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SGI had an Atom-based supercomputer on the drawing board: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334887,00.asp

Quote:

"The key to the concept, SGI said, was its Kelvin cooling technology, which could pack 10,000 cores into a single rack. Combining the Atom processor with the Kelvin technology could generate seven times better memory performance per watt than a single-rack X86 cluster. Molecule could also process 20,000 concurrent threads, forty times more than the rack, and 15 terabytes/s of memory performance, SGI said."

Supermicro makes a nice server MB with a dual-core Atom 330 CPU:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346555,00.asp

Quote:

"The X7SLA-L platform from Supermicro is designed around the Atom 230, a single-core chip from Atom that consumes just four watts. The server itself packs four SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, along with seven USB 2.0 interfaces, 2 Gbytes of DDR2 memory, Intel GMA 950 graphics and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The more robust X7SLA-H uses a dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor, and doubles the Gigagbit Ethernet ports, adding an additional USB and serial connector as well."

Mfg. website: http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/945/X7SLA.cfm?typ=H

SGI had an Atom-based supercomputer on the drawing board: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334887,00.asp

Quote:

"The key to the concept, SGI said, was its Kelvin cooling technology, which could pack 10,000 cores into a single rack. Combining the Atom processor with the Kelvin technology could generate seven times better memory performance per watt than a single-rack X86 cluster. Molecule could also process 20,000 concurrent threads, forty times more than the rack, and 15 terabytes/s of memory performance, SGI said."

Supermicro makes a nice server MB with a dual-core Atom 330 CPU:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346555,00.asp

Quote:

"The X7SLA-L platform from Supermicro is designed around the Atom 230, a single-core chip from Atom that consumes just four watts. The server itself packs four SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, along with seven USB 2.0 interfaces, 2 Gbytes of DDR2 memory, Intel GMA 950 graphics and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The more robust X7SLA-H uses a dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor, and doubles the Gigagbit Ethernet ports, adding an additional USB and serial connector as well."

Mfg. website: http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/945/X7SLA.cfm?typ=H

Compare this to what the BSA is advocating. Essentially any disgruntled employee can put unlicensed commercial software on a computer and then report the violation to the BSA for a reward. Sure companies can put millions of dollars of safeguards to prevent harassment from inefficient employees, but why bother. Just make it a policy to only use free software, and when the BSA comes knocking, show them the policy and the minimal cost efforts that makes all other software the responsibility of the user.

This will also help long term interpretability, as OSS has minimal incentives to obstificate the data to force users to continue to pay the ransom to access said data.

ha - check out the source code on www.sophos.com/klingon-anti-virus for awful geek conversation
also i tried to install it but came up against a problem when I could understand it enough to get through one of the screens - but this securitywatch page tells you how

now is anyone actually going to find out if this is a real translation or not?

"I am no fan of WGA, but most customers don't care, until something goes wrong."

But that's the point. WGA is one more opportunity for things to go wrong, so it is by definition not in the customer's best interests to have it installed. If you eliminate it you will have a more reliable operating system that won't fail due to spurious WGA errors or the WGA servers going down (as they occasionally have) or being unreachable over the network.

In this particular case for example, I think it's essentially greed on the AP's part (and for the record I think their campaigns against Google News are IDIOTIC).

The original poster cannot read. The Associated Press is not going after Google, which is one of their customers who PAYS them for content. However I guess it became a frequently asked question by Google News users. The person pointing the finger at Google for stealing content is Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch is the very old CEO and chairman of News Corp./Fox, whom I speculate is somewhat ignorant of the intarwebs in his ripe old age of 78. Furthermore, I am pretty sure he is not a spokesman for the Associated Press.

In this particular case for example, I think it's essentially greed on the AP's part (and for the record I think their campaigns against Google News are IDIOTIC).

The original poster cannot read. The Associated Press is not going after Google, which is one of their customers who PAYS them for content. However I guess it became a frequently asked question by Google News users. The person pointing the finger at Google for stealing content is Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch is the very old CEO and chairman of News Corp./Fox, whom I speculate is somewhat ignorant of the intarwebs in his ripe old age of 78. Furthermore, I am pretty sure he is not a spokesman for the Associated Press.

What drives me crazy about all this is that a company I worked at did this stuff right in the 90's including data reduction, compression, encryption, and bare-metal restore. Somehow they didn't make fabulous amounts of money from it and make my stock options worth millions. (Ok, it was backup to a server instead of to the cloud, but that's hardly a leap.) Now we talk about this concept like it's a radical future thing, which it still is, and I'm mystified as to why. Alas! Here I am still working for a living *and* looking for a good backup application with DR. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,8927,00.asp

but I feel pretty confident Microsoft Internet Explorer's is worse. I recall reading the EULAs of Windows Media Player 10 and 11 were particularly harrowing experiences.

