I don't use IE as a browser, but I still upgraded to IE 7 on XP because some other apps use IE components, and I understand that 7 should be more secure.
I'm not too sure on this but IE6 and it's engine are still available post-IE7 install, so it's likely applications *explicitly* coded to use IE6 engine components probably continue to do so unless updated. So maybe there is no security advantage if you don't use it as a browser?
Yeah thats a great idea, so when there is a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in say... OpenSSL which is used by hundreds of projects and compiled statically I may have to download hundreds upon hundreds of megabytes to fix the problem and wait for 100's of developers to wake up and patch the issue in their tree.
No thanks.
Shared libraries work as long as developers document and think carefully before publishing their API's and are open to patches from downstream users.
Exactly, one of the things that held (or is still holding?) back the Nouveau project (an open source reverse engineered driver for nVidia cards) is the lack of developers with hardware to test their work against.
Talking of Nouveau, the 2D performance of their driver at one point exceeded that of the nVidia sponsored "nv" driver, but I think since they moved to the new EXA framework (some X acceleration API) they have negated these advantages.
Isn't the concept of a Value Added Tax that tax is paid at *every* stage of business on the value being added to (or to simplify: profit being made on) the product? This is different to the US Sales Tax which taxes in one big calculated lump at the consumer end?
My understanding of the VAT system is that all businesses do in fact pay VAT, the loss is merely replenished/reclaimed later.
I think the problem is there isn't an open source framework out there with an API ready to accelerate H.264/MPEG4 AVC. XVideo only accelerates colour space conversion and scaling. XvMC only does motion compensation and is only compatible, as far as I know, with MPEG 1 and 2 (It works with one of the ffmpeg projects decoders).
Windows actually lacks such an API too, but thats not surprising since various companies out there (Cyberlink for example) want to *sell* you an H.264 decoder that supports NVidia's proprietary acceleration API (PureVideo HD).
Actually you have been previously been better off on an FOSS system with XvMC than with MPEG 2 acceleration provided on Windows by Nvidia's own PureVideo (pre-HD branding) MPEG2 decoder, which wasn't free (~$30 USD)
Funny, out of the box XP SP2 doesn't support my NIC, graphics card (Well only in VGA mode) or my USB printer. My network and chipset driver is a 40MB download, my GPU driver, 50MB, and my printer drivers a pleasant 180MB. Oh and then I have to update DirectX, update Windows Messenger, update to IE7, update to WMP 11 and then get going on the 80 or so other updates (which comes in at almost 50-100 MiB I suspect) from Windows Update.
Out of box Ubuntu supports my network card and with a few simple clicks my printer and I can start installing my favourite software.
My point here isn't to start a flame war, but rather that the Window's experience isn't so wonderful out of the box when the last service pack was 3 years before your current hardware came out. When you consider this, there is something to be said for Ubuntu's 6 month cycle.
Oh and I've never used a wireless adapter in XP (~6) or Vista (1) that worked out the box.
E.g., consider this "most insects have 6 legs, spiders are insects, therefore spiders have 6 legs." The fallacy there is the implied extrapolation from "most" (i.e., a variant of "some") to "all", not the "most insects have 6 legs" premise.
Actually there is no fallacy there since spiders are not insects. Spiders belong to the biological class "Arachnida" not "Insecta" unlike, say, common flies you will find about the home.
Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot.
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I've been thinking of starting to./configure --prefix a Wine install into a subdirectory of my home directory and applying a script wrapper to the wine binary.
Pretty much every application or game I use under Wine requires either a patch against wine or some app specific hack to get it working properly, and often they don't work in the next Wine version.
Wine is great but setting up multiple apps or games to work under it is horrible.
Does the default Ubuntu desktop come with Mono? Is it easy to remove? Can I choose to use OSS instead of ALSA without worrying whether all my packages use ALSA?
on gentoo: USE="-mono -alsa oss" will achieve this. This is why people use gentoo. Myself included. And yes it really does taste different from a distro where all your software is preprepared for you.
