If you have an AMD PC with the AMD Processor drivers, or a modern Intel, then configure your PC's power management mode to be "Minimal power management." This is under control panel, display, screen saver, power.
When you do this, it turns on Processor Throttle (AC) ADAPTIVE. This means that your AMD or modern Intel will power down the fans and CPU. Your 2.6Ghz CPU may power down to 933Mhz while you are not doing anything.
Don't worry, it will still go up to 2.6Ghz if you do something.
How about offering this up as step 1 of power savings? powercfg allows you to set these things up during machine login scripts for machine values, and if you grant the proper rights to your users a user login script can modify these settings for user settings. Machine settings take effect when no one is signed on (If not set, it runs full open) and user settings take effect when a user is signed on, and is per user.
Media Player Classic was great, but it's no longer updated and has several security flaws that are un patched. You can run a Secunia offline scan (download the scanner) and it will give you all the details about this.
VLC is far superior to Media Player Classic. It can play almost anything. It has a problem with WMV's that are encrypted or require a codec download (usually a virus if p2p.) On Mac, it can play encrypted DVDs too. Add the playlists for Shoutcast and you have tens of thousands of audio and video channels.
You can merge streams such as two axis video cameras into a single display. You can overlay things. You can record it to disk or re-stream it. You have many effects such as motion detection and motion blur which when set to max, is pretty nice for CCTV use.
And with VLC, you don't have to hunt for CODECs like you do with WMPlayer.
There are too many variables to apply this to a large company via IT and web filtering. If I see that my sales person was doing fantasy football for 8 hours non stop each day, then I report that to his manager.
If the sales guy is making his sales, then it's "who cares." If he's not, then appropriate actions can be taken.
What about my shop staff or house keeping? They can't possibly be repairing vehicles or cleaning if they are on Fantasy Football 8 hours a day.
Too many variables to say it boosts productivity across the board. Once everyone has iPhones with 3G internet, it no longer is an IT issue. I can't wait.
It's a phone. I understand the iPhone is a cool toy. I've used one a lot that a friend has. Games are cool, video player is cool. But he's paying over $2000 for the phone and two years of service.
Wow.
My phone is from Net 10. I paid $60. It's decent, does what a phone should and has IM/SMS and can send/recv photos.
I pay $15/MO. That is $360, after taxes, for 2 years of service and 150 minutes a month. 10c a minute for more minutes, 5c for messages.
As much as I like gadgets, I just can't imagine paying $90/MO for the iPhone. I'd much rather put that money towards my mortgage. Am I alone in this thinking?
Years ago, the US Government opened up one of these Anonymous web surfing sites. There was no indication that it was the US Government. The let this run for considerable time. After a while, the truth came out in a proceeding. The US Government was using this Anonymous site to find people violating US law. Many people ended up in the tank.
If you send ALL your traffic to this VPN service, what makes you think you are safe? While PB may not log, what is to stop a government from forcing PB to place their own logging device inline?
After being a very quick and nice dialup service, Earthlink suffered a year of horrible response times, poor performance, and high drops. Then it quit, but not until after they lost a lot of subscribers. In a case it turned up that the US Government put these tracking devices inline between Earthlink and their backbone connections which was the cause of the slowdowns. The current crop, though, don't have this issue.
Most all Americans simply want the cheapest, then want to complain. Walmart has $9 keyboards. And that probably is all most people really need.
Among others, I have a $200 Keytronic Keyboard at my desk. The keyboard is programmable in such that I can record macros, which they keyboard plays back as keystrokes - not software on the PC. I can map any key to anything. It has many, many function keys. It is very heavy, and it clicks.
Most people here have $5 mice. I have a Logitech gaming mouse with many programmable buttons, which I've paid for.
There are $1000 keyboard/mice combo's out there if you look for them. Everything built since 1990 hasn't been crap. It's just that is what people buy. Free market, eh?
