Windows XP SP2 is a bit worse with one high risk allowing for remote code execution. All in all, not too bad compared to Win XP SP1. Both OSes are secure enough for desktop use. (As long as you don't use Outlook or IE...)
I saw a clip of it walking down some stairs on TV yesterday. The movement looks very human. The first few seconds I thought it was a guy dressed up as a robot in some SF movie...
I've been using a T20 for about a year now, and am quite pleased.
I have my eyes on an iBook, but it seems a bit on the slow side, and the TiBook too fragile. A 733 MHz G3 iBook with Mac OS X 10.1 would be extremely nice...
I used to do tech support on Macs several years ago.
Once a customer brought in an SE/30 complaining that he couldn't eject the diskette. It turned out that he also had managed to cram three in there. These _were_ 3.5" though...
Along those lines, Apple included with the IIgs a tutorial that booted itself up and taught you to use the mouse assuming no prior knowledge.
I never saw the IIgs version, but Apple had an animated introduction to fundemental computer use, including how to use the mouse, in some Mac System 7.x versions. It started automatically the first time you booted a freshly installed machine machine.
Reading books on a PDA (a Palm in my case) came as a pleasant surprise. I started doing it because the web (Project Gutenberg) was the only place I could get hold of E.R. Burrough's Barsoom books, that I'd seen references to everywhere, but never read.
I really didn't think it would be convenient, but as JesseL writes, the screen isn't an issue. It's also very convenient to have a book around at all times. I'm currently reading Gummere's translation of the Beowulf epic, in preparation for some day tackling the real stuff:-)
...from Linux to Mac OS X as my main development environment since last week.
Hmm... What should I do with that Intel box? Come to think of it, I've never installed BSD on a i386 system... On the other hand, SQL Server 2000 isn't that bad...
I frankly don't understand what the big fight over free or non-free software is about. Why does
one exclude the other?
Also, I think one should be very careful to separate the notions of innovation and business. While they
typically (hopefully!) support each other, they are two separate things.
The way I see it, innovation (or maybe it should be called development) happens because of at least
three quite different reasons and in different environments, with different motivations and goals. I'll be
brief, but here's my take on it:
Commercially driven innovation. This is what happens in companies, with
commercial competition as the main driving force. Healthy competion drives innovation, monopoly
makes it stagnate. A common enough situation is of course that the focus is too much on products
and services that _sell_, and not necessarily on what's "good". On the other hand, that's what a company
do (make money) otherwise they cease to exist.
Academically driven innovation, taking place in places like universities. This is
typically less sensitive to current trends, is longer-term, and less focused on definite marketable products
and services. (Of course money plays a significant part here as well, but not in the same way as for 1)
above.) Apart from funding, information-sharing is very important for this to work properly.
Private innovation. This is for solving a personal need, or by "mad-inventors-in-garages" (hi Woz again!).
This has virtually no inhibitor (in its intial stages at least). It also feeds on free access to information
like in case 2), but the goals vary much more than for 1) and 2). While this quite often turns into 1),
it doesn't have too, like in the case of most more or less hobbyist programmers.
I think all three are necessary for innovation to thrive. Notions like "all software should be free" I find
quite bizarre. Why on earth would having tens of thousands of people working full time at writing software stifle
innovation? If there are more people that can afford (i.e. pay the rent) developing new stuff at least
half of their waking time, that's a good thing isn't it? The more the merrier after all, and occasionally
something really good comes out even from the slave mines at large corporations. (Anyone tried iTunes? Precisely,
I know that Apple bought that.)
I admit these were just some random thoughts that popped out of my head, but my main points are that
all the three environments above are necessary, and that there is no contradiction in having them
all around at the same time.
Unethical and illegal business practices is something else completely.
Let's all hope the legal system takes care of that.
Everytime I hear something about HyperCard these days I'm always astonished that it's still around. I haven't used it since 1987 or so, and then fairly quickly switched to FileMaker for similar tasks. What I remember however was a very wordy (AppleScript-like) language and a very limited window format. I admit it introduced me to the concept of events and event handling though...
Could somebody tell me why it still is in use? No, really, this is a serious question: Why? What makes it better than for example FileMaker, RealBasic or AppleScript/Frontier?
I've used all previous versions of Mac OS X from OpenStep through Rhapsody, the DPs and PB, and I got the Release Canditate the other day.
