Truth is, you can't. You just can't record a signal of 1920 x 1080 pixel times 12 bit per pixel times 60 frames per second on a harddisk
Yes, surely you can. For a start it's approximately 30 frames a second (it's 60 fields a second). That gives you a stream of:
(1920 * 1080 * 12 * 30) / (1024*1024) = ~ 712 Mib/s (megabits per second) or about 89 MiB/s.
I would have though an array of high speed reasonably standard disk drives could handle that quite easily, after all consumer SATA drives have a theoretical 1.5 Gib/s interface.
I run Gentoo ~arch and since February I've done two complete recompiles, neither introduced any _serious_ problems and both were done overnight and mostly done by morning. One was the move from GCC 3.4.6 to GCC 4.1.1
You don't *HAVE* to recompile everything unless there has been C++ ABI breakage between the versions, but it doesn't hurt too bad and a lot of Gentoo users do it to benefit from any new optimizations introduced.
That said, I have a version of Real Player installed (which I don't use but mplayer needs for the libraries) that was apparently compiled with GCC 3.2 and a (32bit x86) version of Firefox installed that was compiled with GCC 3.4.
Why does my USB key does not load in Debian while it works flawlessly on OS X
This isn't just Debian, udev, hotplug,and hal are still absolutely foul bits of the current Linux desktop experience.
I have a USB pen drive and a digital camera and I've had to write custom udev rules and piss about for hours to get them to behave properly. Even now I have to do a chmod as root on the "/media/disk" mount point (which is created and deleted automatically on insert and removal) because I haven't been able to figure out why USB mass storage devices auto mounting with no write permissions.
And neither of the two leading Linux desktop environments make this at all easy to manage or interact with.
Linux also seems to be suffering a virtual filesystem meltdown with messy/dev,/proc, and/sys file systems which may as well be hidden because they seem to be splurging into one colossal mess.
As a gentoo ~arch user i'm quite amazed how most breakage is so damn easy to fix. Most of the time a recompile is all that is needed, i've always found ABI breakage is a hell of alot more common than API breakage and version dependencies rather easy to manage.
So frankly I couldn't disagree more, I have the latest GTK+ 2.10.6 library installed and my system is stable. Serious. Trust me on this.
Actually there is/was an open source effort to replace the KQEMU "accelerator" module... QVM86. Unfortunately it needs work, it's functional but only operates on x86 (no x86_64). There are patches against current CVS for compatibility with KQEMU 1.3.x and QEMU 0.8.2 on the QVM86 newsgroup but development seems to have otherwise stagnated.
Also the author of KQEMU did say he would open up the source if sponsored.
Joe Sixpack gets geek friend Steve Magrew to pirate Windows for them. Just because some people don't have the knowledge or determination to pirate software, doesn't mean they aren't immoral enough to ask someone who does.
I have had several friends who aren't really that techy orientated approach me about upgrading their machines from XP to Vista (and I turned them all away saying to wait atleast 6 months).
Honestly, I'm going to laugh my ass off 6 months down the road when MS pushes out a mandatory WGA update, disguised as another 'critical update,' that nukes pirated installs. All these scam cracked/KMS/pirated Vista copies are going to lock-up, shut down and only be able to do one thing, display the phone number to call MS to purchase a legitimate key
Ohhhhhh, you mean like what happened with XP........no,.....wait..... my mistake. XP is still dead easy to pirate with widely known VLK's and WGA *doesn't stop shit*. Nm, i'm sure Vista Activation will work out just fine for Microsoft.
These aren't knee-jerk reactions. I fear it is a long and carefully planned strategy.
Then bring on the lawsuits. I, like many other Windows turned Linux users, pirated Windows for years before going 100% Linux. and I have *no moral concerns whatsoever* about using any of the open source applications you mentioned whether or not they have been decreed to violate either one patent or a 1000 patents.
Computer security on such a large scale is very, very difficult to get right.
They should have called in the experts, Microsoft!
"Sorry sir you can't travel this evening as you haven't run your RFID chip through Passport.NET Live Update recently. We recommend you do this every second Tuesday of the 6 months proceeding travel or you may lose your right to enter your home upon return."
"Sir, do you have the 25 digit customs key for your new passport? It should have been printed on the back of the envelope it came in."
