I've been using Adium for about 3 or 4 years, now, and their official release versions are generally very solid. In fact, the only problem I have with it is occasionally waking up in the morning to find that adium unexpectedly quit (happens maybe once every 10-14 days).
It has very little emoticons
I consider that to be a feature. and they're "very little" by default. afaik, you can download emoticon sets where you can set the damned things to be 1024x768, if you so desire. I usually disable them since it's a pain when you get emoticons popping up when pasting perl into an IM.
btw, logging can be disabled in the prefs... It's the first option in the General tab.
Adium is actually the BEST IM client I've ever used. Not only the best multi-protocol client, but the best client all-together.
I'd say that the features that stuck out the most when I first started using it were the tabbed IMing and the extremely compact design. Those are still a huge plus, but the newer version now has a very nice CSS-based IM styling thing and buddylist skins, IM encryption (which is compatible with my GAIM using buddies), support for nearly every IM protocol in wide-use, aliases, logging, and meta-contacts(being able to group multiple screennames into a single, virtual, buddy).
I'm actually working on a very similar project, right now.
I'm trying to finish up the software end of things before I go out and purchase hardware, but I've got a sourceforge project up (AFX), although currently, I'm working on local versions of the source and not checking into CVS due to a major rewrite and complete lack of planning.
look at that picture. the A and B buttons aren't even attached to anything.
perhaps it's just start/select and the D-pad that are mapped?
this kinda reminds me of that guy who claimed to have connected a USB keyboard to a PSP's USB port and written drivers to get it working. only pictures, no technical details. no proof.
considering that the majority of attacks is by script kiddies, "security-through-inconvenience" is still security.
I think the point of not having dev tools is not only to attempt to prevent someone from building their rootkit when they log in, but to also increase the amount of time it takes them to do any potential damage.
I doubt that most attackers would be prepared with their Mime::Base64-running perl program right off the bat... unless of course, the attacker is a serious pro and their hacking my multi-billion dollar corporation.
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I'm also a gentoo guy.
I picked up O'Reilly's book "Building Secure Servers with Linux" and learned a lot.
it pretty much explains how to set up iptables, the theory behind ssh and ways of better securing it (private/public/shared keys, etc), ways of securing apache, and a slew of other stuff. It's all about best practices.
The only real problem I had with the book is that in some cases, the author is truly paranoid and goes seriously overboard with some techniques, and some of his ideas would never work on a gentoo system. One such thing is that he advises against having development tools (namely gcc) on the server, that way, even if someone manages to compromise the box, they won't have any tools to build/run their rootkit. He suggests using a separate NIC and connecting with a laptop to transfer the binaries to the server. although that will give you a serious piece of mind, it's overkill for many people.
I'm considering picking up this book, though. I like to read about computer security, and I'm amazed at the ingenuity of hackers, from the white-hat to the black-hat. Computer security is quite facinating.
I'm not sure if you're being serious or just joking...
I'm being serious in a joking way, I guess.
I mean, I wouldn't get that phone. I've already got a cell phone. I've got an iPod. I've got a PSP. I'm not really gonna get the ROKR, even if it didn't have that 100-song limitation. My real point is just that when you put a hard limit on the number of songs, the average person might say "well, 100 songs is a lot," but to someone like me, or anyone who's into bands that do very short songs (The Residents, Agorphobic Nosebleed, Bucket Full of Teeth, Pig Destroyer, etc), 100 songs may not be that much music.
Regardless of that fact, I feel that putting a hard limit on the count of songs you can add to a device is a pointless restriction.
The 100 song limit is not a huge deal because the phone only comes with 512MB of memory anyway and 100 average length songs does a pretty good job of filling that up.
the problem is that a lot of the bands I'm into have tracks that are 20 seconds to a minute long. I can't fit my Agoraphobic Nosebleed dual CD on there. it's 130 tracks.
Just how, praytell, are you going to infect someone's machine reliably just because they're using your access point?
If a person's machine has LDAP or ActiveDirectory configured to accept one suggested by the DHCP server, a malicious sysOp could override the user's root/Administrator account and be able to log in (assuming they have ssh/terminal services/etc turned on).
Just because there are no known ways to simply "inject executable code into their network traffic," doesn't mean you should go around connecting to every open network you can find.
