So why did your little brother turn remote login on in the first place? I know that is was disabled by default in OS X 10.1 and it is in OS X 10.2.
Apart from that, "safari goatse.cx" doesn't work at all. The best shot you have is the following: "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari http://goatse.cx", which doesn't open http://goatse.cx.
Shutdown won't work unless you sudo it. You knew his root password? Oh, yeah, well in that case he was screwed anyway. Giving a password to your asshole brother never helps.
So, I doubt this little brother of you existed. Besides, are you proud now? He is probably runnning Windows XP with all it's security holes and is infected with more spyware by using Internet Explorer. Yes, you really did a good deed to the world....
I'm not even a Mac fanboy, but you need to check your facts.
Never seen it that way... Not that I own a MP3 player. I'm not really into the market for one. I am one of these people that still buy CD's and never bothered to rip any of his CD to harddisk. I find it too much work (swapping disks all the time).
Well, while I agree that nobody should buy a Windows machine these days for security reasons, I just think his example of the hidden administrator account is stupid. Hey, I'm using Mac OS X and it has a "secret administration account", which is called root. Yeah, it's disabled from the beginning, but doing "sudo passwd root" and you have activated it.
Not having any experience with XP machines: I hope the default password for the Administrator account on XP isn't an empty string. IIRC it was on Win2000, but I never had the problem because I always config my machines multi-user (and Admin gets a real password)
Some of this will be disk cache, and some will be pre-caching applications that it thinks you are likely to use soon
That is indeed the "inactive" part of the memory. If you tend to use the same apps all the time, the pre-loading is very useful. Of course, disk caching is always useful (especially on a laptop). Note that Linux does this too. If you run KPM it will tell you how much is used for disk caching. So, in essence: the more RAM the better... especially if you're a power-user.:-) Don't forget I was just talking about the "moderate computer use" where it really isn't as important anymore. (Haven't seen a new computer with less than 256Meg these days)
It's easy to fit a new DIMM into any of their machines
It even is nicely documented in the manuals. Unclick keyboard. Fit it, done... You don't need to be a hardware Wizard to do it.
Ah, games... Well, with games the more RAM the better. To my experience at least. However, I only played the games that came with my iBook and they ran perfectly fine.
As other posters said: don't buy RAM at Apple. I got (2 years ago) some fine 256Meg DIMM from Kingston for a reasonable 150Euro or so... I expect that 512Meg will cost the same about these days. Perhaps you can even find cheaper by not going for Kingston (which isn't the cheapest after all)
RAM is always worth it to enhance the longevity of computers, more than CPU power is. My servers (both of them) are measily P166 machines but they have 128Meg respectively 256Meg and they never ever use it all up (both run OpenBSD).
Strangely enough I found using a one-button trackpad way easier than the single-button mouse on a Mac desktop.
The trick is that the Ctrl, Alt and the Apple button are just next to the trackpad. You can either use your left hand that is on the keyboard anyway to hold either of those buttons and the right hand to click (and control the trackpad), or you just use one hand in order to click and push one of the meta-keys (thumb on button, index on meta-key).
It sounds complicated, but it really isn't. I too was scared of the one button mouse whan I bought my iBook two years ago. I even bought a nice Logitec Optical with it in case I couldn't handle the one-button trackpad. I gave the one button trackpad a try though, and guess what still is in it's original box? The Logitec mouse... (Not really, I gave it to my sister, but you get the point)
While Mac OS X is usable with 256 MB, I think most Slashdot users would want to bink that up to 640 MB right away.
Right, or perhaps not... Anyways, 2 years ago I bought an iBook (G3 600Mhz with 384Meg of RAM). I thought like you: the standard (onboard) 128Meg RAM is not enough, I need more. I just had money left for another 256Meg so that is what I took.
I installed Memory Monitor which is a nifty tool that shows you the memory usage in the Dock.
