In TFA he mentions that toasters don't advertise that they explode less often, therefore security is not a key "feature", but it would be a feature if toasters were not only known for exploding all the time, but also explodable by someone outside of your home by your simply using it properly.
2. Assembly : Standard 19" rack? Power needs? Built-in interfaces? Recommended operating environment?
3. Configuration : Specs, options, adheres to open standards? Why is it more/less expensive?
4. Security/Reliability : What to use for management (ssh, telnet, serial console, proprietary menu system). How secure can you make it? What does it do when maxed out?
5. Maintenance : What parts are user replaceable or which parts can the user order without a certification on the product or shipping it off?
6. Tech support : What plans are available and how much do they cost?
7. Can it do what they say it can and how gracefully does it bow out when overloaded?
The sound you just heard is that of a million scientists calibrating their bullshit meters.
Seriously, if this is true it presents a moral and ethical alternative to those problems that have limited embryonic research, but bear in mind: Adult stem cells are not the same as ebryonic. They are more finicky (they are matched like organ donors), they create a limited number of cell types within the body and they are difficult to extract from an umbilical or placenta (which must be frozen immediately after birth).
I would be more interested in stem cell warehouses for DNA types. Once you're born they save your umbilical stem cells like medical records (huge warehouses) free for one to use as needed throughout their life.
The cash cow for the medical industry will be doing anything with embryonic stem cells, which are more easily ported across gene pools, and can replicate any cell within the human body.
Don't make it a Bush/Kerry or USA thing. It's really not. That whole beef was about using government money to fund new embryonic strains.
I'm not doubting the presence of pain, discomfort and mortality in his mind right now.
I had very similar symptoms some years ago, starting near my right shoulder and escalating into full-scale "attacks" that would cripple my desire to go anywhere or eat anything and kept me thinking I was going to die at any minute.
I googled and spent countless hours on Web MD thinking I had everything from multiple sclerosis to acute bacterial infections. I spent years going to doctors trying to diagnose my problem and having to listen to my misguided self-diagnoses.
It turned out to be a hiatal hernia (a herniated esophagus) that would trigger stress and acute panic attacks. They feel like heart attacks, make me feel as though I'm going to pass out, make tingles, hot and cold sensations at random places like the scalp or legs, extreme "fight or flight" reactions such as tremor, anxiety, fears of mortality, the feeling of bubbles escaping through your chest, etc.
My advice is to let the doctors find what's wrong. The best you can do is give them your symptoms and if you truly have what you think you have, you'll find out with regular checkups.
Don't discount the magnitude of anxiety. It is often pushed over as less "manly" but certainly rooted in extreme physical forms even in people that do not 'feel' that they are mentally stressed. It is often difficult to find the true root of a problem through anxiety, and often the medical community will treat you for it before trying to narrow-down to the real cause of your problems.
Relax:: See doctors regularly:: Maybe get treated for stress while you're getting through this.
Sure this is a little late in the thread, but there are some issues that should I should at least attempt to make public regarding this distro:
After installing Novell Linux Desktop on three seperate machines here in my office, I can honestly say the end result is a clean and very office-worthy Gnome desktop. The KDE installation balks at updates and has no access to either Evolution or RedCarpet to get the RPMs that fail during the installation.
Speaking of which, each installation attempt (even after redownloading the ISO's) failed on installing Perl, kdeartwork, and OpenSSH leaving me to skip those RPMs until after the install has completed and get them using RedCarpet.
The root password set and the user manager during installation both failed, but were simple to skip until I could get into YAST inside the GUI after the install had completed.
My first impressions are that as this is a complete product with some coddling, the installation is far from thoroughly tested, and I would hesitate to put any IT department through installing this on a daily basis.
It's a good start. I love what they've done with Ximian without resorting to making SuSE a Gnome-centric distribution and I think once this is complete, it can compete head-on with RedHat on the linux desktop/server market, however, I don't see any Microsoft zealots leaning this way any time in the near future. Then again, Novell has implicitly stated that they aren't after Microsoft Users, all the while every basic office function is included preinstalled with this distribution along with Exchange interoperability.
