No. What was added, under OS 8.5, was the ability to antialias TrueType fonts; PostScript ones still need ATM. As for a "mention": Try the Fonts tab in the Appearance control panel.
Let us not forget that DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk, the idea being that it can be used for many different types of data. Of course, since video was the most heavily promoted use, DVD has, for many people, because synonymous with video.
About the Mac DDoS vulnerability: MacOS 9 and recent builds of MacOS 8.6 would respond to a small (broadcast) UDP packet with a large ICMP packet. The idea, I think, was to allow a client of some sort to see all of the Macs on the local network, except with TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk.
Shortly after the bug was discovered Apple released a patch to disable it.
And if Community X decides that Community X funded library should install Surfwatch or whatever, they have the right to do so.
But how does Community X "decide"? Majority rule sounds like a good idea, but when one of the issues being dealt with is the repression of minority groups' speech, things get a little more complicated.
Add to this the fact that Community X may not be especially well-informed about the extent of the problem (how many people are going to look at explicit pr0n in public, in a library) and the technical issues involved with blocking allegedly indecent materials (overbroad blocking, etc.).
Speaking from personal experience with a library system that used SurfWatch: I once had a page blocked, and the closest I got to a possible reason was the presence of the string "1900" in the URL. On the other hand, my mother once saw people looking at pornography despite the filters.
In conclusion: it's not that simple.
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Since MacOS 7 (late 1991, before it was called MacOS) you could unmount volumes with Command-Y ("Put Away" from the File menu).
Note back in the old days of the Mac, when most machines had a single floppy drive as storage, unmounting a volume was a fairly major thing, which one would probably not need or want a convenient shortcut for. In theory, at least. (-:
It's not just AOL that specializes in brain-dead installers. About a year ago I had to deal with one "real" ISP's Mac installer that installed old networking software (MacTCP and friends) when much newer stuff (Open Transport) was in place. Not to mention an old version of Netscape, etc. I'm not sure what would have happened if I hadn't cleaned it up.
But wait, there's more! Early USB SuperDisk Drives came with installers that would "update" the Mac OS ROM File to an appropriate version. Unfortunately, it didn't check the version of the existing file. Several minor OS updates later, the "update" (now a downgrade) causes the machine to go to an unresponsive gray screen during the boot process.
But AOL's Bastard Installer From Hell has a little something else: it disrupts rival means of Internet access, causing people to cry "monopoly" and start a huge class-action lawsuit against them. This should be interesting...
And all this time I thought it was Donna Karen (sp?). Go figure. I always look at links before I click them. Which, conveniently, will also deal with some of the problems mentioned in the advisory: if you notice a link has a tag or something suspicious in it then don't follow it. Many security holes can be stopped by common sense.
Sometimes laws become intolerable and the people are forced to overthrough the oppresive government. I submit that this is not such a case and therefore the orderly working of society demands that we oppose it through legal channels.
The original post never mentioned overthrowing the government, merely disobeying the law. Which is, the last time I checked, the way to oppose a bad law by legal means; i.e. judicial review: disobey it and then, in a high enough court, fight the charges on the basis that the law is unconstitutional.
I've got a Rev. D iMac with 96 MB of RAM and a reccently installed, not very modified, System Folder. The Finder and System heap combined take up 21.2 MB. I'd say how much memory my Linux setup uses but I'm not booted into it right now.
I do, however, know that Netscape on the Mac side takes 12-15MB (although it will run in less if necessary) and on the Linux side it uses 30MB, and 4 more in the X server.
No apple could not have gotten it right for 99.9% of users. That would require 99.9% of users to use either a modem OR a LAN. If you used a modem, and the setting was for ethernet, you got screwed. If you used ethernet, but the setting was suitable for modem, you go screwed.
What's to say that Apple didn't set it up to use different settings depending on whether you're using PPP or Ethernet?
There's an piece of software called the USB Floppy Enabler that will, in theory, get your USB floppy drive to eject disks when it's supposed to. Ignore this post if you've already tried it.
"Propoganda" is one way of putting it. "Blatant, outright lie" is another. How is it possible for someone to "steal the product" if they've already legally bought it?
I think the MacOS already has some halfway decent support for non-romaniform script systems, but...
