I think the bus drivers in local traffic seem to have come up with the same solution. They usually drive a few meters past the bus stop, so most of the people have to walk beside the bus forming a line naturally before stepping in. Always makes you wonder why more people don't stand after the stop at the point where the bus door will be. Guess that's people for you.
Electricity is simply too cheap to be conserned about. I have half a dozen computers running 24/7 and I pay about 200-250 a year. I probably spend more in candy. I used to shutdown my 3 CRTs while at work or sleeping, but then the switch on one of them started malfunctioning slightly. Now I just put them to standby by software.
That's the truth. I built a new computer couple months ago, Core 2 Duo E6400, 2GB DDR2-667, Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard, Asus GF8800GTS 320MB, 80 GB Matrox HDD, Antec TruePower Trio 430W. I loaned a WSE LVM 210 power consumption meter from the local power company. The highest measurement was 245W for a few seconds during certain test in one benchmark. Nothing else could get above 235W. Since the PSU had a maximum efficiency of 85% the system most likely never needed more than 200W to run.
The article also says that the ultimate gaming machine uses 300W doing nothing, they may have changed it.
That was probably a first-generation smart. I've been in a one too as a passenger, the auto-manual wasn't the smoothest transmission. Hopefully they have improved it in the second-generation models that are coming to US.
And that's the truth of it. There aren't many stupider things to do than rent longterm. I should know, I've rented for the last 8 years or so. I have probably paid over 30 000€ of rent and I have nothing to show for that money. By now I could have paid off about a third of the the loan.
I used to use as an excuse the chance that I might lose my job so I need to be able move to a cheaper apartment. But that doesn't really work. If I can't afford to pay the rent on my current apartment, then I most likely can't afford the expenses of moving. If I owned my apartment I could just rent my bedroom to some student for couple hundred. Since I rent I don't have that option.
If you can't afford to own your own apartment then live with your parents or under the bridges. Renting just isn't worth it.
Hasn't Microsoft been using the QR codes on their packaging for quite some time already. I remember seeing them on their Windows XP package materials, or possibly the Semacodes mentioned in other post.
Simple. 5 bits can hold 32 values, 0-31. 10 bits can hold 1024 values, 0-1023. 10 bits has 32 times as much information as 5 bits. Think of the difference between 5 numberes values (0-99999) and 10 numbered values (0-9999999999).
This reminds me of the professor, whose.pst was deleted by some old version of F-secure years ago. The software knew the.pst format well enough to tell exactly in which email the virus was and give the subject and sender info of it. Would have expected it to be able to only delete the offending email.
In the PDF they mentioned stress testing the harddrives before deploying them, but don't specify their methods.
How would you stress test a harddrive and how long?
Last time I bought a harddrive I divided it to 4 partitions and then run 4 continuous Bonnie++ benchmarking on the partitions. I did this for couple of weeks and I'm glad to say it didn't break down, although it did become a bit louder.:( It has been running continuously for ~6 months now so maybe I finally dare to put some actual data on it.
I've always considered it pretty hard to come up with a good passwords, so I've outsourced it to pwgen. uSaV1vei should be pretty good against dictionary attacks and it isn't that much harder to remember as long as you don't have very many of these kind of passwords. I use something like this only on important places, like at work. If you get access to my playlist you could probably guess my Slashdot password in three tries.
Even TrueCrypt probably won't safe you if the FBI manages to install a trojan to your computer, but couple of the features mentioned on that letter would improve your odds significantly.
First is the hidden volume. Have two encrypted volumes, one with all the illegal stuff and other with legal, but embarrasing scat porn. IIRC, by law you must hand out the password, but only give the pasword for the porn volume. Plausible deniability. Of course, this won't save you from keyloggers and surveillance videos.
The other is the keyfile. If you have a small keyfile that works as part of the password and you instantly make the encypted files inaccessible with one mouseclick by overwriting the keyfile. This will save you from simple keyloggers and videos. The FBI would need to use much more advanced trojan installed on the computer, that saves the contents of the keyfile. Simple logger on the keyboard port won't work.
