Excellent. Yeah - WAP was WML which was essentially just its own limited subset of XML which is essentially what XHTML is.
As long as it is well formed, it should mean that any interpretation between the two (usally wouldn't go WML->HTML that I can think of) should be easier.
But yeah, I'm talking on experience that I haven't had to call on in a few years.
thanks for the info that I am clearly too lazy to spend time reading up on until when I will actually need it again.:)
Is this still how it is done? I haven't looked at WAP stuff in awhile and the only things I have plans to do for it soon aren't secure and don't need to be. But I am just curious.
It seems to be getting now that you can just have a page of well formed XHTML and drop the styles on it if it is a mobile client and many of the new phones are fine with that - granted that isn't over WAP.
It has been years since I have done anything with it - but a major issue at the time was that it was not secure. It couldn't do SSL the way a traditional web browser can.
I don't really recall the how/why of this, I just recall it being a major reason that more stores weren't using it. (that didn't stop the company I was at requesting that I port our storefront software that we were selling over to WAP - nothing like transactions over a non-secure connection)
Sure, I could still measure the time I cover a distance.
But I would have no clue when my heart rate has come back down for me to do another repeat. Say I am doing a VO2max workout and I get up to 195HR, I would currently jog until I get down to around 129 or so and then go again.
Were I to lack the pulse, I would need some other output from the device, such as Lpm (Liters per minute), or maybe an RPM readout from the turbine etc.
All I'm saying is that my workouts would suffer.
(no I did not RTFA, this is Slashdot, and also I suspect that people with such devices probably don't do a lot of competetive running)
The wording of this says that you are automatically in the lawsuit. But if you want the money, then you have to claim it via an electronic form and then mail in the signature. If you don't do that, then you don't get the money - but you are still considered to be in the lawsuit - which means that you then waive the right to sue them in the future for related issues.
But if you don't want to be in the lawsuit, then you have to also mail something in.
It also states that the lawyers get at least $3+M for this and that is out of nearly $10M. I don't know how many people are in it, but the remainder of the money would then be split amongst those people.
So at most it is still under $100 - that isn't enough to pay me off so that I can't ever sue them again - even if it is only in a specific area.
With Google it is not as easy as some other companies out there.
Google's code is placed on the site as a javascript include that then gets rendered to the screen at runtime when a browser executes it. That means if you have a script hit the page and get the source for it, all you get is the javascript include.
If you write a page that onClick let's you view the content of the Google IFrame (the Javascript include dumps out an Iframe that then fills with a page off of Google), you will then see more of the code. They have several layers of javascript and none of the pages render out links directly, so it is hard to scrape them with a bot, since a bot only sees the source.
You could load up the pages individually (outside of the iframe) and take a look at them, but it doesn't always work and also when you load that page, it sends back a reference to Google of what the site/location/name of the page you are loading looks like. So if you have a site ballsweat.com that has Google Ads on it so that you can look to see what the ads look like, as you start messing around with it to get a better idea, they will see that it is no longer showing up on the site and instead showing up on your hard drive (or if you like you can put it on your server and then they can read your code that you are using).
That alone will tip them that you are looking into it - but then you could claim that it was someone else and not you (assuming it was on a drive), but then that could also mean that you just use someone else's site to test.
So anyway, back to getting the data, you would have to load up the source, and then either parse the javascript and execute it to build it the same way a browser does (hopefully there are objects in Windows that let you simulate this and then dump the post rendered contents into a variable which you can scan - don't know about that),. OCR is out of the question since that is not going to get you the proper link (the links are listed, but the payment only goes out if you click on the link which first routes it through a Google site so it can register the click and track the stats and then redirects you to the site). When you mouseover it shows the regular site link, but that is done via javascript.
Then you run the issue that Google would have to be retarded to just let a single IP crunch through a ton of ads everyday. So then you have to worry about spoofing - in this case it could arguably be blind spoofing - but the problem there isn't that you want to load web pages - that would actually work with blind spoofing (say I am computer A, and I want to tell server B that computer C is connecting to it, and that it should send the page data there), but the problem is again that it is only going to send raw HTML/javascript source down that connection and it is them going to drop off of that machine. So the site (Google in this case since you loaded a page and then "clicked" a link) registers the hit, but the page never gets rendered, so the Google page is never displayed and the redirect never happens - one could assume that Google is aware of this and wouldn't count that as a hit since the other page never gets loaded.
