It's got this old, clunky, 5" 400Meg drive that makes you feel it's based on some V8 engine.
Meanwhile, it's fan is big and blows a lor of hair through the machine's thin air intake and exit vents.
When I shut this machine down, it feels like the house's thermopump shuts down.
It's been said before, but I'll reiterate, because you'll never realize how much this is true until it's the only machine running in your house. Those iMacs are REALLY silent.
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Apple will not be porting the Mac OS to x86 for the same reason that Steve Jobs won't allow the smallest bit of GPLed code into Darwin. It would put Apple out of business.
That's bullshit, and as half-witted as can be expected from a Wintel multibooter.
Eat this:
./Applications/Chess.app/Contents/Resources/COPYIN G ./usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/COPYING
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You have to go to the 'Start' button to shut the machine down
That's because the shutdown sequence can take several minutes on an NT Server box. So, you "start" the shutdown service.
Seriously, though, it's just shorter to just wait for the machine to crash.
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Graphics apps on the Mac
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GIMP And OS X
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· Score: 2
Mac-based graphic designers who have only had access to Photoshop for years
Well, actually, there are a couple more. Grant you, PhotoShop is by far the best, but in the more Gimp-like arena, we've had GraphicConverter for years.
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I was 18 when, in 1988, I first logged-on a Montreal-based BBS called POPNet. it was connected onto FidoNet as well, and was my first e-community.
The system only allowed for real names for user IDs. I really wanted to use an alias, one which caracterised me as a "mouse user" (I had just bought my first Mac: a Mac SE with a *built*in*hard*drive, SCSI no-less!).
Not only did the system only accept full names, it would catenate the first letter of the last name to the first name. So, all I could do was to create myself a false name, and let the system catenate the names.
I chose "Mouse Rancher", and the system assigned me
MouseR
I've been using this nickname since. Nostalgia, maybe. But also a way to more easilly keep in touch with people, shall they see me roaming around.
I still remember, from POPNet, people like, Chuckles, Disk Notcher, Blue Shift, Riddle, ShaggyCarpet, Zappa Lady and Zop
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It used to be that I worked an average of 50hrs a week. Filling time sheet is a pain, and therefore always put 8hrs/day, as it wont affect my salary anyhow.
Sometime last year, the company moved, and it became impractical for me to commute with my car. Parking being horrendously expensive downtown, and the 1h30m drive didn't sound appealing (and now, the gas price).
Although, taking the commuting train to work has significantly reduced the amount of stress in my days, the train hours force me down to 40h a week.
On the plus side, I'm usually less fatigued at night, and have found that the amount I get done in a day has remained unchanged.
An other plus side; there's something to be said about working downtown at 25-30 celsius and having a outward-slanted office window on the third floor, overlooking the sidewalk...
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Funny... I could have sworn the Linux had support for both AppleTalk and HFS/HFS+ before Darwin.
Yep. But never before with Apple-original and -maintained code.
It's easier to mesh with the original code, in many cases, than it is to try to keep up when the underlying stuff changed and be forced to guess from an otherwise closed source.
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Check out the Darwin site: it lists two major contribution to the open source movement: Darwin Streaming Server and OpenPlay & NetSprocket.
The former is a QuickTime streaming server, and the later pair is a set of toolkits to aid in multi-player gaming accross the net.
Both could proffit other platforms, such as Linux.
Apart from that, the Darwin code itself includes all the code you'd like to have to manage HFS and HFS+ partitions, AppleTalk & AppleShare networking, and a slew of other bits and peices that could also benefit Linux and other OSes.
Sure, Apple wont open source Quartz. But it too needs to turn in a dollar once in a while.
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Sorry, but nVir and other application based viri pre-dated MerryXmas by a good 4 - 5 years. HyperCard viri didn't hit till at least about the time of System 7 and I was dealing with boxen infected by stuff like nVir back in '88.
You got your dates wrong. MerryXmas did appear before nVir, whereas MeryXMas (also known as the Peace virus) was spreading early 1988 and triggered on march 2nd 1988.
Some things not quite mentioned on the FAQ, but quite well known here in Montreal is that author of this virus was Richar Brandow, the then president of Club Mac Montreal.
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In a sense, yes, but generally, not all that different.
it used to be that simple HyperCard stacks could contain trojan horses. The very first Mac virus was in fact a HyperCard stack.
Things moved on, and some started appearing as AppleScript applets or scripts. Nothing very serious, though, as AppleScript does a fairly good job at blocking potentially dangerous situations (eg, the Finder wont delete items when asked to, but simply move them to the trash).
Out of the box, Mac OS X is pretty safe, according nmap, which gives it a "worthy chalenge" rating.
