Have a drop upstairs, a drop downstairs, and maybe one in the garage. And put wireless hubs on each of them. If wireless gets faster/better, you can just sell your ports and buy new ones, and everything keeps working, no rewiring.
HAH! I wonder if CmdrTaco is going to recieve a cease & desist letter? Watch yo bad self, Rob! Seriously, the irony here is just to much. How does it affect them in any way except more traffic for their site == more exposure + more banner ad revenue. And unless someone is using KPMG's equipment to host that link, they don't have to agree to jack shit. I propose a new theme song:
K-P-M-G! We're out of touch with reality! We have a website we don't want you to see. If you link to us we're gonna break your knees! It's all a part of our global stradegy...
Minning = Removing Mass = Change in moon's orbit = tides fuck up = Floods or droughts in costal regions = great cities are lost and shipping and trade gets fucked
Who knows, how do we know this won't start the moon moving away from the earth? how do we know this won't make it move towards the earth? i don' think getting hit by the moon is big on anyone's list.
If you "sync" an iPod, it loads all the songs in the library and then your playlists as well, which is sort of what you're talking about...
as far as trading playlists on the 'net, hasn't been to reliable because you can't guarentee someone will have a certian song or that the filename/ID3 tags will be the same...
Actually, come to think of it, yea i did know that, it works on LinuxPPC and is MacOS X so i damn well should, i dunno why it slipped my mind here... but the point wasn't better or worse, the point was keyboard nav in a GUI enviroment, like a shell with visual feedback in realtime, which i find makes it easier than mousing or straight text.
again, dont' get me wrong, i'm stoked i can use tcsh to control my OSX machine (and of course i get BSD to go with it) but navagating a GUI with that same simplistic keyboard operation is pure heaven.
A good system of keyboard navigation within a GUI is not only convinient but essential, at least for me. I know with my 10,000 folders littered all over my hard drive, it is much faster to type the path than to mouse down 7 levels. Let's take an example, I have 3 nested folders on a volume named "Macintosh HD", named "First folder", "second folder", and "Thrid folder", and I'm at the desktop.
I could do this: Look Move Double-click Look Move Double-click Look Move Double-click.
Or, I could: "M" (select Macintosh HD) Apple-O (for Open, my hands never leave the keyboard) "f" (selects "First Folder") Apple-O "s" (selects "second folder") Apple-O "t" (which selects "Thrid Folder" Apple-O
For a third example, a *NIX-style command line would require I type cd/Macintosh HD/First Folder/Second Folder/Thrid Folder/ *enter*
Whereas on the Mac, I simply type: m(AO)f(AO)s(AO)t(AO)
8 keystrokes on the Mac, as opposed to 58 on the *NIX, and I don't even have to acknowledge it with an enter, I'm already there. Which is usually not a problem because since i know the keyboard, I don't have to watch it and can see the screen (I can correct mistakes as they happen with a quick Apple-W to close the window I mistakenly opened). If there is more than one item that begins with "F", it goes to the first choice alphabetically, and you just type a little more to get to the right one. If you want to (or sometimes need to), it's quicker to use the arrows to move to the icon you want (watch what you're doing, remember). Once you get used to it it's really goddamn quick, makes me glad I had a Nintendo growing up, good hand-eye:-).
Instead of a "cd..*enter*" I can just hit Apple-W. Select a file or application and Apple-O launches it. Apple-Delete for send to Trash. Better then "rm -rf/path/to/doomed/file *enter*"
Now I'm not bashing a command line at all, obviously I like keyboards for input. But in terms of making a GUI efficient, it WILL increase speed, with practice.
Unfortunately the Mac's KDGUI (Keyboard Driven Graphical User Interface, heh) is far from complete. How do i switch windows (Apple + 0-9 would be nice...or something similar to the Windows Alt-Tab box)? How do i move items? Copy and paste aren't OS functions in Mac OS, ie we can't just copy files we have to drag them. I haven't even played with it in MacOS X but I'm told it's sorely lacking...
More shortcuts make clutter, more innovative shortcuts streamline the GUI experience, and I definately think it's high time the major OSs start cracking down on GUI orginization, it'd be like a "command line with pictures";-)
This amongst other things, is an area where developers (yes, everyone) need to THINK about how to make their features work easily and quickly, dont' just add the bare minimum to "shut people up already".
Dammit i just put 6.1 on my OS 9 Machine (it's old 8600/250).
