Um, I beg to disagree with you there. The build process is usually alpha, beta, release candidate a few times, then gold.
RC1 means it was out of the beta stage and just starting to become a release candidate. Should be pretty close to release at that time, unless something deeply wrong was discovered.
Depending on what chip it is, ndiswrapper may or may not work with it. Hit ndiswrapper.sf.net and start reading up on the driver after you download it. Mandrake needs a few tweaks (remove the ndiswrapper path from/lib/modules/currentkernel/modules.dep first) but the docs explain all this. Good luck.
If you'd read the slideshow presentation pdf at the blackhat site, you'd learn that there are additional measures that are useful for securing connections like these.
The addition of a one-time pad to the port knock verification process is helpful.
Doubtful that they'd be using this latest and greatest chip in any box they're shipping (with the exception of some SMP monster for video editing or whatever) anyway. It would be interesting to see how the AMD64 chips handle OSX.
You must have an older core then. My 2800+ runs cooler and uses less voltage than my old 2100 did, strangely enough. Smaller micron processes make a difference when it comes to heat and power consumption.
Man, how many years will Apple cry about supply problems for their damn CPUs? Haven't they had enough already? They ditched Motorola because they couldn't keep up in the past, now IBM is struggling to supply them. This is all for a niche market and big IBM can't meet demand. WTF Apple?
One of these days these fools will port to x86, and the world will be a better place. I wonder just how many Windows and Linux users would switch to MacOSX if they could run it on their current hardware. And if it had games. And apps.
It's coming soon. Alot of shops are switching from heavy iron (outdated Unix/AIX mainframes) and looking towards the future. The future, of course, is a linux cluster that can do more work for less money than the old iron could. Many city news sites (like dallasmorningnews.com) are run on Redhat clusters with load balancing. They can handle a full on slashdotting, with the only limiting factor being their allocated bandwidth. I spoke with the admins post 9/11 and they said the machines all held up nicely, but their connection was overwhelmed within 10 minutes.
That's just a single aspect of typical corporate users. Financial institutions are next on the list. If you want a job in the next 3 years I suggest you study up on what banks are using and how you can port that to Linux when they decide their old hardware can't cut it anymore. Even a migration tool would get you paid.
Windows is always 3 years behind Apple, and Longhorn's schedule shows this will remain true.
Linux's threat comes from Sun, with their Looking Glass technology. It doesn't aim to be the be-all, end-all desktop, it's just a very nice window manager (from what I can gather).
User switching, sure. But fast? That's stretching it. I dealt with a few older machines this week running XP and user switching was like asking the oceans to part.
A comparably aged Mac takes much less time to flip back and forth.
Good post from an AC. I agree with your assessment of the onset of menarche; thousands of years and nothing has changed and the data recording a perceived change was flawed.
Higher levels of artificial hormones in the environment (read: growth hormones in beef and other meats) do indeed contribute to puberty in teenagers as well.
Evolution has nothing to do with this, period (no pun intended). Evolution's role in this is to get humans to puberty as early as possible, so that women can reproduce at a very healthy age when they are likely to produce good offspring. Keep in mind that in times past the median old age was around 35, with death following shortly thereafter. I'm talking Cro-magnon man and his ilk. For early humans, breeding young was very beneficial. However, there are a few genetic changes that have stuck with us with little benefit despite environmental and health changes. The age of menstruation can be considered one.
Women started menses later due to malnutrition? Yes, in some very small subsets of the general population. However, the great mass of humanity got enough to eat to start bleeding at the right age. If you want to discuss evolutionary history, let me ask you this. Why, if this was evolutionary, are women having periods earlier now? Wouldn't evolution have determined that a later period is beneficial, and those genes would have carried over into modern women? A contradiction indeed.
Women were underfed? That's doubtful, and again, malnutrition has little bearing on menses overall. Remember the save the africans commercials on television? People there are starving as hell and have plenty of kids. Look to any Third World or developing country for examples.
