The new E3 Xeon "V2" processors seem to be just a bit more expensive than the equivalent i7 processors. These are all expensive parts, but there isn't a huge premium for the Xeon. There isn't much to choose from in the mobo department though, but there's an Asus that seems decent.
The article didn't mention power settings. I'm quite skeptical of all the new tech which overclocks on demand and then clocks down when it gets too hot (or too idle). They should definitely try this test with the standard frequency: pinned at the nominal frequency (if there is such a thing at all).
The filters/rules in Thunderbird seem quite dodgy. The "run filters on folder" function doesn't work for some folders, and moved messages seem to be re-downloaded and also moved to Trash, when they are moved from IMAP to local. There is no export function! The messages are stored in a standard format, but it makes migration to a different computer quite difficult. Still using it, but it's far from perfect. I'm using Outlook instead on Windows.
A prime example is Boxee. It started as a fork of XBMC, and the software was free. They made some hardware (Boxee box) to make it easier for people. Then they gradually phased out the software, and it's no longer being maintained (don't know if it can be downloaded). It seems that it's easy for companies to get fixated on money^W control^W hardware.
Absolutely agree, I do the same for home use. Only trouble is that when I get proper native IPv6 my addresses are going to change around all the time (Some DNS update script will fix that though). Another good thing is to use transport mode IPSec, so all connections between the computers are encrypted, and only allow minimal stuff like SSH without IPSec. There's nothing like browsing my 8 TB share from anywhere on my Windows laptop, or watching MythTV (well there *is* something like that called a Slingbox, but you get the idea) . And "anywhere" means anywhere that allow an IPv6 tunnel, since I haven't been to a place which has native IPv6 yet.
So the paren'ts example is easier and more stable than a VPN, my example is a bloody pain to set up, but IPv6 can do both..
the problems with the open source drivers are in the areas of performance and power management. As for performance, I don't actually know, I have to take other people's word for it. I have an AMD desktop card and Linux native games work brilliantly, but there seems to be a problem with almost every Wine game.
Power management is limited on the open source driver. You can choose between performance profiles for power saving and performance (hot, loud and fast), one in between and one adaptive profile. The three former settings cause the card to run at a fixed clock speed. The adaptive setting is quite experimental, and is not used by default by many distros. In the documentation it says that it's not supported when using multiple screens.
Depending on the card, most users can run at low speed all the time, and hope that they remember to crank it up in the rare case when they need some 3D. Low speed works great in KDE, but didn't work well in Gnome (3/Shell) for me, though I suspect that was a bug.
I had that card too. I was planning to use my Thinkpad as a desktop replacement, but I couldn't watch video on the second screen because of NVidia's TwinView tech. They set the refresh rate of the second monitor to something bonkers in software (but the actual DVI connection works at the correct rate), so video and even desktop effects suffer from quite bad tearing artifacts on the second monitor. This was between 1 and 2 years ago , it may have improved since then.
They need the user ID and password from the PC. They only need this once, though, as it doesn't change.
There are mobile apps for banking that only require a password (sometimes limited to a numeric code, gah!), but those are often limited in their functionality, for any sane bank
This is good for number crunching applications that run for tens of seconds or more, but there may be a problem for small workloads: CPUs are normally clocked down when idle. If, say, Java was compiled with this tool and I tried to start Eclipse, it would have to realise that all four cores needed to be clocked up to nominal speed, rather than just one. This means more code will be executed with the very slow 800 MHz or so setting. Worse than that, if the compiler can't parallelize the program perfectly, you'll have cores with the clock speed constatnly being turned up and down. Or you can make the CPU frequency governor so sensitive that it doesn't clock down easily, but that will use more power. Similar concerns with the "turbo core" mode.
It just means that people shouldn't compile normal application software with auto-parallelization, but only actual number crunching code (Photoshop filters, for example, if they are not already threaded).
The lifts at my workplace sometimes stop right at the floor I am, but stays there without opening the door for 30 seconds or so. I suspect the microcontroller crashes and recovers.
If you're going to use a BSD-like licence, it isn't a long step to go public domain instead. Many people (including me in the past) probably don't want to deal with the legal stuff at all, and just want to share the code. It's more difficult for the users of the code, but that's not my problem. Amateurs can use the code privately (there's an implied licence, not in the law but by convention, that when you click some link you have the right to view it).
