It is a new update, but the original submitter got it wrong. iPod 1.2.1's only new feature over 1.2 is that "iPod Software 1.2.1 fixes a problem with the battery icon. It now correctly indicates a full charge."
Expander will automatically expand tar.gz to gz to folder. This is pretty annoying. Does anyone know how to stop this?
Try turning off "Continue to expand..." and while it might still go from.tar.gz to.tar, it won't continue to make the folder. StuffIt 6.5 used to allow you to deselect.gz files, but that has been lost in StuffIt Expander 7, unfortunately.
Why the hell can't anyone slap together tar + gzip + macbinary for the MacOS with a GUI (or something a smidgen more complicated, fair enough), so that Mac users aren't beholden to the whims of a single company?
Why not just disk images (.dmg files) created by Apple Disk Copy? It's provided with MacOS X, and you can even AES-encrypt your images. You'll still be beholden to the whims of a single company (Apple), but that's unavoidable for Mac users.
Imagine what would happen if MS stopped fixing security holes in Windows 2000 all of a sudden when Windows XP came out? They would be shot in the street!
You mean like when they stopped fixing holes in Office 97?
Are you sure? "Requiem for a Dream" credits Clint Mansell with the soundtrack composition, the song in question being "Lux Aeterna," and it was performed by the Kronos Quartet in that film.
AFAIK Oakenfold's work is a remix.
Many previews use old soundtracks ("Bishop's Countdown" being the best example) that aren't in the final film, but this one sounded to me like an orchestra performance and not the Kronos original.
I guess my point is that public/private key encryption is only as good as the passphrase which is often not good enough, and that the ecryption is way stronger than your personal torture threshold anyway.
That's true, which is why it was originally well-named as "Pretty Good Privacy." It solves the lowest-order problem, that your email is transmitted as plaintext across the Internet for anyone to read.
And of course, the CIA doesn't really need to bash your toes; they can just put a keyboard sniffer on your machine, or put a spy camera to capture your keystrokes while you type your password, or lots of other interesting things that only require a warrant and don't require torture.
GPG was easy to setup (on our Macs, even!) and now I don't have to worry about whether or not the script kiddie down the road can sniff the private messages I send to my wife. That's Pretty damn Good Privacy.
Re:Physics has always been ethically compromised
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Milliken guessed or decided beforehand what he wanted the electrostatic constant to be and kept fudging his results until he got the one he wanted.
On the contrary, David Goodstein has argued convincingly that Millikan was painstaking and critical in his selection of which drops to use in his estimate, that Broad and Wade were "profoundly incorrect" in accusing Millikan of "extensively misrepresenting his work in order to make his experimental results seem more convincing..."
What happens to Windows Update, which requires the use of MSIE, if a user chooses to "hide" the MSIE browser? How is that user going to download the inevitable patches that will be needed for XP SP1? Is Microsoft providing a new stand-alone update application (a la Apple's "Software Update"), and if so, how secure is it? Or, have they retooled Windows Update to work with non-MSIE browsers?
It was mentioned tonight by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News. He said something to the effect that Microsoft admits to the bug (but not how long it took them to admit to it) and that a patch was available.
I have had no problems, other than the sluggishness of the makers of EndNote in coming out with a Jaguar-compatible version. Sleep actually seems better on my machines since putting Jaguar on.
Just a guess: "copying folders instead of moving them" sounds like it could be a problem with your permissions; if you have read but not write permission to a directory, you won't be able to move folders out, but you will be able to copy them.
I like the new Mail.app after having to make some adjustments.
The Junk mail filter is apparently a heuristic filter that will learn as you give it feedback. I have it turned on in "training mode" right now; there is a "Junk" icon to flag junk mail; it turns to "Not Junk" if you want to de-flag some mail. When you put it into automatic mode it creates a "Junk" folder that you can then set to automatically empty after a certain period of time.
Other filters (Mail.app calls them "rules") are more capable; you can AND/OR (match "any" or "all") the rules before applying an action.
