Yeah, we...uhm...found the laptop again...really did...yeah...because claiming so leaves us protected from any coming lawsuits that might or might not be caused by any identity theft cases that could be related to (but, of course, actually are nothing at all caused by) this incident...which certainly did never happen...
And of course noone tampered with the machine...after all if WE couldn't find it, who else could have?
Let's say (for simplicity) they used gcc to compile the different code paths. If all they told the compiler was to "optimize this one for Intel, optimize this one for AMD and optimize this one for VIA" and at the end you had results as those in the article then it wouldn't really be a fault of the PCMark guys.
This gets even worse if they optimized the different code paths using the respective compiler and libraries of the CPU vendor (e.g. ICC for Intel). If ICC's optimizations were a lot better than GCC's it would lead to vastly skewed results.
The second one should be a no-no*, the first one not so much.
* although it does give you the raw peak performance for a system with software that has been set up optimally
They probably just use code compiled with optimizations for each given chip family...if they didn't then people would be shouting how not using special features of a certain cpu would be unfair, etc.
So what now if Intel was the biggest desktop CPU manufacturer in the market (I know it's a stretch, but bear with me for a minute) and profiles for their CPUs (either through ICC or maybe even GCC) were just better optimized because more people put time and effort into them?
I can certainly see this being true for VIA...not so very much with AMD though...but it's still a possible explanation.
And as other people hav already noted this is pretty much saying nothing without testing all the other permutations.
Can't you backup the old BIOS during the process of flashing? I have yet to see a flasher without this functionality.
Though trying to re-flash the backup of my Asus board some weeks ago gave me an error that the bootcode was missing from the flash-file and therefore it'd refuse to flash...
Yeah, I had this game imported from overseas recently (it's not available yet here in Germany) and it was a great choice. Awesome story, great puzzles, good atmosphere.
Also Zack & Wiki which has been mentioned a couple of times provided some good times with my Wii.
But seriously, if you have a DS and like brain teasers get Professor Layton.:)
The question in the article was if there were any _modern_ tools to do document processing. Framemaker with it's dated GUI and awful wokflow clearly isn't from this century, let alone modern.
A lot of seemingly "normal" and "easy" tasks take a master course to figure out how to do properly in Framemaker. Try to make a box that has a different border color than fill color. We ended up creating two shapes one slightly larger than the other.
Technically I understand how liquid metal CAN be more efficient than water. But then again the flow of water is aided by pumps which force a lot of water per second through the cooler, not to mention that a proper radiator is about twice the size of that thing.
Looks to me like Biosmagazine just copied that part from Danamics' press release. Without any comparative benchmarks (hell, we don't even have a comparison to a standard cooler) I'll remain unconvinced.
Yes, because you couldn't have like kept the retail version and still downloaded a copy for actual use? You know, so you actually own it legally?
If you don't like their DRM that's fine, you are free not to purchase and play the game. But returning and downloading instead and crying "they made me do it" is hypocrisy.
Well if they investigate you and find your truecrypt container(s), they could ask for the keys.
In some countries (UK and my country) you can be forced to give up the keys.
Not so in Germany...for now at least.
If you only give the decoy keys, they could decide to create a huge file and fill up the decoy container and thus overwrite the data in the hidden partition.
And do what? Destroy the data they're so desperately searching for? Well, not even that actually because every forensics expert in the universe should always do a backup and never (if possible) tamper with the original.
Always remember: If law enforcement is looking at your hard drive them destroying the evidence is actually what you should be hoping for...it's not really a deterrent.
I've been having a similar problem lately, trying to recover data from two old CDs that were stored in a closed case under my bed.
Here's a nice Windows tool helping with recovery of barely readable discs: H2cdimage (first link on the page). I fear it's only available in German, but what it does is read a disc as well as possible. Errors are skipped and not written to the image, but you can run the program again and it will re-try just the defective sectors. You can even move the image and program to another machine and try with a totally different optical drive. Each time h2cdimage will continue where it left off and try to read just the missing sectors.
First I thought with ADS you meant Attention Deficiency Syndrome...which would be quite fitting as well since their pages are so overloaded with crap...
I was already wondering during the original 7.3 release phase what exactly needed development and fixing so badly in X.Org. Sure it's an underlying system that every graphical distro out there is one way or another based on. But what eactly would be the killer feature or change that everyone wants for X.Org 7.4 (or 7.5)? Right now it seems to me X.Org is pretty much working "good enough" and people seem to be out of ideas on how to do any groundbreaking work with it. No surprise at all that there's not much development interest left anymore.
