with the nightmare costs of data, its so expensive to use the GPS, that there is no real point in having it in the first place.
and yes I am aware of the app for jail broken phones which does this. just would be nice not to have to jail break
--
next, what about some way to actually get the contents of the notes off the iPhone
I did not believe even apple would add something this dumb. whats the point of having the notes function if you can do nothing with it. who wants to take notes, only to have them inaccessible outside the iPhone.
on the same subject, why not allow notes to be emailed?
--
next, what about actually being able to read pdf and other files outside of mail?
without having to pay more $$$ for a third party app for this sort of thing, or using a free one, which is so limited as to be useless
--
why not let us use the iphone as a portable storage device? just like the (non touch) ipods do? and all without the need to jail break
yes the space is limited, but still nice to have the choice
--
finally, how about letting us compose SMS/Email in landscape mode?
this makes zero sense, why have something which can rotate when functions like mail and sms do not support it.
if this "rocket scientist" is getting all upset about ABP (which I use!) then what about proxy servers that do the same thing.
take the new content filtering proxy I am commissioning for a mid sized corporate, where management and the userbase all wanted to see the back of adds, and various other annoying content
and yes the userbase is mainly running firefox (with many running local ABP)
whats next whyproxyserversarebanned.com
this person should get a reality check and understand that "people who choose to block adds, are those who are not going to click on them/buy anything anyway"
OK so apple has been listening to users, and finally seen the light and brought firewire back from the dead, but what about the modem
the new mac book pros, look interesting, but why would apple not include an internal analog modem
and yes I know the argument, that everywhere has broadband/wireless etc, and that apple does "sell" an external USB modem.
well not everywhere has broadband, and wireless tends to be horribly expensive (well here anyway), so dialup is the only way to go when traveling
this reminds me of the bad old days when apple did not even include analog audio ports on the powerbooks, and how long did it take them to wake up to that one.....
the real power in the anti-spam world is not the likes of spamhaus (although they do real good work and need to be supported), its the tens of thousands of private block lists.
think about it, for example how many mail server admins/ISP/pissed off users, have their own block list. Now compare that to those who use spamhaus or one of the other RBL
1000+ to 1 comes to mind
so even if e360 managed to damage spamhaus, they are still not going to get their junk through the private lists
they would need to identify every list, and set the lawyers on the operators. Some how I do not see this happening any time soon
gets worse for them, even if the worse happens and they damage/kill spamhaus, the number of admins etc they will, put simply "piss off" is going to cause them even more trouble, they would be better off just closing up shop
"Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening by proclaiming that Windows Vista was the most secure operating system in the industry."
note the use of "was", hmmm is this butt covering, or are they admiting that vista "was" the most secure OS, if so well if that was the past, whats the current most secure OS....
as a long time Mac user, the transition to Intel CPU is not something I have been looking forward to. But now I find the following little gem on the apple site
"Most existing applications will continue to run, thanks to Rosetta. Pro applications from Apple -- including Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Aperture, Logic Pro, Logic Express, and Final Cut Express -- are not supported by Rosetta. For these applications, you can upgrade to the Universal version for minimal cost (see "Apple Applications" to right). Third-party applications that require precision real-time playback may perform better with a Universal version."
