apparently if what you want is Intel quad core, dual memory slots, PCI-e and 4 SATA ports with HDMI or two dual-DVI ports you can get it in a mini-ITX form factor from Intel now. They've got the "small is good" religion.
But even in the market Via pioneered, Intel and AMD now have superior offerings, both in performance and TDP.
via's got some hot stuff coming out. They're outside the box -- don't count them out. Remember these intel mobos are not PicoItx. Their video harware is open now. It's not yet time to count coup on VIA.
I wish you luck. Legacy ports are the last to go. We need to let go of them if we are to move forward but it's hard for the users that have legacy software that requires it.
Once upon a time "legacy" was something positive you left to following generations. Now it means crap that doesn't work well any more.
Nice to see manufacturers still including the venerable RS232 port. It may be old and slow, but it's very easy to work with, if you're an electronics hobbyist -- much simpler than implementing USB connectivity...
Get out of our way grandpa. We ain't got time for your 115kbps BS. Seriously serial ports and parallel ports have gotta die. And get off my lawn.
You bought what you bought. If you took the XP as part of the package, you should be stuck with it. You knew what the EULA was. Don't like it? Choose one of the many systems from another vendor that come with Linux or no OS.
But... It's not the OEM's job to decide for you what software to run. If you want just the computer with no OS on it you should have that option. If people use declining the EULA to work around the fact that OEMs don't offer no-OS options or the crudware is just offensive, I guess that's the best we can do.
If enough people did this, the no-OS option would become available. But... society is too litigious already and more of this doesn't help.
I'm a geezer, so this isn't about me. Management is about personal responsibility, leadership and attention to detail. Some people will never be up to it. Some have to be trained. Some are capable right out of high school. Choose the right people and you're in the berries.
For a team leader give me the 21 year old corporal just back from Baghdad any day. He'll cut to the facts, bind the team and bring it home every time. He can't help it - he doesn't know how to do it any other way. Move him up fast and he'll be running a few hundred people before Joe Harvard has his MBA.
I think we're past the "ready for the desktop" question and well into "ready for your pocket" territory.
Linux owns HPC. It rules the server room. Phone makers are going to put it in 100 million cell phones. Sure, it's on millions of desktops too, but who cares really? It's time we unchained the PC from the desk and let our teams get out to where the action is.
WiMax is taking off, and its competitor too. The network is now everywhere. The Atom is going to amplify the mobile productivity space a dozen times or more. Via and AMD are not dead yet either. Flash drives get cheaper every week.
I think in three years we're going to look down on that quad-core 4GB 500W monster we just bought the office typist so he could continue to draft the same form letters he's been writing since 1987 and shake our heads. What were we thinking?
How do you turn ice into a breathable atmosphere for a planet?
By not assuming it's all water ice? Really, how likely is 100% H2O composition anyway?
Seriously, terraforming mars is a project for far future generations. As another poster pointed out inflatable domes should do for the next thousand years. I would probably throw some ice caves into the mix, though - better protection from the stray micrometeorites that still fall in abundance and compressed ice has delightful self-sealing properties. I'm sure the eggheads at NASA that get paid to think about this stuff have even more practical ideas.
From the map some of those cliff faces look like they have stunning views in the summertime.
But either way: no available surface water. No canals. no oceans.
According to the article the ice cap on mars is in four layers each a 1/4 mile thick roughly. These layers each represent a million year period of deposition.
It follows that either there was liquid water and water vapor on mars to deposit the ice at the pole, or there was a horde of very determined martians with trucks to move it there:). I would go with the canals and oceans theory myself.
So we have roughly a cylinder of ice a mile thick and a thousand miles across on Mars. With the careful application of energy that's more than enough to produce a breathable atmosphere or at least provide for a considerable human habitat.
I am less concerned about finding life on mars than I am with putting it there. We can leave to the exploration of the asteroid belt the discovery that mere interplanetary distances are not an effective barrier to lichens, let alone intelligent life. Besides, the best evidence for fossil life on mars will be found in the Basal Unit under that mile thick ice. That's a lot of digging for a girl in a space suit.
As a rule, you always start clean and install only what's necessary to provide whatever services are needed. When a security compromise is found, you wipe the system clean and start over.
But, all of this discussion is a bit irrelevant since this was ultimately not an exercise in building secure networks, but rather an exercise in watching how defenders of an insecure network will respond to a series of attacks.
Agreed. In fact, I mentioned this in my post...
