I implemented Seagate hybrid drives and PGP Whole Disk Encryption on all my company's laptops a year or two ago and it works very well, and only once had a funky out-of-sync explosion that required a call to Symantec support to resolve. If you pull out a drive that has an OS issue and try to slap it into a USB dock, as long as the other computer also has PGP it'll just ask for the password and then away you go.
One minor thing that doesn't work is boot-sector based BIOS updates (Dell in particular), but getting around this with a bootable Windows98 USB key is easy enough.
Another problem with SSDs...some of them (SandForce) use compression to reduce the write cycles to the flash chips and boost performance, which is all well and good until your data is encrypted and totally uncompressable. It still works fine, but the stunning SSD performance from SF's controller comes down to more mortal levels. Hence we use the Seagate hybrid drives, they are cheap, large, and fast enough.
I've raced, Autocrossed, and instructed with the SCCA in Northern California for many years, and after checking the video it's clear that they are running the full length course, including the blind high-pucker-factor Turn 5 (NASA punks run a bypass around it, which IMHO takes the fun out of it. No, not that NASA).
And I gotta say while the AI seems to drive with a good amount of commitment, it's only kinda on the "Driving Line", and not remotely close to nailing the apexes to use every inch of pavement. It's easy to see how a real human driver would crush the AI for now, but as you said, it's a great start, and lots of room for improvement.
A fully AI racing serious would be very interesting, I can imagine the programmers setting up their AI's to more and more aggressively bluff and fake and dive to the apex without compromise to force the other AIs dodge out of the way. Rubbing paint would be inevitable, and for once, not be accompanied by risk to squishy humans...
Look at the pictures, it's 10mm, the article got that and a whole lot of other shooting terms wrong. 10CM would be closer to something you'd mount on an M1 tank:-P
Starting on 1/1/2010 Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager v11, the software that pulls down updates from Symantec and pushes them out to all the client systems, started repeatedly downloading the same virus def over and over and stashing them in randomly named temp folders on the C drive at the rate of about 1GB/hour. Party. Lots of folks on the Symantec support forms are experiencing the issue. Purging the temp folders and upgrading to the recently released v11 RU5 fixes the problem, but those without current support contracts to get the updates would be kinda screwed...
Luckily today was a slow day at work so I did various benchmark tests both before and after installing SP1. This was all done on my Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop, Core 2 Duo 2Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, and a freshly defragmented 200GB 7200RPM Seagate HD. Not a mobile Lan Party screamer, but it gets the job done well enough.
Boot times dropped, both with and without ReadyBoost enabled (using a 4GB 150x SD card) by about 10 seconds, ending up with 1:56 clean and 1:45 with ReadyBoost.
...and it wasn't from the 20'odd years of intense computer geekery I've subjected my body too. A couple years ago I first did one 4 day long weekend road trip from San Jose to the Grand Canyon and back, and then two weeks later a 5 day road trip through the national parks of Utah. The final day on that second trip I drove all the way from Salt Lake City to San Jose in one go, left arm on the window sill of my Nissan Murano, left wrist tense holding the wheel...
The numbness and tingling pain started a couple days later, and after a diagnosis from the Dr. I wore a brace night and day for a month until the symptoms went away. Now I always wear a brace on my left wrist when doing multi-hour road trips, never had a problem since.
During TOTN on NPR they made it clear that the police are very specifically saying *A* shooter was dead, not *THE* shooter. You can draw your own conclusions, but it sounds like they are still trying to figure out WTF happened, and how the two shootings MAY be connected and aren't wanting to speculate until they know more.
I have a 37" Westinghouse 1080P LCD as my PC display, and a recently purchased 47" Westinghouse 1080P LCD as my TV. Both are readily available, the former for about $1.5K and the latter for about $2.5K. Here's the endless thread on AVSForum if you want to read more, but I assure you these sets offer simply incredible viewing/playing experiences.
It's a REALLY short article, is it really that hard to read?
"Utilizing BD drives in its own PS3 game consoles, Sony suspended shipments of blue laser diodes to other customers, the makers indicated, adding that only Nichia, Sharp and Sanyo continue shipping the diodes."
