You mean the "amazing, expensive Apple Cinema Display". Admittedly, it is in the HDTV price range ($3,000), but the picture quality is terrific (based on DVD playback, 2001 to be precise). It also looks stylish on your desk.
They're out there. My spare at home is very clicky, but I can't recall the make on it right noww (not Macally is all I can recall). Find an Apple shop with decent stock (Computerware near San Francisco) and play with their demo keyboards
I've gotten exactly one quality, well-targetted telemarketing call. I had called in "sick of" (work, rather than sick with something). About 11:30 that morning the phone rings. I sit there in agony, pretty sure something at work blew up, and finally decide to take the call (I have vociemail, so I can't screen calls effectively). I answer, and it's my phone company, offering to sign me up for Caller ID. Quickest sale they ever had.
OS X Serveris a Unix box. It's probably running the copy of Apache that comes with the OS.
We've run Apache on an OS X DP3 machine (G4) in-house for videos of company gettogethers, I've gotten 1.4 MBps worth of Quicktime out of it (two movies playing in Netscape (under Win98 yet) at 990KBps and 550KBps.
Strange, I just got (another) of these just this morning:
Subject: Congress to allow email charges I thought it important to share this with you since it effects us so much and a good friend shared it with us. Please pass this on to all you know since many of us use e-mail for business and to keep up with friends and family, I thought you'd like to know the following. Please jump on it right away and forward this to others. CNN has reported that Congress is going to vote on allowing telephone companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for internet access. Translation: Every time we send long distance e-mail we will receive a long distance charge. This will get costly. Please visit the following web site and file a complaint. Complain to your Congressperson. We can't allow this to pass. The following address will allow you to send an e-mail on this subject DIRECTLY to your Congressperson. "http://www.house.gov/writerep " Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope all of you will pass this on to all your friends and family. We should ALL have an interest in this one.
and it goes on like this. And people wonder why congresscritters don't take email seriously ?
I've got an early beta of MSIE 5.0 (b1). I have not checked it for RAM consumption; I have a 192MB G3 at home, so I'm not terribly concerned, and iCab is what I use in loRAM situations). What I am concerned with is rendering speed and quality. The new rendering engine is noticeably faster as an added bonus it renders nested discussions on slashdot correctly (a critical usability test).
Most of the nifty new features (scrapbooks and auction manager) aren't really working yet, but promise to be useful. The new look is... wierd. Most of the usual Mac rumors sites have screenshots up. It is, however, not as bad as it looks in a screenshot when actually used. And the nifty little touches, like easily rearranging the toolbar buttons are very nice.
The darn thing is also more stable than any Netscape product (prior to 4.7) they've ever put on a Mac. I'll have to check the final version (March?) to see how cooperatively it multitasks (I had to turn 4.5's priority down so other apps would run properly with it in the background).
At the very least, this particular version of IE does not suck.
And as for RAM claims, Microsoft marketing and package design always claims the absolute minimum RAM partition in which the program will launch and display a blank document, this bears no resemblance whatsoever (often by an order of magnitude for intensive tasks) to what the program needs for useful work. Note especially that the default RAM allocations for all MS Office products on the Mac *will crash* the machine regularly, and must be increased (usually, IME, Apple bears the blame for this, they have had enough problems lately without being blamed for an MS mistake).
I remmeber getting a few of those in at a (very) former jobsite. "Hey look ! A cable-ready Mac ! With a remote !" Very handy for watching TV while the backups ran.
The way I see that trial is as follows: The LAPD got caught framing a guilty man. Since the police in this country have to play by the rules, there was no reasonable way he could have been convicted. The un-reasonable way would have been to ignore police tampering with evidence and violating the chain of custody, but that would have been worse than letting a guilty man walk free.
I did run that LA Times search URL posted elsewhere, and it's pretty clear that the LAPD will do whyatever they think they can get away with. For example,
If Not Guilty verdicts and overturned convictions are the price we pay to send a message that police misconduct Will Not Be Tolerated, then we grit our teeth and bear it. Remember, America is supposed to be a free society, and police misconduct cannot be tolerated.
