Re:Why wont hardware vendors give out documentatio
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OpenBSD 4.0 Released
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I think most people already know the reason when they look at nVidia and ATI. They're violating an assload of patents. Anymore I'm not sure that most of these companies care so much about giving away the specs, as giving away information for patent infringement. And lets face it, if you make almost ANYTHING you are probably infringing. Why incur an additional cost just for some crazy hobbyist programmers?
I fail to see how this is ironic. I said that most Americans can't spell. I also cannot spell (although the reason for the typo was because I deleted some sentences and reordered words). It would have been ironic if I had said "I can spell, but most Amrican's can't" or something to that effect.
Or is irony finally taking its revenge on all you Alanis fans?
1) Most American's can't spell. Good luck adding more letters to words!
3) As long as I don't have to learn it in French like the Canadians do. No one can sing the "land of the FreeEEEE!" part in our anthem anyway.
6) Talk about throwing stones from glass houses. I mean coming from the land notoriously butt ugly unreliable vehicles, I'd say I'm not sure this means much. Most "German" cars here are assembled in Mexico, and aren't holding up to the quality standard they were once known for.
I was going to point out the same thing actually. Media player classic never felt like mplayer2.exe to me, so I just kept reassigned the associations. Unfortunately at random times the other version of media player would stomp on them and I'd have to go reassign them again. It's the stupid fight over file extension associations that I have no control over on my own freaking machine that was one of the tipping points for me to stop using windows.
I wouldn't think it would be too hard to tack on a small amount of additional hardware. For instance the Soekris vpn1461 only sucks up an additional 1-2 watts at up to 920Mbs. But keep in mind that's "proper" encryption. Since I don't think you'll be able to do a CBC, and the number of rounds probably won't matter either, I'd think you could get even better throughput. Keep in mind that the majority of bottlenecks now days are in sucking data off of the physical platters more than processing requirements.
Actually I'd rather use something like TrueCrypt anyway. No one seems to be talking about what sort of "encryption" this drive would be using, but assumable in order for it to not be completely worthless, it would have to implement a Cipher Block Chain to effectively encrypt anything.
But since a hard drive (by its nature) can not encrypt anything at the filesystem level, I don't see how it could possibly achieve a CBC. That means that you just need to find matching bit patterns to compare. If you already know for instance that someone has windows installed, you probably have a huge amount of data to analyze to brute force the password quickly. I'm thinking that at most this would just "scramble" the data. Not to mention I'm not putting my faith in Seagate in the arena of "proven history in cryptography".
If you REALLY need security, it needs to be from a vendor with a proven record in a method you can trust, not just "some hard drive company that decides to do encryption". Most people would be just fine with ATA security mode anyway if you ask me.
According to current observations of the universe (what was said in "A Brief History of Time" anyway) that isn't so. It's been found that the spectral shift of galaxies shows that the father away a galaxy is, the faster it is also moving away - which means nothing is behind us just accelerating slower in the same direction as us. If you put a bunch of dots on a balloon and blow it up; that's basically what the universe is doing.
I'm guessing that assumes that we can also see everything, which we may possibly not.
All this actually looks very similar to debates over Lighttpd benchmarks. There was a Lighttpd benchmark showing much better performance than Apache, but then another apache benchmark that showed they could saturate a T1 connection just as fast. However, that's not really the problem, it's more a function of bandwidth. Consider an internet connection over a 33.6k modem - that's a max of 3.8kb per second. If I download 10 elements with a mix of css/images/html I have to fit it over that pipe. It doesn't matter how many connections I open, it just isn't going to download faster. And actually you're just stressing the server since the server isn't sending information faster either, it's just holding more connections open and juggling more resources. And what the server does when it runs low is hard to say because it's dependent upon the server, OS, and possibly dynamic content.
Could servers be made to handle it? Sure. You take your average page from 1998 and stick it on any modern machine and you'd be fine. However now we have tons of flash, and HUGE images on pages. Honestly I think that the spec will make allowances for more connections most people are off of dialup and we can say you'll be able to actually utilize the extra connections, and not just tie up servers for no reason.
