why doesn't Compaq, Gateway or IBM ship with ad-aware, AVG(or norton, or mcafee...), a free firewall, etc. builtin? Even though the SP is suppose to do the firewall, these would be great features to have installed by default, and have them scheduled by default to run/update.... Why o why...
in that respect, i would concede the point, atleast in part. Yes, apple is mostly closed in their hardware, not entirely(yellowdog linux is the only vendow allowed to sell apple hardware without the macos installed, and i mean only as in only ones in the world) but pretty much. Their hardware itself is open though, i mean sata disks, ibm ppc(open standard) processor, standard ram, pci-x/pci cards... their monitor plugins are weird, but still standard(just not a widespread one, i believe). I mean even their firmware is open(unless i am mistaken, correct me if i am).
The individual parts, to my understanding, are very open(maybe not the most popular, but still an open standard) the way they are packaged together is closed to others. That has its good and bad sides.
In the workplace, is it really gonna be a problem? ram upgrades arn't an issue, and their would be minimal hardware changes, but overall the cubicle upgrades can still be performed.
It isn't completely open, but it does have open aspects, and that shouldn't be ignored.
I was agreeing with you all the way... until you started typing.
Apple's niche is built on being able to know what their hardware is, and better write software for it so that the computer, as a whole, is more fluid. How f-ing dare they! Linux can be built on a system where they have complete control of the hardware. Hell the lycoris guy just started a company to do just that. What is wrong with it? You mean it would be bad for Sun to sell an OS on a non-intel chip and write software that is tuned in such a way to take advantage of it? This was a great strategy for them, and it is for Apple too. So what is the problem.
They won't choose freebsd/linux for the same reason i prefer to use my mac. It is easier, in all aspects that i have encountered, to accomplish things on my mac (and thus save time, i/e money) than on my bsd server. It is just more effecient, for me atleast. And the cost of buying my mac, minus all the time and frustration i have gotten to avoid, has made the purchase a bargain.
Yes, because apple does give full documentation, for free, to it's users while also giving free development tools. Apple also doesn't include large ammounts of gpled software in it's client and server base install while also NOT supporting X11 compatability for linux apps. Furthermore, Apple sure as hell doesn't have an open source kernel to which you are free to contributed or fork.
Ya, them damn Mac people. Buy good hardware, get a beautiful GUI ontop of an open kernel using many open tools.
firewire. Lots of firewire deviced use the cable as a means to power themselves... Same for usb, but i believe firewire-powered devices are more common.
You are right, Real's music store would compete with iTMS, if Apple allied with Real. What you forget is that that isn't a problem. iTMS exists for the sole purpose of selling iPods, which it has done extremely well at, but the store itself about breaks even. Who cares if Real takes a small chunk in the overal music sale? It will only help to sell more ipods.
cache... smart cacheing systems... your local node, the nodes that route info, all over. A smart cacheing system will largely make up for lag on a very large mesh network....
Also, zerconf(apple's rondezvous) does a lot of thigns we should be using... auto-assigning ips, and discovery, easy setup...
IPv6, more addresses, better inherit security....
TCP: that competition that made TCP uber-fast by tweaking it's algorythm... fastTCP, that has articles on/. every once in a while....
The next version of TCP/IP and zeroconf to auto-assign node info.... god, this could be geek heaven.
Nope. Freenet is too slow at retrieving data and has too high a failure rate to be used for anything practically. Straight WASTE would be easier, and more practical.
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so we use encryption... public/private keys? Popular news editors, indy sites, mainstream sites have a file that you add to your 'buddy list' or 'subscription list' that contains the public key(and whatever other metadata needed). From there, the publishing system encrypts the given article using the authors private key, and then submits it. You only ever see articles that is decrypted correctly with your subscription list.
Authors, Indy or mainstream could grow a large reputation to be trusted(or the inverse, completely ignored). You could even have 3rd party unencrypted articles submitted by people trying to get a start into the network. The possibilities are endless.
since the Google cache was too much of a pain to try and get.... " Bypassing China's net firewall Numerous efforts are under way in the West to help Chinese web users get around China's censorship of the internet, reports technology correspondent Clark Boyd.
