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This is absolute nonsense Coug, and Brian Livingston is obviously no Windows guru. I am a Windows guru, yet it should be plain to anyone that access control does not automatically encrypt files on disk. This is true of every major OS is use today.

The physical layer of SAS is exactly the same as SATA II (which will be available around the same time), such that you will be able to plug SATA drives in to an SAS HBA. The advantages of SAS are additional features, like dual ported drives, rather than raw performance.

While I recognize the wording of the poll is something of a rhetorical device, the very implication is absurd. Even if we set aside the moral overtones, each of the listed companies (even AOL), has made significant contributions to the industry. When I started using PCs, there was essentially...

Sort of. Like Mercutio says, new x86-64 OS binaries and device drivers will be required for 64bit operation(what AMD calls Long Mode). Like the transition from 16 to 32 bit, older application software will work, and will execute without emulation. The fundamental difference this time, is...

I would be interested to know what the server logs say. From similar polls I have looked at recently, far more people claim to use something other than IE, than actually do. SF is a pretty small community however, so who knows?

I bought some Microsoft stock a few years ago, when it was worth a bit more than it is now. With the dividend, I can’t decide whether I want to let it accrue to reduce my cost basis to break even, or go to the movies; by myself.

Actually, this should read “There is nothing about a register that inherently limits it to synchronous or asynchronous designs.” At a certain level, all common logic is inherently asynchronous.

When working with computer systems, we tend to think of a buffer as a temporary storage space (eg print buffer). Applying this thinking to circuit design can be misleading. A buffer is strictly electrical, and is typically used to increase the drive strength of a signal, while a register...

Let me know if you have trouble with netperf

I have written such a piece of software. It's crude, but it should do what you request. I have an engagement this morning, but I will dig it out for you tonight.

For those who are interested in this topic, but don't follow SR regularly, an XP Cache Filter driver can be found here.

Actually, it means that the difference in one particular case isn’t very large. cascopy was not developed to test this issue, and is not representative of all usage scenarios. It was used because it is known not to pass the FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH flag to CreateFile. For applications which...

“In 1985, Gates signed a long-term joint development agreement with IBM to create a new operating system from scratch, known at the time as Advanced DOS. Eventually, it took the name OS/2.” All of the dates I quoted are documented in Hard Drive by Wallace and Erickson. Much of the same...

You may want to double-check that before your next lesson. Work on Interface Manager(Windows) began in late 1981. The first screen shots made the trade publications in 1983. Microsoft didn’t agree to work on Advanced DOS (OS/2), until 1985. The impetus for the creation of Windows, were the...

Say what? If NAV changes any binary (through auto-clean, or any other mechanism), those changes are the responsibility of NAV. They are not the responsibility of the binary that was changed. If NAV were to modify ntoskrnl.exe, terrible things could happen. This is not the fault of...

In your hypothetical example, I am using NAV in the way it was intended to be used (which has flagged my code BTW). Until the Elbox code is shown to be destructive, even once, when properly used, it is a different question entirely.

Indeed, the cracker had better watch out. The opcodes for my x86 disk utility, may map to utter destruction on a Palm device. As I understand it, the code in question is useful, and harmless when used in the proper way. If a crack has been developed which is dangerous, then the developer...

I disagree. It is not clear to me that the manufacturer's code is dangerous at all. What is dangerous, is a different binary released by an anonymous cracker. Software requires precision. The processor does not try to guess what the programmer meant, or was thinking when he wrote the code in...

The apparent lameness of Elbox notwithstanding, how is it a surprise that making random modifications to a third party binary, can be dangerous? If the code in question, became dangerous only after it was modified by the cracker, this is the responsibility of people who use the crack (or the...

It means simply that you do not want the shell to block until the process returns. Since IO is still sent to the same console, "program &" is the sh equivalent of cmd's "start /B program".

Thank you for your kind words gentlemen. I hope the information is useful.

Somewhere inside the southbridge of most modern machines, are two UARTs which take parallel data from the computer's bus, and sequence it serially to a TX pin on the device's package. In order to keep each byte separate, PC style UARTs frame each eight bits of data with a single start and stop...

You want "United States-International" not "US". They both show up as EN in the system notification area. This translates roughly to "Cool, eh?" We don't really use accented characters in English.

Insufficient customer pain is what a venture capitalist would say. While better keyboard layouts have been developed, they have been largely ignored by the market. Like most people, I have found that the qwerty layout has become second nature; even accented characters flow unconsciously from...

I use the United States-International keyboard mapping. '+e=é The settings can be changed in the control panel in w2k, and work with standard US keyboards. Legal, não é?

