Memory management under all the Mac OS'es previous to X was absolutely horrid, if not criminal. You could manually configure the amount of RAM a program used, if you really wanted to, but the idea of automatically managing memory on one of those machines was a joke. Up until the later versions (8-9) AFAIK the MacOS did have the advantage (over Windows anyhow) of not crashing as hard, as often, largely due to this memory management scheme they used. Hell, in System 7, the damn machines couldn't even format a drive and browse another folder at the same time. Drive I/O hung the whole system. That's one of the reasons OS X is such an adjustment to a lot of longtime Mac users, the whole "feel" of it changed. And 10.0 was so damn slow, it probably did more harm than good to release it.
10.1 was when OS X finally reached a truly usable state. 10.2 is just -nice-.
But I just don't understand why people who don't get the concept of modding a case as fun keep posting about it every time something like this makes the front page. Sure, there may have been other more technically inclined posts that could have made the front page instead, but why worry? If they're really important enough, they'll get posted whether this goes up or not.
I like to see this kind of news, I find it amusing and kinda cool. I haven't gotten into the case mod thing yet myself, but have been seriously considering a few ideas that come very close. I'd like to propose a new section of Slashdot for the kinds of news that don't quite fall under the other categories. The "It's funny, laugh." category here doesn't seem quite right. How about a "Geek Culture" section to catch the items that keep getting responses like this? Sure, some people will debate the specifics of Geek Culture, but I think it's pretty easily defined.
Unfortunately, I'm at work so can't really put the time into it (started this paragraph three times already) so maybe someone else can pick up the slack?
I'd like to point out that modding the Xbox would be quite fun. I've wondered just how much I could get away with on mine since I just got it. Perhaps trying to build a megaconsole might be in the cards soon, taking the boards from a PS2 and an Xbox and seeing what I can stuff in one case...
Sounds like a serious case of "Waaaah, I'm taking my Bell and going home!". Goddamn sore losers. Actions like that are exactly why they're not being deregulated. They'll never learn.
After the update I had a rather odd little problem. I couldn't just run Disk Utility, as it told me the permissions weren't sufficient to modify most of the files. I used the commandline you gave there, and that actually worked. Thanks.:)
I don't know much about third party upgrades, but I do know that one of the new AlBook 12" features that wouldn't be upgraded to would be the faster bus and DDR memory. The cache on the Sonnet upgrade might help, but overall the performance wouldn't be as good in my opinion. Also, you don't get Bluetooth or Airport Extreme.
I bought an 867 TiBook in November for the refresh of the line just before the 17" and 12" models were refreshed, and after a couple weeks of angsting about not having the new features above, I decided that the 15" model was still just fine. The resolution is good, the size is right, the features are capable and someday I might actually get to use the DVI port that isn't on the 12" model. On my budget, the 17" model was right out of my league. So I have no real regrets over my 15" machine, and will be happy enough when 802.11g PCMCIA cards become usable on it.
Okay, maybe Mitnick's not the prick I thought he was. He still fucked up, his fanboys were legion (and braindead) and he deserved *some* of what he got, but I'll give him some credit after reading these answers and say he was noplace near what people made him out to be. Kevin's treatment by the government was terrifying - and all done before PATRIOT act crap and other post-9/11 legal hassles. I shudder to think what the current administration would do with someone getting the press Kevin got.
There was a time (far, far back, in the land of "statute of limitations") when I did some really low-level things in the social engineering realm of telephone fun. I never id anything for profit, amazingly I was able to resist the lure of "carding" things in those days, but I liked scamming people for information. Did pretty decently at it too. What bothered me is that Kevin deleted things other than traces of his own trespass. I'm not sure now if he actually -did- any of that, as I don't recall how much of it was based on Markoff writings, but if he never did anything malicious like deleting files, I'll say the same thing to Kevin that I said to Wil Wheaton.
Sorry for my juvenile reaction to your name for so many years.
Well, okay, I'm withholding part of what I said to Wil. After reading his site and posts elsewhere, I actually think he's pretty cool. Still don't think I'd want to hang out with Kevin. Too much ego.
