With all these updates, 10.3.2, bug fixes, program updates like xcode 1.1 and final cut pro... what will tehy have left for MacWorld? you would think that the program updates and what not would have been a nice debut on stage with Jobs on the keynotw, but since they release them 3 weeks early, what will the Keynote debut, if anything?
well in freenet(and i thought in MUTE too, but maybe not) the fact that the informationis encrypted and uses middle men tries to fix this...
A Freenet Example:
you request song.mp3, which happens to be on node A... to get that file, you talk with nodes b, who talks to C who talks to A, who returns song.mp3 in little chunks in 'reverse-search order'(that is a-> c-> b-> you, the reverse of how you found it). Sine the info in encrypted, nodes B and C don't know what they are passing, and they way it is set up, is that you can't tell if node B is the originator of the file, or just someone passing it along.
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Freenet Fork project, version 3 (and functional!)
yes but Linus is the 'Benevolent Dictator'... the old leader with a cigar in his mouth handing out bananas to the starving masses, as i think he himself described that term.
why have kernel hackers look at windows code for user interfaces? Sounds like a kde/gnome job for me, plus, the consistent feel of any GUI is a strong, logical, good set of UI Guidelines that are enforced and followed.
na, all you need to do now is to make each car not only have a reciever antenna, but also a transiever. THEN it is a simple(cough) matter of making a distributed p2p car-network out their that uses TCP/IP rather than radio broadcast... Next time you are stuck in traffic you could surf the web, the more the traffic, the bigger the way*.
*Assuming each car had some webcache system and/or hosted some type of information.
ironicly, for a long while Windows took care of the need of making you WRITE DOWN your password and leave it in plain site: they let you hit CANCEL and the system would login for you!
didn't realize this until after posting, but the main server for freenet is the lead developer's(a real nice guy, btw) 486 that is also his cvs server... so please, go easy on him (we are looking to get a couple mirrors up, since it is getting neat a VERY (mainstream)usable state).:)
or you could take it a step further: buy a game console. REAL People realize thate GAME CONSOLES are stronger in the area of.... games. Windows has a larger library than linux, but the xbox, ps2, or gamecube(all work fine, i prefer my gamecube) are going to play those games better. Use a windows box where it is *better*, and linux box where it is *better* and a game console where it is *better*. it makes perfect sense.
Slighty off-topic, but i can't resist the urge to help get the word out. For those anonymous types among us, who have something to say without wanting to be held accountable for what they say, or for those interested in the project, the Freenet Fork is an up and coming project with potential...
For EVERYONE who has used freenet in the last 2 months, and have either gave up, or gotten fed up with it, i would ask you try this out. It is a fork of freenet based off the Prodnet build of a while back... It is reaching it's 3rd release, and is functioning quite well(yes, it actually works!). Join IIP's #freenetfork channel to ask questions.
NOTE: for those serious about their anonymity, be warned that the network is small at the moment, with a larger userbase anonymity scales, but be careful what you put on their early on.
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i have to post in agreement to a lot of your comments... most notably when you talked about:
"I am very glad Saddam is found. One less asshole in the world to worry about. However... The only reason the UN went along with this little war is because US intelligence lied about WMD and thus believed that they posed a serious threat to neighboring nations. No WMD = unjustified war = unjustified deaths on both sides"
This is a point that i have taken since the beginning, while everyone seems to a 100% for or againt, my opinion is in the middle.
Against: Crappy(lied about) reasons for going to war, no WMD (yet) though i will not be surprised if found, and the blatant disregard of the UN....
FOR: Horrible, murderous dictator is taken out of power... He is not the only one in the world, but 1 less is only a Good Thing (TM)... Yes, China is evil, Iran, Pakistan, Bin Laden...
America is two-faced about its friends(china, iran) but nonetheless, we took a bad person who has done HORRIBLE things out of power.
for your win2k/XP machines, and this is something i have wanted to try, maybe a boches + freedos combo? If it is a newer machine, the overhead of boches might be nulled by the many times faster processor than what the dos games were originally played on (pentium 1,s 486s, etc).
Anyway, that is one of my projects, to see if that would actually work. Just need to get around and do it.
it would be interesting to find out how well FreeDOS would handle all of that software. I assume you had to buy licenses from someone, for every embedded product and what not.
who was there with a legit music buying service BEFORE iTMS? nobody. They were first, and they did it better than any of the attempts that have happened since(buymusic, napster, etc).
The iPod is a solid machine, with great reviews from just about everyone, regardless of mac/pc tastes.
the albums on the iTMS are on par or cheaper than the 'real thing', AND you can burn them as many times as you want. It is easy, hassle free, and the DRM is extremely minimal. Nothing is perfect, so quit bitching.
would be cool. but the problem is giving patents to obvious things, or things that shouldn't be patented or non original work that gets patented(because it hasn't applied for a patent, which is prior art is check with)... Open patents could be abused just as easily as closed patents... the problem is still gonna be that a patent is too easily given to the wrong people.
