Just be aware that if you're running a LTS version of Ubuntu, it doesn't have this vulnerability. As per the linked article, this issue affects Ubuntu 17.04 & Ubuntu 16.10. The most recent LTS release is 16.04
Electrons don't move at the speed of light. They have mass (albeit quite a small, but non-zero, amount) therefore they can not move at light speed or they would have infinite mass (and take an infinite amount of energy to get up to speed).
Photons, not electrons, are the carrier of electromagnetic radiation. They move at the speed of light.
Antennas and lanterns both emit photons. Lanterns just happen to emit photons in a range of energy levels that our eyes are sensitive to. Antennas emit photons at a different wavelength that are picked up by long metal conductors, aka other antennas.
Built a powerful hackintosh a few years ago. Gathered all the parts from tonyosx86.com (or something like that) and kludged my way through an install of OSX. Every update required more hacking to keep the thing going. I eventually gave up and went back to Windows (10).
All in all it was more of a pain in the ass to keep this thing running with sub optimal driver support, more tricking of the boot loader, and staying behind the time for patching that drove me away from bothering again
This. Whilst getting 80% of macOS running on current PC hardware isn't that difficult, the remaining 20% to make it work just like a real Mac will take 80% of the time.
Things like having audio still work when waking from sleep. Having iCloud being able to sign in and having Messages actually work. Handoff and File Drop support. Being robust enough to survive a regular software update...
It's familiarity with the platform that is the #1 driver.
I've been using a Mac since the 90's, it took me a while to become as proficient with Mac OS X as I was with Classic MacOS when it first came out, by now I've been using the OS for so long that there are a multitude of tiny things that all add up to make a significant difference.
I'm sitting at my desk here - I have a 2013 Mac pro and a newly built PC with i7 7700K, fast SSD, Decent GeForce graphics card and Windows 10 Enterprise.
I have been forcing myself to use the PC on a regular basis to become more proficient with Windows 10, but there are so many little things that are just different that it makes life harder for me. It's not even application support, other than Sketch (which I don't really use) all the major software I use is on Windows and macOS - Office 2016, Adobe Creative Cloud, Fusion 360, TeamViewer, Sublime Text, Chrome, Firefox etc... I've even got a bash shell running natively in Windows 10 for when I need it.
I won't deny that I find the Mac easier because that's what I know - but I have grown to work with what macOS delivers and when Windows doesn't do this, it grates.
Little things like automatic spelling and text replacement that on macOS largely gets it right. I'm not a perfect typer and macOS usually doesn't get in my way (except, of course, when it does) when correcting mis-typed words as I'm typing. Support for adding extended characters and emoji easily to text. Built-in password management with the Keychain.
Even some of the built-in apps - I much prefer Terminal.app over cmd.exe by defaults it uses a more readable font and it wraps text nicely (although I think Windows 10 now wraps text in cmd?)
It's also the general look of it - Windows 10 looks sharper (largely due to it's font rendering trying to align on pixel boundaries) whereas macOS is a bit softer, but to my eyes at least, easier to read (again, probably due to font rendering not aligning to pixel boundaries for individual glyphs, but trying to space characters more closely to the printed page)
I've begun the path to a hackintosh, but honestly it's too much trouble considering I've got a perfectly good Mac sitting on my desk at the moment.
The main driver for hacintosh builds that I see are either creative professionals that want to tinker and don't mind wasting some time faffing around trying to get things working and are happy that they can save some money over the cost of purchasing a comparable Mac (when you factor in your time to get it working, this equation doesn't look so one-sided) and professionals that need more than Apple is able to offer - current generation, fast NVIDIA GPUs (for CUDA), expandable internal storage and RAID, lower-cost M.2 PCIe SSD storage. Whilst some pros are getting last-generation tower Mac Pro workstations and upgrading everything in them (faster Xeon CPUs, PCIe SSDs, GTX 1080 graphics cards etc), others prefer to deal with newer hardware and work though the hassles of hacking it to run macOS.
if you don't code yourself, then you probably don't have any idea how much time and effort is required to implement your 'improvements', and/or perhaps your suggestions really aren't very good to start with, therefore annoying the dev, who spend perhaps months or years creating his end product, only to have some random guy from the Internets post 'suggestions' that come off as criticism.
