Maybe because the "junk" is merely cross-site scripting links to the actual sites hosting the malware? I'm not sure that ClamAV is smart enough to go through a MySQL database looking for weblinks to "ka3122ha1.net", etc.
six HDDs into a computer that only has four drive bays... a G4 tower
That's why I'm still using my dual 1GHz MDD after all these years... four internal drive bays and a couple of external FW drives plugged into individual ports on a PCI FW card, and gigabit wired Ethernet too. It's a big reason why I never got a G5. (the other reason is that I've been keeping my laptops upgraded instead)
There was a bit of trouble in late 2006 when the boot drive wouldn't spin up other than at boot time, but that's it. And thanks to Apple's power supply replacement program, I even have a spare power supply (they decided it wasn't worth the shipping cost to have the noisier power supplies returned).
Oh yeah, and it can still run 9.2 if I get nostalgic.
How much to add network interfaces to the Mini?
Oh yeah,...
About four bucks, and I bought extras that day. (Regular price is fifteen bucks.) If you put the USB info string into Google, you can find OS X drivers for it from the OEM manufacturer's web site. And again you can't think outside the box.
Wait, you only like MDI because it keeps the task bar from being full of individual documents?
I guess that's a reason, but it just shows a flaw in Microsoft's task bar model. OS X already works the way you want in that Dock items are per application, not per "process", where every document is considered a separate process. (And the Mac has worked that way since System 7.0.)
I don't mind too much when MDI puts the documents in a tabbed area, but I hate MDI because you end up with a tiny area in which to make windows (especially after all the docked toolbar panes), and if your MDI subwindows aren't zoomed to full size, they always end up sticking over the edges of the area. Of course most Windows users react to this by running everything fullscreen. To a Mac user, this just removes one of the benefits of using windows in the first place, that being the ability to see two or more things at the same time.
Good luck using the Installer to add or remove features, then. The last version with a proper installer was 9.2.0. I've heard of rumors of a 9.2.2 Golden Master existing, but even being on Apple's developer program, I've never seen one. Maybe someone hacked one up from the 9.2.0 installer.
To some extent, this looks like when the first clone PCs appeared in the market.
Except for the minor difference that IBM didn't own the OS, and Microsoft made sure that they weren't an exclusive licensee. So Microsoft could happily sell to all the cloners in the world, and IBM couldn't do squat about it.
Or maybe a back-doored packet forwarding ASIC which ignores all ACLs to filter a particular netblock, like say 203/8 or 202/7, of which large chunks are in China? (or something more specific if you prefer)
As for the parent post, you should be able to tell that your firmware got flashed by loading a different feature set. The trouble is, what if it's the hardware that is subtly subverted, regardless of the firmware, as in my example?
atariage.com is the place you need to go. There are plenty of people all over the country who will go out of their way to your place to dump the chips. There are also prototype version collectors who will be interested in dumping all the rest of your chips as well, in case there's an undiscovered version in your pile of chips.
And bare EPROMs are the easiest to dump. If you have a standard programmer, assuming these are standard EPROMs, which they should be, you can do it yourself. Just don't read the important chip first until you know you've got the procedure right.
In the meantime, keep the chip windows covered and keep the chips away from light. The older they are, the more likely they will be vulnerable to "bit rot", which is the chip erasing itself even with weak light, usually after 15-25 years. Once the process begins, it can take weeks or months for the whole chip to be blank.
They don't need mods, thanks to the boot loophole. But it does get tiring buring CD-Rs all the time. Not to mention the inevitable coasters. (The Dreamcast doesn't work with CD-RW, so you can't just try and erase until you figure it out.) Found another ROM you want to run? Oops! Gotta burn a new emulator disc!
Wake me up when there's an Xbox version. A modded Xbox gives you everything you can get from a Dreamcast, except for running Dreamcast games and a Sega fanboy attitude. And you don't have to carry around a spindle of burned CD-Rs.
Which is why I didn't understand why they'd cut the educational discount
Two things. First of all, the current discount is a reflection of lower margins overall on Macs. But in the era after Jobs got kicked out? "Beleaguered" Apple had no direction, and I guess you could say that its top ranks really didn't care about computers, or else why would they put a soft drinks guy in charge? If they did away with the educational discounts then, it was because they simply didn't care. Or maybe it was corporate hubris that they didn't think they needed to give educational discounts any more. At which point, commodity computers running Windows took over almost overnight. Also, I seem to remember that Apple was trying to cut third-party vendors out of the pie to sell direct to education exclusively, and that helped erode their educational presence.
