The ending paragraph of that article is disturbing to say the least.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.
pshhhh... right.;)
well, the only reason that I ran quake1 or myth2 on that thing rather than on the mac part was due to the fact that the card had an on-board 3d accelerator so I was able to take advantage of Fog and smoothing in myth2 and the graphical enhancements of GLQuake. It also afforded me better framerates (but only about 20% better).
Also, amazingly enough, when I put that card in my G3 (before I put OSX on it; the card was never compatable with X), it got me even better framerates and an overall performance boost! I still don't really understand why. Maybe faster HD and system bus? but still. still. *shrug*
I had an OrangeMicro PCfx! PCI card in my old 7600/132. After adding 128MB of RAM to it, it ran about 800$
It sucked in that it was advertised as being a low-end card for gamers, but it really blew. @ a mere 200mhz, and not a true pentium (it was a WinChip), it only really ran stuff like DXBall, Quake1 and Myth2. It had a built-in nVidia TNT (it might have been a tnt2, I don't remember), too. I only wish that thing ran in OSX because it ran windows98 quite well, much better than I could emulate it even on my G3/450 when I got it.
The main thing I used the card for, though, was running the BackOrifice client so I could hack people's computers in my dorm and run the Quake3 level editors.
The whole reason I got it was because I was bitching that my computer sucked (it was only 132mhz!) and I wanted a video card so I could play games better, so my dad decided to get me this instead since he thought I should learn windows.
Welp, most of these Windows-only (or M$ only) viruses that have been ripping everyone's asses open have been the result of M$ trying to implement end-user programming into every application; only they're doing it the most stupid way possible. Auto-running code is one of the worst features I can think of. When I put a CD in to my computer, I don't want some whacko, crazy welcome screen popping up. I wanna just run the damn installer and get everything done.
I don't want to be able to have VBscript code running when I get an email, and I don't want the script to have access to my address book or to my whole harddrive. I don't want my default OS install to have every possible internet service enabled; even if I'm gonna use it as a dedicated server.
Regarding website defacements, it's got nothing to do with the OS that the server is running. It doesn't matter how secure your OS is or how savvy the techie running the site is, if someone's using an insecure password or uses it insecurely (saying it outloud to someone only to be overheard or writing or whatever), the site could be breached. Also, many services (ftp, htaccess, not ssh or telnet) don't protect against brute force attacks on the passwords, so there's a security problem, there.
Another problem is that some ISPs have a habbit of dispensing cookie cutter passwords (initial of first name followed by street adress for instance) to new users which, generally won't change the password to something they can call there own which could lead to further break-ins.
I agree with what one poster said earlier though, the more people who are running a given platform who don't know anything, the more likely a break-in will happen.
I live in manhatten, and my server's not up! my AIM isn't running! ahh, what do I do?!
I'm in NJ, right now at work, and this is wigging me out. About 2 hours ago, my roommate called me to tell me that she forgot to feed her dog before leaving this morning and asked if I could do it tonight. Unfortunately, I take the train home and NJTransit's site says that trains are canceled until the power is back.
I'm fucked. Poor Prufrock... He's gonna starve.
Could be worse, though, when my roommates first moved to NY, the day they moved their shit in was 9/11, so it could always be worse.
Technically the iPod DOES have vorbis support (as well as any other format that you'd want to implement). In fact, I'm surprised I hadn't read this in any other comments yet.
hmmmmm, let me try it... I don' think there was anything to push/pull in that room to put on it, but let me doublecheck.....
playing......
oh shit... I had to pull the statue's tongue. stupid ice palace. now I got the big key. thx for making me play again! yay!
Isn't it also because the games are being written in much higher level languages, nowadays (C++ as opposed to straight assembly), so the coders usually aren't as l33t as say, the original NES coders? That's the idea that I've had lately.
There's a major bug in the 5th (maybe it's the 6th, I forget) palace where you step on a button but it doesn't push. I spent 4 days trying to pass this palace to no avail and have given up on it. It royally sucks. I'm upset. I love zelda and looked forward to beating it, especially since this is the first zelda title I've played since the NES's Adventure of Link.
