1) re-education doesn't work. No one likes having perceived priveliges removed, rightfully or not. No one likes being fed pablum to explain why it's wrong (Disney and FreeJackster.)
If something doesn't seem wrong to a majority and the harm isn't directly observable, then it's not going to be curbed by re-education.
Also, we need to make a distinction between Piracy and Copyright Infringement. They aren't the same. Where copyright infringement is being claimed, copyright law needs to be reformed to match the people's behavior, within balance, not to curb it.
2) maturity does work, to an extent. The 27 year old quoted at the end felt he'd outgrown warez. Of course, the 45-year old who was pissed he couldn't download oldies mp3s counters that example.
I already have a hard time convincing other people of the distinction between hacker and cracker.
to them: hacker is a criminal, cracker is a southern, white, klansman-criminal.
I give up, and try and express that every computer hacker is not a criminal, they are all computer science researchers, doing sometimes unpopular work.
Now you want to change the terms for measuring storage? The normal aim for changing terms is to clarify the matter, but this is just obfuscation for 99% of the people in the world, who already suffer at understanding the difference between 1024 and 1000. Please, do not do this.
Preface: I love AbiWord, and use it on Win and Linux.
XDarwin is a pain to set up, and a pain to set up rootless. It needs to be a simple installer, install to ONE and only one directory, so I can trash it easily, and work reliably. Updating it also needs to be easy.
AbiWord is great, but I wish it could use the Quartz/Aqua part of OS X that is native to OS X. The less things that require clunky old X-Windows, the better.
I'm a big advocate of AbiWord, installing it on every platform I use. I used to it write my M.A. thesis. On OS X, it's just too hard for 99% of users to get X-Windows properly up and running, and for what? A light Word Processor? Come ON!!
Shoot, when newbies in Win do this, I have to say,
reboot, hold down F8, select safe mode, boot up, ignore the warning about being in safe more, control panel, display properties, reset the resolution to a lower setting on the slider control, now go to the monitor, and make sure it's set for your display...
They can't believe that Win would let them set a resolution that it can't boot to.
This is a documented problem at Apple's Knowledge Base.
It's analogous to problems PC BIOS had with larger hard drives, and only occurs on older G3 and iMac machines that came equipped with IDE on board. It's also similar to LILO having to be within the first 1024 of a drive..
Apple also told you incorrectly- the system folder has to be in a partition within the first 8gb of a drive. So I make a 4gb for OS 9, a 4gb for os X, and a huge partition for data (slice it how you like it) and it works beautifully. It's all a matter of getting the system folder anywhere within that first 8gb.
This is not a big deal.
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Thanks for replying.
I used OS/2 up until a year ago when I began exploring Linux, BeOS and OS X options.
Most of the WebSphere stuff is java based with very little native code in any case, so the applications are portable.
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Just cause I'm curious,
Did you work on OS/2 development? I've seen your other posts and know that you're among the last outposts of people placing their faith in OS/2.
bootable OpenBSD cd that has the normal desktop OS packages on it, so that I can boot into an X session from the CD.
It will use tmp space on the hard drive or RAM for working within (emails, documents, etc.) and save to floppies or CDR if I must.
If I get magic lanterned during a session, all I have to do is reboot (dumping RAM and tmp space) and keep going.
So, while not perfect, it will keep me from being keylogged for long, even if security through obscurity (openBSD) fails me.
Now, if Plan9 or Atheos were me choice, and able to do this, I'd be pretty well obscured from magic lantern. I wonder how good OpenStep would be at this?
Making car parts is a skill, as is hacking on a kernel.
How do you think replica cars are made? how do you think hot rods are made? When some parts go out of production, people with the right tools and skills produce their own. Same as in kernels.
People stamp sheetmetal, lay up fibreglass molds, weld together tube frames, machine billet aluminum all the time. Shoot, not many people cast their own engine block anymore, but that's how it used to be done. These days, unless you're replicating a whole version of a cracked block for a restoration project, you just source a block from the same year of production- unless it's a really rare model, in which case, you cast your own.
