Email it to some stupid people, tell them they have to run it as root or else they wont see the video of Condoleeza Rice's tits.
If you're talking about mailing it to OS X users and saying that, the general reaction would either be "duhhh, how do I do this run as root thingy? is there a menu for that? and do I need to water it afterward?" or (among the Unixy type of users) "yeah, riiiiight."
It's not like under Windows where you can get away with "just click on the OK button, OK?" type tricks. It's one thing to have stupid users. It's another thing to make it easy for them to do stupid things.
Why use oxygen-free speaker wire? For the same reason. People with too much money and too little understanding of how the human ear works (or doesn't).
I particularly enjoy the Google Ads on the Carbon Free Diamonds page. Ain't it wonderful how Google Ads can give a joke site more credibility by throwing random related ads on the page? (Buy Dehydrated Water has them too, but they're not a spiffy.)
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I already had a nice M4 file with a working configuration, and wanted to move from Linux to Panther. It was simple. Just compile it on a 10.2 box.
Sendmail was incompatible with xcode, probably because of the latest version of GCC. I just checked, and it seems to have been fixed in 8.12.11. At the time it was easier to find a 10.2 box than to dig up the compiler switch command and remember to switch it back afterwards.
Of course, Applecare costs a non-trivial amount ($350 or so, depending on the computer). I guess it's a question of you get what you pay for.
It's not a bad investment with their laptops, especially useful when you consider how much longer people hold on to Macs than do so with PCs, as you have said.
They seem to have been well trained. I've been getting people in Austin... anyone know whether they are Apple empolyees or whether it is outsourced?
The ones in Austin are actual employees. I've met a few, and I've also driven by there on trips to the main post office and seen the little Apple icons on the signs in front of the buildings.
For his part, Mr. Cohen pointed out that BitTorrent users are not anonymous and that their numeric Internet addresses are easily viewable by anyone who cares.
The evil genius of the whole BitTorrent idea is the lack of anonymity. Like the article points out, it's perfect for Linux distros and anime fansubs. But if you think nobody can know what you're sharing or who you are, you're a fool.
I use the Mac OS X version, so I don't get to see this, but a friend showed me his Windows version and you could not only see who was connected, but what their bandwidth use was too. Apparently some people know how to become super-leeches. They'll appear, and everybody else's download speed suddenly goes to zero while they suck up the whole file. Then they go away. That this is even visible to a regular client should be thought-provoking.
It took me months to find it (because nobody bothered to document it!), but fortunately I found the bandwidth limiter in the OS X version. (Click on that widget on the right side of the window title bar.) Now I can seed files without completely hosing my DSL connection.
The thing I think I like most about BitTorrent compared to other "forced sharing" models like Napster is that you get to choose what you want to share. You go to a tracker and see "hey there's no seeds on that one show I like", then share the file at 5K. That way even the leeches have to wait. Animesuki.com even has a "seeds needed" page for anything that's worse than about 10 or 15 to zero.
If they had been on dvd you'd have a point. But this was VHS, a format that wears out.
My copies aren't showing their age. Maybe that's because they aren't VHS?
There were at least four non-SE laserdisc versions released, not counting CAV vs CLV pressings. Pan-and-scan, 1-disc widescreen (time-compressed to 120 minutes), 2-disc widescreen, and the widescreen THX "faces" version (also available in a box set). I have the latter two versions.
Furrfu! Back in the days of Nimda, this was the thing that really brought the cable modem networks to their knees... the large amount of ARP bandwidth being taken up by all the packets being sent to "nearby" IP addresses and all the ARP requests being echoed nationwide. I'm surprised Comcast still has a network configured this way, but then someone in this article has called them "monkeys with wire", so maybe they really are that stupid.
Furrfu! We're talking about Microsoft making Xboxes here. I don't think Microsoft would seriously consider buying millions of used hard drives off of ebay. Or even millions of used hard drives period.
I totally don't understand not putting a hard drive in the system.