Or it's a toy for outdoor types that like climbing around barely charted woods and mountains, and knowing that no matter what they can find their way home with minimal fuss, or communicate a precise location to help in an emergency. Or it's something for delivery drivers that need to go from point A to point B without ever having been there before, like the poor schmucks from Dell support that drove 2 hours out of Boston to deliver us a hard drive replacement on a server but got lost twice on unfamiliar New Hampshire roads.
Sure, 99% of people have no need for this. If I didn't have an interest in wardriving as a hobby, and wasn't going to be taking trips to Boston or NYC on a semi-regular basis, I wouldn't either. But as mentioned in my above post, for $300 it became worth it to me.
The other night I was walking through a rat shack and noticed a GPS unit for handhelds on the wall for $99. I did a little research into it when I got home and found out that it's actually made by DeLorme, comes with XMap/Street Atlas 2003 and supports the NMEA output standards. Output from the GPS unit itself is an RJ11 jack, and it includes three cables (Palm mSeries, iPaq 31xx/36xx, iPaq 38xx/39xx) with others supposedly available online for laptops. After a little tinkering and figuring, I got it working just fine with my monochrome iPaq 3150.
I went to a different rat shack last night to pick up the unit, and found even more surprises. It's on sale right now (if you can catch the promotion before they pretend it doesn't exist - one place said it never existed, the other said it -shouldn't- exist even though they had the red and white tag on the wall) for $69. It runs on batteries or 6 volts of DC for maximum flexibility. With my particular iPaq of the non-sync-charging variety, there's no reason I can't charge the iPaq and the GPS at the same time with a decent dual outlet inverter.
For a total cost of $300 (Including the $150 iPaq) I have a perfect wardriving kit in need of software. Yes, I'm rambling. Time for Concerta.
There's no law against talking on a cellphone in a theater, just a request. There's also no law against spilling a beverage on the back of someone's neck by "accident". Call an usher? Why should I let some dickhead chase -me- out of the theatre to fetch someone? If I'm going to have my movie interrupted, I want to make damn sure I -enjoy- the reason it's interrupted.
And I bet more people would help me out in a fight. Who -hasn't- wanted to beat on the Cellphone Asshole(tm) at one point?;)
And c'mon, if you think I'm being 100% serious with all this you need to sit back, relax, and take a few deep breaths.
Most of these assholes won't shut up if you ask them. Just look at the increasing (IMHO) number of assclowns that think theatres are a place to chat with friends in the same aisle.
And as to the expense of beverages, just get the mega-size one. Bigger spillage, and free refills in most chains.
I bought a sound card from them once, a Seismic Edge (PSC-702) only to find out two weeks later that there were no Windows XP drivers to be found. Brand new card. Two weeks old, no drivers for the recently released XP. I heard there were some beta drivers made at one point that a handful of people got their hands on, but I never was able to track them down. Philips can kiss my ass. The only good Philips product I ever encountered was a cellphone that I still miss, that I had in Texas.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. I believe the OroborOSX team did an excellent job, and had I the time to really get into using it, it would have really become a staple of my powerbook. Thanks, whoever you all are.
Quite some while ago, I remember a little amusement about the idea of Apple registering a trademark for the word "Keynote". Interesting to see how that played out. The (I thought) highly credible vPod rumors turned out to be bogus, and the Powerbook line got one of the most surprising revampings imaginable. Not one but two new models, and no displacement of the current line. And not a desktop enhancement to be found. Could this be a transition point for Apple to move into a more portable-based business model in years to come?
What really struck me as interesting, particularly with the quiet reaction to it, is that Apple seems to have declared war on Microsoft. They praised MS Office with one breath, then bitchslapped Gates and his cronies with a double whammy of a new browser and a competitor to Powerpoint. I'm predicting now, a monster update to AppleWorks within the next two Macworlds.
The one thing that really dissappoints me is the incompatibility of Airport Extreme with the current 15" Powerbooks. I hadn't expected they'd deliver a blow like this to Powerbook owners so soon after a revision (867/1Ghz models), and was hopeful for an 802.11g transition that I could replace my standard Airport card with.
