They should put out a sign in front of the store -- "under no circumstances are you to look at any video surveillance camera in the store or you will be arrested immediately".
People dont read The Register for an unbiased and unemotional source of news. The whole point of reading the register is to get news mixed with dilbert-style commentary.
Think of The Register as a real life version of The Onion.
I think most people who read The Register know exactly what they're getting. Only clueless/. editors and/. trolls seem to miss the point.
GCC had to (at least partially) reverse engineer several architectures due to incomplete/missing documentation. This is ironic since GCC ended up being a far better development platform than the vendor's own "native" tools. (some of these architectures have since been obsoleted, heh.)
Tridgell did in fact reverse engineer microsoft SMB. He did it before anyone knew there was any linux client available and before anyone knew that there was any documentation available. And the documentation that was there was incomplete, so there was still reverse engineering that needed to be done. Hell, there's STILL reverse engineering being done in order to meet all the little incompatibilities that MS keeps sticking in new releases of XP and W2K3.
They are doing business through a PO box. Under federal law the postmaster for that location is obligated to give you the physical address and name of the individual who holds that box, on request.
to me, "recommended" is quite different from "legally authorized". for example i'd want to make sure the product was the latter if i knew the penalty for failure would be having to face a congressional inquiry or grand jury.
i'd certainly want to make sure the vendor's claims were certified for the intended use.
The ultimate boot cd has a number of different disk wipers on it -- and a ton of other useful utilities on it. No self respecting geek should be without a copy.
It doesn't really have anything to do with "some usability features missing from mac os 9". The OSX finder is a terrible interface. There's a reason it won the worst osx application of all time award on arstechnica.
I could also point out it's near impossible to use an IBM model M (clicky keyboard) with OSX. There is no windows key, and OSX is retarded and won't let you remap the apple command key at all. Any other OS in the entire universe will let you remap keys, but noooo that's too good for apple.:-/
And the freaking retarded default apple mouse acceleration. What the hell is up with that?
OSX is so close, yet so far... apple could fix these problems, but refuses to -- they are blinded by apple dogma (and also appear to have violated most of their own well defined apple ui design rules set down in the 1980s, way to go apple!)
apple simply doesnt give you any method to change the gui. you're stuck with their design decisions (for better or worse, mostly worse with panther). it's like henry ford's "you can have any color you want as long as it's black".
computing with osx is like you're stuck permanently with training wheels on, and you can't take them off. very annoying.
while every other ui is tweakable to adapt to the user, apple's approach is for the user to adapt to the ui:-/
come on apple, you can do better. just take the dogmatic blinders off...
you really should try virtual desktops more. the increase in efficiency is amazing, it's like discovering tabbed browsing in mozilla for the first time.
"Yesterday's news, tomorrow." "Where mediocrity is FUN and PROFITABLE!"
Sucking for 2-3 years? It's sucked for at least 4. That mild sucking sound quickly turned into a hurricane after they got bought out.
Yes, some of it is/. being a victim of its own popularity, but the majority of the blame can be solely placed on the (mis)management and blatant abuse by the editors.
the internet is bidirectional, and you can filter out ads with plugins. you watch what you want when you want, and there's actual informative content on the web.
none of which is true with traditional tv. you can get some of that with a pvr, but it's still nowhere close to the interactivity you get with tv.
hell, your local newspaper is more interactive than tv is. at least you can write a letter to the editor and get it published.
sorry, but openoffice smacks iwork down hard. but oh, a native openoffice port sadly isnt available for osx.:-/
the osx openoffice running under java is unusably slow. the x11 port doesnt integrate with aqua or finder (and is slow as well, though faster than the java port).
most people never use many of the ilife apps. garageband? idvd (when the base mac mini has a cd-r??)? imovie hd? come on...
more people would benefit from a useful working out of the box office suite than the pile of eye candy known as ilife:-/
a sane person compares the mac mini with a cheapo x86 computer because there's far more x86 software available.
and er, you can get a far more powerful x86 pc _with LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse_ for cheaper than a mac mini _without_ keyboard, monitor or mouse.
the mac mini is no way no how gonna play halflife2 or doom3 or any of the recent games -- a 32mb ati 9200 simply isn't up to the task. nor is the underpowered 1.2/1.4ghz g4.
i _have_ a mac mini, btw. which i use for remote compiling of osx ports, nothing more.
until very recently, osx was missing dlopen() and family. this was incredibly annoying for a lot of ports. someone wrote dlcompat a while back, and apple ended up rolling this into OSX. it took a while though.
theres a bunch of other BSD/Linux functionality missing which sometimes makes porting hard, though they escape my mind at the moment. maybe someones made a page somewhere covering the missing/incomplete APIs?