It use to be that Novell stuff was extremely difficult to setup, but once you got it running it ran for ever. Like the difference between a Cisco router and a $20 DLINK.
Anyone still using Novell software today? It's crap. Zenworks 10.1.3 blows up if you try to use it to delete a registry key. It's a known defect a year after the product has been released.
Check their forums, their software is crap. http://forums.novell.com/ In there you can see they are bleeding customers.
Many of my admin consoles have gone web based. MessageLabs, Zenworks, many others. In IE it can take IE up to 2 seconds after each click to go to the next page. Firefox 3.1 beta lowers this time to MS.
Because the XP firewall blocks DHCP requests when I come out of hibernation, and I can't get it to come back up on the LAN unless I reboot. Which makes hibernation useless. 169.254.x.x sucks.
I have tried replacing the AP, but the problem continues. IPCONFIG/release/renew sometimes works, but not always. Repair connection sometimes works, but not always.
My Wii, iPhone, Mac, Axis cameras, et al do not have this problem. Only XP and Vista, and on many PC's. Turning off the XP firewall, the problem goes away. Turning on total logging shows Windows blocking the DHCP.
Perhaps there is a fix I'm unaware of, but for the time being I just don't hibernate.
For the average user what would be nice is if somehow this encryption talked wireless to a device I had tethered to my key chain.
Perhaps when I boot, I have to click on a button to unlock the encryption, just like I do to open my car.
While that is not governmental level security, it is something a user can understand. It means I don't have to remember anything other than my keys, which I already am use to. It also lets IT make backup devices (car lots can make you another key fob) in case the user looses theirs, the user quits, or IT needs access.
This would solve part of the lost laptop data problem. Of course, if the user just puts the laptop to sleep, that's an issue.
CD players were $1000 when they first came out. Only the rich had them. The price went down and down until today you can pick one up for $5.
DVD players -- exact same deal. Blue rays were $1200, now you can get one for $180. As more people buy them, they will eventually come down to the ~$50 price point a decent DVD player is at now.
Electric cars have been lingering at the high point because no significant car has been rough to market. The Tesla and the Volt appear to be the firsts going there. We need to take the first steps if we are ever to migrate from oil to electric.
It's when I see stories like this that I am glad I program mostly on an i5 with RPGILE. While NULL is possible, it is usually only seen when interfacing with a PC application or if you bind to C/C++ programs or APIs. When I declare @variable I will inz() it, usually with *blanks or *hival (xFF) If I don't declare it, it could have whatever what is memory before but it's not = null. isnull *true.
I'm sorry, but this article is "the sky is falling" type reporting that AP, Reuters, and CNN do. These three orginizations reported that we had captured Osama Bin Laden.
The complaint is that he put these modems in a locked room with no authorization, and against municipal law. If I have a modem on my companies network to allow RAS, you better believe my boss approved it. He had violated many of his legal responsibilities. He set routers up with passwords only he knew, which would be nuked clear if normal console password recovery attempts were made, and locked some of these up behind doors only he had the key to.
What if he got hit by a bus? We had a guy die on us a few years back. Procedure had him put his passwords in a locked cabinet inside a locked and secured room. The city has it's own provisions for such possibilities. Laws. He admits to not following.
If you take any of these charges on the summary, they look innocent. But dig into the complain which was in another./ post, then this guy really looks guilty.
Recently Microsoft didn't support products running inside of VMWare. You told them that, they'd say replicate the problem outside of VMWare then we will support you.
For the most part, they support VMWare today. That is very nice to have. XEN would have to gain such support, imo, to be viable.
So they are basically creating a VERY different browser. I bet if you did a spoof in IE8 of the headers and said something like Mozilla, rendering would be better, eh?
So perhaps Microsoft should take this opportunity to rename the browser? Change the user agent and browser reported back to our code which handles browsers?
