Liquidation probably refers to the unfortunate state that the British economy had reached in the 1970s.
In addition to facing a nuclear threat (vaporization) there was a serious possibility that the country might collapse economically (liquidation).
Eventually the government got support from the IMF.
Of course the Soviet Union might have taken advantage of the situation if an economic collapse did happen in which case you might have had both sequentially.
Lots of different government papers got released at the same time, so it tends to get reported together.
Unfortuntely when the UK last tried that (with the pre-euro Exchange Rate Mechanism - ERM) it caused amazing problems, the peg wasn't at the right value (how can you determine the right value?) and the economy really suffered. Finally the UK dropped out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992 and the scheme was abandoned.
The problem with pegging is that the real value of the currencies fluctuate and central banks then need to spend reserves to keep the peg in place, which is fantastically expensive as the Bank of England found out in 1992. George Soros was the main speculator who caused the withdrawl after realising the situation was unstable.
Another notable failure of this kind of currency matching is Argentina before the recent crash which had a 1-1 peg to the dollar.
China's economy really isn't that good a position either for various reasons (economist article)
The initial one is probably the same as the login password, but if you changed the login password without changing the keychain password then you'll get prompted for the old password not the new one whenever something tries to access the keychain. Use the "Keychain Access" utility and choose the {usename} settings option from the edit menu, then change passphrase.
This should allow you to change the passphrase on the keychain. The keychain is used to secure all sorts of things including mail passwords and browser field values. The keychain is secured though and does only store one copy of the passphrase in a blowfish encrypted file.
It can be used by all applications , which may be where the impression that your password is being stored multiple times is coming from.
If you did change the keychain passphrase then it may be some other bug. Why not create a new user, copy your files across and delete the old user.
As to why application installers need administration rights to install applications, the applications folder is not writable to people not in the admin group. You can see this by inspecting the folder in question. Although I agree that some may be doing this without due cause.
I'm unclear what Apple might gain from knowing your password...
If you are concerned however, why not create another administrator user, then use that user to install software, then delete the user.
This way you can be confident that nobody will be able to log in as the user whose data might be compromised.
If you're concerned about information being transmitted to apple you could set up a firewall and block all access to apple.com. and anyone else you may have concerns about.
All of these concerns apply to any operating system which you didn't inspect the source code and compile everything yourself. Linux and windows have exactly the same problems in most ways if you use binary packages.
In the end it becomes a matter of inspection and trust. I tend to trust that Apple probably isn't doing this but I respect your right to belive otherwise and to take the precautions you deem necessary.
I hope that I'm right but if I'm wrong I will lose much more than you will.:-)
Oddly enough I think I'd probably watch a few episodes of this.
"What my brother die of?" "Pay me nothing: you murdered him, 1 credit: you accidentally killed him, 2 credits: an accident, 3 credits: he was stupid, 4 credits: his fault he died and he owes you compensation"
Is it likely that HP Ipaqs or Dell Axims will be the preferred pocket pc platform for running linux?
If you were going to buy a new device would it already run linux?
It seems that a Dell device that could run linux would mean lower prices for the performance, particularly for vertical applications.
I already have a Dell Axim so my decision is made but I am curious to see how this new development will affect people who haven't bought a pocket device and already run linux.
With the demise of so called 'blue collar' jobs and now the demise of 'white collar' jobs, what, if anything will actually be done in developed western countries like the United States and Europe?
It seems the only thing that will be left is retail and the public sector. But where will people obtain money to buy things in stores if all other activities occur in less developed/cheaper countries. We can't all work in shops or government, can we? The balance of payments would be totally off-balanced if we did.
Some people might like to start off with cocoa. This allows for interesting results from a few lines of code and allows for C and C++ as well as the normal objective C or Java.
You can start off connecting simple buttons to effects and move on to more sophisticated programs, it has a good collection of pre-written objects too.
As a personal opinion though I wouldn't recommend Applescript.
There is a link about it: BBC News Article
Rabbit was a short range telecom system. Imagine something like a cordless phone but with base stations dotted around the city that anyone with a compatibile telephone could use. The range was about 100 meters or so. You had to be within range of a base station to make or receive calls (although I think it had some kind of pager function so you could move into range if someone called you)
I think the main reason for it was due to the weight and size of mobile phones then available.
When mobile phones of reasonable size arrived the Rabbit system died off.
An interesting (If UK specific) figure is that there is about 25 billion pounds in notes and coin but an estimated 800 million pounds in the British economy. (a couple of years old on the figures)
This is mainly due to the fact the bank lends out the money that you deposit (while leaving the notional figure sitting in your account) to somebody else who then redeposits it into another bank account where it can be lent out again.
Money creation at work!
Given the similar economic structures I would imagine that there is a similar ratio and situation in the US and in all other countries with a similar banking system.
This obviously means that banks keep most of your money in electronic form anyway so perhaps the question is 'when will consumers have access to electronic cash' most money is already stored by a computer.
Slashdot Mirror
Posted too soon :-(
It appears IPFW may not be able to filter AFP (file sharing) after all. Worth a try possibly, but may not work.
Try using the advice in this tip: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080119112509736 which demonstrates bandwidth throttling by port number
but add a rule that limits by ip address as well as port number
see http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/ipfw.8.html for details of the ipfw rules
I haven't tried this combination myself but I can't see why it wouldn't work.
