Use Samba for the Windows machines and Netatalk for the Macs. That's all you need - no need to buy software.
Netatalk is AppleShare over AppleTalk, so it's at most 300kb/s, as far as I can tell. So instead get Netatalk+asun (e.g. the RPM in Redhat contrib) which is AppleshareIP and nice and fast. Both are of course free software.
Make sure you're mounting the Mac shares using TCP/IP, not AppleTalk! -- http://www.wholepop.com/ Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
Originally the NeXT API was supposed to replace MacOS ones. There were two Rhapsody betas released with this goal. This was called the Yellow Box.
When Apple saw that it couldn't convince vendors to port their apps to this, they decided to update the MacOS API, creating Carbon. Nobody is ever going to write software for the NeXT API except for the few software companies that did so before Apple bought NeXT. Witness MacOS X Server - don't see much software written for it, just Unix ports.
In any case, MacOS still doesn't have memory protection, pre-emptive multitasking, or normal virtual memory. Hopefully the current version doesn't run anything in 68k emulation by now.
So instead of hoping Apple will give you the features you need, and paying for upgrades that break your software, just install LinuxPPC.
NeXT (400 million dollars spent!) derived API's on x86 and PPC, also known as Rhapsody (killed - insted they'll "improve" the MacOS API)
the current one - improved MacOS API (Carbon), NeXT API, traditional API, all running on top of BSD
For the past 6 years, maybe more, Apple has been promising pre-emptive multitasking and protected memory "just two years from now". Hasn't happened yet.
If Apple can actually stick to their current path, they'll be a much better company. But I doubt that'll happen.
It's a web-server with integrated TCL scripting, and database connectivity, that AOL bought at some point in the past. -- http://www.wholepop.com/ Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
JCSI is in Java. You'll need to download many a package from Javasoft before you'll get it to work. -- http://www.wholepop.com/ Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
Actually, we should all use GPG, since it has source-code.
Truth was, if I was a spy, I'd be sending innocent meaningless messages in the plain, and have my real message encrypted using PGP and then embedded using steganographic techniques in the attached JPG image.
Since no human could go through all this manually, it has to be a computer program scanning for keywords. Which means the system is useless:
If you're a terrorist you just write "watermelon" instead of "bomb" and they'll never catch you.
Use some ridiculous encryption on the level of rot13 - the computer programs will never figure out!
Learn an obscure foreign lanaguage - I doubt that the scanning program knows Aramaic or Esperanto.
I'm sure you can all think up lots more interesting ways to bypass any such system without ever using PGP (the problem with PGP being that it's easy for the scanning program to recognize it as being encrypted.)
Oh, and lets all put the keywords in our emails: Bomb, Gun, Cocain, Heroin - hi, mr. spy, I'm a terrorist!
Slashdot Mirror
I try searching for "HotMedia". In Google, the first(!) result is the HotMedia homepage at IBM. Here, I don't see this page in the first results page.
I'll stick to Google.
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There's a utility that converts at least EPOC Word files - search Freshmeat.
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http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/gimp.html I've done it, it works nicely.
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Use Samba for the Windows machines and Netatalk for the Macs. That's all you need - no need to buy software.
Netatalk is AppleShare over AppleTalk, so it's at most 300kb/s, as far as I can tell. So instead get Netatalk+asun (e.g. the RPM in Redhat contrib) which is AppleshareIP and nice and fast. Both are of course free software.
Make sure you're mounting the Mac shares using TCP/IP, not AppleTalk!
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http://www.nighthawkconsulting.com/kpc.html
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You can't get any smaller than this.
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Doug Ledford works for Redhat and he is the maintainer of the aic7xxx. So, yes, they do mean Redhat, and yes, it is in the standard kernel.
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Of course I have an agenda - MacOS crashed on me one time (well, 200 times) too many.
Sheepshaver will let you run MacOS in a window, like Apple's defunct Blue Box. And when MacOS crashes, as you know it will, you can keep on working.
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Originally the NeXT API was supposed to replace MacOS ones. There were two Rhapsody betas released with this goal. This was called the Yellow Box.
When Apple saw that it couldn't convince vendors to port their apps to this, they decided to update the MacOS API, creating Carbon. Nobody is ever going to write software for the NeXT API except for the few software companies that did so before Apple bought NeXT. Witness MacOS X Server - don't see much software written for it, just Unix ports.
In any case, MacOS still doesn't have memory protection, pre-emptive multitasking, or normal virtual memory. Hopefully the current version doesn't run anything in 68k emulation by now.
So instead of hoping Apple will give you the features you need, and paying for upgrades that break your software, just install LinuxPPC.
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http://www.wholepop.com/
Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
For the past 6 years, maybe more, Apple has been promising pre-emptive multitasking and protected memory "just two years from now". Hasn't happened yet.
If Apple can actually stick to their current path, they'll be a much better company. But I doubt that'll happen.
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http://www.wholepop.com/
Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
It's a web-server with integrated TCL scripting, and database connectivity, that AOL bought at some point in the past.
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http://www.wholepop.com/
Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
JCSI is in Java. You'll need to download many a package from Javasoft before you'll get it to work.
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http://www.wholepop.com/
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Is there any free web benchmarking tool?
Webbench from ZDNet only runs on Windows (".EXE for all platforms", right.)
SPECWeb96 costs $800!
Any suggestions?
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I hope I'm not misquoting this.
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IIS of course.
Check out Netcraft for cases like this:
http://www.netcraft.com
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Actually, we should all use GPG, since it has source-code.
Truth was, if I was a spy, I'd be sending innocent meaningless messages in the plain, and have my real message encrypted using PGP and then embedded using steganographic techniques in the attached JPG image.
-- http://www.wholepop.com/
Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
"Surely there's some initial filtering done based on the identity of the sender and receiver".
Intelligent spies have Hotmail/Yahoo/Netscape email accounts.
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Since no human could go through all this manually, it has to be a computer program scanning for keywords. Which means the system is useless:
I'm sure you can all think up lots more interesting ways to bypass any such system without ever using PGP (the problem with PGP being that it's easy for the scanning program to recognize it as being encrypted.)
Oh, and lets all put the keywords in our emails:
Bomb, Gun, Cocain, Heroin - hi, mr. spy, I'm a terrorist!
-- http://www.wholepop.com/
Whole Pop Magazine Online - Pop Culture
Use junkbuster - gets rids of ads and such, and solves this problem too.
http://www.junkbuster.com.
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The Gnome mirrors are always two days out of date at least (terrible, isn't it :). Anyone know a mirror that already has 0.99.2? ftp.gnome.org is always flooded.
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