You know, with all these phones that have ungodly amounts of memory and built-in GPS, why don't we have a friggin unit that combines both functionality for the user? I would love a GPS unit, and getting one subsidized by my carrier would certainly be nice.
I've had it too, while re-doing some phone wiring about the house. The pain really wasn't bad - notably less than that of a 120VAC circuit. Then again, the circuit just led from my thumb through my index finger - not all that long of a path.
UNIX is not immune, just an unlikely target because:
1) It (has been/is) relatively uncommon. The old Mac OS had a couple hundred native viruses, compared to the tens of thousande for MS OSes. It's not because they were less vulnerable, it's because they were less common. Now, extrapolate from the 95/5% usage patterns of Windows 3.1/Mac OS 7, and try to figure out howmany viruses the old.1% of computers that were UNIX would figure in.
2) Huge variety of platforms. The same compiled code that runs on an PA-RISC machine will not run under Sparc, MIPS, POWER, etc. Add into that the wide variety of OSes on each platform (Sparc Linux, Solaris, Sparc NetBSD) and you have a relatively low concentration of machines vulnerable to any given exploit.
3) Different users. The dicks who write virii are usually not going to be the same people that administer a machine for a living, they're going to be the 20-year-old college kid with too much time on his hands. They have access to a Windows machine, but probably not high-level access to a *NIX machine.
4) Most virii we see now are not OS-targetted. Sure, it may use Win32 functions, but it's really an Outlook virus. Or a Word virus.
5) Low chance for inter-machine interaction. What's the chance that a Windows machine will be talking to another Windows machine? Wost users are on a Windows machine, so the list of possible transmission vectors is immense compared to those for other platforms.
Sure, the security model in UNIX is more thorough than that of Windows. Still, there have been a fair number of root exploits in common daemons lately that would allow a worm/virus to spread - but because of the above reasons, UNIX just isn't a good target for a virus writer.
What really happened is Adobe refused to start over.
Most of the interface is a relic from the days of analog video and analog editing equipment. It's a pain to import video, it's a pain to edit video for newbies. It's a pain to export the video to a sane format.
Without stripping away and re-doing the core, Premiere is doomed to suck compared to a streamlined and focused DV-editing machine like FCP. In today's pro market, you'll rarely have to deal with analog media. Since FCP doesn't even bother to work with that, the interface becmes simpler. In a similar vein, the Premiere interface is modeled to more closely match analog editing equipment, whereas the FCP desing throws out some of the old interface ideas. Once again, it makes the way you work with the program simpler and more direct.
If adobe would start over again with DV in mind, they could stand a chance. As it is now, they're in the world of outmoded technologies like cooperative multitasking, VHS, and the horse-drawn carriage.
The thing is, WMM is beyond shitty for anything other than mundane tasks. The interface is at least as complicated as iMovie, but maybe half as powerful.
I have yet to figure out how to create a high-res movie, at least when starting from an analog source. All the export options are targetted at sending them over e-mail or other such tasks, and so are optimized for minimum size. iTunes lets me export full DV streams.
As another poster mentioned, at least they added transitions with version 2...maybe they'll get a full feature set by version 14 or so...
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Ah, I tried a few times, but I always switched back in just a few moments - you can toggle the display with the caps lock key.
I once navigated the control panel like that just for the challenge, but any serious work is nigh-impossible.
Still, it's one of my favorite hacks.
Screw that, I'll make my own shots.
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Thank goodness I have that G3 around and asciiMac is Mac OS 9.2 compatible;)
As far as databased searching of your comptuer, what you're looking for (as long as you meant in the command line;) is the one-two punch of 'updatedb' and 'locate' - they're wonderful. For some odd reason, though, they're nto in the default search path. My OS X machine is down at this instant, otherwise I'd dell you where they are. Rest assured, though, they're installed with Jaguar.
Some of us don't have broadband, and a modem's not exactly desireable when downloading ~500 MB of software. What's even worse is when your connection is limited to four hours at a time.