I was appalled to see all my memory was eaten up! I said to myself "this can't be true". Of course, it wasn't true: I didn't read the documentation that came with Memory Monitor and what seemed to be "used up memory" was actually "Inactive" memory. Which is described in the help as "physical memory that has stuff in it, but it's stuff that isn't actually in use. Unix is 'lazy' about cleaning up memory. It marks it 'inactive' but doesn't bother cleaning it out until it's needed." So if I look now at my memory usage, I have used a bit more than one third of my total memory (okay, I'm ignoring swapspace for the moment) is in use. That is those ominous 128Meg it came with, and I agree I would be swapping like hell now. Okay, I am personally glad I have more memory because on occasions I need it. But in normal operation like now (open apps: Finder, Mail, Safari, Mozilla 1.5.1, Terminal, CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor, Stickies and Help Viewer), the 256Meg that you mentioned would have done it.
Yes, I like a lot of RAM, but Mac OS X manages it quite well.
Try recompiling your Linux kernel. It takes time (after you've downloaded the latest source) you have to wait and wait and wait and for those of us still doing things that make us wait and wait and wait speed becomes an issue.
Depends how you spend your time. I used to recompile 2.4.x kernels on a P120 with 32Meg RAM. (That's not even so long ago, but it was the only computer I had). I think it took about 4 hours. I never took time to benchmark it. I just ran it overnight. Before going to bed, issue the commands, and in the morning the kernel was there. So, from my point of view, I didn't have to wait much: after all, I was sleeping;-)
Note: the kernel I used was pretty much customized: no modules and only the stuff I needed was included in the kernel, which usually resulted in a pretty small kernel. And yes, that computer was quite usable as a desktop. (okay, surfing, email, and chat..but still)
I live in Europe. Most things on ebay don't ship to Europe, so I don't bother checking ebay. Thanks for your kind thoughts though. (same thing goes for ebay.fr or ebay.de, they mostly only ship in their own country)
I would have.... I didn't find any 16-bit PCMCIA NIC in any store I went. They were all 32-bit. you can tell them apart because you can't fit 32-bit PCMCIA cards in 16-bit slots: they have little "blocking bubbles" on the connector side of the card.
No, you can't have my laptop. In some distant future, when I manage to steal^H^H^H^H^Hscavenge a 16-bit PCMCIA NIC from work I will turn it into an MP3 player steaming files from my fileserver. At work they still have some 16-bit PCMCIA NIC's but the Admin refuses to give one to me: he says he just might need it one day. *sigh*
I bought an iBook instead, so it was one expensive shopping spree;-)
Her machine had 32 megs of RAM and a P166 MMX processor.
Sorry, but I have used a Toshiba CT210 for over a year running a slimmed down version of Slackware with WindowMaker and Opera. It worked *very* fine, and that machine was a P120 with 32Meg of RAM. The only reason I bought another laptop is that the dongle of my PCMCIA NIC broke and it was impossible to find a replacement.
The only thing I could not do was run something like OpenOffice, but I didn't bother because I mainly used it for surfing anyway.
No, but I need to drive there. Count half an hour for that, then waiting till they reset the thing, count another half an hour. That's one hour of my day wasted (and that I'll be later at work, which my boss will surely appreciate)
Yeah... non-critical. That is right, however consider how annoying it is just to go back to your car dealer when there is such a "minor" problem. Look, I never had any major problems with my car, and I'm pretty happy with it. Yesterday, during maintenance they had to replace my battery. Pretty normal for a 3.5 year old car. However when I came home the electrical window system didn't work anymore (only drivers side). Which is really kind of annoying if you need a keycard to enter at work. I called them today describing the problem, and they told me: oh, that's nothing mechanical, we just need to reset the computer.
Uhm, yes.... I understand... However this means me losing lots of my time going there, getting replacement car, going back, picking up my car, etc... Yes, it is non-critical, but even non-critical stuff can be extremely annoying.
Back in the good old days, I actually let my computer infect on purpose. Just once, yes, it was a bitch to clean. I got however the opportunity to dissect the thing in memory. I do not remember what year it was, but the Tequila virus was spreading like a wildfire. My AV detected the diskette with Tequilla. I had nothing important on the machine, disabled the AV, and staring hunting.
While reading the live memory, I found a message stating "Tequilla and Beer forever" along with an address in Switserland if I recall correctly. Ah, those where the days.... Where viruses were no lame email worms but appended themselves to executables.
