You think that will actually help, or will it just give you a warm fuzzy "I did something good today" feeling inside?
Of course if the issue you're against never appears on the ballot and all candidates up for election are in favor of it, then I guess voting against it isn't really an option. Whatcha gonna do now?
You could run something like SquirrelMail, which is a webmail package that uses IMAP to talk to your mail server. I think the idea of using Apache as a proxy server to connect to an internal server with OWA is also a good one (as opposed to port forwarding or "poking a hole", which would look the same to the user but be significantly less secure). Either of these ideas should work fine with whatever OS you want.
Actually that's true, it is available - I wasn't thinking. It just costs more. I don't remember the exact pricing, but since they charge an extra fee if you get a cable modem without cable TV, the price difference is pretty small. The real reason I don't think of it is, cable ISPs suck, and if they change their policies (which happens often), you may suddenly find yourself paying for a service which forbids you from using the Internet how you want to use it.
So, I take back what I said about broadband not being available without a phone line or cable TV. My mistake.
The problem is, Apple used to have lots of confusing model numbers.
Which is better, a 5400, a 6300, a 7200, or an 8100? Normal people couldn't figure that mess out. The only clear rule seemed to be that three-digit model numbers were m68k and 4-digit model numbers were PowerPC.
Then they introduced the PowerMac G3, and ditched model numbers entirely. This was around the time Apple acquired NeXT and Steve Jobs; I don't recall whether the naming of the G3 systems was before Jobs' arrival or not. In any case, under Jobs' reign, they're trying to keep things simple by using only the product names and (for PowerMacs and PowerBooks) the processor generation, e.g. iMac and PowerBook G4.
Of course there have been many revisions of each product over the years, and it is necessary to distinguish between models. Sometimes internal development code-names leak to the public and are widely used, such as "Yikes" and "Sawtooth" which refer to the motherboards used in the first and second versions of the PowerMac G4. Apple's official documented names for these systems are "PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics)" and "PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics)" and the way Apple recommends you tell them apart is that the headphone and microphone jacks are oriented horizontally on one, and vertically on the other.
There have been eight different models all named simply "iMac". They are very different machines - early models took PC66 SO-DIMMs, later models took standard PC-100 DIMMs, and the latest models have G4 processors and LCD displays.
Never mind that there have been several different processors, from both Motorola and IBM, that Apple calls simply "G3" or "G4". My eMac (original 700MHz model) apparently has a PowerPC 7450, according to the "hostinfo" command (Apple System Profiler doesn't even show it).
I certainly hope Apple doesn't get paranoid about the release of new software to paying seed developers, but this is just another reason that the scale may be tipping toward the paranoid, closed-testing route than the limited open-seeding way it is today.
I'm confused. Wouldn't this incident tip the scale in the opposite direction? Perhaps the problem would have been caught sooner if more people had looked at seed builds before the official release. How would not releasing builds to developers have helped Apple in this case?
This probably begs the question: Should security patches/fixes always be released by themselves, instead of rolled into general system updates?
Yes. Absolutely. I'd be even more upset about this if my Mac was on a public IP. Apple got just as much notice as other OS vendors, but there were TWO security holes announced in OpenSSH recently, and Apple STILL hasn't released a patch (the second one shouldn't affect OSX, but the first one does).
Apple really needs to get on the ball with this sort of thing, especially if they want to gain acceptance in the corporate world.
Most spammers don't make their money actually selling crappy products to individual people. They make money selling their spamming services to sleazy or misinformed businesses. Spammers do not depend on actual sales, they depend on the perception that there may be actual sales. All a spammer has to do is convince their client that 1) what the spammer is proposing to do (which may not be what they actually intend to do) is not illegal or sufficiently unethical, 2) the spam campaign will bring in enough additional sales to cover the spammer's fee, which 3) should be paid in advance.
Convincing a small lending institution that they can make a ton of cash if they "advertise mortgage rates over the Internet to a carefully targeted opt-in list of interested homeowners" is a lot easier than convincing someone who has just received more crappy unsolicited untargeted spam to refinance their home.
Or that employees may only issue statements in an objective, fact-based and truthful manner in the course of their job responsibilities, and personal statements aren't allowed to be objective, fact-based and truthful? If that's the case, it sounds like his termination was justified!
Any details on how the music download service will work? Subscription with free downloads but strict DRM, subscription with paid downloads and no/light DRM, paid downloads with no subscription but strict DRM, paid downloads with no subscription and no/light DRM?
Maybe someone from SCO is a/. subscriber. Since they would get to see the story earlier than the rest of us, they could DDoS any site they didn't want us to see.
Wait, are you suggesting that people would actually read the articles?
A few months ago I tried setting up Linux From Scratch. I discovered that to make it not completely suck, I had to patch various things. It occurred to me that Slackware has already done exactly these things (plus more I wouldn't think of) for me.
