You don't need to move to the country in question...Global Crossing is (or at least was) legally HQ'ed in Bermuda, but their CxOs all worked in their New Jersey offices.
I've run into this firsthand with a Canon copier, back around 1997 or so. According to the field tech that was called out for the incident, here's how it works:
The currency detection algorithm will print a black box over anything that it flags, and each time it does, it increments a counter that makes the detection algorithm more sensitive than it was before. Once that counter hits a certain magic number (apparently the actual number is not disclosed to anyone outside the manufacturer), the copier shuts down and a service call is required to re-activate it.
The field tech is is required to ask for a sample of the item that was being copied before entering the reactivation code, and the service provider is then required to file a report with the feds, along with the sample, I'm presuming.
Here's the kicker: very color copier prints a machine-readable watermark on every page it outputs in yellow toner carrying its manufacturer and serial number - you can see it with a loupe if you look hard enough (it looks like a line of morse code).
In our case, the suspect image had no resemblance whatsoever to currency of any form - what set it off was a dark green background color that was used that must have come too close to the green used in US bills. We were able to re-print the job by adjusting the color slightly with no problems once the copier was reset.
Meant to respond to this post, not its parent...ASIO does not exist on MacOS X; Steinberg just forgot to update the labels in the Device Setup dialogs. Everything, including Cubase SX and Nuendo, uses the CoreAudio API.
In MacOS X, audio interfaces are abstracted by the CoreAudio sublayer - there's no ASIO anymore; CoreAudio is the standard audio processing API for all applications, including pro audio software such as Cubase SX or Logic. MacOS X handles multi-channel audio natively; all channels are available to all apps, "pro" or not.More info can be found here.
So, if your audio interface works with any OS X app, there's no reason it won't work with GarageBand.
Re:Forgotten studio? Not quite.
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Has Don Bluth done ANYTHING that actually made someone money? Every film I've heard of him involved in seems to have disappeared onto the scrapheap of financial and critical mediocrity.
There was software as well...the RenderMan suite is what they were best known for, and I they had a lightweight app called Typestry that I used extensively back when I was a graphic artist. Good stuff.
Explain this to me...at what point in time did UUNet (or any other backbone) pass traffic for free?
If you're thinking of peering circuits/NAPs, remember that providers only advertise their own networks to peering partners - they're not going to take traffic at a peer that isn't going to one of their paying customers. So in that sense, the traffic does belong to their paying customer.
Was there a plan at one time at UUNet to pull peering circuits?
Was this in DC? Where the woman said her baby was in the stolen car (the baby was, in fact, at the babysitter's) in order to get the cops to look for it?
I'd love to know how to get in touch with those guys to tell them about mistakes - if you put in my street address in Mapquest, you get directed to the other end of the street...
Inside telco wiring as WLAN antenna?
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Here's something I've wondered about - is it possible to connect a wire from the antenna port on my base station to the inside phone wiring of my house, and will the inside wiring act as an antenna of any sort?
I've also wondered about connecting it up to the old-school UHF antenna that's hanging inside my attic (if not for the HOA, it would have been on my roof), but I don't know if that will do any good either...
So far, the only thing I've seen broken by 10.3 is the device driver for MOTU's firewire audio I/O devices. A third-party device driver being broken by a major OS upgrade does not surprise me.
Unfortunately, it's a biggie in my case, which is why I'm still running 10.2.
Panther, like Jaguar, has a "Archive" installation option, where it saves the previous OS files to an archive file, then installs the new OS clean. Applications and home directories are preserved. This gives you the benefits of a clean install without having to reformat.
The only real hole in this that I can think of is that a spammer could "discourage" the use of this by including a buried link to a large file that each client would then have to download, such as a trailer off of Apple's Quicktime site. If you're running this on any sort of centralized server, this would probably kill your own bandwidth, as you're suddenly downloading a multi-megabyte file multiple times, but Akamai's network probably wouldn't even sweat it.
This could be counteracted by the whitelisting function that Graham mentions, however.
It's also very possible that the SCO execs know they're gonna lose, but in the meantime, they can use the publicity and speculation that SCO could win to pump up the stock price, knowing that they will have cashed out by the time the gavel falls on SCO - SCO goes bankrupt, but McBride and co. don't give a fsck, they've already made their pile.
GPL code is always owned and copyrighted by the developer(s) - the GPL doesn't change the root ownership of the code; remember, it is a license, not a giveaway. As such, I would expect that any financial settlement stemming from a GPL violation would be paid to the developer(s) of the misused code.
