Re:Use your own suggestion -- LVM
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So does the previous poster. LVM is great because it virtualizes the hardware side of things. A volume (virtual partition) can be spread out over any number of drives. I was using LVM a while ago, it works quite well.
The only real problem is volume resizeing. Although LVM has great support for resizeing the actual volumes, there is always a little trickery involved with resizeing a filesystem ON those volumes =)
Anyways, I believe LVM is now part of EVMS.
I would give it a try, LVM is quite cool to use. I was using it when I had to switch all my drives around on a regular basis. Its nice to have a single device for my root partition and not have to make large changes to fstab and whatnot just to get my system to boot =)
(Now with a stable drive layout, I am back to using normal partitions... but thats just because I was too lazy to setup LVM again =)
A lot of people have been talking about the usability of the Blender interface.
Now obviously I am not the first one to admit that it's not incredibly strait forward. Usually if I have taken some time away from blender, it takes me a while to get back into the groove of things.
However, one thing I have noticed. Once you actually DO get used to the interface, everything starts to feel natural. You stop thinking about how you use its features... you just USE them.
Blender is not your typical mouse interface. To use blender properly you need both hands.
However... is starting to get a bit dated compared to the many of the other 3d modelers out there. But this is why we are getting the source!
I hope a lot of the people who actually DO work with the source, understand just how uniquely useful the interface actually can be.
A good in-program tutorial would probably go a LONG way toward the usability problem. I should be able to say... I wish to perform this task... show me how to do it!
Now someone mentioned the widgets being a little weird... Yes I agree that's true. Take up too much space? They are 3d widgets! Zoom out some. (Although yes, you do waste some space on the sides when you do this... =/)
I actually kind of like how the widgets work. If you need to set an absolute value, shift click and enter the value you really wanted.
Again, I hope that when blender actually does end up being hacked to pieces (think mozilla)... that the developers take into consideration that quite a few of the interface features actually do work... and are fairly comfortable to use.
So yes... Blender is starting to show its age. But think of it this way, right now Blender is kind of like Netscape 4.x. Give the community a year or two with the source, and you might just see some amazing things done with it.
Now... I'm probably not the first one to think that Mozilla was over engineered. Although I hope the same thing won't happen to blender... Mozilla eventually did turn out alright. And who hasn't been accused of over engineering? I know I have =)
Well this would be about the first time Ive posted this... maybe someone else shares my point of view.
Re:Why *I* was originally interested in quake
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Actually even after I got into the multi player aspect of quake I still played it single player... well not so much single player but co-op.
I really hope doom III supports decent co-op. Its one of the few things I really miss from single player FPS games.
Nothing like running around with your buddy on the highest difficulty setting.:)
Honestly, I don't really like playing many of these games by my self. Its usually so much funner when you have someone there with you.
But then again, maybe I just have a fear of being alone:P
Why *I* was originally interested in quake
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Was the scare factor.
I LOVED the single player aspect of quake.
When the demo was first released, a friend and I got together and played through it co-op.
Nothing like turning a corner just to find some big ass bad guy... with me screaming... dying.. and shouting "OMG! Dont go around that corner!" (I am talking about first running into a shambler btw... hehe)
A big part of what gave this effect was the atmosphere combined with the fact that, at the time... neither of us where very good at playing this type of game.
The new lighting and whatnot (from what I've seen in the screenies...) it looks like this type of atmosphere has been enhanced greatly.
The only real problem is the fact that... after playing through the game so many times, and many years of FPS action, I am quite good at not dying. Yes this is a PROBLEM. LOL... I don't want to get through the entire game on nightmare and only die once...
This is one of the reasons why I really look forward to Doom III. It looks like the atmosphere and hopefully decently hard badguys will provide a decent thrill factor.
In this kind of game, I want to come around some corner and literally jump out of my seat.
