In 13.1 I saw for the first time, that the nvidia graphics driver could lock up the system - power-cycle to continue. Never happened before 13.1 It still happens in 13.2. I have done no investigation in this issue, as I mostly use my laptop (with i7ish graphics). I just used the graphics driver delivered by the installation program. I know, there are other drivers.
Anybody else having the same problem and fixed it?
My personal opinion about this is: - no comments on jail conditions or jail time - that's another discussion. - The information, he accessed was very sensitive, and nobody wants their personal sensitive information compromized. - He may have the guilt he has, but how about the company CSC? Are they safe enough?
- below is a Google Translation of the top of the article [with my edits]:
It was respectively 3.5 years in prison and six months in prison for the two men who yesterday was found guilty in the case of the large hacker attacks against CSC two years ago. Swedish Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who received the longest judgment, and a 21-year-old Danish man has always [pleaded not guilty] in the case, but the court chose yesterday to reject Wargs explanation that his computer had been remotely [controlled] while the attacks were on. Warg was yesterday found guilty of hacking and vandalism, while the 21-year-old alone convicted of involvement in hacking. Today took the court [decided] on the penalty. Warg was also sentenced to deportation from Denmark and got entry ban. He must also pay the cost of technical assistance for the part concerning himself.
The 21-year-old received the judgment. Warg chose to appeal to the High Court.
I have seen SSDs fail too often to use them for anything but read-only storage. I have gone back to HDDs simply because they are more reliable and lasts 10 times longer. An SSD in a desktop computer lasts for max 2 years, and if you power it off while it is working, then it is a sure way to kill the entire drive or at least all the data on it.
SSDs are great toys, but never use them for anything other than read-only data.
We are openly breaking the law, and you must drag us to court, before we change that. It's just because we like your money. Ethics is a foreign word, that we see as a limitation to reaching our goal of making money in every way conceivable.
I just bought one on 60 gigs for approx 300$.
I went for the fastest I could find - a whopping > 200 MB/sec. Beats my HDD-stripe.
My SuSE linux boots from GRUB to desktop in less than 5 seconds, including all the init-scripts for vmware and mysql and you-name-it.
I can now feel how fast my computer really is - now that I don't have to wait for this antique HDD anymore.
Performance is incredible. I can only recommend spending the (rather large amount of) money, it's a mind-changing experience.
From now on, I regard hard drives as an antique medium, which is good for storing lots of data, but not for installing operating systems.
btw: All this defrag speak - it always helps, because there are still read-ahead and similar algorithms, which perform better, when the drive is defragged.
I do not keep my CD's in "ideal storage conditions". They are in my home, with varying temperatures and humidity.
None of the more than 5 year old CD's can be read.
Thus a CD-R is a null device.
I threw them all out and got some shelf space back.
Memory sticks nowadays have more capacity than CD-R's, even DVD's, so why bother with this unpractical and unreliable medium?
That's right, the vikings conquered England (which in my danish translation means, that the vikings granted the English home rule only out of courtesy), and we gave the language some important words, like "hell", which in the northern mythology (with one L) is where the dead go, when they do not go to Valhal.
"The kingdom of Hel, where people are only mere shadows of themselves".
However, I learned some Latin, and it helped me a lot.
As a non-english engineer, I have to learn some english in order to understand the books from Prentice-Hall and other publishers.
Learning a foreign language is thus a pre-requisite for very many people. "No english, no degree".
I almost never have to read non-english litterature.
Then again, it never hurts anybody to be good at Latin - this is the key to learning a lot of languages. English is 90% latin, the remaining 10 percent can be perceived as local dialects;-)
"You can spell colour wrong and get away with it"
I don't really see, what you mean by "Typical", my opinion is typical or something..
Again please remember, that English is not my primary language. I could maybe have chosen my words more precisely.
I don't want to start a political debate. The situation in the Middle East can only be understood by studying thusands of years of history. What did the Romans do to the jews, for example. Should we call it typical Italian behaviour?
The situation in Darfur is about ressources, as the borders of Sahara is moving, so do people.
I don't want to start a debate about people's feelings about what the US military can do. That's not the point.
The point is, that Google Earth has a very nice and interesting feature, which can be used for other purposes as well.
