No, it really happens for real. Don't call bull because Jobs has your blinders on too tight. These problems CAN and DO occur.
I am an IT Manager looking after about 40 Mac OS X computers and we are staying on Tiger for the vast majority of them at this time. Our Art Director's Dual G5 with a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display began to exhibit this exact problem after our Leopard upgrade, including the Dock flashing as well when apps are started or quit. (basically whenever there is Dock animation).
The Leopard Graphics Update helped address the Dock flashing but Windows still behave strangely (flashing when moving or resizing, or distorting when you move them around) under Leopard on this hardware. I had a similar issue on my 20 inch Intel iMac at home which only started after applying the 10.5.2 update (which also broke the WiFi on my D-Link Draft-N router but that's another conversation), but in that case the Graphics Update completely solved the window flashing issues. It seems like YMMV depending on the combination of hardware and software you are using, but NONE of the machine I look after that use 10.4.x exhibit ANY such problems. It definitely has something to do with Leopard and will probably improve as Apple QA catches up with the job they should have been doing before releasing Leopard.
CBC isn't Canada's PBS. CBC is Canada's BBC. Huuuuuge difference.
This is a good thing, and more significant than if PBS was doing it.
This is the federal government funding the seeding of torrent files. That lends a lot of legitimacy to a P2P protocol that certain stakeholders (both domestic and international) would love to stamp out completely.
We have used these for years in my office, they just keep going and going: http://www.ute.com/product_info.php?id=19/. They cost roughly $100 but sometimes they can be found for much less.
So you're saying that in this metaphor, Linux just makes excuses and passes the blame on to the user? I would think TuxMan would say something more along the lines of "Okay, because when I'm around BSOD simply ceases to exist" and the BSOD would have vanished in a puff of logic.
Maybe I Googled "domain name registration" and used the "I'm feeling lucky" button but I already have another registrar in mind. Maybe my preferred, inexpensive registrant, has an excellent interface on their website but a crappy WHOIS client that's overloaded and runs slow. Conversely, maybe I really really really like the WHOIS tool that is on your site because I can select multiple TLDs, but I find NetSol's prices to be too high (which I do, not that it matters).
Or maybe it's because YOUR WHOIS SERVER IS ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET AND WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO HAVE A REASON.
If you don't want non-customers to WHOIS on your server than make people pay for WHOIS requests, and we'll see how the free market reacts to that. You're telling me NetSol with its higher prices and HUGE legacy customer base can't compete with the cheap-o registrars to the extent that they will tie up someone's domain name in order to gain a competitive edge against.. their customers? It doesn't sound like you are a very good domain name registrar if people using your web site for WHOIS lookups is actually a serious business concern that has effected the bottom line enough to be this greedy about it.
Even just considering what intelligent observers who register a lot of domain names would think of a dick move like this should be enough for a large company to consider the public relations problems that come with deceiving potential customers like this.
My first internet email address was provided by a UUCP dialup usenet gateway / email provider ran by volunteers from the ham radio community in my neighborhood. Their website is still up, although hugely stale: http://www.bohica.net/
They gave me a bohica.net subdomain which I could use with UUCP to provide email addresses to all of the users from my old dialup BBS,which they could check when they logged in through their private mail on the board.
Nobody ever really asked us what bohica stood for when they saw our email addresses, but the ops from the UUCP gateway told me when I asked... I instantly felt super-leet, having such a unique domain name for email addresses back when it was actually tough to find good free e-mail access.
Not that I have a point or anything, just wanted to chime in about BOHICA.
To use GMail for your business on the cheap, just set up an email forwarder for your domain name for your business that sends to your Gmail account, and then add the address for that forwarder in your GMail preferences as an alternative address. You will be able to send/receive to and from your forwarder address using GMail afterwards.
Just sayin'.. it is likely that a lot of businesses and/or organizations may be using a method like this to make use of GMail specifically because they have, by far, one of the most useable webmail apps available. Security? When you are outsourcing your email hosting to Google you shouldn't expect it to be more than reasonably secure, like any other web site that uses user logins, there is always ways to get in (including social engineering and brute force cracking).
That's what I was thinking - "so what, it takes only a few minutes to sign back up again."
Well worth the effort, compared to the alternative. At least there is a mechanism in place to get your number(s) off the list, because that was once not the case.
