If you provide the passwords for both containers when mounting the outer container, TrueCrypt will prevent writes to the outer container from over-writing the inner container. Otherwise, it will quite happily over-write the inner container if too much data is written to the outer container.
I have yet to see anyone else offering a laptop with a front-lit greyscale screen. The fact that it's more durable than anything else costing less than about $2500 is a nice bonus.
Please tell me why anyone should want a PDA that does not include a cellphone.
A form factor that makes a phone comfortable to hold for half an hour does not allow for a large, easy-to-read screen. I'd get hand cramps trying to hold my PDA up to my ear, and I'd get eyestrain trying to read an e-book on the screen of a cell phone.
Exactly. For example, all our old installers are now privilege-escalation exploits: the installer has the option to run the application after install; the application can be used to run arbitrary other applications. Vista requires our installer to run under an administrator account, therefore our installer can be used to run arbitrary applications as an administrator.
It also counts with airplanes. A jumbo jet trails a miles-long vortex wake behind it that can cause smaller airplanes to lose control or even break up in mid-air.
I would have sent them someplace absurd -- Bill Gates' house, or the boat launch at the local park; someplace where the incident in question could not possibly have taken place. The idea is to make the police look absurd in such a public way that they can't deny that someone fooled them.
I love scientific discovery and exploration too, but I also respect the rule of Finance. Can we afford this? Seriously, we're spending like 1,000 "Library's of Congress's" a month in Iraq, and I don't think our coffers can handle a serious economic outlay like a trip to Mars. What does everyone think?
I think that if we bring the troops home one day early, the savings will let us fund the space program for a decade.
I had blotted that agony out of my brain, actually. I never beat FFVII, but I did watch my friend fight Sephiroth, who took many KotR summons, and who had his -own- lengthy summons and special attacks with cut scenes. It was truly ridiculous. We were both basically spectators to the fight.
KotR is a trap. If you use it to beat Sephiroth's first or second forms, the later forms will show up with far more hit points than normal. You're far better off using limit breaks or other high-power attacks.
Now imagine if you had a userspace NVidia driver. You got X running with 20 different applications. 3 important documents on OOo, pieces of code in your Emacs or Eclipse, a bunch of reference pages on Firefox, whatever. The most important thing to you is that your computer doesn't crash.
Now suddenly the video driver craps out. This will kill the X server, which in turn kills all the apps. At best you gave the apps the chance to save their recovery data, which they are keeping anyway. You lost your data, but your system is still up... yay?
So you've gone from crash and reboot, to crash and reboot the X Server, which is just a time saver. Maybe a little less corruption on your file system, but the difference is negligible.
Opera stores recovery information, KDE apps are pretty damn good at saving state on exit, my utility programs aren't tied to the X server (but take collectively about five minutes to start), and the disks aren't corrupted. Sounds good to me.
The consoles are using laptop hard drives. It also doesn't help that the specs were set two to three years ago: three years ago, a 80GB laptop hard drive was fairly expensive, and there's still no such thing as a 500GB one.
Retail prices for OEM laptop hard drives from Newegg: 250GB: $180 80GB: $55 40GB: $50
Even if you assume the manufacturers are able to get the drives for half of what we pay for them, that's still a difference of $65 between the production cost of a high-end model and a low-end model.
True. Unless the hard drive has been through a fire or has otherwise suffered significant physical damage, clean-room recovery shouldn't cost more than $1000 or so.
You'd probably wind up embedded halfway up a cliff in Arizona after you miss a turn. Do you have a bumper sticker saying "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT"?
But one good atomic blast will still destroy all those backups! (not from emp but the flaming melty firestorm part.) Then again, if you survive, porn would be the least of your priorities.
I evaluated that possibility when designing my backup system. A Hiroshima-style bomb, which is what an amateur is likely to have, won't destroy both my apartment and the office. A professional will be targeting the airforce base ten miles out of town instead.
No more debates as to whether or not stuff like Tivoization should be allowed - you click a check box if you want to allow it, and leave it unchecked if you don't. You'll still have people claiming it's evil and others claiming it's okay, but at least they won't have to fight about it in the same license.
And poof, you have inflicted the open-source software world with the same confusing license mess that Creative Commons gave to the free content world. Most people can't tell the difference between a Creative Commons Attribution license and a Creative Commons Noncommercial No-derivatives license -- they just see "Creative Commons", and think they're allowed to do what they want with it.
...is that you don't have to build what it tells you to build on the box, meaning you could probably build this thing out of random pieces from other sets and save yourself a couple hundred bucks.
