I would instead suggest Practical Cryptography. It has the information the OP would need to answer the exact questions he's asking. It gives you really good information about which algorithms to use when and why, and how to design secure systems by combining the various kinds of algorithms and offers guidance on how to pick them.
They renamed it "Cryptography Engineering" for the second edition, just in case someone goes round looking for it can only find the first edition. I don't actually know how different it is, mind you.
My view of Lucas has always been that he's really good at story concepts and settings; he sucks when it comes to actually writing a story using them. His ideas really need to be filtered through someone who knows how to write.
Whatever the standard BBC budget for a light comedy series was at the time (i.e. not much). It only got made because something else didn't, so they they had a spare budget assignment. I wouldn't be surprised if they had less than £30-40k for the entire six episodes of series one. I believe most of the budget for the first series was spent on the original model of Red Dwarf.
Yes, this is why I've been waiting a long time for someone to figure out a way of doing it. The world is full of people far smarter than me; I'm sure one of them will figure it out.
And I'm probably going to get modded -1 for comparing WebM to "failed formats" like HAM, but I think it's pretty obvious that WebM is destined for the same place as VESA and HD-VHS landed. Nice idea..... not adopted by the general public.
I'm assuming you mean VESA Local Bus, because VESA is alive and well. Well alive anyway; they're still as bone headedly stupid as ever. Actually on second thoughts you probably did mean VESA and you're right.
Correct. We're not all so ignorant though; I don't actually care what people call it.
When talking to most Americans it removes ambiguity to refer to it as soccer, just as referring to "American Football" in the UK, when talking about the American game, removes the ambiguity for us. If you say "football" in the UK people will assume you're talking about soccer, if you say it in the US they'll assume you're talking about American Football. It's all about tailoring your language to your audience.
Plus you appear to have missed the entire point of the site anyway: it's a generic disaster preparedness site dressed up with zombies to make it interesting to people who would otherwise totally ignore it.
Except for all the Microsoft tools which don't have a GUI. If you've ever had to do any Windows administration or development you'll find they crop up all over the place; the one I came across most recently was the script for managing the KMS host.
Microsoft Sandcastle - the tool you use to create MSDN style documentation from.NET XML comments - is a CLI tool as well, you have to download something like Sandcastle Help File Builder if you want a GUI.
If you read TechNet articles you often find they list the CLI and the GUI route, if available, precisely because a lot of people do prefer to use the command line.
I suspect you'll find the vast majority of "PAL televisions" on sale are in fact exactly the same televisions that are on sale in NTSC regions. Given they all work on DC internally the only difference is likely to be the power supply - possibly not even that; I suspect even those are auto-sensing 110V-240V transformers. I can't see them bothering to have different signal decoders nowadays.
Even our last CRT television (behemoth that it was) could accept an NTSC input and display it quite happily.
The "UNIX" in that list doesn't actually make much sense. It's, originally, the name of a single operating system developed at Bell Labs by a group of AT&T developers. Nowadays it's the trademark used to describe operating systems which pass the Single UNIX Specification tests...
"...after that her replacement was the one that received a shiny new one", ie she was fired and whoever got taken on to replace her got the new machine.
Why? A dictionary's job is to track the definition and usage of words, not to actually decide what those definitions and usages are. A dictionary that fails to do that, for whatever reason, is in fact failing to do what it's intended to do.
An OED subscription is one of the best investments I've ever made.
It's unlikely you can trace an IP back to a single user. You can, however, almost certainly trace it back to who it was assigned to, either statically or dynamically. The problem is that can be anything from a single home user to a small to medium sized company behind a NAT. Hell it could even be a large company - although they're more likely to be behind a many-to-many NAT, rather than one-to-many.
The only place I can see you being able to track back a single user would probably be in cases where you actually have the IP address of a workstation and you can compare to the login/logoff audit logs. I suspect the number of places assigning world routable IP addresses to workstations is vanishingly small. I can't see many places keeping NAT translation logs for the workstations on private IP blocks.
I think the bit of Oracle Linux which bemused me was the fact that installing Oracle 11g on it is is still non-trivial; it requires you to install a bunch of packages and tweak kernel settings. If you're going to distribute your own brand of Linux, you could at least have an installer option for "This is going to be an Oracle RDBMS server, please install everything I need and configure the kernel as needed". Giving you a script to run as root part way through the RDBMS install process doesn't really cut it.
With a lot of the call centres I've experienced that would mean never talking to anyone, because that message is usually an automated one. Your only option would be to hang up.
Given there was a incident recently in the UK where a woman died because the call she made to 999 wasn't panicked, so they flagged her as low priority...
I mean seriously, I'm a very nervous person and I don't like talking to people on the phone. Just speaking to 999 would make me sound panicked.
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A lot of drivers upload a chunk of firmware to devices when they load. All that's actually on the device is a burnt in bootstrap to let them do that.
I would instead suggest Practical Cryptography. It has the information the OP would need to answer the exact questions he's asking. It gives you really good information about which algorithms to use when and why, and how to design secure systems by combining the various kinds of algorithms and offers guidance on how to pick them.
