I have been happily connecting to GPRS service from Vodafone in the UK using the scripts from Ross Barkman ever since I got my (Apple/D-Link) Bluetooth adaptor. My only hint is to make jolly sure that the GRPS settings on the phone are correctly set up before you start trying to connect from the computer. An easy way to sort this out if you have an Ericsson is to go to Sony/Ericsson's WAP Configurator and they will send the right settings to your phone via SMS.
One neat thing I've found is that, despite the claims otherwise, you can get Bluetooth and 802.11 to work on the same machine at the same time. You need to have the phone pretty close (a meter or so) to the computer and the 802.11 service is somewhat degraded but the WLAN still works over 20 meters or so. This means that you can share out your GPRS conncetion to other people if you have an airport card in your machine; just go to System Preferences->Sharing, select the Internet tab and tick the box to share with AirPort equiped computers. Handy when two of you want to check your email on the train but you only have one GPRS phone:-)
Did you get this working with iCal, or just with the Finder WebDAV mounting? I got it to go on the Finder but it still fails when I try to publish from iCal.
Since Jaguar has failed to provide the promised WebDAV over SSL support I'd like to get a little more security regarding the control of publishing versions of my calendar file. Since the published calendar is going to be public I'm not too fussed about who can see the file itself but I would like to use something other than Basic Auth to control access so that the password is not sent in the clear.
Has anyone out there got mod_digest or mod_auth_digest to work with the OS 10.2 WebDAV? I'm using Apache 1.3.22 on a Linux server and I either get a "Password mismatch" if I use the older mod_digest or I get and "invalid nonce" error if I use the more recent mod_auth_digest.
If anyone out there has got this working I'd love to know what you did.
Just to confirm, if you type hdiutil mount imagefile.dmg on an encrypted image you get a prompt to enter the passphrase and it then mounts successfully. I can not see a simple way to provide the passphrase from a program but you might be able to do it with some careful AppleScript. Of course this would totally negate any security if you kept the passphrase in the script.
Disk images in OS X can be mounted with the hdiutil command. I've never tried mounting an encrypted disk but given the way that Apple implement their crypto using CDSA I expect that it will simply offer up the usual dialogue boxes and let you type in the key (since the prompts for passphrases to CDSA are generated by the kernel code).
Looking closely at the pictures on the design page it shows that the machine has FireWire on the front panel, and this is confirmed in the text. This begs two questions. Firstly, is this the first machine, rack or workstation, to have firewire on the front? Secondly, why on earth would you want it on a server? Maybe it's so that if you trash the system disk you don't have to take it out of the rack, you just plug in your iPod:-)
This looks just what you need for those broadband connections to the Congo or whatever but the cost is going to put it out of range for even the most technophile business users. Think about it, Inmarsat-M (9600 bps) costs about $4 a minute. Inmarsat-B (64K bps) costs about $10/min. I doubt that this is going to run at less that $40/min. After that even AOL looks good value:-)
NP problems are, loosely, problems for which you can check that the solution you have is correct in a time that is a polynomial function of the size of the problem. NP-Complete problems are problems that can be converted, in polynomial time, to the boolean satisfiability problem, and the answer to the resulting problem can be converted back in polynomial time.
Given a plaintext/ciphertext pair most block ciphers can be written as boolean equations that are satified by the correct key (you may need more than one pair to be sure that there is only one answer). Thus, if NPC=P then most block ciphers can be broken in a time that is polynomial in the key length.
Of course the order of the polynoial may be so high that you don't care that much, and indeed is the order is greater than the key length then it's no better than exponential time:-)
Bob is a language. Bob is an OS interface. Bob is everything. You would know this if you had joined the Church of the Subgenius.
May Bob be with you.
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I just fired this up on my Mac under OS X and it is SO much better than 6.1. It's way more stable, runs faster, looks better (in terms of fitting in with the OS) and all 'round seems good enough that I'm going to switch to using it in place of 4.75.
I've had my eye out for a second hand copy of this for years. Now that it is being reprinted I will go and order a copy for my neice. I loved this book when I was younger, along with "Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland" by George Gamow, which is less silly and a useful introduction to relativity and quantum physics for kids of all ages (and also now in reprint in paperback). I'm so glad to hear that they have rereleased this book:-)
The charter for this RG says explicitly that "it will address technologies that promote both copy-protection and fair-use copying of digital objects" which hardly sounds like no fair use to me. People on Slashdot all too often seem to think that all digital rights management is inherently evil when this is simply not the case. For instance, DRM covers schemes that allow unlimited copying with strong tracability so that you can make all the copies you need but if you start selling them the owners will know the who the culprit is.
You should all remember that this is an open IRTF group. If you have ideas about how DRM should work to both protect the fair use rights of consumers and also allow fair dues to the authors, then go and let them know. Sitting around on Slashdot moaning that the IETF is going to become a branch of the MPAA is both disingenuous and unproductive.
Having looked at the photograph I can honestly say that, given the chance, I would be going my best to raise funds to go there for a vacation... oh, I mean field expedition:-)
It seems to me that the tests that were used to give the Flops crown to the Intel CPU are a little biased. Surely for a fair test the Athalon should have been tested with the latest experimental AMD compiler as well.