I just added iPhone routines to some pages to render the footers better. I'm ready to add Microsoft Explorer 8 MSNIE to my list of what gets the NS/MZ pages. Those who aren't would have probably a 50/50 chance of sending an unknown browser to html/js et al that would render.
Exchange needs to be so smart so that it can open up the TNEF document and scan it for content which would route it depending on a user rule, an Antivirus scan need, or a content filter the admin may have.
One news organization will falsely report a fact, others will pick it up, and the original will state the fact as (post) verified by those who also are reporting the fact.
Perhaps Wikipedia needs WIPO oversight on factual information? (That is meant as a joke.)
>...but that's really not particularly revolutionary
You're right. I've been running Skype on my Windows Mobile phone for years.
But it sucks. Jitter, low battery life, poor quality, problems with WIFI on the mobile requiring a reboot, limited range.
Now mind you, I love Skype. It works great on my PC and Macbook. Just not on my mobile device. And from the reviews I've seen of other Skype WIFI phones, I wouldn't be much better off on those.
What would be revolutionary is if they could offer VoIP on the Touch and make it a nice experience.
I've used Truecrypt a lot. I have many truecrypt volumes.
Truecrypt is great, but you have to be aware of the problems with your devices which will appear to be Truecrypt problems.
#1) File Handles and slow memory cards. I have several Memory Stick card. When trying to Mac OS X 10.5 with Truecrypt against these, they constantly dismount and corrupt. I believe the memory card and/or card reader can't handle the overhead of Truecrypt. This also begs the question how are you going to get your digital cameras to work with Truecrypt?
#2) Corruption on volumes. I have tried to run large (50GB range) Truecrypt volumes on USB drives in XP, but gave up. If Windows crashes, or if you forget to dismount the Truecrypt volumes then safely eject the drive, then shutdown - you will eventually corrupt the Truecrypt volume to the point of having to do a chkdsk and loosing data.
Truecrypt is great. I use it daily. But to say you would put 100% of your all your data and drives on it? I wouldn't go that far.
IBM has laptops which have embedded encryption on them. There are IDE/SATA cards which will encrypt your entire HDD system. That is what I'd start with on implementation. SC Magazine, while I consider an advert and not a true mag, has a lot of adverts on encryption systems. That's a great place to search for these products.
I have a MacBook PRO. It cost $2000 1 year ago. I just bought my wife a Dell XPS 1530 with 4GB of RAM, BlueRay burner, 320GB drive space, Dore 2 duo and 8600 GT video card. This Laptop is very similar to my Macbook, but cost $1100. The current MacBook model has nicer GPU and better CPU, but less specs everywhere else. I'd of loved to get her a Macbook, but paying $2500 or over double just for the OS doesn't make sense.
So as a consumer, I want to see OS X on a Dell. But I understand how Apple doesn't want to have to support 100 PC manufactures hardware issues. And do they want the consumer left with the OS manufacture pointing fingers to the hardware manufacture, and Visa Versa. This is what I like about OS X - Apple can't do that. Apple supplied everything on the box.
But I'd love to be able to run OS X on my ESX server. Perhaps they need to not fight this, but license OS X with 1 support call for the price. Additional support calls at a reasonable price to allow a profit. Turn this into a win-win situation.
Ok, so when I divide 1/9 I get 0.11111111111111111111111111111111.
In my program I am taking the result and formatting it as.11, as that is all my calculation needs to go out to.
So what if instead of wasting time computing and keeping track of the calculation all the way out, I could tell the computer to just come close - show me out to the hundreds?
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If you have an AMD PC with the AMD Processor drivers, or a modern Intel, then configure your PC's power management mode to be "Minimal power management." This is under control panel, display, screen saver, power.
When you do this, it turns on Processor Throttle (AC) ADAPTIVE. This means that your AMD or modern Intel will power down the fans and CPU. Your 2.6Ghz CPU may power down to 933Mhz while you are not doing anything.
Don't worry, it will still go up to 2.6Ghz if you do something.
