Oh get over yourself! I do not need to install the music management software on my computer and not having it installed is not the end of the world. It's almost as bad as the apple updater suggesting you install Safari. Mind you, it's nowhere near as annoying about it, and it doesn't suggest that the world will end if you don't download it (but, you know, it just might...)
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Oh get over yourself! I do not need to install the music management software on my computer and not having it installed is not the end of the world. It's almost as bad as the apple updater suggesting you install Safari. Mind you, it's nowhere near as annoying about it, and it doesn't suggest that the world will end if you don't download it (but, you know, it just might...)
This is the list of typefaces available in Adobe's new Buzzword. It is really, really pretty; implemented in Flash, but when it comes to using it we discover that the two main fonts are missing - Times & Helvetica (or Times New Roman & Arial for 'softies).All the online offerings from the Adobe Beta are pretty nice, and cover the most fundamental of things, and some of the more useful features - like change tracking in Buzzword. It's all flash; so I have the fear that it will crash my browser.
It's yet to happen me on the mac, though; even though I keep losing the browser on Linux
Aargh! google chrome comes with it's own 'updater' which runs in the background checking for updates to the browser (along with the updater for google gears, I presume).
Add in the Java updater (oh, lets check once a month for updates but run 24-7)
The apple software updater
Liveupdate (probably 3)
Each of them is probably doing the same thing.
Ok. Time fricking out here people! There has got to be a better way. If only there was a single update mechanism that all these tools could use... Unfortunately, it's the built in update mechanism from Microsoft/Apple and it's closed to outside developers
As it is, most applications on the Mac perform an automated check for updates when they're launched. It's relatively painless, and works most of the time. Mind you the notification dialogs leave a lot to be desired (version n+1 is available, download here!) as opposed to a list of version n+1 changes - especially security updates.
Hopefully, they're secure and have built in mechanisms to make sure that they're not taking in a corrupted/malicious application.
Add in the Java updater (oh, lets check once a month for updates but run 24-7)
The apple software updater
Liveupdate (probably 3)
Each of them is probably doing the same thing.
- Wait until some time on the clock
- Check for a network connection
- Check if there's new code to download
- Display an obnoxious dialog saying 'Update available' with an Ok or possibly Maybe next time pair of buttons
- Download the update
- Install the update
- Require a reboot because it's changing a file that's in use
- repeat until you head explodes
Ok. Time fricking out here people! There has got to be a better way. If only there was a single update mechanism that all these tools could use... Unfortunately, it's the built in update mechanism from Microsoft/Apple and it's closed to outside developers
As it is, most applications on the Mac perform an automated check for updates when they're launched. It's relatively painless, and works most of the time. Mind you the notification dialogs leave a lot to be desired (version n+1 is available, download here!) as opposed to a list of version n+1 changes - especially security updates.
Hopefully, they're secure and have built in mechanisms to make sure that they're not taking in a corrupted/malicious application.
All the popular kids seem to be doing it. IE8 has the feature. Chrome seems nippy too.
It tells me to trust it. After all, it's a certificate that's signed by a CA that isn't in the list of known certificate authorities.I don't trust certificates. There is a list of certificate authorities a mile long stored on my computer of groups who are to be trusted when a certificate is presented. I don't know them from adam, and the certs from the Hong Kong post office are about as trusted as the ones from the Apple Root CA - get real people this is not security, this is just posturing. I trust them about as much as I trust the digital quicksand upon which they are based.
I've stopped caring anymore. The only thing that these certificates establish is a temporary private channel between me and the web server. The rest; it's just smoke and mirrors.
It's great. simply prettier and a lot more usable than Firefox 2. The awesome bar (the address bar) kicks ass. Much easier to use than the previous one. Bookmark management has been improved. The look and feel is nicer. I even 'kind of' prefer the subtle dialog box improvement which turns up at the top of the form, which is like a wide series of websites that perform the same thing themselves.
This definitely has replaced my web browsers in Windows and Linux. There's a very high chance that it will replace Safari on the Mac. The only niggle I have is that it doesn't store your passwords in the Mac keychain, which I still feel is the better place to have them.
Damn the electric fence...
