Linksys definitely has a problem if rogue clients can crash their APs, but Mac OS X boxes really do do some weird wifi stuff. Quite often, when my airport card is on, linux users nearby who are on their consoles see a constant stream of kernel messages about "undersized frames". If I turn off my airport, it stops. I've seen a few macs do this, with a few different linux boxes. The common factor between the linux boxes is that they all were running (or had recently been running) in RF_MON mode. In any case, it only happens sometimes, and it's definitely caused by the presence of airport-enabled macs. Quite strange.
There are a lot of oddities I'm really hoping this update will fix. Among them, the sometimes-forgetting to ask for my encrypted disk password upon waking from sleep: If it doesn't ask, the disk just hangs, and the machine has to be rebooted. I really hope thats fixed. Currently I have to remember to hdiutil detach -force disk1 (or whatever df shows the volume mounted as) before I close the lid, if I don't want to risk crashing.
I can't seem to find the standalone combo update for download yet. The update is in Software Update, but I usually like to download the 10.2.x combo updater, so I can keep it with my 10.2 disks for later use. Tried guessing links from previous updates, but no luck. Anybody got a link to the combo update yet?
Just to mix it up more, I think it would be awesome to see a Gecko-based drop in replacement for Apple's WebCore framework. It appears Safari is modular enough that such a thing should be feasible, though I really don't know how much work it would entail. But if such a thing were to come about, Camino could potentially use it too... or even use the original khtml WebCore!
Imagine, being able to use either browser with either engine. Wouldn't that rock?
It should be noted though that this is solely a user's perspective; I really don't know how feasible it would actually be, and I don't have the time or skill to do it myself. But it's ok to dream, isn't it?
A tool (Apple's software) that can be used for presenting performance metrics versus another product (Adobe's) could be considered a benchmarking tool. The point being that Apple's software is probably a little more tailored to OSX than Adobe's dual-platform software.
Essentially, what's the point of comparing metrics of video processing programs if Adobe's isn't crafted specifically for the nuances of OSX, and Apple's is? It's apples and oranges.
It's not like Apple is hiding some secret tricks to keep Adobe's software performing slower. Adobe has been making software for the Mac forever, and they have as much access to developer information as any other software company (probably more even). The article even says that apple is working closely with them to improve performance!
I'd like to know what "nuances" you're talking about that Adobe hasn't had a chance to tailor their software too. AltiVec optimized code is a big one, but Adobe was one of the first developers to take advantage of that (in Photoshop at least...).
By your reasoning, cross-platform software titles would always be inferior to single-platform titles. And thats ridiculous.
Apple points out that its own products outperform After Effects in similar tests.
Nathan Ramella:Well.. duh. Now show me the Apple benchmarking tool written by Apple that'll exersize Apple operating system tricks and I'm sold! Oh wait, you just did.
When they refer to "their own products", they're taking about their video production software that competes with Adobe, not their own "benchmarking tool".
The fact that apple is making such competing software in the first place is probably why Adobe would be willing backstab them like that...
ELCarlsson:
I'm in the US Air Force stationed Germany at work right now and we've been watching CNN non-stop all night. There is definatly a nervous tension in the air right now. But we're ready. I may not totally agree with Bush but I'll do the job I was trained to do.
I just watched Donald R's speech on cnn. He said to iraqi soldiers (really, to the american public, as i doubt many iraqis were watching...) that they may be ordered by saddam to do heinous things, and that no matter what, they must not follow those orders. He said, the excuse "I was just following orders" will not be accepted. He said any (of the iraqis) who commit war crimes will be prosecuted for them, and those who throw down their arms and surrender will not be harmed.
It's lucky for you that you're on the side that isn't accountable for it's actions. It's lucky for you that you happen to live in a time when killing for your government makes you an "honorable" person instead of a murderer. It's lucky for you that Americans can't possibly be convicted of war crimes. It's lucky for you, but not so much lucky for the helpless people who's blood is on your hands.
