I have a week-old G5 dualie, which replaced a convection cooled Sage iMac (around the same general era as your Grape, maybe slightly later.) What blows my mind is that the G5 is quieter than the iMac. The G5 has a much quieter hard disk, and the low-speed fans are really, really quiet.
Why would they bother supporting (i.e. installation help, inevitable "my system was operating perfectly before I installed your application! [except for those 37.5 spyware programs in the system tray]") operating systems that even Microsoft can't be arsed to support, or for a family of operating systems with no generally recognized base configuration (Linux) when they can cover 99% of shipping home systems by supporting XP and OS X?
The iTMS doesn't play the first 30 seconds. I believe the authoring tool Apple supplies to the labels lets them choose which 30-second block is excerpted, per track.
I visited my sister a couple of weeks ago, coincidentally arriving on the day that her 13-year old daughter's (blue) iPod Mini arrived. She bought it herself, with her babysitting money. In that age group, there aren't "portable mp3 players", there are iPods. Period.
The site's been undead for years, stumbling around muttering "brains, brains" and bumping into shit. 99% of the time the camera's focused on an empty blue chair. It all went downhill when she stole her "friend's" fiancee and boinked him on camera.
No it's not. It's a subscription, so even if you don't use up your 40 downloads, you pay for them. On top of that, there's no "per album" price, so that single punk album with 20 2-minute tracks will exhaust half your download allocation for the month. They could have put more thought into their pricing structure, IMO. As it stands now, it's in a really awkward no-mans-land between subscription service and a la carte.
In case I wasn't clear, by 'creamy' I meant good -- streaming radio normally sounds pretty crummy, but this set sounded amazing (as well it ought have, I suppose, given that bitrate)
A friend's college station streams using RA at rates up to ~192kbps. It sounds creamy. I owned a Minidisc recorder for many years and ATRAC is good food, quality wise.
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Perhaps a "Google bombing" is in order. I'll go first:
(the theory is, if enough people link the word spyware to Claria's site, it'll become an 'above the fold' first page hit for the search term on Google.)
Actually, for at least the last 6 months they've been providing VBR MP#s encoded with Lame's -preset standard setting, which is pretty decent ~192kbps+.
I've been a subscriber for 3 years, but sadly the new plan just doesn't work for me. I used the service to take a chance on new artists, and the new pricing plan actively discourages downloading anything but "sure things." Bleah. Back to the used bins.
I didn't mean to be rude. I simply cited a quick example of a contribution I happened to have a handy URL for. My point remains (in response to the poster higher up, not you) that implying that Apple, at least (and probably Sun, too) are doing a lot more than just cherry-picking open-source code, and implying that they are doing otherwise risks making the poster sound like a zealot.
Mutual support, like, say, paying several dozen full-time engineer salaries to people who implement features and bugfixes in the open source projects they use and contribute the changes back to the respective projects? Nah, that never works.
I'm sitting at a machine right now that I bought specifically to run the OS X Public Beta. I did a wipe/reinstall when 10.0 came out, but I, like the above poster, every update since (10.0.0 - 10.0.04 to 10.1.0 to 10.1.6 to 10.2.0 to 10.2.6) has followed on from that initial OS install I did on (checks/Private/var/log/OSInstall.custom) "Native install completed 2001-03-24 17:37:32 -0800." Try that with any Windows box.
I really couldn't tell you. I haven't worked in that industry since 1999, but at that point the companies I had any dealings with were basically Windows shops, with a small penetration of Macs in graphics production, and Solaris as the *nix of choice. Of course, 4 years is an eternity, so who knows what the mix is now.
Nobody I know drives a Peugeot, therefore they don't exist.
Framemaker is very popular in the industrial documentation market (things like parts catalogs, service manuals, etc.) I used to work for a company that produced tens of thousands of pages of such material for the automotive service aftermarket annually. Just because you and your friends don't use Framemaker for your skateboard stickers and grocery lists doesn't mean there isn't a professional market for it.
is a service that runs on top of windows rpc. That (ports 135-137) should have been blocked by your ISP!
Who's to say there aren't spammers on your ISP's subnet? There are 512 IPs on the subnet assigned by my ISP. I sure as shit don't trust them all! Hell, I don't trust every IP on my company's LAN. Who knows what machines on that network are cracked/running malware/etc?
I have no idea what my ISP blocks / doesn't block. I certainly don't count on them to "protect" me. All I wan't from an ISP is a fast, unfiltered net connection. I want to decide what incoming traffic I want to drop and receive. It's not their job to evaluate my traffic, unless my activities are harming the health of their network or their other customers.
