Close but not quite. The new TiBook has the Radeon Mobility. It's rather more powerful than the old Rage series; the game sites say it stacks up well against GeForce 2Go.
Mmm... dual display LCD and 21" external at 24 bits...
If your problem is even moderately interesting, there will be no out-of-the-box solutions.
I hope that by now, e-commerce should not be an interesting problem at all. It's a standard business practice that ought to have simple (and secure) OotB solutions.
Excuse me but I own my computer, I own my HD, and I own their OS.
BZZT. No, you don't own their OS. Find a law student near you and ask them to explain the concept of EULA. You have a very limited right to use Windows, subject to whatever restrictions Microsoft thinks they can get away with.
Your view is heavily skewed by being a Slashdot regular. 99% of web users don't do any ad blocking. 98% accept all cookies. People who use Junkbuster or Webwasher or a Hosts file are in the deep deep minority.
Nevertheless, I do try to be reasonable with my ad blocking. I don't block most 2nd party banners, or ordinary 3rd party gifs on the sites that I use regularly.
Just don't throw 3rd party cookies or javascripts at me and I'll look at what you have to say. If you slow down my page loading to wait for your 17 different web bugs, I'll route the requests to nowhere.
Whoa there. I'm going to have a hard enough time arguing the case for Apache by itself. No way I'm going to even mention Linux, not right now. If anything, we'd start with Apache for NT and consider a better OS next year.
The non-profit that I work for can't afford to add a bearded Unix guy to the payroll. The IT staff is me and couple people who mainly know Windows and a little Netware.
The rest of the group would rather just keep patching IIS every couple weeks, because the setup is trivial point and click. Twiddling with.conf files doesn't excite them.
On the other hand, there are instances where separate people can come to the exact same solution independently. On the grand scale, you have Newton and Leibniz co-inventing Calculus. On the small scale, you have (for example) me and someone at Volkswagen writing the exact same select-box navigation script.
Theirs: function lnav(selname)
{
var selected = selname.selectedIndex;
var url = selname.options[selected].value;
selname.selectedIndex = 0;// Added 12.15.99
if(url)
location.href=url;
}
Mine: function jumpto(selector) {
var the_url = selector.options[selector.selectedIndex].value;
selector.selectedIndex = 0;
if (the_url) window.location.href = the_url;
}
In some situations, there really is one best way to do certain things, and coders may well converge on a solution.
implementing and supporting USB2 costs about the same as USB1,
Aha. Didn't know that. Yes, if replacing the USB 1.1 ports with USB 2.0 can be done for minimal cost (like pennies per mobo), then it's not a terrible move. Apple could score marketing points for having it, but they still won't want to hype it too much.
If USB2 catches on, consumers are gonna be mighty confused or annoyed when they plug their new super-fast external drive into the spare port on their keyboard, and for some reason it's not fast at all...
I'm sure most Mac fans would love to have gigahertz G5s with DDR and FireWire 2. But there really is not a clamor of interest in USB 2, and I don't see a reason to include it.
USB 2's entire purpose is to compete with Apple's own 1394 standard. USB2 is slower, uses more CPU resources, and has done surpisingly poorly in the marketplace. FireWire devices outnumber USB2 by huge proportions.
Apple knows that iMac (which had no legacy ports) is the event that got USB 1.x rolling. That was a good move, since Apple needed to get with standards. But in FireWire, Apple has set the standard. Adding USB2 would have little benefit and a lot of risk for Apple.
This particular chain letter has the unusual virtue of being (probably) true. It is actually an article posted on Salon.
Why is it that chain letters never link back to their source URLs? Well, I guess most are blatant lies. But even the true ones invariably go out with stupid friend-of-a-friend attributions.
