Actually if you look at the image of the plaque that the MIT guys made and installed in front of the cannon in its new home, they did not capitalize Brass Rat. So you can't really blame the Slashdot editors (or lack therof), they copied it verbatim.
I can't confirm this, because I haven't run the upgrade yet (I don't want to reboot today, at least not until this evening) but another user stated that the 10.4.6 upgrade changes Disk Utility so that it can create non-destructive partitions; I think this would do what you're asking. Total hearsay, but you might want to look into it.
Also, I believe Yellow Dog has had a utility out for a while that allowed you to create a non-destructive partition on a Mac, for the purpose of running their Linux distro.
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Agreed.
I had a friend who lived next door to me for a while. He was a diehard PC user, but didn't really know a lot about maintenance. His machine was always getting clogged up with viruses, spyware, etc. After about six months or so of coming over to my place to check his email when his machine was indisposed, he went out and bought a iBook. (This was with very little advocacy on my part -- I just honestly said I had no idea how to clear spyware off of a PC or a Mac, because I didn't use a PC and I'd never gotten a virus or spyware on my Mac in more than a decade.)
For a while he kept the PC set up, but I think about 3-4 months after he got it, the PC's monitor started to get pushed farther and farther back on the desk. Eventually, it got put on the floor. A few months after that it disappeared completely.
There are a lot of people who are unwilling to switch if it means cutting over 100%, all at once. People want to migrate, and have a fallback position. In my neighbor's case, he had enough cash and his PC was new enough to make the iBook an "experiment." Being able to dual-boot Windows on a Mini, distasteful as I personally find the idea, gives MacOS a 'foot in the door' in places where it might not otherwise get it. Apple gets a hardware sale, and the user gets to basically A/B Windows and Mac OS on the same hardware. My experience has shown that if a person gives Mac a fair shot, they're usually won over. So by giving folks a low-risk way to try Mac, they can let the product (OS X) sell itself on its own merits. It's the ultimate soft sell.
From that perspective, it's a pretty refreshing way to do business, actually.
Well, I guess they won't be short of things to take phone messages and write grocery lists on, over at IBM...
You'd think they could have given them the documents on CD or something, but I have this feeling that they probably came in a trailer truck. Makes it that much harder to search through them, I suppose.
Yes, although the name I had on the tip of my tongue but couldn't remember was TEMPEST, which NetworkBoy pointed out.
The surge of interest in it a few years back may well have been due to its mention in Cryptonomicon, I'm not sure. I just remember reading a lot about it, and seeing several programs that had options for "TEMPEST resistant fonts" or stuff of that nature. (The program I'm thinking of in particular was a Mac password-management database program, so by design it had to display passwords onscreen.) Seems as though interest has died down of late.
It would seem that the term "TEMPEST resistant" is actually a misnomer, since (according to Wikipedia, anyway) TEMPEST actually refers to the USG/NSA standards for hardening equipment against such monitoring, not the snooping system itself.
Yeah but you can't exactly call up Google and tell them to please "Delete my email, then format the drive it's on 30 times, writing it over each time with zeros, then ones, then a mix of the two, and then dump it in a river."
In theory, if you were using PINE and your own mailserver, you could do that. However if you were just using PINE and connecting to Comcast or any other large ISP, you'd be just as hosed if the guys in suits came knocking with paper.
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You might be able to, if you were running your own MTA (I like Postfix, personally) and you set it up to listen for incoming SSH connections on port 80 instead of 22; I'm not sure how smart the filters are at BestBuy, but if they're working just off of the ports, that ought to do the trick.
And your mailserver and be any old PC with a NIC; a 486 ought to do fine, since all it has to do is download your mail from your ISPs server and store it so you can get at it with PINE, running it as a local user in a SSH session.
There might be more elegant ways to do it, but that struck me as reasonably easy to construct, provided you have a computer at home that's always connected to the internet.
The more I learn about their licensing structure, the more it just appalls me that people jump through their ridiculous hoops and pay their prices for their products.
I nearly choked last week when I figured out how many different ways they want you to bend over and let them screw you to set up a Citrix server. Gah.
I forget the name of the system, but if you use a CRT display or possibly even a LCD display that's taking an analog signal as input, it's possible -- or so I have heard -- for someone a significant distance away with a good antenna to recover the image on your screen, by monitoring the baseband video signal being fed to and radiated by the monitor.
