It makes sense that the U.K. tops the list of TV downloads. Most of the TV programs downloaded are produced in the U.S. The U.K. is a populous country of people whose culture and language are largely similar to the U.S. Most of the TV programs downloaded are not available in the U.K., or are if they are available, they're aired in the U.K. later than in the U.S., or and only on premium satellite or cable networks.
It makes sense that the U.K. tops the list of TV downloads. Most of the TV programs downloaded are produced in the U.S. The U.K. is a populous country of people whose culture and language are largely similar to the U.S. Most of the TV programd downloaded are not available in the U.K., or are if they are available, they're aired in the U.K. later than in the U.S., or and only on premium satellite or cable networks.
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What I'd like to see is a wireless acess point that can be configured to provide a unique WEP key to each connected peer. One peer's WEP key would be be unable to decrypt another peer's packets. One could open up the base station to one's neighbors while still keeping each connection encrypted. The access point should be able to be configured to generate a new random WEP key for each peer at regular intervals. If you want peer anonymity, just don't keep any logs. Such a device would perfectly illustrate that security, privacy, and anonymity are compatible.
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An anniversary is by definition a integral number of years from the date being observed. Today is therefore the first anniversary of Groklaw's founding.
If one wishes to observe other important milestones, such as the passage of six months after an important event, one should refer to such observances using another phrase. Such observances are not called anniversaries for the same reason annual statements aren't released twice per year.
1. Does iTunes 4 break iCommune? 2. What copy protection - if any - is used to protect tracks downloaded from AppleMusic.com? 3. Does the copy protection affect tracks burned to CD as well as tracks copied to iPods and Macs? 4. If the tracks burned to CD are copy-protected, will these CDs be playable in standard CD players?
There is still no Mac OS X operating system CD. The Mac OS X installer CD boots straight into the Mac OS X installer, not into the Mac OS X operating system. Without a full operating system boot CD, it is very difficult to do basic recovery when the OS on the hard disk fails. It's still necessary to boot from a Mac OS 9 CD in order to perform some recovery actions.
I had a nasty series of crashes a few months ago that left me with an unsuable operating system. I tried to reinstall the OS, but the disk was too full. In order to fix the problem without reformatting, I had to reboot from my Mac OS 9 CD and move a bunch of files from the OS partition to another volume. I was then able to reinstall the OS and get things working again. If I had been unable to reinstall the OS, I would have at least been able to save my important files before reformatting or discarding the damaged disk. If I had been unable to boot from a full operating system CD, I would have been in the uncomfortable position of having to part with my data.
Until Apple has a bootable Mac OS X operating system CD, they won't likely release any Macs incapable of booting into Mac OS 9.
Apple is aware of this problem, and it seems likely that the delay in releasing Mac OS X-only Macs could be related to putting the finishing touches on a bootable Mac OS X operating system CD.
If Apple is smart, they'll also release a bootable DVD that includes additional applications, developer tools, and a thorough suite of diagnosis tools.
It would also be nice if the boot CD/DVD could automatically write temporary files to a RAM disk in the even that the hard disk is damaged. This could also be triggered by holding down a key combination at boot time. AIX has a maintenence mode like this, and it makes the job of repairing file system and start up problems much easier.
Just as Microsoft uses the word "Security" to cover up changes to the software that take away functionality (e.g., introcution of DRM in Media Player), the US Government is using "Security" as a cover for its attempt to outlaw anonymity.
What will Homeland say about the free wireless community networks popping up all over the place? If these allow open, anonymous access, are they to be targeted by future regulatory action?
Would Homeland object if a company set up an encrypted, but open wireless network? It could offer each user privacy and security, while protecting the company's intranet from unauthorized access. This is already how many companies set up their wireless networks. It allows minimal configuration on the client side, and that reduces internal support costs. But it also offers a good degree of anonymity to users. It is anonymity to which Homeland ojbects, not a lack of "security" per se.
I've read a rumor that the new G5 may in fact be based on the POWER4, but I read this on some Mac rumor page, so take it with a grain of salt. It would be interesting if Apple and IBM cooperated more in the area of operating systems. IBM has a great server OS in AIX, and Apple has a great desktop OS in Mac OS X. You'd think both would stand to benefit from some technology sharing. Just an idea.
