Google analytics, embedded in page source itself. Please, please try to find the real problem, it is not about some nerd coolness like scriptblock or flashblock whatever. It is the generic end user who's privacy is raped every single second and no he/she doesn't really have a single clue about javascript or analytics.
If something is convenient, the lemmings will use it that way. That is what he trust to. EFF "tweets" about this issue, I hope they don't setup a Facebook group to effectively protest it. EFF is the organization who still kept that God damn Google search on their site anyway, now they switched to Yahoo like there is NO OTHER solution for a site wide search, e.g. some open source system. Google is the worst thing happened to the Internet, now Adwords dealers can down mod me. Oops, bitched about Apple app store too, I deserve all I get.:)
You know, I can bet 99% of Slashdot readers weren't surprised/amazed by this "false information" and they didn't even bother to comment on it let alone reading article.
People seem to expect such things may happen on app store and guess what? They don't even care anymore. It is iPhone developers and User's concern. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised a bit.
Sorry for calling them monkeys but, if you think about it, by ignoring hundred million Symbian handsets, about a billion J2ME handsets and even Google backed Android and relying to App store for their only source of app sales and shipments, they deserve all kinds of such treatments. "Symbian development sucks" is NOT an excuse anymore, especially after there is working Qt frameworks completely backed by Nokia and real life, million download apps exist. There is even an application which is coded entirely in J2ME (Locago) which manages to beat free/pure C+++ multi billion dollar worth Nokia maps. Oh guess what? Nokia doesn't seem to bother, they even advertise it.
There are pretty advanced developers there, highly professional, not known to stand to bullshit until... iPhone shipped. As a person who uses Apple desktop for years (surprise!), I know some of them. If it was 5 years earlier and I told them that some intern will analyze his app symbols and let it ship based on that, I can predict the answer I would get.
Not just that, they (Apple) and their slave developers who can stand to every kind of treatment, including idea stealing/patenting gives some real bad/evil ideas to the rest of industry including Microsoft. That is the part concerning me. Back in 1990s, when old nerds bitched about MS-DOS and Win16, we told them "why would I care? I own a 32bit Amiga" but, that backwards junk managed to kill all competition and transformed the industry so bad that, we are just recovering from it...
Remember this post when something resembling "app store" manages to go live on desktop on OS X 10.7 or Windows 8.
As a person in TV industry, I can really relate to "people still running windwos 2000" but, trust me, it is absolutely suicidalif one doesn't run a commercial quality AV actually doing heuristics like Kaspersky or F-Secure.
I am not a shareholder in these companies of course, it is just that they are running way deeper security checks and actually watching what really happens on the OS. People blame them for being heavier than "freeware av" for that reason.
If you can live with pro-active way of doing things, Comodo AV which is freeware, in case it works under Win2K is a good choice too. It is like eSafe end user version (which has been abandoned) which really figures the threats even if it has no clue about them.
While on it, OS X 10.4.11 Tiger doesn't get security updates too. I can only (unfortunately) suggest Intego Virusbarrier which is a bit pricey to them. There is a cost of having to use older commercial operating system. Obviously, I don't think there is a black hat dumb enough to specifically target some poor guy being forced to run 10.4.11 and spend time on it.
I remember everyone laughing at GRC.com for alerting about port 135 being wide open to net. While it can be blamed on his kind of language (nano somethings etc.) to blame, nobody listened to him and Blaster happened. Funny thing is, even a non computer geek can be convinced that autorunning programs in this age is a bad thing in 10 seconds and yet MS doesn't disable it. You know one of the most dangerous and destructive viruses on MacOS (not OS X) is actually named "autorun"? So, the vendor (Apple) did what? Released "hotfixes", called Verisign? They simply disabled the functionality all together and added a kinda undocumented bit to removable media HFS to "display contents in finder whenever it is inserted" (still works in OS X). So, user could double click thing saying "double click me to install". There, problem fixed. No harm done. MacOS software industry didn't collapse, people didn't look to their newly purchased devices without clue...
Your fix doesn't matter as 99% of people out there will wonder around with autorun enabled.
MS have to copy Apple's way of doing things. How long it took for Apple to fix the "startup items" flaw? They changed the scheme of doing things, did couple of permission tricks and prompted user with a complete non nerd window saying "Wrong permissions in Startup Items" like thing, with 2 options "fix" "don't fix", "fix" selected by default.
Or, they figured Input Manager functionality which allows running from user's own "Input managers" directory (in $HOME) is flawed, about to get expolited. In next OS X, they made it ignore the Input Managers in Users home dir and allowed only Admin installed input managers. Didn't it create problem on a OS which is advertised as "it just works"? of course it did but it saved a lot of users who otherwise wouldn't have clue how powerful Input Managers can be.