Good luck on that. I've got four 25-gallon bins of Lego bricks, and I'm not sure I've got the parts to build it -- the Millennium Falcon has a lot of non-square surfaces, and those take unusual parts to build, and a great many hinges to hold everything at the correct angles.
oh, and about.zip files, do you have any idea how much the creation of a.zip taxes a server's CPU ? specially when compressing files that are _already_ compressed ?
If the files are already compressed, then you use "store" rather than "deflate" when creating the.zip, and it takes only slightly more time than simply reading the files off disk.
Somehow I think a 1m^2 window would be simpler, and if you use a triple glazed argon filled one ( as the Germans do for the passive-house standard) then you can neglect heat loss (in fact, you can get a net heat-gain ), making them considerably more efficient than chaining a 11% solar panel to an energy saving light bulb with 7%-8% efficiency (giving an overall efficiency of about 0.8% ).
How will a square meter of this "window" thing keep my computer running? I use Linux.
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That's exactly what I've been doing for the past six months.
If you provide the passwords for both containers when mounting the outer container, TrueCrypt will prevent writes to the outer container from over-writing the inner container. Otherwise, it will quite happily over-write the inner container if too much data is written to the outer container.
http://laptop.org/ has technical specs for the computer. Wikipedia also has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1
I have yet to see anyone else offering a laptop with a front-lit greyscale screen. The fact that it's more durable than anything else costing less than about $2500 is a nice bonus.
A form factor that makes a phone comfortable to hold for half an hour does not allow for a large, easy-to-read screen. I'd get hand cramps trying to hold my PDA up to my ear, and I'd get eyestrain trying to read an e-book on the screen of a cell phone.
Exactly. For example, all our old installers are now privilege-escalation exploits: the installer has the option to run the application after install; the application can be used to run arbitrary other applications. Vista requires our installer to run under an administrator account, therefore our installer can be used to run arbitrary applications as an administrator.
It also counts with airplanes. A jumbo jet trails a miles-long vortex wake behind it that can cause smaller airplanes to lose control or even break up in mid-air.
It doesn't do so well at small sizes and without antialiasing.
Because an antiaircraft gun's high rate of fire and high-explosive projectiles are devastatingly effective against infantry and unarmored vehicles.
I would have sent them someplace absurd -- Bill Gates' house, or the boat launch at the local park; someplace where the incident in question could not possibly have taken place. The idea is to make the police look absurd in such a public way that they can't deny that someone fooled them.
I think that if we bring the troops home one day early, the savings will let us fund the space program for a decade.
No, but if the Wii becomes less popular, there might be fewer third-party games for it.
KotR is a trap. If you use it to beat Sephiroth's first or second forms, the later forms will show up with far more hit points than normal. You're far better off using limit breaks or other high-power attacks.
Opera stores recovery information, KDE apps are pretty damn good at saving state on exit, my utility programs aren't tied to the X server (but take collectively about five minutes to start), and the disks aren't corrupted. Sounds good to me.
The consoles are using laptop hard drives. It also doesn't help that the specs were set two to three years ago: three years ago, a 80GB laptop hard drive was fairly expensive, and there's still no such thing as a 500GB one.
Retail prices for OEM laptop hard drives from Newegg:
250GB: $180
80GB: $55
40GB: $50
Even if you assume the manufacturers are able to get the drives for half of what we pay for them, that's still a difference of $65 between the production cost of a high-end model and a low-end model.
True. Unless the hard drive has been through a fire or has otherwise suffered significant physical damage, clean-room recovery shouldn't cost more than $1000 or so.
The first six sentences of that are reasonably true. The rest is utter nonsense.
For high-speed flight, you use an inertial navigation system for positioning. The GPS is just there to compensate for the inevitable drift in the INS.
You'd probably wind up embedded halfway up a cliff in Arizona after you miss a turn. Do you have a bumper sticker saying "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT"?
Yes. The sales response to pricing is decidedly non-linear.
I evaluated that possibility when designing my backup system. A Hiroshima-style bomb, which is what an amateur is likely to have, won't destroy both my apartment and the office. A professional will be targeting the airforce base ten miles out of town instead.
And poof, you have inflicted the open-source software world with the same confusing license mess that Creative Commons gave to the free content world. Most people can't tell the difference between a Creative Commons Attribution license and a Creative Commons Noncommercial No-derivatives license -- they just see "Creative Commons", and think they're allowed to do what they want with it.
Good luck on that. I've got four 25-gallon bins of Lego bricks, and I'm not sure I've got the parts to build it -- the Millennium Falcon has a lot of non-square surfaces, and those take unusual parts to build, and a great many hinges to hold everything at the correct angles.
If the files are already compressed, then you use "store" rather than "deflate" when creating the
How will a square meter of this "window" thing keep my computer running? I use Linux.