"The OS X vulnerability in the article isn't even a remote vulnerability. You need access to the machine's local network to pull at off, and you need to do it when the machine boots."
to further that point, it should be known that if an attacker can do this(get physical access to a machine, or setup/hijack a machine on the network to then try and attack another computer) you are fscked anyway. windows, linux, macos. if they have physical access to your machine, it just doesn't matter, you are screwed.
"This is why Apple is still configuring the system insecure by default"
Really? I thought apple turned off all uneeded services by default, such as ssh and root. I thought that one of the reasons this 'whole' was not uber-critical was because these services WERE turned off by default, and thus have a much more secure system.
In actuality, Apple does do a pretty good job of turning of things that arn't needed, and that along with security settings in Apple's Mail and other programs, the security level of Mac osX is pretty darn high, compared to others..
on a final note, if an attacker can get away with running a dhcp server on your network by hijacking a computer on that network(or plugging his own pc in and running it from there), you have bigger problems then the default settings Apple gave you... secondly, if an attacker has physical access to a machine, you are screwed, plain and simple.
well, can't speak for linux, but mac os x has MANY unneeded(if not all) services turned off by default. ssh, remote login, root, etc. Things aren't perfect, hell, even openbsd can't say 'no remote root exploit since the dawn of man', because they too have had the extremely occasional hole.
Mac isn't perfect, but it is, by default, pretty damn close for a computer that is built around the idea of ease of use and multimedia hub-ness.
"We use a single 120 gig hard drive for all our editing."
Um... a single drive keeps the contents of your ENTIRE business at any given time?
1. raid5 a few drives together, you get >= the hdd space, plus, you have redundency!
2. dvd burner/tape backup that drive, and store offsite(in a corner closet of your house)... so if the shop burns up, all you need is another PC, and you can install all the software and reload the content you had, pre-horrible accident.
couple hundreds dollars could save your business, in this case.
"The two main expenses for us are the BetaSP deck (about $10,000) and the computer itself (about $5000 with capture card). Final Cut Pro is $1000, but you may be able to buy an older version for less....For editing graphics we use The GIMP until we can afford photoshop"
With those 'main' expenses, you can't spend a couple hundred more bucks buying a few photoshop licenses?
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i think you misspelled your name, isn't it suppose to be spelled "RMS"?
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Calm down, i was just kidding.
With all these updates, 10.3.2, bug fixes, program updates like xcode 1.1 and final cut pro... what will tehy have left for MacWorld? you would think that the program updates and what not would have been a nice debut on stage with Jobs on the keynotw, but since they release them 3 weeks early, what will the Keynote debut, if anything?
A Freenet Example:
you request song.mp3, which happens to be on node A... to get that file, you talk with nodes b, who talks to C who talks to A, who returns song.mp3 in little chunks in 'reverse-search order'(that is a-> c-> b-> you, the reverse of how you found it). Sine the info in encrypted, nodes B and C don't know what they are passing, and they way it is set up, is that you can't tell if node B is the originator of the file, or just someone passing it along.
The Freenet Fork project, version 3 (and functional!)
yes but Linus is the 'Benevolent Dictator'... the old leader with a cigar in his mouth handing out bananas to the starving masses, as i think he himself described that term.
why have kernel hackers look at windows code for user interfaces? Sounds like a kde/gnome job for me, plus, the consistent feel of any GUI is a strong, logical, good set of UI Guidelines that are enforced and followed.
na, all you need to do now is to make each car not only have a reciever antenna, but also a transiever. THEN it is a simple(cough) matter of making a distributed p2p car-network out their that uses TCP/IP rather than radio broadcast... Next time you are stuck in traffic you could surf the web, the more the traffic, the bigger the way*.
*Assuming each car had some webcache system and/or hosted some type of information.
ironicly, for a long while Windows took care of the need of making you WRITE DOWN your password and leave it in plain site: they let you hit CANCEL and the system would login for you!
who cares, its is virtual anyway... just restart the vm and get virtually re/.ed.
didn't realize this until after posting, but the main server for freenet is the lead developer's(a real nice guy, btw) 486 that is also his cvs server... so please, go easy on him (we are looking to get a couple mirrors up, since it is getting neat a VERY (mainstream)usable state). :)
or you could take it a step further: buy a game console. REAL People realize thate GAME CONSOLES are stronger in the area of .... games. Windows has a larger library than linux, but the xbox, ps2, or gamecube(all work fine, i prefer my gamecube) are going to play those games better. Use a windows box where it is *better*, and linux box where it is *better* and a game console where it is *better*. it makes perfect sense.
