As openssl was part of the update, I'm guessing that daemons like apache and sshd would need to be restarted. The best way of taking care of all these would simply be a reboot.
You can do it using HTML e-mails containing images sourced on external servers.
Fair point. I hadn't thought of web bugs.
yet another good reason not to decode HTML-based e-mail automatically. My mail client (Apple Mail) is configged to *not* pull down images. Shame it isn't set like this out-of-the-box. Still....
BTW - most mail clients that I know of are multi-paned so that, as the user clicks on the title, the content is displayed below. In my case, they *still* wind up in the trash so DoubleClick's claim that these are 'read' is still completely bogus...
and a LOT of them in asian languages so in effect impossible to read even if I WAS interested.
For us non-'Merkins, it's even more annoying. Spam in US$, spam for US-domestic markets only, - they always assume you're US-based. Not a totally unreasonable assumption, but annoying nonetheless...
My spam filter catches '$$$' headers but I've not yet found the need to catch '':-)
Although response rates vary widely based on the ad, DoubleClick said that one recent DARTmail campaign for car maker Saab was opened by some 70 percent of recipients.
Opened??!! How the hell'd they know *that*? That sounds like a bogus claim right there. In fact, the whole article sounds dubious.
"Direct Marketing Finds Acceptance on the Net" - says who??
Apparently the beta version(s) of OS X had support for serial ports, and it was ripped out.
Nonsense! As others have pointed out, the new XServe has a serial port on the back. Also, as any Darwin developer will tell you, IOKit supports serial devices natively from MacOS X.
Just because Steve thinks serial is dead
Steve obviously doesn't.
Here's a thought - there isn't a useful MacOS X-based GPS program available out there to talk to all those Garmin serial-based gadgets out there. I've a GPS II+ which I use all the time, but it pisses me off bigtime that there's nothing for MOSX which will store and sort waypoints & routes. So rather than bitch and moan about it, let's go write one! I can offer MacOS developer skills (CW8/Darwin/*NIX/Carbon) & would be willing to make a start. Anyone else interested??
I suspect we both agree on the numbers being down, but I don't think that can be attributed largely to piracy. Sure, piracy's always been there & now it's easier than ever to dup a CD, but I suspect many people are voting with their feet and just not buying the things. I don't believe people will automatically turn to dl'ing/ripping them instead.
I know from my own purchasing that, rather than spending a few bucks/euros on a long shot, I can just as quickly go to somewhere like Amazon. There, I can listen to excerpts, decide it's crap & simply not waste my money on it. I'm finding more and more that good musicians are now signing up to multiple-release deals with record companies. They're obliged to release once or twice a year & this leads to many of them stuffing albums with one or two good tracks and about 10 turkeys.
The combination of spiralling prices and reduced value is just causing folks to stop buying. Law of Diminishing Returns and all that.Just my opinion, fwiw...
How can you say that the massive double-digit drops in CD sales has nothing to do with piracy via computer?
Certainly nothing to do with punitive prices for cds, right?? 22+ freakin' Euros for a CD where I come from.
Why is it that CDs are waaay more expensive than cassettes to buy, yet cassettes are way more expensive to produce in terms of materials, complexity, etc...??
Let me answer - they charge what they do, because they can, plain and simple.... people are slowly wising up & sales figures are falling. The free market sux, eh?
While this article is unbelievably awesome, what really shocks me is just exactly Patient Alpha can do right now *without* any visual aid. This guy is just incredible - most sighted people couldn't achieve this much.
He lives in rural Canada, where the winters are brutal. He makes his living by selling firewood. Working alone, he splits logs with the largest chain saw currently available on the market. During the high season, he'll manhandle 12,000 pounds of wood in a day. He helped his wife deliver six of his eight children at home, without a physician or midwife. Jens dismisses the whole hospital birthing process as rapacious big business.
Starting from scratch and without the aid of sight, Jens designed and built a solar- and wind-powered house and pulled his family off the grid. In his spare hours, he programs computers, tunes pianos, and gives the occasional concert. For a blind man to give a classical recital requires memorizing whole scores -- a process that can take nearly five years. To cover his surgery, Jens gave quite a few recitals.
all Dell are doing is denying me the satisfaction of formatting a Windows partition and putting a windows CD to some sort of distructive use?
... and, significantly, the knowledge that part of your purchase money will not go into the coffers of M$. Furthermore, your purchase will not artificially boost the Windoze-on-the-desktop numbers. Y'know, that mythical 95%+ that people keep bandying about.
