"webcast" does not necessarily mean live. Your post made it sound like Apple didn't make the keynote available on the web at all. (Yes, I'm aware this is the first time a Macworld keynote hasn't been broadcast on the web live.)
The sites that did live coverage did not have explicit permission; Apple was making an effort to NOT have any live coverage from within the event. (There are multiple theories why this would be, but they're irrelevant for the purposes of this message.)
The satellite program was produced and broadcast by Apple's normal AV provider for these events. It was not shown at any Apple store. It was only available at Apple corporate facilities and Apple market centers.
The main web site (www.apple.com) was fine (albeit slow) after the keynote.
But yeah, the store performed very poorly and was essentially unusable for about the first half-hour, was closed briefly, and then was fine from about the first hour on.
That was posted within the hour after the conclusion of the keynote. Also, several sites had live coverage during the keynote, AND the satellite program was broadcast live, in the clear, on Galaxy 3, Transponder 23, 4160 MHz Vertical, 93 deg west.
Now I know why your initial post was so wrong. You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
www.apple.com was up, reachable, and quick during the ENTIRE keynote. store.apple.com was "closed".
After the keynote, once all the new products got posted, www.apple.com slowed down, but was always consistently reachable (I had to collect product information, specs, and photography). store.apple.com performed very poorly for about the first 15 minutes, was closed periodically, and then performed well from about a half hour after the keynote on.
So this isn't "dodgy" at all; I know for an absolute fact that www.apple.com was reachable at what I would consider its "normal" performance during the entire keynote. Of course, that doesn't really matter, since it's AFTER the keynote (when information is actually posted) that matters; but then, too, it was reachable (albeit slower).
HD and SD tuner Nice PVR and tuning software (EyeTV) Free guide Free CyTV lets you stream to any other machine using VLC Does OTA (antenna), analog cable, and, as of today, unencrypted QAM digital cable! Ignores the Broadcast Flag!
Just to stave off any rants, this was not US law, a US court, or a US company. He happens to be working "at Harvard" now, but this matter has apparently been taken up in France.
Our Apple account executive has gone up to the executive level at Apple, and confirmed there will NOT be satellite downlink for non-Apple-corporate sites, and no satellite coordinates will be distributed externally, including to the media.
I think you'll find your event will be cancelled. If you still seem to think it's going to happen, I'd like to get in touch with someone within your university responsible for the showing. I can be reached at das@doit.wisc.edu, and all of my contact information is here.
I realize it's not available yet, but it's coming...and frankly, it's pretty amazing. Scales from 3G handheld devices to HD content, already part of the forthcoming HD-DVD and Bluray Disc formats, not to mention being an ITU and MPEG standard, etc.
Indeed. I read your post as "just boot in single user mode..." and immediately hit "reply" and completely glossed over the CD part. My apologies. But yes, you're correct:booting from the CD in single user mode should work, assuming diskutil and the necessary filesystem support is present in/System/Library/Filesystems on the CD itself, and it appears that it is (at least on the 10.3.5 CD I'm looking at).
But it doesn't work with all cable boxes, even all cable boxes with FireWire (and even though you can, by FCC rule, request a cable box from your provider with FireWire, no box from Charter Communications has *functioning* FireWire ports, as required by the FCC, and frankly, I'm not about to go out on some crusade to make it happen). This also doesn't apply to any satellite service. Not to mention that it depends upon an unsupported FireWire developer SDK from Apple, and has no integrated software for any useful interface, scheduling, etc.
On this topic, though, yes: had FireWire won in the living room, all of this interconnectivity could have been done via FireWire, and to hell with internal tuners. But alas, we've got things like component video, final output formats like DVI, and HDMI, and little to no FireWire. Oh well.
...Apple, in the form of Steve Jobs, has said numerous, numerous, numerous times, publicly and very specifically, that he doesn't believe in any kind of convergence, or any interactivity between TV and computers. As he has said numerous times: When you use a computer, you turn your mind on. When you watch TV, you turn your mind off. They two worlds are not compatible. Now, whether that's just gimmicky-speak, and whether it's ultimately true aside, Steve himself believes it. And on top of that, Steve, even as CEO of Pixar, is one of those "kill your television" types, so I don't see him getting behind a PVR/AV component type project.
