It's not installed by default, but it is an install option. To get it, you either need to download it from Apple, or choose "custom install" when installing Panther and choose to install X11. It's included on the 3rd CD of Panther.
I've found that Yahoo Maps works for best for me, at least for directions around Toronto. MapQuest was too often completely wrong, or unable to find one of the addresses.
When I got to the UK, I use multimap.co.uk myself. It seems to work pretty well with just a postcode.
Agreed. A portable video device always struck me as a device that would be created by a company only because they can, not because they should.
I absolutely cannot fathom why anybody would want an expensive device to watch video in a postage stamp size. Also, a hard drive (random access media) is a complete waste for linear video data, and expensive too. Not to mention the limited battery life on something like this, unless an extremely expensive battery is used. I believe that these video players will appeal to the "gadget" crowd and nobody else.
Airport does assign IP addresses and uses NAT, but only to the local wireless clients and through local ethernet. The problem is that there are two ports on the back of an Airport basestation: the "WAN" port and the "Ethernet" port. The "WAN" port is the one that has a DHCP *client* installed only -- it's the one the user is supposed to connect to his cable modem or LAN. The "Ethernet" port is the one that connects local wired computers that runs a DHCP *server*, and so it gives (by default) ip addresses and shares the connection through NAT.
So for instance I have two wireless laptops that connect to my airport basestation, but also a desktop PC that connects to the Ethernet port. This way they all get IP addresses and all easily share the cable connection that's plugged into the WAN port.
The problem is that most users plug their LAN into the "Ethernet" port, because they don't know what a "WAN" is. As a result the basestation tries to assign IP addresses. If they plug it into the "WAN" port likey they should, it doesn't assign IPs through that port and all is well.
FWIW the new version of the Aiport setup software (that will ship with Panther) detects if there is already a DHCP server running on the Ethernet port and pops up a message explaining that the user should plug the cable into the WAN port instead. Hopefully that will fix your problems.
It's a bit silly as a phone, but without dialing anybody it might make a pretty good sensory deprivation tank. I enjoy "tanking" on occassion in a John-Lilly-style tank, but the biggest problem I've found is with the Epsom salts (that stuff is nasty if it gets in your eyes). Has anybody here tried a tank that works like the one in the story? It doesn't look as comfortable as lying down, but it does do without the salts.
Tell me about it! When this latest Microsoft virus went through a few weeks ago I didn't get any copies of the virus myself but a copy of the virus did spoof my email address as the reply-to address. So, one day I was the lucky recipient of 50 "YOU HAVE A VIRUS!!" emails. Great fun. Who sends out automated messages based on the (easily forgeable) "from" address!?
No kidding. Not to mention the fact that just about anybody knowledgeable enough to be reading slashdot doesn't need to pay Register.com obscene prices for domain renewals in the first place, even with $5 off. Hell, RackShack is selling domains for $5 period, not $5 off $35 like the "winners" of this suit.
I was recently on a business trip to NYC and stayed at the Hilton on 6th and 52nd (IIRC--around there anyhow). I was on the 30th floor and was able to find five wireless networks, three of them open. I'd just like to thank the owner of "linksys-g" for letting me avoid paying the Hilton $12.95/night for Internet access.
I've started taking my PowerBook+airport card and a WiFi scanner with me on business trips. It's rare that I can't find an open wireless network when I need one. On the same trip near Reagan airport I was able to find four open networks from my hotel room on the 9th floor. What was frightening is that the one I used ('wireless' from a netgear router on Verison DSL) was considerably faster than the Wayport wired access available in the room!
It never ceases to amaze me how many people plug in a wireless router and don't even think to secure it. As long as the major manufacturers don't ship with any security on by default, it will only get easier. I'm going to take advantage of it while I can, because this just can't last forever.
It's not an "obscure occult reference," it's French for "open." Let me guess: you're American. It's a perfectly acceptable name: the Internet is global, and there are other languages apart from English.
When I started my current job in January I was given a Windows 98 box (just like everybody else in the sales department). After having a slew of (usual) problems with 98, I started asking around and found that many of the developers were running Red Hat. I decided to avoid Red Hat but needed something more reliable than Windows 98 so one weekend with the help of Partition Magic I installed an "undercover" copy of Gentoo.
FWIW I had never used desktop Linux before (except one brief stint in '95 that didn't go well), though I have been running Linux on the server side for years (mostly Debian). So far I've been a thousand times more productive on KDE than I was in Windows. It's amazing to see the things that are difficult or impossible to do on Windows that I can't live without now.
I'm officially a convert! Gentoo & Mac OS X at home and Gentoo at work. And yes, my box at work is very secure:).
