Not to mention that it has by far the best highway system in the world.:) Europe SUCKS when it comes to having sufficient road signs to mark the highways. You really get spoiled in the US with 3 signs before every exit.
From what I've read in my various german car enthusasiast magazines (and this was from awhile ago, so I may be mistaken, anyone with actual knowledge confirm/deny?), the engineers working make a point to make the highways more driver friendly[0] (ie: no decreasing radius turns, all roads above ~50 Kph are divided). But then again, I live in PA where you're lucky if a curve on a road is on-camber (let alone wide enough for two cars (this doesn't include the oil-tanker SUVs)). Ah but that's my rant...
[0] - And by driver I mean someone who enjoys 'spirited' driving, not your typical 'soccer mom' driver.
That page is wrong (and it's been wrong for awhile now, somebody has yet to clue in the marketing person who did that page...). It works fine on Mac OS X Client (I know, I'm using it right now).
At my University we have a special subnet for Networks class. During the course, students will write socket code and generally play around with TCP/IP stacks. Sometimes they get in over there head an the little subnet will meltdown.
The subnet is protected (well actually, I think it's more the Internet is protected from the subnet) with an OpenBSD box named Cerberus. It scrubs and aggressively filters the souls^h^h^h^h^hpackets that pass through it.
For those not up-to-date on their Roman and Greek mythology, Cerberus is the creature that guards the gates to hell.
The banner on the box reads:
Welcome to Cerberus.
Guardian to the entrance of the CS 355 (Networks Class) subnet.
"Cerberus was the watchdog of hell. There he lay, chained to the gates of Acheron, harassing the spirits entering Hades and devouring those who tried to escape."
To the consumer, Darwin is a kernel while Linux / BSD / Solaris are distributions, which include window managers and desktop environments.
Xnu is actually the name of the kernel itself. Darwin is actually the name of Operating System from Apple (and the core of Mac OS X). I vaguely remember some talk from mailing lists that X-Windows may eventually become bundled with Darwin.
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How 'bout putting the algorithm into a library?
GPGME is a project to do this. From the website: "It provides a High-Level Crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management."
It's a work in progress. It's useable, but of course, there is the standard disclaimer. Compiles fine on most Linux distributions. It needed a small amount of help to compile on Mac OS X. Not sure about any other OSes.
One thing to note is that gpg doesn't support all of the algorithms that PGP used, because of patents/licensing (IDEA being an obvious example). So if you used those algorithms there's a serious risk of bitrot.
It used to be that one could just find a file named idea.c in the contrib directory of the primary gnupg ftp repository, but they were forced to remove it. You can find the idea.c in the contrib directories of mirror sites in countries that allow the distribution.
There is no impact. AES is a symmetric system that is not based on factoring. This apparent discovery only affects algorithms that are based on the difficulty factoring large numbers.
If you mean proprietary as in fully documented (you probably want to start in the API section) and open you'd be correct. In fact, there are several projects started that will play Quicktime movies fine under Linux.*
Perhaps you meant the proprietary and closed Sorenson codec?
*Of course, they won't be able to play the ones that use the Sorenson codec, which is the most popular codec to use with Quicktime
You have to have special, Apple-provided ROMs to run it. Apple isn't going to give them out.
That's incorrect, but since I don't have mod points to mark it as a troll, I'll just bite.
Since a couple years ago, all Macs use OpenFirmware to boot (which is IEEE 1275). This is an open standard. There are no proprietary ROMs used for booting at all.
IIRC it used to check to make sure you didn't have bogus RAM (ie non-Apple approved) installed
You recalled wrong. The firmware update raised the motherboards standards for specifications for RAM. They did this because there were problems with nonspec RAM leading to stability problems.
To sum it up: all the firmware update did was disable shit RAM that didn't meet specifications. As long as you bought good RAM from a reputable dealer you were fine.
A NAT implementation that will rewrite TCP sequence numbers and randomize anything else that would give the impression that multiple machines were in use.
OpenBSD's firewall (pf) can do state modulation. Also, the scrub directive, while meant to be used on incoming traffic might be able to be used on outgoing traffic to hide machines to some level.
What about using multiple keys? Encrypt first with the companies public key and then encrypt with the public key of an entity from a foreign entity not under the jurisdiction of the US. You'd have to work up a contract with the foreign entity so that you could somehow get the session key to decrypt the documents if there was a situation where you actually needed them and a subpoena wasn't involved.
