This is something we've covered extensively on TheFeature. A good article that explains not only the problems outlined in the Wired article you linked to, but also offers up some insight into a solution can be found here on the site.
Well, their market cap was only about $5 million before (and sinking fast). I imagine this will do pretty damn well for their net value when they eventually get the payout.
Predicting the name of major products before they're announced seems to be a better racket than whatever they were doing before!
Now, lots of folks are going to start reading this and trying to imagine lots of ways they could break this, the possible downsides, etc. Yes, it's not completely foolproof...
No, but it's a good start. Unfortunately, any Mac can be accessed by anyone with a copy of the Mac OS 9 cd. All they need to do is put the cd into the tray and hold down the "c" key after hitting the reset switch. The machine will boot off the cd, and allow access to any file on any of the drives attached. Copy, delete, do what you like.
Granted, you can't open specific files that have been encrypted by the system. But like I said, it's a start.
What's even more interesting in my opinion is that Apple has recognized this vulnerability and finally released an
Open Firmware update that password-protects the machine before the OS is loaded - either from the cd or internal hard drive.But they don't recommend using it.
OS 9 will never have security that's on par with any *NIX OS (it's just not multi-user at its heart), but it is better than nothing.
...to convert solar energy in space to microwaves and beam them down to Earth.
Not that greenhouse gases & whatnot aren't speeding global warming along enough on their own - we'll just lend them a helping hand by superheating a few more cubic miles of atmosphere.
"While I think this is a sweet application of technology, it continuously galls me to see the misuse of the term cluster when applied to distributed parallel computing arrays such as AppleSeed or Beowulf. These are not clusters! There is no distributed lock manager present, no hardware-level device sharing (as opposed to software-level file sharing a la AFT, SMB, or NFS), no means of transparently starting, controlling, and stopping any process (not just those written to a custom API) on any node from any other node. While an excellant and usefull technology, this has a long way to go before it could be considered a true cluster..."
Not to difficult to get into X right now. If you have physical access to teh machine, all you have to do is hit the re-start button on the front and hold Command+S while booting.
It boots you into single user mode where root privledges are yours for the taking.
I suspect that this was implemented by Apple (tech support) as an emergency way to get into the system. But in the process it sure does make it a lot less secure.
Hire this guy. Even if he needs a flexible schedule to get things like school taken care of, you need his expertise. Who knows PPCs and UNIX better than this guy?
With OS X just now getting off the ground, it needs as much application support as it can get. Haaz has the know-how to take these excellent open source *NIX apps/utilities and make them fly on X. Hell, he single-handedly ported how many of them to PPC?
Anyway, Jason- thanks so much for all your hard work over the years, and good luck to you in all your future endeavors.
Is it even an option? Given the worst-case scenario, could Nintendo even opt not to sell the Gamecube? It would completely destroy their main business (hardware) to rely solely on the N64 (sales of which aren't exactly gathering steam).
The only other option Nintendo would have is to become a software/Pokemon vendor. Anyone know how much of their income doesn't depend on hardware sales?
I'm really hoping Nintendo doesn't pull a Sega, but it looks like they just might.
The thing I think I enjoyed most about the original Zelda, was the fact that once you beat the game, the ENTIRE game started again. All items, secrets, EVERYTHING was in a different place.
That shouldn't be too hard. Just create a game that calls up x amount of variables and semi-randomly assigns them properties throughout the next game (location, value, etc.). On top of that, build another collection of items/functions that are randomly included. So everytime you finish the game, you're presented with not only some re-shuffled elements, but also new elements added (and some old removed)!
Of course, the real genius would be to figure out how to do this and make the game retain its logic. But I'm surprised nothing like this has been devised yet - or has it??
Not a lot of people know that the Apple Lisa was the first personal computer ever with a GUI, and be sold with a mouse. Most people assume it was its descendant, the Macintosh.
Interestingly, the Lisa had 512K of RAM (in 1983), four times more than the Mac had when it came out over a year later.
Problem with it, though, was that it also came with a $10,000 price tag. In 1989, Apple finally junked thousands of unsold Lisas in a nearby landfill.
I expressed similar sentiment a while back about the 1.33Ghz Athlon: Far more expensive than a 1.1Ghz model, but with only a modest performance gain. So I wondered, why would anyone pay that much more for a small incremental upgrade?
I found that most people were interested in the release not because they wanted to buy the 1.33Ghz chip, but because it forces the others (like the 1.1Ghz) down dramatically.
It's sort of the same here. The GeForce3 will simply force down the price of cards like your (excellent) GeForce2 GTSII.
I agree that the price for this card is pretty insane, but without it, your GeForce2 GTSII would probably be sitting in a similar price range.
I just can't understand how anyone with half-a-brain (Linus has two) could really hate another UNIX kernel. Seriously, they're all amazing feats of software engineering.
Example: I like Chevys. I don't like Fords. In fact, I think they're pieces of crap.
Now, we all know that's not true. Those cars are all amazing feats of engineering, and it just seems like a playful, competitive impulse people have to undercut their competition's achievements. I don't think Linus hates Mach at all. He was just making a similar statement about his competition.
Sodomy is a natural act because it occurs "naturally". For example, most mammals will happily bugger each other. They don't do it because they're too stupid to find the right hole (well, some of them might), they do it because they have a "natural" desire to fqck things (normally other creatures of the same species).
