He lives inside of http://mrmacintosh.com , too (I use this site to download official Mac OS updates for stand-alone installations).
Mister Macintosh (2004)
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Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#32Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
The lack of Easter eggs in programs I feel like is a combination of 3 things 1) more “professionalism” being expected in software. Computers aren’t quirky things anymore they’re “serious business” and “serious businesses don’t do quirky”. Or some other such nonsense. 2) Offense risk, something innocuous has serious potential to be taken wrong now or even at some future date. I worked on a system where we needed to im…
To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#33Texaco Towers was an Apple office above a Texaco gas station: https://www.folklore.org/Texaco_Towers.html
Strictly speaking, it was a two-story building behind the Texaco station: > There was a Texaco gas station at the corner, and a two-story, small, brown, wood paneled office building behind it, the kind that might house some accountants or insurance agents. Apple rented the top floor, which had four little suites split by a corridor, two on a side. Because of the proximity of the gas station and the perch on the secon…
And the baby food jars of Parmersan and chili flakes, with nail holes poked in the lid.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#34The artist, Folon, also made this gorgeous close-down animation for French TV channel Antenne 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzy9GGbcvSI&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5t... Wikipedia bio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Folon
Tracking-free YouTube link:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mzy9GGbcvSI
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#35Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
The lack of Easter eggs in programs I feel like is a combination of 3 things 1) more “professionalism” being expected in software. Computers aren’t quirky things anymore they’re “serious business” and “serious businesses don’t do quirky”. Or some other such nonsense. 2) Offense risk, something innocuous has serious potential to be taken wrong now or even at some future date. I worked on a system where we needed to im…
I remember FoxPro 2.5 said, "Better call MAACO, you just crashed!" in some circumstance. Thankfully that seemed to improve with resetting the computer the time I saw it.
If the file had been corrupted, I wouldn't have found it as funny.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#36I wouldn't have liked this. I don't want any part of my computer to be eerie or mysterious. I also don't want there to be anything romantic or mysterious about my bank account. If this had been deployed and its existence has been widely publicized and described right after its deployment (which seems likely to me even if Apple tried to suppress it) the only deleterious effect on me would have been my wasting a little…
definitely seems like some people would have perceived it as a virus having infected their computer, although 1984 was pretty early for virii
True, after enough floppy swaps, your Mac probably was doing something like this. Hopefully removed the next time Disinfectant was run.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The lack of Easter eggs in programs I feel like is a combination of 3 things 1) more “professionalism” being expected in software. Computers aren’t quirky things anymore they’re “serious business” and “serious businesses don’t do quirky”. Or some other such nonsense. 2) Offense risk, something innocuous has serious potential to be taken wrong now or even at some future date. I worked on a system where we needed to im…
To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html
Given that (I think?) the "OK/Cancel" dialog of the original Mac is one of those 'foundational' UI conventions that was copied pretty directly by every GUI that came after it, I am very curious if our world wouldn't be full of "Do It" buttons if this episode hadn't taken place. Even the Start Menu could have been called the "Do" menu in that alternate universe.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#38Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
The lack of Easter eggs in programs I feel like is a combination of 3 things 1) more “professionalism” being expected in software. Computers aren’t quirky things anymore they’re “serious business” and “serious businesses don’t do quirky”. Or some other such nonsense. 2) Offense risk, something innocuous has serious potential to be taken wrong now or even at some future date. I worked on a system where we needed to im…
A LucasArts game called Day of the Tentacle famously contained the entirety of its predecessor, Maniac Mansion.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#39Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
The lack of Easter eggs in programs I feel like is a combination of 3 things 1) more “professionalism” being expected in software. Computers aren’t quirky things anymore they’re “serious business” and “serious businesses don’t do quirky”. Or some other such nonsense. 2) Offense risk, something innocuous has serious potential to be taken wrong now or even at some future date. I worked on a system where we needed to im…
"your credit card terminal might be the gateway to your entire customer database."
That is not the way it works now. The standard is 4 levels of encryption, most have 8. Multiple sign-offs for every single code change.
Your credit card terminal is a gateway to the signtors transaction database, last transaction, balance, current transaction. Every single code path is mapped out meticulously, at least on the most popular ones, and crypto keys are not padded like the very cheap ones.
Re: Mister Macintosh (2004)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just visit Infinite Mac and use them in your browser: https://infinitemac.org/
Thanks, I used it a few times but not sure how good it persists data -- I guess it's fine since it gives users some extra space. This is a good option for exploration.
They use local storage for persistence, and a bunch of other really neat tricks, like being able to upload zip files to get files into the emulated universe without mucking about with weird disk images and things.