ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
wuftpd and proftpd run as root through inetd and chroot to the user that logs in (E.g. ftp, your login, etc.)
There have been numerous postings on SANS and securityportal.com relating to wuftp weaknesses proftpd shares quite a lot of design with wuftp and so once every three of these flaws shows up in proftpd.
If this box will have proxy, ftp, and VPN on it all at once and have access inside and outside I would consider not putting the ftp server on this box. FTP servers are usually best put some cold place all by themself. What with all the various problems that have occured with PROftpd, wuftpd, etc. I would hesitate giving a process like that root level access on my vpn =)
I could get cynical about MPAA delving into the motion picture industry, but I won't. Fact of the matter is that the movie industry needs to change even more radically then the music industry. Theatres (at least to my understanding) do not generally turn a profit - especially on movies that don't attract large crowds. And for movies that do attract large crowds (E.g. X-Men) the theatre is unable to turn a profit due to licensing and fees imposed. Movies are a growing industry in the making part, but the actual showing of them has become so terribly expensive and overrated that most people do not want to go to see one - they will just kozmo it =).
Being that as it is I imagine that we will see AppleSoup be a completely different method of being able to buy a movie. Something like pay 20 dollars for a theatre ticket, and get the ability to download the movie - or get the DVD for an extra 3 bucks. This would piss off video rental stores, but remember they haven't been turning a profit lately either.
The eventual dream (as I see it for AppleSoup) is for movies to become more pervasive such as what Napster did for the music industry. Regardless of if the music industry will accept it. Napster has created millions of loyal music fans most of whom I guarentee buy more CD's now then they did prior.
What it comes down to is this, old media is no longer profitable, and entire industries would rather not kill the cultural significance that a movie theatre generates. And I doubt that MPAA wants to go out completely - so who knows it could work.(technical impossibilities aside)
A company should not be able to simply call a legal task force and bully someone into "not saying something about them". All things said Apple doesn't have anything to worry about from this sort of rumor mill - they should only attack truly false dogmatic claims that slander the company as a whole. I see where you are coming from, and you raise valid points. From my viewpoint I may want something to happen - but it doesn't mean that it has to. And nobody has the right to make someone do as they please with the fear of a legal dept. Regardless of how it is, this is not the way it is ment to be.
Fact, fiction, or otherwise the 1st amendment allows anyone - any business - anything to say whatever they damn well please. Corporate law dictates (as far as I know) that a business must gain written permission to use copyrighted material (content) if it is to be re/sold. I honestly do think that far too many businesses out there are abusing legal decisions in lieu of our constutional rights. The right to have free association is also at odds here because I as a consumer decide whether or not to listen to a rumors site - not another business for me.
Think protocol layers and evolution. Ethernet, which is hardware based needs (generally) a software stack - such as TCP/IP. TCP/IP then has other protocols which ride on top of it such as HTTP, pop3, ftp, etc. (just go look in/etc/services) Most of these protocols were coded with the same concept that telnet had - they are based upon the same telnet protocol. In the early days a telnet "send ayt" used to reply with "Yes" under many of these. A lot of this functionality has been stripped from most software by now.
As per smtp, uh yes it can send usernames in clear text. Look at the new RFCs. Thank God most people who implement smtp auth use at least use some form of encryption.
To think that HTTP doesn't send passwords is just silly. Look at all the portal sites in the world. Most "common users" use the same password - and wow usually they are plain text. Most people don't even think about the option to "sign in securely" that most portal / chat / etc. sites use these days.
I don't know where you come off saying that telnet and ftp are insecure, let's look at some other internet protocols, such as smtp, pop3, http, oddly all of them are based upon the telnet stack. This makes almost 90 percent of the traffic on the internet insecure. As per gaining entry to a box, I would have to say that most of the 'hacking' in the world is due to lax security policies. Letting every student have access to/bin/csh or the shell of their choice is a bad idea for a server house.
