lmsensors. But since you are using Windows, I would suggest petitioning Gateway, or Microsoft to supply you with the tools you need to monitor your laptop.
You might check and see if there are support tools on the CD's that came with the laptop, or possibly monitoring tools available from the support pages of eMachines web pages, relavent to your laptop. I know that simalar tools are available for download from Toshiba and IBM, two companies I have had laptops from. That is no evidence that such tools exist fo your laptop, but it's a good place to start.
For Windows you will probably find that any "general" purpose monitoring tools will be either useless, or even worse misleading as they may not know how to interpret the data on your laptop, or may intepret it incorrectly.
Then again, that's just my opinion. You very well may be able to go to download.com, enter your laptop model number in the search field, and find dozens of tools that will work for your laptop.
Don't need the nuclear troll here, you do perfecly fine by making the claim that it's an effort to move the polution to the big power stations. If you bothered to RTFA, you would have noted that in this case the effort is to move the carbon release from the car, and place it at the plant where they are extracting the Hydrogen from Natural Gas.
In other instances (not covered in this article) they also extract hydrogen from water using solar cells at the station, i.e. they are not using the local power grid at all. The only byproduct then is O2, which they release directly to the atmosphere.
Granted you could claim that in this case they are moving the release of carbon back to the sun, which can produce carbon as a byproduct of nuclear fusion. It's not likely to be generating any green house gasses as a result however.
As a side note to those concerned about the release of Hydrogen in their garage as a result of either electrolisys, or a leak in their fule cell, I would be far more concerned about the released oxydizer than the agents it can burn when in the presence of. But that's just me.
For me, any of the pre-pay plans are cheaper than a land line. I don't use enough minutes to exceed $20 every three months. You know a log of local providers willing to sell you a phone line for $7.00 a month?
That isn't everyone however. My daughter can easily eat through $50 a month on pre-paid, so for here it would be cheaper to get either a land line, vonage account, or if she needs mobility, a $39.99 a month plan, once she figures out how to manage her minutes so she isn't going over whatever limits that plan has.
My son can also work within the pre-pay limits, though he does go through more minutes at a time than I do.
How expensive your plan is depends upon how much you use the service, and what that usage will cost. It does vary from person to person.
For pre-pay plans I happen to like Virgin Mobile http://www.virginmobileusa.com/ (for US users, other urls for Europe) or Boost Mobile http://www.boostmobile.com/. Boost Mobile is a sub-division of Nextel, so they do have the PTT feature Nextel provides, though that's an additional $45 a month (on average).
Since with Pre-Pay plans you buy the phone up front, there can be a significant front end cost. Anywhere from $59 on up to over $200 for highly feature full phones. However as noted, month to month may cost you significantly less.
Let me see, current price $4.14. projected sell price let's go easy, $5.14. Presuming no commision, that's $1 per share. Volume of purchase, 1000 shares. Cost of single licence to generate good press requierd for stock price rise, $699. Profit, $301. Cost of attournies, jail time, etc. for insider trading....
Something tells me this is not going to pay off well. Even assuming one can get the good press to increase the price of the stock by anything over $.70 a share.
There are two issues that cause me to print out a to-do list, purchase paper books, and so on. The first is the resolution of the display. Books are generally printed at a resolution between 600 and 1200 dpi. The best my laptop or pda can get is about 100 dpi.
The second is usability life. Laptops range from 2 to 4 hours of usable time while reading a text document. Then you have to re-charge it. A book generally never needs to be recharge. It's feasable to take a book and sit on the beach for 8 hours, (I might burn rather sevearly, but that's me) I would not recomend trying that with a laptop. Additionally in this scenario, cleaning the sand out of the book is going to take a lot less effort than doing the same for your laptop.
If the resolution tripples (or more) in each direction, and over the long term takes less energy to display, then we are begining to get to where I would be much happier using such a device than I am carrying around a book. (A novel appropriate fot taking on a vacation can be rather large.
But that's just me. I don't think this is the best that Nanotechnology has in our future. I do think it's one of the better uses for Nano Materials Sciences that have come down the pipeline so far.
The big 'buzz' around nanotech is the original intent of actually manipulating individual atoms, and using esentially atom-by-atom assembly build robots that worked at this level and could replicate themselves.
That is what got the thought of 'nanotech' into the buzzword realm.
This is not that. Nor is chemestry. Nor is the semi-conductor industry. Or for that matter pretty much any product on the market that uses the nano modifier.
Effectively everything that is on the market that includes something with a nano modifier is materials science where the materials in question happen to be working in the low nanometer range.
This is not to take away from the fact that much of this nano level materials science is actually some pretty impressive stuff. It's just stuff that is using 'nano' as a marketing term to attract attention, rather than nano as an idea of the scale upon which a device or tool is functioning.
Then again, that's just my opinion. Drexler is the person who should be reffered to for better information.
On the assumption that most displays actually have a very small number of pixels that change with any frequency. As an example, look at an 8 element digital clock, every second the unit's second changes, every 10 seconds the tens seconds changes, every minute the minute changes, and so on. from any 30th of a second to another, the vast majority of the time, nothing has changed, so nothing needs to be refreshed, or changed.
Likewise with a spectrum analyzer view on an mp3 player. It's rather rare for the area between the bars in the analyzer to change. It's also rare that the frame, labels under the bars, scale lines, etc. change.