...we used on those Irish "scientist" Quacks, and then dump her body in an empty fish pond who's contents were sold to make the Biofuel needed to keep that not-quite-free-energy machine running. By contents I mean the water, since the Gold Fish were smart enough to say "So long and thanks for food flakes" and beam up weeks ago.
...biggest thing that gets me is how every time I talk about email viruses my users say 'I don't get viruses because I don't open attachments from people I don't know'. ARG! If when the virus infects you it goes out to your whole address book, by DEFINITION you'll often get it originally from somebody you know!
My fiance and I just got back to the SF bay area yesterday afternoon, completing a 7000+ mile road trip across the country and back again. Read about it here if you're curious.
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...point. Don't think 2.5" drives, think micro drives. They are getting to a large enough capacity that a RAID array of those little iPod Mini style buggers would be fast, reliable, and probably burn less power than a big 2.5" HD.
Sigh, when are people going to get it? Even more enlightened articles like this one totally miss the point:
Bittorrent or any other data transfer program or protocol is totally agnostic, it's just data damn it! It's not for pirated movies, it's not for music concert recordings, it's not for pr0n, it's just for data, billions of 1s and 0s. Whatever it happens to be used for predominantly has virtually NOTHING to do with the morals of the developer or the legality of the software.
One of my hobbies is producing videos for friends & family, reasonably good stuff from a nice DV camera/mic/light setup and whipped together with Premier. Especially stuff I do for the online motorsports community, it can be hundreds of megs of video that gets downloaded hundreds of times, and Bittorrent saves our ass bigtime when the stampeding hordes descend on our server for the latest release.
Yes, everybody here hates episodes 1 and 2, personally I've only ever seen 1 and skipped 2 entirely though I've heard various first hand reviews of it. Seeing now the 3rd episode get a PG-13 rating, George's plan looks pretty obvious now:
Phantom Menace, with Jar Jar and a boy hero, was not bad, it just wasn't targeted at us existing fans. First and foremost Phantom is kids movie, designed to hook another generation of fans. The second movie a few years later was aimed a few years higher on the target audience scale, and earned a wee bit more respect out of us. And now the 3rd movie has moved up the age scale even more as that new fan base grows up, who are luckily now old enough that the movie also looks good to us old farts.
It's the exact same thing as all the Harry Potter books. Written every few years for a few year older target audience, focusing on hooking and keeping a generation as it matures. Not a bad plan at all...and I'm sure if the writer goes back and writes prequels to hook in a new generation there will be a huge cry of despair from the existing fans who are no longer the target audience.
If you're going to invest the huge amount of time & money to nudge the thing off into space, why not instead nudge it into a stable earth orbit so we can study/mine it? Of course, don't fubar up some metric conversion or some such in your guidance software along the way...doh!
To answer the obvious predictable question, no, the Delta IV Heavy doesn't even come close to the Saturn V. The Sat5 could heave 118,000kg into LEO, while the 3 booster D4H can only lift 22,000kg. There is talk of strapping on even more big candles to the D4, going up to as many as 7 main engines (the core and then 6 around it), but rough extrapolation would take that only to 51,333kg, far better than the shuttle but still a far cry from the awesome power of the Saturn V.
I didn't do that because it's old hat, I did it last year: LunarEclipse-5-2003.avi
Or of course search Gnutella for the file, it's there, in fact looke like quite a few people have downloaded it too...
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I implemented Seagate hybrid drives and PGP Whole Disk Encryption on all my company's laptops a year or two ago and it works very well, and only once had a funky out-of-sync explosion that required a call to Symantec support to resolve. If you pull out a drive that has an OS issue and try to slap it into a USB dock, as long as the other computer also has PGP it'll just ask for the password and then away you go.
One minor thing that doesn't work is boot-sector based BIOS updates (Dell in particular), but getting around this with a bootable Windows98 USB key is easy enough.
Another problem with SSDs...some of them (SandForce) use compression to reduce the write cycles to the flash chips and boost performance, which is all well and good until your data is encrypted and totally uncompressable. It still works fine, but the stunning SSD performance from SF's controller comes down to more mortal levels. Hence we use the Seagate hybrid drives, they are cheap, large, and fast enough.
