My issue is when this stuff gets in your way when you are driving. I currently disconnect ABS every winter where I live - a mountanous region with decent snowfall. The ABS likes to prematurely engage, which locks the wheel because it's slick, then goes into machingun mode and alternates between wheels locked and no braking so fast that the net result is -no control-.
I have nothing against ABS and agree that your average person either will not pump the brake or will forget in a panic but I sometimes wonder if they adiquatly consider all of the driving scenarios that the car will be exposed to when introducing these safty gizmos.
possibly, although the ammount of heat dissipation from the top cover is probably neglegable. If you hold a really hot drive the entire drive is pretty hot but in my experience the top cover itself isn't all that warm. Most of the heat concentrates around the spindle (which is attached at the bottom).
I may have been interested in a clear case at one point, but now I want a quiet computer and I'd be more impressed if they had some sort of sound deadening material on it than some clear plastic. But lets face it, the target audience already has hovercraft computers and probably replace their parts on a regular basis (less than 2 years)
And higher end SCSI drives. Chances are if you buy a more expensive Dell server it's got Fujitsu drives in it. I've never seen a Fujitsu drive crap out actually. All the drives that I've seen actually fell into dis-use because their capasity is too small or the machine dies. If I grab the oldest one I can find at the bottom of a box it still fires up good as new.
That's assuming cd-r disks were the target. A lot of computers come with a "os load" partition that you can wipe out and reimage the drive to factory defaults from that image. As far as I know, the install CD you make does the same as well (although allowing for an attempt at a repair-install instead of a clean format).
I guess it's fine that the drivers are all installed when you load the OS, but it also loads all the crap in the factory defaults as well. Guess that's why I find it easier to build machines from scratch for the small company I work for. Either that or buy them in batches, configure one machine and write the image on the rest.
does percentage even matter? If bill gates gave 50% of his income to charity... so what? I'd be doing pretty damn well if I had 50% of bill gates income to live off of. I think a better determinant is how much you contribute compaired to how much you can afford. If someone makes $10k per year and gives a charity $100, that's not much by monitary value, or by percentage. It's a hell of a lot when you're just scraping by though. Either way it's nice for a person to give anything, but I don't think Bill Gates will have to make any sacrifices for the ammounts he's given.
Well that might work then. If you spin the platter at 7200 RPM, then spin the drive the same way at 7200 RPM and the head stays stationary then you'd get a faster 14000 RPM drive. I'll leave it to your imagination what the case and mounting would look like:)
Not to sound like a purist... ah, what the hell, I'll sound like one anyway. You really can't make a movie about Aeon Flux because the nature of the way it flows just doesn't fit into the way a movie is done - or what would really work for a movie anyway. I can't really imagine the 'no-risk' people in charge in Hollywood would be into the kinky/erotic sort of undertones that pervade much of the series.
Aeon Flux also almost never has a beginning. You are typically cast into the middle of Aeon on some mission. You usually don't know what the point of the mission is (sometimes even at the end), nor are there explanations for much of what is happeneing. Aeon Flux is also a coy play on mindless violence, with weird erotic voyeristic imagery randomly stuffed in the middle.
Now that's okay with other weird crap on Liquid Television, but not movie material at all. So the result is exactly what we see. A basic action movie with character designs used as templates.
You're probably thinking of "Lois and Clark". I highly doubt college girls would tune in to see two guys in the early 1800's map out the Louisana Purchase.
I'd say this shortage is anything but artificial. It's been known that they were going to have this problem beforehand. NOT because of some orchistrated plot against anyone, mainly because of a simultanious launch in 3 continents coupled with a launch schedule that was moved up way too far for manufactoring output.
MS is attempting to create a gaming frenzy for Christmas and make these top priority for kids. That all sounds great until you realize that they can't pump these out fast enough. It'll be a hot item until January, when those who didn't get one are out of luck, and the propeganda for the PS3 and Revolution will start to seep in. Also keep in mind that January - March is typically the worst buying season. So they have the period of hot demand but can't pump them out fast enough, then may have enough by the time the purchasing season has leveled off.
This thing might carry its weight if the games were superb, but it just looks like these are Xbox games with better graphics - that's not going to be enough to carry the console considering it's compeditors will soon be on par with it. The best hope for the Xbox360 are going to be the post-launch titles, again after Christmas the gaming market is also typically at a lull.
It's a matter of quality. If it was a priority, companies COULD hire someone in India with pristine english skills, but they don't.
