Mac OS X Server uses Clam as an email scanner. It's a checkbox when you're setting up the mail server - it wasn't on by default on 10.4 server, I'm not sure if it's on by default on 10.5 server, but it is only used for email filtering. It's there primarily because windoze users get email from Mac servers, and it's a good idea in that situation.
I recommend against AV software on Mac client machines. I'll install it for a customer if they insist, but only after they hear my lecture about it causing more trouble than it will likely ever be worth. It's not just that it's unnecessary, it wastes a lot of computing power, and it makes the computer more likely to freeze.
And there are effectively NO viruses in the wild for the Mac. I'll change my recommendation if it ever becomes a real threat, but for now, I can't recommend AV on a Macintosh.
The word macro virus isn't even an issue any more with 2008 breaking VBS.
The problem with your concept is that not everyone has much choice - or even any choice at all.
Even where I am, in a city, I have a real choice of ISPs if I want 3Mb/s. If I want 6Mb/s, my choice drops from ~50 ISPs to 2. If I want 8 or 10 Mb/s, my "choice" drops to one. If I want to pay less than $90/month for 3Mb/s, my choice also drops to 2.
This situation is not going to be solved without regulation.
The standard tools are mostly worthless these days. Apple blocks pings, most ISPs are blocking traceroute now. Mine doesn't, but I've got a business DSL connection, and it's not through the ILEC.
I have one friend who is on his second one, and one who is on his fifth. It's kind of an insane failure rate from what I've seen. And the strange thing is that the iPhone feels like a really well built piece of hardware.
You got flamed for advocating that because if you aren't REALLY careful doing it, you'll strip the head on the screw, and really annoy the next guy who actually has a torx driver. I actually had to drill out one screw because somebody did that. And since there was an easily obtainable tool for doing it* there really was no excuse for half-assing it.
*Radio Shack had a "computer tool kit" that had a nut driver and a double-ended torx driver. Take the torx driver shaft and drive it with the nut driver, and you've got a long enough torx driver to take apart a classic Mac. I think it was about $8 for the kit. It still doesn't get you the case spreader, but that wasn't really necessary most of the time.
I've taken out quite a few of those, and never had a problem with them. I was always more annoyed by the tilt/swivel stand than the screw on the memory door.
Of course, the real pain with the eMac is replacing the logic board. I'd rather change one in a 12" PowerBook.
I blame CR for the lack of choice in car instrumentation. They had a VERY strong bias toward analog instruments, and the much more readable digital ones got the shaft.
I don't want a needle pointing to numbers, I want the numbers.
I'm pretty sure they were still 10 cents in the early '90s here. There was quite the fuss when they went up to 25 cents. I don't think much of anybody noticed when they went up again to 50 cents.
When those bombs were dropped on Japan, we had used every bomb we had. It would have been at least months before there was enough enriched uranium or plutonium to build another bomb.
Yes, the factories were built to build thousands of bombs (and are still building them today) but the enrichment technologies weren't ready for that kind of production.
Hang on there. There was only enough fissionable material for 3 bombs.
The first one was detonated in the US. We already knew what it would do as far as blast.
Those two bombs would have been used on Germany if they had been ready in time. No question there. And look up the firebombing of Dresden if you wonder about the will of the allies to commit to the destruction of an entire city.
Yes, there was a racist component in the atomic bombing of Japan, as it was already known that Japan was likely to surrender soon without an invasion. But there is no question as to the likelihood of the bombs being used against Germany if the European war hadn't already ended.
* Addresses formatting issues with certain drives used with Time Machine (specifically, single-partition MBR drives greater than 512 GB in size as well as NTFS drives of any size and partition scheme).
I haven't read this study, but your suggestion that it would be the reflected energy that would be causing cancers is on the face of it rather silly. The reflected energy isn't going to be any stronger at the point of contact than what is being sent in.
If there IS actually an increase in cancers at the site of an RFID implant, I would suggest that the implant itself, being a foreign body implanted in tissue, is MUCH more likely to be the culprit. After all, we already know that continuous irritation of tissue can increase the likelihood of some cancers.
The obvious control to test this would be to use RFID implants that would never be exposed to RF energy, but as that's nearly impossible, you could use a control of identical implants with the RFID circuit disabled and look at your cancer incidence rate.
Exactly. The government should be prohibited from asking the airline who is on the plane, and the airline should be prohibited from telling them, under ANY circumstances.
I'm not trolling, I'm completely serious. It's not any of the government's business where anyone is going - please see the first amendment.
And money wasted by preventing "terrorism" is money that could save many more lives if spent on healthcare.
