Component still looks like crap because they still have the RGB signal processed into YUV. Just hook it up with an RGB cable and it'll be fine. a Wii-to-RGB SCART cable is about £5, and a Wii-to-RGB VGA cable is a little more, depending on where you shop.
Well, it probably comes down to the vehicles used, too. Fuel in the UK is - in practical terms - about half the price of the US. Yes, the pump price is higher, but most people drive much more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Asda deliver their stuff in vans about the same size as mine (well, one size up, not a lot bigger) that get about 40mpg from powerful, clean, efficient turbodiesel engines. In the US they'd probably use something with a 9-litre V8 producing about 70bhp and getting 9mpg at 40mph.
... and of course Asda is the UK version of Walmart.
Has anyone actually set foot inside an Asda store in the past couple of years? I'm never sure if the big anonymous boxes are actually supermarkets, or just a delivery depot.
You'd think he'd know the difference between "hackers" and "crackers", right? Oh no, not him. He keeps peddling the use of "hacker" as an offensive pejorative term.
Basically, anything that would write sectors full of zeros (or anything else, for that matter) to the drive, ignoring the file system.
Recovering data from drives that are working correctly - ie., when you boot your PC, or fire up a browser, or anything else that loads data from the disk - is nothing short of miraculous these days. It doesn't take a lot to make it totally unreadable.
The device is flawed, because as brutal as it is, it does very little to protect the data from being read again.
Yup. It's quicker but potentially less effective than a single pass of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-to-be-wiped". Writing zeros across the disk will wipe any disk made in the last 15 years or so, beyond all hope of recovery.
No, you don't know a company that can recover it. No, the NSA don't have a big magic machine that can recover it.
Maybe you should look at licenses that don't place any restriction on what people do with your code.
Then, once you've got a really great project, I'll take it, place it under my own licence that forbids you from even mentioning it again, and call it my own. Since I can afford scarier lawyers than you, there's nothing you can do about it.
Basically GPL is a violation of my rights to publ,ish source code and make money off of it. No one has the right to force me to release my developed code for free.
You're under no obligation to release your code under the GPL. You can release it under any licence you want. If you choose not to abide by the GPL, you cannot base your software on GPLed code. Go and write your own software from scratch, and don't steal mine.
I don't particularly care about customising stuff. I want to get on with actually using my computer. It took me several days of digging around to get Unity into a state where it was just about usable. The first sticking point was the nauseating drop shadow around the focused window - instant eyestrain! Here's a hint, guys - big blurry things make your eyes think they're not focused properly and they go crazy trying to pull it into focus. The utterly retarded idea of sticking the window buttons on the wrong side, that had to go - why break a convention set with just about every WIMP environment since the dawn of time (or at least bitmapped graphics hardware)?
Okay, so what else was broken? Well, there's no weather applet in Unity. "ZOMG JUST LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW LOL" Yes, great, but I spend a lot of time working in windowless blast-proof machinery rooms and I like to see what I'm missing.
Lastly - and the most important thing - is the stupid sidebar thing. So there's a strip of little indistinguishable squares. If you mouse over them, the title of the app pops up. Are they apps that are open, or apps that can be opened? No way of telling. Double click one. An application launches. Double click it again. Some windows shrink and whirl around the screen, but it doesn't open another instance off the application. Right click? "Add to Favourites..." Okay, so another square appears. Double-click that - shrink, whirl. How the hell do you open more than one instance of the same app? *Middle-click* one of the squares. Oh, okay, so on my laptop, that's pressing both left and righ click at the same time? No, because middle-click chording is disabled by default.
Oh, and if you put a window too close to the strip with the squares, it gets scared and hides. Then you've got to move all your windows to get it back. Yeah, that's a really discoverable interface, guys...
Noscript doesn't help with "interstitial" ads, since they are typically served from the URL you are going to. Adblock+ doesn't help with interstitial adverts where the bulk of the content is from the linked site with a big flash video from "ert2eptjkgjkq3ktjllkg.cdn-no-one-has-ever-heard-of.strange.tld" even with the various filter adblock lists enabled.
The bit pattern written to the disk is somewhat random even if the data is all zeros. The actual modulation scheme writes something similar to QAM to the disk, so one bit time actually contains several bits of data encoded as different levels and phases. Incoming data is scrambled against a pseudorandom sequence so there are no big long runs of all zero or all one bits fed to the encoder, which then produces a signal more-or-less indistinguishable from white noise.
