With both component video and S-video the monitor must still go though the de-matrix process to generate good old RGB to display the image. So why not just SEND the monitor the RGB in the first place!
Europe has had that for decades. The SCART cable standard carries s-video, RGB and/or composite video as well as audio. To us, these new standards that omit the audio are a step backwards. Even the cheapest DVD player outputs an RGB signal. Sure, TV is interlaced, but to me any digital upgrade MUST include an audio signal path.
There is a good reason for this; lots of folk cut & paste credit card numbers as well as passwords. A malicious site could simply keep an eye on your clipboard via some javascript and log the info.
Sounds like the fix is backwards though. They've sandboxed the entire web browser from the clipboard, hence the asking for permissions message. This shouldn't happen when you are pasting text from a web page; that is crazy. What they could have done would be to sandbox the actual javascript calls to access the clipboard. Then you would only get warned if the site is potentially malicious.
Yeah, it probably will, when it comes out. However, most of the other full screen phones already do this, in addition to a landscape mode. Been that way for several years. This patent is worthless.
That already exists on several platforms. The only ones I'm familiar with myself are the Windows Mobile ones, where the dev studio can emulate all of the target phones. You can just fire up the emulator and play about with the OS.
Also, an OSS OS already exists here, Linux was ported to the platform several years ago. It's still a work-in-progress and the user interface is as bad as you'd expect it to be for a project of this maturity. Unfortunately, IMHO the most important thing on a portable device is the UI.
You can boot off a USB drive on recent motherboards. Distributions like Damn Small Linux will fit on a card and either run as a bootable OS, or can be used to install the OS. You can boot to a fully functional GUI system to prepare the computer for installation (e.g. drive partitioning) then go straight into the install from there.. However, this will never happen in the Windows world due to licensing. On free operating systems, spreading them free of charge via versatile media is part of the point.
It's 2007.. why don't you just image your machines?[snip]
People that try to complain about the window's installer make me laugh. They've already dumbed it down to where you only click 'next->next->finish', yet people still whine.
Not their fault, they've just never used any of the alternatives. Network booting is rarely used, for unix or windows. It's pretty impressive, being able to reset a box to pre-configured state in under 10 minutes is very useful, especially for software testing.
People who bitch about the XP installer really ought to check out similar Solaris installers from the same period. You essentially needed training on the system to do it correctly.
Actually, I'd find this to be far more archaic and worse. A 2007 install should work the way you want it right out of the box. Everything should be changeable afterwards
I disagree. Why should the OS install every language it supports, along with the associated help docs, application localisation and so on? Sure, it can delete it from the HD afterwards, but why copy it in the first place? It's a huge waste of time.
There are some questions that should always be asked up front. From the top of my head:
boot drive configuration
language & keyboard type
date & timezone
but an install shouldn't bother installing internet components on a non-internet connected machine (for example).
I disagree again. Just because you aren't online doesn't mean you don't need a working TCP/IP stack. Unix has 127.0.0.1 specifically because many applications use it for inter-process communication. Many peripherals, such as my mobile phone, set up a private subnet to manage connections. It's an open, friendly standard and well understood. Every device should have a TCP/IP stack IMHO.
Sure, you could drop the web browser, it'll be out of date anyway. You'd need a mechanism to wget a new version however, wrapped up in a nice GUI if you want to make it easy for grandma. There is really no need for installation media post-install nowadays, provided you've got a bare minimum of connectivity.
As far as the law goes.... what happens to the bulb that has been on for 100-years at that firestation in the Bay Area?
They'll just ban sales of new bulbs, perhaps even let the shops sell out their existing stock. Taxing would be better though IMHO, people will just ship them in if there is an outright ban.
Ditto. I think these mac users are on crack most of the time, they have this weird self-censorship where all the facts are skewed. Explains the eyelids I suppose. In my home I only have two PCs with a CPU speed greater than 2gHz, one is my old desktop that is FOUR years old and the other is my new laptop and both were specifically bought with gaming in mind. The rest are all below the 500MHz mark and run just fine.
