Actually, I use mine constantly, but the problem is that it doesn't seem to auto-update very nicely. I followed the steps and left it to update and - while it rebooted once and did *something* - it never got to the final update.
I finally got tired of waiting for it to come OTA and just downloaded the update on a PC and pushed it through via USB. For some people though, that may be beyond their skills.
It's not TCP/IP so much as BGP, which is often already used in DDOS protection. Normally it would be used to filter traffic through a DDOS (protection) provider but perhaps instead they could push a route change to the Russian side and send all the "fun" traffic back at some networks in the homeland.
Actually that could be an amusing solution. Perhaps temporarily changing the ARP records for Russian so that the DDOS'ing machines start sending traffic back at some internal target would get the problem cleaned up quickly....
LoL. Yes, wholesome discussion on slashdot. There's been plenty of sharp edges here pretty much since inception. As for politics, it too has been a long standing section, and if you don't think it affects technology, science, and a lot of other core nerd stuff you're sadly mistaken.
Yeah, but the government has other tricks these days. One question is whether or not Cooke is popular enough that the government might not try the same shit they pulled on Nachhio
Antivirus was most useful in the days prior to it needing to be always running. TSR's started down the path towards bloat and instability, but prior to that it was quite helpful to be able to pop in a read-only floppy with antivirus and run a scan on your local drives.
Once they started running as TSR's (background programs), they became a constant hog of system resources oft-times worse than the viruses themselves. The internet furthered this in many ways because - previously - viruses generally spread through physical transfer.
In the "good ol' days", you got a virus by either running an infected file, or once MBR virii came around by inserting infected media into your PC. Those viruses were like blood/fluid born viruses in the human world, of-times nasty, but you wouldn't get computer-herpes without touching somebody elses infected junk. Sure there were networks, but infection usually stemmed from somebody running a trojan and having write access to files on a shared drive.
Nowadays, modern viruses are like an airborne version of ebola. You don't need to download anything, or insert anything. Visiting a legit site with a bad advertisement is enough to get you, or sometimes even just being online with a machine that has an unpatched vulnerability. That leads to constant-running A/V that is basically trying to scan memory of active software trying to catch viruses before they can dig in. That's fine for older viruses but new still the AV misses entirely, and unlike the days of physical transfer a new viruses can go from the creator's PC to a thousands of victims within seconds of being written. At this point, your AV is flu-shot. It works on some known infections and possibly close variations, but many people who have it still get sick from new stuff.
"One really weird thing is also that backlight adjustment requests are sent to both ACPI and GPU"
ACPI was (and in many cases continues to be) a mess at the hardware level. There are a lot of boards out there with shitty ACPI support. In windows-land, the windows have often released drivers with their boards which cover the weird bugs and deal with them. In Linux, there are flags for some known issues that can be enabled, but in general you're not getting anything direct from the vendor and have a somewhat generic kernel.
Then of course is the issue between the GPU vendors' closed-source/proprietary drivers and the FOSS kernel, again in many cases where the proprietary driver does weird shit. Laptops are especially problematic in this regard. I had a nice Asus laptop that eventually became useless to me for Linux because with it did something as soon as the proprietary driver loaded the backlight would dim to black. This happened in both Linux/windows, but on windows at least I could stick with Win7 (good for a bit yet) and an older driver, whereas on 'nix there was no luck getting the older driver to work on newer kernels/distros. I spent a week picking apart the FOSS parts of the driver and recompiling but this definitely seemed to be something tied to the hidden bits.
Usually in Linux you can just move up to a newer distro free and easy, but in this case the disjoint between hardware drivers and desktop/apps screwed me over. I can't blame the kernel devs for this as the weirdness very much seemed to be in AMD's driver and *not* in the kernel itself.
I've also had plenty of machines with flaky USB in 'nix - usually causing EHCI to drop devices - due to more non-standard stuff, usually ACPI-related.
So yeah, you could "find the patterns windows uses" for some edge cases, but in reality you've got thousands of boards with thousands of drivers/versions and most of them NOT open so finding out WTF windows does only works if you've got skill, time, and the actual hardware to debug.
I'm happy to say that I haven't seen issues with EHCI in years as newer hardware seems to follow standards much better in that regard, and Suspend/Hibernate support has worked for almost everything I've got with recent distros (even the stuff that's otherwise flaky USB-wise).