That's before I started soldering it. That's how it left Kenwood. I haven't got any "after" pics.
About half my work at the moment involves removing lead-free solder from equipment and resoldering it all with leaded solder, just to clean up that sort of mess.
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The ANPR cameras in the UK only store "observed" number plates for a few seconds. Registration numbers to search for are stored in the database until they're taken out. In normal use the ANPR system needs to have registration numbers to watch out for put into it. It doesn't even spot untaxed, uninsured or out-of-MOT vehicles unless they're explicitly added to the database.
Just as a comparison, the capacitor in this image is about 0.75x0.75x1mm - and I really only use the USB microscope if I need a photograph of the board to show any water damage or anything like that. The transistor below it is about the same size as this camera. I don't even use a magnifier for parts that large.
There are some SMT parts that actually *are* the size of a grain of salt. I *do* use a magnifier for those.
It must be hard work running around with those goalposts like that;-)
Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, Windows 7 is irrelevant since it cannot run the software I use daily. That's my main reason for using Linux instead of Windows.
I don't really need to defend anything. People keep harping on about things like virus scanners and firewalls and anti-malware and stuff like that, but they are running Windows. I run Linux on my computers, and have never needed to use a virus scanner since the Atari ST days. If Windows is so secure, why do you need to bother with things like virus scanners and firewalls?
Ardour. It does damn near everything I need, and as an added bonus has a workflow rather like that of "proper" HDR systems.
I never really got my head around FL Studio but it doesn't really look like Ardour would do the same job. I don't work the way that FL Studio wants you to, so it doesn't really make sense for me.
No, the original poster claimed it took more work to secure Windows than Linux.
If you can't secure a windows box enough to stop this sort of thing then yes, you might want to use an alternate OS.
That suggests it takes extra work to secure Windows, beyond the work required to secure other OSes. Who's got time to fiddle about that that stuff? Just get something that works.
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Component still looks like crap because they still have the RGB signal processed into YUV. Just hook it up with an RGB cable and it'll be fine. a Wii-to-RGB SCART cable is about £5, and a Wii-to-RGB VGA cable is a little more, depending on where you shop.
I have a hard time believing that British delivery trucks are that much more efficient than their new world counterparts.
Well, what kind of fuel consumption figures do you get from a normal medium-size panel van?
Well, it probably comes down to the vehicles used, too. Fuel in the UK is - in practical terms - about half the price of the US. Yes, the pump price is higher, but most people drive much more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Asda deliver their stuff in vans about the same size as mine (well, one size up, not a lot bigger) that get about 40mpg from powerful, clean, efficient turbodiesel engines. In the US they'd probably use something with a 9-litre V8 producing about 70bhp and getting 9mpg at 40mph.
... and of course Asda is the UK version of Walmart.
Has anyone actually set foot inside an Asda store in the past couple of years? I'm never sure if the big anonymous boxes are actually supermarkets, or just a delivery depot.
You'd think he'd know the difference between "hackers" and "crackers", right? Oh no, not him. He keeps peddling the use of "hacker" as an offensive pejorative term.
Basically, anything that would write sectors full of zeros (or anything else, for that matter) to the drive, ignoring the file system.
Recovering data from drives that are working correctly - ie., when you boot your PC, or fire up a browser, or anything else that loads data from the disk - is nothing short of miraculous these days. It doesn't take a lot to make it totally unreadable.
The device is flawed, because as brutal as it is, it does very little to protect the data from being read again.
Yup. It's quicker but potentially less effective than a single pass of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-to-be-wiped". Writing zeros across the disk will wipe any disk made in the last 15 years or so, beyond all hope of recovery.
No, you don't know a company that can recover it. No, the NSA don't have a big magic machine that can recover it.
Maybe you should look at licenses that don't place any restriction on what people do with your code.
Then, once you've got a really great project, I'll take it, place it under my own licence that forbids you from even mentioning it again, and call it my own. Since I can afford scarier lawyers than you, there's nothing you can do about it.
How does that sound?
Basically GPL is a violation of my rights to publ,ish source code and make money off of it. No one has the right to force me to release my developed code for free.
You're under no obligation to release your code under the GPL. You can release it under any licence you want. If you choose not to abide by the GPL, you cannot base your software on GPLed code. Go and write your own software from scratch, and don't steal mine.
