Yeah, and leaving your car's door unlocked, and they keys in the ignition is "fairly close" to a car's default state, too...
The article doesn't specify precisely, but it does imply that the target computer must be set to automatically connect to open access points; and that it doesn't actually need to connect to be affected.
The problem with this is that neither Windows nor the Mac OS will automatically connect to unknown networks by default. Windows will prompt you that "Wireless networks have been detected," while the Mac OS will prompt you that "None of your favored networks has been detected, would you like to connect to [xxxyyyzzz]?" Neither OS makes the connection until you proactively choose to connect. This means that they are NOT "...configured to automatically connect to any available wireless network." (to quote the article.)
Yes, both OSes can be set to connect automatically, but your average end-user is not going to have the technical know-how to set this. Which, ironically, means that this exploit is more likely to affect power users. (None of my computers are set to connect automatically.)
BUT, this could potentially be gotten around. Of course, it doesn't say exactly how the exploit works; but if the attacking computer broadcasts an SSID of 'default', 'linksys', or 'actiontec', they could likely get a noticeable number of computers, just based on the fact that many user's access points use these default names, so their computers would be set up to connect to those SSIDs without confirmation.
This is the answer. I have also seen that if you install the new 'check if my copy is legal' tool that MS wants to auto-download through Windows Update, if it detects a pirated version, it will offer to let you buy a legal key for a decent price. ($150 for my [legal] full copy of XP Pro that it incorrectly thought was pirated.)
Also, if you need to go through re-activation, and it doesn't like your key, it will offer to sell you one.
And, if they bought the computer from a store and the store sold them a pirated copy, MS will even (under certain circumstances) let them convert to a legal key for free. (You must be willing to rat out the place you bought it from, though, providing detailed information.)
Regulatory, (between U.S. and Canadian regulators, since ATI is a Canadian company,) and shareholder (of both companies) approval.
What I see as interesting is that Intel was probably working to get SLI/CrossFire support in their chipsets. Now will they bother with CrossFire? Yeah, ATI/AMD could write drivers that support it on Intel chipsets, but Intel will probably declare this as 'unsupported' while nVidia's SLI would be officially supported. (Intel knows they still rely on ATI and nVidia for high-end gamer video cards. They don't even attempt to say integrated video is good for hardcore gamers.)
And, yeah, I can also see them withdrawing ATI/AMD's license to produce compatible chipsets. Which might actually drive more business to AMD, as people choose ATI/AMD combos rather than Intel/Intel combos. (When they would have chosen an ATI/Intel combo before the 'ban'.)
Does your building have a parking garage? If so, ask the management to provide an electric car charging station or two. If they already charge for parking, they can charge a little more (say, 10-25%) for electric cars. That would more than cover the electricity costs. (E-cars really do cost almost nothing to recharge.) If they don't have a garage, but have a lot, they could install one in one of the parking spots in the lot. If they don't have ANY parking, you could lobby them and the city to install a charger on the sidewalk in front of the building.
Here in Portland, a couple libraries with underground garages have electric car chargers in them; and a few businesses around town have chargers in front of their buildings, with signs declaring that only e-cars can park there; but they can do so for free (in addition to getting to charge their car for free,) in a downtown full of $1.25/hour parking meters. (I'll have to go take some pictures of them.)
The Company has commissioned Touchwood, a solutions-oriented, technology- based strategic marketing communications firm based in St. Louis, to plan and implement major revisions to the design and content of the [Phantom] website. The website revisions will incorporate direct marketing capabilities including an online merchant store to support business to consumer and business to business transactions with credit card banking services.
"...to plan and implement major revisions to the design and content of the website." Translation: redesign their website.
"...incorporate direct marketing capabilities including an online merchant store to support business to consumer and business to business transactions with credit card banking services." Translation: Add a web store.
Wow. That is one of the most marketing-driven statements I have seen in a long time. Hurrah to Phantom! They're finally going to release.... Uh... Something.
This is the one guaranteed not to happen. Why? Because, the advantage to game developers of developing for a console over a PC is that you have a known system. You KNOW you're developing for a triple-core 3.2GHz G5 derivative. Now if they bump the speed to 4 GHz, you'd have to develop for two systems. One lower-quality game at 3.2 GHz, one higher-quality at 4. If a developer got lazy and only developed for the 4 GHz model, you'd have original 360 owners complaining about the crappy performance. A console is supposed to be good performance all the time, no frame rate dips. That's the point of a console.
The other possibility is an annoying 'only works on Xbox360 mark 2'. Imagine if Sony started releasing games that only work on the slim PS2, not on the original? Original owners would revolt! (Xbox360 purchasers would be even more mad, considering the purchase price of the 360. HD-DVD upgrade, sure, I can see that (along with the release of an external HD-DVD drive for the original; or a mandate that games only come on original DVDs.)
