If you read the original agreement when install Bootcamp without Leopard (ie the pre-Leopard versions of Bootcamp), it tells you it is Beta software only and that it will expire in October 2007. And that's what it did.
I don't know. I've had Boot Camp on my Mac for a long time now. I upgraded to 10.4.11 right when it came out. I can still boot to the Windows partition; I did so just yesterday. Doesn't seem to me like this is some conscious decision to disable Boot Camp with the new version of the OS. I don't know if you can still do a fresh install of Boot Camp on a 10.4.11 box, but I can vouch that the patch doesn't necessarily break an existing installation.
How about Googling for something like John Smith or John Jones (of course, there's Jim Jones, which will return some interesting historic references)? I doubt very much that any potential employer will be able to find references to your work amongst all the thousands of returns that are *not* you. So, unless you have a relatively unique name, Google isn't going to help.
Yep, that's the situation I'm in. My real name is very common, and is shared by a celebrity to boot. (He spells it differently, but a search for my spelling gives fan sites by people who don't know how to spell.) To top it off, even if you tried to qualify the search with technical terms, there's a developer on a prominent open-source project with the same name.
The nickname I'm using here (and which I've been using various places since the mid-80s) is taken from "A Clockwork Orange" and is hardly unique. A search for that turns up a lot of hits for other guys who've also adopted it. There are two other online nicknames which I use, and both of them also generate hits that aren't me. (Which is surprising, because one of them I specifically created to be a unique nonsense word. Turns out it's used as a surname on the other side of the globe.) If you link my real name with one or more of my nicknames you start to get better hits, but there's still a lot of noise.
So, I'm effectively invisible on Google unless you already know what you're looking for. My potential problem is that when someone searches for me they might think that one of these other guys is me. What if one of them posts something whacko, or runs a website for drunken furry kiddie porn, or advocates the violent overthrow of the government?
When I'm interviewing I never bother searching Google for the applicant. Too much potential namespace collision; you can never be sure that what you're finding is really relevant.
Episode I would have made much more sense if Anakin had been 15 instead of 9. The pod racer/hot rod would have made sense. The ability to cobble together a droid from spare parts would have made sense. The infatuation with Amidala would have made sense. And Yoda's comment that he's too old for training would have made sense. But no, we get a 9yo kid, and no plausible explanation for any of that. Having an older Anakin wouldn't have screwed up the other movies at all. The timeline would have worked out just the same if he was six years older.
Killing off the visible villain in Ep I was also stupid from the perspective of the narrative. Yeah, we all knew that Palpatine would grow up to be the Emperor. But he was just the shadowy figure in the background.
There should have been someone to boo throughout the series, just like we had Vader in the original movies. The characters of Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous should have been combined into a single character that would harrass the heroes all along the way. In Ep III we had this big fight against Grievous and there was really no reason to care about it. Where did this guy come from?
That's not even counting the just plain dumb things in the movies. Midichlorians? Aarrrgh! The Force gets demoted from being this mystic energy field generated by and surrounding all living things, to the by-product of some semi-sentient bacteria. The way the Jedi interacted with Palpatine. You mean we've got this group of friggin' mind-readers, who have demonstrated in the original series that they can sense individuals strong with the Force at interplanetary distances, and they can't tell that the big bad guy just oozing with the Dark Side is standing right in front of them!? The droid factory sequence in Ep II? Come on, that was straight out of Galaxy Quest, and even in that movie the dumb blonde character knew it was really stupid. What made Lucas think it would be a good idea to have the Menacing Crusher Thingies trying to pound our heroes into oblivion? And Grievous... Oy! Why would a mostly-droid character, who's shown us that he can survive vacuum, have a respiratory problem?
You'll notice I haven't railed against Jar-Jar. I actually think he was the least of the movies' problems. He was annoying in the same way the Ewoks were annoying, but all in all I could live with him. If only the rest of the show was better!
Why add the additional point of failure? Or was I supposed to buy 2 identical RAID cards for when one failed and it turned out the array it built isn't compatible with anything except the exact same device with the exact same firmware revision?
In fact, I just had a RAID controller die. Fortunately it would still let me mount the disks read-only and recover the data. That pretty much convinced me that RAID is not what I want for home.
