"But he counted Tiger on Intel as a sixth major release, because of the effort in porting the OS X code to a new platform (which, actually, had been in the works for a long time and wasn't the 210 day project Jobs claimed)."
The 210 days was for the switch for the entire product line to Intel processors. Jobs NEVER said it took 210 days to port OS X to Intel, he had admitted previously they had OS X running on Intel for a few releases already.
From the article, referring to E17: "Once I saw the videos of it in action I was impressed... drop shadows, transparency, animated backgrounds, and every piece of eye candy you could possibly dream of."
I agree with the author, E17 is visually impressive. I used to use E as my sole linux window manager, now I rarely use linux anymore. Mac OSX has had these features and more usability for years, so that's where I prefer to spend my computing time. But, I have been waiting for E17 to get back into linux again. I think eye-candy is important and definitely a UNIX OS is a must. E17 is going to do great things for linux.
I had good luck this week installing FreeBSD 5.4, but only as a vanilla server. I trashed my old Redhat 7.3. I really like the packages and ports, very much in fact.
I have an older box for my server, its a dual 400Mhz celeron with 256MB RAM. I compiled a new SMP kernel for it and was up and running with dual-proc. However, running unixbench shows me that the raw CPU and FPU are a touch faster under freebsd, but everything else is *much* slower than on linux. My freebsd final score was 59.3, linux was 145.0. Thats a huge difference.
I think I'll go back to Linux, and give CentOS a try.
You know what I find amusing? "Mac OS X is becoming a malware target! There are no viruses yet, but there will be some!"
Hmm, Antivirus software company determines there is an untapped market on the Mac platform. They send out an alert stating there are no viruses now but will be in the future, buy our products now to be safe when it happens. They continue writing their new viruses, spyware, and trojans. At some point in the future they release their new creations on the Mac faithful and say "told you so, and by the way here's a $5 discount on a fresh copy of anti-virus".
Thats the same reason I bought mine. Really just for the color screen since it does look nicer than my current 2nd generation iPod. The photo features may be nice at first but I really don't see myself using it that often outside of music.
Macs have a longer usable life than PCs and the older macs have no USB2 ports. So even though this doesnt apply to me personally, I do think there will be lots of unhappy Mac users with older hardware. I would rather use Firewire though since it's real-world faster than USB2 and with a 40GB+ iPod the speed helps to fill it up.
I just ordered the older 40GB photo that includes all the accessories for $356. This sounded like a good deal to me so hopefully I didn't make a bad decision.
Looks like they just yanked a bunch of included accessories to drop the price down and drop from 40GB to 30GB and a bit slimmer. Any other changes made between the new 30GB and old 40GB that I am missing?
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I also notice they only provide a USB2.0 cable and no firewire cable? WTF is that about? The firewire cable is now a $19 accessory. I find it very strange that they would switch to USB standard vs firewire.
I've read some similar complaints. Apparently the 'fix' is to go into system prefs -> energy saver -> options , and change your processor performance to something else (such as automatic) and close it out. Then go back in and change it again to what you want (such as Highest).
I have a sub to MacAddict. I find it is actually one of the few publications where the advertising is tamed. Though the issues are thin, there's tons of great information, how-tos and reviews. They also keep all the advertising in the last few pages so you don't see it if you don't want to. It also comes with a CD that has demos and freewares.
I believe most of the large broadband ISPs try to guarantee five 9's of network and server reliablity (excluding planned maintenance). In most cases, it is quite easy to just call and complain about anything, they'll give you a free months service without even verifying you have a problem.:)
I am a network engineer for a large cable company ISP as well. You are correct that implementing ACL at the CMTS is going to cause more network problems than it would fix. The solution is to implement the ACL at the customer location (house). This is easily done in the cable modem configuration file over TFTP. It can also be done using SNMP. Some modems may exhibit problems with LLC filters however, but it is an option.