When you download a song off of kazaa... you're stealing
You are right in your reasoning, but while this is off-topic, I do have a problem with the word "stealing." As we know, "stealing" bits is a lot different than "stealing" a physical CD from HMV. To avoid confusion, I'd like to use the phrase "using an unlicensed copy," (or something like it) as that is more accurately representative of what is happening. So, your phrase might look like:
When you download a song off of kazaa or whatever the p2p du jour is, you're
copying a song that you have not licensed!
You may want to forward them over to Mozilla's own "why you should switch" page. it's pretty well done, but more important, finally shows that Mozilla is willing to do some marketing of their superior product!
Another good reason to drink water is because many times when you think you're hungry all you really need is some hydration. Try it some time--next time you feel a little hungry at work, drink a tall glass of water. Odds are that 10-20 minutes later you won't be hungry anymore. This is an excellent way to avoid over-eating.
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The parent post is off-topic. SARS is a virus, not a bacteria, and has nothing to do with increased antibiotic use.
Off Topic: I've been interested in getting into the interface design/industrial design industry from the technical side for a while now. I have a background in Electrical Engineering with both hardware and software desgin experience so I may actually be useful at a company like this:). Does anybody here work in this industry? What kind of experience should I be building if I want to be involved in things like this?
No actually, the problem is that people (like you) assume that Ecstacy simply must cause permanent changes so they go looking for them (and consistenly talk about them) even though there have been no indications of it. Why don't you wake the fuck up? Your entire message was based on your irrational "drugs are evil" upbringing that the original poster was talking about.
I suspected this, but couldn't find any proof except for US copywright law which seems to have included recordings in 1976. Does anybody know exactly when copying recordings was made illegal?
While it's not the whole story, something definitely has to be said about the fact that while people are willing to pay for features, they're rarely willing to pay more for stability. Quite frankly there's little economic incentive to make software that doesn't crash.
If your market will put up with the ocassional crash, and never expects software to be bulletproof, why bother putting the effort into stability? Until people start putting their money into the more stable platforms, that's not going to change.
One thing I don't see mentioned very often is the very fact that music hasn't been illegal to copy for very long. Hell, in the grand scheme of things, recorded music hasn't been around for very long. The RIAA only exist because of what, historically, amounts to a "technological glitch." That is, the technology was available to make recordings of music available for sale, but copying of that music difficult. It wasn't until about the 1970s that music became illegal to copy, and recordings have only been around since the late 1880s. Music existed long before records, and it will exist long after records are gone.
So really, music existed for thousands of years. For a breif moment in time a technological inequality meant that recordings could be made, but not easily copied. Now, in a sense, technology is working itself out (removing the glitch) and music is back to the way it's been for thousands of years. Just because it's been this way since you were a kid doesn't mean it's been this way forever. The time for being able to charge for recordings is over.
I don't feel sorry for the RIAA--their time is up. The technological glitch is gone and music can get back to being music for music's sake. In the end people will look back at the time when people used to be able to charge for music and laugh. Paying money for nothing but a *recording* of music? What a silly concept.
I started a new job where I was allowed to run Linux on my desktop at work. Great. I installed my old (server) standby, Debian. It was alright, but stable (which I use all all my Linux servers) was far too out of date for a desktop system and I had too many problems with unstable (and even it was behind Gentoo I later learned). I tried a few different distros and later settled on Gentoo.
The installation process for Gentoo, as most people echo, is quite lenghty, but it's quite striaghtforward to anybody who knows Linux/UNIX and I found the documentation to be fantastic. Now that it's running I'm in love. It's hands down the best desktop-Linux distro I have ever used. Everything works well, and on the painfully slow Pentium III/500 I have at work it runs quickly and efficiently. I'm a convert--Gentoo rocks! (Though I'm still using Debian on all my servers:).
they give you a lifetime warranty! I'm wondering if they're going to regret that
This is a little off-topic, but from my experience a "lifetime warranty" is defined as the "lifetime of the product," not your lifetime. That means that when the product's "life" has come to an end, they warranty is over. This is defined in many ways by different companies (read the fine print), but I've found when the product is broken in any non-trivial way it's "lifetime" is over.
And yeah, it's a scam. I once had a very expensive backpack with a "lifetime warranty" break a shoulder strap about 6 months after I bought it. Shame that when a backpack gets a broken shoulder strap (which is a pretty important piece for a backpack) it's "lifetime" is over.
Did it occur to you that perhaps we haven't gone to Mars because we can gather so much information about the Universe without actually going there? Why spend all that money going to Mars when we could use it to observe so much more than just one little planet.
If you don't like Apple, that's all well and good, but why then do you feel the need to post or even click on an Apple story? I suppose you just couldn't let an Apple story go by without adding your insults. It's called trolling, and we don't need any more of it. Your opinion is valid, but posting this in an Apple story is just childish and counter-productive. Grow up, please.
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It's not installed by default, but it is an install option. To get it, you either need to download it from Apple, or choose "custom install" when installing Panther and choose to install X11. It's included on the 3rd CD of Panther.
