I'm trying to run Ubunu on a VIA epia for some time now, but their graphics solution is as unstable as hell. There is either the binary driver from VIA itself, or the OS one, but both are not quite what you would expect. Now the question for me is: will it also affect the CN400 chipset (and especially the graphics driver)? Because 5 minutes of average uptime before the machine freezes is not workable. I do think the UniChrome Pro support packages are most important for VIA, the rest already seems to work pretty well.
It seems that each time that a company is on the ropes, they pledge OS support. It would be a good idea for companies to do something when they are not on the brink of extinction. VIA is in a tight spot. They're moving out of the chipset business, and since the eye of Intel is currently on the mobile CPU/chipset business, they can expect the Nazgul to come riding in pretty soon (I don't know too many old testament stories, which seem more appropriate for VIA).
Oh yeah, change it into a flame war without even stating why X is better than Y. Well, that's probably for the better, can somebody please mod parent down (and after that you may mod this one into oblivion as well).
With the current application of my bank, they would need to have the device, the smart card and the PIN. They won't get the last one, they would retrieve a fake one from me. As for mugging, it does happen. They just take you to an ATM machine and let you get the cash, much easier. But we are talking about two rather unrelated crimes here. The ones getting into your account from the internet won't just turn into muggers because it just got more difficult to break in.
Anyway, they don't have to. They can just switch to the current country with the least protection. Currently, that seems to be the US.
Yes, I would wish that we would use that in NL too, most of the time it is just browsers. But the good thing is that you can access your account from just about anywhere without setting up the application/software. The browser functionality is extremely limited however.
Of course, a good application really helps, but how do you know it is still secure? How do you know what you are actually signing with the smart card?
Current readers are either cludgy (they don't have too much display options) or they are too expensive. Of course, when they are more widely deployed this may change.
Still, when I look at the devices present at Cartes etc. I don't have much hope for the direct future. Even then it won't be able to display a large bank transaction, or an entire text that you want to sign.
Without a display on the reader, you will have no idea what you're actually signing. That said, it's of course way better than many banking applications now.
The one problem with smart cards is that it won't protect from unsecure PC's (at least, when not using an offline reader). Current readers don't have enough display possibilities to know what it is that you are signing. I've seen a great demo of a powered smart card with ePaper interface, but that might take some while to get into the market place.
If the PC is owned, basically the attacker can obtain the password and do and/or sign anything they like. This is one reason that many banks use clock based authentication that don't connect to the PC. Another is probably the support nightmare that (even) a smart card reader can pose (the reader interface itself is not such a problem, but how do you connect it to the browser/internet/application?).
Note that these same problems are always present when connecting smart cards to PC's (when they are accessed by the OS at least). It's something that is very easily overlooked. E.g. for digital signatures, how do you know what the smart card is actually signing? PC's are simply not secure devices by now. And if they were, you could as well store the key in a file...
No, the bank could have opted for transaction based authentication with a little security device not connected to the computer. I've got one from VASCO from my bank. There is no way that they could raid my account after using an internet cafe.
The current one uses the chip of my bank card together with a semi-random number generated by a clock(the device has a battery and after a few years the battery - and therefore the device will run out). Other banks use the mobile phone (SMS) for confirmation. Less secure, but probably secure enough.
It's just that US banks suck, or that there clients are basically too lazy (if one bank just uses a password it is easier to use than one that uses these kind of two way transaction based authentication).
Let's not use exceptions but use a C++ integer named "ok" with an initial value of 1. Now write code like this:
int ok = 1; if(ok)
ok = MethodCall(); if(ok)
ok = expression;... return ok;
They argued it was easier to step over in the debugger and it saved you from checking code exits (code exits only allowed in the last statement).
In Java Eclipse you can click the return value and all method exit point show up (including those for checked exceptions). For those Java programmers missing this brilliant feature.
I personally think that calling someone a "rat" or "snitch" as you call it is the stupid thing. I am pretty sure that my current employer has about 1/4 th of the working force covered with licenses. Some licenses are just bought and put on a company image. If I would go to my boss, my career would end. If I would report on some software they would figure out who I am and my career would end.
So if I go away, you can be sure I'll anonymously report him, for the sake of all the honest programmers out there.
Calling someone a snitch is a simple negative reaction by somebody that does bad and doesn't want to be hold responsive for it. As long as the actual society isn't rotten, reporting crime should not be called ratting or snitching. It becomes different when there is a clear difference in "class" between the reporting party and the enforcer, or when the crime is relatively small in proportion to the punishment. Or, of course, when you do it for profit as the grand parent does.
