Just go to dslreports.com and look at how many companies are out there. I find it unlikely that all companies will unite against P2P.
Maybe you have a lot of choices, but some of us don't. The house I'm planning on moving to has only two options for broadband: AT&T DSL or Cox Cable. Since Covad has no plans on putting any equipment in that particular CO I will have no alternative choices like Speakeasy to get DSL from unless I find someone who simply resells AT&T DSL, but at that point what advantage does that have over simply buying it from them?
It's important to note that there is a big difference between 'calendaring' apps (such as 30boxes and Yahoo Calendar and the like), and 'scheduling', where an interactive application can review a persons or groups schedule, and then add things to their calendar.
Why in the heck would I want someone to be able to add a meeting to MY calendar? What, you just come in one day and your day's calendar is automatically populated by luser managers who decide they want you to attend a bunch of worthless meetings? How useless is that? These are the same assholes who set a message's request-read-receipt flag expecting your mail client to send them some kind of acknowledgement that you read it. Sheesh.
Remote Desktop IS built into MacOS X, you just need to purchase the client if you want advanced functionality. If you're content with simple remote desktop you can point any old VNC client at it and it works just fine. Just go under Sharing and then Apple Remote Desktop and select your Access Privileges. There's an option that says "VNC viewers may control screen with password". Now, I would NOT suggest using VNC over the wide area network unless you're forwarding it over SSH, but the functionality is there, even at the login screen.
Now, if Apple was less evil they would make a "lite" version of the remote desktop app that supports strong encryption like the Microsoft RDP client. AS a user, I just want remote access to my desktop and maybe to map my shares back over the connection, but I couldn't care less about the advanced administrative functions of the full remote desktop application. On my Windows XP Pro box I can connect in just fine with an RDP client from Windows, Linux, MacOS X, whatever.
How long will it be before someone creates THE killer app for mac that runs windows in OS X ala the "classic" mode? And yes, by "killer" I do mean that it will kill the Mac.
Like VirtualPC? It's been available for a long time and it sucks ass. It is dog slow on my dual 2GHz G5 Powermac. I gave up and setup a VMWare Server virtual machine on a PC and RDP into it instead, it's 20 times faster.
What makes you think it's the president's idea? Surely the NSA does what the NSA does, regardless of the person who's theoretically supposed to be telling them what to do.
The NSA reports to the President of the United States. I know people like to believe the urban legend that these agencies are very cloak and dagger and fund their projects without executive or legislative approval, but you're kidding yourself if you think they can justify million dollar, if not billion dollar, programs without oversight.
It would be nice if unauthorised physical access to DIMM slots could be hardened somehow, so that complete disassembling of the laptop would be necessary to change the amount of RAM.
Oh right, as if it isn't a tech support nightmare enough to let Mac users upgrade their memory, now you want to make it impossible to do so? Just encrypt your damn data with filevault and you'll be fine. Sure, you'll lose your MacBook, but your data will be safe unless Russians or the NSA stole it.
If he doesn't want people to use his NTP server then he can simply put an access list on it and restrict it to authorized systems. Just make it a closed system and ask people to e-mail you if they want access. If you deem their server is worthy enough then allow them access, if not, point them to an open stratum 2 or 3 server instead and tell them to use that. Ideally stratum 1 servers should only be used to feed accurate time to stratum 2 servers which would handle the actual client traffic. I don't understand why he has an open stratum 1 server at all.
That means the spammers involved have lots of cash. And their company probably has no assets, and will fold into bankruptcy because of these fines. So what does this mean? The guys dig into their pockets filled with cash, and start another company and do it all over again.
How exactly does that work? I'm sure the IRS would be interested in talking to them about their financial practices. How is that even legal if the company is incorporated? I was under the impression you couldn't just move money back and forth between the business to shelter it from taxes or bankruptcy.
If you're replacing an existing Windows machine with a new Mac, you have a Windows license already. So, no. Well, some people who don't know any better probably will, but an awful lot won't, and it'll all be perfectly legal.
really? You had a VCR that lets you watch one tape while recording another show to same tape? I do not think there was a single device with single media that allowed you to do this until tivo.
I was doing that with my computer, a TV tuner card, and Linux in 1996. That was well before TiVo marketed their product. Today a TiVo is a pretty basic piece of technology and isn't that innovative. It didn't even support dual tuners (outside of the DirecTiVo version) or offloading shows onto DVDs the last time I checked it out. These days most tuner cards come with software that gives you basically everything a TiVo can do without the monthly cost to boot.
To have a better chance of remaining anonymous, run TOR from a random WAP with a spoofed MAC address, and, if you are paranoid, do not access any information that could reveal your identity: personal email accounts, Online Retail stores, etc.
So, basically use it for its original intended purpose: accessing hacking sites and downloading kiddie porn. I'd say warez was also one of the purposes, but its so slow that it would be silly to try downloading huge files over it.
Its too bad its written in java.. if it was in C/C++ i would have run a node...
Yeah, cross-platform coding sucks. When are these companies going to learn that we want proprietary binaries that need to be recompiled on each platform?
Note that VMWare is also giving away their Server product for free. For some reason, Slashdot hasn't been willing to run this story, even though it's important.
The reason is because Slashdot ran the story two months ago here.
Offering movies and then restricting them to a PC, most likely some form of Windows Media DRM crap, for the same price as you could buy the unencumbered DVD in the store is not a way to market a new service! This is even worse than iTunes Music Store and their lossily encoded AAC DRM-restricted music files. At least with that you can burn a sub-CD quality version to a CD and rerip it to MP3 format to archive it.
