I'll wait for Web 4.1. Initial releases are always buggy nowadays. If you take a look at Web 1.0 (why hasn't anyone ever relased an update?) you can clearly see what I'm talking about.
I'm not saying that OS X is perfect, I'm saying that SO FAR, you shouldn't waste time and money on virus protection. Do regular backups of your important data, that is MUCH more effective and protects against other disasters like hardware malfunctions, loss and theft, fire and stupidity.
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The problem is, how do you lock down an OS X box? Install a Personal Firewall? (Just kidding.) Install Clam AV and wait for the day when they add a signature for the virus? Use NAT* to shield you from any unsolicited accesses (like any Win box should be kept?
Bad security is bad, alright, but how do you defend yourslf against somthing wihout knowing if, when, how and where it will appear? Saying "OH NOES TEH MAC USERS HAV TEH BAD SECRUTIY"!1" is easy, coming up with sensible ways of preparing for the case of emergency is not as much.
* As someone who thinks that IPv6 is cool I find it mildly amusing that the only thing keeping many Win boxes from being turned nto zombies (and my default answer to internet-related security problems) is the very thing IPv6 proponents habitually get enraged about.
Actually, no, I didn't know anything about JSF or Object Relational Mapping. This is either going to be covered in the next couple weeks (we only have lectures throughout the first semester of the project), which is unlikely, or we're supposed to pick up the technical knowledge ourselves. Good thing there's Slashdot.;)
By the way, the GPL is no point against MySQL, as we are supposed to opensource our app anyway. However, the fact that even the JDBC connectors are GPL'd will make picking a license much easier. This is good to know (and I should probably share this with the project newsgroup).
Thanks for your reply, I'll look into JSF and Object Relational Mapping.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Now that I see it mentioned on/. I remember that I've read an article about it in a computer mag a few months ago. *goes looking fot the mag*
Concerning that... I have a few questions and maybe someone here might want to help me by bashing/hyping something.
I'm a CS student (still doing the foundation courses) and one of my courses is a one-year software project. We have to design and implement a replacement for an online bibliography. As the CS department is somewhat Java-centric we have to do it with JSP (or pure servlets, if we dislike JSP for some reason). That by itself is not much of a problem, although Java might be a bit heavy for a site getting about twenty unique hits per day... What bugs me is that we're forced to use MySQL; alternative databases like Postgre are not allowed for some reason. If you want to tell me how exactly this is going to make my life worse, feel free to do so (this is the bashing part).
For example, does MySQL support a transaction log? I thought something like this might be useful in case Bad Things(TM) happen to the database (support for it wouldd also look nice on our feature list).
If you feel like hyping something, I'd appreciate it if you could enlighten me on frameworks which might be useful in the development of a web application. My main concern is reducing development time as that's the resource we have the least of.
Still, there are games that feature an epic size as well as great gameplay and good narration. I'm currently playing Final Fantasy Tactics (in my opinion the bet game ever to be released for a console) again. My current save shows 38 hours of playing time and I'm not even halfway through (granted, I'm stretching it out. But even at a fast pace beating the game takes a lot more than forty hours). FFT doesn't have great graphics; most of it is way below the Playstation's capabilities (about a hundred polygons max, the rest all sprites), but they still work. However, I expect most tweny-hour games with cinegasmic graphics to fade into oblivion once the next generation of consoles comes out. The few games that will pass the test of time and become known as real classics are those that offer more - more playtime, a better story, unique gameplay, better modability etc. Things like better graphic are nice but they don't make a classic.
No, it's true. PS3 games will boast graphics on the same level as the cyberspace scenes in Johnny Mnemonic, sound as good as the effects in the original Star Trek series, acting on par with the Bloodrayne movie, physics whose quality matches that of those in The Core and the same kind of high-quality writing found in masterpieces like Plan 9 From Outer Space, Manos: The Hands of Fate or Toxic Avenger.
Yes, the Cell chip even changes the writing of the game, it's that good.
So I guess the lesson here is that the way to cover your ass is to not attempt to cover your ass; even if they don't find anything they can still get you if you lie to them.
I think it's that the way to cover your ass is to cover your ass without resorting to illegal means. There no problem with playing defensive, as long as you don't let documents disappear etc.