Where things can get interesting, though, is when the user starts services without truly understanding what they are, like ftp and telnet. Most end-users have stupid passwords to begin with ( a friend of mine's bank card code used to be "12345"...you get the idea).
Still, with a Unix underpinning or not, the most vulnerable spot for user's machines (on Mac anyway) is launching an application which may be a trojan. Most other means of delivery (CD-ROM autoplay in QuickTime and desktop DB viruses) are now obsolete because the system no longer uses them.
We're still vulnerable to WDEF (Window Definition code resource) and CDEF (Control Definition code resources), but that's more or less ineviable. It's also not as bad as it used to be, since at least, the machine and the OS is protected. It's just the user's directory and files which may be at risk. It's easier to recover this way.
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unlike a CRT's phosphors, our retinas do not have separate 'pixels' for red, green, and blue
Actually, we do. I dont remember the details, but some of our retina's cones and rods capture only specific colors. Color blind or people are people with disorders of such specific cones and rods, when it's not due to brain issues.
I'm partly color blind, as I have difficulty seeing yellow.
When our retina differs from CRTs, however, is resolution, of course.
One good place I found for info on this is this place, and for info specif to color vision, this sub-section is handy.
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Yes, I am. Those points are irrelevant unless you can show that they actually have anything to do with sex crimes.
I dont have to know that. It's been shown before. Read up on psychology and sexual behavior.
I know precisely what's on Usenet. What's your point?
Your mother was a hamster...
(Or do you actually read and not just pretend? Cause if you do read, then you missed the point; nothing goes on in usenet (aka, it's not a phisical place eh?); nor what's presented or it's users are in direct cause, but ratter, what's presented is a factor of enforcement of ill-constructed judgement that can lead to acting upon criminal sexual behaviour by some predisposed individuals).
Evidence, bucko, evidence. I'm quite sure that this is a conviction of yours, but that doesn't make it true.
It's not my conviction. I do support conclusions brought in my psychology specialists of any kind on this subject however. And you're right: because they said so, it doesn't make it true. But, I have to trust those who know infinitely more on the subject than I do. I just took psy for 3 terms or so.
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AC isn't making much of a good point by ignoring, as you do, the key points in the original message; and that is, of the degrading and abusive aspects of some of the porn found on the newsgroup.
AC has yet to mature enough to realize that the abuse are not posted on usenet, but ratter publicized on it.
And you have to realize that a person who's sexual dependency is heightened and excited by the abundance of imagery that teaches him(/her in rarer cases) "it's OK, everybody else does it" is a factor that will push that person across the line and commit those acts.
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>If you consistently expose people to sex and violence they grow to accept it.
Violence is bad. Please, can you explain to me how sex is bad?
He was referring to "porn", not sex. Which is different.
Arguably, not all porn is bad. But, a quick look at some newsgroups is enough to see that the over abundance of porn, most particularly the abusive and degrading one, can (and is) a factor in many sexual assaults.
It's as possible to be addicted to violence as it is to be addicted to sex as it is to be addicted to drugs (ranging from Flintstone vitamins to gasoline vapors).
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Or the plain and simple elimination of those services. Take a look at OneStop: they were the backbone of *many* free internet access services, like what AltaVista was using. 1stUp would make it's revenues off a cut of the adds displayed by the client software onto the user's machine.
When the add market started to erode, OneStop saw that they wouldn't be able to expand, and simply stopped the service with about a month forewarning. AltaVista warned it's users two weeks in advance. Many other providers simply did not.
My sister was one of those AltaVista users, and she was quite pissed at this. but, as I explained to her, they owed her nothing, as she has benefited from their service free of charge for many months.
You get what you pay for, in the end. My browser blocks adds too, because I'm sick of the screaming colors and abrasive distraction they bring to web pages. But this may, how long before Slashdot requires a login fee for anyone with less than 20 karma points?
I already pay for a descent web access (cable). Will it come down, eventually, to pay for Slashdot?
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Slashdot Mirror
... is my NeXT Cube.
It's got this old, clunky, 5" 400Meg drive that makes you feel it's based on some V8 engine.
Meanwhile, it's fan is big and blows a lor of hair through the machine's thin air intake and exit vents.
When I shut this machine down, it feels like the house's thermopump shuts down.
It's been said before, but I'll reiterate, because you'll never realize how much this is true until it's the only machine running in your house. Those iMacs are REALLY silent.
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Apple will not be porting the Mac OS to x86 for the same reason that Steve Jobs won't allow the smallest bit of GPLed code into Darwin. It would put Apple out of business.
./Applications/Chess.app/Contents/Resources/COPYIN G
./usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/COPYING
That's bullshit, and as half-witted as can be expected from a Wintel multibooter.
