The Metreon just plain totally sucks, as far as the crowd goes. Take your pick of idiot tourist dads holding an entire row so their fat family can come in 10 minutes after the movie's started, teens with cell phones, 20 minutes of ads before the movie starts, etc etc.
The AMC Van Ness has a way better crowd, AND the movies are usually timed to start when the listing say they'll start; i.e. the ads are shown BEFORE the start time.
Correct me if things have changed, but what replacement would any 'media pro' have for any of Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Shake, Motion, Logic, Cubase, DVD Studio Pro etc etc? Because those are the apps all the media pros I know of use.
From the Audio Pro side, don't forget ProTools, any number of VST plugins and instruments such as Waves, NI Reaktor, and TC Native. That last one actually still benefits from having hardware DSP thrown at it.
I love BeOS too, and actually paid for an r4.5 CD, but without ports of real actual applications that people use to make money and products with, it's not going anywhere.
Here's one of the most insightful, yet scariest quotes from the article:
"The security faults we are seeing could end up bringing an end to the era of personal computing," Kaminsky said. "The ability to customize our computers is under attack from those who are customizing it against our will."
MS has seen that it's possible for there to be a secure and customizable end-user OS (MacOS X, Linux, etc), so much as they might like to, they can't attack the problem by taking customizability away from the user. Hence workshops like these.
I think that some other posters have it right when they compare the current security effort with the rise of IE in the late 90's. Sleeping giants and all that.
OK, did you totally not read the post you quoted? Please explain how blocking incoming ports would prevent an executable recieved via email from pulling a malicious payload off a remote webserver?
Blocking everything except outgoing port 80, 110, and 443 will make absolutely ZERO[1] difference in preventing DDoS attacks.
Blocking incoming ports will not prevent email viruses, phishing attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, BHO exploits, or most other malware.
Instead of blindly encouraging ISPs to lock down their customers in the name of security, how about we encourage them to/dev/null those customers who are already zombied. It shouldn't be too difficult[2] to do a little automated traffic analysis to see who's been sending all 1.5Mb/s to www.costaricangamblingsite.com for three days straight.
[1] Maybe not zero, but those doing the exploiting will find new methods when neccessary.
[2] Actually, it might be very difficult. Tough - it's still a better option.
Speaking of that, and also his frequent falling out with artistic collaberators, does anyone know the status of the Miracleman re-release? I'd quite like to read it again, it's been like ten years.
Agreed, that's what my company is using. As an added bonus, their reliability is amazing as long as you go with tier 1 hardware manufacturers. We discovered after I'd installed lm_sensors on our cluster that one of the machines had a dead heatsink-fan and dead exhaust fans, and yet the CPU was only at 77 degrees C and was still running under full load. I'd like to see a Xeon do that.
It's easier to emulate x86 on PowerPC than vice versa. I'm guessing that Xbox backwards-compatibility has something to do with why MS bought VirtualPC, a software package that lets you, surprise, emulate x86 on PowerPC.
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Selling CDs is one of the ways that the OpenBSD project is able to make money, and as far as I know, they don't provide checksums for the general public to verify the integrity of downloaded.iso's.
So by all means feel free to download some J. Random bitTorrent ISO of OpenBSD, but keep in mind that you have no way of knowing if it's been trojaned, root-kitted, or otherwise compromised
If you really need a free install, just use the freakin network floppy. It's super easy, and you download directly from official OpenBSD mirrors.
I'd just like to point out as an Audio Geek that all the good high-end audio cards now are Firewire. There's no point in complaining about losing desk space when even the older PCI ones still needed a breakout box for the connectors (XLR, SP/DIF, Lightpipe, etc). The only PCI audio cards are solely for gaming or home theater usage (aka hardware 3D and Dolby), and if that's what you want, why do you have a workstation class Mac?
Dual core should be more efficient as the system bus between the processor cores are much faster and wider than the external buses.
Please keep in mind that this isn't true of Intel's "dual-core" Pentium 4 CPUs, which are essentially two separate CPU dies on a single socket . If you look at an image of the processor die itself, you can see a big black line running between the cores. This means that they still can only communicate with each-other via the northbridge, just like in a traditional dual-processor system. Well, like a traditional Intel 2P system, as AMD's 2P boards use hypertransport as a direct CPU-CPU bus.