There aren't always technological solutions to social problems. Parents still need to be parents and hopefully her kid was raised well enough to not want to go around her attempts at blocking his pr0n-love. However, that is extremely unlikely, and there isn't really anything she can do besides establish a relationship with her son that is able to influence him away from WANTING to surf porn. If he wants to, he will be able to, one way or the other. Gotta love it.
My most realistic response to her would be to no longer subscribe to the internet at home at all. This is not likely to be practical for her, however.
And he's totally right too. I am using a 7 or 8 year old MS Optical Wheel Mouse that has literally outlived several dozen Apple and Logitech mice in our office. And it has great features and feels nice on the hand and wrist as well. It seems that MS must outsource production of their input hardware, but whoever does it must be getting paid well and have good qualifications because overall their keyboards/mice/joystick equipment Just Works(tm), even with Macs.
It's the one group of offerings from MS I can recommend without guilt to others.
Cheers to Cecil for his work maintaining this distribution.
I can also attest to what he said -- I just this past weekend upgraded my Knoppmyth R5E50 to the new RFC1. There were very few problems -- mostly relating to my own custom lirc stuff having to be held back as well, and in addition there was a slight bug in the restore process (the process which takes you tar.gz backup file, and restores your database settings to match what you previously had configured). Despite the fact that it said the restoration failed, everything worked. It turned out to just be some Democracy Player cache files that didn't get restored correctly. So, like, whatever. It was a MUCH less painful experience than I was worried it was going to be -- I put off the upgrade for months before biting the bullet this past Sunday.
Anyway, Knoppmyth has been solving my TV needs for months now. I actually found that as time goes on, it works better for me to just use KTorrent (http://www.ktorrent.org/) running in the background monitoring RSS feeds sure beats the crap out of using a TV Tuner to receive your shows. Gonna eBay that PVR-500 I bought a few months ago soon, and I just disconnected my analog cable service in favor of this method.
Of course, I only watch public domain content using the aforementioned method.... i swear;)
VolumeWorks, although it is not free or open source, has worked *extremely* well for me. Mind you, I have only used it to resize and move HFS partitions on a Mac-formatted partition table. I haven't created PC Partitions with it, resized ext2/3, or anything weird like that. I have also had luck using the PPC port of Ubuntu's LiveCD, to partition a PC-style partition table on a Mac that was going to be set up as a file server running Linux.
YMMV. Best of luck! Not an employee of SubRosaSoft (makers of VolumeWorks), just a happy customer.
1) FreeBSD is under the hood with most common base system utilities pre-configured from Apple at time of shipment. You can install Fink or Darwinports to get an apt-get repository of OSX-binary distributions of many open source packages as well.
2) Java is much better on the new Dual Core machines than it was on PPC mac. Can't comment on how fast it is in comparison to non-macs, though.
3) In general, Tiger is quite stable and things work as advertised, for the most part. It's the first OSX release since 10.0 that actually feels mature/complete, IMHO.
4) A huge amount of open source software will compile on these machines/on this platform. Not as much as is available for most Linux distros, but unless you have very specific/unusual needs, chances are whatever utils you are using at the command line have OSX ports available. Check this out: http://fink.sourceforge.net/
5) Meh. MacBook Pros seem a little fragile/too expensive to drop. If you are a rough user of your laptops it's not the best choice, but Mac laptops prior to the MBP do tend to last several years as long as they aren't abused. (in general)
6) The MacBook Pros that are Core Duo (haven't tried the Core 2 Duo) feel extremely snappy and responsive in the UI, especially compared to Tiger running on PPC which is dog-slow without a gig of RAM. Tiger (Universal Binary verison) seems to be a more optimized port than the PPC version was. I was really impressed, mind you, with how fast the Parallels Desktop software (see http://www.parallels.com/ runs Windows XP on these machines. Windows actually feels fast enough to be fooled into thinking it's the primary boot-up operating system, it doesn't feel virtualized at all. Not sure if this is to the credit of Apple, Parallels, Intel, or Microsoft, but the virtualization of multiple OS's on these new dual processor Intel-based Macs is a nice reason to look at buying them. Our accountant where I worked has always been forced to use this old Win3.1 app to send her payroll to the company that manages our pay, and so we had to use Parallels running XP on her new Mac for it, and it works like a charm!
7) It takes a little getting used to, but it works very well once your fingers are accustomed to it. Not sure how easy it is on your hands long-term. I've always found trackpads a little annoying in general, but I can't even hold a PS2 controller without feeling aches and pains in my hands.
Note, these are all just my own general observations, and that YMMV.
