It's actually meant as a tool to tie down users or children, but maybe using a proxy with a time-based ruleset can server as a 'hint. You can even instruct it to only block slashdot.org between midnight and 7am.
Just a simple hint: If you have an AMD CPU: Turn on Cool 'n' Quiet in your BIOS and set your Power Management in windows to 'Minimal Power Management' Intel Core CPUs have teh same trick, but I don't know what it's called.
CnQ will automatically un-clock your CPU for you and raise the clock speed when you need it.
I may be biased, owning a G15, but let me explain myself. This puppy is a gamer's wet dream.
1/ lighted keys and dark games I don't need light to tell me where the WASD keys are. In a darkened room, keeping my right hand on the mouse,
it would be nice to look down and the correct those keys on the right This issue has spawned the old PWNED meme (it used to be a typo).
2/ OOB status display with control butons. Sometimes, not all the info you want is displayed on-screen. Some people want to control voice software in games. Others want to see system statistics whilst doing something else.
(overlockers, speendfan display works like a charm!) Check out G15Forums or the like for possible plug-ins for your favorite games. Also, check out LCDSirReal at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=46373 If you have a MediaPC, you can use it instead of an (expensive) VFD.
3/ built-in USB hub It's only two ports, but just enough to plug in a mouse and tablet. All the stuff that is not needed at the screen can plug into the back of the PC.
4/ extra keys These are not your everyday media keys (those are under the display). These puppies can perform entire macros for you, and you can switch instantly between 3 configurations. I haven't played any RTS games in years, but binding squads, actions and locations to their own sets of keys might be useful. Keep in mind, that gamers only have one hand on the keyboard and it tends to live on the left-hand side of the keyboard.
5/ physical disable-windows-key switch Accidental hits on this key tend to pop up the desktop or perform odd windows functions. Some gamers have become so frustrated with this key, they have physically removed it from their keyboard. With this switch, you can simply disable and re-enable it when you want.
6/ wow-factor It's not an Art Lebedev, but it still looks pretty damn cool on my desktop.
A few months ago, there was talk of a special triple-core design, where each core had one bus to HyperTransport and one direct bus to each other core.
Apparently, this is not that design. This is explained in this other review:
When AMD does see a "problem core" or when the frequency mis-match among cores, they now have the triple core option to keep from scrapping or down-grading that die. So: either one of the four core slows its three brothers down, or they 'amputate' the slow one and sell the last three at full speed.
We just need to align 8 of these inside a moon and combine the beams.
Lockheed Martin already has a patent for that. Mimas seems a better choice, though.
Hmm... I have to admit my memory is getting a bit fuzzy. It might have been 2000, but it -has- been in there for a while... (I ran away crysing from the Windows world when SBS 2003 was released)
I'm glad MS finally got Long^H^H^H Vista out the door, but I think I'm holding out for Windows 7. They completely overshot the mark interface-wise and need to find that middle ground again.
More security in Vista is a Good Idea, but it would have already been fine if they reduced that first user to non-admin and put in an admin password fot software installation. Unfortunately, a lot of Windows software is simply not ready for this. (WHY do they need to write in the local Program Files?)
It might but Vista when: - there is decent support for DirectSound3D - all the 'new' crap is optional
(I WANT my Network card to go as fast as it can, at the possible cost of stuttering audio) - there is decent driver support, including x64 (I'm looking at YOU, Canon) - When I can actually perform a 'downgrade' to XP without actually having to buy XP first
BUT, to get back to replying to you: Windows already had a SUDO in Windows NT4, it was called [ Run As... ]
Sure, you sometimes had to bend over backwards to use it, but it was there!
XP64 is actually not XP, it's the Win2003 kernel with the XP 'window manager' I installed it as FarCry64 'Appliance' and have been running it exclusively for about a year now. The only thing that doesn't work right for me is Citrix ICA. (VMWare with XP32 to the rescue!)
I make a quick glance at/. in the morning before I go to work and, ehm, troll, through the threads on evenings and weekends. Now I really have to get back to work;)
I dunno. When I was still compiling kernels, 'make menuconfig' was still -very new-, and you still had to 'post-check' the configs by hand. (I remember 'make config', but it was an unreasonable PITA) (how do you mean, 3c90x won't function without MII bus?)