Unfortunately, the SpamCop mailbundle for MacOS X Mail.app is broken with the new version of Mail. So is GPGMail, but there is a beta version already available
for download.
The mailboxes "drawer" on the right has changed its look a little bit, which I had to mentally adjust-for. Most irritatingly, I was only able to see my IMAP folders by enabling my.Mac email (it just forwards to my IMAP account anyway). It was a little clunky/inconsistent with things like "On My Mac" appearing/disappearing, but eventually I got the look of it stabilized.
A controller limits the data rate to 1 GB/s, while DDR could work more than twice as fast. Unfortunately, this makes mincemeat of the architecture, as it bus-/memory-bounds 2D and 3D graphics and rendering.
The data rate between CPU and RAM is limited to 1.3 GB/s. However there is still more than 1.3 GB/s of bandwidth for the GPU (AGP 4x which goes at about 0.5 GB/s), DMA calls from hard disks, etc. So graphics and rendering are not strictly bus-limited, as the GPU can never fully stress the bus. Furthermore, the GPU wasn't tested in the BareFeats benchmarks!
Furthermore, don't forget that the L3 cache on the new 1GHz Macs is only 1 MB, not 2 MB as it was in the previous 1GHz Macs (and as it remains in the 1.25 GHz Macs).
All these benchmarks teach us is that CPU-limited tasks like those posted at BareFeats are not a good test of the added throughput between the system controller and RAM. We need to see benchmarks that stress all of the throughput, not just the portion between CPU, controller, and RAM.
GPG covers the email. For files, there is also PuzzlePalace which provides a GUI front-end to OpenSSL (included in MacOS X). $15 shareware but it won't nag you. While you're there, get a copy of BrickHouse and turn on your firewall.
Or you can just use Apple's Disk Copy to create AES-encrypted and password-protected disk volumes. Just be sure not to put the password in your Keychain (it's selected to do that by default when it prompts for a password at mount). It's free and already installed with MacOS X.
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As an alumnus of Caltech I feel compelled to respond. IIRC there are old descriptions of statistical analysis attacks performed by Caltech students on Las Vegas roulette wheels in the books "Legends of Caltech" and "More Legends of Caltech."
Caltech students were also responsible for the famous box-stuffing (spamming, really) of a nationwide fast food chain (McDonalds, but I can't be certain) contest in which they took home a vast majority of the winnings by computer-printing their entries.
In addition, there's a very good review of successful and legal professional gambling by the technically savvy by another Caltech alumnus that was published in "Engineering and Science," a Caltech alumni publication. Get the PDF here or here.
I like the inclusion of browsing the iPod by genre, something I'd been missing (standard in iTunes) so much that I'd been building genre-based playlists just for the iPod.
The lab I work in uses a "ruggedized laptop" for use in the field studying sediment motion and currents in the surf zone. Data acquisition is pretty robust for the actual sensors (aside from getting trashed by waves and kelp), but the laptop doesn't work so hot.
It's expensive and nominally rated to last up to 24 hours in a salt-spray environment. In reality they don't hold up so well, and are always crashing. Screens and keyboards are particularly vulnerable. The failure time on them probably isn't worth the additional cost. Plus they're kinda slow. Fast, cheap (disposable-cheap) and out of control would probably have been a better choice.
I wonder if, when Apple notices all its orders are coming in through Amazon, they'll get the point?
Apple may not, but Amazon probably will. Taking a closer look at the buying info for Jaguar at Amazon (note that the original post links only to the rebate page). It's currently ranked as the #1 top seller (in software).
Found details on vulnerabilities (don't know if they're the same ones as the ones being patched) in OpenSSL at bugtraq:
"There are several potentially exploitable vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL
toolkit. A security review of OpenSSL is being done by A.L. Digital Ltd
and The Bunker (http://www.thebunker.net/) under the DARPA program
CHATS. Through this review, the following vulnerabilities were
discovered:
1. The client master key in SSL2 could be oversized and overrun a
buffer. This vulnerability was also independently discovered by
consultants at Neohapsis (http://www.neohapsis.com/) who have
also demonstrated that the vulnerability is exploitable.
