You do realize that overclocking Northwood core CPUs is a bad idea, right?
They have been known to suffer from random heat death, even with water cooling. They also tend to have computational errors and actually suffer worse performance when overclocked. This last bit is very batch dependent though - it really depends on where the chip was manufactured. The heat issue is still valid for every Northwood. There's a good reason most OEMs blocked overclocking in BIOS for their Northwood equipped systems.
I would think blocking the source domain of the HTML5 video file would be even easier to block than fiddling around with a horribly written plugin or requiring extensions to properly control it's annoying behavior, no?
Wrong. XP also has file protection. You can even add files to be covered. This is why when you try to delete something like CTFMon, it always comes back like a case of the herpes. It's automatically reinstalled into the proper directory by the OS after 30 seconds from a file/driver cache that is kept as a hidden directory in the Windows\System32 folder.
This would be true normally about ATM deposits, only now with the new US Credit rules in place, some banks that are also card issuers, have stopped allowing ATM deposits, and also have blacked out weekend bill payments, and shortened their Friday hours.
For example, my bank no longer accepts any ATM deposits, at any branch, in any state. They've also reduced their Friday operating hours - used to be open to 8pm, now only open until 4pm. All payments submitted between Friday at 4pm (open 9am to 4pm, Monday through Friday) and Saturday at 12:30pm (open 9am to 12:30pm), are no longer processed until Monday at 9 am, when previously they would be processed same day.
The Friday hours don't suck so much if you have Direct Deposit for your paycheck and technically get paid at midnight on the Thursday/Friday divide, but it really sucks for people still collecting paper checks and needing to cash or deposit them when they are stuck at work until 5pm.
Go read the histories. What you are claiming to be true didn't happen and wasn't clear until RAMBUS had already filed the patents and submitted their patented stuff to JEDEC for inclusion in the standard without making anyone else aware that the technologies were already patented or patent pending.
They then filed lawsuits several years after DDR was already on the market, and established as THE standard for desktop and server memory for the entire industry. In fact, they waited until their shitty overheating memory modules (that required termination units to take up one of your non-DDR compatible RDRAM slots) were getting beaten out in sales by DDR manufacturers before they even filed any lawsuits.
Even foisting their shite memory onto IBM, Compaq and Dell didn't work.
I remember quite vividly, informing customers at the time, who brought those machines in to be repaired, that they would be better off filing for a refund than trying to get any proper support from RAMBUS concerning their memory modules faulting due to overheating or otherwise just plain sucking ass.
And all of those devices combined don't even come close to the number of -DVD- players that are currently in use.
Did you at all, pay any attention to what he said? Seriously, who gives a rat's ass what a Blu-Ray player, an HD satellite receiver, or nVidia/ATI GPUS do when most people don't have those things to start with.
Plain DivX compatible DVD players still outsell Blu-Ray players by a longshot, fyi. Some recent movie titles coming out didn't even have Blu-Ray releases. Not everyone is willing to replace their televisions with big-screen monstrosities until their old one dies, let alone replace their entire movie collection yet again (if they even can, as titles are still slim pickings for the Blu-Ray format).
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Wake me up when Adobe can get 64-bit Flash out of Alpha for Linux/BSD and ported to other platforms.
Then I'll take another nap while waiting for their programmers to fix their program so it doesn't constantly crash Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera or any other browser I run it in on a 64-bit OS.
I can't take a nap waiting on this cloud garbage though. It's already painfully obvious that if you leave it anywhere in the cloud, someone who isn't you is already pilfering it from some province in China or a former Soviet-Block state.
Or....you can just seize control over that particular file via Permissions. I know I did that for more than a few things in Vista. The stupid OS didn't even allow me permission to open my own Documents folder.
Neither the summary nor any of the comments that I've read so far, even mention that this was a layered attack that worked in combination with a security vulnerability in Adobe Flash. It also affected about 20-30 other unnamed (by Google) companies outside of Google, including Adobe, through several other of the attack vectors, including Flash, that were used by the same group.
My guess as to two of those companies? Microsoft and Yahoo.
I would venture even further to guess that Silverlight was also exploited in a manner similar to the way they exploited Flash.
Actually, I am finding that the "horrible" 2.x versions of Firefox consume less memory overall on my system than the 3.5.x series, and this is with the exact same three add-ons installed.
