norburym writes with a review of Wicked Cool Shell Scripts - 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and UNIX Systems. "This incredibly fun book (really!), written by Dave Taylor, a veteran UNIX, Solaris and Mac OS X author, is chock full of 101 scripts to customize the
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OK, they're not the most stable device when you introduce the IPSEC tunnels, but it lets you hide your parents behind a NAT allowing you full access without insecure port forwarding. Now I can connect to my dad's PC via RDP, CIFS, etc..
As for the instability, at least it's thoughtful enough to reboot itself. Eventually I'll gather enough cash to drop in a Netscreen 5 for myself.
Emulating x86 is the easy part. Having absolutely zero 3d acceleration in VPC is the largest obstacle for them to overcome.
For some reason I don't think Microsoft is very dedicated to providing backward compatibility. The phrase "deprecated feature" doesn't exist within Microsoft.
For instance, last week I went to create a volume set in Windows 2000 server with a basic disk. Oh, BTW that feature was removed from W2k. They replaced it with dynamic disks. I was thinking I could upgrade to a dynamic disk and then create the volume set or expand the volume. Nope, not when you upgrade to a dynamic disk. You can't do shit with it after upgrading. You must wipe the disk and go dynamic from the start. Now that's an enterprise class operating system...
If Sun or Oracle were to mark a feature deprecated, it'd be about three full versions before they'd pull it.
I'll take 32-bit OSX over 64-bit SuSe --at least on the desktop. I know I'm really crippling myself by not running 64-bit desktop applications. Vi really fucking crawls running 32-bit.
Seems like IBM took a page out of the Micropolis (aka Mi'crap'olis) playbook. IIRC, after they sold to that Singapore company and subsequently went bankrupt, the OEMs were crippled by RMAs.
I set my PowerBook up 4 months ago, and guess what... It just works.
I agree. IMHO, Mac OS X + VPC is way better than Linux + ( Win4Lin || VMWare || Wine ). I went for a month before I found out I had to compile some shit to get the fan in my Toshiba laptop to work. Although, even then it was a lot cooler then this powerbook runs --temperature-wise.
Apple can NOT provide that same advantage using cobbled-together x86 components thrown together and hope the end user experience "just works" for the average consumer.
Just a guess, but I don't think Apple has the intention of having OS X running on some plain white-box pc. When they're negotiating with AMD and other non-PPC chip makers, it's just a less expensive chip on an Apple logic board to them. Plus, these negotiations are just leverage against IBM/Motorola pricing. It helps build credibility to Apple's case that they don't need IBM/Motorola and that Apple can/will take they're business elswhere. Plus, what CEO would want his entire business dependent upon a single chip vendor? Steve Jobs knows Apple shareholders get a big hard-on everytime these Apple/AMD/Marklar rumors circulate.
One possibility of OS X running on a non-Apple ROM-ed x86 board would be if Microsoft were to threaten Apple's existence. Then Apple could say "fuck you Microsoft" and release OS X to the free world.
The other possibility being if x86 Aqua were to check for some Apple ROM on said Apple branded x86 logic board and someone came up with a nice hack to spoof it. Hopefully (or not) Apple would be smarter than that. Even if that were possibile, I'd still buy their hardware.
I agree with your points above, but maybe I should have elaborated.
OG blows in it's Visio interoperability --granted.vdx support is recent... If it would read.vsd files I wouldn't be so opposed to using it --but that's not OG's fault. As one of the two Macs in a company of about 50 Visio users, I routinely find myself using Visio via VPC to export vsd to vdx files. If I'm lucky VPC/WinXP/Visio will keep from crashing just long enough for me to pull the export off.
That's why I want MS Visio for Mac. I'm hoping they can improve upon the Windows counterpart just like Office v.X. So, maybe my anger was a little misdirected. OG doesn't necessarily blow, but jumping through hoops just to read a Visio drawing in OG does blow.
A few readers have e-mailed this morning asking when Microsoft is going to start making more of its software for the Mac. The two most-requested programs thus far: MS Money and Microsoft Publisher.
MS Money seems believable --IMHO Quicken is better, but MS Publisher for Mac?!?! The one MS app that is in urgent need of porting is Visio --OMNIGraffle Pro blows, but at least it supports.vdx files...
We're going there, but we're not really going _back_. We just have to cover our asses so when the Chinese land there they'll find an American flag, lunar rover, footprints, etc..
All of which presently reside inside a Hollywood soundstage.
Really this Mac exploit can be blamed on Microsoft.
Because of the hundreds of holes in Windows some attacker can compromise a Windows server in the local subnet and then use it to spoof the DHCP servers to gain access to the Mac.
Based on a seven segment digit, that would be 2.29 digits.
That makes the max 1e9 or 1,000,000,000 MHz. Unless we're using HEXponents, which raises the bar to 1eF or 10,000,000,000,000,000 MHz Those would be my base and turbo speed settings, respectively.
I noticed my PC was a little snappier after I set it to those. Those displays were a great source of spare jumpers. If only there were enough digits to display "Type-R". Then my PC would be unbelieveably fast.
By saying that I'm a troll you're admitting the original article/exploit was a troll as well.
