One - and this is one an end-user will care about. Microsoft Office.
Two - and this is one that the enterprise cares about. Active Directory (specifically, Group Policy)
Having a real version of Office will be very useful (although there is an announced version of Office for iOS, but I'm sure it'll be almost office, like the Mac version is) however having the fine-grained control over the device that AD provides is an improvement in a lot of areas over Apple's MDM capabilities.
What's it like at high bitrates? I notice the graph on the comparison page ends at 128kbs - personally I prefer my music in 256kbs AAC (iTunes Plus) or in LAME V0 MP3 which is a VBR at around 190-220kbs.
I'd be interested to see (hear?) if this codec is better than AAC or MP3 at high bitrates.
My dealer put on a good number plate frame, but it had the dealer's web address on the bottom of it. Some masking tape and black paint later, and I had a great number plate frame, with no advertising on it.
It's not that uncommon to debadge a car. Modern cars make it even easier as most, if not all, of the badging is held on with double-sided tape, so with a bit of heat and some dental floss, you can remove the badges without leaving any marks, and there are no holes in the body where the badge was attached.
I also know many people who change, or cover up, the dealership's number plate holders that have their logo or web address on them.
Forget for a moment, the cost of a LTO tape drive (easily over $1500 for a decent one as it needs to be LTO5) plus a SCSI, SAS or Fibre HBA to drive it, but then even looking at the cost of the tapes, it might be, say, $50 for an 800GB tape (with seek times measured in minutes)
Compare this to a hard drive. less than $100 for 1TB, fast seeks, decent throughput and no fancy controller, or specialised software required.
As nice as something like LTFS sounds, it has some major limitations - you simply don't use it for concurrent access to two or more files, or for random access to parts of a file.
What it's really designed for is a platform and software independent way of backing up stuff to a tape using something like good ol' tar, and bypassing the requirement for any specialised software to read your backups back from the tape. What's old is new again.
The rover has two "computer brains" one which is normally asleep. In case of problems the other computer brain can be awakened to take over control and continue the mission.
I'm well aware of seek times. And honestly, they don't matter all that much.
Dude, that's the most incorrect statement I've heard in a long time. It's raw data transfer rate that matters less. Nearly every kind of workload your computer will experience is comprised of lots of random I/O. More so if the disk is fragmented. If you've got big files on your system, they're more than likely fragmented.
Now, come back to us when you've used a computer with a SSD and let us know what your experience was like.
A SSD is one component that can take an otherwise average computer and have it feeling quick and snappy again for the end user. Benchmarks don't tell the whole story.
tough having to choose between modding parent as flamebait and replying in argument.
being a lawyer is a noble profession. no one likes lawyers until they realize they are at a point in their lives where they need one.
The problem is that too often the point where you realize that need is when some other lawyer is coming after You.
Yes, but generally the reason that there's some other lawyer coming after you is because someone else (usually not a lawyer) has engaged their services to do so.
Anyone can pay $99 to get a key that lets them install software in their own firmware. Their key needs to be loaded into the UEFI firmware first before they can load their signed software in as well.
Loading your keys into my firmware will be considerably more difficult than getting malware to me to try and run.
As best we currently know, it is Not Possible to deduce subsequent token outputs merely given access to previous token outputs. However, it is trivial to do so given access to the seed value. And yet, RSA's last big security fuckup was because they weren't purging seed values for tokens sold to customers. And now it turns out that their software 'tokens' retain their seed values in local storage forever.
With the hardware tokens, there is a class of attack that is only feasible if you have the hardware token for a long time and closely monitor the numbers it produces. Every once in a while (on average, around one third of keys will experience this once a year) it will repeat a number for two lots of 90 seconds - a vanishing differential. Knowing this vanishing differential, it then becomes computationally feasible to recover the keyfob's secret key.
This class of attack doesn't really help to break a single targeted keyfob - there's a good chance you'll watch it for 12 months straight and not see a single vanishing differential - but if you happen to have, for example an employer-provided keyfob that while it's in legitimately your possession for a long enough time to observe such an event, and then the keyfob is recycled (such as if you finish the job for which you were given the keyfob and it's then handed on to someone else) then you can predict future output of that individual keyfob.
You'd either need to do some arp spoofing (Ettercap can do this) or be on a managed switch with port mirroring turned on, otherwise if you're on a regular switch port, you'll only see traffic that's actually destined for your MAC address, and regular broadcast traffic which tends to be less interesting (most of the time) than unicast traffic.
If you're playing with the arp tables, you can confuse switches to broadcast more traffic than they normally would, or if you've got a hub, you'll see what's going on in more detail.
Yep. Fully 25% of commercial free-to-air TV is ads. If there's a show on free-to-air that I want to watch (and just happen to have the TV on) I'll pause it for 15 minutes for each hour of programming, just so that I can skip the ads.
