Dammit, I know you can press on the keys and create something semi-intelligent, but can you actually read? This has nothing the fuck to do with the Java issue. This has everything to do with buffer overflows in system libraries, security breaches in mounting disk images, and other fun stuff, stuff which isn't handled by a current patch.
Once again. Read the fucking articles. This has nothing the fuck to do with the Quicktime bug, and everything to do with other, much more serious, bugs that have been known by apple for months, if reports are correct. This is about apple fucking over their customers, and if your attitude is any indication, the more serious implication is apple users lubing up and taking it.
Did you read the links to the atstake articles further up the chain? These bugs don't just affect panther you dolt. This is not the fucking quicktime for java bug, this is the fucking buffer overflow, the insecure permissions bug, etc.
So? I've run current versions of FreeBSD and Linux on a 7 year old laptop. I'm sorry if your favorite vendor doesn't care about backwards compatibility. Though on a side note, said 6 year old G3 will run the latest version of YDL just fine, thus allowing you to use a much nicer operating environmentthan OS X has ever been.
I expect them to do the same thing I expect any other software maker to do. Fix their fucking problem. Not supporting an OS that's barely a year old is inexcusable. Period. If this is their attitude towards security problems, then they deserve to be crushed by MS.
The original Newton's handwriting recognition was quite bad, and would seemingly pseudorandomly misidentify entire words. Thus, many people used a product called graffiti from a tiny startup called palm computing to replace the recognition software.
From the screenshot posted further up the page, it looks just like mozilla's publish feature that's been there since forever. So, to answer your question, head over to mozilla.org and click on Mozilla 1.5 . Haven't played around with it too much, but hopefully, it makes less mess of included image files than frontpage does.
Try enabling USB Keyboard support in the BIOS. I know it's an option on Award systems, and that should allow you to use your USB keyboard with LILO. Course, I use GRUB, so my YMMV
News flash. Everyone screws everyone. It could also be argued that Russia, France, etc, are to blame, after all they sold weapons which were used during the Iran/Iraq conflict too. Also, no one was holding a gun to Saddam's head saying that he had to invade Kuwait; Saddam could have just not invaded Kuwait and the nation never would have been bombed. How would you have handled the Iraq invasion? Would you have handled it like other UN "successes", like Rwanda or like Srebrenica? I swear, the UN General Assembly seems to have less balls than a eunuch convention.
Ah, but I use Linux, where one can change Everything. I am not you. I don't think the way the same way you do, so why should my tasks be laid out the same way as yours? I personally think the kde method -- ask a user, the first time they login, what they want the desktop, etc to look like. Let them choose the keybindings, etc then, to what they feel is the most comfortable. Let them choose the colorschemes, etc, to their personality.
Of course, brushed metal was something I thought was crap 5 years ago when gnome came with a brushed metal theme. It looked like ass then, and it looks like ass now on OS X. Same goes with cases. I stayed out of the "designer" case nonsense, and have a nice, simple white case that holds almost a dozen drives. Just as impressive as a fancy case, yet much, much more useful.
I use Linux because I love innovation, stability and speed. I've had all the "new and exciting" features Panther has offered for years, such as OpenGL compositing, brushed metal everything, and a fast open-source HTML renderer.
Okay, we'll start out with customization. On even a windows box, the development team was smart and humble enough to realize that not everyone likes the defaults. Thus, they built in customization applets right into the operating system, so that someone who doesn't like the default color scheme can change it quickly and easily. Contrast that with Apple, whose take on the whole matter is "we'll shove candy colored crap and brushed metal down your throat and you'll like it", forcing one to obtain third party apps, or hand-edit the files dealing with color schemes, to get the system looking somewhat decent.
Also, take the menubar at the top of the screen. Sorry, but it sucks. I'd much rather have one menubar per app window; it doesn't take up much more room, and you're always certain which app's menu you're going into. At least the windows start menu is customizable as to the position, and hides itself.
I can go on and on here. Apple's about "think differently, as long as it's what we want you to think". The PC is much more open to tinkering, which leads to a much nicer experience. Sure, it's got some rough edges, but at the same time, the end result is a system that feels more like "mine" than a mac ever could.
