Who says the visual spectrum of the EM band is the best way to interperit the world.
Wet, the only way to be sure if something is wet is to touch it (or put some other sensor into or onto it. I've seen lots of thengs that "looked" wet but it was just the glossy type look.
Soft, Sound is a MUCH better indicator for softness than sight. We've learnt that certain things look hard and soft. it's no measure if they are or not. You can make a barbell out of foam and with a good paint job it will look exactly like the real thing until you touch it. it won't however sound like a solid piece of metal. the returning sound will be muted / distorted.
Alive, see soft. I've seen people make realistic looking things on the beach. They could never have been alive, but they can look it.
Sorry bot the 3 examples you've used would have to be the worst 3. A more likely reason we have 2 eyes is we were origionally predators. We notice movement and distance well. It helps us hunt. As sight is effectivly passive (we don't have to shine light out of our eyes) it allows us to be more stealthy. While bats use sonar, it's an active sensor. you have to keep making sound to use it. If more predatory animals used sonar to hunt, then more hunted animals would be able to detect it.
Back on topic however, If naval sonar is so advanced, why is atmospheric sonar so lacking ? isn't it essentually a timing thing (sound travels faster in denser mediums like water than air). put a different emitter on and then adjust the timings.
Oh and if you're just sitting down, not moving etc can anyone see that you're drunk ?
You give that version of windows too much credit. it wasn't "Windows NT" that got the rating (as much as M$ hyped it, and I don't remeber the exact spec, but the spec gave the EXACT make and model of computer (and hence hardware spec (that didn't include a network card)) as well as the exact patch level of NT and it specified the applications installed.
In short it wasn't generically Windows NT, or even Windows NT4 sp2. it was much better defined than that, but that being said, yes M$ has achieved a security rating, and I'd have to agree (unlike a bunch of the posts on this topic I've seen), the security model has to fit with the company. if they are asking as a DoD contractor, the question is in the wrong place. If the question is from a company that management feels they need to secure their computing enviroment, then it's all good.
I can tell, a removable hard drive and security stickers to prevent tampering.
You are joking right ? You're asking for a secure computer, but also describing that computer to have removable media ? And not just any media, but a removable HDD. Go take a look. having removable media, esp. if the OS is on the removable media is one sure way of throwing your security out the window. The stickers will only show it's been tampered with. Yes you can encrypt the data, but if someone has access to the keys then what is the point. If they don't have access to the keys what's the removable HDD for ?
This sounds like a bit of an oxymoron if you ask me. First step, look at a secure case for the pc. One that only has holes for network cable (if you allow network access from it (yes I know another potential attack vector)), screen cable, mouse & keyboard. There should be a power plug, reset switch and that's it. no usb, no parallel ports, no serial ports. atleast none physically accessable.
You've got to think about a netwok attack (secure os) and a physical attack (physically secure the box). The physically securing the box is the easyiest part. Concrete floor with a few bolts sticking out. put a steel box ontop using padlocking the box to it. only have holes through the box for the cables I've mentioned above. If you lower the security slightly you can put connectors on the steel box. Then put a regular pc inside with a secure OS.
The thing above all you've got to remember is there is no 100% security. The best you can do is discourage and slow people. make it so hard that 99% won't bother and the remaining 1% will take a long time.
Obviously your grandma and mine have vastly different idea's. Yours went to dell and purchased the hype. Mine came to me, told me what she wanted to do and I found out some prices based on slightly different components, eg crt vrs flat screen.
That aside, while the average consumer will buy a generic brandname, most businesses will seek atleast some advice before they go and start spending money. So if AMD manage to convince enough geeks (and can put together half good pr that we can use to sell it over all the "intel inside" hype) then their market share will go up.
Oh and one other thing, the last couple of reports have shown home users aren't currently buying pc's in the numbers they were a few years ago. seems like most of those who want a have got one and don't see the point in spending more money.
You're missing the point. While yes you'd be crazy not to use jumpstart for multiple installs, you shouldn't have to use what is effectivly an additional 3rd party app to do the install for a single system.
The included installer should be able to handle all the hardware you're likely to use and present you with a fully running system.
The Reg has always been very sensationalist though. it's one of the reasons I stopped looking at the site. It has become filled with too much hype and flashy headlines to be a real tech site.
