I'm not sure where you're getting your information that UNC is working on a Moodle implementation--when I asked UNC's ITS in a Student Technology Advisory Board meeting they replied that they're currently doing a Sakai trial but are not looking into Moodle.
I'll let MacWorld say it for me:
From http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09/21/wireless/i ndex.php:
Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers and that no known exploits exist for the issues addressed in this update.
...
Apple has maintained that SecureWorks has provided no proof that Mac drivers are vulnerable in any way.
"They did not supply us with any information to allow us to identify a specific problem, so we initiated an internal audit," Apple spokesman, Anuj Nayar, told Macworld. "Today's update preemptively strengthens our drivers against potential vulnerabilities, and while it addresses issues found internally by Apple, we are open to hearing from security researchers on how to improve security on the Mac."
Back in middle school, my 6th grade science teacher gave out weekly grade sheets (quite unusual) and posted grade updates in the back of her room. The thing was, so students couldn't compare grades, she used SSNs instead of names. So there was a list of 50-60 SSNs in the back of a science classroom, right out in the open. I always thought it was insecure, although it did force me to memorize my SSN, which was helpful.
Today, I think the whole school system has replaced using SSNs with using "NCWise" numbers, although in high school SSNs were/are only used as computer passwords (last five digits of your SSN was your password).
Of course it is, but I have yet to meet anyone in person who uses Limewire and is not a Mac user.
Have you met anyone using a giFT client? Too bad the promenent Windows client dropped support for FastTrack/KaZaA (they got hit by a C&D by Sharman), but it still searches Gnutella (not as well as LimeWire, I have to admit) and OpenFT (my all time favorite network, although it's very unstable--if you can connect, it's great, giFT devs are reworking parts of the network code to fix some huge bugs, so good things might happen there). Mac users get Poisoned (currently under a rewrite, but it's opensorce, supports FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenFT and has a nice fourm:) ). There are other clients, see the outdated list here. giFT is very nice, opensource (note: Xfactor, the other Mac OS X client, is NOT opensource, that's one of the reasons I stick with Poisoned), free, and supports major networks--it's pretty nice!
KCeasy are only starting the game. Now it's time for others to play the next move
I got my info from one of the Poisoned developers--they have no intention of removing the plugin at this time. I seriously can't tell you anything about gift-fasttrack but what he passed along to me, which was that it wasn't based in the US.
These C&D letters are only valid in the US. KCeasy, and Xfactor (another Mac OS X frontend) are based in the US, and have removed the plugin or in Xfactor's case, disabled with a "You will not hold the author of Xfactor responsible for this" warning when you enable FastTrack.
gift-fasttrack is not based in the US. Neither is Poisoned (the leader lives in Switzerland). Therefore, gift-fasttrack and Poisoned's FastTrack inteface are staying.
Can MS Office do that? Sure, I can install a "PDF Printer" and some third party utilities, but out of the box OO can create a PDF suitable for sharing with anyone on any platform.
Well, Office X can. Then again, any Mac OS X application (that can print) can, so it's not a point in Microsoft's favor.
Hmm.. if a guy who's playing around with codec's for some time can't configure it "properly", you have to ask, how userfriendly it really is.
Yes, excellent point there. I was pretty contradictory there. Referring to my userfriendly statement, I meant that when you select "options" a nice options window, with each function explained, and the nice help on the web site. I was just repeating what others said, the discussion is here. This was a while back, but I remembered one person's rather rant-like item. You can ignore that part of my post if you want.
Apple's MPEG-4 has both a mediocre encoder and decoder. 3ivx is a much better choice, it both decodes MPEG4 (and Divx/XviD) with better postfilters (the best, argurably), even scaled to how much CPU time it can grab. Its encoder is extremely nice, and very userfriendly, and it's extremely high quality. (And before you point Doom9's tests, Doom9 has NOT been configuring 3ivx correctly, so he's shooting himself in the foot). It has a 'trial' codec free (no real restrictions, but only for 'trial use') available for both Windows, Mac, and even BeOS (older versions are available for Linux and other platforms).