It also didn't help that Apple's attempts to make "low-end" Macs, with the aptly mis-named "Performa" series (the 4400 being the worst of the lot), gave them a bad reputation in those markets where they ended up. (particularly education, who couldn't afford to either buy new Macs or get rid of the old ones before they were amortized) So five-plus-year-old Macs that were crap when new got compared to brand new computers running Windows, because those were what many users had access to at the time.
It's only with this damn fool "recycling nuclear fuel gives the terrorists nuclear bombs" nonsense that we're stuck with dangerously radioactive material 1500 years from now.
Exactly. A friend of mine has tried to get a hackintosh working, and knows someone else who did. The problem is that (just like with Linux support on a random machine), something doesn't work, usually sound, sometimes graphics accelleration.
In my friend's case, one problem was that his graphics card set the GPU to slow mode during boot (I guess during VGA BIOS initialization), and the Windows driver would set it back. However, the OS X driver didn't, because that brand of card wasn't expected to start up in slow mode on anything shipped by Apple.
That's actually because at some point in the '90s they cut the fat out of their margins. People whine about Macs being "expensive" now, but that's only because they don't sell anything to compete with Dell's super-ultra-low-end stuff that barely works with Vista.
Back in the Bad Old Days, the highest end Macs cost in the $7000-$9000 range, and even a Powerbook would set you back $3000 just to start. That was because their margins were really high, and why the developer discounts used to be 25% and the education discounts used to be 50%. The developer discount came close to what retail should have been, and the educational discount was probably selling them at cost. But a few years I got one of the first Mac Mini units, and the discount off of $600 was (I think) something like: Educational $10, Developer, $20, Corporate $25. Completely backwards from what it used to be.
In fact, as I understand it, the price of the original 128K Mac was going to be $2000, but at the last minute they changed it to $2500. Of course, that was the time when even the Apple II was selling for way too much money compared to what you got. For a long time, Apple was happy to make bigger margins on smaller quantities. Even then, there were still times when they had trouble making enough of certain models (usually new ones) of Macs to meet demand. Their current production levels are amazing in comparison.
Not quite correct. TV spectrum in the US is in three main bands, 2-6, 7-13, and 14+. The channels in each band are indeed spaced 6MHz apart, except 4-5. The FM band is located just above TV channel 6, at 88-108MHz, and channel 7 starts at 175 MHz. That means there's 67 MHz between FM and channel 7.
You two are talking about different meanings of the word "bandwidth". It's the internet bandwidth which is why BBC HD over internet will have problems becoming reality any time soon. In fact, even non-HD BBC over the internet is causing troubles right now.
OTA doesn't take up internet bandwidth. It uses broadcast bandwidth, which is one-way only, but just fine for this purpose. In the USA, that's 6MHz of spectrum bandwidth, which transports about 19Mbits/sec of data bandwidth. That's about twice the maximum rate of DVD video.
Also, all three are senators. There's something about the US Senate which tends to detach you from reality. The longer you are there, the worse it gets. By now Ted Kennedy must be wondering when he's going to get his sainthood declared.
I never said the converter box tuners output HD. But they must still receive and decode HD signals. Why? Because that's the only thing out there for them to receive. (Did you see where I used the word "down-convert"?) Most US stations are only broadcasting their main programming over an HD signal.
Freeview boxes have no capability to receive an HD signal. (In fact, the UK hasn't even finalized the specs on HD yet!) The UK will have to simulcast an SD signal for the old SD-only Freeview boxes "forever". Once that stops, they become doorstops. And there's a certain Doctor out there who can tell you that "forever" often isn't.
I would raise the stakes and have Anne Droid (from that Doctor Who episode) chargin' her laser at a bunch of people who didn't get a converter box. It's just too bad that the laser won't work through the telly, becuase I hear you folks over there could use a reduction in the chav population.
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Your mod points expire after 3 days. Use 'em or lose 'em.
And I don't know why they bumped it up to 10 points at a time. The FAQ still refers to "5 points".
Maybe because the "junk" is merely cross-site scripting links to the actual sites hosting the malware? I'm not sure that ClamAV is smart enough to go through a MySQL database looking for weblinks to "ka3122ha1.net", etc.
