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Comment Re:Hibernation is glitchy (Score 1) 596

by pasokon (#27940555) Attached to: How often do you reboot your primary computer?

All the current Apple portables "hibernate" by default.
(Saving the RAM contents to disk, then going to sleep.)

The feature is called "SafeSleep," and Apple's reason for implementing it is so the contents of RAM aren't lost when the battery dies.

With a desktop... you don't have a battery, so there isn't a reason for SafeSleep to be enabled. (But you could turn it on, if you wanted.) As such, your sleep/wake is quick.

Yours might if it's configured to hibernate instead of sleep when you close the lid.

There is no toggle for this in System Preferences. (Which makes most people think it just "works that way.")
You have to enter a terminal command, or use a script or third-party utility like Secrets, SmartSleep, etc.

Cryptol, Language of Cryptography, Now Available To the Public 140

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the new-toys-to-play-with dept.
solweil writes to mention that Cryptol, a 'domain specific language for the design, implementation and verification of cryptographic algorithms,' is now available to the public. Cryptol was originally designed for the NSA. It allows for a quick evaluation and continued revisions, and is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Hardware Hacking

MSI Wind U100, Overclocked With Liquid Nitrogen 95

Posted by timothy from the it's-a-free-world-baby dept.
james writes "What do you get when you combine a MSI Wind U100 notebook with liquid nitrogen? The new Intel Atom frequency World Record ... and some damn cool pictures! A large copper pot is used, sitting on top of the GPU and chipset, and cold transfer through the original heatsink plate to the CPU. This was cooled down to about -20 C to achieve the new world mark. (Intel Atom N270 @ 2315mhz) For more information you can check out the original forum thread.
Cellphones

Submission + - Bug in Android passes keystrokes to root shell (zdnet.com)

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pasokon writes: "An Android bug in shipping T-Mobile G1s:
'When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thus every word you typed, in addition to going to the foreground application would be silently and invisibly interpreted as a command and executed with superuser privileges.'"
Wireless (Apple)

iPhone Free WiFi Is Back 77

Posted by samzenpus from the everyone-loves-free-stuff dept.
scorp1us writes "iPhone users used to be able to get free Wifi from AT&T hot spots, including Starbucks locations. The service was pulled because of the browser-agent hack. Now the service is being re-launched, this time with a link sent via SMS to the iPhone for the hotspot, valid for 24 hours."

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