In any case, if you are concerned about your privacy or don't like advertisements, install privoxy.

Otherwise, enjoy your Chrome experience! It is significantly and quantifiably better than the competition.

The one saying "2009 will be Year of the Linux Desktop."

How about seeing long-time Microsoft shill John C. Dvorak penning a column titled "Dvorak likes Linux"? You wouldn't fall for that, would you?

It actually happened back on March 9: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp

Dvorak wrote: "I cannot wean myself off Windows altogether because, well, I write about Windows. But for ancillary machines that I put together where I need reliability and low price, I'm always going to see whether Ubuntu works. And if it does, that's what gets installed. "

Interesting that they still maintain more than 90% marketshare worldwide with that "wrong strategy", though. Despite the horridness of Vista, people *still* appreciate being able to use their older apps on their newer PCs, who would've thought.

According to Net Applications since this tyme last year Microsoft has slipped in market share while Apple has gained some. It was only in January when MS started gaining again, to 88.42 percent. Also of Windows users "about 64 percent, are still using XP while about 23 percent have upgraded to Vista."

Falcon

Of course it is... after all nowadays even
Dvorak likes linux

After this I believe.

Looks like the tech support guy was cutting and pasting from a document. See the slide "Pay up". Note how the sentence starts, then it starts again 3 words later. Almost certainly laziness or they are trying to juggle too many conversations.

For C++, I like Qt - with it, you can have your Linux server do "distributed builds" for your netbook. You can also host your code in git or svn and manage your project in trac - all very easily installable and maintainable on your Linux box - I have a setup running at home for my hobby stuff just because it was so easy to do again after setting up at work. The QtCreator IDE is showing promise, but not 100% released yet.

As for hardware, I bought an eeeBox (Atom desktop) to replace my wife's 8 year old e-mail and browser machine - it's awesome, quiet, tiny, cheap, and 2x more powerful than the already adequate machine it replaced. Since that machine is left on 24-7, the reduced 20W power draw (down from 65W in the old machine) will pay for the purchase price in a couple of years. I'm trying to resist further temptation at least until the Freescale netbooks drop - I might still buy an Atom N280, but I'd like to see some competitive offerings first.

It strikes me as odd that Texas, a state many of us considered the "first and foremost in protecting the rights of its populace against tyranny of federal government", now seems to be on a rampage of trampling on people's individual rights.

http://your-philosophy-sucks.blogspot.com/search/label/gummint

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2324220,00.asp

http://www.infowars.com/texas-lawyer-takes-on-bloodthirsty-cops/

I don't no about that. The market may be more a factor in Linux success. ARM (or MIPS) chips, China, Linux and flash means we don't need intel any more. People and business can't keep saying no so easily, and with the netbooks there is a proven market.

That is absolutely lovely, but that actually proves my point. The unit of measure "kilobyte" was defined LOOOOOONG before 1998; LOOONG before 1988; LONG before 1978 and I would venture to guess long before 1968 even though a kilobyte in those days was ridiculously expensive and hard to imagine. But I'll see your one link:

http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/zdkilo.html

And raise ya three:

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212444,00.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/kilobyte
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=kilobyte&i=45822,00.asp

And there are a LOT more places that state what I learned over 30 years ago. Best not to redefine units of measure. It confuses things especially when referencing older works using those measures. It also confuses and sometimes even angers the consumer. But let's look at it another way -- one day, you just might end up with less than a gallon or litre of gasoline one day because someone decided it would be okay to change a unit of measure to something they found more convenient. But that shouldn't bother you should it?

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?
- John C. Dvorak, PC mag, 29th Sept, 2003

Seriously, he said that:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1334678,00.asp

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles.

At least the first part is accurate...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332756,00.asp

I tried for some time last night to sift out Palm Pre details that Slashdot might actually find interesting, but no strong leads.

The PC Mag article was the only one I could find that touches on anything beyond the press release materials from CES:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338482,00.asp

FTA:
* Does it run Linux? Maybe, but only according to rumors.

* Will existing PalmOS apps run on it? Hard to tell from their mangled wording, but probably not. However, it seems like their new WebOS SDK /might/ make it somewhat simple to recompile for the new platform.

So, as a Palm addict, it seems like I still have a long time to try to keep my ailing TX working until I can find a suitable platform to upgrade to. (So far, the main contender for me is the Nokia N810, which runs Linux and actually has a Palm Garnet emulation environment available for it)

I removed Symantec AV from my computer (since it only protects against exploits nobody uses anymore and slows your PC down more than any virus)

I don't personally use Symantec anything but the word is for the 2009 version, they completely rewrote everything from scratch with an emphasis on speed that seems to have worked according to PCmag.