Looking at his argument about log files I can all but wonder how long he has been in the business. A log file is there to aide the administration of a box - if the log file itself is a security hole then put some policies around it. Christ here it comes again - someone complaining that CGI is a bad idea.
My overall opinion of this "expert" is that he is no more a security expert than I am an auto mechanic. I would wonder what his fix to all this is? Run NT?
Steve Jobs has wanted to get back ever since 1984, when Apple shunned him out and put Scully in he thought his day would never come. When Gil nearly killed the company Steve was definately off persuing other interests. When Apple asked him to come back as iCEO that was something that probably even stunned him.
Since that time a company that was literally months away from filing chapter 11 has saturated the market with cutely designed, functional systems. Based on more standard hardware, a good customer experience, and that old fashioned "Mac thing". Last December Apple picked up 60% of all computer sales (according to Yahoo!). For those who didn't think it could happen - it can.
I don't think that Apple will ever get out of the hardware market because it would be unprofitable,and I doubt that you will see a MacOS X immediately debuit on Intel. However, I do see it there in mid-2001 for public eyes. Although, then again - Apple already has it running on Intel systems -- who knows?
The one thing that I do not see happening is the fade away of Linux. Personally, I think that Helix Code Inc. will probably be the next company to do something major for the UNIX desktop. They already have their distribution of GNOME for Solaris. I see consulting, marketing, and eventually CD's of it flinging out to the business world. The next few things that needs to happen is a focus on the GNOME-Office suite, and cleaning up the GNOME interface a bit. I think that in 2001 Linux *will* evolve into a very viable world due to not having a Microsoft looming over it's head, and if Microsoft Inc. does not produce a Linux variant of Office then they are cannibalizing their own sales. Microsoft Inc will be a company much, much different than Windows Inc. Even though I do like MacOS, and I even own an iBook - it frightens me to see a market where Apple is dominant - color me crazy.
Even if Microsoft Inc. did not port it's Office suite over to Linux I think that we will see something amazing happen - Microsoft Inc. will be too busy restructuring for over a year to do anything. Compatible office suites like Star Office, Koffice, and Gnome Office, Appleworks, etc. will come out as viable, cheaper alternatives and as the computer industry grows and changes you will see some huge changes centered around that.
Who knows - they still may win in appeal - or strike a post-hearing settlement (like national news was talking about, odd eh?).
I would imagine that an EULA is looked on the exact same way that a rental agreement, or any other contract in the USA is looked at. If the contract violates the law, or your rights you do not have to abide by that contract. For instance, my rental agreement says something to the effect of "if at any time, any part of this document becomes illegal or otherwise violates a legal precedence this contract is null and void - a new one will need to be reinstated". Why is software any different? Aside from the fact that the Software and hardware industries have been the engine for the USA's economic growth - it still doesn't change the law -- look at Microsoft.
UCITA tries to violate the rights given to US consumers, much like a lot of the `extreme legislation' that has been happening of late this would be completely thrown out by any higher court.
Very true, but then again I don't deal with NT - so I don't know much about the security model in place (snort) during a bugfix. All I do know is that a few short months ago I logged into an NT system of mine and figured that it was not worth anything (logged in as guest) started up the ole' M$dog debug program and told the system to low level the harddrive. It did.
Truth about Linux? WTF planet are you from? A new patch was released right after this was found. Much, much better then M$FT's solution - "Yeah, we know about that bug -- we plan on fixing it later sometime". Or "Yeah, we know about that -- it's a feature!" The turnover on this bugfix is what a day? Christ, if you expect people to be perfect all the time then why aren't you out making Operating Systems that work?
I score such a superfluous comment as -10 - Stupid.
It's about individual rights, not gun rights, etc. Gun control is just one of these rights trying to be stripped or made extremely difficult to excersise. Extremism is rampant, and it would seem to me that the extremists are the ones pushing to eliminate individual rights from either the right or left.