Hey, I'm all for bashing on crappy cheap products but the best bike I ever had was a Huffy Stalker. Solid, the only problem with it was weight, good tires, great brakes, and a shifter that I replaced with a Shimano a few weeks after I got it. Once the shifter was replaced, for around $50, that bike was really slick. I could ride just about anyplace in it, in good or bad weather. All a bike needs to be good for 95% of bicyclists is a solid frame, good tires, and smooth shifting. Most people aren't as anal-retentive as I am about brakes.
I think that bike was around $129 when I got it, and when I gave it to a neighbor before moving out of state it was in almost perfect shape.
Y'know, this bothers me. I know they weren't -stated- to be free forever, same with iTools. But, the way they were marketed, the way they were hyped, and the reputation Apple had among casual observers really set what seemed like a good example. I figured Apple was a company that liked its customers, and in fact have seen a few of my friends purchase machines just because of the experience I had with my iBook last year. In fact, I just bought an 867 TiBook right after the model refresh. Two grand.
And this will be close to the last straw. It won't make me feel I was -robbed-, but I'll feel somewhat used, mainly because Apple is doing exactly what everyone feared Microsoft was planning on doing but on a scale so small and with so many apologists that nobody seems to care. Well, I care. Fuck the libertarian mindset of "You get what you didn't pay for.", this is just being unkind to your customer base. Apple made really strong strides in bringing over the geek contingent, but between things like this and the fact one of Apple's core user bases is still left out in the cold by not having Quark Xpress ported yet.
I like my TiBook a lot, but I'm starting to resent Jobs more than I do Gates. This is not good.
That's going to be the next big thing, I'd think. Once we have fuel cell laptops hitting the street, I think we'll be able to see enough juice being pumped into the machines so they'll have enough power to make dual processor laptops a reality.
I'd almost bet that Apple will be the first company to put dual processors in a mainstream laptop like the Powerbook. That would be one way to combat the megahertz myth (and reality) with the kind of flair that only Apple can do.
All OSX really is involves an updating of NextStep (for good or ill), and a replacement of X11 with something more bulletproof using interface guidelines. Was NextStep *nix? Nobody I know disputes it. Why're you disputing OSX? Because it's proprietary? That horse has been beaten to death, and nobody hammers on SGI or Sun for proprietary OS'es. Is it because of Aqua being closed source? Okay, so compile (or download the binary for) Xdarwin and use regular X apps. Of course there you have to worry about dependencies, and libraries for GTK, window managers...
I hope more people re-engineer X11 apps with a Cocoa frontend. Or, perhaps someone ought to start a project similar to WINE, but for the Cocoa API? Just don't put the look and feel in exact, and do it for interoperability... who knows, maybe you can slip under Apple's legal radar.
Sure. Lets have the government monitor open source application use. It'll just make it that much easier to track us down when Microsoft makes it illegal!
One of the things that's kept the Mac software distribution under the radar of most sites like FreshMeat is the fact that for quite some time they've had VersionTracker doing quite well at it. VersionTracker's just starting to get into the PC aspect of things, and remains highly Mac-centric even though PalmOS software is supported as well. VersionTracker may be a pay service, but I discovered a very nice set of features is available with the "Pro" subscription for $50 a year. Not only do you get the daily list of new software updates, but a nifty little application to run on your machine that acts as a new app ticker. Quite nice. But the really nice part is the fact that for your $50, you get 10 licenses and are able to use the Pro software on both PC and Mac platforms.
Maybe someone ought to look into getting a *nix section started with VersionTracker?
It's pretty simple. He screwed up. (And he got caught)
He shouldn't have done it. There's no defense for it. Apple might be going at it heavy-handed, but only a fool would have tried this knowing that Apple (Jobs) will hurt -vendors- over leaks. He bitch-slapped ATI over leaking, so he's going to -hurt- some guy that leaks a photo or sketch of a new machine design.
Yes, it's heavy-handed. Yes, it made me wince. But all in all, the guy did fuck up.
