IP over FireWire is out in a final release. It is part of Panther and not available separately (except in beta form). It is very easy to set up and works fine (with both Windows and Linux).
For me, Obj-C combined with Cocoa (*Step), is that same sweet spot. And sometimes Python, when a really high-level language is required. Naturally still together with Cocoa through PyObjC.
PNG is not very good for photographic data. The compression phase also requires significant processing (zlib), so it would be impractical for a digital camera to PNG compress a multi-megabyte image on the field.
I suppose this may be a troll, but you just have to RTFBlurb to see that the transfer was between a university in northern Sweden, and one in San Jose, CA, USA.
Of course, I mean that _I_ think that more public spending should be directed to internet access. Others disagree. The democratic process will decide how much is budgeted to this particular thing.
Through demonstrations, one can voice one's personal opinion. Still, the ultimate decision on what will receive funding is up to democratic elections.
We, through taxes. The government has already spent billions (SEK) on building up a good fibre network covering most of the country. However, they left it to the private sector to provide connections to individual households. This has resulted in a situation where most small towns have extremely good backbone connections, that can only be used by a few % of the population in those towns.
Public institutions, the government, 'län' and 'kommuns' should make sure that everyone has access to good communications (Internet or otherwise). Most people are more than willing to pay for that through their taxes.
Broadband connections may not be a human right, but having great communications definitely gives the economy an advantage and helps to boost research and development.
Not generally true, actually. That just works in certain places, such as the Dock, not in every place where a contextual menu exists (ctrl+left click always brings up the contextual, though).
1. LaunchBar 2. LiteSwitch 3. OmniGraffle 4. SubEthaEdit (Hydra!) 5. Snapz Pro X 6. NetNewsWire 7. OmniDiskSweeper 8. Transmit 9. BitTorrent 10. Developer tools (and PyObjC) [really those are closer to (2)].
Handed out free at last year's WWDC
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O'Reilly handed out the book for free at WWDC '03 ot all attendees. (I have to question how smart it can be to hand out a book for free to such a large portion of your target population).
It looks nice, especially the part on the text system, but I can't say I've used it a lot in the year that has passed.
Yes, the latest version of OS X, 10.3 Panther does include an X Server. However, it needs to be launched as a separate application so it is not fully integrated. The X11 environment is also not selected as part of a standard installation.
Yes, I can confirm this.
Labour laws are sooo much different here in Sweden. A company _can_not_ lay off an employee that was hired before some other employee that will keep his job was hired. Sometimes they can make deals with the union, and the older employee would get quite a lot of money to resign. If the company at some point decided to start hiring again, they would be forced to first hire the person that was fired (if he reasonably fits the job requirements).
When reading the stories in this thread I'm actually relieved I'm not working in the U.S, despite lower salaries and much much higher taxes...
People in the U.S. are often baffled when they hear about the kind of social security we have here in Northern Europe (including Holland, Belgium and some other European countries, I believe). For example, fact that both men and women are granted plenty of time off from work after having a child (while getting paid, partly by the company and partly by the state).
They're just very very different societies, for good and for bad....
VT Plus isn't useless. VT is the premier source of Mac software. Basically everything that is released goes through there. VT is the place where other sites get information about new software.
The VT Plus subscription lets you get ridd of the advertisements that cover the whole site, as well as get access to other online features. The advertisement is the big thing for me, since it lets me click the download link without having to wait for an ad page to load. I used to subscribe to both VT Plus and.Mac, now when I renew I skip renewing the VT Plus subscription (even though I would like to continue to support VT more actively).
No matter how off topic this is, I must correct some things in the above...
Mach-O isn't specific to Apple. That is correct. However, Apple could have chosen to use the CFM format as the native executable format when they designed Mac OS X. That would have made a pretty significant performance increase to typical applications. See Slava Karpenko's article on the subject.
This is correct.
KDE / Gnome may be as ready for the _enterprise_ as Aqua. Ie, if they are set up by someone who knows all the requirements of the organization that is going to use them, and makes sure as much as possible is pre-configured. On the other hand, they are no where near as easy / pleasant to use as Aqua.
NetInfo is a heritage from the NeXTStep days, and something that Apple is moving away from (abstracting it using Directory Services, layered on top of for example LDAP and NetInfo). It has nothing to do with Classic compatibility.
This provides to PS2 what has existed for the X-box for a while now. It was mentioned on slashdot and allows the X-box to run unsigned code after some preparation.
It replaces some font files (which are not checksummed) with ones that use an exploit in X-box firmware.
The security update addresses the following vulnerability:
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0011-wu-ftpd.t xt
Users who haven't activated the FTP server in the Sharing preference pane should not be vulnerable in any way to this bug. Furthermore, FTP servers running with anonymous access, aren't vulnerable either (unless anonymous write access is enabled), since the overflow exploit requires creating deep hierarchies of directories. Only users with regular accounts on the machine can use this bug to gain more privileges on the machine.
The advisory claims to have successfully exploited the problem on several Linux i386 platforms, but they "believe that exploitation of other little-endian systems is also possible". Note "litle-endian". This may suggest that the bug is not exploitable in a useful way on big-endian machines (like all Mac's, for example).
Or it may simply suggest that they haven't investigated the matter thoroughly on big-endian processors.
The advisory was posted some full two weeks ago, meaning that Apple was not as quick to respond as they normally are. Perhaps they were a bit too involved in Panther right now, and had to let this relatively minor insecurity wait a little while.
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IP over FireWire is out in a final release. It is part of Panther and not available separately (except in beta form). It is very easy to set up and works fine (with both Windows and Linux).
"We, humans". Perhaps in the United Nations or some other global coalition. Should the worst come to pass. Have some faith in humanity!
