This is something that personally bugs the shit out of me.....tell me EXACTLY how YOUR freedom is being blocked by having CHOICE in the matter? Nobody is holding a gun to your head, nobody is making you use non free anything, so why should those that want it have to jump through flaming fucking hoops just because it doesn't follow YOUR personal feelings on the subject?
Why is those that are supposedly "for" freedom damned near ALWAYS translate to "free to be like me and do what I like?".
I guess you didn't hear? Hitachi sold their HDD business to WD two years ago. So I'm sorry friend but there is only two, barring any refurb or old stock still in the channel.
Mine does, its an Asus EEE 1215B netbook, but from what I've seen most of the Asus laptops have it as well. Its nice to be able to just look up and know with 100% certainty that the camera isn't doing squat, so maybe you should look at whether the camera has a shutter before you purchase?
Well one of the nice things about Chrome being based on FOSS Chromium is you DO have choices, there is Dragon,SWIron,Chromium, just as with FF you have IceDragon,Kmeleon CCF ME, Seamonkey, Pale Moon, you don't have to just choose between FF and Chrome, there is a world of choices out there. hell if you want to get away from Chromium and gecko completely there is QTWeb which is just what it sounds like,Webkit with a QT UI. Its pretty nice,built in ABP and cross platform.
That said what keeps me from giving anything Gecko based like FF to my customers is the simple fact that 7 fricking years after it was first released Firefox STILL doesn't support Low Rights Mode which is not just dumb, in this age of zero days its downright reckless. I mean its 2014 and Gecko STILL runs with the same rights as the user, WTF? browsers are the #1 attack vector by a country mile, they should always run with the lowest permissions possible!
So if you are looking at a browser with an eye to security you should be looking at something that uses the Chromium engine. Personally I've found that running the browser in low rights mode dropped infections in my customer's PCs right off the map, but running without LRM they ended up with bugs like the Yahoo Porn Bug and hidden iFrame tricks that just didn't seem to affect any browser running LRM. Kinda sad that IE runs in LRM, Chromium had support less than 6 months after its release, FF still don't.
Uhhh...guess you missed the memo but WD bought one and Seagate bought the other so when the Samsung and Toshiba drives that are currently in the channel are gone? That's it, you'll only have WD and Seagate and since they'l have a duopoly my bet is both will be high and both will be shitty.
Anybody who needs real storage space frankly doesn't have a choice and they know it, hence why they were willing to buy out the competition. Its sad, because as you pointed out both Samsung and Toshiba made quality and were frankly only a few bucks more but IMHO they never advertised and that is what killed 'em.
Maybe its just me, but when I first saw the thing the first thought that popped into my head was "its an alchemy book" and the more I read about the thing? The more i lean towards that conclusion.
I mean lets take a look at what we DO know from that time period, 1.- Alchemy was practiced by many court magicians at the time, 2.- Alchemy was also dangerous as its link with science made it awful close to heresy in the eyes of many of the clergy, also 3.- Competition was fierce, with many believing that lead into gold was possible the one who found that "method" would become legend, so because of this 4.- Secrecy was SOP for the alchemist, with the man that supposedly made the first air conditioning, Cornelius Drebbel, refusing to write down his method for doing so. Finally 5.- The court alchemist would be one of the few who would have the funds to afford such a book while also having both the knowledge of the natural world AND a reason to keep such knowledge secret.
Given this and without any proof that would lead one to believe it was something else I still lean towards an "alchemist recipe book", written using a cipher now long forgotten. Given what we know about the times and about the level of detail (as well as the cost as you pointed out) I would say it would be the most likely source of the book.
From what I've seen at the shop the drives, from best to worst, Samsung (especially the Ecogreen, nearly as fast as the 7200 Seagates while being VERY low power and long life and can insane amounts of abuse), Toshiba (again takes a LOT of abuse, great for industrial use, but both they and Samsung getting hard to find) followed by WD and at last place Maxtor...err I mean Seagate.
And there is a REASON why I call them maxtor, and its not to be snarky. Its the fact that when Seagate bought Maxtor instead of Seagate bringing maxtor up to its level then maxtor brought Seagate down to its shit quality. Don't know if its true or not but the rumor mill stated that the reason was/is that Maxtor had access to ultra cheap ARM controllers that really lowered cost but the downside? They started getting "wonky" when they got hot and they overheated easily. Again don't know if its true or not but I have seen a LOT of the newer Seagates with maxtor style "click of death" issues while the older Seagates were by and large pretty damned reliable. in fact i still have a handful of Seagate 40-160Gb drives i gotta figure out what to do with, i hate to throw working gear but with IDE going the way of the floppy? Finding it harder and harder to find a use for 'em.
Hell Slick Willie was always too conservative for me and even I could see what they were doing, its was nothing but a witch hunt!
Here let me remind you of your history...first they tried to get him with ex state troopers (troopergate), then they tried to get him with Paula Jones (Paulagate), then they tried to get him with a bad real estate deal, (whitewatergate) and THEN they went after him for the BJ...and I am pretty sure I missed a couple in there.
And its ironic that all those that scream "he LIED!" never bother to follow the money because if you did? You'd find damned near to the last man they were being bankrolled by big insurance and big medical who didn't like the idea of what was later called "Hillarycare" because it would have....gasp!...actually puts caps on the massive profits they were gouging.
