the only real problem i can see is that OS X doesn't have an X-Server. this obviously makes buiding X-applications an impossibility (realistically).
however from what i understand, work is going well on an X-Server running side-by-side with Aqua.
Well, you can download a trial version of the side-by-side X-server from www.tenon.com (they're here in S.B., and a few of the people who work with me worked there). However, the 'real' version won't be free as in beer, or as in freedom. They've got introductory pricing of $199, instead of $250, and for commercial X-servers that's pretty reasonable, but still expensive for students and people used to free (in both senses) software.
You can solve that problem by physically and configuration-wise securing your switches (you do use switches, right?:-) so that each switch port will only talk to the ethernet address that's assigned to that machine. Of course, the hacker can add a hub and just passively listen, but at least they only get traffic from/to that one machine... better hope it's not your router:-)
On the other hand, it's been said too many times to count that if you don't have physical security, you don't have any!
Well, I think InterMail (used by Excite, AT&T, GTE and others) is at least 'Enterprise-Grade', and it stores the messages in the filesystem. The metadata (envelope, not headers) for messages is stored in a database, but the messages themselves are just files, one per message.
I've got two of the mugs, and actually Cliff suggests that you not put hard to dissolve things in the Mug. It's fine for beer and wine (ugh!), but Milk/Mochas are a definate no-no.
You can also take care to ensure that the fluid doesn't flow down the neck into the middle (?) part of the mug so you don't have such a cleaning problem.
Well, you could get the 14 Hour model for $99, plus $10/month (or $200 for lifetime). Adding another disk was pretty easy and relatively cheap, since I found a 60GB drive at Staples for ~$160.
The real reason I got my TiVo was that I found myself wanting to vege at the end of the day, and there'd be nothing but crap on cable. I'd waste an hour or two channel surfing trying to find stuff I wanted to watch.
Now with the tivo I come home and can decide to watch an hour or two of the practice, or some Simpsons, or part of the BattleBot marathon that it picked up while we were gone over Thanksgiving.
But you don't need ethernet on the tivo to use your DSL connection. Just run PPP on the serial port to your PC that's on the DSL line. The only issue there is whether you've got enough serial ports, since you may be using both the IR blaster serial port and the DSS serial port already.
Perhaps a cheap/easy hack to use the serial port the modem currently uses directly as a serial port would be useful.
This thread brings to mind a Larry Niven science fiction story about 'organleggers' kidnapping the richest man in the world and pulling out his brain and spinal column and replacing it with one of theirs. For all intents and purposes (biometrics) the organlegger was the richest man...
The new iBooks have composite out, but not s-video. They also have Firewire, so they've got the bandwidth for TV output, digitally, but nothing cost effective would let you take advantage of that.
According to Andrew Stone (Stone Design), they ditched it, even though it was still there in MacOS-X server. yes I'm aware the imaging layer changed drastically, but I believe it's still client/server based, and could (somewhat easily) be 'remotable'
It seems to me that Apple could perhaps do well by selling OS-X for Intel (after there are a reasonable number of Carbon/Cocoa apps) by limiting what they would support, and by charging an arm and a leg for it (ie, $500).
Basically, take the profit they'd be out by not selling a machine and make it off the CD.
However, they'd have to add in the extra cost of development and support for random platforms. Make that $5000. Oh, wait we're back to the prices for OpenSTEP/Intel:-)
Do you want 'X', because you want to be compatible with the huge volume of 'X' application out there, or do you want a 'remote display architecture'?
MacOS X Server has a 'remote display architecture'. It came from NeXTStep, and all you had to do to run a host remotely was throw a -NXHost flag on the command line. There is even 'OpenSesame', a graphical app which would let you select an application in the workspace, then select the host on which to run it.
Mathematica has it's own protocol to the kernel, it doesn't use X. I can run Mathematica on my wife's iBook in the living room and have it connect to the kernel running on a cray in the SDSC (had I the privlidges).
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With a run time of "0.5 to 1 hours", I don't think anyone would want one of those.
I mean, it's one thing to say "oops, I just ordered a copy of 'Dirk Gently'" and quite another to say "oops, I just ordered a G4 cube":-)
I wonder if that would work with my wife?
