The ARM version of Surface runs Windows RT, just like other ARM based Windows 8 tablets.
No Windows desktop, only Metro, err, I mean, "Modern UI". Can only install apps from the Windows Store, subject to an Apple-like approval process. $49 for a personal, or $99+ for a corporate, developer license (IIRC).
The x86 version will run the desktop, but I still don't want one, because it'll use the Intel "Clover Trail" Atom and Linux distributions won't run on it (or rather they'll run, but will get a battery life of about 10 minutes, due to closed power management specifications; useless).
I like banshee. It resolves the track details and album art of CDs I rip, supports a wide range of formats, copes well with my large music directory and its file and directory name conventions, has working gapless playback (rhythmbox's never quite worked right whenever I tried), and integrates well with last.fm.
I didn't even know it was built on Mono until a couple of weeks ago. I haven't noticed any sluggishness, and I'm not running it on a terribly fast PC.
I was a long time Ubuntu user. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, I found that Unity was unusable. Forget opinions about the redesigned, touch-friendly interface: it was broken. Menu items not appearing; rampant graphics corruption in the menu bar; window dragging taking several seconds to redraw the window; lots more. Does anyone have impressions of how buggy Unity is in this new release?
(Yes, proprietary nvidia driver. Playing nice with it is non-negotiable. Gnome 3 and KDE both do.)
As a power user and a developer, I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora after I discovered how awful Unity was in 11.04. I'm very happy with it. YMMV (I'm a Gnome 3 fan -- but if you don't like it, there's XFCE, LXDE, xmonad, etc etc).
See: Email encryption (S/MIME etc) -- do you know anyone who uses it? In the unlikely event that you do, can you say they're not a huge nerd? Hell, I work as a security specialist and I don't use it because it's too hard.
Also see: DNSSEC -- even the big network operators are having difficulty deploying it, let alone anyone else.
And the https system for web certificates, which only "works" because it's fundamentally insecure (every browser trusts a huge list of CAs, any one of which can sign a certificate for any site, which is all that's required to impersonate the site -- and that's before we get into mixed content and all the other problems)..secure will require usable, secure authentication over the Internet, and that's *hard*.
Passwords short enough to memorise are now short enough to crack in many cases. See recent article about hash reversal with GPUs.
Use a password safe. Just search -- there are lots around. I use KeePassX (small, cross-platform -- Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac, Android, no install required on Windows). It'll make strong passwords for you and save them in a tiny encrypted file you can copy to all your devices, with a couple of clicks. The only passwords you'll need to remember are your local login password and the password to the safe.
Life is better without having my web accounts chain-hacked or having to clutter my brain remembering a bazillion passwords...
Apple AirPort (all models) support IPv6 out-of-the-box. I'm running one myself. Works nicely.
As far as I could tell from some while of hunting around on the net, it's the *only* router that advertises such support, and might well be the only one that has it at all...
That's a personal preference thing. I found many of Asimov's stories really dull. Have you read the early Foundation books, for example? They're just pedestrian chronologies. This-happened, and-then-this-happened, and-then-100-years-later-this-happened.
(He wrote some gems too. "Pebble in the Sky" is my favourite. And the Foundation books he wrote when he was older are much better, especially Prelude.)
Contrast with a good sci-fi TV series? There's a lot of plotting, and indeed philosophy, going on in Babylon 5 at its best, for example...
Gratuitous pedantry: There's no way any cloud-booted computer will use either PXE or TFTP. Those protocols are designed for trusted networks and are far too insecure to operate across the Internet.
They might have invented some secure protocol to do the same thing. However, I reckon it's probably integrated cloud storage support rather than cloud booting, as other posters suggested earlier. Cloud booting or display rendering in the cloud sounds too likely to give a bad user experience due to ISP issues.
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I bet this test has just as much real world meaning as Mensa's IQ test though...
Oh my goodness; nice troll (I hope!). This is pretty much a "worst case scenario" for the PC enthusiast community. It's on a par with Apple buying ARM in end-user doom.
