Posts by Lennart Sorensen98 posts • joined Tuesday 1st January 2008 21:57 GMT
Of course you would not actually ever use internaldomain.local but rather internaldomain.anythingelse would you? After all .local is reserved for use by zeroconf and you break all sorts of things if you use .local for your windows domain. Sure microsoft used to have an example in their documentation that used .local, but they changed that years ago and even wrote a domain rename tool to help repair the damage, not that anyone seems to ever get around to fixing this mistake. Instead the mac and linux users and anyone else that has a system that supports zeroconf just have to suffer.
I always thought it was as simple as this to get a linux laptop:
Go to lenovo's website, pick a machine, make sure it does not have AMD graphics, make sure to select an intel wifi adapter, buy it, then install your linux distribution of choice.
Intel wifi always just works with linux, and AMD graphics frequently just don't with linux, so if you keep those two details in mind you have a perfectly nice linux laptop.
And most importantly you don't end up with a Dell machine.
Actually most routers do not. They have ways that given physical access you can reset the password or in many cases the whole configuration.
My dlink wifi router has a reset button, as do many others.
Resetting the password on ruggedcom's routers required serial console access to the boot loader. They have no backdoor. Of course they are also more likely to be connected to a public network than a switch would be.
Well you are slgihtly wrong.
1080p which is 1920x1080 becomes 1920x540, so 540p. Half the lines go left, half the lines go right. Still get 1920 pixels per line though.
Of course how long will it take before someone makes a screen that is natively 1920x2160 and then makes passive 3D with 1920x1080p for each eye. After all 4k x 2k screens are being worked on.
I looked expecting someone had built an 8bit CPU and such out of Lego, and that would have been something. Making a chunk of Lego look like a ZX81 is really a "Who cares". Not even particularly well done at that.
Wow it had never occurred to me that BBX was supposed to be BlackBerry X or BlackBerry 10. It seemed like a silly name. At least now they have to just call it BB10 or conveniently, BB X. :)
Nehalem was a follow on to penryn. That is what it said. That means penryn came first. Where is the problem?
All it says it penryn was the first 45nm part and the nehalem was a follow up 45nm part.
So your objection seems to be to agree with what it said.
It was. But if you are building a calculator and intel can design and build you one chip for $5 or so to do the job, or you can use twelve existing chips costing way more than $5 (and making the calculator bigger), which would you go with?
Who cares if the 4004 is overkill for a desk calculator. It's cheap and small.
Range is too big, no one can remember the words, and it isn't catchy, so no one cares to remember the words. Most people have heard of it, so at least it has that.
I believe they meant "small vocal range" of the song, not of the singer. After all if the range of the song is huge, most people can't comfortably sing along.
So it does describe the song, but absolutely not the singer.
You can tell the difference. The better question is, do you care about the difference enough to justify over 5 times the price? For most people that is certainly going to be a no.
As for the hdmi cable, digital signal is digital signal and as long as the cable isn't so crappy it corrupts the digital signal, then there will be no difference at all. So no there is no difference, hence no one can hear one no matter what they believe.
I do think the Shure 215 or 315 model would have been much more reasonable and interesting to review. The 535s are really not what most people are interested in. The lower models have the same cable design, but only a single driver (well two for the 425), but include a few less accessories. The 215's cost $99 in north america, so probably 89 or 99 pounds in the UK as per typical ripoff pricing done by north american companies.
Freescale makes POWER chips, although not anywhere near as fast as what IBM makes. But they make them. I believe others could choose to do so too.
Sparc is made by others as well, but again, not with nearly the same performance as the Fujitsu ones. There are some sparc compatible chips made in China, just like there are MIPS64 chips made in China (which are looking very interesting).
The only truly dead ones are Alpha and PA-Risc, and if volumes are anything to go by, Itanium which never lived in the first place.
I sure don't care what VMware is up to anymore. They were impressive years ago, but these days they are irrelevant. KVM is much better and more flexible to use.
I can file bug reports on KVM and be listened to. VMware won't even accept a bug report without a support contract. And even if you manage to give them one, they don't really seem to care. Who needs them.
And yeah who needs another OS, which really does seem to be what they are trying to turn the hypervisor into. What's wrong with the Linux OS sitting underneath their hypervisor in many cases?
Maybe the reason isn't the best, but it certainly is a mandatory feature of any new version of a product. This is why all products (except FCP X apparently) has it.
If you cut off your existing customer base, you are committing suicide. Why should anyone ever trust you again?
New versions of software should at least give you the choice of moving to a new version on a given project if you want to.
