It seems that alimis what generates the most noise, which explains why a laptop alim quiets the system a lot...
but with "standard" hardware, you can use a silentmax alim, and if you don't use horrible little fans on the motherboard and graphic card, the system makes virtually no noise at startup -- I mean no noise; not little noise, no noise at all (you can hear the hard drive and the CPU fan but only after several minutes, when the CPU is hot and you're manipulating big files).
Reading or burning CDs or DVDs is always more noisy, but with this, you get a full-tower with virtually as many drives as you want inside. It is more bulky, but it combines both server (for local network only of course) and workstation.
It might be, in the sense that Media Player, IE and Outlook cannot be uninstalled easily (sometimes at all). Thus, when one of these little fellows is found to listen to whetever port by default and has a huge security hole, even using third party products does not prevent you from getting attacked.
A good defense would be for Microsoft to set non-absurd default settings on its products. How many ports open by default on Windows, against Mac OS X ?
Even thoug worms are likely to target the mainstream OS, they can only do actual damage in an OS where foreign executable code is executed by default, and where most people log on with administration priviledge.
Making Linux the standard desktop OS would almost definitly solve the problem. When I think of it, it is amazing how many science-fiction films and book rely on the concept of viruses, a thing that should be history by now.
Having the Internet controlled by a huge bureaucracy is probably not a perfect solution; but letting huge companies taking over is a definite nighmare.
Let us compare with something revelant : duplication of information of the Internet is quite similar to duplcation of molecules in pharmaceutic industry, in the sense that it takes lots of time and ressources to do the research, and that mass production is comparativly cheap. What do we see, for instance, in Africa with medical supplies ? Huge companies, that could basically fead the whole Africa with their advertising budget (I didn't say they should, I say they could) do their outmost to maintain pirces as high as possible, and the UN, or UN-related organisations, try to impose low prices and generic medication.
And this isn't about your little confort about downloading mp3s or playing DVD on Linux, it's the actual life of millions that gets jeopardized.
To this respect, a UN-ruled Internet is far less frightening that a Microsoft-SCO-Apple-SUN-Vivendy-RIAA-....... ruled Internet.
Indeed... I do want to see Han shoot first. I am also not exactly fond of the scene where Jabba comes and threatens Han beside the Falcon in IV, not of the weird MTV-like clip in VI. Both completely ruin the rythm of the films.
Sometimes it looks like when Lucas has to make a sapce opera out of a few grey painted cardboxes it turns out great, but if you give him everything he needs to concretise his actual vision of the films, it turn out very much "me love you long time sucky-sucky".
Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there were a team of people who designed a nifty universe together. Years later, one of them seems to believe he had it all figured out himself and takes himself for a director, while he's just a good special effect specialist.
Anyone has any idea why these people need to stress their religious rant so much ? All of these mails end with "God Bless"... it feels like getting mail from Al Qaida, Iran or Dick Cheney !
Imagine breaking you arm; how dou you phone then ?
Imagine being on a date with the girl of your dreams; a common friend calls you on the phone and wants to speak to her, you stand up and plug your finger in the girl's hear ?
How does the phne recognize a touch of the finger to the thumb that says that you want to activate the phone from a "regular" touch ? (hint : touch fo the thumb by the finger is basically the advantage of having opposable thumbs, so you're likely to record numerous such events on any primate).
What effect do audible-frenquency daily vibrations do to your articulations ? It's not that I'm very conversative or paranoid, but I'm a pianist as well and I wouldn't like to mess with arthrose too much...
Yet another feature....
The only thing that I would find revelant is that MS is definitly thinking in terms of "they have neat shells in Linux, how can we have something that stands the comparison ?". After Apple including KHTML and GNU parts in its operating system, it seems that Free Software are really getting the lead in software industry.
It might have, but on the other hand, it looks very much like its own parody. I mean, when I read this story ,
I was very sure that CNN had been cracked.
And I could almost say the same about the
marriages between US soldiers and Iraqui women
or this general who said something unclear about God being on his side and Allah being a false idol.
I'm just waiting for someone in the administration to come up with theories about body fluids or snails on a razor blades.