Windows 7 isn't just a "Kernel", it's an Operating System. Ditto for FreeBSD 7. While the kernel may be the core of an OS, userland certainly plays a significant part as well, particular for a desktop OS. For example, on a Win7 64-bit machine, the actual kernel would probably be something like "6.1.7601.17592"
So comparing those three, it would be more fair to use something like a Linux distribution/version from that era, such as * "Ubuntu Jaunty Jackelope" (EOL Oct 2010) * "Debian Lenny" (Archived Feb 2011) * RHEL6 (Production good until 2020, extended life-support not listed yet).
It's closer, so you could probably keep talent at least somewhat local. The $CAD is also at $0.76USD, so there's a potential savings in the currency difference too. Plus we're quite friendly, bacon and (real) maple syrop for your pancakes is plentiful, and if you come west the weather is quite lovely in many areas. Sure when talking about the hue and shade of your new icon schemes we'll ask you to spell it as "colour", but that's a small price to pay. Too bad our neighbouring government is a bunch of authoritarian pricks, but at least we seem to cleaned that up a bit on our end for now.
I think some people confuse "hate speech" with "incitement to violence". Realistically though, the difference between the two can be a fine line in various situations. Personally, if somebody wants to say "I hate X", then that's their business (though I may choose not to associate with said person). However, when that becomes "we should kill/hurt/main all them bloody X", then that's a problem. It's also similarly a problem when there's collusion to restrict the rights of certain demographics.
It's a crime to beat somebody. How about to say (especially from a position of power) that somebody "deserves" a beating? How about driving somebody to suicide? There's a lot of gray area in the law.
On the other side, claiming something is discrimination/hate-speech/etc is sometimes used as a sword to drive a particular agenda, when people deliberately muddy the waters between "group X is doing bad thing Y" versus stating "group X is bad" (see: persecution complex). Certain groups use such tactics to muzzle important conversation or opinions that contrast with their own.
Given historical use of private data and spying, you'd think that particular religious/ethnic group would have even greater concerns about mass data-collection...
Seeing a lot of comparisons between X and other remote-access protocols such as VNC. From a personal use perspective I've found:
One nice thing about X is that the active window is independent of a particular desktop, or parent etc. When I use VNC, one frustration is that everything is bound inside the parent window (which is generally also restricted to a particular monitor). Larger desktops tend to suck, performance-wise, as you end up with a lot of pricey redraws.
One *nice* thing about VNC is that you can push stuff that's been accelerated on the remote GPU.
There's also stuff like Citrix, which I've that in concept is nice enough to draw things as separate windows without an MDI-style parent or virtual desktop, but in practice weird crap starts happening as soon as I move said windows between monitors etc. One good way to mess with Citrix is to have the overall desktop size change (say by hotplugging a monitor). It's also sometimes ugly with overlapping windows etc.
At the moment my current setup is a combination of a remote X window and VNC (X11VNC+tightvnc). I've been working on OpenGL-based applications, which won't render across machines with X, however the beefy hardware is not on my main box. To that end, I've got the remote machine running X11VNC (which is able to grab the framebuffer) and tightvnc locally for rendering. That at least gets me the hardware acceleration for rendering. In addition, running the actual code editor+compiler via X allows me to have all the dialogs, debuggers, etc on my local machine and move stufff between monitors with ease.
I believe there are tricks to make this work all in X-land, e.g. with xvfb, but I haven't had much luck with that yet. What would be nice is to see those capabilities all pulled together in something like Wayland where the network stack, framebuffer, etc and all the userland stuff play nicely with each other out-of-the box with minimal hackery needed to get things to work.
"Honestly, it's at least the same size as anyone else. Probably bigger. No definitely bigger! Come down next weekend and you can measure it. Actually, make that tomorrow. Screw that, let me know your mobile number and I'll send you a picture I took next to a quarter."
The funny thing is that my desk phone at work requires a more secure password for f***ing voicemail than my bank account does. The work one needs to be changed every few months, and you can't re-use your previous passwords. My bank would be happy to accept 1-1-1-1 for perpetuity.
Yup. Terrorists kill people. Drug dealers kill people or deal drugs which kill people. Pedophiles abuse children.