If they didn't turn the volume up (yes, I know, they don't turn up the volume, they use a compressor so the average loudness is more. whatever, it still sounds louder) then they'd be less annoying than they are...
Thank you for the info (and thanks also for the recommendations to shops in Melbourne).
Apple have nailed the chiclet keyboard, so much so that it's used for their desktop keyboards too... I suppose it's naive for me to assume that everyone else making a keyboard in a similar style will be as good...
Agreed. Build quality is everything in a laptop as far as I'm concerned.
I've got a 3.5 year old MacBook Pro with their unibody enclosure. This thing is still as tight as the day I took it out of the box. Yes, the CPU is showing it's age a bit, but as you've done I have upped the RAM and put in a SSD and I have no need to buy a new laptop (well, until the MacBook Pro with a retina display hits the market anyway)
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad that is built into the laptop, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad built into the laptop, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad built in to the laptop, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
I agree 100%. Some ThinkPads are still built pretty well, but then there are some more cheap-arse machines that Lenovo are making that they are diluting the ThinkPad name with that are simply crap.
If the 15" or 17" MacBook Pro had a numeric keypad, that would have ended the search there and then.
I've got a 13" MacBook Pro that's now over three years old. I've put a SSD in it and maxed out the RAM and there's simply no justification for me to upgrade to a new laptop. The case is still as tight as the day I bought it (and this is after it's been opened up more than once) the keys still have the same feel and allow me to touch type on them and with a SSD, it's not lacking in performance for everyday tasks...
Nice, but if you're on the move and don't have a desk to put the laptop on (it is, after all, a laptop not a desktop) then there's nowhere to put even a bluetooth keypad.
Yes, you're right, weight is less of a concern. For weight reasons, a 15" will be preferable to a 17", but if that 15" laptop only has a screen that's 768px high (which, if you ask me is a crazy low resolution) then a 17" would be preferred simply for the bigger screen.
Raw specs play a second place to ergonomics and build quality. This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
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Two things.
One - and this is one an end-user will care about. Microsoft Office.
Two - and this is one that the enterprise cares about. Active Directory (specifically, Group Policy)
Having a real version of Office will be very useful (although there is an announced version of Office for iOS, but I'm sure it'll be almost office, like the Mac version is) however having the fine-grained control over the device that AD provides is an improvement in a lot of areas over Apple's MDM capabilities.
What's it like at high bitrates? I notice the graph on the comparison page ends at 128kbs - personally I prefer my music in 256kbs AAC (iTunes Plus) or in LAME V0 MP3 which is a VBR at around 190-220kbs.
I'd be interested to see (hear?) if this codec is better than AAC or MP3 at high bitrates.
Well, you don't. But, if you get a nice one for free, why not use it. After debadging it of course.
My dealer put on a good number plate frame, but it had the dealer's web address on the bottom of it. Some masking tape and black paint later, and I had a great number plate frame, with no advertising on it.
It's not that uncommon to debadge a car. Modern cars make it even easier as most, if not all, of the badging is held on with double-sided tape, so with a bit of heat and some dental floss, you can remove the badges without leaving any marks, and there are no holes in the body where the badge was attached.
I also know many people who change, or cover up, the dealership's number plate holders that have their logo or web address on them.
One word: Nope.
Forget for a moment, the cost of a LTO tape drive (easily over $1500 for a decent one as it needs to be LTO5) plus a SCSI, SAS or Fibre HBA to drive it, but then even looking at the cost of the tapes, it might be, say, $50 for an 800GB tape (with seek times measured in minutes)
Compare this to a hard drive. less than $100 for 1TB, fast seeks, decent throughput and no fancy controller, or specialised software required.
As nice as something like LTFS sounds, it has some major limitations - you simply don't use it for concurrent access to two or more files, or for random access to parts of a file.
What it's really designed for is a platform and software independent way of backing up stuff to a tape using something like good ol' tar, and bypassing the requirement for any specialised software to read your backups back from the tape. What's old is new again.
Not only am I absolutely sure they've got more than one copy of critical data in flash, but they have two identical and redundant computers on board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Specifications
From http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/rover/brains/
The rover has two "computer brains" one which is normally asleep. In case of problems the other computer brain can be awakened to take over control and continue the mission.
I'm well aware of seek times. And honestly, they don't matter all that much.
Dude, that's the most incorrect statement I've heard in a long time. It's raw data transfer rate that matters less. Nearly every kind of workload your computer will experience is comprised of lots of random I/O. More so if the disk is fragmented. If you've got big files on your system, they're more than likely fragmented.
Now, come back to us when you've used a computer with a SSD and let us know what your experience was like.
A SSD is one component that can take an otherwise average computer and have it feeling quick and snappy again for the end user. Benchmarks don't tell the whole story.
Looks very interesting. I've never heard of it before, but am downloading it now.
