Treat your mac as a hackintosh and boot it in legacy mode. Do it with my 1,1 and have been running lion in full 64bit mode. I have heard the ML DP4 works well also and it can be installed as an upgrade install.
Oops. Lion also works well this way, and I have seen that people have been running Mountain Lion DP4 this way with no issues. From what I understand upgrade install works fine.
I have a macpro1,1 with 8 cores(clovertown), 16 gigs ram, and the current 2011 ATI video card.
Yes I have had the machine for 6 years and I could upgrade. But the current hardware is not that much of a performance upgrade for the cost.
Xeon based systems of this generation like the Dell 2900, 1950, are still a viable system and still well supported and will be for years into the future.
Apple decided to stop supporting this machine a few years back by not allowing it to run a 64 bit kernel with the lame excuse that a 32bit boot loader can not boot a 64 bit os.
Solution that works great.
Hackintosh your machintosh.
Install cameleon and boot the mac in legacy mode as a hackintosh. With Snow Leopard, the machine runs the 64 bit kernel and is noticeably faster. There is no reason that Mountain Lion will not work well also since the macpro1,1 is the same hardware as the 2,1 and most of the 3,1.
By doing this you can now run any video card that you want and still maintain a legal right to use the software.
I was starting to decide on upgrading to a current mac pro, but to be honest, there is no reason to drop that kind of change on a machine that Apple will drop within a 5 year period.
I have been debating about going with Republic wireless for my phone and Ting for a hotspot.
The only thing that was holding me back was my unlimited 4g data on my thunderbolt.
I hope wave c gets here before VZ makes the material adverse change in my contract. That way the change will be easy to justify.
Right now my ETF is $545 - $40 a month.
I have been running iptv for years. I started with a Mythbox to replace my tivo around 2003 and eventually hooked a pc up to the tv and placed the server in the computer room.
The next step was hacking an apple tv (1) and using it as a front end and to play boxee and other content. It worked well until the MKV format started to dominate.
When the boxee box came out, I bought it, retired my old mythbox and started to use my own file server and netflix.
I recently bought an Xbox 360, and use it for Espn and games. I also bought a roku 2 as a kid and wife friendly netflix device.
I have considered returning to using a peecee hooked to my tv and then I remember why I got rid of it in the first place( circa 2006-7), I want my television to use a simple remote. I find using three different devices with three different remotes and a tv remote, much simpler than trying to keep a peecee running with an XYL and kids touching it.
I have considered building a media center pc, but honestly the only thing that it would provide that I can not get through legal or grey market mean is the local news.
My biggest issue now is that I want to use a single unified remote for all of my devices and the roku and boxee are RF based and do not have an IR option. As a result I have a pile of remotes for the kids to loose.
An old ham radio saying is all an amplifier does is amplify crap.
People get amps to make up with poor cell service, and/or the fact that their tiny little handset does not work in a rural area/congested area.
Since the majority of people out there do not know how to properly install an antenna/transmitter, I am sure that the amps cause all kinds of headaches for the carriers.
Personally I use in my truck a Motorola M900 ( a full power gsm bag phone) for its excellent hands free and for the high power when I need it. Otherwise I carry my N900 around for portablily and cool features, but I do not expect it to work 20 miles from the nearest tower.
Don't do the crime if you can't afford to do the time.
While your statement is true.
I would think loosing fundamental rights for the rest of your life is a bit much for something like this. When committing a real crime that actually hurts someone will get a less sentence for a first time offender.
But since this is a CYBER crime affecting someone important...
He will not vote ever again.
He will not be able to own a gun.
His ability to travel can easily be restricted.
His ability to get a future job is greatly impaired.
--- That's not to say it matters. Cell companies do such a good job advertising, that people will complain endlessly about their phone bill, but never switch to some other service with unlimited calling/data for half the price. Even with unlocked phones, their behavor wont magically change.
Amen
Also do not forget that prepaid plans in the US are also marketed as ghetto phones, or for poor people with bad credit.
Even t-mobile has does this. Flex play ( prepaid) customers are treated like second class citizens (bad customer service, no call forwarding, limit of two lines, etc.)
While their post paid plans get decent customer service, etc.
Boost probably has the best prepaid service out there but it is prepaid Nextel, or a very limited area Sprint CDMA. But it is marketed to the teenager, twenty something urban user.
