Get a clue already. How many clues does Apple have to give you before you see the trail of breadcrumbs?
Ah, right. Apple can't just come out and tell you about the features of their upcoming products like other companies do. They have to leave "trails of breadcrumbs" instead, that only the coolest, most intelligent people can follow. People like you. You're special.
I going to laugh to see all the naysayers tripping over themselves to get ahold of an iPhone and a Mac in a few months once they realize they've missed the boat
Please find the biggest, burliest naysayer you can and then laugh directly in their face whilst explaining why. If you can find someone to video the event, that would be great.
But unless you're interested in turning your iPhone into a wifi scanner. (Something probably best left to the laptop anyway since it's got a fair few more MHz to waste.)
If you want to develop referencing apps, lookup programs etc, then just use AJAX on the iPhone.
Although I can't actually be bothered to test it, I'm pretty sure that running Kismet on my laptop uses less cycles than running KHTML rendering some graphically rich, interactive AJAX app.
All I'm saying is that if the main concern preventing a proper SDK is lack of processing power, as you seem to be suggesting, then making everyone use AJAX seems a strange way of dealing with it.
However I think it's the hobbyists that will hack away at the iPhone (with knowledge that it's just OSX) and figure out how to make their own mini-apps anyway.
Yes, I'm sure that some highly motivated and skilled hackers will eventually circumvent whatever protections Apple put on it. And I'm equally sure that everyone will then say that Apple intended that all along but were prevented from making the device open by default due to the big bad cellphone companies. See also AppleTV, iTunes DRM.
It even goes so far as to allow 64-bit apps without a 32-bit binary to run in 32-bit mode transparently, which is unprecedented thus far.
Almost as unprecedented as a Mac zealot making hilariously inaccurate technical claims because they simply don't understand what they're talking about, but don't see that a justification for keeping their mouths shut.
Come October, Mac OS X will serve everyone with one price, one version, one install: one vision of simple 64-bit desktop goodness.
I made a deal with a hitman. If I ever fall in love with a company to that extent he's going to come round and shoot me in the face. I find it a more palatable option than allowing myself to become a PR spewing corporate cocksucker.
I just tried installing the Windows Safari in Fedora Core 6 through WINE.
Why? It's just Konqueror with all those confusing and scary features removed.
Instead you should use your time to make an Apple skin for Konqueror, since that will instantly make it ten times as cool. I think there's a blur plugin for Beryl available if you need to make the text rendering a little more Safari like.
Yes, but don't worry - wearing a magnetic bracelet will prevent cancer. Some kind of magic crystal will probably help as well. Apparently it's all quantum.
You do know that WPA is not the same as WEP, right? And that one is easy to crack and the other isn't? Just checking...
You do know that using WPA with a passphrase susceptible to a dictionary attack leads to nearly instant 0wnage? Just checking that you don't think WPA plus stupid users necessarily equals secure.
Bittorrent currently only encrypts the headers of it's packets. I predict that developers who make those applications affected will do everything they can to make their packets look like https or VPN by using SSL or similar technology.
It doesn't matter two shits whether you make the traffic look like SSL or IPSEC or whatever. If you're making connections to tens or hundreds of other hosts on other DSL networks and transferring large chunks of data back and forth then it's pretty obviously Bittorrent.
To everyone who complains about the command being in the wrong syntax (C:/ehome/ versus C:\ehome\)
I don't think the paths were wrong at all. This was obviously a command that they didn't want leaked to the whole world. So they sent the command in an obfuscated format. Only the most highly trained Microsoft certified professionals would have been able to see through the deception and translate it to the correct command. Assuming that they know how to start cmd.exe and don't just type it into Word.
You actually don't have a damn clue how these work, do you? Instead of reading the comments that tell you how they work and why they didn't, you're still clinging to your pathetic "MS sucks" Linus blanket and pouting.
Grow up.
Looking at your posting history, it would be easy to accuse you of being a Microsoft shill. However, I think that is rather too kind. Apart from anything else, it implies that you are being paid to defend them at every opportunity.
I don't think you are gaining any reward at all for the time you spend posting. I think you're doing it for the love of a multi billion dollar company that doesn't even know you exist. In fact I very much doubt that they would piss on you if you were on fire.
Perhaps you could branch out a bit and spend some of your time writing in support of other companies that need it? You know, AT&T, IBM, Pfizer or the market leader of your choice.
