I don't think there will be any major kernel work. Vista includes lot of new low level stuff, the whole Audio stack, network stack, composite display (not to mention DRM, duh!), a lot of stuff that hard to get right on the first shoot.
And for a product delayed for a year, I bet the performance fine tuning would be the last thing on the TODO list.
Back to Win 7, I don't heard M$ will be revamping the kernel again. So there is much higher chance that they could stabilize and improve the stack (and hopefully backported back to Vista upcoming SP). All the other bell and whistles, as far as I can tell, could be implemented with the existing kernel framework. The features we are seeing mostly implemented in userspace code.
So go back to the benchmarking, if you mean the speed of running OTHER application, which is the performance of the kernel itself, I think Win 7 will actually be faster because it will be stablized in this timeframe. If you mean the OS features, well it's hard to tell until it is out.
Comparing Win 7 with XP would be like comparing Windows 2000 and Windows 98. If XP does the job, keep it as you wish.
Personally I am using Vista now and I really like some of the features like Start Menu Search, Network, Connectivity & Wireless UI, photo gallery and the UAC. (Yes I like UAC!)
I hope Win 7 HomeGroup feature would play nice with Samba. The next thing I hope is that I could get a DSL upgrade from the ISP...
Will two robot start chatting together? We should definitely put some recording to watch them or else the first two machines that pass turning test might gone unnoticed.
Another post mentioned the collision detection and backoff property of the Ethernet, but that's all about within the same broadcast domain.
the TCP retransmission is there in case the router in the middle drop it (congestion), or in case where we are not using Ethernet in the bottom layer (hey we use Wifi and Edge!)
There is no way for Ethernet to guarantee the reliability given the simple fact that the Internet is not made up by Ethernet Think about the OC-xxx / ATM / Optical link and Wifi part, not even mentioning the cross broadcast domain boundary.
And that, neither TCP or upper protocol can drop the reliability responsibility because of no lower layer protocols guarantee that.
I bet it's the long cable that acts as an antenna? Though that doesn't explain how Laptop models are affected.
Any how...may be we could apply HDCP-like end-to-end encryption protocol down to the keyboard, or even to each physical key...Microsoft did an ASIC for the blue-ray mouse, could they make one for each keys too? I am thinking if The FBI might want to order thousands of them...
...you must not want your game to become popular, right?
Imagine 5 years later your game is still very popular, but how can a DVD survive for more than a few years?
Blizzard did the right thing in removing the disc requirement in some of the recent patches of Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3.
I still regularly play Warcraft 3 with friends, everyday now. Good games last for decades, not years.
Ff there is a DRM'ed game, expect the publisher means that it's kind of rubbish and you will not want to play for more than a few years. And think twice before spending money is buying a DRM'ed one.
After the system, software is setup and running, I hardly run into any UAC prompt, except for one of the bank applications that for unknown requires admin privilege.
If Vista didn't push for that, we will need admin privileges to run Windows, forever, because of the bad design of applications!
There are, definitely, room for improvements, for example, combining the ActiveX Install prompt with UAC, reducing two to one. Combing the warning of running the Internet downloaded.exe and UAC, and allows a Explorer.exe to have the admin token for a while once granted, for those file manipulation operations.
All in all, I love UAC! It's more convenient than typing "sudo..." for every commands i need to run at root's right.
USB...I don't think that's going to change until there is a standard profile for direct access just like "Mass storage device" is defined for it.
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Most of the time, I think it took much more than 3 months for a patch from the component's own source tree, moved up to linux-next, then finally to the main linux tree. It's just the last stage of the pipeline repeats every 3 months.
It's still being review by multiple developers, and beta tested by the mass and pioneers before released as stable to the mass. The fact is that, we have tons of people working on it, and also thanks to the high performance GIT system, which basically crafted for Linux kernel development, which made the job easier.
Though, I absolutely agree that's a very large amount of work accomplished.
Yes it is. If the aircraft is flying in auto-pilot mode (which is almost the case in mid-air), that a garbage going in to the navigation system would also result in a garbage out to the elevator control system.
That said, I don't think it's practically possible...those fly by wire system does have checksum, CRC or whatsoever to protect the data. The analog path should really have been limited to the first few millimeter from sensors to the microchip. You are telling me that a bluetooth could affect the system even with that distance (distance from the seat to the electronics)? May be I would buy that idea ONLY if my cell phone ringing next to my USB disk could cause a unrepairable flipped bit, or blue screen.
