Not a graphic card that hooks used Thunderbolt to hook to the monitor. A graphics card that uses Thunderbolt instead of PCIe. BTW not going to find any highend ones because Thunderbolt is not nearly as fast as PCIe 8x much less 16x. that is what everybody that is screaming YOU DON"T NEED SLOTS BECAUSE YOU HAVE THUNDERBOLT don't get! Thunderbolt is really fast compared to SATA, USB, and Firewire but is much slower then PCIe 8x!
It is on Slashdot. After all they believe in Kill them all and let God sort them all then blame it on Bush! As I have gotten older I have discovered that you can never go wrong second guessing. That way you can never be proven wrong.
Thunderbolt == 20Gbits PCIe 2.0 X16 == 10GB; Those two connectors can not match the throughput of a single PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. PCIe is a not dead yet unless you want slower graphics and RAIDs.
The actual problem comes from the installer. The software works just fine but the files go to the wrong location. The software was even correct for Win95 Microsoft changed it. But the question you are skipping is why not keep the 32 bit code in Program Files and put the 64 bit code in a new directory. What benefit is there to the change over what I suggested that wouldn't break old working code?
I would not rule out a back door or a weakness. I have not fully audited the code for Truecrypt and I am an old programmers so I know that. A. I can make mistakes. B. That there is always someone smarter than I am or luckier than I am. I will even bet good money that many of the ones working for the NSA are much smarter than the average bear. I will go so far as to say it is very unlikely. I would put a weak password, retrieving the password from a swap file, or some really interesting dedicated hardware as all far more likely.
"#1) He's using discrete components and actual wire and solder to cobble the boards into a single computer. He uses perf-board and socketed chips to build his extra peripherals. YOU CANNOT DO THAT with modern Intel-based mobos. They are all surface mount and pretty much unhackable unless you've got some elYte equipment." Depends on the motherboard. If you find some old ones that have printer ports you can use them for all sorts of bit banged IO. Or you could us a pic or avr interfaced to the USB port if you wanted to.
I am pretty sure that I know the real answer. He really likes the Apple II. Which is a fine answer IMHO.
No I said "You assume that the NSA can not crack a Truecrypt partition." I didn't say how. I am betting on a weak password myself. I am sure that Truecrypt is actually secure but even a strong but short password would allow a crack much less a weak one that falls to a dictionary attack.
This is really cool and there are a lot of really interesting ideas but wouldn't using PC motherboards have worked just as well. Seems a waste to hack AppleIIe boards for this when they could be used to keep Apple IIs running. I like the idea of using the offsets to create the system and NADA net is also a very interesting hack but a stack of cheap PC mother boards from EBay would be alot more powerful and would leave the AppleII boards free to be used to keep the old classics alive.
No your wrong. The 6502 was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mench who went to MOS they came up with the 6502that after Motorla sued them for making the 6800 pin compatible 6501. MOS was later bought by Commodore in 1976. So yes for most of Apples life they where using a Commodore CPU.
You also assume that they didn't use a weak password. You would be shocked how many really smart people don't know the difference between a week and a strong password. Also I would bet that the NSA has at least the computing power of a Cray Jaguar or two or three to throw at this. With that much power anything but a very long and totally random string of characters would probably be too weak.
No magic. All it would take is a weak password. No encryption is will work if you combine a weak password with a lot of processing power. Even if they use a good password but one that is say only ten or twelve characters long you are still at something like a max of 72^12 combinations. So if it fails a dictionary attack then you fall back to brute force attack. That is assuming that their isn't some undocumented weakness that they know and we do not.
So where is this large selection of Thunderbolt compatible video cards I can choose from? Also do you really want to go back to a the old Mac days of bunches of External boxes plugged into a port? That was the idea behind the SCSI on the Mac back in the day. And it doesn't solve the memory issue.
