Apple's calendaring server site says that you must have iCal from 10.5 seed to use it. I'm guessing there is something different with caldav vs the old system of just throwing up ical files via webdav.
Almost. Consumer systems are all switched in one year. They did not announce an xserve RAID upgrade yet. If you look at the site (as of yesterday anyway), nothing was refreshed about the xserve raid. Also, xserve's aren't shipping yet. They might make their year deadline, but they have not pulled off a full architecture switch until all their systems are actually running on intel.
On the up side, Adobe is the big holdup. I bet they won't ship until vista is out even if it gets delayed for a year. (more) I wish more games were getting universal binaries too.
I have a feeling we won't see a big refresh until Microsoft ships their new products. Apple wants to have something on the microsoft music player and vista.
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Cross platform? Flash does not work on all platforms.
Flash 9 is only SUPPORTED on Windows 98-2003 server and Mac OS 10.1-10.4 ppc. They have a beta for intel macs.
Flash 7 supports Mac OS 9, x86 linux (no AMD64 or other processors) and Solaris x86/sparc64. The linux support is only for redhat and the java desktop system (linux builds).
Yeah, my aunt has 3 pcs in her household. (2 laptops and a desktop) My mother has one pc but lives alone. My father and his roomate have 5 pcs. My aunt and uncle have one for them and one for the child plus he has a work laptop. I've got 10 computers now here. My wife and I are both cs people. Yesterday i just got a NeXTstation. (4 macs, 3 pcs, 2 suns, 1 NeXT)
I'm 27 and just signed up in may. I only use it to find out what happened to high school friends and assholes. Its funny how many people in my class now work at a gas station or an adult bookstore. A few of the cheerleaders made it as waitresses. Its worth the bad web design to laugh at people who said you'd never be anything.
Best of all its free unlike classmates.com which won't tell you shit unless you pay them.
Hate to reply to myself, but this is a very interesting part of the document.
"The solution shall prohibit one wireless client from seeing another wireless client computer, thus preventing ping sweeps or the use of scanning devices from finding other wireless clients using the service. The free and for fee service must support the use of VPNs at layer 3 and layer 2 VPN tunnels by stationary clients. Mobile VPN support can be a fee based option. The solution provider must have a system in place to detect jamming and other denial of service events (intentional or not) against the wireless system. The selected provider must have a process for responding to such incidents. Back end authentication systems must be secured from attack. Any system with usage accounting or personal information must need to be secured in accordance with regulatory standards for protecting private information. The selected private sector partner may be required to annually demonstrate that back end systems are secured via a security audit. PSP's must include a for fee option for users to add encryption of the wireless connection data stream. This option will include support for assisting the end user in the configuration of the encryption settings and must be a standards based solution. Note that the solution will need to be compliant with any provisions of CALEA that are applicable."
Work at a university some time. The computer science department had a several terribyte raid array and did NOT have money for full backups. Not everyone works at a fortune 500 company with massive budgets.
Besides some people don't like tape drives. I can confirm they suck ass with xserves.
Finally, some progress on a real backup solution. Backup storage has not kept up with hard drives. It would be nice to be able to backup one of the new seagate disks with 1 or 2 discs. When you consider businesses have terabytes of data now this is still a floppy in terms of capacity. Its a great start though.
I'm counting on it. I started MidnightBSD specifically to create a GNUstep desktop. There was a little success in this area with a few linux projects in the past, but it makes sense on a BSD. OS X has this BSD/linux/Mach hybrid thing now and it works for them.
I'm really confused at this point. What is web 2.0 really? At first I thought it was just using old technologies like ajax (dhtml with xml), and possibly multimedia content or something. xfire is primarly a windows client on an im network. Very little aside from profile management is done on their website. Plus their domain was registered in november 2003 according to whois.
Does any site created in 2003 or later count as web 2.0? By this logic, if you have a service on/after 2003 and it has a windows client which talks to a webserver, is that web 2.0?
You get $10 an hour! My last job was for the WMU DOSA helpdesk and I only got $7.20 an hour or so. I had to be the Mac sys admin on that pay! I also did windows calls. Don't complain about that. My wife got almost the same pay and she was a grad student.
