No, what will happen when they are proven wrong is that the "offender" will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and made an example of. There is no technical way that these computers can be made unhackable, so they will be made to be legally unhackable instead.
These machines will be as unhackable as the Titanic was unsinkable.
All the Government are doing is putting out a challenge and ultimately proving that a committee of "IT Experts" will be no match for a determined teenage schoolboy who wants to look at porn.
Apple had to drop FireWire? I don't know if you've looked at an Apple computer recently, but every single Apple computer sold today, with the exception of the entry-level white polycarbonate MacBook has FireWire.
The iPod dock connector is what I believe you're referring to, and while it's proprietary, it's also very well documented for developers and carries a lot more than just plain ol' USB. It has, among other things, pins for FireWire (deprecated on iPods) analogue audio and video and a control channel...
As usual, what will end up happening will be something between the two extremes.
Not every news site will be able to, or even want to go with a paid subscription model. Some sites that are charging for content at present, such as the WSJ, will continue to do so. Quite a few more will make the shift to paid access, only some of these will be successful in doing so, some will fold and the rest will go back to the present model of advertising.
What people will see real value in, and will be accepting of paying for is opinion, insight and thought. Current events are raw data - they happen and they're reported as-is. Where the value lies is turning that raw data into information and this is what people will pay for. As an example, anyone can walk into the Australian Bureau of Statistics and get raw import/export data for commodities. There is no value in someone else simply republishing these statistics. What there is value in is looking at the series over time, analysing the data with your knowledge of the industry, saying why things happened in the past and what they're likely to do in the future. People will pay a lot of money for this kind of information.
One thing to be aware - the current version of Novell Groupwise, has a bug in it's AFP stack that prevents Snow Leopard clients from connecting to shares.
InstaDMG from AFP548 is a great way to build SOE images from a collection of packages.
DeployStudio is a great way to get the images on a hard drive.
NetBoot/NetRestore is also a good way to get an image on a drive.
If you really like tinkering, you can tweak the supplied Mac OS X installer, and modify the list of packages it knows about. Using Adobe's enterprise deployment toolkit, for instance, you can package up CS4 with serialisation, and have the installer call these packages after it's installed the bare OS, but this is a lot of work.
I still use tools like the Enterprise Deployment Toolkit, but use the packages it creates in an InstaDMG workflow.
For the server - Mac OS X Server is good as a general solution and (not having tried Snow Leopard server in any kind of heavy-duty deployment) I use Kerio Mail Server as a general groupware solution - it's as close to a drop-in replacement for Exchange as you'll get on the Mac platform, and as well as serving IMAP and CalDAV clients really well, it can also serve Outlook.
Storage and backup is really critical - there's Apple's rebadged Promise RAID units if you want everything to be all Apple, and there are some good third-party alternatives. Backup to tape is pretty important with any kind of serious server deployment - I use LTO libraries wherever possible...
Typing is an important skill. Whilst a lot of people who use a computer 8 hours a day can end up typing relatively quickly using two or three fingers on each hand, to take it to the next level does require learning the basics properly.
I've taken typing courses and whilst I don't type exactly as per the proper method, using all fingers all the time, I'm a lot quicker than I would have been had I just learnt by doing it. As boring as the exercises were at the time, they were a great benefit to me later on in life. After doing a typing course, I wasn't touch typing properly, but I was able to use most fingers to hit the correct keys and looking at the keyboard about half the time. Over time, by practising more, I can now type without looking at the keyboard. As a side effect of a modern life in front of a computer, I can now type significantly faster than I can write by hand.
Interestingly enough, a lot of typing courses focus on learning the keyboard and accuracy - from the days of typewriters where a mistake was either a "type the whole page again" event, or it significantly slowed you down as you got out the white-out. Now, I don't think that accuracy is as critical as it used to be, but the speed is very important.
Webkit is in a state of flux - it's not a constant at the moment.
