There are plenty of points of contention between HP and the researchers, however. Moore, the HP executive, said the firm’s newer printers do require digitally signed firmware upgrades, and have since 2009. The printers tested by the researchers are older models, Moore said.
Maybe this means that it isn't much of a problem at least with newer gear?
I'm hoping that only government disks with mega-confidential information get this treatment, as there is too many perfectly working drives wasted this way already. Especially as the hard drive factories are in troubles right now...
Is it good that so generic social networking site is run by an advertising company? Facebook's importance in people's lives has risen so high that maybe it should be run by some party with no financial interests. Or for humankind it should be recommended for everyone to move to something like Diaspora.
I've been thinking and looking for programming ideas in general but the ones listed on that page too seem quite uninspiring... Lots of media players and home automation systems, stuff which have been invented a million times already.:/
It's still funny how in some product descriptions and user reviews some flat display is described to have "sharp picture" even though that's equal for all of them. (Of course the VGA input might weaken it, but that's not the main point here.)
Windows 95 was infamous for crashing at least daily, I knew plenty of fairly knowledgeable people who took pride in being able to keep it running for a week.
I'm curious to know why was Windows 95 so unstable, then? What kind of error conditions were the causes of the constant crashes?
And how was is possible to have such severe bugs slip in? One could think it was written by well-paid professional engineers after all.
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It's also nice to mention here the refrains of Duke Nukem 3D even though it isn't an iD game.
Atom is a nice cheap CPU with good performance for its TDP.
Anyway I think we've all learned our lessons now.
1. If it looks like a computer, it has to be a computer. (eg run everything new that's on the shelf)
2. If it doesn't look like a computer, it doesn't have to be a computer. (it only has to run software in it's own ecosystem -- the app store.)
But is that L110 even in the same class than the Atom? Maybe some "ULV Pentium" type of chip would be more fair comparison? I have a 10.1" machine with Atom N270 and 11.6" with AMD L310 and to me it's always been obvious that the AMD is superior.
It seems to me that Linux is a poor mans Mac. I can't justify the price and the way Jobs leaves old versions of MacOS in the cold fast. It is great if you do not have $$$$ in student loans or get paid pre-2009 salaries but count your blessings if you do and can afford one.
In the Windows world people still use XP which is over 10 years old for crying out and software companies still support it.
I left Linux but switched to Windows because it is much cheaper and I can run Linux in a VM
Apple makes pretty good stuff, but this price thing really deserves some criticism. It's not does not make sense for some laptop or a phone to cost that much. Even if I had the money I would feel desperate for paying that much. They really have a nice UNIX there with some money behind it so it actually works, better than the chronically crippled Linux desktop.
I actually now crafted a list of some points of danger related to long-term archiving data on flash chips, which you might want to think about.
Prone to ESD
There is a risk that the data might get tampered when attached to computer
The long-term integrity of flash cells is uncertain
Plethora of different memory cards make it hard to know for which there will be readers available in distant future
USB sticks and some other devices (CompactFlash?) have the controller included which might add problems to the mix
The devices are so small (which is also an advantage) that they are easy to lose
Some of these points apply also to HDDs and, with those there's the risk of mechanical damage. Then again, the data on optical discs might as well fade away, but I don't think it's that bad problem if you use quality media and store them appropriately. For "live" use I think flash is excellent, especially as we can replace the crappy-slow HDDs with SSDs.
Why must it be all the time so heavily rationalized that optical media is a thing of past? For starters, I'm not sure if flash memory is a proper archival medium at all. There's one use for optical discs already. I also like to play stuff straight off CD/DVD and not waste my time in stupid converting/encoding. They are also nice stable formats unlike your video codec or memory card type of the day.
What I consider as a smart idea though is that you have a single (or more if you need) USB drive and use it across all computers. There's usually not a need for it to sit inside the computer all the time.
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From TFA:
There are plenty of points of contention between HP and the researchers, however. Moore, the HP executive, said the firm’s newer printers do require digitally signed firmware upgrades, and have since 2009. The printers tested by the researchers are older models, Moore said.
Maybe this means that it isn't much of a problem at least with newer gear?
What's a "jump point"?
Parted Magic is also quite nice.
