You can get a DRAM-based 4GB drive that will most certainly saturate it's SATA bus, but it'll run at least $400 right now (Gigabyte i-Ram plus four 1-gig sticks; the former still seems quite unavailable). But zero seek times (well, a few nanoseconds) and making use of all the bandwidth available, with the durability of DRAM, and the only problem is the 12-hr battery life (though, that's only when the machine is unplugged, as it gets power from PCI which can and does tap the standby lines).
I was quite excited when I heard about the i-Ram, however I soon realised that since it is SATA 150MB/s based and thus limited to that speed, it had lost most of its appeal to me. I would rather just buy that much RAM and use it with a software RAM disk to get the much greater speed that the RAM can provide as system RAM. I tested this out with various BSD's on an AMD 2800+ with 2GB DDR333 RAM, using 1GB for a RAM disk and I was getting over 700MB/s.
Sure the i-Ram is battery backed, but I'd rather have a PC with a UPS and then copy between software ramdisk and disk when the system comes up and goes down. I realise this is going to cause a higher risk, since the OS or ramdisk driver can crash, loosing the data, but exteme speed comes with the risks that avoiding constant commits to disk already has.
Maybe I'm being harsh, but I feel that this product can be in many circumstances too little too late. Its claim to fame is speed, but if extreme speed is desired, you can get Opteron motherboards which take LOTS of memory (I have seen 64GB with a single Opteron) and I would expect a big RAM disk on one of those could be pretty damn fast.
Or, you could avoid a software RAM disk in many circumstances and just exploit FreeBSD or NetBSD's fantastic unified buffer cache and go even faster. I found this to be the case (slightly).
All in all, I think 4GB of RAM would be put to much better use as system RAM. If low latency is what you're after, same deal. I'll take system RAM there also.
if they can build lots of storage (50G+), lifetime you'd expect from DRAM (get rid of the wear problems of flash) and make it fast enough to saturate typical disk busses and fit it into 2.5" and 3.5" HDD form factor with appropriate bus to use as a HDD. Who needs TCQ when you have no head movement. Then these super fast disk busses would actually be worthwhile.
I've seen flash "disks" in HDD form factors for IDE and SCSI before, but they're hyper expensive, typically intended for military use and still suffer from the wear problems of flash memory.
I would love to see the end of mechanical disk storage. Somehow I imagine I would be wondering how I coped before it, like I do with the optical mouse. I wait in great anticipation! The power savings and added battery life should be great too.
Of the many mobile phone Nickel Metal Hydride batteries I've had for two phones that used them, they ALWAYS died around 6 months old and when they did die, it was VERY sudden. Like from full capacity to almost none after a "full charge" in 2 to 3 charges. For one of those phones (Nokia 6110), I replaced the dead NiMh with a Nokia Li battery. I later needed longer talk time than the standard slim Li could give, so I bought the largest Li battery and 4 years on it is still giving me about 2 WEEKS standby. The slim Li is still fine also as my backup. Both these Li batteries may as well be brand new.
My girlfriends Thinkpad... NiMh... dead in a bit over a year.
My old clamshell Apple iBook... Li... still giving me about 1.5 to 2 hours after SIX YEARS!
Maybe there is something much better than Li now, but I am pretty happy with YEARS usage. I am not noticing any degradation at all. Or maybe I have just been lucky?
For me it's Toshiba and Ericsson which goes back to a deal they made with the, then, Soviets to provide them with computerized milling equipment that would give them the capability to create precision submarine propellors. Something we only had at the time and they did not. Considering that I was sitting on a destroyer (sub-hunter by design), I kinda had a personal stake in the matter. This was back in the '80's so I can hold a grudge a loooonnngggg time as you can see.
Oh yes, was that Toshiba incident also related to Toshiba's theft of a secret US propellor design which they were building under contract? An apparently super quiet propellor with low tip cavitation properties.
Don't piss me off. I never forget and I never forgive.
I can respect that. Some things are beyond forgiving. The French government using their special forces to attack a peaceful group of people in ANOTHER COUNTRY is a downright act of WAR if you ask me. Australia and NZ seemed to pretty much just roll over on that. I imagine if that terrorist act by the French was perpetrated against the USA, the French would have their arses severely kicked.
Cluetrain - this DRM fiasco was caused by Sony BMG. Blame American market culture, not Sony, you damn racist pig.
Ha ha, I am not even American.
How am I racist for punishing the French for taking a great big stinking fucking SHIT in MY backyard and the backyard of others?
Ohh, lets weigh this up now... Approx 167 nuclear bombs detonated in or above my ocean : Me choosing to not buy thier products as a result.
Oh God damn I am one fucken arsehole aren't I?
Moron. PS The French are FUCKING TERRORISTS. I painfully regret that my grandfather, a Spitfire fighter pilot, may have defended the French, given this is how they have repaid us.
Ugh! Dell uses them in computers, and some models have a near 100% failure rate!
Bullshit. No model of ANYTHING that has a "100% failure rate" will remain available for long.
Do some research before recommending garbage like that.
Anyone who did research Lite-On quality, will find most people have very good things to say about them.
As an example, in the last batch of 480 computers we bought from Dell, we've replaced almost 600 Lite-On DVD/CDR drives. That's more than 1 per computer.
Did you try upgrading the firmware yourselves (to a real Lite-On firmware) or just get the Dell morons to replace the drives with the same drives with same potentially broken firmware? I have had terrible trouble with Dell in the past too, but that was trouble with DELL. I call complete and utter bullshit on this post.