What MS have to do is, tell big vendors of boxed software/drivers/devices "this is it folks, talk to your DTP department to add instructions of installing your software to the box, we are disabling autorun by default". They can also add Windows 95 "install applications/drivers" control panel to a easy to reach place. E.g. right under their precious "Internet: Internet Explorer" start menu item:)
For some reason, MS will shy away from mandadory CRL/OCSP checks. Bandwidth issues for 1 kb traffic?
Realtek drivers, as they are software/hardware hybrid (more like softmodem) with unneccesarry junk like an extra control panel weights around 40 MB. Everyone knows it since we have to deal with their aspx powered weirdo site when vendors, including Apple Inc. installs old version of drivers. What kind of harm would Windows do asking certificate vendor (Verisign in this case) if the certificate is real?
This is also a mistake by Apple too, they don't enable ocsp, at least to "best attempt" in fresh OS X install. You gotta do it in keychain utility preferences. Sad that, on OS X way of doing things, that would mean an instant security boost since native OS X apps uses the same framework for SSL comms.
Funny is, this is also a problem on Symbian which doesn't rely on "app store". For example, on Nokia E71, one must live a complete usability hell if he/she enables "online certificate revocation check". They just couldn't fix the freaking UI and disabled online certificate check for signed symbian apps. So what happens if some dumb shareware vendor loses their certificate or they actually freely sign malware? You install AV. All this for saving (!) 1 KB of traffic.
So, even if Verisign revokes it (or hurries, whatever), it won't have any effect until MS/Apple/Symbian (don't know others) wake up and enable certificate revocation checks by default in these days even your heater is connected to the internet.
Lets not forget so-called apps does nothing more than displaying HTML with couple of stock Obj-C UI tricks.
If I have agreed to Steve Ballmer of MS one time, it is the time when he mentioned that fact.
Sad thing is, that joke like claimed "apps" made their way to Symbian too, with stupid Nokia/Symbian shipping a web wizard for them. http://www.oviappwizard.com/web_nokia/signIn.jsp . So there we have thousands of "apps" (!). Of course, it is the bloggers/users/industry constantly whining about number of apps on Symbian to blame. I bet J2ME/Oracle will do a similar trick soon.
As a Symbian user, I really wonder what kind of evil thing not having a walled kindergarten like Appstore cost to me.
You know; iPhone and iPad app store also means you can't take extra measures such as app firewall/antivirus if you really have critical data or overly concerned about the threats. It is not like Apple will allow something like "F-Secure" for iPhone and obviously, nothing can hook to file IO etc. functions.
Those "black hat" conference guys aren't really black hats. The actual black hats are waiting for the first opportunity to expolit a device which has rich owners, no protection and perfect communication abilities along with mic/camera built in. You are relying on couple of symbol checking mnonkeys for security. If you call it security of course.
4:3 monitor is widely used in business environments and having 4:3 1024x768 monitor doesn't automatically entitle you to "old monitor using dinosaur".
Why 4:3? If you have a book or as you are super modern, a "Kindle", check its W/H ratio. It took centuries.
16:9 or, the horrible 16:10 (which has something to do with scaling 4:3 evenly) are good for... movie/video watching. 4:3 is good for reading/editing text/ business graphics. Sad thing is, some professional webmasters knowing this fact and insisted on using 4:3 on main text (e.g. story) area started to give it up because of 16:9 owners keep whining about "wasted space".
Oh, if human eye evaluates in matter of millions of years, 16:9 can become optimal reading format:)
You know, nice joke but, someone really tricked him good.
As a person in video/tv (not porn) business, I know the porn types and lots of G5 towers are used in that business, today. It is because, just like any video/dtp/audio business, they don't buy "trendy" stuff, they run hardware as long as it fits to their purposes. In video, it is all about AVID/FCP/Plugins/Disk bandwidth/Card availability. All you care is what spec (720p/1080/web only/3GPP) you will offer your content on.
Audio really gets interesting since Audio types are the last ones to get impressed. All they care is, Pro tools and particular version they are used to run. Similar on professional DTP too.
I keep reading the title trying to figure if he really means G5, not G3 which has a horrible lack of Altivec (like SSE/MMX). Confused really.
Geez, that is not a G3 Machine for God's sake. It is a workstation which is still used in production environments.
It is supported via OS X Leopard which the Snow Leopard doesn't share the same name just because Apple couldn't find a new cat name, it is because Snow Leopard was _built on_ OS X Leopard. Just like Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista. Of course, Apple did "security/safari/itunes only updates" but, it was their own choice with lots of iPad/iPhone stuff going on. Also you wouldn't want "snow leopard" pure 64bit OS on it since on G5, "pure 64bit" really means "access more than 4 GB on a single application", not anything else. It is not x86 which had "bonus stuff" coming to that archaic architecture which wins because of popularity. I am telling these "karma suicide" things since if you actually go pure Linux, make sure you pick a 32bit distro as "pure 64bit coolness" may&will mean overhead and slowness.
