Heh, ya couldn't see this one coming a mile away...
Some Linux die-hards buy Apple laptops because they are the nicest laptops around. These people are just really into Linux, so they don't want OS X.
Another major use is for older computers. Pretty much any OldWorld machine is going to be too slow to enjoy OS X. Throwing Linux on these machines can extend their usefulness. They can be used as fileservers, routers, mp3 players, etc. Some people also use them as their main desktop, although I personally think Mac OS is just fine for older computers.
However, I think it is rather foolish to run Linux on newer Apple hardware. OS X is just too uber-cool. Besides, the only thing I've found that runs on Linux but not on OS X is MOL, but amazingly I've gotten by so far without it.;) But to each his own, and if Linux users want to buy Apple hardware, I'm glad they are supporting my favorite computer company.
As a Mac gamer (I know, har har, but I have OS X suckas:P), I don't really bother trying to keep up with what's the latest and greatest coming out on the Windows gaming scene. From what I know, UT2k3 was released not too long ago. Now Unreal II? Are the games really that different?
You CAN put peanut butter on a hot dog. You CAN take a Mini and put a bodylift on it. You CAN hit yourself in the head with a hammer. However, this doesn't mean any of these are good ideas.
I'm definitely one for doing stuff "just cuz it's cool," but cooling systems are usually rigged together for a good reason. With a G4, there is no reason for a cooling system. If you are looking to do something just for kicks, you would be better off spending your time inserting a picture of Clarus inside your case.
I think the biggest problem with cracking and associated criminal punishments is that very few people are able to accurately assess the severity of the crime. Some people think that defacing a website is nothing more than vandalism without realizing the time and cost involved in doing a proper system restore when a system is cracked. On the other end of the spectrum, you have Kevin Mitnick thrown in solitary because the government is afraid he could start a nuclear launch over the phone.
The first step is to acknowledge that a crime committed using a computer is no different from the same crime committed in person. Stealing corporate documents by either computer or smuggling papers out the front door is the same crime. It is industrial espionage either way. Of course, this doesn't even include stupid laws designed to prevent fair use and protect shoddy security/crypto, but that is a rant for another day...
Why take business.com when you can grab slashdot.org and link it to msn.com for a few days? Watch the hilarity ensue as geeks around the world suicidely jump out of office buildings thinking that the Devil won't stop messing with their heads.
What, do you think we are gullibe? Next thing you are going to tell me they do something weird like switch the month and day around when giving the date.
Yes, online games would rock. More importantly, localized community games would -scream-. How about hosting bridge/chess/etc parlor type games within the community?
Finally a level playing field! I always hate it when I lag and some low-ping bastard schools me on Yahoo chess.
Considering that MS sells the XBox at a loss, as long as you don't buy any games, I don't see how this could do anything but hurt them. When they get cheaper, if they are still being sold for a loss I will look at buying one to mess around with and hack up.
This is not about protecting the students. This is about Blackboard being too lazy/stupid to fix a flaw that they know about.
Acidus has tried since 2001 to get them to fix this. I'm pretty sure that if I dropped my credit card in 2001 and you told me about it, I would have things fixed by now. By this point, it is obvious that Blackboard is being negligient and is thus putting students at a greater risk.
To put this all in context for you, my school uses Blackboard for our grading system as well as dining services, housing access, etc. I know for one that I am NOT happy about this C&D and feel much less safe now.
On a lighter note, you know the worst damn part about this? We are a stupid Pepsi campus so stealing from the vending machines is pointless!
A workaround is for companies to ship versions of their products for both architectures, thus at the very least this represents a burden on developers.
So M$ and Windows developers would be copying what Apple and Mac developers did 9 years ago...
Come on now mods, interesting? This guy is ignorant at best, and a blatant troll at worst.
It makes one wonder if the legendary Apple legal department made some kind of threat or crackdown on their effort.
How in any way could Apple make a legal threat against a company attempting to produce a generic PPC computer to run Linux that would NOT be able to boot into Mac OS or OS X? Just because Apple is the most prominent user of the PPC arch doesn't mean that they control the market.
