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RE: VectorLinux 6.0 Released
Blog Comment What makes vector shineover the rest? Folks like Vector himself, uelsk8s , caitlyn, Masta Big Paws and every last person on the VL lists, work for free and are tireless in there help folks folks with EVERY type of problem.
[February 24, 2009, 15:00 by Grundair]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 2
Blog Vector Linux came out with a new Release Candidate, RC4, so I gave that a try. With the wireless working now, Vector Linux looks very, VERY good on this Mini-Note. Vector Linux 6.0 RC4 Speaking of multi-booting, the one thing that I had to deal...
[January 29, 2009, 14:02 in Jamie's Random Musings by J.A. Watson]
Imagination Technologies announces OpenVG 1.1 conformance for POWERVR SGX
Blog The cores, which range from SGX520, the world's smallest OpenGL ES 2.0 conformant core, through to high performance OpenGL ES and DirectX solutions, lead the market in delivering shader and vector graphics processing for mobile and embedded devices.
[February 16, 2009, 15:03 in Imagination Technologies: Creating Tomorrow's Technologies by Imagination Technologies]
Intel's cache problems, what they mean and how to solve them
Blog This is a fascinating area: you have to deal with a lot of real-world data very quickly, and modern processors have large amounts of support available if you're got the chops to handle vector mathematics.
[July 17, 2008, 10:42 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Infection began with a windscreen flyer
Blog Comment "I've never heard of windscreens as an attack vector. No - its usually just Windows *boom* *boom*
[February 5, 2009, 14:32 by Nick]
Supercomputers
Talkback The Cray devices were vector processors which relied on the ability of the system to carry out numerous calculations in parallel but only if the problem (usually written in Fortran for array processing) was presented in the correct way such that...
About: Dialogue Box 6: Attack of the 20ft blade server
[July 6, 2007, 19:13 by 351951]
RE: What do you want to see in CS3?
Blog Comment For example some of Flash's vector based drawing tools are a lot easier to use than Photoshop eqivalents. With Adobe's portfolio now including macromedia's suite of apps better integration and borrowing of tools would be what I would hope for.
[March 27, 2007, 11:52 by David Long]
Adobe and Macromedia: Making Microsoft sweat?
Talkback These days it's far surpassed by Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) which is all the rage of open source vector editing. What a hopelessly outdated mention of Karbon 14 - it has been stagnant for a long long time.
About: Adobe and Macromedia: Making Microsoft sweat?
[April 19, 2005, 18:26]
RE: Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Just downloaded Vector 6.0, and was impressed enough to install it on a spare drive. I use PCLinuxOs on one of my main computers, and have looked at 2009,beta 2. Had problems trying to run the live CD on my Toshiba laptop.
[December 12, 2008, 16:57 by ator1940]
Microsoft lifts the bonnet on XP SP2
Talkback Quietly introduce yet another attack vector (I'll let the more astute amongst us find that particular gem in the above article). So, all in all: Prevent users from being fucking stupid. Implement yet another set features that are trivial on any...
About: Microsoft lifts the bonnet on XP SP2
[July 31, 2004, 16:54]
Will Longhorn be worth the pain?
Talkback Pretty simple for me really, im a home user and although business is where ms makes its money most home users have living rooms, and that's where ms wants to expand in.for me i want prettier graphics, of course all of the pillars as described but...
About: Will Longhorn be worth the pain?
[March 22, 2005, 20:10]
Digital photo frames infected
Blog SANS says that this is a possible new attack vector: infection through the supply chain. There's a very interesting thread on the SANS Handler's Diary about photo frames that have been infected with malware.
[January 30, 2008, 16:39 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Inside Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation
Talkback In fact it does not use vector graphics: Vista icons use 256x256 pixel PNG images, which are scaled as needed. This article is completely false. Windows Presenation Foundation (aka Avalon) is not responsible for ANYTHING this article discusses.
About: Inside Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation
[October 5, 2005, 0:09]
RE: A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog Comment Most likely because the last thing I did on Friday was fooling around trying to install Vector Linux, which wants to install LILO rather than GRUB, and blah blah blah. I'm always pleased to hear that something I have posted has helped someone, but...
[January 13, 2009, 14:53 by J.A. Watson]
Debt to Wikipedia Society
Blog Some of the entries are well-written, informative and enjoyable (for example, the entry for vector graphics). Last Thursday I gave a presentation on an introduction to digital media for the web, to a creative media agency, getting some practise in...
[September 28, 2009, 12:13 in Web design & FOSS by Jake Rayson]
RE: iPod proof of concept virus
Blog Comment It's interesting that security researchers are looking at USB storage devices -- they could open up another attack vector. Hi John, Valid points, well made. I thought when I wrote the post that it was evident I was being tongue-in-cheek...
[April 12, 2007, 14:19 by Tom Espiner]
Infection began with a windscreen flyer
Blog Interesting -- I've never heard of windscreens as an attack vector. A malware infection was propagated through flyers put on windscreens in Grand Forks, North Dakota, reports SANS institute. The flyers were fake parking violation notices, and...
[February 4, 2009, 16:35 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Enabling remote access to office email
Talkback if the article gets repaired, the original text for later readers "As your company grows, a better way for your employees to access the mail server is to use a VPN.network).area (local LAN the to virus a introduce or attack of vector as serve...
About: Enabling remote access to office email
[August 16, 2006, 15:28]
Lies or ignorance?
Talkback Proper support for vector graphics? Equivalent means "equal in value". I think we can all agree on that. But it really is mind-boggling to me how someone can call The Gimp and Photoshop equivalents. I've used both a lot, and The Gimp is a good...
About: Roll your own creative suite
[April 30, 2007, 9:11 by 1000146009]
Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say
Talkback Moral AI is not so far in the future as one might think: the value of peace and harmony can be seen as a vector sum: contradictory or uncontradictory vectors. Sentient AI is something that humans develop.
About: Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say
[May 10, 2006, 7:39]