In an LCD system, all of those pixels need to be refreshed every refresh cycle. In this system once the pixel is set, no energy is used to keep that pixel set at that level.
Looking at my screen right now, easily 95% or more of the screen is not changing from one second to the next. Yet the entire screen is using energy to refresh itself many times a second (50-70 Hz I believe for this screen)
The place where such an interface would be expected to use significantly more energy would be in a Television type interface. Including video games on a PC which you may or may not consider related.
I don't really get your example of a touch-sensitive screen. The areas that would draw energy to be repainted are those where the stylus or mouse pointer are located. Unless you are using some interface that draws lines all over the screen when you move the stylus from one pixel to another close to it, the only pixels that should be affected are those relevant to the brush or tool in question. For a Select this usually means a couple of lines of pixels vertically, and horizontally change. Applying effects, afrects a large portion of the screen, possibly even the entire screen, but it is usually a one shot event.
Even the notorious blink tag in html documents should only cause energy to be expended with the frequency of the blink.
Let's say that it takes 60 times as much energy for a pixel change on one of these screens than on an LCD (equivalent area example, if you get 9 'nano'-pixels in the same space as an lcd pixel, each nano-pixel using ~7 times as much energy as the lcd pixel, you get what 63 times as much energy used for that same area, close enoug to 60 for this example.) If over 90% of the screen is not changing from one refresh cycle to the next, then in 60 refresh cycles after the initial screen was set, you have approximate parity. That's one to two seconds. Obviously savings go up from there.
But that's just some off the cuff calculating and thoughts. I am sure someone out there, perhaps someone who thinks that 1/20th of a dollar is not the same as 5% of a dollar will elucidate my errors.
"The "hidden" costs of lost time due to (A) protecting against adware/spyware/malware/viruses/pop-ups, or (B) actually disinfecting machines that got infected anyhow."
We're talking about servers here. In a well designed domain no one has the rights to the server systems required to infect them with anything.
Apparently you have not encountered rpc based viruses that infect the server using functions built to run as the system. In entirely too many of these cases the only solution has been to re-install the entire OS, patches, updates, and keep the server off the network till you can get updated patches from Microsoft, or at best current virus signatures from your AV vendor. Then you get to hope that none of the above has caused production software running on top of your platform to start failing.
None of this helps against workstations that have been affected by malware and viruses. This is where a significant percentage of the time a company spends trying to get rid of virus and so on goes. While there is not a lot of talk about the issue of malware and virus activity on Linux Desktops, there is a big effort at several locations to migrate to Linux Desktops, and the cost of dealing with viruses and malware on desktop platforms goes a long way towards explaining that effort.
I concur on the ML-1750. However it does not have a duplexer.
I am planing on replacing my Epson Stylus Color 640 with a Samsung CLP-550, which does both color (obviously) and duplexing. I am not sure I will be using it to replace my 1750 until I am sure that it will run at full speed in black mode under Linux. Most of the reports I have been reading on LinuxPrinters.com have indicated that under Linux it only prints at the Color speed. I am not sure if setting it up as a postscript black printer would improve that. It will be some time before I give it a try however. I have a few bills to get taken care of first.
In any case my 1750 has been exceptionally reliable through three toner cartridges. The only time I have encountered a paper jams is when I was printing to the back side of something I have already printed. (Manually duplexing) I am reasonably sure that part of that issue is just the fact that the paper humidity has changed by being passed through the fuser already.
The general concept is that people who write 'good' stories regularly, as well as journalists, editors, and posibly even critics, can at least recognize when something has been written poorly.
It may be really bad use of the english language, consistently transposing the words 'to', 'too', and 'two'. It may be telling the story in one long paragraph, possibly with chapter marks every 2000 characters. There are many other possible indicators that a story is either written poorly, or is otherwise not worthy of the time necessary to read it, or for that matter spend money on it.
The publication process, outside of vanity press, makes a very strong effort to weed out the stories that are submitted that carry those indicators. They know that if they print it, distribute it, and try to get book stores to sell it, they are going to have two things happen: Extreamly low sales, with high returns; and customers writing letters (to the publisher, newspapers, etc.) rightfully berating the publisher for letting the story see the light of day.
If a writer deliberatly writes a bad story, gets it printed in a vanety press, then lets the public know that the vanity press is doing this sort of stuff, while claiming to be part of the legitimate publishing business, the publishing house pretty much deserves the reputation it is going to get.
You can bet that the author has gone through 'The Elements of Grammar' and 'The Elements of Style', to make a concerted effort to violate every rule of writing they can. I suspect that they had some fun doing it as well.
If they spent $10,000 in the process, I would suspect that to them it has roughly the value of a vacation to you or me.
No I have no illusions that abiding by every rule from the 'Elements' collection insures a good story. Nor do I believe that violations are a sure indication of a poor story.
While I am assured (I suppose) that the instalation process for MythTV is improving with every version, I would suspect that unless Linair has packaged it in whatever distribution format they prefer, that it will be a chore to install.
The only people I have heard of who have had potentially easier installs of MythTV are Gentoo users, but since I don't run Gentoo, I can not confirm, and don't deny their reports. Should you choose that route I applaud you, but from your self description I suspect that does not interest you.
