Yours was probably the most insightful one on this topic. There's plenty of 'kill these processes and remove this runonce key' bollocks, but they don't work with modern malware. My friend works for a computer repair company, and he found a malware a few days ago that creates a new Scheduled Task to update itself, so no amount of killing reg keys will stop it. In fact it's even worse, as until then he'd leave after 'cleaning up' a PC only to get called out on the way home as it had reinstalled itself.
pskill is a useful tool to have. Having it on a windows boot cd using Bart's PE tool is even better, as long as you keep it up to date with the latest virus defs and spybot defs. It's just like a Linux live cd, but with native Windows apps. It maybe best to put it on a bootable memory card, but i've never managed to get it to work. Either way some malware is far ahead of the detection methods of Spybot et al that they are a bitch to remove for someone who knows what they're doing, so comments that help would be appreciated on this subject.
Actually, most (11 out of the top 20) of the top (domestic) grossing movies of all time have been PG-13 or higher.
I'd imagine that would be the case if DVD sales were taken into account. The DVDs make more cash that the theatres, and although a low rating is preferable in a the latter this isn't the case for films people buy. Hence the annoying trend of 'directors cut' versions of films, which are just the original film before they butchered the theatrical release to lower the rating.
If a person is the first to submit a link to a new phishing site, the user receives a free prize, such as a coffee mug. Miller said other offerings are in the works as well. An e-mail appears in users' inboxes asking them to return a postal address for the prize, which takes 28 days to deliver.
Agreed. I read both sites in question, trying to keep myself up to date on what's going on. The Register, though having gone downhill since Mike left, is unashamedly a tabloid - they throw muck and some of it sticks. It's pretty blatant but that's how I like it, I don't take it seriously.
I've followed Groklaw since it started (round when I first started playing with Linux) and although full of useful community spirit with digging out old evidence and such, it's plainly a self congratulatory wankfest.
Most threads start with multiple 'corrections here...' and 'OT here...' posts with references to how much they can't wait to see PJ in that fecking red dress. I hope she likes being stalked by morons with webcams and erections. These posts are followed by clueless remarks from plebs with bad signatures stating Linux is going to rule Mars one day. One I saw today stated that the poster didn't mind receiving email because they 'run a non Windows operating system'. I'd imagine it's because they have no friends and are therefore desperate for messages, which is the only explanation for half the pathetic wingnuts on there who got their signatures and chat-up lines from car bumper stickers.
Of course they're supporting it - it's a new (therefore currently uncopiable) format, it's DRMed up to the eyeballs and they get to sell people yet another copy of films they already own, at premium prices too.
Digital cable is such a misnomer, I can't believe they get away with selling it as digital.
I believe it's because it is, in fact, a digital system.
You're believing the marketers here by associating digital with 'quality'. Here in the UK we have digital radio (DAB) and due to using the old mp2 codec as rates as low as 64kbits/s it sounds crap. Digital in this case really means 'reliability', as in it'll sound the same each time you play it, not necessary better quality.
Also, a load of pubs here have 42" cheap plasma screens with 852x480 resolution. That's not quite enough for standard definition TV vertically and looks shit with a heavily compressed Sky Digital feed. The screen is not high res enough to post-process the picture nicely, so there's tonnes of dot crawl, colour bleeding and blockiness. It looks even worse when a new series starts, they must recompress it as the picture is terrible - usually this is sorted out by time they air repeats though.
Another thing by the way that hasn't been mentioned about mpeg4 vs mpeg2 - yes mpeg4 is a newer and generally better codec but it's also a lot more complex and hard to tune, especially when they're using real-time hardware to do this. Don't assume mpeg4 will be automatically better just because supports higher resolution video.
With few exceptions, all digital cameras use the same type of CCD where the pixels are read in an RGBG square (red green blue green). I believe Sony has an encoding with an extra color and the Foveon sensor used in Sigma cameras reads RGB all in the space of one pixel (very cool technology and produces great results).