1) Price is very much an issue here. Inexpensive PC's are still better in this respect than Macs.
2) The author of the article also wanted to throw out some of the Western-centric interface ideas (e.g. the metaphor of files and folders) and replace them with stuff that would be more intuitive specifically to Indians; right now, only Unices support this level of customization.
It's a dream to develop with, and the Objective-C language, to me, is much nicer to use than C++ (although I think there's wrappers for Java, and perhaps C/C++).
I sort of doubt there'd be a wrapper for C or C++, since Objective-C uses class objects (factories) and message-passing semantics for method calls; C++'s RTTI and virtual member functions can't emulate some features that I know *Step uses.
Yes. RTSP and RTP are nonproprietary standard protocols used for streaming by Apple's QuickTime.
Compression/decompression is a separate issue: MPEG is open but is, as far as I can tell, ignored in the streaming field in favor of proprietary codecs (Sorenson et al.) which give better image quality.
Even better: anyone with ssh access to an outside host can use the built-in secure port forwarding to propogate whatever villainous service they want to the outside world. No incoming connections on any port for the firewall people to block, and the data are encrypted while in transit to prevent administrative spying. A little bit processor-intensive, though.
And then porting QT to *nix would be a lot more useful. If content providers actually used the new codec, that is. QT and an open video codec could actually help each other out: QT publicizes the codec, and the codec helps free QT.
For what it's worth, the streaming is done with the nonproprietary protocols RTSP and RTP.
I'm guessing that most of the QT streaming video out there uses the Sorenson codec, if only because it's the best codec in QT4 for most of the video being streamed. So if you're trying to watch streaming video, QuickTime without the Sorenson codec wouldn't be very useful.
To add to the horror: ISTR hearing a couple of years ago that the US military discovered they'd lost track of a couple hundred billion (with a B) dollars' worth of equipment. I don't recall the details, unfortunately.
Also note that where the US government "wants" to spend its money is wherever the spending will, however indirectly, get votes and/or political support for some congressperson. What are the odds that Trent Lott's helicopter carrier will be built in Mississippi, or by a company based there? Pretty good, I'd think.
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No. What was added, under OS 8.5, was the ability to antialias TrueType fonts; PostScript ones still need ATM. As for a "mention": Try the Fonts tab in the Appearance control panel.
Let us not forget that DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk, the idea being that it can be used for many different types of data. Of course, since video was the most heavily promoted use, DVD has, for many people, because synonymous with video.
About the Mac DDoS vulnerability: MacOS 9 and recent builds of MacOS 8.6 would respond to a small (broadcast) UDP packet with a large ICMP packet. The idea, I think, was to allow a client of some sort to see all of the Macs on the local network, except with TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk.
Shortly after the bug was discovered Apple released a patch to disable it.
And if Community X decides that Community X funded library should install Surfwatch or whatever, they have the right to do so.
But how does Community X "decide"? Majority rule sounds like a good idea, but when one of the issues being dealt with is the repression of minority groups' speech, things get a little more complicated.
Add to this the fact that Community X may not be especially well-informed about the extent of the problem (how many people are going to look at explicit pr0n in public, in a library) and the technical issues involved with blocking allegedly indecent materials (overbroad blocking, etc.).
Speaking from personal experience with a library system that used SurfWatch: I once had a page blocked, and the closest I got to a possible reason was the presence of the string "1900" in the URL. On the other hand, my mother once saw people looking at pornography despite the filters.
In conclusion: it's not that simple.
Since MacOS 7 (late 1991, before it was called MacOS) you could unmount volumes with Command-Y ("Put Away" from the File menu).
Note back in the old days of the Mac, when most machines had a single floppy drive as storage, unmounting a volume was a fairly major thing, which one would probably not need or want a convenient shortcut for. In theory, at least. (-:
It's not just AOL that specializes in brain-dead installers. About a year ago I had to deal with one "real" ISP's Mac installer that installed old networking software (MacTCP and friends) when much newer stuff (Open Transport) was in place. Not to mention an old version of Netscape, etc. I'm not sure what would have happened if I hadn't cleaned it up.
