Catch is, USB drives are way slower than hard drives. As in, 2-3 orders of magnitude slower. It could be that the USB is a bigger bottleneck than the encryption.
True. But my tests shows that I am able to pull around 170 MB/s in TrueCrypt benchmark, so the disk will always be the bottleneck.
When developing and testing virtual computers, USB speed is fine.
That is interesting - if the overhead was really 1%, then why even bother with optimizations for multi cores?
Why not use the other cores when they are there?:)
My Dualcore T9500 benchmarks at around 170 MB/s with 10 MB test data with TrueCrypt 6 and some programs running. That is both encryption and decryption. Encryption a little faster.
TrueCrypt claim a 1% overhead. With multi-processor machines, I doubt that's even accurate anymore.
Yeah - with version 6 of TrueCrypt, they introduced support for multiple cores, with almost double speed on a dual core system over a single cores system.
I use a TrueCrypt encrypted USB disk to store and run VMWare virtual machines and I see no difference in speed over using a non-encrypted USB disk (same model).
Here in Denmark, we have a system called "Betalings service" (Payment service). It's a system created by the banks to automate your bills.
I think its very reliable and I have yet to experience an error. It makes sure that the bills (the monthly bills I have added to the system) gets paid on time. It also gives the companies that use the system option to put money back into an account.
Once a month I get a statement that shows me what bills are going to be paid. These informations are pulled into my online bank, so I can see all stuff (loan payback etc.) going out of my account and I can always stop one payment or remove it from the automatic system via the online bank.
Like Bazman tells about in the UK, many companies gives you a rebate if you use the system.
Fake or not?
This looks like a good rant e-mail. You put yourself in the users place and try to do a user task - just like downloading Moviemaker.
Then you write about your experience like you are the user, with all the users frustrations and emotions.
And yet, somehow parking accidents still happens. You are saying that looking out of the windows in your car, using the mirrors og moving your head around gives you a PERFECT view around your car? You can see ojbects that are 40 cm in hight, one or two meter behind your car, though your rear window?
Then I have two questions:
Are you Superman? (can see though your trunk)
What car are you driving? (rear window that gives you the ability to see the ground withing one meter behind your car)
Because you are good at parking (your) car, doesn't mean that everybody is / can be as good. If everybody where so perfect, we could all just skip the seatbelt, because we wouldn't crash into things.
I have a parking sensor in my car and I like it allot. I could park my car without it, but it just makes it easier, because I dare to get closer to the car behind me, while doing a parallel parking. The Nissan system would make it even easier.
I have seen this about 10 times now.. the music definitely adds allot to the visuals.
My guess is that many of the passengers got scared of the crew, when the whole thing starts!
But true - this is under ideal conditions and there is no way that this could be achieved in a real life situation. I would be amazed to see this get pulled off in the only double the time, with real passengers.
At Linux Forum 2007 in Denmark, some guy (sorry, I'm really bad with names) talked about the phone and he wanted suggestions on what kind of applications You wanted. Like, how could You use the GPS function in "different" scenarios than normal GPS devices are used for. Some posted a comment in here, suggesting that the phone went into silence mode, when entering a cinema.
Again, my bad memory haunts me, but one of the cool apps would be a location-based calender: When You arrive at Your parents house, You will be reminded to pickup that bag of Your old gismos - or at the (or just near a random one) supermarket, You will get a reminder about buying duct-tape.:-)
The cool part of all this is that You can write Your own programs and take advantage of the GPS and what ever feature of the phone You want to, because the phone is almost completely open - they even have instructions on how to open it physically! By "almost", I mean that the "thing" that makes the calls aren't open (can't remember the details on that), so You can only send AT-commands at it. To keep it as open as they can, the maps in the GPS navigation will be based on http://www.openstreetmap.org/. Again, one of the things they wanted to do also, was masking a application that would record Your movement, so it could be uploaded to the OpenStreetMap project to draw in unknown/new roads.
I must admit that I'm looking forward to this phone - but I'm not planning to buy one just yet.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on anything of the above - I have been drinking allot since Linux Forum...;-)
But then You cheat the next user in line, because not only did You take the "free" gas from the previous user, but You are also taking the next users "free" gas.
