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(as I crack open my flash drive and review my notes...)
type this in terminal:
[b]ioreg -l > ~/Desktop/temp.txt[/b]
to get a dump of the hardware IDs. Search the text file it puts on your desktop for "Airport" or "Cardbus" and find the line similar to:
| +-o pci14e4,4325@0
Then edit/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext/Cont ents/Info.plist
and add the ID to the array list, which starts out something like:
pci106b,4e
pci14e4,4320
pci14e4,4324
pci14e4,4325 works for most MicroSoft nic cards
PCI1186,1340 is for the DLink DFE-690TXD
Now reboot, open networking preferences, and smile as it says "new port detected".
This will only work if the wifi card is already compatible, as by adding the ID to the list you're basically promising OS X that the card is compatible, so use at your own risk, no guarantees. Probably can't break much of anything though.
They will be "stuffing" the computer boxes with a little insert with a NFR set of CDs, for the customer to install when they open it up. Apple usually stuffs any boxes that ship after the OS releases. It'll be a few weeks at least before we start seeing macs that have 10.4 on their actual install/restore CDs though.
Apple has also been known to send NFR CDs for things like iLife when a new version cones out, sent to the retailers so they can stuff the boxes they have in inventory, but I haven't seen them do that with an OS before.
There is a simple hack to add your "unsupported" 802.11g wifi cards to OS X. Just a matter of looking up the PCMCIA card's ID (one terminal command and a little looking) and edit the config file and add the id. Done it to several pismos. Only works on OS X though, if you have OS 9 still (which is an issue all its own) you're outa luck.
Airport cards aren't that terribly expensive though, although the older 802.11b airport cards can be a tad challenging to find.
Whether the fan is blowing toward the heat sink, pushing in cooler air and displacing hot air in all other directions, or blowing away from the heat sink, pushing hot air away in a specific direction and pulling in cooler air in from all other directions, the same thing is being accomplished - warm air removed from the vacinity of the heat sink and cooler air replacing it.
The only real difference is where you are pushing the warmer air - with an intake fan the hot air gets pushed usually to the sides of the heat sink, and can raise the temperature of nearby components - with an exhaust fan you direct the warmer air usually up and away from the board. (and possibly onto something else you'd rather not heat up, like your hard drive) Although with an exhaust fan you are pulling air into the heat sink from nearby components, which could in itself reduce the cooling efficiency of your heat sink, while benefiting nearby components.
So choosing between exhaust and intake probably depends a lot on the physical layout of your case. A universal good selection would probably be exhaust that takes the air directly to the outside of the case.
The text refers to "gratuities", whereas the MPAA says they don't give cash to cops. What this probably was is they took the cops out to dinner or something to celibrate the bust. Bribes don't have to be cash in hand, "favors" work just as well, and it's still a bribe.
Not really. Untested does not mean conterfeit. It just means less quality control. If your facility makes 1000 units an hour, and it takes 30 minutes to test each unit, this means you will need 500 test fixtures and additional labor. If when tested, only 2 units out of 1000 fail, you have to ask yourself... is it really worth it to test? Sure, those 2 bad units are going to piss off a couple customers, but 99.8% customer satisfaction is completely acceptable in any market. Given the time required to test a large memory module thoroughly, I can see where testing 1000 DIMMs could cost more than pissing off 0.2% of your customer base.
Memory is like any other product... there are good manufacturers and bad manufacturers, each have their own quality level, and you can still get a good unit from a shady maker or a lemon from a trusted source. All you can do is decide how much more you're willling to pay for a higher chance that the product will satisfy you. If you don't want much risk, don't buy on the cheap from a no-name. And don't go blaming the no-name brands for low quality... they aren't deceiving anyone, you get what you pay for, and there is a market for cheap and iffy; they're just giving some of us what we want.
Not trolling, but maybe venting. I spent all last weekend trying to get VirtualPC to finish installing the pre-installed WinXP - finally ended up borrowing XP CDs and installing it from scratch, which to my amazement actually worked. Fifteen minutes ago VPC crashed with an "out of memory" error. (WTF? OSX VM...), and corrupted my hard-fought XP install. Thank god these are easy to back up/restore... though it is taking a few minutes to re-copy the 4.8gb environment package.