Unless developer is a complete "trendy type", he/she still supports OS X Leopard/PPC since there is no reason not to. Of course, I speak about "native OS X apps", not Adobe stuff coming with lots of Windows/X86 copy paste code. Look to top 10 downloads in various sites, they are all PPC/X86/Leopard+. Tiger has issues since it doesn't have kernel functionality in some cases, like the VLC (I heard it is about threads).
For the people saying "massive heat", "power". G5 in Workstation configuration, idles 37 degrees celsius. How much does your Intel do? SJobs had very valid points, about future of Apple and how IBM G5 (PPC970) doesn't fit to it... But the "heat", "watt" etc. were all misunderstood, out of context. It doesn't fit to portable future (which was proved right), it happily runs on desktop, _still_ with IBM current AIX 7 (beta, massive specs) included.
I owned a G5 1600, moved to Quad G5 2500 so I can keep on PPC arch for a long time (was proved right not to jump to those early Intels), I also got G4 Mini, there are more Intel Macs in house... I try so hard to get "impressed", like Wow factor, when you as Amiga 500 user, run Amiga 4000 first time... Can't yet... As Apple keeps doing crazy things like using core duo in this age, where i5/i3 exists, for a long time, I am staying. If Developers doesn't support? "My" vendors are real Mac software houses, you know the ones running XCode. They still support and unless a real necessity happens, they will keep supporting.
It would be "fun" to suggest some nerd fantasy, some kind of joke but, really if you come to slashdot asking "what to do" with a 64bit RISC processor which, if it was IBM pSeries, would have current OS.... You get it... Check the websites/irc channels you frequent, someone really did some reality field distortion to you.
Funny thing is, it will likely have "gnash" installed/enabled as you can really do some education software easily with Flash. Lots of "kids games" too. As there is no "h264" etc. involved, I am sure gnash will have no problem. Of course, if dinosaur Adobe wakes up and codes the actual Flash platform for it, it would be better. Now that would be some real thing to do against Apple, rather than blog-trolling:)
On OS X, you gotta enable OCSP/CRL functionality via keychain utility preferences which means, 99% of people didn't enable at all.
Of course, with OS X logic of working, almost entire OS becomes OCSP aware and with 5 years of usage, I haven't seen a single issue resulting from that setting. I have no clue why Apple doesn't enable it either. Of course, OS X doesn't have "signed drivers" (in logic of Windows) but it would really matter if some big idiot website lost their certificate.
With their market share, any small looking issue could become a global disaster. Add the fact that, new fashion "free antivirus" stuff rarely has decent heuristics to catch such a complex behavior, you get the picture.
Apple, with their current desktop marketshare are free to ignore such issues for couple of months but when we speak about Microsoft Windows, small issues really becomes very critical.
They acknowledge the issue doesn't matter a thing. Especially if the issue is so simple so any script kiddie can exploit it.
On OS X; you have to run "Keychain Utility" and its preferences to enable OCSP functionality to check certificate revocation. Does Windows mechanism to check certificate revocation run by default?
So, revoking certificate won't mean a thing until some windows update (aka updated root certificates) comes. That would -of course- change if Microsoft takes it serious enough to ship a 5 KB (yes, kilobyte) Windows out of band update which won't require reboot or impossible to cause issues.
Don't they have slightest clue about what Realtek "sound" has become? I suspect they have bigger market share than Intel (compared to AMD) right now. As these chips are software based, people always keep them updated. Another issue is, Realtek downloads aren't really easy so it is one of the most third party hosted driver around. OS X user rarely using Windows via bootcamp knows these but MS doesn't?
This is for all portable stuff with connectivity getting stolen: Make sure the device serial number/IMEI (cell phones) is recorded somewhere officially.
Those guys who doesn't have a slightest clue about IP address can get really smart if a crime (worse than stealing) takes place with that particular device.
I know some people doesn't take their time reporting and it is like a time bomb waiting to happen. For example, what happens if that unreported cheap cell phone is used by a major drug dealer? It would really take time and money to explain the situation in that case.
Plasma TVs doesn't take too much power, at least the new models. They always analyze the light conditions surrounding them and set brightness based on that. They also come with that setting as default.
I won't repeat manufacturer claims as we all know they are a bit too ideal. Lets say, I connected it to a 800VA APC UPS (which, I suggest to all equipment owners) and I noticed it can feed for 15 mins along with a H264/HDTV DVR box.
Just wait couple of months until all vendors setup their LED TV etc. contracts, we will hear similar "how evil, horrible LCD is" embedded to stories like that.
While on it, this is exactly why you should never buy the new trendy "electric car" stuff. If tons of coal burns somewhere to feed the electric car, it doesn't really help much compared to lets say, a really small engine/modern/compact car. I know the "hybrid" advantages of course, it is just the way people fool themselves driving me mad.