The only game I've played lately that has done that for me was Return to Castle Wolfenstein. And only then, it was a few key moments. Like one part where you come through a hallway with a door at the end... and a window to the left just before the door... you can't really SEE through the window yet... but as you walk up a body flys at the window... now that scared the crap out of me! LOL roommate says, "Why did you just scream like a girl?". hehehehe.
Re:please post mirrors under this thread....
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Amazing. I got to the first page almost right away. But the site was already slashdotted by the time I finished reading the intro text on the front page.. LOL.
Trying to download the files so that I might mirror them or something but not having much luck.
At one point I got REALLY good at using the SpaceOrb 360 in descent. I never did like it for games like doom or quake but it was AWESOME in descent. When you first start using the orb you kinda move around a bit at random by accedent... And you are just struggling to keep your ship moving in a strait line...
But after you get used to the thing, my god its amazing!!!
I used to play deathmatch and co-op with one of my friends. He had a full joystick, throttle and peddles... I used to be able to do circles around him.
I mean literally, I could do circles around him while staying pointed at his ship... while moving through different degrees of a sphere.
I was pretty nifty seeing him trying to stay pointed at ME while I did that.
Another thing I noticed.. you pretty much HAD to turn autoleveling OFF in the game. Once you got used to the orb, you pretty much gave up on the consept of 'up' and 'down' and you pretty much oriented your self however was usefull.
As far as the things breaking... I have never had that problem honestly. I think maybe people where just pushing too hard on the devices or something. My only problem now is lack of support with the device. LOL.
I love the consept of spaceorb devices... but honestly I think they are more nitch than usefull. Atleast for games. Im positive for 3d cad and modeling its probally fairly usefull.
As far as the comment about using the commercial spaceorb for controlling the mars robots... It was not for the actual robots but for modeling them beforehand.
Assuming everything happens within the small viewable area of the web cam, and it all happens within the exact moment the camera takes one of its 4 times a day pictures:)
Not trying to troll here... I really do mean this...
But isn't this like... a really boring use of technology? I looked at a few of the photos... they all look exactly the same except time of day...
I could understand maybe using a motion detector to catch some sort of activity but uh...
But eh... *confused look*...
Maybe I am just not understanding the significance of this?
Maybe there are some photos that have something of interest in them, anyone care to post links? Personally I don't really care to go through a bunch of similar photos looking for that one unique one *smiles*
I remember playing quake for a large sum of time once... my brother tried talking to me and I was trying to move the mouse to look at him.... LOL.. did not work so well eh?:)
There was one part in RtCW that really freaked me out...
And the funny thing is, I expected something to happen to...
Its in the nazi labs area (forget name hehe)... where you are walking by a window and all of a sunden I think part of a person gets tossed at the glass (and it breaks? ohh geez I really do not remember)..
I literally jumped out of my seat and made girly screaming noises:P
Although yes, that does look pretty bad... its nothing compared to seeing the aftermath in person. I used to live in Colorado until I was about 11 years old. Every year we would have a couple big tornados during the summer. Some times when a rather bad one hit an area like Denver, my mom would take us kids down to go see the aftermath. I suppose to teach us how lucky we are... or something. When it gets really bad, some times only the plumbing is left (toilets, pipes, kitchen sinks... etc.)
Regardless, it defiantly is a humbling experience, to say the least:).
One thing I found pretty weird when I moved to California was the lack of basements... In Colorado you would almost NEVER find a house without a basement. The basement usually was a story of the house... It always provided a great since of security... a place you could go to be safe from tornados...
Came to California and whaaa... no basements? Instead of tornados we have... earthquakes? Haha joy... earthquakes don't happen as often... thank god... but when the bigger ones hit they do a lot of damage over a much wider area. So I don't really know which is better.
Actually this is truer than you make it out to be. I lived there until I was 11 or so years old. Not specifically in denver but near the foothills. Durring the winter there where specific days we where allowed to burn wood in our fireplaces due to the polution. Sounds pretty fucked up... I never realized how big of a deal that must of been until now. Again I was <= 11 years old at the time so it did not seem like a big deal to me.
