moonrockreptiles-The Vault™

October 26th, 2000
What Is The Mac OS?
What makes the Mac OS the OS of choice for millions of users? Does Mac OS X still possess these elements? Mike S. explores these questions in his latest moonrockreptiles article.

October 21st, 2000
Happy Birthday To moonrockreptiles
moonrockreptiles celebrates it's first birthday! In celebration of this the MacOpz staff gives you some insider information on the site.

October 10th, 2000
Of Penguins and Daemons 4
Otaku teaches us how to execute some nifty hacks for the Mac OS X Beta.

September 29th, 2000
Apple's latest "Speedbump": Simple Obstacle or Something More?
Mike S. shares his views on Apple's recent announcement that it's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings would fall below analyst predictions.

September 23rd, 2000
Mac OS X Public Beta Review
moonrockreptiles in depth report on the Mac OS X Public Beta.

An 'Xtrem' Interview
moonrockreptiles Reporters Jason Buck and Shaun Nichols interview Mats Wallberg of Xtrem Inc, who recently made the incredible announcement that they are developing a 1200 MHz G4 for release late this year. moonrockreptiles picks up where others left off on the story of Xtrem...

Of Penguins and Daemons 3
Otaku gives us a guide for getting your new installation of LinuxPPC 2000 in an actual usable state.

Devangelism #10 or She Named Her Trombone Skott...
Spiff warns us of a new manifestation of penis envy, finds a rather disturbing e-mail, and gives a well deserved Crimson Shovel.

The Threat of Standardization
An editorial by Mike S. inspired by the outbreak of the "LOVE Letter" virus.

The NeXT Mac OS: Part 4
In this, the fourth and final installment of "The NeXT Mac OS" Mike S. draws conclusions about NeXTSTEP and shares his views on it's future (Mac OS X).

A Night at the Opera
An in-depth preview of potentially the most exciting upcoming Mac browser, the Mac port of Opera. We have a full report, screenshots, and an interview with the programmer for your reading pleasure.

Rhymin' And Schemin 2:
In this edition, our resident appearance expert discusses his favorite websites, concerns about OSX/Aqua and shows some of his personal tastes in schemes/themes.

Mac OS X DP4 Report
Another developers preview, another in-depth moonrockreptiles report with screenshots.

De-Vangelism #9 OR To Aquacadet 3518 with extra green beans
Spacedog Spiff interviews interface designer Albie Wong, deals with an E-Mail claiming to be from the manager of GWAR, and finally awards this weeks Crimson Shovel Award.

Mac OS X DP3 Screenshots Removed!

At the demand of Apple Legal we have removed the screenshots that accompanied our Mac OS X DP3 coverage. As many of you have never seen a letter from Apple legal, here is a quote that will give you the general idea of the tone:

"We demand that you cease and desist from disseminating Apple's copyrighted and proprietary screen shots on all websites and servers under your control. This includes any hyperlink to other locations where the material may be available."

The NeXT MacOS: Part 3
Mike S. has really outdone himself this time. A nice big informative article with lots of screenshots. Enjoy the GUI (Pronounced Gooey of course) chocolately goodness that is NeXT and some side by side comparisons with the current MacOS.

Of Penguins and Daemons 2
Otaku picks up right where he left off in his discussion of UNIX and it's pertinence to Mac OS X. This time he explains to us which UNIX apps will and will not run under OS X, and how Apple should make use of X Windows.

APRIL FOOLS!!!

For the three of you that didn't figure it out, the press release below was our April Fool's Joke. Thanks to Todd at Ihateapple.com for teaming up with us on this one...

APPLE COMPUTER, INC., ACQUIRES LEADING PLATFORM DEBATE SITES -- IHATEAPPLE.COM and moonrockreptiles.com

Cupertino, CA, March 31, 2000 -- Apple Computer, Inc. (AAPL) today announced that it has purchased two leading platform debate websites -- moonrockreptiles.com, and Ihateapple.com. The two sites will merge and form a new Internet venture, iAdvocacy.com.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, said: "The merger of these two sites will create an Internet platform-advocacy superpower second to none. With this move, Apple will continue its lead in factual and accurate reporting."

Todd Arneson, founder of Ihateapple.com, said: "As much as I despise Apple, this is a move for the better. moonrockreptiles and Ihateapple.com being under the same roof which will allow us to carry out such nerdy actions as launching water balloon wars at each other during lunch. And the food fights... the food fights will be second to none."

