If your going to design a machine with this kind of drive in mind wouldn't you design it to have a large main memory, so the need for swap is reduced?
While your at it, if this is to be a server class machine and money were no object (whups that's a BHIG if) the I would have a large DRAM cache between my flashram HD and the system to cut down on the number of read/write cycles.
protected under a plastic shield so you couldn't just bump into it by accident
In a place I worked the computer room had a halon system. One day at shift change one of the operators caught a backpack strap on the mushroom button (even under the plastic mollyguard).. tore the button right off.
His first mistake was trying to put the button back.... whooosh!
The laptop has the CPU, Screen (high resolution) and Keyboard, and sufficient flash based hard drive disk space for the OS and working files. Batteries run this for 10 hours between charges. The laptop part is instant on and instant off. The laptop part weighs no more than a pound and is no thicker than 3/4 inch, and the display can be swiveled so the unit may be used as a tablet PC.
The docking station is a mat that the laptop system sets on and a floor standing box. The laptop charges inductively just by sitting on the mat. The laptop communicates with with box via bluetooth or 802.11(whatever). Inside the box are several large hard (for archival storage) drives, a cd/dvd/blue-ray burner, and a high capacity tape drive. You can also connect the BHIIIG screen monitor and fancy keyboard and mouse to the floorbox or you can just use the screen and keyboard of the laptop. With the proper VPN software the laptop part should be able to contact it's floorbox via the Internet from anywhere there is 802.11 connectivity.
The laptop can access the floorbox any time it's in range, or via VPN - but when it sits on it's charging mat, they become one computer. The keyboard and mouse and display on the floorbox can become the primary keyboard, mouse and display.
When I enrolled, they asked me for MY email address. If I did not have email, they would have helped me setup email at the provider **of my choice**, What little official email I have gotten has come to the email address I provided to them.
This is an important point, and it's not just for groups doing government / classified work. What if Apple had all of it's development effort for the iPhone on google apps, the opportunity for industrial espionage would be enormous.
Even at home, whenever I pay bills I create a spreadsheet - this helps me see how I am doing and it gives me a single sheet to refer to when I want to see if I have actually paid a bill. It contains account numbers. My finances are my own business and should not be available to others.
It all sums up in the old saw.. "No security without physical security" If my data is on a machine I don't own, I no longer own my data.
(this also goes for a machine that I own but that can be "turned off" by a remote entity. but that's another post..)
If you are going to be concerned about the shape used inside the box (rather than just the difference between the foreground and the background) you need to throw out all the combinations of the same color on foreground and background.
I also think you will need to reduce your bit depth some, Printers and scanners have different gamuts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut when you print color 128, the scanner sees color 112, so maybe only 64 or 128 colors.
1) Vista comes out with *bad wga-like stuff*(tm) 2) It gets an unauthorized patch to disable *bad wga-like stuff*(tm) 3) Microsoft disables any patched copies... 4) Another work around is made 5) Microsoft responds to that... Wash, Rinse, repeat until sick.
It would be much better to convince Microsoft that it's about to loose the 90% honest customers over *bad wga-like stuff*(tm), becuase it's trying to stop the 10% who refuse to buy the copy they use and insist on installing one copy in *all* their machines or "share" it with all their friends. (notice I did *not* say the "P" word)
Not that there are not many groups already sending food and drugs (and doctors and farming advisors and and and...) but perhaps OLPC should broaden it's "customer base" a little. Allow non-governmental agencies to buy these machines for $100 each and then re-sell them to the 1st world for $200 and convert the diference into food or shelter or medicine or vitamin eyedrops or whatever.
I don't have the $200, but if I did I'd buy a machine (probably from the group sending food).
I also find that once I have been a place I can *always* get back there... except in LA. Whats up with that!? I get really lost in LA. Walking around Manhatten, NY - no, Greater San Francisco Bay area, No.. In Kansas City MO, no... LA lost lost lost...
If the software was open source, the city could remove the logic bombs itself, and have a working garage, or at least get the captive cars out of the garage.
I wonder if the car owners have standing to sue the garage builders?
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If your going to design a machine with this kind of drive in mind wouldn't you design it to have a large main memory, so the need for swap is reduced?
While your at it, if this is to be a server class machine and money were no object (whups that's a BHIG if) the I would have a large DRAM cache between my flashram HD and the system to cut down on the number of read/write cycles.
Poly88
It was a kit, 16x32 display used 1/2 of the 1K of memory.
I traded it for a HP41C. Wish I had it back.
Isn't this about when "they" say the magnetic reversal will be in
full swing?
Worst solar max ever $32.50
Myan Calendar ends $15.10
Global warming now solar system wide $11.50
No protection from solar flares due to
weakening of the earth's magnetic field....
priceless.
In a place I worked the computer room had a halon system. One day at shift change one of the operators caught a backpack strap on the mushroom button (even under the plastic mollyguard).. tore the button right off.
His first mistake was trying to put the button back.... whooosh!
halon stinks hours later.