There was a lot of interest in it a few years back, I remember somebody even had a collection of fonts that were supposed to be resistant to it. (They were fuzzy and slanted and generally hard to read, the idea being that the distorted image you'd get on the receiving end of one of these systems would make it completely illegible.)
The Optical Storage Technology Association basically dodges the question, but they do drop this interesting tidbit: "The unrecorded shelf life of a CD-R or CD-RW disc is conservatively estimated to be between 5 and 10 years."
That's a quote I've never heard from any manufacturer, and it really serves to give me pause. I think any archival life you hear from a manufacturer should be taken with a big grain of salt. If you're storing really important stuff on CD-R, I think it might be wise to both keep multiple copies (on different brands of discs) and re-copy them every few years onto fresh media.
What I tend to do is to move backups onto newer, higher-capacity media as the technology evolves, while retaining the old copies. The first backups I made were onto floppies. Eventually I rolled them up onto Zip disks, and a few years later I burned those onto CD. Each time, new data got added to the old -- usually I just copied the old files to a folder on my hard drive, then backed up the hard drive -- so the size grows over time. Not that long ago, I put the CD-Rs onto DVD-Rs. I'm not sure which one will last longer, but I'm hedging my bets. Most recently, I installed a headless computer off-site, and keep my Documents folder (which includes all the old stuff) mirrored there.
It seems excessive when you add it all up, but really I've just been moving along with technology over the past 15 years or so. The key thing is, I haven't thrown anything out. Somewhere, back in a closet, I've probably still got the floppy disks that I used for my first backups. It's tempting to throw the old media away, but you never know if the new format you just decided to use is going to be the next "clicking Zip" format of death.
Interestingly, what this also means is that it's the oldest information that's the most likely to be recovered, since it's written down in the most places. I probably have 10 copies of old papers and stuff that I wrote on our first computer, on as many different types of media. Stuff that I created last week is saved (obviously) only on the newer backups.
I suspect that the Government just outsources it to these guys, or somebody like them. The company I was referring to (eMag) was also the very last manufacturer of 9-track, open reel data tape systems. So they've got the gear there if you ever want to recover data from your old 3420 tapes, they're probably the go-to people.
I do think it would be a neat idea, though, if we had something like the Library of Congress for computing. Or at least data storage. Manufacturers, send in two units of your storage device, and one set of associated signal-processing equipment which produces a standard output. Keep them in some big warehouse somewhere. Maintainance would be a bit of a problem, I suppose (I'm thinking of some old open-reel decks I've seen where the rubber parts have slowly "melted" into puddles in the bottom of the cases). Oh, well -- you have to admit that would be a cool facility to visit, though.
I've always thought that there needs to be some sort of "virtual porn buddy" system, so that if you don't log into your system, or if you (or a friend) triggers it, it goes and wipes the smut off of your system, and maybe once done, relaxes the security settings somewhat so that it's easier for your relatives to go through your stuff.
I'd definitely want my family to get my digital photos, written documents, etc., but I'm not really sure whether I want them going through my email archive if I get hit by a bus tomorrow. However, I keep it backed up because it's stuff I might want in the future (or that I wouldn't mind someone reading in 50 years, I just wouldn't want it to become public while it could still negatively impact other people).
Maybe the solution is just to have your buddy program encrypt everything in some way that it can't be decrypted for 50-60 years. I'm not sure how you would do that, without involving some offshore server someplace that was set to email the key at a predetermined time down the road, though.
At least here in the US, the "choice" vanity callsigns are the ones that are either short, or use Morse Code letters that are particularly easy to type (sort of the Morse equivalent of having a mnemonic phone number), or both. It's not uncommon for people to hang on to callsigns like that until they die, and then they go back out into the system and are available for re-use after two years. I don't know how common it is for them to get passed down from one generation to the next, but they do get reused by other Hams.
It's pretty easy, if you have a good vanity call, to figure out who's held the sign before you, and who among them are SK ("silent key" = dead). I've even heard of people getting notes from friends of previous owners of their calls.
I always thought it was neat. If they keep this up for a while, it won't be long before all the short callsigns have several generations of history attached to them.
The volume license requires the purchase of an OEM license.