I'm reminded of how malicious code can be embedded in the comment field of GIFs, and executed by an accomplice program... that exploit was never seen in the wild either, but has been known about for as long as GIFs have existed. Was it part of a grand conspiracy to force us all to subscribe to Compu$erve??;)
Yes, but AOL sent a team of shadowrunners to the Compuserve headquarters to geek the coders responsible for writing the backdoors. After the mage was done manabolting everyone in the office and the decker had copied and deleted the project's entire codebase Compuserve was forced to give up that particular matrix domination scheme.
AOL would be the good guys here but they decided to pay the runners in lead. Never trust a Johnson, chummers, I tell you...
Especially when using an AMD64 system. AMD64 processors are quite fast at compiling. We're talking KDE in three to four hours on a 3000+ Venice with low-end parts.
Yes, but they're much further along than MS. I meant it when I said every program on my system is covered by emerge - I haven't had to look outside the system once.
True. With every other distro I had to track down obscure programs like most. Gentoo has pretty much everything - the Qt rendering engine for GTK, most, the Sun Java JDK, the accelerated NVidia driver... Portage can get everything except for a few proprietary packages - and when it can't fetch a file itself it gives you detailed information as to how to fetch it manually.
I'm lso using portage on OS X now and I prefer it over Fink and DarwinPorts, even though I have to unmask most packages (Gentoo/OS X has not had much testing so far)...
I wasn't defending it either, Linux is just great for outrageous claims like "I used it twenty years ago and it was better than Windows!!!1111". BTW, what I found hard to parse about the Cisco sentence was the sentence structure, not the meaning.
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Sending information about the currently playing track to Apple, and then displaying information related to that track in the iTunes Music Store in the MiniStore pane. It is not broadly "tracking your music preferences".
Actually, after going through my MP3 collection I found out that all the pane does is display "no match" unless the artist is Venus Hum, in which case it will try to sell you the exact album you are currently listening to.
Okay, I can understand that they don't have YMCK, Wesley Willis or the Wise Guys (a German a cappella band), maybe even Machinae Supremacy, but Richard Cheese? Come on! Have they even heard of modern lounge music?
My point: If you're a true geek it doesn't matter whether you send your data to the iTMS or not since in most cases they'll have no idea what the hell you're listening to anyway.
Oh, and someone already mentioned it: You can turn off the iTMS completely via the parental controls. This way of doin it also has the advantage of removing the iTMS link in the playlist browser (obviously this is only an advantage if you don't playn on using iTMS).
Actually I just took the statement "I've been on the internet for 14 years with NT+", which is slightly implausible (but certainly possibly true) and replaced it with a completely ludicrous assertion (I can't have been on the internet as described because a) Linux, Firefox and the commonly available internet are all less than 25 years old and b) it's hard to connect to the internet without a NIC), mimicing the structure of your post, highlighting some strange points like the "I don't get it", which seems to imply that you don't get why you were able to work with NT4, the mention of problems with "bo's", which are never explained (a search on acronymfinder.com turned up "body odours" as the top result) or the strange second-to-last sentence which I was actually unable to parse. The last sentence is a reference to the fact that when you said "oh well shields up" you almost quoted your own nickname.
I just felt like trolling a post and yours happened to be a good target.;)
Just imagine what happened if one of those discs would fall into the wrong hands! Clearly we need to not only encrypt each disk with double ROT13 but we also need to use the US Army's most elite squads to protect the DVDs from falling into the wrong hands! We need the Green Berets! We need the Navy Seals! We need G.I. Joe!
The problem with that is that you somehow have to provide drivers for each and every version of OS X, Linux and Windows for each and every architecture that supports the medium (in the case of USB mass storage that's a lot of architectures). You can expect Windows to need at least drivers for Win98/ME, Win2k, WinXP and Vista (maybe even more than one driver for Vista, with the different versions and IA-32/AMD64). OS X needs two drivers minimum (10.0 compatible for PPC and Intel), probably more like six different versions (10.0 to 10.4 for PPC, 10.4 for Intel). As for Linux you'd need userland drivers (making certain kernel options neccessary) for each architecture and minor kernel version - that's about thirty drivers for Linux. The drivers alone would eat up much of a 128 MB USB stick. Sure, you can leave some OSes out by using a file system that's already in use (like ext3), but...
There still are other OSes that might be used to access the medium. If they don't natively support whichever file system you use they can't access your files at all. Even worse: Some clueless user might confuse the FAT16 partition with the main partition and "erase all those old driver files" to make room, mking the drive unusable in most OSes. And no, you can't make the driver partition read-only because you need to be able to put new drivers on it - you don't want your medium to be obsoleted just because a new kernel that's binary incompatible with the existing drivers comes sout, do you?