Yes, installation, configuration and the interface in general is infinitely more usable than for any other *NIX out there. Fair enough, it's not as tweakable as Gnome for example, but it just works!
On the other hand, it's still fairly far away from Mac OS 9, despite the flashy surface. The days of happily creating folders all over the place is gone. I guess Mac support people will get their hands full as soon as "normal" users get their paws on it:) I'm just about to switch over to using it as my primary OS (from Win2K), despite the rough edges. Who else?
And yes, I just willingly gave up the opportunity of 1st post...
We are currently running an iPlanet(JSP)/MSSQL-based solution, and are investigating other possible db-solutions. We are using a home-grown system for generating Java classes and sql-code for stored procedures and tables out of UML-models using Python and ObjectDomain.
What I've found to be the biggest problem with "free" dbms such as postgreSql and MySQL is the lack of stored procedure support and/or arbitrary naming of primary key fields. Switching to Oracle would also require quite a bit of work with re-writing the code-generation scripts, but not as much.
We will probably stick with MSSQL after all (going to MSSQL 2K), but not because of performance reasons, or high-end features like clustering or replication, but rather because changing to another dbms requires more work than it's worth. I believe this situation could be quite common.
If we were starting from scratch today on the other hand, we would probably have gone for a "free" solution, and designed the tools accordingly.
The people that refuse to pay for Linux software are very often those that refuse to pay for Windows software too. Can you say #warez?
I don't agree. The #warez crowd aren't in it for any sort of "ideological" reasons - it's just a way to get software for free. For some it even seems to be a collector's mania. Your average warez collector probably only regularly uses 5% of the software he has.
The "everything-should-be-GPL'd" people on the other hand wouldn't run Windows at all in the first place.
...even though I'm fairly sure the end result won't be particularly readable.:)
It's an excellent UML modelling tool though, with easily customizable Python scripts for code generation. I couldn't live without it! Check it out at http://www.objectdomain.com.
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If Apple can't find a European partner, and they decide to sell the iPhone without a subscription - what will the price be?
The only feature loss would be the browsable voicemail as far as I can tell.
True, but as far as I can tell the only vulnerability even with the services specified switched on is the possibility to gather usernames by guessing them. See http://www.vnutz.com/content/exploit/Nessus_Apple_ OSX_Tiger_10.4.8_Vulnerabilities.html. Nessus ranks them as low at worst. Nothing to be too excited about.
Windows XP SP2 is a bit worse with one high risk allowing for remote code execution. All in all, not too bad compared to Win XP SP1. Both OSes are secure enough for desktop use. (As long as you don't use Outlook or IE...)
They expect to find some people living in there, but only end up interviewing a couple of bums who live there.
Bums are not people?
Just a nit-pick:
All of your MP3s need to live locally on your Mac's filesystems before iTunes will let you add them to your Collection or copy them to your iPod.
That may be true for SMB (I haven't tried), but not for volumes mounted over AppleShare or NFS. It works just fine for me anyway.
I saw a clip of it walking down some stairs on TV yesterday. The movement looks very human. The first few seconds I thought it was a guy dressed up as a robot in some SF movie...
The site is really thin on tech info. I appears to work only on Windows and Pocket PCs however.
Does anybody know if they are using any sort of standard below the IP level?
I've been using a T20 for about a year now, and am quite pleased.
I have my eyes on an iBook, but it seems a bit on the slow side, and the TiBook too fragile. A 733 MHz G3 iBook with Mac OS X 10.1 would be extremely nice...
I used to do tech support on Macs several years ago.
Once a customer brought in an SE/30 complaining that he couldn't eject the diskette. It turned out that he also had managed to cram three in there. These _were_ 3.5" though...
Along those lines, Apple included with the IIgs a tutorial that booted itself up and taught you to use the mouse assuming no prior knowledge.
I never saw the IIgs version, but Apple had an animated introduction to fundemental computer use, including how to use the mouse, in some Mac System 7.x versions. It started automatically the first time you booted a freshly installed machine machine.
Reading books on a PDA (a Palm in my case) came as a pleasant surprise. I started doing it because the web (Project Gutenberg) was the only place I could get hold of E.R. Burrough's Barsoom books, that I'd seen references to everywhere, but never read.
I really didn't think it would be convenient, but as JesseL writes, the screen isn't an issue. It's also very convenient to have a book around at all times. I'm currently reading Gummere's translation of the Beowulf epic, in preparation for some day tackling the real stuff :-)
Hey, rate this as funny!
