In the article he claims that Panther is as "crisp... as OS 9.2.2". In my experience, 9.2.x was just kludged together to make it forwards-compatible with OS X, and introduced a lot of undesirable behavior.
In fact, I found this to be true with MacOS 9, period. 8.5 seemed a lot more stable and user-friendly. What did 9 have that 8.5 didn't?
My only problem with the Dock is dragging, say, 20 or 30 picture files on to Preview so you can look through them all; if you miss the Preview icon and the button slips-- WHAM!-- 20 more icons added to the Dock. Well, that and accidentally clicking on a program that takes a while to boot.
Personally, I thought it was ludicrous when I was wearing shorts and SANDALS, and was asked to take them off, while they waved the security wand around my bare lower legs. Oh yeah, because I am hiding a bomb in my realistic-looking prosthetic leg?!?
After dropping my 3-day old PowerBook & fusking up the display, I decided it was time to insure myself against my own clumsiness/stupidity. After a good deal of research in to the matter, I settled for the Zero Halliburton DZ5.
It has been drop tested with a laptop inside from a height of 60", can take being run over by small cars, and is impervious to being penetrated by dust and moisture (a must in the blustery northwest). It's a little on the heavy side, so now carrying my PowerBook is like having an older PC notebook, but it is well worth the peace of mind.
I'm not so sure that this is so much the artist's concern-- I would think that it would be much harder to make money selling things where 90% of the profits go to the reseller, the distributor, and the record label. This is why a lot of major label artists spend their time on other money-making ventures, like MTV videos, endorsements, and (oh yeah) touring...
The iTunes store is starting to give independent record labels (K, Matador, et. al) an equal footing with these big labels, but the independent label artists will get more of a fair share from their record company.
The artists that complained the loudest (Madonna and U2 were on the list, I believe) were not the ones that have been the bands making those comprehensive concept albums of yore. But given a choice between this and P2P, the Top 40 artists should resign themselves to their ubiquity.
More power to bands with solid albums worth buying, instead of has-beens who try to cash in on a whole album for coming up with one or two hit songs every three years.
And: why would we pay $16.99 for an album at a store when we can download all 14 tracks for $9.99?
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Get yourself a Radius server and use RSA and/or Vasco tokens with it. You can authenticate to the Radius server for VPN connections or for secure web access, et cetera (PHP and Perl can do this, the code is out there).
Your users only have to remember one pin-- the one for their personal token they carry. They punch in their pin, get their one-time-password, passwords expire after 60 seconds or so.
This works well as a compromise-- users seem more willing to carry a token when faced with the asinine alternatives (6+ passwords?).
Or, if you're stuck on the user end, do what Bruce Schneier sez: "You can't memorize good enough passwords any more, so don't bother. Create long random passwords, and write them down. Store them in your wallet... Guard them as you would your cash."
That life cycle has gotten a lot shorter. "Bootylicious" is in the dictionary, for instance, and schools have an increasing tolerance for letting the kids write however they damn well please, being afraid to squash their imagination and/or sense of self-worth.
Some schools aren't even allowed to make more than 5 grammatical corrections per assignment, lest they crush those fragile little egos! So now nothing is a mistake, anyway.
From what I've heard from Cisco (yesterday), it sounds like it is probably a proprietary response from the specific applications-- including Cisco's Security Agent, too, so you can't let the unprotected users get on (and infect) your internal network.
I don't think Cisco's dumb enough to set it up so the response could be so easily faked. So it will take time to figure out how to, er, emulate those proprietary responses (*grin*).
The OS fingerprinting is coming, too, a little further down the roadmap-- and then can prevent users from getting on the network unless they have the latest Windows patches et cetera.
Don't know what this means for us BSD/*nix users...
assuming the network/host doesn't block ICMP or screw with it
or assuming that the ISP doesn't all-of-a-sudden decide to block all pings at their edge routers to "stop malicious traffic" and you suddenly think your whole network just got hosed...
Well, I ran this security update this morning, and the XP security updates a few days ago, and now my PowerBook and Compaq refuse to talk to each other. It seems one update or the other broke SMB between the 2 platforms, because it worked fine last week.
Now, after I try to connect to the XP box, it tries & then won't do it. A few moments later, it gives me that very annoying, very modal dialog box that grays out everything else, and says (in several languages) that I need to reboot. Ugh! Anyone else come across this problem?
and if you actually read the review above, he mentions "an app that hijacks the audio stream", which sounds like audio hijack, an OS X app that basically does the same thing.
anyway, a quick visit to total recorder's website would have shown that total recorder is windows-only...
