Check the 911 forums (Bart links them from the Nu2 site) for modified Ad-Aware plugin that uses RunScanner. It'll let you scan the host system's registry from within Bart. I've added it to my latest builds this week, and it's been a great time saver and seems to work well.
I'd link you myself, but I'm stuck on dial up at the moment.:)
It's by far the best solution I know of. And yes, there are several rather large plugin repositories with setups for 3rd party software. There's an Ad-aware plugin built in, but I'd recommend you search the forums for the plugin with RunScanner, which will let you scan the host computer's registry as well. But to fully answer your question, the build I personally use includes AdAware, McAffee CLI, Ghost 8, Partition Magic, a defragger and a number of other tools. I can be made to do just about anything you'd like.
I work for a small repair shop, and cleaning AV/Spyware has become 60% of our business in the past year, we've been using Bart since around Aug 2003, and it's been an absolutely indispensable tool in that time. Machines that we would have simply reloaded in the past can often times be saved by virtue of being able to run scans from outside the host system.
I seriously wonder in a case like this, however, if things from in-state are charged the same use tax? If not, couldn't it be argued that the states are violating the interstate commerce clause?
While Crawford is a top notch designer, I can't agree with him on this. Honestly, what he describes certainly isn't unique to gaming.
A prudent industry would treat sleazy products with harsh disdain, but the games industry cannot conceal its delight in sleaze. Grand Theft Auto III won industry awards despite the damage it did to the industry image.
Here's something interesting to consider : In the case of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the basic premise was essentially lifted from the movie Scarface. (The protaganist's mansion later in the game shares an almost identical floorplan to Montana's in the movie).
When Scarface was released, it had to go through multiple edits and finally arbitration to avoid an NC-17 rating, though interestingly enough, the abitrator's decision allowed DePalma to use his original cut and get an R rating. Among most people I talk to, the movie's more or less a classic today. But the game which covers very similar material is "shocking" and "corrupting our youth."
I'm really not sure what my point here is other than it's an interesting analogy, and perhaps a good example of the parallel in ratings systems. The GTA games are rated M, after all. However, video game ratings just haven't gotten the same attention that movie ratings have.
The standard Hayes vs Branzburg set is essentially that a journalist's sources are privileged only in cases where it's deemed necessary to ensure the normal operation of a free press. Basically, it's up to the judge to determine whether or not the revealing the identity of a journalist's sources is in the interest of the greater public good or not. Generally, that privilege has only really been extended in cases that could essentially be considered whistle blowing.
In this case, there's no wrong doing being exposed, and if anything, potential harm was done to a publicly-owned company. While it obviously depends on the judge, it would seem to me that ensuring the ability to enforce contract law would be more important than a journalist's rather narrowly defined privilege, especially in a case where the 'journalist' is arguably a party to the infringement.
And if you read Hayes vs Branzburg, you'll find they've ruled that whether a journalist is compelled to reveal their sources comes down to whether that confidentiality is in the best interest of the free flow of information and the public. The NY Times and the Pentagon Papers would be a good example of it being in the public's interest.
In this case, I don't see where it serves the public's best interest to allow that form of confidentiality. If anything, he's possibly a party to the act due to the UTSA, and would, in that case, lose the privilege provided to him even under California's broad jorunalist shield laws.
IANAL, but I've done a lot of research on this case in the past few days. Take it as you will.
1.5Mbs/1.5Mbs, but also generally sold with uptime gurantees AND bandwidth gurantees you don't get with a residential connection. There's more to a T1 than the rated speed.
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You know, I have the mod points, but I'd rather respond than simply mod you down.
If you'll sincerely cite GConf as an example of 'bloat' you either don't understand what GConf is, or you have a poor definition of what bloat is. The summary of the linked post is basically that GConf is just a centralized interface to configuration files that exist anyway!
XFCE is a great DE, but "Gnome sucks because they use a registry" is absolutely preposterous.
First off, as another poster has pointed out, I did a search and couldn't find any reference to the Mini's GPU actually being a 9200SE. While Apple often fails to put leading edge components in their systems, they don't often outright lie about them anyway.
That said, working off the Mini sporting a regular R9200, as it's been reported by essentially everyone, it should have a GPU memory bandwidth of 6.6GB/s, according to HardwareZone's review that Google pulled up. In short, the Mini should have greater dedicated bandwidth to its GPU than the XBox has shared between the CPU and GPU.