Darn, I didn't notice the fact this was a cut and pasting of a post from elsewhere. That'll teach me to have a good wakeup rant before my caffeine megadosing. I suspect he'll probably be reading this thread at some point, so it's probably not a total waste.
Until Darwin is freed, activists such as myself will be leading users away from it instead of toward it. This antagonism towards Apple in the free software community has been aggravated by the DMCA fiasco. For example, Slashdot coverage of Apple has soured considerably since that time. We added the caveat to our Darwin distribution CD's soon after that (see grey box).
Until Darwin is freed? Are you confusing the OS with the dolphin from that lame SeaQuest show? Guy. Here's a clue (take two, they're small): Apple made Darwin as free as they apparently could and still survive. Granted, I sometimes wish Apple would do more, and maybe they can, but calling yourself an activist and taking a pretty weak stab like this at them is not going to help anyone. At all. Ever.
If Apple changes their stance on the DMCA, or opens more source, you can have your little self-congratulatory wankfest, but you won't have influenced them one little bit. People that run Mac oriented news sites, and people that write for Mac oriented magazines and other publications are the people that have a chance to be noticed. Mac owners aren't blind to these things as much as some zealots like to keep claiming, but they did make the decision they just don't care that much. Make them care without being a whiner and doing something stupid like this.
Clearly it is in Apple's best interest to repudiate the DMCA, to remove the onerous anti-privacy clause from the APSL, and to meet the standards of GNU Project, so that users can have a truly free OS, and so that activists can support Darwin instead of undermining it.
You've got your "truly free OS", the HURD. (Hah!) Go play with it and leave Darwin alone if you're a zealot, which is plainly obvious here.
Now pardon me while I go check my smoke alarm batteries. I think it's getting rather warm in this thread.
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Memory management under all the Mac OS'es previous to X was absolutely horrid, if not criminal. You could manually configure the amount of RAM a program used, if you really wanted to, but the idea of automatically managing memory on one of those machines was a joke. Up until the later versions (8-9) AFAIK the MacOS did have the advantage (over Windows anyhow) of not crashing as hard, as often, largely due to this memory management scheme they used. Hell, in System 7, the damn machines couldn't even format a drive and browse another folder at the same time. Drive I/O hung the whole system. That's one of the reasons OS X is such an adjustment to a lot of longtime Mac users, the whole "feel" of it changed. And 10.0 was so damn slow, it probably did more harm than good to release it.
10.1 was when OS X finally reached a truly usable state. 10.2 is just -nice-.
But I just don't understand why people who don't get the concept of modding a case as fun keep posting about it every time something like this makes the front page. Sure, there may have been other more technically inclined posts that could have made the front page instead, but why worry? If they're really important enough, they'll get posted whether this goes up or not.
I like to see this kind of news, I find it amusing and kinda cool. I haven't gotten into the case mod thing yet myself, but have been seriously considering a few ideas that come very close. I'd like to propose a new section of Slashdot for the kinds of news that don't quite fall under the other categories. The "It's funny, laugh." category here doesn't seem quite right. How about a "Geek Culture" section to catch the items that keep getting responses like this? Sure, some people will debate the specifics of Geek Culture, but I think it's pretty easily defined.
Unfortunately, I'm at work so can't really put the time into it (started this paragraph three times already) so maybe someone else can pick up the slack?
I'd like to point out that modding the Xbox would be quite fun. I've wondered just how much I could get away with on mine since I just got it. Perhaps trying to build a megaconsole might be in the cards soon, taking the boards from a PS2 and an Xbox and seeing what I can stuff in one case...
Sounds like a serious case of "Waaaah, I'm taking my Bell and going home!". Goddamn sore losers. Actions like that are exactly why they're not being deregulated. They'll never learn.
After the update I had a rather odd little problem. I couldn't just run Disk Utility, as it told me the permissions weren't sufficient to modify most of the files. I used the commandline you gave there, and that actually worked. Thanks. :)
... What in the world could the roadmap for it be if it's as functional as it is at .1 and .2?
