Do you have a middle mouse button, i.e. three buttons below your trackpoint? That's what my computer has and this works for me (Fedora 8 on a Thinkpad T61):
This works for my touchpad, my trackpoint, and any external mouse I plug into the system.
If you only have two, can't you make clicking both a third button click, e.g. you could press both buttons then scroll? I'm not an X11 guru by any means, though.
Hear hear. Trackpoints are far faster and more accurate than touch pads and, in my limited experience, far less likely to cause fatigue/strain. I love my Thinkpad.
I have no doubt that AMD will survive; however, I highly doubt that they will win any visual computing battle. While ATI did recently have the theoretically "strongest" GPU, nVidia/Intel have traditionally been the seat of the "enthusiast hardware" (read: too expensive, but very powerful). AMD/ATI have generally put forward more economical varieties. Look at the Phenom. As per the review on Tom's Hardware it was 18% cheaper than the Intel quad-core but 18% slower. (I forget the exact value, but 24% or 18%, the example stands.) I would be surprised if this trend reversed itself in the future.
And then it just sucks if you run a tor exit node... But besides that...
We're talking about an MMORPG company here. I don't think they can subpoena the ISP logs.
I don't know... Remember the recent article RE: the FBI investigating any IP that accessed a false child pornography website that they set up? I think the powers that be have yet to realize that IPs are not exactly reliable means of identifying individuals.
Of course. I never denied the theory behind it, and I do know they listed it as plausible (see "some success making an actual suspension bridge vibrate"). My point is simply that Tesla didn't actually destroy a building. He simply showed that it is theoretically possible.
While the power of standing waves is well-documented, (see the aforementioned Tacoma Narrows Bridge) this story is commonly considered to be an urban legend, as far as I can tell. They did try it on Mythbusters, though. There were issues with Tesla's designs, so they were forced to build their own. While they were unable to even slightly harm a small-scale model, they did have some success making an actual suspension bridge vibrate. Still, vibration is far from destruction; while much damage to buildings during earthquakes is due to standing waves, in those cases we are talking about faarrrr greater amounts of energy than Tesla's oscillator.
Steam actually does prevent me from buying games. I do not have internet access on my gaming computer (I only have an EVDO modem for internet on my laptop), and so getting internet to register a game is a long and complicated process of getting Windows to connect to a shared dial-up connection (this is neither fun nor easy). Thus, I tend to avoid games with Steam-like copy protection. I do, however, have no problem with entering a CD key for installation. As stated elsewhere in this thread, it's a matter of scale. It costs little to add CD key protection and really does not annoy users at all (so long as they don't lose their case). A Steam-like system, however, is more expensive, and you run the risk of alienating those without easy internet access (like me). And then their is the pure insanity that it rootkit/sony/securom/starforce. Add one of those, and what do you get? Bioshock was cracked and available on Bittorrent the day of its release. So, effectively, all they achieved with their DRM was the alienation of the technologically-savvy crowd.
This is absolutely not true. I, for one, am anxiously awaiting playing Bioshock. It is supposedly a fabulous game, and I fully intend to purchase it legally. There's just a slight catch, that being Securom. I will go to the store and buy Bioshock the day they release it without their rootkit in it. I will happily pay their $40 for it, but I want it DRM-free. This isn't because I want to do anything they would possibly object to with the game; I don't. It's simply that I don't want to willingly put a rootkit on my computer. Windows is awfully vulnerable as it stands, and I really don't want to open up another potential vulnerability. Not to mention its interference with process explorers.
I know few will believe me and most will simply say that I obviously don't want the game that much, but oh well... Honestly though, the only thing that has kept me from purchasing the game is the DRM.
...there is something to be said for biometric security. I run Fedora 8 on a Thinkpad and I love its fingerprint reader. It saves time over having to type a 12 character root password. You could probably look into a USB fingerprint scanner, as it would be relatively secure but would leave nothing to memorize.
I'm sorry, but my DRM-free 320 kbps MP3/OGGs sound much better than my nicely wrapped up and locked M4Ps, courtesy of iTunes. What do they think pirates do, record them off the radio? Oh, I forgot that illegitimate files automatically corrupt themselves... Something about the files tainted morality... Please, 95% of the people smart enough to pirate music are smart enough to make it sound good. The only thing atrocious in the music industry are their prices.
Leaving aside the recent news that OS X Leopard potentially has more exploits and security holes than Vista, why would they switch to Macs for security? Am I the only one who wants to scream linux? It's more secure and the best part, it's free! Maybe they can cut down on the billions of dollars deficits that they keep running up.
Isn't it true of all professions that passion is what distinguishes the okay from the excellent? There might be some exceptions, but it holds in the vast majority of cases. It's always about your devotion to the job and what you bring to it. I don't think IT Security is unique in this sense. This is most certainly a ripe and growing profession, however, with the proliferation of cyber-crimes.