Again, if you have links to reliable sources stating that the Mini sports a 9200SE, fine. But until I see that you're flat out contradicting every other report I've read up to this point.
Could somebody please mod this up? While the fact that Speakeasy are advertisers for the site make it worse, the fact that he did it at all is a *huge* lapse of professionalism, even for Slashdot.
All his other failings aside, if this is the reason he got canned, good riddance. Talk about complete abuse of your position.
Not to mention that the optics are going to be terrible in a package that size. All the extra junk is probably there to slow returns once consumers get ahold of it and realize that it has the subpar image quality that a lens that size is going to give you.
Quite the contrary. However, the First Ammendment limits the powers of government. Secondly, NDAs are a matter of contract law, and Think Secret was actively encouraging people to break their contracts with Apple. I think Apple has the right to know who it was that broke the contract they held.
The difference is Apple had publicly published this information (whether they meant to or not), while DePlume was soliciting information that was protected under NDA.
A large part of the Think Secret case revolves around compelling him to identify his source so that Apple can persue NDA enforcement against that individual.
Given The Register didn't ask anyone to break and NDA and the source of their information is rather clearly posted on the page, I don't think they have anything to worry about.
Remember, the Think Secret case is primarilly about compelling Think Secret to reveal the source of their information so that Apple can enforce their NDA with that person.
There are also those of us with something called "Things to get done." Don't get me wrong, I like Gentoo, I think it's a great distro to really learn Linux on, but I'd never use it in any kind of production environment, personally.
To do so in a reasonable manner would require me to essentially maintain a base install of my own tarballed up, and if I'm going to do that, I may as well let someone else spend the time on it - be it Pat Volkerding, the Debian project, Redhat, or whoever - so I can spent my time getting work done.
It's not a matter of patience so much as priority. Like I said, I have *nothing* against Gentoo as a distro and have run it myself in the past. I just strongly disagree with the "It's a square peg for your every round hole" mentality many Gentoo users have in regard to it.
That's part of the beauty of the Pentium M: most of the notebooks based on it are in the 6lbs or less range, and I've yet to see one with a battery life of less than four hours.
The biggest problem really is the slow hard drive *in combination* with the relative small amount of RAM.
I have a friend who had a TiBook that he'd dropped a 7200RPM drive in, and later replaced with an AlBook, with its stock 4200RPM drive and 256MB. He just about went crazy from the slow down that the difference in swap speed made - with a machine that, as far as glock goes, was over a third faster than the one it was replacing. Upgrading the RAM helped, but he ended up eventually ended up breaking down and installing his 7200RPM drive in the AlBook (not an easy operation, to put it lightly).
Really, I wouldn't mind the 2.5" drive as much if I could get some kind of confirmation that it's at least a 5400RPM drive. If not, I'll probably end up swapping the drive in it with the 40GB 5400RPM Seagate I've got in my P3 1GHz notebook right now when I pick up a mini in the next few months....:)
So, you have to hunt them down in the registry instead of in the file system -- how is this better?
By virtue of the fact that you can easily search across all config files since you're interfacing them through a single app?
Plus, you lose the ability to edit the config with a text editor in a simple way.
The XML schema's set up in a way where it's clearly human readable, and the files are laid out in a logical directory hierarchy. How you're lose this ability is beyond me.
And, also - this bugs me... why on earth does Gnome have a Windows-style registry? The registry is one of the worst, most annoying, dumbest features of Windows and a big reason that I like working in Linux. So why on earth would you want to copy it?
I only skimmed your post (paragraph breaks are your friend), but I just hope the rest of it isn't as ill-informed as this.
The Windows Registry most certainly *is* a monstrosity: Literally thousands of controls with names that mean nothing to a human being, all jammed into a single file that's prone to corruption. I don't think you'll find many people who will argue that it's not a horrible design.
The thing you need to realize, however, is that GConf is *NOT* the Registry. At it's simplest, it's mearly taking the abundance of scattered, hidden dot files in a user's home directory, and putting them in a single, organized location and providing an XML framework to manage them. Instead of a single, massive file like the Registry, GConf is just taking files that *would be there ANYWAY* and putting them in a central location. Adding in the XML framework means you can now edit configs for any number of apps from a single application instead of first hunting down the config file and then editing it by hand.
