The Apple Store offers price protection for products ub to ten day AFTER SHIPMENT, not ordering. The policy and the phone number to call can be found here. I called last night and they've credited my card.
As far as the superdrive goes, I ordered mine the day it was announced, and it arrived two days before the official release date. It came with an 8X Superdrive.
There are certain stations that I get *cough*PlayboyTV*cough* that are categorized as Pay Per View, and I get a warning every time I tell my Tivo to record that I need to make sure to order this PPV show through my cable company. Well, guess what? I SUBSCRIBE. I can watch 24 hours a day, seven days a week (and sometimes, I DO!). The point is, when I record something, I want it to STAY. And REPEAT. And REPEAT. And just repeat the last eight seconds again. Keep going.
Now I can divert all my system sounds to the Airport Express so I can get beeps in the living room in glorius 5.1 Surround Sound while I use the computer in the bedroom!
Come to think of it, I'm ONLY going to do this when other people are watching TV! This is gonna be fun!
You know, if your employees actually CARE about hooking up their iPods or other MP3 players at work, you should be more concerned about what your employees are actually DOING, as opposed to what data could be stolen. My iPod's Library is managed by my home machine, not my work machine, and the only reason I bring it inside is to keep it out of my hot car during the day. I don't even bring a cable that would be compatible.
I'll just burn the site licensed software to CD and take it home that way...
According to the article, Mac OS X had the highest percentage of extremely critical vulnerabilities. Of course it also had LESS overall patches. They're obviously rounding numbers a lot, too, as I doubt any OS Developer will be releasing fractions of critical vulnerabilities. Apparently, if we want to run the system with the least critical holes, we should all be running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.
All stats pulled from the article.For the highly and extremely critical vulnerabilities and their respective OS:
Windows XP: 46 advisories x 30% critical = 13.8
Mac OS X: 36 advisories x 33% critical = 11.88
SuSE: 48 advisories x 27% critical = 12.96
Red Hat: 60 advisories x 12% critical = 7.2
Solaris 9: 60 advisories x 20% critical = 12
As far as the less than "highly" critical holes in the OSes, so what? Those are just minor bug fixes. I appreciate companies like Secunia finding them, but when the majority have to be exploited on the full moon of a month not ending in "R" while waving a dead chicken and rubbing a balloon on your head and typing your root password with your left foot, I'm not so concerned. I won't even mention what *I* actually use. The whole article is pointless.
According to the article, AOL partnered with WebEx for this. WebEx has been doing Multipoint Video and Audio conferencing for years. Their service lets you schedule meetings and send out invitations to schedule mainly business meetings. The key word here is Multipoint.
Point to point video and audio conferencing isn't mentioned in the article, but SHOULD stay free, seeing there are so many other options available if AOL were to decide to charge for them. When I want multipoint scheduling of movies among friends, I'll stick with an AIM chat room. Video just confuses the situation if nobody is leading the meeting. There's nothing to fear here. AOL is just trying to find another source of revenue, and if it keeps the AIM service free for most users, I'm all for it.
I know, the GPU's in these things suck. The Radeon 9800XT is a toy, just because it was released more than a month ago.
Actually, they DO suck. Performance wise, they're great. However , the high pitched whine emitted from the 9800's Fan is louder than all the fans in the Dual G5 2.0 GHz that I banished from my office, and now work with remotely. Wish I'd gone with the cheaper, slower card just to stop the noise.
Didn't you ever watch the all important episode of "What's Happening?" where the Doobie Brothers spoke of the evils of bootlegging concerts?!?
Oh, god. I'm old.
Recording a concert is at the discretion of the artist. If he supports it, you'll likely find the show and dozens of others that you want to hear at http://www.etree.org and it's all free. Just don't try and sell your bootleg, because that's wrong. Just ask the Doobie Brothers...
I'd like to thank the jilted, bitter, preachy musicians who created the Downhillbattle.org website and are hosting this script. The search engine is actually more responsive than iTunes, so I can find the songs I want to buy from iTunes even faster!
Please, guys. Get off your high horse and work on finding a new way to do things rather than just trying to take the old system down. When you find a better way, the rest will work itself out.
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Time to give Spam hunters some extra tools. Trace, Ping, Whois, Frequent Flier Miles, Louisville Slugger.
