I get social media. I really like most of it. However, I enjoy my fancy stereo and big screen TV too much to let people know when I am out of town or out of my house.
"Oh, I know that dude. He just bought a fat entertainment system and now his facebook says he's out of town for a month. Woot!"
"Though he remains the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator."
Ignorance of the Masses => Democracy
Will we actually notice any changes?
Re:Looks like the site is being hosted on an MSI W
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OS X On the MSI Wind
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· Score: 4, Informative
Pros
Power management/Sleep work normally for the most part. The only difference from actual Apple hardware, is that you need to tap the power button to wake from sleep, as opposed to screen lid, mouse movement or space tap. Fans work properly, same as on a macbook. They kick in on heavy CPU usage and high temps. However, I must say, the device keeps very cool most of the time. Other pluses include Portability & Price. The 6 cell battery gets you around 5 hours of usage.
Working perfectly:
* Core image
* Core animation
* Core audio
* Video Out & Graphics in general
* Wired Ethernet
* Webcam
* Internal Speakers
* USB
* SD Card Slot
* Sleep
* Bluetooth
* Wifi
* TouchPad
* Function Keys
Cons
Not able do perform Major OS point upgrades. There is no support for this. Warranty becomes Void. You are totally on your own. Web Cam, Wifi & Bluetooth, need to be activated via the function keys before the OS will see them (very PC like). The trackpad feels a little clunky, however I prefer a small mouse (wired or bluetooth). If you try to save a few dollars by going with the 3 cell battery, you will only get 2 hours of usage.
Not working:
* Internal Microphone
* Microphone port
* Headset port
Re:Looks like the site is being hosted on an MSI W
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OS X On the MSI Wind
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I've got some of the pages in cache.
1. Connect your external USB dvd drive to the MSI wind while the computer is off.
2. Turn on the dvd drive and eject the tray. Place the MSI Leopard disk in the drive and close the tray.
3. Turn on the MSI wind. After the MSI logo screen, you will be prompted for 5 seconds at the darwin screen. Just tap the space bar within the 5 seconds provided in order to boot from the disk. You will see the installation commence.
4. The process will take around 5 minutes before you get to the main OSX installation GUI screen. On your way there, you will see a blue screen with the spinning multicolored beach ball as your mouse representation.
5. Shortly thereafter you will arrive at the language selection screen. Select English and click next.
6. You will arrive at the Welcome screen for the install. At this point you need to stop and blow away your drive partitions to start fresh. Drag your mouse to the top edge of the screen, and click on âoeUtilitiesâ.
7. Then go down and select âoeDisk Utilityâ.
8. Click on your main drive in the left side.
9. Select âoePartitionâ on the right side.
10. In âoeVolume Schemeâ, select âoe1 partitionâ.
11. Assign your disk a name. Then Click on âoeApplyâ. It will take a few seconds to process the disk.
12. Click on âoeQuit Disk Utilityâ from the menu.
13. It will take you back to the main installer âoeWelcomeâ page. Click on âoeContinueâ.
14. Click to accept the licensing agreement.
15. Select your drive destination which you just partitioned.
16. Very Important to STOP on the next screen titled âoeInstall Summaryâ. In the lower left hand corner there is a âoeCustomizeâ button. Click it.
17. Go into Patches, then Kernel, and Uncheck it.
18. Click on done, and you will be taken back to the âoeInstall Summaryâ page and click on âoeInstallâ.
19. Sit back and have a cup of coffee while the machine goes thru the whole install process. Don't be alarmed if it loooks like no activity is going on. If you don't see the dvd drive light going, you will notice the HD light on the MSI blinking while installation happens in the background.
20. Once it is finished and reboots, unplug the dvd usb cable.
21. This time when the âoeDarwinâ boot screen comes up, don't click space bar. The grey Apple logo screen should come up upon booting. If all went well, core animation and sound were installed, and you should see the welcome intro movie playing smoothly. That's it, you are home free.
I read and saw the videos about triple booting with MSI wind back in August. He's got a video there and a bunch of hard to grab OS X drivers. If you are going to purchase a MSI wind, please note the issues with the non synaptics trackpads in some circumstances.
