As soon as Apple went to the Intel chip rather than sticking with the PowerPC this was inevitable. Job's excuse was the PowerPC chip's heat issue, just like the one we have now with the Xeon processors (still waiting for that MacPro refresh Intel) so now we're stuck with a second class chip with a history of trouble, not to mention Microsoft rooting for the malware boys as well - way to go Apple...
This is truly a major disappointment - right on the heels of the discontinued xServe. I couldn't be more sad for the direction and the position Jobs & Co. has put Mac IT in. It's like a nightmare. Here we had the best stuff, server and Server OS-wise and they wreck it all within the span of a year. I'm starting to get pissed off, and I'm a long time FANBOY. I fucking love the Macintosh. There's nowhere to run. What the hell are they thinking? They deserve whatever comes their way now, they've demoted us to what used to be vicious lies about what the Mac was. This is a nightmare, God, wake me up. Bloody-Hell.
Our Company, which uses many SONY-type products, banned them after the music rootkit incident, and we have never looked back. This confirms our decision was correct.
Why would you let any company in you domain that has *proven* hostile intent? If it were Apple we would do the same, as much as we love them, we'd scale back to the least amount and then buy their products secondhand, as we are in the arts and it is a necessary thing to use some of their products.
We would love to do this with Adobe, even though they are not quite as malicious as they are pompous and lazy - but that's not really on the scale of what SONY willingly does.
We've partially banned Microsoft and are presently buying ONLY secondhand. They need to really shape up if they are to allowed back in our company.
It's called "voting with your wallet".
Open Source is what we're waiting for really and we support some projects with cash. We urge you all to do the same. It way past the time to put these companies "on notice".
Tim Cook has been groomed for years, Steve has a first class team now - Jobs remembers his last mistake at Apple and won't repeat it. One thing Jobs is not, is stupid.
Somewhat off topic, but relevant: I, unfortunately went to IT school in Seattle, WA, around 2000, (originally it was to be Vancouver B.C, such is the price of love at first sight - 5 years married) I was required (forced) to take Win 2k Server as part of a UNIX System Administration track. Ultimately it became useful, but more in a "backwards and in high-heels" way. Our Windows teacher was such a zealot that he equated stock price to superiority of OS platform, Apple was in the midst of rolling out OS X at this point and their stock was something like $11.00 a share, Microsoft was $33.00.
I was so poor at the time it wasn't funny, I told everyone "BUY APPLE" up and until 2003 or so, many of my more wealthy friends did. Some put their children through college with that tip (yes, me = SuperGenius). I never would ever equate stock price with OS performance, and I often think back on my poor MS teacher and know what a hard lesson he learned.
Me? Lovin' the UNIX and the Plan 9.
New tip: buy electrical utilities and general infrastructure - long term.
You have to realize, as myself and (my) a team of researchers have (finally) dug up, this is not new, nor unique. follow the link, which leads to other links - you'll see that this has gone from "you're insane", to "wow, they really can do that". in about three years. As the details trickle out it becomes more insidious as to "the ends to which means" we're dealing with.
I'm happy people have quit discounting this hardware option, which doesn't necessarily need to be "acquired", it can be created from existing hardware, repurposed by chip-crowding, firmware "updates" and firmware / BIOS replacement code, you get it.
I had a fellow Researcher send this to me this morning - it blows the lid off of what I've been speaking (LOUDLY) and writing about for years - here and other places, basically Subversionhack:
"Chertoff told ZDNet UK at the conference that cyberattacks on critical national infrastructure could put thousands of people at risk. "I can envision attacks with catastrophic consequences, with serious loss of life," said Chertoff. "If someone took down an air-traffic control system, we would have devastating loss of life."
"Cold War" is a bit extreme, Red Teams would be a better response. When you have a hack within the truly elite league such as (the) Subversion(hack) you really need to envision the possibilities of a thousand little fires all within the confines of your neighborhood - honestly.