Hey, that is nothing! I did my first raytracing steps on a 286 (Yes, I had a 256K VGA card). Long time ago... I think the package was called "Vivid" and it had a version for 286. Usually, I programmed the scene, then let it render overnight. If I was lucky, it would be done in the morning.
Well, I can't tell for the guy remembering his 486, but I can tell you what my first PC was: a IBM PS/2 Model 50 featuring a 80286 CPU at a whopping 10Mhz and the incredible amount of one whole megabyte of RAM. Not to forget the *huge* harddisk of 20 megabytes (no kidding) and the superior graphics of "classic VGA". That means 256K of graphics memory being able to do 320x200 at 8 bit colour depth or 640x480 at 4 bit colour depth.
Oh, and did I mention this machine was based on the MCA bus. Yes, later we actually bought an MCA Soundblaster (version 1, not "Pro" or anything fancy). Oh, and we had an Adaptec MCA SCSI controller. Ahhh... those were the times...
That machine was in use till about 1995.... We cheated by buying a MicroMaster 486 board (that was an add-on card with a 486DX 25Mhz CPU and an additional 8Megs of RAM)
I have never asked how much this thing had costed my dad... I don't think I want to know....
You dial a number on the very position-standardized keypad (so even those with functional eyes can usually dial a phone without looking)
Exactly! I don't know about other cellphones, but mine has a little "feelable" dot on the "5" key. If you know where the 5 is, you know where all other keys are. Low-tech solution for the blind and people with bad visibility.
remember you've only got one week left to get a dashboard cradle and hands-free kit fitted
I my country it has been illegal for quite some time. I never bought a real handsfree kit. The cheap ones look crappy and I don't want that in my (expensive) car. There are the good ones that go for around 1000Euro, but I'm not willing to afford that for they odd call I could get in my car.
The easy solution is this: let the goddanmed phone ring while you drive. If you can (not on a highway), just drive to the next place you can stop and reply then. If you can't do that, well, too bad, you missed a call... You'd have missed it too if you would have been in the bathroom.
This has worked pefectly fine for me the last years, it's legal, and the cheapest solution alltogether.
That strange... A few months ago I bought a Siemens M55 without attached contract for 189Euro. I thought that it was pretty cheap for the features offered.
Of course, I could have changed service and get a new phone (most of the time Nokia, and I don't like Nokia) along with a contract for 1Euro, but I like my service. Heck, my customer number with that service is lower than your slashdot ID number;-)
DVDs: can't copy them, can't fast-forward through ads
As many have said already, you can copy DVD's. That is not what I was going to ask however. I do have about 20 DVD's. Blockbuster movies, classic movies, some anime and some European films. On none of these DVD's there are advertisements that you can't skip. It's even better: there are no advertisements at all. The only thing I can think of are the included trailers of other movies, but you have to decide to view them by browing the menu.
The only thing I had so far that is not skippable are the movie studio logo's and the copyright notice. You *could* consider them as advertisements, but I don't really do.
All my DVD's are zone 2... Never bothered to buy a Zone 1. I can be patient...
I'm quoting "van Dale, Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal"
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Look, you may be Dutch and I'm just one of those silly Flemish guys in the south, but please just admit your mistake (typo, I even will take it as a typo) instead of blaming it on your language. You can often blame it on your language, but in this particular instance, you cannot....
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Apart from that, "safari goatse.cx" doesn't work at all. The best shot you have is the following: "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari http://goatse.cx", which doesn't open http://goatse.cx.
Shutdown won't work unless you sudo it. You knew his root password? Oh, yeah, well in that case he was screwed anyway. Giving a password to your asshole brother never helps.
So, I doubt this little brother of you existed. Besides, are you proud now? He is probably runnning Windows XP with all it's security holes and is infected with more spyware by using Internet Explorer. Yes, you really did a good deed to the world....
I'm not even a Mac fanboy, but you need to check your facts.
Never seen it that way... Not that I own a MP3 player. I'm not really into the market for one. I am one of these people that still buy CD's and never bothered to rip any of his CD to harddisk. I find it too much work (swapping disks all the time).
