Interesting that you hate it. I have a PPC-6700 and absolutely love it. Remote desktop connection (granted, it's difficult but better than nothing in a pinch), SSH (PocketPutty), Full CSS & JS capable web browser (minimo), WiFi, Bluetooth DUN, contact management, streaming video/audio from my desktop, password manager (KeePass), Real Time Strategy for then I'm bored (Argentum)... it's like having a laptop that fits in the cell pocket in my jeans. It's not the best cell phone out there (though it does work for making/receiving calls) but for an integrated device, it's pretty darn good. And with ~0.98Mbps average Internet connection, it's a great backup Internet connection too.
It isn't stealing - it's copyright infringement!!! Won't you people ever get this right? It's not like they would have "bought" a copy of Linux anyway so nobody is out any profits. And since you can make unlimited copies of data for free, taking this "copy" isn't stealing - just copyright infringement. Of course, if the LCAA gets their way, they'll threaten to sue for $100K and setting for $5K.
How about the ability to have dual video cards within a laptop? The low-power on-cpu video driver for when you're just browsing the web or whatnot and the latest Nvidia/ATI pci-e power-hog for when you're gaming... think of the battery life you could have when reading your email at the airport without sacrificing the ability to play your favorite games at full res.
No, the laws of thermodynamics say that 100% of the energy will be absorbed... By the receiving device, by the transmitting device or by something else. But 100% of it will be reabsorbed by something, somewhere (well, unless it gets radiated at such a trajectory that it does not encounter any mass capable of absorbing it). The question is, what part of your body resonates at 6.4Mhz (and do you care if it absorbs energy).
I don't think they mean that the per-hour cost of standby power exceeds the per-hour cost of having the device on but rather that you may have a device which uses 7W in standby 22hrs/day and 60W on for 2hrs/day (LCD TV?). This means that on the average day, the device uses 154W in standby and 120W while in use. Over the lifetime of the device (say, 900 days), the device uses 30KW more in standby than it did while in use. Another example of this is your hot water heater/tank. If you have an older, less insulated tank, you may be able to reduce your hot water power usage by more than 50% by getting an on-demand water heater which eliminates standby power usage.
No, murphy doesn't state that - common sense does. I mean, you're just wasting your time if the bad actuator isn't the last one you test. Unless you suspect there is more than one bad actuator. This has very little to do with Murphy.
Ah, but there is already a solution to this on the market. 3Ware Escalade cards which use an on-controller cache of up to 1GB are capable of accepting a backup battery unit (BBU) which enables the controller to retain the data in the on-card cache when power is lost. The only requirement is that you power on the drive connected to the controller card once before disconnecting it and moving it to another system. While this isn't perfect, it's pretty good.
Actually the 3Ware 9500-series RAID controllers use a SO-DIMM (notebook memory) as on-controller cache. They come with 128MB cache and support up to 1GB cache (by replacing the SO-DIMM with a 1GB SO-DIMM). There may be others...
I've done yet one better. In standard Slashdot fashion, I'm posting this comment without reading the article or the summary... so I STILL haven't heard of it!
Thanks for the tip. From what I know, for these kind of attacks to be carried out without multiple system login attempts requires access to the hashed or encrypted password which users do not have unless they have physical access to my computer. In which case they can just boot a Live CD and be done with it. Right? Or have I missed something?
My 6 character password stands up to cracking programs. Because you only get 3 tries. Of course, it never takes me more than 2 tries (and rarely takes even 2) because I know just what the password is. Passwords aren't the problem - the problem is the way modern systems use them. Why don't we make things ever harder the more tries you fail at. For instance, you get 1 try to enter the password. If that fails, the next time you must enter the password and user's birthday. If that fails, you must enter the password, birthday and last 4 of the user's social. If that fails, you must enter the password, birthday, last 4 of the user's social and mother's maiden name. If that fails... well, you get the point.
I once wrote a program that I didn't want anyone else to be able to use. There were a number of security features but one of them was that if any part of the authentication routine (password, physical pass key disk, image point selection, etc) failed, it didn't tell you and just continued on in the process and when you completed it you would see fake data and interface controls. It would let you start manipulating things and after a short random time interval it would run garbage collection, throw a random error code and kill itself. Anyone trying to use my program probably thought I was the worst programmer in the world. And they probably would have given up after a few tries.