After reading your post, I actually formatted the external drive to UDF 2.51 considering it will be used on Win Vista and OS X latest (SL).
It is a perfect filesystem in theory. In reality, it is either Vista or OS X to blame, it didn't really work as theorized. OS X Disk Utility kept whining, neither OS used the excellent features (store native metadata etc.) offered and lack of "fsck" utility killed it for me.
Now, I know such a excellent option exist without any lack of features and can store native stuff, I got really pissed.
Thanks to "cold war" between both companies, Apple and Microsoft, I don't know who to blame. I went back to old fashion "divide disk to 2, use ntfs and hfs+" method.
BTW; I am not the "MR" guy, I am the guy you replied to.
I don't say "ship a BBC sisx and abandon everything" of course... I just want to remind the people that, Symbian, now open source down to a point asking users "what to change in next UI" to ordinary users is in fact, British.
If I was a British, I would be pissed at "iPhone modern app" misinformation. In fact, if you look very deeper, it is BBC which has a huge effect on Acorn/Psion/Symbian. That is the 80s BBC who could be visionary enough to change where technology is heading, general public access technology (check BBC Micro), can invent unheard things (Teletext aka CeeFax) etc.
What happened and they changed to a "lets wait for that intern at Apple to verify our app symbols"? Anyone (except Murdoch trolls) wrote about it?
For people saying "It is a small amount of money", let me remind you, they have a station which a guy from Istanbul tunes in each morning to hear unique/quality British music (BBC 6) and they almost closed it down for budget reasons.
"Sure, let's have the Government expand it to provide for Symbian, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME etc."
There is no need to "expand". Code something in J2ME and ship on _everything_ you mention, including non smart ones. Believe or not, you can even do "location based" cool stuff on J2ME handsets.
Blackberry and Android, no matter how good they hide that fact, are Java based. You know, it is not "cool" to run Java these days. I mean "Java based" as, J2ME extended, a special Java, whatever you want to call it.
I wonder if Oracle completely opened, freely licensed J2ME, it would change a thing? Don't answer too quickly as I have seen Nokia spend hundreds of millions of dollars to open source symbian, acquire Qt, LGPL it, the result: "iPhone=modern technology", Nokia=Amateur coder, troll target.
I was just about to suggest using J2ME , the true multi handset "app" platform which would do wonders for a entity like BBC as they could get whatever powerful certificate they want...
Of course, it is not "cool" or "hip" but it works, ask Opera guys (Mini), especially in such scenario. Yahoo idiots did their own J2ME platform based runtime once, suggesting developers to work with widgets and either the lack of trust (which was verified later) or financial issues resulted in giving up. I actually used it on my handset as many people, it worked perfectly. As it is a schizoid company, they abandoned it and suggested everyone use their branded Opera Mini which is essentially J2ME.
Of course, there is a catch. You support 99% of phones (non smart included) but, you still have to code an "app" for iPhone as it doesn't support J2ME.
While on it, iPhone is an advanced smart phone, it doesn't equal "modern technology". Android, Symbian and even Windows 7/Mobile are modern too, in their own way.
As we talk about multi platform access, I don't mention the funny fact that Symbian is at London, open source, huge market share and British technology. That is a question Symbian foundation, especially Nokia should ask themselves first and BBC later...
As I figured my $50 scanner can indeed do 48bit colour or 16bit gray scanning, I went to official (note:official) channel of GIMP to ask if GIMP finally has the capability, some idiot replied "no it hasn't because you didn't code it" and I found myself at Adobe online shop to buy Photoshop Elements with that anger.
I was just lucky that Adobe didn't offer online sales to my country.
Not that I am some colour elitist or something, I was trying to master and basic colour fix some real old photos to DVD and wanted the best I could handle. Now just imagine what kind of questions actual photo professionals would ask and what kind of answers they would get before getting kickbanned by those idiots.
I noticed GIMP guys rely on 2 individuals trying their best to bring GIMP binaries to nr. 1 design OS on planet.
Result? GIMP latest version with that feature built in is OS X 10.6.4 only while Photoshop which has considerably larger code and dealing with a lot more issues manages to keep OS X 10.4/10.5 compatibility.
Sad thing is, they didn't even notice most of "home" scanners are capable of 48bit or at least 36 bit colour and they kept claiming that is a professional need for ages. No it is not a pro only need, even home users would benefit from it.
Now, for me, capability finally introduced with PPC support and OS X 10.5 support dropped. Open source guys really think everyone runs out and buys new operating systems the day they were shipped right? That is something to learn first: Professional users always tend to use "1 earlier" Major version of operating systems, not the latest. If they somehow managed to break OS X 10.5 compatibility (lets forget PPC CPU), it means most of professionals won't even be able to try it to begin with.
