The PowerPC 970 is designed in IBM 0.13-micron CMOS silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and will be manufactured in IBM's new state-of-the-art 300-mm facility in East Fishkill, NY. Sampling is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2003 with production expected in the second half of 2003.
How exactly is Apple supposed to release computers running the PPC 970 if IBM isn't producing them for at least another six months?
Wow, you've almost got it but not quite. Don't get litigious. Instead:
Create a new e-mail address, notify the legitimate organization of the change, and deactivate the old address.
Why? Because slashdot@phroggy.com gets spam (or rather, it would, if that address still worked - instead the mail server just logs "user unknown" errors). Are you suggesting I should sue Slashdot for this? Slashdot did nothing wrong, but before they started obfuscating e-mail addresses automatically, I used that address here. Evil spiders crawl the web (including Slashdot) and harvest e-mail addresses. There's not much you can do about this, except change e-mail addresses when it becomes a problem. If you use a different address for everybody, then it's easier to keep track of who you have to notify of the new address.
Unless you meant sue the spammers. Sure, go for it, but you don't have to use this method for that.
Wow, very cool! I never would have thought of that.
I do run OSX, in fact, and the Google search is IMHO the serious kick-ass feature of Safari. It's not cool enough yet to be my default browser, but I'm very impressed with what Apple has done.
I'll be honest about this...Using the google search feature from mozilla, I've press enter (to load the address) instead of selecting search google on more than one occasion.
I do this all the time too. I wish I had a seperate Google search box, but I'm too lazy to keep installing whatever add-on would give it to me every time I upgrade Mozilla, and besides it would waste vertical space.
And yes, you're right, this is one of the causes of those bogus queries.
Is it just me, or is this a description of a reverse lookup? How does that qualify as unnecessary? This is a pretty common step in troubleshooting, and some software does a reverse lookup following a forward lookup to verify that the hostname it gets back is the same one it started with.
I think they're talking about a forward DNS lookup with an IP address, which is indeed retarded.
Forward DNS = resolving foo.com -> 12.34.56.78: this works by looking for an A record for foo.com; the A record contains the IP address.
Reverse DNS = resolving 12.34.56.78 -> foo.com: this works by translating the IP address into a name (78.56.34.12.in-addr.arpa), then looking for a PTR record for that name, which will contain a hostname (foo.com).
All domain names actually end in a period, that you usually don't see and don't use, for example "foo.com." or "78.56.34.12.in-addr.arpa."; the trailing dot stands for the root. The root nameservers are technically authoritative for "."; that's the definition of a root nameserver. So, what happens if you try to look up "12.34.56.78."? The dot means that's a FQDN, so you must be trying to do a forward lookup! Think of "78" as the TLD, "56" as the second-level domain, and look up "56.78" the same way you would look up "foo.com". There's no technical reason why a TLD couldn't be a number - alphanumeric characters (and hyphens) are allowed.
So yeah, this is dumb, but it happens more often than you might think. I was going to write a tirade about stupid registrars creating bogus glue records, but I'm not awake enough to do so coherently, so I'll spare you.
And with those images that are downloaded off the web if you open a spam they accomplish the same even if you delete the spam.
Mozilla has an option to disable inline images in HTML e-mail, but still render the HTML itself (so it's readable). In addition to eliminating the problem you mentioned, this also prevents porn pictures from popping up on your screen while other people are around.
Has Apple announced it's not going to make a PDA? They've got laptop expertise from the ti-book, small portable commodity electronics expertise from the iPod, etc.
Not that it means much, but yes they did, two months ago. But don't forget Inkwell...
One of the issues with Ogg support, as I understand it, is that until recently there wasn't a good Ogg decoder that didn't require floating-point operations, and many embedded chips don't handle float. The PowerPC handles float just fine.
A thought about lower power consumption as it relates to price:
Say an Intel Mobile P4 costs $X and runs at a certain speed (not MHz, but actual performance). However, when you unplug it to run on batteries, performance drops in half, to save battery usage.
Say a PowerPC chip costs $(1.5 * X) and runs at the same speed while running on AC power, but when you unplug it and run on batteries, it doesn't cut performance because power usage at full speed matches the P4 at half speed. So, you get the same battery life from both, but the PPC costs more. When both chips are running at full speed, they're the same speed, but when the P4 is at half speed to conserve batteries, the PPC is much faster.
Now, use a slower model of PPC that costs less to produce. Drop the price down to match, and (when the P4 runs at half speed to get decent battery life) the PPC is faster.
