Don't forget another $100 for a 512MB SODIMM since the 256MB base memory is not enough to do anything without swapping in a Mac Mini... something you don't want to be doing with the 4200RPM hard drive. Probably should throw in another $150 for a 250GB firewire hard drive while you're at it. You'll also need a remote control kit so that's another $50 at least.
BTW, I'm not bashing the Mini, I own an iBook and a Powerbook, but expecting the base mini configuration to operate as an HDTV PVR is unrealistic without some upgrades.
We tried to implement various builds of *nix and X window system on workstations at my place of work, and there was REVOLT IN THE AISLES.
Because Windows is all most of your workers have ever known. Microsoft has done an awesome job with cementing the mindset that computer == Windows PC. From kids learning it in preschool to adults taking their first computer literacy courses, the undeniable fact of life is that you will see Microsoft Windows on those desktops.
I doubt that 15% of American households without cable or satellite service even own a VCR, much less bother to use it to "pirate" movies, television shows, and sporting events. I haven't ever envisioned people that shun cable TV as really big technological advocates anyway so I doubt grandma with her 25 year old 19" TV with the rabbit ears is going to be making DivX copies of your broadcast of Star Wars Episode I on NBC available over BitTorrent. Get real.
PS: These GIF images are really hard to read sometimes. Were scripts that much of a problem they had to put this verification on every submission?
You can use the CTRL and Apple buttons while hitting the mouse button to simulate the same effect as a middle click or a right click. Or just attach any old 3 button USB mouse. I've got a Logitech Marble trackball on my PowerMac at work and it works fine.
In two weeks we'll have an updated article on Slashdot informing us that the MPAA have shutdown a new BitTorrent search engine. This sounds like Napster all over again except with legal precedents in place it'll happen much quicker.
Unlike traditional proxied (very slow) anonymous networks (Freenet, Mute, Ants, Winny, etc) the use of IP spoofing can allow high-speed full-bandwidth downloads while keeping the uploader's true IP address hidden from the downloader.
If your ISP still allows IP address spoofing they need to be hit with a clue-stick.
good thing i had cloned my system to my fw drive right before installing tiger the first time... but my powerbook is going to have to be sent off for a couple of weeks to get the drive replaced.
shame i didn't wait until 10.4.1...
That sounds like a regular old hardware failure waiting to happen. You just expedited the drive dying by installing a lot of new files all over the disk. By the way, why on earth do you think it'd take a couple of weeks? I sent my iBook off to Apple to get the logic board replaced and had it back by the end of the week. Their laptops are nice since they ship you the packaging and you just slip it in the sleeve, fill out the manifest sheet, close up the box with the tape strips they provide, and take it to (at the time) Airborne Express.
Most server hardware is massively overspecified. 90% of websites could run on a 486 and nobody would notice a difference - assuming, of course, that you are running a sane, frugal (UNIX family) O/S.
That's why many sites are virtually hosted on a single, more powerful box. It is usually much cheaper to simply buy a newer, more powerful box than to pay the maintenance costs associated with an older server that your vendor may no longer support.
The latest release version of Firefox, 1.0.4, has this bug. The bugfix won't appear in a release version of Firefox until 1.1 is released.
Is this only a problem under Windows? I'm running Firefox 1.0.4 on a Mac and Slashdot shows up fine. I've had weird display issues with Firefox 1.0 on Windows, but don't recall that problem on the Mac.
No, they want you to watch their advertisements. The shows is there to give you a reason to watch the channel with the hope you're too lazy to flip to another channel when a commercial comes on. By downloading commercial-free content from the Internet, you're screwing the studios out of their only stream of revenue. The only way to make up for that will be increasing in-show product placements and more of those god damn popover commercials that take up half the screen. They do that on Spike TV and it's annoying as hell.
I also don't want to spend $50 or $100 or whatever to buy the seasons on DVD (long after they already aired and too late to keep up with the new episodes anyway). Especially when I already pay for HBO to start with!
So, the only way to catch up has been to download episodes from bit torrent, watch them all, then start watching the series on TV. I don't see a problem with this.
So, the studios are selling the shows you want to watch for $100 a season, but you are downloading them from a website for free instead. You don't see the problem with that? DVD releases of television shows are a huge cash-cow for studios that have already made their money in their initial runs.. you're screwing them out of pure profit by "stealing" the shows from the Internet. A more legit way would be to get Netflix and get the shows from there instead to catch up.
Nothing builds character like a heavy duty Sun workstation carefully balanced on one's lap. To say nothing of more resilient balls.
You know what's heavy? A PowerMac G5. I went from a lightweight aluminum case PC system to a PowerMac G5 and I grunted the first time I picked it up. What do they put in there, bricks? My PC was less than 15 pounds but the PowerMac feels more like 40.
