"Sacco and Ortega stressed that in order to execute the attacks, you need either root privileges or physical access to the machine in question, which limits the scope."
Hmm, I'd say you are pretty much pwned in that case even before the attacker infecting the BIOS.
Yes, when the "any OS distribution" gains monopoly status in EU, this can be used as a precedent for that OS to support standards and not to try to up their market share on a another well-defined market through bundling their own programs with the OS.
Excellent post, I replied to the original question without reading this one.
You are absolutely right. It's very hard for a proper lab to get any OSS solutions for the expensive measurement systems; in the best situation you can expect LabView which can be easily transferred to other platform, if suitable drivers are available. We do use LabView usually even when doing our own measurement programs, as it's a very simple way for doing the hardware interface, and you can get the data directly in plain text which is preferable to us.
I already mentioned Gnuplot in the other post, but it's *the* tool for most of us, and combined with Perl it's also very flexible when you have a large number of datasets. Other people in the lab sometimes use other languages than Perl, but none of those programs have been in wider use.
For our communication, we use a local blog (Wordpress hosted on an internal server) to keep people up with mainly hardware things: Computer upgrades and changes, measurement system problems and fixes, and so on.
We are mainly an OSS lab, doing experimental physics for superconductor and semiconductor research. "Mainly" comes from the wide variety of MS operating systems we need to use to operate our proprietary measurement systems, which need everything from Windows 3.11 (with *4* ISA controller cards) to XP to keep them running. I'm the lucky one who keeps them running...
In any case, I do most of my scientific work with the combination of LaTeX+Gnuplot+Perl. Practically all the data from our measurement systems can be had in plain text format, so Gnuplot does the hard work to get nice plots, and Perl handles larger data sets as it can be easily scripted to use Gnuplot.
Per-site preferences, mouse gestures without 3rd-party junk, very good GUI and other customization options (I prefer a minimalistic GUI), see opera:config for a lot more options than through the preferences, customizable address bar quick searches, and so on. It's really painful for me to use FF compared to Opera, especially when I have to place a lot of trust on third parties to get the functionality that Opera has in-built.
I guess extensions is my main problem with FF. It's not like the in-built stuff would add bloat to Opera, as for example FF for OS X is a 17 Mb download compared to 13.5 Mb for Opera, and Opera's Windows binary is half of that size.
I'd also suggest trying Opera 10 alpha; while it is alpha software, it's been very stable and remarkably fast for me, and I use it as my main browser on both OS X and Linux.
New product lines from Apple almost always seem to have teething problems, this has been especially true with the laptops. I always recommend waiting till the first revision of the products appear and let others take care of the "beta" testing, of course my recommendations aren't usually followed by those who just need to get whatever new bling Apple has put out...
I meant that there's a difference between drive -> IDE -> controller card -> PCI/PCI-E -> motherboard, and card=drive -> PCI/PCI-E -> motherboard. Of course there's no difference in motherboard's POV.
It's a card with the flash chips on it, not a controller card, which you seem to be referring to. The latter acts as an interface between the actual drives and the motherboard, the former *is* the drive itself.
I'm not sure what level we are talking about here, but you could just install it and use it for a couple of days. Having a book might be useful, but the Internet is full of how-to's and info for beginners, so it's by no means necessary.
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"Sacco and Ortega stressed that in order to execute the attacks, you need either root privileges or physical access to the machine in question, which limits the scope."
Hmm, I'd say you are pretty much pwned in that case even before the attacker infecting the BIOS.
Hmm, it seems that backslashdot.org is still under development for me, it must be Opera playing tricks on me...
Yes, like the part you left unquoted in my reply would explain.
Yes, when the "any OS distribution" gains monopoly status in EU, this can be used as a precedent for that OS to support standards and not to try to up their market share on a another well-defined market through bundling their own programs with the OS.
You can use aptitude like "sudo aptitude install vim".
Excellent post, I replied to the original question without reading this one.
You are absolutely right. It's very hard for a proper lab to get any OSS solutions for the expensive measurement systems; in the best situation you can expect LabView which can be easily transferred to other platform, if suitable drivers are available. We do use LabView usually even when doing our own measurement programs, as it's a very simple way for doing the hardware interface, and you can get the data directly in plain text which is preferable to us.
