This question is sparked by the controversy in the news lately about Apple being compelled to help the FBI defeat its own iPhone hardware security.
My question is a side one. Apple has described that for every secure enclave in its iPhones (region of the core processing chips), they inscribe...
Hi all -- quick question:
Is a Windows installation on a hard drive specific to the machine that configures and does the installation? Or can it be swapped machine to machine?
I ask because I would like to pre-configure a boot hard drive that I could send someone who doesn't know a lot...
Hi all --
Has anyone come across an interesting article or blog post about how the industry dynamics of the memory (RAM) market, and the way that it's fragmented among different OEMs?
I am sure that the main chip Intel/AMD/TSMC landscape has been dissected thoroughly, but I am interested...
Thanks!
Nope, it doesn't even have to be a phone -- just looking for a cheap video Skype device. If it is a phone, that's fine, but doesn't have to be!
Hi all --
Would you have any suggestions for a cheap Android device that can do video skype? I am totally unfamiliar with the Android world. This would be handy for family members to chat, and helping them diagnose computer issues from afar (if you've ever tried to solve problems by voice...
Hi all --
I wonder if anyone has some quick firsthand knowledge on this simple question:
For electric cars to be successful, charging infrastructure has to be in place. To caricature it, it's like a gas station where the pumps are electric plugs.
But the cars have to generally sit there...
Hi all --
I'm doing a calculation to estimate the bandwidth consumed if, for example, every car in a city transmitted a bit of data to a central location every day via cell networks. I have a rough idea of how to do the calculation, but wanted to know if I'm missing anything peculiar to...
Just a friendly discussion I'm having with a friend --
question #1) what happens to the electrons in a solar panel when it's being hit by sunlight, but not hooked up to a circuit? I imagine they just get excited and decay back to some ground state, and simply re-emit energy in the infrared...
Hi all, this is not highly technical, but more of a basic physics question.
Take a pickup truck, about to be involved in a head-on collision. A few friends and I are debating why the manufacturer recommends that you store heavy loads up against the cab rather than at the back of the bed. I...
and a bit more information that I just discovered in case it helps to identify the vintage:
it has a plain gray cd drive front, and what I think may be a floppy drive (shudder) slot.
Hi all,
I'm a PC user since forever, but someone a few doors down is getting rid of an old Power Mac G4 (from the label on the back). I have never really used a mac besides when I have to, as a linux surrogate for research. I wonder, should I even bother with it even if it's free? What can...
hi all -- I have been vaguely curious about this for a little while --
when you have an encrypted file, and you go to decrypt it with whatever program, it will ask you the key, and begin decrypting if correct. But how does it know if the key is correct or not? I.e. you can decrypt a file...
Hi all, would appreciate your advice --
I haven't bought a desktop in a while, and am out of the loop. I used to have time to build them myself, but right now I just want a system where I can play flight simulator X with no hassles, with fast graphics, but not too extravagant because I...
Hi all, maybe you can give me some clever ideas about how to do the following --
an old laptop at home, no longer boots due to mem/cpu issues, and I have just sold it for parts. (relevant thing is that the hard drive works and is sold with this part said working) Before I ship it off, want...
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Unlikely to find a better deal than this anywhere, for an excellent newspaper.
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ok, I was very, very stupid, and ran an executable that I didn't verify the source of. I believe I've identified the program as TROJ_ULPM.BY according to virus catching software.
Can you all give me any recommendations on how to clean this from my XP system?
It doesn't appear when I...
thanks for the replies --
this particular computer is a cheapo Dell with graphics card: Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family
I notice also that in the display control panel, there is a grayed out optional 2nd monitor, which gives a list of resolutions all the way up to...
Hi all,
I am thinking of buying a new lcd monitor, one of the new widescreen types, and it comes at a resolution of 1440x900. In my Windows XP monitor setup panel, there is no such resolution choice in the list right now.
Will the system detect this and offer the choice once the...
I downloaded a movie that is broken into about 20 pieces, each with an image and file with prefix/suffix "dna"
Can anyone offer me a tip on how to reassemble this into the full video?
Thanks!
I am wondering if, when my HP laser printer's cartidge runs out of toner eventually, the cheap toner refill kits on Ebay do a good job instead of having to buy a brand new cartridge?
Do any of you have some advice on this topic? Also, people sell remanufactured or some kind of off-brand...
Hi all, could anyone enlighten me on the rough differences between the thinkpad X30 and X40? The store claims it's the same size, shape, they'll even throw in extra memory and wireless for $100 less than the X40.
But they say the X30 is 1Ghz P3 versus the X40 1Ghz centrino. Sorry I...
friends, I have seen my share of stupid internet jokes, but this one is genuinely the most amusing yet.
go to google.com
search for "miserable failure"
look at the first link
Hi all, this is a little bit random, but I thought you all might have good advice since you probably call international more than the average person!
A friend of mine got socked with a huge (like several hundred $) phone bill because he found out that a person in his house (long story) was...
thanks for that very informative reply!
So is it more computationally efficient to begin a communication using public key exchange, then transmit the highly secure symmetric keys over that and use the symmetric keys for the rest of the communication? or does it end up requiring the same amount...
thanks for these replies! What do you believe is the key length that even the most well-equipped organization would call "hard" to break? Has it grown to 256 bit now?
I guess this is offered as sort of an opinion poll among those here -- do you believe that government, corporations, and others are routinely decrypting encrypted communications? (phone, email, radio transmissions)
If so, who exactly do you think is doing this the most, and to what level -- ie...
Sorry to interrupt the general enthusiasm, but I think this is a rather poor book after reading through it briefly. I mean, it's is very well written, has a lot of material, and is an admirable effort that one person could write so much on physics, but what exactly is the aim of this book...
My laptop is now about 2 years old, and I've never upgraded the system, which is windows 2000. I have gotten new versions of internet explorer, maybe a few months ago.
Is there a good way to "refresh" the system? I'm getting frustrated with stupid computer behavior like refusing to shut...
wanted to relate a story to you all: a friend of mine, who is pretty financially responsible, has been getting more serious with his g/f, and maybe as a symbol of his devotion, recently offered to take her credit card debt. She is not very responsible, and racked up ~$5000 on her high interest...
I have heard that the rates are getting to the point where further cuts by the Fed may not trickle down
rapidly to consumer level loans, because there is a baseline cost of companies to make the loan. So I
wouldn't hold my breath, basically.
A friend of mine is going abroad to study for the summer, and there is a week between when our uni health insurance expires and the new health insurance year begins. The program he's attending asks him to show that he has coverage the whole time there.
Do any of you know how to get health...
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