Passenger: "Excuse me, I'm having some problems with Genuine Passport Activation. I paid £66 for this a month ago but when I tried to board the International Express 737 this morning I was told that wasn't genuine."
GTK looks like whatever theme engine you apply to it. If it looks like crap it's because you have bad taste. If you mean it looks like crap from an API/programmer standpoint (C) then why not look into some bindings.
It isn't a trap because it's impossible to trap anyone all the time the code is GPL'd. IceWeasel could easily benefit from this code as well (although i'm not saying I support IceWeasel or oppose the Adobe/Mozilla partnership).
The *worst* that could happen is the Mozilla/Firefox 'brand name' becomes tainted and people move away from it in droves. How this could feasibly happen I don't know, it isn't likely at all. Either way I couldn't give a monkeys butt about the brand, I care about the product. So I really wouldn't care if it was *Microsoft* or Satan himself GPL'ing some JavaScript engine, if it improves Firefox's JavaScript performance then w00t!
The MS/Novell deal is a whole different Kettle of Fish.
Yeah, except a queue can be of an an infinite length is naturally dispatched on a first come first serve basis. It has an order of process that cannot be changed.
I believe your table hogging analogy wrong. It is more along the lines of pre-allocating memory or fetching resources before you absolutely need them, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Put it this way, why buy the food if you can't get a table at which to eat it? And why queuue for hours and hours and hours and then *not* get a PS3 *if* you can afford to spend a week lazing about and then are almost be guaranteed to get your hands on one?
No it seems to me that the table hoggers are being far more optimal and you are not. They are using the resources available to them (people) more wisely by allocating themselves a table and a position in the queue for food *simultaneously.* Multithreaded fast food baby.
I'm not entirely sure, I suspect it all depends on the quality of your regular expressions and whether you stick them in local.htaccess files (bad) or in the main web server configuration file (better).
I know from other libraries and apps that use regular expressions that they can be 'compiled' of sorts for faster re-evaluation.
To be honest I haven't had any experience with mod_rewrite from the web server admin's perspective.
Not necessarily a "char str[80]". Many people forget that C++ isn't just "C that lets you do proper OOP", it's a better C and plenty of string classes, file access classes, array and hash classes exist for C++.
Of course I doubt any of them are as easy to use as Python... but I wouldn't mind betting there are some C++ library guru's out here in the/. crowd familiar with enough to whip up something almost as quick as you can in Python.
...while IE7 is more secure than IE6 in a million ways, the WinXP version is nothing but a shadow of the real thing.
Mark of SysInternal's posted an interesting entry on his blog back in March, Running as Limited User - the Easy Way (it's at the bottom of the page, I couldn't find a working direct link), which describes just how easy it is, with the help the SysInternals free psexec utility to drop essentially all Administrator privileges when running IE.
It isn't a complete solution, Protected Mode probably does a lot more than this, as mentioned in the entry filter window messages (another brain fucked insecure by default design) for example. Even so it is pretty poor, given that a whole load of people out there still run XP as an Administrator, Microsoft hasn't even bothered to apply such a band aid for IE7 under XP.
Microsoft released XP Home Edition for home users, and despite this specialization they've still been too chicken shit scared of upsetting a minority to change anything for the greater good of these home users. I hope for the sake of people riddled with malware and rootkits today that Microsoft actually does do a better job of specializing the various versions of Vista to the security needs of their respective target user group.
Interesting you say that, the Gentoo Linux Firefox ebuild (package) maintainers recently added a "restrict-javascript" USE flag (install option) which installs the NoScript extension system wide (for all users).
SP2 was a gigantic jump in terms of security, but it was a far cry from a "new OS" by respectable standards (Maybe by Microsoft's). The problem with Microsoft is they don't seem to take the time to make any *non-essential* improvements to their OS's once they're out the door. IE7, and perhaps WMP 10, surely must be the only things MS has ever released to improve the user experience in XP and they only exist because of Vista.
Sure, fancy new apps and UI's should be saved for new versions (like Vista), they have a business to run after all, but what about improvements to CPU scheduling or memory management?