I got a message from Kingston memory about an RMA, when she said 'buh-by' something clicked. I listened to the message closly again and was amazed that she was actually from India. By contrast the calls from people giving web surveys is a disaster, and they are English speaking natives =/ Funny thing is I refuse any business dealings with Dell after an episode of screaming at some guy in India for a DDS4 tape drive for over an hour. Never had that problem from IBM support (in Atlanta). But all of the above is just an example of companies striving for quality. Put the effort into good customer relations instead of saving a couple bucks and it really shows.
I'm sort of biased since english is my wife's second language. She speaks perfect english, but has really weird gaps in her vocabulary. (Spent 2 days trying to find Mt. Condor in Final Fantasy 7 because she didn't know what a condor was). I could see how that in itself would cause problems.
Yeah I was having that issue as well. But it's actually not that hard in win2k. Just set drive C: as read-only. Permissions will inherit so that the user can still use everything, but they will be forced to save everything in their profile.
Actually it was an afterthought at the time. My main concern was that people would have their hard drive crash and then want a back-up of their files. Where were the files? Somewhere next to bumblefuck-randomplace on the hard drive. I'm certainly not backing up an entire hard drive just to make "sure" that I got the 30 random spots that someone saved their spreadsheets, so forcing people to save in their profile was a big step.
I think the days of "zero" downtime are pretty much over for anyone that doesn't need 5 nines. I've got a decent mix of machines on my network, and no real problems with any of them (save the exchange server). Quite a few FreeBSD servers, some Win2k, 2003, and Linux. Windows machines need to be rebooted almost every time MS patch-day rolls around. Linux kernel level exploits seem to happen ever month or two. FreeBSD about every 8-9 months. Mac OSX requires a reboot when nearly anything is updated.
I mean realistically trying to defend anything for years without some major security fixes is something I'm glad I don't need to do. It sounds like a security disaster waiting to happen.
Man what edition of the bible do you have? The Hillbilly bible edition?
"There wer giants in the earth in those days. One was this feller named Gooliath. Then there was this other feller named david. 'Recon he was kinda short. Knee high to a grasshopper compaired to Goliath anyways...."
Although the U.S. is twice the size of Europe, many who live in cities do not use public transportation. If a city offers any transportation it is almost an after-thought. The U.S. could probably cut it's CO2 emmissions by 1/3 or more if everyone who drove to the city within 5 miles took a train.
That's obviously a loaded assumption because no one puts the effort into actually making a public transportation that does not suck, so people stick to cars, thus not stimiulating interest in public transportation... well you can see where the gridlock is there.
And a part of that is additude. I walk to work every day. It only takes me 20 minutes, but people thinking I'm fucking crazy not driving. Maybe the fresh air and excersize is un-american =)
What problem did you have with the logic board. The board was faulty so apple replaces it. I got mine replaced 2 years after the computer was out of warranty. They sent me a shipping box and even the freaking tape to close the box. Was back in a week and haven't had any problems since!
I've had good luck with IBM at work. On ebay you can find a lot of corperate IBM laptop dumps at decent prices. I've had nothing but problems with Dell. Out of the 5 my company purchased, only ONE still works, and it will immidiatly shut off (or not turn on) if the battery is plugged in.
CPU is short for Central Processing Unit. It's not hard to see why a normal person would see the box as the Central Processor, since the mouse,monitor,etc do not do any processing. If the term were a bit less vague (like Machine Instruction Processor or something) then they would have less of an excuse.
Where I work there was this guy who referred to it as the 'modem'. He also gave me a crunched up paper bag to scan a logo from to reproduce customer artwork. He claimed that he "scanned" things all the time and that it was super simple. But then again maybe he's got a huge modem and a scanner that can digitally reconstruct anything...
I'm not sure that Postgres is gaining much then. When I install on FreeBSD I get about 8 checkboxes for both MySQL and Postgres. In postgres I just check the box that says "hemidal kerberos" and the installer does the rest for me. I highly doubt Gentoo,Redhat,Debian/whatever are more complicated.
Making the installation complex isn't really helping anyone, that should be left to good documentation for those who need it - while everyone else gets reasonable defaults.
So you can use their own rootkit to bypass their own DRM. And exactly what level of control do you even have at the point where you are screwing with a rootkit to rip CD's on your own computer?
