... through hacking/viruses/spyware/etc - it's all the same - there's only one secure solution. Wipe and start over. A compromized machine can never be clean again, no matter what cleanup tools you run.
Someone was telling me once that IBM's virus cleanup policy a few years ago was reimage. No backup of your machine, just an image. Would you want the risk of something hanging around and leaking sensitive corporate data?
The obvious solution though is to run untrusted apps (Web/mail) in a jail, where they can't touch the rest of the system. Or at least un-integrate them from the OS!
Rogers and Shaw had monopolies before (my cable service is from Rogers no matter what) - Rogers basically controlled Toronto after buying Maclean Hunter (now Rogers Media/Rogers Etobicoke), and the old Graham Cable which was bought by Shaw (and is now the headend for Etobicoke). They swapped to get larger monopolies in Ontario/BC, since they can now set a price for a large chunk of the market.
IIRC, Bell and Telus had non-compete agreements in place (Like Rogers and Shaw, both are the phone monopoly in East-Central/Western Canada). Once Telus bought clearnet, things went out the window.
How long before FIdo is rolled into Rogers wireless? Rogers clients can roam on Fido, Fido clients have the option of Rogers coverage. (both are GSM)
I'm waiting for Bell to buy Shaw. Both Rogers and Bell seem to respond to each other (I'm sure buying Skydome was a response to the Bell center, both bought sports teams, tv stations, one changes internet limits, the other responds, etc). Rogers has wanted to get into phone service for years (VOIP will make it possible). Although Bell has expressvu and TV stations, Shaw has cable and radio stations (Corus, to match Rogers Broadcasting).
Sounds about right. The early Stylewriters are Canons (and take the same BC-20/BC-02). Later ones were HP Deskjets (600 series, IIRC) with a Mac serial port.
Some LaserWriters used Canon engines. Not sure which were which though. I had a cross reference table at one point.
ColorSync monitors were Sony Trinitron tubes. The iMacs and last CRT Studio Displays were LG Diamondtrons (these ones had the HD15 VGA connector rather than the DB15 and match the B&W G3/G4's). Not sure what the low-end monitors used (I have an old Multiscan 14" as my server/loaner monitor. I know it's not a Trin.)
I find the popup email notifications have helped. Before, I wouldn't know if something was important or not, so I would always click on my mail as soon as I received something. If it wasn't important, I would lose track of what I was doing.
After I installed Growl and setup the proper rules, I get a popup displaying the sender and subject. I can instantly tell if I need to stop what I'm doing, wait until I finish my current task, or save it for when I'm not busy. The same rule plays the alert sound (which prevents the machine from notifiying me when I get spam. )
Now, if I could just get the perl notifier script running, I can have a bunch more things popup as they need to, rather than me checking manually.
On older powerbooks, you needed to sleep in order to recognize an external VGA monitor. It's no longer an issue most of the time, but still required if you use the video out.
My guess is that the video chip gets a signal when the vga input has something at the other end, but not the svideo port.
One of the first digital cameras out there was the Quicktake, but its fate was similar to the Newton (Apple's out there early but didn't stick with it)
Apple no longer has much of an interest in hardware. At one point they made (rebranded) dot matrix/inkjet/laser printers, scanners, a complete line of monitors (everything from a consumer 14" to a massive ColorSync 21"). Look hard enough and you'll still see toner for LaserWriters. Around the time Steve returned, they decided to just let others take on that market. Apple wouldn't make a printer, but would be happy to recommend an HP. I believe the quote was something like "We want to concentrate on making great products". Apple had gone though years of making so many products without any kind of direction that Steve had a hard time figuring it out!
That seems to be the strategy on the other side though. HP's only direction these days is down. Dell will find a way to make anything. They'll hack up a $50 inkjet and rebrand it. Even Macs, funny enough (as I understand it, they have exclusive purchasing agreements with companies/schools, so if they want a Mac dell has to provide it).
XP SP2's corp update is something like 200 mb. That's large, even by windows standards (SP1 was half of that).
I always have the updates on CD (I have clients stuck on dialup), but at that size, there's no way I can cram it on my updates disc. Either I burn a separate cd just for SP2, or erase all the other updates on the cd already.
