Actually, Bush talked about reducing frivolous lawsuits in his state of the union address.
Granted, it's mainly to prevent abusive class-action suits, but nonetheless it's a good start in reforming the legal system. They definitely acknowledge there's a problem.
honestly, SPEWS is one of the most irresponsible blacklists in the world, and yet many ISPs still rely upon it.
my server was once blacklisted because it was hosted by a company which had once used a colocation facility which had once hosted a spammer. a nice string of coincidences, huh? and the cool part is that there's really no way to get off the list once you're on.
they frequently block entire ranges of IPs, and I wouldn't be surprised if they blocked MCI or some other humungous providor.
one day the maintainer took personal offense at some comment somebody made on spews and blocked the entire internet for a day. neecdless to say, that was a big wakeup call and many ISPs dropped spews after that incident.
blacklists seem to hurt a lot more than they help. false positives at the server level are simply unacceptable. I don't mind if i catch a few FPs in my pop3 mailbox because I can quickly page through my spam folder once a week to look for any legit emails. when mail gets deleted before it even reaches my mailbox (or worse -- before it leaves the originating server), it's a bad thing.
another nifty fact -- my colo facility filters all OUTBOUND mail through some ridiculously strict spamassasin filters. a lot of my mail gets caught in these -- w ealso don't get more than 100 messages passed per hour. running a legit distribution list is a pain, especially when many of the users NEED to get the messages
AFAIK, this is because Firefox doesn't link against Cocoa which provides the nifty widgets such as drawers, OSX-style preference windows, and SpellCheck text boxes.
Of course, the tradeoff is that you get to use all of the cool XUL stuff Firefox has to offer which will work on all platforms. But, yeah... Firefox with Cocoa would be awesome. Safari's nice, but the javascript/CSS support is terrible.
First i'll suggest the obvious -- a flat panel iMac. It's not water/splash proof, but it fits the role quite nicely. Not too expensive considering what you get too.
A more practical solution (for you PC users out there) is the Sony Vaio PCV-W series. This is an all-in-one series (similar to the G5 iMac) with a built-in fold-down keyboard. It's pretty good for kitchen use because the LCD is covered by an eigth-inch thick piece of plexiglass (or lexan. i'm not sure) -- you'd need a hammer/very sharp object to damage the screen. Also worth noting that the screen has a fairly 'wide' aspect ratio. It should be able to fit under any overheard cabinetry you've got.
The fold-down keyboard is very cool too and perfect for kitchen use, because it stays out of the way when you're not using it. The only downside is that it's not splashproof -- sony may have fixed this in later models than the one I have.
It's been recently discontinued, so you'll have to search around for them. Still, it's a solid choice for a kitchen PC.
OS X is essentially FreeBSD with a pretty GUI on top.
Install OS X server, and you've got a top-notch backend with a beautiful / easy to use graphical frontend that you can either access via VNC or apple's remote server administration utility (not a remote desktop, but rather, a remote control panel). People use Windows 2003 because it provides a decent feature-set while being easy to use. Linux is obviously more featured and secure, but is a PITA to use. OS X Server takes the best of both worlds.
When the system's just sitting there, the GUI isn't using many resources -- RAM would be the only concern I see here, and chances are that most of the GUI stuff would be the first to be swapped to disk.
My biggest peeves here are the Mini's hardware specs. 256mb of ram just won't cut it for a server, and no sane person would run a server without RAID or some other form of redundant backup. Of course, you could set up two minis in a load-balancing configuration, and then you've got much more redundancy than you would get with one server running RAID.
Keynote 2 seems to finally be able to compete with PowerPoint on a number of new levels, especially now that it has, for example, presenter display.
Keynote 1 had this and did it quite well (better than PowerPoint X and about on par with 2004).
Honestly, I found that using keynote was a delight to work with when compared to powerpoint once you got accustomed to the way it worked and the minimalistic interface which I've come to love. Palettes are much easier to work with than toolbars. Despite having an interface which is FAR less cluttered than powerpoint, I have yet to come across a feature powerpoint had that keynote 1 didn't.
