can you go to sourceforge, find some random application's binaries for bsd and install/run them without issue on mac osx?
Actually, yes. This has been the case for just about every version of OS X ever released, since before 2001. That's because it uses a BSD tool chain and APIs. Apple goes to great lengths to maintain such compatibility, and should be pretty common knowledge if you've been paying attention on Slashdot.
That phrase is redundant. Native apps (especially those that the user can compile and run him/herself on his/her own machine), will always provide more freedom and control than anything running on someone else's web server, or inside some sandboxed browser environment. Your view of pushing for the web application is entirely in conflict with giving users more control —and I suppose it should come as no surprise that you're willing to advocate for DRM, too. Get your priorities straight.
These "diamond-hard stone" discs can withstand "temperatures extending up to 176 degrees Fahrenheit as well as UV rays that would destroy conventional DVD discs."
Are there any Off-the-record supporting Apps for Android ? (And perhaps for iPhone, although I doubt that Apple will green-light one)
Absolutely. Moxie Marlinspike of thoughtcrime.org has made precisely that, in the form of TextSecure (crypto info here). He's also got a VOIP app that uses Phil Zimmerman's ZRTP protocol.
It sounds like these worms would be so much more elegantly architected using erlang. When will the worm industry finally escape its Windows/x86 ASM legacy and enter the wonderful world of distributed, functional dynamic programming?
Yes, use PBKDF2. It was engineered for the very reason of reducing the effectiveness of password-based attacks. You can produce a key of any length using any number of desired iterations, to allow scaling with advances in microprocessor efficiency. You can use any HMAC you want, including Whirlpool (see derive_key_whirlpool in Truecrypt's source: Common/Pkcs5.c as a starting point).
I use Googles/ig page, and when my browser opens I can see at a glance my email, my calendar, and top headlines via RSS feeds from a dozen different websites. All on one page. Why wouldn't you use a customized portal??
Because I use Dashboard, my email client notifies me of new messages while I work, my calendering software notifies me of upcoming meetings in a similar fashion, and there have long-existed superior RSS reading programs with which web-based aggregators would have a difficult time keeping up.
Does that mean that the Diebold machines aren't rigged? And that the Republicans are honest?
The percentage of the vote that can be manipulated with electronic voting machines is limited. This is what happens when all the disenfranchisement and rigging you can muster is still not enough.
That's a very good question. I think it should even be possible to combine a PPC binary built with IBM's XLC PowerPC compiler for Mac OS X and Intel's x86 compiler using lipo! As long as they're Mach-O binaries I don't think there should be a problem.
What makes you think you need two Macs? Surely you're familiar with cross-compilation--and you've heard of Rosetta, right? That's all you need. It's a trivial process to make sure that an app runs on PPC Macs if you've already got an x86 one. Check a box and double-click.
Don't you want your application to be at least mildly popular? Implementing cross-platform vectorized code is pretty easy--if I were an Apple engineer I would tell you to use the Accelerate framework in Mac OS X (formerly vecLib) and be done with it. Honestly, you're in for a big disappointment if you want to develop for Macs while restricting your application to only the very earliest adopters of an already marginalized platform simply because you have a couple of SSE2-only implementations of something that's probably already available in libraries distributed with your target OS. I've ported a 26,000 line PPC Mac OS X application to run natively on an Intel Mac by changing less than ten lines of code, and the project already had Altivec optimizations to boot. Once you actually start using the Mac OS X APIs you'll see how easy it is. Jobs wasn't joking when he said you just have to check one box in Xcode. Forget QT. The Mac really is that consistent.
I am just not releasing any products with SSE inlined at this time....probably soon tho.
Well, if that's going to be a Mac product you'd better be prepared to write an altivec or at least scalar-code implementation of that algorithm for the PPC version. Just because Apple is switching microprocessors doesn't mean that your user base (assuming you do become a Mac developer) isn't going to be 70% PPC for the next 5 years.
Actually, it uses the Mach kernel with FreeBSD userland tools. It has its own abstraction layer called IOKit for device drivers and its own window server called Quartz. So no, it doesn't have a BSD kernel, it doesn't use BSD drivers, and it doesn't use X11 for its "pretty interface." It's not "BSD" any more than Windows is "BSD" due it including a BSD-licensed network stack. Ask your grandma to buy you one of the new I-MAXES for your birthday, d00d. Maybe you'll learn something.
Is that really so bad, though, when you consider that they're probably receiving these iPods in lieu of a raise or a fungible bonus? A 200 to $300 bonus for people who probably make salaries that they use to support families? It seems almost underhanded, as at the very least it's a small gift to counter larger requests from employees.
Mac OS X does indeed retain the BSD user-immutable and system-immutable flags. For example, the command sudo chflags schg filename is completely effective on a Mac, requiring either a sudo shutdown +0 command or a reboot into Mac OS 9, where the file can then be unlocked from the Get Info window.
Similar functionality can be had in Linux with the lcap command--after making a file immutable, simply remove the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability to prevent further modification until the next reboot. For added security, add this to an early init script.
Making files immutable is not the only option in this realm, however. It's often usefl to mark log files as append-only, for example.
Businesses also want people who have proficiency in their native language and who can communicate without generating run-on sentences. You make a good case for outsourcing.
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Ah yes, I misread that as "source code". Very few distribute pre-built binaries for BSD, though; that's what the ports system is for.
