TPM itself is actually a benefit to users. It is basically a hardware security module that allows users to store encryption keys in hardware and protect them from tampering--the user must authenticate to the bios and the chip detects things like changed hardware, preventing an attacker from inserting hardware which may attempt to break into the chip (for example, some sort of brute force hardware device).
That TPM was going to be used for copy protection (e.g., the operating system stores a list of hardware components and stops working if the configuration changes) is not a function of TPM itself... instead that is Microsoft's (and the like) fault.
Blaming TPM for the disgusting behavior of software vendors is like blaming lock-makers for letting your wife lock you out of the house.
I did the phone/data thing at my parent's house (I couldn't do it in my apartment because I knew I'd be moving out eventually... screw the next tenant) and it's pretty sweet.
I have 12 runs and arranged the terminations in a cabinet in the basement like this: 3 rows of 12. The top panel is for terminating the run to whichever room. The middle panel splits out the middle two wires (pins 4 & 5) and connects them to a 66 block (which is in turn connected to my vonage router) and forwards the remaining wires (pins 1-3, 6-8) to the bottom panel. I also have a 24-port 100Mswitch and a 5-port 1000M switch. The 24-port switch supports vlan and is connected to a linksys WRT54GL which has priority queuing for specific vlans.
This allows me to select the following configurations simply by swapping patch cables:
1. Full ethernet (compatible with 100M or 1000M ethernet): patch from the top panel to one of the switches. 2. Ethernet + phone (compatible with 100M ethernet & 1-line phone CONCURRENTLY ON THE SAME RUN): patch from the top panel to the middle panel, then patch from the matching bottom panel jack to one of the switches. Whether phone or ethernet is used then depends on the device plugged into the jack on the other end of the run. 3. Phone only: Patch from the top panel to the middle panel. No patch connected to the matching bottom panel jack.
One thing about this: You have to be careful when using the mixed ethernet and phone configuration. Some ethernet cards terminate pins 4 and 5 to ground (or somesuch) which is "picked up" in telco wiring. This makes the phone unusable.
An improvement on this system would obviously be to have some sort of asterix box in the wiring cabinet such that each phone or phone+ethernet could be its own extension. This would eliminate the problem mentioned above.
One of the real advantages of using swap isn't to avoid memory exhaustion at all; by moving infrequently accessed pages from memory you make more room for the disk cache, thereby possibly improving overall system performance by reducing hard drive reads.
No, Linux is monolithic by design, with the option to use modules. Monolithic does not necessarily translate to no modules. It refers mainly to the underlying design of the kernel.
I've got a rather technical format comparison chart started up [1]. It's still a draft, but it's pretty complete.
It doesn't directly address relative compression ratios nor benchmarks. And it's mostly about the formats themselves, not the libraries that implement them. But it's still good for a birds-eye view, I think.
I think that it's clear that what he's doing isn't predicting, but rather summarizing what's going on right now for some of us (slashdotters). But it's important to remember that the audience that articles targeted towards doesn't already do all those things, so really what he's doing is predicting what's going to happen to the mainstream audience. While people here may scoff that he's behind the times, he's really putting forth timely information to the masses.
Take a simple measurement like 54 5/16" (which I had to use quite a bit the other day when I re-trimmed all my windows)
Well, I think the solution to that problem would have been to use 140cm trim.
The English system is much more accurate than the metric system is. It's also simpler (in most cases) to add in the English system. Take the above example. To add the width of my sawblade (1/8") you quickly come up with 54 7/16 inches. In metric you would have to spend an extra 10 seconds doing the addition (.95375 +.125=1.07875) and you're still left with the problem of not knowing exactly where to mark your lumber!
A lot of people insult the super-rich when they complain about their decreasing income. There are those that disregard them. But why should anyone make as much money as people like Moby? I'm sure Moby would still come out with more music if he made less money. And if he didn't, then how much would we really be losing?
There are people who make good music every day for fractions of what Moby makes. And you can no longer say that people like Moby get paid what consumers are willing to pay. It's clear that most consumers are not willing to pay what the music industry is charging. Consumers don't support Moby's bloated income. Why drag this charade out for any longer?
Yeah, it's rediculous to call it pirating. But it's even more rediculous to call what we're taking "property." Who invented the term "intellectual property" anyway? There's no such thing as intellectual property. Once I see or hear something, it's in my head, and it's mine. And once I buy a CD, it's also in my hand, and it's physically mine.
Why don't they just call it what it is: distribution limits. That's all they are. Limitations on what you can do with the property you just bought.
In the natural world, nobody owns information. The only way they can do that is to not share it in the first place. While patents still make some sense, the things they do with copyright laws is ridiculous. If somebody is taking your content and making money off of it, sure, that person should be stopped. But if you're a publisher and people are finding a better and cheaper way to get your content, all that means is that the market isn't there for you anymore. Just accept it and move on to a new business model.
My high school does it. One teacher always let kids do "stuff" (as long as he didn't know about it), but this year, they hired a college kid to supervise the labs. That means we have a lot more freedom to mess around with the computers, and if we mess one up, he just images it.
We actually have an "internet club" that meets almost everyday after school (except for Wednesdays when our web design club uses the lab). We play Half-life, starcraft, and DoD. The school owns about 10 copies of half-life.
We have a computer lab for each department, all running 800Mhz PCs. A few labs even has All-in-one Wonders installed on each machine, and they are all hooked up to the TV.
All in all, it's nice not having to always follow our acceptable use policy, which is probably more restrictive that most schools.
