Someone is under the illusion that Windows has an inadequate scripting system for the sysadmin. That may have been true 10 years ago, but things are very different now.
What you should buy depends on what you plan to do, obviously. I've used several of the korean imports (Owon, Rigol) and although the feature set on those is incredible for the price, the units themselves have strange firmware problems that can be maddening when they strike. Also, the knockoff scopes can't seem to get "Automatic" triggering correct (they only sweep 3 or 4 times a second, no matter how fast you crank up the sweep rate, and that can be annoying when you are monitoring a signal), the Tektronix scopes are much better with regard to this feature.
... but seriously, hasn't Windows Server had this stuff (multiple RDP's hosted on a web server) like this for 7+ years now? Is this something new to FOSS?
Your line of thought is so short sighted that you could be a guest host on the Rush Limbaugh show.
1. Governments are NOT trying to make a profit. If I get a local candidate who promises to use their "business experience" to improve the local government, I almost always RUN AWAY to the other candidate. Governments exist to provide services to their constituents. People like this are the ones who say, "lower taxes and everything will be ok." Reaganomics already proved that this meant "lower taxes and everything will be ok for the rich". Governments need to balance income (taxes) and expenses (services). They've been doing pretty badly for a while now.
2. Pay-for-what-you-use is a nonstarter. Besides the already-pointed-out "how would you determine that", it would turn us into a 3rd World country. Quickly. You know, the kind where you don't have a road system, power & phone service isn't available anywhere besides the capital, and schools are run by charity groups from other countries. Here's a not-too-far-off scenario if this happens: "You know, we wanted to have a highway come near our town, but it had to be built through 4 other towns who didn't have anyone with cars, so we would have had to pay for the highways through them too. But our people didn't want to pay for the highway through the other 4 towns, since its NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY. So, there's no highway. Actually, there's no paved streets, well, I lied, there is a paved street in the rich section, where the people repave the street in from of their house when they have their driveway redone.."
The last time I checked, wired landlines gave you fantastic voice quality direct to your house. 900mhz cordless phones allow you to roam around wirelessly, without interfering with your wifi connection.
No, most fastloaders actually used only two of the serial lines to transfer data. They worked by transferring byte data synchronously, by synchronizing the instruction stream at the start of each byte so that there was a sequence of 4 reads or writes to transfer each byte. This involved some other blackmagic trickery, since the 1541's 6502 processor was completely unfettered, while the C-64's 6510 processor was stalled for sprite DMA and display memory access (basically, 1 out of every 8 scanlines), meaning that you had to either turn off all of that DMA (turning off sprites and blanking the screen) or make sure you run your transfers when you knew that the DMA wasn't going to take place.
A couple of other schemes used asynchronous transfers which were STILL faster than the standard kernel code, then a few systems like Copylock and Vorpal used custom sector formats to minimize the amount of processing needed by the 1541 to decode the data. If I recall correctly, the drive I/O on the C-64 is a stripped down version of an older interface which was actually a parallel 8-bit interface, they simply removed 7 of the lines from the interface but still retained the same control scheme. This resulted in an I/O speed of around 300 bytes/second for a "stock" C64/1541. The 1541's OS itself was able to encode/decode and read/write sectors with an interleave of 3, which is about 7k/second, but the processor-driven serial I/O reduced that by quite a bit. Many fastloaders simplay used the existing read/write routines and accelerated the serial I/O, which easily put the drive at an interleave of 8. Some rewrote the GCR routines too, and I've seen those go down to an interleave of 4. Vorpal rewrote the serial I/O and the sector format, disabled all DMA, and synchronized both processors to +1/-0 cycles to run multiple byte transfers, making it the fastest software based accelerator, with an interleave of 2, reading and transferring an entire track in two revolutions of the disk, or about 12K/second.
Don't even bother installing PVC wires, just use plenum-rated cable everywhere. That way, your butt is covered no matter what the inspector thinks.
As was mentioned in prior posts, all modern ethernets require twisted pair matched impedance wires. They also require the wires to be pretty much the same length, too. Just forget about re-purposing the coax wires as ethernet. 802.11g/n will be much easier to install, but if you need bandwidth, you will need to pull new wires.