Give props to Apple for applying the minimum amount of security necessary to do the business they do.
The people at Hymn would make it seem as though their application is rocket-science or something when really it's a tinker tool.
The iTunes DRM is easily bypassed: just open the file in a compatible editor (Bias Peak is nice) -> Save As MP3 / Ogg or whatever your flavor of the month happens to be.
While iTunes doesn't "natively" support OGG out of the box, it's a simple update, and they even throw in a free icon for you already in the iTunes package.
In my opinion they couldn't be more free and liberal with their version of DRM.
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At least the prerequisite superdrive has gone the way of the dinosaur. iLife versions of iDVD and the new DVD Studio Pro no longer require that you have the supported drive in your system, but rather politely inform you that you will not be able to burn anything.
This is awesome for being able to work on a project on a lab computer or portable without the actual DVD burner installed.
I started with gentoo around the buzz online with a Stage 3 installation, had some minor glitches and decided to load the full-on, balls-to-the-wall Stage 1.
That said (and countless hours later) I no longer go through linux distro's like a fat kid with cake, and I have become even more committed to linux projects.
Having been a Slackware zealot for years, I must now admit that if you're looking for a distribution with the geekiness of Slack but the full-time windowed experience of Mandrake, Suse or RedHat, this is the best choice.
The lengthy installation simply garauntees you won't turn around and toss some other random distro on your box for the hell of it like I used to.
I praise their committment to open distribution and their newly acquired Not for Profit status, and since it's GPL anyone who complains is welcome to turn it into something else.
Gentoo is my new hero...second only to OS X.
A valid point about Windows and how Apple has a good rep for doing better from the get-go, but my point is that it's pretty much the same bug that's being addressed already...protocol handlers.
Paranoid Android does well for this problem already, and if you had read the previous two posts about this exploit and took appropriate action, you are already protected.
Okay, okay, you found another protocol exception in a preexisting bug. You can bet the handler's will be readdressed shortly, but in the mean time (and I'm sure I speak for most OS X users here) SO WHAT!!!!
I still haven't had any problems and the sites I browse online either aren't the kind of sites that have those links or Paranoid Android will warn me about anything suspicious. I still have yet to see any harm done by these. It seems to be talked about a lot, but nobody's exploiting it! The bugs will be fixed in the next couple of weeks so quit crying about something that could be exploited , but hasn't. Surely, the system is broken, but not for long.
Not only that but it creates a horrific precedent. Basically any translation from the web to the "real world" can be considered under this, including internet-to-internet phone calls as user-to-user calls are now.
This could be a staging ground to compare email to snailmail and attempts to apply applicable taxes will surely follow.
Not that I'm wholly opposed to a digital postage stamp as it would help deter spam, but we are surely in poor shape if the argument comes up in the state of New York. They don't seem to recognize that it's not the same market and if the tax on an email were more then a mere few cents, it will become painfully obvious that we're being gouged for replacing postal workers.
VoIP pays for it's use of carriers, but the users are not taxed. It transmits the signal into the local area via the internet and places the call from there. The use of taxes and fees has applied to the carriers internet connections from the very beginning, just not the end users.
However, switching to a "phone service" will supposedly keep local calls free for the forseeable future instead of giving telco's ammunition to charge per minute on local calls as they do in much of Europe.
Since the Mac "Pro" version simply includes Windows they still don't have a pro version for Mac.
That is my point. Some will be thankful that Office Professional for OS X is being released, only to find that it is not comparable to the PC version of pro. Office for Mac has a history of having newer features then the PC version.
I simply feel it's mislabled. It should be Office 2004 with Virtual PC 7.
Admittedly, I was mistaken, it's the G5 they're lacking support for. I just disagree with the notion that it requires VPC to become a "Professional User." Most professional users can use VNC for free to manage the server, or if need be add/remove/edit Exchange and SharePoint accounts via the web administration module with certificate security.