Solidworks can always read old projects in new versions. That's how essentially all software upgrades work. Apparently Apple has forgotten. They might as well have given it a new name given it is a new product with nothing to do with the old one at all, other than the general idea of what it is to be used for.
So solidworks is backwards compatible, FCP X is not. I can't even think of another product where that has ever happened. It would be commercial suicide for any company to release a new version that can't open files from previous versions. You don't need to be able to save in previous formats (although often you can), but you do very much need to be able to load from previous formats.
I really hope they didn't mistake me legitimately logging into my account a few days ago (trying to download the latest patch to NWN which I was having trouble finding on my machine) with the idea of someone hacking the system.
I just followed the link in an email from when I bought stuff from the old bioware store (which unfortunately isn't there anymore, so I can't redownload the add on modules I had bought some years ago. Oh well hopefully I can find them somewhere on one of my disks). Plenty of broken links on the old forum server unfortunately.
Sure would be nice if they would keep all the patches around on their new support server, but apparently they don't care about older games they released anymore.
Hopefully that new console comes with a transfer cable to get all your saved games and other data transferred to that new console.
I suspect it could be a specific version of DVD drive in a few boxes that is causing a problem. Certainly they used different DVD drives over the years and with different firmware versions over time as well on those drives, so most likely it has turned out one has a problem.
Actually USB3 _is_ full duplex, unlike USB 1 and 2. This is also how USB3 gained the ability to do interrupts rather than always having to be polled. The dedicated lanes for transfers in both directions allow devices to issue messages when they want to rather than only when asked to. I believe it can even do DMA, which should reduce CPU needs a lot too.
Not that I think eSata is going away (I sure hope not), but USB3 doesn't actually look too bad.
I tried to download IE9 using IE8 on windows 7. I kept getting a server connection error. Finally I tried with firefox 4 and what do you know, it downloaded the IE9 installer and started the install.
Congrats Microsoft. You made me use the competition to get your new browser.
Maybe this time intel will accept that VLIW is crap for general purpose CPUs running typical software. How many times do they have to make the same mistake? Too bad the itanium took out so many better CPUs with it (the alpha, the high end MIPS (although MIPS seems to have survived), I don't think pa-risc was ever great, so who cares about it). Just about took out SGI for good too.
Rock band 3 works by using a special midi enabled guitar (or the 150ish button plastic toy if you want that instead). The midi guitar has sensors in every fret on every string so that it can show on screen where your fingers are compared to where they need to be. A regular midi enabled guitar (not that they are that common) would only send the notes played.
Now the guitar for rock band 3 is a proper electric guitar with a jack to connect to an amp, so it could be connected to the input for this "game" if you wanted, but it sounds like this one will work by analyzing the sound (and hence making sure you are in tune as well), rather than by midi. So you can use any electric guitar you want with this one, unlike rock band 3 that only works with a couple.
They do NOT in fact run x86 instructions on the chip. They added some new instructions to the MIPS instruction set to make it more efficient for qemu to emulate x86 in software. x86 is very different than MIPS, and uses lots of offset addressing, which MIPS doesn't have. So they added new instructions to support that type of addressing efficiently, which makes qemu able to be much faster and efficient at doing software x86 emulation. Without qemu though, it is just a MIPS chip with some new non standard MIPS instructions. They are not x86 instructions in themselves.
It's not Microsoft's job to support old hardware. That's the job of the hardware vendor. Now if they don't care about their old hardware anymore, that's just too bad. Microsoft didn't write the drivers in the first place and they don't have the specs to do it either, nor much interest in doing so. You could always choose to not buy new things from that vendor anymore if they don't value your interests as a customer (I have certainly done so for some companies for that exact reason).
If you want support for legacy hardware, use an OS that has source code for the drivers so they can be maintained in the future independently of the financial interests of the vendor.
I suspect the reason this machine is faster at some problems, is that if your problem is genome related what you really need is a 2 bit integer machine, not a 64bit floating point monster (which is what LINPACK wants). The floating point capability would be completely wasted on such a problem. That is the kind of thing the FPGA is good at. Most super computer designs focus on floating point since that seems to be what most work requires.
The question appears on the giant screen on the stage in front of the players, so yes a good player will certainly read the question on the screen before it is done being read and figure it out and be ready to buzz in as soon as Trebek is done reading it. Watson does the same except instead of reading it, it gets it delivered to it as a small text file.
I had originally thought they would use OCR with a video camera to get the question, but of course that isn't really the problem they are trying to solve and would just be a waste of resources.
