Apple has PGP keys that you can use for submitting encrypted email to them; they tell you to use it for sending in proof of security issues. While they don't include the functionality in Mail, there's always MacGPG (command-line tools, plus a nice Aqua-fied port) and the GPGMail plugin.
Why Apple and Mozilla make no official inclusion, I have no idea. Probably due to licensing, no doubt. (It goes without saying that Microsoft doesn't include it because they're Microsoft.)
No, hardware acceleration doesn't kick in until just before WindowServer starts; if I remember correctly, both the Apple logo and the panic message are hardcoded into the kernel. So now it just makes less sense that only one is corrupted.
I agree. I've always wowed people with Keynote.
I've always presented from my MacBook Pro, but you can save it as a QuickTime movie; if you choose the "click to advance" option, then you have a QuickTime slideshow that plays on any computer with QuickTime installed, Mac or PC.
Interesting how the kernel panic message is unaffected by the display corruption. Not that this is relevant to the discussion, but any ideas why that is?
You'd think that. But Adobe won't care until Flash crashes Internet Exploder. Or perhaps I'm just jaded by tech support from years of using Macs and Linux.
EDGE-capable phones, when receiving a phone call, disable EDGE and transmit voice in plain GSM mode.
3G phones, however, have enough bandwidth to send (higher-quality) voice data over the 3G network, in either ATM/AAL2 or IPv4/RTP mode (technically, VoIP.)
It wouldn't have a problem. EFI (Apple's firmware on Intel) can boot an EFI-aware operating system, such as Mac OS X or some Linuxes. But if you want to boot Windows, then it loads the compatibility support module, which includes a legacy BIOS emulator. It is at this point that your Mac becomes a "PC", and can boot regular EFI-unaware operating systems such as Windows; as far as Windows is concerned, it can only see down to the CSM.
Therefore, EFI functionality, and the shiny and pretty Apple bootloader, is unaffected by this. But I wouldn't enable BitLocker on your whole disk anyway, because Mac OS X doesn't support it.
According to my high school biology teacher, this is true. Muscle cells are rich in mitochondria, which constantly consume "food" to create energy -- hence, burning calories.
Weight training leads to more muscle cells. More muscle cells leads to more mitochondria. See where I'm going?
(Disclaimer: I'm no scientist. Well, a computer scientist. But that doesn't apply here.)
Short answer, to accommodate lazy old Microsoft and other bad coders.
Long answer, according to Wikipedia:
Where hardware does not conform to ACPI, but claims to do so, the software interoperating with that hardware is faced with a dilemma: either it can be written to be ACPI-compliant, thus risking problems with the not-entirely-compliant hardware, or it can deviate from the ACPI standard to accommodate the hardware quirks. That, however, is generally seen as undesirable from a software-engineering point of view, since the software would potentially have to be adapted for and tested with arbitrarily large numbers of hardware devices, which is precisely what standards such as ACPI are intended to avoid. Additionally, availability of compatible software does not provide the hardware manufacturer with an incentive to repair their compliance. This is a constant debate between "standards purists" and advocates of software that "simply works" with as much hardware as possible.
Since you know, with the way things are going, some astronaut is going to buy an iPhone 3G. Then they'll show it to their co-workers, and their co-workers might get one.
And then it's only a matter of time before Apple starts getting support calls from astronauts wondering why there's no signal.
And then AT&T (or whomever is in your country) will get support calls about how there's no signal in space.
And then some astronaut's 14-year-old cousin will make a cantenna out of a Pringles can, wire it to his home access point, and point it straight up. There must be a better way, and that's what good old Vint Cerf has been up to.
I've never had any high-def content to throw at it, so I've never noticed that resolution limitation.
The Turbo.264 is Mac-only, but I heard somewhere that it's but a rebranded version of a PC product.
If you do a lot of H.264 conversion, look into picking up a hardware encoder. There's the Turbo.264; it's Mac-only, but I'm fairly sure it's a rebranded PC device. Plug into a USB port, and it speeds up H.264 encoding -- even on single-core systems.
Imagine that with your quad-core. It's not a free solution, but if you find yourself doing a *lot* of encodes, it may be worth your money.
Prolific and Keyspan ones (that is, most of them) work fine. You might have to install a driver from their website, but once you do that, it works perfectly.
Then, either dig up a copy of Zterm or just use the Terminal and the screen command. I've been using serial consoles on Mac OS X for years.
I think the proliferation of webmail and AOLers has put the proverbial fork into anything that can't be simplified in its entirety to a toolbar button. You can click a button to sign and encrypt messages, sure, but you can't quite click a button to generate a key, sign someone else's key, send and receive from keyservers, etc.
Oh yeah, and no one seems to care, despite companies trying to think of new ways to verify that they are the sender of an email. AOL has their "Official AOL Mail", and everyone else has a separate inbox for you after logging in. Well, what's more verifiable than PGP and a key with a lot of signatures? Before we set up your cable TV account, will you promise to sign our PGP key?