In any case, Afghanistan really is a bombed-out mess, and the majority of civilians would like nothing better than for the Taliban, and Al-Queda, and the ex-Mujahedin, to go away so they can have a real country again.
it's my experience that (for now) people who set up Linux to run on the net are a little bit more clueful
That experience is most definitely changing with every passing day. In the first week of September, JHU's whole class B block was placed on ORBL, ORBZ, and RBL. We had a dozen-ish open SMTP relays. It may be perpetual september now, but some months are more september than others.
As expected, our network team tracked them down to the underclass dorms. Students who downloaded ISOs, installed Linux, and turned on everything. Most of them couldn't have secured a server to save their lives. Some of them didn't even know they were running a server. Gee, that situation sounds strangely familiar...
And this is just the ones where they got caught, the mainstream media cared, and they backed down. There's plenty of other shit they do that slides by.
Sorry, but after the same exact set of events repeats itself dozens of times over the course of a decade, you can't chalk it up to accident any more. This is malice.
don't blame this on MS when they released, and advertised, a patch promptly.
Sorry, but it doesn't wash. Some of Microsoft's own servers got infected by Nimda. If they are not able to keep up with their own fucking patches several months after the fact, they cannot reasonably expect their customers to do so.
Microsoft's patch system is insanely over-complicated. They need to release an official NT 4.x monolithic update that solves all known security holes all at once.
Either that, or a tool that automatically migrates your data to open standard formats, then installs SE Linux...
Aside from being non-annoying, another thing I really like about Google's text ads is that they're on-topic a lot more often than any other web site I use. I click them not just to support Google, but because they actually have information I want to read.
p.s. Use the AutoGoogler! Save the following as a bookmark, strip out spaces, and put it in your browser toolbar.
you can expect passengers to fight for their lives. You can bet your bottom dollar that there are armed plainclothes police on every flight,
You'd lose that bet about the cops, but your first point is dead on. Mid-air hijacking is no longer a feasible option in America. From now on, the moment an attempt is made, every able-bodied passenger on the plane would bum rush. You'd see feats of heroism verging on suicidal -- and why not? Unless they stop the hijackers, they know they're dead anyways.
I can't think of any reason not to release specs on legacy products though.
One easy reason: Apple makes most of its money on hardware sales. They don't want you to keep your old stuff running; they want you to replace it with a new Mac instead.
It would be nice if they released all of their discarded software as public source, but hiring someone to sort through the old code files and tech notes costs money that a tech biz is hard to afford in these lean times. Maybe someone could convince Jordan Hubbard to let them do it as a volunteer?
Form one good, coherant, logical argument that says Gore would have gone against his contributors and broken them up
While it's true that for the most part BushGore were on the side of big business, Microsoft was a fighting point. Whereas Dubya was using the phrase "we shouldn't restrict innovation" in his speeches, Gore campaigned in favor of antitrust action in the software industry while visiting Redmond. Here's a quote from the Seattle Times:
"If competition is valuable, which I think it is, then antitrust laws have a place in embodying the values of our country," Gore said. "If dominance in one area is used to prevent competition in another area, that's wrong."
Let me repeat -- Gore said this at the heart of Microsoft's campus, to their faces. He's also an old fan of Macs, and his campaign web server ran on Linux/Apache/PHP.
Sorry if this handful of talking points isn't convincing enough for you, but I am dead certain Gore wouldn't have ordered DoJ to surrender like this.
To them, anything with text in it is a Word Doc. Quick memo with 3 sentences, Word Doc. Non-formated copy for website, Word Doc.
Hell, I'll see your coworkers and raise with my distance students. To many of them, any form of content is a Word doc. I provide exact instructions how to take a screenshot, use Paint and save as gif. They send a multi-megabyte Word doc -- 24bit uncompressed bitmaps are big, and wrapping a.doc around it gets even bigger. Since Word can import and edit pictures (sort of), it's their default graphics app.
They can't comprehend why I complain about their bloated, KakWorm infested files.
Democratic president would have done the same thing eventually.
