My understanding is that they primarily serve the purpose of protecting software companies from frivolous lawsuits
I would argue that if this is the objective of EULA's then they have failed miserably. SCO is a shining example. There is no shortage of frivolous lawsuits against software companies.
It even runs on Windows and Mac OS X if they won't let you run it on Linux. It imports Blackboard courses. The lowest Blackboard product for our 1,200 student school was $15,000 per year. For the cost of a server and the same amount of time it takes to upgrade Blackboard you are there. Step by step documentation was so slick I set it up on Ubuntu Linux with little prior Linux server admin experience. I did have prior Mac OS X Server experience.
Better yet, Jobs as primary share holder in Disney and board member could have Disney start a record company. They could have an exclusive sweetheart deal with Apple and the itunes store. Look at all the best selling bubble gum crap out there. Britney, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ashley Tisdale, etc all started on Disney.
PPC was better especially at floating point. Then Intel showed Apple the Core Duo and other multi-core offerings they were releasing at the same time IBM couldn't come up with a power efficient G5 class option for a laptop. The last powerbook G4's were ball roasters.:-) G5 was liquid cooled in the high end Powermac G5's. Imagine the Powerbook G5. Can you sing Chestnuts roasting over a open fire?
.. or Mac OS X. Can you come preach to the kids to switch operating systems? Won't somebody think of the children? Ok, they are young adults, but still.
Mod Parent up. I work in a college with vast amounts of students running Limewire on their personal machines. Have yet to see one without a virus or trojan. We provide Sophos antivirus for free. We require windows updates before they can join the campus wireless. we have crosstalk between machines on the LAN disabled so they can't automagicly infect each other as they did in the blaster and welchia days. It's all for not and worthless the minute Limewire is loaded. Good magic. At least with most bittorrent they stand a chance of being malware free.
I wonder if VMware View will fare better than Citrix. http://www.vmware.com/products/view/ A lot more companies have VMware and VMware experience than Citrix. Ultimately I think in higher ed we will see Linux and Mac numbers increase. Especially in general purpose labs.
I read the article and it looks like converting from ext3 to ext4 may be problematic.
I do not propose offering migration from ext3 by default, at this point, due to bugs in that process, and extra risk involved. Perhaps an "ext4migrate" boot option could be used to expose it for further testing.
I have used Verizon wireless usb adapters on my Mac without VZaccess. I just plugged it in and it worked. My understanding is Linux has similar drivers available and it just works on there as well. VZaccess is not required.
Use VPN for security. IMAP for email so all email can be saved from the server. Any texting or other items that fall through the crack are being captured by the NSA's domestic wiretapping program. They can just be polite and forward that to the Library of Congress for public record. Solved. Next problem.:-)
I noticed that only 5 US providers were listed. Kind of answers why Slashdot hasn't ran out and signed up as suggested by the post. Becomes a question of which comes first. The chicken or the egg?
Karateka was awesome. We wore out a couple lab keyboards playing that back in the 80's. Kind of like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter a decade in advance.
Instead of unlocker I have just booted to an Ubuntu Desktop CD and removed the files that wouldn't go bye-bye. In the instances of Antivirus 2009 I have seen registry editing is locked. I used Registry Permission Tool to unlock the registry so I could delete the entries. It's freeware found here halfway down the page. http://www.xeromag.com/fvshare.html I have also used Winternals and Malwarebytes before. Generally using the company purchased Sophos and an Ubuntu CD to delete stubborn files works pretty will for 90% of the virii I have come across. If you want to make sure a Mac/Linux user/admin abhors Windows have them do virus removal in a higher ed environment for students and fac/staff. I realize most of us don't need to go through this hell to feel this way. I'm just lucky like that. "The Macs and Linux machines seem to be running well. We are going to have you do student network support since the Windows admin is swamped."
This is very welcome news. However, we need to remember that a cornered wounded beast has nothing to lose and can therefore be very dangerous. This isn't over.
For our environment it was something we inherited from the since long ago replaced admins. It just worked and it was much less expensive than Microsoft solutions. We are in higher ed at a small private college. We have 6 people in our Academic Computing group and only 4 of those are technical. So we stuck with it. We are still on Netware as OES didn't support AFP for Macs until last week. Pardon us for not being the first in line to test that.:-) Anyway, we didn't have much of a Linux skillset amongst our admins but that has changed as we use Redhat and Ubuntu for Web, DNS, dhcp, Moodle CMS, Etc. We still use E-directory on Netware for file services, and Groupwise on Netware for email. Groupwise client has actually gotten much better over the past 3 years. So in closing we gained less work by not switching, less expense by not paying consultants or trainers for Linux skills we didn't have but have been able to gradually gain on the job, paid less than similar Microsoft solutions, and kept our jobs due to lack of down time and other end user unhappiness.
