I bought a IIci in '87 (second from top of the line at that time) and had it for 8 years.
I bough a first release iMac in (when was that, 96 or 97?) and had it for 5 years.
I bought a refurbished 400 Mhz G4 two years ago and would not have considered getting a replacement except that these mini's are so amazingly (for apple) cheap. (even so, I will probably wait)
My point is that, even with technology's march, Macs keep being useful for longer than PCs. I have kept useful Macs for 5 to 8 years and watched my windows PC buddies need new PCs every 3 or 4 years. So don't stress out so badly about the timing of getting in. I promise that you will feel sad when the next release comes out. But we all get over that. And your Mac will survive.
PS: 2 notes.
1) I do not game much... that may have changed my ROI history
2) Linux is (much) better at running on old PC hardware than new MS OS releases.
Howdy,
The paint will dampen some of the signal. This is not secure against a war driver with a pringles can. It is, however, annoying to cell phone users in the building. Its just bad.
Aqua (Apples window manager) is a very heavy processing task and is accelerated in hardware (Open GL) on Apple machines. Running Aqua without hardware acceleration would be... slow.
Still, an interesting way to test drive non-the-less.
Imagine all the programming power available through senior projects and grad thesis of the University of California and the California State systems. The state of California has an awesome potential to direct that government specific open source software be created or tailored or reviewed to fit their specific needs.
It would be good for me.
FairPlay-AAC and WMA are the two DRM formats available. Microsoft seems to be licnesing out since I can buy home or car audo/vedio elecrtonics to play WMA files. But I can't buy any of that stuff to play FairPlay-AAC files. And I wish I could. Also that Vergin-whatever company has no angle on providing me with a FairPlay-AAC home/car audio device. They are just in it for settlement money.
As for Apple, it would be good for them to choose their partnerships, not get forced to lincens to anyone who fills out the court order form. They should get their buddies, Phillips, to start making FairPlay-AAC compatible DVD and CD players.
So now spammers need to forge the envelope as well as the sender field. No big deal. This will neither destroy annomymity nor stop spam. It just won't work.
Apple wants to sell niche. They do not want to sell mass. I don't know why, that's just the way it is.
But still, if they take their i/eMac line to all G5s, then they could bring back the cubes at the low-end.
A G4 cube for $700. Seems easily doable. It does not violate their niche philosophy. It could happen.
(from a quick read of some web searching...)
WPA (the precursor of 802.11i) used RC4 with a per-packet key transmorgifier called TKIP and authenticated both peers using either Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP - useful in coprorate contexts with RADIUS or NT-Domain password servers) or Preshared Key (PSK - useful in home contexts where not password servers are available).
802.11i (seems to... quick read equivocation) add the option of replacing RC4-TKIP with AES-CCMP but the peer authentications (your choice of EAP or PSK) remain unchanged. This CCMP mode of AES keeps the temporal key and integrity features of RC4-TKIP but is (assumed to be) stronger encryption. Both encryption options, RC4-TKIP and AES-CCMP, require an intial key (same on both peers). Where this initial key comes from is an application layer decision and is beyond the scope of 802.11i.
Howdy,
This is a weak authentication door in front of a (hopefully) strong authentication door.
So why have the weak door? All your security resides in the strong door. Is there a cost savings for putting up the weak door to wead out the bulk of script kiddie/robot scans? Maybe it would make you less suceptible to DDOS attacks aimd at the strong door. But to put up the weak door, you are already conceeding that you are not 'popular'. So bottom line for me is... I don't see a valid use case for this. But on the other hand, the world is a shockingly diverse place and maybe there is someone out there with a valid use case I just don't see.
Howdy,
Your satalite link will be way better for large file transfers. Your modem link will be way better for interactive sessions. The particular dis-advantage of each will drive you crazy. You might be able to contract with both services and plan to use the link which will best suit your puprose of the moment/session.
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I bought a IIci in '87 (second from top of the line at that time) and had it for 8 years. I bough a first release iMac in (when was that, 96 or 97?) and had it for 5 years. I bought a refurbished 400 Mhz G4 two years ago and would not have considered getting a replacement except that these mini's are so amazingly (for apple) cheap. (even so, I will probably wait) My point is that, even with technology's march, Macs keep being useful for longer than PCs. I have kept useful Macs for 5 to 8 years and watched my windows PC buddies need new PCs every 3 or 4 years. So don't stress out so badly about the timing of getting in. I promise that you will feel sad when the next release comes out. But we all get over that. And your Mac will survive. PS: 2 notes. 1) I do not game much... that may have changed my ROI history 2) Linux is (much) better at running on old PC hardware than new MS OS releases.
Howdy,
The paint will dampen some of the signal. This is not secure against a war driver with a pringles can. It is, however, annoying to cell phone users in the building. Its just bad.
Ricky
Aqua (Apples window manager) is a very heavy processing task and is accelerated in hardware (Open GL) on Apple machines. Running Aqua without hardware acceleration would be... slow. Still, an interesting way to test drive non-the-less.
Imagine all the programming power available through senior projects and grad thesis of the University of California and the California State systems. The state of California has an awesome potential to direct that government specific open source software be created or tailored or reviewed to fit their specific needs.
It would be good for me. FairPlay-AAC and WMA are the two DRM formats available. Microsoft seems to be licnesing out since I can buy home or car audo/vedio elecrtonics to play WMA files. But I can't buy any of that stuff to play FairPlay-AAC files. And I wish I could. Also that Vergin-whatever company has no angle on providing me with a FairPlay-AAC home/car audio device. They are just in it for settlement money. As for Apple, it would be good for them to choose their partnerships, not get forced to lincens to anyone who fills out the court order form. They should get their buddies, Phillips, to start making FairPlay-AAC compatible DVD and CD players.
So now spammers need to forge the envelope as well as the sender field. No big deal. This will neither destroy annomymity nor stop spam. It just won't work.
Apple wants to sell niche. They do not want to sell mass. I don't know why, that's just the way it is. But still, if they take their i/eMac line to all G5s, then they could bring back the cubes at the low-end. A G4 cube for $700. Seems easily doable. It does not violate their niche philosophy. It could happen.
(from a quick read of some web searching...) WPA (the precursor of 802.11i) used RC4 with a per-packet key transmorgifier called TKIP and authenticated both peers using either Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP - useful in coprorate contexts with RADIUS or NT-Domain password servers) or Preshared Key (PSK - useful in home contexts where not password servers are available). 802.11i (seems to... quick read equivocation) add the option of replacing RC4-TKIP with AES-CCMP but the peer authentications (your choice of EAP or PSK) remain unchanged. This CCMP mode of AES keeps the temporal key and integrity features of RC4-TKIP but is (assumed to be) stronger encryption. Both encryption options, RC4-TKIP and AES-CCMP, require an intial key (same on both peers). Where this initial key comes from is an application layer decision and is beyond the scope of 802.11i.
Howdy, This is a weak authentication door in front of a (hopefully) strong authentication door. So why have the weak door? All your security resides in the strong door. Is there a cost savings for putting up the weak door to wead out the bulk of script kiddie/robot scans? Maybe it would make you less suceptible to DDOS attacks aimd at the strong door. But to put up the weak door, you are already conceeding that you are not 'popular'. So bottom line for me is ... I don't see a valid use case for this. But on the other hand, the world is a shockingly diverse place and maybe there is someone out there with a valid use case I just don't see.
Howdy, Your satalite link will be way better for large file transfers. Your modem link will be way better for interactive sessions. The particular dis-advantage of each will drive you crazy. You might be able to contract with both services and plan to use the link which will best suit your puprose of the moment/session.