That repositioning is coming around when AMD moves to unified socket 939 on the high performance desktop processors. I think the single channel socket will only be used for the budget line (Sempron) in the future and both A64 and FX will use the same socket 939, thus being dual channel with only difference being the size of the on-die caches. Opteron will still use socket 940 for the ECC memory interface.
Anyway, windows sucks by nature for multi-tasking due to its awful memory management, so I'm not even going there. 1gb RAM and it eats into swap on first chance. Only way to avoid it is disable swap completely.
So you prefer keeping unused portions of kernel in the system memory? Good memory management tends to use swap to page out unused pages so more physical memory is left free for the applications that really need it.
Well, I've also been looking into the embedded device space in order to implement portable retro music player (basically I want support for sidplay and Amiga modules á la Deliplayer). However, the pricing of prototype boards is very high. Another idea would be implementation using FPGA with emulated 6510 core of some sort running the sidplay tunes on emulated 6581.
Well it's nothing new really. I have been recommending Fog of War to all my friends as it really is a good moral argumentation on just (as in fair) war. It seems GWB and the hawks should also see Fog of War in order to learn something, before it's too late.
Well, water cooling is good for keeping the noise level down. I installed water cooling kit to my computer in order to have quiet operating environment, not to overclock the CPU. Nowadays it is fairly easy to have water cooled system with _all_ the fans replaced (CPU, GPU, PSU), but it will cost you some $$$$ (at the current steet price in Finland it will cost you around 600-700 euros to have totally water cooled system) but it will be really, really, quiet.
The practice, known as "astroturfing", is wildly popular on sites like Slashdot that actually let you post as "anonymous coward".
I think it is a different thing to use fake identities in order to make your product look better than it is and discrediting the critics than simply posting as anonymous. Anyone can take comments from an AC with a grain of salt, but occasional readers do not have the capability to understand that a person behind fake identity is essentially fake and astroturfing. I for one only realized what was going on on TSS only after some very specific comments from Cameron Purdy. Just one more reason to support Geronimo or Jonas instead of the "competing" offering from JBoss Group.
Yes, it is a crappy single-user database engine (Jet), which for example supports Exchange repositories with tens on thousands of users (at least at my workplace)... Please check your facts.
As a side note, my 2500+ Barton (overclocked) also runs 3 degrees Celsius cooler than my sister's 2400+ Thoroughbred (not overclocked) using the same copper heatsink and the same mobo, RAM, etc. to minimize variables.
My 2500+ also runs fairly cool even when overclocked to 2800+ (can't overclock more as my A7N8X does not seem to work with multipliers over 12.5). I suspect this has something to do with the larger die size and thus having larger area conducting heat to the heatsink.
To me this reminds centralized user credentials management that IBM just happens to have a lot of experience of because of their Tivoli product portfolio (Tivoli SecuryWay). And I presume they also have tons of patents on that technology also.
Yes, the nice dialog pops up and tells it will not delete the files. Too bad it just moves files around if the ID3-tags are not up to date (thus destroying manually organized directory structure).
Too bad they didn't tell iTunes will "reorganize" your mp3-files. And they also forgot to mention that uninstalling iTunes will break your WMP mp3-codec and also fiddle with your cdrom-drivers so that for example WinDVD is unable to recognize inserted discs and Nero refuses to copy CDs. Maybe they should've tested their product before releasing it out in the wild as it's a bit different here in the Windows world where Apple doesn't own the OS and hardware.
"When I run that command, a new copy of explorer (yes, explorer) opens, showing me the contents of the directory that was current when I ran it. Its hard to tell what user it is running as, but it tells me that I can't change security properties on explorer.exe so I guess it isn't administrator."
I have been successfully using this approach *but* I seem to have a small error in my previous post. The way you need to do this is to start a command prompt with different credentials and then executing a shortcut to the desired control panel functionality in the command prompt with desired credentials, for example "C:\Temp\Shortcut to Regional Options.lnk", "C:\Temp\Shortcut to Add Printer.lnk" and so forth. This way you can work around the Windows GUI limitations, should have checked out the bat files before posting:-)
And what comes to fast user switching in Windows XP, it's pretty much useless in corporate world as you can not use it when the workstation is part of a domain. That is of course very, very, stupid limitation.
