The example was a regular expression. Those are not exclusive to Perl.
Another poster mentioned that regexes are easier to write than to read.
But that was my point. Someone sticks a humongous regex in my face and says "There, it's simple." Where my opinion is that a thing cannot be simple unless it's beautiful and easy to read a week after you wrote it.
As Linux enters the mainstream, adopters 'are demanding many features found on commercial software, including a large variety of add-on application programs and management tools that are easy to use,'
I can't wait to see their contributions. Oh wait, you mean they are just demanding and doing nothing?
a) Force them to let everything through, but this means they can't block virus speading sites, etc
And why should they? Blocking the spreading won't make the viruses go away. Plus, if I were a researcher or hobby virus analyser, I couldn't get to them anymore.
How about we get systems more secure so it wouldn't matter a single bit whether a site distributing some malware is reachable or not?
Who actually searches for files in the P2P client? Normally you visit some site where the releaser himself posted a torrent or an ed2k link and you download that.
I can't remember the last time I actually searched in eMule.
If the PC you use only eats 90W, it's only a minor change to the math.
The 90W box is my desktop with a 3D card, 1 gig of RAM and 2 HDs. Wasn't the talk about PCs acting as routers? The 30W box is more appropriate to the discussion. It's old, it has no graphics card, 64M RAM, one HD, 2 NICs.
Running 30W 24/7 is way more reasonable than running 100W continuously. Although personally, I'm going the 6W, yet with the power of a BSD route.
Don't you hate it when some application gets into "news" and you are supposed to already know what it does?
Just including this blurb from the homepage would have been enough:
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).
There is also the option of using an encrypted container and filling it half-way with some innocent-looking stuff that would still be worth encrypting. In the remaining space, you place another container with the real stuff.
TrueCrypt can do this to provide "plausible deniability". The second container does not appear in the filesystem of the first container. That's why you have to be careful to not modify the outer container once the inner container is created. Since the free space of any container will be filled with random data, an additional container inside the free space will be undistinguishable from random noise. Read the manual for more info.
What is the differnce between a cookie, and a clerk who recognizes your face?
The clerk's "data processing capabilities" are nothing compared to a global data-mining entity with massive computing power behind it. The clerk is unlikely to pass your buying habits on to his fellow clerks in the whole country. Nor will he be able to do the same recognition for hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Cookies don't track which sites you go to. A cookie has a domain that it actually is assigned to. When you visit that domain, the web browser sends that cookie to the server. If I go to amazon.com and they put a cookie on my system, then the only people who can look at it is amazon.com.
Well, Sherlock, we're talking about the marketers like Doubleclick here. Doubleclick has banners on countless websites. Each banner's picture has the website it's displayed on encoded in the URL. Additionally, they set cookies from the domain doubleclick.net. Now what happens? Doubleclick can track you because each of their banners on all sites they have a banner on can read the cookie.
Proper OSes run with the hardware clock set to UTC and/etc/localtime set to the correct timezone. This way, DST changes don't affect the hardware clock at all and happen automatically as encoded in the timezone file.
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Intle NEEDS to prove that they can still make a good x86 chip from "scratch".
Isn't "from scratch" and "x86" (aka backwards compatible aka carrying around crude hacks) kinda contradictory?
I still use a single-core processor, you insensitive clod!
The example was a regular expression. Those are not exclusive to Perl.
Another poster mentioned that regexes are easier to write than to read.
But that was my point. Someone sticks a humongous regex in my face and says "There, it's simple." Where my opinion is that a thing cannot be simple unless it's beautiful and easy to read a week after you wrote it.
It may look ugly but it's quite simple.
Aren't the two mutually exclusive?
Lets see, I bought this nice music CD, I paid for it, so I own it, or do I? Can I share it with a few friends?
I dunno about you, but I still remember a time where it was perfectly legal to give a copy to your friends.
As Linux enters the mainstream, adopters 'are demanding many features found on commercial software, including a large variety of add-on application programs and management tools that are easy to use,'
I can't wait to see their contributions. Oh wait, you mean they are just demanding and doing nothing?