As Icing on the cake, keynote will import or export to just about anything. And, as with any OS X application, PDF Export works by default. I particularly liked the Quicktime Export feature, and Flash export should prove to be interesting.
To rave just a bit more about keynote, the templates are simply beautiful and the transitions are very smooth and look beautiful (although they're by no means distracting/annoyinh like those in powerpoint).
Other awesome features -- snap-to centering both for the slide and the content pane. Transparency, rotation, and cropping work for virtually all image types. Tables actually look nice, and charts are also pleasant to look at.
I'm looking forward to the new animation tools in Keynote 2. The first version is one of apple's best kept secrets.
Presentations are all about looks and.... presentation. I've never understood how powerpoint was able to be successful while producing some of the ugliest presentations i've ever seen.
I'm surprised to see that Internap's main servers are back up. It's pretty irresponsible to bring up your corporate servers before those of your clients.
That being said, LJ's servers are back up now, but they're making sure that the databases are all in sync -- LiveJournal has one of the most massive distributed MySQL clusters in existance along with a complete caching system.
They need to make sure that the database is all synchronized before bringing it back up -- chances are they're going to rebuild the cache too. If they didn't, the initial strain on the DB servers would probably bring the site down again.
This does however, bring up some questions about LiveJournal's network infrastructure. Danga (the creaters of LJ, recently purchased by Six Apart) are heavy users of Perl and MySQL. Needless to say, they have made numerous contributions to both projects and have developed an innovative memory caching system for linux.
The questions raised however, come from Perl and MySQL. Both are questionable in terms of scalability. Although I'm not qualified to comment on this, I belive that the general concensus is that MySQL is one of the least efficent databases today. Livejournal has 100+ servers. I honestly don't think that a system the size of LiveJournal should require a server cluster that big. It seems that they are trying to solve their performance/reliability problems by blindly throwing hardware at it.
Of course, I love livejournal. It's simple, easy to use, and is a great tool for building communities. Just as it is simple, it can also be incredibly nerdy (there's actually a command prompt!). They're also completely open source.
Hopefully, Six Apart can make their network infrastructure more 'professional' while still maintianing the community spirit that has made it so successful.
Since this is beta software, I'm not going to comment on stability or features. The early builds of Mozilla frankly sucked. Every product is buggy in early stages -- I actually commend Mircorosft for releasing a beta, since spyware is a pressing issue at the moment.
Now, Microsoft seriously needs to get their act together and support proper file-locking and implement unix-style permissions that actually work. I like Apple's approach that prevents you from EVER being logged in as root.
Spybot and Adaware are nice, but frankly I perfer SpySweeper (which costs money), but covers a lot more. It's only like $20. The week after I brought it, my ISP (AT&T) started giving it away for free. Go figure. I find the combination of SpySweeper and McAfee Virus Scan to be fairly strong.
McAfee and Symantec should be scared to death. They make a business of compensating for the inadequacies of Windows. Microsoft isn't stupid, and knows that it needs to play catch-up and fix the holes in their operating system. Expect *increased security* to be a major feature of longhorn.
This is a double-edged sword, however. If they do indeed make major security improvements to Longhorn and neglect XP/IE6, they are guilty of extortion and racketeering. If AntiSpyware becomes a pay service, the DOJ will destroy Microsoft. There's no grey area like in the IE/Netscape lawsuit... it would be illegal, wrong, and immoral.
Expect IE7 to be a Firefox-Killer. While M$ isn't releasing any new browsers until longhorn, we would have heard if they laid off the IE development team. They're working on something big.
Either the parent is a troll, or Game Tunnel realized they were being slashdotted into oblivion and moved the article to a single static page with no ads.
Either way, it's a single page article with no ads as I'm posting this....
In the open source world, DOCUMENTATION IS EVERYTHING.
Think of it this way... in order for an OSS project to be successful it either needs corporate funding OR good documentation in order for the non-academic types to use it and learn to hack it.
