Reminds me of a joke I heard.
Guy buys a Patriot condom with the word spelled out on it, puts it on, and his girlfried comments "Who the hell is Pat?".
Well, you don't want to date the stones. Those existed long before anything was ever made with them. But you're right cardon dating won't work on rocks, for that you would use things like potassium or uranium if I remember correctly.
We just upgraded to XP from NT4 at work and I am amazed at how much more snappy XP seems! I thought XP required more resources and didn't expect it to run well on 128MB, but it does.
I've been running XP Pro at home since it came out and have only ever had one blue screen when I installed a beta nVidia driver. A quick roll-back took care of that.
"if you want the cd to be DRM'd would it not make more sense to actually encrypt the contents rather than to have a software driver encrypt them on the fly?"
Well, it does make is more secure, but you will also make the disc incompatible with every CD player out there. They are not ready to make that step yet.
I found this quote on the internet: "The FCC bans use because of ground concerns. Cell phones often don't work at 30,000 feet, but when they do, signals can reach hundreds of towers at once, clogging networks."
The reason that these limitation where put on cell phones in the first place is because the airlines wanted the revenue from passengers using the "Air Phones"
I heard it was because the signal from the phone from altitude can be picked up strongly by more than one tower which can cause a problem for the cell provider.
By the way. I've flown a lot in small private planes and have used everything from cell phones, laptops, desktop computers running off the aircraft batteries, GPS receivers, handheld radios, and many other devices, and not one of them have affected instruments or the autopilot in any way.
Actually there's a very good chance that these notebooks (or any other "off brand" model for that matter) are going to be made by the same firms that make the "name brand" systems.
Very few companies you list make their own notebooks, with Toshiba being the biggest exception.
For instance:
Filesystems today are designed to store small numbers of very large files (ie more than 1K in size). Anybody who wants to store "objects" that are smaller than about 1K in size (like if you are implementing a "registry", for instance) is forced to write or use a database program, with needless complexity, to force all this data into a single file, so that it can be stored efficiently. What we need is a design where tiny files (like 4 bytes) can be stored efficiently
Later versions of Stacker, back in the DOS days when hard drives were small, actually did this. It compressed the whole volume into one file and kept an index to the locations of each file for extraction. Zero slack space.
I'm sure this must be the case, but the control system should not be connected in any way to an unsecured network. This is definately an admin screw-up
One of my favorites from tech support went like this:
Customer: My computer is broken and I need it fixed.
Me (after hearing description of the problem): That sounds like a software problem.
Customer: I don't use software
The one time it did get a crash under XP, it was nvcore stop error (nVidia driver) on a beta driver, but I never got the option to send the error report on reboot. I guess it depends if the system gets a chance to write the core dump or not.
Actually these can't be system crashes, because if the system is crashed, then it cannot send the error report, and anyone who uses Windows XP knows these error reports occur immediatly, not after a reboot.
I wrote a document in KOffice when I first installed Mandrake 9, saved it as a RTF file. I couldn't read the file in Open Office or even in KOffice afterwards.
Having to reinstall windows on systemst that just "stop working".
Nothing just "stops working" in any OS. There's always something that was done, added, removed, changed, etc. responsible. Reinstalls or re-imaging are usually done if the "administrator" does not want to, or can't, take the time to solve the problem.
I usually would fix my own problems, because I know if I call support they will just come with a Ghost image on CD. I'd probably take a few minutes longer, but it's always fixable.
"This is the position they take. You CAN do anything you want to a CD, including copying it and converting it to MP3. What they don't want you to do is distribute the contents, for free or otherwise."
Slashdot Mirror
"effectivly curing deathness"
;)
I had no idea that a fake ear could prevent death!
"Slashdot has reached a new low"
A new low - I'm so ashamed!
Reminds me of a joke I heard.
Guy buys a Patriot condom with the word spelled out on it, puts it on, and his girlfried comments "Who the hell is Pat?".
Absolutely right! In fact here's a common hardness scale for minerals:
- Talc
- Gypsum
- Calcite
- Flourite
- Apatite
- Orthoclase
- Quartz
- Topaz
- Corrundum
- Diamond
For comparison:Finger Nail is 2.5
Steel knife is 5.5
Glass is just less than 6
Glass is harder than steel, but I sure wouldn't want to build a car out of it. Diamonds are very hard, but they are very brittle.
