I've just tried running it on Panther DP1 & it doesn't want to install.Better wait, I guess...
Furthermore, I just noticed that the installer said; "The installer needs to run a program to determine if it can be installed. Do you want to continue?" - that's a cool security feature!
... is they're afraid that folks will unwittingly broadcast their music. If you're stuck on the motorway/freeway, the dude in the car next to you could potentially tune into your iPod.*sigh*
In short; more paranoia from the music regulatory authorities. A couple of milliwatts of power - an iTrip probably has less range than the average infra-red remote control.
I'm patiently waiting for them to begin outlawing that part of the electromagnetic spectrum...:-/
It needs to be pointed out, smartypants, that the BCF was one of the first companies to mass-migrate their internal manufacturing systems to Linux. They didn't stop there, though. They also migrated their office infrastructure as well as their POS systems. Impressive, seeing as Burlington is a massive organisation.
a lot of G4's shipped with just. plain. awful sound cards. this is welcome news.
G4s don't have soundcards. They have built-in audio chipsets. The biggest problem I've had is that many of the G4 desktop machines have had no analog audio in & I've had to use a Korg1212 or Onkyo analogusb box.
Here's a
statement from Milonic, Ltd, the company that the Senator stole from. Looks like all the fuss is over....
Statement From Milonic Re: Website of Senator Orrin Hatch
Milonic Solutions would like to comment of the current situation regarding the website http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/
We have received many emails regarding the implementation of our software and Milonic are pleased to announce that there are no longer any licensing issues with reference to the above website.
Milonic would like to point out that this particular case is in no way unique and that there are many thousands of similar issues with other implementations of our code. Milonic Solutions try to be as fair as possible by offering our code free of charge to certain users but changes to the licensing of Government and/or Political organizations are now necessary.
We have, for some time, been thinking of changing the licensing regarding Government run websites and applications that use our software. The reason for this is due to the administrative overhead we have for issuing free licenses, we can no longer afford to offer free licenses to Government organizations.
We would also like to point out that if you have any questions or concerns about whether you should be obtaining Professional Licenses for our software, then the safest option would be to buy. Once you become a customer you have the protection of being properly licensed and there will be no question as to whether you are using un-licensed software.
Users of our software that are categorized as charities, official non-profit groups, religious groups, state run educational organizations or personal home pages can continue to enjoy our software at no charge.
Dunno. My version of MacOS X already has the usual suspects; gcc, as, ln. The assembler and linker are GNU tools, but are the Mach-O versions. The standard GNU tools won't build straight up, AFAIK, but fortunately, Apple has provided the sources for their changes, so you can download those and build away.
Why do they use an unusual executable format (Mach-O) instead of ELF that was the standard on FreeBSD (and still is, on most other systems as well) before they came along
Because the kernel is based on the Mach kernel? The Mach-O binary format is well documented.
Although OS X claims credibly to be a Unix variant, I recently discovered it is apparently impossible to cross-compile for it.
*shrug* - it's PPC-based, in fairness. gcc should produce say an x86 binary, given the appropriate libs. As the platform is PPC, you need to manually provide them. That's to be expected. Can your x86 machine easily target Alpha?
The way Apple sees it, people who want to develop for their platform can buy it first,
So go download it (and the sources) from opendarwin.org and run it on your x86 box... I've done it for kicks & it's pretty neat.
and to hell with anyone who wants to take apart the binaries they release for the system
The source for the kernel has been released by Apple, as well as the BSD layer stuff and various other bits (Kerberos, X11, Rendezvous, etc, etc). Who needs to take apart binaries?
(or even to hell with me taking apart the binaries I made myself for the system, for that matter!)
??? Do what you do on Linux - go disassemble it. Dump the symbols, whatever. It's no different.
The parent poster is exactly right, OS X is open to a point, but when you really want to get your hands dirty working with it, it is still closed in a lot of ways.
Sure. I agree - Darwin is wide open, APSL nit-picks aside. MacOS X, being a superset of Darwin, is not so much. Just how much openness do you want?
Just because the source is open does not mean the system is open. I think they are suspicious of allowing people too much freedom with their system. This is evident in more obvious ways, too, like the closedness of Aqua.
Well, yes. Aqua is closed. It's part of Apple's competitive edge. Unlike a certain other OS, Apple has done the good thing and opened up great chunks of the OS. I don't think they're "suspicious" of "allowing people" "freedom" - they're on the right path, they can't release everything.
(Disclosure/disclaimer: yeah, I work there. No, I'm not speaking for them.)
26 years later, has the company leaned? OS-X has potential, but ONLY if Apple doesn't try to "own" it. You'd think they would have learned something in all these years but they still seem to be innovative to a point, then shut everything down and try to make it as proprietary as possible.
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Prestel (the old UK equivalent) got famously hacked once. There was an old '80s computer show on the Beeb and the presenter was showing off a new fancy feature called 'e-mail'. When he logged in, what he got was this;
Computer Security Error. Illegal access.
I hope your television PROGRAMME runs as smoothly as my PROGRAM worked out your passwords!
