AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac mini:The AppleCare Protection Plan covers your Mac, as well as an AirPort Extreme Card, an AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme Base Station, and Apple RAM purchased for your Mac. Mac mini, Power Mac, and PowerBook customers can also enroll one Apple display for coverage, provided the Mac and display are purchased together
So, it indeed looks like you can have one monitor attached per mini; but the coverage does travel with the mini, so you couldn't sell it (although how would they know?).
I like this one: MegaRAID SATA 150-4. Admittedly, I've only used it under OS X Server, as it's apparently what Apple uses in their OEM; but they do have linux drivers and I can only assume that they work as well, if not better. Straightforward setup on the CLI, and not too expensive.
Personally, for $300 I wouldn't screw around with a software raid unless this is your own personal box and the drives only have MP3s.
To see how it's done, check out AFP548. (friend of mine runs the site.)
It won't surprise you, I'm sure, to learn that he also does professional OS X Server consulting and training; he doesn't even have to mention that fact, but still gets enough interest that he's busy full time (and not cheaply).
Takes a little work, and certainly takes having valuable knowledge--but that pays off in spades. Not to mention is a valuable, free, resource for the community to boot.
I'm not aware of the revisionist history that you and another post reference, but I would be interested to know how it explains why, if that's the case, Japan failed to surrender unconditionally even after Hiroshima. The dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki was required before Japan was ready to surrender unconditionally. How could it be possible that they would have surrendered without the use of any atomics?
Or do you think that they should have been left with the territory that they seized from other Asian countries?
I think counting how many times the wheels had gone 'round would be a far easier, and more accurate, method.
If, as has often been the case, the wheel doesn't have traction and spins, you won't have an accurate measure. And it's hard to know that it's spinning and not providing forward motion without looking at it. And it's a good idea to have an absolute measure of distance traveled, rather than a reckoned measure.
It really is a shame when the prevailing "geek" attitude towards agencies like the FBI is mistrust and fear, not confidence and respect.
If you want reasons why, you can start here: SJ Games vs. the Secret Service. I know the SS is different than the FBI, but it still gives you an insight to their mindset.
I played CoH and quit after a couple of months because as interesting as the concept of that game weas, the quest system was purely repetitive; something I have yet to experience in the 5 months I've been playing WoW.
I *just* logged off of WoW to read this article--I have a 24 lvl 'lock, and a new 12 lvl Warrior. Maybe neither are high enough to reach the interesting bits, but I am finding a really depressing amount of repetition: get the quest, kill the mobs, wait to regen, run back and turn in the quest. Train up. Repeat.
Killing the lvl 5 mobs is really no different than killing lvl 15 mobs--they just do more damage and can take more damage, but I don't see much difference in strategy that I have to use between the two. And the quest text is too obviously a place holder for the above--the text could be anything, really. When I switched out of the 'lock to the warrior, it was to explore a new faction/race/class and new trade skills etc; I can see doing that maybe once more.
I'm hoping that once I reach high enough levels, that PvP is more interesting--certainly that will require a varied strategy. But can I stand to grind another 20 lvls before that's feasible? I dunno.
I think Blizzard could save WoW if they added a more social component, or allowed me to invest my own creativity into the game--like building novel buildings or goods. With a building, which I could customize and decorate, it becomes a home-away-from home, and I would be interested in using the environment to socialize with my friends. But if I can't make my imprimatur on the world, it feels like I'm inhabiting someone else's space, and I'm really just a guest, not an inhabitant.
While I think building could save WoW, I don't see how they could allow 1.6Million personal residences. Certainly they would require high lvl and/or high expense, but even so--where would those places go? And it would have to require a huge amount of development work to make it happen. The speed at which Battlegrounds has come out, which is not really fundamentally that big of a change, makes me really wonder if Blizz could ever add personal building to the world. Probably not.
Without building, or something really radical being done, I personally can see myself doing this for another 6 months--3 characters to lvl 30 or 40. And I started late; the folks that started at release are almost there now. If they feel the same as I described, the author of TFA is going to be proved right in the next 60 days. And there will no longer be trouble getting logged on, that's for sure.
How long will it take to download? Maybe it's a smaller file size, as it's target is a smaller screen. But...
Who wants to watch a movie on a 3" screen? Can you hook PSPs to a TV?
How much will it cost?
Does the PSP even have media that the download will write too? Or will you be expected to dl to a computer, buy a media burner just for the PSP optical media, and then watch it on that?
Naturally, I didn't RTFA. Maybe Sony thinks folks will spend $20 to buy mini-optical media versions of their movies that only work in the PSP. If that's it, they'll have another think coming.
