or just use the DownThemAll extension in Firefox. It fetches multiple segments in parallel and can optionally perform a hash check to make sure the download was good. Seriously one of the best download tools I've ever seen.
I can say that it depends on what you are asking about. The Biology Dept. and Math Dept. both use Macs. The campus library uses Windows XP. The Computer Science Dept. uses Linux. Wireless support under Linux works for most modern Distros (I have personally tried several versions of both Ubuntu and Fedora with minimal hassle). I have not tried printing on campus as I can just print from home for cheaper anyways. Granted, I am a Computer Science major, so using Linux on a daily basis makes sense for me, its what all my classes use, it has very good dev tools, its robust enough to not be Utterly Destroyed (TM) by a college student. Your milage may vary.
Because piss-testing is big business. So is the prison system too, for that matter. Also, no politician is seriously going to come out in favor of pot as it would still be political suicide at this juncture in time, maybe in another election cycle but not yet. Also, even if pot were made legal tomorrow, companies would still test for it, stating that pot lowers productivity and causes amotivational syndrome, so legalization would be a bit of a moot point anyways...
I have been diagnosed with Aspergers and I have allergies, specifically hay fever and to fish (hospitalized for eating tilapia of all things) so maybe you've got a placebo effect going for you or one of us is out of the norm.
Mod parent up, I'm also an aspie and while some sometimes its got certain advantages and may even seem suited towards certain areas of work (such as computers in my case) I would give anything to be normal. Trolls can go fuck themselves.
Jamendo maybe? http://www.jamendo.com/en/
IIRC, Jamendo is offered as a plugin for Rhythmbox in GNOME, free to stream and download, donations go direct to artists, all CC licensed works. All they need are listeners...
Over a year to decrypt a message is not trivial... though yeah, it's clearly not complex enough for truly sensitive data (ie anything worth either waiting a year or spending a few million bucks to decrypt).
maybe not trivial to you, but what if you wanted that secret to keep for more than one year? For me, I'd rather trivial be defined as within the span of my natural life. This is not unreasonable by the way, most modern ciphers should be able to stay secure until the sun expends its nuclear fuel and goes dark. (breakthroughs in prime factorization/finding discrete logarithms not withstanding)
Or they switch to the cipher they should have gone with, namely Serpent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(cipher)http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html
For those too lazy to read the links, Rijndael (aka AES) is faster, simpler, and more elegantly designed than Serpent. Serpent is more conservative, slightly slower in software (faster in hardware though), and not quite as pretty aesthetically. Rijndael was chosen to become AES for its speed and simplicity, two things IMO that have minimal desirability in a cryptography algorithm.
yes, that's part and parcel of being root, with great power comes great responsibility so be careful throwing those rm -f's around. However, most folks who either run their own system or administer an enterprise server know this (hopefully) Windows gives root access to computer-illiterates and lets them have said ultimate power to fsck the entire system up 24x7. By comparison, most modern distributions either require you to retype the root password every time you run su -c "foo" or give a 5 minute grace period as with sudo. Hell, several distributions, such as Fedora, completely disallow graphical root login, you cannot even open a graphical program like gedit as root, you either need to use a command-line editor (cue vim/emacs/nano flamewar) or sudo. Point being is this, Linux is far more restrictive with how much you get to use super-user powers than Windows.
You might see a few viruses, similar to how many viruses are out in the wild against Linux (almost none) but without systemwide access, a malicious program cannot do nearly as much damage. The virus cannot modify system files as easily, cannot add itself as a system service or cron job as easily, and cannot subvert system processes to spread as easily. All of these things are still doable even when running as non-root, but they require much more work. You would first need to find a privilege escalation exploit in order to jump to root as opposed to just getting the system to execute your payload file and running as root automatically.
Actually I thought the figure was around 50% (+/- 10%) but yes, you would. If I were going to create a massive botnet, Google's server farms (which run Linux) would be a massive windfall if I could root them. Hell, even if I just managed to tweak a few web pages to run malicious code, if the site gets enough traffic, I could make bank. Imagine Slashdot or Google serving drive-by downloads for example, scary thought isn't it?
Firstly, IIRC, wget is installed by default on Ubuntu. Secondly, why were you building wget from source, there are packages for it available in the repos. Silly troll, compilers are for devs!!:P
Well we tried to ban alcohol and wound up with Capone. As to cigarettes, try to take away a smoker's pack of cancer sticks and they will threaten to cut you. So no, not gonna criminalize tobacco either, so why not legalize weed?
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or just use the DownThemAll extension in Firefox. It fetches multiple segments in parallel and can optionally perform a hash check to make sure the download was good. Seriously one of the best download tools I've ever seen.
I'll take the fist then. Go ahead and mod me down but yes, i would take a Chuck Norris beard-punch to Hurd.
