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I don't know whether it is true, but macslash is reporting that Java 5 is not included in Tiger and that it will be available for download at a later date.

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The author already posted the same "story" on MacSlash at http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/12/134823 1

... Xgrid being built into OS X proper, buying a second Powermac could be used as a ad hoc 2-node cluster.

Or you could just use your linux box as well as!

Let me simply ask this: Does Apple Computer have a support department. If so, why? They never need support!

Oh, now you've really stepped in it. Apple uses 2-4 times less support staff than other enterprises of their size.

Apple makes great systems. But anyone who says they never need support is either wearing blinders

Says the guy wearing sunglasses with ten-year old Macs glued to the inside. Typical backpedalling. Nobody said they never need support, just an order of magnitude less.

While your propensity for name-calling is no doubt unequaled, your ability to state the facts in this case is not so good.

Every legal analysis I've seen so far from real lawyers (here's one, and here's another.) says that my interpretation of the Terms of Service was correct, and the AOL spokesperson was misleading. So, sorry to inform you that there was, in fact, no misreading. However, I may still be an idiot. The jury's still out. :)

In case you were still reading this:

Did you find any indication that iPhoto '05 is any faster? My iPhoto is really slow, too, but after a quick round of reviews I couldn't find any comment about improved performance. What's worse, at least one of them pointed out increased sluggishness...

I mean, not even David Pogue celebrated speed in iPhoto '05... Although he does go as far as to say it only bogs down at 20,000 photos in the library... Pfeh!

This article was featrued on MacSlash since yesterday !

But wasn't there something using the help:// protocol that was fixed by a security update this fall or summer?

Ah, yes. Here it is.

link...

except for the constant deleting of anything anti-apple or amusing...

Get 'em Cacaben!!!

Macslash: home to the only reference to a dual processor mac as "bi"

Teh Pr00f
http://macslash.org/journal.pl?op=display&id=85&ui d=10111

Thank you mister quoter

1. Insert several new products in the pipe, but release no substantial information about them.
2. Stomp the hell out of people who really like your products when they release "premature" info even though they are really, really interested in your new products.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!

Looks like that strategy works...

Now, if I could only pin down the particulars of Step 3, I'd be rolling in dough too!

MacSlash covered this before, check the comments there where the s/n ratio is lower.

you know, I often wondered why the mere mention of Apple and Macintosh brought out a torrent of nay-sayers calling each other "Gay" or "Fags". I think I have stumbled onto what could be the root of the cause. This mac-user refers to the "Dual Processor" mac as "Bi"...

Read for yourself..........

http://macslash.org/journal.pl?op=display&id=85&ui d=10111/

sad.....just sad.

http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=4988&cid=83478

Seriously...wtf happened to MacSlash?
How dare they post a product announcement about macintosh software from a company that's actually selling things? WTF were they thinking when the posted a story about something that might actually interest mac users.
This place sucks. All they do is post stuff that their readers might be interested in and then make it easy for us to troll the comments in their stories.-- Ben Stanfield Executive Editor @ MacSlash

If IBM sets up an approval authority - and they enforce strict adherence to DRM enforcment to get approval

Is it possible for one company to embrace both selling machines that run GNU/Linux OS and selling digital restrictions management solutions without becoming so schizophrenic that the public slams it as it has slammed Sony? Or which companies were you planning on acting as CAs other than IBM?

major certificate authority

If the Internet disappears in favor of the Treacherynet, and you need VeriSign's approval to get an app into wide use on the Trustnet, then VeriSign could become a target for antitrust litigation, especially after having bought Thawte.

It doesn't actually block viruses, what it does is allow the router (thus the ISP) to check that your hardware is Trusted compliant

That would be useful for a LAN, but there exist easier, less Treacherous ways to stop the inadvertent spread of Windows viruses, such as blocking the main virus-vector ports unless the owner of the account specifically requests otherwise.

For example their firewall can enforce bandwidth caps.

ISPs can shape traffic without having access to my hardware. Cable and DSL hardware already do this.

It also opens up business models for free/reduced cost service by enforcing advertizing.

I choose not to use NetZero. What economic incentive does a broadband provider have to offer only NetZero-class service to residential customers?

Oh yeah? Here's an exploit in the wild, created just now: http://macslash.org/comments.pl/..namedfork/data

That's one serious hole. Hope they upgrade soon.

The FBI uses OS X, why won't the military consider it?

And no, it's not because of the don't ask don't tell policy.

See here. :(

Please tell us more about your great 'bi' mac....

DO NOT refer to it a dual processor, but as 'bi'...

check his journal on Macslash....
Wednesday June 09, 04
03:04 AM - The bi-2,5GHz is here
OK, the AppleStore is currently closed but my Swiss reseller has it now : the bi 2,5GHz has come, it is sold for the same price has the bi-2GHz which has dropped in price to its younger sibling's former price. Other specs seems to be the same as previously (160GB, 512MB...)
http://macslash.org/~mirko/journal/
Yea...your not teh ghey!

