Read that page you link to: Lindows.com is not a party to the legal disagreement between SCO, IBM and other technology companies. Until more facts are presented, Lindows.com will not take a position as to the validity of the claims presented by either side. Their agreement predates SCO (made during Caldera days), and they don't take position on SCO's claims until it's resolved.
I'm a Cocoa developer. I know about EOF, but it's been both canned by Apple, and I am gearing some of my work towards a partial replacement to EOF (at least for my very own needs).
Objective-SQL also contains a SQLWebForm class whose purpose it to show SQL object data into template pages to yield final html pages.
-----Original Message----- From: *** Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:24 AM To: Ulanoff, Lance Subject: Eureka
Hello.
in your piece at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1408953,00.as p, you have this to say in conclusion:
Ultimately, those on the Mac fringe have to face facts: Panther and Jaguar were not better at outrunning vulnerabilities than Windows. I expect other gaps will emerge, and while the Mac OS may still draw far fewer attacks, this discovery might suck a little wind (or is it Windows?) out of Mac radicals' sails. They can scarcely claim this was a minor hole. OS root access is serious stuff. How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here.
So, that's all it takes for you? One potentially serious loophole in an OS to declare it "no better at outrunning vulnerabilities than windows"?
Have you recently counted the number of Cert advisory reports that have come out for XP? Last I checked, more than a month ago, it was in the 40-some range. For XP alone. This year only. For the past few weeks, those reports have come in bundles of 3-to-5 at a time. Nearly every other week.
While gaining root access is serious on a Unix machine, you also need to point out the fact that to be able to gain access to this loophole, you absolutely need to be on the same subnet as the compromised computer. Therefore shielding 60%-some percent of home Mac installation (as those connect to the interner through some phone connection like PPP) and a great deal (don't have numbers) of the remaining 40% still not at risk, provided their Cable or ISDN, [A]DSL ISPs have done their work properly.
It's not like one could attack the entire machine simply by sending an email containing some VBL script. Right?
Of course I'm a Mac head. And I'm still as cocky as I've been since roughly 1988. Because every time I see those IT folks around here struggling to keep the company running when the next wave of Win trouble appears, I'll be smiling at my desk, uninterrupted, and occasionally offering to help (okay... I'm just pointing them to some Linux site or Apple.com... but hey... I seriously believe that would help them).
One of the coolest features of Objective-C, also available in Java (though I'm no expert on Java), is introspection.
Through introspection, an object, or a class object (loosely, that's a static class instance for static methods of your class), can interrogate themselves for variable names and types as well as the functions they support.
Only with object introspection can you send message (aka, method calls) to objects who may or may not understand (aka, implement), said message.
With this, i've created a really nifty (and open source) SQLite-based object persistence library called Objective-SQL.
Basically, you just derive a class from my Objective-SQL classes and they can automatically instantiate themselves from SQL table rows through various Find* methods I've implemented in there. Simply change data member values and call [myObject commit] and voila.
Also, there is relational capabilities given a Category to the system NSString class that allows you to turn an object into a string reference, and this string reference back into an object automatically fetched from the SQL database.
One could derive the SQLTransport and redirect actual storage and retrieval to other SQL solutions, like PostGre, MySQL, oracle etc.
Every time this issues comes up, I keep thinking of Apple's canned GeoPort thing. While not a modem per say, this signal processing external device was used to emulate a voice-fax-modem. With proper software, it was used to automatically take calls and manage incoming and outgoing faxes. It also served as a 14k modem. It worked beautifully. In one demonstration Apple had made on stage in a mid 1990s World Wide Developer Conference, some guy (using a cell phone) called in a number that was monitored by a computer on stage, with the help of a GeoPort. The computer picked up the line and said "Yes?" using speech synthesis (same as we have today), and started listening using it's speech recognition technologies (same we still have today). The calling guy said "Ask [name] if he can join me for lunch today".
The computer replied "ok. I'll call you back", hung up, dialed [name] and repeated the message, to wich the computer was replied "yes" and phoned back the original caller to give [name]'s answer. (I don't remember the name of the other person, but that's beside the point.)
I find it hard to believe that after nearly 10 years, we still can't do that again (hey Steve! What's up with the digital hub??).
