If it's any consolation there's a lot of the world still missing, including parts like Australia & New Zealand which have good satelite pix. We also have, which might be missing from a lot of Africa, a good set of local topographic & street maps. But we still fall into the crack of a work in progress. At least we've still got the sluggish ArcIMS viewer at NZ Topo on Line
To correct the kid's kids, you need to make the correction in the gamete, before the original kid is conceived. Maybe I'm not reading enough lately, but from Huxley to Gattaca, I don't recollect anyone actually trying that method...
Dang Submit button got in the way;-) Of course those are only users who actually bought software. We hear every day that Linux users don't buy software, and if Mac users steal 30% more software than Windoze users, who wants to continue the math?
Using figures from TFA: let Mac Users = M, let Windows users = W
we are told Mac Software sold : 1.3M, Windows Software sold : W
and 1.3M/(1.3M + W) = 0.18
whence W = 7.2M, and since W + M = 100%
M = 100/8.2 ~= 12%
P'raps the bad guys have already had a trial run. Notice that the witty worm didn't make big headlines at the time, but it attacked a particular sensitive part of internet infrastructure. Analysis was done by a consortium of private firms,.edu &.gov entities. It seems the perpetrator(s) deliberately aimed and charged the first shot.
A couple of days ago I was directed to http://www.cisecurity.org/ to get their "Macintosh OS X Panther Benchmark Security Document". I was surprised to see (p.20) they recommend old chestnuts like 1qaz@Wsx and 89)Okm,. as "strong" passwords which are fairly easy to remember. Of course MacOS' bad joke 8 char limit doesn't help.
why arent the power companies themselves pushing...
In this part of the world they are. Many have installed their own fiber on the power poles, for control & metering, and are selling the spare bandwidth. One thought they could do "fiber to transformer" then BPL. They soon found the error of their choice and now are struggling to fit demand into their backup wireless spectrum.
As for BoG, one mainly electricity utility here inherited some abandoned gas pipes thru the city. They've pulled a lot of fiber thru those...
It wasn't such a "stupid little javascript" either:-( I browse with tabs, flicking thru the links to collect a bar full of tabs to settle down and read. I always have my popup blocker on, but this sljs seized focus off my current tab, ripped the paper right out of my hands... Bad, bad PCMag:-(
Don't forget to check the math;-) First estimates were to move a ship the size of USS enterprise would require ~ 10 times the observed energy in this universe...
There are some quite humanly readable comments on some numbers as to what might have happened. I'm surprised this document hasn't been put up somehwere in clean html. Oh, of course, Apple would sue...
they need a clairvoyant...
Rebecca Goolsby of the Office of Naval Research. "With covert missions, there's a lot of missing data, and some of it is wrong,"
It seems pretty well organized, but very osx specific. I wonder how much the directory structure, and the Agent vs Daemon thing can be reconfigured.
In 10.0 lookupd was launched with flags and fanfares as the way to find anything network or directory related. It had agents and lookup orders, and command line config tools. But it took Apple 4 years (= 4 major OS revisions) to realise that nobody else would use NetInfo, and Open Directory was a safer bet.
launchd has its own lists of agents and daemons each with their xml config (plist). Expect to see launchd shuffling its options for maybe four years before it too settles down.
An Apple developer posted to the darwin-users list, what now seems like donkey's years ago, that the idea was eventually/etc/rc would go away, and SystemStarter or something like it would do all that init stuff. I kept remembering this all thru the 10.3.x upgrades as/etc/rc got bigger and more convoluted with all sorts of crap being written in there.
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You mispelt "better", should be c-l-u-n-k-y
If it's any consolation there's a lot of the world still missing, including parts like Australia & New Zealand which have good satelite pix. We also have, which might be missing from a lot of Africa, a good set of local topographic & street maps. But we still fall into the crack of a work in progress. At least we've still got the sluggish ArcIMS viewer at NZ Topo on Line
yebbut, that don't work in my browser (Safari), Google does...
may be good at stopping naughty words getting in. I wish it was as good at stopping spam, malware and hackers getting out.
To correct the kid's kids, you need to make the correction in the gamete, before the original kid is conceived. Maybe I'm not reading enough lately, but from Huxley to Gattaca, I don't recollect anyone actually trying that method...