By the time I got testing installed by that method, half of the packages would require updating! =P
Some CDs are still expensive (the new Radiohead album comes to mind) but two of the last three (including the above-mentioned;) CDs I purchased were under $10 at my local music store.
192.186.x.x, 10.x.x.x, and 172.[16-31].x.x are all reserved for private, internal routing by anyone. Those addresses are not legal on the public internet, and most routers know to drop traffic with those addressees. Since they don't get routed, it's perfectly safe for separate people to be using the same address without worries of conflicts.
We ned something like Carfax for cars...list all the possible natural disasters and possible damage to an IP block, get a complete list of past owners and a concise list of previous uses. Get an idea of what you're getting into with a block.
It has a context menu, but the one feature I love - drag a file with the right mouse button, and it gives you a menu including "extract to [destination]" - is missing from it. I knwo WinRAR has that ability, and I'm pretty sure WinZip does as well.
I already do. Thankfully, I just leave the pen on the paper and my printing just gets connected into a half-cursive abomination. There are a few characters that aren't anything like the cursive version, but really nobody picks up on it.
We did something like this for a school project with some equipment that the local cable co. had for the cable-access channel, but the "flying erase head" (so said the resident tech) caused problems for us because abotu 5 frames would be erased at the end of every segment we pasted in like this. We learned that you *had* do do things in order.
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I think the point may have been that quitting a workplace where they are so willing to cut cornerst is probably in your (as a worker) best interest.
You know, with all these phones that have ungodly amounts of memory and built-in GPS, why don't we have a friggin unit that combines both functionality for the user? I would love a GPS unit, and getting one subsidized by my carrier would certainly be nice.
It's a software on/off switch, that makes it so the phone does not give out the info UNLESS YOU DIALED 911.
It's only a privacy issue if you habitually call 911 for emergencies like running out of toilet paper.
I've had it too, while re-doing some phone wiring about the house. The pain really wasn't bad - notably less than that of a 120VAC circuit. Then again, the circuit just led from my thumb through my index finger - not all that long of a path.
Pardon me, but "Insightful"?
Ah, I suppose so.
UNIX is not immune, just an unlikely target because:
.1% of computers that were UNIX would figure in.
1) It (has been/is) relatively uncommon. The old Mac OS had a couple hundred native viruses, compared to the tens of thousande for MS OSes. It's not because they were less vulnerable, it's because they were less common. Now, extrapolate from the 95/5% usage patterns of Windows 3.1/Mac OS 7, and try to figure out howmany viruses the old
2) Huge variety of platforms. The same compiled code that runs on an PA-RISC machine will not run under Sparc, MIPS, POWER, etc. Add into that the wide variety of OSes on each platform (Sparc Linux, Solaris, Sparc NetBSD) and you have a relatively low concentration of machines vulnerable to any given exploit.
3) Different users. The dicks who write virii are usually not going to be the same people that administer a machine for a living, they're going to be the 20-year-old college kid with too much time on his hands. They have access to a Windows machine, but probably not high-level access to a *NIX machine.
4) Most virii we see now are not OS-targetted. Sure, it may use Win32 functions, but it's really an Outlook virus. Or a Word virus.
5) Low chance for inter-machine interaction. What's the chance that a Windows machine will be talking to another Windows machine? Wost users are on a Windows machine, so the list of possible transmission vectors is immense compared to those for other platforms.
Sure, the security model in UNIX is more thorough than that of Windows. Still, there have been a fair number of root exploits in common daemons lately that would allow a worm/virus to spread - but because of the above reasons, UNIX just isn't a good target for a virus writer.
What really happened is Adobe refused to start over.
Most of the interface is a relic from the days of analog video and analog editing equipment. It's a pain to import video, it's a pain to edit video for newbies. It's a pain to export the video to a sane format.
Without stripping away and re-doing the core, Premiere is doomed to suck compared to a streamlined and focused DV-editing machine like FCP. In today's pro market, you'll rarely have to deal with analog media. Since FCP doesn't even bother to work with that, the interface becmes simpler. In a similar vein, the Premiere interface is modeled to more closely match analog editing equipment, whereas the FCP desing throws out some of the old interface ideas. Once again, it makes the way you work with the program simpler and more direct.