So try actually looking BEYOND the soundbytes, start looking at who was getting checks from whom, and you'll see they were no different than the Koch bros "Tea Party Express" in that it was supposed "about the issue" when in reality it was about protecting the status quo and the ones pushing impeachment were being paid to make damned sure they didn't get jack shit when it came to healthcare. Only reason Obama got jack shit was it was written by health industry insiders and was practically a blank check the big boys could cash.
Uh huh...this IS the USA we're talking about here, where politicians trot out bibles and getting a BJ was nearly cause for impeachment.
Sure its a nice thought but as long as organized religion has control of so much of the country? NOT gonna happen. THIS is the real threat folks, just look at how long Hoover was able to keep an iron grip on the country with his "file cabinet". You really only need to keep files on a couple of thousand people to pretty much control the country, dirty laundry on politicians in some key posts along with certain business leaders and you have the country by the short hairs.
That is why I've been saying for years "grab every cent you can from the government, use every program, and be ready for the collapse" as there isn't any way to stop it now, the collapse is inevitable and will make the depression look like a flash crash.
For those that don't know why our economy is doomed the answer is Ronnie Raygun and the 401K and 403B which forced billions into the stock market. be sure to look at the charts at 3.30, look at what the numbers were before the 29 crash (125%) and what the numbers are now (over 400%) to see why it cannot be stopped. Wall Street now functions solely on gambling and speculation brought on by all that government money and without it the financial sector we have now simply couldn't exist, the financial sector would have to shrink by a good 70% or more and rather than let that happen they will simply keep buying politicians....until they can't borrow another buck, can't have the fed print another dollar, then you might as well light a match because the whole thing is gonna go up in smoke.
If you vote on anything above local issues? you are wasting your time, as we see here BOTH sides are for bigger government, bigger budgets, doesn't matter WHAT the budget is going for as long as they can find a way to skim some they are all for it. Ds, Rs, no difference anymore, they'll just keep spending until the USD is worth the same as Zimbabwe's, so grab all you can, take every cent from every program you can, and be ready to take care of your own when the whole thing falls down.
Sorry but that is quite easy to prove to be bullshit, just look at the megacities like NYC and LA and how much lower their bandwidth and much higher their costs are compared to Asia.
The simple fact is thanks to monopolies/duopolies and cherry picking the USA is in the top 10 for ISP prices but in service we are worse than countries like Romania. This is not gonna change as long as we let the ISPs control the last mile, in fact we already paid the ISPs to the tune of 200 billion to provide the USA with nationwide 50mbps broadband and all we got was a low res Goatse and bonuses for all the CEOs. If the ISPs refuse to pay back the 200 billion with interest we should take control of the lines and open them up to competition as we did during the days of dialup. If they want a monopoly? Tell them they can have 15 years exclusivity for every FTTH they provide but the current situation? Its a total scam, they are treating bits like they are a scarce commodity (Protip: they aren't, the ISPs are being allowed to massively oversell and outright lie about actual speeds) and now that Net Neutrality is dead? Watch prices soar.
And anyone who went that route would frankly be short sighted and foolish and would regret it later. The simple fact is that more and more games are taking advantage of multicores and that dual core will be a bottleneck pretty quickly on any of the new games coming out. Already many of the bigger games like Bioshock infinite, Far Cry 3, Dirt 3 and the like will run better on a quad than a dual and that number is going nowhere but up.
As someone who has been selling the APUs since liano the advantages are threefold: One you can buy a nice budget system that will game OOTB and can add a dedicated GPU down the line, thus making the system more affordable to more folks, Two if you stick with AMD and buy one of the dedicated chips that support zerotech like a 7xxx chip or above you can significantly lower your power usage when you aren't gaming as zerotech will let the dedicated GPU drop down to a couple watts when not required and the APU can take care of hardware acceleration normally handled by the dedicated card, and finally Three these APUs also make great HTPC chips, with hardware acceleration for pretty much every major format out there you can get smooth 1080P playback even when using a tuner for recording or while multitasking.
As for TFA while I can't see a point in embedded 8GB of GDDR5 in a board for one of these I CAN see putting a smaller amount, say 512Mb, to give the APU a nice high bandwidth buffer to improve performance.
But the "dirty little secret" that doesn't get brought up enough frankly is a lot of those "single threaded loads" is as rigged as quack.exe was back in the day thanks to every Intel compiler made since 2002 being made to put out crippled code for any chip that Intel doesn't want to push. Oh and for those that use the "Intel just knows their own chips and optimizes for them" excuse that lie has been disproved and the proof was the last gen Pentium 3. You see the last gen P3 was curbstomping the Netburst P4s in early benchmarks, yet when the cripple compiler comes out? Suddenly the very same Netburst chips are winning by 30%!
And the bitch is that any of these so called review sites could test for rigging trivially but they won't for fear of losing Intel advertising revenue. To see if a program is rigged all one has to do is run the code on a Via CPU, Via CPUs allow one to softmod the CPUID so if you change the CPUID from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and suddenly the chip scores 20%-30%+ higher on the test? Then the program has been rigged by ICC, simple as that.
All of these sites like Anandtech and Tom's have more than enough money to pick up a Via chip and keep it around for testing but they won't bite the hand that feeds so everyone should consider their tests to be tainted and as worthless as Quake tests were with the rigged drivers. It would be nice if someone would run some real tests so we could see real numbers, wouldn't be hard to do as GCC is free and there are plenty of FOSS programs like Firefox one could compile with GCC to give accurate tests but so far no review site will do this for fear of pissing off Intel. How they didn't get busted for antitrust is beyond me, this is every bit as bad as "Windows isn't done until lotus won't run" but they were allowed to bribe AMD to the tune of 2 billion to drop the lawsuit and with it the investigation.