The only reason we haven't replaced more than that is that we've started replacing the drives with Sony's that we pay for out of our pocket rather than using the Dell 3 year on-site warranty we paid a lot of money for.
Ahhh, here's an education for you then... Sony CDRW drives are made by... wait for it... Lite-On. Oh, and they are not made to Sony specification or design, they are Lite-On designed and built, with slightly modified firmware to pretend to be a Sony, complete with Sony top sticker and Sony faceplate. I'm not sure how many Sony DVDRW drives are made by Lite-On, but I beleive I have seen at least one laptop Sony DVDRW drive with, oddly enough, a Lite-On sticker on top.
Dell doesn't give a damn about their customers, so they continue to screw us over by continuing to use those pitiful drives, so we had to pay for our own drives out of our pocket.
Yes, Dell sucks. Lite-On however, do not churn out "pitiful drives". This I can state with absolute certainty and authority. They may have made some less than fantastic models, but I don't know of any. The general drive quality coming out of Lite-On is top notch. Which is why MANY VERY VERY BIG brand names are confident in letting Lite-On make "thier" drives.
The truth, is probably that Dell modified the Lite-On OEM firmware, as is typical, and fucked it up, as is typical of Dell.
I recently switched backup media to DVD+R from -R, and upgraded the Pioneer's firmware, and put them both on USB 2.0 instead of FireWire, and they both work well now. Something about the Pioneer and my cheapo USB + FireWire cages was resulting in complete FireWire bus hangs.
There is a USB2/Firewire chipset (Prolific PL-3507) which is just downright broken. The A revision is not flash upgradable without desoldering the chip and the subsequent revisions are flashable, however the "fixed" firmware is pretty much still broken. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of PL-3507 based USB2/Firewire units out there and it seems they are single handedly taking some shine of the perceived quality of IDE-Firewire enclosures. I wonder if that is what you had?
The PL-3507 insists on using a fixed firewire ID, so you can't have more than one on a chain. Why anyone would want more than ZERO PL-3507's is beyond me however.
I use a Lite-On DVDRW drive in an older Iomega USB2 CDRW cage to burn DVDR's on my Mac mini within Tiger. The "Iomega" CDRW drive I pulled out of it was actually a Lite-On LTR-5226S drive, with the Lite-On sticker on the top and the Iomega branded black faceplate. ; )
$40 Lite-On DVD burner. Never failed me. I love it.
I agree. I currently have a DVDRW DL (desktop size) Lite-On, a DVDRW DL (laptop size) Lite-On, 2x CDRW Lite-On's (one Lite-On branded, the other Iomega which I have sinced kept up to date with Lite-On firmware updates), a DVDROM Lite-On and an NEC DVDRW. I also recommend Lite-On to all my customers and have had far too much experience with Pioneer DVDRW drives.
I have never had a Lite-On go bad on me, they perform fantastically and they are very cheap. Chances are, that if you buy some name brand drive like Sony, Iomega, etc, you are actually buying a Lite-On (except that Sony logo will cost you another $20). Even if your drive is detected in software as being a Sony for example, this is simply due to the customized firmware.
I had a LOT of trouble with my NEC DVDRW drive, until eventually (a YEAR or more later) a decent firmware was released which fixed the issues. I did not take it back because it came with a VERY cheap Compaq desktop, which I think may have been cheap due to the initially crappy NEC drive.
I have had extremely bad problems with Pioneer DVDRW drives with a few of my customers which bought them. BEWARE BUYING PIONEER IN AUSTRALIA! If you buy a drive without the Pioneer official hologram sticker on the top, it means that the drive came into Australia outside of official Pioneer channels and thus Pioneer REFUSE to support them AT ALL. EVERY Pioneer DVDRW drive I have tried to get going for these customers, either fails to burn or makes coasters EVERY SINGLE TIME! No amount of firmware updating has fixed them. I recommended my customers get refunds and buy Lite-On and I have since scratched Pioneer off my list for optical drives permanently. Shit drives, shit support for customers who thought they were buying Pioneer supported Pioneer drives.
Sony by the way (and some other big name brands) provide little to no firmware support, which is why I am thankful that Lite-On based Sony drives can be flashed with Lite-On firmware updates. You get better media support and the drive will also be detected as what it really is.
Lite-On provides those rare products which are both cheapest and best.
I don't work for Lite-On by the way, I'm just raving because I love the fact that there is actually a company which makes great products at an excellent price.
Funny thing however... I did have a Lite-On based CDRW drive die, a little over a year after purchase, in a customer machine in a very hot and dusty area... however it was a Sony branded unit. That server has since been cooled somewhat and the replacement Lite-On is going great. ; )
yes, because at the end of the day the only thing that will make Sony/MS/whoever change is if people stop buying their products.
But the problem with this, is that people WON'T stop buying Sony products. Sure a few die hards like myself and maybe you might (I still refuse to buy French products 10 years after the nuclear testing in Mururoa Atoll). But look at the situation right now. Most Sony consumers right now are probably either unaware of the rootkit (even though it has had so much mainstream press) or don't understand what the story means for themselves or what it reveals about Sony. That is a sad situation right now while this actually is news. The latest cool Sony gadget will come out and people will buy them TODAY and tomorrow. A few people won't buy them and Sony won't give a crap. They would just be a barely measurable short lived notch on their profits.
Power to the people? I would love to beleive that is true, but it seems "the people" don't care about much more than their own comfort and only a few of them are made uncomfortable by situations like this.
My biggest dissapointment is "the people". They have the power, but don't exercise it. So I guess they don't really have the power.
OpenBSD by default encrypts the swap-partition. Read the paper by Nils Provos.
