No. It is impossible to verify that a machine is virus-free. The presence of any malware indicates that the machine has been used in an insecure manner at some time in the past. The particular piece of malware that was discovered may have been used as a back door to install other malware on the machine (keyloggers, etc.), or may have been installed in that way itself. The purpose of antivirus software is to alert the user that at least one virus is present on the machine, and that it is time to backup critical data and reformat.
If you're interested in smooth h.264 playback, i recommend downloading the most recent mplayer svn snapshot from here (they recently added multithreading), compiling with -march=native, and pointing smplayer at the resulting binary. I used this method to get functional 1520x1080 playback on a 2100 MHz core2 duo.
Well, yeah! I can anticipate far more threats than we can afford to defend against. We can only assume that potential terrorists can as well. This is why a social solution is required.
That's way too high. Go into your bios and turn on S3 suspend. It should pull 10 W or less. I assume you're talking about the Macbook on and idle, 'cause a laptop should be using 1W or less suspended.
Debian:
1. Google up this abortion of web design: http://debian-multimedia.org/
2. Add the poorly documented repo maintained by two people to your sources.list.
3a. Fire up an Ubuntu VM and use several iterations of aptitude show to figure out what packages are actually installed by ubuntu-restricted-extras (and thus which ones are necessary to have a usable desktop).
3b. Alternatively, google up the aforementioned list of packages.
4. ~# aptitude install `cat list-of-packages.txt`
After you've done all that, install the moste evile closed-source video card driver. I would include it, but I have never successfully gotten past this step.
Premise: The long term drift and short term drift (phase noise) on the power lines can be reduced through some expenditure of resources.
Premise: The magnitude of said reduction is some mostly-monotonic increasing function of cost.
Conlusion: Drift and phase noise cannot be made zero with finite resources. Furthermore, there is some cost savings associated with increasing the allowable drift and phase noise.
Fact: the addition and removal of loads from the power grid causes the mechanical load, and therefore shaft speed and therefore output frequency of generators to vary. As a result, power frequency varies substantially over the short term (phase noise). The contribution this would otherwise make to long term drift is negated by intentionally varying the frequency to synchronize a mains-driven clock with a time standard.
Conclusion: a timing signal derived from the power grid is at most as good as the time standard over the long term, and considerably worse over the short term.
Fact: For those who need extreme precision, there exist several accessible clock sources, such as the WWV, GPS, and CDMA signals. In the short term, power line frequency references are handily beaten by even the humble crystal oscillator
My argument reduces to this: NO individual, interested only in some specific problem-space, has the right to force upon a great many others a level of accuracy, and the associated costs, substantially greater than what is required for their applications.
I've found I like the vertical 'dock' (dammit OSX) on wide screen monitors, but it really does have way too many things pinned by default. The global menus do an admirable job of making a single-task-only workstation out of a machine with 8 GiB of ram. The only benefit is the extra vertical space on very small screens, but the vertical task bar eats so many horizontal pixels (many web designers assume 1024 horizontal or better) that the interface is not usable on small screens. I would not object to the global menus if they only came into play for maximized windows. For unmaximized windows however, only one window can have its menus accessible at one time, and it is unclear which window that is.
I might use Unity on my netbook (800x480), but the Intel Graphics My Ass video chip is insufficiently grunty for compiz. It runs Xubuntu 10.10 now, but 11.04 has been infected with the cargo cult OSX-ism that's been going around of late. I'm likely going to dump Ubuntu for CrunchBang, if I can get suspend working properly in openbox.
My point is that the intrinsic value of gold is small in comparison to its trade value, and has no relevance to gold's suitability as a currency. There are but two attributes required of a currency:
1. It must be difficult to counterfeit.
2. People must widely accept it as payment.
Bitcoin possesses the first, but the second requires stable value (chicken and egg problem exists here), and is a complex social effect. I think the problem with bitcoin is that the initial mining difficulty was too low, and that it is adjusted for constant global rate of production instead of constant difficulty on current hardware. This created the huge advantage for early adopters, and caused the mining explosion and speculation, of which the current bubble is a result.
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the performance will be better than from CD when drive access to the OS is needed.
Not necessarily. Even stripped down Windows XP hobbles my Core2 Duo, using software emulation. (Curse you Intel market segmentation!)
Enjoy your shimmering RFI-induced distortion, feeb.
Begun, the Corp War has.
Sure, if you like to arrive a hour late and smelling like the orangutan exhibit.
No. It is impossible to verify that a machine is virus-free. The presence of any malware indicates that the machine has been used in an insecure manner at some time in the past. The particular piece of malware that was discovered may have been used as a back door to install other malware on the machine (keyloggers, etc.), or may have been installed in that way itself. The purpose of antivirus software is to alert the user that at least one virus is present on the machine, and that it is time to backup critical data and reformat.