I used to use Boost Iden, but now need rural coverage. So I went with Tmobile flex, since my cell phone company has no need for my social security number on a prepaid service.
So my choices were as follows.
1. Stick with boost and have excellent voice and 2way radio in urban areas, an no rural coverage, no realistic data, and phones that will survive the apocalypse ( i love the i355.) All for $100 a month. 2. Go with T-mobile Flex, get my choice of phones (n900), and good service as long as I do not have to use customer service, and have unlimited everything on two phones for $120. Also get treated like crap at the local t-mobile store.
3. Go with ATT, get stuck with a tolerable phone on 3g, or a great phone ( n900) on edge. Then pay $230 a month for a plan simular to T-mobile or boost, and have to pay through the nose if I ever go above 2 gigs in data ( rare, but when on vacation or holidays, it is close to 4 gig.)
There is a stigma with using prepaid service that is half the price, no contract, and usually unlimited usage.
Another case where the word consumer and slave are interchangeable.
It's a pain in the ass is what it is. Actually for all BSD systems it is. Recompiling everything that is upgraded etc, uses lots of unnecessary disk space and CPU. Makes it all but impossible to do on low-end systems (basically you have to compile on another machine and then transfer crap over, PITA).
Yes, it is a pain, but honestly, unless you are one of my friends ( one of the openbsd guys,) who maintains a working example of every machine that can run openbsd, why would you install the new version, instead of just keeping your working version patched?
I run openbsd on firewalls/vpns/etc. The only time I ever put a new os on them is when I am replacing them.
One of the best things about openbsd is that it is simple to install, simple to configure, and simple to maintain a production level system that is unsecured by your own stupidity.
The floppy was useable r/w in windows, it was even formatted in windows.
I even copied data on it.
Encase is hard coded for the standard floppy formats. Although windows as of NT 4 could handle non-standard formats.
This is an old trick that we used in the early 1990s to get an extra 500k or so out of the floppy. It was first used in linux and then later the format trick was extended to windows/dos fat.
The data was hidden from Encase. That was my first encase class around 2004.
I was the only person in there from the private sector and to be honest I was getting tired of how elite the people in the class and instructor thought they were.
So I started to point out ways to defeat the system. Their answer was that there are plenty of idiots downloading child porn to keep them in business. People smart enough to defeat encase, can get real jobs and are not their concern.
I pointed out that if our economy ever starts to look like Japan's economy we are going to have alot of unemployed smart people.
I once got a steak dinner by betting that I can create a floppy to hide data on that Encase could not read and still be used by windows.
The instructor and a fbi agent called bs.
I simply used fdformat to format 1.44 meg floppy to 1.9 megs or was it 2 megs.. Anyway it worked and to this day, encase can not read non standard floppy formats.
If any of you seen what is required to be a law enforcement forensics investigator in the US, you would be pissed.
In most departments the forensics investigator is the poor bastard who has some computer skills.
He gets selected to take a couple of encase or ftk classes and then they use a confiscated computer, add a write block to it and there you go.
Now lets say you get a CS degree, work for a while and decided that you want to do forensics. The odds of you getting a job is next to impossible.
In fact you will be specifically told that they do not want you around. There is a hatred of "nerds" in the law enforcement community.
Not only will you have to go back to school to get an associates in criminal justice, you will have to go through the police academy
and then work as a beat officer for several years before you will even get a chance to touch a computer.
Now lets look at requirements for other kinds of forensics. All of the other forensics fields have lab type people who are specifically trained in their field of expertise. for example, an dna specialist will have at least a masters in biology, a forensic pathologist, has an MD, a ballistics specialist usually has a degree in physics, or engineering. But a computer forensics specialist usually has a high school degree, maybe an associates degree in CJS, and must meet all of the active physical requirements as a patrol officer.
Note. I work in infosec and perform forensic investigations for private, defense cases, and the university level.
Every time I go to a continuing education class, encase/ftk, or other. There will be several leos in there that have no clue on even the basics on
how a computer works. As a result the majority of the training is "point and click" as mentioned in the article.
In the days when everyone ran dos, this was doable.
At these classes I will point out the above issues and ask why computer forensics
is differnet than any other forensics field.
I will point out that computers have gotten much more complex and standard procedure for most law enforcement agencies if they run into anything but a standard unencrypted windows computer is hand the case to the state police, or the feds, since they lack the skills to even process a linux box running reiserfs. Hell, what am I saying, most of them can not process a macintosh since the tools out there are windoze based and have very limited mac capability. So in order to investigate a mac, one must have core unix skills and treat the case as they would treat any other unix system. Yes there are newer tools to macs, but they suck. So be prepared to go through plists and file system attributes.
