That is only if they can find your real drive. That requires knowing where it is or even knowing that you have one in the first place. With how tiny flash is these days. You can hide 16gb of memory in a lot of places on a laptop and mask it to look like a lot of other things in the xray machine.
Remember customs guys are just slobs like the rest of us who hate their jobs. It's not worth it for them to investigate your laptop unless you give them a reason to. So be nice to them and they'll return in favor. Playing stupid is the other direction you can do.
We'll if you are going off the original idea. Putting in a second drive on the computer that requires a physical connection or power device. Putting in a relay that has to be turned on by a switch. Say turning on your wireless turns on your second drive to give you access. Also, you can hide that drive in a number of places.
The battery, in with the memory components, or in the video and cpu area. These people aren't engineers and they really shouldn't even be working on this crap. If anything, they should have a real tech there to just copy the contents for review later and send you on your way.
They can easily take out your drive and get the contents. There are only a limited number of interfaces out there. Some proprietary connections but the interface is the same. It's either ATA, SATA, PATA, IDE. Really, there isn't a whole lot out there to prevent them from getting the data once they figure out where to download it from.
You could setup something and when they ask why they can't access any of your files. You tell them that you have everything on your company network. No files get saved to the PC. If they ask you for your password to the company network. They can't get that because its a rotating key/password and they don't let you carry it internationally. You have to get the key from someone in IT while overseas.
No reason you can't do this with a removable key drive either. It really wouldn't take that much to install a usb hookup hidden inside the folding key of many manufactures vehicles. Hell I experimented with this on a ford key. It looks no different from the outside.
Reality is, that if someone wants to get data past the gate, they can. With fairly little work to do so at that. If customs decides to try and steal your data. You can easily create several methods to prevent them from doing anything with it. The better methods will do it with no seems to work with.
I really don't know why they waste the time trying. I can think of a lot better ways to spend my tax dollars. I'd rather they use the time to volunteer building houses, planting trees, fighting fires, laying out solar power. Putting the money into DOE.
The easiest method would be to use a second SATA connection to a second hidden physical drive like a micro drive or SSD drive. Put a tiny switch on your laptop in a no conspicuous place that turns this drive on or off as needed. Put Command line Linux as your primary OS on the master drive. When customs agent gets all wondering about why you run Linux in command and copies this drive. They can do so without you worrying about your data which is stored on a second drive thats currently powered off and cannot be turned on without finding a way to turn on the power for the second drive.
The design of the GPU is essentially the same, but the tolerances are tighter memory capacity is higher. Driver support is higher, errors are less.
Basically unless you are a student or someone working on low budget projects. You'd rather be working with the best you can get Quadro.
Take for example a 100 million dollar movie like say Toy Story or Spider Man. Which would you trust? a hacked Nvidia Ge Force series card? Or would you rather get the Quadro to minimize all down time?
It doesn't work with OpenGL extensions it does accelerate out the Direct 3d extensions though. It's not as fast as the higher memory capacity quadro cards. But its a huge increase over the stock GeForce.
You still don't get the same tolerances as a standard Quadro. Granted the price is a lot less. But in a Cad Shop where you are consistently working on 200k+projects would you want to take the slightest chance of their being a rendering or upgrade issue? A day there can cost you 10k.
Actually, you are wrong. The higher end version has more ram than the equivalent Ge Force. Also, everything on a Quadro card is tested to work perfectly before leaving the factory.
Since Nvidia does all of their manufacturing through the likes of foundries or third party chip manufactures. I'm willing to bet the tolerances for a Quadro card are significantly higher.
Like I said earlier, this hack is great for those who run their own shop. Students, or those starting out. But, no way would I want to run this in a shop where I and 2 others depend on it daily. Imagine if an autodesk update created an error in your driver and you had to upgrade to the next driver for the video card. Well, you can't go to Nvidia's website for this. You have to go out to the likes of Asus, Gateway, Dell, and hope they have the latest up there. Then, hope, pray that it works. If it doesn't then you keep pulling and installing different drivers till you get the error fixed. Autodesk is a very complicated program under the GUI. Trying to make it work or trick it into working is not an option that I'd want to explore unless I had time to waste. If you got a 100 thousand dollar project due in a week. Neither would you.
