There are still some issues with the tank. It's heavily shielded and it sits in the trunk (it's a hybrid, press a button and it will switch between gas/hydrogen on the fly). The engineers believe it to be safer than gasoline, they might be a bit biased though. The real problem holding it up is that there are on two hydrogen fill up stations in the US.
BMW has various incantations of the 7 series hydrogen car for quite a long time now. I think it was the late 1970s (have to go find the Roundel magazine it was in, I think it was 1978 though) they had the hybrid gas/hydrogen engine first working well. It's just been sitting around for twenty years for the hydrogen distribution network to be built up.
It's supposed to be a shim. It provides all the APIs and everything you'd want (encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management) and the engine (being GPG) could easily be swapped out for something else. If you don't like it though, take it up with Werner. The argument of whether or not the functions should be directly accessible via a library have been argued to death in the various newsgroups/mailing lists...
I've used all the pgp wrappers for Pine and I personally have found the best one is PinePG. It's minimalistic, when you send it gives you the option to sign or sign+encrypt and it securely caches the passphrase. It auto unencrypts and verifys the messages.
Basically, what I'm getting at is that nobody is going to buy a Mac server just so they can stream QuickTime. Apple just does not have that kind of hold on the marketplace.
You don't have too. Darwin Streaming Server is free and the source is available (hell, there are a couple derivative projects available at Freshmeat). Oh, you want to to encode for free also? MPEG-4 and RTSP are published formats, go find some software to do it or do it youself. Oh, you want a nice packaged solution with a pretty GUI that makes it very easy? Suck it up, buy a Mac and quit your bitching.
Fact is, that Apple cannot continue to survive by making people buy their propritary hardware.
WHAT proprietary hardware?! The firmware on all new Macs isn't called Closed-Proprietary-Steve's-Baby-Firmware, it's called OpenFirmware for a reason. PC-100 RAM. IDE. SCSI. Firewire. USB. All the subsystem code for the OS is opensource. There is nothing that is closed about Mac hardware.
They also posted a $32 M dollar profit today. It's down from last quarter, but they seem to be doing better than most companies these days. I think their current business plan seems to be working just well for them.
An addition: make sure you call the hotel beforehand to verify that they still have their broadband connection. I had a friend who found a hotel on the geektools' list and when he arrived they didn't have it. They got rid of it because it was too expensive and nobody was using it.
I currently reside in Eastern PA and it is the dark ages here. The cable here is awful, they say they offer one-way cable, but the signal here is so bad that I doubt any decent speeds could be attained. The bunch of morons known as Service Electric are the provider for our area. They're one of the of the oldest cable TV providers (which leads me to believe that they've never updated their equipement and the original cable from over fifty years ago is what their network is based on). They say they have the most advanced telecommunications and online services available but don't let that fool you. They only thing they've done that is anywhere near advanced is that you can now you can pay your bill online for their lousy signal and even worse channel selection.
The real reason T. Ridge became the Director of Homeland Security was to get his ass out of this lousy state. Thankfully, I'll have job soon and I'll also be leaving this god-forsaken place behind. But I'm not bitter at all...
As a chain Wawa (no second capital W) is vastly superior to a 7-11. The deli is better, the store is cleaner, the staff is generally less surly. Please, please, don't demean this wonderful chain by equating it with a 7-11; it's like saying Linux is basically a DOS like operating system.
Okay, if we are going to be relating convience store chains to operating systems, I'd like to point out that Wawa wouldn't be the Linux of them. It might rank around the Mac OS 6 level (with 7-11 ranking in at good ol' DOS). Sheetz is a far better chain than Wawa and would be the Linux of them...
If it's not a fallout of the porting effort, why do they support x86 at all? Is this to help the Open Source development community surrounding Darwin, or is it possibly the case that Apple is hedging their bets and thinking of going x86 themselves at some point in the future?