This is largely irrelevant to the OP's question - do the other users who are outright rejecting the idea of adding new features code? Do they touch the codebase for the app in question? All end-user feedback is useful at some level, it's useful for developers to know how people are using their software and even if just one report isn't enough motivation to add a new feature, if this is requested a number of times it might point to worthwhile future development, or changing the workflow in the software to accomodate the way the software is used by other people.
Asking for a new feature or function in software isn't criticism - in fact, it's the complete opposite. It's showing the developer that you use the software enough to care to provide feedback and you're thinking about ways that the software could potentially be even more useful.
Be careful of your data. Other people have reported having to get their Switch repaired and their savegames getting wiped. https://arstechnica.com/gaming...
Apple even went as far as having ZFS in one of the betas for (IIRC 10.4 or 10.5?). You couldn't make the boot disk ZFS, but you could use all the z* commands in Terminal to manage your pools. And, then in the RC it was yanked.
This has always amused me - having a tradie offer 10% discount for cash, just because they don't have to pay the GST. They love it as they end up getting far more in their pocket as they're also not paying the 30-odd percent company tax or around the same on average for income tax on the earnings either. So, they get around 30% more in their pocket and you save 10%...
I've worked for big companies most of my career, and regular employees making purchases, signing contracts, etc. takes an act of God. I can't spend $100 on supplies without getting competitive bids.
See, that's where you're going wrong. I've actually had clients tell me that a proposal has to be _over_ a certain dollar amount - if it's less than (for example) $50k, it's subject to a lot more oversight than, say, $1M. Small, petty cash type purchases are even more difficult, relatively speaking. Good luck trying to get approval for a new mouse for your workstation!
What you want for this is some variation on Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm. Yes, he's the Shamir in RSA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... What this does is break a secret up into n different parts, but unlike raid, you can break it up in such a way that there is a threshold for the number of parts required to reconstruct the secret. So, for example, you could break a secret up into 6 parts and specify that any 4 parts will reconstruct the original data. If you have only 3 parts, then the secret is completely unknown (not just partially known).
That sounds like a pretty bad experience with voicemail. With my voicemail, I open the Phone app on my phone and go to the Voicemail tab. In here, I get a list of either the number of everyone who has left me a voicemail or their name if they are in my address book. I have a blue dot next to the ones I haven't listened to. I tap on the message to listen to it. If I don't do anything, it's then kept, otherwise if I delete it it goes into the Deleted Messages. Want to listen to a message again? Tap on it.
Just when I was planning to slack off work this morning and play Horizon Zero Dawn, along comes an update and I'm going to have to watch a progress bar crawl across the screen instead.
First ask yourself, what are you guarding against?
What guidelines has the client given you, what expectations do they have? There's no point in you being so secure that the machine is virtually useless if the client happily stores these files on Dropbox/Google Drive etc.
Are you guarding against random drive-by hacking, script kiddies and the like, or are you guarding against an advanced persistent threat? If you're guarding against the US Govt then your threat model is very different to if you're simply protecting yourself against casual hacking.
If you're concerned about an APT, then what level of threat do you expect to face? Is this a competitors company that has some guy who knows computers? Is it a multinational corporation with a large budget and a cybersecurity team? Is it a nation state? Is it the US Government?
The answers to those questions will heavily influence the appropriate course of action to take. If you're worried about casual hacking and the client has provided the files to you via Dropbox, then simply don't connect to any open wifi networks and don't connect to any wifi networks you don't know are secure. Make sure the wifi networks use WPA2. If however you are concerned that the Govt. is likely out to get to your secrets, and they're specifically targeting you (as opposed to you being caught in a drift net) then you will want to physically disable the wifi, probably by taking the wifi card out of the laptop - it's likely on a small mezzanine card that is usually easily removed with a small Philips head screwdriver.