The internet is booming in China Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online.
He has been amazed by the rapidly growing number of people in China who can join him in cyberspace.
But he has also watched as Beijing tries to keep tighter and tighter control over those Chinese web users.
Mr Xia says he got fed up with the way the Chinese authorities control access to information on the web
"I started realising the media controls in China. And then I realised the internet presented a great opportunity to get around those media controls," he said.
In 2001, Mr Xia and some other US-based volunteers started Dynamic Internet Technology.
The company helps Chinese web users get around China's firewall.
Net bypass
The way the company does it is not new. It allows a user inside China to access the internet, not through a system controlled by the government, but through a proxy server.
"The basic method of these technologies is to find a helpful computer in the United States or Canada or Europe that is willing to act as an intermediary for requests," said Ben Edelman, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
What we're trying to build is a network of trust among people who know each other, rather than a large tech network that people can just tap into Nart Villeneuve, The Citizen Lab Mr Edelman cites the example of a website that China often censors, the BBC. The country will block the BBC's domain name - bbc.co.uk.
But, a friendly intermediary in, say, Canada, could help to bypass the controls.
"You might find a computer at the University of Toronto that is willing to get you the BBC, and provide it to you with a domain that says toronto.ca, it doesn't say BBC," he explained.
"China would never think Toronto would have the BBC, what an odd combination, and so you'd be able to get the BBC site that way."
It means the BBC site is accessible through a different web address. But how do you tell users in China how to find it?
Agile technology
One idea is to e-mail Chinese users directly. However there is a catch. The Chinese government has 30,000 people who routinely scan e-mails for this kind of information.
Officials keep a close eye on net activity Agents can could also pose as cyber-dissidents, and sign up for these e-mail lists.
Nart Villeneuve from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto says the trick is making sure that only people you know and trust get that e-mail with the proxy web address.
The Citizen Lab is working on a project called Psiphon. Mr Villieneuve says it relies on a human peer-to-peer network made up of say, the Chinese diaspora community.
"The idea is to get them to install this on their computer, and then deliver the location of that circumventor, to people in filtered countries by the means they know to be the most secure," said Mr Villeneuve.
"What we're trying to build is a network of trust among people who know each other, rather than a large tech network that people can just tap into."
Another idea is to present the Chinese authorities with so many proxy addresses, that they would never be able to block them all.
The US-based peacefire.org group has adopted this approach, saying its system is designed to be technologically agile.
"The idea behind the circumventor was to make it so easy to install and run while it's on your machine, that if one is blocked, you can always send an e-mail to your friend, and say hey, can you set one up here," said Bennett Haselton, Peacefire's webmaster.
Speed: BitTorrent speeds UP when more users request data, so I don't see why a news reader would be any different. Basicly I would see this as a kazaa meets google news... A topic/thread with comments(?) on many different news stories from many news sites broken down into categories, waited by your preferences(you like/. more so than OSNews) along with some duplicate checks on your software.
This is just as Googleable as cnn.com is, it is just that instead of going to CNN.com, you get it through an rss-style p2p feed and you get it from 100 news sites, not just CNN. Google could run their own client(or thousands of clients), keep a complete archive, and have THAT be searchable... It is like the Usenet archive, basicly.
I have high hopes for Mac OS XI (version 11) to have a macfs that is similar to this database/metadata/befs caliber file system... Not to troll, but honestly, there is something going on in Cupertino that is for whatever reason lacking in Redmond... Apple is a HUGELY smaller company, yet they have produced a lot of powerful features into a 'niche' OS that the MUCH larger Microsoft has been putting off since NT3....
1. reading from the disk to verify it works. 2. it would be auto maintained... how hard is it? auto-defrag, etc. checksum the software with a secure internet connection to a private website. 3. print it onto a cd label? 4. 1.5-3 minutes? not long at all. 5. already covered.
you are full of crap. Wait until you are in the position of training and/or getting replaced by someone who is less qualified overseas simply because the standards of living are low enough that the corporation can justify the loss in quality to the monetary savings. Yes, our home corps are throwing jobs to countries other than us for the sole purpose of saving a buck at the expense of experience and locality.