Most users prefer their icons to look the same every time they go hunting for them. Changing the icon as the document is edited would be a nightmare.
Though Apple's DVD Player playing the movie live while minimized in the dock sort of goes against this, but hey, it's playing live video, this makes it fairly easy to recognize as a movie. You should check out the feature sometime, it's cool.
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Mac OS has had the abilitiy to do this "firewall stealth mode" since IPFW was bundled. (10.0? 10.1? not sure...) What they're talking about is now there's an improved interface to ipfw. I run 10.3 and I've already turned on this "stealth mode" with a few ipfw commands in a startup item.
But this isn't something joe sixpack can do with just a click. Oh wait, now there's tiger. Nevermind that.
It also says they will notify you of the alleged infringement, (to give you the opportunity to file the "counter notification") which apparently in this case they did not do. So Comcast is not following the provisions they agreed to in their own TOS.
I'd expect some major class-action lawsuit. Imagine tens or hundreds of thousands of consumers purchasing a product which the RIAA then renders useless without refund. I don't see how any group, even one as powerful as the RIAA, could come out on top of such a lawsuit.
It would be trivial to show that the consumer purchased the player with the intent and expectaction to be able to purchase and play media with it for at least the next several years, and that the player was marketed with exactly that use, and that the consumer was harmed by the revocation of the key for their model of player.
If you want bar.foo.pro you have to get it from whoever owns foo.pro. They control the DNS records for foo.pro, which means they control DNS entries for *.foo.pro. This can be handled at the webserver basis if you point *.foo.pro at your webserver, but in the case where foo.pro is popular, someone will buy foo.pro and then resell all the variations of *.foo.pro, and direct each variation to someone else's web server. From there, the buyers could handle *.bar.foo.pro variations via their webserver.
I've been with register.com for several years now. They are a little more expensive than the cut-rates, but you get real serivce from them. They have a 1800 line that can get you to a human, and they can help you set up or fix your registry entries over the phone if needed. They also offer quantity discounts if you register for several years in advance. (I'm booked up until 2013) Also, you can dicker with them a bit on the phone if you are a customer of theirs and are signing up someone new - you can get them a lower rate if you ask for it.
Register.com also will allow you to transfer registered domains to them that still have any number of years of paid registration already in place, at no charge. I asked them if this meant I could say, register somewhere cheaply for 9 yrs and then transfer the domain to them and reap the free 800 support for the next 9 yrs, and they said ya, some people do that.
Go to http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg28_firewir eidesmartlcdbridge.htm and pick up one of their FireView firewire bridge boards, with display. This is a conventional IDE-to-firewire board, but has a diagnostic system on board, with a two line alphanumeric display and two menu buttons. With this, you can tell the hard drive to do a low level reformat, without even hooking it up to a PC. All you need is a regular USB or firewire external hard drive case and replace its regular bridge board with a FireView.
The FireView also does a lot of other nice things, like checking SMART status, displaying SMART error logs, enabling or disabling SMART, telling you thruput, status of both firewire ports and the computers you've plugged them into, etc. It can also invoke the short and thorough self-tests in the hard drive's firmware to check for problems.
It's also got a short reformat that just blasts the partition map, useful for those HDs that have a hopelessly confused partition table that hangs any machine you boot them up in.
That's true of physical goods, where you are buying the item and are then the owner of the item. This is software licensing. You are not purchasing the software, you are licensing it. Software companies license you the software instead of selling it to you so that they can impose restrictions on your use of the software.
The license is a contract, and it usually can be summed up by saying you have to legally agree to abide by the terms of the contract to use their software, usually in exchange for payment for the privledge of using their software. As a consequence of it being a contract, both parties must agree to the terms. Having accepted your money, they have received their benefit from the agreement, and having accepted your money means they have accepted their terms of the agreement. If you choose NOT to agree to your terms, they are not entitled to their half of the agreement (the money) and are legally required to refund you. They are also required to tell you that you are entitled to this refund.