The real issue in my case seems to be Flash. I am on a 64-bit system. Firefox is 32-Bit, and 64-Bit Flash is nothing but so much vaporware. I don't count the 64-Bit Alpha for Linux/BSD. There's been no improvement or new releases on it since. It's been about 4 years now since 64-bit Vista was available for testing, and 64-bit Linux/BSD has been around for far longer.
What's the freaking hold-up. They've had at least 5 years since WinXP 64-Bit at the very least to get a 64-Bit Flash binary out for Windows, and far longer for Linux/BSD.
As I sit here, with one Youtube tab open, and this tab open, Firefox 3.5.7 (firefox.exe) has the following stats (NoScript, Customize Google, AdBlock+, Flash Plugin, latest versions):
31 Threads 1,146,760 Page Faults 1,036,543K Private Bytes 1,599,168K Virtual Size 1,057,548K Working Set 1,017,292K WS Private 17,308K WS Shared 123 User Objects 845 GDI Objects
There is something very, very wrong with this picture.
Just as an aside: All of my crash reports for Firefox have somehow involved the Flash plugin, as contained in the reports found via about:crash.
If this is true, that they don't care, then maybe those developers should stop posting their crap all over Freshmeat, SourceForge, and similar sites for other people (READ: Normal Users) to download and use. Since you know, it's "something they made just for themselves."
Usability is part of software development, even if you are only sharing the program with your sibling or best friend. Maybe some "developers" need a kick in the ass to realize this fact.
And so many OSS developers wonder why their projects implode, or otherwise miserably fail compared to their commercial counterparts. THIS.
It will if they can implement a well-working CAD solution that uses SVG, and has collaborative sharing, etc instead of being locked into a single workstation. All of the sudden, there would be no need for Autodesk (or their ridiculous dongles and other assorted pap).
Except that does absolutely nothing to stop them from gaining visas to say Germany or the Netherlands, buying all of the hardware and software they want, and quietly shipping it back home over the course of months to avoid rousing suspicion.
In fact, I'd say it's highly likely that they do just that, since with a valid work visa, you can basically go all over the EU without getting harassed or even more than a slight suspicion aroused.
Better than the USA though, where they can just waltz in over our borders and nothing seems to get done about it.
No, I tell you, this is Slashdot! We have a fancy moderation system!
We don't check facts, read articles, or write coherent summaries!
You must be new here!
(All joking aside, the quality of summaries posted by our glorious Slashdot editors has been declining in content quality for years now, way before I signed up for my account.)
That's "usually" the OS turning off power to the device to save electricity.
You can disable that via the Conrol Panel applet called System, then go to Device Manager (probably a link in the left panel), select Mice and other pointing devices, click on the mouse listed, then on the Power Management tab. Should be a checkbox there you can clear out.
UAC will probably rear it's ugly head when you first invoke the System applet, and possibly when you make a change and hit Apply/OK.
We won't even get into the issues you might get if your mouse was assigned the same IRQ and DMA range as your SATA controller (It isn't pretty).
The point he was making, is that even something as light-weight as Google Docs (a "cloud" document writer) has the functionality OOB + working as expected, while apparently, Open Office, a local desktop office suite (that has been around for several years longer now), does not.
He shouldn't have to go digging through out-dated documents (all too common with open source applications, provided any exist at all) on some "obscure" website to figure out why.
Personally, I view Open Office the same way I view Adobe products. Both could be great, if they weren't done half-assed.
TBH, even the crappier more recent versions of Word Perfect put out by Corel blow the doors off of Writer.
Apple and Quaalcom didn't sign the RAND agreement with the other cell phone industry conglomerates. Quaalcom holds quite a few patents as well in the GSM arena that Apple may be infringing upon. We shall see.
I would think that not signing the (legally-binding) RAND agreement, leaves you excluded from the terms therein, beneficial to you or not, and allows the signers to make you, the non-signer, whatever offer (or non-offer) they so wished, so long as the RAND terms were fairly and equally applied to the other signers.
Let's also not forget SA Fractus, who owns several patents on internal cell phone antennas, and other cell phone technology.
And then there is this patent on internal cell phone/mobile antennas, specifically a 5-band printed (as in, printed directly on the internal system circuit board) planar antenna. This seems to be the most likely type of antenna in use inside the iPhone (I don't have one to tear apart and look, I'd really like to tear apart one of the latest iteration), since the iPhone patents clearly state and show no space in the containing shell for an internal USB-link antenna or a solid monopole antenna, or a separate antenna unit of any kind (in fact, all that seems to be described are the shell, the touch screen interface, the internal rail mounts, and an abstract of the system board).
