Well, according to an older article that was referenced on/. last month:
During at least part of the period when employee payrolls were not met, Loki sometimes gave employees "advances" on salary owed. Former employees say that these advances were in the amount of their net pay; the benefit to the company was that federal and state taxes on the payroll were not paid, because the money was treated as loans rather than pay. This in turn resulted in the now-former employees receiving 1099 forms instead of W-2s in January. The 1099 covers moneys paid to non-employees, but more important to the former employees, it meant that they would now have to pay taxes -- and perhaps penalties -- on what would have been their net pay.
If the company withheld the taxes they would have had some recourse. But it sounds like no money was withheld. I would suspect that the company didn't make the point clear and that the employees didn't ask. I haven't heard anything that implies that there was a deliberate effort to cheat the employees on this point, it was more likely bad communication. In any case, the employees owe the money and they never paid it. One would hope that they could get some kind of extension from the government but the debt is theirs to pay.
Yeah, people might want to see your post. And they might want to see goatse, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, or adds for the X10 camera. The fact remains that most users that click on the link to see commentary that is related to the article. Offtopic posts are generally as welcome as the items I just listed because we aren't expecting them and they are only wasting our time. If we wanted to read about a topic, we would search that topic out. Why not post your informations where people might be expecting it or perhaps submit it as a story? Thanks.
Apple has a point here. In most places minors can not enter into legally binding agreements. This brings up an interesting point. What about licenses like the GPL, the Artistic License, or the Apache License, to name a few. If a minor releases software under one of these licenses, do the licenses apply or are they invalid since the minor can't enter into a legal agreement? How does the law treat a minor's ability to control how their work is treated?
Yup, I stand (at least partially) corrected. As I originally stated there was no mention of an iMac in the original Slashdot article. However an iMac was mentioned in a post to the list linked to from the article. (It probably was also mentioned on the Lisa server itself, which is now firmly Slashdotted and unreachable.) I didn't follow the link to the list and I didn't hunt down the origial post (which was not in the article nor a direct link from the article).
As to the original issue, I now see what the question was. There would be a number of ways to handle this problem. Check out this LowEndMac article for a number of ways to connect LocalTalk and Ethernet physically. As far as converting MacIP to TCP/IP, IPNetRouter handles this itself.
Umm, did you bother to read the article? Why are you talking about iMacs? This is an Apple Lisa. You know, the computer that came between the Apple ][ and III lines and the Macintosh line?
Also it's running the MacWorks+II software which pretty much turns the Lisa into a Mac Plus. This thing really isn't a Lisa anymore. Of course I don't think a TCP/IP stack was ever implemented for the Lisa so it would be pretty much impossible to get a real Lisa up and running as a web server....
Hey, let's get a MacOS user in on this. TRoLLaXoR, does MacOS provide easy thumbnail image navigation like Windows?
Of course! Mac OS X has added a new column view in the finder. It displays a preview of any file that you select. Pictures get a thumbnail of the picture displayed. Movies not only get their opening frame displayed but there's a "play" button right there in the preview! And you can browse using only the arrow keys!
Besides, the Mac has been able to display thumbnails as the icons for picture files for a long time. Once again, the Mac is years ahead of the Windows platform!
I saw some signs that iTunes may install fonts. It's doing something in the system fonts area anyway. What should be happening here? Can a.app package have self-contained fonts? Should it?
Also, once you are at the point where an application has a.app and a separate package that requires administrator access to install, why not just have the.app be part of the installer, as Apple has done? Why confuse users with a more complex install process?
It is strange that iTunes seems to be responsible for installing system-wide drivers for CD-RWs though...
Well, it's similar to Linux in the same way that FreeBSD is similar to Linux. Mac OS X is built on a FreeBSD base with a Mach 3.0 microkernel. Apple actually releases this base as an Open Source project called Darwin. Apple then takes this base and adds the GUI and Apple technologies to create Mac OS X.
The original suggestion was for iTunes to be distributed as a "package" (a directory that appears as a single application file to the user). I would imagine that there would be a way to put drivers in this package that load dynamically. But you mention that the drivers would have to load up with root (Administrator) access. Are you suggesting that a downloadable and user-modifiable application should be allowed root privilages to mess with the hardware?
Mac OS support files live in three main places./System/Library/ is reserved for the OS itself. Apple is the only one who should be playing around in this location./Library/ is where third-party stuff is loaded that should be available to all users. Also,each user has their own ~/Library/ folder where they can put things that should only be loaded for that user.
I saw some signs that iTunes also does some things in the system fonts directory. I'm not sure if it's adding new fonts or what, but it's doing something in there. So there may be other reasons for it to be modifying system areas.
