It will be interesting to see what the proccedure is if you have three "registered" systems and one of them is stolen or goes up in smoke. Do you permanently lose one of your three system registrations?
If so, that would be more than interesting, it would suck!
On the other hand, if Apple does provide some method of de-authorizing your machine other than from within iTunes while your machine is still working then it opens up a can of authentication worms. Namely, what's to keep you from calling them up repeatedly to "deauthorize my machine" when what you're really doing is making a 4th, 5th and 6th machine to play your songs on... and how would they distinguish between the two cases of someone whose machine was stolen and someone who is trying to gain access for a 4th machine?
To answer a question common in the forums, there WILL be an update to allow 10 and 20 gig rev 2 iPods to work, it will be released sometime next month.
To "work"? Are you referring to iPod Software version 1.3, which enables compatibility with iTunes 4 and AAC audio for all iPods, and is available now?
You can't do any of the following legal things without significant loss of quality...
Your argument seems to hinge on the phrase "significant loss of quality."
Your implication is that an MP3 from an AAC will sound noticably worse than one from a CD or from elsewhere (online) if played on your Archos, Rio, SliMP3, Audiotron, Windows/Linux PC, car, DVD player, or Audion.
Yeah, after all why would they want to show you something that makes you want to see it?
You're right in a way, it could just be a bad trailer, but it looks to me like simply a bad movie, and the more I see of the trailers the less intrigued I am.
OTOH, the more I see of The Matrix: Reloaded, the more intrigued I am.
I don't have very high hopes for X:2, but the trailers for it have piqued my interest enough that I will probably go see it just to see it. They could only do that to me 9 times with Star Trek films before I stopped watching altogether (ok, maybe only 5 times, some of them were good), so they can consider themselves forewarned. I am highly discriminating!
But T3 looks too much to me like the dying gasp of a failed franchise. Think Aliens 3. Die Hard 3. Lethal Weapon 3. Beethoven's 3rd. It's sad. Move on.
My thoughts exactly. I use it to filter bird dander / dust. Also, get a good high-power HEPA vacuum cleaner and use it on that carpet. Make sure it's one that filters the exhaust from the motor (HEPA bags on regular cleaners won't work for this reason).
For example, at one university dormitory, someone placed a big sheet of paper in the lobby... within a day, more than 50 usernames and passwords were written on the sheet. The accounts were accessed hundreds of times from all over the globe almost instantly.
All over the globe? Almost instantly? What "dorm" was this, exactly? Voyeur Dorm?
... whenever we all collectively get together and nail the hell out of spammers with the pent up rage of 2 million people who can sighn them up for nail mail garbage, it's considered wrong?
Whether it's right or wrong isn't relevant. The rightness or wrongness of flooding Ralsky's mailbox with junk mail is old news, and isn't the point of the linked articles, which discussed a way to automate the process using the web, which removes the limitations/hassles of trying to do what was done to Ralsky on a truly large scale.
Yes, line-level input on a 3rd party car stereo would be the next most desirable option (I have factory stereo, unfortunately)... but is outside the range of my budget at the moment.
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...those things that allow you to broadcast iPod output on an FM frequency... bring back bad memories of CD/cassette adapters with wires all over the place...
I currently use one of those lousy cassette adapters. All the FM adapters are just as annoying and wiry, except for the iTrip made by Griffin Technology.
It's the first FM transmitter device that looks well-suited to the iPod -- so far I've only seen its pictures in magazines and haven't seen one at a local Apple Store or in online stores yet.
The battery conditioning issue; Apple doesn't really provide users with any clear and obvious documentation on it.
Finally; CDRWs needs the Disk Utility app.
A little clarification: you need either Disk Utility or Disk Copy to erase a CD-RW. Using Disk Copy is more convenient because at least it doesn't prompt you to authenticate with an admin password just to erase a CD-RW. But you're right, doing all this in the Finder would be much better.
