Okay, before everyone starts complaining about there not being an MPEG version, I just converted it: http://home.jbic.com/~ben/x-men_320.mpg . I used the free Movie2MPEG program from: http://www.win.ne.jp/~juan/misc/mpg/index_e.html to convert it on my Mac, but the sound seems to have gotten out of sync near the end. If anyone has a nice fast G3/G4, you're welcome to give it another shot. It too damn long to convert on my lowly 603e/180 that I'm not gonna try it again. Oh, and some mirrors might not be that bad and idea.:)
Steve very cleary was talking about Darwin. He even had a slide with the word "Darwin" up on the screen. There's little room for confusion. The only interesting thing here is that he said Darwin was OS X's kernel, I don't think they actually committed to using Darwin in the shipping product before. There's alot of other interesting stuff coming out of MacWorld though... I think of most interest to the usual slashdot croud would be the new interface for OS X. Some very slick stuff there, sytem wide trasparency, a powerful (geek friendly) new Finder, and of course one of the coolest docks I've seen.
Description OT Tuner 1.0 switches off an option in Open Transport that would cause a Macintosh to respond to certain small network packets with a large Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet. This update prevents Macintosh computers from being the cause of certain types of Denial of Service (DOS) issues.
To install, drag the OT Tuner 1.0 file to the System Folder (the tuner will be put in the extensions folder for you). Then restart your Macintosh.
Well, according to the IMDB, he was a software engineer, and also was for A Bug's Life. Man, you know you've made it when you have a listing on the IMDB.
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Perens,+Bruce Miscellaneous crew filmography 1. Toy Story 2 (1999) (software engineer) 2. Bug's Life, A (1998) (animation software engineer)
Five people make a consipracy, right?
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It just occurs to me that off the top of my head I can think of several CG pengiuns: Tux, though he's not always CG Wheezy in Toy Story Those pengiuns in Veggie Tales The QuickTime 4 (or maybe it was QT3) beta mascot That odd little pengiun in Fight Club I'm sure there's a few others too. I wonder why... prolly 'cause they're so damn cute.:)
Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it: Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans until it had something to demonstrate to the world. On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate what Crusoe processors can do. Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site for everyone on the Internet to see. Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications. Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all of the real details as soon as they are available.
I always find that a nice bottle of champagne puts me in the perfect mood to flip some dip switches.
Seriously though, what's the deal? I think even my official Boy Scout pocket knife had a cork screw. Like all those 12 year olds often find themselves in an occasion to need it. Honestly, don't they know that whiskey the prefered hard liquor of the Boy Scouts of America?
Well, I've never met a Mac user that used his computer because of the hardware. It's always 'cause of the OS. Great hardware is a definate plus, but a Mac is a Mac because it runs MacOS. Period. If a PowerPC based machine doesn't run MacOS, then it's not a Mac, and therefore not competition for Apple. It'll just be another PC that happens to run on a G3. As a Linux geek (for my servers), I might buy one instead of another x86 if it was competitive, but as a Mac user (on my desktop) I'd always get a Mac. Honestly, Apple can't be selling very many iMacs to people only wanting to run Linux.
The Integrated Woz Machine, I believe. Something like that anyway.
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Didn't anyone see First Contact? The don't have money in Star Trek. Well, except when it's convenient to the plot. And there's gold pressed latinum. But definately not credits.
Yeah, anyone that remotely follows Apple knew about this 5 days ago, but apparently not everyone on slashdot does. Go figure.:) Anyway, for those interested go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/showcase/live/mwny9 9/ for Apple's QuickTime 4 streaming movie of the whole keynote. Fastforward past the first 20 minutes or so, its just shots of the crowd gathering and bad music.:) Go to http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/mwny99/ for Apple's page on the expo, including pics of Steve and Noah and a bunch of links to news stories on other sites.
I'd agree that Gates' whole "we stole the vcr first" argument is way off, but I'm pretty sure it was actual a quote that Gates made at the Apple vs MS trial a few years back. I know I've heard it before anyway. I guess the real problem was that those who don't know any better might take it as truth and not just Bill blowing smoke out his ass.
Of course, "best" is subjective I suppose. I'm sure you're right that other computers have sold in alot more numbers, heck Apple sold the IIe until sometime into the early '90s. I think maybe the "fastest selling" might fit though... I think it was like it sold more in its first month than any other computer, which might have made a nice footnote.
Well, I'm as much against censorship as the next guy, and a full out ban of anything some computer considers obscene from the library obviously is a bad idea.
Totally open Internet access in a public place does open its own can of worms though... ignoring the fear of children accidentally coming accross a porno site - which really doesn't happen that often, what about some mischivious teenager coming into the library and looking at porno sites. Is that allowed? I don't know how the laws really work, but alot of sites suggest that it's illegal for a minor to look at porn.
