#1 - Pull up to parking lot. #2 - Sniff advertised name of network #3 - Put up your AP, set name to clone network's name #4 - Record authentication attempts #5... #6 - Profit!
1. Find out the name of someone who works in the building. If there's a directory, great. 2. Dress profesionally. 3. In the morning, smile at the receptionist. If challenged, tell him you're coming to see the person from step 1 4. Take the elevator to a random floor 5. Find an unguarded network drop 6. Profit
Before the Intel switch, Apple absolutely designed its own chipsets and boards. Apple was responsible, for example, for the first marrying of the PPC 970 and HyperTransport.
Apple has never owned a fab, but then, neither do many dedicated chip "manufacturers."
NASCAR, the NBA, and the NHL all make their money by selling tickets and TV rights.
MMORPGs make their money through participants. If they expect people to participate, they have to at least give the illusion that participation can lead to success. (Without having to invest huge amounts of level-up money.)
There are nations (eg. Israel) where voters vote for parties. The US is not one of them.
In the US, you vote for a representative, who may choose to associate with one of the Big Two parties. (Originally, there was no concept of parties, but that lasted all of about five seconds.) Once elected, your rep may vote his/her "conscience," regardless of what his or her party lean toward.
At least this way, he's being open. There's no reason he couldn't have kept his nominal Republican status and voted the other way. (Though there are obvious publicity advantages in making an announcement.)
You may remember that, in the earlier days of the Iraq war, soldiers would write home begging for their families to send them Talkabout FRS radios. Yup, those little handheld radios sold in blister packs at Wal-Mart for camping trips.
Those things are, doubtless, less secure, less durable, less resistant to interference, and less powerful than purpose-built military communications systems would be. However, they had one big advantage: they were available to the soldiers when they needed them.
If the military has trouble getting a mature technology like handheld radios into the hands the troops, you can bet that they'd flub something like handheld computers even worse. Sometimes, it's better to just buy the darned things at Wal-Mart.
I apologize for being ignorant on the subject. I always see winxp computers in computer labs with the XP logo screensavers going on indefinitely (I'm assuming the maintainers/admins are to blame). But if they were set by default to suspend the monitors and the admins don't do anything, a lot of energy could be saved.
They do this because, when an ordinary person comes across a computer with its screen blank, the first thing they do is jab the Power button. While some models may wake up when this happens, many others will shut down, and a few will actually die without shutting down. People just don't understand sleeping computers.
The ease of installing software on many Linux distributions shouldn't be overrated.
If I want to install OpenOffice, Gimp, Pidgin, Blender, Thunderbird, Emacs, VI, Akregator, GimageViewer, Gnome Terminal, etc. it is easy to do that in one command in linux, but doing that in Windows, even with all of the specified software packages being open source is much more time consuming.
Is tons easier than going to 10 different websites, downloading at least 10 install packages, installing all of them, etc. And then there is keeping all of that up to date.
You're confusing "cheap," "efficient," and "quick" with "easy."
The average (wo)man-on-the-street would find it much easier to drive to Best Buy, ask the blueshirt, "What's a good program to write up reports in?," pick the MSOffice box, find another blueshirt, ask, "What's a good program to use with my digital camera?," pick up the Photoshop Elements box, pay the blueshirt at the counter, pay for the extended warranty, drive home, stick in the CDs, and click through the GUI installers! Oh, yeah, and then click through the automatic updaters that run immediately afterwards.
Only if you bring money (err, "taxes," I guess we call it now) into the equation does it become "easier" for the average Joe to learn how to use apt. (Much less figure out why they have to type "sudo" first.)
The term you're looking for is "Web Designer" - Someone with an understanding of visual design as well as the knowledge of HTML and CSS required to implement said designs. May not have any programming ability. Probably spends his/her time in Dreamweaver, with forays into Notepad++ or BBEdit.
Design Technologist - Nebulous. Anyone who can use software to create visual designs. May be a print graphic artist, web designer, Flash developer. Need not require programming ability, or even any knowledge HTML or CSS. Probably a big fan of Fireworks and Flash, but could also be a big Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Quark user.
Web Developer - Someone who can use a dynamic web technology (PHP, ASP.net, J2EE, ColdFusion, Google Web Toolkit) to create interactive web pages or web applications. Also requires a kowledge of HTML, CSS and possibly JavaScript, as well as at least some programming ability. May spend a lot of time in Eclipse, Visual Studio, or another IDE.
Front-end Developer - Someone who can implement a user interface for a computer system. Would include people who, for example, create GUI interfaces to command line tools. Requires programming ability, but does not necessarily require any knowledge of HTML at all. Spends most of the day in Visual Studio or Eclipse.
