure that you need a password to remove them with Font Book. However, to do that OS X will, on next boot, cease to function - or so I read on an OS X support site before.
However, if a person has navigated to/Volumes/$(DRIVE NAME) instead of their home or other folders, and has the password, and knows how to issue a #sudo rmdir/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System# instruction in Terminal then they want to ruin the OS X system. Has such an instance ever been documented?
I presume similar system problems could be achieved by deleting important files in/Library/. Particularly in/Library/Application\ Support. Anyway, most people will find a lot of files masked in Finder by a period prefix (.DS_STORE and so on, but hardly anything that important in this case) so Move to Trash isn't an option. And rebooting OS X tends, for me, to retrieve random files from the Trash inexplicably.
Sure it's an option. Knowing nothing about his daughter, and considering the question asked of Otellini could be presumed in relation to her spyware problem, would you give a child a Gentoo x86 install disk and the link to the manual and tell her the benefits of all the different desktop environments she could choose to 'emerge' on her new platform (don't tell her that it's all console based at the start...oh and installing stuff generally isn't done by binaries, and most commands are driven by console/terminal windows, and she'll have to wrap her head around the idea of 'root' and 'sudo'.
Or give her a pretty OS with an Aqua interface, designed for its own hardware, with a maximum of 5% the number viruses that effect Windows machines, with extensive incorporation of wireless devices, internal speakers (crap as they are, the chime is nice on boot). No need for the terminal, and everything else is intuitive?
Why push Linux at ever available opportunity? It's good sure. But I don't think it's as user friendly a solution as an iMac. I think your issue would be more clearly expressed if you asked why the WSJ columnist didn't ask 'Why not Linux?', rather than positing a link between Intel and Apple (which I think was a story on the frontpage in recent days) and asking about Otellini's persuasions on the matter?
i cant get used to firefox.. it has tabs but it still likes to open new windows sometimes..
W3C considered the proposal to change the reaction existing HTML code
#<a href="..."target="_tab>
so that tabbed browsers could accomodate what Opera and Safari do, to open all new windows in tabs. If you find it too much effort to hold control/command to do the same, or right click and "Open in new tab" then that's too bad I guess.
Well I can't promise you any more details from this link, but it does comprehensive standardised speed tests (in that they're all done on platforms of comparably identical speeds - not to some software company's in house methodological standards).
And Firefox has an extensive range of plugins which allow you to tweak CSS data. It handles Flash blocking a bit better than Opera, i.e. does not require to refresh the page to play Flash. And it handles necessary ActiveX like Gmail a bit more cleanly. Tweaking the "about:config" options is a breeze, and regular updates do their best to counteract security holes.
That said, Opera is faster and you clearly know the benefits. Though I prefered v. 7.54 over the look and feel of 8.
But I'd use Safari whenever it's an option, and have no interest in browser flaming - as if anyone would:)/*general remark, not to your personally, or at all*/
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D'oh. Just to test it before I submit this reply I 'option clicked' a link on this page. It downloads the link. You mean 'command click'.
I recommend adding Stand to Safari as soon as possible. It contains an option to override all requests to open a link in a new window and redirects them all to new tabs, unfocussed but you can probably alter that.
It's a very difficult setting to stop using once you're used to it.
- support for png alpha transparency
I'd sign a petition for out of the box support for jpeg2000 image formats. This would do so much for a format that performs above itself in terms of small file sizes and full features, yet the hassle for users means the format is going to stay relatively obscure.
Instead of requiring extensions, or getting special programs to view them (I know I got ToyViewer for Panther, but now Preview can open them - I don't know if it did before Tiger) why couldn't IE7 do something reallly great for the dialup users who could have 300 KiB images reduced to 70 KiB on a typical webpage, even if the browser will still lose ground to Firefox.
To give IE7 an advantage, they could try engineer a new VHS/Betamax conflict of interest. See if there's a way to make pornographic images bigger and clearer, but smaller in filesize so the sites are a little faster, but by using jpg2000 you either need IE7, or you need to extend all your other browsers. (I'm unsure if Opera supports it out of the box either, but there are extensions for every browser now... well, except Lynx I guess).
I haven't tried to install OS X
/* To install Panther with the minimum extras on a 8x SuperDrive takes about 1 minute for the menus, and then 4 minutes to put in the system. */
/*I see the humour, but didn't find it that funny. I'll get off my OS X soapbox now. */
A brief account of installing OS X:
1. insert DVD, hold Option, boot
2. select to boot from DVD
3. follow steps on screen:
a. choose operating system language; b. accept the license agreement; c. choose partition to put root on; d. choose which software you want to accompany the BSD subsystem; e. choose whether you want fonts for other alphabets and which common printer drivers to include
4. Hit continue
5. Go through Apple registration process
6. Cue setup screen where you can hook up an old computer by firewire and import everything with a few clicks, alternatively you can obtain copies of everything from an installation on an existing partition on the same computer.