Jason Buck, site administrator and founder of moonrockreptiles.com, said: "moonrockreptiles.com and Ihateapple.com are the leading platform advocacy sites on the Internet today. By coupling our user base, our writers, and Apple's colossal resources, we have the potential to become a web portal on everyone's desktop."

Stephan Jones, also a site administrator and founder of moonrockreptiles, said: "If you think sites like MacNN and ZDnet's MacCentral are big, you haven't seen anything. By providing an outlet for both Macintosh and PC users alike to speak their peace, we are filling a market that is, at best, sorely lacking. When you think "I like my Mac.", or, "I like my PC.", you'll think of iAdvocacy.com. We're going to give all the other platform-advocacy sites out there a run for their money."

Founded in 1998, Ihateapple.com will move its operations from Scottsdale, AZ to Cupertino, CA; and moonrockreptiles.com, founded in 1999, will move its operations from Anchorage, AK, to Cupertino, CA, as the two sites merge.

Details of the cost of the merger are not being released, said Apple CFO Fred Anderson.

About Apple:
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

Devangelism #8 OR Spiff Sells Out
Spacedog Spiff writes, by far, his funniest column yet. Some of the jokes in this column require that you read all of moonrockreptiles.

A word on MacCards

By Trigger23

I cannot believe Apple's sheer and utter disrespect for the admiration such loyal Mac users as Simon Jones have given them. He made a pro-Macintosh site and spent many hours and exerted much energy on promoting Apple because he thought they were unique, and had a very attractive distinct edge in the industry. It saddens me that any company could threaten legal action on it's own enthusiasts. When has Harley davidson taken down fan sites that use that pervasive eagle emblem? Have they barged in on biker BBQ's and told them to shut the picnic down? NO!! So stand up!!! Fight back for MacCards!! I request that each and every one of you who reads this pass it on to a friend and fire off an email to Apple requesting that they overturn such a brash decision. It is ludicrous in the extreme to think that anyone could mistake MacCards for iCards. Even if it wasn't outrageous, all that Apple needed to do was have Simon place a disclaimer on his web site so that those few who might be confused enough to think that MacCards is iCards would know better? If Apple has such a hard time with people using the Mac logo, then have them challenge the Mac SurfShop and every other damn Mac site that utilizes the Apple Logo. I Considered putting it on MacOpz just to piss Apple off for what they've done, but I would be ashamed to wear the emblem of such an inconsiderate corporation...

If you had a graphical browser you would see nifty graphics here.

The NeXT MacOS: Part 2
Part to of Mike S.' comparative analysis of Mac OS 8/9/X, and NeXTSTEP. This time we learn about the interface NeXTSTEP uses. You may find a number of things sound very much like what you have read about Mac OS X DP3.

Internal moonrockreptiles Changes

A couple of changes have occurred here at moonrockreptiles. Firstly, as we hope you didn't notice (The idea was for it to be a transparent change) we switched hosts. We are now with Internet Communications (ICOM) instead of Pair. It is less expensive, seems to be just as fast and reliable, and finally - it offers CGI scripting. Since we now have CGI scripting we are hosting OUR OWN forum instead of sending you offsite (Even though it always still looked like you were on site previously, now you truly will be.)

The NeXT Mac OS: Part 1
Mike S. delivers his first in a series of columns contrasting and comparing NeXTSTEP, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 8/9.

Smelly Raven Rebuttal
A rebuttal to an anti-mac flame recently seen over at sneaky raven's site.

Of Penguins and Daemons
Otaku's first in a series of Columns on UNIX and UNIX-like Operating Systems. Since the next major release of the Mac OS is a UNIX based operating system, you may want to read this.

De-Vangelism #7 Or Let's Talk About X Ba-by
Spacedog Spiff becomes the 8000th person to review Mac OS X, analyzes what will happen when Steve Jobs dies, and Apple Insider takes a shovel to the head.

Mac OS X DP3 Report #2
This time our source brings us a Mac OS X binary of the console based Lynx browser, commentary on where Apple may be going/we hope it will be going, how to change the DP3 desktop file, several screenshots, and more.

De-Vangelism #6 Or Who put all this Jell-O in my bed?
This week's rant is in defense of the Devangelist, his mom is sheep in AOHell's herd, and Punklykass@altern.org is a great target.

Mac OS X DP3 Report:
The first in series of reports (with Screenshots!) on the latest developmental release of Apple's new OS. This report focuses on Aqua/The New Finder. Expect the next one soon!

