To be fair, they state that they've changed their opinion on the repairability, and why, in the actual teardown:
Repair score: 2 out of 10
While the new iPad's design is essentially the same as the iPad 2, which we gave a repairability score of 4, we've learned a lot about the design since then. We've spent the last year trying to repair the iPad 2 with mixed success. We are awarding the new iPad an abysmal 2 out of 10, and retroactively dropping the repairability score of the iPad 2 to a 2 as well. The adhesive on the front is extremely difficult to remove without damaging the glass, making repair and end-of-life recycling very difficult.
That said, we were able to disassemble this iPad without breaking the glass - something that we did not accomplish with our iPad 2 teardown. A year of practice has made us proficient, but schools deploying the iPad for their students are going to be in for a lot of repair technician training.
The iPad is repairable, just extremely difficult. We've written a repair manual for the iPad 2 here, and repairing the new iPad will be very similar.
I can confirm this. I bought a secondhand 2004 Commodore VZ a few years ago and tested it on both regular petrol and e85. The economy was absolutely horrible on e85 - 15% to 20% worse with only a 1.5% price saving.
The real surprise was when the engine started running rough and fuel economy dropped a further 30%.It turned out that the deposits on the fuel lines (aka varnish) had been partially dissolved and flakes and chunks had started breaking loose, blocking several injectors. That wouldn't have been too bad, but it took some time to track down the actual fault(electrical? manifold? ECU? plugs? coils?) and a couple of the injectors were blocked open, with fuel making it's way through the engine unburnt and destroying the oxygen sensors. In the end it cost over $2k to find and fix it, including labor and parts.
With the tiny price differential between regular unleaded and e85 and my rate of use, it would take roughly 1000 years to make back the cost saving of the fuel for the repair bill, and I'd still have worse economy and no horsepower.
Not the same spec. When it was first announced, I was delighted. The detachable keyboard made it the perfect combination of tablet and netbook for me. When it went on sale, there was no mention of it's mobile capabilities. Dual band, quad band, locked? No problem I thought, I'll go down to the local JB store and have a fondle, the spec will be on the box. No, it wasn't. This wonderful device, thoughtfully designed to fit ALL my needs is WiFi only. So, after I confirmed there was no 3G model coming, I bought a Xoom, and I've been perfectly happy with it.
Yes, I was running./crayon in the correct directory. The issue is that they included several libraries in the lib32 directory but relied on most of the libraries being loaded from the host system. Run "ldd crayon" and "ldd launcher" to see that.
Unfortunately, they only included *some* of the libraries. For the most part it's not a problem, as things like libm and libcurl are fairly standalone. When they included Qt libraries, however, they didn't include *all* the Qt libraries, and the ones they included have a different version to the ones in most other systems, including mine. Qt is smart enough to detect this and complain because it's likely that the two libraries will be slightly incompatible.
This problem is due to the developer making assumptions about the target host system or not doing basic testing. Compiling a static binary is a possible solution but is sometimes not practical or technically possible.
In the end, the fix was (for me) simple and now one person has worked it out it's simple for everyone with the same problem.
I paid US$30 (AU$28.xx), twice as much as I paid for HB2 as I intend to play all of these games - the FPS in HB2 don't interest me.
BTW, Crayon Physics fails on Debian Squeeze. My fix was to move the bundled lib32 directory to lib32.o and apt-get the standard system packages for the few libraries it then complains are missing, which are mostly SDL related. All that was left was an incompatible system libstdc++, so I re-created lib32 and copied the old version from lib32.o back. So far, it runs fine and is great fun.
Yeah, the new servers I just received to upgrade our vmware cluster have 128G with only half the slots filled. Still 16 cores (2 x 8) per host, our limiting factor is having enough free RAM available for failover. The linux guests share ram nicely, but the windows guests are pigs.
In fact, I'd not seen a device which had one before a few months ago when a couple of phones started to use it. Mini-USB has been the standard for years and is only fractionally larger whilst being much stronger.
I would suggest that that has been the primary reason for this choice - to continue the decades old tradition of delicate connectors to facilitate the upgrade path.
We had just installed some new racks, which came with vertically mounted power strips. About eight sockets on a long aluminium box with a 10A circuit breaker at the end. Everything was fine until I was putting in some more patch cables and one brushed against the breaker. That was enough to trip it's hair trigger and take out half a rack of servers.
