Mac OS X (was : laptop +os =>nomika-zitimata)

[Christos Ricudis]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:30:42 +0300
Tom Diamond <thdiaman at inf.uth.gr> wrote:

> Ποιο ibook? Της Apple το iBook; Από όσο ξέρω (και όσο έψαξα εδώ στο 
> Ellada) όχι _δεν_ είναι ξεχωριστό πακέτο στο δίνουν/πουλάνε μαζί με το
> MacOS (το πολύ πολύ να μην είναι εγκατεστημένο και να σου δίνουν 
> μόνο το dvd).
> [ΟΤ]: αλλά εδώ που τα λέμε, το κόσμημα που λέγεται MacOS (κόσμημα μετά
> το Linux φυσικά ;-)))) ουδεμία σχέση έχει με τα Winblow$...

Ontws. 

To MacOS X einai ena glykytato mpastardema. 

To megalytero problhma poy sou dhmiourgei, einai oti einai MacOS X. Kai prepei na tou symperiferesai san na einai MacOS X. Ayto dhmiourgei dyo eidwn problhmata, stous MacOS users kai stous UNIX users :

1) An eisai MacOS user, prospa8eis na tou symperifer8eis san MacOS. Dedomenou oti to IQ tou mesou MacOS user einai ligo katwtero twn skyliwn tou Pavlof, molis arxisoun na ypeiserxontai leptomereies tis opoies h Apple exei kanei eksairetika kalh prospa8eia na krypsei, alla de mporei na krypsei entelws mia poy apo katw yparxei ena UNIX, trabas core du... sorry, "bomba", ston egkefalo. Einai pros timhn ths Apple wstoso poy exei kanei arketa kalh douleia s'ayto ton tomea - oi power MacOS users (a contradiction in terms, indeed) ta bgazoun mia xara pera me to MacOS X. Ypopsiazomai oti oi ypoloipoi de 8eloun kan na to blepoyn mprosta tous. 

2) An eisai UNIX user, prospa8eis na tou symperifer8eis san UNIX. Kai katalabaineis sxedon amesws oti einai ftiagmeno gia na prospa8ei anepityxws na dieykolynei th zwh tou mesou MacOS user, oxi th dikia 
sou :

"Kalhmera sas. PAM exete?" 

"Nai, exoume, alla den to xrhsimopoioume"

"To home directory moy?" 

"A, nai, sto /Users/ einai" 

"...kai to /var/?..." 

"POIO /var/?" 

"Ma... UNIX den eisai?" 

"MacOSX eimai" 

"Kala, entaksei. Ti exeis sto /etc/?"

"Tipota. Ola einai sthn netinfo database gia na mporoume na ta kanoume manage me ena MacOS-user friendly tropo. 8a prepei na to energopoihsete, h diadikasia einai ligo pio periplokh apo neyroxeirourgikh epembash se ekswghino bebaia, alla etsi ki alliws kanenas MacOS user de 8a 8ele na to kanei ayto". 

"Ouf. OK, gimme X" 

"X? A, ennoeite ekeino to pepalaiwmeno para8yriko periballon. Dystyxws h xrhsh tou apaitouse tria koumpia sto pontiki, kai htan adynato na ma8oume tous MacOS users na xrhsimopoioyn panw apo ena. Gi ayto to antikatasthsame me to panemorfo yperoxo Aqua. A, petaksame kai to network transparency. Htan axrhsto etsi ki alliws, kanenas MacOS user den to xrhsimopoiouse". 

"Nai, alla egw 8elw na kanw kapoio development, kai kserete, kserw GTK+" 
"GT-ti? Den akousa. Telos pantwn, den peirazei - eiste developer? A, yperoxa, 8a xrhsimopoihsete tote tis Cococarbon biblio8hkes mas poy kanoyn ta panta. Olo to API perigrafetai s'ayto to yperoxo egxeiridio 2340587340 selidwn. Den einai panemorfh h Objective C?" 

"...Objective WHAT?" 

"DEN KSERETE OBJECTIVE C? Mh stenaxwrieste, einai paneykolo na th ma8ete, toso eykolo poy de 8a sas stenaxwrhsei ka8olou to gegonos oti den prokeitai na th xrhsimopoihsete pote kai poy8ena allou se kanena allo proj...." 

"....Nai, entaksei, entaksei, katalaba. Miso lepto na brw to Debian/PPC  netinstall CD...." 

Mh me parekshgeite. To latreyw to MacOS X.  

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Christos Ricudis				ricudis at itc.auth.gr
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Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, GREECE