One of the best advantages I've found is that nspluginwrapper runs Flash out of process and so a Flash messing up doesn't take down your browser session. That said nspluginwrapper may be the cause of a lot of the crashes. Opera I believe also runs all netscape plugins out of process (and it seems to be better at restoring Flash after a failure than nspluginwrapper and Firefox). After many hours of using Opera I often see operapluginwrapper crashes in dmesg output.
Even so, i'm a little pissed that Adobe are pushing out new features before they've even fixed their gaping lack of support for x86_64.
You should have copied out the C:\Windows\I386\ folder. This is the directory where the OEM install process sticks its copy of the installation files and its not too painful to create your own installation disc from here. Simply replace the I386 folder from any old ISO of the right edition and service pack level with this one and then re-author it. Usually the service pack level of the I386 folder is that of the OEM installation when it was *originally* installed, since installing a service pack post-install doesn't update these files.
As for the sticker with the key on your box, forget about it. Google for the "Jellybean" CD KEY finder which will extract the actual key used to activate your installation from the registry (It'll be different to the one on the sticker)
There, now you can do a clean OEM bullshit free reinstall of Windows whenever you like, and you won't need to activate or have any problems with WGA, without breaking the law.
This is true, the only way to make a watermark that can't be removed easily from video for example is to imprint a visible watermark directly onto your video frames, anything subtle such as using Steganography probably isn't going to make it through a re-encode due to the lossy nature. The same I would imagine will apply to audio.
> I'm fairly knowledgable about home computers (I bought my first one in 1976) and I have a weird feeling in my gut that there is something on this computer that shouldn't be there
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Tried it on 2.6.23-rc9 x86_64, didn't work. Not news.
I don't use IE as a browser, but I still upgraded to IE 7 on XP because some other apps use IE components, and I understand that 7 should be more secure.
I'm not too sure on this but IE6 and it's engine are still available post-IE7 install, so it's likely applications *explicitly* coded to use IE6 engine components probably continue to do so unless updated. So maybe there is no security advantage if you don't use it as a browser?
Aren't *NIX and Linux timestamps generally stored as the number of seconds
since the UNIX Epoch date (with a standardized timezone)?
If this is the case, it would have no effect on timestamps at all.
Yeah thats a great idea, so when there is a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in say... OpenSSL which is used by hundreds of projects and compiled statically I may have to download hundreds upon hundreds of megabytes to fix the problem and wait for 100's of developers to wake up and patch the issue in their tree.
No thanks.
Shared libraries work as long as developers document and think carefully before publishing their API's and are open to patches from downstream users.
Exactly, one of the things that held (or is still holding?) back the Nouveau project (an open source reverse engineered driver for nVidia cards) is the lack of developers with hardware to test their work against.
Talking of Nouveau, the 2D performance of their driver at one point exceeded that of the nVidia sponsored "nv" driver, but I think since they moved to the new EXA framework (some X acceleration API) they have negated these advantages.
It works pretty well for me with the following versions:
nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5
flash 9.0.48
One *advantage* of nspluginwrapper is a segfault in flash won't take out Firefox.
Businesses "dont pay VAT to start off with"?
Isn't the concept of a Value Added Tax that tax is paid at *every* stage of business
on the value being added to (or to simplify: profit being made on) the product?
This is different to the US Sales Tax which taxes in one big calculated lump at the
consumer end?
My understanding of the VAT system is that all businesses do in fact pay VAT, the
loss is merely replenished/reclaimed later.
> I can't offhand think of any European state with no land boundary
Me either, then again, I didn't know there was such a thing as an "European state".
Yeah so now you'll be watching the "compiz" process bolt to the top of your CPU list in top. Isn't progress wonderful.
WHAT!? You DARE challenge the power of MS PAINT?!
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The problem with that is you are then left with uncompressed video, which must be recompressed, a lossy procedure.
You sir are a legend.
I think the problem is there isn't an open source framework out there with an API ready to accelerate H.264/MPEG4 AVC. XVideo only accelerates colour space conversion and scaling. XvMC only does motion compensation and is only compatible, as far as I know, with MPEG 1 and 2 (It works with one of the ffmpeg projects decoders).