Another option is to implement Policy Based Routing at the egress point of your network. There you have routers with much more horsepower and could route traffic to a Null interface that matches the following:
Destination port == tcp 25
Source IP != your allowed SMTP servers
or Source IP = your CPE ranges
Source IP != commercial ranges
I totally agree that a residential connection should have these restrictions in place but a commercial (business class) connection should be completely open, without any restrictions.
The reason ISPs must (and should) block ports is because people do not secure their computers. You and I may do so, but the average person sure doesn't. This is like having everyone on your block leaving their doors unlocked and garage doors open. When I see you leave for work, I go into your house and use your phone to make some interesting phone calls, I place some very derogatory outgoing letters in your mailbox, I install some webcams, I poison the food in your refrigerator which you eat and perhaps share with your family and friends. I borrow your car and do a hit-and-run on someone and return it to your house where the cops later find it and you returning from work and now paying the price for all my good deeds.
This is going to be a problem until all computer OS's are installed DEFAULT to not allow ANY incoming connections, and only allow outgoing connections that you specify. You then should have to go through at least a few options to enable a listening service.;) Microsoft is the spawn of satan, and all their sorry OS's are the real problem to deal with. At least with XP SP2 they are going to enable a firewall, but that will do nothing for the majority of windows home machines.
Correct, most broadband ISPs have a "terms of service" agreement which does not allow servers, but they tend not to police it at all. You can run a server all you want, any type, as long as you are not serving up porn, copyrighted files, etc.
The subscriber can easily just setup their home mail server to use their ISP mail server as a smarthost. Then all outgoing mail from that box is forwarded up to the allowed server. Incoming mail to your home SMTP server is still received because port 25 is not filtered incoming. I dont see why this wouldn't work.
As far as restrictions go... You have to understand that usually the only time an ISP will act on these things is if they are deemed to be abuse issues. This could be a DoS due to a worm infected machine, a mass mailer causing problems on their SMTP servers, a box that is owned and attempting to bypass security measures, things like that. These are things that adversely affect the network (and thus your connection) and require being delt with.
In the case of blatant abusers, their modems should be disabled and kicked off the network. In the case of unsuspecting zombie machines, their modems should be uploaded a special config file that allows access only to a local "update server" which provides all the latest security updates. That would corral any smtp connects and port scanning by worms.
All software updates that provide bug fixes should be freely available IMO. I work for a large cable ISP and when codered and nimda hit they caused some problems for our networks. The insane amount of scanning from all these machines was causing large amounts of ICMP and ARPs which drove some router CPU utilizations up.
So put it this way, say your ISP gets a lot of infected customers but you are patched (or running linux or mac). Then those infected machines start scanning, probing, and causing problems on the network. You then see the network problems. Of course that only affects your online experience, but I'm sure you don't want that to suffer since you are paying for it.
So having these updates freely available, and better yet *forced* onto users computers, would make things more stable going forward. I always stay up-to-date on patches for windows and linux (for my workstation) and for solaris (for my servers).
At least they should make the XP Home edition do forced patch installs when online, whether licensed or not.
The high-resolution scans are so that they have a higher quality scan for when the next generation of HDTV comes out. HDTV on my TV is only 1080 right now but with 4000 lines now they wont have to do any rescanning or upsampling later on.
Sorry I do not know of any good authoring tools for Linux, but I too would be interested. Although I hope to just get a new G5 soon.
I end up using windows and Sonic Foundry's products. Or I should say 'Sony' now. I've tried lots of video editing apps from high-end to low-end. The best one I found was Vegas Video without a doubt. Its not cheap however, but not as much as Premiere, and its definitely more usable and has good plugin support. For authoring DVDs I use their DVD Architect software. I've been able to make some really nice menus with it.
I got to admit, the Karma looks like a nice player. Its got a crossfader too. I still cannot understand why Apple does not put a crossfader into the iPod. Thats my most requested feature.
The dimensions may be a problem for some, its a bit thicker than an iPod so may not be as comfortable to carry, but I haven't seen one in person yet so not sure.