How Did It All Start?
By Snuffub
everyone knows that youre a leading figure in the BSD community so it's no wonder that apple hired you to head up the darwin project, but how did the relationship start off? Did they contact you early on when they first decided to use BSD? or was it an out of the blue phone call? Either way what were your major reservations when you were first offered the job, given that at the time apple had no track record in terms of their comitment to the open source community?

JH: I was actually the first to contact Apple, though I found them very receptive to the idea of my working there when I did. I'd been frustrated by Unix's historical lack of success on the desktop for a long time, and took it rather personally since I used desktop machines a lot in my daily life and Windows was not my idea of an ideal desktop OS. After seeing FreeBSD grow and prosper for almost 10 years, I also felt that BSD had done an amazingly good job of breaking into the server market and I was very ready to see it take on some new challenges. When I saw the first developer preview of Mac OS X, I knew Apple had something special on its hands and I started itching to get more involved. When 10.1 came out, I called and asked for an interview. :-)

"It's "BSD-based" in the sense that its long-ago ancestor was the original BSD, not, as a lot of people seem to think, that it's somehow FreeBSD or something like that."

Checkout Rhapsody's and Darwin's locations on the BSD tree.
The last Berkley release 4.4BSD-Lite2 (1995) to Rphapsody (1997).
Then NetBSD (12 May 1999) and FreeBSD 3.2 (17 May 1999) into Darwin.
Then Darwin to MacOSX 10.0, to MacOSX 10.1.
Then, FreeBSD 4.4 (20Sep01) into MacOSX 10.2 (23Aug02).
FreeBSD 5.1 (9 Jun03) into MacOSX 10.3 (24Oct03).

A thread of macslash.org about ReCycle generated some pretty funny posts based on no explanation of program function. It also generated some of the "it's so great that if you haven't heard of it your not worthy to use it" comments.

A thread of macslash.org about ReCycle generated some pretty funny posts based on no explanation of program function. It also generated some of the "it's so great that if you haven't heard of it your not worthy to use it" comments.

I sent this to their webmaster:

I find it somewhat humorous that on this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/security.m spx

the photo you use is that of a Macintosh PowerBook G4 15" (with the Apple logo on the back of the screen Photoshop-ed out), on a page about security summits and programs. While I don't want to get into a pissing contest about which OS is more secure, it's mildly humorous to find a Mac being used to advertise Microsoft's security, even if it is subtle.

Respectfully,

Andy Ringsmuth

I'll try and keep an eye on it and see if they decide to change the photo.....

http://www.macslash.org/

http://macslash.org/~andyring/

I sent this to their webmaster:

I find it somewhat humorous that on this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/security.m spx

the photo you use is that of a Macintosh PowerBook G4 15" (with the Apple logo on the back of the screen Photoshop-ed out), on a page about security summits and programs. While I don't want to get into a pissing contest about which OS is more secure, it's mildly humorous to find a Mac being used to advertise Microsoft's security, even if it is subtle.

Respectfully,

Andy Ringsmuth

I'll try and keep an eye on it and see if they decide to change the photo.....

http://www.macslash.org/

http://macslash.org/~andyring/

Ask any iPod user what they like the most about their device, and most will probably mention the gaymansex.

Glad I could clear that up!!!
Grant

http://www.macslash.org/

According to one of the posts Here on Macslash. This program is just a front end for an open source project

You might generate more discussion, or at least a few more creative responses, if you post this question to macslash:

http://macslash.org/

But then again, VLC or QTSS are both great (free) options!

Nick

I fail to see why this post was modded offtopic. There has been a lot of talk over whether the INDUCE act will affect the ipod. For example: http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/10/095421 4&mode=thread

hmm... i think i said this same thing a little earlier... in a slightly less verbose fashion here, here and here. but whatever...

Yeah and considering the name of the iPod mini, who didn't see something like this coming? I thought of something similar right after the iPod mini was announced.

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/09/133823 4&mode=thread&threshold=-1

See MacSlash for more of them

this is interesting and all, but this is even cooler: PearPC: PowerPC Emulation For Windows & Linux...

I'm actually a moderately well known individual in the security community, but I'm posting this anonymously because, well, the subject line (and, I suppose, Author field).

I've been an Apple user, off and on, since the IIgs days. There's always been a good amount of zealotry about the product line, but what can you say? The gear is pretty good, and has a good reputation. Unfortunately, no small amount of that reputation is maintained through absolutely vociferous defense of any arbitrary behavior.

I'm not just talking about buffer overflows. When Apple's DHCP implementation made it trivial for anyone on the LAN (even a coffee shop wireless network) to remotely take full control of the machine, the response was not one of confident correction but defensive redefinition -- "It's not a bug, it's a feature, you unintelligent carbon rod." And when Apple became the first operating system ever to be exploitable via its generic text forms -- the response really was yet another circle-the-wagons-and-apply-the-double-standard. And in case you don't believe me about the obsessive, O'Reillyian hijinks going on here -- look at the Boingboing response to what's just an open-and-shut data/executable confusion vulnerability. "OS9 is vulnerable too" is not a defense. "But you need to GET the file first" isn't a defense either -- that is , um, sort of the point of a Trojan horse. "An antivirus company came up with this" -- no way, you mean antivirus companies actually try to find security problems? This type of alternation between non-sequitor and ad-hominem is par for course. And don't say it's always this way -- there's no other operating system vendor who either themselves or through their users reacts to security risks like this. Not Microsoft, not the various Linux distributors (who really are getting hammered), not Sun or SGI, and certainly not Theo or his security-obsessed users. Everyone else seems to have realized it's safe to openly acknowledge and repair faults. Apple is the exception. "Like pulling teeth" comes to mind.

