I guess it is for people who wants a digital archive (probably lossless format) of their huge LP collection.
The USB means less analogue loss too.
BTW if you master your vinyl, really don't waste them with mp3, use FLAC (does it have 24bit capability?) as master format and you can convert -copies- to whatever you want keeping the master.
God, I just really hate microsoft. I'm so sick and tired of their shoddy products, obnoxious business tactics, and anti-customer attitude. Wow, so you hate Microsoft and dieing to run Vista, their core operating system on your Apple computer?
Punish my karma or not, beside some engineering folks (Read:Autocad), I don't get the purpose of running to Apple.com to get bootcamp and buying/pirating MS OS on Apple.
Over the past 5 days I my AV system (Sonicwall w/ Kaspersky) has gone from 0-5 viruses caught a day to 50-100.
April Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.cq 75 Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.cs 61 The Zhelatin exploded, I got 4-5 of them in my mailboxes 24 hours. This is NOT a ordinary worm, it gathers high quality mail database from somewhere. 3 mailboxes getting it which has nothing to do with each other gives no other explanation.
BTW at risk of repeating myself: Clam detects that thing too,WITHOUT opening the actual password protected zip file.
I choose to report my spam instead of ignoring so believe or not, I saw a single Canadian IP spamming (sending that worm) to 3 different mailboxes which has nothing to do with eachother. I even added to spamcop.net report comment "Please take care of this IP" and added the kaspersky virus ID. Guess what happened in return? A kind "thank you we took care of it" from Canadian ISP? No, 2 more spams from same IP!:)
I have checked the senderbase.org entry and it says like 3500% volume increase over 1 day from that IP!
Still, as old timer I feel uncomfortable posting the IP on web whether it is spammer/worm infected or not. I mean that worm really took off, perhaps the owner of botnet finally accepted the price offered by mob,mafia whatever using it. Yet again, no worries, Clam detects even without opening that password protected zipped junk.
"Apple didn't piss off IBM. IBM wasn't able to keep up with its schedule for PowerPC G5 chips (we were promised 3.0GHz PowerPC G5 chips by 2004, but to this day, they never materialized and the fastest the G5 went was 2.7GHz)."
IBM "wasn't able to keep" is wrong, IBM didn't want to keep their promise. They sold their only remaining end user business to Chinese.
They really don't want the stupid gamer FPS races or stuff like that. For that, there is Cell processor. Only way to impress IBM on end user chips is: Order 100M of them. They have totally focused on enterprise/services/mainframe software etc. now. For that segment , you probably know the Power6 is shipping with sort of maniacal 5.6 Ghz speeds and comical performance/watt ratios.
Mhz was a nice excuse for Steve Jobs but even that time, Mhz thing was already over.
In fact I always got confused how come people actually could have imagined PPC970 on laptop:) I am staring to my Quad G5 now and it really needs some imagination.
Vista stole Tiger features, a 2 year old system. There is no competition with MS on "innovation". Leopard could be shipped in 1 months of time but that way, it will be unstable just like Vista.
Apple doesn't need to prove anything and thanks to them for not listening to those fanatics on digg.com/fanboy blogs etc..
"The initial version was slow, not feature complete, and had very few applications available at the time of its launch, mostly from independent developers. Many critics suggested that while the OS was not ready for mainstream adoption, they recognized the importance of its initial launch as a base on which to improve." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX
I also seem to remember a total absence of a DVD player... There are people in professional World who still has questions about OS X in their minds because of 10.0 horrible,incomplete release. They saw it and never looked again. I really think Apple got their lesson.
I always see half of the reason behind those evil, paranoid Apple NDA stuff is the 10.0 preview experience too.
...that I hear coming from the direction of Redmond?
Looks like Vista will have a few more months to get its act together. You may hear a huge sigh of relief from actual Apple users,non fanatics (not saying the other term).
