Monday, February 18, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Microsoft heard Me!
Finally, folks from Microsoft seem had read my blog :-)
On my blog last time (see "Why Windows sucks"), I listed some weaknesses on Windows XP. Microsoft has added most of those missing features in Vista, although still not as what I expected. First, Vista now has stronger scripting capability on its console/shell. Another thing is, it now is capable of creating symbolic links of actual files.
But, they've also added a supposedly-cool feature, super-fetch, but it turns out swamped most of resouce on my new quad-core PC (which has already 4 GB of RAM). Most of the time my hard disk is busy doing something. I admit, I've installed many applications, but unlike Linux or OSX, the more you install on any Windows, the slowliness you'd get (thanks to its stupid registry, an now super-fetch).
Look, I am not a typical user who just use Office or games for my PC. I am a super-user and love to hack things (well, this is just my self-proclaim :). But from my experience, Windows Vista in general is the most resource-eater among OSs I have tried so far (I've used various O/S, including DEC VMS on VAX machines, IBM OS/2, various DOSes since version 2.x, VxWorks, OSE, all the Windows variants since 3.x, some Linux variants [SUSE, RedHat, Debian], Solaris, Novell Netware, Mac OS9 & OS-X, Unix variants [FreeBSD, SCO, Xenix, Minix, etc.], FreeOS, even the open-source-IOS-like Vyatta).
On my blog last time (see "Why Windows sucks"), I listed some weaknesses on Windows XP. Microsoft has added most of those missing features in Vista, although still not as what I expected. First, Vista now has stronger scripting capability on its console/shell. Another thing is, it now is capable of creating symbolic links of actual files.
But, they've also added a supposedly-cool feature, super-fetch, but it turns out swamped most of resouce on my new quad-core PC (which has already 4 GB of RAM). Most of the time my hard disk is busy doing something. I admit, I've installed many applications, but unlike Linux or OSX, the more you install on any Windows, the slowliness you'd get (thanks to its stupid registry, an now super-fetch).
Look, I am not a typical user who just use Office or games for my PC. I am a super-user and love to hack things (well, this is just my self-proclaim :). But from my experience, Windows Vista in general is the most resource-eater among OSs I have tried so far (I've used various O/S, including DEC VMS on VAX machines, IBM OS/2, various DOSes since version 2.x, VxWorks, OSE, all the Windows variants since 3.x, some Linux variants [SUSE, RedHat, Debian], Solaris, Novell Netware, Mac OS9 & OS-X, Unix variants [FreeBSD, SCO, Xenix, Minix, etc.], FreeOS, even the open-source-IOS-like Vyatta).
Monday, December 3, 2007
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
HP LaserJet 1020 on Mac OSX
I purchased a LaserJet 1020 printer for our home use. While it works fine in Windows and Ubuntu Linux (with proper hackery applied) getting it to work on OSX is not straight forward. If you google around you’ll find both success and horror stories on this printer. It seems HP supports the newer 1022 model officially but not the 1020. Turns out the 1022 driver will work fine for a 1020 if, and that’s a big IF, you get Mac OSX to list it in the printer list. This thread on macosxhints.com was the most informative of all. I tried the suggestions a couple of days ago but to no avail. This morning I tried again and with success! All the steps seem to be there, but the following order worked for me:
Download http://www.railsguru.com/assets/2007/4/16/1601_LJ_1022_Series_OSX.dmg;
If you have anything for the HP 1020 in ”/Library/Reciepts” delete it.
Delete anything for the HP 1020 in Printer in “Printer Setup Utility”
Install the downloaded printer drivers
Remove all files from /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet. Leave the 1020 subfolder! You’ll need the contents in the next step;
Move all files from the 1020 subfolder to /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet (the parent);
Restart Mac OSX, just for luck;
Add new printer in “Printer Setup Utility”, select HP LaserJet 1020, driver should come up, click ADD
Download http://www.railsguru.com/assets/2007/4/16/1601_LJ_1022_Series_OSX.dmg;
If you have anything for the HP 1020 in ”/Library/Reciepts” delete it.
Delete anything for the HP 1020 in Printer in “Printer Setup Utility”
Install the downloaded printer drivers
Remove all files from /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet. Leave the 1020 subfolder! You’ll need the contents in the next step;
Move all files from the 1020 subfolder to /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet (the parent);
Restart Mac OSX, just for luck;
Add new printer in “Printer Setup Utility”, select HP LaserJet 1020, driver should come up, click ADD
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Preventing an Application from Opening Using Rosetta
To prevent an application from opening using Rosetta, add the following key to the
LSRequiresNativeExecution
Info.plist:
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