give the tag to a "keeper" for few classes and then skip school.
Just wrap the tag in aluminum foil. That will block the GPS signals and then you cannot be tracked. It might block the 900MHz communication signal too, but only experimentation will tell.
Personally, I would like to attach them to all my socks on laundry day, that way I can find out where the dryer is hiding all of them:)
Put one of these in your laptop and it will become "location aware". When you are at home and login, your home settings will be automatically loaded by the machine. When you are at work and login, your work settings will be automatically loaded. At the local coffee shop? Same thing.
It will also function as a lo-jack device for small and expensive personal stuff: laptops, ipods, cell phones, etc.
Did they figure out weak signal GPS though? If not, then the device will not work indoors and will severely limit its applications.
When I fill out forms or give out personal information, I will deliberately put in some erroneous data. For instance, putting X as my middle initial or putting an apartment number on the address for my house. Now when I get junk mail I can figure who is selling or giving away my information and stop doing business with those entities.
Actually, no. It is a reference to the Nickelodeon animated show about a creature that is half dog half cat -- the front ends of both animals joined at the mid section and pointing in opposite directions. Read more about it here. But the dogcow would have been much more inline with the Mac culture; howver, it is not a cat reference.
It struck me that OS X on the x86 (would that be OSx86 ??) would be an odd combination and should have an appropriately odd mascot -- catdog!
I'm not looking to start a flame war, i'm just wondering exactly what you're referring to.
Ah, I see I should have included the winky smiley face after my No! Seriously! comment. The ill fated attempt at humor would have been much more apparent.
Off of the coast of Japan and heading roughly South-Southwest down towards Malyasia. The trench is formed where the Pacific continential plate dives underneath the Asian continential plate.
This firmware needs to be released for the older iPod.
The newer firmware will not be released for the older iPods anytime in the near future. Apple outsourced the firmware development for the rev 1 and rev 2 iPods. With the latest rev 3 iPods, Apple did the firmware development in-house; hence, the annoying tick between tracks and other little bugs.
For Apple to release new firmware for the two older iPods models, they would have to talk with the outsourcing company to update the firmware or hack through the code themselves to update the older iPods. I do not see Apple doing this anytime soon. They have a newer version that they are pouring money into.
You could give Apple a hundred thousand dollars (US) or so, and they might consider adding the newer features to the older models. But again, they have a newer version they are pouring money into.
Well, given that I returned my iPod, I did not believe Apple would fix things in a timely manner. Call me pessimistic, but if it's broke, it's broke, and if it's fixed, it's fixed. When I called tech support, it was broke and so I acted accordingly.
I was unhappy with Apple for releasing a sub-par product, and I let them know by affecting their pocketbook.
I'd be interested to hear your opinion on what I should do.
Find out as much information as you can about the problems users are having with their iPods. Then decide if any of those problems are "acceptable" for your intended use of the product. Check out the discussions forum under the support page on Apple's webstie. Lot's of iPod users have chimed in with their experiences.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked the iPod -- it's slim, lightweight, and fits nicely in a men's dress shirt pocket. What did annoy me was that I paid $400 US for a buggy product (the 15 gig iPod).
I wanted to use the iPod at work while writing code and at home hooked up to the stereo. In both situations, I noticed the tell-tale iPod "click" between tracks. It's really not too bad, but still noticeable. The bigger complaint is the time lag between songs. This is very noticeable with live albums or between songs that transition directly from one to the other. I expected the iPod to playback music like a CD -- no noticeable lag between songs.
Returning the iPod was not very easy. Apple gives you ten business days to return a product for any reason (when ordered from the online store). If you use take the product out of the package, there is a 10% re-stocking fee. I did not want to pay the fee, so the helpful sales person told me to open a ticket with the service department and they would waive the 10% fee.
After talking with the technical department for a very long time, I was finally put in touch with a manager type person (not at my request, but good nonetheless). Three things were determined when talking with "Brett":
1) Apple knows there is a problem with the audio playback and overall software stability of the new iPods
2) Apple is working night and day to get this problem resolved
3) Apple would not open a ticket for my iPod because there was nothing wrong with it, end of story
I decided to swallow the $40 dollar restocking fee and return the iPod anyways. I also decided that I would not be purchasing any more "first generation" hardware and/or software from Apple, and I most likely would not buy the iPod again when all the bugs were worked out. I called Apple sales again, told them I was within my 10 business day period, and I would like to return my iPod becuase I was dissatisfied with the quality of the product.