As per gun control, etc. I am going to argue infinately that an armed society is a polite one. When people feel as though they are not protected by the police, friends, family, or while walking home in the evening etc. they feel violated. Why do people feel violated when they are left completely defenseless you ask? -- I would charge you to ask yourself that question again.
If the government has no right to have armed forces then why do we? If you are so blind as to the reason that guns are an absolute necessity then I will point you in the direction of Australia, or perhaps England, or any number of countries that have outlawed guns -- guess who has the guns now? Not private citizens, but criminals. The Militia doesn't have to for forces OUTSIDE the country, they are DEFINATELY ment for forces WITHIN also, and there is no amount of money we can pay a police force to be on the job as instantly as a.45.
Let's all live in fear my friends! Because a crime can happen by the few, let's make certain that the many have no methods of privacy, protection, or overall peace. Because we think we can do better, let's force everyone else to do the same.
Rubbish, this flawed logic irritates the hell out of me.
This is how it really is:
First, take away the guns from all law abiding people - now they can't hurt each other, or better yet let's use the media to teach the common person how evil guns are. Second, let's make certain that we again use the media to educate the common man and tell them how infinately small and insignificant they are, and tell them they don't have the right to privacy. You DO know that individual freedoms are always compromised at the expense of the greater good. Third make sure -- well sure that you please them just enough to get re-elected (such as in Washingon State's i695
This is mostly the corrupt government's fault - but I would charge the reason that it exists on the American voter. We don't vote, don't care, or vote for who everyone else votes for. Very few people take the time to think critically that actually *do* vote - most of these people go off of gut feeling, or "moral" beliefs. Disgusting isn't it? As I was listening to C. Heston on Dateline the other day, he referred to Benjamin Franklin when someone asked "what kind of government have you given us?" - and when he replied "a democracy - if you keep it".
That's why we've called them the MSPD up in Washington for years - those who dare to sell computers with OEM software besides M$FT or who will sell preowned packaged M$FT software. Microsoft doesn't follow the law - they are above it. The immortal words of Lilly Tomlin come to mind (when Bell owned the world) "We are the phone company, we are omne-tint, we do not conform to any state of federal regulations".
Is it just me, or is there a serious lack of thought put into legal systems these days? Has humankind finally built up so much history, tradition, and legal mish mash that we have totally abandoned common sense? I'm no legal expert but the point of patents are to protect IP for a certian amount of valuable time. Patent abuse is on a worldwide high because as I see it - with a population of 6 billion there is bound to be someone, or a group, or an entire species with your ideas. I really think that the patent laws need to be stripped out and rewritten in the USA. I know little about G.B. - but it sounds similar.
One of the things that I have found is that OS level failover doesn't always work or will have odd problems. If you are looking for Enterprise level uptime then hobbling together a solution such as this is not for you. The company I work for uses a cisco localdirector to do the work for it. What's great about this sort of solution is that a localdirector will round robin, do failover, and such a dizzying array of things that it's wonderous. I would suggest you look into this solution or one similar
Everyone dogs MacOS - perhaps it is not the newest OS in the world and unquestionably it has it's roots for being one of the first GUI OSes out there. But let's be honest - the only idea behind MacOS to begin with was to create a perfectly functional operating system. The concept of resource forking was unthought of prior to this, and still is for the most part.
Honestly we need to give MacOS more credit, and Apple for that matter. How many people have ever been able to make a user friendly unix? or frighteningly enough a cooperative multitasking operating system work so well?
I am a Linux bigot and as much as the next - but we should give credit where due. Most of us come from the PC background where hardware needs to be kicked to work. From Apples camp the hardware is usually good enough to make do, so this concept is nearly oblivious to us.
I had a Starmax, it was crap. Actually *most* of the clones had watered down bus speeds, and were overall weird - even though Apple "approved" them apple was lax in what they said could happen, but then again Gil was driving the company and he's not exactally the brightest boy in the world.
On a different note, since the upturn of Apple Motorola has made a ton of money off just the sales of the chips, it would definately be in their best business plan to fab the chip correctly.