First, I run a small on-site computer consulting company. We repair computers for homes and small businesses. Usually software issues. Before that, I worked as an engineering-level tech support for Intel's server motherboard department; mostly supporting OEMs and distributors, but the occasional end user would make their way through lower level tech support to reach me. Before THAT, I was third-tier telephone tech support for a now-defunct DSL ISP. My job was to resolve issues that were related to the actual telephone line, usually by calling the customer's local phone provider.
Personal support instance 1: My on-site consulting. Customer calls in complaining that his internet connection isn't working right. He has a wireless router, but he can only get either his wireless laptop connected OR his wired desktop; not both at the same time. I get out there, have him demonstrate what's going on. I find out that his laptop works fine wirelessly. Then he demonstrates how he connects his desktop... By unplugging the ethernet cable from the back of the router and plugging it into the desktop. He didn't have an extra ethernet cable to plug the desktop into the router. 5 minutes later, I walk out after having sold him a 10' Ethernet cable for $10, and charged him $75 for the service call. Quickest money-making appointment I've ever had. (Just today I had one that was 'walk in, diagnose bad monitor, walk out', but I would have felt guilty charging for that.)
Personal support instance 2: Intel support. A large (very large, you've heard of them,) OEM used our server boards in their products. Their head tech rep calls me one day complaining that multiple (but not all) of their customers are complaining that when they plug a PS/2 mouse in to their server, using a certain model of our mainboard, it loses video. (On-board video.) If they use a PCI video card, it works just fine; if they use a USB mouse, it works just fine. But it's a server, and at the time, USB mice weren't as common as they are now. After much telephone troubleshooting, I have them have one of their customers send the system to me. I check it out, and indeed, plugging a PS/2 mouse in makes it lose video. (Being a PS/2 mouse, it has to be plugged in at boot time to work, so I plug in a mouse, turn it on, and never get video, even though a POST card says everything is fine, and I can use remote management tools to verify that it is booting correctly.) So I remove the board from the case, put it on my test bench, and it works just fine. I put it back in the case, and no video with mouse. I double check, and there is nothing in the case that should be shorting out either the mouse port or the video port. After a few days of hair-pulling, I notice that this case has standoff holes for both our board, and someone else's not-quite-full-ATX board. The OEM had put standoffs in ALL of the holes, even the ones that don't line up with screw holes in our full-ATX-compliant board. But none of them are under the mouse port or the video port. When I remove the extras, though, the server all of a sudden works just fine. I finally narrow it down to a standoff that lies underneath the built-in SCSI connector (channel 2.) After talking with our engineers, we figure out that SCSI channel 2 shares a ground with the video plug and the mouse plug. Apparently plugging in a mouse completes a short circuit that shorts out the video. Case solved: OEM had to instruct their factory to be more careful installing standoffs.
Personal support instance 3: DSL company. The worst problem to have to diagnose is 'intermittent sync'. When the DSL modem loses its connection sometimes, but is fine others. The phone company always blames internal wiring, customer equipment, or the boogeyman. So I get this customer who loses sync every night at about sunset. It has been doing so for months. As sunset got later (it started in the early Spring,) he would lose sync later. He had called in and previous technicians had not been able to find a cause. The p
The landing gear has been, up until now, virtually the only piece of the shuttle that was not automated or not able to be controlled remotely.
Very true. The shuttle already had an 'autoland' system available. The only part that had to be manually controlled was, as you mention, the landing gear. The shuttle was one of the first aviation vehicles that was capable of performing final approach and landing fully automated. (Not that the captain/pilot would trust the computers to do so with such an expensive system.)
Assuming you can't change any of your hardware, and don't want to go for any massively difficult software, just use Windows' built-in xcopy32 command. Yes, it's command-line, but it's the fastest free-and-easy utility out there.
And, as others have pointed out, you are NEVER going to hit 400 mbps, no matter what software you're using. 400 mbps is 50 MB/s, do you honestly think that old PC has a drive capable of sustained 50 MB/s transfers? Do you have a drive in the FW enclosure that is capable of that? Only the absolute latest PATA drives are capable of sustaining that, and even then, only over sequential transfers. Any random access, and you're dropping well under that.
If you want a perfect copy of the drive, use a sector copier, like Norton Ghost or Partition Magic.
The person you're replying to isn't a boomer, so just saying he's espousing 'boomer politics' is ludicrous.