Their usual comment, you have to pay your dues son.
I see that there are other one time virtual cards.
The other feature that paypal had was single vendor cards for a year. I used those alot for amazon, t-mobile etc.
This was to protect from either a vendor that I do monthly business with from getting hacked or in the case of vendors like T-mobile who require a credit card for monthly service and I want the ability to cancel the account without it affecting my actual bank account.
I am of the crowd who simply does not use credit.
I have been using the paypal virtual cards for years for internet transactions and just used it an hour ago to buy new book for my kindle.
I have no problems paying a reasonable price for the service.
What alternatives are there for those of us who does not use credit cards under any circumstance?
Actually I rarely read anything on the times list. The amazon kindle store has authors that I can never find in a book store without ordering the book and waiting weeks.
The reason I went with an e-reader was for feedbooks, Gutenberg and the other PD repositories.
Because I went with a kindle, I also pay for.. my local paper and my hometown paper, a couple of magazines, and then what ever author I am reading at the moment, if not in PD. Right now it is Turtledove.
Are you brainwashed or a shill? There are plenty of places to get legal ebooks for free. You don't have to pay anything. Start with Project Gutenberg. They have countless public domain books available.
I am referring to non PD book. Lets say, Dan Browns Latest, or something by Harry Turtle Dove. When looking for that, amazon has the best prices.
I use feedbooks all of the time.
Even better, lets say, I want to actually pay for my local paper and a couple of magazines I like to read.
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Treat your mac as a hackintosh and boot it in legacy mode. Do it with my 1,1 and have been running lion in full 64bit mode. I have heard the ML DP4 works well also and it can be installed as an upgrade install.
Oops. Lion also works well this way, and I have seen that people have been running Mountain Lion DP4 this way with no issues. From what I understand upgrade install works fine.
I have a macpro1,1 with 8 cores(clovertown), 16 gigs ram, and the current 2011 ATI video card.
Yes I have had the machine for 6 years and I could upgrade. But the current hardware is not that much of a performance upgrade for the cost.
Xeon based systems of this generation like the Dell 2900, 1950, are still a viable system and still well supported and will be for years into the future.
Apple decided to stop supporting this machine a few years back by not allowing it to run a 64 bit kernel with the lame excuse that a 32bit boot loader can not boot a 64 bit os.
Solution that works great.
Hackintosh your machintosh.
Install cameleon and boot the mac in legacy mode as a hackintosh. With Snow Leopard, the machine runs the 64 bit kernel and is noticeably faster. There is no reason that Mountain Lion will not work well also since the macpro1,1 is the same hardware as the 2,1 and most of the 3,1.
By doing this you can now run any video card that you want and still maintain a legal right to use the software.
I was starting to decide on upgrading to a current mac pro, but to be honest, there is no reason to drop that kind of change on a machine that Apple will drop within a 5 year period.
I have been debating about going with Republic wireless for my phone and Ting for a hotspot. The only thing that was holding me back was my unlimited 4g data on my thunderbolt. I hope wave c gets here before VZ makes the material adverse change in my contract. That way the change will be easy to justify. Right now my ETF is $545 - $40 a month.
Now this is interesting. I have a sharp aquos and the tv controls the amp and dvd player via CEC (Aquos link.)
The set top box makers will never support this because they want their device to be the centerpiece of your home theatre.
dhh
I have been running iptv for years. I started with a Mythbox to replace my tivo around 2003 and eventually hooked a pc up to the tv and placed the server in the computer room.
The next step was hacking an apple tv (1) and using it as a front end and to play boxee and other content. It worked well until the MKV format started to dominate.
When the boxee box came out, I bought it, retired my old mythbox and started to use my own file server and netflix.
I recently bought an Xbox 360, and use it for Espn and games. I also bought a roku 2 as a kid and wife friendly netflix device.
I have considered returning to using a peecee hooked to my tv and then I remember why I got rid of it in the first place( circa 2006-7), I want my television to use a simple remote. I find using three different devices with three different remotes and a tv remote, much simpler than trying to keep a peecee running with an XYL and kids touching it.
I have considered building a media center pc, but honestly the only thing that it would provide that I can not get through legal or grey market mean is the local news.