Information Week, PC Mag, The Register, and eFlux to name a few.

Microsoft is currently blaming plugins (Flash, Java, QuickTime, etc) for security problems. These typically come with your computer, and if you uninstall them, some sites stop working. On Windows, each one uses a different automatic update mechanism, each of which is confusing and/or evil in its own way, resulting in the majority of users having outdated plugins.

Firefox fans on Slashdot have blamed extensions (Adblock, Forecastfox, etc.) for memory leaks. Plenty of people use Firefox without extensions. Most extensions do not interact with data from web pages, so while they can cause memory leaks, they rarely cause security holes. When an extension does have a security hole, Blake Kaplan improves APIs to make similar holes less likely in the future.

I work for Mozilla, and I agree with Microsoft that plugin security holes are a major problem.

You should look up NortonAV 2009. It looks like Symantec actually put some effort into making it more efficient. Link: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330024,00.asp. I understand that PC Magazine may not be the utmost authority on application efficiency, but it's what I had handy. :)

Ha ha ha...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS07-066.mspx/ ,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,533801,00.asp/ ,
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q231/3/68.asp/ ,
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E877D9C1-3E7C-4551-A899-C3FCC5175BB6&displaylang=en/ ,
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2002/0909cryptoapi.html/ ,
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-039.mspx/ and finally http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2003-07-16-microsoft-hole_x.htm/
I can go on, but i gotta get back to work...
Let me know if you need more proof.
Or better yet, put your virgin XP SP2 on 'net... the best example is by doing!

Now try it on Arm Linux, Linux/MIPS, Linux/PPC, or one of the many other branches that make up the complete Linux platform.

They're working on an optimized ARM port.

InCtrl5, Version 1.0
Copyright (c) 2000 Ziff Davis Media, Inc.
Written by Neil J. Rubenking
First Published in PC Magazine, US Edition, December 5, 2000, v19n21
http://www.pcmag.com/utilities/

I got this in 2000 and it works well with WinXP. I haven't looked at the website in years. It was freeware then. I wonder if one of my old reports will show up in this horrible travesty, nay, crime against humanity, of a website? Ah, well, I'll just mangle the plain but functional report into plain text:

No. Shocking! The lameness filter!

p.s. A captcha like 'breakup' is why your lame board is spammed like a Hawaiian wedding by losers like me.

If it is acceptable to you that you don't do the comparison of the before/after state by comparing the disk images, you could use any of the many disk image tools that have already been mentioned to make the disk images, and use PC Magazine's InCtrl5 utility (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,25475,00.asp) to generate the report of what changed during an installation.

From reading your request, it seem that InCtrl5 will give you a report of all the changes you are asking about. It just goes about it differently than the way you are asking. Read their description of InCtrl5 and see for yourself whether it gives you what you want. The source is included, so you can study the code to see exactly what it is doing, should you want to check into it in detail. It is NOT open source, though, so if your plan is to make something you can distribute, using InCtrl5 probably isn't suitable for that. I don't know whether the source included is enough for you to make modifications and rebuild purely for your own use. (I think their license doesn't permit even that, but I doubt they would make a fuss about that, even if they could tell you did so.)

It might not be the answer you are looking for, but it seems to me it is worth your time to take a few minutes to check into it.

They don't specifically say you must have an AT&T contract to get warranty service, but it's more or less required via the other terms. They wont' service your phone unless its activated ("How can we see if it's working or not?). They won't service phones that aren't activated legitimately (at least not if they know about it). You MUST sign up for a contract to activate your phone (not actually true with the 3g, it'll apparently activate on a prepaid sim).

Well, I see from your other posts that your iphone isn't actually broken, but if you ever do need service, don't assume they won't service it. Give them a call. I doubt they won't honor the warranty (they might initially tell you they won't, but ask to talk with a supervisor).

The reason I'm certain they'll honor the warranty is because you can just file a small claims suit if they don't. You're on solid legal ground here. The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act prevents them from tying in their warranty to sales or services. And the latest DMCA exemptions allow you to unlock your cell phone. Of course, if your attempts to unlock the phone was what caused the damage, then it falls into the accidental damage clause and they're not liable again...however, I don't think anyone has actually bricked an iphone by unlocking it (by the real definition of brick, ie, a restore won't work).

Given the price of the iphone, the lawsuit would be worth it. However, do remember to ask them to honor the warranty first. Not only are they likely to honor it, but judges tend to throw out lawsuits if you don't make an effort with the other party first.

My email is gravyface at mail with a g prepended .com.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=prepend&i=49641,00.asp

God I hate how people accept that abomination as a word...