Besides, I'm lumping it all together as FAT32. FAT12 is only used on floppy disks anymore and FAT16 has been superseded by FAT32. Still, FAT32 is one of the worst file systems in use today and should be replaced by something better. I'm not even speaking about patents, FAT32 is just becoming old. It's good enough for today, but if we don't think about a replacement now we won't have one ready when we need it in ten years (plus/minus a couple).
That's a well-deserved Intersting, I hope that you get a few more for that comment. UDF really seems to be on the way to ubiquity - according to the 'pedia future versions are even supposed to be engineered towards storage media such as hard drives.
Let's just hope that ten years from now we save our supposed-to-be-portable data on UDF-formatted drives instead of still using FAT.
Note that I explicitly admitted that scientific theories can't be proved. However, scientific theories aren't "everything" and the assertion that it's impossible for a scientist to prove everything is (in my opinion) wrong, even when we only look at science. For example, why do you think that mathematical proofs may introduce uncertainty? Probably because some mathematician (= a scientist) successfully argued that they do. Now, is "mathematical proofs may introduce uncertainty" provable? You appear to say no, because a scientist said it.
I've been on the internet 25+ years with Linux and Firefox, until recently I didn't even have a firewall or spyware scanner or NIC, I've never been hacked... I don't get it. Even with the base install not having sudo I still was able to perform all tasks with a limited account inside a chroot without being logged in. My issue with the 2.6 code base are issues with BOs* and that's a limitation all OS's will have to encounter. My confidence was severley shaken with the WINE WMF issue, basically at the point the graphics program over every application/OS feature that tries to view WMF graphics is a ticking time bomb the code paths are mind boggling... Jesus_666 shields up!
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I'll wait for Web 4.1. Initial releases are always buggy nowadays. If you take a look at Web 1.0 (why hasn't anyone ever relased an update?) you can clearly see what I'm talking about.
I'm not saying that OS X is perfect, I'm saying that SO FAR, you shouldn't waste time and money on virus protection. Do regular backups of your important data, that is MUCH more effective and protects against other disasters like hardware malfunctions, loss and theft, fire and stupidity.
f ireandstupidity. Snakeoil Antivirusandhardwaremalfunctionandlossandtheftandf ireandstupidity uses our patented trade secret virus, hardware malfunction, loss, theft, fire and stupidity detection engine to effectively stopy any viruses, hardware malfunctions, losses, thefts and fires. And stupidities. Order Snakeoil Antivirusandhardwaremalfunctionandlossandtheftandf ireandstupidity today! (Except in Nebraska.)
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The problem is, how do you lock down an OS X box? Install a Personal Firewall? (Just kidding.) Install Clam AV and wait for the day when they add a signature for the virus? Use NAT* to shield you from any unsolicited accesses (like any Win box should be kept?
Bad security is bad, alright, but how do you defend yourslf against somthing wihout knowing if, when, how and where it will appear? Saying "OH NOES TEH MAC USERS HAV TEH BAD SECRUTIY"!1" is easy, coming up with sensible ways of preparing for the case of emergency is not as much.
* As someone who thinks that IPv6 is cool I find it mildly amusing that the only thing keeping many Win boxes from being turned nto zombies (and my default answer to internet-related security problems) is the very thing IPv6 proponents habitually get enraged about.
No, no, he's talking about a premesis, which is a combination of "premise" and "nemesis", meaning "a place that is your ultimate enemy".
Unfortunately Java is a non-negotiatable requirement. But InnoDB is a good idea, thanks.
Actually, no, I didn't know anything about JSF or Object Relational Mapping. This is either going to be covered in the next couple weeks (we only have lectures throughout the first semester of the project), which is unlikely, or we're supposed to pick up the technical knowledge ourselves. Good thing there's Slashdot. ;)
By the way, the GPL is no point against MySQL, as we are supposed to opensource our app anyway. However, the fact that even the JDBC connectors are GPL'd will make picking a license much easier. This is good to know (and I should probably share this with the project newsgroup).
Thanks for your reply, I'll look into JSF and Object Relational Mapping.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Now that I see it mentioned on /. I remember that I've read an article about it in a computer mag a few months ago. *goes looking fot the mag*
Concerning that... I have a few questions and maybe someone here might want to help me by bashing/hyping something.