So I should be ashamed for playing Postal 2 as a M-16 toting Gary Coleman shooting a likeness of Osama Bin Laden? I guess if I didn't game on a Mac I might have healthier game choices available.:-)
http://gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/gary.jpg
You will notice I didn't say I ran to best buy to pay $100 for the replacement cable. I'm not trying to play geek squad here. But sometimes a bad cable or adapter can cause unexpected results. I'm not suggesting go out and buy the expensive cables from joey the 16 yr old best buy tech. Just relaying what actually happened to me. YMMV. Thanks for calling me a liar.
Not true. I purchased a hdmi to hdmi cable for $8.50 with a $8.50 mail in rebate from buy.com. The color from my PS3 to Samsung LCD looked washed out like the contrast was bad or something and the sound would cut in and out. Double checked physical connections and such. Nothing loose or damaged. Ran to the local Sam's club and purchased a replacement for like $12 or $16. Worked flawlessly without any video adjustments. Both were identical spec as hdmi 1.3 as well.
I've been accused of being a Apple fanboy before. But I am sticking with a Macbook Pro (Early 2008) for several gripes I have with Apple and the new laptops. Glossy screen only (no matte option), new laptops don't come in a 17 inch version, mini displayport?!, they could use regular displayport to be compliant with the rest of the industry, no mini displayport to displayport adapter, no mini displayport to s-video adapter like they had for DVI, no mini displayport to HDMI adapter, HDCP support in the new ones as mentioned here, etc. I'm aware that one can overcome some of these. For example, one can probably use the mini displayport to dvi adapter with a dvi to hdmi adapter to get HDMI. I shouldn't have to hop through bastardized hurdles to get there and wonder what kind of video quality will be at the other end of this hodge podge. Apple SERIOUSLY needs to rethink mini displayport or start cranking out the adapters.
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My understanding is that they primarily serve the purpose of protecting software companies from frivolous lawsuits
I would argue that if this is the objective of EULA's then they have failed miserably. SCO is a shining example. There is no shortage of frivolous lawsuits against software companies.
It even runs on Windows and Mac OS X if they won't let you run it on Linux. It imports Blackboard courses. The lowest Blackboard product for our 1,200 student school was $15,000 per year. For the cost of a server and the same amount of time it takes to upgrade Blackboard you are there. Step by step documentation was so slick I set it up on Ubuntu Linux with little prior Linux server admin experience. I did have prior Mac OS X Server experience.
Better yet, Jobs as primary share holder in Disney and board member could have Disney start a record company. They could have an exclusive sweetheart deal with Apple and the itunes store. Look at all the best selling bubble gum crap out there. Britney, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ashley Tisdale, etc all started on Disney.
PPC was better especially at floating point. Then Intel showed Apple the Core Duo and other multi-core offerings they were releasing at the same time IBM couldn't come up with a power efficient G5 class option for a laptop. The last powerbook G4's were ball roasters. :-) G5 was liquid cooled in the high end Powermac G5's. Imagine the Powerbook G5. Can you sing Chestnuts roasting over a open fire?
.. or Mac OS X. Can you come preach to the kids to switch operating systems? Won't somebody think of the children? Ok, they are young adults, but still.
Mod Parent up. I work in a college with vast amounts of students running Limewire on their personal machines. Have yet to see one without a virus or trojan. We provide Sophos antivirus for free. We require windows updates before they can join the campus wireless. we have crosstalk between machines on the LAN disabled so they can't automagicly infect each other as they did in the blaster and welchia days. It's all for not and worthless the minute Limewire is loaded. Good magic. At least with most bittorrent they stand a chance of being malware free.
I wonder if VMware View will fare better than Citrix. http://www.vmware.com/products/view/ A lot more companies have VMware and VMware experience than Citrix. Ultimately I think in higher ed we will see Linux and Mac numbers increase. Especially in general purpose labs.
I do not propose offering migration from ext3 by default, at this point, due to bugs in that process, and extra risk involved. Perhaps an "ext4migrate" boot option could be used to expose it for further testing.
As a virus requires user interaction such as double clicking a email attachment and worms require no user interaction and auto install due to unpatched vulnerabilities in the OS, I would think worms are worse. The last time a major worm hit over 9 million Windows users was Jan 20th 2009. http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Windows_Virus_Infects_9_Million/551-98002-582.html Back on topic, Macrumors reports that the trojan is already receiving instructions and participating in Denial of Service attacks. They also have manual removal instructions. http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/22/iwork-09-torrent-carrying-os-x-trojan/
I have used Verizon wireless usb adapters on my Mac without VZaccess. I just plugged it in and it worked. My understanding is Linux has similar drivers available and it just works on there as well. VZaccess is not required.
