No, it isn't. Not about either of those. It's about hard work. AV means having honeynets to catch the malware, then take it apart, create a signature, plug that into your file and send out an update.
There may be tens of thousands of viruses, but there aren't that many different types or new techniques. The fact that they are making such a song and dance about this particular novelty is proof of that. This isn't the work of some genius hacker. It's the work of somebody who thought, "Hmm. I need my virus to download updates but I don't want to put the list of URLs in the code because then I'll get busted easily" and then took the most logical and obvious step - using an algorithm to generate them.
If you think that people in the security industry, especially the AV industry slave around the clock over a hot keyboard with only your happiness and security in mind, you need your head examined. Especially if you actually work in the industry.
All as quickly as possible, pretty much around the clock.
And usually far, far too late. But never mind, it's another one to add to the list of 90,000 viruses that your product detects. Buy our product and feel secure! Your PC hasn't slowed down - you are imagining things! Don't hit that uninstall button or we'll rape your PC so hard it won't be able to sit down for a week. And don't you dare ignore any of the popup messages our product shits out of your system tray even if they interrupt your work and drive you insane. How else will you know how fucking great our product is?
Can someone please mod the parent as a troll post?
Why? Which part is untrue?
Are you saying that the people in the Apple forum aren't divorced from the technical aspects of their computers and did know what was going on? Then why didn't they figure out what was going on straight away? Please explain.
Or did you just not like the characterisation of those Apple users? If you read the Slashdot comments to this story and then read the Apple forum, there is a definite difference in understanding and opinion. Again, which part is untrue?
Actually, rather than replying just mod this troll as well. Whenever I get troll mods from Apple users it always gives me wood.
After very careful consideration, I have found that it is quite possible and highly likely that Intel is in reality run by Illuminati terrorists and are partly guilty of the terrorist attacks who took place 11. September 2001!
I'm glad you mentioned that you had considered it carefully. Otherwise people might just assume that you were pulling it out of your ass.
I mean this is a joke isn't it? I'm not about to waste time visiting your site to find out when it wasn't that funny anyway.
If it isn't, can you do me a favour and ensure that you never reproduce? Thanks in advance.
I find myself in the unusual and possibly unique situation of agreeing with other people on Slashdot.
It would have been better not to release this information. Now the author knows the game is up. Unless they have already traced him from some of the previous URLs, which I doubt.
So why release it then? The AV company just couldn't resist jumping up and down and showing everybody how clever they are. AV is more about marketing than technology anyway.
The thing is, I bet this algorithm wasn't even that hard to reverse engineer. I mean, I'm not saying that I could have done it and I'm sure most of you couldn't either. But to someone skilled in the black arts of disassembly and debuggery (if that isn't a word it should be), it would probably have been fairly trivial. At the end of the day, Virus authors usually aren't that bright. You can obfuscate and encrypt your code as much as you want but at some point it still has to executed. Most of the techniques are well known and I doubt this idiot invented any new ones.
For those looking to actually burn an UltraSparc onto their favorite FPGA board are going to be out of luck.
Yeah, but those people are going to be out of luck anyway. There's no way they're going to be able to cram the UltraSparc design onto an FPGA.
I doubt that Sun were even suggesting that. My guess is that the Slashdot editors added that. The problem is that they're always wide-eyed with the possibilities of technology, but don't actually know enough to consider the real-world issues.
They put me in mind of someone that's just starting to learn a bit about processor technology. They read that the 486 only used a few hundred thousand transistors while the P4 uses a few hundred million. And the first thought they have is, "Wow! You could like make a CPU with a thousand 486s on it and have a supercomputer on a chip! Why isn't Intel doing this??? I must post my idea to a newsgroup immediately!". And of course the answer is that in practice the idea sucks. There are minor practical problems like pin count, memory bandwidth, heat dissipation and writing massively parallel code. But they haven't reached those chapters in the textbook yet.
This review in particular was I thought not very good from an Ars Technica standpoint, whom I hold to a higher standard as they are supposed to provide very detailed technical interviews. I'll state my issues as we go along.