Actually, this is one of the few issues where BushGore differed by more than a hair's witdth. Whereas Dubya was using the phrase "we shouldn't restrict innovation" in his speeches, Gore campaigned in favor of antitrust action in the software industry while visiting Redmond. Here's a quote from the Seattle Times:
"If competition is valuable, which I think it is, then antitrust laws have a place in embodying the values of our country," Gore said. "If dominance in one area is used to prevent that competition in another area, that's wrong."
Let me repeat -- Gore said this at the heart of Microsoft's campus, to their faces, while asking for their votes. He may be an arrogant exaggerating tight-ass, but he's got some big brass balls.
Of course, Microsoft probably would have gotten a breakup thrown out on appeal either way, but at least the DoJ wouldn't have rolled over like this. When they appointed Charles James as head of DoJ antitrust division, Dubya's handlers knew exactly what they were doing.
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I have a fairly well justified sense of security, thank you very much. You know how OpenBSD talks about "4 years without a remote hole"? Well, MacOS has gone 17 years without a remote hole. The only known attacks are the same as they were in 1984:
social engineering -- convincing the user to run your code -- just like any single user OS
file sharing for dummies -- o777 permission or weak password -- just like any shareable OS
local root access -- if you can sit down at the mouse, you're in -- duh
If there were an exploitable buffer in MacOS 1 through 9, crackers have had plenty of time to find it.
...to firewall software for classic MacOS? There are no open ports, unless you stupidly file-share your drive with guest write priveleges. A $99 NAT switching router would provide better performance and stability than using Extensions.
There is nothing comparable to command.exe, no ability to execute arbitrary operations via a text string. You can't even use a flat file binary (need a resource fork). The entire general principle behind most Windows or *nix vulnerabilities simply does not apply to classic MacOS.
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new PowerBook G4s have a Rage Mobility w/16MB
Close but not quite. The new TiBook has the Radeon Mobility. It's rather more powerful than the old Rage series; the game sites say it stacks up well against GeForce 2Go.
Mmm... dual display LCD and 21" external at 24 bits...
If your problem is even moderately interesting, there will be no out-of-the-box solutions.
I hope that by now, e-commerce should not be an interesting problem at all. It's a standard business practice that ought to have simple (and secure) OotB solutions.
Excuse me but I own my computer, I own my HD, and I own their OS.
BZZT. No, you don't own their OS. Find a law student near you and ask them to explain the concept of EULA. You have a very limited right to use Windows, subject to whatever restrictions Microsoft thinks they can get away with.
Your view is heavily skewed by being a Slashdot regular. 99% of web users don't do any ad blocking. 98% accept all cookies. People who use Junkbuster or Webwasher or a Hosts file are in the deep deep minority.
Nevertheless, I do try to be reasonable with my ad blocking. I don't block most 2nd party banners, or ordinary 3rd party gifs on the sites that I use regularly.
Just don't throw 3rd party cookies or javascripts at me and I'll look at what you have to say. If you slow down my page loading to wait for your 17 different web bugs, I'll route the requests to nowhere.
Apache is available as a RPM
Whoa there. I'm going to have a hard enough time arguing the case for Apache by itself. No way I'm going to even mention Linux, not right now. If anything, we'd start with Apache for NT and consider a better OS next year.
Any GUI configurators available for this?
The non-profit that I work for can't afford to add a bearded Unix guy to the payroll. The IT staff is me and couple people who mainly know Windows and a little Netware.
.conf files doesn't excite them.
The rest of the group would rather just keep patching IIS every couple weeks, because the setup is trivial point and click. Twiddling with
Suggestions?
one system to manage them all.
And in the Unix, BIND them.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
On the other hand, there are instances where separate people can come to the exact same solution independently. On the grand scale, you have Newton and Leibniz co-inventing Calculus. On the small scale, you have (for example) me and someone at Volkswagen writing the exact same select-box navigation script.
