Yep. As easy as it may seem to check on software before installing it, you are far more cautious than most people. Nobody checks to see if they are downloading something that includes a trojan. Windows users aren't safe downloading even the most mainstream software. Heck, last I checked AIM even included weatherbug.
Huh? I'm not sure what point you were trying to make there, but the parent to your post is correct. The details of the chipset used in AirPort Extreme cards have been kept secret by its manufacturer, to the point that nobody has been able to make third-party drivers for them yet. And while a standalone AirPort cards is not cheap compared to the going rate for wireless hardware, all iBooks, PowerBook and now iMacs come with them pre-installed. In those cases it would hardly be cheaper to go get another card that would not fit in the standard AirPort slots found in these computers or be able to utilize the built-in antennae.
Are you seriously stating that a three-year-old copy of Linux or OS/X does not need patching before going on the internet or are you just pointing out that WinXP has in-the-wild vulnerabilities that will compramize it in minutes, thus it is riskier?
[I am not the original poster.]
Of course it's sensible to update your system no matter which OS you run. But no, I wouldn't worry about taking a three-year-old Mac or Linux system online unpatched, when compared to the risk of taking even a fully patched Windows system online. I don't deny that you might eventually be hit by some sort of attack, but the exploits just aren't there on the massive scale that they are for Windows.
I used to do some support for Windows machines. It was amazing how often the problem was due to a virus or some other malware. Now I am a Mac tech. Sure, there are problems, but it's never a virus or worm. Never.
Tell the people in charge to invest in an internal purpose built IM solution. One that doesn't involve using a third party's servers.
The great thing is, an "investment" isn't even be necessary! If they were to use Jabber they could use a number of free server daemons in combination with free clients such as Gaim (Windows/Linux/BSD), Kopete (Linux/BSD), or Adium, iChat or Fire (Mac OS X.) Obviously nothing is 100% secure, but running this over the internal network along with SSL would be far better than using one of the public instant messaging services. The software is all built-in with most Linux distributions, as well as Mac OS X 10.4.
FWIW that's not 5 burns per song, it's per playlist. All you have to do is make a new playlist and you can effectively burn any given song an unlimited number of times.
Great post! It really is a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Users will come when there are developers. And developers will come when there are users.
We need to forget these silly arguments about what's the best time for XYZ to happen, and just make it happen! No alternative OS is perfect, but plenty of them are perfectly usable at this point.
Huh? CherryOS / PearPC let you run Mac OS X on a PC. WINE lets you run Windows apps in Linux. One emulates, the other does not. They are two totally different things.
Plus, it's silly to accuse CentOS of taking someone else's stuff as their own for free. Don't forget that a massive amount of the stuff found in the products Red Hat charges for is in turn based on work that others did for free. And the CentOS distributors aren't (at least I don't think!) profiting from it.
The thing is, Fedora isn't probably as close at CentOS. CentOS is basically a third-party recompile of RHEL, but Fedora is more of a testing ground and much less stable and predictable than RHEL. That's not to say Fedora is bad, but relatively speaking it's not on the same level.
Exactly. I love "do it yourself" stuff but really didn't feel that I learned anything by installing Gentoo. Debian wasn't *that* different, but took much less time. Heck, as geeky as I think I am, I am actually running CentOS right now (a third-party ISO distribution of RHEL.) It's fun to learn about stuff, but past a certain point I want stuff to "just work." Meaning Debian on servers, and Red Hat / Mac OS X on desktops.
I can't tell if the parent poster intended to be insightful or funny. (No offense to Linux. I'm running it on the machine from which I am posting this message.)
Really. I don't use Yahoo! myself anymore. But I work in the service department of a computer store, and you might be surprised how many "real" people still have it as their start page or whatever. It's hardly a has-been.
The funny thing is, blogging is really old. Hundreds or thousands of years. It's just that you no longer have to be employed by a newspaper, publisher, whatever to get your stuff read. Now it's not just a select few who can share their crappy thoughts. It's everyone!
Well, it depends more on the size of the songs than the number. I believe the iPod's cache is 32 MB. That's enough for several songs at 128k, but if you ripped your music at a higher bitrate it certainly may have to spin up after every two or three songs. And of course, it doesn't help much if you tend to listen to electronica or classical or some other genre where tracks tend to run longer than the average pop/top40 song.
Absolutely it should be a concern to everyone. But given the sharing, community-driven bent OSS, it seems that on average they'd be more more inclined to care about this sort of thing.
It is not my intent to challenge you, but how/where has Microsoft been waving a "Buy American" banner? I have no love for Microsoft, but I've never seen anything like that.