It seems that big publishers, who have had last word in the price of the songs/books that they sell, enjoyed being able to set the price of what they purchased the content for and sold the content for. Here comes newfangled electronic media, and now they are the middlemen and not the end distributors - and it appears they don't like being in the position that they have had authors (/musicians) in all along.
Seems like a heaping dose of karma to me.
Ok, so now I'm curious... what's so special about *this* low-power low-performance (fixed that for you) non-x86 ARM chipset that differentiates itself from the horde of other low-power low-performance non-x86 ARM chipsets?
So, you are implying that buying a set of TV commercials slamming a politician's opponent, is less of a bribe, than say, buying him a boat or a vacation for him and his missus in Sweden?
Your point is terribly misplaced, since citizens do not make the laws. Elected representatives make the laws. Corporations do NOT (well, as far as I'm aware) make contributions to citizens who are not elected officials (or potential elected officials). The issue here isn't "buying off the general public", it's "buying off our elected representatives". Too bad you are too conservative to see that.
You can always retrofit. If you gotta have your SSD, the Acer Aspire One machines use standard 2.5" notebook drives, the form factor that many SSD's come in (or have adapters for). It's a bit more involved to swap out than your typical laptop hard disk, but the option is definitely there.
a Symantec spokesman announced today that they had found vulnerabilities in the Christmas Tree Webserver. "It's terribly easy to DDOS the tree. I mean, it's using an 8-bit PIC MCU that can only service a dozen or so requests a second. We recommend protecting the Christmas Tree with NAV-XMAS version, or at the very least, putting the tree behind a firewall, as we can't guarantee that the tree won't go up in flames when the next malicious attacker strikes."
The only problem with that, is that electricity is part of our infrastructure. It's not something you can do without (such as large screen TV's), there are people of all sorts of financial ability that depend on electricity, whether it is to cook their meals, light their houses, or take a shower in the morning. It's the reason why we regulate some things "into the ground" (as blind conservatives would spew out), and it is necessary, else we WOULD have things like Enron. Infrastructure (mail, roads, utilities, etc) is not something you ration out to the highest bidder - that puts it into fast track for collapse, as the "less profitable" areas get neglected. Of all the things that have been deregulated, only one (telecomm) has shown to be an actual benefit for people other than the owners of the businesses supplying the services. I personally see that as an anomaly, a thing that happened before corporations knew how to game the system and lie before the congress.
I didn't see this in any prior posts.
If you are using nvidia hardware on windows, open the nvidia control panel. Go to Display->Adjust Desktop Size and Position->"2. When using a resolution lower than my display's native resolution..."
You can choose between monitor native scaling (passes through video and lets the LCD do the scaling), fixed aspect ratio (gfx card scales it up but keeps the same aspect ratio, probably getting black borders), and fullscreen (gfx card scales it up to fullscreen, ignoring the native aspect ratio).
I believe that a major mistake that a lot of people (including some people here on slashdot) make is assuming that these organizations (RIAA, MPAA) produce ANY content. (OK, OK, we all know they produce these "piracy impact statistics" which are attempted measurements of things which cannot be measured, but I was referring to the actual product they distribute.) As far as I'm aware, they only distribute what OTHERS have produced. These companies are protecting their DISTRIBUTION rights, when all is said and done. The internet allows anyone to distribute anything, and you don't need expensive CD mastering machines, plastic injection molding machines, printing presses and dozens of staff to do it - this makes their business model obsolete, and they are trying to keep the old way of business propped up. We've seen it many times before (see: player piano, tape recorder, vcr), and they (eventually) adapt, even though they are crying "Fire!" the entire time.
Copyright infringement has always been there. It is a lot like prohibition: some sort of moral behavior is legislated, and enough people don't agree that there are entire underground networks dedicated to serving that prohibited behavior. It's a lost cause, but that fact hasn't yet sunk in at those companies.
There are a lot of oddball reasons to have those legacy ports for special circumstances; developer kits that require parallel cable hookups, serial I/O hookups (although the latter you can generally get away with a USB converter as long as its standard serial I/O and not manual bit toggling), using older monitors, etc. Heck, it's much simpler to conjure up a computer controlled hardware hack (I/O) on a parallel port than with USB. Many TV's still come with "PC" (i.e. VGA) inputs, although this is moving over to HDMI.
