"When I decided to get rid of the Quadra, I copied the entire hard drive onto a CDR and then wiped it."
Copying an entire hard drive to a CD-R... those were the days. Kind of reminds me of how I never though I could fill the 160MB drive in my Performa 467. Then I discovered the Internet.
The newest department in the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security, got off to a bad start with an overall "F" for its computer security, despite the fact that securing the nation's network is part of its mission.
Either we've got a bunch of idiots for IT guys in the government, or they're bright guys who are battling the bureaucracy and losing. Personally, I think it's somewhere in the middle.
Blue screen? What blue screen? Ever since I installed W2K I have never seen the blue screen again.
What, your computer won't boot now that you've installed Win2K?
Seriously though, every operating system has its annoyances, just as most have their good points. If I want to do some graphics or audio, I use my Mac. Generic C/C++ programming gets done on the Linux box. If I get a complex Word document, I open VPC and run Windows.
I agree that "flaws are impossible to avoid", but Microsoft should be held to higher standards when it comes to catching these flaws. Its user base is very large. Its products control a wide range of systems. Its products are very complex, but then again Microsoft is a large corporation. If they're so big on Trusted Computing, they should have no reason to allocate more resources to QA and bug testing. Of course, they'll never be able to catch everything. I don't think anyone could reasonably expect that. But if it's such a well-known fact that C "is a big security problem," wouldn't you think more time would be spent checking for specific things like buffer overflows, etc? Microsoft should be checking their current code against known bugs and exploits, to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again. And I'm sure the individual programmers are intelligent enough to notice variants of those problems. Nothing in the software industry will ever be perfect, but as it stands, things have a long way to go.
...is anyone surprised? I'm not even sure this belongs on/. anymore. We know MS writes buggy and vulnerable software. Of course, MS isn't the only company to write such buggy software. But before anyone says a word about MS being bashed too much, let's remember that 95% statistic. When a company's software runs on approximately 95% of the world's computers, they have the moral responsibility to ensure its stability before they release it. We could always blame sysadmins for being too stupid to check for and install updates, but instead, why don't we just educate people on why they should run Windows Update every week (or sooner). I'd think billions of dollars in damages to the economy would be enough to get executives cracking the whip at their IT staff. Then again, I also thought Bush lost the election.
I guess I got lucky here in Bridgeport, CT. I work in Southport, which is technically part of Fairfield. Fairfield and Southport have no power, but Bridgeport is fine. We had two quick (minute-long) brownouts in Southport, then around 4:30 it all just died. I was smart enough to have our network on a battery backup, so I grabbed my laptop, found out what happened and convinced the boss to close the office.:)
Well, I don't quite see how that would work, but I have a 5GB iPod and the remote... the buttons seem to be seperate. If I 'hold' the iPod, the remote buttons work, and if i 'hold' the remote, the iPod buttons work.
I've heard people say 'wazzup' in the US. Only after the Bud commercials, though. I thought of suing Bud for creating noise pollution, but realized they don't have the money to reward me for my suffering.
optonline sent a letter out to its subscribers. (I used to be one, till I moved and got SNET DSL, but they've been kind (stupid) enough to keep my email acount working.) The letter is:
From: optimumupdate@optonline.net
Date: Wed Dec 18, 2002 8:46:38 PM America/New_York
Subject: Email to Optimum Online Customers Regarding Bandwidth Abuse
Important Notice: Potential Security Breach
Dear Optimum Online Subscriber:
You may be running a server from you computer and not even know it.
If you use any of the peer-to-peer file services listed below without disabling the file sharing option, the entire Internet can access the files on your hard drive. In addition, use of these services can lead to network problems that may result in your upstream speed being temporarily reduced to control this abuse of service.
Don't compromise your privacy or the performance of your high-speed connection.
See http://security.uchicago.edu/peer-to-peer/no_files hare.shtml for easy instructions on how to disable file sharing for the peer-to-peer programs listed above. You and other subscribers can then continue to enjoy Internet services at peak performance speeds. And you'll steer clear of violating the restriction against running servers (see Optimum Online Residential Terms of Service: http://www.optonline.net/tos.