Karma: 2.7" x 3.0" x 1.1" 5.5oz
iPod: 4.1" x 2.4" x.62" 5.6oz
It does the duplicates whether you drag them to iTunes manually or even if you use the "Add to Library" menu item. I narrowed the problem down though. It only happens if you do not let iTunes manage your music library. If you do allow it to copy files to its home location and manage, then you do not get duplicates. I sent the info to apple to see if that is a bug or was planned.
The problem is that I think some windows users will choose not to let itunes manage the music because it renames and reorganizes the mp3s.
The problem with this that I've noticed is....
If you copy the same song from the same location twice it will appear twice in your libary instead of just once. So basically if you plan to use your own file structure and let iTunes use pointers to your files instead of copies, then you will have sync problems.
It would be nice if it had 'watch folders' like musicmatch does. But I guess what they want you to do is import all your music as copies, and delete your originals. Then just use iTunes always to access your music. This is going to take some getting used to.
You hit it exactly. I just had to RMA a 200GB Maxtor disk. The RMA process went smoothly using their advance replacement option. And I was able to get most of my data off the drive onto the new one. I am hoping I dont have this problem again, or lose all my data next time.
I used to buy only quantum or western digital drives, which I never had problems with. But I saw this 200GB drive for such a cheap price after rebates that I couldn't pass it up, now I see why they were able to offer it at such a low price.
Actually, with Apple's Music Store you pretty much do own the music. You can Rip-Mix-Burn or as they say now for the music industry folks: Acquire-Manage-Listen. But I found the most interesting announcement was that you have been given permission to use the music in ANY iApp that you have, such as background music for home movies and picture slideshows, etc. That to me says I OWN it, even more that if I bought it on a CD.
Here's the MPEG4 video of the announcement in San Fransisco.
We used to run a few game servers at work for our internet subscribers (actually were available for anyone on the net). There were quite a few problems with cheating. Players would notify us and we/they would ban.
I've been out of running servers for quite a while, but how about implementing a RBL same as is used to fight spam: Mail Abuse. Of course that brings up DHCP problems when users change IP addresses. But it may be doable. Hell, even combine the SPAM RBL and the 'GAMES RBL'. Cheaters wouldn't be able to send email, and spammers couldn't play games online!
As stated, I've been out the mix a long time and there may already be something out there like this.
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"But he counted Tiger on Intel as a sixth major release, because of the effort in porting the OS X code to a new platform (which, actually, had been in the works for a long time and wasn't the 210 day project Jobs claimed)."
The 210 days was for the switch for the entire product line to Intel processors. Jobs NEVER said it took 210 days to port OS X to Intel, he had admitted previously they had OS X running on Intel for a few releases already.
From the article, referring to E17: "Once I saw the videos of it in action I was impressed... drop shadows, transparency, animated backgrounds, and every piece of eye candy you could possibly dream of."
I agree with the author, E17 is visually impressive. I used to use E as my sole linux window manager, now I rarely use linux anymore. Mac OSX has had these features and more usability for years, so that's where I prefer to spend my computing time. But, I have been waiting for E17 to get back into linux again. I think eye-candy is important and definitely a UNIX OS is a must. E17 is going to do great things for linux.
I had good luck this week installing FreeBSD 5.4, but only as a vanilla server. I trashed my old Redhat 7.3. I really like the packages and ports, very much in fact.
I have an older box for my server, its a dual 400Mhz celeron with 256MB RAM. I compiled a new SMP kernel for it and was up and running with dual-proc. However, running unixbench shows me that the raw CPU and FPU are a touch faster under freebsd, but everything else is *much* slower than on linux. My freebsd final score was 59.3, linux was 145.0. Thats a huge difference.
I think I'll go back to Linux, and give CentOS a try.
You know what I find amusing? "Mac OS X is becoming a malware target! There are no viruses yet, but there will be some!"
Hmm, Antivirus software company determines there is an untapped market on the Mac platform. They send out an alert stating there are no viruses now but will be in the future, buy our products now to be safe when it happens. They continue writing their new viruses, spyware, and trojans. At some point in the future they release their new creations on the Mac faithful and say "told you so, and by the way here's a $5 discount on a fresh copy of anti-virus".