Uh, the technical answer would have to be answered by Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, but it's well known that lots of clothes for superhero types are made out of "unstable molecules"-- it's how come Reed Richards can stretch his clothes so much, and why the Human Torch's clothes don't burn, f'rinstance.
they're about having good time, having couple of beers
just a couple of beers?!? what kinda good time is that?
no, my friend, a good time is when you don't remember splashing that voka tonic across your monitor, but don't remember caring, either. wow, my apartment is still recovering from that night.
Really? I somehow gain something out of a private corporation taking something that is cheap to reproduce, and instead, keeping it away from the masses?
Cheap to reproduce != cheap to produce, develop, distribute and support.
Besides, I would rather a company try to make its money off of cool tech than "tech support" (an increasingly popular and disturbing trend).
If you've read this far you might be interested to note this plug-in from Adobe that "enhances the reliability of Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.x software running on a Mac OS X system that uses the G4 processor" from a couple of days ago.
No word on whether this gives the PS on G4s any kind of speed boost, though.
Good price beats out good design? Yeah, I hear those Mercedes-Benz folk were kicking themselves over this same issue. Apparently having "a real tough time" keeping afloat.
> Oregon's multimillion-dollar budget deficit (caused by > one of the lowest tax rates in the nation)
Actually, Oregon tax rates are among the highest in the nation, with one of the largest income taxes and largest property taxes. You don't see the taxes in-store, but you sure feel them on your paycheck.
Still, it's silly to think that the economy will be boosted in any way by raising taxes or adding new ones. Unemployment is the major problem in Oregon right now, and the recent hike in minimum wage is only going to make that problem worse.
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Homer: "Me like beer."
Lingwo (correcting him): "I like beer!"
*glug, glug, fizzle, pop*
Homer: "Oh, I'm sorry, honey. I thought he was a party robot!"
In the article he claims that Panther is as "crisp... as OS 9.2.2". In my experience, 9.2.x was just kludged together to make it forwards-compatible with OS X, and introduced a lot of undesirable behavior.
In fact, I found this to be true with MacOS 9, period. 8.5 seemed a lot more stable and user-friendly. What did 9 have that 8.5 didn't?
My only problem with the Dock is dragging, say, 20 or 30 picture files on to Preview so you can look through them all; if you miss the Preview icon and the button slips-- WHAM!-- 20 more icons added to the Dock. Well, that and accidentally clicking on a program that takes a while to boot.
Personally, I thought it was ludicrous when I was wearing shorts and SANDALS, and was asked to take them off, while they waved the security wand around my bare lower legs. Oh yeah, because I am hiding a bomb in my realistic-looking prosthetic leg?!?
After dropping my 3-day old PowerBook & fusking up the display, I decided it was time to insure myself against my own clumsiness/stupidity. After a good deal of research in to the matter, I settled for the Zero Halliburton DZ5.
It has been drop tested with a laptop inside from a height of 60", can take being run over by small cars, and is impervious to being penetrated by dust and moisture (a must in the blustery northwest). It's a little on the heavy side, so now carrying my PowerBook is like having an older PC notebook, but it is well worth the peace of mind.
Digitalfotoclub.com has the best price on them, at $100 less than many places.
I'm not so sure that this is so much the artist's concern-- I would think that it would be much harder to make money selling things where 90% of the profits go to the reseller, the distributor, and the record label. This is why a lot of major label artists spend their time on other money-making ventures, like MTV videos, endorsements, and (oh yeah) touring...
The iTunes store is starting to give independent record labels (K, Matador, et. al) an equal footing with these big labels, but the independent label artists will get more of a fair share from their record company.
The artists that complained the loudest (Madonna and U2 were on the list, I believe) were not the ones that have been the bands making those comprehensive concept albums of yore. But given a choice between this and P2P, the Top 40 artists should resign themselves to their ubiquity.
More power to bands with solid albums worth buying, instead of has-beens who try to cash in on a whole album for coming up with one or two hit songs every three years.
And: why would we pay $16.99 for an album at a store when we can download all 14 tracks for $9.99?