So even if you could past all of that (heh, feels like shades of Oceans 11), then there is the issue that Google (technically it isn't Google, but a series of companies that they farm out the AdWords content - learned that from an investment bank friend that sat in on the IPO workings - yay) monitors this shit and looks for anomalies. So while you were getting 200 hits a 2 clicks every day for a month, if you all of the sudden are getting 2000 hits and day and 200 clicks, they are going to investigate your site. If nothing has changed to show that there should be new interest in your site (new ad placement, new content, etc) and they can do searches and see that there aren't any new sites pointing to you - then all signs point to you cheating.
And then on top of all of that, we can show that a Gaussian distribution
I cut my spam back from about 500 messages a day down to 150 or so a day simply by turning off the catch-all sort of thing.
I still don't have it enabled on all of my domains, but on my main ones it helped a ton.
During the time that I had the catch-all working, I never once saw a real message come through, and saw an absolute ton of spam.
The only reason worth keeping it that way is if you want to see accidental e-mails - like where someone from AOL e-mails you and clearly thinks you are someone else. But I would say those times aren't really worth it in the end.
Car engines use oil to lubricate (and cool too I guess, never thought too much about that) the moving parts.
But the radiator is a water based system that then flows through the walls of the engine block and around the cylinders (where the explosions and therefore highest heat are).
In cold climates they put other materials into the water so that it doesn't freeze when the car isn't running - and I thought I had read that they also increased their ability to deal with the heat - but perhaps that was just ad copy in order to sell more coolant.
This of course being outside of the A/C system of the car and just in reference to the radiator and such.
Again, depends on where you live as to what the cost of water is.
If you were solely having to account for evaporation, then it would depend on the room environment in which it was located. The temperature and the humidity levels and also if A/C was running or not. But if you live in the US, and you are in a 72F room with no A/C, then the evaporation costs are going to be low indeed.
Water also has the nasty habit of allowing things to grow in it, which was already stated in other posts. You can certainly add things to it to kill off said nasties, but you are adding cost each time.
Then there is the fact that water isn't particularly great as a thermal exchange agent - but like you said, it is so cheap and readily available apparently where you are - I say go for it.
Where I live, water is worth far more and significantly harder to get (unless you were to use salt water, which I am going to guess won't go over well with the heat and the metals), so the water option would only be used by someone either wealthy or stupid. (and feasibly both)
I should have been more clear on the "closed" system concept.
There would still be a tank - just instead of being open to air (and pets) it would have a sealed lid on it.
That way you have liquid at the bottom, getting pumped over the chips, then dumped out into the tank and heat sink and would vaporize onto the larger surface area of the tank top (assuming you count the walls - and larger in that it has more surface area than just the surface of the pooled fluid below since it only has that top surface to vaporize from).
So once it has evaporated it condenses onto the top/sides, and slides back down into the pool to then be pumped away again.
If the top were to have a heat sink with fin integrated into it as well, I'd be curious how much of a fan you would need. Likely depends on the room conditions in which it is in.
If you are buying 1 gallon of water, and 1 gallon of alcohol, then yes the water is usually cheaper by volume than alcohol (technically this depends where in the world you are).
But with an open system, you have contamination and evaporation, meaning that you have N gallons of water that you are supplying, where N increases steadily over time.
In a closed system with alcohol (or anything else - even a closed system of water - but that wouldn't evaporate as readily) you would not be introducing contaminates nor losing material. (although there is likely an argument to be made towards deterioration of the container materials over time if the liquid used is a solvent with which the container isn't happy about)
People are saying that algae would screw up this system.
My first reaction was to add something to the water to kill the algae - like alcohol - but the alcohol would be added expense and likely evaporate off more readily (and therefore more costly). And then that wouldn't go well with fish.
But what if you setup a closed system so that the intake is in the fluid pool - same way it is now. And then instead of an open air system, you just put a top on it (ideally a cooled top, but room temp would likely be enough).
Then put in a fluid that would want to boil off easily (with the heat of the CPU) and then condense up top - sounds a lot like a still - so alcohol?
Haven't thought too much about it, but seems like a cheaper system since you aren't losing product and it just recycles.
I don't live in the States anymore, so it is hard for me to speak from first hand experience as to what its current SMS state is - but in 1999 and 2000 I could send an e-mail to "phonenumber@phoneprovider.gateway.com" and it would see if that user had SMS capabilities on their service and if so would send it out to them.
I used it to send myself automated reminders and data via my computer - I also used it to harass my friends via e-mail.