For further protection and optimum performance, we also recommend all Internet users maintain firewall and antivirus software. See http://wwwl.my-etrust.com/cvision/ for a very special offer exclusive to Optimum Online subscribers.
We want you to stay online and stay protected while enjoying the best performance of Optimum Online high-speed Internet access.
Thank you for being a valued Optimum Online customer.
Sincerely,
Your Optimum Online Team
They are not banning P2P software, only the server/sharing parts of the software. And they will not cut the cord, they will only temporarily cut your upstream bandwidth to prevent further "abuse" as they call it.
I expected this, though. optonline blocks port 80, and has a no-server part of their contract, so why would they allow this?
Not that it's right. It's wrong, actually. But we can see that.
And, having investigated, it doesnt. Not even close. The next planet after Pluto (or the second of the next two, if Neptune's irregularity is repeated) should have been at 77.2AU but Quaoar is only at approximately 43AU. So theres another point in opposition of calling it a planet, albeit a weak one.
It is not the planet after Pluto that should be 77.2AU according to T-B. Pluto (using d=.4+(.3*N), where n=0,1,2,4 doubling for every planet, including 8 for the asteroid belt/planetary gap) is 77.2. Quaoar should be, then (using d=.4+(.3*512)) 154. It's not. Actually, at 4 billion miles, it's 43.0107, approximately. Wayyyyy off.
As you say, a weak point. Really, there is no point at all (in even looking at T-B). T-B is just some strange series which happened to work out closely enough for the first few planets. You mention yourself "Neptune's irregularity." It's more like "Neptune's confirming the fact that T-B is a load of BS".
Then again, those who believe in T-B probably also believe that Newton's law of Gravitation holds for *everything*. sigh.
Haven't noticed many people/sites/comments (except for a few of us on Mac OS X-Talk over at the Omni Group's website) talking about this:
The lucky bastards who are ordering the 867mHz or 1gHz models will have 10.2 before the rest of us. And according to macosrumors.com, systems
being shipped out in the past few days have begun arriving to their new owners with OS X 10.2 CDs included -- clearly indicating that Apple has completed development on Jaguar and that build 6C115 is indeed the final version of the new OS.
etc, etc.(That, by the way, was on Monday, August 12, 2002.)
So what's up... are we going to see Shaguar in retail stores sooner than the 24th?
Or am The Rest Of Us(tm) going to have to load up Carracho?
--
Well, softare update is now available from the CLI:
Welcome to Darwin! [jupiter:~] root# softwareupdate Software Update Tool Copyright 2002 Apple Computer, Inc.
Your software is up to date.
[jupiter:~] root#
Also, the man page for software update says you can install (a) specific update(s) by name, by softwareupdate [item...] Interestingly, it must be run as root, though Software Update via System Preferences only requires an Administrator's password -- this could just be because it sudo's, as an admin *can* sudo...
Also, it was written (the CLI tool, or at least the man page) on May 2, 2002.
He left that image [thinksecret.com] alone, but released a Newer One [thinksecret.com] that is in almost a completely different style- look at the tabs... and "
Wait a second. Hey man, that's just different appearance themes. The blue is, well, "blue" and the other is "graphite". (Assuming you're on OS X) Launch System Preferences, then go to the General pane and it's the top popup menu. of course, if you *really* wanna be cool, check out Duality (search on VersionTracker for it).
Also, the iMac is expected to be upgraded next month at MacWorld NY later this month (including a 17" screen option, 800 and 933mHz G4 processors, 133mHz SDRAM and USB2), pushing it into a higher price range and leaving the eMac at the low end. [see www.macosrumors.com]
>When I was at the expo and they were showing how fast 10.1 is, I heard some people in the audience say "yeah, but how fast is the machine that it's running on?"
