Re:generic hardware != unstable
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OSx86 Cracked Again
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I reject the argument that being able to run MacOS on any generic x86 box will hurt Apple in terms of stability or image.
Then you're living in a dream world. The majority of Windows crashes these days come from spyware infestations, rootkits and viruses. But before these became big problems, the majority of the crashes came from "bad third party drivers" according to most reports.
Apple is not big enough to maintain drivers for all hardware available on the PC market. Microsoft, for all their market success, hasn't been able to get a grasp on that.
Remember that Linux has a bigger desktop market share than Apple, and we've not been able to get Broadcom wireless support without resorting to tricks like ndiswrapper. If you think Apple will be able to hold vendors by the balls like Microsoft, you're crazy.
It will not be good for Apple. Apple makes it's money from it's hardware. They make good software to sell that hardware. The OS alone will drastically reduce revenue.
These days Apple makes most of its money from iPod/iTunes. They could realistically license the software while the iPod/iTunes is generating crazy money and live ok from it. And if it catches on, then they have the potential to be the next Microsoft. Seeing as how software makes more money than hardware in our commodity driven market, it wouldn't be impossible for Apple to make a killing, but it would have to start right away.
However Apple won't do this. They don't have the balls to take on Microsoft. In ten years the iPod/iTunes fad will pass and Apple will be back to just making expensive compnuters that few will buy. Apple has the blinders on and will screw it up like they always do.
This is one of the main reasons I dislike Apple as a company: the arrogance. Steve wants to tell me what I can and can't play on an iPod (e.g., suing Real). Steve wants to tell me what I can and can't do with software I buy. Frankly, screw Steve!
Uhm, Real hacked their way onto the iPod using a flaw in the code. Apple fixed this, consequently Real files wouldn't work on the iPod. If you want to take advantage of said flaw, you don't have to upgrade to the latest version of the iPod software. It's simple . . .
Personally I love it when companies fight over drm. It illustrates that DRM is good for nobody!
Haven't you been reading the summary? It's the victim's fault for not wearing a bullet proof vest!
Compton:Bullet Proof Vest = Internet:Firewall
Re:first discovered MP3 files back in the early 19
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More iTunes Math
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so basically before mid-1994 there were no mp3s. There were other things (like mp2?) but mp3s really didnt exist since, duh, u kinda needed a encoder in order for mp3s to be created.
Dude, he said "...MP3 files back in the early 1990s...". In case you didn't notice, 1994 is part of the early 90's, in that it's before 1995.
Not sure why you're bitching about this, it doesn't seem to be contradictory at all . . .
at one moment we hear that it is sooo hard for users to migrate to linux because icons look different and it is soooo user-unfriendly.
I don't think Linux is too hard for users to use. However I do believe that until autopackage (or a simple installer becomes universal for all) catches on big time, then Linux adoption won't grow with basic users. Users want to install software, it's what they do. A big list of billions of packages (ala Synaptic) is just not a good solution for the regular user.
at the other we hear that it is very easy to dig registry, change permissions and whatnot...
Computers are complicated, because they do complicated things. Most people can't even figure out how to set the time on their TiVo. The two reasons why Windows is on top is because OEM's sell machines with Windows and it's the devil you know. You can call Geeksquad and get support for Windows, because it's universal. I can't say the same thing about Linux yet.
Ahh but these problems are easily solved by giving the user permission on the specific resources, such as the registry keys needed. You don't need to make them an admin.
Easy for an experienced sysadmin. Not so for a regular user. Can you imagine going through that with your *insert inexperienced user here*?
Yeah, uh huh, ok now go to start, run and type runas/user:administrator regedit and type your system password.
Now go to H K L M, what? I don't care, just look at the first letter of every . . . no don't click delete there . . .
It's amusing, but the MPAA would first have to decide it was worth suing itself. You can't have a lawsuit without a plaintiff, after all. Though they do seem to like making examples out of people.
Actually this is not the case. The movie was not made by the MPAA, it was submitted to the MPAA for a rating. The creator of the video specifically said that there shouldn't be any copies made.
To be honest, I was thinking the same thing until I RTFA'd.
Why even bother getting the degree in something if you don't want to do the work anyway? Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? Besides the fact that you won't have a clue what you're doing since you'll never have learned anything, if you don't have any desire to do it in the first place, why are you in the field?
Maybe they're checking to see if their teacher is worth a damn. I mean if your teacher can't spot comments in Indian, then maybe he's been outsourcing the grading . . .