I already mentioned Gnuplot in the other post, but it's *the* tool for most of us, and combined with Perl it's also very flexible when you have a large number of datasets. Other people in the lab sometimes use other languages than Perl, but none of those programs have been in wider use.
For our communication, we use a local blog (Wordpress hosted on an internal server) to keep people up with mainly hardware things: Computer upgrades and changes, measurement system problems and fixes, and so on.
We are mainly an OSS lab, doing experimental physics for superconductor and semiconductor research. "Mainly" comes from the wide variety of MS operating systems we need to use to operate our proprietary measurement systems, which need everything from Windows 3.11 (with *4* ISA controller cards) to XP to keep them running. I'm the lucky one who keeps them running...
In any case, I do most of my scientific work with the combination of LaTeX+Gnuplot+Perl. Practically all the data from our measurement systems can be had in plain text format, so Gnuplot does the hard work to get nice plots, and Perl handles larger data sets as it can be easily scripted to use Gnuplot.
Per-site preferences, mouse gestures without 3rd-party junk, very good GUI and other customization options (I prefer a minimalistic GUI), see opera:config for a lot more options than through the preferences, customizable address bar quick searches, and so on. It's really painful for me to use FF compared to Opera, especially when I have to place a lot of trust on third parties to get the functionality that Opera has in-built.
I guess extensions is my main problem with FF. It's not like the in-built stuff would add bloat to Opera, as for example FF for OS X is a 17 Mb download compared to 13.5 Mb for Opera, and Opera's Windows binary is half of that size.
I'd also suggest trying Opera 10 alpha; while it is alpha software, it's been very stable and remarkably fast for me, and I use it as my main browser on both OS X and Linux.
Maybe now I'll finally get my numerology degree made.
Yes the image seems to be taken down now. I'd be interested in hearing what happened.
What? You must be one of those guys who run directly to the shower or fall asleep. Insensitive clod.
Now I can enjoy my adult entertainment the way I like it... *snuggles*
Yep I understand very well why you don't want to visit the site, I'm really interested to see whether anything happens because of your report.
Same image can be found on Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trance-Virgin-Killer-Deluxe-Collectors/dp/B000N3AWGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1228666270&sr=8-2 (Click on "See larger image and other views").
Very tricky situation, as the image is clearly illegal by your law (and possibly by ours too).
Amazon has the same image, and will even sell you the record: http://www.amazon.com/Virgin-Killer-Scorpions/dp/B0000073NL/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1228665999&sr=8-2
Are they now CP distributers?
New product lines from Apple almost always seem to have teething problems, this has been especially true with the laptops. I always recommend waiting till the first revision of the products appear and let others take care of the "beta" testing, of course my recommendations aren't usually followed by those who just need to get whatever new bling Apple has put out...
No, I was commenting on RAID performance, and on the anecdotal evidence of its workings by Glonoinha.
I meant that there's a difference between drive -> IDE -> controller card -> PCI/PCI-E -> motherboard, and card=drive -> PCI/PCI-E -> motherboard. Of course there's no difference in motherboard's POV.
"Can" is not the same as "does". Have you checked the actual performance in *all* the situations, not just raw read speed?
RAID does not actually work that way. Yes, you can get increased speeds with certain RAID configurations, but this is a whole different beast.
It's a card with the flash chips on it, not a controller card, which you seem to be referring to. The latter acts as an interface between the actual drives and the motherboard, the former *is* the drive itself.
I know that you are trolling, but tell that to Red Hat, Novell, etc.
Maybe IBM might wish to consider throwing some money at someone developing those apps.
Yes, the screws on the bottom of the laptop will ask you the boot and Windows passwords before they'll open.
I'm not sure what level we are talking about here, but you could just install it and use it for a couple of days. Having a book might be useful, but the Internet is full of how-to's and info for beginners, so it's by no means necessary.
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I have written an introductionary text about the differences between Linux and Windows for new Linux users: http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22458
The same site also has a simple installation guide for Ubuntu, and a few very helpful members on alternative OSs ;)