Inept or stuck supporting applications and/or websites that require IE6?
The place I work at just move the majority of the windows users to IE8, they had been on IE6. This is because a client we work for requires we use some of their inhouse software that actually uses the trident rendering engine and until a couple months ago only worked with IE6.
My IT dept is happy to do such a thing. You just have to sign a little form that lets you know under that setup no troubleshooting nor assistance can be given and the only support in case of issues is to reimage the machine. In reality support is given, but not to the degree a regular user gets and if you lose data TFB.
Save yourself the drive, setup a fog server. Could be a netbook with an external USB hard drive. The machines are set to attempt PXE boot and if scheduled to get a new image they do.
No different than any other physical access. Maybe you don't bring the connectors out to a shield on the back in that case, but we already fill usb ports with epxoy so no change.
1. stop yelling. 2. how is it a risk? 3. The video card still has dma if it is plugged into the PCI port. Not much the OS can do about hardware level access other than crash.
Thunderbolt has support for lightpeak cables anyway. The switch to optical and back is done in the cables. Sure that makes for a pricey cable, but this solves all those dirt issues. 100Gbps is not yet in the reach of the consumer gear. I have a 10GbE network at work, for my house 1GbE is still fine.
Sure it is fine. If you have physical access you own the machine anyway. If you made a ribbon cable for a PCI port you would get the same thing. The whole point of DMA is to be able to read and right arbitrary addresses in memory. Did the damn name Direct Memory Access not tip you off?
DMA is a fine idea for external devices. That article was no surprise to anyone with a working brain. These are devices plugged right in, no different than opening the case and plugging into a PCI lane. Hell I could make a cable for that too.
The author is an idiot. Comparing USB and thunderbolt just proves it. Thunderbold will expose pci-express lanes to external devices. USB does not even have DMA.
What is this magic that they would have been able to do with fiber?
Ever worked with it? For a consumer connector it sucks. It's delicate, futzy about cleanliness, and really not much gain over copper. Hell, without huge waste and high expense it can't even carry power.
That because Firewire and USB really are not comparable. Firewire has DMA for instance. USB has way to much CPU overhead to be used for external discs. eSata is the correct choice, firewire a runner up.
It can be, it is just really difficult to do. Eating only meat would be no better. I am not a vegan or vegetarian, nor have ever been one intentionally nor longer than 48 hours.
Did you not even read his comment? Currency must be low value in and of itself, it must not gain value without increased economic activity. You have it all backwards, for a good example see gold. As the value of gold goes up, people stop spending it and start hording it, this limits economic activity. Why would you want currency to be the reason your economy stops growing?
Please do name one of these. I am not a mac user, but I have never heard of a real OSX virus in the wild. Note I said virus, not trojan or something else the user has to try to install.
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Inept or stuck supporting applications and/or websites that require IE6?
The place I work at just move the majority of the windows users to IE8, they had been on IE6. This is because a client we work for requires we use some of their inhouse software that actually uses the trident rendering engine and until a couple months ago only worked with IE6.
My IT dept is happy to do such a thing. You just have to sign a little form that lets you know under that setup no troubleshooting nor assistance can be given and the only support in case of issues is to reimage the machine. In reality support is given, but not to the degree a regular user gets and if you lose data TFB.
Save yourself the drive, setup a fog server. Could be a netbook with an external USB hard drive. The machines are set to attempt PXE boot and if scheduled to get a new image they do.
Which drivers?
Name some specifics you troll.
Also 1 in 14 downloads on windows is malware, that is sure going to be breaking machines more than every 6 months.
Windows will be usable when it has lsof, can replace in use files, and in general starts acting like a multi-user OS.
Close but dependencies are not shared, so you still get multiple out of date libs.
No different than any other physical access.
Maybe you don't bring the connectors out to a shield on the back in that case, but we already fill usb ports with epxoy so no change.
1. stop yelling.
2. how is it a risk?
3. The video card still has dma if it is plugged into the PCI port. Not much the OS can do about hardware level access other than crash.
That is because it's slow and simple, like the people.
Why was he standing in the way of a bunch of zebras?
Thunderbolt has support for lightpeak cables anyway. The switch to optical and back is done in the cables. Sure that makes for a pricey cable, but this solves all those dirt issues. 100Gbps is not yet in the reach of the consumer gear. I have a 10GbE network at work, for my house 1GbE is still fine.
Sure it is fine. If you have physical access you own the machine anyway. If you made a ribbon cable for a PCI port you would get the same thing.
The whole point of DMA is to be able to read and right arbitrary addresses in memory. Did the damn name Direct Memory Access not tip you off?
It is for high speed, not low cost.
DMA is a fine idea for external devices. That article was no surprise to anyone with a working brain. These are devices plugged right in, no different than opening the case and plugging into a PCI lane. Hell I could make a cable for that too.
Hard drives are not slower than USB3, unless you mean in a BS max theoretical speed. In reality USB3 will be CPU bound just like USB2.
Because this is the same thing over copper. All the nice stuff is the same and they got rid of the PITA fiber.
The author is an idiot. Comparing USB and thunderbolt just proves it. Thunderbold will expose pci-express lanes to external devices. USB does not even have DMA.
All of that is true, but none of it is anyone replacing SCSI with firewire.
What is this magic that they would have been able to do with fiber?
Ever worked with it? For a consumer connector it sucks. It's delicate, futzy about cleanliness, and really not much gain over copper. Hell, without huge waste and high expense it can't even carry power.
That because Firewire and USB really are not comparable. Firewire has DMA for instance. USB has way to much CPU overhead to be used for external discs. eSata is the correct choice, firewire a runner up.
eSata is the correct answer for that problem. There is or will be very shortly esata 6gbit/s.
It can be, it is just really difficult to do. Eating only meat would be no better. I am not a vegan or vegetarian, nor have ever been one intentionally nor longer than 48 hours.
Make sure you get the high quality Dutch ones.
Did you not even read his comment?
Currency must be low value in and of itself, it must not gain value without increased economic activity. You have it all backwards, for a good example see gold. As the value of gold goes up, people stop spending it and start hording it, this limits economic activity. Why would you want currency to be the reason your economy stops growing?
If they sold them at reasonable prices they might do pretty well.
What crapflood is that?
You have to vpn in before you can connect to ssh on any of my machines.
Also those ssh connection attempts could well be coming from machines running any OS.
Please do name one of these. I am not a mac user, but I have never heard of a real OSX virus in the wild. Note I said virus, not trojan or something else the user has to try to install.