In a laptop, speed while running on AC power may be important, so yes, the PPC may be more expensive for the same speed. But in a PDA, that's not important at all, so the PPC has the advantage.
This is why Apple has started pushing laptops this year. There may be faster PC laptops while plugged in, but while unplugged, PowerBooks are either much faster or have much longer battery life.
Disclaimer: I don't actually know what I'm talking about and anything I said that looks like numbers was completely made up arbitrarily.;-)
Exactly! Check the source address, see if it matches what was assigned to the port. If not, shut the guy down for 10 minutes. This would prevent almost all DoS attacks if every ISP did it.
I don't think you're quite getting it. What he's talking about is this:
Hacker A breaks into bystander B's PC, and uses it to send packets to server D with a spoofed source IP so it looks like the packets come from victim E.
Bystander B's ISP has certain ranges of IP addresses that they assign to their customers, including bystander B. Victim E's IP address is not one of those IPs. The ISP should set up their firewall so outgoing packets that do not originate within their own network are always blocked. Bystander B can still get his pr0n, because he's sending traffic out from his own IP address, but this kind of attack now fails.
Naturally, hacker A will just find some other bystander whose ISP doesn't firewall like this, but the more ISPs that do it, the harder that becomes.
And of course, this doesn't work when bystander B and victim E are on the same network, but very often they're not.
Server D can't really do much to stop this, other than look for flooding and try to block it. Server D doesn't know the packets didn't come from victim E. In the case of a game server, maybe the game server can tell which IPs belong to players and which don't, so if victim E isn't playing the game, requests for stats would be ignored. I don't know how practical that would be.
Ah, but the ISP blocking port 25 is bad for YOU, not for THEM (the ISP). That's why they do it. Yes, they have to do their half of the tech support for that issue (the more obvious solution is to have the customer use the ISP's SMTP server, which the ISP should support, although they'd usually rather not).
There doesn't seem to be much they actually can do, unless they drastically change their business model/strategy. But in what way? Buying out MandrakeSoft may open some interesting options for them. Just a thought...
Oh, great idea!
1) Buy a bankrupt Linux distro maker 2) Pay off distro maker's debts 3) Proclaim how cool they are now that they own a Linux distro 4) ??? 5) Profit!
You think schools are going to pay a bunch of money to run Mandrake on their PCs? Why would they pay Apple, if they aren't paying Mandrake now?
You think schools are going to buy Macs so they can run Linux instead of OSX? Why would they run Linux, if it has no major advantages over OSX? If they wanted to run Linux on Macs, they've been able to do that for a long time. However, AFAIK there are almost no closed-source applications available for PPC Linux, and most open-source applications run on OSX, so switching to Linux would really be a step backwards in terms of what a school can do with the machine.
You think Apple's going to push a linux distro that can be downloaded for free and run on non-Apple hardware, instead of pushing their own hardware and software that they actually make money on?
You think Apple's going to hire developers from Mandrake to improve OSX? I don't think so. When Apple needs developers, Apple hires deveoplers, they don't just buy companies, with the exception of NeXT. They've hired people from FreeBSD and Mozilla, and probably other projects.
OK, I have to ask: what the heck are you guys doing with your email addresses that make you get 81 spam messages before noon? Publishing it on a billboard in Times Square? I've had my current email for 3 months. I don't get ANY spam.
Only three months? That's why. If you're reasonably careful, it takes awhile. Try keeping an e-mail address for five years.
Spammers are now sending out spam with one of my e-mail addresses as the return address (I know because I've been getting "user unknown" bounces). Not really anything I can do about it.
because Ford is an oligopoly, not a monopoly. If Ford, GM, VW, Toyota, etc. decided to start a joint venture
My understanding of the word is that the joint venture between Ford, GM, VW, Toyota etc. would be an oligopoly; Ford by themselves is just a competitor like everyone else.
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Um, who needs to get whose act together? Apple doesn't make processors. From http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsl
How exactly is Apple supposed to release computers running the PPC 970 if IBM isn't producing them for at least another six months?
Wow, you've almost got it but not quite. Don't get litigious. Instead:
Create a new e-mail address, notify the legitimate organization of the change, and deactivate the old address.
Why? Because slashdot@phroggy.com gets spam (or rather, it would, if that address still worked - instead the mail server just logs "user unknown" errors). Are you suggesting I should sue Slashdot for this? Slashdot did nothing wrong, but before they started obfuscating e-mail addresses automatically, I used that address here. Evil spiders crawl the web (including Slashdot) and harvest e-mail addresses. There's not much you can do about this, except change e-mail addresses when it becomes a problem. If you use a different address for everybody, then it's easier to keep track of who you have to notify of the new address.
