That may be the case so far, but what about the fact that the PS3 Free Speech Flag has already been deleted--and in such a way that the deletion logs are hidden too.
No, it can't be easily fixed in software because no software is used to control it.
Incorrect, the OS can control it.
Firewire and Thunderbolt access hardware without any processor interaction or notification.
Correct.
Which means that a connected device is free to read and write to any existing piece of memory
Incorrect.
As the above-mentioned article says, "Intel processors offer the means to significantly rein in Thunderbolt by restricting a device's access to memory locations of the computer it's attached to. But as of now, there are no indications Mac OS X makes use of this. “With the newer Intel processors, I think it would be pretty easy” to restrict Thunderbolt's memory access, Graham tells The Reg. “I don't see any problem why they can't do it.”"
Therefore, it indeed is something that can easily be fixed in software. Just because the processor doesn't involve itself in each and every transfer, doesn't mean that the processor can't specify beforehand which memory addresses the Firewire or Thunderbolt device is allowed to access. See also: IOMMU
If you actually design a GOOD SMPS, rather than the typical POS PSUs that inhabit most Wintel-type equipment, you will find that redundant power supplies are, well, redundant.
I wish I could've gotten one of those GOOD SMPSes in my dual proc G4. The PSU died about a year or so ago, so I bought a replacement. The replacement died about two weeks ago. After trying to decide whether I still wanted to keep it alive, I ordered some new capacitors and am gonna try replacing them tomorrow. That said, the caps in the dead PSU don't seem obviously bad (no leaking electrolyte, and they do hold a charge, although I don't have any idea if the capacitance is still within specs).
On the other hand, I do have a Centris 660av with its original PSU that still works.
If being funny were meant to affect karma, it would.
And in fact, it used to. That it no longer does is another one of/.'s unfortunate regressions. Another one being that it used to allow non-Latin1 characters in comments (e.g., Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, and others). Just because CmdrTaco decides to change something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. The ability to post comments with arbitrary characters was removed due to abuse of Unicode control characters; the proper solution would've been to filter only the control characters, rather than to filter out 99% of the characters.
I don't know what the reasoning was behind the removal of Funny's karma bonus, but I suspect that the reasoning wasn't very sound.
Maybe that's why the title of this article is "Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet". And while videos and music are very popular on the net, text/html is pervasive.
But again, this doesn't explain why Dallas, Austin, Houston, etc don't have any real high speed Internet options.... Yet the best broadband options in most of those cities are 15/1.5 or worse.
I haven't checked other cities, but I live in a suburb northwest of Austin and could get 107/5 (I don't though; I'm fine with the 6/1 I have).
(look, they say this themselves, they're going to throw it away for the next big release iteration in favor of WC-NG)
No, they don't say that. WC-NG is a working copy format, whereas Berkeley DB and fsfs are used for the repository. Switching to a different working copy format does not change anything about the repository. fsfs is still the preferred repo format.
Instead its half assed, baseless speculation based on a the graphic for a press event.
No, the event invitation specifically mentions that they'll be previewing the next version of OSX: "Come see what's new for the Mac on October 20, including a sneak peek of the next major version of Mac OS X."
While it's speculation that it'll be named "Lion", it's not speculation that they're announcing the next version.
Well, Windows 2000 borrowed chunks of the BSD TCP/IP stack...
I haven't seen any real evidence of that. Windows 2000 (and earlier versions, and later versions) used a lot of BSD networking utilities, such as the commandline FTP client. ftp.exe is not remotely part of the TCP/IP stack though.
There were rumors of MS using a BSD stack many years ago, due to nmap's OS fingerprinting guessing that a Win2K machine was running NetBSD, but that's extremely flimsy evidence, and after people researched it more, they were convinced that MS's stack was not BSD-derived. MS had used a TCP/IP stack from Spider Systems, and a former Spider employee said that their TCP stack was not BSD-derived.
Yes, but most smartphones aren't being held by their ANTENNA under normal usage scenarios.
They aren't? Where do you think the antenna is in most smartphones? See, for example, page 16 of the Nokia E71 user guide: "Your device may have internal and external antennas. Avoid
touching the antenna area unnecessarily while the antenna
is transmitting or receiving. Contact with antennas affects the
communication quality and may cause a higher power level
during operation and may reduce the battery life." Followed by a diagram showing both the top and the bottom of the phone as no-no zones. It'd be pretty awkward to attempt to hold the phone up to my ear while not covering those two areas.
$190 is expensive? I suppose it's expensive for something that drives an ancient obsolete scanner, but back when parallel SCSI was (relatively) popular, a new card was about the same price. IIRC, an Adaptec 1542CF retailed for a bit over $200 in 1995.
If you've got a fairly speedy machine, set the interleave to 1:1. Don't forget to input the list of bad blocks so the drive won't try to store data in them. There's some more info in this KB article
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But I'll never get a /. article.
Oh, but you do have a /. article. About attempting, but failing, to apply for a job at Kroger's. :)
66% is 66 parts per hundred. 660 parts per million is 660/1000000, or 0.066%.
1kW isn't within the 10-100kW range. Where did the 1kW number come from, and why should we believe it over the builder's estimate?
That may be the case so far, but what about the fact that the PS3 Free Speech Flag has already been deleted--and in such a way that the deletion logs are hidden too.
No, it can't be easily fixed in software because no software is used to control it.
Incorrect, the OS can control it.
Firewire and Thunderbolt access hardware without any processor interaction or notification.
Correct.
Which means that a connected device is free to read and write to any existing piece of memory
Incorrect.