IE for Unix never made sense. Most people I've talked to who used it on Solaris said it was basically a joke because of the bad performance. However if you don't look at the browser itself then you can see a sort of logic to it. With Netscape being the fastest growing company in history, and having an overwhelming market share, sticking to Netscape in every way possible on every system could be a goal of sorts. Once Netscape is removed, you can consider the job done. Now there is no incentive for IE anywhere else.
Now Microsoft's focus will be to keep people ON windows, not grow browser market share, so I doubt we'll see IE on other platforms as windows loses market share.
Not only that but service packs were at least a lowest common denominator where you could tell where a machine stood as far as how up to date it was. If you see a machine running Win2k Sp1, then you know how outdated it is and the sorts of problems this machine may run into. When you eliminate service packs you not only make it a pain to do batch updates via CDROM, you make it sort of arbitrary what state a machine may be in. Maybe it has some patches, maybe others won't apply. If you can't connect to windows update or a WSUS server then how in the hell do you even know?
The diamond industry had painted itself into a corner with the concept that the most valuable diamonds are "flawless".
While it is painting themselves into a corner, it's the only avenue they had left. Originally it was the "size" of the diamond, but after the market got flooded with huge Russian diamonds, it was suddenly all about the "quality". It was the only avenue they had left, but actually it works in their favor when you think about it. I mean how do you measure the "quality"? For the most part diamond quality is an arbitrary opinion by some sort of expert with some fancy equipment - therefore they get to dictate the price in their favor at any given time .
Well I have to say you have balls! But yeah, there is that aspect that the woman you marry would be able to accept such things. I told my wife that she could have any ring she wanted, but not one with a diamond on it. I explained to her all the things about diamonds and she agreed. I also told her that I didn't care if the rock on it was MORE expensive than a diamond, as long as it wasn't a diamond. In the end she picked a ring with no stone so I lucked out:) A lot of her friends had their jaws drop when they saw the "no diamond ring", but she was happy with it.
Windows is easier.... Format often? Defrag? Reboot?
Actually I've found that people do think that's easier. Instead of investing the time to think out problems everyone simply just starts over from scratch. Hell before I knew much about computers I got pretty good at reinstalling windows 95 myself. But you find many examples of this everywhere: people doing many times the work because they don't want to find a better way because that takes mental effort.
I've noticed this trend a LOT on message boards where people have a problem with a computer. Sometimes I try to offer a bit of troubleshooting advice, but it's actually sort of sickening how many people always say "reformat the drive". And not even reinstall, reformat the drive!
Some people ask me what I use, and I say FreeBSD (or sometimes Linux to make it simple) and they say they don't have the time to learn Linux. That's fine, because I always drop computer conversations as fast as possible. But then it's strange that they always ask ME about their problems with Windows that they've been "fighting for a long time". I just answer "I don't use windows, I don't know". And on occasion I find later that someone told them to reformat their drive. Guess that's the easiest solution =)
I am an admin who is probably best capable of destroying the company within a few minutes - more so than anyone else in or outside the company (I also have access to all backups BTW). It's unfortunate that I have that level of access, but that is part of my job responsibilities.
But I'm not user that "teaching ethics" is going to get you very far. Either you were brought up properly by your parents, or you're not. By the time you're earning a degree you will do what you're scripted to do. Anyone can spit out ethical answers, but the real question is will someone actually do what they were taught in that ethics class?
I have the opposite problem. I'd like less colors. Actually what I want is the OLD Mac OSX pinstripe theme which was more monochromatic. Visually it was the nicest web browser interface I've ever used. Pity it got thrown out for the crappy look it has now.
It's interesting that he found he could rhyme though. It would have been cool too see him write speaches that entirely rhyme. Hell throw a bassline over it and have snoop dog guest star. =)
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. If I were one of these execs and concious of the level of targeted marketing I'd be a little nervous. I mean what kind of company is such a nitch player that they want to get on the money train through 20 people? I'd be leary of any company that has a product that doesn't stand out on it's own enough to the point where they have to point it directly at ME.
I mean why do I have to pay full price on a CD if I already own the tape? I thought the disk was just like $1 and I already owned the copyright by my inital purchase.
