i believe the nomad operates off of usb1, which is at best, a 10mbps conenction, if shared with an optical mouse, scanner, and printer, you can usually see somewhere in the area of 1-2mbps.
you'll notice USB hard drives didn't take off until sometime after summer last year, when usb2 products became avalible, boasting speeds of 400mbps, the same as apple's much-coveted firewire drives. your USB hard drive probably falls in the USB2 catergory, making things much quicker.
it comes preinstalled for the mac also. i installed mac os 7.5(made circa 1992), which had tcp/ip drivers built into the os, but no web browsing software. i downloaded the os for free from apple's download portion of their apple.com site. the other day, i downloaded ms explorer for system 7 and ftp'd it to the mac, and now i have IE 4.0.1 on it. you may not be able to download it for linux, but you can download it for other os'es, so i guess that makes it "free" by your definition.
ps the mac is my low end webserver, as linked to in my user url
according to this article, the creator of spacewar also wrote pong in 1970.....there's got to be a million copies/versions of pong out there for every platform avalible. including shockwave.
i'm not sure if you'd even need shockwave to emulate this, but is there some sort of a shockwave/consolve version of this game "spacewar"? the article speaks of an arcade version, is there a MAME rom of this? this seems interesting enough to relive. i'd count spacewar as "abandonware";-)
your points are good and valid. i'm an ex windows user (bought a powerbook g4 in early jan 02), and i've always set things to ask me what to do with them; i guess it's true that alot (or most) mac users would turn off that check box, which would make this a serious security hazard.
there's alot of mac sites out there, like lowendmac.com, and others...they all seem to advocate shareware that "GUI-zies" various CLI things, and pretty much don't change any of their settings unless forced to. ie defaulting to apple.netscape.com is a good example of this, and how apple/netscape makes a load of money through banner ads. if i had some more experience with apple script, i'd write my own, but it couldn't hurt to write somthing like that for the CLI/preferences challenged mac user.
thanks again for bringing this security exploit to our (my) attention, somthing i would have (otherwise) learned about the hard way (well, possibly)
mozzila (0.9.8) seems to catch it no problem. displays the "downloading Exploit_HD_OSX.img.sit" window. "what should mozilla do with this file?"
open using stuffit
save this file to disk
granted, the drive, once mounted, can auto fuck your drive, or the likes, but if you're bright enough to open a drive image that mysteriously appeared, well, i wouldn't say you deserved it, but consider it a lesson well learned;)
of course, the problem lies with the avg mac user, who won't think to use a non-bundled mac app, like mozilla, or chimera, even though chimera doesn't have download support quite yet.
btw for those of you fearing to try out this security hack, it automounts the exploit_HD_OSX.img onto your drive, which auto opens, and then opens your trash (apple script). too bad the author didn't include a (non autoloading) script that turns off all these vulnerabilites that you could run:-/
actually, if i recall correctly, there were two models of the VW busses, the air cooled, and the water/air cooled. my friend has an air cooled model, but when shopping around for one in south dallas, about 1 in 3 had water cooling built in. i wouldn't mind seeing a case built out of an old VW engine block, though. attach whatever you want to the engine block and let it passively cool it. might have to get an engine stand to mount it on, though.
i know audi vw and porsche share alot of similar parts nowadays, so are there any air-cooled audi's you forgot to mention? or is the audi/vw/porsche parts alliance more recent than air-cooled design?
actually, according to this article, you can do it in real time. of course, that doesn't factor in the time spent re-rendering each frame to get the PERFECT aki ross porno film, which is factored in, according to that second article.
well for starters, it's the first time maya has released "crippleware", in an attempt to curb rampant pirating. secondly, it's an unlimited time use licence, unlike other time-limited demos. this means that for the casual user who might want to try out their software, now they can, without dealing with a download of the pirated version that stopped at 96% after an excruciating 6 hour download. maya also can collect user data on their previous piraters, which provides them with valuable marketing data, who, who knows, may possibly lead to a $150 "consumer" version that sits between the two versions offered right now.
of course, this won't stop the hard core 1337 warez d00dz from downloading it and making hard core pornos of dr. aki ross and a cgi version of themselves, but more than anything, thiw will allow maya to reach out to the "casual", non uber-geek user, or aspiring female technophobe artist in middle school, and once again, provide valuable marketing data.
