Очень продвинутый торрент-клиент и многофункциональный для Macintosh.
Дальше описалово на Английском.
Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a powerful, yet lightweight BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use.
Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.
These days, bandwidth is a precious commodity. Transmission allows you to ration this commodity efficiently. You might want to queue your torrents for maximum performance. Or throttle their speed during peak periods.
Transmission easily lets you do both, and thus only works its hardest when you want it to. Support for Growl notifications and dock badging keep you updated with what’s going on so you can get back to doing more important things.
What’s New in This Release:
· Fix “router death” bug that impaired internet connectivity
· Fix bug that could cause good peer connections to be lost
· Tweak request queue code to improve download speeds
· Better handling of very large files on 32bit systems
· Consume less battery power on laptops
· Fix minor IPC parsing error…
OS: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Binary format: Universal Binary
Size: 2.04 MB
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While the general Mac user community is ooh-ing and ahh-ing over Mac OS X 10.5 features like Time Machine, or opining about the new Dock, Stacks, et al, those of us who support Mac users are deep into learning about one of the biggest below-the-hood changes to happen in any version of Mac OS X: The end of Netinfo.
When I say “end,” I mean it in the most “end-ish” sense. In Mac OS X 10.5, Netinfo is gone. Not “deprecated,” not “hidden away for only the most advanced users.” It’s gone. Deleted. It does not exist. No more Netinfo database, no more Netinfo Utilities such as nicl, no more Netinfo Manager. The entire structure for managing local users, groups, and other such things has been completely replaced by local Directory Services, and the Netinfo Database is now a series of XML files living in /var/db/dslocal/ .
Netinfo is—well, was—a directory service used for user and computer management. Originally created for NeXTStep, Netinfo was able to manage not only individual machines, but entire networks. Its biggest problem was that the rest of the world turned to LDAP for doing the same thing.
Why is the end of Netinfo such an important change? Because when it came to managing local users and groups—that is users you created on your Mac, or network accounts that were mapped to local accounts (a.k.a. mobile accounts)—Netinfo handled all that. When you created a new user in System Preferences, that was all just a nicer interface into Netinfo. When you enabled sharing on your Mac, managing access to shares was handled by Netinfo. Now, it’s all done by Directory Services.
This may seem like a sudden change to some, but the truth is, Apple’s been actively easing Netinfo out of the picture since Mac OS X 10.2. Starting with that release, and continuing into Mac OS X 10.4, Netinfo was reduced from the primary mechanism for managing not just local users and groups, but entire network directories, ala Microsoft’s Active Directory or Novell’s eDirectory, to being only used for local user management. With Mac OS X 10.5, that easing out is complete.
So what does this mean? Well to the average user—whatever that means anymore—not much. The things you used to manage users, file sharing, and so forth are all still there—they just talk to different plumbing. There are some new features in those areas in Mac OS X 10.5, such as the “Advanced Options” in Accounts in System Preferences that allow you to configure a user’s home directory, login shell, add/remove login aliases, and so forth; you used to have to go to Netinfo Manager for these. There’s also the new ability to share any folder on your hard drive, but that could have been done with Netinfo too. The real changes here are in other areas
The most obvious change for most is the death of the Netinfo database. With Mac OS X 10.5, all the Netinfo database information are in a series of plist files in /var/db/dslocal/ under nodes/Default/. Within there, you see a set of directories:
bash-3.2# ls -l Default/
total 0
drwx------ 10 root wheel 340 Oct 11 19:30 aliases
drwx------ 2 root wheel 68 Nov 3 10:15 computers
drwx------ 10 root wheel 340 Nov 13 14:56 config
drwx------ 72 root wheel 2448 Nov 13 08:49 groups
drwx------ 4 root wheel 136 Oct 11 19:30 machines
drwx------ 3 root wheel 102 Oct 11 19:30 networks
drwx------ 44 root wheel 1496 Nov 13 14:11 users
Within each of these is a set of plist files where the data for that directory is kept, so in users/, there’s one plist per user, in groups/, one plist per group, and so on. Looking at the entry for the “staff’ group in staff.plist, (staff is the default group for all local users you create in Mac OS X), we see the following:
bash-3.2# cat staff.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>generateduid</key>
<array>
<string>ABCDEFAB-CDEF-ABCD-EFAB-CDEF00000014</string>
</array>
<key>gid</key>
<array>
<string>20</string>
</array>
<key>name</key>
<array>
<string>staff</string>
</array>
<key>passwd</key>
<array>
<string>*</string>
</array>
<key>realname</key>
<array>
<string>Users</string>
</array>
<key>smb_sid</key>
<array>
<string>S-1-5-32-545</string>
</array>
<key>users</key>
<array>
<string>root</string>
<string>tempadmin</string>
<string>jwelch</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
It’s pretty easy to decipher. You have a UUID, or Universally Unique Identifier, a unique number that identifies the group outside of conventional Unix group IDs. You have the GID (or Group ID), the Unix group identifier number, the name of the group, the password for the group, (in this case, there isn't one), the realname (or the more human friendly name), a sid number used for windows file sharing, and then a list of users in this group, including my own, jwelch. If you go looking through all the other plists, they all look like this, more or less.