This definitely has replaced my web browsers in Windows and Linux. There's a very high chance that it will replace Safari on the Mac. The only niggle I have is that it doesn't store your passwords in the Mac keychain, which I still feel is the better place to have them.
Damn the electric fence...
Short and simple: http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/<md5 hash of email address>?.
e.g. echo -e 'bob@email.com' | md5sum gives: c961431faea38ed65bfd982cf2e31bd0. Optional add-ons are size (s=<Number of pixels>), content rating (r=<g, pg, r, or x>), and default (d=<escape encoded URI of an image or one of identicon, monsterid or wavatar>).
great place to do something akin to the 'imitate a lotus notes password entry trick'.
e.g. echo -e 'bob@email.com' | md5sum gives: c961431faea38ed65bfd982cf2e31bd0. Optional add-ons are size (s=<Number of pixels>), content rating (r=<g, pg, r, or x>), and default (d=<escape encoded URI of an image or one of identicon, monsterid or wavatar>).
great place to do something akin to the 'imitate a lotus notes password entry trick'.
Apple have obviously made some significant backwards compatibility errors. Firstly, there's the firewall - altering the on-disk content of applications to make them signed when you accept them. Its an interesting approach, but it's complete pants. You don't go around altering binaries on disk. You create a detached signature! It's not really bloody difficult.
On Vista, you can see *every* rule that exists for the firewall. On Leopard, you only get to see the exceptions you created yourself.
I've been having random application crashes. They seem to be related to drag and drop operations that went wrong.
the calendar application does not want to talk to my instance of davical properly (all the calendars disappear after restarting, and I get an error every time I create a calendar). Then there's the 'the application terminated unexpectedly' - no, it didn't, I used the <Apple>Q menu item to quit the application.
Context sensitivity on the mail application is kinda limited - It doesn't detect URL links properly - I have a site that's called http://foo4/..., and all the link comes up with is http://foo. As I said, a bit limited.
Overall, though, the experience is positive. I would have preferred if apple had simply spent some more time testing the damned thing against anything other than their own applications and services.
And, as soon as they allow a replacement for .mac that can be replaced with an external, non-proprietary service I'll be a happier person
On Vista, you can see *every* rule that exists for the firewall. On Leopard, you only get to see the exceptions you created yourself.
I've been having random application crashes. They seem to be related to drag and drop operations that went wrong.
the calendar application does not want to talk to my instance of davical properly (all the calendars disappear after restarting, and I get an error every time I create a calendar). Then there's the 'the application terminated unexpectedly' - no, it didn't, I used the <Apple>Q menu item to quit the application.
Context sensitivity on the mail application is kinda limited - It doesn't detect URL links properly - I have a site that's called http://foo4/..., and all the link comes up with is http://foo. As I said, a bit limited.
Overall, though, the experience is positive. I would have preferred if apple had simply spent some more time testing the damned thing against anything other than their own applications and services.
And, as soon as they allow a replacement for .mac that can be replaced with an external, non-proprietary service I'll be a happier person
Every time you reinstall vmware it seems to recreate your network interfaces, and at the same time reassigns the ip addresses that you had set up. If you want to move them then you need to edit a file and a couple of registry entries.
The first file is %APPDATA%\VMware\vmnetdhcp.conf. On XP it's normally C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data, Under Vista that's C:\ProgramData. Note, however that when UAC is enabled, this folder experiences redirection on write by unprivileged users, so editing this file as an ordinary user will have no effect, so make sure that you use a privileged editor when altering this file.
The content you want to change are the Subnet and Range entries to match your original subnet entries you had. You can also put in entries for the domain-name and router. When you add this information it gives you the ability to mark a the subnet as identified under Vista, so you can be in an identified network, and thus be discoverable. Please note that doing this and then putting an insecure OS on the client vm is your own fault.
The other entries that need to be altered are in the registry. The first one is HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMnetLib\VMnetConfig\vmnet? entries - the IPSubnetAddress entry needs to be changed to match the entries that you set in the .conf file. The next one is a little bit tricky - it's HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetDHCP\Parameters\VirtualEthernetSegments\?, the value is HostIpAddress - and it needs to be mapped. The value is a endian-reversed representation of your address so if your ip address is 192.168.22.1 the value would be 0x0116A8C0, C0==192, a8==168, 16=22, 01=01. Use Calc to get the values that you should put in there.