Not having any experience with XP machines: I hope the default password for the Administrator account on XP isn't an empty string. IIRC it was on Win2000, but I never had the problem because I always config my machines multi-user (and Admin gets a real password)
That is indeed the "inactive" part of the memory. If you tend to use the same apps all the time, the pre-loading is very useful. Of course, disk caching is always useful (especially on a laptop). Note that Linux does this too. If you run KPM it will tell you how much is used for disk caching. So, in essence: the more RAM the better... especially if you're a power-user. :-) Don't forget I was just talking about the "moderate computer use" where it really isn't as important anymore. (Haven't seen a new computer with less than 256Meg these days)
It's easy to fit a new DIMM into any of their machines
It even is nicely documented in the manuals. Unclick keyboard. Fit it, done... You don't need to be a hardware Wizard to do it.
As other posters said: don't buy RAM at Apple. I got (2 years ago) some fine 256Meg DIMM from Kingston for a reasonable 150Euro or so... I expect that 512Meg will cost the same about these days. Perhaps you can even find cheaper by not going for Kingston (which isn't the cheapest after all)
RAM is always worth it to enhance the longevity of computers, more than CPU power is. My servers (both of them) are measily P166 machines but they have 128Meg respectively 256Meg and they never ever use it all up (both run OpenBSD).
Strangely enough I found using a one-button trackpad way easier than the single-button mouse on a Mac desktop.
The trick is that the Ctrl, Alt and the Apple button are just next to the trackpad. You can either use your left hand that is on the keyboard anyway to hold either of those buttons and the right hand to click (and control the trackpad), or you just use one hand in order to click and push one of the meta-keys (thumb on button, index on meta-key).
It sounds complicated, but it really isn't. I too was scared of the one button mouse whan I bought my iBook two years ago. I even bought a nice Logitec Optical with it in case I couldn't handle the one-button trackpad. I gave the one button trackpad a try though, and guess what still is in it's original box? The Logitec mouse... (Not really, I gave it to my sister, but you get the point)
Right, or perhaps not... Anyways, 2 years ago I bought an iBook (G3 600Mhz with 384Meg of RAM). I thought like you: the standard (onboard) 128Meg RAM is not enough, I need more. I just had money left for another 256Meg so that is what I took.
I installed Memory Monitor which is a nifty tool that shows you the memory usage in the Dock.
I was appalled to see all my memory was eaten up! I said to myself "this can't be true". Of course, it wasn't true: I didn't read the documentation that came with Memory Monitor and what seemed to be "used up memory" was actually "Inactive" memory. Which is described in the help as "physical memory that has stuff in it, but it's stuff that isn't actually in use. Unix is 'lazy' about cleaning up memory. It marks it 'inactive' but doesn't bother cleaning it out until it's needed."
So if I look now at my memory usage, I have used a bit more than one third of my total memory (okay, I'm ignoring swapspace for the moment) is in use. That is those ominous 128Meg it came with, and I agree I would be swapping like hell now. Okay, I am personally glad I have more memory because on occasions I need it. But in normal operation like now (open apps: Finder, Mail, Safari, Mozilla 1.5.1, Terminal, CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor, Stickies and Help Viewer), the 256Meg that you mentioned would have done it.
Yes, I like a lot of RAM, but Mac OS X manages it quite well.
Depends how you spend your time. I used to recompile 2.4.x kernels on a P120 with 32Meg RAM. (That's not even so long ago, but it was the only computer I had). I think it took about 4 hours. I never took time to benchmark it. I just ran it overnight. Before going to bed, issue the commands, and in the morning the kernel was there. So, from my point of view, I didn't have to wait much: after all, I was sleeping ;-)
Note: the kernel I used was pretty much customized: no modules and only the stuff I needed was included in the kernel, which usually resulted in a pretty small kernel. And yes, that computer was quite usable as a desktop. (okay, surfing, email, and chat..but still)
Don't you think that the Brits would prefer to order tea. No, your plan doesn't hold ;-)
I live in Europe. Most things on ebay don't ship to Europe, so I don't bother checking ebay. Thanks for your kind thoughts though. (same thing goes for ebay.fr or ebay.de, they mostly only ship in their own country)
No, you can't have my laptop. In some distant future, when I manage to steal^H^H^H^H^Hscavenge a 16-bit PCMCIA NIC from work I will turn it into an MP3 player steaming files from my fileserver. At work they still have some 16-bit PCMCIA NIC's but the Admin refuses to give one to me: he says he just might need it one day. *sigh*
I bought an iBook instead, so it was one expensive shopping spree ;-)
Sorry, but I have used a Toshiba CT210 for over a year running a slimmed down version of Slackware with WindowMaker and Opera. It worked *very* fine, and that machine was a P120 with 32Meg of RAM. The only reason I bought another laptop is that the dongle of my PCMCIA NIC broke and it was impossible to find a replacement.