That presumes that the process name will be pre-defined. We already have viruses that generate a new name for their executable, or library, and use that name to modify the workstation or server's database to automatically launch it each time the computer is rebooted. If this virus also is generating spam, it will be run with the process name of the executable or library, and at best you will see a process name that you don't recognize. Considering the fact that a significant percentage of the population of computer users do not even know how to bring up the task list, much less know what each process that normally runs is, is named, or does, telling them to kill off any process that looks like 'libraryname0.dll' is not going to be particularly helpful.
Your best bet is to find a personal firewall that asks you if application x is allowed to generate network traffic. Hopefully the firewall will tell you more, such as the type of traffic the application is attempting to generate, but even that can be more information than a general user is prepared to try to asses.
If your firewall tells you that 'tobmaps.exe' is trying to send e-mail to your isp's mail server, you might tell it no, don't allow that sort of traffic. If it tells you that 'tobmaps.exe' is attempting to connect to login.yahoo.com via http, you might inadvertantly allow it, even though login.yahoo.com is the first step towards sending e-mail through Yahoo.
In most cases however you can probably tell your personall firewall to block all traffic to any IRC network, unless you speicifically approve the app, and know what you are doing. Of course over time spambots are going to move on from IRC channels to Instant Messaging services, to various p2p applications, if they haven't already.
Saying 'kill off any process named xyz-abc.exe' is all well and good, but is probably going to be a one shot solution to a small subset of the people infected with a spambot.
The last few Via chipset motherboards I have had, have had deadlock issues with the IDE bus. Capturing live video at mpeg2 speeds would cause a random lockup that required a hard reset to resolve.
When trying to figure out why, I ended up trying a third party (DFI) IDE board to see if that would resolve the issue. It did not, which suggests that the problem is actually with something at the motherboard on the Via Chipset. I ultimately decided to move to NForce2 boards for my video work.
I would hop that these issues have been addressed with the new Via chipsets, but I think it would be worthwhile to run some extended testing before you can't return any board with the chipset on it.
No, he is saying that Red Hat is taking responsibility for the Linux Kernel that they package and sell, just as Evian takes responsibility to insure that the tap water they bottle is not contaminated with Cryptosporidium. Evian however does not take that same responsibility over the tap water that Pepsi distributes as 'Natural Springs', or the tap water Coke distributes as Dasani.
Likewise if you are using a Linux Kernel that Red Hat did not distribute, say a Debian, or Mandrake kernel, then No, Red Hat is not going to take responsibility for the functioning or security of that Kernel.
I would also not expect Evian to take responsibility if you drained one of their bottles, and started re-filling it at your kitchen sink. It may still be an Evian water bottle, but the content is no longer something they can take responsibility for.
CV is shorthand for Certificate Vital, or list of vital information that can be certified.
It is far more common in the legal and education fields where in addition to listing where you have worked, and what your specific tasks were, you also list papers and projects you authored were a part of. These papers and projects are often vetted in some way before publication or finalization, which means that their authenticity, proovability, and your efforts in those papers and projects are well documented, and are evidence of your actual skills and abilities.
It is unusual in the business community to use a CV in an effort to get a job, in that most businesses do not encourage their employees to publish the fact that they were involved in specific projects or documents. This is not entirely universal. It is common for research people within a company to do some form of publication, and within the company they may freely associate their involvement in various projects, but it is unusual to use that information outside of the company.
In fact most HR departments will do no mre than say you worked from start date to end date for the company. Going beyond that either with praise or derision opens them up to legal action. They may provide a job description of what your job was, or jobs were, but I wouldn't expect that in most cases.
On the assumption that 802.11n works by using multiple non-overlaping channels, say 1 and 4, wireless switching could easily work by receiving a packet on channel 1, and before the entire packet is received, review the header, note that the packet is destined for another device, and forward it out channel 4.
So you ask, why would you even want to do that, if the AP/WS can pick up the signal, shouldn't the end device be able to receive it as well? Possibly not.
The AP, with three antenas is going ot pick up and discreatly receive a packet with significantly higher clarity than a wireless card in a portable device with one antena. You could even have two 802.11n devices sitting side by side, which would have worse reception between them than they do with their AP/WS. Additionally in Managed, or Structured mode, two non-AP devices are not going to talk with each other at all.
I tossed a couple of notes down thread, but two options for Linux users include ht://dig http://www.thdig.org/ which presents exclusively a web based interface, and glimpse/webglimpse (see http://webglimpse.net/ which provides both a commandline mode search as well as a web based search.
Actually, no they don't use a recursive grep on your hard drive.
They use several filters to build an index of words in the various documents they have filters for.
When you ask Google Desktop, Yahoo Desktop, or other search engines to find documents that might be relavent to your search string, they compare the words in your search string with the words in the index they created earlier. From that index, they then provide you with a list of files on your system ranked by whatever algorythm the developers came up with.
If you happen to have a DVD ISO file on your system somewhere, copy it to a different partition to see how long just copying, not searching, that much material takes. It is not a non-trivial amount of time. Especially when you are looking to present a user with a list of matches in under a second.
Indexing is not just running a variation of 'grep' against your files. It is collecting a list of words from each document, identifying those words that are not 'common' (if, and, but, the, or, a, I, etc.) and identifying where in the document those words exist.