Also, let's not forget that the administrator of said open network could have any sort of malicious software running. Even something to spoof your connection and send incorrect data. It could possibly, for instance, look for the download of an executable program by sniffing packets for an HTTP get request with a filename containing ".exe" and substitute some or all of the file.
untrusted networks should be treated as such, and shouldn't be used except for the most casual browsing/slashdot reading.
I can kinda see where they're coming from, in a way. I mean, someone COULD leave a network open, say in Manhattan somewhere, with a packet sniffer running. It could essentially be a honeypot for unsuspecting normal people to log in. An automated system could possibly infect a connected machine with spyware/keystroke recorders/etc.
Also, what exactly constitutes secure? Encryption? Password? If this goes through, what's to stop a sleazy hardware manufacturer from putting out an access point with very poor security? What's to say that just because something has 5-billion-bit encryption that the user has actually set it up properly?
computers and computer security are not for everyday people. Computer hardware and software should be locked-down as much as possible out of the box, and it should require advanced knowledge to unlock it; not the other way around. Stuff working out of the box is pretty sweet, but at the same time, I think it should be fairly easy to make setup a trivial endeavor.
I don't feel that it should be illegal to have an unsecured network, although I would like there to be some sort of requirement that if you do have an open network that you have some sort of welcome page or login when a user connects to introduce yourself and give contact/tech support info. Some way of tracing the connection to someone. Especially if you'd like to report misuse or a problem to them.
I priced out a maxed out 12" last week and it was around $2400 (iirc), now it's down to $1850.
I'm looking for a cheaper, smaller powerbook, actually. I wanna trade in my 1ghz Titanium for something smaller and lighter. The 12" has more power, too, so yay.
Why is $1800 considered a lot of money for a programmer?... because we don't WANT your crappy $15 shareware anyway.
Firstly... $1800 is quite a bit for a developer who may be working on a small, commercial project, whether it's a $5 shareware app, or a $60 shareware app.
It seems that in the last 5-10 years, shareware has been saturated with VisualBasic (or REALbasic on the mac side) apps that are sub-par and worthless, and that's been giving all of the other shareware apps a bad name. There are plenty of decent pieces of shareware out there, and several very good companies putting them out (unsanity, ambrosia, Panic, and the iPSP guys come to mind, immediately).
also, don't forget that there is a HUGE market for those little games, now. Even though you could make a free implementation, $ does drive some people to develop things. for linux to be fully adopted on the desktop, you've gotta have a selection of those Bejeweled (et al) games for mom and gramma. and they want the crappy 15$ shareware.
I used to use FilemakerPro for my invoicing system, but grew out of it almost as soon as I completed it. My problem was that I wanted to access my invoices and paperwork (modify and print) even when I'm not home. I thought about shelling out the $ for filemakerpro server, but the pricetag and some limitations of the software (namely, I need filemaker installed on every client... which isn't feasible) caused me to start a web-based system.
I began using php/mysql and after getting the thing basically working (took 3 months), realized that it was way over my head. and I needed to learn a HELL of a lot more (javascripting, etc)
after seeing the blog demo on rubyonrails.com, I was sold. I bought the Agile Programming with Rails book and read it in a couple of days and ported my php/msql invoicing system within a week. I'd have to say, that it's a lot more powerful, and it's a lot more work than having to just "tie up the ends."
There's still a good deal worth of programming involved (to implement the business logic). I mean. If all you're doing is making a single-user blog, sure, it's no real work at all. It's just putting pieces together to make an application. But if you want to make a complex application that would require a team of programmers and engineers to accomplish, you can do it more or less single-handedly with rails. Because of its ajax support and scaffolds, it also lets you quickly prototype the logic end and work on the less important parts later (like the look and design of the pages and the bells and whistles).
I also particularly enjoy the testing framework.
Whether a high traffic site would use rails is something else. Or a firm whose purpose is to develop enterprise and business applications may not use rails exclusively, since you can charge more for a custom solution.
MS was nabbed because they told computer makers, install our OS and you must also take IE and keep Netscape, etc., off of your computers, or we will stop giving you a price break on Windows.
that's actually not the worst part of it... that's just the most widely known and understood complaint in the antitrust suits...
MS also forbid computer manufacturers from bundling or selling another OS as an alternative, or even in addition to windows. The fucked up part of that, was that in the contract that allowed Dell, compaq, etc to sell windows on their computers, they were forbidded to discuss that part because it was protected by trade secret law.
