I'm in that system. I knew it was hosed years ago (like 7), when, immediately after registering, I began to receive boatloads of spam related to govt contracts. It's likely been wide open for ages.
reading the comments in this thread reminds me why i rarely read comments on slashdot.
mirah is java, with a friendlier type system and ruby-like syntax. like jruby, but without having to drag around a huge runtime library, or maintain language compatibility with a language with no spec (ruby).
mirah compiles directly to bytecode, just like java, so it's as fast as java. it has type inference, so types are still there if you want/need them. the syntax is a matter of religion and/or taste, i tend to like it. you also get the entire corpus of java frameworks and libraries for free.
i personally am _more_ excited about mirah than i am about jruby (or even ruby for that matter).
charles nutter is one of the main (the main?) guy behind jruby for those who (for some reason) think this is some sort of attack on jruby.
don't forget about Rocky's Boots. Digital and analog circuit design for elementary school kids. Fscking brilliant. I hope my daughter gets to play truly educational games, instead of "dress up barbie, CONSUME!"
Mercurial seems to have quite a bit of traction these days, more than any of the other d-sccm tools out there from what i can tell (inside sources tell me sun has mandated mercurial, so there should be quite good tool integration soon). Mercurial is also very fast, and has a good ui, and a really nice http interface too (rss no less).
svn is indeed gold plated shit cvs is indeed past it
No, ethanol is not a solution. Ethanol relies on loads of corn, the lovely, and generally useless til processed product we in the US over-produce by the megaton.
the main ingredient required for growing gigantic surplusses of corn is?
you guessed it..
petroleum based fertilizers.
ethanol is just a way for people to justify corn. it's incredibly inefficient to turn oil into fertilizer into corn so you can make alcohol to burn in your car that used to just burn the petroleum directly.
really into "alternative" this and that. you name it. idiot drives a fryer-grease powered diesel. whatever man. if you're really concerned about humanity (as all kooks like you claim to be), go donate your time or money to someone who could really use it.
you 16 cents of power savings a month isn't going to do dick for anyone. your paranoia about large quasi-government power agencies is asinine. your philosophy is bankrupt. save us all the annoyance and put your money where your mouth is. give up your electric toys and go live in alaska in an unpowered cabin like a real believer.
there is a linux and osX version of the plugin. read the mailing list and you'll find it.
caveat emptor tho, it's not statically linked, so you may get linkage errors if you don't have the right mix of libs on your machine. we're working on a way to get around that tho.
debian is a nice os, but the hardware it runs on is pure steaming shit.
if your business depends on uptime (tpm down for a day while you fix a dead HD, or replace a fan?), you need redundant hardware. most free stuff just doesn't support such niceties.
in short, prepare to grab your ankles and start talking to sun or ibm now. obviously you can use deb for various non-critical systems (web, mail, firewalls etc), but core business stuff should be on "real" iron. anything that you can't hot-swap cpus in and out of doesn't count as real. obvoiusly don't make your big iron depend on your debian systems either. that would be like putting a huge deadbolt on a styrofoam door.
rtfp, i said more than 2 years, 3-4 doesn't seem out of the question, my memory is a bit fuzzy. i very much remember embedding javascript in xml before 2001
ant has been doing this for over 2 years with the aid of the bsf scripting libraries. one can embed jython, javascript or perl into the ant build files.
Compared to the shows on the sunday adult swim, nothing, and i mean nothing on the rest of tv compares. Harvey birdman, aqua-teen hunger-force and sealab blow that cliched, over-edited crap they pass off as anime (not to mention everything else broadcasted) out of the water.
Lowtax needs to do his homework. i've been very involved in a certain very successful gaming site for about 4 years. i've seen ad brokers come and go (out of business even). the practices and terms he describe are completely standard.
this sounds like a matter of bad negotiating. lowtax obviously didn't know what a good deal looks like, as he did not negotiate one (granted, very few people have the experience to know what a good banner contract looks like)
ad brokers "fill" inventory with non-paying in-store ads (like the commercials for tv shows), this is _indeed_ the mark of a broker not being able to sell their product (i.e. space on your site). you can draw two conclusions when you see this on your site:
your site stinks, who would want to advertise here anyway? this is the more likely case.
you ad broker stinks, and is unable to sell space on your site. this is far less likely, but i've seen it happen, and this is the case for gamefan.
the moral of the story is, ALWAYS make your contract breakable if they don't fill their inventory, or negotiate a guaranteed minimum income. anything less, and you are bending over. and remember to GETH THE F*CK OUT when you see alot of "stock" ads.
it _is_ possible to negotiate with these guys. most of them are desperately in need of clicks. in fact, alot of them are so desperate, they'll cut you a deal they can't fill. this happened to us, our "big dot com ipo" broker is now trading around the penny stock territory.
another piece of advice, is to stick with the bigboys (cnet comes to mind). if the big boys won't take you, you aren't good enough to make them money, and you likely aren't good enough to make _you_ money either.
remember, this is bidneth, nobody owes you anything. you get what you agree to.
