There was a very kick @$$ screen that I saw at one point in the "Drool Worthy" section of my Macaddict (don't have alink for it though).
Basicaly it was 3 17inch LCD screens positioned in such a way that you had one facing directly in front of you, and the one on each side, agled inward so that you need only turn your head slightly. I thought it was very cool and would make much more sense to me than this dual 15 inch setup for this computer
If they have *NIX drivers, they can be made to run on a mac. It may take a bit of mucking with the code if there is x86 specific code, but otherwise it will work, and besides, mucking with code is half the fun of linux.
As the comment before said, all macs with OS X have Apache, but also I should point out that all macs can run linux as well (see LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog Linux, and I believe a few others)
Do you honestly think the devices in the mac like the ethernet cards are some sort of proprietary card? No, I think not, and though I haven't actualy tried it, I'm sure I could get just about any card I want to run on my mac. ESPESIALY IF IT WILL RUN UNDER LINUX.
3 years and then you can't run the next OS? What mac are you using?
From my own experience I started with a PM 5400
180 Mhtz
16 MB RAM
1.5 Gig HD
i think (though i;m not sure) 2 MB video memory
Mac OS 7.5
15 inch montitor (buit in)
Purchased 1996
$2,500
This mac was at the time considered unupgradeable.
Currently the mac is:
300Mhtz G3 processor upgrade + 256k L2 cache ($200)
164 MB RAM ($130 this was before RAM cost only a few bucks)
45 Gig HD ($45 after rebates)
OS 9.2 [most current not counting OS X]($70)
So we have a total cost of:
2,500 initial
+ 445 Upgrades
---------
2,945 Total
Lifespan 6 years and still kicking
The only OS this thing can't run is OS X because X requires native G3 Processors (though there are hacks that supposedly work arround it, that I have not tried so can not verify)
In my personal experience, it's been far easier to maintain a mac than maintain a *nix machine, but that's because of inherrent differences.
And yes, the new Mac OS is based in *NIX, Apple is smart, they know a good idea when they see one, the difference is, the OS X interface is far superior to any inteface for *NIX I've ever seen
Just a quick note, the individual market share of Apple is roughly equal to that of Gateway, or Compaq, or Dell, or IBM, or any other base manufacturer. Remember, if you're going to measure market share, you need to compare companies, not hardware.
This kid's (read loosers) defence hinges on one thing. Why was the raid conducted?
If it was conducted because the hacks were traced to him, he's screwed.
However, if the raid was conducted because of his web site, then he might have a defense. Even explosive information is not illegal to have or provide, as long as you don't use it.
This whole idea that floats about that the internet is somehow a more dangerous tool than the real world is a load of bull. Personaly I would be less concerned with the person that downloads bomb making info, than with the guy that walks to the book store to get books on explosives or who goes out to the library to do some research on it.
Why? Because some one with the desire and willingness to get off his ass and do the reasearch is much more likely to do something with his research.
Still the most tried and true security system is a loaded gun. Just invest in some motionactivated turret guns, sure if you have a mistake it's a wee bit costly, but then again, so's loosing your data.
(I know it's a stupid post, go a head and mod me down, Karma is only a state of mind.)
When will companies learn that the people will always be one step ahead of them? SOme one will come up with a trusted spam filter and we'll all be back to out normaly schedualed lives.
It continuously disturbs me that I have to give out my personal information on line. It's bad enough the majority of companies require my e-mail, name and state of residence to sign up for a service, but it's even worse when they also want my address, phone number and other info.
Give me a break! Is all this really nessesary to get a frikken email account?
I think if anything, there should be a law that says that no company may require you to give out personal information to aquire or use an online product or service (unless it is nessesary for LEAGAL purposes i.e. ebay sellers account, and ISP account) They may ask for my information, but I should not have to give it.
Yes, I know that I can fill out bogus info, but I'd rather not fill it out at all. When I walk into a store, I don't have to give out my name to buy something, I don't need to tell them my adress or my email. The only time I ever need to use my name when I buy a product is if I want the warrenty. That makes sense. My home adress for an email account does not. Same thing with the need for any personal information just to log in and read a story on the new york times web site.
As has been said, Linus cares about Linux, not about M$.
On the otherhand, you seem to forget where every competitor has fallen. Trying to compete with windows. Look at every comany that has ever tried to compeat head on with M$ (i.e. Apple, IBM, Sun, Be) All of them failed in their attempts not because their software wasn't (or isn't for some) better, it's because they tried to market it as better than windows.
