Thats just the problem - IE6 was released 2+ years ago.
Since it is lacking basic functionality in the form of CSS and other standard features, you would think that IE7 would have been released by now to rectify the situation. Not only has this nothappened, but apparently Microsoft plans no more IE releases until Longhorn.
The fact that software is outdated may be a reason why it doesnt have features x y and z, but it is no reason for a lack of updates, especially when said software is critical for everyday use and written by a company with billions of dollars in the bank.
If not being able to use high res external monitors on your ibook is a huge problem, go here.
Some people are iffy about using it because its a hack but I figured its ok since screen spanning is already in the iBook and just disabled. This is an installer for a hack that enables it.
I ran it on my 700mhz G3 iBook and it works fine. Reports are that it works on G4 iBooks as well. I can span the screen and connect external monitors running at resolutions up to whatever the video card can handle.
Apparently it also enables closed lid operation on the iBook with USB mouse, keyboard and external video but they dont recommend it because the keyboard is used for cooling. You dont want to bake your iBook with the lid shut:)
I'm not saying give 'The Great Leader' your money because hes 'The Great Leader'. I'm saying that I find Panther to be a brilliant piece of software without which my job would be much harder if not impossible. And its reasonably priced.
As a web programmer and linux consultant, I find that its fast, stable, efficient, runs commercial apps such as Dreamweaver and Photoshop, runs open source apps such as Apache and Postgres, offers me all the powerful tools available on unix systems and plays nicely with my clients' Windows environments. There is no other OS that gives me all of this. I used to dual boot Debian / WinXP and it was a royal pain in the ass, I spent most of my time rebooting. On top of all of this, you get a whole whack of great software like iTunes and Safari in the box.
So if you feel there's no value in it and you would be just giving your money to The Great Leader for no reason then by all means keep your cash, keep Jaguar but dont complain. All I'm saying is that if you want the new features in Panther, whether they be the faster, improved GUI, improved printing, improved Samba, new Safari, etc then $130 is a very reasonable price to pay. They cant spend a year working on stuff and give it to you for free you know.....
Have you used Panther?? If you have you should know to just plonk down the cash and stop complaining.
Being able to use the latest Safari isnt the only advantage you know. Its faster, has way more useful features, works WAY better in mixed environments, and its reasonably priced. In short, its well worth the money.
Obviously if you are using hardware that is so old that its not supported you're SOL. But in that case from what Ive heard you're better off sticking with OS9 anyway because OSX runs like a pig.
I dont see the problem with it Mozilla.
I use Safari and Camino on a Mac and Ive never had a problem with my webmail, banking, webbased server admin tools, etc. I dont even have a computer with IE on it!
The only site ive ever had trouble with was one dodgy one done in a really early version of Frontpage and the links didnt work. Aside from that other browsers seem more than up for the taks.
Most people wouldnt notice the block, they just use Optus's mail server.
If you have your own mail server (like me) you just set Optus's server as you SMTP and it all works ok. No problem there either.
The problem I have is that I use a laptop and my own email server, which supports SMTP auth. So I used to be able to go home, work, clients, etc and send and receive email. Now I have to keep switching SMTP servers in my mail client everywhere I go. Not the end of the world, but its still a real pain in the ass.
Is it reasonable to assume that there will be consumer versions of this? If there are, I would guess that the transmit power would be severly capped.
I dont know much about this spec but I would guess that ISPs using it to create 1 or 2 or 5 networks around a city would be a handy thing. This seems to be what its for. AFAIK (im not an expert) tens of thousands of consumers setting up their own 802.16 networks with a 50km range would cause a major traffic jam in that spectrum.
But then, when they say that it has a 50km range, what do they mean? Obviously its dependant on the hardware but what is the range of 802.16 like compared to 802.11b/g? To most people, 802.11b/g has a range of under 100m but there are some setups that reach 20km.
I dont like Windows, and I use OSX and FreeBSD at home and work.
Having said that, this worm doesnt exploit any Windows or Outlook vulnerabilities. It emails an exe file. The simple fact is that if users are so naive / stupid that they will just run any program that pops up in their inbox, it doesnt matter what OS they are running, the end result will be the same; an infected computer.
If you receive a linux binary and you run it it could cause you trouble. I know, it couldnt infect your system etc because you dont run as root, but it could re-email itself to your contact list, delete your documents, fill your hard drive or do any other number of annoying things while still propagating.
Moral of the story, MS is not ALWAYS at fault, just quite often.
>>Chances are, there is no need for any JavaScript on your website.
I try to use as much CSS and as little JavaScript in my sites as possible. However, chances are you will NEED to use Javascript on your site if you are doing anything more than basic CSS, if only to work around the abysmal CSS support in IE.
I cant see companies offering downloads in lossless format anytime in the near future, it would cost them way too much. AFAIK, typical lossless audio codecs only have a compression ratio of about.5.
For a busy site, there is a huge difference between customers downloading an album in 40Mb of MP3 and downloading an album in 350Mb of FLAC or whatever. They would need way more bandwidth, way more disk space, way more infrastructure.
Considering that most people couldnt tell the difference, it just wouldnt be worth their while.
What would be the point of an Itanium coprocessor? Its not the same as having a math coprocessor in a 486 system which took floating point instructions and executed them more efficiently than the main processor. Its a whole different architecture! You cant run an X86-64 OS with X86-64 apps, on an X86-64 and use an "Itanium coprocessor" to get extra speed.