// Added 12.15.99
Theirs: function lnav(selname)
{
var selected = selname.selectedIndex;
var url = selname.options[selected].value;
selname.selectedIndex = 0;
if(url)
location.href=url;
}
Mine: function jumpto(selector) {
var the_url = selector.options[selector.selectedIndex].value;
selector.selectedIndex = 0;
if (the_url) window.location.href = the_url;
}
In some situations, there really is one best way to do certain things, and coders may well converge on a solution.
implementing and supporting USB2 costs about the same as USB1,
Aha. Didn't know that. Yes, if replacing the USB 1.1 ports with USB 2.0 can be done for minimal cost (like pennies per mobo), then it's not a terrible move. Apple could score marketing points for having it, but they still won't want to hype it too much.
If USB2 catches on, consumers are gonna be mighty confused or annoyed when they plug their new super-fast external drive into the spare port on their keyboard, and for some reason it's not fast at all...
I'm sure most Mac fans would love to have gigahertz G5s with DDR and FireWire 2. But there really is not a clamor of interest in USB 2, and I don't see a reason to include it.
USB 2's entire purpose is to compete with Apple's own 1394 standard. USB2 is slower, uses more CPU resources, and has done surpisingly poorly in the marketplace. FireWire devices outnumber USB2 by huge proportions.
Apple knows that iMac (which had no legacy ports) is the event that got USB 1.x rolling. That was a good move, since Apple needed to get with standards. But in FireWire, Apple has set the standard. Adding USB2 would have little benefit and a lot of risk for Apple.
This email has been making the rounds,
This particular chain letter has the unusual virtue of being (probably) true. It is actually an article posted on Salon.
Why is it that chain letters never link back to their source URLs? Well, I guess most are blatant lies. But even the true ones invariably go out with stupid friend-of-a-friend attributions.
In any case, Afghanistan really is a bombed-out mess, and the majority of civilians would like nothing better than for the Taliban, and Al-Queda, and the ex-Mujahedin, to go away so they can have a real country again.
it's my experience that (for now) people who set up Linux to run on the net are a little bit more clueful
That experience is most definitely changing with every passing day. In the first week of September, JHU's whole class B block was placed on ORBL, ORBZ, and RBL. We had a dozen-ish open SMTP relays. It may be perpetual september now, but some months are more september than others.
As expected, our network team tracked them down to the underclass dorms. Students who downloaded ISOs, installed Linux, and turned on everything. Most of them couldn't have secured a server to save their lives. Some of them didn't even know they were running a server. Gee, that situation sounds strangely familiar...
M$ didn't become the 8 billion pound gorilla of the information age by being stupid.
Also, Hanlon's Razor was probably by William James or Alfred Korzybski.
- Passport saying "all your info belongs to us"
- racketeering of digital photos
- Smart Tags
- Astroturfing
- etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
And this is just the ones where they got caught, the mainstream media cared, and they backed down. There's plenty of other shit they do that slides by.Sorry, but after the same exact set of events repeats itself dozens of times over the course of a decade, you can't chalk it up to accident any more. This is malice.
don't blame this on MS when they released, and advertised, a patch promptly.
Sorry, but it doesn't wash. Some of Microsoft's own servers got infected by Nimda. If they are not able to keep up with their own fucking patches several months after the fact, they cannot reasonably expect their customers to do so.
Microsoft's patch system is insanely over-complicated. They need to release an official NT 4.x monolithic update that solves all known security holes all at once.
Either that, or a tool that automatically migrates your data to open standard formats, then installs SE Linux...
Aside from being non-annoying, another thing I really like about Google's text ads is that they're on-topic a lot more often than any other web site I use. I click them not just to support Google, but because they actually have information I want to read.
p.s. Use the AutoGoogler! Save the following as a bookmark, strip out spaces, and put it in your browser toolbar.
javascript:q=(document.getSelection)? document.getSelection(): document.selection.createRange().text; if(!q)q=prompt('Google:',''); if(q)void(location= 'http://www.google.com/search?q='+escape(q));
you can expect passengers to fight for their lives. You can bet your bottom dollar that there are armed plainclothes police on every flight,
You'd lose that bet about the cops, but your first point is dead on. Mid-air hijacking is no longer a feasible option in America. From now on, the moment an attempt is made, every able-bodied passenger on the plane would bum rush. You'd see feats of heroism verging on suicidal -- and why not? Unless they stop the hijackers, they know they're dead anyways.