While voting for having things go to shit slowly isn't GOOD, it's better than voting for someone who won't make any difference whatsoever. You might as well buy that lottery ticket, then throw it immediately away without waiting for the results, that's what your vote for a third party is doing. You're not going to affect the system at all.) You vote for the lesser of two evils, then you work from the inside to make the lesser of two evils into good.
Unfortunately, I've tried this with both evils unsucessfully, and am disillusioned with both evils, so I'm officially separate from both evils now. But I do understand that I do have to vote for one of them to slow the spiral. I would LOVE it if various third-party candidates were elected to national office. But with elections as close as they are in my district between the major two, I'm not going to vote for the third-party candidates. I'm going to vote for the major party candidate that I hate the least. That's pragmatism.
But, I DO write letters to my senators/representatives often. I make sure they know what my feelings on issues are, as their constituent, and someone who votes for (or against) them. I make sure to always send letters by postal mail, as they get more attention. (Of course, showing up at their office when they are there gets even better results, if you can get a meeting with them.)
The only problem with this is that I don't have an ISP address. I buy my internet access as a 'business' account from my telco, which includes JUST the DSL signal, an IP address, and usage of their DNS for lookup purposes.
I have my own personal domain, as well as owning a small business, and having a domain for it.
Most sites that block free email also block my domains, since they don't recognize them as belonging to an ISP. Both domains are hosted by other companies, neither one a 'free email' domain. So it's not just that they're self-hosted. One is even by one of the big domain hosts, GoDaddy. (The email is actually handled through secureserver.net.)
Just yesterday I got it replaced at the local Apple Store.
My hardware:
First gen MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz (shipped the first week,) with 2 GB of RAM and the 7200 RPM hard drive. All firmware updates applied, running Boot Camp. (95% of the time in OS X, 5% in XP.)
My symptoms:
The computer would go to sleep, but wouldn't wake up. I would have to remove the battery, replace it, then plug the computer into the wall, to get it to turn back on. (I would *NOT* wake up from safe sleep, but would turn on from scratch.) This started out as an occasional thing, but eventually got to the point where it happened every time.
Then it would start randomly turning off during use, and wouldn't turn back on unless I was plugged in to power. If I shut it off, it would start up off the battery, though.
Then it would not run off the battery any more, but it did say the battery was there.
Finally, it wouldn't even acknowledge that there was a battery. Tried resetting power manager, re-flashing the firmware, etc. No help. The battery's LEDs said it had a full charge, but the computer wouldn't even attempt to start on battery power.
This whole process occurred over about two weeks.
So I took it to an Apple Store's Genius Bar, and they did some diagnostics, then finally declared it a bad battery. (The Genius hadn't heard of any company-acknowledged failures that covered this.) Swapped my battery for a brand new one (straight off the sales shelf,) and went on my way. (I bought a second at the same time, simply because I had been wanting a second battery anyway.)
Worried about his criminal record? If it were a junior high school I'd be concerned, but it's a cafe, and he's not in prison NOW, and he doesn't have warrants, right? Last time I checked, that meant he's a FREE MAN WITH FULL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
Actually, if he's out on parole, he isn't technically 100% free, nor does he have full Constitutional rights. And being a convicted felon, he will likely never regain full Constitutional rights.
But, I do understand your argument. I fully agree. Now, what I'd like to know is if the shop has any signage stating that there is a purchase required for use of their AP? (I'm just down in Portland, so maybe I'll drive up and check tomorrow.) If not, and connecteting to the AP doesn't present any 'login' type screen making the user agree to any terms, then I would argue that the AP is being offered unlicensed. Throughout Portland there are open access points managed by a nonprofit called Personal Telco that makes you agree to various terms of service to use their service.
I frequent multiple small coffee shops that have free WiFi (it's fairly common here in Portland.) And the ones I frequent all make you agree to licenses to use their service. (Some using NoCatAuth, some using Personal Telco's system.) Now, if this guy was sucking down 95% of their bandwidth by BitTorrenting kiddie porn, fine, call the cops on him. But if he was living out of his van and just browsing the occasional news and employement website, and checking email, cut him some slack. You do, after all, have a public, open, access point.
Earth's natural satellite is officially named "The Moon", yes, capitalized, with "The" included. In many Latin-based languages, it is called "Luna", which is what I prefer as a 'name'. Just as our planet's official name is "Earth", even though 'earth' can also refer to dirt.
I think the point is this is new this year. IT users will get a roadmap under NDA. Probably not a "we will release the iHDTV on June 1, 2007, and iPhone on August 3rd," type roadmap, but more of a "we will release a desktop using the Intel Core 2 Duo 3.4 GHz within a month of it shipping in December, at the $1000 price point, that is expandable."
