Start/Find/Files or Folders Named: *.txt Containing: foobar Click "Find Now"
Oh wait. wrong os/filemanager. but my mom knows how to do it.
And now the counterchallenge:
I CTRL-Click (add to selection) on 15 arbitrary files, no filename-similarity, and drag them to another directory. This takes 15 clicks and one drag. Now you:
OK, so how do you think when you think of memory? "Backwards" is only a state of mind, i.e. in what order do you read bits and bytes?
Let's store the number 0x12345678 in little endian.
Remember that one writes a bitmask always like this: 76543210 that would make a 32 bit number written as: 3322222222221111111111 1098765432109876543210987654321
corresponding with a byteorder of 0x03,0x02,0x01,0x00 in memory. +----+----+----+----+ | 78 | 56 | 34 | 12 | +----+----+----+----+
Wrong way? No. Logical way. If you want byte X of this word, get [BASE+X]
Oh, and I usually see memory in an incremented form, starting at zero, going to xxx Megs. 0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03 in memory. +----+----+----+----+ | 12 | 34 | 56 | 78 | +----+----+----+----+
Little endian now suddenly seems the right way!
For Japanese and Chinese people, please rotate your monitor 180 degrees and reverse all statements I made in this article and you might be a fan of big endian, who knows.
Also, but I don't remember exactly, there seem to be an advantage for little endian if you want to do fast hardware-addition and an advantage for big endian if you want to do fast hardware-multiplication.
And here I see it again: <B>I'm typing this in extrans mode (isn't that the default mode</B> and it <i>doesn't show up</i> as it's supposed to. <a href="http://slashdot.org/">Especially links</a>
If you read our mission statement, then you will see that distributed.net is all about having a big (if not the biggest) distributed penis. It's not about the projects we're running, but about how we can get these projects done, in other words, "how can we build that largest computer in the world." That's why, besides keycracking contests like RC5, DES and CSC, we now do mathematical projects, and there's still a number of possible (non keycracking) contests on our todo-list.
I think you're cowfusing a "server" with a "webserver" here. While linux sure has a great potential in the webserver market (and Netcraft shows this), the "server" market (aka fileserver or applicationserver or mailserver) is something completely different.
Most companies still have a WinXX desktop environment and the logical choice is Windows NT Server (or whatever 2k spinoff you might prefer). Although I personally like Netware a LOT better.
My choice: Desktop: Windows Fileserver: Netware Webserver/firewall: Unix (I really don't care which one)
OK, I wasn't there from the very very beginning. (btw, I recently changed my username, so my high login doesn't say everything:)
But I do know that it was more interesting to read Slashdot about 1.5 years ago.
And about your comment "when was Slashdot NOT News for Linuxnerds", well, it seems Slashdot really doesn't want that image themselves, otherwise they would have a) changed their motto to "News for Linuxnerds" and b) not desperately trying to pay some attention to, for instance, BSD and apache.
Comment: 02/08 23:26 by michael: So far, the best explanation I've seen for the massive network problems is here. Is it paranoid to note that we're being hit with unprecedented attacks, with no known motive, at the same time as the government is pushing for yet another expansion of their surveillance powers? People are focusing on how it's being done. Nobody seems to be asking who.
Too bad you can't moderate down articles, hell it wasn't even an article, it was a personal opinion, NOT from the article poster but from someone else. Even mode=nocomment shows this troll....
And since "extrans" doesn't seem to work at the moment I had to use HTML formatting which screwed up the next paragraph:
...how many people with a login ID <10000 have "mode=nocomment". The only thing people can post here is GPL/BSD license advocacy. I would like to see a poll named: "My default threshold is". Oh, and throw in a "Hemos the Hamster" in the answers, so we can make sure >70% of the comments on that poll are useless...
NOTHING CHANGES AS LONG AS HEMOS AND CMDRTACO WORK AT SLASHDOT. Start worrying when they leave
Things do change. Slashdot is not a News for Nerds anymore, it's News for Linuxnerds. Which, by the way, had nothing to do with Andover or VA, it has been like this for a while now. And while I'm a linux user myself, I get sad when I look at the quality of Slashdot lately. Even if the articles are OK, and unbiased Nerdnews (which they aren't), the comments are of such low level, that I really wonder how many people with a login ID 70% of the comments on that poll are useless...
Maybe someone (with a BEEG pipe) needs to stand up and take Slash0.9 (finally!) to make a real "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters", and let Andover's "News for Linux develkernelusers, Polls that are too silly to even comment on" die a quiet death.
I thought about it. Since every hit on a Slashdotted site has a Slashot referrer, Slashdot must get at least the same amount of hits. Which means that Slashdot has a beeger pipe than Slashdotted sites. And since Slashdot only recently moved to this beeg pipe, that means the Slashdot effect only affects very slow (ISDN?) links.