Please, please don't bother. Because there is really only one issue that you have with the review and that is that it contains criticism of an Apple product. You and the other 300 people commenting on this story therefore feel duty bound to write pages and pages of screed rebutting every tiny detail no matter how insignificant.
The fact is that in general he thought it was a product in need of further development and had some valid criticisms. No matter how much you write or how many nits you pick, you will not change his mind.
PS. I understand that Apple are actually a business and therefore have a PR department which does the same thing. The difference is that they get paid to do it and you don't.
open office. open solaris. open java enterprise systems. glassfish. derby. etc. the problem is people like you my friend, who decided they did not like sun 5 years and really haven't paid attention since.
Seems to me he made a perfectly valid comment about Sun's past schizophrenic attitude to open source which was obviously based on personal experience. I didn't see anything along the lines of "Sun sukzors LOL !!!11one!!".
Your comment on the other hand seems to be a simple list of Sun products designed to give readers the impression that you have experience of using them in an enterprise environment. I think this is rather unlikely given your obvious social, communication and language difficulties. Maybe if you work really hard for a few years and finish school it might come true one day. I suggest you concentrate on your English lessons.
No it doesn't unless you try and run a server from behind a firewall.
And who the hell would want to run a server from behind a firewall? What a ridiculous idea.
Just use passive mode and it will just work just as well as http.
I see you've never configured a firewall then.
Claiming that http servers need to support over 2gb is like claiming that DNS servers need to. And show me a real reason to go for 64-bit on the desktop.
He gave some perfectly valid reasons for wanting LFS - WebDAV for one. You ignored them, probably because you didn't understand them. And then you called him an idiot. At least your sense of irony is well developed.
I'm getting this now, too. I _thought_ RC3 was stable, but I can't keep 1.5 up for more than 1/2 hour or so before it pins the CPU (winXP).
Is this an attempt at a troll or are you just a yes man that likes agreeing with people? Maybe you're not aware that there is no difference between RC3 and 1.5 final. If you check the install files you will see that they even have the same MD5sum. So you didn't "upgrade" from RC3 to 1.5 at all and in light of that your comments on the relative stability of the two versions seem somewhat suspect.
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Qt was released under the GPL a long while ago. You can license it for non-GPL applications, but then you have to pay TrollTech money. The "Qt is not free" myth is covered in the KDE Myths section: here
Look, you know that, I know that and everyone else knows that. Even the parent troll knows that. The problem is that if you're a GNOME advocate like the parent, what else are you going to say to put down KDE?
You can't complain about the performance with a straight face after you've used GNOME for any length of time.
You can't complain about the applications unless you try and claim OpenOffice, Firefox and the GIMP as GNOME apps (and I have seen this done on many occasions).
Complain about the design? No, try building GNOME from source.
So all that they can do is whine about the non-existant license problem and that KDE is too configurable and has too many applications.
I have actually seen GNOME advocates claim that GTK is better because it is easier to use in non-OSS commercial applications while simultaneously complaining about the QT license not being free enough. Anybody that can hold those two contradictory views in their head at the same time is hardly worth arguing with really.
Digg had a good article on that (comparing Windows vs Linux with Bike vs Car).
No, I think you'll find that Digg had a one line link to a probably ancient article that someone else wrote about Windows vs Linux followed by about 50 one line comments from the chronically retarded.
Of course I am extrapolating this from my last visit to Digg. I'd love to go back and see if I'm right, but I can actually feel my IQ dropping 10 points every time the front page loads.
Now can I please have some help with my problem? : )
No. Try posting on one of the Microsoft support groups instead - they are just as relevant.
Better still - stop trying to use Linux. Yes, that's right - just give up. It's too hard for you.
You know all those articles you read about how Linux was aiming for world domination and all the efforts going in to making the Linux desktop easy for everybody to use? Well, they're crap. The journalists made them all up.
