I've often thought that dragging the app to the trash should be able to trigger a program in the application bundle to clean up all the pref files. But i guess this action is hard to back up and restore...
Perhaps the app bundle could contain the locations of the pref files in a plist so that OS X could remove them when needed and also restore them automatically if you choose to restore from time machine. This way the app is always linked to its preference files whether you delete, restore or move to another computer.
not a kext, Webkit. When they update safari they also update webkit. Lots of system apps use the webkit engine. Dashboard is the one i think of right away. Mail renders HTML Email using webkit. In fact im sure the QuickLook Server uses webkit to preview web pages on disk. I think they make you restart because they are taking the easy way out instead of calling for a restart for all webkit apps.
Unless you are in a position where you compile your own kernel every few weeks then this wont affect you in any noticible way.
Im sure all the major distros will be watching whats happening here and making sure it doesnt affect their end users. From what i've read the changes mean better performance at the expense of latency but they're working to elimintate the BKL all together.
By the time your distros next kernel upgrade comes around im sure none of this will matter.:)
When i go on holiday i take exactly that precaution. You often cant spend time checking the machine for physical keyloggers because they can be under desks and the ports can be hard to see or reach.
You have to assume you're going to be keylogged and design a system that is resilient to it.
I hide SSH keys (encrypted with passwords) around the internet on various web servers. Then i only need to download (and run) portaPUTTY and vnc viewer before i can see a desktop with a web browser with all my passwords set up and all the sites i want to go to as bookmarks tunnelled through a secure SSH connection. With VNC set on low colour the latency isn't too bad and accessing and writing email doesn't need high graphics anyway. Then before logging off i simply delete that key's reference from the.authorized_keys file. I then make a note on paper (!) to remind me which keys i've used.
With this method there is no way an attacker at any single internet cafe could access anything i dont want them to. Its not totally fool proof but its paranoid enough for me.
The sheer number of times that I've booted the machine after doing an 'emerge -u world' and gotten "this configuration file's syntax is depricated, please use this new syntax instead" messages has been infuriating. Routine upgrades aren't routine. You can spend hours picking through config files and manually inspecting the diffs between versions. You don't want Gentoo on your server unless you enjoy spending a day doing an upgrade.
On my server most of the time i find that etc-update takes care of most of the config file updates. If you have config files you want to protect from minor updates use CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf to protect specific files. Then the majority of config updates flagged with etc-update are ones which you don't need to read over like tweaks to init scripts or such like. I find my config updates are usually over in a few minutes.
The thing i don't like about gentoo is that after a few years of repeatedly upgrading my system using emerge and building new kernels around new hardware and stuff i have started to feel really isolated from any sense of community or identity gentoo may have. I'm not the kinda guy who hangs out on IRC all the time but with other distros i've used in the past i've really had a sense of direction of where the distro is headed in the future and the grand goal of the project. Gentoo just seems to be like that lazy teenager whos just bumming away his life with no plans for the future.
overall though i think its one of the best distros i've used from a low resources server perspective. It still works after 4 without having to scrap it and start again so i'm not going to switch no matter how lethargic its attitude may feel.
SMB connections are better than ever for me in leopard. Although if you are still using go>connect to server I found i got increased reliability by using CIFS:// as opposed to SMB://. SMB is depreciated but newer SMB servers like winXP and samba still maintain it for backwards compatibility. CIFS is the updated protocol and i thoroughly recommend you try it:)
I first found out about the difference when i only compiled CIFS support into my (linux) kernel by accident and all my SMB connection problems on linux went away too.
Anyway back to the issue in the story my girlfriend's macbook pro had bootcamp installed and she got 10.4.11 weeks ago with no trouble
You'll notice that list is the list of highest uptime in days. Well because of various reasons netcraft doesnt count most linux boxes above 198 days. Read these 2 netcraft FAQ entries: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#cycle2 50
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I hear ya. My macbook is still going strong. No problems. The battery still holds 95% of its charge after 150 cycles in a year and its just as good as when i bought it. Could do with a RAM upgrade soon tho, 1GB isnt enough these days (especially running parallels)
Did I ever tell you about the time Steve Jobs and I thought about inventing a new slashdot meme where we would post comments which started with "Did I ever tell you about the time steve Jobs and I..."
Ahhh, but then they know valid account names on your box to start blasting with a dictionary. Imagine if you ran an SSH server where only users in a certian group could ssh in. Then grabbing/etc/group can tell you which usernames to focus on.