In other words, if you get Slashdotted, it's time to buy more bandwidth anyway.
I think someone asked this already when another kernel release hit Slashdot, but:
Is there a TODO list for the Linux Kernel?
I know there's a lot of people who would like to contribute back to the linux community, but dont know where to start. I search all of the kernel mailinglist, but the only replies to questions like this are people responding with specific things that need help. I was more looking for a long bulleted list, preferable pusblished on kernelnotes.org or similar.
The point you make about the sweetener can be related to the fact that human senses seems to be interpreted logarithmically. That's why two airplanes/vacuumers don't sound twice as loud as one (it's only 3dB more, only if the decibel level was doubled, you would think of it as twice as loud).
> So we'll have to do this until we hack whois to support it:
I heard about a very very handy whois server: geektools.com
whois -h geektools.com dommain gives info on whatever domain, even if it's a countrycode TLD.
(try whois -h geektools.com tudelft.nl)
How stupid are Slashdot readers?
on
Happy Odd Day!
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· Score: 1
O my god.
I really wonder what the average IQ of Slashdotreaders is. Although it clearly states in sengan's post that it's the last odd day for a while, at least 50% of the comments so far are something like "But what about 11/17/99?". The other 50% are "But 1/1/2001 is also odd", not reading sengan's post that clearly states that all digits are prime.
So I went to my favorite IRC channel, complained about the stupidity of Slashdotters, and one guy responds: "But the 13th of November was also odd". Not to mention people who misread odd for prime.... sigh.
Now I can also see JP's reasoning, that he thought, quote, "people who frequent this type of forum are of an intellectual nature." and that he was very disappointed with the resuls.
Yeah yeah, go ahead and moderate me down for flamebait or troll. I wont see it anyway, my comment mode is set to "nocomments" from now on.
On a related note, I'm glad to see the Slashdot polls finally got to a somewhat higher level, there isn't even a Hemos The Hamster College in the poll. (although this poll is limited to a very few of us, the actual CS Grad students living in the US, but that's a completely different point)
Slashdot Mirror
I'll just buy PSEG (my powercompany) stocks. Much better bet, if you ask me.
> find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep "foobar" {} \;
/long/path/to/newdir /long/path/to/newdir /long/path/to/newdir
Start/Find/Files or Folders
Named: *.txt
Containing: foobar
Click "Find Now"
Oh wait. wrong os/filemanager. but my mom knows how to do it.
And now the counterchallenge:
I CTRL-Click (add to selection) on 15 arbitrary files, no filename-similarity, and drag them to another directory. This takes 15 clicks and one drag. Now you:
mv file1
mv thisfile
mv anotherone
<repeat 12 times>
etc
Let's store the number 0x12345678 in little endian.
Remember that one writes a bitmask always like this:
76543210
that would make a 32 bit number written as:
3322222222221111111111
1098765432109876543210987654321
corresponding with a byteorder of
0x03,0x02,0x01,0x00 in memory.
+----+----+----+----+
| 78 | 56 | 34 | 12 |
+----+----+----+----+
Wrong way? No. Logical way. If you want byte X of this word, get [BASE+X]
Oh, and I usually see memory in an incremented form, starting at zero, going to xxx Megs.
0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03 in memory.
+----+----+----+----+
| 12 | 34 | 56 | 78 |
+----+----+----+----+
Little endian now suddenly seems the right way!
For Japanese and Chinese people, please rotate your monitor 180 degrees and reverse all statements I made in this article and you might be a fan of big endian, who knows.
Also, but I don't remember exactly, there seem to be an advantage for little endian if you want to do fast hardware-addition and an advantage for big endian if you want to do fast hardware-multiplication.
And here I see it again:
<B>I'm typing this in extrans mode (isn't that the default mode</B> and it <i>doesn't show up</i> as it's supposed to.
<a href="http://slashdot.org/">Especially links</a>
Ivo Janssen
ivo at distributed.net
I think you're cowfusing a "server" with a "webserver" here. While linux sure has a great potential in the webserver market (and Netcraft shows this), the "server" market (aka fileserver or applicationserver or mailserver) is something completely different.
Most companies still have a WinXX desktop environment and the logical choice is Windows NT Server (or whatever 2k spinoff you might prefer). Although I personally like Netware a LOT better.
My choice:
Desktop: Windows
Fileserver: Netware
Webserver/firewall: Unix (I really don't care which one)
Moo!
Ivo
OK, I wasn't there from the very very beginning. (btw, I recently changed my username, so my high login doesn't say everything :)
But I do know that it was more interesting to read Slashdot about 1.5 years ago.