In reality, not a single one of us cares whether you ever manage to install Linux at all. Do you think we all have a party to celebrate every time a new idiot manages to click their way through the Ubuntu/Fedora installer?
Let's face it, if you do ever get your keyboard working it will just allow you to post more stupid questions in more inappropriate forums more quickly.
Digg = 1 line stories followed by 50 x 1 line comments. A lot like yours in fact.
That's why you like Digg isn't it? You feel that you are among intellectual equals. And from what I've seen you're almost certainly correct.
One question - if Digg is so good, why are you on Slashdot?
I look forward to your reply of "you suck" or "your mom smells" with baited breath.
PS. Now that you've aroused my interest I think I'm going to go and start trolling on Digg. Does Digg have the same protections against trolls that Slashdot has? No? Oh, so sad.
Yes, I did re-complile the RPMs myself for my particular distro of choice and one day I might even get them accepted!
No, you won't. There's a perfectly valid reason why your distro of choice doesn't compile in all of the codecs - they would like to avoid being sued out of existence.
You see, pretty much every media format except for OGG/Theora is patented up the wazoo. So anyone that distributes binaries may as well just paint "sue me suckers" on their chest.
Now the guy that has built the Windows binaries and put them up for download obviously doesn't care about the threat of legal action. You could say that he has big balls. Positively massive in fact.
So here's a solution - you can put your homemade RPM up for download. Of course you will make yourself the target for a team of highly trained attack lawyers. But since you are a) happy to suggest that others take the risk on your behalf and b) so concerned that 60% of your posts are about this very issue, I don't see why it should be a problem for you. It can be your contribution to Open Source.
No need to thank me - just send me a postcard when you get to Guantanamo.
But even the best game consoles make for pretty poor PCs if you just look at the specs, so it seems to me that this is more of a proof-of-concept and the sheer devilish joy of seeing Tux on an Xbox.
3 x 3.2Ghz Power PC CPUs, 512MB memory, high-end GPU, 20GB HDD & wireless.
I see what you mean. It's hardly worth bothering with really is it?
I was going to spend some time putting together a detailed repudiation of the points you make, but figured it would be wasted what with you being an arrogant, unimaginitive little fucktard.
These are the stories I hate. Pointless, heartless drivel passed by the editors who well, don't really edit, and appear to be out of touch with their readers, not to mention their market segment. An absolute, total and utter waste of screen inches - the kind of crap I'd expect to spout forth from a zit-faced store assistant who didn't know a molex connector from his arse. An embarrassment to read on Slashdot really. Shame on you.
Couldn't agree more. The thing about this story that pisses me off is the "300MB/sec transfer rate !!1!!!one!!". We're fucking geeks. We know the difference between a theoretical SATA performance figure and the rather less impressive 60MB/sec or so that you're actually going to get with this drive. In other words about the same as you're going to get with any similar model.
The 300MB/sec figure is pure marketing drivel. That's what turns this from a story into another sodding Slashvertisement.
I wanted to install Linux a few months ago. I went to the Slackware website because I remembered it as being fast and un-bloated.
Unfortunately, to install it you have to download FOUR CDs.
Sorry that you're retarded. But please try not to spread it around so much in future. Oh hang on, I guess you're not going to be able to read this reply, since reading a web page seems to cause you so many problems.
... no, wait, I didn't. It's only/. that has paid advertisements disguised as news. BTW, is there a discount on Slashvertisements posted this close to a holiday, when many people will be away from their computers?
Yeah, Slashdot sucks. But Digg? I don't think I've ever seen so many retards in one place. The comments are mostly AOL level "Me too!" crap. Great stories though - apparently you can use public key authentication for OpenSSH instead of typing passwords. Who would have thought it? Apart from anyone that's ever read the man page.
I haven't benchmarked them myself, but they are noticeably faster than any others we have tried, plus they come with very nice sync and encryption software.
Is that very nice as in "nice GUI" or very nice as in "thoroughly audited by 3rd Parties and provably secure"? You don't want to laugh in the face of the FBI agents only to find out that all your data is encrypted with ROT13. Trust me - it's quite embarassing. How I laughed as they shipped me off to Guantanamo Bay in shackles.