De-Vangelism #5 Or 57 Downloads and Nothing Good
Well, this time Spacedog tells us about his broken monitor, the people at Aspyr, that HE IS NOT andy rooney, and moonrockreptiles' own Jason Buck get's the shovel: CLANG!

moonrockreptiles to Change Content Direction

Recently, Crosis and I had something of a revelation. moonrockreptiles began merely as a free forum, hosted by InsideTheWeb for free. It evolved from that into small website hosted by freeservers. Then, Crosis and I took the first real risk by purchasing and setting up moonrockreptiles.com. Originally, we fancied ourselves journalists, bringing you the latest news, along with a side dish of entertaining columns. The revelation was this: There are already established Macintosh news websites, most of the sites pertaining to the mac are either involved in news or sales. This did not mean that we couldn't make it in the news market, it just made it that much harder, similar to domestic news competing with ABC.

Jason Buck, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of moonrockreptiles explains the change, "There are millions of Mac news sites. Several of them do the job fantastically and leave little room for improvement. Not to say we couldn't do it, but why do it if someone else is already doing a fine job? Any improvements we could offer over some of these sites is marginal, and would hardly affect the Mac community. MacNN, MacCentral, Macintouch are sort of like the 'CNN Headline News' of the Mac world. We want to be the '60 Minutes' of the Mac world, with SpaceDog Spiff as our Andy Rooney."

moonrockreptiles has seen a number of changes lately. The entire site was redesigned. The forum changed locations and gained the look of the rest of the site. A board specifically for the moonrockreptiles team to work with each other was set up. We added a new column and will soon add more. Finally, we fed Spacedog Spiff. The format change is simply a piece of an evolution to a better moonrockreptiles, and a better Mac community.

NEW COLUMN!
We would like you all to welcome Todd to the moonrockreptiles crew. Todd will be bringing you a regular column on interface alterations for your Macintosh. The column is called "Rhymin' and Schemin'," and in it he will tell you everything you need to know about altering the way your Mac looks and sounds. Welcome aboard Todd! Check out his introductory column now by clicking the above link.

New and Improved moonrockreptiles Forum
Well, out with the old, in with the new. We have discontinued the old forum and have switched to the new one. Visit it by clicking the forum button on the sidebar or by clicking the above link.


