Absolutely, the article is crap and very misleading.
As many of the other posts state Apple is only locking down Aqua. And not even all of Aqua. Tinker Tool came out with the first version of OSX, Apple has since then added most of Tinker Tools functionality into 10.2. Repositioning of the dock, etc..
Apple still lets you do 'fun' things to your computer such as the new automatic (scheduled) background changer. You can still change highlight colors and still contratry to the article you can turn on and off and even adjust font smoothing.
I'm sure I can find other examples but I don't want to be redundant. Apple needs to have control over the interface otherwise they might as well make Aqua a theme and allow KDE or Gnome to take over as the GUI.
Oh and by the way I see support for Apple for instance try OroborOSX which wraps XFree86 in Aqua so it's hard to tell what is OSX and what is X Windows.
If your listening you may hear me or other ham radio operators.
These showers are great for meteor scatter contacts. Traditionally, meteor scatter operators use CW (Morse code) or SSB to propagate signals via the ionized trails left by meteors entering our atmosphere. Some operators use SSB, but to be successful in the voice mode requires long meteor burns, which are less common than the short duration ("pings") of a typical meteor. Thus, high-speed CW is the way to get the most intelligence propagated in the short amount of time that most meteors offer.
This year I plan on using a new mode called WJST. It is a very high speed CW. The software can be downloaded for free from http://pulsar.princeton.edu/~joe/K1JT/
You all have no idea what outrage is. Years ago I purchased an ANS 500 a month before they killed it. I said I'd never do it again but then I saw the Xserve and had to have one. Guess what, I got it on Friday. Went to MWNY yesterday and talked to the server guys.
My luck of course, no free or even discounted 10.2 for me! Talk about SUCKS!
The only saving grace is that the pci blower is running a little slow and it trips the warning light. I showed this to the server guys and they said that the software threshold is set too high and there is nothing wrong with the fan but they recommended that I return it anyway so I can get a new one that will get 10.2. Stupid but true...
The truth is that the original post is correct that some current electronic equipment is not shielded properly. This is most noticable when someone is transmitting on HF or 6 meters (50 Mhz). As long as the operator is running a clean station the interference is the not the operators problem. If the TV or whatever is not properly shielded it is the owners problem to get it fixed.
The other problem is poor utilities. For instance if the cable company has a leak a fullly legal operator running on 2 meters (144-148Mhz) will make a mess out of some cable stations. This is NOT the fault of the operator. The cable company is responsible in making sure they have a closed system. They don't want to spend the money to fix problems so they will blame someone else. However if you tell them you are going to call the FCC you will be amazed at how fast it will get fixed.
Re:Slightly OT: A quick & dirty transmitter...
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If people are interested in building low power unlicensed radio station (which are legal) you should look at a Ramsey kit. It is better than rolling your own unless you have really good equipment like robslimo.
The reason for a kit is that you don't want to be putting a dirty transmitter on the air or the local hams (if not the fcc) will be knocking on your door.
The problem with these spark gap style radios that some of the others are mentioning here have a wide bandwidth and large harmonics. This is what will upset the neighbors.
The batteries are connected with heavy gauge wire (I can't remember off hand but it might have been 0). The wires end in lug connectors which fit onto the terminals and secure with wing nuts. Since the batteries are so close together the wires are only between 4 and 8 inches. The 24V UPS is mounted in a 19in relay rack. The 4 batteries are on the base and the inverter is on a shelf above the batteries. The next level on the rack is a 16 socket TrippLite rackmount power strip. All equipment is mounted above on other shelves. The battereis are protected by plexiglass covers that prevent fingers, tools or anything else from accidentally shorting any of the terminals.
The 36V UPS is actually mounted in a an old Exide UPS case that once powered a mainframe from my old company. When they put in a RS6000 and retired the old system I took the UPS home. The old UPS was a 120V DC UPS with a huge transformer (obvious as it did a 1 to 1 AC to DC conversion). The unit weighed about 400 lbs. I used it for a while until the batteries died (6V Yuesa gel cells in series). I replaced them with the marine batteries. Eventuall the inverter board died (probably old capacitors) and rather than play with the HIGH voltage I gutted the inverter module and put in the TrippLite. The rest of the unit is still in production. Including the 30amp breakers for each of the eight power sockets and voltage monitors. The case it really pretty cool and has big geek factor.