Unless you meant sue the spammers. Sure, go for it, but you don't have to use this method for that.
Do English-speaking people receive spam in foreign languages?
A pretty wide assortment of them, yes. And yes, if it's not in English, then it's spam, but of course most of my spam is in English.
Wow, very cool! I never would have thought of that.
I do run OSX, in fact, and the Google search is IMHO the serious kick-ass feature of Safari. It's not cool enough yet to be my default browser, but I'm very impressed with what Apple has done.
I'll be honest about this...Using the google search feature from mozilla, I've press enter (to load the address) instead of selecting search google on more than one occasion.
I do this all the time too. I wish I had a seperate Google search box, but I'm too lazy to keep installing whatever add-on would give it to me every time I upgrade Mozilla, and besides it would waste vertical space.
And yes, you're right, this is one of the causes of those bogus queries.
Is it just me, or is this a description of a reverse lookup? How does that qualify as unnecessary? This is a pretty common step in troubleshooting, and some software does a reverse lookup following a forward lookup to verify that the hostname it gets back is the same one it started with.
I think they're talking about a forward DNS lookup with an IP address, which is indeed retarded.
Forward DNS = resolving foo.com -> 12.34.56.78: this works by looking for an A record for foo.com; the A record contains the IP address.
Reverse DNS = resolving 12.34.56.78 -> foo.com: this works by translating the IP address into a name (78.56.34.12.in-addr.arpa), then looking for a PTR record for that name, which will contain a hostname (foo.com).
All domain names actually end in a period, that you usually don't see and don't use, for example "foo.com." or "78.56.34.12.in-addr.arpa."; the trailing dot stands for the root. The root nameservers are technically authoritative for "."; that's the definition of a root nameserver. So, what happens if you try to look up "12.34.56.78."? The dot means that's a FQDN, so you must be trying to do a forward lookup! Think of "78" as the TLD, "56" as the second-level domain, and look up "56.78" the same way you would look up "foo.com". There's no technical reason why a TLD couldn't be a number - alphanumeric characters (and hyphens) are allowed.
So yeah, this is dumb, but it happens more often than you might think. I was going to write a tirade about stupid registrars creating bogus glue records, but I'm not awake enough to do so coherently, so I'll spare you.
Um, download the isos of the beta, so you can test it and give feedback, and then go buy the boxed retail copy when it comes out?
Wow, I never noticed the typo. Thanks!
How is this a win against spam?
Not getting any more spam from MonsterHut is a win. We just need a lot more wins.
And with those images that are downloaded off the web if you open a spam they accomplish the same even if you delete the spam.
Mozilla has an option to disable inline images in HTML e-mail, but still render the HTML itself (so it's readable). In addition to eliminating the problem you mentioned, this also prevents porn pictures from popping up on your screen while other people are around.
Has Apple announced it's not going to make a PDA? They've got laptop expertise from the ti-book, small portable commodity electronics expertise from the iPod, etc.
Not that it means much, but yes they did, two months ago. But don't forget Inkwell...
Is it the same CPU as was used in Apple's Newton PDAs?
No. Nor is it the same CPU used in the iPod.
Can it play Ogg Vorbis files?
Running Linux on PowerPC? Why not?
One of the issues with Ogg support, as I understand it, is that until recently there wasn't a good Ogg decoder that didn't require floating-point operations, and many embedded chips don't handle float. The PowerPC handles float just fine.
A thought about lower power consumption as it relates to price:
;-)
Say an Intel Mobile P4 costs $X and runs at a certain speed (not MHz, but actual performance). However, when you unplug it to run on batteries, performance drops in half, to save battery usage.
Say a PowerPC chip costs $(1.5 * X) and runs at the same speed while running on AC power, but when you unplug it and run on batteries, it doesn't cut performance because power usage at full speed matches the P4 at half speed. So, you get the same battery life from both, but the PPC costs more. When both chips are running at full speed, they're the same speed, but when the P4 is at half speed to conserve batteries, the PPC is much faster.
Now, use a slower model of PPC that costs less to produce. Drop the price down to match, and (when the P4 runs at half speed to get decent battery life) the PPC is faster.
In a laptop, speed while running on AC power may be important, so yes, the PPC may be more expensive for the same speed. But in a PDA, that's not important at all, so the PPC has the advantage.