The other day I upgraded BIND to the new version which I downloaded from ISC, so I could work around Verisign's DNS hijacking. I ran into a snag: it wanted to save a PID file in/var/run, but I want to run named as a non-root user, meaning/var/run wouldn't be writable. The only configure option is --localstatedir which defaults to/var, meaning it would create a subdir called "run" under wherever I chose to put it, which is pretty stupid IMHO. Slackware uses/var/run/named/named.pid so you can change the ownership of/var/run/named to match the user you run named as.
So I popped in the source CD to see how they do it, since I couldn't find a config option for that. Guess what? There's a diff file, and a shell script that patches the source (along with other build options). The changes are toward the end of./bin/named/include/named/globals.h.
Yes, that's right, when I got the source off the CD, I got the original unmodified source tarball, a diff file, and a shell script with build options - not some mysteriously customized source tarball that the distro thinks is somehow better than the original, but the original tarball plus Slackware's modifications - meaning, I can easily make the same modifications to a new version of the source.
Is Slackware perfect? Well, no, maybe not - but that's OK, because if something's not to my liking, Slackware doesn't get in my way if I want to do it myself. I can just build a new version of BIND from source, uninstall the old one, install the new one, and not worry about other packages maybe depending on BIND somehow, or anything else weird.
So, let me join the other Slackware fans here with a hearty "THANKS, PATRICK!"
As far as I know you can't share MP3s on Kazaa from behind a NAT router, which is what my local coffee shop runs (a Linksys box on a cable modem). You'd need your own IP, or port forwarding (which they obviously wouldn't set up).
You can download, of course, but the RIAA is starting with people who are sharing.
Forging their NIC's MAC address......if there are any open proxies running on MACs...
"Mac" is the correct capitalization when you mean "Macintosh". Please don't use all caps; it causes confusion with the acronym for Media Access Control (which you used correctly).
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Vote against this kind of thing NOW.
You think that will actually help, or will it just give you a warm fuzzy "I did something good today" feeling inside?
Of course if the issue you're against never appears on the ballot and all candidates up for election are in favor of it, then I guess voting against it isn't really an option. Whatcha gonna do now?
May 2002: A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.
But giving it to China is all fine and dandy.
You could run something like SquirrelMail, which is a webmail package that uses IMAP to talk to your mail server. I think the idea of using Apache as a proxy server to connect to an internal server with OWA is also a good one (as opposed to port forwarding or "poking a hole", which would look the same to the user but be significantly less secure). Either of these ideas should work fine with whatever OS you want.
Actually that's true, it is available - I wasn't thinking. It just costs more. I don't remember the exact pricing, but since they charge an extra fee if you get a cable modem without cable TV, the price difference is pretty small. The real reason I don't think of it is, cable ISPs suck, and if they change their policies (which happens often), you may suddenly find yourself paying for a service which forbids you from using the Internet how you want to use it.
So, I take back what I said about broadband not being available without a phone line or cable TV. My mistake.
The problem is, Apple used to have lots of confusing model numbers.
Which is better, a 5400, a 6300, a 7200, or an 8100? Normal people couldn't figure that mess out. The only clear rule seemed to be that three-digit model numbers were m68k and 4-digit model numbers were PowerPC.
Then they introduced the PowerMac G3, and ditched model numbers entirely. This was around the time Apple acquired NeXT and Steve Jobs; I don't recall whether the naming of the G3 systems was before Jobs' arrival or not. In any case, under Jobs' reign, they're trying to keep things simple by using only the product names and (for PowerMacs and PowerBooks) the processor generation, e.g. iMac and PowerBook G4.
Of course there have been many revisions of each product over the years, and it is necessary to distinguish between models. Sometimes internal development code-names leak to the public and are widely used, such as "Yikes" and "Sawtooth" which refer to the motherboards used in the first and second versions of the PowerMac G4. Apple's official documented names for these systems are "PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics)" and "PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics)" and the way Apple recommends you tell them apart is that the headphone and microphone jacks are oriented horizontally on one, and vertically on the other.
There have been eight different models all named simply "iMac". They are very different machines - early models took PC66 SO-DIMMs, later models took standard PC-100 DIMMs, and the latest models have G4 processors and LCD displays.
Never mind that there have been several different processors, from both Motorola and IBM, that Apple calls simply "G3" or "G4". My eMac (original 700MHz model) apparently has a PowerPC 7450, according to the "hostinfo" command (Apple System Profiler doesn't even show it).
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What I really want to know is why I don't see my eyeball in the reflection when I put my face up to the screen...
;-)
You have to buy the iSight to get that feature. Costs extra.
Nope. That was my first thought too.
I can't give up my home phone line for a cell phone, because I'd lose my DSL.
If you don't want cable TV or a normal phone line, you're pretty much out of luck.
Needless to say, I'm not a huge fan of the FCC, whom I hold largely responsible for the current state of affairs.
if you want to part ways, don't send us any more music. We'll retain the right to keep finding money for the music you have sent us
Does this mean the artist is still entitled to their 50%? So, if the artist truly wants to "part ways" there is no established way to do so?
I certainly hope Apple doesn't get paranoid about the release of new software to paying seed developers, but this is just another reason that the scale may be tipping toward the paranoid, closed-testing route than the limited open-seeding way it is today.