That's why I'm still using my dual 1GHz MDD after all these years... four internal drive bays and a couple of external FW drives plugged into individual ports on a PCI FW card, and gigabit wired Ethernet too. It's a big reason why I never got a G5. (the other reason is that I've been keeping my laptops upgraded instead)
There was a bit of trouble in late 2006 when the boot drive wouldn't spin up other than at boot time, but that's it. And thanks to Apple's power supply replacement program, I even have a spare power supply (they decided it wasn't worth the shipping cost to have the noisier power supplies returned).
Oh yeah, and it can still run 9.2 if I get nostalgic.
Oh yeah, you can't.
Why would you want to upgrade the Mac Mini's video card? To play games?
How much to get a better or different optical drive on the Mini?[SFX: sound of room laughing]
Oh yeah, you can't.
Apparently PC morons like you can't think outside the box.
How much to add network interfaces to the Mini?Oh yeah,
About four bucks, and I bought extras that day. (Regular price is fifteen bucks.) If you put the USB info string into Google, you can find OS X drivers for it from the OEM manufacturer's web site. And again you can't think outside the box.
I think Windows more like a stormy sea, and Vista is the Perfect Storm.
The desert is Linux on the desktop.
I'm sure everyone's heard of the "Unix beard"?
Even better is if they can get it to run on Reiser Blade servers for bleeding-edge server density.
Wait, you only like MDI because it keeps the task bar from being full of individual documents?
I guess that's a reason, but it just shows a flaw in Microsoft's task bar model. OS X already works the way you want in that Dock items are per application, not per "process", where every document is considered a separate process. (And the Mac has worked that way since System 7.0.)
I don't mind too much when MDI puts the documents in a tabbed area, but I hate MDI because you end up with a tiny area in which to make windows (especially after all the docked toolbar panes), and if your MDI subwindows aren't zoomed to full size, they always end up sticking over the edges of the area. Of course most Windows users react to this by running everything fullscreen. To a Mac user, this just removes one of the benefits of using windows in the first place, that being the ability to see two or more things at the same time.
Good luck using the Installer to add or remove features, then. The last version with a proper installer was 9.2.0. I've heard of rumors of a 9.2.2 Golden Master existing, but even being on Apple's developer program, I've never seen one. Maybe someone hacked one up from the 9.2.0 installer.
Except for the minor difference that IBM didn't own the OS, and Microsoft made sure that they weren't an exclusive licensee. So Microsoft could happily sell to all the cloners in the world, and IBM couldn't do squat about it.
Fixed. (You actually like MDI? I've hated it since Windows 3.x!)
Or maybe a back-doored packet forwarding ASIC which ignores all ACLs to filter a particular netblock, like say 203/8 or 202/7, of which large chunks are in China? (or something more specific if you prefer)
As for the parent post, you should be able to tell that your firmware got flashed by loading a different feature set. The trouble is, what if it's the hardware that is subtly subverted, regardless of the firmware, as in my example?
atariage.com is the place you need to go. There are plenty of people all over the country who will go out of their way to your place to dump the chips. There are also prototype version collectors who will be interested in dumping all the rest of your chips as well, in case there's an undiscovered version in your pile of chips.
And bare EPROMs are the easiest to dump. If you have a standard programmer, assuming these are standard EPROMs, which they should be, you can do it yourself. Just don't read the important chip first until you know you've got the procedure right.
In the meantime, keep the chip windows covered and keep the chips away from light. The older they are, the more likely they will be vulnerable to "bit rot", which is the chip erasing itself even with weak light, usually after 15-25 years. Once the process begins, it can take weeks or months for the whole chip to be blank.
They don't need mods, thanks to the boot loophole. But it does get tiring buring CD-Rs all the time. Not to mention the inevitable coasters. (The Dreamcast doesn't work with CD-RW, so you can't just try and erase until you figure it out.) Found another ROM you want to run? Oops! Gotta burn a new emulator disc!
Wake me up when there's an Xbox version. A modded Xbox gives you everything you can get from a Dreamcast, except for running Dreamcast games and a Sega fanboy attitude. And you don't have to carry around a spindle of burned CD-Rs.