Since losing a credit card number in an online purchase to a dbase hacker, I now use MBNA for all of my online shopping. It gives me a new credit card number everytime I use it, for which I can set an arbitrary $ amount before that number is consumed and also any expiration date for out to a year.
I generate new numbers using my browser, and even Safari works on OS X. I rest easy knowing that the particular number is set at just over the amount of my purchase, so even if the cc number was compromised it would have no more value attached.
Now, circumlocution and saying something that is technically true but sounds, to someone who's not listening carefully, like I'm saying something else entirely
Try "Did I print it from the web? No." Technically true, but most people that equate the internet as being the web won't see that other services also can run over it, like FTP or iDisk or whatever you're using.
But I think your real problem is:
I'd rather educate the ignorant masses so that maybe next time they won't bother me or someone trying to do what I'm doing
beware: a lot of folks don't like being educated. Particularly when they are in the nominal position of authority. So you might be wise to chose your battles.
I, for one, would surf porn at work if the filters allowed. That is the depth of my addiction;).
Seriously, while we do have filters where I work, I can say that I have only ever hit it when I was directed to go to someplace that I shouldn't really be; in the 2 years that I've been here, I had trouble with a legitimate site only once. Maybe your filters are just too damn tight by default? Has anyone done an analysis of the sites that need exceptions--perhaps there's a trend and one could extrapolate to other sites that haven't yet been asked for, but nevertheless would be legit.
To follow you off topic, I think This American Life's take on the matter is amazing (I think that's the right episode.)
Long 'n short--pimp tests a prospective 'ho recruit by saying "buy me a drink." Not all of them comply, but many do. The ones that do are of an emotional state that they are are liable to being turned out. Fascinating.
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The object here, I think, is to promote PPC as a primary platform for Linux development
And to illustrate the advantages of the PPC arch, maybe including AltiVec, through optimization. While you can develop anything for the PPC, I would guess the winning entries would make good use of the benefits of the PPC arch vs. the Intel/AMD archs.
Some things do better on PPC, some things don't, and IBM is likely looking for good examples of the former.
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I bet those prize machines have osx on them though..
Yeah, they probably do. But so what? It's not like PPC Linux is hard to get. And ydl lists the applications that come with their OS, so you can look for Java 1.5, or whatever else your heart desires, there.
But your point remains: it's pretty ironic. I believe it underscores the Apple-IBM relationship, and IBM's interest in moving away from the WinTel desktop computing space.
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Though I don't pretend to understand what Apple thinks they are gaining by holding back things like full specs on the airport extreme card in my notebook
They probably aren't allowed to do so by their agreement with Broadcom, the chip's manufacturer. I think you'll find that Broadcom hasn't released open information on any of their products, so their refusal to allow Apple to do so is in keeping with that position.
So the question becomes: why doesn't Broadcom release info to allow Linux users to use their gear? Who knows. Or, why does Apple choose a manufacturer that refuses to play with OSS? That's probably due to a) historical reasons--the stuff is working now, so it's have to be re-engineered using a different source, and b) there's not enough interest for Linux-on-Apple to warrant the change.
But the bottomline is that if Broadcom released their info, Apple would be more likely to follow their lead.
I wonder how much of this action in AU is related to JP suicide clubs?
"In Japan, the internet has been blamed for a spate of group suicides which appear to have been arranged in online chat rooms."
It appears that often the people facilitating these suicides are in fact sadists, who have no intention themselves of carrying through a suicide, but instead derive perverse pleasure from being instrumental in the death of another. If a similar phenomenon exists in AU, it would give the authorities an opportunity to intervene--and based on the text of TFA, this appears closer to their intent.
It has been my experience that when somone suggest they are going to commit suicide, that trying to help them do it, snaps them right out of it.
You'll miscalculate, once. And then live with the fact that you facilitated a suicide for the rest of your life.
How about, instead of playing pop psychologist, you steer these individuals towards professional help, rather than play games with their mental health?
Seriously? If you fail in a suicide attempt, by making it illegal the state has the authority to restrain you against your will, which usually means that they can forcibly prevent you from attempting suicide again until some kind of treatment is located and applied.
Otherwise, they would have to release you as soon as you're bandaged, and you could try again hours later. The authorities would have no opportunity to prevent you from attempting it again.
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AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac mini: The AppleCare Protection Plan covers your Mac, as well as an AirPort Extreme Card, an AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme Base Station, and Apple RAM purchased for your Mac. Mac mini, Power Mac, and PowerBook customers can also enroll one Apple display for coverage, provided the Mac and display are purchased together
So, it indeed looks like you can have one monitor attached per mini; but the coverage does travel with the mini, so you couldn't sell it (although how would they know?).
