I think you are right. Bit errors resulting from PSUs? What kind of PSUs are those? Not to mention who made the electronics? That's horrible designs if a spike can alter your signal.
One would think they would have filters and quick response voltage regulators on the mobo itself. Hell you can see those voltage regulators.
So what does that leave? Well i suppose if the PSU produce large amount of RF noise that might cause errors. But that'll be one crappy PSU. Of course they didn't measure RF noise. But like you said that would most likely be beyond their skills.
I am pretty sick and tired of reviews like this being made such a fuss over.
I don't care if you review 5 mobos to see which ones gives you 2fps better in Quake. I just want a stable and long life mobo.
I don't really care which power supply can drive more juice as long as my computer works with the one I have and the PSU can handle being on 24/7 for 3 to 4 years. Where's the review about that?
I am complaining like this because recently tom's site had a column titled "Will Open Source Save Hardware?" (http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20030704/index.html) where the author talks about hardware enthusiasts and their trouble keeping up the drive for "bigger, better and faster".
Grow up why don't you! What's "bigger, better, and faster" used for anyhow? Games! I for one no longer have that urge to play games all the time. It's a waste of my time that I could better make ranting post on slashdot (LOL) or better yet actually do well in my Computer engineering degree so I can one day build things I go "WOW!" at.
I am sick and tired of the people who keep trying to rope people into the forever upgrading path. I just saw my friend sitting in front of his computer watching is Star Wars MMOPG charactor "camp" so he can gain a level in the camping skill. This is a guy who failed 3 courses last team and now has an extra year to do. This is the guy who has 2 retry exam is in 3 weeks. This is the guy who has 7 fans in his computer and a 500 watt PSU just so he can have a 2 degree drop in his CPU's temp.
So please spare me the stupidity and attempts at making commodity PC hardware exciting. And please spare me the cases people spent months modding (dude with that 200 dollars in lights and shit you could have gotten more ram).
But hey if running 20000 fps in quake 3 floats you boat ignore me. I'll just go back to programming this 4 Mhz MCU here. It's more fun for me.
From my stand point: Went to Shanghai and got sick from the water, went to Taiwan and enjoyed the wonderful scenary. Whent to Shanghai and got shoved around by my fellow chinese people in malls and on the streets, who were (even for a 5' 5" guy) midgets. Taiwan never got shoved around and the waiters are always profusly polite.
That's not to say Taiwan is all good. Their drivers are suicidle (you think your insurance is bad? Check out the rates in Taiwan) and their road layouts idiotic. People in Taiwan make suprisingly low wages for the living costs involved.
Studying with other people never worked for me. I am going in the the 4th year of my Engineering program and I am in trouble.
I want to go onto graduate school but my average is running at 68%. The thing is i don't get all 6X% grades I make some really amazing high 80s but I also get the bare minimum 50s.
What I have found is the courses where I do well my friends tends not to be in. I am forced to do my own work all the time and as a result I actually learn the material. So I get good grades.
But of course I believe it's all to do with who your study partners are. It just so happen the people I studied with are crammers. They avoid doing as much work as possible and copy as much of the homework as they can and cram all nighters before final exams. I guess I just can't do what they do. Not built for cramming.
And it gets worse.. they get better grades then I do, which makes me feel bad and so i get demotivated.
So basically before you go off and find studying buddies figure out if it is for you. If not don't do it..
This isn't that much different from the stock bubble a while back. You have some self-important people going around telling everyone how this and this is going to happen so better react soon or you'll lose out.
Nothing of the sort they predicted happened and million of people were sucker into giving money to those self-important people.
So what else is new? This is most likely going to blow over without anything serious happening to linux and everyone's going to go "eh.. ok" and keep beliving whatever those big men tells them.
This kind of stuff happens everywhere not just in the two above cases. Does anyone still visit hardware review sites daily? Weekly? I go to places like tomshardware only when I know something siginifican has came out. I pretty much got dead tired of the "latest" shootout between motherboards. I mean how much faster do you think your computer's going to run on one MB vs another?
The way the United States have become in love with protectionlism is going to ruin them in the long run.
Cheap computer parts are more then just lining the pockets of outside producers, it also drives economic growth, education and research.
And it's not just computers that helps economies. Steel and lumber imports don't make it worse for the US as a whole. Sure some people lose their jobs but then again job security is so hard to find today. Why should University grads have to expect to work under contracts because of out sourcing to india when a bunch of lumber jacks can lobby for government protection of their industry?
