Funny that Nimda was mentioned; I seem to remember that @Home.net and AT&T were pulling the plugs on their customers because they were saturating the bandwidth due to Nimda. This seems to be directed towards the users' negligence/lack of knowledge about what they're doing, and so one can argue "why blame them? They did exactly what MS said they could do: plug and play."
Now I also remember when the commercial version of SSH released v3.0, there was a HUGE security hole (passwords of length 2 or less would always work...), and SSH developers took the heat; rightfully so. They 'fessed up, and they fixed it. As far as I know, there were no incidents because of it, because the problem was fixed before it was used widespread. But if it did create an issue (like Nimda, Code Red 1/2, etc.) before a fix was made (proactive vs. reactive), they should be held liable, not the users. If a fix exists, and a user says "oh, I don't have *that* problem," well, I think we all know who should get the blame. Just my $0.02 worth though...
So as far as I can remember, this is the first time this has been done. I can remember mention of people thinking it ludicrous to put a human on the moon, even after assorted animals had been put into orbit. Closer to current times, who would have thought processor speeds could have gone to what they are now, working on line sizes of 0.13 micron? If you said something like this to someone 10 years ago, they would have laughed at you.
I think this whole artificial womb thing is scary. An lab-created womb with attached fetus can be much easily monitored and controlled than an expecting mother, so the whole issue of antibodies and nutrients would be controlled much better than a mother watching what she eats and drinks and how much adverse environmental things she exposes herself to. It's amazing that this has happened, and quite frankly, it scares the shit out of me.
What about Win4Lin??
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I've been using Win4Lin 3.0 (Win4Lin) by Netravese for a few months now, and find it to be completely awesome. Now it does cost money, but this is actually booting up a copy of Windows inside an X session. Now granted it only support 95/98, but the article mentions that WINE only supports that as well.
I highly recommend Win4Lin for those of you who are forced into using M$ applications at your place of work (Outlook, etc.). It is pretty fast, and supports everything from Windows networking to sound and primitive USB. I tried WINE before and after Win4Lin, and I know why I'm sticking with Win4Lin.
Last year, the People's Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper, carried an editorial in which it SAID the import of high-tech products from the West constituted a security risk because Western governments would place secret codes or technical Trojan horses inside the products to collect intelligence.
So do the Communists think they are the only ones having their privacy invaded by the Western government?? What about the bill that was passed after 9/11 that allows the U.S. government to implant back doors into encryption? By the people, for the people, my ass.
You *HAVE* to be fscking kidding me. That is just ridiculous. I guess I should dig out "said wallet" and flip his "said ass" off. Although, brilliant in execution.
You know, the patent of Gene Profiling or Effectiveness of an Ad is a ubiquitous as ignoring two little kids attaching Cambpell soup cans with a string as prior art to the telephone. I understand that there are rules and regulations that are followed to grant/deny patents, but these two seem like I can patent the art of breathing and collect royalties all over the world...
and you still need a modem for up-stream communications, but it is an interesting alternative for those beyond the reach of xDSL
When I lived in northeastern PA, I could get a cable modem with one-way download through the cable and then upload through my phone line. That was about 8 years ago. And even then I didn't see the benefit. Sure, I would potentially get fast download rates, and it was the only broadband available in the area. But even then, many people who get broadband need low upload latency (computer games sending a constant stream to the servers) and unfortunately that just doesn't cut it.
However, my point is this isn't a new solution to people with no xDSL service in their area; it's just a new way to sell the same old crap. If they wanted to really make the money, I think they just need to suck it up and help build the fiber backbones and get telecommunications in those areas up to par with the rest of the world. After all, this would probably give the telecom sector a nice boost. My two cents though...
Maybe we can use this to find the Phantoms within... We just need to build those cool little lasers that can wipe out Phantom cells...
On a side note, my sister has a son who is 14 months old, and I remember when she and her husband went to the doctor for regular checkups during her pregnancy, he was very tentative on doing ultrasounds. They performed one, and my sister said that DJ (my nephew) kicked around for a good hour. So my point is anyone who compares this (ultrasounds) to noisy train stations or a loud car stereo is really off his/her rocker. It's all about the frequencies. There's a reason they call it "ultrasound," and not "loud sound." My two cents on the matter. This thing is still pretty cool.
So it's easy to flame this guy because of working for the Evil Empire and have been related to things like Code Red and Nimda. But what is his real function going to be? Sure, the article mentions he will be on the cyber-security team for Pentagon global network security, but that is a really broad statement. Is he going to be in charge of firewalls, access lists, high-level network security checks, or making sure that each government employee's Outlook doesn't flood the Pentagon's network (sorry, had to insert a flame...)? I think it would be interesting to find what his specific function is, then allow the flames to burn.
