* Posts by OviB

23 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Apr 2007

Empty your free 30GB OneDrive space today – before Microsoft deletes your files for you

OviB

Re: mega.nz

Actually I give them the same trust that I give Microsoft and even more than I pus on Google but it's 50GB vs 15GB and a cleaner sync client that doens't go deep you throat analyzing your content and offering brainded proto-applications (Google Docs) to view or edit. So I'm with Mega but only for convenient short time/ephemeral storage or transfer.

Israel's security minister suckers Zucker for Facebook'ed killings

OviB

And you have one minute to believe? This is for reinforcing fools trust in FB. They are good partners actually but denying helps their business.

Dropbox gets all up in your kernel with Project Infinite. Cue uproar

OviB

Rest assured they know their users. Whoever still uses Dropbox is clueless and they (and their associates payed from taxes) perfectly understand that. So Condolezza come, enter into my kernel too.

Romania suffers Eurovision premature ejection

OviB

I wonder why this event sinks money and not generate.

Europe's digi-boss tells YouTube to cough up proper music royalties

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Re: Metallica still whining?

The good thing with music is that you can listen to whatever you like, not necessarily Mertallica. And that for free, just fire up YT :)

OviB

They don't pay half but between 1/18 and 1/20 :) Unhappy with that? Go fill a takedown request for each and every upload with your work. By the time they take them down, other are up already. Still unhappy? Sign up with Google and your work will be tagged and denied from uploading automatically. Sounds like blackmail? Maybe because it is? Sounds illegal? Well how can such a big company, every's President best friend conduct illegal business? No way.

OviB

In 2015 YT generated $0.7 per user from music. That's 20 times less than Spotify. And with YT basically free why would you pay? YT is the largest pirating platform ever and is operating in plain sight.

Galaxy S7 sales slay S6

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Re: Can't talk about others

I bought S5 instead of S6 specifically for microsd card and replaceable battery. For the moment I find myself in no need whatsoever to upgrade (nevermind that I don't like the dish-like stainless steel appearance of S7). Maybe S8 if they put their act together concerning updates, otherwise no Samsung anymore.

US DoJ files motion to compel Apple to obey FBI iPhone crack order

OviB

So you "intellectualy infer" that it would be legal to be forced to say something you don't want to say? If that's the case I am glad not to be born in the "Land of the Free".

Facebook and Twitter back Apple's privacy stance

OviB

Re: test it in court, and i hope apple loses

You are so sure Apple can update firmware with another (signed) one without the passcode and without wiping. Do you have some evidence?

OviB

Re: test it in court, and i hope apple loses

They already gave the data they have. Now they ar ordered to work for FBI to get some more data they don't have.

Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?

OviB

2015 was the worst year ever for Windows updating. In a long row of automatic COMPULSORY borked updates, yesterday one system anounced me that it needs to restart in finish some update. After restart all I got was black screen with a moving mouse cursor, nothing else, no reaction at ctrl+alt+del, no way to fix anything. After 2015 whoever is responsible for qa and windows updating should be fired. It looks that the year of the Linux is one year closer. Newer thought Windows will fall this low.

At Microsoft 'unlimited cloud storage' really means one terabyte

OviB

Another reminder of what cloud really means: now you have it, now you don't.

Here lies /^v.+b$/i

OviB

pascal for me but D's not russian

You may want to check again the nationality of that D language book - he's definitely not russian.

Cowon iAudio J3 personal media player

OviB
Happy

HD2 sounds really good

Trust a veteran audiophile here, HD2 sounds good, on par with Zune 120G and clearly better than iPod Classic 6th Generation. It was a surprise for me too (as was the weak sound quality of iPod Classic 6th gen).

OviB
Unhappy

no good gapless in WinMo

I agree with HD/HD2 being good choices and they sound pretty decent even for well trained years but unfortunately there's no good music player capable of gapless playback so serious listening of some rock, electronic or classical music is out of the question on WinMobile 6.5 or less. It's a pitty because otherwise HD/HD2 would be nearly perfect portable media devices.

