That's probably because the bug requires that you be in "Task Switch" mode to trigger it. The FPU works just fine as long as you only use it in user mode.
Um, if it's "gong-shaped", how can you still call it a "bar"? Bars are long, narrow things. Gongs are round things. Pie are not square.
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Only because 1) there's no shell to take easy control of the system with, and 2) there's no memory protection, so buffer overflows have no way of knowing what address a given programs stack is located at.
The system will crash rather than be taken over. So while it's more "secure" from being taken over, it would be much easier to DoS into crashing.
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Apple has always said that they would continue to produce these machines in response to demand for them. That they've stopped producing them means that demand has dropped sufficiently for them to rely on existing stocks. So clearly, the "lifeline" isn't so important any more.
Why on earth would they want to let the frames from Shrek get out onto the net where rampant piracy and trading would ensue, just so your computer could turn in a frame a week?
The heck with that, why would they want the 3D wireframe models to get out on the net? What do people think the frames are rendered from, anyhow? I predict it would be less than one week between someone figuring out how to extract the models, and someone else making a low-res animation of those models doing the nasty with each other.
If you doubt this, just try this from a terminal launched from any admin account:
I did, but instead of deleting the file, it asked me for my password!:-)
Seriously, with sudo, you still have to enter your password. You might as well call the standard admin security authorization dialog at that point. But "rm -rf ~/" on your home directory is still fair game to a cheap trojan.
Sputnik the satellite also weighed 183 pounds. I think with modern technology we could reduce the payload weight a tad. A little less payload, a lot less rocket.
Russia launched the first satellite in October 1957. The 50th anniversary is less than 3 1/2 years away.
It would be great if someone could get an amateur rocket to put a satellite into orbit in October 2007 to celebrate the anniversary. At this rate, it might even be possible.
The only compelling reason for the existence of playfair is so that you can use the music you've legally purchased in whatever format you want. (Maybe you want to buy an Ipaq instead of an ipod for example).
Remind me again how Apple (or anybody) is forcing you to buy music with DRM included? I seem to have missed that part.
Service packs are equivalent to the 'y' in Apple's 10.x.y release numbering. Which means that Apple has released the equivalent of at least 20 free service packs in the same five years. Plus, 10.1.0 was a free upgrade as well. In three (?) years, Microsoft has only released a single service pack for XP.
The ImageWriter firmware was by Apple. The printer wasn't designed to do graphics, but it was so well-built that it handled them with no problem.
High-speed serial interface? Yeah, 9600 baud was REAL high-speed. The only ImageWriter with a "high-speed" interface was the ImageWriter II if you installed the very optional Appletalk option board. And the original StyleWriter was also from Canon. The ink cartridges are interchangeable.
I had the installer crap out on me (just exited, not even an alert window) when trying to upgrade the developer tools a couple of weeks ago. Turns out there was something wrong in its package subdirectory/Library/Receipts/DeveloperTools.pkg. Apparently there was a file in there that had gotten crosslinked, even though I run journaling. So I rebooted into single-user mode and ran fsck on my boot disk. Then I deleted the package subdirectory and it installed just fine.
I recommend booting into single-user mode (command-s during restart) and forcing a fsck of your boot disk. (Something like 'fsck -fy/' but single user mode prints a reminder right before giving you a shell.)
Be careful... I've heard that the really cheap CD-Rs may not even have a usable lifetime of one year! If you really want to be sure, burn three CD-Rs with the exact same data, and pad 'em out with PAR2 files.
Now if I just had a way to get my 8+ year old e-mails out of that stupid AOL "file cabinet" database and into my home IMAP server along with my other old e-mails.
There are apparently people out there who can get things out of file cabinet DBs, but they charge money to do it. If anybody knows of publically available documentation for that damn database file format, please post a link to it.
For those of you running OS X who don't want to scroll through the three thousand lines of version information in the securityfocus.com link, if you're running 10.3.3 you should be fine, because 10.3.3 uses Apache 1.3.29.
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That's because you're using SMP.
That's probably because the bug requires that you be in "Task Switch" mode to trigger it. The FPU works just fine as long as you only use it in user mode.
Um, if it's "gong-shaped", how can you still call it a "bar"? Bars are long, narrow things. Gongs are round things. Pie are not square.
The system will crash rather than be taken over. So while it's more "secure" from being taken over, it would be much easier to DoS into crashing.
Apple has always said that they would continue to produce these machines in response to demand for them. That they've stopped producing them means that demand has dropped sufficiently for them to rely on existing stocks. So clearly, the "lifeline" isn't so important any more.
The heck with that, why would they want the 3D wireframe models to get out on the net? What do people think the frames are rendered from, anyhow? I predict it would be less than one week between someone figuring out how to extract the models, and someone else making a low-res animation of those models doing the nasty with each other.
What's wrong, son, ain't never heard of Trekkies? Sheesh, kids these days.
That might be because the food product is properly called SPAM. (Follow your own links!)
I did, but instead of deleting the file, it asked me for my password! :-)
Seriously, with sudo, you still have to enter your password. You might as well call the standard admin security authorization dialog at that point. But "rm -rf ~/" on your home directory is still fair game to a cheap trojan.
Sputnik the satellite also weighed 183 pounds. I think with modern technology we could reduce the payload weight a tad. A little less payload, a lot less rocket.
It would be great if someone could get an amateur rocket to put a satellite into orbit in October 2007 to celebrate the anniversary. At this rate, it might even be possible.
I thought they were just using mankind's original anesthetic before doing the procedure.
Remind me again how Apple (or anybody) is forcing you to buy music with DRM included? I seem to have missed that part.
Now I won't have to get an antenna rotator to get a good OTA HDTV signal!
You weren't using a G3 Firewire Powerbook.
Service packs are equivalent to the 'y' in Apple's 10.x.y release numbering. Which means that Apple has released the equivalent of at least 20 free service packs in the same five years. Plus, 10.1.0 was a free upgrade as well. In three (?) years, Microsoft has only released a single service pack for XP.
High-speed serial interface? Yeah, 9600 baud was REAL high-speed. The only ImageWriter with a "high-speed" interface was the ImageWriter II if you installed the very optional Appletalk option board. And the original StyleWriter was also from Canon. The ink cartridges are interchangeable.
What new CPUs? They just taped-out a new SPARC CPU and then promptly abandoned it. At least they're not going with the Itanic.
I recommend booting into single-user mode (command-s during restart) and forcing a fsck of your boot disk. (Something like 'fsck -fy /' but single user mode prints a reminder right before giving you a shell.)
Now all we need is for it to be compatible with Xcode.
Yes, but if you lie them down on a flatbed scanner with the lid up, they could theoretically still be read with the proper software.
Be careful... I've heard that the really cheap CD-Rs may not even have a usable lifetime of one year! If you really want to be sure, burn three CD-Rs with the exact same data, and pad 'em out with PAR2 files.
Okay, so I found AOLeave, but that's meant for PC only, and I've got Mac-format file cabinet files. Still, it's a start.
There are apparently people out there who can get things out of file cabinet DBs, but they charge money to do it. If anybody knows of publically available documentation for that damn database file format, please post a link to it.
For those of you running OS X who don't want to scroll through the three thousand lines of version information in the securityfocus.com link, if you're running 10.3.3 you should be fine, because 10.3.3 uses Apache 1.3.29.