Since when can you partition and install VMS on an x86 pc? What about TRS Dos? Does CP/M even run on anything newer than a 286? Any unix head will tell you Windows (bastardized CP/M style) has a less useful command line than OS X (BSD unix style).
Jeeze, get over yourself and go try a mac. Things have changed a lot. I admin NT and Unix machines for a living and I use a powerbook at home for my main desktop. My athlon and celeron still run linux and windows fine too, despite the powerbook's presence.
However, if you use os x just stick with the stock ftpd since it's not wu-ftp. Like I said earlier, the bug wasn't with the ftpd, it was a library call. Just run software update and get on with your life.
No, apple didn't use wu-ftpd, give them some credit, they used lukemftpd. Originally from netbsd I believe.
The realpath() function from bsd calculates the length of a resolved directory path. The problem is an off by one error. It actually affects more than than just an ftp deamon since it's a library function, just like the gzip vulnerabilty a while ago. See the sans report for more info.
3 days from disclosure to security update is pretty good though.
Just little nicks, mostly on the chin. It's not like I put huge gashes in my face. Speed shaving in the military may have something to do with that...
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BTW I think this will be better than those in car removable hard drive solutions from 2-3 years ago
Sorry, it IS better than most of them. But nothing has topped the empeg for best in car mp3 player. Nothing. Period. End of story. Ask any owner, or anybody who rides in the car of an owner. Of course, they cost over $2000 new and only 2000 or so were made.
The company just got bought by a high end audio mrfg. Hopefully they're revive the tech for a car player again. Maybe even more affordable. I just need to keep my friends from drooling on mine until something comes out.
(The ipod IS the best hand held player, just like my powerbook is the best laptop out there.):-)
A bic lasts you 2 weeks? Wow, you must have some fine hair. My beard destroys a bic in a few days. I can get almost a week out of a mach 3. Not to mention a bic doesn't get close, and it iritates my skin even worse than a mach 3.
That's all moot since I switched to electric a few years ago. A new set of blades for it once a year ($30, medium priced norelco) and I'm good to go. Another reason to use electric is a regular razor, even a mach 3 causes my neck to really break out. Electric doesn't. As for the iritation and the closeness, you need to use an electric for a month untill your face gets used to it. Then electric is as nice as a razor most of the time.
The only drawback is if I don't shave for a couple days, the electric pulls hair a bit. That's not bad since I usually shave daily, and cuts will happen with a regular razor at least a couple times a month.
She doesn't care about the computer, rarely even uses it... She can type on it, and print. That's all that matters to her. That, and she's a teacher in a public school, your vote determines her salary.
Yah but my mom can plug the wire that fits right from "TO TV" to the matching connector on the TV. Plug the vcr into the wall. Change the chan to 3. Put a tape in. Seek around the tape. Hit play.
Can she move a document to the floppy drive on her mac? No, and she has a masters degree.
Huh? Rugby jargon isn't something you need to know to function in society. Neither is rock climbing, football, stained glass or shoe repair jargon. You need to know computers though. A better example would have been ABS, V6, Cruise control, etc. Jargon? Yes. Stuff to know it if you're buying a car? Yes. (You need a car in american society unless you're one of a small percentage of people who live in a city with good alternative transit.)
I can't think of any other piece of technology that people refuse to learn. TV, VCR, car, thermostat, playstation, jukebox, microwave, etc. All things people learned how to use. Computers? Nope, sorry.
1: USB capture is crap 2: drivers are crap 3: the xbox cpu isn't really fast enough to capture/encode and decode (ala tivo timeshifting) at the same time. At least not at a good quality setting. It's fast enough to decode a stream off a network though.
if someone makes a tivo for it.. that'd be sweet too.
People have been using xboxen as a front end for MythTV for a while now. You still need another computer to do the capture/encoding, since the xbox can't capture video. It works fine reading off a hard drive on a network and decoding video though.
I saw something the other day about an MP (that's what they're called, right?) who said he'd never seen such and outpouring of support from the people against a law (or EU direction, sorry, I'm not 100% on EU politics) ever. Almost nobody was for it.
I think the article went on to say that despite it being against the people's wishes, it was going to pass. It's what the US wants, and it's what the corps want. It doesn't matter what the people think.
You're right, it's not perfect, but it does stop us from extracting carbon out of the ground that was created millions of years ago, just to add it to the atmosphere.
