>If talking latency, your Satellite uplink penalty is far greater than the 1-2 milliseconds added by stronger crypto, so it wouldn't be noticed...
My complaint is more than their lack of stronger crypto. There's also the lack of Agressive mode, which reduces the amount of trips a packet needs to take before it gets to it's final destination. An extra trip adds 250 ms latency. This is bad, especially when your latency is already at 500 ms to 750 ms.:-/
I am assuming they were using single DES because at that time their router would occasionally "backup" and simply run out of the horsepower to do the job (it's since been upgraded/replaced). If that happened I'd probably switch it to single DES too.
Sometimes people want to use IPSec for its ability to do a tunnel unencumbered by a lack of documentation, and not necessarialy for the security purposes. I think that's what happend with my old ISP. The data being protected at all was just a side effect of using IPSec for tunnelling.
>Are you sure you`ve not mis-typed "Nintendo is the only company in the world to consistantly produce excellent hardware and software"?
And why do they do this?
I strongly doubt its out of some kind of relationship with the users outside of the use of their pocketbooks.
I never said Nintendo hardware was poor quality (well, I will say their original cartridge load was crap) but that they act as they are only in it for the money.
>Tell me a legitimate reason why, with today's hardware, you need only single DES?
Because I don't control the uplink and like my satellite internet access fast. Agressive mode/singe DES does this, anything else (IPSec-wise) is suicide on a satellite link.
Nintendo has only loved the pocketbooks of their users, nothing more.
People have already mentioned their price fixing the NES, but how about their security chips and their rabid hate of Tengen? And then there's the Game Genie and how Nintendo did their best to put Camerica out of business.
Nintendo just ain't cool when it comes to anything that lowers their share of pocketbook abuse. Always has been, always will be.
My kernel is 100+ MB of source (assuming that 99% of what makes up the kernel in that dir is sourcecode). And the other day my teacher said that C basically doesn't scale. If only I had a printer and a few weeks...
>The only reason I can think of why you want this, is when you have a dynamic IP address and you want to use a Preshared key.
So I see. Basically any home user using an ISP shouldn't expect to ever have any kind of crypto at all because it is slightly weak.
Next up: Master quits making front door locks. States that most homes have windows and therefore their locks are ineffective, so they will quit selling them altogether.
A lack of Agressive Mode (among other things) is the _only_ reason my previous ISP didn't support Linux. In fact, they wanted to support Linux, and eventually switched over to a non-encrypted system and released a Linux client for it.
>With the atitude that the frees/wan project maintains, we will never see freeswan merged with mainstream kernel... hell... they still refuse to take patches from us citiziens and residents (that includes linus)
Not to mention they refuse to include support for the faster (but less secure) type of IPSec, thereby causing me to run Win2k on my router for a short while. I believe they even say it's fully valid to use IPSec in this manner (in fact it's part of the spec, so without it they shouldn't be calling it IPSec, IMHO), but they just don't want to support it in the faq, 100% due to attitude.
Developers may have a right to any attitude they desire, but they should understand their software is just going to be replaced (in the mainstream) by software from someone with less attitude. Let's hope that's what happens with freeswan. I think we don't need another OSS-style crippled set of kernel software. (Did they move to ALSA yet? I hope so!)
You sure do have a posting problem worse than mine, don't you?
I I think think you you should should stop stop double double posting posting. It's It's hard hard on on the the brain brain and and it it pisses pisses CmdrTaco CmdrTaco off off!!
Not to mention you just get me ever closer to 2000 posts!
>The problem is Hollywood (or whatever rock they scrape these actors and writers out from under) is terrified to take chances.
Heh, that sounds a lot like most slashdot moderators. Not that I'm surprised by the moderation to my comment, just that I'm surprised that I'm not surprised.
>Notice how well Seinfeld worked? None of the four are really model material, but they sure could act and make people laugh.
Good point to bring up. For some reason I tried hard to dislike that show, but dammit, every time I saw it on a friend's TV, I _enjoyed_ it.:-)
>Scout some playhouses for real talent. Is there any wonder some of the better actors are Shakespearean?