We are not publishing that follow-up report, since it would not be ethical to publish remarks that could be, or are suspected of being erroneous. We have also removed the original story from our Web site and have requested that Computer Currents do so too, which they have done. The next time this issue comes up we will do a more complete story with all sides represented.
Thanks very much to everyone for their comments and insight.
For your comments.... we have not published this story yet. I wanted to see if any of you, who took the time to write us, still had problems with this new report. For the record, we take accuracy, and errors and omissions very seriously here. I hope you will continue to let me know when you see any further problems in our stories so we can correct them immediately. Thanks again, Wendy Woods Wendy_Wood@newsbytes.com
(NEWS)(ONLINE)(LAX)(00004) Solaris And Linux Not Singled Out For Attack 02/11/00 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. 2000 FEB 11 (NB) -- By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes. A Newsbytes report of a press conference given Thursday by Zach Nelson, the president and CEO of myCIO.com, a newly formed business of Networks Associates, Inc. [NASDAQ:NETA], has caused a stir among knowledgeable members of the high-tech community.
The Newsbytes' story was based upon a news conference given by Nelson to announce the formation of myCIO.com, as well as to announce a free service being offered by myCIO.com that would allow enterprises to click on to the myCIO.com Web site for a free check of their servers' vulnerability to "distributed denial of service" hacking attacks brought about by Zombie agents.
>From comments received by Newsbytes, some readers were under the impression that either Newsbytes or Nelson was asserting that only Solaris- or Linux-based servers were subject to attack by hackers.
What is supported by the story, and reconfirmed today by Zack Nelson in a telephone interview with Newsbytes, is that the current spate of distributed denial of service attacks have only occurred on Solaris- and Linux-based servers.
Nelson was quick to agree with Newsbytes that all servers, and even routers, are subject to hack attacks. However, as stated by Nelson, "We are not aware of any NT system having this (distributed denial of service) problem."
Nelson again reiterated that the reason Solaris and Linux systems are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks is that hackers can place code surreptitiously into these systems and then, at a later time, take control of these systems. It is this specific vulnerability, causing this specific type of result, that Nelson was speaking about, he said.
Nelson made it clear to Newsbytes that neither he nor Network Associates were singling out Solaris or Linux. Problems can happen on any system, Nelson said, and indicated that if the current "zombie agent" problem which carries out distributed denial of service attacks were found to infect NT or other systems-based servers he'd be the first to announce it, as that would increase the marketing base for Networks Associates' CyberCopZombieScan software.
Nelson said that the main points of his remarks Thursday was that everyone needs to be more concerned with security issues, and to take security alerts seriously.
This warning was underscored by Nelson who informed Newsbytes that Network Associates would be announcing later today that its free CyberCopZombieScan service found the first "Zombie" agent in the wild on a system in Germany.
Nelson said that CyberCopZombieScan is the only online software to detect the "Zombie" agents that are called upon in a coordinated fashion to overwhelm targeted Web sites with requests.