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but "Professional" versions in years passed actually offered more advanced features, not just a copy of Windows.
I am happy, but this is a discussion. The information is presented in addition to what you read in the article.
Take it or leave it. I'd rather leave it.
There is a plan for OO on the OS X platform as native. You can run it in the mean time with minor modifications to your system. Microsoft is going backwards. They started native, and now they recommend an emulation OS for advanced administration (2 gigs worth).
I'll admit that aside from security (maybe due to popularity), Microsoft makes as good a product as any, but this is Office we're talking about: the number 1 cashcow from Microsoft.
It seems to be a sign that Microsoft is slowly peeling itself from other markets to become a single platform company, but.NET has been submitted for standardization across multiple platforms and goes contrary to this.
It may not be arrogance, but it is certainly a group of mixed signals to inconvenience one market and prop up another. Especially when the product you're complicating happens to make your company more money then anything else.
The "professional version" will be released once they fix Virtual PC for Mac OS X Panther. That's right, MS Office Professional politely requests you install Microsoft Windows XP on your Mac.
This is due to a lack of both Exchange server support and.NET technologies on the Apple platform.
Their answer? Run XP.
Defeats the purpose of getting an Apple to begin with if you ask me.
Stick with the Mono project for.NET compatibility, and wait for a OS X Native Open Office port while using Appleworks in the mean time.
"preserving the beauty and legacy of Mac OS on the Internet..."?
The artists obviously did it because they could. If you want to preserver the "beauty of an operating system" archive them, or better yet, release them to the public free of charge (as some have already done).
This was the internet equivalent of building a model of the Eiffel Tower. Cute, but worthless.
I must admit they did a fair job of accomplishing their goal, and they are obviously fairly talented with Actionscript.
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More like: Technology can be applied for either good or awsome !!!
In TFA he mentions that toasters don't advertise that they explode less often, therefore security is not a key "feature", but it would be a feature if toasters were not only known for exploding all the time, but also explodable by someone outside of your home by your simply using it properly.
You mean to tell me that the IE developers didn't focus on security???
NOW you tell me !!!
I typed in "cow" and it recommended "cows with guns".
It's like it can read your mind or something!
2. Assembly : Standard 19" rack? Power needs? Built-in interfaces? Recommended operating environment?
3. Configuration : Specs, options, adheres to open standards? Why is it more/less expensive?
4. Security/Reliability : What to use for management (ssh, telnet, serial console, proprietary menu system). How secure can you make it? What does it do when maxed out?
5. Maintenance : What parts are user replaceable or which parts can the user order without a certification on the product or shipping it off?
6. Tech support : What plans are available and how much do they cost?
7. Can it do what they say it can and how gracefully does it bow out when overloaded?
8. Whas it built with common sense in mind?
Feel free to add more...
The sound you just heard is that of a million scientists calibrating their bullshit meters. Seriously, if this is true it presents a moral and ethical alternative to those problems that have limited embryonic research, but bear in mind: Adult stem cells are not the same as ebryonic. They are more finicky (they are matched like organ donors), they create a limited number of cell types within the body and they are difficult to extract from an umbilical or placenta (which must be frozen immediately after birth). I would be more interested in stem cell warehouses for DNA types. Once you're born they save your umbilical stem cells like medical records (huge warehouses) free for one to use as needed throughout their life. The cash cow for the medical industry will be doing anything with embryonic stem cells, which are more easily ported across gene pools, and can replicate any cell within the human body. Don't make it a Bush/Kerry or USA thing. It's really not. That whole beef was about using government money to fund new embryonic strains.
I'm not doubting the presence of pain, discomfort and mortality in his mind right now.
:: See doctors regularly :: Maybe get treated for stress while you're getting through this.
I had very similar symptoms some years ago, starting near my right shoulder and escalating into full-scale "attacks" that would cripple my desire to go anywhere or eat anything and kept me thinking I was going to die at any minute.