Hmm, not sure how well this would work but it's an idea...
The functionality is there, but it is rarely used (unfortunately). Only utility that comes to mind that takes flags is the OSXVnc server which is configurable via the CLI and the GUI.
The Unix directories are completely hidden from the Find
This is an option. You can turn the hiding of the Unix directories on and off. It's off by default.
likewise one cannot start GUI apps from the console.
This is just plain wrong. There exists a utility called open (/usr/bin/open). To open something, simply run it with the path to whatever you want to run.
ie: open./iTunes.app
There is none of the tight CLI-GUI integration seen in AmigaOS or BeOS or even Windows.
Bah, just look at the consumer Apple is marketing to. They don't even want to see the CLI. Apple is attempting to make it possible for people to use the environment efficiently without a person ever having to use a shell.
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Adding to the interesting notes about StarMax's:
The way you upgraded the CPU in the StarMax (the CPU it comes with is welded to the motherboard) was by removing the cache on the motherboard and inserting a CPU daughterboard into it. Now that is a hack.
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Post, moderate, moderate, post...
Apple's licensing their hardware to 3rd party vendors would have been the best move they made except for none of the 3rd parties that Apple licensed to actually expanded the market. While they brought faster CPU speeds to the market among some other neat things, they just eroded Apple's share of the Mac market and didn't actually increase the Mac market. This was bad because the Mac market was too small to support everyone.
One of the best moves Apple made was buying out Power Computing and getting their great engineers and technologies.
While that post was sarcastic, it brings up another question: do you trust your compiler? A person could download perfectly good code that is free of trojans, but the compiler could be slipping in backdoors into the binary...
The demonstration in the video was just of it going straight. The device was not powered at the wheels, but rather had a small little rocket on it. The theory behind it that the cop merely has to line the car up behind the perp about twenty or thirty feet and punch the button.
The device (about the size of a skate board, but wider) wouldn't need to be steered since it would only take about two or three seconds which wouldn't be enough time for the perp to respond or swerve (not that they could really see it coming though).
Slashdot Mirror
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Sorry. :-) I couldn't resist...
Well, with the really lousy service we have here (Verio, Epix) that'd probably be a step up...
From what I've read in my various german car enthusasiast magazines (and this was from awhile ago, so I may be mistaken, anyone with actual knowledge confirm/deny?), the engineers working make a point to make the highways more driver friendly[0] (ie: no decreasing radius turns, all roads above ~50 Kph are divided). But then again, I live in PA where you're lucky if a curve on a road is on-camber (let alone wide enough for two cars (this doesn't include the oil-tanker SUVs)). Ah but that's my rant...
[0] - And by driver I mean someone who enjoys 'spirited' driving, not your typical 'soccer mom' driver.
That page is wrong (and it's been wrong for awhile now, somebody has yet to clue in the marketing person who did that page...). It works fine on Mac OS X Client (I know, I'm using it right now).
At my University we have a special subnet for Networks class. During the course, students will write socket code and generally play around with TCP/IP stacks. Sometimes they get in over there head an the little subnet will meltdown.
The subnet is protected (well actually, I think it's more the Internet is protected from the subnet) with an OpenBSD box named Cerberus. It scrubs and aggressively filters the souls^h^h^h^h^hpackets that pass through it.
For those not up-to-date on their Roman and Greek mythology, Cerberus is the creature that guards the gates to hell.
The banner on the box reads:
Xnu is actually the name of the kernel itself. Darwin is actually the name of Operating System from Apple (and the core of Mac OS X). I vaguely remember some talk from mailing lists that X-Windows may eventually become bundled with Darwin.
GPGME is a project to do this. From the website: "It provides a High-Level Crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management."
It's a work in progress. It's useable, but of course, there is the standard disclaimer. Compiles fine on most Linux distributions. It needed a small amount of help to compile on Mac OS X. Not sure about any other OSes.
It used to be that one could just find a file named idea.c in the contrib directory of the primary gnupg ftp repository, but they were forced to remove it. You can find the idea.c in the contrib directories of mirror sites in countries that allow the distribution.
The idea.c file and it's detached signature made by Werner Koch.
There is no impact. AES is a symmetric system that is not based on factoring. This apparent discovery only affects algorithms that are based on the difficulty factoring large numbers.
Yea, but you have to type 'date' each time you want the time...
