Also from Neiman Marcus' Xmas Catalog. A 6 foot polished aluminum canoe/egg shaped object floats by mag-lev above a polished mahogany plinth. Slightly less practical than the air-car, but proven technology, a snip at $90k, and cheaper to run I guess...
Tim O'Reilly should know by now what he's doing. Those print figures sound about right. In this part of the world the publishers cartels make sure our local cover price for O'Reilly titles is between 150 - 200% the US price. Yet even tho' the technical facts in the books still hold true, the publishers/booksellers have an interest in making the book itself go stale, so they can promote new editions, or complete replacement titles. So, I end up filling my shelf with 2 - 4 year old books remaindered at our local version of Walmart, at 15 - 25% of US cover price. O'Reilly is still in business, the tech bookshops, and Walmart are still in business, maybe Nuclear Elephant should consider a career change?
For example, http://www.bcrp.gob.pe/ Peruvian's Central Bank website is totally incompatible with anything non-IE6. The menu system doesn't work. Try right clicking. All the dynamic pages are processed using incredibly slow ASP.
Umm, seems to work here with Safari 2.0.1 "Work" means I ignore the peppering of non-printing characters caused by [charset=windows-1252]
Just to be sure we're talking about the same document the official law is published at
http://www.congreso.gob.pe/relatoria/documentos/ PROY1609Software.pdf
I'm assuming the Peruvian govt servers can withstand the demand for spanish pdf from/. readers;-)
Yeah, I wondered too about this 136 pound microsatellite
The first ARRL satellite, Oscar 1 was 10 pounds and the size of a shoe box. Mind you it could only say HI, and couldn't hear your reply, so I guess we've had some progress in 44 years...
No, you're not the only one mate. Scuttlemonkey musta got some good crack;-)
Just consider that 5.1 = 6 channels at 96khz sample rate 24bits/sample, means each bit in a serial stream is about 60nS. Sure you can thread your processes, use asynchronous buffer blocks, but I've only mentioned audio. Throw video into the mix as well, then consider what is needed to keep DAC noise low. Oh, sorry it was streaming he mentioned. How many simultaneous streams at 2400kb/s? Ah, internet streaming, of course "you have to expect droputs".
The 888/24 is one of Digidesign's legacy interfaces, ie. no longer supported. The spec figure for clock jitter is less than 40 picoseconds RMS 22Hz-22kHz, D/A SNR 107dB unweighted Find me some hardware running Linux with figures like that and we'll talk multi-media.
Executable files are not executable through the Apple GUI.
A relatively harmless example: Finder
Cmd-Shift-G (go to Folder) /usr/bin doubleclick on vim and you're up and running.
OK, most console commands require options or arguments on the command line, which restricts, but does not prevent, their doubleclickability. And there are a disturbing number of apps appearing which are not well behaved bundles, or foo.app directory structures, but consist of a monolithic binary executable. You don't have to be very, very afraid, but please be a little afraid.
If you run something as a user, you should not be able to infect ANY of the software on the computer.
Please tell that that to some of the people writing Macintosh applications that a) require the person installing to be root, admin is not good enough, or
b) require that the Foo.app directory is world-writable, or
c) use the Macintosh Installer.app to put themselves in non-standard locations.
It's not just stupid users, there's a few application writers out there need dragging up to speed too.
I've barely touched an OS X Mac so perhaps some of the criticisms levelled at Windows (e.g. that it encourages you to use the GUI to admin a server) are relevant to OS X as well, but my gut feeling is that Apple have made far fewer mistakes than Microsoft in their operating system design.
I administer MacOS-X servers. The one thing that scares me is how much point'n'click eye candy Apple has put into its admin tools. Sure, I can still ssh and do everything at the console, but much of it is just so easy with the GUI tools, and you get instant visual feedback on what is happening (or what is supposed to be happening:-(
All this talk about ports being off by default doesn't hold for the server. Like most servers it is designed to be be remotely administered so the servermanagerdaemon is listening on its port, no, you go and look it up yourself, the exercise will do you good;-) OK ssl, and only valid admin users, in theory, so I'm glad my machines are behind a campus firewall. Something like MySQL, even used internally, ie. only ports active are on 127.0.0.1, oh no,:3306 shows open to the world, altho' it rejects all incoming packets, the world knows you are running MySQL.
I wonder if someone's trying to make a bit of news on a quiet day? Yeah, my thought too.
But all this time, I thought there were NO "Apple/Mac" viruses at all.