I hope they continue to support Target Disk Mode via Firewire 800, and even if they had a similar way of doing the same thing with USB would be nice - that feature has saved my ass an innumerable amount of times. It makes for a nice troubleshooting option and makes things like Carbon Copy Cloner possible... glad to hear that Apple is not sending FireWire the way of the floppy disk just yet.
Actually, I am employed by a call centre (in an IT position) whose only focus is calling businesses. We never call anyone at home, especially not after hours. We market our products to businesses extremely successfully via this method; what a nice break from doing "real work" a call from us might be for some bored store clerk in a small town somewhere. This medium for marketing works as long as it is appropriate to the product being offered, which in our case it is. But, I suspect, the days of retailers hawking stuff at you during dinner time at your home are probably mostly over, at least where I am, that sort of thing isn't (very) common.
Business to business telemarketing is probably a large industry, and it flies under the radar a lot because of the high profile of the "other type" of telemarketing. It would seem to me there could be a few good applications of this type of technology, especially if it could provide real-time feedback on screen to our agents about how well their pitch is going. I doubt it could ever really get too accurate. Probably about as accurate as speech recognition and lie detectors, though, I suppose...
I went back to that site to copy and paste those lyrics and came across the next verse, which I couldn't resist but also paste in. Sorry, Fridays and all that... but seriously, how come this guy's site hasn't been slashdotted?
Rub your case up the side Parallel port so wide Touch your USB drive Gonna make you come alive like Johnny 5 My bootloader is large My hard disk is in charge From Woody to Sarge Upgrading my kernel, I'm no-holds-barred Overclocking the beat While I'm stroking my meat And you're feeling the heat Turn your case fans off so we can be discreet I'm turning the screw Your apple turns blue I'm fucking a computer and you wish it was you
MC Copulation is wayyyyyyy funnier when it comes to being a white nerdy parodist. He's much more geeky, for example. Sample of his lyrics:
I Fucked A Computer
LOAD "SEX RAP",8,1 Stuff my right-inch into your 1541 I'm done with girls made of meat and skin Gonna find a computer and plug it in When you're made of skin or aluminum I grab my lambskin, you're like a theremin Making noise like oscillation on a sine I boned you through the grapevine Take your pants off -- wait, you don't have pants You're a machine I'm living every nerd's secret wet dream Mod the box in tubesocks; your CPU rocks Harder than ten cocks or the walls of Fort Knox Run rox and view your filetree Look, a picture of me dressed scantily cp/home/me then cd into the sex directory
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No, it really happens for real. Don't call bull because Jobs has your blinders on too tight. These problems CAN and DO occur.
I am an IT Manager looking after about 40 Mac OS X computers and we are staying on Tiger for the vast majority of them at this time. Our Art Director's Dual G5 with a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display began to exhibit this exact problem after our Leopard upgrade, including the Dock flashing as well when apps are started or quit. (basically whenever there is Dock animation).
The Leopard Graphics Update helped address the Dock flashing but Windows still behave strangely (flashing when moving or resizing, or distorting when you move them around) under Leopard on this hardware. I had a similar issue on my 20 inch Intel iMac at home which only started after applying the 10.5.2 update (which also broke the WiFi on my D-Link Draft-N router but that's another conversation), but in that case the Graphics Update completely solved the window flashing issues. It seems like YMMV depending on the combination of hardware and software you are using, but NONE of the machine I look after that use 10.4.x exhibit ANY such problems. It definitely has something to do with Leopard and will probably improve as Apple QA catches up with the job they should have been doing before releasing Leopard.
You should check out this midi cable...
This is an even better patch...
CBC isn't Canada's PBS. CBC is Canada's BBC. Huuuuuge difference.
This is a good thing, and more significant than if PBS was doing it.
This is the federal government funding the seeding of torrent files. That lends a lot of legitimacy to a P2P protocol that certain stakeholders (both domestic and international) would love to stamp out completely.
We have used these for years in my office, they just keep going and going: http://www.ute.com/product_info.php?id=19/. They cost roughly $100 but sometimes they can be found for much less.
So you're saying that in this metaphor, Linux just makes excuses and passes the blame on to the user? I would think TuxMan would say something more along the lines of "Okay, because when I'm around BSOD simply ceases to exist" and the BSOD would have vanished in a puff of logic.
Maybe I Googled "domain name registration" and used the "I'm feeling lucky" button but I already have another registrar in mind. Maybe my preferred, inexpensive registrant, has an excellent interface on their website but a crappy WHOIS client that's overloaded and runs slow. Conversely, maybe I really really really like the WHOIS tool that is on your site because I can select multiple TLDs, but I find NetSol's prices to be too high (which I do, not that it matters).
