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the official site has windows and linux versions(32 bit)

http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.c...

Yup and philly trucks seem to have more choices then nyc too overall, especially around some of the colleges. Temple has a few really good crepe trucks and drexel/upenn has some good tacos. Most of the good ones always seem to have a line. I'm sure theres plenty more that I havnt seen, don't spend that much time in the city any more.

Harper Lee is a very private person, almost never gives interviews and hasn't written any other books, so yeah very understandable reaction. I really love to kill a mockingbird, still remember being assigned to read it in 7th grade. The teacher actually started by reading the first part of the book to us in class and i was hooked, went home and actually read ahead(quite a big deal for a bored 7th grader that barely did enough to get by when he had his IRC friends waiting). I think thats a huge reason for me being an avid reader today.

I really hope this Pinkus guy gets what he deserves. People that take advantage of the elderly are right near child molesters on the scumbag scale, and forcing some one that obviously values their privacy to have to make a public spectacle of themselves like this should be a crime in its own right.

I believe some one already tried something similar, it unfortunately didn't end well[0]. If some one does throw up such a torrent though I'd be glad to help seed.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Anyone remember the demo "Excelence by BraadWorsten Brigade" made in excel 2003 that used double buffering for animation? Really neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H...!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53021

The pixel seems like a total waste from a hardware standpoint, everything he mentioned would work just as well one of those $250 samsung chromebooks. He also had to fight with the os to get anything useful done. Again i can see myself spending a few hundred bucks for a laptop to carry with me and not worry about to get some basic tasks done, but why would anyone want a pixel?

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

starwars done in ascii ;)

Is that really true? They have python "apps" for the ipad, but that's not what i mean. I like tinkering, always have my parents tell stories about how when i was a child I'd take things apart instead of playing with toys. IMO that type of curiosity is what makes a "hacker". Regarding apple products part of the fun is jailbreaking the device and figuring out how it works, trying to break the security etc. this will teach you A LOT. Yes you can tinker with android devices but with something closed like the ipad I get a drive to figure out how it works and break it. Apple might not like it much when their devices are jailbroken/the cydia store but you don't see them suing people like geohot as sony does.

The OP does have details to back it up, just not hard numbers. He states how new employees had problems getting setup, old employees dealing with misc problems, things not running smoothly in general. Yes most companies consist of more than IT but these days the problem is many organizations seem to look at IT as an extra expense they can skimp on or even completely do without("The bosses son is really good with computer's he can fix any problems that arise!"). Theres two sides to every story and maybe this department was bloated and could've used some restructuring we don't know that part for sure but we do know that things went from everyone being able to work efficiently to all sorts of random issues, suffered by general employees not IT that should've been avoided.

You're taking this awfully personally, I'll ask again do you do in some sort of managerial position? Do you have some personal experience with this sort of thing?

The exact quote is:

"Of course, it all went to shit. New employees would go a week before they had machines, phones, passwords, and ACLs. Printers ran out of paper, projectors ran out of lightbulbs, servers ran out of storage, networks got misconfigured, and so forth. The total time lost and wasted across the whole company was most certainly greater than the savings of laying off the expensive and skilled IT staff."

The guy might be a bit biased but it's completely clear from his article that even though he might not have exact numbers the company was much better off(not only in terms of total profit) with the old IT department.

Are you a manager?

yeah what about something like the raspberry pi that doesnt even have built in storage?

Wow that's an amazing view. First of all she didnt say anything it was a god damn look, she couldve had a stomach cramp and made a face for all the person on the phone knows. The article also states that this was during a difficult pose the instructor was demonstrating, what about the "happyness" of the other employees in the class? Don't you think distracting them by talking on the phone ruins their experience and makes all those other people less happy, just to make 1 more happy? This type of rule seems in place for business purposes(business related calls comming in that can't wait) not for what might or might not make a person happy. If this employee has such ego problems that shes rude enough to answer the phone, not step out of the class and distract everyone else then complain about the a god damn look she got from the teacher, the only word i can think of using for her is "bitch" and i wouldn't want some one like that at my company.

Why do hot dogs come in packages of ten and hot dog buns come in packages of eight?

Did you even read the article?

"Vizio is one of the best-kept secrets in consumer technology. The tiny Southern California company consistently sells the most HDTVs in America, but it's a sure bet that you know virtually nothing about it. Hell, most people don't even know Vizio is an American company, even though all but three of its 417 employees work in the US. That's sort of what happens when you run virtually no advertising outside of sponsoring a few major events like the Rose Bowl, hold no press conferences outside of CES, and build the foundation of your empire by selling low-cost TVs at Walmart. Yet Vizio's customers keep coming back, and bringing others: a combination of low prices, increasing quality, and solid customer support is pretty hard to resist."