Sure can. You see currently all GDDR5 is sold to GPU OEMs and they haven't used sockets on graphics card since the mid 90s.
As for TFA they sold some HD43xx boards with a small amount of dedicated RAM and since AMD makes their own board chipsets I see no reason why they couldn't sell a board or two with dedicated GDDR5 of 512Mb to say 2Gb. Lets face it guys you can only go so far with an APU before it would make more sense to have a dedicated GPU instead but with AMD having the same chips that are in the new consoles this might be a good option for a budget gaming rig.
The key will be if they can get the GDDR5 at a price that will still let the board make sense versus just buying say an HD7750 card, but if they could get the boards made so a kit would cost around $250-$270 (current their quad APU kits sell for around $200 sans HDD) this could be a really compelling option for those on a budget that want to game.
Informative? Really mods? Didn't bother to actually read TFA or even TFS where those without Applecare are being charged for replacements when its obviously faulty hardware? Forget your history and how much shit had to be stirred before Apple would own up to those "bumpgate" Nvidia failures a few years back?
As for what is causing the failures? the answer is simple...the HD6xxx was a hot running chip series and there simply isn't enough cooling in those MBPs. Apple has always been form over function and Jobs always HATED fan noise but you just can't beat the laws of thermodynamics folks.As someone who has used AMD GPUs since the days of the Rage pro I can say that the HD4xxx through HD6xxx were some hot chips and I saw more than my share of failed 5xxx and 6xxx chips, the 7xxx and better are frankly like night and day when it comes to temps.
But I wouldn't be surprised if shitty "environmentally friendly" solder isn't making things a LOT worse as that new lead free shit is total garbage and to me just shows how short sighted much of the whole "being green" initiatives are. Sure the old solder should have been properly recycled but the amount of failures being seen on...well pretty much anything that goes through serious heat cycling is just nuts! And you break the device open and whip out the magnifying glass and what do you see? Solder cracks and tin whiskers.
I just hope Apple does own up and fix those units because like bumpgate its pretty obvious its the hardware that is at fault.
So just save it as a.reg file and post it to dropbox, done. That is one of the nice things about Windows, you only have to change a reg key once and then simply save it as a.reg and from then on its "clicky clicky" simple. I keep a handful of.reg files on my flash for common issues and it certainly beats having to remember which reg keys to change/delete to fix a problem.
As for TFA? If Google doesn't get ahead of this but quick they could find Chrome treated about like IE6 as it doesn't take too many malware attacks for a browser to get a bad rep.
Yes I am but more importantly the code is never ran and since I use Comodo Secure DNS in the browser any malware is stripped server side.
If you are using Firefox you are at risk and here is why....to this very day Mozilla refuses to support Low Rights Mode, a tech that came out with Vista more than SEVEN YEARS AGO!!! If you ask them why they'll give some bullshit excuse about Linux but 1.- What Torvalds does or doesn't do should not affect other platforms, otherwise nobody will advance until all 3 have the same tech and 2.- the same tech used in Low Rights Mode would be trivial to use in AppArmor or SELinux, thus making Linux safer too.
So yes I know about ICeDragon but sadly it uses the Gecko engine and until Gecko is multithreaded, so a single bad tab don't take down the browser and more importantly Gecko supports low rights mode I simply cannot recommend anything based on Mozilla code. It would be nice if Chrome blocked server side but given the choice of that or not having low rights mode the choice is clear and the fact that my customers haven't seen a single infection since switching (compared to my FF using customers that were hit by the Yahoo Porn Bug I wrote about in my journal) the results speak for themselves.
Well considering the fact that OpenBSD is in danger of shutting down due to lack of funding I really don't think starting this NOW is the greatest of ideas. Click on the comments to the article I linked to and they have a letter from de Raadt berating some for daring! to suggest that they might not ought to support a shitload of ancient formats like VAX if they are losing THAT much cash so I'd be amazed if they are here next year.
I'm sure I'll get hate from the *BSD fans but truth is truth and when you are bleeding cash like that you can NOT just give everyone a bad attitude and a "we deserve this", not when you are counting on those same people to support you. Either de Raadt stops running that huge mound of servers or they bleed to death, simple as that. And from the looks of that letter he'd be perfectly happy with it being the latter if it means giving an inch otherwise. Sorry guys but I've dealt with "never give an inch" types in business and in my exp they usually end up bankrupt. The wise owner rolls with the punches and accepts there is gonna be downturns, the arrogant owner says "I deserve it all" and runs the company into the ground.
Are Linux users? After all they are even more trivial to infect than Windows and Android, so beloved and claimed by the Linux community hit the 1 million infected mark last year, a full 9 years earlier than it took Windows to reach the same number BTW, so are they gonna pay or bugger off? Excuse me "go write a Bash script" would be the more apropos line.
Don't mistake security by obscurity for actual security as they are VERY different. The *BSDs with the constant code audits and insane amount of hoops required to put anything in mainline? That is REAL security, whereas with Linux...well let me put it THIS way, you have over 700 projects in your average distro which 1.- they never talk to each other, 2.- they are each "doing their own thing" without regard to what the others are doing, and 3.- they have ZERO care for anybody's project but their own, so if Torvalds futzes with the kernel and breaks the wireless subsystem? Too bad so sad.