Excellent point. I actually once hated everything Shakespeare due to my strong defiant attitude (hey, it's just the way life goes) and the fact we covered a huge amount of Shakespeare books in highschool. The more I hear about some of my favourite good actors and how they all have Shakesspearean acting backgrounds (Patrick Stewart, William Shatner), though, the more I appreciate it. Only Charlton Heston can overact more than William Shatner (and that's why I try to watch any movie with him in it!).;-)
>Oh my god... you are seriously the most pathetic life form on this planet.
Join the crowd. I think you're number three this week. And it isn't even Wednesday here yet!
>I checked your comment log... It looks like you don't get outside much.
Too bad you didn't read my journal entry on what you just said.
>Oh, and nice homepage. I can't believe you're writing scripts to see who has the most postings on slashdot.
Uhhh... who says I wrote that now? You might want to talk to the real author of that page. It certainly wasn't me.
>If 1800 comments is your main claim to fame then you need to get a life. I mean, I've seen nerdy CS majors with their pale skin, puny arms, greasy unkempt hair, beady eyes, and huge fat asses, but you take the cake.
That put a smile on my face. Here it is::-D
>Not that that matters to you. You couldn't get a chick if she was 6 months deceased.
Could be true. I guess I'm so buy with slashdot I haven't found out.
>Well go on, post some more comments;
I just did. Thanks for the excuse.
>make sure that slashdot is your world so you don't have to live in the real one.
Good idea.
>Good luck getting a job with that resume...
Already have one, TYVM.
>It's total overkill with all your supposed experience.
Which would be what, exactly?
>And where's your GPA from Rose-Hulman.
WTF is Rose-Hulman? Never head of it, sorry.
>What's that?
A US based scoring system that doesn't apply to me because I'm not USian?
>Are you getting bad grades because you're totally obsessed with slashdot?
I generally score in the higher percentiles, and my job is based on my keeping good grades, TYVM.
>Too bad.
Yes, it does make life busy.
>By the way, if you ever see a great big bright object in the sky, don't be scared. It's the sun.
And I always thought it was the dome light in my car. Thanks for the tip.
Speaking of that, when will they play "The Prisoner" again? I caught it once or twice in a trailer park about 5 or 6 years ago... I'd love to see the whole thing!
Nothing beats good old sci-fi! You can excuse so much of the badness of it by simply saying it's dated (oh, how well that works for the original Star Trek!).
>I'm so glad I haven't wasted any of my time with the subsequent movies or series. I mean, if it's that bad on the first movie you shudder to think of how bad it must have been by, oh, the 4th or 5th year of the first spinoff series.
>What Microsoft is, in act, doing is making their software a non-asset, consumed immediately and utterly worthless beyond that.
This, IIRC, in accounting is a "good thing". It means the software is an instant tax writeoff, as it has immediate and full depreciation (ie: It's worth nothing the moment you click "Yes").
>Giving imports a free ride isn't going to do anything other than drive business outside the country and reduce the amount of tax collected.
Oh, I don't disagree with that. I think that when it becomes cheaper and easier to pay for imports than local goods perhaps we actually need some way to show the PM how much we hate the GST tax, which has to be the most mis-managed tax ever known to history (you wouldn't believe what's involved in collecting it). If people simply stopped buying Canadian until the tax were dropped, you'd get some things changed extra fast! But then again, he'd probably just ignore us. I mean, he already said he'd abolish the GST, but instead he "harmonized" it and got it set like Loctite.
IMHO, the only service a Canadian provided to you would be the Canadian half of the UPS shipment. So I could see taxing your shipping bill, but the actual item doesn't get handled by a Canadian until its in your hands, so I don't think it should be taxed. Just my opinion, that's all.
If you're willing to spend all those hours making casemods, why not simply design the case from the ground up?
ie: make a regular PC case in to a SX64-looking case.
You end up with a classic and the "cool PC". What could be better?
>Christ - you people talk like there were only 3 ever made and one went down with the Titanic.
That's almost how it was. And there'll never be anymore made -- the SX64 schematics were mostly lost during the Escom buyout, and the last scraps were lost when Gateway bought out the Commodore IP of Escom.
>The fact that this will be used with the form intact and the function 'improved'? Or that it stays in it's original form and decaying function?