I can sync my Palm T|T over Bluetooth with my Mac running 10.2 trouble-free, although it appears to take substantially longer than syncing over the USB cradle.
Another neat trick is to configure the Palm to run PPP over the Bluetooth link allowing TCP/IP communication between the Mac and the Palm (and via NAT, to the rest of the internet).
The top-level G5 sells for $3000 USD. It may be $5K if you buy it maxed out with Apple-installed (read: grossly overpriced) RAM and hard drives, but doing this yourself post-purchase is MUCH more economical.
Likewise, the top-level powerbook, in its base configuration is $3300 USD, not $4000. Still not cheap, but not as much as you say. Remember, I'm talking about the top-of-the-line models here (the dual 2.0GHZ G5 and the 17-inch Powerbook), the other models are substantially less.
The only way a base-level G5 CPU sells for anywhere close to five thousand dollars is if you're in Australia.
The CatOS bug only kills management traffic to the router - telnet, ssh, http, etc. Traffic going *through* the router remains unaffected.
The IOS bug causes the affected interface to drop all incoming traffic, management or production.
Now it's possible that a common bug could have causeed both, and it's also possible that the CatOS bug prompted Cisco to take a closer look at the IOS code and led to the discovery of this one. But by all accounts, the IOS bug was discovered internally by Cisco engineers. The exploit was found by someone else after the vulnerability was announced.
Not to mention the fact that in order for this to work, there must be at least 3 people sharing the file for each minute of song duration - that's 15 people for a 5-minute track. Dunno about your experience with Kazaa, but I rarely find that many users sharing any given file - although, I'm not looking typically for Eminem or Britney either.:)
Agreed, albiet I think that Digidesign is more excitied about the speed of the memory than it is capacity. 2GB is plenty for pre-fetching or recording tons of pro audio tracks, but the memory bandwidth on the existing G4s, with the broken shared-bus design that eliminates most of DDR's speed advantages, can become a bottleneck with some high-end DSP algorithms. The G5's memory bus design solves that problem.
However, the thought of having your entire mix pre-fetched into RAM from the hard drive is kinda neat:)
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You don't need to move to the country in question...Global Crossing is (or at least was) legally HQ'ed in Bermuda, but their CxOs all worked in their New Jersey offices.
I've run into this firsthand with a Canon copier, back around 1997 or so. According to the field tech that was called out for the incident, here's how it works:
The currency detection algorithm will print a black box over anything that it flags, and each time it does, it increments a counter that makes the detection algorithm more sensitive than it was before. Once that counter hits a certain magic number (apparently the actual number is not disclosed to anyone outside the manufacturer), the copier shuts down and a service call is required to re-activate it.
The field tech is is required to ask for a sample of the item that was being copied before entering the reactivation code, and the service provider is then required to file a report with the feds, along with the sample, I'm presuming.
Here's the kicker: very color copier prints a machine-readable watermark on every page it outputs in yellow toner carrying its manufacturer and serial number - you can see it with a loupe if you look hard enough (it looks like a line of morse code).
In our case, the suspect image had no resemblance whatsoever to currency of any form - what set it off was a dark green background color that was used that must have come too close to the green used in US bills. We were able to re-print the job by adjusting the color slightly with no problems once the copier was reset.
Meant to respond to this post, not its parent...ASIO does not exist on MacOS X; Steinberg just forgot to update the labels in the Device Setup dialogs. Everything, including Cubase SX and Nuendo, uses the CoreAudio API.
In MacOS X, audio interfaces are abstracted by the CoreAudio sublayer - there's no ASIO anymore; CoreAudio is the standard audio processing API for all applications, including pro audio software such as Cubase SX or Logic. MacOS X handles multi-channel audio natively; all channels are available to all apps, "pro" or not.More info can be found here.
So, if your audio interface works with any OS X app, there's no reason it won't work with GarageBand.
Has Don Bluth done ANYTHING that actually made someone money? Every film I've heard of him involved in seems to have disappeared onto the scrapheap of financial and critical mediocrity.
There was software as well...the RenderMan suite is what they were best known for, and I they had a lightweight app called Typestry that I used extensively back when I was a graphic artist. Good stuff.
At least one big-name record producer and one musician will vehemently disagree with you on that point...
Explain this to me...at what point in time did UUNet (or any other backbone) pass traffic for free?
If you're thinking of peering circuits/NAPs, remember that providers only advertise their own networks to peering partners - they're not going to take traffic at a peer that isn't going to one of their paying customers. So in that sense, the traffic does belong to their paying customer.
Was there a plan at one time at UUNet to pull peering circuits?
