Not only in an easy distro is your TV card set up for you, but you can usually tune it to any frequency (it's driver locked on Win32) allowing your TV only card to pick up radio too.
I'm waiting for the 36 hour super extended expansive authorative double wide big mac and fries too many pies massive elongated turgid spactular extravaganza sustained another beer please endless superbit DVD release.
You aren't a true fan unless you buy one. And with every purchase you get a free Lucasarts (tm) branded marquee to store it in.
You can get Lindows to do the leg work for you for the next 8 days. <br><br> <a href="http://msfreepc.com/">MSFreePC.com</a> <br><br> The attempted shutdown was reported <a href="http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,3902465 1,10006232,00.htm">here</a>.
It's going to be as annoying as Flash, but my boss won't be able to make me install it on my Linux dev box. (Even if there is an OS X version, there will be a penguin skating in hell before they release a runtime for Linux.)
With a bit of luck this could cut down my exposure to annoying and pointless flash animations by as much as 50%. It might even cut out 50% of dynamic adverts too, without me needing to feel guilty about being a net parasite (it won't be my fault after all).
My car has one of these things in it - the map systems runs of a data DVD rom in the boot (part of the CD changer assembly).
As a result I have been driving in Boston for 3 months and can't find my way from end to end, unlike every other place I have lived in (I can drive around NYC, London, Cambridgeshire and Lancashire with no map no problem). I have no idea what connects to where at all.
You need that period of getting lost all the time when you first move somewhere to really learn it, rely too much on GPS nav and you will never know the city properly:o(
Cool for the odd weekend, but overreliance will cripple your direction sense. And worst of all, now I have lived here for so long I can't exactly switch it off and be late for everything - no excuse anymore.
Now I'm stuck forever buying map upgrades and newer and better systems at vast cost - it's a conspiracy to lock you in I tells ya, get out whilst the goings good.
I would be running it the other way around - CAD apps on my Mac, from a Solaris host in the lab. Doesn't work, because the interface is all aqua'd up on most (all) CAD apps (plus Labview, which I need) you can get for Mac.
The Linux versions run happily, because you it just sits on top of X. The Linux version on the Mac would work, if the Mac could run it (x86 binaries only of that version).
It's really important for me to be able to get to my PC from the lab (as I am doing now) and run all my apps (thank god for switched networks and gigabit ethernet - I'm using 1100k/sec at present, it used to only be possible to use 16 colour mode 800x600 VNC because of network congestion, now 24 bit desktops forwarded over SSH is fine). As such the biggest reason I wouldn't consider jumping to Apple is the fact that on Linux X 'just works' in a networked environment. I can browse local and remote filesystems with no pain at all, and it's very responsive.
If X is going to get the ability to do OS X's flash graphical tricks (the useful ones at least - functionality before form please) then this will make my desktop experience much more plesant, whilst still giving me a stable and predictable environment wherever I happen to be working. Even if the flash tricks are only available locally (at least until the college upgrades to terrabit ethernet...) it'll still be a pretty big bonus.
So by the time these form factor devices get 32 bit colour, a 640x480 res screen, Linux, GPS add on cards, cameras etc and people are talking about them as good laptop replacements should we be looking out for a new prototype the size of a stamp? How many iterations before I can finally buy one of those nano-scale PDAs I have always dreamed of?
If you wanted lots of people to read something, what would you do? Release a gov't document that is easily accessible, or release one that is actually easily accessible but appears to be a massive cover up?
Seems like someone inside the DOJ or possibly someone at KPMG wanted the information to get out, and decided that this was a surefire way of getting to a large audience.
The idea of equal opportunity and equal rights should be that you just hire whoever is better for the job, and hit anyone making this not so with a big stick that has a nail in it. Aiming for exactly 50% one thing or another is no less sexist/racist than only hiring women or only hiring men (etc).
The transparent window to let you see the screen when the clamshell is closed is a nice touch, but it's following the latest phone trend of looking like it's eaten too many pies. When will someone produce a phone styled like the iPod with it's slick square-with-rounded-corners look?