This NAVY paper of 1980 should get you up to speed. If you have a Slashdot account, review my post on this and things will become a bit more clear.
The first of my links should give you a good over all.
(...) till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said...
Funny, why DO Apple people keep their Macs? I live with a Graphic Artist too, but I'm the one that stashes her old Macs. Ever find a PC / WIN / Linux stasher? [there's a reason]
"... Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL,""
Download: Disclaimers: Polaris uses a kernel driver to work around a bug that Microsoft claims is not security related. We believe this kernel driver is the reason Polaris does not work with Windows Vista. If you run without it, you are vulnerable to an attacker who mounts a Shatter attack after launching a process via the COM server. However, you're probably safe until Polaris becomes widely used.
This version is a first prototype, which means there are a number of things we didn't do and a number of bugs we didn't fix. For example, this version does not support linked files. However, almost 100 people have used Polaris, some of them for several years, and have reported few problems. A few have them have reported that Polaris saved them from some nasty virues.
Polaris is NOT supported by HP. Send all questions to:
Remember when people used to laugh when the subject of hardware infection came up? Let's mark the dated - May 2010, now can we move on to securing our hardware [without draconian measures]. If we're able to get the HW manufacturers on board we might see something of a victory in the near future and be able to compute without interference.
This problem has never been taken seriously - and it's about time.
You have Client machines - not all are going to be the latest or the greatest in hypervisor tech., [you do what you have to do to keep things afloat]. Consider, Thin Clients from a myriad of hardware offerings, less headaches and better Server hardware will keep you way ahead of the curve and lessen your - footprint, exposure and budget. The caveat is only if your Clients run AutoCAD, heavy graphic intensive programs or major databases, programming.
Windows, UNIX or Linux - or all, "pick your poison" the rest is academic. Good luck.
Forget Julian Assange, he will never touch any of the inner workings of WikiLeaks simply because he's such a target.
As for Collateral Murder, the caveat is the attempted rescue [van] and the permission to engage, period.
Since when do we, the United States of America, fire upon anyone tending to the wounded? [Don't give me that shit about "marked" ambulances - this was a war zone, yes, but also their neighborhood - think about]. Never, is the answer, and this is why it should be reviewed and changed, forbid as it once was.
At the risk of sounding as a * cynic might, I have to say what they "saw" was an hallucination, and I actually understand it. "It" being the hallucination, mind you - the problem is, - they don't understand. They don't understand what it is - because beer don't do that to you. And, yes, I saw the camera, probably because of the forewarning, yes, I saw him stealthily peek around the corner with his camera - *it's a war zone*, he's a *War Photojournalist*. Watch from a distance as a Soldier works, a Cop, even some Mothers, same thing. Forgive me, but this is beyond a mere perception problem, it's a condition called "attribute substitution".
I suffer from something similar, myself [that's another day]. We are the sum of our experiences, and some experiences are worth more than others.
John Wayne would have smacked those two boys, "Hotel" and "Crazyhorse". Bringing hot death to someone's neighborhood is not for the cavalier.
You've seen those moments in Movies... where the Leader, the one with his head screwed on straight doles out righteousness to the corner cutters? This is ripe for for one of those real life moments, from someone of stature, like a Colin Powell type figure - oh, yeah, that's right, there are none - and we burned him as well. If you're thinking, Jim... boy-'eyooouu!, you watch too many Movies, I'd ask you what kind of impact that film, the one you just saw, had on you and mention to you to check your pulse [at the door].
This, what you sent me, "Collateral Murder" is the most powerful piece of *NEWS I've ever witnessed, a feat in it self. It's HORRIFYING in it's pedestrian-ness, and so utterly shallow in it's regard. Every human being should be required to view this - then on to a lecture about "making visual calls" [even with telescopic enhancements].
Ask any Referee, they know about hallucinations, it happens all the time. It's happening to to you right now.
