"Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. It is considered an abuse of the judicial process and almost always brings down sanctions on the offender." -- wikipedia
No surprise that the security is non-existant, but a nice surprise that tweakers.net[0] have people skilled enough to do a thorough technical review. Tip-of-the-Hat to the reviewers and keep the good work up. Anyone can run 3D benchmarks and make graphs against the previous generation, but this requires a different level of technical know-how. It's always been my hope that the future would feature this type of review, using reverse-engineering techniques for indepth technical reviews, as a norm not an exception.
[0] No disrespect to the people of tweakers.net, I mean in the sense of 'any popular review site'.
Seems to contain a compressed buffer with a.sys driver that is decompressed with a call to RtlDecompressBuffer and hidden away by writing it to the alternate stream "%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\crusoe.sys:drmkaud. sys", and then there's a registry update to load the driver.
Someone who cares should write out the compressed buffer and disassemble that.
Considering the executable is just about 6K and doesn't seem protected/compressed, reversing it ought to be fairly trivial. Try the demo version of IDA.
Is it really necessary to make the site completely useless one day of the year? Wouldn't it be better to just hang up the "Gone fishing" sign, and take the day off?
Assuming this is correct, the argument seems very weak, almost completely counter-intuitive:
"In closing arguments Coats warned that a ruling in favor of Kaleidescape "could open the flood gates to copycats. Prices could come down to that of a laptop for products that are not as elegant as Kaleidescape's but have the same basic functionality," Coats said."
So by ruling for the defendant, the judge would open the floodgates to innovation, increased competition and more jobs in the market?
Yeah, I can see how one must warn against a ruling with evil results such as those.
Sony: Don't try this at home... EMI Records:... We've got years of experience suing people, that keeps us safe.
Who are the KidBusters?
Sony "Once I rooted this music fan and deleted all her WMA certificates. That was awesome!"
and EMI Records "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
Between them, more than 20 years of slimey lawyering, payola and oligopolic behaviour.
joing them
Epic "Woaahh... holy copy prevention measure!" MCA "Justice... is nowhere to be found." MTV Networks "We used to play music, but it didn't pay enough."
I've run 'mobo RAID' -- HPT-370 on a KT7A-RAID back in 2001, to be precise -- in a RAID-0 configuration for speedy game loading, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about here. It worked good and I had no need to access the data from linux since the games wouldn'r run there anyway, even though I believe it can be done (ie there are HPT raid-drivers). This is likely the case for most people who RAID for performance at home; it's going to be either for games or video-editing, both of which are typically 'locked' to one platform anyhow.
If you have a problem with vendor support, I suggest you contact them and complain instead of ranting about "linux". There's not much that can be done when companies like Highpoint, Silicon Image and so on refuse to write free drivers or even give out specs. (SI was expecially bad for a while, until apparently they had a sudden change of heart)
Why is it okay for Windows to "force people to chose something incompatible with other platforms"?
The fact is that these on-board RAID solutions aren't worth it (even when there are vendor drivers available). Use them for the physical connectors and run linux software raid on them. This way you'll probably get better performance, and when you change motherboard, you won't lose access to your volume(s) (or have to find an addon-card with the same chip at the old MB, and waste money and likely a precious PCI-slot)
The correct solution is probably to put the RAID on a dedicated server and use smb to access it from clients instead, and you can stop worrying about whether or not your fav. OS will support your data storage.
Or people are smart enough to realize that getting a group vote for the Sony-BMG-Warner-FOX-Columbia-and-hundreds-more is a great deal, even if it's not technically ONE company.
FLAC doesn't compress the absolute best of the alternatives, but it's 'good enough' and is widely supported, even directly on some portable devices. You won't wake up one day to find out that FLAC support has all but disappeared because the original developer lost interest (since the source is out there, unlike many alternatives). You will also be able to trivially transcode FLAC to Vorbis with meta-data intact, and do it FAST. (not a unique property, but well supported with FLAC/oggenc2).
Not trusting it. Get back to work on those 4-platter 1TB disks instead, summer is fast approaching. Those monsters should shift the price ladder down nicely.
So the book reviewed seems to be about graphics, but there's a book called 'Character Development and Storytelling for Games' by Lee Sheldon, which I thought was pretty good. Though it's (obviously, from the title) not about the graphics, but the more important parts.
