It's just some data that can be faked. As long as you have a trunk line like T1 to the Telco, or something similar, you are responsible to generate the Caller ID instead of the Telco.
So what's so surprising here? It just doesn't work to use it for authentication.
No it's not thermally driven. It's driven by capacitance.
I used to have a TouchStream keyboard, and Apply accquired the maker of this keyboard before making iPhone. basically the keyboard is two big multitouch touchpad, all keys are virtual.
It could detect 5 fingers + palm, with interesting gestures. (twist, zoom, chord, etc etc)
Well, nevertheless to say, you can't use it with fingernail either. And it's a very good reminder for cutting fingernail...
Oh wait it might not have USB mass storage but pretty close experience on Windows.
Microsoft is shipping a reasonably good SDK, plus programs can be done in C++,.NET or even Java if you got some runtime installed.
Really...I love my Windows Mobile despite lacking of some cool features, and UI response is a bit sluggish, but at least it's more feature packed, and the platform is ironically much more open IMHO.
For iPhone 3.0, I hope someday I could get finger-nail friendly multipoint touch screen. Yes I know they used to design the UI with fat finger in mind, but still I love to touch it with my nail instead...finger is just too big for the screen.
Unless the sole purpose of the computer is to access web based application, otherwise how could it be easy?
Or does it only refer to the user training part? Then I would believe easy is the correct word to describe (Form Windows, you have to train user to use windows LOB apps too)
No!...it does not work as expected, or did I misunderstand something?
I don't mind the file system losing the last 2 minutes of work, as long as it's a consistent state. But if you mean the metadata and data can be committed at different time, which means the file size could change without actual data going in or vice versa, no it's a big no!
If the data and metadata could be committed onto the disk out of order would also be a big concern.
It has to be consistent please. 5 mins lost of work is ok, but if it lost 50% of work but 50% state, then it's really bad.
Could someone please clarify if the above is not the case please? Otherwise I wonder if database application around is doing the right thing?
I hope I can get the information overlay'ed on my glass instead of projecting out. First it should get better contrast, second I don't need to display what I am looking to the public.
Put the calibration aside, I would need to start wearing glass...Or should we get the video overlay signal injected into the brain?
If the voice recognition works without the voice...
I think there was an experiment about that? Like probing the nerve that control the vocal cord, and the last time I read is it could recognize 4-5 distinct states after training. Yes, it's even so far from today's voice recognition, but only by then I will consider actively using it. Otherwise I think I will lost my voice in a few days, not to mention any privacy issue it associates.
...is to re-configure the UAC to make it as strict as Vista.
Hell, UAC is good. It's better than sudo. With sudo I will be tempted to use "sudo -s".
The most common scenario to meet an UAC dialog for me is when installing new apps or drivers. Other than that, you shouldn't really see an UAC dialog... Most of the apps I came across have adopted to require no admin privileges. After all, it's the App fault to requires UAC in the first place for those doesn't really need admin privileges.
BTW, I think in Win 7, AFAIK all Microsoft signed EXE are exempted for UAC prompt by default. There isn't a whitelist but simply all MS signed binaries are exempted.
and was handling like hundred thousands to a everyday, with off the shelf hardware spec 10 years ago. (Like 512M RAM and 1st era Pentium 4)
There was no problem at all.
We also used www.linuxvirtualserver.org to handle load balancing the web requests, and using yet another bigger Linux NFS for backend storage.
The biggest problem for the HA is 1. How you sync the data over, or do you rely on another central storage which then there is single point of failure again. 2. If it involves Database, then it's is a much bigger issue...
I assume you don't need sub-second failover. 5 minutes downtime might even be OK. You might want to shoot for a Hot Standby solution, instead of Load Balancing solution, which should be a little bit easier on everything.
Besides a more restrictive ACL as mentioned by parents, the authentication method can also be set stricter (or differently?) than what requires by normal remote desktop - for example you can requires using SmartCard for connecting from remote. Of course this assume you have the proper PKI setup on your AD, and are issuing the SmartCard to your Employee, but software wise it's all included in the Windows Server.