I do strongly believe that OS vendors have a good-faith responsibility to ship operating systems in a "first do no harm" sort of default configuration. For a consumer-centered OS like Windows XP Home, that would mean configuring the machine with insecure services disabled by default, and able to be turned on only by a user who has demonstrated at least a modicum of technical awareness necessary to realize what enabling the service entails. Between Active X, the insecurities in Outlook and IE, and the registry games that system tray applets play, they have failed in this regard. The currently shipping major *nix-based operating systems are far better in this regard. For example, inetd.conf ships on OS X with comments that say things like "make sure you know what you're doing if you enable this service" or "this service has potential security implications".
The equivalent would be (IMO) not only shipping with the talk server installed by default, compiled without TCP wrappers, and already enabled in inetd/xinetd listening for incoming connections on port 517, and talking to your window server. I can't speak for Linux, but I can tell you that Mac OS X ships with ntalkd installed in/usr/libexec, but commented out in inetd.conf. It takes a conscious act by a user at least sophisticated enough how to edit a root-owned file to enable the service. On the other hand, all my cousin did was turn his computer on, an its default config in WinXP Home, he was running a similar service, open to the internet.
I had an interesting experience helping my cousin with his computer a few hours ago. I've done this plenty of times before, and I'm sure every computer professional has served as volunteer tech support for family members at least occasionally. The difference this time is, instead of simply doing a few quick fixes for the things that were broken/nonfunctional (which is what I usually do, in the interests of time), I actually thought long and hard about what was broken, and more importantly, how and why it got that way.
I will state from the top that I don't intend for this to be a Windows bash session. Though it's plainly a software environment I try to avoid when it's practical to do so, I recognize that I'm a kook and that most of the rest of the world has decided otherwise. Since, like death and taxes, Win32 is omnipresent, unavoidable, and in the end always victorious, it's prudent to learn how to efficiently work with it.
My cousin purchased a basic home system earlier this year, a modest (but powerful enough) system with Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled. It also came with Microsoft Works (which he's just starting to use for his classes) and the various and sundry shovelware that no user ever bothers to either run, nor uninstall. We live very close to each other, so we both have the same network provider -- in this town it's basically Comcast for broadband or the highway (read: craptacular dialup). He uses Yahoo as a portal page, and occasionally uses Yahoo Messenger. He likes tuning in to streaming radio, so he has dozens of stations bookmarked. And that's pretty much it -- he uses his machine for web surfing, internet radio, and the occasional short word processing or IM session.
I stopped by today to help him with a project he's starting up and he went to log into his computer. My first clue that something was very wrong: it took forever. The interval between the time when he entered his password and when he gained full control of the machine (i.e. when the busy cursor went away and the machine finally became responsive enough for him to do anything as basic as using the cursor to launch a new application) was at least 90 seconds. This box isn't a server, he's not compiling code or serving pages or rendering frames or anything else that ought to be stealing major cycles from the foreground UI. After that eternity has passed and he finally gains control of the machine, he gets a dialog box advertising cheap university degrees. By this time, I'm all like "what the f___?!?" It seems that in my time away from mainstream (i.e. Win32) computing, something known as "Windows Messenger Service Spam" has become a serious nuisance. How goddamned evil can they get? You don't even have to open your mailbox before some lowlife jumps in your face trying to sell you merde? How fricking evil is that? I do wonder what kind of krakk kokane your software engineering staff has to be smoking for them ship an operating system that, in its default configuration, allows an unauthenticated tcp message from any random spot on the internet to display a dialog on a client workstation, but, as I mentioned earlier, that's not where I want to go today. I felt a sick feeling in my gut, realizing that there are probably millions of grandmothers out there getting these stupid things popping up in their faces all day, without the vaguest clue of how to stop them.
After closing the messenger spam, my cousin started his browser, which happens to be IE 6. This took an extroardinarily long time. Once it came up, I noticed that he had a Yahoo toolbar underneath the standard Explorer toolbar, bristling with gewgaws, animated crap, pulsing buttons and links to, erm, "synergistic content". In addition, there was a vertical pane along the left side of the window, also Yahoo branded, also full of pulsing, flashing, irrelevant happy crap. In the middle of trying to throw up (and I do mean "throw
Fred's on the second floor. Ed's on the 9th floor. Fred's too weighed down with donuts and Big Gulp's to even contemplate trundling on over to the elevator. Score!
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I have a week-old G5 dualie, which replaced a convection cooled Sage iMac (around the same general era as your Grape, maybe slightly later.) What blows my mind is that the G5 is quieter than the iMac. The G5 has a much quieter hard disk, and the low-speed fans are really, really quiet.