Two things. First of all, the current discount is a reflection of lower margins overall on Macs. But in the era after Jobs got kicked out? "Beleaguered" Apple had no direction, and I guess you could say that its top ranks really didn't care about computers, or else why would they put a soft drinks guy in charge? If they did away with the educational discounts then, it was because they simply didn't care. Or maybe it was corporate hubris that they didn't think they needed to give educational discounts any more. At which point, commodity computers running Windows took over almost overnight. Also, I seem to remember that Apple was trying to cut third-party vendors out of the pie to sell direct to education exclusively, and that helped erode their educational presence.
It also didn't help that Apple's attempts to make "low-end" Macs, with the aptly mis-named "Performa" series (the 4400 being the worst of the lot), gave them a bad reputation in those markets where they ended up. (particularly education, who couldn't afford to either buy new Macs or get rid of the old ones before they were amortized) So five-plus-year-old Macs that were crap when new got compared to brand new computers running Windows, because those were what many users had access to at the time.
And we have none other than James Earl "Misery Index" Carter Jr. to thank for that.
Exactly. A friend of mine has tried to get a hackintosh working, and knows someone else who did. The problem is that (just like with Linux support on a random machine), something doesn't work, usually sound, sometimes graphics accelleration.
In my friend's case, one problem was that his graphics card set the GPU to slow mode during boot (I guess during VGA BIOS initialization), and the Windows driver would set it back. However, the OS X driver didn't, because that brand of card wasn't expected to start up in slow mode on anything shipped by Apple.
That's actually because at some point in the '90s they cut the fat out of their margins. People whine about Macs being "expensive" now, but that's only because they don't sell anything to compete with Dell's super-ultra-low-end stuff that barely works with Vista.
Back in the Bad Old Days, the highest end Macs cost in the $7000-$9000 range, and even a Powerbook would set you back $3000 just to start. That was because their margins were really high, and why the developer discounts used to be 25% and the education discounts used to be 50%. The developer discount came close to what retail should have been, and the educational discount was probably selling them at cost. But a few years I got one of the first Mac Mini units, and the discount off of $600 was (I think) something like: Educational $10, Developer, $20, Corporate $25. Completely backwards from what it used to be.
In fact, as I understand it, the price of the original 128K Mac was going to be $2000, but at the last minute they changed it to $2500. Of course, that was the time when even the Apple II was selling for way too much money compared to what you got. For a long time, Apple was happy to make bigger margins on smaller quantities. Even then, there were still times when they had trouble making enough of certain models (usually new ones) of Macs to meet demand. Their current production levels are amazing in comparison.
Not quite correct. TV spectrum in the US is in three main bands, 2-6, 7-13, and 14+. The channels in each band are indeed spaced 6MHz apart, except 4-5. The FM band is located just above TV channel 6, at 88-108MHz, and channel 7 starts at 175 MHz. That means there's 67 MHz between FM and channel 7.
Of course that is irrelevant to the article here, because digital cable uses QAM, not ATSC.
And a Selachimorph to mount it on.
Sorry, a fricking Selachimorph to mount it on.
You two are talking about different meanings of the word "bandwidth". It's the internet bandwidth which is why BBC HD over internet will have problems becoming reality any time soon. In fact, even non-HD BBC over the internet is causing troubles right now.
OTA doesn't take up internet bandwidth. It uses broadcast bandwidth, which is one-way only, but just fine for this purpose. In the USA, that's 6MHz of spectrum bandwidth, which transports about 19Mbits/sec of data bandwidth. That's about twice the maximum rate of DVD video.
Also, all three are senators. There's something about the US Senate which tends to detach you from reality. The longer you are there, the worse it gets. By now Ted Kennedy must be wondering when he's going to get his sainthood declared.
I never said the converter box tuners output HD. But they must still receive and decode HD signals. Why? Because that's the only thing out there for them to receive. (Did you see where I used the word "down-convert"?) Most US stations are only broadcasting their main programming over an HD signal.
Freeview boxes have no capability to receive an HD signal. (In fact, the UK hasn't even finalized the specs on HD yet!) The UK will have to simulcast an SD signal for the old SD-only Freeview boxes "forever". Once that stops, they become doorstops. And there's a certain Doctor out there who can tell you that "forever" often isn't.
I would raise the stakes and have Anne Droid (from that Doctor Who episode) chargin' her laser at a bunch of people who didn't get a converter box. It's just too bad that the laser won't work through the telly, becuase I hear you folks over there could use a reduction in the chav population.