Five laptops, one with her stuff, and the other four with benign virtualization.:-)
I mean, really, how are you to be sure it isn't just something like VMWare?
Testing for specific products has problems. The list of products is unbounded and unknowable. (VMWare, Virtual PC, Parallels, Qemu+KVM... and even future products) Her malware can pretend to be Qemu+KVM, and how would you know it isn't?
Why would somebody want to buy big hardware like a Sunfire X4600 M2 with 16 cores, 256GB RAM, 4GbE and multiple I/O slots to run multiple instances of Linux and/or Windows and/or BSD, and/or Solaris x86 Indeed, why would they?
I guess there is some pride in having an expensive single point of failure that is hard to find parts for. Wait...
Pay attention now. This is not how Google runs their datacenter. Unless you are stuck with something like a database that can't cluster, or one that won't cluster because you didn't pay the extra license costs, this kind of hardware is just stupid.
Shop around. One can find power-efficient 1U boxes. Sometimes non-rackmount is better, including weird stuff like the Mac Mini. Be willing to look beyond Intel and AMD. VIA makes some low-power chips.
Again, virtualization is for running Windows. Not Linux!
Yeah, sure, there are a few weirdos out there.
For most of us, there is no point in running Linux under Xen. We already gave Linux the native hardware. I guess somebody might want to run a Linux guest on Windows, but that'd be Wrong and is anyway unsupported.
When I want to run a Linux app, I just run it. No problem. When I want to run a Windows app, I need virtualization.
It happens because of people checking Slashdot at work or plainly choosing IE 7 (which is not a crime). Hey, we could fix that. Write to your representatives!
That's shot from a cheap little plane flying along the coast, multiple miles away AFAIK.
The camera must have been insanely expensive. You'd need a huge lens. Then, you'd need either a motion stabilization mount or a very fast shutter speed. Fast speed means you need a huge sensor to reduce the noise.
So you lose lift. The wing flexes back the other way. Being in motion, it doesn't suddenly stop. It flexes past the origin.
It can keep doing this, flapping away, until damped by various loses like the generation of noise and heat.
Problem is, damping might not happen. You still have that force that bent the wing in the first place. Like a kid kicking on a swing, or like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the wing, the wing may deflect more each time. The movement grows until the wing snaps.
Of course, you might not lose lift. Think in 3D. If the wing twists, it may generate more lift.
The autopilot tried to keep the airplane level and on course by turning the control wheel to the left, balancing the asymmetry causing the plane to want to roll right. This worked for several minutes although it required the autopilot to turn the control wheel more and more to the left. Eventually the autopilot had turned the wheel to the maximum and the aircraft began to slowly roll to the right.
WTF?
That autopilot is dangerously defective. A dead engine is something it should handle; this isn't something fucked up like misrouted wiring or hydraulic lines.
When the leading edge rises more than the trailing edge, you may get extra lift. If it stalls, you may get drag that pushes the wing backward.
If you do lose lift, things may be even worse! Then the wing snaps back, only to regain the forces that were bending it in the first place. This can set up an oscilation, like the one which destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
It is known that he will be hit by a bus, but not what type. There are many types of busses that are easy to throw: PCI, SCSI, FireWire, ISA...
It might not even be a physical bus. One of those bullshit nonsense busses that the cdrecord program invents could do the job, offing Linus in a dream. We'd better keep Linus awake 24x7 to protect him.
Normally a microcode update is flashed into the motherboard with a BIOS update. That is damn close to being the same thing. Not too many people upgrade their BIOS, and fewer still would consider downgrading. Not too many people replace motherboards separately from CPUs, especially these days with a new CPU socket shape being invented every other day.
The Linux kernel is not currently affected, though some multi-processor apps with homegrown assembly might be.
The problem is some sort of atomic operation sequence. Somebody let slip a reference to the bug on a mailing list today, without any real details. Probably the details are still under NDA.
The really sick thing is that they gave source to China after testifying in court that exposing the source code could endanger national security. By their own words, under oath in court, they are clearly traiters.
Maybe the situation changed? Twice? It was bad to expose the source, then perfectly fine for a brief while, then bad again. Yeah, sure, that's it.
This "conveyance of their message" thing assumes that they have a good message to convey. Maybe I don't want their stinking message, if they even have one. My buddy has way better messages. I can come up with my own message and convey it to anybody, including to the original musician.
Maybe I want 29 tracks about the subject "water", in order by increasing tempo. Maybe that is what makes me happy. If other people like that, then I can share with them and make them happy too.
The musician's mental disposition is a matter for his psychologist. It shouldn't be my problem.
"If you cops/prosecutors break the law in collecting evidence for a case, all that evidence - and all evidence collected as a result of it - is thrown out. Keep YOUR act clean or you lose the case."
That hurts. There are more criminals, not fewer, and they all need punishment.
Maybe just automatically give the same punishment. If that means the cop rots in jail, oh well...
That sounds like a playlist to me. I think we could share these on the internet. We wouldn't be limited to 74 minutes. We wouldn't be limited to one single band.
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Five laptops, one with her stuff, and the other four with benign virtualization. :-)
I mean, really, how are you to be sure it isn't just something like VMWare?
Testing for specific products has problems. The list of products is unbounded and unknowable. (VMWare, Virtual PC, Parallels, Qemu+KVM... and even future products) Her malware can pretend to be Qemu+KVM, and how would you know it isn't?
Check how much RAM appears to be installed and how much is used by the OS.
To win, she needs laptops that are NOT identical.