Eat this:
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You have to go to the 'Start' button to shut the machine down
That's because the shutdown sequence can take several minutes on an NT Server box. So, you "start" the shutdown service.
Seriously, though, it's just shorter to just wait for the machine to crash.
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Mac-based graphic designers who have only had access to Photoshop for years
Well, actually, there are a couple more. Grant you, PhotoShop is by far the best, but in the more Gimp-like arena, we've had GraphicConverter for years.
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I take Aikibudo lessons. It's a martial arts axed on defense, and the total disembodiment of the attacker. Some references can be found here.
The practical thing about this is that sometimes, you have to be the attacker so that someone else can defend during the lessons.
When you're being trown 5 feet away on the mats and land on your back, you tend to forget lower back pains.
It's the best back massage possible, I tell you! And then, you get all the adrenaline rush too.
Class is tonight... Woohoo!
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Offtopic?!? WTF?
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Maybe if someone can come up with a cool-sounding name then folks will stop calling them clusters
How about Clumps?
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If they believe the database infringes then shouldn't they be suing the freedb.org people?
Suing an open source group generates bad press.
Suing a successful company generates investor interest.
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The system only allowed for real names for user IDs. I really wanted to use an alias, one which caracterised me as a "mouse user" (I had just bought my first Mac: a Mac SE with a *built*in*hard*drive, SCSI no-less!).
Not only did the system only accept full names, it would catenate the first letter of the last name to the first name. So, all I could do was to create myself a false name, and let the system catenate the names.
I chose "Mouse Rancher", and the system assigned me
- MouseR
I've been using this nickname since. Nostalgia, maybe. But also a way to more easilly keep in touch with people, shall they see me roaming around.I still remember, from POPNet, people like, Chuckles, Disk Notcher, Blue Shift, Riddle, ShaggyCarpet, Zappa Lady and Zop
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both essentially came up with calculus at the same time
2000 years after Archimedes did.
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my $¾ = 0.75;
Just think of the time and space we'll be saving by using Han characters!
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It used to be that I worked an average of 50hrs a week. Filling time sheet is a pain, and therefore always put 8hrs/day, as it wont affect my salary anyhow.
Sometime last year, the company moved, and it became impractical for me to commute with my car. Parking being horrendously expensive downtown, and the 1h30m drive didn't sound appealing (and now, the gas price).
Although, taking the commuting train to work has significantly reduced the amount of stress in my days, the train hours force me down to 40h a week.
On the plus side, I'm usually less fatigued at night, and have found that the amount I get done in a day has remained unchanged.
An other plus side; there's something to be said about working downtown at 25-30 celsius and having a outward-slanted office window on the third floor, overlooking the sidewalk...
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Funny... I could have sworn the Linux had support for both AppleTalk and HFS/HFS+ before Darwin.
Yep. But never before with Apple-original and -maintained code.
It's easier to mesh with the original code, in many cases, than it is to try to keep up when the underlying stuff changed and be forced to guess from an otherwise closed source.
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Check out the Darwin site: it lists two major contribution to the open source movement: Darwin Streaming Server and OpenPlay & NetSprocket.
The former is a QuickTime streaming server, and the later pair is a set of toolkits to aid in multi-player gaming accross the net.
Both could proffit other platforms, such as Linux.
Apart from that, the Darwin code itself includes all the code you'd like to have to manage HFS and HFS+ partitions, AppleTalk & AppleShare networking, and a slew of other bits and peices that could also benefit Linux and other OSes.
Sure, Apple wont open source Quartz. But it too needs to turn in a dollar once in a while.
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Sorry, but nVir and other application based viri pre-dated MerryXmas by a good 4 - 5 years. HyperCard viri didn't hit till at least about the time of System 7 and I was dealing with boxen infected by stuff like nVir back in '88.
You got your dates wrong. MerryXmas did appear before nVir, whereas MeryXMas (also known as the Peace virus) was spreading early 1988 and triggered on march 2nd 1988.
See the Mac virus faq.
Some things not quite mentioned on the FAQ, but quite well known here in Montreal is that author of this virus was Richar Brandow, the then president of Club Mac Montreal.
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In a sense, yes, but generally, not all that different.
it used to be that simple HyperCard stacks could contain trojan horses. The very first Mac virus was in fact a HyperCard stack.
Things moved on, and some started appearing as AppleScript applets or scripts. Nothing very serious, though, as AppleScript does a fairly good job at blocking potentially dangerous situations (eg, the Finder wont delete items when asked to, but simply move them to the trash).
Out of the box, Mac OS X is pretty safe, according nmap, which gives it a "worthy chalenge" rating.