BeOS suffered the worst from that whole issue (I know one or two computer makers wanted to sell new machines with BeOS pre-installed, but were not allowed to), and linux took a little bit of a hit, too.
Some manufactureres were allowed to sell alternative OSs, but not desktop OSs, so that's why some still were able to sell high-end linux servers.
Fully grown, Homo floresiensis would have stood about 3 feet tall, with a brain about the size of a chimpanzee.
I dunno. I think they may have been related to southpark's Timmay. I mean... a brain as big as a chimpanzee?! they've gotta have a pretty large cranial structure to support such an immense thought processor.
I'm a bit of a Gentoo zealot (mostly because I run servers on older hardware (read:400-600mhz G3s, G4s, PentiumIII)), and I love Gentoo's package manager.
I kept hearing about this ubuntu thing and my curiosity was finally sparked when I couldn't get Gentoo to boot on this old-ass PCG-505tx Vaio laptop I found in the trash. Mandrake and Debian wouldn't boot, either, so I tried out Ubuntu. Ubunto's install disk booted without a hitch, but the LiveCD just hung (even when I disabled APIC).
the install was pretty damned good. It had several options. Server or linux, and standard or advanced installs for each. I tried the advanced, but some of the options were a little over my head (especially since I have no clue about the ins and outs of this stupid vaio).
Once installed, everything worked great. 64mb of RAM and a slow HD don't really help the gnome performance (I've never used gnome before... I'm a KDE cat, myself... or more frequently, blackbox.), and it's a little slow to do even the simplest things. xorg was misconfigured at first, though. I had to fiddle with the xorg.conf to get it to use the right resolution.
The only problem is that I can't get my PCMCIA ethernet card to work. It loads the modules and mii-tool communicates with it. ifconfig sets up, but the system isn't receiving packets. since I can't get online, or even on the network, I can't comment on ubuntu's package manager, but I believe it uses dpkg.
another cool thing is that I plugged in a USB thumb drive which has my ssh private key on it and some other misc crap, and ubuntu saw it and mounted it without a hitch. pretty damn impressive.
I generally don't use linux on the desktop unless I'm doing serious development, but if I did, I think I'd use ubuntu.
wow, that totally sounds like a testimonial advert. sheesh.
honestly. why would you want bluetooth on an ipod. Seriously. How long would it f-ing take to copy an album to the thing?!?!?!
one of my friends was bitching that there weren't any mp3 players with bluetooth. I can't figure out why anyone would want that. bluetooth copies at like what... 5K/sec? do you really want to copy songs to your iPod at modem speeds?
sheesh. You were modded funny. maybe you meant it as a joke. Maybe you didn't. =P
yeah, I don't understand why people have such a hard time with that...
It's annoying when people try to use the "GNU image MANIPULATION program" to create illustrations... Same with photoshop. To people who ask me simple things like how to draw basic shapes in photoshop, I ask why they don't use illustrator. And to people asking those questions in GIMP, I point them to Inkscape (disclaimer: I have never used inkscape, so I can't vouch for its usefulness).
although photoshop added shape tools (mostly worthless, imo) relatively recently, there's really no reason for GIMP to follow. Unless, of course, they're trying to clone photoshop.
Most of my friends got their PS2 modded to play japanese games (which, 90% of the time are way better than american games...)... if only the RPGs were in english... and Jojo's Bizzare Adventure 2. hmph.
although, game piracy is a sideeffect that you can't avoid. Once the ability to do it is there, you kinda start to realize that most of the games really aren't worth more than 20$. Darkwatch is a piece of shit. Narutimet Hero is an EXCELLENT game. piracy of the former, purchasing of the latter. although, shelling out 80-90$ for a japanese game isn't always worth it, but whatever. the shittier games and RPGs we just download. It's not like we can really read it, anyway. =P
now, xbox modchips, that's another story. THOSE are strictly to install linux. *wink wink nudge nudge*
According to the O'Reilly book on Applescript, Applescript behaves very LISP-like.
having never actually programmed in LISP, I can't comment on it beyond that, but LISP has intrigued me and I've considered learning it. or at least dabbling.
yeah, the couple of times I've had HD problems in OSX (caused by a failed powersupply in a firewire drive... screwed the disks up somehow), I was able to fix it by rebuilding the b-tree from the commandline. I haven't even needed any diagnostics....
but it would be nice to have. just in case. =P
we still reply on Norton at work, here, since we still have a single OS9 machine (for streamline and the occasional Jaz/zip disk that comes in). The machine occasionally won't boot or gets a system error and we need to repair the drive.
