In a race to provide “unlimited” space to it’s users yahoo has beat Google to the punch. I’ve got to say that I am really impressed with yahoo recently. I have been finding that their searches are almost on par with Google. In some cases I’ve only been able to find what I was looking for by using yahoo. This definitely shows that the juggernaut still has some fight with it. Here’s the press release:
arstechnica wrote:
At a press meeting today, Intel’s Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core.
Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it.
Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger’s insistence that, “we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture.” What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments.
The blockbuster revelation is that some Nehalem designs will sport an on-die memory controller and integrated graphics processor. Let me talk about the latter before I touch on the former.
A few questioners tried to get clarification from Gelsinger as to whether he meant that there would be a GPU integrated onto the actual die along with the general-purpose CPU cores. (Recall that AMD claims this CPU/GPU die-level integration for their Fusion project.) Gelsinger clarified that the GPU would be “in the socket” with the CPU, but wouldn’t say more.
Reading between the lines on this comment and others, I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty Intel will almost certainly be using its packaging skills to put a GPU in the same package as a Nehalem CPU. Furthermore, this is going to help out with mobile products, small-form-factor devices (*cough* Apple), and anywhere else that power and cooling are more critical than raw performance. I’d expect that such CPU/GPU devices will cut down on the number of on-die cores that you can put on the CPU die (for power dissipation reasons). So I expect a Nehalem CPU/GPU combination to consist of a dual-core Nehalem CPU that sports an on-die memory controller, with a GPU sandwiched in the same package with it. This will be a killer mobile part in terms of performance per watt.
As far as the on-die memory controller, this has been a long time coming for Intel. Intel is saying that not every Nehalem part will necessarily have an integrated memory controller—they’ll tweak the number of cores and the on-die components to fit certain performance-per-watt targets for certain segments. I expect all of the parts that sport an in-package GPU to also have an on-die memory controller, for performance and power reasons, but I may be wrong.
The other big revelation is that Nehalem will bring back simultaneous multithreading to Intel’s processor line. Gelsinger says that Nehalem cores will support up to two threads, and that the implementation will be “like Hyperthreading.” There aren’t a lot of details yet, but Gelsinger did say that Nehalem parts would max out at eight cores and 16 threads.
Nehalem will go into production in 2008 on Intel’s 45nm process.
I have managed to solve my public AP connection issues by using NetworkManager in FC6.
Wireless Assistant just did not cut it for me in the long run. Even though it saw all the networks, it would not allow me to connect to them.
Make sure you have all the components of NetworkManager installed.
$ yum install NetworkManager*
should do the trick for that.
Double-check it is all there:
$ rpm -qa | grep NetworkManager
NetworkManager-glib-0.6.4-5.fc6
NetworkManager-0.6.4-5.fc6
NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.4-5.fc6
Double check to make sure the NetworkManager service is running, go to system –>administration –>services. (Check Marks) in top 2 boxes, save it. Now do it again for runlevel 3, save it and reboot the computer. When it reboots you should have a new icon (sweeping radar or two computers similar to the M$ network connection icon if all it sees first is the copper networks) in the top panel notification area. Left click the icon and it should show a list of networks it sees. When using NetworkManager it will also Start/Stop the wpa_supplicant files automatically.
For the WPA, look for the following:
$ rpm -qa | grep wpa*
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.9-1.fc6
libwpd-0.8.6-1
wpa_supplicant-0.4.9-1.fc6
If you do not have them all, then take the proper steps to get them and install them.
Now you not only have the Network Manager handling most of your connection issues, but you also have a nice little GUI to work with on your WPA connections as well.
In order to pull up the WPA GUI, simply type
$ wpa_gui &
at a command prompt (if Network Manager did not already take care of it for you, that is) and you are off and running.
I thank you all for chiming in with your various thoughts. If your particular issue did not get solved in this thread, I encourage you to start one of your own for your specific issue.
I will be putting together a How To for the other forum (since this one does not seem to house such things) that will go through my experience with getting the Belkin Airgo MIMO card working on FC6 as well as how to get it connected to both public and private networks as easily as possible, based on my experience.
Q. Does Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) require Active Directory (AD)?
A. Yes. All versions of MOM require AD, even MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition. This doesn’t mean that every server that MOM monitors has to be in the same domain as MOM. Only the MOM management server requires membership to an AD domain, and if managed servers are in the same AD forest, mutual authentication can be used. However, you can disable this extra security to allow management of computers outside the local forest.