Off the top of my head I can think of Fuji as a reason why this is more complicated than you think. Fuji cameras have hexagonal (I think) 'pixels' and some of their resolution claims assume that the conjunctions of these in a honeycomb fashion means there is 'more' data to interpolate. It's a matter of discussion just how much extra apparent resolution this makes, but it's also completely different to process than the other cameras. The Foveon CCDs too are different than anything else - the stacked arrangement of colours means the actual captured data is very grey, and again needs special processing.
It's not too easy to accommodate all these requirements in a format that provides data in a uniform manner from all sorts of odd hardware in a way that allows software to manipulate it generically.
And I'm not just being a random MS-basher here. The number of ATMs, flight-info displays, and price-check terminals with BSODs these days is staggering. For all you MS-apologists out there: when was the last time you saw an ATM with an error that wasn't an Window error?
I too find joy in seeing a random BSOD. I've seen them afflict all those fancy colour-screen ATMs, fruit machines in pubs, an open-air promo video wall in Gran Canaria, and it is funny. I'm geek enough to take photographs of them, which prompts a load of 'look at that idiot' style looks.
That said, we should be fair - if OS/2 crashed (which it hardly did) most people here wouldn't recognise the panic screen, if indeed OS/2 has one and doesn't just 'hang'. Whereas everyone had seen a BSOD, so knows what to look for. It's a slightly unfair comparison, but based in fact.
What's OS/2? Like, half an operating system or something?:P
Funnily enough, a few years ago I had issues running an app my company had developed and we traced the problem down to a COM component called 'Highedit', which was a nice rtf editor with some amazing bugs. I phoned up the (German) authors and the nice lady then referred to it as (phonetically) 'Oh Ess Half'
Mind you it was the same company who in the English version of their manuals in the copyright preface had the line
Warning! He who copies this software renders himself!
I thought it was Digital Restrictions Management . ..
At the risk of choking the life out of this poor old joke, I have to point out that it is actually Digital Revenue Manufacture. A way of pulling more money out of us poor punters asses by making us buy the same stuff multiple times...
68000, ~'80... 8 32-bit GPRs, 8 32-bit index registers.
You know, I used to program 68000s on the Atari ST and Amiga, but i've never thought about this - you're right, an old 68000 had better register than the newer Athlon XP in my new computer. Amazing. As an aside, as the Atari didn't address more than 16 bits of memory you could use the top (unused) half of the ax registers to store other stuff sometimes.
"cannot load MS Word files that have embedded jpeg images" sure microsoft has not released any specs on how to save imbeded objects from word.. so how could it.. that is the point.
Rubbish. The point is to ease the users transition - that means.doc files should work. MS making it difficult maybe childish but it's something OSS has to deal with. Remember that users don't give a toss about software holy wars, they just want things to work otherwise OSS will never gain market share with them. Only when this seamless integration works will the masses switch.
It'll be interesting to see if MS use the SCO style 'lets sue everybody' approach when they find people starting to use OO with Windows fonts.
As far as the competition angle... USB is intel's protocol, firewire is largely driven by apple... that was my point about competition.
The real issue here is taht Ms's monopoly allows them to crush a protocol if they so desire.
Dude, take off that shiny metal headgear. Why would Microsoft exert influence on a standard that doesn't affect their bottom line? You've pulled this out of your ass, ever considered a career in celebrity 'news'???
By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 11 August 2004, 09:55 THE MODERATOR of the RME forum has warned that installing Windows XP SP2 can lead to the bus speed being limited to 100Mbit/s.
Matthias Carstens posted the message on the RME forum yesterday, but says it's not a problem particular to RME products. He said: "It affects any Firewire 800 device. If you have a FW800 PCI card and an FW 800 hard disk, go see the bits come one by one through the Firewire cable".
RME, he said, was aware of the problem for some time, but "didn't really imagine that Microsoft would have the guts to try to bury an existing standard. We just downloaded the final public version and it is simply unbelievable".
He said that some companies are trying to sell Firewire 800 drivers so everything will be hunky-dory. But, he said, these drivers probably won't work correctly with a Fireface 800.