I'm hoping that only government disks with mega-confidential information get this treatment, as there is too many perfectly working drives wasted this way already. Especially as the hard drive factories are in troubles right now...
I'm guessing that using random data might also create some kind of garbage partition table, so zeros make a cleaner start.
Is it good that so generic social networking site is run by an advertising company? Facebook's importance in people's lives has risen so high that maybe it should be run by some party with no financial interests. Or for humankind it should be recommended for everyone to move to something like Diaspora.
Learn an Enterprise Class OS. AIX. Solaris. HP-UX.
Huh? Those are pretty much dead OSes. It's important to have good general UNIX skills, though.
I wonder if jokes are like music, that it is hard to create something that wouldn't more or less resemble something that already exists.
Even the integrated disc burner in Windows is very good and simple (and can burn images too).
I've been thinking and looking for programming ideas in general but the ones listed on that page too seem quite uninspiring... Lots of media players and home automation systems, stuff which have been invented a million times already. :/
These days the cheaper LCDs are many times simply set not as bright as the more expensive ones.
It's still funny how in some product descriptions and user reviews some flat display is described to have "sharp picture" even though that's equal for all of them. (Of course the VGA input might weaken it, but that's not the main point here.)
My uncle is actually the main designer of the quantic chip in iPad 27.
Windows 95 was infamous for crashing at least daily, I knew plenty of fairly knowledgeable people who took pride in being able to keep it running for a week.
I'm curious to know why was Windows 95 so unstable, then? What kind of error conditions were the causes of the constant crashes?
And how was is possible to have such severe bugs slip in? One could think it was written by well-paid professional engineers after all.
It's also nice to mention here the refrains of Duke Nukem 3D even though it isn't an iD game.
Hmm, maybe an inbuilt buffer overflow protection of a programming language could be analogous to blood clotting?
A child who knows how the HMI that comes with Simatic works could have accomplished this,' he wrote in an e-mail.
And a child knows too that you shouldn't break into other people's property...
Umm, no. AMD doesn't have a chip that competes with Intel's ultra low power Sandy Bridge chips like in the Air.
How about the L110, L310 chips? I figure they should be the ULV offering of decent laptop chips by AMD.
Anyway I think we've all learned our lessons now.
1. If it looks like a computer, it has to be a computer. (eg run everything new that's on the shelf)
2. If it doesn't look like a computer, it doesn't have to be a computer. (it only has to run software in it's own ecosystem -- the app store.)
These make sense, though...
But is that L110 even in the same class than the Atom? Maybe some "ULV Pentium" type of chip would be more fair comparison? I have a 10.1" machine with Atom N270 and 11.6" with AMD L310 and to me it's always been obvious that the AMD is superior.
It seems to me that Linux is a poor mans Mac. I can't justify the price and the way Jobs leaves old versions of MacOS in the cold fast. It is great if you do not have $$$$ in student loans or get paid pre-2009 salaries but count your blessings if you do and can afford one.
In the Windows world people still use XP which is over 10 years old for crying out and software companies still support it.
I left Linux but switched to Windows because it is much cheaper and I can run Linux in a VM
Apple makes pretty good stuff, but this price thing really deserves some criticism. It's not does not make sense for some laptop or a phone to cost that much. Even if I had the money I would feel desperate for paying that much. They really have a nice UNIX there with some money behind it so it actually works, better than the chronically crippled Linux desktop.
I actually now crafted a list of some points of danger related to long-term archiving data on flash chips, which you might want to think about.
Some of these points apply also to HDDs and, with those there's the risk of mechanical damage. Then again, the data on optical discs might as well fade away, but I don't think it's that bad problem if you use quality media and store them appropriately. For "live" use I think flash is excellent, especially as we can replace the crappy-slow HDDs with SSDs.
Why must it be all the time so heavily rationalized that optical media is a thing of past? For starters, I'm not sure if flash memory is a proper archival medium at all. There's one use for optical discs already. I also like to play stuff straight off CD/DVD and not waste my time in stupid converting/encoding. They are also nice stable formats unlike your video codec or memory card type of the day.
What I consider as a smart idea though is that you have a single (or more if you need) USB drive and use it across all computers. There's usually not a need for it to sit inside the computer all the time.
What's the idea in the name "Newegg"? It's cute.