It seems that most of the complaints for compromised iTunes accounts come from areas with high rates of piracy or malware infections. I wonder how much this of this comes from keyloggers or Trojans in pirated software / questionable web sites. It may be that there are app developers that work with malware developers who target iTunes accts because it may go un-noticed longer than blatant credit card or identity theft.
Thank you for the info. I work with biomedical devices and have a bunch that only interface with PPC Macs and really thrash my Powerbook HD and an SSD is about the last thing I can upgrade before paying 100k for a hardware upgrade for the device.
Does anyone know of a drive that has this behavior? I have an Apple Laptop that must run OS 10.5. I know that OSX does not support TRIM, so I would love to upgrade to an SSD (SATA) that does this independently of the OS.
I believe in global warming, but at the same time, for the lamp in my bedroom for reading at night, my eyes prefer an incadecent bulb to the light that even a good CFL gives out. I also live in Wisconsin and we need a bulb for outside that will actually work when you flip on the switch. I don't need them for 90 percent of my house, but for those two areas, I am stockpiling them so that can enjoy nighttime reading, and I can see where I am going in winter.
With CFCs directly leading to the ozone hole, I can see what a government ban was needed. Now for light bulbs, not all energy that we use contributes to global warming. I pay extra on my bill to help support renewable energy, andh use CFLs in every room but the garage and my bedroom lamp. I do not think that I am being irresponsible for this use. I think that the political party I typically support has gone overboard with this, and it should be overturned, just like when Chicago tried to limit certain types of food.
The fun part with this is when the 3 ISPs get their connections from the same junction, and when the junction goes out, all three of them go down. I would rather go with the T1, since they are generally more reliable than DSL, Cable, or low end microwave or wireless connections.
This is more than likely what happened. A kid who was mad that they were not invited or wanted to get a specific group of people they don't like in trouble pointed this out to school admins.
The board that the CPU was tested was either a pre-production model that Intel supplied for the tests, or was overclocked by the testers to run at the speed that the CPU FSB can support. Since no MBs officially support that FSB speed, I am guessing that Intel supplied the MB, but I have seen MBs run at at 1400 FSB even though it was not officially supported by the manufacturer.
That is the first thing I thought, "I bet they are still using Token Ring." Man, when a Token Ring card went bad, it was hell on the network, nothing worked because the token would not get passed properly.
In your question you stated that the Toshiba laptop runs custom tablet software. If all other configurations of Vista, the Intel Chipset, Quicktime, and other variables work fine, you have just eliminated them as possibilities but the Tablet software. More than likely there is some call within the tablet software doing with the display that interacts when a Mov. is trying to be played locally, which causes conflict.
Also, why is this Slashdot worthy?
If you would have told me that Jake and the Fat Man would be on DVD two years ago, I would have laughed. Now it is. What you would be doing is impacting future earnings. It is a companies right to not distribute something that they paid for and created. While you might not like that, it is true. If a company makes a movie that they do not like and don't distribute it, which has happened before, that does not mean that it is ok to pirate it. It is a buisness calculation to not release it and whatever happens for the company, be it good or bad is the companies problem. Since music and TV and movies are not a necessity, I don't see why there is this arguement that it is ok to pirate or copy it. These things are not like recepies for bread, ways to get clean water or other things that are needed to sustain life. Tough shit if you can't get the music you want. I wanted to go to a concert earlier this year but the tickets were 80 dollars. That does not give me the right to sneak in for free. The same goes with DVDs and TV. Companies pay for these things throught investors on future earnings for movies or advertisements on tv. I am guessing the TV shows you download do not have the advertisements in them. While it has been declared legal to fast forward through them, it is still illegal to copy and distribute them without the ads. Life isn't fair, you don't deserve everything that you always want. I want a Porsche 911 Targa, but I don't have the money for it. I don't rail against the machine and complain that it is unfair that it is priced at 80-100k. Buck up and accept the facts. If you want to change them, go ahead, but that doesn't make it legal to go around what you do when you pirate or copy things. You are not saving or preserving human life, liberty or the persut of happyness when you download Family guy.
Yeah, all that is going to happen is that there will be the new larger capability ipods, that may or may not have a wide screen *not like what people think* and a new iBook with a 1.5 core solo, and up to a 1.83 core duo with a 13.3 inch wide screen. it will weigh a little over 5 lbs, have the new apple power connector, but will have intel based video. What the surprise will be is that it will support two monitors, but only with some hacking like the current ibooks.
Also expect a new style case, that some will say is stupid, while others will say it is evolutionary not revolutionary. I am not sure if the iSight camera will be buit in, but I don't think they are going that wroute any more. Oh, and yeah, a new iSight camera that will be almost HD quality, but won't work on anything but the g5 and intel based macs. It will be USB 2, and not firewire, surprising people.
