I think this "breaking news" on slashdot is a sham, the only advantage is you get to put in your own two cents first.
It's more so that you get to check out the articles/sites in the post before most others (read: you aren't affected by the/. effect). Discussion on the post can't start until the story is available to all (unless I'm missing something).
...because, AFAIK, Kazaa Lite is created simply by taking the original Kazaa and inserting a dummy DLL in place of a certain legitimate one. While I'm sure Kazaa could get trickier with checks to make sure a legit DLL is in place, I have a feeling that reverse engineering will keep pace just fine and Kazaa Lite won't be going anywhere.
My point was that Delphi is the best of both worlds: it was equally powerful whether you needed it for a quick`n`dirty GUI app or an extremely complex project.
My first choice is Delphi. I don't think I'd ever say Delphi is better at creating quick`n`dirty apps than VB, but I would most certainly say that it is completely on par in that area, with the added benefit of being much more powerful. (My opinions here are based on VB6 and Delphi5, which are the last two I used heavily before being liberated from Windows GUI work.)
The other alternative I can think of is RealBASIC. Their development environment used to only run on Mac OS, even though it could compile apps for either Mac OS or Windows. Nowadays, the environment itself as well as the apps it creates all run on both Mac OS 9/X and Windows, although I've never used the Windows development environment. I've only had limited exposure to RealBASIC, but based just on those few hours, I would highly recommend any fan of VB at least give it a shot--I know if I ever have to go back to Windows GUI work, I certainly will. (It seems it would especially shine for quick`n`dirty apps because it seems to focus more on simplicity and cross-platform rather than feature bloat.)
Quoteth the post: ... in Xserves and PowerBooks. The update prevents Combo drives from intermittently failing to eject discs.
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I wish Apple would be more specific about what systems this is actually for. Or maybe what the problem is.
Where's the confusion about what the problem is, or what systems are affected? Sounds like a number of slot-loading combo drives used in Xserves and PowerBooks have a problem with intermittently failing to eject discs. After reading the 3 sentence bit about this issue, I would have asked myself:
1) Do I have an Xserve or PowerBook?
2) Does the slot-loading combo drive of said Xserve or PowerBook have a problem with intermittently failing to eject discs?
It seems to me that answering these two questions would tell me whether or not I need to run this firmware update. Or maybe I'm missing something?:-)
My guess is that Apple users are just used to getting ripped off.
Or perhaps their needs and desires are different from yours, thus making the iTMS a real value?
It seems quite ignorant to think that because something is a ripoff to you that it isn't something very useful and valuable to others.
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So, I don't know what to make of this. If he's getting it from the member directories, why pay for it? Because the member directory is incomplete and he wants them all maybe?
Exactly. I'm sure AOL puts limits on repeated access to the member directory, so while he could do it, I bet it would take quite a while. Beyond that, I wouldn't doubt that AOL "whitelists" anyone that pays for the entire member directory, which in itself would be a huge incentive to buying the whole thing.
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Quoteth the article itself: He claims he obtained all his addresses legally, adding that AOL gladly sold him the company's entire customer directory. Given the opportunity to deny that, Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL, did not.
Now, if they were simply not selling their customer list to this loser, I find it hard to believe they would have a problem in saying so. The fact they are not denying they sold it to him says just as loudly that they are selling it to him, as far as I'm concerned.
the medical and real estate/title industries, you're right, SCO is largely irrelevant. But for these 2 industries, SCO is still used by many companies (I can think of at least 3 of my own clients off hand). Most of the stuff I've seen has been UnixWare, but I still see an OpenServer install once in a while.
Uh, was this story not about a Linux distro reorganizing the filesystem so that it makes more sense for the users? My whole point was that it is a good idea, and my example of OS A vs. OS B was simply to demonstrate this.
..I'm not talking about how intuitive "file" and "directory" are. I am talking about how easy it is to comprehend the purpose of each directory (and thus, the type of files one could expect to find there). If I give my 50-yr old mother two computers, one running OS A, and the other running OS B, and she sees the following directories:
OS A: /bin /etc /home /lib /usr
OS B: /Applications /Settings /Library /Users
I'll bet any amount of money that she is better able to find her way around the filesystem of OS B, simply because it is much more clear as to the purpose (and thus, contents) of each directory.
to make the filesystem intuitive, as well as logical. Sure, the *nix filesystem is logical, once you learn about it. However, it would be nice to have a filesystem that is intuitive to the point that there is no learning required before it is considered logical.
