Yeah, reliable biped robots... anatomically correct, female biped robots, with cold steel breasts and fiber optic hair, flipping through the air to kick other anatomically correct female robot soccer ass!
I use this Bonjour stuff a lot at work where I test gateways and routers. Because it's instantaneous it's very convenient when switching frequently between three or four networks, and I even installed it on my windows boxen because it's more reliable than netbios for accessing shares by hostname. Usually I just use it for things like smb://computername.local/sharename. The share mounts, I use it. I never really paid attention to what was going on underneath. Yesterday though, I had just reloaded a system and I wanted to put my home folder back before logging in with my own user. I created the account, enabled sshd, then ssh'd in by using "ssh username@computername.local". When ssh asked me if I wanted to accept the fingerprint I noticed that I had connected to the remote machine via it's IPv6 address. I thought this was interesting since I may have been using IPv6 all this time and not really known it since I wasn't paying attention to the protocol. Pretty cool that it really does just work, even when you don't know that it's secretly using IPv6.
There are a lot of apps that use Rendezvous (Bonjour) and it's nice to see exactly what's going on. There are a lot more things using it than you might know. Gaim uses it to chat with iChat users, most modern printers use it, sshd, ftpd, httpd servers and clients use it, etc. etc. etc.. If you'd like to see what information is being exchanged, check out Rendezvous Browser. It's lists all the Rendezvous services that are being advertised on the network.
After you've dug into that you might want to check out Rendezvous Proxy which lets you create custom Rendezvous beacons, advertising services for servers which don't have native Rendezvous support and servers which aren't in your LAN (Rendezvous messages stay within subnets). The tutorial even shows how to make slashdot appear in your Rendezvous bookmarks.:)
To say something is being searched for is not to say that it in fact exists. What they're searching for is code that was stolen. They'll never find it though, since it doesn't exist.
I worked in a Fab for 12 hour shifts over night and when no restaurants were open I'd go sit in my car and read or listen to music while I ate my lunch simply so I didn't have to be inside the building. When it was summer I would go walk around the campus and neighborhoods, even though it was the middle of the night. Frankly, a lot of people don't like being at work, and lunchtime is when you have a chance to get away. Now I work days in an office and I still dont' like being around at lunch, and it's not just me. Most of the people I work with are Chinese or Taiwanese people who are here on work visa's and they're usually not around at lunch time either. Neither are the few European's that we have on staff.
"Café" is not an american word and neither is "bistro". Noodle houses are not an american invention. Saying that it's only americans is ridiculous.
What you say is true. You also forgot to mention that parking the car after your lunch-time commute can be an incredibly aggrivating experience. Nothing like driving around a parking lot in circles after being stuck in an office all morning to drive you mad. It frustrates me so much that I usually just go into work late (nobody complains when you show up if you stay until midnight once in a while) and then take a late lunch, after everything has died down. The problem with that though is sometimes the food isn't as good. But hey, at 2pm traffic isn't bad and parking is easy!
It's ridiculous to say that just because Apple is using their name, the name of a hardware distributor, in it's software product that it is going to hurt them and that Apple needs to give up. If you google for the word "geek" you don't get ThinkGeek.com, but they're not suing geek.com or the likes. AFAIK nobody in newegg.com, www.egg-online.co.uk, www.egg-coddlers.com etc. etc.. aren't suing each other. That's because you can't dictate a word's usage (just like Google can't prevent people from using the word "google" as a verb) without inherent claim of ownership. The word "Tiger" so widely used that they can't rationally claim that nobody else can't even use it on a large scale because that is an indirect claim of ownership. The first thing I thought about this whole lawsuit was "They just want to make some quick money from the people in the lime light." I wouldn't be surprised if Apple cut them off from reselling iPods just like they cut off the Publisher of the forthcoming Steve Jobs biography.