(as long, of course, as you kept/var and/tmp in a ramdrive to prevent overusing your flash media (save both volumes to a.tgz and store them to flash at shutdown, and restore to ramdrive at bootup)
Or alternatively you could just discard the contents of/tmp at the end of each session on account of the files being, you know, temporary. I find it's a good idea to clear/tmp at each boot anyway - for the reason why, see contents of/WINNT/Temp/ on any Windows box.
I watch TV on my 9600 Radeon AIW every day. I haven't rebooted my machine in almost two months (it doesn't crash). I've never had it delete a show I recorded. Maybe you need to try a different version of the drivers.
No, it's you that needs to try different drivers. By the sounds of it you are currently missing out on the full ATI experience. What's the point of even having an AIW if it doesn't make your PC unstable, delete all your movies and set fire to your dog? You may as well have just bought a cheap Hauppauge card.
When some cheapskate downloads copyrighted MP3s from a P2P network, it's `copyright infringement', but when Sony uses GPL'd code it's `stealing', right?
It' actually quite simple. Those of us who weren't exposed to too much lead when we were children are able to work it out with only minimal thought. Here's how it goes :
Downloading a commercial mp3 = unauthorised copying = copyright infringement.
Downloading a commercial mp3, claiming that you recorded it and then selling it to others = theft.
I realise that I haven't directly mentioned software, GPLed or otherwise and that you will therefore have to put some thought into how the above rules might apply. That should keep you occupied for a couple of years during which you won't be able to earn cheap karma by parroting tired old comments that we've already seen a million times before. If we're lucky, you may even develop some original thoughts that you can share with us.
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No, it isn't. Not about either of those. It's about hard work. AV means having honeynets to catch the malware, then take it apart, create a signature, plug that into your file and send out an update.
There may be tens of thousands of viruses, but there aren't that many different types or new techniques. The fact that they are making such a song and dance about this particular novelty is proof of that. This isn't the work of some genius hacker. It's the work of somebody who thought, "Hmm. I need my virus to download updates but I don't want to put the list of URLs in the code because then I'll get busted easily" and then took the most logical and obvious step - using an algorithm to generate them.
If you think that people in the security industry, especially the AV industry slave around the clock over a hot keyboard with only your happiness and security in mind, you need your head examined. Especially if you actually work in the industry.
All as quickly as possible, pretty much around the clock.
And usually far, far too late. But never mind, it's another one to add to the list of 90,000 viruses that your product detects. Buy our product and feel secure! Your PC hasn't slowed down - you are imagining things! Don't hit that uninstall button or we'll rape your PC so hard it won't be able to sit down for a week. And don't you dare ignore any of the popup messages our product shits out of your system tray even if they interrupt your work and drive you insane. How else will you know how fucking great our product is?
Can someone please mod the parent as a troll post?
Why? Which part is untrue?
Are you saying that the people in the Apple forum aren't divorced from the technical aspects of their computers and did know what was going on? Then why didn't they figure out what was going on straight away? Please explain.
Or did you just not like the characterisation of those Apple users? If you read the Slashdot comments to this story and then read the Apple forum, there is a definite difference in understanding and opinion. Again, which part is untrue?
Actually, rather than replying just mod this troll as well. Whenever I get troll mods from Apple users it always gives me wood.
After very careful consideration, I have found that it is quite possible and highly likely that Intel is in reality run by Illuminati terrorists and are partly guilty of the terrorist attacks who took place 11. September 2001!
I'm glad you mentioned that you had considered it carefully. Otherwise people might just assume that you were pulling it out of your ass.
I mean this is a joke isn't it? I'm not about to waste time visiting your site to find out when it wasn't that funny anyway.
If it isn't, can you do me a favour and ensure that you never reproduce? Thanks in advance.
I find myself in the unusual and possibly unique situation of agreeing with other people on Slashdot.
