Heh, in a similar vein, 2 months ago my power supply died. So i purchased a new mobo, cpu, video, ram and case (inc psu).
:)
"Forced" hardware upgrades are fun:)
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A 1900x1200 display only uses ~10mb of ram in 32 bit colour (for the screen buffer). The memory for textures, etc is the same regardless of screen resolution.
It's no longer like the days of EGA/VGA where screen resolution was a function of your available video memory - the major consumer of video memory these days is textures...
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If you want top of the line video in the mac, you buy a proper Mac Pro (you know, one of those ones in a seperate box with expansion slots), not an Imac.
... what i want to know is whether offloading the entire TCP/IP stack onto a network card is going to help with security.
If there's an exploit for your TCP/IP stack on the network card, and it manages to compromise your NIC's tcp/ip, then it's still some way off compromising your host machine's OS? Yes/no?
I'm no expert on these things, so I'd be interested to hear from someone who IS as to whether or not it's a useful security measure...
I have not seen ANY Windows thread recover in the way you say it should, under 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2K, XP, or Vista. They just crash..NET is a different story, but Windows Explorer is not written in.NET.
That still doesn't mean explorer isn't broken.
I think the original poster is referring to the fact that if you're writing code that has to be secure/reliable (such as oh, i dunno... an O/S shell), you check/validate input before you process it and otherwise attempt to deal with exceptions that happen rather than blindly crashing.
I was taught that sort of think in secondary school pascal programming 101 many many years ago. It's NOT frickin rocket science.
Yes, Div-X is incompatible with vista. That much is a given. It doesn't mean that explorer has any excuse for crashing when a plugin fails though.
Windows Explorer's job is not to recover gracefully from errors.... that's part of.NET's job. Explorer's job is to provide a basic interface for interacting with Windows and your computer and your applications.
Explorer's job is to provide a stable graphical shell. Exception handling is part of that requirement. There's no need for.net or managed code to provide that, simple basic programming 101 principles apply. Relying on managed code to recover from shitty half-assed code is like relying on crumple zones to park your car with.
I see a lot of people defending Microsoft's use of "RC" for this release.
It seems that from what they're saying, "RC" or "release candidate" is used to describe Microsoft software that is barely feature complete, and slow/buggy.
Feature complete, but still with known serious bugs is not worth of being called a "release candidate" in my opinion - this is what BETA software usually is.
"release candidate" should be used to describe software that has few known serious issues (it's called a "release candidate" because unless someone reports a serious showstopper, it actually *becomes* the release). Is it any wonder then, that the eventual released software is usually slow and buggy? That they're calling this sort of software a "release candidate" is a bit of an insight into just how unimportant shipping a quality piece of software is to the company.
Now, i'm as anti-vista as pretty much anybody, but "most of the features" aren't just eye-candy.
There's the whole switch to the.net API in large parts of the O/S to take into consideration, directX 10, re-written tcp/ip stack and future versions of IE just off the top of my head (haven't been following vista that closely either).
Sure, it's possible that heaps of that could technically be back-ported to XP, but don't expect it to happen any time soon.
As to someone writing a drop-in explorer.exe replacement, or adding applets - i don't see it being technically that difficult, it's just a case of someone deciding to bother...
Questions: How much did the PS1 cost on launch day? Considering I paid around $499AU for mine quite some time (i'm talking 1 year+) after release, i'm guessing it was on par, particularly when you take inflation into account.
Did it include component output? Did it include RF output? From my (hazy) memory, I recall having to choose between purchasing a component cable or an RF adapter...
It doesn't come with a HDMI-capable HDTV to plug it into either - if you want HD you're simply going to have to spend the $25 and buy a quality HDMI cable.
Lately, i hate sony as much as anyone, but shit... my HDMI compliant HDTV didn't come with a HDMI cable either.
...sure, for a while, profiling may help pick up bags more effectively, but what's to say that "the terrorists" aren't taking note of what gets picked up?