As long as polititians can be bought, corperations will always have the upper hand because they have more money. Which in turn leads to laws which increase their profits. Which allows them to donate to more polititans...
Re:Twenty years from now...
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An Ode To Al
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Even stranger that I've recently purchased some of his older stuff and found myself thinking "Hey, this song sounds familiar..." more than a couple of times. Only to realize that I had purchased Weird Al's album, and many of the songs he's parodied have almost completely faded away. I mean who even remembers Milli Vanilli? Odd that my only recollection of some music that was once blockbuster material is through sort of obscure parodies of it.
The demo application was awful. Gratuitous use of 3D, buttons that were unrecognizable as such and which would flip up into the 'air' playing a movie when you pressed them.
Shit, I just rememberd a conversation in college when windows 98 came out. My friend said the future of windows was "spinning icons". I said that I doubted even MS would be so stupid. He was insistant that eventually Microsoft would make stuff dance around the screen. I just realized that he's right... and it scares me even more now!
The problem is that even if they don't know anything about it, the ATI/AMD merger is troubling news for them. I wouldn't say this is a solid roadmap, but more like an R&D project to keep their bases covered "just in case".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't co-pressors already on AMD's map? I think that was announced a few months ago. Maybe this is what they've been up to with ATI.
All I hope is that it's an open standard that anybody can plug their chip in as a GPU coprocessor. Because (and I say this as an AMD fanboy) if it comes down to a choice of either Nvidia+Intel or AMD+ATI, I will drop AMD. I wan't absolutely nothing to do with ATI or their junk.
I've always assumed it is due to the increased physical traumua a traveling laptop gets subjected to.
I sort of assumed the same thing myself until I was looking at putting a mini hard drive in my firewall. I've read a LOT of posts from people saying their drives die after a year. Manufaturers all seem to say the same thing - the drives aren't made to run 24x7. Simply put the smaller drives just aren't as robust as their larger counterparts. It makes me sort of leary about my mac mini.
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I think most people already know the reason when they look at nVidia and ATI. They're violating an assload of patents. Anymore I'm not sure that most of these companies care so much about giving away the specs, as giving away information for patent infringement. And lets face it, if you make almost ANYTHING you are probably infringing. Why incur an additional cost just for some crazy hobbyist programmers?
I fail to see how this is ironic. I said that most Americans can't spell. I also cannot spell (although the reason for the typo was because I deleted some sentences and reordered words). It would have been ironic if I had said "I can spell, but most Amrican's can't" or something to that effect.
Or is irony finally taking its revenge on all you Alanis fans?
Is firefox ever going to get a file upload progress bar?
1) Most American's can't spell. Good luck adding more letters to words!
3) As long as I don't have to learn it in French like the Canadians do. No one can sing the "land of the FreeEEEE!" part in our anthem anyway.
6) Talk about throwing stones from glass houses. I mean coming from the land notoriously butt ugly unreliable vehicles, I'd say I'm not sure this means much. Most "German" cars here are assembled in Mexico, and aren't holding up to the quality standard they were once known for.
I was going to point out the same thing actually. Media player classic never felt like mplayer2.exe to me, so I just kept reassigned the associations. Unfortunately at random times the other version of media player would stomp on them and I'd have to go reassign them again. It's the stupid fight over file extension associations that I have no control over on my own freaking machine that was one of the tipping points for me to stop using windows.
I wouldn't think it would be too hard to tack on a small amount of additional hardware. For instance the Soekris vpn1461 only sucks up an additional 1-2 watts at up to 920Mbs. But keep in mind that's "proper" encryption. Since I don't think you'll be able to do a CBC, and the number of rounds probably won't matter either, I'd think you could get even better throughput. Keep in mind that the majority of bottlenecks now days are in sucking data off of the physical platters more than processing requirements.
Actually I'd rather use something like TrueCrypt anyway. No one seems to be talking about what sort of "encryption" this drive would be using, but assumable in order for it to not be completely worthless, it would have to implement a Cipher Block Chain to effectively encrypt anything.