The only reason Linux lasted as long as it did was less than 1% on the desktop. and don't waste your breath trotting out the "Linux runs on servers" TMRepo meme, as servers are stripped to the bone, running an OS that may as well be embedded for how little it has, and are managed by guys that spent many years studying to learn how to run servers securely. you give those same Linux admins a Windows server and they'll be just as secure, you can even have a headless server with only what you require installed thanks to WinServer Core.
So before you throw stones next time you might want to look at the glass house you are living in bud.
You'll like it as its a "set and forget" solution. It cleans the reg, gets rid of broken shortcuts (also a source of WinRot), defrags the reg and hard drive if it needs it, there is about a dozen things it does on its little checklist and again its all automatic. Oh and if your parents are like mine and get pissed when a program doesn't "instarun" when they click? it has both "turbo mode" that stops all the background crap and it can silently lower the affinity of all other programs and boost the one you just launched if the system is under heavy load.
I don't recommend anything that I don't personally use and I've been using Tuneup since 07 and can say it runs great, is hassle free, and I've NEVER had it screw something up, unlike those freeware cleaners that I've seen screw up reg keys. Enjoy!
The problem is as long as religions exist that say safe sex is bad and multiplying good? All you are doing is breeding more poverty. I don't know how much hate I've gotten for daring to say we should offer a one time payout of a couple grand for women to get their tubes tied and men to get snipped but the simple fact is if they'd sell their reproductive rights for a quick buck they would be shitty parents anyway and the world is better off.
But as long as you have clergy in third world countries that say things like "condoms give you AIDS" to keep people from using them? Then all you are doing when you feed the starving in the third world is breeding the next gen of beggars sadly.
Or if he is constantly doing installs and doesn't want to keep having to burn.ISOs he can just use WSUS Offline dropped into a share folder on his network and call it a day. I have a copy on my network and it has everything from XP and Office 2K3 to Win 8.1 and Office 2K10 on it and between that and Ninite the amount of time it takes to go from bare metal to fully patched and ready to go has dropped right off the map. What is nice is the fact you can just flip UAC off and have it run fully unattended, just run it and it'll take care of any reboots required and fully patch the system, install the latest IE and DirectX as well as.NET and Office patches if you want, easy peasy.
What you are describing is known in the biz as "WinRot" and is caused not by the OS, but by software that refuses to clean up during an uninstall. Ever wonder how some programs can take a good 10 minutes to install but only seconds to uninstall? Its because it isn't actually uninstalling, its just tossing the folder under Program Files while leaving all the keys and.DLLs it crapped all over the system.
There are several free tools that can fix WinRot but personally I prefer Tuneup Utilities as it takes care of everything automatically and is pretty much a "one stop shop" for Windows. I like it so much that I use it on my home systems and even though my Windows installs are several years old they boot just like a fresh install. As a bonus it has a "program deactivator" that fools all those programs that insist on being run at startup that you haven't futzed with them by silently flipping them between active and disabled when you launch and close respectively. Its pretty sweet and they have a trial so you can see if its something you'd like.
Question...why would you want to? I have run Win 7 on a 2003 Sempron with 1Gb of RAM, it ran just fine. I'm typing this on a 2007 1.8Ghz C2D with 3Gb of RAM and Win 7, again runs just fine. If your machine is sooooo old it can't run Win 7? Then its most likely so old its not worth having.
My advice in that case, which usually applies to socket 478 P4s (which are insane power pigs as is all the P4 line from Prescott through Pentium D) would be to change out the board for an AMD E350 which can be had anywhere from $70-$85 depending on which features you want, gives you a dual core with HD6310 that runs rings around the Pentium 4/D and even does 1080P over HDMI, supports up to 8Gb of RAM and best of all the board uses less under full loads than a socket 478 does idling. You can even keep your old drives by simply getting one with a PCI slot and using a PCI to IDE adapter. I have done this conversion for several customers and its easy, fast,lowers the hell out of the power bill, and turns a big noisy P4 office box into a whisper quiet system. Its really a crazy good deal and even has VM support and XP drivers if you want to keep XP as a VM or dual boot for some older software.
As for TFA? We've been complaining about this bug for years! Better late than never but it would have been nice if this would have came out half a decade ago instead of right before EOL. BTW for those saying it was only "recently introduced" might want to look up "SVCHOSTS eats 100% CPU" as you'll find that bug showing up off and on since 2005.
You want a t-shirt sized soundbyte? Old Hairy can do that.. "Quit shoveling malware and I'll quit blocking!" because that is all it ends up coming down to, their "business model" is a blight that shovels misery and cost BILLIONS in clean up costs every year just so Larry the lazy fuck website owner can just rent out a chunk of his pages...ask me how much I give a fuck about Larry and his "business model".
Adblocking started because 1.- Malware infected ads were a serious problem, and 2.- All those calls to third parties were not only a risk but sucked a shitload of bandwidth and wasted a ton of time...NEITHER OF THESE HAS CHANGED so neither will my installing adblock as a SOP on customer's PCs. As I pointed out its beyond trivial to bypass adblocks, simply don't shovel third party malware, if they refuse to do that because its more profitable to risk my customer's security then why in the fuck should I care about them?