Anyhow. for regular voice and fax duties, I have found CoMa X from a small german shop. it supports a number of modems, but it's unclear if it can handle your internal modem.
As a reference, the blue And White PowerMac G3 tower has a Rockwell compatible modem, so this one should work with CoMa X, wich supports Rockwell as well as other chipsets. The manufacturer also mentions that some older PowerBooks use Rockwell chips, but makes no mention of other machines.
I have not been able to make it work with my Dual G5's internal modem, but I haven't tried that hard. Whenever I get more time, I'll give it another whirl.
For all it's worth, though, it might be worth it to buy another USB modem that falls in the list of supported modem. Sure would cost less than a multi-ring subscription.
Ok, piracy is not a good thing, but jail is just a tad extreme, don't you think?
Shop lifters sometimes get jailed for their offences. Most get fined.
Why should it be any different for software piracy? It's just the same as shop lifting.
I still have a hard time comprehending why some (not most, but some) people who are so quick at denouncing GPL violations, make not much of a case out of stealing (musical or software) property.
Yeah, yeah. Mac "addicts" get irate when their platoform and thier favorite company gets knocked
Check this out: Linux sucks dead pigeon farts!
Now watch what kind of replies and moderation I'll get.
Linux "addicts" are as irate when their choice of computing lifestyle is attacked. Same could be said of any platform (yet, we don't often get rebuffs from Windows users but hey... they must know something we don't).
Do you really think spammers are going to install bluetooth devices every ten yards to acheive that Nope. But you could expect store entrances and subway station entrances to have such devices.
As soon as you walk in, you phone spams you with specials at this or that store.
A question I have had in the back of my head wich I'd like to answer at some point keeps coming back to the surface whenever I read such stories.
The oil bubbles in the earth's crust were once plants and animals at the surface. So, it trickles down.
To pump it up, we sometime replace the oil with (saline) water, pushing the oil up.
Does this oil eventually reach the magma core? Does it help it keep hot by injecting fuel to the fire? What about all that water pumped down. Could it have a cooling effect?
I'm no geologist. I'm sure these questions have been looked at before. But, it'd be nice to have some insights from someone on/.. Surely, there's a geophysicist or two around.
Apple's Steve jobs had previously mentioned that the tablet market was non-existant.
Specifically, here's what the westion was, and his answer to that:
M: A lot of people think given the success you've had with portable devices, you should be making a tablet or a PDA. J: There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, "People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this." "We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail." Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already. "And people accuse us of niche markets." I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. We didn't think we'd do well in the cell phone business. What we've done instead is we've written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to. We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA.
Well if you're not having problems, then obviously, anyone else who claims that they are is a big fat LIAR. Software always works the same on every machine. Especially updates from Apple. (reference to failed initial release of 10.2.8 removed)
What's a failed update got to do with backward compatibility? That update got fixed and re-released.
I'm using apps back and forth with all Mac OS X releases. Both dev tools, the app we do, and ALL software without a hint of an issue.
File sharing works in most cases (10.0 had bugs on this, so it doesn't share well to newer versions of the OS, but can happily mount other machines)
If QuickKeys doesn't work on a particular version of the OS, it's because it relies on hacks to do what it does. Just wait for an update (heck, Panther is not released until tomorrow, so it's a good bet this guy doesn't have an updated QuickKeys).
Slashdot Mirror
x = x;
You only need:
x;
and it does the trick.
Read that page you link to:
Lindows.com is not a party to the legal disagreement between SCO, IBM and other technology companies. Until more facts are presented, Lindows.com will not take a position as to the validity of the claims presented by either side.
Their agreement predates SCO (made during Caldera days), and they don't take position on SCO's claims until it's resolved.
I'm a Cocoa developer. I know about EOF, but it's been both canned by Apple, and I am gearing some of my work towards a partial replacement to EOF (at least for my very own needs).
Objective-SQL also contains a SQLWebForm class whose purpose it to show SQL object data into template pages to yield final html pages.
Excellent comments. Please post them in our forum:
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http://discuss.pcmag.com/pcmag/start/?msg=32413
-----Original Message-----
From: ***
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:24 AM
To: Ulanoff, Lance
Subject: Eureka
Hello.
in your piece at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1408953,00.a
you have this to say in conclusion:
Ultimately, those on the Mac fringe have to face facts: Panther and Jaguar were not better at outrunning vulnerabilities than Windows. I expect other gaps will emerge, and while the Mac OS may still draw far fewer attacks, this discovery might suck a little wind (or is it Windows?) out of Mac radicals' sails. They can scarcely claim this was a minor hole. OS root access is serious stuff. How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here.
