Yeah, the celebrity endorsement nearly put me off. I was looking at the lower end cards, but discovered the lowest two X-Fi card do NOT have the real X-Fi chipset, so do not support the hardware acceleration for gaming!
Personally I do not like glass-style mousemats, I prefer the old fabric ones, so use an Everglide Titan with a Logitech G5 mouse set to a LOWER DPI. I find this is actually more accurate than a smaller surface with high DPI.
Funnily enough, in actual gaming, I seem to recall Fatal1ty actually plays this way too, but so do a lot of the older serious players. Guess their hands are as damaged as mine too by that age!
Yep, I agree - I use the cheaper stereo version of the Medusa headset with the X-Fi card set to headphone mode. I have tried the 5.1 version of the Medusa headset, and do not find it that much better for the money.
This does actually provide excellent virtual surround, which is why I think I need the X-Fi.
I had to go back to my onboard Realtek HD-Audio, and tried it in AC97 mode too a few weeks ago. It was not a nice experience.
DICE's Battlefield 2 uses EAX to provide detailed positional audio on X-Fi cards.
I have played a fair amount of Battlefield 2, around 400 hours. About half way through this, I upgraded from onboard audio to an X-Fi Fatal1ty. My Kill to Death ratio went up by about 25% within a few days.
For me, the stats speak for themselves. Same applies to Race Driver GRID currently... there is no need to use the mirrors if you have reasonable hearing.
I understand this can be done in software - the point is, it is not at the same point currently.
I'm speculating here, but does decreasing the pixel size always lead to increased the noise in the image?
It sounds to me like we are reaching a point where increasing the len size is not an option to continue increasing the sensor pixel counts.
I remember reading an article asserting that 6 - 8MP actually produces the best picture in a compact camera for the same reasons. ie highest SNR and lowest fringing.
More worryingly, there can be rootkits in your LiveCD.
One of the Vista activation hacks actually use a boot-time module that stays resident and patches Vista. If your malware is targeted well enough, you patch the BIOS, make it load the rootkit, then boot off the LiveCD, then look for the Linux and Windows keyboard drivers.
If it's not your machine, it's not safe... and maybe unsafe even then.
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This is discussed in the "plausible deniability" section of the TrueCrypt docs.
The recommended solution is to ensure you have a plausible use for the existing installation of TrueCrypt, for example some porn or customer records in a separate container, allowing you to deny the existence of the real container.
This means you do not have to put yourself in a situation where you are denying using TC and one tiny mistake could indicate that you have used TrueCrypt when no visible TC volume is present.
On the other hand, I'm sure most of the bootable Linux LiveCDs will continue to include TrueCrypt. If you want to do it with Windows, use BartPE as discussed in the TrueCrypt FAQ.
Once in a blue moon, it is nice to dig out a lost bookmark, however the other 90% of the time I want an address I was using earlier in the session, and not the 20 bookmarks which appear.
If you had a prefixes like "bm " to auto-complete bookmarks, and otherwise it operated in the old manner. At this point, it gets close to being somewhat like a shell - great!
IMHO, the auto-complete was definitely better in 2.0.
Following on from the "tree of history" concept in one of the above posts, I would like to be able to add tabs I want to look at later to that tree, without actually opening the tab yet.
Often when researching problems with colleagues, having shared access to a tree like this would be great - it would avoid duplication of avenues of research, or quickly follow your colleague into a fruitful area.
I would suspect Barracuda want someone give evidence that the product did in fact implement a technique similar enough to the claimed patent and also to show that there was a real shipped product associated with the box.
I guess there are just too many vapourware products out there!
I had looked there when it was first announced, and disappointingly it will not get me the source.
You have to be from a registered academic institution which has signed up for the program, and the downloader has to be a teaching representative of the institution.
To quote the page: "Use of the Windows Research Kernel requires academic affiliation with an accredited institution of higher education and direct involvement in teaching and/or research, such as being academic faculty members, system or lab administrators or instructors, students enrolled in relevant undergraduate or graduate programs, or academic researchers working on faculty sponsored projects."
Exactly - this is the sad part of it, that (from a UK perspective) there are few packages which allow say DSL users to pay a bit more and have genuinely unlimited service. (Be for instace).
As you say, if you forced into a choice of cellular, there are so few providers with no real competition in the arena of trying to provide a solid service to high-usage customers.
All the competition seems to be for the low-usage, low-cost first 90% of the customers.
