Am I the only one who would put something solid behind the transparent screen so I wasn't distracted by the stuff behind it? People walking around back there, maybe the dog running through my documents...it'd tick me off pretty quick.
That may just be me though...
It's not just you, I used to have transparent terminal windows on OS X, but after about 15 minutes I had to adjust it because the background kept interfering with the type. Yeah I could have changed the font color, but when I put on a background with multiple colors, I was screwed (who wants to change fonts whenever they change backgrounds anyways?) So I think it'd be totally distracting..
For the people suggesting this as an HUD in driving, I wouldn't like this, new Corvettes have this as far as I know, but I think it would just be distracting. If you're looking at the speed you're going to have to focus on the speedometer and the road will not be your primary focus anyways.. and maybe you won't be able to see the HUD as well because of all of the action in front of you? Or maybe the HUD 'guage cluster' would interfere by always being in your face and make it hard to concentrate on the road..? I'm sure they can make it functional, but I'm also sure it'd still be somewhat distracting at the least.. But then again, I could be wrong.
Careful. I'm assuming that these will be clients or co-workers or similar. BE CAREFUL. You do not want to drop messages. What happens if a client's email is lost because it looks like spam (refers to money, etc). Better to tag it, and let the user decide.
I was wondering this myself when I set up spamassassin on our mail server here (We're a web hosting provider using Communigate Pro). It filters mail for everyone by just changing the subject line to let them know that it's been marked as spam. From there they can read it, delete it, filter it based on the new common subject line into a junk folder or whatnot.. I got sick of doing that, so what I did is this: I set it up to be read in by the mail server, then I applied a rule to it which states If the message is tagged as spam, reply with the following custom message. To paraphrase.. that message basically says "the message you sent was considered spam by our email system's spam filter for reasons stated in the header of this message. if you'd like to get ahold of me about this you can call me at (number+ext)." This has worked out pretty well for us so far.
Why is a random commercial application getting released news?
I can't find where I saw it.. but I read a while back about slashdot inserting a story a day into the main page which is basically an advertisment wrapped up in a story (that's probably what this is)
that they keep the 5 gig and drop the price down to $200.
Seems to me that they have a reputation for not having more than 3 models.. so if they end up getting a 10GB/20GB/30GB lineup, they'll probably dump the 5.. HOWEVER, I'm thinking if this is the case, and there's people wanting to trade-up, i'm sure you won't have a hard time finding a 5GB for the price you're looking for (who knows, maybe less) on ebay or someplace..
I know a lot of people who choke at $300 but would jump on one in a hearbeat if the prices was lowered to around the $200 mark.
I'm one of those people, I think if they do end up getting bigger drives and the 5s end up on ebay, i'll finally be able to justify buying one and act on it.
It drives away potential students when they find that one of the places they're looking at allows the RIAA in so easily.
Good point... I know I wouldn't want to go to a school where they were just in the news for one of their students getting smacked down for $97B. Could MTU go after the RIAA for this?
Adobe is even looking at canceling their mac versionsn to cut costs.
That was just a story on a 3GHz P4 outperforming a dual 1.25GHz G4 on a benchmark.. I don't think they're going to drop their Mac line based on one test..
This is true. However, as a company, you'd think that MS would feel obligated to support its products until the minute they drop support...which in this case isn't for another couple months.
These days, it doesn't surprise me that even as a company I don't think Microsoft feels 'obligated' to anyone or anything.
If a provider lives up to its promises and offers decent services, the clients are unlikely to change providers. Only those who know they have bad services would want to object. I say this rule is precisely what we need to make the providers do something to improve on their services.
I couldn't agree more, this is EXACTLY how I feel. If you have good service and you know it, wouldn't you be PUSHING to get this passed? If you have good service this move will only benefit you. It will allow all of the people with poor service that don't want to move due to the # they've had for several years to actually move TO you. I'm one of these people. My current provider has bent over backwords to accomodate any question or issue i've ever had in these past 6 years and resolved them quickly, they're great, and I really do like them. However, I get so/so reception at home (I ditched my land line for this?), and 0 reception at work (i've only seen one carrier, my boss', get reception in this building). I've been wanting to change to my boss' carrier for a long time now, but couldn't due to my # being so well established by now. So no offense to my current carrier, they're awesome, but as soon as this is available to me, i'm going to grab it with both hands.
