Reminds me of my local bank, where I have to use a crappy signature pad mounted almost out of reach, 30 cm above the counter and vertically. Signing this 320x200 resolution crap with a stylus the size of a felt-tip marker, connected with something as stiff as STP cable. They would probably be better off, offering me a chisel and a hammer, since that thing is sure not going to represent my signature well.
SPEC benchmarks are very expensive, we (the opensource community) should get together and compile a similar benchmark that is available to all, SPECInt is afterall using things like running a crosscompiling gcc to create some binary and then emulating a machine to run it. It's not hard to get SPEC, but it's not very usefull when your'e not allowed to publish your results.
There are enough games for linux to satisfy me, I have Unreal Tournament and Castle Wolfenstein, and a heap of GPL stuff, my main issue is running 3D software, I need the Lightwave modeller. It worked on a 3-4 month old cvs of wineX but now it works on neither wine nor wineX this is pretty confusing, as vmware isn't an option allthough using UAE and running 5.0 is acceptable with JIT (it actually renders faster here than the native win version) it's not that good at drawing high polygon counts, and then again the incompatible formats with 5 and 6, i have made lw2pov tools for both to convert to my custom MegaPOV but the second lacks textures yet so it's quite a pain anyway. If they added a page for usefull software I will also (as would many of my coworkers/friends) pay the $5 to vote and even contribute to get some stuff running.
My list:
Lightwave 6+ (atleast the modeller)
Poser 3+ (1.0 works but is rather crap)
Softimage (it's almost emulating unix on win anyway)
This is really nothing new, many microcontrollers (like those used in smartcards) are vulnerable to different attacks, clock-glitches voltage reversals/spikes which may unlock their security features. Many of them are normally readable but are 'locked' by a fuse. This fuse may be reset by removing the UV protective coating and erase the card as an EPROM (this will ofcourse also destroy any data you wanted to read). There are however methods circumventing this, like using micro-film as masks for the UV-eraser, or using micro-probes to directly alter the bus. Many cards do not even have real protection, like the european pay-phone cards, all they are is a serial-EPROM which is burned a bit at a time for each credit, but they're fused so if you erase them (UV-wise) they will not allow you to re-program the low-area of the EPROM, but don't worry, just use som other blank card and copy it onto that.
If space is tight, give v7upgrade a try, the unix 7 binaries takes insanely little diskspace compared to other versions, i made a rootdisk about 150k (gziped) with almost all needed tools (some still need porting) had to write init from scratch and such but it looks promising for 386/486 systems as these binaries don't eat ram.
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Reminds me of my local bank, where I have to use a crappy signature pad mounted almost out of reach, 30 cm above the counter and vertically. Signing this 320x200 resolution crap with a stylus the size of a felt-tip marker, connected with something as stiff as STP cable. They would probably be better off, offering me a chisel and a hammer, since that thing is sure not going to represent my signature well.
SPEC benchmarks are very expensive, we (the opensource community) should get together and compile a similar benchmark that is available to all, SPECInt is afterall using things like running a crosscompiling gcc to create some binary and then emulating a machine to run it. It's not hard to get SPEC, but it's not very usefull when your'e not allowed to publish your results.
There are enough games for linux to satisfy me, I have Unreal Tournament and Castle Wolfenstein, and a heap of GPL stuff, my main issue is running 3D software, I need the Lightwave modeller. It worked on a 3-4 month old cvs of wineX but now it works on neither wine nor wineX this is pretty confusing, as vmware isn't an option allthough using UAE and running 5.0 is acceptable with JIT (it actually renders faster here than the native win version) it's not that good at drawing high polygon counts, and then again the incompatible formats with 5 and 6, i have made lw2pov tools for both to convert to my custom MegaPOV but the second lacks textures yet so it's quite a pain anyway. If they added a page for usefull software I will also (as would many of my coworkers/friends) pay the $5 to vote and even contribute to get some stuff running.
My list:
Lightwave 6+ (atleast the modeller)
Poser 3+ (1.0 works but is rather crap)
Softimage (it's almost emulating unix on win anyway)
This is really nothing new, many microcontrollers (like those used in smartcards) are vulnerable to different attacks, clock-glitches voltage reversals/spikes which may unlock their security features. Many of them are normally readable but are 'locked' by a fuse. This fuse may be reset by removing the UV protective coating and erase the card as an EPROM (this will ofcourse also destroy any data you wanted to read). There are however methods circumventing this, like using micro-film as masks for the UV-eraser, or using micro-probes to directly alter the bus. Many cards do not even have real protection, like the european pay-phone cards, all they are is a serial-EPROM which is burned a bit at a time for each credit, but they're fused so if you erase them (UV-wise) they will not allow you to re-program the low-area of the EPROM, but don't worry, just use som other blank card and copy it onto that.
And since they bought out Nothing Real, this doesn't actually come as a surprise.
If space is tight, give v7upgrade a try, the unix 7 binaries takes insanely little diskspace compared to other versions, i made a rootdisk about 150k (gziped) with almost all needed tools (some still need porting) had to write init from scratch and such but it looks promising for 386/486 systems as these binaries don't eat ram.