I have a 2011 macbook air, with the malware bundled with it (macos something or other) removed and replaced with win 8, and its by far the fastest computer ive ever used.
I blame the SSD.
Apps open instantly, visual studio doesnt take forever to open a project, explorer is responsive, and even the start menu search thing (supplied by a start menu emulation app) can do searches instantly (as could built in win7 start menu search), which makes opening apps, docs etc easy and useful.
SSDs are defo the future for desktops, with NAS hard drives for large stuff that doesnt need loads of random access (mpgs etc).
It can. File copying is now a proper queue with pause / resume on each item. At. f'ing. Last.
I actually like windows 8 explorer interface - its the best once since XP
As per usual in these UK-vs-troll cases, they fail to report if the alleged perp posted it to his own wall [innocent] or he/she went out of his/her way to post it somewhere deliberately offensive, such as in this case a soldier memorial page [guilty]. The forthcoming guidance from our dear leaders cant come soon enough... even if its wrong it will kick-start the debate. It also seems that re-tweets are exempt from punishment in these cases as demonstrated by Mr. Robin Hood Airport guy and the many, many people who retweeted it...
You end up with the best, most usable, most efficient logging class that the world has ever known, before which log4net can only cry with jealousy. However, your project doesnt depend on having good logging.... ooops!
Why do we still need a physical simcard ? it seems to me its essentially a private key stored on a chip (possibly in a non-extractable form). Why not just email digital certificate style keys to customers, and have them 'insert' them into phones using established file transfer techniques (protected by a password as well, which is required when installing the key). This would also make james bond style dual+ simcard phones very easy to implement (or maybe not if you need 2 radios...).
Even better, let any phone log onto any network, and auth the user at that stage (ie, unauthed phones can connect to auth server only, and only get phone service etc if they enter the correct creds).
Having physical simcards is wasteful as well - for example in the UK the cheapest way to get mobile broadband is a £80 12 month prepay simcard with 3, but every year i go in to the shop and ask if i can put another 12 months on, but they make me buy a new card and bin the old one...
I use Hyper-V at home . I was going to use ESXi (even bought a 'allowed' network card, and machine that was compatible), but after installing it I discovered that ESXi doesnt support dynamic disk images (ie you need to allocate the entire X Gb of space on physical disk), which makes simple backup tricky. Switched over to Hyper-V (using my TechNet license), and its worked perfectly for several years. Ive not managed to crash it once, and it supports dynamic disks, AND dynamic memory (ie, you can tell it to always have 50% free ram in machine A and 25% in machine B), which is great. Its also really nice to be able to RDP in for admin, rather than having to install special software on each client I may use. Of course I can also RDP in from my iPad / iPhone as well. The only major feature that is missing from Hyper-V (for my home/geek use) is USB support / hardware passthrough, although my adventures with Xen trying to get that happening were fruitless...
I agree. I bought a European milestone last summer which was advertised as "flash ready", enabled by a software upgrade which was promised for mid 2010. Then it slipped to end of 2010, then early q1 2011. Current moto-lie is q1 2011. Motorola outright lie about future upgrades. They do it on purpose to sell more devices. I would advise people to avoid motorola products like the plague, especially if they are buying on the basis of future promised upgrades. Check out forum on motorola europes Facebook page for evidence. Oh, and they also lock the boot loader xbox/ps3 style (except the lock works) to prevent home brew roms from being used. I think this is deliberate obsolesce to force people to buy upgraded hardware. Motorola - liars and fraudstars. Never again.
Because the actual radio bit is a separate chip, with a separate OS, which has an API called by the main OS (using modem AT commands AFAIK).
This baseband chip usually doesn't need to be tampered with, and is it this chip that actually communicates with the network.
You can install a totally different OS (eg Android on a windows mobile device), without altering how it talks to the cell network.
I believe the exception to this is to unlock phones which are network locked - i think that involves modying the baseband, which could well be illegal in some places???
How about getting the phone for features advertised on the box?? The Motorola Milestone was advertised as 'Flash Ready' on the web, but that turned out to need Froyo, which STILL isnt released... It was supposed to be coming out mid 2010, then end of 2010, now its 'early 2011'... Im personally expecting it to be canned.
I agree you shouldnt buy a gadget based on what it might do in future, but if its advertised as having a feature, its reasonable to expect it.
To a limited extent Microsoft do this already with the XNA stuff... except they give all the stuff away, and only charge you when you actually want to deploy on the 360 instead of a PC...
