HDCP is digital encryption of the signal carried by the DVI/HDMI cable between the PC video card and the display device. The idea is to plug a perceived hole in the signal path, whereby high quality digital video could be theoretically ripped from the DVI/HDMI output and re-encoded for distribution at the original resolution and bitrate.
Obviously the content maf^H^H^H owners/distributors aren't too thrilled about the idea of full bit-rate, 1080 line content being transmitted unencrypted, even if it is only between the video card and display. To appease them, Intel and Silicon image came up with a bolt-on encryption system for the DVI/HDMI standard which could be built into DVI transmitter chips to close the hole.
The group in question is an Austrian civil liberties group, not German hackers and not based in Berlin. How do I know this? I read the first sentence of the article............
Actually JFS started out as an AIX filesystem. It was then clean room reimplemented for OS/2 because the original AIX version was too closely tied to the AIX kernel memory manager to permit a port. The OS/2 codebase was later ported to Linux and to AIX, replacing the original AIX implementation.
RCU and NUMA were, to the best of my knowledge, developed by Sequent for Dynix and later ported to Linux.
The parent has it exactly right. There are a number photos doing the rounds of what is clearly an Infineon TPM 1.2 module on the development kit motherboard, right where you would expect next to the ICH7 south bridge. The layout looks identical to some of Intels own i915G motherboards, except those I have seen have a Infineon TPM 1.1 spec module onboard.
Just about all Intel's southbridge designs released in the last 6 years have had an interface for an external hardware random number generator and crypto module and that is where the TPM module hangs off, driven by the south bridge PCI clock.
To suggest the boards dont have TPM modules is pretty clearly a falsehood. Whether Apple are actively using the hardware for anything is a completely different question.
Mainly because Nokia's Symbian based platforms are already dual core and dual OS (they use TI OMAP dual core designs) and the Symbian OS they use does not contain hard real time phone functionality, just an API which provides abstraction to a link to a hard real time microkernel running on a seperate DSP core. The DSP microkernel "sees" Symbian as a kernel thread, and Symbian running on the ARM core "sees" the metal through the API. Symbian provides all the nice stuff like the UI, filesystems, protocol stacks and the like, but the core phone functionality resides on a different core and under the control of a different OS. Nokia use the same hard real time kernel with a UI, simple apps and a Java runtime on their System 40 platform, and use it in their low cost single core phones.
The latest development release of Symbian does include hard realtime functionality, but as far as I know nobody is actually using it for phone call synchronisation and management.
Errr hold on there partner, you have got your wires crossed, well and truly. Symbian is not Nokias underlying realtime GSM DSP kernel, its their high level OS on which is the application platform for their 2.5G and 3G phones, Communicators, touch screen phones and the like. It is directly decended from Psion's EPOCH mobile OS on which the Psion family of PDAs and mobile workstations were built.
All Nokia's "smart" phones run two operating systems on a dual core TI OMAP processor. The DSP core runs the GSM kernel which does all of the hard real time work managing the signal processing and calls. The ARM core runs Symbian which manages the UI, apps, tcp/ip stack, etc. The GSM kernel sees Symbian as a kernel thread. This dual OS combination is what Nokia refer to as their Series 60 (T9 interface), 80 (Pen/Stylus interface), or 90 (Keyboard) platforms.
The low level GSM kernel has enough facilities to run a basic phone UI, simple apps and a java runtime environment - Nokia refer to it as the System 40 platform, it runs on a lower cost single core cpu and is what all of their entry level phones have used since 1999. That is what you are talking about and that is not Symbian.
A lot of very useful geometric predicates and tests deduce their result purely from the sign of the determinant of the equation matrix. The actual system of equations themselves are never solved.
For example, a simple 2-D orientation test tells you whether the test point lies to the left, right, or on a vector lying on the plane of interest, according to whether the determinant of the matrix is negative, positive or zero. Even tiny floating point approximation errors can mean obtaining a "left" instead of a "right" when the point is very close to lying on the vector. Preconditioning doesn't help you in that case.
Except for the slight problem of a lack of proper hardware IEEE 754 compliance in the Cell. That will cause a number of people (computational geometers in particular) a bit of heartburn. IBM/Sony/Toshiba have elected not to implement all the nuances of the IEEE 754 spec (especially tie breaking and special case values), because they are not particularly useful in a console and require more transistors. The PS2 emotion engine FPU design was the same.
Have you ever tried to determine the true sign of the determinant of a near singular double precision matrix? Even Intel's extended 80 bit IEEE FPU design in the x86 makes this harder than it should be. On the cell it will be even harder again.
Err the Linux kernel is completely encumbered by standard copyright law - every contributor to the linux kernel retains copyright over the code and grants additional usage rights to those who choose to abide by the GNU GPL. Some of those copyrights have been assigned to Linus Torvalds, some to the FSF. They are modified by the additional rights the GPL affords, but the copyrights exist and are enforceable.