Wow, I thought you were wrong about it being on by default, so I checked the CVS entries. I knew OpenBSD's swap encryption had very little impact on swapping performance, but it seems that this was switched on by default 9 months ago and I didn't even notice. I guess that shows how little impact it has.
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There is a happy medium between the two. A cross build can save time, but the code should be tested on the real hardware.
The theory is that building release on the intended arch is a good test of that arch. You could cross compile on x86 to VAX, then test the VAX binaries on the VAX and not find anything wrong. Whereas building release for the VAX on the VAX may turn up problems that you otherwise might not find.
I agree though, that there should be a happy medium. Cross compiling for dev work and then final testing with making release on each arch natively would be good. You would have faster dev thanks to faster compiling and then the better testing of native builds once you think you are done.
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I like the idea of building front-end servers/proxies out of rare combinations of OSes and platforms. It reduces the risk of getting a bug exploited. I've used an easily exploitable version of openssh for 2 years without a break-in;-)
Careful wtarreau. Thems' fightin' words. Get ready to be verbally attacked by all the dorks who spew "security through obscurity" as if it applies when avoiding the #1 targetted arch. I agree with you, I like using obscure hardware (slightly: sparc64, macppc) and software (lucky my favourite OS (OpenBSD) is also a little obscure), because it allows me to avoid a lot of assuming (x86) scripts and kiddies.
I have been attacked so many times for promoting a reliance on "security through obscurity", when the truth is that I never have. I, like you, am just playing better odds (in addition to the regular maintenance which everyone else does).
The "security through obscurity" line seems to get applied way too often. Lots of people seem to have come to the belief that obscurity cannot provide anything positive at all. Oddly they also don't seem to realise that strong passwords are obscure passwords.
Yes, relying on obscurity as a major focus of your security strategy is very wrong. That is "security through obscurity". Avoiding x86 (or even sparc64 and macppc if you want to go further), is not "security through obscurity". It's just a free bonus in the never ending fight for network security.
How hard is it, to at least click on "Apple" under sections (and see that it was the LAST Apple story) or do a search?
Don't these/. editors even read the headlines? If they're making a living out of this, why does the readership know whats going on, but the editors don't?
Time to put the CEO of Xerox in jail too, I guess. Oh, and Sony, for their VCRs. And DVD-RW drives. And Microsoft, because Kazaa runs on Windows. Oh, and the Intel CEO too, because Windows runs on Intel processors. And don't forget Maxtor's CEO, because the files are written to a hard drive.
What happened to putting the actual people who commit crimes in prison? Oh, wait, it's much easier to target the gun maker...
The core business of those companies you cite, is legitimate. The products they provide, can be misused. Like many items can.
The core business of Kazaa, is to make a shit load of advertising revenue by providing tools which make it easy to infringe copyright.
I pulled it up in the hope to see the same images. I didn't.
These pictures that you and others are trumpeting around as fact are from two different porn sites and if you read the article I posted a link to earlier, you'd know what I was talking about.
I would just like to see an article claiming that, which actually shows the same images.
So you know, I don't go around saying "Photoshop" to everything
Didn't say you did.
espeically to spectacular videos because Photoshop is a tool for retouching and editing PHOTOS, not Videos.
I know, I've been using Photoshop for about 11 years, which is why I stated "I even see some people say "photoshop" when seeing amazing videos. Like photoshop is good for everything".
Hence the video you saw of Saddam's statue falling wasn't "Photoshopped" still images of it could have been.
I didn't mention it was a video. It was an image which ran in newspapers.
You ask what is stopping a porn site from using those photos as their own to "support the war" If I follow your logic you're saying the photos are real and two different porn sites, one in Tunasia, the other in Virginia, took the blame for US troops misbehavior...Ok I'll give you the Virginia one, perhaps the proprietor is a patriotic soul and wants the President to look good. But Tunasia??? Doesn't quite make sense does it?
What does not make any sense, is the war.
No Saddam Hussien did not cause 9/11, if you look closely you'll see that I never said he did.
Never said you did.
This thread was about a KU Professor, creationism, intelligent design, and peoples rabid misconceptions about Christians, if you'd like to further discuss this, I propose we continue via email, you can find my address in my profile or at www.dancingmonkey.org
I keep my/. account seperate from email for a good reason. I don't want to be off topic either. However innocent children burning to death over a pack of lies for oil, seems a little more important to me than stupid fucking slashdot.
As for the rape photo sets, both sites you link to have the same ones, these are the photos that the Boston Globe ran that were debunked
The Boston Globe said they were debunked, so it must be true? What is stopping a porn site from using those photos as "their own" to support the war?
Speaking of photoshop, I saw proof that photoshop was used to exagerate the numbers of supporting Iraqi people at the fall of a Saddam statue. Everything can be blamed on photoshop nowdays, can't it? I even see some people say "photoshop" when seeing amazing videos. Like photoshop is good for everything.
The fact is, that Iraq did not cause 9/11 and the US should not be in Iraq in the first place.
You've got a lot of content there, though I wouldn't trumpet those "Iraqi Rape Photos" very loudly, they were debunked shortly before the Boston Globe decided to run them as "news"
There are a few different photo sets of "rape in Iraq by soldiers", so who is to say what is real and fake? Did you see the footage of the US soldier shooting an unarmed Iraqi man who was lying down? If some soldiers are capable of doing that, do you think they are capable of keeping their dicks in their pants when they hate these people so much?
I have seen a photo of a G.I. who got a young Iraqi boy to hold up a sign that said something like, "My house is destroyed, my father is dead and my sister is pregnant". Sex is always on a young mans mind and when you're killing people, rape might not seem so bad. Especially when you are going to get away with it. Rape her, kill her and then burn her.
