That is the fucking dorkiest subject I've ever seen. Let's see, you worked in computer companies, LOTR, and SAT-style analogies, all in one line. I salute you, dorkwad.
I haven't seen anyone here mention it yet, surprisingly enough, but my strong recommendation would be to check out an epoxy like JB-Weld. If you want my personal opinion, it's the modern nerd answer to tape on your glasses. That's just my own, first-hand experience, though.
Another little-known trick that I would have expected someone to suggest by now: duct tape. I might be the only one to bring it up, and of course YMMV, but give it some thought. Good luck!
A cookie theft exploit was recently discussed regarding Apple's Safari.
You often see monkeys when you're on a safari.
I smell monkey shit. I think it's coming from your post.
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What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
Listen to music? As they poo? Don't be silly: that's what the Parachute game is for. Of course, you run the risk of spending so long trying to get the high score that you get that "dry-ass" condition which makes wiping all the more painful.
Note to owners of older iPods: If you don't have the Parachute game, don't worry about it. You can still make up fun iPod games to pass the time while making stinky in the bathroom. For instance, view all of your songs in one big list, scroll from top to bottom as fast as you can, and then try to beat your time! Or, scroll through your contacts list and try to rank whom you'd kill first, second, third, etc., if you could do it without getting caught. Enjoy!
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1. Are any Universal senior executives going to be in SFO on 28th? Maybe any friends, collegues can answer?
Oh, ah, sure I know the senior executives at Universal Music. Yeah, that's the ticket! I mean, you might imagine that, as a typical Slashdot reader, I'm just some nerd with a lot of free time on his hands, and not the kind of person who pals around a lot with the executive officers of record companies. But you'd be wrong. So...um, ah, yeah...me and the CEO are going to be in San Francisco around that time, right, that's it. His name? Oh, ah, let's see...um, it's, uh... Joey...Joe-Joe...Junior...Shabadoo.
Oh, and I'll be sure to e-mail you the complete flight plans and itineraries for me and Joey Joe-Joe just as soon as they're finalized. And I'll give you his cell phone number in case you just want to ask him yourself about all this Apple business. Hopefully this is just the kind of detective work you were asking for. You're welcome!
I want a cellphone that alerts me whenever there is a slut in proximity that wouldn't mind being screwed by a pasty-skinned-underweight-nerd!
Actually, I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the device could be based on the Electronic Thumb from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although instead of being shaped like a thumb, it could be shaped like...
Well, I guess it could still be a thumb, provided you like that sort of thing. Or the slut does.
While I'm sure the prior responses to your question have been well-meaning, they have also been under- or misinformed. Here's what the Big Dig really is, from a Boston-area resident:
Interstate 93 runs directly through downtown Boston, from north to south. This part of I-93, called the Central Artery around here, was built in the 1950s as an elevated highway. Even as construction was completed, the city realized it had made a big mistake in erecting an ugly green eyesore which separated Boston's waterfront neighborhoods, including our analog to Little Italy, the North End, from the rest of the city. Thirty or so years later, this eyesore was still ugly, and was jammed with traffic for the better part of each day.
The Big Dig is, as has been mentioned, the largest public works project in U.S. history, which aims to put the Central Artery in a tunnel under Boston and demolish the elevated Artery, thereby reunifying the downtown area and increasing its ability to carry high volumes of traffic. The other major aim, now almost completed, is to extend Interstate 90, an east-west highway that used to terminate at the Boston waterfront, underwater to Logan Airport in East Boston. Along with these two primary objectives, a lot of supporting work has gone on around the city.
The Big Dig undoubtedly has a huge price tag, one that has only gotten bigger and bigger as the years have gone on, but given the enormity of the task at hand, I can't see how this wasn't to be expected. The end result is going to transform the city for the better, and the project has implemented a ton of cool technologies (check it out at BigDig.com, actually a fairly cool site).
Offtopic, yes, but hopefully this has been helpful for you.
Does anyone have the balls to stand up to Microsoft?
I didn't get the sense at all from the article that Mr. Barrall was afraid to stand up to Microsoft. I think it's more likely that he was just complaining graciously and trying to avoid being rancorous. That this kind of writing is exceedingly rare on Slashdot might make it harder to recognize.
And, actually, he does mention the problematic OS when he describes "using a popular Windows office suite."
Artists are worth money, and people will pay good money to see them. Recordings are just advertising, and most people object to paying for advertising.