In reality they are pretending to be a tech site to attract the PHB's
In both cases you point out the police have to get a warrent to search. The issue here is one of an illegal search. The law enforcement obtained the evidance without a warrent.
Jacks are located in trunks
You'd expect the mechanic to have his own tools / jacks etc.
If I had a file called windows-xp-keygen.exe on my desktop I'd expect it to be reported. If the same file was in C:\Games, clearly the tech has no reason to be in that directory (assuming that wasn't my "windows" aka %systemroot% directory)
If I invite guests over to my house and serve cocaine to my guests
You can't expect the cops not to come. However if the cocaine was in the top drawer of your night stand, you'd have every expctation of privacy and not expect them to search your draws then call the cops.
As for expectaion of privacy, hmm. If I give you a folder full of sensitive documents and ask you to rearrange them alphabetically, my expectation goes out the window doesn't it.
Arrange then by file name, or first letter IN the documents ?
If I invite someone over for a coffee I would NOT expect them to start going through my wardrobe, drawers or even go into my bedroom without my permission.
The same goes for my computer. If I had put it in to be fixed, I would expect the person fixing the computer NOT to snoop through the HDD. As has been pointed elsewhere. If you had say a glazer come to your house to fix a broken window in your kitchen, you would NOT expect them to go into your bedroom etc. You would expect them to go into your kitchen and do their work in there. There would be NO reason for them to report the pile of stolen goods in your bedroom when the door and curtains were closed.
What if the picture was in a zipped up pocket ? Or maybe a buttoned up inside pocket ? Even if it's in the outside pockets, what right does the tailor have to go through the coat pockets?
Assuming in your example the pictures simply fell out of the pocket. Then the tailor would have a duty to report them.
One of the consequences of calling the cops would be a search (to see if they can find more). The cops STILL have to get a search warrent. The cops DIDN'T get a warrent in this case.
Depends on what sort of fix is needed. Ofcourse bin the broken stuff, but only after it's been confirmed as broken. Ok sure most of the components in a laptop is integrated to the mobo. But the HDD, CD, Ram & screen can be swapped between laptop's As for the "cost" to do that, if it's anything like the place I went to school then university there is always something that can be done without money changing hands. eg put a note up asking for students to do hardware support (testing and swapping out failed componets). The students identify which componets are broken. The broken parts are binned, the working parts are kept and put into computers as needed. Students get a free laptop after they have fixed 5 or 10 laptops, for their trouble and a letter from the school as work experiance. The school gets "free" techs to "repair" the hardware.
While it could be used for, it's not designed for OSX86, re-read the article. It's using the iPod as a removable HDD with linux & VMware to create a portable, hardware independant version of windows.
Go re-read the article. The whole purpose is to have a portable device that will run windows on any x86 PC.
IBM's making a "machine in pocket" device that boots Linux. You'd think Slashdotters would love that. while it boots linux it doesn't effectivly 'run' linux. It runs windows (That's the OS that is presented to the user). So no the/. crowd would probably hate it.
It runs linux, but only so it can run VMware so you can run windows without having to worry about the hardware you're running it on. And there is some encryption somewhere in there so when you lose the thing no one has access to the any sensitive data on it.
Sounds like a good way to get a nice laptop off the boss though.
1) Show to boss point out how it's better than a laptop because it a 'more powerful desktop';)
2) Take bosses laptop as he can now use portable USB drive on both home and work PC
Both the original poster ScuttleMonkey and the article needed to spell it out ALOT better.
Both imply this is just another OS on a removable storage medium. The articule touches on a virtual machine (for windows applications) and also touches on encrypted data, but it doesn't give any serious details about the latter and fails to highlight the benefits of the former.
In short, probably. Depends on how creative you want to be, and if windows will fit in 1Gb of space.
Most camera's (not all) can / will act as a mass storage device, and most modern bios's can boot from a USB mass storage device. or you can put the CF card into a dedicated reader (but that doesn't look as good.
The only difference with this is instead of installing windows directly onto the card they install it onto a virtual machine running under linux. That windows always sees the same (emulated) hardware.
Someone thought about screwing around with an Ipod to do things other than play music.
