Seriously, whenever a story about Chinese invention or Russian invention appears, the tone of comments instantly change. It is like Slashdot in Reagan era.
Seriously, if both Russia and USA didn't work together, the International Space Station etc. was a complete failure since Soviets had some special expertise and Americans had some special expertise. When you watch NASA TV when ISS stuff going on, it is almost like half Russian, half English broadcast.
You sound like some Taliban guys on Afghan mountains came up with the idea. At least on science.slashdot.org , please end this "Reds can't do shit" political crap.
If they come up with nuclear ideas, they could be probably right and using the expertise they gained when people didn't question/know their mad experiments. Read some books/watch some documentaries about their nuclear powered bomber project which actually flown until even red bureaucrats figured it is way risky.
If it was maintained well, Soviet shuttle was way more safe than US Space Shuttle since it was entirely based on liquid fuel. It was also completely reusable.
I can't find my source now but I am sure I didn't watch it on some "red" propaganda channel, I watched it either on Discovery TV or Nat Geo.
Ask any experienced Admin, Google News would be "delinked" long time ago if it wasn't carrying "Google" name.
I have seen amazing things and they weren't some "123movies" spam, they were coming from real World criminals, UN wide accepted terrorist organizations and some real huge pyramid scheme running guys.
When you confuse it with a real "managed" server and you spend your time reporting it with headers taking your own time to Google, they send back a freaking template saying they are using your report for statistics etc. I wonder if any law organizations spare their time to watch public messages instead of wondering after teenagers downloading some movies.
Why on earth such an advanced developer, especially in that area would require "Google Groups"? Why not run a private NNTP/web Hybrid which is also perfectly available to index/use?
I bet there are solutions using JQuery itself, not my area so I just shut up at this point.
Back in the day when Dejanews was a "cool web 2.0" like thing for Usenet and Usenet was still popular, they could manage the actual, pro spammer attacks with handful of people. Those were the days when CNET had "help.com" which allowed complete newbies to post questions to Usenet.
Now Google, with impossible to imagine computing resources lets the core Usenet _and_ their own private groups gets polluted by trivial spam. Yes, trivial since even my stupid mail filters can sort that kind of spam without even touching bayesian etc. filters.
It is almost like pyramid scheme. Spammer uses Google groups infrasacture to post pirate software download forums which are solely gathering income from Google adwords. That happens on a big5 one, not some alt.conspiracy low traffic thing.
In first days, I thought Google didn't care on purpose of promoting their own, closed, moderated fake groups but it was a total tinfoil hat theory. They simply didn't/doesn't have competency to carry that kind of job which 2-3 experienced admins did while Usenet was 10x-20x more popular.
It is a very special piece of software with very special purpose. It runs "as root", even some call "above the root" with its own kernel extensions. I talk about a emulator/hypervisor. For example, AV solutions, firewalls under OS X is incapable of watching what it does.
I think AIX is capable of doing the thing you ask for but of course, it doesn't run on Mac and there is no "Virtual PC" for AIX anyway:)
People using Entourage (Outlook (lite) for Mac) had to live that surprise when their OS X Leopard with Time Machine went insane with 1-2 GB backups hourly. Some didn't figure what is going on until TM started to delete old backups for space. MS, as usual, didn't even bother tell the people using "enemy OS". I think they still have to exclude their mails while backing up and use a different application for backing up their mails.
Apple went from mbox (flat) to single mail files almost instantly when they had Spotlight enabled since Spotlight is not suitable for single mailbox. Opera guys did the same in recent versions for safety, indexing and backup reasons. It is only MS Entourage which is amazingly expensive doesn't have that choice.
Interesting thing... While Samsung must be crap (I know), it must have released some firmware updates for these devices. I don't remember seeing a single "Mac OS X SSD Firmware update" on "version control" sites I visit regularly. I saw some updates relating to AHCI issues (yes, they exist) but not for SSD.
So, you pay extra $$ and you don't get any advantage of it right?