I remember those days, balancing OpenBSD, FreeBSD and RHEL as respectively firewall, webserver and DC/fileserver. Portaudit and a personalised LogWatch filterset were my best friends. When I left that company, they junked the entire system and switched to windows (ugh) because they couldn't find anyone to maintain it. (even with clear instructions, maintaining patches and users across separate systems is a PITA, more automation would have meant more security holes than I was comfortable with)
Any security breach that is big enough will usually make it to the front page of/. The problem is usually waiting for the patch to be released for my servers (days) and getting authorization to patch the servers (weeks, if not months).
In the meantime, I spend my time educating users (and suppliers) about SSH/scp/https and the benefits of security. There's no point in patching relatively-safe holes, if all the doors and windows are open. (we're talking systems with rsh, rcp, rlogin and the works) I have considered blowing the whistle to the security officer, but that would only result in me getting fired and the system moving on exactly the same, because no-one else knows -how- to plug the holes.
You know, I haven't built my own kernel since 'make menuconfig' was the most advanced method around. I got rather tired of picking and choosing what I need, just to get faster boot times.
That, and any time you need (professional) support for a third-party application, the first thing they ask you is wether you are running a stock kernel. I -want- to be able to tell MySQL and RedHat to fight it out amongst themselves if my database does not live up to expectations. I have better things to do with my time than to set-up and analyse endless system profiles, straces and stack dumps.
Grow up, get a real job and see what the real world is like. You'll find that you no longer have the time to check SANS and packetstorm every day, just to see if your system is secure, spend days just to get that library to compile and then see the entire system go out the window, because it cannot be maintained (because you have be re-assigned to another project).
Indeed, but what is strange is that the 'mag brake' effect behaves differently wether or not there is a magnetic coupling between the motor and the generator...
(I.E. in his first video, the system oddly slowed down when he shorted the coils -- WTF?)
What I find odd, is that he says the system is under load. Shorting out the generating coils means the current will take the path of least resistance (the short-circuit) and the 'load' is no longer under power.
The saddest part is that some friends reported problems with Hotmail before and resolved them by switching from IE to FireFox.
(closed-down school environment, but not so closed as to break Firefox Portable )
1984 is already all around you, you simply haven't noticed it yet. People have stopped watching the real news and now watch 'Fox at 8' or whatever it's called these days.
The fact that America actually believed that they were winning in Iraq was pretty interesting, since the rest of the world thought otherwise. The US keeps making 'Significant Progress', but fails to mention all the setbacks that keep happening in between. The reason these setbacks are not reported to the US public is because the stations themselves have an agenda of their own and none of them wants to be chastised for broadcasting 'unpatriotic news'
I have studied in the US and in Europe and there are a number of very distinct differences in what the History books say. (2 industrial revolutions, WTF?)
The US government, at the moment, doesn't change history in the books (probably due to technical difficulties), but it -does- manage to lose important government documents that might contain 'unwanted information'.
OK, I'm done ranting now... I'm going to home, where they can show nipples on daytime public TV.
How about renaming it to the "TBBA: The Big Brother Act" or "TONFTAF: Things Old Nixon Forgot To Ask For".
Every time you pick up your phone: "Thank you for using BellSouth. Your calls may be monitored for National Security Purposes."
Don't worry, everything will be all right once it's under government control. Just like education, foreign policy and health care, the government knows what's best for you!
In Republican America, the government tells the people who to vote for!
Get together with your competitors, pool your money, and hire a software company to make the GPL software you need. What have you been smoking and where can I get it?
Writing custom software is not the problem, designing the thing and its functionality is the issue. This means collaborating with your competition on workflows, record-keeping and probably sharing vast amounts of data. Have you ever seen 2 companies sit down together and decide nicely which one has the better operating structure?
After the program has been written, it will have to be maintained. Do you know any companies that can properly maintain software for more than a few years, after the thing has been written? Even the bigger companies have personnel on rotation and internal documentation of programming is spotty at best.
I have been there and there's a few things to keep in mind: 1/ Developing software takes a considerable amount of time out of -everyone- involved. 2/ Someone new will have to study the code every time, before doing maintenance.
(Unless your software is under constant (expensive) maintenance) 3/ Every time a new management team is 'conceived', the thing will have to be rewritten, due to new ideas.
someone new will have to study the code every time, before doing maintenance. 4/ Using the program between the 2 companies means at least one will have to change the way it works.
These are just a few of the things you might want to keep in mind. The last (only) time I heard about a manager who was happy with his software,
they had a programmer in-house to maintain their software.
