In the UK, you'd have to at least consider the inclusion of the Sinclair ZX80/81 and the BBC computer from the early 80s. Both were affordable, came with BASIC built in and introduced people to the idea of having a computer in their homes - I was particularly fond of BBC basic which, like many others of my generation, gave me my first programming experience.
The reason that is a potential incompatibility is that Motorola-based systems traditionally use big endian addressing, and x86-based hardware uses little-endian addressing.
I'm not a hardware wiz, but Interestingly Apple's Developer Docs suggest that PCI-Based PowerMacs can deal with both on the PCI bus (mixed endian support), but apparently some manufacturersstill seem to have trouble with this
Just found the extra verses on the Cliffe Bonfire Society site - these are the guys that organise the Lewes festival.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes 'twas his intent To blow up the King and the Parliament Three score barrels of powder below Poor old England to overthrow
By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match Holler boys, holler boys, ring bells ring Holler boys, holler boys, God Save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope A farthing o'cheese to choke him A pint of beer to rinse it down A faggot of sticks to burn him
Burn him in a tub of tar Burn him like a blazing star Burn his body from his head Then we'll say old Pope is dead
There's some extra verses to the traditional rhyme that you don't ordinarily hear (for non Brits, it usuall finishes at 'should ever be forgot').
Remember, remember,
The Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot;
I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot,
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'Twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament;
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and lighted match
Holler Boys, holler boys make the bells ring,
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.
And what shall we do with him?
BURN HIM!
I attended the celebrations in Lewes, Sussex a few years ago where a crowd gathers in the town square late at night to recite the rhyme. IIRC the locals all seemed to know even more verses that went on about hanging, drawing and quartering him...
Would have gone again this year, but the Warchowski brothers interfered with my plans:)
I used to sell QuickKeys from 1993 to 1997 (when I left retail) and it was always sensitive to even minor updates to the Mac OS - it seems it's just one of those apps that doesn't like change. I'm therefore hardly surprised that 10.3 breaks it again.
Suitcase (a font management utility for the Mac) was (is?) similarly afflicted. I'm curious to see how it reacts to 10.3...
IIRC, Marshall McLuhan traced the origin of the word 'phony' to con artists running scams (like calling up and pretending they're someone you know for some nefarious purpose) over the newfangled telephone.
People have always found ways to abuse and been afraid of new technology.
I guess you must be on the wrong continent then...
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that 'bright happy cheerful future' where a digital cell phone service is available everywhere is here, right now, in Europe:)
OpenTransport was introduced with the PC-bussed PowerMacs in System 7.5.2 in August 1995. Non-PCI users got it with 7.5.3 in January 1996. You had the option to use 'Classic Networking' in place of OT up to 7.6.
MacTCP was certainly around before the advent of System 7 in May 1991 because I remember having to update to 1.1 to use it with Sytem 7.
The two things that made OT great for me were that you didn't need to reboot the machine to change your TCP/IP settings and that (unlike MacPPP) you could set up your PPP connection without having to write a login script and modem intialisation string. Doing support for an ISP targeted at Mac users at the time it was a major help:)
OT 1.0 was certainly a bit buggy and I used to recommend turning it off quite often. I think many of the problems were due to failures in the Classic Networking emulation built into OT (which became less important as software vendors updated their products). 1.1 onward was a lot better. One thing that didn't really get sorted out properly unti Mac OS 9, however, was DHCP - renewing leases would often cause the Mac to lock up for 30 seconds or so.
Unfortunately I'll have to rely on the good citizens of the United States for this tactic to succeed, as most of the spam I receive with telephone contact details is from the USA. As I'm in the UK, I'm not going to pay for a transatlantic phone call for every complaint I want to make.
I have, however, done this once, when someone spammed the address I had posted on Slashdot (a.co.uk address no less) - advertising PC repair services in the Chicago area. How clueless can you get? Sadly I only got to leave a message on the answering machine.
bzzt! price/performance/productivity discussions are enless, but some of your facts are wrong.
Jun 1988: Mac OS 6.0 Oct 1990: Mac OS 6.0.7 May 1991: Mac OS 7.0 Oct 1991: Windows 3.0 Apr 1992: Windows 3.1 Aug 1992: Mac OS 7.1 June 1994: Mac OS 7.5 Aug 1995: Windows 95
Mac OS 6.x and Windows 3.1 never went head to head as shipping operating systems - Mac OS 7.0 was released nearly 6 months before even Win 3.0 . Win 95 didn't make an appearance for four and a half years after System 7.0.
