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  1. Re:Apple Xserve? on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apple has a solution for this. Xsan is a distrubuted filesystem that is based on the ADIC's StoreNext filesystem. Apple states on that page that it will scale into the range of petabytes.

  2. Re:60GB -- 3 hours of video: Huh? on iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You · · Score: 1

    Ummm... On the Apple site is says 150 Hours of Video right there on the front page. Encoded in H264 no doubt, but 150 hours none the less. No to shabby

  3. Re:ethonal shrinks my gas tank on Ethanol More Trouble Than It's Worth? · · Score: 1

    yeah, except the last time I checked E-85 costs significantly less than your good old octane 87. Here in Illinois 87 octane is $2.35 where as E-85 is $1.64. In the end you still end up saving money even with the lowered fuel economy.

  4. Prior Art?? on Apple Sued Over iTunes UI · · Score: 4, Informative

    Okay Here is the deal. iTunes is based on a MP3 player application Apple bought from Casady & Greene called Soundjam MP. Apple bought this app in 2001 and re-designed it into iTunes. Casady & Greene first released Sound Jam MP Two years before Apple bought them. So that would put the desing of the app at about the same time the patent was issued.

    Just to clarify my above facts a little bit, Casady & Greene published SoundJam they weren't the developers. So it looks like the individuals that may or may not have been privy to the deep dark secrets of this patent originally cam from the SoundJam developer team.

    now by no means was SoundJam the first MP3 player on the market, so there is going to be prior art all over this.

  5. Re:dell's website now runs .Net on WebObjects Now Free With Tiger · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most Likely because WebObjects now only runs in OS X. Dell probably hasn't used WebObjects for about 7 years now, right about the time Apple bought Next. It was there original store that was coded in WebObjects.

  6. Re:free as in ??? (Parent is mis-modded) on WebObjects Now Free With Tiger · · Score: 2, Informative

    As of now WebObjects developer is free. Your can develop with only a copy of Apples free dev tools. Now Deploying requires a License of 10.4 Server which will put you back $499 ($299 if your educational). This dev kit you talk about was the Tiger quick start kit, to allow developers to get tiger early. Apple's Dev Tool have been free from the start. Stop spreading FUD.

    In other new the rumblings around WWDC was that Apple is planning on open sourcing WebObjects, which would then make it free. More on that here.

  7. Re:Database on WebObjects Now Free With Tiger · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the short answer is yes.

    It uses JDBC database connectivity and OS X Server ships with MySQL installed.

  8. Re:Holy crap. on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 1
    Man, it is cold in hell today. Brr. :P

    Hey and one year from today is 6-6-6. Wierd.

  9. Apple has trademarked Tiger on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    Apple has trademarked tiger, you can see the listing Here. It wasn't registered before TigerDirect existed, but its a registered trademark, in a different category, that was accepted by the uspto.

    I don't see how its that much of an open and shut case.

    Now if apple re-branded the Apple Store as "Tiger Store" then I would see the problem. Or if a direct link to the Apple Store came up in a search for Tiger.

  10. Re:But will they share? on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: 3, Informative

    Er... Correction WebCore is LGPL so that part about the Apple Open Source license is redundant

  11. Re:But will they share? on Safari Passes the Acid2 Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    This code is in the WebCore which is one of Apple's Open Source projects.

    Check it out here.

    So if the KHTML team wants to put this code in the main khtml tree they can. Since Apple's Open Source License is GPL compatable

  12. Re:64-bit doesn't include graphics! on Apple Announces Tiger Release Date · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your missing the point once again. 32bit UI is faster and that is what the average user will care about. This all doesn't mean that the application can't take advantage of 64 bit pointers. It just means that Apple's interface elements were not upgraded to use 64bit pointers. There are still methods for allowing these pro apps to use 64bits in their complex computation. My guess is that the pro apps will have a 32bit GUI that talks to a 64bit backend with something similar to what apple refers to as Shared Objects now. This way you have your 64bits for complex computation and your 32bit fast GUI, the best fo both worlds

    Remember: 64bits doesn't make computing 1+1 faster, but it makes computing (2^32) + 1 faster

  13. Core Data on Apple Announces Tiger Release Date · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Am I the only one excited about the core data technology? In every write up of Tiger I have seen so far have not mentioned this new technology.

    I mean come on. It gives you save, undo and redo functionality for free, no extra coding. Plus if you make good use of cocoa bindings in interface builder you could build a complete simple application with out writing a single line of code manually. That is pretty freaking sweet.

