...it's rather too complex to detail in a slashdot comment.
Dude - never talk about the space in which you would write an explanation. That's like the ultimate jinx. The last time a guy did that, it took the rest of the world 357 years to figure it out.
...meaning that those with machines that have 64-32 bit processors in from AMD and latterly Intel can now see what the extra addressing brings to the party.
Wha???
Let's see... 64 minus 32 is 32... so I don't get extra addressing, right?
Oh, I see... you meant if you have sixty-four processors which are all 32-bit. Your hyphen was in the wrong place: that should be written "64 32-bit processors".
No, wait. Did you mean "64-32 bit processors" as in "some number of 'bit' processors between 64 and 32"? Typically you put the smaller value first... Hold on: do AMD or Intel even make 1-bit processors?
I can run any spyware tool @ random and find something and once a month I trap a virus either in the browser cache or the jpi cache on one or all of these machines.
I wasn't looking over your shoulder when you performed this scan, so I don't know precisely what you saw, but finding things in the browser cache is not cause for alarm. For example, if I were to rename some virus-laden executable to have the JPEG extension, reference it in an img tag in an HTML file, and pop it on a website, all browsers would download the file - they don't know any better. It's not like they're then going to say, "Oh look, it's an executable! I better run it now." (At least, one would hope...:)
Just because you find something in your browser cache doesn't mean you're infected.
For those of us that occasionally program in C# with.NET this is a bigger pain that you know. The two most descriptive keywords of the programming environment really are meaningless nothing-words in the Web's (normally) best search engine.
Hmmm... have you tried searching Google for C# lately? ".net" and "net" do indeed return the same results, but the results for "C#" and "C" are very, very different.
Excellent question. Is this a browser vulnerability? Or is the installer in question the one you get by going to the BroadcastPC download page and clicking the big "Download BroadcastPC" link?
While it seems that the installer downloads the.net Framework redistributable without informing the user, I see nothing to suggest that *BroadcastPC* is installed without the user being aware.
May be it is because Microsoft donates money and its software to the schools at subsidized prices that not many students learn about Linux?
Well, that could be true. Or maybe...
Localisation still remains one of the main focus of many OSS projects in India, which is a huge task as India has 15 "official" languages, each with its own script. There are thousands of dialects more if they are to be considered too! But without localisation it is difficult to introduce computers (let alone OSS) to the majority of the Indian population...
The lawn-chair man sounded like a hoax to me, but snopes.com (which we all know is the final word in urban legends) claims it's true!
My favorite part:
As Larry and his lawnchair drifted into the approach path to Long Beach Municipal Airport, perplexed pilots from two passing Delta and TWA airliners alerted air traffic controllers about what appeared to be an unprotected man floating through the sky in a chair.
I hate replying to my own posts - but the wording of my original post isn't precise. Yes, Xinerama supports multihead with different resolutions on different heads. However, X's impression of "the area on which stuff can be drawn" is a single rectangle. Therefore, with two monitors of differing resolutions, there's a "dead" area - an area that exists in X's mind, but isn't visible on either monitor. It's the dead areas I don't like.
I'm a multiple monitor addict: once you get used to having two or more monitors at your disposal, working on a single monitor just feels cramped. Unfortunately, I have one nice monitor and one crappy monitor I picked up god-knows-where. The nice monitor maxes out at a much higher resolution. I refuse to work at the "lowest common denominator" resolution, so until X extensions support multi-mon with differing resolutions, I will not migrate to Linux.
In fact, this is the *one* reason I don't even have a Linux installation.
How crazy is this?
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RC5-64 Success
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· Score: 5, Funny
From the press release - "a coordinated team of computer programmers and enthusiasts, known as distributed.net, has solved the RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge."
If you remove a single element - the $10,000 award offered by RSA - then the press release would read more like,
"A group of degenerate hackers [sic] cracked an encryption method owned by RSA Security Inc. The company has contacted law enforcement authorities, and an attempt to track down these hackers [sic] is currently under way. Under the DMCA, these criminals, when caught, faces sentances of up to..."
Though it's not (yet =) one of the "major" languages, but it's pretty awesome. Here are some things I've learned and resources I've discovered.