Well, you don't want to date the stones. Those existed long before anything was ever made with them. But you're right cardon dating won't work on rocks, for that you would use things like potassium or uranium if I remember correctly.
I disagree!
We just upgraded to XP from NT4 at work and I am amazed at how much more snappy XP seems! I thought XP required more resources and didn't expect it to run well on 128MB, but it does.
I've been running XP Pro at home since it came out and have only ever had one blue screen when I installed a beta nVidia driver. A quick roll-back took care of that.
You're right! It'll probably just destroy the drive instead.
"if you want the cd to be DRM'd would it not make more sense to actually encrypt the contents rather than to have a software driver encrypt them on the fly?"
Well, it does make is more secure, but you will also make the disc incompatible with every CD player out there. They are not ready to make that step yet.
A continuation from my previous comment.
I found this quote on the internet: "The FCC bans use because of ground concerns. Cell phones often don't work at 30,000 feet, but when they do, signals can reach hundreds of towers at once, clogging networks."
The reason that these limitation where put on cell phones in the first place is because the airlines wanted the revenue from passengers using the "Air Phones"
I heard it was because the signal from the phone from altitude can be picked up strongly by more than one tower which can cause a problem for the cell provider.
By the way. I've flown a lot in small private planes and have used everything from cell phones, laptops, desktop computers running off the aircraft batteries, GPS receivers, handheld radios, and many other devices, and not one of them have affected instruments or the autopilot in any way.
Very few companies you list make their own notebooks, with Toshiba being the biggest exception.
For instance:
I agree 100% with this.
And how does anyone know if Mr. blackhacker hacked 100 systems for every whitehack he reports (possibly just as a cover).
Filesystems today are designed to store small numbers of very large files (ie more than 1K in size). Anybody who wants to store "objects" that are smaller than about 1K in size (like if you are implementing a "registry", for instance) is forced to write or use a database program, with needless complexity, to force all this data into a single file, so that it can be stored efficiently. What we need is a design where tiny files (like 4 bytes) can be stored efficiently
Later versions of Stacker, back in the DOS days when hard drives were small, actually did this. It compressed the whole volume into one file and kept an index to the locations of each file for extraction. Zero slack space.
It's funny, cause it's true!!!!
I'm sure this must be the case, but the control system should not be connected in any way to an unsecured network. This is definately an admin screw-up
This is true. In fact Quanta makes Compaq notebooks as well
One of my favorites from tech support went like this:
Customer: My computer is broken and I need it fixed.
Me (after hearing description of the problem): That sounds like a software problem.
Customer: I don't use software
"Why isn't Roxio or nero screaming at Windows Xp for bundling CD burning right in the OS"
Cause they licenced from Roxio!!!!!!!
Ok, that may be!
The one time it did get a crash under XP, it was nvcore stop error (nVidia driver) on a beta driver, but I never got the option to send the error report on reboot. I guess it depends if the system gets a chance to write the core dump or not.
Actually these can't be system crashes, because if the system is crashed, then it cannot send the error report, and anyone who uses Windows XP knows these error reports occur immediatly, not after a reboot.
I wish!
I wrote a document in KOffice when I first installed Mandrake 9, saved it as a RTF file. I couldn't read the file in Open Office or even in KOffice afterwards.
Oddly, MS Word was able to read it.
Having to reinstall windows on systemst that just "stop working".
Nothing just "stops working" in any OS. There's always something that was done, added, removed, changed, etc. responsible. Reinstalls or re-imaging are usually done if the "administrator" does not want to, or can't, take the time to solve the problem.
I usually would fix my own problems, because I know if I call support they will just come with a Ghost image on CD. I'd probably take a few minutes longer, but it's always fixable.
Ah! Then obviously it's the new Matrix video game that caused this! It couldn't possibly be the movie!!!!
I guess they're taking the completely legal path here. The bug was discovered illegially, and therefore cannot be used against them!
"This is the position they take. You CAN do anything you want to a CD, including copying it and converting it to MP3. What they don't want you to do is distribute the contents, for free or otherwise."
Then, why are they copy protecting CDs now?