I wonder if that has changed since then... sounds like a good subject to research.
Oh, anyone know if Pikes peek has finally lost its bald spot? Last time I visited colorado was a few years ago. I left shortly after the Indy 500 track was build. (Got to see one of the first races.) The mountain still had a sizable bald spot... but from what I understood people where planting new trees and stuff around the edges of the bald spot so that each year it was getting smaller and smaller.
Yah, like one of my fav moments in EQ was when my cleric was around level 12... we had a full group and we descided to take on crushbone. We actually ended up taking on the castle and held it pretty well. Fortunatly for us there was a couple high level players camping the high level npc's. (and who appricated having us sitting there camping the lower level stuff so they did not have to deal with them).
It was great, before long we where all around level 14-15.
It was pretty fun... one time one of the higher level npc's spawned without a high level player to camp it... we where doing alright until it spawned.. then the magic users where running out of mana and the tanks where running low on health... RUN RUN.. I stayed back and tried helping the tanks... think one died... I fell out the window on accedent at the end... which is funny because thats what saved my life! LOL.
It was great because it was very challenging. We where holding our own, but each of us had to do our best in keeping the group alive. And the thrill of being able to sit in the orc castle for an hour is just great:)
Another thing thats kinda exciting is trying to trek from freeport to quenos in a small low level group... LOL. Screw teleports, lets adventure!
they have it setup to allow installation of both kde 2 and kde 3
when kde 3 was released... I typed:
emerge kde
and it went and installed kde 3.0 and all the main kde 3.0 packages. The few kde 2.0 apps that I still have continue to work... although they still work off the kde 2.0 libs. But once those are updated by their authors to use kde 3, its pretty simple to install the new package and uninstall the old. (and depending on how you have portage configured... it can do the uninstalling of the old package automatically when you upgrade.)
Because it has been posted a couple times before:)
Re:do-it-yourself one time pad
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Actually one time pads where used a lot by the government (English, American, etc) a few years ago.
Typically you have a person sitting at a bingo roller thingy... who pulls out letters at random. These random letters are then written down on a big peice of paper as a one time pad.
A copy of this is given to the person who needs to send data, and a copy is given to the reciever.
The person doing the encoding takes another peice of paper and every three lines writes the pad down. (Maybe the paper with the pad it self had two lines between each pad sequance... I dont remember hehehe)
On the second line is the message...
on the third line, you do a bit of addition mod(26) (Actually I believe they left out a few letters to make the msg easier to read...)
The person then writes their message under the pad sequence. So you might have something like this:
a=1, b=2, c=3...
(note, I am just hitting keys, replace with a real random sequance)
so a + t = 1 + 20 = 21 = u h + h = 8 + 8 = 16 = p etc etc
Urgh... my ride is here so I have to take off... but you get the idea. I might have mad a few mistakes in this post because I did the entire thing in a bit of a hurry.
A good (and really fun) book to read is Cryptonomicon. Its based in two timelines and during the story it talks a lot about cryptography. Quite a good book.
Anyways, sorry I could not finish the post. Good luck
I have used both and it seems both Evolution and KMail have about equal GPG integration... Unfortunatly neither seem to do much in the way of generating new keys or specificially associating keys with contacts... Both look in your db for a key that matches the contacts email... Evolution just errors when it can not find anything... Luckly KMail will actually let you choose a public key out of a list if you really need to.
Simple.. a lot of areas still dont have broadband.
Where I live, there are ZERO options outside of dialup. I live in Laguna Niguel... a fairly nice area of orange county.
However I guess due to the area (we are in a foothill type area.. lots of hills... my apt is on the side of a hill... the street goes through a vally... etc etc) we are very limited to well.. everything. Our cable company figures it is cheapest to provide cable to us via shared satalite dish. (So for the entire 20 unit building... we have a single dish)...
so cable is obviously out of the question.