SD Cards = 100 Mbit/s, USB2 = 480 Mbit/s, Expresscard/PCI Express = 2.5 Gbit/s and I wouldn't say they are reinventing the wheel. They are you PCI Express and USB2, only in form factor that is usable in laptops.
So we should let the police search your home without a warrant?
No we shouldn't, but the company isn't doing that. They only have a software that knows when it has been stolen and can then phone home with enough info for the police to get the search warrant. I consider this system similar to property with tracking devices, for example cars that have GPS and send their location to the police when they have been stolen.
My view has always been that, when I use pirated software, mp3s or movies I have given up all right to whine if I get caught. I just don't intend to get caught, same thing as with physical property I might have stolen.
There was also Leisure Suit Larry 2, I think, that showed a picture of a woman and you had to check her name from the manual. Unfortunately my manual was a bad quality photocopy, so identifying the correct woman wasn't always trivial =(
But of course you knew what textfile to hax0r. If you were new you could easily use 10+ minutes to find the correct file and even more to find out the correct syntaxt.
But you are talking about a laptop. Seems like all the highest resolution displays go to laptop manufacturers. It has been comparatively hard to find desktop LCDs with similar resolutions.
I don't think it's worth the risk. If it would be publicly known that some company was practising something like that they would be in the world of billions of dollars of lawsuits. And since there has always been abundant supply of viruses there hasn't really been need for that.
But even that isn't so simple anymore. Consider the nForce2 Audio Processing Unit. The tests I've seen indicate that it is the least CPU consuming audio solution available. You can even use 6 channel digital output in games with it. If I understood correctly it combines the channels in game in to one dolby digital stream.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the bus drivers in local traffic seem to have come up with the same solution. They usually drive a few meters past the bus stop, so most of the people have to walk beside the bus forming a line naturally before stepping in. Always makes you wonder why more people don't stand after the stop at the point where the bus door will be. Guess that's people for you.
I'd say that 400W would be enough for the uber-highend. I think high quality 300W PSU would be just about enough for powerful gaming machine.
Electricity is simply too cheap to be conserned about. I have half a dozen computers running 24/7 and I pay about 200-250 a year. I probably spend more in candy. I used to shutdown my 3 CRTs while at work or sleeping, but then the switch on one of them started malfunctioning slightly. Now I just put them to standby by software.
That's the truth. I built a new computer couple months ago, Core 2 Duo E6400, 2GB DDR2-667, Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard, Asus GF8800GTS 320MB, 80 GB Matrox HDD, Antec TruePower Trio 430W. I loaned a WSE LVM 210 power consumption meter from the local power company. The highest measurement was 245W for a few seconds during certain test in one benchmark. Nothing else could get above 235W. Since the PSU had a maximum efficiency of 85% the system most likely never needed more than 200W to run.
The article also says that the ultimate gaming machine uses 300W doing nothing, they may have changed it.
Here's a list of my measurements:
OFF: 7,5W
Startup Max: 176W
Idle: 144W
3DMark06 Norm: 215W
3DMark06 Max: 220W
3DMark06 CPU: 174W
SuperPI 2M: 165W
Prime95: 170W
RTHDRIBL: 190W
3DMark03 Max: 228W
3DMark05+Prime95 Max: 234W
3DMark03+Prime95 Max: 237W
AquaMark3+Prime95 Max: 245W
Orthos: 179W
That was probably a first-generation smart. I've been in a one too as a passenger, the auto-manual wasn't the smoothest transmission. Hopefully they have improved it in the second-generation models that are coming to US.
And that's the truth of it. There aren't many stupider things to do than rent longterm. I should know, I've rented for the last 8 years or so. I have probably paid over 30 000€ of rent and I have nothing to show for that money. By now I could have paid off about a third of the the loan.
I used to use as an excuse the chance that I might lose my job so I need to be able move to a cheaper apartment. But that doesn't really work. If I can't afford to pay the rent on my current apartment, then I most likely can't afford the expenses of moving. If I owned my apartment I could just rent my bedroom to some student for couple hundred. Since I rent I don't have that option.
If you can't afford to own your own apartment then live with your parents or under the bridges. Renting just isn't worth it.
Probably the best feature of flat screen TVs is that people can't easily put flowers on top of them.
