You can always use an 8-bit database charset and then use nchar or nclob columns when you want UTF-32 or UTF-16 support. So then your web-app or whatever has to be consciencious where non-ASCII is allowed so it gets converted/stored properly. Then it's only wasteful if the majority of the database content is localized/user submitted latin text. But uh, the case they were going on about concerned far-east locales where multi-byte is a must so I don't think you'd have much issue using a fixed-width encoding if that's your audience.
Oracle and MySQL suffer from similar vulnerabilites when going UTF8 -> database charset. The "answer" in Oracle is to use UTF-16 on the backend and a select 8/16-bit encoding in the front end if you want to support multiple locales. I'm not sure what the implications are for MySQL.
Create a secondary user, call it, I don't know, Granny2.
Give this user permissions to do whatever it is that the unprivledged account can't deal with (modifying its own Program Files directory, whatever). Make it have no password and deny interactive logon, but allow batch logon.
Now, using "su" from sysinternals, create a shortcut that runs su with the options to log on as "Granny2" using a "batch" logon, and have it run the nasty application.
Here's the key. PUT THE LINK IN HER PERSONAL START MENU/DESKTOP. Not in the All Users desktop. These are special shortcuts for this ONE USER.
To complete the tour de force, go into the registry under the Granny2 user find: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Change Personal, Desktop, etc. to MIMIC the Granny user. Then give Granny2 R/W privs on the Granny profile.
Boom! Smooth, seamless access to all misbehaving apps. I did this to get Turbotax and Quicken to run on a family PC under multiple accounts with unprivledge users who know nothing about technology or to remember passwords. Worked like a charm.
1) Don't use Winamp. Use foobar2000. Works properly with multiple/non-privledged users... plugins for everything under the sun.
2) There are other programs besides the Logitech tool that can take pictures with your camera. Try any other PTP supporting application (like the Windows XP Camera wizard). In general bundled software that comes with any hardware is likely to be crap... not just Logitechs'.
The nForce 2200/2050 MCP is a much better part than the nForce 4/SLI. Its my favorite system baseline for new servers. I love being able to have dedicated PCIe 4x lanes on each HT link and such. In that configuration there aren't many drivers to speak of that you need. forcedeth works fine for networking, it even supports much of the TCP offload capabilities...
An even better mix is the AMD 8131 + nForce 2050. That gives you PCI-X AND PCIe, dedicated. It's my favorite server platform.
You apparently don't deal with competent people for your 1U/workstation needs. * Supermicro * Monarch * Polywell * PenguinComputing * eRacks * ASA
Take your pick. All of these 'whitebox' vendors release quality, SUPPORTED configurations using custom, bleeding-edge hardware for build-it-yourself prices.
That's too bad. Speaking from the viewpoint of a consumer of Wikipedia, I find it to be a very useful resource and I'm amazed its come as far as it has already.
Yeah, actually I don't think any small user community (nor private community) needs MediaWiki at all. It only exists to handle the absolute worst-possible case scenario of a wiki...;)
Twiki is more inclined to be branded and wrangled into "shape". Something that fits your business needs. (Unless you need an encyclopedia-type site, in which case MediaWiki is for you)
Hey dipshit. Read the parent comment again.
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He complained about taking the Lord's name in VANE. What the fuck does that have to do with "in the same vein"? I was making fun of his spelling.
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...unless you spell a shade better than them. s/vane/VAIN/
I'm always taking the Lord's name in VANE. I'm constantly printing it on banners and attaching them to weathercocks. Sometimes I also take it in VEIN -- injecting it into my bloodstream or engraving into seams of gems in ore. SERIOUSLY!!!
So the homing beacon is definitely NOT the issue. It's a political power play and a hat-tip towards the buy-American crowd. (Never mind that nearly all electronics are currently manufactured in the far east anyway)
Classified PCs have to stay in classified-approved facilities, disconnected from public networks like the Internet. Often such facilities are RF-shielded and checked for rogue transmitters. What exactly will the embedded code do, in that case?
Keep in mind that the State Dept. is not allowing the use of Lenovo equipment for Classified work. One thing to remember is that classified work only happens in environments with an air gap between the system and the unclass internet/POTS. So there's no amount of phone-homing that the equipment could do to steal any state secrets quietly. At best it could randomly corrupt data or otherwise interrupt operations. Of course, if that started happening, malicious or not the agency using the equipment would move on to a more reliable vendor, naturally.
