SVN is more complicated than CVS, and less functional
Can I have some of what you are smoking?
Not that Subversion is the greatest VCS ever, but CVS is, in my opinion, a HUGE pain to use. The only reason to use it is for some sort of legacy system.
The problem with automatically indenting on commit is that the programmer might not get a chance to make sure the indenter did things correctly. For example, when lining up some complex code, like a getopt_long() struct, a tool like indent will un-align it all. Generally, I wrap my getopt_long() structs in
/* *INDENT-ON* */
/* *INDENT-OFF* */
Of course, correcting it is simply just another commit anyway.:-P
His algorithm uses a 5-bit key, but the key space only has 25 valid keys. Therefore, searching this key space is trivial, even for a paper-and-pencil method. In this case he chose the most commonly used key for this algorithm (ROTn), which you happened to also try first: 13 (or in base-2: 01101).
The last book of Ben Bova's Exile Trilogy is about children on a distant forgotten spaceship being raised entirely by broken machines/computers (all the adults have killed each other, but left these machines behind for this purpose), and therefore receive little or no formal education. They had no counting system, but kept track of amounts by naming everything. For example, they knew how many children made up their population simply because everyone had everyone else's names memorized. Later on a head count is achieved by reciting all these names.
How do they know that Eastern Laurentia had crinkle cut coastlines like Canada? Weren't they formed by glacial activity? How does that happen at the equator?
They also show a gap for the Gulf of Mexico, which isn't supposed to exist for another few hundred million years, in the Late Triassic. Almost all of the Pangea maps (including the one at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History) I have seen do this too. Maybe I am just confused about something.
If you do any programming as a hobby, write about the little projects you do in a blog, including full source. Not only could it be useful for showing to a potential employer, but it is a nice way to keep a record of your hobby projects to look back on. All your code is saved, backed up (via the Torvalds backup method), and documented.
People reading your blog can benefit from your own learning experience, and in a hands-on way too. (I do all this myself, which is where that "Homepage" link above points to.)
It's still the "chicken or egg" problem: what compiled your C interpreter?:-P Or is it "interpreters all the way down!"
Your self-compiled version of gcc may match the distribution-compiled one simply because they both have the same malicious insert. Of course, this is probably all less likely than, say, winning the lottery a dozen times in a row, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Whoever could manage to pull it off would deserve to own your computer anyway: they earned it.
In that case downgrading is intentional, and the user will know to be aware of old vulnerabilities in the downgraded package. The potential package manager vulnerability we are worried about would be the case where an old package is marked as new, and a user "upgrading" a package would be re-introducing old vulnerabilities without knowing.
If metadata is included when signing the package (which is the case for the parent's system), this cannot be done, short of discovering an algorithm a few orders of magnitude faster than the general number field sieve (this is very unlikely).
If you are downloading from a mirror, someone could apply similar methods to insert malicious code in your version of the source. And checking all of the source code is no trivial matter, especially if you are looking for an intentionally obscure bit of code.
Also, you have to trust your compiler, which you *had* to get from someone else. Your compiler may be inserting malicious code.
This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
And then what he looks at,
F-spot
Picasa - proprietary
LightZone - proprietary
Bibble - proprietary
Raw Therapee - proprietary
Qtpfsgui
He stated a criteria ("open-source"), then 4 out of 6 had nothing to do with that criteria. Nice work on consistency there, pal.
Viacomm is a commercial organisation trying to protect its property
There is no property at all involved in this YouTube/Viacom dispute, unless you count the "four tera-byte hard drives" mentioned in the judge's ruling.
They will offer them with some crazy Windows Vista only DRM, priced the exact same as the printed book
And then because it is a DRM ebook, you can't sell/lend it to another student or sell it back at the end of the semester. Maybe even the book locks up and becomes unreadable at the end of the semester too.
I guess this is why they were mad about a certain tea party in Boston a few hundred years ago. The English tea was thrown overboard into the water, making it unsuitable for drinking -- even for Americans.
