Most motherboards (both desktop and laptop) have multiple modes for the disk controller.
"Legacy" mode emulates something similar enough to IDE for old operating systems (think winxp) to boot without additional drivers. "AHCI" mode uses the AHCI standard to communicate with the OS. Older operating systems had trouble with this but all recent ones support it out ot the box. "RAID" mode enables the use of the fakeraid support in the bios and requires a specific driver.
Note that being in "RAID" mode doesn't nessacerally mean you actually have a raid array.
My understanding of the issue here is that the controller is stuck in "RAID" mode and linux doesn't have a driver for that particular controller in "RAID" mode.
"freedom of movement" != "absense of border controls".
The UK has never been part of the Schengen area but thanks to EU freedom of movement rules an EU citizen can show their passport or ID card at UK border control and except in highly exceptional circumstances* they must be let through. They can stay as long as they like and they can take a job in the UK without any additional formalities beyond what a UK citizen would need.
Contrast this to say an american. If they want to visit the UK they must convince the border officer they are a genuine visitor who intends to leave on time (6 months is the normal limit for a standard visitor) and doesn't intend to work illegally. If they want to work in the UK their prospective employer must go through the long process of getting them a visa. If they want to retire in the UK they must demonstrate an income of at least £25K per year without working and a "close connection" with the UK.
The real kicker with andriod is the google apps. Maps, Play store, Gmail, Hangouts, Chrome etc. If a phone/table vendor wants those then they have to submit to google's UI rules.
Some vendors have tried to replace the google apps with others (for example the "fire" series from Amazon) but afaict said vendors have seen pretty limited success.
There are tricks for setting up a connection between two users behind NAT with the help of a server on the Internet. However these tricks cannot be relied upon to work in all cases. So if you want reliable communication you have to allow data traffic to pass via the server on the Internet.
Or figure out how requests to this guys proxy look different from legitimate speedtest requests and update their deep packet inspection so it can tell the difference.
mmm, afaict there is only one somewhat decent public video of the event and it goes from normal on one frame to a substantial explosion on the next and the insiders aren't talking.
Scott Manly took a look at the video frame by frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It's clear that whatever happened started in the second stage, potentially in the vicinity of the fueling connection.
Also interesting is that the payload seemed to remain attatched to the tower and largely intact for some time after the explosion. This suggests that had it been a dragon 2 with a launch abort system on the top of the stack the incident may have been survivable.
I mean, you hear PM May say in the same week that there will be strong immigration controls, but also no border checks between Ireland and Northern Ireland. WTF? The only way I can put those two together is by handing Northern Ireland over to independence within the EU or as a part of Ireland...
Border checks within a country are not unheard of. For example Spain has border checks between the mainland and the north-african exclaves.
They could also have a system where EU citizens could visit freely but were not allowed to claim any benefits and needed permits to work.
Remember when Brexit was going to cause worldwide economic collapse, terrorism all across the EU and collapse of society and cannibalism on the streets of the UK?
No
All that happened in the end was a bunch of sniveling and crying from foreigners.
We are far from the "end". It is yet to be determined whether we will completely leave the EU or whether we will nominally leave it but remain a "special realationship" where we are subject to some aspects of EU law and get some of the benefits of EU membership.
Once we actually know what is going to happen then the buisnesses will be able to decide whether it is viable to continue serving Europe from the UK or whether to move their European HQs across the channel.
How much buisness are the US airlines losing because flying is only worth it for 300+ mile journeys? how much are they losing because people chose routes that avoid the US?
AIUI the USA charges corporations on their global profits but
1. It gives them credits for foreign tax paid on foreign profit. 2. Profits made by foreign subsidaries are only taxed when they are "realised" by the parent company.
Apple has been avoiding taxes in Europe. This has left them with a lot of profits in their European subsidaries which they can't bring back to the US without a large tax bill. If they end up having to pay taxes in Europe, they would be able to claim credit for those taxes when bringing the money home.
