The biggest problem I have (and why I'm staying on OS9, at least on one machine) is the gigantic stack of kids games, all written in the mid to late '90s, that my kids love.
You might want to look at the Basilisk II port for OS X. It will emulate an old machine, and you can run up to System 8 I believe (never ran System 8 myself - I ducked out of Macs at 7.5.5 and came back in at Jaguar).
Eventually so few people were asking that BT finally said "Well, you've all had your chance and it's costing us too much money to keep doing it for free. You'll have to pay now"
That doesn't make sense - it was costing them money to never do something because no-one was asking for it...?
I still have a pulse-dialling phone by the way. But that's because it's nearly 90 years old and has been updated to work on the modern lines. It's not my main phone, but I'm not parting with it any time soon either.
...a lot of teenagers (and even children) are using them and making friends from around the world, sure that's great for developing an international and open view of the world but waht about real social skills?
What's a 'real' social skill? Or more specifically, surely a social skill is a skill that's accepted by society. If society is moving on, and the teenagers' activity does rather suggest that, than all that seems to be happening is that a new group of social skills are being created. It's perfectly possible for those to exist in parallel with the old.
One reason given is for consistency across platform. I agree with this, but part of the 'platform' is the other software you're likely to use with it. In my case and I suspect in many others, that means Thunderbird.
Will Thunderbird be following suite and changing default theme too?
Doesn't mean it's broken either. In this case it's easy to see: bring in a WiFi device and see if the SSID is picked up. And it wasn't, by two separate devices.
What happens if you are fowarding port 80 to an internal box?
From the article:
"As a workaround until a firmware upgrade is issued, Rateliff recommends the use of port forwarding send ports 80 and 443 to non-existent hosts. "Note that forwarding the ports to any hosts -- including listening ones if you are actually running servers -- will override the default behavior," he explained."
So you're ok. As am I, or at least as I will be after I've just finished forwarding 443...
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Shouldn't we have some sort of mandate similar to Usenet signatures? That said...
Far back in the mists of time, or about 1994 as the more prosaic prefer to call it, I was part of my then employer's Internet Special Interest Group. Amongst other things, we decided the final version of the disclaimer which would be attached to our emails.
We had a rule that anything more than four lines was absolutely unnacceptable. It annoyed the recipients, was too long for most people to read and had only questionable enforcement value anyway. It was a fairly common rule of thumb at the time, but as you say it appears to have been abandoned.
I work at one of the banks in London, and a friend of mine works at a different bank nearby. An email from me sent via my personal account starts 'Fancy lunch?'. The mail from him usually says "Yep - 12ish?" followed by about fifteen lines of utter, unenforcable gibberish. No-one reads it, and if they did there'd be no legal basis for it anyway.
..is too difficult to understand. The average person would not be able to understand those questionnaires.
In addition it comes over as hostile by default. It could be altered to adaopt a more conversational tone quite easily.
For example, "Will you vote to reject....yes/abstain/cancel" could become "What position will you take on....accept/abstain/reject". You've now given the person a chance to answer without feeling you've pointed a gun at their head.
As with any mission critical systems, there is redundancy in every aspect of the ICBM system from the authentication to the verification of the target being neutralized.
Yes, because that redundancy is necessary. By setting such a ridiculous password, you have effectively removed one layer of redundancy.
So what if there was a password set to 0000000?
So what? So you are operating one layer of redundancy lower than you expected to be operating at, that's what.
If you can get gigabytes of data on a DVD then the whole experience of watching the series can be turned on its head
Agreed, but that is a commercial offering - I'd have to pay for the DVD even though I've already paid for the series through my license fee. There's the objection - to my mind they should concentrate on broadcast first, with tie-ins very much secondary. I think the emphasis is shifting.
I'm at work at the moment and won't be able to update until later this evening. In the meantime, could someone who's both upgraded and is a PithHelmet user let me know if it still works?
Given the advantages (the BBC documentaries and wildlife programs to name but two would probably not get made in a more commercial environment)...
This used to be true, but it seems to be getting more and more commercial now. the "Walking With..." set of series, for example, seemed to be geared for DVD sales right from the beginning. The programming is now plastered with adverts....for the BBC. And the children's programming in particular is just smothered with markerting tie-ins.
No, I'm afraid I believe the BBC is becoming more commercial all the time, and I resent and object to that. I don't begrudge them the license fee, but I do begrudge them using that to push their tie-in products.