I use TrippLite power inverters with marine deep cycle batteries.
I have a 24 and 36 volt inverters. To add additional capacity all I need to do is add more batteries. The only thing to make sure is that ther e is proper ventalation for the batteries.
The inverters have ports for remote management as well as status leds.
It is a much lower cost solution and not as risky as there is not really high voltages.
It is ridiculous to think that you are entitled to all the bandwidth you can use for $10-20/mo. If you want no restrictions get your own T1 (or better) and do it all yourself. T-1's are available around $800 in my area. Spend about 2k on a Sangoma card + DSU and do your own routing.
Now if you can be reasonable about things go for a collocation. My company (www.concision.com) has collocations starting at $125/mo. The only limitation we impose is bandwidth and we are pretty generous at all levels.
It allows logging of IP traffic in either TCP, UDP or ICMP protocols, over any ethernet or PPP link on your system. It also allows the use of custom filter programs, of the same syntax as that used by tcpdump, which allows you to specify a ruleset for determining which network packets are passed from the kernel into Sniffles for analysis.
Nice to find a slick app like this freeware for OSX.
I played with one yesterday at an Apple store and it felt a full 20 pounds. But I think that the weight is important to the stability of the machine, especially if you extend the display 90 deg straight out from the base.
All I can say is the machine felt 100% solid and stable. My wife was so impressed that she is going to get the $1299 model for herself when it is available.
I love my ANS 500's. 7 drive trays with status leds on each, backlit 4 line display running LCD Proc and the size of an end table! I'm thinking of adding a few rows of colored leds to the front panel (under the lcd) and coming up with a controller hooked to one of the serial ports. Ping led? Maybe!
Not quite a glamorous as a Sun but cool none the less. It looks really neat in my office with the lights out.
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- A specific task list - I hate forgetting something on my Home Depot shopping spree
Otherwise I find I have either my laptop and iPod with me and the Palm is just redundant.Internet should have a capital 'I' not lowercase as in your post.
Not that I am being picky...
Absolutely, the article is crap and very misleading.
As many of the other posts state Apple is only locking down Aqua. And not even all of Aqua. Tinker Tool came out with the first version of OSX, Apple has since then added most of Tinker Tools functionality into 10.2. Repositioning of the dock, etc..
Apple still lets you do 'fun' things to your computer such as the new automatic (scheduled) background changer. You can still change highlight colors and still contratry to the article you can turn on and off and even adjust font smoothing.
I'm sure I can find other examples but I don't want to be redundant. Apple needs to have control over the interface otherwise they might as well make Aqua a theme and allow KDE or Gnome to take over as the GUI.
Oh and by the way I see support for Apple for instance try OroborOSX which wraps XFree86 in Aqua so it's hard to tell what is OSX and what is X Windows.
Keep it up Apple.
If your listening you may hear me or other ham radio operators.
These showers are great for meteor scatter contacts. Traditionally, meteor scatter operators use CW (Morse code) or SSB to propagate signals via the ionized trails left by meteors entering our atmosphere. Some operators use SSB, but to be successful in the voice mode requires long meteor burns, which are less common than the short duration ("pings") of a typical meteor. Thus, high-speed CW is the way to get the most intelligence propagated in the short amount of time that most meteors offer.
This year I plan on using a new mode called WJST. It is a very high speed CW. The software can be downloaded for free from http://pulsar.princeton.edu/~joe/K1JT/
Hope to hear you on the rocks!
You all have no idea what outrage is. Years ago I purchased an ANS 500 a month before they killed it. I said I'd never do it again but then I saw the Xserve and had to have one. Guess what, I got it on Friday. Went to MWNY yesterday and talked to the server guys.
My luck of course, no free or even discounted 10.2 for me! Talk about SUCKS!
The only saving grace is that the pci blower is running a little slow and it trips the warning light. I showed this to the server guys and they said that the software threshold is set too high and there is nothing wrong with the fan but they recommended that I return it anyway so I can get a new one that will get 10.2.
Stupid but true...