You will need an extra stick of RAM, DVD drive, and WLAN card as well. This hack will get you up to OS X 10.5.4. The hackint0sh community is usually a point release or two behind.
The planetx64 version also has problems with the internal mic, the microphone port and the headset port.
I am a big Apple supporter and member of the apple rumors community... however...
Apple can get away with this because they can outspend almost any web/forum site. If they are in the right or wrong, who cares? They can keep throwing lawyers at you until you give.
They attack Apple rumors site on a routine basis for BS claims of copyright or trade secrets. If I take a picture of somebody else holding a pre-release iPhone, how is that copyright? They are in the public!
Look at the EULA and Apple attacking the company making mac clones. Most lawyers do not think that the EULA would stand; however, no company (other than microsoft or google) could tolerate the time/money that fighting would cost.
People waste time because they don't know how to cheat! Here are the vista Solitaire and XP Solitaire cheats.
Honestly, solitaire has the perfect assets to be the most popular computer game.
1. Anybody can figure it out. My children picked it up in 5 minutes. 2. It's available on to a huge population. Everybody with a windows box has it installed and staring them in the face. Any system is powerful enough to run it. 3. It fills downtime while other processes are loading. Need a few minutes to download that huge iso? Heck, you can probably get in a game of solitaire!
Interestingly enough, solitaire is probably the most popular card game as well... for similar reasons.
"It is the cockroach of gaming, remarkably flexible and adaptable..."
The official chain of distribution will be SDK -> iTunes -> user.
This will likely be very similar to iTunes podcasting delivery service.
There is the first app to be released that will be able to use this pathway. I agree there are a ton of jailbroken apps... and that was the point of the post. Apple's way is way behind the current developers' methods.
Will people give up the ability to run really nice iTunes unfriendly apps like the NES emulator? Or will developers see the potential and follow the Mac party lines so they can make money on their legit applications...
Not in anyway that is obvious. Like many Apple features, it is tied directly to one service.
The dictionary in OS X 10.5 now has the ability to search wikipedia (but no other online databases) as well. iPhone uses google maps exclusively, etc, etc.
That was one of the reasons that I would previously let doctors post anonymously on carotids.com. Medical systems are huge, reputation-based systems. If a hospital doesn't have a good community name, people will take their personal business elsewhere. So hospitals will sue and sue to protect their reps.
Carotids has not thrived even with anonymous postings because docs are still scared. I still get frequent contacts with people considering posting... however, most never pull the trigger.
For example, you can import your Outlook or iCal files to gooCalendar but you can't export them back again! How is that helpful? So you can switch completely over, but you can't use both in concert together?
Also, you can kinda get in... sometimes. At least this time, they put the bottleneck at the door (login page). If you get in, it works fine. It's just tough to get in.
If it synced both ways, then I think it would get adapted much more quickly. Many office types (or their secretaries) need to keep schedules on outlook. Exporting/importing to gooCalendar would be awesome... but one way just kills it.
Yahoo in the past has bundled their toolbar with flash and other products. They charge to get inclusion into their infamous directory. Now, they are becoming more linked with spyware?
By accepting Yahoo's "typical" installation of YIM with Voice, it will also download Yahoo's Search Toolbar with anti-spyware and anti-pop-up software, desktop and system tray shortcuts, as well as Yahoo Extras, which will insert Yahoo links into the Internet Explorer browser. The IM client also contains "live words," which will automatically show an icon when the user highlights words online and then hyperlink to Yahoo search results, definitions or translation tools. Finally, the installation will alter the users' home page and auto-search functions to point to Yahoo by default.
To avoid these changes, users must actively choose the "custom" installation and uncheck five boxes.
Slashdot Mirror
I turned this off as soon as I could.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/7046/how-to-prevent-being-checked-into-facebook-places-privacy/
I get social media. I really like most of it. However, I enjoy my fancy stereo and big screen TV too much to let people know when I am out of town or out of my house.
"Oh, I know that dude. He just bought a fat entertainment system and now his facebook says he's out of town for a month. Woot!"
No thanks.
"Though he remains the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator."
Ignorance of the Masses => Democracy
Will we actually notice any changes?