Or what about an adult looking at porn? He has every right to be able to do it, but what about other people in the library that don't want to see it. That's also their right. At least in our local library there is only one computer with Internet access that sits centrally located where just about everyone can see the screen. If someones looking at porn, when a couple kids walk into the building that's the first thing they'll see. An obvious solution might be to put the computer in the back, or in a seperate room, you could even put blinders around out - turn it into a nice peep show setting.
I dunno... I think there really are problems, or at least the potential for problems, and the answer probably isn't as simple as "censorship is bad", but neither is the answer "censor everything".
A few people asked how it can be a worm if it doesn't actually spread.
First some background, way back when (sometime in '95) Apple introduced a new autostart feature to QuickTime. If you've used win95 you probably know how this works, you pop in a CD and it automatically launches an application for you.
According to http://developer.apple.com/qa/qtpc/qtpc12.html, Apple's implimentation works like this: the developer puts the autostart application's file name in a magic place in the first few blocks of the drive. When the drive is mounted and the AutoStart feature is enabled (its a simple check-on, check-off feature) the application launches.
The Worm is simply an autostart application that copies itself to the startup drive so that it is launched at every boot, and then procedes to copy itself to every mounted partition (hard drives, zip drives, network drives, etc.) about every 30 minutes and enables the autostart blocks on those volumes. After infecting the other volumes, it goes about your system overwriting various files with random data.
Anyway, I believe the Linux PPC CD contains the AutoStart Worm application but the CD doesn't contain the blocks that actually tell QuickTime to launch it. You also can't accidentally launch it because the file is hidden, meaning you have to use a seperate utility, not the Finder, to even see that it's there.
There are 3 names that the various strains of the Worm use for the autostart application filename. This is what the antivirus software looks for, and what they find.
Well, that's about all I know on the issue. Perhaps more than any of you wanted, but I find this kinda thing interesting. I am kinda curious why we havent seen a similar worm taking advantage of the Windows 95 autostart feature...
Just thought I'd chime in that seeing as how most people seem reasonably agreeable to APSL 1.1 now, if you want to see something done, do it. That's what's OSS is all about... or partly about anyway.:)
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Okay, before everyone starts complaining about there not being an MPEG version, I just converted it: http://home.jbic.com/~ben/x-men_320.mpg . :)
I used the free Movie2MPEG program from: http://www.win.ne.jp/~juan/misc/mpg/index_e.html to convert it on my Mac, but the sound seems to have gotten out of sync near the end. If anyone has a nice fast G3/G4, you're welcome to give it another shot. It too damn long to convert on my lowly 603e/180 that I'm not gonna try it again.
Oh, and some mirrors might not be that bad and idea.
Steve very cleary was talking about Darwin. He even had a slide with the word "Darwin" up on the screen. There's little room for confusion. The only interesting thing here is that he said Darwin was OS X's kernel, I don't think they actually committed to using Darwin in the shipping product before.
There's alot of other interesting stuff coming out of MacWorld though... I think of most interest to the usual slashdot croud would be the new interface for OS X. Some very slick stuff there, sytem wide trasparency, a powerful (geek friendly) new Finder, and of course one of the coolest docks I've seen.
Guess it's not a hoax, and I have to give props to Apple for the quick response...
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Description
OT Tuner 1.0 switches off an option in Open Transport that would cause a Macintosh to respond to certain small network packets with a large Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet. This update prevents Macintosh computers from being the cause of certain types of Denial of Service (DOS)
issues.
To install, drag the OT Tuner 1.0 file to the System Folder (the tuner will be put in the extensions folder for you). Then restart your Macintosh.
Well, according to the IMDB, he was a software engineer, and also was for A Bug's Life. Man, you know you've made it when you have a listing on the IMDB.
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Perens,+Bruce
Miscellaneous crew filmography
1. Toy Story 2 (1999) (software engineer)
2. Bug's Life, A (1998) (animation software engineer)
It just occurs to me that off the top of my head I can think of several CG pengiuns: :)
Tux, though he's not always CG
Wheezy in Toy Story
Those pengiuns in Veggie Tales
The QuickTime 4 (or maybe it was QT3) beta mascot
That odd little pengiun in Fight Club
I'm sure there's a few others too. I wonder why... prolly 'cause they're so damn cute.
Check out the source on transmeta.com:
Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it:
Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans
until it had something to demonstrate to the world.
On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate
what Crusoe processors can do.
Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site
for everyone on the Internet to see.
Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications.
Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted
to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site
in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all
of the real details as soon as they are available.
I always find that a nice bottle of champagne puts me in the perfect mood to flip some dip switches.