"But honey, it was just a mis-click. But since the G4 cube is on my desk now...":-)
Their MFS (media file system) lives in userland (or so I've read on the hack sites), so it doesn't even matter if you can link a linux kernel against non GPL'd stuff. Unless you have to GPL anything that runs on a linux kernel...After all, any executable get 'linked' into the kernel's address space and the kernel initiates execution of it:-)
It used to be that everyone tithed 10% to the church. I think if we want to continue to keep our 'freedom to innovate':-), we need to start supporting those people who fight for those rights.
It seems to me that if I were creating a prototcol, I'd just make sure that the client and the server must exchange copies of my copyrighted logo as part of the authentication process. If you tried to write a server to use with my clients, my clients would barf because you didn't send down the proper (copyrighted) authentication. Same the other way.
NeXTStep had a doc too...Virtspace just didn't move that offscreen when switching between virtual windows. (ie, the doc existed on every virtual screen).
I'd be posting this from my NeXT, but Omniweb is such a dog on a 25Mhz 68040:-)
Maybe there is a UL thing about high and low voltage, but there isn't any high voltage traveling over that cable to the monitor, it's only +/-12VDC is what I'd bet. The only reason you'd need higher voltage in the LCD (or the CRT) would be for the florescent backlighting (or the electron gun), and that requires much higher voltage than 125VAC your wall puts out.
People are attacking the idea because it's not cryptograhically secure, but I think the idea behind it is that it's not illegal to store a bunch of random bytes, even if you happen to store another bunch of random bytes which when combined together produce some non-random bytes which are an MP3 copy of your favorite Metalica CD:-)
You are even safer if you only store one set of random bytes, and someone else stores the other set. After all, it would pretty hard to argue in a court of law that you can't store a string of random bytes if when combined with another particular string of random bytes would produce a copyrighted work. That's because you can always covert any string of data which is long enough into any other string of data with the proper 'pad'. Of course, there are laws against 'facilitating' illegal activities...
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however from what i understand, work is going well on an X-Server running side-by-side with Aqua.
Well, you can download a trial version of the side-by-side X-server from www.tenon.com (they're here in S.B., and a few of the people who work with me worked there). However, the 'real' version won't be free as in beer, or as in freedom. They've got introductory pricing of $199, instead of $250, and for commercial X-servers that's pretty reasonable, but still expensive for students and people used to free (in both senses) software.
You can solve that problem by physically and configuration-wise securing your switches (you do use switches, right?
On the other hand, it's been said too many times to count that if you don't have physical security, you don't have any!
Robert
Well, I think InterMail (used by Excite, AT&T, GTE and others) is at least 'Enterprise-Grade', and it stores the messages in the filesystem. The metadata (envelope, not headers) for messages is stored in a database, but the messages themselves are just files, one per message.
I've got two of the mugs, and actually Cliff suggests that you not put hard to dissolve things in the Mug. It's fine for beer and wine (ugh!), but Milk/Mochas are a definate no-no.
You can also take care to ensure that the fluid doesn't flow down the neck into the middle (?) part of the mug so you don't have such a cleaning problem.
Well, you could get the 14 Hour model for $99, plus $10/month (or $200 for lifetime). Adding another disk was pretty easy and relatively cheap, since I found a 60GB drive at Staples for ~$160.
The real reason I got my TiVo was that I found myself wanting to vege at the end of the day, and there'd be nothing but crap on cable. I'd waste an hour or two channel surfing trying to find stuff I wanted to watch.
Now with the tivo I come home and can decide to watch an hour or two of the practice, or some Simpsons, or part of the BattleBot marathon that it picked up while we were gone over Thanksgiving.
But you don't need ethernet on the tivo to use your DSL connection. Just run PPP on the serial port to your PC that's on the DSL line. The only issue there is whether you've got enough serial ports, since you may be using both the IR blaster serial port and the DSS serial port already.
Perhaps a cheap/easy hack to use the serial port the modem currently uses directly as a serial port would be useful.
This thread brings to mind a Larry Niven science fiction story about 'organleggers' kidnapping the richest man in the world and pulling out his brain and spinal column and replacing it with one of theirs. For all intents and purposes (biometrics) the organlegger was the richest man...
According to a quick search, this: article says that our FOV is ~200 degrees horizontally, and ~150 vertically.