Do these things still exist? - I forget the servers that were used, but it was something along the lines of "messaging.sprintpcs.com" or something, and then the phone number before the @.
If they do still exist, then it is just a matter of sending out your spam to every number in that range. Since you know fixed area codes of sorts (not entirely valid on cell phones, but there is still the concept that not every number is used), it limits the number space that you would have to move through.
For instance you know that "0000000000@whatever) is not valid, but "617###0045@whatever" is much more likely to be valid, assuming "###" is a proper series used by the provider in question. (I can't used fixed examples since I am not as familiar with them now as I once was)
Even if they turned off the open side of it (meaning any e-mail sent to that), there is still the web access side - there was a web interface that would let subscribers send data via a web page to any enabled phone number - even on other platforms.
If you do a search, there are Perl modules and such out there to automate this as well.
You can even do it via AIM/iChat.
I have talked about it to some extent on my spam blog in the past - but I don't want to talk too in depth about it and then make it that much easier for someone that may have not had that idea before.
On the little office network that I admin, I would say 90% of the users there, when telling someone that they need to open a web page, they will say "okay, now open up the internet."
By this, they mean "Okay, you will need to view a web page, so open up a web browser so that I can tell you what URL to go to."
But MS has caused them to think that IE is in fact some sort of portal into "the internet".
If you want people to get away from IE, you have to make them understand that the web is 1) not all of the internet, and 2) not only accessible through that "blue e swirly icon thing".
I have gotten the 10% of the users in the office who can grasp such a thing to switch to FireFox. The rest nearly shit themselves when I upgraded Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 and every single one of them demanded that I "ruined their system" and wanted me to change it back. (perhaps they had a point there)
"Change is bad" to most of the world - not everyone is a/. geek that likes trying new things - even if said new things are much better.
He is a cybernetic mutant from the future that was programmed to have all of the answers to a series of game show questions so that he could be sent back in time, win the prize money, and then use said money to fund his killing spree which eventually allows the robots to rise up and take over the earth while only a handful of humans remain plotting to overthrow the robot regime and one day reign supreme again.
And hookers. He is going to blow a ton of that cash on whores. I know I would.
Many people use spamassassin on unix boxes, or if they have Exchange they use SA on a unix gateway between the net and the Exchange system. But if you are a smaller shop and don't have the resources for that, then you can run sa right on Exchange. Here is a write up on how to do it (that particular write up is for Exchange 2003 and SA 3.0, but it will work for SA 2.x as well, and for Exchange 2000 - or any combination thereof - but it won't work on Exchange 5.5 that I know of).
This was in the news when I was in college (95-99) with Limp Bizkit and continues on with any number of bands.
This isn't a new phenomena and isn't all that much "news" unless you were really under the impression that the radio was playing music that it likes and/or what people are calling in to hear.
It is just one big commercial enterprise anyway that forces it down your throat, playing on the human sheep tendancy to start to like it after the 500th time whether they want to or not. Eventually the airplay makes the song overly annoying but they don't care since it potentially draws in new customers.
I haven't listened to the radio in a long time - for the same reason I would fast forward through commercials in TiVo.
I used to be a Windows person - and I still am (as one of my job hats) a Windows network admin.
But now I am addicted to my Powerbook and OS X, so the thought of Windows or yet another damn install makes my stomach churn (I have done far too many this year alone... hell, just on a few horribly misused servers that were here prior to my arrival).
But were I to list the must-haves of the OS X world for me (too lazy to put in any order of desire/importance):
1) Quicksilver - MUST have 2) Synergy 3) Fugu 4) SubEthaEdit 5) Audioscrobbler 6) FireFox (I use Safari as my main browser, but for website testing, FireFox is key for me) 7) Photoshop 8) NetNewsWire 9) MenuMeters 10) Tomato Torrent since the binary for the "original" BitTorrent no longer works on my machine.
I would like to also say Eclipse, but it occasionally (frequently) doesn't work on OS upgrades, so I am trying to wean myself off of it.
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My fiancee and I played Scrabble every night, sometimes multiple times a night. And yes, we were fully aware of the nerd factor there.
When I proposed to her, it was via the ring in the tile bag.
I later found out that some crappy movie with JLo also had a Scrabble proposal in it, but I haven't seen said movie.
We play less Scrabble these days mainly due to less free time.
Excellent.
:)
Yeah - WAP was WML which was essentially just its own limited subset of XML which is essentially what XHTML is.