The way we pro's do it, is use a key exchange protocol such as Diffie Hellman which uses asymmetric ciphers (public key stuff) just to generate a shared secret on both sides of the communication. This shared secret is usually used to generate a key for a symmetric cipher such as DES.
When both parties have the same secret key for the symmetric cipher on both sides, the streaming then begins. As for your question regarding why the earlier blocks are as well encrypted given the behavior of feedback ciphers, it's because the first block is transformed using something called an initialization vector, which is a block of noise. yes, it has to be the same noise on both ends or it all goes to hell.
in other words, yes it's public key based but the actual work of it is old fashioned symmetric. this is due to the fact that asymmetric stuff is very slow compared to symmetric.
You should definitely read anything by Bruce Schneier, starting out with Applied Cryptography
I run a medium sized web site on a p90 with pathetically slow hard drives and too little memory. Linux and apache of course... I'd like to see NT even run anything usefull on a p90! But that damn p90 sure can peg the T1 it's on with relative ease. but I digress, a loss is still a loss, and saying that linux still easily outruns 99.999% of anyone's bandwdith is just an attempt to sanitize the loss, ie. "linux is more than fast enough" Well that's the same as windoze, "windoze is good enough" for most people. [sic]. nutsaq
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I'm in that system. I knew it was hosed years ago (like 7), when, immediately after registering, I began to receive boatloads of spam related to govt contracts. It's likely been wide open for ages.
reading the comments in this thread reminds me why i rarely read comments on slashdot.
mirah is java, with a friendlier type system and ruby-like syntax. like jruby, but without having to drag around a huge runtime library, or maintain language compatibility with a language with no spec (ruby).
mirah compiles directly to bytecode, just like java, so it's as fast as java. it has type inference, so types are still there if you want/need them. the syntax is a matter of religion and/or taste, i tend to like it. you also get the entire corpus of java frameworks and libraries for free.
i personally am _more_ excited about mirah than i am about jruby (or even ruby for that matter).
charles nutter is one of the main (the main?) guy behind jruby for those who (for some reason) think this is some sort of attack on jruby.
don't forget about Rocky's Boots. Digital and analog circuit design for elementary school kids. Fscking brilliant. I hope my daughter gets to play truly educational games, instead of "dress up barbie, CONSUME!"
Mercurial seems to have quite a bit of traction these days, more than any of the other d-sccm tools out there from what i can tell (inside sources tell me sun has mandated mercurial, so there should be quite good tool integration soon). Mercurial is also very fast, and has a good ui, and a really nice http interface too (rss no less).
svn is indeed gold plated shit
cvs is indeed past it
No, ethanol is not a solution. Ethanol relies on loads of corn, the lovely, and generally useless til processed product we in the US over-produce by the megaton.
the main ingredient required for growing gigantic surplusses of corn is?
you guessed it..
petroleum based fertilizers.
ethanol is just a way for people to justify corn. it's incredibly inefficient to turn oil into fertilizer into corn so you can make alcohol to burn in your car that used to just burn the petroleum directly.
stick that in your corn-cob.
really into "alternative" this and that. you name it. idiot drives a fryer-grease powered diesel. whatever man. if you're really concerned about humanity (as all kooks like you claim to be), go donate your time or money to someone who could really use it.
you 16 cents of power savings a month isn't going to do dick for anyone. your paranoia about large quasi-government power agencies is asinine. your philosophy is bankrupt. save us all the annoyance and put your money where your mouth is. give up your electric toys and go live in alaska in an unpowered cabin like a real believer.
what's wrong with amanda? this "article" is obviously a plug, or the poster is clueless.
there is a linux and osX version of the plugin. read the mailing list and you'll find it.
caveat emptor tho, it's not statically linked, so you may get linkage errors if you don't have the right mix of libs on your machine. we're working on a way to get around that tho.