Probably wasn't possible given the parameters of the test, but they tried to clean a rootkit and got the predictable result.
This was previously confirmed by an A.C. claiming to be a participant in the exercise. I'm sure the participants knew the best practice and would have done it the correct way if it were permitted within the rules of the test. It's still important to remind slashdot readers what the best practice is, especially in the context of a thread about cleaning rootkits like this one. That's why my comment was so highly rated - not because it was new, but because it was an important reminder.
Nearly every malware detector on the market offers a "clean infection" feature of some sort. People need to know it's a lie.
Well, actually, the quantum unit of information is a bit.
No, the binary quantum unit of information is a bit. A ficton is several orders of magnitude "smaller" than that. A bit can be true or false. A light that's on or off. A ficton is a value that represents the smallest possible division of "possibly true". The universe is not binary at a very fine scale. Things fade in and out of frame with increasing and decreasing probability in the present moment. It's only when the arrow of entropy has passed and the frame is set that a thing was or was not, from our point of view.
I think you want to avoid the use of the word "forever" when discussing physics. It apparently does not mean what you think it means (for certain values of entropy, YMMV).
While it seems certain to me that amongst the myriad multiverses that spawn every time Heisenberg kills a kitten there must be an effectively infinite number of universes where your statement is true, none of them are this one. To get there from here you have to take the long way 'round. Go back to the the Planck epoch and hang a left.
The rule was, never release a new platform that won't run the latest version of Microsoft's products. ASUS broke the rule and can't make their new product fast enough. Their new deal with Microsoft just highlights that if you break the rules and succeed, you get new rules.
Maybe ASUS will take the money and run, Maybe they'll deprecate their Linux offerings and move millions of XP Home eee machines and be happy. I don't think so, but that could happen.
It doesn't matter. If ASUS won't break the rules somebody else on their way up will. This whole scene will play out over and over. Marketing deals cannot halt innovation because it's the innovators that bring the interesting new products that catch our attention and gain the most enthusiastic early adopters.
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apparently if what you want is Intel quad core, dual memory slots, PCI-e and 4 SATA ports with HDMI or two dual-DVI ports you can get it in a mini-ITX form factor from Intel now. They've got the "small is good" religion.
Finally.
via's got some hot stuff coming out. They're outside the box -- don't count them out. Remember these intel mobos are not PicoItx. Their video harware is open now. It's not yet time to count coup on VIA.
I wish you luck. Legacy ports are the last to go. We need to let go of them if we are to move forward but it's hard for the users that have legacy software that requires it.
Once upon a time "legacy" was something positive you left to following generations. Now it means crap that doesn't work well any more.
Get out of our way grandpa. We ain't got time for your 115kbps BS. Seriously serial ports and parallel ports have gotta die. And get off my lawn.
That 945 chipset is still using more watts than you would like.
As long as we're at it, let's point out a 99% efficient PSU to go with it.
Thanks for the informative link. I hope they offer the nanoitx version soon. I have some robotic applications in mind.
For general purposes, it's 10 bits to the byte. 8 for data and 2 for overhead.
You bought what you bought. If you took the XP as part of the package, you should be stuck with it. You knew what the EULA was. Don't like it? Choose one of the many systems from another vendor that come with Linux or no OS.
But... It's not the OEM's job to decide for you what software to run. If you want just the computer with no OS on it you should have that option. If people use declining the EULA to work around the fact that OEMs don't offer no-OS options or the crudware is just offensive, I guess that's the best we can do.
If enough people did this, the no-OS option would become available. But... society is too litigious already and more of this doesn't help.
Can't we all just get along?
I'm a geezer, so this isn't about me. Management is about personal responsibility, leadership and attention to detail. Some people will never be up to it. Some have to be trained. Some are capable right out of high school. Choose the right people and you're in the berries.
For a team leader give me the 21 year old corporal just back from Baghdad any day. He'll cut to the facts, bind the team and bring it home every time. He can't help it - he doesn't know how to do it any other way. Move him up fast and he'll be running a few hundred people before Joe Harvard has his MBA.
I think we're past the "ready for the desktop" question and well into "ready for your pocket" territory.
Linux owns HPC. It rules the server room. Phone makers are going to put it in 100 million cell phones. Sure, it's on millions of desktops too, but who cares really? It's time we unchained the PC from the desk and let our teams get out to where the action is.
