FWIW, If you want to see something that's "stuck", just look at the console in windows.
Even the new-fangled power shell still runs in the same prehistoric window, and the hacks needed in tools like JLine to do anything sensible with it are simply mind-bending. And don't even get me started on the pain of copying/pasting at the console... On 15 July 2011 15:19, PhilDin <philb%[email protected]> wrote: > This rant seems awfully misplaced but I'm going to give the benefit of > the doubt and assume it's not just trolling. > > Firstly, there is nothing unix-y about not handling archives. I seem > to remember my KDE 2.0 desktop could do this using the ioslaves > framework and that was around 2001. I would be very surprised if Gnome > didn't have similar functionality. > > If OSX can't handle the specific format provided by eclipse then you > might raise this with Apple for not supporting the format or with the > Eclipse foundation for picking an unsupported format (unless you're > saying that no archive format is supported by OSX but this seems > unlikely to be the case) but to somehow connect this to Unix makes no > sense. From the sound of it, your problem is that you have just > started using a completely new OS and you haven't yet figured out how > it works and so, have run into problems. This is hardly surprising, an > operating system is a big complex system and not everything will work > the way you expect it to first time. > > If you run into a problem, your best bet is to clearly describe the > problem that you encountered (what error messages did you get, how did > the observed behaviour differed from the expected behaviour). Simply > saying that it didn't work doesn't give anyone the possibilty to help > you even if they are inclined. In your case, your request opened with > an assertion that Unix based systems (including OSX) were somehow > *stuck*. Most users of such systems are unlikely to agree and by > making such an assertion, you will have alienated the segment of the > community most capable of helping you (by definition, people who don't > like and/or use OSX are unlikely to be able to help you with OSX > related problems). > > In summary, you may have encountered a genuinely frustrating issue but > your posting is unlikely to serve you. For what it's worth, I don't > use OSX so I don't have any specific recommendation for you but > O'Reilly books tend to be reasonably good so that's the first place > that I would check. > > Phil > > > On Jul 15, 8:53 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This started out as a full page rant about the unintuitive Apple OS > > and why we're still all - except MS - stuck with Unix this far into > > the 21st century; but I've rewritten it and managed to boil it down to > > the paragraph below... > > > > I bought my first Mac computer this week. Whist I have a limited (but > > working) knowledge of Unix, downloading and unpacking Eclipse has been > > a total fail (it refuses to "unarchive" to the desktop, as per the > > installation instructions). Can anyone recommend a useful book or web > > site that gives a good advanced introduction (sic) to iOS? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