Linux (2.6.18) performs *much* better under load than my XP x64 installation which is always swapping out when it doesn't need to (When *I* notice a performance hit when I have free RAM going to me that means the algorithm obviously isn't right for desktop use) and grinds to a massive halt under heavy CPU load. When I copy a large file from one disk to another in Windows I may as well just go make a brew because the XP shell itself becomes as slow as frozen tar. Linux remains interactive even under 100% cpu load or when moving large files around across disks.
Anyone who tells me that XP have made improvements in this area has to be joking. Sure they may have put in some tweaks here and there, but it's marginal if anything and not on par with other OS's in 2006.
IMHO Microsoft should release two versions of their "Service Pack"'s, one purely a security response roll-up *plus updates to improve to underlying architecture (kernel updates)* and the other a bundle of applications and UI/user experience enhancements like we're getting in Vista. People could pay for the latter. Then they should release these upgrades incrementally every year *on the dot* and do away with the stupid 5 year life cycle. Yes this is like Apple does it and it does it better better. As someone who's never used or bought a Mac in my life, I still think Microsoft need to take a page out of Apple's book and adopt some of their practices.
Vista will be the same old flawed release, it'll be glitchy until service pack 1 and Microsoft will never release anything other than essential security updates for it through Windows Update. The Ultimate Extras thing will be a joke because noone will use it after shelling out hundred's of dollars already.
All I'm saying is Microsoft need to wake the fuck up and realise people don't want to run Windows Update and see 60 obscure looking boring security updates and hundreds of meg to download. They want to see "Update: Improvements to the look and feel of IE7", "Update: Improvement to desktop responsiveness under load" and "Update: Improve ease of use of ripping music with WMP" and i'm sure if people saw these updates flow out of Redmond on a reliable basis they would be willing to pay for them on a yearly subscription basis if it was fairly priced.
AV products mostly rely on signature files to identify viral threats. To extend your analogy it is like sharing medicine or antibodies, purely reactive, not preventative. You may not goto the doctor regularly, but I bet you've had your inoculations.
If there was any kind of viral threat to Linux users out there at the moment they would have an AV solution installed. The lack of immune system merely means there is a lack of any significant threat. Linux users have had their inoculations.
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According to the Wikipedia article the DVI specification does indeed have a colour depth of 24 bits per pixel.
Truth is, you can't. You just can't record a signal of 1920 x 1080 pixel times 12 bit per pixel times 60 frames per second on a harddisk
Yes, surely you can. For a start it's approximately 30 frames a second (it's 60 fields a second). That gives you a stream of:
(1920 * 1080 * 12 * 30) / (1024*1024) = ~ 712 Mib/s (megabits per second) or
about 89 MiB/s.
I would have though an array of high speed reasonably standard disk drives could handle that quite easily, after all consumer SATA drives have a theoretical 1.5 Gib/s interface.
So if working with Microsoft is a one night stand, isn't doing Open Source like doing 500 guy gangbang?
I run Gentoo ~arch and since February I've done two complete recompiles, neither introduced any _serious_ problems and both were done overnight and mostly done by morning. One was the move from GCC 3.4.6 to GCC 4.1.1
You don't *HAVE* to recompile everything unless there has been C++ ABI breakage between the versions, but it doesn't hurt too bad and a lot of Gentoo users do it to benefit from any new optimizations introduced.
That said, I have a version of Real Player installed (which I don't use but mplayer needs for the libraries) that was apparently compiled with GCC 3.2 and a (32bit x86) version of Firefox installed that was compiled with GCC 3.4.
Gentoo doesn't force you to do anything.
Why does my USB key does not load in Debian while it works flawlessly on OS X
/dev, /proc, and /sys file systems which may as well be hidden because they seem to be splurging into one colossal mess.
This isn't just Debian, udev, hotplug,and hal are still absolutely foul bits of the current Linux desktop experience.
I have a USB pen drive and a digital camera and I've had to write custom udev rules and piss about for hours to get them to behave properly. Even now I have to do a chmod as root on the "/media/disk" mount point (which is created and deleted automatically on insert and removal) because I haven't been able to figure out why USB mass storage devices auto mounting with no write permissions.
And neither of the two leading Linux desktop environments make this at all easy to manage or interact with.
Linux also seems to be suffering a virtual filesystem meltdown with messy
As a gentoo ~arch user i'm quite amazed how most breakage is so damn easy to fix.
Most of the time a recompile is all that is needed, i've always found ABI breakage
is a hell of alot more common than API breakage and version dependencies rather
easy to manage.