How about starting Control Panel as a different user (from the command line): "runas/profile/env/user:XXXX\XXXX C:\WINNT\system32\control.exe"
Or you can also start Windows Explorer in the same manner, just replace the command line with path to your explorer.exe, usually it is in the SystemRoot so the correct path is "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe".
This is essentially something you learn to do when you have bunch of services running on some very limited login accounts (no console login available at all even on the local console) so you can easily change the account setting by running some other user account that has login access and then running the processes under different credentials in order to change settings.
"For an end user its obvious since in windows you are always the admin (even in winxp where you can finally really change the power of the user, a lot of shit doesnt work right unless you are the admin). This basic security difference is HUGE."
Well if you just for one second assume that a Windows user is as competent as a Linux user, this sentence just does not make any sense. I haven't been running as administrator on Windows since NT4. I know how to use "Run as a different user" just as well that I can write sudo in Linux so there really is no need ever to log in with too much privileges on Windows. And as a technologically advanced user you also know your policies and such so you can harden all the other accounts in the system just the same way you might do it using Unix-like operating systems. It's even easier to do fine grained security hardening on Windows given you know how to administer your box.
And, when it comes to the RPC exploit, you just don't remember what happened with OpenSSH some time ago? A fix was available for quite some time and even then a huge amount of computers got cracked. If Linux was as popular as Windows, there might easily have been about the same number of "infections" as there were with Blaster.
To assume one system is more secure than some other just because it's different is simply stupid. Security consists of many different aspects and the underlying OS is just one of them.
Well, I'd for one would like to read some of his thoughts about the SCO situation now that GPL is part of the mess. It is not too reassuring that he avoids answering the question about GPL's credibility, as he is the person who really *should* know about the legal issues surrounding GPL.
Well, I expected to read some of RMS's opinions about the subject mentioned in the title of the article. Instead I got the same old political mantra once again. Why can't he answer a single question without turning 99% of the contents of answer to some pro-free-software political speech?
I think you mix up communism and socialism. They have about as much in common as the US of A and capitalism. One should not mix up ideologies and their actual implementations as they really, really, rarely meet.
This is something that I also thought. But what caught my eye was (verbally) "limiting" the download only to their existing customers. I'm not quite sure they are legally able to limit the distribution to their customers only as the GPL has no such restrictions to my knowledge. If the GPL has no such restriction, then in effect they're violating the license.
Actually the flaw in the design came from changing the physical interface of the peripheral bus due to some cost related issues. C64 was originally intended to use IEEE488 (or IEEE488 like) bus in order to hook up the drive, but as IEEE488 cables were too expensive and Commodore already had a shitload of old cables in stock (from VIC-20 days), the management made a decision to change the physical interface. The bus driver was designed for parallel transfers, thus making it totally unusable with the slow serial bus. As you can see from the bus protocol, it pretty much works like an IEEE488 bus having the same style device selection etc. commands.
"The Linux rpms available on SCO's ftp site are offered for download to existing customers of SCO Linux, Caldera OpenLinux or SCO UnixWare with LKP, in order to honor SCO's support obligations to such customers."
Isn't this breaking the GPL? I mean, if they have done _any_ modifications to the original kernel, the rpms should be available to _anyone_ due to the "viral" nature of the GPL.
Well, if the GPL collapses, then *all* the copyrights in Linux kernel will go back to their original holders, that is the kernel shall no longer be freely distributable. Won't that make a good case against SCO if they still distribute the Linux kernel, not to mention the license fees they're trying to extor^H^H^H^H^Hcollect.
If the EULA is in contradiction with the local law in most of the European countries (like here in Finland), then the local law will supercede EULA. So basically, in Finland you can crack the copy protection of XBox, given the restrictions of local law. This goes for copy protected CDs also as you are allowed to do personal copies _and_ transform the format of the original (like, ripping CDs to MP3).
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That repositioning is coming around when AMD moves to unified socket 939 on the high performance desktop processors. I think the single channel socket will only be used for the budget line (Sempron) in the future and both A64 and FX will use the same socket 939, thus being dual channel with only difference being the size of the on-die caches. Opteron will still use socket 940 for the ECC memory interface.