HTML/CSS Developer - A Web Designer with pretentions of technical skill. Probably used FrontPage. Once.
Client-side Developer - A Front-end Developer (see above) who exclusively works with client-server architecture. Again, does not necessarily require any knowledge of HTML at all. Spends most of his/her time in an IDE.
UI Engineer - Someone who has at least some background in both CHI and software development; may focus on one or the other extreme. Requires some programming skill. Does not necessarily require any knowledge of HTML. Probably uses several UI modeling tools you've never heard of, and spends a lot of time drawing on whiteboards before settling down into an IDE.
Yes, if you count consciously witnessing yourself suffocate because your diaphragm is paralyzed as "painless".
Well, yeah, actually, I would. Perhaps not "comfortable," but definitely "painless." Asphyxiation really doesn't hurt, as anyone can readily demonstrate to themselves by holding their breath. (You might have a headache when you wake up after passing out, but that's not problem the average condemned will face.)
*sigh* Patent 5155847, referenced in Apple's patent, covers everything Apple's does. The only differences are obvious minor adaptions based on the different communications channels in use, things any network programmer does automatically every day.
You fail patent law 101.
The reasons those references are there are to point out that yes, the filer knew about those inventions and yes, the filer believes that the new invention is sufficiently different to be patentable, and yes, Mr. Trammel, examiner of record, and Mr. Corcoran, assistant examiner, please do look over these other patents, because we are damned sure that our invention is sufficiently different from them that it is patentable, and we are not afraid to tell you about them.
And it would aid the economy in the sense of the two pooling their money, and centralizing their spending.
Seeing as the whole justification of mergers is to "cut costs," I'm pretty sure the combined IBM/Sun would spend less money in fewer places. Centralized, yes. Good for IBM, yes. Good for the broader economy...probably not.
It would also aid us in the IT field, as the post-merger IBM would sell Sparc AND POWER hardware, with the option of Solaris or Linux on either one (theoretically), all bundled with IBM's famous support.
I'm not sure that I'd want that at all. IBM's support is famously expensive. Yes, the big blue army does know how to come through in an emergency, but they charge handsomely for the privilege. And constantly call you to make sure that you have everything from IBM that you could ever want.
IBM owning the rights to Java would work wonders for the Java community, especially in the Linux aspect
Hopefully, they'll accelerate the process that Sun has started and open-source everything. Neither IBM, nor Sun, nor any other company should "own the rights" to anything except the Java name.
and IBM would have probably contributed more to StarOffice/OpenOffice
Good, good...
using some Lotus material.
...whoa, DO NOT WANT!!!! (Yes, I'm a former Notes developer, can you tell?
I was really looking forward to the two becoming one, needless to say, especially for more formidable Microsoft competition (from both a business stance and IT stance).
Before there was Microsoft, there was IBM. Trust me, IBM was no better.
But ah well, IBM withdrew, so It'll just go back to Sun barely remaining a company, and IBM being competition on a fairly peer-to-peer level with them and Microsoft when it comes time to design new network infrastructures. If Red Hat bought Sun, I don't know if it would be as much of a benefit as if IBM and Sun merged, but for Sun anything is better than their current status - I just wish they would have seen that more clearly when IBM offered them a healthy current-economy-sum for their company.
All I hope is that Java, MySQL, OpenOffice, and all of Sun's other initiatives (it's hard to call them products, since Sun can't seem to make money off of them) can find stable homes, either as self-sustaining open-source projects or under companies that won't smother them. IBM does not fit the bill, in my experience (although their work with Eclipse comes closest.)
You recall incorrectly. There was a menu command called "eject disk" which did exactly what it was supposed to.
Dragging the disk to the trash was a way to un-mount the volume, which (for floppy disks) also resulted in their being ejected.
Having an eject button on the drive would make them like modern CD/DVD drives (which auto-detect and mount discs like TFA is discussing) where pushing the Eject button doesn't always eject the disc, since it may be in use.
I guess I should have said "Desktops and notebooks" or perhaps "workstations" or perhaps even "PCs."
Apple is fighting for PC/Windows desktops market share - they are not in traditional Unix market - big boxes for commercial workloads, mostly databases.
Today, sure. And fifteen years ago, Microsoft was only in the PC market, and had essentially no share of the server market. It's a lot easier for a popular desktop vendor to wedge its way into the server room than for a popular server vendor to wedge its way onto the desktop. (2009 is the year, baby!)
People on a plane will do anything to distract themselves from the cramped space, uncomfortable seats, stale air, stale body odor, and bad food. Including paying out the nose for booze, headphones to listen to a movie, or internet access.