I've found that Yahoo Maps works for best for me, at least for directions around Toronto. MapQuest was too often completely wrong, or unable to find one of the addresses.
When I got to the UK, I use multimap.co.uk myself. It seems to work pretty well with just a postcode.
Agreed. A portable video device always struck me as a device that would be created by a company only because they can, not because they should.
I absolutely cannot fathom why anybody would want an expensive device to watch video in a postage stamp size. Also, a hard drive (random access media) is a complete waste for linear video data, and expensive too. Not to mention the limited battery life on something like this, unless an extremely expensive battery is used. I believe that these video players will appeal to the "gadget" crowd and nobody else.
Airport does assign IP addresses and uses NAT, but only to the local wireless clients and through local ethernet. The problem is that there are two ports on the back of an Airport basestation: the "WAN" port and the "Ethernet" port. The "WAN" port is the one that has a DHCP *client* installed only -- it's the one the user is supposed to connect to his cable modem or LAN. The "Ethernet" port is the one that connects local wired computers that runs a DHCP *server*, and so it gives (by default) ip addresses and shares the connection through NAT.
So for instance I have two wireless laptops that connect to my airport basestation, but also a desktop PC that connects to the Ethernet port. This way they all get IP addresses and all easily share the cable connection that's plugged into the WAN port.
The problem is that most users plug their LAN into the "Ethernet" port, because they don't know what a "WAN" is. As a result the basestation tries to assign IP addresses. If they plug it into the "WAN" port likey they should, it doesn't assign IPs through that port and all is well.
FWIW the new version of the Aiport setup software (that will ship with Panther) detects if there is already a DHCP server running on the Ethernet port and pops up a message explaining that the user should plug the cable into the WAN port instead. Hopefully that will fix your problems.
It's a bit silly as a phone, but without dialing anybody it might make a pretty good sensory deprivation tank. I enjoy "tanking" on occassion in a John-Lilly-style tank, but the biggest problem I've found is with the Epsom salts (that stuff is nasty if it gets in your eyes). Has anybody here tried a tank that works like the one in the story? It doesn't look as comfortable as lying down, but it does do without the salts.
Jason
Tell me about it! When this latest Microsoft virus went through a few weeks ago I didn't get any copies of the virus myself but a copy of the virus did spoof my email address as the reply-to address. So, one day I was the lucky recipient of 50 "YOU HAVE A VIRUS!!" emails. Great fun. Who sends out automated messages based on the (easily forgeable) "from" address!?
No kidding. Not to mention the fact that just about anybody knowledgeable enough to be reading slashdot doesn't need to pay Register.com obscene prices for domain renewals in the first place, even with $5 off. Hell, RackShack is selling domains for $5 period, not $5 off $35 like the "winners" of this suit.
I was recently on a business trip to NYC and stayed at the Hilton on 6th and 52nd (IIRC--around there anyhow). I was on the 30th floor and was able to find five wireless networks, three of them open. I'd just like to thank the owner of "linksys-g" for letting me avoid paying the Hilton $12.95/night for Internet access.
I've started taking my PowerBook+airport card and a WiFi scanner with me on business trips. It's rare that I can't find an open wireless network when I need one. On the same trip near Reagan airport I was able to find four open networks from my hotel room on the 9th floor. What was frightening is that the one I used ('wireless' from a netgear router on Verison DSL) was considerably faster than the Wayport wired access available in the room!
It never ceases to amaze me how many people plug in a wireless router and don't even think to secure it. As long as the major manufacturers don't ship with any security on by default, it will only get easier. I'm going to take advantage of it while I can, because this just can't last forever.
It's not an "obscure occult reference," it's French for "open." Let me guess: you're American. It's a perfectly acceptable name: the Internet is global, and there are other languages apart from English.
When I started my current job in January I was given a Windows 98 box (just like everybody else in the sales department). After having a slew of (usual) problems with 98, I started asking around and found that many of the developers were running Red Hat. I decided to avoid Red Hat but needed something more reliable than Windows 98 so one weekend with the help of Partition Magic I installed an "undercover" copy of Gentoo.
:).
FWIW I had never used desktop Linux before (except one brief stint in '95 that didn't go well), though I have been running Linux on the server side for years (mostly Debian). So far I've been a thousand times more productive on KDE than I was in Windows. It's amazing to see the things that are difficult or impossible to do on Windows that I can't live without now.
I'm officially a convert! Gentoo & Mac OS X at home and Gentoo at work. And yes, my box at work is very secure
When you download a song off of kazaa ... you're stealing
You are right in your reasoning, but while this is off-topic, I do have a problem with the word "stealing." As we know, "stealing" bits is a lot different than "stealing" a physical CD from HMV. To avoid confusion, I'd like to use the phrase "using an unlicensed copy," (or something like it) as that is more accurately representative of what is happening. So, your phrase might look like:
Other than that it looks great.