There are hybrid SSHDs - they combine a small SSD (32 or 64 GB) and a larger (500 or 1000 GB) hard drive. The only issue is that they're not visible as two separate devices, the SSD acts as a cache to the HDD, caching frequently accessed blocks.
I donâ(TM)t work for free. If they want me to solve problems, they can sign a consulting contract.
But hereâ(TM)s an idea, if they are going to force software engineers to do this sort of thing, maybe they can break up some vexing Homeland Security software problem and piecemeal it out, sort of like crowdsourcingâ¦
I know, why don't they put them to work converting Slashcode to support Unicode?
Yeah, if I go to the USA again at any stage in the foreseeable future, I'm seriously considering just wiping my phone on the plane and then restoring from a cloud backup as soon as I've cleared customs.
Put in a PIN code. Set the phone to wipe after 3 incorrect attempts. When the phone goes to wipe itself, it just deletes the crypto key to the main storage, thereby rendering it completely scrambled in an instant. No need to lock out the Lightning port while this occurs, it happens too quickly.
The manufacturers can't even agree on which curvature is better, concave or convex (although most are concave now). If you live on your own and watching TV is purely a solitary experience, or maybe with one other person, a curved TV can be OK, but if you're getting a few friends over to watch a movie or a sports game, only the person in the centre will have a decent view.
For a monitor, on the other hand, you're sitting on your lonesome, right in the sweet spot and a curved monitor can be great for some tasks.
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He could be both - my guess is that he's just taken the fall and now it's neatly tidied up, no-one's looking for the real people behind it all
Just a week after Cazes was arrested and dumped in a Thai jail, he was found dead in his cell. The authorities say it was suicide.
Just be aware that if you're running a LTS version of Ubuntu, it doesn't have this vulnerability.
As per the linked article, this issue affects Ubuntu 17.04 & Ubuntu 16.10. The most recent LTS release is 16.04
I'm not sitting through an 11 minute video to see if there are any examples of his compression - in particular the output compared to the input.
But the proof is in the pudding - what was the output quality like?
But... Her email server!
Electrons don't move at the speed of light. They have mass (albeit quite a small, but non-zero, amount) therefore they can not move at light speed or they would have infinite mass (and take an infinite amount of energy to get up to speed).
Photons, not electrons, are the carrier of electromagnetic radiation. They move at the speed of light.
Antennas and lanterns both emit photons. Lanterns just happen to emit photons in a range of energy levels that our eyes are sensitive to. Antennas emit photons at a different wavelength that are picked up by long metal conductors, aka other antennas.
Built a powerful hackintosh a few years ago. Gathered all the parts from tonyosx86.com (or something like that) and kludged my way through an install of OSX. Every update required more hacking to keep the thing going. I eventually gave up and went back to Windows (10).
All in all it was more of a pain in the ass to keep this thing running with sub optimal driver support, more tricking of the boot loader, and staying behind the time for patching that drove me away from bothering again
This. Whilst getting 80% of macOS running on current PC hardware isn't that difficult, the remaining 20% to make it work just like a real Mac will take 80% of the time.
Things like having audio still work when waking from sleep. Having iCloud being able to sign in and having Messages actually work. Handoff and File Drop support. Being robust enough to survive a regular software update...
It's familiarity with the platform that is the #1 driver.
I've been using a Mac since the 90's, it took me a while to become as proficient with Mac OS X as I was with Classic MacOS when it first came out, by now I've been using the OS for so long that there are a multitude of tiny things that all add up to make a significant difference.
I'm sitting at my desk here - I have a 2013 Mac pro and a newly built PC with i7 7700K, fast SSD, Decent GeForce graphics card and Windows 10 Enterprise.
