In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Microsoft VM didn't let you run anything older than Win2K, seeing as support for Win98 just ended...
Win 95 runs fine under Virtual Server or Virtual PC - at least today it does, I haven't tried any older version of Windows. By Windows standards it doesn't take much room either, less than 100 meg for the Win 95 VHD file, quite small compared to the 1+ gig W2K VHD.
At this site http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/ the most powerful ship diesel running at its most efficient speed burns 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour. Even using the cheap, nasty fuel these ships burn that's a big expense.
Increasing efficiency using ship diesel has almost reached its maximum potential and is also extremely expensive. According to the calculation of an expert on ship propulsions, shipping companies would have to invest up to 500,000 Euros in order to reduce a ship's fuel consumption by 1%. Fuel savings of 5% would be a fantastic performance for ship owners, according to Niels Stolberg, managing partner of Bremen-based shipping company Beluga Shipping GmbH.
To get an increase of 35% (the max claimed by SkySails) would mean a 3.5 million euro investment, that's a lot of crewman salaries even at union wages and less than the Skysails implementation would cost.
Yes, really tough to boot into INSERT (knoppix-based with partimage and USB support) and copy the drive image to an external usb drive.
How clever of you to parrot back what was in the article. He said if they made a bit by bit copy of the disk there would be no way to tell if it had actually been accessed. They might be able to show it has been compromised, they can't prove it hasn't.
I think the FBI is totally blowing smoke on this one.
Why would you say that? If you'd actually read the article you'd know this isn't about what the FBI did or didn't do at all. It's nothing but speculation from someone who says he's a forensic specalist at Zone labs.
From the article:
As a former Computer Forensic Specialist, I wanted to explain what's probably going on with this laptop now that the FBI has the system and is forensically examining it.
The post was not written by the FBI, by an FBI agent or by anyone associated with the FBI. The only thing the post says about what the FBI has done is quote a vague press release.
A preliminary review of the equipment by computer forensic teams determined that the database remains intact and has not been accessed since it was stolen. A thorough forensic examination is underway, and the results will be shared as soon as possible. The investigation is ongoing.
Hwy 203 in Washington south of Monroe the speed limit goes from 55 to 25.
Also on hwy 203 south of Carnation the speed limit goes from 55 to 30. There is a sign a couple hundred feet before the 30 mph sign saying the speed is going to drop to 30 but the limit does have that drastic a drop all at once there.
I've also never seen the police waiting right at those points to catch people speeding. Maybe 1/4 - 1/2 mile past the one in Carnation they do wait but that's also right at a school.
According to the article, yes it is more effective than a hammer. It said that techniques such as crushing the drive still allowed the data to be recovered, given enough time.
Other methods, including burning disks with heat-generating thermite, crushing drives in presses, chemically destroying the media or frying them with microwaves all proved susceptible to sensitive, patient, recovery efforts.
This will be my final post with slashdot, i'll be moving to digg for my news after today.
This guy wants to quit his day to day responsibilities to give away his money to the less fortunate and all you guys want to do is bash him. Hey, I like Linux, I own a Mac and have tons of Windows experience, but just because you don't like his business practices or his OS dosn't give you the right to belittle him. Will you manage to give away 80% of your fortune before you die? Didn't think so fucktard!
Give the guy a break, he's one of the few modern day humanitarians!
So why are you moving to Digg? They're just as rabidly anti microsoft, just as left wing and generally quite a bit less technical than the posters at Slashdot. If you honestly believe the people at Digg would or will do less bashing you're fooling yourself.
Competition is a good thing. More companies paying publishers (website owners) to display ads will drive up the price, meaning more money for publishers and hopefully fewer people paying to advertiser their parked domain or "Made for Adsense" site.
Today VMWare is eating Microsofts lunch, it's easier to use and performs better. But discounting MS would be a tragic mistake, this wouldn't be the first field MS entered late only to dominate later on. With their size, cash and market if MS wants to own the VM market on Windows eventually they will.
Idiot. If you honestly think it would be any different with Kerry or any other Democrat in the Whitehouse you need to open your eyes. Do you see the Dems filibustering the law or any other attempt to stop it? No because politicians are all the same and ALL want to control the people.
It seems to me that if they went out for smokes, a lot fewer gamers would be dying. At least in the short term.
They don't have to 'go out' for smokes they just smoke right there. It's not like the US where smoking is banned in virtually any enclosed structure. So they get to breath in the smoke AND get fatal blood clots from sitting in one position for hours.
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How many years was illegal immigration going on and companies using them (persumably this DNA database will be designed to curtail that)? And when exactly did the government/news decide to make it a central issue?
It became a central issue as soon as enough people started to care about it and the politicians figured out they would start to lose votes and possibly their position if they didn't do something about it.