I started using iTunes for a similar reason. I can buy one track at a time and still have money for other entertainment. For awhile I had netflix and then i'd buy a few tracks a month on iTunes. I replaced netflix with cheap dvds you run across occasionally and iTunes content. I've also found buying old tv shows is a better investment. Say you pay $30 for a season of monk. You get 16 episodes at almost 45 minutes a piece. That's 720 minutes of video compared to 240-360 you'd get out of a dvd purchase. (except the bad movie bin at walmart) I've also found some games to be at a similar level. For instance, I recently bought Star wars knights of the old republic. Even using some cheats, I got 28 hours on my first run through the game and it costs $20 at best buy. My wife is now playing it and I'll run through it again with a different player config. My wife's primary entertainment is World of Warcraft and she gets her money's worth.
As a cs student, I find some weeks I don't have time for anything. Programming assignments can be time consuming. A subscription based service like premium cable tv, etc doesn't always make sense.
Why do people want Apple to make Mac OS for standard pcs? If apple did that and pulled it off, they'd be the new Microsoft. We'd be in the same boat. None of the advantages of the apple platform would be maintained since they'd have to deal with random shitty hardware.
I'd rather have native games, but I guess win32 emulation is better than nothing. Of course this only helps people with new Macs. I can't imagine there are that many people yet with intel macs. Is it cost effective to do this? How much effort for game companies? What about support costs?
Here's a possible answer. Many of the new consumer level features aren't present in corporate versions of Vista. Microsoft might be trying to get the core os done and then give them a little more time with the end user fluff. It might also be a shakedown cruise. IT people will most likely start testing vista right away for later deployment and find bugs in the process. I suspect a very quick SP1 release within 3-5 months of corporate customers getting it. Remember NT4 had a service pack immediately. Its also possible they will pull their old games and release a "b" release and later do a special edition or some crap. Windows Server R2 reminds me of Windows 98 SE. It allows them to EOL buggy software faster after they've got a service pack or two under their belts. It also is a great revenue source as people re-buy what they already have. Ballmer is calling the shots now and he's a greedy guy.
Yes, NIS is quite poor. I've noticed it usually works if you don't patch it. Eventually they release a patch or an error occurs during a patch and then you can't surf. Best of all, unlike 2003 if you buy 2005 (or possibly newer ones) it won't let you install just antivirus when you figure out it sucks.
I got my former employer to buy me a copy of NIS so I could help with problems they might have at work. I usually worked from home. I ended up switching to SAV 8/9/10 since I got a free copy as a student. Recently I transfered schools and they have Mcafee Enterprise 8. Not only did it catch a virus right after install, but it seems faster. I wouldn't say its lighter weight though. With SAV 10 I got around 235mb ram usage and now I'm at ~400mb on bootup. Of course there's a new version of xfire running too...
In general, I've had bad luck with the home editions of all antivirus software I've tried. They seem to bloat the interface, but its still confusing to my mother. I miss the days of lightweight antivirus software. Worst of all I don't trust any antivirus vendor. I'm a bit suspicious of overseas security products unless they're open source. Maybe someday clamwin will get an on access scanner.
I hate to say this, but I think Matt Damon is a good choice. If you watch some of the earlier TOS episodes, you can see it.
As for Enterprise, there were a few good episodes in season 1 and season 4. I think they got in trouble because a few episodes in season 1 were boring. I don't blame the actors (well blaylock sucked till season 4), and season 4 proved they could hire good writers. There were two idiots running things. The best episodes were the unimportant episodes when the B&B vision didn't need to be explained. I plan on buying season one eventually. I love the first andorian episode and the vulcan ambassador episode. Scott Bakula proved once again he's a great actor even when he gets shitty lines.
I haven't read up on this film, but I do hope they throw in some of the other captains and admirals from TOS. Matt Decker and the pilot captain would be interesting.
What might also work is a movie about some of the other races. I could see fans getting into a klingon or romulan movie. There's a lot they could do with them. A borg origin movie might work as well.
When Mac OS is no OpenBSD, but its comparable to every other operating system in terms of security. People don't use Macs for security, well the average ones anyway. There is a misconseption that they are more secure, but even if apple was the least secure OS (os9 anyone), they are still easy to use and full of features. Macs are about what you can do and not how can you do it. In this case, you can do a remote root exploit! The difference is that apple will patch it as soon as they can just as linux developers tend to do. Microsoft would put it off to magic update day.
I should explain the os9 comment. Classic didn't have a serious permissions model so anyone could do anything with it. There were few remote holes since there were only a few possible services in later releases. (web sharing, afp, usb printer sharing)
At my last job things got thrown out automatically if there were beige. This included monitors, speakers, desktops and other accessories. My boss then would say to his bosses that everything is current because its all black. It worked.. he hid that some systems were bought when dell first switched to black. Some of the newer optiplex case designs and possibly this will really screw him in the short term.