I have to admit, this makes very little sense to me. The theme of your post seems to be, "I don't feel like paying for recorded music any more. With P2P services, I don't have to pay for music any more. Therefore, paying for recorded music is wrong and must go away." I think the "recorded music is only advertising" idea is made up as a justification for this, and I think it's ridiculous. For one, it only makes sense if you assume that every artist whose recorded music you listen to is someone you either will or want to see perform live in concert. To give an example, I might have a CD of classical music that I like to put on for background music or relaxing; however, I have no desire to go see any of the orchestras on the CD perform those works live. In this situation, how can my CD possibly have no intrinsic value on its own, but merely be "advertising" for something I don't want?
For another, I can't comprehend how, if someone performs music live and you're listening to it, it's worth money, but if that person performs music and records it to a medium, it becomes worthless. I really enjoy the experience of going to concerts and seeing live performances, but I also like to listen to that same music many, many times outside of those concerts. Why shouldn't that music be considered a legitimate product for purchase? You seem to be saying that artists and their performances are worth money, but their music, their product, is not worth money. Without any rational basis for this that I can see, it seems to be a self-serving justification on your part for being cheap. I can understand complaining that CD prices are too high, but when we get down to the hypothetical 15 cents that you mentioned, and it's still too much, I think being cheap the only way to describe it.
After reading the Knowledge Base article on changes made in 10.2.4, I was wondering about two items:
Allows for use of a hardware Ethernet address with the ifconfig command in Terminal.
I assume that this means changing MAC addresses on NICs is now possible using ifconfig, as has previously been possible in Linux. Has anyone successfully done this yet, either with built-in Ethernet, AirPort, or third-party cards?
Addresses an issue which could lead to a kernel panic when logging out.
I'm hoping this refers to the kernel panics on logout that have been affecting PowerBook G4 owners, and that have been discussed frequently on the Apple Discussion Boards. Anyone know if this is true?
The new 12" Powerbook is nothing more but an iBook on steroids with a G4 in it.
I understand that this isn't necessarily intended as a positive comment, but isn't this exactly what a lot of potential Apple laptop customers have wanted? I purchased an iBook right after the revision in May 2001, and replaced it with a 15" PowerBook G4 last fall. I've enjoyed having the better performance, particularly when running Virtual PC, but I miss the smaller form factor and more convenient portability of the iBook. To me, an "iBook on steroids" would have been just what I was looking for, and my understanding was that a lot of folks who loved the iBook but needed better performance felt similarly. I think the bottom line is that, if you approach this from the high end of wanting a PowerBook, just a little smaller, you risk disappointment, but if you approach it from the lower end of wanting an iBook, just with a little more oomph, you'll be fairly satisfied.
First it was the Iraqis, then it was the North Koreans, now we have to worry about the fucking Armericans? And they're already running combat simulations on Linux? Shit, guess it's time to go hide out in Montarna or Nevarda or something.
It always sucks when you're going for (+1, Funny) and you end up getting (+1 Insightful).
Seriously, though, is that where we're at on Slashdot these days? A post with the keyphrases "Apple steals from OSS," "Apple is bad," and "Apple sucks," and not much else, is regarded as "Insightful?" And it's not even on-topic, as the story has nothing to do with open source, and pertains only to a specific license agreement between Apple and the maker of iCommune.
If we're going to express our disagreement with actions taken by Apple, could we at least find some non-retarded way to do it?
Note to Mac OS X users browsing with Safari: if you've enabled the Debug menu, change the "User Agent" setting to either Mac or Windows MSIE. Site instantly becomes readable.
Sorry for the confusing shorthand. Writing "in KHTML," I meant "a browser which implemented KHTML as its rendering engine." I should have just written Konqueror, which until now was the only browser implementing KHTML with which I've had experience.
Answer to question 2: No. From the Apple Developer Rendezvous FAQ:
Q: Does Rendezvous work across routers (between multiple subnets)?
A: No. The first release of DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) for Mac OS X concentrates on Multicast DNS (mDNS) for single-link networks because this is the environment worst served by current IP software. Future versions will add Dynamic Update and unicast query support.
Multicast DNS is intended for use on small networks with no infrastructure support, and intentionally uses link-local multicast. If a network has two links then it needs a bridge or router to connect those links, so by definition you now have a box that is (or should be) capable of providing some level of infrastructure support.
