You do realise that there are lots of areas in sydney where you can't get either ADSL or Optus cable? And some places where you can't get any broadband connections?
Telstra cable is admittedly more attractive since Optus brought in their own cap, but I wouldn't be surprised if large areas of Paddington aren't serviced.
oh yeah, and I currently work in Paddington, and used to live there. It's not all rich yuppies, just big slabs of it... you can still find pockets of student shared terraces around the place...
OK, now while Apple have recently decided to open source their Open Directory system, the current state it is in is a little misleading.
What you want to do is to setup Open LDAP and do your authentication via that. This is what Apple are moving towards with Open Directory, NetInfo will be relegated to just another plugin, mainly for local configuration info, and as an interface to the LDAP store.
Anyway, I think this is somewhat off track anyway, as all the poster of this question wanted was a file server, not a cross-platform authentication mechanism. If they're only dealing with one or two user accounts, then they may as well just do it all via file sharing, and not bother having centralised user accounts.
I thought that was an interesting project of Mr. Vlad. Delay.
kind of glitchy house. good stuff.
Mouse on Mars are the Kings! Every album by them just blows my mind.
that's a better definition..
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lowercase is...sort of a hybrid beween musique concrete, ambient, and microsound. As far as I can tell. I admit to finding a lot of it terribly uninteresting.
Ambient to me suggests all that melodic stuff, not timbral-based music like this.
Oh and yeah, I have heard of John Cage... I've studied my Michael Nyman books... bah! historical perspective! I've got it in truckloads...
i still think you're missing the point to compare underworld to lowercase music.... way off track.
I wouldn't call Atom Heart microsound. Pan Sonic maybe, but definitely not Atom Heart.
Definitely not his Senor Coconut persona...:)
We are the Robots! cha-cha-cha!
huge diff between downtempo and lowercase...
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You can't seriously say you think Underworld are in the same ballpark as this lowercase stuff?
downtempo and ambient is not the same thing as this kind of music.
wtf did this end up on/. anyhow? damn geeks don't know shit about experimental electronic music.
this isn't about glitch.
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this isn't glitch.
this is lowercase, or microsound.
it might seem like an academic distinction, but glitch can be quite noisy and abrasive, and generally people lumped in this lowercase catchall aren't.
This isn't revolutionary though. Kind of behind the times if you ask me... Weird that Wired chose to pick up on it now, next thing you know they'll be interviewing Kid606 and talking abou the rise of laptop punk
I'd forgotten until I read this just how much that damn well scared me! The whole thing was planned brilliantly, the limited amounts of ammo, the music, everything....
I use GPGMail, which is a plugin for OSX's Mail.app.
All it requires is that you have gpg installed, which compiles cleanly. I use it every single day, and it works fine... it could do with a few more features, but it is easy to use, even for newbies, once they've had the basic principles of PGP explained to them....
Oh shit... I hated the Ultima series (well 7 was pretty damn good anyway) once they went all isometric... They should never have messed with perfection....:(
Ultima 4 was an amazing game... I've still got all those maps/towels somewhere.... and a silver ankh I believe...:)
One, CLIs such as bash are not integrated with the GUI. While I have no problem with permitting users to use them seperately, and even offering the GUI alone as the default, they need to work together.
This is one thing I think you've gotten wrong. the OSX CLI is soo much better integrated to the GUI than any other OS I've ever used.
Example:
In the Terminal, type 'vi ' then drag a file onto the terminal window. The path to the file is slapped into your CLI.
The drag and drop support on Terminal.app is awesome, once you discover it, it's so amazingly natural...
Haven't there always been significant differences between Adaptec Mac and PC SCSI cards?
The PC ones generally work fine in your Mac, you just can't boot off them. I've got a generic 2940UW that I use for running apps and scratch space, but I can't boot from it.
If you're comfortable hacking around with your hardware, check out: this page for info on replacing the EEPROM.
From that page...