Why is it that there is always a few vocal whiners ready to spout off every time Apple wants to sell an OS upgrade? What is it that's so hard to understand about the idea that they sell software?
Apple's OS development cycle involves one paid rev per year and one or more incrimental upgrades that are free. It's really not that hard to get. And nobody is forcing you to buy it, either.
I couldn't agree with you more... First off, i'd like to say, I'd rather pay 100 bucks for a yearly revision of a kickass operating system. Actually, maybe more like 50 bucks, that sounds more reasonable for a YEARLY release assuming i'm buying -every- release.. Anyhow, i'd rather pay that price for an OS like OS X, it's just worth it. At least they're not charging almost 200 bucks for an UPGRADE and $350 for a full version like some other operating systems with piss poor performance.
Hopefully Tivo won't go the same route. Fortunately, if it did, the active Tivo hackers community would probably provide some solutions for replacing the discontinued service portion of the Tivo product.
I'm not a Tivo owner yet, but I will be soon. Anyhow, I heard something about DirecTV's Tivos only working with DTV and other Tivos not working with DTV.. Does that mean that DTV is providing the Tivo service to their customers? Are DTV customers then protected in the event that Tivo goes belly up?
Those were my first thoughts exactly.. Don't a lot of virii (god knows we get our share of spam from them) come from.cn? Well hey, at least now the virii will become more efficient:)
You don't really need to restart your machine to set up the root account under OS X... there's a menu option in one of the NetInfo configuration apps to "Enable root account".
Not to spin off-topic or anything, but it's actually easier than that.. open a terminal with an administrative account and type "sudo passwd root" set root's passwd, then su up and party.
An intresting widget for a mail reader would be a "spam button". It deletes the spam, blacklists the spammer, and sends an error message to the spammer... Like the one you get when there is no address with that name.
Are there any mailreaders with thatkind of widget?
For windows there's a program called MailWasher that i've had a LOT of success with... it's really only good on a Monday morning, because you don't run it all the time.. but basically you just put all of your accounts in it and it will check every account against whatever blacklists you want, along with its own rule sets (and yours) and tags things as spam.. you just have to make sure there's no false positives, then hit 'process mail' and it will bounce back and blacklist every address that was tagged, then remove them from your server.. then when you go to check it with your mail program, you have nothing you don't want..
I wish there was a way this could be plugged into a mail program. As for myself, I just use the Junk option in Mail.app which just puts them in a Junk folder.. but it'll do for now.
Man, you'd have to REALLY piss someone off for that to happen at my old high school, our lockers were like, 2'x2'x1'. If someone went through the trouble to get you into one of those you MUST have done something to deserve it;)
If you are an admin user, you don't have to enable the root password to use sudo. 'sudo sh' is the same thing as 'su', but you give it *your* password.
Or you can just "sudo passwd root" in terminal.app if you're an administrative user, give it your password, change the root password, and party. I think enabling root consists of nothing more than giving it a password...
-matt
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It's funny how in many games the publisher often has to pay for the rights to use a particular brand. For example, automobiles in a racing game. It would be interesting to see the pendulum swing the other way, and have publishers/developers reimbursed for the publicity.
I've often wondered about this too.. It's funny how say, Need for Speed or Gran Tourismo probably has to dish out unholy amounts of money to use the cars they're allowed to use. I don't know the figures, hell, it could be cheap, but either way, who does this benefeit more?
Does the game company benefeit from it because people will buy a game with real cars in it over a game with cars that just look like them but lack their name? I know I always liked GT and NFS for their use of realism in a simulation of their particular thing, in this case, cars.
Or does the car company benefeit from it more because it's free advertising, especially in this sense, where it's pairing up your kickass cars with lesser ones?
Dude, if you try to replace Sharon at nanny obriens with a fucking piece of electronic crap(granted, it nifty crap), you have to go through me to do it. ANd youll lose my business. SOme people happen to like human interaction when theyre having a beer.
Hell yeah! I couldn't agree with you more.. I think this machine would be cool for an in-home wet-bar type deal, in fact, i'd love to have one for that purpose, but you could NEVER replace my bartenders. I'm friends with the bartenders, managers, waitresses, patrons, everybody at the bars I go to, shit, that's why I go to the bar, i'd hate to have them all replaced by a stupid machine. Plus a machine won't hook you up with free drinks, stronger drinks, or anything like that because they like you, and it's probably not as cute as most of the bartenders I deal with.