I've lived in both places & that's largely true! Dunno whether I should get offended or not here...:-)
Two Sacto catchphrases; "But it's a dry heat!" and "It's very central!". I can recall the City of Sacramento was looking for a new slogan a few years back. One of the entries was; "Sacramento - At Least It's Not Galt"... oops!
You're probably thinking of PCB manufacturing, which got closed a few years back.
Did you know that Lisas were also built here? Some of the folks around here have been here 20+ years and can remember the days... there are still pics of the ][ and the ][e still on the walls here. It's a cool place to work.
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Shouldn't be a problem, I'm guessing, providing the exception (.local for ZeroConf) is catered for. It's the only one I can think of.
Well, there's TinyDNS, djbdns and MaraDNS, just for starters. And whatever those Windows folks use on their server OS.
Interesting to note that djbdns has already been patched to workaround the Verisign nonsense ....
Furthermore, I just noticed that the installer said; "The installer needs to run a program to determine if it can be installed. Do you want to continue?" - that's a cool security feature!
Oh, and the update is now up on Apple's downloads page
The word "Eolas" in Irish Gaelic means "knowledge", BTW. Another useless factoid ...
From http://www.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/urlmap ping/slide35.html;
It's when others make that decision for me that I begin to get worried.
Television is a powerful opiate and population control machanism. I admire people who can control it. I'm succumbing again.
Dude, it's time to kill your TV!
In short; more paranoia from the music regulatory authorities. A couple of milliwatts of power - an iTrip probably has less range than the average infra-red remote control.
I'm patiently waiting for them to begin outlawing that part of the electromagnetic spectrum ... :-/
Link here
Pete C (pluggin' along quite nicely on OSX.3 preview, thanks!)
Well, according to NetCraft, their server is running FreeBSD. Go figure ...
I'd suspect they'd be positive, seeing as IDEO also designed Apple products, though all of these were pre-Jonathan Ive.
This guy designed the Duo Dock. Cool ....
G4s don't have soundcards. They have built-in audio chipsets. The biggest problem I've had is that many of the G4 desktop machines have had no analog audio in & I've had to use a Korg1212 or Onkyo analogusb box.
Pete C
Has your OS got piles?
Dunno. My version of MacOS X already has the usual suspects; gcc, as, ln. The assembler and linker are GNU tools, but are the Mach-O versions. The standard GNU tools won't build straight up, AFAIK, but fortunately, Apple has provided the sources for their changes, so you can download those and build away.
Why do they use an unusual executable format (Mach-O) instead of ELF that was the standard on FreeBSD (and still is, on most other systems as well) before they came along
Because the kernel is based on the Mach kernel? The Mach-O binary format is well documented.
Although OS X claims credibly to be a Unix variant, I recently discovered it is apparently impossible to cross-compile for it.
*shrug* - it's PPC-based, in fairness. gcc should produce say an x86 binary, given the appropriate libs. As the platform is PPC, you need to manually provide them. That's to be expected. Can your x86 machine easily target Alpha?
The way Apple sees it, people who want to develop for their platform can buy it first,
So go download it (and the sources) from opendarwin.org and run it on your x86 box ... I've done it for kicks & it's pretty neat.
and to hell with anyone who wants to take apart the binaries they release for the system
The source for the kernel has been released by Apple, as well as the BSD layer stuff and various other bits (Kerberos, X11, Rendezvous, etc, etc). Who needs to take apart binaries?
(or even to hell with me taking apart the binaries I made myself for the system, for that matter!)
??? Do what you do on Linux - go disassemble it. Dump the symbols, whatever. It's no different.
The parent poster is exactly right, OS X is open to a point, but when you really want to get your hands dirty working with it, it is still closed in a lot of ways.
Sure. I agree - Darwin is wide open, APSL nit-picks aside. MacOS X, being a superset of Darwin, is not so much. Just how much openness do you want?
Just because the source is open does not mean the system is open. I think they are suspicious of allowing people too much freedom with their system. This is evident in more obvious ways, too, like the closedness of Aqua.
Well, yes. Aqua is closed. It's part of Apple's competitive edge. Unlike a certain other OS, Apple has done the good thing and opened up great chunks of the OS. I don't think they're "suspicious" of "allowing people" "freedom" - they're on the right path, they can't release everything.
(Disclosure/disclaimer: yeah, I work there. No, I'm not speaking for them.)
And what does this have to do with MacOS X and publishing the sources?
How do you explain this then?
True, nonetheless, CUPS is part of MacOS X and DarwinOS.
All your base are belong to U.S??
As featured in The Hacker's Handbook of long ago ....
The most precious thing a nation could have is not its money! Geez ....
Nobody ever told me to go home. Waahh!
Two Sacto catchphrases; "But it's a dry heat!" and "It's very central!". I can recall the City of Sacramento was looking for a new slogan a few years back. One of the entries was; "Sacramento - At Least It's Not Galt" ... oops!
You're probably thinking of PCB manufacturing, which got closed a few years back.
Did you know that Lisas were also built here? Some of the folks around here have been here 20+ years and can remember the days ... there are still pics of the ][ and the ][e still on the walls here. It's a cool place to work.