Undocumented features in 3.x firmware?

I recently updated to 3.1.2 and happy about it. Just curious about some smaller fixes/changes that weren't published. Anybody has a list? I noticed that Video Player now responds better to the fast forward/rewind actions (it's much smoother and I can hear sound). Another thing I noticed is it's very unresponsive to the touch while movie is playing. Is there a certain way you need to touch it so you can bring the buttons? My guess this was done to prevent accidental touch while watching the movie?
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---> If U have protected file and you need to copy it to your PC's HDD promptly (quality may reduce)
You all now, that Creative created creative copy protection (wow... ;-) ). But there is still a world-aged analog hole in it.
Connect your player output jack with your soundcard's input(line in/aux) jack with a 3,5 minijack cable. Now you can record it with media source player, for example (record source - line in)
Good luck...

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Hey wow, you can see through to the block diagram. Better put a perspex plate over that, you don't want animals getting in there and gnawing on the wires.
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... or confessions of an Xsan Newbie .... OK, so I've been using Xsan for six months now and trying my hardest not to use CLI and all that tricky Unix stuff .... finally realized that CLI might be the best friend an inexperienced Xsan Administrator could have ... so question becomes .... apart from the Man pages that are installed in the Xsan server folder (is it me, or this the most difficult technical document in the world to navigate around?) and the highly comprehensive descriptions (not) of the CLI commands in the Xsan Admin Guide .... where do you find good documentation on how to use the CLI? Which Unix commands are useful for managing Xsan?
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Annoying more so as I was hoping to ditch the N73 I got last year as it keeps......... switching itself off for no reason.
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Not really sure if it's appropriate to discuss the benefits of another firms mobile phones in Nokia's end user forums but anyway...
Some of Sony Ericsson's phones have comparible features as Nokia's such as the P and M range (I'm told the M600 is a good phone) but they too have their problems just like Nokia's (My p990i is a nightmare when it comes to the RAM usage, a common complaint and one a firmware update has not resolved). Also the version of Symbian they use is somewhat less capable as Series 60 in my opinion.
Forget LG and Samsung if its a smartphone and features you want. Those phones are mostly designed for form over function and they aren't really smart (Although Samsung are about to release a Series 60 phone over here soon).
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Hello everyone,
I have a problem with a laptop that i've recently gotten. It's a rather old model Toshiba Satellite PRO A60DU / Model #: PSA65E- 01K033DU.
I wanted to install a new operating system on the laptop (the latest Ubuntu desktop version) and after going through the entire setup, and reboot. I got into the front screen for login and it was giving me the following errors.
Your CPU appears to be lacking expected security protections. Please check your BIOS settings or for more information run: /usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose
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0 updates are security updates.
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
tjuky@tjuky-laptop:~$ /usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose
This CPU is family 15,model 4, and has NX capabilities but is unable to use these protective features because the BIOS is configured to disable the capability. Please enable this in your BIOS for more details, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/CPUFeatures
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1) Is it possible for me to change the NX settings in a way without upgrading my firmware?
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I'll give you the code in the end. The screen dump contains characters that is not allowed in to the editor window, so you'll have to run the code yourself to see the result.
This is what I did:
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5. Print the ByteArrayOutputStream the console.
6. Reset the ByteArrayOutputStream.
*. Do number 3 -> 6 a few times.
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The more I think of it the more worried I get. If someone has a big tree of som kind that the want to serialize, what happens if someone changes a small detail? Will that change go through? Not according to the test I just did. To clone every single object that go through the ObjectOutputStream more than once is not very good for performance...
Or does the cache only look at the "top" object?
Code:
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.util.LinkedList;
public class Test
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Mpolha wrote:
> We will be upgrading approx. 30 users from Contribute V2
to Contribute V4. We
> plan to eventually do a mass upgrade, starting with the
Admin accounts.
> Q1. Is it possible to install a single, non-admin
account instance of C4 while
> leaving everyone else as C2?
> Q2. What items/challes should we be aware of related to
this upgrade?
>
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alexmorris wrote:
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alexmorris wrote:
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