To replace the RAID (and because I needed more storage anyway) I went out and bought two 500GB drives. I have them mounted as two plain ol' ext3 drives -- not RAID, not even software RAID. Just two drives. I have a cron job that rsync's one to the other every night. I took a cue from this page and keep a week's worth of backups as hard links. This gives me seven days to recover anything I accidentally deleted before it's gone for good, but doesn't take up much more backup space than just a single copy. My data is mostly unchanging files like CDROM ISOs and MP3s, so after the initial 5-hour mass copy was done the nightlies only take a few minutes.
Now if either drive craps out I can mount the other in any Linux box and recover the data. If anything in that box craps out, including the controller, I can take the drives and recover the data. Yeah, it's possible that the controller could fubar both drives if something dire happens. A RAID controller could do the same. If I had 500GB of storage off-site I'd rsync to there instead.
One last unrelated thing: I see everyone talking about DRM'd ebooks. I have never bought a DRM'd ebook in my life and never will. I buy my books from baen.com (ALL completely DRM free and in several formats) which has -years- of good books that I don't have yet, and they release more each month than I can read in a month.
Amen to Baen! Darned near all of their catalog is available electronically (certainly everything printed in the past decade), they have a huge library of free books, and everything is available in plain ol' HTML as well as other forms (Rocketreader, Palm Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, and RTF). Individual books are priced about the same as a paperback, cheaper if you buy the bundle-of-the-month.
They also publish a monthly SF magazine in a purely electronic format, if that sort of thing floats your boat.
Baen has a serious corporate allergy to DRM. Jim Baen hated it, and his successors hate it. This is what commercial electronic media should be. (I'm talking to you, RIAA!)
The whole "Beta" thing that google and company do is really starting to piss me off. It's getting regular users to expect "Beta" to mean "1.0" and when Beta turns out to actually mean Beta, they get all pissy.
I lay the blame at the feet of open source developers who started this nonsense. Far too many open source utilities have had years of stable versions numbered <1.0. These apps are in permanent "beta" simply because the developers don't want take responsibility for a finished product. It ate your hard drive? Ooh, sorry. You gotta expect some bugs in a beta. We expect it to be finalized sometime before the heat death of the universe. But don't quote us on that.
I used to laugh at Al Gore jokes... until Dec 2000 or so...
Just haven't been as funny these last 7 years... dunno what it is...
Dude, he won an Oscar last year. That makes him eligible for being the butt of jokes for at least another year.
Think of it as a refresh cycle for the DRAM of the public.
It is completely technically feasible for this system to need to be enabled in order for it to work. For example, with BMW Assist, BMW's OnStat-like service, equipment is physically disabled in the car if the user does not subscribe to a service.
This argument appears predicated on the belief that even if a customer doesn't voluntarily and willingly "opt in", that it can still somehow be used by police or hackers. I'm sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
While it is certainly possible to design the system in such a way that a mechanic would need to physically flip a switch to enable or disable the system, in practice that's not how OnStar works. I don't know about BMW's system, but OnStar does not require a trip to the service station to enable or disable the device. I could go out to my car right now, hit the big shiny OnStar button, and activate service with just a credit card number. That's the way GM wants it, so it's easy to sign up as an impulse buy.
I see no evidence that this method of activation will change for cars with the new remote-disable feature. I'm willing to bet that, just like the current generation of OnStar, you're going to have to take a pair of wire cutters to it to really disable it, regardless of whether or not you subscribe to the service.
They could keep a neutral party in charge of given TLDs whose only concern is keeping order within the world of the TLD. No, I like your idea better.
You seem to be under the assumption that there is a neutral third-party somewhere.
Besides, I don't actually see a problem of "domain wars" where one country invalidates foreign domains within its own country code. Say India gets pissed at Pakistan and revokes all the "pakistani-companies.in" domains. And Pakistan does the same, revoking all "indian-companies.pk" domains. First, how many Pakistani companies (or organizations, or individuals) do you think would be cross-registering.in domains, and vice-versa? Second, you'll note that the "pakistani-companies.pk" and "indian-companies.in" domains would be completely unaffected. So in practice I suspect such actions would inconvenience exactly no one.
Like having US websites register in the.us domain?
If it's a commercial website it's fine in.com no matter where it's located.
That's pretty much the way it is, but it's not a good system. There's no way of resolving disputes over names, which leads to domain squatting. I'd really like to see the end of all TLDs except for country codes. You want a virtual presence in the US? Register "here-i-am.us". You want to be in China? Register "here-i-am.cn". You want a virtual presence in every country? You'll have to register in every country from.ac to.zw.
