Microsoft Intellimouse optical: The driver in the link doesn't recognize this mouse... What's really funny is MS's Mac Intellimouse driver works perfectly. This is a rather old mouse, it was one of the very first optical mice available($70 back in the day).
I may just have bad luck... but Microsoft's driver compatibility is frighteningly bad.
I'm a recent graduate / new hire / $25-$50K earner / iPhone owner.
As a graduate assistant I earned $8K/yr and tried to keep my expenses under that (although I have ~$16K in student loans). I was on food stamps ($160/month) which helped a LOT. I'm a graduate student now so my repayment period on my loans hasn't kicked in yet(0% interest).
My iPhone is unlocked and uses AT&T's $20 unlimited go-phone data plan. I don't make many voice-calls and use Fring(iPhone VOIP) for the few I do make.
My monthly expenses:
$350 = Rent
$70 = Utilities(Cable, Internet, Electric)
$200 = food
$25 = iPhone w/ unlimited data
$16 = Server bills
no car
I have a crazy amount of disposable income; I've been chucking money into the stock market in the last month.
Crazy, I only use Outlook at work, where it seems to work fine with the exchange server. It is nice to have email/calendar combined as a desktop app, but the interface seems sluggish. I can't see paying for it given the other better solutions.
You would think IMAP would be the obvius answer, and the website I mentioned has step-by-step instructions on how to do that with Thunderbird, but Outlook's IMAP support evidently sucks.
From this website:
"There's lots of hacky ways that huge amounts of email can be moved from Outlook to Gmail for Apps. Believe me, Google knows this is a problem and I'm 99% sure they are working on it. Until then, you can do the IMAP trick above, or use a tool. Time is money, so I used gMOVE from LimitNone."
What I find odd about this statement is that he had to rerun gMove 7 times at what looks like 30minutes each run because it only supports 5000 messages at a time. 35000 messages doesn't seem like that much email...(maybe I've been using gMail too long). How awful is Outlook's IMAP support???
There isn't much "look and feel" to an email importer. Check out the interface at this website. Evidently all this tool does is enable a POP server in Outlook via OLE and sucks the mail into gMail. gMove can only import 5,000 messages at a time, so you will have to run it several times to import all your mail.
This looks like a pretty mediocre product with no "look and feel" to speak of.
I think schools are probably the worst offenders here. They have important records and still act like security isn't a big deal. For almost a year the cert for https://security.etsu.edu/ was invalid(past it's expiration) and https://www.etsu.edu/ has had the same problem. https://security.etsu.edu/ used to host the script to reset passwords(by entering SSN/birthdate).
What's worse is the library page http://libraries.etsu.edu/patroninfo where you login with the same login/pass that accesses all your other accounts. The library-system doesn't even have an HTTPS server...
At least I can almost forgive the library since they aren't super-technical, but we are still REQUIRED to use straight FTP to upload websites to http://students.etsu.edu/ for several CSCI classes. There is no SFTP access to students.etsu.edu. Yes, this uses the same login/pass we use for everything else...
I've sent several of emails to IT, but generally they don't get answered and I'm just not motivated enough to deal with their byzantine power structure.
The DS/PSP/PS2 all have fixed hardware which means you can take a different approach to developing on those limited platforms. Trying to target an old PC/Mac platform is more difficult. The mix of hardware and it's performance implications is a big burden.
Plus the market for low-end PC gaming doesn't really seem to be there.
I'll see your G3/450Mhz and raise(lower) you another 50Mhz.
I still have a iMac DV G3/400Mhz that is officially supported under 10.4(Tiger). It's still useful for testing stuff and for light use. I have upgraded it with a 120GB 7200RPM HD and 512MB of RAM.
I've been messing around with Actionscript 3 development since Adobe released the compilers for free and the only completely free way to import vector assets is via SVG. There are also a couple run-time SVG engines for AS3: uSprite and AS3SVGlib
I don't think SVG+SMILE is going to be the animation tool that some people were hoping for, but it has become THE format for exchanging vector art and will continue to become more important on the web.
I wasn't aware of the N800 Flash9, that's pretty neat. Flash8 was a huge disappointment throughout it's development, but Flash9 is looking to be as revolutionary of a platform as Flash5-7 were.
Still the N800's Flash doesn't seem to be quite on par with Win/OSX/Linux versions, it doesn't support paperVision3D, which is only slightly disappointing.
All current mobile Flash is awful for several reasons:
Screen size problems - Flash content is generally designed for desktop resolutions. This can be overcome with an iPhone(ish) interface
CPU Speed problems - Flash can be a hog
CPU architecture not supported by Adobe - only x86 and PPC are supported
The architecture problem is pretty huge... I think this new project is aimed at fixing that problem. Up until now you were looking at either using the official plugin and having a desktop CPU or having limited functionality like all current mobile implementations. Hopefully we will see more architectures with good Flash virtual machines. Part of the source for Adobe's Flash WM has been released to the Tararin Project.
