Does anybody have any experience with Tiger on x86?
Are the bugs the same in magnitude and frequency vs Power Tiger?
I have Tiger and Panther, and the bugs in Tiger are getting to me.
The finder used to just be broken. Now it only occasionally does funny stuff with selecting random files/folders and launching them simultaneously with a double click. I don't know if this is fixed, but NEVER save user data under Tiger when deleting a user. Do it yourself first by moving the home directory or archiving it yourself. Tiger with no feedback or progress will archive the home directory into a.dmg file which will take forever with 20+ gigs of data. Scrolling is WAYYY to fast in Tiger, I cannot select files via dragging the mouse or DNDing when scrolling is involved is nasty. Antialiased fonts on Tiger are hideous compared to Panther. Plus the occasional lockups in CoreAudio. And other little bugs I cannot think of offhand.
Spotlight in Tiger is excellent. I really like that, but overall Tiger is worse than Panther in my opinion. Also, quicksilver for Panther is just about as good. I've never used quicksilver with removable media though, Spotlight is pretty robust with removable media.
Being that price is no object, I'll take a NAS as well. Thanks for offering.
I mean, $350 for a 400 Gig external fw drive that is faster and easier to configure, and can be shared easily from the Mac as a "NAS".
I would recommend NetApp filers. They only cost about $50k plus thousands/year in maintenance. Or if your budget minded, an Xserve RAID for about $5 to $15k (prices are estimates from memory). AppleCare is in the hundreds or so.
I thought that was already the idea behind OSS, GNU, sourceforge, etc.
Its open source, anybody can help, its just that much of the code of interest already has a group of developers and the codebase is so large and many times the bugs are so numerous, that even a decent coder is uninterested in fixing them.
just keep to rewriting the history books and not the science books?
I just don't understand these people. For basic research like biology, and whatnot the Federal Government is what, 99% of all of the funding for the stuff?
If they aren't interested in their kids learning what they fund, why not just lie to their kids and stop the funding?
Controlling the backbones will make the "internet" a lot easier for them to censor.
Hopefully, they will also keep Chinese from accessing "our" internet.
About 50% of the SPAM I get is from China, personally I would not care if China could connect to the internet. And I have users from China, but I would rather create a dedicated line for them to access my systems, and send me email, than have the other.99999 billion people screwing with my systems.
Granted, its only a small minority of the Chinese that are causing me problems, but its that network block that keeps coming up in my logs, and its common for me to add whole class B networks from China into my firewall rules.
Well, 'intellectual property' is, essentially, taxation rights handed out to private interests. So, it's not like it's a new thing.
That is different. Unless its something important like a movie or music, intellectual property laws are civil matters, and even in the case of movies and music, those too are mostly civil maters.
I do not pay extra to the government for patent protection or copyright protection via an explicit tax that is given to the patent holders or the copyright holders (yet).
I believe that "music" CDRs in the US have this tax, and the ones mentioned in this discussion in Canada. I pay $25 for 100 CDRs, so they are.25 a piece. I don't care at that price. If a CDR lasts me a week its paid for.
I have yet to of found a cheaper way to listen to music. It does take my time to burn a CD though, but I have a script that burns them with the syntax of "burn file1.. fileN" that decodes the files into wav, burns them, and ejects the disk. It usually takes 8 to 10 minutes to burn the first disk, and once the files are in wav format, I can hit the up arrow and burn multiple copies in 5 minutes or less each copy.
In the US, the Federal law regarding chemicals that people put in their bodies is just wrong.
Many of the "FDA" approved drugs are horrible, expensive, have side effects up to and including death, etc.
In 5 years, I will be free from having to take FDA approved drugs on a daily basis. The medication that I am on now gives me dry heaves, makes me insane at times, gives me headaches, disturbs my sleep, gives me vertigo to the point that I have almost died in a car accident, and being that it is a relatively new drug on the market, nobody knows what the long term affects are.