Dang Submit button got in the way ;-) Of course those are only users who actually bought software. We hear every day that Linux users don't buy software, and if Mac users steal 30% more software than Windoze users, who wants to continue the math?
Using figures from TFA: let Mac Users = M, let Windows users = W
we are told Mac Software sold : 1.3M, Windows Software sold : W
and 1.3M/(1.3M + W) = 0.18
whence W = 7.2M, and since W + M = 100%
M = 100/8.2 ~= 12%
Still sounds a bit high for me...
Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a better computer
P'raps the bad guys have already had a trial run. Notice that the witty worm didn't make big headlines at the time, but it attacked a particular sensitive part of internet infrastructure. Analysis was done by a consortium of private firms, .edu & .gov entities. It seems the perpetrator(s) deliberately aimed and charged the first shot.
A couple of days ago I was directed to http://www.cisecurity.org/ to get their "Macintosh OS X Panther Benchmark Security Document". I was surprised to see (p.20) they recommend old chestnuts like 1qaz@Wsx and 89)Okm,. as "strong" passwords which are fairly easy to remember. Of course MacOS' bad joke 8 char limit doesn't help.
why arent the power companies themselves pushing...
In this part of the world they are. Many have installed their own fiber on the power poles, for control & metering, and are selling the spare bandwidth. One thought they could do "fiber to transformer" then BPL. They soon found the error of their choice and now are struggling to fit demand into their backup wireless spectrum.
As for BoG, one mainly electricity utility here inherited some abandoned gas pipes thru the city. They've pulled a lot of fiber thru those...
It wasn't such a "stupid little javascript" either :-( :-(
I browse with tabs, flicking thru the links to collect a bar full of tabs to settle down and read. I always have my popup blocker on, but this sljs seized focus off my current tab, ripped the paper right out of my hands...
Bad, bad PCMag
timely, huh? Release date spring 2006? Expect by then to see MacOS-X running on hardware from Redmond.
BTW I'll give the oblig. reference to Dragonfly OS
Ahh, now I do feel superior...
Interesting factoid: a typical flock of starlings (about 2,000 birds) contains as much brain tissue as a single human.
Don't forget to check the math ;-) First estimates were to move a ship the size of USS enterprise would require ~ 10 times the observed energy in this universe...
RTFM
and he seems to have had a lot to do with the invention of linkrot.
Down? Nah, just taking a little time to load the Mother's Day logo....
Whatever the issue is, my guess is Apple will have it fixed within the month. It's possible they will have a patch out by the end of next week.
Tried this one? dated 05 May 2005
You could always burrow deep into the bowels of (panther & watch for wrap ;-)
r k/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versi ons/A/Headers/MacErrors.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framewo
There are some quite humanly readable comments on some numbers as to what might have happened. I'm surprised this document hasn't been put up somehwere in clean html. Oh, of course, Apple would sue...
they need a clairvoyant...
Rebecca Goolsby of the Office of Naval Research. "With covert missions, there's a lot of missing data, and some of it is wrong,"
It seems pretty well organized, but very osx specific. I wonder how much the directory structure, and the Agent vs Daemon thing can be reconfigured.
In 10.0 lookupd was launched with flags and fanfares as the way to find anything network or directory related. It had agents and lookup orders, and command line config tools. But it took Apple 4 years (= 4 major OS revisions) to realise that nobody else would use NetInfo, and Open Directory was a safer bet.
launchd has its own lists of agents and daemons each with their xml config (plist). Expect to see launchd shuffling its options for maybe four years before it too settles down.
meanwhile in a dingy garage somewhere in California two snotty teenagers are busily porting launchd as an emacs plugin
An Apple developer posted to the darwin-users list, what now seems like donkey's years ago, that the idea was eventually /etc/rc would go away, and SystemStarter or something like it would do all that init stuff. I kept remembering this all thru the 10.3.x upgrades as /etc/rc got bigger and more convoluted with all sorts of crap being written in there.
Umm, no, Preview opens much faster than that, scrolls and zooms pretty fast too. Dunno if it's on Steve J's list of "Do Not Release Windows Version"