In this regard, I consider most of the official GNU projects, perl, and many others to be failures.
PHP has amazingly good documentation. I was able to easily learn PHP only having a basic knowledge of C++ beforehand using only the docs on php.net. They're easy to navigate, pleasant to look at, and readable by NORMAL HUMANS. Now, from what I understand, PHP didn't start out as being much of a superior language to perl, python, asp, and many others... The fact is that php got good because it got popular. Php gor popular because it was easy to use and the docs were top-notch.
Now move on to Gentoo (no. I'm not a gentoo fanboy and do not have any systems currently running it). By all means, the installation process for gentoo is ASTONISHINGLY complicated and difficult --- without proper documentation. The official installation documentation is excellent. It's no wordier than it needs to be, and should be understandable by anyone with a decent amount of experience with windows or mac os. Gentoo's large userbase can easily be credited to its excellent (centralized) documentation and community. In my experience, when I ran into a problem with gentoo, I could find a solution easier than I could with RedHat because the documentation was all in one place, easy to understand, and logically organized. By all means, if gentoo's docs sucked, the project wouldn't exist anymore. Everyone would be scared off. My only gripe was that when I installed it, they gave no warning that it would take about a week on my ancient celron-466. live and learn.
OS X got tons of little freeware/shareware/oss apps once apple got its act together and started offering decent documentation on cocoa. the number of small independent software companies developing for apple has exploded over the past few years thanks to this.
As annoying as it is, the M$ office assistant is actually a nice thing to have. It gives short, concise answers to everyday questions with word and excel. Great for people who don't have much computer knowledge. Although most people like them, I don't like microsoft's developer docs...
now all mozilla needs is decent XUL / devloper documentation. Last time i checked a few months ago, it was virtually non-existant which is a pity, because I think XUL could really take off as an entirely separate entity from mozilla. XUL + Javascript could finally fufill Sun's original dreams for Java to create applications which were small, lightweight, and portable. XUL is to HTML as Applications are to Web Pages (XUL:HTML:: Apps:WebSites) if you catch the drift.
To get an idea of the power of XUL, check out the Mozilla Amazon Browser which is in all ways a faster and easier method for browsing amazon.
Also think of the bandwidth savings! Web applications would no longer have to serve entire pages for each request processed.
As much as I'd like for the GIMP team to be innovative in their UI design, I believe that they will find that impossible, as the GMIP's feature-set has come to resemble that of Photoshop so closely that the two UIs will be VERY similar.
Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro have very different UIs because they are conceptually different (that's not to say that PSP is any good. I'm not a fan). The GIMP and Photoshop were both conceptually similar -- in other words, by copying features from PS, the GIMP team has forced themselves to make their UI very similar to Photoshop. In other words, copying the PS GUI exactly will create the most efficent UI for the gimp. In my mind, this is a bad thing.
But not all is lost. Here are my suggestions 1) Implement a darn menu bar and clean up the menus. The right-click system sucks. 2) Please handle pallettes like every other program does and NOT create an additional taskbar icon for every document, toolbar, and pallette. 3) Implement a Slices tool like ImageReady has 4) Rename the program. GIMP does not convey an image of a good, reliable program
ZSNES ran at about 90% frame rate on my Pentium-100. I never even noticed the missing 10% until I actually checked the frame-counter -- it was still better than playing a 'real' SNES.
Speaking of shareware, it's probably worth mentioning that right now, OS X has an incredible selection of shareware available.
Seriously, there are so many astoundingly good programs out there for free/cheap for solving all those pesky annoyances. Independent developers are pumping out titles rivaling the quality of software produced by big companies. It's really a testament to the APIs put out by Apple.
