What caused the big bang? How was it initiated? What were the bounds of the "universe" as it were before the big bang?
In short, we don't really know. Some speculate that this universe was created from another universe. By this I mean that our universe may have been created in such a way that a bubble gets blown from a wad of chewing gum. But where did that universe come from? Others speculate that our universe started when a quantum particle "came out of nowhere" and then inflated (the big bang) into our universe. Many of the people that beleive this think that our universe will eventually deflate (the big crunch) into nothing once more. At that time, humans maybe able to escape to another more younger universe by traveling through higher dimensional space.
Some good books dealing with these subjects that I've read/currently reading are:
It can be fun to be anti-microsoft, and say that Windows XP is terrible, but after forcing myself to use it a little, I've found that it isn't so bad as I first thought.
I especially like the new features on windows explorer, by far the best file manager from Microsoft yet. Even though I think that the "Luna" theme is a rip of of OSX, one can change it back to the good ol' "w2k" theme.
Biggest gripes from me?
1) Cost's too much
2) High system requirements, slow (relative)
3) Seems to be a rip of of MacOSX
I still don't see a very good reason to upgrade from Win2k yet, maybe it's just me. Personally I'll be sticking with Linux for now, after years of using/tweaking Linux, ANYTHING Windows seems sooo damn slowwww.
Actually, if you read the whole article you will notice that he is actually building two computers with this budget, each of them costing around $7000.
Incase you are wondering why he is building two, it clearly states that one is for him, and the other is for Linus Torvalds!
Gary Sandine and John Pearson, the principals at Los Alamos Computers, undertook the assembly of my Ultimate Linux Box. In fact, they volunteered to build two, one for me and one for Linus Torvalds. They solicited the vendors on our list for donations of parts, and their courage was rewarded when IBM generously volunteered $15,000 for the project budget.
Brute forcing depends on key length. If you are willing to spend, say, 1 billion on it, a PGP special purpose RSA breaker (or ElGamal breaker), that takes, say a day to break a 512bit key, could be feasible (the numbers are just a very rough guess, but I think not so unrealistic).
I'm not so sure about that, unless the government has found a way to do fast factoring it would take a lot longer than a day to break even a 512 bit key. But you might be close, it's hard to estimate these types of things.
Even books that were written in 1999 ("The code book, by Simon Singh") boldly say that it would take all the computers in the world working together on one message encrypted with the RSA cipherover many times the age of the universe to break it. But I'm talking about using very big keys here.
It's important that you use big keys if you want your message to be really safe.
I don't see why everyone doesn't just use 4096 bit by default? I do.
The Radeon 2 has this cool new feature called truform.
It allows a low polygon model to look much more detailed without sacrificing frames per second. See this and this for an illustration of what truform *could* do.
It will be very interesting to see what this truform thing can do. Read more about truform here.
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ahem, "make oldconfig", not "make old_config"
Whups, sorry.
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How about you get the patch?
Then after you patch it you can just "make old_config" which only asks you about new stuff.
Copying cmd.exe into the/scripts directory to gain access to the system is nothing new.
One bug in IIS's let you (through HTTP requests) access the filesytem and run simple commands (this is very sad). The first thing that a cracker would do is copy cmd.exe into the scripts directory.
One of the servers at my school got hacked this way. I just had to laugh at the simplicity of the hack.
Exactly, even if you think you are getting it "free with the purchase of a computer" you are still not getting it free, you are getting it complimentary, and that goes for everything. It's called using flashy words to sell things.
"Buy one get one free!" is bullshit, FREE is when you get something for NOTHING; when you have to buy something to get something else, it's not really free.
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In short, we don't really know. Some speculate that this universe was created from another universe. By this I mean that our universe may have been created in such a way that a bubble gets blown from a wad of chewing gum. But where did that universe come from? Others speculate that our universe started when a quantum particle "came out of nowhere" and then inflated (the big bang) into our universe. Many of the people that beleive this think that our universe will eventually deflate (the big crunch) into nothing once more. At that time, humans maybe able to escape to another more younger universe by traveling through higher dimensional space.
