People who feel the need to drag their computers along on vacation...
...often really has little to do with this issue.
98% of my time spent on planes is for business travel. I work from home and the occasional remote customer site or disaster recovery facility. WHen I travel, the rest of my job doesn't just magically disappear, so spending hours in transit should not mean that my productivity must drop, especially when most of that time is spent sitting down.
On Panther it really is pico, not nano. Or perhaps something you did with Darwinports or Fink replaced pico...
I'm sorry, but the current shipping version of Mac OS X is Tiger, not Panther. Let me put it this way: The latest version of Mac OS X 10.4.7 (Intel) — you know... the one that ships with my MacBook Pro and my Mac Pro — comes with nano installed, not Pico. Further, the Mac OS X 10.4.7 (PowerPC) that's installed on my Power Mac G4 came with nano, not pico. Once again, there is a static link from/usr/bin/pico to the binary for nano.
But please, don't just take my word for it. You will find nano, not Pico, on this list.
To my knowledge, it's always been this way, and it's probably for the same reason that Pico doesn't ship with the Debian Linux distribution. Pine/Pico don't actually have a fully free license, which severely complicates matters when distributing them commercially.
Had I presumed that, I would have saved US$200 (and tax) by going to the 2.0 GHz BTO configuration.
It's US$300 less for that configuration, actually (in the US, at least), but on the cost:benefit scale, dropping.66GHz to save $300 isn't quite the same as paying an extra $800 to gain.34GHz.
But here's a thought: can you get away with installing only one quad-core processor, leave the other one bare, and use the extra space for more internal hard drives?
The 5000X chipset allows for single processor configurations, so it's probably possible.
In Australian dollars at least, it is over $1,000 extra to get the 3GHz vs the 2.66GHz CPUs in the Mac Pro - that's about US$750 at the current rate.
FYI, this processor bump costs exactly US$800 (plus applicable tax, of course) from Apple for buyers in the US.
Having always presumed it a foregone conclusion that the processors would be swappable, I opted for the standard 2.66GHz configuration and an eventual upgrade as it becomes necessary. Considering the current cost of FB-DIMMs with huge heat sinks (and my immediate need for 8GB worth of them), I opted to shift my money to that resource.
Granted, spammers wouldn't have valid addresses in the "From:" field, but I don't care whether or not a spammer gets my "rejected" message.
Actually, spam will rather often have a valid address in the "From" field. Unfortunately, it rarely ever has any true association to the originating spammer, but is instead usually simply yet another address culled from their list of potential recipients. Sometimes that address will even be yours.
As such, this practice to which you adhere actually makes you part of the problem; you're sending unsolicited automated replies to people who didn't first attempt to contact you. In other words, your mail server is generating spam, probably in great amounts.
In one year, the open-source darling Firefox has pulled within a dead heat of browser the browser popularity crown, at least on the ExtremeTech site, where each browser claims just over 43 percent of our viewers.
How interesting. Percentage-wise, visitors to the ExtremeTech web site use Firefox as much as IE. Wow... who would have guessed that Firefox is popular among computer geeks?
All of this is starting to remind me of a scene from my favorite Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
At that that I have kill'd, my lord; a fly.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;
Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:
A deed of death done on the innocent
Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:
I see thou art not for my company.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
But how, if that fly had a father and mother?
How would he hang his slender gilded wings,
And buzz lamenting doings in the air!
Poor harmless fly,
That, with his pretty buzzing melody,
Came here to make us merry! and thou hast
kill'd him.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favor'd fly,
Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
O, O, O,
Then pardon me for reprehending thee,
For thou hast done a charitable deed.
If one is in a position to simply change the context of a given wanton offense, however troublesome, then one can essentially control the definition of "right" and "wrong." Casting an excessive, prohibitively wide net and trampling the rights and basic privileges of thousands of innocents is perfectly noble, so long as it's done in the name of fighting terrorism.
"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know — important things!" - Ned Flanders {The Simpsons}
Is this how we will be warned if one is heading to hit the earth ? After the fact ?
Yes, the agencies monitoring our skies should alert the media every time a huge, ten-inch rock comes hurtling toward Earth. Thank goodness we now have actual evidence of interplanetary matter actually hitting to moon, so we can officially worry that they're not warning us of our imminent doom from... things small enough to disintegrate in our atmosphere.
The best bet instead of brute force is to do "human engineering" and look for other ways to obtain the information.
Indeed, the fastest, simplest form of cryptoanalysis involves an isolated room, a length of rubber hose, a ball-peen hammer, and the person with full knowledge of the information you require. Granted, that, too, falls into the "brute force" category, but it's often far more efficient than most exclusively computer-based methods.