Sure, you could think that. You could put on your tin foil hat, too, because this article hit Mac web sites two days before it hit Slashdot. The day the article came out, the price was $13.99.
It only takes a second to open iTunes, enter Fly or Die into the search field, and find it's price for the album is $13.99! The same as Napster, but yes, still more than Amazon.
I won't say the sentiment of the article is wrong, but the facts are blown out of proportion.
Right, so now, check all of your new MP3s with an application like MP3 Rage, and when it barfs saying that it's not a proper MP3 file, throw it away. Nice and simple. This does sound like something that can be fixed at the system level pretty quickly, though.
Not that anyone's out there getting MP3 files from sources they can't trust or don't know anyway, riiiggghhht?
Take a good look, iTunes users. This phone has AAC support. One of the few players outside the iPod to do it. Don't take that to mean you can play music from the iTunes Music Store, I doubt it supports the Fairplay DRM, but now you can use the smaller better (IMHO) format than MP3!
Just imagine what can be done with all this trackable info? I mean, haven't we learned anything about government abuse of GPS in the way they're hounding that poor Scott Peterson guy in California by tracking his vehicle to the edge of the San Francisco Bay and...
The main problem with these sites are not the sites themselves, but the users of them. Online job hunting has made it as easy as the touch of a button to apply. This has made people a lot more willing to apply for that CEO position even though they're currently working Fries at the local McDonald's.
A lot of my friends that work in HR say that the deluge of people is just overwhelming, and people rarely take a good look at the qualifications. Most companies are required to keep your resume on file for a certain period of time after you apply, as well. This means the ideal job they should be posting is data entry for the resumes that are pouring in, and will likely only be glanced at before filing. The HR staff just can't keep up, and need some sort of filter, so they will always look at more traditional ways first, such as referrals from the inside, or even those who take the time and effort to Fax or Mail a resume with a good cover letter.
For the record, I have used many of these sites, and even gotten a handful of interviews from them, but the last one was almost 3 years ago.
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou! With every student I've ever taught, the very first lesson is tuning, and nobody plays a note until that lesson is learned. Someday this might be affordable to 12 year olds and guitar teachers all over the world can stop tearing their hair out.
And someday this might be affordable enough that I can actually stand going into a club and checking out a local band without worrying just how amateur and out of tune they are.
And most importantly, I might actually be able to remember what really weird screwed up tuning my guitar was in when I wrote that really cool thing that doesn't make any sense anymore now that I'm back in standard tuning!
Just think of how many Mac and Linux users use Palm simply because of their hatred of Microsoft. Mac users have a history of being extremely over-zealous (I should know, I'm one of them... albeit a little more calm).
We'll see if PalmSource is wise enough to set up an OEM Deal with Mark/Space, but the truth is that my Palm went by the wayside years ago, and was replaced with my Cell phone and iPod. Though the Tungstens have been looking tempting as of late.
CBS is claiming a "No issues ad" stance. The most controversial ads during the super bowl, from an issues standpoint, will be the "Drugs are bad" and "Teens shouldn't smoke" ads. There is NOTHING controversial about Apple and Pepsi giving a little nudge to the RIAA. Frankly, the RIAA won't care, because in the long run it will pay off for them.
There is no double standard from CBS, at least not if you're comparing MoveOn.org's ad and Pepsi's ad.
Did anyone else notice that it takes 1 minute 20 seconds to boot his car? Granted there are cities where you can get booted in under a minute for illegal parking, but I digress...
Total time for me to plug in my iPod and hit play: 10 secs. In-dash GPS? Turns on with the car.
I know that this is a minor nitpick, and it's truly an admirable geek project. He may have even saved a couple bucks from buying off the shelf. Does this really work any better than the store bought equivalents?
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The Apple Store offers price protection for products ub to ten day AFTER SHIPMENT, not ordering. The policy and the phone number to call can be found here. I called last night and they've credited my card.
As far as the superdrive goes, I ordered mine the day it was announced, and it arrived two days before the official release date. It came with an 8X Superdrive.
