You can get laptops with 7200 RPM disk drives - they are known as desktop replacements. AFAIK, SATA is being used in the latest models now, even for the 4200 RPM drives.
AMD have done well in the past to catch up and even get further ahead than Intel, but I think Intel's future looks bright - particularly in the mobile market with the current dual core Yonah processor and the future Merom processor which is a complete redesign and extremely power efficient. It looks like its AMD who have to play catch up now.
The bottom line is that I think Intel are right when they say it's now about performance per watt.
But that doesn't make any sense.
You would still expect higher bids to result in higher positioning and therefore resulting in more click throughs. The article is stating the opposite effect under certain situations where you dramatically decrease your price per word.
They are posing as the predator who's prey is just going to evolve quicker and move to more secure file sharing systems faster than they otherwise would.
Don't they see the Internet isn't top down? When are they going to free themselves from their old fashioned monopolistic American business values? I'm sure natural selection applies here too.
For many many people out there I'm sure that there are many more important factors to decide on when choosing a bank rather than your favourite browser just not working on it.
My bank (Barclays, UK) happens to work fine with Firefox, but I would fire IE up through Wine if I had to.
The fact is everything works in IE and I can understand the UK not having as many Firefox users as people in the UK just don't seem to care that there might be something better out there. I've seen really bad Windows XP desktops that are ridden with popups and spyware. Us British just keep a 'stiff upper lip' under these conditions and try and work around them!
I use MSN Messenger while at work and Gaim at home 100% of the time. It's very annoying when someone tries to nudge you or send you a wink and you have to make that horrible excuse. It's not a good thing, especially when I'm trying to trumpet the Linux platform.
Gaim's tabbed interface IS great. There are many things about Gaim thats great, but it's interface is too much like AIM and there are a couple of annoyances such as:
1. You can't see your own picture in the chat window. You have to go through two dialogues before you can preview/change it!
2. Avartars/Icons belong on the left of the contact list - not the right where someone's long MSN name forces it off view with a scrollbar.
I know I should be making these comments on the Gaim bug/feedback forums, but I know for a fact many of these requests get ignored.
I actually think the fonts look nice in Gaim, despite what someone else said on here during the previous IM topic.
It just may take a while to convince developers to implement the 'annoying' MSN features so that the rest of the users out there can come on board.
What's your viewpoint of a monolithic kernel vs microkernel? Don't you think from a research point of view, a l4 microkernel such as GNU Hurd would be much more fun to play with?
Absolutely. The problem is not with the xine backend or the decryption libraries etc.. but with Totem itself. It often refuses to auto play my dvd-rom drive (as xine or mplayer does).
If you do ever manage to get a dvd-rom to play, the navigation slider is innacurate, and skipping forwards or backwards often causes the audio to go horribly out of sync, although I'm not sure if that is more to do with GStreamer.
For most media files though, Totem is fine and I'm looking forward to the improved DVD capabilities coming with Gnome 2.12.
I'll look forward to the day when Totem manages to play DVD's better than Xine.
Even changing the GStreamer backend for the Xine backend, Totem still never manages to play half the movies I seem to give it.
I do like the idea of a GStreamer based Mozilla plugin though. It will give users a great choice to drop the ugly Mplayer based plugin.
Re:I liked Internet Explorer 7 the first time...
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I agree the shared page history between the back and forwards buttons is a good idea.
The button is also bigger which makes it much easier to aim for - especially when working on a laptop!
The Menu even has a little tick to indicate which page your currently on!
Strangely enough, I only noticed this today while looking through my logs that there have been a number of attempts on my system within the last couple of months. It seems there must be some script going around because the same usernames that the article lists also appear in my logs.
I was a little worried and decided to look around the web to see what I could do. I heard a couple of mentions of disabling password authentication and going for something like RSA public key authentication instead. This means the client provides a public key that the server already allows through and the client proves it's the owner of the public key by signing something with it's private key. This is more secure, but it's not possible to connect from an unknown client easily.
Another interesting way of increasing security is to implement a port-knocking strategy.. I'm not sure myself how much effort this would take, but again, it does perhaps make connecting from secure clients more difficult.
After looking into that, my solution was to simply change my passwords to non-dictionary words. But with the ever increasing CPU power and distributed networks out there, how long before memorable passwords fail altogether?
Wikipedia is currently blocking many Tor server IPs from writing (reading still works), because they haven't figured out internally how to deal with the fact that they want to provide open access but they also have no ways to control abuse to their website. We're working with them to resolve this.
I'm very passionate about open source because of the philosophy more than anything else.
I'm very much an idealist and I realize that open source is not just about the software product, but the development model behind it.
We always read about how more secure, transparent and free open source software is. But as a development model, it's sole concern is the software itself and it isn't politically involved with money making concerns.
I am a software engineer and I know I'm doing myself out of a job with these ideals, but I can't help but think the world would be a better place wthout selfish capitalism.
I love the smooth transitioning.
But as far as detail goes, there isn't even any junction numbers on the roads. Not very useful when planning a journey.
