PowerLogix came up with a workaround to the MacOS ROM 1.1 lockout that prevented G3 machines from being upgraded to G4s (the one people were calling Apple's Trojan.)
It's just as accurate to say they knocked off the 500mhz line (which were priced at almost $4,000 with all the bells and whistles) because of Motorola delays, and hiked up prices because RAM prices were biting them in the ass.
If I was a company who ordered a load of top-of-the-line G4s, there might be a reason for me to gripe, but as a single user, I was planning to wait until the prices came down.
And don't worry about them being nonupgradeable (there's no jumpers, apparently clock speed is determined by some chip on the motherboard.) Give PowerLogix a few months and they'll figure out a workaround.
Let's see, you don't acknowledge the obvious ignorance you displayed even after it was displayed to you a zillion times, then try to switch gears and complain about something entirely unrelated to your original list of gripes.
The internal machine isn't entirely occluded, or it'd be impossible to use. Mac users know how, or can figure it out. Regardless of the current moves of Apple, it's making more money than it has in years, and its products still shine, and it continues to innovate like no other large company.
If you disagree with that, fine. But you ought to feel some obligation to have valid reasons for your disagreement.
From reading l0pht releases, they seem to allow companies more than ample time to fix the problem before they make any announcements. They're sort of charitable like that.
Guess someone could just ask them. I think I'll e-mail mudge.
Somewhere in the back of my brain, I remember how the Congressional Outlook Express server couldn't handle the volume of angry e-mail which ensued after the first incarnation of the CDA was passed.
But barring that, I found an old link to a site which can automatically e-mail all elected officials.
http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/electednet/
Tell them to get a mail solution that doesn't SUCK.
...which is to refer to themselves by aliases. Those guys have never been quoted using their "real" names, even when they testified before Congress.
If they're not willing to meet me halfway (and given that their road is a lot tougher travel than mine) I wouldn't want to talk to them anyway. It'd take too long, and I'd have to pry like a mofo, making them uncomfortable and the rest of the story weaker.
That's another tradeoff that reporters have to make. I sympathize with the intelligent hackers who are making a difference, but I can only coddle them so much.
They're the ones who have to bear the cross of working in an in-bred industry, run by the robber barons of our age. My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but I can only do so much of both.
The really big story would be about hackers breaking free of this foolishness and being up front and honest about who they are and what they do. But no one could write about it until it happens.
Knight-Ridder is the owner of my newspaper's major competition. Thankfully for us, since they took over the management, the content has suffered that even a small-market, large-geographic range newspaper like the one I work for can look good beside it.
My newspaper is owned by a corporation that owns a grand total of 8 newspapers in Kansas. The Inquirer's a good paper; you guys get the Pulitzers (perhaps because editors set up the release of great stories to concide with awards time.) My paper hasn't won a Pulitzer in 30 years.
And you probably get paid a lot more than I do. But I hope someone at your paper has a different attitude about news. We always give ample opportunity and space to question experts.
This is all stuff I assume you know already. I'm just being indignant because I can.
Sure, "black hat" crackers aren't going to want to be found, but the "white hats" generally WANT the press (though if you make a mistake, they make you regret it.)
It's hard to gain their trust, but it should be. A lot of the time with hacker sources, the easier it is to talk to them, the less credible they are. Case in point: John P.
If you ever doubt the ability of a hacker, just look for his or her work. "Show me the code" shouldn't just be the cry of an open-source consumer. If you can't read code (like me), get a good working relationship with a non-flaky programmer (like I have.)
Anyone in the l0pht, in particular mudge, I would consider credible. You send them an e-mail, they reply. www.hackernews.com is surprisingly on the level, as is Simple Nomad of www.nmrc.org.
In addition, many large IT firms or IT departments of large corporations employ hackers. If all else fails, take up a hobby of reading some oddball Usenet group. Surprisingly enough, many hackers are also authors of goony prose.
As a newspaper reporter for a small daily, comments like this that refer to "the media" as this lumbering homogenous mass of information dissemination make me ill. Clearly some "media literacy" is called for.
Further, why should most agents of "the media" even CARE about JP or Antionline? The only reason anyone cares about The Drudge Report is because he had some juicy tidbits about a certain White House attorney before anyone else (though it took a Newsweek reporter several weeks of hard-nose dredging to get some credible sources.)