Except when you have a foolish legal construct that prevents you from tampering with the engine (some countries,) or applying or removing certain parts to increase performance.
Some countries legislate the tyre size as well- you may not substitute a different tyre size than that of original equipment. Some countries won't allow you to work on your own brakes or suspension.
Not so remote from Linux, if the US SSSCA law had been introduced and passed.
Otherwise, very remote. You cannot legally go mucking about with your engine at will. You can legally go mucking about with your kernel to your heart's delight.
So, I did what any person does-
I went and searched on my name and now defunct emails to see how far back I go, how complete their records are, and what an idiot I was when I posted newbie questions on Caldera OpenLinux 2, apparently after having given up on RH 3x.
At least I learned my lesson. There also appear to be a few stray posts I made about BeOS, and trying to sell an old BMW.
If this is all I have to worry about staying on the internet forever, I think I'll be okay.
The IBM Microdrive is a CF II card form factor. The 340mb ones are available pretty cheaply. Buy one and let us know if it works. The 1gb ones are more expensive.
I would argue that picking a Dell over an IBM machine is picking cut-rate trash, but then, that's a judgement based on my experiences with both over the years and in recent months.
Leaving that aside, a 1.6hz is more equivalent to the G4, and the spec numbers show it. Spec numbers were mentioned elsewhere in the comments on this article-
Even if spec numbers don't satisfy the argument, more important are the tasks you use the computer for. For example, Cleaner5, which I use for compressing DV into something that can be streamed neatly. A p4 1.4ghz side by side compared to the g4 takes literally 5 times as long to complete compressing the video.
It's not just about Photoshop and as others have said, just one Photoshop filter- there are many benefits that simply depend on what applications you'll use it for.
Getting away from graphics and video related applications, look at server applications for a moment. Stronger server: p4 or IBM RS/6000 ?
My bet is, RS/6000. The RS/6000 is running AIX, and uses a consumer grade chip (used to use 604e PPC. Now, uses PPC750, also known as G3.) The G4 running Darwin or OS X has good reason to be effective as a reliable and robust server- it could be considered for the purposes of this post as a cut-rate RS/6000.
I wish you had defined the word "equivalent" in the sentence where you claim Apple charges twice as much for the G4 as for an equivalent Wintel computer.
Did you read the article where Eric S. Raymond assembled the best Linux box and the hardware cost upwards of $8000 US ?
While I don't think a G4 in it's current form is worth $8 large, I don't think there's anything wrong with them charging the $1700 for the low end G4. It's the same price you'd pay for what I consider _equivalent_ Wintel hardware (not the cut-rate trash most places carry.)
So yes, please clarify qualitative terms when you're writing a post. It makes your points much easier to understand and agree or disagree with.
Depending on the requirements of that Windows-only software you have- Consider Connectix VirtualPC for Mac OS/Mac OS X.
You can get the Titanium, use it in Mac OS/OS X for almost all tasks, and for those one or two pieces of software, launch VPC and Windows ( or VPC and Linux for x86, or OS/2, or....)
Go and get your hands on a Titanium. Nothing Dell brings out is going to be as nice an implementation of the same concept.
While I love and still run Warp 4, the system of network booting that just works, as you described it, is fulfilled by NetBoot on MacOS X Server.
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You did know-
That's a stock heatsink modified to make contact with the two G4's instead of the single one that was stock.
So he's not doing anything other than going with Apple's design decision. It could probably run with a cooler heatsink, but since it's not aided by a fan, and you want it to work in rooms that don't have air-conditioning (thinking of consumers who buy computers and then use them in stuffy offices) there's probably some tolerance designed in so that it doesn't overheat.
ZIFs, and the timeline of Apple DP machines
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Apple stopped using ZIF a few years ago.
In the tower machines, pre-cube, it went like this:
G3 Yosemite - zif G3 processor, Blue and White minitower.
G4 Yikes! - Zif G4 processor, Graphite and clear, PCI graphics.
G4 Sawtooth - no zif, Apple used a large D shaped white connector and used screws to stabilise the board that carries the processor. AGP graphics.