	October 26th, 2000 What Is The Mac OS? What makes the Mac OS the OS of choice for millions of users? Does Mac OS X still possess these elements? Mike S. explores these questions in his latest moonrockreptiles article. October 21st, 2000 Happy Birthday To moonrockreptiles moonrockreptiles celebrates it's first birthday! In celebration of this the MacOpz staff gives you some insider information on the site. October 10th, 2000 Of Penguins and Daemons 4 Otaku teaches us how to execute some nifty hacks for the Mac OS X Beta. September 29th, 2000 Apple's latest "Speedbump": Simple Obstacle or Something More? Mike S. shares his views on Apple's recent announcement that it's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings would fall below analyst predictions. September 23rd, 2000 Mac OS X Public Beta Review moonrockreptiles in depth report on the Mac OS X Public Beta. An 'Xtrem' Interview moonrockreptiles Reporters Jason Buck and Shaun Nichols interview Mats Wallberg of Xtrem Inc, who recently made the incredible announcement that they are developing a 1200 MHz G4 for release late this year. moonrockreptiles picks up where others left off on the story of Xtrem... Of Penguins and Daemons 3 Otaku gives us a guide for getting your new installation of LinuxPPC 2000 in an actual usable state. Devangelism #10 or She Named Her Trombone Skott... Spiff warns us of a new manifestation of penis envy, finds a rather disturbing e-mail, and gives a well deserved Crimson Shovel. The Threat of Standardization An editorial by Mike S. inspired by the outbreak of the "LOVE Letter" virus. The NeXT Mac OS: Part 4 In this, the fourth and final installment of "The NeXT Mac OS" Mike S. draws conclusions about NeXTSTEP and shares his views on it's future (Mac OS X). A Night at the Opera An in-depth preview of potentially the most exciting upcoming Mac browser, the Mac port of Opera. We have a full report, screenshots, and an interview with the programmer for your reading pleasure. Rhymin' And Schemin 2: In this edition, our resident appearance expert discusses his favorite websites, concerns about OSX/Aqua and shows some of his personal tastes in schemes/themes. Mac OS X DP4 Report Another developers preview, another in-depth moonrockreptiles report with screenshots. De-Vangelism #9 OR To Aquacadet 3518 with extra green beans Spacedog Spiff interviews interface designer Albie Wong, deals with an E-Mail claiming to be from the manager of GWAR, and finally awards this weeks Crimson Shovel Award. Mac OS X DP3 Screenshots Removed! At the demand of Apple Legal we have removed the screenshots that accompanied our Mac OS X DP3 coverage. As many of you have never seen a letter from Apple legal, here is a quote that will give you the general idea of the tone: "We demand that you cease and desist from disseminating Apple's copyrighted and proprietary screen shots on all websites and servers under your control. This includes any hyperlink to other locations where the material may be available." The NeXT MacOS: Part 3 Mike S. has really outdone himself this time. A nice big informative article with lots of screenshots. Enjoy the GUI (Pronounced Gooey of course) chocolately goodness that is NeXT and some side by side comparisons with the current MacOS. Of Penguins and Daemons 2 Otaku picks up right where he left off in his discussion of UNIX and it's pertinence to Mac OS X. This time he explains to us which UNIX apps will and will not run under OS X, and how Apple should make use of X Windows. APRIL FOOLS!!! For the three of you that didn't figure it out, the press release below was our April Fool's Joke. Thanks to Todd at Ihateapple.com for teaming up with us on this one... APPLE COMPUTER, INC., ACQUIRES LEADING PLATFORM DEBATE SITES -- IHATEAPPLE.COM and moonrockreptiles.com Cupertino, CA, March 31, 2000 -- Apple Computer, Inc. (AAPL) today announced that it has purchased two leading platform debate websites -- moonrockreptiles.com, and Ihateapple.com. The two sites will merge and form a new Internet venture, iAdvocacy.com. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, said: "The merger of these two sites will create an Internet platform-advocacy superpower second to none. With this move, Apple will continue its lead in factual and accurate reporting." Todd Arneson, founder of Ihateapple.com, said: "As much as I despise Apple, this is a move for the better. moonrockreptiles and Ihateapple.com being under the same roof which will allow us to carry out such nerdy actions as launching water balloon wars at each other during lunch. And the food fights... the food fights will be second to none." Jason Buck, site administrator and founder of moonrockreptiles.com, said: "moonrockreptiles.com and Ihateapple.com are the leading platform advocacy sites on the Internet today. By coupling our user base, our writers, and Apple's colossal resources, we have the potential to become a web portal on everyone's desktop." Stephan Jones, also a site administrator and founder of moonrockreptiles, said: "If you think sites like MacNN and ZDnet's MacCentral are big, you haven't seen anything. By providing an outlet for both Macintosh and PC users alike to speak their peace, we are filling a market that is, at best, sorely lacking. When you think "I like my Mac.", or, "I like my PC.", you'll think of iAdvocacy.com. We're going to give all the other platform-advocacy sites out there a run for their money." Founded in 1998, Ihateapple.com will move its operations from Scottsdale, AZ to Cupertino, CA; and moonrockreptiles.com, founded in 1999, will move its operations from Anchorage, AK, to Cupertino, CA, as the two sites merge. Details of the cost of the merger are not being released, said Apple CFO Fred Anderson. About Apple: Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings. Devangelism #8 OR Spiff Sells Out Spacedog Spiff writes, by far, his funniest column yet. Some of the jokes in this column require that you read all of moonrockreptiles. A word on MacCards By Trigger23 I cannot believe Apple's sheer and utter disrespect for the