"The deletion process is designed to determine the consensus of opinion of Wikipedia editors; for this reason comments from users whose histories do not show experience with or contributions to Wikipedia are traditionally given less weight and may be discounted entirely."
What's the point of having a wikipedia if only wiki editors are allowed to comment anyways. . .
How big is BellSouth? I mean, do they think they can take on Apple, Google and Yahoo? In the end the BellSouth subscribers are on the internet for the content. If The big content provider refuse to pay it how long could Bellsouth last?
If Apple, Google and Yahoo all unilaterally tell BellSouth to go to hell, then this will fail. If a few cave here and there, then BellSouth will have a precedent to go for more money from other providers.
Now, it may depend on which server you encounter (that would not surprise me), but at least for me:
The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
The first time I went to that site I got the apache error. The day after I got the proper page loading. However for three days I put random garbage into cb2.msn.com and saw the apache 404 errors. On the fourth day I started getting IIS Error Docs.
One of two things must have happened, that I can think of:
1) They noticed the error generated was default apache and loaded up the correct IIS ErrorDocument's on Apache
or
2) Their (or a third party) load balancer uses apache and was misconfigured.
Regardless I have not modified any information. The curl output was taken within a few minutes of the screen shot.
Quicktime technically has the ability to play AVIs, but it's a useless feature because of the way that 90% of the ones you'll find online are put together (Divx video with MP3 audio).
AVI is a container. The AVI Container works fine with Quicktime. The DivX codec is not supported by Apple w/ QuickTime. If, however, you go to http://www.divx.com/ and download the Mac Codec, all works fine. This is the same procedure you have to do in Windows to get Windows Media Player to play DivX (or you can use one of many codecs that support DivX).
I've never had an issue playing any kind of avi in QuickTime on my iBook.
As a sysadmin for JPL I ran a few major Linux clusters and standalone Linux servers. JPL is very segmented, there are divisions, and within divisons there are projects.
Many of the projects run their own infrastructure. Some on Linux, some on HPUX, some on Windows, and so on. Perhaps in the MER project they didn't do too much with Linux on the server, but that doesn't mean that JPL likes or dislikes Linux for servers. It's more representative of the admins in control of MER more than anything.
In otherwords this interview is not representative of JPL. Just like everything i say isn't representative of JPL as a whole. It's just our individual projects.
From the article: Cryogenics is a branch of physics (or engineering) that studies very low temperatures or the production thereof. In common parlance, it is often mistakenly used to refer to the highly specialized field of cryonics.
The grand parent poster had it right, although he did misspell it as Chrionics.
Linux Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 5-Jan-2006 84.45.224.8 ADSL endpoints NAT conections only Linux Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 5-Jan-2006 213.160.98.168 Akamai Technology
Enough with the WMA playback whining. iTunes automatically converts WMA files into iPod compatible formats. Just drag and drop and you can play it on your fracking iPod. Minus the DRM, iTunes takes care of the problem, so please quit perpetuating this myth.
Actually iTunes can only convert non-drm'd wma to iPod compatible formats. The drm'd ones are skipped.
I work for a government contractor, and have recently convinced them to purchase a Beowulf cluster, and start moving their numeric modelers from Sun to Linux.
Congrats!
Like most historically UNIX shops, they don't allow users even low-level SUDO access, to do silly things like change file permissions or ownerships, in a tracked environment. I am an ex-*NIX admin myself,so I understand their perspective and wish to keep control over the environment, but as a user, I'm frustrated by having to frequently call the help-desk just to get a file ownership changed or a specific package installed.
Good, Good!
If you're an admin, do you allow your users basic SUDO rights like chmod, cp, mv, etc (assuming all SUDO commands are logged to a remote system)?
Hell No!
If no, why don't you?
Because it is my responsibility, and my responsibility alone, to keep those machines running. If you screw up the system, then I will have to work later and possibly come in on the weekend to fix it. This is not something I am willing to risk.
In addition, as an ex-*NIX Administrator, you should know that the best way to keep a secure system is to give the least privs possible.
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I reject the argument that being able to run MacOS on any generic x86 box will hurt Apple in terms of stability or image.
Then you're living in a dream world. The majority of Windows crashes these days come from spyware infestations, rootkits and viruses. But before these became big problems, the majority of the crashes came from "bad third party drivers" according to most reports.
Apple is not big enough to maintain drivers for all hardware available on the PC market. Microsoft, for all their market success, hasn't been able to get a grasp on that.
Remember that Linux has a bigger desktop market share than Apple, and we've not been able to get Broadcom wireless support without resorting to tricks like ndiswrapper. If you think Apple will be able to hold vendors by the balls like Microsoft, you're crazy.
