Yeah, it's 50% thicker, and.3 lbs heaver with the "Dell TravelLiteTM module" module (which means no CD-ROM, right?), only has one USB port, no FireWire, a smaller screen 1024x768, maximum ram is 512MB, and Ethernet doesn't seem to be a standard option. Dell spec.
In contrast, the TiBook (original) is 5.3lbs with battery and DVD, has two USB ports, FireWire, 1152x768 resolution, up to 1GB RAM, has 100Mbit Ethernet standard, and can use a wireless network without sacrificing your PCMCIA slot. Apple Spec.
And it's not bug ugly. "Zealot fanboy" my ass, it's simply a better product.
When our old NEC mainframe came out we had a few tiles with 18"x10" holes formerly used for cabling in our raised floor. We still don't have exactly enough tiles, but furniture is arranged better now, a year later, so that these holes are strategically covered by desks, shelves or other equipment.
Better than accidently wheeling your chair over that duct tape patch! I kid you not.
Yeah, my old man says the same thing about coffee. If you think about it, it's just a phrase that falls under the category of things that will "make a man out of you".
To Han Onymous (and everyone else):
Socrates said "The unexamined life is not worth living." I don't think he meant us to just examine it once and decide. You have to examine every day and ask if this is the path you want to be on. You have to always be open to new ideas. If you're not growing, you're decaying.
We've been told at my University that we (as system administrators) can go ahead and click the "I accept" on any Microsoft service pack or hotfix, our licensing agreement with M$ overrides anything they put in a EULA.
Microsoft could actually wind up violating their own agreement if they take action not specified in the big license.
Seriously, your first error is assigning feelings and thoughts to a group without knowing anything about it. The "left" does not have an agenda to hate those who disagree with it. The "right", though, has made many public statements of hate and intolerance. You should pick up a book on "cognitive therapy", I think you'll find it very helpful.
I won't cite examples here because you're an ignorant troll and I shouldn't be feeding you anyway. The first thing you need to do is start questioning the sources of your "facts". Ask what they have to gain by feeding you their brand of shit. You may find that they have quite a bit to gain in wealth and power. What do I have to gain by convincing you? Nothing, actually, in fact I have wasted precious minutes of my life here.
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. Since coming to Washington, I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." Ronald Reagan (Which is ironic given how corrupt the Reagan administration was.)
Please don't be lulled into believing that reform of these stupid laws will happen just because a new session will be starting. Now is the time your representatives should be coming home to get back in touch with those they supposedly represent. Contact them, get out to town hall meetings and meet them, give them some viewpoint other than the paid one.
I know a few so-called-nerds who could kick this so-called-journalist's arse. It's a troll, people; but it's also a troll that has the ear of management wonks who may listen. If you're a small department without an IT manager, it would serve you well to work on educating the decision makers as to what your job entails, your job responsibilities as defined by management and also good system administrator practices, and how you're overworked as it is. Frame it so they don't think that this system (if it works) will save them expensive wages, but it will improve their IT department's customer service and add value to the organization by giving them more time to research and impliment new technologies.
Anyone smell vapor? If it can automatically reconfigure machines for demand, what happens when the demand switches throughout the day (IE email in the morning, pr0n filtering at lunch, and facilities management systems just before punchout)? How long does it take to reconfigure a machine? What if you get a DOS attack aimed to entice this management software to start reconfiguring a bunch of machines? What if it's a DOS attack from inside the firewall?
The system is supposed to save "days" of machine-configuration time, but how often do you configure new servers? If you were deploying a commodity system (could custom systems be automated?), wouldn't you use a system image or other running system as a base?
Yeah, a vengeful act, that'd show them... NOT. What better way to seal your fate, as so-called nerd, and drive home the need for management managed IT?
Yes. It's a client virus that harms both the network it's using and other's networks. I think abuse@ is the perfect group to deal with it.
Besides, they are the ones with the tools at hand to track down who was using what IP at what time and notify them. Otherwise we wait until that user discovers they have 30 different viruses all competing for network time on their machine. That is how they can have control over this issue. The user doesn't have to be cut off, just informed.
Also, by prefacing it with a little note like "probable virus at IP#", if they choose not to deal with it, it only takes them 4 seconds to read and delete.
I've started reporting Klez to the site abuse mailboxes in the hopes they will do something about it. Just report it as you would a normal spam, but say it's a probable virus and give the IP address.
I can't say they'll do anything, but it's better than doing nothing.
On that note, maybe we could also net the thing and attach a massive parachute or parasail to it and bring the thing down in a controlled manner for study.
Actually, as a long-time Mac advocate, I don't think MOSX does this very well. With HFS+ it can sometimes take two or three passes of fsck before it comes back with a filesystem OK message. If MOSX crashes, always hold down command-s when you restart and type fsck -y until you get the OK message.