No, but I hear you can get a 15.2" widescreen 1Ghz PowerBook for around $2800. With slot-loading DVD-R/CD-RW. And built-in wireless networking (nevermind the built-in gigabit ethernet). And half a gig of ram and a 60GB hard drive. And Radeon 9000/64MB graphics. And, to top it all off, the best desktop OS ever created.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I'm ready to upgrade this one and the only notebook shipping is a brand new model.
Check out www.powermax.com. They sell new, refurbished, and used macs of all kinds. Many times in the past, they've still had a stock of new previous gen macs while the newest ones are being sold along side them. One company I did contract work for outfitted almost an entire office with previous gen quicksilvers that they purchased from powermax.com and wouldn't stop recommending them to me. The next time I'm looking to buy myself (or anyone else, really) a Mac, I'll definitely be checking out powermax.com first.
And no, I don't work for powermax and have no financial interest in them whatsoever. It is nice, however, to come across a Mac reseller that has great customer service AND such a huge selection of models and price ranges.
While I'm obviously no expert, the impression I got was that the guy behind the F.A. Porsche design studio is the one that designed the Porsche 911. While, sure, he is the son of the original Porsche, he still designed the 911, and I think that gives him right to design other products under the Porsche name without being accused of "abusing the family name".
I worked at a company a few years ago that rented one of these boxes from Mailboxes Etc. When we were given the box, they gave us the address as "123 Main St, Suite 4747", and that is how we gave it out to everyone. So, no, you don't have to have PMB in there anywhere, at least as far as actual laws go.
Seriously, there are many absolutely critical portions of the system that are simple (and not so simple) shell scripts, and these are only guaranteed/tested to work with the *default* shell. Messing with root's shell is only asking for trouble. Really.
Well, in that case, the script should be marked executable and the #! line should contain the proper shell to use. Or, perhaps just call the shell directly with the script as its argument? What's so hard about that?
My whole point was that if changing the default shell breaks the script, there is something inherently wrong in how the script is written and/or being run. In 8+ years, I've never seen a script break because of changing the default shell, but if I ever did, I would quickly start looking for a new OS.
I've heard this a number of times, mostly from an old Solaris admin I used to work with. Yet, in 8 or so years of administering all kinds of *nix boxes, I have yet to run into a single problem that was caused by changing root's shell. I can see being careful about it, but then again, you should be careful about everything you do as root. It seems to me that anything that relies on root having a specific shell is inherently broken software to begin with, and shouldn't be run as root at all.
I've administered everything from Solaris to FreeBSD to Linux and now Mac OS X, and I've used many shells for root among them, including ksh, zsh, csh, and bash. The day I'm forced to use a particular shell for root is the day I find a new operating system.
...SafarIcon, available on versiontracker.com. It is just a "theme changer" for Safari, changing out all the icons and graphics used by Safari. I wouldn't have gone to Safari so quickly without this ability because I truly can't stand the default look of Safari. I'm currently using a theme called Phoenity (available from the SafarIcon homepage or from www.phoenity.com), and all of its icons are simple, with bright colors, and very easy to distinguish their intended function (including the add-to-bookmarks and stop icons). As well, I'd recommend Metallifizer from www.unsanity.com to kill the brushed metal look in Safari (and any other Cocoa app). The lack of brushed metal and the use of a good looking theme have given Safari what I consider nearly perfect looks and layout.
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I think this "breaking news" on slashdot is a sham, the only advantage is you get to put in your own two cents first.
/. effect). Discussion on the post can't start until the story is available to all (unless I'm missing something).
It's more so that you get to check out the articles/sites in the post before most others (read: you aren't affected by the
..that it was distributed as a part of the application by the original authors.
