So - you install a version of the gimp - you get a copy of gtk, install eog - you get a copy of gtk, install.... well I think you get my point.
Even worse. A security vulnerability is found in gtk. How many different apps do you have to upgrade? Bonus points for realizing that Apple won't let any 3rd party software use Software Update.
Dev kits for the Revolution are running about $2k, which, from what I understand, is dirt cheap compared to what N has charged in the past, and what Sony and MS are charging for theirs.
To put it in persepective, Sony just lowered the cost of their PSP dev kit to $5k.
The irony is most coding community sites are poorly organized, poorly designed, and lack features.
I think it's because few coders put any sort of stock in appearances. It's a shame, because appearance really helps make a site (or product) feel "solid". Too many coding sites feel like they're barely held together with duct tape.
Poor presentation doesn't instill a lot of confidence that the content is worth anything.
Damn.. I've got boot into XP just so I can watch Brisco County Jr. I've been wanting that on DVD forever.. this will have to tide me over until they release it.
If Linux support is going to be native (instead of requiring a bunch of hacking and modding), does this mean they are open to indie game development?
What did it mean for the PS2? The PS2 harddrive came with a Linux Kit... that's a native, Sony-supported Linux. It didn't mean anything. The fact that no one seems to remember it is pretty telling.
Not only that.. but doesn't anyone remember the exact same statement when the ps2 harddrive came out? That's right, Linux was available on the PS2. Didn't really mean anything though.
I find it very interesting that the severity of this bug is identical to the severity of the security hole found in OSX last week... yet the difference in attitudes is remarkable.
Look at the slashdot summary. "An extremely critical bug and security threat". Compare with the OSX bug which was written off because it's not remotely exploitable.
Apple hasn't even acknowledged that the OSX privilege escalation exists, let alone patched it.
Ah, yes. Except that the "documentation" that the commission is asking would actually allow other people (redhat, novell, sun, ibm) to build products which could integrate with windows clients so tightly as windows servers do.
They should require the same of all OS vendors then. For instance, Apple's movie player uses hardware acceleration that is not available to competing movie players. Apple should be forced to document those APIs.
I like rails, but the poor apache integration sucks.
But ActiveRecord is awesome. Most of us build databases that work like objects already.. so an object oriented interface to your database is very easy to use and maintain.
Basically all you're saying is "Is the version of SSH vulnerable to a remote exploit? Is the version of Apache vulnerable to a remote exploit?"
True, i'd prefer if ARD was installed, because that's at least indicative of Apple-written closed-source, but if this is an intel mac mini, that's impossible, since ARD won't run on an intel mac.
Sony loves right now that people are talking about $800 and $900 price tags. When they deliver at around $400 it will seem like the bargain of the century.
That strategy only works if the competition wasn't already available.
Instead people will spend their money on the xbox360, and when the PS3 comes out most people will have already purchased a 360 or a revolution.
Yes, Apple shouldn't have tried to make it look like a high-end stereo system--they should have designed it to look like a boom box.
Oh wait--they did.
It's called "iPod Hi-Fi". It costs $350, and it sounds worse than a $50 set of pioneer speakers. They should've designed it to look like a pile of shit.
Because it's probably not fully tested to work with Tiger. The only system updates you get with Software Update and bug fixes and security fixes.
Well, actually, Apple has miscompiled Ruby since 2003. The pack/unpack functions don't work correctly. You can recompile 1.8.2 yourself and make it work just fine with Rails.
The problem is that Apple cross compiled Ruby screwy, so it thinks it's on a little endian machine when it's really on a PPC.
Converting stuff to Network Byte Order will actually give you the opposite using Apple's Ruby.
Apple should release a bug fix, but they have neglected to do so.
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So - you install a version of the gimp - you get a copy of gtk, install eog - you get a copy of gtk, install.... well I think you get my point.
Even worse. A security vulnerability is found in gtk. How many different apps do you have to upgrade? Bonus points for realizing that Apple won't let any 3rd party software use Software Update.
I still think that Panther was running a bit faster tahn Tiger, maybe it is the widgets..........
silly widgets!
No, it's spotlight. My iBook would thrash like crazy until I disabled spotlight. Of course now I can't search at all.
Apple should've made spotlight optional.
Dev kits for the Revolution are running about $2k, which, from what I understand, is dirt cheap compared to what N has charged in the past, and what Sony and MS are charging for theirs.
To put it in persepective, Sony just lowered the cost of their PSP dev kit to $5k.
Looks more like a candidate for the "huge fucking lawsuit dept".
Doubtful. One, vonage didn't put him on hold.. the call center did. Two, the guy was arrested and the police are questioning him about possible arson.
This is a total non-story. Guy burns down his own house for insurance money and tries to blame his failure to call 911 on vonage.
The irony is most coding community sites are poorly organized, poorly designed, and lack features.
