You know, there is something called "shockwave" which runs for years, have extensive 3d support both in OpenGL and Direct3D. It supports Windows, OS X (both PPC and Intel) and the only reason for no linux support was basically lack of interest and needlessly shipping a binary to an open operating system.
This is not news for people who used web back in 1990s. I don't know why people get so impressed.
There should be something like "drivers license" when you are connected to Internet with such speed. People having 2 megabyte/sec lines doesn't install at least a free antivirus, they disable the OS firewall (even when it is free) to run some junk which doesn't use the firewall API of Windows are the ones who really deserves their HD to get wiped.
Man they don't even run Windows Update. It is 1 click! It backs up too. Don't start with how evil MS updates has been, if you are that bugged, please get rid of Windows itself.
I am frustrated as a guy who had to setup a mail filter on Yahoo Mail to get rid of Korean spam. Yes, I have setup to detect Korean charsets, the "!!!" in subject which Korean spammers seems to love.
Things like "If...
Body contains "charset="ISO-2022-KR"" Then...
Move message to Trash folder"
Seriously, this must stop. Being highest bandwidth country really gives them some responsibilities. Just like German Autobahn. Yes, there is no speed limit but their license exams are close to torture.
I booted my Atari 800XL with disk drive just a year ago, to test. It booted DOS fine and its own unique ''self test'' was all fine. BTW for people who never seen/used them, ''diskette drive'' on 8bit age (except Woz'es genius Apple) is actually a computer, having same CPU as the main computer and ''chats'' to computer via serial port. That is why diskette drive still working is a big deal.
BTW, Atari 8bit diskette/printer port provided chaining support, you could plug 3-4 diskette drives and a printer to the same port. Similar to USB eh? Of course, it comes from the same guy who designed the USB later.
I have also tried my games which some of them are on 'no name' diskettes. All runs fine. The only regret after that was the money I spent to 'memorex' diskettes for good stuff:)
Of course, being designed by Jay Miner before he joined Amiga team, Atari 8 bit series also have custom chips that does wonders (in terms of 8bit) when used right. For example, writing a ASM code which will glue itself to raster scan (under BASIC even) was the thing all nerd Atari users knew. They were using it against C64 fanatics since you had 256 colours on screen at once with zero CPU cost. Just imagine what real developers did.
Today, in 2009, we are debating if the GPUs which already has h264 decoding enhancements are supported or not on VLC with no hope on pre Snow Leopard OS X (Apple). People pick VLC because they are open source and human, you can actually speak to developers. Nobody bothers to talk with MS or Apple on that matter since they know they would be ignored.
I don't know if you could even find a job at Atari 800/Amiga developer scene if you didn't make use of chips included. Of course, you aren't really touching that GPU under OS X unless Apple driver supports it. Same goes for Windows and DirectX.
The developers of that age was different too because they could be and that is how 1 Mhz machines could even run a GUI (Gem OS, C64).
Do you think Opera runs IE on their proxy servers? They run Opera, a vigorously standards compliant browser. The result is essentially effected by Opera Desktop, my compliant sites are way more usable, browsable on Opera Mini.
If Firefox J2ME shipped, it would be the same case. In fact, testing Skyfire S60 (which is similar concept), I have already witnessed same results.
Here is how to fix a security threat from MS: Then click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the steps in this wizard.
Oh yes, keep teaching your users how to press "run" from web browser, even on a concept/method which was created in 2009. Let them "run" everything, for easiness. This thing happens while Apple, vendor of OS X warns user about.exe files, under Safari for OS X!
I know how their simple mind works. Now that couple of people who doesn't ignore them warned about how stupid to suggest users to run things? They will make the exact same thing in Silverlight, their thing which nobody except them (and couple of bribed) uses. They will say "but this is more secure". Only it will require Silverlight to run.
It would be hard to explain the real concept and danger to a Mac user and be sure the Mac users (ones not coming from win) will be member of of the "I don`t care` profile.