I.e., some guy on here posted about his camoflague bag getting searched every time. If i was a terrorist organisation and noticed that, I'd be damn sure to NOT use a camo-bag for my gear...
Any non-random method of selection can be beaten. By trying to make searches more effective, you may in fact be reducing their long-term usefulness.
My bet is that he was "Accidentally" skewered by this sting ray whilst he was trying to take a ride on it's back. Most people who get stung by sting-rays are usually by stepping on them or kneeling on them or whatever, when they're laying on the sea floor.
As someone else here posted, it's not really an accident, it's just a matter of statistics catching up with you.
Yes, sting-rays are generally non-fatal, but if their stinger is aiming at your chest (as it would be when tryign to ride one), you're quite possibly going to die.
Well then, do an IE specific version that's plain ASCII text, and code for browsers that support standards.
Web developers expect us to download flash, quicktime and heaps of other crap to work with their websites, firefox (or opera) is smaller than quicktime, last i checked...
I continue to maintain that if you want a good movie viewing experience, pay the $10 for you to go to the movies. Even at $10 a trip if you go once a week you are at $520 which is far less than the TV and high def DVD you paid for. And if you are worried about popcorn muck, move out of the hellhole you live in and move to a real part of the country. The large cineplexes I go to don't have that problem. If you are worried about people talking, grow a backbone and learn to tell them to shut up or suck it up.
Well actually the cinema isn't all that rosy.
Don't know about you, but i typically watch movies with friends.
The true cost is about $25+ per head (in australia, $15 movie ticket, plus over-priced drinks/food), per movie viewing - if there's only 2 of you that's $50 - and that's not even counting the costs in transport to get there.
So now we're talking say $50+ per week, or $2.5k (AU admittedly, but x0.75 for US figures I'm guessing - roughly) per year.
And you've still got to deal with ass-clowns on their mobile phones and screaming kids.
Your connection being in spamhaus' lists isn't a symptom of having redundancy though, it's a result of not performing egress filtering and/or insufficient testing (previous IP owner in spamhaus perhaps?).
Properly set up (and tested) redundancy is a life-saver.
Erm, if squid's connection goes down though, you're generally still out of luck.
Unless you've somehow configured it to never check for newer versions of cached pages, etc - even with a fairly aggressive caching configuration will still generally break with no internet connection.
But really... *ALL* video online is pretty crap unless you've got a pretty good connection. Like > 2megabit. You can work out how shitty it will be by comparing video bitrate to modem bitrate, it's seriously not that hard...
If you recall, it was around this time a couple of years ago that we started hearing about the subscription model and Software Assurance. This was supposed to make life easier for everyone by giving Microsoft a continuous stream of money and receiving from them a continuous stream of the latest and greatest. But Vista, which was promised within the contract period of software assurance, is still months away, and corporations have basically thrown away money for no upgrade. From what I've read, Software Assurance was a bit of a flop because people didn't like the idea of paying money and not necessarily receiving anything in return.
Funny you mention it. We canned software assurance for just that reason recently...
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Because CDs and tapes are impossible to copy...
It's no longer like the days of EGA/VGA where screen resolution was a function of your available video memory - the major consumer of video memory these days is textures...
If you want top of the line video in the mac, you buy a proper Mac Pro (you know, one of those ones in a seperate box with expansion slots), not an Imac.
If there's an exploit for your TCP/IP stack on the network card, and it manages to compromise your NIC's tcp/ip, then it's still some way off compromising your host machine's OS? Yes/no?
I'm no expert on these things, so I'd be interested to hear from someone who IS as to whether or not it's a useful security measure...
That still doesn't mean explorer isn't broken.
I think the original poster is referring to the fact that if you're writing code that has to be secure/reliable (such as oh, i dunno... an O/S shell), you check/validate input before you process it and otherwise attempt to deal with exceptions that happen rather than blindly crashing.
I was taught that sort of think in secondary school pascal programming 101 many many years ago. It's NOT frickin rocket science.
Yes, Div-X is incompatible with vista. That much is a given. It doesn't mean that explorer has any excuse for crashing when a plugin fails though.