Are you suggesting that Fujitsu took the very simple AES encryption process and is for some reason storing extra data alongside it on the platter? I don't think my assumption was naive, I think you are either absurdly paranoid or trying for a straw man argument.
For a complete audit, yes, you would want to take the drive physically apart and make sure that it didn't store something stupid in eeprom or a cache as well as the platters, but you would also need to do the same for the keyboard, keyboard controller, motherboard, RAM, CPU, etc.
Handling of keys is always problematic, but hardware based systems potentially pass the key through much less hardware than software based systems. It is nearly inconceivable to create a software system where the key isn't at least stored in main memory and the CPU.
I guess you are right in a way, we won't have full security in Fujitsu's security until we break down their hardware and get the complete details for all the chips and the way that every part is manufactured...
Of course we won't get software encryption security until we break down our WHOLE COMPUTER and get the same data for every chip from every company. I'm sure glad you are sure every last component of your computer is fully secured.
That's not really true in this case. If the drive allows access to the raw encrypted data and the key is known it is simple to audit the encryption hardware.
On the other hand auditing software is not nearly as easy. Anything less than full-disk encryption can be a nightmare to audit, it's very hard to tell where files are going to be stored, especially on a desktop machine. Software full-(disk/partition) encryption can be audited the same way as hardware encryption, but you have to deal with unencrypted kernels that are going to need to be upgraded at some point.
I see it as this:
hardware
Limited access to audit encryption implementation, although AES is ridiculously simple to implement
software
Requires unencrypted kernel to be stored on a disk
If I needed real security I'd use both.
Why do you think software is less deniable? If anything I'd say you have it backwards. If you store your kernel/bootloader on a usb drive and use something like TrueCrypt your computer has nothing but a drive with gibberish on it. It is much harder to deny you are using encryption when you have a hardware specifically designed to do just that.
I don't think ray tracing has any inherent advantage over rasterization when it comes to parallelism. Both techniques require that each rendering node have access to all of the data for the scene. Plenty of parallel rasterization hardware cards are on the market, the first one I used was the Voodoo2 SLI.
Software rendering may come back into style with these faster CPUs, but I'm doubting we are going to see ray tracing gain any serious ground in real-time 3D rendering.
I'm pretty sure this will fix your problem. I had a similar problem with some KWorld BT878 cards and after I updated to a pre-release version it fixed all my problems. I'll be switching to stable 0.21 here soon.
The Divx spec made it mandatory to call home to check your DRM status, where the Blu-Ray spec makes it mandatory for a disc to play in Spec 1.0 players that can't call home.
Sony had a hand in CDs as well, although Philips provided most of the technology. Blu-Ray is a Sony format in much the same way CDs are. Sony didn't pioneer much of the technology in CDs/Blu-Ray, but they are responsible for pushing/marketing the format into a successful format.
According to Wikipedia, the best current attack against 128bit keyed BlueTooth takes the first 24bits of 2^23.8 packets. Packets are 2745 bits long so the attacker would have to monitor over 4.66GB of data transfer from your keyboard.
I never said they were good reasons, and agree the real answer to all these problems is more deregulation.
The arguments, with a different spin are:
Local governments(municipalities) are colluding, this would be the federal government fixing this issue. I lived in a town where the city owned the actual copper running to everyone's doors and then farmed out the cable to a single company. If the city owns the copper(a.k.a. public property), then I think the cable network should be open to anyone wanting to compete. This used to be more of an issue when the lines were actually copper because running multiple cable networks on the lines was difficult, but today's networks makes this pretty much moot. The Fed could come in and put a stop to this problem.
Adding "must carry" laws would level the playing field. Cable companies have an unfair advantage in this regard and the options are either not to require satellite to carry local channels or to add the burden to cable. Removing local channels from satellite would put residents at risk by not giving them as much local public information.
Elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents. If they ignore what the voters want then they aren't doing their jobs
I don't personally see merit in these arguments, but they are somewhat compelling. Government doesn't use arguments that are based on merit, they are too hard to sell. Compelling arguments are easy to sell.
I've lived in at least one town where "the town"(a.k.a. the mayor) decided they only wanted one cable company.
You can make a case for more regulation of the cable industry.
cable companies are colluding with local governments to drive prices up(in the name of lowering prices...)
satellite-tv has a lot more regulation(like must-carry laws), which the cable companies helped push through.
