It looks like this could be used as a random (as opposed to pseudorandom) number generator, or as random seeds for a pseudorandom number generator. Something similar was done by pointing a webcam at a lava lamp. Random unpredictability is important for things like encryption.
If Apple did release an x86 version of Mac OS X, no applications would run on it and it wouldn't run on your PC anyway. There is an x86 version of Darwin, the UNIX core of Mac OS X. It currently supports Intel 440BX motherboards, PIIX4 IDE controllers, and Intel 8255x ethernet cards. AMD processors do not currently work.
If you can write Darwin drivers for all your hardware (and everybody else's hardware), half the problem will be solved. Then you just have to get all the application developers to port their software, which shouldn't be too hard IF they wrote it cleanly.
Of course, even if all this happened, Apple still wants to sell Macs, not operating systems.
Quartz was demonstrated before the first beta release of Mac OS X. Quartz Extreme is the version that uses a 3D video card to to hardware rendering, and was introduced in Mac OS 10.2.
S X has had the "ability to create profiles that travel with them among machines," since it was still NextStep (and it had shared directory services before Active Directory was a twinkle in its daddy's eye).
Not without Mac OS X Server, which costs money.
I'm not sure what "Terminal Services' access to multiple desktops" means, but Apple Remote Desktop (or the free VNC) will give you most of what Terminal Services gives you.
Apple Remote Desktop also costs money; Terminal Services is free (for a single connection, which is all most people need). I've been using VNC heavily for the past couple of weeks, and it's SLOW, just because of the way it works. Actually what I really miss in Mac OS X is the ability to run individual applications (not an entire desktop) remotely, like I can with X11.
No! It's not gonna happen, so quit whining about it! If you can't afford one now, then start saving your money until you can.
What people like you keep forgetting about an x86 version of Mac OS X is, even if Apple ported it, no applications would run on it and it wouldn't run on your PC anyway. There is an x86 version of Darwin, the UNIX core of Mac OS X. Take a look at the system requirements. Among other things, AMD processors are not currently supported, and it's only been tested with Intel 440BX motherboards and Intel 8255x ethernet cards.
Note that this varies a bit by OS flavor/distro; my sshd script is at/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd and I use agetty.
Somebody may already be logged in. You'll need to make sure to kill their shells. Most likely a server won't be running X, but if it is you'd want to kill that, since the user can launch an xterm (or Konsole or whatever).
Except of course that if anyone is actually at the machine (it's not a headless box in a rack at a colo facility), and something alerts them to a problem (they see you kill X, or their shell disconnnects, or a user calls to say their shell just disconnected), they'll immediately attempt to log in, see that they can't, and take the box offline (by unplugging the Ethernet cable, for example).
If nobody's actually there, then there's not much point in killing anything *getty and login, is there?
When Neo got to the Architect, suddenly there was an enormous amount to think about-- but it was dumped on you so quickly that you didn't have time to absorb it, or really mull the implications.
Thus requiring that you go home, think about it for awhile, go back to see the movie again, go home, talk to people about it online, go back to see the movie again, wait several months, and finally buy the DVD.
Do you suppose it's a rating issue? The movie was rated R, and couldn't be dropped to PG-13 while still including everything they wanted to include, so since it's rated R anyway, they felt they needed to add more boobies to make it a more solid R?
On another note, where can I find the recipe for that chocolate cake?
I see this as extremely likely to increase the odds that Apple will put Ogg support into iTunes and the iPod...
It may increase the odds, but not by much: if Apple wanted to add Ogg support, they could already have done so. However, I'm optimistic that one day they will add Ogg support.
And, once Apple does, it's pretty much guaranteed that everybody else will follow. Wait to see how quickly popular hardware and software MP3 players add AAC support - the same thing will happen with Ogg.
Yep, I often pass on stuff that's on sale "buy one get one free" because I know I'd have to carry it home. I rarely want it badly enough to make another trip.
Pardon my conspiracy theory, but it may very well be that these "innocent" open relays are in fact sponsored by spam clearinghouses, in which case server admins have monetary incentive to NOT close their relays.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
As a programmer myself, I know that code often gets done in spurts, and that a break (especially a nap!) can improve productivity quite a bit.
I think the key here is that YOU know that, but your BOSS may not, so by using these tricks, you can get your work done on time, take breaks (and naps) as needed, but trick your boss into thinking you've been working the whole time at the same slow plodding steady pace, because that's what bosses like.
But even if I recieve something that might have been legitimate because it said so on the EULA page 23 section 5 paragraph $42, I consider it SPAM.
If I gave them my e-mail address, I figure I've basically given them permission to send me e-mail at that address.
If they bought my e-mail address from another company, crawled the web to find a bunch of e-mail addresses and came across mine, or guessed my e-mail address at random, they have no right to contact me. That is spam.
On occasion, dealing with the former has been mildly annoying at times. However, they ALWAYS have an opt-out link that WORKS and doesn't sign me up for spam*. I have NEVER had a major problem with this. If I had a problem, I'd know exactly who to complain to, since I'd know exactly who the company is.
The latter is what takes up my time and resources.