It is important to understand that DNS-SD is orthogonal to mDNS. You can use one without the other. In the example given above, the router that is connecting the two links should also include a DHCP server to assign addresses, and a little mini-DNS server which handles both standard DNS queries and Dynamic DNS Updates [RFC 3007]. The devices offering services on that network then advertise their services by using Dynamic Update to register their service records with the mini-DNS server in the router, and clients looking for services use normal unicast DNS queries addressed to that server to retrieve those service records.
Well, for one thing, prior to Safari, KHTML (in the guise of Konqueror, I guess, although I've never run it under Mac OS X myself) ran as a KDE application under X11 in OS X; now, Safari runs as a native application in Aqua. I don't know how much work this took, but it obviously differentiates Safari from KHTML. The UI of Safari is noticeably different from prior implementations of KHTML; I don't remember having seen the SnapBack feature in KHTML before Safari, although I could be just out of the loop; and, as one would expect, KHTML prior to Safari did not include the Address Book and Rendezvous integration that Safari now has. These facts, among others, indicate to me that, while Apple might still have a ways to go with Safari (hence the "beta"), they did put at least some significant degree of work into it before releasing it, and I'm not sure there's any evidence, in the absence of inside information, that Safari was a rush job.
With regard to the two major reported bugs, I don't think it ever makes sense to tell otherwise intelligent people who've just had their home directory wiped out after trying to download a file that the bug is nonexistent. In reality, however, these bugs seem to be being reported sporadically at best, and there may be some specific set of circumstances outside of Safari which cause these bugs that we're unaware of. I think the best you can do, then, is acknowledge the usual caveats that go along with using a beta; unless you've actually experienced the bugs, however, I think running scared from Safari might be overdoing it a bit. As always when dealing with software before its official release, caution is the better part of prudence.
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Or maybe just the T-shirt would become invisible. Then we could give it to chicks and see their boobies!
That is the fucking dorkiest subject I've ever seen. Let's see, you worked in computer companies, LOTR, and SAT-style analogies, all in one line. I salute you, dorkwad.
Alex to Steve:
My six-step plan to increase market share for Apple is as follows:
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[Make Macs more like PCs.]
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Steve to Alex:
Go to hell.
my bicycle gets 20 miles to the burrito
Ahh, good old clean, efficient natural gas.
I haven't seen anyone here mention it yet, surprisingly enough, but my strong recommendation would be to check out an epoxy like JB-Weld. If you want my personal opinion, it's the modern nerd answer to tape on your glasses. That's just my own, first-hand experience, though.
Another little-known trick that I would have expected someone to suggest by now: duct tape. I might be the only one to bring it up, and of course YMMV, but give it some thought. Good luck!
Your username is Malicious.
That rhymes with "delicious".
Cookies are delicious.
A cookie theft exploit was recently discussed regarding Apple's Safari.
You often see monkeys when you're on a safari.
I smell monkey shit. I think it's coming from your post.
What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
Listen to music? As they poo? Don't be silly: that's what the Parachute game is for. Of course, you run the risk of spending so long trying to get the high score that you get that "dry-ass" condition which makes wiping all the more painful.
Note to owners of older iPods: If you don't have the Parachute game, don't worry about it. You can still make up fun iPod games to pass the time while making stinky in the bathroom. For instance, view all of your songs in one big list, scroll from top to bottom as fast as you can, and then try to beat your time! Or, scroll through your contacts list and try to rank whom you'd kill first, second, third, etc., if you could do it without getting caught. Enjoy!
LoveStinks.mp3
Does it confirm a popular Slashdot opinion that Apple is for gays?
No, but you confirm a popular Slashdot opinion that most posters are douchebags.
Don't make me come over there to drug and drop you, genka! And I won't be using a software when I do it!
1. Are any Universal senior executives going to be in SFO on 28th? Maybe any friends, collegues can answer?
Oh, ah, sure I know the senior executives at Universal Music. Yeah, that's the ticket! I mean, you might imagine that, as a typical Slashdot reader, I'm just some nerd with a lot of free time on his hands, and not the kind of person who pals around a lot with the executive officers of record companies. But you'd be wrong. So...um, ah, yeah...me and the CEO are going to be in San Francisco around that time, right, that's it. His name? Oh, ah, let's see...um, it's, uh... Joey...Joe-Joe...Junior...Shabadoo.