The only modern made-up invention is the concept of rampant teenage sex. Guess what, teenagers were having sex all along. Changing your viewpoint from a prudent one to a realistic one can open your eyes.
He never realized the use of grammar and lack of punctuation defined a recognizable style. Once this was pointed out to him, he tried to switch it up and punctuate more, in addition to the whole italics/non-italics bit.
Not only is this guy a moron, but he's not a very good liar. The photograph the news station obtained of him seems to be either a high school prom photo or a wedding photo (hence the tux). So, he may indeed be married and judging by his intelligence and social status, may have married recently in anticipation of his first child. As they say, every myth tastes better with truth, so mentioning he's married or has a child sweetens the lies and shifts people's minds from the analytical to the emotional. It's a classic gambit that thieves and magicians alike use.
One thing liars really, really hate is responsibility. Cowards at heart, they'll tell you anything to avoid real conflict or consequences of their actions. Now, most of us lie daily (does this dress make me look fat?), but the consequences are more social than financial or criminal. We lie to avoid hurting people's feelings mainly, not to steal thousands of dollars from unsuspecting strangers.
Let me take a guess about this guy's psychological profile.
1. Grew up poor in a jacked up neighborhood.
2. Was probably the only white kid on his block.
3. Father jailed for life.
4. Mother had different boyfriends weekly.
5. Never had anything of value to impress people with so...decided to start making up stories.
6. Stories won him fame and got him out of trouble with the other crackheads where he grew up.
7. Figured out at some point that lying can get you paid.
8. At some point started experimenting with drugs, the smart money says he's hooked on something bad right now.
I don't know whether I should feel sorry for this guy or encourage people to go kick his teeth in. Chronic liars have deep faults inside they desperately try to hide from others and are generally very spiteful of themselves and who they are.
what will the people getting the current "state of the art" laser eye surgery going to find out 20 years from now?
That cloned 20/20 eyes, in your choice of designer colors, are only an hour of surgery away. Shades of Blade Runner, yes, but 20 years is a long time for something as potentially lucrative as this to develop.
There's a simple explanation for this. Blue is the longest wavelength in the spectrum and tends to focus behind the retina, and therefore can never be 100% clear. You may notice that 100% of car taillights are red, and the explanation for this is that red is a very short wavelength, travels far, and focuses perfectly.
I will say though that those little hyperbright blue LEDs are hard to miss, even a mile or so away.
Awesome. So the latest Windows, which may be released in 2010, will require a video card upgrade?
What's next, requiring you to upgrade your sound card for the new whiz-bang InterAudialTactic 3D interface? Give me a break. I expect 3d games to require this, but not the operating system, whose main job is to handle apps and draw 2d windows to the screen.
4 or 5 cd's is retarded for a game this size. Anyone reminded of the old-school VGA games days where you had a handful of floppies to install something?
In this day and age, they should offer 2 boxes on shelves; one with the DVD, one with the requisite number of CDs. That's just too much CD swapping to play a game or install it.
Well, the AMD 64 chips also have a smaller die size and use less voltage than the older chips. That.13 micron process really does help in more ways than one.
AMD still has a bad reputation for the original Athlon series that tended to space-heat rooms. Great for winter since you can turn off the heater. However, the 64bit chips are a big step in the right direction.
Now if you could only do something about your new, hot, power-hungry Nvidia FX6800.
What he (the parent poster above yours) was trying to say is what I've seen a million times already. Basically, there's a critical mass speed that the majority of 'big sites' have preset. I was on an unlimited wireless connection before, and could pull down well over 10MB/sec at any given time, with unlimited throughput for uploading as well.
The problem I saw time and time again was that nobody could feed me enough bandwidth to max out my connection. I never knew what top speed it was capable of because nobody could serve me faster than around 10MB/sec which is the fastest I ever saw it, and this was from leeching 15 sites at once.