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Please, please try to find the real problem, it is not about some nerd coolness like scriptblock or flashblock whatever. It is the generic end user who's privacy is raped every single second and no he/she doesn't really have a single clue about javascript or analytics.
If something is convenient, the lemmings will use it that way. That is what he trust to. :)
EFF "tweets" about this issue, I hope they don't setup a Facebook group to effectively protest it.
EFF is the organization who still kept that God damn Google search on their site anyway, now they switched to Yahoo like there is NO OTHER solution for a site wide search, e.g. some open source system.
Google is the worst thing happened to the Internet, now Adwords dealers can down mod me. Oops, bitched about Apple app store too, I deserve all I get.
You know, I can bet 99% of Slashdot readers weren't surprised/amazed by this "false information" and they didn't even bother to comment on it let alone reading article.
People seem to expect such things may happen on app store and guess what? They don't even care anymore. It is iPhone developers and User's concern. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised a bit.
Sorry for calling them monkeys but, if you think about it, by ignoring hundred million Symbian handsets, about a billion J2ME handsets and even Google backed Android and relying to App store for their only source of app sales and shipments, they deserve all kinds of such treatments. "Symbian development sucks" is NOT an excuse anymore, especially after there is working Qt frameworks completely backed by Nokia and real life, million download apps exist. There is even an application which is coded entirely in J2ME (Locago) which manages to beat free/pure C+++ multi billion dollar worth Nokia maps. Oh guess what? Nokia doesn't seem to bother, they even advertise it.
There are pretty advanced developers there, highly professional, not known to stand to bullshit until... iPhone shipped. As a person who uses Apple desktop for years (surprise!), I know some of them. If it was 5 years earlier and I told them that some intern will analyze his app symbols and let it ship based on that, I can predict the answer I would get.
Not just that, they (Apple) and their slave developers who can stand to every kind of treatment, including idea stealing/patenting gives some real bad/evil ideas to the rest of industry including Microsoft. That is the part concerning me. Back in 1990s, when old nerds bitched about MS-DOS and Win16, we told them "why would I care? I own a 32bit Amiga" but, that backwards junk managed to kill all competition and transformed the industry so bad that, we are just recovering from it...
Remember this post when something resembling "app store" manages to go live on desktop on OS X 10.7 or Windows 8.
As a person in TV industry, I can really relate to "people still running windwos 2000" but, trust me, it is absolutely suicidalif one doesn't run a commercial quality AV actually doing heuristics like Kaspersky or F-Secure.
I am not a shareholder in these companies of course, it is just that they are running way deeper security checks and actually watching what really happens on the OS. People blame them for being heavier than "freeware av" for that reason.
If you can live with pro-active way of doing things, Comodo AV which is freeware, in case it works under Win2K is a good choice too. It is like eSafe end user version (which has been abandoned) which really figures the threats even if it has no clue about them.
While on it, OS X 10.4.11 Tiger doesn't get security updates too. I can only (unfortunately) suggest Intego Virusbarrier which is a bit pricey to them. There is a cost of having to use older commercial operating system. Obviously, I don't think there is a black hat dumb enough to specifically target some poor guy being forced to run 10.4.11 and spend time on it.
I remember everyone laughing at GRC.com for alerting about port 135 being wide open to net. While it can be blamed on his kind of language (nano somethings etc.) to blame, nobody listened to him and Blaster happened.
Funny thing is, even a non computer geek can be convinced that autorunning programs in this age is a bad thing in 10 seconds and yet MS doesn't disable it.
You know one of the most dangerous and destructive viruses on MacOS (not OS X) is actually named "autorun"? So, the vendor (Apple) did what? Released "hotfixes", called Verisign? They simply disabled the functionality all together and added a kinda undocumented bit to removable media HFS to "display contents in finder whenever it is inserted" (still works in OS X). So, user could double click thing saying "double click me to install". There, problem fixed. No harm done. MacOS software industry didn't collapse, people didn't look to their newly purchased devices without clue...
Your fix doesn't matter as 99% of people out there will wonder around with autorun enabled.
MS have to copy Apple's way of doing things. How long it took for Apple to fix the "startup items" flaw? They changed the scheme of doing things, did couple of permission tricks and prompted user with a complete non nerd window saying "Wrong permissions in Startup Items" like thing, with 2 options "fix" "don't fix", "fix" selected by default.
Or, they figured Input Manager functionality which allows running from user's own "Input managers" directory (in $HOME) is flawed, about to get expolited. In next OS X, they made it ignore the Input Managers in Users home dir and allowed only Admin installed input managers. Didn't it create problem on a OS which is advertised as "it just works"? of course it did but it saved a lot of users who otherwise wouldn't have clue how powerful Input Managers can be.