What does JP have? A lot of libelous crap that no otherwise informed person would believe, sprinkled with obvious facts you can get anywhere.
As another poster rightly put it, JP can be called a "journalist" inasmuch as Rush Limbaugh can appear on "Meet the Press" (and he has.)
The term has become about as maligned as "hacker." While many hackers can't be expected to care about such malignment, I can understand. Journalists don't generally care about you either.:o>
And as the header to this story pointed out, Forbes did not "report" on JP, an editor wrote an OPINION piece showcasing a few provable facts. It even begins with "It's a sad fact."
Real reporters don't start their stories like that. Real reporters tell you what they've been able to find out, and let YOU decide if it's "sad."
...I wouldn't make bets with those whose job it is to fix Y2K bugs. They could just bet on their failure, win the bets and leave the systems f-cked up as before.
In it, he claims partial responsibility for Pacific Bell unleashing ISDN on the world. He said he knew it was doomed because of the idiocy of people, but he convinced his managers that since that was the only problem, they should move forward.
"The people working at cable companies couldn't get jobs at phone companies," or something like that.
Here's an example of a high-quality strip that's having trouble making it on the Web: http://www.ozyandmillie.com
Why? Because it's absolutely not geeky (unless you count the character Stephan.
So how about this question: "Should cartoonists not bother using the Web to promote their work unless they're willing to pander to geeks or have a geek-oriented strip? Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly, Kevin and Kell -- all have computing or high-tech integrated at some fundamental level."
Oh yeah, and the Liberty Bell 7's on display. http://www.cosmo.org
Back when my alma mater started charging $10 a month for PPP service, and simultaneously changed the shell to a 7-bit service. They quietly avoided the subject when asked if they changed it to break SLiRP.
BladeEnc is a program to generate MP3 files from WAV or AIFF sound files. BladeEnc is available for most modern computer platforms, including Windows, Linux, BeOS, UnixWare, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OS/2 and many more.
Allegedly started by a bunch of disenfranchised louts employed by Wired, then conveniently their side project gets bought by Hotwired so they can get paid for their awful defeatist babble.
Is there anything here that hasn't been thought of before?/. has survived so many of these round-and-round debates about GNU/Linux, KDE vs. GNOME, Bob Young as the Bill Gates of Linux, et cetera, ad infinitum, ad astra, forever, that I doubt anyone who reads this site regularly hasn't considered every one of these half-thought harbingers of doom.
Does anyone really think that Red Hat is all good and benevolent? I sure hope not. Comments from people like Raster and conventional wisdom about corporate America should act as a check against that attitude. We surely don't need Suck to tell us that.
But my opinion, like Suck's, is like an asshole. Everybody's got one.
Actually, evolution isn't banned from public schools. The issue is just in the hands of local school districts. The state board of ed just passed the buck, and no district I know of it planning to change its curriculum. Ergo, evolution will still be taught the way it's always been.
What I wonder is, why can't I use URL references anymore? The "a href" tags keep getting stripped.
http://www.mackido.com/History/History_TT.html
Read up here, especially for those of you who believe Microsoft invented TT. Basically, it was Apple's response to Adobe's Postscript, which Adobe wasn't letting Apple develop for their own technology. TT became the foundation for QuickDraw GX. MS had indeed made something called TrueImage, but it died of uselessness, and they licensed TT from Apple.
M$, to their credit, now acknowledge Apple created TrueType: http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/history/history. htm ...which apparently when David Every wrote the TT article on MacKiDo, they didn't. There's also the MS standard "ClearType" http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/defa ult.htm which was released last year at Comdex. I haven't heard about it since.
Molly Ivins wrote a great column about Robison, but it's not on the Fort Worth Startlegram's Web site anymore...
She tells that Robison's sister also has schizophrenia, and her parents were able to get her into a mental hospital only after telling Larry's story "at loud decibels."
http://geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/6765/index.ht ml
This guy went nuts after the state of Texas refused to give him the treatment he needed for his schizophrenia, killed five people, and is scheduled to die on August 17.
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PowerLogix came up with a workaround to the MacOS ROM 1.1 lockout that prevented G3 machines from being upgraded to G4s (the one people were calling Apple's Trojan.)
/hardware/ prevents upgrades.
Supposedly G4's
J.
It's just as accurate to say they knocked off the 500mhz line (which were priced at almost $4,000 with all the bells and whistles) because of Motorola delays, and hiked up prices because RAM prices were biting them in the ass.