It will not be good for Apple. Apple makes it's money from it's hardware. They make good software to sell that hardware. The OS alone will drastically reduce revenue.
These days Apple makes most of its money from iPod/iTunes. They could realistically license the software while the iPod/iTunes is generating crazy money and live ok from it. And if it catches on, then they have the potential to be the next Microsoft. Seeing as how software makes more money than hardware in our commodity driven market, it wouldn't be impossible for Apple to make a killing, but it would have to start right away.
However Apple won't do this. They don't have the balls to take on Microsoft. In ten years the iPod/iTunes fad will pass and Apple will be back to just making expensive compnuters that few will buy. Apple has the blinders on and will screw it up like they always do.
This is one of the main reasons I dislike Apple as a company: the arrogance. Steve wants to tell me what I can and can't play on an iPod (e.g., suing Real). Steve wants to tell me what I can and can't do with software I buy. Frankly, screw Steve!
Uhm, Real hacked their way onto the iPod using a flaw in the code. Apple fixed this, consequently Real files wouldn't work on the iPod. If you want to take advantage of said flaw, you don't have to upgrade to the latest version of the iPod software. It's simple . . .
Personally I love it when companies fight over drm. It illustrates that DRM is good for nobody!
Haven't you been reading the summary? It's the victim's fault for not wearing a bullet proof vest!
Compton:Bullet Proof Vest = Internet:Firewall
so basically before mid-1994 there were no mp3s. There were other things (like mp2?) but mp3s really didnt exist since, duh, u kinda needed a encoder in order for mp3s to be created.
Dude, he said "...MP3 files back in the early 1990s...". In case you didn't notice, 1994 is part of the early 90's, in that it's before 1995.
Not sure why you're bitching about this, it doesn't seem to be contradictory at all . . .
at one moment we hear that it is sooo hard for users to migrate to linux because icons look different and it is soooo user-unfriendly.
I don't think Linux is too hard for users to use. However I do believe that until autopackage (or a simple installer becomes universal for all) catches on big time, then Linux adoption won't grow with basic users. Users want to install software, it's what they do. A big list of billions of packages (ala Synaptic) is just not a good solution for the regular user.
at the other we hear that it is very easy to dig registry, change permissions and whatnot...
Computers are complicated, because they do complicated things. Most people can't even figure out how to set the time on their TiVo. The two reasons why Windows is on top is because OEM's sell machines with Windows and it's the devil you know. You can call Geeksquad and get support for Windows, because it's universal. I can't say the same thing about Linux yet.
Ahh but these problems are easily solved by giving the user permission on the specific resources, such as the registry keys needed. You don't need to make them an admin.
/user:administrator regedit and type your system password.
Easy for an experienced sysadmin. Not so for a regular user. Can you imagine going through that with your *insert inexperienced user here*?
Yeah, uh huh, ok now go to start, run and type runas
Now go to H K L M, what? I don't care, just look at the first letter of every . . . no don't click delete there . . .
Hello??
It's amusing, but the MPAA would first have to decide it was worth suing itself. You can't have a lawsuit without a plaintiff, after all. Though they do seem to like making examples out of people.
Actually this is not the case. The movie was not made by the MPAA, it was submitted to the MPAA for a rating. The creator of the video specifically said that there shouldn't be any copies made.
To be honest, I was thinking the same thing until I RTFA'd.
Why even bother getting the degree in something if you don't want to do the work anyway? Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? Besides the fact that you won't have a clue what you're doing since you'll never have learned anything, if you don't have any desire to do it in the first place, why are you in the field?
Maybe they're checking to see if their teacher is worth a damn. I mean if your teacher can't spot comments in Indian, then maybe he's been outsourcing the grading . . .
http://digg.com/technology/Wikipedia_Admin_says_on ly_Wiki_Admin_s_can_comment_on_process
"The deletion process is designed to determine the consensus of opinion of Wikipedia editors; for this reason comments from users whose histories do not show experience with or contributions to Wikipedia are traditionally given less weight and may be discounted entirely."
What's the point of having a wikipedia if only wiki editors are allowed to comment anyways. . .
How big is BellSouth? I mean, do they think they can take on Apple, Google and Yahoo? In the end the BellSouth subscribers are on the internet for the content. If The big content provider refuse to pay it how long could Bellsouth last?
If Apple, Google and Yahoo all unilaterally tell BellSouth to go to hell, then this will fail. If a few cave here and there, then BellSouth will have a precedent to go for more money from other providers.
Full Disclosure: kabewm.com is my site.