While this is undoubtedly unfortunate, how much damage was really done? The majority of people use public-key (encrypted checksum) checks to confirm the identity of packages they download, so this would have been easily caught by most. It does further underscore the importance of such identity checks, however, malicious replacement being one of the weaknesses of online software repositories.
I'm sure more can be found, but here are a few that I have read (my apologies that they are all Tom's Hardware, but these were the first I could think of off the top of my head).
As for the astroturfing, I'm writing this from Fedora Core 7 thank you very much, on which I pretty much do all of my computing.
Really... For all I dislike Microsoft and think that Vista is essentially a resource-hogging, effectively worthless upgrade (except for the 64bit arch.), OS X Leopard is so much worse it's not even funny. People complain about Vista's bugginess and don't even bat an eye at the serious problems that have been revealed in Apple's new product. Leopard can lose data, simply by copy-pasting a file. Not to mention the fact that it BSoDs. These are just a small sampling of the many issues And when we consider how the respective companies handle these problems, Apple clearly falls behind. At least you can get tech-support for Windows; they'll admit they need an SP. If you bring up a fault of an Apple product, you'll only be censored (I assume most here have heard of Apple's draconian censoring of their online forums).
Just my two cents...
Indeed, I just felt strangely compelled to make a joke and get modded offtopic. (My karma was getting to high for my taste.)
My concern with quantum computing (other than the fact that it will render all modern cryptography obsolete) is storage media. We are talking about the total obseletion (cool! I invented a word!) of binary computing. How do you make a storage medium that can store super-positions? What's the point of having a quantum computer if you can only read in binary data? I mean, finding prime roots is great and all, but these computers are not going to be terribly useful if all they can do is crack codes.
Precisely. The tech people should not find it too difficult to switch from Unix to Linux on the servers, and the clients can be locked down enough in Linux that end-users won't be able to compromise security.
Security is always dependent on the intelligence of the user/configurer. Linux is a lot more likely to be secure than Windows, however, especially in the hands of an experienced individual.
Also, I apologize for my previous post; I committed the egregious sin of not reading before I posted and realize now that I said Windows servers, which is inaccurate. The article cites Unix servers and Windows clients, but the point still stands.
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Do you have a middle mouse button, i.e. three buttons below your trackpoint? That's what my computer has and this works for me (Fedora 8 on a Thinkpad T61):
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Option "Emulate3TimeOut" "50"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
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This works for my touchpad, my trackpoint, and any external mouse I plug into the system.
If you only have two, can't you make clicking both a third button click, e.g. you could press both buttons then scroll? I'm not an X11 guru by any means, though.
Hear hear. Trackpoints are far faster and more accurate than touch pads and, in my limited experience, far less likely to cause fatigue/strain. I love my Thinkpad.
I have no doubt that AMD will survive; however, I highly doubt that they will win any visual computing battle. While ATI did recently have the theoretically "strongest" GPU, nVidia/Intel have traditionally been the seat of the "enthusiast hardware" (read: too expensive, but very powerful). AMD/ATI have generally put forward more economical varieties. Look at the Phenom. As per the review on Tom's Hardware it was 18% cheaper than the Intel quad-core but 18% slower. (I forget the exact value, but 24% or 18%, the example stands.) I would be surprised if this trend reversed itself in the future.
Exactly. Mine only sees about 3.2 GB, since I have a 768MB video card. Obviously my 64-bit sees all four gigs.
I can see the FOSS community's reply to this already... Coming Summer 2009... IRON TUX (cue Black Sabbath)
And then it just sucks if you run a tor exit node... But besides that... We're talking about an MMORPG company here. I don't think they can subpoena the ISP logs.
I don't know... Remember the recent article RE: the FBI investigating any IP that accessed a false child pornography website that they set up? I think the powers that be have yet to realize that IPs are not exactly reliable means of identifying individuals.
Of course. I never denied the theory behind it, and I do know they listed it as plausible (see "some success making an actual suspension bridge vibrate"). My point is simply that Tesla didn't actually destroy a building. He simply showed that it is theoretically possible.
While the power of standing waves is well-documented, (see the aforementioned Tacoma Narrows Bridge) this story is commonly considered to be an urban legend, as far as I can tell. They did try it on Mythbusters, though. There were issues with Tesla's designs, so they were forced to build their own. While they were unable to even slightly harm a small-scale model, they did have some success making an actual suspension bridge vibrate. Still, vibration is far from destruction; while much damage to buildings during earthquakes is due to standing waves, in those cases we are talking about faarrrr greater amounts of energy than Tesla's oscillator.
Steam actually does prevent me from buying games. I do not have internet access on my gaming computer (I only have an EVDO modem for internet on my laptop), and so getting internet to register a game is a long and complicated process of getting Windows to connect to a shared dial-up connection (this is neither fun nor easy). Thus, I tend to avoid games with Steam-like copy protection. I do, however, have no problem with entering a CD key for installation. As stated elsewhere in this thread, it's a matter of scale. It costs little to add CD key protection and really does not annoy users at all (so long as they don't lose their case). A Steam-like system, however, is more expensive, and you run the risk of alienating those without easy internet access (like me). And then their is the pure insanity that it rootkit/sony/securom/starforce. Add one of those, and what do you get? Bioshock was cracked and available on Bittorrent the day of its release. So, effectively, all they achieved with their DRM was the alienation of the technologically-savvy crowd.