IBM ranks third among sellers of x86-based Linux computers
That's a bit of an artifical segment though, isn't it? IBM do heavy virtualisation in their OS390 range (err...z series or whatever badge they want to slap on it today), then there's the AS/400s and the POWER range of chips and servers...much more to IBM's push than knocking out dual-Opteron web servers.
I'm not at all surprised the cheaper x86 box shifters sell more than IBM do. Cheap box shifting isn't what IBM is about.
...and I use online ordering precisely to avoid the hassle you're describing.OI have a two and a half-year old daughter and a seven month old son, and it is a living hell to take them round.
First off, they fall asleep on the way there. Marvellous. So now you have to wake them up before you can get out of the car - that really cheers them up, as you can imagine.
Next up, the trolley has to be perfection. Yesterday's favourite is today's screaming fit, so you must make sure Her Majesty will deign to actually sit in the bloody thing (the son currently gets no say...). You can force the issue, but your ears will suffer.
You then get the fun of said two year old reaching out to every shelf and grabbing what she wants. If you put it back, she grabs it again or screams. Meanwhile my son is just screaming anyway - no apparent reason, unless it's the same one I feel like screaming about as well.
Finally, we get people such as yourself. We know we're pissing you off. We just don't get a choice about it. Some people respond graciously, others stare as if you're utter scum.
Nope, it's online shopping from the parents' point of view too as far as I'm concerned. Chuck 'em a fiver, and let the delivery people handle it all. It's a good deal for both me and you, it would seem.
Then you cry foul when a citizen is dramatically killed (Berg).
Yes. And quite rightly so. A beheading is not a 'crying foul' matter, nor is it an excuse to score anti-US points on a tech bulletin board (provided to you, of course, by the people you seem to hate so much, the Americans). Total revulsion is surely the only acceptable reaction - two wrongs don't make a right. Accordingly, I have to regard your cheap shot as despicably low.
I'm not American and am drastically against many recent changes in the US, but please - a sense of perspective. I have many American friends, I have even more American friendly acquaintences (online forums, work etc). - it is not an evil nation. It shouts about itself rather too much and its current leadership are, at least in my opinion, somewhere between here and Alpha Centauri in terms of their grasp on reality but you're forgetting the people themselves. They'll correct it eventually, don't worry.
From the article: Indeed, when you consider the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th Century as reported on the National Academy of Engineering website--innovations such as human flight, refrigeration, electrification, the telephone, automobiles, television, computers, space travel and the Internet--you see that almost all of them were either invented by Americans, or had some crucial American link that helped turn a fledgling technology into a major boon for human kind. What is it about our economy that nurtures innovation, and how do we support it?
OK then - human flight, disputed. Refrigeration - I don't know (benefit of doubt to America then). Automobiles - Germany. Television - Britain. Computers - Britain. Space travel - Russia (or more accurately, competeting sets of Germans working in Russia and America after WWII). The Internet - America.
Perhaps a tad more humbleness might be in order from the writer of this article? A bit more recognition of the fact the rest of the globe does work as well? That final 'or has some link with Americans' is a get-out clause - "we claim it as ours even if we didn't invent it, so there".
As for the final question "what is it about our (the US) economy that nutures innovation" - that's easy. The US economy is the largest homogenous market, so all suppliers will tailer their goods for that market. It doesn't mean to say the goods themselves have to be either invented or produced in the USA though.
For example, unless it uses JAVA (which my staff assures me is the next big thing), then I'm not interested. Also, I insist that the files are XML, PDF, or maybe even SATA or RAMBUS so that they can leverage my various cross-functional team building objectives.
I can help you there. I am a consultant, and will ensure that JAVA software will conceptualise the XML dataspace on RAMBUS before actualising it in PDF for streaming out across SATA.
For a modest fee, of course.
Cheers,
Ian
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The vast majority of cell phone users use neither text messages...
Pardon?
All I can think of is that you must be in the US. In Europe, I would go so far as to say that the primary use of many mobiles sold is for text messaging. I know I send far more texts than I make voice calls.
I can't speak for Japan, but I believe there's a similar situation there. I thought that the US was going the same way, but I'm prepared to be corrected on that.
As for cameras being silly, I disagree. I often take around ten a week, and I imagine I'm only in the midrange. The reason? I have children, and I very often don't have my full-blown 5mp digital camera with me but do have my mobile on me. Snaps of my kids playing in the park are good fun for those who are interested, and utterly dull for the rest of the world. Some get kept, most get discarded.
