Better to get an IBM. Don't have to pay extra for same day service, because IBM has MANY affiliated shops that do warranty service. If my laptop is broken, I drop it off on the way to work, if they have the part, it's fixed the same day, at worse they are able to figure out exactly what's wrong and have the part the next day (unlike next day service, as many times they bring the wrong parts) and best of all, it's free if you're under warranty, used to love EZ Serve, now I do this and don't pay extra for Next Day service.
unfortunately I can't seem to find the link on IBM's web page for the list of authorized service centers (And while google finds something, it seems to be a fairly empty list)
Since when is an "Acer Ferari" laptop a top of the line laptop. There are really only 2 types of top of the line laptops. One is an Apple MacBook Pro and its understandable why Microsoft wouldn't give that out. The other is the Thinkpad. No other PC laptop comes close to the thinkpad. Though its too bad they don't make a 15" 1600x1200 model anymore.
yes, but a transparent proxy just sees endpoints and traffic flow, can't disturb it. (i.e. it's just a router). If the ssl handshake is done appropriatly, there's nothing one can point to being out of the ordinary besides the type of traffic flows.
how in the world can you proxy https WITHOUT modifying the web browser, by definition a proxy is a man in the middle and SSL/TLS is designed to prevent those attacks assuming neither end is broken (which as another posted pointed out, older (circa 2002) versions of IE were broken).
and this is where TCPA would come in handy. the bios hashes grub, grub hashes the kernel and initrd, get a "known" good result. This should be fairly stable. If executing within a hypervisor, the resulting hash value will not be equivalent and you will know something is up.
I have a T42p, which I upgraded to from my T21. Overall the T42p is a bunch better contrsucted laptop than my t21. The only "negative" is that it comes with a 7200rpm drive (hence quotes) so its more liable to overheating (i.e. airplane w/ blanket on my lap) and more prone to errors when I abuse it. IBM on the othrehand has been good to me and replaced the HD quickly the few times I've done bad things to my laptop (i.e. chair gets cought on power code, and yank and quickly its on the floor, too bad APS doesn't really work in linux, though at least progress is being made on that front)
Behdad Esfahbod
* Current maintainer, Added explicit bidi support, fixed all
conformance bugs, changed the library to use bitmasks, rewrote
many things, removed glib dependency.
Is what it sounds like to me. Basically they create a lot of parity blocks as well that can be used to recreate missing blocks. One can do this today w/ bittorrent and a smart client, such that the torrent would contain AVI file of say 700 blocks (1 per MB) and another 50 of parity blocks. So the torrent would describe 750MB of data. However, one would only have to download any 700 of those blocks as the rest could be simply recreated.
I gave this some thought a while ago, unsure if it really solves a pressing problem.
future versions of Palm OS 6 (Cobalt) is supposed to be built around a linux core. Current versions of Cobalt aren't.
But that's totally a different point, as the life drive (According to the review) is built w/ Garnet (PalmOS 5.4) which has more in common w/ PalmOS 3/2/1 than Linux.
confused, wasn't arguing that web browsers dont do well on thin clients (in fact I think they do), just that a lot of the raster operations don't help as they are mostly gifs/jpgs and text. all of which get blt'd directly and aren't raster operations like fills.
I don't disagree, the point was a single floppy that would work on any machine. vesa gave me that. remember this was 2002, while I could have made a cd for cheap, they are bigger than floppies.
today I'd probably go for a small usb memory key and a knoppix like autodetection bootup.
yes, I know that. I've read the rdp spec backwards and forwards (as I have been in the employ of MSFT (after I made the above project) and hence while I use rdesktop as an application, I don't hack on it).
but again, I stand by my statement that while protocols like rdp do support some set of raster operations (ex: fills of a region), at the end of the day the current model of thin clients is most blt'ing to screen, especially with graphic heavy apps like a web browser. Things like caching prove the point, as one is caching rasterized font bitmaps and hence vesa doesn't care about, as at the end of the day those operations are mostly blt'ing the cached font bitmap to the screen or whatever other bitmap you've cached.
Thin clients might be changing to the point where my project isn't a good example anymore (i.e. getting fatter w/ more functionality, such as video acceleration, as you can't efficiently pump many different videos worth of pixels on a single lan today, though that could change as well), but I'd still think its perfectly usable today (though as I said, haven't tried that floppy lately, so it's only an intellectually masterbating type of thought)
But that's really besides the point. I used vesa because it can run anywhere, as the point was a floppy you could carry anywhere.