I might be wrong and the X system might need a general overhaul for one reason or another. I'd be glad to be pointed the right way to see why we need a quicker development cycle for X.Org.
Great...the forums just ate my post when I unfolded your previous message to check on a thing you said...so here's everything in about half the space:
- I'm not saying the guy is innocent, just that there's not enough to put him in prison for life (no matter if he did it or not) - all the 'suspicious behavior' you mentioned are only the few (potentially misleading) things that got reported in big media. - I, too, thought the guy was guilty beyond any doubt before I started reading a (heavily biased but still accurate) log of the trial's happenings. Let's just say hosing down your car is much less suspicious if you've just come back from Burning Man Festival. - I'm not looking up to this guy in any way.
Thing is he might have done it, he might not. Without a body you only have 'suspicious behavior' which is not the same as 'cold, hard evidence' in my book.
Anyway, last thing I'm saying in this case because even just trying to prove my point (media reports rule the public opinion in such a 'big' case) I start to sound like a Reiser nutcase.
Bit touchy today aren't you? I didn't say he didn't do it nor was I defending him. It's just that in a lot of public cases a lot of people tend to make up their "facts" by what sensationalism-mongering the press reports.
Usually after a couple of years of trial and negotiations no one cares anymore if the initial accusations were correct. For example Michael Jackson will always be a child molester to some people even though his name should now be cleared.
Reiser was always a murderer to some people right from the start because it was repeated over and over.
No where in the article does it say that he has agreed to it, they are speculating that there might be a reduced sentence if Hans discloses where the body is. Yeah, upon reading the summary I, too, thought that Reiser was actually admitting to having killed his wife. But since this is just a potential deal that is based on the general notion that he actually HAS killed her and thee is no comment from Reiser himself this article is pretty bar any information.
For all those defending him there's still a string or two of hope. Personally I think the whole thing is too fishy to be able to put a man in prison for life for something he might not have done. "Beyond reasonable doubt" my ass...
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...that's how they keep their prices low...err, wait...
race conditions often can lead to crashes
Yup, it's pretty much like the scene at the Bridge of Death in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail.
If you don't get all the answers right, you die!
Level 3 hacker beats two level password...makes sense. :)
Yeah, the additional third one being the password to an encrypted container in which the data is stored.
Yeah, we...uhm...found the laptop again...really did...yeah...because claiming so leaves us protected from any coming lawsuits that might or might not be caused by any identity theft cases that could be related to (but, of course, actually are nothing at all caused by) this incident...which certainly did never happen...
And of course noone tampered with the machine...after all if WE couldn't find it, who else could have?
Friends again?
I'm amazed...how did you get through the two levels of passwords? You must be one hell of a master hacker!
no - the problem is that no one wants to be paid minimum wage to program COBOL
I think it's exactly the other way round. Nobody wants to program COBOL to get paid (lower) minimum wage. :)
Well, not really
Let's say (for simplicity) they used gcc to compile the different code paths. If all they told the compiler was to "optimize this one for Intel, optimize this one for AMD and optimize this one for VIA" and at the end you had results as those in the article then it wouldn't really be a fault of the PCMark guys.
This gets even worse if they optimized the different code paths using the respective compiler and libraries of the CPU vendor (e.g. ICC for Intel).
If ICC's optimizations were a lot better than GCC's it would lead to vastly skewed results.
The second one should be a no-no*, the first one not so much.
* although it does give you the raw peak performance for a system with software that has been set up optimally
They probably just use code compiled with optimizations for each given chip family...if they didn't then people would be shouting how not using special features of a certain cpu would be unfair, etc.
So what now if Intel was the biggest desktop CPU manufacturer in the market (I know it's a stretch, but bear with me for a minute) and profiles for their CPUs (either through ICC or maybe even GCC) were just better optimized because more people put time and effort into them?
I can certainly see this being true for VIA...not so very much with AMD though...but it's still a possible explanation.
And as other people hav already noted this is pretty much saying nothing without testing all the other permutations.
Instant access to Guantanamo v2 :D
No, actually I don't...
Can't you backup the old BIOS during the process of flashing? I have yet to see a flasher without this functionality.
Though trying to re-flash the backup of my Asus board some weeks ago gave me an error that the bootcode was missing from the flash-file and therefore it'd refuse to flash...
Yeah, I had this game imported from overseas recently (it's not available yet here in Germany) and it was a great choice. Awesome story, great puzzles, good atmosphere.
Also Zack & Wiki which has been mentioned a couple of times provided some good times with my Wii.
But seriously, if you have a DS and like brain teasers get Professor Layton. :)
I see why you posted as an AC...