Apple, Linus and the *NIX worlds have learned this, and SUn has learned too, don't market as a better windows, market as an alternative. M$ won the operating system war. But what they are playing catch up in now is functionality. Arguably, the other systems aren't much "better" than M$ is at making an OS (let's face it, some linux versions suck). But the fact is, these alternative systems are used because people find them more functional for getting what they need done.
No the method for success is no longer competing with M$. It's improving your own system. That, and that alone will bring you out on top.
I don't have hard proof, you just have to look at the specs and do some deductive reasoning. But, and I had this confirmed by a tech at one of the apple stores, the super drive actualy has the ability to rewrite DVDs at 1x. The reason apple does not promote this fact is because their software does not yet support it, but you should be able to work it with toast.
Doesn't it sorta defeat the purpose?
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I realize that some applications seem to be absolutely essential to certain people, but doesn't putting a windows emulator (which as near as I can gather is essentialy what this is) kinda defeat the purpose of using Linux? The whole idea of Linux I thought was to get away from the Microsoft approach to things and get a better and more secure system?
....Microsoft will now begin implementing the MS Global Lock. The Global Lock will provide world security by sending all data, personal, corpoate or otherwise, to Microsoft HQ. This is designed to ensure that no company can implement any products which might subvert the MS Global Lock. Politicians will no longer be able to cover up data,and private citezens will no longer be able to take part in private discussions (this ofcourse designed to make life more secure for everyone). This data will be availible to no one except Microsoft. Trust us.
The scary thing is, I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not here as this sounds like something M$ could implement. Makes me glad I own a mac.
The difference of course being that I have more faith in HP finaly producing a finished product based on the technologies they are patenting rather than in you and your perpetual motion machine. (Though if you finaly do develop it, I'll glady preform the beta tests on the death ray)
When are PC manufacturers gonna start looking at some of the other technologies that go into computers?
What good is a chip that fits on a pin head if your video card is still 6 inches long? And what of the motherboard and RAM? Or drives? When do they start work on a micro drive? 100 gigs in the space of a sugar cube.
I want to see more development in other parts before we advance our chips any further.
Ironicaly, I believe the smae basic thing was said about the GUI. "Too expensive, will never replace the cheap text interfaces." No, the chips may be extreamly expensive now, but most certainly this is a step in teh right direction.
Remember, even today's chips used to be immansly expensive.
Yeah, but you can do fun things with timbuktu that you couldn't do easily with FTP. i.e. there is a utility that allows you to take control of the pointer on the remote host as well as open a type messages in reall time.
Let's see, the web is not a revolutionary, life altering, mind boggling, country destroying, business ruining, profit making machine.
Go figure.
The problem is, everyone is expecting the internet to create a new way of life not supplement it. The internet was not designed to change the world. It was designed to make information accessable. That's the original premise under which it was formed, and that's what it should be used for. Now of course information varies, depending on your view, but to me, if it can be sent via electronic signal, it is information.
What ruined the image of the internet was when the government stepped back in to claim what was once theirs. Just as the wild west was tamed when the government stepped in (though Tame is a loose word) so to was the internet tamed.
No longer to hackers prowl the wires, seeking whatever fancy strikes them, no longer is the internet a largely unregulated area with it's own rules. Now it's just another human institution.
Cyber predators are no more prevalent on the internet than real life predators. The difference is, the internet is loaded with glamour, and so people assume that lifes laws don't apply.
No, the internet is not a big let down to people who have common sense. It's only a big let down to sensationalists like the person who wrote this book and to people like Jon Katz who live off of controversy.
Call the cops or the manufacturer with it. SInce tracing computers is a relativly new field for th ecops, I doubt you'll get anywhere with only a MAC adress but it's worth a shot. Some one somewhere has to know how to do it. Good luck.
Except for the fac that he didn't hack the machine. THe machine was set up to register with teh timbuktu servers. At that point, the only people able to gain remote acess were those with the proper log-in and pass word.
I don't think the theif could convince the judge that it was coincidence that the log in and password was the same as the one defined by the guys sister.
I the person is behind any type of router, all your getting is the router defined IP, not the actual IP. Then again, if he's behind a router, ou're screwed anyways
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There was a very kick @$$ screen that I saw at one point in the "Drool Worthy" section of my Macaddict (don't have alink for it though).