So, that's all it takes for you? One potentially serious loophole in an
OS to declare it "no better at outrunning vulnerabilities than
windows"?
Have you recently counted the number of Cert advisory reports that have
come out for XP? Last I checked, more than a month ago, it was in the
40-some range. For XP alone. This year only. For the past few weeks,
those reports have come in bundles of 3-to-5 at a time. Nearly every
other week.
While gaining root access is serious on a Unix machine, you also need
to point out the fact that to be able to gain access to this loophole,
you absolutely need to be on the same subnet as the compromised
computer. Therefore shielding 60%-some percent of home Mac installation
(as those connect to the interner through some phone connection like
PPP) and a great deal (don't have numbers) of the remaining 40% still
not at risk, provided their Cable or ISDN, [A]DSL ISPs have done their
work properly.
It's not like one could attack the entire machine simply by sending an
email containing some VBL script. Right?
Of course I'm a Mac head. And I'm still as cocky as I've been since
roughly 1988. Because every time I see those IT folks around here
struggling to keep the company running when the next wave of Win
trouble appears, I'll be smiling at my desk, uninterrupted, and
occasionally offering to help (okay... I'm just pointing them to some
Linux site or Apple.com... but hey... I seriously believe that would
help
them).
Keep us entertained.
Have a good day.
One of the coolest features of Objective-C, also available in Java (though I'm no expert on Java), is introspection.
Through introspection, an object, or a class object (loosely, that's a static class instance for static methods of your class), can interrogate themselves for variable names and types as well as the functions they support.
Only with object introspection can you send message (aka, method calls) to objects who may or may not understand (aka, implement), said message.
With this, i've created a really nifty (and open source) SQLite-based object persistence library called Objective-SQL.
Basically, you just derive a class from my Objective-SQL classes and they can automatically instantiate themselves from SQL table rows through various Find* methods I've implemented in there. Simply change data member values and call [myObject commit] and voila.
Also, there is relational capabilities given a Category to the system NSString class that allows you to turn an object into a string reference, and this string reference back into an object automatically fetched from the SQL database.
One could derive the SQLTransport and redirect actual storage and retrieval to other SQL solutions, like PostGre, MySQL, oracle etc.
Every time this issues comes up, I keep thinking of Apple's canned GeoPort thing. While not a modem per say, this signal processing external device was used to emulate a voice-fax-modem. With proper software, it was used to automatically take calls and manage incoming and outgoing faxes. It also served as a 14k modem. It worked beautifully. In one demonstration Apple had made on stage in a mid 1990s World Wide Developer Conference, some guy (using a cell phone) called in a number that was monitored by a computer on stage, with the help of a GeoPort. The computer picked up the line and said "Yes?" using speech synthesis (same as we have today), and started listening using it's speech recognition technologies (same we still have today). The calling guy said "Ask [name] if he can join me for lunch today".
The computer replied "ok. I'll call you back", hung up, dialed [name] and repeated the message, to wich the computer was replied "yes" and phoned back the original caller to give [name]'s answer. (I don't remember the name of the other person, but that's beside the point.)
I find it hard to believe that after nearly 10 years, we still can't do that again (hey Steve! What's up with the digital hub??).
Anyhow. for regular voice and fax duties, I have found CoMa X from a small german shop. it supports a number of modems, but it's unclear if it can handle your internal modem.
As a reference, the blue And White PowerMac G3 tower has a Rockwell compatible modem, so this one should work with CoMa X, wich supports Rockwell as well as other chipsets. The manufacturer also mentions that some older PowerBooks use Rockwell chips, but makes no mention of other machines.
I have not been able to make it work with my Dual G5's internal modem, but I haven't tried that hard. Whenever I get more time, I'll give it another whirl.
For all it's worth, though, it might be worth it to buy another USB modem that falls in the list of supported modem. Sure would cost less than a multi-ring subscription.
As much as people say (wish?) that Apple is dying, there are as many saying the Amiga's coming back!