There is an easy solution. ONLY USE CENTRINO. If it has Intel PRO wireless as an option then get it. For an extra $20 you guarantee your ability to surf 802.11a/b/g with open source drivers. Only "hitch" is that getting WPA to work in Linux requires WPA supplicant and that isn't very well integrated into any distros that I have seen so far. Requires a little guru knowledge but works after the initial setup hardship.
... that they will introduce motherboards based on the new "C-C-C-Combo Breaker 105 hits" technique: AMD 8131 PCI-X tunnel + NVidia 2200 MCP (and either a 2050 MCP or some Winbond BS) This lets you leverage 4-way with PCI-X hanging off one socket's HT with PCIe and GIG-e hanging off the other.
On their uber big 4U systems they'll do the 8151 + 8131 deal w/o NVidia cuz "we don't need no PCIe".
And ServerWorks? I hope Dell knows to stay well enough away.
... to share among all 32 threads. And forget about multimedia instructions from the V9 instruction set.
It works if your loads are cache-friendly (and thus memory friendly), and very seldom use any advanced instructions. (That means you're going to want a crypto offload card too...) Basically it's good for running your web head ends... and maybe a terminal server. Or as an advanced routing platform. Maybe you'd consolidate and run all your LDAP repositories out of it. But its not a good choice for computational loads, virtualizing machines, or processing large data sets.
...but make sure to configure it with two 265HEs and you will be IN BUSINESS. 4-way 1.8GHz that will keep the temps low and the fan noise to a dull roar.
The "problem", if you will, is that no distribution comes with a Sun standard JVM. Why? Not allowed to distribute it. Licensing issues.
That is unacceptable. If Sun can just change the license a little then Red Hat, Novell, FreeBSD ports... they would be HAPPY to build, maintain, and bundle JVMs and JREs for Sun for all their supported platforms and have it installed by default.
Instead we have to do stupid shit like the jpackage-sun-jre SRPM which essentially downloads a file from the Sun website, makes you look at a EULA, expands it, and repackages it as a binary RPM. Utter useless horseshit. Projects like blackdown java and jpackage (which exist primarily as technological measures to circumvent/handle issues due to Sun's licensing) are proof that there's something wrong with the One True Release model that Sun has been pushing.
The ramblings of a few OSS advocates who have never coded a bit of java in their lives is not the issue here. That's just noise that distracts from the real issues. In fact, the only reason why they rant is because they look at their Fedora box and say: "Hey, where's the java package?" They go on the forum and ask, "WTF?". The response they get back is "Lol Sun suxors java isn't open sauce looool". Which isn't really true, its just Sun is being assisine about groups like Fedora distributing it.
It's everyone else who hates having to jump through hoops to standardize on java on whatever platform they want to play with who are complaining. Sun is finally listening to them. Hopefully someday soon my RHEL 5.0 extras CD will come with official Sun RPMS and SRPMS for all my platforms. One can dream.
Basically the problem was that you had a lot of military strategists and polsci Phds hanging around the Pentagon and its associated think tanks who had worked up a whole plan to overthrow Iraq and instill democracy in the aftermath of Desert Storm -- plans that were subsequently shelved.
Of course these gents got promoted but their brain children never saw the light of day.
So when tenous links between Al'Queda and Iraq were investigated... they honed in on these and attempted to find any and all supporting evidence so they could convince the Joint Chiefs that a re-entry into Iraq was necessary on the coattails of the War on Terror. They wanted to dust off their old strategy documents and get to play their hand that they'd been sitting patiently on for 10 years.
So whenever the CIA would say: hey, well we don't really think they have as many WMDs as this ex-patriot scientist says they do, the Pentagon stragists would just ignore that and anything else that didn't further their case.
And when the got everyone convinced, well, it was too late for anyone to say they should have shopped around for a second opinion. You don't blame your corner men because it reflects badly on you... until you retire (i.e. Powell) and then you can badmouth the whole lot of 'em. Cause hey, you got your pension.
Whoever told you this is probably omitting a lot of the story.
Creative is not, and never has been, a contract manufacturer. Apple would want its name and branding on the product and Creative doesn't do that. They, like Apple, hire other companies to put their name on things.
What might have happened is that Apple approached Creative to create some kind of strategic partership where Apple has a say in the fit, finish, firmware, etc. whereas Creative handles the fiddly details: picks the platform, HD vendors, etc. This would allow Apple to also leverage Creative's supply chain and Creative might be able to find new retail channels for its related products.