This is why Apple has started pushing laptops this year. There may be faster PC laptops while plugged in, but while unplugged, PowerBooks are either much faster or have much longer battery life.
Disclaimer: I don't actually know what I'm talking about and anything I said that looks like numbers was completely made up arbitrarily.
Exactly! Check the source address, see if it matches what was assigned to the port. If not, shut the guy down for 10 minutes. This would prevent almost all DoS attacks if every ISP did it.
I don't think you're quite getting it. What he's talking about is this:
Hacker A breaks into bystander B's PC, and uses it to send packets to server D with a spoofed source IP so it looks like the packets come from victim E.
Bystander B's ISP has certain ranges of IP addresses that they assign to their customers, including bystander B. Victim E's IP address is not one of those IPs. The ISP should set up their firewall so outgoing packets that do not originate within their own network are always blocked. Bystander B can still get his pr0n, because he's sending traffic out from his own IP address, but this kind of attack now fails.
Naturally, hacker A will just find some other bystander whose ISP doesn't firewall like this, but the more ISPs that do it, the harder that becomes.
And of course, this doesn't work when bystander B and victim E are on the same network, but very often they're not.
Server D can't really do much to stop this, other than look for flooding and try to block it. Server D doesn't know the packets didn't come from victim E. In the case of a game server, maybe the game server can tell which IPs belong to players and which don't, so if victim E isn't playing the game, requests for stats would be ignored. I don't know how practical that would be.
Ah, but the ISP blocking port 25 is bad for YOU, not for THEM (the ISP). That's why they do it. Yes, they have to do their half of the tech support for that issue (the more obvious solution is to have the customer use the ISP's SMTP server, which the ISP should support, although they'd usually rather not).
There doesn't seem to be much they actually can do, unless they drastically change their business model/strategy. But in what way? Buying out MandrakeSoft may open some interesting options for them. Just a thought...
Oh, great idea!
1) Buy a bankrupt Linux distro maker
2) Pay off distro maker's debts
3) Proclaim how cool they are now that they own a Linux distro
4) ???
5) Profit!
You think schools are going to pay a bunch of money to run Mandrake on their PCs? Why would they pay Apple, if they aren't paying Mandrake now?
You think schools are going to buy Macs so they can run Linux instead of OSX? Why would they run Linux, if it has no major advantages over OSX? If they wanted to run Linux on Macs, they've been able to do that for a long time. However, AFAIK there are almost no closed-source applications available for PPC Linux, and most open-source applications run on OSX, so switching to Linux would really be a step backwards in terms of what a school can do with the machine.
You think Apple's going to push a linux distro that can be downloaded for free and run on non-Apple hardware, instead of pushing their own hardware and software that they actually make money on?
You think Apple's going to hire developers from Mandrake to improve OSX? I don't think so. When Apple needs developers, Apple hires deveoplers, they don't just buy companies, with the exception of NeXT. They've hired people from FreeBSD and Mozilla, and probably other projects.
Linux isn't as cool as you think it is.
So... what about us Corporate "Unlimited Licenses" users? How much do they "owe" me/my company?
One unlimited license = $0.50?
Is it safe to even comment on the story?
:-)
I don't run their software, so I never accepted their EULA, so yes.
OK, I have to ask: what the heck are you guys doing with your email addresses that make you get 81 spam messages before noon? Publishing it on a billboard in Times Square? I've had my current email for 3 months. I don't get ANY spam.
Only three months? That's why. If you're reasonably careful, it takes awhile. Try keeping an e-mail address for five years.
Spammers are now sending out spam with one of my e-mail addresses as the return address (I know because I've been getting "user unknown" bounces). Not really anything I can do about it.
seeing as it took Slashdot 35 seconds to serve me up this comments.pl?op-Reply page, yes, i think we are supposed to be impressed.
Yeah, what's up with Slashdot lately? Lately it's been occasionally slow. Anyone know the reason?
because Ford is an oligopoly, not a monopoly. If Ford, GM, VW, Toyota, etc. decided to start a joint venture
My understanding of the word is that the joint venture between Ford, GM, VW, Toyota etc. would be an oligopoly; Ford by themselves is just a competitor like everyone else.
GNU/AT&T
Geez. That's so wrong, in so many ways.
But DVDs played on my PC look far better than on my friends' TVs. The colors are more vivid and the image is sharper - what's not to like?
When the picture is so clear that you can actually see artifacts of the MPEG-2 compression. That's not to like.
Now no one could possibly steal the private key without stealing the box.
Do not discount the possibility of someone stealing the box.