Just to name a few, quicksilver - data access tool. one of the most innovative programs i've ever used. CSSEdit - simplistic stylesheet creator/editor. allows idiots to produce valid CSS Transmit - wonderful FTP client (my only gripe is that this should've been intergrated into the OS itself) Acquisition - one of the best p2p clients known to man. Adium X - the power of gaim + the beauty of OSX = priceless BBEditBBEdit - so it's a bit more well-known than the others here, but is still a marvelous editor. a bit expensive and out of my budget. I use jEdit instead (which is cross-platform, BTW)
does anybody know if the IMs are moderated by a security team in a similar manner to written letters to prevent servicemen and women from accidentally releasing sensitive information?
now, don't get me wrong, censorship is almost always bad, but in the military it is a necessary evil to prevent a mole from leaking information. this information would only be useful to a terrorist and be used to put our enlisted men and women in harms way.
Encryption is useless if one of the people on either end blabs something they shouldn't. Sensitive information should not be transmitted to family members. Period. In other words, the whole encryption thing is a bit pointless...
I wouldn't place any bets on this being used in the G5.
There were MANY variations of the G4-series chips which were not specifically designed for workstation/mainframe use and were never picked up by Apple.
Offtopic, but interesting to note is that there were actually TWO G4s. I'm not 100% sure, but I think when apple transitioned to DDR RAM, they used a different series of processor -- they were quite different chips... apple never made a big deal out of it (and rightfully so, as it made little difference to the consumer). Still, compiling using optimizations only found on the newer G4s can yield impressive results as shown with the optimized firefox builds.
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Actually, Bush talked about reducing frivolous lawsuits in his state of the union address.
Granted, it's mainly to prevent abusive class-action suits, but nonetheless it's a good start in reforming the legal system. They definitely acknowledge there's a problem.
ah. you must run SPEWS.
honestly, SPEWS is one of the most irresponsible blacklists in the world, and yet many ISPs still rely upon it.
my server was once blacklisted because it was hosted by a company which had once used a colocation facility which had once hosted a spammer. a nice string of coincidences, huh? and the cool part is that there's really no way to get off the list once you're on.
they frequently block entire ranges of IPs, and I wouldn't be surprised if they blocked MCI or some other humungous providor.
one day the maintainer took personal offense at some comment somebody made on spews and blocked the entire internet for a day. neecdless to say, that was a big wakeup call and many ISPs dropped spews after that incident.
blacklists seem to hurt a lot more than they help. false positives at the server level are simply unacceptable. I don't mind if i catch a few FPs in my pop3 mailbox because I can quickly page through my spam folder once a week to look for any legit emails. when mail gets deleted before it even reaches my mailbox (or worse -- before it leaves the originating server), it's a bad thing.
another nifty fact -- my colo facility filters all OUTBOUND mail through some ridiculously strict spamassasin filters. a lot of my mail gets caught in these -- w ealso don't get more than 100 messages passed per hour. running a legit distribution list is a pain, especially when many of the users NEED to get the messages
AFAIK, this is because Firefox doesn't link against Cocoa which provides the nifty widgets such as drawers, OSX-style preference windows, and SpellCheck text boxes.
Of course, the tradeoff is that you get to use all of the cool XUL stuff Firefox has to offer which will work on all platforms. But, yeah... Firefox with Cocoa would be awesome. Safari's nice, but the javascript/CSS support is terrible.
First i'll suggest the obvious -- a flat panel iMac. It's not water/splash proof, but it fits the role quite nicely. Not too expensive considering what you get too.
A more practical solution (for you PC users out there) is the Sony Vaio PCV-W series. This is an all-in-one series (similar to the G5 iMac) with a built-in fold-down keyboard. It's pretty good for kitchen use because the LCD is covered by an eigth-inch thick piece of plexiglass (or lexan. i'm not sure) -- you'd need a hammer/very sharp object to damage the screen. Also worth noting that the screen has a fairly 'wide' aspect ratio. It should be able to fit under any overheard cabinetry you've got.
The fold-down keyboard is very cool too and perfect for kitchen use, because it stays out of the way when you're not using it. The only downside is that it's not splashproof -- sony may have fixed this in later models than the one I have.
It's been recently discontinued, so you'll have to search around for them. Still, it's a solid choice for a kitchen PC.
OS X is essentially FreeBSD with a pretty GUI on top.
