I don't personally see much point in running another distro in chroot. You're just wasting memory and CPU on running two X11s and all, and it's obviously going to be slow.
I'm still disappointed in Nokia keeping the necessary information to be able to implement battery charging closed, such a dick move from their part; I installed Gentoo natively on my N900 -- no chroot -- and god damn it flew compared to Maemo, but no matter what I just couldn't get battery charging to work. And quite obviously not being able to charge the battery on a mobile phone makes the whole thing quite useless.
Sideloading is supported on the following editions when you activate a sideloading product key:
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8 Enterprise*
* The sideloading product key is not required with Windows 8 Enterprise when the computer is joined to an active directory domain.
noteNote Sideloading is also supported on Windows RT. The group policy service is not enabled by default on Windows RT. You must enable the service before policies can be applied to the computer.
To sideload line-of-business apps on Windows Server 2012, the computer must be joined to an active directory domain.
For more information, see How to Add and Remove Apps.
In other words a side-loading key is needed. Ordinary users won't get that and won't be able to side-load.
Really? How? Because even Microsoft's own website doesn't say that. You can only side-load things if you have a proper license for that, meaning that you need to be a large company with a contract with Microsoft.
On the bright side, your typical hacker won’t be able to figure this one out either: Windows 8 raises the security bar even higher than before, and if it was easy, someone would have beaten VUPEN to it long ago.
And who thinks that other hackers won't figure this out?
More precisely, who says the other hackers would disclose it if they found such vulnerabilities? There's plenty of profit to be earned in vulnerabilities in the black market.
I wonder if their hack could be used on Windows RT to gain low-level access to the system, allowing one to essentially jailbreak the thing and let one side-load apps on it. I'm not planning to buy a Windows RT - tablet and one of the reasons is exactly the fact that I am only allowed to install stuff from Windows Store; a fully-working jailbreak would atleast make the thing slightly more useful.
The story is that the developers of Borderlands 2 have decided that players who mod/hack their console are a market segment worth developing for.
Talk about misguided claims. The "badass mode" discussed here is just the same as "hardcore mode" in any other game, including Diablo II and III and so on. The developers simply didn't remove all the code relating to the hardcore mode, they just didn't include it in the menus for the game. The hack involves manually toggling the hc mode on via config files, nothing else. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with developing for modded consoles.
Unfortunately, that isn't the only reason, what with there not being Linux-support for all of my hardware, non-existent support for stereoscopic-3D and so on.
Why do I get to be with all the boring Windows users here? Here, the Windows users have boring reasons to use Windows, centered around Microsoft Office.
Eh, usually people call me boring, what with always sitting at the computer, playing with gadgets, tweaking firmwares, trying to find new ways to break things or spending most of the day playing something or watching movies/non-reality-TV series -- ie. none of the things people generally find interesting! It's funny how the definition of "boring" changes so radically in geek circles.
Games and all kinds of regular applications. CrossOver supports a large amount of software and there is a one-click installation mode for many of the more popular apps. Basically, if you want Wine but with paid-for support and easier installation CrossOver will probably suit you.
One of the biggest reasons I use Windows is indeed because of gaming. Unfortunately, that isn't the only reason, what with there not being Linux-support for all of my hardware, non-existent support for stereoscopic-3D and so on. I also have no idea if it is possible to convert surround-sound to DTS-format and output that over the SPD/IF like I can do under Windows.
BTW The biggest overclocker in the day was the 300Mhz Celeron from Intel.
I got Athlon XP from 1.3Ghz to 2.0Ghz which is a similar jump in performance, and this was on air cooling, too. As such I disagree about the "biggest overclocker" there.
Log into Win8 with an MS account on any machine - your apps, data, settings, everything will magically appear
I'm quite wary of this, actually. Microsoft employs encryption that can be reversed, ie. if you were to forget your password you can request a new one and your files will still be readable. What this means for you is that Microsoft -- and therefore anyone who they wish to give access to your files to -- can roam around and peruse your files. Especially if you're not a U.S. citizen this most likely won't be a terribly good thing.
That's huge; it effectively eliminates the concept of local file-systems for user data.
Hardly. Try e.g. recording a home movie and wait a few weeks for it to upload -- there are some things that the cloud just cannot fix before broadband speeds go up.
Are you happy on Win7? Good for you; if you are on Win7 & have no other devices or intention of sharing data on anything but your trusty desktop, then frankly the benefits of Win8 are lesser..
Oh, I have multiple machines, but I only have outgoing bandwidth of about 1mbit/s and I have 3 terabytes of data. Plus I don't want all of my stuff somewhere where I can't control who gains access to them.
and there are some nice desktop GUI enhancements that you'd likely appreciate
I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't see anything such. Annoyances, yes, but nothing new that I'd appreciate.