I'm not the only person I know who has started using OS X because of these exact reasons. It's always fantastic to hear people reiterating my thoughts, and giving them great analogies like that. It's awesome, and it's so true. I read another great quote in this same topic that pretty much said "you can't build a PC cheaper unless your time is worthless." I'm one of those guys who bought a Mac so that I wouldn't have to spend so much time in front of my computer. I'm the guy with the BMW, so to speak, who wants to go out and spend time on other things and not even think about the car. I did my time with that. I compiled my custom kernels. I re-installed windows a billion times. I ordered all those cutting-edge parts and tweaked my bios. OC'd my cpu. Did software raid. Lost tons of data. Spent lots of money. Stayed up late at night. I'm done with it, now that I want a computer that I don't have to think about I use my Mac. Anybody who wants to keep using Windows, getting viruses, tweaking kernels, drivers, whatever... they can have it, and I hope they enjoy it. I don't. I did, but I don't anymore. OS X has blended all my needs, and it's worth my money so that I can close up my laptop and go hiking instead of watching the sun set from inside my house while my computer reboots again.
They clearly aren't paying attention to what people who don't already own Apple hardware, and some that do, want. External hard drives and hubs are easy to come by, but a Video IO packaged into a Mac Mini sized device with IR would be *perfect* for all those people looking to turn the Mac Mini into a media center, or generaly integrating it into their AV setup. I'm sure there's a market for this, especially since it adds hard drive space without having to go inside the Mini, but as far as a port replicator solution, it's only got half of the ports that a great many would-be customers would like to see.
I agree completely. When I'm sitting there at a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server session with about 10 MMC sessions open and about 20 of those trees expanded the thing I wish the most is that MS would just copy Apple's Exposé. I won't say one bad thing about them, just gimme the damn function! PLEASE!! Alt-tab my-ass, and the taskbar isn't a whole lot better than desktop icons. Exposé rocks.
In the article he calls it a power-user feature. Yeah... right... pressing F9 is SO power-user.
I don't think it's sufficient at all. You're taking something that is a logical measurement and comparing it to something that is completely subjective. Sure, even the fastest bicycle is stunningly slower than the speed of light, but it makes a difference in a practical sense when you try to determine if it's something that a person can observe over a few seconds while standing still or something they'd have to pay really close attention to because it's going to take a split second to complete, which would be close to the two extremes you'd get with "the speed of a bicycle." To me it seems like poor scientific practice, and I'm sure if some kid went into school and gave a report measuring anything in the speed of a bicycle he'd get red marks. You simply can't take logical measurements using subjective comparators.
Coincidentally, Sony and Apple were two of the leaders of the Firewire/iLink push even though the 1394 market was less obvious than the digital music market, which puts both adversaries in the same boat. Nobody can rationally doubt that Apple has beaten it's 1394 partner this time around since Sony is poorly playing catchup in a market that Apple has defined. I also have to say that FP guy is going a bit overboard on his judgment of the iPod. For one, the iPod shuffle has an auto-fill option that does exactly what it says, removing any replay action. And even if you don't have an iPod shuffle with its auto-fill trick there are plenty of ways to make up for it using smart playlists which happen to be database queries based against the iTunes Music Database. (You didn't think iTunes and the iPod were simply music players did you?) There is even a site dedicated to techniques for effective smart-playlist usage (though that's no surprise since there are sites for anything) which directly correlates to heightened iPod enjoyability since you have the ability to sync certain playlists to your iPod automatically. The iPod is a very good front-end to a music databasing system which is robust, easy to use, and works well for the majority of people who want to listen to their music and who do not have esoteric or clandestine old-school technology fetishes or a passionate desire for a dumb (as in feature-poor), manual-update drag-and-drop music player. Even though Sony and Apple pioneered 1394 together it looks as though Sony is only partially (not at all?) clued in as to what makes a whole Digital Music Player solution. It's not just the player.
Also related to the PPC version, `hdiutil burn` won't burn the PPC LiveCD properly, but it will burn the i386 version. Disk Utility also crashes when trying to burn this. However, the.iso mounts fine in the Finder. I verified the md5 sums for the cd's against http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/MD5SUM S and submitted the bug to Apple.
Is anybody else experiencing this? I've burned hundreds of ISO's on these computers and never seen this problem. It happened on my G3 iBook 900 and my G4 12" pb 866.
hdiutil output:
Aravis:~/Desktop/stuff lull$ hdiutil burn -noverifyburn ubuntu-5.04-live-powerpc.iso *** malloc[7781]: error for object 0x1808400: Incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed; break at szone_error Bus error
The whole reason I chose Debian in the first place was its CLI strength with things like apt-get vs redhat-install-packages gui alternative. It might just be me, but I sense that it's not; Debian just doesn't seem like a strong desktop distro in itself, but is more of a general use or server distro. Ubuntu, on the other hand, builds on Debian to make a strong Desktop distro. The arrangement works out rather nicely and I hope that it breathes new life into this otherwise useless clamshell iBook I have here.