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On a side note, I am also a Linux fanboy, because of its degree of Freedom. Comparing three OS: Linux, Windows, Mac - Linux concentrates at freedom with less emphasizes on end to end scenarios. Mac is at another extreme. Windows is something in between.
If your usage is one of the designed scenarios planned by Windows development, it actually works reasonably well, and they cover a high percentage of the scenarios.
For Apple, if it was designed scenario it works real great. But it is covering much less - for example iPhone dose not have bluetooth stereo earplug, nor file transfer, nor movie capturing, nor files (except photo) downloading.
Linux is just like...Perl! Say if you want iptables NAT + QoS + whatsoever like VPN plugged together, you can get that done just with some dedication. Flexible, and too flexible. It's like being in a nuclear power station control room, full of switches and choices.
Though I think if you know that particular IP is that bank, you can still initiate a MITM attack by generating a certificate that supposes to have violated the EV rules. And the crappy client will be more than happy to accept it.
Hey, IPHostname in SSL is almost one to one mapping, if it's not already. There is basically no virtual host in SSL website...
climbing higher than the Moore's law, that's fine!
I don't mean the developer could write ugly code because we have faster CPU. I mean, if implementation of more functionality is necessary, more code and call is needed and that's fine to me.
I am happy to trade my CPU time for harddrive access, which the access speed didn't follow the Moore's law.
I don't mean the Editions of the Vista...but besides Windows Server, they make Home Server, Small Business Server, Essential Business Server and Windows HPC, they all based on the Windows Server.
Harddrive failure could cause mastery hangup like that. The harddrive will retry for a few times, up to a few good ten seconds, causing all the I/O requests hanged for ten or more seconds.
The harddrive LED might be lit, but might be not. Also pay attention to the access sound, it will become very weird and repetitive when that happens. (Ya harddrive is getting more quiet now and the noise might get overwhelmed by the fan noise)
I experienced this for a few tens in the past ten years or so. (last time it happened on my laptop a few months ago). Again the symptom is - mystery hang up for a few ten seconds, then it went good (either retry success) or some application crashed (I/O error and HDD give up). Smart details usually can't show anything really that usual, or may be just 1 or 2 pending reallocation count, but SMART long SelfTest will usually do the job to catch the bad sector. Use "smartctl -t" in Linux.
At any case, replace the offending harddrive ASAP (after backing up all the data), because bad sector that keep recurring means something wrong with the head or alike, not just the specific spot on the media, and the bad sectors will spread like cancer!
I heard that it's good, so I learned it a few years ago during my high school summary holiday.
It took me 4 weeks to fly at the same speed as QWERTY.
More importantly, because I started playing computer at may be 4 yo, although I did touch typing with QWERTY, but might be grown up using wrong finger to hit the wrong key. Learning Dvorak allows me to relearn the keyboard, which might helps a bit.
RSI wise...I once developed a RSI symptom in a month on my left pinky, because I was working on an embedded system which translates to a lot CTRL-F5, Ctrl-this, Ctrl-that to for compiling, trail-and-error and so on. Since then, I switch the Caps Lock and Ctrl key, and the symptom goes away in one day!
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most of the times the ctrl-enter confirmation box of thunderbird saves me some typo or whatsoever minor mistake.
It's just some data that can be faked. As long as you have a trunk line like T1 to the Telco, or something similar, you are responsible to generate the Caller ID instead of the Telco.
So what's so surprising here? It just doesn't work to use it for authentication.
Then, with taobao.com (Chinese eBay), you might found stuffs are much cheaper in China. Consider that most stuff are Made in China anyway.
No it's not thermally driven. It's driven by capacitance.
I used to have a TouchStream keyboard, and Apply accquired the maker of this keyboard before making iPhone. basically the keyboard is two big multitouch touchpad, all keys are virtual.