And about your comment "when was Slashdot NOT News for Linuxnerds", well, it seems Slashdot really doesn't want that image themselves, otherwise they would have a) changed their motto to "News for Linuxnerds" and b) not desperately trying to pay some attention to, for instance, BSD and apache.
Too bad you can't moderate down articles, hell it wasn't even an article, it was a personal opinion, NOT from the article poster but from someone else. Even mode=nocomment shows this troll....
And since "extrans" doesn't seem to work at the moment I had to use HTML formatting which screwed up the next paragraph:
...how many people with a login ID <10000 have "mode=nocomment". The only thing people can post here is GPL/BSD license advocacy. I would like to see a poll named: "My default threshold is". Oh, and throw in a "Hemos the Hamster" in the answers, so we can make sure >70% of the comments on that poll are useless...
Things do change. Slashdot is not a News for Nerds anymore, it's News for Linuxnerds. Which, by the way, had nothing to do with Andover or VA, it has been like this for a while now. And while I'm a linux user myself, I get sad when I look at the quality of Slashdot lately. Even if the articles are OK, and unbiased Nerdnews (which they aren't), the comments are of such low level, that I really wonder how many people with a login ID 70% of the comments on that poll are useless...
Maybe someone (with a BEEG pipe) needs to stand up and take Slash0.9 (finally!) to make a real "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters", and let Andover's "News for Linux develkernelusers, Polls that are too silly to even comment on" die a quiet death.
Disclaimer: I don't have a BEEG pipe.
I thought about it. Since every hit on a Slashdotted site has a Slashot referrer, Slashdot must get at least the same amount of hits. Which means that Slashdot has a beeger pipe than Slashdotted sites. And since Slashdot only recently moved to this beeg pipe, that means the Slashdot effect only affects very slow (ISDN?) links.
In other words, if you get Slashdotted, it's time to buy more bandwidth anyway.
I think someone asked this already when another kernel release hit Slashdot, but:
Is there a TODO list for the Linux Kernel?
I know there's a lot of people who would like to contribute back to the linux community, but dont know where to start. I search all of the kernel mailinglist, but the only replies to questions like this are people responding with specific things that need help. I was more looking for a long bulleted list, preferable pusblished on kernelnotes.org or similar.
After all, every geek on earth has installed /usr/games/rot13 by now, since this Ufie.
The point you make about the sweetener can be related to the fact that human senses seems to be interpreted logarithmically. That's why two airplanes/vacuumers don't sound twice as loud as one (it's only 3dB more, only if the decibel level was doubled, you would think of it as twice as loud).
And to follow up on my own post:
whois -h geektools.com quad.dotted.ip.addy
also works for looking up ARIN contacts.
> So we'll have to do this until we hack whois to support it:
I heard about a very very handy whois server:
geektools.com
whois -h geektools.com dommain
gives info on whatever domain, even if it's a countrycode TLD.
(try whois -h geektools.com tudelft.nl)
O my god.
I really wonder what the average IQ of Slashdotreaders is. Although it clearly states in sengan's post that it's the last odd day for a while, at least 50% of the comments so far are something like "But what about 11/17/99?". The other 50% are "But 1/1/2001 is also odd", not reading sengan's post that clearly states that all digits are prime.
So I went to my favorite IRC channel, complained about the stupidity of Slashdotters, and one guy responds: "But the 13th of November was also odd". Not to mention people who misread odd for prime.... sigh.
Now I can also see JP's reasoning, that he thought, quote, "people who frequent this type of forum are of an intellectual nature." and that he was very disappointed with the resuls.
Yeah yeah, go ahead and moderate me down for flamebait or troll. I wont see it anyway, my comment mode is set to "nocomments" from now on.
On a related note, I'm glad to see the Slashdot polls finally got to a somewhat higher level, there isn't even a Hemos The Hamster College in the poll. (although this poll is limited to a very few of us, the actual CS Grad students living in the US, but that's a completely different point)
> I've lost track of the number of nights I've pondered porting the RC5 client to Mac OS X, or AltiVec
-sigh-
http://www.distributed.net/source/
Download it, and "putz" with it when you have 5 minutes.
The strange thing is, this is my second post on this and Daa and dbaker have also pointed this out. Some wanker even pasted parts of that page here.
How long do we have to hear "I would port it, but those d.net people wont release the cores!"
The only thing we don't release is the buffer and networkprotocol, for reasons stated in this post.
See also here for most of the source which IS open.
If you can port these sources/cores to your platform, we'll be happy to make a client wrapper around it!
Oh, on that page is also an explanation why we still are not open source...
If we have a full userbase switch, we expect a 100% exhaustion in ~1 to 2 months.
That said, of course, we wont be able to get a full userbase switch, but chances are that we wont have to search 100% keyspace either.
In a few days we will have a better estimate of course, because then we will know real keyrates.
Ivo