Probably because artists are often signed to a particular label for one market (say the UK or Europe) and another label for other markets (e.g. the United States). Other labels may pick up the rights elsewhere around the world - just because you're signed with Sony in France doesn't mean that you'll find a single released in Argentina is also on the Sony label
Classic Examples:
The Beatles were signed to Parlophone/EMI in the UK; in the US they were signed to Capitol.
U2 originally signed to CBS Ireland, but only for distribution in the Irish Republic. In a smart move, Island Records picked up the rights for most of the rest of the world.
The US (along with the UK govt) was actually instrumental in developing this policy with the European and other states in the Council of Europe . The Convention is developed from an idea the FBI were punting around in the early nineties.
It should be noted that the Council of Europe is not part of the EU and should not be confused with the European Council. Don't believe anyone who tells you this came from Brussels - This is a case of the nation states going oustide the EU (with the US, Canada and South Africa and Japan) to make an agreement, then propose it as legislation via the Commission (EU governmental heads together) for the European Parliament to approve. I'm actually glad there are some MEPs with some wits about them and a conscience to try to oppose this.
News just in: G8 Justice and Interior Ministers are pushing for this too. Surprise!
While I find it an appalling state of affairs that spammers trawl domain registrations simply so they can send out unsolicited advertising, on balance I'm in favour of keeping the system largely as it is.
Without the ability to lookup the owners of domains and individual IP addresses, it would be much harder to register complaints to ISPs about the torrent of spam that's coming into my mailbox. Traceroute's a useful tool for finding out who a spam host's upstream provider is, but it's not as reliable as whois for getting contact information. If there's no reverse lookup for an address and ICMP packets are screened out several hops out from the offending host then there's no other tool to locate the owner or their provider.
What's really needed are tougher data privacy laws. The US falls far behind the EU in this respect - it seems that once someone has your address it's impossible to prevent it being sold on to third parties in the States. Though legislation isn't the solution to every problem, banning unsolicited commercial bulk eMail would be a good place to start.
Reading your responses to other people's replies I guess you could apply exactly the same arguments about positive/negative effects on the development of Linux to other BSDs than OS X, Open UNIX, IRIX, Minix, Hurd...
'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...' John Donne (1572-1631)
Actually, there were a lot of stories like this one at mackido.com during the early development of OS X (when it was code-named Rhapsody) that Apple would provide 'Red Box' as a compatibility layer for Windows applications when running on Intel hardware in much the same way as 'Blue Box' provided Classic Mac OS services on PowerPC.
'Yellow Box' was the 'OS X native' environment, essentially NeXT OpenStep.
If there were any truth to the rumors of ongoing development of Mac OS X on Intel, then I'm sure Apple would be considering something like this.
He's running Mac OS 9 ans a musician with a recording studio and isn't particularly computer savvy (he does know about lots about sound though). Getting him to get used to a different web browser is hard enough, I only just weaned him off Netscape 3.0...
To my knowledge, the ISP doesn't allow shell access, just POP.
I'm running Mac OS X (hey, it's BSD:) and hacked together what you're describing for him with popsneaker before forwarding his real mail to another POP account.
A friend of mine here in the UK has recently suffered a nasty fate at the hands of some very active spammers... they faked a reply-to address in his domain (summerisle.demon.co.uk).
The result was that, for a period of about two and a half weeks in January, David was receiving over 1000 bounced emails a day, effectively mailbombing his account. With a pay-per-minute 56K modem as his only internet access, it wasn't a pretty sight.
The spammers that sends this stuff out, who identify themselves as 'Global Advertising Systems' and 'Universal Advertising Systems' claim to be based in Billings, MT. You may have seen some of their handiwork in your own mailbox with subjects like 'Increase energy levels', 'Become a Judgement Processing Professional', 'Child Support-Investigator'. They're very effective at covering their tracks - the only contact information is PO Box, telephone and fax numbers in the US, plus disposable eMail address and a snail-mail PO box in Aruba if you want to be 'removed'. All the mail originates in the Phillippines (with the obligatory faked additional headers added) then gets punted out through open relays around the world. Complaints to the ISPs in the Phillipines get no reply or bounced.
Fortunately, I'm lucky enough to have DSL, so I was able to filter the stuff out and forward it on to another account - OK if you've got the bandwidth, but not a proper solution.