What MS have to do is, tell big vendors of boxed software/drivers/devices "this is it folks, talk to your DTP department to add instructions of installing your software to the box, we are disabling autorun by default". They can also add Windows 95 "install applications/drivers" control panel to a easy to reach place. E.g. right under their precious "Internet: Internet Explorer" start menu item :)
Hotfixes, AV software, reg hacks won't cut it.
For some reason, MS will shy away from mandadory CRL/OCSP checks. Bandwidth issues for 1 kb traffic?
Realtek drivers, as they are software/hardware hybrid (more like softmodem) with unneccesarry junk like an extra control panel weights around 40 MB. Everyone knows it since we have to deal with their aspx powered weirdo site when vendors, including Apple Inc. installs old version of drivers. What kind of harm would Windows do asking certificate vendor (Verisign in this case) if the certificate is real?
This is also a mistake by Apple too, they don't enable ocsp, at least to "best attempt" in fresh OS X install. You gotta do it in keychain utility preferences. Sad that, on OS X way of doing things, that would mean an instant security boost since native OS X apps uses the same framework for SSL comms.
Funny is, this is also a problem on Symbian which doesn't rely on "app store". For example, on Nokia E71, one must live a complete usability hell if he/she enables "online certificate revocation check". They just couldn't fix the freaking UI and disabled online certificate check for signed symbian apps. So what happens if some dumb shareware vendor loses their certificate or they actually freely sign malware? You install AV. All this for saving (!) 1 KB of traffic.
So, even if Verisign revokes it (or hurries, whatever), it won't have any effect until MS/Apple/Symbian (don't know others) wake up and enable certificate revocation checks by default in these days even your heater is connected to the internet.
Lets not forget so-called apps does nothing more than displaying HTML with couple of stock Obj-C UI tricks.
If I have agreed to Steve Ballmer of MS one time, it is the time when he mentioned that fact.
Sad thing is, that joke like claimed "apps" made their way to Symbian too, with stupid Nokia/Symbian shipping a web wizard for them. http://www.oviappwizard.com/web_nokia/signIn.jsp . So there we have thousands of "apps" (!). Of course, it is the bloggers/users/industry constantly whining about number of apps on Symbian to blame. I bet J2ME/Oracle will do a similar trick soon.
As a Symbian user, I really wonder what kind of evil thing not having a walled kindergarten like Appstore cost to me.
You know; iPhone and iPad app store also means you can't take extra measures such as app firewall/antivirus if you really have critical data or overly concerned about the threats. It is not like Apple will allow something like "F-Secure" for iPhone and obviously, nothing can hook to file IO etc. functions.
Those "black hat" conference guys aren't really black hats. The actual black hats are waiting for the first opportunity to expolit a device which has rich owners, no protection and perfect communication abilities along with mic/camera built in. You are relying on couple of symbol checking mnonkeys for security. If you call it security of course.
4:3 monitor is widely used in business environments and having 4:3 1024x768 monitor doesn't automatically entitle you to "old monitor using dinosaur".
Why 4:3? If you have a book or as you are super modern, a "Kindle", check its W/H ratio. It took centuries.
16:9 or, the horrible 16:10 (which has something to do with scaling 4:3 evenly) are good for... movie/video watching. 4:3 is good for reading/editing text/ business graphics. Sad thing is, some professional webmasters knowing this fact and insisted on using 4:3 on main text (e.g. story) area started to give it up because of 16:9 owners keep whining about "wasted space".
Oh, if human eye evaluates in matter of millions of years, 16:9 can become optimal reading format :)
You know, nice joke but, someone really tricked him good.
As a person in video/tv (not porn) business, I know the porn types and lots of G5 towers are used in that business, today. It is because, just like any video/dtp/audio business, they don't buy "trendy" stuff, they run hardware as long as it fits to their purposes. In video, it is all about AVID/FCP/Plugins/Disk bandwidth/Card availability. All you care is what spec (720p/1080/web only/3GPP) you will offer your content on.
Audio really gets interesting since Audio types are the last ones to get impressed. All they care is, Pro tools and particular version they are used to run. Similar on professional DTP too.
I keep reading the title trying to figure if he really means G5, not G3 which has a horrible lack of Altivec (like SSE/MMX). Confused really.
Geez, that is not a G3 Machine for God's sake. It is a workstation which is still used in production environments.
It is supported via OS X Leopard which the Snow Leopard doesn't share the same name just because Apple couldn't find a new cat name, it is because Snow Leopard was _built on_ OS X Leopard. Just like Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista. Of course, Apple did "security/safari/itunes only updates" but, it was their own choice with lots of iPad/iPhone stuff going on. Also you wouldn't want "snow leopard" pure 64bit OS on it since on G5, "pure 64bit" really means "access more than 4 GB on a single application", not anything else. It is not x86 which had "bonus stuff" coming to that archaic architecture which wins because of popularity. I am telling these "karma suicide" things since if you actually go pure Linux, make sure you pick a 32bit distro as "pure 64bit coolness" may&will mean overhead and slowness.