No, you're not understanding the point. Obviously the MAC address isn't encrypted because if it was we'd all have to sniff promiscuously and decrypt every single packet that came off the wire, so to speak. The idea is that you use the MAC address to salt the key, so that even with the same key the encryption would be different between two nodes because they wouldn't have the same MAC address. This would mean that you could only listen to your own traffic. Of course, now that I put it that way I see that broadcast protocols would have to be handled differently, though this could be used to an advantage in certain situations where you don't need people listening in to each other's connections, just like you can't sniff your neighbor's DSL connection
In any case, it's obvious that the encryption isn't going to apply to layer 2.
If you're required to view it I assume you're also required to read it and understand it, but if that's the case how come they won't let you pause on it?
That might actually be a fantastic idea, it would be fantastic to use the MAC to seed the WEP keys. Right now each AP only has to handle one set of keys for the whole group of users, but this change would mean you'd need one set of keys for each user connected. You might end up having an AP that would bear more load as each client connected, but the load might not end up being so much worse since it's already having to encrypt all data anyways. The difference would be using the right keys for the right clients, and that might have very negligible overhead if implemented properly. Even if it were a heavy load this is still very reasonable in a business environment considering the security gain.
Arp poisoning is a problem on any network, not just wireless. Blasting out RF doesn't even require a network device and it'd take down everybody in range so DOS is hardly something you can work around. DOSing somebody is not breaking the security of the protocol, it's a whole different matter altogether.
My thoughts exactly. On top of having easy access to truly random numbers, you're getting them with a freakin' LAVA LAMP. That is so awesome, and I'm sure the chicks dig it.
The service is pretty cool, but if they don't add more cities/companies, who knows how well it will do.
That could just as easily, and possibly more accurately be rephrased as "This service is pretty cool, but if they don't add more companies who knows how well they (the companies) will do."
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Yeah, reliable biped robots... anatomically correct, female biped robots, with cold steel breasts and fiber optic hair, flipping through the air to kick other anatomically correct female robot soccer ass!
...of drawings. :(
I use this Bonjour stuff a lot at work where I test gateways and routers. Because it's instantaneous it's very convenient when switching frequently between three or four networks, and I even installed it on my windows boxen because it's more reliable than netbios for accessing shares by hostname. Usually I just use it for things like smb://computername.local/sharename. The share mounts, I use it. I never really paid attention to what was going on underneath. Yesterday though, I had just reloaded a system and I wanted to put my home folder back before logging in with my own user. I created the account, enabled sshd, then ssh'd in by using "ssh username@computername.local". When ssh asked me if I wanted to accept the fingerprint I noticed that I had connected to the remote machine via it's IPv6 address. I thought this was interesting since I may have been using IPv6 all this time and not really known it since I wasn't paying attention to the protocol. Pretty cool that it really does just work, even when you don't know that it's secretly using IPv6.
There are a lot of apps that use Rendezvous (Bonjour) and it's nice to see exactly what's going on. There are a lot more things using it than you might know. Gaim uses it to chat with iChat users, most modern printers use it, sshd, ftpd, httpd servers and clients use it, etc. etc. etc.. If you'd like to see what information is being exchanged, check out Rendezvous Browser. It's lists all the Rendezvous services that are being advertised on the network.
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After you've dug into that you might want to check out Rendezvous Proxy which lets you create custom Rendezvous beacons, advertising services for servers which don't have native Rendezvous support and servers which aren't in your LAN (Rendezvous messages stay within subnets). The tutorial even shows how to make slashdot appear in your Rendezvous bookmarks.
Awesome. If you look in the PDF you'll see that the authors of this paper got an A on that page alone. It's page 16.
But IBM sold their desktop division. They don't use Windows on their own hardware anymore, afaik.
To say something is being searched for is not to say that it in fact exists. What they're searching for is code that was stolen. They'll never find it though, since it doesn't exist.