Fascinating, but what's the attraction?
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So I have to say the concept and application of distributed computing has really opened the door to many research facilities and other projects to get off the ground and produce results. And the application of distributed computing for the crunching and modelling of data that is just "sitting around" to discover new astromical bodies or refine what has already been discovered is a very good idea. But what does this provide the end-user? From the article, it sounds as if this is aimed at the average Internet user who has a net connection:
...instead with little more than a laptop computer, an Internet connection and a learned and persistent amateur...
So my comment is really this: Examples used to "sell" distributed computing before were pretty much aimed more at a larger group of people. D.NET had RSA sponsoring the RC5/64 competition with a cash prize. Also the bragging rights of how many Gigakeys you pumped out in a day was worth it to some. Also, with the Cure for Cancer project, this is something that people will see having a very positive impact to each and every one of us. But, with this, where is the incentive? What will it matter to the end-user (who will be donating his/her spare CPU cycles) what a space rock orbiting Pluto's diameter is? I see the concept will be very powerful if applied to this scenario, but I don't see it really catching on with people. Maybe those who are/have participated in Seti@Home can comment, since this seems to be a similar project?
Reading the proof of this was really cool. I knew exactly what it was proving, how it got there, but damn. I feel like a dumb-ass (with a math minor) that I took that long to remember simple proofing techniques. Good work guys!!
OpenBSD has now been ported from your kitchen sink to the XBox. Yet in much astonishment to the BSD team, the kitchen sink *still* crunches more RC5-64 keys per minute than the XBox.
I have to thank you. I'd mod you up for informative, but I obviously can't. That is something I didn't think of (in my intoxicated state) for why the level of neutrinos detected would be different during night than day. I guess all I have to say is I wish they differentiated what they meant there, instead of implying the sun emits "more" neutrinos during "day" than "night." I found it confusing. But then again, this might have been something lost in the Japanese-English translation. Thanks again!!
I just got through reading through the description of the super-k and what it is supposed to do, and found myself hitting dictionary.com quite a bit. I was very impressed and excited about this project, but came across something that I read a few times and it still doesn't make any sense to me:
If the problem of solar neutrinos would be caused by the oscillation of neutrinos, it is predicted that the number of solar neutrinos is
different in the day and at night ; however, there is not much difference in intensity of
solar neutrinos between the day and night.
So the assertion (or hypothosis) is that the amount of neutrinos emitted from the sun's core is different during night than day?? If I'm missing something, please someone let me know. I find this difficult to understand, since the sun really doesn't give a damn what earth is doing, especially when you're talking about night in Japan vs. night in America. I honestly welcome clarification on this if anyone has any. Thanks!!
So I saw a bit in the article about using the photovoltaic panels to crack hydrogen from water. Now, please someone correct me if I'm wrong on this. BUT... It's been awhile since I've been in chemistry class, and I'm a CS graduate. But cracking water in order to "harvest" hydrogen will release O2. Good deal. This would work in moderate quantities. However, if this *were* to become the "next generation of power," you would need quite a bit of hydrogen to replace everything that nuclear, fossil fuel, and organic fuel provides now. That would be a huge amount of water being "cracked." Given the situation in recent years that we have been in sort of a "global drought," (the major aquifer in the midwest US is set to be dry in 30 years at the current rate of depletion/replenish), would this by itself be something that puts a fopah in the plan? Please understand, if there is a way to screw OPEC and let me pay MUCH more less at the damn pump, I'd be all for it. But if I can't drink water because there *isn't* any, did we win?
To reiterate what the other reply to this parent said, he is not getting out of development. He is just going to be working under the radar a bit more.
But is this really a bad thing? I mean, don't get me wrong; Alan has been wonderful and instrumental to Linux going where it has gone. But the beauty and power of open source is the diversity of its developers. If Alan maintained all stable trees from now on, the kernel would certainly get incredible attention and development. However, it would be Alan's tree. Again, not that this is a bad thing. Yet, sometimes you need some new blood just to get that spark going again. Just my view on the whole situation.
Kudos to the whole team though. And thanks Alan for the great work. Good luck on the new endeavors.
It all depends on which kind of CPU you have. PIII or P4, your machine with either lock up or run considerably slower (respectively) with complete thermal dissapation breakdown. If it is an Athlon, then yes, you'll want to watch your fan health like a hawk... I only say this because of this article on Tom's Hardware. It is a little over a month old, but I was simply amazed when I first read it. Athlon owners are especially encouraged to read this, because it just might save your processor AND motherboard. Hope this helps someone out there.