HOWEVER, some evidence points in other directions:
AirPort Express: an AV component that lets you stream music from your computer to an analog or digital audio output on a wireless device that's part of your entertainment system
iPod Photo: an increasingly large hard drive in a product that has a dock that is, in part, intended to be part of an entertainment system that has audio and composite video and S-video output (think iTunes Movie Store: download movie, sync with iPod, drop in dock that's hooked up to your TV, and play)
New headless sub-$500 iMac: ThinkSecret is almost ALWAYS spot-on with these stories, so it's probably true. This could easily be an AV component IF it includes tuner capabilities, or some provision for adding them
Apple/Motorola cell phone, possibly co-branded or even Apple-branded: Yes, this really is happening, folks. If an Apple VP talks about it to Forbes, it was explicitly approved by Jobs. This proves Apple is willing to branch out into other markets.
With the "Digital Hub", Apple has addressed every possible kind of connectivity and device: scanners, printers, digital cameras, digital camcorders, phones, PDAs, the computer, movie editing, CD creation, music, DVD authoring, portable music players, etc. - everything, that is, EXCEPT TV. Yes, there are sticky issues here, of copyright, of rights management, etc., probably even worse than what was dealt with for the iTunes Music Store. Not to mention the problems of dealing with different TV reception standards in different countries, and the fact that you'd need to be able to DIRECTLY TUNE encrypted digital cable and satellite services, in all markets, to even begin to make this worthwhile for Apple. They're not going to have people hook up crap to random external equipment. So until there are universal standards (like CableCard) for allowing devices OTHER than set top boxes to tune the digital TV services, it just doesn't make sense.
But if Apple made a device in this space, it would be the iPod of PVRs, and would have the ease of use, integration, and fabulous attention to detail and usability we've all come to expect from Apple.
You shouldn't need to borrow an OS X Server CD to reformat with case-sensitive HFS+. Just boot your normal install CD in single-user mode (hold command-S while booting) and use the command-line utility from there. I've never done this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Because you're BOOTED from the volume you're trying to format?
No, sorry, but that wouldn't work.
There are a lot of ways to do it without borrowing an OS X Server CD (e.g., booting second drive or partition, or using another machine to format your primary drive while the machine is in target disk mode, etc.), but single user mode isn't one of those ways.
Windows XP Media Center Edition, a specific media center product, is a flop, and the articles you link to - which you say you agree with - talk generically about consumers not thinking about PCs in the living room or of computers as entertainment devices, but you think other commercial media center products - which are embodied by the idea of PCs in the living room or of computers as entertainment devices - are "thriving"? Especially when the articles - which you agree with - say that the problem with media centers is that, since they're a computer - a whole other computer, mind you - they're more complex, and normal[1] consumers will never even consider them as an entertainment center component?
Is there a disconnect here?
Actually, aside from whether or not it will be a commercial failure, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 actually works famously (have you ever tried it?), MUCH better than previous iterations of the product, and it supports multiple tuners (i.e., >2), lets you archive your recordings to CD or DVD, can support transmitting its content to any other PC, media center extender, or Xbox, etc. - not to mention that for a NORMAL person, it's essentially an integral part of Windows, gets updated along with the OS, and represents a major product from the majority platform, etc.
And, by the way, I absolutely loathe Microsoft and its business practices over the years in general, but let's at least be realistic here: you can't "agree" with those articles, especially Swann's, and then say that other media centers are "thriving".
[1] "Normal" here means, like, actually a normal person. Not slashdot readers. Not engadget readers. And frankly, not even savvy computer users.
1. Since Mac OS X 10.0, you could have used UFS with Mac OS X if you really needed case sensitivity (though, using UFS broke some other things, like Classic, some Carbon installers, etc).
2. Regardless of 1., as of Mac OS X 10.3.x, Apple now has "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)": a fully case-sensitive, fully supported case-sensitive HFS+ filesystem. It's not exposed in the GUI of Disk Utility on Mac OS X client (as Journaling wasn't on Mac OS X 10.2.x client), but it can be enabled via the command line:
man diskutil for more info. This is exposed in the GUI of Disk Utility on Mac OS X Server 10.3.x. If you would like your primary volume to be case sensitive, you can use/borrow a Mac OS X Server CD to boot your machine, format your primary volume as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive), and then install Mac OS X (or copy back all of your data with a utility such as asr or Carbon Copy Cloner).