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This is something that personally bugs the shit out of me.....tell me EXACTLY how YOUR freedom is being blocked by having CHOICE in the matter? Nobody is holding a gun to your head, nobody is making you use non free anything, so why should those that want it have to jump through flaming fucking hoops just because it doesn't follow YOUR personal feelings on the subject?
Why is those that are supposedly "for" freedom damned near ALWAYS translate to "free to be like me and do what I like?".
I guess you didn't hear? Hitachi sold their HDD business to WD two years ago. So I'm sorry friend but there is only two, barring any refurb or old stock still in the channel.
Mine does, its an Asus EEE 1215B netbook, but from what I've seen most of the Asus laptops have it as well. Its nice to be able to just look up and know with 100% certainty that the camera isn't doing squat, so maybe you should look at whether the camera has a shutter before you purchase?
Well one of the nice things about Chrome being based on FOSS Chromium is you DO have choices, there is Dragon,SWIron,Chromium, just as with FF you have IceDragon,Kmeleon CCF ME, Seamonkey, Pale Moon, you don't have to just choose between FF and Chrome, there is a world of choices out there. hell if you want to get away from Chromium and gecko completely there is QTWeb which is just what it sounds like,Webkit with a QT UI. Its pretty nice,built in ABP and cross platform.
That said what keeps me from giving anything Gecko based like FF to my customers is the simple fact that 7 fricking years after it was first released Firefox STILL doesn't support Low Rights Mode which is not just dumb, in this age of zero days its downright reckless. I mean its 2014 and Gecko STILL runs with the same rights as the user, WTF? browsers are the #1 attack vector by a country mile, they should always run with the lowest permissions possible!
So if you are looking at a browser with an eye to security you should be looking at something that uses the Chromium engine. Personally I've found that running the browser in low rights mode dropped infections in my customer's PCs right off the map, but running without LRM they ended up with bugs like the Yahoo Porn Bug and hidden iFrame tricks that just didn't seem to affect any browser running LRM. Kinda sad that IE runs in LRM, Chromium had support less than 6 months after its release, FF still don't.
Uhhh...guess you missed the memo but WD bought one and Seagate bought the other so when the Samsung and Toshiba drives that are currently in the channel are gone? That's it, you'll only have WD and Seagate and since they'l have a duopoly my bet is both will be high and both will be shitty.
Anybody who needs real storage space frankly doesn't have a choice and they know it, hence why they were willing to buy out the competition. Its sad, because as you pointed out both Samsung and Toshiba made quality and were frankly only a few bucks more but IMHO they never advertised and that is what killed 'em.
Maybe its just me, but when I first saw the thing the first thought that popped into my head was "its an alchemy book" and the more I read about the thing? The more i lean towards that conclusion.
I mean lets take a look at what we DO know from that time period, 1.- Alchemy was practiced by many court magicians at the time, 2.- Alchemy was also dangerous as its link with science made it awful close to heresy in the eyes of many of the clergy, also 3.- Competition was fierce, with many believing that lead into gold was possible the one who found that "method" would become legend, so because of this 4.- Secrecy was SOP for the alchemist, with the man that supposedly made the first air conditioning, Cornelius Drebbel, refusing to write down his method for doing so. Finally 5.- The court alchemist would be one of the few who would have the funds to afford such a book while also having both the knowledge of the natural world AND a reason to keep such knowledge secret.
Given this and without any proof that would lead one to believe it was something else I still lean towards an "alchemist recipe book", written using a cipher now long forgotten. Given what we know about the times and about the level of detail (as well as the cost as you pointed out) I would say it would be the most likely source of the book.
From what I've seen at the shop the drives, from best to worst, Samsung (especially the Ecogreen, nearly as fast as the 7200 Seagates while being VERY low power and long life and can insane amounts of abuse), Toshiba (again takes a LOT of abuse, great for industrial use, but both they and Samsung getting hard to find) followed by WD and at last place Maxtor...err I mean Seagate.
And there is a REASON why I call them maxtor, and its not to be snarky. Its the fact that when Seagate bought Maxtor instead of Seagate bringing maxtor up to its level then maxtor brought Seagate down to its shit quality. Don't know if its true or not but the rumor mill stated that the reason was/is that Maxtor had access to ultra cheap ARM controllers that really lowered cost but the downside? They started getting "wonky" when they got hot and they overheated easily. Again don't know if its true or not but I have seen a LOT of the newer Seagates with maxtor style "click of death" issues while the older Seagates were by and large pretty damned reliable. in fact i still have a handful of Seagate 40-160Gb drives i gotta figure out what to do with, i hate to throw working gear but with IDE going the way of the floppy? Finding it harder and harder to find a use for 'em.
It was a witch hunt full stop...FTFY.
Hell Slick Willie was always too conservative for me and even I could see what they were doing, its was nothing but a witch hunt!
Here let me remind you of your history...first they tried to get him with ex state troopers (troopergate), then they tried to get him with Paula Jones (Paulagate), then they tried to get him with a bad real estate deal, (whitewatergate) and THEN they went after him for the BJ...and I am pretty sure I missed a couple in there.
And its ironic that all those that scream "he LIED!" never bother to follow the money because if you did? You'd find damned near to the last man they were being bankrolled by big insurance and big medical who didn't like the idea of what was later called "Hillarycare" because it would have....gasp!...actually puts caps on the massive profits they were gouging.