We are too far from our phone provider (pacbell) to make use of anything worth while... too far for dsl.. and I still refuse to pay for ISDN... (its not much of an improvement anyways)
So what options are left?
There is satalite... its actually decently cheep but the cost to entry is too high... Not to mention I am in a hotel like apt building... which makes it a bit hard to set something like that up.
So while there is that... I dont think I want to go through the trouble actually getting it setup just to have a really poor latency. (sucks for games *grin*)
So... whats left... something like wireless broadband would be great (prob microwave) but due to the area... nobody seems to be able to provide it... most likely due to all the hills in the way.. (No line of sight)
So ricochet was REALLY cool... sure a bit pricy but it was worth it....
I have been using Gentoo Linux for a while now... It includes a package management system called Portage. Portage is basically a reimplementation of the BSD Ports system. Its goal is to become much more powerfull than ports ever was.
http://www.gentoo.org
I have to say that portage is by far the easist package management system I have used so far.
One nice thing about gentoo btw, is that the entire distrib builds it self when you install, downloading the latest packages from the net... So your installation is always current.
Its also incredibly easy to customize.
You start off with a very basic system... Then say you want kde? you would type "emerge kdebase/kde"
and portage will take care of downloading, compiling and installing everything you need (inc xwindows) to have a working kde desktop.
ps: Anyone else notice that slashdot is now 'apple' candy like? LOL ERaa.. when did that happen?
I have actually gotten into the frame of mind to where I am DEAD fucking tired... But I cant sleep. Its like, although the sleep toxins are definatly doing their thing (making you feel like total crap) you dont have the urge to drop your eyes... even though they hurt.. and when you do close them nothing happens... you just get annoyed at all the little sounds because they keep causing brain activity.
One trick I have learned to help me sleep is a form of meditiation.
It does not really work if there is too much noise. Although it seems to work best when you have some white noise.
Basically you clear your mind of thoughts... and start to compose a peice of music. For me clasical music seems to work best... The music for me ends up being pretty complex.
A few things to consider about this...
I can only really simulate music truely in my head when I am trying to fall asleep. I guess my imagination does not work that well when I am trying to stay awake. I cant vision it as well.
A VERY interesting thing is that... you know the actuall curve of falling asleep.
Its hard to explain but you can actually notice the different parts...
for me... first even though your eyes are closed.. things seem to get even blacker... things just fade away. I guess this has to do with your brain ignoring visual stimuli? I would not know:) Anyways.. first I notice that.. then right before I fall asleep I notice that the music takes on random chareristics..
Either random sounds enter the music.. or random thoughts... its a lot like the feeling you have when falling asleep trying to watch tv, or listening to a lecture. (Where your mind starts to make up things that the person is saying... or you extend what has been said further than what was actually said)
Very strange but anyways.. this seems to work.
Also worth noting, things like meditation are actually supposed to help release certan neurotransmitters... which of course help improve your mood/etc. (I dont have any resources handy to back this up.. a search on google might find something)
speaking of sleep... I think its time for bed.
Ohh btw... taking 5-HTP before bed is also supposed to help. 5-HTP is the base for the neurotransmitter serotonin. This might also help for things like geneal mood (and depression)... I currently take 300mg daily (200mg in morning, 100mg before bed).
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So does the previous poster. LVM is great because it virtualizes the hardware side of things. A volume (virtual partition) can be spread out over any number of drives. I was using LVM a while ago, it works quite well.
:P
The only real problem is volume resizeing. Although LVM has great support for resizeing the actual volumes, there is always a little trickery involved with resizeing a filesystem ON those volumes =)
Anyways, I believe LVM is now part of EVMS.
