but it still gets shipped with 95%+ of all windows boxes
Minor correction: It get's shipped with all of them. It gets used by some high percentage (95% may be about right) of the users of those boxen, the rest of whom download something else and use IE only in the context of Windows Update - but because of Windows Update, you could successfully argue that 100% of windows users whose computers are connected to the Internet use IE at least part of the time.
Don't network printers have print servers built-in
They do have print servers, by definition, but they typically do not spool jobs and print them in order. They typically take in a job and reject any others until it finishes the first one. Unless they are particularly expensive ones that come with hard drives and the like.
also, what does "rochambeaux" mean?
Turns out I spelled it wrong. It's roshambo, sometimes known as 'rock, paper, scissors." Alternately (and more humorously), it references South Park where Cartman explains that it's a game where two opponents kick each other in the nuts until one of them gives up. In both senses, for the purpose of this discussion, it represents an arbitration game.
Bonjour IS browser agnostic. Any browser that supports Bonjour would find and pull up any web server that advertised via Bonjour. All it would need to do is ask for a list of all of the _http._tcp advertisements on the local LAN and turn it into a bookmark-like menu. It's not hard.
And I mentioned IE because TFA is about Bonjour for Windows - which among other things adds the above Bonjour linkage functionality to IE. Safari already supports Bonjour, so any home router / NAT / firewall type appliance that advertised its configuration UI server via bonjour would show up under the Bonjour menu on a mac.
No. These are Ethernet equipped printers that broadcast their own IP with Bonjour.
I would argue, however, that in an enterprise setting where there is a danger of more than one printer of the same model on the same subnet, your admins should be configuring them not to have the default name.
Either that, or they would disable bonjour come over and configure your printer to use the print server so that jobs will spool and be printed in order rather than having two computers that want to print at the same time having to rochambeaux for it.
Bonjour isn't an Enterprise tool. It's a SOHO / home / public LAN sort of tool.
Actually, it's incredibly useful. There are a boatload of appliances that you plug into your network nowadays that have web servers built-in to them. For instance, everybody has a firewall/NAT appliance nowadays. What if you got to the configuration page simply by finding it in a menu in your browser rather than having to either guess or look up the default IP address?
Sun has been saying this, more or less, since about 1994. Personally, I always saw that argument as similar to the guy who gets the wooden medal saying he could have won the 100 meter if it had been best-of-4.
It sure the hell is. I have a 2.0x2 G5 desktop machine and one of the new 1.66 GHz Core Duo Mac Minis. Running Handbrake, the mini is easily twice as fast.
1. There are HDMI to DVI cables. The only question mark is the type of DVI your card uses. There are 3 types, depending on which sets of signals the jack has: DVI-A, DVI-D and DVI-I. HDMI is all digital, but its backwards compatible with DVI-D (DVI-I is a combination of both A and D - analog and digital). So unless your card is DVI-A, you should be able to use a DVI-to-HDMI cable to hook up your display. You will need to make separate arrangements for audio, however, since DVI (unlike HDMI) has no provisions for it.
This does presume that the card is able to put out a mode/timing that's compatible with the set, of course.
2. What you're probably talking about is the requirement that non HDCP-hardened outputs from HD players are supposed to be down-resed to 480p (or whatever). I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to bet that this is not an absolute requirement, but that there's a bit that the disk can set to require this behavior. Not all studios or titles will make the decision to flip that bit on on their content, and I'd certainly expect them not to bother until/unless the technology to take DVI-B and rip it to MPEG4 becomes widespread. Unlike macrovision on analog outputs, which largely went unnoticed with DVDs, this bit does threaten to have a real impact on folks, so I would expect a site to pop up relatively shortly with a list of disks "not to buy" unless you have HDCP. The industry might even respond with a standardized icon on the box whose meaning is "HDCP required for full resolution."
The other obvious restriction is that the HD media is itself encrypted, so when HD-DVD-ROM drives come out, you won't be able to read the data off of them (except in the context of an HD-DVD movie player app), at least not until it's reverse engineered and cracked like DVDs were.