As a QuickBooks user, who prefers it to MYOB at least, I ask this question in all honesty:
What else is out there for small businesses that's better than QuickBooks and isn't a cloud-based service?
tough having to choose between modding parent as flamebait and replying in argument.
being a lawyer is a noble profession. no one likes lawyers until they realize they are at a point in their lives where they need one.
The problem is that too often the point where you realize that need is when some other lawyer is coming after You.
Yes, but generally the reason that there's some other lawyer coming after you is because someone else (usually not a lawyer) has engaged their services to do so.
Anyone can pay $99 to get a key that lets them install software in their own firmware. Their key needs to be loaded into the UEFI firmware first before they can load their signed software in as well.
Loading your keys into my firmware will be considerably more difficult than getting malware to me to try and run.
As best we currently know, it is Not Possible to deduce subsequent token outputs merely given access to previous token outputs. However, it is trivial to do so given access to the seed value. And yet, RSA's last big security fuckup was because they weren't purging seed values for tokens sold to customers. And now it turns out that their software 'tokens' retain their seed values in local storage forever.
With the hardware tokens, there is a class of attack that is only feasible if you have the hardware token for a long time and closely monitor the numbers it produces. Every once in a while (on average, around one third of keys will experience this once a year) it will repeat a number for two lots of 90 seconds - a vanishing differential. Knowing this vanishing differential, it then becomes computationally feasible to recover the keyfob's secret key.
This class of attack doesn't really help to break a single targeted keyfob - there's a good chance you'll watch it for 12 months straight and not see a single vanishing differential - but if you happen to have, for example an employer-provided keyfob that while it's in legitimately your possession for a long enough time to observe such an event, and then the keyfob is recycled (such as if you finish the job for which you were given the keyfob and it's then handed on to someone else) then you can predict future output of that individual keyfob.
More info for those who are interested is here:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/162.pdf
You'd either need to do some arp spoofing (Ettercap can do this) or be on a managed switch with port mirroring turned on, otherwise if you're on a regular switch port, you'll only see traffic that's actually destined for your MAC address, and regular broadcast traffic which tends to be less interesting (most of the time) than unicast traffic.
If you're playing with the arp tables, you can confuse switches to broadcast more traffic than they normally would, or if you've got a hub, you'll see what's going on in more detail.
Yep. Fully 25% of commercial free-to-air TV is ads. If there's a show on free-to-air that I want to watch (and just happen to have the TV on) I'll pause it for 15 minutes for each hour of programming, just so that I can skip the ads.
If they didn't turn the volume up (yes, I know, they don't turn up the volume, they use a compressor so the average loudness is more. whatever, it still sounds louder) then they'd be less annoying than they are...
Thank you for the info (and thanks also for the recommendations to shops in Melbourne).
Apple have nailed the chiclet keyboard, so much so that it's used for their desktop keyboards too... I suppose it's naive for me to assume that everyone else making a keyboard in a similar style will be as good...
Agreed. Build quality is everything in a laptop as far as I'm concerned.
I've got a 3.5 year old MacBook Pro with their unibody enclosure. This thing is still as tight as the day I took it out of the box.
Yes, the CPU is showing it's age a bit, but as you've done I have upped the RAM and put in a SSD and I have no need to buy a new laptop (well, until the MacBook Pro with a retina display hits the market anyway)
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad that is built into the laptop, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad built into the laptop, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad built in to the laptop, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.
Yes, because that's simply perfect for my accountant to run Excel and QuickBooks on. Thank you for your insightful comment.
I agree 100%. Some ThinkPads are still built pretty well, but then there are some more cheap-arse machines that Lenovo are making that they are diluting the ThinkPad name with that are simply crap.
If the 15" or 17" MacBook Pro had a numeric keypad, that would have ended the search there and then.
I've got a 13" MacBook Pro that's now over three years old. I've put a SSD in it and maxed out the RAM and there's simply no justification for me to upgrade to a new laptop. The case is still as tight as the day I bought it (and this is after it's been opened up more than once) the keys still have the same feel and allow me to touch type on them and with a SSD, it's not lacking in performance for everyday tasks...
Nice, but if you're on the move and don't have a desk to put the laptop on (it is, after all, a laptop not a desktop) then there's nowhere to put even a bluetooth keypad.
Yes, you're right, weight is less of a concern.
For weight reasons, a 15" will be preferable to a 17", but if that 15" laptop only has a screen that's 768px high (which, if you ask me is a crazy low resolution) then a 17" would be preferred simply for the bigger screen.
Raw specs play a second place to ergonomics and build quality. This is for my accountant to use Excel and QuickBooks on. She needs a keypad, it's as simple as that. I want to get her a laptop that's not going to fall apart in a couple of weeks. She doesn't need a quad-core i7, 8GB RAM and a 2GB graphics card. She does need a decent sized screen (in particular vertical resolution is very important for Excel) and she does use the laptop on the move all the time, so not having a plug-in USB keypad (which I'll admit was my first response to her requirements) is important as there will often be nowhere for her to place it.