Comment Re:Be Aware: Many mSATA slots don't support SATA-3 (Score 1) 76
Also, your mSATA slot is SATA-2 @3Gbps, not SATA-1. I don't think you could notice any difference in IOPS between 3Gbps and 6Gbps SATA links.
Also, your mSATA slot is SATA-2 @3Gbps, not SATA-1. I don't think you could notice any difference in IOPS between 3Gbps and 6Gbps SATA links.
OTOH, the drive's IOPS are arguably much more important to how much better a system can perform; SATA-1 doesn't look so limited in this respect. Sequential throughput makes a noticeable difference for more specific applications.
Here's a thought experiment:
Imagine you're a 7th grader who has become intrigued by computers. If that kid tries programming on "Linux" and creates her first couple of apps using whatever tools and libraries she can grasp at the start-- then what will happen??
1. She becomes a web developer. OK, fine... but don't expect desktop apps from her. In fact, don't even expect "Linux" to enter her mind when she thinks of users.
2. She gains a yen for all the *nix plumbing and becomes a system-level tinkerer, writing some KDE or Gnome apps as a way to fill some acute voids in a way that fits into her elite usage patterns. Again, don't expect *good* apps from her. She is interested mainly in cool new ways to arrange the plumbing and impressing only her hacker friends.
3. She STOPS coding when those first tentative steps toward her big ideas ended up having zero chance of running on her uncle's or her classmate's "Linux" systems; copying her code to those other systems resulted in a flop. What's more, she wasn't able to describe to those people ways of troubleshooting the problems that prevented the apps from running, getting puzzling descriptions back from them that she didn't recognize.
3. a) She discovers Windows and Mac systems have the consistency she needs to show-off to her non-technical friends and family, and since those are the people she's trying to impress early on (instead of impressing hackers) her personal development as a coder gains a healthy appreciation for the non-techies' point of view and she becomes a good app developer.
TL;DR; The Linux distro eco system cannot "grow" good app developers. It just cannot. Its too chaotic for the right kind of nurturing of talent to take place.
I think Shuttleworth has been inching away from the distro culture and this is part of the reason why Canonical is frequently criticized; they have needs for future releases of Ubuntu that the non-forked 'plumbing' projects aren't meeting. And then there is ElementaryOS, which seems to have a fully realized platform philosophy that doesn't include "Linux compatibility" (whatever that means) in its future; They plan to diverge increasingly in the future for the sake of internal consistency and usability. I wish them both great luck, and advise Canonical to commit to diverging the way ElementaryOS has, because the pack they're associated with now are just pretenders.
The apps don't materialize because serious app developers (instead of the system tinkerers in FOSS who like to imagine themselves as good apps developers) with passion and committment to their ideas try out "Linux" and experience the following:
1. Scant control of hardware features (even getting the screen to turn off can be a challenge) and the controls that exist suck, because the proper level of vertical integration isn't there.
2. Myriad desktop environments and administration applets that make the thought of guiding users through tech support a nightmare. This is the most obvious reason why "Linux" is not a desktop platform, because most non-techie users of said distros wouldn't even be able to recognize most other distros (or the same distro with a different DE).
3. Myriad combinations of support libraries; even the common ones are bundled together with versions of each other that create a unique and unsupportable platform 'landscape' for each distro.
4. Distro culture itself: 'Thou art a creepy skank if you sell apps and/or offer direct downloads of a product.' Invoking Yum and Apt are almost like genuflecting before entering a pew. Only its a cult, not a religion, because strong dynamic relationships with people outside the repository are frowned upon.
How do you trust these proxies not to be run by state intelligence organizations?
1. The attackers can't be omnipresent at all times
2. Doing a MITM against all randomly-located HTTPS links is probably impossible to do without being discovered.
3. Some orgs like Torproject have an
Really, for anyone planning this type of attack, consistency is a HUGE problem and you only have to be slightly crafty to be reasonably sure about the keys you're getting. The only other thing to increase your certainty is to get key fingerprints from these people in person.
It ought to start by making certs and keys first-class GUI objects, starting with file browsers. Seriously, people should not see a blank square when they are copying or otherwise manipulating a key.
Further, there should be write-once devices that allow us to add keys and other identity info without worrying an attack will subvert that data.
Use Tor and some other proxies, sample multiple times.
You may have something there. Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the summary advocating a move toward not away from X.509. If someone wants us to move toward the tech used by (famously subverted) PKI, they better damn well spell out how PKIs mistakes won't affect verification procedures.
That's why security is not a boolean. If you regard it as black-and-white, it'll drive you nuts.
Be thankful you can at least whittle the trust issues down to things like switch vendors.
Hopefully we'll see more about it on Slashdot once it starts shipping.
I should also point out that, from a manager or user perspective, a Qubes system is just a re-mix of Citrix client products. Even if the user runs in only one domain, an exploit against PCs is far less likely to break out of the VM, making cleanup a quicker and much more certain task.
It also has ways to protect you from physical attacks on boot partitions and BIOS, so travellers with laptops are less vulnerable.
Well, much of it already exists as Qubes OS, and it runs most Linux and Windows apps just fine.
You can get CoreBoot BIOS for several systems, and they're just getting started. And given that Canonical has the best HCL (with the most compatible systems) and hardware partnership profile in the business (apart from MS), I think Shuttleworth's proposal is credible... Good luck to him!
and well..
quite frankly due to the prosecutor not understanding what he had been doing it's just about punishing for joking around. it should be illegal to prosecute something you can't understand. "I don't know what he did but he sure looks guilty, right!? you must convict!".
circa 1997 this happened to me, sort of. ran a traceroute on the wrong night to see where my emails were routed through(our school mandated the use of an internal email system where server wasn't internal and there was no encryption on the email clients(email client was mandated to be a certain windows email reader). now of course I had my machine full of warez(games and early music warez), winnukes, jolt of the day etc(and had winnuked some people so not totally innocent really of everything).
but what shocked me was the police interrogation, because they tried to make me sign something I had not said, because they did not understand the claims made by the "victim"(city) were impossible to have happened from my actions(and claiming shit like me crashing hospital internal network, hopping a supposed airgap and other stuff that I did not do, they just had some internal meltdown of the windows servers routing the traffic on the same day). the way the interrogation went was "you know what you did, tell us" and 16 year old me going "what the fuck dudes?".
originally they wanted me to confess to something technically impossible and it took them nearly 2 years to figure out that they did not know what to charge me with(and for the prosecutor to deem the investigation incompetently done and drop it, and it cost the state quite a lot for nothing...). I mean, the
posting anon but it's not too hard to figure out who this is for those who know.
anyway, doesn't matter which western country you live in always check what the coppers want you to sign and ask the fuckers to rewrite it to match what you actually said. after that ordeal I was convinced 20-30% of "solved" crimes are just pinned on some druggies in withdrawal who don't read what they sign.
Thanks for the advice.
He's no Tony Blair or even a Mitnick or a Zimmermann. He might make $10k if he's lucky.
...particularly for punishing small fries who get in the way of large corporate interests and other big shots.
Along the same lines, we can ask why 'Bidder 70' went to jail for stopping the illegal sale of public land.
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