The last notebook like device I used daily with windows ce was the HP Jornada 720. Hitachi and Fujitsu made very similar machines. They were clamshell, 7" touchscreened, Handheld PCs, running 200MHz StrongARM processors.
While I liked mine very much, it was very limited as a "PC" by its lack of memory and storage. You could type documents, do simple spreadsheets, surf the web, and play mp3s. Interface wise, it was just like windows.
If part a glacier gently calves off and just floats away, then it doesn't affect seawater volume. It is the equivalent of an icecube floating in a glass.
If it crashes into the ocean because it was being held mostly out of the water by the structure of the glacier it was attached to, it does add to the volume of the ocean. It is the analog dropping of an icecube into a glass of water.
In either case, it was evidenced in Greenland that the runoff of meltwater from inland glaciers is also finding it's way to the sea, accelerating glacier loss on the coast, and adding their own volume to the mix.
The inference is that little changes in climate may produce big changes in environment in a short period of time. My takeaway is that this may be a bad century to invest in beachfront property and that dike and canal building companies could become a serious growth industry.
Because they are designed with the notion that you're going to be playing under conditions suboptimal for more than one person to see the screen. That used to be pretty true, but when Serious Sam came out I drug the PC into the living room and hooked it up with the 32" TV because it offered the (then) novelty of splitscreen Coop Play. One person had to use a Game Controller while the other got the KB/Mouse, but it was fun.
Now it's not super rare to have an HTPC with a semi-decent videocard and hometheater surround sound dedicated to a large HDTV, but I don't know of a recent game that takes advantage of this kind of setup.
I think both the bios write protect and the reset button became "unnecessary" when Windows 98 died. Once Windows 2000 rolled in everyone was protected by their user account and the stability of the systems precluded a need for a reset button./s
I think the first w32 bios flasher I saw was for an Asus A7V133 around 2001. It required administrative access under Windows2000 to work. There are lots of card/drive firmware flashers that work in windows as well. They all also require admin access to work.
Just like the linux bios flasher, flashrom required superuser access to work.
Would you consider a thumbdrive with everything recorded in both lossless and mp3 with correct metadata? You can get them in lot sizes for about $1.50 each at 1GB now. The band could brand them with a decal as a momento.
Same goes with SD Cards.
I think they could still throw in a T-Shirt too if they wanted.
Kinda off topic but in Atlanta the CBS affiliate has activated OTA digital channel 46-2 as NCAA CBS. Sadly quality is only 480i (the game on 46-1 is in 1080i) but it's there to watch. I'm wondering if NCAA CBS is a national addition to the OTA Digital lineup?
I think it's true that most systems would allow a flash to bios from ring 0 anyways, as every system I've recently built came from the factory with it enabled by default as a bios setting. I don't think most people (even geeks) look.
There are tons of bios/firmware/driver installers on TPB that promise improved performance and enhanced features and any of them could be doing what this exploit is capable of. Each would be run, voluntarily, on the hardware it exploits.
The exploit allows access from Ring to SMM? Summary is confusing but I think we're talking about an exploit that can write to bios even with flashing disabled at the bios level.
When I shop for a sale item in a big box store, I expect the sales person to try to pad the the price. The "we're out of stock" trick mentioned in the article has been used for a long time.
I had an acquaintance 3-4 years ago who's a computer tech. He'd buy several notebooks, system deals, free after rebate hardware from OD, BB, whoever has the super deal going on, each month. This stuff was all resold to clients and he did/does it because it's cheaper than buying wholesale or building systems himself. The guys over at Office Depot would recognise him and refuse to sell to him (using the "sold out, sorry" excuse). He'd complain to a manager that he spent thousands a year at the store, but once they wised up that stopped working. So he'd send his wife in or call ahead, to get around this. From what I gathered there were many small shops and work from home techs that do buisness this way. They do a good job at cleaning out the stock of loss leaders. The two groups are like Hyenas vs Jackals. Don't really care who comes out ahead.
OD should just point to the "We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service" sign to customers that they don't want the business of. Nothing wrong with that.