Seriously, I was in an internship and my boss wouldn't even let me touch the inside of the computer to install new Ram Sticks.
Think about it, if something fails anywhere would you rather it be on the IT approved failure that you can get remedied for free. Or would you rather trying to explain to your boss that you hacked something to work and it took a weeks time fix.
Seriously, Cad shops, on average, are responsible for about 100 dollars an hour worth of work. At that rate, its in their best interest not to be down at all.
The difference between something that runs perfectly and something that is hacked is not something you want to explain to your boss. Especially when IT or someone else comes around to update the drivers, etc.
It's all about smoothness and transition when dealing with Cad. I've had a batch printing issue when working with retail focus files in MAP3D that took me a nearly a week to remedy.
This hack is great for students or those just starting out in the business. But, not in a full-time shop.
I think games are a no brainer when it comes to mac. But, I wouldn't push for it. Let people continue to buy a copy of windows to run games on. I think that the next direction for MAC is going to be more steps in what made them successful thus far. Education, Education, Education. Just about every college Campus in the US has an outlet of selling Mac computers. This means that it only makes sense for Apple to continue developing software and hardware to support those endeavors before Linux does.
I always wondered why they put the hard drives with the CPU units. It makes more sense to simply create a self cooled bank vault like unit that holds all of the hard drives and requires multiple people to access and or is setup on a time specific access. Setup the rest of the units so you can install cpu's etc and just plug in fiber array that accesses a series of hard drives dedicated to that unit. You could even setup a controller switch that simply dedicates specific arrays to differing Racks based on their usage. This would let you run websites at differing efficiency in regards to CPU power usage since you don't always need the latest xeon to run a big name website.
You could even setup a self programming algorithm that caches specific websites to specific racks during certain times of the day.
You can control the cooling, the data, and the processors all separately. Make the boards and CPU's easier to access and replace without having to worry about data security. You simplify the entire array based on needs and secure the data. You would also cut down on the security needs of the data center.
Yahoo has a lot of great things inside of it. However, they got about 7 billion a year in revenues and a net income of around 600-700 million. Microsoft pulls about double that for margin.
I think Microsoft just basically screwed yahoo for this round. After all the expenses they added. It's going to take them a while before they can come out ahead on this.
Seriously, I don't know why they don't just open source the interface and let it be compatible with crossfire and hybrid technologies from Nvidia and ATI. This would make far more logical sense than going to war with them. Plus, users would no longer need to plug into the video card for video. They could just plug into the motherboard interface and add more video cards.
Actually, this last quarter has seen a rather large increase in the adoption of business users. Even at IBM they are using more Apple hardware. I went to a seminar recently where there was only 4 PC's and the rest were Mac's.
I've been predicting it for a while now. I figure Apple will have about 40-50 percent of the total PC market share before Microsoft makes something that turns the tide on this trend. Even then, I doubt Microsoft will ever fully get back to where it was as a percentage of market.
I'm predicting the final tally in 2012 will be a higher total number of users for all operating systems but statistically will be split like this for primary OS.
Microsoft 40 percent Apple 40 percent Linux gaining traction at 20 percent Dual Boot users 40 percent
I think its just a move with the cuda engine that needs refinement. As it grows mature, driver issues will subside.
AMD is making a break for the open source arena. I gave Hectar that advice a while ago. Apparently, he was listening in his anonymous drunken stupor on the financial forums. AMD is poised to make a stand in the next 2 to 3 years.
Plus, to make something on the order of what he's thinking of. Will cost far far more than 1 billion dollars. China has been doing something similar for years and they've already spent over 100 billion on it.3
As a replacement for windows, Unbuntu or Kunbuntu is an incredible operating system. Its intuitively easy to use, sets up easier on anything, graphically beautiful, better default games. Runs well on a machine with 500mhz, 256mb ram(likes 512 a little better), default intel card, and 10gig hard drive. Even doing updates on it is so incredibly simple.
