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Thanks, made a quick blog entry about it.

What?? Where the hell did you get that from?

One place I heard it is here. I've read a number of posts on slashdot that have said Windows APIs might be in Leopard, er I thought I did but I just searched and didn't get any results. So I googled and found some info:

1. Leopard To Run Windows Apps Via API Just Like OS/2 Did
2. 9 Mac OS X Leopard rumors
3. Apple implementing Windows API directly in Mac OS X Leopard? (Windows apps on Mac without Windows)

I found others along the same lines: OS X leopard windows api. As for how factual they all are I don't know but I'm really hoping to see it come true, I'm using an HP PC typing this but within a couple of weeks I plan on getting a MacBook Pro and I want to be able to run at least one Windows app on it without using either bootcamp or a vm to run Windows. I'll probably get CrossOver Mac but I'd prefer Windows APIs in Leopard.

Why you should dump IE

Also...

According to Microsoft...

There have been several ad-providers who have been using cost-per-action for some time now. An example would be available here . As I understand it, this technology is actually mature and has been put forward several times as a better way to resolve click-fraud than the "just trust us to take care of it" method used thus far by google.

"Microsoft Corp. has reached a patenting milestone by logging its 5,000th patent granted in the United States. Patent no. 6,999,083 provides for technologies that allow people to not just play video games against each other online, but to join the game as a spectator from anywhere in the world. The patent, which covers technologies that will be featured in Xbox 360 games, brings new innovation to online gaming by allowing consumers to tune into a video game much as they would a sporting event broadcast."

It won't happen for these reasons:
1. The James Bond license, in a complete switch from the usual state of things, actually makes the game much cooler.
2. Emulating an N64 is still not trivial, would rely on using information that would have to be gained in a clean-room reverse engineering, and even then may be subject to a lawsuit from Nintendo. Of course they could always look at public emulators, but I'm unsure that wouldn't carry its own liability.
3. The ROM has Nintendo's logo all over it, all that would have to be scrubbed. Further, I'm reasonably sure Nintendo actually owns the copyright on the game. They were the original publisher in any case.

However, the game's size is likely NOT a determining factor. The Wikipedia page for Goldeneye 007 states that the game's ROM is 16 megabytes. The size limit for Xbox Live Arcade games is 50 megabytes. Even counting in twice the game's ROM size to hold an emulator, it would still probably fit.

However, consider this: Rare still probably has the source code and art assets for the game. They could probably recompile the game to make use of the X-Box 360's hyperflash sparklemagic technical pixie thingies. In fact, they would have to do this, otherwise people would laugh at how the 360 now has a FIRST-GEN N64 GAME WITHOUT ANY GRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT, gasp! So that means, at the very least, better textures.

The N64 game's ROM was only that small because it used heavy texture compression and because people weren't accustomed to 360-level texture sharpness. Look at it now: the game is still cool, but it's blurry as hell. Unfortunatly, to improve the textures would probably greatly increase the game's size, and that 50 megabyte Live Arcade limit looks like a hard (if arbitrary) one.

That's speculation of course, but it sounds about right to me. Anyone care to subject it to the iron knifeblade of reason?

Right, because CDs never have anything related to DRM...

(Just to list a few)

Stating the obvious, sometimes you get a feeling of security by keeping a low profile. If something is popular it naturally attracts saboteurs, and therefore has a better chance of being exploited, thereby ruining its reputation. Some might brand less popular OSes as insecure as Windows -- we just don't hear of as many incidents related to breaches.

http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/archives/2005 0801_leaking_capacitors_muck_up_motherboards.phtml

Many apps can be patched while they're running, and are replaced at next restart. We have some of that now, but will have more of it in the Vista release.

lol, video decoding is something that the cell processor kicks butt at ... http://channels.lockergnome.com/hardware/archives/ 20050502_toshiba_shows_a_video_of_a_demo_of_cell_d ecoding_48_mpeg2_video_streams_at_once.phtml

Nice troll, but hey get your Facts Straight
5 million DSes out there... DS is by no means a failure. In comprison, the PSP has failed so misserably that they took it off the market in the UK. better hand-held console? They've lost to nintendo before, and sony is no exception.

Court Denies TigerDirect's Injunction in Tiger Lawsuit Against Apple ()

And Apple sued Apple 22 frickin' years ago. Go look up the history of the Sosumi system sound.

