Is there any way to update the PS2's firmware? Like, download CD image, burn to CD, put CD in PS2? Or are you stuck with whatever was burned into your PS2 when you got it?
Amen. In school, several of my profs took their turns frothing over OOP (mostly as in C++, of course). Not that they ever provided any evidence that OOP was better - students still wrote code that was just as bad in C++ as they did in C, or VB, or any other language. (Of course, in Software Engineering, the prof talked about how wonderful MS's software development practices are too, and how great their "waterfall model" was, and all that crap.)
I find Objective-C to be an interesting language, but OOP is IMO hardly the holy grail that it's rumored to be.
"Uniform" and "fair" aren't necessarily the same thing. Microsoft's new licensing terms may be "uniform", but it certainly sounds like some of their OEM customers might argue with you about them being "fair"...
COPPA only applies to children under the age of 13. That's why sites that collect personal information all say something to the effect of "no one under 13 may use this site".
If you're going to start quoting law, at least be familiar with it.
Apple is answering that question with their actions. Aside from the fact that the Darwin kernel in the public repository isn't even from the same codebase that's actually used in the shipping OS X product, the fact that Apple felt it necessary to relicense code which was already under the BSD license under one which is more restrictive, which they can use to keep control over the codebase (does it still have the termination clauses?), Apple's made it pretty clear they're not "open source" in the sense that Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are.
Are you actually saying that printer drivers on NT/2K/XP reside IN THE KERNEL? Is this true? If so, IMO that's pretty damn dumb. I can think of precisely zero decent reasons for putting printing functionality directly into kernel space. But then MS did move the NT graphics subsystem into kernel space as of NT 4, because having it in user space made it "too slow", even though having it in the kernel reduced system stability overall...
Yes, a couple old-ass builds of IE for Unix (aka the Windows IE codebase, built against Win32 compatibility libs for UNIX). We're all very impressed. I just remember a friend telling me about running it on a Sun box, and then having to power the box off, it locked it up so badly (ate all mem and swap).
The Santa Cruz Operation (aka SCO) developed what we know as Xenix, and provided it under the name Xenix for Microsoft under license.
Windows NT is hardly "new technology" - if you look hard at it, it's just an amalgamation of things which existed. Its GUI is right out of Windows. Its filesystem started as HPFS (OS/2's High Performance Filesystem) - in NT 3.1, you could use HPFS and NTFS partitions 100% interchangeably. Its kernelspace borrows from UNIX and VMS (its head architect, David Cutler, was a member of the original VMS dev team, hired away from DEC). Its userspace API is, of course, based loosely on the 16-bit Windows APIs (known collectively as Win16).
Remind me. What exactly was "new" about it? Oh yeah, ground-up rewrite. I forgot.
This was not really intended to cover high-end commercial-only 3D hardware, like SGI's and 3DLabs' GLINT. It was aimed primarily at consumer 3D hardware - stuff that you or I, as a home user, could go and buy. I thought the article was pretty complete, given their aims.
NT itself, as a product, was not certified as C2 secure. It was a particular installation of it that was certified. A certification rating of that type covers the entire installation - the system configuration, where and how it's installed there, the surrounding physical security, and so on.
Also, the big thing with the NT 3.51 system's C2 certification was (a) no removeable media (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) could be installed, and (b) no network connection. It had to be completely isolated from the outside world, because there was effectively no way to restrict unprivileged users from using those resources.
I've been looking at possibly implementing something similar on the network at my workplace. I've had the same sort of problems the CNN article, and you, point out - not the same passwords, but just poorly-chosen ones. Got any pointers on how best to do this? I have a working LDAP directory and I use it for authentication already, but I'd like to setup a completely separate mail server (separate from shell, firewall and directory/name servers).
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You either have a G4, or a Blue-and-White, unless you managed to upgrade your Blue-and-White G3 to a G4 (how? I don't even see how to remove the CPU - I run Linux on one at work).
There's even source for the core OS for you open source freaks.
Why do people drag this out? Considering the Darwin kernel that's in public CVS isn't even from the same codebase as the Darwin kernel that's actually used in OS X, _no one cares_. It's a non-issue. Great, it has BSD underpinnings. But it's just another closed-source platform for all intents and purposes. Get over it already. If you like OS X, I say great, use it. Stop trying to whore it to me though - I like Linux better than OS X. It's nothing personal.
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As far as Terminal.app goes, you can use Cmd-LeftArrow and Cmd-RightArrow to cycle through the windows also. I don't like it particularly, but whatever. One thing that _really_ bugs me about Terminal.app, though, is the fact that the fucker STEALS PgUp and PgDn, and there's (appparently) no way to change it. I prefer Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn, like in Xterm, for doing term-window scrolling, and passing PgUp and PgDn to the app running in it. That just drives me up a damn wall.:/
Amen. My primary drive in terms of OS choice is functionality and usefulness, not "pretty". I think OS X is a definite step forward, but the fact is, for most of the people who really want a Mac for its prettyness, they either don't care or don't comprehend the *BSD base of OS X. So it's nice, but for most of the Mac audience, who cares?