(if anyone asks, I try to keep everything on a single cd for convenience. It's currently UBCD, a bunch of windows utilities, and updates)
Landlines here used to be heavily tied to location. Move out of one exchange's service area and you needed a new number. Then we started seeing numbers show up from adjacent exchanges. Not sure if they merged so that one physical exchange now has a wider area or if they are internally routing, or if they've even split the exchange (don't ask how they would route that!)
Now it seems as though you can get a number from just about anywhere. They're mostly business lines, so I suspect that they just kept the main line and are call-forwarding it to a pool of local numbers.
Xcode now lets you create a standard GUI with the regular tools (InterfaceBuilder). You would never know it's an Applescript unless you're looking around in the compiled package. I put together a quick app for a client to script InDesign and you would never know it was Applescript.
Applescript is about the closest I've seen to ARexx on the Amiga., and that language could do anything. Just about every app shipped had some sort of arexx functionality. The parse command was the easiest way I've ever seen to separate out a string. I remember hearing people who would have a single script dial in to CompuServe, navigate to stock quotes, grab and parse teh info, paste it in a spread sheet, build a chart, export the chart into another app, etc. I could use one app as a front end and use arexx to hit any number of back ends.
One of the Amiga releases did this (wow... that's going back). I can remember buying a system update and needing to go through the manual inserting/removing pages.
It might have been workbench 2.0, although 2.1 shipped as a boxed set of 4 bound manuals. My first machine ran 1.3, but with either stickers or a smaller update book listing the sections to ignore in the 1.2 book.
Back in OS 8/9, I had a setup script for new machines fresh from Apple (it didn't make sense to image my machines). Among other things, it would go around trashing extensions/leftovers/AOL, disable printers Apple hadn't shipped in years, rename the workstation, copy a bunch of default prefs, setup file sharing including owner name/pass etc.
I always used the "move to trash" command rather than a complete delete in case it blew up, but there was nothing stopping me. If I ran something like "select folder "System Folder" of startup disk; move selection to trash; empty trash" the computer was happy to do it.
Some of the Dictionaries have been really complicated. Really un-Apple of Apple. But, in many cases you can hit the Record button, and it will build the script as you perform the actions.
A dealership I worked in was stuck with a number of useless controllers. They discovered the hard way that not only did the module require the VIN number to be programmed, it could only be coded once. Swapping parts until the problem goes away is no longer an option.
GM's now use a high speed serial bus between controllers now, instead of individual control wires. Good luck figuring that out.
It was a reverse takeover (Apple buys NeXT. In reality, NeXT assumes control)
The new company (which could easily have been Apple-NeXT) has more in common with NeXT than it does with the old Apple. MacOS X (NEXTSTEP 5), WebObjects, Steve & the rest of management, Cubes (anyone else think NeXTcube when it came out?), lack of floppy drives (another NeXTism)
How much Apple stuff remains? Some of the identity, 1 Infinite Loop, and some hardware. Apple's long time font (Apple Garamond) has been replaced. Filemaker is all that's left of Claris (IIRC, they tried but failed to sell it). AppleWorks is about the only carbonized app left and it's on the way out (iTunes and Remote Desktop both existed in 9, but have been rewritten. Everything else is post-X)
MS always seems to refer to the product as Microsoft Windows (TM) or Microsoft Office (TM), rather than as Windows or Office.
The current products de-emphasize the microsoft part though. (look at a Windows splash screen - it hasn't said "Microsoft Windows" since 3.1. Now it's "microsoft WINDOWS".
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... through hacking/viruses/spyware/etc - it's all the same - there's only one secure solution. Wipe and start over. A compromized machine can never be clean again, no matter what cleanup tools you run.
Someone was telling me once that IBM's virus cleanup policy a few years ago was reimage. No backup of your machine, just an image. Would you want the risk of something hanging around and leaking sensitive corporate data?
The obvious solution though is to run untrusted apps (Web/mail) in a jail, where they can't touch the rest of the system. Or at least un-integrate them from the OS!
Shouldn't that be something like
Roses are #FF0000?
(stolen from ThinkGeek...)