Uh... yeah... I'll stick with my Macs...
For those interested, here's Text mode Quake and AsciiMac, wich seem to predate the previous one, including the X11 ASCII art thing.
What is it with ASCII??
There's no jumping off this one.
Actually, yes there is.
The ISS has a permanently docked Soyuz capsule for evacuation purposes.
Some details, here, also indicate that the incident you mention actually took place in 1997.
NASA also have info on the escape capsule.
If a woman I didn't know walked up to me and said plug yourself in, I'd be both excited and worried.
T3 Happening for real!
Run for cover!
Ok, piracy is not a good thing, but jail is just a tad extreme, don't you think?
Shop lifters sometimes get jailed for their offences. Most get fined.
Why should it be any different for software piracy? It's just the same as shop lifting.
I still have a hard time comprehending why some (not most, but some) people who are so quick at denouncing GPL violations, make not much of a case out of stealing (musical or software) property.
Or Kerberos for all I care.
Yeah, yeah. Mac "addicts" get irate when their platoform and thier favorite company gets knocked
Check this out: Linux sucks dead pigeon farts!
Now watch what kind of replies and moderation I'll get.
Linux "addicts" are as irate when their choice of computing lifestyle is attacked. Same could be said of any platform (yet, we don't often get rebuffs from Windows users but hey... they must know something we don't).
Tourniquet traps!
As soon as it rotates, your already in and it sends off the bluespam.
Do you really think spammers are going to install bluetooth devices every ten yards to acheive that
Nope. But you could expect store entrances and subway station entrances to have such devices.
As soon as you walk in, you phone spams you with specials at this or that store.
With all the potential revenus from the fines... who gets to profit from it?
It's not like the FCC needs 3/4 of a M$ to stay afloat.
Is the money re-injected in federal-funded communications?
someone who owns a NeXT Station cannot possibly own a sexier computer
I consider my dual G5 sexier than both my NeXT Cube and NeXT Station Color machines.
Or at least equally.
A question I have had in the back of my head wich I'd like to answer at some point keeps coming back to the surface whenever I read such stories.
/.. Surely, there's a geophysicist or two around.
The oil bubbles in the earth's crust were once plants and animals at the surface. So, it trickles down.
To pump it up, we sometime replace the oil with (saline) water, pushing the oil up.
Does this oil eventually reach the magma core? Does it help it keep hot by injecting fuel to the fire? What about all that water pumped down. Could it have a cooling effect?
I'm no geologist. I'm sure these questions have been looked at before. But, it'd be nice to have some insights from someone on
Woah.
Apple's Steve jobs had previously mentioned that the tablet market was non-existant.
Specifically, here's what the westion was, and his answer to that:
M: A lot of people think given the success you've had with portable devices, you should be making a tablet or a PDA.
J: There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, "People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this." "We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail." Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already. "And people accuse us of niche markets." I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. We didn't think we'd do well in the cell phone business. What we've done instead is we've written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to. We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA.
The full interview is avilable here.
Well if you're not having problems, then obviously, anyone else who claims that they are is a big fat LIAR. Software always works the same on every machine. Especially updates from Apple. (reference to failed initial release of 10.2.8 removed)
What's a failed update got to do with backward compatibility? That update got fixed and re-released.
I'm using apps back and forth with all Mac OS X releases. Both dev tools, the app we do, and ALL software without a hint of an issue.
File sharing works in most cases (10.0 had bugs on this, so it doesn't share well to newer versions of the OS, but can happily mount other machines)
If QuickKeys doesn't work on a particular version of the OS, it's because it relies on hacks to do what it does. Just wait for an update (heck, Panther is not released until tomorrow, so it's a good bet this guy doesn't have an updated QuickKeys).
(somewhat) lack of backward compatibility
FUD.
I've been using Panther in a mixed environment with Jaguar, Cheeta and Puma releases with no fights.
60 to 0 in 0 seconds flat.
That's if you measure the front bumper. The rear bumper decelerates at a different rate. Quite unfortunately for those sitting in-between.
Ram the pipes coming out of the ground with a pickup. Let blow some steam out. Drop grenade.
Now, all it takes to waste en entire village (and surrounding areas) is a small hand grenade.
Fortunately, they're readily available in the states.
Who needs 'em frickin' planes and mega structures?