But there is a big hole between the MacPro and the iMac. I have done some CAD and I do development. I do not need a MacPro but an iMac is also not a good fit. I am actually using a Macbook for iPad/Phone development with a second monitor. We are planning on porting our Windows Software to the Mac so a mini tower with a fast I5 with six gigs of ram and a RAID running OS/X and VirtualBox for Windows 7, Vista, and XP would be great. We do not want all in ones and you are wrong that CAD would be terrible on a small iMac. I have run SolidWorks just fine on a P4 with 4 Gigs of RAM and an older Quadro. Just when I thought that you had actually mannaged to pull your head out of our rear end you had to shove it back up again with this line. "Even better, buy a PC, it'll be cheaper. I've been reassured countless times here on/. that Mac OS X is a buggy, proprietary, toy operating system that insults power users and there's nothing to recommend it, so why this sudden desire to send Apple a special order?" You are such an idiot. I have never said that Apple sucks. The Mac is a good piece of hardware. I was actually bummed when they left the power pc cpu because I was hoping they where going to offer something like a Power 4+Cell next. OS/X is actually a really good OS. The API for OS/X and IOS is light years better than Windows. But the thing is that Windows is available on more segments than OS/X. The MacBook Pro is a good $1100 notebook "as well as the other models" but Apple doesn't make a single $600 notebook "They should make the macbook to that price point". And they don't offer a machine machine that fits the between the iMac and the MacPro. As I said Apple doesn't "need" to make a machine like I want or a $600 notebook. They are making profit hand over fist. For Mac development we will probably suck it up and make do with a less than optimal solution. But you sir are a compete and total jerk. You are acting like a ignorant elitist snob. You know the type, the ones that want to feel superior to all others because they have good taste to own x and not y. Guess what tech is not a religion so stop worshiping and you know what else? I am allowed to say that it would be nice if I could run OS/X on what is in effect a MacPro Mini. Apple does not have to make it but it would be nice.
Still hate XP. The UI still looks like FisherPrice made it to me. Windows 7 is much better but I want to beat Microsoft for moving the 32bit executables to Program Files (X86) instead of putting the 64 bit executables in Program Files (x64). DUMB and brakes old programs for no good reason.
So you think that it would be as stupid for Intel to worry about the low end mobile market as it would have been for DEC to worry about the low end microcomputer market. After all DEC was making big money selling PDP-11s and VAXes. If they had come out with an inexpensive PDP-11 or even a 16 bit version of the VAX it could have cost them sales of the more expensive mini-line. Plus it would have taken money way from making faster VAXs to compete with the Data General Eclipse line where the big profits where... I can see your point.
Except that Apple sells a system that has PCI slots, Memory slots, and SATA ports in a tower case.. I just want something between the MacPro and the iMac. Don't need duel Xeons but would like an easy compact upgrade path.
Better but then you are going to have to spend money on a RAID enclosure and I still have not seen any external graphics adapters yet. Internal Thunderbolt ports could replace SATA ports that I will give you. I just do not want to go back to the old Mac days of external hard drivers and Box after box plugged into the SCSI port. Just swap out SCSI and replace with Thunderbolt.
Yea useless things like a RAID controller or high end graphics cards. You can buy external Thunderbolt RAID enclosures but talk about clunky. So how long have you had this Apple fetish? I use Apple products daily and think they are good but your hero worship is boarding on the pathological. You may want to consider professorial help. Of course when I point out that Apple does make a machine called the MacPro that had PCI-e slots and DIMM slots, and SATA connectors and then point out that it is the most powerful and expensive of the Mac line you may just become suicidal. Please seek help as soon as possible.
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Not a graphic card that hooks used Thunderbolt to hook to the monitor. A graphics card that uses Thunderbolt instead of PCIe. BTW not going to find any highend ones because Thunderbolt is not nearly as fast as PCIe 8x much less 16x. that is what everybody that is screaming YOU DON"T NEED SLOTS BECAUSE YOU HAVE THUNDERBOLT don't get! Thunderbolt is really fast compared to SATA, USB, and Firewire but is much slower then PCIe 8x!
