Very impressive…
Gear Live | iMac Core Duo: Easiest RAM Installation Ever:
the RAM slot is at the bottom of the computer. All you need to do is unscrew a small panel, insert the RAM, and screw the panel back on. It really couldn?t be simpler. We removed the 512 MB stick, and installed two 1 GB chips in under a minute.
With the use of distributed computing, researchers found 43rd Mersenne Prime: 230,402,457-1
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This is too funny, “unbreakable Infinity bit Triple Layer Socket Encryption”! Wow, using an infinite number of bit or something? wouldn’t that be a bit slow? and “SUPER Cipher P2P”! The author even has a resume with very little programming or cryptography experience to back up his claim! Be sure to check out the comments at Bruce’s site, hilarious! 🙂
I’ll stick with using SSH tunnels with SSHKeychain.
Schneier on Security: The Doghouse: Super Cipher P2P Messenger:
Super Cipher P2P Messenger uses “unbreakable Infinity bit Triple Layer Socket Encryption for completely secure communication.”
This is interesting… I always wonder how a company with so-so engineering and design talent, and one that has been putting out inferior products since the original StarTAC, all the sudden came up with something as cool as the RAZR, now I know.
The January 21st issue of The Economist has a “survey of the company” (companies in general, not just Moto), with intriguing articles on organization, management and collaboration. These excellent surveys alone are more than worth their online or print subscription.
Teaming with bright ideas | Economist.com:
The skunkworks concept fell into disrepute when it was seen as just another cost centre, and one with attitude at that. Now it is being revived, but in a different guise. Much of Motorola’s Razr mobile phone, currently a big market hit, was developed in a new laboratory that the company has set up in downtown Chicago, 50 miles (80km) from its main R&D facility in suburban Illinois. The building and the design of the workspace are very different from Motorola’s main offices, with lots of bright colours and no dividing walls.
In this type of skunkworks, geniuses are not just left to breathe pure intellectual air, as they often were in previous incarnations; they are also constantly brought into contact with designers, marketing people, production managers and accountants. The idea is not that they emerge at the end of the day with something that makes their competitors say ?wow?. It is that they come out with something that makes their competitors’ customers say ?wow?.
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… and we actually had working stuff to demo at the CES, unlike some other big wifi chipmaker… 😉
Wireless Net DesignLine | Atheros delivers early 802.11n solution
Atheros Communications’ AR5008 WLAN chipset implements a three-radio MIMO design that delivers six times the throughput of 802.11g and 802.11a/g products at extended range and with greater reliability.
[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation
I got this security update with aptitude on my own Debian GNU/Linux server and now when I use VIM with sudo (I think) sudo no longer passes the $HOME variable over to VIM, and VIM looks for $HOME/.viminfo by default. I guess $HOME is set to NULL inside sudo, so whenever I exit VIM it bitches about not being able to write to my viminfo file. (for more info about viminfo errors go here and search for the string viminfo-errors)
To fix this I have to do `sudo vi -i ~/.viminfo`, or `sudo -H vim`… for now I will alias “sudo” to “sudo -H”…
Update: after looking at the manpages more, if I set the “always_set_home” flag in my sudoers it will imply “-H” all the time, very nice.
Now we no longer have to click “secure login” to switch to SSL login… I guess Yahoo got a tiny bit smarter…
What does “Submits over SSL” mean?
When you sign in to Yahoo!, you’re now protected via industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. This means that your password is more secure in transit when you sign in.
I cvsup’ed the ports tree on my client’s new server and did a ‘portmanager -u’, :lol:, it deleted itself! I’ve used portupgrade for years but the latest FreeBSD Handbook mentioned portmanager. I tried and liked it. Oh well…
Google Groups : mailing.freebsd.cvs
Remove portmanager. Author has withdrawn permission to distribute it.
From this teardown of the Intel-inside iMac, it contains a Broadcom PCIX wifi chipset. And according to this press release, the BCM4311 supports 802.11a/g. So I guess these rumors were not exactly true, at least not for the iMac, we will have to wait for somebody to take apart a MacBook Pro to find out what’s in those… well, the time will come… 🙂
Check out these benchmarks. As expected, running (or rather, emulating) Photoshop with Rosetta is slow as shit. Like I told my friend Ming when he told me he was getting a MacBook Pro, if you are getting one to do Photoshop primarily, you should wait until Adobe releases a native version of PS CS2 for the Intel-based Macs, only until then we would be able to see benchmarks and decide if it makes more sense to get a Mac or a PC.
If you want a MacBook Pro because of OS X, the iApps, or anything other than for Adobe apps, then go ahead. 🙂
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