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"We recommend that customers change the (administrative) password to increase security..." said Sprint FastConnect spokeswoman Laura Tigges.
Tigges admitted that Sprint does not provide instructions for resetting the administrative password in the documentation provided to FastConnect customers.
They recommend you change it, but don't mention how? (It is listed in the modem manual, which is apparently not provided by Sprint.)
Oh, even better... In February they plan on shipping modems with this disabled. In February. Not now.
On the other hand...
This has been around for a while. I wonder how many users have actually been affected.
consumers today apparently don't want to sit in front of the television to play games for hours and hours.
Really? Why has Sony sold about 8 billion* PS2's?...
However, it is good to see Nintendo vowing not to bow out... (And to see them planning a release around the same time as the other boxes.) Looks like they learned their lesson (show up late, get no pie.)
(as the actual paper requires an ACS registration, which I don't have...)
The total weight of secondary fossil fuel and chemical inputs to produce and use a single 2- gram 32MB DRAM chip are estimated at 1,600 grams and 72 grams, respectively. Use of water and elemental gases (mainly N2) in the fabrication stage are 32,000 and 700 grams per chip, respectively.
Plain english: Energy consumed to create chip: approx 1,600g of fossil fuel. 72g of "chemicals", unknown recoverability. Nitrogen and Water use (resuable), 32,000g and 700g.
So, it takes energy, reusable chemicals, and some (potentially) non-reusable chemicals.
As miniturization increases, so will the mass ratio (what is being compaired in the article) of the output versus the necessary inputs to manufacturing.
What do you thing the product weight of a 32M magnetic core memory (old school memory) would be? Pretty darn high. Manufacutring cost, not as high.
"The industry rightly believes that if it can make file-swapping more difficult, and legitimate online services easier and less expensive, it can turn the kids on Kazaa into paying customers."
Umm.. They just mention Kazaa. I imagine that if Kazaa became pay only, people would just get their music elsewhere.
Read less literally. The writer isn't saying that everyone will have to pay to use Kazaa, he's saying that if the music industry can get its act together and figure out its own legitimate distribution system, without DRM blocks, that users will move to that.
He's saying that all of the "elsewhere" will become "legitimate online services."
The president of the RIAA says: "The illegal distribution of music on the Internet is a serious issue for musicians, songwriters and other copyright owners, and the record companies have made great strides in addressing this problem by educating consumers and providing them with legitimate alternatives."
I am interested in legal methods of attaining high-quality, non restricted use.mp3s (or oggs), for relatively cheap (e.g. $.25 a track...) I have not been educated or informed of a legitimate alternative to peer networks.
Exactly what strides have they been making? What alteratives are they giving us?
No. But I do check the md5 checksums that I get from at least 2 or 3 different sources.
So here's the funny thing about doing it that way. You're not necessarily any safer by doing that than just getting the binaries.
Why?
Unless you personally diff all the code that has changed since the last release, you don't know what's in there. Sure, you could check, and others can (and likely do), but you don't know until/unless they/you do.
So enjoy your security blanket, but realize that is is only that.
"talking with my Uncle Isaac a few weeks ago... As a Sony employee, he has access to internal releases..."
But somehow none of the insider news sites got even a glimmer of this? No one but your "Uncle Isaac" mentioned it to anyone outside the company?
They're going to "use a Transmeta chip, so that the CPU's instruction set can be "field-programmed..."
Hmm, will the transmeta chip also emulate the memory architectures, audio co-processors, etc?
Other things said don't even make sense... "Infinium is going to be paying them to produce each unit (instead of the converse which they often see with their own products).
Just enough smoke and mirrors to sound almost correct. Nice job.
I've seen companies promise a subset of the features that I want in product XYZ, but this is the first time I've ever seen a company promote that it has every single feature ever.
A good quote: "Combining skills from Telco, Data Communications, Digital Rights Management, Software Development and Security, the management team brings together a unique array of skills to develop the most robust next generation gaming console and delivery network on the market."
Wha?
It's just too funny on its own... I can't add to anything they've said...
So first, the inquirer states that HP will be posting no perf. specs for the server until blah blah blah... (But in reading the article, it's "a guy who knows overheard someone say that they won't be posting...".)
