Second, as far as system slow down, and this one hurts as I hate defending such shitty products... but...
ALL ON-DEMAND SCANNERS KILL PERFORMANCE.
I invite you to try eset's NOD32. On our R&D build servers we had been forced by IT to use Symantec and McAfee at various times. Both sucked horribly: very slow, occasional file access conflicts. It got to the point that we had to say "Screw IT's policy", and tried NOD32. Wow, what a difference. We no longer notice the slowdown, and never get any trouble from it.
Yes, you're right, the act of scanning files is going to take CPU/IO, but it doesn't have to suck as badly as McAfee/Symantec make it.
Written like someone who's never heard of 'make -j'. Seriously, anybody that compiles stuff wants more cores, and if you ever reach a point were disk IO is the bottleneck just throw in an SSD.
Random project on my box: make clean; time make -j8 Real: 4.3s
Unless they've opened a few new trans-pacific pipe connections since I was last there, forget about speed. Maybe it was just my ISP (Great Wall, ha) but within China you can get nice (e.g. 750kb/s) speed but the moment you cross the pacific your latency is killer and you're crawling at 5-10kb/s. This is using corporate VPN or without. I suspect the actual throughput is a result of active throttling by the State. In terms of restricting general information, making something extremely painful is nearly the same as blocking it.
it really shouldn't be a problem. They filter state secrets and political opinions
Have you ever been there?
I've spent a total of 3 months in the last several years. In actual practice they block tons of things you want. (e.g. Wikipedia, last time I was there in 2007).
Heh, according the the people I know that work there, they actually are working this week to bring it up. Or, I should say, bring "something" up. No product names mentioned, but it is "sorry folks, my schedule is going to be insane the next month or two" season over there.
Everyone was on their cell, and I heard complaints of no 3G service.
I was on the 3rd floor and everyone immediately stood up (i.e. noticeable), but it wasn't strong enough to shake objects on my desk. People on the 1st floor didn't notice anything.
Even better, if your application is written within the limitations of CMD batch files, it'll be trivial for any admin who cares and has a copy of notepad to pick it apart, if needed.
I've spent years of my working life writing and maintaining batch files, from synchronizing multi-threaded jobs to the polymorphic (you realize cmd.exe stores the next command as a byte offset into whatever is on disk when it goes to read at that offset?). It's true cmd.exe is ubiquitous and easy to modify at first, but "within the limitations of CMD" will come back to bite you.
Version one:
if "%var%" == "false" goto endif_var
echo Something
call:something:endif_var
Version two ("hey, cmd has multi-line if statements!"):
if "%var%" == "false" (
echo Something
call:something )
Version three ("this looks simple to understand, let me modify it"):
if "%var%" == "false" (
echo Something
rem something else because something is borked
call:somethingelse )
Wham! Innocent admin can't figure out what the heck happened to the batch file, it doesn't work any more. One day he may realize that his statement was turned into:
if "%var%" == "false" ( echo Something & rem something else because something is borked & do somethingelse )
When did you last actually try using an intel card? I bought a new laptop in December, Intel X4500 inside, running Ubuntu 9.10.
It has suspended/resumed flawlessly for three months.
Last night I plugged it into a projector, click the Display settings, it auto-detected the new projector (listed by name even) and enabling output was a single click. Options to extend desktop or mirror it worked without problem.
IIRC the video segment was laid out with one byte for the colour code, one byte for the character to display; so addr should either be short * or needs to increment 2.
But gallium and the open source drivers aren't really ready for prime time, they're theoretical. I'm talking about practicalities. Right now, the open source drivers only exist to keep X running long enough to get the proprietary drivers installed.
[emphasis mine]
Again, except for the majority of users! The default mesa drivers let you run Quake 3, composite your desktop, and do whatever 90% of desktop users want. It's only the "I want to play the latest game with max fps" and the "I'm rendering 100 million vertexes / frame in CAD" people that need to change to a binary driver.
No one is going to need S3TC compressed texture support for things like compiz anyway.
(FYI, the latest mesa actually supports S3TC this in the same way MP3 is. Too bad we have to wait till 2017 for patent expiry.)
Yeah, but anyone using OpenGL with X is going to be using either the Nvidia proprietary drivers or ATI proprietary drivers.
The OSS offerings do not provide nearly the same level of performance, unfortunately.