I hope Microsoft is paying attention here, because this could set an EXTREMELY bad trend here. Why do we have these "certified" drivers? Because a lot of them were crap. Now we have software injecting stuff directly into the OS. I can't say this is going to help MS in the security and stability department.
Probably better off anyway. If I recall, you could compile the system against a 386, but in practice running on an actual 386 it would hit a few snags that you would have to work out yourself.
In all honesty I think they'd be better off using the 586 as the baseline cutoff point. If you need 486 or lower use NetBSD. And lets face it, when you are at that end of the spectrum, you should be using the lighter 4x (or NetBSD) over 5x+ anyway.
Also, another reason it's easy to set up a table is because Lanman hashes (and NT hashes for that matter) do not use salts. For one password with a 2 character salt creates over 1000 possible hashes for the same password.
Lanman passwords are also case insensitive so you reduce the pool per charcter by 13.
These are U.K. bits, so that is 256 American, or 300 bits Canadian.
Or 50,000 bit encryption if you watch Alias. About 2 weeks ago the claim was "The data is safe, I used 4096bit encryption". Using the new XOR algarithm no doubt =P (yeah PGP I know, I don't trust asymetric encryption no matter how many bits are involved.)
Yeah I was going to post something similar. People make it sound like MS has this scheme. They don't need a scheme, the shortage is a foregone conclusion. MS moved up the schedule a LOT in order to get the Xbox360 out this early. That's going to cause a lot of issues. THEN they are going to simultaniously launch in America,Europe, and Japan - three markets at once instead of a multi-tierd launch. Even if they actually made enough in time, the chances of them getting the distribution perfect is about nil.
This thing better be pretty good, because if they hit a massive shortage and the word gets out that it sucks/has crap games/etc, it's going to take a MUCH worse hit than it would have otherwise. To me the Nintendo Revolution already stole their thunder, but we'll see.
Real Programmers can code anything they want. They write operating systems all the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are crazy and awsome and code all the time. I heard that there was this Real Programmer who was eating at dinner. And when some dude dropped a spoon, the Real Programmer replaced the entire town with a shell script.
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My issue is when this stuff gets in your way when you are driving. I currently disconnect ABS every winter where I live - a mountanous region with decent snowfall. The ABS likes to prematurely engage, which locks the wheel because it's slick, then goes into machingun mode and alternates between wheels locked and no braking so fast that the net result is -no control-.
I have nothing against ABS and agree that your average person either will not pump the brake or will forget in a panic but I sometimes wonder if they adiquatly consider all of the driving scenarios that the car will be exposed to when introducing these safty gizmos.
possibly, although the ammount of heat dissipation from the top cover is probably neglegable. If you hold a really hot drive the entire drive is pretty hot but in my experience the top cover itself isn't all that warm. Most of the heat concentrates around the spindle (which is attached at the bottom).
I may have been interested in a clear case at one point, but now I want a quiet computer and I'd be more impressed if they had some sort of sound deadening material on it than some clear plastic. But lets face it, the target audience already has hovercraft computers and probably replace their parts on a regular basis (less than 2 years)
And higher end SCSI drives. Chances are if you buy a more expensive Dell server it's got Fujitsu drives in it. I've never seen a Fujitsu drive crap out actually. All the drives that I've seen actually fell into dis-use because their capasity is too small or the machine dies. If I grab the oldest one I can find at the bottom of a box it still fires up good as new.
That's assuming cd-r disks were the target. A lot of computers come with a "os load" partition that you can wipe out and reimage the drive to factory defaults from that image. As far as I know, the install CD you make does the same as well (although allowing for an attempt at a repair-install instead of a clean format).
I guess it's fine that the drivers are all installed when you load the OS, but it also loads all the crap in the factory defaults as well. Guess that's why I find it easier to build machines from scratch for the small company I work for. Either that or buy them in batches, configure one machine and write the image on the rest.
does percentage even matter? If bill gates gave 50% of his income to charity... so what? I'd be doing pretty damn well if I had 50% of bill gates income to live off of. I think a better determinant is how much you contribute compaired to how much you can afford. If someone makes $10k per year and gives a charity $100, that's not much by monitary value, or by percentage. It's a hell of a lot when you're just scraping by though. Either way it's nice for a person to give anything, but I don't think Bill Gates will have to make any sacrifices for the ammounts he's given.