Huh? That doesn't make any sense. Why would a company buy a volume license of Windows, if in order to use it they have to buy PCs that already come with it installed as an OEM version? The OEM version already has a license -- it just says that you can't transfer it to another piece of hardware. Why have the volume license then?
That doesn't make sense. Now, if you're saying that the company has a volume license for some other software package that runs on Windows (e.g., Microsoft Office), then they don't have any right to buy a bare PC and install Windows on it, in order to run MS Office.
But I don't believe you have to have BOTH an OEM license, and a volume license, to run the same piece of software on the same machine. That doesn't make any sense.
I suspect that if you did order a Linux-only system, they would probably just take a Mac and wipe OS X off of it; I don't think that Apple will sell a reseller the hardware without the software license.
Back in the day (maybe mid-90s) it used to be possible to build your own Mac, by ordering the logic boards and other components from Apple via an Authorized Dealer. They basically quashed that avenue by requiring you to send in an old mobo in order to get a new one at a semi-reasonable price. (At least that's the story I've been told, I haven't tried to get one recently.)
It's almost an academic point to try and separate Mac hardware from software; anytime you're buying Apple hardware you're indirectly supporting the software side of the business, since the hardware profits subsidize it. Anything that has the Apple logo on it has its price "loaded" already with some of the cost of software, whether you use it or throw it away and install Yellow Dog.
I'm not Apple-bashing here, I'm just saying that I think it's a mistake to point to an Apple computer that's being sold without Mac OS preinstalled and say that it's equivalent to a white-box PC. It's not.
Perhaps I should have said, 'refuses to run on other Macs that are otherwise quite capable of running it.' That it runs on the PPC iMac had slipped my mind, but of course that's why a PPC version exists (and why it should run on my G5, but doesn't). I was also lumping most of the Mactels together, although you're correct there are multiple models that it runs on (the MacBook and the Mini).
I can't think of any other software though (besides maybe the OS updaters / Software Restore CDs) that flat-out refuse to run on machines, for purely non-technical reasons. Although maybe the entire Mac OS is in this category now as well?
At any rate, it's a new direction for Apple; it used to be pretty much guaranteed that if it would run on a low-spec Mac, it would run on a higher-spec Mac. You didn't have special software that was only for "home theater" Macs that wouldn't run on a "workstation" Mac, in other words.
Despite the handicap of not actually being the government, they seem to be doing fairly well for themselves in terms of getting whatever laws they want passed. Well, until recently -- seems people have started to notice in the last few years. But as a nation in general we pretty much let them push the DMCA right through without so much as a whimper in Congress -- hell, we don't even know who voted for the thing, the way it was done.
Sure, they're not a government agency, but in many ways it would be better if they were; we'd probably have more control over them then, and they wouldn't be able to pour money into the political system in the way they do.
But to say they're not "in" government, in terms of having their fingers pulling various strings, is a mistake.
I think there's something of a double standard out there, regarding many "professional" jobs; nobody expects a desk jockey at a software company to come to work everyday because of, or make decisions based on, ideological fervor, but when a doctor or lawyer admits that they don't, there's a tendency to condemn them. If somebody working a stamping press on a factory floor told you that they come to work every morning because they really just want to do the very best thing for the shareholder's bottom line, you probably wouldn't take them seriously. However, if a lawyer says anything but that, they're likely to be in trouble, or at the very least their professional ethics might be questioned.
It's been my experience that people do things because they're good at them (or think they are), and think they can make money doing it. People who act primarily out of idealism are very rare, and generally make little money and receive little recognition: as is fair, since that's not what they're seeking. Doing something that you're good at is fundamentally rewarding, and getting paid for it is, too, because it's our society's way of signifying that your work is valuable. I'd rather go to a doctor who honestly tells me that the reason that they went to medical school is because they always had a knack for biology in school and wanted to live a nice life and drive a nice car, rather than tell me some story about how they "just want to help people" while they're writing out the bill. If wanting to help people was your primary motivation, you'd be in Sudan or at least in some charity hospital somewhere, not working U&P rates in the suburbs. But yet everyone winks and nods, because it's unacceptable in many professions to speak the truth.
It's because this new logo looks more like a warning sticker that you'd find on a can of Raid, or at the top of a very dangerous ski slope, and thus is appropriate for Windows.