I haven't noticed any need for battery conditioning in the PowerBooks and iBooks I use. I suspect the reviewer is getting under 5 hours of life not because of the battery "condition" but because he doesn't have Energy Saver configured for maximum battery life (backlight/brightness turned way down, sleep in under 5 minutes, turn off monitor in less time than that, spin down the disk), and is probably leaving Airport turned on as well. Apple is careful (like anyone making advertising claims) to state that their battery life is up to X hours on all their portables. That's a maximum, not an average or a typical value.
I believe I first read this as a formal statement from Chip Morningstar, one of the creators of the "Habitat" game. Seems that many of these problems stem from people failing to heed that simple rule.
Answering my own question, according to Apple Security Updates the 2003-03-24 update fixes CAN-2003-0147, and the 2003-03-03 update fixes CAN-2003-0078.
I thought that Security Update 2003-03-03 was supposed to patch OpenSSL: "This update also includes a newer version of OpenSSL that provides improved data confidentiality by addressing a recently-discovered security issue." At the time (03-03-2003) I assumed they were talking about this bug. Plus, the "important information" section of today's patch has the same language about sendmail and OpenSSL.
I'm confused! Anyone know what OpenSSL bugs are patched, specifically, by each security update?
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke.
Also ironically amusing was the Panasonic DVD recorder commercial that had a voiceover to the effect of something like "watch what you want, when you want."
...will likely come in the same time Apple kicks OS 9 out the door.
What does this mean? MacOS 9 booting is already gone on any new machines for this year, including (but not necessarily limited to) the 17" and 12" PowerBooks, the new 17" 1GHz iMac, and the new mirrored-drive-door Power Macs. Are you suggesting that Classic support will be dropped? That's neither reasonable nor likely.
I was at the Apple retail store in Salem, NH today and they had just the display model of the 17" PowerBook; still none for sale. It's striking how thin it is compared to all the other Apple portables. It's like a 15" Powerbook with just the light grey rim around the case and no bottom third.
Heard about this years ago from an uncle of mine, a building out in New Mexico made from old tires and cans. It's called Earthship.
Of course, the oldest buildings you see today will be low-tech resilent materials; the houses are old, after all. There's something to be said for making use of our society's massive non-biodegradable waste stream into something that you want to last a long time.
Well, there was the whole auditorium full of them booing when Jobs and Gates (on a screen) shared a keynote, or whatever that was. OTOH they got the first full soaking of Reality Distortion Field, so maybe they're all faithful converts now.
I don't really mind running MS Office on my Macs from a political/zealotry standpoint, but I do grit my teeth every time I encounter an annoying bug... like the way Word and Visual Basic (Equation Editor, Endnote CWYW plugin) doesn't work on my machine that has the Users folder on a separate partition, or the way I can't edit Preferences in Word X without a document open... it's the same sort of cruft that made me cheer when I moved to Mozilla 1.0, or punted the Microsoft media product for VLC...
I'm not a zealot. I'm just happier when my computer does what I want, and I find that Macs do more of what I want in ways that I want them to than Windows machines.
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On the other hand, if Apple does provide some method of de-authorizing your machine other than from within iTunes while your machine is still working then it opens up a can of authentication worms. Namely, what's to keep you from calling them up repeatedly to "deauthorize my machine" when what you're really doing is making a 4th, 5th and 6th machine to play your songs on... and how would they distinguish between the two cases of someone whose machine was stolen and someone who is trying to gain access for a 4th machine?
Your implication is that an MP3 from an AAC will sound noticably worse than one from a CD or from elsewhere (online) if played on your Archos, Rio, SliMP3, Audiotron, Windows/Linux PC, car, DVD player, or Audion.
Do you have any evidence of this?
You're right in a way, it could just be a bad trailer, but it looks to me like simply a bad movie, and the more I see of the trailers the less intrigued I am.
