FWIW, iTunes initially begin as a rebadged version of SoundJam minus the ability to make your own skins.
And now some quick tips:
I believe there is an applescript out there that allows LAME-ripping via iTunes. (If you've installed the LAME software already.)
People who are looking for keybinds for iTunes should investigate the shareware product Synergy (which also looks up album cover art). Or perhaps Sofa, which is freeware. I'm not sure it does keybinds, but I know it does a nice little control panel that lurks in the corner of the screen. Is this something that winAMP does? I figured it might be so included this info.
For batch CD ripping, investigate your controls--there is a pref to set it to rip any music CD inserted immediately and eject it when done.
From what I've heard, you absolutely lose target firewire and any other OF-related goodies (C for CD, cmd-opt-P-R for PRAM zap, etc). However, that only applies to the final product if they stick with olde-skoole BIOS. There was some talk that they might be looking at an EFI-based board too.
Fairly disappointed myself
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Had heard a lot about Meiville and really didn't find Iron Council to have been worth the effort. A very fully fleshed vision of the city and the land but the characters are just hauled all over it without any strong motivations (well, I wasn't engaged by their motivations if they did exist at any rate).
On the other hand, recently read The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston, which is another thoroughly alternate reality-style book. However, she(?) attached the reader to a single viewpoint and sticks with it. I really enjoyed that book and the weird alternate reality she set it in.
IMHO, these guys run rings around everyone else. Sure it's not dirt simple to install, but it's certainly simpler than Spam Assassin used to be (I haven't tried 3.0 so I can't comment on the ease of installation of that). And it blocks spam quite effectively on any OS that can run perl. More to the point, it rejects spam immediately, so you're not dealing with messages piling up in the queue waiting to be filtered. They either make it onto the mail server or they don't. Also, if it's a real, valid mail server at the other end, the user should get a notice that their message was rejected, generated by that mail server. However, a spam zombie isn't going to care that you rejected its message with a 550 error and you aren't going to generate an outgoing piece of email to the wrong reply-to address.
Been using it for a little over a year now and it rocks. We receive something like 10,000 emails a day--%70 of which is spam. Of those, perhaps 20-30 spam messages actually get through, which is pretty good. Also features extremely low false positives. I'm only aware of perhaps 3 during the course of the entire year. A valid user from a valid domain should get a bounce-back message explaining that their message was rejected as spam-like with brief instructions on alternate methods of contacting us.
1.09 is the version I'm running. 1.1.0 is the latest version with 1.1.1 coming soon. They are still ironing out some stability issues in the 1.1.1 version.
Yeah, but you still can't use it to infect a bunch of other Macs. Sure you can malware it onto an individual machine. But where do you go from there? Not a lot of people are going to enter their password to authenticate the virus to install on their machine when it gets to the next Mac down the road via email.
So your distribution vector is still versiontracker.com or whatever. And versiontracker isn't going to be sufficient to generate the traditional bring-Internet-to-its-knees virus storm a bunch of Windows boxen are capable of.
(Well, actually I'll admit there's probably not enough Macs out there to do that regardless, but still...)
ryanr posted further up the chain somewhere that some services were enabled on the Mac. Which is one reason it attracted a lot more attention than the linux box in the test...
I can't remember... I think it defaults to Off, but I was just curious. I suppose it's not too egregious to have a default of Off since all the services are also Off by default.
Mostly I was wondering if it would have made a difference in the number of attacks sent to the machine if the firewall had been (or was) active.
Currently, I have a ReplayTV first gen box with the top removed (necessitated by fanless design and living in AZ) handling my TV recording. I also have a 2.4ghz wireless room-to-room broadcast thingy to play iTunes out the stereo.
However, I'm seriously looking at upgrading: Replay 5504 - $355 w/ lifetime subscr from Amazon Airport Express - $130 Airport card - $80 TOTAL - $565
Open any massively palletized application like Adobe GoEvil or Macromedia DreamReaver and you'll quickly see why a spare monitor is cool. Drag all those necessary but not super necessary palettes over to the palette monitor and enjoy being able to access anything without it obscuring your page.