It could detect 5 fingers + palm, with interesting gestures. (twist, zoom, chord, etc etc)
Well, nevertheless to say, you can't use it with fingernail either. And it's a very good reminder for cutting fingernail...
I think it's called Windows Mobile, not iPhone.
Oh wait it might not have USB mass storage but pretty close experience on Windows.
Microsoft is shipping a reasonably good SDK, plus programs can be done in C++, .NET or even Java if you got some runtime installed.
Really...I love my Windows Mobile despite lacking of some cool features, and UI response is a bit sluggish, but at least it's more feature packed, and the platform is ironically much more open IMHO.
For iPhone 3.0, I hope someday I could get finger-nail friendly multipoint touch screen. Yes I know they used to design the UI with fat finger in mind, but still I love to touch it with my nail instead...finger is just too big for the screen.
...Seriously?
Unless the sole purpose of the computer is to access web based application, otherwise how could it be easy?
Or does it only refer to the user training part? Then I would believe easy is the correct word to describe (Form Windows, you have to train user to use windows LOB apps too)
Finally..finally!
Now I think I an transcode my snapshot video footage into a format that I don't have to worry about for ...at next 5-10 years.
No!...it does not work as expected, or did I misunderstand something?
I don't mind the file system losing the last 2 minutes of work, as long as it's a consistent state. But if you mean the metadata and data can be committed at different time, which means the file size could change without actual data going in or vice versa, no it's a big no!
If the data and metadata could be committed onto the disk out of order would also be a big concern.
It has to be consistent please. 5 mins lost of work is ok, but if it lost 50% of work but 50% state, then it's really bad.
Could someone please clarify if the above is not the case please? Otherwise I wonder if database application around is doing the right thing?
In turns, Microsoft might promote the use Silverlight or XBAP (Full-blown .NET 3.5 client deployment in web browser) to replace ActiveX...
I hope I can get the information overlay'ed on my glass instead of projecting out. First it should get better contrast, second I don't need to display what I am looking to the public.
Put the calibration aside, I would need to start wearing glass...Or should we get the video overlay signal injected into the brain?
If the voice recognition works without the voice...
I think there was an experiment about that? Like probing the nerve that control the vocal cord, and the last time I read is it could recognize 4-5 distinct states after training. Yes, it's even so far from today's voice recognition, but only by then I will consider actively using it. Otherwise I think I will lost my voice in a few days, not to mention any privacy issue it associates.
...is to re-configure the UAC to make it as strict as Vista.
Hell, UAC is good. It's better than sudo. With sudo I will be tempted to use "sudo -s".
The most common scenario to meet an UAC dialog for me is when installing new apps or drivers. Other than that, you shouldn't really see an UAC dialog...
Most of the apps I came across have adopted to require no admin privileges. After all, it's the App fault to requires UAC in the first place for those doesn't really need admin privileges.
BTW, I think in Win 7, AFAIK all Microsoft signed EXE are exempted for UAC prompt by default. There isn't a whitelist but simply all MS signed binaries are exempted.
Plus, it will break million of existing apps if the Internet Explorer Web browser control is removed from the system.
Will you hand me the sports section to read while you browse the NYT magazine?
The first question can be solved by buying one more kindle for yourself.
Hey, where's the crossword?
If someday it comes with annotation functionality...
and was handling like hundred thousands to a everyday, with off the shelf hardware spec 10 years ago. (Like 512M RAM and 1st era Pentium 4)
There was no problem at all.
We also used www.linuxvirtualserver.org to handle load balancing the web requests, and using yet another bigger Linux NFS for backend storage.
The biggest problem for the HA is
1. How you sync the data over, or do you rely on another central storage which then there is single point of failure again.
2. If it involves Database, then it's is a much bigger issue...
I assume you don't need sub-second failover. 5 minutes downtime might even be OK. You might want to shoot for a Hot Standby solution, instead of Load Balancing solution, which should be a little bit easier on everything.
