Right now the sales are about 2:1 in favor of laptops. I don't think dropping a third of your market in the name of consolidation is a good idea? Not yet anyway. Maybe give it 3-5 more years and it may be worth it.
Shiny white is relatively easy. When you get to the shiny black ones, there you have trouble. All the parts are behind the LCD panel, which is behind the display bezel, which is behind that really thin large sheet of glass.
(that's 21 screws, five cables, two suction cups, and 15 minutes to get past)
And care to imagine how difficult it can be to keep from getting a spec of lint between that glass and LCD panel when servicing it?
I have to admit you got lucky. There are very few parts you could count on them having in stock, and that's one of them. There was a recall (REP) on the imac g5 power supplies so they would have had a few on hand if they were sensible.
Otherwise you have to wait one whole day for the parts to come in.
OSX also offers no default lock-screen option like windows does
Open Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access. Select Preferences, Show Status in Menu Bar. Now anytime you want to lock the screen, just click on the padlock up by the clock and select Lock Screen. This will require a password to exit the screen saver, even if you have your screen saver not set to require password.
I use Quicksilver's FastLogout option
FYI, fast user logout sans QuickSilver is Shift-Opt-Cmd-Q. (you have to hold the keys about 1/3 second)
You'd be amazed just how many people are still on AOL, simply because there is no broadband in their area and the small local dialup ISPs generally stink.
virus crossover can occur when one species can be infected by viruses from more than one other species. Chickens can get avian type viruses. Humans can get human type viruses. Pigs, lucky them, can get some of both. And in china it's common to raise pigs and chickens together.
Perfect breeding ground for avian-to-human crossover viruses. And crossover evolution works a lot faster than regular evolution.
just because you CAN pay a bill does not make the bill any more FAIR.
If I send you a bill for $5 for some service I volunteered to do for you without your consent, do you pay it? should you? Surely you can pay $5? (what's your address btw?)
Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable
What I find absolutely hilarious is all the other crimes in the game, a lot more deliberate, a lot more violent, and a heck of a lot more preventable, and they are focusing here on drunk driving. That's like like getting wound up at Hitler not for the war but for the effect it had on global warming.
Clearly tunnel vision or a severe issue with getting your priorities straight.
Not saying that this is an example, but there does come a point where there are too many options. BBEdit is an example that comes to mind. Written for developers, and almost everything under the hood is tweakable, and the preferences (of which there are TWO) have a huge list of windows of options. Azureus is the same way, there should not be over a dozen pref windows that have to scroll to see all the options in each one. It gets worse when the main pref menu is an expanding tree on top of that.
For me the main problem this presents is finding a switch that I want to toggle. (not everyone wants something one way or the other, sometimes you need to change it depending on what you're doing) Sometimes it can take awhile to wade through all the windows to determine where they've decided to classify the option.
So whether or not this is a feature that should be optional, you can't just make a blanket decision that everything should be optional in an app. You do have to draw the line somewhere because you wll approach a point where more options makes things worse on the user.
I would postulate that no app should have more than five panels in the preferences, of which none should scroll. Draw the line somewhere.
I wonder if that would work for newspapers? If they could make the paper more durable, you could read the paper, and when you picked up the next day's paper you could toss them the old one for a "deposit" discount on the next one. They'd just use it again. Save them on paper costs?
Resistors I see affecting a circuit immediately. They do make changes, but there is no delay and it's a sort of 1:1 relationship. They "do not change".
Inductors and capacitors affect a circuit over time. As they are affected more, they produce more effect, and vice versa. They have a sort of memory, but it's usually short term and is the sort of thing that is "used" by the circuit immediately. They "change after awhile".
Transistors and diodes are different in that they cause distinctly different behaviors based on the immediate input. They "change now".
This memsistor seems to have yet a different response. It serves as a circuit memory somewhat like a capacitor, but is specifically designed to affect a circuit at a much later time. They "change later".
He has to peer somewhere. THEY should be the ones to blackhole him. One way or another he has to be paying someone off to route in his direction. I don't see why that's hard to cut off?
For example, if you're using a 32 bit encryption, it doesn't matter how long your password is - the hash space is still too small, and the password can be trivially brute forced. (This is the case with DES - it's a 64bit algorithm (and only 56 bit effective strength. Your 20 character password isn't of strength 94^20, but 2^56.))