Parallels is for people who need to run OS X and Windows at the same time.
Boot Camp is for people who need to occassionally run Windows separately from Mac OS X. For example: games, secure environments, people who just want to use Apple hardware with Windows, and have nothing to do with OS X whatsoever.
Google bought the entire land area of the old port and started moving employees up from California.
I've been told by a guy at Google, only half-jokingly, that I could probably make a good business microbrewing beer for the Google employees in The Dalles.
You were told that because there are vastly more Googler's hired new from Portland than moved from California. (Yeah, managers were, but lower-level weren't.)
I know someone who was hired by Google. And I know someone that moved to The Dalles. Same person? He can't say. (He isn't allowed to say those two facts in the same sentence.)
My dad is a 'computer guy'. He has been using computers as the FOCUS of his job for 30 years now; yes, even before MS-DOS came out.
He is not a UNIX newbie, and he has been using DOS since version 2.0. He even knows some programming.
Yet he won't run anything other than Windows or MacOS. Not due to some inherent bias against UNIX/Linux, but because it's just too much work to run for simple tasks (his words, not mine.) There is *NO* convincing him to run Linux, not even after showing him an Ubuntu install. Why? Mostly that he has some Windows-only software, and he never could get WINE to run it. (Yes, he has TRIED to run Linux before.) He at least, does smartly, only run in Standard User mode.
Why do I mention this? Because, even someone who is fully comfortable using UNIX (he runs one BSD machine at work, along with a Mac and a Windows machine,) you may still jut not want to switch. And if the person has been using THAT computer for a couple years, they're probably too comfortable with it as it is to change anything around. (Heck, I had one of my employees tell a customer that in order to really fix the underlying problem, they would have to: 1. Back up everything, 2. Erase the hard disk, 3. Reinstall Windows. His note SPECIFICALLY said to back everything up first, in bigger letters than the others. The customer didn't have any backup media, so my employee told him to go get DVD-Rs and back everything up. Of course, the customer promptly erased the hard drive as soon as my employee left, then proceeded to call our office because she claimed that our employee had scewed everything up. When I went out, 'BACK UP HARD DRIVE ONTO DVD-R" was very clearly written above everything else, and in a larger font, too.)
In short, you can't always trust even an expert to be comfortable trying another OS.
As for when you HAVE to run Windows, there is yet another problem. I've seen viruses and spyware get onto a computer running in Limited User mode, WITH antivirus and antispyware software running. (Usually out-of-date, but there are so many things out of date on end user's computers these days that they probably THINK they are up to date. The other major problem is that lots of software (mostly pre-2000, but some XP-grade,) that will only run in Administrator mode. (Most notably, anti-virus updating!) Yes, two of the biggest problems with Limited User mode is that Norton won't update, and Ad-Aware won't run.
Sadly, until Microsoft adds the 'Professional-class 'User', or even 'Power User', home users are stuck betwwen 'Admin' and 'Limited User'.
While it is true that for x86 processors, 64-bit mode is measurably faster than 32-bit mode, it's not MASSIVELY different. (i.e. The Athlon FX-60 is bested by the Core Duo T2500, but not by much, running the AMD in 64-bit mode with native 64-bit apps, the AMD would probably barely beat the Core Duo then. The main speed increase doesn't come specifically from being 64-bit, but rather that the 64-bit extensions more than double the number of registers. THAT is what makes it faster. If AMD had added the registers into a 32-bit mode, the 32-bit mode would be just as fast as the 64-bit mode.
So I do partially agree with the OP, but he does seem to be putting too much stock on 64-bit mode. It's not like the moment Vista comes out, all 32-bit processors will be obsolete immediately. Companies will continue to produce 32-bit apps for some time. Heck, it took nigh on 3 years after the intro of OS X for companies to stop producing OS 9 versions of their apps, and that is a significantly harder changeover! Microsoft is famous for eternal compatibility, so they won't be pushing for 64-bit-only apps for some time. (How many Windows users are STILL running on Pentium 3s with Windows 98?)
To use an even more recent example, Apple has switched to Intel processors (In all likelihood, the entire line will be switched over by July.) Yet some MAJOR applications (Microsoft Office and the Adobe apps,) will likely not be Intel-native for at least another year. The change from 32-bit to 64-bit in the Windows world will produce about a 10-15% increase in speed; yet the improvement in the Mac world can produce up to a 400% increase! You'd think Adobe would have had their ass in gear! I don't imagine that MOST Windows developers will switch to 64-bit until the majority of the Windows computers (both brand new and 'already in service',) are 64-bit. (Then again, 64-bit Windows has been around for over a year now, and how many have 64-bit apps?)