What is OCaml? In a sentence, "fast modern type-inferring functional programming language." But not only does it support the functional programming paradigm, but also imperative and object-oriented models. (These can be mixed in a single program.) OCaml is type-safe and garbage collected. (But even though it's garbage collected, it runs at speeds comparable to C and C++.)
Was used by at least one of the top 3 entries in each ICFP Programming Contest between 1998 and 2001. Won 1st prize in 2000 and 1999.
It's a functional programming language - you can use functions as arguments to other functions.
It's garbage collected - you don't have to worry about cleaning up memory and can focus on the problem to solve.
OCaml includes libraries for complex data structures, graphics, regular expressions and string processing, and more.
Compiles to native code or bytecode.
What kind of things have been implemented in OCaml? Check out the Caml Hump.
OCaml was developed in France, so the "bible" of the language (O'Reilly's Développement d'applications avec Objective Caml - the camel book) is written in French, but a translation of the work by volunteers has been created. Check out Developing Applications with Objective Caml.
In the past, all you needed to start a BBS was a computer, modem, and some shareware BBS software. What does it take to run a net-accessible system (one that has integrated support for file archives, chat, message bases, user management, etc.) these days? There's the slash code for news and message bases, other scripts to support chatting, but is there any software that brings it all together?
If modern BBS packages do exist, are they all written for the web? Are there any that support telnet connections or have their own client software? Any that run on Joe Average User's copy of Micro$oft Windows? I recall a product called NetModem (?) which made incoming telnet connections appear to be incoming telephone calls to allow the old BBS software to work on the 'net. Has anyone had luck with this? Other methods?
Is there a reason why someone (an open source group, say?) should endeavor to write a non-web (or web and some other method) Internet-accessible BBS system?
Does anyone else notice the parallels between these file-sharing utilities and the old-school BBSs? The distinction is becoming even more blurred as functionality like chatting is added. It seems that we've realized that the interface provided by the web isn't always what we'd prefer.
What shall we call these new client/server combinations? For now, I'll simply call them DFSs: distributed file sharers. What benefits to DFSs have over the web from the user's perspective? A few for your consideration:
Single user interface to multiple sites
Ability to interact with users on all sites, not just the currently viewed one
Benefits from the administrator's perspective?
Easier (?) to maintain
No clunky web interface
What else?
I recall an incredible sense of community on the old BBSs. Though Slashdot can boast a strong community, I don't think most web sites can. Will DFSs change this? Do you foresee DFSs adding BBS-like features like discussion groups and online games? Are they filling a niche that the web doesn't?
Slashdot Mirror
Dude - never talk about the space in which you would write an explanation. That's like the ultimate jinx. The last time a guy did that, it took the rest of the world 357 years to figure it out.
;)
Wha???
Let's see... 64 minus 32 is 32... so I don't get extra addressing, right?
Oh, I see... you meant if you have sixty-four processors which are all 32-bit. Your hyphen was in the wrong place: that should be written "64 32-bit processors".
No, wait. Did you mean "64-32 bit processors" as in "some number of 'bit' processors between 64 and 32"? Typically you put the smaller value first... Hold on: do AMD or Intel even make 1-bit processors?
Oooohhhh.... you must mean x86-64!
;)
I can run any spyware tool @ random and find something and once a month I trap a virus either in the browser cache or the jpi cache on one or all of these machines.
I wasn't looking over your shoulder when you performed this scan, so I don't know precisely what you saw, but finding things in the browser cache is not cause for alarm. For example, if I were to rename some virus-laden executable to have the JPEG extension, reference it in an img tag in an HTML file, and pop it on a website, all browsers would download the file - they don't know any better. It's not like they're then going to say, "Oh look, it's an executable! I better run it now." (At least, one would hope... :)
Just because you find something in your browser cache doesn't mean you're infected.
last post!
(Why hasn't this caught on?)
For those of us that occasionally program in C# with .NET this is a bigger pain that you know. The two most descriptive keywords of the programming environment really are meaningless nothing-words in the Web's (normally) best search engine.
Hmmm... have you tried searching Google for C# lately? ".net" and "net" do indeed return the same results, but the results for "C#" and "C" are very, very different.