The x86 surface models (all pro models and the surface 3) are set up like normal PCs. You can either turn off secure boot in the firmware setup or use a linux distro with a MS-signed loader.
The ARM surface models (surface RT and surface 2) are locked down to the hilt. A hole was recently found allowing this lockdown to be bypassed but i'm not sure if anyone has got linux running yet.
Most online video services will automatically change resoloution and/or compression level based on detected throughput. So simply throttling traffic to/from known video distribution servers should be sufficient.
The goal is almost certainly not to catch every single video. It's to drive down the average usage per user.
Traditionally transistors are made by doping the surface of a silion wafer. The interconnect is then built on top by laying down alternate layers of oxide and either metal or polysilicon. So while you get multiple layers of interconnect you only get one layer of transistors.
"3D" ICs aim to have not just multiple layers of interconnect but also multiple layers of transistors.
Currently IANA has already allocated a number of/16 blocks to the RIRs
Actually they allocated them/12s . There are also some smaller older allocations. So currently less than 6/12s of global unicast space have been allocated.
Currently IANA has already allocated a number of/16 blocks to the RIRs, and it's up to them to allocate it as they wish. While ARIN has been assigning blocks like birdseed (the way Jon Postel did in the early days of IPv4) downstream in/48s, RIPE and APNIC have been more conservative, and assigning them in/56 blocks.
The standard allocation for an ISP is generally a/32, they then suballocate to customers in smaller chunks (/56 is currently considered best practice as a default allocation for small customers).
The way address exhaustion is likely to occur is not distribution (for obvious reasons) but rather, lending structure to those addresses. While route optimization seems to have been abandoned for now
Mainly because the Internet is NOT a network with a strict and static heirachy, it's a network of private companies involved in constantly shifting relationships.
Like let's say Acme, Inc has 2001:db8:beef:1a00::/56.
If Acme is as big as your next sentances imply they should have no trouble getting at least a/48.
Messy internal routing due to poor initial layout may be a slight issue but I would expect it to be much less of a problem with IPv6 than with IPv4.
The other option would be to subnet even further to/80 or/96, at which point, one is breaking some IPv6 protocols like SLAAC, ND
AIUI the actual neighbour solicitation/advertisement parts of ND are independent of subnet size.
SLAAC is indeed broken by nonstandard subnet sizes but DHCPv6 can be used instead.
insanity like the Cogent-v-Hurricane split of the IPv6 internet (holy crud... it's SEVEN years now since Hurricane baked Cogent that cake begging them to peer with the world's largest IPv6 network... and it's still broken),
It's irritating that those companies care more about interconnection politics than about serving their customers but I don't think it's that important in the grand scheme of things. Decent hosting providers are usually multihomed and thus reachable from both HE and Cogent.
My memory says that the keys used to sign the shims are only valid for x86 systems, not windows RT systems. I can't seem to find a good source for that now though I did find a mention in passing in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . Furthermore everything I can find relating to linux on the surface RT relates to a recently found bug.
and FWIW the problem getting Linux onto surface isnt the drivers, its getting around the fucking DRM. Everything is signed, the UEFI is locked down, and TPM does its due diligence in ensuring you never get to run anything but windows.
AIUI the arm based surface tablets (surface RT and surface 2) are locked down to the hilt with forced secure boot that will only boot windows
OTOH the x86 based ones (surface pro, surface pro 2, surface 3, surface pro 3) can have secure boot disabled.
I would think a reasonable compromise would be to restrict the preponderance of evidence standard to demonstrated direct damages and injuctions required to prevent further damages.
Statutory and punitive damages are essentially fines and should be held to the same standard of evidence.
That depends on where you live and how much you are prepared to pay.
Afaict in most urban areas BT openreach "broadband" services top out at "up to 80Mbps" FTCC. In a few trial areas they have "up to 120Mbps" FTTC or "up to 330Mbps" FTTP.
There was supposed to be a product called FTTPoD which would allow people in FTTC areas to get FTTP if they paid a steep (usually thousands of pounds iirc) installation charge but new installations under that program have been suspended.
