You must be trying to be funny, because that would be significantly weaker than SHA-2. First of all, I hope you are trying to do adding, because concatenation is directly publishing the weaker hash. If you are adding, I would do so modulus the larger hash, because otherwise you might get 257 bits of SHA-2. But mainly if you look at crypto-analysis techniques, adding another algorithm normally weakens the original algorithm. It is much better to just add more calculations or more rounds. Even then I would rather use two completely different algorithms, like the AES based whirlpool algorithm and SHA-2.
Neh, nothing wrong with an additional network connection or indeed, an audio connection. I use my Soundblaster for serious music, and my internal sound device is used for IM and VoIP. Same thing for the ethernet: one for my GB swich (which can be swiched off) and a cheapo 100Mbs ethernet card for my internet access. Anyway, previously some people bought soundblasters for their excellent DAC's. But nowadays the connections are all digital, and you would only use a SB for some small time post-processing.
Anyway, what do you want to do in hardware? I've got a 386 here with separate hard disk controller, serial/parallel controller, video controller, sound card, network card. Fortunately the voodoo controller came later and the co-processor could be placed on board, together with the 8 x 256 MB memory modules. So, let's add a USB controller, serial ATA controller, firewire controller, WiFI controller and TV-card and you would probably be in heaven.
9 PCI cards. Have fun. I'll stick my 17x17 VIA EPIA board if you don't mind.
Uh, it doesn't say that you cannot mess with the internals. If they GPL the software that comes with the hardware, then you have got all the tools for messing with it. You'll have to interface it with Java at some point, but that ain't too hard. And Eclipse and OSGi is a very nice environment to create some serious applications in. 400MHz and MP4 encoders? You won't have too much problems with performance either I presume.
Furthermore, Java + OSGi do indeed take away lot of pain. But that will just let you focus on the actual application, nothing wrong with that.
I stand corrected. About the mushrooms: depending on the amount of pollution, they grow over there as well, unless you don't have any slightly protected moist spots. So get yourself a book about mushrooms and spend some fun times out in the open.
"So we have a choice: we can either standardize on one unit---the base-2 definition of a gigabyte---or we can standardize on two units---one for RAM and one for hard drives---or we can foolishly standardize on the base-10 definition and have RAM chips described as 1.074 GB. I, for one, can't imagine that last choice being too popular,"
Why the hell not, because a bunch of nerds get bragging rights about getting it right? Computers have moved out of the realm of specialists, they are now common tools. What percentage of people do you think know how many bytes go into 1 GB RAM? I've got no problem at all calling it 1.07 GB of RAM, hell, we do that for currency all the time.
If we just use SI units, all those irritating conversions go away as well. How much time does it take to send 3 TB over a 1 Gb/s link? How many bytes in 1 GB? And in 1000 MB? Can you explain *that* to the average Joe?
Use flash. Seriously, who still buys crappy games on CD-ROM? You can get crappy games for free with a bit of ads. Besides, there are a few nice games included with Linux nowadays. As mentioned, including tetris (ugh, why are words like "tetris" never included in standard dictionaries?)
I am running OOo on a VIA EPIA 1.2 GHz C7 (fan-less) system and a 120 GB 2.5 " drive and Open Office (OOo) runs just fine. OK, I've got double the amount of memory, but the biggest slowdown is, only at startup, caused by the harddrive. I'll replace the hard drive with flash when I've reinstalled the freakin' X11 unichrome graphics after upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon).
Yeah, this sound like a well balanced system. It's not the fastest memory around, and the CPU will probably be beat just a bit by the Intel counterpart, but it is at least affordable. It also seems to use a lot less power/generate heat. As this is the enthusiast market, Intel must have a clear winner here.
Yes, and don't forget that power issues are not for laptops alone anymore. I can see that it's hard to get around all this ACPI stuff and such, but this feature is too important not to get right. I am running a VIA EPIA mainboard, and I can currently not go to hibernation or suspend due to USB driver problems. So there you go: fix USB for VIA CN700 motherboards (it uses a VIA VT8237A South Bridge, also found on some laptops I head, so this fix might be for both laptop as well as "desktop" users).