GConf keys are also human-readable, and have sane names. I can usually find anything I'm looking for in GConf relatively quickly, as opposed to the Registry where a random key will look like, oh.... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\{0008546E-DF6E-4CC1-AFD0-2CB8 E16C95A2}
At any rate, OS News has a good write up on it here. I'd suggest you read it. GConf is nothing more than a framework for config files that would exist anyway, and allows developers to include options for advanced users without clogging up the preferences menu with 10,000 options (which is *HORRIBLE* design from a usability perspective).
You know what's enough to keep me away from any Creative MP3 player? The fact that they come with a whole 90 days of warranty on them. And that I know two different people in the past year who bought 30GB Zens and had the hard drive in them die within 6 months only to have Creative tell them they were out of luck.
This compared to a full year of AppleCare with less a week's turnaround time if I have problems? I'll pay extra for the piece of mind, thank you. Nevermind that Apple, while not perfect, is a company I'd far prefer to support than Creative.
If that's left you scratching your head, do some research on Creative's driver support for their hardware, the demise of Aureal (and what happened to Aureal's technology afterward), and the patent blackmailing of iD re: Doom 3 and EAX support. The less money I give Creative, the better I feel.
The thing about SDL is the S in it - Simple. It's designed to be easy to use, but unfortunately, has turned out rather primitive as a result. Don't get me wrong, I've used it, I like it, but, as your parent poster noted, it's no DirectX killer as-is.
As soon as you try to make the app consistent, some apps like winamp, xmms, etc come along with skins and themes. There is no point in trying to force consistency with a proprietary toolkit.
To borrow a phrase from the English, "Bollocks."
This is precisely one of the things that makes the Macintosh such a great platform. Apple developed UI guidelines, and, for the most part, developers stick to them. I might agree with you if OOo was the norm in Mac applications, but in reality it's a huge exception.
Simply put, OOo will not succeed on the Mac platform if it appears "broken" to the users, which is where things sit with the X11 port.
You know, some people own more than one computer, and some people also use computers at work where they might not have control over what software is run. I happen to be on an XP box at the moment, but I have 3 machines in this same room running Linux. Somehow, I think this software could potentially be useful for me, even if the machine I'm on at this exact moment couldn't run it.
In short, while the webmaster may have thought they were being cute, this is just plain stupid. W3C standards are good, use them. Don't fall for this "Well, if I can't see your site, you can't see mine" crap. It's exactly the reason why the web was so broken in the NS4/IE4 era.
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Check the 911 forums (Bart links them from the Nu2 site) for modified Ad-Aware plugin that uses RunScanner. It'll let you scan the host system's registry from within Bart. I've added it to my latest builds this week, and it's been a great time saver and seems to work well.
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I'd link you myself, but I'm stuck on dial up at the moment.
It's by far the best solution I know of. And yes, there are several rather large plugin repositories with setups for 3rd party software. There's an Ad-aware plugin built in, but I'd recommend you search the forums for the plugin with RunScanner, which will let you scan the host computer's registry as well. But to fully answer your question, the build I personally use includes AdAware, McAffee CLI, Ghost 8, Partition Magic, a defragger and a number of other tools. I can be made to do just about anything you'd like.
I work for a small repair shop, and cleaning AV/Spyware has become 60% of our business in the past year, we've been using Bart since around Aug 2003, and it's been an absolutely indispensable tool in that time. Machines that we would have simply reloaded in the past can often times be saved by virtue of being able to run scans from outside the host system.
I seriously wonder in a case like this, however, if things from in-state are charged the same use tax? If not, couldn't it be argued that the states are violating the interstate commerce clause?
Here's something interesting to consider : In the case of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the basic premise was essentially lifted from the movie Scarface. (The protaganist's mansion later in the game shares an almost identical floorplan to Montana's in the movie).
When Scarface was released, it had to go through multiple edits and finally arbitration to avoid an NC-17 rating, though interestingly enough, the abitrator's decision allowed DePalma to use his original cut and get an R rating. Among most people I talk to, the movie's more or less a classic today. But the game which covers very similar material is "shocking" and "corrupting our youth."
I'm really not sure what my point here is other than it's an interesting analogy, and perhaps a good example of the parallel in ratings systems. The GTA games are rated M, after all. However, video game ratings just haven't gotten the same attention that movie ratings have.