Another use for web coders--have your browser on one screen, your PHP text editor on the other.
And of historical interest, Macs have been doing this since the II came out. It became pretty common-place with the iici and the Quadra because if you wanted a 20" monitor, you had to buy a video card to drive it. Thus the onboard video could be used to hook up a palette monitor essentially for the price of the monitor. We recycled a bunch of 15" monitors in for this purpose when we switched over to 20" displays in the early 90's.
Time spent learning a whole new OS is pretty relative.
I've thrown people who know Windows, Mac OS 9 and Linux into OS X and the consensus seems to be that it's pretty easy to learn. On the other hand, after years using OS 9, OS X, Windows and Linux I still hit points where it's incredibly hard to get something really simple to happen in Linux. This is just not the case with OS X.
About the only thing in OS X that still confuses people on a regular basis is getting their printers set up. I'm not exactly sure why, but I get a ton of questions about that one. Oh, and OS 9 users occasionally try something insane (from a Unix POV) like renaming their Home folder.
NOTE: This can only make an install on a different partition, AFAIK--no installing over the top of a running system, please!
[1] Make an image of the DVD on your iPod, at your good friend's house with BitTorrent and a T1, or whatever will get it to your DVD-less computer. [2] Mount the image on the machine you want to install on. [3] Go to/System/Install/Packages. Double-click the OSInstall.mpkg and proceed as normal.
Makes for a much faster install in some ways as you can burn the image at your leisure and then run the thing at high speed off your hard drive.
Way back in 1988, I was defragmenting the super-uber powerfull se-30 with 4mb RAM and a 20mb hard drive at the college computer lab when a professor came in, brushed the "Do not touch" sign taped to the front of the box aside and rebooting the machine. All the labs aids let out a synchronous squeal of rage and hurtled towards him. We then proceeded to explain for about 5 minutes that he had just completely nuked the drive and it would have to be reformatted and reinstalled completely. His reasoning? He was a professor and in a hurry to get something printed out, so he could ignore the sign. First professor to be banned from the lab!
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FWIW, iTunes initially begin as a rebadged version of SoundJam minus the ability to make your own skins.
And now some quick tips:
I believe there is an applescript out there that allows LAME-ripping via iTunes. (If you've installed the LAME software already.)
People who are looking for keybinds for iTunes should investigate the shareware product Synergy (which also looks up album cover art). Or perhaps Sofa, which is freeware. I'm not sure it does keybinds, but I know it does a nice little control panel that lurks in the corner of the screen. Is this something that winAMP does? I figured it might be so included this info.
For batch CD ripping, investigate your controls--there is a pref to set it to rip any music CD inserted immediately and eject it when done.
This isn't even comparing apples to oranges. This is more like comparing this year's unripened oranges to last years apple juice.
From what I've heard, you absolutely lose target firewire and any other OF-related goodies (C for CD, cmd-opt-P-R for PRAM zap, etc). However, that only applies to the final product if they stick with olde-skoole BIOS. There was some talk that they might be looking at an EFI-based board too.
More info on EFI can be found here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050524/
... strong in this one.
Had heard a lot about Meiville and really didn't find Iron Council to have been worth the effort. A very fully fleshed vision of the city and the land but the characters are just hauled all over it without any strong motivations (well, I wasn't engaged by their motivations if they did exist at any rate).
On the other hand, recently read The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston, which is another thoroughly alternate reality-style book. However, she(?) attached the reader to a single viewpoint and sticks with it. I really enjoyed that book and the weird alternate reality she set it in.
http://assp.sourceforge.net
http://assp.sourceforge.net
Been using it for a little over a year now and it rocks. We receive something like 10,000 emails a day--%70 of which is spam. Of those, perhaps 20-30 spam messages actually get through, which is pretty good. Also features extremely low false positives. I'm only aware of perhaps 3 during the course of the entire year. A valid user from a valid domain should get a bounce-back message explaining that their message was rejected as spam-like with brief instructions on alternate methods of contacting us.
