VMWare's Fusion gets high marks and has a 30-day trial, but I need to purchase Windows OS, which is available for $110 (or less on 3rd party sites where I won't use my CC). Considering this cost, thought I'd ask for feedback from others here who use DAS on a Mac with a virtual machine. Under the Partition Layout header click on the 1 Partition option in the drop-down menu Click the Format drop-down menu and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Bear in mind that this will erase all data from the USB drive, so backup any important files before proceeding. With these files deleted, restart your Mac and check whether drag and drop now works as intended. MacOS should have rebuilt these files with their default values intact. Hopefully fixing your drag-and-drop problems at the same time. Big computer problems can be less stressful than small ones. Dropover is a utility that makes Drag & Drop easier. Use it to stash, gather or move any draggable content without having to open side-by-side windows. It provides an easy-to-access storage shelf for your Mac that allows you stash any draggable content. It appears exactly when you need it and floats on top of other windows.
A little over 15 years ago, Apple released a bear into the wilds. Well, technically, it released Mac OS X into the wilds with its public beta program, but since this preview version of OS X was codenamed 'Kodiak,' a species of bear found in Alaska, I think I can be forgiven for spicing up the opening sentence to an article about an old beta version of an operating system.
Besides, for many this new OS was as unfamiliar and frightening as if you found a large brown bear sitting on your desk, although if said bear was clothed in pinstripes like OS X was, perhaps the reaction would have been different. Especially if you'd been charged $29.95 for it. Wait, let me take a step back—which is probably shrewd advice when there's a damned great bear on your desk.
When Apple finally, finally got its act together to create a successor OS to the descendants of the System that powered the original Macintosh, it released previews initially only to developers, but in September 2000 it let anyone with a compatible Mac and thirty bucks to spare install and muck around with this strange and alien new OS—ahead of its proper release in March 2001. That's just what I've been doing for this week's Think Retro.
And it's weird to be back in the early days of OS X. Indeed, it's almost as odd now—now that we've cycled back to a much flatter interface aesthetic, as it was coming from the crisp, rectilinear Platinum skin we'd gotten used to in Mac OS 9—to boot the installer and see the Aqua interface in all its pomp for the first time. Install, reboot, configure, and this is the desktop that greets you.
You see heavy drop-shadows (even on menubar text), bright colors, big, bubbly buttons, and that pinstripe pattern, boldly splashed across the window and menu bar. You also, in the menu bar, see the Apple logo in the center, which is clearly madness of the first water. Happily, it was repositioned to the correct location before OS X properly shipped.
I'd completely forgotten about the Music Player app that Apple shipped with OS X before iTunes came along. It was very basic—just the option of playing an audio CD or a playlist of MP3s (though it couldn't create them itself)—although given the clamor to slim down iTunes in recent years, perhaps there are those among you who would gladly install this in its place! (That globby, brushed metal controller, though…)
The things that amuse me as I go through this public beta, though, aren't things about the OS itself, its apps or even its UI design (which spent the next few years by degrees stepping further and further back from this early extravaganza). No, what pleases me is how in this OS, this OS that I still think of as essentially modern in the same way as I suspect I'll never stop thinking things described as happening in the '90s 'must have been quite recent then,' there are lots of telltale little hints that it's actually from another era.
Above, for example, is the list of search engines built into Sherlock. Never mind that these days few of us will never bother to use multiple search engines, the one we do use isn't mentioned, and those that are have faded almost completely from memory. (I was always an Excite boy, pre-Google, I remember now.)
Or what about the address book, which not only has a field for a pager number but places it above the field for mobile phone.
Or the System Preference pane for QuickTime—ooooh, check out those phat tabbed bars!—which has defaulted to a connection speed of 28.8/33.6K modem.
Or even the fact that the public beta of OS X loaded some trailers for movies onto your hard disk, including The Emperor's New Groove, whose cel-animated style reminds me of nothing so much as the films from my childhood.
(In his review of the beta, John Siracusa wrote that it requires nearly 800MB of disk space, but of that, 160MB 'is taken up by QuickTime trailers for various questionable movies. Even minus that 160MB, I suspect many curmudgeons will still holler about the ‘bloated' install size.' 800MB. Ah, 2000!)
I guess it's all a bit like the PowerBook G3 I happened to install the Public Beta on. At a glance, you might think it's a modern computer; it's only when you examine it and see details such as ADB and SCSI ports that you get hints that it's anything but—as I was reminded during the day I spent trying to get screenshots off the thing.
Often when I finish writing up one of the installments of Think Retro I wish my life allowed more time for playing with the hardware or software I've just been talking about, but on this occasion I'm happy to close the lid of the PowerBook and get back to my actually modern machines. It was too untamed, too bare and rough around the edges for me. Kodiak was a strange beast, but it ushered in a new age, the age of the big cats—and they had me purring like a kitten.
The drop bear (sometimes dropbear), assigned the fictional scientific name Thylarctos plummetus,[1] is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically docile herbivores (and are not bears), drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Origin
Origin
The origin of the drop bear myth is unknown; it does not appear to be related to any specific writing, for instance. The earliest written reference found by the National Library of Australia is a passing mention in a classified advertisement in The Canberra Times in 1982, but the term was in popular usage well before then, especially to scare scouts camping, or city tourists who came to visit the country.[8]
A 2016 episode of Nature's Weirdest Events theorized that the 'drop bear' may have started as a long-persisting Australian native memory of encounters with Thylacoleo carnifex, the now-extinct marsupial lion, including showing an old native rock painting that seems to show a Thylacoleo standing on a tree branch.[9]
The marsupial lion was a formidable carnivorous mammal, and as a member of the suborder Vombatiformes, distantly related to the koala. It is thought to have been an ambush predator capable of climbing trees, and a specialised hunter capable of taking down megafauna such as the rhino-sized diprotodon.