All those breakers soon found themselves with paperclip-based trip preventers, and we've since transitioned to much better APC strips.
fsm@universe:~$ su - root Password: root@universe:~# apt-get purge theodp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:
theodp* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7563182347329836458723 not upgraded. After this operation, 73.7kt string space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database... 87236572613241828286749857962983 files and directories currently installed.) Removing theodp... root@universe:~# logout fsm@universe:~$ WorldOfGoo & fsm@universe:~$
Here in Australia, the car has to have third-party liability insurance. It is part of the yearly car registration, and while you have choice of insurers, it is not optional. This covers the case where the car is stolen and causes damage, or an unlicensed or uninsured driver causes damage.
They're also editing people's posts under their "terms of use" policy. Mostly it's removing the names of other firewall products, but there's a couple by the main editor "GeorgeV" with no indication of why the edit was made or any placemarker to show where it was made.
Ah, and there's also some posts which have entirely disappeared. Since the unique post ID is common to the entire forum it's hard to detect, and the #x post counter on the right is dynamically generated when the thread is displayed. I did see one post disappear, and then the user re-posted. Here's the details of the new post, which I expect to disappear as well.
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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 1 Default Re: zbot.zeus Notice Trolling? Barely. Check Point software needs the wrath of the internet unleashed upon them to make them realize their mistakes.
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Whoops, that post's gone, too.
Way to go Checkpoint, with one twitch of your marketing neuron you've alienated your loyal users and enraged the script kiddies.
Yep, they've made the decision that there's nothing on the server which they can't afford to lose. Or they're idiots.
They're placing all their trust in the security and vetting standards of their co-lo, from the admins and techs, to clerical staff, plant and maintenance, cleaners, safety inspectors, linoleum layers, electricians, the list goes on. That assumes, of course, that the co-lo has standards and follows them without exception. I don't have the time or resources to audit them.
Our server room is only accessible through the IT office and any non-IT visitor must be accompanied by an IT staff member when inside. All access is by RFID and is logged by the security system. Oh, not all IT staff have access to the server room in the first place. That's just basic security, and quite frankly I'm amazed that anyone would accept anything less.
On the other hand, my personal website, and that of a club's that I also maintain, is with a hosting company on a shares server. I look at this as an acceptable risk, since there's no data on the site which is not publicly accessible anyway. Membership details are NOT public information, and so are NOT kept there.
Woah, you've never heard of Confession? That where you have to go if you do anything they don't like. It's a kind of self-service court system, where you're your own prosecutor and the company's local sales and support manager is the sentencing judge. In the last couple of centuries the lock-in has been relaxed quite a bit in most countries, but before that you were likely to be killed.
Sorry, that was mis-edited. It was meant to say "what the church has interpreted their holy book to have said." See my other post (#30619076) in this thread for the detail.
The Vatican has constantly denied the existence of extraterrestrial life. Back when the Bible was written, planets were unknown. Earth is the center of creation, the sun and moon are "great lights" and stars were a calendar. When planets were discovered (and they finally admitted they existed), it suited the church to label them lifeless. They had to, as planets weren't mentioned in the Bible and any life out there puts a huge crimp is the "Earth is the center of creation" and "we are His children" self-serving egocentric shtick.
Of course, now that more and more exoplanets are being discovered, the probability of life being inferred on one or more of them through spectroscopy or other means is rising rapidly. So, they're revising their stance and going for a "it might be possible" position.
It's interesting to note that the church placed the Earth at the center of the solar system. There's nothing in the Bible about the orbits of the Sun, Moon and stars around the Earth, but they came up with a pretty good fit with their beliefs which took into account observable evidence. When the telescope and planets came along, they tried banning the new evidence, but eventually had to redefine the solar system with the Earth in it's proper place.
Similarly, the "no life on other planets" stance has had to be changed, but the church has learned from it's history. For quite a few years now, the hard line has been softening and various sections of the church have been pushing an uncommitted view. With no direction from the Bible about planets, though, they're got their job cut out from them. In this day and age, they can't just make stuff up, so they're going to have to do something pretty inventive to explain life on them.
Think as a member of the faith, who lives their life (as best they can) by the word of the creator of the universe. Which is worse, the Creator not knowing about alien life, or keeping it a secret from His chosen people?