So again, from a real world practical standpoint, Mesa isn't in use anyway.
Unless you meant to say "OpenGL 3.0" This is absolutely not accurate. Has your "real world" been isolated to workstation CAD and/or heavy gaming users? Those are the only groups where binary non-mesa drivers are used almost universally, but they are a minority. Intel, which has over half the graphics market only uses mesa. Your default Fedora and upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 installs use mesa for both amd and nvidia chips. AMD actively supports the open driver and is working to make that the main driver.
The continued development on gallium points to mesa gaining more traction. I think the trend is for binary drivers to become less and less common in the future.
Perhaps not at fault (though when PR says "we didn't do anything" you never know if there was a nudge, nudge, "if you want our business I think you know what we want" message to NetSol). Regardless, NetSol sure is at fault!
I actually think they acted quite exemplary.
Whoah! You're saying that it is exemplary for a company to actively hide from users the steps it will go through to give personally identifying information about those users to law enforcement? This is only "exemplary" as an example of what not to do. One of John Young's points was that there isn't a legitimate reason to hide this information from users; many other companies do not hide this information, and neither should Microsoft.
Did you look at that EFF Information and Privacy Theory link? The point is that while #5534289 may not be important, it is probably identifiable. He is not obscured. And the line from "not important" to "grabbed by a regex into a database for analysis" a "*." away.
For example, if you're the tax agency you mine all the data you get your hands on and the computer spits out a "worth auditing for foreign ownership claims" based on their profiling of your online identity. So now you get harassed by an audit because you happened to use the wrong set of words in your blog post about your visit to your friend's property in Switzerland.
One can think of more benign or far more serious examples... (How about, automatically added to the "harass at the airport list" to ruin your vacation.)
Besides, I think we live in a world where we have obscurity through density, instead of obscurity through privacy. Billions of people on this earth, nearly a billion of them connected to the 'net. Embrace it. Eventually, if enough personal data gets out there, it may become worthless to mine it due to the sheer volume available.
That, and "billions" / "sheer volume" are meaningless in the face of computers processing billions of cycles a second. The whole point of data mining is software can find neat correlations and connections that a human never could. You are not hidden in the billion bits of data.
it would be interesting to see if anyone else had any thoughts or experiences in this matter. In short, in today's world, what are the real loyalties of an immigrant population?
I know many Chinese immigrants in Toronto. A few of them came for idealogical/freedom issues, but by far the vast majority came for simple economic/status gain (status, since immigrating to a foreign country is generally seen back home as a step up). For the economic immigrants I'm regularly shocked at how much the "history" they were indoctrinated as kids they still believe. E.g. despite having access to tons of historical reference, or South Koreans themselves, they still believe the the Korean war was an unabashed/unprovoked all-out assault on the poor Korean people (i.e. communists in North) by the evil Western nations. This is still believed with such vehemency that they would refuse to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day (which in Canada remembers soldiers in all wars, including WW1, WW2, Korean,...) and are surprised that my wife, also a Chinese immigrant, would do so.
When you think about it, they're saying never mind the sacrifice of all those in WW2 that forced the Japanese to stop raping our country (Oh right, because foreigners didn't, it was glorious Mao that kicked the Japanese out!), the atrocities of the evil Korean invasion are too great, so no Remembrance Day for anyone.
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Second, as far as system slow down, and this one hurts as I hate defending such shitty products ... but ...
ALL ON-DEMAND SCANNERS KILL PERFORMANCE.
I invite you to try eset's NOD32. On our R&D build servers we had been forced by IT to use Symantec and McAfee at various times. Both sucked horribly: very slow, occasional file access conflicts. It got to the point that we had to say "Screw IT's policy", and tried NOD32. Wow, what a difference. We no longer notice the slowdown, and never get any trouble from it.
Yes, you're right, the act of scanning files is going to take CPU/IO, but it doesn't have to suck as badly as McAfee/Symantec make it.
6 cores. Do You Care?
Written like someone who's never heard of 'make -j'. Seriously, anybody that compiles stuff wants more cores, and if you ever reach a point were disk IO is the bottleneck just throw in an SSD.
Random project on my box:
make clean; time make -j8
Real: 4.3s
make clean; time make -j1
Real: 14.7s
Compiling is an inherently parallelizable task.