Basicaly it was 3 17inch LCD screens positioned in such a way that you had one facing directly in front of you, and the one on each side, agled inward so that you need only turn your head slightly. I thought it was very cool and would make much more sense to me than this dual 15 inch setup for this computer
If they have *NIX drivers, they can be made to run on a mac. It may take a bit of mucking with the code if there is x86 specific code, but otherwise it will work, and besides, mucking with code is half the fun of linux.
As the comment before said, all macs with OS X have Apache, but also I should point out that all macs can run linux as well (see LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog Linux, and I believe a few others)
Do you honestly think the devices in the mac like the ethernet cards are some sort of proprietary card? No, I think not, and though I haven't actualy tried it, I'm sure I could get just about any card I want to run on my mac. ESPESIALY IF IT WILL RUN UNDER LINUX.
3 years and then you can't run the next OS? What mac are you using?
From my own experience I started with a PM 5400
180 Mhtz
16 MB RAM
1.5 Gig HD
i think (though i;m not sure) 2 MB video memory
Mac OS 7.5
15 inch montitor (buit in)
Purchased 1996
$2,500
This mac was at the time considered unupgradeable.
Currently the mac is:
300Mhtz G3 processor upgrade + 256k L2 cache ($200)
164 MB RAM ($130 this was before RAM cost only a few bucks)
45 Gig HD ($45 after rebates)
OS 9.2 [most current not counting OS X]($70)
So we have a total cost of:
2,500 initial
+ 445 Upgrades
---------
2,945 Total
Lifespan 6 years and still kicking
The only OS this thing can't run is OS X because X requires native G3 Processors (though there are hacks that supposedly work arround it, that I have not tried so can not verify)
I call that longevity.
In my personal experience, it's been far easier to maintain a mac than maintain a *nix machine, but that's because of inherrent differences.
And yes, the new Mac OS is based in *NIX, Apple is smart, they know a good idea when they see one, the difference is, the OS X interface is far superior to any inteface for *NIX I've ever seen
Just a quick note, the individual market share of Apple is roughly equal to that of Gateway, or Compaq, or Dell, or IBM, or any other base manufacturer. Remember, if you're going to measure market share, you need to compare companies, not hardware.
This kid's (read loosers) defence hinges on one thing. Why was the raid conducted?
If it was conducted because the hacks were traced to him, he's screwed.
However, if the raid was conducted because of his web site, then he might have a defense. Even explosive information is not illegal to have or provide, as long as you don't use it.
This whole idea that floats about that the internet is somehow a more dangerous tool than the real world is a load of bull. Personaly I would be less concerned with the person that downloads bomb making info, than with the guy that walks to the book store to get books on explosives or who goes out to the library to do some research on it.
Why? Because some one with the desire and willingness to get off his ass and do the reasearch is much more likely to do something with his research.
Still the most tried and true security system is a loaded gun. Just invest in some motionactivated turret guns, sure if you have a mistake it's a wee bit costly, but then again, so's loosing your data.
(I know it's a stupid post, go a head and mod me down, Karma is only a state of mind.)
When will companies learn that the people will always be one step ahead of them? SOme one will come up with a trusted spam filter and we'll all be back to out normaly schedualed lives.
Thanks for the clue in to subnet I've been looking for a web mail provider and this is just what I was looking for. Thanx a ton
Does this mean that if we don't delete our CC info from the wallet that even if we delete the passport accound M$ still has our CC and data on server?
It continuously disturbs me that I have to give out my personal information on line. It's bad enough the majority of companies require my e-mail, name and state of residence to sign up for a service, but it's even worse when they also want my address, phone number and other info.
Give me a break! Is all this really nessesary to get a frikken email account?
I think if anything, there should be a law that says that no company may require you to give out personal information to aquire or use an online product or service (unless it is nessesary for LEAGAL purposes i.e. ebay sellers account, and ISP account) They may ask for my information, but I should not have to give it.
Yes, I know that I can fill out bogus info, but I'd rather not fill it out at all. When I walk into a store, I don't have to give out my name to buy something, I don't need to tell them my adress or my email. The only time I ever need to use my name when I buy a product is if I want the warrenty. That makes sense. My home adress for an email account does not. Same thing with the need for any personal information just to log in and read a story on the new york times web site.
As has been said, Linus cares about Linux, not about M$.
