I've seen that site maybe 18 months ago and it seems the release date keeps getting pushed back. Loads of publicity, yes, but I'll believe it when I can buy one.
For example AMD64 which actually has a practical 48-bit address space allows 65,000 times the address space of 32-bit at a small processing overhead. An address space of 128bit is significantly bigger than all the data stored on earth. There is nothing innovative about getting an address space that big, it's just plain pointless at this point in time.
ARM are not trying to be the fastest or most forward thinking, they are trying to be cost effective and power efficient and a 64-bit version of their chip would free developers from the 4GB address space limit of 32-bit - to one over 65,000 times larger.
I can't stress this enough, this isn't a factor of 2x or a factor of 10x or even 1000x larger, this is a factor of 65,000x times larger...
There are plenty of privilege escalation and remote access exploits on that site. Some patched, some unpatched (not everyone keeps up to date with updates). Did you even look at the list there?
Anyway, a lot of exploits there are remote access exploits. The exploit talked about in this story is a local privilege escalation exploit way down on the severity list and it was patched before it became public.
There are quite a few listed on secunia, it's a really good site. Currently lists 10 unpacked vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, none for Linux surprisingly, it must be a conspiracy against Microsoft and those damn Linux fanboys.
Both of them crash randomly when we use our analysis software (a two-year old powerpc program).
I've only used rosetta briefly and it was stable for me, but running analysis software under hardware emulation? - not the best idea.
The OS is so slow it's nearly unresponsive (to me, the people that only use macs don't have a problem with it). On a related note, the iMac makes no hard drive noise, so I can never tell if it is just slow in responding, or if I didn't double click fast enough.
So your complaint is the iMac is too quiet? -- install the OS onto a loud external USB drive then go into System Preferences -> Startup Disk and let it boot from USB by default.
File sharing is a pain to figure out.
Click on System Preferences -> Sharing and tick File Sharing -- from there your public folder is shared onto the local network, to add anything else just right click -> Get Info -> Sharing.
Mac also supports NFS (not tried NFS server though), but you can mount NFS shars with mount_nfs -P host:share destination.
I can't easily change my icon theme without buying third party software.
Never tried but I'm sure you can find free icon collections and just overwrite the default icon files in the original location.
Don't get me started on the usability of the single menu bar.
KDE has this feature although it's a bit crippled and isn't system wide - but it's without a doubt one of my favourite things in OSX.
I can't find any easy way to uninstall Garage Band, et al, so that the automatic updater stops bothering me about them.
OSX doesn't have software installation (some packages come with installers but they just copy the application over to/Applications) - every application is a special self contained directory that you simply drag to trash when you are done with it - because OSX has spotlight, it creates any file associations as soon as you copy the application somewhere spotlight keeps a track of (think a pimped out inotify daemon on Linux).
I can't find a way to move windows between desktops ("spaces"),
Click on spaces in the dock and drag+drop the window wherever you want.
And all new windows seem to open on the same desktop that the program originally opened on, making multiple desktops virtually useless.
Go into system preferences -> spaces and assign whatever applications you want to whatever space you want.
I need third party software to have an automatically changing desktop wallpaper.
This is in system preferences -> desktop -- it's right there on the first page: "change picture: every": 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5/15/30/60 minutes, every day, when logging in and when waking from sleep.
Our IT guy told me that to take apart the iMac you have to buy suction cups from Apple to pull the glass off before you can unscrew the case.
Macs are generally harder to disassemble and when I had to take apart my Macbook Pro for a hard drive upgrade, there were something in the range of 4 groups of different screw types to keep track of - but at least the screws don't just fall out like my on my Fujitsu laptop and then the warranty people claim you unscrewed them and forgot to screw them back in:)
I guess anything that has smooth edges and no little plastic doors will be harder to disassemble.