Fortunately it was designed for an always on system. Currently it is off because of display problems after upgrading from feisty to gutsy.
Ah, playing the populist are you? Trying to say something completely moronic which does however seem to resonate with the non-thinking part of the population. You should try politics here in the Netherlands, it seems that about 25% of the people here fall for this crap.
Hmm, I'm a strict "physicalist" I suppose, but my morality stems from the fact that I would 1) like to live a good life and 2) like to let other people lead a good life. I don't see any problems with the combination of "physicalism" and my principles of morality. Of course, you could argue that "letting people have a good life" does not have any important physical advantages, but that's a rather moot point, don't you agree?
Anyway, it is not that it is not possible to see in the future. We've got history, laws of nature etc. It's just not possible to be 100% sure about it. But I'm rather sure I am going to hit the 'a' key on my keyboard the next second: a. See? There it is. All without a bit of super-naturalism.
In this case, it looks like the common saying "Any publicity is good publicity", won't work for San Disk. Their products have never been jaw-dropping or even cheap. The quality of their products don't have anything to do with this. Anyway, SanDisk does have some seriously interesting products. I was planning on upgrading my fan-less PC with a 40 MB/s Compact Flash card + firewire drive. These are products that any serious photographer will or should love, and which are unavailable from any other manufacturer.
I'm opting for dual USB sticks instead, but only because of cost (I'll just RAID-0 them). For the price of the reader I will be able to buy 16 GB of USB-stick memory with ease.
My budget is not that big that I try this technology without looking. 1024 x 768 is not exactly hi-res, nor is it 4A. Otherwise, the price is fine with me. But I've been following the technology for some time, and I'm seriously interested in it. Maybe I can order one to test for my company.
It would save me hundreds of copies of paper in my bag, my bad. It would save thousands of copies of paper each year. I try to do things on my laptop, but this is in general just not feasible. It would also make it much easier to search and annotate things, provided that this is supported of course. And I know any of my colleagues would feel the same. In my opinion, this is not a minor niche of the market. It's a *huge* market. Instead these guys keep on focusing on (slightly) bendable screens and colors.
I'm NOT after a gadget. I think these guys are after gadgets much more than I am. What is the business case of this kind of screen really? But in business, having a leather portfolio with one side A4/Letter ePaper (executive look). Well, if that does not sell.
What I need is a rather thin (.5 mm is enough), black and white e-paper screen with high res and low power use, in an A4/letter format. This would save me hundreds of copies of paper. I'm willing to pay up to a grand for that. Why are these idiots always focusing on full color, bendable screens? I would consider them nice extras, nothing more.
Yes. No. If you leave it on of course, and if the drives won't spin down completely (which they normally won't, too many services etc.). This is why I'm going for a flash/hdd combination, so the HDD can spin down.
OK, tried it and now I am stuck on 800x600. The update manager definitely should warn if there are no supported drivers for your configuration. I'll have to reinstall everything again. Hmmm, not good.
Here in Europe,.doc isn't either, because you'll spend ages just getting rid of all the font types. Most Americans don't know, but you will have different names for each font used. So I'll send an English document to Germany, France and (to take an unreadable language for most Dutch persons) Finland. Now all the fonts used by the different people will get into the document, with *localized* Font names.
It took me most of a day just getting rid of all that stuff and leave only the English ones. Now I've got a new machine that comes pre-installed with Dutch Word version from the IT dept. That'll teach the Fins to make my Word documents uneditable (Dutch is not that easy to understand either). Oh well, fortunately you can more easily edit fonts in Word 2003 because of the side bar.
Come to think of it, is there finally a hot key in the last Word version with a hot key for [edit][paste special][paste unformatted unicode]? That's one of the reasons why my documents get trashed up with all those additional fonts (by others).
What happens if you don't have a "supported" graphics card? Can you simply start with VESA without Compiz, and can Compiz be easily disabled? UniChrome support by Linux/Ubuntu is unstable (to say the least).