Another point is, that we haven't learned a lot from history - what is currently happening in Darfur and other places is nothing new.
The now peaceful Scandinavia has had peace for 150-200 years, depending on the point of view. But we have a *LONG* history of internal warfare.
Was there ever war in Scandinavia? Yes
Was there hatred, burning of villages, rape, plunder, murder and genocide? Yes
Did it last for centuries where there were no hope for a change? Yes
Could it happen again in Scandinavia? No.
Who made the first terror bombardment of a city using rocket-propelled devices (primitive missiles)? The british, when attacking Copenhagen in a PRE-EMPTIVE WAR - the Danes should NOT be allied with Napoleon, let's burn their capital just to be sure.
What do the Danes think about England today? We love them.
Have we learned something? Maybe.
Conclusion: War is a temporary stage in the process of becoming an advanced civlized nation:-)
Pre-emptive wars can occur by mistake, most often because of inaccurate intelligence. Now THAT's a typical Scandinavian attitude!
Let's suppose, I wrote this great app for Windows XP.
Then VISTA comes out, and my app breaks.
Or a friend wants to run it on is MacIntosh or Linux system, and can't.
IMHO, desktop apps equals to limiting the customer base, and giving the developer much work with patches and OS-related issues.
The future is embedded some people say, or at least, it runs in a web browser.
I don't disagree.
However, the desktop locked to a specific OS as development platform, is dead. In my professional life, I haven't worked on desktop apps for 8 years now. But I am quite good at web-apps now...
Actually, you are right.
Luckily, the north-east corner of the Danish territory is water and only some very small islands.
You can nuke it, but then you will have to fight our fishermen afterwards.
But maybe you will hit Sweden instead... then you can just say, that they were in on it too!
PS: I wouldn't recommend being unfriendly with the Danish fishermen:-)
That's exactly why I make a point of the situation in Scandinavia 500 years ago.
We can understand, that people were stiff-minded back then, but today there isn't really a good excuse, especially when there is so much information at hand. I am sick and tired of seeing countries behave like little children. Bwahh, you stole my ice cream, now I will beat you to a pulp....
1276 - 1710:
When the Swedish and Danish kings went to war against one another, Scania always was their battleground. Between 1276 and 1710, Scania was ravaged over and over again. During this period, every single Swedish regent made war, burned and pillaged Scania.
I spent some time surfing the Darfur area.
It speaks it's own language.
I'm not good enough at English to find the right words (English is not my primary language).
However, this is an amazing tool, which other could use to document the horrors of history. Study the Scandinavian history 500 years ago, and you can make a similar map over the southern tip of present Sweden. Check it out for yourself: http://www.scania.org/facts/poster/index.html
Maybe som Palestinian group can make a similar map over, what Israel did to many Palestinian villages from 1947 until today. That would start up a *real* debate, and hopefully we can end the bloodshed there, that once raged Scandinavia.
The freedom for you is to do as we please.
It sounds like a quote from a bad Hollywood movie to me, let's see what happens in the end of the year.
MS do have revenues and share prices to think about, so if Vista doesn't sell, then it doesn't sell.
I'm saying "Wauw". Do they think they can impress people with that?
Try to change the name of your workgroup.
A reboot is still required.
Wauw.
In Linux you can re-format the partition containing your root file system without rebooting:-)
Always nice to see my little country mentioned in international news:-)
A small note on what Denmark is like:
We do have cities here, they are like large villages. Our capital is the largest village. We don't have mountains. The highest point is 147 meters (yes, that's less than 500 feet for you non-metric users of old British imperial measures).
We don't even have an empire anymore - been there, done that - we are all just farmers and fishermen (educated ones, that is), and we are plugged in.
So why climb mountains, when we don't have any? Why spend time on city-life, when everything is villages anyway?
It's more fun to use the Internet for something useful instead:-)
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In 13.1 I saw for the first time, that the nvidia graphics driver could lock up the system - power-cycle to continue. Never happened before 13.1 It still happens in 13.2.
I have done no investigation in this issue, as I mostly use my laptop (with i7ish graphics). I just used the graphics driver delivered by the installation program. I know, there are other drivers.