That way when you look for 'President Bush' on your hard drive, it can compare the proximity of the words 'president' and 'bush' and give a better match to those documents that contian both words, closer together. That way your disertaion on Teddy Roosivelt hunting in the deapest affrica will be less likely to come up with a match than your discussion of the relaventce of the first Gulf War to political dinners in Japan.
There are a couple tools out there that provide some of these features for Linux. You can use ht://dig to build a web based interface. If you would rather be able to use either a command line search, or a web based search, you might want to look into Glimpse.
Of course, this being Linux, dozens of people have taken a partial stab at doing this. You could probably work out a method from either the Learning Perl, or Learning Python books, as both are quite capable of building and maintaining indexes. The best part is that it would be optimized for your set of files, rather than just being a generic tool that you have to go out and find third party filters to make use of.
Then again, what do I know. If you think running grep against/dev/hda is a good use of your time, more power to you.
The point I got from his message was that he interpreted many of the postings as advocating or recomending that people do perform theft, and 'this is how they should do it.' His question was what justification do you have for these actions.
My own response is that I do not interpret the posts in the same way, in fact I see the posts as a scathing commentary on the stupidity of people getting caught doing this, with commentary indicating that there is far more efficient methods of doing the same thing. The fact that there are far more effecient methods does not mean that those methods are any more recomended, or justified than the actual crimes commited, and since they are not recomending those acts, there is no need to justify them.
His question is still valid, but not directed (for the most part) at the posters. His question is more accurately directed at people who decide to act upon those comments. What is their justification for commiting these acts?
Perhaps as you note, they really do not care, and may not even attempt to justify those actions. However he does note that in nearly every situation of IP or other property theft, the thief does do some form of justification: It cost too much for mey to buy it so I stole it; The organization doesn't pass on the money to the crative people; The manufacturer uses slave labor; etc. These are 'justifications', not 'care'.
Not sure if T-Mobile is a viable solution for him in the UK. If so, great, otherwise see if there is a service that provides something similar for data services.
Ok, the hardware has been identified, use an xbox, or mini-itx based system, possibly with a fanless m6000 or m10000 via processor.
Provide whatever network hardware is necessary, up to and including a wireless usb adapter if you can get one of those to work.
Since you want this to be as quiet as possible, build it using either boot from lan, or boot from flash.
You will need some way of selecting the media file that you are going to play. If you are not using a setup like MythTV, or some other tool that stores the informaiton in a database you can access from the front end, then you will need some other way of keeping track of the metadata so you can find and play specific files quickly.
Share the files via Samba, or Windows File shared folders. (remember to keep the shares local and don't broadcast them across the Internet of course, but you knew that.)
You could use a copy of mc as a text mode file system browser to select the most recent file to show. I think gmc provides the same feature but in a bit more of a gui.
If you are willing to write some software, you could use any of a number of gui builders and programing tools to build a gui based file browser and keep metadata in related files that your browser knows how to access so you can pull that information up as you are browsing your files. It could even be built to read ID3 takes from mp3 files if needed.
So far as I know, there is no stand alone application that will give you useful information about media files beyond their file name, that is not built as part of a front-end/back-end package that includes the ability to record.
One last option however would be to build a mythtv based system, without a capture card, and trick the back end into running anyway (I don't know if this is possible, and think it is a silly proposition.) Tell it where the files are located, run the database on a system where you can read and write to it from your front end, and store the media files you are collecting in the 'videos' folder. You will have to update the appropriate file information yourself, though with ripped dvd movies, you may be able to just point at IMDB to get all the appropriate information.
I look at most of those posts and think of them in the same sense as posts on how to make a nuclear bomb. There are actually a lot of people who have access to a large percentage of the material as well as the technical knowledge and resources necesary to construct one. You or I may not have ready access to fisionable materials in the quantities and purety necessary, but even if you or I did, that would not make it at all likely that we would create a nuclear bomb.
Do I have the resources to do UPC label creation and swaping. What I don't already have at home I can easily pick up at a local office max, or office Depot. Possibly even at the very stores mentioned in the article.
I look at the responses earlier in the listing as "Idiots, if you are going to do this, you need to do it this way..."
If I were to decide to use UPC relabling at Best Buy to get that great new 42" LCD HDTV, I would visit first, find a manufacture with both a 42" LCD HDTV, and a 35" LCD HDTV, write down the UPC for that 35" edition, go home print up an approprieate sized copy of that to overlay the UPC on the 42" edition, then during a busy time at Best Buy, go in, put the 42" set on a cart, go stand in line, and while waiting in line discreatly overlay the UPC.
Now note I began that with 'If I were to decide..' I honestly have no interest in doing this. I may like the idea of having a 42" LCD HDTV, but I happen to have worked for the stuff I own, and I have no interest in changing that.
I don't have a justification for such an action, as I have no interest in performing the action. That doesn't mean that I can't participate in the thought experiment, or write about what I know about the topic in question.
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lmsensors. But since you are using Windows, I would suggest petitioning Gateway, or Microsoft to supply you with the tools you need to monitor your laptop.
You might check and see if there are support tools on the CD's that came with the laptop, or possibly monitoring tools available from the support pages of eMachines web pages, relavent to your laptop. I know that simalar tools are available for download from Toshiba and IBM, two companies I have had laptops from. That is no evidence that such tools exist fo your laptop, but it's a good place to start.
For Windows you will probably find that any "general" purpose monitoring tools will be either useless, or even worse misleading as they may not know how to interpret the data on your laptop, or may intepret it incorrectly.
