1. Cost. 2. Number of people who use it. 3. Apple only does it for bragging rights.
1. I doubt that it costs more than a dollar (maybe two tops) at the volume that Apple runs. 2. Almost everyone I know who has a machine with this capability has used it at some point or another. 3. Nope. See (2). I've personally used it for large file transfers w/ PCs using SMB. (They don't have FireWire, so no target disk mode, and can't mount HFS+ natively anyway.) It's great for setting up appliances (i.e. Base Stations) or SSHing into a box who's GUI has locked (much less frequent of late, thankfully!).
Final Cut Pro can do something called OfflineRT. It lets you store and edit in smaller-than-DV. The page says you can put 24 hours in 48GB, which is WAY less than DV.
BIND is not activated by default on Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server.
So, unless you intentionally activate it, its really a non-issue. And if you know enough to activate it, then you probably know enough to be up to date.
Another post that should be "+5, Insightful" instead of "+5, Funny".
STEALING IS A BEHAVIOR PROBLEM, NOT A TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM!!!
This reminds me of when the 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade CDs (which Apple was handing out to anyone who asked) were cracked to make them full installers. Part of Apple's response: "We trust our users to do the right thing".
You said that mechanical mechanisms would survive neither the final environment nor transportation there. I can think of a few places which would stress drive mechanisms, and which would be difficult/impossible to reach for repairs. Ocean floor, Arctic or Antarctic, deep space,... The only one which would be hard on drives during transport would be a deep space launch (maybe? what about the drives they use on the shuttle/space station...?) Or if you were doing an airdrop or something.
But I can't think of which one of these would have a "commercial bent" (at least not with a good ROI for a one-shot deal).
<voice type="Dr. Evil"> Throw us a frickin' bone, here! <\voice>
You could write apps in Python, but they wouldn't be able to access the Cocoa frameworks. Now Python can be used to create apps that can have native GUIs, use Cocoa classes and collections, use OS X Services, etc.
Programing languages CAN be used to do (almost) anything, but they're not all DESIGNED to to everything. If you really want to, you can create a complete GUI app with just assembly language. But it would be infinitely easier to use a higher-level language like Python, Objective C, Java, etc. FORTRAN was designed for mathematically intense code, while Perl was designed for extraction and reporting; you wouldn't want to write (for example) engineering simulation code in Perl, or Slashcode in FORTRAN.
Speaking of Tarkin: I thought Ogg Tarkin was the name of the video codec they were working on? What happened to it? Is it out in a non-beta, non-developer version?
I think the 4GB refers to the maximum size of an individual file, not the whole filesystem. I'm pretty sure I've created single files on HFS+ that were larger than 4GB, but I couldn't copy them onto a FAT32 drive because they were too large.
It's been a while since I've tried this, though, so salt to taste.:-)
I would imagine that they ran the experiment repeatedly over multiple nights. Say the experimental group and the control group were each five people, and that they did 20 nights of testing. That's one hundred tests each. If 75 to 85 of the one hundred experimental trials were sucessful, and if only 15 of the placebo group worked...
Newer Base Stations (or maybe even newer versions of the firmware for all Base Stations) support LEAP. Also, IPSec is part of 10.2. I would imagine that, if it's not already in the GUI, making IPSec work with AirPort would be a matter of configuring some stuff in/etc or NetInfo.
Or not.;-) I'm just talking off the top of my head here.
[QUOTE] My preference would be to have the OS keep the filename in whatever form of caps/lowercase that I choose but to treat files in a case-insensitive manner. [/QUOTE]
HFS, the file system used for all versions of Mac OS, does this. I think this is generally referred to as "case perserving but insensitive". Mac OS versions from 8.6 on also support HFS+, which adds support for longer filenames and other stuff. Mac OS X can also use UFS, which is fully case-sensitive.
I use this in tcsh on my HFS+ formatted OS X boxen:
set complete=enhance
I tells tcsh to ignore the case of wat you started typing if it doesn't match.
EX:
[is-sa:~] rpokala% ls TheFindByContentFolder Desktop Library TheV olumeSettingsFolder
...
