Sure linux would cause this kind of problem, since it would actually be able to work with linux you would be opening and closing the screen a whole lot more than if it had vista on it:P
Seriously though, call the manufacturer, they should be able to help you.
Hrmm, article said the company make GPS trackers... at a guess it takes feed from a GPS and squirts it off in SMS at a pre-set time interval, wonder how these sorts of packages deal with incoming calls, I mean, I signed up with a new phone provider about a month ago, first day the sim was active I got 3 spam calls:/
Other option is, drop the sim into a phone, and use it to make calls, free phone access 4tw:)
Ahh just in time then is Seagates announcement of FDE series of drives, they use a small linux based boot sector to allow or disallow access to the drives decoding hardware, of course without that hardware enabled and with the right key it will all be useless:)
As for the people talking about "safe methods for wiping drives", the only place I (personally) know of that has such requirements is DIGO http://www.defence.gov.au/digo/ they use a furnace, works damn well. The moral of the story is, new drives are cheap, why fuck around with "maybe".
Frustration? I don't know about anyone else, but having a game you have sweated over to get produced and then die like this.... I would be ecstatic if it got taken up in the foss community and had something big made of it./me lowers a flag to half mast and puts on a black armband
By the sound of it, its for production work, which I would assume is being backed up via NAS or a file server very regularly.
Yes its a frightening thing seeing that much spinning rust with so many points of failure, but if planned for it can be damn fast for not a lot of cost or effort.
A student who had told the minister who organised all this that "it would be a waste of money, get something made locally" showed the news people how easy it is to crack, to which the government said "oh but here's a free Australian made filter program!" and he cracked that in a little extra time.
Really short version, unless they want to make us into china2.0 they have no fucking chance of doing this successfully, this is an election year, they tried a $80M+ publicity stunt, and screwed the pooch with it.
The best bit? their $80M publicity stunt was paid for by the taxpayers:/
And now if the media blows this story up big, its going to make the current government look like a pack of tools (well, they are, but this helps focus things), not good with an election in a few months:)
Actually, if you are dealing direct with intel or amd, and you buy enough (our chain has around 25 stores) they will buy them back and re-sell them to you.
And I pay $130AU (around 100US) for 1.5Mb/s limited to 60GB/month plan that is, according to my isp, neutral.
Of course I live in the 3rd world internet dictatorship of Australia, so its about right.
Just to point out, the whole "net neutrality" thing is that data hosts pay more to get better tubes to their customers (wee, I love this analogy), why can't the client do the same? For fucks sake, the ISPs should be needing to change their pants at this thought, not only can they collect extra money from the service provider (google, etc) but they can charge more to the consumer AS WELL for what is essentially the same connection they PROMISED you when you signed up.
Damn, whoever thought this one out has really done their homework:)
Yeah, pre-installing it on all our new computers (vista or xp) because, frankly, MS Office 2007 pre-install is not something I am willing to inflict on customers.
Besides, when our "basic" model pc is now a 4800+ X2 amd with a gig of ram, how slow is slow:)
Or an hourly task set to rsync the drive to that share, so any time they plug into the lan for more than an hour, they will have done a backup:)
Realistically its not that hard, just talk to "the boss" about getting the workers to jack their laptops into the lan before lunch (although without a good topology you may rip your networks guts out if some big jobs have just started).
My personal favourite bit was when they make the comment that "so the NCQ-less Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB and Raptor WD740GD should have a slight disadvantage here under higher loads" now as soon as I saw that I knew they were full of something, a 10k rpm drive slower than a 7200 in IO/s?
Hehe, at the store I work at (and do most of the OS install stuff at) if someone asks "does this part work under linux" or "how fast does linux run on it" I cheat and break out knoppix:)
If they ask about apples, I usually just say we only sell computers.:P
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Sure linux would cause this kind of problem, since it would actually be able to work with linux you would be opening and closing the screen a whole lot more than if it had vista on it :P
Seriously though, call the manufacturer, they should be able to help you.
Hrmm, article said the company make GPS trackers... at a guess it takes feed from a GPS and squirts it off in SMS at a pre-set time interval, wonder how these sorts of packages deal with incoming calls, I mean, I signed up with a new phone provider about a month ago, first day the sim was active I got 3 spam calls :/
:)
Other option is, drop the sim into a phone, and use it to make calls, free phone access 4tw
Or even better, put each of them into separate packages, mail one to China and one to America.
Would love to see the police phone bill after that ^_^
The journalist just had to refuse the NDA.
This is akin to bitching about a beta testing games NDA and then still continue in the beta.