Merkey was wrong. Unfortunately O'Gara got it just about right, which is pretty bad because she essentially published a roadmap to stalk and terrorize PJ and her elderly mother.
Let's hope PJ finds a suitable legal avenue to haul O'Gara over the coals and make her really pay...
Indeed they are - they recently bought a pile of Sun Fire V20z and V40z dual/quad Opteron servers from Sun - you can even see the Sun and Microsoft engineers posing in front of the racks here.
That depends a lot on which 450MHz P3 you are talking about. The 450MHz Coppermine had 256kb on die L2 cache which ran full core speed. The 450MHz Katmai core P3 had 512kb off die L2 cache clocked at half the core speed - identical to the Menocino P2 which preceeded it. In practice the Coppermine was *significantly* faster than the the Katmai or Mendocino at the same clock and FSB speed.
FCC certification is issued for the transmitter + antenna as a single unit. In the case of a Cardbus or conventional PCI wireless card, this is not a problem because the antenna is on the card. In a laptop with an internal mini PCI card the antenna is not on the card so the FCC certification is issued only for the manufacturers recommended wireless cards installed in the laptop with a chassis antenna. They include the white list in the BIOS to ensure that their FCC certification is not invalided by connecting an untested card to their chassis antenna.
It sucks badly, but the current FCC rules are as much ti blame as the manufacturers are.
Mach was still an active CMU project when the Hurd glacier began its very slow creep from the peaks of lofty idealism towards the throng of onlookers waiting patiently for the free unix kernel they always craved to reach them. I understand there are actually a few brave souls still standing there waiting.....
No it hasn't. Neither Solaris x86 8 or 9 supported EMT-64 / AMD x86-64 natively, only IA-32, and Sun's Solaris customers using Opterons have been running them in 32 bit compatibility mode. I presume that they now have a native 64 bit x86 kernel, but they certainly didn't with previous Solaris x86 releases.
Freevo is "lighter", more modular and more customisable. The MythTV developers really have time shifting sorted out well. On the other hand running MythTV means running X11, using a MySQL server for recording and listing management and Apache if you want a webserver from end for it. Freevo does the same thing with three python apps that sit over SDL, XMLtv/PySQLlite and the twisted framework. I have tried both and I like Freevo better - the flexibility it affords is a big plus.
Remembering that the Centrino platform is the CPU + chipset + Wifi adaptor, one of the missing pieces for sensible hardware support (given they now have their ACPI and speedstep support in the kernel.org tree) was a driver for the 2200BG/2915BAG cards. Intel wouldn't released any hardware specs for either adaptor, but they did develop their own GPL'd driver which is now pretty stable and works quite well. They also have relicensed their firmware so that it can be redistributed. All of this happened in the second half of last year.
It wouldn't have been particularly smart to permit Centrino + linux marketing when one of the cornerstones of the platform wasn't supported and the reason was Intel's own tardyness in getting the driver up to speed and their firmware license sorted out.
The article at the centre of this particular storm-in-a-teacup was written by the infamous Maureen O'Gara, who regularly gets dumped on over at groklaw for the quality and balance of her linux reportage and whose company (G2 computer intelligence) is behind a motion in Utah connected to the SCO IBM case to unseal submissions to the Court by both parties.
Summary: Nothing to see here.
Steve Fosset is a millionaire balloonist who eventually made it around the globe after about 4 failed attempts. He had exactly nothing to do with the X-Prize winner AFAIK.
Burt Rutan is an aeronautical engineer and the the brains behind Scaled Composites who built the X-Prize winning SpaceShip One and the Voyager.
Dick Rutan is Burt Rutan's brother and he piloted Voyager around the globe non-stop in 1986.
First off the drive it uses is from Seagate and is 1gb larger. If I had to pick two companies I trust in HD tech it would be Seagate and WD, and while Toshiba is also pretty solid HDs aren't their main business.
The iPod Mini uses an IBM/Hitachi Microdrive. The full sized iPod uses the Toshiba 1.8" form factor drives.
Nice bit of "Mac activism", son. Shame you didn't actually read the article. Roxio will happily make their client software dual layer format compatible. HOORAY!. These german guys are claiming they can turn a single layer NEC DVD-R drive into a dual layer drive DVD-R drive by a firmware upgrade with hacked prelease firmware for NEC's new DL DVD-R drive. Not quite the same thing...
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Obviously the content maf^H^H^H owners/distributors aren't too thrilled about the idea of full bit-rate, 1080 line content being transmitted unencrypted, even if it is only between the video card and display. To appease them, Intel and Silicon image came up with a bolt-on encryption system for the DVI/HDMI standard which could be built into DVI transmitter chips to close the hole.
The group in question is an Austrian civil liberties group, not German hackers and not based in Berlin. How do I know this? I read the first sentence of the article............
RCU and NUMA were, to the best of my knowledge, developed by Sequent for Dynix and later ported to Linux.
To suggest the boards dont have TPM modules is pretty clearly a falsehood. Whether Apple are actively using the hardware for anything is a completely different question.
