Set up a firewall, log packets, identify the culprit. Call their local police department about a harassment complaint. Amazingly enough, police departments will respond to this sort of thing. Bitching at their service provider, local chamber of commerce, Attorneys General, Action News-type TV stations, their congressman or other elected representatives (who are interested in their district's image), and anyone else you can think of. Cast your net wide.
I'll say it again, the LAPD got caught trying to frame a guilty man. The were too many problems with the evidence chain for the prosecution's case to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. So OJ was acquitted. He got lucky, if the LAPD had played by the rules he'd be in jail right now.
Adaptors have been available to use PC monitors on Macs since 1991. Current Mac desktops have two digital video ports, including a DVI port. they also come with a DVI-SVGA adaptor. This isn't changing on the G5s. The other connector is an ADC port, which is basically DVI+USB+Power; only Apple LCD screens use that one.
I think (hope) the grandparent meant the physical connection, they just might not have been able to get quality service from anyone but SBC. Which, of course, sucks.
My bitch about SBC started when Pac Bell first introduced DSL. I'd been waiting. I keep the hold music playing on speakerphone for 40 minutes. Then the salesman proceeded to lie [1] about my distance from the CO. I'm 15.5kfeet, so I'm just barely SOL. But it took 12 weeks, 5 truck rolls and a dozen conversations with supervisors (I still have all the trouble tickets) for Pac Bell to figure out that my connection problems (bad, days-long outages) were necause I was too far from the bloody CO.
The engineer who finally figured this out had been moved on a temporary basis up from San Diego to provide experience for the San Francisco area [2] roll-out - six months previously. and he wasn't the only one either. This speaks volumes over the ocean of chaos that must have been the Los Angeles/San Diego rollout. I can't even credit the last guy too much as he figured it out on his second visit. Then they took six months refunding the installation fees, at least the pretty mcuh copped to the salesman lying about it - nobody sounded surprised.
So I went with Speakeasy for a 144 IDSL line. Then Pac Bell put a repeater station in my neighborhood to cover: one university, two large housing complexes and 2 ritzy neighborhoods. So I go a cheap setup with Earthlink. Now my commitment is up and I'm waiting on a raise to decide on a Gamer package from Speakeasy.
Frell SBC anyway.
[1] Or maybe just ignorant, I'm obviously still bitter about it. But he did say "very close to" when describing my proximity to the CO and specifically said "you'll get great transfer rates". Knowing Pac Bell, he read that same script 5 times an hour.
Thing about Nemesis is... they did a really good job on a mediocre remake of Wrath of Khan. And that's just all there is too it. I look back on Nemesis and just weep at all the effort they wasted on a screenplay they already bloody shot !
It looked good, the acting and direction were good, the script was good, the editing was good...
oh yeah, pulling a major villain out of your ass just plain sucks.
They can't. But that's beside the point. The code that SCO is claiming is "theirs" is IBM (formerly Sequent) NUMA code that wound up in Linux. SCO is claiming that the NUMA code is theirs because it's a "derivative" of Unix, which they may "own" in a sense relevant to thier claim. IBM's lawyers can examine the contracts and licenses they have, and I'm sure that their Unix license was negotiated sharply and scrutinized regularly.
The interesting thing is that since it's being claimed more as a 'trade secret" than a copyright issue[1] then, since another party had the code (Sequent, then IBM), I believe IBM can just say, "how can it be their secret if we had a copy of the code before SCO did ?"
SCO figures that if they can successfully argue their broad definition of "derived" then they're rich. If they can't, IBM whips out some patents and sues. My funniest-case estimate is that IBM uses the NUMA patents (on which SCO has no reasonable claim) to assert that if the code is worth the billions of dollars in damages that SCO sued for, then it's worth triple that in damages based on a patent claim.
SCO just had to pick on patented code, didn't they ?
[1] It's fundamentally a contract-violation case, but SCO claims the violation was in releasing their trade scerets.
The key point in this is the Quake III scores. They used the default Quake configs on both machines. Either machine can beat 400fps with a tweaked config, but on the default the dual G5 beats the P4.
This raises the question of how well Quake III utilizes a second processor under OS X. The readme for 1.32 (Mac) says "- SMP support in the renderer. Detects CPU count, r_smp 1 default if available. (thanks to Gareth Hughes for contributing this)". Google says Mr. Hughes has been working on SMP and 3d accelerators on PPC for years (anybody with an ACM email address is ok with me). On the other hand, it's a first implementation. 1.33 might be a lot faster on a dual G5 than 1.32 is.
I'll go on record as admitting that Apple ships buggy, flawed and/or dangerous products from time to time. On the whole, everything eventually gets fixed - sometimes after a lawsuit (but those people are long gone).
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Another quote:
The contractor responsible was not employed by either the authority or IBM.
So he just walked in off the street ?
And if you email pictures of yourself and the animals to kids, expect to be severely punished. By the law if you're lucky.
Set up a firewall, log packets, identify the culprit. Call their local police department about a harassment complaint. Amazingly enough, police departments will respond to this sort of thing. Bitching at their service provider, local chamber of commerce, Attorneys General, Action News-type TV stations, their congressman or other elected representatives (who are interested in their district's image), and anyone else you can think of. Cast your net wide.
2. cmd-uparrow works in 10.2.6. It'd be nice to have a button though.
6. A pet peeve of a lot of us.
7. TinkerTool does this iirc.
I'll say it again, the LAPD got caught trying to frame a guilty man. The were too many problems with the evidence chain for the prosecution's case to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. So OJ was acquitted. He got lucky, if the LAPD had played by the rules he'd be in jail right now.