I think it's because few coders put any sort of stock in appearances. It's a shame, because appearance really helps make a site (or product) feel "solid". Too many coding sites feel like they're barely held together with duct tape.
Poor presentation doesn't instill a lot of confidence that the content is worth anything.
Damn.. I've got boot into XP just so I can watch Brisco County Jr. I've been wanting that on DVD forever.. this will have to tide me over until they release it.
If Linux support is going to be native (instead of requiring a bunch of hacking and modding), does this mean they are open to indie game development?
What did it mean for the PS2? The PS2 harddrive came with a Linux Kit... that's a native, Sony-supported Linux. It didn't mean anything. The fact that no one seems to remember it is pretty telling.
Not only that.. but doesn't anyone remember the exact same statement when the ps2 harddrive came out? That's right, Linux was available on the PS2. Didn't really mean anything though.
At 17, most people are creating a first post, and others are making the world a better place.
:)
At 17 I believe I wrote RemorseView, an ascii/ansi viewer for ACiD/Remorse.
I doubt I made the world a better place.. but I kept myself occupied.
Interesting. I find that most of the online newspapers I read only make a few key headline articles available, not the entire content.
Which newspapers are those? The two newspapers I work for, and our sister papers publish everything online.
(Well.. almost everything, we strip out the jumps and refers)
Dang.. should preview my posts :)
that should be -resize '200x<'
Why would one need batch-sized automatic image editing?
How do you think flickr makes perfect square thumbnails automatically?
convert in.jpg -thumbnail x200 -resize '200x' -resize 50% -gravity center -crop 100x100+0+0 +repage out.jpg
Any website that takes a user-uploaded photo needs to do something to it. From thumbnails to capping the image size.
What does this patch fix? The installer?
No, the patch removes that key from the file, and chmod's it 600.
I find it very interesting that the severity of this bug is identical to the severity of the security hole found in OSX last week... yet the difference in attitudes is remarkable.
Look at the slashdot summary. "An extremely critical bug and security threat". Compare with the OSX bug which was written off because it's not remotely exploitable.
Apple hasn't even acknowledged that the OSX privilege escalation exists, let alone patched it.
Ah, yes. Except that the "documentation" that the commission is asking would actually allow other people (redhat, novell, sun, ibm) to build products which could integrate with windows clients so tightly as windows servers do.
They should require the same of all OS vendors then. For instance, Apple's movie player uses hardware acceleration that is not available to competing movie players. Apple should be forced to document those APIs.
I like rails, but the poor apache integration sucks.
But ActiveRecord is awesome. Most of us build databases that work like objects already.. so an object oriented interface to your database is very easy to use and maintain.
Basically all you're saying is "Is the version of SSH vulnerable to a remote exploit? Is the version of Apache vulnerable to a remote exploit?"
True, i'd prefer if ARD was installed, because that's at least indicative of Apple-written closed-source, but if this is an intel mac mini, that's impossible, since ARD won't run on an intel mac.
So you're saying that there are local root escalation bugs that only exist on OSX and not in OSX Server?
Indeed. And every once in a while, Sourceforge gets hacked.
Every once in a while? Last hack was 2001, and it wasn't even a local root exploit.. someone had stolen an administrator password *elsewhere*.
So if you want security, don't turn on those remote services, and don't give out SSH accounts!
Funny. Sourceforge gives out SSH accounts to anyone and their dog.
The whole *point* of unix permissions is to allow local users a shell account without worrying about your webtree etc.
OSX is not fit to be a server.. that's about the long and short of it.
Apple did no hyping whatsoever - they sent out invitations to the event to a few relavent people and nothing more.
They invited a lot of media to a special event hosted by their CEO.
Apple should've just put out a press release and let it go at that. But instead they made it an *event*.
Sony loves right now that people are talking about $800 and $900 price tags. When they deliver at around $400 it will seem like the bargain of the century.
That strategy only works if the competition wasn't already available.
Instead people will spend their money on the xbox360, and when the PS3 comes out most people will have already purchased a 360 or a revolution.
Yes, Apple shouldn't have tried to make it look like a high-end stereo system--they should have designed it to look like a boom box.
Oh wait--they did.
It's called "iPod Hi-Fi". It costs $350, and it sounds worse than a $50 set of pioneer speakers. They should've designed it to look like a pile of shit.
Because it's probably not fully tested to work with Tiger. The only system updates you get with Software Update and bug fixes and security fixes.
Well, actually, Apple has miscompiled Ruby since 2003. The pack/unpack functions don't work correctly. You can recompile 1.8.2 yourself and make it work just fine with Rails.
The problem is that Apple cross compiled Ruby screwy, so it thinks it's on a little endian machine when it's really on a PPC.
Converting stuff to Network Byte Order will actually give you the opposite using Apple's Ruby.
Apple should release a bug fix, but they have neglected to do so.
Personally I'm sick and tired of reading about blogs. I don't read any on a regular basis
Yes you do.. you're reading one right now. Slashdot is a blog.