Which custom parts? There aren't any in any of the macs I've taken apart in a long time other that standard DVD drives with extra broken firmware. Doing a chipset is nearly as difficult as a processor at the high end and I'm betting all their new gear will use Intel chipsets along with their processors. If Apple wants to go the expense to build a custom chip for their new machines, why not just pay IBM a bit of R&D money to get the laptop G5 out the door since it would be much cheaper.
Oh, pipelining should be on to reduce the workload on your server. Teh SMTP pipelining is only should come into effect after the HELO once the other end is told its ok. Anything in the que before that means the other end isn't checking the HELO response at all and can be trashed. On a heavely loaded system, the pipelining will help speed up the reject of bob@, bill@, type junk from legit servers.
I did a hack a while back to check how much stuff was in the que when the HELO was being processed. It turns out that if there is anything else in the que, the message should be ignored since the other end has already gone away. There is code in sendmail to do this now but you have to turn it on. google groups for thogard and timhack to find the old patch that just logs the info to see if its right for you.
He didn't do the "break" part of "breaking and entering" as far as I can tell. If he touched some of the systems I used to have to use, I can say what happened was he simply entered.
Using eagle1 for a password is the same as not locking the door because its has a "tricky lock".
He only committed a crime in the UK even though the effects that crime where in the US. There are already enough laws in the UK about breaking into military sensitive computers that can put him in jail for a very long time and there are enough treaties with the US so that breaking into a US military computer in the UK can get you thrown in jail forever.
The judge should rule that he can't be extradited to the US until he has been tried in the UK and then only if the US has charges that don't fit into double jeopardy.
I don't think I've seen anything new in computer science in about 20 years and that was only from older books. About all that has changed is the programs are slightly better but I rarely see a problem that can just now be solved by computers that couldn't be solved 20 years ago.
There are just too many people who can hack x86 code and know pcs inside and out not to find the problem quickly. There are also hundreds of thousands external PC hardware debuggers out there which makes it trivial to find things that the unsupported mac people can't discover.
Could Apple be doing to IBM what IBM intended to do to them so many years ago with the XP?
One theory says that IBM got 3 companies to build PC prototypes and they picked the worst of the 3 because they didn't want it to hurt their mini computer business. The idea was to flood the market with IBM made computers, wait for Apple and Tandy to give up because they had much slower computers and then apologize to everyone for their junky computer and give them a huge discount on the trade in on a brand new real computer.
I've heard different versions of that story and it fits in with what IBM did in other industries and a friend worked in the factory for the 1st run and claimed there was a letter in there that mentioned that if the computer didn't meet the customers needs they should contact their IBM dealer about a 360 (or whatever was their mini at the time)
Now what would happen if Apple introduced a new computer that would dual boot out of the box with both OS X and Windows . Then after they get a bunch of people using them, they decide to drop the windows side of things. The result could be an increase in market share.
Of course to make a pc that does both windows and os x, someone will have to start shipping a 2+ button mouse so it will never happen.
The easy way is you scan each rectangle and then run length encode each edge and you sort that in combination with length and you end up with a nice list of which bits go next to which other bits. If the shreds are small than 2mm x 2mm, its trivial to decode if you can get all the bits scanned.
I bought a mini mac because it ran os x, not because of its size. What I would like to buy is a not-so-mini-mac that gave me 2+ memory slots, a 3.5 inch hard drive and a dvd writer that wasn't 2002 technology and screws to hold it together.
I don't care if the box is cute and tiny, I want some ability to upgrade the stuff inside it.
Its now time that every good Christian let their leaders know that we must build great space ships to take the Lords message out to the Universe. Its time to convert the sinning aliens to understand God's will so they can be born again and then they too can enter Heaven and stop being heathens.
A more reasonable start game is that someone in the middle east tells Europe "your either with us or against us" and if your with us, you will keep the US fleet out of the mediterranean and you get oil or else we just hold onto the oil. The US is already at war in two middle east countries and an agreement between Iran and Iraq could draw the US into Iran. Add in the mess in Saudi and it might as well be all the old Ottoman empire at war with the US.