Some of the other stuff you posted was interesting, a lot of it has dissappeared or changed, or is very off topic even for this tangent we're on.
I'm not sure what you mean by this? I tested each of those URL's before finally posting and I have just now finished re-testing them all again. They all work for me, with the exception of some of the Ogrish pictures, which you need to go to Ogrish and then paste the URL's into the same Ogrish window to make them work.
Yeah, yeah... you forgot to end your rant with the classic "but I support our troops!".
I don't. Plus they're not MY troops. However "my" troops are participating, I hope they don't get killed, but I certainly would not support them being there at all.
Typical lefty nutjob. All wild accusations, strawmen, tangled skeins of conspiracy.... but not a shred of logic or proof.
No I'm not. You on the other hand CHOOSE to ignore OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE.
That's not so bad. You're mentally unbalanced. Again, doesn't bother me.
Wow, amazing that you think you can diagnose a psychological disorder over the Internet with nothing but a COMMON OPINION in TEXT to go on after JUST ONE POST! WOW!
You're also an apologist for those who actually DO murder innocents, rape women, deliberately target civilians and other wise ignore the rules of war.
Take a look at those links moron.
All the while engaging in a sickening display of moral relativism.
A people, who did not attack the USA and did not have the means, had their nation invaded. After being weakened by a decade of sanctions the civilians fight back against this invading force, ruled illegal by the United Nations... and you call my comparison sickening? As if the USA were somehow doing nothing but good? You are a fuckwit. Keep believing the war-friendly media moron.
I'm a Christian, but you're treading onto 'unforgivable' ground, pal.
Some text is unforgivable? Take a look at just ONE image of a dead or injured Iraqi child and then talk to me about unforgivable.
...but you support our troops!
You assume a lot don't you? Just like you assume the popular mass media slant is a true reflection of this "liberation".
Idiots. You and the sickos that modded you insightful. Shame on you all.
Shame on you for choosing to ignore the overwhelming evidence out there. There is way too much out there now for retards like you to come valiantly defending your once proud nation.
I'll be watching your journal on the day the news is announced that the 'professor' admits to fabricating the whole story. You know... to hear the 'real' story about how the Trilateral Commission and the John Birchers made him recant.
I have NEVER written in my journal and have never intended to. I am trying to give this slashdot shit up. It is usually just a huge waste of time because there are far too many crack pots like you.
The Armed Forces are populated by exclusively 'Christ fundies'?
No. They're being ordered to do God's work by the Christian-Extremist-in-chief himself. It helps that lots of the soldiers are also Christian. Thier minds are already pre-softened to accept bullshit.
Dude, just Google for a while, read the texts, watch the videos and listen to the audio to get pointers on what to search for next. Go with it for a while. There is a crap load out there and it will come back to haunt GWB one day.
Yeah, those Christian fundies are hacking off people's heads all over the place, and blowing themselves up inside crowded buses, schools, and bars because the rest of us don't believe exactly as they do.
Idiot.
Yeah, instead the Christ fundies blow up unidentified crowds of people (who are just walking down the street in their own country) with laser GBU's, kill innocents including children, call them "collateral damage" and the overall operation a "liberation" and all in the name of taking down some regime which never threatened to attack or had the means to attack the USA.
Iraq did of course have a cunt load of oil, but that has nothing to do with the "liberation" does it?
Then there is the whole torturing random people (who had one two many AK's in their house) to death and raping women (I've seen the photos). Oh and then there is the Christ fundies who make pot shots at random people in Iraq going about their own business (I've seen the video). Oh and the shooting of unarmed "combatants" (seen lots of the videos)... oh and the avoidance of getting so much as a shrapnel hit on a mosque, yet happily killing people who exit that same mosque, only once they get far enough away... etc etc etc.
Yeah, the Christ fundies are just a bunch of kind, loving, forgiving, good folk aren't they?
Hang on a sec, one to many AK's? If we applied this to the US, almost everyone would be fucking dead. Oh but that is okay because it allows US citizens to protect themselves from a government turned tyranical or from invading forces. So in Iraq, a home with more than 1 AK is a terrorist house, but in the USA a home with more than one gun is the home of some good little capitalist consumers. Right?
Idiot.
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Congrats, you learned the hard way.
The "hard way" being the loss of a dying drive which I knew was about to die and which I was comitting to quicker death in the interest of seeing a drive working while open? Oh-kay. Doesn't seem like such a "hard way" to learn to me.
Good point by the way. Even more reason not to open a good drive and put a silly window on it.
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What's that Skip?
I think he's talking about those soft CD cases which hold a crap load of CD's in sleeves.
22x 700MB CD's and you have a little over 15GB.
and you could have a black and white camera with 0.000324 mega pixels!
You can get a DRAM-based 4GB drive that will most certainly saturate it's SATA bus, but it'll run at least $400 right now (Gigabyte i-Ram plus four 1-gig sticks; the former still seems quite unavailable). But zero seek times (well, a few nanoseconds) and making use of all the bandwidth available, with the durability of DRAM, and the only problem is the 12-hr battery life (though, that's only when the machine is unplugged, as it gets power from PCI which can and does tap the standby lines).
I was quite excited when I heard about the i-Ram, however I soon realised that since it is SATA 150MB/s based and thus limited to that speed, it had lost most of its appeal to me. I would rather just buy that much RAM and use it with a software RAM disk to get the much greater speed that the RAM can provide as system RAM. I tested this out with various BSD's on an AMD 2800+ with 2GB DDR333 RAM, using 1GB for a RAM disk and I was getting over 700MB/s.