It would have been better not to release this information. Now the author knows the game is up. Unless they have already traced him from some of the previous URLs, which I doubt.
So why release it then? The AV company just couldn't resist jumping up and down and showing everybody how clever they are. AV is more about marketing than technology anyway.
The thing is, I bet this algorithm wasn't even that hard to reverse engineer. I mean, I'm not saying that I could have done it and I'm sure most of you couldn't either. But to someone skilled in the black arts of disassembly and debuggery (if that isn't a word it should be), it would probably have been fairly trivial. At the end of the day, Virus authors usually aren't that bright. You can obfuscate and encrypt your code as much as you want but at some point it still has to executed. Most of the techniques are well known and I doubt this idiot invented any new ones.
For those looking to actually burn an UltraSparc onto their favorite FPGA board are going to be out of luck.
Yeah, but those people are going to be out of luck anyway. There's no way they're going to be able to cram the UltraSparc design onto an FPGA.
I doubt that Sun were even suggesting that. My guess is that the Slashdot editors added that. The problem is that they're always wide-eyed with the possibilities of technology, but don't actually know enough to consider the real-world issues.
They put me in mind of someone that's just starting to learn a bit about processor technology. They read that the 486 only used a few hundred thousand transistors while the P4 uses a few hundred million. And the first thought they have is, "Wow! You could like make a CPU with a thousand 486s on it and have a supercomputer on a chip! Why isn't Intel doing this??? I must post my idea to a newsgroup immediately!". And of course the answer is that in practice the idea sucks. There are minor practical problems like pin count, memory bandwidth, heat dissipation and writing massively parallel code. But they haven't reached those chapters in the textbook yet.
This review in particular was I thought not very good from an Ars Technica standpoint, whom I hold to a higher standard as they are supposed to provide very detailed technical interviews. I'll state my issues as we go along.
Please, please don't bother. Because there is really only one issue that you have with the review and that is that it contains criticism of an Apple product. You and the other 300 people commenting on this story therefore feel duty bound to write pages and pages of screed rebutting every tiny detail no matter how insignificant.
The fact is that in general he thought it was a product in need of further development and had some valid criticisms. No matter how much you write or how many nits you pick, you will not change his mind.
PS. I understand that Apple are actually a business and therefore have a PR department which does the same thing. The difference is that they get paid to do it and you don't.
open office. open solaris. open java enterprise systems. glassfish. derby. etc. the problem is people like you my friend, who decided they did not like sun 5 years and really haven't paid attention since.
Seems to me he made a perfectly valid comment about Sun's past schizophrenic attitude to open source which was obviously based on personal experience. I didn't see anything along the lines of "Sun sukzors LOL !!!11one!!".
Your comment on the other hand seems to be a simple list of Sun products designed to give readers the impression that you have experience of using them in an enterprise environment. I think this is rather unlikely given your obvious social, communication and language difficulties. Maybe if you work really hard for a few years and finish school it might come true one day. I suggest you concentrate on your English lessons.
No it doesn't unless you try and run a server from behind a firewall.
And who the hell would want to run a server from behind a firewall? What a ridiculous idea.
Just use passive mode and it will just work just as well as http.
I see you've never configured a firewall then.
Claiming that http servers need to support over 2gb is like claiming that DNS servers need to. And show me a real reason to go for 64-bit on the desktop.
He gave some perfectly valid reasons for wanting LFS - WebDAV for one. You ignored them, probably because you didn't understand them. And then you called him an idiot. At least your sense of irony is well developed.
I'm getting this now, too. I _thought_ RC3 was stable, but I can't keep 1.5 up for more than 1/2 hour or so before it pins the CPU (winXP).
Is this an attempt at a troll or are you just a yes man that likes agreeing with people? Maybe you're not aware that there is no difference between RC3 and 1.5 final. If you check the install files you will see that they even have the same MD5sum. So you didn't "upgrade" from RC3 to 1.5 at all and in light of that your comments on the relative stability of the two versions seem somewhat suspect.