But there would be a hell of a lot more justice when there would be more ratting and snitching in the sense that a bully or a rich company "gets it". This is why rich company snitching is called whistle blowing. Sound a lot better, doesn't it?
VIA CL400 drivers are actually way worse than both Intel & ATI/rant Currently I've tried setting up Ubuntu on two machines. One fails possibly due to the Soundblaster live PCI issues (it works under Windows) and the other because VIA is not supported. In both cases the complete machine freezes. Annoying like hell, I was going for an all Linux server/client config.
Also, they don't use the latest technology for their chip sets. This was OK some years ago when power usage was not as important, but nowadays the technology should be at least only be one step behind, not 2 or more as they are now. They should be able to make chip sets that don't take too much die space, so they should get cracking right away. Just using the older machines is probably the cheapest way for producing chip sets.
The best way is of course using a SoC design if you regard power, but that might be rather difficult to pull off for machines having all the desktop functionality.
I was going to say someone completely different than Google. I do trust Google to do a good for a whole lot of things. But handing them all the applications on the internet would make them too powerful.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. (from the fortune cookie DB)
Ok, but look at it like this: if you've only left encryption of the channel, you don't have much left: - you don't know the trust of the end point - but you cannot trust the connection either, it could be going through another server for all you know
The only thing you have left is the actual encryption. This is nice if you want to prevent eavesdropping, but is that so important? If someone can see the stream, they can probably also first send it to another site for a man in the middle attack. Just encryption does not do nothing, it has to be there for a reason.
It is that I frequently access the net through insecure connections. When I'm just browsing I don't care much about the encryption that SSL offers. I rather trust my ISP not to stream all my data to some third party attacker. I do like the authentication part, since I don't trust DNS all the time (otherwise the authentication would be moot as well).
In your case, you might as well allow Diffie Hellman to setup SSL.
I've been at the copy=right festival created by xs4all. It's not only that you only get certain benefits (you sign off the rest) you cannot even do anything with your music unless they agree. The festival should create a copyright less (= free) CD with the music played there, but the artists did not get permission to do so. It's in the standard contract of the bands.
Not only that, I think there are multiple ways to do wear leveling and I don't see even the highest quality thumb drives use the best ones. There is no need for that - they are not produced for this kind of scenario the GP is describing.
I'm trying a 8 GB USB drive with high data rate and low seek time as a drive for my fanless PC. Since I have 1 GB RAM and not much memory intensive applications, I do expect even that drive to last forever.
And high quality tested parts. At least that was what I read in an article by someone that checked if the SSD drives were ready for deployment in his server farm. These guys like to do rigorous testing and good information, at least the professional ones.
Don't forget that these controllers are brand spanking new, and they are not in their 1000th revision like the controllers used on the hard drives. I'm really looking forward to the Intel designed drives. I presume that they will use their own controllers - the first showings seem to be very positive (no numbers posted yet).
(60 / 50 * 10000) / 365 = 32.something years. 33 years if you work for marketing.
Well, I don't know, but that's *really* efficient write leveling.
What do these drives do if you always write to the oldest data still in use, e.g. when doing round robin logging over the full size of the drive? Or are there other use cases that would mean a shorter life-span?
It's a manufacturers claim. I suspect the actual lifetime for casual notebook users will be pretty high. But if you continuously watch movies and remove the oldest ones, you might not be so lucky. Even then I would probably rather trust these things above a hard drive in a laptop.
Don't forget that 2/3 year warranty for a (mainly) portable product is still pretty high. It's new technology as well, so they'll try and be on the conservative side.
Nah, about ten thousand, and - as far as I know - that's the guaranteed number of write cycles. And the Samsung drive reviewed uses 64 GB of single bit memory, so it's not old. What it is is expensive. Both of these things are in the freakin' article by the way (and they seem to be correct if I must believe my internet sources).
I was using a ADSL modem (SpeedTouch Home) which was hacked to a router by "tweaking" the firmware. It had only one ethernet port, but it worked well as a NAT router. You just had to supply your switch yourself. I happily ran a network with ~10 clients without any problems.
Then came along BitTorrent and I quickly found out that the NAT routing table only went up to 256 connections. Needless to say I had to forbid torrents after that. The next modem/routers fixed all that, but I can still imagine that this might become a problem, especially since vendors may skimp on RAM.