Also take into consideration that it was no secret that Apple was shopping around looking for a media portable platform and they weren't going to pull another Newton. The Creative pres might have already felt that his chain was being jerked around and wasn't feeling particularly friendly or enthused by the thought of such a relationship, hence his snippy response.
There is no such thing "slowly heat stressing the chip and reducing its total life expectancy". All the chips from a generation have the same heat tolerances. The "more expensive" version of the same model clocked at a higher speed will wear out no faster than the lower clocked chip clocked at the equivalent speed. As a matter of fact, there is no wearing out to be had. Have you EVER had a chip that just stopped working? I've never seen it (AMD or Intel) and I still have a TBird 1333 and a Pentium 90 (overclocked to 180). You can, of course, set them on fire. But that's if you used insufficient cooling to begin with.
No, the only distinction is whether or not a particular chip can function at certain speed or if a manufacturing defect causes it to only work at a lower speed.
Since the manufacturer can't test every chip to determine its highest stable speed, and sell it as such, they simply pick a random sample, test them at a very high speed, and box up at that speed the ones that pass their tests. This leaves a very large portion of the lower clocked models with the potential to go much faster. Intel and AMD do not strive for low chip yields to segment the market so you stand a very good chance of getting more than you bargained for. This chance exponetially increases when you pick models that have high bus speeds but low multipliers since they are usually the most tolerant versions of each stepping.
Any processor over 2.6 with a 800 mhz FSB is going to run you $200 and up.
It is foolish to spend that amount of money on a processor for home use unless you are getting additional cache. Out-of-the-box marginal clock rate increases are a useless markup used to recouperate costs by processor vendors. Don't get suckered into that.
Pick the lowest multiplier chip on the fastest FSB you can afford. Then overclock the system bus a bit. You will achieve enthuisast performance for a fair price. (Plus you can always drop the system bus down for watching movies with a near-silent PC instead)
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You can always use an 8-bit database charset and then use nchar or nclob columns when you want UTF-32 or UTF-16 support. So then your web-app or whatever has to be consciencious where non-ASCII is allowed so it gets converted/stored properly. Then it's only wasteful if the majority of the database content is localized/user submitted latin text. But uh, the case they were going on about concerned far-east locales where multi-byte is a must so I don't think you'd have much issue using a fixed-width encoding if that's your audience.
Oracle and MySQL suffer from similar vulnerabilites when going UTF8 -> database charset. The "answer" in Oracle is to use UTF-16 on the backend and a select 8/16-bit encoding in the front end if you want to support multiple locales. I'm not sure what the implications are for MySQL.
Create a secondary user, call it, I don't know, Granny2.
e ntVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Give this user permissions to do whatever it is that the unprivledged account can't deal with (modifying its own Program Files directory, whatever). Make it have no password and deny interactive logon, but allow batch logon.
Now, using "su" from sysinternals, create a shortcut that runs su with the options to log on as "Granny2" using a "batch" logon, and have it run the nasty application.
Here's the key. PUT THE LINK IN HER PERSONAL START MENU/DESKTOP. Not in the All Users desktop. These are special shortcuts for this ONE USER.
To complete the tour de force, go into the registry under the Granny2 user find:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr
Change Personal, Desktop, etc. to MIMIC the Granny user. Then give Granny2 R/W privs on the Granny profile.
Boom! Smooth, seamless access to all misbehaving apps. I did this to get Turbotax and Quicken to run on a family PC under multiple accounts with unprivledge users who know nothing about technology or to remember passwords.
Worked like a charm.
1) Don't use Winamp. Use foobar2000. Works properly with multiple/non-privledged users... plugins for everything under the sun.
2) There are other programs besides the Logitech tool that can take pictures with your camera. Try any other PTP supporting application (like the Windows XP Camera wizard). In general bundled software that comes with any hardware is likely to be crap... not just Logitechs'.
The nForce 2200/2050 MCP is a much better part than the nForce 4/SLI. Its my favorite system baseline for new servers. I love being able to have dedicated PCIe 4x lanes on each HT link and such. In that configuration there aren't many drivers to speak of that you need. forcedeth works fine for networking, it even supports much of the TCP offload capabilities...
An even better mix is the AMD 8131 + nForce 2050. That gives you PCI-X AND PCIe, dedicated. It's my favorite server platform.
You apparently don't deal with competent people for your 1U/workstation needs.
* Supermicro
* Monarch
* Polywell
* PenguinComputing
* eRacks
* ASA
Take your pick. All of these 'whitebox' vendors release quality, SUPPORTED configurations using custom, bleeding-edge hardware for build-it-yourself prices.