No, that does not follow from his reasoning. He didn't say that "go, procreate, live" and the loss of standardisation is bad.
For me, Obj-C combined with Cocoa (*Step), is that same sweet spot. And sometimes Python, when a really high-level language is required. Naturally still together with Cocoa through PyObjC.
PNG is not very good for photographic data. The compression phase also requires significant processing (zlib), so it would be impractical for a digital camera to PNG compress a multi-megabyte image on the field.
Actually, the English Wikipedia contains only slightly more than 350,000 articles. So 30,000 + some added later is roughly 1/10th.
1. Pixar isn't all Apple. 2. Jabber is an _open_protocol_, with many clients available for many different OSes.
I googled for places that sell it, and found it at £150 here: The Bug. It translates to roughly 270 USD.
That is not a Linux computer on a CF card. That is a Mini-ITX-based computer _with_ a CF card.
I suppose this may be a troll, but you just have to RTFBlurb to see that the transfer was between a university in northern Sweden, and one in San Jose, CA, USA.
Of course, I mean that _I_ think that more public spending should be directed to internet access. Others disagree. The democratic process will decide how much is budgeted to this particular thing.
Through demonstrations, one can voice one's personal opinion. Still, the ultimate decision on what will receive funding is up to democratic elections.
We, through taxes. The government has already spent billions (SEK) on building up a good fibre network covering most of the country. However, they left it to the private sector to provide connections to individual households. This has resulted in a situation where most small towns have extremely good backbone connections, that can only be used by a few % of the population in those towns.
Public institutions, the government, 'län' and 'kommuns' should make sure that everyone has access to good communications (Internet or otherwise). Most people are more than willing to pay for that through their taxes.
Broadband connections may not be a human right, but having great communications definitely gives the economy an advantage and helps to boost research and development.
Not generally true, actually. That just works in certain places, such as the Dock, not in every place where a contextual menu exists (ctrl+left click always brings up the contextual, though).
My list:
1. LaunchBar
2. LiteSwitch
3. OmniGraffle
4. SubEthaEdit (Hydra!)
5. Snapz Pro X
6. NetNewsWire
7. OmniDiskSweeper
8. Transmit
9. BitTorrent
10. Developer tools (and PyObjC) [really those are closer to (2)].
O'Reilly handed out the book for free at WWDC '03 ot all attendees. (I have to question how smart it can be to hand out a book for free to such a large portion of your target population).
It looks nice, especially the part on the text system, but I can't say I've used it a lot in the year that has passed.
Yes, the latest version of OS X, 10.3 Panther does include an X Server. However, it needs to be launched as a separate application so it is not fully integrated. The X11 environment is also not selected as part of a standard installation.
Yes, I can confirm this. Labour laws are sooo much different here in Sweden. A company _can_not_ lay off an employee that was hired before some other employee that will keep his job was hired. Sometimes they can make deals with the union, and the older employee would get quite a lot of money to resign. If the company at some point decided to start hiring again, they would be forced to first hire the person that was fired (if he reasonably fits the job requirements). When reading the stories in this thread I'm actually relieved I'm not working in the U.S, despite lower salaries and much much higher taxes... People in the U.S. are often baffled when they hear about the kind of social security we have here in Northern Europe (including Holland, Belgium and some other European countries, I believe). For example, fact that both men and women are granted plenty of time off from work after having a child (while getting paid, partly by the company and partly by the state). They're just very very different societies, for good and for bad....
Apple's first page points to this article about the new tools.
VT Plus isn't useless. VT is the premier source of Mac software. Basically everything that is released goes through there. VT is the place where other sites get information about new software. The VT Plus subscription lets you get ridd of the advertisements that cover the whole site, as well as get access to other online features. The advertisement is the big thing for me, since it lets me click the download link without having to wait for an ad page to load. I used to subscribe to both VT Plus and .Mac, now when I renew I skip renewing the VT Plus subscription (even though I would like to continue to support VT more actively).
Mod parent up!
No matter how off topic this is, I must correct some things in the above...
RTFA:
Zoo-vehrt
This provides to PS2 what has existed for the X-box for a while now. It was mentioned on slashdot and allows the X-box to run unsigned code after some preparation.
It replaces some font files (which are not checksummed) with ones that use an exploit in X-box firmware.
It looks like I jumped the gun on this...On several levels...
First, wu-ftpd is not the ftp server in Mac OS X. lukemftpd is.
Second, the most relevant advisory is not the quoted one, but this one (which previously appeared on Slashdot): FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath.
As the name implies, the bug originates from FreeBSD, and potentially leaves a long list of programs vulnerable (listed in the advisory).
This means that the problem is broader than my original message anticipated. It means that other remote services may be vulnerable, including sftp.
Thanks to the anonymous user who brought my attention to my (pretty bad) mistake.
Please spread this information instead of the wrongful information in the parent post. Mod parent down.
The security update addresses the following vulnerability: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0011-wu-ftpd.t xt
Users who haven't activated the FTP server in the Sharing preference pane should not be vulnerable in any way to this bug. Furthermore, FTP servers running with anonymous access, aren't vulnerable either (unless anonymous write access is enabled), since the overflow exploit requires creating deep hierarchies of directories. Only users with regular accounts on the machine can use this bug to gain more privileges on the machine.
The advisory claims to have successfully exploited the problem on several Linux i386 platforms, but they "believe that exploitation of other little-endian systems is also possible". Note "litle-endian". This may suggest that the bug is not exploitable in a useful way on big-endian machines (like all Mac's, for example).
Or it may simply suggest that they haven't investigated the matter thoroughly on big-endian processors.
The advisory was posted some full two weeks ago, meaning that Apple was not as quick to respond as they normally are. Perhaps they were a bit too involved in Panther right now, and had to let this relatively minor insecurity wait a little while.