But since a hard drive (by its nature) can not encrypt anything at the filesystem level, I don't see how it could possibly achieve a CBC. That means that you just need to find matching bit patterns to compare. If you already know for instance that someone has windows installed, you probably have a huge amount of data to analyze to brute force the password quickly. I'm thinking that at most this would just "scramble" the data. Not to mention I'm not putting my faith in Seagate in the arena of "proven history in cryptography".
If you REALLY need security, it needs to be from a vendor with a proven record in a method you can trust, not just "some hard drive company that decides to do encryption". Most people would be just fine with ATA security mode anyway if you ask me.
According to current observations of the universe (what was said in "A Brief History of Time" anyway) that isn't so. It's been found that the spectral shift of galaxies shows that the father away a galaxy is, the faster it is also moving away - which means nothing is behind us just accelerating slower in the same direction as us. If you put a bunch of dots on a balloon and blow it up; that's basically what the universe is doing.
I'm guessing that assumes that we can also see everything, which we may possibly not.
All this actually looks very similar to debates over Lighttpd benchmarks. There was a Lighttpd benchmark showing much better performance than Apache, but then another apache benchmark that showed they could saturate a T1 connection just as fast. However, that's not really the problem, it's more a function of bandwidth. Consider an internet connection over a 33.6k modem - that's a max of 3.8kb per second. If I download 10 elements with a mix of css/images/html I have to fit it over that pipe. It doesn't matter how many connections I open, it just isn't going to download faster. And actually you're just stressing the server since the server isn't sending information faster either, it's just holding more connections open and juggling more resources. And what the server does when it runs low is hard to say because it's dependent upon the server, OS, and possibly dynamic content.
Could servers be made to handle it? Sure. You take your average page from 1998 and stick it on any modern machine and you'd be fine. However now we have tons of flash, and HUGE images on pages. Honestly I think that the spec will make allowances for more connections most people are off of dialup and we can say you'll be able to actually utilize the extra connections, and not just tie up servers for no reason.
IE for Unix never made sense. Most people I've talked to who used it on Solaris said it was basically a joke because of the bad performance. However if you don't look at the browser itself then you can see a sort of logic to it. With Netscape being the fastest growing company in history, and having an overwhelming market share, sticking to Netscape in every way possible on every system could be a goal of sorts. Once Netscape is removed, you can consider the job done. Now there is no incentive for IE anywhere else.
Now Microsoft's focus will be to keep people ON windows, not grow browser market share, so I doubt we'll see IE on other platforms as windows loses market share.
I agree, but all I'm saying is that the term "easy" is in the eye of the beholder.
It is easier to do repetitive tasks than to learn something new
I wholeheartedly believe this is the reason that Windows has the marketshare it does.
Not only that but service packs were at least a lowest common denominator where you could tell where a machine stood as far as how up to date it was. If you see a machine running Win2k Sp1, then you know how outdated it is and the sorts of problems this machine may run into. When you eliminate service packs you not only make it a pain to do batch updates via CDROM, you make it sort of arbitrary what state a machine may be in. Maybe it has some patches, maybe others won't apply. If you can't connect to windows update or a WSUS server then how in the hell do you even know?
The diamond industry had painted itself into a corner with the concept that the most valuable diamonds are "flawless".
While it is painting themselves into a corner, it's the only avenue they had left. Originally it was the "size" of the diamond, but after the market got flooded with huge Russian diamonds, it was suddenly all about the "quality". It was the only avenue they had left, but actually it works in their favor when you think about it. I mean how do you measure the "quality"? For the most part diamond quality is an arbitrary opinion by some sort of expert with some fancy equipment - therefore they get to dictate the price in their favor at any given time .
Well I have to say you have balls! But yeah, there is that aspect that the woman you marry would be able to accept such things. I told my wife that she could have any ring she wanted, but not one with a diamond on it. I explained to her all the things about diamonds and she agreed. I also told her that I didn't care if the rock on it was MORE expensive than a diamond, as long as it wasn't a diamond. In the end she picked a ring with no stone so I lucked out :) A lot of her friends had their jaws drop when they saw the "no diamond ring", but she was happy with it.
Windows is easier. ... Format often? Defrag? Reboot?