I've been a Mac user since 1984. I worked at Apple for a while in the 90s, but then I got a better paying job at IBM. I have worked at IBM since then, almost exclusively with UNIX and Windows. It's strange to see the reactions of other IBMers when they learn that I'm a Mac user. Even the die-hard UNIX guys and open-source fans are often prejudiced against the Mac. This is ironic, especially given that Macs compete more with Windows boxes than with IBM boxes. That said, I do see that people at IBM are beginning to take Mac OS X seriously. IBM makes a lot of money from its software and services businesses -- more than from its hardware business. The software can be easily ported to Mac OS X, and services are profitable no matter what OS the customer is running. Unfortunately, thare still a lot of people at IBM who haven't figured this out. Maybe discussions like this one will help to change that.
I'd be glad to move my web page from Apple's server to a different server, because it's a simple matter to change where my domain points. But I've got no way of doing that with the mac.com email address I have used since the day iTools was announced. This is bait-and-switch. Apple got millions of its users to sign up, and enticed them with the fact that it was free. A free email address accessible from anywhere? That's a great idea, especially given that many people switch ISPs every year or so. Now people have to pay just to keep the same address? Especially to those for whom the main benefit of iTools is the email service, this will feel like extortion.
I too would gladly pay for the email service, but $100 is too much. I don't want to pay for the other services, because I get them from my ISP.
Wasn't the mac.com email address supposed to be free for life? I've tried to find the page at Apple that made this claim, but I cannot find it. Maybe Apple has purged all the evidence from their web pages. www.apple.com/itools now redirects to a.mac address (I wasn't aware Apple had been granted a top-level domain!) I checked google for a cached page, but still had no luck. Can anyone else find a claim that mac.com would be free for life? If so, Apple has another class-action lawsuit on its hands.
Now if only Apple could figure out how to make an LCD that has an acceptably wide viewing angle in both the horizontal and vertical direction. Then it would be practical to add a pivot joint to the end of the steel arm, allowing the screen to be pivoted from landscape to portrait layout.
There was a program call Virtual that was great. It had a floating virutual desktop bar from which you could choose which desktop you want to work with. Small representations of open windows appeared in each section of the bar. You could even drag these around to move windows from one virtual desktop to another without switching your view. You could even have a window that spanned two or more virtual desktops. Another cool feature was that the background pattern/picture was customizable for each virtual desktop, so it was easy to tell at a glance which one was active. Despite all these great features (or perhaps in part because of them), my Mac was never quite stable when I had Virtual running.
It would be great if Apple would incorporate these features into a future revision of Mac OS X, or at least open the APIs so someone else could do the work.
Everone at IBM uses Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes is the primary email program used internally at IBM. Also, some of the old mainframe-based applications are being migrated to Notes. Having Notes run natively on Mac OS X is therefore a great thing for IBMers who use Macs.
CmdrTaco probably left out the apostrophe becuase he is confused about whether apostrophes are used for possesives or plurals.
With all the acronyms around today, people find it convenient to use an apostrophe between an acronym and the s that makes it plural, to better deliniate the end of the acronym. This has led to a diminished disctinction between plurals and possesives. It has gotten so bad that people now often make the mistake of adding an apostrophe-s to ordinary (non-acronym) nouns too. With all the confusion caused by putting the apostrophe where it doesn't belong, people often leave it out where it is required.
In English, it is incorrect to omit the aspostrophe from a possesive or contraction. Apostrophes are for possesives and contractions, not plurals. If you want to make a word (even an acronym) plural, just add an s. No apostrophe, no dash, no colon (for those Swenglish speakers out there).
If you care about maintaining a consistent language, get a copy of Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style."
Tivoli Systems, an IBM company, sells Linux versions of some of its enterprise management products. From what I have heard and read in their press releases, the plan is to extend their Linux offerings to include more of Tivoli's products. Tivoli has some great software that helps make a sysadmin's job much easier.
Do a search for Linux at www.tivoli.com to learn more about Tivoli's Linux offerings.
In the interests of full disclosure, I will add that I do own IBM stock, and I work for IBM.
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One doesn't write "ten year birthday." One should not write "ten year anniversary" either.
Like birthdays, anniversaries come once per year. The word anniversary comes from the Latin word for year.
So it's Slashdot's tenth anniversary.