While on the surface that appears to be a complete assessment, it misses one possible wrench in the works. It requires a quick way to assess whether or not the passphrase provided was correct.
Most bitlocking methods DO include a check sequence, some set value that will be a predefined value once decrypted, that lets you know the passphrase was the correct one. Simply make this check phrase short. (as in, say, 12 bit) instead of large (like 64 bit etc) This will produce many false positives in a brute force attack. It won't do a LOT to make things more difficult, but it will add a few orders of additional time to the process.
There's one more facet that I don't know if can be applied to this or not, and that's making the process of hashing the password very time consuming. (such as 300 iterations of reseeding with a fractal or something, and stuffing it through a very processor intensive hash each pass) Most users won't care if they have to wait an extra 2 seconds to login, but that can provide a monstrous hike in required time to brute force. We see this in license validation systems nowadays... you enter that huge key and it takes 2-3 seconds to move onto the next screen or to tell you to re-enter/correct it. They're doing that to make it impractical to decompile their validator and use it to generate valid keys quickly, by making it take a very long time to validate each generated key.
This latter addition is still going to become less effective as processor power goes up, but it should provide a much larger buffer to work with. As is always going to be the case, any method we code today that takes 2 seconds to validate you, will be able to be brute forced in 10 seconds 10 years from now. Such is technology.
The gorey details here are that the key to the filevault is a random number, and THAT is encrypted separately in the header using two different keys - the user's hashed password, and the filevault master. So if you know the master password, OR the user password, you can decrypt the actual image key and can get in. And changing the user password does not require reencoding all the image data, you just reencode the key in the header using the new password
There is no other back door. The only possible hack is if they have auto login turned on, which basically indicates they are a retard. Technically it's possible to recover the login password once booted and auto logged in, though I have yet to see anyone figure it out, and I do look periodically. But at that point the HD is mounted anyway so all your data is there for copying to ext HD. Just no access to passwords in the keychain, (as in to recover, but you can still use them since the keychain is probably unlocked) but as above that is technically possible but not seen it done yet.
If auto login is not on, they are not logged in, you don't know the password, and you don't know the master password, nobody can help you. Not the Apple store, not Steve, it doesn't matter who you are.
Don't you just love it when they do that? Is there a strong enough term for those that go so completely out of their way to ignore facts and reality that it defies belief and leaves the sensible stunned? (reminds me of the Chewbacca Defense in a way)
isights go for $300-500 now, they used to retail for $150. Really good camera tho. Beats the stuffing out of any of the cameras built into the new macs now. I kept mine when I got a macbook pro.
$40 "crittercam" type USB cameras, with a $10 piece of shareware make them work just the same as firewire cameras. Save a lot of money that way and don't lose a lot of video quality. Not nearly as good as an original isight in low light conditions, they can be used for night vision. (tho most webcams are sensitive to IR light so if you can provide that, you have the same thing)
There are several companies making wireless security cameras, just provide them power and they transmit back to the receiving display. Totally wipes out nearby wireless internet unfortunately, it just sprays 2.4 ghz in a really bad way, much worse than a 2.4 spread spectrum phone.
What they're doing here is when they have only DNA evidence, and can find a close match, then the basic idea is that they want to make any of those close matches "suspects". Not suspect of committing the crime, but suspect of being related to the actual perp.
How would you like a detective knocking on your door and wanting to discuss your immediate relatives, looking for leads on a case he's working on?
"we have reason to believe that one of your relatives committed a crime, care to answer a few questions?"
Now lets say it was a really close match and now they would like to DNA test your kid to see if he's a 100% match? (with no other evidence than this close match) If you allow that, then where do we draw the line? Not so close? Can we DNA test all your cousins? We're sure one of them's the one we're looking for!
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Right now the sales are about 2:1 in favor of laptops. I don't think dropping a third of your market in the name of consolidation is a good idea? Not yet anyway. Maybe give it 3-5 more years and it may be worth it.
Shiny white is relatively easy. When you get to the shiny black ones, there you have trouble. All the parts are behind the LCD panel, which is behind the display bezel, which is behind that really thin large sheet of glass.
