Normally not very often. However with shitty untested hardware that was rushed out the door, such as the Dell E6500 series latitudes, we got 20 bios versions in 18 months. And still there was heaps of problems outstanding with heat.
The whole BIOS idea as we know it is broken. The only thing you should really need to go in there for these days is to change boot device. Which can/could be done with boot menu. Pick sensible defaults, actually test the firmware properly before release, and the whole need to write to bios goes away.
Open source is fine for intel. No patents is fine for intel. In terms of software, people still need hardware to run it on.
In terms of hardware to build for the software, intel has a huge fab advantage. Given an equal, level playing field, intel will come out in front in terms of fabrication.
However, if someone was to patent an invention they've funded, well... then they're at a disadvantage.
Well when the money supply is increasing by say, 10-20% in the past year, and even measuring growth by bunk GDP figures which include money spent by borrowing and don't actually measure, you know... production - 0.25% "growth" is in reality much much worse.
Ours and everyone else's. Seem to recall one theory (not sure who's or the exact wording) that basically states it is likely that by (or before) the time any race becomes advanced enough for interstellar flight it wipes itself out. We're well on our way.
Also - don't forget, if someone has your public key (and has compromised the server's key), they can impersonate the remote end and go for a man in the middle attack.
True, however parent was stating that he couldn't see any advantages to streaming. Yes, sure, a publisher can remove access, but thats a separate issue really - they can already do that via DRM embedded into the content.
All other things being equal, not having to mirror the internet to be able to watch content without buffering time is a good thing.
Businesses today, employees working from home, or remote areas tomorrow. Point being - if the bandwidth is available, there are PLENTY of uses for it out there right now that people aren't currently even attempting due to the shitty consumer grade connections we currently have.
Why would you need gigabit? Sure, you probably don't "need" it - but there are many many uses that are simply not feasible on WAN connections today. Say... cloud storage. DSL is fine if you are dealign with emails. If you're dealing with say, HD video files - its not.
Off-site backup? Got a TB of data you want to back up off site? Good luck.
OK so i want to use "the cloud". If i'm dealing with files more than a couple of megabytes in size, DSL connection speeds suck, hard.
Say i've got a gigabyte of files I want to share with a co-worker in the other side of the country, DSL speeds are going to take a number of hours to get it to him. If i am, say, a multi-national design company, who shares projects of gigabyte+ size (say, mine design, or sub-sea piping) around the world chasing the sun (24 hr labour without paying staff for night shift) - current networks are simply NOT fast enough.
One of our subsidiary companies is trying to do exactly this, and the PHBs at said company just can't grasp the fact that right now, WAN connections are several orders of magnitude slower than LAN connections.
... and my laptop/desktop can't do 420 or even 200 megabit full duplex on a 100 meg link.
Or put it another way, i can get over 4x the throughput, and future proof my network by going gigabit. It's a no-brainer. Particularly if i want to connect to something over iscsi.
Microsoft doesn't need to resort to this sort of thing to demonstrably kick linux's arse in the market place (i've been waiting for year of the linux / unix desktop since 1995).
More likely, its some random spammer / organised crime group looking for either a well connected site to launch DDOS from, or to insert malware into the linux kernel for spambot purposes.
You're assuming only public keys were compromised. If they had private keys enabling login to other hosts stored on said systems (yes, retarded, but...) then those keys are compromised.
No OS is secure. Take precautions. Having random members of the public from around the world with abilities to get shell access on your systems makes it hard.
Ahh, but if you were a dumb ass and placed your private key for linux.org on say, kernel.org (to log into one from the other), then if kernel.org got hacked, your key is gone.
I thought more people synced iDevices to Windows than that. My bet is that it is either shitty passwords, or crappy old Windows XP machines that have been compromised.
Maybe even people who had their password compromised by the Sony hack(s) a while ago,and use the same email/password on iTunes.
Why? Do you typically install a modern free unix system to strip down to bare bones in general use? I suspect comparing the operating systems in a state that is either out of the box or in a state that most users will have them installed in is far more relevant than some theoretical best case.
More importantly: if you compile your own stuff from source, random crashes in the OS fall on your shoulders to sort out. Is it flaky hardware? Is it a misconfigured kernel option? Is it some library you linked to incorrectly when compiling the kernel? Is it a wierd compiler bug in your particular version of GCC? Who knows?
Use a generic kernel and if the 100,000 or more other users out there using the same kernel aren't seeing any issues, then you know your hardware may be suspect.
So its a choice - is that extra 10% (or typically LESS) in terms of FPS worth dropping easy ability to verify whether or not issues you may encounter are your own doing with software vs hardware issues?
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Yeah, but vp8 is shit.
Normally not very often. However with shitty untested hardware that was rushed out the door, such as the Dell E6500 series latitudes, we got 20 bios versions in 18 months. And still there was heaps of problems outstanding with heat.