In a way if you think about it protectionlism contributes to the inability of (because it's slashdot) tech workers to compete with cheap off shore out sourceing. Protectionlism contributes to a higher living cost as inefficent domestic industries drives prices up. Higher prices for goods means higher living cost. Which means workers requires higher wages.
Of course the whole situation is much more complicated then that. And job losted aren't good because real people are behind those jobs. But you know politicians always have a way of hiding the truth don't they? During electections they'll say how their government created so many jobs last year while when the other party was in power they lost so many jobs. I am pretty sure i never heard any of them been asked by a reporter where those jobs are and how much they paid.
Ah welll democratic leaders aren't really chosen just for their abilities. I tend to think of it as a oversized version of school yard politics. You just know the players even then then the people in the school yard that's all.
That's if they managed to do something to the shuttle it self.
Otherwise there's only one known power in the world with even the possibility of shoting a missle at an object that high. The states. Are you going to say that they shot it down themselves now?
Let me try to answer some of your questions. I might be wrong.. but lets see.
The reason why this key needs to be cracked instead of found on some chip in the xbox is...
There are two keys. Public and private.
The Private key is used to sign or encrypt something. And this key is kept somewhere with MS.
The Public key on the otherhand would be in the xbox. This key is use to checked that the correct private key would have been used to sign the software.
The public and private keys are related by some math fuction that's suppose to tbe one way. So with the private key you can generate the public key. But with the public key you can't easily tell what the private key was. This has to do with the difficulty of factoring prime numbers.
So to find the private key what you can do is use a random guess of the private key to sign a piece of data like "hello world" then check with the public key to see if the signature is correct.
This guess and check method is quite time consuming as you can imagine. There are other ways but I am haven't learn about those yet.
Just wondering.. are there people who keep reloading slashdot hoping for new stores to read.
Or people waiting like a hawk to get first post. Or people who keeps submitting stories in hope the slashdot will finialy stop posting old or fake news and put their "important" news on?
Or in one line: Can people get addicated to slashdot.
I suggested yesterday, a story about the nvidia engine room video. It was all because of the whole Win2k better then linux TCO story. It was rejected for some reason.
Then they post today a story about something I read fully a month ago as NEWS!
Seems like another one of those "Gee this is a great idea" ideas that just fall flat on it's face.
This DESKTOP seems lot like just a new interface with remote storage for a price thrown in. Whatever happened to all those dot.coms that offered webbased remote storage?
Right now i see about as much use for this as used toilet paper.
You don't use it so you don't have a damn idea bout just how bad it was in the 8.2 version.
It was not pretty how freaking annonyingly bad it was. I switched to gentoo after a month of watching mozilla crash for no reasons. And at work after installing fresh on two machine and watching it crash because of supermount and get this.. total hard hang when you try to copy files using konqurer but works in command line. Go figure.
Anyhow I hope this isn't a reflection on the money trouble but mandrake has been getting worse over time.
First off don't ask questions like this on slashdot. All you get is BS mixed in with a bit of real facts.
I personally have 3 computers in this house connected to the net. So i have an old Pentium 100 box doing NAT And traffic shaping. Works well.
I run redhat on the P100 and I use iptables and iproute2 + tc(comes iwth iproute2) to do all the hardwork.
Basically unless you are willing to fork out for 3rd party software I think there's no real answer to your question. If you have the money google should provide you with a few links and for free too!
Otherwise get your self a beat up old box and read this site: http://lartc.org/
Immune respond would be a legitimate question. But we do have immune supression drugs. Better to been slightly weak for a while then to die from cancer.
Mutation would occure only if the engineered virus is allowed to reproduce. IF it's just a means to target certain cell it's a once off deal once used it's gone.
Of course there are alot of questions. But this is the way to do it's just like surgery only at a very small scale.
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Did the post says 350K/year of 350k once off?
why don't you just file one on the process of clicking? I think it would be cheaper.
I think you are right. Bit errors resulting from PSUs? What kind of PSUs are those? Not to mention who made the electronics? That's horrible designs if a spike can alter your signal.
One would think they would have filters and quick response voltage regulators on the mobo itself. Hell you can see those voltage regulators.
So what does that leave? Well i suppose if the PSU produce large amount of RF noise that might cause errors. But that'll be one crappy PSU. Of course they didn't measure RF noise. But like you said that would most likely be beyond their skills.
I am pretty sick and tired of reviews like this being made such a fuss over.
x .html) where the author talks about hardware enthusiasts and their trouble keeping up the drive for "bigger, better and faster".