Use VPN for security. IMAP for email so all email can be saved from the server. Any texting or other items that fall through the crack are being captured by the NSA's domestic wiretapping program. They can just be polite and forward that to the Library of Congress for public record. Solved. Next problem. :-)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4632931/Microsoft.Windows.7.Beta.1.Build.7000.x64.DVD-WinBeta
I noticed that only 5 US providers were listed. Kind of answers why Slashdot hasn't ran out and signed up as suggested by the post. Becomes a question of which comes first. The chicken or the egg?
Karateka was awesome. We wore out a couple lab keyboards playing that back in the 80's. Kind of like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter a decade in advance.
Instead of unlocker I have just booted to an Ubuntu Desktop CD and removed the files that wouldn't go bye-bye. In the instances of Antivirus 2009 I have seen registry editing is locked. I used Registry Permission Tool to unlock the registry so I could delete the entries. It's freeware found here halfway down the page. http://www.xeromag.com/fvshare.html I have also used Winternals and Malwarebytes before. Generally using the company purchased Sophos and an Ubuntu CD to delete stubborn files works pretty will for 90% of the virii I have come across. If you want to make sure a Mac/Linux user/admin abhors Windows have them do virus removal in a higher ed environment for students and fac/staff. I realize most of us don't need to go through this hell to feel this way. I'm just lucky like that. "The Macs and Linux machines seem to be running well. We are going to have you do student network support since the Windows admin is swamped."
This is very welcome news. However, we need to remember that a cornered wounded beast has nothing to lose and can therefore be very dangerous. This isn't over.
For our environment it was something we inherited from the since long ago replaced admins. It just worked and it was much less expensive than Microsoft solutions. We are in higher ed at a small private college. We have 6 people in our Academic Computing group and only 4 of those are technical. So we stuck with it. We are still on Netware as OES didn't support AFP for Macs until last week. Pardon us for not being the first in line to test that. :-) Anyway, we didn't have much of a Linux skillset amongst our admins but that has changed as we use Redhat and Ubuntu for Web, DNS, dhcp, Moodle CMS, Etc. We still use E-directory on Netware for file services, and Groupwise on Netware for email. Groupwise client has actually gotten much better over the past 3 years. So in closing we gained less work by not switching, less expense by not paying consultants or trainers for Linux skills we didn't have but have been able to gradually gain on the job, paid less than similar Microsoft solutions, and kept our jobs due to lack of down time and other end user unhappiness.
Realtek has been awesome at providing Mac drivers for years. xlr8yourmac.com has talked about this extensively. A lot of third party pci ethernet cardsbased on realtek chips were made to work via realtek drivers in the past. This goes back to before 2000 when OS 9 was the current Mac operating system. http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Google%2BSearch&as_epq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=www.xlr8yourmac.com&safe=off&as_oq=realtek
So I should be ashamed for playing Postal 2 as a M-16 toting Gary Coleman shooting a likeness of Osama Bin Laden? I guess if I didn't game on a Mac I might have healthier game choices available. :-)
http://gopostal.com/postal2/screenshots/gary.jpg
I love this scene from the movie Goldmember. Complete parody of the topic of this thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJm0uIVwUc
That's a great idea. Just sneak up on them and push the "F" key on your keyboard.
Can't the project be moved to the forums at thepiratebay.org? :-) They have a little history with Apple legal notices. http://static.thepiratebay.org/apple_response.txt
You will notice I didn't say I ran to best buy to pay $100 for the replacement cable. I'm not trying to play geek squad here. But sometimes a bad cable or adapter can cause unexpected results. I'm not suggesting go out and buy the expensive cables from joey the 16 yr old best buy tech. Just relaying what actually happened to me. YMMV. Thanks for calling me a liar.
Not true. I purchased a hdmi to hdmi cable for $8.50 with a $8.50 mail in rebate from buy.com. The color from my PS3 to Samsung LCD looked washed out like the contrast was bad or something and the sound would cut in and out. Double checked physical connections and such. Nothing loose or damaged. Ran to the local Sam's club and purchased a replacement for like $12 or $16. Worked flawlessly without any video adjustments. Both were identical spec as hdmi 1.3 as well.
I've been accused of being a Apple fanboy before. But I am sticking with a Macbook Pro (Early 2008) for several gripes I have with Apple and the new laptops. Glossy screen only (no matte option), new laptops don't come in a 17 inch version, mini displayport?!, they could use regular displayport to be compliant with the rest of the industry, no mini displayport to displayport adapter, no mini displayport to s-video adapter like they had for DVI, no mini displayport to HDMI adapter, HDCP support in the new ones as mentioned here, etc. I'm aware that one can overcome some of these. For example, one can probably use the mini displayport to dvi adapter with a dvi to hdmi adapter to get HDMI. I shouldn't have to hop through bastardized hurdles to get there and wonder what kind of video quality will be at the other end of this hodge podge. Apple SERIOUSLY needs to rethink mini displayport or start cranking out the adapters.