This IS an Apple article, and MacOS X is supposed to be a click and point friendly face to Unix where you don't have to be a command line jockey to get things done.
I can't tell exactly what you are replying to but I think you are misunderstanding the problem. The bug is in a Bourne shell script that is run by the installer during the install process. The user never sees a command-line or a script. In fact, you really have to go out of your way to even be able to view the script since it's part of the installer "package" which appears as a single file to the user.
This installer is about as point-and-click as you can get. No need to be a command-line jockey.
However, they're only partially to blame since I think the development of iTunes is still done by Casady and Greene under contract to Apple. I'd be surprised if they weren't ultimately responsible for creating everything, including the installer.
Casady & Greene, Inc. was the publisher for SoundJam. The development team didn't work for them directly. When Apple decided that they needed an MP3 player they look a look at the Mac MP3 market, decided that SoundJam was the best, bought the rights to SoundJam, and hired the development team.
If you compare SoundJam to iTunes (especially earlier versions of iTunes) it's not hard to find places where the SoundJam code sticks out a little bit.
But the end result of all of this is that Casady & Greene, Inc. no longer has anything to do with the iTunes code. It's all done in-house by Apple so Apple has to take the full blame. (It's a shame that we'll never see the Mac OS X production version of SoundJam.) There are some more details on the official SoundJam website.
Oh, and the installer used appears to be Apple's own PackageMaker (included with the free Developer Tools) which allows the running of pre-process and post-process scripts.
It sounds like you aren't familiar with what iTunes does. iTunes isn't just a pretty version of WinAmp. It actually is a CD ripper and CD burner that handles audio and data CDs. It supports the CD-RWs that come with Macs as well as many third party CD-RWs In order to properly support CD burning it has to install drivers "outside its bundle". It has to change things outside of iTunes.app.
I will admit that most applications should just use the "drag and drop" installation and Apple agrees. But there are some cases where the use of an installer can not be avoided and this is one of those cases.
For the record, you'll be missing the Shogun game. The couldn't include Shogun and Hitchhiker's because they were based off of novels and strange property rights kicked in.
Not that missing Shogun is a bad thing, from what I hear...
If you are interested in information like this about Apple, check out Apple Confidential. It used to be The Mac Bathroom Reader. It's a great read and it's been verified and updated. There are even two sample chapters online. If you're interested in Apple trivia, check it out.
The link for "this story" from ThisIsGloucestershire doesn't seem to work. This link should work a little better. Here's hoping it doesn't break again.
Ahh, but O'Reilly does offer an upgrade policy on their books. If you have an older edition of one of their books, they will give you a 30% discount on the newer edition. All you need is the title page of the older edition. Details are available at http://www.oreilly.com/order/upgrade.html.
Okay, it's not quite "a S&H charge to get a copy of the new book" but that's a rather unrealistic expectation anyway.
The link for Pioneer Animation on the Anime on DVD site is broken and (since I don't read Japanese) I am not sure if the link in the/. article is correct.
The only mention of Akira that I could find on Pioneer Animation's site was on their Current Titles section where they say "Akira-info coming soon". It's not on their Coming Attractions section where they list out through December.
Not only isn't bash the default on Mac OS X Beta, it's not even installed. After a few days of being frustrated with tcsh, I decided to get bash.
Step 1: Get the development tools. This will let you compile programs for the BSD layer. The basic idea here is to download the Darwin disk image and copy the development tools from Darwin to Mac OS X Beta. MacAddict has the details including a shell script that will move all the right stuff for you.
Step 2: Download the latest bash source code (bash/bash-2.04.tar.gz) from a GNU mirror site.
Step 3: Untar and compile it. The only real trick is the command line options for the configure script. I got it to work with the slightly incorrect:
./configure --without-bash-malloc --host=bsd
Step 4: Install it. Mac OS X Beta doesn't have a/usr/local directory when you install it. I created one by hand but I'm pretty sure that the make install would create the directory structure fine.
Step 5: Configure it. Go into Terminal's prefs and change the default shell from tcsh to bash. Set up bash config files cribbing the settings from tcsh's config files. Move things around. Have fun.
Compiling UNIX-type stuff for Mac OS X isn't that bad. I have done it with ncftp 3, readline, tintin++, and bash so far. Usually it's just a tweak here and there and it works fine. Have fun playing with it.
But if it is an Apple employee or if it's someone who signed an NDA with Apple, Apple could sue for breach of contract. I think that APple realizes that it's no longer a secret and they are going after the people that let the cat out of the bag. And if those people signed something that promised that they wouldn't say anything, Apple can sue them as much as they want and probably win too.
The lesson here, kiddies, is don't sign things that you don't intend to live up to.