Replace "Windows" with your choice of obscure OS as desired. You probably won't be getting Xen support in OS/2, OpenServer, NetWare, etc.
I guess there is some pride in having an expensive single point of failure that is hard to find parts for. Wait...
Pay attention now. This is not how Google runs their datacenter. Unless you are stuck with something like a database that can't cluster, or one that won't cluster because you didn't pay the extra license costs, this kind of hardware is just stupid.
Shop around. One can find power-efficient 1U boxes. Sometimes non-rackmount is better, including weird stuff like the Mac Mini. Be willing to look beyond Intel and AMD. VIA makes some low-power chips.
I read that.
You should not need to disengage the autopilot over the loss of one engine. This is dangerously defective. WTF?
While investigating a failed engine, the last thing a pilot needs is the extra stress of having to take over from the autopilot.
Again, virtualization is for running Windows. Not Linux!
Yeah, sure, there are a few weirdos out there.
For most of us, there is no point in running Linux under Xen. We already gave Linux the native hardware. I guess somebody might want to run a Linux guest on Windows, but that'd be Wrong and is anyway unsupported.
When I want to run a Linux app, I just run it. No problem. When I want to run a Windows app, I need virtualization.
Xen is thus a solution in search of a problem.
This is our little way of excluding the boneheaded marketing droids, evil salesmen, RIAA lawyers, Microsoft PR people, etc.
That's shot from a cheap little plane flying along the coast, multiple miles away AFAIK.
The camera must have been insanely expensive. You'd need a huge lens. Then, you'd need either a motion stabilization mount or a very fast shutter speed. Fast speed means you need a huge sensor to reduce the noise.
So you lose lift. The wing flexes back the other way. Being in motion, it doesn't suddenly stop. It flexes past the origin.
It can keep doing this, flapping away, until damped by various loses like the generation of noise and heat.
Problem is, damping might not happen. You still have that force that bent the wing in the first place. Like a kid kicking on a swing, or like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the wing, the wing may deflect more each time. The movement grows until the wing snaps.
Of course, you might not lose lift. Think in 3D. If the wing twists, it may generate more lift.
The autopilot tried to keep the airplane level and on course by turning the control wheel to the left, balancing the asymmetry causing the plane to want to roll right. This worked for several minutes although it required the autopilot to turn the control wheel more and more to the left. Eventually the autopilot had turned the wheel to the maximum and the aircraft began to slowly roll to the right.
WTF?
That autopilot is dangerously defective. A dead engine is something it should handle; this isn't something fucked up like misrouted wiring or hydraulic lines.
These are 3D objects. Think about twist.
When the leading edge rises more than the trailing edge, you may get extra lift. If it stalls, you may get drag that pushes the wing backward.
If you do lose lift, things may be even worse! Then the wing snaps back, only to regain the forces that were bending it in the first place. This can set up an oscilation, like the one which destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
It is known that he will be hit by a bus, but not what type. There are many types of busses that are easy to throw: PCI, SCSI, FireWire, ISA...
It might not even be a physical bus. One of those bullshit nonsense busses that the cdrecord program invents could do the job, offing Linus in a dream. We'd better keep Linus awake 24x7 to protect him.
Linus can only be killed by a bus.
Normally a microcode update is flashed into the motherboard with a BIOS update. That is damn close to being the same thing. Not too many people upgrade their BIOS, and fewer still would consider downgrading. Not too many people replace motherboards separately from CPUs, especially these days with a new CPU socket shape being invented every other day.
It's a bug in motherboard chipset.
The BIOS hack uses SMM/SMI (system management mode) to emulate one clock chip by using a different one. (eeew)
It causes massive problems for real-time code.
The Linux kernel is not currently affected, though some multi-processor apps with homegrown assembly might be.
The problem is some sort of atomic operation sequence. Somebody let slip a reference to the bug on a mailing list today, without any real details. Probably the details are still under NDA.
Machines are made to work in the most restrictive state so that they can be sold everywhere. Cars, voting machines, whatever...
The really sick thing is that they gave source to China after testifying in court that exposing the source code could endanger national security. By their own words, under oath in court, they are clearly traiters.
Maybe the situation changed? Twice? It was bad to expose the source, then perfectly fine for a brief while, then bad again. Yeah, sure, that's it.
Somebody grabs the wrong keyboard, types their email, sends it... oops.
Somebody confuses the government's classified project code word with the company's unclassified project name... oops.
You could claim I don't understand.
This "conveyance of their message" thing assumes that they have a good message to convey. Maybe I don't want their stinking message, if they even have one. My buddy has way better messages. I can come up with my own message and convey it to anybody, including to the original musician.
Maybe I want 29 tracks about the subject "water", in order by increasing tempo. Maybe that is what makes me happy. If other people like that, then I can share with them and make them happy too.
The musician's mental disposition is a matter for his psychologist. It shouldn't be my problem.
What, I can't be an artist? My friends can't be artists?
I'm not seeing a difference here, aside from unfair privilege.
That hurts. There are more criminals, not fewer, and they all need punishment.
Maybe just automatically give the same punishment. If that means the cop rots in jail, oh well...
We play video games. We use the internet. We even play internet video games.
There are lots of new things.
We can only divide our time and money so many ways.
So, music gets a shrinking slice of the pie. Oh well.
That sounds like a playlist to me. I think we could share these on the internet. We wouldn't be limited to 74 minutes. We wouldn't be limited to one single band.
Say, aren't people doing this right now?