Now, it may depend on which server you encounter (that would not surprise me), but at least for me:
The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
The first time I went to that site I got the apache error. The day after I got the proper page loading. However for three days I put random garbage into cb2.msn.com and saw the apache 404 errors. On the fourth day I started getting IIS Error Docs.
One of two things must have happened, that I can think of:
1) They noticed the error generated was default apache and loaded up the correct IIS ErrorDocument's on Apache
or
2) Their (or a third party) load balancer uses apache and was misconfigured.
Regardless I have not modified any information. The curl output was taken within a few minutes of the screen shot.
Looks like they're still at it. http://www.kabewm.com/pages/pages/gallery/hotmail- still-using-unix12.php
Quicktime technically has the ability to play AVIs, but it's a useless feature because of the way that 90% of the ones you'll find online are put together (Divx video with MP3 audio).
AVI is a container. The AVI Container works fine with Quicktime. The DivX codec is not supported by Apple w/ QuickTime. If, however, you go to http://www.divx.com/ and download the Mac Codec, all works fine. This is the same procedure you have to do in Windows to get Windows Media Player to play DivX (or you can use one of many codecs that support DivX).
I've never had an issue playing any kind of avi in QuickTime on my iBook.
Still i agree Apple should natively have software (preinstalled) that can play a freaking .avi file.
The only thing that "Windows Media Player" for the Mac can play is unprotected WMV.
QuickTime plays avi's just fine.
Hate responding to myself, but I wanted to point to the fact that JPL's main server runs Linux:
. nasa.gov
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.jpl
Linux Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 28-Sep-2005 137.78.99.23 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.top500.org/site/297
As a sysadmin for JPL I ran a few major Linux clusters and standalone Linux servers. JPL is very segmented, there are divisions, and within divisons there are projects.
Many of the projects run their own infrastructure. Some on Linux, some on HPUX, some on Windows, and so on. Perhaps in the MER project they didn't do too much with Linux on the server, but that doesn't mean that JPL likes or dislikes Linux for servers. It's more representative of the admins in control of MER more than anything.
In otherwords this interview is not representative of JPL. Just like everything i say isn't representative of JPL as a whole. It's just our individual projects.
Where does one download PHPsuexec?
Also it's "Cyrogenics" and "Career."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenics
From the article: Cryogenics is a branch of physics (or engineering) that studies very low temperatures or the production thereof. In common parlance, it is often mistakenly used to refer to the highly specialized field of cryonics.
The grand parent poster had it right, although he did misspell it as Chrionics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
I still think the WUS server takes the cake over Urge.
I'm pretty sure thats why they renamed it WSUS. It's not as funny anymore . . .
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.urge .com
Linux Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 5-Jan-2006 84.45.224.8 ADSL endpoints NAT conections only
Linux Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 5-Jan-2006 213.160.98.168 Akamai Technology
Enough with the WMA playback whining. iTunes automatically converts WMA files into iPod compatible formats. Just drag and drop and you can play it on your fracking iPod. Minus the DRM, iTunes takes care of the problem, so please quit perpetuating this myth.
Actually iTunes can only convert non-drm'd wma to iPod compatible formats. The drm'd ones are skipped.
Ok you forced me into it . . .
of course I still own a powerbook and have no working windows machines in my presence any more.
If you did have a working windows machine, you'd be the first . . .
Google is all about innovation, so I doubt they will ship something based upon FreeBSD.
FreeBSD 6 has turned out really nicely. . .
If it is a *BSD, it will rather be DragonFlyBSD.
Uhm, DragonFlyBSD is basically a branch off of FreeBSD 4.x
That's not exactly innovative . . .
I work for a government contractor, and have recently convinced them to purchase a Beowulf cluster, and start moving their numeric modelers from Sun to Linux.
,so I understand their perspective and wish to keep control over the environment, but as a user, I'm frustrated by having to frequently call the help-desk just to get a file ownership changed or a specific package installed.
Congrats!
Like most historically UNIX shops, they don't allow users even low-level SUDO access, to do silly things like change file permissions or ownerships, in a tracked environment. I am an ex-*NIX admin myself
Good, Good!
If you're an admin, do you allow your users basic SUDO rights like chmod, cp, mv, etc (assuming all SUDO commands are logged to a remote system)?
Hell No!
If no, why don't you?
Because it is my responsibility, and my responsibility alone, to keep those machines running. If you screw up the system, then I will have to work later and possibly come in on the weekend to fix it. This is not something I am willing to risk.
In addition, as an ex-*NIX Administrator, you should know that the best way to keep a secure system is to give the least privs possible.