Thats the same reason I bought mine. Really just for the color screen since it does look nicer than my current 2nd generation iPod. The photo features may be nice at first but I really don't see myself using it that often outside of music.
Macs have a longer usable life than PCs and the older macs have no USB2 ports. So even though this doesnt apply to me personally, I do think there will be lots of unhappy Mac users with older hardware. I would rather use Firewire though since it's real-world faster than USB2 and with a 40GB+ iPod the speed helps to fill it up.
I just ordered the older 40GB photo that includes all the accessories for $356. This sounded like a good deal to me so hopefully I didn't make a bad decision.
Looks like they just yanked a bunch of included accessories to drop the price down and drop from 40GB to 30GB and a bit slimmer. Any other changes made between the new 30GB and old 40GB that I am missing?
I also notice they only provide a USB2.0 cable and no firewire cable? WTF is that about? The firewire cable is now a $19 accessory. I find it very strange that they would switch to USB standard vs firewire.
I've read some similar complaints. Apparently the 'fix' is to go into system prefs -> energy saver -> options , and change your processor performance to something else (such as automatic) and close it out. Then go back in and change it again to what you want (such as Highest).
Gotta love Steve's demos; otomatically, boom, and now Blamo!
"Blamo, I'm home"
I have a sub to MacAddict. I find it is actually one of the few publications where the advertising is tamed. Though the issues are thin, there's tons of great information, how-tos and reviews. They also keep all the advertising in the last few pages so you don't see it if you don't want to. It also comes with a CD that has demos and freewares.
I believe most of the large broadband ISPs try to guarantee five 9's of network and server reliablity (excluding planned maintenance). In most cases, it is quite easy to just call and complain about anything, they'll give you a free months service without even verifying you have a problem. :)
Another option is to implement Policy Based Routing at the egress point of your network. There you have routers with much more horsepower and could route traffic to a Null interface that matches the following:
I totally agree that a residential connection should have these restrictions in place but a commercial (business class) connection should be completely open, without any restrictions.
The reason ISPs must (and should) block ports is because people do not secure their computers. You and I may do so, but the average person sure doesn't. This is like having everyone on your block leaving their doors unlocked and garage doors open. When I see you leave for work, I go into your house and use your phone to make some interesting phone calls, I place some very derogatory outgoing letters in your mailbox, I install some webcams, I poison the food in your refrigerator which you eat and perhaps share with your family and friends. I borrow your car and do a hit-and-run on someone and return it to your house where the cops later find it and you returning from work and now paying the price for all my good deeds.
;) Microsoft is the spawn of satan, and all their sorry OS's are the real problem to deal with. At least with XP SP2 they are going to enable a firewall, but that will do nothing for the majority of windows home machines.
This is going to be a problem until all computer OS's are installed DEFAULT to not allow ANY incoming connections, and only allow outgoing connections that you specify. You then should have to go through at least a few options to enable a listening service.
Correct, most broadband ISPs have a "terms of service" agreement which does not allow servers, but they tend not to police it at all. You can run a server all you want, any type, as long as you are not serving up porn, copyrighted files, etc.
The subscriber can easily just setup their home mail server to use their ISP mail server as a smarthost. Then all outgoing mail from that box is forwarded up to the allowed server. Incoming mail to your home SMTP server is still received because port 25 is not filtered incoming. I dont see why this wouldn't work.
As far as restrictions go... You have to understand that usually the only time an ISP will act on these things is if they are deemed to be abuse issues. This could be a DoS due to a worm infected machine, a mass mailer causing problems on their SMTP servers, a box that is owned and attempting to bypass security measures, things like that. These are things that adversely affect the network (and thus your connection) and require being delt with.
In the case of blatant abusers, their modems should be disabled and kicked off the network. In the case of unsuspecting zombie machines, their modems should be uploaded a special config file that allows access only to a local "update server" which provides all the latest security updates. That would corral any smtp connects and port scanning by worms.
All software updates that provide bug fixes should be freely available IMO. I work for a large cable ISP and when codered and nimda hit they caused some problems for our networks. The insane amount of scanning from all these machines was causing large amounts of ICMP and ARPs which drove some router CPU utilizations up.