The standard Hayes vs Branzburg set is essentially that a journalist's sources are privileged only in cases where it's deemed necessary to ensure the normal operation of a free press. Basically, it's up to the judge to determine whether or not the revealing the identity of a journalist's sources is in the interest of the greater public good or not. Generally, that privilege has only really been extended in cases that could essentially be considered whistle blowing.
In this case, there's no wrong doing being exposed, and if anything, potential harm was done to a publicly-owned company. While it obviously depends on the judge, it would seem to me that ensuring the ability to enforce contract law would be more important than a journalist's rather narrowly defined privilege, especially in a case where the 'journalist' is arguably a party to the infringement.
And if you read Hayes vs Branzburg, you'll find they've ruled that whether a journalist is compelled to reveal their sources comes down to whether that confidentiality is in the best interest of the free flow of information and the public. The NY Times and the Pentagon Papers would be a good example of it being in the public's interest.
In this case, I don't see where it serves the public's best interest to allow that form of confidentiality. If anything, he's possibly a party to the act due to the UTSA, and would, in that case, lose the privilege provided to him even under California's broad jorunalist shield laws.
IANAL, but I've done a lot of research on this case in the past few days. Take it as you will.
1.5Mbs/1.5Mbs, but also generally sold with uptime gurantees AND bandwidth gurantees you don't get with a residential connection. There's more to a T1 than the rated speed.
You know, I have the mod points, but I'd rather respond than simply mod you down.
I've discussed this in the past, so I'll just link to my old post here - GConf is NOT Windows Registry.
If you'll sincerely cite GConf as an example of 'bloat' you either don't understand what GConf is, or you have a poor definition of what bloat is. The summary of the linked post is basically that GConf is just a centralized interface to configuration files that exist anyway!
XFCE is a great DE, but "Gnome sucks because they use a registry" is absolutely preposterous.
First off, as another poster has pointed out, I did a search and couldn't find any reference to the Mini's GPU actually being a 9200SE. While Apple often fails to put leading edge components in their systems, they don't often outright lie about them anyway.
That said, working off the Mini sporting a regular R9200, as it's been reported by essentially everyone, it should have a GPU memory bandwidth of 6.6GB/s, according to HardwareZone's review that Google pulled up. In short, the Mini should have greater dedicated bandwidth to its GPU than the XBox has shared between the CPU and GPU.
Again, if you have links to reliable sources stating that the Mini sports a 9200SE, fine. But until I see that you're flat out contradicting every other report I've read up to this point.
Could somebody please mod this up? While the fact that Speakeasy are advertisers for the site make it worse, the fact that he did it at all is a *huge* lapse of professionalism, even for Slashdot.
All his other failings aside, if this is the reason he got canned, good riddance. Talk about complete abuse of your position.
Not to mention that the optics are going to be terrible in a package that size. All the extra junk is probably there to slow returns once consumers get ahold of it and realize that it has the subpar image quality that a lens that size is going to give you.
Quite the contrary. However, the First Ammendment limits the powers of government. Secondly, NDAs are a matter of contract law, and Think Secret was actively encouraging people to break their contracts with Apple. I think Apple has the right to know who it was that broke the contract they held.
The difference is Apple had publicly published this information (whether they meant to or not), while DePlume was soliciting information that was protected under NDA.
A large part of the Think Secret case revolves around compelling him to identify his source so that Apple can persue NDA enforcement against that individual.
Given The Register didn't ask anyone to break and NDA and the source of their information is rather clearly posted on the page, I don't think they have anything to worry about.
Remember, the Think Secret case is primarilly about compelling Think Secret to reveal the source of their information so that Apple can enforce their NDA with that person.
Slight correction - Cocoa is the GUI API on the Mac, much like GTK or QT on Linux.
The app directly comparable to Glade is called Interface Builder, and is a component of X-Code.
There are also those of us with something called "Things to get done." Don't get me wrong, I like Gentoo, I think it's a great distro to really learn Linux on, but I'd never use it in any kind of production environment, personally.
To do so in a reasonable manner would require me to essentially maintain a base install of my own tarballed up, and if I'm going to do that, I may as well let someone else spend the time on it - be it Pat Volkerding, the Debian project, Redhat, or whoever - so I can spent my time getting work done.
It's not a matter of patience so much as priority. Like I said, I have *nothing* against Gentoo as a distro and have run it myself in the past. I just strongly disagree with the "It's a square peg for your every round hole" mentality many Gentoo users have in regard to it.