People in Japan over the last 30 years have been draining Vintage tubed audio equipment and horn loudspeakers from the US like no other country. If you were to go over to Japan with an old Western Electric 300b Based tube amp, you could get thousands of dollars for it. An example of a Mcintosh MC 30 6l6 based amp going price in the US is around 600-1000 dollars per mono bock. If I were to take the amps over there, I could get 5-10k for a set. The same with Altec, JBL, Klipsch, Western electric speakers. This will hurt a huge tubed audio and vintage audio industry in Japan. Most of their high end audio gear is still tubed based, and they often love to use vintage caps, resistors, transformers, for they think they have better sound. This will put lots of people out of business.
Since Apple sells the software along with their new computer, that is not for purchase in a store, you either have to download the software illegally, or install the same software on multiple computers without a license for all of them. Both of them in both cases are illegal. So Apple wants to prevent people from downloading a pirated version of the software and running it on a computer that doesn't have a valid license? What is wrong with that? For the past 15 years I have been dealing with software that is not open source, installing the software on multiple computers with a single license is illegal, and there has never really been an arguement against it that holds up. They have every right to stop people from illegally pirating OS X or using the software on multiple machines, since Intel based 10.4 is not available for resale.
Istalling a HD into a G5 tower does not void the Apple Warranty, since Apple itself states that Memory, PCI cards, and Hard drives are user servicable. Many places do have outragous prices on hardware upgrades, but your son was pretty dumb to go along with Apple for this.
And you are hitting your HD how much with this config? So are you saying that running KPDF should take up over 200 megs of memory if I need it running?
Also, asking why I am not runing 3.1 or 7.1 is asking why did you start using the 2.6 Kernal when 1.3 was running fine? Oh, you mean I can run final cut on a 68030?
I still consider 395 megs of memory used when using the K web browser and file system to be too much. I have built my own KDE running 3.5, and even on a P4 2.8 with 1.5 gigs of ram running Debian it is slower than Windows or OSX. The sad thing is, being that KDE is the most usable GUI for Linux/BSD, and has the best support for Open office, that I still use it. I still am fond of when A GUI took up 20 megs, ran well with 12 megs of memory, and was almost instainious in response to commands. (Mac OS 7.1 and Windows 3.1 on a 68030 and 486 respectively)
It will never happen. Apple needs OSX to be able to be in the market place. Apple, while making money off of the hardware will need OSX, especially since going to the Intel platform to make it different. If they opened it up to white box computers no one would buy Apple hardware, and they would soon be stuck with just iPods and iBooks and Powerbooks. The cannot do this, for it would kill the company.
Lets slow down KDE even more. The sad thing is KDE 4 is looking to be as bloated as a Microsoft Windows release. Too bad they cannot have a KDE lite without stuff that I don't need or things that I can do on my Mac.
Can you please state why NOLA did not allow the use of school busses that carry 70k people to school every day for the manditory evacuation?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/48 0/flpc21109012015
They sure as hell were not under water on Thrusday, Friday, and Saturday. Why can Mississippi even with their death toll, and not manditory evacuations have less casulties? Because they allowed the use of public transperation to take people to shelters. Did this happen in NOLA? No. Did the FEMA response suck? Yes, but it is LA and especially NOLA that is to fault for their problems.
OH LORDY! There are physical and mental differences between the sexes. I could of told you that when my girlfriend dragged me to a Hanson concert! Wake me up when men can have babies.
If you build a computer that is compliant, then found out that it is not, and the shit hits the fan, you could be in big trouble. If HP or IBM builds that computer, and it is found out it is not compliant, but they state it is, and sell it as one, the shit hits the fan, and you are in trouble, but not the "get fired, and never work for the government again" kind like the building your own might do.
What if you lease time from Sun, and the computers that your data are being crunched on your compiditors computer? What about someone wanting to see what you are doing, and what is going on? This is not breaking encryption or finding aliens, this could be used by insurance, health, or governmental agencies for crunching large numbers, or searching databases. What have they done to address this?
Hasn't it been proven that a Shuttle type transport is not the most cost effective way of lifting heavy loads and even for things like simple manned space flight? Could this be a case of trying to copy the USA, just because, or is it viable. I seem to remember reading that making a temporary space station for experents say out of Apollo parts like skylab, when done today with other space parts we have lying around would be cheaper than a schuttle. Feel free to prove me wrong, but the one size fits all seems to be what NASA is getting away from, and specialization is the way to go.
Really, how useful is this? If you need something really secure, why not make a Live CD or memory stick linux that require authentication from a the USB dongle in the form of a password or biometrics? Most PCs are much more powerful then this is, and can provide much more function.