I like this one: MegaRAID SATA 150-4. Admittedly, I've only used it under OS X Server, as it's apparently what Apple uses in their OEM; but they do have linux drivers and I can only assume that they work as well, if not better. Straightforward setup on the CLI, and not too expensive.
Personally, for $300 I wouldn't screw around with a software raid unless this is your own personal box and the drives only have MP3s.
To see how it's done, check out AFP548. (friend of mine runs the site.)
It won't surprise you, I'm sure, to learn that he also does professional OS X Server consulting and training; he doesn't even have to mention that fact, but still gets enough interest that he's busy full time (and not cheaply).
Takes a little work, and certainly takes having valuable knowledge--but that pays off in spades. Not to mention is a valuable, free, resource for the community to boot.
Japan was ready to surrender.
I'm not aware of the revisionist history that you and another post reference, but I would be interested to know how it explains why, if that's the case, Japan failed to surrender unconditionally even after Hiroshima. The dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki was required before Japan was ready to surrender unconditionally. How could it be possible that they would have surrendered without the use of any atomics?
Or do you think that they should have been left with the territory that they seized from other Asian countries?
The Japanese failed to surrender after the dropping of the first bomb--it took two bombs to bring them to the table on our terms.
The fact that we were temporarily able to intimidate the Russians surely was also a factor, but I don't believe that it was the over-riding rationale.
I think counting how many times the wheels had gone 'round would be a far easier, and more accurate, method.
If, as has often been the case, the wheel doesn't have traction and spins, you won't have an accurate measure. And it's hard to know that it's spinning and not providing forward motion without looking at it. And it's a good idea to have an absolute measure of distance traveled, rather than a reckoned measure.
It really is a shame when the prevailing "geek" attitude towards agencies like the FBI is mistrust and fear, not confidence and respect.
If you want reasons why, you can start here: SJ Games vs. the Secret Service. I know the SS is different than the FBI, but it still gives you an insight to their mindset.
I pronounced "yacht" as ya-chet. On stage, age 11. Everyone laughed and I didn't know why.
To this day I still mentally say "deb-ris" for debris; goddamit, that's the way it sounds out.
I played CoH and quit after a couple of months because as interesting as the concept of that game weas, the quest system was purely repetitive; something I have yet to experience in the 5 months I've been playing WoW.
I *just* logged off of WoW to read this article--I have a 24 lvl 'lock, and a new 12 lvl Warrior. Maybe neither are high enough to reach the interesting bits, but I am finding a really depressing amount of repetition: get the quest, kill the mobs, wait to regen, run back and turn in the quest. Train up. Repeat.
Killing the lvl 5 mobs is really no different than killing lvl 15 mobs--they just do more damage and can take more damage, but I don't see much difference in strategy that I have to use between the two. And the quest text is too obviously a place holder for the above--the text could be anything, really. When I switched out of the 'lock to the warrior, it was to explore a new faction/race/class and new trade skills etc; I can see doing that maybe once more.
I'm hoping that once I reach high enough levels, that PvP is more interesting--certainly that will require a varied strategy. But can I stand to grind another 20 lvls before that's feasible? I dunno.
I think Blizzard could save WoW if they added a more social component, or allowed me to invest my own creativity into the game--like building novel buildings or goods. With a building, which I could customize and decorate, it becomes a home-away-from home, and I would be interested in using the environment to socialize with my friends. But if I can't make my imprimatur on the world, it feels like I'm inhabiting someone else's space, and I'm really just a guest, not an inhabitant.
While I think building could save WoW, I don't see how they could allow 1.6Million personal residences. Certainly they would require high lvl and/or high expense, but even so--where would those places go? And it would have to require a huge amount of development work to make it happen. The speed at which Battlegrounds has come out, which is not really fundamentally that big of a change, makes me really wonder if Blizz could ever add personal building to the world. Probably not.
Without building, or something really radical being done, I personally can see myself doing this for another 6 months--3 characters to lvl 30 or 40. And I started late; the folks that started at release are almost there now. If they feel the same as I described, the author of TFA is going to be proved right in the next 60 days. And there will no longer be trouble getting logged on, that's for sure.
Welcome to April 1 on Slashdot, when productivity in IT departments around the country shoots up 500%.
- How long will it take to download? Maybe it's a smaller file size, as it's target is a smaller screen. But...
- Who wants to watch a movie on a 3" screen? Can you hook PSPs to a TV?
- How much will it cost?
- Does the PSP even have media that the download will write too? Or will you be expected to dl to a computer, buy a media burner just for the PSP optical media, and then watch it on that?