My biggest issue now is that I want to use a single unified remote for all of my devices and the roku and boxee are RF based and do not have an IR option. As a result I have a pile of remotes for the kids to loose.
I run a Dell PE2900 and run Proxmox VE on it. Total cost around $1500 so far and entire lab fits in a closet.
I have a really hot sister....
Already done, or at least predicted. www.prisonplanet.com
Man I wish Space Moose was still around. Imagine a post 9/11 Space Moose.
/. was probably in grade school when that internet comic was strong.
Wait, most of the people on
I feel old.
I would say the 10th amendment is the one in question here.
An old ham radio saying is all an amplifier does is amplify crap.
People get amps to make up with poor cell service, and/or the fact that their tiny little handset does not work in a rural area/congested area.
Since the majority of people out there do not know how to properly install an antenna/transmitter, I am sure that the amps cause all kinds of headaches for the carriers.
Personally I use in my truck a Motorola M900 ( a full power gsm bag phone) for its excellent hands free and for the high power when I need it.
Otherwise I carry my N900 around for portablily and cool features, but I do not expect it to work 20 miles from the nearest tower.
Don't do the crime if you can't afford to do the time.
While your statement is true.
I would think loosing fundamental rights for the rest of your life is a bit much for something like this.
When committing a real crime that actually hurts someone will get a less sentence for a first time offender.
But since this is a CYBER crime affecting someone important...
Probably to make sure it got counted as a felony.
Yep.
It also guarantees that his life is now crap.
He will not vote ever again.
He will not be able to own a gun.
His ability to travel can easily be restricted.
His ability to get a future job is greatly impaired.
---
That's not to say it matters. Cell companies do such a good job advertising, that people will complain endlessly about their phone bill, but never switch to some other service with unlimited calling/data for half the price. Even with unlocked phones, their behavor wont magically change.
Amen
Also do not forget that prepaid plans in the US are also marketed as ghetto phones, or for poor people with bad credit.
Even t-mobile has does this. Flex play ( prepaid) customers are treated like second class citizens (bad customer service, no call forwarding, limit of two lines, etc.)
While their post paid plans get decent customer service, etc.
Boost probably has the best prepaid service out there but it is prepaid Nextel, or a very limited area Sprint CDMA. But it is marketed to the teenager, twenty something urban user.
I used to use Boost Iden, but now need rural coverage. So I went with Tmobile flex, since my cell phone company has no need for my social security number on a prepaid service.
So my choices were as follows.
1. Stick with boost and have excellent voice and 2way radio in urban areas, an no rural coverage, no realistic data, and phones that will survive the apocalypse ( i love the i355.) All for $100 a month.
2. Go with T-mobile Flex, get my choice of phones (n900), and good service as long as I do not have to use customer service, and have unlimited everything on two phones for $120. Also get treated like crap at the local t-mobile store.
3. Go with ATT, get stuck with a tolerable phone on 3g, or a great phone ( n900) on edge. Then pay $230 a month for a plan simular to T-mobile or boost, and have to pay through the nose if I ever go above 2 gigs in data ( rare, but when on vacation or holidays, it is close to 4 gig.)
There is a stigma with using prepaid service that is half the price, no contract, and usually unlimited usage.
Another case where the word consumer and slave are interchangeable.
It's a pain in the ass is what it is. Actually for all BSD systems it is. Recompiling everything that is upgraded etc, uses lots of unnecessary disk space and CPU. Makes it all but impossible to do on low-end systems (basically you have to compile on another machine and then transfer crap over, PITA).
Yes, it is a pain, but honestly, unless you are one of my friends ( one of the openbsd guys,) who maintains a working example of every machine that can run openbsd, why would you install the new version, instead of just keeping your working version patched?
I run openbsd on firewalls/vpns/etc. The only time I ever put a new os on them is when I am replacing them.
One of the best things about openbsd is that it is simple to install, simple to configure, and simple to maintain a production level system that is unsecured by your own stupidity.
How did I violate the spirit?
The floppy was useable r/w in windows, it was even formatted in windows.
I even copied data on it.
Encase is hard coded for the standard floppy formats. Although windows as of NT 4 could handle non-standard formats.
This is an old trick that we used in the early 1990s to get an extra 500k or so out of the floppy. It was first used in linux and then later the format trick was extended to windows/dos fat.