Rogers and Shaw had monopolies before (my cable service is from Rogers no matter what) - Rogers basically controlled Toronto after buying Maclean Hunter (now Rogers Media/Rogers Etobicoke), and the old Graham Cable which was bought by Shaw (and is now the headend for Etobicoke). They swapped to get larger monopolies in Ontario/BC, since they can now set a price for a large chunk of the market.
IIRC, Bell and Telus had non-compete agreements in place (Like Rogers and Shaw, both are the phone monopoly in East-Central/Western Canada). Once Telus bought clearnet, things went out the window.
How long before FIdo is rolled into Rogers wireless? Rogers clients can roam on Fido, Fido clients have the option of Rogers coverage. (both are GSM)
I'm waiting for Bell to buy Shaw. Both Rogers and Bell seem to respond to each other (I'm sure buying Skydome was a response to the Bell center, both bought sports teams, tv stations, one changes internet limits, the other responds, etc). Rogers has wanted to get into phone service for years (VOIP will make it possible). Although Bell has expressvu and TV stations, Shaw has cable and radio stations (Corus, to match Rogers Broadcasting).
Maybe I'm missing something, but what about redirecting HTTP through a filtering proxy? Something matches a signature and it's blocked.
The trick is keeping the signatures up to date. I'm not sure I want my firewall auto updating.
Sounds about right. The early Stylewriters are Canons (and take the same BC-20/BC-02). Later ones were HP Deskjets (600 series, IIRC) with a Mac serial port.
Some LaserWriters used Canon engines. Not sure which were which though. I had a cross reference table at one point.
ColorSync monitors were Sony Trinitron tubes. The iMacs and last CRT Studio Displays were LG Diamondtrons (these ones had the HD15 VGA connector rather than the DB15 and match the B&W G3/G4's). Not sure what the low-end monitors used (I have an old Multiscan 14" as my server/loaner monitor. I know it's not a Trin.)
Depends what it is. I once got spammed by yellovvpages.com (vv, not a w). Forwarded to yellowpages.com, and they asked for additional info.
:-)
I could have reported the spam, but I figure they have lawyers who would want to "introduce" themselves
I find the popup email notifications have helped. Before, I wouldn't know if something was important or not, so I would always click on my mail as soon as I received something. If it wasn't important, I would lose track of what I was doing.
After I installed Growl and setup the proper rules, I get a popup displaying the sender and subject. I can instantly tell if I need to stop what I'm doing, wait until I finish my current task, or save it for when I'm not busy. The same rule plays the alert sound (which prevents the machine from notifiying me when I get spam. )
Now, if I could just get the perl notifier script running, I can have a bunch more things popup as they need to, rather than me checking manually.
On older powerbooks, you needed to sleep in order to recognize an external VGA monitor. It's no longer an issue most of the time, but still required if you use the video out.
My guess is that the video chip gets a signal when the vga input has something at the other end, but not the svideo port.
One of the first digital cameras out there was the Quicktake, but its fate was similar to the Newton (Apple's out there early but didn't stick with it)
Apple no longer has much of an interest in hardware. At one point they made (rebranded) dot matrix/inkjet/laser printers, scanners, a complete line of monitors (everything from a consumer 14" to a massive ColorSync 21"). Look hard enough and you'll still see toner for LaserWriters. Around the time Steve returned, they decided to just let others take on that market. Apple wouldn't make a printer, but would be happy to recommend an HP. I believe the quote was something like "We want to concentrate on making great products". Apple had gone though years of making so many products without any kind of direction that Steve had a hard time figuring it out!
That seems to be the strategy on the other side though. HP's only direction these days is down. Dell will find a way to make anything. They'll hack up a $50 inkjet and rebrand it. Even Macs, funny enough (as I understand it, they have exclusive purchasing agreements with companies/schools, so if they want a Mac dell has to provide it).
XP SP2's corp update is something like 200 mb.
That's large, even by windows standards (SP1 was half of that).
I always have the updates on CD (I have clients stuck on dialup), but at that size, there's no way I can cram it on my updates disc. Either I burn a separate cd just for SP2, or erase all the other updates on the cd already.
(if anyone asks, I try to keep everything on a single cd for convenience. It's currently UBCD, a bunch of windows utilities, and updates)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't SOI (Silicon On Insulator) IBM's technology?