I like to get my unbiased news from a source I can trust, like My Local ABC Affiliate. They break the issue down for me in a simple way I can understand:
'That bad man is threatening our safety and so our good president [who is the paternal image for our country], is going to protect us," she added. ... By assuring children that the war is not happening in their neighborhood, parents can help them feel safe. ...
Whether they disagree with it or not, if war proves to be imminent, they [parents] should be sure to explain there is a positive side to the war effort.
I especially like how ABC presents the war in the TV-special commercial format we're all familiar with. Why, they've even got a banner ad cooked up for this sucker already! I love those guys!
why not just use a standard filesystem (msdos/vfat) and leave an encrypted zip or gpg encrypted tar file in the root directory? How is this any less secure?
Because modifying and re-encrypting your data that way isn't automatic. I can't speak for the person who submitted the question, but I can tell you why I use encrypted disks in Mac OS X: My home directory is filled with symlinks..ssh,.gnupg,.fetchmailrc, etc... All of these things are links to a given directory. Like so:
Since all the symlinks are pointing to another symlink which itself points to the actual mount point of the encrypted volume, I can easily swap in a different volume there, to use the encrypted dmg on my usb thumb drive, or on a remote webdav volume, or whatever. And I have a lot more than just ssh and gnupg stored on there, stuff like bookmarks and cookies for various browsers, my actual apple Keychain files, mail, etc... All of this can my symlinked to an encrypted volume. It's much more convienent than encrypting your whole home directory (as has been discussed on slashdot previously) because you don't need another account to mount and unmount the image. And without the dmg mounted, you still have access to the unencrypted parts of your user account (ie I don't keep my mailing list directories on there, but I do keep my inbox and personal mail there).
Using.tgz.gpg files, something I've also played with, simply cannot provide this kind of functionality.
At first, I was regularly copying the entire.dmg file onto my slow-as-all-fuck thumbdrive, but then I got wise and made a second image there of the same size and use a script to mount both images, rsync, and unmount (so I run my script, insert the usb thumb drive, wait, and remove it. Rsync makes the backup quite fast, compared with copying the entire dmg every time). Beause of all this, creating an account on a new mac and getting my personal settings is as simple as plugging in the thumbdrive and running a (different) script to create the symlinks. On machines that aren't mine, the ~/.encrypted symlink just points to the mount point of the dmg on the usb key drive though, instead of a local copy.
FWIW, I'm planning on writing a howto describing how I use crypto in OS X, covering topics from ssh (keys, tunnels, socks proxy, scp) to gpg to Apple's AES dmg files (and my backup script). Hopefully I'll find the time soon, and post it on my website. If anyone has any input on this subject, I'm available on aim and would be interested in hearing pre-feedback. I'd really like to hear an answer to the Multi-Platform part of the submitters question, as currently my aes dmg encrypted data is only available in mac os x.
Also, TextWrangler != BBEdit Lite. Different things. BBEdit Lite had a lot of the software development features of BBEdit. TextWrangler doesn't have those...
I haven't used TextWrangler myself yet, but from reading this I think you're mistaken.
"TextWrangler 1.0: All the functionality of BBEdit Lite, plus..."
I'm bitter because BBEdit 6.5 came out as a for-pay upgrade ($19 upgrade price) right after I bought 6.0. I've been putting off buying 6.5, and now I'm glad I did, because I see 7.0 is out already. I think asking customers to pay for updates more than once a year is bad form. Then again, bare bones is one of the few commercial software companies who's software I'm willing to pay for at all (yarr, I used to be a pirate, but now I'm just using more Free software). Since TextWrangler is essentially them saying "our previously free lite editor now costs money", I can't say this betters my opinion of bare bones any:(
It's for real. I'm writing this in it now. I'm a bit paranoid, so I scoured around for multiple coppies before running anything. I've gotten it from all three of these urls:
and they all had the same md5sum (eca1fe732e242786744edf5e434b2330). The disk image file itself has an apple liscense, so I think this really is an official apple beta.