From the domain owner's side, it essentially declares in which jurisdiction(s) any disputes are to be resolved. Countries are free to subdivide their own domain space as they see fit, of course, and to impose whatever requirements they deem necessary to register.
Mr. Roberts's concern over the Internet's infrastructure stretches back years. Even while at ARPAnet, he says he was unsure how long the technology could work, especially since the system didn't ensure that information packets would arrive at their destination.
Gee, if only we had some method to control the transportation of packets. I envision it starting with something like a handshake between two hosts so each would know that the other was ready. Then you'd want to assign sequence numbers to each packet so the recipient would know if a packet had been dropped. The recipient might have some way to acknowledge each packet, so the sender knows that the recipient received it. And there might even be some way for either endpoint to tell the other that it's finished with the conversation, allowing timely cleanup of network resources.
Nah, I'm dreaming. If such a magic "transport control" protocol were possible, surely the inventors of the Internet would have figured it out by now.
Meh, if you've seen one box you've seen them all.
When you're really break it down they're all nothing but I/O devices. Sure, some might have a few more bugs then others. And sure, some are more easy to get into then others. But at the end of the day a box is a box.
Wait. Are we talking about the computers or the girls here?
Like most quackery, the proponents claim that there's a big conspiracy by the mainstream experts to discredit their ideas. Thus, attempts by doctors or scientists to expose the scam for what it is actually end up reinforcing it in the minds of those who already believe. It must be true! Look at how hard they're trying to suppress it!
You don't work in a corporate environment and/or I doubt you deal with many systems.
Maybe he doesn't, but I do. And I completely agree with him. Installing a background task just to deal with license keys is bad juju. You recommend Elicense. How many other services are there? This isn't the only program I'm likely to install. How many different license key monitors do you think I want running on my machines? How are they all going to interact with each other?
The owner of Jatol.com, Tim Tooley, has also disappeared. He was apparently very ill for some time, and speculation on the thread goes from his skipping the country to lying dead in his home. Fastservers apparently is unwilling to turn the machines back on, so people could get their content, without authorization from Tooley."
Sounds like someone needs to find a hosting provider that has more than a single person running the whole company...
The article mentions that the iPod and its cheap earbuds bear some of the responsibility for rendering this degradation in sound quality less objectionable.
That's why I only listen to my iPod using oxygen-free Monster Cable wires to my earbuds.
Seriously, how can the sound quality out of an iPod be any worse than the sound quality out of my generation's iPod: a third-generation copy on a cheap Radio Shack cassette played on a squeaky Walkman?
When I was a kid, I learned about computers because I wanted to 'hack' my games. I'm wondering if censorware are going to be the reason for this generation to learn about computers....i.e. I've got to learn enough to get around the blocks.
"Never underestimate the resourcefulness of teenage hormones."
I've got some fairly significant blocks on my network. The firewall completely blocks the kids' computers by MAC address. The only way for them to get out is via a web proxy set up on my server. They have to ask me to manually grant access to the proxy when they want to connect, and they know that I review the proxy logs every day. I'm sure it's not an airtight system, but it's a big step beyond a filter. I actually hope that they'll try to find a way around it; it would mean that they're learning something about networking. But alas, the most they've ever done is to blatantly go to hentai sites when the proxy is open and hope I don't look at the logs that day. I'm kind of disappointed that my 14yo son hasn't shown a bit more creativity in that regard.
Or else they're really, really good at covering their tracks!
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That's not saying much, considering how many mail hosts still only support POP3.
I don't know. I've had Boot Camp on my Mac for a long time now. I upgraded to 10.4.11 right when it came out. I can still boot to the Windows partition; I did so just yesterday. Doesn't seem to me like this is some conscious decision to disable Boot Camp with the new version of the OS. I don't know if you can still do a fresh install of Boot Camp on a 10.4.11 box, but I can vouch that the patch doesn't necessarily break an existing installation.
Yep, that's the situation I'm in. My real name is very common, and is shared by a celebrity to boot. (He spells it differently, but a search for my spelling gives fan sites by people who don't know how to spell.) To top it off, even if you tried to qualify the search with technical terms, there's a developer on a prominent open-source project with the same name.
