On my Dell 600m laptop, it doesn't permanently clock down, but instead adjusts the clock speed down until you're using an application, upon which it'll clock up to maximum speed. Pentium M chips have multiple behaviours depending on what you set it to do.
This application lets you switch them if you desire. http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/
It depends on how you set your laptop 'power saving mode' in the control panel, normally, but this makes it explicit. The "Dynamic switching" function will allow it to auto throttle. You might have it set to "maximum battery life".
You can watch it clock up and down with cpu utilization, and that's how it should work!
You're totally correct. They have no technical skill involved, and are basically doing a "IS THIS POSSIBLE" forum post as a sourceforge project. Generally, it's a stupid thing to head a project, say you can do it without a problem, post it, and then say:
"The NO crew are looking for an experienced UNIX C developer with excellent wireless networking skills. Be sure to drop us a message."
Seriously. If you AREN'T an experienced developer with wireless networking skills, you probably shouldn't assume that you can do this project, being that you haven't a clue how the systems operate then. Trying to find one after the fact is sort of like declaring that you can send a person to the moon by putting him in a rocket, but need rocket scientists to draw up the plans.
Not really. For example, PGP typically has a seperator to indicate where the signed portion starts and ends. Everything outside of that is unsigned and fair game. So you can have both signed and unsigned parts to a message, and it won't really matter.
Assault Rifle: $4500 Spotting a passenger with an iPod, 45 seconds. Getting a subway full of ipods until your investment is indeed a dime a dozen: Priceless.
The following gadget allows you to plug in a keyboard and mouse into an xbox or ps2, and configures them to emulate the joypads. Solved. Use your keyboard and mouse on the console.
Security via obscurity your thing? It makes no sense to hide stuff that can hurt you, rather than to be able to TELL what might. Your ostrich defense isn't very effective.
>'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.'
Sheesh. Whatever happened to the last benchmark unit? Libraries of Congresses? All you kids and your new fangled metric system... DVD units. Back in my day, we were sued by BOOK publishers! Not some crazy eight track industry. Those were some REAL copyrights.
According to Gmail's feature wishlist : (you can get this by going to help and hitting send feedback)
done! Address book import we'll try Opera support we'll try Ability to send messages with HTML formatting we'll try POP3 access working on it Plain HTML version of Gmail working on it Ability to save a draft
I was going to say that the site you linked wasn't feature complete, but then I hit games.slashdot.org and was immediately greeted by the familiar assortment of colorschemes that seem to perpetuate my professor's slides.
Pico gives us random endlines. Editing a sensitive config file and ending up with a linebreak because it wrapped, that's bad.
In vi, jumping to a line number is as easy as hitting colon and typing in the number, and hitting enter. You can even jump relative, for moving around in ASM code, etc.
Pico, nano, and joe don't come near the power of vi.
vim's built in regex stuff makes the distinction yet more clear.
Actually, it's just as easy, if not easier to pirate something on the xbox side. Except that it's easier, in that nearly all xbox software is 'precracked', as in there's no safedisc, or securom to crack, only requiring a modchip. You can just download and install the game directly to the xbox hard drive. Further, if you have a retail game disc, you can rent it, run a simple program, and the xbox will copy the whole drive to the disk automatically.
Really, it's easier than on the PC. A modchip on the xbox does wonders.
To my pleasant surprise, I've been running doom3 at a pretty decent framerate on my system. Turning shadows off upped my framerate by an awful lot, and considering that the corridors are really dark to begin with, it works pretty well. 640x480 low qual is fairly smooth, 800x600 low qual is playable, but not too smooth.
I'm using a dell 600m laptop, with a 32mb(gasp) radeon 9000, 684mb of ram, and a 1.3ghz pentium-m.
Surprisingly runs alot better than deus ex 2, invisible war, while looking a heck lot better too. Go ID.
Things they suggested they could do in the article were stuff like sniff email passwords and read MSN conversations. Unless you plan to block everyone from using any outside POP3 server, many of which do not use SSL, I highly doubt this is possible. You can do some crazy things with tunnels, but eh. Can't force a server OUTSIDE your control to use SSL.
The same follows for MSN. Because of the protocol, you can't change them.