As the above-mentioned article says, "Intel processors offer the means to significantly rein in Thunderbolt by restricting a device's access to memory locations of the computer it's attached to. But as of now, there are no indications Mac OS X makes use of this. “With the newer Intel processors, I think it would be pretty easy” to restrict Thunderbolt's memory access, Graham tells The Reg. “I don't see any problem why they can't do it.”"
Therefore, it indeed is something that can easily be fixed in software. Just because the processor doesn't involve itself in each and every transfer, doesn't mean that the processor can't specify beforehand which memory addresses the Firewire or Thunderbolt device is allowed to access. See also: IOMMU
If you actually design a GOOD SMPS, rather than the typical POS PSUs that inhabit most Wintel-type equipment, you will find that redundant power supplies are, well, redundant.
I wish I could've gotten one of those GOOD SMPSes in my dual proc G4. The PSU died about a year or so ago, so I bought a replacement. The replacement died about two weeks ago. After trying to decide whether I still wanted to keep it alive, I ordered some new capacitors and am gonna try replacing them tomorrow. That said, the caps in the dead PSU don't seem obviously bad (no leaking electrolyte, and they do hold a charge, although I don't have any idea if the capacitance is still within specs).
On the other hand, I do have a Centris 660av with its original PSU that still works.
You're some retard stoner who pretends to make money selling LEDs. And who thinks that foxes and dogs are in the same genus.
With love from /furi/, Dahan
u jelly?
Your mother is either a cow or an elephant. I never said your mother was an elephant.
Except you did. That's what 'or' does as a junction.
Uh, what? "Or" is a disjunction--a union, if you will. By definition, Cost > 0 and epsilon > 0
Price < Cost OR Abs(Price - Cost) < epsilon
Which implies: Price < Cost + epsilon
It does not imply that Price < Cost.
Do you need a diagram?
If being funny were meant to affect karma, it would.
And in fact, it used to. That it no longer does is another one of /.'s unfortunate regressions. Another one being that it used to allow non-Latin1 characters in comments (e.g., Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, and others). Just because CmdrTaco decides to change something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. The ability to post comments with arbitrary characters was removed due to abuse of Unicode control characters; the proper solution would've been to filter only the control characters, rather than to filter out 99% of the characters.
I don't know what the reasoning was behind the removal of Funny's karma bonus, but I suspect that the reasoning wasn't very sound.
How would that be an improvement? Someone doesn't understand the AABB rhyme scheme. That line is supposed to rhyme with "... empty beer cans and all."
the words are written more or less the same way
Maybe that's why the title of this article is "Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet". And while videos and music are very popular on the net, text/html is pervasive.
But again, this doesn't explain why Dallas, Austin, Houston, etc don't have any real high speed Internet options. ... Yet the best broadband options in most of those cities are 15/1.5 or worse.
I haven't checked other cities, but I live in a suburb northwest of Austin and could get 107/5 (I don't though; I'm fine with the 6/1 I have).
(look, they say this themselves, they're going to throw it away for the next big release iteration in favor of WC-NG)
No, they don't say that. WC-NG is a working copy format, whereas Berkeley DB and fsfs are used for the repository. Switching to a different working copy format does not change anything about the repository. fsfs is still the preferred repo format.
However, you're still a moron.
Aww, poor baby. Why don't you cry some more?
Instead its half assed, baseless speculation based on a the graphic for a press event.
No, the event invitation specifically mentions that they'll be previewing the next version of OSX: "Come see what's new for the Mac on October 20, including a sneak peek of the next major version of Mac OS X."
While it's speculation that it'll be named "Lion", it's not speculation that they're announcing the next version.
Yes--all of the ones that are published in peer-reviewed journals, at least.
No, we just think you're lying. And that you need some counseling.
Also, check out the googlemap of El Segundo -- it's right next door to a buttload of chemical (gasoline?) storage tanks.
Well, I don't think ICANN is running their operations out of a Good Stuff restaurant. Try this map instead.
Well, Windows 2000 borrowed chunks of the BSD TCP/IP stack...
I haven't seen any real evidence of that. Windows 2000 (and earlier versions, and later versions) used a lot of BSD networking utilities, such as the commandline FTP client. ftp.exe is not remotely part of the TCP/IP stack though.
There were rumors of MS using a BSD stack many years ago, due to nmap's OS fingerprinting guessing that a Win2K machine was running NetBSD, but that's extremely flimsy evidence, and after people researched it more, they were convinced that MS's stack was not BSD-derived. MS had used a TCP/IP stack from Spider Systems, and a former Spider employee said that their TCP stack was not BSD-derived.
Yes, but most smartphones aren't being held by their ANTENNA under normal usage scenarios.
They aren't? Where do you think the antenna is in most smartphones? See, for example, page 16 of the Nokia E71 user guide: "Your device may have internal and external antennas. Avoid touching the antenna area unnecessarily while the antenna is transmitting or receiving. Contact with antennas affects the communication quality and may cause a higher power level during operation and may reduce the battery life." Followed by a diagram showing both the top and the bottom of the phone as no-no zones. It'd be pretty awkward to attempt to hold the phone up to my ear while not covering those two areas.
DDT is still used today to combat malaria. It's just not indiscriminately carpet-bombed all of the place like it was in the '50s.
$190 is expensive? I suppose it's expensive for something that drives an ancient obsolete scanner, but back when parallel SCSI was (relatively) popular, a new card was about the same price. IIRC, an Adaptec 1542CF retailed for a bit over $200 in 1995.
Here's what I used to use for a low-level format:
A>debug
g=c800:5
If you've got a fairly speedy machine, set the interleave to 1:1. Don't forget to input the list of bad blocks so the drive won't try to store data in them. There's some more info in this KB article
HTH, HAND