Explorer's job is to provide a stable graphical shell. Exception handling is part of that requirement. There's no need for .net or managed code to provide that, simple basic programming 101 principles apply. Relying on managed code to recover from shitty half-assed code is like relying on crumple zones to park your car with.
It seems that from what they're saying, "RC" or "release candidate" is used to describe Microsoft software that is barely feature complete, and slow/buggy.
Feature complete, but still with known serious bugs is not worth of being called a "release candidate" in my opinion - this is what BETA software usually is.
"release candidate" should be used to describe software that has few known serious issues (it's called a "release candidate" because unless someone reports a serious showstopper, it actually *becomes* the release). Is it any wonder then, that the eventual released software is usually slow and buggy? That they're calling this sort of software a "release candidate" is a bit of an insight into just how unimportant shipping a quality piece of software is to the company.
There's the whole switch to the .net API in large parts of the O/S to take into consideration, directX 10, re-written tcp/ip stack and future versions of IE just off the top of my head (haven't been following vista that closely either).
Sure, it's possible that heaps of that could technically be back-ported to XP, but don't expect it to happen any time soon.
As to someone writing a drop-in explorer.exe replacement, or adding applets - i don't see it being technically that difficult, it's just a case of someone deciding to bother...
Did it include component output? Did it include RF output? From my (hazy) memory, I recall having to choose between purchasing a component cable or an RF adapter...
Does it ship with an HDMI cable? :D
It doesn't come with a HDMI-capable HDTV to plug it into either - if you want HD you're simply going to have to spend the $25 and buy a quality HDMI cable.
Lately, i hate sony as much as anyone, but shit... my HDMI compliant HDTV didn't come with a HDMI cable either.
Whilst I agree it's a stretch, it's not totally baseless
Granted, but you don't go stacking the odds against you unless you don't care about dying do you?
I.e., some guy on here posted about his camoflague bag getting searched every time. If i was a terrorist organisation and noticed that, I'd be damn sure to NOT use a camo-bag for my gear...
Any non-random method of selection can be beaten. By trying to make searches more effective, you may in fact be reducing their long-term usefulness.
As someone else here posted, it's not really an accident, it's just a matter of statistics catching up with you.
Yes, sting-rays are generally non-fatal, but if their stinger is aiming at your chest (as it would be when tryign to ride one), you're quite possibly going to die.
Actually, given the amount of viruses and spyware floating around, i'd postulate that it's a case of market APATHY.
Web developers expect us to download flash, quicktime and heaps of other crap to work with their websites, firefox (or opera) is smaller than quicktime, last i checked...
In fact, I didn't own a DVD player of any form until 2000.
Well actually the cinema isn't all that rosy.
Don't know about you, but i typically watch movies with friends.
The true cost is about $25+ per head (in australia, $15 movie ticket, plus over-priced drinks/food), per movie viewing - if there's only 2 of you that's $50 - and that's not even counting the costs in transport to get there.
So now we're talking say $50+ per week, or $2.5k (AU admittedly, but x0.75 for US figures I'm guessing - roughly) per year.
And you've still got to deal with ass-clowns on their mobile phones and screaming kids.
No thanks.
For very small values of "reliable"...
Power cut exceeding UPS capacity = shit out of luck. Backhoe through the cabling to your building = shit out of luck. Office fire = shit out of luck.
For reliable DNS, you need at *least* 2 servers in different physical locations, on different networks.
Properly set up (and tested) redundancy is a life-saver.
Unless you've somehow configured it to never check for newer versions of cached pages, etc - even with a fairly aggressive caching configuration will still generally break with no internet connection.
(was a squid-using admin for 6 years)
Conversely, if the net goes out, THE major vector for viruses and exploits for Windows is removed. :)
But really... *ALL* video online is pretty crap unless you've got a pretty good connection. Like > 2megabit. You can work out how shitty it will be by comparing video bitrate to modem bitrate, it's seriously not that hard...
Funny you mention it. We canned software assurance for just that reason recently...