I have much better results and fewer side effects from uncontrolled and/or "illegal" drugs than the FDA ones.
I'm probably the only one that has these issues though.
Even if I set aside the flawed logic, why does the music biz get it all? What about other businesses that are hurt by "copying". Surely some of this money should go to software companies, as well as private media/content producers that distribute their work via CDs.
Thanks for being on their side.
So, now the tax will go up another 50%.
This is proof that 2 rights don't make a left, but three do.
The government has no right or reason to insure or protect the profit of a privately owned business with tax or insurance that is paid for by the citizens and then given to the privately owned business.
Its easy. Just do what we Americans do for prescription drugs. We buy them from Canada because they are about 1/2 the price.
Why can't Canadians buy their CDs from places that have lower taxes?
I drive to a neighboring county to buy cigarettes because they have cheaper taxes. I buy things online to escape state sales tax. I buy my prescription drugs from Canada.
Many retailers advertise and/or strategically place their storefronts right across borders for this reason.
Summary says, "two recently discovered worms and the discovery of a vulnerability in OS X that leaves Safari open to a hack."
This is not true. These things were not recently discovered, they are years old, and they are not a vulnerability, but rather a stupid choice in implementation by Apple, by "Opening "Safe" files after downloading". There are no "Safe" files until a user determines they are safe, and even then, many users are not that good at determining safe and nonsafe. But they are much, much better than computers at figuring out this stuff out a priori. Computers (after being told what to do) are better at post mortem stuff (anti-virus, spyware and adware removal, etc).
Oh, and Symantec of all people are reporting this?
From what I know, they are a terrible software company that make buggy "security" software whose business model is going to be taken away when Microsoft starts selling security as a service for their buggy software just like Norton utilities went away when MS started providing more robust filesystems and bundling (rebranding) some of Norton's stuff.
And you've never used, or heard anyone say "I'm going to eBay that piece of junk?"
No. I "used" eBay once, got ripped off from some dude in China, and never looked back.
I love the choice phrase you picked "I'm going to eBay that piece of junk".
That is pretty much what eBay is and is known for. Junk. Fees. No accountability. If you want accountability, you have to pay a 3rd party escrow service. Returns, support? Nothing.
I've known people that "made it rich" by going to the dollar store, and selling things for $10 or so bucks a piece on eBay. I would estimate that their net earnings were less than $1k.
And, frankly, I have never heard eBay used as a verb. But I have heard it used in the context as a place to offload junk to some sucker. Hey, maybe in 20 years eBay will be synonymous for being ripped off, like gadget has evolved.
PayPal and eBay are both very successful venues and means. They've become (at least, in the US) universally known and serve as the Kleenex tissue of online payments and the Styrofoam foam of online buy/sell/auction, respectively.
Not quite. Google has become _the_ brand name for searches. It would not surprise me if "Googling" outlives Google.
Kleenex has become the brand name for tissues, as Jello for gelatin, and Fridigidaire for "fridges".
PayPal does not have that feeling, and never will.
eBay is pretty much a fad. The name is not compelling enough to be stuck with the service.
I just learned that styrofoam was a Dow product. I thought it was generic.
The internet is a great big public library to a point. Maybe there should be some online libraries like nyc.publiclibrary.com where you can browse through what they have in their digital library. Each having different sets of books but ultimately being searchable through publiclibrary.com/.org so you can order a copy (digital or print via publisher (small cost there)).
Imagine this. Instead of Amazon having warehouses of books, and distribution centers, how about they just have a database of postscript files. You pay Amazon for the book, and local printers download the postscript files, print them, and bind them, and you in a day or so? They could still mail them if you want.
And on the astroturf thing -- an "astroturfer" would be a newly created user account to be thrown away, or an AC, not an account created ~6 years ago (5 digit uid).
astroturfing would be redundant for Google or iPod stories.