I have to agree with you. It has NEVER been possible for an end user to 'roll their own' OS X kernel. Darwin, yes. OS X, no. The bits that make it OS X have always been closed source. The underlying Darwin bits (Mach+BSD) are still fully open source, it's just a few of the OS X bits that HAD been open source are now closed source along with most of the other OS X bits. And other OS X bits are still open source. Not to mention that you can't compile an OS-X-compatible kernel from Darwin sources, anyway! (So, for example, if you really wanted compatibility with new technology xyz, say 64-bit x86, or some old technology like (god forbid, Token Ring,) even if someone wrote that into the Darwin kernel, you'll never get it to work in OS X.)
As said in some other comment, this is a non-event.
(P.S., I think you over-estimated, the number of end users could probably be counted on one hand.)
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Well, Ford owns (most of) Mazda, so saying 'Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda' would make sense... But GM?
Nah, I wouldn't abuse my Mac that way. I use my PC notebook on the throne.
The article doesn't specify precisely, but it does imply that the target computer must be set to automatically connect to open access points; and that it doesn't actually need to connect to be affected.
The problem with this is that neither Windows nor the Mac OS will automatically connect to unknown networks by default. Windows will prompt you that "Wireless networks have been detected," while the Mac OS will prompt you that "None of your favored networks has been detected, would you like to connect to [xxxyyyzzz]?" Neither OS makes the connection until you proactively choose to connect. This means that they are NOT "...configured to automatically connect to any available wireless network." (to quote the article.)
Yes, both OSes can be set to connect automatically, but your average end-user is not going to have the technical know-how to set this. Which, ironically, means that this exploit is more likely to affect power users. (None of my computers are set to connect automatically.)
BUT, this could potentially be gotten around. Of course, it doesn't say exactly how the exploit works; but if the attacking computer broadcasts an SSID of 'default', 'linksys', or 'actiontec', they could likely get a noticeable number of computers, just based on the fact that many user's access points use these default names, so their computers would be set up to connect to those SSIDs without confirmation.
This is the answer. I have also seen that if you install the new 'check if my copy is legal' tool that MS wants to auto-download through Windows Update, if it detects a pirated version, it will offer to let you buy a legal key for a decent price. ($150 for my [legal] full copy of XP Pro that it incorrectly thought was pirated.)
Also, if you need to go through re-activation, and it doesn't like your key, it will offer to sell you one.
And, if they bought the computer from a store and the store sold them a pirated copy, MS will even (under certain circumstances) let them convert to a legal key for free. (You must be willing to rat out the place you bought it from, though, providing detailed information.)
Regulatory, (between U.S. and Canadian regulators, since ATI is a Canadian company,) and shareholder (of both companies) approval.
What I see as interesting is that Intel was probably working to get SLI/CrossFire support in their chipsets. Now will they bother with CrossFire? Yeah, ATI/AMD could write drivers that support it on Intel chipsets, but Intel will probably declare this as 'unsupported' while nVidia's SLI would be officially supported. (Intel knows they still rely on ATI and nVidia for high-end gamer video cards. They don't even attempt to say integrated video is good for hardcore gamers.)
And, yeah, I can also see them withdrawing ATI/AMD's license to produce compatible chipsets. Which might actually drive more business to AMD, as people choose ATI/AMD combos rather than Intel/Intel combos. (When they would have chosen an ATI/Intel combo before the 'ban'.)
Does your building have a parking garage? If so, ask the management to provide an electric car charging station or two. If they already charge for parking, they can charge a little more (say, 10-25%) for electric cars. That would more than cover the electricity costs. (E-cars really do cost almost nothing to recharge.) If they don't have a garage, but have a lot, they could install one in one of the parking spots in the lot. If they don't have ANY parking, you could lobby them and the city to install a charger on the sidewalk in front of the building.
Here in Portland, a couple libraries with underground garages have electric car chargers in them; and a few businesses around town have chargers in front of their buildings, with signs declaring that only e-cars can park there; but they can do so for free (in addition to getting to charge their car for free,) in a downtown full of $1.25/hour parking meters. (I'll have to go take some pictures of them.)
Let's dissect this...
"...solutions-oriented, technology-based strategic marketing communications firm..." Translation: A high-tech advertising firm.
"...to plan and implement major revisions to the design and content of the website." Translation: redesign their website.
"...incorporate direct marketing capabilities including an online merchant store to support business to consumer and business to business transactions with credit card banking services." Translation: Add a web store.
Wow. That is one of the most marketing-driven statements I have seen in a long time. Hurrah to Phantom! They're finally going to release.... Uh... Something.