if I am reading this right, apple is saying "go buy our new intel macs, and oh, BTW, our own pro apps require $$$ updates, and other apps may not work"
well, why would I go do this, get a new mac with its intel CPU, then have to pay more $$$$ to make apples own apps run on it
and yes I am a user of the pro apps, plus all sorts of other apps which I have no idea are going to work at all, let alone as well as they currently do on my PPC boxes
"Rosetta dynamically translates most of your PowerPC-based application to work with your Intel-based Mac. "
note the "most" comment in this one, a real case of butt covering if ever I saw one
now all we need is for the shipping version x86 OSX to be hacked to run on non-apple hardware (if its not already been done), and its the beginning of the end for apple, then comes the very likely "windoze for mac" from the beast, which will reduce apple to iPods, and little else
think about it, why would anyone buy apples hardware when they can run the same software on something much faster, for less $$$
but unless they force their ISPs to actually do something about complaints, other than redirect them to/dev/null, nothing is going to happen
the issue is not the source of the spams (usually zombies), but the spammers sites hosted in china that need to be nuked. Kill the sites, and the spammers are fscked
not done a hoster check on my domain block list in a while, but last time, about 70% where hosted in mainland china, with the rest spread over eastern europe and asia
don't know about anyone else, but the whole of china stays blocked until the spam stops
when will the record companies get a clue, people don't want this crap
they want to be able to take any CD they have spent hard erned $$$ on, and do what ever they like with it
not be forced to use windoze (wma is windoze only, right!), not be able to copy tracks to the ipod etc
in my case, I have a huge CD collection (all legit!!) but have ripped every track I like into mp3 and play them using itunes on my laptop, which makes life much easier when traveling
to me, the first one of these CDs that I make the mistake of buying goes back to the store
they think this crap is going to stop piracy, total BS, its going to drive more people to illegal downloads
on the positive side, it will be cracked wide open eventually
sure prices have finally started to drop but, as they drop so does the quality, and yes while it may be hard to believe, the "service" can get worse, although not sure how far it can fall
from personal pain, the tel$tra cable service is third rate, and thats on one of the rare good days
so far today its dropped out 14 times, then comes the mail server which I have been unable to talk to for over 2 years
not forgeting the news server which all of a sudden will not even resolve
call the helldesk, to be told "you need to use a supported OS, before we can sort your problem", er hello, I am using a Mac, but no thats not enough seems I have to downgrade OSX to 10.2 before they will talk to me
After 18 years in the IT business (data comms, infrastructure design etc), I should know whats happening, but no, some trained monkey with zero experience and a single digit IQ, tells me they he knows its my problem, even after I proved them wrong every time I have had a problem in the past.
these are the same idiots who told me "I would be able to ping the mail server if I ran outlook", yes really!
and no, I cannot change ISP, all down to my only voice line being pair gained, which rules out ADSL and even a dialup if speeds >28K are wanted. And just guess who owns the local loop, yes tel$tra.
Ok so its not open sourced, free, etc but at least its legal
The downside, region codes, macrovision, being forced to watch those FBI warnings, plus any commercials etc
my DVD collection, some 300+ 100% legal titles come from regions 1-4, so rather than spend $$$ on a legal linux player then be forced to either crack the region coding, or pay yet more $$$ to replace my non-region 4 titles I think I will be sticking to xine, which just plain works, plays everything, and all without worrying about the dreaded revenue raising region codes
when will the MPAA wake up and finally realize that region coding is so widely bypassed, and just abandon the concept altogether
all I want from a player, Linux or otherwise, is the ability to just play a movie, purchased from anywhere. Who cares about region codes, macrovision or those irritating commercials etc.
this legal Linux player is a start, just think about it, could the MPAA use this as an excuse to go after the existing Linux/open sourced players?
some ISP already do this, for example optusnet and use.net block all mail from dynamic IP (from my ISP anyway)
when contacted they just say, use your ISP mail server, well yes, thats nice in theory, but in my case the ISP (tel$tra) mail server is totally fscked, and after 2 years my account is still broken
when tel$tra finally gets around to blocking cable users port 25, I am totally screwed, with no access to outgoing email
A new Dell inspiron laptop with its built in DVD/CDR combo drive would not read CDR media.
on calling Dell support, they told me that "No DVD ROM Drive will ever read CDR Media without a UDF reader driver"
--
then comes the real classic, also from Dell
Same laptop, started to overheat after about an hour of use, so thinking it was something to do with the Linux install, I restored it back to its windoze, which made no difference
calling Dell, they told me that it will run cooler with windoze than Linux, and just totally ignored the "Its Got WINDOZE" from me.
several calls later they sent a "tech" out to replace the CPU
----
The worse yet, and this time its not from a help desk in India (Yet!)