However, if you were running these on Big Iron Unix machines you'd have them both on the same server. There's no point in wasting the resources of a large machine on a single task.
What resources?
Are you trying to tell us that a Big Iron UNIX box is required for an email server and a cvs server that can be done with two pizza boxes that probably cost a total of $2,500 to $3k?
Aside from the initial investment of the cost of a Big Iron UNIX box, maintenance fees will surpass the two pizza box machines in a couple of years. Where I work, HP with HPUX lost all of its workstation business to Dells because they were paying $50k a year on maintenance. The Dells they got were $3k a piece, and can be upgraded 12-18 months at a time for less than the maintenance costs alone for the HPs.
Now, who in their right mind would combine email and ANY other service?
Want a bad rep as a sysadmin? Shut down email for 1 hour. People cry when they can't get their email. Its a service they expect to be as reliable as power and phones.
CVS is an entirely different type of service. Do you want public ssh access to your email/cvs server when there is a potential exploit for ssh? Remember, email is perceived as essential. Email and cvs can be VERY demanding on network and disk IO, depending on the user number and size of the codebase.
My point being, is I would probably fire someone that suggested a "Big Iron UNIX" box to combine cvs and email. It would depend on how long it took them to realize they were wrong.
I've just seen them fall over dead too many times because of a crappy application.
That is an operating system problem, not an application problem.
No application can take down a robust operating system. Never.
Well, I'll qualify the never. There are occasions when an app can DOS its own box by filling up the disk or running the box out of memory. There are ways around this as well, but even in both of those situations the OS shall still be running.
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Does anybody know if Apple has fixed the overscan issues when hooking a device to an HDTV?
It sucks to not be able to see the application bar at the top of the screen.
Does anybody have any experience with Tiger on x86?
Are the bugs the same in magnitude and frequency vs Power Tiger?
I have Tiger and Panther, and the bugs in Tiger are getting to me.
The finder used to just be broken. Now it only occasionally does funny stuff with selecting random files/folders and launching them simultaneously with a double click. I don't know if this is fixed, but NEVER save user data under Tiger when deleting a user. Do it yourself first by moving the home directory or archiving it yourself. Tiger with no feedback or progress will archive the home directory into a
Spotlight in Tiger is excellent. I really like that, but overall Tiger is worse than Panther in my opinion. Also, quicksilver for Panther is just about as good. I've never used quicksilver with removable media though, Spotlight is pretty robust with removable media.
Being that price is no object, I'll take a NAS as well. Thanks for offering.
I mean, $350 for a 400 Gig external fw drive that is faster and easier to configure, and can be shared easily from the Mac as a "NAS".
I would recommend NetApp filers. They only cost about $50k plus thousands/year in maintenance. Or if your budget minded, an Xserve RAID for about $5 to $15k (prices are estimates from memory). AppleCare is in the hundreds or so.
I thought that was already the idea behind OSS, GNU, sourceforge, etc.
Its open source, anybody can help, its just that much of the code of interest already has a group of developers and the codebase is so large and many times the bugs are so numerous, that even a decent coder is uninterested in fixing them.
But, in theory Joe Average is welcome already...
just keep to rewriting the history books and not the science books?
I just don't understand these people. For basic research like biology, and whatnot the Federal Government is what, 99% of all of the funding for the stuff?
If they aren't interested in their kids learning what they fund, why not just lie to their kids and stop the funding?
Morons.
Controlling the backbones will make the "internet" a lot easier for them to censor.
.99999 billion people screwing with my systems.
Hopefully, they will also keep Chinese from accessing "our" internet.
About 50% of the SPAM I get is from China, personally I would not care if China could connect to the internet. And I have users from China, but I would rather create a dedicated line for them to access my systems, and send me email, than have the other
Granted, its only a small minority of the Chinese that are causing me problems, but its that network block that keeps coming up in my logs, and its common for me to add whole class B networks from China into my firewall rules.
Yuck.
It's not like DNS Services is a high-bandwidth or high-cost service to run.