This is absolutely not true. I, for one, am anxiously awaiting playing Bioshock. It is supposedly a fabulous game, and I fully intend to purchase it legally. There's just a slight catch, that being Securom. I will go to the store and buy Bioshock the day they release it without their rootkit in it. I will happily pay their $40 for it, but I want it DRM-free. This isn't because I want to do anything they would possibly object to with the game; I don't. It's simply that I don't want to willingly put a rootkit on my computer. Windows is awfully vulnerable as it stands, and I really don't want to open up another potential vulnerability. Not to mention its interference with process explorers.
I know few will believe me and most will simply say that I obviously don't want the game that much, but oh well... Honestly though, the only thing that has kept me from purchasing the game is the DRM.
...there is something to be said for biometric security. I run Fedora 8 on a Thinkpad and I love its fingerprint reader. It saves time over having to type a 12 character root password. You could probably look into a USB fingerprint scanner, as it would be relatively secure but would leave nothing to memorize.
I'm sorry, but my DRM-free 320 kbps MP3/OGGs sound much better than my nicely wrapped up and locked M4Ps, courtesy of iTunes. What do they think pirates do, record them off the radio? Oh, I forgot that illegitimate files automatically corrupt themselves... Something about the files tainted morality... Please, 95% of the people smart enough to pirate music are smart enough to make it sound good. The only thing atrocious in the music industry are their prices.
Leaving aside the recent news that OS X Leopard potentially has more exploits and security holes than Vista, why would they switch to Macs for security? Am I the only one who wants to scream linux? It's more secure and the best part, it's free! Maybe they can cut down on the billions of dollars deficits that they keep running up.
I'm concerned... Isn't this one of the signs of the coming apocalypse? When hell freezes over, pigs fly, and duke nukem forever is released...
For those of you who flame-baited this, please note that it is a movie reference (Swordfish) and thus a joke, not the random ravings of someone.
Isn't it true of all professions that passion is what distinguishes the okay from the excellent? There might be some exceptions, but it holds in the vast majority of cases. It's always about your devotion to the job and what you bring to it. I don't think IT Security is unique in this sense. This is most certainly a ripe and growing profession, however, with the proliferation of cyber-crimes.
While this is undoubtedly unfortunate, how much damage was really done? The majority of people use public-key (encrypted checksum) checks to confirm the identity of packages they download, so this would have been easily caught by most. It does further underscore the importance of such identity checks, however, malicious replacement being one of the weaknesses of online software repositories.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-censor-leopard,review-1020.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-osx,review-1019-2.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-osx-leopard,review-1016.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/leopard-osx-problems,review-1028.html
I'm sure more can be found, but here are a few that I have read (my apologies that they are all Tom's Hardware, but these were the first I could think of off the top of my head). As for the astroturfing, I'm writing this from Fedora Core 7 thank you very much, on which I pretty much do all of my computing.
Really... For all I dislike Microsoft and think that Vista is essentially a resource-hogging, effectively worthless upgrade (except for the 64bit arch.), OS X Leopard is so much worse it's not even funny. People complain about Vista's bugginess and don't even bat an eye at the serious problems that have been revealed in Apple's new product. Leopard can lose data, simply by copy-pasting a file. Not to mention the fact that it BSoDs. These are just a small sampling of the many issues And when we consider how the respective companies handle these problems, Apple clearly falls behind. At least you can get tech-support for Windows; they'll admit they need an SP. If you bring up a fault of an Apple product, you'll only be censored (I assume most here have heard of Apple's draconian censoring of their online forums). Just my two cents...
I'm sure it's possible, but storing quantum information in binary format would likely be very inefficient.
Indeed, I just felt strangely compelled to make a joke and get modded offtopic. (My karma was getting to high for my taste.) My concern with quantum computing (other than the fact that it will render all modern cryptography obsolete) is storage media. We are talking about the total obseletion (cool! I invented a word!) of binary computing. How do you make a storage medium that can store super-positions? What's the point of having a quantum computer if you can only read in binary data? I mean, finding prime roots is great and all, but these computers are not going to be terribly useful if all they can do is crack codes.
More importantly, can it run Crysis?
Precisely. The tech people should not find it too difficult to switch from Unix to Linux on the servers, and the clients can be locked down enough in Linux that end-users won't be able to compromise security.
Security is always dependent on the intelligence of the user/configurer. Linux is a lot more likely to be secure than Windows, however, especially in the hands of an experienced individual. Also, I apologize for my previous post; I committed the egregious sin of not reading before I posted and realize now that I said Windows servers, which is inaccurate. The article cites Unix servers and Windows clients, but the point still stands.