I've been testing linux over the years from time to time to see what its potential usefulness to the user is. Right now, more than anything is the perfect time to make the switch within the non-commercial environment.
The only time I would use MAC, or windows. Is when you need the potential from exclusive software located on those operating systems. Otherwise, I'd opt to simply run Ubuntu.
I made the prediction upon the launch of vista that Apple would slowly erode away windows market share till they had about 30-40 percent of the global PC market from their ten 5 percent. At which point, Microsoft would release something that was capable of competing with Apple. I predicted this would happen around 2010. Thus far, I've been proven right. Buy Apple stock while its cheap BTW...
I think what Microsoft is going to do this time around is support more universal interfaces and advanced technology. Basically, hardware manufactures aren't all each making their own specific interface with the system. Instead they are each making their hardware to a higher required compatibility spec as pre-determined by Microsoft with tools to test it over and over again in a million different scenarios. Similar to the XNA tools they have for game manufactures.
Doh, its late, I was thinking Adware. I've used some of the corporate system stuff. It's annoying when you bring stuff to work and it thinks your network tools are bad and simply deletes them. But, for the most part. Its relatively stable so long as you make your own images.
I can understand costs, I've been building machines since the 8088/8086 extra points if you can guess which was faster.
Right now, with the Hypertransport AMD wins at the enterprise level. While Intel takes the lead on desktop machines. It goes back and forth. AMD is a cheaper build up. Intel puts huge distances on AMD when you go to the individual machines. Just look at the benchmarks. Though, you can easily just build a slower AMD cpu setup with an SLI Nvidia card set and be nearly equal to the Intel based system in certain applications. For the most part intel has a huge lead over AMD. In fact the research budget for one of Intel's departments equates to AMD's entire budget. They are going to be ahead for a while yet.
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That is only if they can find your real drive. That requires knowing where it is or even knowing that you have one in the first place. With how tiny flash is these days. You can hide 16gb of memory in a lot of places on a laptop and mask it to look like a lot of other things in the xray machine.
Remember customs guys are just slobs like the rest of us who hate their jobs. It's not worth it for them to investigate your laptop unless you give them a reason to. So be nice to them and they'll return in favor. Playing stupid is the other direction you can do.
We'll if you are going off the original idea. Putting in a second drive on the computer that requires a physical connection or power device. Putting in a relay that has to be turned on by a switch. Say turning on your wireless turns on your second drive to give you access. Also, you can hide that drive in a number of places.
The battery, in with the memory components, or in the video and cpu area. These people aren't engineers and they really shouldn't even be working on this crap. If anything, they should have a real tech there to just copy the contents for review later and send you on your way.
They can easily take out your drive and get the contents. There are only a limited number of interfaces out there. Some proprietary connections but the interface is the same. It's either ATA, SATA, PATA, IDE. Really, there isn't a whole lot out there to prevent them from getting the data once they figure out where to download it from.
You could setup something and when they ask why they can't access any of your files. You tell them that you have everything on your company network. No files get saved to the PC. If they ask you for your password to the company network. They can't get that because its a rotating key/password and they don't let you carry it internationally. You have to get the key from someone in IT while overseas.
No reason you can't do this with a removable key drive either. It really wouldn't take that much to install a usb hookup hidden inside the folding key of many manufactures vehicles. Hell I experimented with this on a ford key. It looks no different from the outside.
Reality is, that if someone wants to get data past the gate, they can. With fairly little work to do so at that. If customs decides to try and steal your data. You can easily create several methods to prevent them from doing anything with it. The better methods will do it with no seems to work with.
I really don't know why they waste the time trying. I can think of a lot better ways to spend my tax dollars. I'd rather they use the time to volunteer building houses, planting trees, fighting fires, laying out solar power. Putting the money into DOE.
The easiest method would be to use a second SATA connection to a second hidden physical drive like a micro drive or SSD drive. Put a tiny switch on your laptop in a no conspicuous place that turns this drive on or off as needed. Put Command line Linux as your primary OS on the master drive. When customs agent gets all wondering about why you run Linux in command and copies this drive. They can do so without you worrying about your data which is stored on a second drive thats currently powered off and cannot be turned on without finding a way to turn on the power for the second drive.