Oh, and I'll be sure to e-mail you the complete flight plans and itineraries for me and Joey Joe-Joe just as soon as they're finalized. And I'll give you his cell phone number in case you just want to ask him yourself about all this Apple business. Hopefully this is just the kind of detective work you were asking for. You're welcome!
I want a cellphone that alerts me whenever there is a slut in proximity that wouldn't mind being screwed by a pasty-skinned-underweight-nerd!
Actually, I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the device could be based on the Electronic Thumb from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although instead of being shaped like a thumb, it could be shaped like...
Well, I guess it could still be a thumb, provided you like that sort of thing. Or the slut does.
While I'm sure the prior responses to your question have been well-meaning, they have also been under- or misinformed. Here's what the Big Dig really is, from a Boston-area resident:
Interstate 93 runs directly through downtown Boston, from north to south. This part of I-93, called the Central Artery around here, was built in the 1950s as an elevated highway. Even as construction was completed, the city realized it had made a big mistake in erecting an ugly green eyesore which separated Boston's waterfront neighborhoods, including our analog to Little Italy, the North End, from the rest of the city. Thirty or so years later, this eyesore was still ugly, and was jammed with traffic for the better part of each day.
The Big Dig is, as has been mentioned, the largest public works project in U.S. history, which aims to put the Central Artery in a tunnel under Boston and demolish the elevated Artery, thereby reunifying the downtown area and increasing its ability to carry high volumes of traffic. The other major aim, now almost completed, is to extend Interstate 90, an east-west highway that used to terminate at the Boston waterfront, underwater to Logan Airport in East Boston. Along with these two primary objectives, a lot of supporting work has gone on around the city.
The Big Dig undoubtedly has a huge price tag, one that has only gotten bigger and bigger as the years have gone on, but given the enormity of the task at hand, I can't see how this wasn't to be expected. The end result is going to transform the city for the better, and the project has implemented a ton of cool technologies (check it out at BigDig.com, actually a fairly cool site).
Offtopic, yes, but hopefully this has been helpful for you.
Does anyone have the balls to stand up to Microsoft?
I didn't get the sense at all from the article that Mr. Barrall was afraid to stand up to Microsoft. I think it's more likely that he was just complaining graciously and trying to avoid being rancorous. That this kind of writing is exceedingly rare on Slashdot might make it harder to recognize.
And, actually, he does mention the problematic OS when he describes "using a popular Windows office suite."
Artists are worth money, and people will pay good money to see them. Recordings are just advertising, and most people object to paying for advertising.
I have to admit, this makes very little sense to me. The theme of your post seems to be, "I don't feel like paying for recorded music any more. With P2P services, I don't have to pay for music any more. Therefore, paying for recorded music is wrong and must go away." I think the "recorded music is only advertising" idea is made up as a justification for this, and I think it's ridiculous. For one, it only makes sense if you assume that every artist whose recorded music you listen to is someone you either will or want to see perform live in concert. To give an example, I might have a CD of classical music that I like to put on for background music or relaxing; however, I have no desire to go see any of the orchestras on the CD perform those works live. In this situation, how can my CD possibly have no intrinsic value on its own, but merely be "advertising" for something I don't want?
For another, I can't comprehend how, if someone performs music live and you're listening to it, it's worth money, but if that person performs music and records it to a medium, it becomes worthless. I really enjoy the experience of going to concerts and seeing live performances, but I also like to listen to that same music many, many times outside of those concerts. Why shouldn't that music be considered a legitimate product for purchase? You seem to be saying that artists and their performances are worth money, but their music, their product, is not worth money. Without any rational basis for this that I can see, it seems to be a self-serving justification on your part for being cheap. I can understand complaining that CD prices are too high, but when we get down to the hypothetical 15 cents that you mentioned, and it's still too much, I think being cheap the only way to describe it.
After reading the Knowledge Base article on changes made in 10.2.4, I was wondering about two items:
I assume that this means changing MAC addresses on NICs is now possible using ifconfig, as has previously been possible in Linux. Has anyone successfully done this yet, either with built-in Ethernet, AirPort, or third-party cards?
I'm hoping this refers to the kernel panics on logout that have been affecting PowerBook G4 owners, and that have been discussed frequently on the Apple Discussion Boards. Anyone know if this is true?
The new 12" Powerbook is nothing more but an iBook on steroids with a G4 in it.