I would give it a try, LVM is quite cool to use. I was using it when I had to switch all my drives around on a regular basis. Its nice to have a single device for my root partition and not have to make large changes to fstab and whatnot just to get my system to boot =)
(Now with a stable drive layout, I am back to using normal partitions... but thats just because I was too lazy to setup LVM again =)
BTW, nice nickname Lukey Boy
A lot of people have been talking about the usability of the Blender interface.
Now obviously I am not the first one to admit that it's not incredibly strait forward. Usually if I have taken some time away from blender, it takes me a while to get back into the groove of things.
However, one thing I have noticed. Once you actually DO get used to the interface, everything starts to feel natural. You stop thinking about how you use its features... you just USE them.
Blender is not your typical mouse interface. To use blender properly you need both hands.
However... is starting to get a bit dated compared to the many of the other 3d modelers out there. But this is why we are getting the source!
I hope a lot of the people who actually DO work with the source, understand just how uniquely useful the interface actually can be.
A good in-program tutorial would probably go a LONG way toward the usability problem. I should be able to say... I wish to perform this task... show me how to do it!
Now someone mentioned the widgets being a little weird... Yes I agree that's true. Take up too much space? They are 3d widgets! Zoom out some. (Although yes, you do waste some space on the sides when you do this... =/)
I actually kind of like how the widgets work. If you need to set an absolute value, shift click and enter the value you really wanted.
Again, I hope that when blender actually does end up being hacked to pieces (think mozilla)... that the developers take into consideration that quite a few of the interface features actually do work... and are fairly comfortable to use.
So yes... Blender is starting to show its age. But think of it this way, right now Blender is kind of like Netscape 4.x. Give the community a year or two with the source, and you might just see some amazing things done with it.
Now... I'm probably not the first one to think that Mozilla was over engineered. Although I hope the same thing won't happen to blender... Mozilla eventually did turn out alright. And who hasn't been accused of over engineering? I know I have =)
Well this would be about the first time Ive posted this... maybe someone else shares my point of view.
Actually even after I got into the multi player aspect of quake I still played it single player... well not so much single player but co-op.
:)
:P
I really hope doom III supports decent co-op. Its one of the few things I really miss from single player FPS games.
Nothing like running around with your buddy on the highest difficulty setting.
Honestly, I don't really like playing many of these games by my self. Its usually so much funner when you have someone there with you.
But then again, maybe I just have a fear of being alone
Was the scare factor.
I LOVED the single player aspect of quake.
When the demo was first released, a friend and I got together and played through it co-op.
Nothing like turning a corner just to find some big ass bad guy... with me screaming... dying.. and shouting "OMG! Dont go around that corner!" (I am talking about first running into a shambler btw... hehe)
A big part of what gave this effect was the atmosphere combined with the fact that, at the time... neither of us where very good at playing this type of game.
The new lighting and whatnot (from what I've seen in the screenies...) it looks like this type of atmosphere has been enhanced greatly.
The only real problem is the fact that... after playing through the game so many times, and many years of FPS action, I am quite good at not dying. Yes this is a PROBLEM. LOL... I don't want to get through the entire game on nightmare and only die once...
This is one of the reasons why I really look forward to Doom III. It looks like the atmosphere and hopefully decently hard badguys will provide a decent thrill factor.
In this kind of game, I want to come around some corner and literally jump out of my seat.
The only game I've played lately that has done that for me was Return to Castle Wolfenstein. And only then, it was a few key moments. Like one part where you come through a hallway with a door at the end... and a window to the left just before the door... you can't really SEE through the window yet... but as you walk up a body flys at the window... now that scared the crap out of me! LOL roommate says, "Why did you just scream like a girl?". hehehehe.
Amazing. I got to the first page almost right away. But the site was already slashdotted by the time I finished reading the intro text on the front page.. LOL.
Trying to download the files so that I might mirror them or something but not having much luck.
Well this is a common tactic to pull the reader in so they actually read the entire article instead of fading away after the cool parts.