Software companies empower their software vendors to handle this agreement for them, and as such they almost always specify in the license that the refund must be sought from the vendor rather than the software company. (since you're buying from the vendor not the software co) This makes it clear who you are to seek your refund to, and prevents the vendor and the software company from both pointing you toward the other one for your refund.
Getting a refund for software is a bit like turning in a rebait or getting a free ipod mini... it's possible, but they make it as difficult as they can in the hopes that you dont try, or give up. And they're not above lying to discourage you.
The difference here is he bought it at a campus store, where he was given an educational discount. He then sold it on ebay to people that would not normally receive the discount. Because of this, he proffited from the ebay sale in the amount that microsoft discounted it when they sold it to him.
Whether or not this was legal I don't know, but I can see where a company would get irritated if someone came in and bought say, several cases of product using their discount, then turned around and sold them at retail to the general public. That would at least be considered abusing one's discount privledge. MS may have just been trying to be consistent, going after anyone that does this, no matter how limited in scope.
Imagine a Best Buy employee buying racks of CDs using his employee discount, and taking them home and selling them out of his car for a little mark-up. That'd get you fired or your discount privledge suspended right quick. In the case of MS and software though, no agreement existed between him and MS, and they had no leverage over him as your employer would, so they lashed out legally to try to coerce him.
I believe this was just ms's knee-jerk reaction to someone reselling their product for proffit. Strictly speaking, this guy may have not been legally entitled to sell the license, (though I suspect he was - the license is non-transferrable, but he never accepted the license) but ms refusing him the refund was definitely illegal. The usual caution has to follow "Two wrongs don't make a right." He was harmed by MS's practice, but he may have reacted the wrong way. Though sometimes there's a lot more resistance taking the high road.
I've got a wap in my attic that I use maybe once a week if I'm lucky. It's for convenience sake, and since I know I appreciate open WAPs, I leave mine open. Sure, it's outside the router on its own IP address so I keep the snoops out, but it's unrestricted. I get mailed the logs once a week and there's four or five laptops in the area that access my WAP occasionally, some just touch it and some actually DHCP and use the connection. I have no idea who they are, but for kicks I changed the SSID to "call (my phone number)" though I have yet to actually have anyone ring me up to say thanks for the net.
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mail.app (in OS X) has a very nice ruleset in preferences under Rules.
I had quite a collection of antispam rules that caught 99% of the spam. Then I started using my own mailserver, which subscribes to RBLs. RBLs + a new email address (no more spam fished from usenet posts 10 yrs ago!) means no spam for me, and no filters needed anymore.
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how many people do you know that send you html email?
my rules are set to roundfile anything with html in it that's not from a known source. (some of my online billpayments send html confirmation emails that I want to see)
I can't speak for the other manufacturers, but I have seen hundreds of Apple LCD displays, on iMacs, powerbooks, and ibooks, and I have seen a grand total of TWO displays with stuck pixels.. one with 1 stuck on (red) and one with two green stuck on. Now I realize these displays have millions of transistors to make them work, but then again so do CPUs, and they have to be spot-on, 100%, or they won't work. LCD displays can be at least brought up to the same spec as CPUs.
The only difference is how much a mistake costs. CPUs have a lower per-unit fabrication cost than LCDs, and can be screened at a much earlier manufacturing stage to get rid of the rejects before they're assembled further.
This little handheld has a much smaller screen - there's no excuse to have a much higher failure rate in a much smaller display. Even the 30" display we have out in our show room is flawless. (I checked it, and no it's not hard to spot dead pixels, just use a grey background color) How many PSP screens would fit in that res? 20 or more I'd wager. From what I've heard, more than 1 in 20 PSP displays are bugged. There's no excuse.
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Whoops the post didn't like some of what I pasted in, it doesn't care for greater than or less than brackets. I'll preview this time. Replacing brackets with asterisks so slashdot can handle it, search for this:
| +-o pci14e4,4325@0 *class IOCardBusDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain count 10*
And add to the array that looks (almost) like:
*array*
*string*pci106b,4e*/string*
*string*pci14e4,4320*/string*
*string*pci14e4,4324*/string*
*/array*
(as I crack open my flash drive and review my notes...)