Pros
Power management/Sleep work normally for the most part. The only difference from actual Apple hardware, is that you need to tap the power button to wake from sleep, as opposed to screen lid, mouse movement or space tap. Fans work properly, same as on a macbook. They kick in on heavy CPU usage and high temps. However, I must say, the device keeps very cool most of the time. Other pluses include Portability & Price. The 6 cell battery gets you around 5 hours of usage.
Working perfectly:
* Core image
* Core animation
* Core audio
* Video Out & Graphics in general
* Wired Ethernet
* Webcam
* Internal Speakers
* USB
* SD Card Slot
* Sleep
* Bluetooth
* Wifi
* TouchPad
* Function Keys
Cons
Not able do perform Major OS point upgrades. There is no support for this. Warranty becomes Void. You are totally on your own. Web Cam, Wifi & Bluetooth, need to be activated via the function keys before the OS will see them (very PC like). The trackpad feels a little clunky, however I prefer a small mouse (wired or bluetooth). If you try to save a few dollars by going with the 3 cell battery, you will only get 2 hours of usage.
Not working:
* Internal Microphone
* Microphone port
* Headset port
I've got some of the pages in cache.
1. Connect your external USB dvd drive to the MSI wind while the computer is off.
2. Turn on the dvd drive and eject the tray. Place the MSI Leopard disk in the drive and close the tray.
3. Turn on the MSI wind. After the MSI logo screen, you will be prompted for 5 seconds at the darwin screen. Just tap the space bar within the 5 seconds provided in order to boot from the disk. You will see the installation commence.
4. The process will take around 5 minutes before you get to the main OSX installation GUI screen. On your way there, you will see a blue screen with the spinning multicolored beach ball as your mouse representation.
5. Shortly thereafter you will arrive at the language selection screen. Select English and click next.
6. You will arrive at the Welcome screen for the install. At this point you need to stop and blow away your drive partitions to start fresh. Drag your mouse to the top edge of the screen, and click on âoeUtilitiesâ.
7. Then go down and select âoeDisk Utilityâ.
8. Click on your main drive in the left side.
9. Select âoePartitionâ on the right side.
10. In âoeVolume Schemeâ, select âoe1 partitionâ.
11. Assign your disk a name. Then Click on âoeApplyâ. It will take a few seconds to process the disk.
12. Click on âoeQuit Disk Utilityâ from the menu.
13. It will take you back to the main installer âoeWelcomeâ page. Click on âoeContinueâ.
14. Click to accept the licensing agreement.
15. Select your drive destination which you just partitioned.
16. Very Important to STOP on the next screen titled âoeInstall Summaryâ. In the lower left hand corner there is a âoeCustomizeâ button. Click it.
17. Go into Patches, then Kernel, and Uncheck it.
18. Click on done, and you will be taken back to the âoeInstall Summaryâ page and click on âoeInstallâ.
19. Sit back and have a cup of coffee while the machine goes thru the whole install process. Don't be alarmed if it loooks like no activity is going on. If you don't see the dvd drive light going, you will notice the HD light on the MSI blinking while installation happens in the background.
20. Once it is finished and reboots, unplug the dvd usb cable.
21. This time when the âoeDarwinâ boot screen comes up, don't click space bar. The grey Apple logo screen should come up upon booting. If all went well, core animation and sound were installed, and you should see the welcome intro movie playing smoothly. That's it, you are home free.
I read and saw the videos about triple booting with MSI wind back in August. He's got a video there and a bunch of hard to grab OS X drivers. If you are going to purchase a MSI wind, please note the issues with the non synaptics trackpads in some circumstances.
You will need an extra stick of RAM, DVD drive, and WLAN card as well. This hack will get you up to OS X 10.5.4. The hackint0sh community is usually a point release or two behind.
The planetx64 version also has problems with the internal mic, the microphone port and the headset port.
Yeah, that's funny coming from somebody on slashdot.
Whatever.
http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm150
"Slashdot" is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable.
I am a big Apple supporter and member of the apple rumors community... however...
Apple can get away with this because they can outspend almost any web/forum site. If they are in the right or wrong, who cares? They can keep throwing lawyers at you until you give.
They attack Apple rumors site on a routine basis for BS claims of copyright or trade secrets. If I take a picture of somebody else holding a pre-release iPhone, how is that copyright? They are in the public!