Case preservation (as opposed to case sensitivity) was never advertised or presented as a "feature"; it was an artifact of HFS.
It is legal to purchase equipment that ignores the Broadcast Flag until 1 July 2005, after which point ALL such equipment may still be used and even resold. Now, yes, NEW equipment sold after that date to consumers must respect the Broadcast Flag...but what constitutes "consumer" equipment? Price? Usability? Purpose? Function? That is another question...but the point is, Broadcast Flag-free equipment can be purchased now, legally, and will remain legal indefinitely.
I'm not saying it's the "right" or "wrong" decision to make, as it's not that black and white.
All I'm saying is that FNC has apparently made editorial decisions to have a lower threshold of qualification for reporting certain stories, to the "first" to break the story. This technique usually, indeed, resulted in FNC being the "first" to break the story. However, it also resulting in the occasional reporting of inaccurate or incomplete information; FNC usually indicated the information was not yet completely verified. When such information was found to be inaccurate, it was corrected.
Slashdot Mirror
ARGH. :-(
Ok...the first time since Macworld was first broadcast on the web live that it hasn't been broadcast on the web live.
This is why I hate posting to slashdot.
"webcast" does not necessarily mean live. Your post made it sound like Apple didn't make the keynote available on the web at all. (Yes, I'm aware this is the first time a Macworld keynote hasn't been broadcast on the web live.)
The sites that did live coverage did not have explicit permission; Apple was making an effort to NOT have any live coverage from within the event. (There are multiple theories why this would be, but they're irrelevant for the purposes of this message.)
The satellite program was produced and broadcast by Apple's normal AV provider for these events. It was not shown at any Apple store. It was only available at Apple corporate facilities and Apple market centers.
That was the store (store.apple.com).
The main web site (www.apple.com) was fine (albeit slow) after the keynote.
But yeah, the store performed very poorly and was essentially unusable for about the first half-hour, was closed briefly, and then was fine from about the first hour on.
Um...
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf05/
That was posted within the hour after the conclusion of the keynote. Also, several sites had live coverage during the keynote, AND the satellite program was broadcast live, in the clear, on Galaxy 3, Transponder 23, 4160 MHz Vertical, 93 deg west.
Now I know why your initial post was so wrong. You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
www.apple.com was up, reachable, and quick during the ENTIRE keynote. store.apple.com was "closed".
After the keynote, once all the new products got posted, www.apple.com slowed down, but was always consistently reachable (I had to collect product information, specs, and photography). store.apple.com performed very poorly for about the first 15 minutes, was closed periodically, and then performed well from about a half hour after the keynote on.
So this isn't "dodgy" at all; I know for an absolute fact that www.apple.com was reachable at what I would consider its "normal" performance during the entire keynote. Of course, that doesn't really matter, since it's AFTER the keynote (when information is actually posted) that matters; but then, too, it was reachable (albeit slower).
HD and SD tuner
Nice PVR and tuning software (EyeTV)
Free guide
Free CyTV lets you stream to any other machine using VLC
Does OTA (antenna), analog cable, and, as of today, unencrypted QAM digital cable!
Ignores the Broadcast Flag!
See: http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/eyetv500.php
Just to stave off any rants, this was not US law, a US court, or a US company. He happens to be working "at Harvard" now, but this matter has apparently been taken up in France.
Well, I'd be interested in hearing it, because I've cancelled our event at the University of Wisconsin:
http://apple.doit.wisc.edu/news/mwsf2005/
Our Apple account executive has gone up to the executive level at Apple, and confirmed there will NOT be satellite downlink for non-Apple-corporate sites, and no satellite coordinates will be distributed externally, including to the media.
I think you'll find your event will be cancelled. If you still seem to think it's going to happen, I'd like to get in touch with someone within your university responsible for the showing. I can be reached at das@doit.wisc.edu, and all of my contact information is here.
three new Samsung phones, all running a Microsoft OS
...which was what I linked to.
I realize it's not available yet, but it's coming...and frankly, it's pretty amazing. Scales from 3G handheld devices to HD content, already part of the forthcoming HD-DVD and Bluray Disc formats, not to mention being an ITU and MPEG standard, etc.