The Adaptec 2940UW and 3940U SCSI adapters for Intel machines (PC's) can be modified to work as PowerDomain SCSI adapters for the Macintosh. The modification requires removing the EEPROM from the PC version of the card and replacing it with an EEPROM with a larger capacity. One then updates the card's Firmware by installing it in a PCI equipped MacOS machine and using the PowerDomain Control Panel to install the appropriate Firmware Update. [Note - there was a software hack floating around last year, involving a PC flasher and a hacked Mac Bios that had been trimmed (using Resedit) to remove the zero padding that was said to be in the Mac Bios file to allow it to fit in the PC flash size. Most people never saw this hack and it's probably illegal anyway (please don't ask for it)-Mike]
It's the changing the total amount of RAM that is the important bit.
I reckon it's Apple's 'back door' for users who've forgotten their OF password, which especially if you've set security-mod to 'full', sort of sucks...
I think it's a good compromise, as when it comes to lab machines, they're usually physically secured, which prevents students doing this kind of thing.
There's that app "FWSucker" which is also at the securemac link I posted earlier in the thread, so I wouldn't consider an OF password to be impregnable in any sense...
Gotta love the nice new screen you get at startup when you set this, if you hold down option to boot off another device than default...
The other cool thing about Open Firmware is that you can set it to require a password at boot. If the password is not entered then the machine will not load ANY drive. This password is much harder to disable than an operating system password or hard drive password lock, although there are a few obscure and involved ways of bypassing it if you are extremely familiar with the system.
Obscure like this?
* change total amount of RAM in machine (ie, pull out a DIMM)
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You do realise that there are lots of areas in sydney where you can't get either ADSL or Optus cable? And some places where you can't get any broadband connections?
Telstra cable is admittedly more attractive since Optus brought in their own cap, but I wouldn't be surprised if large areas of Paddington aren't serviced.
oh yeah, and I currently work in Paddington, and used to live there. It's not all rich yuppies, just big slabs of it... you can still find pockets of student shared terraces around the place...
OK, now while Apple have recently decided to open source their Open Directory system, the current state it is in is a little misleading.
What you want to do is to setup Open LDAP and do your authentication via that. This is what Apple are moving towards with Open Directory, NetInfo will be relegated to just another plugin, mainly for local configuration info, and as an interface to the LDAP store.
Anyway, I think this is somewhat off track anyway, as all the poster of this question wanted was a file server, not a cross-platform authentication mechanism. If they're only dealing with one or two user accounts, then they may as well just do it all via file sharing, and not bother having centralised user accounts.
I thought that was an interesting project of Mr. Vlad. Delay.
kind of glitchy house. good stuff.
Mouse on Mars are the Kings! Every album by them just blows my mind.
lowercase is...sort of a hybrid beween musique concrete, ambient, and microsound. As far as I can tell. I admit to finding a lot of it terribly uninteresting.
Ambient to me suggests all that melodic stuff, not timbral-based music like this.
Oh and yeah, I have heard of John Cage... I've studied my Michael Nyman books... bah! historical perspective! I've got it in truckloads...
i still think you're missing the point to compare underworld to lowercase music.... way off track.
I wouldn't call Atom Heart microsound. Pan Sonic maybe, but definitely not Atom Heart.
:)
Definitely not his Senor Coconut persona...
We are the Robots! cha-cha-cha!
You can't seriously say you think Underworld are in the same ballpark as this lowercase stuff?
/. anyhow? damn geeks don't know shit about experimental electronic music.
downtempo and ambient is not the same thing as this kind of music.
wtf did this end up on
this isn't glitch.
this is lowercase, or microsound.
it might seem like an academic distinction, but glitch can be quite noisy and abrasive, and generally people lumped in this lowercase catchall aren't.
This isn't revolutionary though. Kind of behind the times if you ask me... Weird that Wired chose to pick up on it now, next thing you know they'll be interviewing Kid606 and talking abou the rise of laptop punk
notice it happened the day after I posted that? sheesh.
ah well. I can cope with 3Gb.
much higher cap than 3Gb....
still, I don't quite get the whole 'let's watch a crappy version of a movie and waste half my bandwidth to get it..' thing...
I'd forgotten until I read this just how much that damn well scared me! The whole thing was planned brilliantly, the limited amounts of ammo, the music, everything....
truly the mod for other mods to aspire to....
from what they say when you go to that page...