Agreed. Some games weigh in at 700meg+, sat nav maps for the UK alone are around 200meg. I've got another gig of music on my 2gb SD card and no video. Give me 20 gig and I'll fill it in a month easily.
One annoying issue I've been having, which I just figured out the other day, was sometimes when I would power on, I would get the "Resuming from hibernate" message, even though I hadn't remembered hibernating. As soon as it was done resuming, it would say "Shutting Down". I finally realized that sometimes after I hit shutdown, I unplug the AC adapter, then close the lid. For some reason, Vista doesn't know any better than to try and hibernate even though it's in the middle of the shutdown process
I've had that problem on three different brands of laptop on win 2000 and win xp. It's not a new Vista issue. IMHO, hibernate takes far too long to be a lid-close action, especially if you have a lot of RAM to page to the disk.
OK, here ya go. I'm presently VPN'ed in (UDP) over a LAN, sitting on my main network. On the router I have a samba share that is only available on it's green network. I'm browsing the share using the routers green IP address, which is the same one that is the default route on it's masqueraded network. All networks are 100meg ethernet.
Here's the stats for streaming a DIVX video (700 meg, 1:30 hr long)
PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND 12050 root R 1684 11618 24.8 5.5 openvpn 12061 user S 1384 12060 2.3 4.5 smbd 12098 root R 392 11640 0.9 1.2 top 11617 root S 596 767 0.5 1.9 dropbear 11601 root SW 0 1 0.5 0.0 usb-storage-0 12060 root S 912 1 0.0 2.9 smbd 12058 root S 908 1 0.0 2.9 nmbd 11618 root S 528 11617 0.0 1.7 ash 11640 root S 524 11617 0.0 1.7 ash 671 root S 476 1 0.0 1.5 nas 763 nobody S 428 1 0.0 1.4 dnsmasq 767 root S 392 1 0.0 1.2 dropbear
While copying the same file to the local machine follows. Copying in the other direction was pretty much the same.
PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND 12050 root R 1684 11618 90.3 5.5 openvpn 12061 user S 1352 12060 5.5 4.4 smbd 11601 root SW 0 1 1.1 0.0 usb-storage-0 12098 root R 392 11640 0.5 1.2 top 11617 root S 596 767 0.3 1.9 dropbear 3 root RWN 0 1 0.1 0.0 ksoftirqd_CPU0 12060 root S 912 1 0.0 2.9 smbd 12058 root S 908 1 0.0 2.9 nmbd 11618 root S 528 11617 0.0 1.7 ash 11640 root S 524 11617 0.0 1.7 ash 671 root S 476 1 0.0 1.5 nas 763 nobody S 428 1 0.0 1.4 dnsmasq
Windows estimates the transfer as 20 mins. That's 4.6 megabit/sec if my quick & dirty calcs are correct (8bits to the byte real data speed) but with overhead it's probably about 5.8 assuming 10 bits per byte. The encryption is maxing it the CPU and is certainly the bottleneck here. Things would be slightly faster if it was just routing to another samba box. Here's the overview stats:
But WiFi would have been really zoomy for VoIP-enabled cell phones, so it's sort of a shame they won't be useable.
Most WiFi phones also do Bluetooth. Just set up a personal network giving access via your laptop and the LAN connection. When you get to the other end, reverse the connection and use GPRS over the BT to give the laptop access. Clever either way.
OpenWRT does have a good web gui, it's just not installed out the box. Check out http://x-wrt.org/. I believe that the people behind both OpenWRT and DD-WRT are working together to merge the two branches. OpenWRT is more configuable, but DD-WRT is easy to use.
I'll try an OpenVPN test tonight & let you know the throughput if I can.
I've not pushed it hard, but the CPU seems to be mostly idle, even with samba running etc. I've ran tests streaming media etc, seems negligible. I've not got it active yet, it's on a test subnet while I prepare it for being hooked up to the live internet. I'll be testing it shortly with a bittorrent client behind it with a lot of traffic in both directions. That ought to test it out. It's replacing a 350MHz pentium with 256meg of RAM which has no issues with large connection tables. It has to pass that test before I go live with it.