Over the past few years, the police have installed CCTV in 'problem areas',
so they can monitor more locations with fewer staff at night. (they can then send an on-duty officer to the site of the crime, if that is any use).
Even though the cameras have been installed for night surveillance,
they are now being used during the day to catch people in the act of 'bad parking'.
Because all the police need for that is an 'observation',
not a verbal conversation or even a ticket on the window,
this makes it very easy to write a lot of tickets without
even leaving the comfort of the control room.
(In the meantime, reports of harassment have failed to drop)
Have you ever noticed how you can type your password without thinking? Or how it can take weeks to get accustomed to a new password?
This is because frequently-recurring actions become subconsciously controlled, after plenty of training. Your conscious mind simply tells your subconscious mind to enter the password.
You could see this as Asymmetric Multi Processing. Your CPU does not scan the keyboard like it used to in the olden days.
It relies on a keyboard controller to inform the CPU of state changes.
This way, the CPU can focus on things that require its attention.
Ballet dancers and professional athletes do the same by training their body
to do as much as possible without thinking. They don't think in terms of 'left foot first' or 'shift weight right', but more in terms of consecutive sets of forms of 'just a bit faster'. Martial artists can instinctively disable an opponent, before they even realized what happened.
Not entirely. Yes, you need to build up an amount of potential energy (voltage), BUT: Because the thing you shoot the energy into has (almost) no resistance,
the maximum voltage becomes meaningless, as the device supplying power
is limited by the amount of current it can produce (almost) instantly.
This is the same difference as short-circuiting a dozen penlite
batteries (say, 16V) and short-circuiting a car battery (12V). Yes, the penlites have a higher voltage, but they can only produce a
limited amount of current, compared to a car battery.
Computer power supplies of higher power output don't produce
higher voltage but more current.
Slashdot Mirror
It's actually meant as a tool to tie down users or children, but maybe using a proxy with a time-based ruleset can server as a 'hint. You can even instruct it to only block slashdot.org between midnight and 7am.
Just a simple hint:
If you have an AMD CPU: Turn on Cool 'n' Quiet in your BIOS and set your Power Management in windows to 'Minimal Power Management'
Intel Core CPUs have teh same trick, but I don't know what it's called.
CnQ will automatically un-clock your CPU for you and raise the clock speed when you need it.
Well, if you insist...
I may be biased, owning a G15, but let me explain myself.
This puppy is a gamer's wet dream.
1/ lighted keys and dark games
I don't need light to tell me where the WASD keys are.
In a darkened room, keeping my right hand on the mouse,
it would be nice to look down and the correct those keys on the right
This issue has spawned the old PWNED meme (it used to be a typo).
2/ OOB status display with control butons.
Sometimes, not all the info you want is displayed on-screen.
Some people want to control voice software in games.
Others want to see system statistics whilst doing something else.
(overlockers, speendfan display works like a charm!)
Check out G15Forums or the like for possible plug-ins for your favorite games.
Also, check out LCDSirReal at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=46373
If you have a MediaPC, you can use it instead of an (expensive) VFD.
3/ built-in USB hub
It's only two ports, but just enough to plug in a mouse and tablet.
All the stuff that is not needed at the screen can plug into the back of the PC.
4/ extra keys
These are not your everyday media keys (those are under the display).
These puppies can perform entire macros for you, and you can switch instantly between 3 configurations.
I haven't played any RTS games in years, but binding squads, actions and locations to their own sets of keys might be useful.
Keep in mind, that gamers only have one hand on the keyboard and it tends to live on the left-hand side of the keyboard.
5/ physical disable-windows-key switch
Accidental hits on this key tend to pop up the desktop or perform odd windows functions.
Some gamers have become so frustrated with this key, they have physically removed it from their keyboard.
With this switch, you can simply disable and re-enable it when you want.
6/ wow-factor
It's not an Art Lebedev, but it still looks pretty damn cool on my desktop.
Just my 2c.
I, for one, welkcome automatic resource allocation.
No longer disabling your printer port in order to get that second soundcard working.
Apparently, this is not that design. This is explained in this other review: When AMD does see a "problem core" or when the frequency mis-match among cores, they now have the triple core option to keep from scrapping or down-grading that die. So: either one of the four core slows its three brothers down, or they 'amputate' the slow one and sell the last three at full speed.