Google search for C#
Google search for C
Excellent question. Is this a browser vulnerability? Or is the installer in question the one you get by going to the BroadcastPC download page and clicking the big "Download BroadcastPC" link?
While it seems that the installer downloads the .net Framework redistributable without informing the user, I see nothing to suggest that *BroadcastPC* is installed without the user being aware.
May be it is because Microsoft donates money and its software to the schools at subsidized prices that not many students learn about Linux?
Well, that could be true. Or maybe...
Localisation still remains one of the main focus of many OSS projects in India, which is a huge task as India has 15 "official" languages, each with its own script. There are thousands of dialects more if they are to be considered too! But without localisation it is difficult to introduce computers (let alone OSS) to the majority of the Indian population...
The lawn-chair man sounded like a hoax to me, but snopes.com (which we all know is the final word in urban legends) claims it's true!
My favorite part:
As Larry and his lawnchair drifted into the approach path to Long Beach Municipal Airport, perplexed pilots from two passing Delta and TWA airliners alerted air traffic controllers about what appeared to be an unprotected man floating through the sky in a chair.
I hate replying to my own posts - but the wording of my original post isn't precise. Yes, Xinerama supports multihead with different resolutions on different heads. However, X's impression of "the area on which stuff can be drawn" is a single rectangle. Therefore, with two monitors of differing resolutions, there's a "dead" area - an area that exists in X's mind, but isn't visible on either monitor. It's the dead areas I don't like.
I'm a multiple monitor addict: once you get used to having two or more monitors at your disposal, working on a single monitor just feels cramped. Unfortunately, I have one nice monitor and one crappy monitor I picked up god-knows-where. The nice monitor maxes out at a much higher resolution. I refuse to work at the "lowest common denominator" resolution, so until X extensions support multi-mon with differing resolutions, I will not migrate to Linux.
In fact, this is the *one* reason I don't even have a Linux installation.
From the press release - "a coordinated team of computer programmers and enthusiasts, known as distributed.net, has solved the RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge."
If you remove a single element - the $10,000 award offered by RSA - then the press release would read more like,
"A group of degenerate hackers [sic] cracked an encryption method owned by RSA Security Inc. The company has contacted law enforcement authorities, and an attempt to track down these hackers [sic] is currently under way. Under the DMCA, these criminals, when caught, faces sentances of up to..."
Though it's not (yet =) one of the "major" languages, but it's pretty awesome. Here are some things I've learned and resources I've discovered.
What is OCaml? In a sentence, "fast modern type-inferring functional programming language." But not only does it support the functional programming paradigm, but also imperative and object-oriented models. (These can be mixed in a single program.) OCaml is type-safe and garbage collected. (But even though it's garbage collected, it runs at speeds comparable to C and C++.)
Why use OCaml? Here are some good reasons:
What kind of things have been implemented in OCaml? Check out the Caml Hump.
OCaml was developed in France, so the "bible" of the language (O'Reilly's Développement d'applications avec Objective Caml - the camel book) is written in French, but a translation of the work by volunteers has been created. Check out Developing Applications with Objective Caml.
The language's official page at INRIA in France.
Another good OCaml page
Yay OCaml!
If modern BBS packages do exist, are they all written for the web? Are there any that support telnet connections or have their own client software? Any that run on Joe Average User's copy of Micro$oft Windows? I recall a product called NetModem (?) which made incoming telnet connections appear to be incoming telephone calls to allow the old BBS software to work on the 'net. Has anyone had luck with this? Other methods?
Is there a reason why someone (an open source group, say?) should endeavor to write a non-web (or web and some other method) Internet-accessible BBS system?
What shall we call these new client/server combinations? For now, I'll simply call them DFSs: distributed file sharers. What benefits to DFSs have over the web from the user's perspective? A few for your consideration:
- Single user interface to multiple sites
- Ability to interact with users on all sites, not just the currently viewed one
Benefits from the administrator's perspective?What else?
I recall an incredible sense of community on the old BBSs. Though Slashdot can boast a strong community, I don't think most web sites can. Will DFSs change this? Do you foresee DFSs adding BBS-like features like discussion groups and online games? Are they filling a niche that the web doesn't?