The Web site for myCIO.com is http://www.mycio.com
For your comments.... we have not published this story yet. I wanted to see if any of you, who took the time to write us, still had problems with this new report. For the record, we take accuracy, and errors and omissions very seriously here. I hope you will continue to let me know when you see any further problems in our stories so we can correct them immediately. Thanks again, Wendy Woods Wendy_Wood@newsbytes.com
(NEWS)(ONLINE)(LAX)(00004) Solaris And Linux Not Singled Out For Attack 02/11/00 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. 2000 FEB 11 (NB) -- By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes. A Newsbytes report of a press conference given Thursday by Zach Nelson, the president and CEO of myCIO.com, a newly formed business of Networks Associates, Inc. [NASDAQ:NETA], has caused a stir among knowledgeable members of the high-tech community. The Newsbytes' story was based upon a news conference given by Nelson to announce the formation of myCIO.com, as well as to announce a free service being offered by myCIO.com that would allow enterprises to click on to the myCIO.com Web site for a free check of their servers' vulnerability to "distributed denial of service" hacking attacks brought about by Zombie agents. >From comments received by Newsbytes, some readers were under the impression that either Newsbytes or Nelson was asserting that only Solaris- or Linux-based servers were subject to attack by hackers. What is supported by the story, and reconfirmed today by Zack Nelson in a telephone interview with Newsbytes, is that the current spate of distributed denial of service attacks have only occurred on Solaris- and Linux-based servers. Nelson was quick to agree with Newsbytes that all servers, and even routers, are subject to hack attacks. However, as stated by Nelson, "We are not aware of any NT system having this (distributed denial of service) problem." Nelson again reiterated that the reason Solaris and Linux systems are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks is that hackers can place code surreptitiously into these systems and then, at a later time, take control of these systems. It is this specific vulnerability, causing this specific type of result, that Nelson was speaking about, he said. Nelson made it clear to Newsbytes that neither he nor Network Associates were singling out Solaris or Linux. Problems can happen on any system, Nelson said, and indicated that if the current "zombie agent" problem which carries out distributed denial of service attacks were found to infect NT or other systems-based servers he'd be the first to announce it, as that would increase the marketing base for Networks Associates' CyberCopZombieScan software. Nelson said that the main points of his remarks Thursday was that everyone needs to be more concerned with security issues, and to take security alerts seriously. This warning was underscored by Nelson who informed Newsbytes that Network Associates would be announcing later today that its free CyberCopZombieScan service found the first "Zombie" agent in the wild on a system in Germany. Nelson said that CyberCopZombieScan is the only online software to detect the "Zombie" agents that are called upon in a coordinated fashion to overwhelm targeted Web sites with requests. The Web site for myCIO.com is http://www.mycio.com Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com (20000211/ Press Contact: Caroline Gick: 415-075-2252/WIRES ONLINE, PC, LEGAL, BUSINESS/)
See this link to Nova for a discussion of some of the more spectacular failures. Notably the 1960 failure of a two-stage booster on the pad:
Mishaps of the Space Age 1960: R-16 The "R-16," a new Soviet two-stage rocket, underwent a test in Tyuratam, Russia in October. Under pressure to demonstrate that the Soviets possessed operational intercontinental ballistic missiles, Soviet Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin arrived to personally oversee the rocket's launch. Problems developed before the test, but Nedelin ordered it to continue, refusing to drain the rocket of its propellant and make repairs, as workers suggested. Because of a bad wiring connection, a command signal was sent to the second stage and ignited the engine. The engine then burned through the first stage upper tank, causing it to explode. Much of the acid formed a toxic cloud that seared the lungs of nearby workers and onlookers. At least 91 people were killed,including Field Marshal Nedelin.
The terrifying past about UCITA (well, one of them) is the legal ability to put a remote disabling code into software. Go search for, oh WIndows 98 serial numbers on the web. Or cracked versions of copyprotected software. (but don't link to 'em)
Someone is going to figure out how to break in through this approach and shut down a major business. Maybe an e-tailer during holiday season, or I hear Lockheed-Martin is rolling out 120,000 seats of Win2K, they'd be mighty upset about that.
And of course, the software publisher is completely indemnified for anything that goes wrong with the software. I can't see big business allowing this to go through, if they understand the consequences.
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You mean the "amazing, expensive Apple Cinema Display". Admittedly, it is in the HDTV price range ($3,000), but the picture quality is terrific (based on DVD playback, 2001 to be precise). It also looks stylish on your desk.
not efficiently, no... But a software x86 emulator like VirtualPC does well enough on my 300MGhz G3 to play PC games.
They're out there. My spare at home is very clicky, but I can't recall the make on it right noww (not Macally is all I can recall). Find an Apple shop with decent stock (Computerware near San Francisco) and play with their demo keyboards
I've gotten exactly one quality, well-targetted telemarketing call. I had called in "sick of" (work, rather than sick with something). About 11:30 that morning the phone rings. I sit there in agony, pretty sure something at work blew up, and finally decide to take the call (I have vociemail, so I can't screen calls effectively). I answer, and it's my phone company, offering to sign me up for Caller ID. Quickest sale they ever had.