Because IBM has been able to do wonders to this chip that Motorola hasn't. Being that there is still oh what? how many months until the end of the year? The G4 in it's current state, *should* be capable of 800Mhz solid, easy, but motorola just has been unable to fab them at this speed.Tan extra tweak of development (such as this) and better fabbing techniques, and business trends are where I got my number.
Motorola has been trying to get a G4 over 600Mhz to no avail, while IBM has them well beyond that. This move will yet again prove that IBM is more interested in Apple then longtime Motorola. I would imagine that if Apple went solely w/ IBM that we would see a 1 - 1.2Ghz G4 by the end of the year.
Let's be honest, this country is controlled not by the internet - not by the media, not by even the government but the megacorporations that control everything else. MacAddict had a really good article on this the other day, but corporations such as this tell all their smaller companies what they must think - thus something becomes culturally wrong. Think about it: how often does some issues such as oh... gun control take hold as soon as the media endorses it? Following that thread - MP3 is ABSOLUTELY no different than simple audio tapes, except it is digital and slightly less complicated to copy. Honestly my mother used to copy songs off the radio that she liked and then mix them into a tape (we had good reception at our house;>) -- however MP3 is higher quality... more portable. Anything that disturbs how "the company" works generally doesn't fly - and MP3 is something that they would like to combat as a whole. Truthfully napster has issues with the method of distribution - however let's be honest. How many of us have had our CD collections burst out? Since napster came into play I spend sooooooooooo much money on CDs.. and MP3 makes it so easy to keep them w/ me. I just whip up grip and they are in my homedir waiting for me - get on my iBook, copy them over and all I have to do is listen on a trip, or whatever. If we, the consumer to these corporation would write THEM and our respective offices of government then we would DEFINATELY see some action.
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from /etc/inetd.conf
/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
ftp stream tcp nowait root
wuftpd and proftpd run as root through inetd and chroot to the user that logs in (E.g. ftp, your login, etc.)
There have been numerous postings on SANS and securityportal.com relating to wuftp weaknesses proftpd shares quite a lot of design with wuftp and so once every three of these flaws shows up in proftpd.
If this box will have proxy, ftp, and VPN on it all at once and have access inside and outside I would consider not putting the ftp server on this box. FTP servers are usually best put some cold place all by themself. What with all the various problems that have occured with PROftpd, wuftpd, etc. I would hesitate giving a process like that root level access on my vpn =)
What I liked most about the pre-movie hype is that there wasn't much unlike that other movie that we all saw that didn't live up to it.
I could get cynical about MPAA delving into the motion picture industry, but I won't. Fact of the matter is that the movie industry needs to change even more radically then the music industry. Theatres (at least to my understanding) do not generally turn a profit - especially on movies that don't attract large crowds. And for movies that do attract large crowds (E.g. X-Men) the theatre is unable to turn a profit due to licensing and fees imposed. Movies are a growing industry in the making part, but the actual showing of them has become so terribly expensive and overrated that most people do not want to go to see one - they will just kozmo it =).
Being that as it is I imagine that we will see AppleSoup be a completely different method of being able to buy a movie. Something like pay 20 dollars for a theatre ticket, and get the ability to download the movie - or get the DVD for an extra 3 bucks. This would piss off video rental stores, but remember they haven't been turning a profit lately either.
The eventual dream (as I see it for AppleSoup) is for movies to become more pervasive such as what Napster did for the music industry. Regardless of if the music industry will accept it. Napster has created millions of loyal music fans most of whom I guarentee buy more CD's now then they did prior.
What it comes down to is this, old media is no longer profitable, and entire industries would rather not kill the cultural significance that a movie theatre generates. And I doubt that MPAA wants to go out completely - so who knows it could work.(technical impossibilities aside)
A company should not be able to simply call a legal task force and bully someone into "not saying something about them". All things said Apple doesn't have anything to worry about from this sort of rumor mill - they should only attack truly false dogmatic claims that slander the company as a whole. I see where you are coming from, and you raise valid points. From my viewpoint I may want something to happen - but it doesn't mean that it has to. And nobody has the right to make someone do as they please with the fear of a legal dept. Regardless of how it is, this is not the way it is ment to be.