first post (my first)...neat stuff. apple might be in a few more movies than it already is in as a result of this. more stuff for mac addics to rave about. maybe this'll convince apple to be comming out with final cut pro even faster now;)
i know you're trolling, but i'll bite anyways. slashdot is completely configureable. you can turn on or off whatever stories you want; i turned on science, which has a new post almost every day, as does apple, but only gets 5-10 posts per article. you can do this with apple post/stories also. people who want it, will get it, and those who don't won't.
on the other hand, this is probaly an attempt to get more reader impressions, as there's a rabid mac fanbase on the web yet, and slashdot is making an attempt to tap that potential, not to mention drag apple users into the "slashdot reality distoriton field", err, the main slashdot site. apple.slashdot.org doesn't take up much more, if any bandwidth than the normal site, and only serves to increase readership. a marketing tactic, basically. read macslash if you don't like apple.slashdot.com, they're the same thing essentially, just that one posts a story faster than the other occasionally.
mozilla.9.8 seems to actually work finally under OS X...does this mean we'll see java working properly now? or will this further break mozilla's java support? (i've heard you can ue java under OS X before, but no one has written anything comprehensive suggesting it's anything simpler than brain surgury to get it to work.)
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just b/c it's ported to os x, doesn't mean you can automatically port it to linux, or any other variant. photoshop 7 will be run on top of aqua, which in turn runs on top of darwin, among other things. apple has a great explination on their http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/ os x site. in neat aquazied-graphics even.
porting photoshop 7 to linux/KDE/ect would be about as easy as porting age of empires w/o wine. did i miss anything? i hope that clears up alot of porting questions
actually, kevlar is quite light. canoers often will pay the premium for a kevlar canoe b/c it's strength to thickness ratio is quite high. as for breathability, you're correct.
i know this is a strech, but i have a mac LC II (OLD 68k system, 16 mhz, 10 mb ram) with the original 40 mb hard drive. how might one go about making a 1 gb scsi hd work in the mac? (LC II's apparently can support up to 4 gb drives, so size isn't the problem, and the scsi drive came out of my friend's old counterstrike server) i ran apple's hard drive detection/formatting software, but it refused to recognize a new drive. any thoughts?
i've had the same problem, athough i was a big x86 fan, their processors just ran too hot. the second problem is the need for a cooling fan for the power supply makes noise. currently i'm running a powerbook 550 ti, which the fan comes on about every 15 minutes with one display. i'm sure you could pick up a powerbook 400 for about 1200$ and the fan would come on even less.
if you're just doing coding, might i suggest an old mac LC II? i have a terminal emulator for mine, and telnet to my powerbook (OS X). the scsi hard drive is noisy, but there's no reason you couldn't put the hard drive on the other side of the room (scsi spec calls for 6m cable lengths for that model). you could also boot it from a floppy without any hard drive. a mac LC I or II runs about $5. it makes an excellent webserver also. rj-45 network cards go for about ten bucks on ebay, and 1 gig scsi hard drives can be found used for about 10 dollars.
d00d, when it askz when you \x/ant to reboot after detecting/installing hardware, say 'NO', it installs the next, and the next, and so on. once all is installxored, reboot. works flawlessly in win95 and up.
ps you |\/|igh+ want to reboot after the mobo chip53t drivers before doing the above.
i thought this technology was pretty standardized....then again, i live in the rich suburb of dallas, home of TI, maker of the DLP. we've had a DLP projector at the major megaplex, aka cinemark @ legacy. nifty place, 7 bucks for the standard adult ticket, 5.50 for student/senior.
so far i've seen star wars:TPM, monsters inc., final fantasy, 13 ghosts (scary as fuck, man), and probably a bunch of others. if you're looking for a movie that's digital, it's playing in theater 12.
more handy info can be found (including locations) @ fandango.com
i, for one, will be one of the first geeks to see star wars:AOTC in it's full digital beauty first showing on opening day.
