"Concentration camps"??? Do you are saying that the US is going to be putting the hacker race to death by gassing them and then burning them. Is there actually a race of hackers that can be genectically defined?
Concentration camps are for mass detainment -- such as what the U.S. did to American citizens of Japanese decent durring WWII. Death camps involve the killing, etc.
If they kept their money in glass cases and carried it around in transparent plastic bags, it wouldn't be the bank managers fault if someone stole it, right?
You meant to be sarcastic. The ironic thing is that your remark is correct. It would not be the bank managers fault (legally) if someone stole the money because the safe was made of glass. It is illegal to steal.
I park my car with the top down all the time. I usually use a CLUB but not always. If someone steals my car, it is still theft and they will still go to jail.
Now to figure out a way to change TV stations remote, via a web browser, and I'm set:)
A quich search revealed the ZephIR, an IR transmitter that works with OS X. It's fully scriptable with AppleScript. Since AppleScript can be executed by the commandline, I'm sure you could write a simple perl cgi wrapper for it. Dammit, now I want one.
Re:Broadcast to other TiVos?
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Since Rendezvous is implemented as multicast MAC-level transport, and most ISP's don't pass anything but unicast OUT from your link, the answer is probably no if you're on DSL. Cable modem users with no or properly-configure firewalls/routers may work though.
Won't your neighbor's 802.11 equipped TiVo pick up Rendezvous signals from your 802.11 equipped Mac?
For its Web page rendering engine, Safari draws on software from the Konqueror open source project.
Weighing in at less than one tenth the size of another open source renderer, Konqueror helps Safari stay lean and responsive. And of course, being a good open source citizen, Apple shares its enhancements with the Konqueror open source community.
Simply because of the number of registers on PowerPC machines, an emulator running on x86 would have to swap registers to ram quite frequently. It would be much slower than emulating x86 on PPC.
This is a testament to the power of free software: this sort of innovation could never happen if it weren't for the free software nature of the underlying systems."
Look, I'm an advocate of free software. I also have experience developing on proprietary platforms. To say that "this sort of innovation could never happen" on a proprietary system is hogwash. Seriously, any well-documented system can be modified in this way. Even totally undocumented ones (think older TI calculators) can be hacked to add new layers of functionality. Open source (not necesarilly free) software is easier to develop for if docs are lacking, but otherwise this is not a case where OSS proves better that proprietary systems.
Just so you don't think I'm biased against free software, I'm writing this message on a machine running KDE.
You must have missed the announcemnt a few months ago.
Anyway, the Mac version just uses HFS. There are 3rd party HFS readers for *nix and Windows. I don't know if they were reverse engineered or created from Apple specs.
Except OS X isn't tinkerable at all. Practically all the code Apple has written is closed source, and the Mac parts of MacOS are generally only capable of doing things one way.
If you ignore the fact that you can recompile the kernel and change most OS variables using XML plists and NetInfo, you are absolutely correct. If I ignore my need for oxygen I can breathe in space too.
I've used loopback a few times under Linux. Is there any way to do the same on OS X? There are no/dev/loop* devices. Would a kernel module need to be written to support them or are they disabled somehow?
I want a completely OSS solution to mounting disk images so that I can use my linux scripts on my mac and not have to use Disk Copy.
Of course, most browsers (including IE) have done this(on many platforms) for a very long time. I think the point is that the new tech uses thumbnails.
I'm going to apologize in advance if this postshurts anyone. I'm usually not this blunt.
This article is pathetic. The author makes himself look like a complete fool. I feel no sympathy for him at all. His "addiction" not only keeps him playing a game that he "hates" but also makes him write whiny letters about it? I'd hate to be in his shoes.
I agree with Linux_ho. This guy needs to admit that he gets something he likes out of the game, or quit playing. He wouldn't be playing the game if he didn't enjoy the frustrations of the game. If he really doesn't like the game, he should stop playing.
