To clear memory cards a single overwrite with zeros is sufficient.
To clear harddrives a single overwrite with zeros is sufficient for basic attacks. (i.e attacker puts harddrive in a computer and tries to read the contents.)
To protect against a dedicated and well funded attacker 7 overwrites, at least one of which is random, should be more then sufficient (see US DoD specification). The other patterns are typically zeros, ones, 0x55, 0xAA, and similar. The shred and wipe tools do this. (The authors of wipe are overly paranoid. Some people seem to think that is cool.)
In most cases a single pass overwrite of with mostly random data (/dev/urandom) should be sufficient.
If an attacker can recover data after that you probably have bigger things to worry about such as the attacker planting bugs in your house or office. Also if an attacker is willing to spend a few thousand to recover the data from your harddrives you should be willing to take the lose and melt the drive down.
Applications developers have consistently screwed up Windows security (on the versions based on the NT kernel). Unfortunately some of those applications developers work for MS.
The problem with the leveling is that your character never became more powerful. You can complete the game without ever gaining a level. In some cases your character becomes less powerful when gaining a level if you aren't careful.
Parent is correct (unlike so many other posts). Storing the password in the clear in a config file is good enough in most cases. Obviously you want to restrict access to that file. Attempts to obfuscate the password are pointless. If an attacker can read the config file, then they can probably read the processes memory.
Oblivion was boring. I really wanted to like it but I found it dull. There was no hook to keep me playing. As the character leveled I did not become more powerful. Often I became weaker. There seemed to be not point in completing the main quest. Many of the side quests were dull, uninspired, linear affairs.
Oblivion completely failed to engage me. I didn't care what happened to the world. The character (me) didn't feel heroic. The story wasn't epic.
I wanted to like Oblivion a lot, but I quickly grew tired of it. The game just seemed pointless. There is no sense of urgency to the main quest. The side quests were mostly linear and dull. The leveling system is terribly flawed.
Oblivion is not a bad game. It is just not a good game. It is sad to see such a massive amount of effort go into a game that has so little reason to play it.
LED lighting has a very very long way to go to get anywhere near as efficient as replacing a 40w bulb with a 2w led. Current white LED technology is only about twice as efficient as incandescent and the colour is harsh.
The current efficiency leader is compact florescent which consume one forth to one fifth the power of a similar incandescent.
Most of the "real" power hungry appliances have changed dramatically in 50 years. The efficiency of refrigerators and A/C has improved dramatically. Lennox sells a 20 SER A/C that is twice as efficient as the common 10 SER compressors. Frigs are made with better insulation and more efficient compressors. Hot water heaters, dryers, and ovens use better insulation and are more efficient. Clothes washers use better motors. Electric heat is still as efficient as possible. (The problem with electric heat has never been efficiency, but cost. Oil and gas are cheaper.)
The issue is not that a big appliance uses more power then an electric gadget, but that the gadget is often wasting electricity. The energy used by the stove is for a specific purpose and is generally all used to heat food. The energy used by many gadgets is often just waste heat.
Part of the problem is that the US is still very isolationist. They don't trust any other country including their allies. It is a cultural phenomenen that affects all levels of government.
There are a number of different brands with different shapes and sizes that all perform roughly the same. If one style in uncomfortable try one of the others. A number of places sell "sampler" packs online.
My prefered brand is Moldex Pura-fit. The noise protection is excellent and the foam is soft and comfortable. When I was working shift work I used to wear Pura-fit ear plugs to go to sleep.
It depends on what the software is. It could be old DOS software running on Win98. There is lots of that still floating around. The emulation layer is not perfect. It tends to fail for old, bad, code that mucks with the hardware directly. If the sofware is to control custom hardware (pci/isa card) it is almost certain not to work.
This is just another example of why it is important to have the source code to business critical software.
The US law requiring domestic sources is written in a such a way that the primary contractor can purchase equipment from a foreign source. The princinple behind the law is sound: governments should prefer spending money in the domestic economy. Unfortunately the effect of the law is to insure that the big defence contractors get a cut of any defence spending regardless of the work done domestically.
The Canadian Privacy Act is a great piece of legislation. At my old job I used to handle personal information and the Privacy Act was a real pain in the ass. That is a good thing.
Someone has to pay to move those stations and it isn't cheap. You cannot turn a dial on a high power FM transmitter to set a new frequency. Often you need to buy a new transmitter. You also assume that there is space in those markets to relocate those stations.
It is possible, but not nearly as easy as you seem to think.
It would be fair easier for the FCC to enforce the regulations, and for consumers to force car makers to include a line-in jack.
Because America did not go from sustinance living to superpower in 500 years. It was born out of the European empires. At the time of colonization North America and Africa were completely different politically. North America was easy to invade. Africa wasn't.