I'm glad he likes OS X. More power to him. But please don't try to tell me how OS X is inherently better than Linux. In fact, I'd rather run Linux on a Mac (I'm running it on an iBook now, so there).
At the school I attended, Windows and VS were definitely preferred tools. Only once you got well into the program (about junior year) is programming for Unixen even brought into the equation. Many students would initially try to write code in VS, and bring it across to a Unix (Linux or Solaris), and discover the inherent problems with that.
Students most definitely do learn from those who teach them.
Well, the proceedings are going on in FEDERAL court, not state courts. So where's the problem? They still have to argue the case in front of a FEDERAL judge. If they can convince the FEDERAL judge of the correctness of their position, they will succeed.
No, what they are saying is that they paid for the development of IE and don't want to be forced to give away their intellectual property.
Try telling that to Spyglass. It was their IP until Microsoft swiped it. I would say that it shouldn't belong to them, if for no other reason than it qualifies as "ill-gotten gains".
Oh, except then it's not really expandable. And the power supply is external. And you have to employ passive cooling, because there's not enough room for a fan.
Shrug. I think this completely kicks the crap out of the G4 Cube. It's not small, but who cares? It leaves room for expandability, and looks _damn_ sweet. What more can you really ask for?
I want it. I want it to have my children. (Bad Hackers reference.)
That is an awfully sweet setup he's got there. I wish he'd share the master DXFs, or make some sort of plans for it. It looks mighty yummy, and I'd certainly love to have one.
If you'd read the article, you'd have noticed that the admins who you've tongue-lashed over this have tried to resolve the issue by contacting the far-Eastern providers, and haven't gotten satisfaction. They've either been ignored, or gotten completely indifferent responses.
Don't just assume people haven't tried more diplomatic alternatives - I firmly believe that among those who've chosen this route, it's more or less a last resort.
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Well, it did have the passwords, once upon a time, but the /etc/shadow stole them. :)
Is there any way to update the PS2's firmware? Like, download CD image, burn to CD, put CD in PS2? Or are you stuck with whatever was burned into your PS2 when you got it?
At which point he just bought lots of good multicore copper and saved mucho deniro.
Mucho Deniro? Isn't he related to Robert DeNiro?
Amen. In school, several of my profs took their turns frothing over OOP (mostly as in C++, of course). Not that they ever provided any evidence that OOP was better - students still wrote code that was just as bad in C++ as they did in C, or VB, or any other language. (Of course, in Software Engineering, the prof talked about how wonderful MS's software development practices are too, and how great their "waterfall model" was, and all that crap.)
I find Objective-C to be an interesting language, but OOP is IMO hardly the holy grail that it's rumored to be.
"Uniform" and "fair" aren't necessarily the same thing. Microsoft's new licensing terms may be "uniform", but it certainly sounds like some of their OEM customers might argue with you about them being "fair"...
COPPA only applies to children under the age of 13. That's why sites that collect personal information all say something to the effect of "no one under 13 may use this site".
If you're going to start quoting law, at least be familiar with it.
Apple is answering that question with their actions. Aside from the fact that the Darwin kernel in the public repository isn't even from the same codebase that's actually used in the shipping OS X product, the fact that Apple felt it necessary to relicense code which was already under the BSD license under one which is more restrictive, which they can use to keep control over the codebase (does it still have the termination clauses?), Apple's made it pretty clear they're not "open source" in the sense that Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are.
Are you actually saying that printer drivers on NT/2K/XP reside IN THE KERNEL? Is this true? If so, IMO that's pretty damn dumb. I can think of precisely zero decent reasons for putting printing functionality directly into kernel space. But then MS did move the NT graphics subsystem into kernel space as of NT 4, because having it in user space made it "too slow", even though having it in the kernel reduced system stability overall...
Yes, a couple old-ass builds of IE for Unix (aka the Windows IE codebase, built against Win32 compatibility libs for UNIX). We're all very impressed. I just remember a friend telling me about running it on a Sun box, and then having to power the box off, it locked it up so badly (ate all mem and swap).
The Santa Cruz Operation (aka SCO) developed what we know as Xenix, and provided it under the name Xenix for Microsoft under license.
Windows NT is hardly "new technology" - if you look hard at it, it's just an amalgamation of things which existed. Its GUI is right out of Windows. Its filesystem started as HPFS (OS/2's High Performance Filesystem) - in NT 3.1, you could use HPFS and NTFS partitions 100% interchangeably. Its kernelspace borrows from UNIX and VMS (its head architect, David Cutler, was a member of the original VMS dev team, hired away from DEC). Its userspace API is, of course, based loosely on the 16-bit Windows APIs (known collectively as Win16).