If you really really wanted to, you could make connecting to the network a pain in the ass by encrypting everything everywhere though SSH tunnels or VPNs, etc. But that means your technical support staff calls will increase threefold. It's hard enough getting them to plug their machines in the wall and give them an IP.
That's exactly what they did. Sniff traffic. That's it. They didn't actively crack the system. Nor is this easy at all to defend from. It seems incredibly overblown, because all you need to do is use SSL to defeat this. They probably uses switches already, but that doesn't stop ettercap.
Forcing people to use SSL? That's not something netadmins can force thousands of students to do. This isn't about cracking a weakly protected security system, it's about eating packets.
No. The MAME team writes custom drivers for many games. Sometimes they have to write more than normal, to emulate a special chip. Most of the time, they have to emulate the board, but the CPUs are already available n another driver.
If it's a special minicomputer, then they wrote a driver for it. As a case in point, several MAME drivers have to emulate early 3dfx chips, hard drives, and weird controllers, which are most definitely not a stock systems.
Although HD models are great for alot of things, I wouldn't try to go skiing or snowboarding while using an HD model. A flash model though, makes perfect sense for such a situation. Besides, isn't it cool to go downhill with background music, ala james bond chase scenes?
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On my Dell 600m laptop, it doesn't permanently clock down, but instead adjusts the clock speed down until you're using an application, upon which it'll clock up to maximum speed. Pentium M chips have multiple behaviours depending on what you set it to do.
This application lets you switch them if you desire.
http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/
It depends on how you set your laptop 'power saving mode' in the control panel, normally, but this makes it explicit. The "Dynamic switching" function will allow it to auto throttle. You might have it set to "maximum battery life".
You can watch it clock up and down with cpu utilization, and that's how it should work!
You can solve it for Y = with both roots, and it'll come out fine. Kinda like graphing equations on a trusty old TI-83.
i.e.
y = sqrt(1 - x^2)
y = -sqrt(1 - x^2)
You're totally correct. They have no technical skill involved, and are basically doing a "IS THIS POSSIBLE" forum post as a sourceforge project. Generally, it's a stupid thing to head a project, say you can do it without a problem, post it, and then say:
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"The NO crew are looking for an experienced UNIX C developer with excellent wireless networking skills. Be sure to drop us a message."
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_i
*bashes head against a table*
Seriously. If you AREN'T an experienced developer with wireless networking skills, you probably shouldn't assume that you can do this project, being that you haven't a clue how the systems operate then. Trying to find one after the fact is sort of like declaring that you can send a person to the moon by putting him in a rocket, but need rocket scientists to draw up the plans.
Not really. For example, PGP typically has a seperator to indicate where the signed portion starts and ends. Everything outside of that is unsigned and fair game. So you can have both signed and unsigned parts to a message, and it won't really matter.
Assault Rifle: $4500
Spotting a passenger with an iPod, 45 seconds.
Getting a subway full of ipods until your investment is indeed a dime a dozen: Priceless.
The following gadget allows you to plug in a keyboard and mouse into an xbox or ps2, and configures them to emulate the joypads. Solved. Use your keyboard and mouse on the console.
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?products_id=54
Security via obscurity your thing? It makes no sense to hide stuff that can hurt you, rather than to be able to TELL what might. Your ostrich defense isn't very effective.
>A full working, useful OS on a business card CD. Try that with Windows.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
It works great. Granted, it's not knoppix, but it's not impossible.
>'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.'
Sheesh. Whatever happened to the last benchmark unit? Libraries of Congresses? All you kids and your new fangled metric system... DVD units. Back in my day, we were sued by BOOK publishers! Not some crazy eight track industry. Those were some REAL copyrights.
*prattles*
> Finally a laptop that isn't a brick! my back will be saved!
From the article:
It has an ALi M5229 PCI Bust Master IDE controller by Acer Labs and a Ricoh controller for the CF slot.
Not to mention your uh... gut...?
According to Gmail's feature wishlist : (you can get this by going to help and hitting send feedback)
done! Address book import
we'll try Opera support
we'll try Ability to send messages with HTML formatting
we'll try POP3 access
working on it Plain HTML version of Gmail
working on it Ability to save a draft
So this is not entirely out of the question.
