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Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2258
I see torrents of cruft on the outside of my firewalls. One cable provider seems to have a flat ethernet of aound 5000 hosts where my cable modem...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2259
Based on what AOL tries to stuff down my disk throat, I can imagine :-). Is it possible to describe a peculiar odd behavior?...in...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2260
Not a lot. Once you're out of the M25 traffic jam, it's about 100 miles until the traffic jam at the other end. Used to be doable in about an hour; with an...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2261
No. I'm am only talking about initial error detection. Diagnosis is looking at the problem closely...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 ZS5LoW
It's not in single user mode. It's only being used by a single user. That's not at all the same thing. If you want to see the nearest thing VMS has to a single user...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2263
Of course not. No, I was trying to imply that 'GreyCloud' was that stupid. He is begining to sound like it. I don't know what his problem is, but I...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2264
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:36:08 GMT, Brian Inglis I really wouldn't know. I have dealt with COBOL only three times over the years...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2265
Thank you :-). It is this omission that has generated Micpoo OS systems. There isn't any...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2266
I expect so, because he's absolutely correct. OSX is relatively secure. There have been proof of concept trojans-virus-worms written for it. It's especially susceptable...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2267
but never ever found in the wild. big difference. you mean the kind where a hacker brakes into your house and looks for post-it-notes...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2268
No the virus was actually discovered in the wild and actually infected some system files and turned the Macs infected into spam zombies. Read all about it...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2269
denials, evasions, and rhetoric omitted..)) I've worked on both Mach and BSD (which I gather you're aware are the roots of OS X). I'm aware of their virtues and pitfalls...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2270
Yes. I see you omitted the part where they said: "Zero for Mac" So Apple says the same thing, Zero Viruses for the Mac, which is...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2271
Wegie Windows wasn't designed to be put on a network from the get go. Windows became the dominant platform over time. The Mac shed market share, like a chemo patient shed...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2272
Correct, that's why it has 99.999999999999999999% of the Viruses, it just wasn't design for how it is being used today. The Mac never had very much marketshare, maybe 16% tops, that will...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2273
Wegie disagree. the virus writers can write viruses for anything. handhelds. mobile phones. to name a few. windows suffers from stupid users (apple does as well, but there are...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2274
From the article, written by apple, which I pointed to further back in the thread. The footnote (fine print) section says: "Numbers from Sophos, a world leader in integrated threat management solutions, developing protection...
Snit's dissolutions 2275
George Graves dis·so·lu·tion Pronunciation (ds-lshn) n. 1. Decomposition into fragments or parts; disintegration. 2. Indulgence in sensual pleasures; debauchery. 3. Termination or...
Snit's dissolutions 2276
I love listening to you guys. It's f***ing hysterical. Grown men, playing liar liar pants on...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube
Consider the G4 Cube; an entirely absurd computer case with largely generic parts in it. It was highly distinctive- you knew that it was no...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2278
Daniel Johnson Actually, entirely "generic" parts, as Apple does not, and has not, ever made (Apple-)proprietary "parts" (outside of...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2279
Hence "largely". But as generic as possible, certainly. I can't agree. The Cube had no practical advantages over other form factors. It was small, but the more conventional Mac mini is...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2280
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:08:47 -0400, Daniel Johnson Which they nicked from the NeXT acquisition. Technology from 1989 isn't exactly cutting edge. Same as above. Hardly something to be proud of. If it...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2281
TheLetterK Error #1: Quartz is a C API that was not present in 1989. AGL.framework IOBluetoothUI.framework Accelerate.framework IOKit.framework AddressBook.framework InstallerPlugins.framework AppKit.framework InstantMessage.framework AppKitScripting.framework InterfaceBuilder.framework AppleScriptKit.framework JavaEmbedding.framework AppleShareClient.framework JavaVM.framework AppleShareClientCore.framework Kerberos.framework...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2282
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:24:44 -0700, imouttahere Error #1: Quartz is a graphics display layer. It is *very* heavily based on DisplayPostscript from Nextstep...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2283