Naturally, I didn't RTFA. Maybe Sony thinks folks will spend $20 to buy mini-optical media versions of their movies that only work in the PSP. If that's it, they'll have another think coming.Since losing a credit card number in an online purchase to a dbase hacker, I now use MBNA for all of my online shopping. It gives me a new credit card number everytime I use it, for which I can set an arbitrary $ amount before that number is consumed and also any expiration date for out to a year.
I generate new numbers using my browser, and even Safari works on OS X. I rest easy knowing that the particular number is set at just over the amount of my purchase, so even if the cc number was compromised it would have no more value attached.
Now, circumlocution and saying something that is technically true but sounds, to someone who's not listening carefully, like I'm saying something else entirely
Try "Did I print it from the web? No." Technically true, but most people that equate the internet as being the web won't see that other services also can run over it, like FTP or iDisk or whatever you're using.
But I think your real problem is:
I'd rather educate the ignorant masses so that maybe next time they won't bother me or someone trying to do what I'm doing
beware: a lot of folks don't like being educated. Particularly when they are in the nominal position of authority. So you might be wise to chose your battles.
Of course, when he asks "did you get this off the internet", instead of trying to explain to the unwashed, you could just answer "no." Problem solved.
That's funny, because the first title I searched for was "necronomicon". What does that say about our respective interests, do you think?
I, for one, would surf porn at work if the filters allowed. That is the depth of my addiction
Seriously, while we do have filters where I work, I can say that I have only ever hit it when I was directed to go to someplace that I shouldn't really be; in the 2 years that I've been here, I had trouble with a legitimate site only once. Maybe your filters are just too damn tight by default? Has anyone done an analysis of the sites that need exceptions--perhaps there's a trend and one could extrapolate to other sites that haven't yet been asked for, but nevertheless would be legit.
To follow you off topic, I think This American Life's take on the matter is amazing (I think that's the right episode.)
Long 'n short--pimp tests a prospective 'ho recruit by saying "buy me a drink." Not all of them comply, but many do. The ones that do are of an emotional state that they are are liable to being turned out. Fascinating.
The object here, I think, is to promote PPC as a primary platform for Linux development
And to illustrate the advantages of the PPC arch, maybe including AltiVec, through optimization. While you can develop anything for the PPC, I would guess the winning entries would make good use of the benefits of the PPC arch vs. the Intel/AMD archs.
Some things do better on PPC, some things don't, and IBM is likely looking for good examples of the former.
I bet those prize machines have osx on them though..
Yeah, they probably do. But so what? It's not like PPC Linux is hard to get. And ydl lists the applications that come with their OS, so you can look for Java 1.5, or whatever else your heart desires, there.
But your point remains: it's pretty ironic. I believe it underscores the Apple-IBM relationship, and IBM's interest in moving away from the WinTel desktop computing space.
Though I don't pretend to understand what Apple thinks they are gaining by holding back things like full specs on the airport extreme card in my notebook
They probably aren't allowed to do so by their agreement with Broadcom, the chip's manufacturer. I think you'll find that Broadcom hasn't released open information on any of their products, so their refusal to allow Apple to do so is in keeping with that position.
So the question becomes: why doesn't Broadcom release info to allow Linux users to use their gear? Who knows. Or, why does Apple choose a manufacturer that refuses to play with OSS? That's probably due to a) historical reasons--the stuff is working now, so it's have to be re-engineered using a different source, and b) there's not enough interest for Linux-on-Apple to warrant the change.
But the bottomline is that if Broadcom released their info, Apple would be more likely to follow their lead.
Irony: 2A Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
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One might expect that the Times would take it's own advice, however what actually occurred is that the Times instead requires registration.
I wonder how much of this action in AU is related to JP suicide clubs?
"In Japan, the internet has been blamed for a spate of group suicides which appear to have been arranged in online chat rooms."
It appears that often the people facilitating these suicides are in fact sadists, who have no intention themselves of carrying through a suicide, but instead derive perverse pleasure from being instrumental in the death of another. If a similar phenomenon exists in AU, it would give the authorities an opportunity to intervene--and based on the text of TFA, this appears closer to their intent.
It has been my experience that when somone suggest they are going to commit suicide, that trying to help them do it, snaps them right out of it.
You'll miscalculate, once. And then live with the fact that you facilitated a suicide for the rest of your life.
How about, instead of playing pop psychologist, you steer these individuals towards professional help, rather than play games with their mental health?
Seriously? If you fail in a suicide attempt, by making it illegal the state has the authority to restrain you against your will, which usually means that they can forcibly prevent you from attempting suicide again until some kind of treatment is located and applied.
Otherwise, they would have to release you as soon as you're bandaged, and you could try again hours later. The authorities would have no opportunity to prevent you from attempting it again.
Also, to deny life insurance benefits.
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Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smell awful;
You might as well live.
--Dorothy Parker, 1926.