China owns enough US debt to buy Taiwan if they are willing to loose out on the Wal-Mart economy and they might be willing to do that for oil. If they sell their US debt at $.90 on the dollar for euros, the US trade economy will be a complete mess.
Spend a few hundred grand to buy stickers? Or spend a few hundred grand to buy stock puts on the airline and bank stocks. One would could make millions, the other nearly a billion. Someone was way ahead of you and there are records to prove it.
Saudi is going to turn into a much worse mess than Iraq just as soon as Fahd dies which might be real soon now. You hear about the bombings in Iraq but you don't hear about the much larger mini-revolts going on in Saudi Arabia. I think oil is going to get very expensive in the next few months.
How are they doing it? A star of fiber 100mb switches or something like PON or a mix?
There are a few people who make 100mb switches that can be put out in the curb but the lasers to go a distance at 1 gig for an uplink don't like cold or heat.
The other thing is do you put the fiber in conduit or just bury it or a combination?
Looking at how things are going now, I see that the limits of PON with delivering 622/155 shared over 32 users won't be enough and it requires very expensive equipment. For an area of 2000 homes, it appears that the cheapest way right now is to put in 100mb fiber switches and run a pair of fibers to each house. For the same prices as PON gear for 32 users, I could set up nearly 200 using this configuration but it requires a bit more fiber and more planning on which is single mode or multimode. mm is good for 2km using low cost connectors and cable but you have to have single mode for any great distances.
Your making the wrong assumptions. The wifi is there to get people in the shop to buy coffee. Its currently free with no accountability. The idea is to get rid of the people who set up shop there and never buy anything.
You have someone in the morning check the current recipt number and enter that into a wifi router via a web page. Maybe you could even let the thing accept the 1st one after 6:00am or whenever opening time is. Once thats done, you only allow a number to be used once and it must be within a limited range of others. Sure its easy to bypass this but once someone is known to bypass it a few times, the staff will know who they are and they can ask them to leave. 99% of people won't bypass so it will work good enough and its a low cost solution.
So they reduced the entire world to a bunch of/24 except the reason we are running out of ipv4 address is that routers can't cope with the entire routing table as a 16 million class Cs so they started only allocating/19 so they weren't allocated properly which means we ran out.
Sounds like the same story except this time the routing table is 4x bigger because of the extra junk an IPv6 router needs to keep track of.
The correct solution years ago was to tell Cisco to fix its IOS and not break the net because of cisco's problems.
I've dealt with US stage sales taxes as well as Aussie and Kiwi GST taxes and from the point of view of getting the taxes to the state, most US states are just as easy if not easier than in NZ or Aus. For businesses that don't sell retail in most US states it becomes one form (no money) every year.
What is going to happen to the Kiwi economy when they up it to 15%? How many more of the tax payers are going to head over the Tasman? Its in your best interest that the people who vote are reminded every day that they are paying taxes. That lets them let the people they voted for know what important to them. Places in Europe increase the rate 1 to 2 % without a fight yet getting the local sales tax increase of.1% in the US requires a very good cause with lots of supporters.
I could cope with sales tax when I was 8 but at that time it was only 4% which was easy to figure out but thats not the fault of the tax system but rather pricing models. There is nothing stopping stores from setting the price so it comes out nice and even with tax included. Places like McD would save millions on cash handling charges if they dropped the price of their so called meals by 2% to 3%.
There does seem to be a clear advantage of reminding people of the sales tax every single time they buy stuff.
What did VAT in the UK used to be? GST in New Zealand started at 10% and was going to 12% but because of pricing issues, they had to make it 12.5% and the next step is 15%. The US system seems to be better at keeping so much money from ending up in an inefficient bureaucracy.
Food exports are shrinking and heading the same direction as everything else. I'm starting to see processed foods that are made in China. One example is Oreo cookies.
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Which custom parts? There aren't any in any of the macs I've taken apart in a long time other that standard DVD drives with extra broken firmware. Doing a chipset is nearly as difficult as a processor at the high end and I'm betting all their new gear will use Intel chipsets along with their processors. If Apple wants to go the expense to build a custom chip for their new machines, why not just pay IBM a bit of R&D money to get the laptop G5 out the door since it would be much cheaper.