As CPU designs get more complex the compliers need to know more ane more about the exact nature of the CPU. Despite the lable of binary compatability given to the CPUs from AMD (and others), those who need to squeeze the best performance out of machines are going to need to run code that is complied for their specific machine. Despite the best efforts of the open source community most end users do not want to recomplile source, let alone spend time finding obscure/QaxW flags to make the most of the system. Really this should be a job for the OS.
Maybe in the future we will see commercial code being distributed in such a way that parts of the code are compiled on the destination machine as the code gets installed. That way the code vendor can test a variety of complier options and not have to ship 42 different binaries for all the different CPUs in use.
In this case it's not about printing something onto the paper to absorb the incident light, it's about filtering the colour of the reflected light. CYMK stands for Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and blacK. If they printed black filters of the page it would always be black. With the RGB filter a spot will either reflect Red, Green or Blue light, or it will not reflect at all, and the colour will be formed by additive lighting, rather than subtractive absorbtion.
If 2600 "blatantly violated the law" then how come this case is going to appeal? The whole point of the case is that the supposed violation is not at all blatant. 2600 reported the existance of some code that allowed people to do something legal (play DVDs on Linux) as well as potentially allowing people do something illegal. They posted the code that was reverse engineered in a country where doing so was perfectly legal, and they told people where to find copies by linking. Since there is a very powerful case for this text being protected by the constitution of the US, and thus the DMCA being fundamentally illegal, it is wrong to say "it's a law regardless". It's only a law if it is constitutional, and that is yet to be determined by the courts.
This seems to be using much the same model as Internet Cash, a New York based start-up who issue pre-paid cash cards with a scratch-off security code. Internet Cash have a good selection of merchants with which you can spend, which is vital since often merchant acceptance is the biggest barrier to getting these things to go. They also have a security model which is, in my considered opinion, soundly founded in cryptography, so you won't be seeing any free-ware PIN number generators.
Disclaimer: My company sell equipment to Internet Cash, so I have a slight vested interest, but I still think that their technology is sound in a purely technical sense.
Apparently this thing has an ARM processor in it. Since there are several ports of Linux for the ARM I wonder what we could get running on this beasty. I'll drop a line to Aleph One and see if they are working on a port yet:-)
One of the ways that ship builders try to get around this is to try to alter the 'effective length' of the boat. I suspect that the conacvity at the back is designed to do just this. If the boat can be made to have only half its length in the water then the planing speed is halved.
Incedentally, you can install onto the Vaio Z505 series directly from CD-ROM just by starting the installer kernel with the extra addition of ide2=0x180. It seems that the BIOS maps the PCMCIA CD-ROM into IO space when it starts so that you can boot off CD-ROM and all you need to do is let the kernel know that it's there. I assume that this works for 7.1beta; it works just fine for the RedHat 6.2 I run on my machine.
If you want 56K dial-up, DHCP, NAT, DNS proxy and support for both ethernet and wireless then you have been able to get all of these from the likes of the Apple Airport, the Lucent RG-1000 and others for quite some time. OK it does not run Linux, but it does all the rest with ease.
If you have to have free software in the equation you can always control the above using FreeBase.
Given the article from Friday maybe someone should send a copy of Wired to the DVD-CCA. At the moment they clearly think that it will be a criminal copyright violation world...
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I have been happily connecting to GPRS service from Vodafone in the UK using the scripts from Ross Barkman ever since I got my (Apple/D-Link) Bluetooth adaptor. My only hint is to make jolly sure that the GRPS settings on the phone are correctly set up before you start trying to connect from the computer. An easy way to sort this out if you have an Ericsson is to go to Sony/Ericsson's WAP Configurator and they will send the right settings to your phone via SMS.
:-)
One neat thing I've found is that, despite the claims otherwise, you can get Bluetooth and 802.11 to work on the same machine at the same time. You need to have the phone pretty close (a meter or so) to the computer and the 802.11 service is somewhat degraded but the WLAN still works over 20 meters or so. This means that you can share out your GPRS conncetion to other people if you have an airport card in your machine; just go to System Preferences->Sharing, select the Internet tab and tick the box to share with AirPort equiped computers. Handy when two of you want to check your email on the train but you only have one GPRS phone
"With this new codec, ffmpeg really proves itself"
:-)
Surely this is a "dec", not a "codec". A codec is a Coder/Decoder, and what they've got here is just a Decoder
Did you get this working with iCal, or just with the Finder WebDAV mounting? I got it to go on the Finder but it still fails when I try to publish from iCal.
Since Jaguar has failed to provide the promised WebDAV over SSL support I'd like to get a little more security regarding the control of publishing versions of my calendar file. Since the published calendar is going to be public I'm not too fussed about who can see the file itself but I would like to use something other than Basic Auth to control access so that the password is not sent in the clear.
