*Sigh*, this again. No matter how much memory you have, some of it will end up with accumulated cruft that rarely needs to be read/changed. That ram would be better used freed up (swapped out) and used for cache instead. And 2 GB is nothing compared to a modern Desktop (gnome, Unity, KDE, take your pic.) If you do any kind of multitaking of large applications, you need a minimum of 8GB before you can be safely swap free.
The catalyst drivers have never been able to play video without tearing (they are completely unable to do Vsync with XV or even gl video output). That should work out of the box with the Radeon driver. It takes more cpu time, but that's why I say that the Radeon driver is superior for high def video.
If you aren't playing games, the Open source ati drivers should not only do everything you need, they are arguable better than the ATI catalyst, (with the exception of the power management. that would require manual configuration tweaking.)
As far as High Def video, that workload is moving to the cpu, which, assuming you have more than 1 core on this rig, should be just fine for any high def video. (More videos are being encoded 10-bit now anyway, which doesn't have video card support on *any* platform.) It may seem wasteful not use a dedicated chip for video decoding, but assuming the history of mpeg2 repeats itself, that's probably the way thins will go anyhow.
I just had to deal with Microsoft Security essentials, i it's default settings, deleting an entire Thunderbird Inbox when it detected a virus attachment. (not quarantined, mind you, deleted, with no warning or message other than a little note in history log.) As far as I'm concerned, your first impression is not too far off the mark.
Naw... Google will do what they always do... any searches for Lyonnaise de Grantie will prominently dispaly a notice about how many search results are ommitted and link to the court order that explains why. Why would google remove the company from search results and give up a golden opportunity to dish out another lesson on Streisand Effect?
No, he would not have been able to use the victim's internet as source address. The internet gateway/NAT should not forward to/from Interent anythign that is not on the VPN 'network'.
Consider the Wifi network as "open" and use it only to connect VPN nodes (such as OpenVPN, for example.) This does require that you use a PC as the Internet gateway/NAT/VPN server.
Unfortunately for Google E-books, Kobo has already released the Touch. It took the compnay 3 tries, but they finally got it right. You can tap the side of the page to turn page (Sony requires a swipe if you use the touch screen, which does becomes tiresome by comparison.)
You probably won't see it on display models, (unfortunately), but with the new firmware update, it also allows you to install your own fonts, (as well as a built in selectoin of 5), as well as the ability to adjust page margins and line height to your comfort. And it sells for less.... so yeah, this device is too little too late.
By no means would I ever encourage anyone put up with DRM. However, for those interested, it's worth knowing that Adobe Digital editions works great on Linux via Wine, (and as a bonus, De-DRM tools are able to extract the key it uses to fix the DRM)
No, not a dose likely to cause cancer. A dose that has a measurable effect on increasing your lifelong chances of getting cancer. The base chance of a random person, with no extra-ordinary risk factors, getting cancer is somewhere around 46%. It's assumed that any exposure to radiation increases this, but with radiation doses less than 100mSv, the increase chance of getting cancer is so small it can't be measured/detected. (and I'm pretty sure, though don't remember exactly, that the first level of increased cancer detection is less than 1% increase.) I'm sorry for the vague numbers, I'm quoting from memory and not looking them up for exact figures. But the take away is that being exposed to 100 mSv radiation is not good, but does not mean it's likely you'll suddenly get cancer from it.
When it comes to radiation and chance of getting cancer, all doses are cumulative. Being exposed to 100mSv once by itself doesn't do much, but add that to all your chest x-rays, high altitude flights, bananas, etc will eventually lead to an increase chance of cancer.
That challenge doesn't even try to prove anything. I don't want to perpetuate the myth that you need anything fancier than a single pass of 0's to wipe modern drive's before disposing on e-bay, but any theory about recovery data from a wiped drive, real or paranoid, involves removing the platter to scan it directly. The so called challenge was to recover data without dismantling the drive, so it was a dead end to begin with.
By scanning the surface of the platter with specialized equipment, it's possible to detect residual magnetization 'around' the area written by the drive head and determine where there used to be a bit. Actually using this technique to recover anything outside of a laboratory experiment (where the drive was only written to and erased with 0's once) is a myth, however. No one does this, not even CTU.
If the image can't be re-encoded or re-scaled without the watermark becoming visible, then it probably can't be resized for viewing either. So the only images can can really make use of this 'tech' are the ones that are already shrunk to their smallest desirable viewing size. I'm not sure how much use this will really have.
