The iPod is not just an MP3 player. It is also a darn nice portable, plug & play, hard drive. It's very handy for backing up and/or transporting a swack of files. It's often used when rebuilding an old mac or moving to a new one.
The very idea that you can patent the idea of putting something that used to appear in a new window embedded in the original window instead is just absurd beyond belief
The equivalent "technology" in a paper document is using a sidebar, instead of a footnote
. The very idea that you can patent the idea of putting something that used to appear in a new window embedded in the original window instead is just absurd beyond belief
The equivalent "technology" in a paper document is the use of a sidebar, rather than a footnote.
All those improvements mean its no longer a 1995 Mac
Bullshit! I bought the machine in '99 (when it was almost 4 years old) because it was expandable. Although it shipped with only 32mb of ram and a 1GB scsi disk, it was built to accept up to 1GB of ram. It was built with the CPU on a daughter card for easy upgrades. It was built with 3 empty PCI slots. It's got the original motherboard, case & power supply. Sure, it's a better machine, but it's still the same machine. All I did was plug in stuff it was built to accept:
add more ram & hard disk
swap the daughter card for a faster one (akin to replacing a graphics card)
A 1995 Mac is still a viable platform? Slowly backs away, smiling and nodding, making no sudden moves.....
It sure is! I'm typing this on a 1995 mac (Powermac 7600). 2 years ago I upgraded the processor to a G3 with a simple daughtercard swap. It's currently running the latest OSX release. It has 560mb of ram (out of a possible 1GB), 18GB scsi and 60GB ATA-133 hard drives and a year-old CD-RW. I also installed a cheap USB card to connect my digital camera.
...however I doubt countries such as China would be interested
in something so open as Linux.
"'Tis better to be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -Samuel Johnson
According to this article,
Red Flag Linux was created by the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Chinese government's Ministry of Information Industry is Red Flag's second largest shareholder.
In order to be bound to a contract, the parties must be competent to enter into such a legal arrangement. Underage persons, persons who are mentally ill, and intoxicated persons are usually not held to the contracts they enter.
Be sure to drink a quart of whiskey before installing anything!
As I have skimmed through the professor's analysis (exactly 64 pages, not 100)
Well it's 100 pages if you count in Octal!
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The iApps (iPhoto, iMovie, etc.) are scriptable using Applescript. For instance, there are scripts out there that hook iCal up with iTunes, so that iCal causes iTunes to start playing music at a given point in time.
Applescript is anologous to VBA in the Windoze world, except that it is implemented at the OS level, rather than in each application. There's an API for programmers to hook up the Applescript engine to their code.
AppleScript Studio, part of the developer tools, lets you create programs with a native Mac OS X interface, using AppleScript (instead of C++, Objective C or Java).
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WTF? Speaking of Troll-spew...
[Apple] don't make it simple for developers to write their code once and have it run on all their system versions
Of course Apple makes it easy!
Write a Carbon app instead of a Cocoa app and it will run on every MacOS from 8.1 thru X. If you want your app to run on every mac every made, you build a classic "fat binary".
This makes me want to step up my plans to put an OpenBSD firewall in place...
The BSDWall project already done most of the work for you. Assuming that you have an old pc with a couple of NICs in it and a broadband connection, you should be able to build your firewall in an hour or less.
"bsdwall" is a Perl script that turns an OpenBSD box into a working firewall. The site includes
Instructions for finding and configuring compatible network cards
OpenBSD install directions
How to install the bsdwall package after your first boot of an OpenBSD machine
How to configure and control your firewall
One minor quibble: bsdwall works properly with the latest OpenBSD (3.3), but the install instructions on on the BSDWall site are still for 3.2. Just substitute the 3.3 install floppy for the one mentioned on the website (or buy a CD) and remember that the prompts on the the screen won't exactly match the website's directions keystoke-for-keystroke.
On the surface, it looks like the "improved" truck still doesn't come close in safety, fuel economy or handling to a large car. For instance the safest SUV (Chevy Suburban) is still more dangerous than a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry.
If I get a cheap wireless pci card and throw that in an already networked machine would I be able to connect to the net through that with a wireless pcmcia card in my laptop?