Virgin media are offering a 200Mbps cable package for home broadband customers and a 300Mbps cable package for buisness broadband customers.
If you move beyond the "broadband" products to the dedicated fiber products then it becomes a matter of how much you are prepared to pay.
Plenty of people in cities get by on public transport, and it's generally quicker in a lot of major cities.
That depends very much on when and where you are travelling. The practicality of public transport also depends on what you want to take with you.
If you live in the city center of a major city then public transport is good so you rarely need a car. Plus keeping a car in the city center is expensive. For these people Public transport takes the bulk and Taxis and/or car share services cover the minority of journeys where public transport is unsuitable. Obviously poorer people will have more of a bias towards public transport while richer people will be more likely to use the Taxi and car share services where conviniant.
Out in the suburbs public transport coverage is worse, car share services (at least where I live) are practically non-existant and the distances involved make taxi's an expensive option. For many people this shifts the balance towards owning a car. Especially for people who have already paid the upfront costs of starting to drive.
If/when self driving cars are able (both legally and technically) to operate unsupervised I would expect this balance to shift. The driver represents a large propotion of the operating costs of a taxi.
Clarkson got fired after hitting a producer effectively ending the series in progress. There was a farewell episode some time after the incident which IIRC used already-recorded location footage, studio footage with just Hammond and May.and a voiceover recorded by clarkson. Hammond and May also left the show out of solidarity with Clarkson. The trio went to Amazon where they have been working on a new car show (which has not been released yet so it's yet to be seen how succesful it will be).
Meanwhile the BBC who still own the "TOP Gear" trademarks, distribution contracts etc started casting up a new iteration of the show. The first series of this aired recently to dissapointing ratings.
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The raspberry pi 2 and 3 will run a crippled version of windows 10.
If you want uncrippled windows you need x86.
Most motherboards (both desktop and laptop) have multiple modes for the disk controller.
"Legacy" mode emulates something similar enough to IDE for old operating systems (think winxp) to boot without additional drivers.
"AHCI" mode uses the AHCI standard to communicate with the OS. Older operating systems had trouble with this but all recent ones support it out ot the box.
"RAID" mode enables the use of the fakeraid support in the bios and requires a specific driver.
Note that being in "RAID" mode doesn't nessacerally mean you actually have a raid array.
My understanding of the issue here is that the controller is stuck in "RAID" mode and linux doesn't have a driver for that particular controller in "RAID" mode.
"freedom of movement" != "absense of border controls".
The UK has never been part of the Schengen area but thanks to EU freedom of movement rules an EU citizen can show their passport or ID card at UK border control and except in highly exceptional circumstances* they must be let through. They can stay as long as they like and they can take a job in the UK without any additional formalities beyond what a UK citizen would need.
Contrast this to say an american. If they want to visit the UK they must convince the border officer they are a genuine visitor who intends to leave on time (6 months is the normal limit for a standard visitor) and doesn't intend to work illegally. If they want to work in the UK their prospective employer must go through the long process of getting them a visa. If they want to retire in the UK they must demonstrate an income of at least £25K per year without working and a "close connection" with the UK.
* Very serious crimes mainly.
The real kicker with andriod is the google apps. Maps, Play store, Gmail, Hangouts, Chrome etc. If a phone/table vendor wants those then they have to submit to google's UI rules.
Some vendors have tried to replace the google apps with others (for example the "fire" series from Amazon) but afaict said vendors have seen pretty limited success.
There are tricks for setting up a connection between two users behind NAT with the help of a server on the Internet. However these tricks cannot be relied upon to work in all cases. So if you want reliable communication you have to allow data traffic to pass via the server on the Internet.
BTW there has been a further split, the "electronic test and measurement" stuff is now Keysight.
Or figure out how requests to this guys proxy look different from legitimate speedtest requests and update their deep packet inspection so it can tell the difference.
mmm, afaict there is only one somewhat decent public video of the event and it goes from normal on one frame to a substantial explosion on the next and the insiders aren't talking.