Tabs are off by default, but can be enabled in the Debug menu. Once enabled, cmd-T makes a new tab, as does cmd-clicking on a link. I'm a big fan of chimera's cmd-[ and cmd-] for moving between tabs; mozilla's lack of support for those shortcuts has always bugged me. Safari v62 doesn't use those keys, but it does let you move between tabs with cmd-left or cmd-right (arrow keys). Yay safari! I wonder when we'll see the real release of this beta...
It lookslikeQt does native widgets everywhere. I haven't coded with it, but source compatibility bewteen Windows, OS X, X11, and Qt/Embedded seems pretty promising. But personally, I'm still using the tried and true cross platform GUI toolkit known as HTML:)
Guess what, troll? Membership is free. You can pay for membership too but there is a free developer program that you can join, for free, even, and download the developer CD, for free. Like without paying. Free as in beer. Free as in love. Free as a bird. Free as the word between "fart" and "fuck" in the dictionary.
Sure, it's free as in beer. It's free as in newyorktimes.com. It's not free as in speech, or free as in linux. In order to even view the source code, or get apple's binaries of gcc, you have to sign up and give them your personal info (which, of course, you can lie about, but you shouldn't have to!). And in the signup process you have to agree to all kinds of legal BS in addition to the already restrictive Apple Public Source license. And even after all that, you're of course not allowed to redistribute it (if I'm wrong here please point me to a non-apple mirror of these new dev tools and I'll stand corrected).
So sure, you can make up fake info for your account, and ignore all the legal blather. You can also get a pirated copy of Jaguar or WinXP pretty easily for no more cost than a linux ISO. That doesn't make them free. Some of us still have principals, and to us, content on the Apple Developer site is not Free.
Now I'm off to download my new non-free dev tools from Apple.com, where my zipcode is 90210 and my email address is @yahoo.com:)
I change locations a lot. I use entourage and although I use the location manager which handles the network changes fine , I have to change smtp servers manually to send mail depending on where I am. I haven't found a way around this with switching locations. Does this suggestion help solve my problem?
Can you ssh to a server near any of your smtp servers? If so, that would be the ideal method. All my accounts use localhost:2525 as the smtp server, and I have an ssh command something like ssh user@sshhost -C -v -L 2525:smtphost:25 -L 1101:pophost:110 to tunnel everything. If your ssh host does SSH2 (protocol version two, not version two of the software) you can use the -f -N options to background it, which makes it easy to start and stop from a location-triggered shell script. (and naturally, you'll want to use localhost:1101 as your pop server now, so that too will be encrypted)
Doing unencrypted pop and smtp from a laptop is never a good idea. Even if you're careful, eventually you'll probably leave your mail client open while you use your machine within range of some random wireless network, and then you'll be sending your cleartext password over not just the internet but also the public airwaves...
In addition to the security, another benefit to using ssh tunnels for pop and smtp is that your mail client can only get packets out to the internet when the ssh tunnel is up. It doesn't know the name of the actual internet servers, and if you killall ssh, connections to localhost2525 and localhost:1101 are simply refused and you've made no noise at all on the network. And another benefit is that you can have a local port open from behind any firewall (ie, use -R 8080:localhost:80 in your ssh command and http://sshhost.yourisp.net:8080/ will have your local webserver on it). I often use this for testing websites from behind the firewall at work.
Ok, I could go on more, but the point here is that ssh is damn cool.
Don't mod the d*mn thing in the first place...Why do people do stuff like that? Xbox is tehe best anyway so why bother moding it??? ... That's what I'm saying, if you mod it, it's your own fault. ... well mod chips cost 500 dollars or so to get installed with all the games you get with it, if you have that much money i bet you have enough to pay for a second xbox to play on live with, you just need to rebuy the games that are live compatable. I heard that mod games cost 5 bucks a piece and you get all the old arcade games and nintendo and snes and all that with a bigger hard drive for 500 dollars ... Ms is the sh*t i love you ms.... die faggots who like to cheat bill gates out of his money... lol actually bill gates you dont need more money. GIVE ME IT!! ... Personally i'm glad they're banning mod chips. I don't really care if people use the mod chip to do Linux or development or pirate games. But I persoanlly bought an xbox for online gaming becaue i'm sick of playing against cheaters on the PC. So anything MS is going to do to eliminate cheaters is ok with me. ... Hehe, cheaters and hackers get the beat down. Why should we care if modders can't play.
