Indeed. How about living in a suficiently urban environment with unsecured hotspots all around you? Grab a nice directional yagi antenna with sufficient gain and log in anonymously from miles away.
I got mine working about 4 months ago. The realization of the cool geek factor finally set in after a Christmas party. My girlfriend had to drive me home as I was quite drunk, and I somehow managed to hook everything up and rant to my friends on IM whilst traveling at 80MPH on the freeway.
I think they're fun. The University I work at is setting up wireless access all over campus within buildings with normal access points and out-doors with the use of large outdoor antennas. Luckilly, I live a block away. With the use of a nice direrctional antenna, It'll be faster than the cable or DSL we have around here, and even better, free.
Speed Vision is covering almost all 24 hours of this race, I think I'd rather just watch that due to the witty commentators and not having to deal with bandwidth issues.
Last I checked 3 of the Cadilacs have droped out of the race. One even burned up. The Audis are kicking ass, as usual.
I put in my time on the help desk where I work this morning. I had a secretary tell me that we needed a firewall to protect us against this sort of thing. I tried explaining that it probably wouldn't have helped. She told me that it would. She also told me that the firewall where she previously worked protected them against this sort of thing.
I think I'm going to become a secretary because they're obviously the next step on the IT/IS evolutionary ladder.
I'm going to go purchase some right now. Thankfully, on/off liquor stores don't have to close until midnight in Wisconsin. Let's hear it for the union of beer and science!
Amen.. I've got a sleek black and chrome case now, along with matching keyboard (and keys!) and monitor. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of anyone who has installed Mac parts into a different case, ie, a huge PC tower enclosure or something like that. I'd like to have a nice 4 drive RAID array internally, as well as my CD-R, Jazz, Zip, etc..
Probably not, as nuclear/thermonuclear weapons emit a large electro-magnetic pulse which damages electronics. No electronics, no way to read data. It's somewhat interesting that many war senarios began with the Russians exploding a -large- (20 megaton + ) high over the central U.S. because the EMP would disrupt command, control and communications enough to limit our ability to retailiate.
As for the book, I've read it several times. Rather dark, but still relevant. Good read.
If I'm producing, digital is good. If I'm spinning, digital is bad.
Besides, I really don't want to carry my computer to every show. Things go wrong with computers, especially in a dark, sweaty, smokey environment such as a party or whatever. When was the last time you've seen a Technics 1200 have memory problems or a hard drive crash?
For making tapes, I just run the output from my mixer into my computer and record it with some nice multi-tracking software. That way, I can layer to my hearts content and when I'm happy, burn to a CD or record to a DAT.
In my opinion, scratching is supposed to be gritty noisy and analogue, not something digital. But then again, that's just me getting whimsical.
I will be delighted: if I can telnet to the Mac to fix problems
Well, you can use Timbuktu, which allows you to do pretty much the same thing, except it's graphical. I use it almost daily to maintain several servers where I'm at.
if I can keep one up for more than a week while doing hard stuff on it
I've gotten mine to do much better. My main server is running FTP/HTTP/POP/SMTP software with no problems. There are a few tricks you can apply to make it quite stable. My universities NT box that runs the POP/SMTP server for students is down at -least- 50% more than my MacOS server.
if it finally has preemtive multitasking
Agreed.
if it finally has protected memory
It does to a certain extent. From what I've experienced, it works about the same to slightly better than your average Windows box. ( I don't know about NT ) It's obviously no where near what unix/linux/etc people enjoy, but it's certainly there. Go to www.MacKiDo.com/Software/memprotect_MacOS_Win95.ht ml to read more.
if user-level programs cannot affect priviledged areas and viruses become moot
Agreed. Although with the right software, you can lock a Mac up as tight as anything.
Exactly. It's already being built using the best parts of many different OS's. They're doing an amazing job creating a completely new and modern operating system, while keeping their developers happy by not requiring extensive re-writes of existing applications. There are many pages with complete details of what's in store for OS X.
I get the feeling that some people need to do some research before making such broad and sweeping statement like many have done. And for the platform biggots, well, I'll just say I've gotten used to the ignorant rants and petty intolerance for anything even remotely associated with the MacOS.
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The only thing I would be worried about is if weather affected it as it does Direct TV.
Everyone I know with Direct TV is basically screwed when any amount of rain or snow is falling.
You can replace them. You don't even have to send them to Apple.
Go here: http://www.ipodbattery.com/
No shit.. it's a big thermonuclear device which is showering us with deadly radiation.
WMD!! In space!! GOD HELP US!
Indeed. How about living in a suficiently urban environment with unsecured hotspots all around you? Grab a nice directional yagi antenna with sufficient gain and log in anonymously from miles away.
..they don't call it "Skynet", because the shit will hit the fan after that.
I thought the military didn't usually name ships after people until they were dead?
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Apparently this is a relatively new "tradition".