Fear What if I buy an FA311, and it doesn't work? Will I have to buy an extended warranty, just in case? Uncertainty The FA311 seems to work just fine in my systems, but Pradeep is a smart guy, and he has had problems. What if I have to travel to Oz with my computers. Maybe the FA311 doesn't...

This post was sent from one of my TYAN TigerMP boards, equipped with two processors. If you have received it, my FA311 works.

Oh no! It's the Tasmanian FUD monster!

Tell your vendor not to make things up on the spot, when they don't know the answer to a question.

I am not sure if "Designed for Windows-based networks of up to 50 PCs", really means their drivers enforce a limitation of 50 PCs. Even so, it's pretty lame.

How is that possible? When they see the 51st MAC address the drivers just start throwing frames away? Ugh. RTL8139C is $3.50 in qnty of 500. They are capable of 11MB/s+ in modern machines.

RTL8139 + $1.25 flash rom + software = Much cheaper than Intel, and no boot floppy needed

Merc, you may be aware that I am working on something designed for similar environments. My boards would replace the floppies, hard drives, cd-roms, and NICs with a single device. This would make meeting your target price pretty easy. It would also remove the most failure prone devices from...

Why? This is an easy place to shave dollars off your sticker, and modern 100base-T devices are largely undifferentiated in high performance machines. 3Com in particular, would appear to be trading on name alone, when compared with more modern controllers.

Here and here. Look for 'Thermal Design' in the datasheets. Thank you for not asking in the form of a poll.

The 2.4G Pentium 4 is probably the better buy at the moment; however the heat issue is greatly overstated. Typical Thermal Power: Pentium 4 2.4G 57.8W Tcase 70C AthlonXP 2400+ 59.3W Tcase 85C 1.5W can't be that frightening. Also, the P4 will require more airflow.

I am pretty sure that IBM was doing this 30 years ago (like so many things) I have been investigating the issues under Windows, because I will be supporting disk image replication in my elSCSI product, whether the images are being accessed or not. I am still trying to decide whether a snap...

The above comment applies to random file access (as in a database). Some programs which handle sequential files, may never deal with file lengths directly.

:oops: Actually, once you have mastered the basics of stdio console apps, this is a reasonable next step. Under win32 (and most systems) reading from a serial port is very similar to reading from any other file (like stdin). This assumes the device in question emits serial characters. If it...

I disagree. 10Mb Ethernet was far more expensive than 1000base-T is now, when I supported Netware 2.x. With fully integrated MAC+PHYs @ $19 in sample quantities, the time of gigabit to the desktop is now. My recent comments on 10Gb Ethernet can be found here.

Actually, I think that starting with Visual C 6.0 is a very good idea. It has an editor that works the way you expect it to, and an easy to use debugger(vs say, emacs/gcc/gdb). Do make sure that you stick to simple console apps until you really know what you are doing. stdio console apps are...

I have come to this topic a bit late, but here are my 2c. I started programming in Pascal in the eighties, with Turbo Pascal for CP/M. I bought Delphi 1.0 right after its release, and have used various versions of Delphi for contract work. Having said that, I strongly recommend you start with...

I clearly acknowledged the changes of the past twenty years in my post. While Australia's reductions on passenger vehicle and apparel tariffs are impressive, they remain higher than their US equivalents, even today. I applaud Australia for finally joining the free trade bandwagon, but given...

You must not have read my post.

Effective rates of protection to manufacturing industries Australia, 1968-69 to 1981-82 (per cent) Years 1968-69 1973-74 1981-82 Textiles 43 35 54 Clothing & footwear 97 64 204 Motor vehicles & parts 50 38 124...

No one is more disgusted with US tariffs and subsidies than I am. In fact, I have had a wonderful time in Pittsburgh, speaking out against the recent, embarrassing US steel tariffs (Pittsburgh is the historical home of American steel). That said, it is Australia that has made hard-core...

I am sure they were. I am equally sure that Murdoch had a strong Australian accent at the time(60s). When I was a lad, I ate Australian beef, watched Australian television, listened to INXS, and learned to read and write from Australian "English" teachers. Yet, I have never lived in...

There is a fairly strong, anti-American undercurrent to this and other recent threads, expressed through the same tired platitudes one commonly hears about the press and popular culture. I can't help but wonder how Londoners felt in the 1960s, when a wealthy young Australian decided not only to...

I was enjoying an innocent upbringing, when Hey Dad (take a bath Nudge!) was "unsuspectingly" "pushed" on me. Somehow I managed to stand against Australian cultural imperialism in its various forms. Even Kyle Minogue wasn't enough to get me to fly a plane in to the Sydney Opera House.

Hmm.... That's ironic. The greatest media baron in America, is from Melbourne.