Who cares what they demand then?
cryptome.org got hit with the cease and desist.
But it doesn't look like they complied? http://cryptome.org/lynn-cisco.pdf
"I'm not dead yet!"
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
Damn whippersnappers.
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I see dead people. They don't know they're dead. They think they're alive. They see what they want to see.
a) Force them to let everything through, but this means they can't block virus speading sites, etc
And why should they? Blocking the spreading won't make the viruses go away. Plus, if I were a researcher or hobby virus analyser, I couldn't get to them anymore.
How about we get systems more secure so it wouldn't matter a single bit whether a site distributing some malware is reachable or not?
Who actually searches for files in the P2P client? Normally you visit some site where the releaser himself posted a torrent or an ed2k link and you download that.
I can't remember the last time I actually searched in eMule.
If the PC you use only eats 90W, it's only a minor change to the math.
The 90W box is my desktop with a 3D card, 1 gig of RAM and 2 HDs. Wasn't the talk about PCs acting as routers? The 30W box is more appropriate to the discussion. It's old, it has no graphics card, 64M RAM, one HD, 2 NICs.
Running 30W 24/7 is way more reasonable than running 100W continuously. Although personally, I'm going the 6W, yet with the power of a BSD route.
(+6, Funny)
and give him some Underrated, not just karma-less Funny.
Let's then say you downclock the FSB and CPU to conserve power so that the machine only uses about 100W average.
your old PC probably takes 150-200W power
Where the hell do you get these numbers? Did you actually measure some of those claims? My P4/2600 desktop uses 90W when idle. An old P1/90 uses 30W.
Will Slashdot post dupe of this?:)
Yes. Next question.
Don't you hate it when some application gets into "news" and you are supposed to already know what it does?
Just including this blurb from the homepage would have been enough:
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).
Oh, sorry, that's an MP3 encoder.
No, it's not. It's an atrocity claiming to be one.
The worm had "PGP" in its name and everyone was thinking their data was lost forever.
However, the stupid worm author only used some very lame encryption that was broken shortly after.
The decryption routine is here.
There is also the option of using an encrypted container and filling it half-way with some innocent-looking stuff that would still be worth encrypting. In the remaining space, you place another container with the real stuff.
TrueCrypt can do this to provide "plausible deniability". The second container does not appear in the filesystem of the first container. That's why you have to be careful to not modify the outer container once the inner container is created. Since the free space of any container will be filled with random data, an additional container inside the free space will be undistinguishable from random noise. Read the manual for more info.
Yeah, of course I was talking about the fictional scenario where you aren't blocking them in the first place.
You got a +4 insightful for not reading the post you were responding to???
:)
You must be new here.
What is the differnce between a cookie, and a clerk who recognizes your face?
The clerk's "data processing capabilities" are nothing compared to a global data-mining entity with massive computing power behind it. The clerk is unlikely to pass your buying habits on to his fellow clerks in the whole country. Nor will he be able to do the same recognition for hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Cookies don't track which sites you go to. A cookie has a domain that it actually is assigned to. When you visit that domain, the web browser sends that cookie to the server. If I go to amazon.com and they put a cookie on my system, then the only people who can look at it is amazon.com.
Well, Sherlock, we're talking about the marketers like Doubleclick here. Doubleclick has banners on countless websites. Each banner's picture has the website it's displayed on encoded in the URL. Additionally, they set cookies from the domain doubleclick.net. Now what happens? Doubleclick can track you because each of their banners on all sites they have a banner on can read the cookie.
How about we have our 'puters set for GMT?
/etc/localtime set to the correct timezone. This way, DST changes don't affect the hardware clock at all and happen automatically as encoded in the timezone file.
Proper OSes run with the hardware clock set to UTC and
I use a Juniper IDP
:)
Would that be Intrusion Detection Prevention?
As a followup, how does the port mirroring feature of smart switches compare to the passive Ethernet taps shown on snort.org?