"Rifle" is the general term for a longarm that has a rifled barrel. Hunting has never had anything to do with classifying something as a rifle. Rifles have been standard military issue for longer than the NRA has been around. At the time of their founding the the issued weapon for a US soldier was a singleshot breachloaded rifle (the springfield). It was popular for those with the funds to replace this weapon with a 16 shot, Lever Action, Henry Rifle. This was the state of the art, medium range, antipersonnel weapon of its day and it was a civilian weapon. Today it would be like being able to buy a SAW machinegun compared to an issue M-16. In 1871 there were no restrictions. Put a canon in the front yard? No prob. Mount a Gatling gun on your coach? Good idea. But we were coming out of the Civil War and there was a strong push to increase Federal powers over individual freedoms and the NRA was formed to oppose this.
So I don't think the NRA has expanded the scope of their purview. If they were to have lobbied for a citizen's 2nd amendment rights to equal what we had when they were founded in 1871, we could all own our own Abrams tanks and Apache helecopters for the daily commute. They stuck to lobbying pro infantry weapons, because what you want in a militia are people that know how to shoot infantry weapons. Frankly, given their charter I think they're way behind in what they should be pushing for.
They need an alien (Predator, Ripley's nemisis, etc...) and a robot or at least a cyborg. Or they could just say it's broadcast from "the future" and require performance enhancing drugs, while obliquely referring to the Second State Succession of 2011.
Some people born there call it that, but only to annoy other people who live there.
I like to tell people in Atlanta that the preferred local slang term for San Francisco is An Franc when they tell me I need to be black to use terms like ITP and The ATL.
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The last notebook like device I used daily with windows ce was the HP Jornada 720. Hitachi and Fujitsu made very similar machines. They were clamshell, 7" touchscreened, Handheld PCs, running 200MHz StrongARM processors.
While I liked mine very much, it was very limited as a "PC" by its lack of memory and storage. You could type documents, do simple spreadsheets, surf the web, and play mp3s. Interface wise, it was just like windows.
If part a glacier gently calves off and just floats away, then it doesn't affect seawater volume. It is the equivalent of an icecube floating in a glass.
If it crashes into the ocean because it was being held mostly out of the water by the structure of the glacier it was attached to, it does add to the volume of the ocean. It is the analog dropping of an icecube into a glass of water.
In either case, it was evidenced in Greenland that the runoff of meltwater from inland glaciers is also finding it's way to the sea, accelerating glacier loss on the coast, and adding their own volume to the mix.
The inference is that little changes in climate may produce big changes in environment in a short period of time. My takeaway is that this may be a bad century to invest in beachfront property and that dike and canal building companies could become a serious growth industry.
Or your Steam gamertag.
I think it would be funny if being able to buy your place in the worldly heaven became known as Simonyi.
Because they are designed with the notion that you're going to be playing under conditions suboptimal for more than one person to see the screen. That used to be pretty true, but when Serious Sam came out I drug the PC into the living room and hooked it up with the 32" TV because it offered the (then) novelty of splitscreen Coop Play. One person had to use a Game Controller while the other got the KB/Mouse, but it was fun.
Now it's not super rare to have an HTPC with a semi-decent videocard and hometheater surround sound dedicated to a large HDTV, but I don't know of a recent game that takes advantage of this kind of setup.
And I'll wait till it goes gold, which MS denotes with the label "Service Pack 1".
So, she's more of a play tester.
That guy at Tunguska already showed the effects weren't that that serious.
It's still there. My intel P45 motherboard has DualBios.
I think both the bios write protect and the reset button became "unnecessary" when Windows 98 died. Once Windows 2000 rolled in everyone was protected by their user account and the stability of the systems precluded a need for a reset button. /s
I think the first w32 bios flasher I saw was for an Asus A7V133 around 2001. It required administrative access under Windows2000 to work. There are lots of card/drive firmware flashers that work in windows as well. They all also require admin access to work.
Just like the linux bios flasher, flashrom required superuser access to work.
Would you consider a thumbdrive with everything recorded in both lossless and mp3 with correct metadata? You can get them in lot sizes for about $1.50 each at 1GB now. The band could brand them with a decal as a momento.
Same goes with SD Cards.
I think they could still throw in a T-Shirt too if they wanted.