Proof-read the body, not the subject. Doh!
It can be even more challenging for a man to "break" a clique of women at the workplace.
If a woman wants to hang out with the guys after work, that's considered ok. But it's harder for a man who wants to join the girls.
The double standard rears its ugly head again!
-Michael
It makes sense that the U.K. tops the list of TV downloads. Most of the TV programs downloaded are produced in the U.S. The U.K. is a populous country of people whose culture and language are largely similar to the U.S. Most of the TV programs downloaded are not available in the U.K., or are if they are available, they're aired in the U.K. later than in the U.S., or and only on premium satellite or cable networks.
It makes sense that the U.K. tops the list of TV downloads. Most of the TV programs downloaded are produced in the U.S. The U.K. is a populous country of people whose culture and language are largely similar to the U.S. Most of the TV programd downloaded are not available in the U.K., or are if they are available, they're aired in the U.K. later than in the U.S., or and only on premium satellite or cable networks.
What I'd like to see is a wireless acess point that can be configured to provide a unique WEP key to each connected peer. One peer's WEP key would be be unable to decrypt another peer's packets. One could open up the base station to one's neighbors while still keeping each connection encrypted. The access point should be able to be configured to generate a new random WEP key for each peer at regular intervals. If you want peer anonymity, just don't keep any logs. Such a device would perfectly illustrate that security, privacy, and anonymity are compatible.
An anniversary is by definition a integral number of years from the date being observed. Today is therefore the first anniversary of Groklaw's founding. If one wishes to observe other important milestones, such as the passage of six months after an important event, one should refer to such observances using another phrase. Such observances are not called anniversaries for the same reason annual statements aren't released twice per year.
For those of you who choose not to use iTunes 4.5, and those who wish to save the movie to disk, here is the URL of the "fullscreen" movie file:
d ib les/the_incredibles-tlr_ifs.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/disney/the_incre
P. S. The movie is 640x48 pixels in size, but the video track is only 640x272 pixels in size.
1. Does iTunes 4 break iCommune?
2. What copy protection - if any - is used to protect tracks downloaded from AppleMusic.com?
3. Does the copy protection affect tracks burned to CD as well as tracks copied to iPods and Macs?
4. If the tracks burned to CD are copy-protected, will these CDs be playable in standard CD players?
-MAL
There is still no Mac OS X operating system CD. The Mac OS X installer CD boots straight into the Mac OS X installer, not into the Mac OS X operating system. Without a full operating system boot CD, it is very difficult to do basic recovery when the OS on the hard disk fails. It's still necessary to boot from a Mac OS 9 CD in order to perform some recovery actions.
I had a nasty series of crashes a few months ago that left me with an unsuable operating system. I tried to reinstall the OS, but the disk was too full. In order to fix the problem without reformatting, I had to reboot from my Mac OS 9 CD and move a bunch of files from the OS partition to another volume. I was then able to reinstall the OS and get things working again. If I had been unable to reinstall the OS, I would have at least been able to save my important files before reformatting or discarding the damaged disk. If I had been unable to boot from a full operating system CD, I would have been in the uncomfortable position of having to part with my data.
Until Apple has a bootable Mac OS X operating system CD, they won't likely release any Macs incapable of booting into Mac OS 9.
Apple is aware of this problem, and it seems likely that the delay in releasing Mac OS X-only Macs could be related to putting the finishing touches on a bootable Mac OS X operating system CD.
If Apple is smart, they'll also release a bootable DVD that includes additional applications, developer tools, and a thorough suite of diagnosis tools.
It would also be nice if the boot CD/DVD could automatically write temporary files to a RAM disk in the even that the hard disk is damaged. This could also be triggered by holding down a key combination at boot time. AIX has a maintenence mode like this, and it makes the job of repairing file system and start up problems much easier.
Just as Microsoft uses the word "Security" to cover up changes to the software that take away functionality (e.g., introcution of DRM in Media Player), the US Government is using "Security" as a cover for its attempt to outlaw anonymity.
What will Homeland say about the free wireless community networks popping up all over the place? If these allow open, anonymous access, are they to be targeted by future regulatory action?