In the first place, the actual lawsuit is against the people that actually broke the NDAs. Apple is not suing the people that posted it on their web site. They did demand that some web sites remove the images but nothing ever came of those threats.
As for why Apple is fed up with this type of behavior, it's because they are afraid of losing market share. Much of Apple's current business plan seems to be creating new things that aren't that hard to reproduce (clear optical mouse, cube-shaped computer, easy-to-use movie software). Much of Apple's sucess rides on being the only ones offering such products. If a competitor had knowledge of Apple's plans six months before Apple released products, they could possible bring a competitive product to market, perhaps before Apple. This would effectively negate Apple's edge.
Also if Apple's customers know that a new product line is coming out, they might not buy into the current line. Can't happen, you say? Look at Kaypro. They announced the new version of their computer a year before it shipped. People got excited about the new version and stopped buying the old version. With no money coming in, Kaypro was barely able to finish the machine and wandered into backruptcy soon after.
Apple isn't the only one doing this. Adobe is suing Apple Insider over their previews of Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3. I suspect that as the Internet continues to facilitate the rapid spread of information we will see more and more of this type of thing.
An MWJ editor wrote a very good analysis of this subject. Check it out for more details.
When I hit the site earlier today it was almost empty. The main directory had a readme file that explained that someone had deleted the site. They said that it wasn't a hack but that the deletion had been internal. One of the directories that was left was the archives directory. The "hockey puck/cube" article was still there. Now it looks like a much older version of the site is up there. They are obviously having problems. Their editorial, for example, is dated "OCTOBER 22, 2000". Looks like they are playing the old "find the most recent tape backup" game. I don't envy them...
The full release version of SuSE Linux 6.4 for the Power PC is due out any day now according to SuSE and it is looking pretty good. It's going to give LinuxPPC some real competition.
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Yeah, people might want to see your post. And they might want to see goatse, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, or adds for the X10 camera. The fact remains that most users that click on the link to see commentary that is related to the article. Offtopic posts are generally as welcome as the items I just listed because we aren't expecting them and they are only wasting our time. If we wanted to read about a topic, we would search that topic out. Why not post your informations where people might be expecting it or perhaps submit it as a story? Thanks.
Apple has a point here. In most places minors can not enter into legally binding agreements. This brings up an interesting point. What about licenses like the GPL, the Artistic License, or the Apache License, to name a few. If a minor releases software under one of these licenses, do the licenses apply or are they invalid since the minor can't enter into a legal agreement? How does the law treat a minor's ability to control how their work is treated?
As to the original issue, I now see what the question was. There would be a number of ways to handle this problem. Check out this LowEndMac article for a number of ways to connect LocalTalk and Ethernet physically. As far as converting MacIP to TCP/IP, IPNetRouter handles this itself.
Umm, did you bother to read the article? Why are you talking about iMacs? This is an Apple Lisa. You know, the computer that came between the Apple ][ and III lines and the Macintosh line?
Also it's running the MacWorks+II software which pretty much turns the Lisa into a Mac Plus. This thing really isn't a Lisa anymore. Of course I don't think a TCP/IP stack was ever implemented for the Lisa so it would be pretty much impossible to get a real Lisa up and running as a web server....
Besides, the Mac has been able to display thumbnails as the icons for picture files for a long time. Once again, the Mac is years ahead of the Windows platform!
Wank different!
Also, once you are at the point where an application has a .app and a separate package that requires administrator access to install, why not just have the .app be part of the installer, as Apple has done? Why confuse users with a more complex install process?
It is strange that iTunes seems to be responsible for installing system-wide drivers for CD-RWs though...
The original suggestion was for iTunes to be distributed as a "package" (a directory that appears as a single application file to the user). I would imagine that there would be a way to put drivers in this package that load dynamically. But you mention that the drivers would have to load up with root (Administrator) access. Are you suggesting that a downloadable and user-modifiable application should be allowed root privilages to mess with the hardware?
Mac OS support files live in three main places. /System/Library/ is reserved for the OS itself. Apple is the only one who should be playing around in this location. /Library/ is where third-party stuff is loaded that should be available to all users. Also,each user has their own ~/Library/ folder where they can put things that should only be loaded for that user.
I saw some signs that iTunes also does some things in the system fonts directory. I'm not sure if it's adding new fonts or what, but it's doing something in there. So there may be other reasons for it to be modifying system areas.
I can't tell exactly what you are replying to but I think you are misunderstanding the problem. The bug is in a Bourne shell script that is run by the installer during the install process. The user never sees a command-line or a script. In fact, you really have to go out of your way to even be able to view the script since it's part of the installer "package" which appears as a single file to the user.