The government doesn't need to encourage the "free" market in health care, it needs to eliminate it.
It's time we got away from this silliness and go with the system that works in most of the rest of the world - public tax-funded healthcare.
It DOES NOT follow that the government would start regulating "unhealthy" behavior, in fact they should be specifically prohibited from doing anything but paying the doctor bills, and deciding exactly how much those bills are allowed to be.
Oh, come off it. The internet is everything these days. It used to be you'd have to make a ghostly appearance, maybe grab a poltergeist buddy to write something on a chalkboard. These days, you can just send email.
It's entirely less trouble, it's usually faster, and it gets more notice.
And the people who will believe it from an apparition will still believe it in an email.
Hmmm. That sounds more like you haven't installed iMovie 08. It won't install on a G4, it requires a G5 or later, but it will sometimes keep whining about there being an update.
Don't worry about it too much - iMovie 06 is MUCH better.
The problem is that a pro-corporation judge (which is the majority of them these days) will interpret the installation of the game by the owner as giving authority to access the computer, and then determine that the damage was accidental.
And as that's a criminal statute, you also have to find a US Attorney willing to take up the prosecution. Good luck.
Actually, paying for incoming calls on a cell isn't such a bad thing here. You see, land lines here are nearly universally unlimited local calling, with no such concept as variable rates for calling different types of numbers. The only exception (and they're almost dead these days, as most people have them blocked) are the 1-900 telephone sex lines.
Quite a few land lines now have unlimited national calling now as well - and keep in mind that NYC to LA is about a thousand miles farther than London to Moscow.
So, people here would be far more unhappy about free incoming calls on a cell if it meant that they would be charged for calling a cell than they are about paying for incoming calls on a cell.
Now, forcing carriers to unlock off-contract phones is a good thing, and roaming charges and international calling charges on a cell are insanely high here, so it's not like we get it all right.
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Mac OS X Server uses Clam as an email scanner. It's a checkbox when you're setting up the mail server - it wasn't on by default on 10.4 server, I'm not sure if it's on by default on 10.5 server, but it is only used for email filtering. It's there primarily because windoze users get email from Mac servers, and it's a good idea in that situation.
I recommend against AV software on Mac client machines. I'll install it for a customer if they insist, but only after they hear my lecture about it causing more trouble than it will likely ever be worth. It's not just that it's unnecessary, it wastes a lot of computing power, and it makes the computer more likely to freeze.
And there are effectively NO viruses in the wild for the Mac. I'll change my recommendation if it ever becomes a real threat, but for now, I can't recommend AV on a Macintosh.
The word macro virus isn't even an issue any more with 2008 breaking VBS.
iPhoto was a free download for 1.0 and 2.0.
They did bring it back, I had some last week. Maybe you're just not close enough to Atlanta?
Monopoly isn't the opposite of capitalism, it's the ultimate goal of participants in capitalism.
And it's where capitalism will go if left unregulated.
The problem with your concept is that not everyone has much choice - or even any choice at all.
Even where I am, in a city, I have a real choice of ISPs if I want 3Mb/s. If I want 6Mb/s, my choice drops from ~50 ISPs to 2. If I want 8 or 10 Mb/s, my "choice" drops to one. If I want to pay less than $90/month for 3Mb/s, my choice also drops to 2.
This situation is not going to be solved without regulation.
The standard tools are mostly worthless these days. Apple blocks pings, most ISPs are blocking traceroute now. Mine doesn't, but I've got a business DSL connection, and it's not through the ILEC.
I have one friend who is on his second one, and one who is on his fifth. It's kind of an insane failure rate from what I've seen. And the strange thing is that the iPhone feels like a really well built piece of hardware.
You got flamed for advocating that because if you aren't REALLY careful doing it, you'll strip the head on the screw, and really annoy the next guy who actually has a torx driver. I actually had to drill out one screw because somebody did that. And since there was an easily obtainable tool for doing it* there really was no excuse for half-assing it.
*Radio Shack had a "computer tool kit" that had a nut driver and a double-ended torx driver. Take the torx driver shaft and drive it with the nut driver, and you've got a long enough torx driver to take apart a classic Mac. I think it was about $8 for the kit. It still doesn't get you the case spreader, but that wasn't really necessary most of the time.
I've taken out quite a few of those, and never had a problem with them. I was always more annoyed by the tilt/swivel stand than the screw on the memory door.
Of course, the real pain with the eMac is replacing the logic board. I'd rather change one in a 12" PowerBook.
No, the embarrassing part wouldn't be watching porn - everybody does that.
