So what does that mean exactly (no, I didn't RTFA yet)?
I mean, technically I am a british citizen, since my fater was born there and has me on his passport ( I can keep dual citizenship since i was born in 1982, I guess they changed that at some point thereafter). Because of that, I have a real british passport, and can use it to travel around like a british citizen.
HOWEVER, I do NOT live in the UK. Is that an actual prerequisite? Or can i just send in some pics, win, and then fly over there to claim my rightful spot in the movie?
You might also want to give a messenger bag a try. I have a nice Timbuk2 messenger bag, with sperate compartments and zippered pockets for a laptop, notebooks, bags of weed, etc etc. The closure is very nice, as it has two clasps that need to be undone in order to access the inside, plus velcro, plus the fact that you have to lift the flap all the way up to get inside . . makes it kinda tough for someone to open it up without you knowing.
You can even get a little case thing to put on the main strap for you iPod, or you can just keep it in your pocket.
But i think the best thing is that you can carry it several different ways on your body, so the bag can be as close to you or as loose and away from the body as you want it.
i find it interesting that they require the MS JVM. If you click on the "Why we require MS JVM" link, you get a popup that says "Unicast is committed to ensuring that all ads either play perfectly or not at all.
At times, we make temporary decisions to exclude certain browser and/or configurations that contain known bugs or perform inconsistently in our testing and quality assurance environments.
Unicast has temporarily blocked the Sun JVM as a result of some modifications made with the most recent Sun releases. Unicast has seen consistent instability with this configuration and will continue to evaluate updates and new releases as they become available."
Well its good to know that since the ads wont play perfectly on my setup, they wont play at all.
I'm also wondering what the "instabilities" they noted are.
Now i just need some soil moisture conent probes, and some light meter things, and i can finally have my computer controlled, uber-efficient closet marijuana garden!!
a little rumour piece I read in game informer magazine (http://www.gameinformer.com). It mentioned that several developers did not find the system easy to work with and thus there would not be that many titles available for launch.
On an unrelated note, GI is a pretty cool mag. I got it for free with that stupid EB card discount thingie, and it is usually full of good stuff. Its the only "game" magazine that i acutally enjoy reading.
also it should be said that apple used fat binaries before OS X, when they made the transition from 68k to PPC. I am very, very sure that this was before they aquired NEXT, so teh use of fat binaries in OS X in not just part of the NEXT heritage of OS X.
i had this same problem after i installed privoxy. apparently if you try to run software update with an http proxy set up in your system prefences, software update will not work. if you just disable the proxy and run software update, it will work just fine.
is another man's waste of time. Frankly, i find case modding to be a waste of time. Oooh, look, i can put neon lights and a clear window in my case, im so l33t. Please. case modders are the computer equivalent of rice boys.
That said, i think that what this guy does are so far from your average case mod, that the light from case mod will take one million years to reach them.
This guy is doing what apple does, desigining and fabircating a very very good, premium case that looks effing amazing. Is it "art"? eh, maybe. it certainley looks like sculpture. But i dont think this can be anyway contrued as just a case mod.
Well, the kernel architecture of OS X is very different then linux. OS X uses a microkernel architecture, and the mach kernel, which is very different from the standard linux kernel.
Device drivers for OS X are written differently as well, making use of IOKit, a nice C++ interface to the device tree which linux does not have. I havent written an IOKit driver, so i cant say which is easier, but personal prefernce on that front might make a driver developer choose linux over OS X.
There are some other differences as well, the startup sequence uses different files and does some wierd things (the init process is actually the second process to start, even though it gets PID 1 anyway).
Linux uses the ELF format, whereas mac OS X does not. Because of this, there are some important differences between loadable modules, bundles, and shared libraries on OS X and linux. For example, the dlopen calls are not used on OS X, rather there is a dyld API (which i know very little about) for dynamically loading modules. Note that fink does provide a dlcompat module, to make it easier to port linux software over to OS X, but it really is only a stopgap measure.
There are also some toolchain differences, in particular os x uses a version of gcc with some custom apple patches to support objective c and the cocoa frameworks.
A very good resource to answer this sort of question is the oreilly book "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks". I've plugged it before in my other posts, but it really is an interesting book that covers some of the important differences between mac os x and other unixes.
There has been software like this for a long time. Heck, i've been installing the Proximitron on all my wintel friends PCs for years. For my internal lan (me an the roommate, and any people using my wifi) ive always had a privoxy server (formerly internet junk buster) available for use. IN fact, i recently rollled out a freebsd machine (first unix install at my workplace, w00t) that has the nice combo of spamassassin and privoxy running.
