mendocino | 10 years ago | on: Talos Secure Workstation
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mendocino | 10 years ago | on: Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
Looks more like an issue with the VM rather than xhyve. Serial console does not seem to get respawned.
mendocino | 10 years ago | on: Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
Not sure how useful OS X containers would be. Are you deploying on OS X?
mendocino | 12 years ago | on: Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
If your objective is to sell a stolen iPhone then you still have to know the owners Apple ID and password due to activation lock. Being able to bypass Touch ID isn't going to help you.
mendocino | 12 years ago | on: Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
The last SoC where this has been the case is the A5 (using the the ARM Cortex-A9 MP). The Apple A6 and A7 don't use ARM cores and neither does Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.
mendocino | 12 years ago | on: Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
"so what's left to steal?"
The CPU? ARMv8 isn't a thing, it's an instruction set specification, just like x86, implemented by various micro-architectures. Samsung doesn't do that (yet).
mendocino | 12 years ago | on: Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"
> Learn the engineering skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up.
"Learn the engineering skills needed to build a web startup from the ground up." FTFY
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: I ported LaTeX to Javascript
Strange, seems to work fine on iOS.
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
> I have no idea how anyone who isn’t working in a high tech role that pays an above average salary can live here.
I wondered that too. Anyone care to share how to get by with a non-tech salary in the bay area?
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Is Apple failing to understand family users?
> You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account.
Not necessarily, you could have separate iCloud accounts for each family member and one shared iTunes/App Store account. You can use a different account for iTunes and the App Store, so you don't have to change accounts all the time. At least that's what we do.
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts
Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Samsung Exec Admits to Using Apple Products
Q: "Have you played with the Surface or Galaxy?"
Cook: "I have, yes. Both of those—and some others. What I see, for me, is that some of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs [user interfaces]. They steer away from simplicity. ..."
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85550-tim-cooks...
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Minecraft augmented reality app announced for iOS
> I assume this mojang app uses markers too?
No! That's what makes it so awesome. It analyses the scenery and infers your position as you walk around.
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: The amount of crap Windows users have to put up with is incredible
> Not computer users, just the windows users.
Well, on a new Ubuntu installation the first thing I have to do now is:
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
The Galaxy S II has a proper RGB matrix. Galaxy S and Galaxy S3 are pentile though.
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying
> we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform
> FAQ: Will you open source the Epiphany chips? > Not initially, but it may be considered in the future.
Well, that makes it a lot less interesting than I hoped it would be.
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: 0x10c (Notch's new game)
Oh, I see. Thanks!
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: 0x10c (Notch's new game)
> Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.
Mh, looks like he is off by a factor of 256 :)
mendocino | 13 years ago | on: Has Apple Peaked?
> Has any company in history been so large and yet so reliant on a single product?
Google? (AdWords)
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Not really a "secure" workstation if you can't have a secure bootchain. An open, secure platform would allow you to fuse your own root key.