I speak about Virtual Machine and Boot Camp running Mac users. They have never lived the disasters like Blaster and mostly they think "I don`t pirate or porn, I should be safe". Run Windows Update on one of boot camp users machine and see yourself. Of course, I am part of "run a free AV inside virtual machine" since I had very nice (!) memories about zero days back in the day.
Last real virus for Mac was running on entirely different OS (MacOS) and it wasn`t something you could prevent via update from Apple.
In fact, that fact and the concept junk out there which has been abused by AV vendors is the reason why first OS X real virus/worm could be a disaster.
When I saw iPhone browser having 3% share at my own sites, I said ''respect'' and nothing else. The other stealth giant is Opera Mini (J2ME) which does play a lot of pragmatic games to fool sites as mobile user isn't really up to some ''I will show my browser and you will serve me'' kind of thing. It is standards compliant too, just like Webkit.
Anyway, all my sites are W3C standards compliant and it is up to browser to show it fine. So far, good even with IE. So I don't really care about these ''stats'' news. MS already made Windows and lots of third party apps impossible to run without their html rendering framework. They won ages ago. The only real big threat to that is webkit right now. It can do what MSHTML can do, can even fit to Symbian S60 entry level phones and performance king now.
FAT32 is a huge mistake. First of all, there is no journaling. All operating systems, at least reads NTFS fine and with the new fashion NTFS-3G, you can write to them and with ''test disk'' or a Linux recovery boot CD, you can even repair them better than Windows ever can.
Don't use FAT. That is all I can say. Even if you buy a mainframe class IBM storage solution, it won't save you from evil FAT issues.
It probably runs VxWorks from Wind River systems. A RTOS. It must have a lot of processors and as the price is not a concern, it must be high end (and shielded) PowerPC stuff, a lot of them.
Funny is, I know a guy who owns a $380.000 Porsche (yes, taxes) and always keep his Mazda 6 series for normal use. Porsche is his ''fun'' car for weekends.
He also got ultimate enlightenment as a bonus when he went to last day of College with his Porsche as opposed to his Mazda 626. You know, seen true face of people, especially females.;)
Bugatti looks like a good buy if one interested in cars that much, has a 10-12 million dollar home, have area to setup a private tracks.
Best attitude I saw was in Hong Kong. Cars are used of prestige and fun there, you see Maybach owners in metro on weekdays.
Well, there are lots of other companies who offers a dedicated removal tool for their product especially in AV scene which is very important that you don't run 2 things doing same thing by principle.
Forums, removal tool etc. doesn't matter. I would test the product myself and see what it does and what it doesn't.
I decided to act that way especially after Kaspersky products which are always said to be ''too heavy'' ended up saving a 512MB RAM having Celeron like low end CPU. It turns out, the ''people'' had problem with it, not us.
For people who has a clue about the jungle out there, a free AV may really work except some tools like Microsoft's shameless thing. I wouldn't choose it just for the sole reason of protesting that OS vendor who STILL doesn't warn user about empty pwd, even on Win 7 RC. There are way more advanced tools out there free for home use and they are really fine. For example Avast antivirus.
Issue begins when you deal with people who has no clue about the jungle out there and always happy to enter it, without any kind of clue. The ''click happy'' people. For that, you need remote management, advanced heuristics engine and really low CPU and memory load, reporting etc. I keep installing/buying Kaspersky for that purpose.
If you are ready to give up some convenience and ease of use, a secured Windows and something like clamav-daemon which will just watch mail and browser downloads will be more than enough. In these times when companies will happily distribute trojans and viruses with USB keys and even digital photo frames, 'no antivirus' is not really a solution.
I wished someone other than Symantec, no matter whoever they are told about the distinction between free and paid software regarding security. As it is the Symantec, no matter what they say will be ignored and flamed. Similar thing on OS X AV scene which Symantec, even if they try to code a real mac product these days, generally ignored.
The top output you pasted really looks like it is not CPU but some component of device. Besides the "top" itself which really mysteriously uses too much CPU on every single OS X which shipped, there is nothing actually stuck there.
It means this thing can be recalled or hopefully firmware of some component will be updated software wise.