For EVERYONE who has used freenet in the last 2 months, and have either gave up, or gotten fed up with it, i would ask you try this out. It is a fork of freenet based off the Prodnet build of a while back... It is reaching it's 3rd release, and is functioning quite well(yes, it actually works!). Join IIP's #freenetfork channel to ask questions.
NOTE: for those serious about their anonymity, be warned that the network is small at the moment, with a larger userbase anonymity scales, but be careful what you put on their early on.
FOSS = Free Open Source Software.
"I am very glad Saddam is found. One less asshole in the world to worry about. However... The only reason the UN went along with this little war is because US intelligence lied about WMD and thus believed that they posed a serious threat to neighboring nations. No WMD = unjustified war = unjustified deaths on both sides"
This is a point that i have taken since the beginning, while everyone seems to a 100% for or againt, my opinion is in the middle.
Against: Crappy(lied about) reasons for going to war, no WMD (yet) though i will not be surprised if found, and the blatant disregard of the UN....
FOR: Horrible, murderous dictator is taken out of power... He is not the only one in the world, but 1 less is only a Good Thing (TM)... Yes, China is evil, Iran, Pakistan, Bin Laden...
America is two-faced about its friends(china, iran) but nonetheless, we took a bad person who has done HORRIBLE things out of power.
P.S. Bush still isn't getting my vote.
for your win2k/XP machines, and this is something i have wanted to try, maybe a boches + freedos combo? If it is a newer machine, the overhead of boches might be nulled by the many times faster processor than what the dos games were originally played on (pentium 1,s 486s, etc).
Anyway, that is one of my projects, to see if that would actually work. Just need to get around and do it.
it would be interesting to find out how well FreeDOS would handle all of that software. I assume you had to buy licenses from someone, for every embedded product and what not.
who was there with a legit music buying service BEFORE iTMS? nobody. They were first, and they did it better than any of the attempts that have happened since(buymusic, napster, etc).
The iPod is a solid machine, with great reviews from just about everyone, regardless of mac/pc tastes.
the albums on the iTMS are on par or cheaper than the 'real thing', AND you can burn them as many times as you want. It is easy, hassle free, and the DRM is extremely minimal. Nothing is perfect, so quit bitching.
SHH! Don't give them ideas!
it would be like an underground Wal-Mart! ... *shiver*
yes, but the thing is, in a month they will cancel all Solaris development on x86(again), only to be yelled at, then offer it for $150 a seat.
would be cool. but the problem is giving patents to obvious things, or things that shouldn't be patented or non original work that gets patented(because it hasn't applied for a patent, which is prior art is check with)... Open patents could be abused just as easily as closed patents... the problem is still gonna be that a patent is too easily given to the wrong people.
"The OS X vulnerability in the article isn't even a remote vulnerability. You need access to the machine's local network to pull at off, and you need to do it when the machine boots."
to further that point, it should be known that if an attacker can do this(get physical access to a machine, or setup/hijack a machine on the network to then try and attack another computer) you are fscked anyway. windows, linux, macos. if they have physical access to your machine, it just doesn't matter, you are screwed.
"This is why Apple is still configuring the system insecure by default"
Really? I thought apple turned off all uneeded services by default, such as ssh and root. I thought that one of the reasons this 'whole' was not uber-critical was because these services WERE turned off by default, and thus have a much more secure system.
In actuality, Apple does do a pretty good job of turning of things that arn't needed, and that along with security settings in Apple's Mail and other programs, the security level of Mac osX is pretty darn high, compared to others..
on a final note, if an attacker can get away with running a dhcp server on your network by hijacking a computer on that network(or plugging his own pc in and running it from there), you have bigger problems then the default settings Apple gave you... secondly, if an attacker has physical access to a machine, you are screwed, plain and simple.
well, can't speak for linux, but mac os x has MANY unneeded(if not all) services turned off by default. ssh, remote login, root, etc. Things aren't perfect, hell, even openbsd can't say 'no remote root exploit since the dawn of man', because they too have had the extremely occasional hole.
Mac isn't perfect, but it is, by default, pretty damn close for a computer that is built around the idea of ease of use and multimedia hub-ness.
Um... a single drive keeps the contents of your ENTIRE business at any given time? 1. raid5 a few drives together, you get >= the hdd space, plus, you have redundency! 2. dvd burner/tape backup that drive, and store offsite(in a corner closet of your house)... so if the shop burns up, all you need is another PC, and you can install all the software and reload the content you had, pre-horrible accident. couple hundreds dollars could save your business, in this case.
"The two main expenses for us are the BetaSP deck (about $10,000) and the computer itself (about $5000 with capture card). Final Cut Pro is $1000, but you may be able to buy an older version for less....For editing graphics we use The GIMP until we can afford photoshop"
With those 'main' expenses, you can't spend a couple hundred more bucks buying a few photoshop licenses?