Indeed. I read your post as "just boot in single user mode..." and immediately hit "reply" and completely glossed over the CD part. My apologies. But yes, you're correct:booting from the CD in single user mode should work, assuming diskutil and the necessary filesystem support is present in /System/Library/Filesystems on the CD itself, and it appears that it is (at least on the 10.3.5 CD I'm looking at).
But it doesn't work with all cable boxes, even all cable boxes with FireWire (and even though you can, by FCC rule, request a cable box from your provider with FireWire, no box from Charter Communications has *functioning* FireWire ports, as required by the FCC, and frankly, I'm not about to go out on some crusade to make it happen). This also doesn't apply to any satellite service. Not to mention that it depends upon an unsupported FireWire developer SDK from Apple, and has no integrated software for any useful interface, scheduling, etc.
On this topic, though, yes: had FireWire won in the living room, all of this interconnectivity could have been done via FireWire, and to hell with internal tuners. But alas, we've got things like component video, final output formats like DVI, and HDMI, and little to no FireWire. Oh well.
...Apple, in the form of Steve Jobs, has said numerous, numerous, numerous times, publicly and very specifically, that he doesn't believe in any kind of convergence, or any interactivity between TV and computers. As he has said numerous times: When you use a computer, you turn your mind on. When you watch TV, you turn your mind off. They two worlds are not compatible. Now, whether that's just gimmicky-speak, and whether it's ultimately true aside, Steve himself believes it. And on top of that, Steve, even as CEO of Pixar, is one of those "kill your television" types, so I don't see him getting behind a PVR/AV component type project.
HOWEVER, some evidence points in other directions:
AirPort Express: an AV component that lets you stream music from your computer to an analog or digital audio output on a wireless device that's part of your entertainment system
iPod Photo: an increasingly large hard drive in a product that has a dock that is, in part, intended to be part of an entertainment system that has audio and composite video and S-video output (think iTunes Movie Store: download movie, sync with iPod, drop in dock that's hooked up to your TV, and play)
New headless sub-$500 iMac: ThinkSecret is almost ALWAYS spot-on with these stories, so it's probably true. This could easily be an AV component IF it includes tuner capabilities, or some provision for adding them
Apple/Motorola cell phone, possibly co-branded or even Apple-branded: Yes, this really is happening, folks. If an Apple VP talks about it to Forbes, it was explicitly approved by Jobs. This proves Apple is willing to branch out into other markets.
With the "Digital Hub", Apple has addressed every possible kind of connectivity and device: scanners, printers, digital cameras, digital camcorders, phones, PDAs, the computer, movie editing, CD creation, music, DVD authoring, portable music players, etc. - everything, that is, EXCEPT TV. Yes, there are sticky issues here, of copyright, of rights management, etc., probably even worse than what was dealt with for the iTunes Music Store. Not to mention the problems of dealing with different TV reception standards in different countries, and the fact that you'd need to be able to DIRECTLY TUNE encrypted digital cable and satellite services, in all markets, to even begin to make this worthwhile for Apple. They're not going to have people hook up crap to random external equipment. So until there are universal standards (like CableCard) for allowing devices OTHER than set top boxes to tune the digital TV services, it just doesn't make sense.
But if Apple made a device in this space, it would be the iPod of PVRs, and would have the ease of use, integration, and fabulous attention to detail and usability we've all come to expect from Apple.
We can only hope...
You shouldn't need to borrow an OS X Server CD to reformat with case-sensitive HFS+. Just boot your normal install CD in single-user mode (hold command-S while booting) and use the command-line utility from there. I've never done this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Because you're BOOTED from the volume you're trying to format?
No, sorry, but that wouldn't work.
There are a lot of ways to do it without borrowing an OS X Server CD (e.g., booting second drive or partition, or using another machine to format your primary drive while the machine is in target disk mode, etc.), but single user mode isn't one of those ways.
Windows XP Media Center Edition, a specific media center product, is a flop, and the articles you link to - which you say you agree with - talk generically about consumers not thinking about PCs in the living room or of computers as entertainment devices, but you think other commercial media center products - which are embodied by the idea of PCs in the living room or of computers as entertainment devices - are "thriving"? Especially when the articles - which you agree with - say that the problem with media centers is that, since they're a computer - a whole other computer, mind you - they're more complex, and normal[1] consumers will never even consider them as an entertainment center component?