Maybe if a motherboard featured a very large generic socket to which was attached one cooling solution, it'd work out better. Processing Units, which would be smaller as to fit as many as possible, would be able to go anywhere in this socket (in a grid-aligned fashion). Easiest solution, socket is X*X square grid, and all PUs must be say X/2 (or hopefully X/4) squares which can be arranged in any fashion. Plunk them in, reattach cooling over all of them, boot and enjoy that 4CPU, 2GPU, 2FPU configuration.
Separate sockets with separate cooling, which I assume is what we're about to see [more of], is going to get messy. And loud.
Maybe in the future some day we've have "Tetris Computing" where you have to puzzle to fit the PUs optimally in the socket. "Oh, I'd really like that nVAMD GPU eXTReMe 2010, but it's an L-piece, and I really need an S-piece for 'tetris' in my bottom half of the socket...":-)
It's a question of cost. I live in Sweden, and "Lost", to take a popular show, airs half a season or so behind the US. This means that we take a hiatus when the US does even though this is atypical for how shows are run here. "Prison Break" starts airing when a season ends in the US IIRC. Some shows are a year behind, but longer than that and we're down to things that are already cancelled and all the other stuff that the channels get "for free" (aka must buy) when they want a popular show.
If our tiny country, with less than 10M viewers (split over 5 popular channels) can air "Lost" just weeks behind the US...
Not sure I understand what kind of checklist you want. That a client is needed ought to be fairly obvious. Your "then do THIS" depends entirely on the client.
You can 'apt-get install aria2' for a cmdline utility in the style of wget, supporting metalinks.
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"Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. It is considered an abuse of the judicial process and almost always brings down sanctions on the offender." -- wikipedia
It's improperly "redacted", probably why it was pulled. But of course, the cat is out of the bag anyhow so...
No surprise that the security is non-existant, but a nice surprise that tweakers.net[0] have people skilled enough to do a thorough technical review. Tip-of-the-Hat to the reviewers and keep the good work up. Anyone can run 3D benchmarks and make graphs against the previous generation, but this requires a different level of technical know-how. It's always been my hope that the future would feature this type of review, using reverse-engineering techniques for indepth technical reviews, as a norm not an exception.
[0] No disrespect to the people of tweakers.net, I mean in the sense of 'any popular review site'.
Seems to contain a compressed buffer with a .sys driver that is decompressed with a call to RtlDecompressBuffer and hidden away by writing it to the alternate stream "%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\crusoe.sys:drmkaud. sys", and then there's a registry update to load the driver.
Someone who cares should write out the compressed buffer and disassemble that.
Considering the executable is just about 6K and doesn't seem protected/compressed, reversing it ought to be fairly trivial. Try the demo version of IDA.
At least the Amiga gets a mention... though it placed just under McAfee VIRSCAN. WTF?
Is it really necessary to make the site completely useless one day of the year? Wouldn't it be better to just hang up the "Gone fishing" sign, and take the day off?
Assuming this is correct, the argument seems very weak, almost completely counter-intuitive:
"In closing arguments Coats warned that a ruling in favor of Kaleidescape "could open the flood gates to copycats. Prices could come down to that of a laptop for products that are not as elegant as Kaleidescape's but have the same basic functionality," Coats said."
So by ruling for the defendant, the judge would open the floodgates to innovation, increased competition and more jobs in the market?
Yeah, I can see how one must warn against a ruling with evil results such as those.
Just you wait for the Ray Tracing Wars of 2011. Then the shit will really hit the fan for the graphics board companies.
Maybe we see a "superstructure" of a sphere-packing solution.
(that like came totally out of my ass)
Sony: Don't try this at home... ... We've got years of experience suing people, that keeps us safe.
EMI Records:
Who are the KidBusters?
Sony "Once I rooted this music fan and deleted all her WMA certificates. That was awesome!"
and EMI Records "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
Between them, more than 20 years of slimey lawyering, payola and oligopolic behaviour.
joing them
Epic "Woaahh... holy copy prevention measure!"
MCA "Justice... is nowhere to be found."
MTV Networks "We used to play music, but it didn't pay enough."
They don't just sue the kids...