There are at least some "big name" universities that offer separate "academic" and "professional" graduate tracks.
Perhaps you do attend an ivory-tower institution with a disdain for the practical side of things. (Or perhaps that's just your perception of things.) But there are certainly institutions that are more than willing to take on Masters students who aren't just checking off a box on their way to a PhD.
In an age where a brand new laptop costs $300-$400 (and netbooks even less) I don't think that would be a barrier to anyone that can afford community college tuition.
Especially considering that owning a PC frees your hypothetical single parent to work on assignments from home instead of hiring a babysitter while (s)he goes to the lab, saves lots of trips to the library, both for parent and child, and can keep the kids occupied during cram time.
Courses that require special math/engineering/graphics software certainly change the equation, though. In my experience, the math/engineering/arts/etc department usually maintains their own specific labs for those purposes. General-purpose labs are pretty useless.
A very fine filtration system might cut down on the amount of particulate matter (soot) that seemed to be the focus of this study. Won't help you while you're outside, or in your car, but can't hurt.
Filters can do nothing against other pollutants like, say, ozone or oxides of nitrogen. (Those "ionic" air "purifiers" actually very slightly increase the amount of ozone in the air.)
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Steps to break a wireless network:
#1 - Pull up to parking lot. ...
#2 - Sniff advertised name of network
#3 - Put up your AP, set name to clone network's name
#4 - Record authentication attempts
#5
#6 - Profit!
1. Find out the name of someone who works in the building. If there's a directory, great.
2. Dress profesionally.
3. In the morning, smile at the receptionist. If challenged, tell him you're coming to see the person from step 1
4. Take the elevator to a random floor
5. Find an unguarded network drop
6. Profit
Before the Intel switch, Apple absolutely designed its own chipsets and boards. Apple was responsible, for example, for the first marrying of the PPC 970 and HyperTransport.
Apple has never owned a fab, but then, neither do many dedicated chip "manufacturers."
NASCAR, the NBA, and the NHL all make their money by selling tickets and TV rights.
MMORPGs make their money through participants. If they expect people to participate, they have to at least give the illusion that participation can lead to success. (Without having to invest huge amounts of level-up money.)
There are nations (eg. Israel) where voters vote for parties. The US is not one of them.
In the US, you vote for a representative, who may choose to associate with one of the Big Two parties. (Originally, there was no concept of parties, but that lasted all of about five seconds.) Once elected, your rep may vote his/her "conscience," regardless of what his or her party lean toward.
At least this way, he's being open. There's no reason he couldn't have kept his nominal Republican status and voted the other way. (Though there are obvious publicity advantages in making an announcement.)
If you use iTunes, you don't care. I don't.
If you use (or would like to use) something else (gtkpod) to manage your iPod, then you might want to thank EFF.
The ellipses mean, "there was some other text between these sentences, but we stripped that out, because it was not relevant to our point."
It does not indicate uncertainty on the part of the speaker. Or that the speaker was William Shatner.
You may remember that, in the earlier days of the Iraq war, soldiers would write home begging for their families to send them Talkabout FRS radios. Yup, those little handheld radios sold in blister packs at Wal-Mart for camping trips.
Those things are, doubtless, less secure, less durable, less resistant to interference, and less powerful than purpose-built military communications systems would be. However, they had one big advantage: they were available to the soldiers when they needed them.
If the military has trouble getting a mature technology like handheld radios into the hands the troops, you can bet that they'd flub something like handheld computers even worse. Sometimes, it's better to just buy the darned things at Wal-Mart.
Surely you only need to do this one day out of the week, right?
I apologize for being ignorant on the subject. I always see winxp computers in computer labs with the XP logo screensavers going on indefinitely (I'm assuming the maintainers/admins are to blame). But if they were set by default to suspend the monitors and the admins don't do anything, a lot of energy could be saved.
They do this because, when an ordinary person comes across a computer with its screen blank, the first thing they do is jab the Power button. While some models may wake up when this happens, many others will shut down, and a few will actually die without shutting down. People just don't understand sleeping computers.
The ease of installing software on many Linux distributions shouldn't be overrated.
If I want to install OpenOffice, Gimp, Pidgin, Blender, Thunderbird, Emacs, VI, Akregator, GimageViewer, Gnome Terminal, etc. it is easy to do that in one command in linux, but doing that in Windows, even with all of the specified software packages being open source is much more time consuming.
Is tons easier than going to 10 different websites, downloading at least 10 install packages, installing all of them, etc. And then there is keeping all of that up to date.
You're confusing "cheap," "efficient," and "quick" with "easy."