That would means the lifespan could be estimated accurately and no surprise is possible. Remember those two rovers were supposed to live only for 90 days due to the power? There is the surprise!
Oh never mind, at this point I realized that the surprise came from under-estimation...NASA, please announce the estimated life time of the next rover in half to keep us surprised.
I think using nonce in the form is also a very effective way to prevent CSRF?
Nonce is Number-just-used-Once. Basically it is just a number generated by server, known to the server and client. Think it likes the Captcha that other site can't guess the current value, except the answer is known to the browser automatically.
I didn't mention in the FAQ in the parent.
Web application developer should really learn from existing webapp, like blogs like Wordpress or any other popular forum software, they are usally a pioneer to get these security measure implemented.
I didn't RTFA. I am thinking if we could revive the CDMA idea?
Where every handset must adjust their own output, if they don't play nice, the base tower couldn't decode their signal and hence is no good to themselves either.
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I don't think there will be any major kernel work. Vista includes lot of new low level stuff, the whole Audio stack, network stack, composite display (not to mention DRM, duh!), a lot of stuff that hard to get right on the first shoot.
And for a product delayed for a year, I bet the performance fine tuning would be the last thing on the TODO list.
Back to Win 7, I don't heard M$ will be revamping the kernel again. So there is much higher chance that they could stabilize and improve the stack (and hopefully backported back to Vista upcoming SP). All the other bell and whistles, as far as I can tell, could be implemented with the existing kernel framework. The features we are seeing mostly implemented in userspace code.
So go back to the benchmarking, if you mean the speed of running OTHER application, which is the performance of the kernel itself, I think Win 7 will actually be faster because it will be stablized in this timeframe. If you mean the OS features, well it's hard to tell until it is out.
Comparing Win 7 with XP would be like comparing Windows 2000 and Windows 98. If XP does the job, keep it as you wish.
Personally I am using Vista now and I really like some of the features like Start Menu Search, Network, Connectivity & Wireless UI, photo gallery and the UAC. (Yes I like UAC!)
I hope Win 7 HomeGroup feature would play nice with Samba. The next thing I hope is that I could get a DSL upgrade from the ISP...
It might be slower, but I hope the experiences accumulated through the last 39 years still payoff after that.
It's like a higher latency link doesn't mean worse if bandwidth is high enough.
Another analogy is that the CPU clock rate is not the answer of everything. The cache, architecture and everything also play a role.
It's more like you should shift from NetBurst to something else at around 39.
Would someone please start a Facebook group something call "Marlin uber Family" or similar, and start gathering the people and making the noises?...
I propose someone just create a single home domain, then everyone, every single Marlin devices just join to this domain.
"One world, one dream" right?
Well, depends on how it was implemented, if the domain owner could shutdown the domain, then the next step would be-
PROFIT!!
Did you say they are bringing making the kiddie porn legal again?
...call into this auto-answer system?
Will two robot start chatting together? We should definitely put some recording to watch them or else the first two machines that pass turning test might gone unnoticed.
How this can be done?
Another post mentioned the collision detection and backoff property of the Ethernet, but that's all about within the same broadcast domain.
the TCP retransmission is there in case the router in the middle drop it (congestion), or in case where we are not using Ethernet in the bottom layer (hey we use Wifi and Edge!)
There is no way for Ethernet to guarantee the reliability given the simple fact that the Internet is not made up by Ethernet Think about the OC-xxx / ATM / Optical link and Wifi part, not even mentioning the cross broadcast domain boundary.
And that, neither TCP or upper protocol can drop the reliability responsibility because of no lower layer protocols guarantee that.
I bet it's the long cable that acts as an antenna? Though that doesn't explain how Laptop models are affected.
Any how...may be we could apply HDCP-like end-to-end encryption protocol down to the keyboard, or even to each physical key...Microsoft did an ASIC for the blue-ray mouse, could they make one for each keys too? I am thinking if The FBI might want to order thousands of them...
From TFA "The physics is similar to that of the âoeblue lightâ used in crime-scene TV shows to examine surfaces for police investigations."
While that's not what I am going to try, does it work over semen?