Get yourself a Radius server and use RSA and/or Vasco tokens with it. You can authenticate to the Radius server for VPN connections or for secure web access, et cetera (PHP and Perl can do this, the code is out there).
Your users only have to remember one pin-- the one for their personal token they carry. They punch in their pin, get their one-time-password, passwords expire after 60 seconds or so.
This works well as a compromise-- users seem more willing to carry a token when faced with the asinine alternatives (6+ passwords?).
Or, if you're stuck on the user end, do what Bruce Schneier sez: "You can't memorize good enough passwords any more, so don't bother. Create long random passwords, and write them down. Store them in your wallet... Guard them as you would your cash."
That life cycle has gotten a lot shorter. "Bootylicious" is in the dictionary, for instance, and schools have an increasing tolerance for letting the kids write however they damn well please, being afraid to squash their imagination and/or sense of self-worth.
Some schools aren't even allowed to make more than 5 grammatical corrections per assignment, lest they crush those fragile little egos! So now nothing is a mistake, anyway.
From what I've heard from Cisco (yesterday), it sounds like it is probably a proprietary response from the specific applications-- including Cisco's Security Agent, too, so you can't let the unprotected users get on (and infect) your internal network.
I don't think Cisco's dumb enough to set it up so the response could be so easily faked. So it will take time to figure out how to, er, emulate those proprietary responses (*grin*).
The OS fingerprinting is coming, too, a little further down the roadmap-- and then can prevent users from getting on the network unless they have the latest Windows patches et cetera.
Don't know what this means for us BSD/*nix users...
assuming the network/host doesn't block ICMP or screw with it
or assuming that the ISP doesn't all-of-a-sudden decide to block all pings at their edge routers to "stop malicious traffic" and you suddenly think your whole network just got hosed...
Well, I ran this security update this morning, and the XP security updates a few days ago, and now my PowerBook and Compaq refuse to talk to each other. It seems one update or the other broke SMB between the 2 platforms, because it worked fine last week.
Now, after I try to connect to the XP box, it tries & then won't do it. A few moments later, it gives me that very annoying, very modal dialog box that grays out everything else, and says (in several languages) that I need to reboot. Ugh! Anyone else come across this problem?
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i'm assuming that you are referring to this total recorder...
and if you actually read the review above, he mentions "an app that hijacks the audio stream", which sounds like audio hijack, an OS X app that basically does the same thing.
anyway, a quick visit to total recorder's website would have shown that total recorder is windows-only...
Uh, the technical answer would have to be answered by Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, but it's well known that lots of clothes for superhero types are made out of "unstable molecules"-- it's how come Reed Richards can stretch his clothes so much, and why the Human Torch's clothes don't burn, f'rinstance.
Wow, I've read too many comics.
Note that Jobs only denies that they made an offer, which may well mean that Apple was/still are in talks with Universal...
But my policy is to comment as egregiously as possible on rumors.
they're about having good time, having couple of beers
just a couple of beers?!? what kinda good time is that?
no, my friend, a good time is when you don't remember splashing that voka tonic across your monitor, but don't remember caring, either. wow, my apartment is still recovering from that night.
You give Microsoft too little credit!
I think it's well past the drawing board... I remember reading this in Wired a while ago -- back in May 2001, actually.
They're using 16 PS2's hooked up in parallel...
Really? I somehow gain something out of a private corporation taking something that is cheap to reproduce, and instead, keeping it away from the masses?
Cheap to reproduce != cheap to produce, develop, distribute and support.
Besides, I would rather a company try to make its money off of cool tech than "tech support" (an increasingly popular and disturbing trend).
If you've read this far you might be interested to note this plug-in from Adobe that "enhances the reliability of Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.x software running on a Mac OS X system that uses the G4 processor" from a couple of days ago.
No word on whether this gives the PS on G4s any kind of speed boost, though.
Good price beats out good design? Yeah, I hear those Mercedes-Benz folk were kicking themselves over this same issue. Apparently having "a real tough time" keeping afloat.
> Oregon's multimillion-dollar budget deficit (caused by > one of the lowest tax rates in the nation) Actually, Oregon tax rates are among the highest in the nation, with one of the largest income taxes and largest property taxes. You don't see the taxes in-store, but you sure feel them on your paycheck. Still, it's silly to think that the economy will be boosted in any way by raising taxes or adding new ones. Unemployment is the major problem in Oregon right now, and the recent hike in minimum wage is only going to make that problem worse.