The USB appears to be 2.0 but to be honest I could not 100% confirm that without looking up the specs. However, based off the fact I copied a 700meg divx file in a sensible time, I'd have to assume it is; USB 1.0 is incredibly slow in comparison. It's hooked up to a 500gig HD enclosure, with the space mounted as ext3, tho I may leave a USB keydrive hooked up for 24/7 storage if I can figure out how to do a spin-down on the HD after inactivity. I'll just keep media on there and it should be idle most of the time.
I used several SFF Compaq Deskpros over the years and they've all been great--fast, small, cheap, and bulletproof. Then along come tiny ATX boards and neat machines can be made even smaller.
Agreed. I've had one up 24/7 for about six years now, it's only ever had to be shutdown for electrical work in my building or kernel upgrades now and then. There's a lot to be said for building your server out of a business product that was designed to be on all of the time. Most consumer stuff wasn't designed for that sort of abuse.
I do have one of those WRT54G's (actually, it's a motorola box, but it's the same as the 4MB Linksys) with DD-WRT on it. It's really great! It's like a mini linux box that cost me $30.
I second that, though personally I'm using OpenWRT myself. Forget small form factor PCs, had one of them as a server for 6 years now and it's being replaced by a router. I recommend the Asus 500g device as it has USB allowing you to expend it all you want and add storage. Also has 8 meg of flash.
No fans, low power consumption and 5 network ports. Genius. You can also configure the ports to your hearts content as they are all on a tagging switch and it's the OS that does the work. Separate WiFi and DMZ subnets? No problem.
Estonia's land area is smaller than 41 of the 50 US states. It has a lower population tha 40 of the 50 US states. Maybe it would be wise to consider the challenges in deploying a cellular service to a massive country vs. to a tiny country.
Like China? There are now more customers of their top mobile telco than there are people living in the US. They seemed to manage rolling out a huge network, and they have a far more retro infrastructure once you get out the cities.
The solution to this is easy. Give users a "never see results from this domain again" link against each result. Then when we come across an aggregator we can add it to our personal blacklist. People could then share these blacklists amongst themselves. Self-censorship is not censorship, so it's far better than just outright blocking them, and it's less of a legal liability too for Google.
I've gone to do domain checks at GoDaddy for a domain I might want to use, decide to mull it over, and come back the next week to buy it only to find that some company got it and parked an ad site there. I have no idea how they know that I checked on it, but they somehow get it on a list and snap it up.
I've heard of that before as well; it was down to the registrar. GoDaddy has just been added to my "do not use" list.
In that case, rejecting the mail means that the receiving SMTP returns an error code to the intermediate (ISP) SMTP server, which will then send a bounce mail to the person whose address was being spoofed.
This is happening to me right now and it's a royal pain in the ass. I have several domains and one of them is currently getting used as a spoofed from: address in pump & dump stock scams. The from address is a five random letters @example.com. This is resulting in 30-40 bounce messages per day to my inbox. I haven't received any complaints yet from people who do not know about spoofing which surprises me to be honest.
I'm considering a using regex in procmail to catch these five letter names, but I have a number of legitimate five letter names on there and I don't have a list of them due to wildcarding and such like.
Who decided that the profit motive was supposed to be superior to honesty?
The shareholders did at the AGM. While I am actually joking here, I've seen questions of honesty and morality raised by shareholders in these meetings. Never have I seen one of them voted in successfully.
so where has the idea that lying for money is permissible come from?
From the same place that tells us that lying is permissible for dating(1), job interviews(2) and story telling. It's a part of our culture, one of our last throwbacks to evolution. The logic is; 'every one else does it, so I'm just playing fair'.
1) tidying your house before she comes over, creating a false impression of your home life
2) embellishing, bending and outright distortion of facts. Never "I left because my boss was a jerk".
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Europe has had that for decades. The SCART cable standard carries s-video, RGB and/or composite video as well as audio. To us, these new standards that omit the audio are a step backwards. Even the cheapest DVD player outputs an RGB signal. Sure, TV is interlaced, but to me any digital upgrade MUST include an audio signal path.