WiMax is taking off, and its competitor too. The network is now everywhere. The Atom is going to amplify the mobile productivity space a dozen times or more. Via and AMD are not dead yet either. Flash drives get cheaper every week.
I think in three years we're going to look down on that quad-core 4GB 500W monster we just bought the office typist so he could continue to draft the same form letters he's been writing since 1987 and shake our heads. What were we thinking?
By not assuming it's all water ice? Really, how likely is 100% H2O composition anyway?
Seriously, terraforming mars is a project for far future generations. As another poster pointed out inflatable domes should do for the next thousand years. I would probably throw some ice caves into the mix, though - better protection from the stray micrometeorites that still fall in abundance and compressed ice has delightful self-sealing properties. I'm sure the eggheads at NASA that get paid to think about this stuff have even more practical ideas.
From the map some of those cliff faces look like they have stunning views in the summertime.
According to the article the ice cap on mars is in four layers each a 1/4 mile thick roughly. These layers each represent a million year period of deposition.
It follows that either there was liquid water and water vapor on mars to deposit the ice at the pole, or there was a horde of very determined martians with trucks to move it there :). I would go with the canals and oceans theory myself.
So we have roughly a cylinder of ice a mile thick and a thousand miles across on Mars. With the careful application of energy that's more than enough to produce a breathable atmosphere or at least provide for a considerable human habitat.
I am less concerned about finding life on mars than I am with putting it there. We can leave to the exploration of the asteroid belt the discovery that mere interplanetary distances are not an effective barrier to lichens, let alone intelligent life. Besides, the best evidence for fossil life on mars will be found in the Basal Unit under that mile thick ice. That's a lot of digging for a girl in a space suit.
Agreed. In fact, I mentioned this in my post...
This was previously confirmed by an A.C. claiming to be a participant in the exercise. I'm sure the participants knew the best practice and would have done it the correct way if it were permitted within the rules of the test. It's still important to remind slashdot readers what the best practice is, especially in the context of a thread about cleaning rootkits like this one. That's why my comment was so highly rated - not because it was new, but because it was an important reminder.
Nearly every malware detector on the market offers a "clean infection" feature of some sort. People need to know it's a lie.
She's just being coy. Microsoft is still flashing those "come hither" looks. Go for it Yahoo!
Welcome to slashdot Daljit (or is it "Jack"?). You won't find success as easy as you think it might be, but at least it's a job, eh?
I had given up hope that Microsoft would fire their legendary footgun at a Microwho? deal. I hope they blow all their available cash on this.
The synergy of this opportunity rivals a .com bubble for the ability to vanquish vast quantities of value.
Now I can look forward to reading about this in the news.
At least to our present level of understanding, yes. Experience has shown that in hindsight indivisible units aren't.
No, the binary quantum unit of information is a bit. A ficton is several orders of magnitude "smaller" than that. A bit can be true or false. A light that's on or off. A ficton is a value that represents the smallest possible division of "possibly true". The universe is not binary at a very fine scale. Things fade in and out of frame with increasing and decreasing probability in the present moment. It's only when the arrow of entropy has passed and the frame is set that a thing was or was not, from our point of view.
I think you want to avoid the use of the word "forever" when discussing physics. It apparently does not mean what you think it means (for certain values of entropy, YMMV).
While it seems certain to me that amongst the myriad multiverses that spawn every time Heisenberg kills a kitten there must be an effectively infinite number of universes where your statement is true, none of them are this one. To get there from here you have to take the long way 'round. Go back to the the Planck epoch and hang a left.
The quantum unit of information is a "ficton".
The rest of the jokes write themselves.
I'm gonna guess "no".
Utilities for disk imaging - local disk, local optical, unicast network and multicast network - would be useful also.
When you detect malware installed on your system, wipe and reinstall. Always! There is no "cleaning".
Probably wasn't possible given the parameters of the test, but they tried to clean a rootkit and got the predictable result.
The rule was, never release a new platform that won't run the latest version of Microsoft's products. ASUS broke the rule and can't make their new product fast enough. Their new deal with Microsoft just highlights that if you break the rules and succeed, you get new rules.
Maybe ASUS will take the money and run, Maybe they'll deprecate their Linux offerings and move millions of XP Home eee machines and be happy. I don't think so, but that could happen.
It doesn't matter. If ASUS won't break the rules somebody else on their way up will. This whole scene will play out over and over. Marketing deals cannot halt innovation because it's the innovators that bring the interesting new products that catch our attention and gain the most enthusiastic early adopters.