Depends on the number of users.
With only a 10k users, DNS can quickly become a high-bandwidth thing. Cost is proportional to bandwidth I guess.
OK, on my spamgourmet.com account, I signed up one time by mistake with a disposable email address to read an NYT article.
This was April 1, 2005 @ 9:50 AM, less than one year ago.
I have had to date, 364 spams sent to me at that address, above and beyond mortgage scams and porn sites that I have given disposable addresses to.
So, I'm glad NYT is caring about privacy today.
I will not read the NYT article.
Well, 'intellectual property' is, essentially, taxation rights handed out to private interests. So, it's not like it's a new thing.
.25 a piece. I don't care at that price. If a CDR lasts me a week its paid for.
.. fileN" that decodes the files into wav, burns them, and ejects the disk. It usually takes 8 to 10 minutes to burn the first disk, and once the files are in wav format, I can hit the up arrow and burn multiple copies in 5 minutes or less each copy.
That is different. Unless its something important like a movie or music, intellectual property laws are civil matters, and even in the case of movies and music, those too are mostly civil maters.
I do not pay extra to the government for patent protection or copyright protection via an explicit tax that is given to the patent holders or the copyright holders (yet).
I believe that "music" CDRs in the US have this tax, and the ones mentioned in this discussion in Canada. I pay $25 for 100 CDRs, so they are
I have yet to of found a cheaper way to listen to music. It does take my time to burn a CD though, but I have a script that burns them with the syntax of "burn file1
In the US, the Federal law regarding chemicals that people put in their bodies is just wrong.
Many of the "FDA" approved drugs are horrible, expensive, have side effects up to and including death, etc.
In 5 years, I will be free from having to take FDA approved drugs on a daily basis. The medication that I am on now gives me dry heaves, makes me insane at times, gives me headaches, disturbs my sleep, gives me vertigo to the point that I have almost died in a car accident, and being that it is a relatively new drug on the market, nobody knows what the long term affects are.
I have much better results and fewer side effects from uncontrolled and/or "illegal" drugs than the FDA ones.
I'm probably the only one that has these issues though.
Even if I set aside the flawed logic, why does the music biz get it all? What about other businesses that are hurt by "copying". Surely some of this money should go to software companies, as well as private media/content producers that distribute their work via CDs.
Thanks for being on their side.
So, now the tax will go up another 50%.
This is proof that 2 rights don't make a left, but three do.
The government has no right or reason to insure or protect the profit of a privately owned business with tax or insurance that is paid for by the citizens and then given to the privately owned business.
Its easy. Just do what we Americans do for prescription drugs. We buy them from Canada because they are about 1/2 the price.
Why can't Canadians buy their CDs from places that have lower taxes?
I drive to a neighboring county to buy cigarettes because they have cheaper taxes. I buy things online to escape state sales tax. I buy my prescription drugs from Canada.
Many retailers advertise and/or strategically place their storefronts right across borders for this reason.
Summary says, "two recently discovered worms and the discovery of a vulnerability in OS X that leaves Safari open to a hack."
This is not true. These things were not recently discovered, they are years old, and they are not a vulnerability, but rather a stupid choice in implementation by Apple, by "Opening "Safe" files after downloading". There are no "Safe" files until a user determines they are safe, and even then, many users are not that good at determining safe and nonsafe. But they are much, much better than computers at figuring out this stuff out a priori. Computers (after being told what to do) are better at post mortem stuff (anti-virus, spyware and adware removal, etc).
Oh, and Symantec of all people are reporting this?
From what I know, they are a terrible software company that make buggy "security" software whose business model is going to be taken away when Microsoft starts selling security as a service for their buggy software just like Norton utilities went away when MS started providing more robust filesystems and bundling (rebranding) some of Norton's stuff.
And you've never used, or heard anyone say "I'm going to eBay that piece of junk?"
