Maybe it's because I've never looked at really old code, but I have never understood why someone would only allow for values from 0-99. No matter how you cut it, this will take 7 bits at the minimum. At this point, why not just allow for values 0-127?
My only guess is that this was in systems where you would need to be displaying the last two numbers, so displaying 0-27 for 100-127 would obviously cause a problem. However, it would seem simple to just add your year variable to a constant of 1900 and display the whole 4 digits.
Sure you still run into Y2027 problems, but it's a little better.
The parent brings up a good point. I just tried all the linked exploits from the grandparent on a PowerBook that I have tried no exploits on so far.
The first one does nothing.
The second one mounts the volume "idink" and presents me with the new dialogue.
The third doesn't mount a volume, but it launches the Help Viewer.
The fourth doesn't mount a volume, but it pops up Terminal.app with the ssh command mentioned earlier.
That's a nice 0 for 4, but given that I only got the dialogue on one, so I tried three (AFP, FTP, and Disk) of the tests on http://test.doit.wisc.edu/. On all three, the volume mounted properly and I got the dialogue. As far as I can tell, everything is fine now. Maybe you just need to remove the previously registered the helpers.
Knowing the average wealth of the Chinese population, what in the earth was Apple thinking or what were they smoking up in the Valley when they come up with this brilliant idea I am wondering.
They were probably thinking that in a country with over 1 billion people, there would still be enough people with enough money to justify this. I know nothing about the distribution of wealth in China, but let's say that 10% of their population is at a level of wealth comparable to your average American. That's over 100 million people, a damn good sized market by any means.
Additionally, I have to imagine the cost of Apple rolling out the music store in China (or Europe or Canada for that matter) is rather insignificant compared to the initial US rollout. On the tech side, the fixed cost it is nothing more than adding new servers. All the heavy lifting for development has been done already for the original iTMS. After that, Apple really only has to pay for bandwidth, and I think it is safe to assume that as iTMS China uses more bandwidth, there will be more sales.
Yeah, it's the Norcal vs Socal thing. Socals like to append "the" before every freeway number. As a Norcal going to school in LA, it drives me nuts. A fellow transplanted Norcal summed it up best one time when I asked him how he drove home. He said he took "the 110 to the 5 to I-5 to 152 to 101."
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...it's actually shorter than the Pacific Highway.
I think you meant the Pacific Coast Highway aka PCH, which is actually US Highway 101. He drove Interstate 5. For any long drives on the Pacific coast, I-5 is almost always going to be faster.
I've driven I-5 between the Bay Area and LA extensively, and he is definitely on I-5. As the poster before me responded, you can see the exit for Kettleman City clearly if you know to look for it. (I'm quite familiar with that stretch especially. You can't drive I-5 without knowing you are getting close to In-n-Out!) However, another clear sign is when he gets over the Grapevine. At the I-5/99 junction, you can see him move into the right lane and get onto I-5 northbound.
While I guess it could be the same AC, I highly doubt it. Regardless, I'm surprised it's an AC reposting in this thread since it can't be karma whoring.
It doesn't even have to be that difficult. Just block port 25 by default. If someone calls up and asks for it to be enabled, do it free of charge, no questions asked. Now everyone who wants to run a mailserver can do so painlessly, but the average joe zombie wouldn't be able to spread spam because port 25 would be off for him by default. I bet this would stop 90%+ of all the nasty zombie spam.
Sure, if that spec is true, they screwed themselves out of the market for a graphics workstation. However, most developers don't need anything more than AGP 1x. I know many who would love a powerful small form factor box like that.
No doubt some people will use it to steal and share, but then, you can buy laser printers, yet the KKK have the right to print their racial slur with the same hardware you use. Would you like it if laser printers couldn't be bought easily anymore just to fight a minority that misuses the product?
This is a bit offtopic, but how is the KKK misusing the printer? Last time I checked, they were just exercising their right to free speech. They may be ignorant assholes, but they are ignorant assholes who are doing something 100% legal.
An earlier poster already commented on the Nazi and kiddie porn lines, but you should also check your facts about Bin Laden. Unless he is hiding in the US, he is not the FBI's responsibility to catch. Remember, they are the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
I can pick up a PowerMac G5 1.6 Ghz (I know, the speed varies across platforms and OS's) for a mere $2499! I find the PC in this case to be a far better deal in this case. Does this make me a PC bigot?