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/names.h
If I remember correctly, there's still a small ROM that handles boot information, etc. Most of the higher toolbox functions are now held in RAM.
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Here's the technote about it;
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn11
I got mine working about 4 months ago. The realization of the cool geek factor finally set in after a Christmas party. My girlfriend had to drive me home as I was quite drunk, and I somehow managed to hook everything up and rant to my friends on IM whilst traveling at 80MPH on the freeway.
I decided then that it was cool.
I think they're fun. The University I work at is setting up wireless access all over campus within buildings with normal access points and out-doors with the use of large outdoor antennas. Luckilly, I live a block away. With the use of a nice direrctional antenna, It'll be faster than the cable or DSL we have around here, and even better, free.
It's "Gayman". He lives a couple of miles from me and would stop by a bookstore where I used to work.
Nice guy too..
Speed Vision is covering almost all 24 hours of this race, I think I'd rather just watch that due to the witty commentators and not having to deal with bandwidth issues.
Last I checked 3 of the Cadilacs have droped out of the race. One even burned up. The Audis are kicking ass, as usual.
I put in my time on the help desk where I work this morning. I had a secretary tell me that we needed a firewall to protect us against this sort of thing. I tried explaining that it probably wouldn't have helped. She told me that it would. She also told me that the firewall where she previously worked protected them against this sort of thing.
I think I'm going to become a secretary because they're obviously the next step on the IT/IS evolutionary ladder.
Bitch.
Open up an Air Port base station. What's inside? A Lucent card..
But it isn't modified. They're using easilly available antennas designed to be used with these cards.
RealAudio keeps giving me errors. Apparently the streaming servers are overloaded already!
I'm going to go purchase some right now. Thankfully, on/off liquor stores don't have to close until midnight in Wisconsin. Let's hear it for the union of beer and science!
Amen.. I've got a sleek black and chrome case now, along with matching keyboard (and keys!) and monitor. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of anyone who has installed Mac parts into a different case, ie, a huge PC tower enclosure or something like that. I'd like to have a nice 4 drive RAID array internally, as well as my CD-R, Jazz, Zip, etc..
Probably not, as nuclear/thermonuclear weapons emit a large electro-magnetic pulse which damages electronics. No electronics, no way to read data. It's somewhat interesting that many war senarios began with the Russians exploding a -large- (20 megaton + ) high over the central U.S. because the EMP would disrupt command, control and communications enough to limit our ability to retailiate.
As for the book, I've read it several times. Rather dark, but still relevant. Good read.
If I'm producing, digital is good.
;)
If I'm spinning, digital is bad.
Besides, I really don't want to carry my computer to every show. Things go wrong with computers, especially in a dark, sweaty, smokey environment such as a party or whatever. When was the last time you've seen a Technics 1200 have memory problems or a hard drive crash?
For making tapes, I just run the output from my mixer into my computer and record it with some nice multi-tracking software. That way, I can layer to my hearts content and when I'm happy, burn to a CD or record to a DAT.
In my opinion, scratching is supposed to be gritty noisy and analogue, not something digital. But then again, that's just me getting whimsical.
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Gabber bizatch!
I will be delighted:
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if I can telnet to the Mac to fix problems
Well, you can use Timbuktu, which allows you to do pretty much the same thing, except it's graphical. I use it almost daily to maintain several servers where I'm at.
if I can keep one up for more than a week while doing hard stuff on it
I've gotten mine to do much better. My main server is running FTP/HTTP/POP/SMTP software with no problems. There are a few tricks you can apply to make it quite stable. My universities NT box that runs the POP/SMTP server for students is down at -least- 50% more than my MacOS server.
if it finally has preemtive multitasking
Agreed.
if it finally has protected memory
It does to a certain extent. From what I've experienced, it works about the same to slightly better than your average Windows box. ( I don't know about NT ) It's obviously no where near what unix/linux/etc people enjoy, but it's certainly there. Go to www.MacKiDo.com/Software/memprotect_MacOS_Win95.h
if user-level programs cannot affect priviledged areas and viruses become moot
Agreed. Although with the right software, you can lock a Mac up as tight as anything.
Exactly. It's already being built using the best parts of many different OS's. They're doing an amazing job creating a completely new and modern operating system, while keeping their developers happy by not requiring extensive re-writes of existing applications. There are many pages with complete details of what's in store for OS X.
www.mackido.com/Software/MacOSX_Files.html
www.mackido.com/Software/YellowBoxNAPIs.html
www.mackido.com/Software/whats_rhapsody.html
www.mackido.com/Software/rhapsody.html
www.macosrumors.com/osx.html
I get the feeling that some people need to do some research before making such broad and sweeping statement like many have done. And for the platform biggots, well, I'll just say I've gotten used to the ignorant rants and petty intolerance for anything even remotely associated with the MacOS.