A lot of other voters hate cable companies
None of these are particularly strong reasons, but when has that ever stopped the government from doing something. The answer to #1 and #2(maybe even #3) is even more deregulation.
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I may just have bad luck... but Microsoft's driver compatibility is frighteningly bad.
As a graduate assistant I earned $8K/yr and tried to keep my expenses under that (although I have ~$16K in student loans). I was on food stamps ($160/month) which helped a LOT. I'm a graduate student now so my repayment period on my loans hasn't kicked in yet(0% interest).
My iPhone is unlocked and uses AT&T's $20 unlimited go-phone data plan. I don't make many voice-calls and use Fring(iPhone VOIP) for the few I do make.
My monthly expenses:
I have a crazy amount of disposable income; I've been chucking money into the stock market in the last month.
What technology makes coal clean? I've been seeing a lot of ads, but the plans to clean up coal are always at least 10 years off and not impressive.
Crazy, I only use Outlook at work, where it seems to work fine with the exchange server. It is nice to have email/calendar combined as a desktop app, but the interface seems sluggish. I can't see paying for it given the other better solutions.
You would think IMAP would be the obvius answer, and the website I mentioned has step-by-step instructions on how to do that with Thunderbird, but Outlook's IMAP support evidently sucks.
From this website: "There's lots of hacky ways that huge amounts of email can be moved from Outlook to Gmail for Apps. Believe me, Google knows this is a problem and I'm 99% sure they are working on it. Until then, you can do the IMAP trick above, or use a tool. Time is money, so I used gMOVE from LimitNone."
What I find odd about this statement is that he had to rerun gMove 7 times at what looks like 30minutes each run because it only supports 5000 messages at a time. 35000 messages doesn't seem like that much email...(maybe I've been using gMail too long). How awful is Outlook's IMAP support???
There isn't much "look and feel" to an email importer. Check out the interface at this website. Evidently all this tool does is enable a POP server in Outlook via OLE and sucks the mail into gMail. gMove can only import 5,000 messages at a time, so you will have to run it several times to import all your mail.
This looks like a pretty mediocre product with no "look and feel" to speak of.
I think schools are probably the worst offenders here. They have important records and still act like security isn't a big deal. For almost a year the cert for https://security.etsu.edu/ was invalid(past it's expiration) and https://www.etsu.edu/ has had the same problem. https://security.etsu.edu/ used to host the script to reset passwords(by entering SSN/birthdate).
What's worse is the library page http://libraries.etsu.edu/patroninfo where you login with the same login/pass that accesses all your other accounts. The library-system doesn't even have an HTTPS server...
At least I can almost forgive the library since they aren't super-technical, but we are still REQUIRED to use straight FTP to upload websites to http://students.etsu.edu/ for several CSCI classes. There is no SFTP access to students.etsu.edu. Yes, this uses the same login/pass we use for everything else...
I've sent several of emails to IT, but generally they don't get answered and I'm just not motivated enough to deal with their byzantine power structure.
I guess I'm done ranting...
Famous trademarks have more protection. Look at Trademark dillution
The DS/PSP/PS2 all have fixed hardware which means you can take a different approach to developing on those limited platforms. Trying to target an old PC/Mac platform is more difficult. The mix of hardware and it's performance implications is a big burden.
Plus the market for low-end PC gaming doesn't really seem to be there.
I'll see your G3/450Mhz and raise(lower) you another 50Mhz.
I still have a iMac DV G3/400Mhz that is officially supported under 10.4(Tiger). It's still useful for testing stuff and for light use. I have upgraded it with a 120GB 7200RPM HD and 512MB of RAM.
I've been messing around with Actionscript 3 development since Adobe released the compilers for free and the only completely free way to import vector assets is via SVG. There are also a couple run-time SVG engines for AS3: uSprite and AS3SVGlib
I don't think SVG+SMILE is going to be the animation tool that some people were hoping for, but it has become THE format for exchanging vector art and will continue to become more important on the web.
I wasn't aware of the N800 Flash9, that's pretty neat. Flash8 was a huge disappointment throughout it's development, but Flash9 is looking to be as revolutionary of a platform as Flash5-7 were. Still the N800's Flash doesn't seem to be quite on par with Win/OSX/Linux versions, it doesn't support paperVision3D, which is only slightly disappointing.
- Screen size problems - Flash content is generally designed for desktop resolutions. This can be overcome with an iPhone(ish) interface
- CPU Speed problems - Flash can be a hog
- CPU architecture not supported by Adobe - only x86 and PPC are supported
The architecture problem is pretty huge... I think this new project is aimed at fixing that problem. Up until now you were looking at either using the official plugin and having a desktop CPU or having limited functionality like all current mobile implementations. Hopefully we will see more architectures with good Flash virtual machines. Part of the source for Adobe's Flash WM has been released to the Tararin Project.Are you suggesting that Fujitsu took the very simple AES encryption process and is for some reason storing extra data alongside it on the platter? I don't think my assumption was naive, I think you are either absurdly paranoid or trying for a straw man argument.