But phew, there is an answer. He said after the SP2 update, if you install the old SP1 Firewire drivers all will be well. "In our tests this solved all problems and brought back the old performance and compatibility".
He said RME will release detailed instructions on how to do this today.
Plenty of companies out there have been doing it just fine by basing their business model on Linux. Why can't McVoy find the same happy existence?
I agree with some of what you wrote, but this is bollocks. I don't know many companies that can make money supporting a source management system. It either does what you want or it doesn't, and support contracts generate little revenue if your users are all techie programmers - we generally fix it ourselves within reason. Open source doesn't work here, or at least from the perspective of a company paying for someone to develop it.
I've heard that newer NVidia cards can boot straight to TV.
So can older ones - the 5200 in my Shuttle for example just detects the TV. Actually so does the Radeon 7000 I had in there briefly, too.
We had a rep from a taiwanese embedded mobo manufacturer at my workplace today trying to sell us boards (we make display equipment for bookmakers). He didn't know that VIA had brought out open-source drivers for their integrated graphics and was pleased to have another selling point. It would have helped a year ago when we were speccing the hardware, but there you go.
It's not an insurmountible problem. I have a Windows smartphone (yeah, yeah) with a beta of the Opera browser which supports their caching proxy - not only does this reduce my gprs bill by cutting graphics down, but it also removes elements I can't display and reformats the rest for my device. Works a treat. I'm investigating something home-grown for the proxy end of things, but all the solutions I can find are geared to low bandwidth PCs, not the more limited smartphone devices.
but skip the DRM part. Or if you want to release the specs for the DRM part, by all means...
Insightful, this? People, the o.p. asked a sensible question which shows they are serious about adding support for Linux, and all you can poke out of your ass is a dig at Microsoft. If you can't help, then leave alone!
There's no way that works? I work 14 miles away from where I live (Cheltenham, UK). If it gets that far then i'm having one. And there was me thinking me being able to use my cordless phone in the pub across the road was amazing:D
Mind you i'd better watch out. I live about 1/2 mile away from GCHQ http://www.gchq.gov.uk//, and I wouldn't want them mistaking my phone calls for Saddam Husseins bat-signal.
I've met Nick Park - he's from the same town as me (Preston, England) and when I was at the local college he came to talk to the students. He's the worlds most utterly boring talker, but was playing with plasticine while he talked and would occasionally throw a fully-formed Wallace or Gromit into the crowd. Anyways, my name is Sean, i'm from Preston, he named it after me dagnabbit!
Odds are it has a headphone jack. Should play mp3 files without issue. Older versions of pocketpc had to hack back in media player to support mp3 format, but I doubt that is an issue anymore.
It's generally accepted that http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/ is the best audio and video player for pocketpc. I use it on my windows smartphone, and can watch pretty much any avi I can find on it. Music support is superb too, it'll play back my favourite musepack codec, as well as the usual aac/mp3/wma files.
It's free too, and in my mind is a killer app for the platform.
I want to support inexpensive and LEGAL channels to buy the music I want.
Like ITMS (even though I dislike the DRM), MP3Tunes, WalMart, MusicMatch (ditto for the DRM) and other sources...
Yup, you go right ahead and pay more for a crippled and lower quality download than you'd pay for a real CD...
I'm not saying allofmp3 are doing something good, but they are putting one in the eye of those who claim $.99 is the minimum a company can provide downloadable tracks for.
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Yours was probably the most insightful one on this topic. There's plenty of 'kill these processes and remove this runonce key' bollocks, but they don't work with modern malware. My friend works for a computer repair company, and he found a malware a few days ago that creates a new Scheduled Task to update itself, so no amount of killing reg keys will stop it. In fact it's even worse, as until then he'd leave after 'cleaning up' a PC only to get called out on the way home as it had reinstalled itself.
pskill is a useful tool to have. Having it on a windows boot cd using Bart's PE tool is even better, as long as you keep it up to date with the latest virus defs and spybot defs. It's just like a Linux live cd, but with native Windows apps. It maybe best to put it on a bootable memory card, but i've never managed to get it to work. Either way some malware is far ahead of the detection methods of Spybot et al that they are a bitch to remove for someone who knows what they're doing, so comments that help would be appreciated on this subject.