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I like how both clerks knew exactly what type of weapon it was.
That TPM was going to be used for copy protection (e.g., the operating system stores a list of hardware components and stops working if the configuration changes) is not a function of TPM itself... instead that is Microsoft's (and the like) fault.
Blaming TPM for the disgusting behavior of software vendors is like blaming lock-makers for letting your wife lock you out of the house.
I did the phone/data thing at my parent's house (I couldn't do it in my apartment because I knew I'd be moving out eventually... screw the next tenant) and it's pretty sweet.
I have 12 runs and arranged the terminations in a cabinet in the basement like this: 3 rows of 12. The top panel is for terminating the run to whichever room. The middle panel splits out the middle two wires (pins 4 & 5) and connects them to a 66 block (which is in turn connected to my vonage router) and forwards the remaining wires (pins 1-3, 6-8) to the bottom panel. I also have a 24-port 100Mswitch and a 5-port 1000M switch. The 24-port switch supports vlan and is connected to a linksys WRT54GL which has priority queuing for specific vlans.
This allows me to select the following configurations simply by swapping patch cables:
1. Full ethernet (compatible with 100M or 1000M ethernet): patch from the top panel to one of the switches.
2. Ethernet + phone (compatible with 100M ethernet & 1-line phone CONCURRENTLY ON THE SAME RUN): patch from the top panel to the middle panel, then patch from the matching bottom panel jack to one of the switches. Whether phone or ethernet is used then depends on the device plugged into the jack on the other end of the run.
3. Phone only: Patch from the top panel to the middle panel. No patch connected to the matching bottom panel jack.
One thing about this: You have to be careful when using the mixed ethernet and phone configuration. Some ethernet cards terminate pins 4 and 5 to ground (or somesuch) which is "picked up" in telco wiring. This makes the phone unusable.
An improvement on this system would obviously be to have some sort of asterix box in the wiring cabinet such that each phone or phone+ethernet could be its own extension. This would eliminate the problem mentioned above.
One of the real advantages of using swap isn't to avoid memory exhaustion at all; by moving infrequently accessed pages from memory you make more room for the disk cache, thereby possibly improving overall system performance by reducing hard drive reads.
It is obviously way to hard to say "Dealing WITH massively multiplying power cables?" So many more letters...
Yeah, the just used the word current in the wrong place.
No, Linux is monolithic by design, with the option to use modules. Monolithic does not necessarily translate to no modules. It refers mainly to the underlying design of the kernel.
It's a university system that guarantees really fast connections. http://www.internet2.edu/ (and whoever modded this as "funny" is really weird)
It doesn't directly address relative compression ratios nor benchmarks. And it's mostly about the formats themselves, not the libraries that implement them. But it's still good for a birds-eye view, I think.
[1] http://darbinding.sourceforge.net/about_dar.php (The chart is at the bottom of the page.)
I need 50 billion digits. For my pleasure.
I think that it's clear that what he's doing isn't predicting, but rather summarizing what's going on right now for some of us (slashdotters). But it's important to remember that the audience that articles targeted towards doesn't already do all those things, so really what he's doing is predicting what's going to happen to the mainstream audience. While people here may scoff that he's behind the times, he's really putting forth timely information to the masses.
Well, I think the solution to that problem would have been to use 140cm trim.
The English system is much more accurate than the metric system is. It's also simpler (in most cases) to add in the English system. Take the above example. To add the width of my sawblade (1/8") you quickly come up with 54 7/16 inches. In metric you would have to spend an extra 10 seconds doing the addition (.95375 + .125=1.07875) and you're still left with the problem of not knowing exactly where to mark your lumber!
Same counter argument here.
A lot of people insult the super-rich when they complain about their decreasing income. There are those that disregard them. But why should anyone make as much money as people like Moby? I'm sure Moby would still come out with more music if he made less money. And if he didn't, then how much would we really be losing? There are people who make good music every day for fractions of what Moby makes. And you can no longer say that people like Moby get paid what consumers are willing to pay. It's clear that most consumers are not willing to pay what the music industry is charging. Consumers don't support Moby's bloated income. Why drag this charade out for any longer?
Yeah, it's rediculous to call it pirating. But it's even more rediculous to call what we're taking "property." Who invented the term "intellectual property" anyway? There's no such thing as intellectual property. Once I see or hear something, it's in my head, and it's mine. And once I buy a CD, it's also in my hand, and it's physically mine. Why don't they just call it what it is: distribution limits. That's all they are. Limitations on what you can do with the property you just bought. In the natural world, nobody owns information. The only way they can do that is to not share it in the first place. While patents still make some sense, the things they do with copyright laws is ridiculous. If somebody is taking your content and making money off of it, sure, that person should be stopped. But if you're a publisher and people are finding a better and cheaper way to get your content, all that means is that the market isn't there for you anymore. Just accept it and move on to a new business model.
My high school does it. One teacher always let kids do "stuff" (as long as he didn't know about it), but this year, they hired a college kid to supervise the labs. That means we have a lot more freedom to mess around with the computers, and if we mess one up, he just images it. We actually have an "internet club" that meets almost everyday after school (except for Wednesdays when our web design club uses the lab). We play Half-life, starcraft, and DoD. The school owns about 10 copies of half-life. We have a computer lab for each department, all running 800Mhz PCs. A few labs even has All-in-one Wonders installed on each machine, and they are all hooked up to the TV. All in all, it's nice not having to always follow our acceptable use policy, which is probably more restrictive that most schools.