G4 Mystic - same processor interface as Sawtooth, first of the DP series, with 450DP and 500DP. Also known as Gigabit ethernet.
G4 V'Ger - 466, 533DP, 667, 733. Same as gigabit ethernet, with 133mhz system bus.
G4 - Quicksilver - 733, 800DP, 867. Same as gigabit ethernet model with 133mhz system bus.
G4's from Mystic or newer won't work on Yikes!.
G4's from V-Ger and newer won't work on Mystic (133mhz bus versus the 100mhz bus...other differences..)
XLr8.com sells a dual G4 upgrade card, but it only works on Yikes! and Yosemite (ZIF).
I wish I had better details on where the modifier of the Cube got the extra processor card from a Mystic, and how he added the extra pad to match the dual processors. Was it just held in place with thermal goo and pressure from the retention of the heatsink?
Sure, you could write a scientific paper on how to crack CSS. But, you'd have to provide source, you'd have to not sell or distribute it for profit, you'd have to be in good standing, with a professor working in security and computers...
Remember, the article states that the qualities that made Felten a goody-two-shoes were what saved him. Put yourself in the same standing, and you might have a chance, for a few more years.
Sure, but if that's your approach to preventing virii, how do I know I can trust you to not pass on a virus?
I end up relying not only on you, but on the people you claim to be trusted.
This is remarkably similar to trusting physically promiscuous people to not carry something transmittable to me.
I approve of the steps you take, but how can I be sure all the people you trust take those steps as well?
my understanding of this transition is:
in the past, they've trained people on UNIX, only to have them finish three years and get high paying gigs in private industry- they're tired of investing time and money in training only to have the soldier leave, so they are moving to NT/2k where admins are a dime a dozen.
God help them, and god help us when it goes down..
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I can't have been the only one to think of Flux Capacitor, can I?
I have two thoughts on the matter:
1) re-education doesn't work. No one likes having perceived priveliges removed, rightfully or not. No one likes being fed pablum to explain why it's wrong (Disney and FreeJackster.)
If something doesn't seem wrong to a majority and the harm isn't directly observable, then it's not going to be curbed by re-education.
Also, we need to make a distinction between Piracy and Copyright Infringement. They aren't the same. Where copyright infringement is being claimed, copyright law needs to be reformed to match the people's behavior, within balance, not to curb it.
2) maturity does work, to an extent. The 27 year old quoted at the end felt he'd outgrown warez. Of course, the 45-year old who was pissed he couldn't download oldies mp3s counters that example.
Let's see here;
I already have a hard time convincing other people of the distinction between hacker and cracker.
to them: hacker is a criminal, cracker is a southern, white, klansman-criminal.
I give up, and try and express that every computer hacker is not a criminal, they are all computer science researchers, doing sometimes unpopular work.
Now you want to change the terms for measuring storage? The normal aim for changing terms is to clarify the matter, but this is just obfuscation for 99% of the people in the world, who already suffer at understanding the difference between 1024 and 1000. Please, do not do this.
Here's why-
Preface: I love AbiWord, and use it on Win and Linux.
XDarwin is a pain to set up, and a pain to set up rootless. It needs to be a simple installer, install to ONE and only one directory, so I can trash it easily, and work reliably. Updating it also needs to be easy.
AbiWord is great, but I wish it could use the Quartz/Aqua part of OS X that is native to OS X. The less things that require clunky old X-Windows, the better.
I'm a big advocate of AbiWord, installing it on every platform I use. I used to it write my M.A. thesis. On OS X, it's just too hard for 99% of users to get X-Windows properly up and running, and for what? A light Word Processor? Come ON!!
Get it to work with Quartz, you'll have a winner.
Shoot, when newbies in Win do this, I have to say,
reboot, hold down F8, select safe mode, boot up, ignore the warning about being in safe more, control panel, display properties, reset the resolution to a lower setting on the slider control, now go to the monitor, and make sure it's set for your display...
They can't believe that Win would let them set a resolution that it can't boot to.
Confronted with xf86config, they'd choke!