Funny you mention the 2 years of no activity. That is why I stayed away from it on workstations since we all know codecs always need "little touches" whenever Quicktime gets an update. I am sure media professionals who calls On2/AVID whenever Quicktime gets updates and some stuck in OS X 10.4.9 (not 11) didn`t even dare to touch it.
Nevertheless, it is a completely legitimate way of using Quicktime framework. It is not a "hack" or anything. It is what Apple does to support H264 itself. Saying as people generally doesn`t know the deal with Quicktime framework. It was designed to be extensible.
Why can`t they implement H264? Money? Do you know how much money that organization does? Anyway, they can link to system frameworks (xine, quicktime, wmedia) and play the video. It is why Quicktime and Windows Media are called "Frameworks" and why Quicktime is that "big".
For political reasons? Well, I wish them a happy life with their unpatented Theora since I am not re-encoding or transcoding millions of hours because someone thinks patents, even by motion picture professionals are bad.
Well, we can say even Microsoft admitted H264 and MPEG4 base is there to stay no matter what they do so they declared "fallback". It is not just Microsoft, Real Networks decided on h264/AAC long time ago. The high bandwidth is aac+ and h264 based codec.
Now, something like VP3 comes which was essentially abandoned and given free, doesn`t support dozens of things h264 does, isn`t included in billions of devices in use and says "use us, we are patent free". Well, guess what? TV and Movie companies already paid huge sums of money to professional licensing of mpeg. In fact, you have paid too with each device you own which plays mpeg4.
H264 was essentially chosen because it is not tied to single vendor, documented and there to stay. I agree about VP6, they were really greedy and in fact, still greedy.
Where was H264 support in Silverlight 1 and 2? They were forced to include H264 since they figured nobody (including pirates) doesn`t give shit to their "me too" VC1 codec which companies stay away like a plague whenever they got the chance.
What if Apple is perfectly happy with AAC/H264/MPEG 4 base to put their billions to it?
People sound like Apple being a poor company who got abducted by MPEG body of standards which was essentially based on Quicktime specs. There is no such thing. Apple is happy and responsible for H264`s and MPEG4 base profiles take off.
The only company who isn`t happy with H264 and possibly whining is Microsoft. Each h264 video, legal or pirate is a hit to their lame wmedia division.
Users and webmasters, companies love open and documented standards. Well, some do... It doesn`t mean they are ready to declare a jihad to patent system.
The companies producing video (pros) and sites postprocessing them has no problem with MPEG body of standards. Device vendors, including professionals like Sony Pro does stick with the standards, that is all they need for now. They love H264 since it saves them billions in upstream (both digital and TCP/IP) and some people think they will join some patent guerilla warfare and move to Theora for what? Because it is included in Firefox?
What they want is a vendor neutral, documented and patent troll free standard which will be provided by multiple companies. MPEG4 provides it. It is in billions of devices now.
Also no need to make big scene about Safari/Apple/Webkit OS X. Install Theora quicktime codec pack from Xiph, it shows your Theora video. It should...
I use Apple, like Apple and also like reading computer history.
At one point, Apple had 50% share of personal computer market. They basically owned Education market and Quicktime at one point of history was "Flash" of today.
What happened? Apple made some amazingly stupid mistakes, they created some kind of "phobia" which still exists today. When people suggested Apple to stop doing it, "fans" 10x size of them made them regret it.
I am also a Nokia user and I also had the good luck (!) of helping a Blackberry owner. If Apple didn`t do unbelievable things like "No multi tasking on a UNIX handheld", "no MMS" . "no J2ME", iPhone had way more, unimaginable share on smart phone market. In fact, it could even cause other vendors do unimaginable things like moving to Linux+Qt as last chance of market share or laying off entire divisions.
I just can`t stand to 3-4 mistakes which are huge and they are missing the second chance to dominate.
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You know, there is something called "shockwave" which runs for years, have extensive 3d support both in OpenGL and Direct3D. It supports Windows, OS X (both PPC and Intel) and the only reason for no linux support was basically lack of interest and needlessly shipping a binary to an open operating system.
This is not news for people who used web back in 1990s. I don't know why people get so impressed.
