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Apparently macs can read and burn everything but the first track. Not exactly effective copy protection.

Apparently macs can read and burn everything but the first track. Not exactly effective copy protection.

Hmm, according to this comment over at MacSlash, the 20G drive is slightly larger and therefore wouldn't work. Take it for what it's worth, as it was posted by an AC... Maybe someone can find real information to back this up (or refute it)?

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Since I, and so many other Mac OSX users, have have been treated by Epson this way (BUY A NEW PRINTER! FEED INTO CONSUMERISM!), I doubt many of us will be buying epson in the future. Too bad. It was a great printer.

Yes, this is true. WinXP's Clear Type is more advanced than the traditional anti-alias true type rendering, but it is valid ONLY for LCD screens, *not* for CRTs. I think this post here is pretty informative on Clear Type... :)

A huge number of mac news sites have actively been using very aqua-ish themes for a really long time. Apple hasn't minded so far.

I think it's clear at this point that apple legal only minds if you try to release a product that competes with apple using apple's trade dress.

Repackaging news from another mac web site and then insulting Apple users by ending each department name with "for dummies" is not an impressive start for this new section.

Competeing with macslash

"Janski writes "Looks like Slashdot.org now has an Apple section. It features a kind of ugly Aqua-inspired look, which makes things kind of hard to read. Check it out here." I dunno. The Green Aqua look is growing on me. I think they should call it algae. And, to everyone who's been submitting the "Oh my God! What will macSlash do? Slashdot is trying to kill you?" C'mon. There are already hundreds of Mac sites out there. One more isn't going to hurt us. In fact, I think it's a great opportunity, and I hope we can work with the Slashdot gang, like we've worked with others in the "Mac Web" before."

Somehow that sounds sinister. Like they're going to send some mac addicts with violin cases to Taco's wedding.

Check their comments.

DIY Beowulf Cluster of Macs

First, I have to say, I've had no problems with 10.1.3, and it works fine on my PowerBook G4.

About the apple.slashdot.org site: does this mean that Apple stories won't be cross-posted to the regular slashdot site? If they are still cross posted, then that's cool.

If not, I see a problem: partitioning Apple-related stories away in a separate site from general science, technology, YRO, and other non-Linux stories seems counterproductive and silly. I mean, there's a reason why MacSlash doesn't get a tenth of the traffic as Slashdot. That is, as a Mac user (and Linux and Windows user), I don't care to visit another site that only covers Mac stuff; that's what Macintouch and MacCentral are for.

The Aqua-fied slash look is pretty cool, though.

apple.slashdot.org has been around for over a year. It is called MacSlash and it is run by actual Mac users.

Question: What does this do to Macslash? I've always looked to them for info first (although the conversations were admittedly dead and moderation points were nonexistant) and they're apparently in a bit of a financial scrape. Personally, I'd rather an active discussion here than dead air there, but I'm still curious. Triv

I definatly wouldn't suggest the x86 archhetechture. in that case, with no cost problems, and at a university, you might be able to a) buy an old sun workstation from another department, or b) permenantly "borrow" one from the local research department...

as i recall, the sun and sgi workstations have really wide pci busses, which was what people on a recent macslash thread were debatinng why apple still has a long way to go to dethrone the two big S's in terms of personal rendering stations.

for a home solution, or at a eshop of sorts, an old sparc station or the likes might be out of the question, but if you're going to hack together somthing, just drop an old S motherboard, 10-20 cd burners, and a powersupply into a metal box, and let er' burn.

"'Macintosh' and 'Cluster' aren't two words you see together very often. Some enterprising folks at USC have created a cluster of 76(!) dual-processing G4s (56 DP G4/533 + 20 DP G4/450). You can check the info here . Glad to see parallel computing isn't just for the *nix crowd (well, they are running OSX, so technically...). I wonder if they just had 76 G4s lying around, or else there must be some very upset department secretaries. "

TPI seems to actually be achieving some credibility at this point: techies regard it as a necessary marketing ploy and mostly ture, and all the consumers I've seen in electronics stores that were using clock frequency to compare performance seem to be willing to buy any number a chip manufacturer wants to slap on the machine. There was adiscussion on macslash as to whether the AIM PowerPC chips should be marketed under the TPI numbers. The main problem (this was in Nov.) was that everyone seemed to regard TPI as a cheap trick. Has this changed enough for us to see them adopt it. Having every consumer system that didn't use an Intel chip use TPI numbers would also lend more credibility to the initiative, it would seem, and both AMD and Apple could benefit from this. So, will there be an iMac G4 1900+ in our future?