My mom runs proximitron, so does my sister and her roommate in school. Just be NAV is preinstalled, an a lot of people will use it by default, doesnt mean its going to change the way the web works.
the mirrors have not been updated yet. i've been to a few, and the latest release s on all of them is only 1.5rc2, which i'm pretty sure is not actually the 1.5 i want.
Looks like its time to turn the port forwarding on my router off, and wait for apple to provide a patch.
The advisory itself says
The systems in question are FreeBSD, RedHat, Gentoo, and Debian all
running the latest versions of OpenSSH.
So i'm going to assume that OS X is affected as well.
came on the software restore CD for my old preforma 6115CD. Spin Doctor Challenger, a strange game in which you controlled a spininng wand and had to move it to different dots, avoiding acid, bombs, and other wands that could kill you. such a cool game, but the people who created it seem to no longer exists, and i currently have to boot into calssic to play the demo. i've been thinking about using the Cocoa Sprite Kit from www.sugarcubesoftware.com/csk to do a port, but im 1) lazy and 2) have lots of crap to do at work, so im going to need to continue to boot classic off of a CD to play it.
the other cool game was Spectre Challenger. A neato 3d vector game in which you drove a tank around, shot other tanks, and collected flags to advance. that would also make a really, really bad ass multi-player game, but my OpenGL skills are not nearly leet enough to consider writing that.
netinfo(3) - library routines for NetInfo calls netinfod(8) - NetInfo daemon nibindd(8) - NetInfo binder nicl(1) - NetInfo command line utility nidomain(8) - NetInfo domain utility nidump(8) - extract text or flat-file-format data from NetInfo nifind(1) - find a directory in the NetInfo hierarchy nigrep(1) - search for a regular expression in the NetInfo hierarchy niload(8) - load text or flat-file-format data into NetInfo nireport(1) - print tables from the NetInfo hierarchy niutil(1) - NetInfo utility
NetInfo is not really analogous to the windows registry. if you want to compare it to something in the windows world, a better comparison would be active directory.
NetInfo is basically a directory services manager, and is used for managing users, groups, machines, etc etc. It had read/write ability with LDAP v3, and read only ability for LDAP v2. It can also read its configuration from the standard bsd flat files, using the niload utility. You can even dump your netinfo configuration for printers, users, hosts and such to a standard bsd flat file using the nidump util.
But the best part of NetInfo is that it can integrate almsot seamlessly with an active directory domain, and get all its users and policy from your windows active directory server. once you get beyond the "its proprietary/i-dont-understand-it/im-scared-of-chan ge" line of thought, NetInfo is a very powerful tool. For more refence, the great book "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" has a whole chapter devoted to netinfo, what it is, and how it works. The Mac Dev center also recently published two articles on netinfo, and integrating it with Active Directory. Part 1 and Part 2
I've been thinking of picking up this book, specifically because it is geared towards Mac OS X, although i am not overall very fond of the maximum security series.
Anyone else looking for some good OS X secuity books shoudl chech out the latest edition of Practical Unix and Internet Security published by O'Reilly. I have the second edition, and its a great book, and the third edition specifically mentions OS X and solaris, in addition to the standard *BSD unix and Linux information.
What we need *is* real GUI's over HTTP. Candidates include XWT, XUL, and SCGUI (my pet fav).
What about converting "web apps" to web services? seems like this would solve the problem rather nicely, at least foo certain types of applications. You can write the back-end in whatever you want, using standard web languages, but instead of an http front end, you just write up a client, which would be relativley easy, as all it does is gather the info and send it out over http (or SOAP). Since the fornt end form is done nativley anyway, it can behave exaclty how you want.
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bah!
drinking warm guiness is like having sex with the lights off, you miss all the best bits.
straight from the mono faq: you will be able to build GUI applications. Indeed, that is our main focus. We will provide both the Windows.Forms API and the Gtk# API.
and they will be using wine to implement System.Windows.Forms.
quoth the poster: You want them to be more woken up? Not me. The USA is acting likes it's on a caffine and sugar high at the moment.
i wouldn't exactly call it a sugar high . . .
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So what does that mean exactly (no, I didn't RTFA yet)?
I mean, technically I am a british citizen, since my fater was born there and has me on his passport ( I can keep dual citizenship since i was born in 1982, I guess they changed that at some point thereafter).
Because of that, I have a real british passport, and can use it to travel around like a british citizen.