Do you put some kind of file to specific location like Pro Cameras etc? I mean, it doesn't offer a.exe and say "run it" right? I am especially concerned since it is Intel , the CPU manufacturer we talk about.
I have some plans for SSD'ing couple of PPC based laptops we have since they are mostly used like a Network client so I don't care about disk space. When I figured how much these devices rely on firmware updates, I had to ask. I hope we don't "unshield" or even worse, "plug it to a PC" to make firmware update work.
ps: Yes, I know these things rely on host adapter, I care mainly about battery life and durability. I don't expect 100MB/sec on G4.
As a person who spent a lot of time at real BBS scene (in my own country), IRC (before the web), I think people overrates those times. There were same amount of idiots, lamers, trolls and even Microserfs around. They were just less visible to ordinary people.
Compiling your own is always the best, especially when you get gcc etc. updates but here is the reality: Compiling some apps takes insane amount of time. Unless you really know what you are doing or your distro has support for special configurations, it has no advantage at all too. You just end up with the same binary.
I guess guy proposes it for "user level", general end user distros.
A serious zero day threat, such as Blaster doesn't need any kind of user intervention, nothing open, no configuration faults. It just works. It is not like they will browse with IE and let me tell one reason why most installs a VM, to actually BROWSE with IE under Windows. Web designers, people who does business with companies infested with MS and even some Intranet users.
Also when I talk about OS X users, I talk about the general community. You know, same guys double click DMG files and happily give their passwords to have some "codec" installed (trojan).
Speaking (typing) from a Quad G5, PPC and watched the happenings in OS X community/developer scene since Intel transition announced. If Intel one day manages to make Atom (x86) run in same low power as ARM licensed CPUs, ARM is doomed.
Why? Compare the compile process of an open source, multimedia application on PPC and Intel. See the "bonus" stuff Intel chips get? Every kind of optimization, way more cheaper is available on Intel x86/SSE. Trust me, I am more amazed to Intel's developer/development/application support every single day. I don't even blame Apple anymore, I blame IBM/Motorola etc.
Those "self-important jerkoffs" prevented BBC from launching MS Silverlight/DRM based iPlayer. It seems like they know their rights better than you and it sometimes helps to remind those bureaucrats who is the boss.
If you are infected while VM is on, there is nothing stopping your virtual machine send spams, distribute viruses and doing even worse things. I have seen how fast and easy a good written worm infects system without any sign.
There are also mad things happening like Delphi based virus infecting million downloaded utility developer machine without getting noticed and being distributed. Take Windows security very serious and of course, I don't say you should run some state of art security suite. A basic and good written AV like Avast can even run fine under emulated x86 (VPC 7).
Look to BBC Website comments on every single stupid technical change they propose. British start the sentence with "I am paying my license fee." If you pay taxes, you have paid for that iPhone/iPod application too.
Of course, enjoy your passive, slashdot comment mocking, that is what they trust while making an exclusive for a single brand's closed platform.
App must be getting its data from some site, possibly in XML form (too tired to run Wireshark). They could make the API available to any developer wanting to make an application like that with basic (non apple like) guidelines.
That could prevent a lot of questions. They are lucky that I am not an American tax payer. I would have some real questions to them and people in charge.
You don't ask: What kind of iPhone specific technology and coding advantages (remember:NASA) made this app available on iPhone while other smart phones having same capabilities (even J2ME big screen!) existing for years?
That is one hell of a question we Symbian, J2ME and possibly Windows Mobile users are asking every single day. Of course, Nokia, Sun, MS should ask it themselves first. It seems Nokia got what was wrong and trying to change its attitude but it will take months/years to overcome "Symbian is hard" prejudice. Sun? They do nothing... Absolutely nothing at all and I speak about near 1 billion mobile devices.
If you look deeper to Apple users virtual machines (Sun Virtual Box etc.) , lots of them doesn't bother to install some free AV, a basic one saying "it is virtual anyway". When you talk about how evil things can be done while their virtual machine up and what kind of trouble they may get into if they have bad luck, they install a free AV to Windows.