So, see? People love it! Xbox fans don't want to make full use of their hardware!
/sarcasm
It's obvious that microsoft wouldn't ever run an unmoderated message board, but that thread is so uniformly in support of banning modd'ed xboxes that I suspect the whole thing is faked. Kind of funny to think about microsoft paying people to sit around writing stuff like "Xbox is tehe best anyway so why bother moding it??" and "well mod chips cost 500 dollars". I'm just waiting to see someone with a PhotoCD stock image for their user photo...
If you want to tie events to changes in your location, ie when you select something different from AppleMenu->Location->..., have a look in /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/ Resources/ (removing the slashcode-added space...) XML files and shell scripts powering the mac location manager... never thought I'd see the day:)
I knew that name sounded familiar... Oh, thats it! He's the director of the I.A.O., or Information Awareness Office, the agency with the scariest name/logo combination in the entire pentagon! (shouldn't the be a link to the IAO along with this story? *ahem* update:)
Still, wouldn't it be incredibly cool if Eolas could actually pull it off? Mike Doyle would be remembered as the hero of the entire computer industry...
Uh, no.
Mike Doyle is the enemy. Software patents are so often abused, and everyone on slashdot knows it... How could anyone possibly view this as a positive thing?! If he wins this, Opera and Netscape will have to pay him too. Even if he makes exceptions for free browsers (something I haven't heard mentioned yet) it's still a dirty rotten evil software patent. "Bi-Directional communication with a webserver" could well even cover javascript-RPC tricks. Do I have to may Mike Doyle if I code something like that?
Have you gotten that to work though? Just pointing the AIM client at localhost and tunneling port 5190 sure doesn't seem to work... I'll have to give it another shot with the proxy settings. Currently I'm quite happy running naim on a remote system with screen installed. Always on, always encrypted, and to my immediate upstream all they see is the same ssh connection thats already carrying my mail tunnels. If you tweak the colors it's almost usable in Terminal.app, but I usually run it in Eterm.
I can't believe Apple didn't enable this on the iBooks that support it.
It's not that they didn't enable it, its that they went out of their way to disable it. ATI's chipset is perfectly capable, but this is one of those premium features your not supposed to get without a ti-book. The forbidden fruit, so to speak.
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Note: After running 10.2.5 for a couple days, I'm sad to say that the encrypted disk issue has not been fixed :(
Right after I posted that, I reloaded apple's downloads page for the 50th time, and it just showed up.
The combo updater is here. Yay.
Linksys definitely has a problem if rogue clients can crash their APs, but Mac OS X boxes really do do some weird wifi stuff. Quite often, when my airport card is on, linux users nearby who are on their consoles see a constant stream of kernel messages about "undersized frames". If I turn off my airport, it stops. I've seen a few macs do this, with a few different linux boxes. The common factor between the linux boxes is that they all were running (or had recently been running) in RF_MON mode. In any case, it only happens sometimes, and it's definitely caused by the presence of airport-enabled macs. Quite strange.
There are a lot of oddities I'm really hoping this update will fix. Among them, the sometimes-forgetting to ask for my encrypted disk password upon waking from sleep: If it doesn't ask, the disk just hangs, and the machine has to be rebooted. I really hope thats fixed. Currently I have to remember to hdiutil detach -force disk1 (or whatever df shows the volume mounted as) before I close the lid, if I don't want to risk crashing.
I can't seem to find the standalone combo update for download yet. The update is in Software Update, but I usually like to download the 10.2.x combo updater, so I can keep it with my 10.2 disks for later use. Tried guessing links from previous updates, but no luck. Anybody got a link to the combo update yet?