I wonder if you can telnet in from the serial port/data link port, install a VNC server and then have all your phone controlls on your desktop? Would be a big improvement over fiddly little buttons - mind you in the photo it doesn't seem to have numeric buttons, but rather use some kind of touch screen controls as well as a D pad.
The Department of Defense disagrees with you. FileVault uses MILSPEC-standard AES-128. A brute-force attack against AES-128 is impractical in the extreme given today's computing resources.
And when exactly does your Mac ask you to enter the AES key? Oh, it doesn't, it asks you to enter a passphrase to unlock the AES key.
Hence, all you need to do is work out the passphrase and you get the data - and tha passphrase is going to be just as suscpetible to a brute force attack as a simple password mechanism.
One file encrypted someone gets their hands on = safe.
One file encrypted that someone gets their hands on + access to your Mac = not safe.
2048 bit encryption is useless if the key is protected by a short, english passphrase - you may as well just have the short english passphrase as the key. You have to separate key and data to make it worthwhile.
Unless the keys can be held on removable USB pen drives or similar then a simple brute force attack against the passphrase will give you the <many many bit> key required to decrypt the data.
This is the problem with many CD encryption programms - sure the disc is encrypted, but the encryption/decryption algorythm is on the disk as well, and so is the key - just obfusicated a little using a simple function that is keyed with a short passphrase that can easily (at least compared to finding the long key) be found.
However using the key that is held on your Mac to encrypt data that is on your iPad would be cool, as then it really can only be read where they key is available (home & work & wherever else).
When the version of Linux is Lindows and it's adminstered by a monkey who leave it lying around a student lab logged in as root.
On a more serious note, securit depends more on the person administering it than the software itself up to a point. Sure you _can_ leave yourself wide open on Linux as well as on Windows, it's just that on Windows it's much easier (eg using OE or IE or not turning off messaging services or RPC) compared to Linux (installing something compromised or bad physical security).
Say what you want, but in 3000 years those CD's will be in much better shape then a book.
The BBC project to preserve the doomsday book (onto laser disk) was rendered unreadable by advances in computer technology in less than 10 years, whilst the original has been around for ~1000 years and is still totally legible.
The British Government still archives data onto vellum (goat skin) because it has a life span of >>1000 years, but CDs become unreadable in under 10 (maybe 20 for the very best well handled media).
Now, if the data is only going to last for 10, whats the problem with making sure that the media breaks down in 50 instead of leaving it to uselessly fill up a landfil - plus these new ones wont leech industrial chemicals into the water supply, unlike the slower degredation of conventional CDs.
Just make sure you have done a full (or preferably 2) full backups first - then it doesnt matter what you do to your PC, nothing will go wrong. Hell, juggle the ram chips, play football with the hard disk, drop bits onto passing pedestrians... whatever the hell you feel like. It'll all work just fine.
This state of affairs can obviously be implied from the case where you attempt to upgrade without backing up and it takes 0.0000001 seconds for something fatal to happen to your hard disk.
the only supersonic jet in the world that doesn't need an afterburner to go supersonic is the F-22, it's bypass ratio is under 2
You are mistaken, as the Eurofighter can also go supersonic without burner - and it's dry t/w ratio of >2 allows it to climb vertically without burner too. (It too has a BPR of about 1.5 IIRC.)
On the other hand, at full reheat it can pull some amazing moves - that's where its mostly used, extra reaction thrust for turns.
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Not only in an easy distro is your TV card set up for you, but you can usually tune it to any frequency (it's driver locked on Win32) allowing your TV only card to pick up radio too.
I'm waiting for the 36 hour super extended expansive authorative double wide big mac and fries too many pies massive elongated turgid spactular extravaganza sustained another beer please endless superbit DVD release.
You aren't a true fan unless you buy one. And with every purchase you get a free Lucasarts (tm) branded marquee to store it in.
You can get Lindows to do the leg work for you for the next 8 days.5 1,10006232,00.htm">here</a>.
