I suppose hardware VT would negate the red pill solution, assuming that the processors have enough of everything to go around.
However, I'm not sure that the licensing terms would apply to hardware virtualisation, same way that multi-core processors and multi-processor systems are licensed differently.
I can't imagine anyone using a VT or Pacifica enabled chip using home basic or the other one though, aside from cost there isn't really any need for "home" users to run multiple instances using hardware emulation at this time. Maybe in a few years, when the technology becomes more cost effective (> in a virtual machine, seamlessly operated from the host OS, anyone?), but until then I don't think many people are going to feel this restriction.
Basically, it tests the location of a particular piece of data. If the machine is non-virtualised, it is stored in what is called the IDTR register (this location is constant).
However, as there is only one IDTR register, when virtualised, it is stored somewhere else.
There are other techniques available too; however this looks to be the simplest.
IMO, this new license is rubbish. I expect to go through 3 or 4 computers in vistas lifespan, which would need me to buy at least 2 licenses.
Whilst Linux would seem to be the perfect option, whenever I'm booted into linux, there is always something that comes up that I just can't do without lots of haxing.
On my machine has to be installed with the TV card removed, otherwise the soundcard does not work.
I have no explaination for this at all.
If you put the tv card in once everything is done, it all works fine.
(If anyone else knows of this, it is suse 10.1 retail, Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (on an msi k8n diamond) and a hauppauge CX8XX based card.)
So I dont have to make a forth post, I have also put a hard disk in the freezer and swapped ram slots over (worked fine in one, but not in the other, with 2 identical sticks in 2 identical slots).
From a cold start, if you turn the computer on before the monitor, the computer fails the POST.
If you turn the monitor on, then the computer, it works fine.
At first, I thought it was just timing (maybe the PSU has to charge itself up or something, and the delay while I turned on the monitor was just enough time for it to do this), but even if you power it on at the main hours in advance, the monitor must still go on first.
My old TV card.
No matter what cables you used, if the aerial lead wasn't bent at a 90 degree angle about 2 inches away from the computer, it wouldn't pick up a signal.
In the end I just blutacked it down; I assume there was a loose connection inside, and the twist put out just enough force to make the connection.
Thats true, but if you had a boat that was powered by 2 engines with specialised propellors, one for choppy water, one for smooth water then the maths changes completely.
If they can pick the *best* features of hardware, and the *best* features of hardware VT, then it is possible to create something that is faster than both solution on their own.
It may be a lost cause, but it's *their* lost cause.
They support seti for the same reason that they support Soccer/Baseball teams that never have a hope of winning anything, it's more sentimental than logical.
I was under the impression that Vista had already been totally re-written, back last year some time because the XP code base was too "messy".
Is 60% perhaps the amount of code that has already been re-coded?
That is unlikely to happen;
The two operating systems would not interact at all, the only thing they share is the hardware.
As advanced as OS X is, I don't think apple have invented hardware patching yet...
This isn't an issue with google. It's an issue with the users.
Search across computers is disabled by default. It doesn't even ask you to enable it in the intaller. You have to hunt through the options to turn it on.
It's not google "overstepping the mark" it's incompetant users changing settings they don't understand.
On a different note, if I were a sysadmin, then I would not be letting them install GDS anyway, without authorisation. They are company machines, subject to company rules, and should only run company software.
Can it run linux?
Seriously though, coupled with a psuedo random number generator, (like those RSA keychains), could just about completely secure credit card transaction.
Soooo.... remind me, Linux has been able to update the kernel without a reboot for... how long?
And when you have to reboot linux, does it do it without having to save your work and close all applications?
You don't;
MS update, windows update and windows server update are three versions of the same thing, for different windows versions (give you a clue, the word "server" is involved), MS software isntaller is the thing that some programs use to install themself, and MSMS is a network tool.
Unless you own a copy of server 2003, all you will ever use is windows or microsoft update.
It's not just updates that require reboots you know.
My router (Linksys WRT54G) has a function where it can put each client into a virtual network. Coupled with bandwidth throttling, each client is completely unable to affect any other client.
I'm not sure if netgear has this functionality or not, but the WRT54G is a pretty cheap router.
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Well, it's not as if they can ask their sound engineer and composer to write kernel patches is it, so they may as well earn their keep...
Its like y2k, only worse!
1.) Zango paid for every installation, voluntary or not
2.) The software installed is almost impossible to remove. Believe me, I've tried.
Actually, you can. Contact apple support, and on a case by case basis they will allow redownloading in mitigating circumstances.
ah, damit, forgot slashdot eats tags. should say <<web browser of choice
However, I'm not sure that the licensing terms would apply to hardware virtualisation, same way that multi-core processors and multi-processor systems are licensed differently.