BTW, Chris Pirillo, the guy who wrote this, he's the one who couldn't make the cut as a TechTV ScreenSaver, isn't that right?

Chris Pirillo didn't really need to "make the cut" in ScreenSavers as he was doing fine in Call-for-Help. Besides, he already has his lockergnome gig to take of (I do believe it is for this reason that he had to leave TechTV).

BTW, it's also a known fact that Chris Pirillo does read and post in Slashdot.

It's called "Gnomedex" because it's organized by Chris Perillo of Lockergnome.com. It's not a Microsoft event; Microsoft is just sponsoring it this year.

Gnomedex was started as an offshoot from the
http://www.lockergnome.com/ web site created
by Chris Pirillo.

IIRC, it was originally started as an attempt to draw interest in technology industries to Iowa and the midwest.

http://www.gnomedex.com/history.phtml

http://www.lockergnome.com/

Something like this would be a good start for the "drinking alcohol" part (I'm not sure how well it would handle watered-down alcohol or flavorings...).

A descent text editor: have you tried Notepad 2 for me it has worked wonders, as I was looking for a text editor as fast as notepad with more features but not as bloated as JEdit or UltraEdit (this last is not free).

Descent media player, have you tried VCL? personally I think MS Media player is quite good, as I can play almost everything on it, but of course as it is from Microsoft it surely is crap for you so, VLC will do it.

Decent Clipboard viewer, this (clipbrd) page might be useful for you and guess what, you have to TYPE the command to use it, so you wont miss the Linux way.

And what do you mean by "unsupported"?? unsupported by who? by the operating system? those apps are not more supported by Linux than by Linux, in both OS they have the exactly same licenses. In none of them can you call the OS company representatives to help you using them (as both of them will tell you to RTF-Forums-FAQs, etc).

And the Gimp is equally FULLY SUPPORTED in Windowze, I can see you are just flamebaiting... ask the people who made the Gimp how much "more" they support The Gimp for windows and for Linux... WTF are you barfing about?... I do not know why am I answering to your comment...

If Microsoft thinks Google's a one- hit wonder, why in heaven's name do they keep following them??

Sorry, but you can't say that at this point and time.

http://channels.lockergnome.com/game/archives/2005 0513_some_details_on_the_nintendo_revolution.phtml

"The report also states that the Revolution will be able to play DVD media, but it is unknown if this will be regular movies, or if games will be released on this DVD media"

Trying to infect Prius with a Symbian "virus" is like trying to infect a tree with a choc chip cookie . Hey I can come up with a better one - it's like trying to infect shampoo with a book on eating disorders (now go picture that in your head for a second). But this is so sweet - it takes one dumb kid with too much time on their hands and one even dumber kid to moderate at voila! you get slashdot "news".

Whenever thousands of Prius owners and millions of concerned drivers hear a rumor about some virus that can infect cars, it is always cause for concern. I had heard about this before, and was actually relieved (not that much, but still) when I read this story. And, even if I had read the post you referenced, I would still be glad that a statement made by ArrayIndexOutOfBound on a tech news site was validated by F-Secure, a company that _knows_ viruses.

Still, I (a reasonably intelligent and informed /. user) personally have no knowledge of how the bluetooth virus everyone has been talking about works. I know nothing of what OS the Prius uses and how it compares with certain cell phones. I thought this was news.

Lighten up, jerk.

Considering the rather large gap between OS/2 1.x and 2.x, I find it hard to believe that there's any links of consequence between OS/2 1.x and NT.

Well, let's see what the historians think...

The collaboration between IBM and Microsoft unravelled in 1990, between the releases of Windows 3.0 and OS/2 1.3. The increasing popularity of Windows prompted Microsoft to shift its development focus from OS/2, and IBM grew concerned about delays in development of OS/2 2.0. Initially, the companies agreed that IBM would take over maintenance of OS/2 1.0 and development of OS/2 2.0, while Microsoft would continue development of OS/2 3.0, then known as "NT OS/2". However, Microsoft decided to recast NT OS/2 as Windows NT, leaving all future OS/2 development to IBM. Windows NT's OS/2 heritage can be seen in its initial support for the HPFS filesystem (although write support was dropped in Windows NT 4.0 and read support was dropped in Windows 2000) and text mode OS/2 1.x applications (support dropped in Windows XP)....