Instead of MD5 sums and such, people are starting to sign downloads with GPG. Now, if only the Microsofts and Apples of the world would recognize PGP as a valid form of digital signatures on an application, that would be a huge step forward.
Sure, the geeks (such as myself) love it, but PGP and GPG aren't going to take off until they can (a) build the functionality into webmail, (b) sell said functionality to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple... who am I forgetting... and (c) simplify things so that even Mr. and Mrs. Everyman know how to use it.
Just like you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your mac and expect it to work, you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your linux
That's not really true these days. With the exception of some Lexmark/Dell printers, everything works with OS X. And from my experience, most hardware and FOS software that works with Mac OS X also works with Linux; the underlying architecture is similar enough so that Linux users can look for Mac-compatible stuff and (usually) be safe.
Even if the mouse dies tomorrow, it's not going to disappear overnight. Steve Jobs isn't going to bust down your door, seize your mice, or nail an iPhone over your trackpads.
Parallel ports, PS/2 ports, and floppy disks were all declared "dead" a long time ago, but their corpses aren't being buried too quickly.
And while we're at it, what about all those zombie processes on your system?
I've been using GPG for years, and it's very rare that I run into someone else who uses it. It's refreshing to see it making a comeback!
I don't use Google Calendar (nothing against it, but I prefer iCal), but this is quite a novel approach to encryption.
Apple has said that they won't make updates intentionally defeat jailbreakers. I was jailbroken from 1.0.2 all the way through 2.0. And if you need Apple's help, backup and restore your phone with the stock firmware.
I can see to small extent using a G-Key for desktops, but in work environment roaming profiles work much better.
I agree. Take your G-Key from your home GDium to your work GDium, and you get to keep all of your Slashdot bookmarks and your porn collection -- a poor man's MobileMe.
While the G-Key would be effective for desktops, but just redundant for portable machines. Plus, it would only be truly effective were there to be a GDium on every desk and every lap; barring any sort of significant market penetration, it's just a gimmick (though I'm sure it will have its fans).
Apple already does address space layout randomization in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5)
Also, Mac OS X has always enforced data-only pages, natively on PowerPC and with NX on Intel.
The author of this article is quite misinformed, and possibly Steve Ballmer. (But if you've read this far into the comments, you're probably already aware.)
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Apple has PGP keys that you can use for submitting encrypted email to them; they tell you to use it for sending in proof of security issues. While they don't include the functionality in Mail, there's always MacGPG (command-line tools, plus a nice Aqua-fied port) and the GPGMail plugin.
Why Apple and Mozilla make no official inclusion, I have no idea. Probably due to licensing, no doubt. (It goes without saying that Microsoft doesn't include it because they're Microsoft.)
No, hardware acceleration doesn't kick in until just before WindowServer starts; if I remember correctly, both the Apple logo and the panic message are hardcoded into the kernel. So now it just makes less sense that only one is corrupted.
I agree. I've always wowed people with Keynote. I've always presented from my MacBook Pro, but you can save it as a QuickTime movie; if you choose the "click to advance" option, then you have a QuickTime slideshow that plays on any computer with QuickTime installed, Mac or PC.
Interesting how the kernel panic message is unaffected by the display corruption. Not that this is relevant to the discussion, but any ideas why that is?
You'd think that. But Adobe won't care until Flash crashes Internet Exploder. Or perhaps I'm just jaded by tech support from years of using Macs and Linux.
Isn't the actual view better?
/me looks out at I-95, the train tracks, and the Stamford shoreline.
I wonder what the Wine Kone is doing today.
EDGE-capable phones, when receiving a phone call, disable EDGE and transmit voice in plain GSM mode.
3G phones, however, have enough bandwidth to send (higher-quality) voice data over the 3G network, in either ATM/AAL2 or IPv4/RTP mode (technically, VoIP.)
It wouldn't have a problem. EFI (Apple's firmware on Intel) can boot an EFI-aware operating system, such as Mac OS X or some Linuxes. But if you want to boot Windows, then it loads the compatibility support module, which includes a legacy BIOS emulator. It is at this point that your Mac becomes a "PC", and can boot regular EFI-unaware operating systems such as Windows; as far as Windows is concerned, it can only see down to the CSM.
Therefore, EFI functionality, and the shiny and pretty Apple bootloader, is unaffected by this. But I wouldn't enable BitLocker on your whole disk anyway, because Mac OS X doesn't support it.
According to my high school biology teacher, this is true. Muscle cells are rich in mitochondria, which constantly consume "food" to create energy -- hence, burning calories. Weight training leads to more muscle cells. More muscle cells leads to more mitochondria. See where I'm going? (Disclaimer: I'm no scientist. Well, a computer scientist. But that doesn't apply here.)
