None of your points are specific to Open Source, they equally apply to almost any non-Microsoft product. Let me rephrase it for you:
Proprietary Software meets recognized standards. Proprietary software like Apple Safari is aggressively pursuing compliance with the latest web standards, and can even spoof user_agent as Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.
Proprietary Software means choice. A profitable software project tends to be built on many platforms, like Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Doom, etc.
Proprietary Software keeps competition alive. If it wasn't for proprietary software, there would be no competition in some market segments, like the competition over video editors between Final Cut Pro vs. Avid, etc.
So go back and think about that again. You're not arguing for Open Source, you're just arguing against a single Microsoft standard.
Check a ham radio supplier, any decent shop will carry many different power supply units that are designed to address this precise problem. For example, I googled and the first entry under "ham radio supplies" was aesham.com, their catalog is downloadable as a PDF. On page 82, they have power supplies from Astron, Daiwa, Diamond, AIM, etc. Most of them only output a single voltage but are adjustable, however a few units have multiple voltage outputs. Many of these units have big geeky analog gauges on the front indicating the power draw, for extra nerd appeal. A few pages later (pg 84) they have power distribution busses, for feeding multiple units from the same voltage. Just what you're looking for. And Hams are totally obsessed with clean power, so you can set up rigs with pure, clean power and no grounding problems. Check out some other Amateur Radio suppliers and gaze through the catalogs, and stand in awe at true hardware geeks that have been doing this for about 3 times as long as computers have even existed. I learned more about electronics from Ham Radio catalogs than anywhere else.
Tell your dad to check NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System database.
hee hee.. maybe he can ask his mommy to check back issues of the RISKS listserv, where the discussion of electronic interference has been discussed to death by professional avionics engineers.
Well, obviously this isn't targeted at a typical home network with an assortment of older Macs. But just imagine FCP5 with Xgrid rendering speed on, say, 5 XServe cluster units (the stripped down units with dual 2.3Ghz G5s and not much storage). Or maybe in a typical office or university computer lab with lots of the latest G5 computers sitting around mostly idle while reading email or surfing the web. Then you've really got something.
You apparently haven't read the rumors on the next releases of FCP and Motion. They are rumored to support XGrid rendering, so you can slave together whole render farms of Macs for additional processing power.
I had no problems installing Panther on my B&W G3, I even tested MacOS X Server and it installed fine. But then, I have one of the fancier models, the B&W G3/400 U2W with SCSI drives. The only big deal with installing Panther on a B&W is that you have to install it on the 1st partition and that partition must be less than 8Gb (I think this might only apply to IDE drives). My boot drive is only 6Gb so that's not a problem. Apparently Panther won't boot from partitions that don't meet this requirement, so when OS X reboots and asks for the second install CD, it could fail at that point because it's not booting into OSX to complete the install. Anyway, this is all documented in the Panther README file, you did RTFM when you encountered the difficulty, right?
I said extreme geekery, not extreme idiocy. Only an idiot would go out and buy a USB DVD drive for an old machine that is worth less than a DVD drive, and then sit there and wait for the DVD to load at USB1 speeds. Read upthread, I'm going to try to install via Firewire Target Disk Mode from another machine.
Well that's interesting. Yeah, like I'm going to wait around for media exchange via snail mail once I get the DVD into my hands. I think I'll resort to extreme geekery to make this work through some other means.
Thanks for the hard facts, I looked all over the Tiger site but missed that spec in all the fine print.
This is going to be a huge pain for the B&W G3 owners like me, very few of those machines shipped with DVD drives since the G3s weren't fast enough to display DVD video without a daughtercard to do the video processing. So this leaves the question of what to do for the install. I suppose I could put the DVD in my G4 MDD machine and boot it in Target Disk Mode, see if I can boot the G3 from the remote DVD which would be seen as an attached FireWire disk. Or maybe it's time to upgrade my ancient 2x DVD drive in my dual 1Ghz MDD machine and transplant the old drive into the G3. Or maybe I should just leave the G3 on Panther, since it's being used as a server and might not benefit much from all the GUI gizmos in Tiger.
There is some speculation that Tiger will be released on DVD media, has anyone seen any confirmation? This would be a huge pain in the ass for machines that would run Tiger fine but don't have a DVD drive to load it from (like my old B&W G3).
I think it is safe to say that his screen writing carreer is now over...