I've raced, Autocrossed, and instructed with the SCCA in Northern California for many years, and after checking the video it's clear that they are running the full length course, including the blind high-pucker-factor Turn 5 (NASA punks run a bypass around it, which IMHO takes the fun out of it. No, not that NASA).
And I gotta say while the AI seems to drive with a good amount of commitment, it's only kinda on the "Driving Line", and not remotely close to nailing the apexes to use every inch of pavement. It's easy to see how a real human driver would crush the AI for now, but as you said, it's a great start, and lots of room for improvement.
A fully AI racing serious would be very interesting, I can imagine the programmers setting up their AI's to more and more aggressively bluff and fake and dive to the apex without compromise to force the other AIs dodge out of the way. Rubbing paint would be inevitable, and for once, not be accompanied by risk to squishy humans...
Look at the pictures, it's 10mm, the article got that and a whole lot of other shooting terms wrong. 10CM would be closer to something you'd mount on an M1 tank :-P
Starting on 1/1/2010 Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager v11, the software that pulls down updates from Symantec and pushes them out to all the client systems, started repeatedly downloading the same virus def over and over and stashing them in randomly named temp folders on the C drive at the rate of about 1GB/hour. Party. Lots of folks on the Symantec support forms are experiencing the issue. Purging the temp folders and upgrading to the recently released v11 RU5 fixes the problem, but those without current support contracts to get the updates would be kinda screwed...
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Luckily today was a slow day at work so I did various benchmark tests both before and after installing SP1. This was all done on my Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop, Core 2 Duo 2Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, and a freshly defragmented 200GB 7200RPM Seagate HD. Not a mobile Lan Party screamer, but it gets the job done well enough.
Boot times dropped, both with and without ReadyBoost enabled (using a 4GB 150x SD card) by about 10 seconds, ending up with 1:56 clean and 1:45 with ReadyBoost.
ATTO Disk Benchmark showed a .
Copying 1GB of JPG files from one partition to another dropped from 1:31 to 1:09, and to the network from 1:35 to 1:06.
3DMark06 scores very slightly increased, PCBench05 scores slightly decreased.
The graphics test in CoH OF went from 59.7/28.8/7.9 up to 59.7/28.9/9.2
So no huge improvements, but overall things are just a bit more snappy.
...and it wasn't from the 20'odd years of intense computer geekery I've subjected my body too. A couple years ago I first did one 4 day long weekend road trip from San Jose to the Grand Canyon and back, and then two weeks later a 5 day road trip through the national parks of Utah. The final day on that second trip I drove all the way from Salt Lake City to San Jose in one go, left arm on the window sill of my Nissan Murano, left wrist tense holding the wheel... The numbness and tingling pain started a couple days later, and after a diagnosis from the Dr. I wore a brace night and day for a month until the symptoms went away. Now I always wear a brace on my left wrist when doing multi-hour road trips, never had a problem since.
During TOTN on NPR they made it clear that the police are very specifically saying *A* shooter was dead, not *THE* shooter. You can draw your own conclusions, but it sounds like they are still trying to figure out WTF happened, and how the two shootings MAY be connected and aren't wanting to speculate until they know more.
I have a 37" Westinghouse 1080P LCD as my PC display, and a recently purchased 47" Westinghouse 1080P LCD as my TV. Both are readily available, the former for about $1.5K and the latter for about $2.5K. Here's the endless thread on AVSForum if you want to read more, but I assure you these sets offer simply incredible viewing/playing experiences.
It's a REALLY short article, is it really that hard to read? "Utilizing BD drives in its own PS3 game consoles, Sony suspended shipments of blue laser diodes to other customers, the makers indicated, adding that only Nichia, Sharp and Sanyo continue shipping the diodes."
...we used on those Irish "scientist" Quacks, and then dump her body in an empty fish pond who's contents were sold to make the Biofuel needed to keep that not-quite-free-energy machine running. By contents I mean the water, since the Gold Fish were smart enough to say "So long and thanks for food flakes" and beam up weeks ago.
