Stang7423 is right - When Intel or AMD release a new Proc, it makes/.
When Dell and HP stop cloning one another and start setting industry trends like Apple does, then maybe their hardware releases will make some news. The Dell DJ did. Sony gets exposure for new models because they do more than rebrand an Intel box.
I think you have a good point about the editing though but the reality is that everyone has their own prejudces and though the/. editors may try to be unbiased, it is impossible so their interests get highlighted while that which may interest you doesn't.
Bottom line: Want to pick stories for geeks to read? Start your own/.
I'm no hardware engineer, but looking at this artist rendering (akamai.net is an image host for all Apple.com images) of Apple's liquid cooling system, I think the processors are getting different cooling.
It would appear that the liquid passes over processor #1, then #2, then back to the heat sink to be diffused by the fan blowing over it. This would say to me that processor #2 is getting at best room temp water cooling, while proc #1 is getting cold water cooling.
Here's my reasoning: If the heat sink with the fan blowing over it can cool the water 2X degrees, then when it is leaving the cooling system it is at Room Temp (RT) - X degrees. It passes over both processors and returns to the cooling system at RT+X degrees, where it is cooled by 2X and leaves the system at RT-X, headed for the hot processors again, follow?
So here's the meat of it: both processors together heat the water up by 2X (see above). That means each processor heats the water by X, so when the cool water leaves, it is at temp RT-X, passes over the heat sink and it raised to (RT-X)+X=RT which then passes over the second processor and cools it to RT+X where it returns.
So the second processor is getting room temp water cooling while the first is getting RT-X cooling. What effect will this have on the system?
As I understand it, this is like being able to turn to a shopper on the same isle as you in a retail store and ask what they think of product XYZ, or turning to the person behind you at a rock concert and saying "Man can Neal Peart play those drums!"
I can see this being helpful, but at the same time, I would think the desired web default would be to ignore the person who doesn't know what it is they are looking for (isn't Google for that?) or wants to talk about the video stream I am trying to enjoy (isn't IRC for that?).
Basically I think it is a cool application of technology, but if people want to talkabout a website, they already can (isn't/. for that?).
I question wether the article author understood 'take offline' and 'delete' as the same thing, though they are so very different.
Data is valuable, and Sysadmins know it. (Values such as when combating a lawsuit as the poster suggests or for trend analysis, contact information, or other historical purposes.)
That said, hard drive space is inexpensive and archiving to optical medium is even LESS expensive. When 47 GB of DVD media can be had at Target for less than $10, it makes NO sense to destroy this data.
I am not so sure this free music thing is going to work. I was excited when Apple announced the Pepsi deal, but it proved unsuccessful by most people's measure. Though they laid the blame on distribution channel issues, I think there are a few things to be learned:
(1) Do people want to go to 'all that trouble' for a free song? When you have to download software, setup an account, (and perhaps provide a credit card), then find the song you want and download it, just to be unable to play it on your choice of music device (ITMS only plays on iPod / no one else plays on iPod).
(2) Is a song really that valuable? If I buy a coke or a Big Mac, do I really care that much about trying some new music thing to save the bottle cap or box top or whatever and use it? The Sunday paper is full of coupons for saving much more than 99 cents, but many people just recycle them.
(3) Is there too much choice? Perhaps people need FEWER options for their music. If I am told I can have ANY song I want for free, I start thinking of music...but the music I am thinking of I already own and listen to now. Maybe the givaway needs to be 'one of these five songs' or something similar, to let people envision what they are getting, then they can better evaluate if it is worth their time.
Apple rarely changes their price points more than 10%. If you look at the cost of a $1100 student laptop or $5000 developer box, Apple's strategy is that they offer more bang for the same buck when they make revisions.
I would GUESS the rational is a canibalization and comoditization of their sales. If you can get the same system 6 mo. from now for less, you might wait and then buy the lower end model. If you know from years of watching the market that to own a PowerBook, you are going to spend $2500, your decision just comes down to when you are ready to part with the cash.
The result is Applle keeps their margins high and demand high for systems that don't have to be replaced along with the oil in your car.
Didn't think you were getting out of a car reference so easily did you?
Two questions regarding a G5 Xserve with 10.3.3 Server: (1) Is this update for Server or only the client version of OS X? (2) Will this or other updates make changes to/overwrite existing configuration files that have been customized? (Specifically httpd.conf, php.ini, and the default/Library/WebServer/Documents directory)
In general what are best practicices for applying patches to production environments?