We've run Apache on an OS X DP3 machine (G4) in-house for videos of company gettogethers, I've gotten 1.4 MBps worth of Quicktime out of it (two movies playing in Netscape (under Win98 yet) at 990KBps and 550KBps.
Based on Dante of course...
New Motto: "We put the Day into Database"
There's just one big problem with that: way the f*** too much prior art
Most of the nifty new features (scrapbooks and auction manager) aren't really working yet, but promise to be useful. The new look is ... wierd. Most of the usual Mac rumors sites have screenshots up. It is, however, not as bad as it looks in a screenshot when actually used. And the nifty little touches, like easily rearranging the toolbar buttons are very nice.
The darn thing is also more stable than any Netscape product (prior to 4.7) they've ever put on a Mac. I'll have to check the final version (March?) to see how cooperatively it multitasks (I had to turn 4.5's priority down so other apps would run properly with it in the background).
At the very least, this particular version of IE does not suck.
And as for RAM claims, Microsoft marketing and package design always claims the absolute minimum RAM partition in which the program will launch and display a blank document, this bears no resemblance whatsoever (often by an order of magnitude for intensive tasks) to what the program needs for useful work. Note especially that the default RAM allocations for all MS Office products on the Mac *will crash* the machine regularly, and must be increased (usually, IME, Apple bears the blame for this, they have had enough problems lately without being blamed for an MS mistake).
I remmeber getting a few of those in at a (very) former jobsite. "Hey look ! A cable-ready Mac ! With a remote !" Very handy for watching TV while the backups ran.
The LAPD got caught framing a guilty man. Since the police in this country have to play by the rules, there was no reasonable way he could have been convicted. The un-reasonable way would have been to ignore police tampering with evidence and violating the chain of custody, but that would have been worse than letting a guilty man walk free.
I did run that LA Times search URL posted elsewhere, and it's pretty clear that the LAPD will do whyatever they think they can get away with. For example,
If Not Guilty verdicts and overturned convictions are the price we pay to send a message that police misconduct Will Not Be Tolerated, then we grit our teeth and bear it. Remember, America is supposed to be a free society, and police misconduct cannot be tolerated.
Wendy_Wood@newsbytes.com
(NEWS)(ONLINE)(LAX)(00004) Solaris And Linux Not Singled Out For Attack 02/11/00 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. 2000 FEB 11 (NB) -- By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes. A Newsbytes report of a press conference given Thursday by Zach Nelson, the president and CEO of myCIO.com, a newly formed business of Networks Associates, Inc. [NASDAQ:NETA], has caused a stir among knowledgeable members of the high-tech community.
The Newsbytes' story was based upon a news conference given by Nelson to announce the formation of myCIO.com, as well as to announce a free service being offered by myCIO.com that would allow enterprises to click on to the myCIO.com Web site for a free check of their servers' vulnerability to "distributed denial of service" hacking attacks brought about by Zombie agents.
>From comments received by Newsbytes, some readers were under the impression that either Newsbytes or Nelson was asserting that only Solaris- or Linux-based servers were subject to attack by hackers.
What is supported by the story, and reconfirmed today by Zack Nelson in a telephone interview with Newsbytes, is that the current spate of distributed denial of service attacks have only occurred on Solaris- and Linux-based servers.
Nelson was quick to agree with Newsbytes that all servers, and even routers, are subject to hack attacks. However, as stated by Nelson, "We are not aware of any NT system having this (distributed denial of service) problem."
Nelson again reiterated that the reason Solaris and Linux systems are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks is that hackers can place code surreptitiously into these systems and then, at a later time, take control of these systems. It is this specific vulnerability, causing this specific type of result, that Nelson was speaking about, he said.
Nelson made it clear to Newsbytes that neither he nor Network Associates were singling out Solaris or Linux. Problems can happen on any system, Nelson said, and indicated that if the current "zombie agent" problem which carries out distributed denial of service attacks were found to infect NT or other systems-based servers he'd be the first to announce it, as that would increase the marketing base for Networks Associates' CyberCopZombieScan software.