If you have trouble convincing such people, just use plain logic: It can even run some games let alone a worm/trojan/virus.
MS is happy with their NTFS, Apple and even professional users are happy with HFS+ especially after the addition of journaling. Only unhappy people are techies, a small percentage of them.
Of course, if you are Pixar, you got XSan etc. as option.
I keep suspecting the lack of special, unique HFS+ features support or the technical or even political issues implementing them to a pure UNIX filesystem was preventing ZFS on OS X.
Ever spoke with a nerd about HFS+, Resource Forks and even changeable icons on Finder with some weird Apple only flags? They say it is lame, I say "It is HOW Mac works!" and even "It is how they can sell NeXT/UNIX to people." They don't even understand why OS X comes with case insensitive HFS+ by default. For example, does ZFS support case insensitive filenames? Sounds lame but it is a must on OS X Pro desktops.
I have heard (from mailing list) that Finder on OS X, including SL (Cocoa) does some block level stuff while emptying trash and it was the reason that poster gave up ZFS without Apple support.
As I use Finder for years and know how strange things it does sometimes, it sounded valid to me. Perhaps you should empty your own trash via Terminal?
You mean the same people who paid to software (OS) and hardware combination and didn't ask Apple what the heck that "impossible to change" Google search in OS Default browser will cause a riot against some ads?
What made me more than angry was the first release and later releases of Safari on fscking Windows had Yahoo search option. iPhone/iPod too. Believe or not, Apple is after couple of cents from Google and that is why they include Google by default. Apple, the 1.6 billion profit making company... I understand Mozilla, Opera but NOT Apple. Even MS is decent enough to show you choices in first IE screen.
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Seriously, whenever a story about Chinese invention or Russian invention appears, the tone of comments instantly change. It is like Slashdot in Reagan era.
Seriously, if both Russia and USA didn't work together, the International Space Station etc. was a complete failure since Soviets had some special expertise and Americans had some special expertise. When you watch NASA TV when ISS stuff going on, it is almost like half Russian, half English broadcast.
You sound like some Taliban guys on Afghan mountains came up with the idea. At least on science.slashdot.org , please end this "Reds can't do shit" political crap.
If they come up with nuclear ideas, they could be probably right and using the expertise they gained when people didn't question/know their mad experiments. Read some books/watch some documentaries about their nuclear powered bomber project which actually flown until even red bureaucrats figured it is way risky.
If it was maintained well, Soviet shuttle was way more safe than US Space Shuttle since it was entirely based on liquid fuel. It was also completely reusable.
I can't find my source now but I am sure I didn't watch it on some "red" propaganda channel, I watched it either on Discovery TV or Nat Geo.
Ask any experienced Admin, Google News would be "delinked" long time ago if it wasn't carrying "Google" name.
I have seen amazing things and they weren't some "123movies" spam, they were coming from real World criminals, UN wide accepted terrorist organizations and some real huge pyramid scheme running guys.
When you confuse it with a real "managed" server and you spend your time reporting it with headers taking your own time to Google, they send back a freaking template saying they are using your report for statistics etc. I wonder if any law organizations spare their time to watch public messages instead of wondering after teenagers downloading some movies.
Why on earth such an advanced developer, especially in that area would require "Google Groups"? Why not run a private NNTP/web Hybrid which is also perfectly available to index/use?
I bet there are solutions using JQuery itself, not my area so I just shut up at this point.
Back in the day when Dejanews was a "cool web 2.0" like thing for Usenet and Usenet was still popular, they could manage the actual, pro spammer attacks with handful of people. Those were the days when CNET had "help.com" which allowed complete newbies to post questions to Usenet.
Now Google, with impossible to imagine computing resources lets the core Usenet _and_ their own private groups gets polluted by trivial spam. Yes, trivial since even my stupid mail filters can sort that kind of spam without even touching bayesian etc. filters.