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext/Cont ents/Info.plist
type this in terminal:
[b]ioreg -l > ~/Desktop/temp.txt[/b]
to get a dump of the hardware IDs. Search the text file it puts on your desktop for "Airport" or "Cardbus" and find the line similar to:
| +-o pci14e4,4325@0
Then edit
and add the ID to the array list, which starts out something like:
pci106b,4e
pci14e4,4320
pci14e4,4324
pci14e4,4325 works for most MicroSoft nic cards
PCI1186,1340 is for the DLink DFE-690TXD
Now reboot, open networking preferences, and smile as it says "new port detected".
This will only work if the wifi card is already compatible, as by adding the ID to the list you're basically promising OS X that the card is compatible, so use at your own risk, no guarantees. Probably can't break much of anything though.
They will be "stuffing" the computer boxes with a little insert with a NFR set of CDs, for the customer to install when they open it up. Apple usually stuffs any boxes that ship after the OS releases. It'll be a few weeks at least before we start seeing macs that have 10.4 on their actual install/restore CDs though.
Apple has also been known to send NFR CDs for things like iLife when a new version cones out, sent to the retailers so they can stuff the boxes they have in inventory, but I haven't seen them do that with an OS before.
There is a simple hack to add your "unsupported" 802.11g wifi cards to OS X. Just a matter of looking up the PCMCIA card's ID (one terminal command and a little looking) and edit the config file and add the id. Done it to several pismos. Only works on OS X though, if you have OS 9 still (which is an issue all its own) you're outa luck.
Airport cards aren't that terribly expensive though, although the older 802.11b airport cards can be a tad challenging to find.
I wouldn't have guessed it would allow that. Any side-efffects?
Opera CEO Prepares to SINK in stupid publicity stunt.
As if he has a chance of making it...
True, though in this case the intake of the fan is physically attached and butted up against the heatsink, so ducting isn't really needed.
Whether the fan is blowing toward the heat sink, pushing in cooler air and displacing hot air in all other directions, or blowing away from the heat sink, pushing hot air away in a specific direction and pulling in cooler air in from all other directions, the same thing is being accomplished - warm air removed from the vacinity of the heat sink and cooler air replacing it.
The only real difference is where you are pushing the warmer air - with an intake fan the hot air gets pushed usually to the sides of the heat sink, and can raise the temperature of nearby components - with an exhaust fan you direct the warmer air usually up and away from the board. (and possibly onto something else you'd rather not heat up, like your hard drive) Although with an exhaust fan you are pulling air into the heat sink from nearby components, which could in itself reduce the cooling efficiency of your heat sink, while benefiting nearby components.
So choosing between exhaust and intake probably depends a lot on the physical layout of your case. A universal good selection would probably be exhaust that takes the air directly to the outside of the case.
The text refers to "gratuities", whereas the MPAA says they don't give cash to cops. What this probably was is they took the cops out to dinner or something to celibrate the bust. Bribes don't have to be cash in hand, "favors" work just as well, and it's still a bribe.
Not really. Untested does not mean conterfeit. It just means less quality control. If your facility makes 1000 units an hour, and it takes 30 minutes to test each unit, this means you will need 500 test fixtures and additional labor. If when tested, only 2 units out of 1000 fail, you have to ask yourself... is it really worth it to test? Sure, those 2 bad units are going to piss off a couple customers, but 99.8% customer satisfaction is completely acceptable in any market. Given the time required to test a large memory module thoroughly, I can see where testing 1000 DIMMs could cost more than pissing off 0.2% of your customer base.
Memory is like any other product... there are good manufacturers and bad manufacturers, each have their own quality level, and you can still get a good unit from a shady maker or a lemon from a trusted source. All you can do is decide how much more you're willling to pay for a higher chance that the product will satisfy you. If you don't want much risk, don't buy on the cheap from a no-name. And don't go blaming the no-name brands for low quality... they aren't deceiving anyone, you get what you pay for, and there is a market for cheap and iffy; they're just giving some of us what we want.
I thought all MS software was beta?
(or put another way, "what does THIS change?")
