It's possible with an IOMMU. Most desktop systems don't have one, except for some Intel chipsets that are marketed to businesses. For instance the Lenovo Thinkpad T400 has one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU
Yeah, I wonder how many of those alleged customers actually donate to the Mozilla Foundation. Hey, if you're really that obsessed with version numbers, why don't you just start a small foundation and/or pay a handful of developers full-time to backport security fixed to a "stable" 4.x? Oh, sorry, that would imply actual involvement.
GCC has supported many C++0x features for quite some time now. My personal favorites are the auto keyword, particularly when used with iterators, enum classes & lambda functions. Oh, and #include : uint32_t, int64_t, Many other features like regular expressions are neat but have been available with the Boost libraries for a long time anyway.
In related news, Slashdot ("news for nerds") announced a full-scale Unicode and IPv6 test, to be deployed as soon as hell freezes over. Seriously, the absence of both technologies on this self-proclaimed "nerd" site is shameful at least.
It's a German news program: tagesschau.de Screenshot. They got an award for it too:
"The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) have used the occasion of Document Freedom Day 2011 to give an award to German broadcaster ARD's internet platform tagesschau.de for offering broadcast shows in the free Ogg Theora video format. According to the FSFE announcement, the technical manager and vice editorial director will be presented with cakes at separate events in Hamburg and Berlin."
Try to uninstall Adobe Flash for a week. I did and I can't say that I miss anything.
YouTube: - The HTML5 beta works rather well with modern browsers like Firefox 4.0 and nearly every video is available. You don't need a Google account. The setting is stored in a cookie. - If you're on Linux, try Minitube. It's a standalone player for YouTube that uses hardware acceleration.
Thanks to the iPad, more and more web sites offer alternatives to Flash. My preferred news TV station is now streaming both with Ogg/Theora and H.264.
Yes, I can't view the occasional funny cat video because it's only available in Flash format but guess what: I'm still alive.
Did you not notice that the "News for Nerds" slogan has been gone for a while? Slashbloid's main purpose is to generate advert impressions now. It doesn't matter how cheap and wrong the summaries are. FOX News would be proud.
I used to think that it's the lack of exit nodes that makes TOR somewhat slow until I tried some internal services, i.e. *.onion. So I proceeded to configure an unthrottled intermediate node on a box with a 100/100 Mb/s connection. After 1-2 weeks of warming up, the node routed over 1 TB of traffic _daily_. As my monthly cap is 5 TB, I had to throttle it, unfortunately.
TL;DR: If you have spare bandwidth and want to help the TOR network without the potential risks of an exit node, please setup an intermediate node.
The widespread abuse of the term "PC" annoys me to no end as well. No major dictionary defines it as a personal computer that runs Microsoft Windows. iMacs are PCs. Lenovo laptops are PCs. My x86 desktop running Linux is a PC.
"A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator."
Regarding "hackers"... That battle has been lost already, in my humble opinion.
Grocery tracking can still be migitated easily. Just pay with cash as often as possible and do not accept surveillance cards ("Paypack", and whatever they are called.)
ISP tracking is a bit tougher but there are possible countermeasures to make it a less severe problem. For instance, one could write software that simulates an actual user who browses the web and pursues other online activity 24/7. This will not hide your actual activity but it gets lost in a stream of random noise.
"I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone. It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop."
It is possible with Server Name Indication which is supported by almost every browser except... drumroll... our beloved Internet Explorer on Windows XP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Sadly it's Slashdot summary have a tendency to be sensationalist, misleading and sometimes even wrong. For comparison, consider Ars Technica's headline: "pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged" — it's neutral and contains more information.
Product placement of any kind is aggravating, just like any other kind of advertisement. It poisons the mind and distracts from the movie. Can't you settle for less expensive sets and effects and instead, you know, write better scripts? But no, it wouldn't be a proper movie without at least 3 exploding trucks and 53 car chases, brought to you by Nokia, like in the last Star Trek movie. In the beautiful words of David Lynch: total fucking bullshit.
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You can use "fuseiso" to mount not just ISO-9660 images but also proprietary formats like NRG (Nero) and CCD (CloneCD) without root priviliges.
There's already an existing GUI for another program: "CDemu", an actual CD drive emulator.
http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/virtual-dvd-linux/gcdemu-2.png
http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/
Dealing with invididual eggs is just too cumbersome.
So instead, I carry all in one large basket.
What could possibly go wrong?
It's possible with an IOMMU. Most desktop systems don't have one, except for some Intel chipsets that are marketed to businesses.
For instance the Lenovo Thinkpad T400 has one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU
I wish I had mod points. +5. Funny.