...although OS/2 2.0 is often believed to be IBM's own work, a beta version, accompanied by an SDK, had already been released by Microsoft in the second half of 1990

(lockergnome encyclopedia article on OS/2; all emphasis mine)

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By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT.

(emphasis mine; from A short history of OS/2

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[you continued:] There are a hell of a lot more striking differences, like portability, the HAL, multiple APIs, SMP, being multiuser, ACLs, message passing, fully 32 bit...

generic concepts (like "threading"...).

My point here was that at this point in time, this was NOT a generic concept. (to the best of my knowledge) the concept of lightweight processes viz threading was originated in OS/2 and carried into NT, as was the DLL DynaLink Library concept.

according to this, Russia's area of 17,075,200 km^2 is divided 77:23 between Asian and European parts. Interestingly, Russia population of 143 mil is divided 26:73 between Asians and Europeans. That is, the average population density in Asian part of Russia is less than 3 people per km^2 and average population density in European part of Russia is 26.5 people per km^2.

The "defenders" argument in this case strikes me as a bit odd. While I'm not completely conversant with the basic theory behind this, the very rough approximation (better mathematicians please correct me), but the Classification is a huge work for the simple reason that it attempts to cover a huge amount of territory. Simple groups are one of the fundamental "building blocks" of groups, somewhat akin to prime numbers for the integers. While not all groups are built up from simple groups, they are fundamental to group theory, and there's a boatload of them (including one very strange one called the Monster Group, a simple group of order 80801742479451287588645990496171075700575436800000 0000
http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Monster_gr oup)

Were such a classification attempted by computers, it would sweel in size geometrically (the "proof" as it stands is a body of work numbering roughly 10,000 pages of advanced, dense mathematics. People say that roughly four people in the world understand the proof fully). If it were done by computer, probably no one would understand it. Plus, as was demonstrated with the Monster group, computations to verify some of the assumptions would be prohibitively expensive. Possibly on the order of breaking some strongish crypto.

At least they called him by his name, not just "The iTunes back door guy."

I'm pretty sure his nickname is "dvd jon".
Remember that whole DeCSS thing?
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Feel free to go google DMCA abuse. There's about 100,000 hits, and you might find one or two in there that might lead you to understand WHY it's reasonable to think that a corporation might go after this, using the DMCA as a weapon, because they've done it before.

The FatWallet one is particularly educational. I invite you to go read it. It's even less applicable to the DMCA than card-stripe reading, and it happened anyway.

Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome fame) started something similar a few years back. Check out Rent My Chest for more info. Basically, PayPal him 20 US bucks, and he'll write on his chest and put the 640x480 shot up on the web for people to see. Granted, it's not 30 days, but just showing the concept isn't new.

You sound like the guy that always loses in sports/cards/whatever and keeps telling himself it's always "bad luck". Get over it. Realize that common sense can keep you safe enough.

Also, you expose the fact that you know absolutely nothing. Can you name one single proper release of warez containing a trojan? Didn't think so.

Are you trying to imply that browsing the web with IE is the only way to get hacked?
Link1
Link2

I think I'm going to have to call bullshit on your admistrator.

In about:config, the property you want to look for is:

browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl

From This Page:

* Description: switch to enable caching of objects served over a secure connection (SSL).
* Type: boolean
* Default: false
* Recommendation: true on systems where it is secure to cache these objects.

By default, Firefox (and Mozilla. and Netscape.) will *NOT* cache SSL-served pages. And, contrary to your administrator's *other* claim, you most certainly *can* toggle this behaviour in Firefox.

gnome, in this case, = lockergnome.com

Many years from now, when this battle has long died off, I'm going to tell everyone I had a part in this marketshare shift (whether it's true or not at that point will be a non-issue). :)

Here's my proof - my piece on dumping IE that started making its rounds more than 2 weeks before the CERT stuff.

Well, let's consult Google:

techtv - 404 (site redesigned, so this is expected)
http://www.g4techtv.com/feature.aspx?article_key=1 0624&pg=3
"I just found out about this puppy. Wow. No matter what kind of system you have (fast or slow, new or old), this rabbit-like tool will increase the CPU time for a foreground app. What does that mean? Not only do programs load faster, but they run faster as well."

locker gnome - 404
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues /20010419.phtml
(duplicate of the techtv one)
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues /20021105.phtml
"I gave Hare another shot - although it remains to be seen whether or not Hare actually improves system performance markedly."