Odds are though, that for the average consumer, none of the legacy I/O ports are needed any more. You can walk down to Staples or Best Buy and get replacement USB mice/keyboards. CRT's are pretty much a thing of the past, and most, if not all flat panels have DVI and/or HDMI inputs.
From TFA, the pings noted were actually 30 seconds apart. My last GPS reported speeds every second. So, the question is, what was the ping rate of the GPS on the car? Was the logged value the average of the past 30 seconds of pings, or just the most recent ping? (Yes, in all likelyhood, it's an average of values, the kid was speeding, and figured that if he didn't go over 75 and trigger the auto-phone-home-warning, his parents wouldn't find out.)
You probably have one of the new Socket1156 systems, then. Windows 7 thinks it has a correct driver for the MCH, but like in any version of windows, if the hardware was released after the OS was RTM'd, then you should be hitting the manufacturer's web site for the latest drivers. Unfortunately, Win7 doesn't complain about missing a driver (as it usually does); it automatically installs the built-in ICH driver, which "almost" works. That's unfortunate, but not unexpected (at least, not to anyone who has set up bleeding-edge hardware before) when working with bleeding-edge hardware.
If you're on Windows, "PDF annotator" (Grahl software) might be something to check out. I use it with my tablet PC to highlight sections of books (same as I would do with a regular paper copy of the book).
This has already been tried, and failed to gain traction in the marketplace. Zen TrueX technology [url]http://www.cdr-info.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=6084[/url] was used in a handful of Kenwood CDROM drives in the late 90's. The drives were "relatively" expensive ($120 at a time when [loud, hot] 52X generic drives were going for $40), and had issues reading from CD-R and CD-RW discs. However, when used on regularly pressed CDROM discs, the drives were every bit is quick as the generic 52X drives, but virtually quiet (since they only spun the discs at 8x/10x speeds). They also suffered from a defect rate similar to the generic 52X cdrom drives. But, if you wanted a quiet system with a quick CDROM drive for those game installs, there was no other game in town.
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Someone is under the illusion that Windows has an inadequate scripting system for the sysadmin. That may have been true 10 years ago, but things are very different now.
What you should buy depends on what you plan to do, obviously. I've used several of the korean imports (Owon, Rigol) and although the feature set on those is incredible for the price, the units themselves have strange firmware problems that can be maddening when they strike. Also, the knockoff scopes can't seem to get "Automatic" triggering correct (they only sweep 3 or 4 times a second, no matter how fast you crank up the sweep rate, and that can be annoying when you are monitoring a signal), the Tektronix scopes are much better with regard to this feature.
... but seriously, hasn't Windows Server had this stuff (multiple RDP's hosted on a web server) like this for 7+ years now? Is this something new to FOSS?
No, I think you don't understand. Elimination of 2nd hand sales was the real reason they introduced these DRM measures.
Art of Electronics is a great book... but NOT the first book you want to pick up when you're just learning, a point noted by the OP.
Your line of thought is so short sighted that you could be a guest host on the Rush Limbaugh show. 1. Governments are NOT trying to make a profit. If I get a local candidate who promises to use their "business experience" to improve the local government, I almost always RUN AWAY to the other candidate. Governments exist to provide services to their constituents. People like this are the ones who say, "lower taxes and everything will be ok." Reaganomics already proved that this meant "lower taxes and everything will be ok for the rich". Governments need to balance income (taxes) and expenses (services). They've been doing pretty badly for a while now. 2. Pay-for-what-you-use is a nonstarter. Besides the already-pointed-out "how would you determine that", it would turn us into a 3rd World country. Quickly. You know, the kind where you don't have a road system, power & phone service isn't available anywhere besides the capital, and schools are run by charity groups from other countries. Here's a not-too-far-off scenario if this happens: "You know, we wanted to have a highway come near our town, but it had to be built through 4 other towns who didn't have anyone with cars, so we would have had to pay for the highways through them too. But our people didn't want to pay for the highway through the other 4 towns, since its NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY. So, there's no highway. Actually, there's no paved streets, well, I lied, there is a paved street in the rich section, where the people repave the street in from of their house when they have their driveway redone.."
The last time I checked, wired landlines gave you fantastic voice quality direct to your house. 900mhz cordless phones allow you to roam around wirelessly, without interfering with your wifi connection.