Install OS X server, and you've got a top-notch backend with a beautiful / easy to use graphical frontend that you can either access via VNC or apple's remote server administration utility (not a remote desktop, but rather, a remote control panel). People use Windows 2003 because it provides a decent feature-set while being easy to use. Linux is obviously more featured and secure, but is a PITA to use. OS X Server takes the best of both worlds.
When the system's just sitting there, the GUI isn't using many resources -- RAM would be the only concern I see here, and chances are that most of the GUI stuff would be the first to be swapped to disk.
My biggest peeves here are the Mini's hardware specs. 256mb of ram just won't cut it for a server, and no sane person would run a server without RAID or some other form of redundant backup. Of course, you could set up two minis in a load-balancing configuration, and then you've got much more redundancy than you would get with one server running RAID.
take his comments with a grain of salt:
Keynote 2 seems to finally be able to compete with PowerPoint on a number of new levels, especially now that it has, for example, presenter display.
Keynote 1 had this and did it quite well (better than PowerPoint X and about on par with 2004).
Honestly, I found that using keynote was a delight to work with when compared to powerpoint once you got accustomed to the way it worked and the minimalistic interface which I've come to love. Palettes are much easier to work with than toolbars. Despite having an interface which is FAR less cluttered than powerpoint, I have yet to come across a feature powerpoint had that keynote 1 didn't.
As Icing on the cake, keynote will import or export to just about anything. And, as with any OS X application, PDF Export works by default. I particularly liked the Quicktime Export feature, and Flash export should prove to be interesting.
To rave just a bit more about keynote, the templates are simply beautiful and the transitions are very smooth and look beautiful (although they're by no means distracting/annoyinh like those in powerpoint).
Other awesome features -- snap-to centering both for the slide and the content pane. Transparency, rotation, and cropping work for virtually all image types. Tables actually look nice, and charts are also pleasant to look at.
I'm looking forward to the new animation tools in Keynote 2. The first version is one of apple's best kept secrets.
Presentations are all about looks and.... presentation. I've never understood how powerpoint was able to be successful while producing some of the ugliest presentations i've ever seen.
I'm surprised to see that Internap's main servers are back up. It's pretty irresponsible to bring up your corporate servers before those of your clients.
That being said, LJ's servers are back up now, but they're making sure that the databases are all in sync -- LiveJournal has one of the most massive distributed MySQL clusters in existance along with a complete caching system.
They need to make sure that the database is all synchronized before bringing it back up -- chances are they're going to rebuild the cache too. If they didn't, the initial strain on the DB servers would probably bring the site down again.
This does however, bring up some questions about LiveJournal's network infrastructure. Danga (the creaters of LJ, recently purchased by Six Apart) are heavy users of Perl and MySQL. Needless to say, they have made numerous contributions to both projects and have developed an innovative memory caching system for linux.
The questions raised however, come from Perl and MySQL. Both are questionable in terms of scalability. Although I'm not qualified to comment on this, I belive that the general concensus is that MySQL is one of the least efficent databases today. Livejournal has 100+ servers. I honestly don't think that a system the size of LiveJournal should require a server cluster that big. It seems that they are trying to solve their performance/reliability problems by blindly throwing hardware at it.
Of course, I love livejournal. It's simple, easy to use, and is a great tool for building communities. Just as it is simple, it can also be incredibly nerdy (there's actually a command prompt!). They're also completely open source.
Hopefully, Six Apart can make their network infrastructure more 'professional' while still maintianing the community spirit that has made it so successful.
The point of the LiveJournal status page is that it's hosted at a completely different facility by a different provider.
If it goes down, the rest of LJ is uneffected
No God, no matter how perverse would allow Windows to run on His creations.
Since this is beta software, I'm not going to comment on stability or features. The early builds of Mozilla frankly sucked. Every product is buggy in early stages -- I actually commend Mircorosft for releasing a beta, since spyware is a pressing issue at the moment.
Now, Microsoft seriously needs to get their act together and support proper file-locking and implement unix-style permissions that actually work. I like Apple's approach that prevents you from EVER being logged in as root.