Hey do you have a TV at home? or mainly watch newspaper? ...or Slashdot?
...you must not want your game to become popular, right?
Imagine 5 years later your game is still very popular, but how can a DVD survive for more than a few years?
Blizzard did the right thing in removing the disc requirement in some of the recent patches of Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3.
I still regularly play Warcraft 3 with friends, everyday now. Good games last for decades, not years.
Ff there is a DRM'ed game, expect the publisher means that it's kind of rubbish and you will not want to play for more than a few years. And think twice before spending money is buying a DRM'ed one.
After the system, software is setup and running, I hardly run into any UAC prompt, except for one of the bank applications that for unknown requires admin privilege.
If Vista didn't push for that, we will need admin privileges to run Windows, forever, because of the bad design of applications!
There are, definitely, room for improvements, for example, combining the ActiveX Install prompt with UAC, reducing two to one. Combing the warning of running the Internet downloaded .exe and UAC, and allows a Explorer.exe to have the admin token for a while once granted, for those file manipulation operations.
All in all, I love UAC! It's more convenient than typing "sudo ..." for every commands i need to run at root's right.
USB...I don't think that's going to change until there is a standard profile for direct access just like "Mass storage device" is defined for it.
Most of the time, I think it took much more than 3 months for a patch from the component's own source tree, moved up to linux-next, then finally to the main linux tree. It's just the last stage of the pipeline repeats every 3 months.
It's still being review by multiple developers, and beta tested by the mass and pioneers before released as stable to the mass. The fact is that, we have tons of people working on it, and also thanks to the high performance GIT system, which basically crafted for Linux kernel development, which made the job easier.
Though, I absolutely agree that's a very large amount of work accomplished.
Light should be less susceptible for jam and interference.
But on the other hand, it would expose your position. (And they also have night goggle for IR light)
Yes it is. If the aircraft is flying in auto-pilot mode (which is almost the case in mid-air), that a garbage going in to the navigation system would also result in a garbage out to the elevator control system.
That said, I don't think it's practically possible...those fly by wire system does have checksum, CRC or whatsoever to protect the data. The analog path should really have been limited to the first few millimeter from sensors to the microchip. You are telling me that a bluetooth could affect the system even with that distance (distance from the seat to the electronics)? May be I would buy that idea ONLY if my cell phone ringing next to my USB disk could cause a unrepairable flipped bit, or blue screen.
why it get slashdotted.
Oh I know now, it's because it get slashdotted...
It means something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator, right?
That would means the lifespan could be estimated accurately and no surprise is possible. Remember those two rovers were supposed to live only for 90 days due to the power? There is the surprise!
Oh never mind, at this point I realized that the surprise came from under-estimation...NASA, please announce the estimated life time of the next rover in half to keep us surprised.
A lot of other comments already addressed that what end-to-end is so I am not going into that here...
It might be difficult to encrypt just UDP, but i think it's feasible to encrypt IP, with VPN, IPSec...
In that case...may be one should go further back.
Build a transistor computer and review the compiler binary/assembly.
I do have coreboot a.k.a. LinuxBIOS, we do have some open source CPU design AFAIK, or i think we know enough about 386 which can also run Linux!
So building it end-to-end with just open source, or at least with something we surely know what's there, is technically possible.
...the last thing to trust is closed source implementation or even worse, proprietary protocol.
though I think real paranoid people won't trust something like Skype, right?
I think using nonce in the form is also a very effective way to prevent CSRF?
Nonce is Number-just-used-Once. Basically it is just a number generated by server, known to the server and client. Think it likes the Captcha that other site can't guess the current value, except the answer is known to the browser automatically.
I didn't mention in the FAQ in the parent.
Web application developer should really learn from existing webapp, like blogs like Wordpress or any other popular forum software, they are usally a pioneer to get these security measure implemented.
if this work as advertised...now we need a drop-in replacement for Outlook client.
I am not aware of any other Software that could do Email and Calendar, Contact and Sync so great. (oh let me know if there is any).
On the other hand, we probably need a Outlook that could have two or more MAPI account.
I didn't RTFA. I am thinking if we could revive the CDMA idea?
Where every handset must adjust their own output, if they don't play nice, the base tower couldn't decode their signal and hence is no good to themselves either.