Very good point, and it should work well -- Any mistakes in the analysis tools will (hopefully) not cause problems with the same mistakes in the actual code, so you'd likely end up making both pieces of code more secure and robust as bugs in one piece of code are brought to light by the other.
Why, exactly? Seems to me that since there is no code in an image that needs to be excecuted, you could easily come up with an image parser for which all chunks of code read are matched to make sure the contents fall within acceptable limits, and if not the parser either gives up or clamps them to reasonable values(to display part of a corrupted image). Sure, it might be slower than insecure parsers, perhaps by a factor of two or more... But with todays multicore, high-end processors, the reduced speed would likely not be noticed by the user, and not cause any issues.
To be honest, you're right. Not to mention most tablets have horrible battery life anyway. I'd love to see someone add an extra 1/4 or even 1/2 inches to the thickness of a given device and cover the thing with another 20aH of capacity. Enough to run apps for several days if not a week or more!
Mod parent up. If you've lost root, well, erm, whoever has the password has full control, why bother installing a trojan? Seems silly to me - just install whatever payload you need, customize it to the compromized box.
Hm... Interesting you should mention that: On Linux, FF offers HW acceleration... If you have the Nvidia blob driver installed. Just about everything else is blacklisted by default. Stock FF seems to be compiled using the Intel compiler, but on/modern/ AMD CPUs that shouldn't cause issues - it's only on older generation AMD that less effecient code is run. That being said, I've been using Iceweasel - debian's unbranded firefox - which appears to be compiled with GCC, and it appears to be slightly faster... But that may just be subjective.
As far as IE9 goes, I still don't like it on win32. It's most definitely slower, if only because (my) FF has NoScript blocking Flash from running by default, speeding things up a/lot/.
To be honest, it really depends on the page - for me, with a slow internet connection(1.5mbps), FF loads it faster than chrome... if it's/not/ HTTPS. If it's encrypted, Chrome loads it faster, especially if the site's under massive load(Like Ebay when the last HP Firesale happened) This is on Linux, with a 3.2ghz quad-core, 4GB-of-ram hulk of a system, so it's not system-performance dependant or being starved for ram.
Except if you actually want to/use/ it to do work. My several-year-old N900 is/far/ more useful for actual work than a iPhone, because not only does it have an actual keyboard, but it can multitask, share data between applications(I.e. has a real filesystem), and has plenty of full applications around. Sure, if I want to watch Netflix, I'm sure an iPhone would do pretty well. On the other hand, if I want to go google, find an eBook in.doc format, download a copy, convert it to ePub or HTML, open it in an ebook reader all on my phone? I'm sure the iPhone can't do that. Same with things like opening a web window, running a password manager while they are loading, then copy/pasting the password into the website.
Now, I understand plenty of people like shiny and have one-track-minds such that they don't notice how useful true multitasking actually is... But for me? I couldn't use it and don't see why others think it's good. At all.
Cause, you know, if you/didn't want/ the ads you'd just use an ad-blocker. But if you want to have the ads and support the website(without the slowdown)... then you'd need something different.
Yes. A thousand times YES! We may start needing a Greasemonkey extension that does just that - strips out the ad-code, then places it back in inside an iframe container. The rest of the page will load without waiting for the ads, but the ads will still load.
See other poster's comments: It's the playlist which showed up in a different window(which, indeed, in the older version I have, it does show up in a pop-up window).
Yes. And it actually makes subpixel-rendering look sharp instead of blurry and blocky as on a typical 100dpi screen. In fact, on 200+ dpi screens, subpixel-rendering looks better than the hinted "sharp" aliased fonts XP has... on 100dpi or less, those still look the best, though.
Huh, that's interesting. My T43 lasted 3 years of good use for me(that's using it as a main machine, hauling it around everywhere, jamming it into an unpadded bag every day), and even then was still in working condition; the power port died on me, though, and my cheap replacement was inadequately insulated and shorted out the charging circuit. There were maby 2 minor cracks, but eh...