THAT, I could see as a possible use. As long as Microsoft enforces that the extra power can only be used to display at 1080p, not for in-game uses.
This is the one guaranteed not to happen. Why? Because, the advantage to game developers of developing for a console over a PC is that you have a known system. You KNOW you're developing for a triple-core 3.2GHz G5 derivative. Now if they bump the speed to 4 GHz, you'd have to develop for two systems. One lower-quality game at 3.2 GHz, one higher-quality at 4. If a developer got lazy and only developed for the 4 GHz model, you'd have original 360 owners complaining about the crappy performance. A console is supposed to be good performance all the time, no frame rate dips. That's the point of a console.
The other possibility is an annoying 'only works on Xbox360 mark 2'. Imagine if Sony started releasing games that only work on the slim PS2, not on the original? Original owners would revolt! (Xbox360 purchasers would be even more mad, considering the purchase price of the 360. HD-DVD upgrade, sure, I can see that (along with the release of an external HD-DVD drive for the original; or a mandate that games only come on original DVDs.)
First, I run a small on-site computer consulting company. We repair computers for homes and small businesses. Usually software issues. Before that, I worked as an engineering-level tech support for Intel's server motherboard department; mostly supporting OEMs and distributors, but the occasional end user would make their way through lower level tech support to reach me. Before THAT, I was third-tier telephone tech support for a now-defunct DSL ISP. My job was to resolve issues that were related to the actual telephone line, usually by calling the customer's local phone provider.
Personal support instance 1: My on-site consulting. Customer calls in complaining that his internet connection isn't working right. He has a wireless router, but he can only get either his wireless laptop connected OR his wired desktop; not both at the same time. I get out there, have him demonstrate what's going on. I find out that his laptop works fine wirelessly. Then he demonstrates how he connects his desktop... By unplugging the ethernet cable from the back of the router and plugging it into the desktop. He didn't have an extra ethernet cable to plug the desktop into the router. 5 minutes later, I walk out after having sold him a 10' Ethernet cable for $10, and charged him $75 for the service call. Quickest money-making appointment I've ever had. (Just today I had one that was 'walk in, diagnose bad monitor, walk out', but I would have felt guilty charging for that.)
Personal support instance 2: Intel support. A large (very large, you've heard of them,) OEM used our server boards in their products. Their head tech rep calls me one day complaining that multiple (but not all) of their customers are complaining that when they plug a PS/2 mouse in to their server, using a certain model of our mainboard, it loses video. (On-board video.) If they use a PCI video card, it works just fine; if they use a USB mouse, it works just fine. But it's a server, and at the time, USB mice weren't as common as they are now. After much telephone troubleshooting, I have them have one of their customers send the system to me. I check it out, and indeed, plugging a PS/2 mouse in makes it lose video. (Being a PS/2 mouse, it has to be plugged in at boot time to work, so I plug in a mouse, turn it on, and never get video, even though a POST card says everything is fine, and I can use remote management tools to verify that it is booting correctly.) So I remove the board from the case, put it on my test bench, and it works just fine. I put it back in the case, and no video with mouse. I double check, and there is nothing in the case that should be shorting out either the mouse port or the video port. After a few days of hair-pulling, I notice that this case has standoff holes for both our board, and someone else's not-quite-full-ATX board. The OEM had put standoffs in ALL of the holes, even the ones that don't line up with screw holes in our full-ATX-compliant board. But none of them are under the mouse port or the video port. When I remove the extras, though, the server all of a sudden works just fine. I finally narrow it down to a standoff that lies underneath the built-in SCSI connector (channel 2.) After talking with our engineers, we figure out that SCSI channel 2 shares a ground with the video plug and the mouse plug. Apparently plugging in a mouse completes a short circuit that shorts out the video. Case solved: OEM had to instruct their factory to be more careful installing standoffs.
Personal support instance 3: DSL company. The worst problem to have to diagnose is 'intermittent sync'. When the DSL modem loses its connection sometimes, but is fine others. The phone company always blames internal wiring, customer equipment, or the boogeyman. So I get this customer who loses sync every night at about sunset. It has been doing so for months. As sunset got later (it started in the early Spring,) he would lose sync later. He had called in and previous technicians had not been able to find a cause. The p
Very true. The shuttle already had an 'autoland' system available. The only part that had to be manually controlled was, as you mention, the landing gear. The shuttle was one of the first aviation vehicles that was capable of performing final approach and landing fully automated. (Not that the captain/pilot would trust the computers to do so with such an expensive system.)
Assuming you can't change any of your hardware, and don't want to go for any massively difficult software, just use Windows' built-in xcopy32 command. Yes, it's command-line, but it's the fastest free-and-easy utility out there.