Maybe it's an American thing to try and defend the overdog against perceived slights from others. To me it will always seem like a pathetic waste of time and a manifestation of a psychology that I will never truly understand and probably don't want to.
Please feel free to set me right about your motivations, if you can spare a few moments between searching the web for people using "M$" instead of their properly registered trademark.
We at MS are absolutely sure that we implemented ipv6 according to the rules of the 8 layers of the ISO-model. Can't think what went wrong really ?!
I think you'll find that pesky (l)users and incompetent network admins are generally accepted to make up the 8th layer of the OSI model.
For example :
Tech A: Customer X has just blocked ALL ICMP traffic on their internal LAN for "Security reasons". Tech B: It's not the first time we've had a Layer 8 problem at that site.
IPv6 adoption is going to be heavily stunted by this inadequacy if it isn't fixed pretty pronto - and even if it is fixed, with the other problems v6 is having, will anyone actually try trusting it? Not for some time, I suspect.
I have no great love for IPv6, but judging by the lack of technical content in your post, I'm fairly certain that what you were thinking when you wrote about the problems & inadequacies of IPv6 was something along the lines of "IPv6 doesn't support NAT or Firewalls - it's teh insecure!!!11!".
Is my assumption correct? If so, you ARE retarded. Please don't post in any more networking related stories until you have learned enough about networking to avoid blindly parroting the half baked and uninformed opinions of other retards.
The one benefit I can see is that anybody who really does see worthwhile benefits in adopting IPv6 will say "bugger M$, there are hundreds of Open Source solutions that support this without issue out of the box". Maybe this could have a positive impact on OSS uptake in the long-term.
Oh, that's right! It's only MS that haven't got a perfect IPv6 implementation. Everyone else rocks. I do apologise for calling you retarded. You are in fact a retarded, karma-whoring, content free post troll.
I do give you extra points for starting with a criticism of all the MS bashing and then finishing with MS bashing. I bet even you didn't think that would get past the mods.
Discover that all those things you couldn't get working on Linux suddenly start working meaning no, you don't have to go back to Windows.
If you were considering going back to Windows because additional security made your life difficult, I think it's fair to say that you probably belong there anyway. Please, don't let us detain you further.
we don't need SELinux shoved down our throats by Redhat or any other vendor.
I've even got our kickstart server configured to boot every new server with selinux=0
I'm having a bit of trouble reconciling those two statements. On the one hand Red Hat is forcing SELinux down your throat. On the other hand, their install system provides an easy way to turn it off.
I'm assuming you were modded "troll" due to an inability to mod you "-1 Self Contradicting in Less Than a Hundred Words". Slashdot really needs more Mod options.
"If the Higgs-particle disappeared off the surface of the Hadron-collider then man would only have four picoseconds of life left. No more protons, no more electrons, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
You should try and make it a bit clearer that all your posts are jokes.
My recommended method would be to try and make them funny.
I spend a fair amount of time at the HardOCP forums when I'm looking for PC info. It is one of the most virulently anti mac websites I've encountered in the last ten years. It is rare for any post concerning the mac to receive anything other than a tidal wave of antimac troll posts.
There are plenty of intelligent people over there, but when it comes to the Mac they behave like a bunch of fucking baboons, and this "review" should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Isn't it just so unfair? Try as you might you will never find a pro-Mac website that indulges in the same kind of behaviour. In my experience, Mac users are the most fair and balanced people you will ever come across when comparing the advantages & disadvantages of different systems. I've never even seen a Mac user unfairly criticise another OS in an attempt to make their system look better.
You might be able to find some examples if you look hard enough, but they'll probably turn out to be PC zealots trying to make Mac users look bad.
Because I bet that 98% of Mac OO users have already switched to this Alpha version. The fact that it can't print, can't copy & paste and will certainly crash and destroy their work is surely secondary to the fact that it looks better than the standard version.
What he said is that we'll have to put up with MCE and MythTV UNTIL Steve Jobs decides to include DVR functionality into Apple TV. And he's RIGHT. The only person on PLANET EARTH who seems to understand what people want from their consumer electronics is Steven Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple Incorporated.
If Steve Jobs understands the consumer's needs so perfectly, then why doesn't Apple TV have DVR functionality now? If they add it into a later version then that confirms that they didn't understand the needs when they released the first version.
Were you being sarcastic or is this the World's first self contradicting Apple zealot post? Usually it takes another person to point out that you lot are full of shit.
Five years from now Windows will support multiple cores. Which is what OS X is doing on my MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW.