REALbasic is what got me into programming about 5 years ago back when it was still called CrossBasic (xBasic), and REALsoftware was FYIsoftware.
Amazingly enough, it IS possible to write a decent application in RB, the only problem is that you get all these kids who are just learning how to program, don't understand exceptions, error checking, or GUI design, and think they can be hax0rs releasing simple apps that just stink of poor design.
Also, earlier versions (I'm not sure about the current release, the last version I played with was a pre-release of 2.0) had problems with very large projects. You would start getting random StackOverflowExceptions and NilObjectExceptions even when none should exist, but from what I hear, that's mostly fixed.
One of RB's early advantages over other mac 'visual basics' was the fact that you could create subclasses of existing classes, and the language had full inheritance and all that jazz that a true object oriented language should have. It also sported XCMDs (hypercard plugins written in C or pascal or some more powerful language), so you could easily extend its capabilities. Later versions were able to import plugins in the form of compiled C++ code, which led to the lack of portability of some applications. Luckily there are compiler directives, so you could have several versions of a plugin in your project (win32, macOs, macOSX) and depending on what platform you're building for, it'll use different code.
I wonder how much easier it will be to create plugins for linux. how about PERL plugins? SH? hmmmm....
if you are calling me uninformed or a troll, I'd be uninformed. I haven't had any video editing experience for years, now. Premier 3 and 4 are what I learned on. I'm not even sure what version of Avid I've used, and I've never used final cut pro. I was just making assumptions based on Photoshop/illustrator (my strong programs).
however, my statement about having the same program available on multiple platforms still stands for the same reasons, although I was unaware of a universal file format (the EPS of the video editing world) for this.
I wouldn't call premeir's UI crap, I mean, I picked it up no problem. although I really don't know how it SHOULD behave. I'm not a big fan of iMovie, though. blech.
Just because Apple has Final Cut Pro and all that doesn't mean that everyone is gonna use Apple's products just because they're Apple.
I dunno about everyone else, but I've invested many hours into learning premier. I like Premier. I like Premier better than I like Final Cut Pro and (blech) iMovie. Although Final Cut Pro may render things faster and all that, I like Adobe's take on user interface and sometimes, they do a better job than apple. Also, there are good reasons for mirroring your applications across platforms. More than just marketshare, but for moving projects around. What if at the office a user is running windows and Premier, wants to take the project home and only has his nice new dual 2ghz G5 sitting there. What's he/she to do? sheesh.
unfortunately, depending on what state you're in, you could get in a lot of trouble for doing that.
I live in NYC right now, and my roommates and I are toying with the idea of setting up an open network, however, since we have several routers and WAPs, as well as a couple of OSX and linux machines not in use, we're gonna try to set it up so that anyone that logs in only has limited bandwidth (maybe 10K/sec), can't see the other machines on the LAN, and also, maybe not let them stay connected for too long (maybe 4 hours at a time).
When we first moved in to this apartment, before we got our cable modem, there were 3 other, non WEP'd, networks that we could get on from here, but the signal wasn't so hot. when my dad visits his GF in Bayonne, he can get online with his iBook because of some people who live down the street (the network is named with their last name, and he looked them up in the phone book).
If we lived in a world where everyone could be trusted, I believe everyone would be able to get online from anywhere. All networks would be open.
Well, just because the network name is "Extreme" doesn't necessarily mean that it's an ExtremeNetworks network. When I read it, I assumed that it was simply someone's Airport Extreme base station. But you could be right. Then again, we could both be wrong and it could be some kiddy's handle.;)
I went wardriving the other day through a rich neighborhood in NJ. Good ol kismac, my Ti, and the stock Airport card/ antennas. After a 10 minute drive, we discovered nearly 20 open networks. A mere 5 of them using WEP.
I was surprised that I was able to pick these up from the street. Also surprising was the names of some of the networks, I mean kittyNET, c'mon!
Also, it's amazing how many people have linksys.
USE WEP, PEOPLE! Or at least configure your router to only accept your computers' MAC address! jeez.