I understand that this isn't necessarily intended as a positive comment, but isn't this exactly what a lot of potential Apple laptop customers have wanted? I purchased an iBook right after the revision in May 2001, and replaced it with a 15" PowerBook G4 last fall. I've enjoyed having the better performance, particularly when running Virtual PC, but I miss the smaller form factor and more convenient portability of the iBook. To me, an "iBook on steroids" would have been just what I was looking for, and my understanding was that a lot of folks who loved the iBook but needed better performance felt similarly. I think the bottom line is that, if you approach this from the high end of wanting a PowerBook, just a little smaller, you risk disappointment, but if you approach it from the lower end of wanting an iBook, just with a little more oomph, you'll be fairly satisfied.
First it was the Iraqis, then it was the North Koreans, now we have to worry about the fucking Armericans? And they're already running combat simulations on Linux? Shit, guess it's time to go hide out in Montarna or Nevarda or something.
It always sucks when you're going for (+1, Funny) and you end up getting (+1 Insightful).
Seriously, though, is that where we're at on Slashdot these days? A post with the keyphrases "Apple steals from OSS," "Apple is bad," and "Apple sucks," and not much else, is regarded as "Insightful?" And it's not even on-topic, as the story has nothing to do with open source, and pertains only to a specific license agreement between Apple and the maker of iCommune.
If we're going to express our disagreement with actions taken by Apple, could we at least find some non-retarded way to do it?
I'm typing this in Mozilla, which I sear by...
Must be on a Titanium Powerbook.
Note to Mac OS X users browsing with Safari: if you've enabled the Debug menu, change the "User Agent" setting to either Mac or Windows MSIE. Site instantly becomes readable.
Sorry for the confusing shorthand. Writing "in KHTML," I meant "a browser which implemented KHTML as its rendering engine." I should have just written Konqueror, which until now was the only browser implementing KHTML with which I've had experience.
Shit, a minute earlier, and I still miss out on the mod points? Well, at least as of right now, I haven't gotten (-1 Redundant). Yet.
Answer to question 1: Yes
Answer to question 2: No. From the Apple Developer Rendezvous FAQ:
Q: Does Rendezvous work across routers (between multiple subnets)?
A: No. The first release of DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) for Mac OS X concentrates on Multicast DNS (mDNS) for single-link networks because this is the environment worst served by current IP software. Future versions will add Dynamic Update and unicast query support.
Multicast DNS is intended for use on small networks with no infrastructure support, and intentionally uses link-local multicast. If a network has two links then it needs a bridge or router to connect those links, so by definition you now have a box that is (or should be) capable of providing some level of infrastructure support.
It is important to understand that DNS-SD is orthogonal to mDNS. You can use one without the other. In the example given above, the router that is connecting the two links should also include a DHCP server to assign addresses, and a little mini-DNS server which handles both standard DNS queries and Dynamic DNS Updates [RFC 3007]. The devices offering services on that network then advertise their services by using Dynamic Update to register their service records with the mini-DNS server in the router, and clients looking for services use normal unicast DNS queries addressed to that server to retrieve those service records.
Well, for one thing, prior to Safari, KHTML (in the guise of Konqueror, I guess, although I've never run it under Mac OS X myself) ran as a KDE application under X11 in OS X; now, Safari runs as a native application in Aqua. I don't know how much work this took, but it obviously differentiates Safari from KHTML. The UI of Safari is noticeably different from prior implementations of KHTML; I don't remember having seen the SnapBack feature in KHTML before Safari, although I could be just out of the loop; and, as one would expect, KHTML prior to Safari did not include the Address Book and Rendezvous integration that Safari now has. These facts, among others, indicate to me that, while Apple might still have a ways to go with Safari (hence the "beta"), they did put at least some significant degree of work into it before releasing it, and I'm not sure there's any evidence, in the absence of inside information, that Safari was a rush job.
With regard to the two major reported bugs, I don't think it ever makes sense to tell otherwise intelligent people who've just had their home directory wiped out after trying to download a file that the bug is nonexistent. In reality, however, these bugs seem to be being reported sporadically at best, and there may be some specific set of circumstances outside of Safari which cause these bugs that we're unaware of. I think the best you can do, then, is acknowledge the usual caveats that go along with using a beta; unless you've actually experienced the bugs, however, I think running scared from Safari might be overdoing it a bit. As always when dealing with software before its official release, caution is the better part of prudence.
I like watching the Muppets do drugs on Farscape.