OTOH if you want compatibility to 10.3.x you can't use them anyway (since the gcc is different.. incompatible libraries), so you have to produce different versions.
The plan for us is PowerPC compiled on 10.3.x (currently 10.3.7), Intel compiled on whatever is available in about 12 months time.. separate packages.
No point in universal binaries if you need compatibility like that.
On the Spectrum they used to use the exact execution time of the instruction as a decryption key (the R register on the Z80). The routines also decrypted themselves as they ran so you couldn't see the whole routine & couldn't (in theory) single step it.
Of course I knew off by heard all the timings of every instruction:)
Ugh. I just glanced at that article.. it's by steve gibson.. 'nuff said.
That kind of overwriting doesn't matter any more.. maybe 10 years ago, not today.
Just a single write from/dev/urandom is enough. Modern hard drives pack the data *really* densely and there really isn't any gap. No 'old' bits, no overlap.
Redundant? I think not.. all the other mirrors are down (and the nyud mirrors aren't on port 80 so don't get through the firewall).
My immediate thought...
BL$$dy hell. This isn't just a mild copy of OSX I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a mac build I was looking at.
In fact are you sure this isn't just a merge of itunes + word for a joke?
The toolbar is a bit of a joke... takes up *way* too much real estate for no particular reason (lots of empty space and they *really* don't need a humungous paste button - a normal one does just fine).
Just as in the UK Paypal *is* regulated as a financial insitution (and couldn't get away with some of the things we hear about on slashdot with UK accounts) skype *will* be regulated as a telephone company the moment it gets noticed by the regulators.
That means any premium rate number reachable from the UK will have to comply with UK law - this alone might make such a plan impractical.
There's lots of incentive.. there's even a bounty to producing an asterisk plugin for it, but because it's end->end encrypted it's just nowhere near as easy as doing it for MSN messenger.. you first have to extract the keys.
OTOH there's no need for an open skype when SIP is the standard VOIP protocol that works anywhere.
Windows update will only install the updates for you're *current* configuration, so for example if you install DirectX & reboot, you have to run another update to get the security updates for directx.
Also remember that many options are 'this item only' and require their own separate reboot.
On average it's around 4 reboots before there's nothing to upgrade.. it's better than it used to be in Win2k, which was about 9 reboots.
With me it was bad software. Bad Microsoft software.
My devel machine runs Visual Studio, some stuff I build with and not much else.. had been reasonably solid for months until I needed to produce a spreadsheet for a client.
Installed Office 2003 from the CD... craps out halfway (just dies with no error).
Visual studio no longer runs.. comes up with 'installing' dialog and dies. Office install no longer starts up.. Visual studio install no longer starts up..
Tried rescue install, etc. No dice. Office has completely screwed the OS.
Eventually backed up, reformatted and reinstalled from scratch... cost me a days work.
We had to give all our passwords to the admin. We weren't allowed to change them without notifying management first.
This is because of the way visual studio tries to 'personalise' itself so the only way to access someone elses' project (and expect to build it) if they were on holiday was to have their password (we all needed admin rights of course - rather hard to write software without it).
The admin kept it on a text file on his desktop, which he frequently left unguarded. Needless to say (a) everyone knew everyone elses' password after a week, and (b) most of the visitors to the office could have easily found them all out too.
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That's interesting.. google talk is based on Global IP Sound too...
The two-phone idea sounds servicable, provided you can find a provider that does cheap internal phone calls (I could only find one in this country, and they have a 15 minute cutoff so not much use).
OTOH you could do the same with 3G mobile data & a VOIP client on the phone, if you could get a plan that allowed a reasonable amount... again, I couldn't find any that are practical (average cost is ~1000* the cost of ADSL per volume) but I'm sure it'll happen one day.
You'd probably be better off connecting the phone to an asterisk server... you could then route the calls over the cheapest providers depending on the destination - many landline providers have free international and national diallng now & skype can't match that.
Requires PCI-X and a new monitor? Just a money grab in that case.
An average monitor will last for years - most of the ones I have are over 5 years old... I'm damned if I'm going to throw them all away and buy new ones just to run a new OS (I may need to for software testing, but will probably wait until someone does DRM emulation for VMWare instead).
Beta's aren't much of a benchmark to the final system.
The Beta 1 of NT4 for example was little more than an update to give NT 3.5 the 'new' explorer shell... nothing had really been implemented under the hood (it still required a SCSI CDROM to install as I recall.. those were the days...)
I expect most of the new vista system isn't shipped yet, so saying it runs like XP isn't saying a lot - it probably *is* 99% XP.
I've seen boot CDs that boot into different versions of DOS/FreeDOS and also Linux, but never one with XP on it - presumably because distribution of the complete CD would be illegal...
No reason why someone couldn't modify the method of building bartpe though and add a load of other stuff.
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OTOH if you want compatibility to 10.3.x you can't use them anyway (since the gcc is different.. incompatible libraries), so you have to produce different versions.
The plan for us is PowerPC compiled on 10.3.x (currently 10.3.7), Intel compiled on whatever is available in about 12 months time.. separate packages.
No point in universal binaries if you need compatibility like that.
On the Spectrum they used to use the exact execution time of the instruction as a decryption key (the R register on the Z80). The routines also decrypted themselves as they ran so you couldn't see the whole routine & couldn't (in theory) single step it.
:)
Of course I knew off by heard all the timings of every instruction
Ugh. I just glanced at that article.. it's by steve gibson.. 'nuff said.
/dev/urandom is enough. Modern hard drives pack the data *really* densely and there really isn't any gap. No 'old' bits, no overlap.
