I haven't downloaded that file, but doesn't MS always digitally sign their updates? If so, you could right-click on the EXE, select Properties, then go to the "Digital Signatures" tab to check the signature.
Viruses are much much bigger than a urea molecule. Even one of the bases in the RNA of a virus is bigger than a urea molecule. Urea is CON2H4. The smallest RNA base, uracil, is C4N2O2H4.
Re:Slightly OT: Reserved IP adresses in IPv6
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Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the invite... I'm now the proud owner of dahanc@gmail.com:) (6 char minimum username length is kinda annoying though).
I'll be sure to vote for Howard Dean this November! Oh wait... nevermind.
And why would Seagate only have 3 platters? Each disk has 2 sides, so unless the system is crippled (i.e. they use rejects with only 1 good side) the platters should be a multiple of 2.
No, the number of platters is however many platters they decide to put in the drive. The number of heads is the number of platters * 2. Two heads per platter--one for the top, and one for the bottom.
Why national or international?
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Are there maps available through other agencies (national or international)?
What's the reasoning behind the national or international restriction? The local government handles building streets, and they're the ones who provide the maps. For example, the Texas Department of Transportation makes their maps available here.
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That's a feature/design decision. Windows NT writes pages that haven't been accessed recently to swap while the system is idle, so that when the system is low on RAM, it doesn't have to spend time paging stuff out. The pages are already in the swapfile and it can reuse that RAM immediately.
Seems to work fine for me--I don't notice any slowdowns until my working set size exceeds RAM size. I dunno; if your app uses about 400MB, leaving 112MB for Win2K to use seems a bit tight to me.
Heh, check out the codepoetry article in a browser that supports the <acronym> tag (such as Mozilla); all off the "NOW"s, such as in "NOW Help Viewer was almost 100% feature-equivalent to Apple Guide" and "NOW that the system had a real web display system..." have a tooltip that says, "National Organization for Women (Man-Haters)":)
Netrek isn't unplayable. The client is open-source, but the servers can be set (and normally are) to only accept connections from "blessed" binary clients. Each official client has an RSA keypair. The server sends a random challenge to the client, the client signs it and sends it back to the server. If the signature verifies, and the public key is on the approved list of keys, the server accepts the connection.
The weak point is that it's possible to extract the private key out of a blessed client and use it to sign challenges in a hacked client, but the impact is mitigated since it's very easy to remove the compromised key from the list of approved keys.
Anyways, certainly not 100% protection, but it stops casual cheating, while still being open source.
VLC will work on any machine playfair/hymn works on, seeing that playfair/hymn use the decryption code contributed to VLC by Jon Lech Johansen. Note the "Copyright (C) 2004 VideoLAN" at the top of the src/hymn/drms.c file, for example.
Yeah, less than 10 minutes, and I don't even know PPC assembly:
(gdb) where #0 0x90010748 in ptrace () #1 0x002460a0 in ?? () #2 0x8fe16534 in __dyld_call_module_initializers_for_objects () #3 0x8fe16040 in __dyld_call_module_initializers () #4 0x8fe1334c in __dyld__dyld_make_delayed_module_initializer_calls () #5 0x00004940 in ?? () #6 0x00004828 in ?? () #7 0x00004788 in ?? ()
A little breakpoint at the right place, and iTunes is currently running under gdb on my G4. Not that I know what to do with it now:) But it's trivial to bypass the the anti-debugger protection.
That's pretty interesting... Your earlier message says Apple added a flag to execve(), but Darwin's execve() looks standard to me: int execve(const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
Having execve() do the protection wouldn't work anyways, seeing that gdb wouldn't call execve() with that flag set. I ktraced iTunes, and it's just calling ptrace(PT_DENY_ATTACH,...) on itself, rather than having its parent do it. You could probably run iTunes under a debugger and set a breakpoint on ptrace() and skip over the offending call.
On the other hand, while recompiling Darwin may not be "something a user would be able to do" (I've never tried), I'm sure someone who is knowledgable enough to reverse engineer iTunes' key generation scheme is also capable of compiling their kernel.
