Don't matter on OS X.
If a carbon app uses a hard-coded path with:'s it will work.
If i make a folder on an HFS+ volume called, say, "Documents 15/06/02" it will be saved with the/'s in it's name. If i go to a bash prompt and perform a ls, Darwin knows that the shell can't handle/'s in a pathname and automagically displays them as:'s.
Basically, it all just works.
Mac apps will see/'s and unix apps will see:'s in directory/file names and it doesn't matter what type of file system they live on.
The only difference you will notice is that files with resource forks can't be stored on UFS volumes and some other apps (ported from unix) prefer to be on UFS volumes so they can play with inodes and other UFS features.
I'll second that. Fantastic unit.
Detachable face, parametric EQ (24-bit DSP), 24-bit DAC...
Best feature IMHO is that it's nowhere near as distracting as, say, a Sony or Pioneer - nice toned-down display without all those fancy animations etc...
Does also support ISO Level 2 so you can have "full" 32 character filenames, if your burning software supports it...
Also plays back CD-RW and youcan name folders on the disk with 01, 02, 03 etc and use the track-access buttons (1-12) to directly select a folder full of music.
-- k
Brilliant. Got mine for 800 Aussie Dollars, which is about 28c US =)
Plays Red Book, CD-R CD-RW, supports ID3 tags, and/or ISO Level2 filenames (32 char aplhanumeric, upper case, lower case and some foreign characters)
Has seperate AUX and Line IN(3.5mm headphone jack on front, RCAs on the back) and a nice parametric EQ.
Comes with credit-card sized remote (IR) which is actually handier than it sounds.
Nice rotary volume dial with a positive feel to it that can also pop back into the unit.
Fairly ricey but the best sounding unit i've come across
Has a detachable face with a metal plate that sits over the front of the unit in the dash so not even a single slot is visible
Only gripe: 0.5-1 sec gap between tracks while it caches the next track.
With things like bulk petroleum and the like, the manufacturers/refiners insert trace amounts of certain chemical markers that are very easy to detect - iff you know what to look for. If you don't know what to look for, they might as well be tiny quantities of impurities.
They also use mixtures of chemicals that have different quantities of isotopes to the naturally occuring versions that, once again, are easy to find, but only if you know what to search for and have the right equipment.
-- kai
Yes, the Google Toolbar _IS_ spyware, and they tell you in no uncertain terms that it is.
If you read the description of it before happily clicking OK, OK, OK, you would know exactly what information is transmitted back to Google, and why.
That groovy little "Page Rank" bar you have on the toolbar, needs to know what URL you are on, so it can give you the pagerank.
If you chose to install without the advanced features, then it wouldn't report anything back to google at all.
-- kai
Uh, dude, I've been playing Wipeout Fusion on my PS2 since I grabbed it in a local shop a week or so before christmas...
Run, don't walk, to get yourself a PlayStation 2, Wipeout and, if you can find one, an old, obsolete neGcon controller...
-- kai
Look no further than the best GUI for a Unix Based Operating System... Namely, Aqua.
The Terminal app can make the window transparent, but the text remains opaque, and each and every character has a real-time drop-shadow drawn on whatever's behind the terminal window.
The Quartz graphics model is quite amazing.
-- kai
Well, it used to be, anyway...
I use the Commonwealth Bank for some of my online banking, and in it's previous incarnation, their NetBank service used to have a _very_ secure login interface.
It would prompt you for your 8 digit NetBank ID code, and then for your variable length PIN. When the time came to enter your PIN, it popped up a keypad on the screen, disabled keyboard input and you had to click on the keypad with the mouse. In addition, the keypad moved to a random location between every click, so you couldn't even track screen coordinates...
All in all, very secure and very annoying.
They've now gone 'back' to using standard keyboard input and SSL security.
--kai
Apple seem to be saying "Don't use a skin to emulate Aqua, as the appearance, and behaviour, of Aqua is subject to change [may just be small tweaks, but changes none-the-less]. If you're going to have an app that looks like Aqua, damn well use the proper way (ie APIs) rather than making bitmaps that just happen to look like the current implementation of Aqua."
Apple have a very long history of trying to make sure apps on the mac all behave the same way (wherever possible). This leads to a smooth user experience. Apple also don't charge you the earth to get their guidelines. Go see This Page for an example of the excellent work Apple have put into the field.
I don't have a problem with someone insisting that something is done the correct way. It's less likely to break further down the track and is going to be easier to adapt to any changes Apple make to their [First Generation] Aqua GUI.
Win2k and XP both have very good system-level support for MetaData.
I was copying a file from an NTFS drive to a FAT drive the other day and the OS popped up a box telling me that the file i was copying had attached macintosh metadata information, and if i continued the copy to a FAT drive it would lose it.