It's not that it's beautiful; that would just be ironic.
You can multiboot older versions of OS X right now, without using this. Just make a new partition, install a version of OS X there, and don't upgrade it.
Any time you want, you can go into the System Preferences / Startup Disk panel and choose which drive and OS version you want to boot up on. It lists the version underneath the name of the drive.
Depending on how new your computer is, you can have several versions of OS X and OS 9 all listed there, and you can boot into any one you want.
The product I'm thinking of was the "DOS Card" for the Power Macintosh 6100/66 (and a bunch of other similar systems with an '040 Processor Direct Slot). Basically it's a 486 system on a card, packaged with a bunch of DOS drivers for the hardware Apple was using at the time.
I used one back in the day and it was pretty slick. You just pressed a hotkey, IIRC it was Command-Enter, and you could switch back and forth between DOS/Windows and MacOS. I even think you could cut and paste between them (sometimes, if you did everything right and the planets were in the right alignment). You could get the card both as an addon for a regular 6100 or there were special "6100 DOS Compatible" editions with the card pre-loaded.
It says that with the card, you could run MS-DOS, Win 3.1 and Win95. I don't think I ever saw 95 running with one, but I definitely played some DOS games using it. For its time, it was pretty neat.
but also wait until you can buy copies of OS X tiger that are not tied to the new macbook or iMacs & install that on your generic hardware.
Don't hold your breath.
Apple software has become more closely tied to the hardware as of late, not less. Nobody has seemed to make a big deal out of it (that I've seen) but Frontrow is the first piece of Apple software that I've ever seen that's intentionally designed to only run on one particular model Mac, even though other models are perfectly capable of running it.
Apple doesn't sell computers and operating systems, they sell devices that do stuff.
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Actually if you look at the image of the plaque that the MIT guys made and installed in front of the cannon in its new home, they did not capitalize Brass Rat. So you can't really blame the Slashdot editors (or lack therof), they copied it verbatim.
See image here:
http://www.caltechcannon.com/2.jpg
At least for me, you have to click on "Read the rest" to get the punchline.
Great, though.
I can't confirm this, because I haven't run the upgrade yet (I don't want to reboot today, at least not until this evening) but another user stated that the 10.4.6 upgrade changes Disk Utility so that it can create non-destructive partitions; I think this would do what you're asking. Total hearsay, but you might want to look into it.
Also, I believe Yellow Dog has had a utility out for a while that allowed you to create a non-destructive partition on a Mac, for the purpose of running their Linux distro.
Agreed.
I had a friend who lived next door to me for a while. He was a diehard PC user, but didn't really know a lot about maintenance. His machine was always getting clogged up with viruses, spyware, etc. After about six months or so of coming over to my place to check his email when his machine was indisposed, he went out and bought a iBook. (This was with very little advocacy on my part -- I just honestly said I had no idea how to clear spyware off of a PC or a Mac, because I didn't use a PC and I'd never gotten a virus or spyware on my Mac in more than a decade.)
For a while he kept the PC set up, but I think about 3-4 months after he got it, the PC's monitor started to get pushed farther and farther back on the desk. Eventually, it got put on the floor. A few months after that it disappeared completely.
There are a lot of people who are unwilling to switch if it means cutting over 100%, all at once. People want to migrate, and have a fallback position. In my neighbor's case, he had enough cash and his PC was new enough to make the iBook an "experiment." Being able to dual-boot Windows on a Mini, distasteful as I personally find the idea, gives MacOS a 'foot in the door' in places where it might not otherwise get it. Apple gets a hardware sale, and the user gets to basically A/B Windows and Mac OS on the same hardware. My experience has shown that if a person gives Mac a fair shot, they're usually won over. So by giving folks a low-risk way to try Mac, they can let the product (OS X) sell itself on its own merits. It's the ultimate soft sell.
From that perspective, it's a pretty refreshing way to do business, actually.
Well, I guess they won't be short of things to take phone messages and write grocery lists on, over at IBM...
You'd think they could have given them the documents on CD or something, but I have this feeling that they probably came in a trailer truck. Makes it that much harder to search through them, I suppose.
Yes, although the name I had on the tip of my tongue but couldn't remember was TEMPEST, which NetworkBoy pointed out.