I'm glad to hear that 6.2 works on OS X. Wouldn't it be nice if, for athstetics, Apple included that "Brushed Metal Aqua" that Quicktime uses for use in other applications, specifically multimedia-based apps like web browsers (in kno i kno but alot of the web is multimedia these days)? Especially for first time users it would allow quick(er) distinction between programs ("Is that my Illustrator window or my Netscape window?"). It would probably speed up Netscape a ton to be able to rely on system calls for look-and-feel instead of it's own rendering engine, more resources can be used to rendering my web page QUICKER AND WITH BETTER QUALITY.
Windows does" tabbed palettes" too, open Display Properties. It's isn't technology, it's a freakin button! a BUTTON! a LITTLE RECTANGLE ON A COMPUTER SCREEN IS NOT TECHNOLOGY, IT'S A FRIGGIN RECTANGLE! This is exactly why software patents are bad.
Appropriate assessments would be needed to assure that the costs and risks of a space solar power option were lower than those of competing technologies (such as coal- or nigger-burning plants or nuclear reactors).
Moderators, please read comments carefully! This is obviously ripped off from some other site with NO credit at all, and yes, there really ARE racist comments in it. Pay attention or you're as useless as the trolls themselves.
Read my post above. It is not a Mac thing. In your case, it was because the browsers where alowed unrestricted access to the files on the computer even tho anything the user directly does (such as standard file dialogs and finder navagation) was blocked. This was done to prevent "breaking" programs that depend on such silly things as access to wherever they decide to store their shit. Web brosers allowed user control over the filesystem beyond the OS's reach, i.e. it wasn't the OS listing the files to the user, it was listing to the program which in turn listed to the user. telnet:// worked because Netscape defaults to NSCA's creator type when looking for an APPL to launch for telnet (check it, it's in the Helper Apps section, the MIME is mapped to NCSA specifically), it probably wouldn't work with a different client, and since that was also an App-based request for launch and not user-based, it was allowed by the OS.
What the hell security does your school run that allows that these days? Please tell me it isn't MacOS 9's fugly-as-hell-At-Ease-wannabe Panels, i'd hate to think the OS itself was that slacked on...
This feature has been in IE for mac for some time, the auto-decompression of.hqx and.bin files (.bin in this case is MacBinary format, an alternative (Apple produced?) to BinHex) and then launching Stuffit expander to decompress the rest of the way. Since Stuffit files are archives and not just individual compressed files (like a tarball or a winzip file), Mac downloads are most commonly archived and compressed ("stuffed") with Stuffit first, then encoded (possibly also with Stuffit but there are other utilities) into MacBinary or BinHex, for that little extra bit of compression, and to preserve the resource forks of.sit files.
The Problem
The problem results from IE not checking what it's launching. It assumes that anything that comes in a.bin or.hqx file must also be compressed in some other format, most commonly.sit, and so it saves the file, and sends an Apple Event (most definitely the Open event) to the FINDER. Why the Finder? The Finder is the UI front to the MacOS, much like the "explorer" process in Windoze. It does things like allowing the user to click files, folders, hard disks, ect. amongst other general OS control tasks. By saving this file and telling the Finder to open it, the IE programmers have saved themselves the effort of figuring out how to find and launch the Stuffit application themselves, and why should they? After all, it might not be a stuffit document. Obviously, though, no check is performed on the file type at all, thus blindly passing the fresh download to the Finder. And since the Finder interprets an Apple Event on an Application file as a launch request, it does just that. And so a massive security hole is born.
The Fix
How about checking the file type before sending that Apple event? It's one simple if statement, or at worst case a loop with an if that checks against an array of "banished" launch types (or even other criteria, I'm not sure how OS X handles the new "package" style Apps). A lil required reading for you boys over at MS's Mac dept: Inside Macintosh: Files
P.S. The file type code for Applications on MacOS is "APPL", that might come in handy too.
Before you mod this down, read it. It is not flamebait.
Remember back when MS was first getting in trouble, and Apple had been in trouble? And Microsoft saved their ass with a stock purchase? I believe as part of that deal M$ got rights to some of Apple's intelectual property for a few years time, and that is why the creators of "Aqua" aren't sueing the creators of "Luna," which is the most major influenced-by-aqua work I have seen lately. Since Apple can't sure them, they figure they better get rid of the rest of the potential violators, no matter how minor.
The situation sucks. A KDE scheme isn't going to put Apple out of business. No one uses OSX simply because it looks good. Sure it's nice and all, I like it, but i don't choose it because of it's funny widgets, i choose it for what it can do, and i used to choose MacOS because it was customizable enough to:look and feel" however i set it up, but i'm not so sure anymore...
