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It's an old story. Developers aren't exactly flocking to the XBox platform and most that do develop for the Xbox, also develop for the superior PS2 and GameCube platforms.
It's a last-ditch effort by Microsoft to take control of more game developers in an attempt to slow their continued decline in 3rd place.
People with Satellite or Digital Cable or even HDTV in some markets can watch PBS's PBS YOU channel.
PBS YOU airs a show called Standard Deviants that airs weekdays with a different theme each day. They refer to Tuesdays as "Test Tube Tuesday" and air science episodes (Monday is Math, Wednesday is Writing). It's a well done series and can bring the novice up to speed on basic knowledge from which you can then move on to harder hitting subject matter.
The speeds listed by the manufacturers are 100% accurate. It's just that those are the page-per-minute ratings for blank sheets of paper being pushed through the printer. It doesn't include any actual printing.
Microsoft: "Our products aren't engineered for security"
Friday 6 September 2002 Brian Valentine, senior vice-president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development, has made a grim admission to the Microsoft Windows Server.net developer conference in Seattle, USA.
click here "I'm not proud," he told delegates yesterday (5 September). "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security," admitted Valentine, who since 1998 has headed Microsoft's Windows division.
In August the company put out eight security bulletins. This month it has released two, so far, with the latest urging users to patch a flaw in its digital certificate technology that could allow attackers to steal a user's credit card details.
Microsoft's regular stream of security bulletins has continued despite Bill Gates company-wide Trustworthy Computing Initiative, announced earlier this year.
The Initiative was launched with a memo from Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, and saw the company halt production on new code in all of its products while employees scanned every line of existing code in search of vulnerabilities.
"We realised that we couldn't continue with the way we were building software and expect to deliver secure products," Valentine said.
But the company is dealing with a problem that is not easily resolved. Valentine told developers at the conference that as the company works to shore up its products the security dilemma will evolve as hackers become more sophisticated.
"It's impossible to solve the problem completely," Valentine said. "As we solve these problems there are hackers who are going to come up with new ones. There's no end to this."
Microsoft has also been employing new tools developed by Microsoft Research that are designed to detect errors in code during the development process, Valentine said.
According to Chandra Mugunda, a software consultant with Dell who attended Valentine's presentation, buggy software is "an industry-wide problem, not just a Microsoft problem. But they're the leaders, and they should take the lead to solve them," he said.
The link to the CW360 page with the quote from the Microsoft VP is "currently unavailable". If anyone can post a mirror to the information, please reply here.
The risks of launch over land are obvious. It is one of the reasons NASA chose the east coast of Florida for Kennedy Space Center.
If the popularity of private rocket launches increases significantly following your project, do you think there is a chance that a public "Spaceport" could be constructed to allow private entities to launch their own devices safely?
I've been following this story since yesterday afternoon on my fly-by-night Mac blog, obzorg.org.
If you're getting the Dotster 'coming soon' page when you try to reach the MacSlash site, check out these updates including AcaBen's public statements on the subject.
This news story has made the rounds at several Mac sites in the past two days. It amounts to nothing but free advertising for the 'experts' to help them sell their product.
It's like asking an insurance agent if you should buy more insurance. Of course they're going to try and paint a doom-and-gloom picture to line their pocketbooks.
Macs ARE at risk for viruses but the greatest risk for viruses right now are those viruses that exploit Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express for windows as well as those that exploit stupid users who run attachments (which almost always attack Windows). Until viruses are written in Java, the Mac is not going to be the danger zone that this article implies.
Nothing terribly revolutionary has come out of the UK Research group recently... at least nothing publicly announced. The bulk of useful VNC development in recent years has been done by 3rd parties working with the open VNC sources.
While it's possible they could have come up with another killer product given their obvious talents, the dissolution of the group probably isn't that tragic for our industry.
Other's have already listed URLs pointing to 3rd party VNC products (both freeware and otherwise) so I won't repeat them here but it's definitely worth your while to seek some of them out and support their work.
This will require everyone in the airport to be on their best behavior. Thermal imaging will be able to 'see' when you pass gas. No more blaming it on that poor sedated dog in the travel-kennel.
If you want to shut down someone's network, simply notify their upstream provider that they are distributing your copyrighted works. If the DMCA requires them to shut down the connection immediately as is implied by this article, what is to stop someone from utilizing this in a malicious manner?