I'm confused. Wouldn't this incident tip the scale in the opposite direction? Perhaps the problem would have been caught sooner if more people had looked at seed builds before the official release. How would not releasing builds to developers have helped Apple in this case?
This probably begs the question: Should security patches/fixes always be released by themselves, instead of rolled into general system updates?
Yes. Absolutely. I'd be even more upset about this if my Mac was on a public IP. Apple got just as much notice as other OS vendors, but there were TWO security holes announced in OpenSSH recently, and Apple STILL hasn't released a patch (the second one shouldn't affect OSX, but the first one does).
Apple really needs to get on the ball with this sort of thing, especially if they want to gain acceptance in the corporate world.
...Al Capone become the King of Chicago?
By committing tax fraud.
Most spammers don't make their money actually selling crappy products to individual people. They make money selling their spamming services to sleazy or misinformed businesses. Spammers do not depend on actual sales, they depend on the perception that there may be actual sales. All a spammer has to do is convince their client that 1) what the spammer is proposing to do (which may not be what they actually intend to do) is not illegal or sufficiently unethical, 2) the spam campaign will bring in enough additional sales to cover the spammer's fee, which 3) should be paid in advance.
Convincing a small lending institution that they can make a ton of cash if they "advertise mortgage rates over the Internet to a carefully targeted opt-in list of interested homeowners" is a lot easier than convincing someone who has just received more crappy unsolicited untargeted spam to refinance their home.
In addition to the other arguments here about abusing other people's resources, the First Ammendment also does not give you the right to commit fraud.
Or that employees may only issue statements in an objective, fact-based and truthful manner in the course of their job responsibilities, and personal statements aren't allowed to be objective, fact-based and truthful? If that's the case, it sounds like his termination was justified!
The buttons may look "cheap", but I'm sure they still "just work".
Until the day after the warranty runs out?
Thanks, didn't know about that option. (Should have.)
You must be doing something really strange, since you don't have to patch BIND 9 to do a chrooted environment that drops root.
If by "really strange" you mean not running in a chrooted environment, then yeah.
Oh, geez. Copying success. The bastards are trying to make money! Why are you angry about Apple having a competitor? Competition is a bad thing now?
How did you infer that I'm angry about it? I think it's amusing, and competition helps force Apple to innovate faster.
Any details on how the music download service will work? Subscription with free downloads but strict DRM, subscription with paid downloads and no/light DRM, paid downloads with no subscription but strict DRM, paid downloads with no subscription and no/light DRM?
Pricing of the Dell Digital Jukebox? Less than $299? I hope so, considering how cheap it looks (compare cheap buttons and scroll wheel vs touch-sensitive buttons and wheel with no moving parts).
Maybe someone from SCO is a /. subscriber. Since they would get to see the story earlier than the rest of us, they could DDoS any site they didn't want us to see.
Wait, are you suggesting that people would actually read the articles?
A few months ago I tried setting up Linux From Scratch. I discovered that to make it not completely suck, I had to patch various things. It occurred to me that Slackware has already done exactly these things (plus more I wouldn't think of) for me.
/var/run, but I want to run named as a non-root user, meaning /var/run wouldn't be writable. The only configure option is --localstatedir which defaults to /var, meaning it would create a subdir called "run" under wherever I chose to put it, which is pretty stupid IMHO. Slackware uses /var/run/named/named.pid so you can change the ownership of /var/run/named to match the user you run named as.
./bin/named/include/named/globals.h.
The other day I upgraded BIND to the new version which I downloaded from ISC, so I could work around Verisign's DNS hijacking. I ran into a snag: it wanted to save a PID file in
So I popped in the source CD to see how they do it, since I couldn't find a config option for that. Guess what? There's a diff file, and a shell script that patches the source (along with other build options). The changes are toward the end of
Yes, that's right, when I got the source off the CD, I got the original unmodified source tarball, a diff file, and a shell script with build options - not some mysteriously customized source tarball that the distro thinks is somehow better than the original, but the original tarball plus Slackware's modifications - meaning, I can easily make the same modifications to a new version of the source.
Is Slackware perfect? Well, no, maybe not - but that's OK, because if something's not to my liking, Slackware doesn't get in my way if I want to do it myself. I can just build a new version of BIND from source, uninstall the old one, install the new one, and not worry about other packages maybe depending on BIND somehow, or anything else weird.
So, let me join the other Slackware fans here with a hearty "THANKS, PATRICK!"
As far as I know you can't share MP3s on Kazaa from behind a NAT router, which is what my local coffee shop runs (a Linksys box on a cable modem). You'd need your own IP, or port forwarding (which they obviously wouldn't set up).
You can download, of course, but the RIAA is starting with people who are sharing.
Forging their NIC's MAC address... ...if there are any open proxies running on MACs...
"Mac" is the correct capitalization when you mean "Macintosh". Please don't use all caps; it causes confusion with the acronym for Media Access Control (which you used correctly).
Please tell us how big this drive is in units of Libraries of Congress or in terms of how high a stack of floppies it would take.
At 1/8" and 1.4MB per floppy... 9,362 feet?