That kind of overwriting doesn't matter any more.. maybe 10 years ago, not today.
Just a single write from
Redundant? I think not.. all the other mirrors are down (and the nyud mirrors aren't on port 80 so don't get through the firewall).
My immediate thought...
BL$$dy hell. This isn't just a mild copy of OSX I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a mac build I was looking at.
In fact are you sure this isn't just a merge of itunes + word for a joke?
The toolbar is a bit of a joke... takes up *way* too much real estate for no particular reason (lots of empty space and they *really* don't need a humungous paste button - a normal one does just fine).
Depends on whether they share L2 cache or not... the Intel dual core hasn't been released yet so we don't know whether they are.
If the cache is shared then dual core will suffer the same problems as hyperthreading - actually making the processor slower for many tasks.
They will be regulated..
Just as in the UK Paypal *is* regulated as a financial insitution (and couldn't get away with some of the things we hear about on slashdot with UK accounts) skype *will* be regulated as a telephone company the moment it gets noticed by the regulators.
That means any premium rate number reachable from the UK will have to comply with UK law - this alone might make such a plan impractical.
nochex is great... in fact it's a while since I've seen an auction that didn't use it.
They need to go international...
There's lots of incentive.. there's even a bounty to producing an asterisk plugin for it, but because it's end->end encrypted it's just nowhere near as easy as doing it for MSN messenger.. you first have to extract the keys.
OTOH there's no need for an open skype when SIP is the standard VOIP protocol that works anywhere.
You're missing the reboot loop.
Windows update will only install the updates for you're *current* configuration, so for example if you install DirectX & reboot, you have to run another update to get the security updates for directx.
Also remember that many options are 'this item only' and require their own separate reboot.
On average it's around 4 reboots before there's nothing to upgrade.. it's better than it used to be in Win2k, which was about 9 reboots.
Heh. gentoo in 12 minutes..
7 hours for Windows is a bit OTT too.. I'm guessing you were going for some kind of 'funny' rating here.. and failed...
(OTOH it does sometimes take almost that long to track down all the drivers to get windows working... I usually give half a day per windows install).
With me it was bad software. Bad Microsoft software.
My devel machine runs Visual Studio, some stuff I build with and not much else.. had been reasonably solid for months until I needed to produce a spreadsheet for a client.
Installed Office 2003 from the CD... craps out halfway (just dies with no error).
Visual studio no longer runs.. comes up with 'installing' dialog and dies. Office install no longer starts up.. Visual studio install no longer starts up..
Tried rescue install, etc. No dice. Office has completely screwed the OS.
Eventually backed up, reformatted and reinstalled from scratch... cost me a days work.
Maybe where you are... darned lucky.
I've been unable to find *any* that allow this around here.. and only one that provides free mobile->mobile (and they cut off after 15 minutes).
SELinux fixes this hole, and I believe this fix is in later kernels (not the one I have though).
We had to give all our passwords to the admin. We weren't allowed to change them without notifying management first.
This is because of the way visual studio tries to 'personalise' itself so the only way to access someone elses' project (and expect to build it) if they were on holiday was to have their password (we all needed admin rights of course - rather hard to write software without it).
The admin kept it on a text file on his desktop, which he frequently left unguarded. Needless to say (a) everyone knew everyone elses' password after a week, and (b) most of the visitors to the office could have easily found them all out too.
That's interesting.. google talk is based on Global IP Sound too...
The two-phone idea sounds servicable, provided you can find a provider that does cheap internal phone calls (I could only find one in this country, and they have a 15 minute cutoff so not much use).
OTOH you could do the same with 3G mobile data & a VOIP client on the phone, if you could get a plan that allowed a reasonable amount... again, I couldn't find any that are practical (average cost is ~1000* the cost of ADSL per volume) but I'm sure it'll happen one day.
You'd probably be better off connecting the phone to an asterisk server... you could then route the calls over the cheapest providers depending on the destination - many landline providers have free international and national diallng now & skype can't match that.
So for only twice the monthly cost of a standard phone you too can make calls at slightly lower than normal landline rates!
You'd have to use the phone a hell of a lot before 'profit' would be in the equation.
Water based porn???
Count me in!
Yeah but think of the patenting opportunities!
Method for locking a door... IN SPACE!
Method for input of data... IN SPACE!
etc.
Then you have the meta-patents...
Method for input of data.. ON A COMPUTER! IN SPACE!
It can.. you can already but boxes that strip the HDCP and output standard DVI.
These will be mainstream (but probably illegal by then) by the time vista ships.
Requires PCI-X and a new monitor? Just a money grab in that case.
An average monitor will last for years - most of the ones I have are over 5 years old... I'm damned if I'm going to throw them all away and buy new ones just to run a new OS (I may need to for software testing, but will probably wait until someone does DRM emulation for VMWare instead).
Beta's aren't much of a benchmark to the final system.
The Beta 1 of NT4 for example was little more than an update to give NT 3.5 the 'new' explorer shell... nothing had really been implemented under the hood (it still required a SCSI CDROM to install as I recall.. those were the days...)
I expect most of the new vista system isn't shipped yet, so saying it runs like XP isn't saying a lot - it probably *is* 99% XP.
They problably won't block anything else.. SIP and IAX2 aren't (usually) encrypted.
If Skype give the chinese government the encryption keys then I'm sure they'll be unblocked...
OSX might be a little difficult...
I've seen boot CDs that boot into different versions of DOS/FreeDOS and also Linux, but never one with XP on it - presumably because distribution of the complete CD would be illegal...
No reason why someone couldn't modify the method of building bartpe though and add a load of other stuff.