Oh, I'm not saying he should let it rot. He should _repair_ it and bring it up to original new spec, if anything. If not, sell it to one of us for $100. That'd pay for one shit-hot PC case; racing stripes, V-TEC sticker, 8 blue headlights, 6" dual-mufflers, fuzzy dice, mag wheels, and the rest.
Hey, what he likes and what is the "right" thing (to people who actually appreciate C64 machines) are, quite possibly, very different things.
>Personally, I'd love to have a Next Cube with an shit-hot PC in it. Why? So I could use it for what I do *now*, and look at it's beatiful shape and color while I record music and edit video on it. Would I miss the Next OS? Sure, maybe. Would it get used on a daily basis? (We're talking 040 processor, people)
Why not just buy a modern cube shaped case and fix it up to be similar looking to a NeXT cube?
Again, you get the classic and a cool PC.
What this guy did to his SX64 is worse than anything you'd see here, IMHO.
>Don't come in to some project expecting to manage and direct it, because I don't take kindly to armchair managers.
And while that attitude isn't bad, per se, it certainly is the major reason why you can't have any fun writing those applications at work (I'll let you work out the "reason why" part for yourself. It might be fun! I doubt your answer will be the same as mine!).
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>If talking latency, your Satellite uplink penalty is far greater than the 1-2 milliseconds added by stronger crypto, so it wouldn't be noticed...
:-/
My complaint is more than their lack of stronger crypto. There's also the lack of Agressive mode, which reduces the amount of trips a packet needs to take before it gets to it's final destination. An extra trip adds 250 ms latency. This is bad, especially when your latency is already at 500 ms to 750 ms.
I am assuming they were using single DES because at that time their router would occasionally "backup" and simply run out of the horsepower to do the job (it's since been upgraded/replaced). If that happened I'd probably switch it to single DES too.
Sometimes people want to use IPSec for its ability to do a tunnel unencumbered by a lack of documentation, and not necessarialy for the security purposes. I think that's what happend with my old ISP. The data being protected at all was just a side effect of using IPSec for tunnelling.
You've been journaled.
Thanks for playing! Don't forget to let me know when you strike next! And keep up that comments number. I think I'll be updating it to 1900 soon!
>Are you sure you`ve not mis-typed "Nintendo is the only company in the world to consistantly produce excellent hardware and software"?
And why do they do this?
I strongly doubt its out of some kind of relationship with the users outside of the use of their pocketbooks.
I never said Nintendo hardware was poor quality (well, I will say their original cartridge load was crap) but that they act as they are only in it for the money.
>Tell me a legitimate reason why, with today's hardware, you need only single DES?
Because I don't control the uplink and like my satellite internet access fast. Agressive mode/singe DES does this, anything else (IPSec-wise) is suicide on a satellite link.
There ya go.
Nintendo has only loved the pocketbooks of their users, nothing more.
People have already mentioned their price fixing the NES, but how about their security chips and their rabid hate of Tengen? And then there's the Game Genie and how Nintendo did their best to put Camerica out of business.
Nintendo just ain't cool when it comes to anything that lowers their share of pocketbook abuse. Always has been, always will be.
>No, the whole kernel is about 32MB source
What the heck did they remove?
My kernel is 100+ MB of source (assuming that 99% of what makes up the kernel in that dir is sourcecode). And the other day my teacher said that C basically doesn't scale. If only I had a printer and a few weeks...
>The only reason I can think of why you want this, is when you have a dynamic IP address and you want to use a Preshared key.
So I see. Basically any home user using an ISP shouldn't expect to ever have any kind of crypto at all because it is slightly weak.
Next up: Master quits making front door locks. States that most homes have windows and therefore their locks are ineffective, so they will quit selling them altogether.
A lack of Agressive Mode (among other things) is the _only_ reason my previous ISP didn't support Linux. In fact, they wanted to support Linux, and eventually switched over to a non-encrypted system and released a Linux client for it.
So, who really wins in the end? Nobody. Ho hum.