Later, it finds performance specs and posts them? (Without listing a source for those numbers...)
Odd journalism to me... Sure, the Alpha sounds pretty good... But I'll be lame and wait for the official numbers...
There is already too much information for them to track... If there is a tag on everything down to a snickers bar, think of the sheer number of unique ID's... Think of the size of the database necessary to track you, the 10,000 items you have with an ID, whether or not you sold/gave the clothes/snickers bar/etc to anyone else...
--They won't say exactly how many, but the new card will have approx 1/2 the gates of Nvidia's FX. --It will run at 60% clock (300Mhz) of high-end cards (FX again, as well as ATIs Raedon (sp?).) --It will use DDR SDRAM. --It won't be availible until end of Q2. (5 months or so.)
To be faster, you either need: (1) more gates, for more work per cycle. (2) More cycles, for more work per time. Looks like they have neither of these, plus they're not getting ultra-high bandwidth out of their memory... And it won't be availible for months...
With the NVIDIA FX coming out early Feb, it won't capture the high end...
Studies have shown repeatedly that the cost of fixing each bug increases at each stage. So if you are going to invest $1000 in new development tools, is it more economical to buy tools to detect bugs when they're cheap, or when they're expensive?
A debugger is not going to help you find a requirements flaw that slipped through requirements analysis. (Ex: You do not need a debugger to find that you correctly implemented a requirement that was mis-written.)
Nor will it help with at the specification and design phase. (Ex: The designed objects do not have sufficient functionality.)
The only phase that a debugger can help is at the implementation/integration phase.
Finding defects early is indeed cheap. But each time you change the work product type (e.g text requirements spec --> UML --> code) you will introduce defects.
The tuition rates are rounded to the nearest thousand, and the first semester fee's include: " Tuition for the first term includes a fully loaded computer specially configured for digital game development."
http://guildhall.smu.edu/Admissions/tuition.htm
After further review, it appears that this is _quarterly_ rates. (6 term, 18 month program.)
leave the house/office/whatever furnace fan circulating... A proper HVAC setup has both a forced-air vent, and a cool-air return vent.
If the PC room is too warm, leaving the fan on (w/out turning on the furnace burners) will effectively move the heat from that room to the rest of the building. (Pushed into the return vent, mixed at the furnace, redistributed via the forced-air vents to the rest of the building...)
There is an associated cost with running that fan all the time, but it seems like a better solution than venting the heat into a tiny wall cavity...
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Agreed. My work machine is a Dell tower, and I can't hear it above the background noise of the office. Heck, my keyboard makes more noise than it does.
However, you can really hear my home-built machine wind up.
So did sound actually make it indo Dell's design considerations (the GX150 is targeted towards corporate settings), or is the background noise of my office too loud?
Previously, Herrin and Teplitz speculated that it would be possible to search for seismic events... because such events would have a distinct seismic signal - a straight line.
So they stated what they were looking for in the data, (after choosing rigorous requirements), then found correlating evidence.
Sounds like good scientific practice to me. Granted, "'We can't prove that this was strange quark matter, but that is the only explanation that has been offered so far,' Herrin says."
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Tigges admitted that Sprint does not provide instructions for resetting the administrative password in the documentation provided to FastConnect customers.
They recommend you change it, but don't mention how? (It is listed in the modem manual, which is apparently not provided by Sprint.)
Oh, even better... In February they plan on shipping modems with this disabled. In February. Not now.
This has been around for a while. I wonder how many users have actually been affected.
Thanks much.
Too lazy to find it myself.
Nintendo of Japan president Satoru Iwata says...
...
consumers today apparently don't want to sit in front of the television to play games for hours and hours.
Really? Why has Sony sold about 8 billion* PS2's?
However, it is good to see Nintendo vowing not to bow out... (And to see them planning a release around the same time as the other boxes.) Looks like they learned their lesson (show up late, get no pie.)
*estimated
(as the actual paper requires an ACS registration, which I don't have...)