So a clean installation can be done by a barely literate Luddite in under 6 minutes.
I have more than 5,000 fonts. I tend to remove them. If I'm getting rid of them it's because they are crap. When you have that many fonts, you don't end up with much quality control. But the point was - you can remove system fonts, leading to instability. Oh, and if you use Font Agent Pro fonts that are disabled or deactivated can auto activate and they do show up in programs.
The comment reads:
An hour each week?
First, if you read the article, he is hardly recommending Apple. Second,
"He spends an hour a weekend removing spy ware from his daughter's computer."
Wow, is he the last person to have heard of 'Search and Destroy' or even MS's new anti-spy ware programs? Is it really a good sign that his daughter can't keep the computer clean? If she is old enough to browse the sites that have a lot of spy ware on them (an hours worth of work every week), she should be old enough to do something about it. If not, they should have some parental controls (won't fix it, but will help). Firefox anyone?
Anonymous ROT13 karma whor
The translation was obtained here, and the details on the ridiculous encryption method is available from the Wiki. It's a Caesar Cipher, and about as difficult to break as reading "HAL" as "IBM" in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A more valid point would be, should a person have administrative access (with the superuser password) then even experienced users have made mistakes rendering the system unusable.
/Volumes/$(DRIVE NAME) instead of their home or other folders, and has the password, and knows how to issue a #sudo rmdir /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System# instruction in Terminal then they want to ruin the OS X system. Has such an instance ever been documented?
/Library/. Particularly in /Library/Application\ Support. Anyway, most people will find a lot of files masked in Finder by a period prefix (.DS_STORE and so on, but hardly anything that important in this case) so Move to Trash isn't an option. And rebooting OS X tends, for me, to retrieve random files from the Trash inexplicably.
Most US and European users would think they could do without Japanese and Korean fonts for example. I'm not even sure that you need a password to remove them with Font Book. However, to do that OS X will, on next boot, cease to function - or so I read on an OS X support site before.
However, if a person has navigated to
I presume similar system problems could be achieved by deleting important files in
Sure it's an option. Knowing nothing about his daughter, and considering the question asked of Otellini could be presumed in relation to her spyware problem, would you give a child a Gentoo x86 install disk and the link to the manual and tell her the benefits of all the different desktop environments she could choose to 'emerge' on her new platform (don't tell her that it's all console based at the start...oh and installing stuff generally isn't done by binaries, and most commands are driven by console/terminal windows, and she'll have to wrap her head around the idea of 'root' and 'sudo'.
Or give her a pretty OS with an Aqua interface, designed for its own hardware, with a maximum of 5% the number viruses that effect Windows machines, with extensive incorporation of wireless devices, internal speakers (crap as they are, the chime is nice on boot). No need for the terminal, and everything else is intuitive?
Why push Linux at ever available opportunity? It's good sure. But I don't think it's as user friendly a solution as an iMac. I think your issue would be more clearly expressed if you asked why the WSJ columnist didn't ask 'Why not Linux?', rather than positing a link between Intel and Apple (which I think was a story on the frontpage in recent days) and asking about Otellini's persuasions on the matter?
i cant get used to firefox.. it has tabs but it still likes to open new windows sometimes.. W3C considered the proposal to change the reaction existing HTML code #<a href="..."target="_tab> so that tabbed browsers could accomodate what Opera and Safari do, to open all new windows in tabs. If you find it too much effort to hold control/command to do the same, or right click and "Open in new tab" then that's too bad I guess.
Well I can't promise you any more details from this link, but it does comprehensive standardised speed tests (in that they're all done on platforms of comparably identical speeds - not to some software company's in house methodological standards). And Firefox has an extensive range of plugins which allow you to tweak CSS data. It handles Flash blocking a bit better than Opera, i.e. does not require to refresh the page to play Flash. And it handles necessary ActiveX like Gmail a bit more cleanly. Tweaking the "about:config" options is a breeze, and regular updates do their best to counteract security holes. That said, Opera is faster and you clearly know the benefits. Though I prefered v. 7.54 over the look and feel of 8. But I'd use Safari whenever it's an option, and have no interest in browser flaming - as if anyone would :) /*general remark, not to your personally, or at all*/
As Internet Explorer is available, and ships with, OS X does this not make IE cross platform?