So frankly I couldn't disagree more, I have the latest GTK+ 2.10.6 library installed
and my system is stable. Serious. Trust me on this.
> The silly myth that having multiple desktops is some sort of advantageous competition driving the Linux desktop forward is utter bullshit.
It's advantageous to *me*, *I* don't happen to *LIKE* MAC OS X you insensitive arrogant thesaurusise("clod")
Not to mention malware development time. If you're spending $50,000 for the tip off, you don't want to mess up the implementation.
Actually there is/was an open source effort to replace the KQEMU "accelerator" module... QVM86. Unfortunately it needs work, it's functional but only operates on x86 (no x86_64). There are patches against current CVS for compatibility with KQEMU 1.3.x and QEMU 0.8.2 on the QVM86 newsgroup but development seems to have otherwise stagnated.
Also the author of KQEMU did say he would open up the source if sponsored.
Joe Sixpack gets geek friend Steve Magrew to pirate Windows for them. Just because some people don't have the knowledge or determination to pirate software, doesn't mean they aren't immoral enough to ask someone who does.
I have had several friends who aren't really that techy orientated approach me about upgrading their machines from XP to Vista (and I turned them all away saying to wait atleast 6 months).
Ohhhhhh, you mean like what happened with XP........no,
These aren't knee-jerk reactions. I fear it is a long and carefully planned strategy.
Then bring on the lawsuits. I, like many other Windows turned Linux users, pirated Windows for years before going 100% Linux. and I have *no moral concerns whatsoever* about using any of the open source applications you mentioned whether or not they have been decreed to violate either one patent or a 1000 patents.
Computer security on such a large scale is very, very difficult to get right.
They should have called in the experts, Microsoft!
"Sorry sir you can't travel this evening as you haven't run your RFID chip through Passport.NET Live Update recently. We recommend you do this every second Tuesday of the 6 months proceeding travel or you may lose your right to enter your home upon return."
"Sir, do you have the 25 digit customs key for your new passport? It should have been printed on the back of the envelope it came in."
Passenger: "Excuse me, I'm having some problems with Genuine Passport Activation. I paid £66 for this a month ago but when I tried to board the International Express 737 this morning I was told that wasn't genuine."
Linux seems to be responding OK. A patch for yesterday's ext3 denial of service bug is on the mailing list and in -mm.
GTK looks like whatever theme engine you apply to it. If it looks like crap it's because you have bad taste. If you mean it looks like crap from an API/programmer standpoint (C) then why not look into some bindings.
It isn't a trap because it's impossible to trap anyone all the time the code is GPL'd. IceWeasel could easily benefit from this code as well (although i'm not saying I support IceWeasel or oppose the Adobe/Mozilla partnership).
The *worst* that could happen is the Mozilla/Firefox 'brand name' becomes tainted and people move away from it in droves. How this could feasibly happen I don't know, it isn't likely at all. Either way I couldn't give a monkeys butt about the brand, I care about the product. So I really wouldn't care if it was *Microsoft* or Satan himself GPL'ing some JavaScript engine, if it improves Firefox's JavaScript performance then w00t!
The MS/Novell deal is a whole different Kettle of Fish.
Yeah, except a queue can be of an an infinite length is naturally dispatched on a first come first serve basis. It has an order of process that cannot be changed.
I believe your table hogging analogy wrong. It is more along the lines of pre-allocating memory or fetching resources before you absolutely need them, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Put it this way, why buy the food if you can't get a table at which to eat it? And why queuue for hours and hours and hours and then *not* get a PS3 *if* you can afford to spend a week lazing about and then are almost be guaranteed to get your hands on one?
No it seems to me that the table hoggers are being far more optimal and you are not. They are using the resources available to them (people) more wisely by allocating themselves a table and a position in the queue for food *simultaneously.* Multithreaded fast food baby.
I'm not entirely sure, I suspect it all depends on the quality of your regular expressions and whether you stick them in local .htaccess files (bad) or in the main web server configuration file (better).
I know from other libraries and apps that use regular expressions that they can be 'compiled' of sorts for faster re-evaluation.
To be honest I haven't had any experience with mod_rewrite from the web server admin's perspective.