I suppose the TCP/IP settings the parent mentioned won't help either. And it might prove very tricky to retrieve this kind of info from vendors. Oh well, glad I am the only one using two connections:)
Not necessarily. They obviously know that it won't produce an exact number of 4K stars per year. So they are trying to guess the average, and 4K seems to be the upper limit of that guess.
Example: Reporter: How many stars are produced by this galaxy per year? Pinhead: Oh, I don't know, my guess is about 1K to 4K stars per year, but certainly not over 4K. Reporter: Thanks, we'll use the upper limit if you don't mind.
Oh, man, I never found many of those reviews useful, but these ones really hit the spot.
Why did it have to be blue?, June 28, 2008
By Harmless Gryphon (Nowhere worth mentioning) - See all my reviews
I knew my day was going to improve when the truck pulled up at my home with this cable deep within. No ordinary truck, this one was Holy White, and the gold Delivery logo sparkled like a thousand suns reflected through shards of the purest ice formed with unadulterated water collected at the beginning of the universe. The driver, clad in a robe colored the softest of white, floated towards me on the cool fog of a hundred fire extinguishers. He smiled benevolently, like a father looking down upon his only child, and handed me a package wrapped in gold beaten thin to the point where you could see through it. I didn't have to sign, because the driver could see within my heart, and knew that I was pure. Upon opening the package, an angelic choir started to sing, and reached a crescendo as I laid this cable on my stereo system. Instantly, my antiquated equipment transformed into components made from the clearest diamond-semiconductor. The cable knew where to go, and hooked itself into the correct ports without help from me - all the while, the choir sang praises to the almighty digital god. With trepidation, I pushed "play," and was instantly enveloped in a sound that echoed the creation of all matter, a sound that vibrated every cell in my body to perfection. I was instantly taken to the next plane, where I saw the all-father. I knew with my entire soul, that all was good in the world.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
Yes, and as far as I know, they still loose money on every other thing except office and windows, so keep on buying their hardware until they are into oblivion. Only 1000.000 keyboards to go and we're getting somewhere.
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I'm trying to run Ubunu on a VIA epia for some time now, but their graphics solution is as unstable as hell. There is either the binary driver from VIA itself, or the OS one, but both are not quite what you would expect. Now the question for me is: will it also affect the CN400 chipset (and especially the graphics driver)? Because 5 minutes of average uptime before the machine freezes is not workable. I do think the UniChrome Pro support packages are most important for VIA, the rest already seems to work pretty well.
It seems that each time that a company is on the ropes, they pledge OS support. It would be a good idea for companies to do something when they are not on the brink of extinction. VIA is in a tight spot. They're moving out of the chipset business, and since the eye of Intel is currently on the mobile CPU/chipset business, they can expect the Nazgul to come riding in pretty soon (I don't know too many old testament stories, which seem more appropriate for VIA).
Oh yeah, change it into a flame war without even stating why X is better than Y. Well, that's probably for the better, can somebody please mod parent down (and after that you may mod this one into oblivion as well).
With the current application of my bank, they would need to have the device, the smart card and the PIN. They won't get the last one, they would retrieve a fake one from me. As for mugging, it does happen. They just take you to an ATM machine and let you get the cash, much easier. But we are talking about two rather unrelated crimes here. The ones getting into your account from the internet won't just turn into muggers because it just got more difficult to break in.
Anyway, they don't have to. They can just switch to the current country with the least protection. Currently, that seems to be the US.
Yes, I would wish that we would use that in NL too, most of the time it is just browsers. But the good thing is that you can access your account from just about anywhere without setting up the application/software. The browser functionality is extremely limited however.
Of course, a good application really helps, but how do you know it is still secure? How do you know what you are actually signing with the smart card?
Hey, you just beat me too it. Annoying thirds :)
Current readers are either cludgy (they don't have too much display options) or they are too expensive. Of course, when they are more widely deployed this may change.
Still, when I look at the devices present at Cartes etc. I don't have much hope for the direct future. Even then it won't be able to display a large bank transaction, or an entire text that you want to sign.
Without a display on the reader, you will have no idea what you're actually signing. That said, it's of course way better than many banking applications now.
The one problem with smart cards is that it won't protect from unsecure PC's (at least, when not using an offline reader). Current readers don't have enough display possibilities to know what it is that you are signing. I've seen a great demo of a powered smart card with ePaper interface, but that might take some while to get into the market place.
