I don't know about you, buy on my home system (admittedly a linux box) my block size is 512 b, that's right 1/2 k now let's do a little math. First we list our assumptions. 1. files take up whole blocks 2. icons are stored as "True Color" (24 bit) pixelmaps. ok, now a 128*128 pixel picture is a total of 16384 pixles. this is already lager than my block size or your block size. Images are big. now, back to colors. we tripple the pixel count to get bytes. that's 49152, which on my filesystem adds up to 96 blocks. on your's it would be 24 blocks. Don't tell me these are small files. And if the icons are not stored as pixel maps, but using some sort of compression sceme, lets assume you can get 6:1 (gzip's rate for plain text) commpression, that leaves you using 4 blocks, and me using 16. of course, if you assume a 256 color bitmap, you cut the size by a third, but hey, who want's that few colors anymore?
Re:For anyone who thinks this merger isn't a probl
on
AOL Nation
·
· Score: 1
They already own cnn. Why do you think it's such a big deal, and why the hell would they want to buy redhat or corel? AOL doesn't provide service Linux users. As for microsoft, well, lets try to take over the market before they get broken up if you are realy woried about that.
You are forgiven. To tell the truth, your post was exactly the sort of thing I wanted to come out of my post. It certaly is a cut above the ordinary divel of most slashdot posts. My personal congradulations on a well constructed rebuttal. It still doesn't change my philosophy of right or wrong it is still my county, however it was well thougt out, and certaly not flame. I wonder if the other commenter on your post saw mine before it got moderated down.
What he is saying is that it is not unblelievabe that since he, joe nobody gets 2 port scans, that the government could get 50 attacks in a day. believe me, if that is all, I think they might be UNDER estimating the attacks, either that or the 1337 crackers suddenly got ethical? note that it is not saying sucessful attempts. I am sure that if I decided to try to break into the government comouters I would try until I got in, and given my utter lack of cracking skills I would have NSA on my door before I got in, but even someone who is good would take several HUNDRED attacks to hack into a totaly unfamiliar system even with Windows NT security for the first time. what this realy boils down to is 1 new attacker every couple of days, is THAT a number you can belive?
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know about you, buy on my home system (admittedly a linux box) my block size is 512 b, that's right 1/2 k now let's do a little math. First we list our assumptions.
1. files take up whole blocks
2. icons are stored as "True Color" (24 bit) pixelmaps.
ok, now a 128*128 pixel picture is a total of 16384 pixles. this is already lager than my block size or your block size. Images are big. now, back to colors. we tripple the pixel count to get bytes. that's 49152, which on my filesystem adds up to 96 blocks. on your's it would be 24 blocks. Don't tell me these are small files. And if the icons are not stored as pixel maps, but using some sort of compression sceme, lets assume you can get 6:1 (gzip's rate for plain text) commpression, that leaves you using 4 blocks, and me using 16. of course, if you assume a 256 color bitmap, you cut the size by a third, but hey, who want's that few colors anymore?
They already own cnn. Why do you think it's such a big deal, and why the hell would they want to buy redhat or corel? AOL doesn't provide service Linux users. As for microsoft, well, lets try to take over the market before they get broken up if you are realy woried about that.
You are forgiven. To tell the truth, your post was exactly the sort of thing I wanted to come out of my post. It certaly is a cut above the ordinary divel of most slashdot posts. My personal congradulations on a well constructed rebuttal. It still doesn't change my philosophy of right or wrong it is still my county, however it was well thougt out, and certaly not flame. I wonder if the other commenter on your post saw mine before it got moderated down.
What he is saying is that it is not unblelievabe that since he, joe nobody gets 2 port scans, that the government could get 50 attacks in a day. believe me, if that is all, I think they might be UNDER estimating the attacks, either that or the 1337 crackers suddenly got ethical? note that it is not saying sucessful attempts. I am sure that if I decided to try to break into the government comouters I would try until I got in, and given my utter lack of cracking skills I would have NSA on my door before I got in, but even someone who is good would take several HUNDRED attacks to hack into a totaly unfamiliar system even with Windows NT security for the first time. what this realy boils down to is 1 new attacker every couple of days, is THAT a number you can belive?