Actually, I just spent some time researching this. I can use a proxyserver or a hosts file but I'd really like some transparent process that runs on my machine.
Also, many sites serve ads from legit domains but in sub folders on their domain. If a proxyserver can do this, I'd like to know about it.
I didn't seee Director MX mentioned. Everyone appears to be flash centric these days but there has been a Mac OS X version of Director out for 8 months and Director can do a lot of things that Flash can't and even can include Flash inside a Director movie.
Plus with xtras, you can write your own C++ to extend Director's functionality. We just got another SQL database xtra today.
Sorry to not see it mentioned in the software roundup.
...Would be this is a g3 (can be a g4 though in a BTO) and Aqua's windowing is pretty processor intensive. If the video card is up to snuff that may offset the demands of Aqua.
That report states that personal LED light bulbs would be $100 each. That seems rather high.
Couldn't we enterprising slashdotters come up with our own LED white bulb? And publish a how to?
I'm thinking take 3 white LEDs, immerse them in a plastic or epoxy mixture to diffuse or scatter the light and apply some circuitry to allow them to work in a bulb socket and there you go.
It is news but what i wish I saw reported when a virus hits is not just the systems affected but the systems NOT affected.
Almost all the newspapers report that these infections happen on windows - but they are doing the reading public a disservice by not stating who they don't affect.
Besides these two reports noted by maccentral, I haven't seen many reports stating that macs and linux systems are not affected.
This point was argued today on another list. I think it is of merit for discussion here:
I may be the Last person in the world to defend M$, but is it not the fact that M$ OSes are the most prevalent, that causes the virus writers to exploit their weaknesses?
NO.
I worked in Academic Computer Services at my college last century and when virii came out for macs with an exploit, Apple patched the system so that they were not able to leverage that exploit (where possible) in the next release.
Init 39, scores, nVir and MDEF and WDEF virii are the ones I encountered.
Nothing happened from Microsoft. It's like shipping a barn with the barn door locked open. These systems were exploitable BY DEFAULT and it was a SIMPLE MATTER to ship with many of the doors closed.
Now I am referring to exploits that do not really require deep code experience to perform. A much lower skill level was needed to take advantage of many MS open holes. Someone using VB could write an email virus.
It was not the case on the mac in those days, it was harder to write a virus.
It was literally sickening to watch. There were so many simple open areas that any bored teenager could take advantage of.
I performed the virus protection for the Mac and PC clusters (and sometimes VAX) so I know this firsthand.
There are about 70 THOUSAND pc viruses. There are about 50 mac viruses.
At my house, I ran my mac server for about 3 years without a firewall, someone probably hacked it once but I just rebooted it. There were many many attempts to access formmail.cgi and run many windows infection routines - but I chose to name my hard drive something I wanted. This alone made the pathname invalid - let alone I was running on a mac. SIMPLE THINGS like being able to call your hard drive whatever you want made it harder to assume a path to sensitive information that could be exploited.
The lameness of windows and lack of response from MS and their ignoring their obligation to provide simple security to their customers has disgusted me about MS for a long time.
The required ram, video card, processor and hard drive ugrades to make your experience not suck royally, will cost you more than a good used mac on cragslist.org
Requirements Get a G4 of at least 500 Mhz. 512 meg of ram - 1Gig recommended DUAL PROCESSORS ARE BETTER - they lessen the performance drain when the machine gets working hard Fast video card with at least 16 meg of ram (32 + preferred) FAST hard drive. Partition one for your swap space with 1 G allocated for swap.
Or you can think of things this way. I have a 1G Ti running 10.2.6. For crunching video, it zipps. But for general use, the UI feels sluggish. I also have system, 9.2.2 and several other macs from a 266 G3 powerbook running 8.5, a G3 500 pb running 9.2.2, and so on. The 266 pb running 8.5 actually feels faster than the Ti when paying attention to the GUI.
Booting the Ti back to 9.2.2 is a JOY since everything in the GUI just seems so much faster.
Unless you have a compelling reason to go with Jaguar I'd stay right where you are.
FWIW I've used iChat AV and frankly, I'm pretty blown away with the system.