Does the understanding of the 'Help Script' security hole bring with it a correlation of opensource vs. closed source security issues?
If the Help Script vulnerability was within closed source code, does it imply that OS X, with it's use of Apple closed source on top of FreeBSD, is less secure than other 100% open source OSes? Has a definative security comparison between Linux and OS X been done? (How about one for XP vs. OS X vs. Linux for that matter?)
How will this affect the consumer? Will this new iPod (read 'consumer electroincs') division not be concerned with the focus on the Mac and therefore we could see new products being released for Windows FIRST, followed by Linux, to include OS X? This is how many hardware/software dev companies work becuase the market is so slim it makes economic 'cents' to go after the larger market.
And what affect, if any, will this change have on the concept of the iPod causing people to switch to Apple?
I'd like some honest feedback: Who upgrades MS Office and why?
My Macs are running Mac Office v.X, which was an upgrade from Mac Office 2001 whcih only ran under OS 9. But I don't see anything compelling me to upgrade to Mac Office 2004. I like the idea of Virtual PC, but I can't think of a single Windows Only app I need to use so I'll take a pass on VPC for now.
In the Windows world, I can tell you that I only ever upgrade MS office when I get a new computer and it comes with the whole package. It would be 'nice' to have Office XP running on my single PC, but since I bought the thing with Windows and Office 2000, I have upgraded to Windows XP but not bothered to upgrade Office to XP.
So when and more importantly, WHY do you shell out cash for an Office upgrade?
Hey, I read your Journal entry about how 'broken' the system is for not adding Karma to 'Funny' posts and how 'unprofessional' the reply was to the bug report.
Well I know this is offtopic which is why I checked 'no karma bonus' (for I have good karma and wish to keep it) but I wanted to reply to you. I am not trying to start a flame, I am just responding to the questions you ask in your Journal and this is the only way/. has of allowing me to contact you.
First, I think it is great that you found an exploit in the moderation system but it is a pretty hard one - first mod someone up, then back down. You would have to have a very dedicated moderator who gets points frequently to follow an account around and do this.
Second, don't take it so personally that people modded your post offtopic - you admit they were. That others didn't get moderated as such does not mean yours were somehow magically not offtopic.
Third, yeah the bug report was less than serious, but when you evaluate a bug report in QA, you have to measure two things - the 'severity' of the bug, and the 'technical complexity' of the solution. If the bug is low severity (i.e. reproducable moderation point exploit that is time consuming to have negative effect on a single user) but high technical complexity (requires re-configuring the meta-moderation system, re-thinking 'funny' karma influence, etc) then it is going to be low priority.
It sounds like if you got that sort of response, you would have felt more valued for finding the issue and better understood why it would not be addressed. But that didn't happen and I think if you read the response "Try posing something other than jokes" with a 3rd party perspective, you can see how true that is -/. is not a standup comedy club - yes the jokes make us laugh but people do read/, for the 'Interesting' and 'Insightful' comments.
Looking at your log of recent posts, the comments modded as 'troll' and 'flamebait', I believe, would have a much more adverse effect on your Karma than an 'overrated' on a 'funny'.
To conclude, (1) I am sorry you were hurt that someone found your jokes unfunny, moderated them so, and potentially destroyed your/. Karma, (2) understand/. Karma is insignificant in the world, (3) *I* value the discovery you made and will keep that in mind when I have moderation points and when I meta-moderate, (4) people are going to disagree and undervalue things that we have alot of energy about and that is okay and does not mean our thoughts don't have value, and finally (5) this is not a flame.
So it *is* sort of liketeh Sims in that you have a character who has a 'career' as a monster slayer, etc. But now I have three more questions: (1) How do you 'start' - what I mean is, are you some person at a tavern with $10? Do you have to sleep or eat? (2) So what's with the whole article's statements about Platinums? And the 616 auctions? like on eBay? (3) What happens to your character when you leave the game...or don't pay the monthly bill?
You don't see Parket Brothers suing Microsoft of the word "Monopoly".
But seriously, our society is WAY WAY WAY too litigious and opportunistic for anyone's good. On what grounds based in reality does the family of the man who invented the word "Googol" have to the Internet search engine company?