Anyway, windows sucks by nature for multi-tasking due to its awful memory management, so I'm not even going there. 1gb RAM and it eats into swap on first chance. Only way to avoid it is disable swap completely.
So you prefer keeping unused portions of kernel in the system memory? Good memory management tends to use swap to page out unused pages so more physical memory is left free for the applications that really need it.
Well, I've also been looking into the embedded device space in order to implement portable retro music player (basically I want support for sidplay and Amiga modules á la Deliplayer). However, the pricing of prototype boards is very high. Another idea would be implementation using FPGA with emulated 6510 core of some sort running the sidplay tunes on emulated 6581.
What I want is a portable audio player with .sid-support. And here we finally have a player from "Commodore" but still no luck...
Well it's nothing new really. I have been recommending Fog of War to all my friends as it really is a good moral argumentation on just (as in fair) war. It seems GWB and the hawks should also see Fog of War in order to learn something, before it's too late.
Well, water cooling is good for keeping the noise level down. I installed water cooling kit to my computer in order to have quiet operating environment, not to overclock the CPU. Nowadays it is fairly easy to have water cooled system with _all_ the fans replaced (CPU, GPU, PSU), but it will cost you some $$$$ (at the current steet price in Finland it will cost you around 600-700 euros to have totally water cooled system) but it will be really, really, quiet.
The practice, known as "astroturfing", is wildly popular on sites like Slashdot that actually let you post as "anonymous coward".
I think it is a different thing to use fake identities in order to make your product look better than it is and discrediting the critics than simply posting as anonymous. Anyone can take comments from an AC with a grain of salt, but occasional readers do not have the capability to understand that a person behind fake identity is essentially fake and astroturfing. I for one only realized what was going on on TSS only after some very specific comments from Cameron Purdy. Just one more reason to support Geronimo or Jonas instead of the "competing" offering from JBoss Group.
Yes, it is a crappy single-user database engine (Jet), which for example supports Exchange repositories with tens on thousands of users (at least at my workplace)... Please check your facts.
As a side note, my 2500+ Barton (overclocked) also runs 3 degrees Celsius cooler than my sister's 2400+ Thoroughbred (not overclocked) using the same copper heatsink and the same mobo, RAM, etc. to minimize variables.
My 2500+ also runs fairly cool even when overclocked to 2800+ (can't overclock more as my A7N8X does not seem to work with multipliers over 12.5). I suspect this has something to do with the larger die size and thus having larger area conducting heat to the heatsink.
To me this reminds centralized user credentials management that IBM just happens to have a lot of experience of because of their Tivoli product portfolio (Tivoli SecuryWay). And I presume they also have tons of patents on that technology also.
Yes, the nice dialog pops up and tells it will not delete the files. Too bad it just moves files around if the ID3-tags are not up to date (thus destroying manually organized directory structure).
I had no problems whatsoever as long as I had iTunes installed, but _un_installing iTunes caused odd behaviour in WinDVD and WMP. Go figure.
Too bad they didn't tell iTunes will "reorganize" your mp3-files. And they also forgot to mention that uninstalling iTunes will break your WMP mp3-codec and also fiddle with your cdrom-drivers so that for example WinDVD is unable to recognize inserted discs and Nero refuses to copy CDs. Maybe they should've tested their product before releasing it out in the wild as it's a bit different here in the Windows world where Apple doesn't own the OS and hardware.
"When I run that command, a new copy of explorer (yes, explorer) opens, showing me the contents of the directory that was current when I ran it. Its hard to tell what user it is running as, but it tells me that I can't change security properties on explorer.exe so I guess it isn't administrator."
:-)
I have been successfully using this approach *but* I seem to have a small error in my previous post. The way you need to do this is to start a command prompt with different credentials and then executing a shortcut to the desired control panel functionality in the command prompt with desired credentials, for example "C:\Temp\Shortcut to Regional Options.lnk", "C:\Temp\Shortcut to Add Printer.lnk" and so forth. This way you can work around the Windows GUI limitations, should have checked out the bat files before posting
And what comes to fast user switching in Windows XP, it's pretty much useless in corporate world as you can not use it when the workstation is part of a domain. That is of course very, very, stupid limitation.
