as opposed to using it to find results, just use it to perform the conversion:
http://www.google.com/search?q=328,491+feet+in+met ers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
gives a result of 100,124 km
For the past few years, at each MacWorld, Steve Jobs has been talking about the digital hub.
First it was iTunes (bear with me, this is from memory, so the order might not quite be right), integrating your music with your computer. Albiet it was somewhat lacking from the hub persective in that it didn't conenct to anythign else, but it played your music on your computer, and did it well. There were other music players before, and have been more since, but none as integrated into the system as iTunes has become. Then the iPod got thrown in. Never before was it so easy to get your music on the go. Plug it in. When it says OK, unplug it. All your new music, put onto it automagically every time you conenct (if you so choose). Playlists updated on the iPod, etc.
Then there was iPhoto, iTunes for your photos. Here we had the digital hub now including your camera. And you can make slideshows that incorporate your iTunes playlists.
Then we had a whole slew of other apps in the time since, from iMovie that can make movies as well as slide shows from iPhoto Albums and use music from iTunes and iTunes soundtracks to iCal that is a great little canendar app that also integrates with iTunes for its alarms, to iSync, that keeps your iCal up to date with your mobile phone or PDA (or both), it even puts your calender events and Address Book entries on your iPod too, and also to your dot mac if you have it.
Sure, it the time may be nigh for Digital Convergance, but my Digital Hub has been doing just that and doing a great job for the last few years now.
Why can't you use the school's smarthost? I can't think of a situation where you would need your own mail server.
let me answer in reverse order...
(b) thats not the point. the point is they arbitrarily closed ALL port 25 traffic as a stop-gap antivirus measure.
(a) *ALL* traffic over port 25 is blocked, so I can't even use a desktop mail program to send mail, because I cannot connect to the campus mail server on said port.
Here in the dorms at NC State, the ResNet admins decided that since there are so many unsecure windows machines that are getting virii are generating spam by the truckload, the only way to reduce that is to block port 25.
Completely.
For all users.
luckily, I, along with some other students who enjoy being able to send out own mail and not use the webmail for sending, are also members of TriLUG, our local Linux User Group which operates a (secured) mail relay. Since it also runs on port 435 (or something like that, the *other* SMTP port), none of us have any trouble sending mail from our computers.
but its still a shitty solution to a shittier problem. seriously, they just need to start shutting off people's connections if you're spamming...damn humanities majors...
try contacting the ITD here at NC State. They used the cocoa framework form Safari plus some programming skills to make what is a really decent kiosk application, it runs as the shell in place of the Finder, and since it uses the WebCore, its basically safari but with lots of interface tweaks
i have to say that last summer, I was in NYC for MacWorld, and stopped in at a McDonalds to try out their new WiFi and stuff, got my value meal and a little card with a scratch off area and a access code under it, and went upstairs. I sat down, ate, and pulled out my PowerBook. It saw the AP no problem, connected right up, and when I launched Safari, it went right to my home page. no login or anything.
Now I know that it was a trial location, and this was possibly one of the reasons that McDs went with the other company, but I'm not so sure I'm sad that a company whose security on their APs was so lax to go out of business.
I mean, open APs are nice, but its really not in the public good, becuase they would have ended up getting abused for spammers and warez and such.
(and yes, it was Cometa, because the little card has their logo on it)
The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' "
so the ACLU can't disclose that, but the newspaper can.
Uh-oh, I think I just heard the sound of more legal filings to get that redacted from the story
um...back in the day, RMS encouraged people to use null passwords when MIT started using passwords ot log into its workstations...how is this different?
he just needs to get to preachingthe goodness of propped open doors or duct taped-over latches (this keeps alarms from going off becuase the doors will be closed but not secure, just like the null passwords) and the same thing will happen...
RMS will be against it, but in the near future, everyone else will use it
dont forget we also heard about the McDonalds Billion Song Gveaway from the upstanding NY Post.
Not to mention that in the past year we also heard that Apple was about to buy Universal Music.
I call BS on this.
well i dont know about the rest of the animals but..
10.0 Cheetah
10.1 Puma
10.2 Jaguar
10.3 Panther
10.4 Tiger
the question is, what will happen when they run out of cat names?
On the contrary, OS X has never given me any of these types of trouble.
Got a new printer? Plug it in. *Maybe* install drivers from the CD, but thats as simple as feed it the CD, double click on the installer, click OK half a dozen times and go.
Spyware? Nah. Even if there was a "top" and a "kill -p $PID" would take care of that. Maybe even a "rm -rf"
Even my grandma can use the terminal to find a process and kill -9 it.
i want to get an xbox and mod it, and will play games on it form the hard drive, but not xbox games; i want to be able to play Atari, NES, and SNES roms and stuff.
beyond that, if i but a piece of hardware like that, with the power it has, i want to be able to use that as a computer, hell, I would probably end up not playing the emulated games after the novelty wears off in a week and start using the xbox with gentoo on it as a server, just sitting there shelling out webpages and my files
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people just seem to want to always find hidden meanings that, most times, aren't there at all.
as opposed to using it to find results, just use it to perform the conversion: http://www.google.com/search?q=328,491+feet+in+met ers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
gives a result of 100,124 km
For the past few years, at each MacWorld, Steve Jobs has been talking about the digital hub.