I can't think of any reason not to release specs on legacy products though.
One easy reason: Apple makes most of its money on hardware sales. They don't want you to keep your old stuff running; they want you to replace it with a new Mac instead.
It would be nice if they released all of their discarded software as public source, but hiring someone to sort through the old code files and tech notes costs money that a tech biz is hard to afford in these lean times. Maybe someone could convince Jordan Hubbard to let them do it as a volunteer?
While it's true that for the most part BushGore were on the side of big business, Microsoft was a fighting point. Whereas Dubya was using the phrase "we shouldn't restrict innovation" in his speeches, Gore campaigned in favor of antitrust action in the software industry while visiting Redmond. Here's a quote from the Seattle Times:
Let me repeat -- Gore said this at the heart of Microsoft's campus, to their faces. He's also an old fan of Macs, and his campaign web server ran on Linux/Apache/PHP.
Sorry if this handful of talking points isn't convincing enough for you, but I am dead certain Gore wouldn't have ordered DoJ to surrender like this.
To them, anything with text in it is a Word Doc. Quick memo with 3 sentences, Word Doc. Non-formated copy for website, Word Doc.
.doc around it gets even bigger. Since Word can import and edit pictures (sort of), it's their default graphics app.
Hell, I'll see your coworkers and raise with my distance students. To many of them, any form of content is a Word doc. I provide exact instructions how to take a screenshot, use Paint and save as gif. They send a multi-megabyte Word doc -- 24bit uncompressed bitmaps are big, and wrapping a
They can't comprehend why I complain about their bloated, KakWorm infested files.
...why is there only this one guy saying 10.1 will be payware? MacCentral doesn't have a story, nor MacNN, nor MacSlash.
Heck, this claim isn't even on MacOSRumors, and Ryan is a total weasel known to post ANY random crap that comes his way.
Maybe it's true, maybe not. But one guy on MacObserver isn't convincing.
Actually, this is one of the few issues where BushGore differed by more than a hair's witdth. Whereas Dubya was using the phrase "we shouldn't restrict innovation" in his speeches, Gore campaigned in favor of antitrust action in the software industry while visiting Redmond. Here's a quote from the Seattle Times:
Let me repeat -- Gore said this at the heart of Microsoft's campus, to their faces, while asking for their votes. He may be an arrogant exaggerating tight-ass, but he's got some big brass balls.
Of course, Microsoft probably would have gotten a breakup thrown out on appeal either way, but at least the DoJ wouldn't have rolled over like this. When they appointed Charles James as head of DoJ antitrust division, Dubya's handlers knew exactly what they were doing.
Damn straight. I know I bought a GeForce because I wanted to drive a transforming car, wear a bird suit and kick Galactor ass (nearly as much as I wanted a wave motion gun). Didn't everyone?
Transmute!I have a fairly well justified sense of security, thank you very much. You know how OpenBSD talks about "4 years without a remote hole"? Well, MacOS has gone 17 years without a remote hole. The only known attacks are the same as they were in 1984:
If there were an exploitable buffer in MacOS 1 through 9, crackers have had plenty of time to find it.
...to firewall software for classic MacOS? There are no open ports, unless you stupidly file-share your drive with guest write priveleges. A $99 NAT switching router would provide better performance and stability than using Extensions.
There is nothing comparable to command.exe, no ability to execute arbitrary operations via a text string. You can't even use a flat file binary (need a resource fork). The entire general principle behind most Windows or *nix vulnerabilities simply does not apply to classic MacOS.