Sure the i-Ram is battery backed, but I'd rather have a PC with a UPS and then copy between software ramdisk and disk when the system comes up and goes down. I realise this is going to cause a higher risk, since the OS or ramdisk driver can crash, loosing the data, but exteme speed comes with the risks that avoiding constant commits to disk already has.
Maybe I'm being harsh, but I feel that this product can be in many circumstances too little too late. Its claim to fame is speed, but if extreme speed is desired, you can get Opteron motherboards which take LOTS of memory (I have seen 64GB with a single Opteron) and I would expect a big RAM disk on one of those could be pretty damn fast.
Or, you could avoid a software RAM disk in many circumstances and just exploit FreeBSD or NetBSD's fantastic unified buffer cache and go even faster. I found this to be the case (slightly).
All in all, I think 4GB of RAM would be put to much better use as system RAM. If low latency is what you're after, same deal. I'll take system RAM there also.
if they can build lots of storage (50G+), lifetime you'd expect from DRAM (get rid of the wear problems of flash) and make it fast enough to saturate typical disk busses and fit it into 2.5" and 3.5" HDD form factor with appropriate bus to use as a HDD. Who needs TCQ when you have no head movement. Then these super fast disk busses would actually be worthwhile.
I've seen flash "disks" in HDD form factors for IDE and SCSI before, but they're hyper expensive, typically intended for military use and still suffer from the wear problems of flash memory.
I would love to see the end of mechanical disk storage. Somehow I imagine I would be wondering how I coped before it, like I do with the optical mouse. I wait in great anticipation! The power savings and added battery life should be great too.
the degradation of Li's are horrible
I have not found this to be the case.
Of the many mobile phone Nickel Metal Hydride batteries I've had for two phones that used them, they ALWAYS died around 6 months old and when they did die, it was VERY sudden. Like from full capacity to almost none after a "full charge" in 2 to 3 charges. For one of those phones (Nokia 6110), I replaced the dead NiMh with a Nokia Li battery. I later needed longer talk time than the standard slim Li could give, so I bought the largest Li battery and 4 years on it is still giving me about 2 WEEKS standby. The slim Li is still fine also as my backup. Both these Li batteries may as well be brand new.
My girlfriends Thinkpad... NiMh... dead in a bit over a year.
My old clamshell Apple iBook... Li... still giving me about 1.5 to 2 hours after SIX YEARS!
Maybe there is something much better than Li now, but I am pretty happy with YEARS usage. I am not noticing any degradation at all. Or maybe I have just been lucky?
For me it's Toshiba and Ericsson which goes back to a deal they made with the, then, Soviets to provide them with computerized milling equipment that would give them the capability to create precision submarine propellors. Something we only had at the time and they did not. Considering that I was sitting on a destroyer (sub-hunter by design), I kinda had a personal stake in the matter. This was back in the '80's so I can hold a grudge a loooonnngggg time as you can see.
Oh yes, was that Toshiba incident also related to Toshiba's theft of a secret US propellor design which they were building under contract? An apparently super quiet propellor with low tip cavitation properties.
Don't piss me off. I never forget and I never forgive.
I can respect that. Some things are beyond forgiving. The French government using their special forces to attack a peaceful group of people in ANOTHER COUNTRY is a downright act of WAR if you ask me. Australia and NZ seemed to pretty much just roll over on that. I imagine if that terrorist act by the French was perpetrated against the USA, the French would have their arses severely kicked.
Cluetrain - this DRM fiasco was caused by Sony BMG. Blame American market culture, not Sony, you damn racist pig.
Ha ha, I am not even American.
How am I racist for punishing the French for taking a great big stinking fucking SHIT in MY backyard and the backyard of others?
Ohh, lets weigh this up now... Approx 167 nuclear bombs detonated in or above my ocean : Me choosing to not buy thier products as a result.
Oh God damn I am one fucken arsehole aren't I?
Moron. PS The French are FUCKING TERRORISTS. I painfully regret that my grandfather, a Spitfire fighter pilot, may have defended the French, given this is how they have repaid us.
This is harder than you think: first you have to find French products to not buy, only then you can start not buying them.
I know it is hard. I purchased at Nokia 6110 years ago and then found out that the SIM card holder is made in France. I do my best though.
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This post is hilarious for so many reasons.
Ugh! Dell uses them in computers, and some models have a near 100% failure rate!
Bullshit. No model of ANYTHING that has a "100% failure rate" will remain available for long.
Do some research before recommending garbage like that.
Anyone who did research Lite-On quality, will find most people have very good things to say about them.
As an example, in the last batch of 480 computers we bought from Dell, we've replaced almost 600 Lite-On DVD/CDR drives. That's more than 1 per computer.
Did you try upgrading the firmware yourselves (to a real Lite-On firmware) or just get the Dell morons to replace the drives with the same drives with same potentially broken firmware? I have had terrible trouble with Dell in the past too, but that was trouble with DELL. I call complete and utter bullshit on this post.
The only reason we haven't replaced more than that is that we've started replacing the drives with Sony's that we pay for out of our pocket rather than using the Dell 3 year on-site warranty we paid a lot of money for.
Ahhh, here's an education for you then... Sony CDRW drives are made by... wait for it... Lite-On. Oh, and they are not made to Sony specification or design, they are Lite-On designed and built, with slightly modified firmware to pretend to be a Sony, complete with Sony top sticker and Sony faceplate. I'm not sure how many Sony DVDRW drives are made by Lite-On, but I beleive I have seen at least one laptop Sony DVDRW drive with, oddly enough, a Lite-On sticker on top.