Not really, they are just using it as a portable hdd. It's been done before I even have OSX and Linux installs on mine for if I need to fsck a disk at a customers site.
Someone managed to get Linux on an Ipod and documented it.
No, at least not in this article and not as you'd think it. The iPod is NOT running linux, it's simply being used as a storage medium.
Someone saw a new product.
Kind of from what I can tell the basic idea is a removable storage device with linux on it who's primary purpose is to run vmware which you then run that other OS.
This way you seperare the OS from the hardware, then run 1 os to drive the hardware and 1 os as an operating enviroment.
Linux is known for 'happily' moving hardware. So you run a distro (knoppix) that has all the drivers and is good at autodetecting and running on any x86. That distro boots into X with auto login that starts vmware running M$ software. So in this way you're never having to worry about drivers / activation due to hardware changes etc.
The computer industry seems to be moving at different speeds. Today, for example, you can buy a 64-bit CPU that operates at 3gHz, 32-bit memory that operates at 400mHz, and a 128-bit graphics card with 300mHz RAMDAC. Nobody seems interested in designing a complete system in the PC industry -- instead all the "progress" is in optimizing or extending components and hoping they work when you throw them together.
While generally I'd agree with that statement, it's not quite as clear cut as you make out. most programs run in small loops, so while your entire system may have 1gb of physical ram, it also has a few mb in cache spread through the various chips (like the CPU, graphics chip etc) eg a P4 with HT has atleast 512k cache. Most of the time the CPU is only using that cache and not using the system memory.
In short while it's a good idea to get everything working together and talking faster, in most cases bigger cache's and improving adding / seperating the busses will produce the desired effect without the additional costs & other problems involved with getting everything communicating at the same speed as the CPU.
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Well alot of the time you can get away with a graceful reload
I think what the parent is meaning is you can't run BOTH php4 AND php5 or both verions of python in the same apache instance.
from my experiance you can use either version of php with either version of apache (haven't tried with python but would expect similar).
Who says the visual spectrum of the EM band is the best way to interperit the world.
Wet, the only way to be sure if something is wet is to touch it (or put some other sensor into or onto it. I've seen lots of thengs that "looked" wet but it was just the glossy type look.
Soft, Sound is a MUCH better indicator for softness than sight. We've learnt that certain things look hard and soft. it's no measure if they are or not. You can make a barbell out of foam and with a good paint job it will look exactly like the real thing until you touch it. it won't however sound like a solid piece of metal. the returning sound will be muted / distorted.
Alive, see soft. I've seen people make realistic looking things on the beach. They could never have been alive, but they can look it.
Sorry bot the 3 examples you've used would have to be the worst 3. A more likely reason we have 2 eyes is we were origionally predators. We notice movement and distance well. It helps us hunt. As sight is effectivly passive (we don't have to shine light out of our eyes) it allows us to be more stealthy.
While bats use sonar, it's an active sensor. you have to keep making sound to use it. If more predatory animals used sonar to hunt, then more hunted animals would be able to detect it.
Back on topic however, If naval sonar is so advanced, why is atmospheric sonar so lacking ?
isn't it essentually a timing thing (sound travels faster in denser mediums like water than air). put a different emitter on and then adjust the timings.
Oh and if you're just sitting down, not moving etc can anyone see that you're drunk ?
You give that version of windows too much credit.
it wasn't "Windows NT" that got the rating (as much as M$ hyped it, and I don't remeber the exact spec, but the spec gave the EXACT make and model of computer (and hence hardware spec (that didn't include a network card)) as well as the exact patch level of NT and it specified the applications installed.
In short it wasn't generically Windows NT, or even Windows NT4 sp2. it was much better defined than that, but that being said, yes M$ has achieved a security rating, and I'd have to agree (unlike a bunch of the posts on this topic I've seen), the security model has to fit with the company. if they are asking as a DoD contractor, the question is in the wrong place. If the question is from a company that management feels they need to secure their computing enviroment, then it's all good.
I can tell, a removable hard drive and security stickers to prevent tampering.
You are joking right ?
You're asking for a secure computer, but also describing that computer to have removable media ? And not just any media, but a removable HDD.