There are a number of versions of the Webkit library in use - Safari 3 uses one version, Safari 4 another one. Chrome uses (I'm guessing) yet another one and then there's the latest Webkit nightly builds - http://webkit.org/
This browser is simply a wrapper around Webkit - so things like passing Acid3 with a 100/100 score is something that it inherits by default. It's not like the developers of this project did anything in particular, other than chose to use Webkit, to make it pass Acid3 or be standards compliant in other areas...
As mentioned above, Webkit isn't the most unix-like unix software being a big, monolithic program written in C++ .
All this project does is wrap a purposely obtuse front-end around a popular, open source browser engine.
A) Have a PS3 B) Installed Linux on it C) Used Linux on it for more than 5 minutes as a "Hey, look, this thing runs linux. Cool... Reboot."
This is a non-event, no-one buys a PS3 to install Linux on it as the cool hardware that you might want to play with isn't accessible from Linux anyway.
Have you bought a Windows machine lately? No, me either. But, from what I can tell, what you get is a computer loaded up with Windows, some trial version of the anti-virus flavour of the month, ads on the desktop, more crap 3rd party utility software installed, a 30-day trial of Office, and a whole heap of useless OEM utilities that don't do much more than serve ads up to you for the vendor from whom you recently purchased a computer.
As to being complicated: If that is your argument, then all the English speaking countries should switch to metric according to your logic. Obviously, a lot of people don't like that. So why is it okay here and not okay there?
Well, yes, I completely agree with this. There's no reason not to be using a metric system in this day and age.
If the USB memory sticks were large enough (capacity-wise) this could actually have quite and impressive bandwidth and could easily rival a dedicated fixed-line broadband connection. It's the latency that kills you on this one though!
Removing the software requires them to re-do the image from scratch. Machines these days, even if you don't purchase Office with them, generally come with what's called the OPK - OEM Preinstallation Kit installed. It's a copy of Office, sitting there on the hard drive, just waiting for a serial number to be entered to activate it. Depending on the serial number entered, it will then become that particular flavour of Office. Even if you chose the option that they have when configuring the machine to order to not have Office installed, I'm betting that you still get office on the hard drive, you just don't get the serial number to activate it.
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
I'm not sure if you're being ironic here or not, but that statement isn't as stupid as one might think. I've been admining Solaris systems for years and what you mention there is exactly what you would do. Telnet into the Remote System Console (RSC) and you are on the console of the machine (no fancy framebuffer here) where you can do everything you would were you sitting in front of the machine with a keyboard and a display. You can power it on and off. You can soft and hard boot it and you can definitely telnet in and sort out the settings on the NIC.
The good old days of the Happy Meal Ethernet interface (hme)...
From what I hear, and my own experience, CS3 works. There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater - Upgrade to 10.6 and keep using CS3.
Problem solved.
If you're unsure about running in a non-officially supported configuration, don't sweat it. If you have a bit of a look on Google you will actually find that Adobe doesn't support using any of the Creative Suite apps when working off a network volume... Which covers something like >90% of the use of Creative Suite in the real world.
If Adobe don't support something this fundamental to a graphics workflow, merely using CS3 on 10.6 is nothing to lose sleep over.
Have a look at Ponoko - they're great for making one-off items, like this case, from all sorts of laser-cut materials. I'm not affiliated with Ponoko, just a happy customer. Looking at the design of the case, if it wasn't laser-cut, it should have been - a case like that would be trivial to get sorted out with the precision of laser cutting...
There's a lot of very cool visual elements in there but no indication of any actual story
This, IMHO, is exactly what I want in a trailer. I want to see what the movie looks like, but I don't want to know much, if anything at all, about the story. District 9's trailers were good in this aspect that they didn't give away the whole storyline and they didn't show all of the coolest fx in one go, there was still a lot to discover in the movie even after watching all the trailers.
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No, what will happen when they are proven wrong is that the "offender" will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and made an example of. There is no technical way that these computers can be made unhackable, so they will be made to be legally unhackable instead.
These machines will be as unhackable as the Titanic was unsinkable.
All the Government are doing is putting out a challenge and ultimately proving that a committee of "IT Experts" will be no match for a determined teenage schoolboy who wants to look at porn.