Anybody else having the same problem and fixed it?
I am Danish, so the story is from my country.
My personal opinion about this is:
- no comments on jail conditions or jail time - that's another discussion.
- The information, he accessed was very sensitive, and nobody wants their personal sensitive information compromized.
- He may have the guilt he has, but how about the company CSC? Are they safe enough?
Read and translate the full story here:
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden...
- below is a Google Translation of the top of the article [with my edits]:
It was respectively 3.5 years in prison and six months in prison for the two men who yesterday was found guilty in the case of the large hacker attacks against CSC two years ago.
Swedish Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who received the longest judgment, and a 21-year-old Danish man has always [pleaded not guilty] in the case, but the court chose yesterday to reject Wargs explanation that his computer had been remotely [controlled] while the attacks were on.
Warg was yesterday found guilty of hacking and vandalism, while the 21-year-old alone convicted of involvement in hacking. Today took the court [decided] on the penalty.
Warg was also sentenced to deportation from Denmark and got entry ban. He must also pay the cost of technical assistance for the part concerning himself.
The 21-year-old received the judgment. Warg chose to appeal to the High Court.
Thinking otherwise is counter-productive.
I have seen SSDs fail too often to use them for anything but read-only storage.
I have gone back to HDDs simply because they are more reliable and lasts 10 times longer.
An SSD in a desktop computer lasts for max 2 years, and if you power it off while it is working, then it is a sure way to kill the entire drive or at least all the data on it.
SSDs are great toys, but never use them for anything other than read-only data.
Tyhmä ärsyttävää poliittinen korrektius saa sinut tuhlaa aikaa typeriä asioita
- Sinun pitäisi olla onnellinen, että voit lukea sitä ollenkaan!
We are openly breaking the law, and you must drag us to court, before we change that. It's just because we like your money. Ethics is a foreign word, that we see as a limitation to reaching our goal of making money in every way conceivable.
I just bought one on 60 gigs for approx 300$. I went for the fastest I could find - a whopping > 200 MB/sec. Beats my HDD-stripe. My SuSE linux boots from GRUB to desktop in less than 5 seconds, including all the init-scripts for vmware and mysql and you-name-it. I can now feel how fast my computer really is - now that I don't have to wait for this antique HDD anymore. Performance is incredible. I can only recommend spending the (rather large amount of) money, it's a mind-changing experience. From now on, I regard hard drives as an antique medium, which is good for storing lots of data, but not for installing operating systems. btw: All this defrag speak - it always helps, because there are still read-ahead and similar algorithms, which perform better, when the drive is defragged.
I do not keep my CD's in "ideal storage conditions". They are in my home, with varying temperatures and humidity. None of the more than 5 year old CD's can be read. Thus a CD-R is a null device. I threw them all out and got some shelf space back. Memory sticks nowadays have more capacity than CD-R's, even DVD's, so why bother with this unpractical and unreliable medium?
Don't try this on Solaris!!
$ mkdir /some/very/long/path
/some/very/long/path
$ cd !$
or
$ history
401: ls
402: mkdir
$ !401
That's right, the vikings conquered England (which in my danish translation means, that the vikings granted the English home rule only out of courtesy), and we gave the language some important words, like "hell", which in the northern mythology (with one L) is where the dead go, when they do not go to Valhal.
"The kingdom of Hel, where people are only mere shadows of themselves".
However, I learned some Latin, and it helped me a lot.
As a non-english engineer, I have to learn some english in order to understand the books from Prentice-Hall and other publishers. ;-)
Learning a foreign language is thus a pre-requisite for very many people. "No english, no degree".
I almost never have to read non-english litterature.
Then again, it never hurts anybody to be good at Latin - this is the key to learning a lot of languages. English is 90% latin, the remaining 10 percent can be perceived as local dialects
"You can spell colour wrong and get away with it"
Hehe :-)
I don't really see, what you mean by "Typical", my opinion is typical or something ..
:-)
Again please remember, that English is not my primary language. I could maybe have chosen my words more precisely.
I don't want to start a political debate. The situation in the Middle East can only be understood by studying thusands of years of history. What did the Romans do to the jews, for example. Should we call it typical Italian behaviour?