I have been forcing myself to use the PC on a regular basis to become more proficient with Windows 10, but there are so many little things that are just different that it makes life harder for me. It's not even application support, other than Sketch (which I don't really use) all the major software I use is on Windows and macOS - Office 2016, Adobe Creative Cloud, Fusion 360, TeamViewer, Sublime Text, Chrome, Firefox etc... I've even got a bash shell running natively in Windows 10 for when I need it.
I won't deny that I find the Mac easier because that's what I know - but I have grown to work with what macOS delivers and when Windows doesn't do this, it grates.
Little things like automatic spelling and text replacement that on macOS largely gets it right. I'm not a perfect typer and macOS usually doesn't get in my way (except, of course, when it does) when correcting mis-typed words as I'm typing. Support for adding extended characters and emoji easily to text. Built-in password management with the Keychain.
Even some of the built-in apps - I much prefer Terminal.app over cmd.exe by defaults it uses a more readable font and it wraps text nicely (although I think Windows 10 now wraps text in cmd?)
It's also the general look of it - Windows 10 looks sharper (largely due to it's font rendering trying to align on pixel boundaries) whereas macOS is a bit softer, but to my eyes at least, easier to read (again, probably due to font rendering not aligning to pixel boundaries for individual glyphs, but trying to space characters more closely to the printed page)
I've begun the path to a hackintosh, but honestly it's too much trouble considering I've got a perfectly good Mac sitting on my desk at the moment.
The main driver for hacintosh builds that I see are either creative professionals that want to tinker and don't mind wasting some time faffing around trying to get things working and are happy that they can save some money over the cost of purchasing a comparable Mac (when you factor in your time to get it working, this equation doesn't look so one-sided) and professionals that need more than Apple is able to offer - current generation, fast NVIDIA GPUs (for CUDA), expandable internal storage and RAID, lower-cost M.2 PCIe SSD storage. Whilst some pros are getting last-generation tower Mac Pro workstations and upgrading everything in them (faster Xeon CPUs, PCIe SSDs, GTX 1080 graphics cards etc), others prefer to deal with newer hardware and work though the hassles of hacking it to run macOS.
if you don't code yourself, then you probably don't have any idea how much time and effort is required to implement your 'improvements', and/or perhaps your suggestions really aren't very good to start with, therefore annoying the dev, who spend perhaps months or years creating his end product, only to have some random guy from the Internets post 'suggestions' that come off as criticism.
This is largely irrelevant to the OP's question - do the other users who are outright rejecting the idea of adding new features code? Do they touch the codebase for the app in question? All end-user feedback is useful at some level, it's useful for developers to know how people are using their software and even if just one report isn't enough motivation to add a new feature, if this is requested a number of times it might point to worthwhile future development, or changing the workflow in the software to accomodate the way the software is used by other people.
Asking for a new feature or function in software isn't criticism - in fact, it's the complete opposite. It's showing the developer that you use the software enough to care to provide feedback and you're thinking about ways that the software could potentially be even more useful.
Dunno about you, but with a 4 GHz i7 CPU and a M.2 PCIe SSD, my PC gets from power on to Windows 10 login in about 10 seconds. Isn't that fast enough?
Be careful of your data. Other people have reported having to get their Switch repaired and their savegames getting wiped.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming...
It's just a quick fix - that'll only take 10 minutes.
Apple even went as far as having ZFS in one of the betas for (IIRC 10.4 or 10.5?). You couldn't make the boot disk ZFS, but you could use all the z* commands in Terminal to manage your pools. And, then in the RC it was yanked.
This has always amused me - having a tradie offer 10% discount for cash, just because they don't have to pay the GST. They love it as they end up getting far more in their pocket as they're also not paying the 30-odd percent company tax or around the same on average for income tax on the earnings either. So, they get around 30% more in their pocket and you save 10%...
I've worked for big companies most of my career, and regular employees making purchases, signing contracts, etc. takes an act of God. I can't spend $100 on supplies without getting competitive bids.