I thought the whole point of the patent system was that the Inventions became public knowledge, such that inventors (and researchers) *could* in fact, learn from them and improve on them.
Of course, if a researcher did make a breakthrough, actually bringing a product to market would require co-operation with the original patent holder for licensing / cross-licensing, but that is not a barrier to research.
That is Microsoft's new definition of zero day. Traditionally, Zero day exploit means that the software maintainer/creator did not know about the flaw until after an exploit is in the wild. However, according to the summary, this flaw was publicly announced at a security conference December 15. So in Microsoft speach, Zero-day now means an exploit to a known flaw they never bothered to patch.
I tried to create a website that had to present some 480p videos. I encoded them to Ogg Theora, and figured I could forgo Internet explorer compatibility by encouraging visitors to use either Firefox or Chrome. Unfortunately, for all the noise Firefox makes about supporting open standard, their insistence on implementing their own video support rather than relying on Underlying os ability is completely messed up. Every platform I tested on exposed different bugs in Firefox that prevented the site from working. On Windows, some of the videos would freeze on first frame. On Ubuntu Karmic version of firefox, (3.5) the videos played well, but was unable to control position, (no forward or backwards seeking, even when buffering was full.). On Ubuntu Lucid, the videos would stutter and even while paused, made Firefox slow to respond to window scrolling. In the end, if I wanted to use HTML5 video, the only browser currently working well is Google Chrome. If I instead decided to use the de-facto x264 standard, I increase my browser compatibility across the board (except for Firefox.)... So yes, while I know video is only a small part of the changes, using the new specs is far premature.
Just about any PC repair person should have copies of all the commonly used OEM Windows install CD's, and in most cases (especially with Vista / Windows 7) the OEM key on your sticker will work just fine to install and activate Windows. The recovery CD will potentially save you 1 - 2 hours tracking down drivers, but you might spend nearly as long de-crapifying the OEM adware. I prefer to create my own backup partition and use ntfsclone to backup up the system once it is tuned to my liking and all additional software has been installed and activated. Still requires to re-do all the work in case of hard drive failure, but those are, fortunately, a rare condition I need to recover from.
Woa... tighten that tin foil hat there. Here's some quick information for you, not that you're likely to believe truth.
CC companies do not profit from fraud. In most cases, they get left holding the entire bag, since the card holder is, by law, not liable for fraudulant charges (fraudulant charges being charges not authorized by the card holder. It's more complicated when the customer authorizes a charge to a fraudster. Think of it much like handing the fraudster cash.)
Cards are being shipped with RFID and other chip technologies because Mag stripe cloning techniques have been so ubiquitous and sophisticated, banks are getting reamed up the arse eating all the fraudulent charges, and are desperate to get rid of mag stripes as fast as possible. Although, I'm not at all convinced that RFID won't be worse once crime cartels start upgrading their tech to clone those.
Banks offer rewards to use their cards because they charge the merchant a percentage of the purchase. Bank rewards you 1%, charge the merchant 2%, there's 1% profit for them right there before you even go into debt. and increase their profit 100 fold with interest charges.
Merchants are not at all forbidden from verifying your signature and ID... Indeed, I've been asked for my photo id several times since the signature stripe on my CC is worn off. Though it's true most merchants don't bother. However, if the merchant can not produce a signed purchase authorization when a transaction is disputed, it's the merchant who doesn't get the money.
Free software can handle h264 just fine.. Indeed.. all free software video players and encoders support it be default for the past 8 years or so. There does exist a patent threat if certain patent holders decided to attack commercial distribution of such software in afflicted countries. And given it's high profile in MS crosshairs, Mozilla decided not to take that chance. But Mozilla's continued stuborness to not work around their limitations (handing off the video stream, or even just the damn url, to the OS to choose another program that can handle it would work out of the box today) is holding everyone up.
I'll leave the final verdict to the FBI, but what if, (I love this game) the student had reported the notebook stolen, and when the anti-theft security was activated, there he was at home doing whatever. Disciplining him for innapropriate behaviour in this case might even have been seen as a gentle alternative to filling criminal fraud charges.
