Nah, just setup a very restricted user account and run it under the other user. Then you don't have to restrict everything on you normal account. There is no reason you should have to limit the system, just limit the user and run the program that way.
newsprint publishers. yahoo does online advertising and is a portal. print news is dying and needs an update. if the printers bought a powerful portal it would give them a means of controlling new distribution online (a "get it from yahoo or don't get it at all!" attitude backed up by lawsuits would put a sudden halt on the news free-for-all on the internet. they could require a subscriber login for news and offer different tiers of advertising to content for different amounts. What does microsoft have to offer them in terms of profitability?
At the risk of being modded flamebait, I wanted to point out that when I tried ClamAV on mac it worked piss poor. There was little for it to find that affected me, so basically all it did was protect windows users from viruses passing through my computer to theirs and it did all sorts of screwy stuff with my system including making it so slow it was unusable. I kept it less than a week.
Use a tool like little snitch, up you security settings, don't run as administrator, don't run random programs you find on the net and you'll be fine.
Actually, these are such preliminary findings that they could be children or even dwarfed people. Nature, which is often held a bit above National Geographic among seems to be skeptical: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080310/full/452133a.html
As an anthropologist, I would be thrilled if this turns out to be the same as homo floresiensis, but I'm not jumping to any conclusions until there is some more testing completed. Especially interesting is that it doesn't appear that the brain was unusually small in these specimens as it was in the Flores find, which indicates that this is a different situation entirely.
Kind of. It is registered in the tax roles, it just can't be accounted for once it is dispersed: "The Department of Defense... once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn't account for more than a trillion dollars in financial transactions..." according to a Government Accountability office "A study by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Pentagon couldn't properly account for more than a trillion dollars in monies spent." -sfgate
Maybe they are building that giant-mega-super-computer after all, or maybe they are funding covert wars and skimming your money for $640 toilet seats and retirement funds. Either way, they are outright taking money from me with no accountability which makes me even more pissed than if it were secret!
I have been removing viruses from friends and clients computers since I was 8 years old (I'm almost 24). 99% of these have been on microsoft OSes or Dos-esque OSes. I have never failed to clean a system until yesterday.
Using a combination of virus removal tools and a process viewer and a few other security tools on a CD-R i've been able to find every instance every time - until yesterday. In a few cases i've had to replace some system filed due to them getting completely destroyed or had to repair an MBR, but never before did I have to say "time to do a low level format and start over"....
I had installed cleaned this guy's system about 2 years ago. He was setup with a non-admin account to use and automatically renewing virus scanning, ad-aware, and several other security tools.
Yet after his niece used the PC it became infected.
I could see this virus running, I even found 1 virus with F-PROT - AVG, Kapersky, Avast, and BitDefender all found nothing. I had to run them from a boot CD because the virus had done something funky with administrator rights even under safe mode.
I felt horrible, because truth be told, if I back up his documents, I can't honestly tell him reloading them on a clean system won't b ring back the virus - the detectors couldn't find them before, they may not again.
All I could say was I'll make a ghost disc so you can get the system back to normal by yourself. I haven't dealt with Vista viruses yet, but there is no stopping a novice p2p user from getting a virus.
I second that.... MCO is a nightmare. I usually fly DAB instead. It is usually a little more, but there are more flights now then therer once were, and when you figure time is about the same price but hassle free. You get through in 10 minutes or less except when there is a special event in town. If there is a special event or you need to be further south go SFB or TPA.
1) I admin a number of unix systems and understand that just fine. Why would me saying that a program apple ships not doing what it is supposed to means I don't know anything about Unix? That is nonsensical. I can use fsck just fine. This does not excuse disk utility not working. 2)All my software is either approved for leopard or is BETA and any quirky beta programs have been removed. My install was a clean install not an upgrade. 3) That pre-release of java is not available anymore and is not leopard compatible (unless you know of a version I don't - I checked the apple developer site)
yes, i am aware that they are different. Tiger had Java 6 available if you looked for it (beta since removed). As for javascript I was trying to do this, it worked before and still does sometimes: javascript:void((function(){var%20a=location.href.replace(/^http\:\/\/(.*)$/,%22$1%22);location.href=%22http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:%22+escape(a);})()) It replaces the address location with the google cache version of the page if available. it is really handy.