Well, first of all, it's heavy. Why do you think they've got disconnect joints in their controller cables? It's also full of moving parts and not reliable. At least when a slotted flash card goes bad, you can always get another one. And then there's the cost issue. Hard drives have a certain minimum cost regardless of their capacity.
I totally don't understand not putting a hard drive in the system.
How about just going all the way and making the controller ports be USB from the very start? I don't see why we need a new custom controller port on every new generation of console. (Sony gets a bye on this for keeping the original Playstation controller and memory port plugs.)
I'm feeling guilt over using OS X, and having my mom use it too. I mean, that's one less excuse for her to call me up and have a nice conversation. She must be feeling pretty lonely about now, what with no virus to call her son to fix.
Yes. In case you haven't tried removing the drives on these laptops, they use different styles of mounting braces. One won't fit the other. You might be able to break off various pieces and force it to fit, but that wouldn't be a very good long term solution.
That's why there's this nifty new invention called screws. They're used to hold the hard drive into the mounting bracket. The best part is that they're removable! Ain't it great all the technology we got from going to the moon?
Okay, so it has audio. But unless you mod it, it only has an RF output. And apparently people using it for artistic reasons prefer to not use the built-in tape unit (which doesn't suprise me because it's crap.)
I found a couple of those at thrift stores a few years back. Very unreliable (apparently they used a cheap casette tape transport at high speeds, which typically refused to move), limited image quality (large grayscale pixels that only take up half of a TV screen), no audio, and just plain wierd. Some cinematographer types love 'em because of the wierd effect they give.
Old hard drives can be fun. Every now and then I'll find a few-hundred-meg external hard drive or Syquest cartridge at a thrift store, and inevitably they'll be formatted HFS, since Mac users were the only ones to use external drives.
One drive that I found in Houston was originally used in 1992-1993 by an engineer at Read-Rite corporation (a hard drive heads maker that went out of business a couple of years back due to management gone very bad). That was probably in California, so how it ended up in Houston ten years later would make an interesting story.
I've also found a couple of tapes with interesting information on them, but they're a lot more trouble to read.
I wonder if a PowerMac video card will work. They both use Open Firmware/Open Boot, which is I think is supposed to be CPU independent, so maybe the ROM requirements are the same.
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If you're talking about mailing it to OS X users and saying that, the general reaction would either be "duhhh, how do I do this run as root thingy? is there a menu for that? and do I need to water it afterward?" or (among the Unixy type of users) "yeah, riiiiight."
It's not like under Windows where you can get away with "just click on the OK button, OK?" type tricks. It's one thing to have stupid users. It's another thing to make it easy for them to do stupid things.
Huh? I normally drag MP3 files to iTunes and then press the play button anyhow.
Why use oxygen-free speaker wire? For the same reason. People with too much money and too little understanding of how the human ear works (or doesn't).
It didn't say the 1 ton was all one piece!
So how many people are going to take them up on their offer of the "binary T-shirt"?
Actually, "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark because it was on national television (NBC Dateline) last night.
I particularly enjoy the Google Ads on the Carbon Free Diamonds page. Ain't it wonderful how Google Ads can give a joke site more credibility by throwing random related ads on the page? (Buy Dehydrated Water has them too, but they're not a spiffy.)
Sendmail was incompatible with xcode, probably because of the latest version of GCC. I just checked, and it seems to have been fixed in 8.12.11. At the time it was easier to find a 10.2 box than to dig up the compiler switch command and remember to switch it back afterwards.
It's not a bad investment with their laptops, especially useful when you consider how much longer people hold on to Macs than do so with PCs, as you have said.
They seem to have been well trained. I've been getting people in Austin... anyone know whether they are Apple empolyees or whether it is outsourced?
The ones in Austin are actual employees. I've met a few, and I've also driven by there on trips to the main post office and seen the little Apple icons on the signs in front of the buildings.
In this article, the punters are the ones being punted by the punters. Simple, eh?