I think I will stick with http://www.multimap.com/ in the meantime!
Still no flashing notification
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Looking through the release notes, there is still the problem of missing flashing notification for programs such as instant messenger clients. When minimizing the window, I would expect it to start flashing when a new message arrives (like Microsoft Windows)
Many a time have I minimised a conversation only to realise after forgetting about it that I have several messages unread
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Hear! Hear!
Just don't expect their batteries to last long.
Why then is the moon's orbit decaying? As I understand it, we'll eventually lose the moon altogether
The bottom line is that I think Intel are right when they say it's now about performance per watt.
But that doesn't make any sense.
You would still expect higher bids to result in higher positioning and therefore resulting in more click throughs. The article is stating the opposite effect under certain situations where you dramatically decrease your price per word.
Don't they see the Internet isn't top down? When are they going to free themselves from their old fashioned monopolistic American business values? I'm sure natural selection applies here too.
My bank (Barclays, UK) happens to work fine with Firefox, but I would fire IE up through Wine if I had to.
The fact is everything works in IE and I can understand the UK not having as many Firefox users as people in the UK just don't seem to care that there might be something better out there. I've seen really bad Windows XP desktops that are ridden with popups and spyware. Us British just keep a 'stiff upper lip' under these conditions and try and work around them!
I've noticed recently that going to http://www.google.com/ redirects me to http://www.google.co.uk/
Handy, but it's a shame I use http://www.google.com/ig/ for which there is no UK local alternative :-(
Gaim's tabbed interface IS great. There are many things about Gaim thats great, but it's interface is too much like AIM and there are a couple of annoyances such as: 1. You can't see your own picture in the chat window. You have to go through two dialogues before you can preview/change it! 2. Avartars/Icons belong on the left of the contact list - not the right where someone's long MSN name forces it off view with a scrollbar.
I know I should be making these comments on the Gaim bug/feedback forums, but I know for a fact many of these requests get ignored. I actually think the fonts look nice in Gaim, despite what someone else said on here during the previous IM topic.
It just may take a while to convince developers to implement the 'annoying' MSN features so that the rest of the users out there can come on board.
As far as I know, MSN is more popular in Europe and AIM/Yahoo more popular in the states
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;45624193 1;fp;4;fpid;1
What's your viewpoint of a monolithic kernel vs microkernel? Don't you think from a research point of view, a l4 microkernel such as GNU Hurd would be much more fun to play with?
If you do ever manage to get a dvd-rom to play, the navigation slider is innacurate, and skipping forwards or backwards often causes the audio to go horribly out of sync, although I'm not sure if that is more to do with GStreamer.
For most media files though, Totem is fine and I'm looking forward to the improved DVD capabilities coming with Gnome 2.12.
Even changing the GStreamer backend for the Xine backend, Totem still never manages to play half the movies I seem to give it.
I do like the idea of a GStreamer based Mozilla plugin though. It will give users a great choice to drop the ugly Mplayer based plugin.
I agree the shared page history between the back and forwards buttons is a good idea.
The button is also bigger which makes it much easier to aim for - especially when working on a laptop!
The Menu even has a little tick to indicate which page your currently on!
How do they know anyway how many people are watching those programmes? Isn't receiving a broadcast a passive thing?
I was a little worried and decided to look around the web to see what I could do. I heard a couple of mentions of disabling password authentication and going for something like RSA public key authentication instead. This means the client provides a public key that the server already allows through and the client proves it's the owner of the public key by signing something with it's private key. This is more secure, but it's not possible to connect from an unknown client easily.
Another interesting way of increasing security is to implement a port-knocking strategy.. I'm not sure myself how much effort this would take, but again, it does perhaps make connecting from secure clients more difficult.
After looking into that, my solution was to simply change my passwords to non-dictionary words. But with the ever increasing CPU power and distributed networks out there, how long before memorable passwords fail altogether?
Duke Nukem Forever delayed until 2061
Wikipedia is currently blocking many Tor server IPs from writing (reading still works), because they haven't figured out internally how to deal with the fact that they want to provide open access but they also have no ways to control abuse to their website. We're working with them to resolve this.
This may come as a shock to the editors, but the rest of the world makes software too!
I'm very much an idealist and I realize that open source is not just about the software product, but the development model behind it.
We always read about how more secure, transparent and free open source software is. But as a development model, it's sole concern is the software itself and it isn't politically involved with money making concerns.
I am a software engineer and I know I'm doing myself out of a job with these ideals, but I can't help but think the world would be a better place wthout selfish capitalism.
I think the article is misleading. I don't think we will be seeing reiser4 in 2.6.12.
I was considering reiser4 recently and as the article states, its still quite unstable.
I love the smooth transitioning. But as far as detail goes, there isn't even any junction numbers on the roads. Not very useful when planning a journey. I think I will stick with http://www.multimap.com/ in the meantime!
The BBC has also previously covered this in April, 2004:
They reported that:
More than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found.
The story can be found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm
Many a time have I minimised a conversation only to realise after forgetting about it that I have several messages unread