For a complete audit, yes, you would want to take the drive physically apart and make sure that it didn't store something stupid in eeprom or a cache as well as the platters, but you would also need to do the same for the keyboard, keyboard controller, motherboard, RAM, CPU, etc.
Handling of keys is always problematic, but hardware based systems potentially pass the key through much less hardware than software based systems. It is nearly inconceivable to create a software system where the key isn't at least stored in main memory and the CPU.
I guess you are right in a way, we won't have full security in Fujitsu's security until we break down their hardware and get the complete details for all the chips and the way that every part is manufactured...
Of course we won't get software encryption security until we break down our WHOLE COMPUTER and get the same data for every chip from every company. I'm sure glad you are sure every last component of your computer is fully secured.
On the other hand auditing software is not nearly as easy. Anything less than full-disk encryption can be a nightmare to audit, it's very hard to tell where files are going to be stored, especially on a desktop machine. Software full-(disk/partition) encryption can be audited the same way as hardware encryption, but you have to deal with unencrypted kernels that are going to need to be upgraded at some point.
I see it as this:
- hardware
- Limited access to audit encryption implementation, although AES is ridiculously simple to implement
- software
- Requires unencrypted kernel to be stored on a disk
If I needed real security I'd use both.Why do you think software is less deniable? If anything I'd say you have it backwards. If you store your kernel/bootloader on a usb drive and use something like TrueCrypt your computer has nothing but a drive with gibberish on it. It is much harder to deny you are using encryption when you have a hardware specifically designed to do just that.
I don't think ray tracing has any inherent advantage over rasterization when it comes to parallelism. Both techniques require that each rendering node have access to all of the data for the scene. Plenty of parallel rasterization hardware cards are on the market, the first one I used was the Voodoo2 SLI.
Software rendering may come back into style with these faster CPUs, but I'm doubting we are going to see ray tracing gain any serious ground in real-time 3D rendering.
I'm pretty sure this will fix your problem. I had a similar problem with some KWorld BT878 cards and after I updated to a pre-release version it fixed all my problems. I'll be switching to stable 0.21 here soon.
The Divx spec made it mandatory to call home to check your DRM status, where the Blu-Ray spec makes it mandatory for a disc to play in Spec 1.0 players that can't call home.
They are coming, but I don't think most people won't care. Profile 2.0's only real feature is Internet connectivity, which is kinda neat...
I'm guessing most Players will be profile 1.1 (or maybe 1.2) except for computers and the PlayStation 3.
Sony had a hand in CDs as well, although Philips provided most of the technology. Blu-Ray is a Sony format in much the same way CDs are. Sony didn't pioneer much of the technology in CDs/Blu-Ray, but they are responsible for pushing/marketing the format into a successful format.
What has Microsoft licensed successfully? WMA licensing was somewhat successful although Apple still dominates DRMed audio file formats.
According to Wikipedia, the best current attack against 128bit keyed BlueTooth takes the first 24bits of 2^23.8 packets. Packets are 2745 bits long so the attacker would have to monitor over 4.66GB of data transfer from your keyboard.
The arguments, with a different spin are:
- Local governments(municipalities) are colluding, this would be the federal government fixing this issue. I lived in a town where the city owned the actual copper running to everyone's doors and then farmed out the cable to a single company. If the city owns the copper(a.k.a. public property), then I think the cable network should be open to anyone wanting to compete. This used to be more of an issue when the lines were actually copper because running multiple cable networks on the lines was difficult, but today's networks makes this pretty much moot. The Fed could come in and put a stop to this problem.
- Adding "must carry" laws would level the playing field. Cable companies have an unfair advantage in this regard and the options are either not to require satellite to carry local channels or to add the burden to cable. Removing local channels from satellite would put residents at risk by not giving them as much local public information.
- Elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents. If they ignore what the voters want then they aren't doing their jobs
I don't personally see merit in these arguments, but they are somewhat compelling. Government doesn't use arguments that are based on merit, they are too hard to sell. Compelling arguments are easy to sell.- cable companies are colluding with local governments to drive prices up(in the name of lowering prices...)
- satellite-tv has a lot more regulation(like must-carry laws), which the cable companies helped push through.
- A lot of other voters hate cable companies
None of these are particularly strong reasons, but when has that ever stopped the government from doing something. The answer to #1 and #2(maybe even #3) is even more deregulation.