Google even has it's own dictionary entry - two actually, V and N
Would someone care to give us non-gamers an overview of Everquest so I can understand the article more. Thus far, it sounds like an RPG like the Sims but with broadswords?
Please don't mod this down until someone responds with a good description of Everquest.
Man I bet This guy is pissed he didn't get an invite into the secret spam club and the anti-spammers did.
He'll probably protest by not odering any more PhDs on-line.
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That is not the only site that hints of iMac G5's in the future...I found this site, apparently some type of encoded announcement site for Apple that they call "macnews.de". Anyway, there is news about G5 imacs and I could also make out "G5 powerbooks". The rest was too well encrypted.
Perhaps there is a code breaker out there who can decypher it.
So lets run some numbers: 5 $40,000 (retail) prizes = $200,000 retail only 4 ($160,000) are educational and after looking at the awards, there is no stipulation the 1 non-educational award must go to a non-profit so there is only the $160,000 tax right off guaranteed. Now if you are a reseller, I don't know if you can right off the retail value of the goods & services donation or not, so that would make the value even lower.
Now the return on the investment: Well you get smart people in research institutions all over the country dreaming up ways to use 5 Xserves and the 10 way G5 64=bit computing power they bring. So even if they don't win, somebody may get some dollars budgeted to actually buy this type of system outright. Or perhaps they win a different grant and use those moneys to fund it. Then you have publicity. At least a few hundred/. readers saw it. Does this influence them to but a $40,000 cluster? that's a big nope. Does it influence them to try the Xserve? well perhaps it helps reinforce the production applicability of the Xserve (it runs iTMS and the V-tech super computer and these $40,000 clusters so maybe I shoudl give it a try) Does it make people want to but PowerBooks and iPods, again, doubtful.
So what's left So after Apple ponies up $200,000 in hardware and software, less their margins and tax deductions, they still spent six figures on a marketing stunt and some good Karma. Will it pay for itself? Well if only ONE of these institutions who wins a cluster actually adds on to it within an order of magnitude of V-tech, I would say 'yeah' it will pay for itself.
Have other companies (Big Blue, Hp, etc) had success with similar programs?
So this trojan was from 'Word 2004'..a decent one to pick because it recently started shipping.
What other apps are good targets for trojan horses? I have always been afraid of downloading a 'virus scanner' because it just screams 'I have no virus scanner on my computer!'
Others you have noticed? Perhaps a 'digital wallet' application to keep credit cards, passwords, etc. in:)
Why do you care about Linux games? As a Linux gamer I don't give a shit about Mac games.
No doubt you don't give a shit about Mac games - there aren't any! My post (a joke) was pointing out how sad it is that the mac platform never had anything other than the most popular PC games ported to it (and years AFTER the PC release). Now even the linux platform is getting DOOM III well before OS X will.
Checkout the video clip I lonked to - worth the download and can explain better than I can.
Maybe you listen to more popular music than I do, but lets say you want to obtain Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" album (one of their most popular with plenty of availability in every music store in the world). I can't get it on a p2p service. Sure, I can get the songs "second hand news", "gold dust woman", and "go your own way", but when you get into tracks like "oh daddy" and "you make lovin' fun" it gets more difficult.
Of course, there are p2p songs you can NOT get at iTMS like the BEatles and Dave Matthews Band and Metalica. Interestingly, these are the same artists that are most frequently the targets of the p2p music downloaders I know.
Anything they can buy from iTMS, they do - whatever else they p2p.
This whole new HYMN approach is making me think - what if DRM were used to encode and protect the digital signature of the original purchaser of the music. You can play the music on any PC, digital device, etc, but the user's digital signature will allways travel with it. If you share it and it gets back the the RIAA, it is easily trackable with this Digital DNA back to the one and only registered owner who either gave the music away, in violation of the EUL/copyright laws or had it stolen, in which case the possesor of the music is in posession of stolen property.
Interesting views on Apple...but those aside, do understand that the more you insist "AAC format is [Apple]'s own format", the more you make a fool of yourself.
MPEG-4 AAC is actually the next generation of MPEG (.MP3 files would be a previous generation).
So be sure you know what you are talking about, other wise it makes you look like..er.."CRAP".
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Stang7423 is right - When Intel or AMD release a new Proc, it makes /.
/. editors may try to be unbiased, it is impossible so their interests get highlighted while that which may interest you doesn't.
/.