Why? Thin clients were only good to offload heavy processing from the local cpu to the mainframe/server cpu that was more powerful... With 2-3 GHZ cpus in every junk emachine on the market, there is zero reason for the thin client model. There are no workstation tasks that are not overly doable on a workstation pc's cpu. Their usefullness has long since faded.
or how about/Applications or/Apps ? Why these somewhat cryptic abbreviations when in today's situations, we can afford to have full words as our directory names..../usr/... is great and all, until the user finds out that usr doesn't stand for User, rather Universal System Resources... oh, ofcourse... that was obvious.
I don't understand this. On my mac laptop, nearly every application is in:/applications/PROGRAMNAME.app or/applications/PROGRAMNAME/PROGRAMNAME.app how is that any different than in/bin or some such.
I also have apps in my user directory...
~/applications/PROGRAMNAME.app
how are pathnames any longer? Also, for keeping track of where a executable file is given it could be in a sub dir and such. could the ststem keep a running xml file of all executable files? 1 global, for all users, appended to that would be 1 for the given user that is logged in. then, running an app would just be typing the name into the shell and it would check against that file and find the path... you would update the file every time a change was made in the appropriate folders.
no, apt is not easy. it can be, once you fiddle around with how it works, but to the new user, or to the smart user who think it isn't worth his time to fiddle with a program that should be easy, it is hard.
I am a yum fan(soley for the purpose that i think having to update a local cache is annoying). But that isn't perfect either.
Single directory applications are a GOOD THING. you can use apt and yum to download a single file, uncompress it, and run whatever scripts needed to add bookmarks and listings.
People, average people, people who don't want to waste their time, and people with the buying power to move linux into new markets understand and like single-directory installs. It makes sense, is easy to add, remove, switch and maintain.
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how about a palm pilot with wifi card?
go in and setups the preferences and remove all the unneeded software.
the recieved letters saying the game would ship 'real soon now'.
why doesn't Compaq, Gateway or IBM ship with ad-aware, AVG(or norton, or mcafee...), a free firewall, etc. builtin? Even though the SP is suppose to do the firewall, these would be great features to have installed by default, and have them scheduled by default to run/update.... Why o why...
"all your base are belong to us"
:)
quite the warning label.
in that respect, i would concede the point, atleast in part. Yes, apple is mostly closed in their hardware, not entirely(yellowdog linux is the only vendow allowed to sell apple hardware without the macos installed, and i mean only as in only ones in the world) but pretty much. Their hardware itself is open though, i mean sata disks, ibm ppc(open standard) processor, standard ram, pci-x/pci cards... their monitor plugins are weird, but still standard(just not a widespread one, i believe). I mean even their firmware is open(unless i am mistaken, correct me if i am).
The individual parts, to my understanding, are very open(maybe not the most popular, but still an open standard) the way they are packaged together is closed to others. That has its good and bad sides.
In the workplace, is it really gonna be a problem? ram upgrades arn't an issue, and their would be minimal hardware changes, but overall the cubicle upgrades can still be performed.
It isn't completely open, but it does have open aspects, and that shouldn't be ignored.
I was agreeing with you all the way... until you started typing.
Apple's niche is built on being able to know what their hardware is, and better write software for it so that the computer, as a whole, is more fluid. How f-ing dare they! Linux can be built on a system where they have complete control of the hardware. Hell the lycoris guy just started a company to do just that. What is wrong with it? You mean it would be bad for Sun to sell an OS on a non-intel chip and write software that is tuned in such a way to take advantage of it? This was a great strategy for them, and it is for Apple too. So what is the problem.
They won't choose freebsd/linux for the same reason i prefer to use my mac. It is easier, in all aspects that i have encountered, to accomplish things on my mac (and thus save time, i/e money) than on my bsd server. It is just more effecient, for me atleast. And the cost of buying my mac, minus all the time and frustration i have gotten to avoid, has made the purchase a bargain.
Yes, because apple does give full documentation, for free, to it's users while also giving free development tools. Apple also doesn't include large ammounts of gpled software in it's client and server base install while also NOT supporting X11 compatability for linux apps. Furthermore, Apple sure as hell doesn't have an open source kernel to which you are free to contributed or fork.