No, most fastloaders actually used only two of the serial lines to transfer data. They worked by transferring byte data synchronously, by synchronizing the instruction stream at the start of each byte so that there was a sequence of 4 reads or writes to transfer each byte. This involved some other blackmagic trickery, since the 1541's 6502 processor was completely unfettered, while the C-64's 6510 processor was stalled for sprite DMA and display memory access (basically, 1 out of every 8 scanlines), meaning that you had to either turn off all of that DMA (turning off sprites and blanking the screen) or make sure you run your transfers when you knew that the DMA wasn't going to take place. A couple of other schemes used asynchronous transfers which were STILL faster than the standard kernel code, then a few systems like Copylock and Vorpal used custom sector formats to minimize the amount of processing needed by the 1541 to decode the data. If I recall correctly, the drive I/O on the C-64 is a stripped down version of an older interface which was actually a parallel 8-bit interface, they simply removed 7 of the lines from the interface but still retained the same control scheme. This resulted in an I/O speed of around 300 bytes/second for a "stock" C64/1541. The 1541's OS itself was able to encode/decode and read/write sectors with an interleave of 3, which is about 7k/second, but the processor-driven serial I/O reduced that by quite a bit. Many fastloaders simplay used the existing read/write routines and accelerated the serial I/O, which easily put the drive at an interleave of 8. Some rewrote the GCR routines too, and I've seen those go down to an interleave of 4. Vorpal rewrote the serial I/O and the sector format, disabled all DMA, and synchronized both processors to +1/-0 cycles to run multiple byte transfers, making it the fastest software based accelerator, with an interleave of 2, reading and transferring an entire track in two revolutions of the disk, or about 12K/second.
Or is that, "'bot time"!
splits into a motorcycle and a bicycle, too. Each with quick disconnect wheels!
Don't even bother installing PVC wires, just use plenum-rated cable everywhere. That way, your butt is covered no matter what the inspector thinks. As was mentioned in prior posts, all modern ethernets require twisted pair matched impedance wires. They also require the wires to be pretty much the same length, too. Just forget about re-purposing the coax wires as ethernet. 802.11g/n will be much easier to install, but if you need bandwidth, you will need to pull new wires.
It seems that big publishers, who have had last word in the price of the songs/books that they sell, enjoyed being able to set the price of what they purchased the content for and sold the content for. Here comes newfangled electronic media, and now they are the middlemen and not the end distributors - and it appears they don't like being in the position that they have had authors (/musicians) in all along. Seems like a heaping dose of karma to me.
Ok, so now I'm curious... what's so special about *this* low-power low-performance (fixed that for you) non-x86 ARM chipset that differentiates itself from the horde of other low-power low-performance non-x86 ARM chipsets?
So, you are implying that buying a set of TV commercials slamming a politician's opponent, is less of a bribe, than say, buying him a boat or a vacation for him and his missus in Sweden?
Your point is terribly misplaced, since citizens do not make the laws. Elected representatives make the laws. Corporations do NOT (well, as far as I'm aware) make contributions to citizens who are not elected officials (or potential elected officials). The issue here isn't "buying off the general public", it's "buying off our elected representatives". Too bad you are too conservative to see that.
You can always retrofit. If you gotta have your SSD, the Acer Aspire One machines use standard 2.5" notebook drives, the form factor that many SSD's come in (or have adapters for). It's a bit more involved to swap out than your typical laptop hard disk, but the option is definitely there.
a Symantec spokesman announced today that they had found vulnerabilities in the Christmas Tree Webserver. "It's terribly easy to DDOS the tree. I mean, it's using an 8-bit PIC MCU that can only service a dozen or so requests a second. We recommend protecting the Christmas Tree with NAV-XMAS version, or at the very least, putting the tree behind a firewall, as we can't guarantee that the tree won't go up in flames when the next malicious attacker strikes."
The only problem with that, is that electricity is part of our infrastructure. It's not something you can do without (such as large screen TV's), there are people of all sorts of financial ability that depend on electricity, whether it is to cook their meals, light their houses, or take a shower in the morning. It's the reason why we regulate some things "into the ground" (as blind conservatives would spew out), and it is necessary, else we WOULD have things like Enron. Infrastructure (mail, roads, utilities, etc) is not something you ration out to the highest bidder - that puts it into fast track for collapse, as the "less profitable" areas get neglected. Of all the things that have been deregulated, only one (telecomm) has shown to be an actual benefit for people other than the owners of the businesses supplying the services. I personally see that as an anomaly, a thing that happened before corporations knew how to game the system and lie before the congress.