They renamed it "Cryptography Engineering" for the second edition, just in case someone goes round looking for it can only find the first edition. I don't actually know how different it is, mind you.
My view of Lucas has always been that he's really good at story concepts and settings; he sucks when it comes to actually writing a story using them. His ideas really need to be filtered through someone who knows how to write.
Whatever the standard BBC budget for a light comedy series was at the time (i.e. not much). It only got made because something else didn't, so they they had a spare budget assignment. I wouldn't be surprised if they had less than £30-40k for the entire six episodes of series one. I believe most of the budget for the first series was spent on the original model of Red Dwarf.
Yes, this is why I've been waiting a long time for someone to figure out a way of doing it. The world is full of people far smarter than me; I'm sure one of them will figure it out.
And I'm probably going to get modded -1 for comparing WebM to "failed formats" like HAM, but I think it's pretty obvious that WebM is destined for the same place as VESA and HD-VHS landed. Nice idea..... not adopted by the general public.
I'm assuming you mean VESA Local Bus, because VESA is alive and well. Well alive anyway; they're still as bone headedly stupid as ever. Actually on second thoughts you probably did mean VESA and you're right.
A lossy format with alpha channel is something I've been wishing for for years now.
Correct. We're not all so ignorant though; I don't actually care what people call it.
When talking to most Americans it removes ambiguity to refer to it as soccer, just as referring to "American Football" in the UK, when talking about the American game, removes the ambiguity for us. If you say "football" in the UK people will assume you're talking about soccer, if you say it in the US they'll assume you're talking about American Football. It's all about tailoring your language to your audience.
In the case of rhyming yank with septic tank, I doubt the derogatory nature was an accident.
I'm fairly sure cancer isn't the CDC's problem.
Plus you appear to have missed the entire point of the site anyway: it's a generic disaster preparedness site dressed up with zombies to make it interesting to people who would otherwise totally ignore it.
Or you could just use the Group Policy Editor and achieve the same thing without faffing about...
Except for all the Microsoft tools which don't have a GUI. If you've ever had to do any Windows administration or development you'll find they crop up all over the place; the one I came across most recently was the script for managing the KMS host.
Microsoft Sandcastle - the tool you use to create MSDN style documentation from .NET XML comments - is a CLI tool as well, you have to download something like Sandcastle Help File Builder if you want a GUI.
If you read TechNet articles you often find they list the CLI and the GUI route, if available, precisely because a lot of people do prefer to use the command line.
I suspect you'll find the vast majority of "PAL televisions" on sale are in fact exactly the same televisions that are on sale in NTSC regions. Given they all work on DC internally the only difference is likely to be the power supply - possibly not even that; I suspect even those are auto-sensing 110V-240V transformers. I can't see them bothering to have different signal decoders nowadays.
Even our last CRT television (behemoth that it was) could accept an NTSC input and display it quite happily.
I don't think you'll pick up a panel that can do 125Hz very easily.
The "UNIX" in that list doesn't actually make much sense. It's, originally, the name of a single operating system developed at Bell Labs by a group of AT&T developers. Nowadays it's the trademark used to describe operating systems which pass the Single UNIX Specification tests...
Because prospective legitimate customers will still read their comments and decide not to buy your software.
"...after that her replacement was the one that received a shiny new one", ie she was fired and whoever got taken on to replace her got the new machine.
Why? A dictionary's job is to track the definition and usage of words, not to actually decide what those definitions and usages are. A dictionary that fails to do that, for whatever reason, is in fact failing to do what it's intended to do.
An OED subscription is one of the best investments I've ever made.
I've never felt the need to buy anything other than a standard Microsoft USB Basic Optical Mouse...
It's unlikely you can trace an IP back to a single user. You can, however, almost certainly trace it back to who it was assigned to, either statically or dynamically. The problem is that can be anything from a single home user to a small to medium sized company behind a NAT. Hell it could even be a large company - although they're more likely to be behind a many-to-many NAT, rather than one-to-many.
The only place I can see you being able to track back a single user would probably be in cases where you actually have the IP address of a workstation and you can compare to the login/logoff audit logs. I suspect the number of places assigning world routable IP addresses to workstations is vanishingly small. I can't see many places keeping NAT translation logs for the workstations on private IP blocks.
Most ads; NatWest and Halifax banks in the UK seem to like making adverts using actual employees. That or really bad actors.
I think the bit of Oracle Linux which bemused me was the fact that installing Oracle 11g on it is is still non-trivial; it requires you to install a bunch of packages and tweak kernel settings. If you're going to distribute your own brand of Linux, you could at least have an installer option for "This is going to be an Oracle RDBMS server, please install everything I need and configure the kernel as needed". Giving you a script to run as root part way through the RDBMS install process doesn't really cut it.
You appear to be ignoring the bit where Oracle is developing btrfs and CRFS.
With a lot of the call centres I've experienced that would mean never talking to anyone, because that message is usually an automated one. Your only option would be to hang up.
Given there was a incident recently in the UK where a woman died because the call she made to 999 wasn't panicked, so they flagged her as low priority...
I mean seriously, I'm a very nervous person and I don't like talking to people on the phone. Just speaking to 999 would make me sound panicked.