The nickname I'm using here (and which I've been using various places since the mid-80s) is taken from "A Clockwork Orange" and is hardly unique. A search for that turns up a lot of hits for other guys who've also adopted it. There are two other online nicknames which I use, and both of them also generate hits that aren't me. (Which is surprising, because one of them I specifically created to be a unique nonsense word. Turns out it's used as a surname on the other side of the globe.) If you link my real name with one or more of my nicknames you start to get better hits, but there's still a lot of noise.
So, I'm effectively invisible on Google unless you already know what you're looking for. My potential problem is that when someone searches for me they might think that one of these other guys is me. What if one of them posts something whacko, or runs a website for drunken furry kiddie porn, or advocates the violent overthrow of the government?
When I'm interviewing I never bother searching Google for the applicant. Too much potential namespace collision; you can never be sure that what you're finding is really relevant.
Episode I would have made much more sense if Anakin had been 15 instead of 9. The pod racer/hot rod would have made sense. The ability to cobble together a droid from spare parts would have made sense. The infatuation with Amidala would have made sense. And Yoda's comment that he's too old for training would have made sense. But no, we get a 9yo kid, and no plausible explanation for any of that. Having an older Anakin wouldn't have screwed up the other movies at all. The timeline would have worked out just the same if he was six years older.
Killing off the visible villain in Ep I was also stupid from the perspective of the narrative. Yeah, we all knew that Palpatine would grow up to be the Emperor. But he was just the shadowy figure in the background. There should have been someone to boo throughout the series, just like we had Vader in the original movies. The characters of Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous should have been combined into a single character that would harrass the heroes all along the way. In Ep III we had this big fight against Grievous and there was really no reason to care about it. Where did this guy come from?
That's not even counting the just plain dumb things in the movies. Midichlorians? Aarrrgh! The Force gets demoted from being this mystic energy field generated by and surrounding all living things, to the by-product of some semi-sentient bacteria. The way the Jedi interacted with Palpatine. You mean we've got this group of friggin' mind-readers, who have demonstrated in the original series that they can sense individuals strong with the Force at interplanetary distances, and they can't tell that the big bad guy just oozing with the Dark Side is standing right in front of them!? The droid factory sequence in Ep II? Come on, that was straight out of Galaxy Quest, and even in that movie the dumb blonde character knew it was really stupid. What made Lucas think it would be a good idea to have the Menacing Crusher Thingies trying to pound our heroes into oblivion? And Grievous... Oy! Why would a mostly-droid character, who's shown us that he can survive vacuum, have a respiratory problem?
You'll notice I haven't railed against Jar-Jar. I actually think he was the least of the movies' problems. He was annoying in the same way the Ewoks were annoying, but all in all I could live with him. If only the rest of the show was better!
In fact, I just had a RAID controller die. Fortunately it would still let me mount the disks read-only and recover the data. That pretty much convinced me that RAID is not what I want for home.
To replace the RAID (and because I needed more storage anyway) I went out and bought two 500GB drives. I have them mounted as two plain ol' ext3 drives -- not RAID, not even software RAID. Just two drives. I have a cron job that rsync's one to the other every night. I took a cue from this page and keep a week's worth of backups as hard links. This gives me seven days to recover anything I accidentally deleted before it's gone for good, but doesn't take up much more backup space than just a single copy. My data is mostly unchanging files like CDROM ISOs and MP3s, so after the initial 5-hour mass copy was done the nightlies only take a few minutes.
Now if either drive craps out I can mount the other in any Linux box and recover the data. If anything in that box craps out, including the controller, I can take the drives and recover the data. Yeah, it's possible that the controller could fubar both drives if something dire happens. A RAID controller could do the same. If I had 500GB of storage off-site I'd rsync to there instead.
Amen to Baen! Darned near all of their catalog is available electronically (certainly everything printed in the past decade), they have a huge library of free books, and everything is available in plain ol' HTML as well as other forms (Rocketreader, Palm Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, and RTF). Individual books are priced about the same as a paperback, cheaper if you buy the bundle-of-the-month.
They also publish a monthly SF magazine in a purely electronic format, if that sort of thing floats your boat.
Baen has a serious corporate allergy to DRM. Jim Baen hated it, and his successors hate it. This is what commercial electronic media should be. (I'm talking to you, RIAA!)
I lay the blame at the feet of open source developers who started this nonsense. Far too many open source utilities have had years of stable versions numbered <1.0. These apps are in permanent "beta" simply because the developers don't want take responsibility for a finished product. It ate your hard drive? Ooh, sorry. You gotta expect some bugs in a beta. We expect it to be finalized sometime before the heat death of the universe. But don't quote us on that.