As long as it is well formed, it should mean that any interpretation between the two (usally wouldn't go WML->HTML that I can think of) should be easier.
But yeah, I'm talking on experience that I haven't had to call on in a few years.
thanks for the info that I am clearly too lazy to spend time reading up on until when I will actually need it again.
That makes sense.
Is this still how it is done? I haven't looked at WAP stuff in awhile and the only things I have plans to do for it soon aren't secure and don't need to be.
But I am just curious.
It seems to be getting now that you can just have a page of well formed XHTML and drop the styles on it if it is a mobile client and many of the new phones are fine with that - granted that isn't over WAP.
It has been years since I have done anything with it - but a major issue at the time was that it was not secure. It couldn't do SSL the way a traditional web browser can.
I don't really recall the how/why of this, I just recall it being a major reason that more stores weren't using it.
(that didn't stop the company I was at requesting that I port our storefront software that we were selling over to WAP - nothing like transactions over a non-secure connection)
1.6TB right?
Sure, I could still measure the time I cover a distance.
But I would have no clue when my heart rate has come back down for me to do another repeat.
Say I am doing a VO2max workout and I get up to 195HR, I would currently jog until I get down to around 129 or so and then go again.
Were I to lack the pulse, I would need some other output from the device, such as Lpm (Liters per minute), or maybe an RPM readout from the turbine etc.
All I'm saying is that my workouts would suffer.
(no I did not RTFA, this is Slashdot, and also I suspect that people with such devices probably don't do a lot of competetive running)
The wording of this says that you are automatically in the lawsuit. But if you want the money, then you have to claim it via an electronic form and then mail in the signature.
If you don't do that, then you don't get the money - but you are still considered to be in the lawsuit - which means that you then waive the right to sue them in the future for related issues.
But if you don't want to be in the lawsuit, then you have to also mail something in.
It also states that the lawyers get at least $3+M for this and that is out of nearly $10M.
I don't know how many people are in it, but the remainder of the money would then be split amongst those people.
So at most it is still under $100 - that isn't enough to pay me off so that I can't ever sue them again - even if it is only in a specific area.
heh - oh yeah?
I'm engaged and have no friends.
Top that!
With Google it is not as easy as some other companies out there.
Google's code is placed on the site as a javascript include that then gets rendered to the screen at runtime when a browser executes it.
That means if you have a script hit the page and get the source for it, all you get is the javascript include.
If you write a page that onClick let's you view the content of the Google IFrame (the Javascript include dumps out an Iframe that then fills with a page off of Google), you will then see more of the code.
They have several layers of javascript and none of the pages render out links directly, so it is hard to scrape them with a bot, since a bot only sees the source.
You could load up the pages individually (outside of the iframe) and take a look at them, but it doesn't always work and also when you load that page, it sends back a reference to Google of what the site/location/name of the page you are loading looks like.
So if you have a site ballsweat.com that has Google Ads on it so that you can look to see what the ads look like, as you start messing around with it to get a better idea, they will see that it is no longer showing up on the site and instead showing up on your hard drive (or if you like you can put it on your server and then they can read your code that you are using).
That alone will tip them that you are looking into it - but then you could claim that it was someone else and not you (assuming it was on a drive), but then that could also mean that you just use someone else's site to test.
So anyway, back to getting the data, you would have to load up the source, and then either parse the javascript and execute it to build it the same way a browser does (hopefully there are objects in Windows that let you simulate this and then dump the post rendered contents into a variable which you can scan - don't know about that),.
OCR is out of the question since that is not going to get you the proper link (the links are listed, but the payment only goes out if you click on the link which first routes it through a Google site so it can register the click and track the stats and then redirects you to the site). When you mouseover it shows the regular site link, but that is done via javascript.
Then you run the issue that Google would have to be retarded to just let a single IP crunch through a ton of ads everyday.
So then you have to worry about spoofing - in this case it could arguably be blind spoofing - but the problem there isn't that you want to load web pages - that would actually work with blind spoofing (say I am computer A, and I want to tell server B that computer C is connecting to it, and that it should send the page data there), but the problem is again that it is only going to send raw HTML/javascript source down that connection and it is them going to drop off of that machine.
So the site (Google in this case since you loaded a page and then "clicked" a link) registers the hit, but the page never gets rendered, so the Google page is never displayed and the redirect never happens - one could assume that Google is aware of this and wouldn't count that as a hit since the other page never gets loaded.