There are certain stations that I get *cough*PlayboyTV*cough* that are categorized as Pay Per View, and I get a warning every time I tell my Tivo to record that I need to make sure to order this PPV show through my cable company. Well, guess what? I SUBSCRIBE. I can watch 24 hours a day, seven days a week (and sometimes, I DO!). The point is, when I record something, I want it to STAY. And REPEAT. And REPEAT. And just repeat the last eight seconds again. Keep going.
Why is my vision getting blurry?
Now I can divert all my system sounds to the Airport Express so I can get beeps in the living room in glorius 5.1 Surround Sound while I use the computer in the bedroom!
Come to think of it, I'm ONLY going to do this when other people are watching TV! This is gonna be fun!
Well, no matter how smart my mailbox is, my mail is still stupid.
I'm tired of people trying to convince me that my breasts need to be larger, when clearly that would only make my penis look smaller.
You know, if your employees actually CARE about hooking up their iPods or other MP3 players at work, you should be more concerned about what your employees are actually DOING, as opposed to what data could be stolen. My iPod's Library is managed by my home machine, not my work machine, and the only reason I bring it inside is to keep it out of my hot car during the day. I don't even bring a cable that would be compatible.
I'll just burn the site licensed software to CD and take it home that way...
According to the article, Mac OS X had the highest percentage of extremely critical vulnerabilities. Of course it also had LESS overall patches. They're obviously rounding numbers a lot, too, as I doubt any OS Developer will be releasing fractions of critical vulnerabilities. Apparently, if we want to run the system with the least critical holes, we should all be running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.
All stats pulled from the article.For the highly and extremely critical vulnerabilities and their respective OS:
Windows XP: 46 advisories x 30% critical = 13.8
Mac OS X: 36 advisories x 33% critical = 11.88
SuSE: 48 advisories x 27% critical = 12.96
Red Hat: 60 advisories x 12% critical = 7.2
Solaris 9: 60 advisories x 20% critical = 12
As far as the less than "highly" critical holes in the OSes, so what? Those are just minor bug fixes. I appreciate companies like Secunia finding them, but when the majority have to be exploited on the full moon of a month not ending in "R" while waving a dead chicken and rubbing a balloon on your head and typing your root password with your left foot, I'm not so concerned. I won't even mention what *I* actually use. The whole article is pointless.
Ah, we're one step closer to my dream of giving spam hunters frequent flier miles and baseball bats...
Someday...
According to the article, AOL partnered with WebEx for this. WebEx has been doing Multipoint Video and Audio conferencing for years. Their service lets you schedule meetings and send out invitations to schedule mainly business meetings. The key word here is Multipoint.
Point to point video and audio conferencing isn't mentioned in the article, but SHOULD stay free, seeing there are so many other options available if AOL were to decide to charge for them. When I want multipoint scheduling of movies among friends, I'll stick with an AIM chat room. Video just confuses the situation if nobody is leading the meeting. There's nothing to fear here. AOL is just trying to find another source of revenue, and if it keeps the AIM service free for most users, I'm all for it.
I know, the GPU's in these things suck. The Radeon 9800XT is a toy, just because it was released more than a month ago. Actually, they DO suck. Performance wise, they're great. However , the high pitched whine emitted from the 9800's Fan is louder than all the fans in the Dual G5 2.0 GHz that I banished from my office, and now work with remotely. Wish I'd gone with the cheaper, slower card just to stop the noise.
Didn't you ever watch the all important episode of "What's Happening?" where the Doobie Brothers spoke of the evils of bootlegging concerts?!?
Oh, god. I'm old.
Recording a concert is at the discretion of the artist. If he supports it, you'll likely find the show and dozens of others that you want to hear at http://www.etree.org and it's all free. Just don't try and sell your bootleg, because that's wrong. Just ask the Doobie Brothers...
I'd like to thank the jilted, bitter, preachy musicians who created the Downhillbattle.org website and are hosting this script. The search engine is actually more responsive than iTunes, so I can find the songs I want to buy from iTunes even faster!
Please, guys. Get off your high horse and work on finding a new way to do things rather than just trying to take the old system down. When you find a better way, the rest will work itself out.
Time to give Spam hunters some extra tools. Trace, Ping, Whois, Frequent Flier Miles, Louisville Slugger.