How? It sounds like the GP's daughter wants a certain amount of privacy and freedom to conduct her own affairs.
I disagree. To me it sounds simply like the kid thinks GP would feel it's wrong to do what she is doing, and that's why she is lying about it. Nothing to do with privacy, and also it doesn't mean she herself feels it's wrong, just that GP would feel what she's doing is wrong. As to why she thinks going to the mall with her friend would be wrong, well, that you must ask GP.
Some of that privacy comes in the context of simply telling mom/dad, "It's none of your business", but that's almost certainly not going to produce desirable results for anyone--it turns the parent into a dictator and the child into a rebel.
If it turns out like that you're doing it wrong, IMHO. Why shouldn't the kid be allowed to have his or her own business? Just make a compromise out of it, get the kid to either say where or who she is with and let her keep the other details to herself; she won't feel so insulted by you "trespassing on her premises" and you still have more-or-less enough info to find her if need be.
Without knowing the kid, how she's being raised up and so on it's hard to say anything concrete, but there's one thing that's universal: presentation is everything. There's more than one way of presenting a request, for example, and a good parent knows which buttons to avoid in order not to turn it into a hostile situation.
Like the GP said, lying is a rather normal thing.
I never claimed it isn't. But getting caught for lying is of paramount importance considering the kid's later life. How you handle a situation where the kid is lying is equally important, however: going all berserk on her is not gonna grow any sort of trust towards you.
Nearly every weekend she goes to her BFF's house to "study", but the two of them really go hang out at the mall (according to both the phone and the bank transactions). Here is what I have done about the situation: nothing. Lying and deceiving your parents is a normal part of growing up, and the point of spying on your kids is not to prevent them from being normal, but to protect them from real dangers.
Hm. Personally I would rather catch the child from lying and then have a chat about lying and why she feels she needs to lie to me in the first place. I mean, I wouldn't be angry about the occasional skipping of class or hanging out with friends, that's all normal stuff, but never confronting her lying is just gonna raise some serious issues later in her life. If you can solve the issue in a way that the child doesn't any longer feel the need to lie to you you're BOTH better off than before, plus you've just taught the kid a valuable lesson.
Again, you're missing the point: if you already have a PS3 why not make it more useful? Sure, if the choice is between a PC connected to a TV versus a PlayStation 3 connected to a TV, and you don't own a PS3 before, then it might make more sense to just go with the PC. Atleast if you don't want to play any PS3-exclusive titles.
You do realize that it's possible to get the 3.60 keys now? It only takes someone smart enough to pry them from the firmware now that it can be decrypted. Also, yes, CFWs have always caused bricks, that's nothing new; some people get bricks with the 4.21 whereas for some people it works just fine.
That depends on the kind of homebrew we are talking about. I assume you're only thinking of games, whereas homebrew can include emulators for other systems, multimedia players (PS3's own, stock multimedia features are quite poor), better browsers, replacements for the whole UI and so on. Also, one could include tools for booting and managing Linux as homebrew.
LV0 keys exist on every Playstation 3, BUT these LV0 keys (the ones found and leaked today) are the ones of pre-3.60 firmware factory PS3. The ones who comes with 3.60 or newer have a new set of LV0 keys, these are still secured.
Not everyone uses custom firmwares for piracy. I know, I know, MOST people do, but there's also plenty of us who do it for privacy reasons and to be able to mess around with homebrew. Did you know that the stock official firmware periodically reports all of your activities to Sony, including filenames, sizes, the names and addresses of the machine you opened them from, dates, times and so on? I just don't feel comfortable with that, they have no justification for spying people to such a degree.
Of course Sony will patch this, but since the LV0 keys are built-in on EVERY PlayStation 3 and those keys cannot be flashed by any software means there is nothing Sony can do about it. Re-designing the whole protection scheme from scratch is going to take a lot longer than a week or two, and it's still not going to hole as the new firmware still has to be encrypted with the LV0 keys in order for older firmwares to be able to install it. More-or-less the only thing Sony can do is move everything to cloud, but that's going to piss some serious customer base off.
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I don't personally see much point in running another distro in chroot. You're just wasting memory and CPU on running two X11s and all, and it's obviously going to be slow.
I'm still disappointed in Nokia keeping the necessary information to be able to implement battery charging closed, such a dick move from their part; I installed Gentoo natively on my N900 -- no chroot -- and god damn it flew compared to Maemo, but no matter what I just couldn't get battery charging to work. And quite obviously not being able to charge the battery on a mobile phone makes the whole thing quite useless.