Oh, pipelining should be on to reduce the workload on your server. Teh SMTP pipelining is only should come into effect after the HELO once the other end is told its ok. Anything in the que before that means the other end isn't checking the HELO response at all and can be trashed. On a heavely loaded system, the pipelining will help speed up the reject of bob@, bill@, type junk from legit servers.
I did a hack a while back to check how much stuff was in the que when the HELO was being processed. It turns out that if there is anything else in the que, the message should be ignored since the other end has already gone away. There is code in sendmail to do this now but you have to turn it on. google groups for thogard and timhack to find the old patch that just logs the info to see if its right for you.
He didn't do the "break" part of "breaking and entering" as far as I can tell. If he touched some of the systems I used to have to use, I can say what happened was he simply entered.
Using eagle1 for a password is the same as not locking the door because its has a "tricky lock".
He only committed a crime in the UK even though the effects that crime where in the US. There are already enough laws in the UK about breaking into military sensitive computers that can put him in jail for a very long time and there are enough treaties with the US so that breaking into a US military computer in the UK can get you thrown in jail forever.
The judge should rule that he can't be extradited to the US until he has been tried in the UK and then only if the US has charges that don't fit into double jeopardy.
I don't think I've seen anything new in computer science in about 20 years and that was only from older books. About all that has changed is the programs are slightly better but I rarely see a problem that can just now be solved by computers that couldn't be solved 20 years ago.
There are just too many people who can hack x86 code and know pcs inside and out not to find the problem quickly. There are also hundreds of thousands external PC hardware debuggers out there which makes it trivial to find things that the unsupported mac people can't discover.
Want to bet that someone gets it running on generic hardware within a week of it hitting the shelves?
Could Apple be doing to IBM what IBM intended to do to them so many years ago with the XP?
One theory says that IBM got 3 companies to build PC prototypes and they picked the worst of the 3 because they didn't want it to hurt their mini computer business. The idea was to flood the market with IBM made computers, wait for Apple and Tandy to give up because they had much slower computers and then apologize to everyone for their junky computer and give them a huge discount on the trade in on a brand new real computer.
I've heard different versions of that story and it fits in with what IBM did in other industries and a friend worked in the factory for the 1st run and claimed there was a letter in there that mentioned that if the computer didn't meet the customers needs they should contact their IBM dealer about a 360 (or whatever was their mini at the time)
Now what would happen if Apple introduced a new computer that would dual boot out of the box with both OS X and Windows . Then after they get a bunch of people using them, they decide to drop the windows side of things. The result could be an increase in market share.
Of course to make a pc that does both windows and os x, someone will have to start shipping a 2+ button mouse so it will never happen.
The easy way is you scan each rectangle and then run length encode each edge and you sort that in combination with length and you end up with a nice list of which bits go next to which other bits. If the shreds are small than 2mm x 2mm, its trivial to decode if you can get all the bits scanned.
I bought a mini mac because it ran os x, not because of its size. What I would like to buy is a not-so-mini-mac that gave me 2+ memory slots, a 3.5 inch hard drive and a dvd writer that wasn't 2002 technology and screws to hold it together.
I don't care if the box is cute and tiny, I want some ability to upgrade the stuff inside it.
Its now time that every good Christian let their leaders know that we must build great space ships to take the Lords message out to the Universe. Its time to convert the sinning aliens to understand God's will so they can be born again and then they too can enter Heaven and stop being heathens.
A more reasonable start game is that someone in the middle east tells Europe "your either with us or against us" and if your with us, you will keep the US fleet out of the mediterranean and you get oil or else we just hold onto the oil. The US is already at war in two middle east countries and an agreement between Iran and Iraq could draw the US into Iran. Add in the mess in Saudi and it might as well be all the old Ottoman empire at war with the US.
China owns enough US debt to buy Taiwan if they are willing to loose out on the Wal-Mart economy and they might be willing to do that for oil. If they sell their US debt at $.90 on the dollar for euros, the US trade economy will be a complete mess.