Fact, fiction, or otherwise the 1st amendment allows anyone - any business - anything to say whatever they damn well please. Corporate law dictates (as far as I know) that a business must gain written permission to use copyrighted material (content) if it is to be re/sold. I honestly do think that far too many businesses out there are abusing legal decisions in lieu of our constutional rights. The right to have free association is also at odds here because I as a consumer decide whether or not to listen to a rumors site - not another business for me.
Think protocol layers and evolution. Ethernet, which is hardware based needs (generally) a software stack - such as TCP/IP. TCP/IP then has other protocols which ride on top of it such as HTTP, pop3, ftp, etc. (just go look in /etc/services) Most of these protocols were coded with the same concept that telnet had - they are based upon the same telnet protocol. In the early days a telnet "send ayt" used to reply with "Yes" under many of these. A lot of this functionality has been stripped from most software by now.
As per smtp, uh yes it can send usernames in clear text. Look at the new RFCs. Thank God most people who implement smtp auth use at least use some form of encryption.
To think that HTTP doesn't send passwords is just silly. Look at all the portal sites in the world. Most "common users" use the same password - and wow usually they are plain text. Most people don't even think about the option to "sign in securely" that most portal / chat / etc. sites use these days.
I don't know where you come off saying that telnet and ftp are insecure, let's look at some other internet protocols, such as smtp, pop3, http, oddly all of them are based upon the telnet stack. This makes almost 90 percent of the traffic on the internet insecure. As per gaining entry to a box, I would have to say that most of the 'hacking' in the world is due to lax security policies. Letting every student have access to /bin/csh or the shell of their choice is a bad idea for a server house.
Looking at his argument about log files I can all but wonder how long he has been in the business. A log file is there to aide the administration of a box - if the log file itself is a security hole then put some policies around it. Christ here it comes again - someone complaining that CGI is a bad idea.
My overall opinion of this "expert" is that he is no more a security expert than I am an auto mechanic. I would wonder what his fix to all this is? Run NT?
Steve Jobs has wanted to get back ever since 1984, when Apple shunned him out and put Scully in he thought his day would never come. When Gil nearly killed the company Steve was definately off persuing other interests. When Apple asked him to come back as iCEO that was something that probably even stunned him.
Since that time a company that was literally months away from filing chapter 11 has saturated the market with cutely designed, functional systems. Based on more standard hardware, a good customer experience, and that old fashioned "Mac thing". Last December Apple picked up 60% of all computer sales (according to Yahoo!). For those who didn't think it could happen - it can.
I don't think that Apple will ever get out of the hardware market because it would be unprofitable,and I doubt that you will see a MacOS X immediately debuit on Intel. However, I do see it there in mid-2001 for public eyes. Although, then again - Apple already has it running on Intel systems -- who knows?
The one thing that I do not see happening is the fade away of Linux. Personally, I think that Helix Code Inc. will probably be the next company to do something major for the UNIX desktop. They already have their distribution of GNOME for Solaris. I see consulting, marketing, and eventually CD's of it flinging out to the business world. The next few things that needs to happen is a focus on the GNOME-Office suite, and cleaning up the GNOME interface a bit. I think that in 2001 Linux *will* evolve into a very viable world due to not having a Microsoft looming over it's head, and if Microsoft Inc. does not produce a Linux variant of Office then they are cannibalizing their own sales. Microsoft Inc will be a company much, much different than Windows Inc. Even though I do like MacOS, and I even own an iBook - it frightens me to see a market where Apple is dominant - color me crazy.
Even if Microsoft Inc. did not port it's Office suite over to Linux I think that we will see something amazing happen - Microsoft Inc. will be too busy restructuring for over a year to do anything. Compatible office suites like Star Office, Koffice, and Gnome Office, Appleworks, etc. will come out as viable, cheaper alternatives and as the computer industry grows and changes you will see some huge changes centered around that.