Dell doesn't give a damn about their customers, so they continue to screw us over by continuing to use those pitiful drives, so we had to pay for our own drives out of our pocket.
Yes, Dell sucks. Lite-On however, do not churn out "pitiful drives". This I can state with absolute certainty and authority. They may have made some less than fantastic models, but I don't know of any. The general drive quality coming out of Lite-On is top notch. Which is why MANY VERY VERY BIG brand names are confident in letting Lite-On make "thier" drives.
The truth, is probably that Dell modified the Lite-On OEM firmware, as is typical, and fucked it up, as is typical of Dell.
I recently switched backup media to DVD+R from -R, and upgraded the Pioneer's firmware, and put them both on USB 2.0 instead of FireWire, and they both work well now. Something about the Pioneer and my cheapo USB + FireWire cages was resulting in complete FireWire bus hangs.
There is a USB2/Firewire chipset (Prolific PL-3507) which is just downright broken. The A revision is not flash upgradable without desoldering the chip and the subsequent revisions are flashable, however the "fixed" firmware is pretty much still broken. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of PL-3507 based USB2/Firewire units out there and it seems they are single handedly taking some shine of the perceived quality of IDE-Firewire enclosures. I wonder if that is what you had?
The PL-3507 insists on using a fixed firewire ID, so you can't have more than one on a chain. Why anyone would want more than ZERO PL-3507's is beyond me however.
I use a Lite-On DVDRW drive in an older Iomega USB2 CDRW cage to burn DVDR's on my Mac mini within Tiger. The "Iomega" CDRW drive I pulled out of it was actually a Lite-On LTR-5226S drive, with the Lite-On sticker on the top and the Iomega branded black faceplate. ; )
$40 Lite-On DVD burner. Never failed me. I love it.
I agree. I currently have a DVDRW DL (desktop size) Lite-On, a DVDRW DL (laptop size) Lite-On, 2x CDRW Lite-On's (one Lite-On branded, the other Iomega which I have sinced kept up to date with Lite-On firmware updates), a DVDROM Lite-On and an NEC DVDRW. I also recommend Lite-On to all my customers and have had far too much experience with Pioneer DVDRW drives.
I have never had a Lite-On go bad on me, they perform fantastically and they are very cheap. Chances are, that if you buy some name brand drive like Sony, Iomega, etc, you are actually buying a Lite-On (except that Sony logo will cost you another $20). Even if your drive is detected in software as being a Sony for example, this is simply due to the customized firmware.
I had a LOT of trouble with my NEC DVDRW drive, until eventually (a YEAR or more later) a decent firmware was released which fixed the issues. I did not take it back because it came with a VERY cheap Compaq desktop, which I think may have been cheap due to the initially crappy NEC drive.
I have had extremely bad problems with Pioneer DVDRW drives with a few of my customers which bought them. BEWARE BUYING PIONEER IN AUSTRALIA! If you buy a drive without the Pioneer official hologram sticker on the top, it means that the drive came into Australia outside of official Pioneer channels and thus Pioneer REFUSE to support them AT ALL. EVERY Pioneer DVDRW drive I have tried to get going for these customers, either fails to burn or makes coasters EVERY SINGLE TIME! No amount of firmware updating has fixed them. I recommended my customers get refunds and buy Lite-On and I have since scratched Pioneer off my list for optical drives permanently. Shit drives, shit support for customers who thought they were buying Pioneer supported Pioneer drives.
Sony by the way (and some other big name brands) provide little to no firmware support, which is why I am thankful that Lite-On based Sony drives can be flashed with Lite-On firmware updates. You get better media support and the drive will also be detected as what it really is.
Lite-On provides those rare products which are both cheapest and best.
I don't work for Lite-On by the way, I'm just raving because I love the fact that there is actually a company which makes great products at an excellent price.
Funny thing however... I did have a Lite-On based CDRW drive die, a little over a year after purchase, in a customer machine in a very hot and dusty area... however it was a Sony branded unit. That server has since been cooled somewhat and the replacement Lite-On is going great. ; )
yes, because at the end of the day the only thing that will make Sony/MS/whoever change is if people stop buying their products.
But the problem with this, is that people WON'T stop buying Sony products. Sure a few die hards like myself and maybe you might (I still refuse to buy French products 10 years after the nuclear testing in Mururoa Atoll). But look at the situation right now. Most Sony consumers right now are probably either unaware of the rootkit (even though it has had so much mainstream press) or don't understand what the story means for themselves or what it reveals about Sony. That is a sad situation right now while this actually is news. The latest cool Sony gadget will come out and people will buy them TODAY and tomorrow. A few people won't buy them and Sony won't give a crap. They would just be a barely measurable short lived notch on their profits.
Power to the people? I would love to beleive that is true, but it seems "the people" don't care about much more than their own comfort and only a few of them are made uncomfortable by situations like this.
My biggest dissapointment is "the people". They have the power, but don't exercise it. So I guess they don't really have the power.
OpenBSD by default encrypts the swap-partition. Read the paper by Nils Provos.
Wow, I thought you were wrong about it being on by default, so I checked the CVS entries. I knew OpenBSD's swap encryption had very little impact on swapping performance, but it seems that this was switched on by default 9 months ago and I didn't even notice. I guess that shows how little impact it has.
There is a happy medium between the two. A cross build can save time, but the code should be tested on the real hardware.