That would be my first thought except that I didn't have ANY problems under tiger. I have also run a stress test on the RAM and didn't find any problems. I also checked the disk drive. The processor was put under load to see if that was an issue... nothing turned up, and no problems until after the upgrade. Other people have also reported very similar experiences if you check the forums at apple.com
I concur. Leopard has SERIOUS problems. It is more than a "point upgrade"as the author states and has some nice new features and enhancements, but firewall breaks all sorts of things abd is as annoying as the Vista mother-may-I prompts giving warnings even after applications have been placed on the white list. DHCP doesn't acquire addresses properly and firewall must be disabled, airport turned off then back on for it to work again.
I've had 2 kernel panics in 2 days (I never experienced a kernel panic under tiger). I have also had the OS go unstable and Finder et al will crash randomly until restart. Final Cut Pro 6.0 crashes all the time doing things as simple moving the timeline. Spotlight crashes and reloads while doing searches sometimes.
Disk Utility can't repair disk permissions or recognizes them as incorrect when they are not (not sure which).
Java is completely screwed! No java 6 yet and javascript commands in safari do bizarre things sometimes like launching outside applications such as finder instead of doing what they are intended to do within the application!
Apple has some serious work to do if they want to keep Leopard installed on users' machines - and they had better do it fast!
You aren't alone on doing the shuffle - at least among OSX users! Firefox is great because of the extensions, but FF2 is just bloatware on OSX and it is dog slow. When I updated to Leopard I decided to give Safari another shot. I added in Pithhelmet, SafariStand, and SafariBlock. All it lacks are auto-updating blocklists and it is far faster than FF ever was and it Acid2 compliant to boot!
As a long time Firefox user I hate to say it, but I may not go back to Firefox for quite some time (unless FF3 is a vast improvement).
Ever think maybe there was a more benign reason for this? Like to perhaps help in the retrieval of a stolen phone? Granted, it is probably not great for privacy, but if explicitly disclosed a savvy phone stealer could just disable or modify the apps.
*This by no means excuses apple's privacy violations.
Gimp is not the same as photoshop on OSX! It isn't the windows, it is the clunkiness of the tools. The tools are unresponsive and the floating windows interfere with each-other making it hard to work. Placement is BAD!
Gimp and Photoshop should both take a look at Paint.net It is open source and should be ported to other OSes. It is by far the best photo editor for the novice to prosumer. I can do most things I commonly need to do professionally with it. Even though it isn't a replacement for photoshop yet, I can see how it could be in the future.
Sure, it has some problems of its own, but comparing the development time, the Gimp Developers should be ashamed of themselves and the Photoshop folks should be retired by now.
Yes. It is also possible the Microsoft version did, or that the firmware on your Ethernet card did. You always take some chances unless you make everything yourself from the silicon yourself... otherwise you've got to be aware that God might be snooping on your network traffic.
On a serious note though.... let's not get all crazy paranoid. Use open source if you can, and if you can't use the same precautions you would on any closed system - use 3rd party software to act as threat detection and put a hardware firewall between the PC and the rest of teh world - if there is a crack or rootkit involved the traffic log will give it away in short order.
Any application downloaded to your Mac is tagged. Before it runs for the first time, the system asks for your consent Safari asks. Most modern browsers have security settings that can do this.
Application-Based Firewall It is called Little Snitch. It works great.
The most common security breaches occurs when a hacker's code calls a known memory address to have a system function execute malicious code. Nice feature, but if you were really concerned with security you would have memory encryption enabled anyhow. No problems with this when using encrypted memory.
A digital signature on an application verifies its identity and ensures its integrity. Public Key signing anyone? This has been around for decades - even on OSX!
These are not things that weren't available on OSX. They weren't gaping holes. Apple just decided to make them easier for the average user by including them out of the box and beefing them up a bit where necessary (like the memory randomization).