There should be something like "drivers license" when you are connected to Internet with such speed. People having 2 megabyte/sec lines doesn't install at least a free antivirus, they disable the OS firewall (even when it is free) to run some junk which doesn't use the firewall API of Windows are the ones who really deserves their HD to get wiped.
Man they don't even run Windows Update. It is 1 click! It backs up too. Don't start with how evil MS updates has been, if you are that bugged, please get rid of Windows itself.
I am frustrated as a guy who had to setup a mail filter on Yahoo Mail to get rid of Korean spam. Yes, I have setup to detect Korean charsets, the "!!!" in subject which Korean spammers seems to love.
Things like
"If...
Body contains "charset="ISO-2022-KR""
Then...
Move message to Trash folder"
Seriously, this must stop. Being highest bandwidth country really gives them some responsibilities. Just like German Autobahn. Yes, there is no speed limit but their license exams are close to torture.
You will easily figure if the device is working when you see very interesting weather on this page:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Cupertino
Remember Simcity Tornado? ;)
/. guys, this is the exact time to use Borg icon and it is missing.
If you go to Japan and somehow ride one of their ''little cars'' you will see what poster meant.
I can't forget my amazement when I entered the car thinking ''there goes my knee'' and it ended up having more space than any ''normal'' sedan.
Of course, as I know the competition for years, it is not like they designed to sell it to some car vendor. They are only showing the technology.
I booted my Atari 800XL with disk drive just a year ago, to test. It booted DOS fine and its own unique ''self test'' was all fine. BTW for people who never seen/used them, ''diskette drive'' on 8bit age (except Woz'es genius Apple) is actually a computer, having same CPU as the main computer and ''chats'' to computer via serial port. That is why diskette drive still working is a big deal.
BTW, Atari 8bit diskette/printer port provided chaining support, you could plug 3-4 diskette drives and a printer to the same port. Similar to USB eh? Of course, it comes from the same guy who designed the USB later.
I have also tried my games which some of them are on 'no name' diskettes. All runs fine. The only regret after that was the money I spent to 'memorex' diskettes for good stuff :)
Of course, being designed by Jay Miner before he joined Amiga team, Atari 8 bit series also have custom chips that does wonders (in terms of 8bit) when used right. For example, writing a ASM code which will glue itself to raster scan (under BASIC even) was the thing all nerd Atari users knew. They were using it against C64 fanatics since you had 256 colours on screen at once with zero CPU cost. Just imagine what real developers did.
Today, in 2009, we are debating if the GPUs which already has h264 decoding enhancements are supported or not on VLC with no hope on pre Snow Leopard OS X (Apple). People pick VLC because they are open source and human, you can actually speak to developers. Nobody bothers to talk with MS or Apple on that matter since they know they would be ignored.
I don't know if you could even find a job at Atari 800/Amiga developer scene if you didn't make use of chips included. Of course, you aren't really touching that GPU under OS X unless Apple driver supports it. Same goes for Windows and DirectX.
The developers of that age was different too because they could be and that is how 1 Mhz machines could even run a GUI (Gem OS, C64).
Do you think Opera runs IE on their proxy servers? They run Opera, a vigorously standards compliant browser. The result is essentially effected by Opera Desktop, my compliant sites are way more usable, browsable on Opera Mini.
If Firefox J2ME shipped, it would be the same case. In fact, testing Skyfire S60 (which is similar concept), I have already witnessed same results.
Here is how to fix a security threat from MS:
Then click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the steps in this wizard.
Oh yes, keep teaching your users how to press "run" from web browser, even on a concept/method which was created in 2009. Let them "run" everything, for easiness. This thing happens while Apple, vendor of OS X warns user about .exe files, under Safari for OS X!
I know how their simple mind works. Now that couple of people who doesn't ignore them warned about how stupid to suggest users to run things? They will make the exact same thing in Silverlight, their thing which nobody except them (and couple of bribed) uses. They will say "but this is more secure". Only it will require Silverlight to run.
Any more zero days in pocket for that MS?
It would be hard to explain the real concept and danger to a Mac user and be sure the Mac users (ones not coming from win) will be member of of the "I don`t care` profile.