Maybe 8 or 9 years ago at work, we did this at work. Another company paid us to clean their keyboards and they would give them to us in moving-boxes. I don't recall how many, but it was something like 200 keyboards. We used our dishwasher to do 8-10 keyboards at a time. They where very clean when they got out and I think we killed 3-5% of the keyboards. Well, they might already have been dead before we washed them.
We gave each keyboard a week or so to dry up, before we tested them and send them back.
Just when we got the job to clean the keyboards, we washed them manually (not taking them apart) but we got the idea to use the dishwasher and the results was much better than we could do it.
These where the old school IBM clicking keyboards.
Agree. And another thing is the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity that have lasted more than 10 times than NASA expected. Let us see how long the ISRO robot will last. I do hope it will last very long. And if possible, take some pictures of one of the Apollo mission sites.
Or you could just buy the license online and use that with your next Windows installation, with your existing Windows CD.* Plus, Windows have a much longer release cycle, so you can use the same CD all the time - not like many Linux distributions, where you have to download and burn yet another version.:-)
* This probably requires some kind of an agreement to use, but it's available.
Not tested, but for Windows, the commandline way:
Start -> Run -> runas/user:%computername%\administrator "echo \"66.35.250.150 \.\" >> %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"
Yes, but certain keys work with certain CDs. They unfortunately arent interchangeable. One PC I have wouldnt reboot after using the auto-upgrade feature to download SP2. So I got a SP2 CD, but it didnt like my old (legal) CD key. So I found a working key on the web, now I got that damn Windows Genuine Advantage thing popping up.
What are you supposed to do? Call Microsoft. I have done that 3 times with your example above and I got Windows "authenticated" and WGA was happy again. It took 3-5 minutes per call because of codes I need to give the machine and wait for it to repeat it back to me, talk to a Microsoft guy, explaining that I had to reinstall with a different Windows CD and then receive the code to reauthenticate Windows.
I know - I have had my apartment for 3 months now and still have only done 25% of the work that has to be done. I have just been busy writing anti-DRM comments.:-)
The "whole DRM issue" is quite simple. It makes the life of the ones that buy their music online, more difficult. Why should I do allot of extra work to get my legal music to work like I want to on all of my players?
Sure, I could follow the stream, and just buy myself an iPod and crazy-download allot of DRM protected stuff. But if I ever wanted to change my iPod for the music player in my phone, I cannot, unless it's some iTunes-enabled-phone. I'm not planing on buying a iTunes phone and thats not because it has anything to do with iTunes or Apple.
I mean really - tell me you'd spend $200 a month if you could get the stuff for free The problem is - I can get it for free now! Alot of my friends have no problems with sharing music and movies with each other. You only hav to logon to the different sharing networks and find music and movies there. But I want to pay for the music and DRM makes it more difficult to use after I buy it (like now, where I order regular CDs online and rip them. My choice). If you are a pirate, you can download allot of music for free (as in speech and beer) right now.
According to Apple, 3% of the music on the iPods are DRM protected. That means removing DRM could cause them to loose 3% of the marked to pirates? No, of cause not. People will still buy music - they will just be more free (as in speech, not beer). Of the other 97%, not all of it is illegal. Many people have large CD collections and somehow they manage to use the music without DRM, without breaking the copyright. You put it like: "Non-DRM music will be copied allot". Two problems with that. 1) I have learned through the comments in here, that there are ways arround DRM and therefore makes the DRM useless and makes it possible to copy the music anyway. 2) Much of the music is already out there to be downloaded illegal / for free. DRM will not stop piracy.
Furthermore, buying an iPod will make me able to play music from the iTunes store. But what if I want to buy some music from another store? I can buy the music, but not transfer it to my iPod! Then I will need two musicplayers...? I would rather have one device in my pocket: My Phone, with the ability to play all music from all stores.
Conclusion: DRM removes freedom from / makes it more diffucult for paying customers. Pirates are NOT affected.
What the hell. Screw them. I probably already broken their copyright by ripping the CD's, just like removing the DRM from you paid music probably also make you break the copyright.
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And did I mention it installs from a single CD?
Just like Windows and see what that brought us!