Never seen a USB network adaptor. Now worse than an Apple.
It is on Slashdot. After all they believe in Kill them all and let God sort them all then blame it on Bush! As I have gotten older I have discovered that you can never go wrong second guessing. That way you can never be proven wrong.
Thunderbolt == 20Gbits
PCIe 2.0 X16 == 10GB;
Those two connectors can not match the throughput of a single PCIe 2.0 x16 slot.
PCIe is a not dead yet unless you want slower graphics and RAIDs.
The actual problem comes from the installer. The software works just fine but the files go to the wrong location. The software was even correct for Win95 Microsoft changed it.
But the question you are skipping is why not keep the 32 bit code in Program Files and put the 64 bit code in a new directory. What benefit is there to the change over what I suggested that wouldn't break old working code?
So exactly where do you buy your Thunderbolt graphics cards?
I would not rule out a back door or a weakness. I have not fully audited the code for Truecrypt and I am an old programmers so I know that.
A. I can make mistakes.
B. That there is always someone smarter than I am or luckier than I am. I will even bet good money that many of the ones working for the NSA are much smarter than the average bear.
I will go so far as to say it is very unlikely. I would put a weak password, retrieving the password from a swap file, or some really interesting dedicated hardware as all far more likely.
"#1) He's using discrete components and actual wire and solder to cobble the boards into a single computer. He uses perf-board and socketed chips to build his extra peripherals. YOU CANNOT DO THAT with modern Intel-based mobos. They are all surface mount and pretty much unhackable unless you've got some elYte equipment."
Depends on the motherboard. If you find some old ones that have printer ports you can use them for all sorts of bit banged IO.
Or you could us a pic or avr interfaced to the USB port if you wanted to.
I am pretty sure that I know the real answer. He really likes the Apple II. Which is a fine answer IMHO.
But it is still a MOS 6502. AKA a Commodore CPU. Just because it was licensed doesn't change that.
No I said "You assume that the NSA can not crack a Truecrypt partition."
I didn't say how. I am betting on a weak password myself. I am sure that Truecrypt is actually secure but even a strong but short password would allow a crack much less a weak one that falls to a dictionary attack.
This is really cool and there are a lot of really interesting ideas but wouldn't using PC motherboards have worked just as well. Seems a waste to hack AppleIIe boards for this when they could be used to keep Apple IIs running.
I like the idea of using the offsets to create the system and NADA net is also a very interesting hack but a stack of cheap PC mother boards from EBay would be alot more powerful and would leave the AppleII boards free to be used to keep the old classics alive.
No your wrong. The 6502 was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mench who went to MOS they came up with the 6502that after Motorla sued them for making the 6800 pin compatible 6501. MOS was later bought by Commodore in 1976.
So yes for most of Apples life they where using a Commodore CPU.
A. Doesn't mean that it is a good idea.
B. Well we could set up a SAN if we had too using nice, inexpensive, PC hardware and Linux.
You also assume that they didn't use a weak password. You would be shocked how many really smart people don't know the difference between a week and a strong password.
Also I would bet that the NSA has at least the computing power of a Cray Jaguar or two or three to throw at this. With that much power anything but a very long and totally random string of characters would probably be too weak.
No magic. All it would take is a weak password. No encryption is will work if you combine a weak password with a lot of processing power.
Even if they use a good password but one that is say only ten or twelve characters long you are still at something like a max of 72^12 combinations. So if it fails a dictionary attack then you fall back to brute force attack. That is assuming that their isn't some undocumented weakness that they know and we do not.
A. Not my program.
B. Dates from Windows 95.
C. It works under XP.
If you are going to keep compatibility keep compatibility. If not please start from scratch.
But it does break them. Trust me I have some users using old but completely functional utilities and applications from back in the Win95 days.
So where is this large selection of Thunderbolt compatible video cards I can choose from?