Actually, here in California, the tomatoes *last year* were better than what we have now. There was a nasty frost in the early spring that ruined a lot of tomato plants, and so we're stuck with late-sprouting crops and screwed-up tomatoes.
So at least at the source, a really yummy fresh tomato isn't unheard of these days.
Actually, the 1x PCI-E should be plenty for gigabit ethernet, especially since it's a point-to-point instead of shared bus; there'll be no contention with other high-bandwidth devices.
I'd imagine 4 or 8x would be pretty nice for a multiple (quad?) Gig-E card though:D
At some point in the not-too-distant future, I forsee a disgruntled botnet operator (or an unethical sysadmin who's getting DDoSed) causing about 100,000 0wned home computers to spontaneously "deltree/y c:".
At that point, we may see the average end-user become slightly more concerned about network security.
In fact, I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already.
On the other side of the spectrum (so to speak), I *only* have a mobile phone. It's less expensive than a land line, doesn't charge me per-minute for long distance calls, and it stays with me instead of with my house. If I don't want to be reached, I freakin turn off the ringer. Since I got a cell phone a couple years ago, my land line usage has dropped to the point where we cancelled everything but the mandatory local/911 service.
Reliable document date-stamps seem like a very good reason for the drivers of your (presumably) $X0,000 plotter to query the system date. However, this article is about a cheap inkjets with high-margin cartridges.
Fortunately, if you don't want to download the latest bleeding-edge Debian just to try out X.org, you can always grab a tarball of Duke Nukem Forever off of Freshmeat. After that's installed, X.org goes in pretty easily.
You've both missed the point. The grandparent missed that X.org uses hardware for rendering, which is a Good Thing. You missed the point that, whereas Apple uses that rendering to convey information about which window has focus, the X11 desktop in question uses it for eye-candy. Hardware rendering is only as useful as what you're rendering.
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The Metreon just plain totally sucks, as far as the crowd goes. Take your pick of idiot tourist dads holding an entire row so their fat family can come in 10 minutes after the movie's started, teens with cell phones, 20 minutes of ads before the movie starts, etc etc.
The AMC Van Ness has a way better crowd, AND the movies are usually timed to start when the listing say they'll start; i.e. the ads are shown BEFORE the start time.
From the Audio Pro side, don't forget ProTools, any number of VST plugins and instruments such as Waves, NI Reaktor, and TC Native. That last one actually still benefits from having hardware DSP thrown at it.
I love BeOS too, and actually paid for an r4.5 CD, but without ports of real actual applications that people use to make money and products with, it's not going anywhere.
Here's one of the most insightful, yet scariest quotes from the article:
MS has seen that it's possible for there to be a secure and customizable end-user OS (MacOS X, Linux, etc), so much as they might like to, they can't attack the problem by taking customizability away from the user. Hence workshops like these.
I think that some other posters have it right when they compare the current security effort with the rise of IE in the late 90's. Sleeping giants and all that.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. The third graphic novel was going for about $650 on Amazon used for the first printing.
:)
Keep those safe
OK, did you totally not read the post you quoted? Please explain how blocking incoming ports would prevent an executable recieved via email from pulling a malicious payload off a remote webserver?
/dev/null those customers who are already zombied. It shouldn't be too difficult[2] to do a little automated traffic analysis to see who's been sending all 1.5Mb/s to www.costaricangamblingsite.com for three days straight.
Blocking everything except outgoing port 80, 110, and 443 will make absolutely ZERO[1] difference in preventing DDoS attacks.
Blocking incoming ports will not prevent email viruses, phishing attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, BHO exploits, or most other malware.
Instead of blindly encouraging ISPs to lock down their customers in the name of security, how about we encourage them to
[1] Maybe not zero, but those doing the exploiting will find new methods when neccessary.
[2] Actually, it might be very difficult. Tough - it's still a better option.
perl -i.BAK -pe!!
Are they first release? If so, did you know they're probably worth well over $1500?
;)
You lucky git.
Can I borrow them
Speaking of that, and also his frequent falling out with artistic collaberators, does anyone know the status of the Miracleman re-release? I'd quite like to read it again, it's been like ten years.