1.09 is the version I'm running. 1.1.0 is the latest version with 1.1.1 coming soon. They are still ironing out some stability issues in the 1.1.1 version.
Not like it made a difference to the test, obviously.
So your distribution vector is still versiontracker.com or whatever. And versiontracker isn't going to be sufficient to generate the traditional bring-Internet-to-its-knees virus storm a bunch of Windows boxen are capable of.
(Well, actually I'll admit there's probably not enough Macs out there to do that regardless, but still...)
ryanr posted further up the chain somewhere that some services were enabled on the Mac. Which is one reason it attracted a lot more attention than the linux box in the test...
I can't remember... I think it defaults to Off, but I was just curious. I suppose it's not too egregious to have a default of Off since all the services are also Off by default. Mostly I was wondering if it would have made a difference in the number of attacks sent to the machine if the firewall had been (or was) active.
... it's time for Folding @ Home to hire a script kiddie?
Currently, I have a ReplayTV first gen box with the top removed (necessitated by fanless design and living in AZ) handling my TV recording. I also have a 2.4ghz wireless room-to-room broadcast thingy to play iTunes out the stereo.
However, I'm seriously looking at upgrading:
Replay 5504 - $355 w/ lifetime subscr from Amazon
Airport Express - $130
Airport card - $80
TOTAL - $565
And that total is why I haven't done it yet...
Open any massively palletized application like Adobe GoEvil or Macromedia DreamReaver and you'll quickly see why a spare monitor is cool. Drag all those necessary but not super necessary palettes over to the palette monitor and enjoy being able to access anything without it obscuring your page.
Another use for web coders--have your browser on one screen, your PHP text editor on the other.
And of historical interest, Macs have been doing this since the II came out. It became pretty common-place with the iici and the Quadra because if you wanted a 20" monitor, you had to buy a video card to drive it. Thus the onboard video could be used to hook up a palette monitor essentially for the price of the monitor. We recycled a bunch of 15" monitors in for this purpose when we switched over to 20" displays in the early 90's.
Time spent learning a whole new OS is pretty relative.
I've thrown people who know Windows, Mac OS 9 and Linux into OS X and the consensus seems to be that it's pretty easy to learn. On the other hand, after years using OS 9, OS X, Windows and Linux I still hit points where it's incredibly hard to get something really simple to happen in Linux. This is just not the case with OS X.
About the only thing in OS X that still confuses people on a regular basis is getting their printers set up. I'm not exactly sure why, but I get a ton of questions about that one. Oh, and OS 9 users occasionally try something insane (from a Unix POV) like renaming their Home folder.
DVD Bypass trick:
/System/Install/Packages. Double-click the OSInstall.mpkg and proceed as normal.
NOTE: This can only make an install on a different partition, AFAIK--no installing over the top of a running system, please!
[1] Make an image of the DVD on your iPod, at your good friend's house with BitTorrent and a T1, or whatever will get it to your DVD-less computer.
[2] Mount the image on the machine you want to install on.
[3] Go to
Makes for a much faster install in some ways as you can burn the image at your leisure and then run the thing at high speed off your hard drive.
Way back in 1988, I was defragmenting the super-uber powerfull se-30 with 4mb RAM and a 20mb hard drive at the college computer lab when a professor came in, brushed the "Do not touch" sign taped to the front of the box aside and rebooting the machine. All the labs aids let out a synchronous squeal of rage and hurtled towards him. We then proceeded to explain for about 5 minutes that he had just completely nuked the drive and it would have to be reformatted and reinstalled completely. His reasoning? He was a professor and in a hurry to get something printed out, so he could ignore the sign. First professor to be banned from the lab!