Or at least the ones who have the same model as I, the one with the heatsink shaped a bit like this: \\|//. (7000Cu?)
Clean the thing up a bit from time to time. I got mine for over two years, but today I used the vacuum cleaner to get rid of the dust that got between the plates. Looks like I should've done that before, because now it keeps the CPU at the same temperature with the fan set at less than half the speed. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
Recently it seems to be possible to control some of the fans from software. My mainboard is 3 yrs old already (MSI K7TPro2 or something?) and it supports it.
Here's the trick:
ruby~$ cat/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/device/0-002d/fan1_pw m 8
Writing a different number to that file changes the fan speed. So I wrote a small Perl script that keeps the number low, until the CPU temperature goes up under heavy load. Pretty cool, I must say.
Oh yes, the stuff above works with Linux 2.6 kernels, but it should be possible with 2.4 too. See FreshMeat, there's a little script there that does the same thing, on 2.4.
Just in case you didn't know, for as long as it lasts, you can still use the old version of Google Groups through the international domains. groups.google.co.uk, for example. I hope it'll work for a long time, because indeed Google Groups II is far from an improvement.:-(
The only sensible way of putting dates is YYYY-MM-DD. The non-American DD-MM-YYYY is at least a bit more sensible than MM/DD/YYYY since it's sort-of consistent. But for example, HH:MM:SS DD-MM-YYYY is also pretty bad since it puts the biggest first in the time and in the date the biggest at the end. Also not very consistent.:-)
I think the transcription of the interview could've been a lot better. Without the "you knows", and it'd probably also be nice to cut out the repeated questions and things like that. If I want to know exactly how the call was, I'll download the MP3... When reading I don't need that kind of irrelevant things...
Well, a classmate of mine told me this week he installed this patch, but still when he tried to set my evil.png as his usericon his computer magically downloaded some.exe file and executed.
I don't know if my classmate maybe just isn't very good at installing patches, but I guess the patch just doesn't cover all programs (maybe MSN Messenger is statically linked to that code?).
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Or you can get the extension mentioned by the AC now (didn't see that post before writing mine). Have to say I like TabX more because it does nothing else than adding the X'es. (Which is all I need)
Also, TabX' X'es are a bit prettier compared to how TBE did it, last time I checked. But well, it's a matter of taste.
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> I'd like to see them put the tab close "X" on the tabs themselves like Safari.
Just get the TabX extension and they'll be on the right place. It's the only extension I really need, actually.
I heard someone on IRC talking about this. They got something now, the only problem is that the binary is about 300MB. Why? Because it also has a Posix, X, GTK, etc. compatibility layer built-in. Pretty sick, if you ask me.:-)
How are they going to prevent me from importing a printer together with the cartridges? Or will they find some neat software scheme in the driver to find out in which country the printer is being used?
Oh well, time to find a printer manufacturer with printers as their core business instead of selling printer ink for gold-prices.
Let's just say it's impossible to market something like this. In their ad they said something like "AMD processors are the only processors which actively stop/prevent viruses". Surely that's not something a CPU can do at all anyway.
And since this is only a minor improvement (if an improvement at all) in the Athlon64 I wonder why they didn't think of something else to use to promote the CPU... Surely saying that the thing is 64-bit must impress some Joe Sixpacks.
And isn't the.wma decoder written in x86 assembly language, which the ARM processors in the iPod do not run at full speed?
Well, there are many portable players with WMA support already, so it seems there's more than just x86 code for it. (But that code is indeed not likely to be open source...)
Anyway, AFAIK the iPod has a separate chip (DSP?) for the audio decoding. It's not very easy to program that one. And some time ago there was a post on/. IIRC that told the chip that does the interfaces (and runs Linux) indeed can't decode Ogg in real-time..
IIRC none of those bugs were in any kind of Unix operating system, but all in obscure little tools. So that's not really the same thing. You don't want to count the number of security problems in random Windows freeware programs either, I'm afraid.
Uhm, my iRiver iMP-550 plays Ogg files. And so do most other recent iRiver devices (don't know about this one). Also, there are at least two other manufacturers who make Ogg-players. Not much, I admit, but it certainly did happen.
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But IIRC those viruses only work on SymbianOS (IOW, one and the same platform), right?
I guess it'll download Mono. Hurray, malware is finally getting portable. Now if they finish Mono we can have malware on Linux too! ;-)
Or at least the ones who have the same model as I, the one with the heatsink shaped a bit like this: \\|//. (7000Cu?)