Yeah, I wonder how many of those alleged customers actually donate to the Mozilla Foundation.
Hey, if you're really that obsessed with version numbers, why don't you just start a small foundation and/or pay a handful of developers full-time to backport security fixed to a "stable" 4.x? Oh, sorry, that would imply actual involvement.
That was supposed to be
#include <cstdint>
GCC has supported many C++0x features for quite some time now.
My personal favorites are the auto keyword, particularly when used with iterators, enum classes & lambda functions.
Oh, and #include :
uint32_t, int64_t,
Many other features like regular expressions are neat but have been available with the Boost libraries for a long time anyway.
In related news, Slashdot ("news for nerds") announced a full-scale Unicode and IPv6 test, to be deployed as soon as hell freezes over.
Seriously, the absence of both technologies on this self-proclaimed "nerd" site is shameful at least.
It's a German news program: tagesschau.de
Screenshot.
They got an award for it too:
"The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) have used the occasion of Document Freedom Day 2011 to give an award to German broadcaster ARD's internet platform tagesschau.de for offering broadcast shows in the free Ogg Theora video format. According to the FSFE announcement, the technical manager and vice editorial director will be presented with cakes at separate events in Hamburg and Berlin."
Try to uninstall Adobe Flash for a week. I did and I can't say that I miss anything.
YouTube:
- The HTML5 beta works rather well with modern browsers like Firefox 4.0 and nearly every video is available. You don't need a Google account. The setting is stored in a cookie.
- If you're on Linux, try Minitube. It's a standalone player for YouTube that uses hardware acceleration.
Thanks to the iPad, more and more web sites offer alternatives to Flash. My preferred news TV station is now streaming both with Ogg/Theora and H.264.
Yes, I can't view the occasional funny cat video because it's only available in Flash format but guess what: I'm still alive.
Good luck.
Did you not notice that the "News for Nerds" slogan has been gone for a while?
Slashbloid's main purpose is to generate advert impressions now. It doesn't matter how cheap and wrong the summaries are. FOX News would be proud.
I'm disappointed with Slashdot. Every sane person writes dates in ISO 8601 format.
YYYY-MM-DD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Call Daniel Faraday ASAP!
I used to think that it's the lack of exit nodes that makes TOR somewhat slow until I tried some internal services, i.e. *.onion. So I proceeded to configure an unthrottled intermediate node on a box with a 100/100 Mb/s connection. After 1-2 weeks of warming up, the node routed over 1 TB of traffic _daily_. As my monthly cap is 5 TB, I had to throttle it, unfortunately.
TL;DR: If you have spare bandwidth and want to help the TOR network without the potential risks of an exit node, please setup an intermediate node.
this article used two words wrongly: Hacker and PC - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#PC
The widespread abuse of the term "PC" annoys me to no end as well. No major dictionary defines it as a personal computer that runs Microsoft Windows.
iMacs are PCs. Lenovo laptops are PCs. My x86 desktop running Linux is a PC.
"A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator."
Regarding "hackers"... That battle has been lost already, in my humble opinion.
Grocery tracking can still be migitated easily. Just pay with cash as often as possible and do not accept surveillance cards ("Paypack", and whatever they are called.)
ISP tracking is a bit tougher but there are possible countermeasures to make it a less severe problem. For instance, one could write software that simulates an actual user who browses the web and pursues other online activity 24/7. This will not hide your actual activity but it gets lost in a stream of random noise.
"I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone. It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop."
Why is this on the front page? Seriously.
It is possible with Server Name Indication which is supported by almost every browser except... drumroll... our beloved Internet Explorer on Windows XP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Sadly it's Slashdot summary have a tendency to be sensationalist, misleading and sometimes even wrong. For comparison, consider Ars Technica's headline: "pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged" — it's neutral and contains more information.
Yes, e.g. Ontrack since 2008
Product placement of any kind is aggravating, just like any other kind of advertisement. It poisons the mind and distracts from the movie. Can't you settle for less expensive sets and effects and instead, you know, write better scripts? But no, it wouldn't be a proper movie without at least 3 exploding trucks and 53 car chases, brought to you by Nokia, like in the last Star Trek movie.
In the beautiful words of David Lynch: total fucking bullshit.
I've seen it in vanilla Windows 7 installations, e.g. retail, system builder's and MSDNAA editions.
a large section of Linux users dual-boot into Windows for gaming anyways.
[citation needed] and I don't know many Linux users who do.
In the gaming market, Linux isn't profitable.
http://2dboy.com/2009/02/12/world-of-goo-linux-version-is-ready/
http://2dboy.com/2009/10/26/pay-what-you-want-birthday-sale-wrap-up/