I HATE APPLE

Perhaps that why he calls it 'bastard' and 'oh you motherfucker' so often?

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.

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.

but back on topic
I 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

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.

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?)

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...) (webmail), March 16th, 2005 10:20 AM. (Dan Perry) (link)

What are you talking about specifically?

But being able to acess X apps remotely would be cool. I wonder if the DS can do OpenGL.....

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/images/newdasher.gif

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html

I don't manage /usr/local/bin using Finder.

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.

http://slagheap.net/etherspoof/
http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fCapturePrivileges
http://www.macguru.net/~frodo/Tripwire-osx.html

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?

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>