Clean the thing up a bit from time to time. I got mine for over two years, but today I used the vacuum cleaner to get rid of the dust that got between the plates. Looks like I should've done that before, because now it keeps the CPU at the same temperature with the fan set at less than half the speed. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
Here's the trick:Writing a different number to that file changes the fan speed. So I wrote a small Perl script that keeps the number low, until the CPU temperature goes up under heavy load. Pretty cool, I must say.
Oh yes, the stuff above works with Linux 2.6 kernels, but it should be possible with 2.4 too. See FreshMeat, there's a little script there that does the same thing, on 2.4.
I'm Dutch, so I usually use groups.google.nl. But I tried the .co.uk before posting about it, so yes, it works outside the UK too.
Just in case you didn't know, for as long as it lasts, you can still use the old version of Google Groups through the international domains. groups.google.co.uk, for example. I hope it'll work for a long time, because indeed Google Groups II is far from an improvement. :-(
Not when you put the year at the back.
:-)
The only sensible way of putting dates is YYYY-MM-DD. The non-American DD-MM-YYYY is at least a bit more sensible than MM/DD/YYYY since it's sort-of consistent. But for example, HH:MM:SS DD-MM-YYYY is also pretty bad since it puts the biggest first in the time and in the date the biggest at the end. Also not very consistent.
+1 Insightful.
I think the transcription of the interview could've been a lot better. Without the "you knows", and it'd probably also be nice to cut out the repeated questions and things like that. If I want to know exactly how the call was, I'll download the MP3... When reading I don't need that kind of irrelevant things...
But having said that, quite a nice read indeed.
Well, a classmate of mine told me this week he installed this patch, but still when he tried to set my evil.png as his usericon his computer magically downloaded some .exe file and executed.
I don't know if my classmate maybe just isn't very good at installing patches, but I guess the patch just doesn't cover all programs (maybe MSN Messenger is statically linked to that code?).
Or you can get the extension mentioned by the AC now (didn't see that post before writing mine). Have to say I like TabX more because it does nothing else than adding the X'es. (Which is all I need)
Also, TabX' X'es are a bit prettier compared to how TBE did it, last time I checked. But well, it's a matter of taste.
> I'd like to see them put the tab close "X" on the tabs themselves like Safari.
Just get the TabX extension and they'll be on the right place. It's the only extension I really need, actually.
That's admin work, and I surely hope you don't really believe everyone can do that with Windows.
I heard someone on IRC talking about this. They got something now, the only problem is that the binary is about 300MB. Why? Because it also has a Posix, X, GTK, etc. compatibility layer built-in. Pretty sick, if you ask me. :-)
Do you have any source for this? I've never heard this before, it sounds quite bizarre to me.
How are they going to prevent me from importing a printer together with the cartridges? Or will they find some neat software scheme in the driver to find out in which country the printer is being used?
Oh well, time to find a printer manufacturer with printers as their core business instead of selling printer ink for gold-prices.
Let's just say it's impossible to market something like this. In their ad they said something like "AMD processors are the only processors which actively stop/prevent viruses". Surely that's not something a CPU can do at all anyway.
And since this is only a minor improvement (if an improvement at all) in the Athlon64 I wonder why they didn't think of something else to use to promote the CPU... Surely saying that the thing is 64-bit must impress some Joe Sixpacks.
And isn't the .wma decoder written in x86 assembly language, which the ARM processors in the iPod do not run at full speed?
/. IIRC that told the chip that does the interfaces (and runs Linux) indeed can't decode Ogg in real-time..
Well, there are many portable players with WMA support already, so it seems there's more than just x86 code for it. (But that code is indeed not likely to be open source...)
Anyway, AFAIK the iPod has a separate chip (DSP?) for the audio decoding. It's not very easy to program that one. And some time ago there was a post on
IIRC none of those bugs were in any kind of Unix operating system, but all in obscure little tools. So that's not really the same thing. You don't want to count the number of security problems in random Windows freeware programs either, I'm afraid.
Uhm, my iRiver iMP-550 plays Ogg files. And so do most other recent iRiver devices (don't know about this one). Also, there are at least two other manufacturers who make Ogg-players. Not much, I admit, but it certainly did happen.
Yeah. Don't x86 CPU's convert those opcodes to simpler ones before executing them these days?
> Instead of hijacking the pop-up, the pop-up hijacked the security website...
Happened to me once too with FF1.0 on Windows. The exploit did work a couple of times though. It seems to be quite timing-sensitive, I guess.
I'm not so sure if "We spread viruses" is a good form of publicity. In that case I'd rather have no publicity.
I'm glad my server has an UI. Also, I'm glad this interface is called CLI. :-)
And you're looking forward to compiling Apache on a machine with only 16 MB's of drive space? ;-)
(Yes, I certainly hope this will at least work with cross-compiling...)
Why, so that he posts as Anonymous Coward, as we do? :-)