Yes, if you own a Macintosh. That capability is built into OS X
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The U.S. is a lot more spread out than Korea, though
That argument doesn't hold water. Canada is more spread out than the U.S., but is in second place. It's a bigger country, with one tenth the population, yet it has more than twice the broadband penetration.
From the article, here is a list showing the broadband penetration as a percentage of Internet households:
Canada supplies 9 percent of overall U.S. oil use and 15 percent of overall U.S. natural gas use. Canada, not Saudi Arabia, is the single largest supplier of oil and gas to the United States.
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Hmmm... He hasn't made the Apple Death Knell Counter yet.
I'm not sure why a "simplistic approach" (i.e. OVER simplified) is a good thing. Did you mean "simple"
Apple's .Mac is pretty much exactly what you say you want, but you'll need a Macintosh to set it up for them
BBEdit Lite is free. Give it a try
I asked a friend who's an MD if we should use "virii" for the plural of "virus". Her response was "We've been calling them viruses for 60 years"
The iPod is not just an MP3 player. It is also a darn nice portable, plug & play, hard drive. It's very handy for backing up and/or transporting a swack of files. It's often used when rebuilding an old mac or moving to a new one.
The equivalent "technology" in a paper document is using a sidebar, instead of a footnote
The equivalent "technology" in a paper document is the use of a sidebar, rather than a footnote.
ROTFLMAO!!! Thanks for making me smile!
It looks like old luggage to me
Bullshit! I bought the machine in '99 (when it was almost 4 years old) because it was expandable. Although it shipped with only 32mb of ram and a 1GB scsi disk, it was built to accept up to 1GB of ram. It was built with the CPU on a daughter card for easy upgrades. It was built with 3 empty PCI slots. It's got the original motherboard, case & power supply. Sure, it's a better machine, but it's still the same machine. All I did was plug in stuff it was built to accept:
It sure is! I'm typing this on a 1995 mac (Powermac 7600). 2 years ago I upgraded the processor to a G3 with a simple daughtercard swap. It's currently running the latest OSX release. It has 560mb of ram (out of a possible 1GB), 18GB scsi and 60GB ATA-133 hard drives and a year-old CD-RW. I also installed a cheap USB card to connect my digital camera.
"'Tis better to be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -Samuel Johnson
According to this article, Red Flag Linux was created by the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese government's Ministry of Information Industry is Red Flag's second largest shareholder.
Be sure to drink a quart of whiskey before installing anything!
That's perfectly rational IMHO. Defenseless geeks are much easier to assassinate than geeks who can fight back
Well it's 100 pages if you count in Octal!
The iApps (iPhoto, iMovie, etc.) are scriptable using Applescript. For instance, there are scripts out there that hook iCal up with iTunes, so that iCal causes iTunes to start playing music at a given point in time.
You can run Applescripts from the command line
Applescript is anologous to VBA in the Windoze world, except that it is implemented at the OS level, rather than in each application. There's an API for programmers to hook up the Applescript engine to their code. AppleScript Studio, part of the developer tools, lets you create programs with a native Mac OS X interface, using AppleScript (instead of C++, Objective C or Java).
WTF? Speaking of Troll-spew...
Of course Apple makes it easy!
Write a Carbon app instead of a Cocoa app and it will run on every MacOS from 8.1 thru X. If you want your app to run on every mac every made, you build a classic "fat binary".
The BSDWall project already done most of the work for you. Assuming that you have an old pc with a couple of NICs in it and a broadband connection, you should be able to build your firewall in an hour or less.
"bsdwall" is a Perl script that turns an OpenBSD box into a working firewall. The site includes
One minor quibble: bsdwall works properly with the latest OpenBSD (3.3), but the install instructions on on the BSDWall site are still for 3.2. Just substitute the 3.3 install floppy for the one mentioned on the website (or buy a CD) and remember that the prompts on the the screen won't exactly match the website's directions keystoke-for-keystroke.
On the surface, it looks like the "improved" truck still doesn't come close in safety, fuel economy or handling to a large car. For instance the safest SUV (Chevy Suburban) is still more dangerous than a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry.
Yes, if you own a Macintosh. That capability is built into OS X
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From the article, here is a list showing the broadband penetration as a percentage of Internet households:
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