Some good books dealing with these subjects that I've read/currently reading are:
- Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
- In Search of Schrondinger's Cat by John Gribben
- The Elegant Universe by Brian Green
All are very good. Hope that helps.
It can be fun to be anti-microsoft, and say that Windows XP is terrible, but after forcing myself to use it a little, I've found that it isn't so bad as I first thought.
I especially like the new features on windows explorer, by far the best file manager from Microsoft yet. Even though I think that the "Luna" theme is a rip of of OSX, one can change it back to the good ol' "w2k" theme.
Biggest gripes from me?
1) Cost's too much
2) High system requirements, slow (relative)
3) Seems to be a rip of of MacOSX
I still don't see a very good reason to upgrade from Win2k yet, maybe it's just me. Personally I'll be sticking with Linux for now, after years of using/tweaking Linux, ANYTHING Windows seems sooo damn slowwww.
:-)
Incase you are wondering why he is building two, it clearly states that one is for him, and the other is for Linus Torvalds!
Lucky dog.
And in other news Microsoft has publicly announced plans for the following projects:
.org (DON'T even ask what it is)
1. GNU#.net (RMS finally gave up and was hired my MS)
2. OSX.net (Steve jobs has now finally ground his teeth all the way off)
3.
I'm not so sure about that, unless the government has found a way to do fast factoring it would take a lot longer than a day to break even a 512 bit key. But you might be close, it's hard to estimate these types of things.
Even books that were written in 1999 ("The code book, by Simon Singh") boldly say that it would take all the computers in the world working together on one message encrypted with the RSA cipherover many times the age of the universe to break it. But I'm talking about using very big keys here.
It's important that you use big keys if you want your message to be really safe.
I don't see why everyone doesn't just use 4096 bit by default? I do.
Well what else do you expect the army men to use as their base!
Armymen + Lincoln Logs + Fire crackers = FUN!
Downloading other people's software is for weenies, real men just write their own. (-:
Why waste the bandwidth? Any REAL man can write software from scratch faster than it takes to download/install off the internet.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
You can find the front page of the Seattle-PI here:p imaa1x320010911.pdf
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/frontpage/seattle_
If you use linux view this with xpdf, ghostview seems to render it improperly.
Good night America, tomorrow is a new day.
Again, pictures can be found here
:(
This is mostly of the WTC in New York, and is not meant to be off topic, but the other thread is getting overloaded
here is the URL again:
http://www.arctic.org/~trockij/wtc/
Where's space ghost!?!?!?!?
NOOOOOO!!!!!
What?!? There's a windows that doesn't suck?
Why didn't I hear about this? I'm always the last to know...
It allows a low polygon model to look much more detailed without sacrificing frames per second. See this and this for an illustration of what truform *could* do.
It will be very interesting to see what this truform thing can do. Read more about truform here.
ahem, "make oldconfig", not "make old_config"
Whups, sorry.
How about you get the patch?
Then after you patch it you can just "make old_config" which only asks you about new stuff.
Good luck
Can you feel the joy!?!?
... I can.
In RedHat 7.1 with GDM, all you have to do is:
One bug in IIS's let you (through HTTP requests) access the filesytem and run simple commands (this is very sad). The first thing that a cracker would do is copy cmd.exe into the scripts directory.
One of the servers at my school got hacked this way. I just had to laugh at the simplicity of the hack.
"Buy one get one free!" is bullshit, FREE is when you get something for NOTHING; when you have to buy something to get something else, it's not really free.
-Gnight
Maybe all pies are just implanted into our heads!
So there, cream pies may exist, but they may not exist also.
If you would like to prove me wrong could you please bake me a bunch of pies and then mail them to me? Along with money? Ok ok, just the pies then.
-Gnight
yeeeaahhhh
-Gnight
It may.... oh wait.
:P
-Gnight
www.howstuffworks.com is an awesome site!
Where else can you learn how to pick locks, see how speakers work, and learn how to program in c all at the same place?
Hmm... I think I'm gunna check out how MP3 Compression works....
-Gnight
Do you know of any tools that can edit attributes to OGG files (such as Artist, Title, etc) after the ogg file has been created?
-Gnight