Formerly widely distributed, well-preserved Thylacoleo fossil remains and scratch marks have been found in caves under the Nullarbor Plain and elsewhere. They became extinct around 46.000 years ago, and may have been depicted in Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley region and persisted in Aboriginal myth.[10]
Stories and tall tales
Stories about drop bears are generally used as an in-joke intended to frighten and confuse outsiders while amusing locals, similar to the jackalope and other North American fearsome critters.[citation needed] Tourists are the main targets of such stories.[11][12] These tales are often accompanied by advice that the hearer adopt various tactics purported to deter drop bear attacks—including placing forks in the hair, having Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears or in the armpits, urinating on oneself, and only speaking English in an Australian accent.[6][13][full citation needed]
Popularisation
The website of the Australian Museum contains an entry for the drop bear written in a serious tone similar to entries for other, real, species. The entry classifies the Drop Bear as Thylarctos plummetus and describes them as 'a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the koala', the size of a leopard, having coarse orange fur with dark mottling, with powerful forearms for climbing and attacking prey, and a bite made using broad powerful premolars rather than canines. Specifically it states that they weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb) and have a length of 130 centimetres (51 in).[1] The tongue-in-cheek entry was created for 'silly season'.[14][15] The Australian Museum also established a small display in the museum itself, exhibiting artefacts which it stated 'may, or may not, relate to actual Drop Bears.'[15]
Australian Chris Toms and New Zealand musician Johnny Batchelor formed a band named 'The Dropbears' in 1981.[16] Cats in universe mac os.
Australian Geographic ran an article on its website on 1 April 2013 (April Fools' Day) purporting that researchers had found that drop bears were more likely to attack tourists than people with Australian accents.[17] The article was based on a 2012 paper published in Australian Geographer, and despite referencing the Australian Museum entry on drop bears in several places, images included with the Australian Geographic article were sourced from Australian Geographer and did not match the Australian Museum's species description.[6][1][17]
The drop bear featured also in an advertisement for Bundaberg Rum. In the ad, the rum's mascot, the Bundy Bear is with a group of young men on a camping trip. As the men are sharing and opening cans of the rum, they notice a group of young female German tourists setting up a tent nearby. In an apparent attempt to win the women's attention, the men explain to them that they cannot camp there due to the presence of drop bears, and clumsily attempt to explain what a drop bear is. As the women show signs of knowing it is a hoax, the Bundy Bear drops from a tree above onto their tent, sending them screaming to the men's camp area. He gestures to one of the men from the ground, who acknowledges his support in winning the women's attention. The ad ends with the entire group, including the bear, sharing Bundaberg Rum at the men's campsite. [18]
The feature film Drop, based around the concept of the drop bear, will be released to cinemas in 2021.[19]
In the Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett drop bears inhabit the continent of Fourecks, a land portrayed as a parody of Australia. This version of the drop bear tale sees the animals with well padded backsides to cushion their fall.[20]
See also
References
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- ^ abc'Drop bear'. Discover & Learn; Animal fact sheets; Mammals. Australian Museum. 30 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^Lang, Anouk (2010). 'Troping the Masculine: Australian Animals, the Nation, and the Popular Imagination'. Antipodes. 24 (1).
- ^Staff Writers. Herald Sun, 24 October 2014. 'Australia's greatest hoaxes: the pranks that tricked a nation'.
- ^Switek, Brian. Slate, 'These Horrifying Creatures Ought to Be Movie Stars'.
- ^David Wood, 'Yarns spun around campfireArchived 10 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine', in Country News, byline, 2 May 2005, accessed 4 April 2008
- ^ abcJanssen, Volker (2012). 'Indirect Tracking of Drop Bears Using GNSS Technology'. Australian Geographer. 43 (4): 445–452. doi:10.1080/00049182.2012.731307.
- ^Seal, Graham (2010). Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 136. ISBN9781458716811.
- ^Westcott, Ben (18 December 2020). 'The true and unadulterated history of the drop bear, Australia's most deadly -- and most fake -- predator'. CNN. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^Packham, Chris (2016). 'Series 4, Nature's Weirdest Events'. BBC Two.
- ^Jamie Siedel, Scratch marks in a WA cave show the ‘drop bear' (thylacoleo carnifex) could climb particularly wellnews.com.au 15 February 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^Miller, John, The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words and Phrases. p. 88. 2011. ISBN9781459620674
- ^Seal, Graham (2010). Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 135. ISBN9781458716811.
- ^Canberra City News, 'Spreading the Myth', 6 August 2003.
- ^'Social Musings: Stories from July'. Australian Museum. 17 August 2012.
- ^ abAustralian Museum - In the News Dec 2010 Describes the entry on Drop Bears as being inspired by 'the 'silly season.'
- ^'The true and unadulterated history of the drop bear, Australia's most deadly -- and most fake -- predator | US & World News | kctv5.com'. www.kctv5.com. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- ^ abMiddleton, Amy (1 April 2013). 'Drop bears target tourists, study says'. Official site. Australian Geographic. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^'Bundy Rum Drop Bear Commercial on YouTube'.
- ^'Local folklore brought to life in new Aussie feature film'. Mirage News.
- ^'L-Space: Drop bear'.
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