There is a good reason for this; lots of folk cut & paste credit card numbers as well as passwords. A malicious site could simply keep an eye on your clipboard via some javascript and log the info.
Sounds like the fix is backwards though. They've sandboxed the entire web browser from the clipboard, hence the asking for permissions message. This shouldn't happen when you are pasting text from a web page; that is crazy. What they could have done would be to sandbox the actual javascript calls to access the clipboard. Then you would only get warned if the site is potentially malicious.
Yeah, it probably will, when it comes out. However, most of the other full screen phones already do this, in addition to a landscape mode. Been that way for several years. This patent is worthless.
That already exists on several platforms. The only ones I'm familiar with myself are the Windows Mobile ones, where the dev studio can emulate all of the target phones. You can just fire up the emulator and play about with the OS.
Also, an OSS OS already exists here, Linux was ported to the platform several years ago. It's still a work-in-progress and the user interface is as bad as you'd expect it to be for a project of this maturity. Unfortunately, IMHO the most important thing on a portable device is the UI.
You can boot off a USB drive on recent motherboards. Distributions like Damn Small Linux will fit on a card and either run as a bootable OS, or can be used to install the OS. You can boot to a fully functional GUI system to prepare the computer for installation (e.g. drive partitioning) then go straight into the install from there.. However, this will never happen in the Windows world due to licensing. On free operating systems, spreading them free of charge via versatile media is part of the point.
Not their fault, they've just never used any of the alternatives. Network booting is rarely used, for unix or windows. It's pretty impressive, being able to reset a box to pre-configured state in under 10 minutes is very useful, especially for software testing.
People who bitch about the XP installer really ought to check out similar Solaris installers from the same period. You essentially needed training on the system to do it correctly.
I disagree. Why should the OS install every language it supports, along with the associated help docs, application localisation and so on? Sure, it can delete it from the HD afterwards, but why copy it in the first place? It's a huge waste of time.
There are some questions that should always be asked up front. From the top of my head:
I disagree again. Just because you aren't online doesn't mean you don't need a working TCP/IP stack. Unix has 127.0.0.1 specifically because many applications use it for inter-process communication. Many peripherals, such as my mobile phone, set up a private subnet to manage connections. It's an open, friendly standard and well understood. Every device should have a TCP/IP stack IMHO.
Sure, you could drop the web browser, it'll be out of date anyway. You'd need a mechanism to wget a new version however, wrapped up in a nice GUI if you want to make it easy for grandma. There is really no need for installation media post-install nowadays, provided you've got a bare minimum of connectivity.
They'll just ban sales of new bulbs, perhaps even let the shops sell out their existing stock. Taxing would be better though IMHO, people will just ship them in if there is an outright ban.
Ditto. I think these mac users are on crack most of the time, they have this weird self-censorship where all the facts are skewed. Explains the eyelids I suppose. In my home I only have two PCs with a CPU speed greater than 2gHz, one is my old desktop that is FOUR years old and the other is my new laptop and both were specifically bought with gaming in mind. The rest are all below the 500MHz mark and run just fine.
Agreed. Some games weigh in at 700meg+, sat nav maps for the UK alone are around 200meg. I've got another gig of music on my 2gb SD card and no video. Give me 20 gig and I'll fill it in a month easily.
I've had that problem on three different brands of laptop on win 2000 and win xp. It's not a new Vista issue. IMHO, hibernate takes far too long to be a lid-close action, especially if you have a lot of RAM to page to the disk.
OK, here ya go. I'm presently VPN'ed in (UDP) over a LAN, sitting on my main network. On the router I have a samba share that is only available on it's green network. I'm browsing the share using the routers green IP address, which is the same one that is the default route on it's masqueraded network. All networks are 100meg ethernet.
Here's the stats for streaming a DIVX video (700 meg, 1:30 hr long)
While copying the same file to the local machine follows. Copying in the other direction was pretty much the same.
Windows estimates the transfer as 20 mins. That's 4.6 megabit/sec if my quick & dirty calcs are correct (8bits to the byte real data speed) but with overhead it's probably about 5.8 assuming 10 bits per byte. The encryption is maxing it the CPU and is certainly the bottleneck here. Things would be slightly faster if it was just routing to another samba box. Here's the overview stats:
20 meg of essentially free ram (cached data). Nice.