OTOH, the more I see of The Matrix: Reloaded, the more intrigued I am.
I don't have very high hopes for X:2, but the trailers for it have piqued my interest enough that I will probably go see it just to see it. They could only do that to me 9 times with Star Trek films before I stopped watching altogether (ok, maybe only 5 times, some of them were good), so they can consider themselves forewarned. I am highly discriminating!
But T3 looks too much to me like the dying gasp of a failed franchise. Think Aliens 3. Die Hard 3. Lethal Weapon 3. Beethoven's 3rd. It's sad. Move on.
Replace "/" with other volumes (/Volumes/foo/ and /Volumes/bar/ for example) if you have them on your system.
My thoughts exactly. I use it to filter bird dander / dust. Also, get a good high-power HEPA vacuum cleaner and use it on that carpet. Make sure it's one that filters the exhaust from the motor (HEPA bags on regular cleaners won't work for this reason).
Newsflash: Porn stars are stupid!
Put another way, RTFA.
Yes, line-level input on a 3rd party car stereo would be the next most desirable option (I have factory stereo, unfortunately)... but is outside the range of my budget at the moment.
It's the first FM transmitter device that looks well-suited to the iPod -- so far I've only seen its pictures in magazines and haven't seen one at a local Apple Store or in online stores yet.
... except that Caltech beat MIT soundly in the top 10 college pranks listing with the #1 slot going to the Rose Bowl hoax and #3 going to the McDonald's contest brute force attack. MIT showed only at #10 with Bonsai Kitten.
April Fool!
The Alabama story (ranked #8) was an hoax originated by Mark Boslough, but there was legislation introduced regarding pi in 1897 in the state of Indiana. It never passed. Sources: urban legends and the straight dope.
I haven't noticed any need for battery conditioning in the PowerBooks and iBooks I use. I suspect the reviewer is getting under 5 hours of life not because of the battery "condition" but because he doesn't have Energy Saver configured for maximum battery life (backlight/brightness turned way down, sleep in under 5 minutes, turn off monitor in less time than that, spin down the disk), and is probably leaving Airport turned on as well. Apple is careful (like anyone making advertising claims) to state that their battery life is up to X hours on all their portables. That's a maximum, not an average or a typical value.
I believe I first read this as a formal statement from Chip Morningstar, one of the creators of the "Habitat" game. Seems that many of these problems stem from people failing to heed that simple rule.
Answering my own question, according to Apple Security Updates the 2003-03-24 update fixes CAN-2003-0147, and the 2003-03-03 update fixes CAN-2003-0078.
I'm confused! Anyone know what OpenSSL bugs are patched, specifically, by each security update?
Also ironically amusing was the Panasonic DVD recorder commercial that had a voiceover to the effect of something like "watch what you want, when you want."
I'm thinking about getting this for an upcoming project.
So, how loud and annoying is it to have a fridge running on/under your desktop compared to a bunch of fans?
I was at the Apple retail store in Salem, NH today and they had just the display model of the 17" PowerBook; still none for sale. It's striking how thin it is compared to all the other Apple portables. It's like a 15" Powerbook with just the light grey rim around the case and no bottom third.
Of course, the oldest buildings you see today will be low-tech resilent materials; the houses are old, after all. There's something to be said for making use of our society's massive non-biodegradable waste stream into something that you want to last a long time.
I don't really mind running MS Office on my Macs from a political/zealotry standpoint, but I do grit my teeth every time I encounter an annoying bug... like the way Word and Visual Basic (Equation Editor, Endnote CWYW plugin) doesn't work on my machine that has the Users folder on a separate partition, or the way I can't edit Preferences in Word X without a document open... it's the same sort of cruft that made me cheer when I moved to Mozilla 1.0, or punted the Microsoft media product for VLC...
I'm not a zealot. I'm just happier when my computer does what I want, and I find that Macs do more of what I want in ways that I want them to than Windows machines.