First of all, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista != MS-DOS/Windows 9x
NT has had long filename support since its inception and it's never been a hack, which seems to be a pretty damned good track record to me. It's silly that misinformed Microsoft bashers still crack on modern Windows for so many things that don't affect it, but rather were a trait of previous incarnations before NT (Although there's plenty to crack on NT about, as well).
The Bill of Rights limits a government's rights. It applies to what the government can't do. It has nothing to do with whether or not your neighbor or Joe Blow can intercept traffic or data. It has nothing to do with any of the shit you mentioned.
The US government mass-intercepting your call records (esp. without a warrant nor valid reason) is unreasonable search and seizure.
I'm yet another person who's Bujinkan and who has studied under soke Hatsumi.
He and ninpo taijutsu are far, far from black-clad (ok ok we're black clad) assassins of the night. Soke himself is very enlightened, cheerful, and playful. The Bujinkan has affected me a great deal spiritually boosting me and making me a better person. To see the start contrast of "ninjutsu" and actual ninpo taijutsu, try and pick up some copies of Sanmyaku, which are essentially the Bujinkan magazines full of kind and wise words.
I've also read comments here saying that his mentor, Takamatsu, was more of a ninja assassin, which is also bollocks. He was a man of his time and engaged in much life-and-death combat, but was not some evil assassin. I can only hope that the motion pictures of Takamatsu make their way into the world and everyone has a chance to see the man in motion, not just rusty old pictures.
You learn some pretty good combat and stealth techniques, but you also learn heart and peace and none of this is anything like the "ninja assassin" bullshit (which ironically, was why I first joined the Bujinkan, whoops).
Yes because I perform tech support, and they have the same problems on the week 12 MacBooks. They are NOT fixed, and it's totally bogus this story is going out widely across the net based on one random blog entry alone.
Agreed. I don't see why this is modded as funny, when its true. Microsoft has a history of using this tactic. IE being the most infamous example. The screwing comes later.
Disclaimer: I'm currently a Mac fanboy and am fortunate enough to use them at home and at work.
But, this guy is on crack. Apple's customer service has always been pretty crummy in my experience and historically. The things I like about Apple are:
- They release great and innovative products - They aren't afraid to shake things up - They release products that fulfill a need or want before I knew I needed or wanted it. - UNIX - Sex appeal
Netcraft confirms: Tuttle's city manager position is dead.
Netcraft confirms: Tuttle's career in IT is dead.
Also, to the people bemoaning the ridiculing of Tuttle by the "open source world". How in the hell are they supposed to support 1.) someone that doesn't listen to reason, and 2.) someone who doesn't read a basic webpage that tells the user what it is and how they can change it?
I have yet to see a Core Duo machine with an actual BIOS. Core Duo and EFI go hand-in-hand.
Non-Apple vendors are utilizing the EFI CSM (Compatibility Support Module) for legacy BIOS compatibility.
One EFI model off the top of my head is the Dell Inspiron 9400. Also the recently announced Samsung and Acer laptops.
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You're dumb. The Core Duo (and thus 32-bit procs and EFI) isn't a Mac-only thing. Samsung, Dell, Acer, and pretty much everyone else has or will be releasing Core Duo machines imminently. Granted, these units come with BIOS emulation installed.
Glad to see yet another clueless Slashdotter jumping on his soapbox proclaiming some "truth" about something he has no clue about.
The same things about kernels and security improvements were said with XP, then XP SP2, then 2003. Guess what? They weren't true.
I'm sorry if I don't crash to my feet and bow in worship, but I'm a little cynical. And since when is Extremetech an authority on kernels or security? Sounds like contrary to what they state, they've gotten sucked into the hype a little too much.
Go with MeetingMaker. It's not the prettiest, but its the most reliable we've tried. We also use(d) Kerio as another person here recommended, it's crap, don't bother.
MeetingMaker (I think they just changed their name to PeopleCube) is solid on all its platforms (OS X/OS9; Windows; and the Web Client). Also has Palm conduits, and can interface with Blackberry and WinCE with Intellisync.