*NEWS: North, East, West, South
My Sister, Brothers and I, as well as our Mother had a Journalist for a Father and a Husband. They actually are a worthwhile lot.
cynic |sinik| noun 1 a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons : some cynics thought that the controversy was all a publicity stunt.
a person who questions whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile : the cynics were silenced when the factory opened.
Aoccdrnig To Cmabrigde Uinervtisy
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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As soon as Apple went to the Intel chip rather than sticking with the PowerPC this was inevitable. ...
Job's excuse was the PowerPC chip's heat issue, just like the one we have now with the Xeon processors
(still waiting for that MacPro refresh Intel) so now we're stuck with a second class chip with a history of trouble, not to mention Microsoft rooting for the malware boys as well - way to go Apple
This is truly a major disappointment - right on the heels of the discontinued xServe.
I couldn't be more sad for the direction and the position Jobs & Co. has put Mac IT in. It's like a nightmare. Here we had the best stuff, server and Server OS-wise and they wreck it all within the span of a year.
I'm starting to get pissed off, and I'm a long time FANBOY. I fucking love the Macintosh. There's nowhere to run.
What the hell are they thinking?
They deserve whatever comes their way now, they've demoted us to what used to be vicious lies about what the Mac was.
This is a nightmare, God, wake me up.
Bloody-Hell.
Our Company, which uses many SONY-type products, banned them after the music rootkit incident, and we have never looked back. This confirms our decision was correct.
Why would you let any company in you domain that has *proven* hostile intent?
If it were Apple we would do the same, as much as we love them, we'd scale back to the least amount and then buy their products secondhand, as we are in the arts and it is a necessary thing to use some of their products.
We would love to do this with Adobe, even though they are not quite as malicious as they are pompous and lazy - but that's not really on the scale of what SONY willingly does.
We've partially banned Microsoft and are presently buying ONLY secondhand. They need to really shape up if they are to allowed back in our company.
It's called "voting with your wallet".
Open Source is what we're waiting for really and we support some projects with cash. We urge you all to do the same. It way past the time to put these companies "on notice".
Tim Cook has been groomed for years, Steve has a first class team now - Jobs remembers his last mistake at Apple and won't repeat it. One thing Jobs is not, is stupid.
Somewhat off topic, but relevant:
I, unfortunately went to IT school in Seattle, WA, around 2000, (originally it was to be Vancouver B.C, such is the price of love at first sight - 5 years married) I was required (forced) to take Win 2k Server as part of a UNIX System Administration track. Ultimately it became useful, but more in a "backwards and in high-heels" way. Our Windows teacher was such a zealot that he equated stock price to superiority of OS platform, Apple was in the midst of rolling out OS X at this point and their stock was something like $11.00 a share, Microsoft was $33.00.
I was so poor at the time it wasn't funny, I told everyone "BUY APPLE" up and until 2003 or so, many of my more wealthy friends did. Some put their children through college with that tip (yes, me = SuperGenius).
I never would ever equate stock price with OS performance, and I often think back on my poor MS teacher and know what a hard lesson he learned.
Me? Lovin' the UNIX and the Plan 9.
New tip: buy electrical utilities and general infrastructure - long term.
Over 17 Years - subversionhack:
http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/1093.html
http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/1745.html
Subversionhack Archive:
(expired certificate)
https://tagmeme.com/subhack/a/
Dig around here:
http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm
Subversionhack
From one of my previous posts:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1821502&cid=33910412
You have to realize, as myself and (my) a team of researchers have (finally) dug up, this is not new, nor unique.
follow the link, which leads to other links - you'll see that this has gone from "you're insane", to "wow, they really can do that". in about three years.
As the details trickle out it becomes more insidious as to "the ends to which means" we're dealing with.
I'm happy people have quit discounting this hardware option, which doesn't necessarily need to be "acquired", it can be created from existing hardware, repurposed by chip-crowding, firmware "updates" and firmware / BIOS replacement code, you get it.