Who knows - they still may win in appeal - or strike a post-hearing settlement (like national news was talking about, odd eh?).
Depends on how strongly you value personal freedom and convince.
I would imagine that an EULA is looked on the exact same way that a rental agreement, or any other contract in the USA is looked at. If the contract violates the law, or your rights you do not have to abide by that contract. For instance, my rental agreement says something to the effect of "if at any time, any part of this document becomes illegal or otherwise violates a legal precedence this contract is null and void - a new one will need to be reinstated". Why is software any different? Aside from the fact that the Software and hardware industries have been the engine for the USA's economic growth - it still doesn't change the law -- look at Microsoft.
UCITA tries to violate the rights given to US consumers, much like a lot of the `extreme legislation' that has been happening of late this would be completely thrown out by any higher court.
Any thoughts?
Very true, but then again I don't deal with NT - so I don't know much about the security model in place (snort) during a bugfix. All I do know is that a few short months ago I logged into an NT system of mine and figured that it was not worth anything (logged in as guest) started up the ole' M$dog debug program and told the system to low level the harddrive. It did.
Now that is (as Cartman would say) securitah.
Truth about Linux? WTF planet are you from? A new patch was released right after this was found. Much, much better then M$FT's solution - "Yeah, we know about that bug -- we plan on fixing it later sometime". Or "Yeah, we know about that -- it's a feature!" The turnover on this bugfix is what a day? Christ, if you expect people to be perfect all the time then why aren't you out making Operating Systems that work?
I score such a superfluous comment as -10 - Stupid.
It's about individual rights, not gun rights, etc. Gun control is just one of these rights trying to be stripped or made extremely difficult to excersise. Extremism is rampant, and it would seem to me that the extremists are the ones pushing to eliminate individual rights from either the right or left.
.45.
As per gun control, etc. I am going to argue infinately that an armed society is a polite one. When people feel as though they are not protected by the police, friends, family, or while walking home in the evening etc. they feel violated. Why do people feel violated when they are left completely defenseless you ask? -- I would charge you to ask yourself that question again.
If the government has no right to have armed forces then why do we? If you are so blind as to the reason that guns are an absolute necessity then I will point you in the direction of Australia, or perhaps England, or any number of countries that have outlawed guns -- guess who has the guns now? Not private citizens, but criminals. The Militia doesn't have to for forces OUTSIDE the country, they are DEFINATELY ment for forces WITHIN also, and there is no amount of money we can pay a police force to be on the job as instantly as a
Let's all live in fear my friends! Because a crime can happen by the few, let's make certain that the many have no methods of privacy, protection, or overall peace. Because we think we can do better, let's force everyone else to do the same.
Rubbish, this flawed logic irritates the hell out of me.
This is how it really is:
First, take away the guns from all law abiding people - now they can't hurt each other, or better yet let's use the media to teach the common person how evil guns are. Second, let's make certain that we again use the media to educate the common man and tell them how infinately small and insignificant they are, and tell them they don't have the right to privacy. You DO know that individual freedoms are always compromised at the expense of the greater good. Third make sure -- well sure that you please them just enough to get re-elected (such as in Washingon State's i695
This is mostly the corrupt government's fault - but I would charge the reason that it exists on the American voter. We don't vote, don't care, or vote for who everyone else votes for. Very few people take the time to think critically that actually *do* vote - most of these people go off of gut feeling, or "moral" beliefs. Disgusting isn't it? As I was listening to C. Heston on Dateline the other day, he referred to Benjamin Franklin when someone asked "what kind of government have you given us?" - and when he replied "a democracy - if you keep it".
That's why we've called them the MSPD up in Washington for years - those who dare to sell computers with OEM software besides M$FT or who will sell preowned packaged M$FT software. Microsoft doesn't follow the law - they are above it. The immortal words of Lilly Tomlin come to mind (when Bell owned the world) "We are the phone company, we are omne-tint, we do not conform to any state of federal regulations".