OS X's stability is absolutely , in all the time i have been running the system I have had one crash (The Crash was my fault ) , The finder has restarted itself a few times which i believe has lost me a sum total of 60 seconds working time . The only times I have had programs that were unstable was when i was using Beta versions of things.
how much software do you run? How much do you actually do with your computer?!
I've had Adium, illustrator 10, illustrator CS, photoshop CS, MPlayer, Safari (many, many times), iTunes, Word, Filemaker Pro, InterfaceBuilder, Bittorrent, and Quake3 (repeatedly) unexpectedly quit on me.
Having a program die is not a reflection on the stability of OSX, but the programming of the application. Application crashes are usually caused by unexpected things happening in memory (accessing a freed block of memory or memory that doesnt' belong to the app)... eg: bugs.
I've had dozens of kernel panics in OSX, although most of them are attributed to bad hardware or bad drivers or earlier versions of X. OSX beta and 10.0 panic'd pretty often. Jaguar was quite solid and panther was even moreso. My G5 panic'd the first time I booted it, but when I called for support, they said that the machine may have just had some processor calibration issue, but if it panics again to give them a call (it's been 2 months an no panics).
Anyway... the only real market I see for symantec for OSX users is system diagnostics and filesystem repair. Maybe even support for trojan protection. I don't think it would be that difficult to have something that looks for certain "bad things." It could protect from malicious scripts and even user error. It could stop a beginner user from typing the 'rm -rf/' command or running an applescript that formats the drive. It could ship with tighter default security settings, but allow fine tuning like "I know what I'm doing on the commandline" or the like.
i don't understand why they didn't do that already.
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out of curiosity, what bugs have you noticed?
I've been using Adium for about 3 or 4 years, now, and their official release versions are generally very solid. In fact, the only problem I have with it is occasionally waking up in the morning to find that adium unexpectedly quit (happens maybe once every 10-14 days).
It has very little emoticons
I consider that to be a feature. and they're "very little" by default. afaik, you can download emoticon sets where you can set the damned things to be 1024x768, if you so desire. I usually disable them since it's a pain when you get emoticons popping up when pasting perl into an IM.
btw, logging can be disabled in the prefs... It's the first option in the General tab.
Adium is actually the BEST IM client I've ever used. Not only the best multi-protocol client, but the best client all-together.
I'd say that the features that stuck out the most when I first started using it were the tabbed IMing and the extremely compact design. Those are still a huge plus, but the newer version now has a very nice CSS-based IM styling thing and buddylist skins, IM encryption (which is compatible with my GAIM using buddies), support for nearly every IM protocol in wide-use, aliases, logging, and meta-contacts(being able to group multiple screennames into a single, virtual, buddy).
I have a pink oboe that plays quite well. Has some problems with the higher notes at times though.
how often to you need to empty the spit valve?
ewwwww......
I'm actually working on a very similar project, right now.
I'm trying to finish up the software end of things before I go out and purchase hardware, but I've got a sourceforge project up (AFX), although currently, I'm working on local versions of the source and not checking into CVS due to a major rewrite and complete lack of planning.
I agree.
is the summary lying? they said the buttons were mapped to do stuff.
http://www.futurenews.at/uploads/NESAMP3.jpg
look at that picture. the A and B buttons aren't even attached to anything.
perhaps it's just start/select and the D-pad that are mapped?
this kinda reminds me of that guy who claimed to have connected a USB keyboard to a PSP's USB port and written drivers to get it working. only pictures, no technical details. no proof.
considering that the majority of attacks is by script kiddies, "security-through-inconvenience" is still security.
I think the point of not having dev tools is not only to attempt to prevent someone from building their rootkit when they log in, but to also increase the amount of time it takes them to do any potential damage.
I doubt that most attackers would be prepared with their Mime::Base64-running perl program right off the bat... unless of course, the attacker is a serious pro and their hacking my multi-billion dollar corporation.
I'm also a gentoo guy.
I picked up O'Reilly's book "Building Secure Servers with Linux" and learned a lot.
it pretty much explains how to set up iptables, the theory behind ssh and ways of better securing it (private/public/shared keys, etc), ways of securing apache, and a slew of other stuff. It's all about best practices.