At the time MSWord v.6 was released there were 40 (42?) known Macintosh, and around 2000 DOS/Windows viruses. About 2 weeks after the release of Word6 the macro viruses started to appear, and John Norstad (Disinfectant) held up the white flag.
Today the numbers stand: Macintosh ~45, Windows ??? OK, only one of those 45 will attack OS-X and it's a trojan, not a virus, and there's abt 180,000 various bugs, virus, trojans, that attack different parts of Windows OS, MSOffice, Internet Explorer, ActiveX. A substantial proportion of the Office scripting malware will also attack Office on Macintosh. This is a serious PITA and the only present valid reason to maintain AV software on Mac. There is another answer to that: OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice/J, at least until they too sucumb.
The answer of course is to have Disinfectant installed in your Classic environment. The Disinfectant init will reside in/SystemFolder/Extensions/_Disinfectant and will load every time you start Classic. (Yes I know it's not _ , it's another invisible designed to load before any Extensions you renamed to load first by putting a Space in front of the name)
iTunes cracked? Huh? What's the point of that? Oh, you mean they cracked the DRM applied to the downloaded tracks. Now that's been the subject of too many stories already here on/.
And we all know the fix for that: if Big Music wants secure downloads they have to convince consumers to buy secure keys, offline (or at least on a different line to the one with the tunes)
Ever since abt 10.2.4 MacOS has had IP tunneling over Firewire (IEEE1394) This interface fw0 also by default configures itself IPv6. Now all I need is a fibrechannel connection to Internet2;-)
MacOS-X Server 10.4 (Tiger Server) allows you to run your own Company or Campus Software Update Server for clients that are not allowed acces thru firewalls, or to save on proxy & network costs. The directory structure is slightly wierd (IANAProgrammer) where files are given names that appear to be their MD5 hashes. Also the only way for clients to use this service is for them to be "Managed Preferences" clients with Home directories on that server.
Anybody who wanted to exploit this would have done a packet dump and noticed that your Software Update has a small conversation with Cupertino, and is then redirected to the nearest regional Akamai proxy farm. An exploit would also have to spoof DNS records along the way...
Go read the judgement. Plenty of links below. The judge did not rule against Sharman/Kazaa on three claims relating to Fair Trading, Trade Practices, and conspiracy. He dismissed claims against the two Technical Officers (I suspect from his wording he had some sympathy for them as they came across in court a bit dimwitted;-).
One outstanding item that is not being shouted from the rooftops is that Sharman and all users can carry on using Kazaa, so long as within 2 months it is cleaned up to allow only licensed copies (probably with DRM but this is not specified) to be shared. Justice Wilcox quickly got to grips with the two tiered search results Kazaa offered users, and deduced that Sharman needed a big swag of pirated stuff out there, so that the "Gold" hits, or licenced material, would increase in proportion and so boost Sharman's income. He's been jolly decent in giving them 60 days to get their house in order, but don't hold your breath.
Of equal significance is that this case was only to establish facts. Justice Wilcox made it clear from the start he was not interested in determining losses by any party due to actions of any other party. He has in accordance with long established practice awarded 90% of the applicants' (BMG et al) legal bill for the case against Sharman. But the billions being parlayed about are for another case, where Big Music will have to establish, factually to satisfy a Judge, precisely how many dollars and cents they are down, and precisely how much of that is directly attributable to Sharman/Kazaa. That IMHO is not going to be a walkover.
Comparisons are being made here to Grokster, but Wilkox J read Grokster and declared that he found it not relevant. The difference here is that Kazaa is a two layered structure. Sharman needed the pirates to keep the quasi-legal stuff afloat. Wilkox did not accept their plea that they did not know how much piracy was happening and could not control it. But he has accepted that Kazaa could be run as a legal (DRMed if necessary) service. And he's given them the opportunity to do that.
the Bible will always hold an accurate record of God's chosen disciple, Lot, fucking his daughters.
You must have a different Bible. Mine says the daughters were sluts, treated their dad badly 'cos he wouldn't let them have fun in town the night before. But then that town got zapped by one o' them electric discharge thingies, so maybe tfa is right...
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/outlo ok.shtml
sheesh, 680+ comments for this?
Also from Neiman Marcus' Xmas Catalog. A 6 foot polished aluminum canoe/egg shaped object floats by mag-lev above a polished mahogany plinth. Slightly less practical than the air-car, but proven technology, a snip at $90k, and cheaper to run I guess...