To back up what I just said: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh825613.aspx
[August 2012] Sideloading apps on Windows 8
Sideloading is supported on the following editions when you activate a sideloading product key:
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8 Enterprise*
* The sideloading product key is not required with Windows 8 Enterprise when the computer is joined to an active directory domain.
noteNote
Sideloading is also supported on Windows RT. The group policy service is not enabled by default on Windows RT. You must enable the service before policies can be applied to the computer.
To sideload line-of-business apps on Windows Server 2012, the computer must be joined to an active directory domain.
For more information, see How to Add and Remove Apps.
In other words a side-loading key is needed. Ordinary users won't get that and won't be able to side-load.
I did say I'm not planning to buy one, so you're barking up the wrong tree.
Really? How? Because even Microsoft's own website doesn't say that. You can only side-load things if you have a proper license for that, meaning that you need to be a large company with a contract with Microsoft.
On the bright side, your typical hacker won’t be able to figure this one out either: Windows 8 raises the security bar even higher than before, and if it was easy, someone would have beaten VUPEN to it long ago.
And who thinks that other hackers won't figure this out?
More precisely, who says the other hackers would disclose it if they found such vulnerabilities? There's plenty of profit to be earned in vulnerabilities in the black market.
I wonder if their hack could be used on Windows RT to gain low-level access to the system, allowing one to essentially jailbreak the thing and let one side-load apps on it. I'm not planning to buy a Windows RT - tablet and one of the reasons is exactly the fact that I am only allowed to install stuff from Windows Store; a fully-working jailbreak would atleast make the thing slightly more useful.
The story is that the developers of Borderlands 2 have decided that players who mod/hack their console are a market segment worth developing for.
Talk about misguided claims. The "badass mode" discussed here is just the same as "hardcore mode" in any other game, including Diablo II and III and so on. The developers simply didn't remove all the code relating to the hardcore mode, they just didn't include it in the menus for the game. The hack involves manually toggling the hc mode on via config files, nothing else. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with developing for modded consoles.
How about users just get a clue? Online search is a feature, not a bug.
Not when you're trying to search locally.
Why do I get to be with all the boring Windows users here? Here, the Windows users have boring reasons to use Windows, centered around Microsoft Office.
Eh, usually people call me boring, what with always sitting at the computer, playing with gadgets, tweaking firmwares, trying to find new ways to break things or spending most of the day playing something or watching movies/non-reality-TV series -- ie. none of the things people generally find interesting! It's funny how the definition of "boring" changes so radically in geek circles.
It installs additional libraries, fonts, etc., required for the app/game to work
So, in other words it does exactly what I said it does: offers a much easier installation.
Die young !!
Too late for that!
Stay pretty !!
Never was that to begin with!
Games and all kinds of regular applications. CrossOver supports a large amount of software and there is a one-click installation mode for many of the more popular apps. Basically, if you want Wine but with paid-for support and easier installation CrossOver will probably suit you.
One of the biggest reasons I use Windows is indeed because of gaming. Unfortunately, that isn't the only reason, what with there not being Linux-support for all of my hardware, non-existent support for stereoscopic-3D and so on. I also have no idea if it is possible to convert surround-sound to DTS-format and output that over the SPD/IF like I can do under Windows.
BTW The biggest overclocker in the day was the 300Mhz Celeron from Intel.
I got Athlon XP from 1.3Ghz to 2.0Ghz which is a similar jump in performance, and this was on air cooling, too. As such I disagree about the "biggest overclocker" there.
Log into Win8 with an MS account on any machine - your apps, data, settings, everything will magically appear
I'm quite wary of this, actually. Microsoft employs encryption that can be reversed, ie. if you were to forget your password you can request a new one and your files will still be readable. What this means for you is that Microsoft -- and therefore anyone who they wish to give access to your files to -- can roam around and peruse your files. Especially if you're not a U.S. citizen this most likely won't be a terribly good thing.
That's huge; it effectively eliminates the concept of local file-systems for user data.
Hardly. Try e.g. recording a home movie and wait a few weeks for it to upload -- there are some things that the cloud just cannot fix before broadband speeds go up.
Are you happy on Win7? Good for you; if you are on Win7 & have no other devices or intention of sharing data on anything but your trusty desktop, then frankly the benefits of Win8 are lesser..
Oh, I have multiple machines, but I only have outgoing bandwidth of about 1mbit/s and I have 3 terabytes of data. Plus I don't want all of my stuff somewhere where I can't control who gains access to them.
and there are some nice desktop GUI enhancements that you'd likely appreciate
I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't see anything such. Annoyances, yes, but nothing new that I'd appreciate.
