its interesting that Israel is suspending all its Microsoft contracts.. i wonder if MS will send its own suicide bombers to attack..
then what that occurs, Bush will conclude that MS has weapons of mass destruction and the marines will storm Redmond, take over, topple the statue of Bill, then get attacked by guerilla MS supporters with rocket-propelled grenades.
Yes this is deja vu.. How many times does Microsoft have to announce that they're refocusing on security. Either they repeatedly forget that security is important (seemingly every other month) or this is typical PR stunt to get critics off their back.
Sure they'll announce more security measures this month. The PHBs will get comfortable and clueless people will back off. Next month there will be another exploit (guaranteed). Businesses go down, networks get destroyed. PC-using schools are shut down, and Mac/Linux-using schools who aren't affected are ignored by the press. MS puts on the spin that hackers should be treated as terrorists. Clueless journalists blame it all on Windows popularity, rather than lack of a focus on security.
Then MS annouces once again a renewal on its focus on security.
are we gonna see a G5 Slashdot icon on these stories or what? It's not a G4 like the topic icon shows here on the headline. Try this:
http://www.apple.com/g5processor/
Considering that these towers and every mac product in the current line is either silver-colored or white.. I don't see how pink factors into anything here. If colored computers are so "gay" then what do you think of makers like Alienware that build PCs which are yellow or green?
Even if the G5 was undeniably faster by a great margain, I doubt that fact would sell more than a few hundred units.
Try a few hundred THOUSAND.. and that was just the preorders for the single low and mid-range level G5 towers. That doesn't include the dual 2 GHz G5s.
It's not the architecture... The problem is that the directions for SlashCode are so complex that it turns off most people. It's 10 times easier to install GeekLog or MovableType on OSX because the instructions for the install are super-straightforward.
... and for the record, anyone who has run OS X would know better than to say "login to a text console".
Cause, like... there isn't one.
At the login screen, Click Other... then type ">console" as the username then click Login. Welcome to the text console.
I use a six year old Power Computing PowerTower Pro as an OSX webserver. I don't login locally but I do login remotely via SSH, so I usually leave the server running headless, at the login screen.
one problem with using the traditional unix system is that it is difficult to partition off easy tasks like the management of mail,dns,web etc to customer service or entry level techs. everything tends towards a bunch of independent ad-hoc scripts. if xserve can do this intelligently in one interface (and i don't if it can..) then it would be pretty valuable
The cost of memory/HD upgrades (at build time) is also staggering - HD space is merely significantly more expensive, memory is about four times as expensive as buying direct from Crucial (100UKP for 256mb, compared to 25UKP)!
So buy the extra hard drive and RAM for the G5 from Crucial! Noone is forcing you to buy RAM or storage DIRECTLY from Apple. It's standard PC3200 DDR RAM, and standard Serial ATA. Geez, you people don't know how to shop for bargains.
Anyone who buys a packaged system from a brand name reseller KNOWS that you should buy the box with the least amount of RAM and HD available because you could always order those CHEAPER from a third party.
One big problem that Apple hasn't responded to is sharing a photo library among multiple users. In the current setup, each user of the system has their own home dir, and therefore separate photo libraries, inaccessible by the other users. While iPhoto currently supports a central repository for photos (roughly), it doesn't like it if you try to store it on a network server. Right now I have an old mac running OSX with my iPhoto Library stored on a separate drive. All my other macs are connected to it via 10/100 Ethernet and we mount that drive remotely to access the photos via iPhoto. Let me tell ya, it's DOG SLOW. even with 100Base-T bandwidth, iPhoto only uses a trickle of that potential. Instead of chewing up about 1MB/sec, it accesses the library at about 35kB/sec, so loading albums is a major test of patience.
You have installed one or more updates that requires that you restart your computer. Please restart immediately....After that I just closed the Terminal. I keep on working and at the end of the day, if I feel like restarting I will. I will also upgrade my OSX webserver this way, and probably never restart it until a real major upgrade occurs.
Buy the song download, then convert into an MP3. ITunes plays a dozen of formats, and QuickTime plays even more. It's pretty simple, if you've ever used the dang thing.
QuickTime has a full screen option. It's called "Present Movie..." under the Movie menu, and it lets you do fullscreen. Or, if you don't have the Pro version, just drag the corner until it fills up as much of the screen as possible.
Works great here on my wimpy 450MHz G4 (1600px wide).