The scary bit is that it seems like there's no other defence against this kind of activity. The ISP hosting the domain's POP box sympathised, but said they couldn't do anything to delete this incoming junk before it was delivered. UK & Billings, MT police and the FBI said no crime had been committed and taking private legal action across the Atlantic is a bit out of the reach of a one-man recording studio. My friend's frustrated reaction to another attack this week has been to dump the domain and move elsewhere with a new.com.
If anyone else has any more information on these b*st*rds or ideas for wreaking revenge I'd be interested to hear.
It's a small point, but I think you're a little confused between booting and administration.
I've set up plenty of headless Mac servers in the past and all Macs boot and run quite happily without a monitor attached.
The problem is remote administration, since later Macs (after circa 1996), if booted headless, wouldn't then produce a video display signal that could be picked up by Timbuktu, the only serious option for total remote admin of the computer under Classic Mac OS. There were/are a couple of ways around this - put in a Mac-VGA adapter into the video port (very simple) or use a hardware hack involving a bent paperclip...
Even without video, there are plenty of server applications, such as Filemaker (database), AppleShare IP (file, web & mail) and WebStar (http server for those not in the know) that allow you to remotely administer their services without a VNC-like display of the server, and I've hacked together some useful server admin tools with AppleScript in the past to fill the gaps.
Of course, with OS X, you've got the command line an ssh call away and an exported X-Windows environment or something like Webmin just a couple of steps further. I've not actually checked what the situation is with VNC and Timbuktu on headless Macs under OS X yet as I've been able to accomplish everything I need to like samba and sendmail configs with ssh and vi.
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In the UK, you'd have to at least consider the inclusion of the Sinclair ZX80/81 and the BBC computer from the early 80s. Both were affordable, came with BASIC built in and introduced people to the idea of having a computer in their homes - I was particularly fond of BBC basic which, like many others of my generation, gave me my first programming experience.
The reason that is a potential incompatibility is that Motorola-based systems traditionally use big endian addressing, and x86-based hardware uses little-endian addressing.
I'm not a hardware wiz, but Interestingly Apple's Developer Docs suggest that PCI-Based PowerMacs can deal with both on the PCI bus (mixed endian support), but apparently some manufacturersstill seem to have trouble with this
Just found the extra verses on the Cliffe Bonfire Society site - these are the guys that organise the Lewes festival.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot
I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes 'twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match
Holler boys, holler boys, ring bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God Save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o'cheese to choke him
A pint of beer to rinse it down
A faggot of sticks to burn him
Burn him in a tub of tar
Burn him like a blazing star
Burn his body from his head
Then we'll say old Pope is dead
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
There's some extra verses to the traditional rhyme that you don't ordinarily hear (for non Brits, it usuall finishes at 'should ever be forgot').
:)
Remember, remember,
The Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot;
I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot,
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'Twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament;
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and lighted match
Holler Boys, holler boys make the bells ring,
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.
And what shall we do with him?
BURN HIM!
I attended the celebrations in Lewes, Sussex a few years ago where a crowd gathers in the town square late at night to recite the rhyme. IIRC the locals all seemed to know even more verses that went on about hanging, drawing and quartering him...
Would have gone again this year, but the Warchowski brothers interfered with my plans
I'm puzzled.
How is that different from the bundled USB drivers included with Mac OS X?
Someone read his review of Kill Bill and got the wrong idea :)
Nothing new here.
I used to sell QuickKeys from 1993 to 1997 (when I left retail) and it was always sensitive to even minor updates to the Mac OS - it seems it's just one of those apps that doesn't like change. I'm therefore hardly surprised that 10.3 breaks it again.
Suitcase (a font management utility for the Mac) was (is?) similarly afflicted. I'm curious to see how it reacts to 10.3...
Quite right.
IIRC, Marshall McLuhan traced the origin of the word 'phony' to con artists running scams (like calling up and pretending they're someone you know for some nefarious purpose) over the newfangled telephone.
People have always found ways to abuse and been afraid of new technology.
that 'bright happy cheerful future' where a digital cell phone service is available everywhere is here, right now, in Europe :)
f you're such a goddamn genius, tell me again why you're not rich?
I can't comment on the circumstances of the individual you're directing this at but I'd have thought there's a fairly simple answer to your question:
intelligence != business acumen
OpenTransport was introduced with the PC-bussed PowerMacs in System 7.5.2 in August 1995. Non-PCI users got it with 7.5.3 in January 1996. You had the option to use 'Classic Networking' in place of OT up to 7.6.