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It seems that most of the complaints for compromised iTunes accounts come from areas with high rates of piracy or malware infections. I wonder how much this of this comes from keyloggers or Trojans in pirated software / questionable web sites. It may be that there are app developers that work with malware developers who target iTunes accts because it may go un-noticed longer than blatant credit card or identity theft.
Thank you for the info. I work with biomedical devices and have a bunch that only interface with PPC Macs and really thrash my Powerbook HD and an SSD is about the last thing I can upgrade before paying 100k for a hardware upgrade for the device.
Does anyone know of a drive that has this behavior? I have an Apple Laptop that must run OS 10.5. I know that OSX does not support TRIM, so I would love to upgrade to an SSD (SATA) that does this independently of the OS.
I believe in global warming, but at the same time, for the lamp in my bedroom for reading at night, my eyes prefer an incadecent bulb to the light that even a good CFL gives out. I also live in Wisconsin and we need a bulb for outside that will actually work when you flip on the switch. I don't need them for 90 percent of my house, but for those two areas, I am stockpiling them so that can enjoy nighttime reading, and I can see where I am going in winter. With CFCs directly leading to the ozone hole, I can see what a government ban was needed. Now for light bulbs, not all energy that we use contributes to global warming. I pay extra on my bill to help support renewable energy, andh use CFLs in every room but the garage and my bedroom lamp. I do not think that I am being irresponsible for this use. I think that the political party I typically support has gone overboard with this, and it should be overturned, just like when Chicago tried to limit certain types of food.
There are many Fujitsu models without Cameras. You can get a Fujitsu 4220 tablet without one, or an E8420. Both are nice notebooks and work great.
The fun part with this is when the 3 ISPs get their connections from the same junction, and when the junction goes out, all three of them go down. I would rather go with the T1, since they are generally more reliable than DSL, Cable, or low end microwave or wireless connections.
This is more than likely what happened. A kid who was mad that they were not invited or wanted to get a specific group of people they don't like in trouble pointed this out to school admins.
The board that the CPU was tested was either a pre-production model that Intel supplied for the tests, or was overclocked by the testers to run at the speed that the CPU FSB can support. Since no MBs officially support that FSB speed, I am guessing that Intel supplied the MB, but I have seen MBs run at at 1400 FSB even though it was not officially supported by the manufacturer.
That is the first thing I thought, "I bet they are still using Token Ring." Man, when a Token Ring card went bad, it was hell on the network, nothing worked because the token would not get passed properly.
In your question you stated that the Toshiba laptop runs custom tablet software. If all other configurations of Vista, the Intel Chipset, Quicktime, and other variables work fine, you have just eliminated them as possibilities but the Tablet software. More than likely there is some call within the tablet software doing with the display that interacts when a Mov. is trying to be played locally, which causes conflict. Also, why is this Slashdot worthy?
If you would have told me that Jake and the Fat Man would be on DVD two years ago, I would have laughed. Now it is. What you would be doing is impacting future earnings. It is a companies right to not distribute something that they paid for and created. While you might not like that, it is true. If a company makes a movie that they do not like and don't distribute it, which has happened before, that does not mean that it is ok to pirate it. It is a buisness calculation to not release it and whatever happens for the company, be it good or bad is the companies problem. Since music and TV and movies are not a necessity, I don't see why there is this arguement that it is ok to pirate or copy it. These things are not like recepies for bread, ways to get clean water or other things that are needed to sustain life. Tough shit if you can't get the music you want. I wanted to go to a concert earlier this year but the tickets were 80 dollars. That does not give me the right to sneak in for free. The same goes with DVDs and TV. Companies pay for these things throught investors on future earnings for movies or advertisements on tv. I am guessing the TV shows you download do not have the advertisements in them. While it has been declared legal to fast forward through them, it is still illegal to copy and distribute them without the ads. Life isn't fair, you don't deserve everything that you always want. I want a Porsche 911 Targa, but I don't have the money for it. I don't rail against the machine and complain that it is unfair that it is priced at 80-100k. Buck up and accept the facts. If you want to change them, go ahead, but that doesn't make it legal to go around what you do when you pirate or copy things. You are not saving or preserving human life, liberty or the persut of happyness when you download Family guy.
Yeah, all that is going to happen is that there will be the new larger capability ipods, that may or may not have a wide screen *not like what people think* and a new iBook with a 1.5 core solo, and up to a 1.83 core duo with a 13.3 inch wide screen. it will weigh a little over 5 lbs, have the new apple power connector, but will have intel based video. What the surprise will be is that it will support two monitors, but only with some hacking like the current ibooks. Also expect a new style case, that some will say is stupid, while others will say it is evolutionary not revolutionary. I am not sure if the iSight camera will be buit in, but I don't think they are going that wroute any more. Oh, and yeah, a new iSight camera that will be almost HD quality, but won't work on anything but the g5 and intel based macs. It will be USB 2, and not firewire, surprising people.