I believe the largest SMP system that OSX has ever been run on is 8 cores. Windows has run on a 64 CPU system and Linux on a 1024 CPU system.
So I'm kind of struggling to understand how OSX is superior in this regard. I know there must be a technical explanation, because it's not like Mac owners to post single lines of obvious bullshit in an attempt to advocate their systems while actually just annoying the fuck out of everyone.
After all, the entire creation myth implies that humanity is descended from one man and one woman and therefore condones incest on a massive scale.
Let's band together and drive these sick fucks off the Internet before they poison anymore young minds.
Won't somebody please think of the fucking children?
I know someone is going to reply with some complicated explanation of how there wasn't really any incest between Adam & Eve's children, but deep down you'll know as well as I do that you're just making shit up as you go along.
I found that over the past year Intel released some funky motherboards (i.e. the i965) and installing Gentoo on them was not really easy.
That was a kernel issue. Any distro that didn't come with a bleeding edge kernel didn't install on them. So why single out Gentoo for criticism? Especially when I'm pretty sure that the unofficial Gentoo based live CDs were about the first thing that would install on them without severe pain.
the xbox runs a stripped down version of Windows 2000. The executable files are called.xbe instead of.exe. it evens uses a variation of Direct X for the games. do some research the next time you are confused.
Yes, I know that. However in order to use the Windows kernel, drivers & DirectX etc.., you need to compile your software against the MS XBox dev kit. And that is illegal if you don't have a license.
So I was giving the project the benefit of the doubt and assuming they used Linux as the OS. But thanks for putting me right - after doing some research I now realise that the only way you can get the product is to either compile it against an illegal copy of the dev kit or download an illegally produced binary from a dubious source.
Congratulations on a truly stunning piece of advocacy - instead of being confused about the product I have now done the research you suggested and am rather suspicious about it.
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Get a clue already. How many clues does Apple have to give you before you see the trail of breadcrumbs?
Ah, right. Apple can't just come out and tell you about the features of their upcoming products like other companies do. They have to leave "trails of breadcrumbs" instead, that only the coolest, most intelligent people can follow. People like you. You're special.
I going to laugh to see all the naysayers tripping over themselves to get ahold of an iPhone and a Mac in a few months once they realize they've missed the boat
Please find the biggest, burliest naysayer you can and then laugh directly in their face whilst explaining why. If you can find someone to video the event, that would be great.
But unless you're interested in turning your iPhone into a wifi scanner. (Something probably best left to the laptop anyway since it's got a fair few more MHz to waste.)
If you want to develop referencing apps, lookup programs etc, then just use AJAX on the iPhone.
Although I can't actually be bothered to test it, I'm pretty sure that running Kismet on my laptop uses less cycles than running KHTML rendering some graphically rich, interactive AJAX app.
All I'm saying is that if the main concern preventing a proper SDK is lack of processing power, as you seem to be suggesting, then making everyone use AJAX seems a strange way of dealing with it.
However I think it's the hobbyists that will hack away at the iPhone (with knowledge that it's just OSX) and figure out how to make their own mini-apps anyway.
Yes, I'm sure that some highly motivated and skilled hackers will eventually circumvent whatever protections Apple put on it. And I'm equally sure that everyone will then say that Apple intended that all along but were prevented from making the device open by default due to the big bad cellphone companies. See also AppleTV, iTunes DRM.
It even goes so far as to allow 64-bit apps without a 32-bit binary to run in 32-bit mode transparently, which is unprecedented thus far.
Almost as unprecedented as a Mac zealot making hilariously inaccurate technical claims because they simply don't understand what they're talking about, but don't see that a justification for keeping their mouths shut.
Come October, Mac OS X will serve everyone with one price, one version, one install: one vision of simple 64-bit desktop goodness.
I made a deal with a hitman. If I ever fall in love with a company to that extent he's going to come round and shoot me in the face. I find it a more palatable option than allowing myself to become a PR spewing corporate cocksucker.
Maybe they should just buy a ton of crappy Compaqs, peel off the Compaq sticker, and slap on an Apple sticker.
Are you seriously suggesting that the only difference between a crappy Compaq and an Apple is a sticker? That's fucking outrageous.
You'd blatantly need a new case as well.
I just tried installing the Windows Safari in Fedora Core 6 through WINE.
Why? It's just Konqueror with all those confusing and scary features removed.