The logical conclusion of allowing Tor is that anyone can communicate with anyone completely freely, including spreading slander, copyrighted material, terrorist planning, etc. No government is prepared to do that, so Tor exit nodes can't be legal (it seems easier to target exit nodes over relays and users). I hope people will change their mind as our society evolves, as I believe that bits can't hurt people (malicious code and commands can, but that's a separate problem)
OK, then people from the US (or anywhere else) can't say they have Free Speech any more. I was reluctantly fine with redefining free speech as free political speech, so you could exclude things like slander and the DVD CSS codes etc. Now we can only talk about how bad the restrictions are and compare countries.
Additionally, it's not particularly brilliant of Hamas to rely on a company from an allied of their enemy to disseminate information
I think you're mistaken about error rates. It probably depends a lot on the environment and external factors, but I haven't had a single error in about 6 months. Before then I got errors about every 2 months, and I replaced the bad DIMM and haven't had a single error since.
It also seems contradictory to overclock a system with ECC, because overclocking reduces the safety margins in the CPU. Even if you have ECC and use checksums for on-disk data, you could mess it up on the CPU while processing it (encryption, etc). I do overclock because my home machine is on a Phenom II and it's just a bit too slow on stock speed, but my next system will not be overclocked (when I bought this one I thought that CPU speed would never be a concern, but it really is)
It wouldn't be that surprising. They already have an EU directive telling all ISPs to save traffic data. Tor is a gaping hole in their ability to "investigate" people. They could do like in this case and make people responsible for things coming out of their exit node. People in Germany could still *use* tor legally in this scenario, that would require a different law.
It's strange how governments have become obsessed with gathering data. With the old tech, you can send anonymous letters, make calls from telephone booths and make private transactions with cash. Now....
Psst... don't look now, but Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all do the same thing. But don't that stop you from following in the/. tradition and singling out MS.
Firefox appears to correctly resolve foo to foo.example.com when it's in the domain provided by DHCP (on Windows & Linux).
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On Android, there is an emulator called Graph89 - needs a Ti89 rom, no special built-in delays.
Then you can run that in BlueStacks (Android emulator)! If BlueStacks only runs on windows, you can run BlueStacks in Wine..
The new E3 Xeon "V2" processors seem to be just a bit more expensive than the equivalent i7 processors. These are all expensive parts, but there isn't a huge premium for the Xeon. There isn't much to choose from in the mobo department though, but there's an Asus that seems decent.
The article didn't mention power settings. I'm quite skeptical of all the new tech which overclocks on demand and then clocks down when it gets too hot (or too idle). They should definitely try this test with the standard frequency: pinned at the nominal frequency (if there is such a thing at all).
I should have patented it back in June ;)
The filters/rules in Thunderbird seem quite dodgy. The "run filters on folder" function doesn't work for some folders, and moved messages seem to be re-downloaded and also moved to Trash, when they are moved from IMAP to local. There is no export function! The messages are stored in a standard format, but it makes migration to a different computer quite difficult. Still using it, but it's far from perfect. I'm using Outlook instead on Windows.
It's happened before, it happened again.
A prime example is Boxee. It started as a fork of XBMC, and the software was free. They made some hardware (Boxee box) to make it easier for people. Then they gradually phased out the software, and it's no longer being maintained (don't know if it can be downloaded). It seems that it's easy for companies to get fixated on money^W control^W hardware.
Better than that, Bitcoins generated on graphics cards have PCI Express compliance
Sure, Emacs has always had good hardware support. This is about a lesser OS called "Linux"
Absolutely agree, I do the same for home use. Only trouble is that when I get proper native IPv6 my addresses are going to change around all the time (Some DNS update script will fix that though). Another good thing is to use transport mode IPSec, so all connections between the computers are encrypted, and only allow minimal stuff like SSH without IPSec. There's nothing like browsing my 8 TB share from anywhere on my Windows laptop, or watching MythTV (well there *is* something like that called a Slingbox, but you get the idea) . And "anywhere" means anywhere that allow an IPv6 tunnel, since I haven't been to a place which has native IPv6 yet.
So the paren'ts example is easier and more stable than a VPN, my example is a bloody pain to set up, but IPv6 can do both..
the problems with the open source drivers are in the areas of performance and power management. As for performance, I don't actually know, I have to take other people's word for it. I have an AMD desktop card and Linux native games work brilliantly, but there seems to be a problem with almost every Wine game.
Power management is limited on the open source driver. You can choose between performance profiles for power saving and performance (hot, loud and fast), one in between and one adaptive profile. The three former settings cause the card to run at a fixed clock speed. The adaptive setting is quite experimental, and is not used by default by many distros. In the documentation it says that it's not supported when using multiple screens.