When Dell and HP stop cloning one another and start setting industry trends like Apple does, then maybe their hardware releases will make some news. The Dell DJ did. Sony gets exposure for new models because they do more than rebrand an Intel box.
I think you have a good point about the editing though but the reality is that everyone has their own prejudces and though the
Bottom line: Want to pick stories for geeks to read? Start your own
I'm no hardware engineer, but looking at this artist rendering (akamai.net is an image host for all Apple.com images) of Apple's liquid cooling system, I think the processors are getting different cooling.
It would appear that the liquid passes over processor #1, then #2, then back to the heat sink to be diffused by the fan blowing over it. This would say to me that processor #2 is getting at best room temp water cooling, while proc #1 is getting cold water cooling.
Here's my reasoning: If the heat sink with the fan blowing over it can cool the water 2X degrees, then when it is leaving the cooling system it is at Room Temp (RT) - X degrees. It passes over both processors and returns to the cooling system at RT+X degrees, where it is cooled by 2X and leaves the system at RT-X, headed for the hot processors again, follow?
So here's the meat of it: both processors together heat the water up by 2X (see above). That means each processor heats the water by X, so when the cool water leaves, it is at temp RT-X, passes over the heat sink and it raised to (RT-X)+X=RT which then passes over the second processor and cools it to RT+X where it returns.
So the second processor is getting room temp water cooling while the first is getting RT-X cooling. What effect will this have on the system?
As I understand it, this is like being able to turn to a shopper on the same isle as you in a retail store and ask what they think of product XYZ, or turning to the person behind you at a rock concert and saying "Man can Neal Peart play those drums!"
/. for that?).
I can see this being helpful, but at the same time, I would think the desired web default would be to ignore the person who doesn't know what it is they are looking for (isn't Google for that?) or wants to talk about the video stream I am trying to enjoy (isn't IRC for that?).
Basically I think it is a cool application of technology, but if people want to talkabout a website, they already can (isn't
Welcome to the world of not being a virgin.
28 years old, huh? Right on par for a nerd.
I question wether the article author understood 'take offline' and 'delete' as the same thing, though they are so very different.
Data is valuable, and Sysadmins know it. (Values such as when combating a lawsuit as the poster suggests or for trend analysis, contact information, or other historical purposes.)
That said, hard drive space is inexpensive and archiving to optical medium is even LESS expensive. When 47 GB of DVD media can be had at Target for less than $10, it makes NO sense to destroy this data.
I am not so sure this free music thing is going to work. I was excited when Apple announced the Pepsi deal, but it proved unsuccessful by most people's measure. Though they laid the blame on distribution channel issues, I think there are a few things to be learned:
(1) Do people want to go to 'all that trouble' for a free song? When you have to download software, setup an account, (and perhaps provide a credit card), then find the song you want and download it, just to be unable to play it on your choice of music device (ITMS only plays on iPod / no one else plays on iPod).
(2) Is a song really that valuable? If I buy a coke or a Big Mac, do I really care that much about trying some new music thing to save the bottle cap or box top or whatever and use it? The Sunday paper is full of coupons for saving much more than 99 cents, but many people just recycle them.
(3) Is there too much choice? Perhaps people need FEWER options for their music. If I am told I can have ANY song I want for free, I start thinking of music...but the music I am thinking of I already own and listen to now. Maybe the givaway needs to be 'one of these five songs' or something similar, to let people envision what they are getting, then they can better evaluate if it is worth their time.
Just a few free musing on free music.
Apple rarely changes their price points more than 10%. If you look at the cost of a $1100 student laptop or $5000 developer box, Apple's strategy is that they offer more bang for the same buck when they make revisions.
I would GUESS the rational is a canibalization and comoditization of their sales. If you can get the same system 6 mo. from now for less, you might wait and then buy the lower end model. If you know from years of watching the market that to own a PowerBook, you are going to spend $2500, your decision just comes down to when you are ready to part with the cash.
The result is Applle keeps their margins high and demand high for systems that don't have to be replaced along with the oil in your car.
Didn't think you were getting out of a car reference so easily did you?
Two questions regarding a G5 Xserve with 10.3.3 Server: /Library/WebServer/Documents directory)
(1) Is this update for Server or only the client version of OS X?
(2) Will this or other updates make changes to/overwrite existing configuration files that have been customized? (Specifically httpd.conf, php.ini, and the default
In general what are best practicices for applying patches to production environments?
