― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Perhaps that why he calls it 'bastard' and 'oh you motherfucker' so often?
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Also this is secondhand information, but I would suggest that the Sony VAIO line is just as "overpriced" performancewise and just as likely to have some kind of stupid hardware failure in the first two years as any Macintosh product.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I wonder how long before Linux runs and is usable with WiFi on it. It'd be cool to netboot it and use it as an X terminal.
YO STEVE WHERE ARE MY SWITCHABLE WORKSPACES THAT I CAN ASSIGN DIFFERENT BACKGROUND GRAPHICS TOO AND NAME STUPID THINGS
There's actually an API for this in OS X that a ton of the free workspace switchers use. I saw one particularly good workspace switcher that added a folder named "Desktops" to your home directory, allowing each desktop to have items unique to it as well as the global "Desktop" items.
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
but back on topicI mean seriously though why do I have to go download an extra application to make all my files visible on OS X? On Solaris I just told it to stop hiding shit and boom, even .. becomes a clickable directory. THAT'S HOW IT WORKS STEVE
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Most LCD monitor warranties require you to have a certain percentage of dead pixels before you can claim. It's usually about 5%, which is a hell of a lot given that one or two pixels in the centre of the screen can be damn offputting.
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Thinking about it, I don't think it's a flat percentage figure - and there are separate limits for dead and miscoloured pixels.
The general point - that there have to be quite a lot of dead pixels before you can think about sending the monitor back - is true, though
(and 1600x1200 TFT monitors are still vv expensive, so might have different warranties - all the TFTs I've come across in the past year or so have been 1280x1024)
xpost: well, yes. But as i said, I'm too lazy to do, like, *research* myself.
(why do you think I've got a blog?)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...) (webmail), March 16th, 2005 10:20 AM. (Dan Perry) (link)
What are you talking about specifically?
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
But being able to acess X apps remotely would be cool. I wonder if the DS can do OpenGL.....
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/images/newdasher.gif
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't manage /usr/local/bin using Finder.
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Dan, yr totally OTM.
This is the only thing on Mac's entire website that I can find that specifically references the LCD issue: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=22194 I was actually searching for the "solution" the tech offered the girl which involved "massaging" the affected area with a q-tip??? He said "the instructions on how to do it are all on the website though" and I cannot find them! Maybe he meant some other website, and not Apple's.
And yeah, I know, LCD's, they ain't gonna replace them for one or two pixels out, right? But it struck me odd that there wasn't like a 5% type of figure being thrown out, that the thing would have to be pretty much DEAD for them to even be willing to do anything at all.
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
http://slagheap.net/etherspoof/http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fCapturePrivilegeshttp://www.macguru.net/~frodo/Tripwire-osx.html
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
JON WILLIAMS HAS NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION
Jon, there is one problem with OSX that you never, ever, ever get on these threads and it leads you to argue with me or Tracer or Tom or basically anyone else who doesn't feel like having to open Terminal and remember UNIX commands and go through lengthy compile processes just to get control of their own goddamn computer that they paid $3000 for. You DON'T have to go through these hoops on Windows (post like 2000ish). You DIDN'T have to go through these hoops on older Mac OSes. You DON'T have to do this with other systems. If you WANTED to do that you could just FUCKING LOAD RED HAT INTO A MUCH CHEAPER MACHINE. That's the problem here, Jon, not whether or not you could, theoretically, go into UNIX and go through a series of commands to do xyz if you know quite a lot about UNIX. I know it's theoretically possible. I also know that I didn't have to do that on OS9 or on my PC to get it to do things I wanted to do. It shouldn't take me hours to make iTunes work the way I want it to, is what I'm saying. I shouldn't have to search the help function to figure out how to double space paragraphs in iWork. By making things "easier" they're making it harder.
Mac OSX basically has two modes: complete retard or computer scientist. For everyone who falls in between--which is the majority of what seems to be their market, old Mac users and switch over fairly-knowledgable Windows 2000/XP users--this is really super gay balls bullshit and I hope they change this little smugness phenomenon on their next OS because I'd really like a Powerbook or Powermac but quite frankly if I'm going to have to use UNIX commands and shit in a terminal app ANYWAY to get what I want done on a regular basis on the computer, I'm not going to buy a fucking Mac.
xpost because he's already spent $4000 on a computer that acts like a flakey tempermental coke head?
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
the build quality could be a whole lot better. but I have an uncle who works at apple so I get it all cheap (maintenance &.) fr free anyway < /flounces off, smug as all hell>
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
at least, off the top of my head, except oh wait Jon is going to turn all my programs into .pkgs for me and put them on .dmgs that are in .sits so it is all easy and doubleclickable
so justrm
well maybe
rmcdls
in case I want to look at the files in some of my directories BESIDES HOME for troubleshooting reasons but wait OS X always runs like a dream, troubleshooting isn't necessary! Invisible files should always stay invisible! You shouldn't be able to see that, it never needs to be touched!
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
When have you had to "look somewhere" for "troubleshooting reasons"??
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
my mom? she uses the iTMS and iPhoto a lot. She your typical end user?
haha the one time I have had to investigate some invisible files to troubleshoot things was when I realized gcc was broken and I couldn't use CPAN. Oh and a week ago when the iShockXDriver flooded my logs and flung shit everywhere.
So I guess you're right, Jon, either I should devote myself to *nix and just get my next OS for free or I should just use iTunes and iPhoto and be a happy little imbecile with no interest in any functionality other than that Apple built in. I don't see what standpoint you're even arguing from besides rabid, drooling Apple fanboy. It doesn't matter though! you win! I use MAKE, I have no right to expect that Apple let me use the Finder the way EVERY OTHER *NIX WINDOW MANAGER WORKS.
Have you ever noticed how annoying female college students who are into Franz Ferdinand are, Jon?
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link