And you know what, the authorities and governments fucking LOVE to use those guys to create or abuse laws in order to give themselves new and expanded powers. We already know that there's not just one phone, but at least 17 other cases where they're asking for pretty much the same fucking thing (and none of those terrorists). All they need is a nice precedent and a year from now they'll be using it break open the phones of everyone charged slightly above littering or jaywalking. It'll also be very helpful when they seize mobile devices at those ever-growing "borders" from pesky reporters or political types.
The authorities have already said they don't really know that there's anything useful on the phone (but we have to do everything, just in case). Given the wiretaps and other B.S. they've already been pulling, it's probably also a safe bet that most of it (if not all) they have already. But evidence gathered through illegal clandestine means can't be used in court, so you've gotta set a precedent for a nice new "legal" method.
Sorry, but I applaud Apple for taking a strong stance on this, unlike the fuckers at Amazon who decided the best way to deal with the issue is to preemptively remove device-encryption with their latest (mandatory) update.
Storage has been a non-issue for a long time. Sure if you want 2-3TB of SSD it's going to be expensive, but even on desktop I only use SSD for some stuff and spinning rust for the rest. eSATA or USB3 do well enough for storage, even more, but if you want local storage space it's easy enough to steal it from the optical bay.
Having a store losing business means that games aren't popular? I guess that means that since HMW and BestBuy are down in business it's because nobody is interested in music or movies, too.
For PC, fewer people but physical media, but gaming is still alive and well. Like music or movies has moved towards iTunes/Play/etc, so too are most PC games on Steam or Origin.
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Actually, I use mine constantly, but the problem is that it doesn't seem to auto-update very nicely. I followed the steps and left it to update and - while it rebooted once and did *something* - it never got to the final update.
I finally got tired of waiting for it to come OTA and just downloaded the update on a PC and pushed it through via USB. For some people though, that may be beyond their skills.
It's not TCP/IP so much as BGP, which is often already used in DDOS protection. Normally it would be used to filter traffic through a DDOS (protection) provider but perhaps instead they could push a route change to the Russian side and send all the "fun" traffic back at some networks in the homeland.
OK. So can the FBI stop bugging Apple for iPhone decryption now. It sounds like they can probably get what they need already.
Send all packets back where they came from.
Actually that could be an amusing solution. Perhaps temporarily changing the ARP records for Russian so that the DDOS'ing machines start sending traffic back at some internal target would get the problem cleaned up quickly....
Had a couple of those. Great cards! Worked on Linux without hassle too!
For my media boxes I went with the Cairo dock. It's good for a situation with a small number of apps but can also scale up nicely.
Personally though I still prefer to use it with KDE (you can just remove the main dock) as opposed to Gnome though.
And if they're talking preemptive strike, how much of the artillery (or even the military) would be left to launch?
LoL. Yes, wholesome discussion on slashdot. There's been plenty of sharp edges here pretty much since inception.
As for politics, it too has been a long standing section, and if you don't think it affects technology, science, and a lot of other core nerd stuff you're sadly mistaken.
Yeah, but the government has other tricks these days. One question is whether or not Cooke is popular enough that the government might not try the same shit they pulled on Nachhio
Antivirus was most useful in the days prior to it needing to be always running. TSR's started down the path towards bloat and instability, but prior to that it was quite helpful to be able to pop in a read-only floppy with antivirus and run a scan on your local drives.
Once they started running as TSR's (background programs), they became a constant hog of system resources oft-times worse than the viruses themselves. The internet furthered this in many ways because - previously - viruses generally spread through physical transfer.
In the "good ol' days", you got a virus by either running an infected file, or once MBR virii came around by inserting infected media into your PC. Those viruses were like blood/fluid born viruses in the human world, of-times nasty, but you wouldn't get computer-herpes without touching somebody elses infected junk. Sure there were networks, but infection usually stemmed from somebody running a trojan and having write access to files on a shared drive.
Nowadays, modern viruses are like an airborne version of ebola. You don't need to download anything, or insert anything. Visiting a legit site with a bad advertisement is enough to get you, or sometimes even just being online with a machine that has an unpatched vulnerability. That leads to constant-running A/V that is basically trying to scan memory of active software trying to catch viruses before they can dig in. That's fine for older viruses but new still the AV misses entirely, and unlike the days of physical transfer a new viruses can go from the creator's PC to a thousands of victims within seconds of being written.