I worked in a Fab for 12 hour shifts over night and when no restaurants were open I'd go sit in my car and read or listen to music while I ate my lunch simply so I didn't have to be inside the building. When it was summer I would go walk around the campus and neighborhoods, even though it was the middle of the night. Frankly, a lot of people don't like being at work, and lunchtime is when you have a chance to get away. Now I work days in an office and I still dont' like being around at lunch, and it's not just me. Most of the people I work with are Chinese or Taiwanese people who are here on work visa's and they're usually not around at lunch time either. Neither are the few European's that we have on staff.
"Café" is not an american word and neither is "bistro". Noodle houses are not an american invention. Saying that it's only americans is ridiculous.
What you say is true. You also forgot to mention that parking the car after your lunch-time commute can be an incredibly aggrivating experience. Nothing like driving around a parking lot in circles after being stuck in an office all morning to drive you mad. It frustrates me so much that I usually just go into work late (nobody complains when you show up if you stay until midnight once in a while) and then take a late lunch, after everything has died down. The problem with that though is sometimes the food isn't as good. But hey, at 2pm traffic isn't bad and parking is easy!
It's ridiculous to say that just because Apple is using their name, the name of a hardware distributor, in it's software product that it is going to hurt them and that Apple needs to give up. If you google for the word "geek" you don't get ThinkGeek.com, but they're not suing geek.com or the likes. AFAIK nobody in newegg.com, www.egg-online.co.uk, www.egg-coddlers.com etc. etc.. aren't suing each other. That's because you can't dictate a word's usage (just like Google can't prevent people from using the word "google" as a verb) without inherent claim of ownership. The word "Tiger" so widely used that they can't rationally claim that nobody else can't even use it on a large scale because that is an indirect claim of ownership. The first thing I thought about this whole lawsuit was "They just want to make some quick money from the people in the lime light." I wouldn't be surprised if Apple cut them off from reselling iPods just like they cut off the Publisher of the forthcoming Steve Jobs biography.
I'm not the only person I know who has started using OS X because of these exact reasons. It's always fantastic to hear people reiterating my thoughts, and giving them great analogies like that. It's awesome, and it's so true. I read another great quote in this same topic that pretty much said "you can't build a PC cheaper unless your time is worthless." I'm one of those guys who bought a Mac so that I wouldn't have to spend so much time in front of my computer. I'm the guy with the BMW, so to speak, who wants to go out and spend time on other things and not even think about the car. I did my time with that. I compiled my custom kernels. I re-installed windows a billion times. I ordered all those cutting-edge parts and tweaked my bios. OC'd my cpu. Did software raid. Lost tons of data. Spent lots of money. Stayed up late at night. I'm done with it, now that I want a computer that I don't have to think about I use my Mac. Anybody who wants to keep using Windows, getting viruses, tweaking kernels, drivers, whatever... they can have it, and I hope they enjoy it. I don't. I did, but I don't anymore. OS X has blended all my needs, and it's worth my money so that I can close up my laptop and go hiking instead of watching the sun set from inside my house while my computer reboots again.
They clearly aren't paying attention to what people who don't already own Apple hardware, and some that do, want. External hard drives and hubs are easy to come by, but a Video IO packaged into a Mac Mini sized device with IR would be *perfect* for all those people looking to turn the Mac Mini into a media center, or generaly integrating it into their AV setup. I'm sure there's a market for this, especially since it adds hard drive space without having to go inside the Mini, but as far as a port replicator solution, it's only got half of the ports that a great many would-be customers would like to see.
I agree completely. When I'm sitting there at a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server session with about 10 MMC sessions open and about 20 of those trees expanded the thing I wish the most is that MS would just copy Apple's Exposé. I won't say one bad thing about them, just gimme the damn function! PLEASE!! Alt-tab my-ass, and the taskbar isn't a whole lot better than desktop icons. Exposé rocks. In the article he calls it a power-user feature. Yeah... right... pressing F9 is SO power-user.
I don't think it's sufficient at all. You're taking something that is a logical measurement and comparing it to something that is completely subjective. Sure, even the fastest bicycle is stunningly slower than the speed of light, but it makes a difference in a practical sense when you try to determine if it's something that a person can observe over a few seconds while standing still or something they'd have to pay really close attention to because it's going to take a split second to complete, which would be close to the two extremes you'd get with "the speed of a bicycle." To me it seems like poor scientific practice, and I'm sure if some kid went into school and gave a report measuring anything in the speed of a bicycle he'd get red marks. You simply can't take logical measurements using subjective comparators.