Then again, that's just my opinion. You very well may be able to go to download.com, enter your laptop model number in the search field, and find dozens of tools that will work for your laptop.
-Rusty
Don't need the nuclear troll here, you do perfecly fine by making the claim that it's an effort to move the polution to the big power stations. If you bothered to RTFA, you would have noted that in this case the effort is to move the carbon release from the car, and place it at the plant where they are extracting the Hydrogen from Natural Gas.
In other instances (not covered in this article) they also extract hydrogen from water using solar cells at the station, i.e. they are not using the local power grid at all. The only byproduct then is O2, which they release directly to the atmosphere.
Granted you could claim that in this case they are moving the release of carbon back to the sun, which can produce carbon as a byproduct of nuclear fusion. It's not likely to be generating any green house gasses as a result however.
As a side note to those concerned about the release of Hydrogen in their garage as a result of either electrolisys, or a leak in their fule cell, I would be far more concerned about the released oxydizer than the agents it can burn when in the presence of. But that's just me.
-Rusty
Nope, the record would be any discussion of what happend before the big bang.
For me, any of the pre-pay plans are cheaper than a land line. I don't use enough minutes to exceed $20 every three months. You know a log of local providers willing to sell you a phone line for $7.00 a month?
That isn't everyone however. My daughter can easily eat through $50 a month on pre-paid, so for here it would be cheaper to get either a land line, vonage account, or if she needs mobility, a $39.99 a month plan, once she figures out how to manage her minutes so she isn't going over whatever limits that plan has.
My son can also work within the pre-pay limits, though he does go through more minutes at a time than I do.
How expensive your plan is depends upon how much you use the service, and what that usage will cost. It does vary from person to person.
For pre-pay plans I happen to like Virgin Mobile http://www.virginmobileusa.com/ (for US users, other urls for Europe) or Boost Mobile http://www.boostmobile.com/. Boost Mobile is a sub-division of Nextel, so they do have the PTT feature Nextel provides, though that's an additional $45 a month (on average).
Since with Pre-Pay plans you buy the phone up front, there can be a significant front end cost. Anywhere from $59 on up to over $200 for highly feature full phones. However as noted, month to month may cost you significantly less.
-Rusty
Let me see, current price $4.14. projected sell price let's go easy, $5.14. Presuming no commision, that's $1 per share. Volume of purchase, 1000 shares. Cost of single licence to generate good press requierd for stock price rise, $699. Profit, $301. Cost of attournies, jail time, etc. for insider trading....
Something tells me this is not going to pay off well. Even assuming one can get the good press to increase the price of the stock by anything over $.70 a share.
-Rusty
There are two issues that cause me to print out a to-do list, purchase paper books, and so on. The first is the resolution of the display. Books are generally printed at a resolution between 600 and 1200 dpi. The best my laptop or pda can get is about 100 dpi.
The second is usability life. Laptops range from 2 to 4 hours of usable time while reading a text document. Then you have to re-charge it. A book generally never needs to be recharge. It's feasable to take a book and sit on the beach for 8 hours, (I might burn rather sevearly, but that's me) I would not recomend trying that with a laptop. Additionally in this scenario, cleaning the sand out of the book is going to take a lot less effort than doing the same for your laptop.
If the resolution tripples (or more) in each direction, and over the long term takes less energy to display, then we are begining to get to where I would be much happier using such a device than I am carrying around a book. (A novel appropriate fot taking on a vacation can be rather large.
But that's just me. I don't think this is the best that Nanotechnology has in our future. I do think it's one of the better uses for Nano Materials Sciences that have come down the pipeline so far.
-Rusty
The big 'buzz' around nanotech is the original intent of actually manipulating individual atoms, and using esentially atom-by-atom assembly build robots that worked at this level and could replicate themselves.
That is what got the thought of 'nanotech' into the buzzword realm.
This is not that. Nor is chemestry. Nor is the semi-conductor industry. Or for that matter pretty much any product on the market that uses the nano modifier.
Effectively everything that is on the market that includes something with a nano modifier is materials science where the materials in question happen to be working in the low nanometer range.
This is not to take away from the fact that much of this nano level materials science is actually some pretty impressive stuff. It's just stuff that is using 'nano' as a marketing term to attract attention, rather than nano as an idea of the scale upon which a device or tool is functioning.
Then again, that's just my opinion. Drexler is the person who should be reffered to for better information.
-Rusty
On the assumption that most displays actually have a very small number of pixels that change with any frequency. As an example, look at an 8 element digital clock, every second the unit's second changes, every 10 seconds the tens seconds changes, every minute the minute changes, and so on. from any 30th of a second to another, the vast majority of the time, nothing has changed, so nothing needs to be refreshed, or changed.
Likewise with a spectrum analyzer view on an mp3 player. It's rather rare for the area between the bars in the analyzer to change. It's also rare that the frame, labels under the bars, scale lines, etc. change.
In an LCD system, all of those pixels need to be refreshed every refresh cycle. In this system once the pixel is set, no energy is used to keep that pixel set at that level.
Looking at my screen right now, easily 95% or more of the screen is not changing from one second to the next. Yet the entire screen is using energy to refresh itself many times a second (50-70 Hz I believe for this screen)
The place where such an interface would be expected to use significantly more energy would be in a Television type interface. Including video games on a PC which you may or may not consider related.