Just seemed like yesterday that 2.4.11 was out. I guess I missed 2.4.12. Kudos to the team for pounding out new code like this.
On a related note, does anyone know if any type of development on 2.5.x or (shall I say...) 3.0 is being done? Just seems that right around this time with 2.2 the 2.3 kernels were cranking up. In any event, keep 'em coming!!
I completely agree with your statement about the government not really having any business, and that people really don't have any obligation to respect my religious beliefs. That is totally correct, and I agree with that completely. However my point was, and this will sound much harsher than I intend it, that people who write in what they want to tell the gov't to piss off and go tax someone and then turn to religion as their haven is offensive to me. Now, I must say that I *am* assuming that people who are not religious per se are the ones I'm referring to. I would not write that in on my census form, but people who have strong religious beliefs may. For that case, my argument and point has no resolve. But my point was directed at people who may not have a religion, regardless of the fact that they would want to share that with their respective governments, that suddenly *find* themselves after a tragic event occurs such as what happened Sept. 11. If these people found their religion though, in a true sense that day, I am very happy. I am just addressing a possible fair-weather religious cling that happens to be offensive to me. That's all. It may not be the case at all, and if so, to anyone *I* may have offended, I apologize.
Now I don't want to make statements about people's choice of religion, etc., but I think it would be interesting to see how many of those people who declared themselves Jedi Knight religious followers would have thought twice about their religion if the census were taken after Sept. 11. I for one am Presbyterian, but I don't know why the government needs to know that. However, I think an "N/A" would have been a bit more appropriate. But I'm trying not to judge. My point is, although this is humorous, it's a bit unnerving for people who may take religion a bit more seriously than those in this case and then have those people (again, trying not to judge...) run to religion as a comfort zone after Sept. 11. I'm happy that people find comfort with turning to religion, but am a bit disappointed that it seems to be a "fair-weather" religion. This is my 2 cents. If you're a moderator, please don't mod me down. This is not flamebait, trolling, etc. It's my 2 cents. Cheers.
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Funny that Nimda was mentioned; I seem to remember that @Home.net and AT&T were pulling the plugs on their customers because they were saturating the bandwidth due to Nimda. This seems to be directed towards the users' negligence/lack of knowledge about what they're doing, and so one can argue "why blame them? They did exactly what MS said they could do: plug and play."
Now I also remember when the commercial version of SSH released v3.0, there was a HUGE security hole (passwords of length 2 or less would always work...), and SSH developers took the heat; rightfully so. They 'fessed up, and they fixed it. As far as I know, there were no incidents because of it, because the problem was fixed before it was used widespread. But if it did create an issue (like Nimda, Code Red 1/2, etc.) before a fix was made (proactive vs. reactive), they should be held liable, not the users. If a fix exists, and a user says "oh, I don't have *that* problem," well, I think we all know who should get the blame. Just my $0.02 worth though...
So as far as I can remember, this is the first time this has been done. I can remember mention of people thinking it ludicrous to put a human on the moon, even after assorted animals had been put into orbit. Closer to current times, who would have thought processor speeds could have gone to what they are now, working on line sizes of 0.13 micron? If you said something like this to someone 10 years ago, they would have laughed at you.
I think this whole artificial womb thing is scary. An lab-created womb with attached fetus can be much easily monitored and controlled than an expecting mother, so the whole issue of antibodies and nutrients would be controlled much better than a mother watching what she eats and drinks and how much adverse environmental things she exposes herself to. It's amazing that this has happened, and quite frankly, it scares the shit out of me.
I've been using Win4Lin 3.0 (Win4Lin) by Netravese for a few months now, and find it to be completely awesome. Now it does cost money, but this is actually booting up a copy of Windows inside an X session. Now granted it only support 95/98, but the article mentions that WINE only supports that as well.
I highly recommend Win4Lin for those of you who are forced into using M$ applications at your place of work (Outlook, etc.). It is pretty fast, and supports everything from Windows networking to sound and primitive USB. I tried WINE before and after Win4Lin, and I know why I'm sticking with Win4Lin.
Last year, the People's Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper, carried an editorial in which it SAID the import of high-tech products from the West constituted a security risk because Western governments would place secret codes or technical Trojan horses inside the products to collect intelligence.
So do the Communists think they are the only ones having their privacy invaded by the Western government?? What about the bill that was passed after 9/11 that allows the U.S. government to implant back doors into encryption? By the people, for the people, my ass.
