The first time I used full disk encryption was KoH on my 386/25 laptop that ran G2 & G3 to clone those pesky flip and brick Motorola's.
As for modern day FDE, the best implementation that I have seen was a friend of mine's laptop who worked for Morgan Stanley in their International Banking division. The OS was Windows XP, the hardware was a ThinkPad and the authentication mechanism was a PC-Card. Without the card, the laptop wouldn't even boot.
It could store vital boot files, files to your most common applications, etcetera. In other words, files that do not change much over time.
I would imagine that all of the boot files plus commonly used.dll files would get stored to the flash section. Then when the system shuts down, it would write the page file to the flash in addition to all of persistent application data necessary to quickly boot the hibernated session.
This is a really good observation. About five years ago a large portion of the vendors in the manufacturing, ERP, and accounting fields started offering "web portals" and "web enabled" access to their data. Another big buzzword at the time was "extranet". 95% of those vendors went with IE/ActiveX to present the backend data to the browser.
An MMO is addictive in its ongoing promise of another reward, because of its surrogate (I would say "pseudo-") sociality, because it offers a straightforward path of action that can be very appealing to people who lack one in their real lives.
You make a good point here. For a lot of people, especially the "kids" who are still in high school and playing WoW, they can get some social perks and "normalcies" out of it that they wouldn't otherwise get. For example, they might not get invited to the party after the football game, and even if they showed up, few people might care that they are there since all they can talk about is WoW anyway. =) On the other hand, they might be a priest in WoW and their guildies just can't wait for them to log back on so they can get back to tearing through instances. In real life, they could spend hours and hours and hours trying to do something and not get the result that they want. In WoW on the other hand, they're pretty much guaranteed that if they put enough hours into it, they will get some random piece of phat lewt.
In WoW, if you don't have a high level character (my highest is a lvl 28 human mage), you don't understand many of the jokes, references to instances, and general gaming humor as of late.
That's the truth. I didn't understand the whole Pirates vs Ninjas debate until I played WoW.
Because TV is part of a shared cultural experience. In today's middle-America, you're missing out on some essential water cooler conversations if you didn't watch the latest episode of Lost, Grey's Anatomy, or $SPORTS_EVENT.
That's the truth. I stopped watching TV about four or five years ago. I notice that I feel most disassociated from the TV-mind in two cases. Either people are bantering on about some inane "scandal" and when I ask where they get that crap from they inform me "that it has been on the news for days". The other is when a bunch of people are laughing about some "funny commercial" that I've never seen.
That's one way to look at it. However, the other way to look at it is that Intel had used its monopoly position to illegally damage AMD's position in the marketplace.
I'm probably going to get modded flamebait for this, but here goes anyway...
Intel didn't need a monopoly to damage AMD's position in the market. The fact that AMD chips just plain don't perform as well as Intel chips damaged AMD's position. I have given AMD a few chances over the years. My first AMD was their alternative to the 486DX2/66. My most recent AMD was an Athlon64 3500. In both cases the biggest performance difference was noticable when launching multiple applications at the same time. The Intel chips just seem to process the basic application and OS functions faster. I figure a lot of that has to do with how close Intel and Microsoft have been over the years.
And there were quickly cheap third-party solutions to connect ADB and serial devices to USB ports.
But have you actually tried to use a serial to USB adapter on anything like a CNC-machine? They simply don't work. You need a true, honest to God, hard wired serial port. Those serial to USB adapters seem to only be good if you want to run a serial mouse. If you need to do any thing else serial, like the CNC machine, or connect up a console cable... good freakin luck.
Luckily I won't be a slave to the IT machine for the rest of my life. As a counter point, my boss has a wife and kid and things are good there. Obviously one exception doesn't disprove the rule, but it's not impossible to make it work.
In many areas of the US including mine, people separate recyclables from their normal trash. It took a while to catch on, but once the standard suburban "butbutbut my routines!" grumbling died down, it became standard procedure, and where I live we even get the recycling bins from the town at no charge. It's now been something like 15-20 years, and nobody even takes notice of it anymore, we just do it.
Going back to the example of my client, they seperate the recyclables from the waste stream. The state mandates that cities meet certain recycleable guidelines, so my client steps in and helps them make those guidelines. Most "trash" these days is recycled in some way or another. Whether it's cans, bottles and paper, or green waste.
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I only chose to work at MS because I got to work in the games industry.
I have a question to ask you about network code on AoE3. Can you send me an email? darmstrong562 at gmail dot com. Thanks!
I agree whole heartedly here. I have been in IT for over ten years and with my current girl friend for two of them. We just moved in with each other six months ago and are going through the relationship strains that you deal with when you first move in with someone after having been single for a long time. My g/f has begun to understand the dynamics of the job. Sometimes I'm away from home until 3am, but other days I'm sitting around the house in the middle of the week because I can work from home.
I'm glad that I decided to live with her long before we thought about getting married. No matter what your profession is, you should move in with your potential spouse and live with them for AT LEAST a year before you get engaged and/or married. There are so many dynamics that you take for granted as common place that will really create problems when someone else has to "deal with" them.