2. The session ID supplied to a client in SSL3 could be oversized and
overrun a buffer.
3. Various buffers for ASCII representations of integers were too
small on 64 bit platforms.
4. The ASN1 parser can be confused by supplying it with certain
invalid encodings.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2002-0656 to issues 1-2, CAN-2002-0655 to issue 3,
and CAN-2002-0659 to issue 4.
... how easy is it to clean up the mess and return to a smoothly running system, without reinstalling the entire operating system?
MacOS X in theory is easier still than MacOS 9, with its application "packages" containing all you need to throw away. Plus maybe some files in the Preferences folder, but they're harmless. With Carbon apps (esp. games) that support MacOS 9 it's a little more complicated.
The extensions management you mention is a little more difficult than you imply, but it's not nigh-impossible to do by hand like the Windows Registry is. A trick you didn't mention is to use the MacOS file labels (colors) on known-good extensions, which makes it easier to find newly inserted or modified items.
Techtool is an excellent utility for zapping the PRAM (a trick you missed) as well as for rebuilding the desktop. DiskWarrior cleans up cruft in your directory structure (HFS/HFS+).
When I was stuck using Windows machines at work, I made frequent use of RegClean, Norton Utilities, and scanreg/fix to keep things livable. Often the same registry errors would return over and over again. Like a mold.
To sum up, I preferred MacOS 9 when I was using it, but MacOS X is so much better still.
For regular MacOS X, all that has changed is the $19.95 (which is "free" in Apple terms) upgrade to 10.2 for people who purchase retail copies of MacOS X 10.1.x between the MWNY keynote and when Jaguar comes out. This makes sense, since otherwise nobody would bother to purchase existing on-shelf copies of MacOS X between then and now.
It's the same for MacOS X Server, with the notable exception that all owners of XServe machines can get the "free" upgrade, no matter when they bought their machine.
For everyone else, the full pricetag applies. Before MacOS X, Apple used to provide upgrade rebates of $20 or $30. You sent in one of those "software coupons" and got a check in the mail. Those days appear to be gone since the advent of MacOS X.
... what of Palladium and DRM when it comes to Apple?
Obviously "Palladium" per se won't be implemented on MacOS X, and I don't know whether Motorola is participating in the TCPA or if Motorola will even be around for much longer. But -- Try doing a screen capture while playing a DVD in your Mac, right now. You can, but you won't get a frame of the DVD -- it'll be blank. Why do you suppose that is?
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AFAIK Oakenfold's work is a remix.
Many previews use old soundtracks ("Bishop's Countdown" being the best example) that aren't in the final film, but this one sounded to me like an orchestra performance and not the Kronos original.
And of course, the CIA doesn't really need to bash your toes; they can just put a keyboard sniffer on your machine, or put a spy camera to capture your keystrokes while you type your password, or lots of other interesting things that only require a warrant and don't require torture.
GPG was easy to setup (on our Macs, even!) and now I don't have to worry about whether or not the script kiddie down the road can sniff the private messages I send to my wife. That's Pretty damn Good Privacy.
Look here.
What happens to Windows Update, which requires the use of MSIE, if a user chooses to "hide" the MSIE browser? How is that user going to download the inevitable patches that will be needed for XP SP1? Is Microsoft providing a new stand-alone update application (a la Apple's "Software Update"), and if so, how secure is it? Or, have they retooled Windows Update to work with non-MSIE browsers?
It was mentioned tonight by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News. He said something to the effect that Microsoft admits to the bug (but not how long it took them to admit to it) and that a patch was available.
Just a guess: "copying folders instead of moving them" sounds like it could be a problem with your permissions; if you have read but not write permission to a directory, you won't be able to move folders out, but you will be able to copy them.
Flurry is a good one with OpenGL particles. Make a transparent yellow-on-black Terminal window, run 'top', sit back and groove on the juicy goodness.