Since the user would get all their drinks from the machine, it could generate a report on what a user's BAC is likely to be (x number of drinks over y amount of time, adjusted to body weight).
Or you could just get a cheap digital breathalizer and leave it by the machine, then it could give an actual number instead of just suggesting you 'might' be over the limit.. then they'd know for sure!:)
on a sidenote.. a digital breathalizer could also make for a fun drinking game:)
Well that settles my fears... As long as the security holes are going unexploited, then I don't mind having them.. (Yeah, i'm being a wiseass) Exploited or not, They still shouldn't be there, and when they are there, they should still be fixed ASAP.
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That may just be me though...
It's not just you, I used to have transparent terminal windows on OS X, but after about 15 minutes I had to adjust it because the background kept interfering with the type. Yeah I could have changed the font color, but when I put on a background with multiple colors, I was screwed (who wants to change fonts whenever they change backgrounds anyways?) So I think it'd be totally distracting..
For the people suggesting this as an HUD in driving, I wouldn't like this, new Corvettes have this as far as I know, but I think it would just be distracting. If you're looking at the speed you're going to have to focus on the speedometer and the road will not be your primary focus anyways.. and maybe you won't be able to see the HUD as well because of all of the action in front of you? Or maybe the HUD 'guage cluster' would interfere by always being in your face and make it hard to concentrate on the road..? I'm sure they can make it functional, but I'm also sure it'd still be somewhat distracting at the least.. But then again, I could be wrong.
-matt
I was wondering this myself when I set up spamassassin on our mail server here (We're a web hosting provider using Communigate Pro). It filters mail for everyone by just changing the subject line to let them know that it's been marked as spam. From there they can read it, delete it, filter it based on the new common subject line into a junk folder or whatnot.. I got sick of doing that, so what I did is this: I set it up to be read in by the mail server, then I applied a rule to it which states If the message is tagged as spam, reply with the following custom message. To paraphrase.. that message basically says "the message you sent was considered spam by our email system's spam filter for reasons stated in the header of this message. if you'd like to get ahold of me about this you can call me at (number+ext)." This has worked out pretty well for us so far.
-matt
The fact that they have nice big HDDs now also means some people will want to upgrade too, hooray for ebay!
-matt
I can't find where I saw it.. but I read a while back about slashdot inserting a story a day into the main page which is basically an advertisment wrapped up in a story (that's probably what this is)
-matt
Seems to me that they have a reputation for not having more than 3 models.. so if they end up getting a 10GB/20GB/30GB lineup, they'll probably dump the 5.. HOWEVER, I'm thinking if this is the case, and there's people wanting to trade-up, i'm sure you won't have a hard time finding a 5GB for the price you're looking for (who knows, maybe less) on ebay or someplace..
I know a lot of people who choke at $300 but would jump on one in a hearbeat if the prices was lowered to around the $200 mark.
I'm one of those people, I think if they do end up getting bigger drives and the 5s end up on ebay, i'll finally be able to justify buying one and act on it.
-matt
Hehehe, you're joking, right? :)
-matt
Good point... I know I wouldn't want to go to a school where they were just in the news for one of their students getting smacked down for $97B. Could MTU go after the RIAA for this?
-matt
Like Notepad?
I think BBEdit is more along the lines of what they're looking for..
-matt
That was just a story on a 3GHz P4 outperforming a dual 1.25GHz G4 on a benchmark.. I don't think they're going to drop their Mac line based on one test..
-matt
These days, it doesn't surprise me that even as a company I don't think Microsoft feels 'obligated' to anyone or anything.
-matt
I couldn't agree more, this is EXACTLY how I feel. If you have good service and you know it, wouldn't you be PUSHING to get this passed? If you have good service this move will only benefit you. It will allow all of the people with poor service that don't want to move due to the # they've had for several years to actually move TO you. I'm one of these people. My current provider has bent over backwords to accomodate any question or issue i've ever had in these past 6 years and resolved them quickly, they're great, and I really do like them. However, I get so/so reception at home (I ditched my land line for this?), and 0 reception at work (i've only seen one carrier, my boss', get reception in this building). I've been wanting to change to my boss' carrier for a long time now, but couldn't due to my # being so well established by now. So no offense to my current carrier, they're awesome, but as soon as this is available to me, i'm going to grab it with both hands.