HOWEVER, I do NOT live in the UK. Is that an actual prerequisite? Or can i just send in some pics, win, and then fly over there to claim my rightful spot in the movie?
I don't know about our friends on the East Coast.
we primarily get tea of the long island variety. deeee-licious.
Does anyone know how, or if, this card will handle the FCC Broadcast flag?
You might also want to give a messenger bag a try. I have a nice Timbuk2 messenger bag, with sperate compartments and zippered pockets for a laptop, notebooks, bags of weed, etc etc. The closure is very nice, as it has two clasps that need to be undone in order to access the inside, plus velcro, plus the fact that you have to lift the flap all the way up to get inside . . makes it kinda tough for someone to open it up without you knowing.
You can even get a little case thing to put on the main strap for you iPod, or you can just keep it in your pocket.
But i think the best thing is that you can carry it several different ways on your body, so the bag can be as close to you or as loose and away from the body as you want it.
great bags, i highly reccomend them.
It should go in /Library.
/System/Library.
/Library/Ports
NOT
of course, if you just want it to play around with on yoru own, you can just go for ~/Library.
I, for one, have darwinports set up to use
i find it interesting that they require the MS JVM. If you click on the "Why we require MS JVM" link, you get a popup that says
"Unicast is committed to ensuring that all ads either play perfectly or not at all.
At times, we make temporary decisions to exclude certain browser and/or configurations that contain known bugs or perform inconsistently in our testing and quality assurance environments.
Unicast has temporarily blocked the Sun JVM as a result of some modifications made with the most recent Sun releases. Unicast has seen consistent instability with this configuration and will continue to evaluate updates and new releases as they become available."
Well its good to know that since the ads wont play perfectly on my setup, they wont play at all.
I'm also wondering what the "instabilities" they noted are.
Now i just need some soil moisture conent probes, and some light meter things, and i can finally have my computer controlled, uber-efficient closet marijuana garden!!
ah, technology.
a little rumour piece I read in game informer magazine (http://www.gameinformer.com).
It mentioned that several developers did not find the system easy to work with and thus there would not be that many titles available for launch.
On an unrelated note, GI is a pretty cool mag. I got it for free with that stupid EB card discount thingie, and it is usually full of good stuff. Its the only "game" magazine that i acutally enjoy reading.
also it should be said that apple used fat binaries before OS X, when they made the transition from 68k to PPC. I am very, very sure that this was before they aquired NEXT, so teh use of fat binaries in OS X in not just part of the NEXT heritage of OS X.
i had this same problem after i installed privoxy. apparently if you try to run software update with an http proxy set up in your system prefences, software update will not work. if you just disable the proxy and run software update, it will work just fine.
is another man's waste of time. Frankly, i find case modding to be a waste of time. Oooh, look, i can put neon lights and a clear window in my case, im so l33t. Please. case modders are the computer equivalent of rice boys.
That said, i think that what this guy does are so far from your average case mod, that the light from case mod will take one million years to reach them.
This guy is doing what apple does, desigining and fabircating a very very good, premium case that looks effing amazing. Is it "art"? eh, maybe. it certainley looks like sculpture. But i dont think this can be anyway contrued as just a case mod.
Seriously. According to this freebsd on ppc will only "boot(s) almost to the point of reaching single-user mode."
Well, the kernel architecture of OS X is very different then linux. OS X uses a microkernel architecture, and the mach kernel, which is very different from the standard linux kernel.
Device drivers for OS X are written differently as well, making use of IOKit, a nice C++ interface to the device tree which linux does not have. I havent written an IOKit driver, so i cant say which is easier, but personal prefernce on that front might make a driver developer choose linux over OS X.
There are some other differences as well, the startup sequence uses different files and does some wierd things (the init process is actually the second process to start, even though it gets PID 1 anyway).
Linux uses the ELF format, whereas mac OS X does not. Because of this, there are some important differences between loadable modules, bundles, and shared libraries on OS X and linux. For example, the dlopen calls are not used on OS X, rather there is a dyld API (which i know very little about) for dynamically loading modules. Note that fink does provide a dlcompat module, to make it easier to port linux software over to OS X, but it really is only a stopgap measure.
There are also some toolchain differences, in particular os x uses a version of gcc with some custom apple patches to support objective c and the cocoa frameworks.
A very good resource to answer this sort of question is the oreilly book "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks". I've plugged it before in my other posts, but it really is an interesting book that covers some of the important differences between mac os x and other unixes.
There has been software like this for a long time. Heck, i've been installing the Proximitron on all my wintel friends PCs for years.