Windows actually lacks such an API too, but thats not surprising since various companies out there (Cyberlink for example) want to *sell* you an H.264 decoder that supports NVidia's proprietary acceleration API (PureVideo HD).
Actually you have been previously been better off on an FOSS system with XvMC than with MPEG 2 acceleration provided on Windows by Nvidia's own PureVideo (pre-HD branding) MPEG2 decoder, which wasn't free (~$30 USD)
Funny, out of the box XP SP2 doesn't support my NIC, graphics card (Well only in VGA mode) or my USB printer. My network and chipset driver is a 40MB download, my GPU driver, 50MB, and my printer drivers a pleasant 180MB. Oh and then I have to update DirectX, update Windows Messenger, update to IE7, update to WMP 11 and then get going on the 80 or so other updates (which comes in at almost 50-100 MiB I suspect) from Windows Update.
Out of box Ubuntu supports my network card and with a few simple clicks my printer and I can start installing my favourite software.
My point here isn't to start a flame war, but rather that the Window's experience isn't so wonderful out of the box when the last service pack was 3 years before your current hardware came out. When you consider this, there is something to be said for Ubuntu's 6 month cycle.
Oh and I've never used a wireless adapter in XP (~6) or Vista (1) that worked out the box.
Actually there is no fallacy there since spiders are not insects. Spiders belong to the biological class "Arachnida" not "Insecta" unlike, say, common flies you will find about the home.
I've been thinking of starting to ./configure --prefix a Wine install into a subdirectory of my home directory and applying a script wrapper to the wine binary.
Pretty much every application or game I use under Wine requires either a patch against wine or some app specific hack to get it working properly, and often they don't work in the next Wine version.
Wine is great but setting up multiple apps or games to work under it is horrible.
Does the default Ubuntu desktop come with Mono? Is it easy to remove? Can I choose to use OSS instead of ALSA without worrying whether all my packages use ALSA?
on gentoo: USE="-mono -alsa oss" will achieve this. This is why people use gentoo. Myself included. And yes it really does taste different from a distro where all your software is preprepared for you.
So what you're really saying is Monster.com is the equivalent of all those useless download sites for awarded software ...but for jobs. I think that analogy fits.
One of the best advantages I've found is that nspluginwrapper runs Flash out of process and so a Flash messing up doesn't take down your browser session. That said nspluginwrapper may be the cause of a lot of the crashes. Opera I believe also runs all netscape plugins out of process (and it seems to be better at restoring Flash after a failure than nspluginwrapper and Firefox). After many hours of using Opera I often see operapluginwrapper crashes in dmesg output.
Even so, i'm a little pissed that Adobe are pushing out new features before they've even fixed their gaping lack of support for x86_64.
You should have copied out the C:\Windows\I386\ folder. This is the directory where the OEM install process sticks its copy of the installation files and its not too painful to create your own installation disc from here. Simply replace the I386 folder from any old ISO of the right edition and service pack level with this one and then re-author it. Usually the service pack level of the I386 folder is that of the OEM installation when it was *originally* installed, since installing a service pack post-install doesn't update these files.
As for the sticker with the key on your box, forget about it. Google for the "Jellybean" CD KEY finder which will extract the actual key used to activate your installation from the registry (It'll be different to the one on the sticker)
There, now you can do a clean OEM bullshit free reinstall of Windows whenever you like, and you won't need to activate or have any problems with WGA, without breaking the law.
This is true, the only way to make a watermark that can't be removed easily from video for example is to imprint a visible watermark directly onto your video frames, anything subtle such as using Steganography probably isn't going to make it through a re-encode due to the lossy nature. The same I would imagine will apply to audio.
Let's not forget that you can actually overload the "new" and "delete" operators and drop in your own memory allocator if you wish...
> I'm fairly knowledgable about home computers (I bought my first one in 1976) and I have a weird feeling in my gut that there is something on this computer that shouldn't be there
:)
It's called Microsoft Windows
I think you lost all credibility when you said to -O3 it...