Why would these be missing? I don't recall which FTP server it comes with - wuftpd I think - but definitely comes with Apache. I installed ProFTPd on Mac OS X Server once; aside from a bug in ProFTPd (it wasn't very happy about 32-bit UIDs) it worked fine.
nothing for media playback except for the proprietary QT4 player (hopefully optimized for OSX)
Nothing? What rock have you been hiding under? Yes, it's optimized (in fact, it's a new player that's been completely rewritten, for Cocoa I believe).
and a TCP-IP stack that's about as stable as a tall stack of dimes.
Isn't it the same TCP/IP stack that FreeBSD uses? Correct me if I'm wrong here....
All of this adds up to an unpleasant unix experience.
You don't sound like you've used it; perhaps you should, before you pass judgement?
Probably the best bet for now is to stick with LinuxPPC, something not blocked by Steve Jobs' arrogance
Ohh, I'm so tickled. I could run a *nix on a PPC-platform and have access to MS office natively.
Office will only run in the Classic environment (RAM-hungry emulator running Mac OS 9) for about another year before Microsoft updates Office 2001 to be Carbon-compliant.
The dig command with axfr specified contacts the DNS server and requests a transfer of the zone file for that domain. The data is in the form of a bunch of weird hostnames that all point to 127.0.0.1 (localhost). The rest of that is just stripping out extra DNS stuff and sticking it all together into a gzip file, which is then un-gzipped.
From what I understand, the dev tools: Project Builder and friends (and even gcc, etc) will be available...
From what I've heard, ProjectBuilder is basically a GUI front-end that actually calls gcc underneath, so of course gcc would be available. Apple has also submitted patches to gcc to the FSF.:-)
since he's taken over he's managed to:
kill the clones
kill the newton
Development of HyperCard has also died; I'm not sure how much of that is Jobs' fault but he didn't help it any (Jobs never understood just what HyperCard was).
bring back the closed, all-in-one, non-upgradable mac (iMac and Cube)
Compare to this iPaq from Compaq, or a NetVista from IBM - why shouldn't Apple have a competing product? Nobody ever said you had to buy one.
throw NeXTOS on top of new hardware (sorry OSX is NeXT in mac's clothing)
Everyone I've talked to who's used NeXT systems absolutely loves them. Yes, Mac OS X is NeXTStep in Mac's clothing - what's wrong with that?
threaten to sue a few dozen web sites
They eventually figured it out, I think. They're suing their employees instead, so hopefully they'll leave the Web sites alone now.
just about squash publication of a book that doesn't portray him as a god
I think I missed that. What was the title of the book you're referring to, and what did Apple do?
act like a spoiled brat when ATI let the cat out of the bag a little early (like we didn't know anyway?)
Oh, and you're basing this information on rumor sites? In case you missed it, Apple just announced that they're offering the ATi Radeon as a BTO option on the Apple Store...
Sell out Apple to Microsoft.
What, you think Microsoft went into that willingly?!? Hell no. Apple forced them into it, to reassure the general public that Apple isn't dying. As part of the agreement, Microsoft paid Apple an undisclosed sum of cash (rumored to be around $400 million but I've heard other figures as well), invested $250 million in non-voting Apple stock, and publicly announced its support of Apple and the Mac platform, including committing to support Office and IE on the Mac OS.
Piss off game developers.
Which game developers are you referring to? John Carmack of id Software sounds ecstatic about Mac OS X (see my previous comment about NeXT users).
It's not like most of the rumor sites are "information for the people" champions. Many of them are for-profit businesses.
Just want to point out, may of the rumor sites began as "information for the people" sites, and only added banner ads to help cover costs as they grew. Very comparable to Slashdot in that respect, which now is also a commercial enterprise.
Sorry for being too lazy to read the article myself, but I'm really really tired....
Does this technique involve using DeCSS to decode the DVD data? If so, great; finally a practical use for it. If not, even better; this needs to be publicized because this is a much greater threat* to the MPAA than what they're trying to make illegal.
* well, the same kind of threat that Napster is to the RIAA; note that as Napster becomes more popular, CD sales are going up.
On an off topic note, I submited a stroy that was rejected. Linux kernel 2.2.17 is out. I saw it at ftp.kernel.org. Yet slashdot hates my news stories so I post here so someone else can submit it.
It was rejected because it was already posted last week.
Would it be reasonable to make an optional extention to the GPL requiring all devices running Linux (or any other GPL'd software) to include instructions on how to extract and modify the source?