I'd imagine that would be the case if DVD sales were taken into account. The DVDs make more cash that the theatres, and although a low rating is preferable in a the latter this isn't the case for films people buy. Hence the annoying trend of 'directors cut' versions of films, which are just the original film before they butchered the theatrical release to lower the rating.
Well according to this: http://news.earthweb.com/security/article.php/345
Agreed. I read both sites in question, trying to keep myself up to date on what's going on. The Register, though having gone downhill since Mike left, is unashamedly a tabloid - they throw muck and some of it sticks. It's pretty blatant but that's how I like it, I don't take it seriously.
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I've followed Groklaw since it started (round when I first started playing with Linux) and although full of useful community spirit with digging out old evidence and such, it's plainly a self congratulatory wankfest.
Most threads start with multiple 'corrections here...' and 'OT here...' posts with references to how much they can't wait to see PJ in that fecking red dress. I hope she likes being stalked by morons with webcams and erections. These posts are followed by clueless remarks from plebs with bad signatures stating Linux is going to rule Mars one day. One I saw today stated that the poster didn't mind receiving email because they 'run a non Windows operating system'. I'd imagine it's because they have no friends and are therefore desperate for messages, which is the only explanation for half the pathetic wingnuts on there who got their signatures and chat-up lines from car bumper stickers.
Just my opinion
Of course they're supporting it - it's a new (therefore currently uncopiable) format, it's DRMed up to the eyeballs and they get to sell people yet another copy of films they already own, at premium prices too.
I believe it's because it is, in fact, a digital system.
You're believing the marketers here by associating digital with 'quality'. Here in the UK we have digital radio (DAB) and due to using the old mp2 codec as rates as low as 64kbits/s it sounds crap. Digital in this case really means 'reliability', as in it'll sound the same each time you play it, not necessary better quality.
Also, a load of pubs here have 42" cheap plasma screens with 852x480 resolution. That's not quite enough for standard definition TV vertically and looks shit with a heavily compressed Sky Digital feed. The screen is not high res enough to post-process the picture nicely, so there's tonnes of dot crawl, colour bleeding and blockiness. It looks even worse when a new series starts, they must recompress it as the picture is terrible - usually this is sorted out by time they air repeats though.
Another thing by the way that hasn't been mentioned about mpeg4 vs mpeg2 - yes mpeg4 is a newer and generally better codec but it's also a lot more complex and hard to tune, especially when they're using real-time hardware to do this. Don't assume mpeg4 will be automatically better just because supports higher resolution video.
Off the top of my head I can think of Fuji as a reason why this is more complicated than you think. Fuji cameras have hexagonal (I think) 'pixels' and some of their resolution claims assume that the conjunctions of these in a honeycomb fashion means there is 'more' data to interpolate. It's a matter of discussion just how much extra apparent resolution this makes, but it's also completely different to process than the other cameras. The Foveon CCDs too are different than anything else - the stacked arrangement of colours means the actual captured data is very grey, and again needs special processing.
It's not too easy to accommodate all these requirements in a format that provides data in a uniform manner from all sorts of odd hardware in a way that allows software to manipulate it generically.
I too find joy in seeing a random BSOD. I've seen them afflict all those fancy colour-screen ATMs, fruit machines in pubs, an open-air promo video wall in Gran Canaria, and it is funny. I'm geek enough to take photographs of them, which prompts a load of 'look at that idiot' style looks.
That said, we should be fair - if OS/2 crashed (which it hardly did) most people here wouldn't recognise the panic screen, if indeed OS/2 has one and doesn't just 'hang'. Whereas everyone had seen a BSOD, so knows what to look for. It's a slightly unfair comparison, but based in fact.