You may want to forward them over to Mozilla's own "why you should switch" page. it's pretty well done, but more important, finally shows that Mozilla is willing to do some marketing of their superior product!
Another good reason to drink water is because many times when you think you're hungry all you really need is some hydration. Try it some time--next time you feel a little hungry at work, drink a tall glass of water. Odds are that 10-20 minutes later you won't be hungry anymore. This is an excellent way to avoid over-eating.
The parent post is off-topic. SARS is a virus, not a bacteria, and has nothing to do with increased antibiotic use.
I think you mean:
click here!
Regardless of the design, I think a tshirt with the following on the back would be pretty funny:
click here! [goatse.cx]
Unfortuantely /. doesn't allow the <u> tag, but you get the point.
Off Topic: :). Does anybody here work in this industry? What kind of experience should I be building if I want to be involved in things like this?
I've been interested in getting into the interface design/industrial design industry from the technical side for a while now. I have a background in Electrical Engineering with both hardware and software desgin experience so I may actually be useful at a company like this
No actually, the problem is that people (like you) assume that Ecstacy simply must cause permanent changes so they go looking for them (and consistenly talk about them) even though there have been no indications of it. Why don't you wake the fuck up? Your entire message was based on your irrational "drugs are evil" upbringing that the original poster was talking about.
I suspected this, but couldn't find any proof except for US copywright law which seems to have included recordings in 1976. Does anybody know exactly when copying recordings was made illegal?
Jason
While it's not the whole story, something definitely has to be said about the fact that while people are willing to pay for features, they're rarely willing to pay more for stability. Quite frankly there's little economic incentive to make software that doesn't crash.
If your market will put up with the ocassional crash, and never expects software to be bulletproof, why bother putting the effort into stability? Until people start putting their money into the more stable platforms, that's not going to change.
One thing I don't see mentioned very often is the very fact that music hasn't been illegal to copy for very long. Hell, in the grand scheme of things, recorded music hasn't been around for very long. The RIAA only exist because of what, historically, amounts to a "technological glitch." That is, the technology was available to make recordings of music available for sale, but copying of that music difficult. It wasn't until about the 1970s that music became illegal to copy, and recordings have only been around since the late 1880s. Music existed long before records, and it will exist long after records are gone.
So really, music existed for thousands of years. For a breif moment in time a technological inequality meant that recordings could be made, but not easily copied. Now, in a sense, technology is working itself out (removing the glitch) and music is back to the way it's been for thousands of years. Just because it's been this way since you were a kid doesn't mean it's been this way forever. The time for being able to charge for recordings is over.
I don't feel sorry for the RIAA--their time is up. The technological glitch is gone and music can get back to being music for music's sake. In the end people will look back at the time when people used to be able to charge for music and laugh. Paying money for nothing but a *recording* of music? What a silly concept.
Jason
I started a new job where I was allowed to run Linux on my desktop at work. Great. I installed my old (server) standby, Debian. It was alright, but stable (which I use all all my Linux servers) was far too out of date for a desktop system and I had too many problems with unstable (and even it was behind Gentoo I later learned). I tried a few different distros and later settled on Gentoo.
The installation process for Gentoo, as most people echo, is quite lenghty, but it's quite striaghtforward to anybody who knows Linux/UNIX and I found the documentation to be fantastic. Now that it's running I'm in love. It's hands down the best desktop-Linux distro I have ever used. Everything works well, and on the painfully slow Pentium III/500 I have at work it runs quickly and efficiently. I'm a convert--Gentoo rocks! (Though I'm still using Debian on all my servers :).
- j
they give you a lifetime warranty! I'm wondering if they're going to regret that
This is a little off-topic, but from my experience a "lifetime warranty" is defined as the "lifetime of the product," not your lifetime. That means that when the product's "life" has come to an end, they warranty is over. This is defined in many ways by different companies (read the fine print), but I've found when the product is broken in any non-trivial way it's "lifetime" is over.
And yeah, it's a scam. I once had a very expensive backpack with a "lifetime warranty" break a shoulder strap about 6 months after I bought it. Shame that when a backpack gets a broken shoulder strap (which is a pretty important piece for a backpack) it's "lifetime" is over.
- j
Did it occur to you that perhaps we haven't gone to Mars because we can gather so much information about the Universe without actually going there? Why spend all that money going to Mars when we could use it to observe so much more than just one little planet.
If you don't like Apple, that's all well and good, but why then do you feel the need to post or even click on an Apple story? I suppose you just couldn't let an Apple story go by without adding your insults. It's called trolling, and we don't need any more of it. Your opinion is valid, but posting this in an Apple story is just childish and counter-productive. Grow up, please.
- j