Just curious, are these replacement disks direct replacements for the one that came with the MBP? Meaning, does it come with two disks, which allow me to install all the extra software if I so choose? I use Comic Life and OmniOutliner and don't want to lose them.

Also, do people suggest I bring mine in to get the MLB replaced? The whine is driving me nuts, but I dont want to be without my MBP for a week for nothing.

Also, does anyone know what the turnaround for the MBP has been when sending it in? I would need it back within a week or else I start losing money.

Thanks.

Well, I installed it, and thought perhaps adobe would fix the biggest problem with Flash on OS X. That is, whenever the window playing the flash movie loses focus, the movie turns to sh!t. Well, I am here to confirm, this is still an issue.

If it were real, it would be a very early screen shot. 9A39 would be very early in the development cycle (probably only 2-3 months or so, since the initial builds aren't turned out very fast). Think of it this way, when Tiger went GM it was at 8A428.

Now, I doubt these screenshots are real, and I think leopard's UI, while remaining familiar will probably look significantly overhauled compared to that.

Haha, I really like these new ones.

Alright, the other thing that really bothers me is its automatic checking for updates that you cannot turn off. Blah @ DivX.

Yeah, the Player and Converter are still PPC. After some digging, I went to /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS

and did:

lipo -info DivX Decoder

and the output was "Architectures in the fat file: DivX Decoder are: i386 ppc7400"

The same goes for the encoder. So I can only deduce that DivX was too lazy to make their apps universal, but were nice enough to port the Quicktime components. This kind of pisses me off, since I have sworn not to install any PPC programs on my MBP, and this one did it while claiming to be a Universal.

I was all set on saying that you forgot the eMac as well as the Xserve, but before I posted something, I went to the store to make sure it was still there, and lo and behold, there is no more eMac. When did that happen?

Jacob: I don't think they would use Mac One since that would imply a Core Solo processor instead of a Core Duo.

Where can I go to download these?

Siege:

The only bits that exist are 0 and 1. A tag can only hold as much data as memory on the chip. The standard values are 64 (transitional), 96 (will be the most used), and 128 (needed for companies with many products/many serial numbers).

Depending on the encoding, the bits are arranged in specific ways. There are many websites that describe the different encodings. For SGTIN 96 bit, the first 8 bits are the header, the next 3 bits are the object type, the next 3 are the partition, the next 20-40 bits are the Company prefix, the next 24-4 are the item reference (SKU), the next 38 bits are the serial number. The barrier between the the company prefix and item reference can be changed.

A would be hacker could ignore the encoding, and just arrange every 8 bits in to a byte, and encode a string within the tag. This string could be used in a malicious way if the software that interfaces with the reader does not verify the data.

The easy solution in software is to verify that the tag conforms to a specific encoding. The encoding being used should be known in advance, so you can hard code it in to your program.

Also, I forgot to add that not all tags can be re-written. I would suspect that important things like passports will be read only, so someone cannot override your information.