Apple had to drop FireWire? I don't know if you've looked at an Apple computer recently, but every single Apple computer sold today, with the exception of the entry-level white polycarbonate MacBook has FireWire.
The iPod dock connector is what I believe you're referring to, and while it's proprietary, it's also very well documented for developers and carries a lot more than just plain ol' USB. It has, among other things, pins for FireWire (deprecated on iPods) analogue audio and video and a control channel...
As usual, what will end up happening will be something between the two extremes.
Not every news site will be able to, or even want to go with a paid subscription model. Some sites that are charging for content at present, such as the WSJ, will continue to do so. Quite a few more will make the shift to paid access, only some of these will be successful in doing so, some will fold and the rest will go back to the present model of advertising.
What people will see real value in, and will be accepting of paying for is opinion, insight and thought. Current events are raw data - they happen and they're reported as-is. Where the value lies is turning that raw data into information and this is what people will pay for. As an example, anyone can walk into the Australian Bureau of Statistics and get raw import/export data for commodities. There is no value in someone else simply republishing these statistics. What there is value in is looking at the series over time, analysing the data with your knowledge of the industry, saying why things happened in the past and what they're likely to do in the future. People will pay a lot of money for this kind of information.
One thing to be aware - the current version of Novell Groupwise, has a bug in it's AFP stack that prevents Snow Leopard clients from connecting to shares.
http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/snowleopard.html
Radmind can be good.
InstaDMG from AFP548 is a great way to build SOE images from a collection of packages.
DeployStudio is a great way to get the images on a hard drive.
NetBoot/NetRestore is also a good way to get an image on a drive.
If you really like tinkering, you can tweak the supplied Mac OS X installer, and modify the list of packages it knows about. Using Adobe's enterprise deployment toolkit, for instance, you can package up CS4 with serialisation, and have the installer call these packages after it's installed the bare OS, but this is a lot of work.
I still use tools like the Enterprise Deployment Toolkit, but use the packages it creates in an InstaDMG workflow.
For the server - Mac OS X Server is good as a general solution and (not having tried Snow Leopard server in any kind of heavy-duty deployment) I use Kerio Mail Server as a general groupware solution - it's as close to a drop-in replacement for Exchange as you'll get on the Mac platform, and as well as serving IMAP and CalDAV clients really well, it can also serve Outlook.
Storage and backup is really critical - there's Apple's rebadged Promise RAID units if you want everything to be all Apple, and there are some good third-party alternatives. Backup to tape is pretty important with any kind of serious server deployment - I use LTO libraries wherever possible...
In Soviet Russia, jobs hunt you...
Can we get rid of it? Surely COBOL has developed faults over time, just like a train that's been running since 1850 would have.
Or, just maybe, it's proven itself to be stable, reliable, well-understood, suited to the purpose for which it's used and relatively bug free?
Nah, of course not. It's old and busted. Bring on the new hotness.
Yes, but what you don't mention is what happened to him in his 41st year. I assume he's 6 feet underground now?
From the summary "...which is technology in Snow Leopard that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of multi-core parallelism"
Typing is an important skill. Whilst a lot of people who use a computer 8 hours a day can end up typing relatively quickly using two or three fingers on each hand, to take it to the next level does require learning the basics properly.
I've taken typing courses and whilst I don't type exactly as per the proper method, using all fingers all the time, I'm a lot quicker than I would have been had I just learnt by doing it. As boring as the exercises were at the time, they were a great benefit to me later on in life. After doing a typing course, I wasn't touch typing properly, but I was able to use most fingers to hit the correct keys and looking at the keyboard about half the time. Over time, by practising more, I can now type without looking at the keyboard. As a side effect of a modern life in front of a computer, I can now type significantly faster than I can write by hand.
Interestingly enough, a lot of typing courses focus on learning the keyboard and accuracy - from the days of typewriters where a mistake was either a "type the whole page again" event, or it significantly slowed you down as you got out the white-out. Now, I don't think that accuracy is as critical as it used to be, but the speed is very important.
Yes, wouldn't it be terrible if Apple actually fixed issues with their OS...
