Actually... I accidentally did that while testing the rm -rf ~ in my scratch user account. A few screenfuls of Permission Denied errors flew by before I realized what had happened. I checked against my nightly backup and nothing was gone. It had gone through all the root files and the Applications folder before I had a chance to stop it. Maybe I'm wrong but it looks like nothing got deleted at all. Anyone brave enough to let a user run rm -rf / go thru the whole system and see what disappears?:-)
I just made a new user to run an rm -rf ~ on to see how it looks.
I have to say I'm impressed with how Apple handles this situation. You actually have to do rm -rf ~/* but anyways, once your home directory is emptying there is no error message. No flood of missing files or application crashes. You just log out and log back in and hey you have the default's loaded again like a fresh user. Being a Windows/Linux switcher I have to say this is handled quite differently than I expected. At least in windows losing all your windows files is gonna cause some serious problems, may not be able to log back in again.
Your marriage contract (pre-nups or whatever) doesn't change every time your wife cooks for you.
sleeps with you... washes your clothes... or any other implied "services".
Then again... the longer you are married, the more she'll get when you divorce her. Sooo... the longer you use windows, the more Microsoft owns your computer!:-)
Ahhhh... so the TRUE REASON all those dozens of worms have been mostly harmless! They are advertisements for Anti-Virus companies. You don't want to wipe out your future customers!
Ahhhh yes... the Documents folder containing their Wordpad document with all their passwords in it. Making it impossible to log onto their blogs and article submission pages. Suddenly IT departments worldwide are called up and asked to reset passwords.
I have to disagree with you on the "No bragging rights" point. A Mac only worm that spread around and nailed a few hundred thousand or so users, and even caused actual data loss would be a crushing blow to Apple... the writer of this would be quite infamous. Nobody cares when another Windows worm comes out, but if one comes out on the Macs, you'd better believe everyone who's ever said "Apple is dying!" is going to come crawling out of the woodwork and make sure it's never forgotten. Those of us in the know wouldn't be bothered much by it, but the FUD spread would be incredible.
Ahhhh yes, no extra functionality. I'm with you on that one, I have a 2 button mouse with a little scroll-wheel on it for my iBook, and I use Sidetrack to put a little scrollwheel on the touchpad for when I'm mobile. However the Pro mouse came with the eMac we got for my mom. She just couldn't handle windows. It's not that it crashed too often, or that it wouldn't work right... just somehow it was confusing to her. She would often confuse the left and right mouse buttons and other silly stuff like that. She has always HATED computers, but once she started using the eMac all the sudden she's in love. Her friends come over and she shows off the pictures she took and got into iPhoto without my help. Other annoying stuff like that, but the thing is she doesn't bother me anymore and never has a problem figuring out the mouse buttons like she used to.
Ehhh... but we're not in that market. I think the one-button mouse should be the default, with an option to change it for a 2 button mouse. I can't see Apple making one of their own, and they don't want some white Logitech mouse clashing with their translucent cases, so they won't offer. oh well. Now I'm rambling... bad Don!
Also cool is the pressure sensitivity on the sides, while dragging an object you can pick up the "no button" mouse and put it back down while still dragging... you won't drop your icon or whatever. Very slick.:-)
They should just rent virus infected computers from the mob and set them to click at random intervals. Or maybe that's what they are being used for... besides DDoS that is.
Hmmm... gapless playback. I don't have any continuous play CD's, so I can't really be sure if this is what you want... but I just tried turning ON the Crossfade and setting the crossfade time to zero seconds... seemed to be gapless to me, but I can't tell if it will play your live tracks without a skip. Worth a shot.
They added my requested feature yaaay! Now I can find all the videos on that site. Before they were with random "Featured Artists" and there was no way to search for them. I found U2 Electrical Storm and some others but it was annoying. Now all in one spot.:-)
I'd rather they collect hair samples from it. A little monkey, a little giraffe here and there, etc... how does it compare genetically to the animals we have now? If this were indeed the ark then there would be some sort of definitive proof of paternity for every single sample found. Excluding those of the animals which were sacrificed or eaten of course .;-)
I'm not soo concerned about potential dangers, I just wonder if it's actually feasible at all. If you're creating little machines at the atomic scale, then what is the size of a processor required to manage this device? I've seen little motors and joints and so forth being developed, but how much easy is it to say "Grip gold atom, place it next to the other one, let go, repeat"? Wouldn't even the smallest nano-processor be thousands of times larger than the size of the nano-bots people envision? Perhaps they'd be better named "nano-blimps".;-) But seriously how much processing power do they need to work in a 3-D environment? And how small could that amount of processing power actually get?