If you don't like the terms of the deal, then don't go through with it.
Oh yeah, of course...
And if it became publicly known that Seagate did such a thing they would lose their corporate clients how fast?
Ahh just in time then is Seagates announcement of FDE series of drives, they use a small linux based boot sector to allow or disallow access to the drives decoding hardware, of course without that hardware enabled and with the right key it will all be useless :)
As for the people talking about "safe methods for wiping drives", the only place I (personally) know of that has such requirements is DIGO http://www.defence.gov.au/digo/ they use a furnace, works damn well. The moral of the story is, new drives are cheap, why fuck around with "maybe".
Not to mention data processing, linux now has a substantially powerful floating point stream processor all ready to be exploited :)
Volume isn't the story, its the rate at which they are moving them (volume/time) that they are talking about.
Hell, I didn't even rtfa and I picked that up.
Frustration? I don't know about anyone else, but having a game you have sweated over to get produced and then die like this.... I would be ecstatic if it got taken up in the foss community and had something big made of it. /me lowers a flag to half mast and puts on a black armband
By the sound of it, its for production work, which I would assume is being backed up via NAS or a file server very regularly.
Yes its a frightening thing seeing that much spinning rust with so many points of failure, but if planned for it can be damn fast for not a lot of cost or effort.
How about filtering out images with unusually high counts of pink pixels?
:)
Now I know this will stop you looking for the latest in Hello Kitty! gear, but sacrifices need to be made here
It was a publicity stunt gone bad really, this is an election year, they wanted the family vote, now their kids get pictures of scrote :P
Actually...
:/
A student who had told the minister who organised all this that "it would be a waste of money, get something made locally" showed the news people how easy it is to crack, to which the government said "oh but here's a free Australian made filter program!" and he cracked that in a little extra time.
Really short version, unless they want to make us into china2.0 they have no fucking chance of doing this successfully, this is an election year, they tried a $80M+ publicity stunt, and screwed the pooch with it.
The best bit? their $80M publicity stunt was paid for by the taxpayers
And now if the media blows this story up big, its going to make the current government look like a pack of tools (well, they are, but this helps focus things), not good with an election in a few months :)
Actually, if you are dealing direct with intel or amd, and you buy enough (our chain has around 25 stores) they will buy them back and re-sell them to you.
And I pay $130AU (around 100US) for 1.5Mb/s limited to 60GB/month plan that is, according to my isp, neutral.
:)
Of course I live in the 3rd world internet dictatorship of Australia, so its about right.
Just to point out, the whole "net neutrality" thing is that data hosts pay more to get better tubes to their customers (wee, I love this analogy), why can't the client do the same? For fucks sake, the ISPs should be needing to change their pants at this thought, not only can they collect extra money from the service provider (google, etc) but they can charge more to the consumer AS WELL for what is essentially the same connection they PROMISED you when you signed up.
Damn, whoever thought this one out has really done their homework
Wtf? These have been available for about a week.... in Australia.
Maybe America is getting behind the times?
Or use a system "freeze" software, or run windows in a VM (like the nifty free one from microsoft).
All in all, the ways and means are not illegal, except when intent is shown. IANAL
Blah, bad AC, didn't notice that, got mod points and you would have gotten one if you made the post properly :P
GIT OFFA MAH LAWN! /me waves a shotgun around menacingly
Yeah, pre-installing it on all our new computers (vista or xp) because, frankly, MS Office 2007 pre-install is not something I am willing to inflict on customers.
:)
Besides, when our "basic" model pc is now a 4800+ X2 amd with a gig of ram, how slow is slow
Or an hourly task set to rsync the drive to that share, so any time they plug into the lan for more than an hour, they will have done a backup :)
Realistically its not that hard, just talk to "the boss" about getting the workers to jack their laptops into the lan before lunch (although without a good topology you may rip your networks guts out if some big jobs have just started).
Still sell about 95% XP vs Vista at place where I work, kinda makes all the hard work I put into the PoS Vista pre-installer go to waste :/
Will likely become more and more in favour of Vista as the years wind on, and of course in 2009 XP OEM supply will finish.
My personal favourite bit was when they make the comment that "so the NCQ-less Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB and Raptor WD740GD should have a slight disadvantage here under higher loads" now as soon as I saw that I knew they were full of something, a 10k rpm drive slower than a 7200 in IO/s?
Hehe, at the store I work at (and do most of the OS install stuff at) if someone asks "does this part work under linux" or "how fast does linux run on it" I cheat and break out knoppix :)
:P
If they ask about apples, I usually just say we only sell computers.