A feature that can't be accessed by MAPI? Just how do you think Outlook talks to Exchange?
I think you mean IMAP and DAV there...
Webkit is in a state of flux - it's not a constant at the moment.
There are a number of versions of the Webkit library in use - Safari 3 uses one version, Safari 4 another one. Chrome uses (I'm guessing) yet another one and then there's the latest Webkit nightly builds - http://webkit.org/
This browser is simply a wrapper around Webkit - so things like passing Acid3 with a 100/100 score is something that it inherits by default. It's not like the developers of this project did anything in particular, other than chose to use Webkit, to make it pass Acid3 or be standards compliant in other areas...
As mentioned above, Webkit isn't the most unix-like unix software being a big, monolithic program written in C++ .
All this project does is wrap a purposely obtuse front-end around a popular, open source browser engine.
Hands up all those who:
A) Have a PS3
B) Installed Linux on it
C) Used Linux on it for more than 5 minutes as a "Hey, look, this thing runs linux. Cool... Reboot."
This is a non-event, no-one buys a PS3 to install Linux on it as the cool hardware that you might want to play with isn't accessible from Linux anyway.
Yes, because remember kids, nothing good has ever come from military funded research. You know, like the internet...
Have you bought a Windows machine lately? No, me either.
But, from what I can tell, what you get is a computer loaded up with Windows, some trial version of the anti-virus flavour of the month, ads on the desktop, more crap 3rd party utility software installed, a 30-day trial of Office, and a whole heap of useless OEM utilities that don't do much more than serve ads up to you for the vendor from whom you recently purchased a computer.
As to being complicated: If that is your argument, then all the English speaking countries should switch to metric according to your logic. Obviously, a lot of people don't like that. So why is it okay here and not okay there?
Well, yes, I completely agree with this. There's no reason not to be using a metric system in this day and age.
If the USB memory sticks were large enough (capacity-wise) this could actually have quite and impressive bandwidth and could easily rival a dedicated fixed-line broadband connection. It's the latency that kills you on this one though!
Removing the software requires them to re-do the image from scratch.
Machines these days, even if you don't purchase Office with them, generally come with what's called the OPK - OEM Preinstallation Kit installed. It's a copy of Office, sitting there on the hard drive, just waiting for a serial number to be entered to activate it. Depending on the serial number entered, it will then become that particular flavour of Office.
Even if you chose the option that they have when configuring the machine to order to not have Office installed, I'm betting that you still get office on the hard drive, you just don't get the serial number to activate it.
Completely off topic here...
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
I'm not sure if you're being ironic here or not, but that statement isn't as stupid as one might think. I've been admining Solaris systems for years and what you mention there is exactly what you would do. Telnet into the Remote System Console (RSC) and you are on the console of the machine (no fancy framebuffer here) where you can do everything you would were you sitting in front of the machine with a keyboard and a display. You can power it on and off. You can soft and hard boot it and you can definitely telnet in and sort out the settings on the NIC.
The good old days of the Happy Meal Ethernet interface (hme)...
From what I hear, and my own experience, CS3 works.
There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater - Upgrade to 10.6 and keep using CS3.
Problem solved.
If you're unsure about running in a non-officially supported configuration, don't sweat it.
If you have a bit of a look on Google you will actually find that Adobe doesn't support using any of the Creative Suite apps when working off a network volume... Which covers something like >90% of the use of Creative Suite in the real world.
If Adobe don't support something this fundamental to a graphics workflow, merely using CS3 on 10.6 is nothing to lose sleep over.
Have a look at Ponoko - they're great for making one-off items, like this case, from all sorts of laser-cut materials. I'm not affiliated with Ponoko, just a happy customer. Looking at the design of the case, if it wasn't laser-cut, it should have been - a case like that would be trivial to get sorted out with the precision of laser cutting...
This, IMHO, is exactly what I want in a trailer. I want to see what the movie looks like, but I don't want to know much, if anything at all, about the story. District 9's trailers were good in this aspect that they didn't give away the whole storyline and they didn't show all of the coolest fx in one go, there was still a lot to discover in the movie even after watching all the trailers.