The laptop has the CPU, Screen (high resolution) and Keyboard, and sufficient flash based hard drive disk space for the OS and working files. Batteries run this for 10 hours between charges. The laptop part is instant on and instant off. The laptop part weighs no more than a pound and is no thicker than 3/4 inch, and the display can be swiveled so the unit may be used as a tablet PC.
The docking station is a mat that the laptop system sets on and a floor standing box. The laptop charges inductively just by sitting on the mat. The laptop communicates with with box via bluetooth or 802.11(whatever). Inside the box are several large hard (for archival storage) drives, a cd/dvd/blue-ray burner, and a high capacity tape drive. You can also connect the BHIIIG screen monitor and fancy keyboard and mouse to the floorbox or you can just use the screen and keyboard of the laptop. With the proper VPN software the laptop part should be able to contact it's floorbox via the Internet from anywhere there is 802.11 connectivity.
The laptop can access the floorbox any time it's in range, or via VPN - but when it sits on it's charging mat, they become one computer. The keyboard and mouse and display on the floorbox can become the primary keyboard, mouse and display.
When I enrolled, they asked me for MY email address. If I did not have email, they would have helped me setup
email at the provider **of my choice**, What little official email I have gotten has come to the email address
I provided to them.
-- I don't see any of these mentioned in the comments, aren't they important anymore?
My documents on someone else's computer.
My documents at the mercy of someone else's employee.
No Physical Security.
Didn't pay your data rent this month? No resume for you!
"Sorry we had an employee who was acting badly, he sold your
'checkbook database' to the highest bidder"
This is an important point, and it's not just for groups doing government / classified work. What if Apple had all of it's development effort for the iPhone on google apps, the opportunity for industrial espionage would be enormous.
Even at home, whenever I pay bills I create a spreadsheet - this helps me see how I am doing and it gives me a single sheet to refer to when I want to see if I have actually paid a bill. It contains account numbers. My finances are my own business and should not be available to others.
It all sums up in the old saw.. "No security without physical security" If my data is on a machine I don't own, I no longer own my data.
(this also goes for a machine that I own but that can be "turned off" by a remote entity. but that's another post..)
Emacs and TeX??
Duh, No electric company to act as your storage battery at night.
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If you are going to be concerned about the shape used inside the box (rather than just the difference between the foreground and the background) you need to throw out all the combinations of the same color on foreground and background.
I also think you will need to reduce your bit depth some, Printers and scanners have different gamuts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut when you print color 128, the scanner sees color 112, so maybe only
64 or 128 colors.
Bugs are bugs, they happen.
With Open source many eyes and many hands work to fix the bugs.
With closed source only a small group can see or fix the source, and the "originator" of the program may not even want to acknoledge the bug.
Patching is just an arms-race..
1) Vista comes out with *bad wga-like stuff*(tm)
2) It gets an unauthorized patch to disable *bad wga-like stuff*(tm)
3) Microsoft disables any patched copies...
4) Another work around is made
5) Microsoft responds to that...
Wash, Rinse, repeat until sick.
It would be much better to convince Microsoft that it's about to loose the 90% honest
customers over *bad wga-like stuff*(tm), becuase it's trying to stop the 10% who
refuse to buy the copy they use and insist on installing one copy in *all* their machines
or "share" it with all their friends. (notice I did *not* say the "P" word)
Not that there are not many groups already sending food and drugs (and doctors and farming advisors and and and...) but perhaps OLPC should broaden it's "customer base" a little. Allow non-governmental agencies to buy these machines for $100 each and then re-sell them to the 1st world for $200 and convert the diference into food or shelter or medicine or vitamin eyedrops or whatever.
I don't have the $200, but if I did I'd buy a machine (probably from the group sending food).
Actually TMA-1 sent it's signal the first time sunlight fell on it. It sat in the "dig" long enough for Heywood Floyd to arrive and examine it.
Did you see that thing, over the edge and straight down --whoosh-- I'd pay to ride it without a loop-d-loop.
Or is it only via IE.
What other ways can this exploit be triggered?
For virtual desktops in Windows XP look at the windows power toys site.
r toys/xppowertoys.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powe
You don't get little thumbnails, but you still get virtual desktops.
Friends love presents. Offer your prospective friend a fruitcake, or, even better, two!
????????? Fruitcake???
I also find that once I have been a place I can *always* get back there... except in LA. Whats up with that!? I get really lost in LA. Walking around Manhatten, NY - no, Greater San Francisco Bay area, No.. In Kansas City MO, no... LA lost lost lost...
I wonder, if becuase of this, it may become illegal to have an open access point.
Police: So you were chatting with little Kathy here...
Accused: Nope not me.. musta been someone sneaking in my access point.
Police: Oh, so who was it? Can we see your logs?
Accused: What logs?
Police: So your aiding and abetting a crime by allowing anonymous access to the Internet?
(are there any logs in my access point? could it at least keep a list of MAC addresses?)
I always order "diet coke with a little regular coke to kill the diet taste".. what would your robotic drink overlord do with that? Eh?
Is that the name of the resturant? or are some resturants in Boston "illegal"?
If the software was open source, the city could remove the logic bombs itself, and have a working garage, or at least get the captive cars out of the garage.
I wonder if the car owners have standing to sue the garage builders?