Apple has posted the take-apart instructions for the new iMac; the story is on Macslash right now. It's no harder to replace than the LCD in a notebook, as long as you can find a compatible part (it's a standard, mass-manufactured LCD, and /.ers are supposed to be the masters of hardware hacking, I don't understand why they bitch about the Mac's architecture; there's nothing proprietary about anything except the motherboard)

The facts don't support this being an authentic product. Let's look at the observations, facts, and trends:
* Apple always asks sites to remove content which actual foretells coming products
* Spymac is not the most reputable rumor site
* Apple.com pronounced the spendor of their coming announcements after Spymac and others had made all of their conjectures of coming products--photos &videos came after this, but the iWalk name was no surprise to Apple.
* Photos & videos at Spymac have "irregularities"--see the PunkxRock comments at MacSlash for all the details
* with audio I/O ports, what it is the iPod for?
* No tech specs are available on the device despite someone supposedly handling and photographing the device -- every rumor I can remember that turned out to be an actual product contained significant detail on tech specs, or at least offered a range of probable features.
* Visuals show login, web, writing recognition, and startup, but no other apps, graphic/video/audio capability are shown or detailed.
* Too thin for a the new 2.5" HD that's in the iPod, so nothing groundbreaking in terms of storage--and so you'd need firewire why?
* Bad functional design
+ huge port on top with no apparent function (resembles a serial port but what PDA syncs up-side-down in its dock?)
+ start up button on bottom edge--people will compare their rates of erroneous startup/shutdowns per minute
+ functionless jog-dial -- a HUGE button that only rotates the screen? That's like mounting a steering wheel on my back bumper to open my trunk when a key or even keyless remote will do.
+ too big for pockets, those handy sleeves inside your bag/briefcase, and most purses--except my mom's big 'ss carry-on size "totes"

So as another person once said, "To conclude, I will eat my hat if Jobs unveils this very machine tomorrow. No, wait - I'll eat my hockey puck mouse." (Hopefully I won't be doing this and going offline as this poor predictor once did.)

Apparently SpyMac has done some fakes before, and some mac addicts don't like the way this story smells.

Jim

Still05
Whatever.
Still06
Beta software.
Still07
Whatever.
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Whining.

Why respond in detail when you can comment like this?ây

Someone had broken into the display cases of the Industrial Design exhibit. Stolen were many of the students' final projects. The projects were mockups/models of radar detectors. Seemingly, the thief was convinced they were real.

more iWalk dissection

Why make a hoax? Like I said, this feeds egos. Look, we're all idiots, talking about their fake Apple product. Maybe they'll make Slashdot again. In addition, they want ads. Visitors attract advertisers.

This comment on MacSlash has a big list of possibly problems with the "evidence" for the iWalk. (Hell, someone's gonna get a five for posting this, might as well be me.)

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PC Magazine 5/5 Rating

But more to the point, who has played the cell-phone style hidden game on the iPod? With new hacking sites popping up all over, has anyone found a firmware update that gives them any more games yet? Or playback of even more media formats or other abilities? Of couse it will soon have Windows compatibility and people have been booting off their iPods since the beginning, but lately I've seen someone modifying it for use as a simple address book, people trying to get it to work under *BSD and Linux, and development of a new graphic EQ for it. Anyone else made cool hacks?

"Your question can be answered by looking through documentation and simple investigation. I suggest you figure out the answer for yourself as this is a good habit to have. Here [href to docs or page] is a good place to start looking for how to solve your problem. I could give you the answer but it's better for you to be able to give it to yourself. Thanks."

I've seen the stress of IT support when that was my job. It didn't affect me much but co-workers constantly needed to vent about it. I couldn't imagine how bad it would have been if they weren't paid for it, and Chris wasn't.

Personally, I'm sad to see him go, but hope he'll be back eventually. I understand his frustration with the "community" but hope he notices all of us who forgot to say how much we appreciated his work before he left.