In honesty it is starting to improve here - at least 2 cellular carriers have just jumped their standard data services to be multi-GB/month limits, one of which used to be 120MB/month!
We can only hope the US begins to follow Europe's cellular market and the UK gets FiOS some time this century!
FiOS is still in the "early stage" where customers are profitable and competition is low.
DSL was not throttled for early subscribers, it has now reached the point where it is cheap and the infrastructure behind it is getting too expensive to run if everyone uses it heavily.
IANAL, however, I would believe the situation is you are purchasing a $5 license to be able to watch the film for 48 hours.
After that license expires, your copy of the film is a) copyrighted and b) unlicensed. Meaning if the license agreement holds up, you are in breach of copyright.
The only thing which may help you here are the limitations on shrink-wrap licenses, however if you know in advance it is only a 48 hour license, this seems pretty solid to me. These are different in the US and UK. In the UK it is the Sale Of Good act primarily which rules over this.
Indeed, which is why I was asking whether SFP detects the modification when Windows it next booted, or whether it is actually only useful to protects against threats when Windows is running.
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Yeah, the celebrity endorsement nearly put me off.
I was looking at the lower end cards, but discovered the lowest two X-Fi card do NOT have the real X-Fi chipset, so do not support the hardware acceleration for gaming!
Personally I do not like glass-style mousemats, I prefer the old fabric ones, so use an Everglide Titan with a Logitech G5 mouse set to a LOWER DPI. I find this is actually more accurate than a smaller surface with high DPI.
Funnily enough, in actual gaming, I seem to recall Fatal1ty actually plays this way too, but so do a lot of the older serious players. Guess their hands are as damaged as mine too by that age!
Yep, I agree - I use the cheaper stereo version of the Medusa headset with the X-Fi card set to headphone mode. I have tried the 5.1 version of the Medusa headset, and do not find it that much better for the money.
This does actually provide excellent virtual surround, which is why I think I need the X-Fi.
I had to go back to my onboard Realtek HD-Audio, and tried it in AC97 mode too a few weeks ago. It was not a nice experience.
For gamers, there is a massive difference.
DICE's Battlefield 2 uses EAX to provide detailed positional audio on X-Fi cards.
I have played a fair amount of Battlefield 2, around 400 hours. About half way through this, I upgraded from onboard audio to an X-Fi Fatal1ty. My Kill to Death ratio went up by about 25% within a few days.
For me, the stats speak for themselves. Same applies to Race Driver GRID currently... there is no need to use the mirrors if you have reasonable hearing.
I understand this can be done in software - the point is, it is not at the same point currently.
You are comparing area to length. Check your units.
Megapixels = area.
Frame dimensions = length.
35mm = 1.37" frame width
1.37" x 1.18in = 1.6 square inches in 7:6 format.
6"x7" = 42 square inches.
42 / 1.6 = 26.25 - suspiciously close to your number.
I'm speculating here, but does decreasing the pixel size always lead to increased the noise in the image?
It sounds to me like we are reaching a point where increasing the len size is not an option to continue increasing the sensor pixel counts.
I remember reading an article asserting that 6 - 8MP actually produces the best picture in a compact camera for the same reasons. ie highest SNR and lowest fringing.
More worryingly, there can be rootkits in your LiveCD.
One of the Vista activation hacks actually use a boot-time module that stays resident and patches Vista. If your malware is targeted well enough, you patch the BIOS, make it load the rootkit, then boot off the LiveCD, then look for the Linux and Windows keyboard drivers.
If it's not your machine, it's not safe... and maybe unsafe even then.
This is discussed in the "plausible deniability" section of the TrueCrypt docs.
The recommended solution is to ensure you have a plausible use for the existing installation of TrueCrypt, for example some porn or customer records in a separate container, allowing you to deny the existence of the real container.
This means you do not have to put yourself in a situation where you are denying using TC and one tiny mistake could indicate that you have used TrueCrypt when no visible TC volume is present.
On the other hand, I'm sure most of the bootable Linux LiveCDs will continue to include TrueCrypt.
If you want to do it with Windows, use BartPE as discussed in the TrueCrypt FAQ.
Yes, however that would be just like sending e-mail back to the return addresses on spam.
Chances of the owner being involved with the theft? Slim to none.
In fact, if you RTFA, this is actually pointed out.
Yes, I totally agree.