-matt
Apple's OS development cycle involves one paid rev per year and one or more incrimental upgrades that are free. It's really not that hard to get. And nobody is forcing you to buy it, either.
I couldn't agree with you more... First off, i'd like to say, I'd rather pay 100 bucks for a yearly revision of a kickass operating system. Actually, maybe more like 50 bucks, that sounds more reasonable for a YEARLY release assuming i'm buying -every- release.. Anyhow, i'd rather pay that price for an OS like OS X, it's just worth it. At least they're not charging almost 200 bucks for an UPGRADE and $350 for a full version like some other operating systems with piss poor performance.
-matt
I'm not a Tivo owner yet, but I will be soon. Anyhow, I heard something about DirecTV's Tivos only working with DTV and other Tivos not working with DTV.. Does that mean that DTV is providing the Tivo service to their customers? Are DTV customers then protected in the event that Tivo goes belly up?
-matt
Those were my first thoughts exactly.. Don't a lot of virii (god knows we get our share of spam from them) come from .cn? Well hey, at least now the virii will become more efficient :)
-matt
Not to spin off-topic or anything, but it's actually easier than that.. open a terminal with an administrative account and type "sudo passwd root" set root's passwd, then su up and party.
-matt
Are there any mailreaders with thatkind of widget?
For windows there's a program called MailWasher that i've had a LOT of success with... it's really only good on a Monday morning, because you don't run it all the time.. but basically you just put all of your accounts in it and it will check every account against whatever blacklists you want, along with its own rule sets (and yours) and tags things as spam.. you just have to make sure there's no false positives, then hit 'process mail' and it will bounce back and blacklist every address that was tagged, then remove them from your server.. then when you go to check it with your mail program, you have nothing you don't want..
I wish there was a way this could be plugged into a mail program. As for myself, I just use the Junk option in Mail.app which just puts them in a Junk folder.. but it'll do for now.
-matt
-matt
At my school, I counted none.
Man, you'd have to REALLY piss someone off for that to happen at my old high school, our lockers were like, 2'x2'x1'. If someone went through the trouble to get you into one of those you MUST have done something to deserve it ;)
-matt
Or you can just "sudo passwd root" in terminal.app if you're an administrative user, give it your password, change the root password, and party. I think enabling root consists of nothing more than giving it a password...
-matt
I've often wondered about this too.. It's funny how say, Need for Speed or Gran Tourismo probably has to dish out unholy amounts of money to use the cars they're allowed to use. I don't know the figures, hell, it could be cheap, but either way, who does this benefeit more?
Does the game company benefeit from it because people will buy a game with real cars in it over a game with cars that just look like them but lack their name? I know I always liked GT and NFS for their use of realism in a simulation of their particular thing, in this case, cars.
Or does the car company benefeit from it more because it's free advertising, especially in this sense, where it's pairing up your kickass cars with lesser ones?
Who should be paying who here?
Hell yeah! I couldn't agree with you more.. I think this machine would be cool for an in-home wet-bar type deal, in fact, i'd love to have one for that purpose, but you could NEVER replace my bartenders. I'm friends with the bartenders, managers, waitresses, patrons, everybody at the bars I go to, shit, that's why I go to the bar, i'd hate to have them all replaced by a stupid machine. Plus a machine won't hook you up with free drinks, stronger drinks, or anything like that because they like you, and it's probably not as cute as most of the bartenders I deal with.
-matt
Or you could just get a cheap digital breathalizer and leave it by the machine, then it could give an actual number instead of just suggesting you 'might' be over the limit.. then they'd know for sure! :)
on a sidenote.. a digital breathalizer could also make for a fun drinking game :)
-matt
Igor will not finish his education here, even if he wins the case, and that is the really sucky part of this whole deal.
The kid stole, boo hoo he won't be able to finish his education here.. he should have thought about that before he became a criminal.
-matt
RTFA
Well put!
-matt
Well that settles my fears... As long as the security holes are going unexploited, then I don't mind having them.. (Yeah, i'm being a wiseass) Exploited or not, They still shouldn't be there, and when they are there, they should still be fixed ASAP.
-matt