There's lots of reasons to close your network to the outside. The main one being that you don't want to give people access to your LAN. Most people don't password their computers from other machines on the LAN, since they figure it's secure, but it's not. Also, I tried the default linksys password ("admin") on a couple of the networks, and would have been able to change router settings. Imagine setting up a dreamcast w/ wifi outisde of someone's house on their external power outlets and serving warez off their connection. sheesh.
these routers should come with little pamphlets about wireless security.
The control strip was a good idea at first, at a time when you needed to change color depth and monitor resolution frequently (ie- something didn't autochange or change back when you were done), and before external speakers came into wide use (now, you just turn the knob down on the speakers and never touch the volume control).
I never needed to turn filesharing or appletalk on and off enough to warrant those controls, I just left them on all the time.
the CD control thing was kinda lame, although handy for when I didn't wanna launch the CD player app, and the other things were more or less useless to myself, although I have seen some 3rd party modules which made good use of it. Usually when I did a fresh installation, I'd either turn the strip off completely, or delete all but 2 or 3 modules from it. It's crazy that it goes nearly all the way across the screen on a clamshell iBook running 9.2.
the tabbed folders was nice and I didn't really use them a lot until I got used to the dock in OSX and start bar in (ack!) windows, but I wish you could have stuck them on the left and right sides of the screen rather than just the bottom.
As to menu craziness, I'm referring to the packed apple menu (which wasn't bad at all until about 8.1 or so, I don't remember), the expandable application menu (so you can see the app's name in the menu bar), and when you start installing a lot of 3rd party software you get a lot of CMMs so your contextual menus get cluttered.
Also, towards the end of the classic MacOS, the control panels folder got bloated to a point where I found myself deleting the alias int he apple menu and only aliasing the main 5-10 control panels that I used into their own folder in the Apple menu.
as you go from MacOS 7.6 to 9.x, the whole GUI begins to get more of a sense of clutteredness. It gets more and more cumbersome to navigate, and there were a lot of features to fix that (ie springloaded folders), but everything began to get jumbled. OSX was a godsend in that respect, although I still see a lot of work that needs to be done in many areas. Namely GUI snapiness and they need to re-populate the context menus. There is a serious dearth of choices in the Finder when one "right clicks."
Apple seriously needs to go back to their minimalist roots. I mean, they're doing it with the hardware's design, why not the software's?...and why aren't they touting speed improvements in 10.3? Did I miss it? I swear they said there was gonna be another jump in app/system start times, GUI responsiveness and whatever else there is to speed up for the next major release after panther. I want OSX to feel like OS9 on my ghz Ti!!!!
Yeah, but the only tabs that are hard to read are the ones that are recessed.
I've had my 15", 1ghz powerbook since december and lately, more and more apple applications are harder to see on the screen unless I tilt it forward, but other things look better when it's tilted back a little. i dunno. I like the brushed metal, but it's not for everything. I think the finder was much better when it was aqua-styled.
I just hope that apple's head doesn't fall off for 10.4. They have a habbit of having really great ideas and improving on them until they are almost perfect, then ruining them by over-perfecting. I think that's why they went with the total overhaul for OSX, by the time 8.6 rolled around, the whole interface was going to the dogs (control strip, tabbed folders, menu-craziness, ahhhhh!).
I don't feel sorry for her because she got fired, I feel sorry for her because she was the only one to get fired for doing this after someone complained.
The bartenders had gotten caught for that several times ("It clearly says that that each beer is 4.75, how come you said 20$ for 4 beers?"); I was there for one such event.
Anyway, I actually forget what my point was, or if I had one for that matter.
Pre-coffee spike posted that. Post-coffee spike is posting this. *shrug*;)
Everyone will choose tests that make their product appear better than it is. I wouldn't call it cheating, per se, but this is the whole purpose for independant studies, no?
I'm sure that the actions, filters, and files that apple uses for their photoshop performance displays highlight the mac's prowess as much as possible while, at the same time, try to bash the x86 machine as much as possible.
I think apple's purpose for these claims goes beyond the fact that their trying to sell machines. They're trying to exterminate all of these myths that have been going around for the longest time about their hardware/ software. 90% of the people I know that don't like macs don't like them because the ones in their middleschool/highschool were horribly upkept and would not work or crash too often to be usable. I think that a major reason why apple went with the BSD underbelly in OSX.