Hasn't Microsoft been using the QR codes on their packaging for quite some time already. I remember seeing them on their Windows XP package materials, or possibly the Semacodes mentioned in other post.
Simple. 5 bits can hold 32 values, 0-31. 10 bits can hold 1024 values, 0-1023. 10 bits has 32 times as much information as 5 bits. Think of the difference between 5 numberes values (0-99999) and 10 numbered values (0-9999999999).
This carries audio. I believe the previous HDMI cards only carried video.
This reminds me of the professor, whose .pst was deleted by some old version of F-secure years ago. The software knew the .pst format well enough to tell exactly in which email the virus was and give the subject and sender info of it. Would have expected it to be able to only delete the offending email.
In the PDF they mentioned stress testing the harddrives before deploying them, but don't specify their methods.
:( It has been running continuously for ~6 months now so maybe I finally dare to put some actual data on it.
How would you stress test a harddrive and how long?
Last time I bought a harddrive I divided it to 4 partitions and then run 4 continuous Bonnie++ benchmarking on the partitions. I did this for couple of weeks and I'm glad to say it didn't break down, although it did become a bit louder.
I've always considered it pretty hard to come up with a good passwords, so I've outsourced it to pwgen. uSaV1vei should be pretty good against dictionary attacks and it isn't that much harder to remember as long as you don't have very many of these kind of passwords. I use something like this only on important places, like at work. If you get access to my playlist you could probably guess my Slashdot password in three tries.
That's easily solved by storing all your porn in there.
So disabling swapfile is probably a requirement, but is it enough?
Even TrueCrypt probably won't safe you if the FBI manages to install a trojan to your computer, but couple of the features mentioned on that letter would improve your odds significantly.
First is the hidden volume. Have two encrypted volumes, one with all the illegal stuff and other with legal, but embarrasing scat porn. IIRC, by law you must hand out the password, but only give the pasword for the porn volume. Plausible deniability. Of course, this won't save you from keyloggers and surveillance videos.
The other is the keyfile. If you have a small keyfile that works as part of the password and you instantly make the encypted files inaccessible with one mouseclick by overwriting the keyfile. This will save you from simple keyloggers and videos. The FBI would need to use much more advanced trojan installed on the computer, that saves the contents of the keyfile. Simple logger on the keyboard port won't work.
SD Cards = 100 Mbit/s, USB2 = 480 Mbit/s, Expresscard/PCI Express = 2.5 Gbit/s and I wouldn't say they are reinventing the wheel. They are you PCI Express and USB2, only in form factor that is usable in laptops.
I wouldn't trust it considering the amount of corrupted files I get from P2P.
But then there is the question what will the glue do to the data layer. The paper could also cause balance problems with high speed drives.
No we shouldn't, but the company isn't doing that. They only have a software that knows when it has been stolen and can then phone home with enough info for the police to get the search warrant. I consider this system similar to property with tracking devices, for example cars that have GPS and send their location to the police when they have been stolen.
My view has always been that, when I use pirated software, mp3s or movies I have given up all right to whine if I get caught. I just don't intend to get caught, same thing as with physical property I might have stolen.
There was also Leisure Suit Larry 2, I think, that showed a picture of a woman and you had to check her name from the manual. Unfortunately my manual was a bad quality photocopy, so identifying the correct woman wasn't always trivial =(
But of course you knew what textfile to hax0r. If you were new you could easily use 10+ minutes to find the correct file and even more to find out the correct syntaxt.
But you are talking about a laptop. Seems like all the highest resolution displays go to laptop manufacturers. It has been comparatively hard to find desktop LCDs with similar resolutions.
I don't think it's worth the risk. If it would be publicly known that some company was practising something like that they would be in the world of billions of dollars of lawsuits. And since there has always been abundant supply of viruses there hasn't really been need for that.
But even that isn't so simple anymore. Consider the nForce2 Audio Processing Unit. The tests I've seen indicate that it is the least CPU consuming audio solution available. You can even use 6 channel digital output in games with it. If I understood correctly it combines the channels in game in to one dolby digital stream.
NVIDIA SoundStorm
Firingsquad's Audigy 2 - nForce 2 comparison