Unless developer is a complete "trendy type", he/she still supports OS X Leopard/PPC since there is no reason not to. Of course, I speak about "native OS X apps", not Adobe stuff coming with lots of Windows/X86 copy paste code. Look to top 10 downloads in various sites, they are all PPC/X86/Leopard+. Tiger has issues since it doesn't have kernel functionality in some cases, like the VLC (I heard it is about threads).
For the people saying "massive heat", "power". G5 in Workstation configuration, idles 37 degrees celsius. How much does your Intel do? SJobs had very valid points, about future of Apple and how IBM G5 (PPC970) doesn't fit to it... But the "heat", "watt" etc. were all misunderstood, out of context. It doesn't fit to portable future (which was proved right), it happily runs on desktop, _still_ with IBM current AIX 7 (beta, massive specs) included.
I owned a G5 1600, moved to Quad G5 2500 so I can keep on PPC arch for a long time (was proved right not to jump to those early Intels), I also got G4 Mini, there are more Intel Macs in house... I try so hard to get "impressed", like Wow factor, when you as Amiga 500 user, run Amiga 4000 first time... Can't yet... As Apple keeps doing crazy things like using core duo in this age, where i5/i3 exists, for a long time, I am staying. If Developers doesn't support? "My" vendors are real Mac software houses, you know the ones running XCode. They still support and unless a real necessity happens, they will keep supporting.
It would be "fun" to suggest some nerd fantasy, some kind of joke but, really if you come to slashdot asking "what to do" with a 64bit RISC processor which, if it was IBM pSeries, would have current OS.... You get it... Check the websites/irc channels you frequent, someone really did some reality field distortion to you.
Funny thing is, it will likely have "gnash" installed/enabled as you can really do some education software easily with Flash. Lots of "kids games" too. :)
As there is no "h264" etc. involved, I am sure gnash will have no problem.
Of course, if dinosaur Adobe wakes up and codes the actual Flash platform for it, it would be better. Now that would be some real thing to do against Apple, rather than blog-trolling
On OS X, you gotta enable OCSP/CRL functionality via keychain utility preferences which means, 99% of people didn't enable at all.
Of course, with OS X logic of working, almost entire OS becomes OCSP aware and with 5 years of usage, I haven't seen a single issue resulting from that setting. I have no clue why Apple doesn't enable it either. Of course, OS X doesn't have "signed drivers" (in logic of Windows) but it would really matter if some big idiot website lost their certificate.
With their market share, any small looking issue could become a global disaster. Add the fact that, new fashion "free antivirus" stuff rarely has decent heuristics to catch such a complex behavior, you get the picture.
Apple, with their current desktop marketshare are free to ignore such issues for couple of months but when we speak about Microsoft Windows, small issues really becomes very critical.
They acknowledge the issue doesn't matter a thing. Especially if the issue is so simple so any script kiddie can exploit it.
On OS X; you have to run "Keychain Utility" and its preferences to enable OCSP functionality to check certificate revocation. Does Windows mechanism to check certificate revocation run by default?
So, revoking certificate won't mean a thing until some windows update (aka updated root certificates) comes. That would -of course- change if Microsoft takes it serious enough to ship a 5 KB (yes, kilobyte) Windows out of band update which won't require reboot or impossible to cause issues.
Don't they have slightest clue about what Realtek "sound" has become? I suspect they have bigger market share than Intel (compared to AMD) right now. As these chips are software based, people always keep them updated. Another issue is, Realtek downloads aren't really easy so it is one of the most third party hosted driver around. OS X user rarely using Windows via bootcamp knows these but MS doesn't?
This is for all portable stuff with connectivity getting stolen: Make sure the device serial number/IMEI (cell phones) is recorded somewhere officially.
Those guys who doesn't have a slightest clue about IP address can get really smart if a crime (worse than stealing) takes place with that particular device.
I know some people doesn't take their time reporting and it is like a time bomb waiting to happen. For example, what happens if that unreported cheap cell phone is used by a major drug dealer? It would really take time and money to explain the situation in that case.
Plasma TVs doesn't take too much power, at least the new models. They always analyze the light conditions surrounding them and set brightness based on that. They also come with that setting as default.
I won't repeat manufacturer claims as we all know they are a bit too ideal. Lets say, I connected it to a 800VA APC UPS (which, I suggest to all equipment owners) and I noticed it can feed for 15 mins along with a H264/HDTV DVR box.
Just wait couple of months until all vendors setup their LED TV etc. contracts, we will hear similar "how evil, horrible LCD is" embedded to stories like that.
While on it, this is exactly why you should never buy the new trendy "electric car" stuff. If tons of coal burns somewhere to feed the electric car, it doesn't really help much compared to lets say, a really small engine/modern/compact car. I know the "hybrid" advantages of course, it is just the way people fool themselves driving me mad.