Hmmm...
;)
That's too bad. Speaking from the viewpoint of a consumer of Wikipedia, I find it to be a very useful resource and I'm amazed its come as far as it has already.
Yeah, actually I don't think any small user community (nor private community) needs MediaWiki at all. It only exists to handle the absolute worst-possible case scenario of a wiki...
Twiki is more inclined to be branded and wrangled into "shape". Something that fits your business needs. (Unless you need an encyclopedia-type site, in which case MediaWiki is for you)
He complained about taking the Lord's name in VANE.
What the fuck does that have to do with "in the same vein"?
I was making fun of his spelling.
http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comics/strips/2006051 2.gif
...unless you spell a shade better than them.
s/vane/VAIN/
I'm always taking the Lord's name in VANE.
I'm constantly printing it on banners and attaching them to weathercocks.
Sometimes I also take it in VEIN -- injecting it into my bloodstream or engraving into seams of gems in ore. SERIOUSLY!!!
Yeah... uh. No.
... 1 opcode, 1 immediate (auto-zero-extend) ... 1 opcode, 1 reg/rm, 4 immediate
... 1 opcode, 1 imm ... 1 opcode, 1 reg/rm, 8 imm
:-/
32-bit:
mov 9,eax #2 bytes
add 6,eax #6 bytes
64-bit
mov 9,rax #2 bytes
add 6,rax #10 bytes
So the immediates doubled in size. Big deal. You could just use the 8-bit form into rbx and then add...
Improved:
mov 9,rax #2 bytes
mov 6,rbx #2 bytes
add rbx,rax #1 byte
So the homing beacon is definitely NOT the issue. It's a political power play and a hat-tip towards the buy-American crowd. (Never mind that nearly all electronics are currently manufactured in the far east anyway)
Classified PCs have to stay in classified-approved facilities, disconnected from public networks like the Internet. Often such facilities are RF-shielded and checked for rogue transmitters.
What exactly will the embedded code do, in that case?
Keep in mind that the State Dept. is not allowing the use of Lenovo equipment for Classified work.
One thing to remember is that classified work only happens in environments with an air gap between the system and the unclass internet/POTS.
So there's no amount of phone-homing that the equipment could do to steal any state secrets quietly. At best it could randomly corrupt data or otherwise interrupt operations. Of course, if that started happening, malicious or not the agency using the equipment would move on to a more reliable vendor, naturally.
There is an easy solution. ONLY USE CENTRINO. If it has Intel PRO wireless as an option then get it. For an extra $20 you guarantee your ability to surf 802.11a/b/g with open source drivers.
Only "hitch" is that getting WPA to work in Linux requires WPA supplicant and that isn't very well integrated into any distros that I have seen so far. Requires a little guru knowledge but works after the initial setup hardship.
... that they will introduce motherboards based on the new "C-C-C-Combo Breaker 105 hits" technique:
AMD 8131 PCI-X tunnel + NVidia 2200 MCP (and either a 2050 MCP or some Winbond BS)
This lets you leverage 4-way with PCI-X hanging off one socket's HT with PCIe and GIG-e hanging off the other.
On their uber big 4U systems they'll do the 8151 + 8131 deal w/o NVidia cuz "we don't need no PCIe".
And ServerWorks? I hope Dell knows to stay well enough away.
... to share among all 32 threads. And forget about multimedia instructions from the V9 instruction set.
It works if your loads are cache-friendly (and thus memory friendly), and very seldom use any advanced instructions. (That means you're going to want a crypto offload card too...)
Basically it's good for running your web head ends... and maybe a terminal server. Or as an advanced routing platform. Maybe you'd consolidate and run all your LDAP repositories out of it. But its not a good choice for computational loads, virtualizing machines, or processing large data sets.
Linux on Sun boxes also calls their disks sda, sdb, hda, hdb, etc. /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZsQ galore.
Conversly, Solaris 10 on opteron ==
...but make sure to configure it with two 265HEs and you will be IN BUSINESS. 4-way 1.8GHz that will keep the temps low and the fan noise to a dull roar.
The "problem", if you will, is that no distribution comes with a Sun standard JVM. Why? Not allowed to distribute it. Licensing issues.
... they would be HAPPY to build, maintain, and bundle JVMs and JREs for Sun for all their supported platforms and have it installed by default.