OSX finder was recently awarded the worst osx application of all time in arstechnica's mac forums.
It's a step backwards in usability compared to MacOS 9. Which is a real accomplishment as MacOS 9's finder wasnt very good.
Fink, Darwinports, etc arent base OS package managers. Eg there is no package manager for uninstalling Safari or Garageband etc. (sure you can just 'delete' the application from the/Applications directory, but that doesnt remove all the associated application cruft from the rest of the system directories).
OSX's unix api also has annoying shortcomings/omissions which make it difficult, sometimes impossible to port some stuff which works fine on linux/bsd. Until very recently, OSX had no working dlopen() for christ's sake! You cannot imagine how annoying this is for programmers.
Having to install all the fink crap just to get a usable development system doesn't inspire confidence. Yes, it's available, but it is as severe a PITA to install fink and all the packages needed for a usable development system, as it is to just install Linux and be done with it. A lot of the needed stuff isnt even available in fink stable, you have to go through fink unstable to get it.
Developer-wise, Xcode 1.5 is a big pile of doggie poo. It's crashy, buggy, slow, and has probably the worst user interface EVER for an IDE. kdevelop, anjuta, etc are miles better than xcode, and msvc is miles better than either kdevelop or anjuta...
Sure, go ahead and buy codewarrior for osx. Got $500 to spare? Because I don't...
OSX is nice for grandma, but it's laughably bad for developers without a lot of bubblegum and bailing wire.
virtual desktops are far more efficient and tidy. no more overlapping window mess, no more having to hide/unhide windows. you just switch between entire populated desktop workspaces with a single keystroke.
Actually I'm rather tired of OSX treating me like an idiot all the time.
The "one button mouse" comes along with the apple apologist excuse that "two buttons would confuse beginners".
Ok. I'm not a beginner. Can I please have a non-beginner apple mouse?
The rest of the OS has serious usability issues (OSX is a step backwards in usability compared to MacOS 9 for example). OSX finder was recently awarded the worst OSX application ever on arstechnica mac forums.
Apple apologists will just put on the steve jobs blinders and parrot "its the apple way" which is basically the same as ford's "you can have any color you want as long as its black". That attitude really wins over lots of converts, you know? Might explain why my mac friends switched to Linux...
I bought a mac mini because it was the cheapest mac I could buy for osx development.
It certainly won't be replacing my P4 shuttle SB52G2 or desktop opteron. I hardly use the mini at all, just ssh in for remote compiles really. Well, really slow compiles:-/
If it were possible to cross compile for osx (like I can with win32 and mingw), I probably wouldn't have a mac mini at all...
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This is what creationists believe, in their own words:
http://www.answersingenesis.com/
http://www.creationresearch.org/
http://www.icr.org/
http://www.creationscience.com/
http://www.trueorigin.org/
http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/
http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~do_while/sage/
http://www.accuracyingenesis.com/
http://www.creationtruth.com/
the real howler comes from ICR's "creationist tree vs evolutionary tree" exhibit:
Branches of the Creationist Tree
Genuine Christianity:
True Christology, True Evangelism, True Missions, True Fellowship, True Gospel, True Faith, True Morality, True Hope
Correct Practice:
True Science, True History, True Government, True Americanism, True Family Life, True Education
Branches of the Evolutionary Tree
Harmful Philosophies:
Communism, Nazism, Imperialism, Monopolism, Humanism, Atheism, Amoralism, Scientism, Racism, Pantheism, Behaviorism, Materialism
Evil Practices:
Abortion, Promiscuity, Pornography, Genocide, Euthanasia, Infanticide, Chauvinism, Bestiality, Homosexuality, Drug Culture, Child Abuse, Slavery
So basically people who believe in evolution are goat-raping homosexual child molesting drug addicts?
I am not sure if it is even possible to have a meaningful dialogue with people who think like this.
Exploit risk
Exploit cost
Fix Cost (man hours,$)
Fix impact (performance,retraining,retooling,etc)
I don't see why the parent was marked as a troll.