With NTFS, you aren't limited to just the two forks, the Resource and Data, but can have pretty much as many forks (or Streams as they're called) associated with the file.
The only thing lacking with the streams support, is that simple commands, such as DIR only show the soze of the main $DATA stream.
This then lends itself to being a very good hiding place for stuff you really don't want found on some systems =).
-- kai
Head over to Sun and grab their free binary distro for Solaris 8.
It is four CD's worth if you really want to get going with it, although you can get away with just two (Software 1 and 2 - you can boot the installer off software 1, and even get a GUI installer).
If you want to go the whole hog, get the installer CD, the two software CDs and the Companion software CD that has heaps of goodies precompiled into installer packages, like the Gimp, KDE, Gnome, NextStep etc etc...
Otherwise, just stick with Win2k, like others have mentioned, it's really not as bad as people here on/. like to make out.
-- kai
There's an Australian company, Cochlear that's had these things working for something like ten or fifteen years now...
They're up to their third generation models now.
From their site:
Cochlear has been the innovative leader in implant technology since 1982. 14% of our revenue goes toward research and development of new technology. Our commitment to pioneering new technology has led to many cochlear implant firsts that put us at the forefront of our industry.
We were the:
First to bring cochlear implants to market.
First cochlear system to gain worldwide approval for use by adults and children.
First to offer the Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI).
First with Neural Response Telemetry (NRT).
First to offer an ear level (BTE) speech processor to all Nucleus recipients.
-- kai
Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
From the PDF File at: http://www.visionics.com/faceit/faqs/faqs.pdf
What are the major causes of face recognition failure?
a. Significant glare on eyeglasses that obstructs the eyes. Adjusting the lighting that causes the glare can typically solve this.
b. Long hair obscuring the central part of the face.
c. Poor lighting that would cause the face to be overexposed and low contrast.
d. Lack of resolution, in pixels, of the face.
So, as long as they don't ban long fringes and wraparound sunglasses or mirrorshades we're safe =)
-- kai Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
Why do developers insist on using a name that's already take, for something that is also vaguely similar.
There's no way these people haven't heard of Cascading Style Sheets, so why not call it something different and avoid all this needless confusion.
-- kai Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
To the dawn of Photography.
Is photography a fine art? Of course it is.
Was it accepted as such when it first became a popular method of expression?
No, it most definately was not.
Fast forward to now...
Do people accept computer graphics as fine art?
Well, I for one do, and other forward-thinking individuals do too... It's just takes some time before the mass market can look beyond the tools used to create art, and appreciate it for what it is.
-- kai
http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/adsl/pricing.asp
and for cable they are at:
http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/cable/pricing.asp
or click ADSL or Cable for the rates
-- kai
Many manufacturers now (and have for quite some time) make motherboards with half these devices on-board.
You can quite easily find boards with built-in Ultra160 SCSI, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, USB, FireWire and Sound, leaving the slots free for more esoteric devices.
My MSI motherboard has onboard FireWire, ATA100 RAID and Audio. They also make them with SCSI and a NIC.
I went for ATA100 RAID as it's just about as fast, and soooo much cheaper than SCSI and put the money i saved into getting a second CPU.
-- kai
All this license does is cover Google when they do the good things they do, like archive the post, reformat it in html, index it for searching, store it on their servers.
If you don't like it, post your message from one of those other unreliable hosts.
-- kai
The Sydney Morning Herald carried a vaguely similar story just today, however with an entirely different outcome.
"Extracts from the 15-year-old's diary, detailing massacre plans for Cecil Hills High School, were read to NSW Parliament by Mr Aquilina on April 10 and reporters later wrongly told there was a gun registered to his house."
"Mr Aquilina also announced his press secretary Patrick Low had taken responsibility for the debacle and had resigned."
-- kai
As has already been said, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Even if you manage to read the "full" 2352 bytes of an audio sector, there's still the subchannel information (four seperate streams) as well as the even lower level Reed-Solomon CIRC error detection and recovery codes.
There are layers upon layers of error correction applied, even to audio cd's, and the lowest of these levels you simply can't physically read through the data interface on the drive.
-- kai
I've actually used (and tried - unsucesfully - to break) the HDD Sheriff and found it to be pretty impressive.
Works fine under DOS, needs drivers for Win9x, WinNT and Win2k, not sure about other OS's.
Basically, protect your system with it, fuck it up as much as you can (format the hard disk even) and reboot - voila! back where you were...
-- kai
Slashdot Mirror
Don't matter on OS X. :'s it will work. /'s in it's name. If i go to a bash prompt and perform a ls, Darwin knows that the shell can't handle /'s in a pathname and automagically displays them as :'s. /'s and unix apps will see :'s in directory/file names and it doesn't matter what type of file system they live on.