I told the sales rep my woes regarding the iPod and the technical support manager, Brett. The sales rep put me on hold for about ten minutes. When he came back on the line he told me that the 10% restocking fee would not be charged, and he sent me a pre-paid FedEx return label. I wish I could remember this guys name because he did a really great job in the customer service area. Kudos to you wherever you are.
Will I buy the iPod again? Maybe. The wife wants a digital camera, and that is a toy that we both would use (the iPod was more for me). But I will not purchase "frist generation" Apple products anymore <sigh>.
it must be quite easy to install 2.0 on older iPods (??)
Version 2.0 of the iPod software was written by Apple. Versions 1.3 and prior were outsourced to another company (whose name I do not know). They are entirely different animals. This will also explain why Apple has not released an update for the older iPods that provides the feature set of the new iPods -- they don't want to pay the outsourcing fees. And this will also explain the bugs in the new iPods (I sent mine back by the way).
Actually, it's a Kubrick series satellite using "multipath photon interference" technology to reconstruct images from the apparent eye level of a six year old.
The images are created by sampling an evanescent photon field about 22 times per second and recording those images using AR coated optics onto a specially treated cellulose material. Those images are then digitized into a proprietary format, encoded using a 54 bit encryption scheme, and disseminated to the populace at large. I do believe the image was one in the series from the project codenamed "Dr. Strangelove".
With OSX, each user also has a public "drop box" that is visible and world writeable via Rendezvous. The intent is to have someplace where other users can give you files to look at. Leaving this open to the internet at large is just asking for someone to come along and fill your hard drive with junk.
Two solutions: (1) remove the public drop box; (2) limit the total number of bytes that folder can contain. The former is quite easy. I'm not too sure how to acheive the latter.
And, of course, just put your machine behind an AirPort base station (whic has NAT capabilities).
SHIP NAME/TYPE: Earth (class M)
LENGTH: Approximately 12600 km.
BUILDER/COMMENTS: Originally built by God for humans and launched near the creation of the universe for peacful enjoyment of life and relationship. Earth was invaded by evil forces under direct control of Lucifer and has not been the same since. Recall notice has been sent to fix problems introduced by Lucifer. The exact time of the recall is unknown.
SOURCE: Bible, (Book), Written by God, et. al.
Not exactly a spacechip, though. Yes, they travel through time and space simultaneously, but as all true geeks know, that's cheating.
And it was only Dr. Who's tardis that was shaped like a police box. A normal tardis takes on the appearance of any local object so that it "blends in" with the surrounds. Dr. Who's tardis was slightly broken and stuck at "polic box" setting.
Hmmm . . . does it make sense to expend resources for less than 1% of the market? Of all the personal computers out there only 3% - 5% are Macs. If there are already several other browsers for the platform - Safari, Camino, OmniWeb, Mozilla - how much market share is Microsoft really going to get? And to what advantage?
Yes, there are some websites out there that will only render under IE5 [sarcasm] let's hear it for standards on the web [/sarcasm], but does Microsoft really care about the million or so OSX users who might want to see those websites? It just doesn't make business sense to do anything innovative for so little returns.
Now I'm going to turn into Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but the only reason MS invested into Apple financially and supported IE5 and Office on the OSX paltform was to keep the DoJ off its back. Now that Apple is coming out with their own browser and, according to the rumor sites, their own Office suite, do you think Microsoft is really going to invest the time and money to support the competition?
Microsoft needs Apple, but they don't need Apple to take away their market share.
Yes, there is a solution out there. Basically you need to restore the previous version of libssl.so This will get your webserver up and running again, but it will still have the RSA keysnoop vulnerability. So use at your own risk!
You have Thomas Ganter to thank for this solution. It was first published on the Apple discussion site, and I mirrored it on my webserver (just to keep Ganter's site from being slasdotted).
Well, his/her/its user ID is 1e+5 greater than yours which means (s)he(it) was probably not around for April 1 last year. They'll figure it out around this time tomorrow.
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give the tag to a "keeper" for few classes and then skip school.
:)
Just wrap the tag in aluminum foil. That will block the GPS signals and then you cannot be tracked. It might block the 900MHz communication signal too, but only experimentation will tell.
Personally, I would like to attach them to all my socks on laundry day, that way I can find out where the dryer is hiding all of them
Put one of these in your laptop and it will become "location aware". When you are at home and login, your home settings will be automatically loaded by the machine. When you are at work and login, your work settings will be automatically loaded. At the local coffee shop? Same thing.