TiVo PC is not capable of allowing viewers to skip commercials on Hulu.com and the like. Read the reviews (like this one) for proof. It's a device to enable recording of broadcast/cable TV shows on a Windoze box. That's it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with recording net-streaming video, or anything else that regular TiVos currently can't do. This kind of over-reaching speculation is irritating, distracting, and unhelpful. Andrew Keen is, I think, a little too keen (haha, do you see what I did there?) to create controversy and a little less inclined to check his facts.

C in this case means Character, not Code. See one definition.

I have never seen the word Code used in an English definition.

He's spot-on. This agreement only covers services such as Imeem, Last.fm, and Napster, which are based on streaming individual songs. It does not cover services such as Pandora, AOL Radio, or Digitally Imported, which stream pre-programed/tailored stations like a meatspace radio station does. Those guys are still fighting to avoid having to pay the massive $0.0019/user/song that the Copyright Royalty Board passed down last year. Generally when people are talking about internet radio they are talking about these services, so internet radio is not saved.

It's interesting. But nothing really new or groundbreaking; we discussed another pocket projector that uses lasers back in January of this year. We also talked about other small projectors on April 1 of this year, too.

One page layout - http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D231680,00.asp Must be said!

If they put caps on service, there will be a lot of competition making out good on it. I will cancel that day if they put caps on bandwidth.

There's no "if" about it. Comcast has already announced that the 250GB/month cap will begin on October 1st.

It's not really FUD. Here's an article from early 2008 that I found in five minutes with a google search. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2254019,00.asp.

There's many more articles like that. The good news is that PC gaming will never truly die. There will always be a market for it. The bad news it that as the PC gaming demand dwindles, less AAA titles will be released for it. Why, I just found out today that Gears of War 2 won't be released on the PC. Also, Crytek stated on Joystiq that they won't be making PC exclusive games anymore. I never thought I'd see the day when Valve was releasing console exclusitivities, but the upcoming Portal: Still Alive pack for the xbox 360 is apparently exclusive (though only a small fraction of it wasn't contained in either the original game or the Flash portal map pack).

The "easily cracked" excuse you gave to DRM is a bit far fetched. You know what's easier than having to research how to crack a game? Opening the console disk tray and putting the game in.

There have been such products before:
see http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,54458,00.asp
The funny thing is that this technology has not hit the mainstream PC market yet. Maybe it was not quite as successful as expected?

If you're trying to keep market share you'll sabotage any real compatibility and interoperability.

Very true. This article explains Adobe's attitude to linux. The article goes on to mention that Adobe's CEO John Warnock was suspicious with linux due to emergence of open-source GhostScript.

Adobe very much has the same mindset as Microsoft.

Every single one of them say the SAME DAMN THING !!

http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,30,00.asp

John C. Dvorak
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John C. Dvorak's Inside Track
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Jim Louderback
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Lance Ulanoff
    Are Some PCs Born Bad?
Sometimes a PC, like a car, can simply be a lemon.

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Bill Howard: On Technology
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Tim Bajarin
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Dan Costa
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Sascha Segan
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Robyn Peterson
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Michael J. Miller: Forward Thinking
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Bill Machrone: ExtremeTech
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Expert View
Best Buy to Sell Apple's iPhone
Best Buy will be the first national retailer to sell Apple Inc's iPhone in the United States in a partnership that could help drive sales of a device expected to be one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season.

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D230383,00.asp

But that's still too paid-by-the-word (or ad) author-centric-blabby.

Looking around, I can't find any better analysis. Everyone else is doing exactly the same: pretending to reminisce.

Well, I had good times there, but fuck it. Times change. And you can download AdBlock for your Firefox.

If only there was a way to go straight to the print version.

A service that provides online legal and business information. LEXIS was the first full-text information service for the legal profession. NEXIS provides the archives of The New York Times as well as Wall Street industry analysis, public records, tax information, political analysis, SEC filings and more. See online services.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=LEXIS-NEXIS&i=46050,00.asp

Not that I'd expect you to know, I didn't know either.

Viacom and friends decide they don't need the logs after all.

There's quite a few such articles:

The 256-processor laptop with roll up screen and keyboard

Flatter laptops

Fold-up screens

Clip-together screens

Gas-turbine batteries

Dual touchscreen laptop

Mac Tablets

No the telepresence driving wasn't a joke, I think it will be heavily combined with automated accident avoidance programs like those coming out of DARPA's robot vehicle programs. Heck, the outsourced driver might be managing several vehicles at a time. Real life effectiveness has to get pretty bad before it starts to overrule cost effectiveness. All priorities to quarterly profits!

IIRC, the BIOS maker Phoenix had an embedded browser, so Mozilla's "Phoenix Browser" was considered misleading.

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D228357,00.asp

How about the Surface multitouch? It doesn't seem particularly innovative any more, but you never know...