I can't count how many laptops I've bought from the Apple Refurb web store (either for myself or for friends). Great deals always to be had there. Came in handy recently when my friend wanted a new MacBook Pro but she also wanted to be able to replace the battery. Got a nice deal on a 2.6 (late 2008 unfortunately... but it had the matte display option when it arrived!)
Yup, I love KTorrent as well. I keep it running 24/7 in a virtual desktop on my Knoppmyth living room setup and VNC into it when I need to (which is only when I want to grab something from one of my RSS torrent feeds that isn't already being matched by a regex search for auto-download/seeding). I use a watch folder for my other machines in the house to download torrents.. right click, save as, into the watch folder over the network and KTorrent does the rest. And there is a nice little GUI there if I need it, but the remote admin is very useful.
Pretty sure that thepiratebay.org only serves up.torrent files so it may only slightly slow down the download of these.torrents. However, the person who uses the resulting.torrent to assemble together the file described in the torrent would not be doing so over SSL links to other peers in the swarm. The impact of this on the speed of downloads is actually very minimal, as.torrent files are quite small most of the time.
MacTCP predates Windows 95 by *a long time*, but in case you still don't believe me you should read about Open Transport as well, which was shipping on new PowerMacs in May 2005, in other words, before Windows 95 was shipping.
Here is the Power Mac 9500 which was out in May 1995 and featured OpenTransport, and an internal modem. http://support.apple.com/kb/SP394
You could run a PPP stack and multitask internet applications cooperatively even on System 6 which is way older than Windows 95. Cute... mind you these machines required an external modem which you usually wouldn't buy from Apple as far as I remember.
Way to completely disregard the good sides of having that level of control, from a programming and system design perspective. Also, it is obvious you have next to no first-hand experience with older Mac computers because you certainly had the ability to easily program to get direct hardware access, and also, there WAS NOT a CLI, it wasn't "not readily available", there just wasn't one. Just because the interface didn't require typing didn't mean it was somehow crippled from "really getting to the back-end" of it.
He was talking about when Windows 3.0 "was really taking root" not "when it was released." It was around 1994 when most people I knew were on Windows 3.x.
My apologies. There was no article sourced in the posting and I couldn't recreate the exploit on any of the Macs in my house via SSH *or* with local physical access via Terminal.app. I kept getting:
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
No matter whether I tried ssh from remote, or local console bash.
Tested on a MacBook Pro running 10.5.3, an iBook running 10.4.11 and a g5 PPC OS X Server running 10.4.11 (Server build).
This exploit would also only be possible if the user turned on Remote Desktop Sharing which is disabled by default out of the box on 'ALL the Macs in the world'.
When you turn that service on, it warns you of the security risks and still requires additional configuration to actually allow a connection to actually execute code remotely.
Not to mention, they discriminate against women, as well.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit did an interesting episode about them. I personally think of them as a bit anacrhonistic. Unfortunately they are owned and operated by the religious right these days so change is never going to happen.
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I can't count how many laptops I've bought from the Apple Refurb web store (either for myself or for friends). Great deals always to be had there. Came in handy recently when my friend wanted a new MacBook Pro but she also wanted to be able to replace the battery. Got a nice deal on a 2.6 (late 2008 unfortunately... but it had the matte display option when it arrived!)
It's a lot like that. The last joint I smoked got me really fscked up.
Did you at least manage to recover the journal later?
I wouldn't call Lynx comprehensive...
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Excellent!!
Yup, I love KTorrent as well. I keep it running 24/7 in a virtual desktop on my Knoppmyth living room setup and VNC into it when I need to (which is only when I want to grab something from one of my RSS torrent feeds that isn't already being matched by a regex search for auto-download/seeding). I use a watch folder for my other machines in the house to download torrents.. right click, save as, into the watch folder over the network and KTorrent does the rest. And there is a nice little GUI there if I need it, but the remote admin is very useful.
Well you could always fork his sandwich and improve on it...
*rim shot*
No? Nothing? Hmm.
What about IPSec then?
Wouldn't a VPN tunnel type of connection solve this problem? They wouldn't need secured leased lines then. SSH FTW!
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Yeah, I was thinking, "this guy must not have heard of Trixbox or Asterisk"...
Pity, but on the other hand, he's rich, beeyawtch!
3. ????
4. Profit!
Pretty sure that thepiratebay.org only serves up .torrent files so it may only slightly slow down the download of these .torrents. However, the person who uses the resulting .torrent to assemble together the file described in the torrent would not be doing so over SSL links to other peers in the swarm. The impact of this on the speed of downloads is actually very minimal, as .torrent files are quite small most of the time.
Sorry, I made a typo, and meant to write 1995 up there instead of 2005, obviously. My bad.
MacTCP predates Windows 95 by *a long time*, but in case you still don't believe me you should read about Open Transport as well, which was shipping on new PowerMacs in May 2005, in other words, before Windows 95 was shipping.
Here is the Power Mac 9500 which was out in May 1995 and featured OpenTransport, and an internal modem. http://support.apple.com/kb/SP394
You could run a PPP stack and multitask internet applications cooperatively even on System 6 which is way older than Windows 95. Cute... mind you these machines required an external modem which you usually wouldn't buy from Apple as far as I remember.
Apple had ethernet as a ship-with-computer option in 1991.
Apple was shipping its OS with built-in TCP/IP support at the exact same time MS started doing so. MacTCP could use ethernet or a PPP link.
Way to completely disregard the good sides of having that level of control, from a programming and system design perspective. Also, it is obvious you have next to no first-hand experience with older Mac computers because you certainly had the ability to easily program to get direct hardware access, and also, there WAS NOT a CLI, it wasn't "not readily available", there just wasn't one. Just because the interface didn't require typing didn't mean it was somehow crippled from "really getting to the back-end" of it.
rant rant rant. deep breath. coffee.
Haha, I love John Dimmaggio as Ballmer. It sounds like Bender doing Ballmer! W00t.
Marketshare != Advancing Computing
Ever used an Amiga from 1988-1990 or so? It was crazy what they performed like in comparison to other options at the time.
He was talking about when Windows 3.0 "was really taking root" not "when it was released." It was around 1994 when most people I knew were on Windows 3.x.
Furthermore, don't they have common carrier status, so all of it is legal for them to cache??
Same here, across multiple machines/configurations/architectures (PPC/Intel).
Wonder what we are doing differently?
My apologies. There was no article sourced in the posting and I couldn't recreate the exploit on any of the Macs in my house via SSH *or* with local physical access via Terminal.app. I kept getting:
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
No matter whether I tried ssh from remote, or local console bash.
Tested on a MacBook Pro running 10.5.3, an iBook running 10.4.11 and a g5 PPC OS X Server running 10.4.11 (Server build).
So....YMMV....
This exploit would also only be possible if the user turned on Remote Desktop Sharing which is disabled by default out of the box on 'ALL the Macs in the world'.
When you turn that service on, it warns you of the security risks and still requires additional configuration to actually allow a connection to actually execute code remotely.
Oooh, applescript! you have pwnt us again.
Seconded. ktorrent is the only KDE app I keep around. I love it.
Many non-Americans think the US is the biggest threat in the world.
Not to mention, they discriminate against women, as well.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit did an interesting episode about them. I personally think of them as a bit anacrhonistic. Unfortunately they are owned and operated by the religious right these days so change is never going to happen.