Oh man, you don't know how Hollywood works AT ALL. Even if this is the worst el stinko screenplay EVER, this is going to make his career. The screenwriter will put this movie at the top of his resume, he'll have the movie poster hanging over his desk and point it out to everyone who goes near it (in case you didn't notice it), and he'll have HHGTG put on his business cards. He'll get more job offers than he could ever take on, and his reputation as "the guy who put Douglas Adams' words on the big screen" will be writ large all over town.
The cable pullers I hired always knew what EVERYONE in town was doing. They knew who was installing new computers, who had new facilities, and what was going on in new labs all over town. So hire a pro cable puller, offer them some coffee, and get strategic intelligence on all your competitors. Just make sure you don't reveal to them what YOU'RE doing.
I will leave to others the writing of a benign script for this virus, and I am releasing the source code of v1.0 under the GPL so that other coders can build on my effort.
It is best if the translator to be a native speaker of the target language. So you really need to have E->J work done by a native Japanese speaker. You're the wrong man for the job. Just think about it. How many times have you read crappy instruction manuals written in incomprehensible English that were obviously produced by non-native speakers of English? You're about to produce something roughly equivalent. The world has enough sucky incomprehensible things, even in Japan, do you want to create more of them?
OK, so often they release patches within hours of discovery, sometimes they don't. So show me one single MacOS X system that was compromised. You can't.
There may have been 37 alleged vulnerabilities identified in MacOS X, but there have been ZERO exploits of those vulnerabilities. Apple has often released patches within 48 hours of discovery of a vulnerability.
At the current time, there are NO known exploits for MacOS X. NONE.
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Pay people a decent wage and suddenly you'll find a glut of qualified applicants.
None of your points are specific to Open Source, they equally apply to almost any non-Microsoft product. Let me rephrase it for you:
Proprietary Software meets recognized standards. Proprietary software like Apple Safari is aggressively pursuing compliance with the latest web standards, and can even spoof user_agent as Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.
Proprietary Software means choice. A profitable software project tends to be built on many platforms, like Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Doom, etc.
Proprietary Software keeps competition alive. If it wasn't for proprietary software, there would be no competition in some market segments, like the competition over video editors between Final Cut Pro vs. Avid, etc.
So go back and think about that again. You're not arguing for Open Source, you're just arguing against a single Microsoft standard.
Check a ham radio supplier, any decent shop will carry many different power supply units that are designed to address this precise problem.
For example, I googled and the first entry under "ham radio supplies" was aesham.com, their catalog is downloadable as a PDF. On page 82, they have power supplies from Astron, Daiwa, Diamond, AIM, etc. Most of them only output a single voltage but are adjustable, however a few units have multiple voltage outputs. Many of these units have big geeky analog gauges on the front indicating the power draw, for extra nerd appeal.
A few pages later (pg 84) they have power distribution busses, for feeding multiple units from the same voltage. Just what you're looking for. And Hams are totally obsessed with clean power, so you can set up rigs with pure, clean power and no grounding problems.
Check out some other Amateur Radio suppliers and gaze through the catalogs, and stand in awe at true hardware geeks that have been doing this for about 3 times as long as computers have even existed. I learned more about electronics from Ham Radio catalogs than anywhere else.
Unfortunately, that day was sometime before 1890, when Westinghouse/Tesla's AC system took over.
hee hee.. maybe he can ask his mommy to check back issues of the RISKS listserv, where the discussion of electronic interference has been discussed to death by professional avionics engineers.
What this world really needs is a way to promote the idea of NOT doing any more lame webcomics.
Well, obviously this isn't targeted at a typical home network with an assortment of older Macs. But just imagine FCP5 with Xgrid rendering speed on, say, 5 XServe cluster units (the stripped down units with dual 2.3Ghz G5s and not much storage). Or maybe in a typical office or university computer lab with lots of the latest G5 computers sitting around mostly idle while reading email or surfing the web. Then you've really got something.
You apparently haven't read the rumors on the next releases of FCP and Motion. They are rumored to support XGrid rendering, so you can slave together whole render farms of Macs for additional processing power.
