In the article they did say installing the nVidia drivers in Linux was easier than installing them in Windows. So they aren't talking about installing nVidia drivers when they say they ran into problems.
Read the article for details on the problems they ran into; most of the problems were with ATi's drivers and specific bugs/glitches in games.
I'd like to know this too. I'd be a lot happier with OS X if it did. Right now I mostly avoid X because it's so poorly integrated into the OS (such as all X apps' focus being controlled by one icon on the dock).
Oh, I've got a 5500. To flash it I just hold down C+D and hit reset. When I was first learning how to flash it, I used the wrong files several times. I once renamed the Ospack to zImage (first time flashing the sharp rom) and another time I copied an initrd file over the zImage.
I'm actually surprised the 5500 is safer to flash than the 5600.
I think we have all said the same thing about one company or another but lets be truthful here. Next time they come out with a game you really want they will see about $50 of your pennies.
If they come out with a game he really wants, he can get it without anyone--except his ISP--seeing a penny for it.
I'm not saying it's right, just that it's possible for him to play any good games EA happens to ship without EA ever getting a penny for it.
I think developers and publishers need to pay attention to this. When they don't care about the quality of their product (shipping buggy software and taking a "we'll fix it later" attitude) and treat their paying customers like criminals (telling users what they can or can't run on their computer, using copy protection that affects quality of gameplay), why should they expect their potential customers to care about supporting them?
My father owns a chain of stores that rent DVDs. The grandparent is absolutely correct when he says scratches are a non-issue. You'd be amazed what those things can survive. They're infinitely better than CDs as far as reliability after being scratched.
If you're having problems with rentals, get a better DVD player. The only people who come back with problems have either a first generation DVD player, or a mauled DVD.
I've installed 1.0PR on my gaming computer (Windows 2000) and this iBook (OS 10.3), no problems at all on either one.
My fiance installed it on her Windows XP box with no problems. My dad installed it on his VirtualPC running Windows XP with no problems. My mom installed it on her Windows 2000 desktop with no problems. My fiance's mother installed it on her Windows 2000 desktop with no problems.
I'd see if there isn't something else causing the problems before blaming Firefox.
Actually a new 5400rpm drive would have much less noise/power than an old one... but I'm sure you know that and just worded the statement poorly.
I was building a new firewall and was going to use an old 1gig drive since I didn't need more storage than that. After getting it set up, the drive was so loud during read/writes I ended up putting in an old 20GB drive just so I wouldn't hear it at my desk.
Because it replaced a core framework for handling urls. Lots and lots of other programs could potentially use it.
Why isn't this in the information about the vulnerability?
If what you've said is true, Apple should mention it so people who don't use iChat know it's an important update for them.
However, I'll assume you're wrong. Apple would at least mention Safari and Mail in the Impact and Availability sections of the Security Update if it was a general problem handling URLs.
Let me first say I've got nothing against gentoo, it's a nice distro for desktops.
However, I just want to point out: most people running Gentoo use really stupid cflags. It's obvious looking at the Gentoo forums that a majority of the people running it and giving advice on cflags don't even know what the cflags do.
So if they just used stupid cflags in the benchmark it's probably fair.;)
An 800MHz cpu is too slow for (native) Windows Media Player 9 on OS X to play anything fast enough to measure in frames per second instead of seconds per frame. While I'd imagine they haven't spent near as much time optimizing for OS X as they did on Windows, even quicktime can get pretty choppy with some files on an 800MHz system.
I don't think Java is to blame.
You'll find you need a faster CPU soon if you want to keep up with modern codecs.
That's true. If you can't trust your employees, why do you have them working for you?
What I'm more concerned about is accidental damage and social engineering. I'd rather they not have the ability to do things they don't need to do. I trust the companies employees, but I also trust that most aren't educated enough to understand everything they can do on a computer or recognize every type of social engineering attack.
Obviously there's no way to make a computer completely secure aside from locking it inside a safe with nothing plugged into it--and that doesn't make for a very useful computer.
However, if you do what I posted previously, it can eliminate a great deal of the danger.
Disable USB, make the hard drive the first boot device, disable booting from other devices, password protect the BIOS, lock the case.
Then use whatever security features are available in the OS to restrict access to things like fdisk, use good virus protection, and limit access (via DNS or group policies for IE) to only trusted/necessary sites.
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You don't think he meant "Win2000 or Win2003"?
In the article they did say installing the nVidia drivers in Linux was easier than installing them in Windows. So they aren't talking about installing nVidia drivers when they say they ran into problems.
Read the article for details on the problems they ran into; most of the problems were with ATi's drivers and specific bugs/glitches in games.
Ironically, when I clicked the links, the Logitech link redirected to this
Ironically, when I clicked the links, the Logitech link redirected to this
So why doesn't OSX use it?
I'd like to know this too. I'd be a lot happier with OS X if it did. Right now I mostly avoid X because it's so poorly integrated into the OS (such as all X apps' focus being controlled by one icon on the dock).