So even if you could past all of that (heh, feels like shades of Oceans 11), then there is the issue that Google (technically it isn't Google, but a series of companies that they farm out the AdWords content - learned that from an investment bank friend that sat in on the IPO workings - yay) monitors this shit and looks for anomalies.
So while you were getting 200 hits a 2 clicks every day for a month, if you all of the sudden are getting 2000 hits and day and 200 clicks, they are going to investigate your site.
If nothing has changed to show that there should be new interest in your site (new ad placement, new content, etc) and they can do searches and see that there aren't any new sites pointing to you - then all signs point to you cheating.
And then on top of all of that, we can show that a Gaussian distribution
I cut my spam back from about 500 messages a day down to 150 or so a day simply by turning off the catch-all sort of thing.
I still don't have it enabled on all of my domains, but on my main ones it helped a ton.
During the time that I had the catch-all working, I never once saw a real message come through, and saw an absolute ton of spam.
The only reason worth keeping it that way is if you want to see accidental e-mails - like where someone from AOL e-mails you and clearly thinks you are someone else.
But I would say those times aren't really worth it in the end.
Car engines use oil to lubricate (and cool too I guess, never thought too much about that) the moving parts.
But the radiator is a water based system that then flows through the walls of the engine block and around the cylinders (where the explosions and therefore highest heat are).
In cold climates they put other materials into the water so that it doesn't freeze when the car isn't running - and I thought I had read that they also increased their ability to deal with the heat - but perhaps that was just ad copy in order to sell more coolant.
This of course being outside of the A/C system of the car and just in reference to the radiator and such.
Again, depends on where you live as to what the cost of water is.
If you were solely having to account for evaporation, then it would depend on the room environment in which it was located. The temperature and the humidity levels and also if A/C was running or not.
But if you live in the US, and you are in a 72F room with no A/C, then the evaporation costs are going to be low indeed.
Water also has the nasty habit of allowing things to grow in it, which was already stated in other posts. You can certainly add things to it to kill off said nasties, but you are adding cost each time.
Then there is the fact that water isn't particularly great as a thermal exchange agent - but like you said, it is so cheap and readily available apparently where you are - I say go for it.
Where I live, water is worth far more and significantly harder to get (unless you were to use salt water, which I am going to guess won't go over well with the heat and the metals), so the water option would only be used by someone either wealthy or stupid. (and feasibly both)
I should have been more clear on the "closed" system concept.
There would still be a tank - just instead of being open to air (and pets) it would have a sealed lid on it.
That way you have liquid at the bottom, getting pumped over the chips, then dumped out into the tank and heat sink and would vaporize onto the larger surface area of the tank top (assuming you count the walls - and larger in that it has more surface area than just the surface of the pooled fluid below since it only has that top surface to vaporize from).
So once it has evaporated it condenses onto the top/sides, and slides back down into the pool to then be pumped away again.
If the top were to have a heat sink with fin integrated into it as well, I'd be curious how much of a fan you would need. Likely depends on the room conditions in which it is in.
If you are buying 1 gallon of water, and 1 gallon of alcohol, then yes the water is usually cheaper by volume than alcohol (technically this depends where in the world you are).
But with an open system, you have contamination and evaporation, meaning that you have N gallons of water that you are supplying, where N increases steadily over time.
In a closed system with alcohol (or anything else - even a closed system of water - but that wouldn't evaporate as readily) you would not be introducing contaminates nor losing material.
(although there is likely an argument to be made towards deterioration of the container materials over time if the liquid used is a solvent with which the container isn't happy about)
I think you will find that in order to have flame, you will need a supply of oxygen.
People are saying that algae would screw up this system.
My first reaction was to add something to the water to kill the algae - like alcohol - but the alcohol would be added expense and likely evaporate off more readily (and therefore more costly).
And then that wouldn't go well with fish.
But what if you setup a closed system so that the intake is in the fluid pool - same way it is now. And then instead of an open air system, you just put a top on it (ideally a cooled top, but room temp would likely be enough).
Then put in a fluid that would want to boil off easily (with the heat of the CPU) and then condense up top - sounds a lot like a still - so alcohol?
Haven't thought too much about it, but seems like a cheaper system since you aren't losing product and it just recycles.
I don't live in the States anymore, so it is hard for me to speak from first hand experience as to what its current SMS state is - but in 1999 and 2000 I could send an e-mail to "phonenumber@phoneprovider.gateway.com" and it would see if that user had SMS capabilities on their service and if so would send it out to them.