First it was iTunes (bear with me, this is from memory, so the order might not quite be right), integrating your music with your computer. Albiet it was somewhat lacking from the hub persective in that it didn't conenct to anythign else, but it played your music on your computer, and did it well. There were other music players before, and have been more since, but none as integrated into the system as iTunes has become. Then the iPod got thrown in. Never before was it so easy to get your music on the go. Plug it in. When it says OK, unplug it. All your new music, put onto it automagically every time you conenct (if you so choose). Playlists updated on the iPod, etc.
Then there was iPhoto, iTunes for your photos. Here we had the digital hub now including your camera. And you can make slideshows that incorporate your iTunes playlists.
Then we had a whole slew of other apps in the time since, from iMovie that can make movies as well as slide shows from iPhoto Albums and use music from iTunes and iTunes soundtracks to iCal that is a great little canendar app that also integrates with iTunes for its alarms, to iSync, that keeps your iCal up to date with your mobile phone or PDA (or both), it even puts your calender events and Address Book entries on your iPod too, and also to your dot mac if you have it.
Sure, it the time may be nigh for Digital Convergance, but my Digital Hub has been doing just that and doing a great job for the last few years now.
we *did* have to use webmail (or the relay) for a few weeks though, before they got that up
let me answer in reverse order...
(b) thats not the point. the point is they arbitrarily closed ALL port 25 traffic as a stop-gap antivirus measure.
(a) *ALL* traffic over port 25 is blocked, so I can't even use a desktop mail program to send mail, because I cannot connect to the campus mail server on said port.
Completely.
For all users.
luckily, I, along with some other students who enjoy being able to send out own mail and not use the webmail for sending, are also members of TriLUG, our local Linux User Group which operates a (secured) mail relay. Since it also runs on port 435 (or something like that, the *other* SMTP port), none of us have any trouble sending mail from our computers.
but its still a shitty solution to a shittier problem. seriously, they just need to start shutting off people's connections if you're spamming...damn humanities majors...
try contacting the ITD here at NC State. They used the cocoa framework form Safari plus some programming skills to make what is a really decent kiosk application, it runs as the shell in place of the Finder, and since it uses the WebCore, its basically safari but with lots of interface tweaks
i have to say that last summer, I was in NYC for MacWorld, and stopped in at a McDonalds to try out their new WiFi and stuff, got my value meal and a little card with a scratch off area and a access code under it, and went upstairs. I sat down, ate, and pulled out my PowerBook. It saw the AP no problem, connected right up, and when I launched Safari, it went right to my home page. no login or anything.
Now I know that it was a trial location, and this was possibly one of the reasons that McDs went with the other company, but I'm not so sure I'm sad that a company whose security on their APs was so lax to go out of business.
I mean, open APs are nice, but its really not in the public good, becuase they would have ended up getting abused for spammers and warez and such.
(and yes, it was Cometa, because the little card has their logo on it)
oh well...my $0.02
In the newspaper article:
The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' "
so the ACLU can't disclose that, but the newspaper can.
Uh-oh, I think I just heard the sound of more legal filings to get that redacted from the story
he just needs to get to preachingthe goodness of propped open doors or duct taped-over latches (this keeps alarms from going off becuase the doors will be closed but not secure, just like the null passwords) and the same thing will happen...
RMS will be against it, but in the near future, everyone else will use it
dont forget we also heard about the McDonalds Billion Song Gveaway from the upstanding NY Post. Not to mention that in the past year we also heard that Apple was about to buy Universal Music. I call BS on this.
well i dont know about the rest of the animals but.. 10.0 Cheetah 10.1 Puma 10.2 Jaguar 10.3 Panther 10.4 Tiger the question is, what will happen when they run out of cat names?
yeah, i just wanted to add that i never had any problems either
On the contrary, OS X has never given me any of these types of trouble. Got a new printer? Plug it in. *Maybe* install drivers from the CD, but thats as simple as feed it the CD, double click on the installer, click OK half a dozen times and go. Spyware? Nah. Even if there was a "top" and a "kill -p $PID" would take care of that. Maybe even a "rm -rf" Even my grandma can use the terminal to find a process and kill -9 it.
i want to get an xbox and mod it, and will play games on it form the hard drive, but not xbox games; i want to be able to play Atari, NES, and SNES roms and stuff. beyond that, if i but a piece of hardware like that, with the power it has, i want to be able to use that as a computer, hell, I would probably end up not playing the emulated games after the novelty wears off in a week and start using the xbox with gentoo on it as a server, just sitting there shelling out webpages and my files
Wow, as soon as the battery is charged on my TiBook, I'm going to talk to ben/rangerrick and get this running just for the hell of it.
congrats to rangerrick and i hope that KOffice isn't too hard
~Ian
I love the idea...if anyone sees a tall guy walking around NC State with an iPod, feel free to approach me, I'm up for something like this
What's next, the 23" HD Cimana iMac? This iscrazy but awesome
You, sir, have skills best defined by skills=lim(f(x),x,infinity)
sign up for a free ADC membership, and you can download them for free.
w00t...thanks for the link...i was having trouble with that (i think)... 3 cheers for TriLUG and Hard Cider!
or not....lame ass
Of course Apple is going to fix them, they still support the 10.2 Server, so they have to...
Damn Windows zealota making shit up...
its already been benchmarked....i dont know what youre talking about it not staying up....
Why don't you take a few minutes to spell-check, or, heaven forbis...learn to spell?!? I mean, "testicals"? C'mon...