You must be new here.
This is slashdot we're talking about here. moderators and editors with the intellectual capacity of cabbage.
They should put out a sign in front of the store -- "under no circumstances are you to look at any video surveillance camera in the store or you will be arrested immediately".
People dont read The Register for an unbiased and unemotional source of news. The whole point of reading the register is to get news mixed with dilbert-style commentary.
/. editors and /. trolls seem to miss the point.
Think of The Register as a real life version of The Onion.
I think most people who read The Register know exactly what they're getting. Only clueless
Heh. Didnt realize it was bitkeeper and not SMB. Ignore the samba drivel :-P
But the GCC stuff still stands. Sorta just desserts that the proprietary architectures that needed to be reverse engineered are now dead.
GCC had to (at least partially) reverse engineer several architectures due to incomplete/missing documentation. This is ironic since GCC ended up being a far better development platform than the vendor's own "native" tools. (some of these architectures have since been obsoleted, heh.)
Tridgell did in fact reverse engineer microsoft SMB. He did it before anyone knew there was any linux client available and before anyone knew that there was any documentation available. And the documentation that was there was incomplete, so there was still reverse engineering that needed to be done. Hell, there's STILL reverse engineering being done in order to meet all the little incompatibilities that MS keeps sticking in new releases of XP and W2K3.
Don't believe me? samba team's own account of samba history states:
So Andrew chose the obvious solution. He wrote a packet sniffer, reverse engineered the SMB protocol, and implemented it on the Unix box.
The editors should be yanked now, in addition to the story. It's a long time overdue.
They are doing business through a PO box. Under federal law the postmaster for that location is obligated to give you the physical address and name of the individual who holds that box, on request.
to me, "recommended" is quite different from "legally authorized". for example i'd want to make sure the product was the latter if i knew the penalty for failure would be having to face a congressional inquiry or grand jury.
i'd certainly want to make sure the vendor's claims were certified for the intended use.
Looks hella expensive though. Something you'd expect to see MiB toting around, not civilians.
Is BCWipe legally authorized for that use though?
I use an external firewire enclosure and wipe to nuke drives that I ebay.
There's a self-booting CD diskzapper that looks like it ought to do the trick, though I have not used it.
Other posters mentioned Darik's Boot and Nuke as a floppy-boot solution.
The ultimate boot cd has a number of different disk wipers on it -- and a ton of other useful utilities on it. No self respecting geek should be without a copy.
The Recovery Is Possible bootable CD has a copy of wipe on it.
I wouldn't be suprised if Knoppix-STD had some erasing tool on it too, though I haven't checked.
Anyone know of a bootable image suitable for USB flash sticks?
I wonder if soon government will "wiretap" google
What makes you think they haven't already?
It doesn't really have anything to do with "some usability features missing from mac os 9". The OSX finder is a terrible interface. There's a reason it won the worst osx application of all time award on arstechnica.
:-/
:-/
I could also point out it's near impossible to use an IBM model M (clicky keyboard) with OSX. There is no windows key, and OSX is retarded and won't let you remap the apple command key at all. Any other OS in the entire universe will let you remap keys, but noooo that's too good for apple.
And the freaking retarded default apple mouse acceleration. What the hell is up with that?
OSX is so close, yet so far... apple could fix these problems, but refuses to -- they are blinded by apple dogma (and also appear to have violated most of their own well defined apple ui design rules set down in the 1980s, way to go apple!)
apple simply doesnt give you any method to change the gui. you're stuck with their design decisions (for better or worse, mostly worse with panther). it's like henry ford's "you can have any color you want as long as it's black".
computing with osx is like you're stuck permanently with training wheels on, and you can't take them off. very annoying.
while every other ui is tweakable to adapt to the user, apple's approach is for the user to adapt to the ui
come on apple, you can do better. just take the dogmatic blinders off...
you really should try virtual desktops more. the increase in efficiency is amazing, it's like discovering tabbed browsing in mozilla for the first time.
expose is cute, but pales in comparison.
Suggested new /. mottos:
/. being a victim of its own popularity, but the majority of the blame can be solely placed on the (mis)management and blatant abuse by the editors.
"Yesterday's news, tomorrow."
"Where mediocrity is FUN and PROFITABLE!"
Sucking for 2-3 years? It's sucked for at least 4. That mild sucking sound quickly turned into a hurricane after they got bought out.