I shan't. Quite simply, anyone I'd actually have to convince to vote isn't really someone I want to see fumbling around in a polling booth. If they've been around long enough to vote, yet still have not absorbed enough to grasp the significance of voting, I would never take it upon myself to try to push them into participating in the process, which is flawed enough as it already is.
--
"You know, I was watching a television program before with a sort of a
roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who are having
some sort of problems with their boyfriends, apparently because the
boyfriends have all slept with the girlfriend's mothers. Then they brought
all the boyfriends out and they fought right there on television. Toby,
tell me... these people don't vote, do they?"
- President Josiah Bartlet {The West Wing}
Do you really want the slobbering masses doing even more voting than they already have been? Honestly, aren't they the idiots who landed us in this fresh hell in the first place? I remain unconvinced that getting the stupid out to the polls is actually the way to go.
--
"Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre
Yes, but Einstein was actually applying that imagination to the conceptualization of theoretical constructs. As the full quote says,
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
Taken alone, imagination is largely without merit in the world of science unless it's specifically in aid of something else. It must be a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
--
"Folks who can't handle a self-reference paradox are real suckers!" - Tachikoma {Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex}
Re:Ma Bell? Yo no entiendo
on
Ma Bell is Back
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· Score: 3, Informative
Bell labs was named after him
Actually, Bell Labs was named after an earlier name of one of its parent companies, American Bell, which was indeed named after its founder, Alexander Graham Bell. Back in 1907, the AT&T (nee American Telephone and Telegraph Company, nee American Bell Telephone Company) and Western Electric engineering departments were combined to form what would eventually be named Bell Telephone Laboratories.
(Decades later, this entity would be spun off and renamed "Lucent Technologies.")
Indeed, I'm sure I remember reading something somewhere about the US government recently launching newer, more accurate GPS satellites. Of course, what we need these days is more alarmist rhetoric, so I suppose this is apropos.
When I was much younger, Cloak and Dagger was my favorite Marvel title. If done well, sticking somewhat close to the source material, it should be great. Anything less could easily be cringe-worthy. There's probably a fifty-fifty chance that they'll actually manage to pull it off, depending, of course, on whomever they tag as screenwriter and director.
Given that they were copying the TB-303 808 and 909 interfaces I dont see how they could own the concept of putting them on a computer screen
Propellerhead actually went through the process of getting explicit permission from Roland to copy the interfaces of the 303, 808, and 909. Regardless, David Singer (the author of ReBorn) simply doesn't feel like fighting a copyright lawsuit, even if it appears to be one he could win based on precedent alone.
Heh; I, too, went to school for architecture, but realized soon enough that I could do something that I'd considered to be closer to my idea of a good time.
I have four Sun certifications, but only because one of my past employers was required to have at least one person on staff [in our particular location] certified as a Workgroup Systems Engineer and Enterprise Systems Engineer in order to remain a reseller of their products. At the time, I'd already spent seven years working with various Sun boxes and incarnations of Solaris, so passing the exams wasn't too much of a hassle. One additional exam got me two more certs, so the company threw that in for good measure. The only real imposition was that a couple of classes were manadatory, but when I told my boss that the best places to take them were Boston, MA and Tampa, FL (my office was in Chicago), he never questioned it. I got some expenses-paid vacation time, and the Sun Fault Analysis Workshop was actually interesting.
In all, the certification process was largely pointless, as I learned very little additional information. Few secrets were revealed in the classes... except for an undocumented flag in one of the Solaris commands. I did get a clever bit of advice, though.
-- "Every time you see an Oracle DBA and a junior sysadmin together, you should immediately back up your/etc/system files."
Actually, that type of thing is quite common. A few other colloquial names for products that have been substituted with the names of their author corporations include:
Slashdot Mirror
...often really has little to do with this issue.
98% of my time spent on planes is for business travel. I work from home and the occasional remote customer site or disaster recovery facility. WHen I travel, the rest of my job doesn't just magically disappear, so spending hours in transit should not mean that my productivity must drop, especially when most of that time is spent sitting down.
I'm sorry, but the current shipping version of Mac OS X is Tiger, not Panther. Let me put it this way: The latest version of Mac OS X 10.4.7 (Intel) — you know... the one that ships with my MacBook Pro and my Mac Pro — comes with nano installed, not Pico. Further, the Mac OS X 10.4.7 (PowerPC) that's installed on my Power Mac G4 came with nano, not pico. Once again, there is a static link from /usr/bin/pico to the binary for nano.
But please, don't just take my word for it. You will find nano, not Pico, on this list.