Generally, most big file shops (fileplanet, gamespy, download.com) have QOS and bandwidth limiting in effect on their routers. They all started doing this when broadband became more common to make more of their measley bandwidth available to more simultaneous users. When you have 100 people leeching from you on cable at 500KB/sec you start sweating, and choke them down. Ultimately everyone started charging for leeching services.
I don't see this attitude changing, and fiber to the curb, with widespread adoption and availability, will only exasperate the problem further. They thought it was bad when people got cable and dsl...just wait until the leechers can leech orders of magnitudes faster.
Then again, those with privileged upstreams tend to serve and share..so maybe there will be a balance point eventually. I still think a sort of Bittorrent-ish webserver app needs to hit the mainstream and run as a background service on broadband-enabled computers to prevent slashdottings.
My Dell Inspiron 8600 smokes this machine and was $1500 at the time. Price/performance ratios between Apple laptops and x86 laptops are still incomparable. I looked at about 20 different laptops before I settled on mine, and all the 'affordable' iBooks were so dog slow and page-file-dependent that I couldn't even play with them in the store without getting impatient. Also the base model you mention doesn't even come with wireless networking..only 'airport extreme ready'. Note to Apple salespeople: do NOT expect a machine equipped with a measly 256M of ram and a slow ass hard drive to sell your product.
Oh and the monitor was way too tiny for my tastes as well. You get what you pay for, and for this particular model, you get an Apple logo and some eye candy.
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Um, I beg to disagree with you there. The build process is usually alpha, beta, release candidate a few times, then gold.
RC1 means it was out of the beta stage and just starting to become a release candidate. Should be pretty close to release at that time, unless something deeply wrong was discovered.
Depending on what chip it is, ndiswrapper may or may not work with it. Hit ndiswrapper.sf.net and start reading up on the driver after you download it. Mandrake needs a few tweaks (remove the ndiswrapper path from /lib/modules/currentkernel/modules.dep first) but the docs explain all this. Good luck.
If you'd read the slideshow presentation pdf at the blackhat site, you'd learn that there are additional measures that are useful for securing connections like these.
The addition of a one-time pad to the port knock verification process is helpful.
Doubtful that they'd be using this latest and greatest chip in any box they're shipping (with the exception of some SMP monster for video editing or whatever) anyway. It would be interesting to see how the AMD64 chips handle OSX.
You must have an older core then. My 2800+ runs cooler and uses less voltage than my old 2100 did, strangely enough. Smaller micron processes make a difference when it comes to heat and power consumption.
Man, how many years will Apple cry about supply problems for their damn CPUs? Haven't they had enough already? They ditched Motorola because they couldn't keep up in the past, now IBM is struggling to supply them. This is all for a niche market and big IBM can't meet demand. WTF Apple?
One of these days these fools will port to x86, and the world will be a better place. I wonder just how many Windows and Linux users would switch to MacOSX if they could run it on their current hardware. And if it had games. And apps.
It's coming soon. Alot of shops are switching from heavy iron (outdated Unix/AIX mainframes) and looking towards the future. The future, of course, is a linux cluster that can do more work for less money than the old iron could. Many city news sites (like dallasmorningnews.com) are run on Redhat clusters with load balancing. They can handle a full on slashdotting, with the only limiting factor being their allocated bandwidth. I spoke with the admins post 9/11 and they said the machines all held up nicely, but their connection was overwhelmed within 10 minutes.
That's just a single aspect of typical corporate users. Financial institutions are next on the list. If you want a job in the next 3 years I suggest you study up on what banks are using and how you can port that to Linux when they decide their old hardware can't cut it anymore. Even a migration tool would get you paid.
Windows is always 3 years behind Apple, and Longhorn's schedule shows this will remain true.
Linux's threat comes from Sun, with their Looking Glass technology. It doesn't aim to be the be-all, end-all desktop, it's just a very nice window manager (from what I can gather).