That's part of the beauty of the Pentium M: most of the notebooks based on it are in the 6lbs or less range, and I've yet to see one with a battery life of less than four hours.
The biggest problem really is the slow hard drive *in combination* with the relative small amount of RAM.
:)
I have a friend who had a TiBook that he'd dropped a 7200RPM drive in, and later replaced with an AlBook, with its stock 4200RPM drive and 256MB. He just about went crazy from the slow down that the difference in swap speed made - with a machine that, as far as glock goes, was over a third faster than the one it was replacing. Upgrading the RAM helped, but he ended up eventually ended up breaking down and installing his 7200RPM drive in the AlBook (not an easy operation, to put it lightly).
Really, I wouldn't mind the 2.5" drive as much if I could get some kind of confirmation that it's at least a 5400RPM drive. If not, I'll probably end up swapping the drive in it with the 40GB 5400RPM Seagate I've got in my P3 1GHz notebook right now when I pick up a mini in the next few months....
By virtue of the fact that you can easily search across all config files since you're interfacing them through a single app?
The XML schema's set up in a way where it's clearly human readable, and the files are laid out in a logical directory hierarchy. How you're lose this ability is beyond me.
I only skimmed your post (paragraph breaks are your friend), but I just hope the rest of it isn't as ill-informed as this.
The Windows Registry most certainly *is* a monstrosity: Literally thousands of controls with names that mean nothing to a human being, all jammed into a single file that's prone to corruption. I don't think you'll find many people who will argue that it's not a horrible design.
The thing you need to realize, however, is that GConf is *NOT* the Registry. At it's simplest, it's mearly taking the abundance of scattered, hidden dot files in a user's home directory, and putting them in a single, organized location and providing an XML framework to manage them. Instead of a single, massive file like the Registry, GConf is just taking files that *would be there ANYWAY* and putting them in a central location. Adding in the XML framework means you can now edit configs for any number of apps from a single application instead of first hunting down the config file and then editing it by hand.
GConf keys are also human-readable, and have sane names. I can usually find anything I'm looking for in GConf relatively quickly, as opposed to the Registry where a random key will look like, oh.... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
At any rate, OS News has a good write up on it here. I'd suggest you read it. GConf is nothing more than a framework for config files that would exist anyway, and allows developers to include options for advanced users without clogging up the preferences menu with 10,000 options (which is *HORRIBLE* design from a usability perspective).
It was 9AM, I hadn't gone to sleep since the morning before, and this is Slashdot. :-) Duly noted, however.
You know what's enough to keep me away from any Creative MP3 player? The fact that they come with a whole 90 days of warranty on them. And that I know two different people in the past year who bought 30GB Zens and had the hard drive in them die within 6 months only to have Creative tell them they were out of luck.
This compared to a full year of AppleCare with less a week's turnaround time if I have problems? I'll pay extra for the piece of mind, thank you. Nevermind that Apple, while not perfect, is a company I'd far prefer to support than Creative.
If that's left you scratching your head, do some research on Creative's driver support for their hardware, the demise of Aureal (and what happened to Aureal's technology afterward), and the patent blackmailing of iD re: Doom 3 and EAX support. The less money I give Creative, the better I feel.
The thing about SDL is the S in it - Simple. It's designed to be easy to use, but unfortunately, has turned out rather primitive as a result. Don't get me wrong, I've used it, I like it, but, as your parent poster noted, it's no DirectX killer as-is.
To borrow a phrase from the English, "Bollocks."
This is precisely one of the things that makes the Macintosh such a great platform. Apple developed UI guidelines, and, for the most part, developers stick to them. I might agree with you if OOo was the norm in Mac applications, but in reality it's a huge exception.
Simply put, OOo will not succeed on the Mac platform if it appears "broken" to the users, which is where things sit with the X11 port.
You know, some people own more than one computer, and some people also use computers at work where they might not have control over what software is run. I happen to be on an XP box at the moment, but I have 3 machines in this same room running Linux. Somehow, I think this software could potentially be useful for me, even if the machine I'm on at this exact moment couldn't run it.
In short, while the webmaster may have thought they were being cute, this is just plain stupid. W3C standards are good, use them. Don't fall for this "Well, if I can't see your site, you can't see mine" crap. It's exactly the reason why the web was so broken in the NS4/IE4 era.