There's more to Free Software than just not costing any money. OSX, pretty though it may be, is still proprietary.
Darwin is open source, Aqua (the pretty GUI and toolkit) is the part people pay for. There's nothing stopping you from running X11 on Darwin though and you'd basically have a totally open source box.
...They replaced your drive with a refurbished (i.e., used) drive? That's some warranty policy.
Yes unfortunately. It's got a 90 day warranty or the balance of the original warranty, whichever is greater. I will remember that in the future when choosing a new vendor. A 5 year warranty may not make much difference in whether your drive fails or not, but it'll save me a couple hundred bucks I would've sunk into replacing it for 5 years.
I just had 2 maxors Die in the last week! I think maxors are set to self distruct in april-may.
Hmm, my 250GB Maxtor died in early April... I think you're on to something.;-) On the plus side, it was still under warranty so they advance-shipped me a refurbished drive within a week.
The solution to spyware on windows is to turn off activex in internet explorer and set it to run as guest...
But without ActiveX you lose the functionality that is the only reason most people still use IE at all. By shutting off "open safe files" you don't lose functionality other than convenience of not having to manually open downloaded files.
YAY!!!! It's don... what@ still compiling? It's been 4 hours already!!
Meh, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
Go get a Coke from the vending machine and updates are done. You guys can recompile your whole operating system for a 5% performance boost, knock yourself out... I'll just run Debian Sarge.:-)
Not quite. Other DNS servers don't care about the serial number, only secondary DNS servers of that domain use it to determine if they should do a zone transfer. Other DNS servers relay on the time to live settings in the SOA header to determine if their information is outdated or not, if so it will try to query for fresh info, if not it should still serve from its own cache.
No, the first day of the week is whatever your society says it is, Sunday, Monday or even Thursday. Its completely arbitrary. The UK locale has the start ofthe week set to Monday.
Geez, I wasn't trolling with that comment, I've just never heard of anyone starting a week on any day other than Sunday. That just seems weird. I could understand if it was an Asian thing or osmething, but why doesn't the UK share the same locale as the US?
Welcome to 1995. They haven't been hacked, someone just registered a nameserver with those hostnames and they show up in a whois query of microsoft.com because that's in the first part of the hostname.
Awesome that private industry is funding it. I can't wait to see how it makes out!
Private industry is interested in profit, nothing more. Research is done in the hopes of improving future profit potential. I don't see how this profits a company at all though. That's why private space exploration is never going to get off the ground, so to speak.
In certain locales, if the first day of the week is set to monday, and the first of the month falls on a sunday, its not displayed in the new NSDatePicker control in cocoa.
The first of the week is Sunday though. Why would you set the first day of a week to Monday? That's like saying 1am is the start of a new day.
Usenet is better. No, it's not secure, encrypted, etc. like I2P, but it doesn't have to be; it's legal.
If it's the only method of distributing copyrighted works, do you really think it will remain unscathed? They're just going after the easy targets now, but it'd be trivial to start targetting the major Usenet servers that hold copyrighted binaries.
Why do you have a character in the spotlight, yet give us nothing intriguing about him?
Well, not to sound too harsh, but it's because they needed a black guy in the main cast. All the other Treks had it: Uhura, Worf/Geordi, Sisko, Tuvok, and... the black pilot guy on Enterprise. I don't know if there's a reason they MUST have a black man in the cast othe than to not appear racist, but he certainly didn't seem to fit into the series at all and seemed like an afterthought that someone came up with... "Hey, don't we need a black guy too?" On the other hand, Uhura, Worf, Geordi, Sisko, and Tuvok were all pretty main characters that you couldn't do the show without. If Mayweather disappeared nobody would even notice.
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BTW, I'm not bashing the Mini, I own an iBook and a Powerbook, but expecting the base mini configuration to operate as an HDTV PVR is unrealistic without some upgrades.
Because Windows is all most of your workers have ever known. Microsoft has done an awesome job with cementing the mindset that computer == Windows PC. From kids learning it in preschool to adults taking their first computer literacy courses, the undeniable fact of life is that you will see Microsoft Windows on those desktops.
PS: These GIF images are really hard to read sometimes. Were scripts that much of a problem they had to put this verification on every submission?
You can use the CTRL and Apple buttons while hitting the mouse button to simulate the same effect as a middle click or a right click. Or just attach any old 3 button USB mouse. I've got a Logitech Marble trackball on my PowerMac at work and it works fine.
In two weeks we'll have an updated article on Slashdot informing us that the MPAA have shutdown a new BitTorrent search engine. This sounds like Napster all over again except with legal precedents in place it'll happen much quicker.