No. One of the reasons is the sheer volume of GPL'd software currently available that imposes no such restriction, which would make anything released under your modified GPL much less attractive.
bash is GPL'd and the source code is freely available, but I don't know C well enough to make any useful modifications. Maybe bash should come with C tutorials so I can learn how to modify it.
No, bash can be modified by anyone who knows what they're doing, and so can the TiVo. If you can't figure out how to modify the kernel that they gave you the source for, that's your own problem, not theirs. It certainly can be done.
But it's not Tivo that's doing it, and it's certainly not Tivo that we need to be afraid of. It's the liberals. They're watching us, and people need to know it.
Are you trying to suggest that the Republicans are any better than the Democrats? The government agencies that allegedly do the things you speak of are strongly supported by Republicans.
To filter junk mail, they have to examine ALL of your e-mail. Granted in this case, they just examine the IP address, but it's just as easy to log stuff that passes through as stuff that doesn't.
Wrong. The mail server usually determines whether a piece of mail is going to be spam before it even finds out who the message is addressed to or what its content is - that information is never even sent; the mail server generates an error as soon as the spammer's mail server establishes a connection.
Also, all mail is logged anyway. I have a pretty basic Sendmail configuration, and it logs every piece of mail that gets delivered, including who it's from, who it's to, the IP address of the server it's coming from or going to. Spam filters like these certainly don't need any more information than that to work with.
Sure now it's a list of "Known Mail Abuse IP's" but what happens when a list of "Known Drug trafficker IP's" or "Known Cyber-Terrorist IP's"
If someone wants to compile such a list, great. It's a free country (sort of). MAPS has the right to compile a list of IP addresses of known spammers. All MAPS is doing is making the list available; they're not touching your mail at all.
Inequality in Browsers doesn't mean i should have to suffer just 'cos you do.
You've missed the point completely. It's not that "whiny ten year old technology huggers" don't want you to see more than 22 colors, it's that because there are so many different browsers out there, and if a Web designer uses colors other than those specific ones, the colors will be displayed incorrectly by some browsers - possibly by yours. The graphics will still display, of course, but they won't be as the designer intended.
This, of course, is on top of all the quirks of layout rendering that make it impossible to design a decent-looking page that validates as clean HTML, and even still appear very different on some browsers.
AOL gives you 10 free hours^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H 20 free^H^H^H^H^H^H^H 30^H^H 50^H^H 100^H^H^H 200^H^H^H 250^H^H^H one month of free service when you first sign up with them, based on your credit card number. Of course, I wouldn't do it even if I had a big pile of numbers, just because AOL's service isn't good enough that I'd take it for free, but I'm sure a lot of people would.
Lastly, as another poster already said, the government is sure to get twitchy about this. How will they tax anonymous purchases? Requisition monthly transacion records from AmEx?
It is unfortunate that in order to use a nice friendly Apple OS, I have to buy one of those expensive and downright ugly i-whatever machines. I would much prefer to run MacOS on a nice beige desktop machine.
The new $799 iMacs are out; more expensive than a comparable PC but the cheapest Mac Apple's ever released.
If you REALLY like beige, simply buy an old beige G3 from someplace like PowerMax, or get a newer G3 or G4 and transplant it into a standard ATX case.
You're actually going to install an entire Linux distribution from floppies? Isn't Slackware the only distribution that even supports that anymore (and even Slackware only lets you do the base series and half the networking series from floppies, and unfortunately has not yet been ported to PPC)?
VMWare is x86-only, but there are other emulators for other platforms (such as SheepShaver for PPC, inside of which you could run VirtualPC on Mac OS).
That being said, I think Apple wasted a lot of time being slave to its oddball processors. And on a related topic:: Just think how much money they would have saved, for example, if they supported PC standard Mice and Keyboards? They could have leveraged CHEAP chipsets and still slapped their own nice case on them.
I have to point out that as of two years ago, Apple has been working to gradually remove all non-essential non-standard hardware from their computers, beginning with the mice and keyboards. If I take the mouse and keyboard from my iMac and plug it into a Win98 box, it'll say "Windows has detected new hardware and is installing drivers", make me click a dozen OK buttons, and then it'll work just fine. Only one button on the mouse, and the Alt key is in a slightly odd place, but otherwise it's fine. Similarly, I could take (say) a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, plug it into my iMac, download and install the driver s, and go play Unreal Tournament.