Or even better:
Plants -> Turkey -> Oil -> Chemical Reacton -> Hydrogen
That's going to be the best option I think. You can extract hydrogen using electric too. Solar towers, windmills, waves, etc, will all be transformed into hydrogen.
Don't forget, oil is needed for things like plastic too. We do more with it than just burn it in cars. We're going to need to have it around for things we havn't been able to run off of hydrogen yet too, like planes.
You just described how the patent system SHOULD work. (Really, that's pretty much how the patent system is set up.)
Now the trick is to get the USTPO to actually follow their own rules. Like most laws, we've got the problem licked, it's just a matter of enforcing them.
I was reading the comments by the guy who did this (or says he did it) on fark. Here's a quote:
06-02-03 05:27:46 PM Tm4240
Alright, check www.tuckermax.com, I put up a welcome to all the Farkers.
Should prove who I am.
And Katy won two different pageants. In 99 it was Miss America, in 2001, it was Miss USA. Or maybe vice versa, I don't know, gthey pageants have different tracks.
I don't know if that's really him, but he did put up something about fark on his site.
Yes, exactly. That's why i said it would be neat. It's the stock powerbook keyboard that's a pain for us lefties to control click. Not to mention left handed unix geeks that run X11 on their powerbook too. Most of us are ambidextrous to a certain extent, but it's still a pain.
Are you getting a distributer in the midwest? I'd love to try one out. It's a lot of money to spend on something I don't know if I'd like. I'm pretty concerned about touch typing (I'm sure many of your customers are).
If you'd like some contacts, here's 2 good local computer shops here in Omaha:
DIT computers: a discount computer parts shop kinda place, lots and lots of customers. www.ditcorp.com
Computers to go: not as cheap, but much better service. The owner is pretty easy to deal with. www.computers2go.com
Ok, when you use mac os you don't really need 2 buttons. It's a myth, in windows and unix you NEED 2 buttons, in mac os you don't. You 190cs should have NO use for a 2 button mouse at all (unless you run some heavy duty apps, but i doubt that), apple didn't introduce control clicking (right click in windows) until OS 8 I believe. I doubt your 190cs is running 8.
Personally I mostly use mac os x gui apps along with terminals to unix boxen. I've had no real need for a 2 button mouse. When the powerbook is on my desk i have a 2 button scrolling mouse that works fine. The 1 mouse button 'toy' has replaced my unix and windows machines as my main machine. Despite having a slower processor. As I said in another comment, the only thing about a 1 button mouse on a powerbook is that it sucks if you're left handed (control clicking is a stretch due to the lack of a control key on the right side).
Also, this keyboard also acts as a mouse. Using gestures you activate the mouse mode and different tap combinations act as various mouse presses. You can even scroll with a gesture. It looks pretty slick.
I think this looks pretty neat for left handed powerbook users.
It's a bit of a stretch trying to use modifier keys while pointing with another finger and then clicking with your thumb since control is on the left side of the keyboard.
I'm allready a big fan of launchbar to avoid having to move my hands. I'd love to try one of these out for a while, but the price is a bit scary. I'm going to go try to dig up some reviews.
Can netjuke play.m4p (apple drm aac files)? I somehow doubt it.
I'd buy some stuff from apple music, but until I can play it on my linux and windows machines AND my mp3 players (non ipod) I won't buy any. At least my powerbook does everything I want, I can't say the same about itms.
That's still not going to help the millions and millions of hardware mp3 players people have sunk billions of dollars into. mp3 is a defacto standard, sure it's not the best quality (sorry 'audiophiles'), there's no drm (sorry record labels) and the format isn't really free (sorry slashdot), but it's the standard. People just need to get over that and live with it.
Apple files have some drm in them. The files end in.m4p and not.aac. You pretty much have to convert them before you can play them on anything but a mac or an ipod. That's the only reason I havn't bought any tunes from them yet. I like being able to listen to music on my linux machine + mp3 players in addition to the mac.
Remember when that plane went down in north korea? I remember people saying they were worried they would steal our tech/codes/etc. The thing is, as soon as they realized they'd have to land, that equipment was toast. A few million worth of equipment is nothing compared to the cost of the tech/codes/etc./ex AF comm/crypto/computer guy.
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Since when can you partition and install VMS on an x86 pc? What about TRS Dos? Does CP/M even run on anything newer than a 286? Any unix head will tell you Windows (bastardized CP/M style) has a less useful command line than OS X (BSD unix style).