People, this is technology, not politics, and I don't even like this kind of behavior in politics. The more apologism there is for Apple failures -- and yes, even the eternally scrappy upstart from Cupertino can screw up, just look at your Powerbook monitors -- the less likely we are to actually see what ultimately we all want, which is correctly behaving technology.

That's all I have to say on this.

Obviously iMac needs more MHz than last september's models, but I don't see G5s there until fall. Also, the GPUs definitely need bumping (currently 4MX low or 5200 high).

But more important is the PowerMac G5, also stagnant for the past 6 months. Everyone is looking for exactly one number: 2.5 GHz. Bumping the low-end mobo to PCI-X and ditching the FX5200 would also be nice.

There are a couple of discussion threads in the i-pod lounge (here) and macslash (here) about this topic. I have just under 3,000 songs on my i-pod, yet often get repeats when in shuffle play, indicating that the random is far from random. I had this same problem with the 300-CD changer I used to use -- it's "randomness" was rather poor.

Ah, but it's only going to be as random as the player's random number generator.

Judging by the history of random number generators on cheap/small computers, that's probably not going to be all that very random.

Anyway, I did a quick search and it's lack of randomness has been discussed before.

The DMCA describes two categories of DRM: access control and copy control. It's illegal to distribute a product that can defeat either type of DRM.

There is, however, a big difference between those two types of DRM as far as DMCA is concerned. It's illegal to use a product that breaks access control, but DMCA does not prohibit you from using workarounds to make copies. That distinction exists in DMCA to preserve fair use.

Since the playfair program doesn't let you get around the access control (you still need an iTMS key) and it only allows you to make copies of files to which you have legitimately obtained access, it's legal to use it as long as you don't cross the fair use line.

See also the MacSlash discussion on FairPlay.

So let's be rational about this. The tool removes DRM from AAC files purchased from iTunes Music Store. Is this about fair use or piracy? Probably both, but it could be used solely for fair use. Scenario: you have an mp3 player (iPod was a bit too pricey), but you bought a song on iTMS so that you could play it on your computer in iTunes. Now you decide that you'd like to play that song on your mp3 player (which has AAC support, by the way). Is this fair use? I think so (but who's a lawyer around here anyway?). There is one hangup to this scenario, though. Do you have to agree to some terms of service before you buy from iTMS? And if so, do these terms of service say that you can't attempt to beat the DRM? In that case you would have a different problem related to breach of license, but you still have not violated copyright law.

Others will argue that breaking this DRM is civil disobedience, and is a necessary and responsible part of the protest against the music industry's scheming evils. That is a foolish plan of action, especially because all of the copyleft licenses rely on copyright law to guarantee freedom. Disregarding copyright law erodes the freedoms granted by copyleft, which is a very bad idea.

Safari isn't.
But now, whoever has his own server might not be interested in "yet another email service" because this is what gmail is about : it comes from Google, hence the "aaaaah" and "ooooh" of the Slashdot crowd but it doesn't exactly fill a gap... as seen from here...

Gmail's servers also have powerpc logos on them..

(It's probably a april fools joke from macslash, though..)

Apple gets the hardware bid. Of course, the next article is "Steve Jobs To Sell All His Stock", so let the reader beware.

Umm... hate to burst your bubble but VeriDisc's Fairplay is not related in anyway to Apple's Fairplay (see)

It appears that somebody has decided that it's time to hack the hackers.

MacSlash had this item on March 01st. See it: here.

Why are a large number of slashdot stories directly copied off other sites? They give no credit to the original site at all.

This story could have easily said: "jpkunst noticed over at macslash.org they are running a story about an article on kernelthread by Amit Singh etc etc...

In many cases these are copied word for word from the originating site, however thankfully our submitter took the time to rewrite a different summary for this particular story.

Isn't one of the main points of the GPL et al that you have to give credit to the original authors? How very hypocritical of the Slashdot editors to let things like this through.

Why are a large number of slashdot stories directly copied off other sites? They give no credit to the original site at all.

This story could have easily said: "jpkunst noticed over at macslash.org they are running a story about an article on kernelthread by Amit Singh etc etc...

In many cases these are copied word for word from the originating site, however thankfully our submitter took the time to rewrite a different summary for this particular story.

Isn't one of the main points of the GPL et al that you have to give credit to the original authors? How very hypocritical of the Slashdot editors to let things like this through.

You wouldn't mean MacSlash.org, would you?

Pudge seems to believe that researching and crediting sources is retarded behavior. May be right, may be wrong...