Actually, you just contradicted yourself. If they do it just because they want to fqck things, then it is because they're too stupid to tell the difference - they don't make a conscious choice between the two, they just go for it.
2. Sodomy is not "extremely dangerous" as long as you have an modicum of common sense.
And a really small weener, and a bucket of vaseline.
3. Sodomy is not always painful. Lots of people actually like it. Gosh! isn't it an awful world outside!
Lot's of people really like to eat other people, which (by your use of the word) is perfectly natural too. Or is it...?
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It's actually a 8000 node cluster now.
Predicting the name of major products before they're announced seems to be a better racket than whatever they were doing before!
(Not trying to be pedantis, it's just that some people don't know.)
The real link is right here.
No, but it's a good start. Unfortunately, any Mac can be accessed by anyone with a copy of the Mac OS 9 cd. All they need to do is put the cd into the tray and hold down the "c" key after hitting the reset switch. The machine will boot off the cd, and allow access to any file on any of the drives attached. Copy, delete, do what you like.
Granted, you can't open specific files that have been encrypted by the system. But like I said, it's a start.
What's even more interesting in my opinion is that Apple has recognized this vulnerability and finally released an Open Firmware update that password-protects the machine before the OS is loaded - either from the cd or internal hard drive.But they don't recommend using it.
OS 9 will never have security that's on par with any *NIX OS (it's just not multi-user at its heart), but it is better than nothing.
That should be pretty easy - create a kick-ass piece of software that everybody uses & name it after yourself (like he did :).
Not that greenhouse gases & whatnot aren't speeding global warming along enough on their own - we'll just lend them a helping hand by superheating a few more cubic miles of atmosphere.
Sheesh!
(Don't get me wrong, I can sympathize)
It's done like this.
The G4s that Apple sells don't come in a rackmount config, but you can put them into one pretty easily.
"While I think this is a sweet application of technology, it continuously galls me to see the misuse of the term cluster when applied to distributed parallel computing arrays such as AppleSeed or Beowulf. These are not clusters! There is no distributed lock manager present, no hardware-level device sharing (as opposed to software-level file sharing a la AFT, SMB, or NFS), no means of transparently starting, controlling, and stopping any process (not just those written to a custom API) on any node from any other node. While an excellant and usefull technology, this has a long way to go before it could be considered a true cluster..."
It boots you into single user mode where root privledges are yours for the taking.
I suspect that this was implemented by Apple (tech support) as an emergency way to get into the system. But in the process it sure does make it a lot less secure.
With OS X just now getting off the ground, it needs as much application support as it can get. Haaz has the know-how to take these excellent open source *NIX apps/utilities and make them fly on X. Hell, he single-handedly ported how many of them to PPC?
Anyway, Jason- thanks so much for all your hard work over the years, and good luck to you in all your future endeavors.
But I hear the European "beeeep, beeeep" is still available...
The only other option Nintendo would have is to become a software/Pokemon vendor. Anyone know how much of their income doesn't depend on hardware sales?
I'm really hoping Nintendo doesn't pull a Sega, but it looks like they just might.
Now here's where you can get a firmware upgrade that'll make your T22's drive region-free. Nice to have Linux users in on this now.
That shouldn't be too hard. Just create a game that calls up x amount of variables and semi-randomly assigns them properties throughout the next game (location, value, etc.). On top of that, build another collection of items/functions that are randomly included. So everytime you finish the game, you're presented with not only some re-shuffled elements, but also new elements added (and some old removed)!
Of course, the real genius would be to figure out how to do this and make the game retain its logic. But I'm surprised nothing like this has been devised yet - or has it??
These things are amazing. We get closer and closer everyday.
It really sucks that he doesn't get more mention when people talk about the whole Xerox-Apple story.
Interestingly, the Lisa had 512K of RAM (in 1983), four times more than the Mac had when it came out over a year later.
Problem with it, though, was that it also came with a $10,000 price tag. In 1989, Apple finally junked thousands of unsold Lisas in a nearby landfill.
I found that most people were interested in the release not because they wanted to buy the 1.33Ghz chip, but because it forces the others (like the 1.1Ghz) down dramatically.
It's sort of the same here. The GeForce3 will simply force down the price of cards like your (excellent) GeForce2 GTSII.
I agree that the price for this card is pretty insane, but without it, your GeForce2 GTSII would probably be sitting in a similar price range.
Example: I like Chevys. I don't like Fords. In fact, I think they're pieces of crap.
Now, we all know that's not true. Those cars are all amazing feats of engineering, and it just seems like a playful, competitive impulse people have to undercut their competition's achievements. I don't think Linus hates Mach at all. He was just making a similar statement about his competition.
Actually, you just contradicted yourself. If they do it just because they want to fqck things, then it is because they're too stupid to tell the difference - they don't make a conscious choice between the two, they just go for it.
2. Sodomy is not "extremely dangerous" as long as you have an modicum of common sense.
And a really small weener, and a bucket of vaseline.
3. Sodomy is not always painful. Lots of people actually like it. Gosh! isn't it an awful world outside!
Lot's of people really like to eat other people, which (by your use of the word) is perfectly natural too. Or is it...?
Would be extremely cool to have Aqua & Enlightenment on the same machine, it would.