I dunno, but having a built-in Caching nameserver seems pretty useful to me. Makes web browsing faster, more convenient. One click install seems to be pretty much a linux only sort of thing, too. More directly related to the speed issue, the ability to compile everything from source means that you can do a shitload of optimizations to your system, and it'll probably run a lot faster. Plus, if you have a lot of network shares, Samba is faster, and a helluva lot nicer than windows for SMB shares. Plus, Linux has a Far nicer looking, more powerful windowing system than windows, to boot.
Uh, the ability to have a fast machine that's several hundred dollars less expensive perhaps? The ability to purchase hardware from more than one vendor? Companies that believe in a little something called backward compatibility? Cheaper OS upgrades? Lemme know when you can upgrade a Mac to a 64 bit processor for under $1000 and we'll talk.
You're right about one thing, that this MCC is overpriced. However, I'd much rather spend my sheckles on buying a laptop from someone who knows how to make a chip that runs cool enough and has low enough power consumption to fit into a mobile. My next laptop is going to be 64 bits, and I laugh at the primitive screwheads who are stuck on platforms where only 32 bit laptops are available.
All right, this thing sounds like it's one hundred percent vaporware, but let's play let's pretend for a moment...
You don't need an OS to develop a game. None at all. The only functionality that one would really need is how to talk to the hard disk to store items on it, and that could pretty much all be done through bios calls and a drive with some sort of documented filesystem interface on it. Everything else would be done through programming to the direct hardware, like most game consoles already do. In fact, I'd be one to argue that an OS will get in the way of getting down to the bare metal, and would provide worse performance than a "naked" system.
Additionally, game makers are terrified of piracy. Scared shitless. If someone makes a system that is more hack resistant to casual piracy, then they're going to have a pretty attractive carrot to dangle in front of developers.
Problem with a pencil is the graphite dust. Normal gravity, graphite dust isn't an issue, it gets mostly on the paper, you don't worry about that. Now, in space, that graphite dust lingers, gets into things, makes the environment not as friendly to be in as it could be. With a pen, this is much less of an issue, as the physics of writing are a lot different.
Yes, if NASA did nothing to learn from the problem and keep it from happening in the future. Additionally, considering that we know about several broken arrow incidents, that is, incidents where military bombers have had situations where nuclear weapons have been lost, I'd say that an anonymous NASA report wouldn't be all that panic-inducing.
Okay fine. Put that on official government letterhead, close the case, let the majority of people move on with their lives. A scenario like you just laid out, most people would understand some secrecy, but at the same time, 35 years of secrecy is a very bad thing. By now, any startegic value a 35 year old satelite crash would have is long gone anyways.
Even though those same declassified rocket plans could help in getting private space ventures much, much closer to reality, causing space flight to become less expensive, commoditizing low earth orbit ventures and allowing (forcing, depending on your POV) NASA to focus on much more bold, interesting experiments, to push the envelope if you will? Even though the typical terrorist already has other means of delivering weapons of mass destruction that are just as potentially devestating as an ICBM?
Ah, but much of the items stored on current digital media is of a transient nature. Last month's reports, part of your mp3 collection, things that were important for the moment, but after then, are just another piece of trash. Yeah, important scientific works and the like are probably going to be stored on archival grade materials, but most people just don't need that sort of quality.
Additionally, no current CD is going to last 3000 years. Period. Current CDs only last 50-100 years as it is before the substrate is corroded to the point that the disc is unreadable under even optimum conditions. So I'd much rather have the important ideas written down on paper than on a CD.
Don't force it. I've fried a grand total of one item, an old Maxtor 120MB drive. Was plugging it into a new comp to pull some files off it, put the power connector in upside down, noticed it didn't fit, forced it on, turned the system on, watched a pretty blue spark shoot from one of the chips, and begin smoking. Doing a postmortem on the drive, I noticed that one of the chips had bubbled from my stupidity.
Fortunately, I had nothing that was irreplacable on the drive -- I was just plugging it in because it was faster than using a floppy -- but still, it taught me a valuable lesson, and is fortunately, the only piece of hardware I've ever broken on install. Course, since that time, I've developed the habit of double checking power cable connections; I don't like the smell of smoldering silicon in the morning.
Excellent idea, that is if you take a few precautions beforehand. The first one is that you have to have, out of the box, a rather large stock photo gallery - even less than a hundred thousand items would allow a spambot maker to fairly trivially catalog all of the images, and just have the spambot compare the files.