So try actually looking BEYOND the soundbytes, start looking at who was getting checks from whom, and you'll see they were no different than the Koch bros "Tea Party Express" in that it was supposed "about the issue" when in reality it was about protecting the status quo and the ones pushing impeachment were being paid to make damned sure they didn't get jack shit when it came to healthcare. Only reason Obama got jack shit was it was written by health industry insiders and was practically a blank check the big boys could cash.
Uh huh...this IS the USA we're talking about here, where politicians trot out bibles and getting a BJ was nearly cause for impeachment.
Sure its a nice thought but as long as organized religion has control of so much of the country? NOT gonna happen. THIS is the real threat folks, just look at how long Hoover was able to keep an iron grip on the country with his "file cabinet". You really only need to keep files on a couple of thousand people to pretty much control the country, dirty laundry on politicians in some key posts along with certain business leaders and you have the country by the short hairs.
That is why I've been saying for years "grab every cent you can from the government, use every program, and be ready for the collapse" as there isn't any way to stop it now, the collapse is inevitable and will make the depression look like a flash crash.
For those that don't know why our economy is doomed the answer is Ronnie Raygun and the 401K and 403B which forced billions into the stock market. be sure to look at the charts at 3.30, look at what the numbers were before the 29 crash (125%) and what the numbers are now (over 400%) to see why it cannot be stopped. Wall Street now functions solely on gambling and speculation brought on by all that government money and without it the financial sector we have now simply couldn't exist, the financial sector would have to shrink by a good 70% or more and rather than let that happen they will simply keep buying politicians....until they can't borrow another buck, can't have the fed print another dollar, then you might as well light a match because the whole thing is gonna go up in smoke.
If you vote on anything above local issues? you are wasting your time, as we see here BOTH sides are for bigger government, bigger budgets, doesn't matter WHAT the budget is going for as long as they can find a way to skim some they are all for it. Ds, Rs, no difference anymore, they'll just keep spending until the USD is worth the same as Zimbabwe's, so grab all you can, take every cent from every program you can, and be ready to take care of your own when the whole thing falls down.
Sorry but that is quite easy to prove to be bullshit, just look at the megacities like NYC and LA and how much lower their bandwidth and much higher their costs are compared to Asia.
The simple fact is thanks to monopolies/duopolies and cherry picking the USA is in the top 10 for ISP prices but in service we are worse than countries like Romania. This is not gonna change as long as we let the ISPs control the last mile, in fact we already paid the ISPs to the tune of 200 billion to provide the USA with nationwide 50mbps broadband and all we got was a low res Goatse and bonuses for all the CEOs. If the ISPs refuse to pay back the 200 billion with interest we should take control of the lines and open them up to competition as we did during the days of dialup. If they want a monopoly? Tell them they can have 15 years exclusivity for every FTTH they provide but the current situation? Its a total scam, they are treating bits like they are a scarce commodity (Protip: they aren't, the ISPs are being allowed to massively oversell and outright lie about actual speeds) and now that Net Neutrality is dead? Watch prices soar.
And anyone who went that route would frankly be short sighted and foolish and would regret it later. The simple fact is that more and more games are taking advantage of multicores and that dual core will be a bottleneck pretty quickly on any of the new games coming out. Already many of the bigger games like Bioshock infinite, Far Cry 3, Dirt 3 and the like will run better on a quad than a dual and that number is going nowhere but up.
As someone who has been selling the APUs since liano the advantages are threefold: One you can buy a nice budget system that will game OOTB and can add a dedicated GPU down the line, thus making the system more affordable to more folks, Two if you stick with AMD and buy one of the dedicated chips that support zerotech like a 7xxx chip or above you can significantly lower your power usage when you aren't gaming as zerotech will let the dedicated GPU drop down to a couple watts when not required and the APU can take care of hardware acceleration normally handled by the dedicated card, and finally Three these APUs also make great HTPC chips, with hardware acceleration for pretty much every major format out there you can get smooth 1080P playback even when using a tuner for recording or while multitasking.
As for TFA while I can't see a point in embedded 8GB of GDDR5 in a board for one of these I CAN see putting a smaller amount, say 512Mb, to give the APU a nice high bandwidth buffer to improve performance.
But the "dirty little secret" that doesn't get brought up enough frankly is a lot of those "single threaded loads" is as rigged as quack.exe was back in the day thanks to every Intel compiler made since 2002 being made to put out crippled code for any chip that Intel doesn't want to push. Oh and for those that use the "Intel just knows their own chips and optimizes for them" excuse that lie has been disproved and the proof was the last gen Pentium 3. You see the last gen P3 was curbstomping the Netburst P4s in early benchmarks, yet when the cripple compiler comes out? Suddenly the very same Netburst chips are winning by 30%!
And the bitch is that any of these so called review sites could test for rigging trivially but they won't for fear of losing Intel advertising revenue. To see if a program is rigged all one has to do is run the code on a Via CPU, Via CPUs allow one to softmod the CPUID so if you change the CPUID from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and suddenly the chip scores 20%-30%+ higher on the test? Then the program has been rigged by ICC, simple as that.
