Your nickname is surprisingly accurate.:) I'm pretty sure you can only mount a disk to the default/Volumes/ directory....or used to be able to. The Security uupdate closed that protocol completely.
That's not quite accurate. The disk:// protocol was a part of the exploit, but that protocol did not allow a website to run anything - only to auto-mount a disk or disk image.
The real threat was the fact that programs could auto-register a new protocol that would be "handled" by a program contained within said disk image. Linking to exploit:// (as an example) would then launch the program that had registered itself as the handler for the made-up protocol. Thus, clicking on a link would run the program.
In any case, that Security Update did indeed fix it by asking the user the first time a new protocol's handler was added.
If you use a cellphone's automatic word detection (i.e. if you type 75274 it looks up a dictionary and guesses that you want "slash") you can get pretty decent WPM, actually. (Assuming the words you're looking for are in the dictionary, of course.) Well, I can, at least - more than enough to hold up an end of an AIM conversation at any rate. Any sufficiently clever input scheme can make any number of buttons usable. (For example, the Fitaly keyboard for PDA's is an excellent stylus-based input scheme.)
How about an onscreen keyboard optimized for two-thumb input? that thing's probably much more than double the size of my cellphone's keypad, and i do fine on that.
Imagine a browser that can run a native lightweight UI (through Avalon). Imagine a world where such applications are trivial to build.
That sounds awfully similar to Apple's WebKit (except the Avalon part). There are boatloads of tiny OS X browsers built on WebKit, because it is indeed trivial to build them.
What's more, WebKit is lightning quick (the version of it in Safari 1.3 is, at least) and it's being used for more than browsers. Colloquy uses it to allow CSS and XSL formatting of IRC. Several multi-protocol IM clients (Adium, Proteus, Fire) do the same thing. Tiger's Dashboard will use it to display its widgets. WebKit is popping up everywhere because (shocker!) it's easier to write webpages than graphics code.
If it's native, wouldn't that be heavyweight? I thought lightweight was the exact opposite of native.:-/
Native is completely unrelated to lightweight. Lightweight refers to the size (lack of bloat). Native refers to whether it's emulated or whatever.... can't think of a good way to explain it.... anyway, it has nothing to do with the weight.
....which is why you also use Mail.app's insanely great (cough) spam filter. I haven't seen a spam in weeks - and this is while using an address that I've used for over 3 years, signing up on tons of websites.
Smart folder and labels aren't quite the same, particularly in that Smart Folders are automatic, and labels aren't. This has both upsides and downsides, but they *aren't* the same thing.
I think there is a huge flaw with Secunia's study in that they only considered PATCHES. In other words (if my understanding of this is correct) if Apple had patches only the least serious vulnerabilities, they would have been considered the most secure.
Well the idea is to get people to switch away from IE, and the thing is... almost no one takes browsing seriously enough to pay for Opera. I'm sure it's wonderful, but I'm a fairly hardcore www-er and I won't consider paying for a browser, When there are so many good, free alternatives.
And as others mentioned, the Google toolbar is an excellent free popup blocker.
Mozilla is one of the only standards-compliant browsers around.
Not sure about the Windows side, but nearly all Mac browsers are standards-compliant, because most of them use the standards-compliant WebKit. The biggest exceptiong being, of course, IE.
IMO AdWords alone is enough to seperate Google from any TV network. Non-intrusive, non-annoying, non-bandwidth hogging ads that are actually relevant to page content, as opposed to taking 15-20 minutes of every hour to shove random products down my throat.
I'm not sure where you've heard Google claim to be cool because they use linux. Maybe something about them being cool because they have a custom variant of linux.
Also, you don't hear the networks elevated because you don't communicate with people over your TV. People on the net (who are likely to dislike TV and prefer the net) are the ones you'll hear, and that kind of person is likely to use and love google's services often.
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I'd say what it needs is a patch to turn it into warcraft 3 ;)
file:// only opens the file in the Finder, it can't be used to run anything from what i can tell.
Your nickname is surprisingly accurate. :) /Volumes/ directory. ...or used to be able to. The Security uupdate closed that protocol completely.
I'm pretty sure you can only mount a disk to the default
That's not quite accurate. The disk:// protocol was a part of the exploit, but that protocol did not allow a website to run anything - only to auto-mount a disk or disk image.
The real threat was the fact that programs could auto-register a new protocol that would be "handled" by a program contained within said disk image. Linking to exploit:// (as an example) would then launch the program that had registered itself as the handler for the made-up protocol. Thus, clicking on a link would run the program.
In any case, that Security Update did indeed fix it by asking the user the first time a new protocol's handler was added.