I speak about Virtual Machine and Boot Camp running Mac users. They have never lived the disasters like Blaster and mostly they think "I don`t pirate or porn, I should be safe". Run Windows Update on one of boot camp users machine and see yourself. Of course, I am part of "run a free AV inside virtual machine" since I had very nice (!) memories about zero days back in the day.
Last real virus for Mac was running on entirely different OS (MacOS) and it wasn`t something you could prevent via update from Apple.
In fact, that fact and the concept junk out there which has been abused by AV vendors is the reason why first OS X real virus/worm could be a disaster.
When I saw iPhone browser having 3% share at my own sites, I said ''respect'' and nothing else. The other stealth giant is Opera Mini (J2ME) which does play a lot of pragmatic games to fool sites as mobile user isn't really up to some ''I will show my browser and you will serve me'' kind of thing. It is standards compliant too, just like Webkit.
Anyway, all my sites are W3C standards compliant and it is up to browser to show it fine. So far, good even with IE. So I don't really care about these ''stats'' news. MS already made Windows and lots of third party apps impossible to run without their html rendering framework. They won ages ago. The only real big threat to that is webkit right now. It can do what MSHTML can do, can even fit to Symbian S60 entry level phones and performance king now.
Bad summary, misses important facts and even manipulates some resulted in your +5 insightful AC message.
Ever considered Slashdot being the number 1 troll of all times? ;)
FAT32 is a huge mistake. First of all, there is no journaling. All operating systems, at least reads NTFS fine and with the new fashion NTFS-3G, you can write to them and with ''test disk'' or a Linux recovery boot CD, you can even repair them better than Windows ever can.
Don't use FAT. That is all I can say. Even if you buy a mainframe class IBM storage solution, it won't save you from evil FAT issues.
It probably runs VxWorks from Wind River systems. A RTOS. It must have a lot of processors and as the price is not a concern, it must be high end (and shielded) PowerPC stuff, a lot of them.
Of course, I didn't hack the car :) Just guessing.
Funny is, I know a guy who owns a $380.000 Porsche (yes, taxes) and always keep his Mazda 6 series for normal use. Porsche is his ''fun'' car for weekends.
He also got ultimate enlightenment as a bonus when he went to last day of College with his Porsche as opposed to his Mazda 626. You know, seen true face of people, especially females. ;)
Bugatti looks like a good buy if one interested in cars that much, has a 10-12 million dollar home, have area to setup a private tracks.
Best attitude I saw was in Hong Kong. Cars are used of prestige and fun there, you see Maybach owners in metro on weekdays.
Well, there are lots of other companies who offers a dedicated removal tool for their product especially in AV scene which is very important that you don't run 2 things doing same thing by principle.
Forums, removal tool etc. doesn't matter. I would test the product myself and see what it does and what it doesn't.
I decided to act that way especially after Kaspersky products which are always said to be ''too heavy'' ended up saving a 512MB RAM having Celeron like low end CPU. It turns out, the ''people'' had problem with it, not us.
For people who has a clue about the jungle out there, a free AV may really work except some tools like Microsoft's shameless thing. I wouldn't choose it just for the sole reason of protesting that OS vendor who STILL doesn't warn user about empty pwd, even on Win 7 RC. There are way more advanced tools out there free for home use and they are really fine. For example Avast antivirus.
Issue begins when you deal with people who has no clue about the jungle out there and always happy to enter it, without any kind of clue. The ''click happy'' people. For that, you need remote management, advanced heuristics engine and really low CPU and memory load, reporting etc. I keep installing/buying Kaspersky for that purpose.
If you are ready to give up some convenience and ease of use, a secured Windows and something like clamav-daemon which will just watch mail and browser downloads will be more than enough. In these times when companies will happily distribute trojans and viruses with USB keys and even digital photo frames, 'no antivirus' is not really a solution.
I wished someone other than Symantec, no matter whoever they are told about the distinction between free and paid software regarding security. As it is the Symantec, no matter what they say will be ignored and flamed. Similar thing on OS X AV scene which Symantec, even if they try to code a real mac product these days, generally ignored.
