Turning off 'Open safe files' in Safari is NOT enough!
Disks can be automatically mounted through the 'disk://' URI handler. You should download RCDefaultApp and disable the handlers for 'disk', as well as 'ftp' and 'afp'. Oh, and 'telnet' as well, since that one is not safe too.
At least until Apple comes up with a proper security patch.
It still gets very hot. I played with one at the Paris Apple Expo, and picked it up to feel the underneath of the laptop. It was scorchingly hot. The palm rests were also uncomfortably hot. Using metal as the enclosure is probably not a good idea since it conducts heat so well.
I just surfed over to www.whatismyip.com using my Tungsten C over WiFi, and indeed the IP address reported is my own personal IP address. So, no proxy involved.
Just for kicks, I also tried Handspring's Blazer browser which I know uses a proxy. It reports a very different IP address, just as you would expect.
Blazer is actually a more usable browser because it formats web pages vertically. Horizontal scrolling can drive you nuts pretty quickly.
The web browser that comes with the Palm Tungsten C, which by the way is called 'Web Browser', does not use a proxy. I guess that 400 MHz is fast enough for formatting web pages.
After reading all of this I am still not clear on whether applications in Panther will be able to use more than 4 gigabytes of memory. Will this be possible? And if so, please point me to some documentation where this is stated. Thanks.
Nope. The new IBM PowerPC 970 will actually produce more heat then the current G4 processor from Motorola.
Luckily Motorola recently anounced a new low power version of the G4 at around 1 GHz. If this new chip ends up in the 12" PowerBook it will be a lot nicer machine.
I say get rid of BeOS for the PC platform. Concentrate 100% on using BeIA as the basis of the new PalmOS for ARM processors. The power of BeOS on a Palm device will rock! Be and Palm are my two favourite companies. Only good can come out of this.
This must be why the US is still stuck with punch card voting machines. Other countries bypassed this system completely for a fully digital (i.e. chad-free) system.
I switched from a dual CPU Intel machine with four fans inside to the fanless Cube. It is indeed very quiet, and makes using my broadband ADSL connection a real pleasure.
The weirdest thing happened today. I heard a high pitched buzzing noise which I had never noticed before. Turns out it was my digital camera's battery pack being charged on the other side of the room! I didn't even know that that thing made a sound.
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Turning off 'Open safe files' in Safari is NOT enough!
Disks can be automatically mounted through the 'disk://' URI handler. You should download RCDefaultApp and disable the handlers for 'disk', as well as 'ftp' and 'afp'. Oh, and 'telnet' as well, since that one is not safe too.
At least until Apple comes up with a proper security patch.
Making more friends, and less enemies. That will work.
It still gets very hot. I played with one at the Paris Apple Expo, and picked it up to feel the underneath of the laptop. It was scorchingly hot. The palm rests were also uncomfortably hot. Using metal as the enclosure is probably not a good idea since it conducts heat so well.
I just surfed over to www.whatismyip.com using my Tungsten C over WiFi, and indeed the IP address reported is my own personal IP address. So, no proxy involved.
Just for kicks, I also tried Handspring's Blazer browser which I know uses a proxy. It reports a very different IP address, just as you would expect.
Blazer is actually a more usable browser because it formats web pages vertically. Horizontal scrolling can drive you nuts pretty quickly.
The web browser that comes with the Palm Tungsten C, which by the way is called 'Web Browser', does not use a proxy. I guess that 400 MHz is fast enough for formatting web pages.
After reading all of this I am still not clear on whether applications in Panther will be able to use more than 4 gigabytes of memory. Will this be possible? And if so, please point me to some documentation where this is stated. Thanks.
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Nope. The new IBM PowerPC 970 will actually produce more heat then the current G4 processor from Motorola.
Luckily Motorola recently anounced a new low power version of the G4 at around 1 GHz. If this new chip ends up in the 12" PowerBook it will be a lot nicer machine.
I find it kind of interesting that Apple actually embraces open source software, while Microsoft is scared to hell about it.
Both companies produce mostly closed source stuff. So why does Microsoft feel threatened by open source, while Apple obviously does not?
I say get rid of BeOS for the PC platform. Concentrate 100% on using BeIA as the basis of the new PalmOS for ARM processors. The power of BeOS on a Palm device will rock! Be and Palm are my two favourite companies. Only good can come out of this.
This must be why the US is still stuck with punch card voting machines. Other countries bypassed this system completely for a fully digital (i.e. chad-free) system.
I switched from a dual CPU Intel machine with four fans inside to the fanless Cube. It is indeed very quiet, and makes using my broadband ADSL connection a real pleasure. The weirdest thing happened today. I heard a high pitched buzzing noise which I had never noticed before. Turns out it was my digital camera's battery pack being charged on the other side of the room! I didn't even know that that thing made a sound.