Referring about Sorenson, keep in mind this is the FREE codec that comes with Quicktime Pro. Professionals use a several hundred dollar 'Developers Edition' with Cleaner (two pass VBR encoding, which makes Sorenson rock). I know this is a for-user comparison, but in the professional scene, Sorenson can be even better then third/second place in quality.
That reminds me of a nice quote from A Prairie Home Companion on NPR a while back. TR (JESSE): This is just the lowest of the low. These French. I've had it. I just want to say that if it weren't for us, these people would be speaking German today.
TR (ARNOLD): You say that like it's a bad thing.
SS: Mr. Chirac?
TR (CHIRAC): I remind them of the American Revolution. If it were not for the French, the Americans would be speaking English today.
When my sister went to college (she's a sophomore now) , she bought the several-thousand dollar IBM Thinkpad offered and supported by the school. It was a well-outfitted machine (Office, NAV, Pentium 3 Mobile, CD-RW drive, Windows XP Professional, etc.) and a whopping *128*MB of RAM. I would have expected that much from a cheapo $1000 laptop, but not the school-sponsered computer.
When she ran Windows XP, Internet Explorer, Mulberry (mail), Photoshop, Word, and several other programs at the same time, needless to say, it was slower then molasses.
I guess that if nothing else, this will get computer manufacturers to offer more RAM in their computers when they find 128MB, or even 256MB, won't cut it anymore.
Seriously, have you tried RealOne on Mac OS X? Both WMP and Real on Mac are slimmed-down players that JUST play the proprietory formats (they let QT play AVIs, MOVs, etc.) and don't try to take over anything or be annoying. They're actually pretty nice apps.
No, but Panther has a "Create archive of selected files" option when you control/right click on a file or a group of files, and it zips them up--and it has a app (X, not UNIX) in the core system that'll decode them.
The thing is about Zip is that both Windows XP (not sure about older versions) and Mac OS X 10.3 have zip compression built into the system--XP will open it up on the fly, and Mac OS X can compress/expand using tools built into the system.. so it's not going away anytime soon..
> Well, if your Mac is running KaZaA, then you have been spoofed.
hahaha.. but seriously, KaZaA is not the only FastTrack client, and there are several for the Mac, Poisoned ( http://www.gottsilla.net ) is in my humble opinion the best..:)
"Current attempts to sell movies online, like the industry-sponsored Movielink, are still limited in selection and ease of use. But Valenti, the movie industry's powerful lobbyist in Washington, said the problems were temporary."
Put MOVIELINK up as an example? You mean the Windows-only site that even blames Apple as the reason there isn't a Mac Movielink, even though there would be no problem if Microsoft gave Mac users a version of WMP with DRM that was actually recent..
If this is the best of the industry's tries, they're doomed. I agree with other posters, there needs to be a site like iTunes for movie files.
I have downloaded full movies, but I also asked for all those movies on DVD for Christmas, and gotten several of them. I find viewing movies on my computer convienient, and I can do it anytime I want, instead of digging through my family's piles of VCR tapes to find a horribly-degraded copy.
I've even downloaded Two Towers during the period between the movie theatres showing it and the DVD--I wanted my TTT fix, so I downloaded it. Did I still buy both the theatrical and extended editions? Yes. Did I do the same for FoTR and will do the same for RoTK? Yes.
The movie industry (even though they're taking the first steps) needs to think of how to rectify the cause, rather then just responding to the effect.
Okay, I'll stop ranting now...
It also comes with USB 2 iMacs-- says the Apple list
(http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25 517). Doesn't mention powerbooks, must have not been updated..:)
10.2.7 was a G5-only version of Mac OS X as a stop-gap measure before Apple finishes 10.3.
Apple says (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86 426)
Don't use the 10.2.7 CDsthat come with the G5 macs on normal macs, it's g5 only.
Just a note: If you install www.3ivx.com on a windows machine, you DO NOT have to use it in Quicktime, even though it's a Quicktime plugin. The people over there (who are very nice and helpful on the fourms) have made it so you can run 3ivx/DivX encoded movs/avis in WMP.
3ivx does DivX, but DivX doesn't do 3ivx. Got it?
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I'm not sure where you're getting your information that UNC is working on a Moodle implementation--when I asked UNC's ITS in a Student Technology Advisory Board meeting they replied that they're currently doing a Sakai trial but are not looking into Moodle.