The second, and more important, is to have a random background and random noise. Get your images, but have more than one background file, and apply a "noisify" op to the picture before sending it out, to minimize spambots checking points on the image to look for correlations. Even then, you have to keep one step ahead of the spambots by constantly rotating images, not using any one for more than say a month, maybe shorter than that. On top of that, you'd have to rotate and retire entire catagories of images, retiring say, the category of boat pictures after a month, and not bringing it back for at least a couple months to further prevent keyword guessers. It's a lot of work preventing these sorts of spammers. However, on the same token, I see your idea of inserting random, non-easily OCRable characters as being the idea's real saving grace. A smart keyword policy can add great security here, and make the system much more difficult to break without being detected before one can do any damage.
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Dammit, I know you can press on the keys and create something semi-intelligent, but can you actually read? This has nothing the fuck to do with the Java issue. This has everything to do with buffer overflows in system libraries, security breaches in mounting disk images, and other fun stuff, stuff which isn't handled by a current patch.
Once again. Read the fucking articles. This has nothing the fuck to do with the Quicktime bug, and everything to do with other, much more serious, bugs that have been known by apple for months, if reports are correct. This is about apple fucking over their customers, and if your attitude is any indication, the more serious implication is apple users lubing up and taking it.
Did you read the links to the atstake articles further up the chain? These bugs don't just affect panther you dolt. This is not the fucking quicktime for java bug, this is the fucking buffer overflow, the insecure permissions bug, etc.
So? I've run current versions of FreeBSD and Linux on a 7 year old laptop. I'm sorry if your favorite vendor doesn't care about backwards compatibility. Though on a side note, said 6 year old G3 will run the latest version of YDL just fine, thus allowing you to use a much nicer operating environmentthan OS X has ever been.
I expect them to do the same thing I expect any other software maker to do. Fix their fucking problem. Not supporting an OS that's barely a year old is inexcusable. Period. If this is their attitude towards security problems, then they deserve to be crushed by MS.
The original Newton's handwriting recognition was quite bad, and would seemingly pseudorandomly misidentify entire words. Thus, many people used a product called graffiti from a tiny startup called palm computing to replace the recognition software.
Then change your window manager. As a benefit, you can get an awesome looking desktop without all of apple's dick yanking.
From the screenshot posted further up the page, it looks just like mozilla's publish feature that's been there since forever. So, to answer your question, head over to mozilla.org and click on Mozilla 1.5 . Haven't played around with it too much, but hopefully, it makes less mess of included image files than frontpage does.
Try enabling USB Keyboard support in the BIOS. I know it's an option on Award systems, and that should allow you to use your USB keyboard with LILO. Course, I use GRUB, so my YMMV
News flash. Everyone screws everyone. It could also be argued that Russia, France, etc, are to blame, after all they sold weapons which were used during the Iran/Iraq conflict too. Also, no one was holding a gun to Saddam's head saying that he had to invade Kuwait; Saddam could have just not invaded Kuwait and the nation never would have been bombed. How would you have handled the Iraq invasion? Would you have handled it like other UN "successes", like Rwanda or like Srebrenica? I swear, the UN General Assembly seems to have less balls than a eunuch convention.
Of course, brushed metal was something I thought was crap 5 years ago when gnome came with a brushed metal theme. It looked like ass then, and it looks like ass now on OS X. Same goes with cases. I stayed out of the "designer" case nonsense, and have a nice, simple white case that holds almost a dozen drives. Just as impressive as a fancy case, yet much, much more useful.
I use Linux because I love innovation, stability and speed. I've had all the "new and exciting" features Panther has offered for years, such as OpenGL compositing, brushed metal everything, and a fast open-source HTML renderer.
Also, take the menubar at the top of the screen. Sorry, but it sucks. I'd much rather have one menubar per app window; it doesn't take up much more room, and you're always certain which app's menu you're going into. At least the windows start menu is customizable as to the position, and hides itself.
I can go on and on here. Apple's about "think differently, as long as it's what we want you to think". The PC is much more open to tinkering, which leads to a much nicer experience. Sure, it's got some rough edges, but at the same time, the end result is a system that feels more like "mine" than a mac ever could.