[is-sa:~] rpokala% cd the^[ESC]^[ESC] TheFindByContentFolder/ TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ [is-sa:~] rpokala% cd thev^[ESC]^[ESC] [is-sa:~] rpokala% cd TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
Suffice it to say, that line is at the very top of my.tcshrc.:-)
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I would like to suggest the book "The Worthing Saga" by Orson Scott Card. It covers this topic (money/power concentrated in the hands of the dead/suspended), and I found it to be a very interesting read.
-Ster
Have you by chance read "The Worthing Saga" by Orson Scott Card? Your last paragraph resonates with one of the main themes of the book. As the smart/rich/powerful spend more time in suspended animation, the pace of history slows down and the society starts to decay. The other main theme is about why pain and suffering are necessary, why it is wrong to shelter too much, etc. Like the rest of Card's work, I found the book quite interesting. -Ster
CUPS is part of Jaguar (Mac OS X v. 10.2), which has gone GM and will be released on August 24. They (correctly) decided the old print system in X, well, sucks and needs a total re-write.
They give back changes to GCC (PPC and AltiVec optimizations, etc), they've open-sourced the kernel (Darwin), they've open-sourced NetInfo (Open Directory), and they're contributing to ZeroConf (called "Rendezvous" in Jaguar).
They also open-sourced QuickTime Streaming Server (aka Darwin Streaming Server), which allows you to stream any media format recognized by QuickTime. Since it's a streaming server, not a player, it can (and does) run on Linux: There is a pre-compiled binary for RedHat 7.1, in addition to the source.
Apple gives back plenty to the Open Source community.
And yes, I'm quite sure that Apple uses GCC to build OS X. I know that their documentation for building the kernel uses GCC. And Mac OS X kernel extensions are created in Project Builder, which has GCC as the backend.
I've have a 5GB version for about six or seven months. For the first few, until I got myself a belt-clip for it, I carried the little guy in my hand most of the time.
I usually have decent coordination, but I guess there's something about having $500 of hardware in your hands that makes Nature want to mess with you. I somehow managed to trip two or three times while carrying my iPod, each while it was playing. There wasn't a skip, pop, distortion, or anything like that. When I plugged it into my iBook, it came up just fine, I could transfer files and music... In one case, I broke my fall with my hands, which put most of my body weight on one corner of the iPod. The result: a barely visible dent.
Overall, I've found my iPod to be VERY durable. The poor thing's been dropped, broken my fall, been sat on, been in my backback going to and from campus on the bus (where backpacks routinely get kicked, tripped over, etc.), and I recently even left it sitting in the glove compartment of my car for one of the hottest weekends in Houston. No problems, and no damage beyond some faint scratches. (They really should have made the thing BRUSHED aluminum! Scratches don't show up as well, and neither do fingerprints!)
Your mileage my vary, of course, but I don't consider my iPod to be very breakable.
-Ster
P.S. MacWorld did an iPod "Torture Test" in March 2002, and it held up quite well. Unfortuately, the article is not online, and I don't have that issue here right now. -S
I believe that this is the goal of Projects Chimera and Chim-Chim over at MozDev. Create a Gekko HTML rendering engine that can be made into an Interface Builder widget, and thus drag-drop-configure for modern, stable, standards-based HTML rendering.
I used webmail.mac.com just last night from a WinMe box (my roommate's, not mine!), and it worked just fine. I think it requires the iTools plugin (and hence a Mac) to change your password and some of the account options. For just regular send/receive, though, anything should work. And if it doesn't, then send in a bug report. It IS a beta, after all, and they are seeking feedback. -Ster
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1. I doubt that it costs more than a dollar (maybe two tops) at the volume that Apple runs.
2. Almost everyone I know who has a machine with this capability has used it at some point or another.
3. Nope. See (2). I've personally used it for large file transfers w/ PCs using SMB. (They don't have FireWire, so no target disk mode, and can't mount HFS+ natively anyway.) It's great for setting up appliances (i.e. Base Stations) or SSHing into a box who's GUI has locked (much less frequent of late, thankfully!).
-Ster
-Ster
Final Cut Pro can do something called OfflineRT. It lets you store and edit in smaller-than-DV. The page says you can put 24 hours in 48GB, which is WAY less than DV.