Once in a blue moon, it is nice to dig out a lost bookmark, however the other 90% of the time I want an address I was using earlier in the session, and not the 20 bookmarks which appear.
If you had a prefixes like "bm " to auto-complete bookmarks, and otherwise it operated in the old manner. At this point, it gets close to being somewhat like a shell - great!
IMHO, the auto-complete was definitely better in 2.0.
For Flash and Java you can use AdBlock Plus.
There is an option which adds a little tab to every Flash and Java window allowing you to permanently block it.
FlashBlock might do things like this too - although I have never used it.
Indeed, it's forever digging things I would rather forget out of my bookmarks!
I believe going into about:config and setting browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 then restarting the browser will fix it.
"Clear Private Data" still seems to be working for me.
Set what it clears in Tools / Options / Privacy then the Settings button near the bottom.
Also, browsing with history disabled (same settings page) also still works for me.
I believe the add-on you want is Nuke Anything Enhanced. It provides a "Remove This Object" entry in the right-click menu.
To get rid of Java / Flash you can select across the object and use "Remove Selection".
Get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951
I do actually find that an interesting idea.
Following on from the "tree of history" concept in one of the above posts, I would like to be able to add tabs I want to look at later to that tree, without actually opening the tab yet.
Often when researching problems with colleagues, having shared access to a tree like this would be great - it would avoid duplication of avenues of research, or quickly follow your colleague into a fruitful area.
I believe Opera has this?
I certainly did last time I used it - your whole tab session was linked in a tree.
Admittedly, last time I used it, you still needed a registration key.
I would suspect Barracuda want someone give evidence that the product did in fact implement a technique similar enough to the claimed patent and also to show that there was a real shipped product associated with the box.
I guess there are just too many vapourware products out there!
I had looked there when it was first announced, and disappointingly it will not get me the source.
You have to be from a registered academic institution which has signed up for the program, and the downloader has to be a teaching representative of the institution.
To quote the page:
"Use of the Windows Research Kernel requires academic affiliation with an accredited institution of higher education and direct involvement in teaching and/or research, such as being academic faculty members, system or lab administrators or instructors, students enrolled in relevant undergraduate or graduate programs, or academic researchers working on faculty sponsored projects."
Yet somehow, I have not seen it leaked yet; in contrast to the Windows 2000 source code...
Shame - I would actually like to have a look at the current MP scheduler.
Well yeah - it's interesting to see the hypervisor nearly work on 360, but for a minor detail overlooked and to see it work correctly on PS3 to date.
It does make wonder how much the 360 is being used as a test platform for the idea of doing it to PCs for use with trusted applications.
They could even leave you a wild bit of your PC that you still have some control over, but under the watchful eye of the hypervisor.
Exactly - this is the sad part of it, that (from a UK perspective) there are few packages which allow say DSL users to pay a bit more and have genuinely unlimited service. (Be for instace).
As you say, if you forced into a choice of cellular, there are so few providers with no real competition in the arena of trying to provide a solid service to high-usage customers.
All the competition seems to be for the low-usage, low-cost first 90% of the customers.
In honesty it is starting to improve here - at least 2 cellular carriers have just jumped their standard data services to be multi-GB/month limits, one of which used to be 120MB/month!
We can only hope the US begins to follow Europe's cellular market and the UK gets FiOS some time this century!
FiOS is still in the "early stage" where customers are profitable and competition is low.
DSL was not throttled for early subscribers, it has now reached the point where it is cheap and the infrastructure behind it is getting too expensive to run if everyone uses it heavily.
It also wastes the oil to transport anything else you need recycling which you care to enclose in the packaging!
Tyres... house bricks... siblings...
IANAL, however, I would believe the situation is you are purchasing a $5 license to be able to watch the film for 48 hours.
After that license expires, your copy of the film is a) copyrighted and b) unlicensed. Meaning if the license agreement holds up, you are in breach of copyright.
The only thing which may help you here are the limitations on shrink-wrap licenses, however if you know in advance it is only a 48 hour license, this seems pretty solid to me.
These are different in the US and UK. In the UK it is the Sale Of Good act primarily which rules over this.
But are your company planning on making your company's 25Gb data available for free?
No? Why not?
I'm going to be bold and that this is the same reason you also cannot get per-tick stock data from other sources.
Indeed, which is why I was asking whether SFP detects the modification when Windows it next booted, or whether it is actually only useful to protects against threats when Windows is running.