I'm completely behind you - this would be really nice, but it doesn't seem to be the way technology has been panning out. Every new device I get takes longer than the last one: Cable boxes, dvd player, music players, even cellphones. It seems every time I upgrade there is more crap I don't use and it means I need to wait longer from the time I press "on" until the time I can actually use it.
I hope these folks are successful and can lend some advice to device manufacturers as well!
I'm with you there. I often find that if my CDs, tapes, or MP3 player isn't in my car I am sitting in silence. Between the annoying DJs, incessant commercials, and crapola the payola buys I'd rather stare at traffic in silence.
I can see how this is an annoyance to you, but to call it wrong is saying all Americans can't speak English. It is actually a very common change in pronunciation. It is called a voiced alveolar plosive (or stop) which is a fancy way of saying that you cut the airflow escaping your throat off with the tip of the tongue in a way that you can hear the air when pronouncing the ending of a letter. It is characteristic of the American dialect to do so and is probably something that drives the English crazy more often than "tact" bothers you because it is done almost incessantly. Wikipedia's entry isn't complete, but it is accurate if you are interested in learning more about it: Voiced Alveolar Plosive
Whoa... you are making things way too complicated. When person A can't talk to C without B then B is called "translator". Translators allow people who don't speak the same language to communicate. It is imprecise, but it works well enough that information can be conveyed. A and C cannot directly communicate == they don't speak the same language. Period. What the heck point are you trying to make anyhow?
I highly suggest you take some classes or get a book on linguistics if you are having trouble grasping the language concept. I mean this in the most respectful manner. I know it gave me a much greater understanding of how language works.
They don't fit the requirements I gave. As another poster pointed out, tigers and lions can breed successful offspring, but they also don't do it with enough regularity to be considered a species. Again, I oversimplified. It was an analogy. My information came almost verbatim from a 2006 university Biology textbook.
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Nah, just setup a very restricted user account and run it under the other user. Then you don't have to restrict everything on you normal account. There is no reason you should have to limit the system, just limit the user and run the program that way.
no, but could you tell me where I can get plans for this $300-400 system and how much power it is capable of producing? Thanks!
newsprint publishers. yahoo does online advertising and is a portal. print news is dying and needs an update. if the printers bought a powerful portal it would give them a means of controlling new distribution online (a "get it from yahoo or don't get it at all!" attitude backed up by lawsuits would put a sudden halt on the news free-for-all on the internet. they could require a subscriber login for news and offer different tiers of advertising to content for different amounts. What does microsoft have to offer them in terms of profitability?
At the risk of being modded flamebait, I wanted to point out that when I tried ClamAV on mac it worked piss poor. There was little for it to find that affected me, so basically all it did was protect windows users from viruses passing through my computer to theirs and it did all sorts of screwy stuff with my system including making it so slow it was unusable. I kept it less than a week.
Use a tool like little snitch, up you security settings, don't run as administrator, don't run random programs you find on the net and you'll be fine.
Actually, these are such preliminary findings that they could be children or even dwarfed people. Nature, which is often held a bit above National Geographic among seems to be skeptical: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080310/full/452133a.html As an anthropologist, I would be thrilled if this turns out to be the same as homo floresiensis, but I'm not jumping to any conclusions until there is some more testing completed. Especially interesting is that it doesn't appear that the brain was unusually small in these specimens as it was in the Flores find, which indicates that this is a different situation entirely.
Kind of. It is registered in the tax roles, it just can't be accounted for once it is dispersed: "The Department of Defense... once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn't account for more than a trillion dollars in financial transactions..." according to a Government Accountability office "A study by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Pentagon couldn't properly account for more than a trillion dollars in monies spent." -sfgate
Maybe they are building that giant-mega-super-computer after all, or maybe they are funding covert wars and skimming your money for $640 toilet seats and retirement funds. Either way, they are outright taking money from me with no accountability which makes me even more pissed than if it were secret!
I have been removing viruses from friends and clients computers since I was 8 years old (I'm almost 24). 99% of these have been on microsoft OSes or Dos-esque OSes. I have never failed to clean a system until yesterday.