(that's 21 screws, five cables, two suction cups, and 15 minutes to get past)
And care to imagine how difficult it can be to keep from getting a spec of lint between that glass and LCD panel when servicing it?
I have to admit you got lucky. There are very few parts you could count on them having in stock, and that's one of them. There was a recall (REP) on the imac g5 power supplies so they would have had a few on hand if they were sensible.
Otherwise you have to wait one whole day for the parts to come in.
OSX also offers no default lock-screen option like windows does
Open Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access. Select Preferences, Show Status in Menu Bar.
Now anytime you want to lock the screen, just click on the padlock up by the clock and select Lock Screen.
This will require a password to exit the screen saver, even if you have your screen saver not set to require password.
I use Quicksilver's FastLogout option
FYI, fast user logout sans QuickSilver is Shift-Opt-Cmd-Q. (you have to hold the keys about 1/3 second)
You'd be amazed just how many people are still on AOL, simply because there is no broadband in their area and the small local dialup ISPs generally stink.
virus crossover can occur when one species can be infected by viruses from more than one other species. Chickens can get avian type viruses. Humans can get human type viruses. Pigs, lucky them, can get some of both. And in china it's common to raise pigs and chickens together.
Perfect breeding ground for avian-to-human crossover viruses. And crossover evolution works a lot faster than regular evolution.
... and it's either lead-coated, or lead-based, depending on the level of effectiveness required.
maybe you should try 867-5309? (I believe 876-5309's owned by a typo squatter?)
just because you CAN pay a bill does not make the bill any more FAIR.
If I send you a bill for $5 for some service I volunteered to do for you without your consent, do you pay it? should you? Surely you can pay $5? (what's your address btw?)
Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable
What I find absolutely hilarious is all the other crimes in the game, a lot more deliberate, a lot more violent, and a heck of a lot more preventable, and they are focusing here on drunk driving. That's like like getting wound up at Hitler not for the war but for the effect it had on global warming.
Clearly tunnel vision or a severe issue with getting your priorities straight.
Not saying that this is an example, but there does come a point where there are too many options. BBEdit is an example that comes to mind. Written for developers, and almost everything under the hood is tweakable, and the preferences (of which there are TWO) have a huge list of windows of options. Azureus is the same way, there should not be over a dozen pref windows that have to scroll to see all the options in each one. It gets worse when the main pref menu is an expanding tree on top of that.
For me the main problem this presents is finding a switch that I want to toggle. (not everyone wants something one way or the other, sometimes you need to change it depending on what you're doing) Sometimes it can take awhile to wade through all the windows to determine where they've decided to classify the option.
So whether or not this is a feature that should be optional, you can't just make a blanket decision that everything should be optional in an app. You do have to draw the line somewhere because you wll approach a point where more options makes things worse on the user.
I would postulate that no app should have more than five panels in the preferences, of which none should scroll. Draw the line somewhere.
pystar, any relation I wonder to starmax ? (the last Mac clone)
I wonder if that would work for newspapers? If they could make the paper more durable, you could read the paper, and when you picked up the next day's paper you could toss them the old one for a "deposit" discount on the next one. They'd just use it again. Save them on paper costs?
Paperless office could probably be possible if nothing ever had to go INTO or OUT FROM the office.
Just had a random thought... I bet some of the spammers have a paperless office.
it probably slowly blackens, like what happens if you place thermal paper near a heat source
Resistors I see affecting a circuit immediately. They do make changes, but there is no delay and it's a sort of 1:1 relationship. They "do not change".
Inductors and capacitors affect a circuit over time. As they are affected more, they produce more effect, and vice versa. They have a sort of memory, but it's usually short term and is the sort of thing that is "used" by the circuit immediately. They "change after awhile".
Transistors and diodes are different in that they cause distinctly different behaviors based on the immediate input. They "change now".
This memsistor seems to have yet a different response. It serves as a circuit memory somewhat like a capacitor, but is specifically designed to affect a circuit at a much later time. They "change later".
I think this is what they are trying to get at.
thank you Aziz, that's much better
*blink* *blink*
don't forget chai chai rod-rugways and his che-hooey-hooeys.
He has to peer somewhere. THEY should be the ones to blackhole him. One way or another he has to be paying someone off to route in his direction. I don't see why that's hard to cut off?