I used it to send myself automated reminders and data via my computer - I also used it to harass my friends via e-mail.
Do these things still exist? - I forget the servers that were used, but it was something along the lines of "messaging.sprintpcs.com" or something, and then the phone number before the @.
If they do still exist, then it is just a matter of sending out your spam to every number in that range. Since you know fixed area codes of sorts (not entirely valid on cell phones, but there is still the concept that not every number is used), it limits the number space that you would have to move through.
For instance you know that "0000000000@whatever) is not valid, but "617###0045@whatever" is much more likely to be valid, assuming "###" is a proper series used by the provider in question.
(I can't used fixed examples since I am not as familiar with them now as I once was)
Even if they turned off the open side of it (meaning any e-mail sent to that), there is still the web access side - there was a web interface that would let subscribers send data via a web page to any enabled phone number - even on other platforms.
If you do a search, there are Perl modules and such out there to automate this as well.
You can even do it via AIM/iChat.
I have talked about it to some extent on my spam blog in the past - but I don't want to talk too in depth about it and then make it that much easier for someone that may have not had that idea before.
On the little office network that I admin, I would say 90% of the users there, when telling someone that they need to open a web page, they will say "okay, now open up the internet."
/. geek that likes trying new things - even if said new things are much better.
By this, they mean "Okay, you will need to view a web page, so open up a web browser so that I can tell you what URL to go to."
But MS has caused them to think that IE is in fact some sort of portal into "the internet".
If you want people to get away from IE, you have to make them understand that the web is 1) not all of the internet, and 2) not only accessible through that "blue e swirly icon thing".
I have gotten the 10% of the users in the office who can grasp such a thing to switch to FireFox.
The rest nearly shit themselves when I upgraded Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 and every single one of them demanded that I "ruined their system" and wanted me to change it back.
(perhaps they had a point there)
"Change is bad" to most of the world - not everyone is a
What is it about movies that are based on Brave New World and the Marin County Civic Center by FLW?
Both Gattaca and THX-1138 use it, and both are BNW inspired?
I mean, aside from the fact that it is fucking awesome looking.
I think the obvious answer is the simplest one:
He is a cybernetic mutant from the future that was programmed to have all of the answers to a series of game show questions so that he could be sent back in time, win the prize money, and then use said money to fund his killing spree which eventually allows the robots to rise up and take over the earth while only a handful of humans remain plotting to overthrow the robot regime and one day reign supreme again.
And hookers. He is going to blow a ton of that cash on whores.
I know I would.
Many people use spamassassin on unix boxes, or if they have Exchange they use SA on a unix gateway between the net and the Exchange system.
But if you are a smaller shop and don't have the resources for that, then you can run sa right on Exchange.
Here is a write up on how to do it (that particular write up is for Exchange 2003 and SA 3.0, but it will work for SA 2.x as well, and for Exchange 2000 - or any combination thereof - but it won't work on Exchange 5.5 that I know of).
This was in the news when I was in college (95-99) with Limp Bizkit and continues on with any number of bands.
This isn't a new phenomena and isn't all that much "news" unless you were really under the impression that the radio was playing music that it likes and/or what people are calling in to hear.
It is just one big commercial enterprise anyway that forces it down your throat, playing on the human sheep tendancy to start to like it after the 500th time whether they want to or not.
Eventually the airplay makes the song overly annoying but they don't care since it potentially draws in new customers.
I haven't listened to the radio in a long time - for the same reason I would fast forward through commercials in TiVo.
speak for yourself man - I post them there all of the time.
This has been around even before the movie Sneakers.
I used to be a Windows person - and I still am (as one of my job hats) a Windows network admin.
But now I am addicted to my Powerbook and OS X, so the thought of Windows or yet another damn install makes my stomach churn (I have done far too many this year alone... hell, just on a few horribly misused servers that were here prior to my arrival).
But were I to list the must-haves of the OS X world for me (too lazy to put in any order of desire/importance):
1) Quicksilver - MUST have
2) Synergy
3) Fugu
4) SubEthaEdit
5) Audioscrobbler
6) FireFox (I use Safari as my main browser, but for website testing, FireFox is key for me)
7) Photoshop
8) NetNewsWire
9) MenuMeters
10) Tomato Torrent since the binary for the "original" BitTorrent no longer works on my machine.
I would like to also say Eclipse, but it occasionally (frequently) doesn't work on OS upgrades, so I am trying to wean myself off of it.