Per Unsanity's web page, the current version checks. Previous versions don't.
They say "Please accept our sincere apologies for all the trouble that was caused. We have underestimated the number of people running "outdated" versions of our software." http://www.unsanity.org/archives/haxies/leopard.php
Personally, I think APE and the Unsanity haxies are %$^%$ and I stay as far away from them as I can!
I have had my Mac G5 for a year now. There are many things which still aren't quite "perfect" enough yet. I am waiting for OS X 10.5 (as I've never been around for a point release) to see if it is an upgrade.
It's not a "point release" -- 10.5 will be a major version. In Apple's (somewhat confusing) numbering scheme 10.X are all major releases, whilst 10.X.y are point releases....
Trivia question: What's the next theoretical release after 10.9? (Hint, it's not 11.0!)
In this part of North Carolina, Home Despot and Lowes only have dimmable CF floods. Walmart, despite their CF push, don't have them (although they do have non-dimmables in trippy colors). When I say "dimmable compact florescent" to the folks at the hardware store, they look at me as if I had said "Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?"
Speaking of floods, several years ago I tried a few outdoor CF floods. Within a few months, the silvering had degraded off the flood reflector, leaving me with nothing more than a standard CF twisty-bulb inside a flood-shaped clear envelope. I was sorely disappointed....
I'll go with the assumption that putting massive amounts of anything (C02) into a relatively stable equation probably isn't a good thing. Does the earth go through cycles? sure, but thinking we aren't influencing the direction of things is just folly.
So reducing our effect on the environment is probably a better plan than waiting till we find out it's too friggin late to do anything about it.
Amen, bro! Back before I got cynical, I used to think people didn't grok this. Now I know they do; they just don't care. Admitting it might get in the way of making money....
After hammering me with loud TV and radio ads, assaulting my eyeballs with garish print and web ads, flooding my inbox with email ads, and littering the landscape with signs and billboards, the marketers have come up with another to try to make me buy crap I don't want. I'm pretty good at resisting, but damn I get tired of this crap in my face all day long. Just go away, dammit!:-)
Yeah I started thinking about this as well, when I first saw those MasterCard and Amex credit cards that have embedded RFID chips so that you can use them to pay for things without having them swiped.
My new Amex card had (past tense) one of those. 30 seconds on the drill press and now there's just a hole.....
"We believe we were able to create the voices that are very close to the real voices. Perhaps it was really how they really sounded," the lab's chief Matsumi Suzuki says on the website.
"We cannot tell exactly how tall she was. So we analyzed the length of her right middle finger...."
"Because the beard covers his jaws in his portrait, we could not tell his exact skeletal features. We assumed that he had a heavy-jowled face...."
Translation: This is really how they sounded, assuming that our completely wild-ass guesses based on other completely wild-ass guesses are correct.....
I would consider it to be a binary measure, either you are secure or you aren't. And the answer is you are not.
Sounds like MS's approach -- it can't be 100% secure, so why bother trying at all?;-)
Seriously -- it's clearly NOT a binary proposition. Are you saying that a machine (any machine) with no passwords, all ports open, no authentication, etc, is equally secure as one that is locked down with every trick you know?
How's this analogy: If you had a bag with $1M in it (and a sign on it that say "$1M inside"), would you say that it's just safe in the passenger seat of a convertible as it is in the back of an armored car? Neither is 100% secure.....
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Per Unsanity's web page, the current version checks. Previous versions don't. They say "Please accept our sincere apologies for all the trouble that was caused. We have underestimated the number of people running "outdated" versions of our software."
http://www.unsanity.org/archives/haxies/leopard.php
Personally, I think APE and the Unsanity haxies are %$^%$ and I stay as far away from them as I can!
>I for one welcome our new Tarheel Overlords! :-)
;-)
As an NCSU alum, I take umbrage at your comment! UNC (the Tarheels) have nothing over the NC State Wolfpack!
Well, it came from underground, so....
I doubt they'll put it in barrels first though. Just pump it into an underground chamber...
I have had my Mac G5 for a year now. There are many things which still aren't quite "perfect" enough yet. I am waiting for OS X 10.5 (as I've never been around for a point release) to see if it is an upgrade.
It's not a "point release" -- 10.5 will be a major version. In Apple's (somewhat confusing) numbering scheme 10.X are all major releases, whilst 10.X.y are point releases....
Trivia question: What's the next theoretical release after 10.9? (Hint, it's not 11.0!)
In this part of North Carolina, Home Despot and Lowes only have dimmable CF floods. Walmart, despite their CF push, don't have them (although they do have non-dimmables in trippy colors). When I say "dimmable compact florescent" to the folks at the hardware store, they look at me as if I had said "Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?"
Speaking of floods, several years ago I tried a few outdoor CF floods. Within a few months, the silvering had degraded off the flood reflector, leaving me with nothing more than a standard CF twisty-bulb inside a flood-shaped clear envelope. I was sorely disappointed....
I solved the security issue in about 10 seconds with a drill press. Now there's just a little hole where the RFID chip used to be....
After hammering me with loud TV and radio ads, assaulting my eyeballs with garish print and web ads, flooding my inbox with email ads, and littering the landscape with signs and billboards, the marketers have come up with another to try to make me buy crap I don't want. I'm pretty good at resisting, but damn I get tired of this crap in my face all day long. Just go away, dammit! :-)
As long as they get theirs, that's all that matters to them.
That pretty much sums up American society today: "I got mine, screw you."
[quote]I'd rather have a nice manual ... on how to improve/lock down an OS X machine.[/quote]
There's this.....
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_macX.cfm
Seriously -- it's clearly NOT a binary proposition. Are you saying that a machine (any machine) with no passwords, all ports open, no authentication, etc, is equally secure as one that is locked down with every trick you know?
How's this analogy: If you had a bag with $1M in it (and a sign on it that say "$1M inside"), would you say that it's just safe in the passenger seat of a convertible as it is in the back of an armored car? Neither is 100% secure.....
How long before someone ports Linux to slime mold?
They do, but you don't want to watch. It isn't pretty! ;-)