Beware though, that there is probably a design flaw in the ribbon cable that connects the screen. Many 5(mx)'s fail prematurely due to a cracked cable.
> If I give his method, then people disable disk: protocol; then what?
Actually that would be a very good thing. If people conciously disabled autolaunching.dmg's I bet they would also like to know about (and disable) automounting through disk://.
It's not that simple. From what I understand, you can only launch AppleScripts with a help:runscript URL. But how do you get your script on the user's system in a known location? AppleScripts don't expand the user home directory from ~ or $HOME. The trick is put the script and your other malicious executables on a disk image and to automount that first, since they are mounted in a known location. Contrary to the article summary, Safari does not need to be set to automount: Safari will automount whatever follows a link of the form disk:// regardless of user settings. So to run this effectively you need to set up a webpage the disk image and refresh tags and some javascript and/or frames to obfuscate the URLs.
But the user's information is the most important part of a personal computer. On a corporate Unix system with many users, privilege separation is great: if one user messes up, others won't notice a thing. For home users, an OS reinstallation is not too problematic (especially MacOS). But the typical home user does not backup every night. It's their personal information that matters most. I think the most prudent thing to do for a home PC is to make a separate low-privilege account for all internet activities. On Windows, start the browser and mail with runas, on Unix use su.
If you can read French, there's an article on x86-secret where they opened a laptop, installed a big cooler, and overclocked a 2.0 Ghz Dothan to 2.4 Ghz. It remained stable during 2 hours of BurnP6 and stayed under 30 degrees C. The 2.4 Ghz Dothan beat the 3.4 Ghz P4 in all their benchmarks, and is comparable to the Athon 64 3400+.
Sure, these worms did cause a lot of inconvenience and downtime and such. But a (probably unintended) benefit of their outbreaks was that many vulnerable machines are now actually patched. Without these worms, if you hit a random 2K/XP machine on the net, there is a very good chance that you can take over the machine through either DCOM or LSASS (port 135 and 445 IIRC). Essentially, everyone can gain access to millions of machines, and the owners would probably be totally unaware. I'm not trying to defend the worm writer, but we all know that millions of people simply wouldn't patch until the machines keeps rebooting every few minutes.
> I will mention that I've never heard of a mac worm, a root exploit that's actually been carried out against a mac, and so forth.
Now you're mixing two different things. First, a worm on the scale of blaster/sasser is not likely to happen soon on a Mac, if you look at how they spread: they just attack random IP adresses. Guess how often they'll hit a Mac. Spreading a Mac worm this way will be quite slow. The problem is mostly single root exploits. A remotely rooted Mac is possible, but unless it's a high profile site, how would you know about it? Do you think I'll make the news if my iBook gets rooted? Check this thread: you can get remotely rooted if AFS is on (meaning if you turned on Personal File Sharing). The lesson: don't let your guard down just because you're not running Windows.
I was under the impression (possibly mistaken) that the ipod mini's were using a very small regular hard drive, not a CF based storage ??
The iPod-mini drive is a Hitachi hard disk in standard CF form factor, i.e., if fits anywhere a CF card would fit. But it is not their retail Microdrive. A CF card can operate in 3 modes: True-IDE, Memory and IO, just like regular PCMCIA (CF is just a small PCMCIA card). IO-mode is used for modems and network cards and such. Most cameras address a CF card in Memory mode, but the iPod drive only implements True-IDE mode. This is why it won't work in cameras, but should work in a PC with a CF-IDE pin adapter. The Muvo uses a standard Microdrive, which also works in memory mode.
I wonder how many iPods there are out there in the public's hands for every Sony Memory-Stick and "Hi-MD" device. I'm guessing at least 4, and that's being generous to Sony.
And 1GB. Wow. That's sooo much music. Has anyone at Sony ever even heard of hard drives? C'mon, I was expecting some sort of competition here, but this is more like a joke.
It depends on whether the ordinary MD players will be compatible (they all use ATRAC). According to this link 56 million MD players had shipped worldwide at the end of 2001. According to Apple 2 million iPods have shipped around the start of this year. MD has had a 10 year head start on the iPod, and quite a few brands sell players (Panasonic, Sharp, JVC, Aiwa, Kenwood, Denon). The big growth is undoubtedly in the iPod, but there is little doubt that MD has an overall larger installer base. The reason why Apple seems to do so much better to you is that the MD format has mostly flopped in the US, which unfortunately for Sony is also the largest market.