>With the atitude that the frees/wan project maintains, we will never see freeswan merged with mainstream kernel... hell... they still refuse to take patches from us citiziens and residents (that includes linus)
Not to mention they refuse to include support for the faster (but less secure) type of IPSec, thereby causing me to run Win2k on my router for a short while. I believe they even say it's fully valid to use IPSec in this manner (in fact it's part of the spec, so without it they shouldn't be calling it IPSec, IMHO), but they just don't want to support it in the faq, 100% due to attitude.
Developers may have a right to any attitude they desire, but they should understand their software is just going to be replaced (in the mainstream) by software from someone with less attitude. Let's hope that's what happens with freeswan. I think we don't need another OSS-style crippled set of kernel software. (Did they move to ALSA yet? I hope so!)
Just my 2 cents.
You sure do have a posting problem worse than mine, don't you?
I I think think you you should should stop stop double double posting posting. It's It's hard hard on on the the brain brain and and it it pisses pisses CmdrTaco CmdrTaco off off!!
Not to mention you just get me ever closer to 2000 posts!
>The problem is Hollywood (or whatever rock they scrape these actors and writers out from under) is terrified to take chances.
:-)
;-)
Heh, that sounds a lot like most slashdot moderators. Not that I'm surprised by the moderation to my comment, just that I'm surprised that I'm not surprised.
>Notice how well Seinfeld worked? None of the four are really model material, but they sure could act and make people laugh.
Good point to bring up. For some reason I tried hard to dislike that show, but dammit, every time I saw it on a friend's TV, I _enjoyed_ it.
>Scout some playhouses for real talent. Is there any wonder some of the better actors are Shakespearean?
Excellent point. I actually once hated everything Shakespeare due to my strong defiant attitude (hey, it's just the way life goes) and the fact we covered a huge amount of Shakespeare books in highschool. The more I hear about some of my favourite good actors and how they all have Shakesspearean acting backgrounds (Patrick Stewart, William Shatner), though, the more I appreciate it. Only Charlton Heston can overact more than William Shatner (and that's why I try to watch any movie with him in it!).
>Oh my god... you are seriously the most pathetic life form on this planet.
:-D
Join the crowd. I think you're number three this week. And it isn't even Wednesday here yet!
>I checked your comment log... It looks like you don't get outside much.
Too bad you didn't read my journal entry on what you just said.
>Oh, and nice homepage. I can't believe you're writing scripts to see who has the most postings on slashdot.
Uhhh... who says I wrote that now? You might want to talk to the real author of that page. It certainly wasn't me.
>If 1800 comments is your main claim to fame then you need to get a life. I mean, I've seen nerdy CS majors with their pale skin, puny arms, greasy unkempt hair, beady eyes, and huge fat asses, but you take the cake.
That put a smile on my face. Here it is:
>Not that that matters to you. You couldn't get a chick if she was 6 months deceased.
Could be true. I guess I'm so buy with slashdot I haven't found out.
>Well go on, post some more comments;
I just did. Thanks for the excuse.
>make sure that slashdot is your world so you don't have to live in the real one.
Good idea.
>Good luck getting a job with that resume...
Already have one, TYVM.
>It's total overkill with all your supposed experience.
Which would be what, exactly?
>And where's your GPA from Rose-Hulman.
WTF is Rose-Hulman? Never head of it, sorry.
>What's that?
A US based scoring system that doesn't apply to me because I'm not USian?
>Are you getting bad grades because you're totally obsessed with slashdot?
I generally score in the higher percentiles, and my job is based on my keeping good grades, TYVM.
>Too bad.
Yes, it does make life busy.
>By the way, if you ever see a great big bright object in the sky, don't be scared. It's the sun.
And I always thought it was the dome light in my car. Thanks for the tip.
>Sorry, Taco, you were born way to late.
Speaking of that, when will they play "The Prisoner" again? I caught it once or twice in a trailer park about 5 or 6 years ago... I'd love to see the whole thing!
Nothing beats good old sci-fi! You can excuse so much of the badness of it by simply saying it's dated (oh, how well that works for the original Star Trek!).
>I'm so glad I haven't wasted any of my time with the subsequent movies or series. I mean, if it's that bad on the first movie you shudder to think of how bad it must have been by, oh, the 4th or 5th year of the first spinoff series.
:-)
Well, take out number 4 and you're quite right.
Pretty much applies to the spinoffs (in reverse) as well, although most would disagree about ST: TNG.