I googled and spent countless hours on Web MD thinking I had everything from multiple sclerosis to acute bacterial infections. I spent years going to doctors trying to diagnose my problem and having to listen to my misguided self-diagnoses.
It turned out to be a hiatal hernia (a herniated esophagus) that would trigger stress and acute panic attacks. They feel like heart attacks, make me feel as though I'm going to pass out, make tingles, hot and cold sensations at random places like the scalp or legs, extreme "fight or flight" reactions such as tremor, anxiety, fears of mortality, the feeling of bubbles escaping through your chest, etc.
My advice is to let the doctors find what's wrong. The best you can do is give them your symptoms and if you truly have what you think you have, you'll find out with regular checkups.
Don't discount the magnitude of anxiety. It is often pushed over as less "manly" but certainly rooted in extreme physical forms even in people that do not 'feel' that they are mentally stressed. It is often difficult to find the true root of a problem through anxiety, and often the medical community will treat you for it before trying to narrow-down to the real cause of your problems.
Relax
Sure this is a little late in the thread, but there are some issues that should I should at least attempt to make public regarding this distro: After installing Novell Linux Desktop on three seperate machines here in my office, I can honestly say the end result is a clean and very office-worthy Gnome desktop. The KDE installation balks at updates and has no access to either Evolution or RedCarpet to get the RPMs that fail during the installation. Speaking of which, each installation attempt (even after redownloading the ISO's) failed on installing Perl, kdeartwork, and OpenSSH leaving me to skip those RPMs until after the install has completed and get them using RedCarpet. The root password set and the user manager during installation both failed, but were simple to skip until I could get into YAST inside the GUI after the install had completed. My first impressions are that as this is a complete product with some coddling, the installation is far from thoroughly tested, and I would hesitate to put any IT department through installing this on a daily basis. It's a good start. I love what they've done with Ximian without resorting to making SuSE a Gnome-centric distribution and I think once this is complete, it can compete head-on with RedHat on the linux desktop/server market, however, I don't see any Microsoft zealots leaning this way any time in the near future. Then again, Novell has implicitly stated that they aren't after Microsoft Users, all the while every basic office function is included preinstalled with this distribution along with Exchange interoperability.
For some reason the searches didn't work in Safari, Firefox or Camino in OS X, IE for X returned results.
Think that's a coincidence?
Certainly lossy if you go to an inferior codec, but if you can rip at an equal or greater rate, where's the harm?
Give props to Apple for applying the minimum amount of security necessary to do the business they do.
The people at Hymn would make it seem as though their application is rocket-science or something when really it's a tinker tool.
The iTunes DRM is easily bypassed: just open the file in a compatible editor (Bias Peak is nice) -> Save As MP3 / Ogg or whatever your flavor of the month happens to be.
While iTunes doesn't "natively" support OGG out of the box, it's a simple update, and they even throw in a free icon for you already in the iTunes package.
In my opinion they couldn't be more free and liberal with their version of DRM.
This is awesome for being able to work on a project on a lab computer or portable without the actual DVD burner installed.
Of course you need one to burn them though..
I started with gentoo around the buzz online with a Stage 3 installation, had some minor glitches and decided to load the full-on, balls-to-the-wall Stage 1. That said (and countless hours later) I no longer go through linux distro's like a fat kid with cake, and I have become even more committed to linux projects. Having been a Slackware zealot for years, I must now admit that if you're looking for a distribution with the geekiness of Slack but the full-time windowed experience of Mandrake, Suse or RedHat, this is the best choice. The lengthy installation simply garauntees you won't turn around and toss some other random distro on your box for the hell of it like I used to. I praise their committment to open distribution and their newly acquired Not for Profit status, and since it's GPL anyone who complains is welcome to turn it into something else. Gentoo is my new hero...second only to OS X.
People that use iTunes and iPods have long requested a simple way to stream music to stereos no matter where they are.