Today w/ things like USB keys I'd probably make a knoppix like setup that autodetected the appropriate x driver to use.
I did that 3 years ago! Fit a linux kernel, X (vesa, so should work everywhere), dhcp and rdesktop on bootable floppy image (though the linux kernel only had one ethernet driver compiled in), basically a thin client you can take with you and would work on most computers (albiet network issues) you can find.
though I give no warrenties for it still working, as haven't looked at it in years (and probably needs to be manually setup once it boots). though I recall it working well enough to get me an A on the project it was for.
the idea was that this floppy would give you a full screen X (via tiny X's Xvesa) and you'd run rdesktop full screen on top of it.
The fan went (well it still spun, but clearly not as fast as the other one) and it seemed to take the CPU with it, as it wouldn't even boot if in the system. (in socket 2 with the working one, or in socket one by itself)
I usually buy things with my american express blue card, it will extend the warrenty on things I purchase up to a year. Recently one of my 3 year one month old Athlon 1800 MPs died, since they were retail parts, they had a 3 year warrenty. I call up AmEx and they refund my purchase price right then and there, even though one can purchase an 1800 MP for siginificantly cheaper today. I turn around and use that refund to be able to significantly upgrade my computer with 2 Athlon 2800 MPs:)
ptunes makes it a pretty decent mp3 player when combined with a stereo headset (mine was $12 on ebay) and a 1gb sd card.
and it is of course a fairly decent phone and pda (albiet with it share of problems documented here but they really haven't bit me)
I have a 30gb ipod but have doubts I'm going to continue using it for my short commutes as the treo is much more convinient, especially if I get a call while listening to mp3s or ogg on it.
no, all you have to do is provide an aspi layer to the the cd device. would require correct perms on the device, but should be doable if someone really cared to do it.
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Doesn't NASA know that this is a big no no? They are most definitely voiding their warranty by attempting this
try to buy one today.
Better to get an IBM. Don't have to pay extra for same day service, because IBM has MANY affiliated shops that do warranty service. If my laptop is broken, I drop it off on the way to work, if they have the part, it's fixed the same day, at worse they are able to figure out exactly what's wrong and have the part the next day (unlike next day service, as many times they bring the wrong parts) and best of all, it's free if you're under warranty, used to love EZ Serve, now I do this and don't pay extra for Next Day service.
unfortunately I can't seem to find the link on IBM's web page for the list of authorized service centers (And while google finds something, it seems to be a fairly empty list)
Since when is an "Acer Ferari" laptop a top of the line laptop. There are really only 2 types of top of the line laptops. One is an Apple MacBook Pro and its understandable why Microsoft wouldn't give that out. The other is the Thinkpad. No other PC laptop comes close to the thinkpad. Though its too bad they don't make a 15" 1600x1200 model anymore.
So is all we need is a Nebuchadnezzar to burn down the temple?
ah, but that's easy to get around, for instance with stunnel.
yes, but a transparent proxy just sees endpoints and traffic flow, can't disturb it. (i.e. it's just a router). If the ssl handshake is done appropriatly, there's nothing one can point to being out of the ordinary besides the type of traffic flows.
how in the world can you proxy https WITHOUT modifying the web browser, by definition a proxy is a man in the middle and SSL/TLS is designed to prevent those attacks assuming neither end is broken (which as another posted pointed out, older (circa 2002) versions of IE were broken).
and this is where TCPA would come in handy. the bios hashes grub, grub hashes the kernel and initrd, get a "known" good result. This should be fairly stable. If executing within a hypervisor, the resulting hash value will not be equivalent and you will know something is up.
I have a T42p, which I upgraded to from my T21. Overall the T42p is a bunch better contrsucted laptop than my t21. The only "negative" is that it comes with a 7200rpm drive (hence quotes) so its more liable to overheating (i.e. airplane w/ blanket on my lap) and more prone to errors when I abuse it. IBM on the othrehand has been good to me and replaced the HD quickly the few times I've done bad things to my laptop (i.e. chair gets cought on power code, and yank and quickly its on the floor, too bad APS doesn't really work in linux, though at least progress is being made on that front)
not to get in a nit picking war, but fribidi was started by an Israeli
H ORS?rev=1.11&view=markup
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/fribidi/fribidi/AUT
Dov Grobgeld
* Initial author.
and is now maintained by an Iranian.