Where things can get interesting, though, is when the user starts services without truly understanding what they are, like ftp and telnet. Most end-users have stupid passwords to begin with ( a friend of mine's bank card code used to be "12345"...you get the idea).
Still, with a Unix underpinning or not, the most vulnerable spot for user's machines (on Mac anyway) is launching an application which may be a trojan. Most other means of delivery (CD-ROM autoplay in QuickTime and desktop DB viruses) are now obsolete because the system no longer uses them.
We're still vulnerable to WDEF (Window Definition code resource) and CDEF (Control Definition code resources), but that's more or less ineviable. It's also not as bad as it used to be, since at least, the machine and the OS is protected. It's just the user's directory and files which may be at risk. It's easier to recover this way.
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Only the cones are receptive to color. The rods are only receptive to brightness and dimness.
Correct. This was a copy-paste error of mine. The specifics are outlines on this page, in the "PHOTOPIGMENTS" section.
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unlike a CRT's phosphors, our retinas do not have separate 'pixels' for red, green, and blue
Actually, we do. I dont remember the details, but some of our retina's cones and rods capture only specific colors. Color blind or people are people with disorders of such specific cones and rods, when it's not due to brain issues.
I'm partly color blind, as I have difficulty seeing yellow.
When our retina differs from CRTs, however, is resolution, of course.
One good place I found for info on this is this place, and for info specif to color vision, this sub-section is handy.
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Yes, I am. Those points are irrelevant unless you can show that they actually have anything to do with sex crimes.
I dont have to know that. It's been shown before. Read up on psychology and sexual behavior.
I know precisely what's on Usenet. What's your point?
Your mother was a hamster...
(Or do you actually read and not just pretend? Cause if you do read, then you missed the point; nothing goes on in usenet (aka, it's not a phisical place eh?); nor what's presented or it's users are in direct cause, but ratter, what's presented is a factor of enforcement of ill-constructed judgement that can lead to acting upon criminal sexual behaviour by some predisposed individuals).
Evidence, bucko, evidence. I'm quite sure that this is a conviction of yours, but that doesn't make it true.
It's not my conviction. I do support conclusions brought in my psychology specialists of any kind on this subject however. And you're right: because they said so, it doesn't make it true. But, I have to trust those who know infinitely more on the subject than I do. I just took psy for 3 terms or so.
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AC isn't making much of a good point by ignoring, as you do, the key points in the original message; and that is, of the degrading and abusive aspects of some of the porn found on the newsgroup.
AC has yet to mature enough to realize that the abuse are not posted on usenet, but ratter publicized on it.
And you have to realize that a person who's sexual dependency is heightened and excited by the abundance of imagery that teaches him(/her in rarer cases) "it's OK, everybody else does it" is a factor that will push that person across the line and commit those acts.
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>If you consistently expose people to sex and violence they grow to accept it.
Violence is bad. Please, can you explain to me how sex is bad?
He was referring to "porn", not sex. Which is different.
Arguably, not all porn is bad. But, a quick look at some newsgroups is enough to see that the over abundance of porn, most particularly the abusive and degrading one, can (and is) a factor in many sexual assaults.
It's as possible to be addicted to violence as it is to be addicted to sex as it is to be addicted to drugs (ranging from Flintstone vitamins to gasoline vapors).
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In a moment of distraction, I submitted this reply before having finished to proof-read it.
Any reference to "OneStop" in the above should be replaced with "1stUp".
1stUp was the backbone of many free internet services.
OneStop (.net) is a totally irrelevant ISP.
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we will see more and more pay services
Or the plain and simple elimination of those services. Take a look at OneStop: they were the backbone of *many* free internet access services, like what AltaVista was using. 1stUp would make it's revenues off a cut of the adds displayed by the client software onto the user's machine.
When the add market started to erode, OneStop saw that they wouldn't be able to expand, and simply stopped the service with about a month forewarning. AltaVista warned it's users two weeks in advance. Many other providers simply did not.
My sister was one of those AltaVista users, and she was quite pissed at this. but, as I explained to her, they owed her nothing, as she has benefited from their service free of charge for many months.
You get what you pay for, in the end. My browser blocks adds too, because I'm sick of the screaming colors and abrasive distraction they bring to web pages. But this may, how long before Slashdot requires a login fee for anyone with less than 20 karma points?
I already pay for a descent web access (cable). Will it come down, eventually, to pay for Slashdot?
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Have you ever heard of gold? Not to mention titanium, hafnium, rhodium, platinum, nickel, chromium?
Hardly affordable metals aren't they? I'm talking something remotelly accessible, not gold-plated disks to be sent outter space...
Where YOU awake in economics class?
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