TheLetterK Well, true dat I guess. CG is just about bezier curves and poo, with quite primitive text capabilities really. Short? Apple hasn't been sitting around with its thumb up its butt lo these...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2284
They reworked it pretty extensively, actually. But it doesn't matter if it is *cutting edge*; its different from Windows, Unix, et al. They haven't reworked this one...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2285
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:47:40 -0400, Daniel Johnson Yes, it's now displaying compiled postscript, instead of raw postscript. Why would you...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2286
No. If you watch it in the debugger you can see what it's doing, and there's no postscript...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2287
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:44:55 -0400, Daniel Johnson I meant how they're presented visually, since that seems to be what we're talking...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2288
I mean to include visual effects, like drawers sliding open and shut and such. And ripples. :D snip Not so. CoreImage can generate code for AltiVec or for your...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2289
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:56:05 -0400, Daniel Johnson That's not handled by the application framework. It...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2290
Sure it is. What else could handle that? snip Au contrare. It does work without a programmable GPU...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2291
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:45:19 -0400, Daniel Johnson The visual style of widgets? All the application framework needs to do (in respect...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2292
The "visual style" is a bunch of bitmaps; the *framework* is what implements the controls. This is what provides the behavior, ie, the smooth slide-out of the drawers. (At least, in...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2293
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:37:23 -0400, Daniel Johnson That's what I said--I *thought* we were talking about that 'bunch of bitmaps'. That's what I...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2294
I can't be held responsible for what *you* were talking about. :D I was talking about Aqua, and how it makes Mac OS X distinctive. This...
Aqua is a Plastic Cube! 2295
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:13:38 -0400, Daniel Johnson No, but it *breeds* new concepts, especially when married to a wide open development model. I can make a KDE desktop that would fool...
alternative web browsers... 2296
Lefty Bigfoot I used to run OmniWeb, but you have to pay for it after the trial (which, if you keep it running, can be an...
alternative web browsers... 2297
Ah! Cool! I lost track of iCab for a while. I'm currently annoyed at zillow.com, which lists estimated prices for real estate...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2298
Edwin What? Yours, of course. Well, I would, if you had enough to steal. f*** off, Edwin ;) Well, let's put an iMac G5 and an Intel Mac together, and get someone to tell which...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2299
So you mean that these "Maccies" won't admit that a Mac now comes with intel processors? It says so on www.apple.com. Sure, but they weren't defined by it. Macs once used "other" technology than IBM...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2300
Sure - having web design skills is a plus if you should use Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver outputs better looking web pages if you have design skills. Dreamweaver doesn't, however, create...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2301
You mean like you do? You keep running from this: All of them, Michael. Why is it so hard for you to comprehend that? It's easy. It's all-encompbutting. I'm sure you...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2302
What makes you think that it's something I merely think? Which is why I have. Ok - here goes - and we'll see...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2303
LOL! You're *that* stupid. The fact that you are here arguing is evidence of you 'commenting' about your design skills...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2304
More than one obvious? Which ones, specifically? You have been unable to answer that questions. These were your claims: 1. Your HTML doesn't validate - Could be interpreted as...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2305
Any 'implication' here is clearly yours. You're actually trying to sell the idea that when you asked me for proof you commented on your design...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2306
And see Michael run below, just like predicted. See? This is exactly why I don't...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2307
Incorrect, given that I have supported them since day one. You - on the other hand, fail to support your claims - as I have outlined in the paragraphs you...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2308
Both valid and correct. I did no such thing. I've explained this to you. You made the claim, not I. I couldn't care less about sites I don't...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2309
What advice, Michael? Another lie from the lie master. All of them suck, Michael. Your mac price comparison site, your...
Uh, in case you missed it, the Mac is dead... 2310
And Michael snips and runs again: What advice, Michael? Another lie from the lie master. All of them suck, Michael. Your mac price comparison site, your anxiety site, your mac-win...
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