As for 1GB discs, there is a market for a lot of different formats (remember the./ reaction on the iPod mini). According to you everybody would be buying HD based players, while flash-players are still selling quite well. There are tradeoffs with every technology. Any HD player will require li-ion batteries. The MD players will play 25 hours on a single AA battery. The iPod may or may not survive a drop from a bike ride. Likewise the MD player, but the discs with the actual data will almost certainly survive. MDs are handy as an exchange format (not in the US, but in Asia where lots of people have them). Of course, iPods have their own advantages, but I won't list them since you know them well enough.
You can always burn a TeXLive cdr. The demo version is a complete functional TeX distribution that runs from cdrom on win32, linux and macos.
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There seem to be quite a few Americans here who think BBC produces better quality programs than US tv. But remember, when you view something from abroad, it is usually selected because it is the cream of the crop, it does not nessesarily reflect the overall quality of BBC television. I'm sure few of you would care to see hours of snooker or cricket. Likewise, foreign countries usually buy the best American shows. Foreigners who only see the Sopranos, West Wing, etc. may conclude that US tv is of pretty high quality.
Mozilla's success will ultimately happen -- or not -- because of the success or failure of XUL. Standards compliance is not reason enough for companies or individuals to switch to Mozilla, especially in large numbers. The only truly defining characteristic of Mozilla is XUL. If that catches on, Mozilla will survive. If it doesn't, it will remain a niche player, and will probably fade in significance.
You're forgetting another factor: Mozilla and its descendants are the defacto standard browsers for the free OSes. (I don't have hard numbers, but I suspect Moz has many more users than Konq or Opera.) If a significant amount of desktop users turn to Linux (say 10%+) it will get harder to ignore Mozilla users, regardless of XUL.
The question is whether the patent itself is valid or not. If this was a genuinely innovative patented process that Red Cross violated, would it matter whether they're a charity or not?
> IBM's X31 laptops, and probably most others in the same series, come with a little light installed at the top of the screen,
It was was already in the X20 and T20. I suspect that it's in every ThinkPad since their X, T, R and A generation (i.e., after the numbered ThinkPads like the 570, 600, 770 etc.). It's activated with Fn-PageUp.
I'm not trying to put blame on anyone or anything. I'm just making a simple observation: wages in the US are very high. In many European countries $30K buys you a very decent living. From what I read around here, it sounds like thats about bottom barrel for US college graduates. Anyone from Asian wants to weight in the discussion?
This is a very good question. What CAN you actually do with PS (or the Gimp for that matter)? Seriously, I'm fairly clueless about photo editing software, can someone explain this simply to me? From what I've read, PS is mainly interesting if you're producing pictures for publication, a fairly small niche. But from some posts around here it sounds almost as if it's a truely essential piece of software.
How many people complaining about the Gimp actually use PS to earn their paycheck? How many have earned any money at all with PS? How many have actually payed $649 for it?
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Beware though, that there is probably a design flaw in the ribbon cable that connects the screen. Many 5(mx)'s fail prematurely due to a cracked cable.
> If I give his method, then people disable disk: protocol; then what?
.dmg's I bet they would also like to know about (and disable) automounting through disk://.
Actually that would be a very good thing. If people conciously disabled autolaunching
It's not that simple. From what I understand, you can only launch AppleScripts with a help:runscript URL. But how do you get your script on the user's system in a known location? AppleScripts don't expand the user home directory from ~ or $HOME. The trick is put the script and your other malicious executables on a disk image and to automount that first, since they are mounted in a known location. Contrary to the article summary, Safari does not need to be set to automount: Safari will automount whatever follows a link of the form disk:// regardless of user settings. So to run this effectively you need to set up a webpage the disk image and refresh tags and some javascript and/or frames to obfuscate the URLs.
But the user's information is the most important part of a personal computer. On a corporate Unix system with many users, privilege separation is great: if one user messes up, others won't notice a thing. For home users, an OS reinstallation is not too problematic (especially MacOS). But the typical home user does not backup every night. It's their personal information that matters most. I think the most prudent thing to do for a home PC is to make a separate low-privilege account for all internet activities. On Windows, start the browser and mail with runas, on Unix use su.
> ...why else would anyone by a DOS in 1996 except to use it to sue? I think the world had moved on by that point.