If it is really addictive (which I doubt), it's still pretty easy to quit. All he has to do is stop paying. Spend the money on theater tickets or something. This guy needs to find some less self-destructive form of entertainment, or admit that he likes the "pain" EQ causes him.
My whole argument is that the term 'Unix-like' is open to a lot of interpretation and can be used more as an excuse for including or excluding a particular platform - rather than as a logical test determining what platforms to pick. There are different definitions, some of them include the Macintosh, some even include Windows.
Actually, no (reasonable) definition of "Unix-like" excludes OS X, wheras most exclude Win32.
The only way to exclude OS X from unix-like operating systems is to ignore the fact that Mac OS X is UNIX(tm) and demand X11 out of the box. X11 is not a requirement for *nix. Not all *nixes include any GUI, and some use their own systems. Of course, any definition hinging on X11 excludes Win32 as well. I challenge you to find a widely accepted definition of "Unix-like" that includes Win32 and excludes Mac OS X.
My point is that Mac OS X unquestionably fits in on freshmeat. It's inclusion does not alter theirs standards for inclusion. Win32 does not seem to fit in. You think it does, but it does not match the description on their about page.
You can base your definition of Unixness on legal wrangling and trademarks - in which case Linux would not be included. Or you can base it on tick-list conformance to POSIX standards and certification - in which case Windows NT would be included. Or you can take some position where you look at a range of factors like the kernel, the shell and user interface, whether Unix-like tools and applications are included, and source compatibility with Unix software.
This statments supports OS X's inclusion in Freshmeat, since by either of your standards, Mac OS X is a UNIX.
However, earlier, you said:
If Freshmeat isn't going to restrict itself to Unix OSes, they ought to allow submitted software for all platforms. Yes, Mac OS X does have a lot of Unix software you can run on it, but the same is true of Windows with or without Cygwin. Both platforms have their own weird microkernel and various layers on top, of which some provide a Unix-like API.
That statment implied that OS X is not even unix-like, much less a UNIX(tm).
Since OS X is the UNIX(tm) with the largest share of the desktop market, would it be prudent for a site like Freshmeat to have an OS X section?
Remember what Freshmeat is:
freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software. Thousands of applications, which are preferably released under an open source license, are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new applications are added daily.
By your own statements, OS X fits the bill, but Win32 does not.
Actually, according to the owners of the UNIX name, OS X is a UNIX. It is not "*nix" or "unix-like." OS X is UNIX. Period. I don't recall the link at the moment, but your point has been proven false repeatedly. Search for the link if you like.
Since OS X is a UNIX, it should be included as a category on Freshmeat. I'm glad it finally is.
Mailto links should be used on anchors that explicitly indicate that they're email addresses, either by their format (donald@duck.com) or their wording (send email to customer support). Don't place mailto links on names; clicking on people's names should usually lead to their biography.
Why do usernames in articles link to e-mail addresses? It makes no sense.
My only recommendation would be... to offer full money back guarantee... in case something DOES go wrong, and the person isnt 100% pleased.
Lol, if Microsoft offered a 100% satisfaction guarantee, they wouldn't be able to stay in business.
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1) Although a 1 or 2 seat car might make sense while commuting to and from work, owning a $10k car just to commute to work is impractical. I would need another car if I wanted to drive my friends and family anywhere, or if I wanted to buy anything larger than a toaster oven. Until gasoline costs $1000/gallon, owning two cars, one for commuting, one for other usage, isn't economically realistic.
I drive a Miata. This car is tiny. My gf's Thunderbird's tires reach over my door handles. But, I've made large purchases (take the top down & load up the passenger seat) AND I never have problems travelling in groups. You see, most of my friends have cars. If we are going somewhere together, they drive.
Most of the time, drivers are alone in their cars. How much sense does it make to lug around an extra 4000lbs just to move one person? My car weighs 2800lbs and I still think that's high.