The design of the GPU is essentially the same, but the tolerances are tighter memory capacity is higher. Driver support is higher, errors are less.
Basically unless you are a student or someone working on low budget projects. You'd rather be working with the best you can get Quadro.
Take for example a 100 million dollar movie like say Toy Story or Spider Man. Which would you trust? a hacked Nvidia Ge Force series card? Or would you rather get the Quadro to minimize all down time?
There are problems though.
It doesn't work with OpenGL extensions it does accelerate out the Direct 3d extensions though. It's not as fast as the higher memory capacity quadro cards. But its a huge increase over the stock GeForce.
You still don't get the same tolerances as a standard Quadro. Granted the price is a lot less. But in a Cad Shop where you are consistently working on 200k+projects would you want to take the slightest chance of their being a rendering or upgrade issue? A day there can cost you 10k.
Actually, you are wrong. The higher end version has more ram than the equivalent Ge Force. Also, everything on a Quadro card is tested to work perfectly before leaving the factory.
Since Nvidia does all of their manufacturing through the likes of foundries or third party chip manufactures. I'm willing to bet the tolerances for a Quadro card are significantly higher.
Like I said earlier, this hack is great for those who run their own shop. Students, or those starting out. But, no way would I want to run this in a shop where I and 2 others depend on it daily. Imagine if an autodesk update created an error in your driver and you had to upgrade to the next driver for the video card. Well, you can't go to Nvidia's website for this. You have to go out to the likes of Asus, Gateway, Dell, and hope they have the latest up there. Then, hope, pray that it works. If it doesn't then you keep pulling and installing different drivers till you get the error fixed. Autodesk is a very complicated program under the GUI. Trying to make it work or trick it into working is not an option that I'd want to explore unless I had time to waste. If you got a 100 thousand dollar project due in a week. Neither would you.
Seriously, I was in an internship and my boss wouldn't even let me touch the inside of the computer to install new Ram Sticks.
Think about it, if something fails anywhere would you rather it be on the IT approved failure that you can get remedied for free. Or would you rather trying to explain to your boss that you hacked something to work and it took a weeks time fix.
Seriously, Cad shops, on average, are responsible for about 100 dollars an hour worth of work. At that rate, its in their best interest not to be down at all.
The difference between something that runs perfectly and something that is hacked is not something you want to explain to your boss. Especially when IT or someone else comes around to update the drivers, etc.
It's all about smoothness and transition when dealing with Cad. I've had a batch printing issue when working with retail focus files in MAP3D that took me a nearly a week to remedy.
This hack is great for students or those just starting out in the business. But, not in a full-time shop.
I think games are a no brainer when it comes to mac. But, I wouldn't push for it. Let people continue to buy a copy of windows to run games on. I think that the next direction for MAC is going to be more steps in what made them successful thus far. Education, Education, Education. Just about every college Campus in the US has an outlet of selling Mac computers. This means that it only makes sense for Apple to continue developing software and hardware to support those endeavors before Linux does.
I always wondered why they put the hard drives with the CPU units. It makes more sense to simply create a self cooled bank vault like unit that holds all of the hard drives and requires multiple people to access and or is setup on a time specific access. Setup the rest of the units so you can install cpu's etc and just plug in fiber array that accesses a series of hard drives dedicated to that unit. You could even setup a controller switch that simply dedicates specific arrays to differing Racks based on their usage. This would let you run websites at differing efficiency in regards to CPU power usage since you don't always need the latest xeon to run a big name website.
You could even setup a self programming algorithm that caches specific websites to specific racks during certain times of the day.
You can control the cooling, the data, and the processors all separately. Make the boards and CPU's easier to access and replace without having to worry about data security. You simplify the entire array based on needs and secure the data. You would also cut down on the security needs of the data center.
Sharks man Sharks... Mounted to their heads in the pools of evil villains. :)
Yahoo has a lot of great things inside of it. However, they got about 7 billion a year in revenues and a net income of around 600-700 million. Microsoft pulls about double that for margin.