If the PC is owned, basically the attacker can obtain the password and do and/or sign anything they like. This is one reason that many banks use clock based authentication that don't connect to the PC. Another is probably the support nightmare that (even) a smart card reader can pose (the reader interface itself is not such a problem, but how do you connect it to the browser/internet/application?).
Note that these same problems are always present when connecting smart cards to PC's (when they are accessed by the OS at least). It's something that is very easily overlooked. E.g. for digital signatures, how do you know what the smart card is actually signing? PC's are simply not secure devices by now. And if they were, you could as well store the key in a file...
No, the bank could have opted for transaction based authentication with a little security device not connected to the computer. I've got one from VASCO from my bank. There is no way that they could raid my account after using an internet cafe.
The current one uses the chip of my bank card together with a semi-random number generated by a clock(the device has a battery and after a few years the battery - and therefore the device will run out). Other banks use the mobile phone (SMS) for confirmation. Less secure, but probably secure enough.
It's just that US banks suck, or that there clients are basically too lazy (if one bank just uses a password it is easier to use than one that uses these kind of two way transaction based authentication).
Let's not use exceptions but use a C++ integer named "ok" with an initial value of 1. Now write code like this:
int ok = 1; ...
if(ok)
ok = MethodCall();
if(ok)
ok = expression;
return ok;
They argued it was easier to step over in the debugger and it saved you from checking code exits (code exits only allowed in the last statement).
In Java Eclipse you can click the return value and all method exit point show up (including those for checked exceptions). For those Java programmers missing this brilliant feature.
I personally think that calling someone a "rat" or "snitch" as you call it is the stupid thing. I am pretty sure that my current employer has about 1/4 th of the working force covered with licenses. Some licenses are just bought and put on a company image. If I would go to my boss, my career would end. If I would report on some software they would figure out who I am and my career would end.
So if I go away, you can be sure I'll anonymously report him, for the sake of all the honest programmers out there.
Calling someone a snitch is a simple negative reaction by somebody that does bad and doesn't want to be hold responsive for it. As long as the actual society isn't rotten, reporting crime should not be called ratting or snitching. It becomes different when there is a clear difference in "class" between the reporting party and the enforcer, or when the crime is relatively small in proportion to the punishment. Or, of course, when you do it for profit as the grand parent does.
But there would be a hell of a lot more justice when there would be more ratting and snitching in the sense that a bully or a rich company "gets it". This is why rich company snitching is called whistle blowing. Sound a lot better, doesn't it?
VIA CL400 drivers are actually way worse than both Intel & ATI /rant Currently I've tried setting up Ubuntu on two machines. One fails possibly due to the Soundblaster live PCI issues (it works under Windows) and the other because VIA is not supported. In both cases the complete machine freezes. Annoying like hell, I was going for an all Linux server/client config.
Also, they don't use the latest technology for their chip sets. This was OK some years ago when power usage was not as important, but nowadays the technology should be at least only be one step behind, not 2 or more as they are now. They should be able to make chip sets that don't take too much die space, so they should get cracking right away. Just using the older machines is probably the cheapest way for producing chip sets.
The best way is of course using a SoC design if you regard power, but that might be rather difficult to pull off for machines having all the desktop functionality.
"I was going to say also someone like Google."
I was going to say someone completely different than Google. I do trust Google to do a good for a whole lot of things. But handing them all the applications on the internet would make them too powerful.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. (from the fortune cookie DB)
Ok, but look at it like this: if you've only left encryption of the channel, you don't have much left:
- you don't know the trust of the end point
- but you cannot trust the connection either, it could be going through another server for all you know
The only thing you have left is the actual encryption. This is nice if you want to prevent eavesdropping, but is that so important? If someone can see the stream, they can probably also first send it to another site for a man in the middle attack. Just encryption does not do nothing, it has to be there for a reason.
It is that I frequently access the net through insecure connections. When I'm just browsing I don't care much about the encryption that SSL offers. I rather trust my ISP not to stream all my data to some third party attacker. I do like the authentication part, since I don't trust DNS all the time (otherwise the authentication would be moot as well).
In your case, you might as well allow Diffie Hellman to setup SSL.
I've been at the copy=right festival created by xs4all. It's not only that you only get certain benefits (you sign off the rest) you cannot even do anything with your music unless they agree. The festival should create a copyright less (= free) CD with the music played there, but the artists did not get permission to do so. It's in the standard contract of the bands.
Now what kind of society is that?
Not only that, I think there are multiple ways to do wear leveling and I don't see even the highest quality thumb drives use the best ones. There is no need for that - they are not produced for this kind of scenario the GP is describing.