Not necessarily a "char str[80]". Many people forget that C++ isn't just "C that lets you do proper OOP", it's a better C and plenty of string classes, file access classes, array and hash classes exist for C++.
/. crowd familiar with enough to whip up something almost as quick as you can in Python.
Of course I doubt any of them are as easy to use as Python... but I wouldn't mind betting there are some C++ library guru's out here in the
Mark of SysInternal's posted an interesting entry on his blog back in March, Running as Limited User - the Easy Way (it's at the bottom of the page, I couldn't find a working direct link), which describes just how easy it is, with the help the SysInternals free psexec utility to drop essentially all Administrator privileges when running IE.
It isn't a complete solution, Protected Mode probably does a lot more than this, as mentioned in the entry filter window messages (another brain fucked insecure by default design) for example. Even so it is pretty poor, given that a whole load of people out there still run XP as an Administrator, Microsoft hasn't even bothered to apply such a band aid for IE7 under XP.
Microsoft released XP Home Edition for home users, and despite this specialization they've still been too chicken shit scared of upsetting a minority to change anything for the greater good of these home users. I hope for the sake of people riddled with malware and rootkits today that Microsoft actually does do a better job of specializing the various versions of Vista to the security needs of their respective target user group.
Interesting you say that, the Gentoo Linux Firefox ebuild (package) maintainers recently added a "restrict-javascript" USE flag (install option) which installs the NoScript extension system wide (for all users).
SP2 was a gigantic jump in terms of security, but it was a far cry from a "new OS" by respectable standards (Maybe by Microsoft's). The problem with Microsoft is they don't seem to take the time to make any *non-essential* improvements to their OS's once they're out the door. IE7, and perhaps WMP 10, surely must be the only things MS has ever released to improve the user experience in XP and they only exist because of Vista.
Sure, fancy new apps and UI's should be saved for new versions (like Vista), they have a business to run after all, but what about improvements to CPU scheduling or memory management?
Linux (2.6.18) performs *much* better under load than my XP x64 installation which is always swapping out when it doesn't need to (When *I* notice a performance hit when I have free RAM going to me that means the algorithm obviously isn't right for desktop use) and grinds to a massive halt under heavy CPU load. When I copy a large file from one disk to another in Windows I may as well just go make a brew because the XP shell itself becomes as slow as frozen tar. Linux remains interactive even under 100% cpu load or when moving large files around across disks.
Anyone who tells me that XP have made improvements in this area has to be joking. Sure they may have put in some tweaks here and there, but it's marginal if anything and not on par with other OS's in 2006.
IMHO Microsoft should release two versions of their "Service Pack"'s, one purely a security response roll-up *plus updates to improve to underlying architecture (kernel updates)* and the other a bundle of applications and UI/user experience enhancements like we're getting in Vista. People could pay for the latter. Then they should release these upgrades incrementally every year *on the dot* and do away with the stupid 5 year life cycle. Yes this is like Apple does it and it does it better better. As someone who's never used or bought a Mac in my life, I still think Microsoft need to take a page out of Apple's book and adopt some of their practices.
Vista will be the same old flawed release, it'll be glitchy until service pack 1 and Microsoft will never release anything other than essential security updates for it through Windows Update. The Ultimate Extras thing will be a joke because noone will use it after shelling out hundred's of dollars already.
All I'm saying is Microsoft need to wake the fuck up and realise people don't want to run Windows Update and see 60 obscure looking boring security updates and hundreds of meg to download. They want to see "Update: Improvements to the look and feel of IE7", "Update: Improvement to desktop responsiveness under load" and "Update: Improve ease of use of ripping music with WMP" and i'm sure if people saw these updates flow out of Redmond on a reliable basis they would be willing to pay for them on a yearly subscription basis if it was fairly priced.
Then again, the Mars Rover duo was only intended to last 9 months ...I think they pulled a Scotty on that one mate.
AV products mostly rely on signature files to identify viral threats. To extend your analogy it is like sharing medicine or antibodies, purely reactive, not preventative. You may not goto the doctor regularly, but I bet you've had your inoculations.
If there was any kind of viral threat to Linux users out there at the moment they would have an AV solution installed. The lack of immune system merely means there is a lack of any significant threat. Linux users have had their inoculations.
Just found this...
Mozilla's HTTP/1.1 Pipelining FAQ