Lots of people seem terrified at the idea terrorists could use chemical or biological agents, but it doesn't seem that many have read about the effective use of such things. They are actually extremelly difficult to use effectively, as early attempts by the Aum sect to spread anthrax proved. it was discovered only after the sarin attacks in the Tokyo metro that other attacks had been done but had been such failures that they had not even been detected.
Besides, even though many country do persue defensive research on bio-chemical weapons, I cannot see how this could be taken as preventive measures. And anyway, what kind of terrorists would have access to such high techonology labs as the ones that can created genetically modified virus ? If a country was capable of producing the thing, it would never give it to terrorist groups, because it would immediatly designate it as aggressor and target for retaliation (and the argument "terrorists could steal virus from University of St Louis" is very specious). "real" terrorists just grab a RPG-7 or AK-47, there are plenty lying around. 11 September was done with cutters, that is, very very limited means, bt lots of brains. When members of the audience in Geneva questioned the need for such experiments, an American voice in the back boomed out: "Nine-eleven". He says his work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do.
Now we might have an explanation to this strangelovistic reasearch : concatenation of "GMO" and "terrorism"... double-plus irrationally hysterical, are we ?
Gee, and I was comforted when Edward Teller died...
The IXth Symphony certainly is a great piece of music, but the choice remains arbitrary : why not choose a 3-hour format to store Wagner's operas ? Besides, 74 minutes clearly adresses at one specific interpretation of the IXth Symphony. The Philippe Herreweghe version is probably much shorter, as its tempo is quicker than what used to be fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s. I wonder which version definied the standard (perhaps Karajan).
...ending up defining standards for new inventions does not sound all that much surprising. Wasn't Walkman invented because Sony's director wanted to hear music while playing golf, or something similar ? Sounds quite similar to the definition of the hacker by Eric Reymond. The only thing is you want people with good taste making these decisions (unlike "the Sun" or Fox News defining the standards of journalistic quality).
Besides, there are objective criteria that can define constraints; for instance, falsh media cards are better that 5''1/4 floppies, because they fit better in the palm of the hand.
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It seems that alimis what generates the most noise, which explains why a laptop alim quiets the system a lot...
but with "standard" hardware, you can use a silentmax alim, and if you don't use horrible little fans on the motherboard and graphic card, the system makes virtually no noise at startup -- I mean no noise; not little noise, no noise at all (you can hear the hard drive and the CPU fan but only after several minutes, when the CPU is hot and you're manipulating big files).
Reading or burning CDs or DVDs is always more noisy, but with this, you get a full-tower with virtually as many drives as you want inside. It is more bulky, but it combines both server (for local network only of course) and workstation.
It might be, in the sense that Media Player, IE and Outlook cannot be uninstalled easily (sometimes at all). Thus, when one of these little fellows is found to listen to whetever port by default and has a huge security hole, even using third party products does not prevent you from getting attacked.
A good defense would be for Microsoft to set non-absurd default settings on its products. How many ports open by default on Windows, against Mac OS X ?
Even thoug worms are likely to target the mainstream OS, they can only do actual damage in an OS where foreign executable code is executed by default, and where most people log on with administration priviledge.
Making Linux the standard desktop OS would almost definitly solve the problem. When I think of it, it is amazing how many science-fiction films and book rely on the concept of viruses, a thing that should be history by now.
Having the Internet controlled by a huge bureaucracy is probably not a perfect solution; but letting huge companies taking over is a definite nighmare.
Let us compare with something revelant : duplication of information of the Internet is quite similar to duplcation of molecules in pharmaceutic industry, in the sense that it takes lots of time and ressources to do the research, and that mass production is comparativly cheap. What do we see, for instance, in Africa with medical supplies ? Huge companies, that could basically fead the whole Africa with their advertising budget (I didn't say they should, I say they could) do their outmost to maintain pirces as high as possible, and the UN, or UN-related organisations, try to impose low prices and generic medication.
And this isn't about your little confort about downloading mp3s or playing DVD on Linux, it's the actual life of millions that gets jeopardized.
To this respect, a UN-ruled Internet is far less frightening that a Microsoft-SCO-Apple-SUN-Vivendy-RIAA-....... ruled Internet.