I didn't see this in any prior posts. If you are using nvidia hardware on windows, open the nvidia control panel. Go to Display->Adjust Desktop Size and Position->"2. When using a resolution lower than my display's native resolution..." You can choose between monitor native scaling (passes through video and lets the LCD do the scaling), fixed aspect ratio (gfx card scales it up but keeps the same aspect ratio, probably getting black borders), and fullscreen (gfx card scales it up to fullscreen, ignoring the native aspect ratio).
I believe that a major mistake that a lot of people (including some people here on slashdot) make is assuming that these organizations (RIAA, MPAA) produce ANY content. (OK, OK, we all know they produce these "piracy impact statistics" which are attempted measurements of things which cannot be measured, but I was referring to the actual product they distribute.) As far as I'm aware, they only distribute what OTHERS have produced. These companies are protecting their DISTRIBUTION rights, when all is said and done. The internet allows anyone to distribute anything, and you don't need expensive CD mastering machines, plastic injection molding machines, printing presses and dozens of staff to do it - this makes their business model obsolete, and they are trying to keep the old way of business propped up. We've seen it many times before (see: player piano, tape recorder, vcr), and they (eventually) adapt, even though they are crying "Fire!" the entire time. Copyright infringement has always been there. It is a lot like prohibition: some sort of moral behavior is legislated, and enough people don't agree that there are entire underground networks dedicated to serving that prohibited behavior. It's a lost cause, but that fact hasn't yet sunk in at those companies.
There are a lot of oddball reasons to have those legacy ports for special circumstances; developer kits that require parallel cable hookups, serial I/O hookups (although the latter you can generally get away with a USB converter as long as its standard serial I/O and not manual bit toggling), using older monitors, etc. Heck, it's much simpler to conjure up a computer controlled hardware hack (I/O) on a parallel port than with USB. Many TV's still come with "PC" (i.e. VGA) inputs, although this is moving over to HDMI. Odds are though, that for the average consumer, none of the legacy I/O ports are needed any more. You can walk down to Staples or Best Buy and get replacement USB mice/keyboards. CRT's are pretty much a thing of the past, and most, if not all flat panels have DVI and/or HDMI inputs.
From TFA, the pings noted were actually 30 seconds apart.
My last GPS reported speeds every second.
So, the question is, what was the ping rate of the GPS on the car? Was the logged value the average of the past 30 seconds of pings, or just the most recent ping?
(Yes, in all likelyhood, it's an average of values, the kid was speeding, and figured that if he didn't go over 75 and trigger the auto-phone-home-warning, his parents wouldn't find out.)
You probably have one of the new Socket1156 systems, then. Windows 7 thinks it has a correct driver for the MCH, but like in any version of windows, if the hardware was released after the OS was RTM'd, then you should be hitting the manufacturer's web site for the latest drivers. Unfortunately, Win7 doesn't complain about missing a driver (as it usually does); it automatically installs the built-in ICH driver, which "almost" works. That's unfortunate, but not unexpected (at least, not to anyone who has set up bleeding-edge hardware before) when working with bleeding-edge hardware.
If you're on Windows, "PDF annotator" (Grahl software) might be something to check out. I use it with my tablet PC to highlight sections of books (same as I would do with a regular paper copy of the book).
This has already been tried, and failed to gain traction in the marketplace. Zen TrueX technology [url]http://www.cdr-info.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=6084[/url] was used in a handful of Kenwood CDROM drives in the late 90's. The drives were "relatively" expensive ($120 at a time when [loud, hot] 52X generic drives were going for $40), and had issues reading from CD-R and CD-RW discs. However, when used on regularly pressed CDROM discs, the drives were every bit is quick as the generic 52X drives, but virtually quiet (since they only spun the discs at 8x/10x speeds). They also suffered from a defect rate similar to the generic 52X cdrom drives. But, if you wanted a quiet system with a quick CDROM drive for those game installs, there was no other game in town.