I would never,ever want Apple to release an incomplete, problematic OS for my Macs and naturally my work environment We are speaking about Intel, the ultimate MS Friend, the "Tel" in Wintel publicly saying "we won't upgrade until SP1 Ships" for new MS Windows. Imagine that.
The difference is that anyone can just register any.com domain, even if it's - for example - www-paypal-payments.com or so. www-paypal-payments.bank or www-paypal-payments.safe, on the other hand, could not be registered by phishers, or at least that's the theory. It won't happen if the.safe distributor requires serious papers to register.safe domain.
I am sure F-Secure doesn't give a heck to validating sites. They just want a domain which banks would say "Never trust anything with your account data without ending in.safe domain".
Here are what happened to this date: 1) Never give your data to sites with IP address (fixed, everyone registers a domain now) 2) Never trust to anything without httpS: (Fixed, SSL hosts being cracked and hosting phish.html) 3) Watch the addressbar on your browser to make sure you are at right place (default windows theme addressbar gif plugged to page and toolbar removed from browser, fixed)
Idea seems to be every bank will get a.safe address via appointing financial regulator and unless HSBC stealing Citi customer accounts happens, the address based phishing will be over. At least for sane people with minimum safety precautions. The famous 53 will say "only use 53.safe and forward rest to police"
I think Gmail loving people doesn't use IMAP for their main account and the Google's IMAP like Web interface amazes them.
I may be using the most advanced webmail on planet, fastmail.fm but thanks to their excellent (cyrus based) IMAP support, I have only used the web interface while I don't use my own computer. If they can't make me use webmail, nobody can.
I won't take web apps serious if half of the features go missing when I don't use the carbon monster named Firefox on my machine. What Web 2 advocates do is to end the 1990s crap named "browser sniffing" and actually ASK browser "what capabilities do you have?"
remember when companies would just have an FTP site (sorted by product model) that you could get in and download the drivers you needed?
Progress, I tell ya, progress. I bet IE horrible FTP support was one of the reasons. Remember how pathetic IE 4 handled FTP protocol mounting FTP servers to desktop creating totally confused users?
In fact OS X Safari made same error and recent webkits show they moved back to Netscape style FTP browsing.
Most of the motherboard oem's use IIS for their web sites. They tend to be incredibly slow, go down all the time, and often render poorly (or not at all) on anything other then IE.
All signs of poor admins. I have always wondered if it has something to do with "being nice to Microsoft".
You know, if Microsoft wants to mess with your Intel or AMD motherboard they sure can. After your sales dip, they would happily release a patch saying "apologies".
One of those poor admins killed my motherboard by putting wrong BIOS update back in the day. That is the same company "invented" a true safe (dual chip) BIOS a bit later. That made me bitterly smile when I heard.
That is exactly why I pasted that blog entry. Kaspersky never tried to spread FUD, they tried to inform the IT community about a nightmare scenario where all AV companies fail to detect a perfectly coded virus and its impact on the planet in a professional conference.
As a side note, Kaspersky _is_ the company who found that iPod virus and the blog entry by the BOSS of Kaspersky says it is NOT a danger right now.
Also head to http://www.phishtank.com/ , see the unbreakable, super secure Linux and BSD systems used for criminal purposes. 3-4 years ago, if someone told 2000 phishing sites would be active at a second running Apache/Linux/BSD, they would be blamed for spreading FUD.
I am not saying Linux is unsecure, the "feel" of security such as blaming any company notifying about danger of outdated software and false sense of security is a more dangerous thing than 1000 buffer exploits.
In fact that is exactly why I rip my original CDs to AAC, not because I am in love with iTunes but because it is a published, documented standard which can be supported in the future independently from the company popularising it.
WMA? Back in 1985, if anyone told us Amiga/Atari will go out of business and become what you see today, we would label him "nuts".
""Although antivirus companies will probably create a hype saying that iPods are prone to infections"
Well, (Eugene) Kaspersky says at viruslist.com blog (http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=20818 7356):
"Overall, I don't think iViruses will cause serious problems in the future. The iPod world is very different from the PC and smartphone world. Users aren't constantly installing new software and downloading a wide range of files, so that cuts down on the possible infection vectors. And what's there to steal from an iPod? Multimedia files, and that's about all.
