The difference might not be especially troublesome for you today but it will be when that hardware is a few years old. For instance I guarantee when many windows users "upgrade" to vista aka windows 7 their perfectly functional printers/scanners/multi-functions/digital cameras/web cams that are a few years old will have to be replaced to accommodate the upgrade. Ubuntu will continue to support nearly every piece of hardware it supported with the last release on into the future until some compelling TECHNICAL reason makes it infeasible.
For me it's been the opposite. A printer (an old HP Color LaserJet) that didn't have support out of the box in either XP or Vista did have support in Win 7 without any problems at all.
http://www.penny.se/eng/index.html has a HMD which projects the image straight into the eyes. I can't find any information about the resolution, but they're apparently going into large scale production later this year.
As one of their suggested customer groups is entertainment, I hope the price won't be too high.
There's also CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption for Mac... Which happens to have been working on Mac longer than PGP's version.:)
On a related note, I find it interesting that the FDE product (CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption, formerly Pointsec for PC) which has one of the largest if the not the largest installed base in the world is never mentioned in any of these threads here on Slashdot.
(And before you ask, yes, I work for CheckPoint on the FDE product).
I suspect that what he's talking about is the "Cold-Boot" attack, where a running computer is switched off (or maybe using the HW-reset switch) a very short time and then rebooted from a USB stick which dumps all memory to disk where you can still read everything. The memory dump is then analyzed to find encryption keys.
The only disk encryption software I have experience of (Check Point Full Disk Encryption (previously Pointsec for PC)) includes protection against that attack. I expect truecrypt and PGP does too though.
Actually, have you seen the pictures from the upcoming terrain engine in Eve? They are quite nice, they do know how to make landscapes as well as space. I planned on having a link here, but I couldn't find the video.
In Sweden we use paper ballots. It works just fine, the results are ready the next day. If lots of people use "pre-voting" at the post office the days just before the official voting day their votes get a few days delayed, that's all. No need to wait a week, just put in enough people to do the counting.
RFCs usually take over 18 months to go from draft to RFC so that limit might not be a problem, you'd only have to talk to the people behind the RFC to get a more correct date.
It's pretty easy to recognize an official IETF draft, the filename looks something like: draft-ietf-rap-cops-07.txt with ietf as the second word. Not like this draft that we are currently talking about, draft-terrell-math-ipaddr-ipv4-00.txt which was written by some guy called terrell. Just to make sure there are no misunderstandings an IETF draft is NOT a standard. Not even all the RFCs are standards. When someone makes a reference to an RFC, check to see if it is Standards Track or Informational or whatever.
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The difference might not be especially troublesome for you today but it will be when that hardware is a few years old. For instance I guarantee when many windows users "upgrade" to vista aka windows 7 their perfectly functional printers/scanners/multi-functions/digital cameras/web cams that are a few years old will have to be replaced to accommodate the upgrade. Ubuntu will continue to support nearly every piece of hardware it supported with the last release on into the future until some compelling TECHNICAL reason makes it infeasible.
For me it's been the opposite. A printer (an old HP Color LaserJet) that didn't have support out of the box in either XP or Vista did have support in Win 7 without any problems at all.
If you start notepad with administrative privilieges instead you wouldn't have had to disable UAC.
http://www.penny.se/eng/index.html has a HMD which projects the image straight into the eyes. I can't find any information about the resolution, but they're apparently going into large scale production later this year.
As one of their suggested customer groups is entertainment, I hope the price won't be too high.
There's also CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption for Mac... Which happens to have been working on Mac longer than PGP's version. :)
On a related note, I find it interesting that the FDE product (CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption, formerly Pointsec for PC) which has one of the largest if the not the largest installed base in the world is never mentioned in any of these threads here on Slashdot.
(And before you ask, yes, I work for CheckPoint on the FDE product).
I suspect that what he's talking about is the "Cold-Boot" attack, where a running computer is switched off (or maybe using the HW-reset switch) a very short time and then rebooted from a USB stick which dumps all memory to disk where you can still read everything. The memory dump is then analyzed to find encryption keys.
The only disk encryption software I have experience of (Check Point Full Disk Encryption (previously Pointsec for PC)) includes protection against that attack. I expect truecrypt and PGP does too though.
Actually, have you seen the pictures from the upcoming terrain engine in Eve? They are quite nice, they do know how to make landscapes as well as space. I planned on having a link here, but I couldn't find the video.
In Sweden we use paper ballots. It works just fine, the results are ready the next day. If lots of people use "pre-voting" at the post office the days just before the official voting day their votes get a few days delayed, that's all. No need to wait a week, just put in enough people to do the counting.
RFCs usually take over 18 months to go from draft to RFC so that limit might not be a problem, you'd only have to talk to the people behind the RFC to get a more correct date.
It's pretty easy to recognize an official IETF draft, the filename looks something like:
draft-ietf-rap-cops-07.txt
with ietf as the second word.
Not like this draft that we are currently talking
about, draft-terrell-math-ipaddr-ipv4-00.txt which was written by some guy called terrell.
Just to make sure there are no misunderstandings an IETF draft is NOT a standard. Not even all the RFCs are standards. When someone makes a reference to an RFC, check to see if it is Standards Track or Informational or whatever.