How? It sounds like the GP's daughter wants a certain amount of privacy and freedom to conduct her own affairs.
I disagree. To me it sounds simply like the kid thinks GP would feel it's wrong to do what she is doing, and that's why she is lying about it. Nothing to do with privacy, and also it doesn't mean she herself feels it's wrong, just that GP would feel what she's doing is wrong. As to why she thinks going to the mall with her friend would be wrong, well, that you must ask GP.
Some of that privacy comes in the context of simply telling mom/dad, "It's none of your business", but that's almost certainly not going to produce desirable results for anyone--it turns the parent into a dictator and the child into a rebel.
If it turns out like that you're doing it wrong, IMHO. Why shouldn't the kid be allowed to have his or her own business? Just make a compromise out of it, get the kid to either say where or who she is with and let her keep the other details to herself; she won't feel so insulted by you "trespassing on her premises" and you still have more-or-less enough info to find her if need be.
Without knowing the kid, how she's being raised up and so on it's hard to say anything concrete, but there's one thing that's universal: presentation is everything. There's more than one way of presenting a request, for example, and a good parent knows which buttons to avoid in order not to turn it into a hostile situation.
Like the GP said, lying is a rather normal thing.
I never claimed it isn't. But getting caught for lying is of paramount importance considering the kid's later life. How you handle a situation where the kid is lying is equally important, however: going all berserk on her is not gonna grow any sort of trust towards you.
Nearly every weekend she goes to her BFF's house to "study", but the two of them really go hang out at the mall (according to both the phone and the bank transactions). Here is what I have done about the situation: nothing. Lying and deceiving your parents is a normal part of growing up, and the point of spying on your kids is not to prevent them from being normal, but to protect them from real dangers.
Hm. Personally I would rather catch the child from lying and then have a chat about lying and why she feels she needs to lie to me in the first place. I mean, I wouldn't be angry about the occasional skipping of class or hanging out with friends, that's all normal stuff, but never confronting her lying is just gonna raise some serious issues later in her life. If you can solve the issue in a way that the child doesn't any longer feel the need to lie to you you're BOTH better off than before, plus you've just taught the kid a valuable lesson.
Again, you're missing the point: if you already have a PS3 why not make it more useful? Sure, if the choice is between a PC connected to a TV versus a PlayStation 3 connected to a TV, and you don't own a PS3 before, then it might make more sense to just go with the PC. Atleast if you don't want to play any PS3-exclusive titles.
You do realize that it's possible to get the 3.60 keys now? It only takes someone smart enough to pry them from the firmware now that it can be decrypted. Also, yes, CFWs have always caused bricks, that's nothing new; some people get bricks with the 4.21 whereas for some people it works just fine.
They should, yes, but the chances for that are more-or-less the same as you seeing a live Tyrannosaurus Rex flying in the air and singing Macarena.
That depends on the kind of homebrew we are talking about. I assume you're only thinking of games, whereas homebrew can include emulators for other systems, multimedia players (PS3's own, stock multimedia features are quite poor), better browsers, replacements for the whole UI and so on. Also, one could include tools for booting and managing Linux as homebrew.
LV0 keys exist on every Playstation 3, BUT these LV0 keys (the ones found and leaked today) are the ones of pre-3.60 firmware factory PS3.
The ones who comes with 3.60 or newer have a new set of LV0 keys, these are still secured.
Considering the fact that there are 4.21 CFWs already in the wild I must disagree with you: http://psx-scene.com/forums/content/update-2-rogero-cex-4-21-cfw-lv0-keys-released-2659/ . You're confusing yourself somewhere.
Not everyone uses custom firmwares for piracy. I know, I know, MOST people do, but there's also plenty of us who do it for privacy reasons and to be able to mess around with homebrew. Did you know that the stock official firmware periodically reports all of your activities to Sony, including filenames, sizes, the names and addresses of the machine you opened them from, dates, times and so on? I just don't feel comfortable with that, they have no justification for spying people to such a degree.
Of course Sony will patch this, but since the LV0 keys are built-in on EVERY PlayStation 3 and those keys cannot be flashed by any software means there is nothing Sony can do about it. Re-designing the whole protection scheme from scratch is going to take a lot longer than a week or two, and it's still not going to hole as the new firmware still has to be encrypted with the LV0 keys in order for older firmwares to be able to install it. More-or-less the only thing Sony can do is move everything to cloud, but that's going to piss some serious customer base off.
http://www.ps3crunch.net/forum/threads/5087-CONFIRMED-LV0-keys-have-been-leaked-and-working!