After that, I got my current T500, and I've had no trouble with the discrete graphics and overheating so long as the fan-control software's enabled and power profiles are set right -- When gaming on Linux with it, I had to install a fan control package to make it work; windows 7 just needed some power management settings changed. It's still new looking, likely due to having a proper case and only using it a couple of days a week... but, aside from the clicky keyboard(which doesn't bother me), I've had no issues. And the 1680x1050 matte screen is just awesome.
Likely because the aluminum case is more expensive and less rugged than, say, the titanium roll-cage and carbon-fiber in a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop? (go check youtube for destruction comparison videos) Sure, most mfgrs have low end stuff too... but to be honest, why bother with the flashy Apple-copying case when you have something better and cheaper? and, um, being a machinist myself? Aluminum is actually very weak and easy to damage. Titanium on the other hand... even a little of it can be quite strong, and its one heck of a lot harder to cut. Just saying...
to be fair, I'd likely do the same thing. If only because I usually work in degrees and Excel thinks in radians, so I'd have to apply the correct conversion functions, something easy to do wrong.
I do know that out where I am, when I have low signal(which is most places off the highway), it'll switch back and forth between t-mobile and AT&T. At my home, it seems to switch almost randomly between them... and niether have over one bar, if that. So I use VOIP at home.
Also, coverage map wise? Niether have anything out where I am, yet I still get/some/ intermittant signal, so there's some coverage.
'course, I could always switch from GSM networks, but A, T-mobile has pay-by-the-day internet, and B, my Nokia N900 and Nokia N9(50) requires it, so...
10000 sheets per workbook? Why some arbitrary high number? Why not 65535/6 or 4294967296 or 2^64 on 64-bit builds? What exactly makes 10000 important? Not that I've ever used more than 2 or 3 per file, but...
While I'm no Apple fanboy(Apple free and loving it), I agree here. Up in the Northwest USA(washington/idaho), it's actually hard to get even 2.5g GSM service everywhere, and 3G is relegated to the cities mostly. I'm on T-Mobile, btw, which has roaming agreements with AT&T, so I get both networks... yet there's still areas I/cannot/ get signal with either.
More like the fact that.docx is a MS format only -- when I see MS Office opening ODT files as well or better than LO/OO, you'll have a point.
Oh, and near as I can tell, word 2003 is actually the standard - that's what we use at my work place, even on top of Windows 7. Because anything later is not needed and -- imho -- worse, what with the screwwy ribbon.
so, what, Kubuntu Mobile then? It'll already have all of the OSS world available, with excellent browsers(chromium, firefox, opera mobile etc); the only question is what tweaks will need to happen to get browser performance up.
You may be right on some of those points, but NOT about reading on an LCD. So long as the ambiant light isn't too bright, the LCD is far easier for me to read, as you have a backlight providing constant illumination. Outside, during the day it isn't so great, but you don't usually read much outdoors anyway. My phone's replaced physical books for me for the last couple of years, if only because it's smaller than a book, and can store many more pages.
Oh, and as far as I'm concerned, a micro PC in my pocket(Nokia N900) is a great addition to my desktop, and has basically replaced my laptop for most things I'd need it for, as well as creating a whole new category of stuff to use it for.
Three, only works with EXT2. Which it works perfectly well on. But nothing later. Y'know, tossing a copy of the deleted inode entries(in a different format) somewhere else on disk, to be used only when space runs low would solve all of the many, many topics out there about people losing data due to a mistake etc. Perhaps an option that could easily be disabled for the tech-savvy(See: the number of people who use the stock desktop on, e.g. ubuntu, even when a seperate desktop is available easily via apt-get)... But everyone seems to think that people will back things up, which doesn't happen until said people lose a lot of data.
I still say we should lynch EXT3/4(even though I use it) due to it's complete/inability/ to undelete files. Because, as we all know, people/never/ manage to accidentally delete files and/always/ have recent backups handy.