Wonder if those guys in Taiwan have even gotten a chance to dissect an iPhone, being after all, employees for a university.
No, they do not. Those requirements mysteriously vanish, or get "exempted" when they go to fill the position with an H1-B applicant.
This was way more obvious back when Oracle/Perl/Java first showed up. Numerous listings for workers with 5-10 years experience and the software had only been available for less then 3 years. It showed up again with Javascript, Python and Ruby.
Well, given the length of a typical Microsoft support contract, the point is moot. Quite a few businesses sign up for the 5-10 year deals, instead of the yearlies. With XP in extended support, Microsoft will no doubt not even offer new support contracts (other than yearlies, only available for the next 4 years) or long-term contract renewals for the OS. This leaves you with Vista, Server 2008 or Windows7, with Windows 8 supposedly due out in 2012.
These customers will have to make some hard decisions within the next four years, and why XP needs to go sooner rather than later in the corporate environment, to take advantage of the new operating systems and the long-term support contracts that go along with them.
IE6 will finally be relegated to VMs, hopefully to vanish for good soon after.
BTW, outside of the annoying UAC, I actually don't mind Vista 64-Bit too much. Then again, my hardware is not exactly standard quite yet, even though Core i7 and Core i5 is out (Lenovo K230, 6GB Ram, Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz, 640GB SATAII, DVD-RW (Blu-Ray Optional), TPM-Equipped). The closest I found at Best Buy and Walmart (in my market), for instance were Dells and HPs that at the top-end offered the Q6600 with 4GB Ram and 500GB SATAII drives, Vista Home Premium 32-Bit.
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You do realize that overclocking Northwood core CPUs is a bad idea, right?
They have been known to suffer from random heat death, even with water cooling. They also tend to have computational errors and actually suffer worse performance when overclocked. This last bit is very batch dependent though - it really depends on where the chip was manufactured. The heat issue is still valid for every Northwood. There's a good reason most OEMs blocked overclocking in BIOS for their Northwood equipped systems.
I would think blocking the source domain of the HTML5 video file would be even easier to block than fiddling around with a horribly written plugin or requiring extensions to properly control it's annoying behavior, no?
Around here, it's actually a belief of some morons.
Disclaimer: Happy Windows User (Vista + Win7 64-Bit). Linux does not do what I need it to do, and I detest all things Apple.
Wrong. XP also has file protection. You can even add files to be covered. This is why when you try to delete something like CTFMon, it always comes back like a case of the herpes. It's automatically reinstalled into the proper directory by the OS after 30 seconds from a file/driver cache that is kept as a hidden directory in the Windows\System32 folder.
This would be true normally about ATM deposits, only now with the new US Credit rules in place, some banks that are also card issuers, have stopped allowing ATM deposits, and also have blacked out weekend bill payments, and shortened their Friday hours.
For example, my bank no longer accepts any ATM deposits, at any branch, in any state. They've also reduced their Friday operating hours - used to be open to 8pm, now only open until 4pm. All payments submitted between Friday at 4pm (open 9am to 4pm, Monday through Friday) and Saturday at 12:30pm (open 9am to 12:30pm), are no longer processed until Monday at 9 am, when previously they would be processed same day.
The Friday hours don't suck so much if you have Direct Deposit for your paycheck and technically get paid at midnight on the Thursday/Friday divide, but it really sucks for people still collecting paper checks and needing to cash or deposit them when they are stuck at work until 5pm.
Go read the histories. What you are claiming to be true didn't happen and wasn't clear until RAMBUS had already filed the patents and submitted their patented stuff to JEDEC for inclusion in the standard without making anyone else aware that the technologies were already patented or patent pending.
They then filed lawsuits several years after DDR was already on the market, and established as THE standard for desktop and server memory for the entire industry. In fact, they waited until their shitty overheating memory modules (that required termination units to take up one of your non-DDR compatible RDRAM slots) were getting beaten out in sales by DDR manufacturers before they even filed any lawsuits.
Even foisting their shite memory onto IBM, Compaq and Dell didn't work.