The evil genius of the whole BitTorrent idea is the lack of anonymity. Like the article points out, it's perfect for Linux distros and anime fansubs. But if you think nobody can know what you're sharing or who you are, you're a fool.
I use the Mac OS X version, so I don't get to see this, but a friend showed me his Windows version and you could not only see who was connected, but what their bandwidth use was too. Apparently some people know how to become super-leeches. They'll appear, and everybody else's download speed suddenly goes to zero while they suck up the whole file. Then they go away. That this is even visible to a regular client should be thought-provoking.
It took me months to find it (because nobody bothered to document it!), but fortunately I found the bandwidth limiter in the OS X version. (Click on that widget on the right side of the window title bar.) Now I can seed files without completely hosing my DSL connection.
The thing I think I like most about BitTorrent compared to other "forced sharing" models like Napster is that you get to choose what you want to share. You go to a tracker and see "hey there's no seeds on that one show I like", then share the file at 5K. That way even the leeches have to wait. Animesuki.com even has a "seeds needed" page for anything that's worse than about 10 or 15 to zero.
My copies aren't showing their age. Maybe that's because they aren't VHS?
There were at least four non-SE laserdisc versions released, not counting CAV vs CLV pressings. Pan-and-scan, 1-disc widescreen (time-compressed to 120 minutes), 2-disc widescreen, and the widescreen THX "faces" version (also available in a box set). I have the latter two versions.
Furrfu! Back in the days of Nimda, this was the thing that really brought the cable modem networks to their knees... the large amount of ARP bandwidth being taken up by all the packets being sent to "nearby" IP addresses and all the ARP requests being echoed nationwide. I'm surprised Comcast still has a network configured this way, but then someone in this article has called them "monkeys with wire", so maybe they really are that stupid.
Furrfu! We're talking about Microsoft making Xboxes here. I don't think Microsoft would seriously consider buying millions of used hard drives off of ebay. Or even millions of used hard drives period.
Well, first of all, it's heavy. Why do you think they've got disconnect joints in their controller cables? It's also full of moving parts and not reliable. At least when a slotted flash card goes bad, you can always get another one. And then there's the cost issue. Hard drives have a certain minimum cost regardless of their capacity.
I totally don't understand not putting a hard drive in the system.
How about just going all the way and making the controller ports be USB from the very start? I don't see why we need a new custom controller port on every new generation of console. (Sony gets a bye on this for keeping the original Playstation controller and memory port plugs.)
That's what they get for outsourcing their software.
RTFA. The explosion happened in the Siberian wilderness. Unless you're worried that the hundreds are all deer.
Does it run on Vaxen?
There's two ways to do something. The right way and the Microsoft way.
I'm feeling guilt over using OS X, and having my mom use it too. I mean, that's one less excuse for her to call me up and have a nice conversation. She must be feeling pretty lonely about now, what with no virus to call her son to fix.
That's why there's this nifty new invention called screws . They're used to hold the hard drive into the mounting bracket. The best part is that they're removable! Ain't it great all the technology we got from going to the moon?
Okay, so it has audio. But unless you mod it, it only has an RF output. And apparently people using it for artistic reasons prefer to not use the built-in tape unit (which doesn't suprise me because it's crap.)
I found a couple of those at thrift stores a few years back. Very unreliable (apparently they used a cheap casette tape transport at high speeds, which typically refused to move), limited image quality (large grayscale pixels that only take up half of a TV screen), no audio, and just plain wierd. Some cinematographer types love 'em because of the wierd effect they give.
One drive that I found in Houston was originally used in 1992-1993 by an engineer at Read-Rite corporation (a hard drive heads maker that went out of business a couple of years back due to management gone very bad). That was probably in California, so how it ended up in Houston ten years later would make an interesting story.
I've also found a couple of tapes with interesting information on them, but they're a lot more trouble to read.
I wonder if a PowerMac video card will work. They both use Open Firmware/Open Boot, which is I think is supposed to be CPU independent, so maybe the ROM requirements are the same.