I think there were some Apple and Sun machines at one stage with a Pentium PC on a PCI board that could run MS Windows in a window on the main OS. I guess you could do a similar thing here, but it would probalby be a pain in the ass, expensive buying 2 processors, and wouldnt really achieve much for you.
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Since it is lacking basic functionality in the form of CSS and other standard features, you would think that IE7 would have been released by now to rectify the situation. Not only has this nothappened, but apparently Microsoft plans no more IE releases until Longhorn.
The fact that software is outdated may be a reason why it doesnt have features x y and z, but it is no reason for a lack of updates, especially when said software is critical for everyday use and written by a company with billions of dollars in the bank.
Some people are iffy about using it because its a hack but I figured its ok since screen spanning is already in the iBook and just disabled. This is an installer for a hack that enables it.
I ran it on my 700mhz G3 iBook and it works fine. Reports are that it works on G4 iBooks as well. I can span the screen and connect external monitors running at resolutions up to whatever the video card can handle.
Apparently it also enables closed lid operation on the iBook with USB mouse, keyboard and external video but they dont recommend it because the keyboard is used for cooling. You dont want to bake your iBook with the lid shut :)
As a web programmer and linux consultant, I find that its fast, stable, efficient, runs commercial apps such as Dreamweaver and Photoshop, runs open source apps such as Apache and Postgres, offers me all the powerful tools available on unix systems and plays nicely with my clients' Windows environments. There is no other OS that gives me all of this. I used to dual boot Debian / WinXP and it was a royal pain in the ass, I spent most of my time rebooting. On top of all of this, you get a whole whack of great software like iTunes and Safari in the box.
So if you feel there's no value in it and you would be just giving your money to The Great Leader for no reason then by all means keep your cash, keep Jaguar but dont complain. All I'm saying is that if you want the new features in Panther, whether they be the faster, improved GUI, improved printing, improved Samba, new Safari, etc then $130 is a very reasonable price to pay. They cant spend a year working on stuff and give it to you for free you know.....
Being able to use the latest Safari isnt the only advantage you know. Its faster, has way more useful features, works WAY better in mixed environments, and its reasonably priced. In short, its well worth the money.
Obviously if you are using hardware that is so old that its not supported you're SOL. But in that case from what Ive heard you're better off sticking with OS9 anyway because OSX runs like a pig.
I dont see the problem with it Mozilla. I use Safari and Camino on a Mac and Ive never had a problem with my webmail, banking, webbased server admin tools, etc. I dont even have a computer with IE on it! The only site ive ever had trouble with was one dodgy one done in a really early version of Frontpage and the links didnt work. Aside from that other browsers seem more than up for the taks.
If you have your own mail server (like me) you just set Optus's server as you SMTP and it all works ok. No problem there either.
The problem I have is that I use a laptop and my own email server, which supports SMTP auth. So I used to be able to go home, work, clients, etc and send and receive email. Now I have to keep switching SMTP servers in my mail client everywhere I go. Not the end of the world, but its still a real pain in the ass.
I dont know much about this spec but I would guess that ISPs using it to create 1 or 2 or 5 networks around a city would be a handy thing. This seems to be what its for. AFAIK (im not an expert) tens of thousands of consumers setting up their own 802.16 networks with a 50km range would cause a major traffic jam in that spectrum.
But then, when they say that it has a 50km range, what do they mean? Obviously its dependant on the hardware but what is the range of 802.16 like compared to 802.11b/g? To most people, 802.11b/g has a range of under 100m but there are some setups that reach 20km.
Having said that, this worm doesnt exploit any Windows or Outlook vulnerabilities. It emails an exe file. The simple fact is that if users are so naive / stupid that they will just run any program that pops up in their inbox, it doesnt matter what OS they are running, the end result will be the same; an infected computer.
If you receive a linux binary and you run it it could cause you trouble. I know, it couldnt infect your system etc because you dont run as root, but it could re-email itself to your contact list, delete your documents, fill your hard drive or do any other number of annoying things while still propagating.
Moral of the story, MS is not ALWAYS at fault, just quite often.
I try to use as much CSS and as little JavaScript in my sites as possible. However, chances are you will NEED to use Javascript on your site if you are doing anything more than basic CSS, if only to work around the abysmal CSS support in IE.
I guess it depends what you do with your laptop. Sounds more like a 'mobile workstation' or something to me than a carry-it-around-with-you laptop.
For a busy site, there is a huge difference between customers downloading an album in 40Mb of MP3 and downloading an album in 350Mb of FLAC or whatever. They would need way more bandwidth, way more disk space, way more infrastructure.
Considering that most people couldnt tell the difference, it just wouldnt be worth their while.
Who said they compressed it?? Maybe theyre trying to fool everyone by just using 60 REALLY big bits of paper.
I can imagine them walking into court with 60 A1 pages printed off a plotter or something. :)
When I looked at it I said cool too.
But I know that if I had to live in it for more than about 10 seconds I'd go blind or crazy or both :)
What would be the point of an Itanium coprocessor? Its not the same as having a math coprocessor in a 486 system which took floating point instructions and executed them more efficiently than the main processor. Its a whole different architecture! You cant run an X86-64 OS with X86-64 apps, on an X86-64 and use an "Itanium coprocessor" to get extra speed.
I think there were some Apple and Sun machines at one stage with a Pentium PC on a PCI board that could run MS Windows in a window on the main OS. I guess you could do a similar thing here, but it would probalby be a pain in the ass, expensive buying 2 processors, and wouldnt really achieve much for you.