Scott Manly took a look at the video frame by frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It's clear that whatever happened started in the second stage, potentially in the vicinity of the fueling connection.
Also interesting is that the payload seemed to remain attatched to the tower and largely intact for some time after the explosion. This suggests that had it been a dragon 2 with a launch abort system on the top of the stack the incident may have been survivable.
I mean, you hear PM May say in the same week that there will be strong immigration controls, but also no border checks between Ireland and Northern Ireland. WTF? The only way I can put those two together is by handing Northern Ireland over to independence within the EU or as a part of Ireland...
Border checks within a country are not unheard of. For example Spain has border checks between the mainland and the north-african exclaves.
They could also have a system where EU citizens could visit freely but were not allowed to claim any benefits and needed permits to work.
Remember when Brexit was going to cause worldwide economic collapse, terrorism all across the EU and collapse of society and cannibalism on the streets of the UK?
No
All that happened in the end was a bunch of sniveling and crying from foreigners.
We are far from the "end". It is yet to be determined whether we will completely leave the EU or whether we will nominally leave it but remain a "special realationship" where we are subject to some aspects of EU law and get some of the benefits of EU membership.
Once we actually know what is going to happen then the buisnesses will be able to decide whether it is viable to continue serving Europe from the UK or whether to move their European HQs across the channel.
How much buisness are the US airlines losing because flying is only worth it for 300+ mile journeys? how much are they losing because people chose routes that avoid the US?
AIUI the USA charges corporations on their global profits but
1. It gives them credits for foreign tax paid on foreign profit.
2. Profits made by foreign subsidaries are only taxed when they are "realised" by the parent company.
Apple has been avoiding taxes in Europe. This has left them with a lot of profits in their European subsidaries which they can't bring back to the US without a large tax bill. If they end up having to pay taxes in Europe, they would be able to claim credit for those taxes when bringing the money home.
AIUI
The x86 surface models (all pro models and the surface 3) are set up like normal PCs. You can either turn off secure boot in the firmware setup or use a linux distro with a MS-signed loader.
The ARM surface models (surface RT and surface 2) are locked down to the hilt. A hole was recently found allowing this lockdown to be bypassed but i'm not sure if anyone has got linux running yet.
IMO a decimal type that doesn't suck would.
1. Allow arithmetic and comparision using the normal mathematical operators.
2. Be a fixed-size value type that can live on the stack.
Java's BigDecimal fails on both these counts. A type that doesn't is not possible as a custom type in Java.
Most online video services will automatically change resoloution and/or compression level based on detected throughput. So simply throttling traffic to/from known video distribution servers should be sufficient.
The goal is almost certainly not to catch every single video. It's to drive down the average usage per user.
Traditionally transistors are made by doping the surface of a silion wafer. The interconnect is then built on top by laying down alternate layers of oxide and either metal or polysilicon. So while you get multiple layers of interconnect you only get one layer of transistors.
"3D" ICs aim to have not just multiple layers of interconnect but also multiple layers of transistors.
What happens if you just load a CSV into excel? (which doesn't result in a wizard at all IIRC)
Currently IANA has already allocated a number of /16 blocks to the RIRs
Actually they allocated them /12s . There are also some smaller older allocations. So currently less than 6 /12s of global unicast space have been allocated.
Currently IANA has already allocated a number of /16 blocks to the RIRs, and it's up to them to allocate it as they wish. While ARIN has been assigning blocks like birdseed (the way Jon Postel did in the early days of IPv4) downstream in /48s, RIPE and APNIC have been more conservative, and assigning them in /56 blocks.
The standard allocation for an ISP is generally a /32, they then suballocate to customers in smaller chunks (/56 is currently considered best practice as a default allocation for small customers).
The way address exhaustion is likely to occur is not distribution (for obvious reasons) but rather, lending structure to those addresses. While route optimization seems to have been abandoned for now
Mainly because the Internet is NOT a network with a strict and static heirachy, it's a network of private companies involved in constantly shifting relationships.
