I used to work in an office that required mandatory password changes ever 4 weeks or so. There was one guy there who would just use password, password1, password2, etc. so that he wouldn't forge. Last time I talked to him, he was up to password66. But such is the nature of NT sys admins, that it doesn't matter whether what your doing is actually making the system more secure, it's that you look like you're trying.
Using Xserve as a rackmount workstation
Digital video professionals who are thinking of using Xserve as a rackmount workstation can get built-to-order units from the Apple Store. You can add to the capabilities of your Xserve by installing PCI cards (for connecting to SCSI storage and backup devices) in its expansion slots. You get three expansion slots which accommodate peripheral component interconnect (PCI) cards. And if you order your unit with an AGP 4X card, your Xserve will come with the card installed in an AGP riser that fits in a PCI slot.
Methinks some new desktop Power Macs are in the works if they're letting people at this hardware, which would be comparable in price to what you'd get with a 2x1GHz desktop system.
For the amount of money they spent on the Vaio, they could have bought themselves quite a nice piece of G4 Tower goodness. The Vaio wouldn't stand a chance in that showdown:)
... Since it's been on every other website I regularly surf, and seems to fit the classic definition of a meme.
There are discussions about this site on MetaFilter, a MacSlash article, a very funny Fark thread, as well as mentions on Ars and Memepool.
Seems the tech subset of the Internet has been well and truly trolled, if indeed this is a hoax, which I am inclined to believe, given that all of the banner ads on the site seem to lead to the same domain.
Looking at the URL for this thing, I see that this was done with WebObjects. I bet I'm not the only one who'd love to see the code for this thing, considering WO's reputation for being an effecient tool for rapid development in much the same way as Cocoa is for desktop apps.
Nice to see Apple eating their own dogfood once again, especially when there are so many off-the-shelf systems they could have used instead.
OK, does it strike anyone else as being very odd that a processor like McKinley would be used in this manner over a RISC processor? Smells like Intel's close relationship with HP had a hand in the decision making process for this one. What would be the benefit of all that extra silicon crammed into the IA64 chips over a much smaller RISC chip in this kind of computing environment? One would not be remiss in thinking that a similarly equipped RISC-based system from IBM or SGI would probably cost a lot less both up front and in terms of power consumption, etc. than this monster of a space heater they're planning on building. If there is any reason other than marketing that they are going with McKinley on this one I'd genuinely like to know.
What's nice about firewire devices is that they behave much better when you chain them together than USB 1/2 devices do, as they have much more sophisticated circuitry for handling multiple data streams coming in at once, with priority settings so your video input doesn't stop when you try to write something to an external HD. Very nice indeed.
This is why Apple was able to go from 2 FW ports on the old iBook to just 1 on the newer ones with no trouble at all.
Matters aren't much better in the linux world, if you think about it. At leasst things have the potential to be just as bad for the average user. When you su to root and install that new RPM are you paying attention to exactly what it's doing to each of your directories? My guess is most of the time, for most users, the answer is no.
And commercial software is usually just shipped in an RPM or a binary installer that needs to be run as root for whatever reason.
The test will be if Real ever get around to updating their Linux client, then I'm sure we'll see the full potential of Linux for spyware.
...Would be a similar system that can use OCR to read street signs and then send the text to a voice synthesyzer. Seems like that would be endlessly useful for people with low vision who have trouble reading signs in awkward locations.
.. How great it was when you figured out that WordPerfect 5.0 had mouse support? Not that anybody had mice back then... After all, it was the 1980's for cryin' out loud.
I find all the little radio transmitters in my stuff and have a little fun with my microwave oven? Maybe they'll send the mattress tag people after me..
Allows a monkey to control a mouse?
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Control a mouse? Oh a mouse cursor. Dang. And here I thought I'd have my unholy army of the night sooner than I had thought.
They come up with thin-and-light, 3-button touch pad, ppc based notebook.
Boy, that's what I would call really really stretching for a reason not to get an i/Ti-Book. Especiall since the OS doesn't require it, and Linux lets you nicely map the F11 and F12 keys as additional mouse buttons.
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The Fresh Air program segment with the interview with Sylvia Nasar is here (RealAudio).