Qt was released under the GPL a long while ago. You can license it for non-GPL applications, but then you have to pay TrollTech money. The "Qt is not free" myth is covered in the KDE Myths section: here
Look, you know that, I know that and everyone else knows that. Even the parent troll knows that. The problem is that if you're a GNOME advocate like the parent, what else are you going to say to put down KDE?
You can't complain about the performance with a straight face after you've used GNOME for any length of time.
You can't complain about the applications unless you try and claim OpenOffice, Firefox and the GIMP as GNOME apps (and I have seen this done on many occasions).
Complain about the design? No, try building GNOME from source.
So all that they can do is whine about the non-existant license problem and that KDE is too configurable and has too many applications.
I have actually seen GNOME advocates claim that GTK is better because it is easier to use in non-OSS commercial applications while simultaneously complaining about the QT license not being free enough. Anybody that can hold those two contradictory views in their head at the same time is hardly worth arguing with really.
Digg had a good article on that (comparing Windows vs Linux with Bike vs Car).
No, I think you'll find that Digg had a one line link to a probably ancient article that someone else wrote about Windows vs Linux followed by about 50 one line comments from the chronically retarded.
Of course I am extrapolating this from my last visit to Digg. I'd love to go back and see if I'm right, but I can actually feel my IQ dropping 10 points every time the front page loads.
Now can I please have some help with my problem? : )
No. Try posting on one of the Microsoft support groups instead - they are just as relevant.
Better still - stop trying to use Linux. Yes, that's right - just give up. It's too hard for you.
You know all those articles you read about how Linux was aiming for world domination and all the efforts going in to making the Linux desktop easy for everybody to use? Well, they're crap. The journalists made them all up.
In reality, not a single one of us cares whether you ever manage to install Linux at all. Do you think we all have a party to celebrate every time a new idiot manages to click their way through the Ubuntu/Fedora installer?
Let's face it, if you do ever get your keyboard working it will just allow you to post more stupid questions in more inappropriate forums more quickly.
Jealousy hurts, doesn't it?
Digg = 1 line stories followed by 50 x 1 line comments. A lot like yours in fact.
That's why you like Digg isn't it? You feel that you are among intellectual equals. And from what I've seen you're almost certainly correct.
One question - if Digg is so good, why are you on Slashdot?
I look forward to your reply of "you suck" or "your mom smells" with baited breath.
PS. Now that you've aroused my interest I think I'm going to go and start trolling on Digg. Does Digg have the same protections against trolls that Slashdot has? No? Oh, so sad.
Yes, I did re-complile the RPMs myself for my particular distro of choice and one day I might even get them accepted!
No, you won't. There's a perfectly valid reason why your distro of choice doesn't compile in all of the codecs - they would like to avoid being sued out of existence.
You see, pretty much every media format except for OGG/Theora is patented up the wazoo. So anyone that distributes binaries may as well just paint "sue me suckers" on their chest.
Now the guy that has built the Windows binaries and put them up for download obviously doesn't care about the threat of legal action. You could say that he has big balls. Positively massive in fact.
So here's a solution - you can put your homemade RPM up for download. Of course you will make yourself the target for a team of highly trained attack lawyers. But since you are a) happy to suggest that others take the risk on your behalf and b) so concerned that 60% of your posts are about this very issue, I don't see why it should be a problem for you. It can be your contribution to Open Source.
No need to thank me - just send me a postcard when you get to Guantanamo.
But even the best game consoles make for pretty poor PCs if you just look at the specs, so it seems to me that this is more of a proof-of-concept and the sheer devilish joy of seeing Tux on an Xbox.
3 x 3.2Ghz Power PC CPUs, 512MB memory, high-end GPU, 20GB HDD & wireless.
I see what you mean. It's hardly worth bothering with really is it?
Whata waste of time, effort and brains.
I was going to spend some time putting together a detailed repudiation of the points you make, but figured it would be wasted what with you being an arrogant, unimaginitive little fucktard.
Yet, I can't remember the last report of root level servers being abused.