At this point, your AV is flu-shot. It works on some known infections and possibly close variations, but many people who have it still get sick from new stuff.
"One really weird thing is also that backlight adjustment requests are sent to both ACPI and GPU"
ACPI was (and in many cases continues to be) a mess at the hardware level. There are a lot of boards out there with shitty ACPI support. In windows-land, the windows have often released drivers with their boards which cover the weird bugs and deal with them. In Linux, there are flags for some known issues that can be enabled, but in general you're not getting anything direct from the vendor and have a somewhat generic kernel.
Then of course is the issue between the GPU vendors' closed-source/proprietary drivers and the FOSS kernel, again in many cases where the proprietary driver does weird shit. Laptops are especially problematic in this regard. I had a nice Asus laptop that eventually became useless to me for Linux because with it did something as soon as the proprietary driver loaded the backlight would dim to black. This happened in both Linux/windows, but on windows at least I could stick with Win7 (good for a bit yet) and an older driver, whereas on 'nix there was no luck getting the older driver to work on newer kernels/distros. I spent a week picking apart the FOSS parts of the driver and recompiling but this definitely seemed to be something tied to the hidden bits.
Usually in Linux you can just move up to a newer distro free and easy, but in this case the disjoint between hardware drivers and desktop/apps screwed me over. I can't blame the kernel devs for this as the weirdness very much seemed to be in AMD's driver and *not* in the kernel itself.
I've also had plenty of machines with flaky USB in 'nix - usually causing EHCI to drop devices - due to more non-standard stuff, usually ACPI-related.
So yeah, you could "find the patterns windows uses" for some edge cases, but in reality you've got thousands of boards with thousands of drivers/versions and most of them NOT open so finding out WTF windows does only works if you've got skill, time, and the actual hardware to debug.
I'm happy to say that I haven't seen issues with EHCI in years as newer hardware seems to follow standards much better in that regard, and Suspend/Hibernate support has worked for almost everything I've got with recent distros (even the stuff that's otherwise flaky USB-wise).
That seems to be a fairly misleading statement
Windows 7 isn't just a "Kernel", it's an Operating System. Ditto for FreeBSD 7. While the kernel may be the core of an OS, userland certainly plays a significant part as well, particular for a desktop OS. For example, on a Win7 64-bit machine, the actual kernel would probably be something like "6.1.7601.17592"
So comparing those three, it would be more fair to use something like a Linux distribution/version from that era, such as
* "Ubuntu Jaunty Jackelope" (EOL Oct 2010)
* "Debian Lenny" (Archived Feb 2011)
* RHEL6 (Production good until 2020, extended life-support not listed yet).
It's closer, so you could probably keep talent at least somewhat local. The $CAD is also at $0.76USD, so there's a potential savings in the currency difference too. Plus we're quite friendly, bacon and (real) maple syrop for your pancakes is plentiful, and if you come west the weather is quite lovely in many areas. Sure when talking about the hue and shade of your new icon schemes we'll ask you to spell it as "colour", but that's a small price to pay. Too bad our neighbouring government is a bunch of authoritarian pricks, but at least we seem to cleaned that up a bit on our end for now.
Sounds like a great idea. How do you propose doing so (other than the obvious answer of reducing the number of vehicles on the road)?
It's easy to say "the government should do X" but not so much when you actually have to come up with a sane method for doing so.
I think some people confuse "hate speech" with "incitement to violence". Realistically though, the difference between the two can be a fine line in various situations. Personally, if somebody wants to say "I hate X", then that's their business (though I may choose not to associate with said person). However, when that becomes "we should kill/hurt/main all them bloody X", then that's a problem. It's also similarly a problem when there's collusion to restrict the rights of certain demographics.
It's a crime to beat somebody. How about to say (especially from a position of power) that somebody "deserves" a beating? How about driving somebody to suicide? There's a lot of gray area in the law.
On the other side, claiming something is discrimination/hate-speech/etc is sometimes used as a sword to drive a particular agenda, when people deliberately muddy the waters between "group X is doing bad thing Y" versus stating "group X is bad" (see: persecution complex). Certain groups use such tactics to muzzle important conversation or opinions that contrast with their own.