But I can reproduce grass smell by playing ball... In theory if I loan or sell those jeans then they get a cut of the profit ...
Is it just me, or is there a serious lack of thought put into legal systems these days? Has humankind finally built up so much history, tradition, and legal mish mash that we have totally abandoned common sense? I'm no legal expert but the point of patents are to protect IP for a certian amount of valuable time. Patent abuse is on a worldwide high because as I see it - with a population of 6 billion there is bound to be someone, or a group, or an entire species with your ideas. I really think that the patent laws need to be stripped out and rewritten in the USA. I know little about G.B. - but it sounds similar.
One of the things that I have found is that OS level failover doesn't always work or will have odd problems. If you are looking for Enterprise level uptime then hobbling together a solution such as this is not for you. The company I work for uses a cisco localdirector to do the work for it. What's great about this sort of solution is that a localdirector will round robin, do failover, and such a dizzying array of things that it's wonderous. I would suggest you look into this solution or one similar
Agreed - I miss Umax also.
Everyone dogs MacOS - perhaps it is not the newest OS in the world and unquestionably it has it's roots for being one of the first GUI OSes out there. But let's be honest - the only idea behind MacOS to begin with was to create a perfectly functional operating system. The concept of resource forking was unthought of prior to this, and still is for the most part.
Honestly we need to give MacOS more credit, and Apple for that matter. How many people have ever been able to make a user friendly unix? or frighteningly enough a cooperative multitasking operating system work so well?
I am a Linux bigot and as much as the next - but we should give credit where due. Most of us come from the PC background where hardware needs to be kicked to work. From Apples camp the hardware is usually good enough to make do, so this concept is nearly oblivious to us.
I had a Starmax, it was crap. Actually *most* of the clones had watered down bus speeds, and were overall weird - even though Apple "approved" them apple was lax in what they said could happen, but then again Gil was driving the company and he's not exactally the brightest boy in the world.
On a different note, since the upturn of Apple Motorola has made a ton of money off just the sales of the chips, it would definately be in their best business plan to fab the chip correctly.
Because IBM has been able to do wonders to this chip that Motorola hasn't. Being that there is still oh what? how many months until the end of the year? The G4 in it's current state, *should* be capable of 800Mhz solid, easy, but motorola just has been unable to fab them at this speed.Tan extra tweak of development (such as this) and better fabbing techniques, and business trends are where I got my number.
Motorola has been trying to get a G4 over 600Mhz to no avail, while IBM has them well beyond that. This move will yet again prove that IBM is more interested in Apple then longtime Motorola. I would imagine that if Apple went solely w/ IBM that we would see a 1 - 1.2Ghz G4 by the end of the year.
Yum!
Let's be honest, this country is controlled not by the internet - not by the media, not by even the government but the megacorporations that control everything else. MacAddict had a really good article on this the other day, but corporations such as this tell all their smaller companies what they must think - thus something becomes culturally wrong. Think about it: how often does some issues such as oh... gun control take hold as soon as the media endorses it? Following that thread - MP3 is ABSOLUTELY no different than simple audio tapes, except it is digital and slightly less complicated to copy. Honestly my mother used to copy songs off the radio that she liked and then mix them into a tape (we had good reception at our house ;>) -- however MP3 is higher quality ... more portable. Anything that disturbs how "the company" works generally doesn't fly - and MP3 is something that they would like to combat as a whole. Truthfully napster has issues with the method of distribution - however let's be honest. How many of us have had our CD collections burst out? Since napster came into play I spend sooooooooooo much money on CDs.. and MP3 makes it so easy to keep them w/ me. I just whip up grip and they are in my homedir waiting for me - get on my iBook, copy them over and all I have to do is listen on a trip, or whatever. If we, the consumer to these corporation would write THEM and our respective offices of government then we would DEFINATELY see some action.
We will see what comes..