The only real problem I had with the book is that in some cases, the author is truly paranoid and goes seriously overboard with some techniques, and some of his ideas would never work on a gentoo system. One such thing is that he advises against having development tools (namely gcc) on the server, that way, even if someone manages to compromise the box, they won't have any tools to build/run their rootkit. He suggests using a separate NIC and connecting with a laptop to transfer the binaries to the server. although that will give you a serious piece of mind, it's overkill for many people.
I'm considering picking up this book, though. I like to read about computer security, and I'm amazed at the ingenuity of hackers, from the white-hat to the black-hat. Computer security is quite facinating.
I'm not sure if you're being serious or just joking...
I'm being serious in a joking way, I guess.
I mean, I wouldn't get that phone. I've already got a cell phone. I've got an iPod. I've got a PSP. I'm not really gonna get the ROKR, even if it didn't have that 100-song limitation. My real point is just that when you put a hard limit on the number of songs, the average person might say "well, 100 songs is a lot," but to someone like me, or anyone who's into bands that do very short songs (The Residents, Agorphobic Nosebleed, Bucket Full of Teeth, Pig Destroyer, etc), 100 songs may not be that much music.
Regardless of that fact, I feel that putting a hard limit on the count of songs you can add to a device is a pointless restriction.
The 100 song limit is not a huge deal because the phone only comes with 512MB of memory anyway and 100 average length songs does a pretty good job of filling that up.
the problem is that a lot of the bands I'm into have tracks that are 20 seconds to a minute long. I can't fit my Agoraphobic Nosebleed dual CD on there. it's 130 tracks.
oh well
Just how, praytell, are you going to infect someone's machine reliably just because they're using your access point?
If a person's machine has LDAP or ActiveDirectory configured to accept one suggested by the DHCP server, a malicious sysOp could override the user's root/Administrator account and be able to log in (assuming they have ssh/terminal services/etc turned on).
Just because there are no known ways to simply "inject executable code into their network traffic," doesn't mean you should go around connecting to every open network you can find.
Also, let's not forget that the administrator of said open network could have any sort of malicious software running. Even something to spoof your connection and send incorrect data. It could possibly, for instance, look for the download of an executable program by sniffing packets for an HTTP get request with a filename containing ".exe" and substitute some or all of the file.
untrusted networks should be treated as such, and shouldn't be used except for the most casual browsing/slashdot reading.
I can kinda see where they're coming from, in a way. I mean, someone COULD leave a network open, say in Manhattan somewhere, with a packet sniffer running. It could essentially be a honeypot for unsuspecting normal people to log in. An automated system could possibly infect a connected machine with spyware/keystroke recorders/etc.
Also, what exactly constitutes secure? Encryption? Password? If this goes through, what's to stop a sleazy hardware manufacturer from putting out an access point with very poor security? What's to say that just because something has 5-billion-bit encryption that the user has actually set it up properly?
computers and computer security are not for everyday people. Computer hardware and software should be locked-down as much as possible out of the box, and it should require advanced knowledge to unlock it; not the other way around. Stuff working out of the box is pretty sweet, but at the same time, I think it should be fairly easy to make setup a trivial endeavor.
I don't feel that it should be illegal to have an unsecured network, although I would like there to be some sort of requirement that if you do have an open network that you have some sort of welcome page or login when a user connects to introduce yourself and give contact/tech support info. Some way of tracing the connection to someone. Especially if you'd like to report misuse or a problem to them.
the 12" powerbook is ~500$ cheaper than before.
I priced out a maxed out 12" last week and it was around $2400 (iirc), now it's down to $1850.
I'm looking for a cheaper, smaller powerbook, actually. I wanna trade in my 1ghz Titanium for something smaller and lighter. The 12" has more power, too, so yay.
Why is $1800 considered a lot of money for a programmer? ... because we don't WANT your crappy $15 shareware anyway.
Firstly... $1800 is quite a bit for a developer who may be working on a small, commercial project, whether it's a $5 shareware app, or a $60 shareware app.