Hope that helps,
Ster
So, unless you intentionally activate it, its really a non-issue. And if you know enough to activate it, then you probably know enough to be up to date.
-Ster
Damn straight!
Another post that should be "+5, Insightful" instead of "+5, Funny".
STEALING IS A BEHAVIOR PROBLEM, NOT A TECHNOLOGY PROBLEM!!!
This reminds me of when the 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade CDs (which Apple was handing out to anyone who asked) were cracked to make them full installers. Part of Apple's response: "We trust our users to do the right thing".
-Ster
This was modded "+5, Funny", but I'm thinking it should be more like "+5, Insightful". Or possibly "+5, Prescient".
Reminds me a bit of "The Handmaid's Tale" by Atwood. Take the trend and follow it to it's "logical" conclusions. And shudder.
-Ster
That sounds pretty serious. Can you give us details?
OS version (w/ build number)
any services/daemons you had running
any apps you had running
etc.
I've never heard of this before, and since I'm going to be doing support for a moderately large OS X lab in the near future, I'd like to know more.
Thanks,
Ster
Come, now! Surely you can give us more than THAT!
... The only one which would be hard on drives during transport would be a deep space launch (maybe? what about the drives they use on the shuttle/space station...?) Or if you were doing an airdrop or something.
You said that mechanical mechanisms would survive neither the final environment nor transportation there. I can think of a few places which would stress drive mechanisms, and which would be difficult/impossible to reach for repairs. Ocean floor, Arctic or Antarctic, deep space,
But I can't think of which one of these would have a "commercial bent" (at least not with a good ROI for a one-shot deal).
<voice type="Dr. Evil">
Throw us a frickin' bone, here!
<\voice>
-Ster
You could write apps in Python, but they wouldn't be able to access the Cocoa frameworks. Now Python can be used to create apps that can have native GUIs, use Cocoa classes and collections, use OS X Services, etc.
Programing languages CAN be used to do (almost) anything, but they're not all DESIGNED to to everything. If you really want to, you can create a complete GUI app with just assembly language. But it would be infinitely easier to use a higher-level language like Python, Objective C, Java, etc. FORTRAN was designed for mathematically intense code, while Perl was designed for extraction and reporting; you wouldn't want to write (for example) engineering simulation code in Perl, or Slashcode in FORTRAN.
-Ster
Licensing 6 requires an annual fee, which is a percentage of the original purchase price. That's on top of the price for the original software.
Original 10-User Win2k Server: 1199
Three-year licensing agreement: (1199 * 29%) * 3 years = 1043.13
This is different: instead of one upgrade, you get all upgrades for the next three years at no additional cost.
Original 10-User OS X Server: 499
Three-year Upgrade plan: 499
-Ster
Speaking of Tarkin: I thought Ogg Tarkin was the name of the video codec they were working on? What happened to it? Is it out in a non-beta, non-developer version?
-Ster
Convenently enough, I just read somewhere (maybe here on /.?) that someone (ThinkGeek?) is selling what they claim to be is Dilithium Crystals.
:-)
Scotty! Geordi! O'Brien! Get over here!
(Left out Torres because, well, Voyager... shudder! And I haven't watched enough Enterprise to remember the engineer's name.)
-Ster
I think the 4GB refers to the maximum size of an individual file, not the whole filesystem. I'm pretty sure I've created single files on HFS+ that were larger than 4GB, but I couldn't copy them onto a FAT32 drive because they were too large.
:-)
It's been a while since I've tried this, though, so salt to taste.
-Ster
I would imagine that they ran the experiment repeatedly over multiple nights. Say the experimental group and the control group were each five people, and that they did 20 nights of testing. That's one hundred tests each. If 75 to 85 of the one hundred experimental trials were sucessful, and if only 15 of the placebo group worked...
-Ster
Newer Base Stations (or maybe even newer versions of the firmware for all Base Stations) support LEAP. Also, IPSec is part of 10.2. I would imagine that, if it's not already in the GUI, making IPSec work with AirPort would be a matter of configuring some stuff in /etc or NetInfo.
;-) I'm just talking off the top of my head here.