For example, if you're using a 32 bit encryption, it doesn't matter how long your password is - the hash space is still too small, and the password can be trivially brute forced. (This is the case with DES - it's a 64bit algorithm (and only 56 bit effective strength. Your 20 character password isn't of strength 94^20, but 2^56.))
While on the surface that appears to be a complete assessment, it misses one possible wrench in the works. It requires a quick way to assess whether or not the passphrase provided was correct.
Most bitlocking methods DO include a check sequence, some set value that will be a predefined value once decrypted, that lets you know the passphrase was the correct one. Simply make this check phrase short. (as in, say, 12 bit) instead of large (like 64 bit etc) This will produce many false positives in a brute force attack. It won't do a LOT to make things more difficult, but it will add a few orders of additional time to the process.
There's one more facet that I don't know if can be applied to this or not, and that's making the process of hashing the password very time consuming. (such as 300 iterations of reseeding with a fractal or something, and stuffing it through a very processor intensive hash each pass) Most users won't care if they have to wait an extra 2 seconds to login, but that can provide a monstrous hike in required time to brute force. We see this in license validation systems nowadays... you enter that huge key and it takes 2-3 seconds to move onto the next screen or to tell you to re-enter/correct it. They're doing that to make it impractical to decompile their validator and use it to generate valid keys quickly, by making it take a very long time to validate each generated key.
This latter addition is still going to become less effective as processor power goes up, but it should provide a much larger buffer to work with. As is always going to be the case, any method we code today that takes 2 seconds to validate you, will be able to be brute forced in 10 seconds 10 years from now. Such is technology.
The gorey details here are that the key to the filevault is a random number, and THAT is encrypted separately in the header using two different keys - the user's hashed password, and the filevault master. So if you know the master password, OR the user password, you can decrypt the actual image key and can get in. And changing the user password does not require reencoding all the image data, you just reencode the key in the header using the new password
There is no other back door. The only possible hack is if they have auto login turned on, which basically indicates they are a retard. Technically it's possible to recover the login password once booted and auto logged in, though I have yet to see anyone figure it out, and I do look periodically. But at that point the HD is mounted anyway so all your data is there for copying to ext HD. Just no access to passwords in the keychain, (as in to recover, but you can still use them since the keychain is probably unlocked) but as above that is technically possible but not seen it done yet.
If auto login is not on, they are not logged in, you don't know the password, and you don't know the master password, nobody can help you. Not the Apple store, not Steve, it doesn't matter who you are.
Don't you just love it when they do that? Is there a strong enough term for those that go so completely out of their way to ignore facts and reality that it defies belief and leaves the sensible stunned? (reminds me of the Chewbacca Defense in a way)
keep data hidden from the feds if they had the timeframe needed to run a case through the courts.
and what part of that are we seeing less and less of in today's Amerika?
isights go for $300-500 now, they used to retail for $150. Really good camera tho. Beats the stuffing out of any of the cameras built into the new macs now. I kept mine when I got a macbook pro.
$40 "crittercam" type USB cameras, with a $10 piece of shareware make them work just the same as firewire cameras. Save a lot of money that way and don't lose a lot of video quality. Not nearly as good as an original isight in low light conditions, they can be used for night vision. (tho most webcams are sensitive to IR light so if you can provide that, you have the same thing)
There are several companies making wireless security cameras, just provide them power and they transmit back to the receiving display. Totally wipes out nearby wireless internet unfortunately, it just sprays 2.4 ghz in a really bad way, much worse than a 2.4 spread spectrum phone.
What they're doing here is when they have only DNA evidence, and can find a close match, then the basic idea is that they want to make any of those close matches "suspects". Not suspect of committing the crime, but suspect of being related to the actual perp.
How would you like a detective knocking on your door and wanting to discuss your immediate relatives, looking for leads on a case he's working on?
"we have reason to believe that one of your relatives committed a crime, care to answer a few questions?"
Now lets say it was a really close match and now they would like to DNA test your kid to see if he's a 100% match? (with no other evidence than this close match) If you allow that, then where do we draw the line? Not so close? Can we DNA test all your cousins? We're sure one of them's the one we're looking for!