Actually, yes. This has been the case for just about every version of OS X ever released, since before 2001. That's because it uses a BSD tool chain and APIs. Apple goes to great lengths to maintain such compatibility, and should be pretty common knowledge if you've been paying attention on Slashdot.
That phrase is redundant. Native apps (especially those that the user can compile and run him/herself on his/her own machine), will always provide more freedom and control than anything running on someone else's web server, or inside some sandboxed browser environment. Your view of pushing for the web application is entirely in conflict with giving users more control —and I suppose it should come as no surprise that you're willing to advocate for DRM, too. Get your priorities straight.
These "diamond-hard stone" discs can withstand "temperatures extending up to 176 degrees Fahrenheit as well as UV rays that would destroy conventional DVD discs."
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/14/cranberry-diamondisc-the-35-dvd-thatll-last-longer-than-your/
Absolutely. Moxie Marlinspike of thoughtcrime.org has made precisely that, in the form of TextSecure (crypto info here). He's also got a VOIP app that uses Phil Zimmerman's ZRTP protocol.
A music visualizer needs to be installed? When did Windows prevent normal users from just running executables?
Congratulations, you just ran whois on a porn site instead of scroogle.org. Thanks for offering your authoritative opinion.
Scroogle.org, which is the actual search-engine proxy in question, has been operated by Daniel Brandt for the last 6 years or so.
It sounds like these worms would be so much more elegantly architected using erlang. When will the worm industry finally escape its Windows/x86 ASM legacy and enter the wonderful world of distributed, functional dynamic programming?
You expect Aunt Tillie to have installed Application Enhancer?
Yes, use PBKDF2. It was engineered for the very reason of reducing the effectiveness of password-based attacks. You can produce a key of any length using any number of desired iterations, to allow scaling with advances in microprocessor efficiency. You can use any HMAC you want, including Whirlpool (see derive_key_whirlpool in Truecrypt's source: Common/Pkcs5.c as a starting point).
Didn't the world move beyond customizable portals with My Netscape? Does anyone actually care about this fluff anymore?
The percentage of the vote that can be manipulated with electronic voting machines is limited. This is what happens when all the disenfranchisement and rigging you can muster is still not enough.
It's called SSL.
Or did you actually intend to ask a more useful question?
They are.
That's a very good question. I think it should even be possible to combine a PPC binary built with IBM's XLC PowerPC compiler for Mac OS X and Intel's x86 compiler using lipo! As long as they're Mach-O binaries I don't think there should be a problem.
What makes you think you need two Macs? Surely you're familiar with cross-compilation--and you've heard of Rosetta, right? That's all you need. It's a trivial process to make sure that an app runs on PPC Macs if you've already got an x86 one. Check a box and double-click.
Don't you want your application to be at least mildly popular? Implementing cross-platform vectorized code is pretty easy--if I were an Apple engineer I would tell you to use the Accelerate framework in Mac OS X (formerly vecLib) and be done with it. Honestly, you're in for a big disappointment if you want to develop for Macs while restricting your application to only the very earliest adopters of an already marginalized platform simply because you have a couple of SSE2-only implementations of something that's probably already available in libraries distributed with your target OS. I've ported a 26,000 line PPC Mac OS X application to run natively on an Intel Mac by changing less than ten lines of code, and the project already had Altivec optimizations to boot. Once you actually start using the Mac OS X APIs you'll see how easy it is. Jobs wasn't joking when he said you just have to check one box in Xcode. Forget QT. The Mac really is that consistent.
Well, if that's going to be a Mac product you'd better be prepared to write an altivec or at least scalar-code implementation of that algorithm for the PPC version. Just because Apple is switching microprocessors doesn't mean that your user base (assuming you do become a Mac developer) isn't going to be 70% PPC for the next 5 years.
LOL! Not only is the WebKit framework available to any developer who can drag and drop in Interface Builder, but WebCore is available under an open source license! Microsoft has access to the freaking source code. Public relations departments are funny.
Actually, it uses the Mach kernel with FreeBSD userland tools. It has its own abstraction layer called IOKit for device drivers and its own window server called Quartz. So no, it doesn't have a BSD kernel, it doesn't use BSD drivers, and it doesn't use X11 for its "pretty interface." It's not "BSD" any more than Windows is "BSD" due it including a BSD-licensed network stack. Ask your grandma to buy you one of the new I-MAXES for your birthday, d00d. Maybe you'll learn something.
Is that really so bad, though, when you consider that they're probably receiving these iPods in lieu of a raise or a fungible bonus? A 200 to $300 bonus for people who probably make salaries that they use to support families? It seems almost underhanded, as at the very least it's a small gift to counter larger requests from employees.
Mac OS X does indeed retain the BSD user-immutable and system-immutable flags. For example, the command
sudo chflags schg filename is completely effective on a Mac, requiring either a sudo shutdown +0 command or a reboot into Mac OS 9, where the file can then be unlocked from the Get Info window.
Similar functionality can be had in Linux with the lcap command--after making a file immutable, simply remove the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability to prevent further modification until the next reboot. For added security, add this to an early init script.
Making files immutable is not the only option in this realm, however. It's often usefl to mark log files as append-only, for example.
Businesses also want people who have proficiency in their native language and who can communicate without generating run-on sentences. You make a good case for outsourcing.
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