But I agree that he use of this was pretty bad.
I would have rather seen something like "Continued on page 5" or something a bit better but to the same effect =)
"Try this out, its quite neat. Grab a pencil with your right hand and" For a second I persieved this part as shoving a pencil into your eye... LOL
At one point I got REALLY good at using the SpaceOrb 360 in descent. I never did like it for games like doom or quake but it was AWESOME in descent. When you first start using the orb you kinda move around a bit at random by accedent... And you are just struggling to keep your ship moving in a strait line...
But after you get used to the thing, my god its amazing!!!
I used to play deathmatch and co-op with one of my friends. He had a full joystick, throttle and peddles... I used to be able to do circles around him.
I mean literally, I could do circles around him while staying pointed at his ship... while moving through different degrees of a sphere.
I was pretty nifty seeing him trying to stay pointed at ME while I did that.
Another thing I noticed.. you pretty much HAD to turn autoleveling OFF in the game. Once you got used to the orb, you pretty much gave up on the consept of 'up' and 'down' and you pretty much oriented your self however was usefull.
As far as the things breaking... I have never had that problem honestly. I think maybe people where just pushing too hard on the devices or something. My only problem now is lack of support with the device. LOL.
I love the consept of spaceorb devices... but honestly I think they are more nitch than usefull. Atleast for games. Im positive for 3d cad and modeling its probally fairly usefull.
As far as the comment about using the commercial spaceorb for controlling the mars robots... It was not for the actual robots but for modeling them beforehand.
hehehe, just my 2c.
Assuming everything happens within the small viewable area of the web cam, and it all happens within the exact moment the camera takes one of its 4 times a day pictures :)
An Idea, you read about the apple juice maker the guy made? How about using that for the wasps? hahahahahaa. Okay, sick idea :)
Not trying to troll here... I really do mean this...
:)
But isn't this like... a really boring use of technology? I looked at a few of the photos... they all look exactly the same except time of day...
I could understand maybe using a motion detector to catch some sort of activity but uh...
But eh... *confused look*...
Maybe I am just not understanding the significance of this?
Maybe there are some photos that have something of interest in them, anyone care to post links? Personally I don't really care to go through a bunch of similar photos looking for that one unique one *smiles*
It is pretty out there though...
I remember playing quake for a large sum of time once... my brother tried talking to me and I was trying to move the mouse to look at him.... LOL.. did not work so well eh? :)
There was one part in RtCW that really freaked me out...
:P
And the funny thing is, I expected something to happen to...
Its in the nazi labs area (forget name hehe)... where you are walking by a window and all of a sunden I think part of a person gets tossed at the glass (and it breaks? ohh geez I really do not remember)..
I literally jumped out of my seat and made girly screaming noises
Although yes, that does look pretty bad... its nothing compared to seeing the aftermath in person. I used to live in Colorado until I was about 11 years old. Every year we would have a couple big tornados during the summer. Some times when a rather bad one hit an area like Denver, my mom would take us kids down to go see the aftermath. I suppose to teach us how lucky we are... or something. When it gets really bad, some times only the plumbing is left (toilets, pipes, kitchen sinks... etc.)
:).
Regardless, it defiantly is a humbling experience, to say the least
One thing I found pretty weird when I moved to California was the lack of basements... In Colorado you would almost NEVER find a house without a basement. The basement usually was a story of the house... It always provided a great since of security... a place you could go to be safe from tornados...
Came to California and whaaa... no basements? Instead of tornados we have... earthquakes? Haha joy... earthquakes don't happen as often... thank god... but when the bigger ones hit they do a lot of damage over a much wider area. So I don't really know which is better.
Actually this is truer than you make it out to be. I lived there until I was 11 or so years old. Not specifically in denver but near the foothills. Durring the winter there where specific days we where allowed to burn wood in our fireplaces due to the polution. Sounds pretty fucked up... I never realized how big of a deal that must of been until now. Again I was <= 11 years old at the time so it did not seem like a big deal to me.