Restart the service "vmware dhcp service", and then you should be OK.
The first file is %APPDATA%\VMware\vmnetdhcp.conf. On XP it's normally C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data, Under Vista that's C:\ProgramData. Note, however that when UAC is enabled, this folder experiences redirection on write by unprivileged users, so editing this file as an ordinary user will have no effect, so make sure that you use a privileged editor when altering this file.
The content you want to change are the Subnet and Range entries to match your original subnet entries you had. You can also put in entries for the domain-name and router. When you add this information it gives you the ability to mark a the subnet as identified under Vista, so you can be in an identified network, and thus be discoverable. Please note that doing this and then putting an insecure OS on the client vm is your own fault.
The other entries that need to be altered are in the registry. The first one is HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMnetLib\VMnetConfig\vmnet? entries - the IPSubnetAddress entry needs to be changed to match the entries that you set in the .conf file. The next one is a little bit tricky - it's HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetDHCP\Parameters\VirtualEthernetSegments\?, the value is HostIpAddress - and it needs to be mapped. The value is a endian-reversed representation of your address so if your ip address is 192.168.22.1 the value would be 0x0116A8C0, C0==192, a8==168, 16=22, 01=01. Use Calc to get the values that you should put in there.
Restart the service "vmware dhcp service", and then you should be OK.
For some reason even though I explicitly un-check the 'apple software update' option when installing either itunes or the bonjour service I am unsurprised to find that it has been installed.
Along with the quicktime icon in the notification area. Please respect my wishes to keep my notification area clear. It's already cluttered with the detritus of outlook, pidgin, vmware, creative X-fi, hotsync, sync manager, bluetooth, quickset, virtual daemon manager, the power status, network status, volume and the sidebar. At least I can switch off clock, volume, network and power if I so choose, and they respect my authoritay.
Along with the quicktime icon in the notification area. Please respect my wishes to keep my notification area clear. It's already cluttered with the detritus of outlook, pidgin, vmware, creative X-fi, hotsync, sync manager, bluetooth, quickset, virtual daemon manager, the power status, network status, volume and the sidebar. At least I can switch off clock, volume, network and power if I so choose, and they respect my authoritay.
I'm replaying network traffic at 1000 packets per second into a vmware client that's hosted on a vista machine. It's losing quite a few packets. the Vista OS does not appear to be losing the packets, they are simple missing on the guest operating system. This is a lot like crap, really.
Not always a problem. Except when I've got international characters in my filenames. Which seems to be quite common with the import albums I'm downloading.
Dang. There is a patcharound, but it's unsupported. Honestly, this backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass.
The next issue is cygwin/X. It's hanging on Vista. Seems to be related to dwm and the pretty aero effects and the occasional toggle to non-aero mode caused by some applications (not java 1.6, though).
Dang. There is a patcharound, but it's unsupported. Honestly, this backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass.
The next issue is cygwin/X. It's hanging on Vista. Seems to be related to dwm and the pretty aero effects and the occasional toggle to non-aero mode caused by some applications (not java 1.6, though).
Let's see. I have copernic desktop search, which injects itself into pretty much every process that's running on my desktop.
then we have the nvidia nview desktop manager, which is pretty useful in a multi-monitor setting. It also insinuates itself into every process that runs on the desktop.
The end result ... they keep hitting each other over the back of the head.
then we have the nvidia nview desktop manager, which is pretty useful in a multi-monitor setting. It also insinuates itself into every process that runs on the desktop.
The end result ... they keep hitting each other over the back of the head.
Apparently the PS3 has this new thing called 'home'. It's basically second life for all those people who bought a PS3. Or there, or something equally as silly. The benefit of it is that sony don't have to program for every GPU on the planet - they only need to get it working for the PS3 and they're golden. Everyone on the site has at least one thing in common, and they don't need to congratulate each other again and again. Based on the sweet graphics, I'm presuming that just about everything on it is small-c configurable, rather than big-c configurable (involving lots of downloading).