I personally like black electronics in general. I also have a few macs in my home and they still look new.. the dell server and workstation look very dated. (one's only 2 years old) My year old AMD box looks great though.. antec case still looks rather new.
iBooks look at bit dated though, especially my wife's original 300mhz toilet seat/compact model. Of course iBooks also have that packard bell gray color on the "inside".
I got my mother off aol by buying her a dial up and setting the default homepage to yahoo. Over several months I got her addicted to their stupid card games. It worked except she still has trouble going to a url. She actually types in "keywords" into yahoo to get to sites. It sucks in the sense i got her to trade one short bus to the internet for another, but at least its cheaper. She laughs at my dad who still requires aol to do anything. (they're divorced)
In my case, I'm technically savvy and I created a page with my own website links on it so I can access everything. Its faster than bothering with bookmarks and allows me to use the links bars for other sites I use once a week or so.
Based on this review, everyone should buy blue ray. In vhs vs betamax, the lower quality, larger capacity version won. If history repeats itself, we'll see that again.
I'm a mac and pc user. I'd be very happy to see another operating system grab marketshare overnight. It might show end users and companies that they can run something besides Windows! It may encourage competition. Microsoft could use a real dose of competition right about now. Everyone would benefit.
This may be what all of the linux users have been waiting for. It can prove linux is a desktop os as it was intended to be. Apple may get sales out of this too. (more interest in alternatives)
but those few sales won't pay for linux programmers, testers, tech support and any other costs. Then we get into the issue of distros. What distros should they officially support? Redhat? Fedora? Suse? Gentoo? Ubuntu?
Its not like developing for the mac even. Way too many variables. We need standards in linux and bsd if we want to attract closed source software. Plus some of you need to get over your GNU love and just accept closed source software until the community is ready to make games and other software open sourced at the same levels.
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Even he knows the lowend dimensions and optiplex are crap.
Apple's calendaring server site says that you must have iCal from 10.5 seed to use it. I'm guessing there is something different with caldav vs the old system of just throwing up ical files via webdav.
Almost. Consumer systems are all switched in one year. They did not announce an xserve RAID upgrade yet. If you look at the site (as of yesterday anyway), nothing was refreshed about the xserve raid. Also, xserve's aren't shipping yet. They might make their year deadline, but they have not pulled off a full architecture switch until all their systems are actually running on intel.
On the up side, Adobe is the big holdup. I bet they won't ship until vista is out even if it gets delayed for a year. (more) I wish more games were getting universal binaries too.
I have a feeling we won't see a big refresh until Microsoft ships their new products. Apple wants to have something on the microsoft music player and vista.
Cross platform? Flash does not work on all platforms.
i nfo/systemreqs/
i nfo/systemreqs/flashplayer7/
Flash 9 is only SUPPORTED on Windows 98-2003 server and Mac OS 10.1-10.4 ppc. They have a beta for intel macs.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/product
Flash 7 supports Mac OS 9, x86 linux (no AMD64 or other processors) and Solaris x86/sparc64. The linux support is only for redhat and the java desktop system (linux builds).
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/product
I wouldn't call that cross platform.
Yeah, my aunt has 3 pcs in her household. (2 laptops and a desktop) My mother has one pc but lives alone. My father and his roomate have 5 pcs. My aunt and uncle have one for them and one for the child plus he has a work laptop. I've got 10 computers now here. My wife and I are both cs people. Yesterday i just got a NeXTstation. (4 macs, 3 pcs, 2 suns, 1 NeXT)
I'm 27 and just signed up in may. I only use it to find out what happened to high school friends and assholes. Its funny how many people in my class now work at a gas station or an adult bookstore. A few of the cheerleaders made it as waitresses. Its worth the bad web design to laugh at people who said you'd never be anything.
Best of all its free unlike classmates.com which won't tell you shit unless you pay them.
Hate to reply to myself, but this is a very interesting part of the document.
"The solution shall prohibit one wireless client from seeing another wireless client computer, thus
preventing ping sweeps or the use of scanning devices from finding other wireless clients using the
service. The free and for fee service must support the use of VPNs at layer 3 and layer 2 VPN
tunnels by stationary clients. Mobile VPN support can be a fee based option. The solution provider
must have a system in place to detect jamming and other denial of service events (intentional or
not) against the wireless system. The selected provider must have a process for responding to
such incidents. Back end authentication systems must be secured from attack. Any system with
usage accounting or personal information must need to be secured in accordance with regulatory
standards for protecting private information. The selected private sector partner may be required to
annually demonstrate that back end systems are secured via a security audit.