The Junk mail filter is apparently a heuristic filter that will learn as you give it feedback. I have it turned on in "training mode" right now; there is a "Junk" icon to flag junk mail; it turns to "Not Junk" if you want to de-flag some mail. When you put it into automatic mode it creates a "Junk" folder that you can then set to automatically empty after a certain period of time.
Other filters (Mail.app calls them "rules") are more capable; you can AND/OR (match "any" or "all") the rules before applying an action.
Unfortunately, the SpamCop mailbundle for MacOS X Mail.app is broken with the new version of Mail. So is GPGMail, but there is a beta version already available for download.
The mailboxes "drawer" on the right has changed its look a little bit, which I had to mentally adjust-for. Most irritatingly, I was only able to see my IMAP folders by enabling my .Mac email (it just forwards to my IMAP account anyway). It was a little clunky/inconsistent with things like "On My Mac" appearing/disappearing, but eventually I got the look of it stabilized.
The data rate between CPU and RAM is limited to 1.3 GB/s. However there is still more than 1.3 GB/s of bandwidth for the GPU (AGP 4x which goes at about 0.5 GB/s), DMA calls from hard disks, etc. So graphics and rendering are not strictly bus-limited, as the GPU can never fully stress the bus. Furthermore, the GPU wasn't tested in the BareFeats benchmarks!
Furthermore, don't forget that the L3 cache on the new 1GHz Macs is only 1 MB, not 2 MB as it was in the previous 1GHz Macs (and as it remains in the 1.25 GHz Macs).
All these benchmarks teach us is that CPU-limited tasks like those posted at BareFeats are not a good test of the added throughput between the system controller and RAM. We need to see benchmarks that stress all of the throughput, not just the portion between CPU, controller, and RAM.
Or you can just use Apple's Disk Copy to create AES-encrypted and password-protected disk volumes. Just be sure not to put the password in your Keychain (it's selected to do that by default when it prompts for a password at mount). It's free and already installed with MacOS X.
Caltech students were also responsible for the famous box-stuffing (spamming, really) of a nationwide fast food chain (McDonalds, but I can't be certain) contest in which they took home a vast majority of the winnings by computer-printing their entries.
In addition, there's a very good review of successful and legal professional gambling by the technically savvy by another Caltech alumnus that was published in "Engineering and Science," a Caltech alumni publication. Get the PDF here or here.
I like the inclusion of browsing the iPod by genre, something I'd been missing (standard in iTunes) so much that I'd been building genre-based playlists just for the iPod.
It's expensive and nominally rated to last up to 24 hours in a salt-spray environment. In reality they don't hold up so well, and are always crashing. Screens and keyboards are particularly vulnerable. The failure time on them probably isn't worth the additional cost. Plus they're kinda slow. Fast, cheap (disposable-cheap) and out of control would probably have been a better choice.
Here's a link.
MacOS X in theory is easier still than MacOS 9, with its application "packages" containing all you need to throw away. Plus maybe some files in the Preferences folder, but they're harmless. With Carbon apps (esp. games) that support MacOS 9 it's a little more complicated.
The extensions management you mention is a little more difficult than you imply, but it's not nigh-impossible to do by hand like the Windows Registry is. A trick you didn't mention is to use the MacOS file labels (colors) on known-good extensions, which makes it easier to find newly inserted or modified items.
Techtool is an excellent utility for zapping the PRAM (a trick you missed) as well as for rebuilding the desktop. DiskWarrior cleans up cruft in your directory structure (HFS/HFS+).
When I was stuck using Windows machines at work, I made frequent use of RegClean, Norton Utilities, and scanreg /fix to keep things livable. Often the same registry errors would return over and over again. Like a mold.
To sum up, I preferred MacOS 9 when I was using it, but MacOS X is so much better still.
It's the same for MacOS X Server, with the notable exception that all owners of XServe machines can get the "free" upgrade, no matter when they bought their machine.
For everyone else, the full pricetag applies. Before MacOS X, Apple used to provide upgrade rebates of $20 or $30. You sent in one of those "software coupons" and got a check in the mail. Those days appear to be gone since the advent of MacOS X.