The dev builds don't support it now, and Apple claims that:
Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.
Yes. Apparently it's especially annoying when you are demonstrating something to a client and they get to see all the websites you were exploring the night before...
You need to use private browsing. For Firefox, there are several extensions. I use distrust (although Safari's private browsing is actually much better than what FF extensions can do).
Well, I guess that's one way to achieve it - but I have no desire to put my sent items into the inbox! I just want the ability to view them in that manner from time to time. In general I want to keep the distinction.
Well, just think of your inbox as your "conversation view" then create a smart folder named "My Inbox" that filters by messages not sent by your email address(es), as well as a "My Sent" or some such.
I agree what you're asking for would be very useful for power users like you and me, but I'm pretty sure non-power users like my wife would get confused quickly unless the UI is very clear on what's outgoing and what's incoming (Gmail does a good job of this, but I still get confused sometimes).
I'm a serious user, and I didn't disabled UAC. In fact, I don't know anyone who has Vista and has disabled it.
Probably because a lot of users haven't really disabled Vista UAC, but migrated back to XP or moved to Linux/OSX. I can count on my hand the number of people I know who run Vista, and most of those work at Microsoft. Of those I know that do run Vista have told me they either feel secure enough to disable UAC, or they just don't care and want to stop the annoyance.
Security theatre in it's finest. It's so unusable that it's clear that any serious user will disable it. So why include it? The article points a valid reason: liability. Micrsoft can't keep your system highly safe without a great cost to them (re-architect the OS and severely damage backwards compatiblility). So they chose to let you either deal with the annoyance, or turn it off, and (symbolically) accept responsibility for anything that goes wrong.
The advertising industry certainly does have standards, but they are the standards that are imposed on them, not the standards they try to live up to.
Well, those sure sound more like governmental regulations than standards, as there is a penalty (or threat of action) for non-compliance other than loss of marketshare.
All of this makes me wonder if anyone has ever heard of SSH!
You forget that some of us work where all ports aside from 80,443 and a few others are blocked. Blocking port 22 is a very good idea for the paranoid (read: cautious) sysadmin, as these days botnets zombies are starting to use secured comms.
Google may parse messages, but Google offers HTTPS. If you're at work sending e-mail and you should use encryption.
This is VERY VERY important. If you're looking for a career elsewhere, then the difference between Google analyzing and aggregating your data as opposed to your boss knowing that you're exploring your options is HUGE.
Also keep in mind that Google offers several services that operate on HTTPS: Google Reader (great for bypassing those stupid web-filters that block political sites at repressive companies), Google Calendar (so you can schedule your interviews without alerting your company), and Google Docs (so you can work on your resume in private).
Google is also a godsend for consultants at client sites who are working with sensitive materials they don't want their clients to see (and don't want to use VPN).
Maybe if enough of us stop flying, the airline industry will set its lobbyists to get this fixed. Chances are slim though. Why lobby to get your customers back when you can just lobby for handouts?
Or... we force ask our government to grow a real pair and start funding real long-distance mass-transport (like bus lines, high-speed trains, light rail/trams).
I knew a consultant in Europe who didn't fly and travelled internationally by rail (almost) exclusively... he was very happy, and given the post-911 paranoia and the proto-police-state that airports have become, he probably got to his client locations about as fast.
So first, they would have to know you even have something encrypted (which is just a guess if they see TrueCrypt installed).
On OSX, disk utility will create encrypted disk images for you, so every mac user potentially has encrypted content (apparently Vista also has something similar).
Furthermore, you could also make TrueCrypt portable on XP, putting it, and possibly even your encrypted volume on a USB Key. Include this with a simple file rename and extension change and you'll have hidden encrypted content.
Apple MBP $1999
Dell XPS M1530 $1602
Dell has 50GB more hard drive space, higher capacity battery, and a fingerprint reader. Otherwise, as far as I can see, the specs are identical.
The first comparison doesn't count because discrete graphics is a huge upgrade (no graphics intensive gaming without it).
You fail to mention that:
OSX has better battery management than Windows, so "battery capacity" is subjective.
The quality of the hardware components are not identical
You don't mention which OS the Dell is configured with... I would put OSX somewhere between Vista Ultimate or the XP "Upgrade"... which probably adds some $$ to your dell comparisons.
Actually with a PC (at least with the Dell Optiplex line) you can easily boot off a USB drive. My comment was more about the "unbusiness like" service that Apple provided.
Problem is, each different PC model requires a different boot disk, for the drivers, right? (I have NEVER been in an organization that had a single vendor+model in their workers' PC portfolio... usually it's about 10-15 models across 3-4 vendors)
I tried this trick a while back and I could not get it to work effectively.