The point is - cracking your password/account/program/whatever doesn't have to be impossible. It just has to be significantly more difficult than cracking the next guy's.
I guess this is off topic but you do realize that the intended audience for the "shock and awe" campaign was the Iraqi military and not foreign insurgents. And that for the most part it did work - in fact, many Iraqi soldiers were so desperate to surrender that they actually had difficulty finding someone to surrender to fast enough. Groups of Iraqi soldiers would surrender to medical and repair personel.
Obviously, this plan failed to take into account the insurgency made up of extremists (both local and foreign).
Actually, there is a good discussion about Bluetooth available here and basically what it has to say about licensing costs is that there are reasonable licensing plans for virtually any size production (from just a few to millions of products).
Wow, I didn't know that you worked at *myemployerhere* too! Actually, I read your article and thought it was amazing how exactly identical your situation is to mine. My solution? Well, I'm ready to leave if another comparable (benefits) job comes along working for a company which is smaller. Probably the only way to fix something like this is to make the company smaller.
And if there is one thing that would make people look for a new broadband company (eg. switch to cable, etc) it's limiting their access to Google. Seriously, I can't think of anyone I know who has broadband and would put up with not having access to Google. Most would switch back to dial-up before losing Google.
Actually, you're allowed to discriminate by skin color and gender too. But only if you're discriminating against whites or males. And especially if you are discriminating against white males.
Very true. I remember when I worked sales an electrical components and electronics retailer. The point was driven home when our manager showed us that by selling a $25 box of paper along with the mid-priced computer/printer combo we could double the profit.
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Since all gas heaters of this type manufactured since 1983 are required to have an oxygen depletion sensor, fortunately this is no longer a danger.
Interesting that you hate it. I have a PPC-6700 and absolutely love it. Remote desktop connection (granted, it's difficult but better than nothing in a pinch), SSH (PocketPutty), Full CSS & JS capable web browser (minimo), WiFi, Bluetooth DUN, contact management, streaming video/audio from my desktop, password manager (KeePass), Real Time Strategy for then I'm bored (Argentum)... it's like having a laptop that fits in the cell pocket in my jeans. It's not the best cell phone out there (though it does work for making/receiving calls) but for an integrated device, it's pretty darn good. And with ~0.98Mbps average Internet connection, it's a great backup Internet connection too.
How about a lump of aerogel for those who have been good? Soooo tempting. I wish they had the large pieces in stock.
It isn't stealing - it's copyright infringement!!! Won't you people ever get this right? It's not like they would have "bought" a copy of Linux anyway so nobody is out any profits. And since you can make unlimited copies of data for free, taking this "copy" isn't stealing - just copyright infringement. Of course, if the LCAA gets their way, they'll threaten to sue for $100K and setting for $5K.
How about the ability to have dual video cards within a laptop? The low-power on-cpu video driver for when you're just browsing the web or whatnot and the latest Nvidia/ATI pci-e power-hog for when you're gaming... think of the battery life you could have when reading your email at the airport without sacrificing the ability to play your favorite games at full res.
No, the laws of thermodynamics say that 100% of the energy will be absorbed... By the receiving device, by the transmitting device or by something else. But 100% of it will be reabsorbed by something, somewhere (well, unless it gets radiated at such a trajectory that it does not encounter any mass capable of absorbing it). The question is, what part of your body resonates at 6.4Mhz (and do you care if it absorbs energy).
I don't think they mean that the per-hour cost of standby power exceeds the per-hour cost of having the device on but rather that you may have a device which uses 7W in standby 22hrs/day and 60W on for 2hrs/day (LCD TV?). This means that on the average day, the device uses 154W in standby and 120W while in use. Over the lifetime of the device (say, 900 days), the device uses 30KW more in standby than it did while in use. Another example of this is your hot water heater/tank. If you have an older, less insulated tank, you may be able to reduce your hot water power usage by more than 50% by getting an on-demand water heater which eliminates standby power usage.