User switching, sure. But fast? That's stretching it. I dealt with a few older machines this week running XP and user switching was like asking the oceans to part.
A comparably aged Mac takes much less time to flip back and forth.
Good post from an AC. I agree with your assessment of the onset of menarche; thousands of years and nothing has changed and the data recording a perceived change was flawed.
Higher levels of artificial hormones in the environment (read: growth hormones in beef and other meats) do indeed contribute to puberty in teenagers as well.
Evolution has nothing to do with this, period (no pun intended). Evolution's role in this is to get humans to puberty as early as possible, so that women can reproduce at a very healthy age when they are likely to produce good offspring. Keep in mind that in times past the median old age was around 35, with death following shortly thereafter. I'm talking Cro-magnon man and his ilk. For early humans, breeding young was very beneficial. However, there are a few genetic changes that have stuck with us with little benefit despite environmental and health changes. The age of menstruation can be considered one.
Women started menses later due to malnutrition? Yes, in some very small subsets of the general population. However, the great mass of humanity got enough to eat to start bleeding at the right age. If you want to discuss evolutionary history, let me ask you this. Why, if this was evolutionary, are women having periods earlier now? Wouldn't evolution have determined that a later period is beneficial, and those genes would have carried over into modern women? A contradiction indeed.
Women were underfed? That's doubtful, and again, malnutrition has little bearing on menses overall. Remember the save the africans commercials on television? People there are starving as hell and have plenty of kids. Look to any Third World or developing country for examples.
The only modern made-up invention is the concept of rampant teenage sex. Guess what, teenagers were having sex all along. Changing your viewpoint from a prudent one to a realistic one can open your eyes.
Yeah, actually, alot of us are married. There are some fruitcakes here as well. Slashdot consists of a wide variety of nerds and onlookers.
He never realized the use of grammar and lack of punctuation defined a recognizable style. Once this was pointed out to him, he tried to switch it up and punctuate more, in addition to the whole italics/non-italics bit.
Not only is this guy a moron, but he's not a very good liar. The photograph the news station obtained of him seems to be either a high school prom photo or a wedding photo (hence the tux). So, he may indeed be married and judging by his intelligence and social status, may have married recently in anticipation of his first child. As they say, every myth tastes better with truth, so mentioning he's married or has a child sweetens the lies and shifts people's minds from the analytical to the emotional. It's a classic gambit that thieves and magicians alike use.
One thing liars really, really hate is responsibility. Cowards at heart, they'll tell you anything to avoid real conflict or consequences of their actions. Now, most of us lie daily (does this dress make me look fat?), but the consequences are more social than financial or criminal. We lie to avoid hurting people's feelings mainly, not to steal thousands of dollars from unsuspecting strangers.
Let me take a guess about this guy's psychological profile.
1. Grew up poor in a jacked up neighborhood.
2. Was probably the only white kid on his block.
3. Father jailed for life.
4. Mother had different boyfriends weekly.
5. Never had anything of value to impress people with so...decided to start making up stories.
6. Stories won him fame and got him out of trouble with the other crackheads where he grew up.
7. Figured out at some point that lying can get you paid.
8. At some point started experimenting with drugs, the smart money says he's hooked on something bad right now.
I don't know whether I should feel sorry for this guy or encourage people to go kick his teeth in. Chronic liars have deep faults inside they desperately try to hide from others and are generally very spiteful of themselves and who they are.
Yeah but towards the bottom he claims that someone has hacked his email account and they've been sending email from it.
This guy should write soap operas or something. I haven't seen this much BS since..well..ever. Amazing talent but a sick, sick individual.
Has anything new or cool been announced for the GC?
*ducks*
Yeah yeah, I'm under the bridge today, pay the toll.
what will the people getting the current "state of the art" laser eye surgery going to find out 20 years from now?