It's bad enough, as a Mac user, that all my dual-platform games purchases count as *Windows* sales - but buying a PC, re-formatting & installing a real OS only to be labelled yet another M$ victory??? No thanks!
Is it an apple employee trained to do tech support or an external support employee trained to support apple?
[OBDisclaimer: I work for Apple, in fact the Euro support centre is next-door but right now I'm speaking just for myself.]
Yes, Apple have full-time, trained employees working on tech support. They do in both the US support site (Sacramento, CA) and in Europe (Cork, Ireland).
By the way, every new Mac sold also contains a diagnostic CD. The user can simply insert it, boot in 5 seconds and get a result back for tech support without even needing a supporting OS!! Kewl or wha'....
[..] comparing an Apple customer's perception of Apple support with a Dell customer's perception of Dell support is hardly an accurate picture - the Dell customer has no particular love for the company.
Worldwide sales of all chips are expected to total $143 billion in 2002, $177 billion in 2003 and $213 billion - a 20.9 percent increase - in 2004. Another slowdown is expected by 2005.
Can they *really* predict this stuff so far ahead??
That should be deich pionta... Here's a list of more numbers;
Aon - one Dó - two Trí - three Ceathar - four Cúig - five Sé - six Seacht - seven Naoí - nine Deich - ten
If you're ordering more than ten - yee-harr!:-) Note that you use a different terms for counting people in Irish.
BTW - there's Linux in the
Gaeltacht. I know of the Gaeilge GNU/Linux localisation project. Also, there's this company, which I helped set up. They produce Linux-based network devices for small business. Some of the source-code comments are in Irish... 8-)
Wha'?? Beer is served icy-cold. If you're not happy with that, you can even get Guinness extra-cold on tap. Warm beer tends to remind me of British local ales (which are excellent, BTW).
bunch of savages
Whatever.. - ever been to Ireland or do you just get your info from Quiet Man re-runs?
Just don't mention your preferences of brand of beer or Christianity and you'll do fine.
That sounds like bollocks, pal. Having lived both in Ireland and the US, I know that in Ireland nobody gives a damn what religion you happen to have, if any. Not so in the US - somebody always seems to be touting their particular brand of Trvth(tm).....
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No, I don't think "the only way to have your way with a box is through compromising a web server" - the only true way to secure a box is
to unplug it & lock it in a cupboard. Anything
else is a compromise.
The reason I was asking was that it appears that they got most things right.
- they're using BSD. Good choice for security. - they're using QPOP for POP3. Reasonably ok. - They're... ummmm... using sendmail. There
are better options out there, like QMail, but
at least the version they're using is reasonably late - 8.11.6 - They've turned off all unnecessary ports. Most distros don't do that out of the box. - They're obviously using ssh.
My point is that they're taking *reasonable* precautions but still obviously got r00t3d. I'm just wondering how...
There's not a lot of stuff running on that box. There's no web server - nothing. I can't help
wondering how it got 0wn3d if that's all that's
going on over there *and* they're running
ssh, so they should know what they're doing..
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You can't have it every way. The problem with windows is that there *isn't* a 'god damned patch' every time it's necessary.
MacOS X is based on open source tools. Bugs get seen. Bugs get fixed. Lap 'em up and enjoy - it's a small price to pay for decent security.
As openssl was part of the update, I'm guessing that daemons like apache and sshd would need to be restarted. The best way of taking care of all these would simply be a reboot.
Fair point. I hadn't thought of web bugs.
yet another good reason not to decode HTML-based e-mail automatically. My mail client (Apple Mail) is configged to *not* pull down images. Shame it isn't set like this out-of-the-box. Still ....
BTW - most mail clients that I know of are multi-paned so that, as the user clicks on the title, the content is displayed below. In my case, they *still* wind up in the trash so DoubleClick's claim that these are 'read' is still completely bogus ...
For us non-'Merkins, it's even more annoying. Spam in US$, spam for US-domestic markets only, - they always assume you're US-based. Not a totally unreasonable assumption, but annoying nonetheless ...
My spam filter catches '$$$' headers but I've not yet found the need to catch '' :-)
Opened??!! How the hell'd they know *that*? That sounds like a bogus claim right there. In fact, the whole article sounds dubious.
"Direct Marketing Finds Acceptance on the Net" - says who??