No, it makes you a moron. Of course, that's what you get for paying $700 over list price on the 1.6 GHz PowerMac
I'm a college student who will be buying either a 12" iBook or a 12" PowerBook as soon as I get a chance to try them both out in person. (I'm only referring to the 12" models in this post.) Before this update, I was very much leaning towards getting an iBook rather than a PowerBook. The iBooks used to be much better than the PowerBooks in terms of bang for your buck. However, having seen these new models, I'm almost assuredly going to get a PowerBook.
With my education discount, I can get the PowerBook for $1399 and the iBook for $1155. The PowerBook is the stock 12" without the Superdrive, and the iBook is the base 12" with a combo drive, Airport Extreme, and a 60 GB HD. (The Airport and bigger HD are BTO options to put it on par with the PowerBook. So now I'm looking at a $250 difference, or ~20% if I look at it that way. For this 20% more in cost, I get a 1.33 GHz G4 vs a 1 GHz G4 (33% improvement), a 167 MHz system bus vs a 133 MHz system bus (25% improvement), a nicer video card (double the VRAM), and other random PowerBook niceties like the ability to do monitor spanning without OpenFirmware hacks. Not to mention the PowerBook is lighter and smaller in all 3 dimensions. The only real advantage I see in the iBook is the greater battery life, but the 5 and 6 hour quotes are to be believed, the difference is all but negligible.
While the iBook is still an excellent option, I just feel I'm getting more bang for my buck with the PowerBook. This is a laptop that's going to last me a long time, so I think the extra money spent will be well worth it in the long run.
I know you are just going for the cheap laugh, but this is far from the truth at Pac Bell (aka SBC) Park. It is one of the most well thought out ballparks I have ever had the joy to see a ballgame in. I've sat in basically the worst seats in the park (upper deck right field), and it was much better than a similar seat at Candlestick (or any other large, multipurpose stadium). Since it was designed to be baseball only for only about 40 thousand people, they were able to give even the worst-off fans a better ballpark experience.
After the hell that is the drive from the San Fernando Valley to the Silicon Valley, I am personally quite partial to an LA/SF route. Since there is Caltrain and BART service to feeder you out from SF to everywhere else in the Bay Area it would make a lot of sense. If there were a stop in Santa Barbara along the route it would be a tourist's dream. An hour to Santa Barbara? Two to San Francisco? I'm there.
I would be much more interested in improved transportation in both Norcal and Socal than a train connecting the two. The majority of that drive is flying by trucks on I-5. I've made that drive both ways more times than I can remember, and the only places you can ever hit traffic are on 101 in Norcal (during commute hour) and I-5 going into LA after the Grapevine (during any hour of the freaking day),
In contrast, public transportation in LA and SF both suck relative to most major East Coast cities. BART ain't bad for people in the East Bay, but Caltrain is only passable at best for those in the South Bay. Once you are in the city, the bus system is pretty good admittedly. LA is just a big disaster however. The bus system sucks, and the metro system is far too sparse. And don't even think about trying to get anywhere outside of the city. If it's even possible, the hassle and time makes it worthless.
If only LA would get off its ass and make public transit viable, traffic would be so much better.
This could be potentially trivial if you had an iBook to sacrifice. The more modern iBooks (ie not clamshell), are 11.2" x 9.1" x 1.35". I just eyeballed a boxed copy of OS X up against a piece of paper as ~10" x 8" x 1.5". Now I haven't had a chance to look at the guts of an iBook, but if they are anything like the guys of a TiBook, the only difficulty would be the height. If you ripped out the mobo and rearranged the optical drive and hard drive, you could get the 9.1" down to probably 6" or 7" easily. If the length of the mobo did in fact fit in the height of the OS X box, you would have all your ports lined up neatly. Of course you would have to remove the display, but you still have a VGA port to hook up to.
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As a former water polo player and swimmer, I'll have to respectfully disagree with your theory.
0 does equal 1, for very small values of 1.
I'll gladly let that slide since I need the backslash for an escape character in a shell.
'Course, that's the OS X user in me talking.
Maybe it's because I've never looked at really old code, but I have never understood why someone would only allow for values from 0-99. No matter how you cut it, this will take 7 bits at the minimum. At this point, why not just allow for values 0-127?