For my internal lan (me an the roommate, and any people using my wifi) ive always had a privoxy server (formerly internet junk buster) available for use. IN fact, i recently rollled out a freebsd machine (first unix install at my workplace, w00t) that has the nice combo of spamassassin and privoxy running.
My mom runs proximitron, so does my sister and her roommate in school. Just be NAV is preinstalled, an a lot of people will use it by default, doesnt mean its going to change the way the web works.
the mirrors have not been updated yet. i've been to a few, and the latest release s on all of them is only 1.5rc2, which i'm pretty sure is not actually the 1.5 i want.
anybody know when the mirrors sync up?
Looks like its time to turn the port forwarding on my router off, and wait for apple to provide a patch.
The advisory itself says The systems in question are FreeBSD, RedHat, Gentoo, and Debian all running the latest versions of OpenSSH. So i'm going to assume that OS X is affected as well.
came on the software restore CD for my old preforma 6115CD. Spin Doctor Challenger, a strange game in which you controlled a spininng wand and had to move it to different dots, avoiding acid, bombs, and other wands that could kill you. such a cool game, but the people who created it seem to no longer exists, and i currently have to boot into calssic to play the demo. i've been thinking about using the Cocoa Sprite Kit from www.sugarcubesoftware.com/csk to do a port, but im 1) lazy and 2) have lots of crap to do at work, so im going to need to continue to boot classic off of a CD to play it.
the other cool game was Spectre Challenger. A neato 3d vector game in which you drove a tank around, shot other tanks, and collected flags to advance. that would also make a really, really bad ass multi-player game, but my OpenGL skills are not nearly leet enough to consider writing that.
[shadyserver: ~] shady% apropos netinfo
n ge" line of thought, NetInfo is a very powerful tool.
netinfo(3) - library routines for NetInfo calls
netinfod(8) - NetInfo daemon
nibindd(8) - NetInfo binder
nicl(1) - NetInfo command line utility
nidomain(8) - NetInfo domain utility
nidump(8) - extract text or flat-file-format data from NetInfo
nifind(1) - find a directory in the NetInfo hierarchy
nigrep(1) - search for a regular expression in the NetInfo hierarchy
niload(8) - load text or flat-file-format data into NetInfo
nireport(1) - print tables from the NetInfo hierarchy
niutil(1) - NetInfo utility
NetInfo is not really analogous to the windows registry. if you want to compare it to something in the windows world, a better comparison would be active directory.
NetInfo is basically a directory services manager, and is used for managing users, groups, machines, etc etc. It had read/write ability with LDAP v3, and read only ability for LDAP v2. It can also read its configuration from the standard bsd flat files, using the niload utility. You can even dump your netinfo configuration for printers, users, hosts and such to a standard bsd flat file using the nidump util.
But the best part of NetInfo is that it can integrate almsot seamlessly with an active directory domain, and get all its users and policy from your windows active directory server. once you get beyond the "its proprietary/i-dont-understand-it/im-scared-of-cha
For more refence, the great book "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" has a whole chapter devoted to netinfo, what it is, and how it works. The Mac Dev center also recently published two articles on netinfo, and integrating it with Active Directory. Part 1 and Part 2
I've been thinking of picking up this book, specifically because it is geared towards Mac OS X, although i am not overall very fond of the maximum security series.
Anyone else looking for some good OS X secuity books shoudl chech out the latest edition of Practical Unix and Internet Security published by O'Reilly. I have the second edition, and its a great book, and the third edition specifically mentions OS X and solaris, in addition to the standard *BSD unix and Linux information.
just because he/she has a boyfriend doesnt mean he/she is female, y'all . . .
whoever modded this as a troll is an idiot.
What we need *is* real GUI's over HTTP. Candidates include XWT, XUL, and SCGUI (my pet fav).
What about converting "web apps" to web services? seems like this would solve the problem rather nicely, at least foo certain types of applications. You can write the back-end in whatever you want, using standard web languages, but instead of an http front end, you just write up a client, which would be relativley easy, as all it does is gather the info and send it out over http (or SOAP). Since the fornt end form is done nativley anyway, it can behave exaclty how you want.
bah!
drinking warm guiness is like having sex with the lights off, you miss all the best bits.
straight from the mono faq:
you will be able to build GUI applications. Indeed, that is our main focus. We will provide both the Windows.Forms API and the Gtk# API.
and they will be using wine to implement System.Windows.Forms.
quoth the poster:
You want them to be more woken up? Not me. The USA is acting likes it's on a caffine and sugar high at the moment.
i wouldn't exactly call it a sugar high . . .