You *HAVE* to be fscking kidding me. That is just ridiculous. I guess I should dig out "said wallet" and flip his "said ass" off. Although, brilliant in execution.
You know, the patent of Gene Profiling or Effectiveness of an Ad is a ubiquitous as ignoring two little kids attaching Cambpell soup cans with a string as prior art to the telephone. I understand that there are rules and regulations that are followed to grant/deny patents, but these two seem like I can patent the art of breathing and collect royalties all over the world...
and you still need a modem for up-stream communications, but it is an interesting alternative for those beyond the reach of xDSL
When I lived in northeastern PA, I could get a cable modem with one-way download through the cable and then upload through my phone line. That was about 8 years ago. And even then I didn't see the benefit. Sure, I would potentially get fast download rates, and it was the only broadband available in the area. But even then, many people who get broadband need low upload latency (computer games sending a constant stream to the servers) and unfortunately that just doesn't cut it.
However, my point is this isn't a new solution to people with no xDSL service in their area; it's just a new way to sell the same old crap. If they wanted to really make the money, I think they just need to suck it up and help build the fiber backbones and get telecommunications in those areas up to par with the rest of the world. After all, this would probably give the telecom sector a nice boost. My two cents though...
Was it the website OR the database that held the credit cards? I find it difficult to believe a website containing credit cards...
Maybe we can use this to find the Phantoms within... We just need to build those cool little lasers that can wipe out Phantom cells...
On a side note, my sister has a son who is 14 months old, and I remember when she and her husband went to the doctor for regular checkups during her pregnancy, he was very tentative on doing ultrasounds. They performed one, and my sister said that DJ (my nephew) kicked around for a good hour. So my point is anyone who compares this (ultrasounds) to noisy train stations or a loud car stereo is really off his/her rocker. It's all about the frequencies. There's a reason they call it "ultrasound," and not "loud sound." My two cents on the matter. This thing is still pretty cool.
So it's easy to flame this guy because of working for the Evil Empire and have been related to things like Code Red and Nimda. But what is his real function going to be? Sure, the article mentions he will be on the cyber-security team for Pentagon global network security, but that is a really broad statement. Is he going to be in charge of firewalls, access lists, high-level network security checks, or making sure that each government employee's Outlook doesn't flood the Pentagon's network (sorry, had to insert a flame...)? I think it would be interesting to find what his specific function is, then allow the flames to burn.
So I have to say the concept and application of distributed computing has really opened the door to many research facilities and other projects to get off the ground and produce results. And the application of distributed computing for the crunching and modelling of data that is just "sitting around" to discover new astromical bodies or refine what has already been discovered is a very good idea. But what does this provide the end-user? From the article, it sounds as if this is aimed at the average Internet user who has a net connection:
...instead with little more than a laptop computer, an Internet connection and a learned and persistent amateur...
So my comment is really this: Examples used to "sell" distributed computing before were pretty much aimed more at a larger group of people. D.NET had RSA sponsoring the RC5/64 competition with a cash prize. Also the bragging rights of how many Gigakeys you pumped out in a day was worth it to some. Also, with the Cure for Cancer project, this is something that people will see having a very positive impact to each and every one of us. But, with this, where is the incentive? What will it matter to the end-user (who will be donating his/her spare CPU cycles) what a space rock orbiting Pluto's diameter is? I see the concept will be very powerful if applied to this scenario, but I don't see it really catching on with people. Maybe those who are/have participated in Seti@Home can comment, since this seems to be a similar project?
They shall be meta-moderated accordingly.
Reading the proof of this was really cool. I knew exactly what it was proving, how it got there, but damn. I feel like a dumb-ass (with a math minor) that I took that long to remember simple proofing techniques. Good work guys!!
OpenBSD has now been ported from your kitchen sink to the XBox. Yet in much astonishment to the BSD team, the kitchen sink *still* crunches more RC5-64 keys per minute than the XBox.
I have to thank you. I'd mod you up for informative, but I obviously can't. That is something I didn't think of (in my intoxicated state) for why the level of neutrinos detected would be different during night than day. I guess all I have to say is I wish they differentiated what they meant there, instead of implying the sun emits "more" neutrinos during "day" than "night." I found it confusing. But then again, this might have been something lost in the Japanese-English translation. Thanks again!!
I just got through reading through the description of the super-k and what it is supposed to do, and found myself hitting dictionary.com quite a bit. I was very impressed and excited about this project, but came across something that I read a few times and it still doesn't make any sense to me:
If the problem of solar neutrinos would be caused by the oscillation of neutrinos, it is predicted that the number of solar neutrinos is
different in the day and at night ; however, there is not much difference in intensity of
solar neutrinos between the day and night.