I think I'm gonna' make a bumper sticker: "Have you hugged an Open Source Programmer today?"

Personally, I'm sad to see him go, but hope he'll be back eventually. I understand his frustration with the "community" but hope he notices all of us who forgot to say how much we appreciated his work before he left.

I think I'm gonna' make a bumper sticker: "Have you hugged an Open Source Programmer today?"

BTW, being a long-time Mac user myself, I'm totally clueless to how these kinds of open source issues are worked out, but I am curious about it. These kinds of issues can't be new. Can any of you more acquainted with this topic offer any sort of precedent for these kinds of issues/disputes?

--Rick

Andrew Welch of Ambrosia Software posted a method that MIGHT work on recovering the files here. Basically sometimes the installer, according to Andrew, just messes with file permissions and visability, not actually deleting them.

I didn't test this because iTunes didn't mess up my 5 partitions, thankfully.

-Henry

I installed iTunes2 and it worked just fine. It seems that all of the people over at MacSlash have had the same results.

Apparently it only strikes if you 1) havn't uninstalled iTunes first 2) have multiple partitions and 3) have spaces in the name of your partitions

This from MacSlash (posted by Graff as AC):

Well, there is a fixed installer up now. Looks like the following change was made to the "Preflight" file inside the "iTunes.pkg" package:

old version:

#!/bin/sh

# if iTunes application currently exists, delete it
if [ -e $2Applications/iTunes.app ] ; then
rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app 2> /dev/null
fi

exit 0

new version:

#!/bin/sh

# if iTunes application currently exists, delete it
if [ -e "$2Applications/iTunes.app" ] ; then
rm -rf "$2Applications/iTunes.app" 2> /dev/null
fi

exit 0

As you can see, they basically placed quotes around the file paths so that any characters such as spaces in path names would not mess up the rm command. So easy, and yet even the best of us forget to do it at times. That's one of the things about the command line - lots of power when used properly, but also many powerful ways to mess everything up.

- Graff

The iPod copying limitations are not really restrictions, but rather just hiding the actual MP3 files. The MP3's can be accessed thru the command line in OS X or thru a number of graphical third party utilities, a process outlined in this Mac Observer article.

Some more interesting (?) discussion about the iPod's internals and copy protection is over at a similar article on MacSlash.

I'm getting an iPod myself, but not till January when hopefully they'll drop in price a bit when Apple announces their next line of products.

Quick tidbits:

This product has had the mac world biting their nails for the past week or so.
Two of the most popular mac news sources, MacSlash and MacOS Rumors, are currently down, and MacNN has been slowed to a crawl.
The official announcement from apple is expected to happen at 10:00AM PST.

Perhaps it makes the port of their Qt/Mac easier to maintain. But if you are really targeting OS X, use the OS X APIs...

Based on this article on MacSlash, XFree86 4.0 has already been ported to OS X. That's how MacGIMP runs on OS X.

I don't know if you could run Gnome in it or not. That would be a sight to see: Gnome on top of Aqua. :-)

Read the article for some interesting info on X and OS X.

Based on this article on MacSlash, XFree86 4.0 has already been ported to OS X. That's how MacGIMP runs on OS X.

I don't know if you could run Gnome in it or not. That would be a sight to see: Gnome on top of Aqua. :-)

Read the article for some interesting info on X and OS X.

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No. It has been verified.

Your claim of a hoax is the only hoax here.

macslash has some blurbs with more details too, including info about the installer.

I guess if you think that $20 is a fair amount to pay for shipping then, yeah, it's free.

-Waldo

The article was one one sided, and lacked any sort of journalistic integrity. Here's my letter to the editor:

Dear Editors,

I just got finished reading your piece on domain names that may have been warning signals of the terrorist attacks last week.

This article was horribly biased, and I hope a retraction and a more balanced and informative article will replace it.

The quotes in the article from Neil Livingstone have very limited view points that seem to waver close to extreme when it comes to attacking civil liberties.

Mr. Livingstone also seems a poor choice to quote on this matter, since his comments show that he doesn't understand how the domain registration system works on the internet.