It will also function as a lo-jack device for small and expensive personal stuff: laptops, ipods, cell phones, etc.
Did they figure out weak signal GPS though? If not, then the device will not work indoors and will severely limit its applications.
When I fill out forms or give out personal information, I will deliberately put in some erroneous data. For instance, putting X as my middle initial or putting an apartment number on the address for my house. Now when I get junk mail I can figure who is selling or giving away my information and stop doing business with those entities.
Would that be any relation to the Dogcow?
Actually, no. It is a reference to the Nickelodeon animated show about a creature that is half dog half cat -- the front ends of both animals joined at the mid section and pointing in opposite directions. Read more about it here. But the dogcow would have been much more inline with the Mac culture; howver, it is not a cat reference.
It struck me that OS X on the x86 (would that be OSx86 ??) would be an odd combination and should have an appropriately odd mascot -- catdog!
I'm not looking to start a flame war, i'm just wondering exactly what you're referring to.
Ah, I see I should have included the winky smiley face after my No! Seriously! comment. The ill fated attempt at humor would have been much more apparent.
First 64-bit CPU: MIPS R4000, 1991 (see Microprocessor Report, Feb 6, 1991)
/. and we have a reputation to uphold!
Quit clouding the issue with facts!
This is
Actually, the version of OSX that runs on the x86 platform is codenamed "CatDog". No! Seriously!
Off of the coast of Japan and heading roughly South-Southwest down towards Malyasia. The trench is formed where the Pacific continential plate dives underneath the Asian continential plate.
Thank you, Apple, for a fine lesson in how to lie with statistics.
Well, Eight out of ten people know that 78.3% of all statistics are made up.
This firmware needs to be released for the older iPod.
The newer firmware will not be released for the older iPods anytime in the near future. Apple outsourced the firmware development for the rev 1 and rev 2 iPods. With the latest rev 3 iPods, Apple did the firmware development in-house; hence, the annoying tick between tracks and other little bugs.
For Apple to release new firmware for the two older iPods models, they would have to talk with the outsourcing company to update the firmware or hack through the code themselves to update the older iPods. I do not see Apple doing this anytime soon. They have a newer version that they are pouring money into.
You could give Apple a hundred thousand dollars (US) or so, and they might consider adding the newer features to the older models. But again, they have a newer version they are pouring money into.
Well, given that I returned my iPod, I did not believe Apple would fix things in a timely manner. Call me pessimistic, but if it's broke, it's broke, and if it's fixed, it's fixed. When I called tech support, it was broke and so I acted accordingly.
I was unhappy with Apple for releasing a sub-par product, and I let them know by affecting their pocketbook.
I'd be interested to hear your opinion on what I should do.
Find out as much information as you can about the problems users are having with their iPods. Then decide if any of those problems are "acceptable" for your intended use of the product. Check out the discussions forum under the support page on Apple's webstie. Lot's of iPod users have chimed in with their experiences.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked the iPod -- it's slim, lightweight, and fits nicely in a men's dress shirt pocket. What did annoy me was that I paid $400 US for a buggy product (the 15 gig iPod).
I wanted to use the iPod at work while writing code and at home hooked up to the stereo. In both situations, I noticed the tell-tale iPod "click" between tracks. It's really not too bad, but still noticeable. The bigger complaint is the time lag between songs. This is very noticeable with live albums or between songs that transition directly from one to the other. I expected the iPod to playback music like a CD -- no noticeable lag between songs.
Returning the iPod was not very easy. Apple gives you ten business days to return a product for any reason (when ordered from the online store). If you use take the product out of the package, there is a 10% re-stocking fee. I did not want to pay the fee, so the helpful sales person told me to open a ticket with the service department and they would waive the 10% fee.
After talking with the technical department for a very long time, I was finally put in touch with a manager type person (not at my request, but good nonetheless). Three things were determined when talking with "Brett":
1) Apple knows there is a problem with the audio playback and overall software stability of the new iPods
2) Apple is working night and day to get this problem resolved
3) Apple would not open a ticket for my iPod because there was nothing wrong with it, end of story
I decided to swallow the $40 dollar restocking fee and return the iPod anyways. I also decided that I would not be purchasing any more "first generation" hardware and/or software from Apple, and I most likely would not buy the iPod again when all the bugs were worked out. I called Apple sales again, told them I was within my 10 business day period, and I would like to return my iPod becuase I was dissatisfied with the quality of the product.