One of my clients is in the waste management industry and they are already dealing with regulations from the State of California that prevents them from accepting televisions, CRTs or flat panel displays. The governator passed legislation that requires special disposal of the afforementioned products and of course, that disposal requires a fee that the consumer must pay.
Speaking only for myself, I have heard and used the term for quite some time before I'd ever heard the whole jewish conspiracy angle.
This is the first time that I have read about the "jewish conspiracy angle" to the term "neo-con". What are you talking about? I'd never considered Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or any of the rest of the cabal bent in the stereotypical, "Jew" direction.
Well everyone knows it's a modern-day oh-so-nuanced leftist codeword for "Jew",
Are you serious? As a proud member of, "Everyone Who Isn't Everyone - EWIE"... This it the first and only time I've been presented with the position that NeoCon = "...leftist codeword for 'Jew'".
I'd love to see a complete overhaul of all sitting candidates in favor for new blood, Democrat *and* Republican who
Here, here. A complete, 100% change of direction. A vote for anybody but an incombent. Make EVERYBODY involved in the system accountable for the failures. Our system would function MUCH better if, instead of waiting for one party to cease the majority of the governmental process, the people simply replaced BOTH PARTIES every four years with those who can cooperate.
The article addressed a question that has been nagging at the back of my mind but I haven't gotten around to figuring out the answer to. I like the way that the article is to the point, and very in depth. The author does a good job of explaining the various aspects of the files and the importance of preserving them, and then goes on to detail the steps necessary to preserve them.
I get the feeling that was supposed to be a jab at linux. It's a lousy one. A typical desktop linux install does not have httpd or ftpd installed and things most definitely aren't compiled from source -- in fact update systems in linux are in some aspects superior as they take care of all software on the machine. Don't make asinine comments about things you don't know about.
It wasn't so much a swipe or jab at Linux so much as it was a statement to reenforce my position that the *nix world had similar security problems in the early 90s. And back when those exploits were out, yes, you did have to recompile the fixes from source. That may not be the case anymore, and it certainly isn't the case with MS software either.
For the record, my first introduction to Linux was with Slackware in 1994. I was 16 and for the most part a warez kid, so I didn't waste too much time with it. The SLIP software for Windows 3.1 worked just as well for getting on the Internet and FTPing warez as the Linux client did. I went to LA 2600 back in the day. I've shot the shit with Aleph One, Mr. Upsetter, Gatsby and a bunch of other guys. Just because I sling warez for the evil empire for a living doesn't mean my head is completely up my ass.
As a Microsoft customer, I'm glad to see that they are releasing a whole slew of patches. As strange as it seems, I'm actually glad and feel MORE secure that they're releasing a lot of them. It gives the impression (however naive it may be) that they really are getting serious about finding bugs and patching holes. I know it's fun to bash on Microsoft but seriously, they aren't going through anything all that different than what the *nix world when through in the late 80s and early 90s. When a company has the most widely used network operating system in the world, and there are people storing sensitive and lucrative data on that system, you have to expect that people are going to be looking to actively exploit it. Sure, home machines get pwnt all the time. However I have yet to see properly patched and firewalled file server owned. With all of the gateway AV, client side AV, IDS' and IE alternatives out there these days, you have to be a pretty incompetent idiot to have your box owned.
For what it's worth, my home XP box downloaded 7 of the possible 26 patches. That's 19 patches that I didn't even need. Not too bad. And much better than having download the updated ftpd, or httpd, or [insert exploited daemon here] source and manually compile it.
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The x64 version definitely shouldn't.
The first time I used full disk encryption was KoH on my 386/25 laptop that ran G2 & G3 to clone those pesky flip and brick Motorola's. As for modern day FDE, the best implementation that I have seen was a friend of mine's laptop who worked for Morgan Stanley in their International Banking division. The OS was Windows XP, the hardware was a ThinkPad and the authentication mechanism was a PC-Card. Without the card, the laptop wouldn't even boot.
I would imagine that all of the boot files plus commonly used .dll files would get stored to the flash section. Then when the system shuts down, it would write the page file to the flash in addition to all of persistent application data necessary to quickly boot the hibernated session.
This is a really good observation. About five years ago a large portion of the vendors in the manufacturing, ERP, and accounting fields started offering "web portals" and "web enabled" access to their data. Another big buzzword at the time was "extranet". 95% of those vendors went with IE/ActiveX to present the backend data to the browser.
You make a good point here. For a lot of people, especially the "kids" who are still in high school and playing WoW, they can get some social perks and "normalcies" out of it that they wouldn't otherwise get. For example, they might not get invited to the party after the football game, and even if they showed up, few people might care that they are there since all they can talk about is WoW anyway. =) On the other hand, they might be a priest in WoW and their guildies just can't wait for them to log back on so they can get back to tearing through instances. In real life, they could spend hours and hours and hours trying to do something and not get the result that they want. In WoW on the other hand, they're pretty much guaranteed that if they put enough hours into it, they will get some random piece of phat lewt.
That's the truth. I didn't understand the whole Pirates vs Ninjas debate until I played WoW.