.. their customers? It doesn't sound like you are a very good domain name registrar if people using your web site for WHOIS lookups is actually a serious business concern that has effected the bottom line enough to be this greedy about it.
Or maybe it's because YOUR WHOIS SERVER IS ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET AND WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO HAVE A REASON.
If you don't want non-customers to WHOIS on your server than make people pay for WHOIS requests, and we'll see how the free market reacts to that. You're telling me NetSol with its higher prices and HUGE legacy customer base can't compete with the cheap-o registrars to the extent that they will tie up someone's domain name in order to gain a competitive edge against
Even just considering what intelligent observers who register a lot of domain names would think of a dick move like this should be enough for a large company to consider the public relations problems that come with deceiving potential customers like this.
As was Office version X and even Office 2001 for OS 9... AFAIR
Actually, Apple was doing Data Detectors in 1998, which is this feature in an early form, but essentially could do the same thing. Here's a link: http://web.archive.org/web/19980128233606/http://applescript.apple.com/data_detectors/index.html
My first internet email address was provided by a UUCP dialup usenet gateway / email provider ran by volunteers from the ham radio community in my neighborhood. Their website is still up, although hugely stale: http://www.bohica.net/
They gave me a bohica.net subdomain which I could use with UUCP to provide email addresses to all of the users from my old dialup BBS,which they could check when they logged in through their private mail on the board.
Nobody ever really asked us what bohica stood for when they saw our email addresses, but the ops from the UUCP gateway told me when I asked... I instantly felt super-leet, having such a unique domain name for email addresses back when it was actually tough to find good free e-mail access.
Not that I have a point or anything, just wanted to chime in about BOHICA.
does it run Linux?
*ducking*
To use GMail for your business on the cheap, just set up an email forwarder for your domain name for your business that sends to your Gmail account, and then add the address for that forwarder in your GMail preferences as an alternative address. You will be able to send/receive to and from your forwarder address using GMail afterwards.
Just sayin'.. it is likely that a lot of businesses and/or organizations may be using a method like this to make use of GMail specifically because they have, by far, one of the most useable webmail apps available. Security? When you are outsourcing your email hosting to Google you shouldn't expect it to be more than reasonably secure, like any other web site that uses user logins, there is always ways to get in (including social engineering and brute force cracking).
That's what I was thinking - "so what, it takes only a few minutes to sign back up again."
Well worth the effort, compared to the alternative. At least there is a mechanism in place to get your number(s) off the list, because that was once not the case.
There aren't always technological solutions to social problems. Parents still need to be parents and hopefully her kid was raised well enough to not want to go around her attempts at blocking his pr0n-love. However, that is extremely unlikely, and there isn't really anything she can do besides establish a relationship with her son that is able to influence him away from WANTING to surf porn. If he wants to, he will be able to, one way or the other. Gotta love it.
My most realistic response to her would be to no longer subscribe to the internet at home at all. This is not likely to be practical for her, however.
And he's totally right too. I am using a 7 or 8 year old MS Optical Wheel Mouse that has literally outlived several dozen Apple and Logitech mice in our office. And it has great features and feels nice on the hand and wrist as well. It seems that MS must outsource production of their input hardware, but whoever does it must be getting paid well and have good qualifications because overall their keyboards/mice/joystick equipment Just Works(tm), even with Macs.
It's the one group of offerings from MS I can recommend without guilt to others.
Cheers to Cecil for his work maintaining this distribution.
;)
I can also attest to what he said -- I just this past weekend upgraded my Knoppmyth R5E50 to the new RFC1. There were very few problems -- mostly relating to my own custom lirc stuff having to be held back as well, and in addition there was a slight bug in the restore process (the process which takes you tar.gz backup file, and restores your database settings to match what you previously had configured). Despite the fact that it said the restoration failed, everything worked. It turned out to just be some Democracy Player cache files that didn't get restored correctly. So, like, whatever. It was a MUCH less painful experience than I was worried it was going to be -- I put off the upgrade for months before biting the bullet this past Sunday.
Anyway, Knoppmyth has been solving my TV needs for months now. I actually found that as time goes on, it works better for me to just use KTorrent (http://www.ktorrent.org/) running in the background monitoring RSS feeds sure beats the crap out of using a TV Tuner to receive your shows. Gonna eBay that PVR-500 I bought a few months ago soon, and I just disconnected my analog cable service in favor of this method.