Qemu is already running on intel macs :-)
http://www.kberg.ch/q/index.php?sid=237768&p=0
And the developers are working on the virtualization stuff too.
Liquidation probably refers to the unfortunate state that the British economy had reached in the 1970s.
In addition to facing a nuclear threat (vaporization) there was a serious possibility that the country might collapse economically (liquidation).
Eventually the government got support from the IMF.
Of course the Soviet Union might have taken advantage of the situation if an economic collapse did happen in which case you might have had both sequentially.
Lots of different government papers got released at the same time, so it tends to get reported together.
Unfortuntely when the UK last tried that (with the pre-euro Exchange Rate Mechanism - ERM) it caused amazing problems, the peg wasn't at the right value (how can you determine the right value?) and the economy really suffered. Finally the UK dropped out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992 and the scheme was abandoned.
The problem with pegging is that the real value of the currencies fluctuate and central banks then need to spend reserves to keep the peg in place, which is fantastically expensive as the Bank of England found out in 1992. George Soros was the main speculator who caused the withdrawl after realising the situation was unstable.
Another notable failure of this kind of currency matching is Argentina before the recent crash which had a 1-1 peg to the dollar.China's economy really isn't that good a position either for various reasons (economist article)
AngusYou did change your keychain password right?
:-)
The initial one is probably the same as the login password, but if you changed the login password without changing the keychain password then you'll get prompted for the old password not the new one whenever something tries to access the keychain.
Use the "Keychain Access" utility and choose the {usename} settings option from the edit menu, then change passphrase.
This should allow you to change the passphrase on the keychain.
The keychain is used to secure all sorts of things including mail passwords and browser field values.
The keychain is secured though and does only store one copy of the passphrase in a blowfish encrypted file.
It can be used by all applications , which may be where the impression that your password is being stored multiple times is coming from.
If you did change the keychain passphrase then it may be some other bug. Why not create a new user, copy your files across and delete the old user.
As to why application installers need administration rights to install applications, the applications folder is not writable to people not in the admin group. You can see this by inspecting the folder in question. Although I agree that some may be doing this without due cause.
I'm unclear what Apple might gain from knowing your password...
If you are concerned however, why not create another administrator user, then use that user to install software, then delete the user.
This way you can be confident that nobody will be able to log in as the user whose data might be compromised.
If you're concerned about information being transmitted to apple you could set up a firewall and block all access to apple.com. and anyone else you may have concerns about.
All of these concerns apply to any operating system which you didn't inspect the source code and compile everything yourself. Linux and windows have exactly the same problems in most ways if you use binary packages.
In the end it becomes a matter of inspection and trust. I tend to trust that Apple probably isn't doing this but I respect your right to belive otherwise and to take the precautions you deem necessary.
I hope that I'm right but if I'm wrong I will lose much more than you will.
Angus Hardie
Oddly enough I think I'd probably watch a few episodes of this.
"What my brother die of?"
"Pay me nothing: you murdered him,
1 credit: you accidentally killed him,
2 credits: an accident,
3 credits: he was stupid,
4 credits: his fault he died and he owes you compensation"
or maybe not...
Angus
How is this likely to change the market for PDAs?
A little, a lot?
Is it likely that HP Ipaqs or Dell Axims will be the preferred pocket pc platform for running linux?
If you were going to buy a new device would it already run linux?
It seems that a Dell device that could run linux would mean lower prices for the performance, particularly for vertical applications.
I already have a Dell Axim so my decision is made but I am curious to see how this new development will affect people who haven't bought a pocket device and already run linux.
(And I am aware of the Sharp linux PDAs)
With the demise of so called 'blue collar' jobs and now the demise of 'white collar' jobs, what, if anything will actually be done in developed western countries like the United States and Europe?
It seems the only thing that will be left is retail and the public sector. But where will people obtain money to buy things in stores if all other activities occur in less developed/cheaper countries. We can't all work in shops or government, can we? The balance of payments would be totally off-balanced if we did.
The current arrangement cannot last.Some people might like to start off with cocoa. This allows for interesting results from a few lines of code and allows for C and C++ as well as the normal objective C or Java.
You can start off connecting simple buttons to effects and move on to more sophisticated programs, it has a good collection of pre-written objects too.
As a personal opinion though I wouldn't recommend Applescript.
There is a link about it: BBC News Article
Rabbit was a short range telecom system. Imagine something like a cordless phone but with base stations dotted around the city that anyone with a compatibile telephone could use. The range was about 100 meters or so. You had to be within range of a base station to make or receive calls (although I think it had some kind of pager function so you could move into range if someone called you) I think the main reason for it was due to the weight and size of mobile phones then available. When mobile phones of reasonable size arrived the Rabbit system died off.
An interesting (If UK specific) figure is that there is about 25 billion pounds in notes and coin but an estimated 800 million pounds in the British economy. (a couple of years old on the figures)
This is mainly due to the fact the bank lends out the money that you deposit (while leaving the notional figure sitting in your account) to somebody else who then redeposits it into another bank account where it can be lent out again.
Money creation at work!
Given the similar economic structures I would imagine that there is a similar ratio and situation in the US and in all other countries with a similar banking system.
This obviously means that banks keep most of your money in electronic form anyway so perhaps the question is 'when will consumers have access to electronic cash' most money is already stored by a computer.
Why not a Cobol and XML book?
Lots of old systems are still using cobol and there's probably a demand to link them to newer systems that already do use xml.
(Confession: I don't and never have used cobol)