admiration such loyal Mac users as Simon Jones have given them. He made a pro-Macintosh site and spent many hours and exerted much energy on promoting Apple because he thought they were unique, and had a very attractive distinct edge in the industry. It saddens me that any company could threaten legal action on it's own enthusiasts. When has Harley davidson taken down fan sites that use that pervasive eagle emblem? Have they barged in on biker BBQ's and told them to shut the picnic down? NO!! So stand up!!! Fight back for MacCards!! I request that each and every one of you who reads this pass it on to a friend and fire off an email to Apple requesting that they overturn such a brash decision. It is ludicrous in the extreme to think that anyone could mistake MacCards for iCards. Even if it wasn't outrageous, all that Apple needed to do was have Simon place a disclaimer on his web site so that those few who might be confused enough to think that MacCards is iCards would know better? If Apple has such a hard time with people using the Mac logo, then have them challenge the Mac SurfShop and every other damn Mac site that utilizes the Apple Logo. I Considered putting it on MacOpz just to piss Apple off for what they've done, but I would be ashamed to wear the emblem of such an inconsiderate corporation... The NeXT MacOS: Part 2 Part to of Mike S.' comparative analysis of Mac OS 8/9/X, and NeXTSTEP. This time we learn about the interface NeXTSTEP uses. You may find a number of things sound very much like what you have read about Mac OS X DP3. Internal moonrockreptiles Changes A couple of changes have occurred here at moonrockreptiles. Firstly, as we hope you didn't notice (The idea was for it to be a transparent change) we switched hosts. We are now with Internet Communications (ICOM) instead of Pair. It is less expensive, seems to be just as fast and reliable, and finally - it offers CGI scripting. Since we now have CGI scripting we are hosting OUR OWN forum instead of sending you offsite (Even though it always still looked like you were on site previously, now you truly will be.) The NeXT Mac OS: Part 1 Mike S. delivers his first in a series of columns contrasting and comparing NeXTSTEP, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 8/9. Smelly Raven Rebuttal A rebuttal to an anti-mac flame recently seen over at sneaky raven's site. Of Penguins and Daemons Otaku's first in a series of Columns on UNIX and UNIX-like Operating Systems. Since the next major release of the Mac OS is a UNIX based operating system, you may want to read this. De-Vangelism #7 Or Let's Talk About X Ba-by Spacedog Spiff becomes the 8000th person to review Mac OS X, analyzes what will happen when Steve Jobs dies, and Apple Insider takes a shovel to the head. Mac OS X DP3 Report #2 This time our source brings us a Mac OS X binary of the console based Lynx browser, commentary on where Apple may be going/we hope it will be going, how to change the DP3 desktop file, several screenshots, and more. De-Vangelism #6 Or Who put all this Jell-O in my bed? This week's rant is in defense of the Devangelist, his mom is sheep in AOHell's herd, and Punklykass@altern.org is a great target. Mac OS X DP3 Report: The first in series of reports (with Screenshots!) on the latest developmental release of Apple's new OS. This report focuses on Aqua/The New Finder. Expect the next one soon! De-Vangelism #5 Or 57 Downloads and Nothing Good Well, this time Spacedog tells us about his broken monitor, the people at Aspyr, that HE IS NOT andy rooney, and moonrockreptiles' own Jason Buck get's the shovel: CLANG! moonrockreptiles to Change Content Direction Recently, Crosis and I had something of a revelation. moonrockreptiles began merely as a free forum, hosted by InsideTheWeb for free. It evolved from that into small website hosted by freeservers. Then, Crosis and I took the first real risk by purchasing and setting up moonrockreptiles.com. Originally, we fancied ourselves journalists, bringing you the latest news, along with a side dish of entertaining columns. The revelation was this: There are already established Macintosh news websites, most of the sites pertaining to the mac are either involved in news or sales. This did not mean that we couldn't make it in the news market, it just made it that much harder, similar to domestic news competing with ABC. Jason Buck, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of moonrockreptiles explains the change, "There are millions of Mac news sites. Several of them do the job fantastically and leave little room for improvement. Not to say we couldn't do it, but why do it if someone else is already doing a fine job? Any improvements we could offer over some of these sites is marginal, and would hardly affect the Mac community. MacNN, MacCentral, Macintouch are sort of like the 'CNN Headline News' of the Mac world. We want to be the '60 Minutes' of the Mac world, with SpaceDog Spiff as our Andy Rooney." moonrockreptiles has seen a number of changes lately. The entire site was redesigned. The forum changed locations and gained the look of the rest of the site. A board specifically for the moonrockreptiles team to work with each other was set up. We added a new column and will soon add more. Finally, we fed Spacedog Spiff. The format change is simply a piece of an evolution to a better moonrockreptiles, and a better Mac community. NEW COLUMN! We would like you all to welcome Todd to the moonrockreptiles crew. Todd will be bringing you a regular column on interface alterations for your Macintosh. The column is called "Rhymin' and Schemin'," and in it he will tell you everything you need to know about altering the way your Mac looks and sounds. Welcome aboard Todd! Check out his introductory column now by clicking the above link. New and Improved moonrockreptiles Forum Well, out with the old, in with the new. We have discontinued the old forum and have switched to the new one. Visit it by clicking the forum button on the sidebar or by clicking the above link.
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