If I was a company who ordered a load of top-of-the-line G4s, there might be a reason for me to gripe, but as a single user, I was planning to wait until the prices came down.
And don't worry about them being nonupgradeable (there's no jumpers, apparently clock speed is determined by some chip on the motherboard.) Give PowerLogix a few months and they'll figure out a workaround.
J.
Let's see, you don't acknowledge the obvious ignorance you displayed even after it was displayed to you a zillion times, then try to switch gears and complain about something entirely unrelated to your original list of gripes.
The internal machine isn't entirely occluded, or it'd be impossible to use. Mac users know how, or can figure it out. Regardless of the current moves of Apple, it's making more money than it has in years, and its products still shine, and it continues to innovate like no other large company.
If you disagree with that, fine. But you ought to feel some obligation to have valid reasons for your disagreement.
I'm not going to help you with that part, though.
J.
From reading l0pht releases, they seem to allow companies more than ample time to fix the problem before they make any announcements. They're sort of charitable like that.
Guess someone could just ask them. I think I'll e-mail mudge.
J.
Somewhere in the back of my brain, I remember how the Congressional Outlook Express server couldn't handle the volume of angry e-mail which ensued after the first incarnation of the CDA was passed.
But barring that, I found an old link to a site which can automatically e-mail all elected officials.
http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/electednet/
Tell them to get a mail solution that doesn't SUCK.
J.
...which is to refer to themselves by aliases. Those guys have never been quoted using their "real" names, even when they testified before Congress.
If they're not willing to meet me halfway (and given that their road is a lot tougher travel than mine) I wouldn't want to talk to them anyway. It'd take too long, and I'd have to pry like a mofo, making them uncomfortable and the rest of the story weaker.
That's another tradeoff that reporters have to make. I sympathize with the intelligent hackers who are making a difference, but I can only coddle them so much.
They're the ones who have to bear the cross of working in an in-bred industry, run by the robber barons of our age. My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but I can only do so much of both.
The really big story would be about hackers breaking free of this foolishness and being up front and honest about who they are and what they do. But no one could write about it until it happens.
J.
Knight-Ridder is the owner of my newspaper's major competition. Thankfully for us, since they took over the management, the content has suffered that even a small-market, large-geographic range newspaper like the one I work for can look good beside it.
My newspaper is owned by a corporation that owns a grand total of 8 newspapers in Kansas. The Inquirer's a good paper; you guys get the Pulitzers (perhaps because editors set up the release of great stories to concide with awards time.) My paper hasn't won a Pulitzer in 30 years.
And you probably get paid a lot more than I do. But I hope someone at your paper has a different attitude about news. We always give ample opportunity and space to question experts.
J.
This is all stuff I assume you know already. I'm just being indignant because I can.
Sure, "black hat" crackers aren't going to want to be found, but the "white hats" generally WANT the press (though if you make a mistake, they make you regret it.)
It's hard to gain their trust, but it should be. A lot of the time with hacker sources, the easier it is to talk to them, the less credible they are. Case in point: John P.
If you ever doubt the ability of a hacker, just look for his or her work. "Show me the code" shouldn't just be the cry of an open-source consumer. If you can't read code (like me), get a good working relationship with a non-flaky programmer (like I have.)
Anyone in the l0pht, in particular mudge, I would consider credible. You send them an e-mail, they reply. www.hackernews.com is surprisingly on the level, as is Simple Nomad of www.nmrc.org.
In addition, many large IT firms or IT departments of large corporations employ hackers. If all else fails, take up a hobby of reading some oddball Usenet group. Surprisingly enough, many hackers are also authors of goony prose.
J.
As a newspaper reporter for a small daily, comments like this that refer to "the media" as this lumbering homogenous mass of information dissemination make me ill. Clearly some "media literacy" is called for.
:o>
Further, why should most agents of "the media" even CARE about JP or Antionline? The only reason anyone cares about The Drudge Report is because he had some juicy tidbits about a certain White House attorney before anyone else (though it took a Newsweek reporter several weeks of hard-nose dredging to get some credible sources.)
What does JP have? A lot of libelous crap that no otherwise informed person would believe, sprinkled with obvious facts you can get anywhere.
As another poster rightly put it, JP can be called a "journalist" inasmuch as Rush Limbaugh can appear on "Meet the Press" (and he has.)