The new iBooks have composite out, but not s-video. They also have Firewire, so they've got the bandwidth for TV output, digitally, but nothing cost effective would let you take advantage of that.
Well, portmap and nfsiod are bad, but inetd.conf is fully commented out (according to Wilfredo Sanchez anyway, I haven't had a chance to install...)
Not on the SunOS 5.6 box I just checked.
/usr/sbin was dynamically linked or a /sbin/sh script...
Everything in
Which Unix(tm) way? The BSD way? The SYS-V way?
I don't know how many times I've cursed one box or another because ps -guxaww isn't the same as ps -eaf, but my fingers don't know that!
Where should the commands be again?
According to Andrew Stone (Stone Design), they ditched it, even though it was still there in MacOS-X server. yes I'm aware the imaging layer changed drastically, but I believe it's still client/server based, and could (somewhat easily) be 'remotable'
It seems to me that Apple could perhaps do well by selling OS-X for Intel (after there are a reasonable number of Carbon/Cocoa apps) by limiting what they would support, and by charging an arm and a leg for it (ie, $500).
:-)
Basically, take the profit they'd be out by not selling a machine and make it off the CD.
However, they'd have to add in the extra cost of development and support for random platforms. Make that $5000. Oh, wait we're back to the prices for OpenSTEP/Intel
Do you want 'X', because you want to be compatible with the huge volume of 'X' application out there, or do you want a 'remote display architecture'?
MacOS X Server has a 'remote display architecture'. It came from NeXTStep, and all you had to do to run a host remotely was throw a -NXHost flag on the command line. There is even 'OpenSesame', a graphical app which would let you select an application in the workspace, then select the host on which to run it.
Mathematica has it's own protocol to the kernel, it doesn't use X. I can run Mathematica on my wife's iBook in the living room and have it connect to the kernel running on a cray in the SDSC (had I the privlidges).
With a run time of "0.5 to 1 hours", I don't think anyone would want one of those.
I mean, it's one thing to say "oops, I just ordered a copy of 'Dirk Gently'" :-)
:-)
and quite another to say "oops, I just ordered a G4 cube"
I wonder if that would work with my wife? "But honey, it was just a mis-click. But since the G4 cube is on my desk now..."
Their MFS (media file system) lives in userland (or so I've read on the hack sites), so it doesn't even matter if you can link a linux kernel against non GPL'd stuff. Unless you have to GPL anything that runs on a linux kernel...After all, any executable get 'linked' into the kernel's address space and the kernel initiates execution of it
It used to be that everyone tithed 10% to the church. I think if we want to continue to keep our 'freedom to innovate'
Robert
It seems to me that if I were creating a prototcol, I'd just make sure that the client and the server must exchange copies of my copyrighted logo as part of the authentication process. If you tried to write a server to use with my clients, my clients would barf because you didn't send down the proper (copyrighted) authentication. Same the other way.
NeXTStep had a doc too...Virtspace just didn't move that offscreen when switching between virtual windows. (ie, the doc existed on every virtual screen).
:-)
I'd be posting this from my NeXT, but Omniweb is such a dog on a 25Mhz 68040
It runs emacs just fine though...
Have you tested DP4 to see that the apps aren't 'remotable'? DP2 apps could be...
Maybe there is a UL thing about high and low voltage, but there isn't any high voltage traveling over that cable to the monitor, it's only +/-12VDC is what I'd bet. The only reason you'd need higher voltage in the LCD (or the CRT) would be for the florescent backlighting (or the electron gun), and that requires much higher voltage than 125VAC your wall puts out.
People are attacking the idea because it's not cryptograhically secure, but I think the idea behind it is that it's not illegal to store a bunch of random bytes, even if you happen to store another bunch of random bytes which when combined together produce some non-random bytes which are an MP3 copy of your favorite Metalica CD :-)
You are even safer if you only store one set of random bytes, and someone else stores the other set. After all, it would pretty hard to argue in a court of law that you can't store a string of random bytes if when combined with another particular string of random bytes would produce a copyrighted work. That's because you can always covert any string of data which is long enough into any other string of data with the proper 'pad'. Of course, there are laws against 'facilitating' illegal activities...
Robert