Oh, I've got a 5500. To flash it I just hold down C+D and hit reset. When I was first learning how to flash it, I used the wrong files several times. I once renamed the Ospack to zImage (first time flashing the sharp rom) and another time I copied an initrd file over the zImage.
I'm actually surprised the 5500 is safer to flash than the 5600.
That's odd, I've messed up flashing several times and it's always let me reflash it.
Reflash it?
Worse than that, it's not even an MMO... it's just a single-player RPG.
But I think he was talking about the pictures of the penguins.
I think we have all said the same thing about one company or another but lets be truthful here. Next time they come out with a game you really want they will see about $50 of your pennies.
If they come out with a game he really wants, he can get it without anyone--except his ISP--seeing a penny for it.
I'm not saying it's right, just that it's possible for him to play any good games EA happens to ship without EA ever getting a penny for it.
I think developers and publishers need to pay attention to this. When they don't care about the quality of their product (shipping buggy software and taking a "we'll fix it later" attitude) and treat their paying customers like criminals (telling users what they can or can't run on their computer, using copy protection that affects quality of gameplay), why should they expect their potential customers to care about supporting them?
Don't rent DVDs much do you?
My father owns a chain of stores that rent DVDs. The grandparent is absolutely correct when he says scratches are a non-issue. You'd be amazed what those things can survive. They're infinitely better than CDs as far as reliability after being scratched.
If you're having problems with rentals, get a better DVD player. The only people who come back with problems have either a first generation DVD player, or a mauled DVD.
I'm hesitant to say this, since I don't want to crush your newfound hope...
but I'm running Adblock on my iBook with 1.0PR.
Hopefully it's just a case of having an outdated version (or a problem with upgrading when Adblock was previously installed?).
I got my Adblock here a couple days ago:
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Good luck!
I've installed 1.0PR on my gaming computer (Windows 2000) and this iBook (OS 10.3), no problems at all on either one.
My fiance installed it on her Windows XP box with no problems. My dad installed it on his VirtualPC running Windows XP with no problems. My mom installed it on her Windows 2000 desktop with no problems. My fiance's mother installed it on her Windows 2000 desktop with no problems.
I'd see if there isn't something else causing the problems before blaming Firefox.
Actually a new 5400rpm drive would have much less noise/power than an old one... but I'm sure you know that and just worded the statement poorly.
I was building a new firewall and was going to use an old 1gig drive since I didn't need more storage than that. After getting it set up, the drive was so loud during read/writes I ended up putting in an old 20GB drive just so I wouldn't hear it at my desk.
Because it replaced a core framework for handling urls. Lots and lots of other programs could potentially use it.
Why isn't this in the information about the vulnerability?
If what you've said is true, Apple should mention it so people who don't use iChat know it's an important update for them.
However, I'll assume you're wrong. Apple would at least mention Safari and Mail in the Impact and Availability sections of the Security Update if it was a general problem handling URLs.
Why did I have to reboot after patching iChat?
A web-only survey with bad sampling?
That's impossible!
Let me first say I've got nothing against gentoo, it's a nice distro for desktops.
;)
However, I just want to point out: most people running Gentoo use really stupid cflags. It's obvious looking at the Gentoo forums that a majority of the people running it and giving advice on cflags don't even know what the cflags do.
So if they just used stupid cflags in the benchmark it's probably fair.
An 800MHz cpu is too slow for (native) Windows Media Player 9 on OS X to play anything fast enough to measure in frames per second instead of seconds per frame. While I'd imagine they haven't spent near as much time optimizing for OS X as they did on Windows, even quicktime can get pretty choppy with some files on an 800MHz system.
I don't think Java is to blame.
You'll find you need a faster CPU soon if you want to keep up with modern codecs.
That's true. If you can't trust your employees, why do you have them working for you?
What I'm more concerned about is accidental damage and social engineering. I'd rather they not have the ability to do things they don't need to do. I trust the companies employees, but I also trust that most aren't educated enough to understand everything they can do on a computer or recognize every type of social engineering attack.
Obviously there's no way to make a computer completely secure aside from locking it inside a safe with nothing plugged into it--and that doesn't make for a very useful computer.
However, if you do what I posted previously, it can eliminate a great deal of the danger.
Disable USB, make the hard drive the first boot device, disable booting from other devices, password protect the BIOS, lock the case.
Then use whatever security features are available in the OS to restrict access to things like fdisk, use good virus protection, and limit access (via DNS or group policies for IE) to only trusted/necessary sites.
It's not that hard.
You better go tell eb games that Horizons was cancelled.
Think of the Sunday comics, they're entertaining. They're not art and aren't trying to be. That doesn't mean they're not drawings.
The same way pop music is still music. It's not art, and it's not trying to be. It's only trying to be entertaining.
That looks like a good keyboard. I was expecting it to be much more than the $30-$40 it's going for.
Gonna have to check that one out, thanks for the link.
It's too bad they don't make a dvorak version...