Exactly. And, FYI, unless it uses Mode 7 scrolling, it's a Mario Kart 64 clone, not a Mario Kart clone. In my opinion Mario Kart for SNES was the best verion of the game, I an not a huge fan of the 64 version... maybe it's just because i played it for years and years.
I'm making very good money doing quick hacks to push out websites, but it's not very project oriented as much as it's become 'throw in pre-written, pre-used functions'.
Well, if the pre-used fuctions are such hacks, maybe you should bring the problems with them to your boss' attention, possibly suggest a remedy or that it is in your best company's best intrests to delevop better code? If they say no, then it's their loss, if that hurts them then it's their problem.
I am not a professional programmer myself (although I am working towards it) but alot of projects I work on for personal enjopyment i start with a code base I have pre-written, whether it be an application shell or possibly some Perl code that deciphers URL character codes for a CGI script....it saves time by allowing you to concentrate on the specifics of the program you're currently writing, not on the details of doing things you have to do every time. Maybe the code you're working with isn't flexible enough? Or is too specific? If it's really becoming a burden to use it then it's usefulness if probably costing you and your company more time than it's worth, prepare some info and ask your boss to consider a re-write or even some time to debug/optimize. If it REALLY bothers you that much, ask to take the code home with you and touch it up in your spare time, at least you'll win points with the company, and you code will be better, evenif it makes you the biggest brown-noser ever:-)
Speaking from personal experience, i can tell you this is absolutely true. Are you into electronic music? I'm sure you know at least one of the following names:
DJ Micro
DJ Irene
Dieselboy
Frankie Bones
Feelgood
DJ Venom
DJ Dara
Dave Ralph
Angel Alanis
Bad Boy Bill
Now think of it, these DJs, whom are very popular and get paid a shitload of money, go out there every night and drop 15-60(!) tracks durring a party (a "rave" to you outsiders;-) ). The only credit goes to them. People say "Oh man, [DJ such and such] was awsome! I loved that part where it got all fast and loud" etc. But in reality all the DJ did was mix the tracks together, most of the credit should go to the producers of the tracks. How many artists on this list have you heard of before?
Vinylgroover
Brisk
Trixxy
Frantic
Paul Glazby
Probably few to none, eh? Yes I know, those are all mostly happy hardcore producers, but it just goes to show that even I don't know alot of producers! If i where a techno producer (hey wait, i am...) then i'd be psyched if my shit got popular and was pirated everywhere becasue there is alot of crap out there and if my stuff is good enough to the point where people feel the need to say "Hey, listen to THIS!" then I'd know i was good, plus the free publicity, etc. From a financial standpoint it would suck, but then again we dont make millions.
Some "artists" just can't bear to think of the gutter they'd be in if their 7-digit salary where only 6 digits...
Heard that 1 before, raves where around long before pac-man, and to think that all ravers are pill munchers is like saying all slashdot readers are trolls... hmm wait a minute....:-D
Remember, the worm propagates to whatever systems it can from the 1st until the 20th of the month (I belive) and then, for the remainder of the month, it floods the IP of whitehouse.gov (which has been changed) with DOS attacks.
According to all the CERT wanings, this affects some of the most widely used routers on the net. So wait until the 20th or so, when all of the infected servers start flooding and bumping off routers all over the country and world.
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Have a drop upstairs, a drop downstairs, and maybe one in the garage. And put wireless hubs on each of them. If wireless gets faster/better, you can just sell your ports and buy new ones, and everything keeps working, no rewiring.
KPMG: Please do not link to our website.
HAH! I wonder if CmdrTaco is going to recieve a cease & desist letter? Watch yo bad self, Rob!
Seriously, the irony here is just to much. How does it affect them in any way except more traffic for their site == more exposure + more banner ad revenue. And unless someone is using KPMG's equipment to host that link, they don't have to agree to jack shit. I propose a new theme song:
K-P-M-G!
We're out of touch with reality!
We have a website we don't want you to see.
If you link to us we're gonna break your knees!
It's all a part of our global stradegy...
Who knows, how do we know this won't start the moon moving away from the earth? how do we know this won't make it move towards the earth? i don' think getting hit by the moon is big on anyone's list.
as far as trading playlists on the 'net, hasn't been to reliable because you can't guarentee someone will have a certian song or that the filename/ID3 tags will be the same...
again, dont' get me wrong, i'm stoked i can use tcsh to control my OSX machine (and of course i get BSD to go with it) but navagating a GUI with that same simplistic keyboard operation is pure heaven.
It's not a low-power chip, though, it's software, so this is mighty cool. I'm sure we're going to see a billion little "talking devices."