But wait, there's more! Early USB SuperDisk Drives came with installers that would "update" the Mac OS ROM File to an appropriate version. Unfortunately, it didn't check the version of the existing file. Several minor OS updates later, the "update" (now a downgrade) causes the machine to go to an unresponsive gray screen during the boot process.
But AOL's Bastard Installer From Hell has a little something else: it disrupts rival means of Internet access, causing people to cry "monopoly" and start a huge class-action lawsuit against them. This should be interesting...
And all this time I thought it was Donna Karen (sp?). Go figure. I always look at links before I click them. Which, conveniently, will also deal with some of the problems mentioned in the advisory: if you notice a link has a tag or something suspicious in it then don't follow it. Many security holes can be stopped by common sense.
Sometimes laws become intolerable and the people are forced to overthrough the oppresive government. I submit that this is not such a case and therefore the orderly working of society demands that we oppose it through legal channels.
The original post never mentioned overthrowing the government, merely disobeying the law. Which is, the last time I checked, the way to oppose a bad law by legal means; i.e. judicial review: disobey it and then, in a high enough court, fight the charges on the basis that the law is unconstitutional.
I've got a Rev. D iMac with 96 MB of RAM and a reccently installed, not very modified, System Folder. The Finder and System heap combined take up 21.2 MB. I'd say how much memory my Linux setup uses but I'm not booted into it right now.
I do, however, know that Netscape on the Mac side takes 12-15MB (although it will run in less if necessary) and on the Linux side it uses 30MB, and 4 more in the X server.
No apple could not have gotten it right for 99.9% of users. That would require 99.9% of users to use either a modem OR a LAN. If you used a modem, and the setting was for ethernet, you got screwed. If you used ethernet, but the setting was suitable for modem, you go screwed.
What's to say that Apple didn't set it up to use different settings depending on whether you're using PPP or Ethernet?
There's an piece of software called the USB Floppy Enabler that will, in theory, get your USB floppy drive to eject disks when it's supposed to. Ignore this post if you've already tried it.
"Propoganda" is one way of putting it. "Blatant, outright lie" is another. How is it possible for someone to "steal the product" if they've already legally bought it?
I think the MacOS already has some halfway decent support for non-romaniform script systems, but...
1) Price is very much an issue here. Inexpensive PC's are still better in this respect than Macs.
2) The author of the article also wanted to throw out some of the Western-centric interface ideas (e.g. the metaphor of files and folders) and replace them with stuff that would be more intuitive specifically to Indians; right now, only Unices support this level of customization.
It's a dream to develop with, and the Objective-C language, to me, is much nicer to use than C++ (although I think there's wrappers for Java, and perhaps C/C++).
I sort of doubt there'd be a wrapper for C or C++, since Objective-C uses class objects (factories) and message-passing semantics for method calls; C++'s RTTI and virtual member functions can't emulate some features that I know *Step uses.
Yes. RTSP and RTP are nonproprietary standard protocols used for streaming by Apple's QuickTime.
Compression/decompression is a separate issue: MPEG is open but is, as far as I can tell, ignored in the streaming field in favor of proprietary codecs (Sorenson et al.) which give better image quality.
Even better: anyone with ssh access to an outside host can use the built-in secure port forwarding to propogate whatever villainous service they want to the outside world. No incoming connections on any port for the firewall people to block, and the data are encrypted while in transit to prevent administrative spying. A little bit processor-intensive, though.
And then porting QT to *nix would be a lot more useful. If content providers actually used the new codec, that is. QT and an open video codec could actually help each other out: QT publicizes the codec, and the codec helps free QT.
For what it's worth, the streaming is done with the nonproprietary protocols RTSP and RTP.
I'm guessing that most of the QT streaming video out there uses the Sorenson codec, if only because it's the best codec in QT4 for most of the video being streamed. So if you're trying to watch streaming video, QuickTime without the Sorenson codec wouldn't be very useful.
To add to the horror: ISTR hearing a couple of years ago that the US military discovered they'd lost track of a couple hundred billion (with a B) dollars' worth of equipment. I don't recall the details, unfortunately.
Also note that where the US government "wants" to spend its money is wherever the spending will, however indirectly, get votes and/or political support for some congressperson. What are the odds that Trent Lott's helicopter carrier will be built in Mississippi, or by a company based there? Pretty good, I'd think.