The average (wo)man-on-the-street would find it much easier to drive to Best Buy, ask the blueshirt, "What's a good program to write up reports in?," pick the MSOffice box, find another blueshirt, ask, "What's a good program to use with my digital camera?," pick up the Photoshop Elements box, pay the blueshirt at the counter, pay for the extended warranty, drive home, stick in the CDs, and click through the GUI installers! Oh, yeah, and then click through the automatic updaters that run immediately afterwards.
Only if you bring money (err, "taxes," I guess we call it now) into the equation does it become "easier" for the average Joe to learn how to use apt. (Much less figure out why they have to type "sudo" first.)
The term you're looking for is "Web Designer" - Someone with an understanding of visual design as well as the knowledge of HTML and CSS required to implement said designs. May not have any programming ability. Probably spends his/her time in Dreamweaver, with forays into Notepad++ or BBEdit.
Design Technologist - Nebulous. Anyone who can use software to create visual designs. May be a print graphic artist, web designer, Flash developer. Need not require programming ability, or even any knowledge HTML or CSS. Probably a big fan of Fireworks and Flash, but could also be a big Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Quark user.
Web Developer - Someone who can use a dynamic web technology (PHP, ASP.net, J2EE, ColdFusion, Google Web Toolkit) to create interactive web pages or web applications. Also requires a kowledge of HTML, CSS and possibly JavaScript, as well as at least some programming ability. May spend a lot of time in Eclipse, Visual Studio, or another IDE.
Front-end Developer - Someone who can implement a user interface for a computer system. Would include people who, for example, create GUI interfaces to command line tools. Requires programming ability, but does not necessarily require any knowledge of HTML at all. Spends most of the day in Visual Studio or Eclipse.
HTML/CSS Developer - A Web Designer with pretentions of technical skill. Probably used FrontPage. Once.
Client-side Developer - A Front-end Developer (see above) who exclusively works with client-server architecture. Again, does not necessarily require any knowledge of HTML at all. Spends most of his/her time in an IDE.
UI Engineer - Someone who has at least some background in both CHI and software development; may focus on one or the other extreme. Requires some programming skill. Does not necessarily require any knowledge of HTML. Probably uses several UI modeling tools you've never heard of, and spends a lot of time drawing on whiteboards before settling down into an IDE.
Yes, if you count consciously witnessing yourself suffocate because your diaphragm is paralyzed as "painless".
Well, yeah, actually, I would. Perhaps not "comfortable," but definitely "painless." Asphyxiation really doesn't hurt, as anyone can readily demonstrate to themselves by holding their breath. (You might have a headache when you wake up after passing out, but that's not problem the average condemned will face.)
*sigh* Patent 5155847, referenced in Apple's patent, covers everything Apple's does. The only differences are obvious minor adaptions based on the different communications channels in use, things any network programmer does automatically every day.
You fail patent law 101.
The reasons those references are there are to point out that yes, the filer knew about those inventions and yes, the filer believes that the new invention is sufficiently different to be patentable, and yes, Mr. Trammel, examiner of record, and Mr. Corcoran, assistant examiner, please do look over these other patents, because we are damned sure that our invention is sufficiently different from them that it is patentable, and we are not afraid to tell you about them.
Sometime back in the 1980s, Apple made an insultingly low take-over bid for Sun.
I know they almost made a bid for Apollo; I never heard about Sun
When Apple was in bad financial straights in the 1990s, Sun returned the favor and put an insulting low offer out for Apple.
Actually, it was a pretty high bid given Apple's huge losses at the time, but Apple's incompetent management at the time took it as an insult anyway.
I don't think either Sun or Apple was serious about it, however Apple really wanted IBM to buy them out.
And exactly the same thing happened. IBM made an offer, and Apple turned them down.
At least after Steve Jobs returned, Apple's financial performance gives some justification for its inflated view of itself.
And it would aid the economy in the sense of the two pooling their money, and centralizing their spending.
Seeing as the whole justification of mergers is to "cut costs," I'm pretty sure the combined IBM/Sun would spend less money in fewer places. Centralized, yes. Good for IBM, yes. Good for the broader economy...probably not.
It would also aid us in the IT field, as the post-merger IBM would sell Sparc AND POWER hardware, with the option of Solaris or Linux on either one (theoretically), all bundled with IBM's famous support.
I'm not sure that I'd want that at all. IBM's support is famously expensive. Yes, the big blue army does know how to come through in an emergency, but they charge handsomely for the privilege. And constantly call you to make sure that you have everything from IBM that you could ever want.