Most WiFi phones also do Bluetooth. Just set up a personal network giving access via your laptop and the LAN connection. When you get to the other end, reverse the connection and use GPRS over the BT to give the laptop access. Clever either way.
OpenWRT does have a good web gui, it's just not installed out the box. Check out http://x-wrt.org/. I believe that the people behind both OpenWRT and DD-WRT are working together to merge the two branches. OpenWRT is more configuable, but DD-WRT is easy to use.
I'll try an OpenVPN test tonight & let you know the throughput if I can.
I've not pushed it hard, but the CPU seems to be mostly idle, even with samba running etc. I've ran tests streaming media etc, seems negligible. I've not got it active yet, it's on a test subnet while I prepare it for being hooked up to the live internet. I'll be testing it shortly with a bittorrent client behind it with a lot of traffic in both directions. That ought to test it out. It's replacing a 350MHz pentium with 256meg of RAM which has no issues with large connection tables. It has to pass that test before I go live with it.
The USB appears to be 2.0 but to be honest I could not 100% confirm that without looking up the specs. However, based off the fact I copied a 700meg divx file in a sensible time, I'd have to assume it is; USB 1.0 is incredibly slow in comparison. It's hooked up to a 500gig HD enclosure, with the space mounted as ext3, tho I may leave a USB keydrive hooked up for 24/7 storage if I can figure out how to do a spin-down on the HD after inactivity. I'll just keep media on there and it should be idle most of the time.
Agreed. I've had one up 24/7 for about six years now, it's only ever had to be shutdown for electrical work in my building or kernel upgrades now and then. There's a lot to be said for building your server out of a business product that was designed to be on all of the time. Most consumer stuff wasn't designed for that sort of abuse.
I second that, though personally I'm using OpenWRT myself. Forget small form factor PCs, had one of them as a server for 6 years now and it's being replaced by a router. I recommend the Asus 500g device as it has USB allowing you to expend it all you want and add storage. Also has 8 meg of flash.
No fans, low power consumption and 5 network ports. Genius. You can also configure the ports to your hearts content as they are all on a tagging switch and it's the OS that does the work. Separate WiFi and DMZ subnets? No problem.
Like China? There are now more customers of their top mobile telco than there are people living in the US. They seemed to manage rolling out a huge network, and they have a far more retro infrastructure once you get out the cities.
The solution to this is easy. Give users a "never see results from this domain again" link against each result. Then when we come across an aggregator we can add it to our personal blacklist. People could then share these blacklists amongst themselves. Self-censorship is not censorship, so it's far better than just outright blocking them, and it's less of a legal liability too for Google.
I've heard of that before as well; it was down to the registrar. GoDaddy has just been added to my "do not use" list.
This is happening to me right now and it's a royal pain in the ass. I have several domains and one of them is currently getting used as a spoofed from: address in pump & dump stock scams. The from address is a five random letters @example.com. This is resulting in 30-40 bounce messages per day to my inbox. I haven't received any complaints yet from people who do not know about spoofing which surprises me to be honest.
I'm considering a using regex in procmail to catch these five letter names, but I have a number of legitimate five letter names on there and I don't have a list of them due to wildcarding and such like.
The shareholders did at the AGM. While I am actually joking here, I've seen questions of honesty and morality raised by shareholders in these meetings. Never have I seen one of them voted in successfully.
From the same place that tells us that lying is permissible for dating(1), job interviews(2) and story telling. It's a part of our culture, one of our last throwbacks to evolution. The logic is; 'every one else does it, so I'm just playing fair'.
1) tidying your house before she comes over, creating a false impression of your home life
2) embellishing, bending and outright distortion of facts. Never "I left because my boss was a jerk".
UK Immigration are known to do this. They'll even phone some of the numbers in it and ask questions if they want to test your story.
The look and feel they got from someone else themselves? Apple did not invent WIMP.
The blogs that Apple's lawyers are silencing contain no such things. They just mention it and link to another site.