Does the understanding of the 'Help Script' security hole bring with it a correlation of opensource vs. closed source security issues?
If the Help Script vulnerability was within closed source code, does it imply that OS X, with it's use of Apple closed source on top of FreeBSD, is less secure than other 100% open source OSes? Has a definative security comparison between Linux and OS X been done? (How about one for XP vs. OS X vs. Linux for that matter?)
How will this affect the consumer? Will this new iPod (read 'consumer electroincs') division not be concerned with the focus on the Mac and therefore we could see new products being released for Windows FIRST, followed by Linux, to include OS X? This is how many hardware/software dev companies work becuase the market is so slim it makes economic 'cents' to go after the larger market.
And what affect, if any, will this change have on the concept of the iPod causing people to switch to Apple?
I'd like some honest feedback: Who upgrades MS Office and why?
My Macs are running Mac Office v.X, which was an upgrade from Mac Office 2001 whcih only ran under OS 9. But I don't see anything compelling me to upgrade to Mac Office 2004. I like the idea of Virtual PC, but I can't think of a single Windows Only app I need to use so I'll take a pass on VPC for now.
In the Windows world, I can tell you that I only ever upgrade MS office when I get a new computer and it comes with the whole package. It would be 'nice' to have Office XP running on my single PC, but since I bought the thing with Windows and Office 2000, I have upgraded to Windows XP but not bothered to upgrade Office to XP.
So when and more importantly, WHY do you shell out cash for an Office upgrade?
Hey, I read your Journal entry about how 'broken' the system is for not adding Karma to 'Funny' posts and how 'unprofessional' the reply was to the bug report.
/. has of allowing me to contact you.
/. is not a standup comedy club - yes the jokes make us laugh but people do read /, for the 'Interesting' and 'Insightful' comments.
/. Karma, (2) understand /. Karma is insignificant in the world, (3) *I* value the discovery you made and will keep that in mind when I have moderation points and when I meta-moderate, (4) people are going to disagree and undervalue things that we have alot of energy about and that is okay and does not mean our thoughts don't have value, and finally (5) this is not a flame.
Well I know this is offtopic which is why I checked 'no karma bonus' (for I have good karma and wish to keep it) but I wanted to reply to you. I am not trying to start a flame, I am just responding to the questions you ask in your Journal and this is the only way
First, I think it is great that you found an exploit in the moderation system but it is a pretty hard one - first mod someone up, then back down. You would have to have a very dedicated moderator who gets points frequently to follow an account around and do this.
Second, don't take it so personally that people modded your post offtopic - you admit they were. That others didn't get moderated as such does not mean yours were somehow magically not offtopic.
Third, yeah the bug report was less than serious, but when you evaluate a bug report in QA, you have to measure two things - the 'severity' of the bug, and the 'technical complexity' of the solution. If the bug is low severity (i.e. reproducable moderation point exploit that is time consuming to have negative effect on a single user) but high technical complexity (requires re-configuring the meta-moderation system, re-thinking 'funny' karma influence, etc) then it is going to be low priority.
It sounds like if you got that sort of response, you would have felt more valued for finding the issue and better understood why it would not be addressed. But that didn't happen and I think if you read the response "Try posing something other than jokes" with a 3rd party perspective, you can see how true that is -
Looking at your log of recent posts, the comments modded as 'troll' and 'flamebait', I believe, would have a much more adverse effect on your Karma than an 'overrated' on a 'funny'.
To conclude, (1) I am sorry you were hurt that someone found your jokes unfunny, moderated them so, and potentially destroyed your
So it *is* sort of liketeh Sims in that you have a character who has a 'career' as a monster slayer, etc. But now I have three more questions:
(1) How do you 'start' - what I mean is, are you some person at a tavern with $10? Do you have to sleep or eat?
(2) So what's with the whole article's statements about Platinums? And the 616 auctions? like on eBay?
(3) What happens to your character when you leave the game...or don't pay the monthly bill?
You don't see Parket Brothers suing Microsoft of the word "Monopoly".
But seriously, our society is WAY WAY WAY too litigious and opportunistic for anyone's good. On what grounds based in reality does the family of the man who invented the word "Googol" have to the Internet search engine company?