Sure, you could think that. You could put on your tin foil hat, too, because this article hit Mac web sites two days before it hit Slashdot. The day the article came out, the price was $13.99.
Sure, it'll save a few lives, but MILLIONS will be LATE! - Homer
It only takes a second to open iTunes, enter Fly or Die into the search field, and find it's price for the album is $13.99! The same as Napster, but yes, still more than Amazon.
I won't say the sentiment of the article is wrong, but the facts are blown out of proportion.
Right, so now, check all of your new MP3s with an application like MP3 Rage, and when it barfs saying that it's not a proper MP3 file, throw it away. Nice and simple. This does sound like something that can be fixed at the system level pretty quickly, though.
Not that anyone's out there getting MP3 files from sources they can't trust or don't know anyway, riiiggghhht?
Take a good look, iTunes users. This phone has AAC support. One of the few players outside the iPod to do it. Don't take that to mean you can play music from the iTunes Music Store, I doubt it supports the Fairplay DRM, but now you can use the smaller better (IMHO) format than MP3!
http://www.mobitopia.com/20040317.html#155506
Just imagine what can be done with all this trackable info? I mean, haven't we learned anything about government abuse of GPS in the way they're hounding that poor Scott Peterson guy in California by tracking his vehicle to the edge of the San Francisco Bay and...
Oh, wait. Let me rethink this....
That would be Mac OS X Panther for UNIX Geeks, listed here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mpantherunix/
Incidentally, I had the Jaguar versions of both of these books, and found them very helpful. They're very useful, even for cross-checking each other.
Oh, and Pico rules! vi drools!
The main problem with these sites are not the sites themselves, but the users of them. Online job hunting has made it as easy as the touch of a button to apply. This has made people a lot more willing to apply for that CEO position even though they're currently working Fries at the local McDonald's.
A lot of my friends that work in HR say that the deluge of people is just overwhelming, and people rarely take a good look at the qualifications. Most companies are required to keep your resume on file for a certain period of time after you apply, as well. This means the ideal job they should be posting is data entry for the resumes that are pouring in, and will likely only be glanced at before filing. The HR staff just can't keep up, and need some sort of filter, so they will always look at more traditional ways first, such as referrals from the inside, or even those who take the time and effort to Fax or Mail a resume with a good cover letter.
For the record, I have used many of these sites, and even gotten a handful of interviews from them, but the last one was almost 3 years ago.
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou! With every student I've ever taught, the very first lesson is tuning, and nobody plays a note until that lesson is learned. Someday this might be affordable to 12 year olds and guitar teachers all over the world can stop tearing their hair out.
And someday this might be affordable enough that I can actually stand going into a club and checking out a local band without worrying just how amateur and out of tune they are.
And most importantly, I might actually be able to remember what really weird screwed up tuning my guitar was in when I wrote that really cool thing that doesn't make any sense anymore now that I'm back in standard tuning!
Just think of how many Mac and Linux users use Palm simply because of their hatred of Microsoft. Mac users have a history of being extremely over-zealous (I should know, I'm one of them... albeit a little more calm).
We'll see if PalmSource is wise enough to set up an OEM Deal with Mark/Space, but the truth is that my Palm went by the wayside years ago, and was replaced with my Cell phone and iPod. Though the Tungstens have been looking tempting as of late.
Rule of thumb:
If it requires a manual, then it is too complicated for consumer sale.
And every time you make something more idiot proof, you improve the quality of idiots.
CBS is claiming a "No issues ad" stance. The most controversial ads during the super bowl, from an issues standpoint, will be the "Drugs are bad" and "Teens shouldn't smoke" ads. There is NOTHING controversial about Apple and Pepsi giving a little nudge to the RIAA. Frankly, the RIAA won't care, because in the long run it will pay off for them.
There is no double standard from CBS, at least not if you're comparing MoveOn.org's ad and Pepsi's ad.
Did anyone else notice that it takes 1 minute 20 seconds to boot his car? Granted there are cities where you can get booted in under a minute for illegal parking, but I digress...
Total time for me to plug in my iPod and hit play: 10 secs. In-dash GPS? Turns on with the car.
I know that this is a minor nitpick, and it's truly an admirable geek project. He may have even saved a couple bucks from buying off the shelf. Does this really work any better than the store bought equivalents?