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PINNACLE/NUCFLASH

a six wheeled sports car?? wtf?
posted by coderman at 2006-03-16 23:05

http://www.blachford.info/computer/articles/PhysX2.html
posted by minddog at 2006-03-16 22:54

rovar: If the 2 big gpu manufacturers didn't insist on charging double for a card with a decent return buffer pipeline, this would be completely unneccesary

Evolution of BIOS: EFI, the Framework, and beyond
posted by coderman at 2006-03-16 22:48

coderman: "While BIOS is an OS-independent firmware model, it is not a platform independent model. At the heart of the BIOS is the Intel 8086 software interrupt model, which as the name implies, relies heavily on compatibility the Intel 8086. This is why all of Intel's super-scalar HyperThreading multi-stage-pipelined processors still boot and run in 8086 "real mode" -- 16-bit register access, no memory addressing above 1MB."
coderman: goodbye, real-mode. you should have died a decade ago...
coderman: "Brian is often distracted from work by his wife, cats, horses, goats, house, ..." - hey, that sounds familiar...

quite a tale
posted by coderman at 2006-03-16 21:36

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/whale.jpg
posted by albo at 2006-03-16 19:47

albo: OH MY
Oliver: Welcome to albo's animal porn gallery

Albo's horse porn
posted by albo at 2006-03-16 19:45

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-03-16 17:05

Zerodhero: Tera-RamSan Details
Zerodhero: Up to 8 independent non-volatile solid state disks (SSD) modules. Each SSD module is a RamSan-400, including 128 GB of DDRRAM and up to eight 4-Gbit Fibre Channel connections.

Phil Zimmermann releases Zfone, a client for secure Voice over IP
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 15:47

seti: I hope it doesn't use an IPFW divert socket on Mac OS X to capture & process SIP packets... like PGP Universe did...

How to poach an egg
posted by uid0 at 2006-03-16 15:10

For those who got addicted to Frontier: Elite 2
posted by Oliver at 2006-03-16 15:04

Kids can't cook
posted by uid0 at 2006-03-16 15:02

uid0: and apparently some don't know that french fries come from potatoes

http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0306/031406p1.htm
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 14:53

seti: IPv6 quote of the day: "It is worth putting a czar or somebody up there to make sure that this stuff gets implemented," Davis said at an industry event sponsored by Juniper Networks."

A bill unconstitutionally treated as law, signed by Bush but not passed by the Senate
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 14:27

tanheusa: A more accurate headline might be: The Obscenely Durable Typo.
seti: MetaFilter discussion about it tends to agree with your assessment there.
seti: again, framing in action, though: the crux of the problem isn't that a bill was wrongfully signed into (non-)law, but that it knowingly was. and that nobody wants to go back to the House and Senate for it because it was an atrociously bad bill to start with.
seti: Highlight from MeFi thread: "I think he combines incompetence and malice into a new construct that I like to call malcompetence." A new word is born, ladies and gentlemen!

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 11:23

j_blogs: 3.
j_blogs: ... wash, rinse, repeat ...
j_blogs: equates sequences with rulesets, then puts forward that more complex rulesets win
j_blogs: see also Roger Penrose - Shadows of the Mind
seti: the author himself is not quite happy anymore with the text.

With most notebooks it is possible to secure the hard disk against unauthorized access
posted by j_blogs at 2006-03-16 11:14

j_blogs: a feature of all 3.5" ATA hard disks
j_blogs: "What if an unauthorized party were to lock a hard disk with a password? And what if that party was a virus?"
j_blogs: aka 'the Oh Fuck scenario'
j_blogs: "There are indications ... that one might already exist."
j_blogs: linux hdparm tool gives a command line interface to this facility
j_blogs: the feature has "for some years now has been implemented in almost all ATA hard disks (IDE and Serial ATA)"
j_blogs: "After unlocking the disk and before starting the operating system the BIOS is meant to freeze the security settings to ensure that password protection remains safely under its control."
j_blogs: but does it?
j_blogs: and what about usb devices?
j_blogs: "has been a standard feature of 2.5" hard disks for ten years now"
j_blogs: so why the fuck did seagate launch a drive last year announcing it as the first encrypted hdd?
j_blogs: hmm USB mass storage transport seems not to allow the commands
j_blogs: here at least
j_blogs: hdparm -I
j_blogs: on an ibm laptop with default settings --> not frozen
j_blogs: article implies towards the end that the password is enforced by the hdd firmware, and the platter is not itself encrypted ..

http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/kloader.4.html
posted by j_blogs at 2006-03-16 10:55

White House press release reprinting service
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 09:59

seti: How can you possibly claim with a straight face that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was not a preemptive war?
seti: Bush Approval Rating - Raw Poll Data

Quotes from pundits during the beginning and early stages of the Iraq War.
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 09:35

seti: via
fridge: Only three quotes from Bill O'Reilly, I'm surprised
seti: it's like shooting fish in a barrel. but he seriously thought the war would be over in a matter of hours, three years ago...

the JuniperKiller app
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 09:01

Dude the PS3 is 4D
posted by minddog at 2006-03-16 07:53

http://img.ircimages.com/ircimages/7/b/7b2f22ac8ea3b68fbcaa0185849a8cb3.jpg
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-03-16 07:45

Zerodhero: Looks like Defcon to me....

Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed
posted by Mutiny at 2006-03-16 02:01

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rheauchyr/sets/72057594082940769/
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-03-16 01:38

Zerodhero: Macbook Pro magsafe melt down

FBI monitored, may have infiltrated anti-war group, documents reveal (see, i told you they were bored)
posted by coderman at 2006-03-16 00:26

coderman: hey, this sounds like... like.. COINTELPRO!
coderman: "An FBI spokesman said the agency's actions were lawful. Yet, the documents make no mention of illegal activities, noting only that the group advocated "pacifism," opposed an invasion of Iraq, doubted the U.S. rationale for war" -- OMG, pacifists??? they like to set themselves on fire and shit!
seti: obvious public health risks - also, think of the childrunn
coderman: <fbi> coderman, you must commit suicide or we tell your wife about the satanic sex rituals with furries in goat suits
coderman: <codermange> OMG, anything but that! [seppuku]

Against the War on Terror - developing a coherent critique of the politics of fear and a consistent argument in favor of liberty
posted by seti at 2006-03-16 00:15

coderman: i think everyone should watch 'Brazil'
seti: the government thinks it should watch coderman.
coderman: the government is obviously bored
    
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