Apple has removed their non-standard ADB interface, their non-standard 8-pin mini-DIN serial ports, and their DB-15 monitor connector, and (unfortunately) the on-board SCSI controller that most Windoze lusers wouldn't recognize if it bit them. They've added USB (marketed heavily by Intel and Microsoft), FireWire (IEEE 1394, compatible with Sony's i.Link), AirPort (IEEE 802.11b, compatible with Lucent's WaveLan), switched to standard HD-15 SVGA, switched to an ATAPI DVD-ROM and ATA/66 hard drive (to be ATA/100 in a few months), and they come with a v.90 modem (a real Linux-compatible hardware modem, unlike most PCs these days) and 10/100 Ethernet (with gigabit optional). What's non-standard about that?
Yes, I know it's Microsoft and all, but I do actually think it could work. Of course, it's all speculation, but if it does become reality, it will be VERY useful and influential.
You're forgetting an important part of "it's Microsoft and all": regardless of how good an idea it may be, Microsoft cannot and will not implement it properly. It will not be a good thing for consumers, no matter how good it may sound, not just because the name Microsoft jinxes it, but because Microsoft has a reputation for screwing this sort of thing up consistently. If they accidentally made something that was good for consumers, they'd "fix" it.
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Why would these be missing? I don't recall which FTP server it comes with - wuftpd I think - but definitely comes with Apache. I installed ProFTPd on Mac OS X Server once; aside from a bug in ProFTPd (it wasn't very happy about 32-bit UIDs) it worked fine.
nothing for media playback except for the proprietary QT4 player (hopefully optimized for OSX)
Nothing? What rock have you been hiding under? Yes, it's optimized (in fact, it's a new player that's been completely rewritten, for Cocoa I believe).
and a TCP-IP stack that's about as stable as a tall stack of dimes.
Isn't it the same TCP/IP stack that FreeBSD uses? Correct me if I'm wrong here....
All of this adds up to an unpleasant unix experience.
You don't sound like you've used it; perhaps you should, before you pass judgement?
Probably the best bet for now is to stick with LinuxPPC, something not blocked by Steve Jobs' arrogance
Unless you run it on an RS-6000....
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Office will only run in the Classic environment (RAM-hungry emulator running Mac OS 9) for about another year before Microsoft updates Office 2001 to be Carbon-compliant.
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Try this:
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr|less
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Must it be categorized?
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From what I've heard, ProjectBuilder is basically a GUI front-end that actually calls gcc underneath, so of course gcc would be available. Apple has also submitted patches to gcc to the FSF.
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since he's taken over he's managed to:
kill the clones
kill the newton
Development of HyperCard has also died; I'm not sure how much of that is Jobs' fault but he didn't help it any (Jobs never understood just what HyperCard was).
bring back the closed, all-in-one, non-upgradable mac (iMac and Cube)
Compare to this iPaq from Compaq, or a NetVista from IBM - why shouldn't Apple have a competing product? Nobody ever said you had to buy one.
throw NeXTOS on top of new hardware (sorry OSX is NeXT in mac's clothing)
Everyone I've talked to who's used NeXT systems absolutely loves them. Yes, Mac OS X is NeXTStep in Mac's clothing - what's wrong with that?
threaten to sue a few dozen web sites
They eventually figured it out, I think. They're suing their employees instead, so hopefully they'll leave the Web sites alone now.
just about squash publication of a book that doesn't portray him as a god
I think I missed that. What was the title of the book you're referring to, and what did Apple do?
act like a spoiled brat when ATI let the cat out of the bag a little early (like we didn't know anyway?)
Oh, and you're basing this information on rumor sites? In case you missed it, Apple just announced that they're offering the ATi Radeon as a BTO option on the Apple Store...
Sell out Apple to Microsoft.
What, you think Microsoft went into that willingly?!? Hell no. Apple forced them into it, to reassure the general public that Apple isn't dying. As part of the agreement, Microsoft paid Apple an undisclosed sum of cash (rumored to be around $400 million but I've heard other figures as well), invested $250 million in non-voting Apple stock, and publicly announced its support of Apple and the Mac platform, including committing to support Office and IE on the Mac OS.
Piss off game developers.
Which game developers are you referring to? John Carmack of id Software sounds ecstatic about Mac OS X (see my previous comment about NeXT users).
I'm hungry, I'm gonna go find dinner now.
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Just want to point out, may of the rumor sites began as "information for the people" sites, and only added banner ads to help cover costs as they grew. Very comparable to Slashdot in that respect, which now is also a commercial enterprise.