Wireless Hacks, that was a book largely composed of "hacks". Every other book I've seen has been a cookbook using tools as they are intended. The term "Cookbook" or "Tips" is much more accurate for these titles.
When Wireless Hacks came out, it was great, real hacks. When the next Hacks book came out, I rushed to the bookstore to take a look and find it was a lame and inaccurate title. When the third Hacks book came out, I didn't and still don't pay any attention.
The "Hacks" branding is effectively worthless, O'Reilly.
I don't really view his comment as a troll. I think legitimate attention needs to be focused on privacy issues. Google seems to want to have your life revolve around its services. And while that may be an ethical capitalism thing, it could have more nefarious purposes, or they could be bought out by someone evil, like Doubleclick.net, or Google could be an NSA front* or have other ties to our corrupt ass government.
* Sure, this is in the tin foil realm, but you've got to wonder what sort of contact the NSA has had with Google's unarguably ground-breaking technology and data store.
As an annoyed PDA (and Mac) user, I'd love to see Apple develop a full-fledged PDA -- preferably something along the lines of a Tungsten C with bluetooth and wi-fi.
I still use my Palm T|C but its definitely showing its age with no other alternative in sight. WM2003SE was crap, and WM5 is still crap. It is neither reliable nor big on usability.
Give us something, Apple. I believe you're the only hope for something in this arena that "just works".
No, you are confused. Crackers are/were people who break software copy protection. This is how it's always been. I guess you weren't around "back then", or you were living in some other reality different from the planet Earth's.
This is why 2600 is called the hacker quarterly, why Defcon is a hacker convention, why Phrack is called Phrack (Phreaking/hacking), and so on.
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Looking at your signature, you do realize that just about every programming language works on multiple platforms? Perhaps you meant "API"?
First of all, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista != MS-DOS/Windows 9x
NT has had long filename support since its inception and it's never been a hack, which seems to be a pretty damned good track record to me. It's silly that misinformed Microsoft bashers still crack on modern Windows for so many things that don't affect it, but rather were a trait of previous incarnations before NT (Although there's plenty to crack on NT about, as well).
Err, you mean "case IN point". Shouldn't use words and phrases you can't utilize correctly.
Since they don't give a shit about the Bill of Rights, I'd be surprised if they gave a shit about copyright laws.
The Bill of Rights limits a government's rights. It applies to what the government can't do. It has nothing to do with whether or not your neighbor or Joe Blow can intercept traffic or data. It has nothing to do with any of the shit you mentioned.
The US government mass-intercepting your call records (esp. without a warrant nor valid reason) is unreasonable search and seizure.
You're probably a troll but you're also a moron. Read the 4th amendment sometime.
I'm yet another person who's Bujinkan and who has studied under soke Hatsumi.
He and ninpo taijutsu are far, far from black-clad (ok ok we're black clad) assassins of the night. Soke himself is very enlightened, cheerful, and playful. The Bujinkan has affected me a great deal spiritually boosting me and making me a better person. To see the start contrast of "ninjutsu" and actual ninpo taijutsu, try and pick up some copies of Sanmyaku, which are essentially the Bujinkan magazines full of kind and wise words.
I've also read comments here saying that his mentor, Takamatsu, was more of a ninja assassin, which is also bollocks. He was a man of his time and engaged in much life-and-death combat, but was not some evil assassin. I can only hope that the motion pictures of Takamatsu make their way into the world and everyone has a chance to see the man in motion, not just rusty old pictures.
You learn some pretty good combat and stealth techniques, but you also learn heart and peace and none of this is anything like the "ninja assassin" bullshit (which ironically, was why I first joined the Bujinkan, whoops).
Uhm, existing Core Duo Macs already support VT/VT-x/Vanderpool.
Yes because I perform tech support, and they have the same problems on the week 12 MacBooks. They are NOT fixed, and it's totally bogus this story is going out widely across the net based on one random blog entry alone.
This story is bullshit. Most week 12 machines still have the problem. It is NOT fixed yet.
Agreed. I don't see why this is modded as funny, when its true. Microsoft has a history of using this tactic. IE being the most infamous example. The screwing comes later.
Disclaimer: I'm currently a Mac fanboy and am fortunate enough to use them at home and at work.