The IUPAC seems to think that "aluminum" is just fine. As is "cesium."
Finally, for American readers, it is noted that alternate English language spellings for the names of aluminum and cesium are used in the USA and do not constitute erroneous spellings. --
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P.S. Al was named "aluminum" back around 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy. He later decided to go with "aluminium" to match the "-ium" suffix of other elements. I have no idea whether "aluminum" is a marketing tradename or not, but it's definitely not the origin of the "-um" spelling.
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I haven't downloaded that file, but doesn't MS always digitally sign their updates? If so, you could right-click on the EXE, select Properties, then go to the "Digital Signatures" tab to check the signature.
Cool, you should post a link to your dissertation...
Storagereview.com has a drive reliability survey (free reg. required).
Prions are proteins. Proteins are long chains of amino acids. Those aren't going to fit through the membrane either.
Viruses are much much bigger than a urea molecule. Even one of the bases in the RNA of a virus is bigger than a urea molecule. Urea is CON2H4. The smallest RNA base, uracil, is C4N2O2H4.
FEC0::/10 is supposed to be for site-local addresses, but there's talk of deprecating it.
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Slow Down Cowboy!
Yup, my thanks to everyone who's worked on NetBSD... It's been running my DEC AlphaPC 164 server for almost 5 years now.
No, the number of platters is however many platters they decide to put in the drive. The number of heads is the number of platters * 2. Two heads per platter--one for the top, and one for the bottom.
No problem, I'll get right on it.
Hook, Line, and Sinker.
What's the reasoning behind the national or international restriction? The local government handles building streets, and they're the ones who provide the maps. For example, the Texas Department of Transportation makes their maps available here.
Seems to work fine for me--I don't notice any slowdowns until my working set size exceeds RAM size. I dunno; if your app uses about 400MB, leaving 112MB for Win2K to use seems a bit tight to me.
Energy out > energy in = weight loss.
Yup, remember that E=mc^2, so if you want to drop a kilogram, you only have to have a net energy expenditure of about 9E16 joules... no problem!
Heh, check out the codepoetry article in a browser that supports the <acronym> tag (such as Mozilla); all off the "NOW"s, such as in "NOW Help Viewer was almost 100% feature-equivalent to Apple Guide" and "NOW that the system had a real web display system..." have a tooltip that says, "National Organization for Women (Man-Haters)" :)
Quit trolling. Why don't you follow the nice instructions I linked to if you want a real, measurable example of anonymous cvs-over-ssh?
Demonstrably false.
Yeah, Mt. Dew is citrus-flavored, and citrus is a category of fruits.
The weak point is that it's possible to extract the private key out of a blessed client and use it to sign challenges in a hacked client, but the impact is mitigated since it's very easy to remove the compromised key from the list of approved keys.
Anyways, certainly not 100% protection, but it stops casual cheating, while still being open source.
VLC will work on any machine playfair/hymn works on, seeing that playfair/hymn use the decryption code contributed to VLC by Jon Lech Johansen. Note the "Copyright (C) 2004 VideoLAN" at the top of the src/hymn/drms.c file, for example.
int execve(const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
Having execve() do the protection wouldn't work anyways, seeing that gdb wouldn't call execve() with that flag set. I ktraced iTunes, and it's just calling ptrace(PT_DENY_ATTACH, ...) on itself, rather than having its parent do it. You could probably run iTunes under a debugger and set a breakpoint on ptrace() and skip over the offending call.
On the other hand, while recompiling Darwin may not be "something a user would be able to do" (I've never tried), I'm sure someone who is knowledgable enough to reverse engineer iTunes' key generation scheme is also capable of compiling their kernel.
P.S. Al was named "aluminum" back around 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy. He later decided to go with "aluminium" to match the "-ium" suffix of other elements. I have no idea whether "aluminum" is a marketing tradename or not, but it's definitely not the origin of the "-um" spelling.
40,990 miles of farm to market roads.