How about offering this up as step 1 of power savings? powercfg allows you to set these things up during machine login scripts for machine values, and if you grant the proper rights to your users a user login script can modify these settings for user settings. Machine settings take effect when no one is signed on (If not set, it runs full open) and user settings take effect when a user is signed on, and is per user.
powercfg /query
Media Player Classic was great, but it's no longer updated and has several security flaws that are un patched. You can run a Secunia offline scan (download the scanner) and it will give you all the details about this.
VLC is far superior to Media Player Classic. It can play almost anything. It has a problem with WMV's that are encrypted or require a codec download (usually a virus if p2p.) On Mac, it can play encrypted DVDs too. Add the playlists for Shoutcast and you have tens of thousands of audio and video channels.
You can merge streams such as two axis video cameras into a single display. You can overlay things. You can record it to disk or re-stream it. You have many effects such as motion detection and motion blur which when set to max, is pretty nice for CCTV use.
And with VLC, you don't have to hunt for CODECs like you do with WMPlayer.
It's really worth trying out.
There are too many variables to apply this to a large company via IT and web filtering. If I see that my sales person was doing fantasy football for 8 hours non stop each day, then I report that to his manager.
If the sales guy is making his sales, then it's "who cares." If he's not, then appropriate actions can be taken.
What about my shop staff or house keeping? They can't possibly be repairing vehicles or cleaning if they are on Fantasy Football 8 hours a day.
Too many variables to say it boosts productivity across the board. Once everyone has iPhones with 3G internet, it no longer is an IT issue. I can't wait.
Tolian Soran exploded the star.
Really, why couldn't this be some alien race blowing it up to partially exterminate an enemy?
It's a phone. I understand the iPhone is a cool toy. I've used one a lot that a friend has. Games are cool, video player is cool. But he's paying over $2000 for the phone and two years of service.
Wow.
My phone is from Net 10. I paid $60. It's decent, does what a phone should and has IM/SMS and can send/recv photos.
I pay $15/MO. That is $360, after taxes, for 2 years of service and 150 minutes a month. 10c a minute for more minutes, 5c for messages.
As much as I like gadgets, I just can't imagine paying $90/MO for the iPhone. I'd much rather put that money towards my mortgage. Am I alone in this thinking?
Years ago, the US Government opened up one of these Anonymous web surfing sites. There was no indication that it was the US Government. The let this run for considerable time. After a while, the truth came out in a proceeding. The US Government was using this Anonymous site to find people violating US law. Many people ended up in the tank.
If you send ALL your traffic to this VPN service, what makes you think you are safe? While PB may not log, what is to stop a government from forcing PB to place their own logging device inline?
After being a very quick and nice dialup service, Earthlink suffered a year of horrible response times, poor performance, and high drops. Then it quit, but not until after they lost a lot of subscribers. In a case it turned up that the US Government put these tracking devices inline between Earthlink and their backbone connections which was the cause of the slowdowns. The current crop, though, don't have this issue.
People need to think about these things.
Most all Americans simply want the cheapest, then want to complain. Walmart has $9 keyboards. And that probably is all most people really need.
Among others, I have a $200 Keytronic Keyboard at my desk. The keyboard is programmable in such that I can record macros, which they keyboard plays back as keystrokes - not software on the PC. I can map any key to anything. It has many, many function keys. It is very heavy, and it clicks.
Most people here have $5 mice. I have a Logitech gaming mouse with many programmable buttons, which I've paid for.
There are $1000 keyboard/mice combo's out there if you look for them. Everything built since 1990 hasn't been crap. It's just that is what people buy. Free market, eh?
It use to be that Novell stuff was extremely difficult to setup, but once you got it running it ran for ever. Like the difference between a Cisco router and a $20 DLINK.
Anyone still using Novell software today? It's crap. Zenworks 10.1.3 blows up if you try to use it to delete a registry key. It's a known defect a year after the product has been released.