Damn! my bullshit meter just exploded. It usually does when IBM starts moving their collective lips.
debian is a nice os, but the hardware it runs on is pure steaming shit.
if your business depends on uptime (tpm down for a day while you fix a dead HD, or replace a fan?), you need redundant hardware. most free stuff just doesn't support such niceties.
in short, prepare to grab your ankles and start talking to sun or ibm now. obviously you can use deb for various non-critical systems (web, mail, firewalls etc), but core business stuff should be on "real" iron. anything that you can't hot-swap cpus in and out of doesn't count as real. obvoiusly don't make your big iron depend on your debian systems either. that would be like putting a huge deadbolt on a styrofoam door.
rtfp, i said more than 2 years, 3-4 doesn't seem out of the question, my memory is a bit fuzzy. i very much remember embedding javascript in xml before 2001
ant has been doing this for over 2 years with the aid of the bsf scripting libraries. one can embed jython, javascript or perl into the ant build files.
prior art. patent is fucked.
creepy, i hit that link with safari, and ie5 opened up to handle it (incorrectly i assume, since it displayed no information)
Compared to the shows on the sunday adult swim, nothing, and i mean nothing on the rest of tv compares. Harvey birdman, aqua-teen hunger-force
and sealab blow that cliched, over-edited crap
they pass off as anime (not to mention everything else broadcasted) out of the water.
My name is FRYLOCK and i'm ALL talk!
re the java OS:
i recall sun sticking a fork in it around 1998
what about the venerable Stomped.com?!
Hasn't anyone heard of a certificate revocation list?
..and why i far prefer freebsd. 1 distro. one glibc, fewer fools.
all the cool linux games would fit on a floppy anyway.
Lowtax needs to do his homework. i've been very involved in a certain very successful gaming site for about 4 years. i've seen ad brokers come and go (out of business even). the practices and terms he describe are completely standard.
this sounds like a matter of bad negotiating. lowtax obviously didn't know what a good deal looks like, as he did not negotiate one (granted, very few people have the experience to know what a good banner contract looks like)
ad brokers "fill" inventory with non-paying in-store ads (like the commercials for tv shows), this is _indeed_ the mark of a broker not being able to sell their product (i.e. space on your site). you can draw two conclusions when you see this on your site:
the moral of the story is, ALWAYS make your contract breakable if they don't fill their inventory, or negotiate a guaranteed minimum income. anything less, and you are bending over. and remember to GETH THE F*CK OUT when you see alot of "stock" ads.
it _is_ possible to negotiate with these guys. most of them are desperately in need of clicks. in fact, alot of them are so desperate, they'll cut you a deal they can't fill. this happened to us, our "big dot com ipo" broker is now trading around the penny stock territory.
another piece of advice, is to stick with the bigboys (cnet comes to mind). if the big boys won't take you, you aren't good enough to make them money, and you likely aren't good enough to make _you_ money either.
remember, this is bidneth, nobody owes you anything. you get what you agree to.
incredibly inefficient, somewhat annoying, but it seems to work well...
webhelp.com
-nutsaq
The way we pro's do it, is use a key exchange protocol such as Diffie Hellman which uses asymmetric ciphers (public key stuff) just to generate a shared secret on both sides of the communication . This shared secret is usually used to generate a key for a symmetric cipher such as DES.
When both parties have the same secret key for the symmetric cipher on both sides, the streaming then begins. As for your question regarding why the earlier blocks are as well encrypted given the behavior of feedback ciphers, it's because the first block is transformed using something called an initialization vector, which is a block of noise. yes, it has to be the same noise on both ends or it all goes to hell.
in other words, yes it's public key based but the actual work of it is old fashioned symmetric. this is due to the fact that asymmetric stuff is very slow compared to symmetric.
You should definitely read anything by Bruce Schneier, starting out with Applied Cryptography
-nutsaq
Looney's.net
I run a medium sized web site on a p90 with
pathetically slow hard drives and too little
memory. Linux and apache of course... I'd like
to see NT even run anything usefull on a p90!
But that damn p90 sure can peg the T1 it's on
with relative ease.
but I digress, a loss is still a loss, and saying
that linux still easily outruns 99.999% of
anyone's bandwdith is just an attempt to sanitize
the loss, ie. "linux is more than fast enough"
Well that's the same as windoze, "windoze is
good enough" for most people. [sic].
nutsaq