OT: You OS/X Users...question for ya...

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Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> 
> I'm hardly an expert in video for anything so take this with a grain of
> salt.
> 
> The .mov QuickTime format may well be the best on Macs as it's the native
> format if you will.
> 
> WMV files are now supported under QuickTime using flip4mac, available from
> versiontracker.com, and, I think, from Microsoft.

Perhaps I'll grab the codec+plugin for my converter then.

> Funny you should bring this up as it was a topic at an intermediate OS X
> SIG meeting I attended tonight.

I'm funny like that.  :)

> Stuffit isn't used much any more, with most things being distributed as zip
> files, or as disk images in .dmg files, either of which are handled easily
> with the default tools.  They can also deal with normal *nix formats such
> ag tar.gz and cpio.

I'm tempted to get it.  For less than the cost of WinZip it includes zip
-and- stuffit functionality, plus it does self-extracting executables
without having to license -another- program (winzip charges extra).
Tempting.  Who cares if it's in stuffit format if it's self-extracting?  :)

Sounds like a better bet than WinRAR.

> These aren't your father's Macs any more :-).

Knew that, but...  Some things don't totally change.  I've had plugins for
World of Warcraft that come with __MACOSX or somesuch directories that I
-assume- are the appropriate representation of what used to be the resource
forks.  Actually, I dunno what that's for for sure, but it made the most
sense to me.  :)

Can OS/X actually handle .sit natively now, similar to how WinXP (and I'd
presume Vista) handle .zip natively (albeit FAR more slowly than with any
actual zip handling program I've ever run, including the original)?  I
mean, do people still have to buy the actual Stuffit, or would an .sit
actually be useful to an OS/X user with a fresh dist out of the box?

> I spend the vast majority of my desktop time using a Mac Mini in my office,
> or a 15in PowerBook, generally with a bunch of xterms in ssh connections.
> 
> 	http://www.celestial.com/Members/bill/images/desktop.jpg/image_view

I prefer one PuTTY session hooked to a linux system running screen.
Wireless dies temporarily, I'm safe and can recover.  The lack of a
gazillion individual windows for emulators is for my terminal emulator
experience what tabbed browsing is for my browser experience.

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