I for one reject our NSA wire tapping overlords. Halleluiah for "activist" judges! =P
...is the video looking down from the booster, showing the amazing launch and then splashdown:n load.akamai.com/18355/wm.nasa-global/sts-121/right _aft_srb_camera.asx
http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/etouchsyst2.dow
...let me look out the window...OMFG, no shit, it's snowing in hell, well I'll be...um...damned. =P -c
Pretty lame replying to my own post eh? =P Yes, they will, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 104&STORY=/www/story/01-24-2006/0004266219&EDATE=
Has anybody seen any statement from Netflix on if they will be distributing HD format discs when they come out?
...biggest thing that gets me is how every time I talk about email viruses my users say 'I don't get viruses because I don't open attachments from people I don't know'. ARG! If when the virus infects you it goes out to your whole address book, by DEFINITION you'll often get it originally from somebody you know!
My fiance and I just got back to the SF bay area yesterday afternoon, completing a 7000+ mile road trip across the country and back again. Read about it here if you're curious.
...point. Don't think 2.5" drives, think micro drives. They are getting to a large enough capacity that a RAID array of those little iPod Mini style buggers would be fast, reliable, and probably burn less power than a big 2.5" HD.
Cearly a sexy case does not a fast web server make. Coral Cache: http://www.xyzcomputing.com.nyud.net:8090/index.ph p?option=content&task=view&id=396&Itemid=2
Sigh, when are people going to get it? Even more enlightened articles like this one totally miss the point:
Bittorrent or any other data transfer program or protocol is totally agnostic, it's just data damn it! It's not for pirated movies, it's not for music concert recordings, it's not for pr0n, it's just for data, billions of 1s and 0s. Whatever it happens to be used for predominantly has virtually NOTHING to do with the morals of the developer or the legality of the software.
One of my hobbies is producing videos for friends & family, reasonably good stuff from a nice DV camera/mic/light setup and whipped together with Premier. Especially stuff I do for the online motorsports community, it can be hundreds of megs of video that gets downloaded hundreds of times, and Bittorrent saves our ass bigtime when the stampeding hordes descend on our server for the latest release.
Yes, everybody here hates episodes 1 and 2, personally I've only ever seen 1 and skipped 2 entirely though I've heard various first hand reviews of it. Seeing now the 3rd episode get a PG-13 rating, George's plan looks pretty obvious now:
Phantom Menace, with Jar Jar and a boy hero, was not bad, it just wasn't targeted at us existing fans. First and foremost Phantom is kids movie, designed to hook another generation of fans. The second movie a few years later was aimed a few years higher on the target audience scale, and earned a wee bit more respect out of us. And now the 3rd movie has moved up the age scale even more as that new fan base grows up, who are luckily now old enough that the movie also looks good to us old farts.
It's the exact same thing as all the Harry Potter books. Written every few years for a few year older target audience, focusing on hooking and keeping a generation as it matures. Not a bad plan at all...and I'm sure if the writer goes back and writes prequels to hook in a new generation there will be a huge cry of despair from the existing fans who are no longer the target audience.
If you're going to invest the huge amount of time & money to nudge the thing off into space, why not instead nudge it into a stable earth orbit so we can study/mine it? Of course, don't fubar up some metric conversion or some such in your guidance software along the way...doh!
To answer the obvious predictable question, no, the Delta IV Heavy doesn't even come close to the Saturn V. The Sat5 could heave 118,000kg into LEO, while the 3 booster D4H can only lift 22,000kg. There is talk of strapping on even more big candles to the D4, going up to as many as 7 main engines (the core and then 6 around it), but rough extrapolation would take that only to 51,333kg, far better than the shuttle but still a far cry from the awesome power of the Saturn V.
So where are the first day sales/activations numbers? Let's see a little HL2 vs. Halo2 statistics here...
I didn't do that because it's old hat, I did it last year: LunarEclipse-5-2003.avi
Or of course search Gnutella for the file, it's there, in fact looke like quite a few people have downloaded it too...