Generally, choosing slower burning speeds is supposed to help the data last longer. The longer the burn time, the "darker" the dye will get, making it last longer. Supposedly.
Did you see the one LMIRL (let's meet in real life)?
The purpose of those acronyms/abbreviations is to make typing easier by conveying information with less text, and, in the case of these (fake) examples, to also be cryptic (to parents). If LMIRL exists, it would mean that it is said and used with such frequency that it warranted an acronym. Somehow I doubt this is true, and so I call bullshit that part of the article.
Offtopic note: Whats with the 15 character wide text box on idle? Is the idea to force shorter twitter-like messages? Also, there is the lack of spacing between paragraphs. (I manually spaced mine)
To record a bit requires a certain amount of energy, kT, where T is the temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. The ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2K and k = 1.38e-16 erg/K. An ideal computer would consume 4.4e-16 ergs every time a bit is set.
At about 1.04e6 bits per image, and 3.55e312970 images, that requires 4.90e312960 ergs to compute all possible 255x255 images. For comparison, our sun outputs about 1.21e41 ergs per year. So even if you build a Dyson sphere around the Sun to capture all its energy, after a billion years you wouldn't even have enough energy to compute any significant fraction of all the images. Even a super nova only releases about 10^51 ergs. Looks like there may not be enough energy in the universe to do what you want do.
PS: I am typing this in a hurry so I hope I got all the math right.
Slashdot Mirror
Steve Jobs isn't going to bust down your door, seize your mice, or nail an iPhone over your trackpads.
Then explain to me why I woke up this morning to a busted down door and missing computer equipment. No, the police didn't buy your story.
SVN is more complicated than CVS, and less functional
Can I have some of what you are smoking?
Not that Subversion is the greatest VCS ever, but CVS is, in my opinion, a HUGE pain to use. The only reason to use it is for some sort of legacy system.
The problem with automatically indenting on commit is that the programmer might not get a chance to make sure the indenter did things correctly. For example, when lining up some complex code, like a getopt_long() struct, a tool like indent will un-align it all. Generally, I wrap my getopt_long() structs in
Of course, correcting it is simply just another commit anyway. :-P
I didn't even need a key!
His algorithm uses a 5-bit key, but the key space only has 25 valid keys. Therefore, searching this key space is trivial, even for a paper-and-pencil method. In this case he chose the most commonly used key for this algorithm (ROTn), which you happened to also try first: 13 (or in base-2: 01101).
Can moderator demigods make a moderation so permanent that even they can't undo it?
Oops, I just answered my question by asking it.
Wow, I just love their new artistic direction, this game will be a killer!"
What's with the sarcasm in the summary? Oh... he was being serious.
There's no such thing as GNU/Linux, because I've never ever seen an .iso labeled like that.
How about a purchasable CD labeled GNU/Linux?
http://www.agnus.com.ar/site/agnus/debian/
The last book of Ben Bova's Exile Trilogy is about children on a distant forgotten spaceship being raised entirely by broken machines/computers (all the adults have killed each other, but left these machines behind for this purpose), and therefore receive little or no formal education. They had no counting system, but kept track of amounts by naming everything. For example, they knew how many children made up their population simply because everyone had everyone else's names memorized. Later on a head count is achieved by reciting all these names.
How do they know that Eastern Laurentia had crinkle cut coastlines like Canada? Weren't they formed by glacial activity? How does that happen at the equator?
They also show a gap for the Gulf of Mexico, which isn't supposed to exist for another few hundred million years, in the Late Triassic. Almost all of the Pangea maps (including the one at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History) I have seen do this too. Maybe I am just confused about something.
If you do any programming as a hobby, write about the little projects you do in a blog, including full source. Not only could it be useful for showing to a potential employer, but it is a nice way to keep a record of your hobby projects to look back on. All your code is saved, backed up (via the Torvalds backup method), and documented.
