Posts by Mr Beardsley

Quote: The motivation for using Java was to make things less tied to Apple-only tech -- for better or worse, no-one in the enterprise market uses objective-C! I think Apple tried to compete in the Java Enterprise, but I don't think...

My hope is that Apple is letting WebObjects ride off into the sunset to be replaced by additions to Cocoa. WebObjects was cool, but porting it to Java never paid off the way Apple had hoped. It appears that Apple was using Java as a...

I'm guessing we won't see a new finder in Leopard. Why would they waste the time to add grid spacing to icons in the current finder if it was going to be replaced with something else? I may be wrong about this, but sadly I'm not...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker Not true. There's a setting for hourly backups. Excellent! Good to see the options are there.

Kickaha is correct that Time Machine uses hard links, but instead of rsync it uses the same filesystem notification mechanism spotlight uses to flag files as changed. The upside is that like spotlight your system will easily know which...

Quote: Originally Posted by drblank I am just wondering why Address Book can't become this type of app. I mean Address Book is basically a flat file database. I just want to use as few different apps. Also, has anyone found...

Quote: Originally Posted by bmyers2 I agree with what was said about BootCamp - Vista support will depend upon Apple, not M$. Here's what I want out of BootCamp v1.0: 1. Allow me to launch Windoze by doubleclicking, not...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Except that he, too, gets things confused. pt and cm ARE absolute values. He confuses that issues a couple of times. Once he says that pt is not absolute, the next time, he says that it...

For the web FreeState is right that a pixel is resolution independent. You can read from Dave Hyatt where he explains that css pixels do not equal device pixels. Kind of confusing but that's the W3C for...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker The end result of anything in Quartz is DisplayPDF, and DisplayPDF, like all PDF, is vector-based. A bitmap image (say, a Dock icon) resides in a Quartz layer (say, the Dock) is treated much in the...