OK, so they were using Dual-800's at MacWorld. I was there. But I'll let you know, I'm using OS X 5G24 (soon to be 27) on my iBook dual USB (500mHz, 256k cache (sucks!) http://www.apple.com/ibook for the details)
Anyway, "bouncemarks" are a somewhat relevant way to compare... Much faster here. And the GUI, while still somewhat buggy (this is a beta), is much faster. Just a few weeks till 10.1 is released.
So, even on this piece of crap (relatively) laptop, it's pretty damn fast. Boots up in less than a minute. Classic (OS 9.2.1) boots up in the same amount of time it takes when I'm booting right into 9.2.1 itself (less than 30 seconds, usual extension set). Oh, and a bunch of bugs are fixed too, but this isn't the place to get into them.
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"When I decided to get rid of the Quadra, I copied the entire hard drive onto a CDR and then wiped it."
Copying an entire hard drive to a CD-R... those were the days.
Kind of reminds me of how I never though I could fill the 160MB drive in my Performa 467. Then I discovered the Internet.
Either we've got a bunch of idiots for IT guys in the government, or they're bright guys who are battling the bureaucracy and losing. Personally, I think it's somewhere in the middle.
Blue screen? What blue screen? Ever since I installed W2K I have never seen the blue screen again. What, your computer won't boot now that you've installed Win2K?
Seriously though, every operating system has its annoyances, just as most have their good points. If I want to do some graphics or audio, I use my Mac. Generic C/C++ programming gets done on the Linux box. If I get a complex Word document, I open VPC and run Windows.
Maybe if you took the time to correctly spell everything, you might have gotten your kind of point across.
Translated for the coward:
MayB if j00 spellzored everything korrectly, u mighte have got ur point a cross.
Then again, you probaby didn't have a point.
>Let the MPAA and RIAA try to vilify P2P then.
Oh, they'd find a way...
Yeah, right.
You're reading slashdot. That never happened.
Err, that should be " or indicators".
Oops.
Sorry, I guess I should have added or indicators. I know it's possible, but at the same time, it's seemingly rare.
Gee, since I've never been infected by a virus or worm, and I've been using Windows since forever...
So what you're saying is that you've never connected a Windows machine to the Internet.
I agree that "flaws are impossible to avoid", but Microsoft should be held to higher standards when it comes to catching these flaws. Its user base is very large. Its products control a wide range of systems. Its products are very complex, but then again Microsoft is a large corporation. If they're so big on Trusted Computing, they should have no reason to allocate more resources to QA and bug testing. Of course, they'll never be able to catch everything. I don't think anyone could reasonably expect that. But if it's such a well-known fact that C "is a big security problem," wouldn't you think more time would be spent checking for specific things like buffer overflows, etc? Microsoft should be checking their current code against known bugs and exploits, to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again. And I'm sure the individual programmers are intelligent enough to notice variants of those problems.
Nothing in the software industry will ever be perfect, but as it stands, things have a long way to go.
...is anyone surprised? /. anymore. We know MS writes buggy and vulnerable software.
I'm not even sure this belongs on
Of course, MS isn't the only company to write such buggy software. But before anyone says a word about MS being bashed too much, let's remember that 95% statistic. When a company's software runs on approximately 95% of the world's computers, they have the moral responsibility to ensure its stability before they release it.
We could always blame sysadmins for being too stupid to check for and install updates, but instead, why don't we just educate people on why they should run Windows Update every week (or sooner).
I'd think billions of dollars in damages to the economy would be enough to get executives cracking the whip at their IT staff. Then again, I also thought Bush lost the election.
I guess I got lucky here in Bridgeport, CT. I work in Southport, which is technically part of Fairfield. Fairfield and Southport have no power, but Bridgeport is fine. We had two quick (minute-long) brownouts in Southport, then around 4:30 it all just died. I was smart enough to have our network on a battery backup, so I grabbed my laptop, found out what happened and convinced the boss to close the office. :)
i'd rather not. that would smell _really_ bad.