I am amused that the developers decided there was no need to have a way to figure out what wrong answers other players gave, and yet in this first part of the first game they already had a case where Watson repeated the wrong answer already given by another player. The developers were apparently amused by that too.
Actually, who ever thought Geocities served any purpose? Did it have any business plan for making money? Every page looked like crap, contained practically nothing of value, and was a huge hard to navigate mess.
First of all those are way too big to work, and secondly the new apple screws are not 5 point torx, they have rounded tips, not pointy tips. Some mac books have used 5 point torx (which apparently apple has a patent on in the US), but the new things are not torx at all.
If you want a proper database you would of course be using postgresql, not mysql. I have never been able to understand this widespread fascination with mysql.
Lots of TVs have Linux running on them (Certainly Sony does on a number of their models). It seems that in most cases if it has a USB port and can display images and such, it almost certainly has Linux on it, on either an ARM or a MIPS processor.
We run Debian, and so far other than it being powerpc rather than x86, it is exactly the same. It works, it's stable, it does what it is supposed to do. Of course we are running on bare hardware. I can't give any opinion on IBM's hypervisor stuff on either the p-series on the z-series. But Linux on powerpc is as stable and mature as it is on x86. It just works. Sure a p520 might cost 50 to 100% more than an x3650 with similar performance, but well x86 commodities do help the price of an x86 machine. Can't beat the volumes.
There is no x86 that matches the performance of an IBM power6 or power7 chip. Now x86 is cheaper, but it is by no means faster.
We have a power6 box at work to do compiling on. It's one of the fastest powerpc boxes you can get for compiling on, and compiling code on Linux natively is the only sane thing to do. Cross compiling just doesn't work in general. So if you are making embeded powerpc boxes running Linux and you need a build machine, an IBM powerpc box is your only sane choice. They probably make nice database servers too I imagine.
And whoever thought powerpc isn't a first class citizen in the Linux world is seriously mistaken. It is at least as well supported as ARM is.
Never mind people were able to clone sim cards 12 years ago:
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/gsm-faq.html
Now being able to move sim cards is certainly the main reason I even switched to a carrier that uses GSM (rather than Qualcomm's single vendor CDMA).
Every computer dealer I have ever dealt with will replace items for the first 14 days themselves and deal with the manufacturer. Sometimes it is 30 days. Apparently you are dealing with a crappy dealer.
Too bad it doesn't prevent you getting blown to smithereens at 35000 ft. And most of us don't play strip poker and don't get stupid drunk and act like an idiot.
It is highly unfortunate that most people believe the security theater actually makes things safer, when in fact it doesn't. It just costs lots of money and wastes lots of time and pisses off lots of people.
If they were really worried about people being killed by random evil people, they should worry more about drunk drivers. I suspect they kill a lot more innocent victims than terrorists. It just doesn't make the news because they do it a few at a time, rather than hundreds at a time.
Linux with grub2 boots fine with a BIOS based PC with large drives using GPT partition tables. I have been doing it with hardware raid5 for a few years now. Might need to make sure /boot or / is all in the first TB or so to be sure the BIOS can read that part of the drive, but really who wouldn't on a drive that large anyhow.
Windows only requires EFI because Microsoft decided MBR partitions should always override GPT partitions while Linux and BSD went the other way (and hence work with hybrid setups on BIOS systems). Nothing prevents a BIOS based PC booting from GPT on a large drive other than Microsoft's bad design choice.
It is the only sane solution, given their current way of encrypting traffic is the only sane reliable way to do encryption, and no backdoor of any kind is ever going to work properly.
If a country wants access to their citizens data, then they can take it up with their citizens directly.
After all if RIM did do something stupid, people would just start using their own encryption on top of the blackberry because they can no longer trust the system itself, and then the various governments loose all access entirely.
I remember that my parents 1995 Eagle Vision had the misdesign that hitting the remote would flash the lights, make a beep with the horn, etc, as a signal that it got the command. Whether or not it actually locked the doors and turned on the alarm wasn't relevant, so if you did it with a door partially open, the car was in fact not locked and the alarm was not on, but you thought it was. So the indications meant nothing at all in that case.
Given every car can have the doors open from the inside whether they are locked or not, the worst the thief would do in getting out is set off the alarm. Big deal, what do they care. Besides they wanted to steal your stuff, not the car, so they wouldn't even be getting in the car and closing the doors in the first place. I hope you packed your running shoes, because you will have some chasing to do to get your stuff back.
Great, a car designed to lock your bag/purse/keys in the car for you. Brilliant!
Some car designers just aren't thinking.