So - it was an interesting little puzzle, this proof of concept, but nothing more."
There is no need to create a different website for mobile devices. Go look at the latest Nokia phones (or the Apple iPhone). Their KHTML-based browser can show me most websites just like they appear on my desktop, and it's not difficult to navigate them even with the smaller screen. With 3G, surfing is finally fast enough to be actually usable.
Now, considering mobile technology most likely only keeps getting better, creating separate "mobile" websites seems like a waste of time and money. So somehow everyone on earth became so rich and techie to buy mini computers branded as "phones" now? Also whole planet moved to 3G? I also know some dollar millionaires wouldn't TOUCH anything named "Smart" not because they can't afford.
Not just that, Opera mini is the ONLY application which ALL Networks/GSM companies suggest in their official support/downloads section. There hasn't been a single application/service these people agreed.
Supporting (!) Opera Mini on your site is easy too: Just care about web standards. You will be amazed that it even "figures" the Site menu and displays it like you have sit down and coded it exclusively for it.
Surfing the net on my phone is a neat idea, I just can't see anyone using it a great deal. Am I alone here?
No, I only use mine to read BBC News on the go (they have a good mobile site) and to access a little 'hello world' type page on my home server, just as a check that all is well at the house. Anything else is fruitless. We managed to reach a completely wrong, weird area while trying to get to Ikea Istanbul. What we did? I fired Opera Mini at my cell phone and went to www.ikea.com.tr web (not wap) page, zoomed the map they give over my tiny cell phone and happily found it.
I am quoting/replying to you but trying to tell those "iPhone ships", "my 1 Gig PDA runs web browser" people why you should really care about mobile sites and browsing users. Even Slashdot has mobile friendly content at wap.slashdot.org , not like CmdrTaco loves the wap browsing:)
There is no need to create a different website for mobile devices. Go look at the latest Nokia phones (or the Apple iPhone). Their KHTML-based browser can show me most websites just like they appear on my desktop, and it's not difficult to navigate them even with the smaller screen. With 3G, surfing is finally fast enough to be actually usable.
Now, considering mobile technology most likely only keeps getting better, creating separate "mobile" websites seems like a waste of time and money. Some of us cares about the other 1 billion people using WAP 1/2 and Opera Mini browsers to reach content effectively.
For Opera mini, trick is simple: Code web standards based. For WAP conversion tools? Another trick: Code web standards based.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess it is for people who wants a digital archive (probably lossless format) of their huge LP collection.
The USB means less analogue loss too.
BTW if you master your vinyl, really don't waste them with mp3, use FLAC (does it have 24bit capability?) as master format and you can convert -copies- to whatever you want keeping the master.
Punish my karma or not, beside some engineering folks (Read:Autocad), I don't get the purpose of running to Apple.com to get bootcamp and buying/pirating MS OS on Apple.
April
Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.cq 75
Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.cs 61 The Zhelatin exploded, I got 4-5 of them in my mailboxes 24 hours. This is NOT a ordinary worm, it gathers high quality mail database from somewhere. 3 mailboxes getting it which has nothing to do with each other gives no other explanation.
BTW at risk of repeating myself: Clam detects that thing too,WITHOUT opening the actual password protected zip file.
I choose to report my spam instead of ignoring so believe or not, I saw a single Canadian IP spamming (sending that worm) to 3 different mailboxes which has nothing to do with eachother. I even added to spamcop.net report comment "Please take care of this IP" and added the kaspersky virus ID. Guess what happened in return? A kind "thank you we took care of it" from Canadian ISP? No, 2 more spams from same IP! :)
I have checked the senderbase.org entry and it says like 3500% volume increase over 1 day from that IP!
Still, as old timer I feel uncomfortable posting the IP on web whether it is spammer/worm infected or not. I mean that worm really took off, perhaps the owner of botnet finally accepted the price offered by mob,mafia whatever using it. Yet again, no worries, Clam detects even without opening that password protected zipped junk.