Like let's say Acme, Inc has 2001:db8:beef:1a00::/56.
If Acme is as big as your next sentances imply they should have no trouble getting at least a /48.
Messy internal routing due to poor initial layout may be a slight issue but I would expect it to be much less of a problem with IPv6 than with IPv4.
The other option would be to subnet even further to /80 or /96, at which point, one is breaking some IPv6 protocols like SLAAC, ND
AIUI the actual neighbour solicitation/advertisement parts of ND are independent of subnet size.
SLAAC is indeed broken by nonstandard subnet sizes but DHCPv6 can be used instead.
insanity like the Cogent-v-Hurricane split of the IPv6 internet (holy crud... it's SEVEN years now since Hurricane baked Cogent that cake begging them to peer with the world's largest IPv6 network... and it's still broken),
It's irritating that those companies care more about interconnection politics than about serving their customers but I don't think it's that important in the grand scheme of things. Decent hosting providers are usually multihomed and thus reachable from both HE and Cogent.
I'm prettys sure you are wrong,
My memory says that the keys used to sign the shims are only valid for x86 systems, not windows RT systems. I can't seem to find a good source for that now though I did find a mention in passing in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... . Furthermore everything I can find relating to linux on the surface RT relates to a recently found bug.
and FWIW the problem getting Linux onto surface isnt the drivers, its getting around the fucking DRM. Everything is signed, the UEFI is locked down, and TPM does its due diligence in ensuring you never get to run anything but windows.
AIUI the arm based surface tablets (surface RT and surface 2) are locked down to the hilt with forced secure boot that will only boot windows
OTOH the x86 based ones (surface pro, surface pro 2, surface 3, surface pro 3) can have secure boot disabled.
I would think a reasonable compromise would be to restrict the preponderance of evidence standard to demonstrated direct damages and injuctions required to prevent further damages.
Statutory and punitive damages are essentially fines and should be held to the same standard of evidence.
That depends on where you live and how much you are prepared to pay.
Afaict in most urban areas BT openreach "broadband" services top out at "up to 80Mbps" FTCC. In a few trial areas they have "up to 120Mbps" FTTC or "up to 330Mbps" FTTP.
There was supposed to be a product called FTTPoD which would allow people in FTTC areas to get FTTP if they paid a steep (usually thousands of pounds iirc) installation charge but new installations under that program have been suspended.
Virgin media are offering a 200Mbps cable package for home broadband customers and a 300Mbps cable package for buisness broadband customers.
If you move beyond the "broadband" products to the dedicated fiber products then it becomes a matter of how much you are prepared to pay.
Plenty of people in cities get by on public transport, and it's generally quicker in a lot of major cities.
That depends very much on when and where you are travelling. The practicality of public transport also depends on what you want to take with you.
If you live in the city center of a major city then public transport is good so you rarely need a car. Plus keeping a car in the city center is expensive. For these people Public transport takes the bulk and Taxis and/or car share services cover the minority of journeys where public transport is unsuitable. Obviously poorer people will have more of a bias towards public transport while richer people will be more likely to use the Taxi and car share services where conviniant.
Out in the suburbs public transport coverage is worse, car share services (at least where I live) are practically non-existant and the distances involved make taxi's an expensive option. For many people this shifts the balance towards owning a car. Especially for people who have already paid the upfront costs of starting to drive.
If/when self driving cars are able (both legally and technically) to operate unsupervised I would expect this balance to shift. The driver represents a large propotion of the operating costs of a taxi.
Clarkson got fired after hitting a producer effectively ending the series in progress. There was a farewell episode some time after the incident which IIRC used already-recorded location footage, studio footage with just Hammond and May.and a voiceover recorded by clarkson. Hammond and May also left the show out of solidarity with Clarkson. The trio went to Amazon where they have been working on a new car show (which has not been released yet so it's yet to be seen how succesful it will be).
Meanwhile the BBC who still own the "TOP Gear" trademarks, distribution contracts etc started casting up a new iteration of the show. The first series of this aired recently to dissapointing ratings.