Not trolling, but maybe venting. I spent all last weekend trying to get VirtualPC to finish installing the pre-installed WinXP - finally ended up borrowing XP CDs and installing it from scratch, which to my amazement actually worked. Fifteen minutes ago VPC crashed with an "out of memory" error. (WTF? OSX VM...), and corrupted my hard-fought XP install. Thank god these are easy to back up/restore... though it is taking a few minutes to re-copy the 4.8gb environment package.
Most users prefer their icons to look the same every time they go hunting for them. Changing the icon as the document is edited would be a nightmare.
Though Apple's DVD Player playing the movie live while minimized in the dock sort of goes against this, but hey, it's playing live video, this makes it fairly easy to recognize as a movie. You should check out the feature sometime, it's cool.
Mac OS has had the abilitiy to do this "firewall stealth mode" since IPFW was bundled. (10.0? 10.1? not sure...) What they're talking about is now there's an improved interface to ipfw. I run 10.3 and I've already turned on this "stealth mode" with a few ipfw commands in a startup item.
But this isn't something joe sixpack can do with just a click. Oh wait, now there's tiger. Nevermind that.
With PCs it's somewhat a matter of survival - if a malicious hacker finds your windows box, well, it's his.
With Macs, it's simply a matter of privacy. And tiger does this out of the box, no need to buy any additional software as you point out.
It also says they will notify you of the alleged infringement, (to give you the opportunity to file the "counter notification") which apparently in this case they did not do. So Comcast is not following the provisions they agreed to in their own TOS.
I'd expect some major class-action lawsuit. Imagine tens or hundreds of thousands of consumers purchasing a product which the RIAA then renders useless without refund. I don't see how any group, even one as powerful as the RIAA, could come out on top of such a lawsuit.
It would be trivial to show that the consumer purchased the player with the intent and expectaction to be able to purchase and play media with it for at least the next several years, and that the player was marketed with exactly that use, and that the consumer was harmed by the revocation of the key for their model of player.
If you want bar.foo.pro you have to get it from whoever owns foo.pro. They control the DNS records for foo.pro, which means they control DNS entries for *.foo.pro. This can be handled at the webserver basis if you point *.foo.pro at your webserver, but in the case where foo.pro is popular, someone will buy foo.pro and then resell all the variations of *.foo.pro, and direct each variation to someone else's web server. From there, the buyers could handle *.bar.foo.pro variations via their webserver.
I've been with register.com for several years now. They are a little more expensive than the cut-rates, but you get real serivce from them. They have a 1800 line that can get you to a human, and they can help you set up or fix your registry entries over the phone if needed. They also offer quantity discounts if you register for several years in advance. (I'm booked up until 2013) Also, you can dicker with them a bit on the phone if you are a customer of theirs and are signing up someone new - you can get them a lower rate if you ask for it.
Register.com also will allow you to transfer registered domains to them that still have any number of years of paid registration already in place, at no charge. I asked them if this meant I could say, register somewhere cheaply for 9 yrs and then transfer the domain to them and reap the free 800 support for the next 9 yrs, and they said ya, some people do that.
Go to http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg28_firewir eidesmartlcdbridge.htm and pick up one of their FireView firewire bridge boards, with display. This is a conventional IDE-to-firewire board, but has a diagnostic system on board, with a two line alphanumeric display and two menu buttons. With this, you can tell the hard drive to do a low level reformat, without even hooking it up to a PC. All you need is a regular USB or firewire external hard drive case and replace its regular bridge board with a FireView.
The FireView also does a lot of other nice things, like checking SMART status, displaying SMART error logs, enabling or disabling SMART, telling you thruput, status of both firewire ports and the computers you've plugged them into, etc. It can also invoke the short and thorough self-tests in the hard drive's firmware to check for problems.
It's also got a short reformat that just blasts the partition map, useful for those HDs that have a hopelessly confused partition table that hangs any machine you boot them up in.
That's true of physical goods, where you are buying the item and are then the owner of the item. This is software licensing. You are not purchasing the software, you are licensing it. Software companies license you the software instead of selling it to you so that they can impose restrictions on your use of the software.