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You must be trying to be funny, because that would be significantly weaker than SHA-2. First of all, I hope you are trying to do adding, because concatenation is directly publishing the weaker hash. If you are adding, I would do so modulus the larger hash, because otherwise you might get 257 bits of SHA-2. But mainly if you look at crypto-analysis techniques, adding another algorithm normally weakens the original algorithm. It is much better to just add more calculations or more rounds. Even then I would rather use two completely different algorithms, like the AES based whirlpool algorithm and SHA-2.
Neh, nothing wrong with an additional network connection or indeed, an audio connection. I use my Soundblaster for serious music, and my internal sound device is used for IM and VoIP. Same thing for the ethernet: one for my GB swich (which can be swiched off) and a cheapo 100Mbs ethernet card for my internet access. Anyway, previously some people bought soundblasters for their excellent DAC's. But nowadays the connections are all digital, and you would only use a SB for some small time post-processing.
Anyway, what do you want to do in hardware? I've got a 386 here with separate hard disk controller, serial/parallel controller, video controller, sound card, network card. Fortunately the voodoo controller came later and the co-processor could be placed on board, together with the 8 x 256 MB memory modules. So, let's add a USB controller, serial ATA controller, firewire controller, WiFI controller and TV-card and you would probably be in heaven.
9 PCI cards. Have fun. I'll stick my 17x17 VIA EPIA board if you don't mind.
EU = you. If you want out, just vote in a government that wants out. Or get involved and try to steer Europe in the right direction.
Uh, it doesn't say that you cannot mess with the internals. If they GPL the software that comes with the hardware, then you have got all the tools for messing with it. You'll have to interface it with Java at some point, but that ain't too hard. And Eclipse and OSGi is a very nice environment to create some serious applications in. 400MHz and MP4 encoders? You won't have too much problems with performance either I presume.
Furthermore, Java + OSGi do indeed take away lot of pain. But that will just let you focus on the actual application, nothing wrong with that.
I stand corrected. About the mushrooms: depending on the amount of pollution, they grow over there as well, unless you don't have any slightly protected moist spots. So get yourself a book about mushrooms and spend some fun times out in the open.
"So we have a choice: we can either standardize on one unit---the base-2 definition of a gigabyte---or we can standardize on two units---one for RAM and one for hard drives---or we can foolishly standardize on the base-10 definition and have RAM chips described as 1.074 GB. I, for one, can't imagine that last choice being too popular,"
Why the hell not, because a bunch of nerds get bragging rights about getting it right? Computers have moved out of the realm of specialists, they are now common tools. What percentage of people do you think know how many bytes go into 1 GB RAM? I've got no problem at all calling it 1.07 GB of RAM, hell, we do that for currency all the time.
If we just use SI units, all those irritating conversions go away as well. How much time does it take to send 3 TB over a 1 Gb/s link? How many bytes in 1 GB? And in 1000 MB? Can you explain *that* to the average Joe?
Use flash. Seriously, who still buys crappy games on CD-ROM? You can get crappy games for free with a bit of ads. Besides, there are a few nice games included with Linux nowadays. As mentioned, including tetris (ugh, why are words like "tetris" never included in standard dictionaries?)
I am running OOo on a VIA EPIA 1.2 GHz C7 (fan-less) system and a 120 GB 2.5 " drive and Open Office (OOo) runs just fine. OK, I've got double the amount of memory, but the biggest slowdown is, only at startup, caused by the harddrive. I'll replace the hard drive with flash when I've reinstalled the freakin' X11 unichrome graphics after upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon).
"How much has ballmer paid to give such a turnaround?"
As I am reading the postings, probably a garage, with a few chairs thrown in.
Damn, probably to late to be modded funny...
Yeah, this sound like a well balanced system. It's not the fastest memory around, and the CPU will probably be beat just a bit by the Intel counterpart, but it is at least affordable. It also seems to use a lot less power/generate heat. As this is the enthusiast market, Intel must have a clear winner here.
And what point is there in being an AC with a low /. ID? I'm confused. Ah, I got it, they don't say which ID, so it's an anonymous ID!
Yes, and don't forget that power issues are not for laptops alone anymore. I can see that it's hard to get around all this ACPI stuff and such, but this feature is too important not to get right. I am running a VIA EPIA mainboard, and I can currently not go to hibernation or suspend due to USB driver problems. So there you go: fix USB for VIA CN700 motherboards (it uses a VIA VT8237A South Bridge, also found on some laptops I head, so this fix might be for both laptop as well as "desktop" users).