Lets add, currently (right at this moment), I don't recommend that preview release to PPC based Macs.
"Apple didn't piss off IBM. IBM wasn't able to keep up with its schedule for PowerPC G5 chips (we were promised 3.0GHz PowerPC G5 chips by 2004, but to this day, they never materialized and the fastest the G5 went was 2.7GHz)."
:) I am staring to my Quad G5 now and it really needs some imagination.
IBM "wasn't able to keep" is wrong, IBM didn't want to keep their promise. They sold their only remaining end user business to Chinese.
They really don't want the stupid gamer FPS races or stuff like that. For that, there is Cell processor. Only way to impress IBM on end user chips is: Order 100M of them. They have totally focused on enterprise/services/mainframe software etc. now. For that segment , you probably know the Power6 is shipping with sort of maniacal 5.6 Ghz speeds and comical performance/watt ratios.
Mhz was a nice excuse for Steve Jobs but even that time, Mhz thing was already over.
In fact I always got confused how come people actually could have imagined PPC970 on laptop
Vista stole Tiger features, a 2 year old system. There is no competition with MS on "innovation". Leopard could be shipped in 1 months of time but that way, it will be unstable just like Vista.
Apple doesn't need to prove anything and thanks to them for not listening to those fanatics on digg.com/fanboy blogs etc..
"The initial version was slow, not feature complete, and had very few applications available at the time of its launch, mostly from independent developers. Many critics suggested that while the OS was not ready for mainstream adoption, they recognized the importance of its initial launch as a base on which to improve."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX
I also seem to remember a total absence of a DVD player... There are people in professional World who still has questions about OS X in their minds because of 10.0 horrible,incomplete release. They saw it and never looked again. I really think Apple got their lesson.
I always see half of the reason behind those evil, paranoid Apple NDA stuff is the 10.0 preview experience too.
...that I hear coming from the direction of Redmond?Looks like Vista will have a few more months to get its act together. You may hear a huge sigh of relief from actual Apple users,non fanatics (not saying the other term).
I would never,ever want Apple to release an incomplete, problematic OS for my Macs and naturally my work environment We are speaking about Intel, the ultimate MS Friend, the "Tel" in Wintel publicly saying "we won't upgrade until SP1 Ships" for new MS Windows. Imagine that.
:hint: Get a free developer account from Apple at http://developer.apple.com/
You need it to report OS X/Apple Software bugs anyway.
It is a preview release btw. Don't forget to send the reports and respect Apple NDA.
I think that is the idea.
Here is the "banking" scene right now:
.safe domain".
.safe address via appointing financial regulator and unless HSBC stealing Citi customer accounts happens, the address based phishing will be over. At least for sane people with minimum safety precautions. The famous 53 will say "only use 53.safe and forward rest to police"
http://www.phishtank.com/phish_archive.php
I am sure F-Secure doesn't give a heck to validating sites. They just want a domain which banks would say "Never trust anything with your account data without ending in
Here are what happened to this date:
1) Never give your data to sites with IP address (fixed, everyone registers a domain now)
2) Never trust to anything without httpS: (Fixed, SSL hosts being cracked and hosting phish.html)
3) Watch the addressbar on your browser to make sure you are at right place (default windows theme addressbar gif plugged to page and toolbar removed from browser, fixed)
Idea seems to be every bank will get a
I think Gmail loving people doesn't use IMAP for their main account and the Google's IMAP like Web interface amazes them.
j ectdetection.html
I may be using the most advanced webmail on planet, fastmail.fm but thanks to their excellent (cyrus based) IMAP support, I have only used the web interface while I don't use my own computer. If they can't make me use webmail, nobody can.
I won't take web apps serious if half of the features go missing when I don't use the carbon monster named Firefox on my machine. What Web 2 advocates do is to end the 1990s crap named "browser sniffing" and actually ASK browser "what capabilities do you have?"