I don't care if you review 5 mobos to see which ones gives you 2fps better in Quake. I just want a stable and long life mobo.
I don't really care which power supply can drive more juice as long as my computer works with the one I have and the PSU can handle being on 24/7 for 3 to 4 years. Where's the review about that?
I am complaining like this because recently tom's site had a column titled "Will Open Source Save Hardware?" (http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20030704/inde
Grow up why don't you! What's "bigger, better, and faster" used for anyhow? Games! I for one no longer have that urge to play games all the time. It's a waste of my time that I could better make ranting post on slashdot (LOL) or better yet actually do well in my Computer engineering degree so I can one day build things I go "WOW!" at.
I am sick and tired of the people who keep trying to rope people into the forever upgrading path. I just saw my friend sitting in front of his computer watching is Star Wars MMOPG charactor "camp" so he can gain a level in the camping skill. This is a guy who failed 3 courses last team and now has an extra year to do. This is the guy who has 2 retry exam is in 3 weeks. This is the guy who has 7 fans in his computer and a 500 watt PSU just so he can have a 2 degree drop in his CPU's temp.
So please spare me the stupidity and attempts at making commodity PC hardware exciting. And please spare me the cases people spent months modding (dude with that 200 dollars in lights and shit you could have gotten more ram).
But hey if running 20000 fps in quake 3 floats you boat ignore me. I'll just go back to programming this 4 Mhz MCU here. It's more fun for me.
Put detergents in the water?
From my stand point: Went to Shanghai and got sick from the water, went to Taiwan and enjoyed the wonderful scenary. Whent to Shanghai and got shoved around by my fellow chinese people in malls and on the streets, who were (even for a 5' 5" guy) midgets. Taiwan never got shoved around and the waiters are always profusly polite.
That's not to say Taiwan is all good. Their drivers are suicidle (you think your insurance is bad? Check out the rates in Taiwan) and their road layouts idiotic. People in Taiwan make suprisingly low wages for the living costs involved.
The german one makes sense. German gramma is more similar to English then any of the other languages i have attempted to learn.
Studying with other people never worked for me. I am going in the the 4th year of my Engineering program and I am in trouble.
I want to go onto graduate school but my average is running at 68%. The thing is i don't get all 6X% grades I make some really amazing high 80s but I also get the bare minimum 50s.
What I have found is the courses where I do well my friends tends not to be in. I am forced to do my own work all the time and as a result I actually learn the material. So I get good grades.
But of course I believe it's all to do with who your study partners are. It just so happen the people I studied with are crammers. They avoid doing as much work as possible and copy as much of the homework as they can and cram all nighters before final exams. I guess I just can't do what they do. Not built for cramming.
And it gets worse.. they get better grades then I do, which makes me feel bad and so i get demotivated.
So basically before you go off and find studying buddies figure out if it is for you. If not don't do it..
This isn't that much different from the stock bubble a while back. You have some self-important people going around telling everyone how this and this is going to happen so better react soon or you'll lose out.
Nothing of the sort they predicted happened and million of people were sucker into giving money to those self-important people.
So what else is new? This is most likely going to blow over without anything serious happening to linux and everyone's going to go "eh.. ok" and keep beliving whatever those big men tells them.
This kind of stuff happens everywhere not just in the two above cases. Does anyone still visit hardware review sites daily? Weekly? I go to places like tomshardware only when I know something siginifican has came out. I pretty much got dead tired of the "latest" shootout between motherboards. I mean how much faster do you think your computer's going to run on one MB vs another?
The way the United States have become in love with protectionlism is going to ruin them in the long run.
Cheap computer parts are more then just lining the pockets of outside producers, it also drives economic growth, education and research.
And it's not just computers that helps economies. Steel and lumber imports don't make it worse for the US as a whole. Sure some people lose their jobs but then again job security is so hard to find today. Why should University grads have to expect to work under contracts because of out sourcing to india when a bunch of lumber jacks can lobby for government protection of their industry?
In a way if you think about it protectionlism contributes to the inability of (because it's slashdot) tech workers to compete with cheap off shore out sourceing. Protectionlism contributes to a higher living cost as inefficent domestic industries drives prices up. Higher prices for goods means higher living cost. Which means workers requires higher wages.
Of course the whole situation is much more complicated then that. And job losted aren't good because real people are behind those jobs. But you know politicians always have a way of hiding the truth don't they? During electections they'll say how their government created so many jobs last year while when the other party was in power they lost so many jobs. I am pretty sure i never heard any of them been asked by a reporter where those jobs are and how much they paid.