Where hardware does not conform to ACPI, but claims to do so, the software interoperating with that hardware is faced with a dilemma: either it can be written to be ACPI-compliant, thus risking problems with the not-entirely-compliant hardware, or it can deviate from the ACPI standard to accommodate the hardware quirks. That, however, is generally seen as undesirable from a software-engineering point of view, since the software would potentially have to be adapted for and tested with arbitrarily large numbers of hardware devices, which is precisely what standards such as ACPI are intended to avoid. Additionally, availability of compatible software does not provide the hardware manufacturer with an incentive to repair their compliance. This is a constant debate between "standards purists" and advocates of software that "simply works" with as much hardware as possible.
Even Wikipedia is incorrect on this, at least when you look up "Earthrise".
So fix it. Otherwise, people who don't read Slashdot (if there are any left) will continue to spread lies.
Since you know, with the way things are going, some astronaut is going to buy an iPhone 3G. Then they'll show it to their co-workers, and their co-workers might get one.
And then it's only a matter of time before Apple starts getting support calls from astronauts wondering why there's no signal.
And then AT&T (or whomever is in your country) will get support calls about how there's no signal in space.
And then some astronaut's 14-year-old cousin will make a cantenna out of a Pringles can, wire it to his home access point, and point it straight up. There must be a better way, and that's what good old Vint Cerf has been up to.
I've never had any high-def content to throw at it, so I've never noticed that resolution limitation. The Turbo.264 is Mac-only, but I heard somewhere that it's but a rebranded version of a PC product.
If you do a lot of H.264 conversion, look into picking up a hardware encoder. There's the Turbo.264; it's Mac-only, but I'm fairly sure it's a rebranded PC device. Plug into a USB port, and it speeds up H.264 encoding -- even on single-core systems. Imagine that with your quad-core. It's not a free solution, but if you find yourself doing a *lot* of encodes, it may be worth your money.
Prolific and Keyspan ones (that is, most of them) work fine. You might have to install a driver from their website, but once you do that, it works perfectly. Then, either dig up a copy of Zterm or just use the Terminal and the screen command. I've been using serial consoles on Mac OS X for years.
I think the proliferation of webmail and AOLers has put the proverbial fork into anything that can't be simplified in its entirety to a toolbar button. You can click a button to sign and encrypt messages, sure, but you can't quite click a button to generate a key, sign someone else's key, send and receive from keyservers, etc.
Oh yeah, and no one seems to care, despite companies trying to think of new ways to verify that they are the sender of an email. AOL has their "Official AOL Mail", and everyone else has a separate inbox for you after logging in. Well, what's more verifiable than PGP and a key with a lot of signatures? Before we set up your cable TV account, will you promise to sign our PGP key?
Instead of MD5 sums and such, people are starting to sign downloads with GPG. Now, if only the Microsofts and Apples of the world would recognize PGP as a valid form of digital signatures on an application, that would be a huge step forward.
Sure, the geeks (such as myself) love it, but PGP and GPG aren't going to take off until they can (a) build the functionality into webmail, (b) sell said functionality to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple... who am I forgetting... and (c) simplify things so that even Mr. and Mrs. Everyman know how to use it.
Just like you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your mac and expect it to work, you wouldn't buy an unsupported printer for your linux
That's not really true these days. With the exception of some Lexmark/Dell printers, everything works with OS X. And from my experience, most hardware and FOS software that works with Mac OS X also works with Linux; the underlying architecture is similar enough so that Linux users can look for Mac-compatible stuff and (usually) be safe.
An extension? This windshield runs Firefox?
"Good evening, officer."
"License and headers, please."
Bifocal windshields.
Even if the mouse dies tomorrow, it's not going to disappear overnight. Steve Jobs isn't going to bust down your door, seize your mice, or nail an iPhone over your trackpads. Parallel ports, PS/2 ports, and floppy disks were all declared "dead" a long time ago, but their corpses aren't being buried too quickly. And while we're at it, what about all those zombie processes on your system?
I've been using GPG for years, and it's very rare that I run into someone else who uses it. It's refreshing to see it making a comeback! I don't use Google Calendar (nothing against it, but I prefer iCal), but this is quite a novel approach to encryption.
Apple has said that they won't make updates intentionally defeat jailbreakers. I was jailbroken from 1.0.2 all the way through 2.0. And if you need Apple's help, backup and restore your phone with the stock firmware.
I can see to small extent using a G-Key for desktops, but in work environment roaming profiles work much better.
I agree. Take your G-Key from your home GDium to your work GDium, and you get to keep all of your Slashdot bookmarks and your porn collection -- a poor man's MobileMe. While the G-Key would be effective for desktops, but just redundant for portable machines. Plus, it would only be truly effective were there to be a GDium on every desk and every lap; barring any sort of significant market penetration, it's just a gimmick (though I'm sure it will have its fans).
It's parabolic, so if you can drag it inside, make it into an elliptical reflector dish.
Apple already does address space layout randomization in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5)
Also, Mac OS X has always enforced data-only pages, natively on PowerPC and with NX on Intel. The author of this article is quite misinformed, and possibly Steve Ballmer. (But if you've read this far into the comments, you're probably already aware.)