Besides a more restrictive ACL as mentioned by parents, the authentication method can also be set stricter (or differently?) than what requires by normal remote desktop - for example you can requires using SmartCard for connecting from remote.
Of course this assume you have the proper PKI setup on your AD, and are issuing the SmartCard to your Employee, but software wise it's all included in the Windows Server.
---
On a side note, I am also a Linux fanboy, because of its degree of Freedom.
Comparing three OS: Linux, Windows, Mac - Linux concentrates at freedom with less emphasizes on end to end scenarios. Mac is at another extreme. Windows is something in between.
If your usage is one of the designed scenarios planned by Windows development, it actually works reasonably well, and they cover a high percentage of the scenarios.
For Apple, if it was designed scenario it works real great. But it is covering much less - for example iPhone dose not have bluetooth stereo earplug, nor file transfer, nor movie capturing, nor files (except photo) downloading.
Linux is just like...Perl! Say if you want iptables NAT + QoS + whatsoever like VPN plugged together, you can get that done just with some dedication. Flexible, and too flexible. It's like being in a nuclear power station control room, full of switches and choices.
The terminal service gateway is also pretty good. A controlled way to allows TS from the Internet into the clients on the subnet.
Though I think if you know that particular IP is that bank, you can still initiate a MITM attack by generating a certificate that supposes to have violated the EV rules. And the crappy client will be more than happy to accept it.
Hey, IPHostname in SSL is almost one to one mapping, if it's not already. There is basically no virtual host in SSL website...
I think the same question applies to the Intel/AMD, Windows/Linux family...
I guess the detection would be done by analyzing the sound, instead of visual analysis.
climbing higher than the Moore's law, that's fine!
I don't mean the developer could write ugly code because we have faster CPU. I mean, if implementation of more functionality is necessary, more code and call is needed and that's fine to me.
I am happy to trade my CPU time for harddrive access, which the access speed didn't follow the Moore's law.
I don't mean the Editions of the Vista...but besides Windows Server, they make Home Server, Small Business Server, Essential Business Server and Windows HPC, they all based on the Windows Server.
I didn't RTFA or tried it out. But does it replace the explorer.exe? If it does, may be it's could replace the one shipped in Vista.
The next step? EU might force the Redmond OS to allow selection of Windows manager at first boot.
Harddrive failure could cause mastery hangup like that. The harddrive will retry for a few times, up to a few good ten seconds, causing all the I/O requests hanged for ten or more seconds.
The harddrive LED might be lit, but might be not. Also pay attention to the access sound, it will become very weird and repetitive when that happens. (Ya harddrive is getting more quiet now and the noise might get overwhelmed by the fan noise)
I experienced this for a few tens in the past ten years or so. (last time it happened on my laptop a few months ago). Again the symptom is - mystery hang up for a few ten seconds, then it went good (either retry success) or some application crashed (I/O error and HDD give up). Smart details usually can't show anything really that usual, or may be just 1 or 2 pending reallocation count, but SMART long SelfTest will usually do the job to catch the bad sector. Use "smartctl -t" in Linux.
At any case, replace the offending harddrive ASAP (after backing up all the data), because bad sector that keep recurring means something wrong with the head or alike, not just the specific spot on the media, and the bad sectors will spread like cancer!
I heard that it's good, so I learned it a few years ago during my high school summary holiday.
It took me 4 weeks to fly at the same speed as QWERTY.
More importantly, because I started playing computer at may be 4 yo, although I did touch typing with QWERTY, but might be grown up using wrong finger to hit the wrong key. Learning Dvorak allows me to relearn the keyboard, which might helps a bit.
RSI wise...I once developed a RSI symptom in a month on my left pinky, because I was working on an embedded system which translates to a lot CTRL-F5, Ctrl-this, Ctrl-that to for compiling, trail-and-error and so on. Since then, I switch the Caps Lock and Ctrl key, and the symptom goes away in one day!