I've opened the pbproj files and clicked the Build button, which seemingly compiled and built stuff into the Frameworks folder. Not knowing what was supposed to happen, I copied the resultant gdk.framework and gtk.framework folders to/Library/Frameworks...glib-1.2.10 installed like any other UNIX library.
Okay so now how do I compile typical UNIX gtk+ apps against this new "aqua-compatible" GTK? I tried compiling the nessus-core --enable-gtk but it's looking for the binaries gtk-config, etc! Project Builder didn't install such binaries into/usr/local/bin... wtf?
I guess what I'm asking is how do I take a generic gtk app from source (like nessus) and build it using the gtk-osx libraries/frameworks instead of regular gtk (which I would normally do via Fink)?
Well, now that the poster has discovered that OS X includes all the usual stuff like Apache, PHP, Perl, etc.. He can just as well install and host: -- SlashCode (moderate difficulty) -- GeekLog (pretty darn easy and very flexible) -- phpBB (very easy, not too customizable) -- WebMin (very easy, can use SSL & its own miniserv)
In addition, with a minor tweak or two he can run: -- Resin JSP servers -- ATG Dynamo e-commerce development platform (Java)
There are many possibilities, in fact quite a few of these run well out of the box on Mac OS X... just browse around sourceforge.net!
I've gotten a few sites running off Jaguar right now.. Here's a geeklog site running off a 266MHz G3-upgraded PowerTower Pro mac clone: http://geeklog.47ronin.kicks-ass.net:8001
Slashdot Mirror
Time to replace the G4 icon with a G5 pic dont you think??
Like this for example > http://www.apple.com/g5processor/
its interesting that Israel is suspending all its Microsoft contracts.. i wonder if MS will send its own suicide bombers to attack..
then what that occurs, Bush will conclude that MS has weapons of mass destruction and the marines will storm Redmond, take over, topple the statue of Bill, then get attacked by guerilla MS supporters with rocket-propelled grenades.
Beware!!
Yes this is deja vu.. How many times does Microsoft have to announce that they're refocusing on security. Either they repeatedly forget that security is important (seemingly every other month) or this is typical PR stunt to get critics off their back.
Sure they'll announce more security measures this month. The PHBs will get comfortable and clueless people will back off. Next month there will be another exploit (guaranteed). Businesses go down, networks get destroyed. PC-using schools are shut down, and Mac/Linux-using schools who aren't affected are ignored by the press. MS puts on the spin that hackers should be treated as terrorists. Clueless journalists blame it all on Windows popularity, rather than lack of a focus on security.
Then MS annouces once again a renewal on its focus on security.
Rinse. Repeat.
I would check the article but Websense filtering has made the page inaccessible due to inappropriate content.
...j/k
btw tell your local library about trying some goatse.cx
Wrong. Tuvak loves his Apple Studio Display.
http://www.drissman.com/avi/misc/voyagerapple/
are we gonna see a G5 Slashdot icon on these stories or what? It's not a G4 like the topic icon shows here on the headline. Try this:
http://www.apple.com/g5processor/
7) ???
8) Profit!!
Considering that these towers and every mac product in the current line is either silver-colored or white.. I don't see how pink factors into anything here. If colored computers are so "gay" then what do you think of makers like Alienware that build PCs which are yellow or green?
Now that we have G5s don't ya think it would be a better idea to use a G5 pic instead of the G4 icon? e.g. http://www.apple.com/g5processor/
Even if the G5 was undeniably faster by a great margain, I doubt that fact would sell more than a few hundred units.
Try a few hundred THOUSAND.. and that was just the preorders for the single low and mid-range level G5 towers. That doesn't include the dual 2 GHz G5s.
It's not the architecture... The problem is that the directions for SlashCode are so complex that it turns off most people. It's 10 times easier to install GeekLog or MovableType on OSX because the instructions for the install are super-straightforward.
... and for the record, anyone who has run OS X would know better than to say "login to a text console".
Cause, like... there isn't one.
At the login screen, Click Other... then type ">console" as the username then click Login. Welcome to the text console.
I use a six year old Power Computing PowerTower Pro as an OSX webserver. I don't login locally but I do login remotely via SSH, so I usually leave the server running headless, at the login screen.
one problem with using the traditional unix system is that it is difficult to partition off easy tasks like the management of mail,dns,web etc to customer service or entry level techs. everything tends towards a bunch of independent ad-hoc scripts. if xserve can do this intelligently in one interface (and i don't if it can..) then it would be pretty valuable
Why don't you find out?
http://www.apple.com/xserve/management.html
The cost of memory/HD upgrades (at build time) is also staggering - HD space is merely significantly more expensive, memory is about four times as expensive as buying direct from Crucial (100UKP for 256mb, compared to 25UKP)!