I don't really get your example of a touch-sensitive screen. The areas that would draw energy to be repainted are those where the stylus or mouse pointer are located. Unless you are using some interface that draws lines all over the screen when you move the stylus from one pixel to another close to it, the only pixels that should be affected are those relevant to the brush or tool in question. For a Select this usually means a couple of lines of pixels vertically, and horizontally change. Applying effects, afrects a large portion of the screen, possibly even the entire screen, but it is usually a one shot event.
Even the notorious blink tag in html documents should only cause energy to be expended with the frequency of the blink.
Let's say that it takes 60 times as much energy for a pixel change on one of these screens than on an LCD (equivalent area example, if you get 9 'nano'-pixels in the same space as an lcd pixel, each nano-pixel using ~7 times as much energy as the lcd pixel, you get what 63 times as much energy used for that same area, close enoug to 60 for this example.) If over 90% of the screen is not changing from one refresh cycle to the next, then in 60 refresh cycles after the initial screen was set, you have approximate parity. That's one to two seconds. Obviously savings go up from there.
But that's just some off the cuff calculating and thoughts. I am sure someone out there, perhaps someone who thinks that 1/20th of a dollar is not the same as 5% of a dollar will elucidate my errors.
-Rusty
"The "hidden" costs of lost time due to (A) protecting against adware/spyware/malware/viruses/pop-ups, or (B) actually disinfecting machines that got infected anyhow."
We're talking about servers here. In a well designed domain no one has the rights to the server systems required to infect them with anything.
Apparently you have not encountered rpc based viruses that infect the server using functions built to run as the system. In entirely too many of these cases the only solution has been to re-install the entire OS, patches, updates, and keep the server off the network till you can get updated patches from Microsoft, or at best current virus signatures from your AV vendor. Then you get to hope that none of the above has caused production software running on top of your platform to start failing.
None of this helps against workstations that have been affected by malware and viruses. This is where a significant percentage of the time a company spends trying to get rid of virus and so on goes. While there is not a lot of talk about the issue of malware and virus activity on Linux Desktops, there is a big effort at several locations to migrate to Linux Desktops, and the cost of dealing with viruses and malware on desktop platforms goes a long way towards explaining that effort.
-Rusty
I concur on the ML-1750. However it does not have a duplexer.
I am planing on replacing my Epson Stylus Color 640 with a Samsung CLP-550, which does both color (obviously) and duplexing. I am not sure I will be using it to replace my 1750 until I am sure that it will run at full speed in black mode under Linux. Most of the reports I have been reading on LinuxPrinters.com have indicated that under Linux it only prints at the Color speed. I am not sure if setting it up as a postscript black printer would improve that. It will be some time before I give it a try however. I have a few bills to get taken care of first.
In any case my 1750 has been exceptionally reliable through three toner cartridges. The only time I have encountered a paper jams is when I was printing to the back side of something I have already printed. (Manually duplexing) I am reasonably sure that part of that issue is just the fact that the paper humidity has changed by being passed through the fuser already.
-Rusty
Fabricating and selling CPU chips does not equate to making or selling PCs or laptops.
The general concept is that people who write 'good' stories regularly, as well as journalists, editors, and posibly even critics, can at least recognize when something has been written poorly.
It may be really bad use of the english language, consistently transposing the words 'to', 'too', and 'two'. It may be telling the story in one long paragraph, possibly with chapter marks every 2000 characters. There are many other possible indicators that a story is either written poorly, or is otherwise not worthy of the time necessary to read it, or for that matter spend money on it.
The publication process, outside of vanity press, makes a very strong effort to weed out the stories that are submitted that carry those indicators. They know that if they print it, distribute it, and try to get book stores to sell it, they are going to have two things happen: Extreamly low sales, with high returns; and customers writing letters (to the publisher, newspapers, etc.) rightfully berating the publisher for letting the story see the light of day.
If a writer deliberatly writes a bad story, gets it printed in a vanety press, then lets the public know that the vanity press is doing this sort of stuff, while claiming to be part of the legitimate publishing business, the publishing house pretty much deserves the reputation it is going to get.
You can bet that the author has gone through 'The Elements of Grammar' and 'The Elements of Style', to make a concerted effort to violate every rule of writing they can. I suspect that they had some fun doing it as well.
If they spent $10,000 in the process, I would suspect that to them it has roughly the value of a vacation to you or me.
No I have no illusions that abiding by every rule from the 'Elements' collection insures a good story. Nor do I believe that violations are a sure indication of a poor story.
Enjoy,
-Rusty
While I am assured (I suppose) that the instalation process for MythTV is improving with every version, I would suspect that unless Linair has packaged it in whatever distribution format they prefer, that it will be a chore to install.
= HauppaugeThreeFiftyInstallation.
In all honesty, you can probably get MythTV working faster by using an off the shelf sub $300 pc from your local white box pc maker, a $180 (or less) Haupauge pvr-350 and a copy of KnoppMyth downloaded from http://www.mysettopbox.tv/. It would cost less, already has S-Video out, and you can find pretty much all the instructions for using the pvr-350 as the output device at http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/, or more specifically http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page
The only people I have heard of who have had potentially easier installs of MythTV are Gentoo users, but since I don't run Gentoo, I can not confirm, and don't deny their reports. Should you choose that route I applaud you, but from your self description I suspect that does not interest you.