If you use a cellphone's automatic word detection (i.e. if you type 75274 it looks up a dictionary and guesses that you want "slash") you can get pretty decent WPM, actually. (Assuming the words you're looking for are in the dictionary, of course.) Well, I can, at least - more than enough to hold up an end of an AIM conversation at any rate. Any sufficiently clever input scheme can make any number of buttons usable. (For example, the Fitaly keyboard for PDA's is an excellent stylus-based input scheme.)
How about an onscreen keyboard optimized for two-thumb input? that thing's probably much more than double the size of my cellphone's keypad, and i do fine on that.
Ever heard of VNC? It's cross-platform, open source, and it's been around for years, and it's exactly what you just described.
But it's not like this technology at all. Sorry.
this is Slashdot. I think I speak for most of the people here when I say "Priorities? wtf?"
Linux is at around 3-5% market share!
3-5%? says who? Google's Zeitgeist says 1%.... and that's probably that most accurate source of OS usage around.
Unless you're including servers, then it might be right.
The first, I think. I don't think it's smart enough to detect one of the zillion variants of "Try again, your password was wrong".
Imagine a browser that can run a native lightweight UI (through Avalon). Imagine a world where such applications are trivial to build.
That sounds awfully similar to Apple's WebKit (except the Avalon part). There are boatloads of tiny OS X browsers built on WebKit, because it is indeed trivial to build them.
What's more, WebKit is lightning quick (the version of it in Safari 1.3 is, at least) and it's being used for more than browsers. Colloquy uses it to allow CSS and XSL formatting of IRC. Several multi-protocol IM clients (Adium, Proteus, Fire) do the same thing. Tiger's Dashboard will use it to display its widgets. WebKit is popping up everywhere because (shocker!) it's easier to write webpages than graphics code.
If it's native, wouldn't that be heavyweight? I thought lightweight was the exact opposite of native. :-/
Native is completely unrelated to lightweight. Lightweight refers to the size (lack of bloat). Native refers to whether it's emulated or whatever.... can't think of a good way to explain it.... anyway, it has nothing to do with the weight.
Maybe Safari and FF differ in this... in Safari, only the last one (which would be the correct one) is remembered.
For those of you on a Mac, Quicksilver is a kickass app launcher/searcher/etc.... and it searches bookmarks quite effectively. :)
I know it searches Safari bookmarks, I'm pretty sure it also indexes Firefox and some of the other popular browsers.
Oh, and it's free.
Just click 'yes'.
If the login is unsuccessful, go back, re-enter your credentials and click 'yes' again.
If successful, you don't have to remember it again.
....which is why you also use Mail.app's insanely great (cough) spam filter. I haven't seen a spam in weeks - and this is while using an address that I've used for over 3 years, signing up on tons of websites.
It's not even innovative. I've had my homepage set to Slashdot for years and I get the same effect!
Smart folder and labels aren't quite the same, particularly in that Smart Folders are automatic, and labels aren't. This has both upsides and downsides, but they *aren't* the same thing.
I think there is a huge flaw with Secunia's study in that they only considered PATCHES. In other words (if my understanding of this is correct) if Apple had patches only the least serious vulnerabilities, they would have been considered the most secure.
Patches do not equal holes. Patches are PATCHES.
Same, except for anything under 1024x768.
We should award them a pantent for the spell checker as well.
Well the idea is to get people to switch away from IE, and the thing is... almost no one takes browsing seriously enough to pay for Opera. I'm sure it's wonderful, but I'm a fairly hardcore www-er and I won't consider paying for a browser, When there are so many good, free alternatives.
And as others mentioned, the Google toolbar is an excellent free popup blocker.
Mozilla is one of the only standards-compliant browsers around.
Not sure about the Windows side, but nearly all Mac browsers are standards-compliant, because most of them use the standards-compliant WebKit. The biggest exceptiong being, of course, IE.
IMO AdWords alone is enough to seperate Google from any TV network. Non-intrusive, non-annoying, non-bandwidth hogging ads that are actually relevant to page content, as opposed to taking 15-20 minutes of every hour to shove random products down my throat.
:)
I'm not sure where you've heard Google claim to be cool because they use linux. Maybe something about them being cool because they have a custom variant of linux.
Also, you don't hear the networks elevated because you don't communicate with people over your TV. People on the net (who are likely to dislike TV and prefer the net) are the ones you'll hear, and that kind of person is likely to use and love google's services often.
Come to think of it, why are you here?
Not sure if it helps your math, but the VT cluster had 1100 G5's, with 2 CPU's each for 2200 CPU's.