The "mighty mouse" can fake a right button, but you have to lift your index finger off the left side for it to work
I'm using one of these: http://proleads.co.uk/shop/images/3.5mm%20to%202%20male%20XLR.gif (except my 3.5mm plug is not gold plated) - the cable is pretty thick and seems to have good screening - the cables are not overlayed at all and run directly from the PC to each speaker in a pretty much straight line.
Maybe I need to ground the 3.5mm plug - I've noticed when I push on it the hum situation gets a bit better (still noticeable though).
Would poor screening really make mouse movement audible? - or increase the hum significantly when playing a cpu/gpu intensive game?
Have you ever tried to hold a camcorder to your LCD while you adjust the brightness? -- You would notice that streaks of colour and flicker increases as you reduce the brightness which can contribute to bad eye sight - what you should do instead is increase the brightness and use your display adaptor controls to reduce the brightness.
Sure this would reduce your contrast ratio, but save your eyes.
Err? - if I had a digital receiver and surround sound I wouldn't really care about getting a better sound card, but I have a pair of studio monitoring speakers (Behringer B2031A) connected directly to the analog output of my mac and there is hiss and distortion particularly during high load.
I don't only hear a very audible hum if the Mac is loaded, I can also hear myself move the mouse along the screen and that is why I want a better sound card.
If you have a good quality digital pre-amp that's all fine - but it's cheaper to buy a good analog sound card and quality powered speakers or an analog pre-amp.
I wanted good quality stereo sound so I bought the Behringer B2031A speakers for around £200 and the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 for about £40 which together is cheaper than just the digital preamp capable of this kind of quality.
I find the sound of the sblive very muddy and the treble roll-off is very noticeable. I guess it's a choice of performance or quality - I'm very happy with the analog stereo quality of my M-Audio Revolution 5.1 but I do have to piss about with/dev/snd/pcm and anything that doesn't use openal or alsa doesn't work at all (like Enemy Territory):(
Maybe when the driver is released for Linux, this Asus card will become the first to offer decent sound quality with hardware mixing? - Creative are screwed:)
As mac desktops don't come with PCI slots it is very difficult to find a better sound card than the onboard crap for Mac, only ones available are USB and Firewire and I haven't found an external one with sufficient sound quality.
Since this is PCI Express, does anyone know if Asus will be releasing Mac drivers?
It has better standards support in comparison with IE6, but it's still failing the ACID1 test, ACID2 test and scores worse the IE6 on the acid3 test - in some ways it's actually worse in standard support.
If you have to use the N800 you might as well use your laptop or PC. The only feature I find useful on a device like this ebook reader is the E-Ink screen that's so much easier on the eyes when reading large amounts of text for hours.
I think historically, Grub's command line was convenient to fix a non booting system without using a livecd or floppy but as I understand there isn't much you can't do with Lilo these days.
Anyone can answer this better? - I'm no bootloader expert:)
And what about Enemy Territory? -- not opensource, but freeware. And the variety of mods available for it like True Combat. I tried this Alien Arena game and it feels like quake2 with new textures - very outdated...
Enemy Territory while based on the Quake 3 engine, doesn't feel like quake3 at all, this game feels like quake 2:(
Err, the way I understand it, supercapacitors would be great to utilize available energy, say when you use your breaks in your car, and then feed the energy slowly to a battery. So other than instant charging, what advantages would a super capacitor have to a battery?
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I've seen that site maybe 18 months ago and it seems the release date keeps getting pushed back. Loads of publicity, yes, but I'll believe it when I can buy one.
I've seen this Rasberry Pi thing a few times now over the past few years and I still can't find it anywhere for sale. Vapourware?
For example AMD64 which actually has a practical 48-bit address space allows 65,000 times the address space of 32-bit at a small processing overhead. An address space of 128bit is significantly bigger than all the data stored on earth. There is nothing innovative about getting an address space that big, it's just plain pointless at this point in time.
ARM are not trying to be the fastest or most forward thinking, they are trying to be cost effective and power efficient and a 64-bit version of their chip would free developers from the 4GB address space limit of 32-bit - to one over 65,000 times larger.