* I generally use a different e-mail address with each company, so if I start getting spam at the address I gave a particular company, I'll know that company sold my address. This has NEVER happened. The only spam I've gotten at these addresses are the ones that made it onto the web, such as the address I used for eBay.
the number of false positives hasn't changed, just the number of unwanted messages.
Quite so. I do still glance through them, but the legit messages SEEM less and less common in relation to all the junk.
Good thing so many spammers put "Re: " in the subject line, since "Re: hey" from an unrecognized address is obviously spam while "hey" could be legitimate.
The list of places I've don't buisness with that will email me is much smaller yet though, because most places don't get it. SubWay didn't get my email address last week, the local cafe didn't get it yesterday. Cub didn't get it today. Those are all places I do buisness with fairly often that don't have my phone number or email address. They don't need it.
Precisely! In fact, each time I give out my e-mail address, I add a new alias at my domain, so if I do get spam I can find out how they got my address and it's not a big deal to change it. The ONLY time I get actual spam at these addresses are the ones that get posted to web sites, such as the addresses I use for eBay and Bugzilla. As long as I periodically change those addresses (and never re-using the same address, since once it's gotten spam it will always get spam), it's really not that much of a problem.
REAL spam, not advertising from known companies, is what clogs my mailbox.
Actually I'm not sure this is such a completely bad thing. Junk mail from legitimate companies that I have given my e-mail address to voluntarily is such a small problem - compared to the other crap flooding my mailbox - that I usually don't even count it as spam, even if it is unsolicited.
I know, some people think anything they don't want is spam and will report it as such via SpamCop or other tools. That's dumb. If it's stupid chain letters from your uncle, it's not spam. If it comes from a legitimate company, they'll offer an opt-out link that will actually works, because they don't want to piss off potential customers and they know how much people hate spam.
With that in mind, what are the other serious problems with this bill?
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quick /. readers who skim (is there another kind?) will believe this could be N. Korea
I didn't bother reading the article (so yes, there is another kind), but it never even occurred to me that this might be referring to North Korea.
As much as I'd like to say 'buh-bye' to Internet Exploiter I simply can't, at least not at home.
Um, Safari is hardly the only non-MSIE browser available for Mac OS X. Try Camino, or Mozilla, or OmniWeb, or iCab.
Is Safari a codefork or an interrelated project?
Apple does contribute patches to KDE, but it's a fork. Apple's version (which does not use Qt) is called WebCore.
I'm guessing they just had to run it thru QA since then to make sure they didn't break something else by fixing this.
;-)
Another difference between Apple and Microsoft...
It looks like this could be used as a random (as opposed to pseudorandom) number generator, or as random seeds for a pseudorandom number generator. Something similar was done by pointing a webcam at a lava lamp. Random unpredictability is important for things like encryption.
If Apple did release an x86 version of Mac OS X, no applications would run on it and it wouldn't run on your PC anyway. There is an x86 version of Darwin, the UNIX core of Mac OS X. It currently supports Intel 440BX motherboards, PIIX4 IDE controllers, and Intel 8255x ethernet cards. AMD processors do not currently work.
If you can write Darwin drivers for all your hardware (and everybody else's hardware), half the problem will be solved. Then you just have to get all the application developers to port their software, which shouldn't be too hard IF they wrote it cleanly.
Of course, even if all this happened, Apple still wants to sell Macs, not operating systems.
Quartz was demonstrated before the first beta release of Mac OS X. Quartz Extreme is the version that uses a 3D video card to to hardware rendering, and was introduced in Mac OS 10.2.
S X has had the "ability to create profiles that travel with them among machines," since it was still NextStep (and it had shared directory services before Active Directory was a twinkle in its daddy's eye).
Not without Mac OS X Server, which costs money.
I'm not sure what "Terminal Services' access to multiple desktops" means, but Apple Remote Desktop (or the free VNC) will give you most of what Terminal Services gives you.
Apple Remote Desktop also costs money; Terminal Services is free (for a single connection, which is all most people need). I've been using VNC heavily for the past couple of weeks, and it's SLOW, just because of the way it works. Actually what I really miss in Mac OS X is the ability to run individual applications (not an entire desktop) remotely, like I can with X11.
Have some sympathy.
No! It's not gonna happen, so quit whining about it! If you can't afford one now, then start saving your money until you can.
What people like you keep forgetting about an x86 version of Mac OS X is, even if Apple ported it, no applications would run on it and it wouldn't run on your PC anyway. There is an x86 version of Darwin, the UNIX core of Mac OS X. Take a look at the system requirements. Among other things, AMD processors are not currently supported, and it's only been tested with Intel 440BX motherboards and Intel 8255x ethernet cards.
So, if PC-ness sucks so badly, how does PowerPC-ness stack up?
Like a ton of bricks.
$ touch /etc/nologin /etc/init.d/sshd stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd and I use agetty.
$
$ killall -9 mingetty
$ killall -9 login
Note that this varies a bit by OS flavor/distro; my sshd script is at
Somebody may already be logged in. You'll need to make sure to kill their shells. Most likely a server won't be running X, but if it is you'd want to kill that, since the user can launch an xterm (or Konsole or whatever).