Furthermore, clerks don't need all the things that MOSX does well, and probably shouldn't have access to that.
IMNSHO, I like the suggestions for booting from a read-only volume and writing all data to a network share. I suggest that there be no floppy drive available. And if you use a CD-ROM, find a drive that you snap the hole on the spindle (like laptops have, so it doesn't shift when the clerks drop the machine) and one that you can lock, or otherwise make it difficult to eject.
Netboot could make this very easy and cost-effective if you have enough machines at a location. Then the individual terminals don't need excess parts like CD-ROMs, floppy (data loss devices), or hard drives. Pretty much the definition of a "thin client", like IBM's Network Station 1000 series, which can be had for $500.
Although LCD iMac point of sale terminals would be tres chic.
Just recently we had a discussion at the University about how to run a PowerBook with the lid closed. It wouldn't be the same as multi-monitor support, but it would be interesting if you could exceed the iBook's resolution max.
To try, attach a USB keyboard & mouse to the machine and put it to sleep. Attach the monitor and then use the keyboard to wake it. The iBook's LCD display should be disabled with the external becoming the primary.
Darwin/MacOS X is theoretically 64 bit clean, just waiting for the right (inexpensive) 64 bit CPU. Our campus Apple rep stated that it would soon (with Jaguar, I think) be in sync with one of the *BSDs (IIRC FreeBSD).
I guess if someone really wants to do it, it shouldn't be more difficult than porting to x86, which has already happened. If NetBSD gets ported, that should help.
Do you think that if they mapped the distribution of these in a Geographic Information System, it would point to the source? Such as being distributed mainly along a flight path, or exactly downwind of a certain factory, or in a radial pattern from GumWorld(r).
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Yeah, it's 50% thicker, and .3 lbs heaver with the "Dell TravelLiteTM module" module (which means no CD-ROM, right?), only has one USB port, no FireWire, a smaller screen 1024x768, maximum ram is 512MB, and Ethernet doesn't seem to be a standard option. Dell spec.
In contrast, the TiBook (original) is 5.3lbs with battery and DVD, has two USB ports, FireWire, 1152x768 resolution, up to 1GB RAM, has 100Mbit Ethernet standard, and can use a wireless network without sacrificing your PCMCIA slot. Apple Spec.
And it's not bug ugly. "Zealot fanboy" my ass, it's simply a better product.
When our old NEC mainframe came out we had a few tiles with 18"x10" holes formerly used for cabling in our raised floor. We still don't have exactly enough tiles, but furniture is arranged better now, a year later, so that these holes are strategically covered by desks, shelves or other equipment.
Better than accidently wheeling your chair over that duct tape patch! I kid you not.
Likewise... it's just kinda neat that lots of people are out and coming to your door. Makes the night seem very much alive, like no other holiday.
Yeah, my old man says the same thing about coffee. If you think about it, it's just a phrase that falls under the category of things that will "make a man out of you".
Well said, sir!
To Han Onymous (and everyone else):
Socrates said "The unexamined life is not worth living." I don't think he meant us to just examine it once and decide. You have to examine every day and ask if this is the path you want to be on. You have to always be open to new ideas. If you're not growing, you're decaying.
We've been told at my University that we (as system administrators) can go ahead and click the "I accept" on any Microsoft service pack or hotfix, our licensing agreement with M$ overrides anything they put in a EULA.
Microsoft could actually wind up violating their own agreement if they take action not specified in the big license.
Wow, my very own troll!!
Seriously, your first error is assigning feelings and thoughts to a group without knowing anything about it. The "left" does not have an agenda to hate those who disagree with it. The "right", though, has made many public statements of hate and intolerance. You should pick up a book on "cognitive therapy", I think you'll find it very helpful.
I won't cite examples here because you're an ignorant troll and I shouldn't be feeding you anyway. The first thing you need to do is start questioning the sources of your "facts". Ask what they have to gain by feeding you their brand of shit. You may find that they have quite a bit to gain in wealth and power. What do I have to gain by convincing you? Nothing, actually, in fact I have wasted precious minutes of my life here.
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. Since coming to Washington, I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." Ronald Reagan (Which is ironic given how corrupt the Reagan administration was.)
Please don't be lulled into believing that reform of these stupid laws will happen just because a new session will be starting. Now is the time your representatives should be coming home to get back in touch with those they supposedly represent. Contact them, get out to town hall meetings and meet them, give them some viewpoint other than the paid one.
I know a few so-called-nerds who could kick this so-called-journalist's arse. It's a troll, people; but it's also a troll that has the ear of management wonks who may listen. If you're a small department without an IT manager, it would serve you well to work on educating the decision makers as to what your job entails, your job responsibilities as defined by management and also good system administrator practices, and how you're overworked as it is. Frame it so they don't think that this system (if it works) will save them expensive wages, but it will improve their IT department's customer service and add value to the organization by giving them more time to research and impliment new technologies.