The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco's Union St., leeching bandwidth off a neighboring business's airport. While there, I got an iChat voice message from Bolivia. Amazing.
Also, I got two one way video chats from Cape Cod and Virginia. The quality was good and there were a few hiccups connecting but considering it's a beta and this was happening over wireless, I am still blown away.
If you read the thread I was replying to, the poster said "the public is not adopting wireless in large numbers."
I believe my reply was posted to provide evidence to the contrary. How come you think it is off topic? Did I type anything about them encrypting their AP links or not? I stated i went searching for open access points, I didn't say that I found open access points.
All I stated was that I found 20 access points in 2 hours and this was 2 years ago. Where I live, I see a great density of access points. That's all.
I already have the house set up with 2 airports and still get dead areas less than two rooma away from the access points.
If this is geared for shorter distances, things like ceramic tiles in the bathroom, your granite countertop, springs in your couch and the your ventilation hood on the stove will get in the way of the signal.
If this is geared for shorter distances, than 802.11, I can't see how it will be anything less than a failure.
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Actually, I just spent some time researching this. I can use a proxyserver or a hosts file but I'd really like some transparent process that runs on my machine.
Also, many sites serve ads from legit domains but in sub folders on their domain. If a proxyserver can do this, I'd like to know about it.
On a mac BTW.
Heck, in the 80's, I read the book on cube solving and got my best time down to 1:16. Blows my mind how someone could get 23 seconds.
Just goes to show that there must be better algorithms out there.
I'd love to use a proxy server but I switch locations so often and don't have an outside url to host it at. It's just not worth it.
Rumor has it new PBs will be out after IBM develops a low power version of the G5
I didn't seee Director MX mentioned. Everyone appears to be flash centric these days but there has been a Mac OS X version of Director out for 8 months and Director can do a lot of things that Flash can't and even can include Flash inside a Director movie.
Plus with xtras, you can write your own C++ to extend Director's functionality. We just got another SQL database xtra today.
Sorry to not see it mentioned in the software roundup.
One great point about iCab that I love is the potential for Ad blocking. The filter is easy to screw up but once you learn how to use it. It's great.
This is an incomplete browser but I use it for pages I know it works on because of the ad blocking.
According to one site, a 36 LED bulb is comparable to a 30 watt incandescent bulb and uses 30mA at 120vac.
It is supposed to be 360 lumens.
http://www.Theledlight.com
You have my vote.
...Would be this is a g3 (can be a g4 though in a BTO) and Aqua's windowing is pretty processor intensive. If the video card is up to snuff that may offset the demands of Aqua.
That report states that personal LED light bulbs would be $100 each. That seems rather high.
Couldn't we enterprising slashdotters come up with our own LED white bulb? And publish a how to?
I'm thinking take 3 white LEDs, immerse them in a plastic or epoxy mixture to diffuse or scatter the light and apply some circuitry to allow them to work in a bulb socket and there you go.
Anyone care to help out or provide info?
It is news but what i wish I saw reported when a virus hits is not just the systems affected but the systems NOT affected.
Almost all the newspapers report that these infections happen on windows - but they are doing the reading public a disservice by not stating who they don't affect.
Besides these two reports noted by maccentral, I haven't seen many reports stating that macs and linux systems are not affected.
This point was argued today on another list. I think it is of merit for discussion here:
I may be the Last person in the world to defend M$, but is it not the fact that M$ OSes are the most prevalent, that causes the virus writers to exploit their
weaknesses?
NO.
I worked in Academic Computer Services at my college last century and when virii came out for macs with an exploit, Apple patched the system so that they were not able to leverage that exploit (where possible) in the next release.
Init 39, scores, nVir and MDEF and WDEF virii are the ones I encountered.
Nothing happened from Microsoft. It's like shipping a barn with the barn door locked open. These systems were exploitable BY DEFAULT and it was a SIMPLE MATTER to ship with many of the doors closed.
Now I am referring to exploits that do not really require deep code experience to perform. A much lower skill level was needed to take advantage of many MS open holes. Someone using VB could write an email virus.
It was not the case on the mac in those days, it was harder to write a virus.