I told the sales rep my woes regarding the iPod and the technical support manager, Brett. The sales rep put me on hold for about ten minutes. When he came back on the line he told me that the 10% restocking fee would not be charged, and he sent me a pre-paid FedEx return label. I wish I could remember this guys name because he did a really great job in the customer service area. Kudos to you wherever you are.
Will I buy the iPod again? Maybe. The wife wants a digital camera, and that is a toy that we both would use (the iPod was more for me). But I will not purchase "frist generation" Apple products anymore <sigh>.
it must be quite easy to install 2.0 on older iPods (??)
Version 2.0 of the iPod software was written by Apple. Versions 1.3 and prior were outsourced to another company (whose name I do not know). They are entirely different animals. This will also explain why Apple has not released an update for the older iPods that provides the feature set of the new iPods -- they don't want to pay the outsourcing fees. And this will also explain the bugs in the new iPods (I sent mine back by the way).
Actually, it's a Kubrick series satellite using "multipath photon interference" technology to reconstruct images from the apparent eye level of a six year old.
The images are created by sampling an evanescent photon field about 22 times per second and recording those images using AR coated optics onto a specially treated cellulose material. Those images are then digitized into a proprietary format, encoded using a 54 bit encryption scheme, and disseminated to the populace at large. I do believe the image was one in the series from the project codenamed "Dr. Strangelove".
Cheers!
If you think I'm wrong them post a picture of the inside of NORAD taken from a satalite to prove me wrong.
OK, here ya go!
. . . they built on top of rat brain cells? Like a rat, does it crawl into the walls to dump it's load of dust and dirt?
With OSX, each user also has a public "drop box" that is visible and world writeable via Rendezvous. The intent is to have someplace where other users can give you files to look at. Leaving this open to the internet at large is just asking for someone to come along and fill your hard drive with junk.
Two solutions: (1) remove the public drop box; (2) limit the total number of bytes that folder can contain. The former is quite easy. I'm not too sure how to acheive the latter.
And, of course, just put your machine behind an AirPort base station (whic has NAT capabilities).
SHIP NAME/TYPE: Earth (class M)
LENGTH: Approximately 12600 km.
BUILDER/COMMENTS: Originally built by God for humans and launched near the creation of the universe for peacful enjoyment of life and relationship. Earth was invaded by evil forces under direct control of Lucifer and has not been the same since. Recall notice has been sent to fix problems introduced by Lucifer. The exact time of the recall is unknown.
SOURCE: Bible, (Book), Written by God, et. al.
Not exactly a spacechip, though. Yes, they travel through time and space simultaneously, but as all true geeks know, that's cheating.
And it was only Dr. Who's tardis that was shaped like a police box. A normal tardis takes on the appearance of any local object so that it "blends in" with the surrounds. Dr. Who's tardis was slightly broken and stuck at "polic box" setting.
Okay big guy! Post your cool website on the front page of Slashdot and we'll see just how "geeky" you are.
Sir, she's gone from suck to blow!
Hmmm . . . does it make sense to expend resources for less than 1% of the market? Of all the personal computers out there only 3% - 5% are Macs. If there are already several other browsers for the platform - Safari, Camino, OmniWeb, Mozilla - how much market share is Microsoft really going to get? And to what advantage?
Yes, there are some websites out there that will only render under IE5 [sarcasm] let's hear it for standards on the web [/sarcasm], but does Microsoft really care about the million or so OSX users who might want to see those websites? It just doesn't make business sense to do anything innovative for so little returns.
Now I'm going to turn into Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but the only reason MS invested into Apple financially and supported IE5 and Office on the OSX paltform was to keep the DoJ off its back. Now that Apple is coming out with their own browser and, according to the rumor sites, their own Office suite, do you think Microsoft is really going to invest the time and money to support the competition?
Microsoft needs Apple, but they don't need Apple to take away their market share.
Yes, there is a solution out there. Basically you need to restore the previous version of libssl.so This will get your webserver up and running again, but it will still have the RSA keysnoop vulnerability. So use at your own risk!
You can find the old libssl.so at two places:
http://ganter.dyndns.org/misc/apple_ssl.php
http://www.zippy6.net/misc/
You have Thomas Ganter to thank for this solution. It was first published on the Apple discussion site, and I mirrored it on my webserver (just to keep Ganter's site from being slasdotted).
GMT +27:00
Well, his/her/its user ID is 1e+5 greater than yours which means (s)he(it) was probably not around for April 1 last year. They'll figure it out around this time tomorrow.