Ah welll democratic leaders aren't really chosen just for their abilities. I tend to think of it as a oversized version of school yard politics. You just know the players even then then the people in the school yard that's all.
Your comment just make me wonder about terrorism and history.
Did the Roman Empire suffer from Terrorism too? Did the British Empire suffered from terrorism(i think they did)?
Of course the scale of terrorism is much smaller then. After all what can terrorist do in Roman times? Throw rotten animals into the aquaducts?
That's if they managed to do something to the shuttle it self.
Otherwise there's only one known power in the world with even the possibility of shoting a missle at an object that high. The states. Are you going to say that they shot it down themselves now?
I think they mean the public key has been found. I think we still need the private key.
Let me try to answer some of your questions. I might be wrong.. but lets see.
The reason why this key needs to be cracked instead of found on some chip in the xbox is...
There are two keys. Public and private.
The Private key is used to sign or encrypt something. And this key is kept somewhere with MS.
The Public key on the otherhand would be in the xbox. This key is use to checked that the correct private key would have been used to sign the software.
The public and private keys are related by some math fuction that's suppose to tbe one way. So with the private key you can generate the public key. But with the public key you can't easily tell what the private key was. This has to do with the difficulty of factoring prime numbers.
So to find the private key what you can do is use a random guess of the private key to sign a piece of data like "hello world" then check with the public key to see if the signature is correct.
This guess and check method is quite time consuming as you can imagine. There are other ways but I am haven't learn about those yet.
hope this answers your questiosn.
Just wondering.. are there people who keep reloading slashdot hoping for new stores to read.
Or people waiting like a hawk to get first post. Or people who keeps submitting stories in hope the slashdot will finialy stop posting old or fake news and put their "important" news on?
Or in one line: Can people get addicated to slashdot.
I suggested yesterday, a story about the nvidia engine room video. It was all because of the whole Win2k better then linux TCO story. It was rejected for some reason.
Then they post today a story about something I read fully a month ago as NEWS!
ARRRGGSSS. Totally typical of slashdot.
Sure VNC's slow with 3d. That fact from when we installed VNC on someone's machine to screw with him when he was playing counter strike.
U can't see much of what's going on in the game. But u see enough to "help" drop their weapon when they are about to shoot at someone.
Seems like another one of those "Gee this is a great idea" ideas that just fall flat on it's face.
This DESKTOP seems lot like just a new interface with remote storage for a price thrown in. Whatever happened to all those dot.coms that offered webbased remote storage?
Right now i see about as much use for this as used toilet paper.
Why not put this up on slashdot? OR better yet drop a hint to theregister.
You don't use it so you don't have a damn idea bout just how bad it was in the 8.2 version.
It was not pretty how freaking annonyingly bad it was. I switched to gentoo after a month of watching mozilla crash for no reasons. And at work after installing fresh on two machine and watching it crash because of supermount and get this.. total hard hang when you try to copy files using konqurer but works in command line. Go figure.
Anyhow I hope this isn't a reflection on the money trouble but mandrake has been getting worse over time.
First off don't ask questions like this on slashdot. All you get is BS mixed in with a bit of real facts.
I personally have 3 computers in this house connected to the net. So i have an old Pentium 100 box doing NAT And traffic shaping. Works well.
I run redhat on the P100 and I use iptables and iproute2 + tc(comes iwth iproute2) to do all the hardwork.
Basically unless you are willing to fork out for 3rd party software I think there's no real answer to your question. If you have the money google should provide you with a few links and for free too!
Otherwise get your self a beat up old box and read this site: http://lartc.org/
Cheers!
Gentoo is sort of like a how shall we say.. more breed edge Debian?
Well not quite it's not actually based on Debian as far as I can see but the distro does follow the same social contract.
I like it it's neat I don't have to deal with dependency mess and it beats Mandrake hands down for stability.
I hope you are not talking about the personal webserver on windows 98. That little demon has security holes that MS has not brother to patch.
Otherwise yes my friend runs his NAT gateway off win 95 on a 486. It's fine except he has to reset it once in a while.
Immune respond would be a legitimate question. But we do have immune supression drugs. Better to been slightly weak for a while then to die from cancer.
Mutation would occure only if the engineered virus is allowed to reproduce. IF it's just a means to target certain cell it's a once off deal once used it's gone.
Of course there are alot of questions. But this is the way to do it's just like surgery only at a very small scale.
Micorsoft should fund part of this.
"Where do you want to go today?" answer= MARS!