The widget in question is packaged in a ZIP archive, which is why it is autorun. I don't actually think you can download a Widget without it being in some sort of archive, because a.wdgt file is actually a folder.
No, it's Safari categorising a ZIP archive as safe. To quote Safari:
"Safe" files include movies, pictures, sounds, PDF and text documents, and disk images and other archives.
The ZIP archive extracts automatically, and just happens to place the file in ~/Library/Widgets/. Dashboard runs the Widget from there.
You're right, it's not safe. I think the solution to this should be to first of all disable the whole opening safe files functionality by default. The second should be to declassify archive files as 'safe' (with the exception of disk images), because it makes it easy to write files in this way.
Personally I've set administrator priveledges on my ~/Library/Widgets/ folder so that I now need to enter a password to write to it.
Doing it from the terminal using mount_smbfs seems to create an unmountable reference to the share in the Finder. Of course, it could be my own damn fault... but the Command-K method seems more reliable to me.
If you're cooling a nuclear reactor using a liquid metal system filled with a solid non-metal (such as graphite), your nuclear reactor probably will go the way of Chernobyl...
i find it hard to argue with taking prevenative and pre-emptive measures to keep conflicts away from US soil as much as possible...
If you're going to bomb the living shite out of some civilians, they'd better not be your own, right? That's what I found so cynical about the Iraq war. 12,000 Iraqi civilians dead, but it's worth it because Saddam's gone. Had they been US citizens there would've been uproar.
And the Lusitania event was sheer stupidity considering the status of the region in which it was sunk...
NOTICE!
TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travelers sailing in the war zone on the ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.
IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY Washington, D.C. April 22, 1915
Then why aren't parents exerting their authority over their children and forbidding them from playing it? It has an 18 rating, they shouldn't be playing it in the first place.
"But when your computer system goes wrong, who do you call?
Google or a manual."
Not everybody has multiple computers. How are they going to use Google if their computer is broken?
And I've seen a few troubleshooting sections of computer manuals. They are rarely of any help.
There's a lot of talk of 'choice' going about in this thread. The general consensus is that choice is what Linux is all about. As such, I would like to be able to choose to use commercial software in a Linux environment, as I please. The problem is that, because of the (perceived) low Linux user base, a lot of commercial software just doesn't make it to Linux because there's very little return on investment.
And don't say 'open source alternatives'. That's not choice.
I can't speak for US patent law, but in the UK you have to use your patent in order to keep it. Pat Rights' patent looks like a candidate for being thrown out on that basis alone, never mind prior art.
The current TV Licence is per-household. There's no reason to assume that a computer based licence would be any different.
I'll be interested to see what happens in ~2012 when the analogue signal gets turned off. In theory, at this point, ordinary televisions and video recorders would no longer come under the licence, only digital receivers. Meaning that, for a period at least, I could use my games consoles without needing a licence.
Sort of like the royal family. Didn't they work out sometime last year that that whole barrel of monkeys costs the individual taxpayer 60p per year? Compare to the cost of non-GPL beer. And it's fair to say that this service would cost less than the royals.
I just hope nobody signs up my landline to this. I don't want that BT robot ringing me up to tell me of every virus that isn't going to affect my machine.
I'm using an SN41G2 as a server. It's not that noisy but it does seem to vibrate a lot. The DSL/wifi router sits on top of it and because of that it seems to rattle quite a bit.
I've installed a Zalman HDD mount, because I'm paranoid about losing hard discs. That sent my heatpipe count through the roof.
I'd like to get some rubber washers for the main exhaust fan (the newer Shuttles ship with these), and possibly a newer power supply.
This model has onboard graphics so instead of a graphics card fan I have a northbridge fan. Seeing as I don't run X on the system I could probably dispense with that relatively safely.
Yes, but was Apple injured? It didn't give the competition any real advantage as there were only a couple of weeks before the leak and the product announcement. A lot of the excitement that built up around January's expo was in part due to these leaks. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Apple benefited from the whole thing.
I do sympathise with the journalists involved, after all they're essentially being harassed for telling the truth; however Apple's motivation as I see it is to avoid setting a precedent in letting those involved get away with it.
I was on a flight from Australia to England a few years ago. It was one of those planes with the SNES built into the chair in front. I spent the entire flight playing Tetris attack.
I was seeing coloured blocks for a week.
Thing is, it's not just the 'poor' that are in need of low cost housing. Consider the case down in London - property prices are so skyhigh that special provisions have to be made for public service workers. The government's making some progress towards building low-cost conventional housing, but they're up against loss of greenbelt space, plus the fact that less and less space is available because of the increased risk of flooding. Damn global warming.
Of course, the cardboard house would be entirely unsuitable if it has to be powered by solar power, which will never ever work in the UK. Fit it with a wind turbine and let's see what happens.
Personally I'd like to see Skara Brae style housing trialled, if just for fun. It'd be cool to test their resistence to landslides at least.
You mention that this book is good for beginners, but also that it compares favourably with O'Reilly's 'Running Linux'. Should I assume that 'Linux Power Tools' is best for the beginner?
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The widget in question is packaged in a ZIP archive, which is why it is autorun. I don't actually think you can download a Widget without it being in some sort of archive, because a .wdgt file is actually a folder.