I don't know much about third party upgrades, but I do know that one of the new AlBook 12" features that wouldn't be upgraded to would be the faster bus and DDR memory. The cache on the Sonnet upgrade might help, but overall the performance wouldn't be as good in my opinion. Also, you don't get Bluetooth or Airport Extreme.
I bought an 867 TiBook in November for the refresh of the line just before the 17" and 12" models were refreshed, and after a couple weeks of angsting about not having the new features above, I decided that the 15" model was still just fine. The resolution is good, the size is right, the features are capable and someday I might actually get to use the DVI port that isn't on the 12" model. On my budget, the 17" model was right out of my league. So I have no real regrets over my 15" machine, and will be happy enough when 802.11g PCMCIA cards become usable on it.
Okay, maybe Mitnick's not the prick I thought he was. He still fucked up, his fanboys were legion (and braindead) and he deserved *some* of what he got, but I'll give him some credit after reading these answers and say he was noplace near what people made him out to be. Kevin's treatment by the government was terrifying - and all done before PATRIOT act crap and other post-9/11 legal hassles. I shudder to think what the current administration would do with someone getting the press Kevin got.
There was a time (far, far back, in the land of "statute of limitations") when I did some really low-level things in the social engineering realm of telephone fun. I never id anything for profit, amazingly I was able to resist the lure of "carding" things in those days, but I liked scamming people for information. Did pretty decently at it too. What bothered me is that Kevin deleted things other than traces of his own trespass. I'm not sure now if he actually -did- any of that, as I don't recall how much of it was based on Markoff writings, but if he never did anything malicious like deleting files, I'll say the same thing to Kevin that I said to Wil Wheaton.
Sorry for my juvenile reaction to your name for so many years.
Well, okay, I'm withholding part of what I said to Wil. After reading his site and posts elsewhere, I actually think he's pretty cool. Still don't think I'd want to hang out with Kevin. Too much ego.
Or it's a toy for outdoor types that like climbing around barely charted woods and mountains, and knowing that no matter what they can find their way home with minimal fuss, or communicate a precise location to help in an emergency. Or it's something for delivery drivers that need to go from point A to point B without ever having been there before, like the poor schmucks from Dell support that drove 2 hours out of Boston to deliver us a hard drive replacement on a server but got lost twice on unfamiliar New Hampshire roads.
Sure, 99% of people have no need for this. If I didn't have an interest in wardriving as a hobby, and wasn't going to be taking trips to Boston or NYC on a semi-regular basis, I wouldn't either. But as mentioned in my above post, for $300 it became worth it to me.
The other night I was walking through a rat shack and noticed a GPS unit for handhelds on the wall for $99. I did a little research into it when I got home and found out that it's actually made by DeLorme, comes with XMap/Street Atlas 2003 and supports the NMEA output standards. Output from the GPS unit itself is an RJ11 jack, and it includes three cables (Palm mSeries, iPaq 31xx/36xx, iPaq 38xx/39xx) with others supposedly available online for laptops. After a little tinkering and figuring, I got it working just fine with my monochrome iPaq 3150.
I went to a different rat shack last night to pick up the unit, and found even more surprises. It's on sale right now (if you can catch the promotion before they pretend it doesn't exist - one place said it never existed, the other said it -shouldn't- exist even though they had the red and white tag on the wall) for $69. It runs on batteries or 6 volts of DC for maximum flexibility. With my particular iPaq of the non-sync-charging variety, there's no reason I can't charge the iPaq and the GPS at the same time with a decent dual outlet inverter.
For a total cost of $300 (Including the $150 iPaq) I have a perfect wardriving kit in need of software. Yes, I'm rambling. Time for Concerta.
There's no law against talking on a cellphone in a theater, just a request. There's also no law against spilling a beverage on the back of someone's neck by "accident". Call an usher? Why should I let some dickhead chase -me- out of the theatre to fetch someone? If I'm going to have my movie interrupted, I want to make damn sure I -enjoy- the reason it's interrupted.