Sure it makes sense to have a big car if you usually carry two or more passengers. But if you usually drive alone or with one passenger, give the rest of us a break and get a two-seater or at least a small coupe. These little cars aren't that expensive compared to larger cars. In the end, you get a car that's more fun to drive, saves you money on gas, and carries less kinetic energy into a collistion.
Larger != faster or cooler
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I get laughed at for having a 1.9 liter 4 cylinder engine.
Nobody laughs at my 1.8L inline 4 for long. It's in a really small car. It's NOT slow. I drive a Mazda Miata.
The 1.8L inline 4 in my previous car performed well too. It was an Acura Integra.
Didja notice that neither of these were made by FORD -- actually Ford owns Mazda, but my car was built in Hiroshima. Ford is no good at making small fuel efficient engines.
ENDYN had (has?) a 1.5L SOHC I4 that gets over 400hp now. It also gets 3mpg more than it did as a stock Honda Civic DX engine.
I won't buy an American car until there is one that is fun to drive, environmentally friendly, and not too expensive to purchase and keep up.
Don't forget, Apple Computer was sued by Apple Records over their name. Only when Apple Computer promissed never to enter the recording business were they allowed to keep the name. When the first Macintosh with a microphone shipped, they added a new system alert sound called sosumi. So sue me.
I must be. Apple only gives away iDVD with the purchase of a superdrive. It says so on their site.
All of this complaining is like me bitching because the free games on my Samsung phone won't copy onto my friend's Motorolla phone. It's whiny crap. They use the software to sell the hardware. It is not "free." It comes with a hardware purchase.
My CD-RW came with a very limited version of Toast. Does that make that version of Toast free? Can I "buy" a copy of it and then bitch that it doesn't work with another drive?
Grow up. If you want to burn DVDs w/out using a superdrive, don't bitch that you can't use superdrive bundled software. Go buy some DVD burning software.
iDVD is software for your superdrive -- period. It is not general purpose DVD authoring software.
How can I prove it to you? I know what my computer did. As for just running DOOM II, I have no idea why you had trouble. It ran just fine. It may be important that my machine had 64mb of ram (the max it could handle).
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"Concentration camps"??? Do you are saying that the US is going to be putting the hacker race to death by gassing them and then burning them. Is there actually a race of hackers that can be genectically defined?
Concentration camps are for mass detainment -- such as what the U.S. did to American citizens of Japanese decent durring WWII. Death camps involve the killing, etc.
Like, if someone broke into a car and stole a CD, they shouldn't need to pay for a new Car Alarm (or something)
Actually, I like that idea.
If they kept their money in glass cases and carried it around in transparent plastic bags, it wouldn't be the bank managers fault if someone stole it, right?
You meant to be sarcastic. The ironic thing is that your remark is correct. It would not be the bank managers fault (legally) if someone stole the money because the safe was made of glass. It is illegal to steal.
I park my car with the top down all the time. I usually use a CLUB but not always. If someone steals my car, it is still theft and they will still go to jail.
Now to figure out a way to change TV stations remote, via a web browser, and I'm set :)
A quich search revealed the ZephIR, an IR transmitter that works with OS X. It's fully scriptable with AppleScript. Since AppleScript can be executed by the commandline, I'm sure you could write a simple perl cgi wrapper for it. Dammit, now I want one.
Since Rendezvous is implemented as multicast MAC-level transport, and most ISP's don't pass anything but unicast OUT from your link, the answer is probably no if you're on DSL. Cable modem users with no or properly-configure firewalls/routers may work though.
Won't your neighbor's 802.11 equipped TiVo pick up Rendezvous signals from your 802.11 equipped Mac?
Can I broadcast whatever I want to my neighbor's TiVO? Can my neighbor watch my slideshows w/out me knowing?
This may open the door for simple pirate TV stations using 802.11, TiVos, and Macs.