So the assertion (or hypothosis) is that the amount of neutrinos emitted from the sun's core is different during night than day?? If I'm missing something, please someone let me know. I find this difficult to understand, since the sun really doesn't give a damn what earth is doing, especially when you're talking about night in Japan vs. night in America. I honestly welcome clarification on this if anyone has any. Thanks!!
So I saw a bit in the article about using the photovoltaic panels to crack hydrogen from water. Now, please someone correct me if I'm wrong on this. BUT... It's been awhile since I've been in chemistry class, and I'm a CS graduate. But cracking water in order to "harvest" hydrogen will release O2. Good deal. This would work in moderate quantities. However, if this *were* to become the "next generation of power," you would need quite a bit of hydrogen to replace everything that nuclear, fossil fuel, and organic fuel provides now. That would be a huge amount of water being "cracked." Given the situation in recent years that we have been in sort of a "global drought," (the major aquifer in the midwest US is set to be dry in 30 years at the current rate of depletion/replenish), would this by itself be something that puts a fopah in the plan? Please understand, if there is a way to screw OPEC and let me pay MUCH more less at the damn pump, I'd be all for it. But if I can't drink water because there *isn't* any, did we win?
Permission denied. It looks like they removed access to the file.
g++: confused by earlier errors. Bailing out...
To reiterate what the other reply to this parent said, he is not getting out of development. He is just going to be working under the radar a bit more.
But is this really a bad thing? I mean, don't get me wrong; Alan has been wonderful and instrumental to Linux going where it has gone. But the beauty and power of open source is the diversity of its developers. If Alan maintained all stable trees from now on, the kernel would certainly get incredible attention and development. However, it would be Alan's tree. Again, not that this is a bad thing. Yet, sometimes you need some new blood just to get that spark going again. Just my view on the whole situation.
Kudos to the whole team though. And thanks Alan for the great work. Good luck on the new endeavors.
They shall be meta-moderated accordingly.
It all depends on which kind of CPU you have. PIII or P4, your machine with either lock up or run considerably slower (respectively) with complete thermal dissapation breakdown. If it is an Athlon, then yes, you'll want to watch your fan health like a hawk... I only say this because of this article on Tom's Hardware. It is a little over a month old, but I was simply amazed when I first read it. Athlon owners are especially encouraged to read this, because it just might save your processor AND motherboard. Hope this helps someone out there.
Just seemed like yesterday that 2.4.11 was out. I guess I missed 2.4.12. Kudos to the team for pounding out new code like this.
On a related note, does anyone know if any type of development on 2.5.x or (shall I say...) 3.0 is being done? Just seems that right around this time with 2.2 the 2.3 kernels were cranking up. In any event, keep 'em coming!!
I completely agree with your statement about the government not really having any business, and that people really don't have any obligation to respect my religious beliefs. That is totally correct, and I agree with that completely. However my point was, and this will sound much harsher than I intend it, that people who write in what they want to tell the gov't to piss off and go tax someone and then turn to religion as their haven is offensive to me. Now, I must say that I *am* assuming that people who are not religious per se are the ones I'm referring to. I would not write that in on my census form, but people who have strong religious beliefs may. For that case, my argument and point has no resolve. But my point was directed at people who may not have a religion, regardless of the fact that they would want to share that with their respective governments, that suddenly *find* themselves after a tragic event occurs such as what happened Sept. 11. If these people found their religion though, in a true sense that day, I am very happy. I am just addressing a possible fair-weather religious cling that happens to be offensive to me. That's all. It may not be the case at all, and if so, to anyone *I* may have offended, I apologize.
Now I don't want to make statements about people's choice of religion, etc., but I think it would be interesting to see how many of those people who declared themselves Jedi Knight religious followers would have thought twice about their religion if the census were taken after Sept. 11. I for one am Presbyterian, but I don't know why the government needs to know that. However, I think an "N/A" would have been a bit more appropriate. But I'm trying not to judge. My point is, although this is humorous, it's a bit unnerving for people who may take religion a bit more seriously than those in this case and then have those people (again, trying not to judge...) run to religion as a comfort zone after Sept. 11. I'm happy that people find comfort with turning to religion, but am a bit disappointed that it seems to be a "fair-weather" religion. This is my 2 cents. If you're a moderator, please don't mod me down. This is not flamebait, trolling, etc. It's my 2 cents. Cheers.
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