Yes, some of it is
there's more useful content on the net than on tv.
overall, tv is a loss compared to the net.
the internet is bidirectional, and you can filter out ads with plugins. you watch what you want when you want, and there's actual informative content on the web.
none of which is true with traditional tv. you can get some of that with a pvr, but it's still nowhere close to the interactivity you get with tv.
hell, your local newspaper is more interactive than tv is. at least you can write a letter to the editor and get it published.
sorry, but openoffice smacks iwork down hard. but oh, a native openoffice port sadly isnt available for osx. :-/
:-/
the osx openoffice running under java is unusably slow. the x11 port doesnt integrate with aqua or finder (and is slow as well, though faster than the java port).
most people never use many of the ilife apps. garageband? idvd (when the base mac mini has a cd-r??)? imovie hd? come on...
more people would benefit from a useful working out of the box office suite than the pile of eye candy known as ilife
a sane person compares the mac mini with a cheapo x86 computer because there's far more x86 software available.
and er, you can get a far more powerful x86 pc _with LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse_ for cheaper than a mac mini _without_ keyboard, monitor or mouse.
the mac mini is no way no how gonna play halflife2 or doom3 or any of the recent games -- a 32mb ati 9200 simply isn't up to the task. nor is the underpowered 1.2/1.4ghz g4.
i _have_ a mac mini, btw. which i use for remote compiling of osx ports, nothing more.
until very recently, osx was missing dlopen() and family. this was incredibly annoying for a lot of ports. someone wrote dlcompat a while back, and apple ended up rolling this into OSX. it took a while though.
theres a bunch of other BSD/Linux functionality missing which sometimes makes porting hard, though they escape my mind at the moment. maybe someones made a page somewhere covering the missing/incomplete APIs?
OSX finder was recently awarded the worst osx application of all time in arstechnica's mac forums.
/Applications directory, but that doesnt remove all the associated application cruft from the rest of the system directories).
It's a step backwards in usability compared to MacOS 9. Which is a real accomplishment as MacOS 9's finder wasnt very good.
Fink, Darwinports, etc arent base OS package managers. Eg there is no package manager for uninstalling Safari or Garageband etc. (sure you can just 'delete' the application from the
OSX's unix api also has annoying shortcomings/omissions which make it difficult, sometimes impossible to port some stuff which works fine on linux/bsd. Until very recently, OSX had no working dlopen() for christ's sake! You cannot imagine how annoying this is for programmers.
Having to install all the fink crap just to get a usable development system doesn't inspire confidence. Yes, it's available, but it is as severe a PITA to install fink and all the packages needed for a usable development system, as it is to just install Linux and be done with it. A lot of the needed stuff isnt even available in fink stable, you have to go through fink unstable to get it.
Developer-wise, Xcode 1.5 is a big pile of doggie poo. It's crashy, buggy, slow, and has probably the worst user interface EVER for an IDE. kdevelop, anjuta, etc are miles better than xcode, and msvc is miles better than either kdevelop or anjuta...
Sure, go ahead and buy codewarrior for osx. Got $500 to spare? Because I don't...
OSX is nice for grandma, but it's laughably bad for developers without a lot of bubblegum and bailing wire.
virtual desktops are far more efficient and tidy. no more overlapping window mess, no more having to hide/unhide windows. you just switch between entire populated desktop workspaces with a single keystroke.
Actually I'm rather tired of OSX treating me like an idiot all the time.
The "one button mouse" comes along with the apple apologist excuse that "two buttons would confuse beginners".
Ok. I'm not a beginner. Can I please have a non-beginner apple mouse?
The rest of the OS has serious usability issues (OSX is a step backwards in usability compared to MacOS 9 for example). OSX finder was recently awarded the worst OSX application ever on arstechnica mac forums.
Apple apologists will just put on the steve jobs blinders and parrot "its the apple way" which is basically the same as ford's "you can have any color you want as long as its black". That attitude really wins over lots of converts, you know? Might explain why my mac friends switched to Linux...
I bought a mac mini because it was the cheapest mac I could buy for osx development.
:-/
It certainly won't be replacing my P4 shuttle SB52G2 or desktop opteron. I hardly use the mini at all, just ssh in for remote compiles really. Well, really slow compiles
If it were possible to cross compile for osx (like I can with win32 and mingw), I probably wouldn't have a mac mini at all...