i've heard (un-substanciated) that the feds have been using a system like this for years with the various gunpowders and the lead that goes into bullets in various manufacturer's plants. same for other high-value items such as a) currency and b)nuclear materials....they've just kept reeeeal quiet about it, making it harder to easily duplicate some items, while at the same time, easier to track the origin of certian materials (different chemical markers are used per batch). does anyone know anything more about this? is this why those "explosive chemical" sensor at the airport work so well (supposedly? i've never seen one go off before)
kazaa was limited to searching for 128kbps mp3s (sans a quick registry hack), and often the "most popular" mp3 of a particular name is of the 128k variety. i'm sure for those of us who didn't rip our own entire collection, or get alot of mp3's off of mp3.com or others, 128 is perfectly fine. if reduction = 56k however...
a better use of this (does this even have a use, other than proof-of-concept yet?) might be to, um, install one of these on nanobots, and have the liquid metal spurt from the end....somehow alerting the operator that the nanobots are about to overheat.
that's fascinating though, i was under the impression that carbon atoms were pretty small, and a nanotube would only be about 6 atoms across...from what i recall, lithium is pretty far away from carbon on the periodic chart. how does one fit one (or more) lithium atoms inside this tiny tiny tube?
I definatly wouldn't suggest the x86 archhetechture. in that case, with no cost problems, and at a university, you might be able to a) buy an old sun workstation from another department, or b) permenantly "borrow" one from the local research department...
as i recall, the sun and sgi workstations have really wide pci busses, which was what people on a recent macslash thread were debatinng why apple still has a long way to go to dethrone the two big S's in terms of personal rendering stations.
for a home solution, or at a eshop of sorts, an old sparc station or the likes might be out of the question, but if you're going to hack together somthing, just drop an old S motherboard, 10-20 cd burners, and a powersupply into a metal box, and let er' burn.
sounds like VHEMPT (www.vhempt.org). they state that you should have one, at most, 2 kids (2 would replace yourself and partner)....of course, they suggest this for other reasons...;)
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i believe the nomad operates off of usb1, which is at best, a 10mbps conenction, if shared with an optical mouse, scanner, and printer, you can usually see somewhere in the area of 1-2mbps.
you'll notice USB hard drives didn't take off until sometime after summer last year, when usb2 products became avalible, boasting speeds of 400mbps, the same as apple's much-coveted firewire drives. your USB hard drive probably falls in the USB2 catergory, making things much quicker.
it comes preinstalled for the mac also. i installed mac os 7.5(made circa 1992), which had tcp/ip drivers built into the os, but no web browsing software. i downloaded the os for free from apple's download portion of their apple.com site. the other day, i downloaded ms explorer for system 7 and ftp'd it to the mac, and now i have IE 4.0.1 on it. you may not be able to download it for linux, but you can download it for other os'es, so i guess that makes it "free" by your definition.
ps the mac is my low end webserver, as linked to in my user url
according to this article, the creator of spacewar also wrote pong in 1970.....there's got to be a million copies/versions of pong out there for every platform avalible. including shockwave.
;-)
i'm not sure if you'd even need shockwave to emulate this, but is there some sort of a shockwave/consolve version of this game "spacewar"? the article speaks of an arcade version, is there a MAME rom of this? this seems interesting enough to relive. i'd count spacewar as "abandonware"
your points are good and valid. i'm an ex windows user (bought a powerbook g4 in early jan 02), and i've always set things to ask me what to do with them; i guess it's true that alot (or most) mac users would turn off that check box, which would make this a serious security hazard.
there's alot of mac sites out there, like lowendmac.com, and others...they all seem to advocate shareware that "GUI-zies" various CLI things, and pretty much don't change any of their settings unless forced to. ie defaulting to apple.netscape.com is a good example of this, and how apple/netscape makes a load of money through banner ads. if i had some more experience with apple script, i'd write my own, but it couldn't hurt to write somthing like that for the CLI/preferences challenged mac user.
thanks again for bringing this security exploit to our (my) attention, somthing i would have (otherwise) learned about the hard way (well, possibly)
open using stuffit
save this file to disk
;)
:-/
granted, the drive, once mounted, can auto fuck your drive, or the likes, but if you're bright enough to open a drive image that mysteriously appeared, well, i wouldn't say you deserved it, but consider it a lesson well learned
of course, the problem lies with the avg mac user, who won't think to use a non-bundled mac app, like mozilla, or chimera, even though chimera doesn't have download support quite yet.