How about last year (or thereabouts) when nine of them were taken down by a DDOS attack?
These are the stories I hate. Pointless, heartless drivel passed by the editors who well, don't really edit, and appear to be out of touch with their readers, not to mention their market segment. An absolute, total and utter waste of screen inches - the kind of crap I'd expect to spout forth from a zit-faced store assistant who didn't know a molex connector from his arse. An embarrassment to read on Slashdot really. Shame on you.
Couldn't agree more. The thing about this story that pisses me off is the "300MB/sec transfer rate !!1!!!one!!". We're fucking geeks. We know the difference between a theoretical SATA performance figure and the rather less impressive 60MB/sec or so that you're actually going to get with this drive. In other words about the same as you're going to get with any similar model.
The 300MB/sec figure is pure marketing drivel. That's what turns this from a story into another sodding Slashvertisement.
I wanted to install Linux a few months ago. I went to the Slackware website because I remembered it as being fast and un-bloated.
Unfortunately, to install it you have to download FOUR CDs.
Sorry that you're retarded. But please try not to spread it around so much in future. Oh hang on, I guess you're not going to be able to read this reply, since reading a web page seems to cause you so many problems.
... no, wait, I didn't. It's only /. that has paid advertisements disguised as news. BTW, is there a discount on Slashvertisements posted this close to a holiday, when many people will be away from their computers?
Yeah, Slashdot sucks. But Digg? I don't think I've ever seen so many retards in one place. The comments are mostly AOL level "Me too!" crap. Great stories though - apparently you can use public key authentication for OpenSSH instead of typing passwords. Who would have thought it? Apart from anyone that's ever read the man page.
No digg, motherfucker.
I haven't benchmarked them myself, but they are noticeably faster than any others we have tried, plus they come with very nice sync and encryption software.
Is that very nice as in "nice GUI" or very nice as in "thoroughly audited by 3rd Parties and provably secure"? You don't want to laugh in the face of the FBI agents only to find out that all your data is encrypted with ROT13. Trust me - it's quite embarassing. How I laughed as they shipped me off to Guantanamo Bay in shackles.
(as long, of course, as you kept /var and /tmp in a ramdrive to prevent overusing your flash media (save both volumes to a .tgz and store them to flash at shutdown, and restore to ramdrive at bootup)
/tmp at the end of each session on account of the files being, you know, temporary. I find it's a good idea to clear /tmp at each boot anyway - for the reason why, see contents of /WINNT/Temp/ on any Windows box.
Or alternatively you could just discard the contents of
I watch TV on my 9600 Radeon AIW every day. I haven't rebooted my machine in almost two months (it doesn't crash). I've never had it delete a show I recorded. Maybe you need to try a different version of the drivers.
No, it's you that needs to try different drivers. By the sounds of it you are currently missing out on the full ATI experience. What's the point of even having an AIW if it doesn't make your PC unstable, delete all your movies and set fire to your dog? You may as well have just bought a cheap Hauppauge card.
When some cheapskate downloads copyrighted MP3s from a P2P network, it's `copyright infringement', but when Sony uses GPL'd code it's `stealing', right?
It' actually quite simple. Those of us who weren't exposed to too much lead when we were children are able to work it out with only minimal thought. Here's how it goes :
Downloading a commercial mp3 = unauthorised copying = copyright infringement.
Downloading a commercial mp3, claiming that you recorded it and then selling it to others = theft.
I realise that I haven't directly mentioned software, GPLed or otherwise and that you will therefore have to put some thought into how the above rules might apply. That should keep you occupied for a couple of years during which you won't be able to earn cheap karma by parroting tired old comments that we've already seen a million times before. If we're lucky, you may even develop some original thoughts that you can share with us.
Not that it lessens their tresspass, but Sony is apparently pulling the "infected" CDs:y /2005-11-14-sony-cds_x.htm [usatoday.com]
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurit
Are they also pulling all of the infected PCs in for free repairs?
No? Then let's not help these wankers by helping to spread their desperate PR pieces.