:)
That cloned 20/20 eyes, in your choice of designer colors, are only an hour of surgery away. Shades of Blade Runner, yes, but 20 years is a long time for something as potentially lucrative as this to develop.
I'm still waiting for animated tattoos.
There's a simple explanation for this. Blue is the longest wavelength in the spectrum and tends to focus behind the retina, and therefore can never be 100% clear. You may notice that 100% of car taillights are red, and the explanation for this is that red is a very short wavelength, travels far, and focuses perfectly.
I will say though that those little hyperbright blue LEDs are hard to miss, even a mile or so away.
The number you have dialed, 2154682929, has been disconnected
Yeah, but this number *is* working:
Michelle Wise
2326 Camac St.
Philadelphia, PA 19148
(215) 468-2920
Looks like a Lovely Neighborhood as well.
By boss, he could mean 'wife'. The words are interchangeable in the context of purchases.
Awesome. So the latest Windows, which may be released in 2010, will require a video card upgrade?
What's next, requiring you to upgrade your sound card for the new whiz-bang InterAudialTactic 3D interface? Give me a break. I expect 3d games to require this, but not the operating system, whose main job is to handle apps and draw 2d windows to the screen.
4 or 5 cd's is retarded for a game this size. Anyone reminded of the old-school VGA games days where you had a handful of floppies to install something?
In this day and age, they should offer 2 boxes on shelves; one with the DVD, one with the requisite number of CDs. That's just too much CD swapping to play a game or install it.
Well, the AMD 64 chips also have a smaller die size and use less voltage than the older chips. That .13 micron process really does help in more ways than one.
AMD still has a bad reputation for the original Athlon series that tended to space-heat rooms. Great for winter since you can turn off the heater. However, the 64bit chips are a big step in the right direction.
Now if you could only do something about your new, hot, power-hungry Nvidia FX6800.
What he (the parent poster above yours) was trying to say is what I've seen a million times already. Basically, there's a critical mass speed that the majority of 'big sites' have preset. I was on an unlimited wireless connection before, and could pull down well over 10MB/sec at any given time, with unlimited throughput for uploading as well.
The problem I saw time and time again was that nobody could feed me enough bandwidth to max out my connection. I never knew what top speed it was capable of because nobody could serve me faster than around 10MB/sec which is the fastest I ever saw it, and this was from leeching 15 sites at once.
Generally, most big file shops (fileplanet, gamespy, download.com) have QOS and bandwidth limiting in effect on their routers. They all started doing this when broadband became more common to make more of their measley bandwidth available to more simultaneous users. When you have 100 people leeching from you on cable at 500KB/sec you start sweating, and choke them down. Ultimately everyone started charging for leeching services.
I don't see this attitude changing, and fiber to the curb, with widespread adoption and availability, will only exasperate the problem further. They thought it was bad when people got cable and dsl...just wait until the leechers can leech orders of magnitudes faster.
Then again, those with privileged upstreams tend to serve and share..so maybe there will be a balance point eventually. I still think a sort of Bittorrent-ish webserver app needs to hit the mainstream and run as a background service on broadband-enabled computers to prevent slashdottings.
Dude, it's been like that for a long time. Aren't you familiar with Quincunx and 4XAA settings on your video drivers?
My Dell Inspiron 8600 smokes this machine and was $1500 at the time. Price/performance ratios between Apple laptops and x86 laptops are still incomparable. I looked at about 20 different laptops before I settled on mine, and all the 'affordable' iBooks were so dog slow and page-file-dependent that I couldn't even play with them in the store without getting impatient. Also the base model you mention doesn't even come with wireless networking..only 'airport extreme ready'. Note to Apple salespeople: do NOT expect a machine equipped with a measly 256M of ram and a slow ass hard drive to sell your product.
Oh and the monitor was way too tiny for my tastes as well. You get what you pay for, and for this particular model, you get an Apple logo and some eye candy.