We just need to align 8 of these inside a moon and combine the beams.
Lockheed Martin already has a patent for that.
Mimas seems a better choice, though.
Hmm... I have to admit my memory is getting a bit fuzzy.
It might have been 2000, but it -has- been in there for a while...
(I ran away crysing from the Windows world when SBS 2003 was released)
I'm glad MS finally got Long^H^H^H Vista out the door, but I think I'm holding out for Windows 7.
They completely overshot the mark interface-wise and need to find that middle ground again.
More security in Vista is a Good Idea, but it would have already been fine if they reduced that first user to non-admin and put in an admin password fot software installation.
Unfortunately, a lot of Windows software is simply not ready for this.
(WHY do they need to write in the local Program Files?)
It might but Vista when:
- there is decent support for DirectSound3D
- all the 'new' crap is optional
(I WANT my Network card to go as fast as it can, at the possible cost of stuttering audio)
- there is decent driver support, including x64 (I'm looking at YOU, Canon)
- When I can actually perform a 'downgrade' to XP without actually having to buy XP first
BUT, to get back to replying to you:
Windows already had a SUDO in Windows NT4, it was called [ Run As... ]
Sure, you sometimes had to bend over backwards to use it, but it was there!
XP64 is actually not XP, it's the Win2003 kernel with the XP 'window manager'
I installed it as FarCry64 'Appliance' and have been running it exclusively for about a year now.
The only thing that doesn't work right for me is Citrix ICA.
(VMWare with XP32 to the rescue!)
Sunday February 10, @10:14PM
I make a quick glance at
Now I really have to get back to work
I dunno.
When I was still compiling kernels, 'make menuconfig' was still -very new-, and you still had to 'post-check' the configs by hand.
(I remember 'make config', but it was an unreasonable PITA)
(how do you mean, 3c90x won't function without MII bus?)
I admit I may have been a bit caustic in my post.
/.
I remember those days, balancing OpenBSD, FreeBSD and RHEL as respectively firewall, webserver and DC/fileserver. Portaudit and a personalised LogWatch filterset were my best friends.
When I left that company, they junked the entire system and switched to windows (ugh) because they couldn't find anyone to maintain it.
(even with clear instructions, maintaining patches and users across separate systems is a PITA, more automation would have meant more security holes than I was comfortable with)
Any security breach that is big enough will usually make it to the front page of
The problem is usually waiting for the patch to be released for my servers (days) and getting authorization to patch the servers (weeks, if not months).
In the meantime, I spend my time educating users (and suppliers) about SSH/scp/https and the benefits of security.
There's no point in patching relatively-safe holes, if all the doors and windows are open.
(we're talking systems with rsh, rcp, rlogin and the works)
I have considered blowing the whistle to the security officer, but that would only result in me getting fired and the system moving on exactly the same, because no-one else knows -how- to plug the holes.
You know, I haven't built my own kernel since 'make menuconfig' was the most advanced method around.
I got rather tired of picking and choosing what I need, just to get faster boot times.
That, and any time you need (professional) support for a third-party application, the first thing they ask you is wether you are running a stock kernel.
I -want- to be able to tell MySQL and RedHat to fight it out amongst themselves if my database does not live up to expectations.
I have better things to do with my time than to set-up and analyse endless system profiles, straces and stack dumps.
Grow up, get a real job and see what the real world is like.
You'll find that you no longer have the time to check SANS and packetstorm every day, just to see if your system is secure, spend days just to get that library to compile and then see the entire system go out the window, because it cannot be maintained (because you have be re-assigned to another project).
Not necessarily.
You just turned 'convenient purchase opportunities' into non-functional advertisements.
And you took away the Mac's most powerful feature:
downloading por^H^H^H reference material from the Internet.
Indeed, but what is strange is that the 'mag brake' effect behaves differently wether or not there is a magnetic coupling between the motor and the generator...
(I.E. in his first video, the system oddly slowed down when he shorted the coils -- WTF?)
What I find odd, is that he says the system is under load.
Shorting out the generating coils means the current will take the path of least resistance (the short-circuit) and the 'load' is no longer under power.
But I am a European and I have no intentions of going there again.
That is -after- 3 earlier visits.
With each subsequent visit, my 'visit experience' has gotten noticeably worse.
The saddest part is that some friends reported problems with Hotmail before and resolved them by switching from IE to FireFox. (closed-down school environment, but not so closed as to break Firefox Portable )
1984 is already all around you, you simply haven't noticed it yet.