-Rusty
That presumes that the process name will be pre-defined. We already have viruses that generate a new name for their executable, or library, and use that name to modify the workstation or server's database to automatically launch it each time the computer is rebooted. If this virus also is generating spam, it will be run with the process name of the executable or library, and at best you will see a process name that you don't recognize. Considering the fact that a significant percentage of the population of computer users do not even know how to bring up the task list, much less know what each process that normally runs is, is named, or does, telling them to kill off any process that looks like 'libraryname0.dll' is not going to be particularly helpful.
Your best bet is to find a personal firewall that asks you if application x is allowed to generate network traffic. Hopefully the firewall will tell you more, such as the type of traffic the application is attempting to generate, but even that can be more information than a general user is prepared to try to asses.
If your firewall tells you that 'tobmaps.exe' is trying to send e-mail to your isp's mail server, you might tell it no, don't allow that sort of traffic. If it tells you that 'tobmaps.exe' is attempting to connect to login.yahoo.com via http, you might inadvertantly allow it, even though login.yahoo.com is the first step towards sending e-mail through Yahoo.
In most cases however you can probably tell your personall firewall to block all traffic to any IRC network, unless you speicifically approve the app, and know what you are doing. Of course over time spambots are going to move on from IRC channels to Instant Messaging services, to various p2p applications, if they haven't already.
Saying 'kill off any process named xyz-abc.exe' is all well and good, but is probably going to be a one shot solution to a small subset of the people infected with a spambot.
-Rusty
The last few Via chipset motherboards I have had, have had deadlock issues with the IDE bus. Capturing live video at mpeg2 speeds would cause a random lockup that required a hard reset to resolve.
When trying to figure out why, I ended up trying a third party (DFI) IDE board to see if that would resolve the issue. It did not, which suggests that the problem is actually with something at the motherboard on the Via Chipset. I ultimately decided to move to NForce2 boards for my video work.
I would hop that these issues have been addressed with the new Via chipsets, but I think it would be worthwhile to run some extended testing before you can't return any board with the chipset on it.
-Rusty
No, he is saying that Red Hat is taking responsibility for the Linux Kernel that they package and sell, just as Evian takes responsibility to insure that the tap water they bottle is not contaminated with Cryptosporidium. Evian however does not take that same responsibility over the tap water that Pepsi distributes as 'Natural Springs', or the tap water Coke distributes as Dasani.
Likewise if you are using a Linux Kernel that Red Hat did not distribute, say a Debian, or Mandrake kernel, then No, Red Hat is not going to take responsibility for the functioning or security of that Kernel.
I would also not expect Evian to take responsibility if you drained one of their bottles, and started re-filling it at your kitchen sink. It may still be an Evian water bottle, but the content is no longer something they can take responsibility for.
-Rusty
CV is shorthand for Certificate Vital, or list of vital information that can be certified.
It is far more common in the legal and education fields where in addition to listing where you have worked, and what your specific tasks were, you also list papers and projects you authored were a part of. These papers and projects are often vetted in some way before publication or finalization, which means that their authenticity, proovability, and your efforts in those papers and projects are well documented, and are evidence of your actual skills and abilities.
It is unusual in the business community to use a CV in an effort to get a job, in that most businesses do not encourage their employees to publish the fact that they were involved in specific projects or documents. This is not entirely universal. It is common for research people within a company to do some form of publication, and within the company they may freely associate their involvement in various projects, but it is unusual to use that information outside of the company.
In fact most HR departments will do no mre than say you worked from start date to end date for the company. Going beyond that either with praise or derision opens them up to legal action. They may provide a job description of what your job was, or jobs were, but I wouldn't expect that in most cases.
In any case, good luck.
-Rusty
On the assumption that 802.11n works by using multiple non-overlaping channels, say 1 and 4, wireless switching could easily work by receiving a packet on channel 1, and before the entire packet is received, review the header, note that the packet is destined for another device, and forward it out channel 4.
So you ask, why would you even want to do that, if the AP/WS can pick up the signal, shouldn't the end device be able to receive it as well? Possibly not.
The AP, with three antenas is going ot pick up and discreatly receive a packet with significantly higher clarity than a wireless card in a portable device with one antena. You could even have two 802.11n devices sitting side by side, which would have worse reception between them than they do with their AP/WS. Additionally in Managed, or Structured mode, two non-AP devices are not going to talk with each other at all.
-Rusty
I tossed a couple of notes down thread, but two options for Linux users include ht://dig http://www.thdig.org/ which presents exclusively a web based interface, and glimpse/webglimpse (see http://webglimpse.net/ which provides both a commandline mode search as well as a web based search.
Enjoy,
-Rusty
Actually, no they don't use a recursive grep on your hard drive.
/dev/hda is a good use of your time, more power to you.
They use several filters to build an index of words in the various documents they have filters for.
When you ask Google Desktop, Yahoo Desktop, or other search engines to find documents that might be relavent to your search string, they compare the words in your search string with the words in the index they created earlier. From that index, they then provide you with a list of files on your system ranked by whatever algorythm the developers came up with.
If you happen to have a DVD ISO file on your system somewhere, copy it to a different partition to see how long just copying, not searching, that much material takes. It is not a non-trivial amount of time. Especially when you are looking to present a user with a list of matches in under a second.