In the Darwin Q&A they sort of explain why they maintain support for x86. From the article they say:
"We're simply making Darwin, the underlying operating system of Mac OS X, a better system by using x86 as a test bed to ensure architectural soundness and to reap the benefits from applying portable software coding practices."
It's a good answer and it makes sense, but I wouldn't discount your theory about hedging their bets. Jobs is known for screwing companies (switching to NVidia from ATI) and going to new hardware, and it's pretty well known that he isn't very happy with Motorola right now.
Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds.
I'm a CS student at Wilkes, and we're fortunate to have such a good department. The subnet is run by student admins (I'm one of them). We've been using various Linux distros for quite awhile now (long before I was here anyway). The dualboot systems run Redhat (mainly because kickstart makes upgrading 30 boxes really easy). The SLC404 lab runs Slack (on an added note, there is a sign on the door to the lab that says "404 - Food not Found" that of course, nobody obeys, but we leave it up because it's funny, well okay, maybe not *that* funny, ah hell with it...). My personal box in the server room runs OpenBSD (nice perk about being an admin is you can co-lo a box into the server room). We've got a couple Mac OS X machines floating around (with dual head displays and DVD-RAMs which we use to burn... uh... n/m;-) ). Then there is that bastard Solaris machine (quad node sun arch) we keep around for the database class (runs both Oracle and mySQL, but everyone uses Oracle anyway...).
I'd like to quickly plug Open Source Development at Wilkes University, one of the opensource sites here at Wilkes. It started from a Networks class assignment a year ago and is still being maintained.
The Networks class assignment is definitely an interesting one. For all those concerned about newbies setting up honeypots, don't worry, I keep a tight leash on those kiddies.
The Math/CS Club has seen livelier days, but at least we have a nice webpage, a nice PGP ring of trust, and a fairly well-developed FAQ (though, none of the freshman ever read it first, they always ask the admins first, who then refer them to the faq and immediately knock their quota down 5 MB.)
We're also the only autonomous subnet at Wilkes. All the other departments have had their subnets assimilated by the technology department (who, in my opinion, are basically fucking idiots). The Math/CS faculty gives us (the student admins) pretty much free reign over how things are done. We keep everything running smoothly on the subnet and they fight off the evil administration.
Yea, the city does suck too. Though, the nice thing about living near a bunch of stripmines and old abandoned coal mining villiages is there are some great places to place paintball. My personal favorite is Concrete City, which consists of 14 concrete two story duplex-style houses (some have basements even!). It's a real rush to with such close house-to-house and room-to-room paintball.
The tech explained it was a thermal/design issue - the system would get too hot and possibly cause damage to components.
Someone on the kernel development list was inquired about this the other week. He eventually was able to modify the kernel to prevent it from sleeping when the lid closed. Check the archives, you might want to email him and release the patches.
Oops, it's still in development... I misread, the announce. It isn't done, but it's useable:
"Enigmail, a GnuPG "plugin" for Mozilla which has been under development
for some time, has now reached a state of practical usability with the
Mozilla 0.9.9 release."
GnuPG functionality is available for Mozilla through the Enigmail plugin. It finally made it out of development and is apparently ready for production use. You'll need Mozilla 0.9.9.
Epicware's Fire for Mac OS X has well integrated PGP support (via the GPGME Framework for Mac OS X). It supports the usuall slew of services (AIM, ICQ, etc). It's GPLed and works quite nicely (though, not quite as nice a client as Adium, which unfortunately doesn't support encrypted communications yet...)
4) "chase the rabbit". that sounds a lot like "punch the monkey".
Not only that, but they are just as annoying. I tried a couple "chasing the rabbits" after my run this morning and from the soreness I'm feeling now I found a couple muscle groups I didn't know I had...
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Yes yes. What you saw was a step up from vaporware, commonly referred to as a "dog and pony show".
There are still some issues with the tank. It's heavily shielded and it sits in the trunk (it's a hybrid, press a button and it will switch between gas/hydrogen on the fly). The engineers believe it to be safer than gasoline, they might be a bit biased though. The real problem holding it up is that there are on two hydrogen fill up stations in the US.