Debian/Etch supports (mostly) full disk encryption easily (/boot can't be encrypted). The disk is encrypted using dm_crypt and the AES algorithm. At install time the disk has to be partitioned manually. There is no "use full disk encryption" option in the installer. This should not be a problem for anyone who can read a howto. The/boot partition cannot be encrypted as the bootloader needs to be able to read the kernel image and initrd. A smarter user could install/boot on a flash drive or mini cd if they see this as an issue. At boot time the passphrase will be requested to unlock the encrypted portion of the disk.
The procedure is pretty simple.
Select the manual partition option. Create a small/boot partition (50MB should be more then enough). Create a second partition using all the remaining space. Set the partition to encrypted space. In the encrypted space, create a LVM physical volume. Configure swap,/, and other filesystems in the LVM.
The terrible Debian/Etch partion creation could be much easier to use. That is the only difficulty. Once it is setup at install time no additional packages or software are required. When a new kernel image is installed the initrd will be created with encryption support.
The keys are managed via LUKS. Multiple passphrases or key files can be added to unlock the disk. A backup key could be stored on removable media and stored in a safe place.
Because the encryption is entirely in software and supported natively by the linux kernel an encrypted harddrive could be moved to another computer to recover the data after hardware failure, etc.
Suspend to disk works.
I am using this setup on my laptop. The performance hit on laptops is minimal as the laptop harddrive is already pretty slow. Encrypted swap can be problematic so a good ammount of ram is important. (1GB is more then sufficient for my needs.) I will consider the same setup with my desktop and fileserver when I reinstall those computers.
This is a good scheme. When we ran our wires we labeled everything based on the location it was going to. This was fine. We also labeled all the patch cables in the server racks based on the machine it connected to. This was a mistake. Because it is such a pain to remove the lables we have patch cables that claim to go to machines that no longer exist. A simple numbering scheme would have fixed this problem.
It may not be a major influence on their purchasing decisions, but it will give bragging rights. Think of something along the lines of "...well the Cell is so powerfull it can be used to find a cure for cancer..." I think this will influence less savvy gamers. The ability to run Folding@Home makes the computer seem more powerfull then the competition.
The weather and news are largely useless. Especially for gamers. But these features are not for gamers. These "channels" are part of Nintendo's marketing plan to make the system more aproachable to the rest of the family.
Nintendo's (American) marketing strategy is interesting. The pictures on the website look like something out of Ikea or Apple's play book. Pictures of hip 20 and 30 year olds, and their families. The website has a clean almost stark look. It seems aimed at the more adult 20-30 year old crowd then most other gamer web sites.
Let me add my name to a long list: I am a pc gamer. I have never owned a console. This is the first console I am interested in.
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To clear memory cards a single overwrite with zeros is sufficient.
To clear harddrives a single overwrite with zeros is sufficient for basic attacks. (i.e attacker puts harddrive in a computer and tries to read the contents.)
To protect against a dedicated and well funded attacker 7 overwrites, at least one of which is random, should be more then sufficient (see US DoD specification). The other patterns are typically zeros, ones, 0x55, 0xAA, and similar. The shred and wipe tools do this. (The authors of wipe are overly paranoid. Some people seem to think that is cool.)
In most cases a single pass overwrite of with mostly random data (/dev/urandom) should be sufficient.
If an attacker can recover data after that you probably have bigger things to worry about such as the attacker planting bugs in your house or office. Also if an attacker is willing to spend a few thousand to recover the data from your harddrives you should be willing to take the lose and melt the drive down.
Those aren't Diesel engines. Those are engines that burn diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is named after the engine, not the other way around.
Applications developers have consistently screwed up Windows security (on the versions based on the NT kernel). Unfortunately some of those applications developers work for MS.
The problem with the leveling is that your character never became more powerful. You can complete the game without ever gaining a level. In some cases your character becomes less powerful when gaining a level if you aren't careful.
Parent is correct (unlike so many other posts). Storing the password in the clear in a config file is good enough in most cases. Obviously you want to restrict access to that file. Attempts to obfuscate the password are pointless. If an attacker can read the config file, then they can probably read the processes memory.
Are you trying to be funny, or are you clueless. I can't tell.
As is often the case this post is in fact a secret message encoded with a one time pad. Try to guess what the secret is.
Oblivion was boring. I really wanted to like it but I found it dull. There was no hook to keep me playing. As the character leveled I did not become more powerful. Often I became weaker. There seemed to be not point in completing the main quest. Many of the side quests were dull, uninspired, linear affairs.
Oblivion completely failed to engage me. I didn't care what happened to the world. The character (me) didn't feel heroic. The story wasn't epic.
I wanted to like Oblivion a lot, but I quickly grew tired of it. The game just seemed pointless. There is no sense of urgency to the main quest. The side quests were mostly linear and dull. The leveling system is terribly flawed.
Oblivion is not a bad game. It is just not a good game. It is sad to see such a massive amount of effort go into a game that has so little reason to play it.
Often that plug is not hooked up to a relay and does not shut off when the computer goes to sleep.