I don't particularly care about customising stuff. I want to get on with actually using my computer. It took me several days of digging around to get Unity into a state where it was just about usable. The first sticking point was the nauseating drop shadow around the focused window - instant eyestrain! Here's a hint, guys - big blurry things make your eyes think they're not focused properly and they go crazy trying to pull it into focus. The utterly retarded idea of sticking the window buttons on the wrong side, that had to go - why break a convention set with just about every WIMP environment since the dawn of time (or at least bitmapped graphics hardware)?
Okay, so what else was broken? Well, there's no weather applet in Unity. "ZOMG JUST LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW LOL" Yes, great, but I spend a lot of time working in windowless blast-proof machinery rooms and I like to see what I'm missing.
Lastly - and the most important thing - is the stupid sidebar thing. So there's a strip of little indistinguishable squares. If you mouse over them, the title of the app pops up. Are they apps that are open, or apps that can be opened? No way of telling. Double click one. An application launches. Double click it again. Some windows shrink and whirl around the screen, but it doesn't open another instance off the application. Right click? "Add to Favourites..." Okay, so another square appears. Double-click that - shrink, whirl. How the hell do you open more than one instance of the same app? *Middle-click* one of the squares. Oh, okay, so on my laptop, that's pressing both left and righ click at the same time? No, because middle-click chording is disabled by default.
Oh, and if you put a window too close to the strip with the squares, it gets scared and hides. Then you've got to move all your windows to get it back. Yeah, that's a really discoverable interface, guys...
"Stays there forever" but can't actually be read in any meaningful way, because it's corrupted...
Noscript doesn't help with "interstitial" ads, since they are typically served from the URL you are going to. Adblock+ doesn't help with interstitial adverts where the bulk of the content is from the linked site with a big flash video from "ert2eptjkgjkq3ktjllkg.cdn-no-one-has-ever-heard-of.strange.tld" even with the various filter adblock lists enabled.
The bit pattern written to the disk is somewhat random even if the data is all zeros. The actual modulation scheme writes something similar to QAM to the disk, so one bit time actually contains several bits of data encoded as different levels and phases. Incoming data is scrambled against a pseudorandom sequence so there are no big long runs of all zero or all one bits fed to the encoder, which then produces a signal more-or-less indistinguishable from white noise.
I suppose dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda does take quite a while on larger drives...
I'm using Web 2.4TDi which is a bit slower but much cheaper to run, and a lot simpler to work on.
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That's before I started soldering it. That's how it left Kenwood. I haven't got any "after" pics.
About half my work at the moment involves removing lead-free solder from equipment and resoldering it all with leaded solder, just to clean up that sort of mess.
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The ANPR cameras in the UK only store "observed" number plates for a few seconds. Registration numbers to search for are stored in the database until they're taken out. In normal use the ANPR system needs to have registration numbers to watch out for put into it. It doesn't even spot untaxed, uninsured or out-of-MOT vehicles unless they're explicitly added to the database.
Just as a comparison, the capacitor in this image is about 0.75x0.75x1mm - and I really only use the USB microscope if I need a photograph of the board to show any water damage or anything like that. The transistor below it is about the same size as this camera. I don't even use a magnifier for parts that large.
There are some SMT parts that actually *are* the size of a grain of salt. I *do* use a magnifier for those.
It must be hard work running around with those goalposts like that ;-)
Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, Windows 7 is irrelevant since it cannot run the software I use daily. That's my main reason for using Linux instead of Windows.
By Microsoft's own figures, Linux has the majority of server market share. Why are there no viruses for Linux, exactly?
I don't really need to defend anything. People keep harping on about things like virus scanners and firewalls and anti-malware and stuff like that, but they are running Windows. I run Linux on my computers, and have never needed to use a virus scanner since the Atari ST days. If Windows is so secure, why do you need to bother with things like virus scanners and firewalls?
Ardour. It does damn near everything I need, and as an added bonus has a workflow rather like that of "proper" HDR systems.
I never really got my head around FL Studio but it doesn't really look like Ardour would do the same job. I don't work the way that FL Studio wants you to, so it doesn't really make sense for me.
No, the original poster claimed it took more work to secure Windows than Linux.
If you can't secure a windows box enough to stop this sort of thing then yes, you might want to use an alternate OS.
That suggests it takes extra work to secure Windows, beyond the work required to secure other OSes. Who's got time to fiddle about that that stuff? Just get something that works.
I use Linux for audio production. There's nothing worth using on Windows.