Instead you should use your time to make an Apple skin for Konqueror, since that will instantly make it ten times as cool. I think there's a blur plugin for Beryl available if you need to make the text rendering a little more Safari like.
have you considered dlan (ethernet over electric wires)?
They really need to add support for PoE before I can consider it a viable technology.
Does it give cancer ?
Yes, but don't worry - wearing a magnetic bracelet will prevent cancer. Some kind of magic crystal will probably help as well. Apparently it's all quantum.
You do know that WPA is not the same as WEP, right? And that one is easy to crack and the other isn't? Just checking...
You do know that using WPA with a passphrase susceptible to a dictionary attack leads to nearly instant 0wnage? Just checking that you don't think WPA plus stupid users necessarily equals secure.
Bittorrent currently only encrypts the headers of it's packets. I predict that developers who make those applications affected will do everything they can to make their packets look like https or VPN by using SSL or similar technology.
It doesn't matter two shits whether you make the traffic look like SSL or IPSEC or whatever. If you're making connections to tens or hundreds of other hosts on other DSL networks and transferring large chunks of data back and forth then it's pretty obviously Bittorrent.
That's what they'll look for instead.
To everyone who complains about the command being in the wrong syntax (C:/ehome/ versus C:\ehome\)
I don't think the paths were wrong at all. This was obviously a command that they didn't want leaked to the whole world. So they sent the command in an obfuscated format. Only the most highly trained Microsoft certified professionals would have been able to see through the deception and translate it to the correct command. Assuming that they know how to start cmd.exe and don't just type it into Word.
You actually don't have a damn clue how these work, do you? Instead of reading the comments that tell you how they work and why they didn't, you're still clinging to your pathetic "MS sucks" Linus blanket and pouting.
Grow up.
Looking at your posting history, it would be easy to accuse you of being a Microsoft shill. However, I think that is rather too kind. Apart from anything else, it implies that you are being paid to defend them at every opportunity.
I don't think you are gaining any reward at all for the time you spend posting. I think you're doing it for the love of a multi billion dollar company that doesn't even know you exist. In fact I very much doubt that they would piss on you if you were on fire.
Perhaps you could branch out a bit and spend some of your time writing in support of other companies that need it? You know, AT&T, IBM, Pfizer or the market leader of your choice.
Maybe it's an American thing to try and defend the overdog against perceived slights from others. To me it will always seem like a pathetic waste of time and a manifestation of a psychology that I will never truly understand and probably don't want to.
Please feel free to set me right about your motivations, if you can spare a few moments between searching the web for people using "M$" instead of their properly registered trademark.
We at MS are absolutely sure that we implemented ipv6 according to the rules of the 8 layers of the ISO-model. Can't think what went wrong really ?!
I think you'll find that pesky (l)users and incompetent network admins are generally accepted to make up the 8th layer of the OSI model.
For example :
Tech A: Customer X has just blocked ALL ICMP traffic on their internal LAN for "Security reasons".
Tech B: It's not the first time we've had a Layer 8 problem at that site.
IPv6 adoption is going to be heavily stunted by this inadequacy if it isn't fixed pretty pronto - and even if it is fixed, with the other problems v6 is having, will anyone actually try trusting it? Not for some time, I suspect.
I have no great love for IPv6, but judging by the lack of technical content in your post, I'm fairly certain that what you were thinking when you wrote about the problems & inadequacies of IPv6 was something along the lines of "IPv6 doesn't support NAT or Firewalls - it's teh insecure!!!11!".
Is my assumption correct? If so, you ARE retarded. Please don't post in any more networking related stories until you have learned enough about networking to avoid blindly parroting the half baked and uninformed opinions of other retards.
The one benefit I can see is that anybody who really does see worthwhile benefits in adopting IPv6 will say "bugger M$, there are hundreds of Open Source solutions that support this without issue out of the box". Maybe this could have a positive impact on OSS uptake in the long-term.
Oh, that's right! It's only MS that haven't got a perfect IPv6 implementation. Everyone else rocks. I do apologise for calling you retarded. You are in fact a retarded, karma-whoring, content free post troll.
I do give you extra points for starting with a criticism of all the MS bashing and then finishing with MS bashing. I bet even you didn't think that would get past the mods.
Discover that all those things you couldn't get working on Linux suddenly start working meaning no, you don't have to go back to Windows.
If you were considering going back to Windows because additional security made your life difficult, I think it's fair to say that you probably belong there anyway. Please, don't let us detain you further.
we don't need SELinux shoved down our throats by Redhat or any other vendor.