Nelson said that the main points of his remarks Thursday was that everyone needs to be more concerned with security issues, and to take security alerts seriously.
This warning was underscored by Nelson who informed Newsbytes that Network Associates would be announcing later today that its free CyberCopZombieScan service found the first "Zombie" agent in the wild on a system in Germany.
Nelson said that CyberCopZombieScan is the only online software to detect the "Zombie" agents that are called upon in a coordinated fashion to overwhelm targeted Web sites with requests.
The Web site for myCIO.com is http://www.mycio.com
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com
/WIRES ONLINE, PC, LEGAL, BUSINESS/)
(20000211/ Press Contact: Caroline Gick: 415-075-2252
Wendy_Wood@newsbytes.com
(NEWS)(ONLINE)(LAX)(00004) Solaris And Linux Not Singled Out For Attack 02/11/00 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. 2000 FEB 11 (NB) -- By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes. A Newsbytes report of a press conference given Thursday by Zach Nelson, the president and CEO of myCIO.com, a newly formed business of Networks Associates, Inc. [NASDAQ:NETA], has caused a stir among knowledgeable members of the high-tech community. The Newsbytes' story was based upon a news conference given by Nelson to announce the formation of myCIO.com, as well as to announce a free service being offered by myCIO.com that would allow enterprises to click on to the myCIO.com Web site for a free check of their servers' vulnerability to "distributed denial of service" hacking attacks brought about by Zombie agents. >From comments received by Newsbytes, some readers were under the impression that either Newsbytes or Nelson was asserting that only Solaris- or Linux-based servers were subject to attack by hackers. What is supported by the story, and reconfirmed today by Zack Nelson in a telephone interview with Newsbytes, is that the current spate of distributed denial of service attacks have only occurred on Solaris- and Linux-based servers. Nelson was quick to agree with Newsbytes that all servers, and even routers, are subject to hack attacks. However, as stated by Nelson, "We are not aware of any NT system having this (distributed denial of service) problem." Nelson again reiterated that the reason Solaris and Linux systems are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks is that hackers can place code surreptitiously into these systems and then, at a later time, take control of these systems. It is this specific vulnerability, causing this specific type of result, that Nelson was speaking about, he said. Nelson made it clear to Newsbytes that neither he nor Network Associates were singling out Solaris or Linux. Problems can happen on any system, Nelson said, and indicated that if the current "zombie agent" problem which carries out distributed denial of service attacks were found to infect NT or other systems-based servers he'd be the first to announce it, as that would increase the marketing base for Networks Associates' CyberCopZombieScan software. Nelson said that the main points of his remarks Thursday was that everyone needs to be more concerned with security issues, and to take security alerts seriously. This warning was underscored by Nelson who informed Newsbytes that Network Associates would be announcing later today that its free CyberCopZombieScan service found the first "Zombie" agent in the wild on a system in Germany. Nelson said that CyberCopZombieScan is the only online software to detect the "Zombie" agents that are called upon in a coordinated fashion to overwhelm targeted Web sites with requests. The Web site for myCIO.com is http://www.mycio.com Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com (20000211/ Press Contact: Caroline Gick: 415-075-2252 /WIRES ONLINE, PC, LEGAL, BUSINESS/)
newbytes is reporting on a fresh outbreak in Sonohomish County, WA.
Pity, happyfunball.com seems to be offline.
Then you'll know who did it, then maybe we can get them into the RBL.
Nope, it's still there.
Someone is going to figure out how to break in through this approach and shut down a major business. Maybe an e-tailer during holiday season, or I hear Lockheed-Martin is rolling out 120,000 seats of Win2K, they'd be mighty upset about that.
And of course, the software publisher is completely indemnified for anything that goes wrong with the software. I can't see big business allowing this to go through, if they understand the consequences.
Reflections on Aqua over at MAcObserver.
My research is out of date, but c.1986 the problem was distribution. The food supply was about 10% over what was needed to feed everyone.
Funniest .sig I've seen for a while was up a bit in the thread:
"The ability to monolpolize a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the source."
true too
Educate !