Nonsense! As others have pointed out, the new XServe has a serial port on the back. Also, as any Darwin developer will tell you, IOKit supports serial devices natively from MacOS X.
Just because Steve thinks serial is dead
Steve obviously doesn't.
Here's a thought - there isn't a useful MacOS X-based GPS program available out there to talk to all those Garmin serial-based gadgets out there. I've a GPS II+ which I use all the time, but it pisses me off bigtime that there's nothing for MOSX which will store and sort waypoints & routes. So rather than bitch and moan about it, let's go write one! I can offer MacOS developer skills (CW8/Darwin/*NIX/Carbon) & would be willing to make a start. Anyone else interested??
I know from my own purchasing that, rather than spending a few bucks/euros on a long shot, I can just as quickly go to somewhere like Amazon. There, I can listen to excerpts, decide it's crap & simply not waste my money on it. I'm finding more and more that good musicians are now signing up to multiple-release deals with record companies. They're obliged to release once or twice a year & this leads to many of them stuffing albums with one or two good tracks and about 10 turkeys.
The combination of spiralling prices and reduced value is just causing folks to stop buying. Law of Diminishing Returns and all that.Just my opinion, fwiw ...
Certainly nothing to do with punitive prices for cds, right?? 22+ freakin' Euros for a CD where I come from.
Why is it that CDs are waaay more expensive than cassettes to buy, yet cassettes are way more expensive to produce in terms of materials, complexity, etc ...??
Let me answer - they charge what they do, because they can, plain and simple .... people are slowly wising up & sales figures are falling. The free market sux, eh?
It's bad enough, as a Mac user, that all my dual-platform games purchases count as *Windows* sales - but buying a PC, re-formatting & installing a real OS only to be labelled yet another M$ victory??? No thanks!
.. to a buried page on the guy's own site. This shows a little more detail on how to get a test setup running.
One of the TechNotes contained this;
Besides, as reported on AtAT recently, Clarus is very much alive and appears in MacOS X 10.2 - aka 'Jaguar'*moof!* :)
[OBDisclaimer: I work for Apple, in fact the Euro support centre is next-door but right now I'm speaking just for myself.]
Yes, Apple have full-time, trained employees working on tech support. They do in both the US support site (Sacramento, CA) and in Europe (Cork, Ireland).
By the way, every new Mac sold also contains a diagnostic CD. The user can simply insert it, boot in 5 seconds and get a result back for tech support without even needing a supporting OS!! Kewl or wha' ....
Ask yourself the question, why not??
Can they *really* predict this stuff so far ahead??
Aon - one
Dó - two
Trí - three
Ceathar - four
Cúig - five
Sé - six
Seacht - seven
Naoí - nine
Deich - ten
If you're ordering more than ten - yee-harr! :-) Note that you use a different terms for counting people in Irish.
BTW - there's Linux in the Gaeltacht. I know of the Gaeilge GNU/Linux localisation project. Also, there's this company, which I helped set up. They produce Linux-based network devices for small business. Some of the source-code comments are in Irish ... 8-)
Wha'?? Beer is served icy-cold. If you're not happy with that, you can even get Guinness extra-cold on tap. Warm beer tends to remind me of British local ales (which are excellent, BTW).
bunch of savages
Whatever .. - ever been to Ireland or do you just get your info from Quiet Man re-runs?
That's Murphy's, you moron! Jesus ....
That sounds like bollocks, pal. Having lived both in Ireland and the US, I know that in Ireland nobody gives a damn what religion you happen to have, if any. Not so in the US - somebody always seems to be touting their particular brand of Trvth(tm) .....
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.. can use this one[pdf] :-)?
The reason I was asking was that it appears that they got most things right.
- they're using BSD. Good choice for security. ... ummmm ... using sendmail. There
are better options out there, like QMail, but
at least the version they're using is reasonably late - 8.11.6
- they're using QPOP for POP3. Reasonably ok.
- They're
- They've turned off all unnecessary ports. Most distros don't do that out of the box.
- They're obviously using ssh.
My point is that they're taking *reasonable* precautions but still obviously got r00t3d. I'm just wondering how ...
There's not a lot of stuff running on that box. There's no web server - nothing. I can't help wondering how it got 0wn3d if that's all that's going on over there *and* they're running ssh, so they should know what they're doing ..
True. At least it's a start - shutdown whatever's collecting data on port 6667 on the 0wn3d box & it'll stop the snoop ....