Calling the autoconfig "feature" a root exploit is no different than calling the Win9x login one either.
Here's another exploit you can ignorantly mod down: The telnet protocol is unencrypted!! The entire telnet session, including usernames and passwords can be sniffed.
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Here I was thinking of that hot gal in the TRON movie and one click later I'm wanting to claw my eyes out.
strlen( "port install ethereal")* ... I really wish there was a .pkg installer for OS X.")
strlen( "I know I'm being lazy but...
It seemed like a good idea at first, but then I found that it wasn't the "percieved" germs on toilet seats that offended me. It was the piss and shit.
Perhaps the automatic updating would trigger their suspicions. Or any frequent access to the LinSpot domain.
As for the instability, at least it's thoughtful enough to reboot itself. Eventually I'll gather enough cash to drop in a Netscreen 5 for myself.
People, it isn't like he just affected one or two MSN TV users. He affected all 21 users of MSN TV.
For some reason I don't think Microsoft is very dedicated to providing backward compatibility. The phrase "deprecated feature" doesn't exist within Microsoft.
For instance, last week I went to create a volume set in Windows 2000 server with a basic disk. Oh, BTW that feature was removed from W2k. They replaced it with dynamic disks. I was thinking I could upgrade to a dynamic disk and then create the volume set or expand the volume. Nope, not when you upgrade to a dynamic disk. You can't do shit with it after upgrading. You must wipe the disk and go dynamic from the start. Now that's an enterprise class operating system...
If Sun or Oracle were to mark a feature deprecated, it'd be about three full versions before they'd pull it.
I'll take 32-bit OSX over 64-bit SuSe --at least on the desktop. I know I'm really crippling myself by not running 64-bit desktop applications. Vi really fucking crawls running 32-bit.
Seems like IBM took a page out of the Micropolis (aka Mi'crap'olis) playbook. IIRC, after they sold to that Singapore company and subsequently went bankrupt, the OEMs were crippled by RMAs.
I agree. IMHO, Mac OS X + VPC is way better than Linux + ( Win4Lin || VMWare || Wine ). I went for a month before I found out I had to compile some shit to get the fan in my Toshiba laptop to work. Although, even then it was a lot cooler then this powerbook runs --temperature-wise.
Just a guess, but I don't think Apple has the intention of having OS X running on some plain white-box pc. When they're negotiating with AMD and other non-PPC chip makers, it's just a less expensive chip on an Apple logic board to them. Plus, these negotiations are just leverage against IBM/Motorola pricing. It helps build credibility to Apple's case that they don't need IBM/Motorola and that Apple can/will take they're business elswhere. Plus, what CEO would want his entire business dependent upon a single chip vendor? Steve Jobs knows Apple shareholders get a big hard-on everytime these Apple/AMD/Marklar rumors circulate.One possibility of OS X running on a non-Apple ROM-ed x86 board would be if Microsoft were to threaten Apple's existence. Then Apple could say "fuck you Microsoft" and release OS X to the free world.
The other possibility being if x86 Aqua were to check for some Apple ROM on said Apple branded x86 logic board and someone came up with a nice hack to spoof it. Hopefully (or not) Apple would be smarter than that. Even if that were possibile, I'd still buy their hardware.
That's funny, I was counting the months until we get rid of our PIXes...
Does it really matter what font they use? It all ends up being blacked out anyway.
PHBs use MS Project.
OG blows in it's Visio interoperability --granted .vdx support is recent... If it would read .vsd files I wouldn't be so opposed to using it --but that's not OG's fault. As one of the two Macs in a company of about 50 Visio users, I routinely find myself using Visio via VPC to export vsd to vdx files. If I'm lucky VPC/WinXP/Visio will keep from crashing just long enough for me to pull the export off.
That's why I want MS Visio for Mac. I'm hoping they can improve upon the Windows counterpart just like Office v.X. So, maybe my anger was a little misdirected. OG doesn't necessarily blow, but jumping through hoops just to read a Visio drawing in OG does blow.
I'm now trying to see how long I can go without using my real voice by using the CLI command "say".
All of which presently reside inside a Hollywood soundstage.
For the same reason that Apple paid people to make contributions to the KHTML project.
You can do that with Darwin or X11 root window, but why?
Looks close to me:
man hier
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Re ference/ManPages/html/hier.7.html
Sure some of it may be symlinks, but the basic provision is there --at least for the basic UNIX part of OS X.
Because of the hundreds of holes in Windows some attacker can compromise a Windows server in the local subnet and then use it to spoof the DHCP servers to gain access to the Mac.
That makes the max 1e9 or 1,000,000,000 MHz. Unless we're using HEXponents, which raises the bar to 1eF or 10,000,000,000,000,000 MHz Those would be my base and turbo speed settings, respectively.
I noticed my PC was a little snappier after I set it to those. Those displays were a great source of spare jumpers. If only there were enough digits to display "Type-R". Then my PC would be unbelieveably fast.
Calling the autoconfig "feature" a root exploit is no different than calling the Win9x login one either.
Here's another exploit you can ignorantly mod down: The telnet protocol is unencrypted!! The entire telnet session, including usernames and passwords can be sniffed.