Hopefully if it is true, Intel (of all companies) will arrange to block it, for the same reason that they don't lower prices enough to push AMD out of the CPU market (which they could do if they really wanted to): being pursued for being a monopoly would be seriously bad for them as well as the rest of the ecosystem and they know it...
Running windows without antivirus and antimalware is irresponsible no matter how careful you are, it's not meant to preclude or replace and individuals responsibility, but it works well as a back up.
No, it does not.
The first thing that the cleverer worms and other malware do after getting a foothold on your machine is disable the AV. You might get a bunch of warnings out of it if you're lucky, but its cleanup routines won't work any more, and it won't warn you about any further infections. You still need that backup, because the only way to be sure you've got the malware off is to wipe and reinstall.
That's not even considering malware the AV hasn't heard of yet.
Because of the forced collaboration. Doctors, lawyers and teachers are often producing individual work, or working in very small groups. In software particularly, the individual work of one engineer is irrelevant unless it integrates successfully with the work of dozens or sometimes hundreds of other engineers.
When the success of your own piece of work depends, in an immediate and pressing manner, on the success of the pieces of work of many other people, frustration and bitching quickly ensue if one of those other pieces of work is causing problems in yours!
I agree with you except, please don't lump indoor smoking in with the others there. Passive smoking causes cancer; the law should give me the right to insist that my coworkers don't kill me slowly!
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the direct link to the article for future convenience (it's at the top of the above link right now but I doubt it'll stay there): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130127/19023721799/redditor-points-out-flaws-simcitys-online-only-drm-gets-banned-ea-his-troubles.shtml
And the follow up.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/14/ea-forum-bans-are-still-affecting-games/
Yes, because the Daily Mail runs the UK, these days.
The ARM version of Surface runs Windows RT, just like other ARM based Windows 8 tablets.
No Windows desktop, only Metro, err, I mean, "Modern UI". Can only install apps from the Windows Store, subject to an Apple-like approval process. $49 for a personal, or $99+ for a corporate, developer license (IIRC).
The x86 version will run the desktop, but I still don't want one, because it'll use the Intel "Clover Trail" Atom and Linux distributions won't run on it (or rather they'll run, but will get a battery life of about 10 minutes, due to closed power management specifications; useless).
Surface is a toy. Keep buying laptops. :P
What exactly does this desktop of yours look like, and is it situated underneath a bridge?
Not helpful for you probably, but Android 4.0 fixes this problem. Bottom right button brings up a running-app switcher.
I like banshee. It resolves the track details and album art of CDs I rip, supports a wide range of formats, copes well with my large music directory and its file and directory name conventions, has working gapless playback (rhythmbox's never quite worked right whenever I tried), and integrates well with last.fm.
I didn't even know it was built on Mono until a couple of weeks ago. I haven't noticed any sluggishness, and I'm not running it on a terribly fast PC.
She might not want to upgrade, but she *needs* to upgrade, to fix security vulnerabilities.
That's the #1 problem here.
I was a long time Ubuntu user. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, I found that Unity was unusable. Forget opinions about the redesigned, touch-friendly interface: it was broken. Menu items not appearing; rampant graphics corruption in the menu bar; window dragging taking several seconds to redraw the window; lots more. Does anyone have impressions of how buggy Unity is in this new release?
(Yes, proprietary nvidia driver. Playing nice with it is non-negotiable. Gnome 3 and KDE both do.)
As a power user and a developer, I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora after I discovered how awful Unity was in 11.04. I'm very happy with it. YMMV (I'm a Gnome 3 fan -- but if you don't like it, there's XFCE, LXDE, xmonad, etc etc).
...anyone sharing a public WiFi with you can be a man-in-the-middle...
What you described doesn't just "cost a lot". It's security cloud cuckoo-land...
Do they mean a PKI, with certificates?
If so, .secure will go down like a lead balloon.
See: Email encryption (S/MIME etc) -- do you know anyone who uses it? In the unlikely event that you do, can you say they're not a huge nerd? Hell, I work as a security specialist and I don't use it because it's too hard.