The situation in Darfur is about ressources, as the borders of Sahara is moving, so do people.
I don't want to start a debate about people's feelings about what the US military can do. That's not the point.
The point is, that Google Earth has a very nice and interesting feature, which can be used for other purposes as well.
Another point is, that we haven't learned a lot from history - what is currently happening in Darfur and other places is nothing new.
The now peaceful Scandinavia has had peace for 150-200 years, depending on the point of view. But we have a *LONG* history of internal warfare.
Was there ever war in Scandinavia? Yes
Was there hatred, burning of villages, rape, plunder, murder and genocide? Yes
Did it last for centuries where there were no hope for a change? Yes
Could it happen again in Scandinavia? No.
Who made the first terror bombardment of a city using rocket-propelled devices (primitive missiles)? The british, when attacking Copenhagen in a PRE-EMPTIVE WAR - the Danes should NOT be allied with Napoleon, let's burn their capital just to be sure. What do the Danes think about England today? We love them. Have we learned something? Maybe.
Conclusion: War is a temporary stage in the process of becoming an advanced civlized nation
Pre-emptive wars can occur by mistake, most often because of inaccurate intelligence.
Now THAT's a typical Scandinavian attitude!
Let's suppose, I wrote this great app for Windows XP.
...
Then VISTA comes out, and my app breaks.
Or a friend wants to run it on is MacIntosh or Linux system, and can't.
IMHO, desktop apps equals to limiting the customer base, and giving the developer much work with patches and OS-related issues.
The future is embedded some people say, or at least, it runs in a web browser.
I don't disagree.
However, the desktop locked to a specific OS as development platform, is dead. In my professional life, I haven't worked on desktop apps for 8 years now. But I am quite good at web-apps now
If a rich oil source is found, then things might change ...
Actually, you are right. ... then you can just say, that they were in on it too! :-)
Luckily, the north-east corner of the Danish territory is water and only some very small islands.
You can nuke it, but then you will have to fight our fishermen afterwards.
But maybe you will hit Sweden instead
PS: I wouldn't recommend being unfriendly with the Danish fishermen
That's exactly why I make a point of the situation in Scandinavia 500 years ago. ....
We can understand, that people were stiff-minded back then, but today there isn't really a good excuse, especially when there is so much information at hand.
I am sick and tired of seeing countries behave like little children. Bwahh, you stole my ice cream, now I will beat you to a pulp
By the way: It's nothing new:
:
1276 - 1710
When the Swedish and Danish kings went to war against one another, Scania always was their battleground. Between 1276 and 1710, Scania was ravaged over and over again. During this period, every single Swedish regent made war, burned and pillaged Scania.
Is this a joke?
I spent some time surfing the Darfur area.
It speaks it's own language.
I'm not good enough at English to find the right words (English is not my primary language).
However, this is an amazing tool, which other could use to document the horrors of history. Study the Scandinavian history 500 years ago, and you can make a similar map over the southern tip of present Sweden. Check it out for yourself: http://www.scania.org/facts/poster/index.html
Maybe som Palestinian group can make a similar map over, what Israel did to many Palestinian villages from 1947 until today. That would start up a *real* debate, and hopefully we can end the bloodshed there, that once raged Scandinavia.
The freedom for you is to do as we please. It sounds like a quote from a bad Hollywood movie to me, let's see what happens in the end of the year. MS do have revenues and share prices to think about, so if Vista doesn't sell, then it doesn't sell. I'm saying "Wauw". Do they think they can impress people with that? Try to change the name of your workgroup. A reboot is still required. Wauw. In Linux you can re-format the partition containing your root file system without rebooting :-)
Always nice to see my little country mentioned in international news :-)
A small note on what Denmark is like:
We do have cities here, they are like large villages. Our capital is the largest village. We don't have mountains. The highest point is 147 meters (yes, that's less than 500 feet for you non-metric users of old British imperial measures).
We don't even have an empire anymore - been there, done that - we are all just farmers and fishermen (educated ones, that is), and we are plugged in.
So why climb mountains, when we don't have any? Why spend time on city-life, when everything is villages anyway?
It's more fun to use the Internet for something useful instead :-)