Adaptors have been available to use PC monitors on Macs since 1991. Current Mac desktops have two digital video ports, including a DVI port. they also come with a DVI-SVGA adaptor. This isn't changing on the G5s. The other connector is an ADC port, which is basically DVI+USB+Power; only Apple LCD screens use that one.
At 14k feet from the CO you're paying for a port on a more expensive gadget than if you were closer.
I think (hope) the grandparent meant the physical connection, they just might not have been able to get quality service from anyone but SBC. Which, of course, sucks.
My bitch about SBC started when Pac Bell first introduced DSL. I'd been waiting. I keep the hold music playing on speakerphone for 40 minutes. Then the salesman proceeded to lie [1] about my distance from the CO. I'm 15.5kfeet, so I'm just barely SOL. But it took 12 weeks, 5 truck rolls and a dozen conversations with supervisors (I still have all the trouble tickets) for Pac Bell to figure out that my connection problems (bad, days-long outages) were necause I was too far from the bloody CO.
The engineer who finally figured this out had been moved on a temporary basis up from San Diego to provide experience for the San Francisco area [2] roll-out - six months previously. and he wasn't the only one either. This speaks volumes over the ocean of chaos that must have been the Los Angeles/San Diego rollout. I can't even credit the last guy too much as he figured it out on his second visit. Then they took six months refunding the installation fees, at least the pretty mcuh copped to the salesman lying about it - nobody sounded surprised.
So I went with Speakeasy for a 144 IDSL line. Then Pac Bell put a repeater station in my neighborhood to cover: one university, two large housing complexes and 2 ritzy neighborhoods. So I go a cheap setup with Earthlink. Now my commitment is up and I'm waiting on a raise to decide on a Gamer package from Speakeasy.
Frell SBC anyway.
[1] Or maybe just ignorant, I'm obviously still bitter about it. But he did say "very close to" when describing my proximity to the CO and specifically said "you'll get great transfer rates". Knowing Pac Bell, he read that same script 5 times an hour.
[2] Suck it San Jose.
Somebody slap a +1: Insightful on this, quick. The guys who browse at +3 really need to see that.
-1: Drunk
Thing about Nemesis is... they did a really good job on a mediocre remake of Wrath of Khan. And that's just all there is too it. I look back on Nemesis and just weep at all the effort they wasted on a screenplay they already bloody shot !
It looked good, the acting and direction were good, the script was good, the editing was good...
oh yeah, pulling a major villain out of your ass just plain sucks.
Dear God. I'd say you have a case for emotional damages, and you has a libel case.
Talk to Legal, that might be worth pursuing just to make a point.
I really hope you saved a copy of that one, it's a classic.
The refrigerator would have noted the travel arrangements and adjusted its plans accordingly.
Sounds a lot like Project Starfire.
but that is patentable.
Practical, maybe. Patentable, sure.
They can't. But that's beside the point. The code that SCO is claiming is "theirs" is IBM (formerly Sequent) NUMA code that wound up in Linux. SCO is claiming that the NUMA code is theirs because it's a "derivative" of Unix, which they may "own" in a sense relevant to thier claim. IBM's lawyers can examine the contracts and licenses they have, and I'm sure that their Unix license was negotiated sharply and scrutinized regularly.
The interesting thing is that since it's being claimed more as a 'trade secret" than a copyright issue[1] then, since another party had the code (Sequent, then IBM), I believe IBM can just say, "how can it be their secret if we had a copy of the code before SCO did ?"
SCO figures that if they can successfully argue their broad definition of "derived" then they're rich. If they can't, IBM whips out some patents and sues. My funniest-case estimate is that IBM uses the NUMA patents (on which SCO has no reasonable claim) to assert that if the code is worth the billions of dollars in damages that SCO sued for, then it's worth triple that in damages based on a patent claim.
SCO just had to pick on patented code, didn't they ?
[1] It's fundamentally a contract-violation case, but SCO claims the violation was in releasing their trade scerets.
"He posts for peanuts"
The key point in this is the Quake III scores. They used the default Quake configs on both machines. Either machine can beat 400fps with a tweaked config, but on the default the dual G5 beats the P4.
This raises the question of how well Quake III utilizes a second processor under OS X. The readme for 1.32 (Mac) says "- SMP support in the renderer. Detects CPU count, r_smp 1 default if available. (thanks to Gareth Hughes for contributing this)". Google says Mr. Hughes has been working on SMP and 3d accelerators on PPC for years (anybody with an ACM email address is ok with me). On the other hand, it's a first implementation. 1.33 might be a lot faster on a dual G5 than 1.32 is.
I should put you on my enemies list just for saying "use Excel to do your taxes" even if in jest. It's a horrible thought.
Never buy a .0 release of anything. Never buy rev A of a motherboard. Not for production use you don't.
It's just that simple. If you don't get that at a deep level, you might want to consider work out of the IT field. Preferrably far out.
I'll go on record as admitting that Apple ships buggy, flawed and/or dangerous products from time to time. On the whole, everything eventually gets fixed - sometimes after a lawsuit (but those people are long gone).
Hey doofus, your epidermis is showing !
Then write off the open source "contribution" as a charitable donation or some other tax scheme. Get someone from Finance to run the numbers.
It's in Duluth, MN. Could be anything.
I've had that call. It took twenty minutes. Having listened to some of the call, my manager let me have a long break after that.
This happens. Apple got it right for their target market. The rest of us never use the mouse that came with the computer anyway.