This time from my ISP (Telstra), who when called about yet more email pain, told me when I mentioned I could not even ping the server let alone connect to it.
At the time I was running pine on a UNIX box
the "tech" told me "If I was running outlook I would be able to ping the server"
----
same help (hell) desk also told me:-
to install windoze on my Powerbook, after I called them about drop outs.
to install the OSX version of IE6, when I could not use their web site from Safari
We need a PM with a backbone badly, first johnny howard got us involved in a war that was nothing to do with us, now he gets this trade deal, which not only screws our farmers as usual, but get this DMCA crap brought in here.
will johnnyH ever say no to bush
Time to start lobbying to get this crap nuked in the senate
Well as a Linux and Mac user, I lost sleep over the M$ mess, and no not though any problems, other than finding it hard to stop laughing as the windoze world died around me.
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how about offline maps?
with the nightmare costs of data, its so expensive to use the GPS, that there is no real point in having it in the first place.
and yes I am aware of the app for jail broken phones which does this. just would be nice not to have to jail break
--
next, what about some way to actually get the contents of the notes off the iPhone
I did not believe even apple would add something this dumb. whats the point of having the notes function if you can do nothing with it. who wants to take notes, only to have them inaccessible outside the iPhone.
on the same subject, why not allow notes to be emailed?
--
next, what about actually being able to read pdf and other files outside of mail?
without having to pay more $$$ for a third party app for this sort of thing, or using a free one, which is so limited as to be useless
--
why not let us use the iphone as a portable storage device? just like the (non touch) ipods do? and all without the need to jail break
yes the space is limited, but still nice to have the choice
--
finally, how about letting us compose SMS/Email in landscape mode?
this makes zero sense, why have something which can rotate when functions like mail and sms do not support it.
whats the problem apple? makes too much sense?
if this "rocket scientist" is getting all upset about ABP (which I use!)
then what about proxy servers that do the same thing.
take the new content filtering proxy I am commissioning for a mid sized
corporate, where management and the userbase all wanted to see the back
of adds, and various other annoying content
and yes the userbase is mainly running firefox (with many running local ABP)
whats next whyproxyserversarebanned.com
this person should get a reality check and understand that "people who choose
to block adds, are those who are not going to click on them/buy anything anyway"
OK so apple has been listening to users, and finally seen the light and brought firewire back from the dead, but what about the modem
.....
the new mac book pros, look interesting, but why would apple not include an internal analog modem
and yes I know the argument, that everywhere has broadband/wireless etc, and that apple does "sell" an external USB modem.
well not everywhere has broadband, and wireless tends to be horribly expensive (well here anyway), so dialup is the only way to go when traveling
this reminds me of the bad old days when apple did not even include analog audio ports on the powerbooks, and how long did it take them to wake up to that one
the real power in the anti-spam world is not the likes of spamhaus (although they do real good work and need to be supported), its the tens of thousands of private block lists.
think about it, for example how many mail server admins/ISP/pissed off users, have their own block list. Now compare that to those who use spamhaus or one of the other RBL
1000+ to 1 comes to mind
so even if e360 managed to damage spamhaus, they are still not going to get their junk through the private lists
they would need to identify every list, and set the lawyers on the operators. Some how I do not see this happening any time soon
gets worse for them, even if the worse happens and they damage/kill spamhaus, the number of admins etc they will, put simply "piss off" is going to cause them even more trouble, they would be better off just closing up shop
interesting quote from the article
....
"Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening by proclaiming that Windows Vista was the most secure operating system in the industry."
note the use of "was", hmmm is this butt covering, or are they admiting that vista "was" the most secure OS, if so well if that was the past, whats the current most secure OS
as a long time Mac user, the transition to Intel CPU is not something I have been looking forward to. But now I find the following little gem on the apple site
"Most existing applications will continue to run, thanks to Rosetta. Pro applications from Apple -- including Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Aperture, Logic Pro, Logic Express, and Final Cut Express -- are not supported by Rosetta. For these applications, you can upgrade to the Universal version for minimal cost (see "Apple Applications" to right). Third-party applications that require precision real-time playback may perform better with a Universal version."
if I am reading this right, apple is saying "go buy our new intel macs, and oh, BTW, our own pro apps require $$$ updates, and other apps may not work"
well, why would I go do this, get a new mac with its intel CPU, then have to pay more $$$$ to make apples own apps run on it
and yes I am a user of the pro apps, plus all sorts of other apps which I have no idea are going to work at all, let alone as well as they currently do on my PPC boxes
another little gem from the same page on apples site http://www.apple.com/rosetta/
"Rosetta dynamically translates most of your PowerPC-based application to work with your Intel-based Mac. "
note the "most" comment in this one, a real case of butt covering if ever I saw one
now all we need is for the shipping version x86 OSX to be hacked to run on non-apple hardware (if its not already been done), and its the beginning of the end for apple, then comes the very likely "windoze for mac" from the beast, which will reduce apple to iPods, and little else
think about it, why would anyone buy apples hardware when they can run the same software on something much faster, for less $$$
but unless they force their ISPs to actually do something about complaints, other than redirect them to /dev/null, nothing is going to happen
the issue is not the source of the spams (usually zombies), but the spammers sites hosted in china that need to be nuked. Kill the sites, and the spammers are fscked
not done a hoster check on my domain block list in a while, but last time, about 70% where hosted in mainland china, with the rest spread over eastern europe and asia
don't know about anyone else, but the whole of china stays blocked until the spam stops
when will the record companies get a clue, people don't want this crap
they want to be able to take any CD they have spent hard erned $$$ on, and do what ever they like with it
not be forced to use windoze (wma is windoze only, right!), not be able to copy tracks to the ipod etc
in my case, I have a huge CD collection (all legit!!) but have ripped every track I like into mp3 and play them using itunes on my laptop, which makes life much easier when traveling
to me, the first one of these CDs that I make the mistake of buying goes back to the store
they think this crap is going to stop piracy, total BS, its going to drive more people to illegal downloads
on the positive side, it will be cracked wide open eventually
and this is really a problem?
as a Mac/Linux user, if this thing was ported to any of those platforms, it would still be of zero interest to me
why pay for software when there are already free apps that have the same/better/more functionality
on my Mac I use http://fire.sf.net/fire which supports all the common protocols
then comes the UNIX varients, http://gaim.sf.net/gaim does just about everything and runs on just about any platform
both are free, and after looking at the trillian site, its got nothing that would make me replace either of the apps I currently use
if the developers of trillian want to only support windoze, good luck to them
not only the US
we (australians) have just lived through an election, now thats real hot air, then comes all the methane from all the BS
Someone please tell me why I would ever even think about installing this thing
A far more useful extension is this one
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
no way, tel$tra has a long way to rise to get to the level of scum .....
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to see just how totally fscked internet access is here just look at this
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,1
sure prices have finally started to drop but, as they drop so does the quality, and yes while it may be hard to believe, the "service" can get worse, although not sure how far it can fall
from personal pain, the tel$tra cable service is third rate, and thats on one of the rare good days
so far today its dropped out 14 times, then comes the mail server which I have been unable to talk to for over 2 years
not forgeting the news server which all of a sudden will not even resolve
call the helldesk, to be told "you need to use a supported OS, before we can sort your problem", er hello, I am using a Mac, but no thats not enough seems I have to downgrade OSX to 10.2 before they will talk to me
After 18 years in the IT business (data comms, infrastructure design etc), I should know whats happening, but no, some trained monkey with zero experience and a single digit IQ, tells me they he knows its my problem, even after I proved them wrong every time I have had a problem in the past.
these are the same idiots who told me "I would be able to ping the mail server if I ran outlook", yes really!
and no, I cannot change ISP, all down to my only voice line being pair gained, which rules out ADSL and even a dialup if speeds >28K are wanted. And just guess who owns the local loop, yes tel$tra.
