I upgraded my wife's iMac 333 from OS8 to OS10.1 and it was definately slower. But then I got her a new 800Mhz G4 and OS10.2 screams. The thing boots in like 10 seconds and the apps are wicked fast.
But in this specific case j.root-servers.net doesn't really seem to do anything important other than serve up "." so I would say that nobody should really care. At least the other root servers [a-i].root-servers.net serve up other things like.mil and.arpa. Opennic doesn't even have a mention of it in its root zone file because it is soooo unimportant.
The problem with encrypting HTTP is that SSL requires one IP address for every VirtualHost. If we suddenly turned off HTTP on all of our VirtualHosts (something I am in favour of) then we would reallize we ran out of IPs. The solution simply is to switch to IPv6, like now.
I'm confused. If party A sends an encrypted message to party B using B's public key, wouldn't party B reply to party A using party A's public key thereby making the garbled text unreadable to interceptor C?
The reports that MacOS 9 is dead has been largely exagerated. Alot of software that is still being sold (in Apple stores might I add) still will only run in OS9 (not classic). For example, this happened just last week, my wife bought qbert for her computer. We couldn't get it to work in OS X. It would get to a certain point and then bomb. When we asked the Apple store about it they said you have to boot OS 9 to get games to work. They won't work in Classic.
This to me says they didn't do a good enough job on Classic for what it is supposed to do, which is to transition consumers to OS X while they wait for software makers to update their software to OS X native.
I've seen this kind of thing during the build phase, during the package installation phase, or at the first use by user phase (installed on shared computer with many users). So where should it really go? If it isn't required in all three phases then someone could miss out.
For that matter isn't it adaquate to have a file called COPYING included with the source that contains the License aggreement as well as compile it into the app so that the user can display it with --copyright or "Help->About Application..." ???
Or performance. Even though multiple ways of doing the same thing looks like it does the same thing, it really doesn't and can vary greatly in efficiency.
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As a musician and developer with equal interest in both I have a hard time looking at my code and seeing poetry or music. When I look at code I see pure logic. (Go figure) That's not to say that logic isn't freakin' cool, however.
And so far it is pretty lame. You have to change the file extension to.mov and then change the resource type of the file. And if I did do that it would make the files unusable on the other platforms I use. Is it too much to ask to simply be able to play a.ogg file through Itunes?
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I have a Dell Latitude CPx that I use for development of my opensource projects. Solaris support for laptops is extremly lacking and Windows would cost way to much considering the cost of the OS and development tools. After the initial install of Linux I had a whole development environment at my disposal for 0 cost. How can you beat that?
Your talking about replacing a patented technology using a patent free technology that is 17 years old. I'm talking about replacing a patented technology with a patent free technology that was developed recently and is comparable if not better than MP3. And the adoption of this technology is growing by leaps and bounds. It is only a matter of time before Apple jumps on the bandwagon.
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I upgraded my wife's iMac 333 from OS8 to OS10.1 and it was definately slower. But then I got her a new 800Mhz G4 and OS10.2 screams. The thing boots in like 10 seconds and the apps are wicked fast.
But in this specific case j.root-servers.net doesn't really seem to do anything important other than serve up "." so I would say that nobody should really care. At least the other root servers [a-i].root-servers.net serve up other things like .mil and .arpa. Opennic doesn't even have a mention of it in its root zone file because it is soooo unimportant.
I used to hear this every day in high school during band practice.... while everyone was warming up.
I wouldn't exactly call it music though...
Planes have had cell phones built right into the seats for quite some time now.
Spreadsheet? Bah!!!
I've always said that the only thing Windows was good at was being a gaming platform. Now it doesn't even have that. Oh well.
If the virtualhost is still in the clear then how does that prevent the tracking of web sites you visit?
The problem with encrypting HTTP is that SSL requires one IP address for every VirtualHost. If we suddenly turned off HTTP on all of our VirtualHosts (something I am in favour of) then we would reallize we ran out of IPs. The solution simply is to switch to IPv6, like now.
I suppose NASA will call this machine of theirs Cerebro. Where is Magneto and his psychic sheilded helmet when we need him? I'll take two.
I'm confused. If party A sends an encrypted message to party B using B's public key, wouldn't party B reply to party A using party A's public key thereby making the garbled text unreadable to interceptor C?
Users of Windows suddenly realized that what they have actually paid for is a pile of bug riddled dog crap.
This to me says they didn't do a good enough job on Classic for what it is supposed to do, which is to transition consumers to OS X while they wait for software makers to update their software to OS X native.
For that matter isn't it adaquate to have a file called COPYING included with the source that contains the License aggreement as well as compile it into the app so that the user can display it with --copyright or "Help->About Application..." ???
Or performance. Even though multiple ways of doing the same thing looks like it does the same thing, it really doesn't and can vary greatly in efficiency.
As a musician and developer with equal interest in both I have a hard time looking at my code and seeing poetry or music. When I look at code I see pure logic. (Go figure) That's not to say that logic isn't freakin' cool, however.
I was wondering the same thing. How did the file get uploaded to the ftp server? Who did it? And can they be prosecuted?
Save the planet. Vote NO on flywheels.
I thought that DoS attacks are considered acts of terrorism under some new cyber-crimes law.
I doubt anything built today will last as long as those die hards. Hell, we can't even send a probe to Mars without it "disappearing".
And so far it is pretty lame. You have to change the file extension to .mov and then change the resource type of the file. And if I did do that it would make the files unusable on the other platforms I use. Is it too much to ask to simply be able to play a .ogg file through Itunes?
Ho hum. Still no Ogg Vorbis support.
I have a Dell Latitude CPx that I use for development of my opensource projects. Solaris support for laptops is extremly lacking and Windows would cost way to much considering the cost of the OS and development tools. After the initial install of Linux I had a whole development environment at my disposal for 0 cost. How can you beat that?
Microsoft started bundling IE with Windows and look at the trouble they got into. Maybe someone should drop a line to the Justice Dept. about this.
Your talking about replacing a patented technology using a patent free technology that is 17 years old. I'm talking about replacing a patented technology with a patent free technology that was developed recently and is comparable if not better than MP3. And the adoption of this technology is growing by leaps and bounds. It is only a matter of time before Apple jumps on the bandwagon.
Right, because reinventing a piece of hardware is much easier than reinventing the software to access it.