I had no problems installing Panther on my B&W G3, I even tested MacOS X Server and it installed fine. But then, I have one of the fancier models, the B&W G3/400 U2W with SCSI drives. The only big deal with installing Panther on a B&W is that you have to install it on the 1st partition and that partition must be less than 8Gb (I think this might only apply to IDE drives). My boot drive is only 6Gb so that's not a problem. Apparently Panther won't boot from partitions that don't meet this requirement, so when OS X reboots and asks for the second install CD, it could fail at that point because it's not booting into OSX to complete the install.
Anyway, this is all documented in the Panther README file, you did RTFM when you encountered the difficulty, right?
I said extreme geekery, not extreme idiocy. Only an idiot would go out and buy a USB DVD drive for an old machine that is worth less than a DVD drive, and then sit there and wait for the DVD to load at USB1 speeds.
Read upthread, I'm going to try to install via Firewire Target Disk Mode from another machine.
Well that's interesting. Yeah, like I'm going to wait around for media exchange via snail mail once I get the DVD into my hands. I think I'll resort to extreme geekery to make this work through some other means.
Thanks for the hard facts, I looked all over the Tiger site but missed that spec in all the fine print.
This is going to be a huge pain for the B&W G3 owners like me, very few of those machines shipped with DVD drives since the G3s weren't fast enough to display DVD video without a daughtercard to do the video processing.
So this leaves the question of what to do for the install. I suppose I could put the DVD in my G4 MDD machine and boot it in Target Disk Mode, see if I can boot the G3 from the remote DVD which would be seen as an attached FireWire disk. Or maybe it's time to upgrade my ancient 2x DVD drive in my dual 1Ghz MDD machine and transplant the old drive into the G3. Or maybe I should just leave the G3 on Panther, since it's being used as a server and might not benefit much from all the GUI gizmos in Tiger.
You're speculating. Does anyone have the facts?
There is some speculation that Tiger will be released on DVD media, has anyone seen any confirmation? This would be a huge pain in the ass for machines that would run Tiger fine but don't have a DVD drive to load it from (like my old B&W G3).
There is a machine that is purpose-built for this job: the SSI Quad.
Oh man, you don't know how Hollywood works AT ALL. Even if this is the worst el stinko screenplay EVER, this is going to make his career. The screenwriter will put this movie at the top of his resume, he'll have the movie poster hanging over his desk and point it out to everyone who goes near it (in case you didn't notice it), and he'll have HHGTG put on his business cards. He'll get more job offers than he could ever take on, and his reputation as "the guy who put Douglas Adams' words on the big screen" will be writ large all over town.
The cable pullers I hired always knew what EVERYONE in town was doing. They knew who was installing new computers, who had new facilities, and what was going on in new labs all over town. So hire a pro cable puller, offer them some coffee, and get strategic intelligence on all your competitors. Just make sure you don't reveal to them what YOU'RE doing.
You're a moron.
bash: $: sudo
usage: sudo -V | -h | -L | -l | -v | -k | -K | [-H] [-P] [-S] [-b] [-p prompt]
[-u username/#uid] -s |
Damn! And I was so close.
I will leave to others the writing of a benign script for this virus, and I am releasing the source code of v1.0 under the GPL so that other coders can build on my effort.
oops, let me try that again without the brackets that make the recipient invisible:
/
Subject: Unix Virus
To: virus@dvforge.com
-----Begin Unix Virus-----
This is a Unix virus.
Forward this message to 5 other Unix system administrators, and then run the command:
sudo rm -rf
-----End Unix Virus-----
Subject: Unix Virus
/
To:
-----Begin Unix Virus-----
This is a Unix virus.
Forward this message to 5 other Unix system administrators, and then run the command:
sudo rm -rf
-----End Unix Virus-----
It is best if the translator to be a native speaker of the target language. So you really need to have E->J work done by a native Japanese speaker. You're the wrong man for the job.
Just think about it. How many times have you read crappy instruction manuals written in incomprehensible English that were obviously produced by non-native speakers of English? You're about to produce something roughly equivalent. The world has enough sucky incomprehensible things, even in Japan, do you want to create more of them?
So what? That's not an exploit, that was a bug. The offending update was pulled immediately and rereleased, minus bug, within 24 hours.
OK, so often they release patches within hours of discovery, sometimes they don't. So show me one single MacOS X system that was compromised. You can't.
There may have been 37 alleged vulnerabilities identified in MacOS X, but there have been ZERO exploits of those vulnerabilities. Apple has often released patches within 48 hours of discovery of a vulnerability.
At the current time, there are NO known exploits for MacOS X. NONE.