now we just need something worth recording with this
Ok so its not open sourced, free, etc but at least its legal
The downside, region codes, macrovision, being forced to watch those FBI warnings, plus any commercials etc
my DVD collection, some 300+ 100% legal titles come from regions 1-4, so rather than spend $$$ on a legal linux player then be forced to either crack the region coding, or pay yet more $$$ to replace my non-region 4 titles I think I will be sticking to xine, which just plain works, plays everything, and all without worrying about the dreaded revenue raising region codes
when will the MPAA wake up and finally realize that region coding is so widely bypassed, and just abandon the concept altogether
all I want from a player, Linux or otherwise, is the ability to just play a movie, purchased from anywhere. Who cares about region codes, macrovision or those irritating commercials etc.
this legal Linux player is a start, just think about it, could the MPAA use this as an excuse to go after the existing Linux/open sourced players?
Whats next, ban electricity as it can be used to power devices that can be used for illegal purposes
the MPAA/RIAA are totally out of control
Did the deed and upgraded OSX thunderbird to 0.7, only to see all my settings vanish
yes really, 5 news server with dozens of groups, all gone, thankfully I don't use it for email (sticking to mail.app)
FFS moving to 0.6 did not do this
did they actually test this....
some ISP already do this, for example optusnet and use.net block all mail from dynamic IP (from my ISP anyway)
when contacted they just say, use your ISP mail server, well yes, thats nice in theory, but in my case the ISP (tel$tra) mail server is totally fscked, and after 2 years my account is still broken
when tel$tra finally gets around to blocking cable users port 25, I am totally screwed, with no access to outgoing email
a month or so back I replaced my old dead router with a netgear FR328S which also had that problem
with the remote administration disabled, a remote port scan showed port 80 open
netgear fixed this in newer firmware
v1.4 (09) is ok
A new Dell inspiron laptop with its built in DVD/CDR combo drive would not read CDR media.
on calling Dell support, they told me that "No DVD ROM Drive will ever read CDR Media without a UDF reader driver"
--
then comes the real classic, also from Dell
Same laptop, started to overheat after about an hour of use, so thinking it was something to do with the Linux install, I restored it back to its windoze, which made no difference
calling Dell, they told me that it will run cooler with windoze than Linux, and just totally ignored the "Its Got WINDOZE" from me.
several calls later they sent a "tech" out to replace the CPU
----
The worse yet, and this time its not from a help desk in India (Yet!)
This time from my ISP (Telstra), who when called about yet more email pain, told me when I mentioned I could not even ping the server let alone connect to it.
At the time I was running pine on a UNIX box
the "tech" told me "If I was running outlook I would be able to ping the server"
----
same help (hell) desk also told me:-
to install windoze on my Powerbook, after I called them about drop outs.
to install the OSX version of IE6, when I could not use their web site from Safari
do they have the nerve to go after this cluster?
afterall they are trying extortion by lawyer against other large Linux users
until we had this DMCA crap inflicted on us, given the total lack of a backbone by Johnny Howard, who is totally unable to say NO to Bush
First its Wars that are none of our business, then comes this so called free trade treaty with its associated DMCA crap
whats next, the "United States of Australia".....
never happen, remember our PM will never say no to anything Bush wants
just hope this crap never makes it through the senate
We need a PM with a backbone badly, first johnny howard got us involved in a war that was nothing to do with us, now he gets this trade deal, which not only screws our farmers as usual, but get this DMCA crap brought in here.
will johnnyH ever say no to bush
Time to start lobbying to get this crap nuked in the senate
after losing 212GB in the Panther Firewire fsckup, its going to take a great deal for me to have any confidence in Apple ever again.
Anyone installed this update? with firewire drives attached?
Anyone come across any problems?
Once burned, now even more paranoid than usual
Well as a Linux and Mac user, I lost sleep over the M$ mess, and no not though any problems, other than finding it hard to stop laughing as the windoze world died around me.