LED lighting has a very very long way to go to get anywhere near as efficient as replacing a 40w bulb with a 2w led. Current white LED technology is only about twice as efficient as incandescent and the colour is harsh.
The current efficiency leader is compact florescent which consume one forth to one fifth the power of a similar incandescent.
Most of the "real" power hungry appliances have changed dramatically in 50 years. The efficiency of refrigerators and A/C has improved dramatically. Lennox sells a 20 SER A/C that is twice as efficient as the common 10 SER compressors. Frigs are made with better insulation and more efficient compressors. Hot water heaters, dryers, and ovens use better insulation and are more efficient. Clothes washers use better motors. Electric heat is still as efficient as possible. (The problem with electric heat has never been efficiency, but cost. Oil and gas are cheaper.)
The issue is not that a big appliance uses more power then an electric gadget, but that the gadget is often wasting electricity. The energy used by the stove is for a specific purpose and is generally all used to heat food. The energy used by many gadgets is often just waste heat.
The problem with PHP is that it makes it easy to write bad code.
Part of the problem is that the US is still very isolationist. They don't trust any other country including their allies. It is a cultural phenomenen that affects all levels of government.
Foam earplugs are good.
There are a number of different brands with different shapes and sizes that all perform roughly the same. If one style in uncomfortable try one of the others. A number of places sell "sampler" packs online.
My prefered brand is Moldex Pura-fit. The noise protection is excellent and the foam is soft and comfortable. When I was working shift work I used to wear Pura-fit ear plugs to go to sleep.
It depends on what the software is. It could be old DOS software running on Win98. There is lots of that still floating around. The emulation layer is not perfect. It tends to fail for old, bad, code that mucks with the hardware directly. If the sofware is to control custom hardware (pci/isa card) it is almost certain not to work.
This is just another example of why it is important to have the source code to business critical software.
The US law requiring domestic sources is written in a such a way that the primary contractor can purchase equipment from a foreign source. The princinple behind the law is sound: governments should prefer spending money in the domestic economy. Unfortunately the effect of the law is to insure that the big defence contractors get a cut of any defence spending regardless of the work done domestically.
The Canadian Privacy Act is a great piece of legislation. At my old job I used to handle personal information and the Privacy Act was a real pain in the ass. That is a good thing.
Someone has to pay to move those stations and it isn't cheap. You cannot turn a dial on a high power FM transmitter to set a new frequency. Often you need to buy a new transmitter. You also assume that there is space in those markets to relocate those stations.
It is possible, but not nearly as easy as you seem to think.
It would be fair easier for the FCC to enforce the regulations, and for consumers to force car makers to include a line-in jack.
Because America did not go from sustinance living to superpower in 500 years. It was born out of the European empires. At the time of colonization North America and Africa were completely different politically. North America was easy to invade. Africa wasn't.
The procedure is pretty simple.The terrible Debian/Etch partion creation could be much easier to use. That is the only difficulty. Once it is setup at install time no additional packages or software are required. When a new kernel image is installed the initrd will be created with encryption support.
The keys are managed via LUKS. Multiple passphrases or key files can be added to unlock the disk. A backup key could be stored on removable media and stored in a safe place.
Because the encryption is entirely in software and supported natively by the linux kernel an encrypted harddrive could be moved to another computer to recover the data after hardware failure, etc.
Suspend to disk works.
I am using this setup on my laptop. The performance hit on laptops is minimal as the laptop harddrive is already pretty slow. Encrypted swap can be problematic so a good ammount of ram is important. (1GB is more then sufficient for my needs.) I will consider the same setup with my desktop and fileserver when I reinstall those computers.
And they wonder why people are moving away from Debian.
The Devs aren't wondering. Most have their heads too far up their asses to notice. Others just don't care.
This is a good scheme. When we ran our wires we labeled everything based on the location it was going to. This was fine. We also labeled all the patch cables in the server racks based on the machine it connected to. This was a mistake. Because it is such a pain to remove the lables we have patch cables that claim to go to machines that no longer exist. A simple numbering scheme would have fixed this problem.
It may not be a major influence on their purchasing decisions, but it will give bragging rights. Think of something along the lines of "...well the Cell is so powerfull it can be used to find a cure for cancer..." I think this will influence less savvy gamers. The ability to run Folding@Home makes the computer seem more powerfull then the competition.
The weather and news are largely useless. Especially for gamers. But these features are not for gamers. These "channels" are part of Nintendo's marketing plan to make the system more aproachable to the rest of the family.
Nintendo's (American) marketing strategy is interesting. The pictures on the website look like something out of Ikea or Apple's play book. Pictures of hip 20 and 30 year olds, and their families. The website has a clean almost stark look. It seems aimed at the more adult 20-30 year old crowd then most other gamer web sites.
Let me add my name to a long list: I am a pc gamer. I have never owned a console. This is the first console I am interested in.