Yes, but will there be custom functionality in the Windows software that won't work with the standard Palm Desktop for the Mac? Perhaps multimedia capabilities?
It doesn't look like Sony will be supporting the Mac platform with this model. I'm sure you'll be able to use regular Palm Desktop software for normal synching but I bet you won't be able to use the advanced multimedia functions.
Here's what their website lists for system requirements:
System Requirements
Windows 98, 98SE, ME, or 2000 Professional
Pentium 233MHz with MMX technology or faster
(Pentium II 400MHz recommended)
64MB RAM or more
128MB available hard disk space6
Display with 800 x 600 dots or higher, High Color or better
You should probably read up on the project before making comments like this. The Mac Themes Project has a theme creator so you can make themes FOR YOUR MAC! This isn't a program to make other operating systems look like the MacOS, this is a program to let you tweak the MacOS to look however you want it to, similar to Kaleidoscope under the Classic MacOS.
I think I need some coffee... I read, "a fish and game warden comes upon a woman..." and pictured a game warden and a fish walking along a riverbank. As I read on I was waiting to hear what the fish had to say about the situation.
MacOS X includes a full version of OS 9.1 in the box with it. Users do not need to, as you suggest, spend an extra $100 to upgrade "to OS 9.something in order to run their 'Classic' applications". If they purchase MacOS X, they automatically get the software required for Classic compatibility.
Oddly enough, apple has included a screen grabber in their OS for ages. The Classic MacOS allows you to take a simple snapshot of the screen and MacOS X includes a relatively robust "Grab" application that lets you do much more.
The best part of this entire issue is that the amount of publicity generated will have two very negative effects on Apple.
First, this almost completely unknown software is now making headlines on all of the trade websites. This is going to instantly boost the popularity of the project.
Second, open source contributors are going to be less likely to develop software for MacOS X if they're going to be expected to clear all of their development plans with Apple's legal department first. It's hard to be creative and "Think Different" under these kinds of restrictions.
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It's an old story. Developers aren't exactly flocking to the XBox platform and most that do develop for the Xbox, also develop for the superior PS2 and GameCube platforms.
It's a last-ditch effort by Microsoft to take control of more game developers in an attempt to slow their continued decline in 3rd place.
Does this hurt or improve our chances of living in a technological anarchy manipulated by television stations?
People with Satellite or Digital Cable or even HDTV in some markets can watch PBS's PBS YOU channel.
PBS YOU airs a show called Standard Deviants that airs weekdays with a different theme each day. They refer to Tuesdays as "Test Tube Tuesday" and air science episodes (Monday is Math, Wednesday is Writing). It's a well done series and can bring the novice up to speed on basic knowledge from which you can then move on to harder hitting subject matter.
The speeds listed by the manufacturers are 100% accurate. It's just that those are the page-per-minute ratings for blank sheets of paper being pushed through the printer. It doesn't include any actual printing.
Microsoft: "Our products aren't engineered for security"
.net developer conference in Seattle, USA.
Friday 6 September 2002
Brian Valentine, senior vice-president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development, has made a grim admission to the Microsoft Windows Server
click here
"I'm not proud," he told delegates yesterday (5 September). "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security," admitted Valentine, who since 1998 has headed Microsoft's Windows division.
In August the company put out eight security bulletins. This month it has released two, so far, with the latest urging users to patch a flaw in its digital certificate technology that could allow attackers to steal a user's credit card details.
Microsoft's regular stream of security bulletins has continued despite Bill Gates company-wide Trustworthy Computing Initiative, announced earlier this year.
The Initiative was launched with a memo from Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, and saw the company halt production on new code in all of its products while employees scanned every line of existing code in search of vulnerabilities.
"We realised that we couldn't continue with the way we were building software and expect to deliver secure products," Valentine said.
But the company is dealing with a problem that is not easily resolved. Valentine told developers at the conference that as the company works to shore up its products the security dilemma will evolve as hackers become more sophisticated.
"It's impossible to solve the problem completely," Valentine said. "As we solve these problems there are hackers who are going to come up with new ones. There's no end to this."
Microsoft has also been employing new tools developed by Microsoft Research that are designed to detect errors in code during the development process, Valentine said.
According to Chandra Mugunda, a software consultant with Dell who attended Valentine's presentation, buggy software is "an industry-wide problem, not just a Microsoft problem. But they're the leaders, and they should take the lead to solve them," he said.