This, previously mentioned fellow Researcher is on a hot trail - an update:
The paper was re-done in 2001.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA417629
Now, from a completely different team Researcher, same trail:
Another paper on that same line from the Navel Post Graduate School.
It makes reference to the Myers' thesis.
"A Demonstration of the Subversion Threat" by Emory A. Anderson
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.149.5898&rep=rep1&type=pdf
If you'd like to help, or know more (serious research only please):
hylas(a+)operamail(d0t)com
Me?
I got nothing.
(lately) ;-)
I'm still reading the paper.
As far as Chertoff, a Cold War means nothing when you're fighting Ghosts (and your own Computer).
No, really look at this:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/myer80.pdf
I had a fellow Researcher send this to me this morning - it blows the lid off of what I've been speaking (LOUDLY) and writing about for years - here and other places, basically Subversionhack:
http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/
https://tagmeme.com/subhack/a/
^ 2nd site has Certificate Expiration problem ^
Chertoff article:
"Chertoff told ZDNet UK at the conference that cyberattacks on critical national infrastructure could put thousands of people at risk. "I can envision attacks with catastrophic consequences, with serious loss of life," said Chertoff. "If someone took down an air-traffic control system, we would have devastating loss of life."
"Cold War" is a bit extreme, Red Teams would be a better response.
When you have a hack within the truly elite league such as (the) Subversion(hack) you really need to envision the possibilities of a thousand little fires all within the confines of your neighborhood - honestly.
This NAVY paper of 1980 should get you up to speed.
If you have a Slashdot account, review my post on this and things will become a bit more clear.
The first of my links should give you a good over all.
Journal: On Slashdot Becoming Digg:
http://slashdot.org/journal/216371/On-Slashdot-Becoming-Digg
At some point it becomes all about wasted time.
That is all.
The Disclosure Project - 2006:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6552475158249898710#
The Disclosure Project - 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzoC3QPI_E&feature=player_embedded#
But, of course they're all liars (sarcasm).
@ 0123456
"... as anyone who's willing to shoot themselves can find numerous other reliable methods of killing themselves even if they don't have a gun."
http://games.adultswim.com/five-minutes-to-kill-yourself-adventure-online-game.html
Please, everyone, feel free to explore these options and test your theories.
(...) till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said ...
Funny, why DO Apple people keep their Macs?
I live with a Graphic Artist too, but I'm the one that stashes her old Macs.
Ever find a PC / WIN / Linux stasher? [there's a reason]
Didn't think so.
The haters are out this morning:
"... Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL,""
http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml :-)
RISC blows CISC away: [skip or walk]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computing#RISC_design_philosophy
- so much so, that they still bolt it on CISC [with some success]
[Don't bother with the subheading "Diminishing benefits", it's BS, look at IBM's POWER]
RISC vs. CISC:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2000-01/risc/risccisc/
Our G5 x2 2.5 is soon to be a companion to our Xserve x2 1.33 [redundant DNS].
Just add:
Swift Data 200:
http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2490
Inside your Power Mac G5:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1305
"catastrophic coolant leak":
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/G5_CoolantLeak_Repair/G5_CoolantLeak_Repair_p1.html
Wow, that realization only took 17 years:
subversionhack:
http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/
Every Musician should read this, it's the truth [yes, I do know]:
Courtney Love Does the Math (2000):
http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Apologies to Clarke's three laws.
"Special Seeds"?
Read it and weep. This has been going on for decades.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/weeds-are-now-resisting-monsanto-weed#comment-1544265
For You, Blue.
Polaris:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/mmsl/projects/adv/polaris.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
Virus Safe Computing:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2005/apr-jun/virussafe.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
Download:
Disclaimers:
Polaris uses a kernel driver to work around a bug that Microsoft claims is not security related. We believe this kernel driver is the reason Polaris does not work with Windows Vista. If you run without it, you are vulnerable to an attacker who mounts a Shatter attack after launching a process via the COM server. However, you're probably safe until Polaris becomes widely used.