I've even got our kickstart server configured to boot every new server with selinux=0
I'm having a bit of trouble reconciling those two statements. On the one hand Red Hat is forcing SELinux down your throat. On the other hand, their install system provides an easy way to turn it off.
I'm assuming you were modded "troll" due to an inability to mod you "-1 Self Contradicting in Less Than a Hundred Words". Slashdot really needs more Mod options.
Albert Einstein once said
"If the Higgs-particle disappeared off the surface of the Hadron-collider then man would only have four picoseconds of life left. No more protons, no more electrons, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
You should try and make it a bit clearer that all your posts are jokes.
My recommended method would be to try and make them funny.
I spend a fair amount of time at the HardOCP forums when I'm looking for PC info. It is one of the most virulently anti mac websites I've encountered in the last ten years. It is rare for any post concerning the mac to receive anything other than a tidal wave of antimac troll posts.
There are plenty of intelligent people over there, but when it comes to the Mac they behave like a bunch of fucking baboons, and this "review" should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Isn't it just so unfair? Try as you might you will never find a pro-Mac website that indulges in the same kind of behaviour. In my experience, Mac users are the most fair and balanced people you will ever come across when comparing the advantages & disadvantages of different systems. I've never even seen a Mac user unfairly criticise another OS in an attempt to make their system look better.
You might be able to find some examples if you look hard enough, but they'll probably turn out to be PC zealots trying to make Mac users look bad.
Because I bet that 98% of Mac OO users have already switched to this Alpha version. The fact that it can't print, can't copy & paste and will certainly crash and destroy their work is surely secondary to the fact that it looks better than the standard version.
What he said is that we'll have to put up with MCE and MythTV UNTIL Steve Jobs decides to include DVR functionality into Apple TV. And he's RIGHT. The only person on PLANET EARTH who seems to understand what people want from their consumer electronics is Steven Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple Incorporated.
If Steve Jobs understands the consumer's needs so perfectly, then why doesn't Apple TV have DVR functionality now? If they add it into a later version then that confirms that they didn't understand the needs when they released the first version.
Were you being sarcastic or is this the World's first self contradicting Apple zealot post? Usually it takes another person to point out that you lot are full of shit.
I love that clause in the EULA - "You may not workaround technical limitations in this product".
I hope they don't decide to include that in the Windows EULA, because if they do I think we're all going to jail.
PS3 - free online, dedicated servers, 32, 40 player games
I assume that this will remain a theoretical maximum until such time as the 32nd PS3 is actually sold?
Five years from now Windows will support multiple cores. Which is what OS X is doing on my MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW.
I believe the largest SMP system that OSX has ever been run on is 8 cores. Windows has run on a 64 CPU system and Linux on a 1024 CPU system.
So I'm kind of struggling to understand how OSX is superior in this regard. I know there must be a technical explanation, because it's not like Mac owners to post single lines of obvious bullshit in an attempt to advocate their systems while actually just annoying the fuck out of everyone.
After all, the entire creation myth implies that humanity is descended from one man and one woman and therefore condones incest on a massive scale.
Let's band together and drive these sick fucks off the Internet before they poison anymore young minds.
Won't somebody please think of the fucking children?
I know someone is going to reply with some complicated explanation of how there wasn't really any incest between Adam & Eve's children, but deep down you'll know as well as I do that you're just making shit up as you go along.
I found that over the past year Intel released some funky motherboards (i.e. the i965) and installing Gentoo on them was not really easy.
That was a kernel issue. Any distro that didn't come with a bleeding edge kernel didn't install on them. So why single out Gentoo for criticism? Especially when I'm pretty sure that the unofficial Gentoo based live CDs were about the first thing that would install on them without severe pain.
the xbox runs a stripped down version of Windows 2000. The executable files are called .xbe instead of .exe. it evens uses a variation of Direct X for the games. do some research the next time you are confused.
Yes, I know that. However in order to use the Windows kernel, drivers & DirectX etc.., you need to compile your software against the MS XBox dev kit. And that is illegal if you don't have a license.
So I was giving the project the benefit of the doubt and assuming they used Linux as the OS. But thanks for putting me right - after doing some research I now realise that the only way you can get the product is to either compile it against an illegal copy of the dev kit or download an illegally produced binary from a dubious source.
Congratulations on a truly stunning piece of advocacy - instead of being confused about the product I have now done the research you suggested and am rather suspicious about it.