The surge of interest in it a few years back may well have been due to its mention in Cryptonomicon, I'm not sure. I just remember reading a lot about it, and seeing several programs that had options for "TEMPEST resistant fonts" or stuff of that nature. (The program I'm thinking of in particular was a Mac password-management database program, so by design it had to display passwords onscreen.) Seems as though interest has died down of late.
It would seem that the term "TEMPEST resistant" is actually a misnomer, since (according to Wikipedia, anyway) TEMPEST actually refers to the USG/NSA standards for hardening equipment against such monitoring, not the snooping system itself.
Yeah but you can't exactly call up Google and tell them to please "Delete my email, then format the drive it's on 30 times, writing it over each time with zeros, then ones, then a mix of the two, and then dump it in a river."
In theory, if you were using PINE and your own mailserver, you could do that. However if you were just using PINE and connecting to Comcast or any other large ISP, you'd be just as hosed if the guys in suits came knocking with paper.
You might be able to, if you were running your own MTA (I like Postfix, personally) and you set it up to listen for incoming SSH connections on port 80 instead of 22; I'm not sure how smart the filters are at BestBuy, but if they're working just off of the ports, that ought to do the trick.
And your mailserver and be any old PC with a NIC; a 486 ought to do fine, since all it has to do is download your mail from your ISPs server and store it so you can get at it with PINE, running it as a local user in a SSH session.
There might be more elegant ways to do it, but that struck me as reasonably easy to construct, provided you have a computer at home that's always connected to the internet.
Wow. What a freaking scam.
The more I learn about their licensing structure, the more it just appalls me that people jump through their ridiculous hoops and pay their prices for their products.
I nearly choked last week when I figured out how many different ways they want you to bend over and let them screw you to set up a Citrix server. Gah.
I forget the name of the system, but if you use a CRT display or possibly even a LCD display that's taking an analog signal as input, it's possible -- or so I have heard -- for someone a significant distance away with a good antenna to recover the image on your screen, by monitoring the baseband video signal being fed to and radiated by the monitor.
There was a lot of interest in it a few years back, I remember somebody even had a collection of fonts that were supposed to be resistant to it. (They were fuzzy and slanted and generally hard to read, the idea being that the distorted image you'd get on the receiving end of one of these systems would make it completely illegible.)
Anybody remember what it was called?
The Optical Storage Technology Association basically dodges the question, but they do drop this interesting tidbit: "The unrecorded shelf life of a CD-R or CD-RW disc is conservatively estimated to be between 5 and 10 years."
That's a quote I've never heard from any manufacturer, and it really serves to give me pause. I think any archival life you hear from a manufacturer should be taken with a big grain of salt. If you're storing really important stuff on CD-R, I think it might be wise to both keep multiple copies (on different brands of discs) and re-copy them every few years onto fresh media.
What I tend to do is to move backups onto newer, higher-capacity media as the technology evolves, while retaining the old copies. The first backups I made were onto floppies. Eventually I rolled them up onto Zip disks, and a few years later I burned those onto CD. Each time, new data got added to the old -- usually I just copied the old files to a folder on my hard drive, then backed up the hard drive -- so the size grows over time. Not that long ago, I put the CD-Rs onto DVD-Rs. I'm not sure which one will last longer, but I'm hedging my bets. Most recently, I installed a headless computer off-site, and keep my Documents folder (which includes all the old stuff) mirrored there.
It seems excessive when you add it all up, but really I've just been moving along with technology over the past 15 years or so. The key thing is, I haven't thrown anything out. Somewhere, back in a closet, I've probably still got the floppy disks that I used for my first backups. It's tempting to throw the old media away, but you never know if the new format you just decided to use is going to be the next "clicking Zip" format of death.
Interestingly, what this also means is that it's the oldest information that's the most likely to be recovered, since it's written down in the most places. I probably have 10 copies of old papers and stuff that I wrote on our first computer, on as many different types of media. Stuff that I created last week is saved (obviously) only on the newer backups.
I suspect that the Government just outsources it to these guys, or somebody like them. The company I was referring to (eMag) was also the very last manufacturer of 9-track, open reel data tape systems. So they've got the gear there if you ever want to recover data from your old 3420 tapes, they're probably the go-to people.