The truth is that the original post is correct that some current electronic equipment is not shielded properly. This is most noticable when someone is transmitting on HF or 6 meters (50 Mhz). As long as the operator is running a clean station the interference is the not the operators problem. If the TV or whatever is not properly shielded it is the owners problem to get it fixed. The other problem is poor utilities. For instance if the cable company has a leak a fullly legal operator running on 2 meters (144-148Mhz) will make a mess out of some cable stations. This is NOT the fault of the operator. The cable company is responsible in making sure they have a closed system. They don't want to spend the money to fix problems so they will blame someone else. However if you tell them you are going to call the FCC you will be amazed at how fast it will get fixed.
If people are interested in building low power unlicensed radio station (which are legal) you should look at a Ramsey kit. It is better than rolling your own unless you have really good equipment like robslimo.
The reason for a kit is that you don't want to be putting a dirty transmitter on the air or the local hams (if not the fcc) will be knocking on your door.
The problem with these spark gap style radios that some of the others are mentioning here have a wide bandwidth and large harmonics. This is what will upset the neighbors.
Power to the (clean) pirates!
The batteries are connected with heavy gauge wire (I can't remember off hand but it might have been 0). The wires end in lug connectors which fit onto the terminals and secure with wing nuts. Since the batteries are so close together the wires are only between 4 and 8 inches. The 24V UPS is mounted in a 19in relay rack. The 4 batteries are on the base and the inverter is on a shelf above the batteries. The next level on the rack is a 16 socket TrippLite rackmount power strip. All equipment is mounted above on other shelves. The battereis are protected by plexiglass covers that prevent fingers, tools or anything else from accidentally shorting any of the terminals.
The 36V UPS is actually mounted in a an old Exide UPS case that once powered a mainframe from my old company. When they put in a RS6000 and retired the old system I took the UPS home. The old UPS was a 120V DC UPS with a huge transformer (obvious as it did a 1 to 1 AC to DC conversion). The unit weighed about 400 lbs. I used it for a while until the batteries died (6V Yuesa gel cells in series). I replaced them with the marine batteries. Eventuall the inverter board died (probably old capacitors) and rather than play with the HIGH voltage I gutted the inverter module and put in the TrippLite. The rest of the unit is still in production. Including the 30amp breakers for each of the eight power sockets and voltage monitors. The case it really pretty cool and has big geek factor.
I use TrippLite power inverters with marine deep cycle batteries.
I have a 24 and 36 volt inverters. To add additional capacity all I need to do is add more batteries. The only thing to make sure is that ther e is proper ventalation for the batteries.
The inverters have ports for remote management as well as status leds.
It is a much lower cost solution and not as risky as there is not really high voltages.
It is ridiculous to think that you are entitled to all the bandwidth you can use for $10-20/mo. If you want no restrictions get your own T1 (or better) and do it all yourself. T-1's are available around $800 in my area. Spend about 2k on a Sangoma card + DSU and do your own routing. Now if you can be reasonable about things go for a collocation. My company (www.concision.com) has collocations starting at $125/mo. The only limitation we impose is bandwidth and we are pretty generous at all levels.
Im using Sniffles on OSX to check for spyware.
It allows logging of IP traffic in either TCP, UDP or ICMP protocols, over any ethernet or PPP link on your system. It also allows the use of custom filter programs, of the same syntax as that used by tcpdump, which allows you to specify a ruleset for determining which network packets are passed from the kernel into Sniffles for analysis.
Nice to find a slick app like this freeware for OSX.
I played with one yesterday at an Apple store and it felt a full 20 pounds. But I think that the weight is important to the stability of the machine, especially if you extend the display 90 deg straight out from the base.
All I can say is the machine felt 100% solid and stable. My wife was so impressed that she is going to get the $1299 model for herself when it is available.
I love my ANS 500's. 7 drive trays with status leds on each, backlit 4 line display running LCD Proc and the size of an end table! I'm thinking of adding a few rows of colored leds to the front panel (under the lcd) and coming up with a controller hooked to one of the serial ports. Ping led? Maybe!
Not quite a glamorous as a Sun but cool none the less. It looks really neat in my office with the lights out.
"Bigger IS better"