The fast food company with the golden arches is called McDonald's not MacDonalds. MacDonalds is probably some Irish pub in Boston that takes 30 minutes to serve up your corned beef sandwich. Either way you're wrong.
He's probably from Canada. It's not uncommon to pay $75 here after tax.
Ah, that makes more sense. Usually games are $50-$60 in US dollars in the USA. I've never seen one for $75 unless it's some uber-collector's edition, but I've never bought Xbox games so I figured they might cost more than PS2 games.
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Nope, BSD is dead. *BSD is alive and kicking, but the commercial BSD is dead.
Maybe you have a lot of choices, but some of us don't. The house I'm planning on moving to has only two options for broadband: AT&T DSL or Cox Cable. Since Covad has no plans on putting any equipment in that particular CO I will have no alternative choices like Speakeasy to get DSL from unless I find someone who simply resells AT&T DSL, but at that point what advantage does that have over simply buying it from them?
Why in the heck would I want someone to be able to add a meeting to MY calendar? What, you just come in one day and your day's calendar is automatically populated by luser managers who decide they want you to attend a bunch of worthless meetings? How useless is that? These are the same assholes who set a message's request-read-receipt flag expecting your mail client to send them some kind of acknowledgement that you read it. Sheesh.
Innovative? They "invented" a VCR. People were using computers to record television programs long before TiVo came along with their worthless patent.
What the hell is JBoss anyway? It sounds like a line of clothing they'd sell at The Gap.
Now, if Apple was less evil they would make a "lite" version of the remote desktop app that supports strong encryption like the Microsoft RDP client. AS a user, I just want remote access to my desktop and maybe to map my shares back over the connection, but I couldn't care less about the advanced administrative functions of the full remote desktop application. On my Windows XP Pro box I can connect in just fine with an RDP client from Windows, Linux, MacOS X, whatever.
Like VirtualPC? It's been available for a long time and it sucks ass. It is dog slow on my dual 2GHz G5 Powermac. I gave up and setup a VMWare Server virtual machine on a PC and RDP into it instead, it's 20 times faster.
The NSA reports to the President of the United States. I know people like to believe the urban legend that these agencies are very cloak and dagger and fund their projects without executive or legislative approval, but you're kidding yourself if you think they can justify million dollar, if not billion dollar, programs without oversight.
Oh right, as if it isn't a tech support nightmare enough to let Mac users upgrade their memory, now you want to make it impossible to do so? Just encrypt your damn data with filevault and you'll be fine. Sure, you'll lose your MacBook, but your data will be safe unless Russians or the NSA stole it.
If he doesn't want people to use his NTP server then he can simply put an access list on it and restrict it to authorized systems. Just make it a closed system and ask people to e-mail you if they want access. If you deem their server is worthy enough then allow them access, if not, point them to an open stratum 2 or 3 server instead and tell them to use that. Ideally stratum 1 servers should only be used to feed accurate time to stratum 2 servers which would handle the actual client traffic. I don't understand why he has an open stratum 1 server at all.
How exactly does that work? I'm sure the IRS would be interested in talking to them about their financial practices. How is that even legal if the company is incorporated? I was under the impression you couldn't just move money back and forth between the business to shelter it from taxes or bankruptcy.
Try reading your EULA again.
I have a patent pending on that so stop stealing my idea or I'm going to sick my lawyer on you.
I was doing that with my computer, a TV tuner card, and Linux in 1996. That was well before TiVo marketed their product. Today a TiVo is a pretty basic piece of technology and isn't that innovative. It didn't even support dual tuners (outside of the DirecTiVo version) or offloading shows onto DVDs the last time I checked it out. These days most tuner cards come with software that gives you basically everything a TiVo can do without the monthly cost to boot.
So, basically use it for its original intended purpose: accessing hacking sites and downloading kiddie porn. I'd say warez was also one of the purposes, but its so slow that it would be silly to try downloading huge files over it.
Yeah, cross-platform coding sucks. When are these companies going to learn that we want proprietary binaries that need to be recompiled on each platform?
A year?! 3 years is more realistic. My iBook is going on 3 and a half years and it still holds a charge for about 3-4 hours.
The reason is because Slashdot ran the story two months ago here.
Most likely the "free" Virtual Server will require Windows 2003 Server which is very expensive. "free" VMWare Server is $0 running on GNU/Linux.
Offering movies and then restricting them to a PC, most likely some form of Windows Media DRM crap, for the same price as you could buy the unencumbered DVD in the store is not a way to market a new service! This is even worse than iTunes Music Store and their lossily encoded AAC DRM-restricted music files. At least with that you can burn a sub-CD quality version to a CD and rerip it to MP3 format to archive it.
Thank God for clean efficient nuclear power. If these had been solar powered we would've lost contact a long time ago.
The root of Bill Gates' philanthropy is a woman named Melinda.
I hope it has ponies on it. :-(
The fast food company with the golden arches is called McDonald's not MacDonalds. MacDonalds is probably some Irish pub in Boston that takes 30 minutes to serve up your corned beef sandwich. Either way you're wrong.
Ah, that makes more sense. Usually games are $50-$60 in US dollars in the USA. I've never seen one for $75 unless it's some uber-collector's edition, but I've never bought Xbox games so I figured they might cost more than PS2 games.