I remember quite vividly, informing customers at the time, who brought those machines in to be repaired, that they would be better off filing for a refund than trying to get any proper support from RAMBUS concerning their memory modules faulting due to overheating or otherwise just plain sucking ass.
Tell that to African-Americans when they are on trial for crimes against a Caucasian.
Only problem with that is, is that RAMBUS controls almost all of the DDR patents as well. They submarined the entire standard.
And all of those devices combined don't even come close to the number of -DVD- players that are currently in use.
Did you at all, pay any attention to what he said? Seriously, who gives a rat's ass what a Blu-Ray player, an HD satellite receiver, or nVidia/ATI GPUS do when most people don't have those things to start with.
Plain DivX compatible DVD players still outsell Blu-Ray players by a longshot, fyi. Some recent movie titles coming out didn't even have Blu-Ray releases. Not everyone is willing to replace their televisions with big-screen monstrosities until their old one dies, let alone replace their entire movie collection yet again (if they even can, as titles are still slim pickings for the Blu-Ray format).
Wake me up when Adobe can get 64-bit Flash out of Alpha for Linux/BSD and ported to other platforms.
Then I'll take another nap while waiting for their programmers to fix their program so it doesn't constantly crash Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera or any other browser I run it in on a 64-bit OS.
I can't take a nap waiting on this cloud garbage though. It's already painfully obvious that if you leave it anywhere in the cloud, someone who isn't you is already pilfering it from some province in China or a former Soviet-Block state.
So, yeah, shitty webapps can suck a fat one.
Or....you can just seize control over that particular file via Permissions. I know I did that for more than a few things in Vista. The stupid OS didn't even allow me permission to open my own Documents folder.
They need to be fired. Then hanged, drawn, and quartered in the nearest town square.
Neither the summary nor any of the comments that I've read so far, even mention that this was a layered attack that worked in combination with a security vulnerability in Adobe Flash. It also affected about 20-30 other unnamed (by Google) companies outside of Google, including Adobe, through several other of the attack vectors, including Flash, that were used by the same group.
My guess as to two of those companies? Microsoft and Yahoo.
I would venture even further to guess that Silverlight was also exploited in a manner similar to the way they exploited Flash.
Actually, I am finding that the "horrible" 2.x versions of Firefox consume less memory overall on my system than the 3.5.x series, and this is with the exact same three add-ons installed.
The real issue in my case seems to be Flash. I am on a 64-bit system. Firefox is 32-Bit, and 64-Bit Flash is nothing but so much vaporware. I don't count the 64-Bit Alpha for Linux/BSD. There's been no improvement or new releases on it since. It's been about 4 years now since 64-bit Vista was available for testing, and 64-bit Linux/BSD has been around for far longer.
What's the freaking hold-up. They've had at least 5 years since WinXP 64-Bit at the very least to get a 64-Bit Flash binary out for Windows, and far longer for Linux/BSD.
As I sit here, with one Youtube tab open, and this tab open, Firefox 3.5.7 (firefox.exe) has the following stats (NoScript, Customize Google, AdBlock+, Flash Plugin, latest versions):
31 Threads
1,146,760 Page Faults
1,036,543K Private Bytes
1,599,168K Virtual Size
1,057,548K Working Set
1,017,292K WS Private
17,308K WS Shared
123 User Objects
845 GDI Objects
There is something very, very wrong with this picture.
Just as an aside: All of my crash reports for Firefox have somehow involved the Flash plugin, as contained in the reports found via about:crash.
If this is true, that they don't care, then maybe those developers should stop posting their crap all over Freshmeat, SourceForge, and similar sites for other people (READ: Normal Users) to download and use. Since you know, it's "something they made just for themselves."
Usability is part of software development, even if you are only sharing the program with your sibling or best friend. Maybe some "developers" need a kick in the ass to realize this fact.
And so many OSS developers wonder why their projects implode, or otherwise miserably fail compared to their commercial counterparts. THIS.
It will if they can implement a well-working CAD solution that uses SVG, and has collaborative sharing, etc instead of being locked into a single workstation. All of the sudden, there would be no need for Autodesk (or their ridiculous dongles and other assorted pap).
Except that does absolutely nothing to stop them from gaining visas to say Germany or the Netherlands, buying all of the hardware and software they want, and quietly shipping it back home over the course of months to avoid rousing suspicion.
In fact, I'd say it's highly likely that they do just that, since with a valid work visa, you can basically go all over the EU without getting harassed or even more than a slight suspicion aroused.