Depending on the card, most users can run at low speed all the time, and hope that they remember to crank it up in the rare case when they need some 3D. Low speed works great in KDE, but didn't work well in Gnome (3/Shell) for me, though I suspect that was a bug.
I had that card too. I was planning to use my Thinkpad as a desktop replacement, but I couldn't watch video on the second screen because of NVidia's TwinView tech. They set the refresh rate of the second monitor to something bonkers in software (but the actual DVI connection works at the correct rate), so video and even desktop effects suffer from quite bad tearing artifacts on the second monitor. This was between 1 and 2 years ago , it may have improved since then.
They need the user ID and password from the PC. They only need this once, though, as it doesn't change.
There are mobile apps for banking that only require a password (sometimes limited to a numeric code, gah!), but those are often limited in their functionality, for any sane bank
I have to sometimes make long calls for my work and I *really* don't want to do it on a tinky winky little mobile phone, its bloody uncomfortable.
Seems like a headset would be a great option, whether connected to a desk phone, mobile phoone or computer
This is good for number crunching applications that run for tens of seconds or more, but there may be a problem for small workloads: CPUs are normally clocked down when idle. If, say, Java was compiled with this tool and I tried to start Eclipse, it would have to realise that all four cores needed to be clocked up to nominal speed, rather than just one. This means more code will be executed with the very slow 800 MHz or so setting. Worse than that, if the compiler can't parallelize the program perfectly, you'll have cores with the clock speed constatnly being turned up and down. Or you can make the CPU frequency governor so sensitive that it doesn't clock down easily, but that will use more power. Similar concerns with the "turbo core" mode.
It just means that people shouldn't compile normal application software with auto-parallelization, but only actual number crunching code (Photoshop filters, for example, if they are not already threaded).
W.T.F. How did that patronising, sarcastic comment get +4? The parent isn't even a troll, it just raises a quite extreme viewpoint
Have anyone tried it under Wine yet? (the previous one didn't work at all, and it may be useful to have the MP3 store)
The lifts at my workplace sometimes stop right at the floor I am, but stays there without opening the door for 30 seconds or so. I suspect the microcontroller crashes and recovers.
If you're going to use a BSD-like licence, it isn't a long step to go public domain instead. Many people (including me in the past) probably don't want to deal with the legal stuff at all, and just want to share the code. It's more difficult for the users of the code, but that's not my problem. Amateurs can use the code privately (there's an implied licence, not in the law but by convention, that when you click some link you have the right to view it).
Netcat is good for experimenting at the application layer, especially combined with wireshark.
The logical conclusion of allowing Tor is that anyone can communicate with anyone completely freely, including spreading slander, copyrighted material, terrorist planning, etc. No government is prepared to do that, so Tor exit nodes can't be legal (it seems easier to target exit nodes over relays and users). I hope people will change their mind as our society evolves, as I believe that bits can't hurt people (malicious code and commands can, but that's a separate problem)
OK, then people from the US (or anywhere else) can't say they have Free Speech any more. I was reluctantly fine with redefining free speech as free political speech, so you could exclude things like slander and the DVD CSS codes etc. Now we can only talk about how bad the restrictions are and compare countries.
Additionally, it's not particularly brilliant of Hamas to rely on a company from an allied of their enemy to disseminate information
I think you're mistaken about error rates. It probably depends a lot on the environment and external factors, but I haven't had a single error in about 6 months. Before then I got errors about every 2 months, and I replaced the bad DIMM and haven't had a single error since.
It also seems contradictory to overclock a system with ECC, because overclocking reduces the safety margins in the CPU. Even if you have ECC and use checksums for on-disk data, you could mess it up on the CPU while processing it (encryption, etc). I do overclock because my home machine is on a Phenom II and it's just a bit too slow on stock speed, but my next system will not be overclocked (when I bought this one I thought that CPU speed would never be a concern, but it really is)
It wouldn't be that surprising. They already have an EU directive telling all ISPs to save traffic data. Tor is a gaping hole in their ability to "investigate" people. They could do like in this case and make people responsible for things coming out of their exit node. People in Germany could still *use* tor legally in this scenario, that would require a different law.
It's strange how governments have become obsessed with gathering data. With the old tech, you can send anonymous letters, make calls from telephone booths and make private transactions with cash. Now....
(and when it gets an NXDOMAIN , it does a google search)
Psst... don't look now, but Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all do the same thing. But don't that stop you from following in the /. tradition and singling out MS.
Firefox appears to correctly resolve foo to foo.example.com when it's in the domain provided by DHCP (on Windows & Linux).