Of course, I only watch public domain content using the aforementioned method.... i swear
Interestingly, neither of those resolve on my Mac OS X 10.4.8 PPC + Camino web browser combination.
Works great on my LAN's gateway box though... (the decimal address)
Steve
VolumeWorks, although it is not free or open source, has worked *extremely* well for me. Mind you, I have only used it to resize and move HFS partitions on a Mac-formatted partition table. I haven't created PC Partitions with it, resized ext2/3, or anything weird like that. I have also had luck using the PPC port of Ubuntu's LiveCD, to partition a PC-style partition table on a Mac that was going to be set up as a file server running Linux.
YMMV. Best of luck! Not an employee of SubRosaSoft (makers of VolumeWorks), just a happy customer.
Get out of my mind! That is my entire routine summed up in a slashdot post. ARGH. I'm going to go cry now.
1) FreeBSD is under the hood with most common base system utilities pre-configured from Apple at time of shipment. You can install Fink or Darwinports to get an apt-get repository of OSX-binary distributions of many open source packages as well.
2) Java is much better on the new Dual Core machines than it was on PPC mac. Can't comment on how fast it is in comparison to non-macs, though.
3) In general, Tiger is quite stable and things work as advertised, for the most part. It's the first OSX release since 10.0 that actually feels mature/complete, IMHO.
4) A huge amount of open source software will compile on these machines/on this platform. Not as much as is available for most Linux distros, but unless you have very specific/unusual needs, chances are whatever utils you are using at the command line have OSX ports available. Check this out: http://fink.sourceforge.net/
5) Meh. MacBook Pros seem a little fragile/too expensive to drop. If you are a rough user of your laptops it's not the best choice, but Mac laptops prior to the MBP do tend to last several years as long as they aren't abused. (in general)
6) The MacBook Pros that are Core Duo (haven't tried the Core 2 Duo) feel extremely snappy and responsive in the UI, especially compared to Tiger running on PPC which is dog-slow without a gig of RAM. Tiger (Universal Binary verison) seems to be a more optimized port than the PPC version was. I was really impressed, mind you, with how fast the Parallels Desktop software (see http://www.parallels.com/ runs Windows XP on these machines. Windows actually feels fast enough to be fooled into thinking it's the primary boot-up operating system, it doesn't feel virtualized at all. Not sure if this is to the credit of Apple, Parallels, Intel, or Microsoft, but the virtualization of multiple OS's on these new dual processor Intel-based Macs is a nice reason to look at buying them. Our accountant where I worked has always been forced to use this old Win3.1 app to send her payroll to the company that manages our pay, and so we had to use Parallels running XP on her new Mac for it, and it works like a charm!
7) It takes a little getting used to, but it works very well once your fingers are accustomed to it. Not sure how easy it is on your hands long-term. I've always found trackpads a little annoying in general, but I can't even hold a PS2 controller without feeling aches and pains in my hands.
Note, these are all just my own general observations, and that YMMV.
I hope they continue to support Target Disk Mode via Firewire 800, and even if they had a similar way of doing the same thing with USB would be nice - that feature has saved my ass an innumerable amount of times. It makes for a nice troubleshooting option and makes things like Carbon Copy Cloner possible... glad to hear that Apple is not sending FireWire the way of the floppy disk just yet.
Actually, I am employed by a call centre (in an IT position) whose only focus is calling businesses. We never call anyone at home, especially not after hours. We market our products to businesses extremely successfully via this method; what a nice break from doing "real work" a call from us might be for some bored store clerk in a small town somewhere. This medium for marketing works as long as it is appropriate to the product being offered, which in our case it is. But, I suspect, the days of retailers hawking stuff at you during dinner time at your home are probably mostly over, at least where I am, that sort of thing isn't (very) common.
Business to business telemarketing is probably a large industry, and it flies under the radar a lot because of the high profile of the "other type" of telemarketing. It would seem to me there could be a few good applications of this type of technology, especially if it could provide real-time feedback on screen to our agents about how well their pitch is going. I doubt it could ever really get too accurate. Probably about as accurate as speech recognition and lie detectors, though, I suppose...
I went back to that site to copy and paste those lyrics and came across the next verse, which I couldn't resist but also paste in. Sorry, Fridays and all that... but seriously, how come this guy's site hasn't been slashdotted?
It only goes on from there...
It's unethical if your ethics favour corporations, but not if they favour people and good health...