My only guess is that this was in systems where you would need to be displaying the last two numbers, so displaying 0-27 for 100-127 would obviously cause a problem. However, it would seem simple to just add your year variable to a constant of 1900 and display the whole 4 digits.
Sure you still run into Y2027 problems, but it's a little better.
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The parent brings up a good point. I just tried all the linked exploits from the grandparent on a PowerBook that I have tried no exploits on so far.
The first one does nothing.
The second one mounts the volume "idink" and presents me with the new dialogue.
The third doesn't mount a volume, but it launches the Help Viewer.
The fourth doesn't mount a volume, but it pops up Terminal.app with the ssh command mentioned earlier.
That's a nice 0 for 4, but given that I only got the dialogue on one, so I tried three (AFP, FTP, and Disk) of the tests on http://test.doit.wisc.edu/. On all three, the volume mounted properly and I got the dialogue. As far as I can tell, everything is fine now. Maybe you just need to remove the previously registered the helpers.
Knowing the average wealth of the Chinese population, what in the earth was Apple thinking or what were they smoking up in the Valley when they come up with this brilliant idea I am wondering.
They were probably thinking that in a country with over 1 billion people, there would still be enough people with enough money to justify this. I know nothing about the distribution of wealth in China, but let's say that 10% of their population is at a level of wealth comparable to your average American. That's over 100 million people, a damn good sized market by any means.
Additionally, I have to imagine the cost of Apple rolling out the music store in China (or Europe or Canada for that matter) is rather insignificant compared to the initial US rollout. On the tech side, the fixed cost it is nothing more than adding new servers. All the heavy lifting for development has been done already for the original iTMS. After that, Apple really only has to pay for bandwidth, and I think it is safe to assume that as iTMS China uses more bandwidth, there will be more sales.
Yeah, it's the Norcal vs Socal thing. Socals like to append "the" before every freeway number. As a Norcal going to school in LA, it drives me nuts. A fellow transplanted Norcal summed it up best one time when I asked him how he drove home. He said he took "the 110 to the 5 to I-5 to 152 to 101."
...it's actually shorter than the Pacific Highway.
I think you meant the Pacific Coast Highway aka PCH, which is actually US Highway 101. He drove Interstate 5. For any long drives on the Pacific coast, I-5 is almost always going to be faster.
I've driven I-5 between the Bay Area and LA extensively, and he is definitely on I-5. As the poster before me responded, you can see the exit for Kettleman City clearly if you know to look for it. (I'm quite familiar with that stretch especially. You can't drive I-5 without knowing you are getting close to In-n-Out!) However, another clear sign is when he gets over the Grapevine. At the I-5/99 junction, you can see him move into the right lane and get onto I-5 northbound.
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While I guess it could be the same AC, I highly doubt it. Regardless, I'm surprised it's an AC reposting in this thread since it can't be karma whoring.
It doesn't even have to be that difficult. Just block port 25 by default. If someone calls up and asks for it to be enabled, do it free of charge, no questions asked. Now everyone who wants to run a mailserver can do so painlessly, but the average joe zombie wouldn't be able to spread spam because port 25 would be off for him by default. I bet this would stop 90%+ of all the nasty zombie spam.
Sure, if that spec is true, they screwed themselves out of the market for a graphics workstation. However, most developers don't need anything more than AGP 1x. I know many who would love a powerful small form factor box like that.
No doubt some people will use it to steal and share, but then, you can buy laser printers, yet the KKK have the right to print their racial slur with the same hardware you use. Would you like it if laser printers couldn't be bought easily anymore just to fight a minority that misuses the product?
This is a bit offtopic, but how is the KKK misusing the printer? Last time I checked, they were just exercising their right to free speech. They may be ignorant assholes, but they are ignorant assholes who are doing something 100% legal.
You might want to remember to spell "Moscone" correctly if you want to come off as someone who knows what they are talking about.
The four buttons (menu, play/pause, forward, back) were also moving parts.
And if you want to get really nit-picky, the lock switch at the top is moving, bringing the total to 6 moving parts.
What?