The theory is that building release on the intended arch is a good test of that arch. You could cross compile on x86 to VAX, then test the VAX binaries on the VAX and not find anything wrong. Whereas building release for the VAX on the VAX may turn up problems that you otherwise might not find.
I agree though, that there should be a happy medium. Cross compiling for dev work and then final testing with making release on each arch natively would be good. You would have faster dev thanks to faster compiling and then the better testing of native builds once you think you are done.
I like the idea of building front-end servers/proxies out of rare combinations of OSes and platforms. It reduces the risk of getting a bug exploited. I've used an easily exploitable version of openssh for 2 years without a break-in ;-)
Careful wtarreau. Thems' fightin' words. Get ready to be verbally attacked by all the dorks who spew "security through obscurity" as if it applies when avoiding the #1 targetted arch. I agree with you, I like using obscure hardware (slightly: sparc64, macppc) and software (lucky my favourite OS (OpenBSD) is also a little obscure), because it allows me to avoid a lot of assuming (x86) scripts and kiddies.
I have been attacked so many times for promoting a reliance on "security through obscurity", when the truth is that I never have. I, like you, am just playing better odds (in addition to the regular maintenance which everyone else does).
The "security through obscurity" line seems to get applied way too often. Lots of people seem to have come to the belief that obscurity cannot provide anything positive at all. Oddly they also don't seem to realise that strong passwords are obscure passwords.
Yes, relying on obscurity as a major focus of your security strategy is very wrong. That is "security through obscurity". Avoiding x86 (or even sparc64 and macppc if you want to go further), is not "security through obscurity". It's just a free bonus in the never ending fight for network security.
How hard is it, to at least click on "Apple" under sections (and see that it was the LAST Apple story) or do a search?
/. editors even read the headlines? If they're making a living out of this, why does the readership know whats going on, but the editors don't?
Don't these
Time to put the CEO of Xerox in jail too, I guess. Oh, and Sony, for their VCRs. And DVD-RW drives. And Microsoft, because Kazaa runs on Windows. Oh, and the Intel CEO too, because Windows runs on Intel processors. And don't forget Maxtor's CEO, because the files are written to a hard drive.
What happened to putting the actual people who commit crimes in prison? Oh, wait, it's much easier to target the gun maker...
The core business of those companies you cite, is legitimate. The products they provide, can be misused. Like many items can.
The core business of Kazaa, is to make a shit load of advertising revenue by providing tools which make it easy to infringe copyright.
The difference is black and white.
::sigh:: You didn't RTFA did you?
/. account seperate from email for a good reason. I don't want to be off topic either. However innocent children burning to death over a pack of lies for oil, seems a little more important to me than stupid fucking slashdot.
I pulled it up in the hope to see the same images. I didn't.
These pictures that you and others are trumpeting around as fact are from two different porn sites and if you read the article I posted a link to earlier, you'd know what I was talking about.
I would just like to see an article claiming that, which actually shows the same images.
So you know, I don't go around saying "Photoshop" to everything
Didn't say you did.
espeically to spectacular videos because Photoshop is a tool for retouching and editing PHOTOS, not Videos.
I know, I've been using Photoshop for about 11 years, which is why I stated "I even see some people say "photoshop" when seeing amazing videos. Like photoshop is good for everything".
Hence the video you saw of Saddam's statue falling wasn't "Photoshopped" still images of it could have been.
I didn't mention it was a video. It was an image which ran in newspapers.
You ask what is stopping a porn site from using those photos as their own to "support the war" If I follow your logic you're saying the photos are real and two different porn sites, one in Tunasia, the other in Virginia, took the blame for US troops misbehavior...Ok I'll give you the Virginia one, perhaps the proprietor is a patriotic soul and wants the President to look good. But Tunasia??? Doesn't quite make sense does it?
What does not make any sense, is the war.
No Saddam Hussien did not cause 9/11, if you look closely you'll see that I never said he did.
Never said you did.
This thread was about a KU Professor, creationism, intelligent design, and peoples rabid misconceptions about Christians, if you'd like to further discuss this, I propose we continue via email, you can find my address in my profile or at www.dancingmonkey.org
I keep my
As for the rape photo sets, both sites you link to have the same ones, these are the photos that the Boston Globe ran that were debunked
The Boston Globe said they were debunked, so it must be true? What is stopping a porn site from using those photos as "their own" to support the war?
Speaking of photoshop, I saw proof that photoshop was used to exagerate the numbers of supporting Iraqi people at the fall of a Saddam statue. Everything can be blamed on photoshop nowdays, can't it? I even see some people say "photoshop" when seeing amazing videos. Like photoshop is good for everything.
The fact is, that Iraq did not cause 9/11 and the US should not be in Iraq in the first place.
BTW, rape is a part of EVERY war.
You've got a lot of content there, though I wouldn't trumpet those "Iraqi Rape Photos" very loudly, they were debunked shortly before the Boston Globe decided to run them as "news"
There are a few different photo sets of "rape in Iraq by soldiers", so who is to say what is real and fake? Did you see the footage of the US soldier shooting an unarmed Iraqi man who was lying down? If some soldiers are capable of doing that, do you think they are capable of keeping their dicks in their pants when they hate these people so much?
I have seen a photo of a G.I. who got a young Iraqi boy to hold up a sign that said something like, "My house is destroyed, my father is dead and my sister is pregnant". Sex is always on a young mans mind and when you're killing people, rape might not seem so bad. Especially when you are going to get away with it. Rape her, kill her and then burn her.
Some of the other stuff you posted was interesting, a lot of it has dissappeared or changed, or is very off topic even for this tangent we're on.