Except of course that if anyone is actually at the machine (it's not a headless box in a rack at a colo facility), and something alerts them to a problem (they see you kill X, or their shell disconnnects, or a user calls to say their shell just disconnected), they'll immediately attempt to log in, see that they can't, and take the box offline (by unplugging the Ethernet cable, for example).
If nobody's actually there, then there's not much point in killing anything *getty and login, is there?
When Neo got to the Architect, suddenly there was an enormous amount to think about-- but it was dumped on you so quickly that you didn't have time to absorb it, or really mull the implications.
Thus requiring that you go home, think about it for awhile, go back to see the movie again, go home, talk to people about it online, go back to see the movie again, wait several months, and finally buy the DVD.
Sounds to me like they know what they're doing.
Glad I wasn't the only one.
Do you suppose it's a rating issue? The movie was rated R, and couldn't be dropped to PG-13 while still including everything they wanted to include, so since it's rated R anyway, they felt they needed to add more boobies to make it a more solid R?
On another note, where can I find the recipe for that chocolate cake?
I see this as extremely likely to increase the odds that Apple will put Ogg support into iTunes and the iPod...
It may increase the odds, but not by much: if Apple wanted to add Ogg support, they could already have done so. However, I'm optimistic that one day they will add Ogg support.
And, once Apple does, it's pretty much guaranteed that everybody else will follow. Wait to see how quickly popular hardware and software MP3 players add AAC support - the same thing will happen with Ogg.
Yep, I often pass on stuff that's on sale "buy one get one free" because I know I'd have to carry it home. I rarely want it badly enough to make another trip.
Pardon my conspiracy theory, but it may very well be that these "innocent" open relays are in fact sponsored by spam clearinghouses, in which case server admins have monetary incentive to NOT close their relays.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
AIM has a similar option.
As a programmer myself, I know that code often gets done in spurts, and that a break (especially a nap!) can improve productivity quite a bit.
I think the key here is that YOU know that, but your BOSS may not, so by using these tricks, you can get your work done on time, take breaks (and naps) as needed, but trick your boss into thinking you've been working the whole time at the same slow plodding steady pace, because that's what bosses like.
And even if Windows had a 20% compatibility rate, it would still have more apps then 100% Mac conversion...
What does it matter, if there are more quality Mac apps than quality Windows apps?
But even if I recieve something that might have been legitimate because it said so on the EULA page 23 section 5 paragraph $42, I consider it SPAM.
If I gave them my e-mail address, I figure I've basically given them permission to send me e-mail at that address.
If they bought my e-mail address from another company, crawled the web to find a bunch of e-mail addresses and came across mine, or guessed my e-mail address at random, they have no right to contact me. That is spam.
On occasion, dealing with the former has been mildly annoying at times. However, they ALWAYS have an opt-out link that WORKS and doesn't sign me up for spam*. I have NEVER had a major problem with this. If I had a problem, I'd know exactly who to complain to, since I'd know exactly who the company is.
The latter is what takes up my time and resources.
* I generally use a different e-mail address with each company, so if I start getting spam at the address I gave a particular company, I'll know that company sold my address. This has NEVER happened. The only spam I've gotten at these addresses are the ones that made it onto the web, such as the address I used for eBay.
the number of false positives hasn't changed, just the number of unwanted messages.
Quite so. I do still glance through them, but the legit messages SEEM less and less common in relation to all the junk.
Good thing so many spammers put "Re: " in the subject line, since "Re: hey" from an unrecognized address is obviously spam while "hey" could be legitimate.
The list of places I've don't buisness with that will email me is much smaller yet though, because most places don't get it. SubWay didn't get my email address last week, the local cafe didn't get it yesterday. Cub didn't get it today. Those are all places I do buisness with fairly often that don't have my phone number or email address. They don't need it.
Precisely! In fact, each time I give out my e-mail address, I add a new alias at my domain, so if I do get spam I can find out how they got my address and it's not a big deal to change it. The ONLY time I get actual spam at these addresses are the ones that get posted to web sites, such as the addresses I use for eBay and Bugzilla. As long as I periodically change those addresses (and never re-using the same address, since once it's gotten spam it will always get spam), it's really not that much of a problem.
REAL spam, not advertising from known companies, is what clogs my mailbox.
Actually I'm not sure this is such a completely bad thing. Junk mail from legitimate companies that I have given my e-mail address to voluntarily is such a small problem - compared to the other crap flooding my mailbox - that I usually don't even count it as spam, even if it is unsolicited.
I know, some people think anything they don't want is spam and will report it as such via SpamCop or other tools. That's dumb. If it's stupid chain letters from your uncle, it's not spam. If it comes from a legitimate company, they'll offer an opt-out link that will actually works, because they don't want to piss off potential customers and they know how much people hate spam.
With that in mind, what are the other serious problems with this bill?
He meant everyone who doesn't use PHP.
But the ugliness in 'my $count = keys %{ $self->{groups}[HACKERS] };' is ugly in more than just looks.
Hell yes it is. The [HACKERS] part lost me; somebody wanna explain?
I always thought it was because the British tend to like comedy with generally unfortunate and depressing themes.