Seriously though, what's the deal? I think even my official Boy Scout pocket knife had a cork screw. Like all those 12 year olds often find themselves in an occasion to need it. Honestly, don't they know that whiskey the prefered hard liquor of the Boy Scouts of America?
Well, I've never met a Mac user that used his computer because of the hardware. It's always 'cause of the OS. Great hardware is a definate plus, but a Mac is a Mac because it runs MacOS. Period. If a PowerPC based machine doesn't run MacOS, then it's not a Mac, and therefore not competition for Apple. It'll just be another PC that happens to run on a G3. As a Linux geek (for my servers), I might buy one instead of another x86 if it was competitive, but as a Mac user (on my desktop) I'd always get a Mac. Honestly, Apple can't be selling very many iMacs to people only wanting to run Linux.
The Integrated Woz Machine, I believe. Something like that anyway.
Didn't anyone see First Contact? The don't have money in Star Trek. Well, except when it's convenient to the plot. And there's gold pressed latinum. But definately not credits.
Yeah, they make a Mac distro of LinuxPPC. IBM RS6000's also run on PowerPC processors and can run LinuxPPC too.
Yeah, anyone that remotely follows Apple knew about this 5 days ago, but apparently not everyone on slashdot does. Go figure. :) 9 9/ for Apple's QuickTime 4 streaming movie of the whole keynote. Fastforward past the first 20 minutes or so, its just shots of the crowd gathering and bad music. :)
Anyway, for those interested go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/showcase/live/mwny
Go to http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/mwny99/ for Apple's page on the expo, including pics of Steve and Noah and a bunch of links to news stories on other sites.
I'd agree that Gates' whole "we stole the vcr first" argument is way off, but I'm pretty sure it was actual a quote that Gates made at the Apple vs MS trial a few years back. I know I've heard it before anyway. I guess the real problem was that those who don't know any better might take it as truth and not just Bill blowing smoke out his ass.
Of course, "best" is subjective I suppose. I'm sure you're right that other computers have sold in alot more numbers, heck Apple sold the IIe until sometime into the early '90s. I think maybe the "fastest selling" might fit though... I think it was like it sold more in its first month than any other computer, which might have made a nice footnote.
Well, I'm as much against censorship as the next guy, and a full out ban of anything some computer considers obscene from the library obviously is a bad idea.
Totally open Internet access in a public place does open its own can of worms though... ignoring the fear of children accidentally coming accross a porno site - which really doesn't happen that often, what about some mischivious teenager coming into the library and looking at porno sites. Is that allowed? I don't know how the laws really work, but alot of sites suggest that it's illegal for a minor to look at porn.
Or what about an adult looking at porn? He has every right to be able to do it, but what about other people in the library that don't want to see it. That's also their right. At least in our local library there is only one computer with Internet access that sits centrally located where just about everyone can see the screen. If someones looking at porn, when a couple kids walk into the building that's the first thing they'll see. An obvious solution might be to put the computer in the back, or in a seperate room, you could even put blinders around out - turn it into a nice peep show setting.
I dunno... I think there really are problems, or at least the potential for problems, and the answer probably isn't as simple as "censorship is bad", but neither is the answer "censor everything".
A few people asked how it can be a worm if it doesn't actually spread.
First some background, way back when (sometime in '95) Apple introduced a new autostart feature to QuickTime. If you've used win95 you probably know how this works, you pop in a CD and it automatically launches an application for you.
According to http://developer.apple.com/qa/qtpc/qtpc12.html, Apple's implimentation works like this: the developer puts the autostart application's file name in a magic place in the first few blocks of the drive. When the drive is mounted and the AutoStart feature is enabled (its a simple check-on, check-off feature) the application launches.
The Worm is simply an autostart application that copies itself to the startup drive so that it is launched at every boot, and then procedes to copy itself to every mounted partition (hard drives, zip drives, network drives, etc.) about every 30 minutes and enables the autostart blocks on those volumes. After infecting the other volumes, it goes about your system overwriting various files with random data.
Anyway, I believe the Linux PPC CD contains the AutoStart Worm application but the CD doesn't contain the blocks that actually tell QuickTime to launch it. You also can't accidentally launch it because the file is hidden, meaning you have to use a seperate utility, not the Finder, to even see that it's there.
There are 3 names that the various strains of the Worm use for the autostart application filename. This is what the antivirus software looks for, and what they find.
Well, that's about all I know on the issue. Perhaps more than any of you wanted, but I find this kinda thing interesting. I am kinda curious why we havent seen a similar worm taking advantage of the Windows 95 autostart feature...
Just thought I'd chime in that seeing as how most people seem reasonably agreeable to APSL 1.1 now, if you want to see something done, do it. That's what's OSS is all about... or partly about anyway. :)