Catch is, USB drives are way slower than hard drives. As in, 2-3 orders of magnitude slower. It could be that the USB is a bigger bottleneck than the encryption.
True. But my tests shows that I am able to pull around 170 MB/s in TrueCrypt benchmark, so the disk will always be the bottleneck.
When developing and testing virtual computers, USB speed is fine.
That is interesting - if the overhead was really 1%, then why even bother with optimizations for multi cores?
Why not use the other cores when they are there? :)
My Dualcore T9500 benchmarks at around 170 MB/s with 10 MB test data with TrueCrypt 6 and some programs running. That is both encryption and decryption. Encryption a little faster.
TrueCrypt claim a 1% overhead. With multi-processor machines, I doubt that's even accurate anymore.
Yeah - with version 6 of TrueCrypt, they introduced support for multiple cores, with almost double speed on a dual core system over a single cores system.
I use a TrueCrypt encrypted USB disk to store and run VMWare virtual machines and I see no difference in speed over using a non-encrypted USB disk (same model).
I have no applications installed. Installing ONE removes your opt-out.
What do you mean? Removes opt-out from what?
Here in Denmark, we have a system called "Betalings service" (Payment service). It's a system created by the banks to automate your bills. I think its very reliable and I have yet to experience an error. It makes sure that the bills (the monthly bills I have added to the system) gets paid on time. It also gives the companies that use the system option to put money back into an account. Once a month I get a statement that shows me what bills are going to be paid. These informations are pulled into my online bank, so I can see all stuff (loan payback etc.) going out of my account and I can always stop one payment or remove it from the automatic system via the online bank.
:)
Like Bazman tells about in the UK, many companies gives you a rebate if you use the system.
I love the system.
I also just thought about curbs. How do the Segway handle these? How big can the curbs be?
I would like it to have larger wheels!
I mean, I don't have to take a very big bump in the road to fall with these.
I have had my gmail for almost four years now .. :)
Fake or not? This looks like a good rant e-mail. You put yourself in the users place and try to do a user task - just like downloading Moviemaker. Then you write about your experience like you are the user, with all the users frustrations and emotions.
And yet, somehow parking accidents still happens. You are saying that looking out of the windows in your car, using the mirrors og moving your head around gives you a PERFECT view around your car? You can see ojbects that are 40 cm in hight, one or two meter behind your car, though your rear window?
Then I have two questions:
Are you Superman? (can see though your trunk)
What car are you driving? (rear window that gives you the ability to see the ground withing one meter behind your car)
Because you are good at parking (your) car, doesn't mean that everybody is / can be as good. If everybody where so perfect, we could all just skip the seatbelt, because we wouldn't crash into things.
I have a parking sensor in my car and I like it allot. I could park my car without it, but it just makes it easier, because I dare to get closer to the car behind me, while doing a parallel parking. The Nissan system would make it even easier.
I have seen this about 10 times now .. the music definitely adds allot to the visuals.
My guess is that many of the passengers got scared of the crew, when the whole thing starts!
But true - this is under ideal conditions and there is no way that this could be achieved in a real life situation. I would be amazed to see this get pulled off in the only double the time, with real passengers.
At Linux Forum 2007 in Denmark, some guy (sorry, I'm really bad with names) talked about the phone and he wanted suggestions on what kind of applications You wanted. Like, how could You use the GPS function in "different" scenarios than normal GPS devices are used for. Some posted a comment in here, suggesting that the phone went into silence mode, when entering a cinema.
:-)
;-)
Again, my bad memory haunts me, but one of the cool apps would be a location-based calender: When You arrive at Your parents house, You will be reminded to pickup that bag of Your old gismos - or at the (or just near a random one) supermarket, You will get a reminder about buying duct-tape.
The cool part of all this is that You can write Your own programs and take advantage of the GPS and what ever feature of the phone You want to, because the phone is almost completely open - they even have instructions on how to open it physically! By "almost", I mean that the "thing" that makes the calls aren't open (can't remember the details on that), so You can only send AT-commands at it. To keep it as open as they can, the maps in the GPS navigation will be based on http://www.openstreetmap.org/. Again, one of the things they wanted to do also, was masking a application that would record Your movement, so it could be uploaded to the OpenStreetMap project to draw in unknown/new roads.