Below, I've pointed out some passages from the article (specifically quotes from Mr. Livingstone) which show his lack of understanding on the technical details involved in registering domain names and his lack of respect for civil liberties and freedom.

"It's unbelievable that they (the registration company) would register these domain names, probably without any comment to the FBI," according to Neil Livingstone, head of Global Options LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based counter-terrorism and investigation company.

It's not surprising at all. Hundreds of thousands of domain name records are created and changed every day. Most of the transactions are handled by computer, and human operators don't even look at the names being registered. I've been dealing with domain registration issues for many many domains, going as far back as 1994, and in that time, not once have I ever spoken to a human representative from the registration firms I've dealt with. This is involving hundreds, if not thousands, of domains that I've been responsible for over the past 7 years.

To protect his sources, Livingstone would not say with which company the domain names in question were registered. He had no information about the identity of the person or people who registered the names.

His sources? Mr. Livingstone couldn't have had sources on this matter. The records are quite public, as your story goes on to point out. Anyone with a net connection can find out when a domain was registered, and who the administrative, technical, and billing contacts are.

"This is something that someone should have noticed," he said, "but privacy issues probably kept it from being noticed."

Privacy issues? ANYONE can get the information his "sources" gave him. It's not private to begin with. His attack on privacy doesn't have anything to do with the subject of the article, and seems very out of place.

...Livingstone believes authorities should have the right to investigate inflammatory rhetoric, even something as simple as the registration of a web address that might indicate criminal intent.

And, evidently, he thinks that we should just forget about those constitutional protections that already allow this, once the proper clearance has been given by the courts in the form of search warrents.

It seems as if he's suggesting that due to a national tragedy, we can trample the constitutional rights of our citizens in order to ensure "safety."

In the future, I hope you'll present more balanced and technically accurate articles, with a broader sampling of opinions and viewpoints evident in the people you quote.

Thank you,

Ben Stanfield

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Ben Stanfield
Executive Editor, MacSlash
ben@macslash.com

...why is there only this one guy saying 10.1 will be payware? MacCentral doesn't have a story, nor MacNN, nor MacSlash.

Heck, this claim isn't even on MacOSRumors, and Ryan is a total weasel known to post ANY random crap that comes his way.

Maybe it's true, maybe not. But one guy on MacObserver isn't convincing.

MacSlash will be updating throughout the expo. Check us out and discuss your thoughts.

There are some interesting comments over there, too.

"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"

I posted this comment on Macslash yesterday:

I hear a lot of people here complaining about the combo price of a cube and LCD display. I think these assesments are correct. I think Apple has heard the complaints and is fixing them.

From the sounds of the rumors, we'll see an LCD iMac announced this month. It'll be a G4, 128MB RAM etc. Essentially a Cube stuck to an LCD. And the pricing should be in line with the current iMac product line.

Reasons being:
1) No more CRTs at Apple. Therefore, iMac must move to LCD.
2) Apple has invested a great deal in LCD tech, as show by launching a 17" LCD and getting amazing pixel resolution from the new iBook LCD.
3) You can't really glue a desktop to an LCD unless you can get the components to fit into a tight space and make it look any good. The Cube showed Apple could stuff a desktop into a kleenex box. Proof of concept for this requirement.
4) Pricing has to be within the bounds of the current iMac line b/c Apple won't want to risk losing their low-end customers who want to buy Mac
5) It must be G4 b/c OS X runs like crap on a G3. This upgrade will leave the iBook as the only G3 in the fleet. Expect this to be revved to G4 by MW Tokyo at the latest. Sorry to the early adopters on this one, but I don't think Apple will stand idly by and try to flog a product line that can't really run their new OS.
6) My money is on three configs w/ speeds from the 750Mhz through the 866Mhz. Lowend will be CD-RW, middle DVD, highend will be a combo drive ala the iBooks.

So long live the Cube in its new form. These are my bets. No doubt everyone here is guessing something similar.
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Even though MacOS X is finally released Apple considers it to still be a beta product - witness Apple's not shipping it installed on Macs until July.

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Ben Stanfield, Executive Editor
MacSlash

You can read it here.

Or
http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/04/17 35247&mode=nested
for those worried about 'bad' links.

You can read it here.

Or
http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/04/17 35247&mode=nested
for those worried about 'bad' links.