Just to mix it up more, I think it would be awesome to see a Gecko-based drop in replacement for Apple's WebCore framework. It appears Safari is modular enough that such a thing should be feasible, though I really don't know how much work it would entail. But if such a thing were to come about, Camino could potentially use it too... or even use the original khtml WebCore!
Imagine, being able to use either browser with either engine. Wouldn't that rock?
It should be noted though that this is solely a user's perspective; I really don't know how feasible it would actually be, and I don't have the time or skill to do it myself. But it's ok to dream, isn't it?
I'd like to know what "nuances" you're talking about that Adobe hasn't had a chance to tailor their software too. AltiVec optimized code is a big one, but Adobe was one of the first developers to take advantage of that (in Photoshop at least...).
By your reasoning, cross-platform software titles would always be inferior to single-platform titles. And thats ridiculous.
The fact that apple is making such competing software in the first place is probably why Adobe would be willing backstab them like that...
Ignorance is knowledge.
War is Peace. (...actual screenshot of google news, on Feb 26th 2003...)
It's lucky for you that you're on the side that isn't accountable for it's actions. It's lucky for you that you happen to live in a time when killing for your government makes you an "honorable" person instead of a murderer. It's lucky for you that Americans can't possibly be convicted of war crimes. It's lucky for you, but not so much lucky for the helpless people who's blood is on your hands.
(Remember, it's never to late to stop killing.)
Good idea. Lets ask imaginary beings to "bless" the men and women who have willfully chosen to leave their country, enter another, and kill people.
It's just the war show, a show like any other. Read about how Clear Channel is gearing up for it. Sure, sex sells, but nothing like how war does.
Because GPG isn't a standard on OS X or Windows
It may not come preinstalled with either, but it does work fine in both....
Because modifying and re-encrypting your data that way isn't automatic. I can't speak for the person who submitted the question, but I can tell you why I use encrypted disks in Mac OS X: My home directory is filled with symlinks.
Using
At first, I was regularly copying the entire
FWIW, I'm planning on writing a howto describing how I use crypto in OS X, covering topics from ssh (keys, tunnels, socks proxy, scp) to gpg to Apple's AES dmg files (and my backup script). Hopefully I'll find the time soon, and post it on my website. If anyone has any input on this subject, I'm available on aim and would be interested in hearing pre-feedback. I'd really like to hear an answer to the Multi-Platform part of the submitters question, as currently my aes dmg encrypted data is only available in mac os x.
"TextWrangler 1.0: All the functionality of BBEdit Lite, plus..."
I'm bitter because BBEdit 6.5 came out as a for-pay upgrade ($19 upgrade price) right after I bought 6.0. I've been putting off buying 6.5, and now I'm glad I did, because I see 7.0 is out already. I think asking customers to pay for updates more than once a year is bad form. Then again, bare bones is one of the few commercial software companies who's software I'm willing to pay for at all (yarr, I used to be a pirate, but now I'm just using more Free software). Since TextWrangler is essentially them saying "our previously free lite editor now costs money", I can't say this betters my opinion of bare bones any
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Tabs are off by default, but can be enabled in the Debug menu. Once enabled, cmd-T makes a new tab, as does cmd-clicking on a link. I'm a big fan of chimera's cmd-[ and cmd-] for moving between tabs; mozilla's lack of support for those shortcuts has always bugged me. Safari v62 doesn't use those keys, but it does let you move between tabs with cmd-left or cmd-right (arrow keys). Yay safari! I wonder when we'll see the real release of this beta...
It looks like Qt does native widgets everywhere. I haven't coded with it, but source compatibility bewteen Windows, OS X, X11, and Qt/Embedded seems pretty promising. But personally, I'm still using the tried and true cross platform GUI toolkit known as HTML :)
Guess what, troll? Membership is free. You can pay for membership too but there is a free developer program that you can join, for free, even, and download the developer CD, for free. Like without paying. Free as in beer. Free as in love. Free as a bird. Free as the word between "fart" and "fuck" in the dictionary.