Even though I wouldn't naturally trust IBM, Sun or Apple to have my interests as a computer user in mind, I doubt that MS would be able to get them all on side and do co-opt the user's ability to control his/her machine the way MS wants it to be done.
As we can see with Sun's use of the name Liberty Alliance, if a company can see profit in giving users what they want, they will. ___ Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
... There's a newsgroup in belgium called be.os, and that the ng's topic is what I think it should be:) Sorry, had to be said.
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India also has the second largest film industry in the world, and I'll bet you haven't heard of any Indian films, either. ___ Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
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Ha, we can sustain life, how's that for a tiny insignificant planet in the unfashionable part of the galaxy, huh? Take that, Vogons!
I used to work in an office that required mandatory password changes ever 4 weeks or so. There was one guy there who would just use password, password1, password2, etc. so that he wouldn't forge. Last time I talked to him, he was up to password66. But such is the nature of NT sys admins, that it doesn't matter whether what your doing is actually making the system more secure, it's that you look like you're trying.
Methinks some new desktop Power Macs are in the works if they're letting people at this hardware, which would be comparable in price to what you'd get with a 2x1GHz desktop system.
Nice to see journalism taking a page from the Free Software world, isn't it? :)
For the amount of money they spent on the Vaio, they could have bought themselves quite a nice piece of G4 Tower goodness. The Vaio wouldn't stand a chance in that showdown :)
There are discussions about this site on MetaFilter, a MacSlash article, a very funny Fark thread, as well as mentions on Ars and Memepool.
Seems the tech subset of the Internet has been well and truly trolled, if indeed this is a hoax, which I am inclined to believe, given that all of the banner ads on the site seem to lead to the same domain.
IS there some corollary to Godwin's law that can account for when people bring up the 1-button mouse? :)
Nice to see Apple eating their own dogfood once again, especially when there are so many off-the-shelf systems they could have used instead.
OK, does it strike anyone else as being very odd that a processor like McKinley would be used in this manner over a RISC processor? Smells like Intel's close relationship with HP had a hand in the decision making process for this one. What would be the benefit of all that extra silicon crammed into the IA64 chips over a much smaller RISC chip in this kind of computing environment? One would not be remiss in thinking that a similarly equipped RISC-based system from IBM or SGI would probably cost a lot less both up front and in terms of power consumption, etc. than this monster of a space heater they're planning on building. If there is any reason other than marketing that they are going with McKinley on this one I'd genuinely like to know.
This is why Apple was able to go from 2 FW ports on the old iBook to just 1 on the newer ones with no trouble at all.
If everybody de-links amazon.com, and when every currently active user closes their connection to amazon.com, does that mean it gets deleted?
Math Profs are #-e^(i*pi)
And commercial software is usually just shipped in an RPM or a binary installer that needs to be run as root for whatever reason.
The test will be if Real ever get around to updating their Linux client, then I'm sure we'll see the full potential of Linux for spyware.
...Would be a similar system that can use OCR to read street signs and then send the text to a voice synthesyzer. Seems like that would be endlessly useful for people with low vision who have trouble reading signs in awkward locations.
A machine gun that's legal in all 50 states! :)
.. How great it was when you figured out that WordPerfect 5.0 had mouse support? Not that anybody had mice back then... After all, it was the 1980's for cryin' out loud.
I find all the little radio transmitters in my stuff and have a little fun with my microwave oven? Maybe they'll send the mattress tag people after me..
Control a mouse? Oh a mouse cursor. Dang. And here I thought I'd have my unholy army of the night sooner than I had thought.
Boy, that's what I would call really really stretching for a reason not to get an i/Ti-Book. Especiall since the OS doesn't require it, and Linux lets you nicely map the F11 and F12 keys as additional mouse buttons.
The Fresh Air program segment with the interview with Sylvia Nasar is here (RealAudio).
That one of the sites they're censoring is google.com before some clever Aussie hax0r discovers it's cache feature.
As we can see with Sun's use of the name Liberty Alliance, if a company can see profit in giving users what they want, they will.
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... There's a newsgroup in belgium called be.os, and that the ng's topic is what I think it should be :) Sorry, had to be said.
India also has the second largest film industry in the world, and I'll bet you haven't heard of any Indian films, either.
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Here's an article about the first transatlantic radio transmission from a member of a Newfoundland amateur radio club.