Using a combination of virus removal tools and a process viewer and a few other security tools on a CD-R i've been able to find every instance every time - until yesterday. In a few cases i've had to replace some system filed due to them getting completely destroyed or had to repair an MBR, but never before did I have to say "time to do a low level format and start over"....
I had installed cleaned this guy's system about 2 years ago. He was setup with a non-admin account to use and automatically renewing virus scanning, ad-aware, and several other security tools.
Yet after his niece used the PC it became infected.
I could see this virus running, I even found 1 virus with F-PROT - AVG, Kapersky, Avast, and BitDefender all found nothing. I had to run them from a boot CD because the virus had done something funky with administrator rights even under safe mode.
I felt horrible, because truth be told, if I back up his documents, I can't honestly tell him reloading them on a clean system won't b ring back the virus - the detectors couldn't find them before, they may not again.
All I could say was I'll make a ghost disc so you can get the system back to normal by yourself. I haven't dealt with Vista viruses yet, but there is no stopping a novice p2p user from getting a virus.
I second that.... MCO is a nightmare. I usually fly DAB instead. It is usually a little more, but there are more flights now then therer once were, and when you figure time is about the same price but hassle free. You get through in 10 minutes or less except when there is a special event in town. If there is a special event or you need to be further south go SFB or TPA.
1) I admin a number of unix systems and understand that just fine. Why would me saying that a program apple ships not doing what it is supposed to means I don't know anything about Unix? That is nonsensical. I can use fsck just fine. This does not excuse disk utility not working.
2)All my software is either approved for leopard or is BETA and any quirky beta programs have been removed. My install was a clean install not an upgrade.
3) That pre-release of java is not available anymore and is not leopard compatible (unless you know of a version I don't - I checked the apple developer site)
yes, i am aware that they are different. Tiger had Java 6 available if you looked for it (beta since removed). As for javascript I was trying to do this, it worked before and still does sometimes:
javascript:void((function(){var%20a=location.href.replace(/^http\:\/\/(.*)$/,%22$1%22);location.href=%22http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:%22+escape(a);})())
It replaces the address location with the google cache version of the page if available. it is really handy.
That would be my first thought except that I didn't have ANY problems under tiger. I have also run a stress test on the RAM and didn't find any problems. I also checked the disk drive. The processor was put under load to see if that was an issue... nothing turned up, and no problems until after the upgrade. Other people have also reported very similar experiences if you check the forums at apple.com
I concur. Leopard has SERIOUS problems. It is more than a "point upgrade"as the author states and has some nice new features and enhancements, but firewall breaks all sorts of things abd is as annoying as the Vista mother-may-I prompts giving warnings even after applications have been placed on the white list. DHCP doesn't acquire addresses properly and firewall must be disabled, airport turned off then back on for it to work again.
I've had 2 kernel panics in 2 days (I never experienced a kernel panic under tiger). I have also had the OS go unstable and Finder et al will crash randomly until restart. Final Cut Pro 6.0 crashes all the time doing things as simple moving the timeline. Spotlight crashes and reloads while doing searches sometimes.
Disk Utility can't repair disk permissions or recognizes them as incorrect when they are not (not sure which).
Java is completely screwed! No java 6 yet and javascript commands in safari do bizarre things sometimes like launching outside applications such as finder instead of doing what they are intended to do within the application!
Apple has some serious work to do if they want to keep Leopard installed on users' machines - and they had better do it fast!
You aren't alone on doing the shuffle - at least among OSX users! Firefox is great because of the extensions, but FF2 is just bloatware on OSX and it is dog slow. When I updated to Leopard I decided to give Safari another shot. I added in Pithhelmet, SafariStand, and SafariBlock. All it lacks are auto-updating blocklists and it is far faster than FF ever was and it Acid2 compliant to boot!
As a long time Firefox user I hate to say it, but I may not go back to Firefox for quite some time (unless FF3 is a vast improvement).