BMW has various incantations of the 7 series hydrogen car for quite a long time now. I think it was the late 1970s (have to go find the Roundel magazine it was in, I think it was 1978 though) they had the hybrid gas/hydrogen engine first working well. It's just been sitting around for twenty years for the hydrogen distribution network to be built up.
It's supposed to be a shim. It provides all the APIs and everything you'd want (encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management) and the engine (being GPG) could easily be swapped out for something else. If you don't like it though, take it up with Werner. The argument of whether or not the functions should be directly accessible via a library have been argued to death in the various newsgroups/mailing lists...
I've used all the pgp wrappers for Pine and I personally have found the best one is PinePG. It's minimalistic, when you send it gives you the option to sign or sign+encrypt and it securely caches the passphrase. It auto unencrypts and verifys the messages.
There is a GPGME Framework (GPGME being the preferred way to access the functionality of GPG).
Point your browser to http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/ and download the GPGME.Framework.
Way ahead of your: http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/
You don't have too. Darwin Streaming Server is free and the source is available (hell, there are a couple derivative projects available at Freshmeat). Oh, you want to to encode for free also? MPEG-4 and RTSP are published formats, go find some software to do it or do it youself. Oh, you want a nice packaged solution with a pretty GUI that makes it very easy? Suck it up, buy a Mac and quit your bitching.
WHAT proprietary hardware?! The firmware on all new Macs isn't called Closed-Proprietary-Steve's-Baby-Firmware, it's called OpenFirmware for a reason. PC-100 RAM. IDE. SCSI. Firewire. USB. All the subsystem code for the OS is opensource. There is nothing that is closed about Mac hardware.
They also posted a $32 M dollar profit today. It's down from last quarter, but they seem to be doing better than most companies these days. I think their current business plan seems to be working just well for them.
Not sure if it's common knowledge but Slash does this (X-Bender header):
[anna:~] linville% telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 64.28.67.150...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:52:08 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000
X-Bender: A woman like that you gotta romance first!
[SNIP]
An addition: make sure you call the hotel beforehand to verify that they still have their broadband connection. I had a friend who found a hotel on the geektools' list and when he arrived they didn't have it. They got rid of it because it was too expensive and nobody was using it.
I currently reside in Eastern PA and it is the dark ages here. The cable here is awful, they say they offer one-way cable, but the signal here is so bad that I doubt any decent speeds could be attained. The bunch of morons known as Service Electric are the provider for our area. They're one of the of the oldest cable TV providers (which leads me to believe that they've never updated their equipement and the original cable from over fifty years ago is what their network is based on). They say they have the most advanced telecommunications and online services available but don't let that fool you. They only thing they've done that is anywhere near advanced is that you can now you can pay your bill online for their lousy signal and even worse channel selection.
We can't get DSL because of the greedy fucking bastards who could give a shit about their customers and just barely pass as a legitamate company called Verizon. On an additional note, GTE^h^h^hVerizon hasn't updated the equipment in our area for so long that they actually ran out of phones lines on the trunks that service our neighborhood.
The real reason T. Ridge became the Director of Homeland Security was to get his ass out of this lousy state. Thankfully, I'll have job soon and I'll also be leaving this god-forsaken place behind. But I'm not bitter at all...
Okay, if we are going to be relating convience store chains to operating systems, I'd like to point out that Wawa wouldn't be the Linux of them. It might rank around the Mac OS 6 level (with 7-11 ranking in at good ol' DOS). Sheetz is a far better chain than Wawa and would be the Linux of them...
In the Darwin Q&A they sort of explain why they maintain support for x86. From the article they say:
It's a good answer and it makes sense, but I wouldn't discount your theory about hedging their bets. Jobs is known for screwing companies (switching to NVidia from ATI) and going to new hardware, and it's pretty well known that he isn't very happy with Motorola right now.