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Q. Does Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption have a security vulnerability?
A. Essentially, the BitLocker encryption that is part of Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions takes effect only if the machine is actually shut down (i.e., powered off, including shut down or hibernated). If a machine is placed in sleep mode, then upon waking, BitLocker checking isn’t performed (e.g., no USB key is required for disk access). To elevate this security, administrators are advised to set machines to hibernate after a short period of time when in sleep mode.
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Q. How do I enable the Aero Glass UI?
A. If you upgrade your video hardware and have previously been running Windows Vista Basic, your system will not automatically switch to Aero.
To enable the new UI, perform these steps:
1. Right-click the desktop and select Properties (or select Personalize from the Control Panel).
2. Click the “Windows Color and Appearance” link.
3. Under the Appearance tab, change the “Color scheme” to “Windows Aero,” as the figure at
http://list.windowsitpro.com/t?ctl=4E7F1:2B9950D71FEAA9A8C8563C6C38C8BCB2 shows.
4. Click OK.
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Q. How do I enable Windows Vista Basic if I’m currently using Windows Aero Glass?
A. If you need to reduce your graphics requirements or just want to run Vista Basic you can perform the following steps:
1. Right-click the desktop and select Properties (or select Personalize from the Control Panel)
2. Click the “Windows Color and Appearance” link
3. Click the “Open class appearance properties for more color options” link, as the figure at
http://list.windowsitpro.com/t?ctl=4E7EF:2B9950D71FEAA9A8C8563C6C38C8BCB2
shows.
4. Select “Windows Vista Basic” and click OK.
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Q. I’ve renamed servers using a special script but am now having problems accessing disks via the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Disk Management snap-in. What’s the problem?
A. A reader emailed me about a bug he discovered: When he renamed a server that has dynamic disks, upon reboot he could no longer access the disks via the Disk Management MMC snap-in. Instead of showing the disk content, the snap-in displays the disk icons with a red X and no name.
I tried to reproduce this behavior and was unable to do so. I dug further and discovered that the cause of the problem was the rename:
The name of the disk group in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\dmio\BootInfo\Disk
Group registry subkey was the new server name (e.g., newnameDg0 instead of oldnameDg0, which didn’t match the configuration that’s stored at the end of the dynamic disk. To resolve the problem, I changed the name in the registry to the old server name, which allowed the Disk Management applet to function.
I learned that to rename the server, the user had used a script that searched and replaced server names in the registry rather than using the OS computer rename functionality, which is why the dynamic disk information on the disk wasn’t replaced.
The morale is therefore to not rename servers using registry search and replace. Instead, use the OS rename facilities. For example, you can use the netdom command or the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Rename function of the computer object, as the following code
illustrates:
strComputer = “.”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:” _
& “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” _
& strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colComputers = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
(”Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem”) For Each objComputer in colComputers
errReturn = ObjComputer.Rename(”NewName”)
WScript.Echo “Computer name is now ” & objComputer.Name Next
Mrx reported this ”This is the newest Activation+WGA crack, you can download all updates for now from Windows Update.”
This is better than Timestop because you can download the updates which are only available for activated windows Vista Installations, and if you have Timestop, you don’t have an Activated Vista. and it is released today!
Microsoft allows large hardware manufacturers (e.g. ASUS, HP, Dell) to ship their products containing a Windows Vista installation that does NOT require any kind of product activation as this might be considered an unnecessary inconvenience for the end-user.
Instead these so-called ‘Royalty OEMs’ are granted the right to embed certain license information into their hardware products, which can be validated by Windows Vista to make obtaining further activation information (online or by phone) obsolete.
This mechanism is commonly referred to as ‘SLP 2.0′ (’system-locked pre-installation 2.0′) and consists of the following three key elements:
1. The OEM’s hardware-embedded BIOS ACPI_SLIC information signed by Microsoft.
2. A certificate issued by Microsoft that corresponds to the specific ACPI_SLIC information.
The certificate is an XML file found on the OEM’s installation/recovery media, ususally called something like ‘oemname.xrm-ms’.