IBM owning the rights to Java would work wonders for the Java community, especially in the Linux aspect
Hopefully, they'll accelerate the process that Sun has started and open-source everything. Neither IBM, nor Sun, nor any other company should "own the rights" to anything except the Java name.
and IBM would have probably contributed more to StarOffice/OpenOffice
Good, good...
using some Lotus material.
...whoa, DO NOT WANT!!!! (Yes, I'm a former Notes developer, can you tell?
I was really looking forward to the two becoming one, needless to say, especially for more formidable Microsoft competition (from both a business stance and IT stance).
Before there was Microsoft, there was IBM. Trust me, IBM was no better.
But ah well, IBM withdrew, so It'll just go back to Sun barely remaining a company, and IBM being competition on a fairly peer-to-peer level with them and Microsoft when it comes time to design new network infrastructures. If Red Hat bought Sun, I don't know if it would be as much of a benefit as if IBM and Sun merged, but for Sun anything is better than their current status - I just wish they would have seen that more clearly when IBM offered them a healthy current-economy-sum for their company.
All I hope is that Java, MySQL, OpenOffice, and all of Sun's other initiatives (it's hard to call them products, since Sun can't seem to make money off of them) can find stable homes, either as self-sustaining open-source projects or under companies that won't smother them. IBM does not fit the bill, in my experience (although their work with Eclipse comes closest.)
You recall incorrectly. There was a menu command called "eject disk" which did exactly what it was supposed to.
Dragging the disk to the trash was a way to un-mount the volume, which (for floppy disks) also resulted in their being ejected.
Having an eject button on the drive would make them like modern CD/DVD drives (which auto-detect and mount discs like TFA is discussing) where pushing the Eject button doesn't always eject the disc, since it may be in use.
Good point, but information you've used is not correct.
FY2008 Apple Unix Desktops revenue: $5.6 Bln.
5.60 b (desktops) + 8.67b (laptops) = 14.27b
I guess I should have said "Desktops and notebooks" or perhaps "workstations" or perhaps even "PCs."
Apple is fighting for PC/Windows desktops market share - they are not in traditional Unix market - big boxes for commercial workloads, mostly databases.
Today, sure. And fifteen years ago, Microsoft was only in the PC market, and had essentially no share of the server market. It's a lot easier for a popular desktop vendor to wedge its way into the server room than for a popular server vendor to wedge its way onto the desktop. (2009 is the year, baby!)
IBM Unix Servers: 6.387b
IBM Unix Desktops: Essentially 0
HP Unix Servers: 4.561b
HP Unix Destkops: Essentially 0
Apple Unix Servers: 0.099b
Apple Unix Desktops: 14.27b (FY 2008)
In other words, Apple makes TWICE as much money selling Unix-based systems as IBM.
Don't forget about Google Autopilot!
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
It's CADIE's greatest application!
This is something I wish they would build: An ELIZA auto-response wizard for nigerian spam.
Given how poor the average spammer's English skills are, they won't recognize it for at least a half-dozen messages.
I'd accept the "it's-April-1-here" argument, except that:
1. The article is dated "By Jacob Gube, March 31st, 2009"
2. The URL contains the string ".../2009/03/31/..."
That you can't be without it for a few hours?
Never been on a plane, huh? Let me enlighten you:
People on a plane will do anything to distract themselves from the cramped space, uncomfortable seats, stale air, stale body odor, and bad food. Including paying out the nose for booze, headphones to listen to a movie, or internet access.
So how do you use a mouse with a Scottish accent? Curious minds are dying to know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzRziK-kZtQ
Just drop your geek card in the slot by the door as you leave.
There are at least some "big name" universities that offer separate "academic" and "professional" graduate tracks.
Perhaps you do attend an ivory-tower institution with a disdain for the practical side of things. (Or perhaps that's just your perception of things.) But there are certainly institutions that are more than willing to take on Masters students who aren't just checking off a box on their way to a PhD.
In an age where a brand new laptop costs $300-$400 (and netbooks even less) I don't think that would be a barrier to anyone that can afford community college tuition.
Especially considering that owning a PC frees your hypothetical single parent to work on assignments from home instead of hiring a babysitter while (s)he goes to the lab, saves lots of trips to the library, both for parent and child, and can keep the kids occupied during cram time.
Courses that require special math/engineering/graphics software certainly change the equation, though. In my experience, the math/engineering/arts/etc department usually maintains their own specific labs for those purposes. General-purpose labs are pretty useless.
A very fine filtration system might cut down on the amount of particulate matter (soot) that seemed to be the focus of this study. Won't help you while you're outside, or in your car, but can't hurt.
Filters can do nothing against other pollutants like, say, ozone or oxides of nitrogen. (Those "ionic" air "purifiers" actually very slightly increase the amount of ozone in the air.)