I see what you mean, but my point was that this particular CLI is further on the way to full integration than any other I've used...
heh... this is my favourite tactic for when sites insist on an email address for their spam list... something like 'info@spamhost.com'....
marketin@... is a good one...
I use GPGMail, which is a plugin for OSX's Mail.app.
All it requires is that you have gpg installed, which compiles cleanly. I use it every single day, and it works fine... it could do with a few more features, but it is easy to use, even for newbies, once they've had the basic principles of PGP explained to them....
Oh shit... I hated the Ultima series (well 7 was pretty damn good anyway) once they went all isometric... They should never have messed with perfection.... :(
:)
Ultima 4 was an amazing game... I've still got all those maps/towels somewhere.... and a silver ankh I believe...
One, CLIs such as bash are not integrated with the GUI. While I have no problem with permitting users to use them seperately, and even offering the GUI alone as the default, they need to work together.
This is one thing I think you've gotten wrong. the OSX CLI is soo much better integrated to the GUI than any other OS I've ever used.
Example:
In the Terminal, type 'vi ' then drag a file onto the terminal window. The path to the file is slapped into your CLI.
The drag and drop support on Terminal.app is awesome, once you discover it, it's so amazingly natural...
I've got a G3 PowerBook 500 that runs OS X pretty snappily...
Also work with a G3 350 that is pretty responsive.
Sounds like you were messing with a 10.0.x version, try 10.1.x, much faster....
re your .sig...
you ever watched a baby learn to breast feed? Not always 'intuitive'...
Still not sure what the LDAP stuff is all about... this was working ok before this update
Anyone able to shed light on what this is? I'm assuming it's not proper Ldap v3 support, as I reckon they'd crow over that a bit more...
yes, they are. NO software I can buy today can really tax my 2 GHZ Pc, not even the most bloated WINXP install.
man I get sick of geeks saying shit like this.... ever done any audio/video realtime work? Processors still aren't fast enough...
oh for a mod point... parent funny....
Haven't there always been significant differences between Adaptec Mac and PC SCSI cards?
The PC ones generally work fine in your Mac, you just can't boot off them. I've got a generic 2940UW that I use for running apps and scratch space, but I can't boot from it.
If you're comfortable hacking around with your hardware, check out: this page for info on replacing the EEPROM.
From that page...
The Adaptec 2940UW and 3940U SCSI adapters for Intel machines (PC's) can be modified to work as PowerDomain SCSI adapters for the Macintosh. The modification requires removing the EEPROM from the PC version of the card and replacing it with an EEPROM with a larger capacity. One then updates the card's Firmware by installing it in a PCI equipped MacOS machine and using the PowerDomain Control Panel to install the appropriate Firmware Update. [Note - there was a software hack floating around last year, involving a PC flasher and a hacked Mac Bios that had been trimmed (using Resedit) to remove the zero padding that was said to be in the Mac Bios file to allow it to fit in the PC flash size. Most people never saw this hack and it's probably illegal anyway (please don't ask for it)-Mike]
It's the changing the total amount of RAM that is the important bit.
I reckon it's Apple's 'back door' for users who've forgotten their OF password, which especially if you've set security-mod to 'full', sort of sucks...
I think it's a good compromise, as when it comes to lab machines, they're usually physically secured, which prevents students doing this kind of thing.
There's that app "FWSucker" which is also at the securemac link I posted earlier in the thread, so I wouldn't consider an OF password to be impregnable in any sense...
Gotta love the nice new screen you get at startup when you set this, if you hold down option to boot off another device than default...
And yeah, there are other ways to reset OF...
That procedure will not change the Open Firmware. Obviously it is more obscure than you think! :)
Well, yes it will remove the password protection on Open Firmware. Have you tried it?
look here for some info.
It's why it's important to physicially secure lab machines that you're doing this with.
The other cool thing about Open Firmware is that you can set it to require a password at boot. If the password is not entered then the machine will not load ANY drive. This password is much harder to disable than an operating system password or hard drive password lock, although there are a few obscure and involved ways of bypassing it if you are extremely familiar with the system.
Obscure like this?
* change total amount of RAM in machine (ie, pull out a DIMM)
* Zap PRAM three times. (Cmd-Opt-P-R)