Very bad law for forum administrators. I run a forum that sends out approximatly 500 to 700 post notifications per day. That could easily run to thousands of dollars per month for many sites.
I wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars per month just so people can get their email notifications. If this law were to go through in the US I'd have to either disable notifications or charge people a subscription fee, as would a very large number of other sites, including Slashdot.
Maybe in the end it would be worth it but there are ramifications beyond just hurting spammers to be considered.
This kind of ignorance would be ok for an average joe but is a tad *ssinine for a reporter.
Why on earth would you assume a reporter is LESS ignorant than your average Joe? Based on the vast majority of reporting that gets broadcast and printed these days I'd say the average Joe was less ignorant.
Mark Golden, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires... oh yeah, that's someone I'd assume was less ignorant about computers than the average user.
So just because Yahoo has decided they can't compete with Google and will be happy to just maintain what marketshare they have, no one else can compete with Google either? Awfully bold statement from someone who has given up.
Yahoo! Inc., one of the first Internet search companies, has capitulated to Google Inc. in the battle for market dominance.
"We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google," Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share."
How many republicans blame the internet for shining a light on what they're doing and thereby raising public awareness and undermining their popularity?
Probably about as many as there were Democrats complaining about the same thing in the 2004 election when people were finding out all about Kerry.
Yeah, but this is/. where the Republicans/neo-cons control
What planet are you from? The only site more liberal than Slashdot is Democraticunderground.com. You really must not read anything here if you honestly think Republicans are even in a majority much less in control here.
Sorry, but since when does dual-boot mean "less secure"?
How many viruses are going to be stopped by preventing dual-booting? How many trojans?
How narrow do you look at security? With the drive encrypted it not only blocks sharing data between dual boot OS it also stops people from booting off a CD and getting your data - that is more secure.
They didn't even say this blocked dual booting just blocked sharing data between the OS, this is no different than the Linux situation a few years ago when it couldn't read NTFS partitions as far as sharing data goes.
Who would buy a pre-built system at all? Setup time for building your own is slightly less than an hour.
Setup time might be less than an hour for you but not for the mass market that can't stop the clock from blinking on their VCR. Do you really think the average Tivo owner can build their own DVR, especially using Linux, in less than an hour? Not a chance.
Sure, the off shore folks have us beat when it comes to programminng, no doubt about that --
You haven't worked at a company that has used offshore developers have you? The only way they have the US beat is in price. The quality of code churned out by offshore dev companies is notoriously poorly written and even more poorly tested.
Have you ever heard someone praise the quality of code they received from offshoring? No one I know in the industry has, the only people happy about it are the bean counters and PHB who look at nothing but the next quarters bottem line.
I behave as though anything I do on the internet will be recorded and saved forever. I'd rather not have to explain something I posted today to a potential employer twenty years from now.
Talk about paranoid. What are you going to do, create a Slashdot account with your real name and SSN? Are you going to put your Slashdot profile name on a resume? How exactly do you think this mythical future employer is going to link you to any given post on/. or anywhere else if you don't use any real info like the other 99.9% of people who post here.
Since i'm positive someone will post it, i'll debunk it ahead of time.
You should also get ready to debunk the people who will surely claim we didn't actually send a rocket to the moon to test for water, that it was all a hoax cooked up in ILMs studio by NASA.
Ok, joke aside, I was wondering if these viruses wouldn't be spread so easily if we used Linux, but that's too much "slashdot thinking".
Most likely, yes. "we" aren't the ones spreading virius and unknowingly joining botnets. It's the uneducated person who went to CompUSA or Dell and bought their PC. Those people wouldn't put up with the heightened security of a secure Linux box any more than they would with a secure Windows machien. They would still fall victem to the same trojans. Some virus and worms would probably spread more slowly but overall the situation would be pretty much the same because the common computer user doesn't want to deal with everything that goes along with a locked down, secure, system.
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Take a look at Reatogo, it's much closer to a Linux live CD than the basic Bart PE is. Not quite as full featured as Knoppix, but quite good.
Win 95 runs fine under Virtual Server or Virtual PC - at least today it does, I haven't tried any older version of Windows. By Windows standards it doesn't take much room either, less than 100 meg for the Win 95 VHD file, quite small compared to the 1+ gig W2K VHD.
According to http://www.skysails.info/index.php?id=66&L=1
To get an increase of 35% (the max claimed by SkySails) would mean a 3.5 million euro investment, that's a lot of crewman salaries even at union wages and less than the Skysails implementation would cost.They have some interesting performance calculations on their website too about how much sail produces how much energy. http://www.skysails.info/index.php?id=89&L=1
How clever of you to parrot back what was in the article. He said if they made a bit by bit copy of the disk there would be no way to tell if it had actually been accessed. They might be able to show it has been compromised, they can't prove it hasn't.