No, it's Safari categorising a ZIP archive as safe. To quote Safari:
The ZIP archive extracts automatically, and just happens to place the file in ~/Library/Widgets/. Dashboard runs the Widget from there.
You're right, it's not safe. I think the solution to this should be to first of all disable the whole opening safe files functionality by default. The second should be to declassify archive files as 'safe' (with the exception of disk images), because it makes it easy to write files in this way.
Personally I've set administrator priveledges on my ~/Library/Widgets/ folder so that I now need to enter a password to write to it.
Doing it from the terminal using mount_smbfs seems to create an unmountable reference to the share in the Finder. Of course, it could be my own damn fault... but the Command-K method seems more reliable to me.
If you're cooling a nuclear reactor using a liquid metal system filled with a solid non-metal (such as graphite), your nuclear reactor probably will go the way of Chernobyl...
i find it hard to argue with taking prevenative and pre-emptive measures to keep conflicts away from US soil as much as possible...
If you're going to bomb the living shite out of some civilians, they'd better not be your own, right? That's what I found so cynical about the Iraq war. 12,000 Iraqi civilians dead, but it's worth it because Saddam's gone. Had they been US citizens there would've been uproar.
And the Lusitania event was sheer stupidity considering the status of the region in which it was sunk...
NOTICE!
TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travelers sailing in the war zone on the ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.
IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY Washington, D.C. April 22, 1915
Plus, they've been finding nuclear particles on beaches up to thirty miles from the Dounreay plant.
Then why aren't parents exerting their authority over their children and forbidding them from playing it? It has an 18 rating, they shouldn't be playing it in the first place.
Logitech MX1000 here... I have the thumb buttons mapped to the Exposé functions. I've never found a use for these buttons in any other OS.
You can emulate a 2 or 3 button mouse with SideTrack. It takes some getting used to, but it's well worth it.
"But when your computer system goes wrong, who do you call?
Google or a manual."
Not everybody has multiple computers. How are they going to use Google if their computer is broken? And I've seen a few troubleshooting sections of computer manuals. They are rarely of any help.There's a lot of talk of 'choice' going about in this thread. The general consensus is that choice is what Linux is all about. As such, I would like to be able to choose to use commercial software in a Linux environment, as I please. The problem is that, because of the (perceived) low Linux user base, a lot of commercial software just doesn't make it to Linux because there's very little return on investment. And don't say 'open source alternatives'. That's not choice.
Aren't software patents allowed in the individual member states? In the UK software has been patentable since the mid 90s.
I can't speak for US patent law, but in the UK you have to use your patent in order to keep it. Pat Rights' patent looks like a candidate for being thrown out on that basis alone, never mind prior art.
Sometimes I worry that we're just a giant game of The Sims.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that. I had briefly looked for a USB-powered TV tuner that could run off my laptop so that I could claim that.
The current TV Licence is per-household. There's no reason to assume that a computer based licence would be any different.
I'll be interested to see what happens in ~2012 when the analogue signal gets turned off. In theory, at this point, ordinary televisions and video recorders would no longer come under the licence, only digital receivers. Meaning that, for a period at least, I could use my games consoles without needing a licence.
Sort of like the royal family. Didn't they work out sometime last year that that whole barrel of monkeys costs the individual taxpayer 60p per year? Compare to the cost of non-GPL beer. And it's fair to say that this service would cost less than the royals.
I just hope nobody signs up my landline to this. I don't want that BT robot ringing me up to tell me of every virus that isn't going to affect my machine.
I'm using an SN41G2 as a server. It's not that noisy but it does seem to vibrate a lot. The DSL/wifi router sits on top of it and because of that it seems to rattle quite a bit.
I've installed a Zalman HDD mount, because I'm paranoid about losing hard discs. That sent my heatpipe count through the roof.
I'd like to get some rubber washers for the main exhaust fan (the newer Shuttles ship with these), and possibly a newer power supply.
This model has onboard graphics so instead of a graphics card fan I have a northbridge fan. Seeing as I don't run X on the system I could probably dispense with that relatively safely.
You don't read It's Walky, do you?
Yes, but was Apple injured? It didn't give the competition any real advantage as there were only a couple of weeks before the leak and the product announcement. A lot of the excitement that built up around January's expo was in part due to these leaks. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Apple benefited from the whole thing.
I do sympathise with the journalists involved, after all they're essentially being harassed for telling the truth; however Apple's motivation as I see it is to avoid setting a precedent in letting those involved get away with it.
Pish. Forgot to log in.
I was on a flight from Australia to England a few years ago. It was one of those planes with the SNES built into the chair in front. I spent the entire flight playing Tetris attack. I was seeing coloured blocks for a week.
Thing is, it's not just the 'poor' that are in need of low cost housing. Consider the case down in London - property prices are so skyhigh that special provisions have to be made for public service workers. The government's making some progress towards building low-cost conventional housing, but they're up against loss of greenbelt space, plus the fact that less and less space is available because of the increased risk of flooding. Damn global warming.
Of course, the cardboard house would be entirely unsuitable if it has to be powered by solar power, which will never ever work in the UK. Fit it with a wind turbine and let's see what happens.
Personally I'd like to see Skara Brae style housing trialled, if just for fun. It'd be cool to test their resistence to landslides at least.
You mention that this book is good for beginners, but also that it compares favourably with O'Reilly's 'Running Linux'. Should I assume that 'Linux Power Tools' is best for the beginner?