Reminds me of a dilbert...
"My computer was so old we needed to use 1's and 0's".
"That's nothing. I had to use magnets, and we didn't even have 0's"
Landlines here used to be heavily tied to location. Move out of one exchange's service area and you needed a new number. Then we started seeing numbers show up from adjacent exchanges. Not sure if they merged so that one physical exchange now has a wider area or if they are internally routing, or if they've even split the exchange (don't ask how they would route that!)
Now it seems as though you can get a number from just about anywhere. They're mostly business lines, so I suspect that they just kept the main line and are call-forwarding it to a pool of local numbers.
Xcode now lets you create a standard GUI with the regular tools (InterfaceBuilder). You would never know it's an Applescript unless you're looking around in the compiled package. I put together a quick app for a client to script InDesign and you would never know it was Applescript.
Applescript is about the closest I've seen to ARexx on the Amiga., and that language could do anything. Just about every app shipped had some sort of arexx functionality. The parse command was the easiest way I've ever seen to separate out a string. I remember hearing people who would have a single script dial in to CompuServe, navigate to stock quotes, grab and parse teh info, paste it in a spread sheet, build a chart, export the chart into another app, etc. I could use one app as a front end and use arexx to hit any number of back ends.
One of the Amiga releases did this (wow... that's going back). I can remember buying a system update and needing to go through the manual inserting/removing pages.
It might have been workbench 2.0, although 2.1 shipped as a boxed set of 4 bound manuals. My first machine ran 1.3, but with either stickers or a smaller update book listing the sections to ignore in the 1.2 book.
Back in OS 8/9, I had a setup script for new machines fresh from Apple (it didn't make sense to image my machines). Among other things, it would go around trashing extensions/leftovers/AOL, disable printers Apple hadn't shipped in years, rename the workstation, copy a bunch of default prefs, setup file sharing including owner name/pass etc.
I always used the "move to trash" command rather than a complete delete in case it blew up, but there was nothing stopping me. If I ran something like "select folder "System Folder" of startup disk; move selection to trash; empty trash" the computer was happy to do it.
Some of the Dictionaries have been really complicated. Really un-Apple of Apple. But, in many cases you can hit the Record button, and it will build the script as you perform the actions.
Many cars now have "Tighten until you hear X number of clicks" printed somewhere on the cap for exactly this reason.
Not just the rights, but the $1000+ scan tools.
A dealership I worked in was stuck with a number of useless controllers. They discovered the hard way that not only did the module require the VIN number to be programmed, it could only be coded once. Swapping parts until the problem goes away is no longer an option.
GM's now use a high speed serial bus between controllers now, instead of individual control wires. Good luck figuring that out.
A recent story...
A BMW owner was told by the dealership: "We can't fix your car. It's a software error by the company who made that component."
Does that mean you can left-left-gas-brake-radio on to upgrade ?
(reminded about the USR sportsters and couriers differing only by an init code, among others)
Another variation includes a manager. When the car fails, the manager says:
"I know! We'll hold a meeting, determine goals and formulate a mission statement!"
Oops. Forgot a few apps (Final Cut & iMovie).
A number of other apps have been bought from others.
It was a reverse takeover (Apple buys NeXT. In reality, NeXT assumes control)
The new company (which could easily have been Apple-NeXT) has more in common with NeXT than it does with the old Apple.
MacOS X (NEXTSTEP 5), WebObjects, Steve & the rest of management, Cubes (anyone else think NeXTcube when it came out?), lack of floppy drives (another NeXTism)
How much Apple stuff remains? Some of the identity, 1 Infinite Loop, and some hardware. Apple's long time font (Apple Garamond) has been replaced. Filemaker is all that's left of Claris (IIRC, they tried but failed to sell it). AppleWorks is about the only carbonized app left and it's on the way out (iTunes and Remote Desktop both existed in 9, but have been rewritten. Everything else is post-X)
MS always seems to refer to the product as Microsoft Windows (TM) or Microsoft Office (TM), rather than as Windows or Office.
The current products de-emphasize the microsoft part though. (look at a Windows splash screen - it hasn't said "Microsoft Windows" since 3.1. Now it's "microsoft WINDOWS".