C oreMem ory.html
The total weight of secondary fossil fuel and chemical inputs to produce and use a single 2- gram 32MB DRAM chip are estimated at 1,600 grams and 72 grams, respectively. Use of water and elemental gases (mainly N2) in the fabrication
stage are 32,000 and 700 grams per chip, respectively.
Plain english:
Energy consumed to create chip: approx 1,600g of fossil fuel.
72g of "chemicals", unknown recoverability.
Nitrogen and Water use (resuable), 32,000g and 700g.
So, it takes energy, reusable chemicals, and some (potentially) non-reusable chemicals.
As miniturization increases, so will the mass ratio (what is being compaired in the article) of the output versus the necessary inputs to manufacturing.
What do you thing the product weight of a 32M magnetic core memory (old school memory) would be? Pretty darn high. Manufacutring cost, not as high.
Core memory ref:
http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/
"The industry rightly believes that if it can make file-swapping more difficult, and legitimate online services easier and less expensive, it can turn the kids on Kazaa into paying customers."
Umm.. They just mention Kazaa. I imagine that if Kazaa became pay only, people would just get their music elsewhere.
Read less literally. The writer isn't saying that everyone will have to pay to use Kazaa, he's saying that if the music industry can get its act together and figure out its own legitimate distribution system, without DRM blocks, that users will move to that.
He's saying that all of the "elsewhere" will become "legitimate online services."
The president of the RIAA says:
.mp3s (or oggs), for relatively cheap (e.g. $.25 a track...) I have not been educated or informed of a legitimate alternative to peer networks.
"The illegal distribution of music on the Internet is a serious issue for musicians, songwriters and other copyright owners, and the record companies have made great strides in addressing this problem by educating consumers and providing them with legitimate alternatives."
I am interested in legal methods of attaining high-quality, non restricted use
Exactly what strides have they been making? What alteratives are they giving us?
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No. But I do check the md5 checksums that I get from at least 2 or 3 different sources.
So here's the funny thing about doing it that way. You're not necessarily any safer by doing that than just getting the binaries.
Why?
Unless you personally diff all the code that has changed since the last release, you don't know what's in there. Sure, you could check, and others can (and likely do), but you don't know until/unless they/you do.
So enjoy your security blanket, but realize that is is only that.
[/Rant]
I don't buy any of it. But where to start?
"talking with my Uncle Isaac a few weeks ago... As a Sony employee, he has access to internal releases..."
But somehow none of the insider news sites got even a glimmer of this? No one but your "Uncle Isaac" mentioned it to anyone outside the company?
They're going to "use a Transmeta chip, so that the CPU's instruction set can be "field-programmed..."
Hmm, will the transmeta chip also emulate the memory architectures, audio co-processors, etc?
Other things said don't even make sense... "Infinium is going to be paying them to produce each unit (instead of the converse which they often see with their own products).
Just enough smoke and mirrors to sound almost correct. Nice job.
No really, go read it. It'll take a little extra time, but it could be the most hilarious thing you'll see in months.
2 0P ress%20Annoucment%204.0.htm
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http://www.infiniumlabs.com/PR/Infinium%20Labs%
I've seen companies promise a subset of the features that I want in product XYZ, but this is the first time I've ever seen a company promote that it has every single feature ever
A good quote: "Combining skills from Telco, Data Communications, Digital Rights Management, Software Development and Security, the management team brings together a unique array of skills to develop the most robust next generation gaming console and delivery network on the market."
Wha?
It's just too funny on its own... I can't add to anything they've said...
So first, the inquirer states that HP will be posting no perf. specs for the server until blah blah blah... (But in reading the article, it's "a guy who knows overheard someone say that they won't be posting...".)
Later, it finds performance specs and posts them? (Without listing a source for those numbers...)
Odd journalism to me... Sure, the Alpha sounds pretty good... But I'll be lame and wait for the official numbers...
So, future development is likely killed, unless he somehow "sort things out with Apple."
p ://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/1 7772
However, the old download is availible elsewhere, including:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10486
htt
Hyperthread support vs not.
Standard API calls (w/ hyper thread) Increase (a bad thing (tm)) of latency of calls by 1-6%.
STD workload (w/ hyper thread) Increase in throughput an average of 5-10%. Disk writes decreased throughput by 30%.