That's the truth. I stopped watching TV about four or five years ago. I notice that I feel most disassociated from the TV-mind in two cases. Either people are bantering on about some inane "scandal" and when I ask where they get that crap from they inform me "that it has been on the news for days". The other is when a bunch of people are laughing about some "funny commercial" that I've never seen.
I wasn't talking about iMacs specifically. I was more addressing the issues with USB to serial converters.
I'm probably going to get modded flamebait for this, but here goes anyway...
Intel didn't need a monopoly to damage AMD's position in the market. The fact that AMD chips just plain don't perform as well as Intel chips damaged AMD's position. I have given AMD a few chances over the years. My first AMD was their alternative to the 486DX2/66. My most recent AMD was an Athlon64 3500. In both cases the biggest performance difference was noticable when launching multiple applications at the same time. The Intel chips just seem to process the basic application and OS functions faster. I figure a lot of that has to do with how close Intel and Microsoft have been over the years.
But have you actually tried to use a serial to USB adapter on anything like a CNC-machine? They simply don't work. You need a true, honest to God, hard wired serial port. Those serial to USB adapters seem to only be good if you want to run a serial mouse. If you need to do any thing else serial, like the CNC machine, or connect up a console cable... good freakin luck.
Thanks for the link.
Luckily I won't be a slave to the IT machine for the rest of my life. As a counter point, my boss has a wife and kid and things are good there. Obviously one exception doesn't disprove the rule, but it's not impossible to make it work.
Going back to the example of my client, they seperate the recyclables from the waste stream. The state mandates that cities meet certain recycleable guidelines, so my client steps in and helps them make those guidelines. Most "trash" these days is recycled in some way or another. Whether it's cans, bottles and paper, or green waste.
I have a question to ask you about network code on AoE3. Can you send me an email? darmstrong562 at gmail dot com. Thanks!
It's good read a post from someone who understands what is going on, and the actual dynamics involved in the situation.
I'm glad that I decided to live with her long before we thought about getting married. No matter what your profession is, you should move in with your potential spouse and live with them for AT LEAST a year before you get engaged and/or married. There are so many dynamics that you take for granted as common place that will really create problems when someone else has to "deal with" them.
One of my clients is in the waste management industry and they are already dealing with regulations from the State of California that prevents them from accepting televisions, CRTs or flat panel displays. The governator passed legislation that requires special disposal of the afforementioned products and of course, that disposal requires a fee that the consumer must pay.
This is the first time that I have read about the "jewish conspiracy angle" to the term "neo-con". What are you talking about? I'd never considered Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or any of the rest of the cabal bent in the stereotypical, "Jew" direction.
Are you serious? As a proud member of, "Everyone Who Isn't Everyone - EWIE" ... This it the first and only time I've been presented with the position that NeoCon = "...leftist codeword for 'Jew'".
Do tell me more? This ought to be interesting.
Here, here. A complete, 100% change of direction. A vote for anybody but an incombent. Make EVERYBODY involved in the system accountable for the failures. Our system would function MUCH better if, instead of waiting for one party to cease the majority of the governmental process, the people simply replaced BOTH PARTIES every four years with those who can cooperate.
The article addressed a question that has been nagging at the back of my mind but I haven't gotten around to figuring out the answer to. I like the way that the article is to the point, and very in depth. The author does a good job of explaining the various aspects of the files and the importance of preserving them, and then goes on to detail the steps necessary to preserve them.
Well, at least he stayed true to the essense of the topic...
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It wasn't so much a swipe or jab at Linux so much as it was a statement to reenforce my position that the *nix world had similar security problems in the early 90s. And back when those exploits were out, yes, you did have to recompile the fixes from source. That may not be the case anymore, and it certainly isn't the case with MS software either.
For the record, my first introduction to Linux was with Slackware in 1994. I was 16 and for the most part a warez kid, so I didn't waste too much time with it. The SLIP software for Windows 3.1 worked just as well for getting on the Internet and FTPing warez as the Linux client did. I went to LA 2600 back in the day. I've shot the shit with Aleph One, Mr. Upsetter, Gatsby and a bunch of other guys. Just because I sling warez for the evil empire for a living doesn't mean my head is completely up my ass.
As a Microsoft customer, I'm glad to see that they are releasing a whole slew of patches. As strange as it seems, I'm actually glad and feel MORE secure that they're releasing a lot of them. It gives the impression (however naive it may be) that they really are getting serious about finding bugs and patching holes. I know it's fun to bash on Microsoft but seriously, they aren't going through anything all that different than what the *nix world when through in the late 80s and early 90s. When a company has the most widely used network operating system in the world, and there are people storing sensitive and lucrative data on that system, you have to expect that people are going to be looking to actively exploit it. Sure, home machines get pwnt all the time. However I have yet to see properly patched and firewalled file server owned. With all of the gateway AV, client side AV, IDS' and IE alternatives out there these days, you have to be a pretty incompetent idiot to have your box owned.
For what it's worth, my home XP box downloaded 7 of the possible 26 patches. That's 19 patches that I didn't even need. Not too bad. And much better than having download the updated ftpd, or httpd, or [insert exploited daemon here] source and manually compile it.
And what happens when you digest some of those beads? They prevent your liver from breaking down the oil?