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It's going to be as annoying as Flash, but my boss won't be able to make me install it on my Linux dev box. (Even if there is an OS X version, there will be a penguin skating in hell before they release a runtime for Linux.)
With a bit of luck this could cut down my exposure to annoying and pointless flash animations by as much as 50%. It might even cut out 50% of dynamic adverts too, without me needing to feel guilty about being a net parasite (it won't be my fault after all).
My car has one of these things in it - the map systems runs of a data DVD rom in the boot (part of the CD changer assembly).
:o(
As a result I have been driving in Boston for 3 months and can't find my way from end to end, unlike every other place I have lived in (I can drive around NYC, London, Cambridgeshire and Lancashire with no map no problem). I have no idea what connects to where at all.
You need that period of getting lost all the time when you first move somewhere to really learn it, rely too much on GPS nav and you will never know the city properly
Cool for the odd weekend, but overreliance will cripple your direction sense. And worst of all, now I have lived here for so long I can't exactly switch it off and be late for everything - no excuse anymore.
Now I'm stuck forever buying map upgrades and newer and better systems at vast cost - it's a conspiracy to lock you in I tells ya, get out whilst the goings good.
Possibly might be useful in foreign capitals, to run between the embassy and the comms shed or the embassy and employee houses in the nearby compound.
Can't see many other uses for it at the moment, but it's early days.
I would be running it the other way around - CAD apps on my Mac, from a Solaris host in the lab. Doesn't work, because the interface is all aqua'd up on most (all) CAD apps (plus Labview, which I need) you can get for Mac.
The Linux versions run happily, because you it just sits on top of X. The Linux version on the Mac would work, if the Mac could run it (x86 binaries only of that version).
It's really important for me to be able to get to my PC from the lab (as I am doing now) and run all my apps (thank god for switched networks and gigabit ethernet - I'm using 1100k/sec at present, it used to only be possible to use 16 colour mode 800x600 VNC because of network congestion, now 24 bit desktops forwarded over SSH is fine). As such the biggest reason I wouldn't consider jumping to Apple is the fact that on Linux X 'just works' in a networked environment. I can browse local and remote filesystems with no pain at all, and it's very responsive.
If X is going to get the ability to do OS X's flash graphical tricks (the useful ones at least - functionality before form please) then this will make my desktop experience much more plesant, whilst still giving me a stable and predictable environment wherever I happen to be working. Even if the flash tricks are only available locally (at least until the college upgrades to terrabit ethernet...) it'll still be a pretty big bonus.
So by the time these form factor devices get 32 bit colour, a 640x480 res screen, Linux, GPS add on cards, cameras etc and people are talking about them as good laptop replacements should we be looking out for a new prototype the size of a stamp? How many iterations before I can finally buy one of those nano-scale PDAs I have always dreamed of?
The sad thing is that any one of those recycled PCs is probably more powerful than the one on my desk :o(
If you wanted lots of people to read something, what would you do? Release a gov't document that is easily accessible, or release one that is actually easily accessible but appears to be a massive cover up?
Seems like someone inside the DOJ or possibly someone at KPMG wanted the information to get out, and decided that this was a surefire way of getting to a large audience.
On the whole measuring diversity is pointless.
The idea of equal opportunity and equal rights should be that you just hire whoever is better for the job, and hit anyone making this not so with a big stick that has a nail in it. Aiming for exactly 50% one thing or another is no less sexist/racist than only hiring women or only hiring men (etc).
There are some pictures here.
The transparent window to let you see the screen when the clamshell is closed is a nice touch, but it's following the latest phone trend of looking like it's eaten too many pies. When will someone produce a phone styled like the iPod with it's slick square-with-rounded-corners look?
I wonder if you can telnet in from the serial port/data link port, install a VNC server and then have all your phone controlls on your desktop? Would be a big improvement over fiddly little buttons - mind you in the photo it doesn't seem to have numeric buttons, but rather use some kind of touch screen controls as well as a D pad.
If only they would develop an optical superfast chip to detect dupes...