So buy the extra hard drive and RAM for the G5 from Crucial! Noone is forcing you to buy RAM or storage DIRECTLY from Apple. It's standard PC3200 DDR RAM, and standard Serial ATA. Geez, you people don't know how to shop for bargains.
Anyone who buys a packaged system from a brand name reseller KNOWS that you should buy the box with the least amount of RAM and HD available because you could always order those CHEAPER from a third party.
Funny thing is that AMD is supposed to ship it's "hammer" class of processors before Apple is supposed to ship G5 computers.
Well, then they better hurry up. The G5s will be shipping around the first week of September.
That's a low-end server. Perfect for a small department server or maybe for hosting a small website.
s e/story/0,10801,83783,00.html
Also perfect for high-end applications by the United States Navy, ala nuclear attack submarines.
http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/defen
One big problem that Apple hasn't responded to is sharing a photo library among multiple users. In the current setup, each user of the system has their own home dir, and therefore separate photo libraries, inaccessible by the other users. While iPhoto currently supports a central repository for photos (roughly), it doesn't like it if you try to store it on a network server. Right now I have an old mac running OSX with my iPhoto Library stored on a separate drive. All my other macs are connected to it via 10/100 Ethernet and we mount that drive remotely to access the photos via iPhoto. Let me tell ya, it's DOG SLOW. even with 100Base-T bandwidth, iPhoto only uses a trickle of that potential. Instead of chewing up about 1MB/sec, it accesses the library at about 35kB/sec, so loading albums is a major test of patience.
Noone's forcing you to restart. I just opened up the Mac's Terminal.app and:
...After that I just closed the Terminal. I keep on working and at the end of the day, if I feel like restarting I will. I will also upgrade my OSX webserver this way, and probably never restart it until a real major upgrade occurs.
% sudo softwareupdate SecurityUpd2003-07-14-1.0
[wait for install to finish]
Installing "Security Update 2003-07-14"... 98% 98% 99% 99% 99% 99% done.
You have installed one or more updates that requires that you restart your
computer. Please restart immediately.
Buy the song download, then convert into an MP3. ITunes plays a dozen of formats, and QuickTime plays even more. It's pretty simple, if you've ever used the dang thing.
Oh wait...
Am I the only one who read the headline and thought "Delta Flyer Prototype" ?
Bah. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I have it playing in 1600x width on a 450MHz G4 mac. No problems here. Maybe you should upgrade your CPU? :)
QuickTime has a full screen option. It's called "Present Movie..." under the Movie menu, and it lets you do fullscreen. Or, if you don't have the Pro version, just drag the corner until it fills up as much of the screen as possible.
Works great here on my wimpy 450MHz G4 (1600px wide).
Q-Bert? He just switched to a mac... that's where he's been!
I've opened the pbproj files and clicked the Build button, which seemingly compiled and built stuff into the Frameworks folder. Not knowing what was supposed to happen, I copied the resultant gdk.framework and gtk.framework folders to /Library/Frameworks ...glib-1.2.10 installed like any other UNIX library.
/usr/local/bin ... wtf?
Okay so now how do I compile typical UNIX gtk+ apps against this new "aqua-compatible" GTK? I tried compiling the nessus-core --enable-gtk but it's looking for the binaries gtk-config, etc! Project Builder didn't install such binaries into
I guess what I'm asking is how do I take a generic gtk app from source (like nessus) and build it using the gtk-osx libraries/frameworks instead of regular gtk (which I would normally do via Fink)?
Well, now that the poster has discovered that OS X includes all the usual stuff like Apache, PHP, Perl, etc.. He can just as well install and host:
-- SlashCode (moderate difficulty)
-- GeekLog (pretty darn easy and very flexible)
-- phpBB (very easy, not too customizable)
-- WebMin (very easy, can use SSL & its own miniserv)
In addition, with a minor tweak or two he can run:
-- Resin JSP servers
-- ATG Dynamo e-commerce development platform (Java)
There are many possibilities, in fact quite a few of these run well out of the box on Mac OS X... just browse around sourceforge.net!
I've gotten a few sites running off Jaguar right now.. Here's a geeklog site running off a 266MHz G3-upgraded PowerTower Pro mac clone:
http://geeklog.47ronin.kicks-ass.net:8001