The only thing I could not do was run something like OpenOffice, but I didn't bother because I mainly used it for surfing anyway.
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No, but I need to drive there. Count half an hour for that, then waiting till they reset the thing, count another half an hour. That's one hour of my day wasted (and that I'll be later at work, which my boss will surely appreciate)
Uhm, yes.... I understand... However this means me losing lots of my time going there, getting replacement car, going back, picking up my car, etc... Yes, it is non-critical, but even non-critical stuff can be extremely annoying.
While reading the live memory, I found a message stating "Tequilla and Beer forever" along with an address in Switserland if I recall correctly. Ah, those where the days.... Where viruses were no lame email worms but appended themselves to executables.
Hey, that is nothing! I did my first raytracing steps on a 286 (Yes, I had a 256K VGA card). Long time ago... I think the package was called "Vivid" and it had a version for 286. Usually, I programmed the scene, then let it render overnight. If I was lucky, it would be done in the morning.
Oh, and did I mention this machine was based on the MCA bus. Yes, later we actually bought an MCA Soundblaster (version 1, not "Pro" or anything fancy). Oh, and we had an Adaptec MCA SCSI controller. Ahhh... those were the times...
That machine was in use till about 1995.... We cheated by buying a MicroMaster 486 board (that was an add-on card with a 486DX 25Mhz CPU and an additional 8Megs of RAM)
I have never asked how much this thing had costed my dad... I don't think I want to know....
The Sega Game Gear also used a Z80. Yeah, I still have mine, but it eats batteries for breakfast ;-)
Exactly! I don't know about other cellphones, but mine has a little "feelable" dot on the "5" key. If you know where the 5 is, you know where all other keys are. Low-tech solution for the blind and people with bad visibility.
I my country it has been illegal for quite some time. I never bought a real handsfree kit. The cheap ones look crappy and I don't want that in my (expensive) car. There are the good ones that go for around 1000Euro, but I'm not willing to afford that for they odd call I could get in my car.
The easy solution is this: let the goddanmed phone ring while you drive. If you can (not on a highway), just drive to the next place you can stop and reply then. If you can't do that, well, too bad, you missed a call... You'd have missed it too if you would have been in the bathroom.
This has worked pefectly fine for me the last years, it's legal, and the cheapest solution alltogether.
Of course, I could have changed service and get a new phone (most of the time Nokia, and I don't like Nokia) along with a contract for 1Euro, but I like my service. Heck, my customer number with that service is lower than your slashdot ID number ;-)
But...but.... it never rains in southern california! ;-)
As many have said already, you can copy DVD's. That is not what I was going to ask however. I do have about 20 DVD's. Blockbuster movies, classic movies, some anime and some European films. On none of these DVD's there are advertisements that you can't skip. It's even better: there are no advertisements at all. The only thing I can think of are the included trailers of other movies, but you have to decide to view them by browing the menu.
The only thing I had so far that is not skippable are the movie studio logo's and the copyright notice. You *could* consider them as advertisements, but I don't really do.
All my DVD's are zone 2... Never bothered to buy a Zone 1. I can be patient...
astrologie leer van sterren; thans alleen in de zin van sterrenwichtelaarij; leer van de invloed de hemellichamen op het lot en de aanleg van de mensen; kunst van het opstellen van horoscopen.
astronomie sterrenkunde
Look, you may be Dutch and I'm just one of those silly Flemish guys in the south, but please just admit your mistake (typo, I even will take it as a typo) instead of blaming it on your language. You can often blame it on your language, but in this particular instance, you cannot....