This is a documented problem at Apple's Knowledge Base.
It's analogous to problems PC BIOS had with larger hard drives, and only occurs on older G3 and iMac machines that came equipped with IDE on board. It's also similar to LILO having to be within the first 1024 of a drive..
Apple also told you incorrectly- the system folder has to be in a partition within the first 8gb of a drive. So I make a 4gb for OS 9, a 4gb for os X, and a huge partition for data (slice it how you like it) and it works beautifully. It's all a matter of getting the system folder anywhere within that first 8gb.
This is not a big deal.
Thanks for replying.
I used OS/2 up until a year ago when I began exploring Linux, BeOS and OS X options.
Most of the WebSphere stuff is java based with very little native code in any case, so the applications are portable.
Just cause I'm curious,
Did you work on OS/2 development? I've seen your other posts and know that you're among the last outposts of people placing their faith in OS/2.
Here's my thought:
bootable OpenBSD cd that has the normal desktop OS packages on it, so that I can boot into an X session from the CD.
It will use tmp space on the hard drive or RAM for working within (emails, documents, etc.) and save to floppies or CDR if I must.
If I get magic lanterned during a session, all I have to do is reboot (dumping RAM and tmp space) and keep going.
So, while not perfect, it will keep me from being keylogged for long, even if security through obscurity (openBSD) fails me.
Now, if Plan9 or Atheos were me choice, and able to do this, I'd be pretty well obscured from magic lantern. I wonder how good OpenStep would be at this?
If you install OS X yourself from the CD, you get the option of installing the gnu tools.
I imagine Apple just pre-installs without for most regular users' convenience.
Making car parts is a skill, as is hacking on a kernel.
How do you think replica cars are made? how do you think hot rods are made? When some parts go out of production, people with the right tools and skills produce their own. Same as in kernels.
People stamp sheetmetal, lay up fibreglass molds, weld together tube frames, machine billet aluminum all the time. Shoot, not many people cast their own engine block anymore, but that's how it used to be done. These days, unless you're replicating a whole version of a cracked block for a restoration project, you just source a block from the same year of production- unless it's a really rare model, in which case, you cast your own.
Except when you have a foolish legal construct that prevents you from tampering with the engine (some countries,) or applying or removing certain parts to increase performance.
Some countries legislate the tyre size as well- you may not substitute a different tyre size than that of original equipment. Some countries won't allow you to work on your own brakes or suspension.
Not so remote from Linux, if the US SSSCA law had been introduced and passed.
Otherwise, very remote. You cannot legally go mucking about with your engine at will. You can legally go mucking about with your kernel to your heart's delight.
So, I did what any person does-
I went and searched on my name and now defunct emails to see how far back I go, how complete their records are, and what an idiot I was when I posted newbie questions on Caldera OpenLinux 2, apparently after having given up on RH 3x.
At least I learned my lesson. There also appear to be a few stray posts I made about BeOS, and trying to sell an old BMW.
If this is all I have to worry about staying on the internet forever, I think I'll be okay.
The IBM Microdrive is a CF II card form factor. The 340mb ones are available pretty cheaply. Buy one and let us know if it works. The 1gb ones are more expensive.
Thanks for answering seriously.
I would argue that picking a Dell over an IBM machine is picking cut-rate trash, but then, that's a judgement based on my experiences with both over the years and in recent months.
Leaving that aside, a 1.6hz is more equivalent to the G4, and the spec numbers show it. Spec numbers were mentioned elsewhere in the comments on this article-
Even if spec numbers don't satisfy the argument, more important are the tasks you use the computer for. For example, Cleaner5, which I use for compressing DV into something that can be streamed neatly. A p4 1.4ghz side by side compared to the g4 takes literally 5 times as long to complete compressing the video.
It's not just about Photoshop and as others have said, just one Photoshop filter- there are many benefits that simply depend on what applications you'll use it for.
Getting away from graphics and video related applications, look at server applications for a moment. Stronger server: p4 or IBM RS/6000 ?