And, as others have pointed out, you are NEVER going to hit 400 mbps, no matter what software you're using. 400 mbps is 50 MB/s, do you honestly think that old PC has a drive capable of sustained 50 MB/s transfers? Do you have a drive in the FW enclosure that is capable of that? Only the absolute latest PATA drives are capable of sustaining that, and even then, only over sequential transfers. Any random access, and you're dropping well under that.
If you want a perfect copy of the drive, use a sector copier, like Norton Ghost or Partition Magic.
The person you're replying to isn't a boomer, so just saying he's espousing 'boomer politics' is ludicrous.
While voting for having things go to shit slowly isn't GOOD, it's better than voting for someone who won't make any difference whatsoever. You might as well buy that lottery ticket, then throw it immediately away without waiting for the results, that's what your vote for a third party is doing. You're not going to affect the system at all.) You vote for the lesser of two evils, then you work from the inside to make the lesser of two evils into good.
Unfortunately, I've tried this with both evils unsucessfully, and am disillusioned with both evils, so I'm officially separate from both evils now. But I do understand that I do have to vote for one of them to slow the spiral. I would LOVE it if various third-party candidates were elected to national office. But with elections as close as they are in my district between the major two, I'm not going to vote for the third-party candidates. I'm going to vote for the major party candidate that I hate the least. That's pragmatism.
But, I DO write letters to my senators/representatives often. I make sure they know what my feelings on issues are, as their constituent, and someone who votes for (or against) them. I make sure to always send letters by postal mail, as they get more attention. (Of course, showing up at their office when they are there gets even better results, if you can get a meeting with them.)
The only problem with this is that I don't have an ISP address. I buy my internet access as a 'business' account from my telco, which includes JUST the DSL signal, an IP address, and usage of their DNS for lookup purposes.
I have my own personal domain, as well as owning a small business, and having a domain for it.
Most sites that block free email also block my domains, since they don't recognize them as belonging to an ISP. Both domains are hosted by other companies, neither one a 'free email' domain. So it's not just that they're self-hosted. One is even by one of the big domain hosts, GoDaddy. (The email is actually handled through secureserver.net.)
My hardware:
First gen MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz (shipped the first week,) with 2 GB of RAM and the 7200 RPM hard drive. All firmware updates applied, running Boot Camp. (95% of the time in OS X, 5% in XP.)
My symptoms:
This whole process occurred over about two weeks.
So I took it to an Apple Store's Genius Bar, and they did some diagnostics, then finally declared it a bad battery. (The Genius hadn't heard of any company-acknowledged failures that covered this.) Swapped my battery for a brand new one (straight off the sales shelf,) and went on my way. (I bought a second at the same time, simply because I had been wanting a second battery anyway.)
Actually, if he's out on parole, he isn't technically 100% free, nor does he have full Constitutional rights. And being a convicted felon, he will likely never regain full Constitutional rights.
But, I do understand your argument. I fully agree. Now, what I'd like to know is if the shop has any signage stating that there is a purchase required for use of their AP? (I'm just down in Portland, so maybe I'll drive up and check tomorrow.) If not, and connecteting to the AP doesn't present any 'login' type screen making the user agree to any terms, then I would argue that the AP is being offered unlicensed. Throughout Portland there are open access points managed by a nonprofit called Personal Telco that makes you agree to various terms of service to use their service.
I frequent multiple small coffee shops that have free WiFi (it's fairly common here in Portland.) And the ones I frequent all make you agree to licenses to use their service. (Some using NoCatAuth, some using Personal Telco's system.) Now, if this guy was sucking down 95% of their bandwidth by BitTorrenting kiddie porn, fine, call the cops on him. But if he was living out of his van and just browsing the occasional news and employement website, and checking email, cut him some slack. You do, after all, have a public, open, access point.
Earth's natural satellite is officially named "The Moon", yes, capitalized, with "The" included. In many Latin-based languages, it is called "Luna", which is what I prefer as a 'name'. Just as our planet's official name is "Earth", even though 'earth' can also refer to dirt.
I think the point is this is new this year. IT users will get a roadmap under NDA. Probably not a "we will release the iHDTV on June 1, 2007, and iPhone on August 3rd," type roadmap, but more of a "we will release a desktop using the Intel Core 2 Duo 3.4 GHz within a month of it shipping in December, at the $1000 price point, that is expandable."
They are meant for different markets.
Parallels is for people who need to run OS X and Windows at the same time.
Boot Camp is for people who need to occassionally run Windows separately from Mac OS X. For example: games, secure environments, people who just want to use Apple hardware with Windows, and have nothing to do with OS X whatsoever.