As for Apple actually caring about what TerraSoft is doing, that's about as equally preposterous as your first point. Very few people buy Apple hardware solely to run Linux. Of those few that do, the vast majority are laptop users. So in the end you have a minority of Apple hardware using Linux users (which are already a minority to begin with) that TerraSoft would legitimately be competing with Apple for. Do you honestly think Apple is going to lose any sleep over that? I think not.
Most likely, there were unexpected delays and/or the mobos just simply weren't a quality product. In that case, I would expect TerraSoft to be as vague as possible. No company wants to go out and advertise the fact that they couldn't deliver like they had earlier said; it's embarassing.
If you are looking for a company that can thrive on a partially OSS model, Apple seems to fit the bill very well.
Many companies seem to think that the key to making an OSS company successful is by using free (as in beer) software to sell support. Most companies are struggling to get by on this model. However, the failure comes as these companies are still at heart software companies, and it is very hard to be a profitable software company when anyone can get your software for nothing.
Apple is different as they have model similar to Sun: they use their software to sell their hardware. Admittedly they do make a little money on software, but last time I checked 90%+ of their revenue was from hardware. As long as they keep enough of the OS proprietary, they could theoretically open source the vast majority of the rest of their code and do well.
Fscking the legitimate rights of anyone, no matter how small the minority, is NOT acceptable. This is pretty clear in the Constitution, which last time I checked was still the law of the land. We are innocent until proven guilty, and by not allowing us to make our legal copies of albums we have purchased on the chance of piracy is an unconstitutional assumption of guilt on the part of the general consumer.
For the record, a good chunk of people buy their CDs and rip them to MP3's for legitimate purposes. I have 7 GB of songs on my hard drive, all ripped from my personal collection. I then use them on my iPod. Hell, the only time I ever use a physical CD anymore is when I'm in the car. The most important point of this anecdote is that I'm doing absolutely nothing illegal.
If these new DRM CDs become the standard, I lose all my ability to fair use because I have been presumed guilty of software piracy by a record company BEFORE I have even bought the album. No longer would I be able to use my computer as a jukebox. Suddenly my iPod becomes an expensive external firewire drive. I wouldn't even be able to play the CD as I have a Mac. So you are telling me that I should have to deal with this just because some people fileshare illegally?
Personally, I refuse to buy any CD with DRM on it. (Luckily with these artists I'm not losing anything, heh.) I don't want to support the movement one bit. I just hope mainstream America catches on. The only way I see it going away is if the record companies realize how unprofitable it would be.
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I guess now we know how they always win in that SOCOM commercial.
I would be willing to wager that one of 2 to 4 distros to be supported will be Debian. I wouldn't be surprised to see them go with Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware. This would give them a distro for pretty much everyone: rpm users, apt-get users, and anti-bloat users. Maybe a fourth would be Mandrake or Gentoo, but I don't know about that.
Like graffiti, defaced Web sites are considered little more than a nuisance. The message tends to get wide exposure, but the damage to the victim is minimal. Web site operators typically have the site restored within a matter of hours.
Will the media ever learn that a seemingly "innocent" act of defacing a website causes a major headache for the people who have to patch the hole and make sure the rest of their systems weren't compromised? Of course, what should I expect from an article that thinks that crackers and "hackers" are the same thing.
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Heh, ya couldn't see this one coming a mile away...
;) But to each his own, and if Linux users want to buy Apple hardware, I'm glad they are supporting my favorite computer company.
Some Linux die-hards buy Apple laptops because they are the nicest laptops around. These people are just really into Linux, so they don't want OS X.
Another major use is for older computers. Pretty much any OldWorld machine is going to be too slow to enjoy OS X. Throwing Linux on these machines can extend their usefulness. They can be used as fileservers, routers, mp3 players, etc. Some people also use them as their main desktop, although I personally think Mac OS is just fine for older computers.
However, I think it is rather foolish to run Linux on newer Apple hardware. OS X is just too uber-cool. Besides, the only thing I've found that runs on Linux but not on OS X is MOL, but amazingly I've gotten by so far without it.