Spybot and Adaware are nice, but frankly I perfer SpySweeper (which costs money), but covers a lot more. It's only like $20. The week after I brought it, my ISP (AT&T) started giving it away for free. Go figure. I find the combination of SpySweeper and McAfee Virus Scan to be fairly strong.
McAfee and Symantec should be scared to death. They make a business of compensating for the inadequacies of Windows. Microsoft isn't stupid, and knows that it needs to play catch-up and fix the holes in their operating system. Expect *increased security* to be a major feature of longhorn.
This is a double-edged sword, however. If they do indeed make major security improvements to Longhorn and neglect XP/IE6, they are guilty of extortion and racketeering. If AntiSpyware becomes a pay service, the DOJ will destroy Microsoft. There's no grey area like in the IE/Netscape lawsuit... it would be illegal, wrong, and immoral.
Expect IE7 to be a Firefox-Killer. While M$ isn't releasing any new browsers until longhorn, we would have heard if they laid off the IE development team. They're working on something big.
Oh God. I just spent the New Years posting a comment to slashdot.
brilliant
Either the parent is a troll, or Game Tunnel realized they were being slashdotted into oblivion and moved the article to a single static page with no ads.
Either way, it's a single page article with no ads as I'm posting this....
Oh thank god nobody's mentioned Xenix yet
you know... Microsoft has produced an operating system worse than Windows.
supposedly, there was a time on Microsoft's campus when all employees were required to have some knowledge of vi so that they could compose emails.
somehow, bad unix makes windows seem pretty.
Let me add to this.
:: Apps:WebSites) if you catch the drift.
In the open source world, DOCUMENTATION IS EVERYTHING.
Think of it this way... in order for an OSS project to be successful it either needs corporate funding OR good documentation in order for the non-academic types to use it and learn to hack it.
In this regard, I consider most of the official GNU projects, perl, and many others to be failures.
PHP has amazingly good documentation. I was able to easily learn PHP only having a basic knowledge of C++ beforehand using only the docs on php.net. They're easy to navigate, pleasant to look at, and readable by NORMAL HUMANS. Now, from what I understand, PHP didn't start out as being much of a superior language to perl, python, asp, and many others... The fact is that php got good because it got popular. Php gor popular because it was easy to use and the docs were top-notch.
Now move on to Gentoo (no. I'm not a gentoo fanboy and do not have any systems currently running it). By all means, the installation process for gentoo is ASTONISHINGLY complicated and difficult --- without proper documentation. The official installation documentation is excellent. It's no wordier than it needs to be, and should be understandable by anyone with a decent amount of experience with windows or mac os. Gentoo's large userbase can easily be credited to its excellent (centralized) documentation and community. In my experience, when I ran into a problem with gentoo, I could find a solution easier than I could with RedHat because the documentation was all in one place, easy to understand, and logically organized. By all means, if gentoo's docs sucked, the project wouldn't exist anymore. Everyone would be scared off. My only gripe was that when I installed it, they gave no warning that it would take about a week on my ancient celron-466. live and learn.
OS X got tons of little freeware/shareware/oss apps once apple got its act together and started offering decent documentation on cocoa. the number of small independent software companies developing for apple has exploded over the past few years thanks to this.
As annoying as it is, the M$ office assistant is actually a nice thing to have. It gives short, concise answers to everyday questions with word and excel. Great for people who don't have much computer knowledge. Although most people like them, I don't like microsoft's developer docs...
now all mozilla needs is decent XUL / devloper documentation. Last time i checked a few months ago, it was virtually non-existant which is a pity, because I think XUL could really take off as an entirely separate entity from mozilla. XUL + Javascript could finally fufill Sun's original dreams for Java to create applications which were small, lightweight, and portable. XUL is to HTML as Applications are to Web Pages (XUL:HTML
To get an idea of the power of XUL, check out the Mozilla Amazon Browser which is in all ways a faster and easier method for browsing amazon.
