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Hi, just wanted to say thanks for the idea. I setup canaries on both my wife and my own accounts after your article made the rounds.

So far no hits..

And interestingly enough to what some are complaining about the screen saver, on OS X the screen saver, desktop picture, and sound theme are bastard children with near zero updates in a decade. Straight up. But they're still customizable for people who want to.

What's wrong with that? Just provide a standard install location and let those that want to utilize it do so.

As an avid Mac OS X/Linux/Ubuntu user, I really truly don't get the direction Canonical is heading with Unity.

edit: spelling

Photostream... taking pics on the iPhone and watching them appear nearly instant in iPhoto is amazing tech.

Let's get Bay to direct it. sees guns, chases, explosions

Is your life so narrowly focused on HN that you can't take a day long break from learning about "business, entrepreneurship, or programming" and visit some other sites?

The community speaks - you have the choice to listen.

It is sad to know he won't see that project through to completion.

> But it's already been in the market for, what, 16 months? If they don't have another refresh until next year, that's a pretty long time to have one chassis.

You should see the PowerMac/Mac Pros...

Sounds like an interesting model for my workflow. Keep HN posted.

There's so much crap at that link, what exactly is the hilarity?

edit: and didn't Office:Mac take forever too?

Rosetta saw plenty of use just from Adobe apps. It took them about a year and half IIRC to release an x86 version of Photoshop.

I own a crossover. And with the newness that is Metro, yours is a better analogy.

And Windows 8 is trying to be the SUV here.

    Machine off, cold start to login screen: 6.7s
    At desktop clicking restart to login screen: 5.9s.
    Wake from sleep to login screen: 3.2s
    Lift lid to login screen: 2.8s.

Those are single run YMMV, etc.

Wish I could help other than saying don't waste time here, try another forum. HN isn't really a troubleshooting site in most cases. :)

Not disparaging them, but on my MBP/SSD Lion boots to login screen in about 2 seconds and boots to desktop w/ auto-login turned on in ~5.

No.

And many of the ones I skimmed can be set from various other GUIs as well. This is just an easy way to apply one person's set of preferences to your machine.

Thanks. That's exactly what my use of "basically" meant and FFS since this is HN I will be sure to note that in the future. :)

Oh please. Use a little common sense next time you post. Anyone who attends, what sixth grade, knows there are some rights you can't give up and my comment was merely an attempt to avoid some tired lengthy discussion of that.

From what we know the "suspect" consented to a search of his apartment. That's the end of at least this part of the story.

Sigh. I emphasized "basically" precisely to avoid this discussion.

Yes, I would think so. Anyone basically has any right to anything you allow.

Do you like whitespace? ;)

Exactly, drawing/layout is cheap, cheap, cheap on iOS devices.

Safari 5.1 warns.

I've stuck with Firefox over Chrome because I don't want Google to win the browser. But with most of the signs and some news out of the Mozilla camp having not been good lately, each piece of news nibbles at my ear just a little bit more.

The difference of course is that id has a track record.

I have a script on a port installed ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) OSX 10.7.1 that hangs in an at_exit and must be kill -9'ed.

Is this maybe a ruby-core bug?

They used to:

    * list alpha/beta software as new releases, even without the dev's consent
    * re-list software as updated, even when no updates have occurred
    * the owner has on several occasions rewritten various app descriptions
    * re-wrote and misspelled one of my company names and ignored requests to change it 
    * ban any form of in-app mature content based on "religious principles" IIRC
    * refused to list one of my apps because the owner didn't see the "utility" in in it, 
    even though Apple and VersionTracker both happily hosted 500K D/Ls..

That comes from the corrospondence I've had with the owner over the years. He's generally been a giant asshole and we finally quit updating to them several years ago.

It's always possible things have changed.

edit: format

Here's to hoping Apple and Microsoft's respective App Stores will help kill parasitic download sites (CNET and MacUpdate especially).