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Very good point, and it should work well -- Any mistakes in the analysis tools will (hopefully) not cause problems with the same mistakes in the actual code, so you'd likely end up making both pieces of code more secure and robust as bugs in one piece of code are brought to light by the other.
Why, exactly? Seems to me that since there is no code in an image that needs to be excecuted, you could easily come up with an image parser for which all chunks of code read are matched to make sure the contents fall within acceptable limits, and if not the parser either gives up or clamps them to reasonable values(to display part of a corrupted image).
Sure, it might be slower than insecure parsers, perhaps by a factor of two or more... But with todays multicore, high-end processors, the reduced speed would likely not be noticed by the user, and not cause any issues.
To be honest, you're right. Not to mention most tablets have horrible battery life anyway.
I'd love to see someone add an extra 1/4 or even 1/2 inches to the thickness of a given device and cover the thing with another 20aH of capacity. Enough to run apps for several days if not a week or more!
Mod parent up. If you've lost root, well, erm, whoever has the password has full control, why bother installing a trojan?
Seems silly to me - just install whatever payload you need, customize it to the compromized box.
Hm... Interesting you should mention that: /modern/ AMD CPUs that shouldn't cause issues - it's only on older generation AMD that less effecient code is run.
On Linux, FF offers HW acceleration... If you have the Nvidia blob driver installed. Just about everything else is blacklisted by default.
Stock FF seems to be compiled using the Intel compiler, but on
That being said, I've been using Iceweasel - debian's unbranded firefox - which appears to be compiled with GCC, and it appears to be slightly faster... But that may just be subjective.
As far as IE9 goes, I still don't like it on win32. It's most definitely slower, if only because (my) FF has NoScript blocking Flash from running by default, speeding things up a /lot/.
To be honest, it really depends on the page - for me, with a slow internet connection(1.5mbps), FF loads it faster than chrome... if it's /not/ HTTPS. If it's encrypted, Chrome loads it faster, especially if the site's under massive load(Like Ebay when the last HP Firesale happened)
This is on Linux, with a 3.2ghz quad-core, 4GB-of-ram hulk of a system, so it's not system-performance dependant or being starved for ram.
Shouldn't you be using PDF for that anyway?
Except if you actually want to /use/ it to do work. My several-year-old N900 is /far/ more useful for actual work than a iPhone, because not only does it have an actual keyboard, but it can multitask, share data between applications(I.e. has a real filesystem), and has plenty of full applications around. .doc format, download a copy, convert it to ePub or HTML, open it in an ebook reader all on my phone? I'm sure the iPhone can't do that.
Sure, if I want to watch Netflix, I'm sure an iPhone would do pretty well. On the other hand, if I want to go google, find an eBook in
Same with things like opening a web window, running a password manager while they are loading, then copy/pasting the password into the website.
Now, I understand plenty of people like shiny and have one-track-minds such that they don't notice how useful true multitasking actually is... But for me? I couldn't use it and don't see why others think it's good. At all.
Cause, you know, if you /didn't want/ the ads you'd just use an ad-blocker. But if you want to have the ads and support the website(without the slowdown)... then you'd need something different.
Yes. A thousand times YES!
We may start needing a Greasemonkey extension that does just that - strips out the ad-code, then places it back in inside an iframe container. The rest of the page will load without waiting for the ads, but the ads will still load.
See other poster's comments: It's the playlist which showed up in a different window(which, indeed, in the older version I have, it does show up in a pop-up window).
Yes. And it actually makes subpixel-rendering look sharp instead of blurry and blocky as on a typical 100dpi screen.
In fact, on 200+ dpi screens, subpixel-rendering looks better than the hinted "sharp" aliased fonts XP has... on 100dpi or less, those still look the best, though.
Is that the same guy as the HOSTS file guy?
Huh, that's interesting.
My T43 lasted 3 years of good use for me(that's using it as a main machine, hauling it around everywhere, jamming it into an unpadded bag every day), and even then was still in working condition; the power port died on me, though, and my cheap replacement was inadequately insulated and shorted out the charging circuit.
There were maby 2 minor cracks, but eh...