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I downloaded the x11 installer remotely. Here's the url I used:
f 1a 22/1a1a1acd38990667d0fe67d53e a5786de0f406fe45786d91d6897c7f d2e5b8bbef52c5a8cbcec1f4f80b0e7156dbf3197cd/X11SDK
http://a1408.g.akamai.net/5/1408/1388/818a79d41
baad839a91985ea187b
ForMacOSX.dmg.bin
I hope it's still good. If anyone wants it, I have the file. Just reply here if you have some place to serve it from.
Simply because of the number of registers on PowerPC machines, an emulator running on x86 would have to swap registers to ram quite frequently. It would be much slower than emulating x86 on PPC.
This is a testament to the power of free software: this sort of innovation could never happen if it weren't for the free software nature of the underlying systems."
Look, I'm an advocate of free software. I also have experience developing on proprietary platforms. To say that "this sort of innovation could never happen" on a proprietary system is hogwash. Seriously, any well-documented system can be modified in this way. Even totally undocumented ones (think older TI calculators) can be hacked to add new layers of functionality. Open source (not necesarilly free) software is easier to develop for if docs are lacking, but otherwise this is not a case where OSS proves better that proprietary systems.
Just so you don't think I'm biased against free software, I'm writing this message on a machine running KDE.
So.... just like the iPod then, which works on other platforms only due to 3rd parties reverse engineering parts of the on disk format?
Here is proof to the contrary. It took them a while, but Apple did release a Windows compatible iPod.
Even Dell sells them.
You must have missed the announcemnt a few months ago.
Anyway, the Mac version just uses HFS. There are 3rd party HFS readers for *nix and Windows. I don't know if they were reverse engineered or created from Apple specs.
Except OS X isn't tinkerable at all. Practically all the code Apple has written is closed source, and the Mac parts of MacOS are generally only capable of doing things one way.
If you ignore the fact that you can recompile the kernel and change most OS variables using XML plists and NetInfo, you are absolutely correct. If I ignore my need for oxygen I can breathe in space too.
I've used loopback a few times under Linux. Is there any way to do the same on OS X? There are no /dev/loop* devices. Would a kernel module need to be written to support them or are they disabled somehow?
I want a completely OSS solution to mounting disk images so that I can use my linux scripts on my mac and not have to use Disk Copy.
Of course, most browsers (including IE) have done this(on many platforms) for a very long time. I think the point is that the new tech uses thumbnails.
I'm going to apologize in advance if this postshurts anyone. I'm usually not this blunt.
This article is pathetic. The author makes himself look like a complete fool. I feel no sympathy for him at all. His "addiction" not only keeps him playing a game that he "hates" but also makes him write whiny letters about it? I'd hate to be in his shoes.
I agree with Linux_ho. This guy needs to admit that he gets something he likes out of the game, or quit playing. He wouldn't be playing the game if he didn't enjoy the frustrations of the game. If he really doesn't like the game, he should stop playing.
If it is really addictive (which I doubt), it's still pretty easy to quit. All he has to do is stop paying. Spend the money on theater tickets or something. This guy needs to find some less self-destructive form of entertainment, or admit that he likes the "pain" EQ causes him.
What I find interesting is that you don't find PC game makers on the list of members. I wonder why?
Maybe they're not members of the Business Software Alliance because they don't sell business software?
My whole argument is that the term 'Unix-like' is open to a lot of interpretation and can be used more as an excuse for including or excluding a particular platform - rather than as a logical test determining what platforms to pick. There are different definitions, some of them include the Macintosh, some even include Windows.
Actually, no (reasonable) definition of "Unix-like" excludes OS X, wheras most exclude Win32.
The only way to exclude OS X from unix-like operating systems is to ignore the fact that Mac OS X is UNIX(tm) and demand X11 out of the box. X11 is not a requirement for *nix. Not all *nixes include any GUI, and some use their own systems. Of course, any definition hinging on X11 excludes Win32 as well. I challenge you to find a widely accepted definition of "Unix-like" that includes Win32 and excludes Mac OS X.
My point is that Mac OS X unquestionably fits in on freshmeat. It's inclusion does not alter theirs standards for inclusion. Win32 does not seem to fit in. You think it does, but it does not match the description on their about page.