:)
MacTCP was certainly around before the advent of System 7 in May 1991 because I remember having to update to 1.1 to use it with Sytem 7.
The two things that made OT great for me were that you didn't need to reboot the machine to change your TCP/IP settings and that (unlike MacPPP) you could set up your PPP connection without having to write a login script and modem intialisation string. Doing support for an ISP targeted at Mac users at the time it was a major help
OT 1.0 was certainly a bit buggy and I used to recommend turning it off quite often. I think many of the problems were due to failures in the Classic Networking emulation built into OT (which became less important as software vendors updated their products). 1.1 onward was a lot better. One thing that didn't really get sorted out properly unti Mac OS 9, however, was DHCP - renewing leases would often cause the Mac to lock up for 30 seconds or so.
Unfortunately I'll have to rely on the good citizens of the United States for this tactic to succeed, as most of the spam I receive with telephone contact details is from the USA. As I'm in the UK, I'm not going to pay for a transatlantic phone call for every complaint I want to make.
.co.uk address no less) - advertising PC repair services in the Chicago area. How clueless can you get? Sadly I only got to leave a message on the answering machine.
I have, however, done this once, when someone spammed the address I had posted on Slashdot (a
Apple charge $0.99 per song, true.
However, I think you'll find that most albums on Apple's iTunes service are available for ~$10.00 if you buy them together.
To pick an example 'Stop Staring at me!' by the Jerky Boys has 24 tracks for $9.99.
bzzt! price/performance/productivity discussions are enless, but some of your facts are wrong.
Jun 1988: Mac OS 6.0
Oct 1990: Mac OS 6.0.7
May 1991: Mac OS 7.0
Oct 1991: Windows 3.0
Apr 1992: Windows 3.1
Aug 1992: Mac OS 7.1
June 1994: Mac OS 7.5
Aug 1995: Windows 95
Mac OS 6.x and Windows 3.1 never went head to head as shipping operating systems - Mac OS 7.0 was released nearly 6 months before even Win 3.0 . Win 95 didn't make an appearance for four and a half years after System 7.0.
Probably because artists are often signed to a particular label for one market (say the UK or Europe) and another label for other markets (e.g. the United States). Other labels may pick up the rights elsewhere around the world - just because you're signed with Sony in France doesn't mean that you'll find a single released in Argentina is also on the Sony label
Classic Examples:
The Beatles were signed to Parlophone/EMI in the UK; in the US they were signed to Capitol.
U2 originally signed to CBS Ireland, but only for distribution in the Irish Republic. In a smart move, Island Records picked up the rights for most of the rest of the world.
Imagine some quotes from stories in the news a few years hence:
"Robbers used a printed replica of an assault rifle to hold up the bank"
"Police today closed down a web site distributing illegal 3D printer files of bomb controllers..."
"The car was using illegal licence plates, downloaded from the internet"
"the explosion at the factory was caused by a faulty component in the control room, which had been fabricated on a 3D printer"
Council of Europe - Convention on Cybercrime
The US (along with the UK govt) was actually instrumental in developing this policy with the European and other states in the Council of Europe . The Convention is developed from an idea the FBI were punting around in the early nineties.
It should be noted that the Council of Europe is not part of the EU and should not be confused with the European Council. Don't believe anyone who tells you this came from Brussels - This is a case of the nation states going oustide the EU (with the US, Canada and South Africa and Japan) to make an agreement, then propose it as legislation via the Commission (EU governmental heads together) for the European Parliament to approve. I'm actually glad there are some MEPs with some wits about them and a conscience to try to oppose this.
News just in: G8 Justice and Interior Ministers are pushing for this too. Surprise!
While I find it an appalling state of affairs that spammers trawl domain registrations simply so they can send out unsolicited advertising, on balance I'm in favour of keeping the system largely as it is.
Without the ability to lookup the owners of domains and individual IP addresses, it would be much harder to register complaints to ISPs about the torrent of spam that's coming into my mailbox. Traceroute's a useful tool for finding out who a spam host's upstream provider is, but it's not as reliable as whois for getting contact information. If there's no reverse lookup for an address and ICMP packets are screened out several hops out from the offending host then there's no other tool to locate the owner or their provider.
What's really needed are tougher data privacy laws. The US falls far behind the EU in this respect - it seems that once someone has your address it's impossible to prevent it being sold on to third parties in the States. Though legislation isn't the solution to every problem, banning unsolicited commercial bulk eMail would be a good place to start.