It is almost like pyramid scheme. Spammer uses Google groups infrasacture to post pirate software download forums which are solely gathering income from Google adwords. That happens on a big5 one, not some alt.conspiracy low traffic thing.
In first days, I thought Google didn't care on purpose of promoting their own, closed, moderated fake groups but it was a total tinfoil hat theory. They simply didn't/doesn't have competency to carry that kind of job which 2-3 experienced admins did while Usenet was 10x-20x more popular.
It is a very special piece of software with very special purpose. It runs "as root", even some call "above the root" with its own kernel extensions. I talk about a emulator/hypervisor. For example, AV solutions, firewalls under OS X is incapable of watching what it does.
I think AIX is capable of doing the thing you ask for but of course, it doesn't run on Mac and there is no "Virtual PC" for AIX anyway :)
People using Entourage (Outlook (lite) for Mac) had to live that surprise when their OS X Leopard with Time Machine went insane with 1-2 GB backups hourly. Some didn't figure what is going on until TM started to delete old backups for space. MS, as usual, didn't even bother tell the people using "enemy OS". I think they still have to exclude their mails while backing up and use a different application for backing up their mails.
Apple went from mbox (flat) to single mail files almost instantly when they had Spotlight enabled since Spotlight is not suitable for single mailbox. Opera guys did the same in recent versions for safety, indexing and backup reasons. It is only MS Entourage which is amazingly expensive doesn't have that choice.
Interesting thing... While Samsung must be crap (I know), it must have released some firmware updates for these devices. I don't remember seeing a single "Mac OS X SSD Firmware update" on "version control" sites I visit regularly. I saw some updates relating to AHCI issues (yes, they exist) but not for SSD.
So, you pay extra $$ and you don't get any advantage of it right?
Do you put some kind of file to specific location like Pro Cameras etc? I mean, it doesn't offer a .exe and say "run it" right? I am especially concerned since it is Intel , the CPU manufacturer we talk about.
I have some plans for SSD'ing couple of PPC based laptops we have since they are mostly used like a Network client so I don't care about disk space. When I figured how much these devices rely on firmware updates, I had to ask. I hope we don't "unshield" or even worse, "plug it to a PC" to make firmware update work.
ps: Yes, I know these things rely on host adapter, I care mainly about battery life and durability. I don't expect 100MB/sec on G4.
If they got infested by MS as people claim, ARM is an excellent low power processor with one issue: It can't run Windows ;)
As a person who spent a lot of time at real BBS scene (in my own country), IRC (before the web), I think people overrates those times. There were same amount of idiots, lamers, trolls and even Microserfs around. They were just less visible to ordinary people.
Compiling your own is always the best, especially when you get gcc etc. updates but here is the reality: Compiling some apps takes insane amount of time. Unless you really know what you are doing or your distro has support for special configurations, it has no advantage at all too. You just end up with the same binary.
I guess guy proposes it for "user level", general end user distros.
A serious zero day threat, such as Blaster doesn't need any kind of user intervention, nothing open, no configuration faults. It just works. It is not like they will browse with IE and let me tell one reason why most installs a VM, to actually BROWSE with IE under Windows. Web designers, people who does business with companies infested with MS and even some Intranet users.
Also when I talk about OS X users, I talk about the general community. You know, same guys double click DMG files and happily give their passwords to have some "codec" installed (trojan).
Speaking (typing) from a Quad G5, PPC and watched the happenings in OS X community/developer scene since Intel transition announced. If Intel one day manages to make Atom (x86) run in same low power as ARM licensed CPUs, ARM is doomed.
Why? Compare the compile process of an open source, multimedia application on PPC and Intel. See the "bonus" stuff Intel chips get? Every kind of optimization, way more cheaper is available on Intel x86/SSE. Trust me, I am more amazed to Intel's developer/development/application support every single day. I don't even blame Apple anymore, I blame IBM/Motorola etc.