Well, I don't quite see how that would work, but I have a 5GB iPod and the remote... the buttons seem to be seperate. If I 'hold' the iPod, the remote buttons work, and if i 'hold' the remote, the iPod buttons work.
Go for it.
Pi, absolutely. And Requiem for a Dream.
I've heard people say 'wazzup' in the US. Only after the Bud commercials, though.
I thought of suing Bud for creating noise pollution, but realized they don't have the money to reward me for my suffering.
optonline sent a letter out to its subscribers. (I used to be one, till I moved and got SNET DSL, but they've been kind (stupid) enough to keep my email acount working.) The letter is:
They are not banning P2P software, only the server/sharing parts of the software. And they will not cut the cord, they will only temporarily cut your upstream bandwidth to prevent further "abuse" as they call it.
I expected this, though. optonline blocks port 80, and has a no-server part of their contract, so why would they allow this?
Not that it's right. It's wrong, actually. But we can see that.
You could just post as an AC, and from a library or other public place if you're that paranoid.
As you say, a weak point. Really, there is no point at all (in even looking at T-B). T-B is just some strange series which happened to work out closely enough for the first few planets. You mention yourself "Neptune's irregularity." It's more like "Neptune's confirming the fact that T-B is a load of BS".
Then again, those who believe in T-B probably also believe that Newton's law of Gravitation holds for *everything*. sigh.
The lucky bastards who are ordering the 867mHz or 1gHz models will have 10.2 before the rest of us. And according to macosrumors.com, systems etc, etc.(That, by the way, was on Monday, August 12, 2002.)
So what's up... are we going to see Shaguar in retail stores sooner than the 24th?
Or am The Rest Of Us(tm) going to have to load up Carracho?
--
Well, softare update is now available from the CLI:
...]
Welcome to Darwin!
[jupiter:~] root# softwareupdate
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002 Apple Computer, Inc.
Your software is up to date.
[jupiter:~] root#
Also, the man page for software update says you can install (a) specific update(s) by name, by softwareupdate [item
Interestingly, it must be run as root, though Software Update via System Preferences only requires an Administrator's password -- this could just be because it sudo's, as an admin *can* sudo... Also, it was written (the CLI tool, or at least the man page) on May 2, 2002.
He left that image [thinksecret.com] alone, but released a Newer One [thinksecret.com] that is in almost a completely different style- look at the tabs... and "
Wait a second. Hey man, that's just different appearance themes. The blue is, well, "blue" and the other is "graphite". (Assuming you're on OS X) Launch System Preferences, then go to the General pane and it's the top popup menu.
of course, if you *really* wanna be cool, check out Duality (search on VersionTracker for it).
Think about it:
Apple I, Apple II, Apple III -- then Lisa/Mac
8086, 80286, 80386, 80486 -- then Pentium (80586)
They have changed. The deal with the Mac name is that it's been around for so long now, changing it wouldn't make much sense.
Also, the iMac is expected to be upgraded next month at MacWorld NY later this month (including a 17" screen option, 800 and 933mHz G4 processors, 133mHz SDRAM and USB2), pushing it into a higher price range and leaving the eMac at the low end. [see www.macosrumors.com]
>When I was at the expo and they were showing how fast 10.1 is, I heard some people in the audience say "yeah, but how fast is the machine that it's running on?"
OK, so they were using Dual-800's at MacWorld. I was there. But I'll let you know, I'm using OS X 5G24 (soon to be 27) on my iBook dual USB (500mHz, 256k cache (sucks!) http://www.apple.com/ibook for the details)
Anyway, "bouncemarks" are a somewhat relevant way to compare... Much faster here. And the GUI, while still somewhat buggy (this is a beta), is much faster. Just a few weeks till 10.1 is released.
So, even on this piece of crap (relatively) laptop, it's pretty damn fast. Boots up in less than a minute. Classic (OS 9.2.1) boots up in the same amount of time it takes when I'm booting right into 9.2.1 itself (less than 30 seconds, usual extension set). Oh, and a bunch of bugs are fixed too, but this isn't the place to get into them.