...because, AFAIK, Kazaa Lite is created simply by taking the original Kazaa and inserting a dummy DLL in place of a certain legitimate one. While I'm sure Kazaa could get trickier with checks to make sure a legit DLL is in place, I have a feeling that reverse engineering will keep pace just fine and Kazaa Lite won't be going anywhere.
Quoteth the article:
The event at the Shrine Auditorium is more satire than ceremony, honoring show-business types for such categories as best kiss and villain.
The only redeeming part about the MTV movie awards: the fact that, underneath it all, they're just poking fun at self-important movie stars.
My point was that Delphi is the best of both worlds: it was equally powerful whether you needed it for a quick`n`dirty GUI app or an extremely complex project.
My first choice is Delphi. I don't think I'd ever say Delphi is better at creating quick`n`dirty apps than VB, but I would most certainly say that it is completely on par in that area, with the added benefit of being much more powerful. (My opinions here are based on VB6 and Delphi5, which are the last two I used heavily before being liberated from Windows GUI work.)
The other alternative I can think of is RealBASIC. Their development environment used to only run on Mac OS, even though it could compile apps for either Mac OS or Windows. Nowadays, the environment itself as well as the apps it creates all run on both Mac OS 9/X and Windows, although I've never used the Windows development environment. I've only had limited exposure to RealBASIC, but based just on those few hours, I would highly recommend any fan of VB at least give it a shot--I know if I ever have to go back to Windows GUI work, I certainly will. (It seems it would especially shine for quick`n`dirty apps because it seems to focus more on simplicity and cross-platform rather than feature bloat.)
... Unless just working reliably and quickly counts as innovative. ...
...this day and age, a piece of software working reliably and quickly is innovative.
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... in Xserves and PowerBooks. The update prevents Combo drives from intermittently failing to eject discs.
:-)
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I wish Apple would be more specific about what systems this is actually for. Or maybe what the problem is.
Where's the confusion about what the problem is, or what systems are affected? Sounds like a number of slot-loading combo drives used in Xserves and PowerBooks have a problem with intermittently failing to eject discs. After reading the 3 sentence bit about this issue, I would have asked myself:
1) Do I have an Xserve or PowerBook?
2) Does the slot-loading combo drive of said Xserve or PowerBook have a problem with intermittently failing to eject discs?
It seems to me that answering these two questions would tell me whether or not I need to run this firmware update. Or maybe I'm missing something?
My guess is that Apple users are just used to getting ripped off.
Or perhaps their needs and desires are different from yours, thus making the iTMS a real value?
It seems quite ignorant to think that because something is a ripoff to you that it isn't something very useful and valuable to others.
So, I don't know what to make of this. If he's getting it from the member directories, why pay for it? Because the member directory is incomplete and he wants them all maybe?
Exactly. I'm sure AOL puts limits on repeated access to the member directory, so while he could do it, I bet it would take quite a while. Beyond that, I wouldn't doubt that AOL "whitelists" anyone that pays for the entire member directory, which in itself would be a huge incentive to buying the whole thing.
Quoteth the article itself:
He claims he obtained all his addresses legally, adding that AOL gladly sold him the company's entire customer directory. Given the opportunity to deny that, Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL, did not.
Now, if they were simply not selling their customer list to this loser, I find it hard to believe they would have a problem in saying so. The fact they are not denying they sold it to him says just as loudly that they are selling it to him, as far as I'm concerned.
Besides: The public beta of Mac OS X came out September 2000 and Quartz was demo'd to the public half a year before that by Steve Jobs. ...
Of course I could be wrong, but I thought the first public demo of Quartz was at the dev conf before Jaguar's release...
the medical and real estate/title industries, you're right, SCO is largely irrelevant. But for these 2 industries, SCO is still used by many companies (I can think of at least 3 of my own clients off hand). Most of the stuff I've seen has been UnixWare, but I still see an OpenServer install once in a while.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/21 58258&mode=thread&tid=111
Huh? The content isn't the point. ...
Maybe for those that want to find out the details of it all, or even download any source he's released, the content is the point.
Uh, was this story not about a Linux distro reorganizing the filesystem so that it makes more sense for the users? My whole point was that it is a good idea, and my example of OS A vs. OS B was simply to demonstrate this.