IBM is still selling PC-DOS for $67.
If you can read French, there's an article on x86-secret where they opened a laptop, installed a big cooler, and overclocked a 2.0 Ghz Dothan to 2.4 Ghz. It remained stable during 2 hours of BurnP6 and stayed under 30 degrees C. The 2.4 Ghz Dothan beat the 3.4 Ghz P4 in all their benchmarks, and is comparable to the Athon 64 3400+.
Sure, these worms did cause a lot of inconvenience and downtime and such. But a (probably unintended) benefit of their outbreaks was that many vulnerable machines are now actually patched. Without these worms, if you hit a random 2K/XP machine on the net, there is a very good chance that you can take over the machine through either DCOM or LSASS (port 135 and 445 IIRC). Essentially, everyone can gain access to millions of machines, and the owners would probably be totally unaware. I'm not trying to defend the worm writer, but we all know that millions of people simply wouldn't patch until the machines keeps rebooting every few minutes.
Or use "DontVTSwitch" and "DontZap" in XF86Config.
I believe 5 refers not to the number of patches but to the number of vulnerabilities the patch is supposed to fix, see the Secunia advisory.
> I will mention that I've never heard of a mac worm, a root exploit that's actually been carried out against a mac, and so forth.
Now you're mixing two different things. First, a worm on the scale of blaster/sasser is not likely to happen soon on a Mac, if you look at how they spread: they just attack random IP adresses. Guess how often they'll hit a Mac. Spreading a Mac worm this way will be quite slow. The problem is mostly single root exploits. A remotely rooted Mac is possible, but unless it's a high profile site, how would you know about it? Do you think I'll make the news if my iBook gets rooted? Check this thread: you can get remotely rooted if AFS is on (meaning if you turned on Personal File Sharing). The lesson: don't let your guard down just because you're not running Windows.
As for 1GB discs, there is a market for a lot of different formats (remember the
You can always burn a TeXLive cdr. The demo version is a complete functional TeX distribution that runs from cdrom on win32, linux and macos.
There seem to be quite a few Americans here who think BBC produces better quality programs than US tv. But remember, when you view something from abroad, it is usually selected because it is the cream of the crop, it does not nessesarily reflect the overall quality of BBC television. I'm sure few of you would care to see hours of snooker or cricket. Likewise, foreign countries usually buy the best American shows. Foreigners who only see the Sopranos, West Wing, etc. may conclude that US tv is of pretty high quality.
The question is whether the patent itself is valid or not. If this was a genuinely innovative patented process that Red Cross violated, would it matter whether they're a charity or not?
> IBM's X31 laptops, and probably most others in the same series, come with a little light installed at the top of the screen,
It was was already in the X20 and T20. I suspect that it's in every ThinkPad since their X, T, R and A generation (i.e., after the numbered ThinkPads like the 570, 600, 770 etc.). It's activated with Fn-PageUp.
I'm not trying to put blame on anyone or anything. I'm just making a simple observation: wages in the US are very high. In many European countries $30K buys you a very decent living. From what I read around here, it sounds like thats about bottom barrel for US college graduates. Anyone from Asian wants to weight in the discussion?
> This could only prompt me to ask them: One Lump or Two?
Side note: Chinese and Japanese don't drink tea with sugar.
I though there was a lot of System V code in Solaris. How can SUN ever GPL that?
I believe the 600mhz fanless boards (ME 6000, CL 6000) also include the hardware AES accellerator.
> What can I actually DO with this software?
This is a very good question. What CAN you actually do with PS (or the Gimp for that matter)? Seriously, I'm fairly clueless about photo editing software, can someone explain this simply to me? From what I've read, PS is mainly interesting if you're producing pictures for publication, a fairly small niche. But from some posts around here it sounds almost as if it's a truely essential piece of software.
> 4. Buy Photoshop and earn your paycheck.
How many people complaining about the Gimp actually use PS to earn their paycheck? How many have earned any money at all with PS? How many have actually payed $649 for it?
Counterexamples: Star Wars, Spider-man, LOTR, Finding Nemo, the Lion King, Harry Potter,...
> I thought so, too, but I just gave it a shot, spoofing as MSIE 6.0, and I got the same message.
Probably because even if you set Opera to Identify as MSIE 6.0, your UserString still contains the word Opera.