I can't wait until I press the "Find" button on my TV and my remote control yells "between the couch cushons again, asshole!"
There was a thread i was reading about keyboard shortcuts, thought this was posted undet that... well guess there wasn't a shortcut for that...
I could do this:
Look
Move
Double-click
Look
Move
Double-click
Look
Move
Double-click.
Or, I could:
"M" (select Macintosh HD)
Apple-O (for Open, my hands never leave the keyboard)
"f" (selects "First Folder")
Apple-O
"s" (selects "second folder")
Apple-O
"t" (which selects "Thrid Folder"
Apple-O
For a third example, a *NIX-style command line would require I type /Macintosh HD/First Folder/Second Folder/Thrid Folder/ *enter*
cd
Whereas on the Mac, I simply type:
m(AO)f(AO)s(AO)t(AO)
8 keystrokes on the Mac, as opposed to 58 on the *NIX, and I don't even have to acknowledge it with an enter, I'm already there. Which is usually not a problem because since i know the keyboard, I don't have to watch it and can see the screen (I can correct mistakes as they happen with a quick Apple-W to close the window I mistakenly opened). If there is more than one item that begins with "F", it goes to the first choice alphabetically, and you just type a little more to get to the right one. If you want to (or sometimes need to), it's quicker to use the arrows to move to the icon you want (watch what you're doing, remember). Once you get used to it it's really goddamn quick, makes me glad I had a Nintendo growing up, good hand-eye :-).
Instead of a "cd ..*enter*" I can just hit Apple-W. Select a file or application and Apple-O launches it. Apple-Delete for send to Trash. Better then "rm -rf /path/to/doomed/file *enter*"
Now I'm not bashing a command line at all, obviously I like keyboards for input. But in terms of making a GUI efficient, it WILL increase speed, with practice.
Unfortunately the Mac's KDGUI (Keyboard Driven Graphical User Interface, heh) is far from complete. How do i switch windows (Apple + 0-9 would be nice...or something similar to the Windows Alt-Tab box)? How do i move items? Copy and paste aren't OS functions in Mac OS, ie we can't just copy files we have to drag them. I haven't even played with it in MacOS X but I'm told it's sorely lacking... More shortcuts make clutter, more innovative shortcuts streamline the GUI experience, and I definately think it's high time the major OSs start cracking down on GUI orginization, it'd be like a "command line with pictures" ;-)
This amongst other things, is an area where developers (yes, everyone) need to THINK about how to make their features work easily and quickly, dont' just add the bare minimum to "shut people up already".
I'm glad to hear that 6.2 works on OS X. Wouldn't it be nice if, for athstetics, Apple included that "Brushed Metal Aqua" that Quicktime uses for use in other applications, specifically multimedia-based apps like web browsers (in kno i kno but alot of the web is multimedia these days)? Especially for first time users it would allow quick(er) distinction between programs ("Is that my Illustrator window or my Netscape window?"). It would probably speed up Netscape a ton to be able to rely on system calls for look-and-feel instead of it's own rendering engine, more resources can be used to rendering my web page QUICKER AND WITH BETTER QUALITY.
:-)
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these?
Windows does" tabbed palettes" too, open Display Properties. It's isn't technology, it's a freakin button! a BUTTON! a LITTLE RECTANGLE ON A COMPUTER SCREEN IS NOT TECHNOLOGY, IT'S A FRIGGIN RECTANGLE! This is exactly why software patents are bad.
Moderators, please read comments carefully! This is obviously ripped off from some other site with NO credit at all, and yes, there really ARE racist comments in it. Pay attention or you're as useless as the trolls themselves.
Um aren't sattelites ABOVE the clouds?
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That poor woman must have made such a face at whoever the hell asked her that! LMAO
They are both still better than and x86 box you can show me. And PPC is a subset of POWER. It's even in the name, PowerPC....
What the hell security does your school run that allows that these days? Please tell me it isn't MacOS 9's fugly-as-hell-At-Ease-wannabe Panels, i'd hate to think the OS itself was that slacked on...
This feature has been in IE for mac for some time, the auto-decompression of
The Problem
The problem results from IE not checking what it's launching. It assumes that anything that comes in a .bin or .hqx file must also be compressed in some other format, most commonly .sit, and so it saves the file, and sends an Apple Event (most definitely the Open event) to the FINDER . Why the Finder? The Finder is the UI front to the MacOS, much like the "explorer" process in Windoze. It does things like allowing the user to click files, folders, hard disks, ect. amongst other general OS control tasks. By saving this file and telling the Finder to open it, the IE programmers have saved themselves the effort of figuring out how to find and launch the Stuffit application themselves, and why should they? After all, it might not be a stuffit document. Obviously, though, no check is performed on the file type at all, thus blindly passing the fresh download to the Finder. And since the Finder interprets an Apple Event on an Application file as a launch request, it does just that. And so a massive security hole is born.