Also think of the bandwidth savings! Web applications would no longer have to serve entire pages for each request processed.
and to add another entirely false statement, this time from a former US President:
JFK, 1963: "I am a jelly dougnut."
Look how that one turned out. Personally, I still want to see a jelly doughnut serve as president.
Of course, there's a bit more to the story
wow. my head hurts from reading that abstract..
I perfer Terry Pratchett's definition of 'quantum' where scientists label anything too confusing for them to understand as being 'quantum'
"What're quantum mechanics?" - "I don't know. People
who repair quantums, I suppose."
As much as I'd like for the GIMP team to be innovative in their UI design, I believe that they will find that impossible, as the GMIP's feature-set has come to resemble that of Photoshop so closely that the two UIs will be VERY similar.
Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro have very different UIs because they are conceptually different (that's not to say that PSP is any good. I'm not a fan). The GIMP and Photoshop were both conceptually similar -- in other words, by copying features from PS, the GIMP team has forced themselves to make their UI very similar to Photoshop. In other words, copying the PS GUI exactly will create the most efficent UI for the gimp. In my mind, this is a bad thing.
But not all is lost. Here are my suggestions
1) Implement a darn menu bar and clean up the menus. The right-click system sucks.
2) Please handle pallettes like every other program does and NOT create an additional taskbar icon for every document, toolbar, and pallette.
3) Implement a Slices tool like ImageReady has
4) Rename the program. GIMP does not convey an image of a good, reliable program
ZSNES ran at about 90% frame rate on my Pentium-100. I never even noticed the missing 10% until I actually checked the frame-counter -- it was still better than playing a 'real' SNES.
It's a real testament to their coding skills.
Speaking of shareware, it's probably worth mentioning that right now, OS X has an incredible selection of shareware available.
Seriously, there are so many astoundingly good programs out there for free/cheap for solving all those pesky annoyances. Independent developers are pumping out titles rivaling the quality of software produced by big companies. It's really a testament to the APIs put out by Apple.
Just to name a few,
quicksilver - data access tool. one of the most innovative programs i've ever used.
CSSEdit - simplistic stylesheet creator/editor. allows idiots to produce valid CSS
Transmit - wonderful FTP client (my only gripe is that this should've been intergrated into the OS itself)
Acquisition - one of the best p2p clients known to man.
Adium X - the power of gaim + the beauty of OSX = priceless
BBEditBBEdit - so it's a bit more well-known than the others here, but is still a marvelous editor. a bit expensive and out of my budget. I use jEdit instead (which is cross-platform, BTW)
just to name a few..... (feel free to add more)
hahahahahha. If I hadn't been the parent poster, I'd mod that up...
After actually RTFAing the article I linked to, I noticed it's surprisingly short -- something I wouldn't have expected...
does anybody know if the IMs are moderated by a security team in a similar manner to written letters to prevent servicemen and women from accidentally releasing sensitive information?
now, don't get me wrong, censorship is almost always bad, but in the military it is a necessary evil to prevent a mole from leaking information. this information would only be useful to a terrorist and be used to put our enlisted men and women in harms way.
Encryption is useless if one of the people on either end blabs something they shouldn't. Sensitive information should not be transmitted to family members. Period. In other words, the whole encryption thing is a bit pointless...
Wikipedia article on Larry Sanger
;-)
It had to be done
I wouldn't place any bets on this being used in the G5.
There were MANY variations of the G4-series chips which were not specifically designed for workstation/mainframe use and were never picked up by Apple.
Offtopic, but interesting to note is that there were actually TWO G4s. I'm not 100% sure, but I think when apple transitioned to DDR RAM, they used a different series of processor -- they were quite different chips... apple never made a big deal out of it (and rightfully so, as it made little difference to the consumer). Still, compiling using optimizations only found on the newer G4s can yield impressive results as shown with the optimized firefox builds.
scientists have also acknowledged the presence of a second, nearly identical asteriod trailing directly behiDFJAFNDFK DJF *#%*# *****NO CARRIER*******
heh. it wouldn't be a comfort to the family to find out that the user had bad karma.....