Ya, them damn Mac people. Buy good hardware, get a beautiful GUI ontop of an open kernel using many open tools.
no, but they could probably tell them to F off.
firewire. Lots of firewire deviced use the cable as a means to power themselves... Same for usb, but i believe firewire-powered devices are more common.
You are right, Real's music store would compete with iTMS, if Apple allied with Real. What you forget is that that isn't a problem. iTMS exists for the sole purpose of selling iPods, which it has done extremely well at, but the store itself about breaks even. Who cares if Real takes a small chunk in the overal music sale? It will only help to sell more ipods.
cache... smart cacheing systems... your local node, the nodes that route info, all over. A smart cacheing system will largely make up for lag on a very large mesh network....
/. every once in a while....
Also, zerconf(apple's rondezvous) does a lot of thigns we should be using... auto-assigning ips, and discovery, easy setup...
IPv6, more addresses, better inherit security....
TCP: that competition that made TCP uber-fast by tweaking it's algorythm... fastTCP, that has articles on
The next version of TCP/IP and zeroconf to auto-assign node info.... god, this could be geek heaven.
Nope. Freenet is too slow at retrieving data and has too high a failure rate to be used for anything practically. Straight WASTE would be easier, and more practical.
so we use encryption... public/private keys? Popular news editors, indy sites, mainstream sites have a file that you add to your 'buddy list' or 'subscription list' that contains the public key(and whatever other metadata needed). From there, the publishing system encrypts the given article using the authors private key, and then submits it. You only ever see articles that is decrypted correctly with your subscription list.
Authors, Indy or mainstream could grow a large reputation to be trusted(or the inverse, completely ignored). You could even have 3rd party unencrypted articles submitted by people trying to get a start into the network. The possibilities are endless.
since the Google cache was too much of a pain to try and get....
"
Bypassing China's net firewall
Numerous efforts are under way in the West to help Chinese web users get around China's censorship of the internet, reports technology correspondent Clark Boyd.
The internet is booming in China
Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online.
He has been amazed by the rapidly growing number of people in China who can join him in cyberspace.
But he has also watched as Beijing tries to keep tighter and tighter control over those Chinese web users.
Mr Xia says he got fed up with the way the Chinese authorities control access to information on the web
"I started realising the media controls in China. And then I realised the internet presented a great opportunity to get around those media controls," he said.
In 2001, Mr Xia and some other US-based volunteers started Dynamic Internet Technology.
The company helps Chinese web users get around China's firewall.
Net bypass
The way the company does it is not new. It allows a user inside China to access the internet, not through a system controlled by the government, but through a proxy server.
"The basic method of these technologies is to find a helpful computer in the United States or Canada or Europe that is willing to act as an intermediary for requests," said Ben Edelman, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
What we're trying to build is a network of trust among people who know each other, rather than a large tech network that people can just tap into
Nart Villeneuve, The Citizen Lab
Mr Edelman cites the example of a website that China often censors, the BBC. The country will block the BBC's domain name - bbc.co.uk.
But, a friendly intermediary in, say, Canada, could help to bypass the controls.
"You might find a computer at the University of Toronto that is willing to get you the BBC, and provide it to you with a domain that says toronto.ca, it doesn't say BBC," he explained.
"China would never think Toronto would have the BBC, what an odd combination, and so you'd be able to get the BBC site that way."
It means the BBC site is accessible through a different web address. But how do you tell users in China how to find it?
Agile technology
One idea is to e-mail Chinese users directly. However there is a catch. The Chinese government has 30,000 people who routinely scan e-mails for this kind of information.
Officials keep a close eye on net activity
Agents can could also pose as cyber-dissidents, and sign up for these e-mail lists.
Nart Villeneuve from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto says the trick is making sure that only people you know and trust get that e-mail with the proxy web address.
The Citizen Lab is working on a project called Psiphon. Mr Villieneuve says it relies on a human peer-to-peer network made up of say, the Chinese diaspora community.