If a carbon app uses a hard-coded path with
If i make a folder on an HFS+ volume called, say, "Documents 15/06/02" it will be saved with the
Basically, it all just works.
Mac apps will see
The only difference you will notice is that files with resource forks can't be stored on UFS volumes and some other apps (ported from unix) prefer to be on UFS volumes so they can play with inodes and other UFS features.
I'll second that. Fantastic unit.
Detachable face, parametric EQ (24-bit DSP), 24-bit DAC...
Best feature IMHO is that it's nowhere near as distracting as, say, a Sony or Pioneer - nice toned-down display without all those fancy animations etc...
Does also support ISO Level 2 so you can have "full" 32 character filenames, if your burning software supports it...
Also plays back CD-RW and youcan name folders on the disk with 01, 02, 03 etc and use the track-access buttons (1-12) to directly select a folder full of music.
-- k
Brilliant. Got mine for 800 Aussie Dollars, which is about 28c US =) Plays Red Book, CD-R CD-RW, supports ID3 tags, and/or ISO Level2 filenames (32 char aplhanumeric, upper case, lower case and some foreign characters)
Has seperate AUX and Line IN(3.5mm headphone jack on front, RCAs on the back) and a nice parametric EQ.
Comes with credit-card sized remote (IR) which is actually handier than it sounds.
Nice rotary volume dial with a positive feel to it that can also pop back into the unit.
Fairly ricey but the best sounding unit i've come across
Has a detachable face with a metal plate that sits over the front of the unit in the dash so not even a single slot is visible
Only gripe: 0.5-1 sec gap between tracks while it caches the next track.
There is one Four-Letter-Word that the GIMP is missing out on, and without it, it is useless for professional publishing.
CMYK
With things like bulk petroleum and the like, the manufacturers/refiners insert trace amounts of certain chemical markers that are very easy to detect - iff you know what to look for. If you don't know what to look for, they might as well be tiny quantities of impurities.
They also use mixtures of chemicals that have different quantities of isotopes to the naturally occuring versions that, once again, are easy to find, but only if you know what to search for and have the right equipment.
-- kai
Yes, the Google Toolbar _IS_ spyware, and they tell you in no uncertain terms that it is.
If you read the description of it before happily clicking OK, OK, OK, you would know exactly what information is transmitted back to Google, and why.
That groovy little "Page Rank" bar you have on the toolbar, needs to know what URL you are on, so it can give you the pagerank.
If you chose to install without the advanced features, then it wouldn't report anything back to google at all.
-- kai
Uh, dude, I've been playing Wipeout Fusion on my PS2 since I grabbed it in a local shop a week or so before christmas...
Run, don't walk, to get yourself a PlayStation 2, Wipeout and, if you can find one, an old, obsolete neGcon controller...
-- kai
Yes, money may be money, but Solaris is free. What does Linux offer that Solaris doesn't?
-- kai
Look no further than the best GUI for a Unix Based Operating System... Namely, Aqua.
The Terminal app can make the window transparent, but the text remains opaque, and each and every character has a real-time drop-shadow drawn on whatever's behind the terminal window.
The Quartz graphics model is quite amazing.
-- kai
ATI make a version of the Radion with a DVI interface that will quite happily drive an Apple display
Well, it used to be, anyway...
I use the Commonwealth Bank for some of my online banking, and in it's previous incarnation, their NetBank service used to have a _very_ secure login interface.
It would prompt you for your 8 digit NetBank ID code, and then for your variable length PIN. When the time came to enter your PIN, it popped up a keypad on the screen, disabled keyboard input and you had to click on the keypad with the mouse. In addition, the keypad moved to a random location between every click, so you couldn't even track screen coordinates...
All in all, very secure and very annoying.
They've now gone 'back' to using standard keyboard input and SSL security.
--kai
Apple seem to be saying "Don't use a skin to emulate Aqua, as the appearance, and behaviour, of Aqua is subject to change [may just be small tweaks, but changes none-the-less]. If you're going to have an app that looks like Aqua, damn well use the proper way (ie APIs) rather than making bitmaps that just happen to look like the current implementation of Aqua."
Apple have a very long history of trying to make sure apps on the mac all behave the same way (wherever possible). This leads to a smooth user experience. Apple also don't charge you the earth to get their guidelines. Go see This Page for an example of the excellent work Apple have put into the field.
I don't have a problem with someone insisting that something is done the correct way. It's less likely to break further down the track and is going to be easier to adapt to any changes Apple make to their [First Generation] Aqua GUI.
Win2k and XP both have very good system-level support for MetaData.
I was copying a file from an NTFS drive to a FAT drive the other day and the OS popped up a box telling me that the file i was copying had attached macintosh metadata information, and if i continued the copy to a FAT drive it would lose it.