I'll let MacWorld say it for me:i ndex.php:
From http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09/21/wireless/
Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers and that no known exploits exist for the issues addressed in this update.
...
Apple has maintained that SecureWorks has provided no proof that Mac drivers are vulnerable in any way.
"They did not supply us with any information to allow us to identify a specific problem, so we initiated an internal audit," Apple spokesman, Anuj Nayar, told Macworld. "Today's update preemptively strengthens our drivers against potential vulnerabilities, and while it addresses issues found internally by Apple, we are open to hearing from security researchers on how to improve security on the Mac."
Back in middle school, my 6th grade science teacher gave out weekly grade sheets (quite unusual) and posted grade updates in the back of her room. The thing was, so students couldn't compare grades, she used SSNs instead of names. So there was a list of 50-60 SSNs in the back of a science classroom, right out in the open. I always thought it was insecure, although it did force me to memorize my SSN, which was helpful.
Today, I think the whole school system has replaced using SSNs with using "NCWise" numbers, although in high school SSNs were/are only used as computer passwords (last five digits of your SSN was your password).
DarWine--the WINE app for Mac OS X, which actually uses Winelib!
Of course it is, but I have yet to meet anyone in person who uses Limewire and is not a Mac user. :) ). There are other clients, see the outdated list here. giFT is very nice, opensource (note: Xfactor, the other Mac OS X client, is NOT opensource, that's one of the reasons I stick with Poisoned), free, and supports major networks--it's pretty nice!
Have you met anyone using a giFT client?
Too bad the promenent Windows client dropped support for FastTrack/KaZaA (they got hit by a C&D by Sharman), but it still searches Gnutella (not as well as LimeWire, I have to admit) and OpenFT (my all time favorite network, although it's very unstable--if you can connect, it's great, giFT devs are reworking parts of the network code to fix some huge bugs, so good things might happen there).
Mac users get Poisoned (currently under a rewrite, but it's opensorce, supports FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenFT and has a nice fourm
If you want the new OpenCD, use the torrent--no mirror yet (just the overloaded site itself)
KCeasy are only starting the game. Now it's time for others to play the next move I got my info from one of the Poisoned developers--they have no intention of removing the plugin at this time. I seriously can't tell you anything about gift-fasttrack but what he passed along to me, which was that it wasn't based in the US.
These C&D letters are only valid in the US. KCeasy, and Xfactor (another Mac OS X frontend) are based in the US, and have removed the plugin or in Xfactor's case, disabled with a "You will not hold the author of Xfactor responsible for this" warning when you enable FastTrack.
gift-fasttrack is not based in the US. Neither is Poisoned (the leader lives in Switzerland). Therefore, gift-fasttrack and Poisoned's FastTrack inteface are staying.
Can MS Office do that? Sure, I can install a "PDF Printer" and some third party utilities, but out of the box OO can create a PDF suitable for sharing with anyone on any platform.
Well, Office X can. Then again, any Mac OS X application (that can print) can, so it's not a point in Microsoft's favor.
Hmm.. if a guy who's playing around with codec's for some time can't configure it "properly", you have to ask, how userfriendly it really is.
Yes, excellent point there. I was pretty contradictory there. Referring to my userfriendly statement, I meant that when you select "options" a nice options window, with each function explained, and the nice help on the web site. I was just repeating what others said, the discussion is here. This was a while back, but I remembered one person's rather rant-like item. You can ignore that part of my post if you want.
Apple's MPEG-4 has both a mediocre encoder and decoder. 3ivx is a much better choice, it both decodes MPEG4 (and Divx/XviD) with better postfilters (the best, argurably), even scaled to how much CPU time it can grab. Its encoder is extremely nice, and very userfriendly, and it's extremely high quality. (And before you point Doom9's tests, Doom9 has NOT been configuring 3ivx correctly, so he's shooting himself in the foot). It has a 'trial' codec free (no real restrictions, but only for 'trial use') available for both Windows, Mac, and even BeOS (older versions are available for Linux and other platforms).
Referring about Sorenson, keep in mind this is the FREE codec that comes with Quicktime Pro. Professionals use a several hundred dollar 'Developers Edition' with Cleaner (two pass VBR encoding, which makes Sorenson rock). I know this is a for-user comparison, but in the professional scene, Sorenson can be even better then third/second place in quality.