... they're out to detroy their lives FOREVER
I've run 'mobo RAID' -- HPT-370 on a KT7A-RAID back in 2001, to be precise -- in a RAID-0 configuration for speedy game loading, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about here. It worked good and I had no need to access the data from linux since the games wouldn'r run there anyway, even though I believe it can be done (ie there are HPT raid-drivers). This is likely the case for most people who RAID for performance at home; it's going to be either for games or video-editing, both of which are typically 'locked' to one platform anyhow.
If you have a problem with vendor support, I suggest you contact them and complain instead of ranting about "linux". There's not much that can be done when companies like Highpoint, Silicon Image and so on refuse to write free drivers or even give out specs. (SI was expecially bad for a while, until apparently they had a sudden change of heart)
Why is it okay for Windows to "force people to chose something incompatible with other platforms"?
The fact is that these on-board RAID solutions aren't worth it (even when there are vendor drivers available). Use them for the physical connectors and run linux software raid on them. This way you'll probably get better performance, and when you change motherboard, you won't lose access to your volume(s) (or have to find an addon-card with the same chip at the old MB, and waste money and likely a precious PCI-slot)
The correct solution is probably to put the RAID on a dedicated server and use smb to access it from clients instead, and you can stop worrying about whether or not your fav. OS will support your data storage.
Or people are smart enough to realize that getting a group vote for the Sony-BMG-Warner-FOX-Columbia-and-hundreds-more is a great deal, even if it's not technically ONE company.
Forgot to mention that you'll probably want to go to hydrogenaudio instead of /. for these sorts of questions.
FLAC doesn't compress the absolute best of the alternatives, but it's 'good enough' and is widely supported, even directly on some portable devices. You won't wake up one day to find out that FLAC support has all but disappeared because the original developer lost interest (since the source is out there, unlike many alternatives). You will also be able to trivially transcode FLAC to Vorbis with meta-data intact, and do it FAST. (not a unique property, but well supported with FLAC/oggenc2).
If so, I'm on that side.
Not trusting it. Get back to work on those 4-platter 1TB disks instead, summer is fast approaching. Those monsters should shift the price ladder down nicely.
I very deliberately used the word 'politics' where you expected 'state'. I guess one man's enlightenment is another man's confusion.
Separation of Tech and Politics is as important as Separation of Politics and Religion.
So the book reviewed seems to be about graphics, but there's a book called 'Character Development and Storytelling for Games' by Lee Sheldon, which I thought was pretty good. Though it's (obviously, from the title) not about the graphics, but the more important parts.
Maybe if a motherboard featured a very large generic socket to which was attached one cooling solution, it'd work out better. Processing Units, which would be smaller as to fit as many as possible, would be able to go anywhere in this socket (in a grid-aligned fashion). Easiest solution, socket is X*X square grid, and all PUs must be say X/2 (or hopefully X/4) squares which can be arranged in any fashion. Plunk them in, reattach cooling over all of them, boot and enjoy that 4CPU, 2GPU, 2FPU configuration.
Separate sockets with separate cooling, which I assume is what we're about to see [more of], is going to get messy. And loud.
Maybe in the future some day we've have "Tetris Computing" where you have to puzzle to fit the PUs optimally in the socket. "Oh, I'd really like that nVAMD GPU eXTReMe 2010, but it's an L-piece, and I really need an S-piece for 'tetris' in my bottom half of the socket..." :-)
Apparently I hail from the Bronze Age. <picks up cudgel and shakes it at the WoW-generation>
Looking forward to the rest of this series. (As long as the Infinity Engine games win!)
(Temple of Apshai on the C64)
It's a question of cost. I live in Sweden, and "Lost", to take a popular show, airs half a season or so behind the US. This means that we take a hiatus when the US does even though this is atypical for how shows are run here. "Prison Break" starts airing when a season ends in the US IIRC. Some shows are a year behind, but longer than that and we're down to things that are already cancelled and all the other stuff that the channels get "for free" (aka must buy) when they want a popular show.
If our tiny country, with less than 10M viewers (split over 5 popular channels) can air "Lost" just weeks behind the US...
Not sure I understand what kind of checklist you want. That a client is needed ought to be fairly obvious. Your "then do THIS" depends entirely on the client.
You can 'apt-get install aria2' for a cmdline utility in the style of wget, supporting metalinks.