PSP's must include a for fee option for users to add encryption of the wireless connection data
stream. This option will include support for assisting the end user in the configuration of the
encryption settings and must be a standards based solution. Note that the solution will need to be
compliant with any provisions of CALEA that are applicable."
Here's the proposal:w ireless.ewashtenaw.org/partners/privatesec/rfp_624 4.pdf+Ann+arbor+wireless+802.11+washtenaw&hl=en&gl =us&ct=clnk&cd=6&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:DhXJwaAtDLYJ:
Work at a university some time. The computer science department had a several terribyte raid array and did NOT have money for full backups. Not everyone works at a fortune 500 company with massive budgets.
Besides some people don't like tape drives. I can confirm they suck ass with xserves.
Finally, some progress on a real backup solution. Backup storage has not kept up with hard drives. It would be nice to be able to backup one of the new seagate disks with 1 or 2 discs. When you consider businesses have terabytes of data now this is still a floppy in terms of capacity. Its a great start though.
I'm counting on it. I started MidnightBSD specifically to create a GNUstep desktop. There was a little success in this area with a few linux projects in the past, but it makes sense on a BSD. OS X has this BSD/linux/Mach hybrid thing now and it works for them.
I'm really confused at this point. What is web 2.0 really? At first I thought it was just using old technologies like ajax (dhtml with xml), and possibly multimedia content or something. xfire is primarly a windows client on an im network. Very little aside from profile management is done on their website. Plus their domain was registered in november 2003 according to whois.
Does any site created in 2003 or later count as web 2.0? By this logic, if you have a service on/after 2003 and it has a windows client which talks to a webserver, is that web 2.0?
You get $10 an hour! My last job was for the WMU DOSA helpdesk and I only got $7.20 an hour or so. I had to be the Mac sys admin on that pay! I also did windows calls. Don't complain about that. My wife got almost the same pay and she was a grad student.
I started using iTunes for a similar reason. I can buy one track at a time and still have money for other entertainment. For awhile I had netflix and then i'd buy a few tracks a month on iTunes. I replaced netflix with cheap dvds you run across occasionally and iTunes content. I've also found buying old tv shows is a better investment. Say you pay $30 for a season of monk. You get 16 episodes at almost 45 minutes a piece. That's 720 minutes of video compared to 240-360 you'd get out of a dvd purchase. (except the bad movie bin at walmart) I've also found some games to be at a similar level. For instance, I recently bought Star wars knights of the old republic. Even using some cheats, I got 28 hours on my first run through the game and it costs $20 at best buy. My wife is now playing it and I'll run through it again with a different player config. My wife's primary entertainment is World of Warcraft and she gets her money's worth.
As a cs student, I find some weeks I don't have time for anything. Programming assignments can be time consuming. A subscription based service like premium cable tv, etc doesn't always make sense.
Why do people want Apple to make Mac OS for standard pcs? If apple did that and pulled it off, they'd be the new Microsoft. We'd be in the same boat. None of the advantages of the apple platform would be maintained since they'd have to deal with random shitty hardware.
I'd rather have native games, but I guess win32 emulation is better than nothing. Of course this only helps people with new Macs. I can't imagine there are that many people yet with intel macs. Is it cost effective to do this? How much effort for game companies? What about support costs?
Here's a possible answer. Many of the new consumer level features aren't present in corporate versions of Vista. Microsoft might be trying to get the core os done and then give them a little more time with the end user fluff. It might also be a shakedown cruise. IT people will most likely start testing vista right away for later deployment and find bugs in the process. I suspect a very quick SP1 release within 3-5 months of corporate customers getting it. Remember NT4 had a service pack immediately. Its also possible they will pull their old games and release a "b" release and later do a special edition or some crap. Windows Server R2 reminds me of Windows 98 SE. It allows them to EOL buggy software faster after they've got a service pack or two under their belts. It also is a great revenue source as people re-buy what they already have. Ballmer is calling the shots now and he's a greedy guy.
Yes, NIS is quite poor. I've noticed it usually works if you don't patch it. Eventually they release a patch or an error occurs during a patch and then you can't surf. Best of all, unlike 2003 if you buy 2005 (or possibly newer ones) it won't let you install just antivirus when you figure out it sucks.