Way to go! Neiman Marcus /.ed
Opening Catalog...Opening Catalog...
Tim O'Reilly should know by now what he's doing. Those print figures sound about right. In this part of the world the publishers cartels make sure our local cover price for O'Reilly titles is between 150 - 200% the US price. Yet even tho' the technical facts in the books still hold true, the publishers/booksellers have an interest in making the book itself go stale, so they can promote new editions, or complete replacement titles. So, I end up filling my shelf with 2 - 4 year old books remaindered at our local version of Walmart, at 15 - 25% of US cover price. O'Reilly is still in business, the tech bookshops, and Walmart are still in business, maybe Nuclear Elephant should consider a career change?
tfa said "caught on film", doesn't have to mean moving pictures y'know ;-)
:-(
National Geographics excelled: 4 out 9 were not library stock or line art
Umm, seems to work here with Safari 2.0.1 "Work" means I ignore the peppering of non-printing characters caused by [charset=windows-1252]
Just to be sure we're talking about the same document the official law is published at/ PROY1609Software.pdf
/. readers ;-)
http://www.congreso.gob.pe/relatoria/documentos
I'm assuming the Peruvian govt servers can withstand the demand for spanish pdf from
Yeah, I wondered too about this 136 pound microsatellite
The first ARRL satellite, Oscar 1 was 10 pounds and the size of a shoe box. Mind you it could only say HI, and couldn't hear your reply, so I guess we've had some progress in 44 years...
slashdot will destroy his spirit, or at least it's destroyed his homepage already...
No, you're not the only one mate. Scuttlemonkey musta got some good crack ;-)
Just consider that 5.1 = 6 channels at 96khz sample rate 24bits/sample, means each bit in a serial stream is about 60nS. Sure you can thread your processes, use asynchronous buffer blocks, but I've only mentioned audio. Throw video into the mix as well, then consider what is needed to keep DAC noise low. Oh, sorry it was streaming he mentioned. How many simultaneous streams at 2400kb/s? Ah, internet streaming, of course "you have to expect droputs".
The 888/24 is one of Digidesign's legacy interfaces, ie. no longer supported. The spec figure for clock jitter is less than 40 picoseconds RMS 22Hz-22kHz, D/A SNR 107dB unweighted Find me some hardware running Linux with figures like that and we'll talk multi-media.
A relatively harmless example: Finder
OK, most console commands require options or arguments on the command line, which restricts, but does not prevent, their doubleclickability. And there are a disturbing number of apps appearing which are not well behaved bundles, or foo.app directory structures, but consist of a monolithic binary executable. You don't have to be very, very afraid, but please be a little afraid.
If you run something as a user, you should not be able to infect ANY of the software on the computer.
Please tell that that to some of the people writing Macintosh applications that
a) require the person installing to be root, admin is not good enough, or
b) require that the Foo.app directory is world-writable, or
c) use the Macintosh Installer.app to put themselves in non-standard locations.
It's not just stupid users, there's a few application writers out there need dragging up to speed too.
I've barely touched an OS X Mac so perhaps some of the criticisms levelled at Windows (e.g. that it encourages you to use the GUI to admin a server) are relevant to OS X as well, but my gut feeling is that Apple have made far fewer mistakes than Microsoft in their operating system design.
:-(
;-) OK ssl, and only valid admin users, in theory, so I'm glad my machines are behind a campus firewall. Something like MySQL, even used internally, ie. only ports active are on 127.0.0.1, oh no, :3306 shows open to the world, altho' it rejects all incoming packets, the world knows you are running MySQL.
I administer MacOS-X servers. The one thing that scares me is how much point'n'click eye candy Apple has put into its admin tools. Sure, I can still ssh and do everything at the console, but much of it is just so easy with the GUI tools, and you get instant visual feedback on what is happening (or what is supposed to be happening
All this talk about ports being off by default doesn't hold for the server. Like most servers it is designed to be be remotely administered so the servermanagerdaemon is listening on its port, no, you go and look it up yourself, the exercise will do you good
I wonder if someone's trying to make a bit of news on a quiet day? Yeah, my thought too.
But all this time, I thought there were NO "Apple/Mac" viruses at all.
At the time MSWord v.6 was released there were 40 (42?) known Macintosh, and around 2000 DOS/Windows viruses. About 2 weeks after the release of Word6 the macro viruses started to appear, and John Norstad (Disinfectant) held up the white flag.