I'm a CS student (still doing the foundation courses) and one of my courses is a one-year software project. We have to design and implement a replacement for an online bibliography. As the CS department is somewhat Java-centric we have to do it with JSP (or pure servlets, if we dislike JSP for some reason). That by itself is not much of a problem, although Java might be a bit heavy for a site getting about twenty unique hits per day... What bugs me is that we're forced to use MySQL; alternative databases like Postgre are not allowed for some reason. If you want to tell me how exactly this is going to make my life worse, feel free to do so (this is the bashing part).
For example, does MySQL support a transaction log? I thought something like this might be useful in case Bad Things(TM) happen to the database (support for it wouldd also look nice on our feature list).
If you feel like hyping something, I'd appreciate it if you could enlighten me on frameworks which might be useful in the development of a web application. My main concern is reducing development time as that's the resource we have the least of.
Still, there are games that feature an epic size as well as great gameplay and good narration. I'm currently playing Final Fantasy Tactics (in my opinion the bet game ever to be released for a console) again. My current save shows 38 hours of playing time and I'm not even halfway through (granted, I'm stretching it out. But even at a fast pace beating the game takes a lot more than forty hours). FFT doesn't have great graphics; most of it is way below the Playstation's capabilities (about a hundred polygons max, the rest all sprites), but they still work. However, I expect most tweny-hour games with cinegasmic graphics to fade into oblivion once the next generation of consoles comes out. The few games that will pass the test of time and become known as real classics are those that offer more - more playtime, a better story, unique gameplay, better modability etc. Things like better graphic are nice but they don't make a classic.
No, it's true. PS3 games will boast graphics on the same level as the cyberspace scenes in Johnny Mnemonic, sound as good as the effects in the original Star Trek series, acting on par with the Bloodrayne movie, physics whose quality matches that of those in The Core and the same kind of high-quality writing found in masterpieces like Plan 9 From Outer Space, Manos: The Hands of Fate or Toxic Avenger.
Yes, the Cell chip even changes the writing of the game, it's that good.
So I guess the lesson here is that the way to cover your ass is to not attempt to cover your ass; even if they don't find anything they can still get you if you lie to them.
I think it's that the way to cover your ass is to cover your ass without resorting to illegal means. There no problem with playing defensive, as long as you don't let documents disappear etc.
With guns? Or maybe with spandex costumes and capes?
I'm reminded of how malicious code can be embedded in the comment field of GIFs, and executed by an accomplice program... that exploit was never seen in the wild either, but has been known about for as long as GIFs have existed. Was it part of a grand conspiracy to force us all to subscribe to Compu$erve?? ;)
Yes, but AOL sent a team of shadowrunners to the Compuserve headquarters to geek the coders responsible for writing the backdoors. After the mage was done manabolting everyone in the office and the decker had copied and deleted the project's entire codebase Compuserve was forced to give up that particular matrix domination scheme.
AOL would be the good guys here but they decided to pay the runners in lead. Never trust a Johnson, chummers, I tell you...
1.) GOTO http://www.mikeash.com/?page=software/qtamateur/in dex.html ...
2.) Download and install QTAmateur
3.) Bing! The nag screens are gone, as are the silly restrictions
4.)
5.) No, I'm not going to make a "PROFIT!" joke. Sorry.
Especially when using an AMD64 system. AMD64 processors are quite fast at compiling. We're talking KDE in three to four hours on a 3000+ Venice with low-end parts.
Yes, but they're much further along than MS. I meant it when I said every program on my system is covered by emerge - I haven't had to look outside the system once.
True. With every other distro I had to track down obscure programs like most. Gentoo has pretty much everything - the Qt rendering engine for GTK, most, the Sun Java JDK, the accelerated NVidia driver... Portage can get everything except for a few proprietary packages - and when it can't fetch a file itself it gives you detailed information as to how to fetch it manually.
I'm lso using portage on OS X now and I prefer it over Fink and DarwinPorts, even though I have to unmask most packages (Gentoo/OS X has not had much testing so far)...
If you just need it to unlock the QuickTime Player's basic functionality you might want to take a look at QTAmateur.
I wasn't defending it either, Linux is just great for outrageous claims like "I used it twenty years ago and it was better than Windows!!!1111". BTW, what I found hard to parse about the Cisco sentence was the sentence structure, not the meaning.
Sending information about the currently playing track to Apple, and then displaying information related to that track in the iTunes Music Store in the MiniStore pane. It is not broadly "tracking your music preferences".
Actually, after going through my MP3 collection I found out that all the pane does is display "no match" unless the artist is Venus Hum, in which case it will try to sell you the exact album you are currently listening to.