The license is a contract, and it usually can be summed up by saying you have to legally agree to abide by the terms of the contract to use their software, usually in exchange for payment for the privledge of using their software. As a consequence of it being a contract, both parties must agree to the terms. Having accepted your money, they have received their benefit from the agreement, and having accepted your money means they have accepted their terms of the agreement. If you choose NOT to agree to your terms, they are not entitled to their half of the agreement (the money) and are legally required to refund you. They are also required to tell you that you are entitled to this refund.
Software companies empower their software vendors to handle this agreement for them, and as such they almost always specify in the license that the refund must be sought from the vendor rather than the software company. (since you're buying from the vendor not the software co) This makes it clear who you are to seek your refund to, and prevents the vendor and the software company from both pointing you toward the other one for your refund.
Getting a refund for software is a bit like turning in a rebait or getting a free ipod mini... it's possible, but they make it as difficult as they can in the hopes that you dont try, or give up. And they're not above lying to discourage you.
The difference here is he bought it at a campus store, where he was given an educational discount. He then sold it on ebay to people that would not normally receive the discount. Because of this, he proffited from the ebay sale in the amount that microsoft discounted it when they sold it to him.
Whether or not this was legal I don't know, but I can see where a company would get irritated if someone came in and bought say, several cases of product using their discount, then turned around and sold them at retail to the general public. That would at least be considered abusing one's discount privledge. MS may have just been trying to be consistent, going after anyone that does this, no matter how limited in scope.
Imagine a Best Buy employee buying racks of CDs using his employee discount, and taking them home and selling them out of his car for a little mark-up. That'd get you fired or your discount privledge suspended right quick. In the case of MS and software though, no agreement existed between him and MS, and they had no leverage over him as your employer would, so they lashed out legally to try to coerce him.
I believe this was just ms's knee-jerk reaction to someone reselling their product for proffit. Strictly speaking, this guy may have not been legally entitled to sell the license, (though I suspect he was - the license is non-transferrable, but he never accepted the license) but ms refusing him the refund was definitely illegal. The usual caution has to follow "Two wrongs don't make a right." He was harmed by MS's practice, but he may have reacted the wrong way. Though sometimes there's a lot more resistance taking the high road.
I've got a wap in my attic that I use maybe once a week if I'm lucky. It's for convenience sake, and since I know I appreciate open WAPs, I leave mine open. Sure, it's outside the router on its own IP address so I keep the snoops out, but it's unrestricted. I get mailed the logs once a week and there's four or five laptops in the area that access my WAP occasionally, some just touch it and some actually DHCP and use the connection. I have no idea who they are, but for kicks I changed the SSID to "call (my phone number)" though I have yet to actually have anyone ring me up to say thanks for the net.
mail.app (in OS X) has a very nice ruleset in preferences under Rules.
I had quite a collection of antispam rules that caught 99% of the spam. Then I started using my own mailserver, which subscribes to RBLs. RBLs + a new email address (no more spam fished from usenet posts 10 yrs ago!) means no spam for me, and no filters needed anymore.
how many people do you know that send you html email?
my rules are set to roundfile anything with html in it that's not from a known source. (some of my online billpayments send html confirmation emails that I want to see)
I can't speak for the other manufacturers, but I have seen hundreds of Apple LCD displays, on iMacs, powerbooks, and ibooks, and I have seen a grand total of TWO displays with stuck pixels.. one with 1 stuck on (red) and one with two green stuck on. Now I realize these displays have millions of transistors to make them work, but then again so do CPUs, and they have to be spot-on, 100%, or they won't work. LCD displays can be at least brought up to the same spec as CPUs.
The only difference is how much a mistake costs. CPUs have a lower per-unit fabrication cost than LCDs, and can be screened at a much earlier manufacturing stage to get rid of the rejects before they're assembled further.
This little handheld has a much smaller screen - there's no excuse to have a much higher failure rate in a much smaller display. Even the 30" display we have out in our show room is flawless. (I checked it, and no it's not hard to spot dead pixels, just use a grey background color) How many PSP screens would fit in that res? 20 or more I'd wager. From what I've heard, more than 1 in 20 PSP displays are bugged. There's no excuse.