sweet....I built a few clusters when I teched by myself at night, a dozen or so boxes and a switch, got to be quite fast at it. But it was play. I want an invite to the big game, just to play an inning some time. A ticket to the show, standing next to one of the top 500, absorbing some serious flops.

Up untill about 2 years ago I had a shell account on one of the top 10. Kind of blew me away when they used Crays to run the less important things! I never actually saw it in person though.

Just for giggles. Someone put location as 40° 55' N 81° 26' W. I had to know. 3.0 miles (4.8 km) SE of Belmont, Belmont, OH, USA
Approx. altitude: 376 m (1233 ft)
Gee am i bored? oh yea there it is! No reboots from blue screen tonight! again? imagine that

Malicious DHCP response can grant root access (CAN-2003-1009)
Anyone who can gain access to your network can gain administrator (root) access to your computer and therefore steal your data or launch attacks upon others as soon as you reboot your machine.
Disable any network authorization services from obtaining settings from DHCP:
in Directory Access, select LDAPv3 in the Services tab, click "Configure...", uncheck "Use DHCP-supplied LDAP Server"
in Directory Access, select NetInfo in the Services tab, click "Configure...", uncheck "Attempt to connect using broadcast protocol" and "Attempt to connect using DHCP protocol"
in Directory Access, uncheck LDAPv3 and NetInfo in the Services tab, if you don't intend to use them

Turning off DHCP on all interfaces on your affected Mac OS X machine can also keep you from being affected.
For added security, be sure to disable any unused network ports:
turn the AirPort card off or remove it, if it is not being used.

At my high school in our VCD (Visual Communications and Design) centre, for graphic design they have 4 shitty IBM's running windowsNT 4.0 (dont ask why, its a private school, yet they have extreme crap), but they also have alot of Macs, they have one G8 or whatever its called and some iMacs, i'd prefer doing graphical work on a Mac because it is faster, i mean: rendering a 1024x768x32 original photoshop picture using the IBM's takes up to 20 minutes, while on a Mac, it takes up to 1 - 3 minutes at the most...i would only by that new Mac that just came out, its got something like 8 gig of RAM in it... id dual boot it with XP and mandrake or debian... nice and fast... :P

At my high school in our VCD (Visual Communications and Design) centre, for graphic design they have 4 shitty IBM's running windowsNT 4.0 (dont ask why, its a private school, yet they have extreme crap), but they also have alot of Macs, they have one G8 or whatever its called and some iMacs OK
.nyteshyft; right. the hottest Mac Cp is G5 right now but YES Mac has the best video processing MBs and CPUs ever see the Macs in cable movies where the puters are included in shot? I have.

joo so l33t r0x0r h4x0r
lol

Apple released new security today.

I might be a little late to this thread, but Macs use PPC processors (Motorola and IBM). Windows is designed for x86 processors (Intel, AMD, etc.). Therefore, you can run PPC versions of Mandrake and Debian, but you need an emulator such as Virtual PC to run a non-PPC OS such as Windows. Also, G5s have been out for several months before you posted that.

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Originally posted by macskeeball I might be a little late to this thread, but Macs use PPC processors (Motorola and IBM). Windows is designed for x86 processors (Intel, AMD, etc.). Therefore, you can run PPC versions of Mandrake and Debian, but you need an emulator such as Virtual PC to run a non-PPC OS such as Windows. Also, G5s have been out for several months before you posted that.

Right. And the emulator deal is something I don't use.

Mac users! There is a security update from Apple! Don't forget to repair permissions after! Also of interest - I bet you didn't know this, but older Macs can run Darwin in Unix form!

Old news on both counts. So right back at you.

I believe that mac computers are good for one thing and one thing only: the PPC version of linux

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Originally posted by anonymoushacker I believe that mac computers are good for one thing and one thing only: the PPC version of linux

Well then you haven't tried OS X Panther yet.