Comment Re: Nosedive (Score 1) 598
From the link he posted:
sudo nvram boot-args="debug=0x10"
From the link he posted:
sudo nvram boot-args="debug=0x10"
you can't run a version of Safari on 10.6.x that will actually load content on sites like Youtube).
That's because you are using a version of Safari that hasn't been updated for about 6 years.
...Fortunately, you have several alternatives: 1. Update OS X to Yosemite. It's FREE (as in beer).
Yeah, FREE (as in beer) and UNAVAILABLE (as in roast dodo).
The "forced upgrade policy" means that a generation of
Macintoshes is arbitrarily decared too old for the installer to put a newer OS onto it.
My MacPro, four Xeon cores and 20GB of RAM, with six drive bays,
doesn't have a MacOS upgrade path beyond 10.6.8, won't load any Safari
browser version that came with 10.7+, and most prebuilt browsers
of other pedigree are just as OS-intolerant (TenFourFox being the notable exception).
Apple's OS and app install process discriminates on the basis of last-time-we-got-paid-for-hardware.
Despite your Mac Pro dating from before 2008 or so, it's still a relatively powerful machine - and Xeons are absolutely 64-bit CPUs. It's annoying that Apple didn't update the 32-bit firmware on that machine at some stage of it's lifespan which would have enabled it to run everything up to, and including, Yosemite.
I would like just one communications app - a decent PHONE app. One that doesn't use a high-pass filter to cut off half of what my deep voice is saying, making people ask me to speak up even though I'm already making people around me look at me because I speak so loud. One that has voicemail on the phone itself, not as a dial-in service, so you can save voicemails for later use. One that has built-in access to public phone books and yellow pages. One that will let you choose whether to roam or not from within the phone app, not going through settings. One that lets you punch the numbers as fast as you can. One I can disable the ringer on without having to (a) unlock my phone, (b) open a different app to (c) turn all sound off.
Cell phones of the 90s were better at making phone calls than today's "smart" phones are. They're smart at everything except being a phone.
So, what you're saying is that you want an iPhone?
I don't know about the settings on the high-pass filter - I have a reasonably deep voice and I haven't had anyone comment that they can't hear me.
Visual Voicemail on the phone is in the phone app - it shows you a list of all your voicemails with their name (if in your address book) or their number and the time of the call. You can play, replay, delete and undelete from within the phone app. There doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of voicemails you can keep. You can also easily change your greeting from within the voicemail part of the phone app.
There's no integrated access to yellow pages or anything like that. Also no access to roaming settings from within the phone app. With a sensible mobile network setup, you leave international roaming off and don't worry about any other roaming as it's not an issue.
I've never had any noticeable delay in keying in numbers manually, it will register the numbers as fast as I can hit the buttons on the screen.
And as for disabling the ringer, all iPhones have a mute switch on the side of the phone that turns the ringer on and off from a physical switch.
It may, but it's pretty rare that it's worth it and it also increases the cost of maintaining. Though a function in glibc, might be an exception.
There's nothing rare about it. SIMD vectorization is useful in tons of applications.
Yes, and modern compilers are quite good at generating code that takes advantage of extended instruction sets.
And, even without Tempora, the old story of "a boat anchor severed the fibre cable" is usually sufficient explanation for downtime when a tap is made...
Just putting this out there for fellow Aussies. Fire this up in a VM and you're good to go.
https://tails.boum.org/
Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:
use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.
Yes, I know it's not perfect and possibly contains bugs, but against the proposed Aus Govt surveillance, it's a very quick and easy workaround.
Aperture won't currently run in Yosemite. Aperture will be updated to run under Yosemite but that's the last update it's going to get.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
Printing with light, AKA Stereolithography has been around for a long time. The news here is that they're printing feature sizes that are smaller than the wavelength of the light they are using. This involves using metamaterials with a negative index of refraction (among other things)
Can't tell if serious or trolling.
These cameras are used for slowing things down. You shoot at, say, 600 frames per second and then you can slow it down by 20 times to 30 fps. Watching the video at 30 fps then shows a very smooth slow-motion view of what's happening 20 times faster. One of the examples he gave was in process manufacturing - if you have an assembly line that's jamming at a point, and you can't see why as it's all happening too quickly, shoot it at a high frame rate, slow it down and go over it frame by frame if you need to. Either that or make videos of stuff breaking, getting shot or having water splashed on it and put it on youtube. People love seeing that stuff in slow motion.
I'm going to guess that you're joking here. Cars already need to be regularly filled up with fluids of all sorts and people seem to be able remember to do that, granted with the help of a small gauge in the instrument cluster.
What's "purely digital" about a LCD? For a start, there's nothing in this article talking about VGA. I'm talking about DisplayPort (as is the linked article) which has a signal path from the GPU to the monitor (and if you want to be pedantic about it, the DisplayPort interface on the rear of the monitor) that is purely digital. However, if you really want to take it to it's illogical extreme, even the digital signalling used by DisplayPort is, at it's heart, analogue voltages travelling down a bunch of copper wires.
Either way, the signal path, the communications channel, that still has things like a vertical blanking interval and runs between the GPU and the electronics in the monitor is purely digital.
Yeah, I always found it strange that even a purely digital flat panel monitor still "emulates" a vertical refresh interval signal...
I haven't RTFA, but from what I understand of it, it's not syncing the output from the graphics card to the vertical blanking interval on the monitor, it's the other way around. It's running the monitor at a variable frame rate so that if you're running at (say) 60Hz refresh and the next frame takes 1/60th second + a tiny bit, the monitor can hold off painting the new frame until the data is there to paint it, rather than waiting for 2/60th second before displaying an updated frame. Or, if the next frame is ready early, and the monitor can do so, it can paint the new frame early - so the monitor isn't running at 60Hz, it's running in sync with the output of the graphics card.
For some reason I can't get to that page (DDOS'd? Taken offline?)
Here's the results on their blog:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the...
Private key grabbed. Game over.
One successful attempt took >2.5M requests over a day. Second successful attempt was something like 100k requests.
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the...
It's all in the luck of the draw. When you don't have any logging of this, you've got no idea how long people have been poking at this and literally no idea what anyone has made off with.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