As a Mac gamer (I know, har har, but I have OS X suckas :P), I don't really bother trying to keep up with what's the latest and greatest coming out on the Windows gaming scene. From what I know, UT2k3 was released not too long ago. Now Unreal II? Are the games really that different?
and if they're also hardware encrypted you have some nice double-encryption
That's what I thought, but then someone cracked my rot13. I swear, if double-encrypted rot13 isn't secure, nothing is.
Maybe an AMD engineer would, but they would only need 2 alleged conspirators to cause the same amount of damage.
(I know, bad me)
You CAN put peanut butter on a hot dog. You CAN take a Mini and put a bodylift on it. You CAN hit yourself in the head with a hammer. However, this doesn't mean any of these are good ideas.
I'm definitely one for doing stuff "just cuz it's cool," but cooling systems are usually rigged together for a good reason. With a G4, there is no reason for a cooling system. If you are looking to do something just for kicks, you would be better off spending your time inserting a picture of Clarus inside your case.
1. Burn to CD
2. Rip CD to mp3
3. Share mp3
i am teh 1337 h4xx0r
How many people read the writeup and saw the lame Iraq jokes coming a mile away?
The jokes are not a mile away - they were repelled at the border by the Republican Guard. Do not believe the lies of the zionists!
(Hear that flushing sound? It's karma going down the drain...)
if you want a file server, cough up the $999 required for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server compared to the $299 of Microsoft Windows XP Professional
;)
Heh, I'll just stick with Samba on my $69 copy of OS X if I ever need. It probably does a better job than Windows anyways.
Holy shit, porn really is the answer to anything!
I think the biggest problem with cracking and associated criminal punishments is that very few people are able to accurately assess the severity of the crime. Some people think that defacing a website is nothing more than vandalism without realizing the time and cost involved in doing a proper system restore when a system is cracked. On the other end of the spectrum, you have Kevin Mitnick thrown in solitary because the government is afraid he could start a nuclear launch over the phone.
The first step is to acknowledge that a crime committed using a computer is no different from the same crime committed in person. Stealing corporate documents by either computer or smuggling papers out the front door is the same crime. It is industrial espionage either way. Of course, this doesn't even include stupid laws designed to prevent fair use and protect shoddy security/crypto, but that is a rant for another day...
Why take business.com when you can grab slashdot.org and link it to msn.com for a few days? Watch the hilarity ensue as geeks around the world suicidely jump out of office buildings thinking that the Devil won't stop messing with their heads.
What, do you think we are gullibe? Next thing you are going to tell me they do something weird like switch the month and day around when giving the date.
So what did this Guy LeBarge dude do to piss you off? ;)
Then I take a break to glance at Slashdot and what do I see?
You see a Slashdot article about multiple universes existing, thus substantiating your academic claim that they are unverifiable.
Congrats, it's your lucky day! (Wednesday should repeat your lucky day if all goes as normal.)
Yes, online games would rock. More importantly, localized community games would -scream-. How about hosting bridge/chess/etc parlor type games within the community?
Finally a level playing field! I always hate it when I lag and some low-ping bastard schools me on Yahoo chess.
No giving MS any more of your money.
Considering that MS sells the XBox at a loss, as long as you don't buy any games, I don't see how this could do anything but hurt them. When they get cheaper, if they are still being sold for a loss I will look at buying one to mess around with and hack up.
RTFA
This is not about protecting the students. This is about Blackboard being too lazy/stupid to fix a flaw that they know about.
Acidus has tried since 2001 to get them to fix this. I'm pretty sure that if I dropped my credit card in 2001 and you told me about it, I would have things fixed by now. By this point, it is obvious that Blackboard is being negligient and is thus putting students at a greater risk.
To put this all in context for you, my school uses Blackboard for our grading system as well as dining services, housing access, etc. I know for one that I am NOT happy about this C&D and feel much less safe now.
On a lighter note, you know the worst damn part about this? We are a stupid Pepsi campus so stealing from the vending machines is pointless!
