What difference does it make? If a 1Ghz Athlon is cheap enough at the time, there's nothing keeping them from putting one of those in. It's not like they have to redesign much - The underlying architecture stays the same. It also opens the door for the X-Box II. Is your 600Mhz X-box slow? Get Version 2, with the 1.2Ghz chip, for a mere $100 more. I just can't see a hard drive taking the abuse a five year old can dish out when they lose that last life.
Why wouldn't Slashdot resort to sensationalist reporting? After all, they're in this to make money. Just by being biased, they've gotten a whole bunch of people to click to the comments page (another adview), post (another adview), and then return to see their post (yet another adview).
MS isn't the only company in the world that resorts to socail engineering to fatten their bottom line. Nor would slashdot be the first place to trade their credibility for money.
If someone steals something of yours, despite having it locked up, and they're caught, do you 1) let them go; after all your locks suck, or 2) press charges?
He may or may not be found guilty, and there is a serious abuse of the system going on, but if he's potentially broken some laws, it is the responsibility of the government (Norway, in this case), to bring him to justice. One of the functions of government is to enforce their own laws.
Whether or not he's guilty will be up to his country's court system. The best thing you can do is contribute to his defense.
People who demonstrate illegally are subject to arrest. Whether it's by parading without a permit, or posting DeCSS, it's still illegal, and is still subject to legal action. Apparently, the MPAA got their message through far better than we did. Who's fault is that?
Perhaps if there is enough civil disobedience, then the RIAA's friends will reconsider. However, if Jon's government felt that they had a prosecutable offense, they were within their rights (and were right) to arrest him.
I did some benchmarking of an 40x IDE v. 16x SCSI using Adaptec's EZ-SCSI. Not scientific, I grant you, but I wanted to see.
The 40x IDE did outperform the 16x SCSI, but only barely. In small random reads, the 16x SCSI actually outperformed the 40x IDE.
I doubt this translates directly to hard drives, but for CD drives there appears to be a significant difference. I wish I'd kept the numbers, so I could compare the IDE with my Plextor 32x...
Whaddya mean, they don't have Microsoft's resources to make up for zero revenue? AOL has buckets of money, and considering that they need some kind of UI for thier service, you'd think they'd be happy to spend it on their own product, rather than license IE technology from MS.
What a load of hooey. All JP did was exploit packet storm's single point of failure - Harvard. If he didn't know that all of his data belonged to Harvard, that's his fault, too.
If he had really been concerned about Packet Storm, and his school assignments, he would've backed it up, himself (and stuck it under his pillow:-). Losing Packet Storm (and all of his work) was his own damn fault.
Haven't any of you heard of "personal responsibility"? He was given root - he _was_ the sysadmin. He could've backed up to anywhere in the world. He was a security "expert". Why didn't he notice his own vulnerability?
People are so damn quick to point at someone else, and say "its their fault! they said they'd take care of me!"
Everybody is vulnerable. Looks to me like someone forgot.
But he doesn't make backups of his important data?
JP may be an ass, but KW's a twit. The loss of his data is his own fault. What if the server simply crashed? Who would he blame then? Not himself, it seems.
Seems to me some of his sniveling should be directed at his own ineptness.
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What difference does it make? If a 1Ghz Athlon is cheap enough at the time, there's nothing keeping them from putting one of those in. It's not like they have to redesign much - The underlying architecture stays the same. It also opens the door for the X-Box II. Is your 600Mhz X-box slow? Get Version 2, with the 1.2Ghz chip, for a mere $100 more.
I just can't see a hard drive taking the abuse a five year old can dish out when they lose that last life.
Why wouldn't Slashdot resort to sensationalist reporting? After all, they're in this to make money. Just by being biased, they've gotten a whole bunch of people to click to the comments page (another adview), post (another adview), and then return to see their post (yet another adview).
MS isn't the only company in the world that resorts to socail engineering to fatten their bottom line. Nor would slashdot be the first place to trade their credibility for money.
If someone steals something of yours, despite having it locked up, and they're caught, do you 1) let them go; after all your locks suck, or 2) press charges?
He may or may not be found guilty, and there is a serious abuse of the system going on, but if he's potentially broken some laws, it is the responsibility of the government (Norway, in this case), to bring him to justice. One of the functions of government is to enforce their own laws.
Whether or not he's guilty will be up to his country's court system. The best thing you can do is contribute to his defense.
People who demonstrate illegally are subject to arrest. Whether it's by parading without a permit, or posting DeCSS, it's still illegal, and is still subject to legal action. Apparently, the MPAA got their message through far better than we did. Who's fault is that?
Perhaps if there is enough civil disobedience, then the RIAA's friends will reconsider. However, if Jon's government felt that they had a prosecutable offense, they were within their rights (and were right) to arrest him.
I did some benchmarking of an 40x IDE v. 16x SCSI using Adaptec's EZ-SCSI. Not scientific, I grant you, but I wanted to see.
The 40x IDE did outperform the 16x SCSI, but only barely. In small random reads, the 16x SCSI actually outperformed the 40x IDE.
I doubt this translates directly to hard drives, but for CD drives there appears to be a significant difference. I wish I'd kept the numbers, so I could compare the IDE with my Plextor 32x...
Whaddya mean, they don't have Microsoft's resources to make up for zero revenue? AOL has buckets of money, and considering that they need some kind of UI for thier service, you'd think they'd be happy to spend it on their own product, rather than license IE technology from MS.
Spend 10 minutes with the client (cli or gui) in a debugger, and you'll see plenty of places to improve performance.
I don't necessarily agree with the whole article, but the client could be much faster.
What a load of hooey. All JP did was exploit packet storm's single point of failure - Harvard. If he didn't know that all of his data belonged to Harvard, that's his fault, too.
:-). Losing Packet Storm (and all of his work) was his own damn fault.
If he had really been concerned about Packet Storm, and his school assignments, he would've backed it up, himself (and stuck it under his pillow
Haven't any of you heard of "personal responsibility"? He was given root - he _was_ the sysadmin. He could've backed up to anywhere in the world. He was a security "expert". Why didn't he notice his own vulnerability?
People are so damn quick to point at someone else, and say "its their fault! they said they'd take care of me!"
Everybody is vulnerable. Looks to me like someone forgot.
But he doesn't make backups of his important data?
JP may be an ass, but KW's a twit. The loss of his data is his own fault. What if the server simply crashed? Who would he blame then? Not himself, it seems.
Seems to me some of his sniveling should be directed at his own ineptness.
My Asus has a setting in the BIOS called "Wake on Power fail". Works great.