This installer is about as point-and-click as you can get. No need to be a command-line jockey.
Casady & Greene, Inc. was the publisher for SoundJam. The development team didn't work for them directly. When Apple decided that they needed an MP3 player they look a look at the Mac MP3 market, decided that SoundJam was the best, bought the rights to SoundJam, and hired the development team.
If you compare SoundJam to iTunes (especially earlier versions of iTunes) it's not hard to find places where the SoundJam code sticks out a little bit.
But the end result of all of this is that Casady & Greene, Inc. no longer has anything to do with the iTunes code. It's all done in-house by Apple so Apple has to take the full blame. (It's a shame that we'll never see the Mac OS X production version of SoundJam.) There are some more details on the official SoundJam website.
Oh, and the installer used appears to be Apple's own PackageMaker (included with the free Developer Tools) which allows the running of pre-process and post-process scripts.
I will admit that most applications should just use the "drag and drop" installation and Apple agrees. But there are some cases where the use of an installer can not be avoided and this is one of those cases.
Not that missing Shogun is a bad thing, from what I hear...
If you are interested in information like this about Apple, check out Apple Confidential . It used to be The Mac Bathroom Reader . It's a great read and it's been verified and updated. There are even two sample chapters online. If you're interested in Apple trivia, check it out.
Way to prove your .sig! I don't know if I would have had the courage to do the same.
The link for "this story" from ThisIsGloucestershire doesn't seem to work. This link should work a little better. Here's hoping it doesn't break again.
Okay, it's not quite "a S&H charge to get a copy of the new book" but that's a rather unrealistic expectation anyway.
The only mention of Akira that I could find on Pioneer Animation's site was on their Current Titles section where they say "Akira-info coming soon". It's not on their Coming Attractions section where they list out through December.
Looks like their site could use an update...
Step 1: Get the development tools. This will let you compile programs for the BSD layer. The basic idea here is to download the Darwin disk image and copy the development tools from Darwin to Mac OS X Beta. MacAddict has the details including a shell script that will move all the right stuff for you.
Step 2: Download the latest bash source code (bash/bash-2.04.tar.gz) from a GNU mirror site.
Step 3: Untar and compile it. The only real trick is the command line options for the configure script. I got it to work with the slightly incorrect:
Step 4: Install it. Mac OS X Beta doesn't have a /usr/local directory when you install it. I created one by hand but I'm pretty sure that the make install would create the directory structure fine.
Step 5: Configure it. Go into Terminal's prefs and change the default shell from tcsh to bash. Set up bash config files cribbing the settings from tcsh's config files. Move things around. Have fun.
Compiling UNIX-type stuff for Mac OS X isn't that bad. I have done it with ncftp 3, readline, tintin++, and bash so far. Usually it's just a tweak here and there and it works fine. Have fun playing with it.
The lesson here, kiddies, is don't sign things that you don't intend to live up to.
As for why Apple is fed up with this type of behavior, it's because they are afraid of losing market share. Much of Apple's current business plan seems to be creating new things that aren't that hard to reproduce (clear optical mouse, cube-shaped computer, easy-to-use movie software). Much of Apple's sucess rides on being the only ones offering such products. If a competitor had knowledge of Apple's plans six months before Apple released products, they could possible bring a competitive product to market, perhaps before Apple. This would effectively negate Apple's edge.
Also if Apple's customers know that a new product line is coming out, they might not buy into the current line. Can't happen, you say? Look at Kaypro. They announced the new version of their computer a year before it shipped. People got excited about the new version and stopped buying the old version. With no money coming in, Kaypro was barely able to finish the machine and wandered into backruptcy soon after.
Apple isn't the only one doing this. Adobe is suing Apple Insider over their previews of Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3. I suspect that as the Internet continues to facilitate the rapid spread of information we will see more and more of this type of thing.
An MWJ editor wrote a very good analysis of this subject. Check it out for more details.
Umm, 2 weeks? I knew that Carmack was a programming god and all but that's one damn impressive release date.
Whatever happened to, "It'll be done when it's done"?
;-)
When I hit the site earlier today it was almost empty. The main directory had a readme file that explained that someone had deleted the site. They said that it wasn't a hack but that the deletion had been internal. One of the directories that was left was the archives directory. The "hockey puck/cube" article was still there. Now it looks like a much older version of the site is up there. They are obviously having problems. Their editorial, for example, is dated "OCTOBER 22, 2000". Looks like they are playing the old "find the most recent tape backup" game. I don't envy them...
The full release version of SuSE Linux 6.4 for the Power PC is due out any day now according to SuSE and it is looking pretty good. It's going to give LinuxPPC some real competition.