I do think it would be a neat idea, though, if we had something like the Library of Congress for computing. Or at least data storage. Manufacturers, send in two units of your storage device, and one set of associated signal-processing equipment which produces a standard output. Keep them in some big warehouse somewhere. Maintainance would be a bit of a problem, I suppose (I'm thinking of some old open-reel decks I've seen where the rubber parts have slowly "melted" into puddles in the bottom of the cases). Oh, well -- you have to admit that would be a cool facility to visit, though.
I've always thought that there needs to be some sort of "virtual porn buddy" system, so that if you don't log into your system, or if you (or a friend) triggers it, it goes and wipes the smut off of your system, and maybe once done, relaxes the security settings somewhat so that it's easier for your relatives to go through your stuff.
I'd definitely want my family to get my digital photos, written documents, etc., but I'm not really sure whether I want them going through my email archive if I get hit by a bus tomorrow. However, I keep it backed up because it's stuff I might want in the future (or that I wouldn't mind someone reading in 50 years, I just wouldn't want it to become public while it could still negatively impact other people).
Maybe the solution is just to have your buddy program encrypt everything in some way that it can't be decrypted for 50-60 years. I'm not sure how you would do that, without involving some offshore server someplace that was set to email the key at a predetermined time down the road, though.
This kind of reminds me of ham radio callsigns.
At least here in the US, the "choice" vanity callsigns are the ones that are either short, or use Morse Code letters that are particularly easy to type (sort of the Morse equivalent of having a mnemonic phone number), or both. It's not uncommon for people to hang on to callsigns like that until they die, and then they go back out into the system and are available for re-use after two years. I don't know how common it is for them to get passed down from one generation to the next, but they do get reused by other Hams.
It's pretty easy, if you have a good vanity call, to figure out who's held the sign before you, and who among them are SK ("silent key" = dead). I've even heard of people getting notes from friends of previous owners of their calls.
I always thought it was neat. If they keep this up for a while, it won't be long before all the short callsigns have several generations of history attached to them.
The volume license requires the purchase of an OEM license.
Huh? That doesn't make any sense. Why would a company buy a volume license of Windows, if in order to use it they have to buy PCs that already come with it installed as an OEM version? The OEM version already has a license -- it just says that you can't transfer it to another piece of hardware. Why have the volume license then?
That doesn't make sense. Now, if you're saying that the company has a volume license for some other software package that runs on Windows (e.g., Microsoft Office), then they don't have any right to buy a bare PC and install Windows on it, in order to run MS Office.
But I don't believe you have to have BOTH an OEM license, and a volume license, to run the same piece of software on the same machine. That doesn't make any sense.
I suspect that if you did order a Linux-only system, they would probably just take a Mac and wipe OS X off of it; I don't think that Apple will sell a reseller the hardware without the software license.
Back in the day (maybe mid-90s) it used to be possible to build your own Mac, by ordering the logic boards and other components from Apple via an Authorized Dealer. They basically quashed that avenue by requiring you to send in an old mobo in order to get a new one at a semi-reasonable price. (At least that's the story I've been told, I haven't tried to get one recently.)
It's almost an academic point to try and separate Mac hardware from software; anytime you're buying Apple hardware you're indirectly supporting the software side of the business, since the hardware profits subsidize it. Anything that has the Apple logo on it has its price "loaded" already with some of the cost of software, whether you use it or throw it away and install Yellow Dog.
I'm not Apple-bashing here, I'm just saying that I think it's a mistake to point to an Apple computer that's being sold without Mac OS preinstalled and say that it's equivalent to a white-box PC. It's not.
Perhaps I should have said, 'refuses to run on other Macs that are otherwise quite capable of running it.' That it runs on the PPC iMac had slipped my mind, but of course that's why a PPC version exists (and why it should run on my G5, but doesn't). I was also lumping most of the Mactels together, although you're correct there are multiple models that it runs on (the MacBook and the Mini).
I can't think of any other software though (besides maybe the OS updaters / Software Restore CDs) that flat-out refuse to run on machines, for purely non-technical reasons. Although maybe the entire Mac OS is in this category now as well?
At any rate, it's a new direction for Apple; it used to be pretty much guaranteed that if it would run on a low-spec Mac, it would run on a higher-spec Mac. You didn't have special software that was only for "home theater" Macs that wouldn't run on a "workstation" Mac, in other words.