Spend a few hundred grand to buy stickers? Or spend a few hundred grand to buy stock puts on the airline and bank stocks. One would could make millions, the other nearly a billion. Someone was way ahead of you and there are records to prove it.
Saudi is going to turn into a much worse mess than Iraq just as soon as Fahd dies which might be real soon now. You hear about the bombings in Iraq but you don't hear about the much larger mini-revolts going on in Saudi Arabia. I think oil is going to get very expensive in the next few months.
How are they doing it? A star of fiber 100mb switches or something like PON or a mix?
There are a few people who make 100mb switches that can be put out in the curb but the lasers to go a distance at 1 gig for an uplink don't like cold or heat.
The other thing is do you put the fiber in conduit or just bury it or a combination?
Looking at how things are going now, I see that the limits of PON with delivering 622/155 shared over 32 users won't be enough and it requires very expensive equipment. For an area of 2000 homes, it appears that the cheapest way right now is to put in 100mb fiber switches and run a pair of fibers to each house. For the same prices as PON gear for 32 users, I could set up nearly 200 using this configuration but it requires a bit more fiber and more planning on which is single mode or multimode. mm is good for 2km using low cost connectors and cable but you have to have single mode for any great distances.
Your making the wrong assumptions.
The wifi is there to get people in the shop to buy coffee. Its currently free with no accountability. The idea is to get rid of the people who set up shop there and never buy anything.
You have someone in the morning check the current recipt number and enter that into a wifi router via a web page. Maybe you could even let the thing accept the 1st one after 6:00am or whenever opening time is. Once thats done, you only allow a number to be used once and it must be within a limited range of others. Sure its easy to bypass this but once someone is known to bypass it a few times, the staff will know who they are and they can ask them to leave. 99% of people won't bypass so it will work good enough and its a low cost solution.
Talk about doing it the hard way.
The register will have a transaction number. Thats all you need if you prevent people from taking too many guesses.
Of course the easy solution is get people to enter their own order on their own lap tops.
Too bad the thing comes with one of the worst 11g radios around.
So they reduced the entire world to a bunch of /24 except the reason we are running out of ipv4 address is that routers can't cope with the entire routing table as a 16 million class Cs so they started only allocating /19 so they weren't allocated properly which means we ran out.
Sounds like the same story except this time the routing table is 4x bigger because of the extra junk an IPv6 router needs to keep track of.
The correct solution years ago was to tell Cisco to fix its IOS and not break the net because of cisco's problems.
I've dealt with US stage sales taxes as well as Aussie and Kiwi GST taxes and from the point of view of getting the taxes to the state, most US states are just as easy if not easier than in NZ or Aus. For businesses that don't sell retail in most US states it becomes one form (no money) every year.
.1% in the US requires a very good cause with lots of supporters.
What is going to happen to the Kiwi economy when they up it to 15%? How many more of the tax payers are going to head over the Tasman? Its in your best interest that the people who vote are reminded every day that they are paying taxes. That lets them let the people they voted for know what important to them. Places in Europe increase the rate 1 to 2 % without a fight yet getting the local sales tax increase of
I could cope with sales tax when I was 8 but at that time it was only 4% which was easy to figure out but thats not the fault of the tax system but rather pricing models. There is nothing stopping stores from setting the price so it comes out nice and even with tax included. Places like McD would save millions on cash handling charges if they dropped the price of their so called meals by 2% to 3%.
Goods and Services Tax. Its like US sales tax but it applies on goods as well as services.
There does seem to be a clear advantage of reminding people of the sales tax every single time they buy stuff.
What did VAT in the UK used to be? GST in New Zealand started at 10% and was going to 12% but because of pricing issues, they had to make it 12.5% and the next step is 15%. The US system seems to be better at keeping so much money from ending up in an inefficient bureaucracy.
Food exports are shrinking and heading the same direction as everything else. I'm starting to see processed foods that are made in China. One example is Oreo cookies.
* Patents are written in legalese, not in english. Unless you are a patent lawyer, I don't think you can really judge them
Its more than that. There are parts of Patent law that state that the only people that can decide about patents are registered patent lawyers.
When the law says lawyers must make technical decisions, something is very broken.