Unless they've opened a few new trans-pacific pipe connections since I was last there, forget about speed. Maybe it was just my ISP (Great Wall, ha) but within China you can get nice (e.g. 750kb/s) speed but the moment you cross the pacific your latency is killer and you're crawling at 5-10kb/s. This is using corporate VPN or without. I suspect the actual throughput is a result of active throttling by the State. In terms of restricting general information, making something extremely painful is nearly the same as blocking it.
it really shouldn't be a problem. They filter state secrets and political opinions
Have you ever been there?
I've spent a total of 3 months in the last several years. In actual practice they block tons of things you want. (e.g. Wikipedia, last time I was there in 2007).
Heh, according the the people I know that work there, they actually are working this week to bring it up. Or, I should say, bring "something" up. No product names mentioned, but it is "sorry folks, my schedule is going to be insane the next month or two" season over there.
Latitude: 43.86
Longitude: -79.37
Everyone was on their cell, and I heard complaints of no 3G service.
I was on the 3rd floor and everyone immediately stood up (i.e. noticeable), but it wasn't strong enough to shake objects on my desk. People on the 1st floor didn't notice anything.
no one will miss AOL when it fades off into the fires of hell.
FTFY.
For me, Slashdot is still the top link in the Awesome bar, but it is being seriously challenged by:
http://arstechnica.com/ and http://anandtech.com/
Even better, if your application is written within the limitations of CMD batch files, it'll be trivial for any admin who cares and has a copy of notepad to pick it apart, if needed.
I've spent years of my working life writing and maintaining batch files, from synchronizing multi-threaded jobs to the polymorphic (you realize cmd.exe stores the next command as a byte offset into whatever is on disk when it goes to read at that offset?). It's true cmd.exe is ubiquitous and easy to modify at first, but "within the limitations of CMD" will come back to bite you.
Version one:
Version two ("hey, cmd has multi-line if statements!"):
Version three ("this looks simple to understand, let me modify it"):
Wham! Innocent admin can't figure out what the heck happened to the batch file, it doesn't work any more.
One day he may realize that his statement was turned into:
The innocent comment killed everything after it.
CMD sucks
You said it.
-Malloc
get a manpurse.
Which, being interpreted, means:
Whenever faced with a problem, some people say `Lets use a manpurse.'
Now, they have two problems.”
The main reason for needing flashblock in FF is that the flash plugin tends to lock up the whole browser
That's a good reason, but for me the *main* reason is flash advertisements are so annoying. They often make "punch the monkey" look tame.
That, and IMO anything that pushes web designers to stop treating flash as a web standard is a good thing.
He has his knickers in a twist over an obvious joke intended to lighten-up the mood of the original article
Absolutely. Just like how you should laugh at the when the guy robbing you at knife-point says "do what I say, get the point".
Seriously, Monty was replying to an absolute hatchet job on something he'd put major work into. We should find it funny?
P.S. his quoting style was easy to read, yet you use it as an excuse for your bad formatting?
Not crashes, "just" 4-engine failures. All the cases I read about said once altitude was lowered the engines eventually started up again.
Having all your engines fail isn't minor, but it isn't on the same scale as an actual crash.
To me "No real sweat" != "Windows 7 - Internet Explorer 8 - Remote Code Execution - Critical "
GeoHot's hack was obviously way easier to do because he had a powerful userspace to work from.
Perhaps this is what's spooking Sony.
When did you last actually try using an intel card? I bought a new laptop in December, Intel X4500 inside, running Ubuntu 9.10.
It has suspended/resumed flawlessly for three months.
Last night I plugged it into a projector, click the Display settings, it auto-detected the new projector (listed by name even) and enabling output was a single click. Options to extend desktop or mirror it worked without problem.
Again, have you actually tried any this lately?
IIRC the video segment was laid out with one byte for the colour code, one byte for the character to display; so addr should either be short * or needs to increment 2.
Also, your assumption of a $60 price is insane. PC games aren't $60 when they come out, they're closer to $49.
Exactly, because those $11 dollars just absolutely push you over the line of sanity into the pricing realms of the crazies.
And don't get me started on sales tax.
But gallium and the open source drivers aren't really ready for prime time, they're theoretical. I'm talking about practicalities. Right now, the open source drivers only exist to keep X running long enough to get the proprietary drivers installed.