Check their forums, their software is crap. http://forums.novell.com/ In there you can see they are bleeding customers.
Perhaps we just need to turn this Internet thingy off? Things would be safer without it. Damned progress.
>>Will Joe Public be in position to notice them?
YES.
Many of my admin consoles have gone web based. MessageLabs, Zenworks, many others. In IE it can take IE up to 2 seconds after each click to go to the next page. Firefox 3.1 beta lowers this time to MS.
Users will notice.
Because the XP firewall blocks DHCP requests when I come out of hibernation, and I can't get it to come back up on the LAN unless I reboot. Which makes hibernation useless. 169.254.x.x sucks.
I have tried replacing the AP, but the problem continues. IPCONFIG /release /renew sometimes works, but not always. Repair connection sometimes works, but not always.
My Wii, iPhone, Mac, Axis cameras, et al do not have this problem. Only XP and Vista, and on many PC's. Turning off the XP firewall, the problem goes away. Turning on total logging shows Windows blocking the DHCP.
Perhaps there is a fix I'm unaware of, but for the time being I just don't hibernate.
For the average user what would be nice is if somehow this encryption talked wireless to a device I had tethered to my key chain.
Perhaps when I boot, I have to click on a button to unlock the encryption, just like I do to open my car.
While that is not governmental level security, it is something a user can understand. It means I don't have to remember anything other than my keys, which I already am use to. It also lets IT make backup devices (car lots can make you another key fob) in case the user looses theirs, the user quits, or IT needs access.
This would solve part of the lost laptop data problem. Of course, if the user just puts the laptop to sleep, that's an issue.
CD players were $1000 when they first came out. Only the rich had them. The price went down and down until today you can pick one up for $5.
DVD players -- exact same deal. Blue rays were $1200, now you can get one for $180. As more people buy them, they will eventually come down to the ~$50 price point a decent DVD player is at now.
Electric cars have been lingering at the high point because no significant car has been rough to market. The Tesla and the Volt appear to be the firsts going there. We need to take the first steps if we are ever to migrate from oil to electric.
My bank offers me the RSA SecurID feature for $20. It also offers me identity theft protection for free, with no deductible.
I have several RSAid's, one per site I use. Why can't I have just one and have RSA the hosted SecurID Management site, like openID?
It's when I see stories like this that I am glad I program mostly on an i5 with RPGILE. While NULL is possible, it is usually only seen when interfacing with a PC application or if you bind to C/C++ programs or APIs. When I declare @variable I will inz() it, usually with *blanks or *hival (xFF) If I don't declare it, it could have whatever what is memory before but it's not = null. isnull *true.
Yes, people you know. For example, per my antivirus software the last XLS document on this page;
http://www.insurance.mo.gov/industry/forms/index.htm
has MS08-057 exploit in it. My local state government.
I'm sorry, but this article is "the sky is falling" type reporting that AP, Reuters, and CNN do. These three orginizations reported that we had captured Osama Bin Laden.
The complaint is that he put these modems in a locked room with no authorization, and against municipal law. If I have a modem on my companies network to allow RAS, you better believe my boss approved it. He had violated many of his legal responsibilities. He set routers up with passwords only he knew, which would be nuked clear if normal console password recovery attempts were made, and locked some of these up behind doors only he had the key to.
What if he got hit by a bus? We had a guy die on us a few years back. Procedure had him put his passwords in a locked cabinet inside a locked and secured room. The city has it's own provisions for such possibilities. Laws. He admits to not following.
If you take any of these charges on the summary, they look innocent. But dig into the complain which was in another ./ post, then this guy really looks guilty.
Recently Microsoft didn't support products running inside of VMWare. You told them that, they'd say replicate the problem outside of VMWare then we will support you.
For the most part, they support VMWare today. That is very nice to have. XEN would have to gain such support, imo, to be viable.