Those "self-important jerkoffs" prevented BBC from launching MS Silverlight/DRM based iPlayer. It seems like they know their rights better than you and it sometimes helps to remind those bureaucrats who is the boss.
If you are infected while VM is on, there is nothing stopping your virtual machine send spams, distribute viruses and doing even worse things. I have seen how fast and easy a good written worm infects system without any sign.
There are also mad things happening like Delphi based virus infecting million downloaded utility developer machine without getting noticed and being distributed. Take Windows security very serious and of course, I don't say you should run some state of art security suite. A basic and good written AV like Avast can even run fine under emulated x86 (VPC 7).
Look to BBC Website comments on every single stupid technical change they propose. British start the sentence with "I am paying my license fee." If you pay taxes, you have paid for that iPhone/iPod application too.
Of course, enjoy your passive, slashdot comment mocking, that is what they trust while making an exclusive for a single brand's closed platform.
App must be getting its data from some site, possibly in XML form (too tired to run Wireshark). They could make the API available to any developer wanting to make an application like that with basic (non apple like) guidelines.
That could prevent a lot of questions. They are lucky that I am not an American tax payer. I would have some real questions to them and people in charge.
You don't ask: What kind of iPhone specific technology and coding advantages (remember:NASA) made this app available on iPhone while other smart phones having same capabilities (even J2ME big screen!) existing for years?
That is one hell of a question we Symbian, J2ME and possibly Windows Mobile users are asking every single day. Of course, Nokia, Sun, MS should ask it themselves first. It seems Nokia got what was wrong and trying to change its attitude but it will take months/years to overcome "Symbian is hard" prejudice. Sun? They do nothing... Absolutely nothing at all and I speak about near 1 billion mobile devices.
If you look deeper to Apple users virtual machines (Sun Virtual Box etc.) , lots of them doesn't bother to install some free AV, a basic one saying "it is virtual anyway". When you talk about how evil things can be done while their virtual machine up and what kind of trouble they may get into if they have bad luck, they install a free AV to Windows.
If you have trouble convincing such people, just use plain logic: It can even run some games let alone a worm/trojan/virus.
It is not in the culture you know...
I am not saying MS is an angel, I bet it has something to do with monopoly decision too. I say "At least" MS gives a choice.
BTW; see my comment modded funny by a Mac fan mod while I question why we are locked to Google search? That is the Mac community for you.
MS is happy with their NTFS, Apple and even professional users are happy with HFS+ especially after the addition of journaling. Only unhappy people are techies, a small percentage of them.
Of course, if you are Pixar, you got XSan etc. as option.
I keep suspecting the lack of special, unique HFS+ features support or the technical or even political issues implementing them to a pure UNIX filesystem was preventing ZFS on OS X.
Ever spoke with a nerd about HFS+, Resource Forks and even changeable icons on Finder with some weird Apple only flags? They say it is lame, I say "It is HOW Mac works!" and even "It is how they can sell NeXT/UNIX to people." They don't even understand why OS X comes with case insensitive HFS+ by default. For example, does ZFS support case insensitive filenames? Sounds lame but it is a must on OS X Pro desktops.
I have heard (from mailing list) that Finder on OS X, including SL (Cocoa) does some block level stuff while emptying trash and it was the reason that poster gave up ZFS without Apple support.
As I use Finder for years and know how strange things it does sometimes, it sounded valid to me. Perhaps you should empty your own trash via Terminal?
You mean the same people who paid to software (OS) and hardware combination and didn't ask Apple what the heck that "impossible to change" Google search in OS Default browser will cause a riot against some ads?
What made me more than angry was the first release and later releases of Safari on fscking Windows had Yahoo search option. iPhone/iPod too. Believe or not, Apple is after couple of cents from Google and that is why they include Google by default. Apple, the 1.6 billion profit making company... I understand Mozilla, Opera but NOT Apple. Even MS is decent enough to show you choices in first IE screen.