btw for those of you fearing to try out this security hack, it automounts the exploit_HD_OSX.img onto your drive, which auto opens, and then opens your trash (apple script). too bad the author didn't include a (non autoloading) script that turns off all these vulnerabilites that you could run
actually, if i recall correctly, there were two models of the VW busses, the air cooled, and the water/air cooled. my friend has an air cooled model, but when shopping around for one in south dallas, about 1 in 3 had water cooling built in. i wouldn't mind seeing a case built out of an old VW engine block, though. attach whatever you want to the engine block and let it passively cool it. might have to get an engine stand to mount it on, though.
i know audi vw and porsche share alot of similar parts nowadays, so are there any air-cooled audi's you forgot to mention? or is the audi/vw/porsche parts alliance more recent than air-cooled design?
actually, according to this article, you can do it in real time. of course, that doesn't factor in the time spent re-rendering each frame to get the PERFECT aki ross porno film, which is factored in, according to that second article.
well for starters, it's the first time maya has released "crippleware", in an attempt to curb rampant pirating. secondly, it's an unlimited time use licence, unlike other time-limited demos. this means that for the casual user who might want to try out their software, now they can, without dealing with a download of the pirated version that stopped at 96% after an excruciating 6 hour download. maya also can collect user data on their previous piraters, which provides them with valuable marketing data, who, who knows, may possibly lead to a $150 "consumer" version that sits between the two versions offered right now.
of course, this won't stop the hard core 1337 warez d00dz from downloading it and making hard core pornos of dr. aki ross and a cgi version of themselves, but more than anything, thiw will allow maya to reach out to the "casual", non uber-geek user, or aspiring female technophobe artist in middle school, and once again, provide valuable marketing data.
first post (my first)...neat stuff. apple might be in a few more movies than it already is in as a result of this. more stuff for mac addics to rave about. maybe this'll convince apple to be comming out with final cut pro even faster now ;)
i know you're trolling, but i'll bite anyways. slashdot is completely configureable. you can turn on or off whatever stories you want; i turned on science, which has a new post almost every day, as does apple, but only gets 5-10 posts per article. you can do this with apple post/stories also. people who want it, will get it, and those who don't won't.
on the other hand, this is probaly an attempt to get more reader impressions, as there's a rabid mac fanbase on the web yet, and slashdot is making an attempt to tap that potential, not to mention drag apple users into the "slashdot reality distoriton field", err, the main slashdot site. apple.slashdot.org doesn't take up much more, if any bandwidth than the normal site, and only serves to increase readership. a marketing tactic, basically. read macslash if you don't like apple.slashdot.com, they're the same thing essentially, just that one posts a story faster than the other occasionally.
mozilla .9.8 seems to actually work finally under OS X...does this mean we'll see java working properly now? or will this further break mozilla's java support? (i've heard you can ue java under OS X before, but no one has written anything comprehensive suggesting it's anything simpler than brain surgury to get it to work.)
just b/c it's ported to os x, doesn't mean you can automatically port it to linux, or any other variant. photoshop 7 will be run on top of aqua, which in turn runs on top of darwin, among other things. apple has a great explination on their http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/ os x site. in neat aquazied-graphics even.
porting photoshop 7 to linux/KDE/ect would be about as easy as porting age of empires w/o wine. did i miss anything? i hope that clears up alot of porting questions
actually, kevlar is quite light. canoers often will pay the premium for a kevlar canoe b/c it's strength to thickness ratio is quite high. as for breathability, you're correct.
i know this is a strech, but i have a mac LC II (OLD 68k system, 16 mhz, 10 mb ram) with the original 40 mb hard drive. how might one go about making a 1 gb scsi hd work in the mac? (LC II's apparently can support up to 4 gb drives, so size isn't the problem, and the scsi drive came out of my friend's old counterstrike server) i ran apple's hard drive detection/formatting software, but it refused to recognize a new drive. any thoughts?
i've had the same problem, athough i was a big x86 fan, their processors just ran too hot. the second problem is the need for a cooling fan for the power supply makes noise. currently i'm running a powerbook 550 ti, which the fan comes on about every 15 minutes with one display. i'm sure you could pick up a powerbook 400 for about 1200$ and the fan would come on even less.