Usually it takes M$ a few years to copy what Apple has done. So much for my pipe dream of Apple owning a record company and making it respectable...
A workaround is for companies to ship versions of their products for both architectures, thus at the very least this represents a burden on developers.
So M$ and Windows developers would be copying what Apple and Mac developers did 9 years ago...
Sounds like par for the course to me.
Come on now mods, interesting? This guy is ignorant at best, and a blatant troll at worst.
It makes one wonder if the legendary Apple legal department made some kind of threat or crackdown on their effort.
How in any way could Apple make a legal threat against a company attempting to produce a generic PPC computer to run Linux that would NOT be able to boot into Mac OS or OS X? Just because Apple is the most prominent user of the PPC arch doesn't mean that they control the market.
As for Apple actually caring about what TerraSoft is doing, that's about as equally preposterous as your first point. Very few people buy Apple hardware solely to run Linux. Of those few that do, the vast majority are laptop users. So in the end you have a minority of Apple hardware using Linux users (which are already a minority to begin with) that TerraSoft would legitimately be competing with Apple for. Do you honestly think Apple is going to lose any sleep over that? I think not.
Most likely, there were unexpected delays and/or the mobos just simply weren't a quality product. In that case, I would expect TerraSoft to be as vague as possible. No company wants to go out and advertise the fact that they couldn't deliver like they had earlier said; it's embarassing.
If you are looking for a company that can thrive on a partially OSS model, Apple seems to fit the bill very well.
Many companies seem to think that the key to making an OSS company successful is by using free (as in beer) software to sell support. Most companies are struggling to get by on this model. However, the failure comes as these companies are still at heart software companies, and it is very hard to be a profitable software company when anyone can get your software for nothing.
Apple is different as they have model similar to Sun: they use their software to sell their hardware. Admittedly they do make a little money on software, but last time I checked 90%+ of their revenue was from hardware. As long as they keep enough of the OS proprietary, they could theoretically open source the vast majority of the rest of their code and do well.
I may have just gotten trolled, but oh well.
Fscking the legitimate rights of anyone, no matter how small the minority, is NOT acceptable. This is pretty clear in the Constitution, which last time I checked was still the law of the land. We are innocent until proven guilty, and by not allowing us to make our legal copies of albums we have purchased on the chance of piracy is an unconstitutional assumption of guilt on the part of the general consumer.
For the record, a good chunk of people buy their CDs and rip them to MP3's for legitimate purposes. I have 7 GB of songs on my hard drive, all ripped from my personal collection. I then use them on my iPod. Hell, the only time I ever use a physical CD anymore is when I'm in the car. The most important point of this anecdote is that I'm doing absolutely nothing illegal.
If these new DRM CDs become the standard, I lose all my ability to fair use because I have been presumed guilty of software piracy by a record company BEFORE I have even bought the album. No longer would I be able to use my computer as a jukebox. Suddenly my iPod becomes an expensive external firewire drive. I wouldn't even be able to play the CD as I have a Mac. So you are telling me that I should have to deal with this just because some people fileshare illegally?
Personally, I refuse to buy any CD with DRM on it. (Luckily with these artists I'm not losing anything, heh.) I don't want to support the movement one bit. I just hope mainstream America catches on. The only way I see it going away is if the record companies realize how unprofitable it would be.
I guess now we know how they always win in that SOCOM commercial.
I would be willing to wager that one of 2 to 4 distros to be supported will be Debian. I wouldn't be surprised to see them go with Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware. This would give them a distro for pretty much everyone: rpm users, apt-get users, and anti-bloat users. Maybe a fourth would be Mandrake or Gentoo, but I don't know about that.
From the article:
Like graffiti, defaced Web sites are considered little more than a nuisance. The message tends to get wide exposure, but the damage to the victim is minimal. Web site operators typically have the site restored within a matter of hours.
Will the media ever learn that a seemingly "innocent" act of defacing a website causes a major headache for the people who have to patch the hole and make sure the rest of their systems weren't compromised? Of course, what should I expect from an article that thinks that crackers and "hackers" are the same thing.