That is unacceptable. If Sun can just change the license a little then Red Hat, Novell, FreeBSD ports
Instead we have to do stupid shit like the jpackage-sun-jre SRPM which essentially downloads a file from the Sun website, makes you look at a EULA, expands it, and repackages it as a binary RPM. Utter useless horseshit. Projects like blackdown java and jpackage (which exist primarily as technological measures to circumvent/handle issues due to Sun's licensing) are proof that there's something wrong with the One True Release model that Sun has been pushing.
The ramblings of a few OSS advocates who have never coded a bit of java in their lives is not the issue here. That's just noise that distracts from the real issues.
In fact, the only reason why they rant is because they look at their Fedora box and say: "Hey, where's the java package?" They go on the forum and ask, "WTF?". The response they get back is "Lol Sun suxors java isn't open sauce looool". Which isn't really true, its just Sun is being assisine about groups like Fedora distributing it.
It's everyone else who hates having to jump through hoops to standardize on java on whatever platform they want to play with who are complaining. Sun is finally listening to them. Hopefully someday soon my RHEL 5.0 extras CD will come with official Sun RPMS and SRPMS for all my platforms. One can dream.
Basically the problem was that you had a lot of military strategists and polsci Phds hanging around the Pentagon and its associated think tanks who had worked up a whole plan to overthrow Iraq and instill democracy in the aftermath of Desert Storm -- plans that were subsequently shelved.
Of course these gents got promoted but their brain children never saw the light of day.
So when tenous links between Al'Queda and Iraq were investigated... they honed in on these and attempted to find any and all supporting evidence so they could convince the Joint Chiefs that a re-entry into Iraq was necessary on the coattails of the War on Terror. They wanted to dust off their old strategy documents and get to play their hand that they'd been sitting patiently on for 10 years.
So whenever the CIA would say: hey, well we don't really think they have as many WMDs as this ex-patriot scientist says they do, the Pentagon stragists would just ignore that and anything else that didn't further their case.
And when the got everyone convinced, well, it was too late for anyone to say they should have shopped around for a second opinion. You don't blame your corner men because it reflects badly on you... until you retire (i.e. Powell) and then you can badmouth the whole lot of 'em. Cause hey, you got your pension.
Whoever told you this is probably omitting a lot of the story.
Creative is not, and never has been, a contract manufacturer. Apple would want its name and branding on the product and Creative doesn't do that. They, like Apple, hire other companies to put their name on things.
What might have happened is that Apple approached Creative to create some kind of strategic partership where Apple has a say in the fit, finish, firmware, etc. whereas Creative handles the fiddly details: picks the platform, HD vendors, etc. This would allow Apple to also leverage Creative's supply chain and Creative might be able to find new retail channels for its related products.
Also take into consideration that it was no secret that Apple was shopping around looking for a media portable platform and they weren't going to pull another Newton. The Creative pres might have already felt that his chain was being jerked around and wasn't feeling particularly friendly or enthused by the thought of such a relationship, hence his snippy response.
There is no such thing "slowly heat stressing the chip and reducing its total life expectancy". All the chips from a generation have the same heat tolerances. The "more expensive" version of the same model clocked at a higher speed will wear out no faster than the lower clocked chip clocked at the equivalent speed. As a matter of fact, there is no wearing out to be had. Have you EVER had a chip that just stopped working? I've never seen it (AMD or Intel) and I still have a TBird 1333 and a Pentium 90 (overclocked to 180). You can, of course, set them on fire. But that's if you used insufficient cooling to begin with.
No, the only distinction is whether or not a particular chip can function at certain speed or if a manufacturing defect causes it to only work at a lower speed.
Since the manufacturer can't test every chip to determine its highest stable speed, and sell it as such, they simply pick a random sample, test them at a very high speed, and box up at that speed the ones that pass their tests. This leaves a very large portion of the lower clocked models with the potential to go much faster. Intel and AMD do not strive for low chip yields to segment the market so you stand a very good chance of getting more than you bargained for. This chance exponetially increases when you pick models that have high bus speeds but low multipliers since they are usually the most tolerant versions of each stepping.
Any processor over 2.6 with a 800 mhz FSB is going to run you $200 and up .
It is foolish to spend that amount of money on a processor for home use unless you are getting additional cache. Out-of-the-box marginal clock rate increases are a useless markup used to recouperate costs by processor vendors. Don't get suckered into that.
Pick the lowest multiplier chip on the fastest FSB you can afford. Then overclock the system bus a bit. You will achieve enthuisast performance for a fair price. (Plus you can always drop the system bus down for watching movies with a near-silent PC instead)