I would love keychain integration on OS X but the mozilla dev team don't see any of these things as a priority. All someone needs to do, though, is port the stuff over from camino cause it's got all the cool OS X features but none of the stuff which makes firefox cool. Maybe the camino and firefox mac programs should merge...
My university (University of Leicester, wwwl.e.ac.uk) has just starting allowing remote access to files using webDAV. Internet explorer supports it so windows supports it, theres especially good apple support for it and KDE and Gnome have good support too.
i guess it all depends on how jealous the 2 sets of programmers are. Its all GPL anyway so i dont really see why it wont be most of the same code wether they get along or not. Personally i think i would prefer the neo-office guys to keep working on it, sometimes programmers for other platforms just dont get the mac way of thinking; The neo-office guys do quite well. Mind you i would love to be able to start neo office without automagically loading a document and then selecting what you want from the menu bar. Either that or have separate executables for each doctype. Its a whole suite not just a word processor.
yeah, they kinda got shafted by the open office transition to open office 2, they had only had their OOo 1.1.4 based version of neo Office out for a few months when Open Office made the switch making them look very dated very fast. They had a huge task ahead of them but us mac users are starting to reap the benefits. Doubled with the spotlight plugin to read inside ODF files I consider neoOffice to be very usable these days.
neo office is totally free, its only just gotten an aqua interface in the latest version but the project itself remains free to download. Its pretty good and has an active development team.
yeah im the english equivalent of a maths major and i could identify with what you were saying 100%. Its like this kinda thing is true everywhere!
For the higher level lectures, like you describe, it wouldnt really matter wether your students go or not, the more serious students who really benefit from lectures will benefit when the half serious students arent there pissing about in the lecture. Plus podcasts would really help for that lecturer i have who writes so fast you have no time to absorb the material for the constant frantic scribbling we always end up doing.
How many people will be happy when there's a good, stable, up-to-date native OSX version?
of openoffice you mean? there is, its just maintained by another project and is called neooffice/j. in their latest beta they have an all aqua interface! it rocks http://www.neooffice.org/
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I've often thought that dragging the app to the trash should be able to trigger a program in the application bundle to clean up all the pref files. But i guess this action is hard to back up and restore...
Perhaps the app bundle could contain the locations of the pref files in a plist so that OS X could remove them when needed and also restore them automatically if you choose to restore from time machine. This way the app is always linked to its preference files whether you delete, restore or move to another computer.
not a kext, Webkit. When they update safari they also update webkit. Lots of system apps use the webkit engine. Dashboard is the one i think of right away. Mail renders HTML Email using webkit. In fact im sure the QuickLook Server uses webkit to preview web pages on disk. I think they make you restart because they are taking the easy way out instead of calling for a restart for all webkit apps.
Unless you are in a position where you compile your own kernel every few weeks then this wont affect you in any noticible way.
:)
Im sure all the major distros will be watching whats happening here and making sure it doesnt affect their end users. From what i've read the changes mean better performance at the expense of latency but they're working to elimintate the BKL all together.
By the time your distros next kernel upgrade comes around im sure none of this will matter.
When i go on holiday i take exactly that precaution. You often cant spend time checking the machine for physical keyloggers because they can be under desks and the ports can be hard to see or reach.
.authorized_keys file. I then make a note on paper (!) to remind me which keys i've used.
You have to assume you're going to be keylogged and design a system that is resilient to it.
I hide SSH keys (encrypted with passwords) around the internet on various web servers. Then i only need to download (and run) portaPUTTY and vnc viewer before i can see a desktop with a web browser with all my passwords set up and all the sites i want to go to as bookmarks tunnelled through a secure SSH connection. With VNC set on low colour the latency isn't too bad and accessing and writing email doesn't need high graphics anyway. Then before logging off i simply delete that key's reference from the
With this method there is no way an attacker at any single internet cafe could access anything i dont want them to. Its not totally fool proof but its paranoid enough for me.
See? You don't need a licence if you're not going to watch or record TV programmes as their shown on the air.
On my server most of the time i find that etc-update takes care of most of the config file updates. If you have config files you want to protect from minor updates use CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf to protect specific files. Then the majority of config updates flagged with etc-update are ones which you don't need to read over like tweaks to init scripts or such like. I find my config updates are usually over in a few minutes.