On the other hand, I've taken coworkers and family members' spare boot disks across Macs and had them boot fine (the Intel transition made this more difficult, but at the very least you only need two disks).
Why google helped yahoo? Because it tries to "do no evil".
Bullshit. There are several reasons...
They don't want to become a monopoly, as that would surely invite regulatory pressure.
One of the Triumvirate (Schmidt, Page, Brin) has said before that Google prefers competitors because otherwise they become a much larger (and surer) target for SEO/SEM and click-fraud. If there are several engines with different algorithms/tweaks, there's no one way to game the entire search system.
Once it becomes a 2-entity market/race (effectively), negative advertising and operations become very valuable for the 2nd place entity... analogy being the 08 Democratic Primary... once Edwards dropped out, and Clinton was clearly behind, she went negative, and it worked.
This is an aside, but Macs, due to their firmware capabilities just absolutely rule for this scenario. Your IT dept should have a couple of backup boot external drives... can be USB or Firewire, just plug it in, hit "option" on startup, and the computer is booted using the spare.
You can even have it on an iPod (w/disk mode)... small, light, and just like a dongle on a laptop... totally usable for a day.
You could have always dumped the account and filled it with solicited SPAM telling Microsoft you were a 45 year old gay midget into tranny foot fetish porn with interests in RC cars, the Book of Mormon, and central Asian camel farming.
Good idea, but good data mining will parse that out as noise, by including message metadata. Your email data in hostile hands is still vulnerable.
Now if you were to mail yourself some text-generated content, a la Markov Chains, and base that on something like, say, the Bible, the PMBOK, and the US Tax Code, you'd be very likely to effectively garble your true emails. Of course, you'd have to go the full go, and make sure your spoof senders, and the message dates to scramble your data.
While users and everyone in the computing industry would like to see that happen, it doesn't make sense from a business perspective. MS has a monopoly on desktop OS's. Investing in that same market will result in less return than in pretty much any other market.
This assumes that your monopoly will stay that way. All businesses have to defend their marketshare and profit margins, or seek new ones (or shrink/die). With Microsoft spending so much time/energy/focus on other things, their core has begun to decay due to lack of focus or interest from management. This spells doom for their cash cow(s), and some good investment on that would be wise to keep the money rolling in.
Instead they play defense by marginally ethical activities, acquiring other companies and generally playing whack-a-mole against real innovators. This strategy fails hard when you're trying to whack that mole-on-steroids, the new 600 lb gorilla (Google). Maybe their retracted Yahoo bid is the sound of Ballmer putting down the chair?
Time will tell... of course the conspiracy theorist states that this is just a pump/dump confidence attack on YHOO stock, so their investors will regret the "attention" and force the Yahoo board to accept the next decent offer.
This effectively locks them out of the marketplace for true open source solutions such as Citadel and Kolab and eGroupware because they're not true end-to-end FOSS. At the same time, they can't raise their prices high enough to make real money with the product, because customers would just as soon go with Exchange.
How do you feel this compares with SugarCRM and their situation w/r/t Salesforce, Oracle, SAP vs. the completely free open-source competition?
That's assuming that the winner of the Obama-Clinton race can't swallow his or her pride and offer their opponent shotgun.
Saying this means you know little of the real schism between Obama and Clinton campaigns. This is a battle for the soul of the Democratic party, and it looks like the old guard (Clinton's folks) are fighting tooth and nail for the top seat, but losing. Look in the history books about previous such change... it's painful and doesn't happen overnight.
Why is a community like Slashdot supporting such a thing? We are supposed to be the people supporting technology.
Perhaps technology is not a panacea for everything. Pushing technology as the solution to every problem is just as bad as saying C++ is the best language for all occasions. Both are examples of "hammer-wielders seeing every problem as a nail".
In it (can't remember where it was) he talks about going around the media going directly to the people to bypass the corrupt culture in government... and mentions he will make transparency a big part of his platform, and youtube all white house meetings.
With the decent sales of the very high-priced MacBook Air, it seems that the "features" this article is quoting aren't really all that necessary to many people.
<Anecdote> Back in 2000, I got a new work laptop: a Toshiba portege 3440... seemed a bit too small at first and seemingly underpowered, but to be honest, it was quite adequate for taking notes, hacking my Perl, Java & SQL (didn't use the monster-ish Eclipse back then), and when needed, VNC into my desktop to run my batch queries and compiliations. It could also play Starcraft and Counterstrike fine (with an external mouse). I really miss that laptop.. it had no floppy, cdrom or even parallel/serial ports (the port replicator was needed for those). </Anecdote>
I really miss that 'top, even with my macbook, it's heavier, and has a superdrive that I've used like twice in the year I've owned the thing.