People in Japan over the last 30 years have been draining Vintage tubed audio equipment and horn loudspeakers from the US like no other country. If you were to go over to Japan with an old Western Electric 300b Based tube amp, you could get thousands of dollars for it. An example of a Mcintosh MC 30 6l6 based amp going price in the US is around 600-1000 dollars per mono bock. If I were to take the amps over there, I could get 5-10k for a set. The same with Altec, JBL, Klipsch, Western electric speakers. This will hurt a huge tubed audio and vintage audio industry in Japan. Most of their high end audio gear is still tubed based, and they often love to use vintage caps, resistors, transformers, for they think they have better sound. This will put lots of people out of business.
Since Apple sells the software along with their new computer, that is not for purchase in a store, you either have to download the software illegally, or install the same software on multiple computers without a license for all of them. Both of them in both cases are illegal. So Apple wants to prevent people from downloading a pirated version of the software and running it on a computer that doesn't have a valid license? What is wrong with that? For the past 15 years I have been dealing with software that is not open source, installing the software on multiple computers with a single license is illegal, and there has never really been an arguement against it that holds up. They have every right to stop people from illegally pirating OS X or using the software on multiple machines, since Intel based 10.4 is not available for resale.
Istalling a HD into a G5 tower does not void the Apple Warranty, since Apple itself states that Memory, PCI cards, and Hard drives are user servicable. Many places do have outragous prices on hardware upgrades, but your son was pretty dumb to go along with Apple for this.
And you are hitting your HD how much with this config? So are you saying that running KPDF should take up over 200 megs of memory if I need it running? Also, asking why I am not runing 3.1 or 7.1 is asking why did you start using the 2.6 Kernal when 1.3 was running fine? Oh, you mean I can run final cut on a 68030?
I still consider 395 megs of memory used when using the K web browser and file system to be too much. I have built my own KDE running 3.5, and even on a P4 2.8 with 1.5 gigs of ram running Debian it is slower than Windows or OSX. The sad thing is, being that KDE is the most usable GUI for Linux/BSD, and has the best support for Open office, that I still use it. I still am fond of when A GUI took up 20 megs, ran well with 12 megs of memory, and was almost instainious in response to commands. (Mac OS 7.1 and Windows 3.1 on a 68030 and 486 respectively)
It will never happen. Apple needs OSX to be able to be in the market place. Apple, while making money off of the hardware will need OSX, especially since going to the Intel platform to make it different. If they opened it up to white box computers no one would buy Apple hardware, and they would soon be stuck with just iPods and iBooks and Powerbooks. The cannot do this, for it would kill the company.
Lets slow down KDE even more. The sad thing is KDE 4 is looking to be as bloated as a Microsoft Windows release. Too bad they cannot have a KDE lite without stuff that I don't need or things that I can do on my Mac.
Can you please state why NOLA did not allow the use of school busses that carry 70k people to school every day for the manditory evacuation? http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/48 0/flpc21109012015
They sure as hell were not under water on Thrusday, Friday, and Saturday. Why can Mississippi even with their death toll, and not manditory evacuations have less casulties? Because they allowed the use of public transperation to take people to shelters. Did this happen in NOLA? No. Did the FEMA response suck? Yes, but it is LA and especially NOLA that is to fault for their problems.
OH LORDY! There are physical and mental differences between the sexes. I could of told you that when my girlfriend dragged me to a Hanson concert! Wake me up when men can have babies.
If you build a computer that is compliant, then found out that it is not, and the shit hits the fan, you could be in big trouble. If HP or IBM builds that computer, and it is found out it is not compliant, but they state it is, and sell it as one, the shit hits the fan, and you are in trouble, but not the "get fired, and never work for the government again" kind like the building your own might do.
What if you lease time from Sun, and the computers that your data are being crunched on your compiditors computer? What about someone wanting to see what you are doing, and what is going on? This is not breaking encryption or finding aliens, this could be used by insurance, health, or governmental agencies for crunching large numbers, or searching databases. What have they done to address this?
Hasn't it been proven that a Shuttle type transport is not the most cost effective way of lifting heavy loads and even for things like simple manned space flight? Could this be a case of trying to copy the USA, just because, or is it viable. I seem to remember reading that making a temporary space station for experents say out of Apollo parts like skylab, when done today with other space parts we have lying around would be cheaper than a schuttle. Feel free to prove me wrong, but the one size fits all seems to be what NASA is getting away from, and specialization is the way to go.
Really, how useful is this? If you need something really secure, why not make a Live CD or memory stick linux that require authentication from a the USB dongle in the form of a password or biometrics? Most PCs are much more powerful then this is, and can provide much more function.