I’m working on a little script in PHP to do a recursive hash on some web
directories I want to monitor. Then I thought, since I still feel a little
uncomfortable on OS X, maybe it would be useful here to watch things change and
try learn how things work. I open up terminal and to my delight
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
The GitHub for OS X app is probably the
most user friendly way to use git I’ve seen yet.
The problem with the github app is the fact that it only works for github. I
would recommend SourceTree
On 2/23/2015 6:58 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
The GitHub for OS X app is probably the
most user friendly way to use git I’ve seen yet.
The problem with the github app is the fact that it only
On Feb 23, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com
wrote:
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
The GitHub for OS X app is probably the
most user friendly way to use git I’ve seen yet.
The problem with
I put Ubuntu on my Air after this post began. Ubuntu wasn’t bad on the Air, but
a lot of custom configuration was required; custom configuration not needed
with OS X. Anyway, I ended up putting OS X back on it after a few days.
Anthony
On Feb 22, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Eric Chadbourne
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/12/2015 4:16 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
No, that's what the general public does. Apple is anti-foss, not just
neutral to FOSS when you tot up their track record.
https://www.apple.com/opensource/
On 02/11/2015 10:49 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 2/11/2015 10:27 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
a MB Air - the battery life is similar between OS X and Linux, which
is really impressive.
Not really. About half of that is not shipping a Flash player with
Safari. Apple measured an average
OS X gets the work done with minimum fuss and management/updating overhead.”
Compared to what? Certainly not gnu/linux or BSD. Many examples have already
been sited such as package management. The above sounds like something out a
marketing pamphlet.
—
Eric Chadbourne
Hi Eric,
Why would somebody want to use [OS X]?
OS X gets the work done with minimum fuss and management/updating overhead.
My machine has sailed smoothly through several OS upgrades, regular updates
are painless, the UI is stable even if the skin is adjusted from time to
time, and
On 2/13/2015 2:46 PM, Maxim Timchenko wrote:
My machine has sailed smoothly through several OS upgrades, regular updates
are painless,
If you use Adobe then you're in for a world of problems like these:
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/known-issues-mac-os-10.html
There is the
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:58:19PM -0500, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
Are you the John Hall who brought Linus to the states back in the day? If
yes, you are fascinating and if we ever bump into each other I would love to
buy you a beer and listen to stories.
You don’t have to hack around
Are you the John Hall who brought Linus to the states back in the day? If yes,
you are fascinating and if we ever bump into each other I would love to buy you
a beer and listen to stories.
You don’t have to hack around anymore to get netflix working on gnu/linux. At
least it worked for me a
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
Hi Ed,
I can understand your point on using OS X as the host OS but that is more of a
limitation of OS X and not the other operating systems.
Agreed. But that's a philosophical point, which
On 2/12/2015 1:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
I can bitch and gripe all I want about Apple's policies and how their
products are designed to benefit *them* with consumer lock-in, etc etc
blah blah. Nobody's listening.
Don't be so hard on yourself: there are people listening, but those
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
Anybody here like OS X? Why? I’m not trolling. I’m curious. Why would
somebody want to use this terrible piece of proprietary poop?
I like OSX because Running OSX as the host OS is literally
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne
It just bugs me that something simple like, I need an IRC client that doesn’t
suck
Yeah, the best solution is a mac with windows linux VM's running in it.
Every platform has some stuff that it
On 12 February 2015 at 14:46, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote:
selling more Apple products, not making the FOSS movement stronger.
No, that's what the general public does. Apple is anti-foss, not just
neutral to FOSS when you tot up their track record.
Martin,
On 2/12/2015 4:16 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
No, that's what the general public does. Apple is anti-foss, not just
neutral to FOSS when you tot up their track record.
https://www.apple.com/opensource/
http://www.opensource.apple.com/
The first link is a list of all of the FOSS projects that
Our network has iMacs, Macbook Airs, Mac Minis, and Ubuntu systems. I
like them all of them for different reasons. But in my experience, the
Macs are not as reliable under load, and applications can more easily
crash the OS (particularly MS Office).
My wife regularly runs 20 Mac applications at
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:18:44PM -0500, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
Nevertheless Apple is making incredible profits. Guess I’m wrong.
http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-14-157311cik=320193
Look for Net Sales by Product.