I dunno, but having a built-in Caching nameserver seems pretty useful to me. Makes web browsing faster, more convenient. One click install seems to be pretty much a linux only sort of thing, too. More directly related to the speed issue, the ability to compile everything from source means that you can do a shitload of optimizations to your system, and it'll probably run a lot faster. Plus, if you have a lot of network shares, Samba is faster, and a helluva lot nicer than windows for SMB shares. Plus, Linux has a Far nicer looking, more powerful windowing system than windows, to boot.
Uh, the ability to have a fast machine that's several hundred dollars less expensive perhaps? The ability to purchase hardware from more than one vendor? Companies that believe in a little something called backward compatibility? Cheaper OS upgrades? Lemme know when you can upgrade a Mac to a 64 bit processor for under $1000 and we'll talk.
You're right about one thing, that this MCC is overpriced. However, I'd much rather spend my sheckles on buying a laptop from someone who knows how to make a chip that runs cool enough and has low enough power consumption to fit into a mobile. My next laptop is going to be 64 bits, and I laugh at the primitive screwheads who are stuck on platforms where only 32 bit laptops are available.
You don't need an OS to develop a game. None at all. The only functionality that one would really need is how to talk to the hard disk to store items on it, and that could pretty much all be done through bios calls and a drive with some sort of documented filesystem interface on it. Everything else would be done through programming to the direct hardware, like most game consoles already do. In fact, I'd be one to argue that an OS will get in the way of getting down to the bare metal, and would provide worse performance than a "naked" system.
Additionally, game makers are terrified of piracy. Scared shitless. If someone makes a system that is more hack resistant to casual piracy, then they're going to have a pretty attractive carrot to dangle in front of developers.
Obviously, you need to run KDE so you can run the brand new kardiac-arrest package ;3
Problem with a pencil is the graphite dust. Normal gravity, graphite dust isn't an issue, it gets mostly on the paper, you don't worry about that. Now, in space, that graphite dust lingers, gets into things, makes the environment not as friendly to be in as it could be. With a pen, this is much less of an issue, as the physics of writing are a lot different.
Of course, this is all MHO
Yes, if NASA did nothing to learn from the problem and keep it from happening in the future. Additionally, considering that we know about several broken arrow incidents, that is, incidents where military bombers have had situations where nuclear weapons have been lost, I'd say that an anonymous NASA report wouldn't be all that panic-inducing.
Okay fine. Put that on official government letterhead, close the case, let the majority of people move on with their lives. A scenario like you just laid out, most people would understand some secrecy, but at the same time, 35 years of secrecy is a very bad thing. By now, any startegic value a 35 year old satelite crash would have is long gone anyways.
Even though those same declassified rocket plans could help in getting private space ventures much, much closer to reality, causing space flight to become less expensive, commoditizing low earth orbit ventures and allowing (forcing, depending on your POV) NASA to focus on much more bold, interesting experiments, to push the envelope if you will? Even though the typical terrorist already has other means of delivering weapons of mass destruction that are just as potentially devestating as an ICBM?
Additionally, no current CD is going to last 3000 years. Period. Current CDs only last 50-100 years as it is before the substrate is corroded to the point that the disc is unreadable under even optimum conditions. So I'd much rather have the important ideas written down on paper than on a CD.
Fortunately, I had nothing that was irreplacable on the drive -- I was just plugging it in because it was faster than using a floppy -- but still, it taught me a valuable lesson, and is fortunately, the only piece of hardware I've ever broken on install. Course, since that time, I've developed the habit of double checking power cable connections; I don't like the smell of smoldering silicon in the morning.
The second, and more important, is to have a random background and random noise. Get your images, but have more than one background file, and apply a "noisify" op to the picture before sending it out, to minimize spambots checking points on the image to look for correlations. Even then, you have to keep one step ahead of the spambots by constantly rotating images, not using any one for more than say a month, maybe shorter than that. On top of that, you'd have to rotate and retire entire catagories of images, retiring say, the category of boat pictures after a month, and not bringing it back for at least a couple months to further prevent keyword guessers. It's a lot of work preventing these sorts of spammers. However, on the same token, I see your idea of inserting random, non-easily OCRable characters as being the idea's real saving grace. A smart keyword policy can add great security here, and make the system much more difficult to break without being detected before one can do any damage.