Or ancestors and viruses from T. rex's days have been evolving side-by-side in an arms race for 70 million years. We've inherited our robust immune system, viruses have inherited various devious ways of attempting to get around it.
I don't know much about diseases or epidemiology or whatever subject is at hand. But it seems like 70 million years seems like plenty of time to lose immunity to whatever might have ailed our ancestors during the time of the dinosaurs, if we haven't been exposed to it for a long time. I have no clue how this stuff works, but it seems like something worth considering.
WHY did it have to be the DNA of a T-Rex? Why couldn't it have been a nice herbivore, like a stegosaurus, or even better, one of those little chicken-sized dinos?
What, a Compy? Did you see what a flock of them did to some guy in one of the Jurassic Park sequels? No thanks.:P
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Huh? I'm not sure what point you were trying to make there, but the parent to your post is correct. The details of the chipset used in AirPort Extreme cards have been kept secret by its manufacturer, to the point that nobody has been able to make third-party drivers for them yet. And while a standalone AirPort cards is not cheap compared to the going rate for wireless hardware, all iBooks, PowerBook and now iMacs come with them pre-installed. In those cases it would hardly be cheaper to go get another card that would not fit in the standard AirPort slots found in these computers or be able to utilize the built-in antennae.
Of course it's sensible to update your system no matter which OS you run. But no, I wouldn't worry about taking a three-year-old Mac or Linux system online unpatched, when compared to the risk of taking even a fully patched Windows system online. I don't deny that you might eventually be hit by some sort of attack, but the exploits just aren't there on the massive scale that they are for Windows.
I used to do some support for Windows machines. It was amazing how often the problem was due to a virus or some other malware. Now I am a Mac tech. Sure, there are problems, but it's never a virus or worm. Never.
Note that there are a number of free multi-service IM clients (that include AIM support) available such as Gaim.
Oops, you're right. I overlooked that mistake. Thanks! :)
FWIW that's not 5 burns per song, it's per playlist. All you have to do is make a new playlist and you can effectively burn any given song an unlimited number of times.
Great post! It really is a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Users will come when there are developers. And developers will come when there are users. We need to forget these silly arguments about what's the best time for XYZ to happen, and just make it happen! No alternative OS is perfect, but plenty of them are perfectly usable at this point.
Sometimes they do, but it depends on the distribution. I've seen the distro mentioned in the user-agent string on both Fedora and Debian, for example.
Huh? CherryOS / PearPC let you run Mac OS X on a PC. WINE lets you run Windows apps in Linux. One emulates, the other does not. They are two totally different things.
... it's about time we had another story about SCO. It's been too long.
Plus, it's silly to accuse CentOS of taking someone else's stuff as their own for free. Don't forget that a massive amount of the stuff found in the products Red Hat charges for is in turn based on work that others did for free. And the CentOS distributors aren't (at least I don't think!) profiting from it.
The thing is, Fedora isn't probably as close at CentOS. CentOS is basically a third-party recompile of RHEL, but Fedora is more of a testing ground and much less stable and predictable than RHEL. That's not to say Fedora is bad, but relatively speaking it's not on the same level.
Exactly. I love "do it yourself" stuff but really didn't feel that I learned anything by installing Gentoo. Debian wasn't *that* different, but took much less time. Heck, as geeky as I think I am, I am actually running CentOS right now (a third-party ISO distribution of RHEL.) It's fun to learn about stuff, but past a certain point I want stuff to "just work." Meaning Debian on servers, and Red Hat / Mac OS X on desktops.
I can't tell if the parent poster intended to be insightful or funny. (No offense to Linux. I'm running it on the machine from which I am posting this message.)
Really. I don't use Yahoo! myself anymore. But I work in the service department of a computer store, and you might be surprised how many "real" people still have it as their start page or whatever. It's hardly a has-been.
The funny thing is, blogging is really old. Hundreds or thousands of years. It's just that you no longer have to be employed by a newspaper, publisher, whatever to get your stuff read. Now it's not just a select few who can share their crappy thoughts. It's everyone!
Excellent post! I'd mod you up if I had any points to give now.
Well, it depends more on the size of the songs than the number. I believe the iPod's cache is 32 MB. That's enough for several songs at 128k, but if you ripped your music at a higher bitrate it certainly may have to spin up after every two or three songs. And of course, it doesn't help much if you tend to listen to electronica or classical or some other genre where tracks tend to run longer than the average pop/top40 song.
Absolutely it should be a concern to everyone. But given the sharing, community-driven bent OSS, it seems that on average they'd be more more inclined to care about this sort of thing.
It is not my intent to challenge you, but how/where has Microsoft been waving a "Buy American" banner? I have no love for Microsoft, but I've never seen anything like that.
Microsoft is usually a combination of the two -- incompetent malice. :P