If adobe would start over again with DV in mind, they could stand a chance. As it is now, they're in the world of outmoded technologies like cooperative multitasking, VHS, and the horse-drawn carriage.
The thing is, WMM is beyond shitty for anything other than mundane tasks. The interface is at least as complicated as iMovie, but maybe half as powerful.
I have yet to figure out how to create a high-res movie, at least when starting from an analog source. All the export options are targetted at sending them over e-mail or other such tasks, and so are optimized for minimum size. iTunes lets me export full DV streams.
As another poster mentioned, at least they added transitions with version 2...maybe they'll get a full feature set by version 14 or so...
Ah, I tried a few times, but I always switched back in just a few moments - you can toggle the display with the caps lock key.
I once navigated the control panel like that just for the challenge, but any serious work is nigh-impossible.
Still, it's one of my favorite hacks.
Thank goodness I have that G3 around and asciiMac is Mac OS 9.2 compatible ;)
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Way back in 1998, in fact, there was a *much cooler* hack done for the Macintosh.
asciiMac intercepted drawing calls in QuickDraw and translated it into color ASCII art on-the-fly.
There aren't any great screenshots that I can find, but this link can give you some sort of idea what it looked like.
Unfortunately, Basilisk II can't emulate a PCI Power Mac, or I'd make my own screenshots for you.
With a proper disc, you could set up a net-boot system.
It could still be useful.
With the processing power available, probably not as useful as the XBox, but surely better than the PS2.
As far as databased searching of your comptuer, what you're looking for (as long as you meant in the command line ;) is the one-two punch of 'updatedb' and 'locate' - they're wonderful. For some odd reason, though, they're nto in the default search path. My OS X machine is down at this instant, otherwise I'd dell you where they are. Rest assured, though, they're installed with Jaguar.
And, last I knew, crashes on failed admin login when you're authing through LDAP.
Some of us don't have broadband, and a modem's not exactly desireable when downloading ~500 MB of software. What's even worse is when your connection is limited to four hours at a time.
By the time I got testing installed by that method, half of the packages would require updating! =P
Some CDs are still expensive (the new Radiohead album comes to mind) but two of the last three (including the above-mentioned ;) CDs I purchased were under $10 at my local music store.
You can buy 10.x.x.x from me if you like - only $0.01 per IP address
Cool, can I get 10.11.12.13?
And do you take PayPal?
192.186.x.x, 10.x.x.x, and 172.[16-31].x.x are all reserved for private, internal routing by anyone. Those addresses are not legal on the public internet, and most routers know to drop traffic with those addressees. Since they don't get routed, it's perfectly safe for separate people to be using the same address without worries of conflicts.
We ned something like Carfax for cars...list all the possible natural disasters and possible damage to an IP block, get a complete list of past owners and a concise list of previous uses. Get an idea of what you're getting into with a block.
It has a context menu, but the one feature I love - drag a file with the right mouse button, and it gives you a menu including "extract to [destination]" - is missing from it. I knwo WinRAR has that ability, and I'm pretty sure WinZip does as well.
Why? It's not like there are more than six people who own a GCN but do not own a GBA.
Woo! I'm finally a member of a minority group!
By the way, damn Square (and the man!) for keepin' me down!
I already do. Thankfully, I just leave the pen on the paper and my printing just gets connected into a half-cursive abomination. There are a few characters that aren't anything like the cursive version, but really nobody picks up on it.
;)
It's all just a big scribble anyway
He hates people face-to-face, too. That's why they make him work help desk - the person on the other end can't see his evil expressions quite so well.
=)
We did something like this for a school project with some equipment that the local cable co. had for the cable-access channel, but the "flying erase head" (so said the resident tech) caused problems for us because abotu 5 frames would be erased at the end of every segment we pasted in like this. We learned that you *had* do do things in order.