Given historical use of private data and spying, you'd think that particular religious/ethnic group would have even greater concerns about mass data-collection...
He was probably just looking forward to *finally* having a chance at beating Sinistar and Gauntlet
Seeing a lot of comparisons between X and other remote-access protocols such as VNC. From a personal use perspective I've found:
One nice thing about X is that the active window is independent of a particular desktop, or parent etc. When I use VNC, one frustration is that everything is bound inside the parent window (which is generally also restricted to a particular monitor). Larger desktops tend to suck, performance-wise, as you end up with a lot of pricey redraws.
One *nice* thing about VNC is that you can push stuff that's been accelerated on the remote GPU.
There's also stuff like Citrix, which I've that in concept is nice enough to draw things as separate windows without an MDI-style parent or virtual desktop, but in practice weird crap starts happening as soon as I move said windows between monitors etc. One good way to mess with Citrix is to have the overall desktop size change (say by hotplugging a monitor). It's also sometimes ugly with overlapping windows etc.
At the moment my current setup is a combination of a remote X window and VNC (X11VNC+tightvnc). I've been working on OpenGL-based applications, which won't render across machines with X, however the beefy hardware is not on my main box. To that end, I've got the remote machine running X11VNC (which is able to grab the framebuffer) and tightvnc locally for rendering. That at least gets me the hardware acceleration for rendering. In addition, running the actual code editor+compiler via X allows me to have all the dialogs, debuggers, etc on my local machine and move stufff between monitors with ease.
I believe there are tricks to make this work all in X-land, e.g. with xvfb, but I haven't had much luck with that yet. What would be nice is to see those capabilities all pulled together in something like Wayland where the network stack, framebuffer, etc and all the userland stuff play nicely with each other out-of-the box with minimal hackery needed to get things to work.
"Honestly, it's at least the same size as anyone else. Probably bigger. No definitely bigger! Come down next weekend and you can measure it. Actually, make that tomorrow. Screw that, let me know your mobile number and I'll send you a picture I took next to a quarter."
The funny thing is that my desk phone at work requires a more secure password for f***ing voicemail than my bank account does. The work one needs to be changed every few months, and you can't re-use your previous passwords. My bank would be happy to accept 1-1-1-1 for perpetuity.
Are the results open for everyone? If so, then they're also paying for something which everyone can (potentially) benefit from
Yup. Terrorists kill people. Drug dealers kill people or deal drugs which kill people. Pedophiles abuse children.
And you know what, the authorities and governments fucking LOVE to use those guys to create or abuse laws in order to give themselves new and expanded powers. We already know that there's not just one phone, but at least 17 other cases where they're asking for pretty much the same fucking thing (and none of those terrorists). All they need is a nice precedent and a year from now they'll be using it break open the phones of everyone charged slightly above littering or jaywalking. It'll also be very helpful when they seize mobile devices at those ever-growing "borders" from pesky reporters or political types.
The authorities have already said they don't really know that there's anything useful on the phone (but we have to do everything, just in case). Given the wiretaps and other B.S. they've already been pulling, it's probably also a safe bet that most of it (if not all) they have already. But evidence gathered through illegal clandestine means can't be used in court, so you've gotta set a precedent for a nice new "legal" method.
Sorry, but I applaud Apple for taking a strong stance on this, unlike the fuckers at Amazon who decided the best way to deal with the issue is to preemptively remove device-encryption with their latest (mandatory) update.
Storage has been a non-issue for a long time. Sure if you want 2-3TB of SSD it's going to be expensive, but even on desktop I only use SSD for some stuff and spinning rust for the rest. eSATA or USB3 do well enough for storage, even more, but if you want local storage space it's easy enough to steal it from the optical bay.
Having a store losing business means that games aren't popular? I guess that means that since HMW and BestBuy are down in business it's because nobody is interested in music or movies, too.
For PC, fewer people but physical media, but gaming is still alive and well. Like music or movies has moved towards iTunes/Play/etc, so too are most PC games on Steam or Origin.
How do you find the pricing/selection on Play Versus the Kindle store?
Also, can you use either of those on an actual eReader (e-paper)? If so, I may be looking to switch after this crap...