I wonder if that has changed since then... sounds like a good subject to research.
Oh, anyone know if Pikes peek has finally lost its bald spot? Last time I visited colorado was a few years ago. I left shortly after the Indy 500 track was build. (Got to see one of the first races.) The mountain still had a sizable bald spot... but from what I understood people where planting new trees and stuff around the edges of the bald spot so that each year it was getting smaller and smaller.
Yah, like one of my fav moments in EQ was when my cleric was around level 12... we had a full group and we descided to take on crushbone. We actually ended up taking on the castle and held it pretty well. Fortunatly for us there was a couple high level players camping the high level npc's. (and who appricated having us sitting there camping the lower level stuff so they did not have to deal with them).
:)
It was great, before long we where all around level 14-15.
It was pretty fun... one time one of the higher level npc's spawned without a high level player to camp it... we where doing alright until it spawned.. then the magic users where running out of mana and the tanks where running low on health... RUN RUN.. I stayed back and tried helping the tanks... think one died... I fell out the window on accedent at the end... which is funny because thats what saved my life! LOL.
It was great because it was very challenging. We where holding our own, but each of us had to do our best in keeping the group alive. And the thrill of being able to sit in the orc castle for an hour is just great
Another thing thats kinda exciting is trying to trek from freeport to quenos in a small low level group... LOL. Screw teleports, lets adventure!
KDE is one place gentoo really shines...
they have it setup to allow installation of both kde 2 and kde 3
when kde 3 was released... I typed:
emerge kde
and it went and installed kde 3.0 and all the main kde 3.0 packages. The few kde 2.0 apps that I still have continue to work... although they still work off the kde 2.0 libs. But once those are updated by their authors to use kde 3, its pretty simple to install the new package and uninstall the old. (and depending on how you have portage configured... it can do the uninstalling of the old package automatically when you upgrade.)
This is good software. I have used it for about a year now. There are a few things that it wont detect but it generally does a good job.
Ad Aware does the following, plus more:
* Removes registery settings belonging to Ad software.
* Removes Ad software
* Removes cookies from ad sites
etc
it works pretty well
Because it has been posted a couple times before :)
Actually one time pads where used a lot by the government (English, American, etc) a few years ago.
Typically you have a person sitting at a bingo roller thingy... who pulls out letters at random.
These random letters are then written down on a big peice of paper as a one time pad.
A copy of this is given to the person who needs to send data, and a copy is given to the reciever.
The person doing the encoding takes another peice of paper and every three lines writes the pad down. (Maybe the paper with the pad it self had two lines between each pad sequance... I dont remember hehehe)
On the second line is the message...
on the third line, you do a bit of addition mod(26) (Actually I believe they left out a few letters to make the msg easier to read...)
The person then writes their message under the pad sequence. So you might have something like this:
a=1, b=2, c=3...
(note, I am just hitting keys, replace with a real random sequance)
ahfxd adbgf ewefg hzqdf wrhwd wrghl
thisi sthem essag etobe sentx xxxxx
upoqm txjls jpxgp mtffk pwv........
so
a + t = 1 + 20 = 21 = u
h + h = 8 + 8 = 16 = p
etc etc
Urgh... my ride is here so I have to take off... but you get the idea. I might have mad a few mistakes in this post because I did the entire thing in a bit of a hurry.
A good (and really fun) book to read is Cryptonomicon. Its based in two timelines and during the story it talks a lot about cryptography. Quite a good book.
Anyways, sorry I could not finish the post. Good luck
I have used both and it seems both Evolution and KMail have about equal GPG integration... Unfortunatly neither seem to do much in the way of generating new keys or specificially associating keys with contacts... Both look in your db for a key that matches the contacts email... Evolution just errors when it can not find anything... Luckly KMail will actually let you choose a public key out of a list if you really need to.