The things holding me to Webkit are the find interface, keychain integration, and the combined stop/reload button. If someone would make extensions that would enable these in Firefox I would switch in a second.
Touché. Fact is, since I use 1password, I don't miss the keychain integration, as this captures my passwords in a seperate keychain that integrates across browsers.
The find inteface in safari kicks ass, no doubt.
Really, I also run into a few sites that misbehave in Webkit nightly (gmail included).
What I also miss from my windows days is IETab (or even IEView)... it'd be nice if there was something similar for OSX (or Safari!).
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I agree what you're asking for would be very useful for power users like you and me, but I'm pretty sure non-power users like my wife would get confused quickly unless the UI is very clear on what's outgoing and what's incoming (Gmail does a good job of this, but I still get confused sometimes).
Security theatre in it's finest. It's so unusable that it's clear that any serious user will disable it. So why include it? The article points a valid reason: liability. Micrsoft can't keep your system highly safe without a great cost to them (re-architect the OS and severely damage backwards compatiblility). So they chose to let you either deal with the annoyance, or turn it off, and (symbolically) accept responsibility for anything that goes wrong.
Also keep in mind that Google offers several services that operate on HTTPS: Google Reader (great for bypassing those stupid web-filters that block political sites at repressive companies), Google Calendar (so you can schedule your interviews without alerting your company), and Google Docs (so you can work on your resume in private).
Google is also a godsend for consultants at client sites who are working with sensitive materials they don't want their clients to see (and don't want to use VPN).
I knew a consultant in Europe who didn't fly and travelled internationally by rail (almost) exclusively... he was very happy, and given the post-911 paranoia and the proto-police-state that airports have become, he probably got to his client locations about as fast.
Furthermore, you could also make TrueCrypt portable on XP, putting it, and possibly even your encrypted volume on a USB Key. Include this with a simple file rename and extension change and you'll have hidden encrypted content.
You fail to mention that:
- OSX has better battery management than Windows, so "battery capacity" is subjective.
- The quality of the hardware components are not identical
- You don't mention which OS the Dell is configured with... I would put OSX somewhere between Vista Ultimate or the XP "Upgrade"... which probably adds some $$ to your dell comparisons.
.I tried this trick a while back and I could not get it to work effectively.
On the other hand, I've taken coworkers and family members' spare boot disks across Macs and had them boot fine (the Intel transition made this more difficult, but at the very least you only need two disks).
You can even have it on an iPod (w/disk mode)... small, light, and just like a dongle on a laptop... totally usable for a day.
PCs really suck in comparison for losing drives.
Or you can just use Lock My Mac. I use this with Spotlight (cmd-space, then L, then Enter).
Now if you were to mail yourself some text-generated content, a la Markov Chains, and base that on something like, say, the Bible, the PMBOK, and the US Tax Code, you'd be very likely to effectively garble your true emails. Of course, you'd have to go the full go, and make sure your spoof senders, and the message dates to scramble your data.
Instead they play defense by marginally ethical activities, acquiring other companies and generally playing whack-a-mole against real innovators. This strategy fails hard when you're trying to whack that mole-on-steroids, the new 600 lb gorilla (Google). Maybe their retracted Yahoo bid is the sound of Ballmer putting down the chair?
Time will tell... of course the conspiracy theorist states that this is just a pump/dump confidence attack on YHOO stock, so their investors will regret the "attention" and force the Yahoo board to accept the next decent offer.
I put all my personal sensitive data (tax, etc) in a disk image on my key drive. Looking for more "obfuscation" try this torn-cable usb drive.
In it (can't remember where it was) he talks about going around the media going directly to the people to bypass the corrupt culture in government... and mentions he will make transparency a big part of his platform, and youtube all white house meetings.
<Anecdote>
Back in 2000, I got a new work laptop: a Toshiba portege 3440... seemed a bit too small at first and seemingly underpowered, but to be honest, it was quite adequate for taking notes, hacking my Perl, Java & SQL (didn't use the monster-ish Eclipse back then), and when needed, VNC into my desktop to run my batch queries and compiliations. It could also play Starcraft and Counterstrike fine (with an external mouse). I really miss that laptop.. it had no floppy, cdrom or even parallel/serial ports (the port replicator was needed for those).
</Anecdote>
I really miss that 'top, even with my macbook, it's heavier, and has a superdrive that I've used like twice in the year I've owned the thing.
The find inteface in safari kicks ass, no doubt.
Really, I also run into a few sites that misbehave in Webkit nightly (gmail included).
What I also miss from my windows days is IETab (or even IEView)... it'd be nice if there was something similar for OSX (or Safari!).