Today the numbers stand: Macintosh ~45, Windows ??? OK, only one of those 45 will attack OS-X and it's a trojan, not a virus, and there's abt 180,000 various bugs, virus, trojans, that attack different parts of Windows OS, MSOffice, Internet Explorer, ActiveX. A substantial proportion of the Office scripting malware will also attack Office on Macintosh. This is a serious PITA and the only present valid reason to maintain AV software on Mac. There is another answer to that: OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice/J, at least until they too sucumb.
The answer of course is to have Disinfectant installed in your Classic environment. The Disinfectant init will reside in /SystemFolder/Extensions/_Disinfectant and will load every time you start Classic. (Yes I know it's not _ , it's another invisible designed to load before any Extensions you renamed to load first by putting a Space in front of the name)
---
God Bless John Norstad
iTunes cracked? Huh? What's the point of that? Oh, you mean they cracked the DRM applied to the downloaded tracks. Now that's been the subject of too many stories already here on /.
And we all know the fix for that: if Big Music wants secure downloads they have to convince consumers to buy secure keys, offline (or at least on a different line to the one with the tunes)
Ever since abt 10.2.4 MacOS has had IP tunneling over Firewire (IEEE1394) This interface fw0 also by default configures itself IPv6. Now all I need is a fibrechannel connection to Internet2 ;-)
MacOS-X Server 10.4 (Tiger Server) allows you to run your own Company or Campus Software Update Server for clients that are not allowed acces thru firewalls, or to save on proxy & network costs. The directory structure is slightly wierd (IANAProgrammer) where files are given names that appear to be their MD5 hashes. Also the only way for clients to use this service is for them to be "Managed Preferences" clients with Home directories on that server.
Anybody who wanted to exploit this would have done a packet dump and noticed that your Software Update has a small conversation with Cupertino, and is then redirected to the nearest regional Akamai proxy farm. An exploit would also have to spoof DNS records along the way...
A judge has ruled against you. DEAL WITH IT
;-).
Go read the judgement. Plenty of links below. The judge did not rule against Sharman/Kazaa on three claims relating to Fair Trading, Trade Practices, and conspiracy. He dismissed claims against the two Technical Officers (I suspect from his wording he had some sympathy for them as they came across in court a bit dimwitted
One outstanding item that is not being shouted from the rooftops is that Sharman and all users can carry on using Kazaa, so long as within 2 months it is cleaned up to allow only licensed copies (probably with DRM but this is not specified) to be shared. Justice Wilcox quickly got to grips with the two tiered search results Kazaa offered users, and deduced that Sharman needed a big swag of pirated stuff out there, so that the "Gold" hits, or licenced material, would increase in proportion and so boost Sharman's income. He's been jolly decent in giving them 60 days to get their house in order, but don't hold your breath.
Of equal significance is that this case was only to establish facts. Justice Wilcox made it clear from the start he was not interested in determining losses by any party due to actions of any other party. He has in accordance with long established practice awarded 90% of the applicants' (BMG et al) legal bill for the case against Sharman. But the billions being parlayed about are for another case, where Big Music will have to establish, factually to satisfy a Judge, precisely how many dollars and cents they are down, and precisely how much of that is directly attributable to Sharman/Kazaa. That IMHO is not going to be a walkover.
Comparisons are being made here to Grokster, but Wilkox J read Grokster and declared that he found it not relevant. The difference here is that Kazaa is a two layered structure. Sharman needed the pirates to keep the quasi-legal stuff afloat. Wilkox did not accept their plea that they did not know how much piracy was happening and could not control it. But he has accepted that Kazaa could be run as a legal (DRMed if necessary) service. And he's given them the opportunity to do that.
Ah, /., pure rational discourse
the Bible will always hold an accurate record of God's chosen disciple, Lot, fucking his daughters.
You must have a different Bible. Mine says the daughters were sluts, treated their dad badly 'cos he wouldn't let them have fun in town the night before. But then that town got zapped by one o' them electric discharge thingies, so maybe tfa is right...
no, just /.ed, by the number of 503s I've been getting since 2-3 weeks, well before the rain in LA...
At least the NASA page is still up and there are links from there to the Chandra site. Now you choose, science or devolution ;-)
Headline screams Supernova 1987A Decoded
/.
tfa extrapolates to supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges
a few? most? or just this one on our say so?
Stuff that matters like truth in journalism? Oh sorry, this is