..I'm not talking about how intuitive "file" and "directory" are. I am talking about how easy it is to comprehend the purpose of each directory (and thus, the type of files one could expect to find there). If I give my 50-yr old mother two computers, one running OS A, and the other running OS B, and she sees the following directories:
/bin
/etc
/home
/lib
/usr
/Applications
/Settings
/Library
/Users
OS A:
OS B:
I'll bet any amount of money that she is better able to find her way around the filesystem of OS B, simply because it is much more clear as to the purpose (and thus, contents) of each directory.
to make the filesystem intuitive, as well as logical. Sure, the *nix filesystem is logical, once you learn about it. However, it would be nice to have a filesystem that is intuitive to the point that there is no learning required before it is considered logical.
$3500 plus for a 14" 1ghz powermac? Naw.
No, but I hear you can get a 15.2" widescreen 1Ghz PowerBook for around $2800. With slot-loading DVD-R/CD-RW. And built-in wireless networking (nevermind the built-in gigabit ethernet). And half a gig of ram and a 60GB hard drive. And Radeon 9000/64MB graphics. And, to top it all off, the best desktop OS ever created.
I'll take a slightly thinner wallet for that.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I'm ready to upgrade this one and the only notebook shipping is a brand new model.
Check out www.powermax.com. They sell new, refurbished, and used macs of all kinds. Many times in the past, they've still had a stock of new previous gen macs while the newest ones are being sold along side them. One company I did contract work for outfitted almost an entire office with previous gen quicksilvers that they purchased from powermax.com and wouldn't stop recommending them to me. The next time I'm looking to buy myself (or anyone else, really) a Mac, I'll definitely be checking out powermax.com first.
And no, I don't work for powermax and have no financial interest in them whatsoever. It is nice, however, to come across a Mac reseller that has great customer service AND such a huge selection of models and price ranges.
While I'm obviously no expert, the impression I got was that the guy behind the F.A. Porsche design studio is the one that designed the Porsche 911. While, sure, he is the son of the original Porsche, he still designed the 911, and I think that gives him right to design other products under the Porsche name without being accused of "abusing the family name".
I worked at a company a few years ago that rented one of these boxes from Mailboxes Etc. When we were given the box, they gave us the address as "123 Main St, Suite 4747", and that is how we gave it out to everyone. So, no, you don't have to have PMB in there anywhere, at least as far as actual laws go.
Seriously, there are many absolutely critical portions of the system that are simple (and not so simple) shell scripts, and these are only guaranteed/tested to work with the *default* shell. Messing with root's shell is only asking for trouble. Really.
Well, in that case, the script should be marked executable and the #! line should contain the proper shell to use. Or, perhaps just call the shell directly with the script as its argument? What's so hard about that?
My whole point was that if changing the default shell breaks the script, there is something inherently wrong in how the script is written and/or being run. In 8+ years, I've never seen a script break because of changing the default shell, but if I ever did, I would quickly start looking for a new OS.
Why?
I've heard this a number of times, mostly from an old Solaris admin I used to work with. Yet, in 8 or so years of administering all kinds of *nix boxes, I have yet to run into a single problem that was caused by changing root's shell. I can see being careful about it, but then again, you should be careful about everything you do as root. It seems to me that anything that relies on root having a specific shell is inherently broken software to begin with, and shouldn't be run as root at all.
I've administered everything from Solaris to FreeBSD to Linux and now Mac OS X, and I've used many shells for root among them, including ksh, zsh, csh, and bash. The day I'm forced to use a particular shell for root is the day I find a new operating system.
...SafarIcon, available on versiontracker.com. It is just a "theme changer" for Safari, changing out all the icons and graphics used by Safari. I wouldn't have gone to Safari so quickly without this ability because I truly can't stand the default look of Safari. I'm currently using a theme called Phoenity (available from the SafarIcon homepage or from www.phoenity.com), and all of its icons are simple, with bright colors, and very easy to distinguish their intended function (including the add-to-bookmarks and stop icons). As well, I'd recommend Metallifizer from www.unsanity.com to kill the brushed metal look in Safari (and any other Cocoa app). The lack of brushed metal and the use of a good looking theme have given Safari what I consider nearly perfect looks and layout.