The thing i don't like about gentoo is that after a few years of repeatedly upgrading my system using emerge and building new kernels around new hardware and stuff i have started to feel really isolated from any sense of community or identity gentoo may have. I'm not the kinda guy who hangs out on IRC all the time but with other distros i've used in the past i've really had a sense of direction of where the distro is headed in the future and the grand goal of the project. Gentoo just seems to be like that lazy teenager whos just bumming away his life with no plans for the future.
overall though i think its one of the best distros i've used from a low resources server perspective. It still works after 4 without having to scrap it and start again so i'm not going to switch no matter how lethargic its attitude may feel.
sorry, i moderated you incorrectly
SMB connections are better than ever for me in leopard. Although if you are still using go>connect to server I found i got increased reliability by using CIFS:// as opposed to SMB://. SMB is depreciated but newer SMB servers like winXP and samba still maintain it for backwards compatibility. CIFS is the updated protocol and i thoroughly recommend you try it :)
I first found out about the difference when i only compiled CIFS support into my (linux) kernel by accident and all my SMB connection problems on linux went away too.
Anyway back to the issue in the story my girlfriend's macbook pro had bootcamp installed and she got 10.4.11 weeks ago with no trouble
Actually the new nano and classic dont run on portal player chips anymore hence they needed a complete OS re-write.
You'll notice that list is the list of highest uptime in days. Well because of various reasons netcraft doesnt count most linux boxes above 198 days. Read these 2 netcraft FAQ entries: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#cycle2 50
Because of this linux isnt in that list.
could you give me an example of which branded USB wireless b/g keys are prism based? I've never been able to find any in the UK.
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ah ok, I'd never heard it before :)
I hear ya. My macbook is still going strong. No problems. The battery still holds 95% of its charge after 150 cycles in a year and its just as good as when i bought it. Could do with a RAM upgrade soon tho, 1GB isnt enough these days (especially running parallels)
Did I ever tell you about the time Steve Jobs and I thought about inventing a new slashdot meme where we would post comments which started with "Did I ever tell you about the time steve Jobs and I..."
Ahhh, but then they know valid account names on your box to start blasting with a dictionary. Imagine if you ran an SSH server where only users in a certian group could ssh in. Then grabbing /etc/group can tell you which usernames to focus on.
I would love keychain integration on OS X but the mozilla dev team don't see any of these things as a priority. All someone needs to do, though, is port the stuff over from camino cause it's got all the cool OS X features but none of the stuff which makes firefox cool. Maybe the camino and firefox mac programs should merge...
Sounds like yours is broken IMHO... Mine doesn't do any of that.
oh yeah, tell me about it.
My university (University of Leicester, wwwl.e.ac.uk) has just starting allowing remote access to files using webDAV. Internet explorer supports it so windows supports it, theres especially good apple support for it and KDE and Gnome have good support too.
you can check out their support page on it here: http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/cfs/files/webaccess.html
Aha!! there is a new preference! in the general preference pane there is a new tick box "group compilations while browsing"
Pure pwnage!
i guess it all depends on how jealous the 2 sets of programmers are. Its all GPL anyway so i dont really see why it wont be most of the same code wether they get along or not. Personally i think i would prefer the neo-office guys to keep working on it, sometimes programmers for other platforms just dont get the mac way of thinking; The neo-office guys do quite well. Mind you i would love to be able to start neo office without automagically loading a document and then selecting what you want from the menu bar. Either that or have separate executables for each doctype. Its a whole suite not just a word processor.
yeah, they kinda got shafted by the open office transition to open office 2, they had only had their OOo 1.1.4 based version of neo Office out for a few months when Open Office made the switch making them look very dated very fast. They had a huge task ahead of them but us mac users are starting to reap the benefits. Doubled with the spotlight plugin to read inside ODF files I consider neoOffice to be very usable these days.
neo office is totally free, its only just gotten an aqua interface in the latest version but the project itself remains free to download. Its pretty good and has an active development team.
yeah im the english equivalent of a maths major and i could identify with what you were saying 100%. Its like this kinda thing is true everywhere!
For the higher level lectures, like you describe, it wouldnt really matter wether your students go or not, the more serious students who really benefit from lectures will benefit when the half serious students arent there pissing about in the lecture. Plus podcasts would really help for that lecturer i have who writes so fast you have no time to absorb the material for the constant frantic scribbling we always end up doing.
http://www.neooffice.org/