Go take a look. having removable media, esp. if the OS is on the removable media is one sure way of throwing your security out the window. The stickers will only show it's been tampered with.
Yes you can encrypt the data, but if someone has access to the keys then what is the point. If they don't have access to the keys what's the removable HDD for ?
This sounds like a bit of an oxymoron if you ask me.
First step, look at a secure case for the pc. One that only has holes for network cable (if you allow network access from it (yes I know another potential attack vector)), screen cable, mouse & keyboard. There should be a power plug, reset switch and that's it. no usb, no parallel ports, no serial ports. atleast none physically accessable.
You've got to think about a netwok attack (secure os) and a physical attack (physically secure the box). The physically securing the box is the easyiest part. Concrete floor with a few bolts sticking out. put a steel box ontop using padlocking the box to it. only have holes through the box for the cables I've mentioned above. If you lower the security slightly you can put connectors on the steel box. Then put a regular pc inside with a secure OS.
The thing above all you've got to remember is there is no 100% security. The best you can do is discourage and slow people. make it so hard that 99% won't bother and the remaining 1% will take a long time.
Obviously your grandma and mine have vastly different idea's.
Yours went to dell and purchased the hype.
Mine came to me, told me what she wanted to do and I found out some prices based on slightly different components, eg crt vrs flat screen.
That aside, while the average consumer will buy a generic brandname, most businesses will seek atleast some advice before they go and start spending money. So if AMD manage to convince enough geeks (and can put together half good pr that we can use to sell it over all the "intel inside" hype) then their market share will go up.
Oh and one other thing, the last couple of reports have shown home users aren't currently buying pc's in the numbers they were a few years ago. seems like most of those who want a have got one and don't see the point in spending more money.
Now, if you were to send 1 email to each address every second
Thats why there is Cc and Bcc
You're missing the point. While yes you'd be crazy not to use jumpstart for multiple installs, you shouldn't have to use what is effectivly an additional 3rd party app to do the install for a single system.
The included installer should be able to handle all the hardware you're likely to use and present you with a fully running system.
The Reg has always been very sensationalist though. it's one of the reasons I stopped looking at the site. It has become filled with too much hype and flashy headlines to be a real tech site.
In reality they are pretending to be a tech site to attract the PHB's
Ever tried Linux on SPARC hardware ?
In both cases you point out the police have to get a warrent to search.
The issue here is one of an illegal search. The law enforcement obtained the evidance without a warrent.
Jacks are located in trunks
You'd expect the mechanic to have his own tools / jacks etc.
If I had a file called windows-xp-keygen.exe on my desktop I'd expect it to be reported. If the same file was in C:\Games, clearly the tech has no reason to be in that directory (assuming that wasn't my "windows" aka %systemroot% directory)
If I invite guests over to my house and serve cocaine to my guests
You can't expect the cops not to come.
However if the cocaine was in the top drawer of your night stand, you'd have every expctation of privacy and not expect them to search your draws then call the cops.
As for expectaion of privacy, hmm. If I give you a folder full of sensitive documents and ask you to rearrange them alphabetically, my expectation goes out the window doesn't it.
Arrange then by file name, or first letter IN the documents ?
The police then had a right to investigate,
The police have an obligation, not a right. They only get the right with a warrent
Sorry, no I disagree with both of your points.
If I invite someone over for a coffee I would NOT expect them to start going through my wardrobe, drawers or even go into my bedroom without my permission.
The same goes for my computer. If I had put it in to be fixed, I would expect the person fixing the computer NOT to snoop through the HDD.
As has been pointed elsewhere. If you had say a glazer come to your house to fix a broken window in your kitchen, you would NOT expect them to go into your bedroom etc. You would expect them to go into your kitchen and do their work in there.
There would be NO reason for them to report the pile of stolen goods in your bedroom when the door and curtains were closed.
What if the picture was in a zipped up pocket ?
Or maybe a buttoned up inside pocket ?
Even if it's in the outside pockets, what right does the tailor have to go through the coat pockets?
Assuming in your example the pictures simply fell out of the pocket. Then the tailor would have a duty to report them.
One of the consequences of calling the cops would be a search (to see if they can find more). The cops STILL have to get a search warrent. The cops DIDN'T get a warrent in this case.