:)
Sure, it's free as in beer. It's free as in newyorktimes.com. It's not free as in speech, or free as in linux. In order to even view the source code, or get apple's binaries of gcc, you have to sign up and give them your personal info (which, of course, you can lie about, but you shouldn't have to!). And in the signup process you have to agree to all kinds of legal BS in addition to the already restrictive Apple Public Source license. And even after all that, you're of course not allowed to redistribute it (if I'm wrong here please point me to a non-apple mirror of these new dev tools and I'll stand corrected).
So sure, you can make up fake info for your account, and ignore all the legal blather. You can also get a pirated copy of Jaguar or WinXP pretty easily for no more cost than a linux ISO. That doesn't make them free. Some of us still have principals, and to us, content on the Apple Developer site is not Free.
Now I'm off to download my new non-free dev tools from Apple.com, where my zipcode is 90210 and my email address is @yahoo.com
If so, that would be the ideal method. All my accounts use localhost:2525 as the smtp server, and I have an ssh command something like ssh user@sshhost -C -v -L 2525:smtphost:25 -L 1101:pophost:110 to tunnel everything. If your ssh host does SSH2 (protocol version two, not version two of the software) you can use the -f -N options to background it, which makes it easy to start and stop from a location-triggered shell script. (and naturally, you'll want to use localhost:1101 as your pop server now, so that too will be encrypted)
Doing unencrypted pop and smtp from a laptop is never a good idea. Even if you're careful, eventually you'll probably leave your mail client open while you use your machine within range of some random wireless network, and then you'll be sending your cleartext password over not just the internet but also the public airwaves...
In addition to the security, another benefit to using ssh tunnels for pop and smtp is that your mail client can only get packets out to the internet when the ssh tunnel is up. It doesn't know the name of the actual internet servers, and if you killall ssh, connections to localhost2525 and localhost:1101 are simply refused and you've made no noise at all on the network. And another benefit is that you can have a local port open from behind any firewall (ie, use -R 8080:localhost:80 in your ssh command and http://sshhost.yourisp.net:8080/ will have your local webserver on it). I often use this for testing websites from behind the firewall at work.
Ok, I could go on more, but the point here is that ssh is damn cool.
/sarcasm
It's obvious that microsoft wouldn't ever run an unmoderated message board, but that thread is so uniformly in support of banning modd'ed xboxes that I suspect the whole thing is faked. Kind of funny to think about microsoft paying people to sit around writing stuff like "Xbox is tehe best anyway so why bother moding it??" and "well mod chips cost 500 dollars". I'm just waiting to see someone with a PhotoCD stock image for their user photo...
If you want to tie events to changes in your location, ie when you select something different from AppleMenu->Location->..., have a look in /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/ Resources/ (removing the slashcode-added space...) :)
XML files and shell scripts powering the mac location manager... never thought I'd see the day
I knew that name sounded familiar... Oh, thats it! He's the director of the I.A.O., or Information Awareness Office, the agency with the scariest name/logo combination in the entire pentagon! (shouldn't the be a link to the IAO along with this story? *ahem* update:)
Mike Doyle is the enemy. Software patents are so often abused, and everyone on slashdot knows it... How could anyone possibly view this as a positive thing?! If he wins this, Opera and Netscape will have to pay him too. Even if he makes exceptions for free browsers (something I haven't heard mentioned yet) it's still a dirty rotten evil software patent. "Bi-Directional communication with a webserver" could well even cover javascript-RPC tricks. Do I have to may Mike Doyle if I code something like that?
Have you gotten that to work though? Just pointing the AIM client at localhost and tunneling port 5190 sure doesn't seem to work... I'll have to give it another shot with the proxy settings. Currently I'm quite happy running naim on a remote system with screen installed. Always on, always encrypted, and to my immediate upstream all they see is the same ssh connection thats already carrying my mail tunnels. If you tweak the colors it's almost usable in Terminal.app, but I usually run it in Eterm.
I can't believe Apple didn't enable this on the iBooks that support it.
It's not that they didn't enable it, its that they went out of their way to disable it. ATI's chipset is perfectly capable, but this is one of those premium features your not supposed to get without a ti-book. The forbidden fruit, so to speak.