;)
And I bet more people would help me out in a fight. Who -hasn't- wanted to beat on the Cellphone Asshole(tm) at one point?
And c'mon, if you think I'm being 100% serious with all this you need to sit back, relax, and take a few deep breaths.
Ask first. Spill second.
Most of these assholes won't shut up if you ask them. Just look at the increasing (IMHO) number of assclowns that think theatres are a place to chat with friends in the same aisle.
And as to the expense of beverages, just get the mega-size one. Bigger spillage, and free refills in most chains.
I already have the patent on the escalation of that tactic.
"A Process or System For Carbonated Consumable Saturation of Personal Telecommunications System Abusers In Public Venues"
Patent # 3426634523
Or not.
I bought a sound card from them once, a Seismic Edge (PSC-702) only to find out two weeks later that there were no Windows XP drivers to be found. Brand new card. Two weeks old, no drivers for the recently released XP. I heard there were some beta drivers made at one point that a handful of people got their hands on, but I never was able to track them down. Philips can kiss my ass. The only good Philips product I ever encountered was a cellphone that I still miss, that I had in Texas.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. I believe the OroborOSX team did an excellent job, and had I the time to really get into using it, it would have really become a staple of my powerbook. Thanks, whoever you all are.
Quite some while ago, I remember a little amusement about the idea of Apple registering a trademark for the word "Keynote". Interesting to see how that played out. The (I thought) highly credible vPod rumors turned out to be bogus, and the Powerbook line got one of the most surprising revampings imaginable. Not one but two new models, and no displacement of the current line. And not a desktop enhancement to be found. Could this be a transition point for Apple to move into a more portable-based business model in years to come?
What really struck me as interesting, particularly with the quiet reaction to it, is that Apple seems to have declared war on Microsoft. They praised MS Office with one breath, then bitchslapped Gates and his cronies with a double whammy of a new browser and a competitor to Powerpoint. I'm predicting now, a monster update to AppleWorks within the next two Macworlds.
The one thing that really dissappoints me is the incompatibility of Airport Extreme with the current 15" Powerbooks. I hadn't expected they'd deliver a blow like this to Powerbook owners so soon after a revision (867/1Ghz models), and was hopeful for an 802.11g transition that I could replace my standard Airport card with.
Hey, I'm all for bashing on crappy cheap products but the best bike I ever had was a Huffy Stalker. Solid, the only problem with it was weight, good tires, great brakes, and a shifter that I replaced with a Shimano a few weeks after I got it. Once the shifter was replaced, for around $50, that bike was really slick. I could ride just about anyplace in it, in good or bad weather. All a bike needs to be good for 95% of bicyclists is a solid frame, good tires, and smooth shifting. Most people aren't as anal-retentive as I am about brakes.
I think that bike was around $129 when I got it, and when I gave it to a neighbor before moving out of state it was in almost perfect shape.
Y'know, this bothers me. I know they weren't -stated- to be free forever, same with iTools. But, the way they were marketed, the way they were hyped, and the reputation Apple had among casual observers really set what seemed like a good example. I figured Apple was a company that liked its customers, and in fact have seen a few of my friends purchase machines just because of the experience I had with my iBook last year. In fact, I just bought an 867 TiBook right after the model refresh. Two grand.
And this will be close to the last straw. It won't make me feel I was -robbed-, but I'll feel somewhat used, mainly because Apple is doing exactly what everyone feared Microsoft was planning on doing but on a scale so small and with so many apologists that nobody seems to care. Well, I care. Fuck the libertarian mindset of "You get what you didn't pay for.", this is just being unkind to your customer base. Apple made really strong strides in bringing over the geek contingent, but between things like this and the fact one of Apple's core user bases is still left out in the cold by not having Quark Xpress ported yet.
I like my TiBook a lot, but I'm starting to resent Jobs more than I do Gates. This is not good.
That's going to be the next big thing, I'd think. Once we have fuel cell laptops hitting the street, I think we'll be able to see enough juice being pumped into the machines so they'll have enough power to make dual processor laptops a reality.