So put it this way, say your ISP gets a lot of infected customers but you are patched (or running linux or mac). Then those infected machines start scanning, probing, and causing problems on the network. You then see the network problems. Of course that only affects your online experience, but I'm sure you don't want that to suffer since you are paying for it.
So having these updates freely available, and better yet *forced* onto users computers, would make things more stable going forward. I always stay up-to-date on patches for windows and linux (for my workstation) and for solaris (for my servers).
At least they should make the XP Home edition do forced patch installs when online, whether licensed or not.
The high-resolution scans are so that they have a higher quality scan for when the next generation of HDTV comes out. HDTV on my TV is only 1080 right now but with 4000 lines now they wont have to do any rescanning or upsampling later on.
Sorry I do not know of any good authoring tools for Linux, but I too would be interested. Although I hope to just get a new G5 soon.
I end up using windows and Sonic Foundry's products. Or I should say 'Sony' now. I've tried lots of video editing apps from high-end to low-end. The best one I found was Vegas Video without a doubt. Its not cheap however, but not as much as Premiere, and its definitely more usable and has good plugin support. For authoring DVDs I use their DVD Architect software. I've been able to make some really nice menus with it.
I got to admit, the Karma looks like a nice player. Its got a crossfader too. I still cannot understand why Apple does not put a crossfader into the iPod. Thats my most requested feature.
.62" 5.6oz
The dimensions may be a problem for some, its a bit thicker than an iPod so may not be as comfortable to carry, but I haven't seen one in person yet so not sure.
Karma: 2.7" x 3.0" x 1.1" 5.5oz
iPod: 4.1" x 2.4" x
It does the duplicates whether you drag them to iTunes manually or even if you use the "Add to Library" menu item. I narrowed the problem down though. It only happens if you do not let iTunes manage your music library. If you do allow it to copy files to its home location and manage, then you do not get duplicates. I sent the info to apple to see if that is a bug or was planned.
The problem is that I think some windows users will choose not to let itunes manage the music because it renames and reorganizes the mp3s.
The problem with this that I've noticed is....
If you copy the same song from the same location twice it will appear twice in your libary instead of just once. So basically if you plan to use your own file structure and let iTunes use pointers to your files instead of copies, then you will have sync problems.
It would be nice if it had 'watch folders' like musicmatch does. But I guess what they want you to do is import all your music as copies, and delete your originals. Then just use iTunes always to access your music. This is going to take some getting used to.
You hit it exactly. I just had to RMA a 200GB Maxtor disk. The RMA process went smoothly using their advance replacement option. And I was able to get most of my data off the drive onto the new one. I am hoping I dont have this problem again, or lose all my data next time.
I used to buy only quantum or western digital drives, which I never had problems with. But I saw this 200GB drive for such a cheap price after rebates that I couldn't pass it up, now I see why they were able to offer it at such a low price.
I did my own test of this a while back (AAC,MP3,OGG only). I didn't do 128K CBR but instead did 160K VBR.
My results were:
1. AAC
2. OGG Vorbis
3. MP3
Actually, with Apple's Music Store you pretty much do own the music. You can Rip-Mix-Burn or as they say now for the music industry folks: Acquire-Manage-Listen. But I found the most interesting announcement was that you have been given permission to use the music in ANY iApp that you have, such as background music for home movies and picture slideshows, etc. That to me says I OWN it, even more that if I bought it on a CD.
Here's the MPEG4 video of the announcement in San Fransisco.
We used to run a few game servers at work for our internet subscribers (actually were available for anyone on the net). There were quite a few problems with cheating. Players would notify us and we/they would ban.
I've been out of running servers for quite a while, but how about implementing a RBL same as is used to fight spam: Mail Abuse. Of course that brings up DHCP problems when users change IP addresses. But it may be doable. Hell, even combine the SPAM RBL and the 'GAMES RBL'. Cheaters wouldn't be able to send email, and spammers couldn't play games online!
As stated, I've been out the mix a long time and there may already be something out there like this.