Okay, as a deaf person... let me just say nobody would miss IP-Relay calls. They've been showing up at the expos trying to get customers for the last few years... it's a PITA to use. Many don't work right with Mozilla or Safari, forcing me to use IE... Yikes. That gives me random disconnects during calls... YAY. The big thing these days is the video-relay services... which are MUCH nicer to use... the problem is upstream bandwidth which very few ISP's provide. 256K is what Sorenson requires, but they'll give you a unit with 130K or so. Hands-On VRS uses Windows software and a webcam... etc... there's about 5 major players in the VRS game... big money. I can't imagine how much the govt pays those call centers per call, the terps get seriously nice pay, more than I could ever get in IT. Ooops, now I'm saying too much.;-)
Anyways, there's better solutions with less problems... if you use sign language that's a better authentication than an IP... video or actual TTY's make it a lot easier for the cops to find you. I never had problems with phone TTY relay. (Except bad Engris from call workers)
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Heh... I see an army of wallpapered tanks crossing the battlefield. :-)
Hitler was human too... does that earn him extra points too? Hey at least he has a pulse! Not everyone does ya know. ;-)
GET THIS KID SOME PROTECTION!! Mr. Glass has been waiting for him!! (He's still vulnerable to water if u recall)
Since then my computer has rebooted 6 times and I now have a BSOD! I think it's working! :-)
Actually ... I accidentally did that while testing the rm -rf ~ in my scratch user account. A few screenfuls of Permission Denied errors flew by before I realized what had happened. I checked against my nightly backup and nothing was gone. It had gone through all the root files and the Applications folder before I had a chance to stop it. Maybe I'm wrong but it looks like nothing got deleted at all. Anyone brave enough to let a user run rm -rf / go thru the whole system and see what disappears? :-)
-Don.
I just made a new user to run an rm -rf ~ on to see how it looks.
:)
I have to say I'm impressed with how Apple handles this situation. You actually have to do rm -rf ~/* but anyways, once your home directory is emptying there is no error message. No flood of missing files or application crashes. You just log out and log back in and hey you have the default's loaded again like a fresh user. Being a Windows/Linux switcher I have to say this is handled quite differently than I expected. At least in windows losing all your windows files is gonna cause some serious problems, may not be able to log back in again.
Maybe I'm odd but eh.
-Don.
Microsoft... released a 108KB version of Office? :-D Must be that new C# bytecode I've heard about! VERY EFFICIENT!!
-Don.
For reals? :-D Who needs karma!
Aaaackk!! There's a cat on my pizza!!
-Don.
And here I was wondering why anyone would want to order Peas from their iPod. Wait til Apple's lawyers find out!
-Don.
Must have been expensive... and TASTY!
-Don.
Your marriage contract (pre-nups or whatever) doesn't change every time your wife cooks for you.
:-)
sleeps with you...
washes your clothes...
or any other implied "services".
Then again... the longer you are married, the more she'll get when you divorce her. Sooo... the longer you use windows, the more Microsoft owns your computer!
-Don.
Ahhhh... so the TRUE REASON all those dozens of worms have been mostly harmless! They are advertisements for Anti-Virus companies. You don't want to wipe out your future customers!
-Don.
Patent deep red colored Apples and sue Job's & company out of existence! =-o If only there was some prior art!
Heh...
Ahhhh yes... the Documents folder containing their Wordpad document with all their passwords in it. Making it impossible to log onto their blogs and article submission pages. Suddenly IT departments worldwide are called up and asked to reset passwords.
-Don.