This version is a first prototype, which means there are a number of things we didn't do and a number of bugs we didn't fix. For example, this version does not support linked files. However, almost 100 people have used Polaris, some of them for several years, and have reported few problems. A few have them have reported that Polaris saved them from some nasty virues.
Polaris is NOT supported by HP. Send all questions to:
alan.karp at hp.com.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp/polaris/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
Remember when people used to laugh when the subject of hardware infection came up?
Let's mark the dated - May 2010, now can we move on to securing our hardware [without draconian measures].
If we're able to get the HW manufacturers on board we might see something of a victory in the near future and be able to compute without interference.
This problem has never been taken seriously - and it's about time.
Subversionhack:
http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/
Cut to the chase.
You have Client machines - not all are going to be the latest or the greatest in hypervisor tech., [you do what you have to do to keep things afloat]. Consider, Thin Clients from a myriad of hardware offerings, less headaches and better Server hardware will keep you way ahead of the curve and lessen your - footprint, exposure and budget.
The caveat is only if your Clients run AutoCAD, heavy graphic intensive programs or major databases, programming.
Windows, UNIX or Linux - or all, "pick your poison" the rest is academic.
Good luck.
Forget Julian Assange, he will never touch any of the inner workings of WikiLeaks simply because he's such a target.
As for Collateral Murder, the caveat is the attempted rescue [van] and the permission to engage, period.
Since when do we, the United States of America, fire upon anyone tending to the wounded?
[Don't give me that shit about "marked" ambulances - this was a war zone, yes, but also their neighborhood - think about].
Never, is the answer, and this is why it should be reviewed and changed, forbid as it once was.
Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/1913246/Technical-Objections-To-the-Ogg-Container-Format
[I really don't know]
Is this a branch not discussed in the above article?
My God! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
At the risk of sounding as a * cynic might, I have to say what they "saw" was an hallucination, and I actually understand it.
"It" being the hallucination, mind you - the problem is, - they don't understand.
They don't understand what it is - because beer don't do that to you.
And, yes, I saw the camera, probably because of the forewarning, yes, I saw him stealthily peek around the corner with his camera - *it's a war zone*, he's a *War Photojournalist*.
Watch from a distance as a Soldier works, a Cop, even some Mothers, same thing.
Forgive me, but this is beyond a mere perception problem, it's a condition called "attribute substitution".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution
I suffer from something similar, myself [that's another day].
We are the sum of our experiences, and some experiences are worth more than others.
John Wayne would have smacked those two boys, "Hotel" and "Crazyhorse".
Bringing hot death to someone's neighborhood is not for the cavalier.
You've seen those moments in Movies ... where the Leader, the one with his head screwed on straight doles out righteousness to the corner cutters? ... boy-'eyooouu!, you watch too many Movies, I'd ask you what kind of impact that film,
This is ripe for for one of those real life moments, from someone of stature, like a Colin Powell type figure
- oh, yeah, that's right, there are none - and we burned him as well.
If you're thinking, Jim
the one you just saw, had on you and mention to you to check your pulse [at the door].
This, what you sent me, "Collateral Murder" is the most powerful piece of *NEWS I've ever witnessed, a feat in it self.
It's HORRIFYING in it's pedestrian-ness, and so utterly shallow in it's regard.
Every human being should be required to view this - then on to a lecture about "making visual calls" [even with telescopic enhancements].
Ask any Referee, they know about hallucinations, it happens all the time. It's happening to
to you right now.
*NEWS: North, East, West, South
My Sister, Brothers and I, as well as our Mother had a Journalist for a Father and a Husband.
They actually are a worthwhile lot.
cynic |sinik|
noun
1 a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons : some cynics thought that the controversy was all a publicity stunt.
a person who questions whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile : the cynics were silenced when the factory opened.
Aoccdrnig To Cmabrigde Uinervtisy
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
The Man's Too Strong - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQmKPAcd6ZI