[emphasis mine]
Again, except for the majority of users! The default mesa drivers let you run Quake 3, composite your desktop, and do whatever 90% of desktop users want. It's only the "I want to play the latest game with max fps" and the "I'm rendering 100 million vertexes / frame in CAD" people that need to change to a binary driver.
No one is going to need S3TC compressed texture support for things like compiz anyway.
(FYI, the latest mesa actually supports S3TC this in the same way MP3 is. Too bad we have to wait till 2017 for patent expiry.)
Yeah, but anyone using OpenGL with X is going to be using either the Nvidia proprietary drivers or ATI proprietary drivers.
The OSS offerings do not provide nearly the same level of performance, unfortunately.
So again, from a real world practical standpoint, Mesa isn't in use anyway.
Unless you meant to say "OpenGL 3.0" This is absolutely not accurate. Has your "real world" been isolated to workstation CAD and/or heavy gaming users? Those are the only groups where binary non-mesa drivers are used almost universally, but they are a minority. Intel, which has over half the graphics market only uses mesa. Your default Fedora and upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 installs use mesa for both amd and nvidia chips. AMD actively supports the open driver and is working to make that the main driver.
The continued development on gallium points to mesa gaining more traction. I think the trend is for binary drivers to become less and less common in the future.
-Malloc
I don't think MS is at fault here.
Perhaps not at fault (though when PR says "we didn't do anything" you never know if there was a nudge, nudge, "if you want our business I think you know what we want" message to NetSol). Regardless, NetSol sure is at fault!
I actually think they acted quite exemplary.
Whoah! You're saying that it is exemplary for a company to actively hide from users the steps it will go through to give personally identifying information about those users to law enforcement? This is only "exemplary" as an example of what not to do. One of John Young's points was that there isn't a legitimate reason to hide this information from users; many other companies do not hide this information, and neither should Microsoft.
Did you look at that EFF Information and Privacy Theory link? The point is that while #5534289 may not be important, it is probably identifiable. He is not obscured. And the line from "not important" to "grabbed by a regex into a database for analysis" a "*." away.
For example, if you're the tax agency you mine all the data you get your hands on and the computer spits out a "worth auditing for foreign ownership claims" based on their profiling of your online identity. So now you get harassed by an audit because you happened to use the wrong set of words in your blog post about your visit to your friend's property in Switzerland.
One can think of more benign or far more serious examples...
(How about, automatically added to the "harass at the airport list" to ruin your vacation.)
Besides, I think we live in a world where we have obscurity through density, instead of obscurity through privacy. Billions of people on this earth, nearly a billion of them connected to the 'net. Embrace it. Eventually, if enough personal data gets out there, it may become worthless to mine it due to the sheer volume available.
Panopticlick wants to disagree.
That, and "billions" / "sheer volume" are meaningless in the face of computers processing billions of cycles a second. The whole point of data mining is software can find neat correlations and connections that a human never could. You are not hidden in the billion bits of data.
it would be interesting to see if anyone else had any thoughts or experiences in this matter. In short, in today's world, what are the real loyalties of an immigrant population?
I know many Chinese immigrants in Toronto. A few of them came for idealogical/freedom issues, but by far the vast majority came for simple economic/status gain (status, since immigrating to a foreign country is generally seen back home as a step up). For the economic immigrants I'm regularly shocked at how much the "history" they were indoctrinated as kids they still believe. E.g. despite having access to tons of historical reference, or South Koreans themselves, they still believe the the Korean war was an unabashed/unprovoked all-out assault on the poor Korean people (i.e. communists in North) by the evil Western nations. This is still believed with such vehemency that they would refuse to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day (which in Canada remembers soldiers in all wars, including WW1, WW2, Korean,...) and are surprised that my wife, also a Chinese immigrant, would do so.
When you think about it, they're saying never mind the sacrifice of all those in WW2 that forced the Japanese to stop raping our country (Oh right, because foreigners didn't, it was glorious Mao that kicked the Japanese out!), the atrocities of the evil Korean invasion are too great, so no Remembrance Day for anyone.
The mind, it boggles.
The ultimate use for a brain-computer interface:
http://slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1722200/Next-X-Prize-mdash-10M-For-a-Brain-Computer-Interface
So it isn't pointless to keep your loved-one around, with the real hope of future technical developments letting them interact with society again.