Also, these fucken trolls on slashdot with that story of "my 350mhz g3 is barely usable if I'm copying a file and playing an mp3." Fuck that, I had my 132mhz 7600 (604 based machine) running fucken OS 7.6 and I could download, listen to mp3s, chat, and surf the web with minimal problems. Granted, I had 256mb of RAM in there, but it was fine. Only when the applications started getting more robust that that computer began getting unusable, and by that time, I had a 450mhz G3 which is STILL in use.
Although, apple does piss me off sometimes with their claims which, although true, ARE misleading and cause these mac fanatics to make outrageous claims based on Apple's statements/ demonstrations.
Although many mac users (fanatics?) are idiots, I think that there's a much higher percentage of windows users who are, too. And the windows users are much more likely to pick a fight about it.
Platform choice is a preference! Use what you like. Use what likes you. Use what makes you whole.
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btw, yeah, garbage, yup. ;)
just kidding, I don't do coke. That's where I get my heroin.
The ending paragraph of that article is disturbing to say the least. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device. pshhhh... right. ;)
What's next... OSX? BMW? CIA? ATF?
At least MS is safe. THIS time.
Also, amazingly enough, when I put that card in my G3 (before I put OSX on it; the card was never compatable with X), it got me even better framerates and an overall performance boost! I still don't really understand why. Maybe faster HD and system bus? but still. still. *shrug*
It sucked in that it was advertised as being a low-end card for gamers, but it really blew. @ a mere 200mhz, and not a true pentium (it was a WinChip), it only really ran stuff like DXBall, Quake1 and Myth2. It had a built-in nVidia TNT (it might have been a tnt2, I don't remember), too. I only wish that thing ran in OSX because it ran windows98 quite well, much better than I could emulate it even on my G3/450 when I got it.
The main thing I used the card for, though, was running the BackOrifice client so I could hack people's computers in my dorm and run the Quake3 level editors.
The whole reason I got it was because I was bitching that my computer sucked (it was only 132mhz!) and I wanted a video card so I could play games better, so my dad decided to get me this instead since he thought I should learn windows.
I don't want to be able to have VBscript code running when I get an email, and I don't want the script to have access to my address book or to my whole harddrive. I don't want my default OS install to have every possible internet service enabled; even if I'm gonna use it as a dedicated server.
Regarding website defacements, it's got nothing to do with the OS that the server is running. It doesn't matter how secure your OS is or how savvy the techie running the site is, if someone's using an insecure password or uses it insecurely (saying it outloud to someone only to be overheard or writing or whatever), the site could be breached. Also, many services (ftp, htaccess, not ssh or telnet) don't protect against brute force attacks on the passwords, so there's a security problem, there.
Another problem is that some ISPs have a habbit of dispensing cookie cutter passwords (initial of first name followed by street adress for instance) to new users which, generally won't change the password to something they can call there own which could lead to further break-ins.
I agree with what one poster said earlier though, the more people who are running a given platform who don't know anything, the more likely a break-in will happen.
That's all I've got to say.
I live in manhatten, and my server's not up! my AIM isn't running! ahh, what do I do?!
I'm in NJ, right now at work, and this is wigging me out. About 2 hours ago, my roommate called me to tell me that she forgot to feed her dog before leaving this morning and asked if I could do it tonight. Unfortunately, I take the train home and NJTransit's site says that trains are canceled until the power is back.
I'm fucked. Poor Prufrock... He's gonna starve.
Could be worse, though, when my roommates first moved to NY, the day they moved their shit in was 9/11, so it could always be worse.
This IS slashdot, afterall...
You can install Linux on your iPod.......
That feature should make it worth the extra cash all by itself.
Although, I wasn't able to get that working, myself...
hmmmmm, let me try it... I don' think there was anything to push/pull in that room to put on it, but let me doublecheck..... playing...... oh shit... I had to pull the statue's tongue. stupid ice palace. now I got the big key. thx for making me play again! yay!
am I wrong?