if you're just doing coding, might i suggest an old mac LC II? i have a terminal emulator for mine, and telnet to my powerbook (OS X). the scsi hard drive is noisy, but there's no reason you couldn't put the hard drive on the other side of the room (scsi spec calls for 6m cable lengths for that model). you could also boot it from a floppy without any hard drive. a mac LC I or II runs about $5. it makes an excellent webserver also. rj-45 network cards go for about ten bucks on ebay, and 1 gig scsi hard drives can be found used for about 10 dollars.
d00d, when it askz when you \x/ant to reboot after detecting/installing hardware, say 'NO', it installs the next, and the next, and so on. once all is installxored, reboot. works flawlessly in win95 and up.
ps you |\/|igh+ want to reboot after the mobo chip53t drivers before doing the above.
pps i'm writing in 1337 b/c i'm bored
ah. my bad. knee-jerk post. i don't follow the series, and checked out your link
actually, from their site you linked to, they write:
"Fractures"
Moya encounters another group of escaped Peacekeeper prisoners including a Nebari, a Scarran and a female Hynerian.
Air Date: Friday, March 29, at 9PM & 12AM ET/PT"
so i guess, technically, you only have to wait 42 days or so. on a completely random note, my girfriend's birthday is on april first
i thought this technology was pretty standardized....then again, i live in the rich suburb of dallas, home of TI, maker of the DLP. we've had a DLP projector at the major megaplex, aka cinemark @ legacy. nifty place, 7 bucks for the standard adult ticket, 5.50 for student/senior.
so far i've seen star wars:TPM, monsters inc., final fantasy, 13 ghosts (scary as fuck, man), and probably a bunch of others. if you're looking for a movie that's digital, it's playing in theater 12.
more handy info can be found (including locations) @ fandango.com
i, for one, will be one of the first geeks to see star wars:AOTC in it's full digital beauty first showing on opening day.
i've heard (un-substanciated) that the feds have been using a system like this for years with the various gunpowders and the lead that goes into bullets in various manufacturer's plants. same for other high-value items such as a) currency and b)nuclear materials....they've just kept reeeeal quiet about it, making it harder to easily duplicate some items, while at the same time, easier to track the origin of certian materials (different chemical markers are used per batch). does anyone know anything more about this? is this why those "explosive chemical" sensor at the airport work so well (supposedly? i've never seen one go off before)
kazaa was limited to searching for 128kbps mp3s (sans a quick registry hack), and often the "most popular" mp3 of a particular name is of the 128k variety. i'm sure for those of us who didn't rip our own entire collection, or get alot of mp3's off of mp3.com or others, 128 is perfectly fine. if reduction = 56k however...
how many nominations is this movie avalible for, total? 15? 20? Have any other movies ever done this before? I think "Titanic" had 7...
13 seems like alot, but it doesn't mean anything without somthing to compare it to.
a better use of this (does this even have a use, other than proof-of-concept yet?) might be to, um, install one of these on nanobots, and have the liquid metal spurt from the end....somehow alerting the operator that the nanobots are about to overheat.
that's fascinating though, i was under the impression that carbon atoms were pretty small, and a nanotube would only be about 6 atoms across...from what i recall, lithium is pretty far away from carbon on the periodic chart. how does one fit one (or more) lithium atoms inside this tiny tiny tube?
I definatly wouldn't suggest the x86 archhetechture. in that case, with no cost problems, and at a university, you might be able to a) buy an old sun workstation from another department, or b) permenantly "borrow" one from the local research department...
as i recall, the sun and sgi workstations have really wide pci busses, which was what people on a recent macslash thread were debatinng why apple still has a long way to go to dethrone the two big S's in terms of personal rendering stations.
for a home solution, or at a eshop of sorts, an old sparc station or the likes might be out of the question, but if you're going to hack together somthing, just drop an old S motherboard, 10-20 cd burners, and a powersupply into a metal box, and let er' burn.
sounds like VHEMPT (www.vhempt.org). they state that you should have one, at most, 2 kids (2 would replace yourself and partner)....of course, they suggest this for other reasons... ;)