3. I may be wrong, but I am unaware of any HD video capture cards. There are HD tuner cards/boxes out there that will do HDTV, but they're decoding the RF from a TV station and getting MPEG2 streams. That's not the same thing as ripping 1080i from a DVI connector and turning THAT into MPEG2. Even if that were possible, the original source (HDTV, HD-DVD, DVD, whatever) was probably compressed in the first place, so you'll be recompressing it, which will degrade the picture some (more).
Perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised that users who are accustomed to drag and drop software installs might not be able to handle wrangling beta software that works at such a low level.
<sarcasm>I didn't know the XP installer was still in beta. That explains a lot.</sarcasm>
1. He's already out a bunch of money trying to figure out what happened.
2. He could change the DNS name, but then every legitimate user would have to change their configuration, and there's no guarantee D-Link wouldn't just update the firmware with the new name.
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The parent is right, for the most part. But I will share my experience. I switched a few years ago (before Panther). I bought my mac with a copy of Virtual PC and a copy of Win2k. That was going to be my "safety net" in the exact same way that a dual-boot configuration with boot camp might be considered a safety net today.
It was only after I had been up and running for 6 months that I realized that I had really only used Virtual PC seriously for about two weeks before I found all of the native MacOS X apps I needed and wanted to run.
You can *tell* a switcher he won't miss Windows, but if you can give him a security blanket and let him discover that on his own, so much the better.
I am, however, somewhat less interested in Boot Camp than in the virtualization stuff that the rumor sites say is coming RSN.
For the benefit of anybody who is new here (not necessarily the parent poster), "air supply" in this context refers to an incident in 1998 during the anti-trust trial of Microsoft. Paraphrasing roughly, a Microsoft executive said that if Netscape didn't agree to partition the web browser market, Microsoft would "cut off their air supply," presumably by engaging in the same sorts of behavior they were alleged to have perpetrated against Dr. DOS (look for the blue text down a bit) back in the day.
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Minor correction: It get's shipped with all of them. It gets used by some high percentage (95% may be about right) of the users of those boxen, the rest of whom download something else and use IE only in the context of Windows Update - but because of Windows Update, you could successfully argue that 100% of windows users whose computers are connected to the Internet use IE at least part of the time.
That's not quite true.
Your girlfriend certainly did. :)
Oh wait. This is /. ...
Your parents potty trained you with a sharp stick, didn't they?
They do have print servers, by definition, but they typically do not spool jobs and print them in order. They typically take in a job and reject any others until it finishes the first one. Unless they are particularly expensive ones that come with hard drives and the like.
also, what does "rochambeaux" mean?
Turns out I spelled it wrong. It's roshambo, sometimes known as 'rock, paper, scissors." Alternately (and more humorously), it references South Park where Cartman explains that it's a game where two opponents kick each other in the nuts until one of them gives up. In both senses, for the purpose of this discussion, it represents an arbitration game.
Outstanding! They should add that to the page that the G-G-GP linked to.
:)
Now if only someone would port it to FreeBSD...
Bonjour IS browser agnostic. Any browser that supports Bonjour would find and pull up any web server that advertised via Bonjour. All it would need to do is ask for a list of all of the _http._tcp advertisements on the local LAN and turn it into a bookmark-like menu. It's not hard.
And I mentioned IE because TFA is about Bonjour for Windows - which among other things adds the above Bonjour linkage functionality to IE. Safari already supports Bonjour, so any home router / NAT / firewall type appliance that advertised its configuration UI server via bonjour would show up under the Bonjour menu on a mac.
You still can! And the best part is you don't even have to wait!
No. These are Ethernet equipped printers that broadcast their own IP with Bonjour.
I would argue, however, that in an enterprise setting where there is a danger of more than one printer of the same model on the same subnet, your admins should be configuring them not to have the default name.
Either that, or they would disable bonjour come over and configure your printer to use the print server so that jobs will spool and be printed in order rather than having two computers that want to print at the same time having to rochambeaux for it.
Bonjour isn't an Enterprise tool. It's a SOHO / home / public LAN sort of tool.
Ha ha.