Or not.
-Ster
[QUOTE]
My preference would be to have the OS keep the filename in whatever form of caps/lowercase that I choose but to treat files in a case-insensitive manner.
[/QUOTE]
HFS, the file system used for all versions of Mac OS, does this. I think this is generally referred to as "case perserving but insensitive". Mac OS versions from 8.6 on also support HFS+, which adds support for longer filenames and other stuff. Mac OS X can also use UFS, which is fully case-sensitive.
-Ster
set complete=enhance
I tells tcsh to ignore the case of wat you started typing if it doesn't match.
EX:
Suffice it to say, that line is at the very top of my .tcshrc. :-)
-Ster
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I would like to suggest the book "The Worthing Saga" by Orson Scott Card. It covers this topic (money/power concentrated in the hands of the dead/suspended), and I found it to be a very interesting read. -Ster
Have you by chance read "The Worthing Saga" by Orson Scott Card? Your last paragraph resonates with one of the main themes of the book. As the smart/rich/powerful spend more time in suspended animation, the pace of history slows down and the society starts to decay.
The other main theme is about why pain and suffering are necessary, why it is wrong to shelter too much, etc.
Like the rest of Card's work, I found the book quite interesting.
-Ster
CUPS is part of Jaguar (Mac OS X v. 10.2), which has gone GM and will be released on August 24. They (correctly) decided the old print system in X, well, sucks and needs a total re-write.
:-)
So yeah, it'll happen in 20 days.
-Ster
They give back changes to GCC (PPC and AltiVec optimizations, etc), they've open-sourced the kernel (Darwin), they've open-sourced NetInfo (Open Directory), and they're contributing to ZeroConf (called "Rendezvous" in Jaguar).
They also open-sourced QuickTime Streaming Server (aka Darwin Streaming Server), which allows you to stream any media format recognized by QuickTime. Since it's a streaming server, not a player, it can (and does) run on Linux: There is a pre-compiled binary for RedHat 7.1, in addition to the source.
Apple gives back plenty to the Open Source community.
And yes, I'm quite sure that Apple uses GCC to build OS X. I know that their documentation for building the kernel uses GCC. And Mac OS X kernel extensions are created in Project Builder, which has GCC as the backend.
-Ster
Aaron,
;-)
I'm not sure whether I should laugh, or cry.
Probably both...
-Ster
I've have a 5GB version for about six or seven months. For the first few, until I got myself a belt-clip for it, I carried the little guy in my hand most of the time.
I usually have decent coordination, but I guess there's something about having $500 of hardware in your hands that makes Nature want to mess with you. I somehow managed to trip two or three times while carrying my iPod, each while it was playing. There wasn't a skip, pop, distortion, or anything like that. When I plugged it into my iBook, it came up just fine, I could transfer files and music... In one case, I broke my fall with my hands, which put most of my body weight on one corner of the iPod. The result: a barely visible dent.
Overall, I've found my iPod to be VERY durable. The poor thing's been dropped, broken my fall, been sat on, been in my backback going to and from campus on the bus (where backpacks routinely get kicked, tripped over, etc.), and I recently even left it sitting in the glove compartment of my car for one of the hottest weekends in Houston. No problems, and no damage beyond some faint scratches. (They really should have made the thing BRUSHED aluminum! Scratches don't show up as well, and neither do fingerprints!)
Your mileage my vary, of course, but I don't consider my iPod to be very breakable.
-Ster
P.S. MacWorld did an iPod "Torture Test" in March 2002, and it held up quite well. Unfortuately, the article is not online, and I don't have that issue here right now. -S
I believe that this is the goal of Projects Chimera and Chim-Chim over at MozDev. Create a Gekko HTML rendering engine that can be made into an Interface Builder widget, and thus drag-drop-configure for modern, stable, standards-based HTML rendering.
-Ster
I used webmail.mac.com just last night from a WinMe box (my roommate's, not mine!), and it worked just fine. I think it requires the iTools plugin (and hence a Mac) to change your password and some of the account options. For just regular send/receive, though, anything should work. And if it doesn't, then send in a bug report. It IS a beta, after all, and they are seeking feedback.
-Ster