Brilliant engineering.
Provide?
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard.
but Support?
Why would they bother supporting (i.e. installation help, inevitable "my system was operating perfectly before I installed your application! [except for those 37.5 spyware programs in the system tray]") operating systems that even Microsoft can't be arsed to support, or for a family of operating systems with no generally recognized base configuration (Linux) when they can cover 99% of shipping home systems by supporting XP and OS X?
The iTMS doesn't play the first 30 seconds. I believe the authoring tool Apple supplies to the labels lets them choose which 30-second block is excerpted, per track.
I visited my sister a couple of weeks ago, coincidentally arriving on the day that her 13-year old daughter's (blue) iPod Mini arrived. She bought it herself, with her babysitting money. In that age group, there aren't "portable mp3 players", there are iPods. Period.
Um, high?
The site's been undead for years, stumbling around muttering "brains, brains" and bumping into shit. 99% of the time the camera's focused on an empty blue chair. It all went downhill when she stole her "friend's" fiancee and boinked him on camera.
No it's not. It's a subscription, so even if you don't use up your 40 downloads, you pay for them. On top of that, there's no "per album" price, so that single punk album with 20 2-minute tracks will exhaust half your download allocation for the month. They could have put more thought into their pricing structure, IMO. As it stands now, it's in a really awkward no-mans-land between subscription service and a la carte.
In case I wasn't clear, by 'creamy' I meant good -- streaming radio normally sounds pretty crummy, but this set sounded amazing (as well it ought have, I suppose, given that bitrate)
A friend's college station streams using RA at rates up to ~192kbps. It sounds creamy. I owned a Minidisc recorder for many years and ATRAC is good food, quality wise.
Perhaps a "Google bombing" is in order. I'll go first:
Get your spyware here. One-stop shopping for all your pop-up and pop-under needs.
(the theory is, if enough people link the word spyware to Claria's site, it'll become an 'above the fold' first page hit for the search term on Google.)
Let's fsck up their rebranding effort!
Um, the interface? Does that thing really throw a raw filesystem tree at you?
e2fs for OSX.
PHP is certainly cool, but there are some fairly major gaps to be filled.
Actually, for at least the last 6 months they've been providing VBR MP#s encoded with Lame's -preset standard setting, which is pretty decent ~192kbps+.
I've been a subscriber for 3 years, but sadly the new plan just doesn't work for me. I used the service to take a chance on new artists, and the new pricing plan actively discourages downloading anything but "sure things." Bleah. Back to the used bins.
Not only that, but Ward Cunningham has stated that HyperCard was an inspiration for some of the concepts of Wikis.
I didn't mean to be rude. I simply cited a quick example of a contribution I happened to have a handy URL for. My point remains (in response to the poster higher up, not you) that implying that Apple, at least (and probably Sun, too) are doing a lot more than just cherry-picking open-source code, and implying that they are doing otherwise risks making the poster sound like a zealot.
Mutual support, like, say, paying several dozen full-time engineer salaries to people who implement features and bugfixes in the open source projects they use and contribute the changes back to the respective projects? Nah, that never works.
Yep, because if there's one thing someone like Jordan Hubbard couldn't manage, it's writing BSD userland code.
(extended eyeroll)I'm sitting at a machine right now that I bought specifically to run the OS X Public Beta. I did a wipe/reinstall when 10.0 came out, but I, like the above poster, every update since (10.0.0 - 10.0.04 to 10.1.0 to 10.1.6 to 10.2.0 to 10.2.6) has followed on from that initial OS install I did on (checks /Private/var/log/OSInstall.custom) "Native install completed 2001-03-24 17:37:32 -0800." Try that with any Windows box.
I really couldn't tell you. I haven't worked in that industry since 1999, but at that point the companies I had any dealings with were basically Windows shops, with a small penetration of Macs in graphics production, and Solaris as the *nix of choice. Of course, 4 years is an eternity, so who knows what the mix is now.
Nobody I know drives a Peugeot, therefore they don't exist.
Framemaker is very popular in the industrial documentation market (things like parts catalogs, service manuals, etc.) I used to work for a company that produced tens of thousands of pages of such material for the automotive service aftermarket annually. Just because you and your friends don't use Framemaker for your skateboard stickers and grocery lists doesn't mean there isn't a professional market for it.
Who's to say there aren't spammers on your ISP's subnet? There are 512 IPs on the subnet assigned by my ISP. I sure as shit don't trust them all! Hell, I don't trust every IP on my company's LAN. Who knows what machines on that network are cracked/running malware/etc?