The whole BIOS idea as we know it is broken. The only thing you should really need to go in there for these days is to change boot device. Which can/could be done with boot menu. Pick sensible defaults, actually test the firmware properly before release, and the whole need to write to bios goes away.
Open source is fine for intel. No patents is fine for intel. In terms of software, people still need hardware to run it on.
In terms of hardware to build for the software, intel has a huge fab advantage. Given an equal, level playing field, intel will come out in front in terms of fabrication.
However, if someone was to patent an invention they've funded, well... then they're at a disadvantage.
Well when the money supply is increasing by say, 10-20% in the past year, and even measuring growth by bunk GDP figures which include money spent by borrowing and don't actually measure, you know... production - 0.25% "growth" is in reality much much worse.
Ours and everyone else's. Seem to recall one theory (not sure who's or the exact wording) that basically states it is likely that by (or before) the time any race becomes advanced enough for interstellar flight it wipes itself out. We're well on our way.
Surely given the recent reversal of fortunes and the police state over there, isn't it now time for "in soviet/communist america" jokes?
Given the odds, surely its a mathematical certainty there's at least 2-3 replicas of earth in our galaxy alone...
Also - don't forget, if someone has your public key (and has compromised the server's key), they can impersonate the remote end and go for a man in the middle attack.
True, however parent was stating that he couldn't see any advantages to streaming. Yes, sure, a publisher can remove access, but thats a separate issue really - they can already do that via DRM embedded into the content.
All other things being equal, not having to mirror the internet to be able to watch content without buffering time is a good thing.
Businesses today, employees working from home, or remote areas tomorrow. Point being - if the bandwidth is available, there are PLENTY of uses for it out there right now that people aren't currently even attempting due to the shitty consumer grade connections we currently have.
If you have sufficient bandwidth, then streaming stuff means that you do not need the storage available to store the entire file. Or multiple files.
The current mentality of hoarding everything on LAN connected disk is simply due to the fact that we have insufficient reliable bandwidth available.
Why would you need gigabit? Sure, you probably don't "need" it - but there are many many uses that are simply not feasible on WAN connections today. Say... cloud storage. DSL is fine if you are dealign with emails. If you're dealing with say, HD video files - its not.
Off-site backup? Got a TB of data you want to back up off site? Good luck.
OK so i want to use "the cloud". If i'm dealing with files more than a couple of megabytes in size, DSL connection speeds suck, hard.
Say i've got a gigabyte of files I want to share with a co-worker in the other side of the country, DSL speeds are going to take a number of hours to get it to him. If i am, say, a multi-national design company, who shares projects of gigabyte+ size (say, mine design, or sub-sea piping) around the world chasing the sun (24 hr labour without paying staff for night shift) - current networks are simply NOT fast enough.
One of our subsidiary companies is trying to do exactly this, and the PHBs at said company just can't grasp the fact that right now, WAN connections are several orders of magnitude slower than LAN connections.
Or put it another way, i can get over 4x the throughput, and future proof my network by going gigabit. It's a no-brainer. Particularly if i want to connect to something over iscsi.
Microsoft doesn't need to resort to this sort of thing to demonstrably kick linux's arse in the market place (i've been waiting for year of the linux / unix desktop since 1995).
More likely, its some random spammer / organised crime group looking for either a well connected site to launch DDOS from, or to insert malware into the linux kernel for spambot purposes.
Or a script kiddie doing it for bragging rights.
You're assuming only public keys were compromised. If they had private keys enabling login to other hosts stored on said systems (yes, retarded, but...) then those keys are compromised.
No OS is secure. Take precautions. Having random members of the public from around the world with abilities to get shell access on your systems makes it hard.
I wouldn't go that far. Sounds more like a few attacks on high profile public systems that just happen to host linux projects.
Because you're a dumbass.
Ahh, but if you were a dumb ass and placed your private key for linux.org on say, kernel.org (to log into one from the other), then if kernel.org got hacked, your key is gone.
... out of the few hundred million iTunes users?
I thought more people synced iDevices to Windows than that. My bet is that it is either shitty passwords, or crappy old Windows XP machines that have been compromised.
Maybe even people who had their password compromised by the Sony hack(s) a while ago,and use the same email/password on iTunes.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Please provide link to single system hacked by this issue. Cheers.
Why? Do you typically install a modern free unix system to strip down to bare bones in general use? I suspect comparing the operating systems in a state that is either out of the box or in a state that most users will have them installed in is far more relevant than some theoretical best case.
More importantly: if you compile your own stuff from source, random crashes in the OS fall on your shoulders to sort out. Is it flaky hardware? Is it a misconfigured kernel option? Is it some library you linked to incorrectly when compiling the kernel? Is it a wierd compiler bug in your particular version of GCC? Who knows?
Use a generic kernel and if the 100,000 or more other users out there using the same kernel aren't seeing any issues, then you know your hardware may be suspect.
So its a choice - is that extra 10% (or typically LESS) in terms of FPS worth dropping easy ability to verify whether or not issues you may encounter are your own doing with software vs hardware issues?