Comment Re:Sounds like a TPM chilp could help you (Score 1) 169
I have no problem not owning that key, if nobody else owns it too. Yes it could be abused, mas all technology could be abused for evil.
Comment Sounds like a TPM chilp could help you (Score 1) 169
... as the root keys never leave the chip. But hey, trusted computing is eevil right?
Comment Mikrotik routerboards (Score 1) 322
This small Latvian company makes the best affordable network gear I've ever used: http://www.routerboard.com/
Their own OS is ok, but you can also install custom ones like DD-WRT.
The Big Technical Mistakes of History 244
An anonymous reader tips a PC Authority review of some of the biggest technical goofs of all time. "As any computer programmer will tell you, some of the most confusing and complex issues can stem from the simplest of errors. This article looking back at history's big technical mistakes includes some interesting trivia, such as NASA's failure to convert measurements to metric, resulting in the Mars Climate Orbiter being torn apart by the Martian atmosphere. Then there is the infamous Intel Pentium floating point fiasco, which cost the company $450m in direct costs, a battering on the world's stock exchanges, and a huge black mark on its reputation. Also on the list is Iridium, the global satellite phone network that promised to make phones work anywhere on the planet, but required 77 satellites to be launched into space."
Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582
An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"
Comment Re:Fat chance, but... (Score 1) 56
This game is full of bad game "design decisions" (at least in the PC version):
- Why the hell you could not jump? Great graphics, great atmosphere, but stuck in the floor?
- The input is lagging. I've tried to disable vsync, etc, but i still got a considerable amount of lag on my mouse.
- YOU CANNOT CHANGE DEFAULT KEYS. This really killed the game for me, as i don't really use any of the AWSD ones for movement. This is the first game in like 15+ years where i could not change the default keyboard controls.
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- Why the hell you could not jump? Great graphics, great atmosphere, but stuck in the floor?
- The input is lagging. I've tried to disable vsync, etc, but i still got a considerable amount of lag on my mouse.
- YOU CANNOT CHANGE DEFAULT KEYS. This really killed the game for me, as i don't really use any of the AWSD ones for movement. This is the first game in like 15+ years where i could not change the default keyboard controls.
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Comment Re:Bitlocker? (Score 1) 376
How do you replace a TPM with a dummy one? Do you realize that not even with physical access you can extract the TPM keys stored inside a tamper evident/resistant chip that is used to sign the bootloader/etc ...?
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Comment Re:Dupe, (Score 1) 417
I ended Crysis 1 & 2 with a Geforce 9400 with decent gameplay and graphics on Vista. That video card costs around ~60â.
Comment Re:Ghost in the Shell (Score 1) 297
I remember when i first saw GiTS (first movie). That silent 10m interlude with city scenes after the big bird plane starts to land...
I still recall that scene as one of the TOP moments of the history of cinema/anime for me (really).
The story is simple but the atmosphere/sound/feeling in top.
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Comment Re:Floodbanks? (Score 1) 521
Maybe they could buy desert portions from Australia and move them to the atols to compensate the land eroded by the sea...?