So they are basically creating a VERY different browser. I bet if you did a spoof in IE8 of the headers and said something like Mozilla, rendering would be better, eh?
So perhaps Microsoft should take this opportunity to rename the browser? Change the user agent and browser reported back to our code which handles browsers?
I just added iPhone routines to some pages to render the footers better. I'm ready to add Microsoft Explorer 8 MSNIE to my list of what gets the NS/MZ pages. Those who aren't would have probably a 50/50 chance of sending an unknown browser to html/js et al that would render.
Exchange needs to be so smart so that it can open up the TNEF document and scan it for content which would route it depending on a user rule, an Antivirus scan need, or a content filter the admin may have.
And yes, CommunicateGate PRO has had it's share of serious problems just like almost any software;
http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=CommuniGate
One of these allows file access as root.
One news organization will falsely report a fact, others will pick it up, and the original will state the fact as (post) verified by those who also are reporting the fact.
Perhaps Wikipedia needs WIPO oversight on factual information? (That is meant as a joke.)
>...but that's really not particularly revolutionary
You're right. I've been running Skype on my Windows Mobile phone for years.
But it sucks. Jitter, low battery life, poor quality, problems with WIFI on the mobile requiring a reboot, limited range.
Now mind you, I love Skype. It works great on my PC and Macbook. Just not on my mobile device. And from the reviews I've seen of other Skype WIFI phones, I wouldn't be much better off on those.
What would be revolutionary is if they could offer VoIP on the Touch and make it a nice experience.
I've used Truecrypt a lot. I have many truecrypt volumes.
Truecrypt is great, but you have to be aware of the problems with your devices which will appear to be Truecrypt problems.
#1) File Handles and slow memory cards. I have several Memory Stick card. When trying to Mac OS X 10.5 with Truecrypt against these, they constantly dismount and corrupt. I believe the memory card and/or card reader can't handle the overhead of Truecrypt. This also begs the question how are you going to get your digital cameras to work with Truecrypt?
#2) Corruption on volumes. I have tried to run large (50GB range) Truecrypt volumes on USB drives in XP, but gave up. If Windows crashes, or if you forget to dismount the Truecrypt volumes then safely eject the drive, then shutdown - you will eventually corrupt the Truecrypt volume to the point of having to do a chkdsk and loosing data.
Truecrypt is great. I use it daily. But to say you would put 100% of your all your data and drives on it? I wouldn't go that far.
IBM has laptops which have embedded encryption on them. There are IDE/SATA cards which will encrypt your entire HDD system. That is what I'd start with on implementation. SC Magazine, while I consider an advert and not a true mag, has a lot of adverts on encryption systems. That's a great place to search for these products.
I have a MacBook PRO. It cost $2000 1 year ago. I just bought my wife a Dell XPS 1530 with 4GB of RAM, BlueRay burner, 320GB drive space, Dore 2 duo and 8600 GT video card. This Laptop is very similar to my Macbook, but cost $1100. The current MacBook model has nicer GPU and better CPU, but less specs everywhere else. I'd of loved to get her a Macbook, but paying $2500 or over double just for the OS doesn't make sense.
So as a consumer, I want to see OS X on a Dell. But I understand how Apple doesn't want to have to support 100 PC manufactures hardware issues. And do they want the consumer left with the OS manufacture pointing fingers to the hardware manufacture, and Visa Versa. This is what I like about OS X - Apple can't do that. Apple supplied everything on the box.
But I'd love to be able to run OS X on my ESX server. Perhaps they need to not fight this, but license OS X with 1 support call for the price. Additional support calls at a reasonable price to allow a profit. Turn this into a win-win situation.
Ok, so when I divide 1/9 I get 0.11111111111111111111111111111111.
In my program I am taking the result and formatting it as .11, as that is all my calculation needs to go out to.
So what if instead of wasting time computing and keeping track of the calculation all the way out, I could tell the computer to just come close - show me out to the hundreds?
I think this is maybe a better example?