But so what? Why does anyone care about this stuff? Well, for one, these are all text xml files. You can view or edit them in anything that can handle text files, from Apple’s own Text Edit and Property List Editor, to BBEdit, to Emacs or vi. You don’t need a special database application to view or work with these files. This makes them more easily maintainable and fixable. It also makes it easier for network administrators to manage local-only accounts on their network. The XML structure of these files makes it easier to integrate the data they contain into various kinds of user management tools, since almost everything out there, commercial and home-built can handle XML data.
Network administrators trying to manage Mac laptops on directories also benefit from the elimination of Netinfo. Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, binding a laptop to a directory was a painful process. Because of the way directory services worked in Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier, if your laptop was bound, or attached to a directory service, and you had to boot up or log in when you couldn’t see the network that directory service was on, you were in a world of pain, and would probably never actually log in, or get anything done. There were a few workarounds, but it was all very wonky, due to how Netinfo and its associated processes—in particular, lookupd—worked. With Mac OS X 10.5, all that is fixed, and now you can have a laptop bound to a directory, and it just works.
For those of you wondering what command line utilities you use, now that all the ni* utilities and lookupd are gone, it’s pretty simple. For general needs, you use dscl. If you want to see what group a user or another group are a member of, or check user/group UUIDs, you use dsmemberutil. To edit, create, manipulate, or delete groups, you use dseditgroup. To work with various Directory Service caches, including LDAP and DNS, you use dscacheutil. Finally, to enable root, you use dsenableroot.
The removal of Netinfo from Mac OS X is a major change from both the operational and historical perspectives. But in end, I think it’s one that was long in coming, and it will make Mac OS X much nicer to deal with from the administrator point of view—something that will aid Apple as it continues to establish a greater presence in the business world.
[John C. Welch is a Unix/Open Systems Administrator for Kansas City Life Insurance and a long-time Mac IT pundit.]
Компания Apple IMC планирует в 2008 финансовом году увеличить оборот в Украине в 3 раза или на 24,7 млн. долларов по сравнению с 2007 годом до 37 млн. долларов.
Оборот компании Apple IMC в Украине за 2007 финансовый год (закончившийся 29 сентября) составил 12,3 млн. долларов, что на 8,1 млн. больше, чем в 2006 году.
"Для нас очень важно добиться увеличения приоритетности и значимости Украины для Apple. Не менее важным также остается и то, чтобы Apple вошел в число уважаемых брендов в Украине. Именно над этими задачами мы и будем работать", - отметил генеральный директор Apple IMC в странах СНГ Евгений Бутман
В 2008 году компания планирует увеличить продажи компьютеров Mac на 114,3% или на 6 400 штук по сравнению с 2007 до 12 000,
Соотношение ноутбуков (MacBook и MacBook Pro) к десктопам (Mac Pro, iMac и Mac mini) будет примерно 60 к 40.
Apple также нацелена в 2008 году увеличить продажи плееров iPod на 165,49% до 60 000 штук.
Бутман также сообщил, что в этом году Apple IMC вывел на рынок две новые компании: DiHouse, которая будет отвечать за ритейловый блок, и iPro - отвечает за профессиональный блок.
Как сообщало агентство, в 2006 финансовом году (октябрь 2005 - сентябрь 2006) продажи Apple в Украине составили 4 млн. долларов.
По итогам 2 квартала 2006 компания получила прибыль в размере 410 млн. долларов и выручку 4,36 млрд.
В течение квартала Apple поставила 1,1 млн. компьютеров Macintosh и 8,5 млн. плееров iPod, при этом выпуск компьютеров увеличился на 4%, плееров - на 61% по сравнению с аналогичным периодом прошлого года.
Известнейший комедийный режиссёр отмечает свой юбилей.
Кому сейчас не известны "Карнавальная ночь", где дебютировала юная Людмила Гурченко? Или не менее популярное (30 новых годов в эфире) - "С лёгким паром!"
Я присоединяюсь к общеинтернетовским поздравлениям :)
Об одном жалею, где-то после фильма "Старые клячи" смотреть его "комедии" стало не очень легко :( толи страна поменялась, толи я изменился, толи Рязанов уже не тот, что раньше.
Тем не менее, с Днём Рождения! :)
Не было только времени решить этот вопрос раз и навсегда. Сегодня выкроил время и немного погуглил. Меня давно раздражала проблема кривого отображения id3 тегов на русском в mp3 файлах в iTunes.
Вообще нормальный современный софт для работы с mp3 должен использовать id3 теги версии 2.x. В ней реализована поддержка юникода (универсальной кодировки, просто говоря). Но как ведется не всегда вещи делаются как надо, поэтому достаточно часто попадаются mp3 файлы со старым форматом тегов id3 v1.x. Нам же нужно убить двух зайцев сразу – конвертировать теги id3v1 в id3v2 и конвертировать саму кодировку текста: из cp1251 в utf-8 (юникод). iTunes может только конвертировать id3v1 в id3v2, поэтому нужна сторонняя программа, которая разберется с кодировками.
Итак, быстро нашелся один вариант, описанный на macfaq.ru. Используется терминальная утилитка для конвертации тегов – id3iconv, работающая на Java.
Не могу сказать, что я не люблю Java, но этот вариант мне не сильно понравился. Особенно увидев что для каждого файла авторы предлагают запускать отдельный java-процесс.
find ~/Music/ -name "*.mp3" -exec java -jar ~/Desktop/id3iconv-0.2.1.jar -e cp1251 {} \;
Совет нашёл у dobrych