I'd almost bet that Apple will be the first company to put dual processors in a mainstream laptop like the Powerbook. That would be one way to combat the megahertz myth (and reality) with the kind of flair that only Apple can do.
All OSX really is involves an updating of NextStep (for good or ill), and a replacement of X11 with something more bulletproof using interface guidelines. Was NextStep *nix? Nobody I know disputes it. Why're you disputing OSX? Because it's proprietary? That horse has been beaten to death, and nobody hammers on SGI or Sun for proprietary OS'es. Is it because of Aqua being closed source? Okay, so compile (or download the binary for) Xdarwin and use regular X apps. Of course there you have to worry about dependencies, and libraries for GTK, window managers...
I hope more people re-engineer X11 apps with a Cocoa frontend. Or, perhaps someone ought to start a project similar to WINE, but for the Cocoa API? Just don't put the look and feel in exact, and do it for interoperability... who knows, maybe you can slip under Apple's legal radar.
Or not. Bleah.
I wish it -were- a plug. I could use some more cash.
Damn unpaid "holidaay vacations".
Sure. Lets have the government monitor open source application use. It'll just make it that much easier to track us down when Microsoft makes it illegal!
/sarcasm ... I hope.
One of the things that's kept the Mac software distribution under the radar of most sites like FreshMeat is the fact that for quite some time they've had VersionTracker doing quite well at it. VersionTracker's just starting to get into the PC aspect of things, and remains highly Mac-centric even though PalmOS software is supported as well. VersionTracker may be a pay service, but I discovered a very nice set of features is available with the "Pro" subscription for $50 a year. Not only do you get the daily list of new software updates, but a nifty little application to run on your machine that acts as a new app ticker. Quite nice. But the really nice part is the fact that for your $50, you get 10 licenses and are able to use the Pro software on both PC and Mac platforms.
Maybe someone ought to look into getting a *nix section started with VersionTracker?
It's pretty simple. He screwed up. (And he got caught)
He shouldn't have done it. There's no defense for it. Apple might be going at it heavy-handed, but only a fool would have tried this knowing that Apple (Jobs) will hurt -vendors- over leaks. He bitch-slapped ATI over leaking, so he's going to -hurt- some guy that leaks a photo or sketch of a new machine design.
Yes, it's heavy-handed. Yes, it made me wince. But all in all, the guy did fuck up.
Darn, I didn't notice the fact this was a cut and pasting of a post from elsewhere. That'll teach me to have a good wakeup rant before my caffeine megadosing. I suspect he'll probably be reading this thread at some point, so it's probably not a total waste.
Until Darwin is freed, activists such as myself will be leading users away from it instead of toward it. This antagonism towards Apple in the free software community has been aggravated by the DMCA fiasco. For example, Slashdot coverage of Apple has soured considerably since that time. We added the caveat to our Darwin distribution CD's soon after that (see grey box).
Until Darwin is freed? Are you confusing the OS with the dolphin from that lame SeaQuest show? Guy. Here's a clue (take two, they're small): Apple made Darwin as free as they apparently could and still survive. Granted, I sometimes wish Apple would do more, and maybe they can, but calling yourself an activist and taking a pretty weak stab like this at them is not going to help anyone. At all. Ever.
If Apple changes their stance on the DMCA, or opens more source, you can have your little self-congratulatory wankfest, but you won't have influenced them one little bit. People that run Mac oriented news sites, and people that write for Mac oriented magazines and other publications are the people that have a chance to be noticed. Mac owners aren't blind to these things as much as some zealots like to keep claiming, but they did make the decision they just don't care that much. Make them care without being a whiner and doing something stupid like this.
Clearly it is in Apple's best interest to repudiate the DMCA, to remove the onerous anti-privacy clause from the APSL, and to meet the standards of GNU Project, so that users can have a truly free OS, and so that activists can support Darwin instead of undermining it.
You've got your "truly free OS", the HURD. (Hah!) Go play with it and leave Darwin alone if you're a zealot, which is plainly obvious here.
Now pardon me while I go check my smoke alarm batteries. I think it's getting rather warm in this thread.