Behdad Esfahbod
* Current maintainer, Added explicit bidi support, fixed all
conformance bugs, changed the library to use bitmasks, rewrote
many things, removed glib dependency.
just wondering what that vulnerability is, none of the binaries from ucspi-tcp on my debian box are suid anything (let alone root)
Is what it sounds like to me. Basically they create a lot of parity blocks as well that can be used to recreate missing blocks. One can do this today w/ bittorrent and a smart client, such that the torrent would contain AVI file of say 700 blocks (1 per MB) and another 50 of parity blocks. So the torrent would describe 750MB of data. However, one would only have to download any 700 of those blocks as the rest could be simply recreated.
I gave this some thought a while ago, unsure if it really solves a pressing problem.
future versions of Palm OS 6 (Cobalt) is supposed to be built around a linux core. Current versions of Cobalt aren't.
But that's totally a different point, as the life drive (According to the review) is built w/ Garnet (PalmOS 5.4) which has more in common w/ PalmOS 3/2/1 than Linux.
PXE only matters on a network, i.e. need a machine that it can talk to.
confused, wasn't arguing that web browsers dont do well on thin clients (in fact I think they do), just that a lot of the raster operations don't help as they are mostly gifs/jpgs and text. all of which get blt'd directly and aren't raster operations like fills.
I don't disagree, the point was a single floppy that would work on any machine. vesa gave me that. remember this was 2002, while I could have made a cd for cheap, they are bigger than floppies.
today I'd probably go for a small usb memory key and a knoppix like autodetection bootup.
yes, I know that. I've read the rdp spec backwards and forwards (as I have been in the employ of MSFT (after I made the above project) and hence while I use rdesktop as an application, I don't hack on it).
but again, I stand by my statement that while protocols like rdp do support some set of raster operations (ex: fills of a region), at the end of the day the current model of thin clients is most blt'ing to screen, especially with graphic heavy apps like a web browser. Things like caching prove the point, as one is caching rasterized font bitmaps and hence vesa doesn't care about, as at the end of the day those operations are mostly blt'ing the cached font bitmap to the screen or whatever other bitmap you've cached.
Thin clients might be changing to the point where my project isn't a good example anymore (i.e. getting fatter w/ more functionality, such as video acceleration, as you can't efficiently pump many different videos worth of pixels on a single lan today, though that could change as well), but I'd still think its perfectly usable today (though as I said, haven't tried that floppy lately, so it's only an intellectually masterbating type of thought)
But that's really besides the point. I used vesa because it can run anywhere, as the point was a floppy you could carry anywhere.
Today w/ things like USB keys I'd probably make a knoppix like setup that autodetected the appropriate x driver to use.
why slow?
remember.
Q. What's a thin client?
A. A glorified frame buffer.
Q. What's vesa?
A. A standard way to access the framebuffer.
so, yes, if the images were being rendered on the client it be slow, but they aren't, they are basically being rendered on the remote device.
people can still get the image from
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/floppy.bin
though I give no warrenties for it still working, as haven't looked at it in years (and probably needs to be manually setup once it boots). though I recall it working well enough to get me an A on the project it was for.
the idea was that this floppy would give you a full screen X (via tiny X's Xvesa) and you'd run rdesktop full screen on top of it.
The fan went (well it still spun, but clearly not as fast as the other one) and it seemed to take the CPU with it, as it wouldn't even boot if in the system. (in socket 2 with the working one, or in socket one by itself)
I usually buy things with my american express blue card, it will extend the warrenty on things I purchase up to a year. Recently one of my 3 year one month old Athlon 1800 MPs died, since they were retail parts, they had a 3 year warrenty. I call up AmEx and they refund my purchase price right then and there, even though one can purchase an 1800 MP for siginificantly cheaper today. I turn around and use that refund to be able to significantly upgrade my computer with 2 Athlon 2800 MPs :)
the article claims that, but EA's web page for the title, clearly has the MLB logo
http://www.easports.com/games/mvp2004/home.jsp
posting this from my treo 650.
ptunes makes it a pretty decent mp3 player when combined with a stereo headset (mine was $12 on ebay) and a 1gb sd card.
and it is of course a fairly decent phone and pda (albiet with it share of problems documented here but they really haven't bit me)
I have a 30gb ipod but have doubts I'm going to continue using it for my short commutes as the treo is much more convinient, especially if I get a call while listening to mp3s or ogg on it.
no, all you have to do is provide an aspi layer to the the cd device. would require correct perms on the device, but should be doable if someone really cared to do it.