Posts by Paul J Turner 334 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Sep 2012
"...we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products, or introducing potential ‘backdoors’ into our products for anyone’s use..."
Well, you would have to be pretty dumb to put your sneaky business on record with a contract or setting up a project to do so, wouldn't you?
" there has been broad consultation" and "it is appropriate to undertake the Review and listen to what the experts have to say"?
What, did they carefully avoid asking the experts during the broad consultation?
More likely, they need new experts to get the answer they want, something with a NBN flavour involving delivering something sub-standard that they can can convince 90% of clueless people is good enough and will have long-term savings while really only looking for savings during their government.
Vmware had better get started, pronto! Xen already have an ARM hypervisor - http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/07/open-source-xen-hypervisor-now-supports-arm-servers
Google appear to have been testing the waters with an Emulated ARM platform - http://code.google.com/p/armware/
Well, Apple owning them on phones in America must smart a little, and now Apple are about to wrap themselves in the flag with a US based factory and maybe a fab in the future, if what we hear is true.
Maybe Google can't afford to let that go unanswered and want to fab their own silicon in the US too.
What they would then probably want from Intel would be a licence to make their own chips to customise them precisely as they wish, and also to be sure they are NSA jiggery-pokery free.
Hardware is becoming obsolete all the time and new hardware replacing it.
It's as easy to write new drivers for one platform as another, as Linux on ARM proves.
It is extra funny since Intel stopped producing drivers for their QX3 microscope several version of Windows ago.
Their own prompt yields '0 Results' - I ended up getting a new device.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?keyword=Intel%20Play%20QX3%20Computer%20microscope&topicarea=SupportDownloads
Well, first you would need Global Warming before claiming it was caused by man.
Too bad the facts don't support the first part of the trick.
Of course, you have only to wait, I'm sure we will have ice-ages, mini ice-ages and thaws for millions of years to come. I'll bet there was some idiot at the end of the last ice-age saying "look, all the ice is melting, we're all going to drown, It's all your fault with your fires"
Way too late, Linux will have got it's foot well and truly in the door by then, what with XP being dropped, 8.x unusable for actual productivity and desktop PC work and gamers having Steam OS as an option.
That and people like me advising people with older machines running an unsupported XP how to use Gmail and GoogleDocs to avoid losing stuff when their old PC finally dies.
That's 'Bold' as in 'Courageous' then?
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister
[How to guide ministers to making the right decisions]
Sir Humphrey: If you want to be really sure that the Minister doesn't accept it, you must say the decision is "courageous".
Bernard: And that's worse than "controversial"?
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes! "Controversial" only means "this will lose you votes". "Courageous" means "this will lose you the election"!
When I next want to listen to a CMF file as it should really sound.
I had a plug in for the FM sysnthesis part of Creative Music Files from old games like 'Jill Of The Jungle' etc.
Without it, you just get the MIDI part, IF the player will handle it at all.
I didn't transfer my WinAMP Pro to my new 64-bit PC but went with VLC instead, now I am thinking I need to think again
I will definitely investigate FooBar2000 though, thanks for the tips - http://www.foobar2000.org/.
It's nice to see a 9% increase in peak SP and DP at the same 235W power, but given that the memory bandwidth has improved 15%, I don't see overwhelming evidence for an improvement in the actual processor.
Also why quote the bandwidth with ECC Off, is that how they are actually used?
Maybe with ECC On there is only a 9% bandwidth improvement?
AND between the lines. You reckon everything Turnbull does is open and above board? http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gag-on-turnbull-briefing-20131116-2xnw4.html
This is the government telling the people that they can't be trusted with knowing what is going on or planned.
You are in for a shock.
Cutting timeframes for approval in half? That's nothing compared to the speed the refusals will exhibit.
Quick to deride the mark 1 Liberator that could be made on a home printer, not so quick to report on the 8-shot successor http://www.slashgear.com/second-3d-printed-gun-fires-off-first-round-successfully-21282938/ then happy to trumpet the success of a handgun that is beyond the average home printer to manufacture. Agenda much? or is your arm being twisted? Please advise if I missed a story along the way leading to this view.
Maybe it's an opportunity!
Elon could build a Lithium Battery plant in the US, at the very least it might terrify EverReady etc into action.
Unless of course, the manufacture of Lithium batteries is a very environmentally unfriendly process, then you would have to wonder about the whole idea.
“How I longed for a version of basic that could be compiled rather than interpreted but that never came to pass”
Well, as an ex BBC user you are in luck!