It seems that in the last 5-10 years, shareware has been saturated with VisualBasic (or REALbasic on the mac side) apps that are sub-par and worthless, and that's been giving all of the other shareware apps a bad name. There are plenty of decent pieces of shareware out there, and several very good companies putting them out (unsanity, ambrosia, Panic, and the iPSP guys come to mind, immediately).
also, don't forget that there is a HUGE market for those little games, now. Even though you could make a free implementation, $ does drive some people to develop things. for linux to be fully adopted on the desktop, you've gotta have a selection of those Bejeweled (et al) games for mom and gramma. and they want the crappy 15$ shareware.
I know how you feel.
I used to use FilemakerPro for my invoicing system, but grew out of it almost as soon as I completed it. My problem was that I wanted to access my invoices and paperwork (modify and print) even when I'm not home. I thought about shelling out the $ for filemakerpro server, but the pricetag and some limitations of the software (namely, I need filemaker installed on every client... which isn't feasible) caused me to start a web-based system.
I began using php/mysql and after getting the thing basically working (took 3 months), realized that it was way over my head. and I needed to learn a HELL of a lot more (javascripting, etc)
after seeing the blog demo on rubyonrails.com, I was sold. I bought the Agile Programming with Rails book and read it in a couple of days and ported my php/msql invoicing system within a week. I'd have to say, that it's a lot more powerful, and it's a lot more work than having to just "tie up the ends."
There's still a good deal worth of programming involved (to implement the business logic). I mean. If all you're doing is making a single-user blog, sure, it's no real work at all. It's just putting pieces together to make an application. But if you want to make a complex application that would require a team of programmers and engineers to accomplish, you can do it more or less single-handedly with rails. Because of its ajax support and scaffolds, it also lets you quickly prototype the logic end and work on the less important parts later (like the look and design of the pages and the bells and whistles).
I also particularly enjoy the testing framework.
Whether a high traffic site would use rails is something else. Or a firm whose purpose is to develop enterprise and business applications may not use rails exclusively, since you can charge more for a custom solution.
MS was nabbed because they told computer makers, install our OS and you must also take IE and keep Netscape, etc., off of your computers, or we will stop giving you a price break on Windows.
that's actually not the worst part of it... that's just the most widely known and understood complaint in the antitrust suits...
MS also forbid computer manufacturers from bundling or selling another OS as an alternative, or even in addition to windows. The fucked up part of that, was that in the contract that allowed Dell, compaq, etc to sell windows on their computers, they were forbidded to discuss that part because it was protected by trade secret law.
BeOS suffered the worst from that whole issue (I know one or two computer makers wanted to sell new machines with BeOS pre-installed, but were not allowed to), and linux took a little bit of a hit, too.
Some manufactureres were allowed to sell alternative OSs, but not desktop OSs, so that's why some still were able to sell high-end linux servers.
The article says:
Fully grown, Homo floresiensis would have stood about 3 feet tall, with a brain about the size of a chimpanzee.
I dunno. I think they may have been related to southpark's Timmay. I mean... a brain as big as a chimpanzee?! they've gotta have a pretty large cranial structure to support such an immense thought processor.
I'm a bit of a Gentoo zealot (mostly because I run servers on older hardware (read:400-600mhz G3s, G4s, PentiumIII)), and I love Gentoo's package manager.
I kept hearing about this ubuntu thing and my curiosity was finally sparked when I couldn't get Gentoo to boot on this old-ass PCG-505tx Vaio laptop I found in the trash. Mandrake and Debian wouldn't boot, either, so I tried out Ubuntu. Ubunto's install disk booted without a hitch, but the LiveCD just hung (even when I disabled APIC).
the install was pretty damned good. It had several options. Server or linux, and standard or advanced installs for each. I tried the advanced, but some of the options were a little over my head (especially since I have no clue about the ins and outs of this stupid vaio).
Once installed, everything worked great. 64mb of RAM and a slow HD don't really help the gnome performance (I've never used gnome before... I'm a KDE cat, myself... or more frequently, blackbox.), and it's a little slow to do even the simplest things. xorg was misconfigured at first, though. I had to fiddle with the xorg.conf to get it to use the right resolution.
The only problem is that I can't get my PCMCIA ethernet card to work. It loads the modules and mii-tool communicates with it. ifconfig sets up, but the system isn't receiving packets. since I can't get online, or even on the network, I can't comment on ubuntu's package manager, but I believe it uses dpkg.
another cool thing is that I plugged in a USB thumb drive which has my ssh private key on it and some other misc crap, and ubuntu saw it and mounted it without a hitch. pretty damn impressive.