After reading your post, I actually formatted the external drive to UDF 2.51 considering it will be used on Win Vista and OS X latest (SL).
It is a perfect filesystem in theory. In reality, it is either Vista or OS X to blame, it didn't really work as theorized. OS X Disk Utility kept whining, neither OS used the excellent features (store native metadata etc.) offered and lack of "fsck" utility killed it for me.
Now, I know such a excellent option exist without any lack of features and can store native stuff, I got really pissed.
Thanks to "cold war" between both companies, Apple and Microsoft, I don't know who to blame. I went back to old fashion "divide disk to 2, use ntfs and hfs+" method.
BTW; I am not the "MR" guy, I am the guy you replied to.
I don't say "ship a BBC sisx and abandon everything" of course... I just want to remind the people that, Symbian, now open source down to a point asking users "what to change in next UI" to ordinary users is in fact, British.
If I was a British, I would be pissed at "iPhone modern app" misinformation. In fact, if you look very deeper, it is BBC which has a huge effect on Acorn/Psion/Symbian. That is the 80s BBC who could be visionary enough to change where technology is heading, general public access technology (check BBC Micro), can invent unheard things (Teletext aka CeeFax) etc.
What happened and they changed to a "lets wait for that intern at Apple to verify our app symbols"? Anyone (except Murdoch trolls) wrote about it?
For people saying "It is a small amount of money", let me remind you, they have a station which a guy from Istanbul tunes in each morning to hear unique/quality British music (BBC 6) and they almost closed it down for budget reasons.
"Sure, let's have the Government expand it to provide for Symbian, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME etc."
There is no need to "expand". Code something in J2ME and ship on _everything_ you mention, including non smart ones. Believe or not, you can even do "location based" cool stuff on J2ME handsets.
Blackberry and Android, no matter how good they hide that fact, are Java based. You know, it is not "cool" to run Java these days. I mean "Java based" as, J2ME extended, a special Java, whatever you want to call it.
I wonder if Oracle completely opened, freely licensed J2ME, it would change a thing? Don't answer too quickly as I have seen Nokia spend hundreds of millions of dollars to open source symbian, acquire Qt, LGPL it, the result: "iPhone=modern technology", Nokia=Amateur coder, troll target.
I was just about to suggest using J2ME , the true multi handset "app" platform which would do wonders for a entity like BBC as they could get whatever powerful certificate they want...
Of course, it is not "cool" or "hip" but it works, ask Opera guys (Mini), especially in such scenario. Yahoo idiots did their own J2ME platform based runtime once, suggesting developers to work with widgets and either the lack of trust (which was verified later) or financial issues resulted in giving up. I actually used it on my handset as many people, it worked perfectly. As it is a schizoid company, they abandoned it and suggested everyone use their branded Opera Mini which is essentially J2ME.
Of course, there is a catch. You support 99% of phones (non smart included) but, you still have to code an "app" for iPhone as it doesn't support J2ME.
While on it, iPhone is an advanced smart phone, it doesn't equal "modern technology". Android, Symbian and even Windows 7/Mobile are modern too, in their own way.
As we talk about multi platform access, I don't mention the funny fact that Symbian is at London, open source, huge market share and British technology. That is a question Symbian foundation, especially Nokia should ask themselves first and BBC later...
As I figured my $50 scanner can indeed do 48bit colour or 16bit gray scanning, I went to official (note:official) channel of GIMP to ask if GIMP finally has the capability, some idiot replied "no it hasn't because you didn't code it" and I found myself at Adobe online shop to buy Photoshop Elements with that anger.
I was just lucky that Adobe didn't offer online sales to my country.
Not that I am some colour elitist or something, I was trying to master and basic colour fix some real old photos to DVD and wanted the best I could handle. Now just imagine what kind of questions actual photo professionals would ask and what kind of answers they would get before getting kickbanned by those idiots.
I noticed GIMP guys rely on 2 individuals trying their best to bring GIMP binaries to nr. 1 design OS on planet.
Result? GIMP latest version with that feature built in is OS X 10.6.4 only while Photoshop which has considerably larger code and dealing with a lot more issues manages to keep OS X 10.4/10.5 compatibility.
Sad thing is, they didn't even notice most of "home" scanners are capable of 48bit or at least 36 bit colour and they kept claiming that is a professional need for ages. No it is not a pro only need, even home users would benefit from it.
Now, for me, capability finally introduced with PPC support and OS X 10.5 support dropped. Open source guys really think everyone runs out and buys new operating systems the day they were shipped right? That is something to learn first: Professional users always tend to use "1 earlier" Major version of operating systems, not the latest. If they somehow managed to break OS X 10.5 compatibility (lets forget PPC CPU), it means most of professionals won't even be able to try it to begin with.