What would be embarrassing would be getting caught PAYING for porn in 2007. Now that would be embarrassing.
(And yes, I'm quite sure my credit card information hasn't been compromised in this incident.)
I find myself wishing I hadn't used the last of my mod points 5 minutes ago.
That certainly deserves to be modded UP.
I blame CR for the lack of choice in car instrumentation. They had a VERY strong bias toward analog instruments, and the much more readable digital ones got the shaft.
I don't want a needle pointing to numbers, I want the numbers.
I'm pretty sure they were still 10 cents in the early '90s here. There was quite the fuss when they went up to 25 cents. I don't think much of anybody noticed when they went up again to 50 cents.
Yes.
When those bombs were dropped on Japan, we had used every bomb we had. It would have been at least months before there was enough enriched uranium or plutonium to build another bomb.
Yes, the factories were built to build thousands of bombs (and are still building them today) but the enrichment technologies weren't ready for that kind of production.
Hang on there. There was only enough fissionable material for 3 bombs.
The first one was detonated in the US. We already knew what it would do as far as blast.
Those two bombs would have been used on Germany if they had been ready in time. No question there. And look up the firebombing of Dresden if you wonder about the will of the allies to commit to the destruction of an entire city.
Yes, there was a racist component in the atomic bombing of Japan, as it was already known that Japan was likely to surrender soon without an invasion. But there is no question as to the likelihood of the bombs being used against Germany if the European war hadn't already ended.
No. And they fixed this specific issue in 10.5.1:
* Addresses formatting issues with certain drives used with Time Machine (specifically, single-partition MBR drives greater than 512 GB in size as well as NTFS drives of any size and partition scheme).
from: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306907
I haven't read this study, but your suggestion that it would be the reflected energy that would be causing cancers is on the face of it rather silly. The reflected energy isn't going to be any stronger at the point of contact than what is being sent in.
If there IS actually an increase in cancers at the site of an RFID implant, I would suggest that the implant itself, being a foreign body implanted in tissue, is MUCH more likely to be the culprit. After all, we already know that continuous irritation of tissue can increase the likelihood of some cancers.
The obvious control to test this would be to use RFID implants that would never be exposed to RF energy, but as that's nearly impossible, you could use a control of identical implants with the RFID circuit disabled and look at your cancer incidence rate.
Exactly. The government should be prohibited from asking the airline who is on the plane, and the airline should be prohibited from telling them, under ANY circumstances.
I'm not trolling, I'm completely serious. It's not any of the government's business where anyone is going - please see the first amendment.
And money wasted by preventing "terrorism" is money that could save many more lives if spent on healthcare.
The government doesn't need to encourage the "free" market in health care, it needs to eliminate it.
It's time we got away from this silliness and go with the system that works in most of the rest of the world - public tax-funded healthcare.
It DOES NOT follow that the government would start regulating "unhealthy" behavior, in fact they should be specifically prohibited from doing anything but paying the doctor bills, and deciding exactly how much those bills are allowed to be.
It's time to shut down the insurance industry.
Oh, come off it. The internet is everything these days. It used to be you'd have to make a ghostly appearance, maybe grab a poltergeist buddy to write something on a chalkboard. These days, you can just send email.
It's entirely less trouble, it's usually faster, and it gets more notice.
And the people who will believe it from an apparition will still believe it in an email.
Hmmm. That sounds more like you haven't installed iMovie 08. It won't install on a G4, it requires a G5 or later, but it will sometimes keep whining about there being an update.
Don't worry about it too much - iMovie 06 is MUCH better.
I'm calling shenanigans. iLife doesn't have a serial number.
Perhaps you're thinking of iWork?
The problem is that a pro-corporation judge (which is the majority of them these days) will interpret the installation of the game by the owner as giving authority to access the computer, and then determine that the damage was accidental.
And as that's a criminal statute, you also have to find a US Attorney willing to take up the prosecution. Good luck.
Actually, paying for incoming calls on a cell isn't such a bad thing here. You see, land lines here are nearly universally unlimited local calling, with no such concept as variable rates for calling different types of numbers. The only exception (and they're almost dead these days, as most people have them blocked) are the 1-900 telephone sex lines.
Quite a few land lines now have unlimited national calling now as well - and keep in mind that NYC to LA is about a thousand miles farther than London to Moscow.
So, people here would be far more unhappy about free incoming calls on a cell if it meant that they would be charged for calling a cell than they are about paying for incoming calls on a cell.
Now, forcing carriers to unlock off-contract phones is a good thing, and roaming charges and international calling charges on a cell are insanely high here, so it's not like we get it all right.