*rimshot*
(old joke shamelessly stolen from the article in that IEEE magazine that did a story on the Linux watch that runs X)
From what I hear it's not very optimized at all. It doesn't run bad on my G4 466 with 896 MB, but OS 9.2.2 runs noticeably faster.
The nice thing about OS 9.2.2 is if it ever runs too fast, you can just hold down the mouse button to stop it and let you catch up. :-)
We already have proprietary Quicktime
If you mean proprietary as in fully documented (you probably want to start in the API section) and open you'd be correct. In fact, there are several projects started that will play Quicktime movies fine under Linux.*
Perhaps you meant the proprietary and closed Sorenson codec?
*Of course, they won't be able to play the ones that use the Sorenson codec, which is the most popular codec to use with Quicktime
Apple has also released a Windows utility to configure the Airport (it isn't Java). If you don't have Windows box, perhaps it will run under WINE?
You have to have special, Apple-provided ROMs to run it. Apple isn't going to give them out.
That's incorrect, but since I don't have mod points to mark it as a troll, I'll just bite.
Since a couple years ago, all Macs use OpenFirmware to boot (which is IEEE 1275). This is an open standard. There are no proprietary ROMs used for booting at all.
IIRC it used to check to make sure you didn't have bogus RAM (ie non-Apple approved) installed
You recalled wrong. The firmware update raised the motherboards standards for specifications for RAM. They did this because there were problems with nonspec RAM leading to stability problems.
To sum it up: all the firmware update did was disable shit RAM that didn't meet specifications. As long as you bought good RAM from a reputable dealer you were fine.
A NAT implementation that will rewrite TCP sequence numbers and randomize anything else that would give the impression that multiple machines were in use.
OpenBSD's firewall (pf) can do state modulation. Also, the scrub directive, while meant to be used on incoming traffic might be able to be used on outgoing traffic to hide machines to some level.
What about using multiple keys? Encrypt first with the companies public key and then encrypt with the public key of an entity from a foreign entity not under the jurisdiction of the US. You'd have to work up a contract with the foreign entity so that you could somehow get the session key to decrypt the documents if there was a situation where you actually needed them and a subpoena wasn't involved.
Hmm, not sure how well this would work but it's an idea...
Now if only Mac apps took flags...
The functionality is there, but it is rarely used (unfortunately). Only utility that comes to mind that takes flags is the OSXVnc server which is configurable via the CLI and the GUI.
The Unix directories are completely hidden from the Find
This is an option. You can turn the hiding of the Unix directories on and off. It's off by default.
likewise one cannot start GUI apps from the console.
This is just plain wrong. There exists a utility called open (/usr/bin/open). To open something, simply run it with the path to whatever you want to run.
ie: open ./iTunes.app
There is none of the tight CLI-GUI integration seen in AmigaOS or BeOS or even Windows.
Bah, just look at the consumer Apple is marketing to. They don't even want to see the CLI. Apple is attempting to make it possible for people to use the environment efficiently without a person ever having to use a shell.
Adding to the interesting notes about StarMax's:
The way you upgraded the CPU in the StarMax (the CPU it comes with is welded to the motherboard) was by removing the cache on the motherboard and inserting a CPU daughterboard into it. Now that is a hack.
Post, moderate, moderate, post...
Apple's licensing their hardware to 3rd party vendors would have been the best move they made except for none of the 3rd parties that Apple licensed to actually expanded the market. While they brought faster CPU speeds to the market among some other neat things, they just eroded Apple's share of the Mac market and didn't actually increase the Mac market. This was bad because the Mac market was too small to support everyone.
One of the best moves Apple made was buying out Power Computing and getting their great engineers and technologies.
While that post was sarcastic, it brings up another question: do you trust your compiler? A person could download perfectly good code that is free of trojans, but the compiler could be slipping in backdoors into the binary...
I wonder how quickly Jim Conforti will have a hack to reset the launch control counter* for the new SMG-II?
* - Use it more than thirty times and it voids the warranty.
I've seen the video of this also.
The demonstration in the video was just of it going straight. The device was not powered at the wheels, but rather had a small little rocket on it. The theory behind it that the cop merely has to line the car up behind the perp about twenty or thirty feet and punch the button.
The device (about the size of a skate board, but wider) wouldn't need to be steered since it would only take about two or three seconds which wouldn't be enough time for the perp to respond or swerve (not that they could really see it coming though).