No, murphy doesn't state that - common sense does. I mean, you're just wasting your time if the bad actuator isn't the last one you test. Unless you suspect there is more than one bad actuator. This has very little to do with Murphy.
Because processing power is even cheaper. Especially when you are doing archival operations such as backups - write once, read once (maybe).
Ah, but there is already a solution to this on the market. 3Ware Escalade cards which use an on-controller cache of up to 1GB are capable of accepting a backup battery unit (BBU) which enables the controller to retain the data in the on-card cache when power is lost. The only requirement is that you power on the drive connected to the controller card once before disconnecting it and moving it to another system. While this isn't perfect, it's pretty good.
Actually the 3Ware 9500-series RAID controllers use a SO-DIMM (notebook memory) as on-controller cache. They come with 128MB cache and support up to 1GB cache (by replacing the SO-DIMM with a 1GB SO-DIMM). There may be others...
I recently used Website Baker on a website I developed and I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of use and documentation.
I've done yet one better. In standard Slashdot fashion, I'm posting this comment without reading the article or the summary... so I STILL haven't heard of it!
But in general they don't pay for it.
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Thanks for the tip. From what I know, for these kind of attacks to be carried out without multiple system login attempts requires access to the hashed or encrypted password which users do not have unless they have physical access to my computer. In which case they can just boot a Live CD and be done with it. Right? Or have I missed something?
My 6 character password stands up to cracking programs. Because you only get 3 tries. Of course, it never takes me more than 2 tries (and rarely takes even 2) because I know just what the password is. Passwords aren't the problem - the problem is the way modern systems use them. Why don't we make things ever harder the more tries you fail at. For instance, you get 1 try to enter the password. If that fails, the next time you must enter the password and user's birthday. If that fails, you must enter the password, birthday and last 4 of the user's social. If that fails, you must enter the password, birthday, last 4 of the user's social and mother's maiden name. If that fails... well, you get the point.
I once wrote a program that I didn't want anyone else to be able to use. There were a number of security features but one of them was that if any part of the authentication routine (password, physical pass key disk, image point selection, etc) failed, it didn't tell you and just continued on in the process and when you completed it you would see fake data and interface controls. It would let you start manipulating things and after a short random time interval it would run garbage collection, throw a random error code and kill itself. Anyone trying to use my program probably thought I was the worst programmer in the world. And they probably would have given up after a few tries.
The point is - cracking your password/account/program/whatever doesn't have to be impossible. It just has to be significantly more difficult than cracking the next guy's.
I guess this is off topic but you do realize that the intended audience for the "shock and awe" campaign was the Iraqi military and not foreign insurgents. And that for the most part it did work - in fact, many Iraqi soldiers were so desperate to surrender that they actually had difficulty finding someone to surrender to fast enough. Groups of Iraqi soldiers would surrender to medical and repair personel. Obviously, this plan failed to take into account the insurgency made up of extremists (both local and foreign).
Actually, there is a good discussion about Bluetooth available here and basically what it has to say about licensing costs is that there are reasonable licensing plans for virtually any size production (from just a few to millions of products).
Wow, I didn't know that you worked at *myemployerhere* too! Actually, I read your article and thought it was amazing how exactly identical your situation is to mine. My solution? Well, I'm ready to leave if another comparable (benefits) job comes along working for a company which is smaller. Probably the only way to fix something like this is to make the company smaller.
And if there is one thing that would make people look for a new broadband company (eg. switch to cable, etc) it's limiting their access to Google. Seriously, I can't think of anyone I know who has broadband and would put up with not having access to Google. Most would switch back to dial-up before losing Google.
I hear ya. Just be glad it wasn't twins! :0
Actually, you're allowed to discriminate by skin color and gender too. But only if you're discriminating against whites or males. And especially if you are discriminating against white males.
Very true. I remember when I worked sales an electrical components and electronics retailer. The point was driven home when our manager showed us that by selling a $25 box of paper along with the mid-priced computer/printer combo we could double the profit.
RAID 1 would give you better speed improvements unless all you do with your computer is large sequential reads. And a bonus of redundancy.