It was literally sickening to watch. There were so many simple open areas that any bored teenager could take advantage of.
I performed the virus protection for the Mac and PC clusters (and sometimes VAX) so I know this firsthand.
There are about 70 THOUSAND pc viruses. There are about 50 mac viruses.
At my house, I ran my mac server for about 3 years without a firewall, someone probably hacked it once but I just rebooted it. There were many many attempts to access formmail.cgi and run many windows infection routines - but I chose to name my hard drive something I wanted. This alone made the pathname invalid - let alone I was running on a mac. SIMPLE THINGS like being able to call your hard drive whatever you want made it harder to assume a path to sensitive information that could be exploited.
The lameness of windows and lack of response from MS and their ignoring their obligation to provide simple security to their customers has disgusted me about MS for a long time.
Http://www.3vix.com/
I've had good results with their MP4 codec and they have a great support site
Http://www.3vix.com/forums/
My tests have been on OS X, win 98 and win 2000
The required ram, video card, processor and hard drive ugrades to make your experience not suck royally, will cost you more than a good used mac on cragslist.org
Requirements
Get a G4 of at least 500 Mhz.
512 meg of ram - 1Gig recommended
DUAL PROCESSORS ARE BETTER - they lessen the performance drain when the machine gets working hard
Fast video card with at least 16 meg of ram (32 + preferred)
FAST hard drive. Partition one for your swap space with 1 G allocated for swap.
Or you can think of things this way.
I have a 1G Ti running 10.2.6. For crunching video, it zipps. But for general use, the UI feels sluggish. I also have system, 9.2.2 and several other macs from a 266 G3 powerbook running 8.5, a G3 500 pb running 9.2.2, and so on. The 266 pb running 8.5 actually feels faster than the Ti when paying attention to the GUI.
Booting the Ti back to 9.2.2 is a JOY since everything in the GUI just seems so much faster.
Unless you have a compelling reason to go with Jaguar I'd stay right where you are.
I believe that h263 is Apple's implementation of the h263 standard/spec. This may mean that others can implement theirs.
But I'm not 100% sure either.
FWIW I've used iChat AV and frankly, I'm pretty blown away with the system.
The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco's Union St., leeching bandwidth off a neighboring business's airport. While there, I got an iChat voice message from Bolivia. Amazing.
Also, I got two one way video chats from Cape Cod and Virginia. The quality was good and there were a few hiccups connecting but considering it's a beta and this was happening over wireless, I am still blown away.
AND the best news is now this camera is under one thousand dollars!
More samples.
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http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/sigmasd9_sample
If you read the thread I was replying to, the poster said "the public is not adopting wireless in large numbers."
I believe my reply was posted to provide evidence to the contrary. How come you think it is off topic? Did I type anything about them encrypting their AP links or not? I stated i went searching for open access points, I didn't say that I found open access points.
All I stated was that I found 20 access points in 2 hours and this was 2 years ago. Where I live, I see a great density of access points. That's all.
I did - but the previous article stated that the range was less than 802.11b
Soooo, unless you're going to litter your house with repeater antennas, where does that leave us?
You pay someone who is licensed to handle such a mess and knows what he is doing.
Get references.
At that price point, why not invest in superior technology?
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http://www.foveon.com/
The Sigma SD 9 uses the Foveon chip.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9/
Sample photos:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9
http://img.dpreview.com/reviews/SigmaSD9/Sampl
Conclusion:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/si
In San Francisco, I frequently can sniff up to 5 wireless access points in one location. There are 7 on one stretch of my block.
2 years ago, I decided to be devious and drive around and map out any open wireless access points. In 2 hours, I stopped after finding 20.
Isn't it only for short distances?
I already have the house set up with 2 airports and still get dead areas less than two rooma away from the access points.
If this is geared for shorter distances, things like ceramic tiles in the bathroom, your granite countertop, springs in your couch and the your ventilation hood on the stove will get in the way of the signal.
If this is geared for shorter distances, than 802.11, I can't see how it will be anything less than a failure.
And it works as billed.
2X DVD burning
16x CD burning
ala Toast Titamium 5 and iTunes on 10.2.6