I got my former employer to buy me a copy of NIS so I could help with problems they might have at work. I usually worked from home. I ended up switching to SAV 8/9/10 since I got a free copy as a student. Recently I transfered schools and they have Mcafee Enterprise 8. Not only did it catch a virus right after install, but it seems faster. I wouldn't say its lighter weight though. With SAV 10 I got around 235mb ram usage and now I'm at ~400mb on bootup. Of course there's a new version of xfire running too...
In general, I've had bad luck with the home editions of all antivirus software I've tried. They seem to bloat the interface, but its still confusing to my mother. I miss the days of lightweight antivirus software. Worst of all I don't trust any antivirus vendor. I'm a bit suspicious of overseas security products unless they're open source. Maybe someday clamwin will get an on access scanner.
I hate to say this, but I think Matt Damon is a good choice. If you watch some of the earlier TOS episodes, you can see it.
As for Enterprise, there were a few good episodes in season 1 and season 4. I think they got in trouble because a few episodes in season 1 were boring. I don't blame the actors (well blaylock sucked till season 4), and season 4 proved they could hire good writers. There were two idiots running things. The best episodes were the unimportant episodes when the B&B vision didn't need to be explained. I plan on buying season one eventually. I love the first andorian episode and the vulcan ambassador episode. Scott Bakula proved once again he's a great actor even when he gets shitty lines.
I haven't read up on this film, but I do hope they throw in some of the other captains and admirals from TOS. Matt Decker and the pilot captain would be interesting.
What might also work is a movie about some of the other races. I could see fans getting into a klingon or romulan movie. There's a lot they could do with them. A borg origin movie might work as well.
How do they *know* what the percentages are? They lost the e-mail.
Site has cpu quota issues... here's the cache.
w ww.om3ga.co.uk/2006/07/27/scratched-cds-no-problem /+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_en
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WiSKiTXvp74J:
When Mac OS is no OpenBSD, but its comparable to every other operating system in terms of security. People don't use Macs for security, well the average ones anyway. There is a misconseption that they are more secure, but even if apple was the least secure OS (os9 anyone), they are still easy to use and full of features. Macs are about what you can do and not how can you do it. In this case, you can do a remote root exploit! The difference is that apple will patch it as soon as they can just as linux developers tend to do. Microsoft would put it off to magic update day.
I should explain the os9 comment. Classic didn't have a serious permissions model so anyone could do anything with it. There were few remote holes since there were only a few possible services in later releases. (web sharing, afp, usb printer sharing)
At my last job things got thrown out automatically if there were beige. This included monitors, speakers, desktops and other accessories. My boss then would say to his bosses that everything is current because its all black. It worked.. he hid that some systems were bought when dell first switched to black. Some of the newer optiplex case designs and possibly this will really screw him in the short term.
I personally like black electronics in general. I also have a few macs in my home and they still look new.. the dell server and workstation look very dated. (one's only 2 years old) My year old AMD box looks great though.. antec case still looks rather new.
iBooks look at bit dated though, especially my wife's original 300mhz toilet seat/compact model. Of course iBooks also have that packard bell gray color on the "inside".
I disagree.
I got my mother off aol by buying her a dial up and setting the default homepage to yahoo. Over several months I got her addicted to their stupid card games. It worked except she still has trouble going to a url. She actually types in "keywords" into yahoo to get to sites. It sucks in the sense i got her to trade one short bus to the internet for another, but at least its cheaper. She laughs at my dad who still requires aol to do anything. (they're divorced)
In my case, I'm technically savvy and I created a page with my own website links on it so I can access everything. Its faster than bothering with bookmarks and allows me to use the links bars for other sites I use once a week or so.
It also gives the illusion of "user friendly".
Based on this review, everyone should buy blue ray. In vhs vs betamax, the lower quality, larger capacity version won. If history repeats itself, we'll see that again.
I'm a mac and pc user. I'd be very happy to see another operating system grab marketshare overnight. It might show end users and companies that they can run something besides Windows! It may encourage competition. Microsoft could use a real dose of competition right about now. Everyone would benefit.
This may be what all of the linux users have been waiting for. It can prove linux is a desktop os as it was intended to be. Apple may get sales out of this too. (more interest in alternatives)
but those few sales won't pay for linux programmers, testers, tech support and any other costs. Then we get into the issue of distros. What distros should they officially support? Redhat? Fedora? Suse? Gentoo? Ubuntu?
Its not like developing for the mac even. Way too many variables. We need standards in linux and bsd if we want to attract closed source software. Plus some of you need to get over your GNU love and just accept closed source software until the community is ready to make games and other software open sourced at the same levels.