The term has become about as maligned as "hacker." While many hackers can't be expected to care about such malignment, I can understand. Journalists don't generally care about you either.
And as the header to this story pointed out, Forbes did not "report" on JP, an editor wrote an OPINION piece showcasing a few provable facts. It even begins with "It's a sad fact."
Real reporters don't start their stories like that. Real reporters tell you what they've been able to find out, and let YOU decide if it's "sad."
J.
...I wouldn't make bets with those whose job it is to fix Y2K bugs. They could just bet on their failure, win the bets and leave the systems f-cked up as before.
J.
Which of course stands for:
Must
Consult
Someone
Experienced.
:o>
J.
"The people working at cable companies couldn't get jobs at phone companies," or something like that.
J.
It was four years ago at a sci-fi con. It only had four megs of ram, set up to play Marathon. Kept crashing because it ran out of memory.
J.
...that by the time G5's come out, Apple will have 750Mhz buses. Likely, once G4s hit 1Ghz, the boards will have 500Mhz buses.
Wish I could cite you something, but I can't find it right now. That's what makes the most sense, though.
J.
Why? Because it's absolutely not geeky (unless you count the character Stephan.
So how about this question: "Should cartoonists not bother using the Web to promote their work unless they're willing to pander to geeks or have a geek-oriented strip? Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly, Kevin and Kell -- all have computing or high-tech integrated at some fundamental level."
Oh yeah, and the Liberty Bell 7's on display. http://www.cosmo.org
J.
Damn a href tags STILL WON'T WORK
Back when my alma mater started charging $10 a month for PPP service, and simultaneously changed the shell to a 7-bit service. They quietly avoided the subject when asked if they changed it to break SLiRP.
J.
Most modern computer platforms except MacOS. :op
J.
Allegedly started by a bunch of disenfranchised louts employed by Wired, then conveniently their side project gets bought by Hotwired so they can get paid for their awful defeatist babble.
/. has survived so many of these round-and-round debates about GNU/Linux, KDE vs. GNOME, Bob Young as the Bill Gates of Linux, et cetera, ad infinitum, ad astra, forever, that I doubt anyone who reads this site regularly hasn't considered every one of these half-thought harbingers of doom.
Is there anything here that hasn't been thought of before?
Does anyone really think that Red Hat is all good and benevolent? I sure hope not. Comments from people like Raster and conventional wisdom about corporate America should act as a check against that attitude. We surely don't need Suck to tell us that.
But my opinion, like Suck's, is like an asshole. Everybody's got one.
J.
I'm the one who submitted the article. :o>
Actually, evolution isn't banned from public schools. The issue is just in the hands of local school districts. The state board of ed just passed the buck, and no district I know of it planning to change its curriculum. Ergo, evolution will still be taught the way it's always been.
J.
http://www.mackido.com/History/History_TT.html
Read up here, especially for those of you who believe Microsoft invented TT. Basically, it was Apple's response to Adobe's Postscript, which Adobe wasn't letting Apple develop for their own technology. TT became the foundation for QuickDraw GX. MS had indeed made something called TrueImage, but it died of uselessness, and they licensed TT from Apple.
M$, to their credit, now acknowledge Apple created TrueType:. htm
...which apparently when David Every wrote the TT article on MacKiDo, they didn't. There's also the MS standard "ClearType"a ult.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/history/history
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/def
which was released last year at Comdex. I haven't heard about it since.
J.
Is the new parent of WINE willing to guarantee they will keep it an open-source project? Free beer?
J.
It just refers to "Apple competitors" and to the "Linux OS". I guess LinuxPPC is implied, tho.
J.
You're just lucky I don't check /. that often.
Molly Ivins wrote a great column about Robison, but it's not on the Fort Worth Startlegram's Web site anymore...
She tells that Robison's sister also has schizophrenia, and her parents were able to get her into a mental hospital only after telling Larry's story "at loud decibels."
J.
http://geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/6765/index.ht ml
This guy went nuts after the state of Texas refused to give him the treatment he needed for his schizophrenia, killed five people, and is scheduled to die on August 17.
At least Mitnick gets to live as a neo-Luddite.
J.
I'll never get used to not having hyperlinks.
0 802.jpg is the representative sample toon.
http://www.coyotesdaughter.com/rain/comix/oms99
http://www.coyotesdaughter.com/rain/ has the rest of Ozy and Millie.
J.