Maybe I should have followed that for Stargate? Watched every other episode, every other season, or every other movie?
>Curl is a plug in for a browser, and doesn't require a "best viewed with" label.
:)
You mean that doesn't imply "best viewed with Curl"?
How am I going to get my Arachne Curl powered?
Thought so.
>Java job openings on any of the major search engines outnumber php by 100 to 1.
:-)
Just like RPG 4 years ago.
So, with my new RPG/400 skills (which, unfortunately, I do have), tell me, just where can I get a job?
Clear? Good.
I didn't even bother turning that schlok on after seeing that horrible movie.
Blech. I'd rather watch another repeat of an Enterprise episode with the Dog as the star.
Then perhaps I over-reacted. I was under the impression that only a few were made, and that many people owned were actually prototypes.
Good to know this guy didn't destroy a 1 in a 100 type of item.
>What Microsoft is, in act, doing is making their software a non-asset, consumed immediately and utterly worthless beyond that.
This, IIRC, in accounting is a "good thing". It means the software is an instant tax writeoff, as it has immediate and full depreciation (ie: It's worth nothing the moment you click "Yes").
But I could be mislead...
>Giving imports a free ride isn't going to do anything other than drive business outside the country and reduce the amount of tax collected.
Oh, I don't disagree with that. I think that when it becomes cheaper and easier to pay for imports than local goods perhaps we actually need some way to show the PM how much we hate the GST tax, which has to be the most mis-managed tax ever known to history (you wouldn't believe what's involved in collecting it). If people simply stopped buying Canadian until the tax were dropped, you'd get some things changed extra fast! But then again, he'd probably just ignore us. I mean, he already said he'd abolish the GST, but instead he "harmonized" it and got it set like Loctite.
IMHO, the only service a Canadian provided to you would be the Canadian half of the UPS shipment. So I could see taxing your shipping bill, but the actual item doesn't get handled by a Canadian until its in your hands, so I don't think it should be taxed. Just my opinion, that's all.
>Take your high-and-mighty bullshit elsewhere.
PKB.
Nothing more to see here... Move along children.
Dude, thank you so much for that link in your .sig. I'm now going to integrate it into my personality file. :-)
>$100 won't buy shit for a case, son
Then you don't know the first thing about cases, do you, grandaddy-o.
If you're willing to spend all those hours making casemods, why not simply design the case from the ground up?
ie: make a regular PC case in to a SX64-looking case.
You end up with a classic and the "cool PC". What could be better?
>Christ - you people talk like there were only 3 ever made and one went down with the Titanic.
That's almost how it was. And there'll never be anymore made -- the SX64 schematics were mostly lost during the Escom buyout, and the last scraps were lost when Gateway bought out the Commodore IP of Escom.
>The fact that this will be used with the form intact and the function 'improved'? Or that it stays in it's original form and decaying function?
Oh, I'm not saying he should let it rot. He should _repair_ it and bring it up to original new spec, if anything. If not, sell it to one of us for $100. That'd pay for one shit-hot PC case; racing stripes, V-TEC sticker, 8 blue headlights, 6" dual-mufflers, fuzzy dice, mag wheels, and the rest.
Hey, what he likes and what is the "right" thing (to people who actually appreciate C64 machines) are, quite possibly, very different things.
>Personally, I'd love to have a Next Cube with an shit-hot PC in it. Why? So I could use it for what I do *now*, and look at it's beatiful shape and color while I record music and edit video on it. Would I miss the Next OS? Sure, maybe. Would it get used on a daily basis? (We're talking 040 processor, people)
Why not just buy a modern cube shaped case and fix it up to be similar looking to a NeXT cube?
Again, you get the classic and a cool PC.
What this guy did to his SX64 is worse than anything you'd see here, IMHO.
>It's better than "Dog Vommit" and "Monkey Puss".
But not as good as "Crab Juice".
>Don't come in to some project expecting to manage and direct it, because I don't take kindly to armchair managers.
And while that attitude isn't bad, per se, it certainly is the major reason why you can't have any fun writing those applications at work (I'll let you work out the "reason why" part for yourself. It might be fun! I doubt your answer will be the same as mine!).