Indexing is not just running a variation of 'grep' against your files. It is collecting a list of words from each document, identifying those words that are not 'common' (if, and, but, the, or, a, I, etc.) and identifying where in the document those words exist.
That way when you look for 'President Bush' on your hard drive, it can compare the proximity of the words 'president' and 'bush' and give a better match to those documents that contian both words, closer together. That way your disertaion on Teddy Roosivelt hunting in the deapest affrica will be less likely to come up with a match than your discussion of the relaventce of the first Gulf War to political dinners in Japan.
There are a couple tools out there that provide some of these features for Linux. You can use ht://dig to build a web based interface. If you would rather be able to use either a command line search, or a web based search, you might want to look into Glimpse.
Of course, this being Linux, dozens of people have taken a partial stab at doing this. You could probably work out a method from either the Learning Perl, or Learning Python books, as both are quite capable of building and maintaining indexes. The best part is that it would be optimized for your set of files, rather than just being a generic tool that you have to go out and find third party filters to make use of.
Then again, what do I know. If you think running grep against
-Rusty
Athleats with normal 20/20 vision getting laser caritotimy to correct their vision to higher acuity than 'normal' 20/15 or 20/10.
The point I got from his message was that he interpreted many of the postings as advocating or recomending that people do perform theft, and 'this is how they should do it.' His question was what justification do you have for these actions.
My own response is that I do not interpret the posts in the same way, in fact I see the posts as a scathing commentary on the stupidity of people getting caught doing this, with commentary indicating that there is far more efficient methods of doing the same thing. The fact that there are far more effecient methods does not mean that those methods are any more recomended, or justified than the actual crimes commited, and since they are not recomending those acts, there is no need to justify them.
His question is still valid, but not directed (for the most part) at the posters. His question is more accurately directed at people who decide to act upon those comments. What is their justification for commiting these acts?
Perhaps as you note, they really do not care, and may not even attempt to justify those actions. However he does note that in nearly every situation of IP or other property theft, the thief does do some form of justification: It cost too much for mey to buy it so I stole it; The organization doesn't pass on the money to the crative people; The manufacturer uses slave labor; etc. These are 'justifications', not 'care'.
-Rusty
Not sure if T-Mobile is a viable solution for him in the UK. If so, great, otherwise see if there is a service that provides something similar for data services.
Hence all of the other, useful, responses.
Hmm, like yours.
Ok, the hardware has been identified, use an xbox, or mini-itx based system, possibly with a fanless m6000 or m10000 via processor.
Provide whatever network hardware is necessary, up to and including a wireless usb adapter if you can get one of those to work.
Since you want this to be as quiet as possible, build it using either boot from lan, or boot from flash.
You will need some way of selecting the media file that you are going to play. If you are not using a setup like MythTV, or some other tool that stores the informaiton in a database you can access from the front end, then you will need some other way of keeping track of the metadata so you can find and play specific files quickly.
Share the files via Samba, or Windows File shared folders. (remember to keep the shares local and don't broadcast them across the Internet of course, but you knew that.)
You could use a copy of mc as a text mode file system browser to select the most recent file to show. I think gmc provides the same feature but in a bit more of a gui.
If you are willing to write some software, you could use any of a number of gui builders and programing tools to build a gui based file browser and keep metadata in related files that your browser knows how to access so you can pull that information up as you are browsing your files. It could even be built to read ID3 takes from mp3 files if needed.
So far as I know, there is no stand alone application that will give you useful information about media files beyond their file name, that is not built as part of a front-end/back-end package that includes the ability to record.
One last option however would be to build a mythtv based system, without a capture card, and trick the back end into running anyway (I don't know if this is possible, and think it is a silly proposition.) Tell it where the files are located, run the database on a system where you can read and write to it from your front end, and store the media files you are collecting in the 'videos' folder. You will have to update the appropriate file information yourself, though with ripped dvd movies, you may be able to just point at IMDB to get all the appropriate information.
In any case, have a good time.
-Rusty
I look at most of those posts and think of them in the same sense as posts on how to make a nuclear bomb. There are actually a lot of people who have access to a large percentage of the material as well as the technical knowledge and resources necesary to construct one. You or I may not have ready access to fisionable materials in the quantities and purety necessary, but even if you or I did, that would not make it at all likely that we would create a nuclear bomb.
Do I have the resources to do UPC label creation and swaping. What I don't already have at home I can easily pick up at a local office max, or office Depot. Possibly even at the very stores mentioned in the article.
I look at the responses earlier in the listing as "Idiots, if you are going to do this, you need to do it this way..."
If I were to decide to use UPC relabling at Best Buy to get that great new 42" LCD HDTV, I would visit first, find a manufacture with both a 42" LCD HDTV, and a 35" LCD HDTV, write down the UPC for that 35" edition, go home print up an approprieate sized copy of that to overlay the UPC on the 42" edition, then during a busy time at Best Buy, go in, put the 42" set on a cart, go stand in line, and while waiting in line discreatly overlay the UPC.
Now note I began that with 'If I were to decide..' I honestly have no interest in doing this. I may like the idea of having a 42" LCD HDTV, but I happen to have worked for the stuff I own, and I have no interest in changing that.
I don't have a justification for such an action, as I have no interest in performing the action. That doesn't mean that I can't participate in the thought experiment, or write about what I know about the topic in question.
-Rusty