Also do you really want to go back to a the old Mac days of bunches of External boxes plugged into a port? That was the idea behind the SCSI on the Mac back in the day.
And it doesn't solve the memory issue.
But there is a big hole between the MacPro and the iMac. I have done some CAD and I do development. I do not need a MacPro but an iMac is also not a good fit. I am actually using a Macbook for iPad/Phone development with a second monitor. We are planning on porting our Windows Software to the Mac so a mini tower with a fast I5 with six gigs of ram and a RAID running OS/X and VirtualBox for Windows 7, Vista, and XP would be great. We do not want all in ones and you are wrong that CAD would be terrible on a small iMac. I have run SolidWorks just fine on a P4 with 4 Gigs of RAM and an older Quadro. /. that Mac OS X is a buggy, proprietary, toy operating system that insults power users and there's nothing to recommend it, so why this sudden desire to send Apple a special order?"
Just when I thought that you had actually mannaged to pull your head out of our rear end you had to shove it back up again with this line.
"Even better, buy a PC, it'll be cheaper. I've been reassured countless times here on
You are such an idiot. I have never said that Apple sucks. The Mac is a good piece of hardware. I was actually bummed when they left the power pc cpu because I was hoping they where going to offer something like a Power 4+Cell next. OS/X is actually a really good OS. The API for OS/X and IOS is light years better than Windows. But the thing is that Windows is available on more segments than OS/X. The MacBook Pro is a good $1100 notebook "as well as the other models" but Apple doesn't make a single $600 notebook "They should make the macbook to that price point". And they don't offer a machine machine that fits the between the iMac and the MacPro. As I said Apple doesn't "need" to make a machine like I want or a $600 notebook. They are making profit hand over fist. For Mac development we will probably suck it up and make do with a less than optimal solution. But you sir are a compete and total jerk. You are acting like a ignorant elitist snob. You know the type, the ones that want to feel superior to all others because they have good taste to own x and not y.
Guess what tech is not a religion so stop worshiping and you know what else? I am allowed to say that it would be nice if I could run OS/X on what is in effect a MacPro Mini. Apple does not have to make it but it would be nice.
You assume that the NSA can not crack a Truecrypt partition. Also you assume that they thought that physical security would fail.
Still hate XP. The UI still looks like FisherPrice made it to me. Windows 7 is much better but I want to beat Microsoft for moving the 32bit executables to Program Files (X86) instead of putting the 64 bit executables in Program Files (x64).
DUMB and brakes old programs for no good reason.
So you think that it would be as stupid for Intel to worry about the low end mobile market as it would have been for DEC to worry about the low end microcomputer market.
After all DEC was making big money selling PDP-11s and VAXes. If they had come out with an inexpensive PDP-11 or even a 16 bit version of the VAX it could have cost them sales of the more expensive mini-line. Plus it would have taken money way from making faster VAXs to compete with the Data General Eclipse line where the big profits where...
I can see your point.
Except that Apple sells a system that has PCI slots, Memory slots, and SATA ports in a tower case..
I just want something between the MacPro and the iMac. Don't need duel Xeons but would like an easy compact upgrade path.
Better but then you are going to have to spend money on a RAID enclosure and I still have not seen any external graphics adapters yet. Internal Thunderbolt ports could replace SATA ports that I will give you. I just do not want to go back to the old Mac days of external hard drivers and Box after box plugged into the SCSI port. Just swap out SCSI and replace with Thunderbolt.
Yea useless things like a RAID controller or high end graphics cards. You can buy external Thunderbolt RAID enclosures but talk about clunky. So how long have you had this Apple fetish?
I use Apple products daily and think they are good but your hero worship is boarding on the pathological. You may want to consider professorial help. Of course when I point out that Apple does make a machine called the MacPro that had PCI-e slots and DIMM slots, and SATA connectors and then point out that it is the most powerful and expensive of the Mac line you may just become suicidal.
Please seek help as soon as possible.