Apple is so, so totally ripping off open source stuff. For instance, compare the new features of Safari 3 with Firefox 2: 1) Rip off tabs. Firefox has had them for a while. 2) Web inspector: Firefox has a very popular extension called Firebug, and the new Safari web inspector is so totally ripped off straight from Firebug, with a nice iTunesy GUI. 3) Restore previous session. I believe Firefox 1 had this, and Firefox 2+ definitely has it. So totally ripped off. In fact I think apple is very into open source, as you can see: 1) The Mac OS X kernel, Darwin, is open source. You can get the source code straight from apple. 2) Mac OS X uses OpenGL graphics software, which is self-explanatarily open source. 3) The apple developing software, XCode, uses GCC C compiler for compiling (which I believe is developed by GNU and is open source). 4) Mac OS X's shell is GNU Bash, and alot of other GNU tools come with OS X, such as: nano; emacs; and a few others. So to a certain extent, Apple is incorporating open source into their own software, and also incorporate features into their proprietary software that were originally in open source projects a long time ago. See what I mean? Open source always has the original ideas. But when you take microsoft into the argument, apple suddenly seem like the open source people. Microsoft, undoubtedly, rips off apple and that doesn't even need any examples, work them out yourself. So you can think of it as a kind of chain: first open source projects such as firefox develop the original ideas; then apple rips them off; then M$ rip off apple. Now that's what I call third rate, literally. Hooray for open source!!! And fuck M$.
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Open source always has the original ideas
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Friday, 16 November 2007
Embedded terminal
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11/16/2007 09:28:00 am
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Sunday, 30 September 2007
I am the Phsycotherapist....
If you go into a bash terminal and type "emacs" (make sure you have emacs installed), then type x at the same time as escape. Wait til the m-X appears at the bottom of the screen, and then type "doc" or "doctor" (obviously without the quotes). You should get a message saying "I am the phsycotherapist." come up. Type random stuff in, and enjoy!!!
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9/30/2007 10:24:00 pm
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sudo rm -rf
A video of someone running sudo rm -rf in the terminal window of mac os x macbook. Stupid idiot!!!