I must admit that I'm looking forward to this phone - but I'm not planning to buy one just yet.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on anything of the above - I have been drinking allot since Linux Forum...
But then You cheat the next user in line, because not only did You take the "free" gas from the previous user, but You are also taking the next users "free" gas.
Maybe 8 or 9 years ago at work, we did this at work. Another company paid us to clean their keyboards and they would give them to us in moving-boxes. I don't recall how many, but it was something like 200 keyboards. We used our dishwasher to do 8-10 keyboards at a time. They where very clean when they got out and I think we killed 3-5% of the keyboards. Well, they might already have been dead before we washed them. We gave each keyboard a week or so to dry up, before we tested them and send them back. Just when we got the job to clean the keyboards, we washed them manually (not taking them apart) but we got the idea to use the dishwasher and the results was much better than we could do it. These where the old school IBM clicking keyboards.
Agree. And another thing is the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity that have lasted more than 10 times than NASA expected. Let us see how long the ISRO robot will last. I do hope it will last very long. And if possible, take some pictures of one of the Apollo mission sites.
Or you could just buy the license online and use that with your next Windows installation, with your existing Windows CD.* Plus, Windows have a much longer release cycle, so you can use the same CD all the time - not like many Linux distributions, where you have to download and burn yet another version. :-)
* This probably requires some kind of an agreement to use, but it's available.
Not tested, but for Windows, the commandline way: /user:%computername%\administrator "echo \"66.35.250.150 \.\" >> %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"
:-)
Start -> Run -> runas
While I press Alt-D, I move my mouse hand to the keyboard, unless I'm already there (I try to navigate using the keyboard instead of the mouse).
What are you supposed to do? Call Microsoft. I have done that 3 times with your example above and I got Windows "authenticated" and WGA was happy again. It took 3-5 minutes per call because of codes I need to give the machine and wait for it to repeat it back to me, talk to a Microsoft guy, explaining that I had to reinstall with a different Windows CD and then receive the code to reauthenticate Windows.
I know - I have had my apartment for 3 months now and still have only done 25% of the work that has to be done. I have just been busy writing anti-DRM comments. :-)
Sure, I could follow the stream, and just buy myself an iPod and crazy-download allot of DRM protected stuff. But if I ever wanted to change my iPod for the music player in my phone, I cannot, unless it's some iTunes-enabled-phone. I'm not planing on buying a iTunes phone and thats not because it has anything to do with iTunes or Apple. I mean really - tell me you'd spend $200 a month if you could get the stuff for free The problem is - I can get it for free now! Alot of my friends have no problems with sharing music and movies with each other. You only hav to logon to the different sharing networks and find music and movies there. But I want to pay for the music and DRM makes it more difficult to use after I buy it (like now, where I order regular CDs online and rip them. My choice). If you are a pirate, you can download allot of music for free (as in speech and beer) right now.
According to Apple, 3% of the music on the iPods are DRM protected. That means removing DRM could cause them to loose 3% of the marked to pirates? No, of cause not. People will still buy music - they will just be more free (as in speech, not beer). Of the other 97%, not all of it is illegal. Many people have large CD collections and somehow they manage to use the music without DRM, without breaking the copyright. You put it like: "Non-DRM music will be copied allot". Two problems with that. 1) I have learned through the comments in here, that there are ways arround DRM and therefore makes the DRM useless and makes it possible to copy the music anyway. 2) Much of the music is already out there to be downloaded illegal / for free. DRM will not stop piracy.
Furthermore, buying an iPod will make me able to play music from the iTunes store. But what if I want to buy some music from another store? I can buy the music, but not transfer it to my iPod! Then I will need two musicplayers...? I would rather have one device in my pocket: My Phone, with the ability to play all music from all stores.
Conclusion: DRM removes freedom from / makes it more diffucult for paying customers. Pirates are NOT affected.
What the hell. Screw them. I probably already broken their copyright by ripping the CD's, just like removing the DRM from you paid music probably also make you break the copyright.
No, it's not piracy, but it's not easier than to be a pirate. That's what I wanted to say.
Too much work... why should it be easier to be a pirate than to be a honest man?
They can have my money, when they remove the DRM.