No. I "used" eBay once, got ripped off from some dude in China, and never looked back.
I love the choice phrase you picked "I'm going to eBay that piece of junk".
That is pretty much what eBay is and is known for. Junk. Fees. No accountability. If you want accountability, you have to pay a 3rd party escrow service. Returns, support? Nothing.
I've known people that "made it rich" by going to the dollar store, and selling things for $10 or so bucks a piece on eBay. I would estimate that their net earnings were less than $1k.
And, frankly, I have never heard eBay used as a verb. But I have heard it used in the context as a place to offload junk to some sucker. Hey, maybe in 20 years eBay will be synonymous for being ripped off, like gadget has evolved.
PayPal and eBay are both very successful venues and means. They've become (at least, in the US) universally known and serve as the Kleenex tissue of online payments and the Styrofoam foam of online buy/sell/auction, respectively.
Not quite. Google has become _the_ brand name for searches. It would not surprise me if "Googling" outlives Google.
Kleenex has become the brand name for tissues, as Jello for gelatin, and Fridigidaire for "fridges".
PayPal does not have that feeling, and never will.
eBay is pretty much a fad. The name is not compelling enough to be stuck with the service.
I just learned that styrofoam was a Dow product. I thought it was generic.
The internet is a great big public library to a point. Maybe there should be some online libraries like nyc.publiclibrary.com where you can browse through what they have in their digital library. Each having different sets of books but ultimately being searchable through publiclibrary.com/.org so you can order a copy (digital or print via publisher (small cost there)).
Imagine this. Instead of Amazon having warehouses of books, and distribution centers, how about they just have a database of postscript files. You pay Amazon for the book, and local printers download the postscript files, print them, and bind them, and you in a day or so? They could still mail them if you want.
And on the astroturf thing -- an "astroturfer" would be a newly created user account to be thrown away, or an AC, not an account created ~6 years ago (5 digit uid).
astroturfing would be redundant for Google or iPod stories.
nuf said
However, if you were running these on Big Iron Unix machines you'd have them both on the same server. There's no point in wasting the resources of a large machine on a single task.
What resources?
Are you trying to tell us that a Big Iron UNIX box is required for an email server and a cvs server that can be done with two pizza boxes that probably cost a total of $2,500 to $3k?
Aside from the initial investment of the cost of a Big Iron UNIX box, maintenance fees will surpass the two pizza box machines in a couple of years. Where I work, HP with HPUX lost all of its workstation business to Dells because they were paying $50k a year on maintenance. The Dells they got were $3k a piece, and can be upgraded 12-18 months at a time for less than the maintenance costs alone for the HPs.
Now, who in their right mind would combine email and ANY other service?
Want a bad rep as a sysadmin? Shut down email for 1 hour. People cry when they can't get their email. Its a service they expect to be as reliable as power and phones.
CVS is an entirely different type of service. Do you want public ssh access to your email/cvs server when there is a potential exploit for ssh? Remember, email is perceived as essential. Email and cvs can be VERY demanding on network and disk IO, depending on the user number and size of the codebase.
My point being, is I would probably fire someone that suggested a "Big Iron UNIX" box to combine cvs and email. It would depend on how long it took them to realize they were wrong.
I've just seen them fall over dead too many times because of a crappy application.
That is an operating system problem, not an application problem.
No application can take down a robust operating system. Never.
Well, I'll qualify the never. There are occasions when an app can DOS its own box by filling up the disk or running the box out of memory. There are ways around this as well, but even in both of those situations the OS shall still be running.
Why the fuck can't they just add the following to
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Not everyone is interested in holding a lossless music archive on their system. For many, there's simply no benefit.
True. But with 20-540 gig mobile media, and free harddisc space, why compromise for the inferior?
there is not supposed to be any auto-run (as opposed to auto-open of non-executable media files
...
BUT, it it executes executable files
I'm all for killing worthless people. I'm a noob at it. I'm a work in progress.
yes