Anyone else have that problem?
Amazingly enough, it IS possible to write a decent application in RB, the only problem is that you get all these kids who are just learning how to program, don't understand exceptions, error checking, or GUI design, and think they can be hax0rs releasing simple apps that just stink of poor design.
Also, earlier versions (I'm not sure about the current release, the last version I played with was a pre-release of 2.0) had problems with very large projects. You would start getting random StackOverflowExceptions and NilObjectExceptions even when none should exist, but from what I hear, that's mostly fixed.
One of RB's early advantages over other mac 'visual basics' was the fact that you could create subclasses of existing classes, and the language had full inheritance and all that jazz that a true object oriented language should have. It also sported XCMDs (hypercard plugins written in C or pascal or some more powerful language), so you could easily extend its capabilities. Later versions were able to import plugins in the form of compiled C++ code, which led to the lack of portability of some applications. Luckily there are compiler directives, so you could have several versions of a plugin in your project (win32, macOs, macOSX) and depending on what platform you're building for, it'll use different code.
I wonder how much easier it will be to create plugins for linux. how about PERL plugins? SH? hmmmm....
however, my statement about having the same program available on multiple platforms still stands for the same reasons, although I was unaware of a universal file format (the EPS of the video editing world) for this.
I wouldn't call premeir's UI crap, I mean, I picked it up no problem. although I really don't know how it SHOULD behave. I'm not a big fan of iMovie, though. blech.
I dunno about everyone else, but I've invested many hours into learning premier. I like Premier. I like Premier better than I like Final Cut Pro and (blech) iMovie. Although Final Cut Pro may render things faster and all that, I like Adobe's take on user interface and sometimes, they do a better job than apple. Also, there are good reasons for mirroring your applications across platforms. More than just marketshare, but for moving projects around. What if at the office a user is running windows and Premier, wants to take the project home and only has his nice new dual 2ghz G5 sitting there. What's he/she to do? sheesh.
I live in NYC right now, and my roommates and I are toying with the idea of setting up an open network, however, since we have several routers and WAPs, as well as a couple of OSX and linux machines not in use, we're gonna try to set it up so that anyone that logs in only has limited bandwidth (maybe 10K/sec), can't see the other machines on the LAN, and also, maybe not let them stay connected for too long (maybe 4 hours at a time).
When we first moved in to this apartment, before we got our cable modem, there were 3 other, non WEP'd, networks that we could get on from here, but the signal wasn't so hot. when my dad visits his GF in Bayonne, he can get online with his iBook because of some people who live down the street (the network is named with their last name, and he looked them up in the phone book).
If we lived in a world where everyone could be trusted, I believe everyone would be able to get online from anywhere. All networks would be open.
Well, just because the network name is "Extreme" doesn't necessarily mean that it's an ExtremeNetworks network. When I read it, I assumed that it was simply someone's Airport Extreme base station. But you could be right. Then again, we could both be wrong and it could be some kiddy's handle. ;)
heh.
WARDRIVE!
I was surprised that I was able to pick these up from the street. Also surprising was the names of some of the networks, I mean kittyNET, c'mon!
Also, it's amazing how many people have linksys.
USE WEP, PEOPLE! Or at least configure your router to only accept your computers' MAC address! jeez.
There's lots of reasons to close your network to the outside. The main one being that you don't want to give people access to your LAN. Most people don't password their computers from other machines on the LAN, since they figure it's secure, but it's not. Also, I tried the default linksys password ("admin") on a couple of the networks, and would have been able to change router settings. Imagine setting up a dreamcast w/ wifi outisde of someone's house on their external power outlets and serving warez off their connection. sheesh.
these routers should come with little pamphlets about wireless security.
The control strip was a good idea at first, at a time when you needed to change color depth and monitor resolution frequently (ie- something didn't autochange or change back when you were done), and before external speakers came into wide use (now, you just turn the knob down on the speakers and never touch the volume control).
...and why aren't they touting speed improvements in 10.3? Did I miss it? I swear they said there was gonna be another jump in app/system start times, GUI responsiveness and whatever else there is to speed up for the next major release after panther. I want OSX to feel like OS9 on my ghz Ti!!!!
