@JourneymanGeek what next? they'll remove the TrackPoint? then I will have zero reason to ever buy another Lenovo product, even though I already really dislike them
that keyboard is absolutely atrocious... they should be embarrassed
whoever designed it should be fired and the organization should be told by executive order from the CEO to return the keyboard to the X60 design immediately and give a $100 credit to all owners of the new keyboard disaster
if they don't do that, they have no soul (and I know they don't, so they won't)
FWIW I @'ed their Twitter account complaining about it
I am using Windows Virtual PC on a Windows 7 machine. I have created an MS-DOS 6.22 virtual machine with 16 MB RAM and a 2 GB hard disk. Whenever I minimize or otherwise deactivate the window, and then restore or reactivate it, I get an error message, the PC speaker beeps for a second, and the vi...
@gparyani did you try other virtualization products? that's the best I can recommend, since something like VirtualBox or VMware Workstation might not exhibit the behavior
or maybe they do exhibit the behavior, in which case you know it's not Virtual PC at fault
either way, trying other products (even if you just get the 30-day eval of VMware and not buy it) will prove enlightening
@Bob convert: Converts several units and currencies, case sensitive. /convert <num><unit> [to|in <unit>] Pass in list for supported units /convert list
I like the razer idea but honestly my only laptop form factor purchases in the next 4 years will probably be Surface Pro X (almost certainly where X > 2)
btw, did you guys hear about the Haswell "refresh" release that's coming sometime in 2014? I think it's supposed to arrive at least a half-year ahead of Broadwell
it's going to be neither a tick nor a tock, just more of a little update that I guess will form the basis of another ultrabook iteration for MSFT and Lenovo and Dell
the conversation probably went something like this. a big wig at MSFT calls up Intel. "hey guys we want to iterate Surface Pro no later than Q3 2014, can you get us a new processor by then?" // Intel: "we weren't planning on it, Broadwell's still a year off" // MSFT: "well can you do it anyway?" // Intel: "sigh, ok, we'll do a little ditty on Haswell real quick for ya"
I just want a Surface Pro with rotating media (or for someone to discover a miraculous and affordable new way of data storage that involves either much better/denser/cheaper NAND, or something new entirely), more RAM, and a trackpoint on the type cover
@Bob that's the NUC Sandy Bridge Celeron. I wouldn't be surprised if those servers are NUC form factor, if not actual NUCs
I like Bing, Google, and DuckDuckGo for different reasons each: DDG is your privacy advocate for when you really need to make an anonymous search; Bing is your MSDN / Microsoft Technologies search (better than Google in many cases); and Google is your general purpose all-round best search
I want to buy a wifi card that works with Linux, and the only firmware + driver that is available is FOSS, and partially maintained by the mfg, and partly by the community.
Does this exist?
Three male programmers were in the bathroom standing at the urinals. The first programmer finishes, walks over to the sink to wash his hands. He then proceeds to dry his hands very carefully. He uses paper towel after paper towel and ensures that every single spot of water on his hands is dried. Turning to the other two, he says, "At Microsoft, we are trained to be extremely thorough." The second programmer finishes his task at the urinal and he proceeds to wash his hands. He uses a single paper towel and makes sure that he dries his hands using every available portion of the paper towel.
@JourneymanGeek don't assume that he's a zealot; he may have some specific reason for this, such as, a military organization that has to be able to audit every single function a device performs down to the transistor level, formal methods, etc
not even just military, but also extremely closely guarded / sensitive corporate or personal information
but i know that for instance in the US there are military applications of digital technology that require full disclosure of all hardware and software specifications, details and source code for formal verification
@Bob if "cat pants" is from NSA, I'm worried, very worried
@JourneymanGeek a wifi card with full firmware disclosure basically becomes an SDR once you have every last detail of the hardware and software and firmware
@Bob fwcutter. you install the windows driver or extract the firmware from the installer package, then load the firmware into the hardware at initialization time and use a native Linux driver (or ndiswrapper...)
the firmware is "machine code" (native code) compiled for the hardware device, so it really is irrelevant which platform you load it from, since the platform doesn't have to make any sense of it
if the devices had the firmware "baked in", there would be numerous drawbacks: it would add to the cost (now we have a NAND chip on the wifi card); and add an additional requirement to the host<->chip interface to make it upgradeable/overwritable; and add risk that a bit might get flipped in the NAND by a random gamma ray and make it unusable
@Bob: their windows drivers are wierd (though they often have interesting functionality, like AP mode), but their wifi adaptors usually have kernel support, and work perfectly there.
these days with most advanced electronics (advanced = connected to a host CPU roughly consisting of an MMU, an I/O bus and capabilities approaching at least that of a router or smartphone or better), peripherals that have programmable low-level firmware support get their firmware from the host CPU for maximum maintainability, upgradability and flexibility
like, on smartphones, the host CPU pushes the firmware into the cellular baseband on initialization, and the firmware into the GPU, and the firmware into the wifi chipset
if you have two ethernet or wifi controllers connected to the same subnet but with different IP addresses for the distinct devices, it will work, but one of the two devices (usually depending on load order) will be selected as the default gateway, and all traffic will be routed through that by default
there is software to load balance between multiple NICs, and it usually involves inspection of traffic to keep track of TCP sockets and so on, so that a given socket persists across the same NIC for the duration of the socket
garbage-collecting system software. that is, system software whose runtime performs garbage collection, where system software is defined as very low level stuff
eventually the generational garbage collector of v8 is gonna want to cleanup the heap, and it'll cause a brief latency... meaningless for http, but it'll matter for a FPS
I have two internet connections from two different ISPs and I need to balance the traffic originating to and from my network between the two ISPs. I am using Debian GNU/Linux.
My set-up is like this -
eth0 (192.168.0.0/24) -- Local network
eth1 (192.168.1.0/24) -- ISP #1
eth2 (192.168.2.0/24)...
Well then. If someone wants to talk to me may they ping me or something. Currently in a depressed period of acute not-giving-a-shit-ism so I'd likely not visit the chat.
For now I'll be off to bed because it's slightly 3 in the morning.
I want to buy a wifi card that works with Linux, and the only firmware + driver that is available is FOSS, and partially maintained by the mfg, and partly by the community.
Does this exist?
I have two internet connections from two different ISPs and I need to balance the traffic originating to and from my network between the two ISPs. I am using Debian GNU/Linux.
My set-up is like this -
eth0 (192.168.0.0/24) -- Local network
eth1 (192.168.1.0/24) -- ISP #1
eth2 (192.168.2.0/24)...