That reminds me of a nice quote from A Prairie Home Companion on NPR a while back.
TR (JESSE): This is just the lowest of the low. These French. I've had it. I just want to say that if it weren't for us, these people would be speaking German today.
TR (ARNOLD): You say that like it's a bad thing.
SS: Mr. Chirac?
TR (CHIRAC): I remind them of the American Revolution. If it were not for the French, the Americans would be speaking English today.
TR (ARNOLD): Good point.
When my sister went to college (she's a sophomore now) , she bought the several-thousand dollar IBM Thinkpad offered and supported by the school. It was a well-outfitted machine (Office, NAV, Pentium 3 Mobile, CD-RW drive, Windows XP Professional, etc.) and a whopping *128*MB of RAM. I would have expected that much from a cheapo $1000 laptop, but not the school-sponsered computer.
When she ran Windows XP, Internet Explorer, Mulberry (mail), Photoshop, Word, and several other programs at the same time, needless to say, it was slower then molasses.
I guess that if nothing else, this will get computer manufacturers to offer more RAM in their computers when they find 128MB, or even 256MB, won't cut it anymore.
Seriously, have you tried RealOne on Mac OS X? Both WMP and Real on Mac are slimmed-down players that JUST play the proprietory formats (they let QT play AVIs, MOVs, etc.) and don't try to take over anything or be annoying. They're actually pretty nice apps.
No, but Panther has a "Create archive of selected files" option when you control/right click on a file or a group of files, and it zips them up--and it has a app (X, not UNIX) in the core system that'll decode them.
The thing is about Zip is that both Windows XP (not sure about older versions) and Mac OS X 10.3 have zip compression built into the system--XP will open it up on the fly, and Mac OS X can compress/expand using tools built into the system.. so it's not going away anytime soon..
> Well, if your Mac is running KaZaA, then you have been spoofed.
:)
hahaha.. but seriously, KaZaA is not the only FastTrack client, and there are several for the Mac, Poisoned ( http://www.gottsilla.net ) is in my humble opinion the best..
"Current attempts to sell movies online, like the industry-sponsored Movielink, are still limited in selection and ease of use. But Valenti, the movie industry's powerful lobbyist in Washington, said the problems were temporary."
Put MOVIELINK up as an example? You mean the Windows-only site that even blames Apple as the reason there isn't a Mac Movielink, even though there would be no problem if Microsoft gave Mac users a version of WMP with DRM that was actually recent..
If this is the best of the industry's tries, they're doomed. I agree with other posters, there needs to be a site like iTunes for movie files.
I have downloaded full movies, but I also asked for all those movies on DVD for Christmas, and gotten several of them. I find viewing movies on my computer convienient, and I can do it anytime I want, instead of digging through my family's piles of VCR tapes to find a horribly-degraded copy.
I've even downloaded Two Towers during the period between the movie theatres showing it and the DVD--I wanted my TTT fix, so I downloaded it. Did I still buy both the theatrical and extended editions? Yes. Did I do the same for FoTR and will do the same for RoTK? Yes.
The movie industry (even though they're taking the first steps) needs to think of how to rectify the cause, rather then just responding to the effect.
Okay, I'll stop ranting now...
My sister got a 8mm editor super-glued onto this box with a sewing kit and pencils inside. It was the strangest thing..
WireTap only saves as an AIFF file, so you'd still need to convert it.
It also comes with USB 2 iMacs-- says the Apple list (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25 517). Doesn't mention powerbooks, must have not been updated.. :)
10.2.7 was a G5-only version of Mac OS X as a stop-gap measure before Apple finishes 10.3.6 426)
Apple says (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=8
Don't use the 10.2.7 CDsthat come with the G5 macs on normal macs, it's g5 only.
Just a note: If you install www.3ivx.com on a windows machine, you DO NOT have to use it in Quicktime, even though it's a Quicktime plugin. The people over there (who are very nice and helpful on the fourms) have made it so you can run 3ivx/DivX encoded movs/avis in WMP. 3ivx does DivX, but DivX doesn't do 3ivx. Got it?