OviB
Unhappy

no gapless - too bad

The missing of gapless playback pretty much discredits a serious quality portable audio player. Too bad for Cowon - seems the only major problem but it ruins the whole experience as a premium PMP.

Utah Attorney General tweets execution go-ahead

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Stop

sick

Makes me sick.

Quit Facebook Day flops

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Stop

account forcefully reactivated

I was one of the few who wanted to quit. It is almost impossible to find the page where you can delete your account. I found it with a search engine and with documents about how to delete the profile, not because Facebook allowed me to do it.

Moreover, I requested my account to be deleted. It wasn't delete as I requested but i was informed that it will be in 14 days if I won't login during this period of time. I didn't and I am absolutely sure NOONE did with my account.. With all these I today got an email from Facebook that informed me that my account was reactivated.

This is lowest than I imagined a legal entity could perform in a civilized society. I am deeply disgusted by their tactics Today again I asked for my account to be deleted. I again have to wait for 14 days and maybe the'll inform me again that my account is forcefully reactivated.

Facebook owners are kind of guys you really don't want to mess with. I regret the second I tried their services and I think authorities should really step in.

Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot

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Grenade

embarrassing soap opera

This soap Opera of complaining over and over again for something you clearly are not able to be up to is embarrassing. The pseudo random was not enough pseudo-random, now it is too hidden. There's nothing less than shipping windows with Opera as the only default browser and without any ballot that will make them behave like men.

Hey Opera guys there: put yourselves together and come with a better v11. I tried my best to use 10.5 and it is ridden of UI problems. At 500MB memory usage with 3 tabs open after few hours of work, Opera is not qualifying to be a credible alternative. That's unfortunate since there are a lot of good things inside there and a lot of polish mixed with very lousy UI decisions. Put yourselves together and fight. If Firefox did that good, you can do better! Complaining to authorities for every single imaginable issue is not the way to gain market share.

Security boffins unveil BitUnlocker

OviB

This won't be the end of it

Let's say the attacker really have a complete and intact image of your RAM. An update to the encryption software can in a future revision dedicate say 64MB of RAM to store the key (that is say 2K). It can be stored at any location and scrambled. Just keep the offset of the key somewhere else, not in RAM (register/hdd?). If the attacker has the image of the RAM he can identify the 64MB zone where you have the key but he doesn't have the offset so he needs to try a lot of possible keys (about 64milions). I imagine this methond can be elaborated further.

Also consider a machine with soldered RAM if you are concerned :) Further fixes may be done as noted in BIOS. The good thing is that this is fixable, is not a principle problem, it's just about the implementation.

Ebuyer.com runs on a Commodore 64

OviB

Spectrum 48k speed

To Nick Ryan:

48K Spectrums come with 3.5MHz (and 128K also). Back then the CPU frequency was imposed for strict compatibility reasons. There is no Spectrum at a lower frequency than 3.5MHz actually. Trust me because I counted cycles in the machine code over and over again to be sure that the code can finish until the next interrupt arrives :) (interrupts were generated at 20ms each and in some cases you should be absolutely sure that the processing will finish in less than 20ms).

What times - what amazing speeds... :) Anyone doing a lot of stuff in under 20ms nowadays?

Ovi

DRM-free music: EMI calls the tune and Apple takes the credit

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audio quality

I repeatedly saw the assertion that the new 256Kbit/s AAC format from EMI / Apple means doubling the audio quality (I saw it even quoted from mr Jobs Himself).

Well, this is absolutely incorrect (and it is a damaging misinformation of customers). Doubling the bitrate for AAC from 128 to 256 means *LITTLE* in audio quality - for most untrained years there is no difference (however - non DRM infection make a difference for a lot of people who may want to switch to a different player).

Not that I don't mind the quality - I mind it - that's why I will never buy lossy format music. I highly encourage anyone that cares about quality to buy a non-lossy format and the best by far is the classical Audio CD. From that point you can get whatever format/bitrate you want - whenever you want and for ANY player.

Or you may opt for buying the 256Kbit/s AAC now just to be lured in 2 or 3 years to upgrade to a newer-all-shinny-much-better 320kbit/s format that will work just on their players. Your money - your choice.