Anyone smell vapor? If it can automatically reconfigure machines for demand, what happens when the demand switches throughout the day (IE email in the morning, pr0n filtering at lunch, and facilities management systems just before punchout)? How long does it take to reconfigure a machine? What if you get a DOS attack aimed to entice this management software to start reconfiguring a bunch of machines? What if it's a DOS attack from inside the firewall?
The system is supposed to save "days" of machine-configuration time, but how often do you configure new servers? If you were deploying a commodity system (could custom systems be automated?), wouldn't you use a system image or other running system as a base?
Yeah, a vengeful act, that'd show them... NOT. What better way to seal your fate, as so-called nerd, and drive home the need for management managed IT?
Yes. It's a client virus that harms both the network it's using and other's networks. I think abuse@ is the perfect group to deal with it.
Besides, they are the ones with the tools at hand to track down who was using what IP at what time and notify them. Otherwise we wait until that user discovers they have 30 different viruses all competing for network time on their machine. That is how they can have control over this issue. The user doesn't have to be cut off, just informed.
Also, by prefacing it with a little note like "probable virus at IP#", if they choose not to deal with it, it only takes them 4 seconds to read and delete.
I've started reporting Klez to the site abuse mailboxes in the hopes they will do something about it. Just report it as you would a normal spam, but say it's a probable virus and give the IP address.
I can't say they'll do anything, but it's better than doing nothing.
For this demonstration, the image loaded is really a script that sets a cookie with the request referer.
I just said "no" to the cookie dialog and that appears to have broken the example.
If you're going to raise a stink about your browser's security, why are you accepting any and all cookies?
Last time I wrote a check there, 1996-ish, they fingerprinted me. Wasn't too happy about being treated like a potential criminal then, either.
On that note, maybe we could also net the thing and attach a massive parachute or parasail to it and bring the thing down in a controlled manner for study.
Actually, as a long-time Mac advocate, I don't think MOSX does this very well. With HFS+ it can sometimes take two or three passes of fsck before it comes back with a filesystem OK message. If MOSX crashes, always hold down command-s when you restart and type fsck -y until you get the OK message.
Furthermore, clerks don't need all the things that MOSX does well, and probably shouldn't have access to that.
IMNSHO, I like the suggestions for booting from a read-only volume and writing all data to a network share. I suggest that there be no floppy drive available. And if you use a CD-ROM, find a drive that you snap the hole on the spindle (like laptops have, so it doesn't shift when the clerks drop the machine) and one that you can lock, or otherwise make it difficult to eject.
Netboot could make this very easy and cost-effective if you have enough machines at a location. Then the individual terminals don't need excess parts like CD-ROMs, floppy (data loss devices), or hard drives. Pretty much the definition of a "thin client", like IBM's Network Station 1000 series, which can be had for $500.
Although LCD iMac point of sale terminals would be tres chic.
I hadn't tested it... looks like it actually doesn't work under X. Oh well.
Just recently we had a discussion at the University about how to run a PowerBook with the lid closed. It wouldn't be the same as multi-monitor support, but it would be interesting if you could exceed the iBook's resolution max.
To try, attach a USB keyboard & mouse to the machine and put it to sleep. Attach the monitor and then use the keyboard to wake it. The iBook's LCD display should be disabled with the external becoming the primary.
Darwin/MacOS X is theoretically 64 bit clean, just waiting for the right (inexpensive) 64 bit CPU. Our campus Apple rep stated that it would soon (with Jaguar, I think) be in sync with one of the *BSDs (IIRC FreeBSD).
I guess if someone really wants to do it, it shouldn't be more difficult than porting to x86, which has already happened. If NetBSD gets ported, that should help.
Do you think that if they mapped the distribution of these in a Geographic Information System, it would point to the source? Such as being distributed mainly along a flight path, or exactly downwind of a certain factory, or in a radial pattern from GumWorld(r).
Looks like the movie list needs to be updated with A.I. and Austin Powers...
There was a recent ask Slashdot regarding temperatures (vehicle) and the effect on PCs. (Too lazy to look it up.)
Does anyone know if fluid dynamic bearings would change the minimum temperature that a drive requires to spin up?
"Jack Valenti, spokesman of the MPAA, continued to make himself an easy target by insisting at one point that his group did not oppose the VCR."
Do you think this was an attempt at revisionism or did he really mean that his group did not successfully oppose the VCR?
Remember: only genuine crop circles have the Alien Crop Circle Union Label (tm).
Old Bungie's Marathon lives on as open source. It even has Linux & BeOS ports now.
IMNSHO, it had better game balance than Quake.