All of these sites like Anandtech and Tom's have more than enough money to pick up a Via chip and keep it around for testing but they won't bite the hand that feeds so everyone should consider their tests to be tainted and as worthless as Quake tests were with the rigged drivers. It would be nice if someone would run some real tests so we could see real numbers, wouldn't be hard to do as GCC is free and there are plenty of FOSS programs like Firefox one could compile with GCC to give accurate tests but so far no review site will do this for fear of pissing off Intel. How they didn't get busted for antitrust is beyond me, this is every bit as bad as "Windows isn't done until lotus won't run" but they were allowed to bribe AMD to the tune of 2 billion to drop the lawsuit and with it the investigation.
Sure can. You see currently all GDDR5 is sold to GPU OEMs and they haven't used sockets on graphics card since the mid 90s.
As for TFA they sold some HD43xx boards with a small amount of dedicated RAM and since AMD makes their own board chipsets I see no reason why they couldn't sell a board or two with dedicated GDDR5 of 512Mb to say 2Gb. Lets face it guys you can only go so far with an APU before it would make more sense to have a dedicated GPU instead but with AMD having the same chips that are in the new consoles this might be a good option for a budget gaming rig.
The key will be if they can get the GDDR5 at a price that will still let the board make sense versus just buying say an HD7750 card, but if they could get the boards made so a kit would cost around $250-$270 (current their quad APU kits sell for around $200 sans HDD) this could be a really compelling option for those on a budget that want to game.
Informative? Really mods? Didn't bother to actually read TFA or even TFS where those without Applecare are being charged for replacements when its obviously faulty hardware? Forget your history and how much shit had to be stirred before Apple would own up to those "bumpgate" Nvidia failures a few years back?
As for what is causing the failures? the answer is simple...the HD6xxx was a hot running chip series and there simply isn't enough cooling in those MBPs. Apple has always been form over function and Jobs always HATED fan noise but you just can't beat the laws of thermodynamics folks.As someone who has used AMD GPUs since the days of the Rage pro I can say that the HD4xxx through HD6xxx were some hot chips and I saw more than my share of failed 5xxx and 6xxx chips, the 7xxx and better are frankly like night and day when it comes to temps.
But I wouldn't be surprised if shitty "environmentally friendly" solder isn't making things a LOT worse as that new lead free shit is total garbage and to me just shows how short sighted much of the whole "being green" initiatives are. Sure the old solder should have been properly recycled but the amount of failures being seen on...well pretty much anything that goes through serious heat cycling is just nuts! And you break the device open and whip out the magnifying glass and what do you see? Solder cracks and tin whiskers.
I just hope Apple does own up and fix those units because like bumpgate its pretty obvious its the hardware that is at fault.
So just save it as a .reg file and post it to dropbox, done. That is one of the nice things about Windows, you only have to change a reg key once and then simply save it as a .reg and from then on its "clicky clicky" simple. I keep a handful of .reg files on my flash for common issues and it certainly beats having to remember which reg keys to change/delete to fix a problem.
As for TFA? If Google doesn't get ahead of this but quick they could find Chrome treated about like IE6 as it doesn't take too many malware attacks for a browser to get a bad rep.
Yes I am but more importantly the code is never ran and since I use Comodo Secure DNS in the browser any malware is stripped server side.
If you are using Firefox you are at risk and here is why....to this very day Mozilla refuses to support Low Rights Mode, a tech that came out with Vista more than SEVEN YEARS AGO!!! If you ask them why they'll give some bullshit excuse about Linux but 1.- What Torvalds does or doesn't do should not affect other platforms, otherwise nobody will advance until all 3 have the same tech and 2.- the same tech used in Low Rights Mode would be trivial to use in AppArmor or SELinux, thus making Linux safer too.
So yes I know about ICeDragon but sadly it uses the Gecko engine and until Gecko is multithreaded, so a single bad tab don't take down the browser and more importantly Gecko supports low rights mode I simply cannot recommend anything based on Mozilla code. It would be nice if Chrome blocked server side but given the choice of that or not having low rights mode the choice is clear and the fact that my customers haven't seen a single infection since switching (compared to my FF using customers that were hit by the Yahoo Porn Bug I wrote about in my journal) the results speak for themselves.
Well considering the fact that OpenBSD is in danger of shutting down due to lack of funding I really don't think starting this NOW is the greatest of ideas. Click on the comments to the article I linked to and they have a letter from de Raadt berating some for daring! to suggest that they might not ought to support a shitload of ancient formats like VAX if they are losing THAT much cash so I'd be amazed if they are here next year.
I'm sure I'll get hate from the *BSD fans but truth is truth and when you are bleeding cash like that you can NOT just give everyone a bad attitude and a "we deserve this", not when you are counting on those same people to support you. Either de Raadt stops running that huge mound of servers or they bleed to death, simple as that. And from the looks of that letter he'd be perfectly happy with it being the latter if it means giving an inch otherwise. Sorry guys but I've dealt with "never give an inch" types in business and in my exp they usually end up bankrupt. The wise owner rolls with the punches and accepts there is gonna be downturns, the arrogant owner says "I deserve it all" and runs the company into the ground.
Are Linux users? After all they are even more trivial to infect than Windows and Android, so beloved and claimed by the Linux community hit the 1 million infected mark last year, a full 9 years earlier than it took Windows to reach the same number BTW, so are they gonna pay or bugger off? Excuse me "go write a Bash script" would be the more apropos line.
Don't mistake security by obscurity for actual security as they are VERY different. The *BSDs with the constant code audits and insane amount of hoops required to put anything in mainline? That is REAL security, whereas with Linux...well let me put it THIS way, you have over 700 projects in your average distro which 1.- they never talk to each other, 2.- they are each "doing their own thing" without regard to what the others are doing, and 3.- they have ZERO care for anybody's project but their own, so if Torvalds futzes with the kernel and breaks the wireless subsystem? Too bad so sad.