My bet is, RS/6000. The RS/6000 is running AIX, and uses a consumer grade chip (used to use 604e PPC. Now, uses PPC750, also known as G3.) The G4 running Darwin or OS X has good reason to be effective as a reliable and robust server- it could be considered for the purposes of this post as a cut-rate RS/6000.
I wish you had defined the word "equivalent" in the sentence where you claim Apple charges twice as much for the G4 as for an equivalent Wintel computer.
Did you read the article where Eric S. Raymond assembled the best Linux box and the hardware cost upwards of $8000 US ?
While I don't think a G4 in it's current form is worth $8 large, I don't think there's anything wrong with them charging the $1700 for the low end G4. It's the same price you'd pay for what I consider _equivalent_ Wintel hardware (not the cut-rate trash most places carry.)
So yes, please clarify qualitative terms when you're writing a post. It makes your points much easier to understand and agree or disagree with.
two words- IBM Thinkpad.
IBM is in the black quite nicely, thank you.
Depending on the requirements of that Windows-only software you have- Consider Connectix VirtualPC for Mac OS/Mac OS X.
You can get the Titanium, use it in Mac OS/OS X for almost all tasks, and for those one or two pieces of software, launch VPC and Windows ( or VPC and Linux for x86, or OS/2, or....)
Go and get your hands on a Titanium. Nothing Dell brings out is going to be as nice an implementation of the same concept.
While I love and still run Warp 4, the system of network booting that just works, as you described it, is fulfilled by NetBoot on MacOS X Server.
You did know-
That's a stock heatsink modified to make contact with the two G4's instead of the single one that was stock.
So he's not doing anything other than going with Apple's design decision. It could probably run with a cooler heatsink, but since it's not aided by a fan, and you want it to work in rooms that don't have air-conditioning (thinking of consumers who buy computers and then use them in stuffy offices) there's probably some tolerance designed in so that it doesn't overheat.
Apple stopped using ZIF a few years ago.
In the tower machines, pre-cube, it went like this:
G3 Yosemite - zif G3 processor, Blue and White minitower.
G4 Yikes! - Zif G4 processor, Graphite and clear, PCI graphics.
G4 Sawtooth - no zif, Apple used a large D shaped white connector and used screws to stabilise the board that carries the processor. AGP graphics.
G4 Mystic - same processor interface as Sawtooth, first of the DP series, with 450DP and 500DP. Also known as Gigabit ethernet.
G4 V'Ger - 466, 533DP, 667, 733. Same as gigabit ethernet, with 133mhz system bus.
G4 - Quicksilver - 733, 800DP, 867. Same as gigabit ethernet model with 133mhz system bus.
G4's from Mystic or newer won't work on Yikes!.
G4's from V-Ger and newer won't work on Mystic (133mhz bus versus the 100mhz bus...other differences..)
XLr8.com sells a dual G4 upgrade card, but it only works on Yikes! and Yosemite (ZIF).
I wish I had better details on where the modifier of the Cube got the extra processor card from a Mystic, and how he added the extra pad to match the dual processors. Was it just held in place with thermal goo and pressure from the retention of the heatsink?
Dang it,
I'm looking for the rest of that machine- corroded or not-
email me!
Sure, you could write a scientific paper on how to crack CSS. But, you'd have to provide source, you'd have to not sell or distribute it for profit, you'd have to be in good standing, with a professor working in security and computers...
Remember, the article states that the qualities that made Felten a goody-two-shoes were what saved him. Put yourself in the same standing, and you might have a chance, for a few more years.
Sure, but if that's your approach to preventing virii, how do I know I can trust you to not pass on a virus?
I end up relying not only on you, but on the people you claim to be trusted.
This is remarkably similar to trusting physically promiscuous people to not carry something transmittable to me.
I approve of the steps you take, but how can I be sure all the people you trust take those steps as well?
my understanding of this transition is:
in the past, they've trained people on UNIX, only to have them finish three years and get high paying gigs in private industry- they're tired of investing time and money in training only to have the soldier leave, so they are moving to NT/2k where admins are a dime a dozen.
God help them, and god help us when it goes down..