Those tiny white earbuds become tiny white pains in the ass if used for any period of time, and I like to hear the phone ring while I'm working.
You can bet your tail this device is only the beginning and can probably offer hints to the next iPod revision: wireless and remote-control modes.
Apple finally has a respectful user-base and they'll do anything they can to keep it for as long as possible.
Never fear, download the standalone version from Apple's web site and your download speed should BLAZE.
They also have specific details regarding what is being updated along with the usual banter.
A valid point about Windows and how Apple has a good rep for doing better from the get-go, but my point is that it's pretty much the same bug that's being addressed already...protocol handlers. Paranoid Android does well for this problem already, and if you had read the previous two posts about this exploit and took appropriate action, you are already protected.
Okay, okay, you found another protocol exception in a preexisting bug. You can bet the handler's will be readdressed shortly, but in the mean time (and I'm sure I speak for most OS X users here) SO WHAT!!!!
I still haven't had any problems and the sites I browse online either aren't the kind of sites that have those links or Paranoid Android will warn me about anything suspicious. I still have yet to see any harm done by these. It seems to be talked about a lot, but nobody's exploiting it!
The bugs will be fixed in the next couple of weeks so quit crying about something that could be exploited , but hasn't.
Surely, the system is broken, but not for long.
This could be a staging ground to compare email to snailmail and attempts to apply applicable taxes will surely follow.
Not that I'm wholly opposed to a digital postage stamp as it would help deter spam, but we are surely in poor shape if the argument comes up in the state of New York. They don't seem to recognize that it's not the same market and if the tax on an email were more then a mere few cents, it will become painfully obvious that we're being gouged for replacing postal workers.
VoIP pays for it's use of carriers, but the users are not taxed. It transmits the signal into the local area via the internet and places the call from there. The use of taxes and fees has applied to the carriers internet connections from the very beginning, just not the end users.
However, switching to a "phone service" will supposedly keep local calls free for the forseeable future instead of giving telco's ammunition to charge per minute on local calls as they do in much of Europe.
That is my point. Some will be thankful that Office Professional for OS X is being released, only to find that it is not comparable to the PC version of pro. Office for Mac has a history of having newer features then the PC version.
I simply feel it's mislabled. It should be Office 2004 with Virtual PC 7.
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but "Professional" versions in years passed actually offered more advanced features, not just a copy of Windows.
Take it or leave it. I'd rather leave it.
There is a plan for OO on the OS X platform as native. You can run it in the mean time with minor modifications to your system. Microsoft is going backwards. They started native, and now they recommend an emulation OS for advanced administration (2 gigs worth).
I'll admit that aside from security (maybe due to popularity), Microsoft makes as good a product as any, but this is Office we're talking about: the number 1 cashcow from Microsoft.
It seems to be a sign that Microsoft is slowly peeling itself from other markets to become a single platform company, but .NET has been submitted for standardization across multiple platforms and goes contrary to this.
It may not be arrogance, but it is certainly a group of mixed signals to inconvenience one market and prop up another. Especially when the product you're complicating happens to make your company more money then anything else.
Don't let me mislead you, they have support for Exchange, it's just not very complete or thorough...
This is due to a lack of both Exchange server support and .NET technologies on the Apple platform.
Their answer? Run XP. Defeats the purpose of getting an Apple to begin with if you ask me.
Stick with the Mono project for .NET compatibility, and wait for a OS X Native Open Office port while using Appleworks in the mean time.
The artists obviously did it because they could. If you want to preserver the "beauty of an operating system" archive them, or better yet, release them to the public free of charge (as some have already done).
This was the internet equivalent of building a model of the Eiffel Tower. Cute, but worthless. I must admit they did a fair job of accomplishing their goal, and they are obviously fairly talented with Actionscript.
So people don't watch as much tv, and all the junk they used to sell you to play with has been replaced with electronic boxes.
You can bet damn sure they're going to get that $20 out of your wallet one way or another. Even if they have to devour another market to do so.
Ironically, you'll pay more for them to do that.