I have to disagree with you on the "No bragging rights" point. A Mac only worm that spread around and nailed a few hundred thousand or so users, and even caused actual data loss would be a crushing blow to Apple... the writer of this would be quite infamous. Nobody cares when another Windows worm comes out, but if one comes out on the Macs, you'd better believe everyone who's ever said "Apple is dying!" is going to come crawling out of the woodwork and make sure it's never forgotten. Those of us in the know wouldn't be bothered much by it, but the FUD spread would be incredible.
-Don.
Ahhhh yes, no extra functionality. I'm with you on that one, I have a 2 button mouse with a little scroll-wheel on it for my iBook, and I use Sidetrack to put a little scrollwheel on the touchpad for when I'm mobile. However the Pro mouse came with the eMac we got for my mom. She just couldn't handle windows. It's not that it crashed too often, or that it wouldn't work right... just somehow it was confusing to her. She would often confuse the left and right mouse buttons and other silly stuff like that. She has always HATED computers, but once she started using the eMac all the sudden she's in love. Her friends come over and she shows off the pictures she took and got into iPhoto without my help. Other annoying stuff like that, but the thing is she doesn't bother me anymore and never has a problem figuring out the mouse buttons like she used to.
Ehhh... but we're not in that market. I think the one-button mouse should be the default, with an option to change it for a 2 button mouse. I can't see Apple making one of their own, and they don't want some white Logitech mouse clashing with their translucent cases, so they won't offer. oh well. Now I'm rambling... bad Don!
-Don.
Also cool is the pressure sensitivity on the sides, while dragging an object you can pick up the "no button" mouse and put it back down while still dragging... you won't drop your icon or whatever. Very slick. :-)
-Don.
They should just rent virus infected computers from the mob and set them to click at random intervals. Or maybe that's what they are being used for... besides DDoS that is.
-Don.
Hmmm... gapless playback. I don't have any continuous play CD's, so I can't really be sure if this is what you want... but I just tried turning ON the Crossfade and setting the crossfade time to zero seconds... seemed to be gapless to me, but I can't tell if it will play your live tracks without a skip. Worth a shot.
-Don.
They added my requested feature yaaay! Now I can find all the videos on that site. Before they were with random "Featured Artists" and there was no way to search for them. I found U2 Electrical Storm and some others but it was annoying. Now all in one spot. :-)
-Don.
I'd rather they collect hair samples from it. A little monkey, a little giraffe here and there, etc... how does it compare genetically to the animals we have now? If this were indeed the ark then there would be some sort of definitive proof of paternity for every single sample found. Excluding those of the animals which were sacrificed or eaten of course . ;-)
-Don.
I'm not soo concerned about potential dangers, I just wonder if it's actually feasible at all. If you're creating little machines at the atomic scale, then what is the size of a processor required to manage this device? I've seen little motors and joints and so forth being developed, but how much easy is it to say "Grip gold atom, place it next to the other one, let go, repeat"? Wouldn't even the smallest nano-processor be thousands of times larger than the size of the nano-bots people envision? Perhaps they'd be better named "nano-blimps". ;-) But seriously how much processing power do they need to work in a 3-D environment? And how small could that amount of processing power actually get?
-Don.
Okay, as a deaf person... let me just say nobody would miss IP-Relay calls. They've been showing up at the expos trying to get customers for the last few years... it's a PITA to use. Many don't work right with Mozilla or Safari, forcing me to use IE ... Yikes. That gives me random disconnects during calls... YAY. The big thing these days is the video-relay services... which are MUCH nicer to use... the problem is upstream bandwidth which very few ISP's provide. 256K is what Sorenson requires, but they'll give you a unit with 130K or so. Hands-On VRS uses Windows software and a webcam... etc... there's about 5 major players in the VRS game... big money. I can't imagine how much the govt pays those call centers per call, the terps get seriously nice pay, more than I could ever get in IT. Ooops, now I'm saying too much. ;-)
Anyways, there's better solutions with less problems... if you use sign language that's a better authentication than an IP... video or actual TTY's make it a lot easier for the cops to find you. I never had problems with phone TTY relay. (Except bad Engris from call workers)
Heh... Metallica in space...
"It's the one-armed man!"
"Shut up Kimble! There is no one-armed man!"