I have no idea what my ISP blocks / doesn't block. I certainly don't count on them to "protect" me. All I wan't from an ISP is a fast, unfiltered net connection. I want to decide what incoming traffic I want to drop and receive. It's not their job to evaluate my traffic, unless my activities are harming the health of their network or their other customers.
I do strongly believe that OS vendors have a good-faith responsibility to ship operating systems in a "first do no harm" sort of default configuration. For a consumer-centered OS like Windows XP Home, that would mean configuring the machine with insecure services disabled by default, and able to be turned on only by a user who has demonstrated at least a modicum of technical awareness necessary to realize what enabling the service entails. Between Active X, the insecurities in Outlook and IE, and the registry games that system tray applets play, they have failed in this regard. The currently shipping major *nix-based operating systems are far better in this regard. For example, inetd.conf ships on OS X with comments that say things like "make sure you know what you're doing if you enable this service" or "this service has potential security implications".
The equivalent would be (IMO) not only shipping with the talk server installed by default, compiled without TCP wrappers, and already enabled in inetd/xinetd listening for incoming connections on port 517, and talking to your window server. I can't speak for Linux, but I can tell you that Mac OS X ships with ntalkd installed in /usr/libexec, but commented out in inetd.conf. It takes a conscious act by a user at least sophisticated enough how to edit a root-owned file to enable the service. On the other hand, all my cousin did was turn his computer on, an its default config in WinXP Home, he was running a similar service, open to the internet.
I had an interesting experience helping my cousin with his computer a few hours ago. I've done this plenty of times before, and I'm sure every computer professional has served as volunteer tech support for family members at least occasionally. The difference this time is, instead of simply doing a few quick fixes for the things that were broken/nonfunctional (which is what I usually do, in the interests of time), I actually thought long and hard about what was broken, and more importantly, how and why it got that way.
I will state from the top that I don't intend for this to be a Windows bash session. Though it's plainly a software environment I try to avoid when it's practical to do so, I recognize that I'm a kook and that most of the rest of the world has decided otherwise. Since, like death and taxes, Win32 is omnipresent, unavoidable, and in the end always victorious, it's prudent to learn how to efficiently work with it.
My cousin purchased a basic home system earlier this year, a modest (but powerful enough) system with Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled. It also came with Microsoft Works (which he's just starting to use for his classes) and the various and sundry shovelware that no user ever bothers to either run, nor uninstall. We live very close to each other, so we both have the same network provider -- in this town it's basically Comcast for broadband or the highway (read: craptacular dialup). He uses Yahoo as a portal page, and occasionally uses Yahoo Messenger. He likes tuning in to streaming radio, so he has dozens of stations bookmarked. And that's pretty much it -- he uses his machine for web surfing, internet radio, and the occasional short word processing or IM session.
I stopped by today to help him with a project he's starting up and he went to log into his computer. My first clue that something was very wrong: it took forever. The interval between the time when he entered his password and when he gained full control of the machine (i.e. when the busy cursor went away and the machine finally became responsive enough for him to do anything as basic as using the cursor to launch a new application) was at least 90 seconds. This box isn't a server, he's not compiling code or serving pages or rendering frames or anything else that ought to be stealing major cycles from the foreground UI. After that eternity has passed and he finally gains control of the machine, he gets a dialog box advertising cheap university degrees. By this time, I'm all like "what the f___?!?" It seems that in my time away from mainstream (i.e. Win32) computing, something known as "Windows Messenger Service Spam" has become a serious nuisance. How goddamned evil can they get? You don't even have to open your mailbox before some lowlife jumps in your face trying to sell you merde? How fricking evil is that? I do wonder what kind of krakk kokane your software engineering staff has to be smoking for them ship an operating system that, in its default configuration, allows an unauthenticated tcp message from any random spot on the internet to display a dialog on a client workstation, but, as I mentioned earlier, that's not where I want to go today. I felt a sick feeling in my gut, realizing that there are probably millions of grandmothers out there getting these stupid things popping up in their faces all day, without the vaguest clue of how to stop them.
After closing the messenger spam, my cousin started his browser, which happens to be IE 6. This took an extroardinarily long time. Once it came up, I noticed that he had a Yahoo toolbar underneath the standard Explorer toolbar, bristling with gewgaws, animated crap, pulsing buttons and links to, erm, "synergistic content". In addition, there was a vertical pane along the left side of the window, also Yahoo branded, also full of pulsing, flashing, irrelevant happy crap. In the middle of trying to throw up (and I do mean "throw
Fred's on the second floor. Ed's on the 9th floor. Fred's too weighed down with donuts and Big Gulp's to even contemplate trundling on over to the elevator. Score!