The data was hidden from Encase. That was my first encase class around 2004.
I was the only person in there from the private sector and to be honest I was getting tired of how elite the people in the class and instructor thought they were.
So I started to point out ways to defeat the system. Their answer was that there are plenty of idiots downloading child porn to keep them in business. People smart enough to defeat encase, can get real jobs and are not their concern.
I pointed out that if our economy ever starts to look like Japan's economy we are going to have alot of unemployed smart people.
I once got a steak dinner by betting that I can create a floppy to hide data on that Encase could not read and still be used by windows.
The instructor and a fbi agent called bs.
I simply used fdformat to format 1.44 meg floppy to 1.9 megs or was it 2 megs.. Anyway it worked and to this day, encase can not read non standard floppy formats.
If any of you seen what is required to be a law enforcement forensics investigator in the US, you would be pissed.
In most departments the forensics investigator is the poor bastard who has some computer skills.
He gets selected to take a couple of encase or ftk classes and then they use a confiscated computer, add a write block to it and there you go.
Now lets say you get a CS degree, work for a while and decided that you want to do forensics. The odds of you getting a job is next to impossible.
In fact you will be specifically told that they do not want you around. There is a hatred of "nerds" in the law enforcement community.
Not only will you have to go back to school to get an associates in criminal justice, you will have to go through the police academy
and then work as a beat officer for several years before you will even get a chance to touch a computer.
Now lets look at requirements for other kinds of forensics. All of the other forensics fields have lab type people who are specifically trained in their field of expertise. for example, an dna specialist will have at least a masters in biology, a forensic pathologist, has an MD, a ballistics specialist usually has a degree in physics, or engineering. But a computer forensics specialist usually has a high school degree, maybe an associates degree in CJS, and must meet all of the active physical requirements as a patrol officer.
Note. I work in infosec and perform forensic investigations for private, defense cases, and the university level.
Every time I go to a continuing education class, encase/ftk, or other. There will be several leos in there that have no clue on even the basics on how a computer works. As a result the majority of the training is "point and click" as mentioned in the article.
In the days when everyone ran dos, this was doable.
At these classes I will point out the above issues and ask why computer forensics is differnet than any other forensics field.
I will point out that computers have gotten much more complex and standard procedure for most law enforcement agencies if they run into anything but a standard unencrypted windows computer is hand the case to the state police, or the feds, since they lack the skills to even process a linux box running reiserfs. Hell, what am I saying, most of them can not process a macintosh since the tools out there are windoze based and have very limited mac capability. So in order to investigate a mac, one must have core unix skills and treat the case as they would treat any other unix system. Yes there are newer tools to macs, but they suck. So be prepared to go through plists and file system attributes.
Their usual comment, you have to pay your dues son.
I see that there are other one time virtual cards.
The other feature that paypal had was single vendor cards for a year. I used those alot for amazon, t-mobile etc.
This was to protect from either a vendor that I do monthly business with from getting hacked or in the case of vendors like T-mobile who require a credit card for monthly service and I want the ability to cancel the account without it affecting my actual bank account.
I am of the crowd who simply does not use credit.
I have been using the paypal virtual cards for years for internet transactions and just used it an hour ago to buy new book for my kindle.
I have no problems paying a reasonable price for the service.
What alternatives are there for those of us who does not use credit cards under any circumstance?
My point is that the iPad will had DRM that makes the kindle seem open.
Actually I rarely read anything on the times list. The amazon kindle store has authors that I can never find in a book store without ordering the book and waiting weeks.
The reason I went with an e-reader was for feedbooks, Gutenberg and the other PD repositories.
Because I went with a kindle, I also pay for.. my local paper and my hometown paper, a couple of magazines, and then what ever author I am reading at the moment, if not in PD. Right now it is Turtledove.
Are you brainwashed or a shill? There are plenty of places to get legal ebooks for free. You don't have to pay anything. Start with Project Gutenberg. They have countless public domain books available.
I am referring to non PD book. Lets say, Dan Browns Latest, or something by Harry Turtle Dove. When looking for that, amazon has the best prices.
I use feedbooks all of the time.
Even better, lets say, I want to actually pay for my local paper and a couple of magazines I like to read.
It was not the monitor. I have a 30" Apple Studio monitor.
I have avoided e-books for years unless they are technical in nature, I am a big fan of safari books.
My fun reading is much more enjoyable on the kindle or dead tree form.