Remind me. What exactly was "new" about it? Oh yeah, ground-up rewrite. I forgot.
This was not really intended to cover high-end commercial-only 3D hardware, like SGI's and 3DLabs' GLINT. It was aimed primarily at consumer 3D hardware - stuff that you or I, as a home user, could go and buy. I thought the article was pretty complete, given their aims.
NT itself, as a product, was not certified as C2 secure. It was a particular installation of it that was certified. A certification rating of that type covers the entire installation - the system configuration, where and how it's installed there, the surrounding physical security, and so on.
Also, the big thing with the NT 3.51 system's C2 certification was (a) no removeable media (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) could be installed, and (b) no network connection. It had to be completely isolated from the outside world, because there was effectively no way to restrict unprivileged users from using those resources.
I've been looking at possibly implementing something similar on the network at my workplace. I've had the same sort of problems the CNN article, and you, point out - not the same passwords, but just poorly-chosen ones. Got any pointers on how best to do this? I have a working LDAP directory and I use it for authentication already, but I'd like to setup a completely separate mail server (separate from shell, firewall and directory/name servers).
You either have a G4, or a Blue-and-White, unless you managed to upgrade your Blue-and-White G3 to a G4 (how? I don't even see how to remove the CPU - I run Linux on one at work).
Just me picking nits...
There's even source for the core OS for you open source freaks.
Why do people drag this out? Considering the Darwin kernel that's in public CVS isn't even from the same codebase as the Darwin kernel that's actually used in OS X, _no one cares_. It's a non-issue. Great, it has BSD underpinnings. But it's just another closed-source platform for all intents and purposes. Get over it already. If you like OS X, I say great, use it. Stop trying to whore it to me though - I like Linux better than OS X. It's nothing personal.
As far as Terminal.app goes, you can use Cmd-LeftArrow and Cmd-RightArrow to cycle through the windows also. I don't like it particularly, but whatever. One thing that _really_ bugs me about Terminal.app, though, is the fact that the fucker STEALS PgUp and PgDn, and there's (appparently) no way to change it. I prefer Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn, like in Xterm, for doing term-window scrolling, and passing PgUp and PgDn to the app running in it. That just drives me up a damn wall. :/
Amen. My primary drive in terms of OS choice is functionality and usefulness, not "pretty". I think OS X is a definite step forward, but the fact is, for most of the people who really want a Mac for its prettyness, they either don't care or don't comprehend the *BSD base of OS X. So it's nice, but for most of the Mac audience, who cares?
I'm glad he likes OS X. More power to him. But please don't try to tell me how OS X is inherently better than Linux. In fact, I'd rather run Linux on a Mac (I'm running it on an iBook now, so there).
Damn it, quit that!
:)
(You're giving them ideas. Better for them to remain clueless, IMO.
At the school I attended, Windows and VS were definitely preferred tools. Only once you got well into the program (about junior year) is programming for Unixen even brought into the equation. Many students would initially try to write code in VS, and bring it across to a Unix (Linux or Solaris), and discover the inherent problems with that.
Students most definitely do learn from those who teach them.
Well, the proceedings are going on in FEDERAL court, not state courts. So where's the problem? They still have to argue the case in front of a FEDERAL judge. If they can convince the FEDERAL judge of the correctness of their position, they will succeed.
Again I ask, where's the problem here?
No, what they are saying is that they paid for the development of IE and don't want to be forced to give away their intellectual property.
Try telling that to Spyglass. It was their IP until Microsoft swiped it. I would say that it shouldn't belong to them, if for no other reason than it qualifies as "ill-gotten gains".
Oh, except then it's not really expandable. And the power supply is external. And you have to employ passive cooling, because there's not enough room for a fan.
Shrug. I think this completely kicks the crap out of the G4 Cube. It's not small, but who cares? It leaves room for expandability, and looks _damn_ sweet. What more can you really ask for?
I want it. I want it to have my children. (Bad Hackers reference.)
That is an awfully sweet setup he's got there. I wish he'd share the master DXFs, or make some sort of plans for it. It looks mighty yummy, and I'd certainly love to have one.
Unless you participate in any mailing lists - they'll end up round-filed as well. I participate in several, and would rather like to keep them.
If you'd read the article, you'd have noticed that the admins who you've tongue-lashed over this have tried to resolve the issue by contacting the far-Eastern providers, and haven't gotten satisfaction. They've either been ignored, or gotten completely indifferent responses.
Don't just assume people haven't tried more diplomatic alternatives - I firmly believe that among those who've chosen this route, it's more or less a last resort.