I'm not sure what you mean by this? I tested each of those URL's before finally posting and I have just now finished re-testing them all again. They all work for me, with the exception of some of the Ogrish pictures, which you need to go to Ogrish and then paste the URL's into the same Ogrish window to make them work.
I don't. Plus they're not MY troops. However "my" troops are participating, I hope they don't get killed, but I certainly would not support them being there at all.
Typical lefty nutjob. All wild accusations, strawmen, tangled skeins of conspiracy.... but not a shred of logic or proof.
Take this proof and neck yourself with it. Moron.
You're a liar.
No I'm not. You on the other hand CHOOSE to ignore OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE.
That's not so bad. You're mentally unbalanced. Again, doesn't bother me.
Wow, amazing that you think you can diagnose a psychological disorder over the Internet with nothing but a COMMON OPINION in TEXT to go on after JUST ONE POST! WOW!
You're also an apologist for those who actually DO murder innocents, rape women, deliberately target civilians and other wise ignore the rules of war.
Take a look at those links moron.
All the while engaging in a sickening display of moral relativism.
A people, who did not attack the USA and did not have the means, had their nation invaded. After being weakened by a decade of sanctions the civilians fight back against this invading force, ruled illegal by the United Nations... and you call my comparison sickening? As if the USA were somehow doing nothing but good? You are a fuckwit. Keep believing the war-friendly media moron.
I'm a Christian, but you're treading onto 'unforgivable' ground, pal.
Some text is unforgivable? Take a look at just ONE image of a dead or injured Iraqi child and then talk to me about unforgivable.
You assume a lot don't you? Just like you assume the popular mass media slant is a true reflection of this "liberation".
Idiots. You and the sickos that modded you insightful. Shame on you all.
Shame on you for choosing to ignore the overwhelming evidence out there. There is way too much out there now for retards like you to come valiantly defending your once proud nation.
I'll be watching your journal on the day the news is announced that the 'professor' admits to fabricating the whole story. You know... to hear the 'real' story about how the Trilateral Commission and the John Birchers made him recant.
I have NEVER written in my journal and have never intended to. I am trying to give this slashdot shit up. It is usually just a huge waste of time because there are far too many crack pots like you.
The Armed Forces are populated by exclusively 'Christ fundies'?
No. They're being ordered to do God's work by the Christian-Extremist-in-chief himself. It helps that lots of the soldiers are also Christian. Thier minds are already pre-softened to accept bullshit.
Any links to those videos?
Dude, just Google for a while, read the texts, watch the videos and listen to the audio to get pointers on what to search for next. Go with it for a while. There is a crap load out there and it will come back to haunt GWB one day.
Unidentified crowd of people walking through street in Iraq being bombed.
A dead child is collateral damage?
Torture.
What is wrong with the three pictures at the bottom? Besides the fresh blood, tied person in civilian clothes and people in US soldier uniforms with identities masked as an afterthought?
Rape.
Murder and American pride.
British mercenaries working for Aegis made this video of driving around Baghdad shooting at random cars for fun.
Don't hit the mosque!!! Just kill those that come out, but only once they are well clear of that mosque!!!. (Afghanistan)
Small boy. Arms blown off, torso very badly burned.
Well said.
Another small boy. Badly burned torso also.
Ah, so this is liberation?
Another shocking death of an innocent child.
What could a little girl have done to deserve that?
I can imagine without US ugliness painted on her face, she must have been a pretty young girl.
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light...
A coffin load of dead children.
The enemy.
Poor sweetheart.
Wouldn't you feel free too?
A US soldier ties a terrorist up.
This all seems reasonable doesn't it? I mean I know how dangerous my own 8 year old niece is.
Good old Yankee respect.
What must those damn parents be putting in their children's heads? Thankfully, unlike the US, not bullets. Just the fear of them.
U S A ! U S A !
Some people say these photos are bullshit, because US does not wear jungle camo in Iraq...
Well what the fuck is this?
Yeah, those Christian fundies are hacking off people's heads all over the place, and blowing themselves up inside crowded buses, schools, and bars because the rest of us don't believe exactly as they do.
Idiot.
Yeah, instead the Christ fundies blow up unidentified crowds of people (who are just walking down the street in their own country) with laser GBU's, kill innocents including children, call them "collateral damage" and the overall operation a "liberation" and all in the name of taking down some regime which never threatened to attack or had the means to attack the USA.
Iraq did of course have a cunt load of oil, but that has nothing to do with the "liberation" does it?
Then there is the whole torturing random people (who had one two many AK's in their house) to death and raping women (I've seen the photos). Oh and then there is the Christ fundies who make pot shots at random people in Iraq going about their own business (I've seen the video). Oh and the shooting of unarmed "combatants" (seen lots of the videos)... oh and the avoidance of getting so much as a shrapnel hit on a mosque, yet happily killing people who exit that same mosque, only once they get far enough away... etc etc etc.
Yeah, the Christ fundies are just a bunch of kind, loving, forgiving, good folk aren't they?
Hang on a sec, one to many AK's? If we applied this to the US, almost everyone would be fucking dead. Oh but that is okay because it allows US citizens to protect themselves from a government turned tyranical or from invading forces. So in Iraq, a home with more than 1 AK is a terrorist house, but in the USA a home with more than one gun is the home of some good little capitalist consumers. Right?
Idiot.
Congrats, you learned the hard way.
The "hard way" being the loss of a dying drive which I knew was about to die and which I was comitting to quicker death in the interest of seeing a drive working while open? Oh-kay. Doesn't seem like such a "hard way" to learn to me.
Good point by the way. Even more reason not to open a good drive and put a silly window on it.