From their point of view, you are denying them their beliefs. They believe that drinking beer on a Sunday is a sin. They have the moral responsibility, enforced on them by their religious hierarchy, all the way up to their Creator, who, by the way, created you too, to stop you drinking on Sunday. Responsibility, mind you, not right. Right just gives them the power, which they can choose not to wield, but responsibility forces them to act. They are bound to stop you, and any one assisting you in the consumption of beer along the chain of supply, otherwise they are allowing you all to sin in violation of your Creator's Will, and they themselves are entirely complicit in the sin.
This is why most people pay only lip service to their religions, and the ones who truly try to act faithfully are insane, in jail or dead.
This is also why it's useless to argue any points of religion. Any follower of a faith who is outspoken enough to debate will be impossible to reason with. Because they have faith. Faith trumps all. Logic, scientific evidence, physical the-tears-on-that-Madonna-statue-are-vegetable-oil evidence, common sense, anything. They know they are right, they have faith in their beliefs, and nothing you can say or do can change that.
Medicine men, shamans, priests, they have all had thousands of years to build on their predecessors techniques and psychology. They have an answer for everything, an excuse for anything. As society became more sophisticated and murdering someone to bring back Spring got a little dicey, they formed larger structures, took responsibility for reading and writing(handy, that), rewrote their holy books with more sophistication, and redefined and retranslated as necessary to keep up with progress.
The latest one I've heard is the Vatican suggesting that life on other planets in the universe may be possible. That's directly opposite what their holy book has said for a couple of thousand years, but a bit of "oh, it's always said that, you were just misinterpreting the meaning" and it's done.
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To be fair, they state that they've changed their opinion on the repairability, and why, in the actual teardown:
Repair score: 2 out of 10
While the new iPad's design is essentially the same as the iPad 2, which we gave a repairability score of 4, we've learned a lot about the design since then. We've spent the last year trying to repair the iPad 2 with mixed success. We are awarding the new iPad an abysmal 2 out of 10, and retroactively dropping the repairability score of the iPad 2 to a 2 as well. The adhesive on the front is extremely difficult to remove without damaging the glass, making repair and end-of-life recycling very difficult.
That said, we were able to disassemble this iPad without breaking the glass - something that we did not accomplish with our iPad 2 teardown. A year of practice has made us proficient, but schools deploying the iPad for their students are going to be in for a lot of repair technician training.
The iPad is repairable, just extremely difficult. We've written a repair manual for the iPad 2 here, and repairing the new iPad will be very similar.
I can confirm this. I bought a secondhand 2004 Commodore VZ a few years ago and tested it on both regular petrol and e85. The economy was absolutely horrible on e85 - 15% to 20% worse with only a 1.5% price saving.
The real surprise was when the engine started running rough and fuel economy dropped a further 30%.It turned out that the deposits on the fuel lines (aka varnish) had been partially dissolved and flakes and chunks had started breaking loose, blocking several injectors. That wouldn't have been too bad, but it took some time to track down the actual fault(electrical? manifold? ECU? plugs? coils?) and a couple of the injectors were blocked open, with fuel making it's way through the engine unburnt and destroying the oxygen sensors. In the end it cost over $2k to find and fix it, including labor and parts.
With the tiny price differential between regular unleaded and e85 and my rate of use, it would take roughly 1000 years to make back the cost saving of the fuel for the repair bill, and I'd still have worse economy and no horsepower.
Not the same spec.
When it was first announced, I was delighted. The detachable keyboard made it the perfect combination of tablet and netbook for me.
When it went on sale, there was no mention of it's mobile capabilities. Dual band, quad band, locked? No problem I thought, I'll go down to the local JB store and have a fondle, the spec will be on the box.
No, it wasn't. This wonderful device, thoughtfully designed to fit ALL my needs is WiFi only.
So, after I confirmed there was no 3G model coming, I bought a Xoom, and I've been perfectly happy with it.
Yes, I was running ./crayon in the correct directory. The issue is that they included several libraries in the lib32 directory but relied on most of the libraries being loaded from the host system. Run "ldd crayon" and "ldd launcher" to see that.
Unfortunately, they only included *some* of the libraries. For the most part it's not a problem, as things like libm and libcurl are fairly standalone. When they included Qt libraries, however, they didn't include *all* the Qt libraries, and the ones they included have a different version to the ones in most other systems, including mine. Qt is smart enough to detect this and complain because it's likely that the two libraries will be slightly incompatible.