Look at the EULA and Apple attacking the company making mac clones. Most lawyers do not think that the EULA would stand; however, no company (other than microsoft or google) could tolerate the time/money that fighting would cost.
The contract lock-in insures that the new iPhone is more expensive than the last.
If you do the iPhone math, the new phone will cost you more than the older phone despite the "half the price" ad campaign.
If AT&T really drops free sms, it'll cost even more.
I don't mind paying more. However, for somebody like me not in a G3 area, why should I have to pay the G3 transfer higher prices?
People waste time because they don't know how to cheat! Here are the vista Solitaire and XP Solitaire cheats.
Honestly, solitaire has the perfect assets to be the most popular computer game.
1. Anybody can figure it out. My children picked it up in 5 minutes.
2. It's available on to a huge population. Everybody with a windows box has it installed and staring them in the face. Any system is powerful enough to run it.
3. It fills downtime while other processes are loading. Need a few minutes to download that huge iso? Heck, you can probably get in a game of solitaire!
Interestingly enough, solitaire is probably the most popular card game as well... for similar reasons.
"It is the cockroach of gaming, remarkably flexible and adaptable..."
Oh, yeah. The original paper is here:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/529160/PageRank-for-Product-Image-Search
It should be noted that a lot of the prelim data for this was gained through human interaction that google setup as a game.
I am still playing with the filter by date dropdown url manipulation.
The official chain of distribution will be SDK -> iTunes -> user.
This will likely be very similar to iTunes podcasting delivery service.
There is the first app to be released that will be able to use this pathway. I agree there are a ton of jailbroken apps... and that was the point of the post. Apple's way is way behind the current developers' methods.
Apple is really running behind in this battle. Currently, there is only one SDK-created, legit application for the iPhone/iTouch that has been released in the wild.
Will people give up the ability to run really nice iTunes unfriendly apps like the NES emulator? Or will developers see the potential and follow the Mac party lines so they can make money on their legit applications...
So far... only one legit app.
Are these the same guys from the original hack?
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Not in anyway that is obvious. Like many Apple features, it is tied directly to one service.
The dictionary in OS X 10.5 now has the ability to search wikipedia (but no other online databases) as well. iPhone uses google maps exclusively, etc, etc.
Tech-Recipes got a copy. Here are their first 20 tutorials about the new features of Leopard.
If you prefer the old dock style, Mac OS X Hints has that tutorial now as well.
Anybody going for a T-shirt tomorrow?
Deleting from Time Machine is as easy as deleting from any other folder in finder.
Here are some step-by-step directions if you really need it: Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup
AC
That was one of the reasons that I would previously let doctors post anonymously on carotids.com. Medical systems are huge, reputation-based systems. If a hospital doesn't have a good community name, people will take their personal business elsewhere. So hospitals will sue and sue to protect their reps.
Carotids has not thrived even with anonymous postings because docs are still scared. I still get frequent contacts with people considering posting... however, most never pull the trigger.
Sad.
It looks like doing a cmp or diff command proves that the
files do not have watermarks either.
Yeah, everything kinda works.
For example, you can import your Outlook or iCal files to gooCalendar but you can't export them back again! How is that helpful? So you can switch completely over, but you can't use both in concert together?
Also, you can kinda get in... sometimes. At least this time, they put the bottleneck at the door (login page). If you get in, it works fine. It's just tough to get in.
If it synced both ways, then I think it would get adapted much more quickly. Many office types (or their secretaries) need to keep schedules on outlook. Exporting/importing to gooCalendar would be awesome... but one way just kills it.
With all the press they received about it... they should.
I know that many of us thought it would be the first direct attack against Microsoft,
It's already integrated. You can click on any feed and select gmail it. It will automatically connect on your gmail account so you can email the info.
Yahoo is doing other evil stuff as well:
Evil is yahoo becoming?
Nice... caught me off guard.
When did
News? You want real nerd news?
Here's how to find the easter egg (remember wumpus?) in google talk
If that's not enough... how about
a video of a goldfish being shocked back to life with a 9 volt battery.
Nobody on slashdot would ever need directions on
how to use a vagina
Enough real news for nerds?