I sure hope the dealer can turn that "feature" off, because I sure wouldn't put up with a miss design like that.
Hmm, 1,920x1,080x3x60=373,248,000 bytes per second. Yeah, that could be stored if you have one amazingly fast disk system. It is really the MPEG2/MPEG4 data you want to store, not the decoded video stream.
Having dealt with webmin for many years, I certainly would not recommend it to anyone that isn't willing to do the hard work of fixing all its many bugs and limitations. This means you have to know how the stuff underneath actually works so you can explain that to webmin, because many of the modules in webmin are incomplete, or buggy and don't necessarily work with the version of the service you actually have installed.
If you think it will save you from insanity, you are clearly already insane.
Oh and if you do try to go fix things, welcome to inconsistent spaghetti code.
You can use it to make a nice webui for simple users, but out of the box it does not really work very well at all and is more likely to mess up your system than help you fix it.
Even if you do consider it a sale (as I certainly think it should be), how about copyright? The company that made the software owns the copyright, which means only they are allowed to make copies of it (or those they license to do so). You bought _one_ copy on some kind of media.
So to actually install the software on your computer, you have to copy it. You need a license to do that. You can happily own the CD with the software on it, but you are not allowed to make any copies of it without that license. I think used video games might be getting around this by the fact the game isn't actually installed in the case of game consoles and runs from the media itself. Now you may consider getting it into ram to be a copy, in which case things get more complicated again.
Perhaps one could argue fair use permits you to install that software copy you bought so that you can make use of it. Fair use doesn't seem to be handled very well in general though and certainly not getting much respect by things like the DMCA (in the US).
We still have PowerPC (IBM and Freescale make plenty), and ARM (Who has more CPUs out there than ARM?), and of course MIPS (Lots of small routers, like Broadcom and Atheros chips, not to mention the Chinese loongson processors). Now SPARC is a lovely architecture and all, but when was the last time they made a new one?
Itanium seems to have killed the Alpha, killed high end MIPS although apparently not that successfully given where MIPS is going now, and of course killed the HPPA (PA-RISC). It might have wounded SPARC, although that may have been as much SUN's own fault. PowerPC never even noticed the Itanium. It's doing fine. Same with ARM (although these have never been high end server stuff, although that could change).
I have never heard of an election issue in Canada. They use paper ballots, they are counted quickly (results are usually in within 4 or 5 hours of the poles closing), and recounts are automatically done for close results. Sure it takes a lot of people to pull off, but it works. Voters can register on the spot (unlike say, the USA), so persons who choose to go vote, can do so.
There simply is no reason to use electronic voting machines like these, other than to attempt to save money or to in fact try to commit fraud.
Now if we could just the option to hide profile pictures back (which the article incorrectly claims was always visible. It was not, that changed in the recent big change.) then we will be almost back to being able to do what we could do before.
The only thing that was ever shared at all times up until last years big change was your name. Nothing else was forced to be shared. I don't care if the profile picture makes it easier to find people. It should be the users choice if that is shared with all or not. I can't even imagine why they thought making pages you follow public to all. You would have to be a complete moron to not recognize how that cold cause a big privacy problem, but hey this is facebook, so oh well.
WiMax does have some advantages over LTE. It is really good at giving reliable predictable bandwidth. This means utilities and such like it much more than LTE. LTE is better at efficiently getting lots of bandwidth out of the radio spectrum available, and is hence more suitable for broadband users who just do transfers occasionally, and just want speed but isn't latency critical.
Canada has reserved a band for WiMax for utility use (probably accessing smart meters, monitoring the grid, etc.). So for their own private wireless network links with predictable bandwidth, the utilities love the idea WiMax. But no, for consumers, WiMax really does appear to be dead, and probably for good reasons.
IBM builds liquid cooled systems.
Google uses liquid plumbing into their containers as far as I know.
I believe others have also experimented with containers with liquid cooling rather than air.
So almost certainly this will start to become the normal way to cool high end server equipment. At the low end you have the overclockers playing with liquid cooling too.
Just use solid state disks. Problem solved.
$2/MB isn't that bad. In Canada I have seen $0.05/KB for data if you don't have a plan. That makes $50/MB.
Why would you want your phone's sim card in an ipad? It doesn't make phone calls. You want a sim with data only service after all (no need for a phone number or anything like that). So why not use the latest and greatest sim format for it?
Or you could just not care because well, it's an ipad and who cares about a locked down computer with overpriced applications that only exist if some unknown group of people happen to think they are permitted.
Oh and don't some phone companies claim to own the sim card? Are you allowed to go cutting them in half in that case?