Vizio sells their products in walmart for good prices and relies on word of mouth. How many average walmart shoppers even know what linux is? It might get them some free press but it's probably not the press they need. Personally I'd love to be able to get the thing $100 cheaper without the windows license, but what about the time they have to spend testing and developing drivers/etc will that even out the cost? What about the extra support they'll have to provide for Joe Walmartshopper trying to install word on his brand new machine he just dropped $800 on? What kind of press will it generate when they tell him, that no he can't use outlook? As much as I'd love to see linux on these things it's not a good business decision. Company's like dell massive resources with a huge product like so they can have a linux offering, but for a company like this it just doesn't make sense.

yeah it's a pretty amazing hack. I believe the guy who wrote it is a university student from russia(who also found other holes in chrome) so for him the $60k will go quite a bit further then for some one else and the prestige/job offers associated with it will go even further then that.

When the event was going on, another group called vupen(french company that deals in selling 0day exploits to govts) that found a hole in chrome during that contest refused to give up their method, when offered $120k instead of $60 and their ceo half jokingly said he might give it up for the entire million dollars worth of prizes google was offering

Actually it looks like it was updated to version twice since then to version 0.5.0[1], the latest update being 7 months ago.

[1] https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/downloads

Yes but some one can break into whatever server is hosting the source and add a backdoor withought anyone noticing for quite a while, do you go through all the code you compile? Can't think of any specific examples right now but i remember this happening a few times

Sorry but i didnt feel like going into the specifics of windows memory management when i and others gave you the resources to learn more, so i listed one common case that everyone can appreciate. As per your original post I find that completely dubious saying windows never crashes after you disabled your paging file. Windows generally bsod's because of 3rd party driver's(70% of the time, and yes that's a real statistic). So i find it very hard to believe that it never crashes let alone what your lack of page file has to do with anything. Maybe it was blue screening and you where too busy making winamp crash hundreds of times and posting snarky comments on HN to notice?

windows doesn't have "swap" watch those videos i linked for more info on how it works and a few people pasted http://serverfault.com/a/2368 which has excellent info.

There are many reasons to have a paging file even if you have plenty of ram. If you get a bluescreen it has to use the paging file for the memory dump if you want one, etc.

Mark Russinovitch did a great talk on how windows uses memory. I highly recommend checking it out if you're curious about this sort of thing

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL... Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed,with Mark Russinovich (Part 1 of 2)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL... part 2

heh funny you say that, I do some residential work on the side and lately every time i tell a customer it's time for a new laptop, a good 90% ask "what about an ipad?"

readability has a new service called http://readlists.com/ which i just started trying and it seems pretty nice, basically it lets you create a list of of urls then export them as an epub/mobi and email it directly to your phone/tablet.

I actually think the grey has the opposite effect, makes the post really stand out and i go out of my way to high-light and read it, if only to see why the person was downvoted so much.

To stay on topic I can't believe the guy still hasn't apologized. Judging by his attitude and replies he's probably too busy self-rationalizing about how he's right and if everyone else wasn't an idiot we would all agree with him.

I as a software hacker/tinkerer I have been wanting to get into hardware hacking for quite a while and this looks like a perfect starting point "kit" to play with, with the perfect price.

Thank you for making the world a bit more interesting :)

wow looks like this was written by a 12 year old, I'm impressed.

the statement about GMER is not true. I've seen GMER miss MANY rootkits/etc. As far as catching and removing rootkits that other most av's tend to misss i've had by far the most success with combofix(which includes a GMER scan). Nothing will catch 0day rootkits 100% of the time, once a system is compromised it's best to format and start from scratch (or restore from backup if you're positive it's clean, but make sure you replace the mbr too). Theres just no other way to be completely certain. I lost track of the times that I thought I got everything on a windows machine, then google for something like malwarebytes as a test only to be redirected.

The the full ios version of wolf3d is free[1] today too :)

[1]http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-platin...

option-cmd-v instead of cmd-v will move a file instead of just copying it

Another of his hacks that i found quite notable was a man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP-secured connections to overlay video in any HDMI video stream and gave a nice talk about it.[1]

[1]http://hackaday.com/2012/01/21/overlaying-video-on-encrypted...

What do you mean people overriding their morphine machine limit? Sorry but that doesn't make sense. If some one wants to they can always take an extra perceset or for that matter go out and buy some heroin. Education does much more good than "protecting" people from themselves. Blindly following any doctor's directions is a recipe for disaster. Not all doctor's have your best interest in mind, and even if they did they still make mistakes like any other person. It's much more profitable for the medical industry to throw very addictive pills at the symptoms over treating the underlying cause of the problem.