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*Sigh*, this again. No matter how much memory you have, some of it will end up with accumulated cruft that rarely needs to be read/changed. That ram would be better used freed up (swapped out) and used for cache instead. And 2 GB is nothing compared to a modern Desktop (gnome, Unity, KDE, take your pic.) If you do any kind of multitaking of large applications, you need a minimum of 8GB before you can be safely swap free.
The catalyst drivers have never been able to play video without tearing (they are completely unable to do Vsync with XV or even gl video output). That should work out of the box with the Radeon driver. It takes more cpu time, but that's why I say that the Radeon driver is superior for high def video.
If you aren't playing games, the Open source ati drivers should not only do everything you need, they are arguable better than the ATI catalyst, (with the exception of the power management. that would require manual configuration tweaking.)
As far as High Def video, that workload is moving to the cpu, which, assuming you have more than 1 core on this rig, should be just fine for any high def video. (More videos are being encoded 10-bit now anyway, which doesn't have video card support on *any* platform.) It may seem wasteful not use a dedicated chip for video decoding, but assuming the history of mpeg2 repeats itself, that's probably the way thins will go anyhow.
If you've ever had to search the body of e-mails in a large maibox, you would be happy not to have to open/read 100,000 files smaller than 1k
I just had to deal with Microsoft Security essentials, i it's default settings, deleting an entire Thunderbird Inbox when it detected a virus attachment. (not quarantined, mind you, deleted, with no warning or message other than a little note in history log.) As far as I'm concerned, your first impression is not too far off the mark.
Naw... Google will do what they always do... any searches for Lyonnaise de Grantie will prominently dispaly a notice about how many search results are ommitted and link to the court order that explains why. Why would google remove the company from search results and give up a golden opportunity to dish out another lesson on Streisand Effect?
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents
No, he would not have been able to use the victim's internet as source address. The internet gateway/NAT should not forward to/from Interent anythign that is not on the VPN 'network'.
Consider the Wifi network as "open" and use it only to connect VPN nodes (such as OpenVPN, for example.) This does require that you use a PC as the Internet gateway/NAT/VPN server.
Unfortunately for Google E-books, Kobo has already released the Touch. It took the compnay 3 tries, but they finally got it right. You can tap the side of the page to turn page (Sony requires a swipe if you use the touch screen, which does becomes tiresome by comparison.)
You probably won't see it on display models, (unfortunately), but with the new firmware update, it also allows you to install your own fonts, (as well as a built in selectoin of 5), as well as the ability to adjust page margins and line height to your comfort. And it sells for less.... so yeah, this device is too little too late.
By no means would I ever encourage anyone put up with DRM. However, for those interested, it's worth knowing that Adobe Digital editions works great on Linux via Wine, (and as a bonus, De-DRM tools are able to extract the key it uses to fix the DRM)
No, not a dose likely to cause cancer. A dose that has a measurable effect on increasing your lifelong chances of getting cancer. The base chance of a random person, with no extra-ordinary risk factors, getting cancer is somewhere around 46%. It's assumed that any exposure to radiation increases this, but with radiation doses less than 100mSv, the increase chance of getting cancer is so small it can't be measured/detected. (and I'm pretty sure, though don't remember exactly, that the first level of increased cancer detection is less than 1% increase.) I'm sorry for the vague numbers, I'm quoting from memory and not looking them up for exact figures. But the take away is that being exposed to 100 mSv radiation is not good, but does not mean it's likely you'll suddenly get cancer from it.
When it comes to radiation and chance of getting cancer, all doses are cumulative. Being exposed to 100mSv once by itself doesn't do much, but add that to all your chest x-rays, high altitude flights, bananas, etc will eventually lead to an increase chance of cancer.
That challenge doesn't even try to prove anything. I don't want to perpetuate the myth that you need anything fancier than a single pass of 0's to wipe modern drive's before disposing on e-bay, but any theory about recovery data from a wiped drive, real or paranoid, involves removing the platter to scan it directly. The so called challenge was to recover data without dismantling the drive, so it was a dead end to begin with.
By scanning the surface of the platter with specialized equipment, it's possible to detect residual magnetization 'around' the area written by the drive head and determine where there used to be a bit. Actually using this technique to recover anything outside of a laboratory experiment (where the drive was only written to and erased with 0's once) is a myth, however. No one does this, not even CTU.
If the image can't be re-encoded or re-scaled without the watermark becoming visible, then it probably can't be resized for viewing either. So the only images can can really make use of this 'tech' are the ones that are already shrunk to their smallest desirable viewing size. I'm not sure how much use this will really have.