I never needed to turn filesharing or appletalk on and off enough to warrant those controls, I just left them on all the time.
the CD control thing was kinda lame, although handy for when I didn't wanna launch the CD player app, and the other things were more or less useless to myself, although I have seen some 3rd party modules which made good use of it. Usually when I did a fresh installation, I'd either turn the strip off completely, or delete all but 2 or 3 modules from it. It's crazy that it goes nearly all the way across the screen on a clamshell iBook running 9.2.
the tabbed folders was nice and I didn't really use them a lot until I got used to the dock in OSX and start bar in (ack!) windows, but I wish you could have stuck them on the left and right sides of the screen rather than just the bottom.
As to menu craziness, I'm referring to the packed apple menu (which wasn't bad at all until about 8.1 or so, I don't remember), the expandable application menu (so you can see the app's name in the menu bar), and when you start installing a lot of 3rd party software you get a lot of CMMs so your contextual menus get cluttered.
Also, towards the end of the classic MacOS, the control panels folder got bloated to a point where I found myself deleting the alias int he apple menu and only aliasing the main 5-10 control panels that I used into their own folder in the Apple menu.
as you go from MacOS 7.6 to 9.x, the whole GUI begins to get more of a sense of clutteredness. It gets more and more cumbersome to navigate, and there were a lot of features to fix that (ie springloaded folders), but everything began to get jumbled. OSX was a godsend in that respect, although I still see a lot of work that needs to be done in many areas. Namely GUI snapiness and they need to re-populate the context menus. There is a serious dearth of choices in the Finder when one "right clicks."
Apple seriously needs to go back to their minimalist roots. I mean, they're doing it with the hardware's design, why not the software's?
Maybe the G5s will feel like that?
I've had my 15", 1ghz powerbook since december and lately, more and more apple applications are harder to see on the screen unless I tilt it forward, but other things look better when it's tilted back a little. i dunno. I like the brushed metal, but it's not for everything. I think the finder was much better when it was aqua-styled.
I just hope that apple's head doesn't fall off for 10.4. They have a habbit of having really great ideas and improving on them until they are almost perfect, then ruining them by over-perfecting. I think that's why they went with the total overhaul for OSX, by the time 8.6 rolled around, the whole interface was going to the dogs (control strip, tabbed folders, menu-craziness, ahhhhh!).
ack
The bartenders had gotten caught for that several times ("It clearly says that that each beer is 4.75, how come you said 20$ for 4 beers?"); I was there for one such event.
Anyway, I actually forget what my point was, or if I had one for that matter.
Pre-coffee spike posted that. Post-coffee spike is posting this. *shrug* ;)
I'm sure that the actions, filters, and files that apple uses for their photoshop performance displays highlight the mac's prowess as much as possible while, at the same time, try to bash the x86 machine as much as possible.
I think apple's purpose for these claims goes beyond the fact that their trying to sell machines. They're trying to exterminate all of these myths that have been going around for the longest time about their hardware/ software. 90% of the people I know that don't like macs don't like them because the ones in their middleschool/highschool were horribly upkept and would not work or crash too often to be usable. I think that a major reason why apple went with the BSD underbelly in OSX.
Also, these fucken trolls on slashdot with that story of "my 350mhz g3 is barely usable if I'm copying a file and playing an mp3." Fuck that, I had my 132mhz 7600 (604 based machine) running fucken OS 7.6 and I could download, listen to mp3s, chat, and surf the web with minimal problems. Granted, I had 256mb of RAM in there, but it was fine. Only when the applications started getting more robust that that computer began getting unusable, and by that time, I had a 450mhz G3 which is STILL in use.
Although, apple does piss me off sometimes with their claims which, although true, ARE misleading and cause these mac fanatics to make outrageous claims based on Apple's statements/ demonstrations.
Although many mac users (fanatics?) are idiots, I think that there's a much higher percentage of windows users who are, too. And the windows users are much more likely to pick a fight about it.
Platform choice is a preference! Use what you like. Use what likes you. Use what makes you whole.