Not only will Yast Online Update allow for fully automated patching, but you can also point it to a patch repository of your own choosing, so that you can download and test patches first, then put them in the repository when you want all of your machines to apply them.
With the switch to Intel we'll get to see Apples with SATA and SATA Raid, dual core chips, higher bus speeds, PCI-X, etc.
No switch to Intel necessary for those features, as the current top of the line PowerMacs have all of the above with the exception of dual core chips, which could also be achieved with IBM's recently announced chips. They also have S/PDIF input and output among other cool features most people are unaware of.
Middle-clicking for a background tab has always worked for me, at least since Firefox 1.0. I'm using a Logitech wheel mouse, no drivers or anything, and it's "just worked" from the moment I plugged it in.
Also, I think you meant to say G4 optimized. All Macs have been PPC based for about a decade now, and I doubt there are any 68k versions of Firefox.
I'm trying to imagine... but then I clicked this link to my state's official website. I can't remember the last time I set foot in a DMV office. (Here's the DMV link.)
Now I regret using my last mod point 20 minutes ago, because this is right on the money.
Personally, I wish the anti-trust settlement could be used to force MS into correctly implementing standards such as CSS, rather than accidentally ensuring browser incompatibility.
They should put an injunction on shipping IE until it conforms to the w3c specs. "Oh, what's that? It's irrevocably tied to your OS? Well, I guess you won't be shipping that either then until your browser conforms to the standards.... Well now, that was quick, especially after all the whining about it being unpossible."
The widespread use of the SSN as an identifier and authenticator has lead to an increase in identity theft. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, identity theft now affects between 500,000 and 700,000 people annually. Victims often do not discover the crime until many months after its occurrence. Victims spend hundreds of hours and substantial amounts of money attempting to fix ruined credit or expunge a criminal record that another committed in their name.
Identity theft litigation also shows that the SSN is central to committing fraud. In fact, the SSN plays such a central role in identification that there are numerous cases where impostors were able to obtain credit with their own name but a victim's SSN, and as a result, only the victim's credit was affected. In June 2004, the Salt Lake Tribune reported: "Making purchases on credit using your own name and someone else's Social Security number may sound difficult -- even impossible -- given the level of sophistication of the nation's financial services industry...But investigators say it is happening with alarming frequency because businesses granting credit do little to ensure names and Social Security numbers match and credit bureaus allow perpetrators to establish credit files using other people's Social Security numbers." The same article reports that Ron Ingleby, resident agent in charge of Utah, Montana and Wyoming for the Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General, as stating that SSN-only fraud makes up the majority of cases of identity theft.
What I find interesting that no one seems to be questioning why a high school needs to have the students SSN in the first place. Personally, I think that the administrator that made the decision to put SSN's into a (now proven) vulnerable database should get at least the same punishment as the students who cracked it. And if they are using products that are known to have weak security, they should get double. Why was this database even connected to the net, anyhow? Honestly, the real crime here is the lackadaisical handling of such sensitive information, when there is no good reason for them to have students SSN's in the first place.
Well, you may have been able to see the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, then. See, these magnetic poles, they tend to come in pairs. Apparently, there is one down there in your neighborhood, too.
That was the very first thing I thought of, too. If this were true, I would hope they would run afoul of their anti-trust settlement. Same goes for their involvement in the SCO case.
Just keep in mind, while OS X is most certainly unix, Apple does manage to do a few things a bit differently. This book from O'Reilly is a good reference for a unix or linux veteran to have on hand while getting used to OS X idiosyncrasies:
A hardware keylogger does not rely on the operating system at all. It simply captures the keystrokes and writes them to its flash memory for later playback. There is absolutely nothing you can do in software to detect or prevent this type of device from functioning.
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Actually, the people who type it with brackets or slashes are just referring to the ascii boot screen text, which used brackets on earlier models, and slashes on some later ones. Mine used to say "Apple ][+", if my memory serves after 25 years. If the machine referred to itself that way, I think it's ok for the nostalgics to use the nomenclature.
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AND they freakin' sold out, man. Like, totally sold out, to a freakin' soap company, man.
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Not only will Yast Online Update allow for fully automated patching, but you can also point it to a patch repository of your own choosing, so that you can download and test patches first, then put them in the repository when you want all of your machines to apply them.
I live in Arizona, you insensitive clod!
No switch to Intel necessary for those features, as the current top of the line PowerMacs have all of the above with the exception of dual core chips, which could also be achieved with IBM's recently announced chips. They also have S/PDIF input and output among other cool features most people are unaware of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchworm
Nevermind... I just confirmed that it does not work. I guess I was thinking of Safari, which I use the most.
Also, I think you meant to say G4 optimized. All Macs have been PPC based for about a decade now, and I doubt there are any 68k versions of Firefox.
I'm trying to imagine... but then I clicked this link to my state's official website. I can't remember the last time I set foot in a DMV office. (Here's the DMV link.)
I'm sure that skype is going to work great over Earthlink dialup.
Ah. That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying that for me. If I had ever gotten used to middle-clicking for a new window, that would bother me, too.
Personally, I wish the anti-trust settlement could be used to force MS into correctly implementing standards such as CSS, rather than accidentally ensuring browser incompatibility.
They should put an injunction on shipping IE until it conforms to the w3c specs. "Oh, what's that? It's irrevocably tied to your OS? Well, I guess you won't be shipping that either then until your browser conforms to the standards.... Well now, that was quick, especially after all the whining about it being unpossible."
Am I missing something?
(Actually, at least the earlier prototype used beowulf software.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchworm
You'd think that would be the case. Unfortunately, the answer is no.
From this article:
What I find interesting that no one seems to be questioning why a high school needs to have the students SSN in the first place. Personally, I think that the administrator that made the decision to put SSN's into a (now proven) vulnerable database should get at least the same punishment as the students who cracked it. And if they are using products that are known to have weak security, they should get double. Why was this database even connected to the net, anyhow? Honestly, the real crime here is the lackadaisical handling of such sensitive information, when there is no good reason for them to have students SSN's in the first place.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=keyboard+skin& btnG=Search+Froogle
Read all about it.
Why not? They have created an environment where people need to ask "Is this going to break my installed apps?"
If people are reluctant to install a patch because of previous bad experiences, where do you lay the blame?
Would TrueType count?
That was the very first thing I thought of, too. If this were true, I would hope they would run afoul of their anti-trust settlement. Same goes for their involvement in the SCO case.
Am I the only person who noticed the the computer icons in the control panel have a striking similarity to an iMac G4, aka the desklamp?
Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, or wait for the June release of Mac OS Tiger for Unix Geeks.
Mac user at work: "Would you two shut up for a change so I can get some more work done?"
A hardware keylogger does not rely on the operating system at all. It simply captures the keystrokes and writes them to its flash memory for later playback. There is absolutely nothing you can do in software to detect or prevent this type of device from functioning.
Actually, the people who type it with brackets or slashes are just referring to the ascii boot screen text, which used brackets on earlier models, and slashes on some later ones. Mine used to say "Apple ][+", if my memory serves after 25 years. If the machine referred to itself that way, I think it's ok for the nostalgics to use the nomenclature.
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