Whatever you do, avoid buying anything Android related from Motorola. I bought a Milestone (UK version), which had "flash ready" advertised on the box. Flash requires Froyo, and Moto have repeatedly pushed back the release date (most recently from Q4 2010 to Early Q1 2011). Phones by other manufactures can avoid this issue by using unofficial roms. We dont expect company support forever, and the open source community picks up the slack and continues to support older devices (example - early HTC android devices can run froyo).
Motorola however have locked their boot loader, so only the stock kernel can boot. They use strong on-chip encryption for this (think Playstation style public/private key stuff, except Moto used a proper random number generator...). This means that the unoffical roms are half arsed, as they cannot fix issues in the stock kernel. The device has been rooted however (by way of an exploit, not help from Motorola).
So, if you buy a motorola tablet, expect to a) be unable to put software of your choosing on their and b) no upgrades from Motorola after about 12 months. Also if my experience with the milestone is anything to go by, it will have unfixed bugs remaining after support has stopped.
See http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope for motorolas "marketing" facebook page - its hilarious - every post is commented on hundreds of times with people complaining about the lack of updates and locked boot loader. That page must be harming moto, yet they keep it up. Its funny...
If the Xoom was made by anyone else, id buy it in a shot, but once bitten...
How much did Google pay microsoft to kill Windows Mobile??? this is gonna be a huge boost to Android, now that MS have squandered the key advantage of WinMob (complete openness, effectively root access out of the box, existing app base)?
It seems like MS are just starting over, when the game has finished. I love my Motorola Milestone, and am having loads of fun with the Android SDK (still unsure if Eclippse is better than Visual Studio - interesting approach compiling code as you go along, instead of in a build phase)
The App store idea only works if you can get loads of apps on it. That applies to iPod, Android and erm, thats it. I would be suprised if even palm can survive against iPod and android.
g
It matters because the way the VT tech works is that its disabled by default in the CPU, and is (usually) enabled by the BIOS. The reason you cant (usually) turn it on after the OS has booted is because the register used to turn it on (the MSR) has a lock-bit, which once set prevents any changes to the VT status until power is removed from the CPU.
BIOS's that simply ignore the VT enable stuff are less of a problem, because its possible to set the VT tech on, and lock it on (by writing 5 to register 3A) within the OS using/dev/msr (linux) or cpuinfo (windows). The Mac Pro (early 2008) behaves like this. This is obviously bad for security, as the malware can simply enable it!
BIOS's that deliberately disable VT will set the register to 1 (vt off, lock on), turning off, and locking off the VT stuff. There is no way I know of to defeat this situation (short of disassembling the BIOS and 'fixing' it).
Some BIOS's even have the code to turn it on, but it is only triggered if a CMOS register is set to a certain value and there is no UI on these BIOS's to set that CMOS register. I believe some Sony BIOSs are like this, but am unsure.
The best ones of course allow you to turn it on in the BIOS - which is why Sony are talking BS when they say its for security. They only need to ship it turned off, and allow the users to turn it on at their own risk.
I understand that it IS a genuine risk (bluepill?) in that a hypervisor can install itself UNDER the OS layer, and then filter what the OS sees, invisible to the user (otherwise the virtualization is broken).
Thats why.
ps. apple ignored a bug report I made about the way the Mac Pro works... i guess its kinda understandable because it seems all MacOS virtualization products just turn it on using the MSR as needed.
Michael Jackson wants to be buried at sea, preferably attached to two buoys
What's the difference between Michael Jackson and Alex Ferguson? Ferguson will be playing Giggs in August
His family have decided to have his body melted and turned into toys. It will give kids the chance to play with him for a change.
He did manage to whisper one thing to the paramedics on the way to the hospital "get me into a children's ward"
Monkey for sale, house trained, can dance a bit, contact never never land USA
Reports of his death are incorrect. He's been found in a children's ward having a stroke.
Apparently it wasn't a stroke, but skin cancer...Don't blame it on the sunshine..
I thought they were melting him down in to cups so that kids could still get their lips around his rim?
Michael Jackson didn't actually die of a heart attack................It was food poisoning from eating 15 year old nuts.
Out of respect, McDonalds have released the Mc Jackson burger, 50 year old meat between 10 year old buns...
It was touch and go in the Hospital, and that was just on the Children's ward....
MJ's ghost has been seen walking the wards of a Children's hospital. Looks like he will continue to try and put the willies up small children.
They released candle in the wind for Princess Diana. Apparently they are releasing Rolf Harris' 2 little boys for Jackson.
Jackson has cancelled his upcoming dates. They were James aged 9 and Tom 11.