The latest development release of Symbian does include hard realtime functionality, but as far as I know nobody is actually using it for phone call synchronisation and management.
All Nokia's "smart" phones run two operating systems on a dual core TI OMAP processor. The DSP core runs the GSM kernel which does all of the hard real time work managing the signal processing and calls. The ARM core runs Symbian which manages the UI, apps, tcp/ip stack, etc. The GSM kernel sees Symbian as a kernel thread. This dual OS combination is what Nokia refer to as their Series 60 (T9 interface), 80 (Pen/Stylus interface), or 90 (Keyboard) platforms.
The low level GSM kernel has enough facilities to run a basic phone UI, simple apps and a java runtime environment - Nokia refer to it as the System 40 platform, it runs on a lower cost single core cpu and is what all of their entry level phones have used since 1999. That is what you are talking about and that is not Symbian.
A lot of very useful geometric predicates and tests deduce their result purely from the sign of the determinant of the equation matrix. The actual system of equations themselves are never solved. For example, a simple 2-D orientation test tells you whether the test point lies to the left, right, or on a vector lying on the plane of interest, according to whether the determinant of the matrix is negative, positive or zero. Even tiny floating point approximation errors can mean obtaining a "left" instead of a "right" when the point is very close to lying on the vector. Preconditioning doesn't help you in that case.
Have you ever tried to determine the true sign of the determinant of a near singular double precision matrix? Even Intel's extended 80 bit IEEE FPU design in the x86 makes this harder than it should be. On the cell it will be even harder again.
Merkey was wrong. Unfortunately O'Gara got it just about right, which is pretty bad because she essentially published a roadmap to stalk and terrorize PJ and her elderly mother. Let's hope PJ finds a suitable legal avenue to haul O'Gara over the coals and make her really pay...
Indeed they are - they recently bought a pile of Sun Fire V20z and V40z dual/quad Opteron servers from Sun - you can even see the Sun and Microsoft engineers posing in front of the racks here.
If the TPS reports had of had the correct coversheet on them, none of this would have happened!
That depends a lot on which 450MHz P3 you are talking about. The 450MHz Coppermine had 256kb on die L2 cache which ran full core speed. The 450MHz Katmai core P3 had 512kb off die L2 cache clocked at half the core speed - identical to the Menocino P2 which preceeded it. In practice the Coppermine was *significantly* faster than the the Katmai or Mendocino at the same clock and FSB speed.
Think BSD Unix - which is what he and Bill Joy ported to the first Sun hardware - an the journalist is not that far off the mark, actually.
It sucks badly, but the current FCC rules are as much ti blame as the manufacturers are.
Mach was still an active CMU project when the Hurd glacier began its very slow creep from the peaks of lofty idealism towards the throng of onlookers waiting patiently for the free unix kernel they always craved to reach them. I understand there are actually a few brave souls still standing there waiting.....
No it hasn't. Neither Solaris x86 8 or 9 supported EMT-64 / AMD x86-64 natively, only IA-32, and Sun's Solaris customers using Opterons have been running them in 32 bit compatibility mode. I presume that they now have a native 64 bit x86 kernel, but they certainly didn't with previous Solaris x86 releases.
Freevo is "lighter", more modular and more customisable. The MythTV developers really have time shifting sorted out well. On the other hand running MythTV means running X11, using a MySQL server for recording and listing management and Apache if you want a webserver from end for it. Freevo does the same thing with three python apps that sit over SDL, XMLtv/PySQLlite and the twisted framework. I have tried both and I like Freevo better - the flexibility it affords is a big plus.
It wouldn't have been particularly smart to permit Centrino + linux marketing when one of the cornerstones of the platform wasn't supported and the reason was Intel's own tardyness in getting the driver up to speed and their firmware license sorted out.
The article at the centre of this particular storm-in-a-teacup was written by the infamous Maureen O'Gara, who regularly gets dumped on over at groklaw for the quality and balance of her linux reportage and whose company (G2 computer intelligence) is behind a motion in Utah connected to the SCO IBM case to unseal submissions to the Court by both parties. Summary: Nothing to see here.
Steve Fosset is a millionaire balloonist who eventually made it around the globe after about 4 failed attempts. He had exactly nothing to do with the X-Prize winner AFAIK.
Burt Rutan is an aeronautical engineer and the the brains behind Scaled Composites who built the X-Prize winning SpaceShip One and the Voyager.
Dick Rutan is Burt Rutan's brother and he piloted Voyager around the globe non-stop in 1986.
3-4 hours battery life, tops, according to the review
Nice bit of "Mac activism", son. Shame you didn't actually read the article. Roxio will happily make their client software dual layer format compatible. HOORAY!. These german guys are claiming they can turn a single layer NEC DVD-R drive into a dual layer drive DVD-R drive by a firmware upgrade with hacked prelease firmware for NEC's new DL DVD-R drive. Not quite the same thing...
Where are the front and rear flexigrip handles?