With NTFS, you aren't limited to just the two forks, the Resource and Data, but can have pretty much as many forks (or Streams as they're called) associated with the file.
The only thing lacking with the streams support, is that simple commands, such as DIR only show the soze of the main $DATA stream.
This then lends itself to being a very good hiding place for stuff you really don't want found on some systems =).
-- kai
a real Unix, Solaris 8.
/. like to make out.
Head over to Sun and grab their free binary distro for Solaris 8.
It is four CD's worth if you really want to get going with it, although you can get away with just two (Software 1 and 2 - you can boot the installer off software 1, and even get a GUI installer).
If you want to go the whole hog, get the installer CD, the two software CDs and the Companion software CD that has heaps of goodies precompiled into installer packages, like the Gimp, KDE, Gnome, NextStep etc etc...
Otherwise, just stick with Win2k, like others have mentioned, it's really not as bad as people here on
-- kai
There's an Australian company, Cochlear that's had these things working for something like ten or fifteen years now...
They're up to their third generation models now.
From their site:
Cochlear has been the innovative leader in implant technology since 1982. 14% of our revenue goes toward research and development of new technology. Our commitment to pioneering new technology has led to many cochlear implant firsts that put us at the forefront of our industry.
We were the:
First to bring cochlear implants to market.
First cochlear system to gain worldwide approval for use by adults and children.
First to offer the Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI).
First with Neural Response Telemetry (NRT).
First to offer an ear level (BTE) speech processor to all Nucleus recipients.
-- kai
Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
For fucks sake!
how long are people going to crap on getting PS/2 and PS2 deliberately confused.
Enough Already!
-- kai
Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
From the PDF File at: http://www.visionics.com/faceit/faqs/faqs.pdf
What are the major causes of face recognition failure?
a. Significant glare on eyeglasses that obstructs the eyes. Adjusting the lighting that causes the glare can typically solve this.
b. Long hair obscuring the central part of the face.
c. Poor lighting that would cause the face to be overexposed and low contrast.
d. Lack of resolution, in pixels, of the face.
So, as long as they don't ban long fringes and wraparound sunglasses or mirrorshades we're safe =)
-- kai
Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
Why do developers insist on using a name that's already take, for something that is also vaguely similar.
There's no way these people haven't heard of Cascading Style Sheets, so why not call it something different and avoid all this needless confusion.
-- kai
Give a man a mixtape, and he'll be grooving for an hour,
To the dawn of Photography.
Is photography a fine art? Of course it is.
Was it accepted as such when it first became a popular method of expression?
No, it most definately was not.
Fast forward to now...
Do people accept computer graphics as fine art?
Well, I for one do, and other forward-thinking individuals do too... It's just takes some time before the mass market can look beyond the tools used to create art, and appreciate it for what it is.
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.
For ADSL, their (current) rates are at:
p
http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/adsl/pricing.asp
and for cable they are at:
http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/cable/pricing.as
or click ADSL or Cable for the rates
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.
Many manufacturers now (and have for quite some time) make motherboards with half these devices on-board.
You can quite easily find boards with built-in Ultra160 SCSI, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, USB, FireWire and Sound, leaving the slots free for more esoteric devices.
My MSI motherboard has onboard FireWire, ATA100 RAID and Audio.
They also make them with SCSI and a NIC.
I went for ATA100 RAID as it's just about as fast, and soooo much cheaper than SCSI and put the money i saved into getting a second CPU.
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.
All this license does is cover Google when they do the good things they do, like archive the post, reformat it in html, index it for searching, store it on their servers.
If you don't like it, post your message from one of those other unreliable hosts.
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.
The Sydney Morning Herald carried a vaguely similar story just today, however with an entirely different outcome.
"Extracts from the 15-year-old's diary, detailing massacre plans for Cecil Hills High School, were read to NSW Parliament by Mr Aquilina on April 10 and reporters later wrongly told there was a gun registered to his house."
"Mr Aquilina also announced his press secretary Patrick Low had taken responsibility for the debacle and had resigned."
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.
As has already been said, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Even if you manage to read the "full" 2352 bytes of an audio sector, there's still the subchannel information (four seperate streams) as well as the even lower level Reed-Solomon CIRC error detection and recovery codes. There are layers upon layers of error correction applied, even to audio cd's, and the lowest of these levels you simply can't physically read through the data interface on the drive.
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.
I've actually used (and tried - unsucesfully - to break) the HDD Sheriff and found it to be pretty impressive.
Works fine under DOS, needs drivers for Win9x, WinNT and Win2k, not sure about other OS's.
Basically, protect your system with it, fuck it up as much as you can (format the hard disk even) and reboot - voila! back where you were...
-- kai
Verbing Weirds Language.