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Apple Job Posting Suggests 'Revolutionary' New Mac OS X Feature
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Really, does anyone know how to disable this? Very annoying, having this whenever I upload zip files onto a server or send them to others.
Right so following your logic it's okay for an OS to generate misc. files as long as they're hidden within said OS. Yes I know Windows also generates the stupid thumbs.db file when there are a bunch of images, but it really shouldn't.
Now that FTP was brought up. Apple really needs to make vsftpd the default FTP server: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
Its the most secure. While they are at it they need to add a File Sharing GUI, so you can monitor users and file transfers over AFP, FTP/SFTP, SMB etc... so you can know when they received the file along with logging that activity with relevant info, IP user, file, time, date etc...
Its the most secure. While they are at it they need to add a File Sharing GUI, so you can monitor users and file transfers over AFP, FTP/SFTP, SMB etc... so you can know when they received the file along with logging that activity with relevant info, IP user, file, time, date etc...
I've got sore shoulders just thinking about it, and my eyes are watering thinking of staring through the finger smudges.
Don't want no touch screen, give me thought control!
You could not be more wrong. I've bought my first Mac one month ago, and I did because of the system. With the same money I could buy a more powerful Sony Vaio, but I'm tired of Microsoft and that's why I went for a Mac. Not for the hardware.
They will use our system resources while we are connected to the Internet to compute large amount of data and dominate the world
Apple?
Is there a CRACKER factory that doesn't believe their next snack product is "exciting" and "revolutionary"?
Whatever it is, it better include, as mentioned earlier, RESOLUTION INDEPENDENCE...it has to, it must!
And maybe a 3D desktop...
Apple has often said "never been done before" when what they really mean is "never been done WELL before."
This is known as "Applespeak."
And maybe a 3D desktop...
Apple has often said "never been done before" when what they really mean is "never been done WELL before."
This is known as "Applespeak."
I have two revolutionary new features for ya
1. Start with 10.7 make everything backwards compatible to the previous OS. Of course this is not likely to happen because the software developers have a sweet deal. People upgrade their OS early two years or so and software developers upgrade their programs for the new OS (usually for a price of course.) Or people don't upgrade the OS but the OS quickly becomes out dated in matter of years. However I'm tired of upgrading the OS and a lot of programs don't work anymore.
2. Apple could develop their whine technology a lot more. So OSX could run the ugly Windows applications without Windows. This could be awesome for games. However then PC fans would be only forced to complain about Apple's prices.
1. Start with 10.7 make everything backwards compatible to the previous OS. Of course this is not likely to happen because the software developers have a sweet deal. People upgrade their OS early two years or so and software developers upgrade their programs for the new OS (usually for a price of course.) Or people don't upgrade the OS but the OS quickly becomes out dated in matter of years. However I'm tired of upgrading the OS and a lot of programs don't work anymore.
2. Apple could develop their whine technology a lot more. So OSX could run the ugly Windows applications without Windows. This could be awesome for games. However then PC fans would be only forced to complain about Apple's prices.
can't wait to see what this feature will be. sounds like it might have something to do with apple's new data center though
+1 for resolution independence. Using a 1680 x 1050 display on a 15" MBP, I love the higher resolution, but some controls and buttons are simply too small.
I'm trying Chromium OS with Parallels and I have to say: I will never use a OS 100% cloud based.
Apple has a habit of posting non-existant jobs then interviewing lots of people to get free ideas. This may be another one of those.
I'm not sure where your mind is right now, but would you PAY for a software that shows ads?
ha-ha.
You don't need an engineer for that. You just need some mushrooms
I didn't say it was OK, and I did say it wasn't.
It's the resource fork for the archive. You have resource forks and extended attributes in the whole filesystem, but because your Mac understands them (and understands that its system metadata meant to be hidden) you never see them. Remember that your Mac assumes you want an archive to be able to be exactly recreated for use on this or another Mac; not just have the files compressed and stored. The problem, flipped on its head, is that the Windows unzip utilities don't know how to correctly interpret the .DS_Store file or the __MACOSX folder.
There are donationware automator scripts out there to (sort of) automate this for you, there are also paid applications. Or just use "zip" from the command shell. (Or create an automator script to rename the .DS_Store to thumbs.db... LOL!)
Just be aware that you are stripping metadata that is useful to OS X from the files, so only use that if you are creating files that will be used on a Windows machine.
But for anyone lurking, it is still pronounced "oh ess ten".
(Cheap parlor trick: Type "OS X" in TextEdit, highlight it, then from the TextEdit menu select Services -> Speech -> Start Speaking Text.)