Knowing the limitations of your tools is important whether they're $50 or $50000. I use my DP Bus Pirate every so often at work for programming the odd flash device or simulating an I2C master to debug I2C slave code on a microcontroller. I have a "professional" I2C/SPI pod that the company purchased that can't do many of the things this $30 board can.
Off-chip parallel A/D buses aren't all that common anymore, and the days where you could follow code execution with a logic analyzer hooked to a ROM are pretty much gone. There's not much use anymore for those expensive HP and Tek logic analyzer mainframes. Bus analyzers have taken their place, and unfortunately tend to handle only one standard each.
The sub-$500 PC-based logic analyzers like the Logic Sniffer and Saelae Logic still come in handy for low speed buses like I2C and SPI, and can be helpful when combined with an extra GPIO or two for profiling code on micros.
They can file lawsuits if they want, but I can't think of a grounds they could do that on.
As for patches, Barnes and Noble left the door wide open to custom firmware. Both the Nook Color and Nook Touch use the same OMAP CPU and are hardwired to boot external (USB, microSD) media before touching the internal flash, and there's no code signing or encrypted images needed. They could only kill this off with updated hardware.
The "exploit" is that the CPU boots form the microSD slot (and USB) before it boots the embedded flash. This is a hardware configuration setting and can't be changed by software.
Unless B&N hires ninjas to break into people's houses and swap out all the existing Nook Colors, you're safe buying one now.
U-Verse has always throttled the non-iptv portion of the connection to allow priority for video and charge extra for faster "internet" plans. My gateway is showing 35Mb/s down speeds but Speedtest bottoms out at about 1.41Mb/s since I'm paying for the 1.5Mb package.
The cap is roughly 1/10 of the maximum I can pull down by saturating the connection 24/7. While I don't plan on doing that, I do plan on not doing business with them in the future when the opportunity presents itself (Grande Communications, I'm looking at you)
Well put. A good sysadmin is like a ninja: if they're doing their job well you won't even know they're there. The problem for most is that management often sees the lack of constant firefighting in a well admin'd shop as either laziness or an opportunity to pile on a heavier workload.
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Knowing the limitations of your tools is important whether they're $50 or $50000. I use my DP Bus Pirate every so often at work for programming the odd flash device or simulating an I2C master to debug I2C slave code on a microcontroller. I have a "professional" I2C/SPI pod that the company purchased that can't do many of the things this $30 board can.
Off-chip parallel A/D buses aren't all that common anymore, and the days where you could follow code execution with a logic analyzer hooked to a ROM are pretty much gone. There's not much use anymore for those expensive HP and Tek logic analyzer mainframes. Bus analyzers have taken their place, and unfortunately tend to handle only one standard each.
The sub-$500 PC-based logic analyzers like the Logic Sniffer and Saelae Logic still come in handy for low speed buses like I2C and SPI, and can be helpful when combined with an extra GPIO or two for profiling code on micros.
They can file lawsuits if they want, but I can't think of a grounds they could do that on.
As for patches, Barnes and Noble left the door wide open to custom firmware. Both the Nook Color and Nook Touch use the same OMAP CPU and are hardwired to boot external (USB, microSD) media before touching the internal flash, and there's no code signing or encrypted images needed. They could only kill this off with updated hardware.
Calculators that can play Doom
Netbooks running Crysis
Mass hysteria.
Theodor Seuss Geisel has something to say about that I bet.
FTFY, by way of the 'net.
So, how's that working out for Creative Labs?
Yeah, but talk about dogfooding...
Wall Mart? Is that where you go for building supplies? Most people shop at Walmart.
That's where you go for Perl and Perl accessories.
I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Everything old is new again. In other news, someone just discovered that distributing DC within a rack uses less power.
Also see the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy and the new BSG
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Hike up your britches like mine, YEAH!
This sounds different but similar to Apple's review process. Meet the old boss, same as the new boss.
FTFY.
It does have a programmable core voltage, and it can dynamically scale alongside frequency
The "exploit" is that the CPU boots form the microSD slot (and USB) before it boots the embedded flash. This is a hardware configuration setting and can't be changed by software.
Unless B&N hires ninjas to break into people's houses and swap out all the existing Nook Colors, you're safe buying one now.
U-Verse has always throttled the non-iptv portion of the connection to allow priority for video and charge extra for faster "internet" plans. My gateway is showing 35Mb/s down speeds but Speedtest bottoms out at about 1.41Mb/s since I'm paying for the 1.5Mb package.
The cap is roughly 1/10 of the maximum I can pull down by saturating the connection 24/7. While I don't plan on doing that, I do plan on not doing business with them in the future when the opportunity presents itself (Grande Communications, I'm looking at you)
http://www.spectracomcorp.com/ProductsServices/TimingSynchronization/GPSTimeFrequencyReferences/tabid/117/Default.aspx
http://www.tekroninternational.com/gps_clocks
http://www.trimble.com/timing/mini-t.aspx?dtID=overview&
and for the gold:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/gps/gps-info#tt
Well put. A good sysadmin is like a ninja: if they're doing their job well you won't even know they're there. The problem for most is that management often sees the lack of constant firefighting in a well admin'd shop as either laziness or an opportunity to pile on a heavier workload.
This is how BOFHs are made.
Clearly the solution to public acceptance of peer-reviewed research is to eliminate all unattractive researchers.
He should have taken the nick "packardbell486sx_love" instead.
That is incorrect. Try again. Spell "Speak-n-Spell".
Mr. Munroe echoes your sentiment.
Except the UPS company makes that feature available for money. If AMD isn't releasing this info to anyone, then it isn't golden screwdrivering.
Did I just take a Deloriane back to 1955?
No, but DJ Delorie will take your source back to 1986.
Apparently they don't have the technology.