Depends on what sort of fix is needed.
Ofcourse bin the broken stuff, but only after it's been confirmed as broken.
Ok sure most of the components in a laptop is integrated to the mobo.
But the HDD, CD, Ram & screen can be swapped between laptop's
As for the "cost" to do that, if it's anything like the place I went to school then university there is always something that can be done without money changing hands.
eg put a note up asking for students to do hardware support (testing and swapping out failed componets). The students identify which componets are broken. The broken parts are binned, the working parts are kept and put into computers as needed.
Students get a free laptop after they have fixed 5 or 10 laptops, for their trouble and a letter from the school as work experiance.
The school gets "free" techs to "repair" the hardware.
While it could be used for, it's not designed for OSX86, re-read the article.
It's using the iPod as a removable HDD with linux & VMware to create a portable, hardware independant version of windows.
Go re-read the article. The whole purpose is to have a portable device that will run windows on any x86 PC.
/. crowd would probably hate it.
;)
IBM's making a "machine in pocket" device that boots Linux. You'd think Slashdotters would love that.
while it boots linux it doesn't effectivly 'run' linux. It runs windows (That's the OS that is presented to the user). So no the
It runs linux, but only so it can run VMware so you can run windows without having to worry about the hardware you're running it on. And there is some encryption somewhere in there so when you lose the thing no one has access to the any sensitive data on it.
Sounds like a good way to get a nice laptop off the boss though.
1) Show to boss point out how it's better than a laptop because it a 'more powerful desktop'
2) Take bosses laptop as he can now use portable USB drive on both home and work PC
Both the original poster ScuttleMonkey and the article needed to spell it out ALOT better.
Both imply this is just another OS on a removable storage medium. The articule touches on a virtual machine (for windows applications) and also touches on encrypted data, but it doesn't give any serious details about the latter and fails to highlight the benefits of the former.
In short, probably. Depends on how creative you want to be, and if windows will fit in 1Gb of space.
Most camera's (not all) can / will act as a mass storage device, and most modern bios's can boot from a USB mass storage device. or you can put the CF card into a dedicated reader (but that doesn't look as good.
The only difference with this is instead of installing windows directly onto the card they install it onto a virtual machine running under linux. That windows always sees the same (emulated) hardware.
Someone thought about screwing around with an Ipod to do things other than play music.
Not really, they are just using it as a portable hdd. It's been done before I even have OSX and Linux installs on mine for if I need to fsck a disk at a customers site.
Someone managed to get Linux on an Ipod and documented it.
No, at least not in this article and not as you'd think it. The iPod is NOT running linux, it's simply being used as a storage medium.
Someone saw a new product.
Kind of from what I can tell the basic idea is a removable storage device with linux on it who's primary purpose is to run vmware which you then run that other OS.
This way you seperare the OS from the hardware, then run 1 os to drive the hardware and 1 os as an operating enviroment.
Linux is known for 'happily' moving hardware. So you run a distro (knoppix) that has all the drivers and is good at autodetecting and running on any x86. That distro boots into X with auto login that starts vmware running M$ software. So in this way you're never having to worry about drivers / activation due to hardware changes etc.
The computer industry seems to be moving at different speeds. Today, for example, you can buy a 64-bit CPU that operates at 3gHz, 32-bit memory that operates at 400mHz, and a 128-bit graphics card with 300mHz RAMDAC. Nobody seems interested in designing a complete system in the PC industry -- instead all the "progress" is in optimizing or extending components and hoping they work when you throw them together.
While generally I'd agree with that statement, it's not quite as clear cut as you make out. most programs run in small loops, so while your entire system may have 1gb of physical ram, it also has a few mb in cache spread through the various chips (like the CPU, graphics chip etc) eg a P4 with HT has atleast 512k cache. Most of the time the CPU is only using that cache and not using the system memory.
In short while it's a good idea to get everything working together and talking faster, in most cases bigger cache's and improving adding / seperating the busses will produce the desired effect without the additional costs & other problems involved with getting everything communicating at the same speed as the CPU.
Good thing anyone thinking of this has got themselves a copy of the corp. edition of XP Pro with a generated key.
They just have to worry about having the i386 dir on the key so it can auto install the hardware every time they move.