Actually, it's incredibly useful. There are a boatload of appliances that you plug into your network nowadays that have web servers built-in to them. For instance, everybody has a firewall/NAT appliance nowadays. What if you got to the configuration page simply by finding it in a menu in your browser rather than having to either guess or look up the default IP address?
None of the steps on that page will do what the GP poster wants - allow his Linux machine to ping by name hosts using mDNS.
Someone would need to write an nsswitch "plugin" for bonjour. So far as I know, this has not been done.
Better not run a DHCP server, then.
Sun has been saying this, more or less, since about 1994. Personally, I always saw that argument as similar to the guy who gets the wooden medal saying he could have won the 100 meter if it had been best-of-4.
It sure the hell is. I have a 2.0x2 G5 desktop machine and one of the new 1.66 GHz Core Duo Mac Minis. Running Handbrake, the mini is easily twice as fast.
1. There are HDMI to DVI cables. The only question mark is the type of DVI your card uses. There are 3 types, depending on which sets of signals the jack has: DVI-A, DVI-D and DVI-I. HDMI is all digital, but its backwards compatible with DVI-D (DVI-I is a combination of both A and D - analog and digital). So unless your card is DVI-A, you should be able to use a DVI-to-HDMI cable to hook up your display. You will need to make separate arrangements for audio, however, since DVI (unlike HDMI) has no provisions for it.
This does presume that the card is able to put out a mode/timing that's compatible with the set, of course.
2. What you're probably talking about is the requirement that non HDCP-hardened outputs from HD players are supposed to be down-resed to 480p (or whatever). I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to bet that this is not an absolute requirement, but that there's a bit that the disk can set to require this behavior. Not all studios or titles will make the decision to flip that bit on on their content, and I'd certainly expect them not to bother until/unless the technology to take DVI-B and rip it to MPEG4 becomes widespread. Unlike macrovision on analog outputs, which largely went unnoticed with DVDs, this bit does threaten to have a real impact on folks, so I would expect a site to pop up relatively shortly with a list of disks "not to buy" unless you have HDCP. The industry might even respond with a standardized icon on the box whose meaning is "HDCP required for full resolution."
The other obvious restriction is that the HD media is itself encrypted, so when HD-DVD-ROM drives come out, you won't be able to read the data off of them (except in the context of an HD-DVD movie player app), at least not until it's reverse engineered and cracked like DVDs were.
3. I may be wrong, but I am unaware of any HD video capture cards. There are HD tuner cards/boxes out there that will do HDTV, but they're decoding the RF from a TV station and getting MPEG2 streams. That's not the same thing as ripping 1080i from a DVI connector and turning THAT into MPEG2. Even if that were possible, the original source (HDTV, HD-DVD, DVD, whatever) was probably compressed in the first place, so you'll be recompressing it, which will degrade the picture some (more).
<sarcasm>I didn't know the XP installer was still in beta. That explains a lot.</sarcasm>
I agree that having them be different sizes makes for an excellent sanity check.
Crazy mods. On what planet is that comment "Funny"?
Uh... I just finished doing our taxes with the Mac version of Turbo Tax. Works great.
Oh really?
RTFA. He discusses this.
1. He's already out a bunch of money trying to figure out what happened.
2. He could change the DNS name, but then every legitimate user would have to change their configuration, and there's no guarantee D-Link wouldn't just update the firmware with the new name.
The parent is right, for the most part. But I will share my experience. I switched a few years ago (before Panther). I bought my mac with a copy of Virtual PC and a copy of Win2k. That was going to be my "safety net" in the exact same way that a dual-boot configuration with boot camp might be considered a safety net today.
It was only after I had been up and running for 6 months that I realized that I had really only used Virtual PC seriously for about two weeks before I found all of the native MacOS X apps I needed and wanted to run.
You can *tell* a switcher he won't miss Windows, but if you can give him a security blanket and let him discover that on his own, so much the better.
I am, however, somewhat less interested in Boot Camp than in the virtualization stuff that the rumor sites say is coming RSN.
Clicky.
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She allegedly committed a tort. Not a crime. If criminal law were involved, she'd be negotiating with a district attorney, not the RIAA.