You make it sound like this is a bad thing, with no possible positive implications.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that a feature of limited scope being plopped into a general-purpose OS involving networking is an opportunity for yet more security holes to surface. This time, involving power management. Imagine the scope for 'fun' there when some script kiddie can merrily bring your machine up or down at will?
If someone wants remote power management for their machine, let them add it themselves. It's not primarily something that Granny needs to do at home anyway. Sticking it into the OS 'coz you can is not the thing to do - that's exactly what happened with auto-open email enclosures (another MS 'innovation'). Furthermore, I feel MS shouldn't brand this kind of thing as innovation, as Tim Allchin did.
Well, sure, but that's not the point. The point is that it's going into a future version of an OS that's got a bad enough track record for security. Furthermore as power management is involved (and from cold boot, it would seem), this probably means changes to the BootROM/BIOS. Plenty of scope for getting it wrong...
If they want to power up a machine from cold remotely and it is to be self-contained within the machine, then this means the Power Management ASIC needs to watch the ethernet phy and interpret some message or other. Firmware changes + networking = yuk!
[Re. MS innovation,] Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off, with programs still running.
*sigh* There's another new field, fresh for 'sploits. Nice one, Microsoft. Keep up with the.. errm.. 'innovation!:-/
Thank you for re-introducing me to NetHack. It took me five years to wean myself off that, and now I've found a MacOS X version. There goes *my* working day...:-)
As they say on the site;
Thank you for the latest release of gradewrecker. My GPA just went in the corner and shot itself. -- USENET posting, author unknown
Well, I've been using it all day here and one of the features I've seen so far is that the startup time has been drastically cut back from the old Office.X version. Previously, it took an age for stupid Word to fire up in the first place.
One other thing is that the floating toolbars alpha fade after a few minutes of inactivity. They go opaque again after you mouse over them. That's a nice touch and indicates as to a lot more MacOS X native integration under the hood.
BayStar managing partner Larry Goldfarb [...] told the New York Times a couple of weeks ago that he wants SCO to drop its remaining Unix business, jettison its current management, husband its resources, focus on pursuing its IP claims and mind its Ps and Qs in what it says publicly.
And there's the bottom-line. Don't produce anything worthwhile and use your <ahem> IP to generate revenue via lawsuits. As if we didn't know....
Still, the 'jettison management' bit has to have Darl sitting on the edge of his seat!
Oh yes. Back in the good old days when every single home computer ran BASIC and nothing else, one computer shone out. The Jupiter Ace - gods, I loved it.
How do you think Apple does translations, on an assembly line?
With great difficulty, I suspect! Just as well, then, that there's a lot more than manufacturing at both sites; there are call centers, R&D, operations support, localisation, finance, applestore, etc, etc. I work in a secure lab, yet I walk through the production area every day. G5s everywhere.
Both sites are a lot more than manufacturing, y'know...
Actually, a lot of the localisation is done in Ireland (at Apple's last internal manufacturing site, now that Sacramento has been shut down). How do I know? I work there!:-)
"It's going to go down in history as one of the biggest pranks ever pulled," wrote one message poster at Slashdot.org, which bills itself as a news provider for nerds.
Apple UK's wave of iPod advertising may be making the product a 'must-have' accessory for street criminals. It's also possible that UK journalists, disappointed at Apple's recent news that its much-anticipated iPod mini won't ship until July, now also have Apple in their sights - as was the case with the recent battery bad news stories.
Here in Ireland, our national electricity org, in an uncharacteristic moment of foresight, bundled fibre optic cables along with its high-power lines. No RF bleedoff issues, no crossover problems, etc, etc. The network was already there & it was just a matter of phasing in the fibre when upgrading lines. They did this very, very quietly indeed!
Bummer! I was hoping you were right, as formant synthesis is so much more interesting than sample munging.
Anyways - back in the '80s, I had a lot of geeky fun with the SP0256 chip. It was a vocal tract synthesiser on a chip & was capable of the most amazing voices and sounds. I hooked it into the address bus of a Sinclair QL & used it primarily for music. It was allophone-based but had registers for timbre, pitch, resonance, etc. Way cool....:-)
The world's first singing synthesis software,Vocaloid, was released by Yamaha [...]
What about VocalWriter for the Mac. Allegedly, "the world's first music synthesizer that can actually sing your lyrics", it's been around at least 5 years now...
This is not the final boxed version. This is a beta.
Nonsense. This is the seed revision/build tracking number. When I was running 10.0 first, it's build number was 3c305. 7 refers to Panther, 6 is Jaguar and so on....