The Fix
How about checking the file type before sending that Apple event? It's one simple if statement, or at worst case a loop with an if that checks against an array of "banished" launch types (or even other criteria, I'm not sure how OS X handles the new "package" style Apps). A lil required reading for you boys over at MS's Mac dept:
Inside Macintosh: Files
P.S. The file type code for Applications on MacOS is "APPL", that might come in handy too.
Remember back when MS was first getting in trouble, and Apple had been in trouble? And Microsoft saved their ass with a stock purchase? I believe as part of that deal M$ got rights to some of Apple's intelectual property for a few years time, and that is why the creators of "Aqua" aren't sueing the creators of "Luna," which is the most major influenced-by-aqua work I have seen lately. Since Apple can't sure them, they figure they better get rid of the rest of the potential violators, no matter how minor.
The situation sucks. A KDE scheme isn't going to put Apple out of business. No one uses OSX simply because it looks good. Sure it's nice and all, I like it, but i don't choose it because of it's funny widgets, i choose it for what it can do, and i used to choose MacOS because it was customizable enough to :look and feel" however i set it up, but i'm not so sure anymore...
...a /. article about faster processor technology with as few Beowulf jokes as this?
So when are we going to see a Kart racer featuring the Slashdot crew? CmdrTaco vs. JonKatz in battle mode would be hilarious. :-D
Exactly. And, FYI, unless it uses Mode 7 scrolling, it's a Mario Kart 64 clone, not a Mario Kart clone. In my opinion Mario Kart for SNES was the best verion of the game, I an not a huge fan of the 64 version... maybe it's just because i played it for years and years.
I'm making very good money doing quick hacks to push out websites, but it's not very project oriented as much as it's become 'throw in pre-written, pre-used functions'.
Well, if the pre-used fuctions are such hacks, maybe you should bring the problems with them to your boss' attention, possibly suggest a remedy or that it is in your best company's best intrests to delevop better code? If they say no, then it's their loss, if that hurts them then it's their problem.
I am not a professional programmer myself (although I am working towards it) but alot of projects I work on for personal enjopyment i start with a code base I have pre-written, whether it be an application shell or possibly some Perl code that deciphers URL character codes for a CGI script....it saves time by allowing you to concentrate on the specifics of the program you're currently writing, not on the details of doing things you have to do every time. Maybe the code you're working with isn't flexible enough? Or is too specific? If it's really becoming a burden to use it then it's usefulness if probably costing you and your company more time than it's worth, prepare some info and ask your boss to consider a re-write or even some time to debug/optimize. If it REALLY bothers you that much, ask to take the code home with you and touch it up in your spare time, at least you'll win points with the company, and you code will be better, evenif it makes you the biggest brown-noser ever :-)
Speaking from personal experience, i can tell you this is absolutely true. Are you into electronic music? I'm sure you know at least one of the following names:
Now think of it, these DJs, whom are very popular and get paid a shitload of money, go out there every night and drop 15-60(!) tracks durring a party (a "rave" to you outsiders ;-) ). The only credit goes to them. People say "Oh man, [DJ such and such] was awsome! I loved that part where it got all fast and loud" etc. But in reality all the DJ did was mix the tracks together, most of the credit should go to the producers of the tracks. How many artists on this list have you heard of before?
Probably few to none, eh? Yes I know, those are all mostly happy hardcore producers, but it just goes to show that even I don't know alot of producers! If i where a techno producer (hey wait, i am...) then i'd be psyched if my shit got popular and was pirated everywhere becasue there is alot of crap out there and if my stuff is good enough to the point where people feel the need to say "Hey, listen to THIS!" then I'd know i was good, plus the free publicity, etc.
From a financial standpoint it would suck, but then again we dont make millions.
Some "artists" just can't bear to think of the gutter they'd be in if their 7-digit salary where only 6 digits...
Heard that 1 before, raves where around long before pac-man, and to think that all ravers are pill munchers is like saying all slashdot readers are trolls... hmm wait a minute.... :-D
you beat me to it :-P
According to all the CERT wanings, this affects some of the most widely used routers on the net. So wait until the 20th or so, when all of the infected servers start flooding and bumping off routers all over the country and world.
If you thought AOL was slow....