3. A special type of product key that corresponds to the installed edition of Windows Vista.
This key can usually be obtained from some installation script found on the OEM’s installation/recovery media or directly from a pre-installed OEM system.
If all three elements match Windows Vista’s licensing mechansim considers the given installation a valid system-locked pre-activated copy (that does not require any additional product activation procedures).
So the basic concept of the tool at hand is to present any given BIOS ACPI_SLIC information to Windows Vista’s licensing mechanism by means of a device driver. In combination with a matching product key and OEM certificate this allows for rendering any system practically indistinguishable from a legit pre-activated system shipped by the respective OEM.
DIFXAPI.DLL - a runtime dll for Microsoft’s DIFx API used by oemtool.exe
OEMTOOL.EXE - an application for installing/uninstalling the emulation driver and dumping BIOS ACPI_SLIC information from any SLP 2.0-enabled Windows Vista OEM system
PKEYS.TXT - contains a list of validated OEM product keys
README.TXT - this file
ROYAL.INF - driver .INF file, can be (ab)used to install the emulation driver in case oemtool.exe fails to perform this task
ROYAL.SYS - the emulation device driver
CERTS\ACER.XRM-MS - the certificate that corresponds to the ACPI_SLIC information emulated by the driver when ‘Acer’ has been selected during driver installation
CERTS\ASUS.XRM-MS - the certificate that corresponds to the ACPI_SLIC information emulated by the driver when ‘ASUS’ has been selected during driver installation
CERTS\HEWLETT-PACKARD.XRM-MS - the certificate that corresponds to the ACPI_SLIC information emulated by the driver when ‘Hewlett-Packard’ has been selected during driver installation
CERTS\LENOVO.XRM-MS - the certificate that corresponds to the ACPI_SLIC information emulated by the driver when ‘Lenovo’ has been selected during driver installation
I’ve used nlite many times when I used my old “copy” of Windows. Now that I have become a business I have signed up to be a Microsoft Action Pack Subscriber I wanted to update my copy with the latest and greatest microsoft Service pack and patches. Ideally I also want to be able to include the most recent nVidia driver for my 8800GTS.
Well I believe I’ve found the perfect combo. I used nlite to slip stream the SP2 into the CD. I used Ryan’s VM Integrator for applying the latest patches and additional software. After that I used nlite again to change the default settings of XP.
I’ve just packaged the files together and created an ISO. I will be deploying the ISO to a Virtual machine as a test. Once it goes through ok I will then install it to my main computer. I will let you know the results as well the exact steps I took to make it. Hope this is something you will look forward to.
I’ve updated my own server to the latest version of WordPress. The version 2 seems pretty nice looking and performs very quickly. Once I have worked with it for a while I will start the upgrades on my clients sites.
Well, it looks like the end is in site. I have been working on the new design of the site for the last week. The development of the site as of late really got going once I started using some of the more advanced features of Dreamweaver. Seriously CSS is great but when used in conjunction with some of Dreams weavers tools web development got that much easier.
If you’re installing Vista on a machine and you need to open a command prompt during setup, just press Shift+F10.
This is useful if you need to do advanced disk management tasks while installing, for example to revert a dynamic partition to basic.
Well I don’t like to complain but EA upset me quite a bit. I am actually lucky that my monitor has both an Analog and Digital connectors. The games are able to play the games at 1280×960 with my Analog setup but they are unable to do so with the digital cable connected. I emailed technical support and this is what they had to say:
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Hello Jared,
Thank you for contacting us here at Electronic Arts Technical Support. First of all I would like to apologize for the inconveniences you are going through with the video resolution of BAttlefiled 2142 game, believe me I know how you feel I’m a gamer myself. The game was not tested to run LCD monitors at such resolution settings; we cannot guarantee the game will perform as it should on that setup. Basically the resolution settings is factored by the software in relation to the computers hardware overall compatibility with its parts namely; the video card, processor, memory etc. it then comes up with the resolution for the game. This will be found in the in games video options. Other than this we do not have a work around for this issue, I’m sorry.
Should you require further assistance about this or any Electronic Arts games in the future please visit our website and review our extensive Self Help knowledgebase http://support.ea.com/
Jessie U.
Electronics Arts Technical Support
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This is an issue with ALL Battlefield games. I noticed there were a lot of other people out there having the same issues so I thought an answer would be nice. It only too EA a week and a half to get back to me.