I can't stress this enough, this isn't a factor of 2x or a factor of 10x or even 1000x larger, this is a factor of 65,000x times larger...
I'll do you the opposite for my Linux box
There are plenty of privilege escalation and remote access exploits on that site. Some patched, some unpatched (not everyone keeps up to date with updates). Did you even look at the list there?
Anyway, a lot of exploits there are remote access exploits. The exploit talked about in this story is a local privilege escalation exploit way down on the severity list and it was patched before it became public.
Just a quick google search: http://secunia.com/advisories/41122
There are quite a few listed on secunia, it's a really good site. Currently lists 10 unpacked vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, none for Linux surprisingly, it must be a conspiracy against Microsoft and those damn Linux fanboys.
What if you dont run Windows? - Or run an unsupported version of windows for that matter?
One of them turns off randomly.
Hardware problems likely.
Both of them crash randomly when we use our analysis software (a two-year old powerpc program).
I've only used rosetta briefly and it was stable for me, but running analysis software under hardware emulation? - not the best idea.
The OS is so slow it's nearly unresponsive (to me, the people that only use macs don't have a problem with it). On a related note, the iMac makes no hard drive noise, so I can never tell if it is just slow in responding, or if I didn't double click fast enough.
So your complaint is the iMac is too quiet? -- install the OS onto a loud external USB drive then go into System Preferences -> Startup Disk and let it boot from USB by default.
File sharing is a pain to figure out.
Click on System Preferences -> Sharing and tick File Sharing -- from there your public folder is shared onto the local network, to add anything else just right click -> Get Info -> Sharing.
Mac also supports NFS (not tried NFS server though), but you can mount NFS shars with mount_nfs -P host:share destination.
I can't easily change my icon theme without buying third party software.
Never tried but I'm sure you can find free icon collections and just overwrite the default icon files in the original location.
Don't get me started on the usability of the single menu bar.
KDE has this feature although it's a bit crippled and isn't system wide - but it's without a doubt one of my favourite things in OSX.
I can't find any easy way to uninstall Garage Band, et al, so that the automatic updater stops bothering me about them.
OSX doesn't have software installation (some packages come with installers but they just copy the application over to /Applications) - every application is a special self contained directory that you simply drag to trash when you are done with it - because OSX has spotlight, it creates any file associations as soon as you copy the application somewhere spotlight keeps a track of (think a pimped out inotify daemon on Linux).
I can't find a way to move windows between desktops ("spaces"),
Click on spaces in the dock and drag+drop the window wherever you want.
And all new windows seem to open on the same desktop that the program originally opened on, making multiple desktops virtually useless.
Go into system preferences -> spaces and assign whatever applications you want to whatever space you want.
I need third party software to have an automatically changing desktop wallpaper.
This is in system preferences -> desktop -- it's right there on the first page: "change picture: every": 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5/15/30/60 minutes, every day, when logging in and when waking from sleep.
Our IT guy told me that to take apart the iMac you have to buy suction cups from Apple to pull the glass off before you can unscrew the case.
I've never tried to take apart an iMac but a quick google search shows this: http://home.comcast.net/~woojo/DFFA53A0-F23D-4541-9015-481FD3B6532E/iMac_Disassembly.html - no suction cups needed.
:)
Macs are generally harder to disassemble and when I had to take apart my Macbook Pro for a hard drive upgrade, there were something in the range of 4 groups of different screw types to keep track of - but at least the screws don't just fall out like my on my Fujitsu laptop and then the warranty people claim you unscrewed them and forgot to screw them back in
I guess anything that has smooth edges and no little plastic doors will be harder to disassemble.
The "mighty mouse" can fake a right button, but you have to lift your index finger off the left side for it to work
I'm using one of these: http://proleads.co.uk/shop/images/3.5mm%20to%202%20male%20XLR.gif (except my 3.5mm plug is not gold plated) - the cable is pretty thick and seems to have good screening - the cables are not overlayed at all and run directly from the PC to each speaker in a pretty much straight line.