People have stopped watching the real news and now watch 'Fox at 8' or whatever it's called these days.
The fact that America actually believed that they were winning in Iraq was pretty interesting, since the rest of the world thought otherwise.
The US keeps making 'Significant Progress', but fails to mention all the setbacks that keep happening in between.
The reason these setbacks are not reported to the US public is because the stations themselves have an agenda of their own and none of them wants to be chastised for broadcasting 'unpatriotic news'
I have studied in the US and in Europe and there are a number of very distinct differences in what the History books say. (2 industrial revolutions, WTF?)
The US government, at the moment, doesn't change history in the books (probably due to technical difficulties), but it -does- manage to lose important government documents that might contain 'unwanted information'.
OK, I'm done ranting now...
I'm going to home, where they can show nipples on daytime public TV.
Click Yes if you like Vista:
[Yes] [No] [File not Found]
It's called OBDII: On Board Diagnostics II
Look it up and see what interesting gagdets you can find.
(They even have TFT 'virtual consoles')
How about renaming it to the "TBBA: The Big Brother Act"
or "TONFTAF: Things Old Nixon Forgot To Ask For".
Every time you pick up your phone:
"Thank you for using BellSouth.
Your calls may be monitored for National Security Purposes."
Don't worry, everything will be all right once it's under government control.
Just like education, foreign policy and health care, the government knows what's best for you!
In Republican America, the government tells the people who to vote for!
Writing custom software is not the problem, designing the thing and its functionality is the issue.
This means collaborating with your competition on workflows, record-keeping and probably sharing vast amounts of data.
Have you ever seen 2 companies sit down together and decide nicely which one has the better operating structure?
After the program has been written, it will have to be maintained.
Do you know any companies that can properly maintain software for more than a few years, after the thing has been written?
Even the bigger companies have personnel on rotation and internal documentation of programming is spotty at best.
I have been there and there's a few things to keep in mind:
1/ Developing software takes a considerable amount of time out of -everyone- involved.
2/ Someone new will have to study the code every time, before doing maintenance.
(Unless your software is under constant (expensive) maintenance)
3/ Every time a new management team is 'conceived', the thing will have to be rewritten, due to new ideas.
someone new will have to study the code every time, before doing maintenance.
4/ Using the program between the 2 companies means at least one will have to change the way it works.
These are just a few of the things you might want to keep in mind.
The last (only) time I heard about a manager who was happy with his software,
they had a programmer in-house to maintain their software.
Over the past few years, the police have installed CCTV in 'problem areas',
so they can monitor more locations with fewer staff at night.
(they can then send an on-duty officer to the site of the crime, if that is any use).
Even though the cameras have been installed for night surveillance,
they are now being used during the day to catch people in the act of 'bad parking'.
Because all the police need for that is an 'observation',
not a verbal conversation or even a ticket on the window,
this makes it very easy to write a lot of tickets without
even leaving the comfort of the control room.
(In the meantime, reports of harassment have failed to drop)
Have you ever noticed how you can type your password without thinking?
Or how it can take weeks to get accustomed to a new password?
This is because frequently-recurring actions become subconsciously controlled, after plenty of training.
Your conscious mind simply tells your subconscious mind to enter the password.
You could see this as Asymmetric Multi Processing.
Your CPU does not scan the keyboard like it used to in the olden days.
It relies on a keyboard controller to inform the CPU of state changes.
This way, the CPU can focus on things that require its attention.
Ballet dancers and professional athletes do the same by training their body
to do as much as possible without thinking.
They don't think in terms of 'left foot first' or 'shift weight right', but more in terms of consecutive sets of forms of 'just a bit faster'.
Martial artists can instinctively disable an opponent, before they even realized what happened.
Not entirely.
Yes, you need to build up an amount of potential energy (voltage), BUT:
Because the thing you shoot the energy into has (almost) no resistance,
the maximum voltage becomes meaningless, as the device supplying power
is limited by the amount of current it can produce (almost) instantly.
This is the same difference as short-circuiting a dozen penlite
batteries (say, 16V) and short-circuiting a car battery (12V).
Yes, the penlites have a higher voltage, but they can only produce a
limited amount of current, compared to a car battery.
Computer power supplies of higher power output don't produce
higher voltage but more current.
Capische?
Remember when ati.com would change 'names' every once in a while?