    Maybe its just the geek in me but I think its cool. Plus you can save in multiple different file formats, binary, xml, or sqllite.

    More Here: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/coredata.h tml

  14. Re:Who's still using mysql? on 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta · · Score: 1

    It's great for prototyping things, but i just can't imagine running something critical on it.

    What like Slashdot?

    You may say its not critical but can you imagine the conniption fits hundreds of thousands of nerds would have if they couldn't get their slashdot

  15. Re:Compilers on Hacking Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that apple doesn't run 100% IMC PPC compliers. who knows how code complied with the xlc compliers would run on the motorola/freescale chips that are in the PB/iBook/eMac/Mini.

  16. No You miss the point. on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    The point is not that Apple is the ultimate entity for deciding what goes into OS X. That point is redundant. Linus is the ultimate authority for what gets in the linux kernel, he could decide, "You know what I don't want to patch the kernel sources to fixed this uber-r00tkit hack", but he has a vested interest. If Linux looks insecure then businesses won't use it. The same goes for Apple. They want in the business market more than anyone at the moment.

    The point of this is that Apple, as a company, is not the only people audting the code of OS' various systems. For example, Who audits the IIS code, the MS IIS team. Who audits the code for the web server used in OS X, Lets see the Apache foundation, Apple, Various linux distro maintainers, Security professionals, whitehats, etc, etc. etc.... Who is the source of all IIS paches, MS. Apache patches could come from any of the above sources. I'm sure at some point in the not too distant future more patches will come directly from Apple and show up in the changelogs of various open source software packages. Especially now that apple isn't cranking out a new OS revision every year.

    In the end it comes down to the closed vs. open source security argument. IMHO open source will ultimately be more secure.

  17. Fun on Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wow. That's a fun exploit... I can't wait to go tell my boss why our site links to a pron site on google.

    All kidding aside this could be a major problem for some of the more controversial websites. Akin to the Googlebombing that was just mentioned yesterday this could be the next major attack scheme on the net. Imagine a pro-life site subverting a pro-choice site, Neo-nazi's subverting a site intended for Jewish children, the US government subverting Al Jazera...

    Not a whole lot of fun IMHO. I trust google to return what I search for, if this changes I and a whole lot of other nerds are going to be left wandering aimlessly around the net.

  18. Re:Wow on Companies Claim iTMS, iPod Patent Infringement · · Score: 1
    In fact, speaking of the RIAA, and assuming that Apple were to lose this case ... what would you bet that the RIAA would buy that patent outright, and only license "oligopoly friendly" players after that?

    Or Apple could just buy the patent from them with all that freaking money thy have in the bank. Or maybe if said company is publicly traded (which I doubt) Apple will just start a hostile takeover.

  19. Re:What an odd coincidence... on Strange Numbers on Caller ID? · · Score: 1

    Did I hear a niner in there?

  20. Re:This Article Isn't Presenting the Facts Accurat on Copyright Infringement and Shoplifting Contrasted · · Score: 1

    Which government stoare have you been to that sells DVD's?

    Have you ever been on a military base? They typically have a "Walmart type" store that sells DVDs, music, etc... At least overseas bases have in my experience.

  21. Re:Will this be the default OS... on Looking Ahead to Tiger, Powerbook G5s · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tiger will run on G3 - G5. There were still iBooks shipping less than 2 years ago that still had G3 processors. Apple's window for supported machines is normaly about 4 - 5 years so I would find it hard to believe that apple would leave those G3 and G4 out in the cold.. Not to mention that only like 10% of Mac owners have a G5.

    Oh wait was this a troll. Damn I bit...

  22. WTF on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 1

    This is the worst Dupe I have ever seen...

    I mean come on. The keynote was two days ago. It was reported on slashdot both before and after it was announced, and it has been on every other website on the planet, not to mention on all of the early morning news programs, evening news, and on the back of my milk carton this morning. Is anyone reading over this stuff anymore

  23. Re:MS Office = good on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have a syntax error there. You are assigning the property good to MS Office. You should really be using the comparison operator ==

    therfore your statement should read: MS Office == good

    Just to jump the gun and answer your next question, the value of that expression will be false.

  24. Re:Flash-based iPod actually a phone? on More on Apple/Motorola Joint Cell Phone Venture · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Motorola will build the phone, with apple branding. that Steve Jobs is a wily little ... Better stop before I piss any one off.

  25. Patch...??? on Microsoft to Issue Out-of-Cycle Patch for IE · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "long-term solution to the core vulnerability"

    So they are just going to install firefox over IE. Ha ha, we win...