Fortunately it was designed for an always on system. Currently it is off because of display problems after upgrading from feisty to gutsy.
Ah, playing the populist are you? Trying to say something completely moronic which does however seem to resonate with the non-thinking part of the population. You should try politics here in the Netherlands, it seems that about 25% of the people here fall for this crap.
Hmm, I'm a strict "physicalist" I suppose, but my morality stems from the fact that I would 1) like to live a good life and 2) like to let other people lead a good life. I don't see any problems with the combination of "physicalism" and my principles of morality. Of course, you could argue that "letting people have a good life" does not have any important physical advantages, but that's a rather moot point, don't you agree?
Anyway, it is not that it is not possible to see in the future. We've got history, laws of nature etc. It's just not possible to be 100% sure about it. But I'm rather sure I am going to hit the 'a' key on my keyboard the next second: a. See? There it is. All without a bit of super-naturalism.
I'm opting for dual USB sticks instead, but only because of cost (I'll just RAID-0 them). For the price of the reader I will be able to buy 16 GB of USB-stick memory with ease.
"Fnuliny..."
Sohunl't taht jsut be slelepd fnuny?
My budget is not that big that I try this technology without looking. 1024 x 768 is not exactly hi-res, nor is it 4A. Otherwise, the price is fine with me. But I've been following the technology for some time, and I'm seriously interested in it. Maybe I can order one to test for my company.
It would save me hundreds of copies of paper in my bag, my bad. It would save thousands of copies of paper each year. I try to do things on my laptop, but this is in general just not feasible. It would also make it much easier to search and annotate things, provided that this is supported of course. And I know any of my colleagues would feel the same. In my opinion, this is not a minor niche of the market. It's a *huge* market. Instead these guys keep on focusing on (slightly) bendable screens and colors.
I'm NOT after a gadget. I think these guys are after gadgets much more than I am. What is the business case of this kind of screen really? But in business, having a leather portfolio with one side A4/Letter ePaper (executive look). Well, if that does not sell.
What I need is a rather thin (.5 mm is enough), black and white e-paper screen with high res and low power use, in an A4/letter format. This would save me hundreds of copies of paper. I'm willing to pay up to a grand for that. Why are these idiots always focusing on full color, bendable screens? I would consider them nice extras, nothing more.
Yes. No. If you leave it on of course, and if the drives won't spin down completely (which they normally won't, too many services etc.). This is why I'm going for a flash/hdd combination, so the HDD can spin down.
It's not very noisy either, although it won't match silent 2,5 " drives by a long shot. So it's not that great for fan-less systems and all that.
This range of drives:
2.6/2.8 dB typical idle acoustics
WD Scorpio (pretty silent 2,5 " HDD @ 5400 rpm):
2.0 typical idle acoustics
OK, tried it and now I am stuck on 800x600. The update manager definitely should warn if there are no supported drivers for your configuration. I'll have to reinstall everything again. Hmmm, not good.
"We're slipping guys and there's no stopping it"
Then why post?
Here in Europe, .doc isn't either, because you'll spend ages just getting rid of all the font types. Most Americans don't know, but you will have different names for each font used. So I'll send an English document to Germany, France and (to take an unreadable language for most Dutch persons) Finland. Now all the fonts used by the different people will get into the document, with *localized* Font names.
It took me most of a day just getting rid of all that stuff and leave only the English ones. Now I've got a new machine that comes pre-installed with Dutch Word version from the IT dept. That'll teach the Fins to make my Word documents uneditable (Dutch is not that easy to understand either). Oh well, fortunately you can more easily edit fonts in Word 2003 because of the side bar.
Come to think of it, is there finally a hot key in the last Word version with a hot key for [edit][paste special][paste unformatted unicode]? That's one of the reasons why my documents get trashed up with all those additional fonts (by others).
What happens if you don't have a "supported" graphics card? Can you simply start with VESA without Compiz, and can Compiz be easily disabled? UniChrome support by Linux/Ubuntu is unstable (to say the least).