Comments on: Mac OS X for Geeks http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:23:37 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-773 Hee. That would be a good tagline for Slashdot, I think.

]]> By: Donna http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-772 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:07:43 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-772 Thank you, Sir Geek!

I’ve now lost all interest

]]> By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-771 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:43:14 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-771 Since it’s a geek thing, Slashdot has a discussion of the origin of ‘foo’ and ‘bar’ as used geekily. Here is a definition/etymology, and here’s another.

It’s just a metasyntactic variable, baby! Or in non-language geek terms, a word used in examples to stand for whatever is under discussion…

]]> By: Donna http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-770 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:08:31 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-770 Yes it has been said before that I am just a wannabe geeklady

pffft!

]]> By: Matt http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:09:20 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-769 >> foo?

It’s a geek thing :)

]]> By: Donna http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-768 Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:45:41 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-768 foo?

sorry, that has puzzled my addled brain.

]]> By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-767 Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:02:42 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-767 VLC is great, as is MPlayer (both play everything in my experience, but I tend to use MPlayer as it has a slightly better UI)

That said, I still think video on OS X (or 9.x for that matter) can be considered a mess. Pretty much every video file you might download via filesharing apps won’t play on a Mac out of the box, and while great tools are out there, they’re pretty obscure, and far from being as user-friendly as, say, any of the iApps.

Maybe I have high expectations, but I want everything to work just like that, and for everyone, not just folk like me (us?) who seek out and download every new app in sight!

]]> By: brian w http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/07/20/mac-os-x-for-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-766 Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:53:33 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=411#comment-766 I’m not really sure why video in OS X could be considered any more of a mess than it is on any other platform. RealOne, Windows Media Player, & the Quicktime Player handle their own formats just fine as far as I can tell, and VLC has thus far loaded everything I’ve thrown at it with admirable aplomb—weird VCD codecs, DivX and all that nonsense (including BitTorrent files of allsorts—without even requiring any additional downloads or plugin nonsense. Handy! Plus VLC has that cute little orange road cone icon. ;)

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