Hmm... What should I do with that Intel box? Come to think of it, I've never installed BSD on a i386 system... On the other hand, SQL Server 2000 isn't that bad...
Eh... XP isn't even released yet, in case you haven't noticed.
I frankly don't understand what the big fight over free or non-free software is about. Why does one exclude the other? Also, I think one should be very careful to separate the notions of innovation and business. While they typically (hopefully!) support each other, they are two separate things.
The way I see it, innovation (or maybe it should be called development) happens because of at least three quite different reasons and in different environments, with different motivations and goals. I'll be brief, but here's my take on it:
I think all three are necessary for innovation to thrive. Notions like "all software should be free" I find quite bizarre. Why on earth would having tens of thousands of people working full time at writing software stifle innovation? If there are more people that can afford (i.e. pay the rent) developing new stuff at least half of their waking time, that's a good thing isn't it? The more the merrier after all, and occasionally something really good comes out even from the slave mines at large corporations. (Anyone tried iTunes? Precisely, I know that Apple bought that.)
I admit these were just some random thoughts that popped out of my head, but my main points are that all the three environments above are necessary, and that there is no contradiction in having them all around at the same time.
Unethical and illegal business practices is something else completely. Let's all hope the legal system takes care of that.
Everytime I hear something about HyperCard these days I'm always astonished that it's still around. I haven't used it since 1987 or so, and then fairly quickly switched to FileMaker for similar tasks. What I remember however was a very wordy (AppleScript-like) language and a very limited window format. I admit it introduced me to the concept of events and event handling though...
Could somebody tell me why it still is in use? No, really, this is a serious question: Why? What makes it better than for example FileMaker, RealBasic or AppleScript/Frontier?
...and the Swedish Army has had the DART system at least since 1993, as has many other nations, I'm sure.
P. Haegglund, 2nd Lt (VO/Fk), Swedish Army
How about a new mod category, "Hilarious" for these two posts :)
I'm booting Mac OS X Release Candidate, Mac OS 9.1 and Suse Linux as we speak, so yes, multi-booting is possible (at least using two disks).
I've used all previous versions of Mac OS X from OpenStep through Rhapsody, the DPs and PB, and I got the Release Canditate the other day.
Yes, installation, configuration and the interface in general is infinitely more usable than for any other *NIX out there. Fair enough, it's not as tweakable as Gnome for example, but it just works!
On the other hand, it's still fairly far away from Mac OS 9, despite the flashy surface. The days of happily creating folders all over the place is gone. I guess Mac support people will get their hands full as soon as "normal" users get their paws on it :) I'm just about to switch over to using it as my primary OS (from Win2K), despite the rough edges. Who else?
And yes, I just willingly gave up the opportunity of 1st post...
We are currently running an iPlanet(JSP)/MSSQL-based solution, and are investigating other possible db-solutions. We are using a home-grown system for generating Java classes and sql-code for stored procedures and tables out of UML-models using Python and ObjectDomain.
What I've found to be the biggest problem with "free" dbms such as postgreSql and MySQL is the lack of stored procedure support and/or arbitrary naming of primary key fields. Switching to Oracle would also require quite a bit of work with re-writing the code-generation scripts, but not as much.
We will probably stick with MSSQL after all (going to MSSQL 2K), but not because of performance reasons, or high-end features like clustering or replication, but rather because changing to another dbms requires more work than it's worth. I believe this situation could be quite common.
If we were starting from scratch today on the other hand, we would probably have gone for a "free" solution, and designed the tools accordingly.
The people that refuse to pay for Linux software are very often those that refuse to pay for Windows software too. Can you say #warez?
I don't agree. The #warez crowd aren't in it for any sort of "ideological" reasons - it's just a way to get software for free. For some it even seems to be a collector's mania. Your average warez collector probably only regularly uses 5% of the software he has.
The "everything-should-be-GPL'd" people on the other hand wouldn't run Windows at all in the first place.
Where's the fun in that?
You can make a really cool documentary about it... Alien V?
...even though I'm fairly sure the end result won't be particularly readable. :)
It's an excellent UML modelling tool though, with easily customizable Python scripts for code generation.
I couldn't live without it! Check it out at http://www.objectdomain.com.
Sort of beside the point, but ahe actually dropped the "i" moniker to the CEO title last year.
...or just try www.apple.com. :)
BTW, I'm just trying out iTunes, and despite the silly name it's amazingly good!