See, that's where you're going wrong. I've actually had clients tell me that a proposal has to be _over_ a certain dollar amount - if it's less than (for example) $50k, it's subject to a lot more oversight than, say, $1M. Small, petty cash type purchases are even more difficult, relatively speaking. Good luck trying to get approval for a new mouse for your workstation!
What you want for this is some variation on Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm. Yes, he's the Shamir in RSA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What this does is break a secret up into n different parts, but unlike raid, you can break it up in such a way that there is a threshold for the number of parts required to reconstruct the secret. So, for example, you could break a secret up into 6 parts and specify that any 4 parts will reconstruct the original data. If you have only 3 parts, then the secret is completely unknown (not just partially known).
That sounds like a pretty bad experience with voicemail. With my voicemail, I open the Phone app on my phone and go to the Voicemail tab.
In here, I get a list of either the number of everyone who has left me a voicemail or their name if they are in my address book.
I have a blue dot next to the ones I haven't listened to. I tap on the message to listen to it. If I don't do anything, it's then kept, otherwise if I delete it it goes into the Deleted Messages. Want to listen to a message again? Tap on it.
Couldn't be easier.
Just when I was planning to slack off work this morning and play Horizon Zero Dawn, along comes an update and I'm going to have to watch a progress bar crawl across the screen instead.
First ask yourself, what are you guarding against?
What guidelines has the client given you, what expectations do they have?
There's no point in you being so secure that the machine is virtually useless if the client happily stores these files on Dropbox/Google Drive etc.
Are you guarding against random drive-by hacking, script kiddies and the like, or are you guarding against an advanced persistent threat?
If you're guarding against the US Govt then your threat model is very different to if you're simply protecting yourself against casual hacking.
If you're concerned about an APT, then what level of threat do you expect to face? Is this a competitors company that has some guy who knows computers? Is it a multinational corporation with a large budget and a cybersecurity team? Is it a nation state? Is it the US Government?
The answers to those questions will heavily influence the appropriate course of action to take. If you're worried about casual hacking and the client has provided the files to you via Dropbox, then simply don't connect to any open wifi networks and don't connect to any wifi networks you don't know are secure. Make sure the wifi networks use WPA2.
If however you are concerned that the Govt. is likely out to get to your secrets, and they're specifically targeting you (as opposed to you being caught in a drift net) then you will want to physically disable the wifi, probably by taking the wifi card out of the laptop - it's likely on a small mezzanine card that is usually easily removed with a small Philips head screwdriver.
What you mean like they already have with USB-C only on all new laptops?
There are hybrid SSHDs - they combine a small SSD (32 or 64 GB) and a larger (500 or 1000 GB) hard drive. The only issue is that they're not visible as two separate devices, the SSD acts as a cache to the HDD, caching frequently accessed blocks.
I donâ(TM)t work for free. If they want me to solve problems, they can sign a consulting contract.
But hereâ(TM)s an idea, if they are going to force software engineers to do this sort of thing, maybe they can break up some vexing Homeland Security software problem and piecemeal it out, sort of like crowdsourcingâ¦
I know, why don't they put them to work converting Slashcode to support Unicode?
Yeah, if I go to the USA again at any stage in the foreseeable future, I'm seriously considering just wiping my phone on the plane and then restoring from a cloud backup as soon as I've cleared customs.
Put in a PIN code. Set the phone to wipe after 3 incorrect attempts.
When the phone goes to wipe itself, it just deletes the crypto key to the main storage, thereby rendering it completely scrambled in an instant. No need to lock out the Lightning port while this occurs, it happens too quickly.
The manufacturers can't even agree on which curvature is better, concave or convex (although most are concave now).
If you live on your own and watching TV is purely a solitary experience, or maybe with one other person, a curved TV can be OK, but if you're getting a few friends over to watch a movie or a sports game, only the person in the centre will have a decent view.
For a monitor, on the other hand, you're sitting on your lonesome, right in the sweet spot and a curved monitor can be great for some tasks.
No, chick is slang to refer to a girl or woman, not specifically a wife.