On his death bed Michael Jackson requested that his ashes be packaged into a box of Rice Krispies, It is believed that this is so that he can have the feeling of going through a ten year old's @rse one last time
In a tribute to the late Michael Jackson, his close friend Rolf Harris will be doing two little boys at his funeral
Elton John will be playing at his funeral - "Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me"...
His body was found slumped over a pram he had apparently tripped over. A police spokesman said it was too early to determine whether they should blame it on the buggy.
Los Angeles police have now been round to Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch following his death. It is being reported that they found Class A drugs in his kitchen, Class B drugs in his bathroom and Class 4C in his bedroom.
MJ passed away at 3:15am. Which is ironically when the big hand touches the little hand.
Jockeys this weekend will wear black armbands in remembrance of MJ, who has successfully ridden more 3 year olds than anyone else.
Im very very happy with Sherwebs hosted microsoft exchange. For around $10 a month, I get a 1gb (or maybe 2gb) mailbox, and a Outlook license included. It syncs like magic between my work Outlook install, outlook on my laptops, and my windows mobile phone. The email works perfectly, and it also syncs contacts and calendar. I couldnt live without it now. Android has a BIG obsticle to overcome if it wants to beat Windows mobile, just because of the Exchange sync.
Sherweb also has web access btw, and can host your email for your domain (just point MX at their SMTP servers). Im unsure if POP/IMAP is available, because ive never needed them.
Obviously not a solution for Linux people, but for Windows folk, its the best (IMHO).
I think there may be 'free' exchange providers out there too to test it out. Trust me, if it works with your choice of OS, you wont go back.
George
>>On a more serious note, 3% of Moroccos land mass could provide power for ALL of Western Europe? Can I ask what possible >>reason there could be beyond corruption and greed for this NOT to be used? Somehow I think that this kind of technology, >>no matter the initial cost, would be an absolute boon and can see no reason why it shouldn't be adopted.
Maybe the people of Morocco want that land? are we about to see the war on terror re-focus on north Africa???
george
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The use of the word crusty is an admission that your argument is slightly shite and requires a little dailymail'ing
I have a 2011 macbook air, with the malware bundled with it (macos something or other) removed and replaced with win 8, and its by far the fastest computer ive ever used.
I blame the SSD.
Apps open instantly, visual studio doesnt take forever to open a project, explorer is responsive, and even the start menu search thing (supplied by a start menu emulation app) can do searches instantly (as could built in win7 start menu search), which makes opening apps, docs etc easy and useful.
SSDs are defo the future for desktops, with NAS hard drives for large stuff that doesnt need loads of random access (mpgs etc).
It can. File copying is now a proper queue with pause / resume on each item. At. f'ing. Last. I actually like windows 8 explorer interface - its the best once since XP
As per usual in these UK-vs-troll cases, they fail to report if the alleged perp posted it to his own wall [innocent] or he/she went out of his/her way to post it somewhere deliberately offensive, such as in this case a soldier memorial page [guilty]. The forthcoming guidance from our dear leaders cant come soon enough... even if its wrong it will kick-start the debate. It also seems that re-tweets are exempt from punishment in these cases as demonstrated by Mr. Robin Hood Airport guy and the many, many people who retweeted it...
You end up with the best, most usable, most efficient logging class that the world has ever known, before which log4net can only cry with jealousy. However, your project doesnt depend on having good logging.... ooops!
Why do we still need a physical simcard ? it seems to me its essentially a private key stored on a chip (possibly in a non-extractable form). Why not just email digital certificate style keys to customers, and have them 'insert' them into phones using established file transfer techniques (protected by a password as well, which is required when installing the key). This would also make james bond style dual+ simcard phones very easy to implement (or maybe not if you need 2 radios...).
Even better, let any phone log onto any network, and auth the user at that stage (ie, unauthed phones can connect to auth server only, and only get phone service etc if they enter the correct creds).
Having physical simcards is wasteful as well - for example in the UK the cheapest way to get mobile broadband is a £80 12 month prepay simcard with 3, but every year i go in to the shop and ask if i can put another 12 months on, but they make me buy a new card and bin the old one...
awwww beat me to it...
I use Hyper-V at home . I was going to use ESXi (even bought a 'allowed' network card, and machine that was compatible), but after installing it I discovered that ESXi doesnt support dynamic disk images (ie you need to allocate the entire X Gb of space on physical disk), which makes simple backup tricky.
Switched over to Hyper-V (using my TechNet license), and its worked perfectly for several years. Ive not managed to crash it once, and it supports dynamic disks, AND dynamic memory (ie, you can tell it to always have 50% free ram in machine A and 25% in machine B), which is great.