This problem is due to the developer making assumptions about the target host system or not doing basic testing. Compiling a static binary is a possible solution but is sometimes not practical or technically possible.
In the end, the fix was (for me) simple and now one person has worked it out it's simple for everyone with the same problem.
I paid US$30 (AU$28.xx), twice as much as I paid for HB2 as I intend to play all of these games - the FPS in HB2 don't interest me.
BTW, Crayon Physics fails on Debian Squeeze. My fix was to move the bundled lib32 directory to lib32.o and apt-get the standard system packages for the few libraries it then complains are missing, which are mostly SDL related. All that was left was an incompatible system libstdc++, so I re-created lib32 and copied the old version from lib32.o back. So far, it runs fine and is great fun.
5? It doesn't even work on 4 yet.
"Not supported on iPod Touch (2nd generation)"
Will someone please mod up the parent?
The supporters are organized lunatics. Watch out, they may soon be running the asylum!
Yeah, the new servers I just received to upgrade our vmware cluster have 128G with only half the slots filled. Still 16 cores (2 x 8) per host, our limiting factor is having enough free RAM available for failover. The linux guests share ram nicely, but the windows guests are pigs.
No assumptions necessary. 9V is not enough to pass through skin, so the headline is obviously a throwaway line added later.
We know the power: 1/500 of 100W is 0.2W
We know the current: 0.002A
The voltage can be calculated as E = P/I = 0.2/0.002 = 100V
100V is enough to pass through some skin, especially that of the scalp.
Or come to Townsville where it's sunny and 35 degrees C or rainy and 32 degrees C.
I can buy unbranded ipod compatible 4 conductor headphones (with mic/switch) for AU$1.50 delivered from Hong Kong.
I can buy functionally identical apple branded headphones from jbhifi for $39 in store.
They're both made in China, and if China can leverage that $1.50(less postage) into jb going bankrupt, then they deserve to do so.
On the other hand, the fridge I bought this afternoon is (mostly) Australian made.
In fact, I'd not seen a device which had one before a few months ago when a couple of phones started to use it. Mini-USB has been the standard for years and is only fractionally larger whilst being much stronger.
I would suggest that that has been the primary reason for this choice - to continue the decades old tradition of delicate connectors to facilitate the upgrade path.
We had just installed some new racks, which came with vertically mounted power strips. About eight sockets on a long aluminium box with a 10A circuit breaker at the end. Everything was fine until I was putting in some more patch cables and one brushed against the breaker. That was enough to trip it's hair trigger and take out half a rack of servers.
All those breakers soon found themselves with paperclip-based trip preventers, and we've since transitioned to much better APC strips.
fsm@universe:~$ su - root ... 87236572613241828286749857962983 files and directories currently installed.) ...
Password:
root@universe:~# apt-get purge theodp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
theodp*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7563182347329836458723 not upgraded.
After this operation, 73.7kt string space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database
Removing theodp
root@universe:~# logout
fsm@universe:~$ WorldOfGoo &
fsm@universe:~$
Here in Australia, the car has to have third-party liability insurance. It is part of the yearly car registration, and while you have choice of insurers, it is not optional. This covers the case where the car is stolen and causes damage, or an unlicensed or uninsured driver causes damage.
The stunt worked, they got two front page /. articles about them. Of course, the downside is that they're now on my blacklist.
They're also editing people's posts under their "terms of use" policy. Mostly it's removing the names of other firewall products, but there's a couple by the main editor "GeorgeV" with no indication of why the edit was made or any placemarker to show where it was made.
Ah, and there's also some posts which have entirely disappeared. Since the unique post ID is common to the entire forum it's hard to detect, and the #x post counter on the right is dynamically generated when the thread is displayed. I did see one post disappear, and then the user re-posted. Here's the details of the new post, which I expect to disappear as well.
http://forums.zonealarm.com/showpost.php?p=283543&postcount=40
Attack command redacted because I'm nice
Whoops, that post's gone, too.
Way to go Checkpoint, with one twitch of your marketing neuron you've alienated your loyal users and enraged the script kiddies.
I can't tell if you're being ironic, sarcastic or trolling.
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Assuming your frame of reference is the USA, then I believe that the recent Autocad ruling is applicable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.
Yep, they've made the decision that there's nothing on the server which they can't afford to lose. Or they're idiots.