I can't imagine anyone using a VT or Pacifica enabled chip using home basic or the other one though, aside from cost there isn't really any need for "home" users to run multiple instances using hardware emulation at this time. Maybe in a few years, when the technology becomes more cost effective (> in a virtual machine, seamlessly operated from the host OS, anyone?), but until then I don't think many people are going to feel this restriction.
http://invisiblethings.org/papers/redpill.html
Basically, it tests the location of a particular piece of data.
If the machine is non-virtualised, it is stored in what is called the IDTR register (this location is constant).
However, as there is only one IDTR register, when virtualised, it is stored somewhere else.
There are other techniques available too; however this looks to be the simplest.
IMO, this new license is rubbish. I expect to go through 3 or 4 computers in vistas lifespan, which would need me to buy at least 2 licenses.
Whilst Linux would seem to be the perfect option, whenever I'm booted into linux, there is always something that comes up that I just can't do without lots of haxing.
My Mac on the other hand...
Has been available forever here.
Developement on a native port is relatively new though, see here.
Once you've turned the monitor on once, its fine. You can then disconnect it, carry it to the other side of the room, unplug it, whatever.
It sounds crazy (and my CS degree tells me it must be something else) but the mere act of turning on the monitor seems to cure it.
On my machine has to be installed with the TV card removed, otherwise the soundcard does not work.
I have no explaination for this at all. If you put the tv card in once everything is done, it all works fine. (If anyone else knows of this, it is suse 10.1 retail, Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (on an msi k8n diamond) and a hauppauge CX8XX based card.)
So I dont have to make a forth post, I have also put a hard disk in the freezer and swapped ram slots over (worked fine in one, but not in the other, with 2 identical sticks in 2 identical slots).
If you turn the monitor on, then the computer, it works fine.
At first, I thought it was just timing (maybe the PSU has to charge itself up or something, and the delay while I turned on the monitor was just enough time for it to do this), but even if you power it on at the main hours in advance, the monitor must still go on first.
My old TV card. No matter what cables you used, if the aerial lead wasn't bent at a 90 degree angle about 2 inches away from the computer, it wouldn't pick up a signal. In the end I just blutacked it down; I assume there was a loose connection inside, and the twist put out just enough force to make the connection.
If they can pick the *best* features of hardware, and the *best* features of hardware VT, then it is possible to create something that is faster than both solution on their own.
It may be a lost cause, but it's *their* lost cause.
They support seti for the same reason that they support Soccer/Baseball teams that never have a hope of winning anything, it's more sentimental than logical.
Should be even less of an issue, as the default firefox homepage is google.com
Should you not also have added to your comment "Firefox 1, yahoo -screwed-"?
So, basically, you are using the failings of Origami to justify the bad points of the pepper pad.
I was under the impression that Vista had already been totally re-written, back last year some time because the XP code base was too "messy". Is 60% perhaps the amount of code that has already been re-coded?
That is unlikely to happen; The two operating systems would not interact at all, the only thing they share is the hardware. As advanced as OS X is, I don't think apple have invented hardware patching yet...
If it were Microsoft, I doubt my comment would have been any different, assuming that their desktop search had *exactly* the same behaviour.
Funny how everything around here all ways degenerates into "Microsoft is evil" comments.
Cue "you must be new around here" jokes.
This isn't an issue with google. It's an issue with the users.
Search across computers is disabled by default. It doesn't even ask you to enable it in the intaller. You have to hunt through the options to turn it on.
It's not google "overstepping the mark" it's incompetant users changing settings they don't understand.
On a different note, if I were a sysadmin, then I would not be letting them install GDS anyway, without authorisation. They are company machines, subject to company rules, and should only run company software.
Can it run linux? Seriously though, coupled with a psuedo random number generator, (like those RSA keychains), could just about completely secure credit card transaction.
Soooo.... remind me, Linux has been able to update the kernel without a reboot for... how long? And when you have to reboot linux, does it do it without having to save your work and close all applications?
You don't; MS update, windows update and windows server update are three versions of the same thing, for different windows versions (give you a clue, the word "server" is involved), MS software isntaller is the thing that some programs use to install themself, and MSMS is a network tool. Unless you own a copy of server 2003, all you will ever use is windows or microsoft update. It's not just updates that require reboots you know.
My router (Linksys WRT54G) has a function where it can put each client into a virtual network.
Coupled with bandwidth throttling, each client is completely unable to affect any other client.
I'm not sure if netgear has this functionality or not, but the WRT54G is a pretty cheap router.
They look like they are reaching to the sky, grasping at a bright future to me...