Well, the state flower is the road cone...
I'm a CS student at Wilkes, and we're fortunate to have such a good department. The subnet is run by student admins (I'm one of them). We've been using various Linux distros for quite awhile now (long before I was here anyway). The dualboot systems run Redhat (mainly because kickstart makes upgrading 30 boxes really easy). The SLC404 lab runs Slack (on an added note, there is a sign on the door to the lab that says "404 - Food not Found" that of course, nobody obeys, but we leave it up because it's funny, well okay, maybe not *that* funny, ah hell with it...). My personal box in the server room runs OpenBSD (nice perk about being an admin is you can co-lo a box into the server room). We've got a couple Mac OS X machines floating around (with dual head displays and DVD-RAMs which we use to burn... uh... n/m ;-) ). Then there is that bastard Solaris machine (quad node sun arch) we keep around for the database class (runs both Oracle and mySQL, but everyone uses Oracle anyway...).
I'd like to quickly plug Open Source Development at Wilkes University, one of the opensource sites here at Wilkes. It started from a Networks class assignment a year ago and is still being maintained.
The Networks class assignment is definitely an interesting one. For all those concerned about newbies setting up honeypots, don't worry, I keep a tight leash on those kiddies.
The Math/CS Club has seen livelier days, but at least we have a nice webpage, a nice PGP ring of trust, and a fairly well-developed FAQ (though, none of the freshman ever read it first, they always ask the admins first, who then refer them to the faq and immediately knock their quota down 5 MB.)
We're also the only autonomous subnet at Wilkes. All the other departments have had their subnets assimilated by the technology department (who, in my opinion, are basically fucking idiots). The Math/CS faculty gives us (the student admins) pretty much free reign over how things are done. We keep everything running smoothly on the subnet and they fight off the evil administration.
Yea, the city does suck too. Though, the nice thing about living near a bunch of stripmines and old abandoned coal mining villiages is there are some great places to place paintball. My personal favorite is Concrete City, which consists of 14 concrete two story duplex-style houses (some have basements even!). It's a real rush to with such close house-to-house and room-to-room paintball.
Just my 2c. -root@mathcs.wilkes.edu
Someone on the kernel development list was inquired about this the other week. He eventually was able to modify the kernel to prevent it from sleeping when the lid closed. Check the archives, you might want to email him and release the patches.
Wow, I bet this thing could handle at least an eight day retention of a full alt.binaries feed.
The project was renamed even after that to LAW - Lawyers Are Wimps.
Personally, I think they should have stuck with BHA...
linvilaw@dogbert-/~-16:21% ypcat passwd | grep helldraws h
helldraw:x:20750:200:Lucifer Java Drawer:/home/mathcs/users/fall00/helldraw:/bin/tc
linvilaw@dogbert-/~-16:22%
It's not so bad with if you use shadowed password maps...
ObMandrake Joke
And if it was Mandrake they'd also have:- devel-i386.rpm
I-was-piss-ass-drunk-and-i-could-not-see-straight
Move along now, nothing to see here...
Oops, it's still in development... I misread, the announce. It isn't done, but it's useable:
GnuPG functionality is available for Mozilla through the Enigmail plugin. It finally made it out of development and is apparently ready for production use. You'll need Mozilla 0.9.9.
Epicware's Fire for Mac OS X has well integrated PGP support (via the GPGME Framework for Mac OS X). It supports the usuall slew of services (AIM, ICQ, etc). It's GPLed and works quite nicely (though, not quite as nice a client as Adium, which unfortunately doesn't support encrypted communications yet...)
Try unplugging and plugging the USB plug. I have the same setup and this usually fixes it whenever it won't sync.
Use the source Luke.[0]
[0]-You'll need to have accepted the terms of Apple's Public Source License and have registered for a free account.
Not only that, but they are just as annoying. I tried a couple "chasing the rabbits" after my run this morning and from the soreness I'm feeling now I found a couple muscle groups I didn't know I had...