But, this guy is on crack. Apple's customer service has always been pretty crummy in my experience and historically. The things I like about Apple are:
- They release great and innovative products
- They aren't afraid to shake things up
- They release products that fulfill a need or want before I knew I needed or wanted it.
- UNIX
- Sex appeal
Netcraft confirms: Tuttle's city manager position is dead.
Netcraft confirms: Tuttle's career in IT is dead.
Also, to the people bemoaning the ridiculing of Tuttle by the "open source world". How in the hell are they supposed to support 1.) someone that doesn't listen to reason, and 2.) someone who doesn't read a basic webpage that tells the user what it is and how they can change it?
Uh oh! Time to get a girlfriend!
Oh wait. Mine's addicted to WoW, too.
I have yet to see a Core Duo machine with an actual BIOS. Core Duo and EFI go hand-in-hand.
Non-Apple vendors are utilizing the EFI CSM (Compatibility Support Module) for legacy BIOS compatibility.
One EFI model off the top of my head is the Dell Inspiron 9400. Also the recently announced Samsung and Acer laptops.
You're dumb. The Core Duo (and thus 32-bit procs and EFI) isn't a Mac-only thing. Samsung, Dell, Acer, and pretty much everyone else has or will be releasing Core Duo machines imminently. Granted, these units come with BIOS emulation installed.
Glad to see yet another clueless Slashdotter jumping on his soapbox proclaiming some "truth" about something he has no clue about.
Dave Shroeder is relatively well-known in the Mac OS X community.
The same things about kernels and security improvements were said with XP, then XP SP2, then 2003. Guess what? They weren't true.
I'm sorry if I don't crash to my feet and bow in worship, but I'm a little cynical. And since when is Extremetech an authority on kernels or security? Sounds like contrary to what they state, they've gotten sucked into the hype a little too much.
I don't know who won the Super Bowl, or even who played. But!
I can tell you who doesn't care: me.
Uhm, no they're not. Show me where I can go download 10.4.4/10.4.5 XNU kernel source that is compilable on Intel Macs.
Go with MeetingMaker. It's not the prettiest, but its the most reliable we've tried. We also use(d) Kerio as another person here recommended, it's crap, don't bother.
MeetingMaker (I think they just changed their name to PeopleCube) is solid on all its platforms (OS X/OS9; Windows; and the Web Client). Also has Palm conduits, and can interface with Blackberry and WinCE with Intellisync.
Wireless Hacks, that was a book largely composed of "hacks". Every other book I've seen has been a cookbook using tools as they are intended. The term "Cookbook" or "Tips" is much more accurate for these titles.
When Wireless Hacks came out, it was great, real hacks. When the next Hacks book came out, I rushed to the bookstore to take a look and find it was a lame and inaccurate title. When the third Hacks book came out, I didn't and still don't pay any attention.
The "Hacks" branding is effectively worthless, O'Reilly.
I don't really view his comment as a troll. I think legitimate attention needs to be focused on privacy issues. Google seems to want to have your life revolve around its services. And while that may be an ethical capitalism thing, it could have more nefarious purposes, or they could be bought out by someone evil, like Doubleclick.net, or Google could be an NSA front* or have other ties to our corrupt ass government.
* Sure, this is in the tin foil realm, but you've got to wonder what sort of contact the NSA has had with Google's unarguably ground-breaking technology and data store.
As an annoyed PDA (and Mac) user, I'd love to see Apple develop a full-fledged PDA -- preferably something along the lines of a Tungsten C with bluetooth and wi-fi.
I still use my Palm T|C but its definitely showing its age with no other alternative in sight. WM2003SE was crap, and WM5 is still crap. It is neither reliable nor big on usability.
Give us something, Apple. I believe you're the only hope for something in this arena that "just works".
No, you are confused. Crackers are/were people who break software copy protection. This is how it's always been. I guess you weren't around "back then", or you were living in some other reality different from the planet Earth's.
This is why 2600 is called the hacker quarterly, why Defcon is a hacker convention, why Phrack is called Phrack (Phreaking/hacking), and so on.
It has never been the way you describe, never.