I was going to say that the site you linked wasn't feature complete, but then I hit games.slashdot.org and was immediately greeted by the familiar assortment of colorschemes that seem to perpetuate my professor's slides.
Thanks for the link.
Ironically, on the other hand, emacs has been doing this for years, without much data compression.
*ducks*
Pico gives us random endlines. Editing a sensitive config file and ending up with a linebreak because it wrapped, that's bad.
In vi, jumping to a line number is as easy as hitting colon and typing in the number, and hitting enter. You can even jump relative, for moving around in ASM code, etc.
Pico, nano, and joe don't come near the power of vi.
vim's built in regex stuff makes the distinction yet more clear.
Hey, uh... I probably shouldn't tell you this, but Half Life 2, Halo 2, and Fable are coming out pretty soon too...
Dude? Are you still there?
*pause*
I probably also shouldn't tell you about dragon age. That's like, the OTHER sequel to NWN. So there's two sequels instead of one.
*thump*
I got dibs on your computer when I find your corpse dead of starvation clicking frantically.
Actually, it's just as easy, if not easier to pirate something on the xbox side. Except that it's easier, in that nearly all xbox software is 'precracked', as in there's no safedisc, or securom to crack, only requiring a modchip. You can just download and install the game directly to the xbox hard drive. Further, if you have a retail game disc, you can rent it, run a simple program, and the xbox will copy the whole drive to the disk automatically.
Really, it's easier than on the PC. A modchip on the xbox does wonders.
To my pleasant surprise, I've been running doom3 at a pretty decent framerate on my system. Turning shadows off upped my framerate by an awful lot, and considering that the corridors are really dark to begin with, it works pretty well. 640x480 low qual is fairly smooth, 800x600 low qual is playable, but not too smooth.
I'm using a dell 600m laptop, with a 32mb(gasp) radeon 9000, 684mb of ram, and a 1.3ghz pentium-m.
Surprisingly runs alot better than deus ex 2, invisible war, while looking a heck lot better too. Go ID.
Can't wait to get a paper carton copy...
> Are these guys being recruited by their governments to be counter terrorist forces?
Sure. Much like the best Spiderman 2 player is recruited by the Avengers every year.
Things they suggested they could do in the article were stuff like sniff email passwords and read MSN conversations. Unless you plan to block everyone from using any outside POP3 server, many of which do not use SSL, I highly doubt this is possible. You can do some crazy things with tunnels, but eh. Can't force a server OUTSIDE your control to use SSL.
The same follows for MSN. Because of the protocol, you can't change them.
If you really really wanted to, you could make connecting to the network a pain in the ass by encrypting everything everywhere though SSH tunnels or VPNs, etc. But that means your technical support staff calls will increase threefold. It's hard enough getting them to plug their machines in the wall and give them an IP.
That's exactly what they did. Sniff traffic. That's it. They didn't actively crack the system. Nor is this easy at all to defend from. It seems incredibly overblown, because all you need to do is use SSL to defeat this. They probably uses switches already, but that doesn't stop ettercap.
Forcing people to use SSL? That's not something netadmins can force thousands of students to do. This isn't about cracking a weakly protected security system, it's about eating packets.
No. The MAME team writes custom drivers for many games. Sometimes they have to write more than normal, to emulate a special chip. Most of the time, they have to emulate the board, but the CPUs are already available n another driver.
If it's a special minicomputer, then they wrote a driver for it. As a case in point, several MAME drivers have to emulate early 3dfx chips, hard drives, and weird controllers, which are most definitely not a stock systems.
> If it can survive a ride on a paint mixer, I think it will do just fine on a ski hill.
Clearly, you've never seen me ski.
*speeds downhill*
*wham*
Although HD models are great for alot of things, I wouldn't try to go skiing or snowboarding while using an HD model. A flash model though, makes perfect sense for such a situation. Besides, isn't it cool to go downhill with background music, ala james bond chase scenes?
>doesn't get stale
Unfortunately, here in the US, that doesn't hold. We're trying NOT to have it repeat every five minutes, remember?
Thank you, clearchannel.
Not if you put it on video, and think tanks certainly are publishing the stuff they make up.