Its also really nice to be able to RDP in for admin, rather than having to install special software on each client I may use. Of course I can also RDP in from my iPad / iPhone as well.
The only major feature that is missing from Hyper-V (for my home/geek use) is USB support / hardware passthrough, although my adventures with Xen trying to get that happening were fruitless...
I agree. I bought a European milestone last summer which was advertised as "flash ready", enabled by a software upgrade which was promised for mid 2010. Then it slipped to end of 2010, then early q1 2011. Current moto-lie is q1 2011.
Motorola outright lie about future upgrades. They do it on purpose to sell more devices. I would advise people to avoid motorola products like the plague, especially if they are buying on the basis of future promised upgrades. Check out forum on motorola europes Facebook page for evidence.
Oh, and they also lock the boot loader xbox/ps3 style (except the lock works) to prevent home brew roms from being used. I think this is deliberate obsolesce to force people to buy upgraded hardware.
Motorola - liars and fraudstars. Never again.
Because the actual radio bit is a separate chip, with a separate OS, which has an API called by the main OS (using modem AT commands AFAIK).
This baseband chip usually doesn't need to be tampered with, and is it this chip that actually communicates with the network.
You can install a totally different OS (eg Android on a windows mobile device), without altering how it talks to the cell network.
I believe the exception to this is to unlock phones which are network locked - i think that involves modying the baseband, which could well be illegal in some places???
How about getting the phone for features advertised on the box?? The Motorola Milestone was advertised as 'Flash Ready' on the web, but that turned out to need Froyo, which STILL isnt released... It was supposed to be coming out mid 2010, then end of 2010, now its 'early 2011'... Im personally expecting it to be canned. I agree you shouldnt buy a gadget based on what it might do in future, but if its advertised as having a feature, its reasonable to expect it.
To a limited extent Microsoft do this already with the XNA stuff... except they give all the stuff away, and only charge you when you actually want to deploy on the 360 instead of a PC...
Whatever you do, avoid buying anything Android related from Motorola. I bought a Milestone (UK version), which had "flash ready" advertised on the box. Flash requires Froyo, and Moto have repeatedly pushed back the release date (most recently from Q4 2010 to Early Q1 2011).
Phones by other manufactures can avoid this issue by using unofficial roms. We dont expect company support forever, and the open source community picks up the slack and continues to support older devices (example - early HTC android devices can run froyo).
Motorola however have locked their boot loader, so only the stock kernel can boot. They use strong on-chip encryption for this (think Playstation style public/private key stuff, except Moto used a proper random number generator...). This means that the unoffical roms are half arsed, as they cannot fix issues in the stock kernel. The device has been rooted however (by way of an exploit, not help from Motorola).
So, if you buy a motorola tablet, expect to a) be unable to put software of your choosing on their and b) no upgrades from Motorola after about 12 months. Also if my experience with the milestone is anything to go by, it will have unfixed bugs remaining after support has stopped.
See http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope for motorolas "marketing" facebook page - its hilarious - every post is commented on hundreds of times with people complaining about the lack of updates and locked boot loader. That page must be harming moto, yet they keep it up. Its funny...
If the Xoom was made by anyone else, id buy it in a shot, but once bitten...
How much did Google pay microsoft to kill Windows Mobile??? this is gonna be a huge boost to Android, now that MS have squandered the key advantage of WinMob (complete openness, effectively root access out of the box, existing app base)? It seems like MS are just starting over, when the game has finished. I love my Motorola Milestone, and am having loads of fun with the Android SDK (still unsure if Eclippse is better than Visual Studio - interesting approach compiling code as you go along, instead of in a build phase) The App store idea only works if you can get loads of apps on it. That applies to iPod, Android and erm, thats it. I would be suprised if even palm can survive against iPod and android. g
Yes, they are seperate. How do you think they got phone / sms / data working on the Kaiser on the Android port if all the DSP etc is software ???
Just mark the drive 'fragile' and post it via CityLink (UK courier firm)... guaranteed that THAT data wont be seen again...
It matters because the way the VT tech works is that its disabled by default in the CPU, and is (usually) enabled by the BIOS. The reason you cant (usually) turn it on after the OS has booted is because the register used to turn it on (the MSR) has a lock-bit, which once set prevents any changes to the VT status until power is removed from the CPU.
BIOS's that simply ignore the VT enable stuff are less of a problem, because its possible to set the VT tech on, and lock it on (by writing 5 to register 3A) within the OS using /dev/msr (linux) or cpuinfo (windows). The Mac Pro (early 2008) behaves like this. This is obviously bad for security, as the malware can simply enable it!