Maybe I need to ground the 3.5mm plug - I've noticed when I push on it the hum situation gets a bit better (still noticeable though).
Would poor screening really make mouse movement audible? - or increase the hum significantly when playing a cpu/gpu intensive game?
Have you ever tried to hold a camcorder to your LCD while you adjust the brightness? -- You would notice that streaks of colour and flicker increases as you reduce the brightness which can contribute to bad eye sight - what you should do instead is increase the brightness and use your display adaptor controls to reduce the brightness.
Sure this would reduce your contrast ratio, but save your eyes.
See this page for flicker details for those nice expensive 2408WFP monitors: http://monitortest.blogspot.com/
Err? - if I had a digital receiver and surround sound I wouldn't really care about getting a better sound card, but I have a pair of studio monitoring speakers (Behringer B2031A) connected directly to the analog output of my mac and there is hiss and distortion particularly during high load.
I don't only hear a very audible hum if the Mac is loaded, I can also hear myself move the mouse along the screen and that is why I want a better sound card.
If you have a good quality digital pre-amp that's all fine - but it's cheaper to buy a good analog sound card and quality powered speakers or an analog pre-amp.
I wanted good quality stereo sound so I bought the Behringer B2031A speakers for around £200 and the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 for about £40 which together is cheaper than just the digital preamp capable of this kind of quality.
What pre-amp and speakers do you have?
I find the sound of the sblive very muddy and the treble roll-off is very noticeable. I guess it's a choice of performance or quality - I'm very happy with the analog stereo quality of my M-Audio Revolution 5.1 but I do have to piss about with /dev/snd/pcm and anything that doesn't use openal or alsa doesn't work at all (like Enemy Territory) :(
:)
Maybe when the driver is released for Linux, this Asus card will become the first to offer decent sound quality with hardware mixing? - Creative are screwed
As mac desktops don't come with PCI slots it is very difficult to find a better sound card than the onboard crap for Mac, only ones available are USB and Firewire and I haven't found an external one with sufficient sound quality.
Since this is PCI Express, does anyone know if Asus will be releasing Mac drivers?
It has better standards support in comparison with IE6, but it's still failing the ACID1 test, ACID2 test and scores worse the IE6 on the acid3 test - in some ways it's actually worse in standard support.
Why not just use firefox?
Haha, and how many layer7 appliances or for that fact browsers, webservers or proxies do you know that are compliant with the RFC? ;)
Hmm, where have you seen Photoshop 7 in any professional office in the past 3 years? -- by that logic you may as well use gimp.
Does it have to?
Would you really carry an ebook reader like a kindle in your pocket? -- you have pockets that large?
And anything significantly smaller than an a5 piece of paper doesn't make a very pleasant reading experience imho.
Have you ever actually read a 200 page book on a pda sized device and found the experience pleasant?
If you have to use the N800 you might as well use your laptop or PC. The only feature I find useful on a device like this ebook reader is the E-Ink screen that's so much easier on the eyes when reading large amounts of text for hours.
in Russian Pivo which is pronounced Pivo is Beer.
I think historically, Grub's command line was convenient to fix a non booting system without using a livecd or floppy but as I understand there isn't much you can't do with Lilo these days.
:)
Anyone can answer this better? - I'm no bootloader expert
And what about Enemy Territory? -- not opensource, but freeware. And the variety of mods available for it like True Combat. I tried this Alien Arena game and it feels like quake2 with new textures - very outdated...
:(
Enemy Territory while based on the Quake 3 engine, doesn't feel like quake3 at all, this game feels like quake 2
capacitors are non explosive? wow, you learn something new every day.
I suppose at least they normally whistle before they go KABOOM!
Err, the way I understand it, supercapacitors would be great to utilize available energy, say when you use your breaks in your car, and then feed the energy slowly to a battery. So other than instant charging, what advantages would a super capacitor have to a battery?
I access my neighbours wireless from my own back yard, if my neighbour leaves his bike in my back yard too, I may use it also :)