Also see: DNSSEC -- even the big network operators are having difficulty deploying it, let alone anyone else.
And the https system for web certificates, which only "works" because it's fundamentally insecure (every browser trusts a huge list of CAs, any one of which can sign a certificate for any site, which is all that's required to impersonate the site -- and that's before we get into mixed content and all the other problems). .secure will require usable, secure authentication over the Internet, and that's *hard*.
Passwords short enough to memorise are now short enough to crack in many cases. See recent article about hash reversal with GPUs.
Use a password safe. Just search -- there are lots around. I use KeePassX (small, cross-platform -- Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac, Android, no install required on Windows). It'll make strong passwords for you and save them in a tiny encrypted file you can copy to all your devices, with a couple of clicks. The only passwords you'll need to remember are your local login password and the password to the safe.
Life is better without having my web accounts chain-hacked or having to clutter my brain remembering a bazillion passwords...
Apple AirPort (all models) support IPv6 out-of-the-box. I'm running one myself. Works nicely.
As far as I could tell from some while of hunting around on the net, it's the *only* router that advertises such support, and might well be the only one that has it at all...
*facepalm*
Flashblock!
Err, Slashdot has always held a "ZOMG M$!!!" attitude. More so in 2001 than in 2011 in fact, I think...
That's a personal preference thing. I found many of Asimov's stories really dull. Have you read the early Foundation books, for example? They're just pedestrian chronologies. This-happened, and-then-this-happened, and-then-100-years-later-this-happened.
(He wrote some gems too. "Pebble in the Sky" is my favourite. And the Foundation books he wrote when he was older are much better, especially Prelude.)
Contrast with a good sci-fi TV series? There's a lot of plotting, and indeed philosophy, going on in Babylon 5 at its best, for example...
Gratuitous pedantry: There's no way any cloud-booted computer will use either PXE or TFTP. Those protocols are designed for trusted networks and are far too insecure to operate across the Internet.
They might have invented some secure protocol to do the same thing. However, I reckon it's probably integrated cloud storage support rather than cloud booting, as other posters suggested earlier. Cloud booting or display rendering in the cloud sounds too likely to give a bad user experience due to ISP issues.
I bet this test has just as much real world meaning as Mensa's IQ test though...
"86 percent do not check for a secure connection when accessing sensitive information when using unfamiliar computers"
Seriously, now. A website with "security" in the title really ought to at least try to present credible security analysis!
*facepalm*
Oh my goodness; nice troll (I hope!). This is pretty much a "worst case scenario" for the PC enthusiast community. It's on a par with Apple buying ARM in end-user doom.
Hopefully if it is true, Intel (of all companies) will arrange to block it, for the same reason that they don't lower prices enough to push AMD out of the CPU market (which they could do if they really wanted to): being pursued for being a monopoly would be seriously bad for them as well as the rest of the ecosystem and they know it...
Running windows without antivirus and antimalware is irresponsible no matter how careful you are, it's not meant to preclude or replace and individuals responsibility, but it works well as a back up.
No, it does not.
The first thing that the cleverer worms and other malware do after getting a foothold on your machine is disable the AV. You might get a bunch of warnings out of it if you're lucky, but its cleanup routines won't work any more, and it won't warn you about any further infections. You still need that backup, because the only way to be sure you've got the malware off is to wipe and reinstall.
That's not even considering malware the AV hasn't heard of yet.
Because of the forced collaboration. Doctors, lawyers and teachers are often producing individual work, or working in very small groups. In software particularly, the individual work of one engineer is irrelevant unless it integrates successfully with the work of dozens or sometimes hundreds of other engineers.
When the success of your own piece of work depends, in an immediate and pressing manner, on the success of the pieces of work of many other people, frustration and bitching quickly ensue if one of those other pieces of work is causing problems in yours!
I agree with you except, please don't lump indoor smoking in with the others there. Passive smoking causes cancer; the law should give me the right to insist that my coworkers don't kill me slowly!