'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...' John Donne (1572-1631)
Actually, there were a lot of stories like this one at mackido.com during the early development of OS X (when it was code-named Rhapsody) that Apple would provide 'Red Box' as a compatibility layer for Windows applications when running on Intel hardware in much the same way as 'Blue Box' provided Classic Mac OS services on PowerPC.
'Yellow Box' was the 'OS X native' environment, essentially NeXT OpenStep.
If there were any truth to the rumors of ongoing development of Mac OS X on Intel, then I'm sure Apple would be considering something like this.
UK Pricing (inc VAT) on Handspring's web site at European launch (21 Feb):
£299.00 with BT Cellnet contract
£599.00 without contract
699.00 without contract for our chums in the Euro zone.
Uhhm, that's kind of what we ended up doing.
:) and hacked together what you're describing for him with popsneaker before forwarding his real mail to another POP account.
He's running Mac OS 9 ans a musician with a recording studio and isn't particularly computer savvy (he does know about lots about sound though). Getting him to get used to a different web browser is hard enough, I only just weaned him off Netscape 3.0...
To my knowledge, the ISP doesn't allow shell access, just POP.
I'm running Mac OS X (hey, it's BSD
Would the spams be from 'Universal Advertising Systems' or Internet Information Services' by any chance?
They've hit summerisle.demon.co.uk the same way too, but at the rate of about 1000 a day for a couple of weeks. (see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28202&cid=3030 850)
ISPs in the Phillippines I've tried to contact about this are:
N.B. Cureinc at least appears to have no abuse and postmaster accounts (!?) I think they should read RFC 822 and RFC 2142
Not a response from any of them and it's still pouring in.
A friend of mine here in the UK has recently suffered a nasty fate at the hands of some very active spammers... they faked a reply-to address in his domain (summerisle.demon.co.uk).
.com.
The result was that, for a period of about two and a half weeks in January, David was receiving over 1000 bounced emails a day, effectively mailbombing his account. With a pay-per-minute 56K modem as his only internet access, it wasn't a pretty sight.
The spammers that sends this stuff out, who identify themselves as 'Global Advertising Systems' and 'Universal Advertising Systems' claim to be based in Billings, MT. You may have seen some of their handiwork in your own mailbox with subjects like 'Increase energy levels', 'Become a Judgement Processing Professional', 'Child Support-Investigator'. They're very effective at covering their tracks - the only contact information is PO Box, telephone and fax numbers in the US, plus disposable eMail address and a snail-mail PO box in Aruba if you want to be 'removed'. All the mail originates in the Phillippines (with the obligatory faked additional headers added) then gets punted out through open relays around the world. Complaints to the ISPs in the Phillipines get no reply or bounced.
Fortunately, I'm lucky enough to have DSL, so I was able to filter the stuff out and forward it on to another account - OK if you've got the bandwidth, but not a proper solution.
The scary bit is that it seems like there's no other defence against this kind of activity. The ISP hosting the domain's POP box sympathised, but said they couldn't do anything to delete this incoming junk before it was delivered. UK & Billings, MT police and the FBI said no crime had been committed and taking private legal action across the Atlantic is a bit out of the reach of a one-man recording studio. My friend's frustrated reaction to another attack this week has been to dump the domain and move elsewhere with a new
If anyone else has any more information on these b*st*rds or ideas for wreaking revenge I'd be interested to hear.
It's a small point, but I think you're a little confused between booting and administration.
I've set up plenty of headless Mac servers in the past and all Macs boot and run quite happily without a monitor attached.
The problem is remote administration, since later Macs (after circa 1996), if booted headless, wouldn't then produce a video display signal that could be picked up by Timbuktu, the only serious option for total remote admin of the computer under Classic Mac OS. There were/are a couple of ways around this - put in a Mac-VGA adapter into the video port (very simple) or use a hardware hack involving a bent paperclip...
Even without video, there are plenty of server applications, such as Filemaker (database), AppleShare IP (file, web & mail) and WebStar (http server for those not in the know) that allow you to remotely administer their services without a VNC-like display of the server, and I've hacked together some useful server admin tools with AppleScript in the past to fill the gaps.
Of course, with OS X, you've got the command line an ssh call away and an exported X-Windows environment or something like Webmin just a couple of steps further. I've not actually checked what the situation is with VNC and Timbuktu on headless Macs under OS X yet as I've been able to accomplish everything I need to like samba and sendmail configs with ssh and vi.