Kinda off topic but in Atlanta the CBS affiliate has activated OTA digital channel 46-2 as NCAA CBS. Sadly quality is only 480i (the game on 46-1 is in 1080i) but it's there to watch. I'm wondering if NCAA CBS is a national addition to the OTA Digital lineup?
NM, it doesn't go after bios.
I think it's true that most systems would allow a flash to bios from ring 0 anyways, as every system I've recently built came from the factory with it enabled by default as a bios setting. I don't think most people (even geeks) look.
There are tons of bios/firmware/driver installers on TPB that promise improved performance and enhanced features and any of them could be doing what this exploit is capable of. Each would be run, voluntarily, on the hardware it exploits.
And Athlons and pentium 4s. Woo! My closets are filled with gold!
I think this bypasses bios write protection unless you still have a motherboard that uses a jumper for this. None of mine do.
Could be used as a force for good, true.
Yeah, it looks like access to SSM gives elevated privilages over kernal (ring 0).
http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jan97/Jan97.html
The exploit allows access from Ring to SMM? Summary is confusing but I think we're talking about an exploit that can write to bios even with flashing disabled at the bios level.
Sikorsky S-61C. Room for the whole family. 7000 hours till next inspection. Only flown on Sundays. usd 2.4million cheap. No Dealers.
Step by step.
The hatchet would make constructing the iron smelting furnace easier. I could use heel of the hatchet as a hammer at first.
Then I could build a waterwheel powered sawmill and lathe.
With the sawmill and lathe I could fashion a crude, steam engine powered, carriage.
With the carriage I could drive to Fry's and buy a laptop.
When I shop for a sale item in a big box store, I expect the sales person to try to pad the the price. The "we're out of stock" trick mentioned in the article has been used for a long time.
I had an acquaintance 3-4 years ago who's a computer tech. He'd buy several notebooks, system deals, free after rebate hardware from OD, BB, whoever has the super deal going on, each month. This stuff was all resold to clients and he did/does it because it's cheaper than buying wholesale or building systems himself. The guys over at Office Depot would recognise him and refuse to sell to him (using the "sold out, sorry" excuse). He'd complain to a manager that he spent thousands a year at the store, but once they wised up that stopped working. So he'd send his wife in or call ahead, to get around this. From what I gathered there were many small shops and work from home techs that do buisness this way. They do a good job at cleaning out the stock of loss leaders. The two groups are like Hyenas vs Jackals. Don't really care who comes out ahead.
OD should just point to the "We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service" sign to customers that they don't want the business of. Nothing wrong with that.
"Rifle" is the general term for a longarm that has a rifled barrel. Hunting has never had anything to do with classifying something as a rifle. Rifles have been standard military issue for longer than the NRA has been around. At the time of their founding the the issued weapon for a US soldier was a singleshot breachloaded rifle (the springfield). It was popular for those with the funds to replace this weapon with a 16 shot, Lever Action, Henry Rifle. This was the state of the art, medium range, antipersonnel weapon of its day and it was a civilian weapon. Today it would be like being able to buy a SAW machinegun compared to an issue M-16. In 1871 there were no restrictions. Put a canon in the front yard? No prob. Mount a Gatling gun on your coach? Good idea. But we were coming out of the Civil War and there was a strong push to increase Federal powers over individual freedoms and the NRA was formed to oppose this.
So I don't think the NRA has expanded the scope of their purview. If they were to have lobbied for a citizen's 2nd amendment rights to equal what we had when they were founded in 1871, we could all own our own Abrams tanks and Apache helecopters for the daily commute. They stuck to lobbying pro infantry weapons, because what you want in a militia are people that know how to shoot infantry weapons. Frankly, given their charter I think they're way behind in what they should be pushing for.
They need an alien (Predator, Ripley's nemisis, etc...) and a robot or at least a cyborg. Or they could just say it's broadcast from "the future" and require performance enhancing drugs, while obliquely referring to the Second State Succession of 2011.
Some people born there call it that, but only to annoy other people who live there.
I like to tell people in Atlanta that the preferred local slang term for San Francisco is An Franc when they tell me I need to be black to use terms like ITP and The ATL.