I can say that it depends on what you are asking about. The Biology Dept. and Math Dept. both use Macs. The campus library uses Windows XP. The Computer Science Dept. uses Linux. Wireless support under Linux works for most modern Distros (I have personally tried several versions of both Ubuntu and Fedora with minimal hassle). I have not tried printing on campus as I can just print from home for cheaper anyways. Granted, I am a Computer Science major, so using Linux on a daily basis makes sense for me, its what all my classes use, it has very good dev tools, its robust enough to not be Utterly Destroyed (TM) by a college student. Your milage may vary.
and on a Fedora 11 box I get the following: $ cat mmap_min_addr 32768
Because piss-testing is big business. So is the prison system too, for that matter. Also, no politician is seriously going to come out in favor of pot as it would still be political suicide at this juncture in time, maybe in another election cycle but not yet. Also, even if pot were made legal tomorrow, companies would still test for it, stating that pot lowers productivity and causes amotivational syndrome, so legalization would be a bit of a moot point anyways...
I have been diagnosed with Aspergers and I have allergies, specifically hay fever and to fish (hospitalized for eating tilapia of all things) so maybe you've got a placebo effect going for you or one of us is out of the norm.
Mod parent up, I'm also an aspie and while some sometimes its got certain advantages and may even seem suited towards certain areas of work (such as computers in my case) I would give anything to be normal. Trolls can go fuck themselves.
Amen, good sir. Any woman turned on by Star Wars and perl hacks is a keeper.
Jamendo maybe? http://www.jamendo.com/en/ IIRC, Jamendo is offered as a plugin for Rhythmbox in GNOME, free to stream and download, donations go direct to artists, all CC licensed works. All they need are listeners...
You sir, whoever you are, win all my internets for the night. Congrats.
sulk in the corner...? No, beat them badly, kill them, and then crush them into a fine powder like the Box Network executives in Futurama.
The only cute harmless trojans that I know of can be found in 20-packs at my local supermarket.
Over a year to decrypt a message is not trivial... though yeah, it's clearly not complex enough for truly sensitive data (ie anything worth either waiting a year or spending a few million bucks to decrypt).
maybe not trivial to you, but what if you wanted that secret to keep for more than one year? For me, I'd rather trivial be defined as within the span of my natural life. This is not unreasonable by the way, most modern ciphers should be able to stay secure until the sun expends its nuclear fuel and goes dark. (breakthroughs in prime factorization/finding discrete logarithms not withstanding)
To bastardize a quote from Futurama: No fair! You changed the message by reading it!!
Or they switch to the cipher they should have gone with, namely Serpent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(cipher) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html For those too lazy to read the links, Rijndael (aka AES) is faster, simpler, and more elegantly designed than Serpent. Serpent is more conservative, slightly slower in software (faster in hardware though), and not quite as pretty aesthetically. Rijndael was chosen to become AES for its speed and simplicity, two things IMO that have minimal desirability in a cryptography algorithm.
Amen to all, mod parent up.
Only until he downloads a trojan or his web browser runs a malicious script...
yes, that's part and parcel of being root, with great power comes great responsibility so be careful throwing those rm -f's around. However, most folks who either run their own system or administer an enterprise server know this (hopefully) Windows gives root access to computer-illiterates and lets them have said ultimate power to fsck the entire system up 24x7. By comparison, most modern distributions either require you to retype the root password every time you run su -c "foo" or give a 5 minute grace period as with sudo. Hell, several distributions, such as Fedora, completely disallow graphical root login, you cannot even open a graphical program like gedit as root, you either need to use a command-line editor (cue vim/emacs/nano flamewar) or sudo. Point being is this, Linux is far more restrictive with how much you get to use super-user powers than Windows.
You might see a few viruses, similar to how many viruses are out in the wild against Linux (almost none) but without systemwide access, a malicious program cannot do nearly as much damage. The virus cannot modify system files as easily, cannot add itself as a system service or cron job as easily, and cannot subvert system processes to spread as easily. All of these things are still doable even when running as non-root, but they require much more work. You would first need to find a privilege escalation exploit in order to jump to root as opposed to just getting the system to execute your payload file and running as root automatically.
Actually I thought the figure was around 50% (+/- 10%) but yes, you would. If I were going to create a massive botnet, Google's server farms (which run Linux) would be a massive windfall if I could root them. Hell, even if I just managed to tweak a few web pages to run malicious code, if the site gets enough traffic, I could make bank. Imagine Slashdot or Google serving drive-by downloads for example, scary thought isn't it?
Firstly, IIRC, wget is installed by default on Ubuntu. Secondly, why were you building wget from source, there are packages for it available in the repos. Silly troll, compilers are for devs!! :P
Yes, as a matter of fact it does, the splinters give you tetanus. Its a feature!
actually, my programming classes started with python for intro, next class was data structures with c++, and oh lord that hurt.
Well we tried to ban alcohol and wound up with Capone. As to cigarettes, try to take away a smoker's pack of cancer sticks and they will threaten to cut you. So no, not gonna criminalize tobacco either, so why not legalize weed?