Well that might work then. If you spin the platter at 7200 RPM, then spin the drive the same way at 7200 RPM and the head stays stationary then you'd get a faster 14000 RPM drive. I'll leave it to your imagination what the case and mounting would look like :)
Not to sound like a purist... ah, what the hell, I'll sound like one anyway. You really can't make a movie about Aeon Flux because the nature of the way it flows just doesn't fit into the way a movie is done - or what would really work for a movie anyway. I can't really imagine the 'no-risk' people in charge in Hollywood would be into the kinky/erotic sort of undertones that pervade much of the series.
Aeon Flux also almost never has a beginning. You are typically cast into the middle of Aeon on some mission. You usually don't know what the point of the mission is (sometimes even at the end), nor are there explanations for much of what is happeneing. Aeon Flux is also a coy play on mindless violence, with weird erotic voyeristic imagery randomly stuffed in the middle.
Now that's okay with other weird crap on Liquid Television, but not movie material at all. So the result is exactly what we see. A basic action movie with character designs used as templates.
You're probably thinking of "Lois and Clark". I highly doubt college girls would tune in to see two guys in the early 1800's map out the Louisana Purchase.
I'd say this shortage is anything but artificial. It's been known that they were going to have this problem beforehand. NOT because of some orchistrated plot against anyone, mainly because of a simultanious launch in 3 continents coupled with a launch schedule that was moved up way too far for manufactoring output.
MS is attempting to create a gaming frenzy for Christmas and make these top priority for kids. That all sounds great until you realize that they can't pump these out fast enough. It'll be a hot item until January, when those who didn't get one are out of luck, and the propeganda for the PS3 and Revolution will start to seep in. Also keep in mind that January - March is typically the worst buying season. So they have the period of hot demand but can't pump them out fast enough, then may have enough by the time the purchasing season has leveled off.
This thing might carry its weight if the games were superb, but it just looks like these are Xbox games with better graphics - that's not going to be enough to carry the console considering it's compeditors will soon be on par with it. The best hope for the Xbox360 are going to be the post-launch titles, again after Christmas the gaming market is also typically at a lull.
It's a matter of quality. If it was a priority, companies COULD hire someone in India with pristine english skills, but they don't.
I got a message from Kingston memory about an RMA, when she said 'buh-by' something clicked. I listened to the message closly again and was amazed that she was actually from India. By contrast the calls from people giving web surveys is a disaster, and they are English speaking natives =/ Funny thing is I refuse any business dealings with Dell after an episode of screaming at some guy in India for a DDS4 tape drive for over an hour. Never had that problem from IBM support (in Atlanta). But all of the above is just an example of companies striving for quality. Put the effort into good customer relations instead of saving a couple bucks and it really shows.
I'm sort of biased since english is my wife's second language. She speaks perfect english, but has really weird gaps in her vocabulary. (Spent 2 days trying to find Mt. Condor in Final Fantasy 7 because she didn't know what a condor was). I could see how that in itself would cause problems.
Yeah I was having that issue as well. But it's actually not that hard in win2k. Just set drive C: as read-only. Permissions will inherit so that the user can still use everything, but they will be forced to save everything in their profile.
Actually it was an afterthought at the time. My main concern was that people would have their hard drive crash and then want a back-up of their files. Where were the files? Somewhere next to bumblefuck-randomplace on the hard drive. I'm certainly not backing up an entire hard drive just to make "sure" that I got the 30 random spots that someone saved their spreadsheets, so forcing people to save in their profile was a big step.
I think the days of "zero" downtime are pretty much over for anyone that doesn't need 5 nines. I've got a decent mix of machines on my network, and no real problems with any of them (save the exchange server). Quite a few FreeBSD servers, some Win2k, 2003, and Linux. Windows machines need to be rebooted almost every time MS patch-day rolls around. Linux kernel level exploits seem to happen ever month or two. FreeBSD about every 8-9 months. Mac OSX requires a reboot when nearly anything is updated.
I mean realistically trying to defend anything for years without some major security fixes is something I'm glad I don't need to do. It sounds like a security disaster waiting to happen.
Man what edition of the bible do you have? The Hillbilly bible edition?
"There wer giants in the earth in those days. One was this feller named Gooliath. Then there was this other feller named david. 'Recon he was kinda short. Knee high to a grasshopper compaired to Goliath anyways...."
Although the U.S. is twice the size of Europe, many who live in cities do not use public transportation. If a city offers any transportation it is almost an after-thought. The U.S. could probably cut it's CO2 emmissions by 1/3 or more if everyone who drove to the city within 5 miles took a train.