Okay, I can understand that they don't have YMCK, Wesley Willis or the Wise Guys (a German a cappella band), maybe even Machinae Supremacy, but Richard Cheese? Come on! Have they even heard of modern lounge music?
My point: If you're a true geek it doesn't matter whether you send your data to the iTMS or not since in most cases they'll have no idea what the hell you're listening to anyway.
Oh, and someone already mentioned it: You can turn off the iTMS completely via the parental controls. This way of doin it also has the advantage of removing the iTMS link in the playlist browser (obviously this is only an advantage if you don't playn on using iTMS).
Actually I just took the statement "I've been on the internet for 14 years with NT+", which is slightly implausible (but certainly possibly true) and replaced it with a completely ludicrous assertion (I can't have been on the internet as described because a) Linux, Firefox and the commonly available internet are all less than 25 years old and b) it's hard to connect to the internet without a NIC), mimicing the structure of your post, highlighting some strange points like the "I don't get it", which seems to imply that you don't get why you were able to work with NT4, the mention of problems with "bo's", which are never explained (a search on acronymfinder.com turned up "body odours" as the top result) or the strange second-to-last sentence which I was actually unable to parse. The last sentence is a reference to the fact that when you said "oh well shields up" you almost quoted your own nickname.
;)
I just felt like trolling a post and yours happened to be a good target.
Just imagine what happened if one of those discs would fall into the wrong hands! Clearly we need to not only encrypt each disk with double ROT13 but we also need to use the US Army's most elite squads to protect the DVDs from falling into the wrong hands! We need the Green Berets! We need the Navy Seals! We need G.I. Joe!
The problem with that is that you somehow have to provide drivers for each and every version of OS X, Linux and Windows for each and every architecture that supports the medium (in the case of USB mass storage that's a lot of architectures). You can expect Windows to need at least drivers for Win98/ME, Win2k, WinXP and Vista (maybe even more than one driver for Vista, with the different versions and IA-32/AMD64). OS X needs two drivers minimum (10.0 compatible for PPC and Intel), probably more like six different versions (10.0 to 10.4 for PPC, 10.4 for Intel). As for Linux you'd need userland drivers (making certain kernel options neccessary) for each architecture and minor kernel version - that's about thirty drivers for Linux. The drivers alone would eat up much of a 128 MB USB stick. Sure, you can leave some OSes out by using a file system that's already in use (like ext3), but...
There still are other OSes that might be used to access the medium. If they don't natively support whichever file system you use they can't access your files at all. Even worse: Some clueless user might confuse the FAT16 partition with the main partition and "erase all those old driver files" to make room, mking the drive unusable in most OSes. And no, you can't make the driver partition read-only because you need to be able to put new drivers on it - you don't want your medium to be obsoleted just because a new kernel that's binary incompatible with the existing drivers comes sout, do you?
Besides, I'm lumping it all together as FAT32. FAT12 is only used on floppy disks anymore and FAT16 has been superseded by FAT32. Still, FAT32 is one of the worst file systems in use today and should be replaced by something better. I'm not even speaking about patents, FAT32 is just becoming old. It's good enough for today, but if we don't think about a replacement now we won't have one ready when we need it in ten years (plus/minus a couple).
That's a well-deserved Intersting, I hope that you get a few more for that comment. UDF really seems to be on the way to ubiquity - according to the 'pedia future versions are even supposed to be engineered towards storage media such as hard drives.
Let's just hope that ten years from now we save our supposed-to-be-portable data on UDF-formatted drives instead of still using FAT.
Note that I explicitly admitted that scientific theories can't be proved. However, scientific theories aren't "everything" and the assertion that it's impossible for a scientist to prove everything is (in my opinion) wrong, even when we only look at science. For example, why do you think that mathematical proofs may introduce uncertainty? Probably because some mathematician (= a scientist) successfully argued that they do. Now, is "mathematical proofs may introduce uncertainty" provable? You appear to say no, because a scientist said it.
I've been on the internet 25+ years with Linux and Firefox, until recently I didn't even have a firewall or spyware scanner or NIC, I've never been hacked... I don't get it. Even with the base install not having sudo I still was able to perform all tasks with a limited account inside a chroot without being logged in. My issue with the 2.6 code base are issues with BOs* and that's a limitation all OS's will have to encounter. My confidence was severley shaken with the WINE WMF issue, basically at the point the graphics program over every application/OS feature that tries to view WMF graphics is a ticking time bomb the code paths are mind boggling... Jesus_666 shields up!
* Body Odors