Better than the USA though, where they can just waltz in over our borders and nothing seems to get done about it.
What is this? Wikipedia?
No, I tell you, this is Slashdot! We have a fancy moderation system!
We don't check facts, read articles, or write coherent summaries!
You must be new here!
(All joking aside, the quality of summaries posted by our glorious Slashdot editors has been declining in content quality for years now, way before I signed up for my account.)
Mencia is not exactly a good example of someone not borrowing other people's jokes.
That's "usually" the OS turning off power to the device to save electricity.
You can disable that via the Conrol Panel applet called System, then go to Device Manager (probably a link in the left panel), select Mice and other pointing devices, click on the mouse listed, then on the Power Management tab. Should be a checkbox there you can clear out.
UAC will probably rear it's ugly head when you first invoke the System applet, and possibly when you make a change and hit Apply/OK.
We won't even get into the issues you might get if your mouse was assigned the same IRQ and DMA range as your SATA controller (It isn't pretty).
I want a copy of your clock. Where might such a thing be acquired?
Note: I am too drunk to use Google properly at this juncture.
The point he was making, is that even something as light-weight as Google Docs (a "cloud" document writer) has the functionality OOB + working as expected, while apparently, Open Office, a local desktop office suite (that has been around for several years longer now), does not.
He shouldn't have to go digging through out-dated documents (all too common with open source applications, provided any exist at all) on some "obscure" website to figure out why.
Personally, I view Open Office the same way I view Adobe products. Both could be great, if they weren't done half-assed.
TBH, even the crappier more recent versions of Word Perfect put out by Corel blow the doors off of Writer.
Apple and Quaalcom didn't sign the RAND agreement with the other cell phone industry conglomerates. Quaalcom holds quite a few patents as well in the GSM arena that Apple may be infringing upon. We shall see.
I would think that not signing the (legally-binding) RAND agreement, leaves you excluded from the terms therein, beneficial to you or not, and allows the signers to make you, the non-signer, whatever offer (or non-offer) they so wished, so long as the RAND terms were fairly and equally applied to the other signers.
Let's also not forget SA Fractus, who owns several patents on internal cell phone antennas, and other cell phone technology.
And then there is this patent on internal cell phone/mobile antennas, specifically a 5-band printed (as in, printed directly on the internal system circuit board) planar antenna. This seems to be the most likely type of antenna in use inside the iPhone (I don't have one to tear apart and look, I'd really like to tear apart one of the latest iteration), since the iPhone patents clearly state and show no space in the containing shell for an internal USB-link antenna or a solid monopole antenna, or a separate antenna unit of any kind (in fact, all that seems to be described are the shell, the touch screen interface, the internal rail mounts, and an abstract of the system board).
Wonder if those guys in Taiwan have even gotten a chance to dissect an iPhone, being after all, employees for a university.
No, they do not. Those requirements mysteriously vanish, or get "exempted" when they go to fill the position with an H1-B applicant.
This was way more obvious back when Oracle/Perl/Java first showed up. Numerous listings for workers with 5-10 years experience and the software had only been available for less then 3 years. It showed up again with Javascript, Python and Ruby.
Well, given the length of a typical Microsoft support contract, the point is moot. Quite a few businesses sign up for the 5-10 year deals, instead of the yearlies. With XP in extended support, Microsoft will no doubt not even offer new support contracts (other than yearlies, only available for the next 4 years) or long-term contract renewals for the OS. This leaves you with Vista, Server 2008 or Windows7, with Windows 8 supposedly due out in 2012.
These customers will have to make some hard decisions within the next four years, and why XP needs to go sooner rather than later in the corporate environment, to take advantage of the new operating systems and the long-term support contracts that go along with them.
IE6 will finally be relegated to VMs, hopefully to vanish for good soon after.
BTW, outside of the annoying UAC, I actually don't mind Vista 64-Bit too much. Then again, my hardware is not exactly standard quite yet, even though Core i7 and Core i5 is out (Lenovo K230, 6GB Ram, Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz, 640GB SATAII, DVD-RW (Blu-Ray Optional), TPM-Equipped). The closest I found at Best Buy and Walmart (in my market), for instance were Dells and HPs that at the top-end offered the Q6600 with 4GB Ram and 500GB SATAII drives, Vista Home Premium 32-Bit.