They're placing all their trust in the security and vetting standards of their co-lo, from the admins and techs, to clerical staff, plant and maintenance, cleaners, safety inspectors, linoleum layers, electricians, the list goes on. That assumes, of course, that the co-lo has standards and follows them without exception. I don't have the time or resources to audit them.
Our server room is only accessible through the IT office and any non-IT visitor must be accompanied by an IT staff member when inside. All access is by RFID and is logged by the security system. Oh, not all IT staff have access to the server room in the first place. That's just basic security, and quite frankly I'm amazed that anyone would accept anything less.
On the other hand, my personal website, and that of a club's that I also maintain, is with a hosting company on a shares server. I look at this as an acceptable risk, since there's no data on the site which is not publicly accessible anyway. Membership details are NOT public information, and so are NOT kept there.
Woah, you've never heard of Confession? That where you have to go if you do anything they don't like. It's a kind of self-service court system, where you're your own prosecutor and the company's local sales and support manager is the sentencing judge. In the last couple of centuries the lock-in has been relaxed quite a bit in most countries, but before that you were likely to be killed.
Sorry, that was mis-edited. It was meant to say "what the church has interpreted their holy book to have said." See my other post (#30619076) in this thread for the detail.
10 seconds on Google could have found the stories, but I'll do it for you. Behold the power of laziness!
vatican life other planets
The Vatican has constantly denied the existence of extraterrestrial life. Back when the Bible was written, planets were unknown. Earth is the center of creation, the sun and moon are "great lights" and stars were a calendar. When planets were discovered (and they finally admitted they existed), it suited the church to label them lifeless. They had to, as planets weren't mentioned in the Bible and any life out there puts a huge crimp is the "Earth is the center of creation" and "we are His children" self-serving egocentric shtick.
Of course, now that more and more exoplanets are being discovered, the probability of life being inferred on one or more of them through spectroscopy or other means is rising rapidly. So, they're revising their stance and going for a "it might be possible" position.
It's interesting to note that the church placed the Earth at the center of the solar system. There's nothing in the Bible about the orbits of the Sun, Moon and stars around the Earth, but they came up with a pretty good fit with their beliefs which took into account observable evidence. When the telescope and planets came along, they tried banning the new evidence, but eventually had to redefine the solar system with the Earth in it's proper place.
Similarly, the "no life on other planets" stance has had to be changed, but the church has learned from it's history. For quite a few years now, the hard line has been softening and various sections of the church have been pushing an uncommitted view. With no direction from the Bible about planets, though, they're got their job cut out from them. In this day and age, they can't just make stuff up, so they're going to have to do something pretty inventive to explain life on them.
Think as a member of the faith, who lives their life (as best they can) by the word of the creator of the universe. Which is worse, the Creator not knowing about alien life, or keeping it a secret from His chosen people?
What else might he not know about?
What else might he be keeping secret?
From their point of view, you are denying them their beliefs. They believe that drinking beer on a Sunday is a sin. They have the moral responsibility, enforced on them by their religious hierarchy, all the way up to their Creator, who, by the way, created you too, to stop you drinking on Sunday. Responsibility, mind you, not right. Right just gives them the power, which they can choose not to wield, but responsibility forces them to act. They are bound to stop you, and any one assisting you in the consumption of beer along the chain of supply, otherwise they are allowing you all to sin in violation of your Creator's Will, and they themselves are entirely complicit in the sin.
This is why most people pay only lip service to their religions, and the ones who truly try to act faithfully are insane, in jail or dead.
This is also why it's useless to argue any points of religion. Any follower of a faith who is outspoken enough to debate will be impossible to reason with. Because they have faith. Faith trumps all. Logic, scientific evidence, physical the-tears-on-that-Madonna-statue-are-vegetable-oil evidence, common sense, anything. They know they are right, they have faith in their beliefs, and nothing you can say or do can change that.
Medicine men, shamans, priests, they have all had thousands of years to build on their predecessors techniques and psychology. They have an answer for everything, an excuse for anything. As society became more sophisticated and murdering someone to bring back Spring got a little dicey, they formed larger structures, took responsibility for reading and writing(handy, that), rewrote their holy books with more sophistication, and redefined and retranslated as necessary to keep up with progress.
The latest one I've heard is the Vatican suggesting that life on other planets in the universe may be possible. That's directly opposite what their holy book has said for a couple of thousand years, but a bit of "oh, it's always said that, you were just misinterpreting the meaning" and it's done.