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/ob
Progress, I tell ya, progress. I bet IE horrible FTP support was one of the reasons. Remember how pathetic IE 4 handled FTP protocol mounting FTP servers to desktop creating totally confused users?
In fact OS X Safari made same error and recent webkits show they moved back to Netscape style FTP browsing.
All signs of poor admins. I have always wondered if it has something to do with "being nice to Microsoft".
You know, if Microsoft wants to mess with your Intel or AMD motherboard they sure can. After your sales dip, they would happily release a patch saying "apologies".
One of those poor admins killed my motherboard by putting wrong BIOS update back in the day. That is the same company "invented" a true safe (dual chip) BIOS a bit later. That made me bitterly smile when I heard.
That is exactly why I pasted that blog entry. Kaspersky never tried to spread FUD, they tried to inform the IT community about a nightmare scenario where all AV companies fail to detect a perfectly coded virus and its impact on the planet in a professional conference.
As a side note, Kaspersky _is_ the company who found that iPod virus and the blog entry by the BOSS of Kaspersky says it is NOT a danger right now.
Also head to http://www.phishtank.com/ , see the unbreakable, super secure Linux and BSD systems used for criminal purposes. 3-4 years ago, if someone told 2000 phishing sites would be active at a second running Apache/Linux/BSD, they would be blamed for spreading FUD.
I am not saying Linux is unsecure, the "feel" of security such as blaming any company notifying about danger of outdated software and false sense of security is a more dangerous thing than 1000 buffer exploits.
I bet RMS will go mad since it isn't called GNU-Podloso
Mp3 is twice the size of the AAC and both technologies have similar specs as "documented", "not tied to single company/platform".
It wouldn't bother to send a 6 mb mp3 instead of 3.2 MB AAC to a friend but imagine 5 million "friends", you will get the idea.
In fact that is exactly why I rip my original CDs to AAC, not because I am in love with iTunes but because it is a published, documented standard which can be supported in the future independently from the company popularising it.
WMA? Back in 1985, if anyone told us Amiga/Atari will go out of business and become what you see today, we would label him "nuts".
""Although antivirus companies will probably create a hype saying that iPods are prone to infections"
8 7356):
Well, (Eugene) Kaspersky says at viruslist.com blog (http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=2081
"Overall, I don't think iViruses will cause serious problems in the future. The iPod world is very different from the PC and smartphone world. Users aren't constantly installing new software and downloading a wide range of files, so that cuts down on the possible infection vectors. And what's there to steal from an iPod? Multimedia files, and that's about all.
So - it was an interesting little puzzle, this proof of concept, but nothing more."
See anything like "patent" there? no. They just say stick to the freaking standards.
Now, considering mobile technology most likely only keeps getting better, creating separate "mobile" websites seems like a waste of time and money. So somehow everyone on earth became so rich and techie to buy mini computers branded as "phones" now? Also whole planet moved to 3G? I also know some dollar millionaires wouldn't TOUCH anything named "Smart" not because they can't afford.
Please, stop this ignorance.
Not just that, Opera mini is the ONLY application which ALL Networks/GSM companies suggest in their official support/downloads section. There hasn't been a single application/service these people agreed.
Supporting (!) Opera Mini on your site is easy too: Just care about web standards. You will be amazed that it even "figures" the Site menu and displays it like you have sit down and coded it exclusively for it.
I am quoting/replying to you but trying to tell those "iPhone ships", "my 1 Gig PDA runs web browser" people why you should really care about mobile sites and browsing users. Even Slashdot has mobile friendly content at wap.slashdot.org , not like CmdrTaco loves the wap browsing
Now, considering mobile technology most likely only keeps getting better, creating separate "mobile" websites seems like a waste of time and money. Some of us cares about the other 1 billion people using WAP 1/2 and Opera Mini browsers to reach content effectively.
For Opera mini, trick is simple: Code web standards based. For WAP conversion tools? Another trick: Code web standards based.