Wait, I thought that eMusic didn't do DRM?
Did I miss something? I thought they were straight-up MP3 files, pretty much the only place aside from you know where that sells them.
Despite the handicap of not actually being the government, they seem to be doing fairly well for themselves in terms of getting whatever laws they want passed. Well, until recently -- seems people have started to notice in the last few years. But as a nation in general we pretty much let them push the DMCA right through without so much as a whimper in Congress -- hell, we don't even know who voted for the thing, the way it was done.
Sure, they're not a government agency, but in many ways it would be better if they were; we'd probably have more control over them then, and they wouldn't be able to pour money into the political system in the way they do.
But to say they're not "in" government, in terms of having their fingers pulling various strings, is a mistake.
Agreed and well said.
I think there's something of a double standard out there, regarding many "professional" jobs; nobody expects a desk jockey at a software company to come to work everyday because of, or make decisions based on, ideological fervor, but when a doctor or lawyer admits that they don't, there's a tendency to condemn them. If somebody working a stamping press on a factory floor told you that they come to work every morning because they really just want to do the very best thing for the shareholder's bottom line, you probably wouldn't take them seriously. However, if a lawyer says anything but that, they're likely to be in trouble, or at the very least their professional ethics might be questioned.
It's been my experience that people do things because they're good at them (or think they are), and think they can make money doing it. People who act primarily out of idealism are very rare, and generally make little money and receive little recognition: as is fair, since that's not what they're seeking. Doing something that you're good at is fundamentally rewarding, and getting paid for it is, too, because it's our society's way of signifying that your work is valuable. I'd rather go to a doctor who honestly tells me that the reason that they went to medical school is because they always had a knack for biology in school and wanted to live a nice life and drive a nice car, rather than tell me some story about how they "just want to help people" while they're writing out the bill. If wanting to help people was your primary motivation, you'd be in Sudan or at least in some charity hospital somewhere, not working U&P rates in the suburbs. But yet everyone winks and nods, because it's unacceptable in many professions to speak the truth.
It's because this new logo looks more like a warning sticker that you'd find on a can of Raid, or at the top of a very dangerous ski slope, and thus is appropriate for Windows.
It's not that it's beautiful; that would just be ironic.
You can multiboot older versions of OS X right now, without using this. Just make a new partition, install a version of OS X there, and don't upgrade it.
Any time you want, you can go into the System Preferences / Startup Disk panel and choose which drive and OS version you want to boot up on. It lists the version underneath the name of the drive.
Depending on how new your computer is, you can have several versions of OS X and OS 9 all listed there, and you can boot into any one you want.
You are correct, sir.
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The product I'm thinking of was the "DOS Card" for the Power Macintosh 6100/66 (and a bunch of other similar systems with an '040 Processor Direct Slot). Basically it's a 486 system on a card, packaged with a bunch of DOS drivers for the hardware Apple was using at the time.
I used one back in the day and it was pretty slick. You just pressed a hotkey, IIRC it was Command-Enter, and you could switch back and forth between DOS/Windows and MacOS. I even think you could cut and paste between them (sometimes, if you did everything right and the planets were in the right alignment). You could get the card both as an addon for a regular 6100 or there were special "6100 DOS Compatible" editions with the card pre-loaded.
I just googled and here's some more background info:
http://www.renewingmind.com/quadrados/quadrados.h
It says that with the card, you could run MS-DOS, Win 3.1 and Win95. I don't think I ever saw 95 running with one, but I definitely played some DOS games using it. For its time, it was pretty neat.
but also wait until you can buy copies of OS X tiger that are not tied to the new macbook or iMacs & install that on your generic hardware.
Don't hold your breath.
Apple software has become more closely tied to the hardware as of late, not less. Nobody has seemed to make a big deal out of it (that I've seen) but Frontrow is the first piece of Apple software that I've ever seen that's intentionally designed to only run on one particular model Mac, even though other models are perfectly capable of running it.
Apple doesn't sell computers and operating systems, they sell devices that do stuff.
The best part was that the reason it's called "Open Apple" is that there was a "Closed Apple" on the other side of the keyboard.
I don't recall ever using it for anything, but it was there. And who doesn't want an extra function key?