Has anyone out there got mod_digest or mod_auth_digest to work with the OS 10.2 WebDAV? I'm using Apache 1.3.22 on a Linux server and I either get a "Password mismatch" if I use the older mod_digest or I get and "invalid nonce" error if I use the more recent mod_auth_digest.
If anyone out there has got this working I'd love to know what you did.
Just to confirm, if you type hdiutil mount imagefile.dmg on an encrypted image you get a prompt to enter the passphrase and it then mounts successfully. I can not see a simple way to provide the passphrase from a program but you might be able to do it with some careful AppleScript. Of course this would totally negate any security if you kept the passphrase in the script.
Disk images in OS X can be mounted with the hdiutil command. I've never tried mounting an encrypted disk but given the way that Apple implement their crypto using CDSA I expect that it will simply offer up the usual dialogue boxes and let you type in the key (since the prompts for passphrases to CDSA are generated by the kernel code).
Looking closely at the pictures on the design page it shows that the machine has FireWire on the front panel, and this is confirmed in the text. This begs two questions. Firstly, is this the first machine, rack or workstation, to have firewire on the front? Secondly, why on earth would you want it on a server? Maybe it's so that if you trash the system disk you don't have to take it out of the rack, you just plug in your iPod :-)
I always liked this table which was published in The Atlantic back in 1999.
This looks just what you need for those broadband connections to the Congo or whatever but the cost is going to put it out of range for even the most technophile business users. Think about it, Inmarsat-M (9600 bps) costs about $4 a minute. Inmarsat-B (64K bps) costs about $10/min. I doubt that this is going to run at less that $40/min. After that even AOL looks good value :-)
NP problems are, loosely, problems for which you can check that the solution you have is correct in a time that is a polynomial function of the size of the problem. NP-Complete problems are problems that can be converted, in polynomial time, to the boolean satisfiability problem, and the answer to the resulting problem can be converted back in polynomial time.
:-)
Given a plaintext/ciphertext pair most block ciphers can be written as boolean equations that are satified by the correct key (you may need more than one pair to be sure that there is only one answer). Thus, if NPC=P then most block ciphers can be broken in a time that is polynomial in the key length.
Of course the order of the polynoial may be so high that you don't care that much, and indeed is the order is greater than the key length then it's no better than exponential time
Bob is a language. Bob is an OS interface. Bob is everything. You would know this if you had joined the Church of the Subgenius.
May Bob be with you.
I just fired this up on my Mac under OS X and it is SO much better than 6.1. It's way more stable, runs faster, looks better (in terms of fitting in with the OS) and all 'round seems good enough that I'm going to switch to using it in place of 4.75.
I've had my eye out for a second hand copy of this for years. Now that it is being reprinted I will go and order a copy for my neice. I loved this book when I was younger, along with "Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland" by George Gamow, which is less silly and a useful introduction to relativity and quantum physics for kids of all ages (and also now in reprint in paperback). I'm so glad to hear that they have rereleased this book :-)
The charter for this RG says explicitly that "it will address technologies that promote both copy-protection and fair-use copying of digital objects" which hardly sounds like no fair use to me. People on Slashdot all too often seem to think that all digital rights management is inherently evil when this is simply not the case. For instance, DRM covers schemes that allow unlimited copying with strong tracability so that you can make all the copies you need but if you start selling them the owners will know the who the culprit is.
You should all remember that this is an open IRTF group. If you have ideas about how DRM should work to both protect the fair use rights of consumers and also allow fair dues to the authors, then go and let them know. Sitting around on Slashdot moaning that the IETF is going to become a branch of the MPAA is both disingenuous and unproductive.
Having looked at the photograph I can honestly say that, given the chance, I would be going my best to raise funds to go there for a vacation... oh, I mean field expedition :-)
As CPU designs get more complex the compliers need to know more ane more about the exact nature of the CPU. Despite the lable of binary compatability given to the CPUs from AMD (and others), those who need to squeeze the best performance out of machines are going to need to run code that is complied for their specific machine. Despite the best efforts of the open source community most end users do not want to recomplile source, let alone spend time finding obscure /QaxW flags to make the most of the system. Really this should be a job for the OS.
Maybe in the future we will see commercial code being distributed in such a way that parts of the code are compiled on the destination machine as the code gets installed. That way the code vendor can test a variety of complier options and not have to ship 42 different binaries for all the different CPUs in use.
In this case it's not about printing something onto the paper to absorb the incident light, it's about filtering the colour of the reflected light. CYMK stands for Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and blacK. If they printed black filters of the page it would always be black. With the RGB filter a spot will either reflect Red, Green or Blue light, or it will not reflect at all, and the colour will be formed by additive lighting, rather than subtractive absorbtion.
Disclaimer: My company sell equipment to Internet Cash, so I have a slight vested interest, but I still think that their technology is sound in a purely technical sense.
People in their 20s and 30s have a significant fraction who've been smoking dope for years.
Smoking dope is known to be correlated with memory loss.
The connection must be computer...
If you have to have free software in the equation you can always control the above using FreeBase.
Given the article from Friday maybe someone should send a copy of Wired to the DVD-CCA. At the moment they clearly think that it will be a criminal copyright violation world...