Linuxprinting.org has a vendor score card to show you which vendors deserve yor support.
Their recommendation (and HP's work writing opensource drivers that support all the features of their printers) was the reason that I purchased a PhotoSmart 7260 from HP and I haven't regretted it - even the integrated card reader works.
Not surprisingly they rate Lexmark inkjet printers as useless.
They inflict their crap on us (via getting the best google ratings) - it's nice to see them having to suffer something similar from another group.
I'll support death to blog spammers when they start using their robots.txt file to stop their lame sites ruining search results.
IR guided Maverick anti tank missiles mounted on traffic light poles. Bet those suckers shut off their IR transmitter then!
With improved inventory controls, how the hell am I going to get my hands on a 'surplus' tank now?
The Department of Defense disagrees with you. FileVault uses MILSPEC-standard AES-128. A brute-force attack against AES-128 is impractical in the extreme given today's computing resources.
And when exactly does your Mac ask you to enter the AES key? Oh, it doesn't, it asks you to enter a passphrase to unlock the AES key.
Hence, all you need to do is work out the passphrase and you get the data - and tha passphrase is going to be just as suscpetible to a brute force attack as a simple password mechanism.
One file encrypted someone gets their hands on = safe.
One file encrypted that someone gets their hands on + access to your Mac = not safe.
Where do they keep the key?
2048 bit encryption is useless if the key is protected by a short, english passphrase - you may as well just have the short english passphrase as the key. You have to separate key and data to make it worthwhile.
Unless the keys can be held on removable USB pen drives or similar then a simple brute force attack against the passphrase will give you the <many many bit> key required to decrypt the data.
This is the problem with many CD encryption programms - sure the disc is encrypted, but the encryption/decryption algorythm is on the disk as well, and so is the key - just obfusicated a little using a simple function that is keyed with a short passphrase that can easily (at least compared to finding the long key) be found.
However using the key that is held on your Mac to encrypt data that is on your iPad would be cool, as then it really can only be read where they key is available (home & work & wherever else).
When the version of Linux is Lindows and it's adminstered by a monkey who leave it lying around a student lab logged in as root.
On a more serious note, securit depends more on the person administering it than the software itself up to a point. Sure you _can_ leave yourself wide open on Linux as well as on Windows, it's just that on Windows it's much easier (eg using OE or IE or not turning off messaging services or RPC) compared to Linux (installing something compromised or bad physical security).
Say what you want, but in 3000 years those CD's will be in much better shape then a book.
The BBC project to preserve the doomsday book (onto laser disk) was rendered unreadable by advances in computer technology in less than 10 years, whilst the original has been around for ~1000 years and is still totally legible.
The British Government still archives data onto vellum (goat skin) because it has a life span of >>1000 years, but CDs become unreadable in under 10 (maybe 20 for the very best well handled media).
Now, if the data is only going to last for 10, whats the problem with making sure that the media breaks down in 50 instead of leaving it to uselessly fill up a landfil - plus these new ones wont leech industrial chemicals into the water supply, unlike the slower degredation of conventional CDs.
Just make sure you have done a full (or preferably 2) full backups first - then it doesnt matter what you do to your PC, nothing will go wrong. Hell, juggle the ram chips, play football with the hard disk, drop bits onto passing pedestrians... whatever the hell you feel like. It'll all work just fine.
This state of affairs can obviously be implied from the case where you attempt to upgrade without backing up and it takes 0.0000001 seconds for something fatal to happen to your hard disk.
Having checked the external site, I can't find anything on it either.
Fortunatly I distinctly remember reading about it in an external publication (sigh of relief), but unfortunatly I can't remember where.
the only supersonic jet in the world that doesn't need an afterburner to go supersonic is the F-22, it's bypass ratio is under 2
You are mistaken, as the Eurofighter can also go supersonic without burner - and it's dry t/w ratio of >2 allows it to climb vertically without burner too. (It too has a BPR of about 1.5 IIRC.)
On the other hand, at full reheat it can pull some amazing moves - that's where its mostly used, extra reaction thrust for turns.