Indeed... I do want to see Han shoot first. I am also not exactly fond of the scene where Jabba comes and threatens Han beside the Falcon in IV, not of the weird MTV-like clip in VI. Both completely ruin the rythm of the films.
Sometimes it looks like when Lucas has to make a sapce opera out of a few grey painted cardboxes it turns out great, but if you give him everything he needs to concretise his actual vision of the films, it turn out very much "me love you long time sucky-sucky".
Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there were a team of people who designed a nifty universe together. Years later, one of them seems to believe he had it all figured out himself and takes himself for a director, while he's just a good special effect specialist.
Delusions of grandeur...
Anyone has any idea why these people need to stress their religious rant so much ? All of these mails end with "God Bless"... it feels like getting mail from Al Qaida, Iran or Dick Cheney !
Not yet another death of the audio CD !!
When the Blaster virus hit France, Chirac said he would charge the Pasteur Institute with the matter. He knows just enough to be funny.
Imagine breaking you arm; how dou you phone then ?
Imagine being on a date with the girl of your dreams; a common friend calls you on the phone and wants to speak to her, you stand up and plug your finger in the girl's hear ?
How does the phne recognize a touch of the finger to the thumb that says that you want to activate the phone from a "regular" touch ? (hint : touch fo the thumb by the finger is basically the advantage of having opposable thumbs, so you're likely to record numerous such events on any primate).
What effect do audible-frenquency daily vibrations do to your articulations ? It's not that I'm very conversative or paranoid, but I'm a pianist as well and I wouldn't like to mess with arthrose too much...
\\o o// \o/ Godwin Point !!
Would GNUWin fall in that category ?
Yet another feature ....
The only thing that I would find revelant is that MS is definitly thinking in terms of "they have neat shells in Linux, how can we have something that stands the comparison ?". After Apple including KHTML and GNU parts in its operating system, it seems that Free Software are really getting the lead in software industry.
It might have, but on the other hand, it looks very much like its own parody. I mean, when I read this story , I was very sure that CNN had been cracked.
And I could almost say the same about the marriages between US soldiers and Iraqui women or this general who said something unclear about God being on his side and Allah being a false idol.
I'm just waiting for someone in the administration to come up with theories about body fluids or snails on a razor blades.
Lots of people seem terrified at the idea terrorists could use chemical or biological agents, but it doesn't seem that many have read about the effective use of such things. They are actually extremelly difficult to use effectively, as early attempts by the Aum sect to spread anthrax proved. it was discovered only after the sarin attacks in the Tokyo metro that other attacks had been done but had been such failures that they had not even been detected.
Besides, even though many country do persue defensive research on bio-chemical weapons, I cannot see how this could be taken as preventive measures. And anyway, what kind of terrorists would have access to such high techonology labs as the ones that can created genetically modified virus ? If a country was capable of producing the thing, it would never give it to terrorist groups, because it would immediatly designate it as aggressor and target for retaliation (and the argument "terrorists could steal virus from University of St Louis" is very specious). "real" terrorists just grab a RPG-7 or AK-47, there are plenty lying around. 11 September was done with cutters, that is, very very limited means, bt lots of brains.
When members of the audience in Geneva questioned the need for such experiments, an American voice in the back boomed out: "Nine-eleven".
He says his work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do.
Now we might have an explanation to this strangelovistic reasearch : concatenation of "GMO" and "terrorism"... double-plus irrationally hysterical, are we ?
Gee, and I was comforted when Edward Teller died...
The IXth Symphony certainly is a great piece of music, but the choice remains arbitrary : why not choose a 3-hour format to store Wagner's operas ?
Besides, 74 minutes clearly adresses at one specific interpretation of the IXth Symphony. The Philippe Herreweghe version is probably much shorter, as its tempo is quicker than what used to be fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s. I wonder which version definied the standard (perhaps Karajan).
...ending up defining standards for new inventions does not sound all that much surprising. Wasn't Walkman invented because Sony's director wanted to hear music while playing golf, or something similar ? Sounds quite similar to the definition of the hacker by Eric Reymond. The only thing is you want people with good taste making these decisions (unlike "the Sun" or Fox News defining the standards of journalistic quality).
Besides, there are objective criteria that can define constraints; for instance, falsh media cards are better that 5''1/4 floppies, because they fit better in the palm of the hand.