Simple.. a lot of areas still dont have broadband.
... which makes it a bit hard to set something like that up.
:)
Where I live, there are ZERO options outside of dialup. I live in Laguna Niguel... a fairly nice area of orange county.
However I guess due to the area (we are in a foothill type area.. lots of hills... my apt is on the side of a hill... the street goes through a vally... etc etc) we are very limited to well.. everything. Our cable company figures it is cheapest to provide cable to us via shared satalite dish. (So for the entire 20 unit building... we have a single dish)...
so cable is obviously out of the question.
We are too far from our phone provider (pacbell) to make use of anything worth while... too far for dsl.. and I still refuse to pay for ISDN... (its not much of an improvement anyways)
So what options are left?
There is satalite... its actually decently cheep but the cost to entry is too high... Not to mention I am in a hotel like apt building
So while there is that... I dont think I want to go through the trouble actually getting it setup just to have a really poor latency. (sucks for games *grin*)
So... whats left... something like wireless broadband would be great (prob microwave) but due to the area... nobody seems to be able to provide it... most likely due to all the hills in the way.. (No line of sight)
So ricochet was REALLY cool... sure a bit pricy but it was worth it....
I was getting downloads of around 27-35KB/s so...
still that beans the crap out of dialup
I have been using Gentoo Linux for a while now... It includes a package management system called Portage. Portage is basically a reimplementation of the BSD Ports system. Its goal is to become much more powerfull than ports ever was.
http://www.gentoo.org
I have to say that portage is by far the easist package management system I have used so far.
One nice thing about gentoo btw, is that the entire distrib builds it self when you install, downloading the latest packages from the net... So your installation is always current.
Its also incredibly easy to customize.
You start off with a very basic system... Then say you want kde? you would type "emerge kdebase/kde"
and portage will take care of downloading, compiling and installing everything you need (inc xwindows) to have a working kde desktop.
ps: Anyone else notice that slashdot is now 'apple' candy like? LOL ERaa.. when did that happen?
I have actually gotten into the frame of mind to where I am DEAD fucking tired... But I cant sleep. Its like, although the sleep toxins are definatly doing their thing (making you feel like total crap) you dont have the urge to drop your eyes... even though they hurt.. and when you do close them nothing happens... you just get annoyed at all the little sounds because they keep causing brain activity.
:) Anyways.. first I notice that.. then right before I fall asleep I notice that the music takes on random chareristics..
One trick I have learned to help me sleep is a form of meditiation.
It does not really work if there is too much noise. Although it seems to work best when you have some white noise.
Basically you clear your mind of thoughts... and start to compose a peice of music. For me clasical music seems to work best... The music for me ends up being pretty complex.
A few things to consider about this...
I can only really simulate music truely in my head when I am trying to fall asleep. I guess my imagination does not work that well when I am trying to stay awake. I cant vision it as well.
A VERY interesting thing is that... you know the actuall curve of falling asleep.
Its hard to explain but you can actually notice the different parts...
for me... first even though your eyes are closed.. things seem to get even blacker... things just fade away. I guess this has to do with your brain ignoring visual stimuli? I would not know
Either random sounds enter the music.. or random thoughts... its a lot like the feeling you have when falling asleep trying to watch tv, or listening to a lecture. (Where your mind starts to make up things that the person is saying... or you extend what has been said further than what was actually said)
Very strange but anyways.. this seems to work.
Also worth noting, things like meditation are actually supposed to help release certan neurotransmitters... which of course help improve your mood/etc. (I dont have any resources handy to back this up.. a search on google might find something)
speaking of sleep... I think its time for bed.
Ohh btw... taking 5-HTP before bed is also supposed to help. 5-HTP is the base for the neurotransmitter serotonin. This might also help for things like geneal mood (and depression)... I currently take 300mg daily (200mg in morning, 100mg before bed).
http://www.raysahelian.com/5-htp.html