Dude, he won an Oscar last year. That makes him eligible for being the butt of jokes for at least another year. Think of it as a refresh cycle for the DRAM of the public.
While it is certainly possible to design the system in such a way that a mechanic would need to physically flip a switch to enable or disable the system, in practice that's not how OnStar works. I don't know about BMW's system, but OnStar does not require a trip to the service station to enable or disable the device. I could go out to my car right now, hit the big shiny OnStar button, and activate service with just a credit card number. That's the way GM wants it, so it's easy to sign up as an impulse buy.
I see no evidence that this method of activation will change for cars with the new remote-disable feature. I'm willing to bet that, just like the current generation of OnStar, you're going to have to take a pair of wire cutters to it to really disable it, regardless of whether or not you subscribe to the service.
You seem to be under the assumption that there is a neutral third-party somewhere.
Besides, I don't actually see a problem of "domain wars" where one country invalidates foreign domains within its own country code. Say India gets pissed at Pakistan and revokes all the "pakistani-companies.in" domains. And Pakistan does the same, revoking all "indian-companies.pk" domains. First, how many Pakistani companies (or organizations, or individuals) do you think would be cross-registering .in domains, and vice-versa? Second, you'll note that the "pakistani-companies.pk" and "indian-companies.in" domains would be completely unaffected. So in practice I suspect such actions would inconvenience exactly no one.
That's pretty much the way it is, but it's not a good system. There's no way of resolving disputes over names, which leads to domain squatting. I'd really like to see the end of all TLDs except for country codes. You want a virtual presence in the US? Register "here-i-am.us". You want to be in China? Register "here-i-am.cn". You want a virtual presence in every country? You'll have to register in every country from .ac to .zw.
From the domain owner's side, it essentially declares in which jurisdiction(s) any disputes are to be resolved. Countries are free to subdivide their own domain space as they see fit, of course, and to impose whatever requirements they deem necessary to register.
But where would midget porn go? .xxx or .midget? I think we'll need a .midget-xxx TLD before too long.
Gee, if only we had some method to control the transportation of packets. I envision it starting with something like a handshake between two hosts so each would know that the other was ready. Then you'd want to assign sequence numbers to each packet so the recipient would know if a packet had been dropped. The recipient might have some way to acknowledge each packet, so the sender knows that the recipient received it. And there might even be some way for either endpoint to tell the other that it's finished with the conversation, allowing timely cleanup of network resources.
Nah, I'm dreaming. If such a magic "transport control" protocol were possible, surely the inventors of the Internet would have figured it out by now.
Wait. Are we talking about the computers or the girls here?
Furries exist to give Trekkies someone to look down on.
Ooh! Ooh! I call dibs on www.ienjoylickingstrawberryjamoffgoats.va! And goatse.va, as long as I'm at it. "The Pope as you've never seen him before..."
Maybe he doesn't, but I do. And I completely agree with him. Installing a background task just to deal with license keys is bad juju. You recommend Elicense. How many other services are there? This isn't the only program I'm likely to install. How many different license key monitors do you think I want running on my machines? How are they all going to interact with each other?
Sounds like someone needs to find a hosting provider that has more than a single person running the whole company...
That's why I only listen to my iPod using oxygen-free Monster Cable wires to my earbuds.
Seriously, how can the sound quality out of an iPod be any worse than the sound quality out of my generation's iPod: a third-generation copy on a cheap Radio Shack cassette played on a squeaky Walkman?
Don't fear the Reaper, dude. Rock on!
"Never underestimate the resourcefulness of teenage hormones."
I've got some fairly significant blocks on my network. The firewall completely blocks the kids' computers by MAC address. The only way for them to get out is via a web proxy set up on my server. They have to ask me to manually grant access to the proxy when they want to connect, and they know that I review the proxy logs every day. I'm sure it's not an airtight system, but it's a big step beyond a filter. I actually hope that they'll try to find a way around it; it would mean that they're learning something about networking. But alas, the most they've ever done is to blatantly go to hentai sites when the proxy is open and hope I don't look at the logs that day. I'm kind of disappointed that my 14yo son hasn't shown a bit more creativity in that regard.
Or else they're really, really good at covering their tracks!
Knowledge makes you ill. Stay ignorant and healthy!
-1, Redundant. That would be a subset of the "people who see a use/market for the crops."