To the best of my knowledge (and I work on this stuff daily), it's not possible for the OS to enable the TPM (it would make testing way easier if this were true!). The TPM has to be enabled and activated in BIOS before it's available to the OS.
vPro is a function of the processor, not the chipset. That is the processor must support vPro to use it. And vPro and TPMs are not at all comparable. A TPM is not something that does anything on its own; it is used by the FW and/or OS to enable security but doesn't itself do anything.
TPMs are built in accordance with a open spec from the TCG.
Every motherboard I've ever seen ships with the TPM disabled, and many of them that support a TPM don't have it down on the board, it must be installed separately.
vPro requires a fair amount of setup to use, so claiming that it's going to backdoored is really just silly.
While it may be that there are legitimate concerns about TPMs (or vPro), I've not seen any/. discussion yet that seemed to be particularly well informed on the specifics, here.
Yes, valley fever is hardly news. Growing up in Arizona it was common knowledge. Most people get it and it's no big deal, just like a cold or mild flu. It's true that for some it's far worse, but that's rare. This is news?
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I'll grant you it's marginal... but why is it weird? FreeBSD works quite well on the desktop. If you want a Unix-y system where you have more control over what goes in it's an excellent choice.
This was someone with an engineering background, who trusted questionable numbers over rational risk taking business decisions. That's extremely not good for someone in his position.
Oooh! I had a couple of 3B1s/Unix PCs until 2006, the evil ex-gf made me get rid of them when we moved:-(. They were cute little machines! My very first UUCP feed was on one.
Libraries are not just entertainment, they are pretty much the only free means of adult education that's available anymore. They are really, really important for our society.
Mod this up!!
Very true. When I've been a manager I've tried to work like this also. Know your people. Know their strengths and weaknesses. Play to their strengths, help them to work on their weaknesses.
Yes, a "real" landline phone doesn't need to be plugged in, it gets its power from the landline and that is battery-backed which is why your landline phone works when the power is out.
It's kinda sad that so few people know how to use anything that's not x86 anymore. I've got several Suns (Ultra 5 and 10, IPX, Sparcstation 20), a DECstation, 2 VAXstations, and a MicroVAX 3800. And a couple of HP ZX2000s... then rackmounted I've got another Sun, another HP Itanium box and a number of x86 architecture boxen.
From what I can tell the Itanium port is pretty immature. I actually have 3 Itania but haven't had a chance to work on bringing NetBSD up on real hardware.
OpenBSD forked from NetBSD.
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Except looking at history, they will probable lead to fewer soldier deaths, fewer bystander deaths, more accurate targeting.
I don't know why people think they are bad.
Extra-judicial killings of US citizens.
Let's call it what is is: murder of innocent US citizens.
(don't think they are innocent? They are innocent until proven guilty!)
Maybe we need to bring back a modernized, encrypted UUCP?
You don't think we won the first Gulf war? Well, it probably depends both on your definition of "war" and "win". We haven't declared war since 1941.
To the best of my knowledge (and I work on this stuff daily), it's not possible for the OS to enable the TPM (it would make testing way easier if this were true!). The TPM has to be enabled and activated in BIOS before it's available to the OS.
vPro is a function of the processor, not the chipset. That is the processor must support vPro to use it. And vPro and TPMs are not at all comparable. A TPM is not something that does anything on its own; it is used by the FW and/or OS to enable security but doesn't itself do anything. TPMs are built in accordance with a open spec from the TCG. Every motherboard I've ever seen ships with the TPM disabled, and many of them that support a TPM don't have it down on the board, it must be installed separately. vPro requires a fair amount of setup to use, so claiming that it's going to backdoored is really just silly. While it may be that there are legitimate concerns about TPMs (or vPro), I've not seen any /. discussion yet that seemed to be particularly well informed on the specifics, here.
Yes, valley fever is hardly news. Growing up in Arizona it was common knowledge. Most people get it and it's no big deal, just like a cold or mild flu. It's true that for some it's far worse, but that's rare. This is news?
I'll grant you it's marginal... but why is it weird? FreeBSD works quite well on the desktop. If you want a Unix-y system where you have more control over what goes in it's an excellent choice.
HA! I worked for Artisoft from '92 to '98. It was a great place to work, and the whole development group and corp offices ran LANtastic.
Um, the Alpha is considerably newer than Ethernet. We were using Ethernet (yes the thick version) in the mid-80s with our MicroVAXen.
OMG the UYK-7. I think you and I are the only ones here who know what the hell those were. Ah the stories I could tell!
So what happens when the drug cartels get this?
This was someone with an engineering background, who trusted questionable numbers over rational risk taking business decisions. That's extremely not good for someone in his position.
Otellini is not an engineer.
Oooh! I had a couple of 3B1s/Unix PCs until 2006, the evil ex-gf made me get rid of them when we moved :-(. They were cute little machines! My very first UUCP feed was on one.
Libraries are not just entertainment, they are pretty much the only free means of adult education that's available anymore. They are really, really important for our society.
Mod this up!! Very true. When I've been a manager I've tried to work like this also. Know your people. Know their strengths and weaknesses. Play to their strengths, help them to work on their weaknesses.
that's what these are for: http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/parentcat/11298 (top left).
Yes, a "real" landline phone doesn't need to be plugged in, it gets its power from the landline and that is battery-backed which is why your landline phone works when the power is out.
I guess I will have to find a DOS version of Lynx for my (original) IBM AT.
It's kinda sad that so few people know how to use anything that's not x86 anymore. I've got several Suns (Ultra 5 and 10, IPX, Sparcstation 20), a DECstation, 2 VAXstations, and a MicroVAX 3800. And a couple of HP ZX2000s... then rackmounted I've got another Sun, another HP Itanium box and a number of x86 architecture boxen.
I assume you meant "300 GB" not "300 MB"...
Frickin' LASERS!
DING DING DING! Yep!
From what I can tell the Itanium port is pretty immature. I actually have 3 Itania but haven't had a chance to work on bringing NetBSD up on real hardware. OpenBSD forked from NetBSD.
I run NetBSD on sparc, sparc64, VAX, pmax, i386 and amd64.
Cool! I was working on Plato around '83 - '85 at the University of Arizona (zaft/uaphys).