Is there a disconnect here?
Actually, aside from whether or not it will be a commercial failure, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 actually works famously (have you ever tried it?), MUCH better than previous iterations of the product, and it supports multiple tuners (i.e., >2), lets you archive your recordings to CD or DVD, can support transmitting its content to any other PC, media center extender, or Xbox, etc. - not to mention that for a NORMAL person, it's essentially an integral part of Windows, gets updated along with the OS, and represents a major product from the majority platform, etc.
And, by the way, I absolutely loathe Microsoft and its business practices over the years in general, but let's at least be realistic here: you can't "agree" with those articles, especially Swann's, and then say that other media centers are "thriving".
[1] "Normal" here means, like, actually a normal person. Not slashdot readers. Not engadget readers. And frankly, not even savvy computer users.
1. Since Mac OS X 10.0, you could have used UFS with Mac OS X if you really needed case sensitivity (though, using UFS broke some other things, like Classic, some Carbon installers, etc).
/Volumes/SomeDisk
2. Regardless of 1., as of Mac OS X 10.3.x, Apple now has "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)": a fully case-sensitive, fully supported case-sensitive HFS+ filesystem. It's not exposed in the GUI of Disk Utility on Mac OS X client (as Journaling wasn't on Mac OS X 10.2.x client), but it can be enabled via the command line:
sudo diskutil eraseVolume Case-sensitiveHFS+ DiskName
man diskutil for more info. This is exposed in the GUI of Disk Utility on Mac OS X Server 10.3.x. If you would like your primary volume to be case sensitive, you can use/borrow a Mac OS X Server CD to boot your machine, format your primary volume as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive), and then install Mac OS X (or copy back all of your data with a utility such as asr or Carbon Copy Cloner).
Case preservation (as opposed to case sensitivity) was never advertised or presented as a "feature"; it was an artifact of HFS.
Again, ignoring the unbelievably horrendous grammar and punctuation problems that make it almost impossible to comprehend:
:-(
unfortunatly = unfortunately
charactor = character
Unbeatible = unbeatable
Gheto = ghetto
loosing = losing
push = pushed
Man.
Sorry, but "kinda" is accepted for casual conversation and writing as a substitute for "kind of".
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kinda
Ignoring the egregious grammatical and punctuation errors:
Unfortunatly = Unfortunately
Poligons = polygons
threw = through
brigher = brighter
soposed (????) = supposed
cloths = clothes
kida = kinda
themsefs = themselves
Jesus Christ. PLEASE tell me you didn't graduate from high school. Or, for the love of God, college.
It is legal to purchase equipment that ignores the Broadcast Flag until 1 July 2005, after which point ALL such equipment may still be used and even resold. Now, yes, NEW equipment sold after that date to consumers must respect the Broadcast Flag...but what constitutes "consumer" equipment? Price? Usability? Purpose? Function? That is another question...but the point is, Broadcast Flag-free equipment can be purchased now, legally, and will remain legal indefinitely.
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/
We have until July 1, 2005, to buy, build, and sell fully-capable, non-flag-compliant HDTV receivers. Any receivers built now will "remain functional under a flag regime, allowing consumers to continue their use without the need for new or additional equipment." Any devices made this year can be re-sold in the future.
How long will it be till it's labeled a terrorist tool and banned?
When HAM radio is?
Seriously, what kind of commentary is this, especially with the FCC giving unprecedented amounts of frequency bandwidth back to the public?
Couldn't the article have done just as well without the last sentence?
Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not??
What, something that doesn't suck, as opposed to something that does?
Doubtful.
The last line of the story:
We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security.
Too bad that security didn't translate to other areas...
I'm not saying it's the "right" or "wrong" decision to make, as it's not that black and white.
All I'm saying is that FNC has apparently made editorial decisions to have a lower threshold of qualification for reporting certain stories, to the "first" to break the story. This technique usually, indeed, resulted in FNC being the "first" to break the story. However, it also resulting in the occasional reporting of inaccurate or incomplete information; FNC usually indicated the information was not yet completely verified. When such information was found to be inaccurate, it was corrected.
That's all I'm saying.