The top output you pasted really looks like it is not CPU but some component of device. Besides the "top" itself which really mysteriously uses too much CPU on every single OS X which shipped, there is nothing actually stuck there.
It means this thing can be recalled or hopefully firmware of some component will be updated software wise.
Funny you mention the 2 years of no activity. That is why I stayed away from it on workstations since we all know codecs always need "little touches" whenever Quicktime gets an update. I am sure media professionals who calls On2/AVID whenever Quicktime gets updates and some stuck in OS X 10.4.9 (not 11) didn`t even dare to touch it.
Nevertheless, it is a completely legitimate way of using Quicktime framework. It is not a "hack" or anything. It is what Apple does to support H264 itself. Saying as people generally doesn`t know the deal with Quicktime framework. It was designed to be extensible.
Why can`t they implement H264? Money? Do you know how much money that organization does? Anyway, they can link to system frameworks (xine, quicktime, wmedia) and play the video. It is why Quicktime and Windows Media are called "Frameworks" and why Quicktime is that "big".
For political reasons? Well, I wish them a happy life with their unpatented Theora since I am not re-encoding or transcoding millions of hours because someone thinks patents, even by motion picture professionals are bad.
Well, we can say even Microsoft admitted H264 and MPEG4 base is there to stay no matter what they do so they declared "fallback". It is not just Microsoft, Real Networks decided on h264/AAC long time ago. The high bandwidth is aac+ and h264 based codec.
Now, something like VP3 comes which was essentially abandoned and given free, doesn`t support dozens of things h264 does, isn`t included in billions of devices in use and says "use us, we are patent free". Well, guess what? TV and Movie companies already paid huge sums of money to professional licensing of mpeg. In fact, you have paid too with each device you own which plays mpeg4.
H264 was essentially chosen because it is not tied to single vendor, documented and there to stay. I agree about VP6, they were really greedy and in fact, still greedy.
Where was H264 support in Silverlight 1 and 2? They were forced to include H264 since they figured nobody (including pirates) doesn`t give shit to their "me too" VC1 codec which companies stay away like a plague whenever they got the chance.
What if Apple is perfectly happy with AAC/H264/MPEG 4 base to put their billions to it?
People sound like Apple being a poor company who got abducted by MPEG body of standards which was essentially based on Quicktime specs. There is no such thing. Apple is happy and responsible for H264`s and MPEG4 base profiles take off.
The only company who isn`t happy with H264 and possibly whining is Microsoft. Each h264 video, legal or pirate is a hit to their lame wmedia division.
Users and webmasters, companies love open and documented standards. Well, some do... It doesn`t mean they are ready to declare a jihad to patent system.
The companies producing video (pros) and sites postprocessing them has no problem with MPEG body of standards. Device vendors, including professionals like Sony Pro does stick with the standards, that is all they need for now. They love H264 since it saves them billions in upstream (both digital and TCP/IP) and some people think they will join some patent guerilla warfare and move to Theora for what? Because it is included in Firefox?
What they want is a vendor neutral, documented and patent troll free standard which will be provided by multiple companies. MPEG4 provides it. It is in billions of devices now.
Also no need to make big scene about Safari/Apple/Webkit OS X. Install Theora quicktime codec pack from Xiph, it shows your Theora video. It should...
I use Apple, like Apple and also like reading computer history.
At one point, Apple had 50% share of personal computer market. They basically owned Education market and Quicktime at one point of history was "Flash" of today.
What happened? Apple made some amazingly stupid mistakes, they created some kind of "phobia" which still exists today. When people suggested Apple to stop doing it, "fans" 10x size of them made them regret it.
I am also a Nokia user and I also had the good luck (!) of helping a Blackberry owner. If Apple didn`t do unbelievable things like "No multi tasking on a UNIX handheld", "no MMS" . "no J2ME", iPhone had way more, unimaginable share on smart phone market. In fact, it could even cause other vendors do unimaginable things like moving to Linux+Qt as last chance of market share or laying off entire divisions.
I just can`t stand to 3-4 mistakes which are huge and they are missing the second chance to dominate.