Ever think maybe there was a more benign reason for this? Like to perhaps help in the retrieval of a stolen phone? Granted, it is probably not great for privacy, but if explicitly disclosed a savvy phone stealer could just disable or modify the apps. *This by no means excuses apple's privacy violations.
Gimp is not the same as photoshop on OSX! It isn't the windows, it is the clunkiness of the tools. The tools are unresponsive and the floating windows interfere with each-other making it hard to work. Placement is BAD!
Gimp and Photoshop should both take a look at Paint.net It is open source and should be ported to other OSes. It is by far the best photo editor for the novice to prosumer. I can do most things I commonly need to do professionally with it. Even though it isn't a replacement for photoshop yet, I can see how it could be in the future.
Sure, it has some problems of its own, but comparing the development time, the Gimp Developers should be ashamed of themselves and the Photoshop folks should be retired by now.
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Kinkos. People don't buy their own, they upload the file and go pick it up at the store. Still much, much cheaper than traditional prototyping.
Yes. It is also possible the Microsoft version did, or that the firmware on your Ethernet card did. You always take some chances unless you make everything yourself from the silicon yourself... otherwise you've got to be aware that God might be snooping on your network traffic.
On a serious note though.... let's not get all crazy paranoid. Use open source if you can, and if you can't use the same precautions you would on any closed system - use 3rd party software to act as threat detection and put a hardware firewall between the PC and the rest of teh world - if there is a crack or rootkit involved the traffic log will give it away in short order.
Safari asks. Most modern browsers have security settings that can do this.
Application-Based Firewall
It is called Little Snitch. It works great.
The most common security breaches occurs when a hacker's code calls a known memory address to have a system function execute malicious code.
Nice feature, but if you were really concerned with security you would have memory encryption enabled anyhow. No problems with this when using encrypted memory.
A digital signature on an application verifies its identity and ensures its integrity.
Public Key signing anyone? This has been around for decades - even on OSX!
These are not things that weren't available on OSX. They weren't gaping holes. Apple just decided to make them easier for the average user by including them out of the box and beefing them up a bit where necessary (like the memory randomization).
I'm completely behind you - this would be really nice, but it doesn't seem to be the way technology has been panning out. Every new device I get takes longer than the last one: Cable boxes, dvd player, music players, even cellphones. It seems every time I upgrade there is more crap I don't use and it means I need to wait longer from the time I press "on" until the time I can actually use it.
I hope these folks are successful and can lend some advice to device manufacturers as well!
I'm with you there. I often find that if my CDs, tapes, or MP3 player isn't in my car I am sitting in silence. Between the annoying DJs, incessant commercials, and crapola the payola buys I'd rather stare at traffic in silence.
I can see how this is an annoyance to you, but to call it wrong is saying all Americans can't speak English. It is actually a very common change in pronunciation. It is called a voiced alveolar plosive (or stop) which is a fancy way of saying that you cut the airflow escaping your throat off with the tip of the tongue in a way that you can hear the air when pronouncing the ending of a letter. It is characteristic of the American dialect to do so and is probably something that drives the English crazy more often than "tact" bothers you because it is done almost incessantly. Wikipedia's entry isn't complete, but it is accurate if you are interested in learning more about it: Voiced Alveolar Plosive
Whoa... you are making things way too complicated. When person A can't talk to C without B then B is called "translator". Translators allow people who don't speak the same language to communicate. It is imprecise, but it works well enough that information can be conveyed. A and C cannot directly communicate == they don't speak the same language. Period. What the heck point are you trying to make anyhow?
I highly suggest you take some classes or get a book on linguistics if you are having trouble grasping the language concept. I mean this in the most respectful manner. I know it gave me a much greater understanding of how language works.
Okay, 45nm desktop processors, great. Any idea when the mobile version will be available? That is what I'm really interested in.
...subspecies...they do not normally interbreed .They don't fit the requirements I gave. As another poster pointed out, tigers and lions can breed successful offspring, but they also don't do it with enough regularity to be considered a species. Again, I oversimplified. It was an analogy. My information came almost verbatim from a 2006 university Biology textbook.
Their excuse was that they wrote between 1066 and 1500.