I think Microsoft just basically screwed yahoo for this round. After all the expenses they added. It's going to take them a while before they can come out ahead on this.
I predict layoffs.
Seriously, I don't know why they don't just open source the interface and let it be compatible with crossfire and hybrid technologies from Nvidia and ATI. This would make far more logical sense than going to war with them. Plus, users would no longer need to plug into the video card for video. They could just plug into the motherboard interface and add more video cards.
I dunno, in cubicle land I'd much rather have an Apple computer than a cheap PC. My productivity gains would pay for themselves..
Actually, this last quarter has seen a rather large increase in the adoption of business users. Even at IBM they are using more Apple hardware. I went to a seminar recently where there was only 4 PC's and the rest were Mac's.
I've been predicting it for a while now. I figure Apple will have about 40-50 percent of the total PC market share before Microsoft makes something that turns the tide on this trend. Even then, I doubt Microsoft will ever fully get back to where it was as a percentage of market.
I'm predicting the final tally in 2012 will be a higher total number of users for all operating systems but statistically will be split like this for primary OS.
Microsoft 40 percent
Apple 40 percent
Linux gaining traction at 20 percent
Dual Boot users 40 percent
I think its just a move with the cuda engine that needs refinement. As it grows mature, driver issues will subside.
AMD is making a break for the open source arena. I gave Hectar that advice a while ago. Apparently, he was listening in his anonymous drunken stupor on the financial forums. AMD is poised to make a stand in the next 2 to 3 years.
Plus, to make something on the order of what he's thinking of. Will cost far far more than 1 billion dollars. China has been doing something similar for years and they've already spent over 100 billion on it.3
As a replacement for windows, Unbuntu or Kunbuntu is an incredible operating system. Its intuitively easy to use, sets up easier on anything, graphically beautiful, better default games. Runs well on a machine with 500mhz, 256mb ram(likes 512 a little better), default intel card, and 10gig hard drive. Even doing updates on it is so incredibly simple.
I've been testing linux over the years from time to time to see what its potential usefulness to the user is. Right now, more than anything is the perfect time to make the switch within the non-commercial environment.
The only time I would use MAC, or windows. Is when you need the potential from exclusive software located on those operating systems. Otherwise, I'd opt to simply run Ubuntu.
Actually, I'm considering a move to ubuntu myself. It works perfectly on my machines...
I made the prediction upon the launch of vista that Apple would slowly erode away windows market share till they had about 30-40 percent of the global PC market from their ten 5 percent. At which point, Microsoft would release something that was capable of competing with Apple. I predicted this would happen around 2010. Thus far, I've been proven right. Buy Apple stock while its cheap BTW...
I think what Microsoft is going to do this time around is support more universal interfaces and advanced technology. Basically, hardware manufactures aren't all each making their own specific interface with the system. Instead they are each making their hardware to a higher required compatibility spec as pre-determined by Microsoft with tools to test it over and over again in a million different scenarios. Similar to the XNA tools they have for game manufactures.
I think they simply should have contracted with Mosaic Inc. Who already has the systems and people in place to handle the census.
Is it me, or does the windows 7 interface look identical to MAC??
Doh, its late, I was thinking Adware. I've used some of the corporate system stuff. It's annoying when you bring stuff to work and it thinks your network tools are bad and simply deletes them. But, for the most part. Its relatively stable so long as you make your own images.
I can understand costs, I've been building machines since the 8088/8086 extra points if you can guess which was faster.
Right now, with the Hypertransport AMD wins at the enterprise level. While Intel takes the lead on desktop machines. It goes back and forth. AMD is a cheaper build up. Intel puts huge distances on AMD when you go to the individual machines. Just look at the benchmarks. Though, you can easily just build a slower AMD cpu setup with an SLI Nvidia card set and be nearly equal to the Intel based system in certain applications. For the most part intel has a huge lead over AMD. In fact the research budget for one of Intel's departments equates to AMD's entire budget. They are going to be ahead for a while yet.