After that, I got my current T500, and I've had no trouble with the discrete graphics and overheating so long as the fan-control software's enabled and power profiles are set right -- When gaming on Linux with it, I had to install a fan control package to make it work; windows 7 just needed some power management settings changed.
It's still new looking, likely due to having a proper case and only using it a couple of days a week... but, aside from the clicky keyboard(which doesn't bother me), I've had no issues. And the 1680x1050 matte screen is just awesome.
Likely because the aluminum case is more expensive and less rugged than, say, the titanium roll-cage and carbon-fiber in a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop? (go check youtube for destruction comparison videos)
Sure, most mfgrs have low end stuff too... but to be honest, why bother with the flashy Apple-copying case when you have something better and cheaper?
and, um, being a machinist myself? Aluminum is actually very weak and easy to damage. Titanium on the other hand... even a little of it can be quite strong, and its one heck of a lot harder to cut.
Just saying...
to be fair, I'd likely do the same thing. If only because I usually work in degrees and Excel thinks in radians, so I'd have to apply the correct conversion functions, something easy to do wrong.
I do know that out where I am, when I have low signal(which is most places off the highway), it'll switch back and forth between t-mobile and AT&T.
At my home, it seems to switch almost randomly between them... and niether have over one bar, if that. So I use VOIP at home.
Also, coverage map wise? Niether have anything out where I am, yet I still get /some/ intermittant signal, so there's some coverage.
'course, I could always switch from GSM networks, but A, T-mobile has pay-by-the-day internet, and B, my Nokia N900 and Nokia N9(50) requires it, so...
10000 sheets per workbook? Why some arbitrary high number? Why not 65535/6 or 4294967296 or 2^64 on 64-bit builds?
What exactly makes 10000 important?
Not that I've ever used more than 2 or 3 per file, but...
While I'm no Apple fanboy(Apple free and loving it), I agree here. /cannot/ get signal with either.
Up in the Northwest USA(washington/idaho), it's actually hard to get even 2.5g GSM service everywhere, and 3G is relegated to the cities mostly. I'm on T-Mobile, btw, which has roaming agreements with AT&T, so I get both networks... yet there's still areas I
More like the fact that .docx is a MS format only -- when I see MS Office opening ODT files as well or better than LO/OO, you'll have a point.
Oh, and near as I can tell, word 2003 is actually the standard - that's what we use at my work place, even on top of Windows 7. Because anything later is not needed and -- imho -- worse, what with the screwwy ribbon.
so, what, Kubuntu Mobile then?
It'll already have all of the OSS world available, with excellent browsers(chromium, firefox, opera mobile etc); the only question is what tweaks will need to happen to get browser performance up.
Um... ASCII question, get an ANSI? >_>
You may be right on some of those points, but NOT about reading on an LCD. So long as the ambiant light isn't too bright, the LCD is far easier for me to read, as you have a backlight providing constant illumination. Outside, during the day it isn't so great, but you don't usually read much outdoors anyway.
My phone's replaced physical books for me for the last couple of years, if only because it's smaller than a book, and can store many more pages.
Oh, and as far as I'm concerned, a micro PC in my pocket(Nokia N900) is a great addition to my desktop, and has basically replaced my laptop for most things I'd need it for, as well as creating a whole new category of stuff to use it for.
Three, only works with EXT2. Which it works perfectly well on. But nothing later.
Y'know, tossing a copy of the deleted inode entries(in a different format) somewhere else on disk, to be used only when space runs low would solve all of the many, many topics out there about people losing data due to a mistake etc. Perhaps an option that could easily be disabled for the tech-savvy(See: the number of people who use the stock desktop on, e.g. ubuntu, even when a seperate desktop is available easily via apt-get)...
But everyone seems to think that people will back things up, which doesn't happen until said people lose a lot of data.
I still say we should lynch EXT3/4(even though I use it) due to it's complete /inability/ to undelete files. /never/ manage to accidentally delete files and /always/ have recent backups handy.
Because, as we all know, people