"The idea is to get them to install this on their computer, and then deliver the location of that circumventor, to people in filtered countries by the means they know to be the most secure," said Mr Villeneuve.
"What we're trying to build is a network of trust among people who know each other, rather than a large tech network that people can just tap into."
Another idea is to present the Chinese authorities with so many proxy addresses, that they would never be able to block them all.
The US-based peacefire.org group has adopted this approach, saying its system is designed to be technologically agile.
"The idea behind the circumventor was to make it so easy to install and run while it's on your machine, that if one is blocked, you can always send an e-mail to your friend, and say hey, can you set one up here," said Bennett Haselton, Peacefire's webmaster.
"Instead of having a small number of sites that
Speed: BitTorrent speeds UP when more users request data, so I don't see why a news reader would be any different. Basicly I would see this as a kazaa meets google news... A topic/thread with comments(?) on many different news stories from many news sites broken down into categories, waited by your preferences(you like /. more so than OSNews) along with some duplicate checks on your software.
This is just as Googleable as cnn.com is, it is just that instead of going to CNN.com, you get it through an rss-style p2p feed and you get it from 100 news sites, not just CNN. Google could run their own client(or thousands of clients), keep a complete archive, and have THAT be searchable... It is like the Usenet archive, basicly.
they have tried with the XP search/find system... pain in the ass.
I have high hopes for Mac OS XI (version 11) to have a macfs that is similar to this database/metadata/befs caliber file system... Not to troll, but honestly, there is something going on in Cupertino that is for whatever reason lacking in Redmond... Apple is a HUGELY smaller company, yet they have produced a lot of powerful features into a 'niche' OS that the MUCH larger Microsoft has been putting off since NT3....
Then how do you account for SCO?
"For crying out loud, visit WinSuperSite and read up a little bit!"
But then I would have to kill myself... It just doesn't seem worth it.
1. reading from the disk to verify it works.
2. it would be auto maintained... how hard is it? auto-defrag, etc. checksum the software with a secure internet connection to a private website.
3. print it onto a cd label?
4. 1.5-3 minutes? not long at all.
5. already covered.
you are full of crap. Wait until you are in the position of training and/or getting replaced by someone who is less qualified overseas simply because the standards of living are low enough that the corporation can justify the loss in quality to the monetary savings. Yes, our home corps are throwing jobs to countries other than us for the sole purpose of saving a buck at the expense of experience and locality.
Why? Thin clients were only good to offload heavy processing from the local cpu to the mainframe/server cpu that was more powerful... With 2-3 GHZ cpus in every junk emachine on the market, there is zero reason for the thin client model. There are no workstation tasks that are not overly doable on a workstation pc's cpu. Their usefullness has long since faded.
or how about /Applications or /Apps ? Why these somewhat cryptic abbreviations when in today's situations, we can afford to have full words as our directory names.... /usr/... is great and all, until the user finds out that usr doesn't stand for User, rather Universal System Resources... oh, ofcourse... that was obvious.
I don't understand this. On my mac laptop, nearly every application is in: /applications/PROGRAMNAME.app /applications/PROGRAMNAME/PROGRAMNAME.app /bin or some such.
or
how is that any different than in
I also have apps in my user directory...
~/applications/PROGRAMNAME.app
how are pathnames any longer? Also, for keeping track of where a executable file is given it could be in a sub dir and such. could the ststem keep a running xml file of all executable files? 1 global, for all users, appended to that would be 1 for the given user that is logged in. then, running an app would just be typing the name into the shell and it would check against that file and find the path... you would update the file every time a change was made in the appropriate folders.
no, apt is not easy. it can be, once you fiddle around with how it works, but to the new user, or to the smart user who think it isn't worth his time to fiddle with a program that should be easy, it is hard.
I am a yum fan(soley for the purpose that i think having to update a local cache is annoying). But that isn't perfect either.
Single directory applications are a GOOD THING. you can use apt and yum to download a single file, uncompress it, and run whatever scripts needed to add bookmarks and listings.
People, average people, people who don't want to waste their time, and people with the buying power to move linux into new markets understand and like single-directory installs. It makes sense, is easy to add, remove, switch and maintain.