You were told that because there are vastly more Googler's hired new from Portland than moved from California. (Yeah, managers were, but lower-level weren't.)
I know someone who was hired by Google. And I know someone that moved to The Dalles. Same person? He can't say. (He isn't allowed to say those two facts in the same sentence.)
Yes, but this is just below a dam, so they can control the water flow to prevent the Google facility from flooding.
The dam is why Google built there: cheap, reliable power.
before I hit submit.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was an Ask Slashdot..
My dad is a 'computer guy'. He has been using computers as the FOCUS of his job for 30 years now; yes, even before MS-DOS came out.
He is not a UNIX newbie, and he has been using DOS since version 2.0. He even knows some programming.
Yet he won't run anything other than Windows or MacOS. Not due to some inherent bias against UNIX/Linux, but because it's just too much work to run for simple tasks (his words, not mine.) There is *NO* convincing him to run Linux, not even after showing him an Ubuntu install. Why? Mostly that he has some Windows-only software, and he never could get WINE to run it. (Yes, he has TRIED to run Linux before.) He at least, does smartly, only run in Standard User mode.
Why do I mention this? Because, even someone who is fully comfortable using UNIX (he runs one BSD machine at work, along with a Mac and a Windows machine,) you may still jut not want to switch. And if the person has been using THAT computer for a couple years, they're probably too comfortable with it as it is to change anything around. (Heck, I had one of my employees tell a customer that in order to really fix the underlying problem, they would have to: 1. Back up everything, 2. Erase the hard disk, 3. Reinstall Windows. His note SPECIFICALLY said to back everything up first, in bigger letters than the others. The customer didn't have any backup media, so my employee told him to go get DVD-Rs and back everything up. Of course, the customer promptly erased the hard drive as soon as my employee left, then proceeded to call our office because she claimed that our employee had scewed everything up. When I went out, 'BACK UP HARD DRIVE ONTO DVD-R" was very clearly written above everything else, and in a larger font, too.)
In short, you can't always trust even an expert to be comfortable trying another OS.
As for when you HAVE to run Windows, there is yet another problem. I've seen viruses and spyware get onto a computer running in Limited User mode, WITH antivirus and antispyware software running. (Usually out-of-date, but there are so many things out of date on end user's computers these days that they probably THINK they are up to date. The other major problem is that lots of software (mostly pre-2000, but some XP-grade,) that will only run in Administrator mode. (Most notably, anti-virus updating!) Yes, two of the biggest problems with Limited User mode is that Norton won't update, and Ad-Aware won't run.
Sadly, until Microsoft adds the 'Professional-class 'User', or even 'Power User', home users are stuck betwwen 'Admin' and 'Limited User'.
So I do partially agree with the OP, but he does seem to be putting too much stock on 64-bit mode. It's not like the moment Vista comes out, all 32-bit processors will be obsolete immediately. Companies will continue to produce 32-bit apps for some time. Heck, it took nigh on 3 years after the intro of OS X for companies to stop producing OS 9 versions of their apps, and that is a significantly harder changeover! Microsoft is famous for eternal compatibility, so they won't be pushing for 64-bit-only apps for some time. (How many Windows users are STILL running on Pentium 3s with Windows 98?)
To use an even more recent example, Apple has switched to Intel processors (In all likelihood, the entire line will be switched over by July.) Yet some MAJOR applications (Microsoft Office and the Adobe apps,) will likely not be Intel-native for at least another year. The change from 32-bit to 64-bit in the Windows world will produce about a 10-15% increase in speed; yet the improvement in the Mac world can produce up to a 400% increase! You'd think Adobe would have had their ass in gear! I don't imagine that MOST Windows developers will switch to 64-bit until the majority of the Windows computers (both brand new and 'already in service',) are 64-bit. (Then again, 64-bit Windows has been around for over a year now, and how many have 64-bit apps?)
I have to agree with you. It has NEVER been possible for an end user to 'roll their own' OS X kernel. Darwin, yes. OS X, no. The bits that make it OS X have always been closed source. The underlying Darwin bits (Mach+BSD) are still fully open source, it's just a few of the OS X bits that HAD been open source are now closed source along with most of the other OS X bits. And other OS X bits are still open source. Not to mention that you can't compile an OS-X-compatible kernel from Darwin sources, anyway! (So, for example, if you really wanted compatibility with new technology xyz, say 64-bit x86, or some old technology like (god forbid, Token Ring,) even if someone wrote that into the Darwin kernel, you'll never get it to work in OS X.)
As said in some other comment, this is a non-event.
(P.S., I think you over-estimated, the number of end users could probably be counted on one hand.)