Client network perf: "Chat room" test, increase of throughput 22-28%.
Server network perf: File serving, increase of 9-31%.
Kernal 2.5.24 roughly doubles the above benefits.
Looks like no real downfalls... (How often are you running a single thread? Me either.)
There is already too much information for them to track... If there is a tag on everything down to a snickers bar, think of the sheer number of unique ID's... Think of the size of the database necessary to track you, the 10,000 items you have with an ID, whether or not you sold/gave the clothes/snickers bar/etc to anyone else...
It's just not feasible.
Cost: $.50 per tag.
Range: 15 feet "optimally oriented in front of a reader in free space."
While the chips themselves are small (grain of pepper is mentioned), the antennas are 1/2" to 4" long.
Sure, this is interesting news (from a technology perspective), but I for one don't fear their use by big brother just yet.
Culling a bit out of the article...
--They won't say exactly how many, but the new card will have approx 1/2 the gates of Nvidia's FX.
--It will run at 60% clock (300Mhz) of high-end cards (FX again, as well as ATIs Raedon (sp?).)
--It will use DDR SDRAM.
--It won't be availible until end of Q2. (5 months or so.)
To be faster, you either need: (1) more gates, for more work per cycle. (2) More cycles, for more work per time. Looks like they have neither of these, plus they're not getting ultra-high bandwidth out of their memory... And it won't be availible for months...
With the NVIDIA FX coming out early Feb, it won't capture the high end...
What is the market for this thing?
Processors are getting faster! Recent chips hit speeds of 1Ghz!
Microsoft still not releasing source code!
This isn't really new, nor is it news...
So do they have a workaround for the tiny "keyboards" that cell phones have? Seems like this would only work for an image-only blog.
Studies have shown repeatedly that the cost of fixing each bug increases at each stage. So if you are going to invest $1000 in new development tools, is it more economical to buy tools to detect bugs when they're cheap, or when they're expensive?
A debugger is not going to help you find a requirements flaw that slipped through requirements analysis. (Ex: You do not need a debugger to find that you correctly implemented a requirement that was mis-written.)
Nor will it help with at the specification and design phase. (Ex: The designed objects do not have sufficient functionality.)
The only phase that a debugger can help is at the implementation/integration phase.
Finding defects early is indeed cheap. But each time you change the work product type (e.g text requirements spec --> UML --> code) you will introduce defects.
The tuition rates are rounded to the nearest thousand, and the first semester fee's include:
" Tuition for the first term includes a fully loaded computer specially configured for digital game development."
http://guildhall.smu.edu/Admissions/tuition.htm
After further review, it appears that this is _quarterly_ rates. (6 term, 18 month program.)
leave the house/office/whatever furnace fan circulating... A proper HVAC setup has both a forced-air vent, and a cool-air return vent.
If the PC room is too warm, leaving the fan on (w/out turning on the furnace burners) will effectively move the heat from that room to the rest of the building. (Pushed into the return vent, mixed at the furnace, redistributed via the forced-air vents to the rest of the building...)
There is an associated cost with running that fan all the time, but it seems like a better solution than venting the heat into a tiny wall cavity...
Agreed. My work machine is a Dell tower, and I can't hear it above the background noise of the office. Heck, my keyboard makes more noise than it does.
However, you can really hear my home-built machine wind up.
So did sound actually make it indo Dell's design considerations (the GX150 is targeted towards corporate settings), or is the background noise of my office too loud?
Futhermore...
Previously, Herrin and Teplitz speculated that it would be possible to search for seismic events... because such events would have a distinct seismic signal - a straight line.
So they stated what they were looking for in the data, (after choosing rigorous requirements), then found correlating evidence.
Sounds like good scientific practice to me. Granted, "'We can't prove that this was strange quark matter, but that is the only explanation that has been offered so far,' Herrin says."
Because of this key in mshtml.dll/ about.moz"
HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs","mozilla",2,"res://mshtml.dll
There are also specific keys for:
PostNotCached
blank
Now, how mozilla ranks a key, and that no MS code review found this is anyone's idea.
Heck, to do that they need only to look here (original comment by doubtme )