BBC BASIC for Windows - http://www.cix.co.uk/~rrussell/bbcwin/bbcwin.html
"BBC BASIC for Windows costs only £29.99 including VAT (£24.99 plus VAT, or about US$ 40)"
I'm sorry if this is sounding like an advert' (I have no affiliation with R.T.Russel) but just so you know what you get -
"The full version allows you to create a compact (typically less than 100K) stand-alone executable (.EXE) file from your BASIC program, which will run without BBC BASIC having to be installed and without the need for any special DLLs. You can distribute such executables freely without any royalty for BBC BASIC being due. "
I am not sure if it is truly compiled or has a fast run-time interpreter or something in between, but it is wonderfully powerful!
Well, Microsoft will stop mainstream Windows 7 support on January 12, 2015. But the company will keep providing extended support until January 14, 2020.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010820/how-long-will-microsoft-support-windows-7.html
I run multiple firewalls from different vendors in accordance with best-practice recommendations.
I also have my previous PCs and test machines, currently: Windows Vista 32bit, XP 32bit and Windows 8.1 64bit as well as various Linux flavours, all still working fine.
Only bad workmen begrudge spending money on good tools that will last well and perform well.
Want some qualifications, eh?
Firstly, assertions like "we'd never hire you" carry no weight at all when you're over 50 and apparently already past it.
Meanwhile, I make a living writing real-time embedded systems right down to the metal on ARM processors.
One particular device is a classic closed-loop motor control job to throw tennis balls accurately, finding and tracking a star should be child's play today if a processor from 15 years ago could do it.
http://www.tennismatic.com/main/page_products_ball_machines_t200_series.html
In the past I have done IBM 3270 screen-scraping for Australia's first Mobile Data courier system for Skypak, The original Freight Management System for Ansett Airfreight, and the Sortation Plant control program for TNT's Enfield Sortation Plant which handled 4 parcels per second at maximum load UNDER WINDOWS! as much as any Royal Mail plant. I have real-time down cold.
Saving flying Silent Trader aircraft flying overnight from Adelaide alone for Ansett saved millions.
Feel free to verify any of this with my old manager - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-szwec/7/493/94b
I run Cross Compiling, Simulation and PCB design mostly on my PC and for the chap who could have bought a PC each year, I say "9 women can't have a child in 1 month", you wouldn't have the same capability as this PC from year 1 and probably not by year 5 either.
I can't speak for your desktop PC, but mine is Core i7 3770 water cooled, 32GB fast RAM, SSD boot drive and 5TB secondary storage, plus a decent GPU.
I build a PC for my business to last 5 years, 7 with luck because unlike most businesses I have dealt with, I know that 'best value' is not the same as 'least cost'. Whether you're a serious home user or you make your livelihood with your PC, it should be money well spent, not a question of 'how much'.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/haizo_baum/sets/72157633423490011/
So, No, using the resources available is NOT pissing them away and I won't even feel such a flea-bite.
If you can't get all the resources you need into one XP VM, maybe you need someone to build you an appliance under VMware, that works fine for me too.
I've been in places where they relied on old programs because they were too tight to get a replacement written. I have warned managers of the need to migrate from DOS and 16-bit applications for safety and maintainability too - until I gave it away as a waste of time in 2004!
In my opinion, it is those managers who put their companies at such risk that should be fired, pronto.
"The paper describes all the machinery, but completely misses out on the reason why anyone would want to devote their resources (CPU, network, electricity) to implementing it."
And yet they do this kind of thing in droves, world-wide, 24x7; because they see the worth of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects
People posting far higher quality and more engaging content than the regular news channels and their licenced content. (If you had posted the link, people would have seen for themselves how poor it made 'sanctioned' video look, good call)
Plus, I recognised a section of the video on the national news days ago, anyone chastising them for supporting the excellent work?
Of course, if said video makers had posessed news or journalism credentials, we would have been reading a piece about the state interfering with journalistic freedom.
No matter how hard you try and dress it up and shout 'New Technology', 'New Architecture', the fact is that main memory is already inadequate for the CPU alone, let alone sharing it with the GPU.
If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't have THREE damned levels of cache between main memory and the CPU, now would we?
Given the effectively random addresses that a second accesser of memory makes from the CPU's point of view, those cache lines are absolutely essential, how many levels of cache is the GPU going to get as the next step in trying to make a crap, penny-pinching idea work at last, after all these years?
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