If your ISP still allows IP address spoofing they need to be hit with a clue-stick.
shame i didn't wait until 10.4.1...
That sounds like a regular old hardware failure waiting to happen. You just expedited the drive dying by installing a lot of new files all over the disk. By the way, why on earth do you think it'd take a couple of weeks? I sent my iBook off to Apple to get the logic board replaced and had it back by the end of the week. Their laptops are nice since they ship you the packaging and you just slip it in the sleeve, fill out the manifest sheet, close up the box with the tape strips they provide, and take it to (at the time) Airborne Express.
That's why many sites are virtually hosted on a single, more powerful box. It is usually much cheaper to simply buy a newer, more powerful box than to pay the maintenance costs associated with an older server that your vendor may no longer support.
Is this only a problem under Windows? I'm running Firefox 1.0.4 on a Mac and Slashdot shows up fine. I've had weird display issues with Firefox 1.0 on Windows, but don't recall that problem on the Mac.
Maybe that's the only time their moms were available to drop them off at the theater to see the new Star Wars movie. :-P
No, they want you to watch their advertisements. The shows is there to give you a reason to watch the channel with the hope you're too lazy to flip to another channel when a commercial comes on. By downloading commercial-free content from the Internet, you're screwing the studios out of their only stream of revenue. The only way to make up for that will be increasing in-show product placements and more of those god damn popover commercials that take up half the screen. They do that on Spike TV and it's annoying as hell.
So, the studios are selling the shows you want to watch for $100 a season, but you are downloading them from a website for free instead. You don't see the problem with that? DVD releases of television shows are a huge cash-cow for studios that have already made their money in their initial runs.. you're screwing them out of pure profit by "stealing" the shows from the Internet. A more legit way would be to get Netflix and get the shows from there instead to catch up.
You know what's heavy? A PowerMac G5. I went from a lightweight aluminum case PC system to a PowerMac G5 and I grunted the first time I picked it up. What do they put in there, bricks? My PC was less than 15 pounds but the PowerMac feels more like 40.
Darwin is open source, Aqua (the pretty GUI and toolkit) is the part people pay for. There's nothing stopping you from running X11 on Darwin though and you'd basically have a totally open source box.
Yes unfortunately. It's got a 90 day warranty or the balance of the original warranty, whichever is greater. I will remember that in the future when choosing a new vendor. A 5 year warranty may not make much difference in whether your drive fails or not, but it'll save me a couple hundred bucks I would've sunk into replacing it for 5 years.
Hmm, my 250GB Maxtor died in early April... I think you're on to something. ;-) On the plus side, it was still under warranty so they advance-shipped me a refurbished drive within a week.
But without ActiveX you lose the functionality that is the only reason most people still use IE at all. By shutting off "open safe files" you don't lose functionality other than convenience of not having to manually open downloaded files.
Meh, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Go get a Coke from the vending machine and updates are done. You guys can recompile your whole operating system for a 5% performance boost, knock yourself out... I'll just run Debian Sarge. :-)
Not quite. Other DNS servers don't care about the serial number, only secondary DNS servers of that domain use it to determine if they should do a zone transfer. Other DNS servers relay on the time to live settings in the SOA header to determine if their information is outdated or not, if so it will try to query for fresh info, if not it should still serve from its own cache.
Geez, I wasn't trolling with that comment, I've just never heard of anyone starting a week on any day other than Sunday. That just seems weird. I could understand if it was an Asian thing or osmething, but why doesn't the UK share the same locale as the US?
Welcome to 1995. They haven't been hacked, someone just registered a nameserver with those hostnames and they show up in a whois query of microsoft.com because that's in the first part of the hostname.
Private industry is interested in profit, nothing more. Research is done in the hopes of improving future profit potential. I don't see how this profits a company at all though. That's why private space exploration is never going to get off the ground, so to speak.
The first of the week is Sunday though. Why would you set the first day of a week to Monday? That's like saying 1am is the start of a new day.
If it's the only method of distributing copyrighted works, do you really think it will remain unscathed? They're just going after the easy targets now, but it'd be trivial to start targetting the major Usenet servers that hold copyrighted binaries.
Well, not to sound too harsh, but it's because they needed a black guy in the main cast. All the other Treks had it: Uhura, Worf/Geordi, Sisko, Tuvok, and... the black pilot guy on Enterprise. I don't know if there's a reason they MUST have a black man in the cast othe than to not appear racist, but he certainly didn't seem to fit into the series at all and seemed like an afterthought that someone came up with... "Hey, don't we need a black guy too?" On the other hand, Uhura, Worf, Geordi, Sisko, and Tuvok were all pretty main characters that you couldn't do the show without. If Mayweather disappeared nobody would even notice.