I have other uses too. For example, on Friday an A4 sheet had been left at a railway station detailing proposed changes to the timetable and who to get in contact with to protest them (the changes are bad from this town's point of view - Maidenhead). There was only one sheet left, so I took a couple of photos with the phone and left the sheet there for someone else to pick up. I read the information later on my laptop after transferring the pictures there.
The combination of a camera phone which is bluetooth equipped and having a bluetooth'n'wifi equipped laptop (that works - I use a Powerbook, I've heard of terrible problems with MS's stack and Nokia phones) immediately opens up a world of fast snapping, fast editing and fast publishing. Don't knock camera phones - they're useful things.
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Chjeers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
You might want to look at the Basilisk II port for OS X. It will emulate an old machine, and you can run up to System 8 I believe (never ran System 8 myself - I ducked out of Macs at 7.5.5 and came back in at Jaguar).
Cheers,
Ian
That doesn't make sense - it was costing them money to never do something because no-one was asking for it...?
I still have a pulse-dialling phone by the way. But that's because it's nearly 90 years old and has been updated to work on the modern lines. It's not my main phone, but I'm not parting with it any time soon either.
Cheers,
Ian
What's a 'real' social skill? Or more specifically, surely a social skill is a skill that's accepted by society. If society is moving on, and the teenagers' activity does rather suggest that, than all that seems to be happening is that a new group of social skills are being created. It's perfectly possible for those to exist in parallel with the old.
Cheers,
Ian
Will Thunderbird be following suite and changing default theme too?
Cheers,
Ian
That's absolutely true - I completely misread it. Sorry.
Cheers,
Ian
No - Camino is based on Mozilla, but Safari is based on KHTML. It's closest relative would be Konquerer under Linux.
Cheers,
Ian
Doesn't mean it's broken either. In this case it's easy to see: bring in a WiFi device and see if the SSID is picked up. And it wasn't, by two separate devices.
Cheers,
Ian
Mine does - I've got a "Wireless SSID Broadcast: Enable/Disable" option on the Wireless page. I'm running firmware 2.02.2
Cheers,
Ian
From the article:
"As a workaround until a firmware upgrade is issued, Rateliff recommends the use of port forwarding send ports 80 and 443 to non-existent hosts. "Note that forwarding the ports to any hosts -- including listening ones if you are actually running servers -- will override the default behavior," he explained."
So you're ok. As am I, or at least as I will be after I've just finished forwarding 443...
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Far back in the mists of time, or about 1994 as the more prosaic prefer to call it, I was part of my then employer's Internet Special Interest Group. Amongst other things, we decided the final version of the disclaimer which would be attached to our emails.
We had a rule that anything more than four lines was absolutely unnacceptable. It annoyed the recipients, was too long for most people to read and had only questionable enforcement value anyway. It was a fairly common rule of thumb at the time, but as you say it appears to have been abandoned.
I work at one of the banks in London, and a friend of mine works at a different bank nearby. An email from me sent via my personal account starts 'Fancy lunch?'. The mail from him usually says "Yep - 12ish?" followed by about fifteen lines of utter, unenforcable gibberish. No-one reads it, and if they did there'd be no legal basis for it anyway.
Cheers,
Ian
In addition it comes over as hostile by default. It could be altered to adaopt a more conversational tone quite easily.
For example, "Will you vote to reject....yes/abstain/cancel" could become "What position will you take on....accept/abstain/reject". You've now given the person a chance to answer without feeling you've pointed a gun at their head.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, because that redundancy is necessary. By setting such a ridiculous password, you have effectively removed one layer of redundancy.
So what if there was a password set to 0000000?
So what? So you are operating one layer of redundancy lower than you expected to be operating at, that's what.
Cheers,
Ian
Agreed, but that is a commercial offering - I'd have to pay for the DVD even though I've already paid for the series through my license fee. There's the objection - to my mind they should concentrate on broadcast first, with tie-ins very much secondary. I think the emphasis is shifting.
Cheers,
Ian
Thanks,
Ian
This used to be true, but it seems to be getting more and more commercial now. the "Walking With..." set of series, for example, seemed to be geared for DVD sales right from the beginning. The programming is now plastered with adverts....for the BBC. And the children's programming in particular is just smothered with markerting tie-ins.
No, I'm afraid I believe the BBC is becoming more commercial all the time, and I resent and object to that. I don't begrudge them the license fee, but I do begrudge them using that to push their tie-in products.