On the otherhand, you seem to forget where every competitor has fallen. Trying to compete with windows. Look at every comany that has ever tried to compeat head on with M$ (i.e. Apple, IBM, Sun, Be) All of them failed in their attempts not because their software wasn't (or isn't for some) better, it's because they tried to market it as better than windows.
Apple, Linus and the *NIX worlds have learned this, and SUn has learned too, don't market as a better windows, market as an alternative. M$ won the operating system war. But what they are playing catch up in now is functionality. Arguably, the other systems aren't much "better" than M$ is at making an OS (let's face it, some linux versions suck). But the fact is, these alternative systems are used because people find them more functional for getting what they need done.
No the method for success is no longer competing with M$. It's improving your own system. That, and that alone will bring you out on top.
I don't have hard proof, you just have to look at the specs and do some deductive reasoning. But, and I had this confirmed by a tech at one of the apple stores, the super drive actualy has the ability to rewrite DVDs at 1x. The reason apple does not promote this fact is because their software does not yet support it, but you should be able to work it with toast.
I realize that some applications seem to be absolutely essential to certain people, but doesn't putting a windows emulator (which as near as I can gather is essentialy what this is) kinda defeat the purpose of using Linux? The whole idea of Linux I thought was to get away from the Microsoft approach to things and get a better and more secure system?
....Microsoft will now begin implementing the MS Global Lock. The Global Lock will provide world security by sending all data, personal, corpoate or otherwise, to Microsoft HQ. This is designed to ensure that no company can implement any products which might subvert the MS Global Lock. Politicians will no longer be able to cover up data,and private citezens will no longer be able to take part in private discussions (this ofcourse designed to make life more secure for everyone). This data will be availible to no one except Microsoft. Trust us.
The scary thing is, I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not here as this sounds like something M$ could implement. Makes me glad I own a mac.
The difference of course being that I have more faith in HP finaly producing a finished product based on the technologies they are patenting rather than in you and your perpetual motion machine. (Though if you finaly do develop it, I'll glady preform the beta tests on the death ray)
Ok, so we have nan chips. Now what?
When are PC manufacturers gonna start looking at some of the other technologies that go into computers?
What good is a chip that fits on a pin head if your video card is still 6 inches long? And what of the motherboard and RAM? Or drives? When do they start work on a micro drive? 100 gigs in the space of a sugar cube.
I want to see more development in other parts before we advance our chips any further.
Ironicaly, I believe the smae basic thing was said about the GUI. "Too expensive, will never replace the cheap text interfaces." No, the chips may be extreamly expensive now, but most certainly this is a step in teh right direction.
Remember, even today's chips used to be immansly expensive.
Yeah, but you can do fun things with timbuktu that you couldn't do easily with FTP. i.e. there is a utility that allows you to take control of the pointer on the remote host as well as open a type messages in reall time.
Imagine the fun you could have with that.
... because it isn't worth more than that
Let's see, the web is not a revolutionary, life altering, mind boggling, country destroying, business ruining, profit making machine.
Go figure.
The problem is, everyone is expecting the internet to create a new way of life not supplement it. The internet was not designed to change the world. It was designed to make information accessable. That's the original premise under which it was formed, and that's what it should be used for. Now of course information varies, depending on your view, but to me, if it can be sent via electronic signal, it is information.
What ruined the image of the internet was when the government stepped back in to claim what was once theirs. Just as the wild west was tamed when the government stepped in (though Tame is a loose word) so to was the internet tamed.
No longer to hackers prowl the wires, seeking whatever fancy strikes them, no longer is the internet a largely unregulated area with it's own rules. Now it's just another human institution.
Cyber predators are no more prevalent on the internet than real life predators. The difference is, the internet is loaded with glamour, and so people assume that lifes laws don't apply.
No, the internet is not a big let down to people who have common sense. It's only a big let down to sensationalists like the person who wrote this book and to people like Jon Katz who live off of controversy.
Call the cops or the manufacturer with it. SInce tracing computers is a relativly new field for th ecops, I doubt you'll get anywhere with only a MAC adress but it's worth a shot. Some one somewhere has to know how to do it. Good luck.
Except for the fac that he didn't hack the machine. THe machine was set up to register with teh timbuktu servers. At that point, the only people able to gain remote acess were those with the proper log-in and pass word.
I don't think the theif could convince the judge that it was coincidence that the log in and password was the same as the one defined by the guys sister.
Try getting your facts straight
I the person is behind any type of router, all your getting is the router defined IP, not the actual IP. Then again, if he's behind a router, ou're screwed anyways