If he isn't, he should be.
If you're interested in smooth h.264 playback, i recommend downloading the most recent mplayer svn snapshot from here (they recently added multithreading), compiling with -march=native, and pointing smplayer at the resulting binary. I used this method to get functional 1520x1080 playback on a 2100 MHz core2 duo.
Well, yeah! I can anticipate far more threats than we can afford to defend against. We can only assume that potential terrorists can as well. This is why a social solution is required.
That's way too high. Go into your bios and turn on S3 suspend. It should pull 10 W or less. I assume you're talking about the Macbook on and idle, 'cause a laptop should be using 1W or less suspended.
Get a pressure-assisted toilet (or commercial, if you have 1 inch pipes and good water pressure).
Ah, no. A 100 W light bulb uses 100 watts. A 100 W CFL (though I doubt such a thing exists) uses 100 W and puts out a metric ass-ton of light.
I find that highly unlikely.
I'll just leave this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQwZroEuec
Ubuntu: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
~# aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
~#
Debian:
1. Google up this abortion of web design: http://debian-multimedia.org/
2. Add the poorly documented repo maintained by two people to your sources.list.
3a. Fire up an Ubuntu VM and use several iterations of aptitude show to figure out what packages are actually installed by ubuntu-restricted-extras (and thus which ones are necessary to have a usable desktop).
3b. Alternatively, google up the aforementioned list of packages.
4. ~# aptitude install `cat list-of-packages.txt`
After you've done all that, install the moste evile closed-source video card driver. I would include it, but I have never successfully gotten past this step.
Premise: The long term drift and short term drift (phase noise) on the power lines can be reduced through some expenditure of resources.
Premise: The magnitude of said reduction is some mostly-monotonic increasing function of cost.
Conlusion: Drift and phase noise cannot be made zero with finite resources. Furthermore, there is some cost savings associated with increasing the allowable drift and phase noise.
Fact: the addition and removal of loads from the power grid causes the mechanical load, and therefore shaft speed and therefore output frequency of generators to vary. As a result, power frequency varies substantially over the short term (phase noise). The contribution this would otherwise make to long term drift is negated by intentionally varying the frequency to synchronize a mains-driven clock with a time standard.
Conclusion: a timing signal derived from the power grid is at most as good as the time standard over the long term, and considerably worse over the short term.
Fact: For those who need extreme precision, there exist several accessible clock sources, such as the WWV, GPS, and CDMA signals. In the short term, power line frequency references are handily beaten by even the humble crystal oscillator
My argument reduces to this: NO individual, interested only in some specific problem-space, has the right to force upon a great many others a level of accuracy, and the associated costs, substantially greater than what is required for their applications.
Heh. Voluntary. I wonder what happens to the people who opt out?
First they came for the terrorists,
and i didn't speak out because I wasn't a terrorist
Then they came for the pedophiles,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a pedophile.
Then they came for the flag-burners,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a flag burner.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I've found I like the vertical 'dock' (dammit OSX) on wide screen monitors, but it really does have way too many things pinned by default. The global menus do an admirable job of making a single-task-only workstation out of a machine with 8 GiB of ram. The only benefit is the extra vertical space on very small screens, but the vertical task bar eats so many horizontal pixels (many web designers assume 1024 horizontal or better) that the interface is not usable on small screens. I would not object to the global menus if they only came into play for maximized windows. For unmaximized windows however, only one window can have its menus accessible at one time, and it is unclear which window that is.
I might use Unity on my netbook (800x480), but the Intel Graphics My Ass video chip is insufficiently grunty for compiz. It runs Xubuntu 10.10 now, but 11.04 has been infected with the cargo cult OSX-ism that's been going around of late. I'm likely going to dump Ubuntu for CrunchBang, if I can get suspend working properly in openbox.
People who need 8 parts per 10^18 timekeeping don't sync their watches to the power grid.
These 'minor exceptions' happen to include reasonably punchy drivers for your GPU, and anything that is patented in the United States.
So why isn't this guy using a UPS and a shopvac?
My point is that the intrinsic value of gold is small in comparison to its trade value, and has no relevance to gold's suitability as a currency. There are but two attributes required of a currency:
1. It must be difficult to counterfeit.
2. People must widely accept it as payment.
Bitcoin possesses the first, but the second requires stable value (chicken and egg problem exists here), and is a complex social effect. I think the problem with bitcoin is that the initial mining difficulty was too low, and that it is adjusted for constant global rate of production instead of constant difficulty on current hardware. This created the huge advantage for early adopters, and caused the mining explosion and speculation, of which the current bubble is a result.
Shi-pong! Shi-pong! Shi-pong!
What do bitcoin, USD, the euro, and gold all have in common? Their value as a trade good far exceeds their utility.
I don't know what his objection to hosts files is, but mine is this:
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