Was this in DC? Where the woman said her baby was in the stolen car (the baby was, in fact, at the babysitter's) in order to get the cops to look for it?
I'd love to know how to get in touch with those guys to tell them about mistakes - if you put in my street address in Mapquest, you get directed to the other end of the street...
Here's something I've wondered about - is it possible to connect a wire from the antenna port on my base station to the inside phone wiring of my house, and will the inside wiring act as an antenna of any sort?
I've also wondered about connecting it up to the old-school UHF antenna that's hanging inside my attic (if not for the HOA, it would have been on my roof), but I don't know if that will do any good either...
So far, the only thing I've seen broken by 10.3 is the device driver for MOTU's firewire audio I/O devices. A third-party device driver being broken by a major OS upgrade does not surprise me.
Unfortunately, it's a biggie in my case, which is why I'm still running 10.2.
Panther, like Jaguar, has a "Archive" installation option, where it saves the previous OS files to an archive file, then installs the new OS clean. Applications and home directories are preserved. This gives you the benefits of a clean install without having to reformat.
The only real hole in this that I can think of is that a spammer could "discourage" the use of this by including a buried link to a large file that each client would then have to download, such as a trailer off of Apple's Quicktime site. If you're running this on any sort of centralized server, this would probably kill your own bandwidth, as you're suddenly downloading a multi-megabyte file multiple times, but Akamai's network probably wouldn't even sweat it.
This could be counteracted by the whitelisting function that Graham mentions, however.
It's also very possible that the SCO execs know they're gonna lose, but in the meantime, they can use the publicity and speculation that SCO could win to pump up the stock price, knowing that they will have cashed out by the time the gavel falls on SCO - SCO goes bankrupt, but McBride and co. don't give a fsck, they've already made their pile.
And looking at SCOX's stock chart, this strategy appears to be working.
Few, if any, in-dash CD players also have cassette decks. Car stereos with cassette decks instead of CD players are a dying breed.
GPL code is always owned and copyrighted by the developer(s) - the GPL doesn't change the root ownership of the code; remember, it is a license, not a giveaway. As such, I would expect that any financial settlement stemming from a GPL violation would be paid to the developer(s) of the misused code.
I can sync my Palm T|T over Bluetooth with my Mac running 10.2 trouble-free, although it appears to take substantially longer than syncing over the USB cradle.
Another neat trick is to configure the Palm to run PPP over the Bluetooth link allowing TCP/IP communication between the Mac and the Palm (and via NAT, to the rest of the internet).
The top-level G5 sells for $3000 USD. It may be $5K if you buy it maxed out with Apple-installed (read: grossly overpriced) RAM and hard drives, but doing this yourself post-purchase is MUCH more economical.
Likewise, the top-level powerbook, in its base configuration is $3300 USD, not $4000. Still not cheap, but not as much as you say. Remember, I'm talking about the top-of-the-line models here (the dual 2.0GHZ G5 and the 17-inch Powerbook), the other models are substantially less.
The only way a base-level G5 CPU sells for anywhere close to five thousand dollars is if you're in Australia.
The CatOS bug only kills management traffic to the router - telnet, ssh, http, etc. Traffic going *through* the router remains unaffected.
The IOS bug causes the affected interface to drop all incoming traffic, management or production.
Now it's possible that a common bug could have causeed both, and it's also possible that the CatOS bug prompted Cisco to take a closer look at the IOS code and led to the discovery of this one. But by all accounts, the IOS bug was discovered internally by Cisco engineers. The exploit was found by someone else after the vulnerability was announced.
Interesting, Speakeasy in Washington, DC was down last night as well from about 1:45 until about 4:am or so.
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How do I know? I was working on fixing my own routers at the time...
Not to mention the fact that in order for this to work, there must be at least 3 people sharing the file for each minute of song duration - that's 15 people for a 5-minute track. Dunno about your experience with Kazaa, but I rarely find that many users sharing any given file - although, I'm not looking typically for Eminem or Britney either. :)
Agreed, albiet I think that Digidesign is more excitied about the speed of the memory than it is capacity. 2GB is plenty for pre-fetching or recording tons of pro audio tracks, but the memory bandwidth on the existing G4s, with the broken shared-bus design that eliminates most of DDR's speed advantages, can become a bottleneck with some high-end DSP algorithms. The G5's memory bus design solves that problem.
:)
However, the thought of having your entire mix pre-fetched into RAM from the hard drive is kinda neat
Well, I guess that means that there are a lot of idiots out there...This is a ubiquitous practice for a reason.
I'm curious how it compares to a pair of Athlon MPs...