I generally don't use linux on the desktop unless I'm doing serious development, but if I did, I think I'd use ubuntu.
wow, that totally sounds like a testimonial advert. sheesh.
ohhhhh yeah.
I read that. I think I actually posted on there, too.
*kicks self*
no bluetooth
honestly. why would you want bluetooth on an ipod. Seriously. How long would it f-ing take to copy an album to the thing?!?!?!
one of my friends was bitching that there weren't any mp3 players with bluetooth. I can't figure out why anyone would want that. bluetooth copies at like what... 5K/sec? do you really want to copy songs to your iPod at modem speeds?
sheesh. You were modded funny. maybe you meant it as a joke. Maybe you didn't. =P
yeah, I don't understand why people have such a hard time with that...
It's annoying when people try to use the "GNU image MANIPULATION program" to create illustrations... Same with photoshop. To people who ask me simple things like how to draw basic shapes in photoshop, I ask why they don't use illustrator. And to people asking those questions in GIMP, I point them to Inkscape (disclaimer: I have never used inkscape, so I can't vouch for its usefulness).
although photoshop added shape tools (mostly worthless, imo) relatively recently, there's really no reason for GIMP to follow. Unless, of course, they're trying to clone photoshop.
Most of my friends got their PS2 modded to play japanese games (which, 90% of the time are way better than american games...)... if only the RPGs were in english... and Jojo's Bizzare Adventure 2. hmph.
although, game piracy is a sideeffect that you can't avoid. Once the ability to do it is there, you kinda start to realize that most of the games really aren't worth more than 20$. Darkwatch is a piece of shit. Narutimet Hero is an EXCELLENT game. piracy of the former, purchasing of the latter. although, shelling out 80-90$ for a japanese game isn't always worth it, but whatever. the shittier games and RPGs we just download. It's not like we can really read it, anyway. =P
now, xbox modchips, that's another story. THOSE are strictly to install linux. *wink wink nudge nudge*
...does anyone still program in LISP...
According to the O'Reilly book on Applescript, Applescript behaves very LISP-like.
having never actually programmed in LISP, I can't comment on it beyond that, but LISP has intrigued me and I've considered learning it. or at least dabbling.
yeah, the couple of times I've had HD problems in OSX (caused by a failed powersupply in a firewire drive... screwed the disks up somehow), I was able to fix it by rebuilding the b-tree from the commandline. I haven't even needed any diagnostics....
but it would be nice to have. just in case. =P
we still reply on Norton at work, here, since we still have a single OS9 machine (for streamline and the occasional Jaz/zip disk that comes in). The machine occasionally won't boot or gets a system error and we need to repair the drive.
OS X's stability is absolutely , in all the time i have been running the system I have had one crash (The Crash was my fault ) , The finder has restarted itself a few times which i believe has lost me a sum total of 60 seconds working time .
/' command or running an applescript that formats the drive. It could ship with tighter default security settings, but allow fine tuning like "I know what I'm doing on the commandline" or the like.
The only times I have had programs that were unstable was when i was using Beta versions of things.
how much software do you run? How much do you actually do with your computer?!
I've had Adium, illustrator 10, illustrator CS, photoshop CS, MPlayer, Safari (many, many times), iTunes, Word, Filemaker Pro, InterfaceBuilder, Bittorrent, and Quake3 (repeatedly) unexpectedly quit on me.
Having a program die is not a reflection on the stability of OSX, but the programming of the application. Application crashes are usually caused by unexpected things happening in memory (accessing a freed block of memory or memory that doesnt' belong to the app)... eg: bugs.
I've had dozens of kernel panics in OSX, although most of them are attributed to bad hardware or bad drivers or earlier versions of X. OSX beta and 10.0 panic'd pretty often. Jaguar was quite solid and panther was even moreso. My G5 panic'd the first time I booted it, but when I called for support, they said that the machine may have just had some processor calibration issue, but if it panics again to give them a call (it's been 2 months an no panics).
Anyway... the only real market I see for symantec for OSX users is system diagnostics and filesystem repair. Maybe even support for trojan protection. I don't think it would be that difficult to have something that looks for certain "bad things." It could protect from malicious scripts and even user error. It could stop a beginner user from typing the 'rm -rf
i don't understand why they didn't do that already.
Thank the gods for monotheism.