I think the FBI is totally blowing smoke on this one.
Why would you say that? If you'd actually read the article you'd know this isn't about what the FBI did or didn't do at all. It's nothing but speculation from someone who says he's a forensic specalist at Zone labs.
From the article:
The post was not written by the FBI, by an FBI agent or by anyone associated with the FBI. The only thing the post says about what the FBI has done is quote a vague press release.Also on hwy 203 south of Carnation the speed limit goes from 55 to 30. There is a sign a couple hundred feet before the 30 mph sign saying the speed is going to drop to 30 but the limit does have that drastic a drop all at once there.
I've also never seen the police waiting right at those points to catch people speeding. Maybe 1/4 - 1/2 mile past the one in Carnation they do wait but that's also right at a school.
So why are you moving to Digg? They're just as rabidly anti microsoft, just as left wing and generally quite a bit less technical than the posters at Slashdot. If you honestly believe the people at Digg would or will do less bashing you're fooling yourself.
Competition is a good thing. More companies paying publishers (website owners) to display ads will drive up the price, meaning more money for publishers and hopefully fewer people paying to advertiser their parked domain or "Made for Adsense" site.
Today VMWare is eating Microsofts lunch, it's easier to use and performs better. But discounting MS would be a tragic mistake, this wouldn't be the first field MS entered late only to dominate later on. With their size, cash and market if MS wants to own the VM market on Windows eventually they will.
Idiot. If you honestly think it would be any different with Kerry or any other Democrat in the Whitehouse you need to open your eyes. Do you see the Dems filibustering the law or any other attempt to stop it? No because politicians are all the same and ALL want to control the people.
They don't have to 'go out' for smokes they just smoke right there. It's not like the US where smoking is banned in virtually any enclosed structure. So they get to breath in the smoke AND get fatal blood clots from sitting in one position for hours.
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Site may not include:
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It became a central issue as soon as enough people started to care about it and the politicians figured out they would start to lose votes and possibly their position if they didn't do something about it.
I wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars per month just so people can get their email notifications. If this law were to go through in the US I'd have to either disable notifications or charge people a subscription fee, as would a very large number of other sites, including Slashdot.
Maybe in the end it would be worth it but there are ramifications beyond just hurting spammers to be considered.
Why on earth would you assume a reporter is LESS ignorant than your average Joe? Based on the vast majority of reporting that gets broadcast and printed these days I'd say the average Joe was less ignorant.
Mark Golden, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires... oh yeah, that's someone I'd assume was less ignorant about computers than the average user.
Probably about as many as there were Democrats complaining about the same thing in the 2004 election when people were finding out all about Kerry.
What planet are you from? The only site more liberal than Slashdot is Democraticunderground.com. You really must not read anything here if you honestly think Republicans are even in a majority much less in control here.
How narrow do you look at security? With the drive encrypted it not only blocks sharing data between dual boot OS it also stops people from booting off a CD and getting your data - that is more secure.
They didn't even say this blocked dual booting just blocked sharing data between the OS, this is no different than the Linux situation a few years ago when it couldn't read NTFS partitions as far as sharing data goes.
Setup time might be less than an hour for you but not for the mass market that can't stop the clock from blinking on their VCR. Do you really think the average Tivo owner can build their own DVR, especially using Linux, in less than an hour? Not a chance.
You haven't worked at a company that has used offshore developers have you? The only way they have the US beat is in price. The quality of code churned out by offshore dev companies is notoriously poorly written and even more poorly tested.
Have you ever heard someone praise the quality of code they received from offshoring? No one I know in the industry has, the only people happy about it are the bean counters and PHB who look at nothing but the next quarters bottem line.
Talk about paranoid. What are you going to do, create a Slashdot account with your real name and SSN? Are you going to put your Slashdot profile name on a resume? How exactly do you think this mythical future employer is going to link you to any given post on /. or anywhere else if you don't use any real info like the other 99.9% of people who post here.
You should also get ready to debunk the people who will surely claim we didn't actually send a rocket to the moon to test for water, that it was all a hoax cooked up in ILMs studio by NASA.
Most likely, yes. "we" aren't the ones spreading virius and unknowingly joining botnets. It's the uneducated person who went to CompUSA or Dell and bought their PC. Those people wouldn't put up with the heightened security of a secure Linux box any more than they would with a secure Windows machien. They would still fall victem to the same trojans. Some virus and worms would probably spread more slowly but overall the situation would be pretty much the same because the common computer user doesn't want to deal with everything that goes along with a locked down, secure, system.
Put it on Ebay and find out, stranger thangs than that have sold for absurd amounts, why not a low /. UID?