The only reason Linux lasted as long as it did was less than 1% on the desktop. and don't waste your breath trotting out the "Linux runs on servers" TMRepo meme, as servers are stripped to the bone, running an OS that may as well be embedded for how little it has, and are managed by guys that spent many years studying to learn how to run servers securely. you give those same Linux admins a Windows server and they'll be just as secure, you can even have a headless server with only what you require installed thanks to WinServer Core.
So before you throw stones next time you might want to look at the glass house you are living in bud.
You'll like it as its a "set and forget" solution. It cleans the reg, gets rid of broken shortcuts (also a source of WinRot), defrags the reg and hard drive if it needs it, there is about a dozen things it does on its little checklist and again its all automatic. Oh and if your parents are like mine and get pissed when a program doesn't "instarun" when they click? it has both "turbo mode" that stops all the background crap and it can silently lower the affinity of all other programs and boost the one you just launched if the system is under heavy load.
I don't recommend anything that I don't personally use and I've been using Tuneup since 07 and can say it runs great, is hassle free, and I've NEVER had it screw something up, unlike those freeware cleaners that I've seen screw up reg keys. Enjoy!
The problem is as long as religions exist that say safe sex is bad and multiplying good? All you are doing is breeding more poverty. I don't know how much hate I've gotten for daring to say we should offer a one time payout of a couple grand for women to get their tubes tied and men to get snipped but the simple fact is if they'd sell their reproductive rights for a quick buck they would be shitty parents anyway and the world is better off.
But as long as you have clergy in third world countries that say things like "condoms give you AIDS" to keep people from using them? Then all you are doing when you feed the starving in the third world is breeding the next gen of beggars sadly.
Or if he is constantly doing installs and doesn't want to keep having to burn .ISOs he can just use WSUS Offline dropped into a share folder on his network and call it a day. I have a copy on my network and it has everything from XP and Office 2K3 to Win 8.1 and Office 2K10 on it and between that and Ninite the amount of time it takes to go from bare metal to fully patched and ready to go has dropped right off the map. What is nice is the fact you can just flip UAC off and have it run fully unattended, just run it and it'll take care of any reboots required and fully patch the system, install the latest IE and DirectX as well as .NET and Office patches if you want, easy peasy.
What you are describing is known in the biz as "WinRot" and is caused not by the OS, but by software that refuses to clean up during an uninstall. Ever wonder how some programs can take a good 10 minutes to install but only seconds to uninstall? Its because it isn't actually uninstalling, its just tossing the folder under Program Files while leaving all the keys and .DLLs it crapped all over the system.
There are several free tools that can fix WinRot but personally I prefer Tuneup Utilities as it takes care of everything automatically and is pretty much a "one stop shop" for Windows. I like it so much that I use it on my home systems and even though my Windows installs are several years old they boot just like a fresh install. As a bonus it has a "program deactivator" that fools all those programs that insist on being run at startup that you haven't futzed with them by silently flipping them between active and disabled when you launch and close respectively. Its pretty sweet and they have a trial so you can see if its something you'd like.
Question...why would you want to? I have run Win 7 on a 2003 Sempron with 1Gb of RAM, it ran just fine. I'm typing this on a 2007 1.8Ghz C2D with 3Gb of RAM and Win 7, again runs just fine. If your machine is sooooo old it can't run Win 7? Then its most likely so old its not worth having.
My advice in that case, which usually applies to socket 478 P4s (which are insane power pigs as is all the P4 line from Prescott through Pentium D) would be to change out the board for an AMD E350 which can be had anywhere from $70-$85 depending on which features you want, gives you a dual core with HD6310 that runs rings around the Pentium 4/D and even does 1080P over HDMI, supports up to 8Gb of RAM and best of all the board uses less under full loads than a socket 478 does idling. You can even keep your old drives by simply getting one with a PCI slot and using a PCI to IDE adapter. I have done this conversion for several customers and its easy, fast,lowers the hell out of the power bill, and turns a big noisy P4 office box into a whisper quiet system. Its really a crazy good deal and even has VM support and XP drivers if you want to keep XP as a VM or dual boot for some older software.
As for TFA? We've been complaining about this bug for years! Better late than never but it would have been nice if this would have came out half a decade ago instead of right before EOL. BTW for those saying it was only "recently introduced" might want to look up "SVCHOSTS eats 100% CPU" as you'll find that bug showing up off and on since 2005.
You want a t-shirt sized soundbyte? Old Hairy can do that.. "Quit shoveling malware and I'll quit blocking!" because that is all it ends up coming down to, their "business model" is a blight that shovels misery and cost BILLIONS in clean up costs every year just so Larry the lazy fuck website owner can just rent out a chunk of his pages...ask me how much I give a fuck about Larry and his "business model".
Adblocking started because 1.- Malware infected ads were a serious problem, and 2.- All those calls to third parties were not only a risk but sucked a shitload of bandwidth and wasted a ton of time...NEITHER OF THESE HAS CHANGED so neither will my installing adblock as a SOP on customer's PCs. As I pointed out its beyond trivial to bypass adblocks, simply don't shovel third party malware, if they refuse to do that because its more profitable to risk my customer's security then why in the fuck should I care about them?