I thought the whole point of the patent system was that the Inventions became public knowledge, such that inventors (and researchers) *could* in fact, learn from them and improve on them.
Of course, if a researcher did make a breakthrough, actually bringing a product to market would require co-operation with the original patent holder for licensing / cross-licensing, but that is not a barrier to research.
That is Microsoft's new definition of zero day. Traditionally, Zero day exploit means that the software maintainer/creator did not know about the flaw until after an exploit is in the wild. However, according to the summary, this flaw was publicly announced at a security conference December 15. So in Microsoft speach, Zero-day now means an exploit to a known flaw they never bothered to patch.
How long does a year last in your world?
I tried to create a website that had to present some 480p videos. I encoded them to Ogg Theora, and figured I could forgo Internet explorer compatibility by encouraging visitors to use either Firefox or Chrome. Unfortunately, for all the noise Firefox makes about supporting open standard, their insistence on implementing their own video support rather than relying on Underlying os ability is completely messed up. Every platform I tested on exposed different bugs in Firefox that prevented the site from working. On Windows, some of the videos would freeze on first frame. On Ubuntu Karmic version of firefox, (3.5) the videos played well, but was unable to control position, (no forward or backwards seeking, even when buffering was full.). On Ubuntu Lucid, the videos would stutter and even while paused, made Firefox slow to respond to window scrolling. In the end, if I wanted to use HTML5 video, the only browser currently working well is Google Chrome. If I instead decided to use the de-facto x264 standard, I increase my browser compatibility across the board (except for Firefox.)... So yes, while I know video is only a small part of the changes, using the new specs is far premature.
Looks like national cyber security is about to get a much higher priority than copyright protection.
Probably too late for Ubuntu 10.10, but I would expect these to be included with 11.04
Just about any PC repair person should have copies of all the commonly used OEM Windows install CD's, and in most cases (especially with Vista / Windows 7) the OEM key on your sticker will work just fine to install and activate Windows. The recovery CD will potentially save you 1 - 2 hours tracking down drivers, but you might spend nearly as long de-crapifying the OEM adware. I prefer to create my own backup partition and use ntfsclone to backup up the system once it is tuned to my liking and all additional software has been installed and activated. Still requires to re-do all the work in case of hard drive failure, but those are, fortunately, a rare condition I need to recover from.
Woa... tighten that tin foil hat there. Here's some quick information for you, not that you're likely to believe truth.
CC companies do not profit from fraud. In most cases, they get left holding the entire bag, since the card holder is, by law, not liable for fraudulant charges (fraudulant charges being charges not authorized by the card holder. It's more complicated when the customer authorizes a charge to a fraudster. Think of it much like handing the fraudster cash.)
Cards are being shipped with RFID and other chip technologies because Mag stripe cloning techniques have been so ubiquitous and sophisticated, banks are getting reamed up the arse eating all the fraudulent charges, and are desperate to get rid of mag stripes as fast as possible. Although, I'm not at all convinced that RFID won't be worse once crime cartels start upgrading their tech to clone those.
Banks offer rewards to use their cards because they charge the merchant a percentage of the purchase. Bank rewards you 1%, charge the merchant 2%, there's 1% profit for them right there before you even go into debt. and increase their profit 100 fold with interest charges.
Merchants are not at all forbidden from verifying your signature and ID... Indeed, I've been asked for my photo id several times since the signature stripe on my CC is worn off. Though it's true most merchants don't bother. However, if the merchant can not produce a signed purchase authorization when a transaction is disputed, it's the merchant who doesn't get the money.
Free software can handle h264 just fine.. Indeed.. all free software video players and encoders support it be default for the past 8 years or so. There does exist a patent threat if certain patent holders decided to attack commercial distribution of such software in afflicted countries. And given it's high profile in MS crosshairs, Mozilla decided not to take that chance. But Mozilla's continued stuborness to not work around their limitations (handing off the video stream, or even just the damn url, to the OS to choose another program that can handle it would work out of the box today) is holding everyone up.
I'll leave the final verdict to the FBI, but what if, (I love this game) the student had reported the notebook stolen, and when the anti-theft security was activated, there he was at home doing whatever. Disciplining him for innapropriate behaviour in this case might even have been seen as a gentle alternative to filling criminal fraud charges.