People reading your blog can benefit from your own learning experience, and in a hands-on way too. (I do all this myself, which is where that "Homepage" link above points to.)
It's still the "chicken or egg" problem: what compiled your C interpreter? :-P Or is it "interpreters all the way down!"
Your self-compiled version of gcc may match the distribution-compiled one simply because they both have the same malicious insert. Of course, this is probably all less likely than, say, winning the lottery a dozen times in a row, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Whoever could manage to pull it off would deserve to own your computer anyway: they earned it.
In that case downgrading is intentional, and the user will know to be aware of old vulnerabilities in the downgraded package. The potential package manager vulnerability we are worried about would be the case where an old package is marked as new, and a user "upgrading" a package would be re-introducing old vulnerabilities without knowing.
If metadata is included when signing the package (which is the case for the parent's system), this cannot be done, short of discovering an algorithm a few orders of magnitude faster than the general number field sieve (this is very unlikely).
If you are downloading from a mirror, someone could apply similar methods to insert malicious code in your version of the source. And checking all of the source code is no trivial matter, especially if you are looking for an intentionally obscure bit of code.
Also, you have to trust your compiler, which you *had* to get from someone else. Your compiler may be inserting malicious code.
This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
And then what he looks at,
He stated a criteria ("open-source"), then 4 out of 6 had nothing to do with that criteria. Nice work on consistency there, pal.
or will daemons start spewing out of cracks in time and space?
Nope, they will just simply spew from our noses.
http://www.doxpara.com/
stand by the wordpress it likes to have the cache
Uh... not vulnerable then?
She is one of 650 students who receive an Apple Inc laptop each day at a state-funded school in Boston.
What is she going to do with all those computers they are giving her? One is probably enough.
So that's where it went. Give it back, please.
Viacomm is a commercial organisation trying to protect its property
There is no property at all involved in this YouTube/Viacom dispute, unless you count the "four tera-byte hard drives" mentioned in the judge's ruling.
All Americans sell off their childhood belongings once they reach adulthood in order to build capital, thus providing better opportunity for profit.
They will offer them with some crazy Windows Vista only DRM, priced the exact same as the printed book
And then because it is a DRM ebook, you can't sell/lend it to another student or sell it back at the end of the semester. Maybe even the book locks up and becomes unreadable at the end of the semester too.
The British take their tea very seriously.
I guess this is why they were mad about a certain tea party in Boston a few hundred years ago. The English tea was thrown overboard into the water, making it unsuitable for drinking -- even for Americans.
(with apologies to George Banks)
Generally, choosing slower burning speeds is supposed to help the data last longer. The longer the burn time, the "darker" the dye will get, making it last longer. Supposedly.
Did you see the one LMIRL (let's meet in real life)?
The purpose of those acronyms/abbreviations is to make typing easier by conveying information with less text, and, in the case of these (fake) examples, to also be cryptic (to parents). If LMIRL exists, it would mean that it is said and used with such frequency that it warranted an acronym. Somehow I doubt this is true, and so I call bullshit that part of the article.
Offtopic note: Whats with the 15 character wide text box on idle? Is the idea to force shorter twitter-like messages? Also, there is the lack of spacing between paragraphs. (I manually spaced mine)
To record a bit requires a certain amount of energy, kT, where T is the temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. The ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2K and k = 1.38e-16 erg/K. An ideal computer would consume 4.4e-16 ergs every time a bit is set.
At about 1.04e6 bits per image, and 3.55e312970 images, that requires 4.90e312960 ergs to compute all possible 255x255 images. For comparison, our sun outputs about 1.21e41 ergs per year. So even if you build a Dyson sphere around the Sun to capture all its energy, after a billion years you wouldn't even have enough energy to compute any significant fraction of all the images. Even a super nova only releases about 10^51 ergs. Looks like there may not be enough energy in the universe to do what you want do.
PS: I am typing this in a hurry so I hope I got all the math right.