Agreed, that's what my company is using. As an added bonus, their reliability is amazing as long as you go with tier 1 hardware manufacturers. We discovered after I'd installed lm_sensors on our cluster that one of the machines had a dead heatsink-fan and dead exhaust fans, and yet the CPU was only at 77 degrees C and was still running under full load. I'd like to see a Xeon do that.
It's easier to emulate x86 on PowerPC than vice versa. I'm guessing that Xbox backwards-compatibility has something to do with why MS bought VirtualPC, a software package that lets you, surprise, emulate x86 on PowerPC.
Selling CDs is one of the ways that the OpenBSD project is able to make money, and as far as I know, they don't provide checksums for the general public to verify the integrity of downloaded .iso's.
So by all means feel free to download some J. Random bitTorrent ISO of OpenBSD, but keep in mind that you have no way of knowing if it's been trojaned, root-kitted, or otherwise compromised If you really need a free install, just use the freakin network floppy. It's super easy, and you download directly from official OpenBSD mirrors.
You've got your tenses wrong. You want to ask the attendee how successful this will have been.
nah, more like
find / -type f|while read code
do
strings $code | grep -i "stolen code here!"
done
Sad thing is, he's right - I love that song.
I'd just like to point out as an Audio Geek that all the good high-end audio cards now are Firewire. There's no point in complaining about losing desk space when even the older PCI ones still needed a breakout box for the connectors (XLR, SP/DIF, Lightpipe, etc). The only PCI audio cards are solely for gaming or home theater usage (aka hardware 3D and Dolby), and if that's what you want, why do you have a workstation class Mac?
Dual core should be more efficient as the system bus between the processor cores are much faster and wider than the external buses.
Please keep in mind that this isn't true of Intel's "dual-core" Pentium 4 CPUs, which are essentially two separate CPU dies on a single socket . If you look at an image of the processor die itself, you can see a big black line running between the cores. This means that they still can only communicate with each-other via the northbridge, just like in a traditional dual-processor system. Well, like a traditional Intel 2P system, as AMD's 2P boards use hypertransport as a direct CPU-CPU bus.
I think marvin was talking about relative processing power, not lamenting having a big head.
Or, maybe there's a planet in Marvin's head. Betcha didn't think of that.
Actually, here in California, the tomatoes *last year* were better than what we have now. There was a nasty frost in the early spring that ruined a lot of tomato plants, and so we're stuck with late-sprouting crops and screwed-up tomatoes.
So at least at the source, a really yummy fresh tomato isn't unheard of these days.
Actually, the 1x PCI-E should be plenty for gigabit ethernet, especially since it's a point-to-point instead of shared bus; there'll be no contention with other high-bandwidth devices.
:D
I'd imagine 4 or 8x would be pretty nice for a multiple (quad?) Gig-E card though
At some point in the not-too-distant future, I forsee a disgruntled botnet operator (or an unethical sysadmin who's getting DDoSed) causing about 100,000 0wned home computers to spontaneously "deltree /y c:".
At that point, we may see the average end-user become slightly more concerned about network security.
In fact, I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already.
On the other side of the spectrum (so to speak), I *only* have a mobile phone. It's less expensive than a land line, doesn't charge me per-minute for long distance calls, and it stays with me instead of with my house. If I don't want to be reached, I freakin turn off the ringer. Since I got a cell phone a couple years ago, my land line usage has dropped to the point where we cancelled everything but the mandatory local/911 service.
You should credit your sources when posting someone else's material. Wouldn't want to be accused of plagerism, after all.
Reliable document date-stamps seem like a very good reason for the drivers of your (presumably) $X0,000 plotter to query the system date. However, this article is about a cheap inkjets with high-margin cartridges.
Fortunately, if you don't want to download the latest bleeding-edge Debian just to try out X.org, you can always grab a tarball of Duke Nukem Forever off of Freshmeat. After that's installed, X.org goes in pretty easily.
;)
You've both missed the point. The grandparent missed that X.org uses hardware for rendering, which is a Good Thing. You missed the point that, whereas Apple uses that rendering to convey information about which window has focus, the X11 desktop in question uses it for eye-candy. Hardware rendering is only as useful as what you're rendering.