Would Homeland object if a company set up an encrypted, but open wireless network? It could offer each user privacy and security, while protecting the company's intranet from unauthorized access. This is already how many companies set up their wireless networks. It allows minimal configuration on the client side, and that reduces internal support costs. But it also offers a good degree of anonymity to users. It is anonymity to which Homeland ojbects, not a lack of "security" per se.
I've read a rumor that the new G5 may in fact be based on the POWER4, but I read this on some Mac rumor page, so take it with a grain of salt. It would be interesting if Apple and IBM cooperated more in the area of operating systems. IBM has a great server OS in AIX, and Apple has a great desktop OS in Mac OS X. You'd think both would stand to benefit from some technology sharing. Just an idea.
I've been a Mac user since 1984. I worked at Apple for a while in the 90s, but then I got a better paying job at IBM. I have worked at IBM since then, almost exclusively with UNIX and Windows. It's strange to see the reactions of other IBMers when they learn that I'm a Mac user. Even the die-hard UNIX guys and open-source fans are often prejudiced against the Mac. This is ironic, especially given that Macs compete more with Windows boxes than with IBM boxes. That said, I do see that people at IBM are beginning to take Mac OS X seriously. IBM makes a lot of money from its software and services businesses -- more than from its hardware business. The software can be easily ported to Mac OS X, and services are profitable no matter what OS the customer is running. Unfortunately, thare still a lot of people at IBM who haven't figured this out. Maybe discussions like this one will help to change that.
I too would gladly pay for the email service, but $100 is too much. I don't want to pay for the other services, because I get them from my ISP.
Wasn't the mac.com email address supposed to be free for life? I've tried to find the page at Apple that made this claim, but I cannot find it. Maybe Apple has purged all the evidence from their web pages. www.apple.com/itools now redirects to a .mac address (I wasn't aware Apple had been granted a top-level domain!) I checked google for a cached page, but still had no luck. Can anyone else find a claim that mac.com would be free for life? If so, Apple has another class-action lawsuit on its hands.
Now if only Apple could figure out how to make an LCD that has an acceptably wide viewing angle in both the horizontal and vertical direction. Then it would be practical to add a pivot joint to the end of the steel arm, allowing the screen to be pivoted from landscape to portrait layout.
There was a program call Virtual that was great. It had a floating virutual desktop bar from which you could choose which desktop you want to work with. Small representations of open windows appeared in each section of the bar. You could even drag these around to move windows from one virtual desktop to another without switching your view. You could even have a window that spanned two or more virtual desktops. Another cool feature was that the background pattern/picture was customizable for each virtual desktop, so it was easy to tell at a glance which one was active. Despite all these great features (or perhaps in part because of them), my Mac was never quite stable when I had Virtual running.
It would be great if Apple would incorporate these features into a future revision of Mac OS X, or at least open the APIs so someone else could do the work.
-MAL
Everone at IBM uses Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes is the primary email program used internally at IBM. Also, some of the old mainframe-based applications are being migrated to Notes. Having Notes run natively on Mac OS X is therefore a great thing for IBMers who use Macs.
It should really be written Mac OS X.I VGLXIV.
Why can't people use apostrophes correctly these days?
"AMD aligning with Transmeta" is incorrect. AMD is allying itself with Tansmeta.
CmdrTaco probably left out the apostrophe becuase he is confused about whether apostrophes are used for possesives or plurals. With all the acronyms around today, people find it convenient to use an apostrophe between an acronym and the s that makes it plural, to better deliniate the end of the acronym. This has led to a diminished disctinction between plurals and possesives. It has gotten so bad that people now often make the mistake of adding an apostrophe-s to ordinary (non-acronym) nouns too. With all the confusion caused by putting the apostrophe where it doesn't belong, people often leave it out where it is required. In English, it is incorrect to omit the aspostrophe from a possesive or contraction. Apostrophes are for possesives and contractions, not plurals. If you want to make a word (even an acronym) plural, just add an s. No apostrophe, no dash, no colon (for those Swenglish speakers out there). If you care about maintaining a consistent language, get a copy of Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style."
Do a search for Linux at www.tivoli.com to learn more about Tivoli's Linux offerings.
In the interests of full disclosure, I will add that I do own IBM stock, and I work for IBM.
If x=y, then x-y=0, and you cannot perform the cancellation on line 5. The old divide-by-zero trick.
Now if only Apple would incorporate this into Mac OS X and Darwin. Apple, are you listening?