I'm trying a 8 GB USB drive with high data rate and low seek time as a drive for my fanless PC. Since I have 1 GB RAM and not much memory intensive applications, I do expect even that drive to last forever.
And high quality tested parts. At least that was what I read in an article by someone that checked if the SSD drives were ready for deployment in his server farm. These guys like to do rigorous testing and good information, at least the professional ones.
Don't forget that these controllers are brand spanking new, and they are not in their 1000th revision like the controllers used on the hard drives. I'm really looking forward to the Intel designed drives. I presume that they will use their own controllers - the first showings seem to be very positive (no numbers posted yet).
Hmm, lets see.
(60 / 50 * 10000) / 365 = 32.something years. 33 years if you work for marketing.
Well, I don't know, but that's *really* efficient write leveling.
What do these drives do if you always write to the oldest data still in use, e.g. when doing round robin logging over the full size of the drive? Or are there other use cases that would mean a shorter life-span?
It's a manufacturers claim. I suspect the actual lifetime for casual notebook users will be pretty high. But if you continuously watch movies and remove the oldest ones, you might not be so lucky. Even then I would probably rather trust these things above a hard drive in a laptop.
Don't forget that 2/3 year warranty for a (mainly) portable product is still pretty high. It's new technology as well, so they'll try and be on the conservative side.
Nah, about ten thousand, and - as far as I know - that's the guaranteed number of write cycles. And the Samsung drive reviewed uses 64 GB of single bit memory, so it's not old. What it is is expensive. Both of these things are in the freakin' article by the way (and they seem to be correct if I must believe my internet sources).
I was using a ADSL modem (SpeedTouch Home) which was hacked to a router by "tweaking" the firmware. It had only one ethernet port, but it worked well as a NAT router. You just had to supply your switch yourself. I happily ran a network with ~10 clients without any problems.
Then came along BitTorrent and I quickly found out that the NAT routing table only went up to 256 connections. Needless to say I had to forbid torrents after that. The next modem/routers fixed all that, but I can still imagine that this might become a problem, especially since vendors may skimp on RAM.
I suppose the TCP/IP settings the parent mentioned won't help either. And it might prove very tricky to retrieve this kind of info from vendors. Oh well, glad I am the only one using two connections :)
Not necessarily. They obviously know that it won't produce an exact number of 4K stars per year. So they are trying to guess the average, and 4K seems to be the upper limit of that guess.
Example:
Reporter: How many stars are produced by this galaxy per year?
Pinhead: Oh, I don't know, my guess is about 1K to 4K stars per year, but certainly not over 4K.
Reporter: Thanks, we'll use the upper limit if you don't mind.
"Pioneer has developed a 16-layer read-only optical disc which it claims can store 400GB of data.."
Well, forever I suppose.
Oh, man, I never found many of those reviews useful, but these ones really hit the spot.
Why did it have to be blue?, June 28, 2008
By Harmless Gryphon (Nowhere worth mentioning) - See all my reviews
I knew my day was going to improve when the truck pulled up at my home with this cable deep within. No ordinary truck, this one was Holy White, and the gold Delivery logo sparkled like a thousand suns reflected through shards of the purest ice formed with unadulterated water collected at the beginning of the universe. The driver, clad in a robe colored the softest of white, floated towards me on the cool fog of a hundred fire extinguishers. He smiled benevolently, like a father looking down upon his only child, and handed me a package wrapped in gold beaten thin to the point where you could see through it. I didn't have to sign, because the driver could see within my heart, and knew that I was pure. Upon opening the package, an angelic choir started to sing, and reached a crescendo as I laid this cable on my stereo system. Instantly, my antiquated equipment transformed into components made from the clearest diamond-semiconductor. The cable knew where to go, and hooked itself into the correct ports without help from me - all the while, the choir sang praises to the almighty digital god. With trepidation, I pushed "play," and was instantly enveloped in a sound that echoed the creation of all matter, a sound that vibrated every cell in my body to perfection. I was instantly taken to the next plane, where I saw the all-father. I knew with my entire soul, that all was good in the world.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
"I'm not too sure about that â" really, 'everyone'?"
Well, if the writer of the article already disagrees, this is clearly wrong. Easy question to answer really.
Yes, and as far as I know, they still loose money on every other thing except office and windows, so keep on buying their hardware until they are into oblivion. Only 1000.000 keyboards to go and we're getting somewhere.