Jeeze, get over yourself and go try a mac. Things have changed a lot. I admin NT and Unix machines for a living and I use a powerbook at home for my main desktop. My athlon and celeron still run linux and windows fine too, despite the powerbook's presence.
Anything but wu-ftp. I like pure ftpd, YMMV.
However, if you use os x just stick with the stock ftpd since it's not wu-ftp. Like I said earlier, the bug wasn't with the ftpd, it was a library call. Just run software update and get on with your life.
No, apple didn't use wu-ftpd, give them some credit, they used lukemftpd. Originally from netbsd I believe.
The realpath() function from bsd calculates the length of a resolved directory path. The problem is an off by one error. It actually affects more than than just an ftp deamon since it's a library function, just like the gzip vulnerabilty a while ago. See the sans report for more info.
3 days from disclosure to security update is pretty good though.
Just little nicks, mostly on the chin. It's not like I put huge gashes in my face. Speed shaving in the military may have something to do with that...
BTW I think this will be better than those in car removable hard drive solutions from 2-3 years ago
:-)
Sorry, it IS better than most of them. But nothing has topped the empeg for best in car mp3 player. Nothing. Period. End of story. Ask any owner, or anybody who rides in the car of an owner. Of course, they cost over $2000 new and only 2000 or so were made.
The company just got bought by a high end audio mrfg. Hopefully they're revive the tech for a car player again. Maybe even more affordable. I just need to keep my friends from drooling on mine until something comes out.
(The ipod IS the best hand held player, just like my powerbook is the best laptop out there.)
A bic lasts you 2 weeks? Wow, you must have some fine hair. My beard destroys a bic in a few days. I can get almost a week out of a mach 3. Not to mention a bic doesn't get close, and it iritates my skin even worse than a mach 3.
That's all moot since I switched to electric a few years ago. A new set of blades for it once a year ($30, medium priced norelco) and I'm good to go. Another reason to use electric is a regular razor, even a mach 3 causes my neck to really break out. Electric doesn't. As for the iritation and the closeness, you need to use an electric for a month untill your face gets used to it. Then electric is as nice as a razor most of the time.
The only drawback is if I don't shave for a couple days, the electric pulls hair a bit. That's not bad since I usually shave daily, and cuts will happen with a regular razor at least a couple times a month.
Bah, you know what I mean. :)
Jeeze it looks like I started a flame war.
She doesn't care about the computer, rarely even uses it... She can type on it, and print. That's all that matters to her. That, and she's a teacher in a public school, your vote determines her salary.
Yah but my mom can plug the wire that fits right from "TO TV" to the matching connector on the TV. Plug the vcr into the wall. Change the chan to 3. Put a tape in. Seek around the tape. Hit play.
Can she move a document to the floppy drive on her mac? No, and she has a masters degree.
Huh? Rugby jargon isn't something you need to know to function in society. Neither is rock climbing, football, stained glass or shoe repair jargon. You need to know computers though. A better example would have been ABS, V6, Cruise control, etc. Jargon? Yes. Stuff to know it if you're buying a car? Yes. (You need a car in american society unless you're one of a small percentage of people who live in a city with good alternative transit.)
I can't think of any other piece of technology that people refuse to learn. TV, VCR, car, thermostat, playstation, jukebox, microwave, etc. All things people learned how to use. Computers? Nope, sorry.
3 reasons not to do that:
1: USB capture is crap
2: drivers are crap
3: the xbox cpu isn't really fast enough to capture/encode and decode (ala tivo timeshifting) at the same time. At least not at a good quality setting. It's fast enough to decode a stream off a network though.
if someone makes a tivo for it.. that'd be sweet too.
People have been using xboxen as a front end for MythTV for a while now. You still need another computer to do the capture/encoding, since the xbox can't capture video. It works fine reading off a hard drive on a network and decoding video though.
I saw something the other day about an MP (that's what they're called, right?) who said he'd never seen such and outpouring of support from the people against a law (or EU direction, sorry, I'm not 100% on EU politics) ever. Almost nobody was for it.
I think the article went on to say that despite it being against the people's wishes, it was going to pass. It's what the US wants, and it's what the corps want. It doesn't matter what the people think.
Does anybody have a link to that article?