Google even has it's own dictionary entry - two actually, V and N
Would someone care to give us non-gamers an overview of Everquest so I can understand the article more. Thus far, it sounds like an RPG like the Sims but with broadswords?
Please don't mod this down until someone responds with a good description of Everquest.
Man I bet This guy is pissed he didn't get an invite into the secret spam club and the anti-spammers did.
He'll probably protest by not odering any more PhDs on-line.
That is not the only site that hints of iMac G5's in the future...I found this site, apparently some type of encoded announcement site for Apple that they call "macnews.de". Anyway, there is news about G5 imacs and I could also make out "G5 powerbooks". The rest was too well encrypted.
Perhaps there is a code breaker out there who can decypher it.
So lets run some numbers:
/. readers saw it. Does this influence them to but a $40,000 cluster? that's a big nope. Does it influence them to try the Xserve? well perhaps it helps reinforce the production applicability of the Xserve (it runs iTMS and the V-tech super computer and these $40,000 clusters so maybe I shoudl give it a try) Does it make people want to but PowerBooks and iPods, again, doubtful.
5 $40,000 (retail) prizes = $200,000 retail
only 4 ($160,000) are educational and after looking at the awards, there is no stipulation the 1 non-educational award must go to a non-profit so there is only the $160,000 tax right off guaranteed.
Now if you are a reseller, I don't know if you can right off the retail value of the goods & services donation or not, so that would make the value even lower.
Now the return on the investment:
Well you get smart people in research institutions all over the country dreaming up ways to use 5 Xserves and the 10 way G5 64=bit computing power they bring. So even if they don't win, somebody may get some dollars budgeted to actually buy this type of system outright. Or perhaps they win a different grant and use those moneys to fund it.
Then you have publicity. At least a few hundred
So what's left
So after Apple ponies up $200,000 in hardware and software, less their margins and tax deductions, they still spent six figures on a marketing stunt and some good Karma. Will it pay for itself? Well if only ONE of these institutions who wins a cluster actually adds on to it within an order of magnitude of V-tech, I would say 'yeah' it will pay for itself.
Have other companies (Big Blue, Hp, etc) had success with similar programs?
So this trojan was from 'Word 2004'..a decent one to pick because it recently started shipping.
:)
What other apps are good targets for trojan horses? I have always been afraid of downloading a 'virus scanner' because it just screams 'I have no virus scanner on my computer!'
Others you have noticed? Perhaps a 'digital wallet' application to keep credit cards, passwords, etc. in
Well keeping the signature tied to the music file is what the DRM would be used for. It wouldn't not prevent playing, just anonymous copying.
Why do you care about Linux games? As a Linux gamer I don't give a shit about Mac games.
No doubt you don't give a shit about Mac games - there aren't any! My post (a joke) was pointing out how sad it is that the mac platform never had anything other than the most popular PC games ported to it (and years AFTER the PC release). Now even the linux platform is getting DOOM III well before OS X will.
Checkout the video clip I lonked to - worth the download and can explain better than I can.
Where can you download a full album?
Maybe you listen to more popular music than I do, but lets say you want to obtain Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" album (one of their most popular with plenty of availability in every music store in the world). I can't get it on a p2p service. Sure, I can get the songs "second hand news", "gold dust woman", and "go your own way", but when you get into tracks like "oh daddy" and "you make lovin' fun" it gets more difficult.
Of course, there are p2p songs you can NOT get at iTMS like the BEatles and Dave Matthews Band and Metalica. Interestingly, these are the same artists that are most frequently the targets of the p2p music downloaders I know.
Anything they can buy from iTMS, they do - whatever else they p2p.
This whole new HYMN approach is making me think - what if DRM were used to encode and protect the digital signature of the original purchaser of the music. You can play the music on any PC, digital device, etc, but the user's digital signature will allways travel with it. If you share it and it gets back the the RIAA, it is easily trackable with this Digital DNA back to the one and only registered owner who either gave the music away, in violation of the EUL/copyright laws or had it stolen, in which case the possesor of the music is in posession of stolen property.
As a Mac Gamer it hurts me that a Linux client will come out before an OS X version will.
Interesting views on Apple...but those aside, do understand that the more you insist "AAC format is [Apple]'s own format", the more you make a fool of yourself.
MPEG-4 AAC is actually the next generation of MPEG (.MP3 files would be a previous generation).
So be sure you know what you are talking about, other wise it makes you look like..er.."CRAP".