To my knowledge, it's always been this way, and it's probably for the same reason that Pico doesn't ship with the Debian Linux distribution. Pine/Pico don't actually have a fully free license, which severely complicates matters when distributing them commercially.
It's nano, actually (err... GNU nano; sorry), not pico.
[Satori:~] osiris% ls -al /usr/bin/pico /usr/bin/pico -> nano
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 28 02:53
It's US$300 less for that configuration, actually (in the US, at least), but on the cost:benefit scale, dropping .66GHz to save $300 isn't quite the same as paying an extra $800 to gain .34GHz.
The 5000X chipset allows for single processor configurations, so it's probably possible.
FYI, this processor bump costs exactly US$800 (plus applicable tax, of course) from Apple for buyers in the US.
Having always presumed it a foregone conclusion that the processors would be swappable, I opted for the standard 2.66GHz configuration and an eventual upgrade as it becomes necessary. Considering the current cost of FB-DIMMs with huge heat sinks (and my immediate need for 8GB worth of them), I opted to shift my money to that resource.
Actually, spam will rather often have a valid address in the "From" field. Unfortunately, it rarely ever has any true association to the originating spammer, but is instead usually simply yet another address culled from their list of potential recipients. Sometimes that address will even be yours.
As such, this practice to which you adhere actually makes you part of the problem; you're sending unsolicited automated replies to people who didn't first attempt to contact you. In other words, your mail server is generating spam, probably in great amounts.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS TITUS ANDRONICUS MARCUS ANDRONICUS TITUS ANDRONICUS MARCUS ANDRONICUS TITUS ANDRONICUS If one is in a position to simply change the context of a given wanton offense, however troublesome, then one can essentially control the definition of "right" and "wrong." Casting an excessive, prohibitively wide net and trampling the rights and basic privileges of thousands of innocents is perfectly noble, so long as it's done in the name of fighting terrorism.TITUS ANDRONICUS
"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know — important things!" - Ned Flanders {The Simpsons}
Yes, the agencies monitoring our skies should alert the media every time a huge, ten-inch rock comes hurtling toward Earth. Thank goodness we now have actual evidence of interplanetary matter actually hitting to moon, so we can officially worry that they're not warning us of our imminent doom from... things small enough to disintegrate in our atmosphere.
Oh... never mind.
--
"You know, I was watching a television program before with a sort of a roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who are having some sort of problems with their boyfriends, apparently because the boyfriends have all slept with the girlfriend's mothers. Then they brought all the boyfriends out and they fought right there on television. Toby, tell me... these people don't vote, do they?"
- President Josiah Bartlet {The West Wing}
--
"Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre
--
"Folks who can't handle a self-reference paradox are real suckers!"
- Tachikoma {Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex}
(Decades later, this entity would be spun off and renamed "Lucent Technologies.")
Indeed, I'm sure I remember reading something somewhere about the US government recently launching newer, more accurate GPS satellites. Of course, what we need these days is more alarmist rhetoric, so I suppose this is apropos.
Yes indeed; EMC - not Symantec - owns VMware.
You want to be a LUnix zealot? Well, I guess if you really like the Commodore64 that much, you'd pretty much have to be in for zealotry.
When I was much younger, Cloak and Dagger was my favorite Marvel title. If done well, sticking somewhat close to the source material, it should be great. Anything less could easily be cringe-worthy. There's probably a fifty-fifty chance that they'll actually manage to pull it off, depending, of course, on whomever they tag as screenwriter and director.
I have four Sun certifications, but only because one of my past employers was required to have at least one person on staff [in our particular location] certified as a Workgroup Systems Engineer and Enterprise Systems Engineer in order to remain a reseller of their products. At the time, I'd already spent seven years working with various Sun boxes and incarnations of Solaris, so passing the exams wasn't too much of a hassle. One additional exam got me two more certs, so the company threw that in for good measure. The only real imposition was that a couple of classes were manadatory, but when I told my boss that the best places to take them were Boston, MA and Tampa, FL (my office was in Chicago), he never questioned it. I got some expenses-paid vacation time, and the Sun Fault Analysis Workshop was actually interesting.
In all, the certification process was largely pointless, as I learned very little additional information. Few secrets were revealed in the classes... except for an undocumented flag in one of the Solaris commands. I did get a clever bit of advice, though.
-- /etc/system files."
"Every time you see an Oracle DBA and a junior sysadmin together, you should immediately back up your
- Novell [NetWare]
- Symantec [AntiVirus]
- Citrix [MetaFrame]
- Microsoft [Office]
- Adobe [Photoshop]
- VERITAS [NetBackup]
It's one of my numerous pet peeves.