That's obviously a loaded assumption because no one puts the effort into actually making a public transportation that does not suck, so people stick to cars, thus not stimiulating interest in public transportation... well you can see where the gridlock is there.
And a part of that is additude. I walk to work every day. It only takes me 20 minutes, but people thinking I'm fucking crazy not driving. Maybe the fresh air and excersize is un-american =)
You can side-grade licences if you want to "try" to install the older os on the computers. Don't count on driver support of course...
What problem did you have with the logic board. The board was faulty so apple replaces it. I got mine replaced 2 years after the computer was out of warranty. They sent me a shipping box and even the freaking tape to close the box. Was back in a week and haven't had any problems since!
I've had good luck with IBM at work. On ebay you can find a lot of corperate IBM laptop dumps at decent prices. I've had nothing but problems with Dell. Out of the 5 my company purchased, only ONE still works, and it will immidiatly shut off (or not turn on) if the battery is plugged in.
*sigh*
/tmp as a filesystem and set it to noexec in fstab. You'll stop a surprising ammount of exploits that may affect systems you fail to secure.
Here is advice to anyone who is a sysadmin on an affected system.
set up
CPU is short for Central Processing Unit. It's not hard to see why a normal person would see the box as the Central Processor, since the mouse,monitor,etc do not do any processing. If the term were a bit less vague (like Machine Instruction Processor or something) then they would have less of an excuse.
Where I work there was this guy who referred to it as the 'modem'. He also gave me a crunched up paper bag to scan a logo from to reproduce customer artwork. He claimed that he "scanned" things all the time and that it was super simple. But then again maybe he's got a huge modem and a scanner that can digitally reconstruct anything...
I'm not sure that Postgres is gaining much then. When I install on FreeBSD I get about 8 checkboxes for both MySQL and Postgres. In postgres I just check the box that says "hemidal kerberos" and the installer does the rest for me. I highly doubt Gentoo,Redhat,Debian/whatever are more complicated.
Making the installation complex isn't really helping anyone, that should be left to good documentation for those who need it - while everyone else gets reasonable defaults.
So you can use their own rootkit to bypass their own DRM. And exactly what level of control do you even have at the point where you are screwing with a rootkit to rip CD's on your own computer?
I hope Microsoft is paying attention here, because this could set an EXTREMELY bad trend here. Why do we have these "certified" drivers? Because a lot of them were crap. Now we have software injecting stuff directly into the OS. I can't say this is going to help MS in the security and stability department.
Probably better off anyway. If I recall, you could compile the system against a 386, but in practice running on an actual 386 it would hit a few snags that you would have to work out yourself.
In all honesty I think they'd be better off using the 586 as the baseline cutoff point. If you need 486 or lower use NetBSD. And lets face it, when you are at that end of the spectrum, you should be using the lighter 4x (or NetBSD) over 5x+ anyway.
Also, another reason it's easy to set up a table is because Lanman hashes (and NT hashes for that matter) do not use salts. For one password with a 2 character salt creates over 1000 possible hashes for the same password.
Lanman passwords are also case insensitive so you reduce the pool per charcter by 13.
These are U.K. bits, so that is 256 American, or 300 bits Canadian.
Or 50,000 bit encryption if you watch Alias. About 2 weeks ago the claim was "The data is safe, I used 4096bit encryption". Using the new XOR algarithm no doubt =P (yeah PGP I know, I don't trust asymetric encryption no matter how many bits are involved.)
Yeah I was going to post something similar. People make it sound like MS has this scheme. They don't need a scheme, the shortage is a foregone conclusion. MS moved up the schedule a LOT in order to get the Xbox360 out this early. That's going to cause a lot of issues. THEN they are going to simultaniously launch in America,Europe, and Japan - three markets at once instead of a multi-tierd launch. Even if they actually made enough in time, the chances of them getting the distribution perfect is about nil.
This thing better be pretty good, because if they hit a massive shortage and the word gets out that it sucks/has crap games/etc, it's going to take a MUCH worse hit than it would have otherwise. To me the Nintendo Revolution already stole their thunder, but we'll see.
Real Programmers can code anything they want. They write operating systems all the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are crazy and awsome and code all the time. I heard that there was this Real Programmer who was eating at dinner. And when some dude dropped a spoon, the Real Programmer replaced the entire town with a shell script.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!