Well, let's consult Google:

techtv - 404 (site redesigned, so this is expected)
http://www.g4techtv.com/feature.aspx?article_key=1 0624&pg=3
"I just found out about this puppy. Wow. No matter what kind of system you have (fast or slow, new or old), this rabbit-like tool will increase the CPU time for a foreground app. What does that mean? Not only do programs load faster, but they run faster as well."

locker gnome - 404
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues /20010419.phtml
(duplicate of the techtv one)
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues /20021105.phtml
"I gave Hare another shot - although it remains to be seen whether or not Hare actually improves system performance markedly."

I first read her as a Lockergnome Linux newsletter subscriber. Let us be kind here and say that I was underwhelmed by her knowledge of linux. To not be kind - there is a reason she wrote Linux for Dummies

:/

Sera

My piece, written for the non-techie masses, on why they should consider other browsers:

For the curious, here is the correct link.

click

yer could try this thing.

Lockergnome's (brief) writeup

the download page


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Leo started Call for Help years ago, and was the original host, and Chris Pirillo was Leo's hand-picked choice for the show. But Pirillo, the freak of Lockergnomishness I speak of, was utterly annoying on the show. I have only turned off the TV faster for Dubya when Pirillo would come on.

I'm not asking for a pretty boy, but I am asking for someone who stays within the bounds of the conversation and off of tangents, which Pirillo had problems with.

Chris Pirillo has one and he is a geek of the first order. A friendly email to him might get him to comment on the technical aspects of the one he chose.

Sera

As far as I can tell, this was aimed mainly at people producing things like e-mail newsletters.

The Lockergnome newsletters started to use the Habeas haiku a while ago because they had problems when people started marking their sign-up newsletters as spam when they didn't want to receive them any more, rather than using the unsubscribe options. The people on large ISPs that aggregate what people think of as spam were then banning the newsletters from other subscribers.

Getting yourself unbanned from ISPs usually involves contacting their staff and convincing them that you're not a spammer. In the case of Lockergnome the second part was straightforward, but it was taking up a lot of time, and you only know you've lost subscribers when someone asks when the next newsletter's coming because they haven't received any for a while.

The Habeas system gives the ISPs an easy way to let through stuff marked with it, as long as Habeas defend their haiku against spammers successfully. So far they've done this, but finding the spammers to enforce their copyright, as they're trying to do in this latest case, isn't always easy/fast.

According to his webblog, in the last few months, this poor bugger got his ass fired from TechTV, only to be replaced by the uber-knowledgeable (*snicker*) Leo Laporte; gotten sick; gotten food poisoning; has a conspiracy theory that Doc Searls is actually Colonel Sanders; has a beef with hydrogenated oils in soda crackers; has sunk to the oh-so pathetic level of doodling on his own body in order to get hits to his website, "C:\PIRILLO.EXE -- Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid".

And to top it all off, he writes a newsletter called "Windows Fanatics". I feel so bad for this guy. World Vision should add this guy to their client list, he's at least as pathetic as the starving AIDS-ridden African child with flies crawling on his face.

BSD isn't dying, this guy is.

As admin of help.lockergnome.com I know that the popularity of Gnomedex increases greatly every year. And this will only be the third year. Soon, it may be too big to be held in Iowa. I do think that this is a worthy thing to attend, as it isn't so much about the speakers and lecturers. It's about the people. The people there are some the friendliest and nicest people you'll find.

Even if you can't make it to the mecca of excitement that is Des Moines, you can still get your Lockergnome-approved daily dose of gnomish fun here...

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or is slashdot getting really slow at the news these days? Lockergnome had this bit last month

Which stories are you reading?

The lockergnome one, which is the one from today:
http://www.lockergnome.com/update/archives/week_20 03_03_16.html

It makes reference to emails and html pages, which relate the the vuln I referred to.

BTW, it looks like details are available now:

http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/ 2003-March/004574.html

Here's how to play RealAudio/Video stuff without installing RealPlayer:

Grab the Tara plugin for Winamp: http://www.musiclivesonline.com/software/watara.ht ml

Copy a few files from a working RealPlayer install and import a couple registry keys:
http://www.lockergnome.com/issues/daily/20011228.h tml (scroll down to the bottom GnomeTIP) ..that's it.

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