Actually I've found that people do think that's easier. Instead of investing the time to think out problems everyone simply just starts over from scratch. Hell before I knew much about computers I got pretty good at reinstalling windows 95 myself. But you find many examples of this everywhere: people doing many times the work because they don't want to find a better way because that takes mental effort.
I've noticed this trend a LOT on message boards where people have a problem with a computer. Sometimes I try to offer a bit of troubleshooting advice, but it's actually sort of sickening how many people always say "reformat the drive". And not even reinstall, reformat the drive!
Some people ask me what I use, and I say FreeBSD (or sometimes Linux to make it simple) and they say they don't have the time to learn Linux. That's fine, because I always drop computer conversations as fast as possible. But then it's strange that they always ask ME about their problems with Windows that they've been "fighting for a long time". I just answer "I don't use windows, I don't know". And on occasion I find later that someone told them to reformat their drive. Guess that's the easiest solution =)
I am an admin who is probably best capable of destroying the company within a few minutes - more so than anyone else in or outside the company (I also have access to all backups BTW). It's unfortunate that I have that level of access, but that is part of my job responsibilities.
But I'm not user that "teaching ethics" is going to get you very far. Either you were brought up properly by your parents, or you're not. By the time you're earning a degree you will do what you're scripted to do. Anyone can spit out ethical answers, but the real question is will someone actually do what they were taught in that ethics class?
I have the opposite problem. I'd like less colors. Actually what I want is the OLD Mac OSX pinstripe theme which was more monochromatic. Visually it was the nicest web browser interface I've ever used. Pity it got thrown out for the crappy look it has now.
It's interesting that he found he could rhyme though. It would have been cool too see him write speaches that entirely rhyme. Hell throw a bassline over it and have snoop dog guest star. =)
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. If I were one of these execs and concious of the level of targeted marketing I'd be a little nervous. I mean what kind of company is such a nitch player that they want to get on the money train through 20 people? I'd be leary of any company that has a product that doesn't stand out on it's own enough to the point where they have to point it directly at ME.
The law seems to be supporting them so far.
I mean why do I have to pay full price on a CD if I already own the tape? I thought the disk was just like $1 and I already owned the copyright by my inital purchase.
As long as polititians can be bought, corperations will always have the upper hand because they have more money. Which in turn leads to laws which increase their profits. Which allows them to donate to more polititans...
Even stranger that I've recently purchased some of his older stuff and found myself thinking "Hey, this song sounds familiar..." more than a couple of times. Only to realize that I had purchased Weird Al's album, and many of the songs he's parodied have almost completely faded away. I mean who even remembers Milli Vanilli? Odd that my only recollection of some music that was once blockbuster material is through sort of obscure parodies of it.
The demo application was awful. Gratuitous use of 3D, buttons that were unrecognizable as such and which would flip up into the 'air' playing a movie when you pressed them.
Shit, I just rememberd a conversation in college when windows 98 came out. My friend said the future of windows was "spinning icons". I said that I doubted even MS would be so stupid. He was insistant that eventually Microsoft would make stuff dance around the screen. I just realized that he's right... and it scares me even more now!
The problem is that even if they don't know anything about it, the ATI/AMD merger is troubling news for them. I wouldn't say this is a solid roadmap, but more like an R&D project to keep their bases covered "just in case".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't co-pressors already on AMD's map? I think that was announced a few months ago. Maybe this is what they've been up to with ATI.
All I hope is that it's an open standard that anybody can plug their chip in as a GPU coprocessor. Because (and I say this as an AMD fanboy) if it comes down to a choice of either Nvidia+Intel or AMD+ATI, I will drop AMD. I wan't absolutely nothing to do with ATI or their junk.
I've always assumed it is due to the increased physical traumua a traveling laptop gets subjected to.
I sort of assumed the same thing myself until I was looking at putting a mini hard drive in my firewall. I've read a LOT of posts from people saying their drives die after a year. Manufaturers all seem to say the same thing - the drives aren't made to run 24x7. Simply put the smaller drives just aren't as robust as their larger counterparts. It makes me sort of leary about my mac mini.