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Snow Leopard Build 10A421 Seeded to Developers

mad102190 said:
Apparently Apple forces developers to sign these agreements of employment. So basically, everything is developed by their employees. Sorta.
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So that apple can claim Moral Rights over the software thats created when they are employee's. My company is finding out that because we are contractors when we created the software, they needs to have moral rights agreements in place for EACH client they sell the software too.
 
We all know that QuickTime X was updated to a new build in 10A421. It comes with a nice new blue icon (which btw, beats the crap out of the purple one), and the previously disgusting smaller pause button has been changed to one that is thankfully the same size as the play button:
 
MikhailT said:
It doesn't really turn it on by default for any systems that runs it just fine. You have to turn it on yourself in order to boot the kernel in 64bit mode. Which is done by adding arch=x86_64 in boot.plist file.

I don't even know why they pulled it out in the next build.

Apple has been adding 64bit kernel support to more Mac models each successive seed since WWDC build even now late in the development stage. They will continue to add more models even now. They are still working on recompiling the rest of the remaining extensions to 64bit. EFI can be updated if the processor is 64bit, that's all it need. EFI is not a concern. It's the extensions that's the concern, you need 100% of all extensions for the model to be running 64bit SL.
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Any speed difference when running in 64Bit mode?
 
Quillz said:
Not everything in Mac OS X is actually written by Apple employees, either. (iCal at one point was developed by a third-party French corporation, and the bulk of Mac OS X was from NeXTstep, Steve Jobs's post-Apple OS from the early 90s.)
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The BULK of OSX is NeXT??? Where do you get your information from? Have you even looked at the source code? You're completely wrong lol.
 
My external 3.5" IDE-disk bay does not work over Firewire on the 10A421. Didn't try it on earlier Snow Leopard builds, though it used to work on Tiger and Leopard.
 
Yaktor said:
Sir, You are a Bozo for posting a screen shot that has your hotmail address showing. On top of that, you have bad taste for using Windows Live. Jeeezz...

<knock> <knock>

Its the software police...
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Egg and my face are most certainly in alignment!

Anyway, I wasn't completely operating fully at about 1am. Also 10a411 had somehow messed up adium's ability to connect to msn for me, so that's why I had to use that abomination!

I used transmission to download ubuntu 8.10, by the way :)
 
slackpacker said:
I thought Mach Kernel was NeXT? And quite a bit of the window structure and Dock came from NeXT. How far we have come.
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The kernel is actually a really small part of the OS. The Dock idea did come from NeXT, so the whole interface could be derived from both NeXT and MacOS. But OpenSTEP isn't the bulk of OSX code.

If you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO, you could compare the source code of Darwin and and OpenSTEP just to allay your fears that it isn't the same as what NeXT made over 15 years ago...
 
slackpacker said:
I thought Mach Kernel was NeXT? And quite a bit of the window structure and Dock came from NeXT. How far we have come.
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NeXT provided some components but the vast majority were written by Apple; the display technology being the best example. With that being said, comparing 10.0 to 10.6, they have changed so much, it would be as ridiculous as comparing NT4 to Windows 7.
 
joeoreilly said:
You can now scrub through Quicktime movies by scrolling left or right on the trackpad. Hope this is new. :)
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It's not new. It was there in previous builds. What is new from Leopard is that now you can see the speed displayed.

Interesting to note, after updating to this build, the date was reset to 2001. Did this happen to anyone else? It also asked for my WiFi password which should have been remembered in Keychain.

Since you guys have been talking about 64bit apps, here's what I think:
- iTunes will go 64bit in September or so when new iPods will arrive. If 64bit makes database app load faster, that's perfect for iTunes!
- I'm expecting iLife and iWork suite to be 64bit when new versions will be released, probably in the first quarter of 2010.
- Interesting that the just released Final Cut Studio 3 is all 32bit and in Carbon. It'll be probably one to two years before they completely rewrite it in Cocoa and make it 64 bit. I'm sure they're already doing that in some secret underground lab.
 
wwwluckyro said:
It's not new. It was there in previous builds. What is new from Leopard is that now you can see the speed displayed.

Interesting to note, after updating to this build, the date was reset to 2001. Did this happen to anyone else? It also asked for my WiFi password which should have been remembered in Keychain.

Since you guys have been talking about 64bit apps, here's what I think:
- iTunes will go 64bit in September or so when new iPods will arrive. If 64bit makes database app load faster, that's perfect for iTunes!
- I'm expecting iLife and iWork suite to be 64bit when new versions will be released, probably in the first quarter of 2010.
- Interesting that the just released Final Cut Studio 3 is all 32bit and in Carbon. It'll be probably one to two years before they completely rewrite it in Cocoa and make it 64 bit. I'm sure they're already doing that in some secret underground lab.
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I hope they bring bigger iPod Classic's out; right now I have around 140GB of music and a 120GB iPod Classic :(
 
joeoreilly said:
You can now scrub through Quicktime movies by scrolling left or right on the trackpad. Hope this is new. :)
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BEAUTIFUL! Is scrubbing through video with the trackpad smooth and elegant or choppy? How about while holding the controls down? Is it about the same as old Quicktime or new and improved?

Can someone please describe? :)
 
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