I'm not the biggest fan of XBench, but these numbers [bidouille link] do paint a very impressive picture
... especially considering those stats were produced with a release earlier than 7b21. It's common knowledge that Apple were seeding 7b85 last week. That's a lot of updates in-between....
apple still doesn't really have a robust and easy to adminsiter means of locking down large numbers of systems and handling application delivery that would be required by this environment
Nonsense, on a number of level.
Locking down users? Use netboot. Don't enable root (disabled by default). Don't give admin privs (disabled by default). Use RemoteAccess or Timbuktu. It's unix - do the usual security stuff!
Application delivery? Drag-and-drop app installs, including MS Office. Package installs - a joke to use. DLL hell - what's that??
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I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that a feature of limited scope being plopped into a general-purpose OS involving networking is an opportunity for yet more security holes to surface. This time, involving power management. Imagine the scope for 'fun' there when some script kiddie can merrily bring your machine up or down at will?
If someone wants remote power management for their machine, let them add it themselves. It's not primarily something that Granny needs to do at home anyway. Sticking it into the OS 'coz you can is not the thing to do - that's exactly what happened with auto-open email enclosures (another MS 'innovation'). Furthermore, I feel MS shouldn't brand this kind of thing as innovation, as Tim Allchin did.
Well, sure, but that's not the point. The point is that it's going into a future version of an OS that's got a bad enough track record for security. Furthermore as power management is involved (and from cold boot, it would seem), this probably means changes to the BootROM/BIOS. Plenty of scope for getting it wrong ...
If they want to power up a machine from cold remotely and it is to be self-contained within the machine, then this means the Power Management ASIC needs to watch the ethernet phy and interpret some message or other. Firmware changes + networking = yuk!
*sigh* There's another new field, fresh for 'sploits. Nice one, Microsoft. Keep up with the .. errm .. 'innovation! :-/
It's also the name of a cool Irish-French musical duo
Hey - who you calling a Luddite? :-)
As they say on the site;
One other thing is that the floating toolbars alpha fade after a few minutes of inactivity. They go opaque again after you mouse over them. That's a nice touch and indicates as to a lot more MacOS X native integration under the hood.
Other than that, well .... :-/
Old habits die hard ... :-)
And there's the bottom-line. Don't produce anything worthwhile and use your <ahem> IP to generate revenue via lawsuits. As if we didn't know ....
Still, the 'jettison management' bit has to have Darl sitting on the edge of his seat!
What did it run? Forth, of course!
(Sorry, just had to show there was a better alternative to BASIC back in the early '80s. I still do Forth regularly in OpenFirmware)
With great difficulty, I suspect! Just as well, then, that there's a lot more than manufacturing at both sites; there are call centers, R&D, operations support, localisation, finance, applestore, etc, etc. I work in a secure lab, yet I walk through the production area every day. G5s everywhere.
Both sites are a lot more than manufacturing, y'know ...
Actually, a lot of the localisation is done in Ireland (at Apple's last internal manufacturing site, now that Sacramento has been shut down). How do I know? I work there! :-)
Actually, it's true
And hey look, Slashdot got a mention;
.. was also the Apple internal codename for the PowerMac 5200. One of the first products I worked on at Apple ... *sigh*
Apple UK's wave of iPod advertising may be making the product a 'must-have' accessory for street criminals. It's also possible that UK journalists, disappointed at Apple's recent news that its much-anticipated iPod mini won't ship until July, now also have Apple in their sights - as was the case with the recent battery bad news stories.
Link here for those interested.
Now all we need is for our national telco to roll out ADSL in a meaningful kinda way ... :-/
Anyways - back in the '80s, I had a lot of geeky fun with the SP0256 chip. It was a vocal tract synthesiser on a chip & was capable of the most amazing voices and sounds. I hooked it into the address bus of a Sinclair QL & used it primarily for music. It was allophone-based but had registers for timbre, pitch, resonance, etc. Way cool .... :-)
What about VocalWriter for the Mac. Allegedly, "the world's first music synthesizer that can actually sing your lyrics", it's been around at least 5 years now ...
Winnet mag, you say? Interesting, and rather apt.
In farming circles (if you'll pardon), winnet refers to those dangly bits that adhere to a sheep's butt. I'm not making this up ...
No person shall [..] be deprived of life, LIBERTY, or property, without due process of law;
So, what about all those folks in Guantanamo bay?
Nonsense. This is the seed revision/build tracking number. When I was running 10.0 first, it's build number was 3c305. 7 refers to Panther, 6 is Jaguar and so on ....
(Disclaimer: not speaking for Apple)
Nonsense, on a number of level.
Locking down users? Use netboot. Don't enable root (disabled by default). Don't give admin privs (disabled by default). Use RemoteAccess or Timbuktu. It's unix - do the usual security stuff!
Application delivery? Drag-and-drop app installs, including MS Office. Package installs - a joke to use. DLL hell - what's that??
There are dozens of options ....