At around 26/6/06 2:27 pm, Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
> Oh, and there's no tool like Spybot S&D for Macs? You need to go through
> the cookies MANUALLY?
>
There isn't one that I know of or use(d) on FreeBSD or Linux, either. I
don't really go through my cookies. Here is my simple approach using
Firefox:
- set preferences to ask me each time for new sites
- accept session cookies from those requiring registration
- accept permanent cookies from sites I need to login frequently or
sites which have most of my personal info anyway.
This works for me. Every now and then, just out of curiosity I check the
cookies in the browser and find nothing that I think will violate my
policy.
> (Oh Lord God Apple, I BESEECH THEE! Please help me to know the
> difference between that NYT _utz cookie and the _utb cookie.)
I guess it could be of use to accept login cookies and reject tracking
cookies, but for most regular users (pen-l) this differentiation may be
overkill.
> I guess Apple has decimated the base of developers who would care to
> write software for their OS (which incidentally isn't THEIR OS, they
> just modified it enough to prevent the FreeeBSD developers from working
> with it, like Lindows will make linux a MicroSoft product.
Leigh, where are you coming from with this stuff? Apple provides a
sophisticated development environment (XCode) for free, provides
frameworks and tools (and scriptability) at its libraries and
applications, leading to quite a few great products, ranging from user
applications to developer tools like CamelBones (I doubt, though I am no
expert, that there is an equally simple mechanism for Perl coders to
write up Windows GUI apps).
Starting with Apple's hiring of one of the founders of FreeBSD
(Hubbard?) to now when many FreeBSD developers are Apple employees,
Apple has been fairly supportive and in step with FreeBSD. They sync
major releases, contribute code back into FreeBSD (IIRC the 5.x branch
was prompted by such contributions), and further, OpenDarwin is (as the
name implies) an open source project. Most importantly, MacOS gives
FreeBSD a new lease on life, in the face of the WindRiver takeover or
the current infatuation with Linux.
> I don't want a computer that just works, I want a FULL range of
> functionality, development-ability, and scaleability. Windows,
> Linux,Unix... there are no other choices now.
It all depends on what you use your computer for. For end users, Windows
may be the only choice (not Linux, or MacOS, much less FreeBSD), given
that various web sites use IE specific and/or ActiveX or equivalent
extensions in their UIs. I am currently managing without much trouble
with MacOS X on one computer and FreeBSD on another (no Windows except
at work for work specific internal sites).
> In the long run, Apple's marketing strategy (niche market), and
> arrogance towards software developers interested in working on software
> for Apple's market, will relegate them to the dustbin of computer
> history. It just took longer than Osborne and KayPro.
They might indeed die such a death, but I do not see how it has anything
to do with developer support. A POSIX compliant OS with clearly defined
APIs and a rich set of [mostly free] tools: sounds good to me as a
developer. Better than any experience I have had coding on Windows!
--ravi
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