An earlier poster already commented on the Nazi and kiddie porn lines, but you should also check your facts about Bin Laden. Unless he is hiding in the US, he is not the FBI's responsibility to catch. Remember, they are the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
I can pick up a PowerMac G5 1.6 Ghz (I know, the speed varies across platforms and OS's) for a mere $2499! I find the PC in this case to be a far better deal in this case. Does this make me a PC bigot?
No, it makes you a moron. Of course, that's what you get for paying $700 over list price on the 1.6 GHz PowerMac
I'm a college student who will be buying either a 12" iBook or a 12" PowerBook as soon as I get a chance to try them both out in person. (I'm only referring to the 12" models in this post.) Before this update, I was very much leaning towards getting an iBook rather than a PowerBook. The iBooks used to be much better than the PowerBooks in terms of bang for your buck. However, having seen these new models, I'm almost assuredly going to get a PowerBook.
With my education discount, I can get the PowerBook for $1399 and the iBook for $1155. The PowerBook is the stock 12" without the Superdrive, and the iBook is the base 12" with a combo drive, Airport Extreme, and a 60 GB HD. (The Airport and bigger HD are BTO options to put it on par with the PowerBook. So now I'm looking at a $250 difference, or ~20% if I look at it that way. For this 20% more in cost, I get a 1.33 GHz G4 vs a 1 GHz G4 (33% improvement), a 167 MHz system bus vs a 133 MHz system bus (25% improvement), a nicer video card (double the VRAM), and other random PowerBook niceties like the ability to do monitor spanning without OpenFirmware hacks. Not to mention the PowerBook is lighter and smaller in all 3 dimensions. The only real advantage I see in the iBook is the greater battery life, but the 5 and 6 hour quotes are to be believed, the difference is all but negligible.
While the iBook is still an excellent option, I just feel I'm getting more bang for my buck with the PowerBook. This is a laptop that's going to last me a long time, so I think the extra money spent will be well worth it in the long run.
Google search for spyware references on www.allosx.com
There are only two references to spyware on the site, and neither refer to any Mac spyware.
I know you are just going for the cheap laugh, but this is far from the truth at Pac Bell (aka SBC) Park. It is one of the most well thought out ballparks I have ever had the joy to see a ballgame in. I've sat in basically the worst seats in the park (upper deck right field), and it was much better than a similar seat at Candlestick (or any other large, multipurpose stadium). Since it was designed to be baseball only for only about 40 thousand people, they were able to give even the worst-off fans a better ballpark experience.
After the hell that is the drive from the San Fernando Valley to the Silicon Valley, I am personally quite partial to an LA/SF route. Since there is Caltrain and BART service to feeder you out from SF to everywhere else in the Bay Area it would make a lot of sense. If there were a stop in Santa Barbara along the route it would be a tourist's dream. An hour to Santa Barbara? Two to San Francisco? I'm there.
I would be much more interested in improved transportation in both Norcal and Socal than a train connecting the two. The majority of that drive is flying by trucks on I-5. I've made that drive both ways more times than I can remember, and the only places you can ever hit traffic are on 101 in Norcal (during commute hour) and I-5 going into LA after the Grapevine (during any hour of the freaking day),
In contrast, public transportation in LA and SF both suck relative to most major East Coast cities. BART ain't bad for people in the East Bay, but Caltrain is only passable at best for those in the South Bay. Once you are in the city, the bus system is pretty good admittedly. LA is just a big disaster however. The bus system sucks, and the metro system is far too sparse. And don't even think about trying to get anywhere outside of the city. If it's even possible, the hassle and time makes it worthless.
If only LA would get off its ass and make public transit viable, traffic would be so much better.
This could be potentially trivial if you had an iBook to sacrifice. The more modern iBooks (ie not clamshell), are 11.2" x 9.1" x 1.35". I just eyeballed a boxed copy of OS X up against a piece of paper as ~10" x 8" x 1.5". Now I haven't had a chance to look at the guts of an iBook, but if they are anything like the guys of a TiBook, the only difficulty would be the height. If you ripped out the mobo and rearranged the optical drive and hard drive, you could get the 9.1" down to probably 6" or 7" easily. If the length of the mobo did in fact fit in the height of the OS X box, you would have all your ports lined up neatly. Of course you would have to remove the display, but you still have a VGA port to hook up to.
Rendezvous wasn't licensed, it was open-sourced.