(not disagreeing with you, btw)
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Does this technique involve using DeCSS to decode the DVD data? If so, great; finally a practical use for it. If not, even better; this needs to be publicized because this is a much greater threat* to the MPAA than what they're trying to make illegal.
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The people who use it, or the people who want to use it?
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It was rejected because it was already posted last week.
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No. One of the reasons is the sheer volume of GPL'd software currently available that imposes no such restriction, which would make anything released under your modified GPL much less attractive.
bash is GPL'd and the source code is freely available, but I don't know C well enough to make any useful modifications. Maybe bash should come with C tutorials so I can learn how to modify it.
No, bash can be modified by anyone who knows what they're doing, and so can the TiVo. If you can't figure out how to modify the kernel that they gave you the source for, that's your own problem, not theirs. It certainly can be done.
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Are you trying to suggest that the Republicans are any better than the Democrats? The government agencies that allegedly do the things you speak of are strongly supported by Republicans.
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Wrong. The mail server usually determines whether a piece of mail is going to be spam before it even finds out who the message is addressed to or what its content is - that information is never even sent; the mail server generates an error as soon as the spammer's mail server establishes a connection.
Also, all mail is logged anyway. I have a pretty basic Sendmail configuration, and it logs every piece of mail that gets delivered, including who it's from, who it's to, the IP address of the server it's coming from or going to. Spam filters like these certainly don't need any more information than that to work with.
Sure now it's a list of "Known Mail Abuse IP's" but what happens when a list of "Known Drug trafficker IP's" or "Known Cyber-Terrorist IP's"
If someone wants to compile such a list, great. It's a free country (sort of). MAPS has the right to compile a list of IP addresses of known spammers. All MAPS is doing is making the list available; they're not touching your mail at all.
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hehe, sorry, couldn't resist...
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You've missed the point completely. It's not that "whiny ten year old technology huggers" don't want you to see more than 22 colors, it's that because there are so many different browsers out there, and if a Web designer uses colors other than those specific ones, the colors will be displayed incorrectly by some browsers - possibly by yours. The graphics will still display, of course, but they won't be as the designer intended.
This, of course, is on top of all the quirks of layout rendering that make it impossible to design a decent-looking page that validates as clean HTML, and even still appear very different on some browsers.
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The same way they tax cash purchases?
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The new $799 iMacs are out; more expensive than a comparable PC but the cheapest Mac Apple's ever released.
If you REALLY like beige, simply buy an old beige G3 from someplace like PowerMax, or get a newer G3 or G4 and transplant it into a standard ATX case.
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VMWare is x86-only, but there are other emulators for other platforms (such as SheepShaver for PPC, inside of which you could run VirtualPC on Mac OS).
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I have to point out that as of two years ago, Apple has been working to gradually remove all non-essential non-standard hardware from their computers, beginning with the mice and keyboards. If I take the mouse and keyboard from my iMac and plug it into a Win98 box, it'll say "Windows has detected new hardware and is installing drivers", make me click a dozen OK buttons, and then it'll work just fine. Only one button on the mouse, and the Alt key is in a slightly odd place, but otherwise it's fine. Similarly, I could take (say) a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, plug it into my iMac, download and install the driver s, and go play Unreal Tournament.
Apple has removed their non-standard ADB interface, their non-standard 8-pin mini-DIN serial ports, and their DB-15 monitor connector, and (unfortunately) the on-board SCSI controller that most Windoze lusers wouldn't recognize if it bit them. They've added USB (marketed heavily by Intel and Microsoft), FireWire (IEEE 1394, compatible with Sony's i.Link), AirPort (IEEE 802.11b, compatible with Lucent's WaveLan), switched to standard HD-15 SVGA, switched to an ATAPI DVD-ROM and ATA/66 hard drive (to be ATA/100 in a few months), and they come with a v.90 modem (a real Linux-compatible hardware modem, unlike most PCs these days) and 10/100 Ethernet (with gigabit optional). What's non-standard about that?
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I don't like that either. Not my page.
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You're forgetting an important part of "it's Microsoft and all": regardless of how good an idea it may be, Microsoft cannot and will not implement it properly. It will not be a good thing for consumers, no matter how good it may sound, not just because the name Microsoft jinxes it, but because Microsoft has a reputation for screwing this sort of thing up consistently. If they accidentally made something that was good for consumers, they'd "fix" it.
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http://www.mslinux.org/
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Come on, if this sort of thing is going to work, then surely the Slashdot crew wouldn't mind taking the first step?
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Hell yeah. A nice tribute to the late Isaac Asimov.
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