Apple is a phone and tablet manufacturer with a
Going back as far as '95 I've been using Linux and ever since then I've
tried over and over to use Linux on the desktop. Each time I'd have
limited success, usually the main reason for going back to Windows on the
desktop is because of some corporate software needs (most often Office,
Outlook,
Also, I should add that back in the 2009-10 timeframe, besides the MSOffice
issues. The other major issues I had were hardware related. I spent a
good deal of time dealing with wifi or printer trying to figure out how to
get them to work, or why they stopped working for unknown reasons. I'm
for the one or two instances I need it.
Anthony
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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:49:50 PM
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On 2/11/2015 10:27 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
a MB Air
Hi Ed,
I can understand your point on using OS X as the host OS but that is more of a
limitation of OS X and not the other operating systems.
How do you like vmware? I’ve been using virtualbox for years but I heard
recently there’s only one dev really maintaining it. Too big a project for
On 2/11/2015 10:18 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
Can’t imagine using this OS as a server. Where’s RMS? Help, back me bro!
Eric,
We may be able to save you.
S-L-O-W-L-Y reach in your pocket, grab your nail clippers, and cut the
white cord that is tied around your wrist. There may be places
On 2/12/2015 7:49 AM, Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
With that said, I'm not sure if I follow you. I think you're saying
that battery life isn't that good? The author of the article above is
No, I'm saying that Flash is a pig.
--
Rich P.
___
Discuss
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson
agabriels...@comcast.net wrote:
I do think Docker would make a good replacement/supplement for package
management - it is a completely self contained instance that just shares a
kernel.
Docker shares a kernel on linux distros. On
I’ve been using a mac mini for the last few months and I must say the hardware
is nice but the software is pretty bad. Push notifications in Safari (yuck),
iCloud hiccuped when I moved from gmail to protonmail, iCloud can’t backup by
directory by default, the default email client is very slow,
Hi Eric,
I like OS X because it works for me. The OS is long term stable and doesn’t
begin to flake out after a year+ of development. I do not need to focus on
installing software and getting things that should work out of the box to just
work. I also really like Xcode - it is much nicer than
Eric,
Honestly you sound a little defensive; I am not kicking your dog. I am
providing my experience, which has obviously been radically different from your
experience.
I do think Docker would make a good replacement/supplement for package
management - it is a completely self contained
Eric,
That sounds reasonable :). Good luck getting Ubuntu going on the Mini. I have
actually been thinking about putting Ubuntu or Kali on a MB Air - the battery
life is similar between OS X and Linux, which is really impressive.
Apple does make impressive profits…
Anthony
On Feb 11,
On 2/11/2015 8:22 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
I’ve been using a mac mini for the last few months and I must say the
hardware is nice but the software is pretty bad.
There was a time when I called OS X the best Unix desktop out there. I
meant it. It was NeXT with Apple's signature polish and by
Hi Anthony,
Please take my comments more as late night two beer in humor. In the end I use
all OSes to get the job done. I prefer f/oss but I’m not married to it.
You make a good point about docker. I’ve heard folks much smarter than I argue
about shared libraries and such. I honestly
On 2/11/2015 9:46 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
1) Gnu/Linux distros generally don’t “flake out”.
It does depend on what you throw at them. Then again, the last time I
was able to consistently get Linux to crash was when ext3 was still a
standalone patch and there was a memory conflict with
One problem I have with the Mac: in the enterprise, systems pretty
much have a shelf life limited to five years.
Here is where that number comes from. Apple usually drops OS X support
in new versions for a system about five years after it is made.
(Sometimes it's a little more, sometimes less.)
1) Gnu/Linux distros generally don’t “flake out”. Maybe some dev on Fedora
might ignore proprietary drivers and cause issues but that can be overcome.
Nothing flakes out in the last few years on my boxes. I have gotten OS X to
crash a few times. Today I put a 2GB file in the iCloud drive
On 2/11/2015 10:27 PM, Dr. Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
a MB Air - the battery life is similar between OS X and Linux, which
is really impressive.
Not really. About half of that is not shipping a Flash player with
Safari. Apple measured an average 40% run time improvement while web
browsing
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