Well,
/profile /env /user:XXXX\XXXX C:\WINNT\system32\control.exe"
How about starting Control Panel as a different user (from the command line): "runas
Or you can also start Windows Explorer in the same manner, just replace the command line with path to your explorer.exe, usually it is in the SystemRoot so the correct path is "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe".
This is essentially something you learn to do when you have bunch of services running on some very limited login accounts (no console login available at all even on the local console) so you can easily change the account setting by running some other user account that has login access and then running the processes under different credentials in order to change settings.
"For an end user its obvious since in windows you are always the admin (even in winxp where you can finally really change the power of the user, a lot of shit doesnt work right unless you are the admin). This basic security difference is HUGE."
Well if you just for one second assume that a Windows user is as competent as a Linux user, this sentence just does not make any sense. I haven't been running as administrator on Windows since NT4. I know how to use "Run as a different user" just as well that I can write sudo in Linux so there really is no need ever to log in with too much privileges on Windows. And as a technologically advanced user you also know your policies and such so you can harden all the other accounts in the system just the same way you might do it using Unix-like operating systems. It's even easier to do fine grained security hardening on Windows given you know how to administer your box.
And, when it comes to the RPC exploit, you just don't remember what happened with OpenSSH some time ago? A fix was available for quite some time and even then a huge amount of computers got cracked. If Linux was as popular as Windows, there might easily have been about the same number of "infections" as there were with Blaster.
To assume one system is more secure than some other just because it's different is simply stupid. Security consists of many different aspects and the underlying OS is just one of them.
Well, I'd for one would like to read some of his thoughts about the SCO situation now that GPL is part of the mess. It is not too reassuring that he avoids answering the question about GPL's credibility, as he is the person who really *should* know about the legal issues surrounding GPL.
Well, I expected to read some of RMS's opinions about the subject mentioned in the title of the article. Instead I got the same old political mantra once again. Why can't he answer a single question without turning 99% of the contents of answer to some pro-free-software political speech?
I meant democracy, not capitalism, sorry about that.
I think you mix up communism and socialism. They have about as much in common as the US of A and capitalism. One should not mix up ideologies and their actual implementations as they really, really, rarely meet.
This is something that I also thought. But what caught my eye was (verbally) "limiting" the download only to their existing customers. I'm not quite sure they are legally able to limit the distribution to their customers only as the GPL has no such restrictions to my knowledge. If the GPL has no such restriction, then in effect they're violating the license.
Actually the flaw in the design came from changing the physical interface of the peripheral bus due to some cost related issues. C64 was originally intended to use IEEE488 (or IEEE488 like) bus in order to hook up the drive, but as IEEE488 cables were too expensive and Commodore already had a shitload of old cables in stock (from VIC-20 days), the management made a decision to change the physical interface. The bus driver was designed for parallel transfers, thus making it totally unusable with the slow serial bus. As you can see from the bus protocol, it pretty much works like an IEEE488 bus having the same style device selection etc. commands.
"The Linux rpms available on SCO's ftp site are offered for download to
existing customers of SCO Linux, Caldera OpenLinux or SCO UnixWare with
LKP, in order to honor SCO's support obligations to such customers."
Isn't this breaking the GPL? I mean, if they have done _any_ modifications to the original kernel, the rpms should be available to _anyone_ due to the "viral" nature of the GPL.
Well, if the GPL collapses, then *all* the copyrights in Linux kernel will go back to their original holders, that is the kernel shall no longer be freely distributable. Won't that make a good case against SCO if they still distribute the Linux kernel, not to mention the license fees they're trying to extor^H^H^H^H^Hcollect.
If the EULA is in contradiction with the local law in most of the European countries (like here in Finland), then the local law will supercede EULA. So basically, in Finland you can crack the copy protection of XBox, given the restrictions of local law. This goes for copy protected CDs also as you are allowed to do personal copies _and_ transform the format of the original (like, ripping CDs to MP3).