How about:
Plants -> Turkey -> Oil -> Carbon Pollution -> Plants
You're right, it's not perfect, but it does stop us from extracting carbon out of the ground that was created millions of years ago, just to add it to the atmosphere.
Or even better:
Plants -> Turkey -> Oil -> Chemical Reacton -> Hydrogen
That's going to be the best option I think. You can extract hydrogen using electric too. Solar towers, windmills, waves, etc, will all be transformed into hydrogen.
Don't forget, oil is needed for things like plastic too. We do more with it than just burn it in cars. We're going to need to have it around for things we havn't been able to run off of hydrogen yet too, like planes.
Try the new scheduler in 2.5, or put the preempt patches onto 2.4. You'll get a responsive UI, and mp3s won't skip.
http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
I don't know if distros use it, but they should. The difference in using linux on a desktop is night and day with that patch.
You just described how the patent system SHOULD work. (Really, that's pretty much how the patent system is set up.)
Now the trick is to get the USTPO to actually follow their own rules. Like most laws, we've got the problem licked, it's just a matter of enforcing them.
I don't know if that's really him, but he did put up something about fark on his site.
Yes, exactly. That's why i said it would be neat. It's the stock powerbook keyboard that's a pain for us lefties to control click. Not to mention left handed unix geeks that run X11 on their powerbook too. Most of us are ambidextrous to a certain extent, but it's still a pain.
Are you getting a distributer in the midwest? I'd love to try one out. It's a lot of money to spend on something I don't know if I'd like. I'm pretty concerned about touch typing (I'm sure many of your customers are).
If you'd like some contacts, here's 2 good local computer shops here in Omaha:
DIT computers: a discount computer parts shop kinda place, lots and lots of customers. www.ditcorp.com
Computers to go: not as cheap, but much better service. The owner is pretty easy to deal with. www.computers2go.com
Ok, when you use mac os you don't really need 2 buttons. It's a myth, in windows and unix you NEED 2 buttons, in mac os you don't. You 190cs should have NO use for a 2 button mouse at all (unless you run some heavy duty apps, but i doubt that), apple didn't introduce control clicking (right click in windows) until OS 8 I believe. I doubt your 190cs is running 8.
Personally I mostly use mac os x gui apps along with terminals to unix boxen. I've had no real need for a 2 button mouse. When the powerbook is on my desk i have a 2 button scrolling mouse that works fine. The 1 mouse button 'toy' has replaced my unix and windows machines as my main machine. Despite having a slower processor. As I said in another comment, the only thing about a 1 button mouse on a powerbook is that it sucks if you're left handed (control clicking is a stretch due to the lack of a control key on the right side).
Also, this keyboard also acts as a mouse. Using gestures you activate the mouse mode and different tap combinations act as various mouse presses. You can even scroll with a gesture. It looks pretty slick.
I think this looks pretty neat for left handed powerbook users.
It's a bit of a stretch trying to use modifier keys while pointing with another finger and then clicking with your thumb since control is on the left side of the keyboard.
I'm allready a big fan of launchbar to avoid having to move my hands. I'd love to try one of these out for a while, but the price is a bit scary. I'm going to go try to dig up some reviews.
Can netjuke play .m4p (apple drm aac files)? I somehow doubt it.
I'd buy some stuff from apple music, but until I can play it on my linux and windows machines AND my mp3 players (non ipod) I won't buy any. At least my powerbook does everything I want, I can't say the same about itms.
That's still not going to help the millions and millions of hardware mp3 players people have sunk billions of dollars into. mp3 is a defacto standard, sure it's not the best quality (sorry 'audiophiles'), there's no drm (sorry record labels) and the format isn't really free (sorry slashdot), but it's the standard. People just need to get over that and live with it.
I don't subscribe, but emusic is plain mp3. No DRM or anything. The rips should be good quality, I've never heard otherwise.
Apple files have some drm in them. The files end in .m4p and not .aac. You pretty much have to convert them before you can play them on anything but a mac or an ipod. That's the only reason I havn't bought any tunes from them yet. I like being able to listen to music on my linux machine + mp3 players in addition to the mac.
Military crypto destruction plan: An axe.
/ex AF comm/crypto/computer guy.
Remember when that plane went down in north korea? I remember people saying they were worried they would steal our tech/codes/etc. The thing is, as soon as they realized they'd have to land, that equipment was toast. A few million worth of equipment is nothing compared to the cost of the tech/codes/etc.