Coincidentally, Sony and Apple were two of the leaders of the Firewire/iLink push even though the 1394 market was less obvious than the digital music market, which puts both adversaries in the same boat. Nobody can rationally doubt that Apple has beaten it's 1394 partner this time around since Sony is poorly playing catchup in a market that Apple has defined. I also have to say that FP guy is going a bit overboard on his judgment of the iPod. For one, the iPod shuffle has an auto-fill option that does exactly what it says, removing any replay action. And even if you don't have an iPod shuffle with its auto-fill trick there are plenty of ways to make up for it using smart playlists which happen to be database queries based against the iTunes Music Database. (You didn't think iTunes and the iPod were simply music players did you?) There is even a site dedicated to techniques for effective smart-playlist usage (though that's no surprise since there are sites for anything) which directly correlates to heightened iPod enjoyability since you have the ability to sync certain playlists to your iPod automatically. The iPod is a very good front-end to a music databasing system which is robust, easy to use, and works well for the majority of people who want to listen to their music and who do not have esoteric or clandestine old-school technology fetishes or a passionate desire for a dumb (as in feature-poor), manual-update drag-and-drop music player. Even though Sony and Apple pioneered 1394 together it looks as though Sony is only partially (not at all?) clued in as to what makes a whole Digital Music Player solution. It's not just the player.
Also related to the PPC version, `hdiutil burn` won't burn the PPC LiveCD properly, but it will burn the i386 version. Disk Utility also crashes when trying to burn this. However, the .iso mounts fine in the Finder. I verified the md5 sums for the cd's against http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/MD5SUM S and submitted the bug to Apple.
Is anybody else experiencing this? I've burned hundreds of ISO's on these computers and never seen this problem. It happened on my G3 iBook 900 and my G4 12" pb 866.
hdiutil output:
Aravis:~/Desktop/stuff lull$ hdiutil burn -noverifyburn ubuntu-5.04-live-powerpc.iso
*** malloc[7781]: error for object 0x1808400: Incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed; break at szone_error
Bus error
hdiutil crash in syslog:
Apr 8 15:27:33 Aravis crashdump: Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 7754 name: hdiutil
The whole reason I chose Debian in the first place was its CLI strength with things like apt-get vs redhat-install-packages gui alternative. It might just be me, but I sense that it's not; Debian just doesn't seem like a strong desktop distro in itself, but is more of a general use or server distro. Ubuntu, on the other hand, builds on Debian to make a strong Desktop distro. The arrangement works out rather nicely and I hope that it breathes new life into this otherwise useless clamshell iBook I have here.
No, you're not understanding the point. Obviously the MAC address isn't encrypted because if it was we'd all have to sniff promiscuously and decrypt every single packet that came off the wire, so to speak. The idea is that you use the MAC address to salt the key, so that even with the same key the encryption would be different between two nodes because they wouldn't have the same MAC address. This would mean that you could only listen to your own traffic. Of course, now that I put it that way I see that broadcast protocols would have to be handled differently, though this could be used to an advantage in certain situations where you don't need people listening in to each other's connections, just like you can't sniff your neighbor's DSL connection In any case, it's obvious that the encryption isn't going to apply to layer 2.
If you're required to view it I assume you're also required to read it and understand it, but if that's the case how come they won't let you pause on it?
That might actually be a fantastic idea, it would be fantastic to use the MAC to seed the WEP keys. Right now each AP only has to handle one set of keys for the whole group of users, but this change would mean you'd need one set of keys for each user connected. You might end up having an AP that would bear more load as each client connected, but the load might not end up being so much worse since it's already having to encrypt all data anyways. The difference would be using the right keys for the right clients, and that might have very negligible overhead if implemented properly. Even if it were a heavy load this is still very reasonable in a business environment considering the security gain.
Arp poisoning is a problem on any network, not just wireless. Blasting out RF doesn't even require a network device and it'd take down everybody in range so DOS is hardly something you can work around. DOSing somebody is not breaking the security of the protocol, it's a whole different matter altogether.
My thoughts exactly. On top of having easy access to truly random numbers, you're getting them with a freakin' LAVA LAMP. That is so awesome, and I'm sure the chicks dig it.