Funnily enough, a few years ago I had issues running an app my company had developed and we traced the problem down to a COM component called 'Highedit', which was a nice rtf editor with some amazing bugs. I phoned up the (German) authors and the nice lady then referred to it as (phonetically) 'Oh Ess Half'
Mind you it was the same company who in the English version of their manuals in the copyright preface had the line
At the risk of choking the life out of this poor old joke, I have to point out that it is actually Digital Revenue Manufacture. A way of pulling more money out of us poor punters asses by making us buy the same stuff multiple times...
You know, I used to program 68000s on the Atari ST and Amiga, but i've never thought about this - you're right, an old 68000 had better register than the newer Athlon XP in my new computer. Amazing. As an aside, as the Atari didn't address more than 16 bits of memory you could use the top (unused) half of the ax registers to store other stuff sometimes.
Rubbish. The point is to ease the users transition - that means
It'll be interesting to see if MS use the SCO style 'lets sue everybody' approach when they find people starting to use OO with Windows fonts.
Dude, take off that shiny metal headgear. Why would Microsoft exert influence on a standard that doesn't affect their bottom line? You've pulled this out of your ass, ever considered a career in celebrity 'news'???
I can't believe your obviously joke post has been modded +4 Insightful
*bangs head on desk*
I agree with some of what you wrote, but this is bollocks. I don't know many companies that can make money supporting a source management system. It either does what you want or it doesn't, and support contracts generate little revenue if your users are all techie programmers - we generally fix it ourselves within reason. Open source doesn't work here, or at least from the perspective of a company paying for someone to develop it.
So can older ones - the 5200 in my Shuttle for example just detects the TV. Actually so does the Radeon 7000 I had in there briefly, too.
We had a rep from a taiwanese embedded mobo manufacturer at my workplace today trying to sell us boards (we make display equipment for bookmakers). He didn't know that VIA had brought out open-source drivers for their integrated graphics and was pleased to have another selling point. It would have helped a year ago when we were speccing the hardware, but there you go.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?show topic=32440
The site insists on proper ABX tests too, not some thirteen olds insisting they can tell the difference between FLAC and Monkey's Audio codecs.
It's not an insurmountible problem. I have a Windows smartphone (yeah, yeah) with a beta of the Opera browser which supports their caching proxy - not only does this reduce my gprs bill by cutting graphics down, but it also removes elements I can't display and reformats the rest for my device. Works a treat. I'm investigating something home-grown for the proxy end of things, but all the solutions I can find are geared to low bandwidth PCs, not the more limited smartphone devices.
Insightful, this? People, the o.p. asked a sensible question which shows they are serious about adding support for Linux, and all you can poke out of your ass is a dig at Microsoft. If you can't help, then leave alone!
There's no way that works? I work 14 miles away from where I live (Cheltenham, UK). If it gets that far then i'm having one. And there was me thinking me being able to use my cordless phone in the pub across the road was amazing :D
Mind you i'd better watch out. I live about 1/2 mile away from GCHQ http://www.gchq.gov.uk//, and I wouldn't want them mistaking my phone calls for Saddam Husseins bat-signal.
My God those pictures put this place into perspective a bit :D
I've met Nick Park - he's from the same town as me (Preston, England) and when I was at the local college he came to talk to the students. He's the worlds most utterly boring talker, but was playing with plasticine while he talked and would occasionally throw a fully-formed Wallace or Gromit into the crowd. Anyways, my name is Sean, i'm from Preston, he named it after me dagnabbit!
It's generally accepted that http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/ is the best audio and video player for pocketpc. I use it on my windows smartphone, and can watch pretty much any avi I can find on it. Music support is superb too, it'll play back my favourite musepack codec, as well as the usual aac/mp3/wma files.
It's free too, and in my mind is a killer app for the platform.
Yup, you go right ahead and pay more for a crippled and lower quality download than you'd pay for a real CD...
I'm not saying allofmp3 are doing something good, but they are putting one in the eye of those who claim $.99 is the minimum a company can provide downloadable tracks for.