Cheers,
Ian
That's a bit of an artifical segment though, isn't it? IBM do heavy virtualisation in their OS390 range (err...z series or whatever badge they want to slap on it today), then there's the AS/400s and the POWER range of chips and servers...much more to IBM's push than knocking out dual-Opteron web servers.
I'm not at all surprised the cheaper x86 box shifters sell more than IBM do. Cheap box shifting isn't what IBM is about.
Cheers,
Ian
Sybase.
Cheers,
Ian
First off, they fall asleep on the way there. Marvellous. So now you have to wake them up before you can get out of the car - that really cheers them up, as you can imagine.
Next up, the trolley has to be perfection. Yesterday's favourite is today's screaming fit, so you must make sure Her Majesty will deign to actually sit in the bloody thing (the son currently gets no say...). You can force the issue, but your ears will suffer.
You then get the fun of said two year old reaching out to every shelf and grabbing what she wants. If you put it back, she grabs it again or screams. Meanwhile my son is just screaming anyway - no apparent reason, unless it's the same one I feel like screaming about as well.
Finally, we get people such as yourself. We know we're pissing you off. We just don't get a choice about it. Some people respond graciously, others stare as if you're utter scum.
Nope, it's online shopping from the parents' point of view too as far as I'm concerned. Chuck 'em a fiver, and let the delivery people handle it all. It's a good deal for both me and you, it would seem.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes. And quite rightly so. A beheading is not a 'crying foul' matter, nor is it an excuse to score anti-US points on a tech bulletin board (provided to you, of course, by the people you seem to hate so much, the Americans). Total revulsion is surely the only acceptable reaction - two wrongs don't make a right. Accordingly, I have to regard your cheap shot as despicably low.
I'm not American and am drastically against many recent changes in the US, but please - a sense of perspective. I have many American friends, I have even more American friendly acquaintences (online forums, work etc). - it is not an evil nation. It shouts about itself rather too much and its current leadership are, at least in my opinion, somewhere between here and Alpha Centauri in terms of their grasp on reality but you're forgetting the people themselves. They'll correct it eventually, don't worry.
Cheers,
Ian (British)
OK then - human flight, disputed. Refrigeration - I don't know (benefit of doubt to America then). Automobiles - Germany. Television - Britain. Computers - Britain. Space travel - Russia (or more accurately, competeting sets of Germans working in Russia and America after WWII). The Internet - America.
Perhaps a tad more humbleness might be in order from the writer of this article? A bit more recognition of the fact the rest of the globe does work as well? That final 'or has some link with Americans' is a get-out clause - "we claim it as ours even if we didn't invent it, so there".
As for the final question "what is it about our (the US) economy that nutures innovation" - that's easy. The US economy is the largest homogenous market, so all suppliers will tailer their goods for that market. It doesn't mean to say the goods themselves have to be either invented or produced in the USA though.
Cheers,
Ian
I can help you there. I am a consultant, and will ensure that JAVA software will conceptualise the XML dataspace on RAMBUS before actualising it in PDF for streaming out across SATA.
For a modest fee, of course.
Cheers,
Ian
Pardon?
All I can think of is that you must be in the US. In Europe, I would go so far as to say that the primary use of many mobiles sold is for text messaging. I know I send far more texts than I make voice calls.
I can't speak for Japan, but I believe there's a similar situation there. I thought that the US was going the same way, but I'm prepared to be corrected on that.
As for cameras being silly, I disagree. I often take around ten a week, and I imagine I'm only in the midrange. The reason? I have children, and I very often don't have my full-blown 5mp digital camera with me but do have my mobile on me. Snaps of my kids playing in the park are good fun for those who are interested, and utterly dull for the rest of the world. Some get kept, most get discarded.
I have other uses too. For example, on Friday an A4 sheet had been left at a railway station detailing proposed changes to the timetable and who to get in contact with to protest them (the changes are bad from this town's point of view - Maidenhead). There was only one sheet left, so I took a couple of photos with the phone and left the sheet there for someone else to pick up. I read the information later on my laptop after transferring the pictures there.
The combination of a camera phone which is bluetooth equipped and having a bluetooth'n'wifi equipped laptop (that works - I use a Powerbook, I've heard of terrible problems with MS's stack and Nokia phones) immediately opens up a world of fast snapping, fast editing and fast publishing. Don't knock camera phones - they're useful things.
Cheers,
Ian