BIOS's that deliberately disable VT will set the register to 1 (vt off, lock on), turning off, and locking off the VT stuff. There is no way I know of to defeat this situation (short of disassembling the BIOS and 'fixing' it).
Some BIOS's even have the code to turn it on, but it is only triggered if a CMOS register is set to a certain value and there is no UI on these BIOS's to set that CMOS register. I believe some Sony BIOSs are like this, but am unsure.
The best ones of course allow you to turn it on in the BIOS - which is why Sony are talking BS when they say its for security. They only need to ship it turned off, and allow the users to turn it on at their own risk.
I understand that it IS a genuine risk (bluepill?) in that a hypervisor can install itself UNDER the OS layer, and then filter what the OS sees, invisible to the user (otherwise the virtualization is broken).
Thats why.
ps. apple ignored a bug report I made about the way the Mac Pro works... i guess its kinda understandable because it seems all MacOS virtualization products just turn it on using the MSR as needed.
Michael Jackson wants to be buried at sea, preferably attached to two buoys
What's the difference between Michael Jackson and Alex Ferguson? Ferguson will be playing Giggs in August
His family have decided to have his body melted and turned into toys. It will give kids the chance to play with him for a change.
He did manage to whisper one thing to the paramedics on the way to the hospital "get me into a children's ward"
Monkey for sale, house trained, can dance a bit, contact never never land USA
Reports of his death are incorrect. He's been found in a children's ward having a stroke.
Apparently it wasn't a stroke, but skin cancer...Don't blame it on the sunshine..
I thought they were melting him down in to cups so that kids could still get their lips around his rim?
Michael Jackson didn't actually die of a heart attack................It was food poisoning from eating 15 year old nuts.
Out of respect, McDonalds have released the Mc Jackson burger, 50 year old meat between 10 year old buns...
It was touch and go in the Hospital, and that was just on the Children's ward....
MJ's ghost has been seen walking the wards of a Children's hospital. Looks like he will continue to try and put the willies up small children.
They released candle in the wind for Princess Diana. Apparently they are releasing Rolf Harris' 2 little boys for Jackson.
Jackson has cancelled his upcoming dates. They were James aged 9 and Tom 11.
On his death bed Michael Jackson requested that his ashes be packaged into a box of Rice Krispies, It is believed that this is so that he can have the feeling of going through a ten year old's @rse one last time
In a tribute to the late Michael Jackson, his close friend Rolf Harris will be doing two little boys at his funeral
Elton John will be playing at his funeral - "Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me"...
His body was found slumped over a pram he had apparently tripped over. A police spokesman said it was too early to determine whether they should blame it on the buggy.
Los Angeles police have now been round to Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch following his death. It is being reported that they found Class A drugs in his kitchen, Class B drugs in his bathroom and Class 4C in his bedroom.
MJ passed away at 3:15am. Which is ironically when the big hand touches the little hand.
Jockeys this weekend will wear black armbands in remembrance of MJ, who has successfully ridden more 3 year olds than anyone else.
Im very very happy with Sherwebs hosted microsoft exchange. For around $10 a month, I get a 1gb (or maybe 2gb) mailbox, and a Outlook license included. It syncs like magic between my work Outlook install, outlook on my laptops, and my windows mobile phone. The email works perfectly, and it also syncs contacts and calendar. I couldnt live without it now. Android has a BIG obsticle to overcome if it wants to beat Windows mobile, just because of the Exchange sync. Sherweb also has web access btw, and can host your email for your domain (just point MX at their SMTP servers). Im unsure if POP/IMAP is available, because ive never needed them. Obviously not a solution for Linux people, but for Windows folk, its the best (IMHO). I think there may be 'free' exchange providers out there too to test it out. Trust me, if it works with your choice of OS, you wont go back. George
1. respects human rights, 2. has sensible drug legislation, and 3. fast, cheapish internet Choose 2. g
>>On a more serious note, 3% of Moroccos land mass could provide power for ALL of Western Europe? Can I ask what possible >>reason there could be beyond corruption and greed for this NOT to be used? Somehow I think that this kind of technology, >>no matter the initial cost, would be an absolute boon and can see no reason why it shouldn't be adopted. Maybe the people of Morocco want that land? are we about to see the war on terror re-focus on north Africa??? george
that would be the problem that people of violence CALL themselves muslims then?
Great I thought. I can play JSRF again. No said Xbox 360 - not unless you unplug the TV and use scart. Meh i thought. JSRF back in attic.
It should have read something along the lines of "Warning: A Child recently died after climbing into this hole".