This statments supports OS X's inclusion in Freshmeat, since by either of your standards, Mac OS X is a UNIX.
However, earlier, you said:
That statment implied that OS X is not even unix-like, much less a UNIX(tm).
Since OS X is the UNIX(tm) with the largest share of the desktop market, would it be prudent for a site like Freshmeat to have an OS X section?
Remember what Freshmeat is:
Actually, according to the owners of the UNIX name, OS X is a UNIX. It is not "*nix" or "unix-like." OS X is UNIX. Period. I don't recall the link at the moment, but your point has been proven false repeatedly. Search for the link if you like.
Since OS X is a UNIX, it should be included as a category on Freshmeat. I'm glad it finally is.
Why do usernames in articles link to e-mail addresses? It makes no sense.
My only recommendation would be ... to offer full money back guarantee ... in case something DOES go wrong, and the person isnt 100% pleased.
Lol, if Microsoft offered a 100% satisfaction guarantee, they wouldn't be able to stay in business.
1) Although a 1 or 2 seat car might make sense while commuting to and from work, owning a $10k car just to commute to work is impractical. I would need another car if I wanted to drive my friends and family anywhere, or if I wanted to buy anything larger than a toaster oven. Until gasoline costs $1000/gallon, owning two cars, one for commuting, one for other usage, isn't economically realistic.
I drive a Miata. This car is tiny. My gf's Thunderbird's tires reach over my door handles. But, I've made large purchases (take the top down & load up the passenger seat) AND I never have problems travelling in groups. You see, most of my friends have cars. If we are going somewhere together, they drive.
Most of the time, drivers are alone in their cars. How much sense does it make to lug around an extra 4000lbs just to move one person? My car weighs 2800lbs and I still think that's high.
Sure it makes sense to have a big car if you usually carry two or more passengers. But if you usually drive alone or with one passenger, give the rest of us a break and get a two-seater or at least a small coupe. These little cars aren't that expensive compared to larger cars. In the end, you get a car that's more fun to drive, saves you money on gas, and carries less kinetic energy into a collistion.
I get laughed at for having a 1.9 liter 4 cylinder engine.
Nobody laughs at my 1.8L inline 4 for long. It's in a really small car. It's NOT slow. I drive a Mazda Miata.
The 1.8L inline 4 in my previous car performed well too. It was an Acura Integra.
Didja notice that neither of these were made by FORD -- actually Ford owns Mazda, but my car was built in Hiroshima. Ford is no good at making small fuel efficient engines.
ENDYN had (has?) a 1.5L SOHC I4 that gets over 400hp now. It also gets 3mpg more than it did as a stock Honda Civic DX engine.
I won't buy an American car until there is one that is fun to drive, environmentally friendly, and not too expensive to purchase and keep up.
Don't forget, Apple Computer was sued by Apple Records over their name. Only when Apple Computer promissed never to enter the recording business were they allowed to keep the name. When the first Macintosh with a microphone shipped, they added a new system alert sound called sosumi. So sue me.
This isn't a case of pirated software.
I must be. Apple only gives away iDVD with the purchase of a superdrive. It says so on their site.
All of this complaining is like me bitching because the free games on my Samsung phone won't copy onto my friend's Motorolla phone. It's whiny crap. They use the software to sell the hardware. It is not "free." It comes with a hardware purchase.
My CD-RW came with a very limited version of Toast. Does that make that version of Toast free? Can I "buy" a copy of it and then bitch that it doesn't work with another drive?
Grow up. If you want to burn DVDs w/out using a superdrive, don't bitch that you can't use superdrive bundled software. Go buy some DVD burning software.
iDVD is software for your superdrive -- period. It is not general purpose DVD authoring software.
How can I prove it to you? I know what my computer did. As for just running DOOM II, I have no idea why you had trouble. It ran just fine. It may be important that my machine had 64mb of ram (the max it could handle).