The question in the article was if there were any _modern_ tools to do document processing. Framemaker with it's dated GUI and awful wokflow clearly isn't from this century, let alone modern.
A lot of seemingly "normal" and "easy" tasks take a master course to figure out how to do properly in Framemaker. Try to make a box that has a different border color than fill color. We ended up creating two shapes one slightly larger than the other.
Yeah, that's modern...
Technically I understand how liquid metal CAN be more efficient than water. But then again the flow of water is aided by pumps which force a lot of water per second through the cooler, not to mention that a proper radiator is about twice the size of that thing.
Looks to me like Biosmagazine just copied that part from Danamics' press release. Without any comparative benchmarks (hell, we don't even have a comparison to a standard cooler) I'll remain unconvinced.
Yes, because you couldn't have like kept the retail version and still downloaded a copy for actual use? You know, so you actually own it legally?
If you don't like their DRM that's fine, you are free not to purchase and play the game. But returning and downloading instead and crying "they made me do it" is hypocrisy.
Well if they investigate you and find your truecrypt container(s), they could ask for the keys.
In some countries (UK and my country) you can be forced to give up the keys.
Not so in Germany...for now at least.
If you only give the decoy keys, they could decide to create a huge file and fill up the decoy container and thus overwrite the data in the hidden partition.
And do what? Destroy the data they're so desperately searching for? Well, not even that actually because every forensics expert in the universe should always do a backup and never (if possible) tamper with the original.
Always remember: If law enforcement is looking at your hard drive them destroying the evidence is actually what you should be hoping for...it's not really a deterrent.
I've been having a similar problem lately, trying to recover data from two old CDs that were stored in a closed case under my bed.
Here's a nice Windows tool helping with recovery of barely readable discs: H2cdimage (first link on the page). I fear it's only available in German, but what it does is read a disc as well as possible. Errors are skipped and not written to the image, but you can run the program again and it will re-try just the defective sectors. You can even move the image and program to another machine and try with a totally different optical drive. Each time h2cdimage will continue where it left off and try to read just the missing sectors.
Great program imho :)
First I thought with ADS you meant Attention Deficiency Syndrome...which would be quite fitting as well since their pages are so overloaded with crap...
Thanks you for the first truly funny "Soviet Russia" joke
I was already wondering during the original 7.3 release phase what exactly needed development and fixing so badly in X.Org. Sure it's an underlying system that every graphical distro out there is one way or another based on. But what eactly would be the killer feature or change that everyone wants for X.Org 7.4 (or 7.5)? Right now it seems to me X.Org is pretty much working "good enough" and people seem to be out of ideas on how to do any groundbreaking work with it. No surprise at all that there's not much development interest left anymore.
I might be wrong and the X system might need a general overhaul for one reason or another. I'd be glad to be pointed the right way to see why we need a quicker development cycle for X.Org.
Great...the forums just ate my post when I unfolded your previous message to check on a thing you said...so here's everything in about half the space:
- I'm not saying the guy is innocent, just that there's not enough to put him in prison for life (no matter if he did it or not)
- all the 'suspicious behavior' you mentioned are only the few (potentially misleading) things that got reported in big media.
- I, too, thought the guy was guilty beyond any doubt before I started reading a (heavily biased but still accurate) log of the trial's happenings. Let's just say hosing down your car is much less suspicious if you've just come back from Burning Man Festival.
- I'm not looking up to this guy in any way.
Thing is he might have done it, he might not. Without a body you only have 'suspicious behavior' which is not the same as 'cold, hard evidence' in my book.
Anyway, last thing I'm saying in this case because even just trying to prove my point (media reports rule the public opinion in such a 'big' case) I start to sound like a Reiser nutcase.
Bit touchy today aren't you? I didn't say he didn't do it nor was I defending him. It's just that in a lot of public cases a lot of people tend to make up their "facts" by what sensationalism-mongering the press reports.
Usually after a couple of years of trial and negotiations no one cares anymore if the initial accusations were correct. For example Michael Jackson will always be a child molester to some people even though his name should now be cleared.
Reiser was always a murderer to some people right from the start because it was repeated over and over.
I don't really care either way...
No where in the article does it say that he has agreed to it, they are speculating that there might be a reduced sentence if Hans discloses where the body is. Yeah, upon reading the summary I, too, thought that Reiser was actually admitting to having killed his wife. But since this is just a potential deal that is based on the general notion that he actually HAS killed her and thee is no comment from Reiser himself this article is pretty bar any information.
For all those defending him there's still a string or two of hope. Personally I think the whole thing is too fishy to be able to put a man in prison for life for something he might not have done.
"Beyond reasonable doubt" my ass...