The link to the CW360 page with the quote from the Microsoft VP is "currently unavailable". If anyone can post a mirror to the information, please reply here.
The risks of launch over land are obvious. It is one of the reasons NASA chose the east coast of Florida for Kennedy Space Center.
If the popularity of private rocket launches increases significantly following your project, do you think there is a chance that a public "Spaceport" could be constructed to allow private entities to launch their own devices safely?
So does this $60 billion offset the amount of money that the software industry claims they lose to software pirates?
How much money do software pirates lose by using illegal copies of sloppily coded software?
The 10.1.5 update both fixes and BREAKS support for the Radeon 7000 PCI cards.
An incompatibility with Beige G3 systems has been corrected but now the video gets scrambled when the system wakes from sleep.
I've been following this story since yesterday afternoon on my fly-by-night Mac blog, obzorg.org.
If you're getting the Dotster 'coming soon' page when you try to reach the MacSlash site, check out these updates including AcaBen's public statements on the subject.
This news story has made the rounds at several Mac sites in the past two days. It amounts to nothing but free advertising for the 'experts' to help them sell their product.
It's like asking an insurance agent if you should buy more insurance. Of course they're going to try and paint a doom-and-gloom picture to line their pocketbooks.
Macs ARE at risk for viruses but the greatest risk for viruses right now are those viruses that exploit Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express for windows as well as those that exploit stupid users who run attachments (which almost always attack Windows). Until viruses are written in Java, the Mac is not going to be the danger zone that this article implies.
VNC wasn't supposed to be remote control software in the beginning. It was supposed to be the foundation of a thin-client computing environment.
Nothing terribly revolutionary has come out of the UK Research group recently... at least nothing publicly announced. The bulk of useful VNC development in recent years has been done by 3rd parties working with the open VNC sources.
While it's possible they could have come up with another killer product given their obvious talents, the dissolution of the group probably isn't that tragic for our industry.
Other's have already listed URLs pointing to 3rd party VNC products (both freeware and otherwise) so I won't repeat them here but it's definitely worth your while to seek some of them out and support their work.
This will require everyone in the airport to be on their best behavior. Thermal imaging will be able to 'see' when you pass gas. No more blaming it on that poor sedated dog in the travel-kennel.
If you want to shut down someone's network, simply notify their upstream provider that they are distributing your copyrighted works. If the DMCA requires them to shut down the connection immediately as is implied by this article, what is to stop someone from utilizing this in a malicious manner?
Not all notebooks are crammed into a 2 inch thick plastic box these days. Mine's in a 1 inch thick titanium box.
Columbia is the oldest shuttle in the fleet and recently underwent a major overhaul to make the cockpit more modern and reduce weight.
Yes, but will there be custom functionality in the Windows software that won't work with the standard Palm Desktop for the Mac? Perhaps multimedia capabilities?
Here's what their website lists for system requirements:
No mention of Macs at all.
You should probably read up on the project before making comments like this. The Mac Themes Project has a theme creator so you can make themes FOR YOUR MAC! This isn't a program to make other operating systems look like the MacOS, this is a program to let you tweak the MacOS to look however you want it to, similar to Kaleidoscope under the Classic MacOS.
By Apple's own logic, iTunes is just as bad. It enables users to copy protected works as well.
I think I need some coffee... I read, "a fish and game warden comes upon a woman..." and pictured a game warden and a fish walking along a riverbank. As I read on I was waiting to hear what the fish had to say about the situation.
MacOS X includes a full version of OS 9.1 in the box with it. Users do not need to, as you suggest, spend an extra $100 to upgrade "to OS 9.something in order to run their 'Classic' applications". If they purchase MacOS X, they automatically get the software required for Classic compatibility.
Oddly enough, apple has included a screen grabber in their OS for ages. The Classic MacOS allows you to take a simple snapshot of the screen and MacOS X includes a relatively robust "Grab" application that lets you do much more.
First, this almost completely unknown software is now making headlines on all of the trade websites. This is going to instantly boost the popularity of the project.
Second, open source contributors are going to be less likely to develop software for MacOS X if they're going to be expected to clear all of their development plans with Apple's legal department first. It's hard to be creative and "Think Different" under these kinds of restrictions.
Right foot. *BLAM* Left foot. *BLAM*