Funny, when I was a newb people explained me IBM used to be a big & bad dinosaur. Now the bazaar is hugging round the cathedral's walls, sheltering under it's aisles. Looks good for now... but be cautious, the prelate's benevolent eye could turn to Inquisition.
capitalization isn't bad per se. It becomes so when it's all caps. I did use capitalization for acronyms and emphasis. Do you wish me to write "I" in lower case? I did use some terms in CAPS to stress the polemic tone of the phrase they belong to; whining for capitaliation sounds very 'leet and '90s usenet guru, newbs are usually impressed, I am not.
Oh well, Palladium is just nukes in one superpower's hand. Spreading the 'nukes' across different platforms will enforce a balance of power stalling unilateral strikes. I can only see trouble in the divide between different abilities provided by CA signed keys: cheap or free consumer keys Vs. developer keys (like domain wide SSL keys versus single host keys). This technology will become part of the platforms, we'd better start concentrating on the social model implememted in this technology rather that complain about it's conception.
... let's just, for a moment, cast aside paranoid suspicion (and I'm a paranoid & suspicious chap!). IFF these papers are correct TCPA is an encrypted storage location with some extra logic. In this location the user can store ~/.ssh/*.key and make shure the application interacting with the logic isn't sniffing the un-encrypted stream to some remote location. This NEEDS to be embedded in the BIOS to prevent kernel backdooring and simply embeds chain of trust throughout the hardware. I'd like to see this chip bussed to a smartcard to authenticate private root keys to a hashed ssh-agent binary (whether roaming on different PCs or on my own WS...) I'm also shure that MediaPlayer 10 will be DRMd to the marrow but take note that in the past ridiculously encumbered online music services went titsup in no time while more reasonable services (Apple) seem to strke a balance. In the past ID tracking such as the PentiumIII ID were dealt with properly so I don't think abuses would be tolerated. People always enjoys the empowering thought of having the option to take a free ride and imposing a "police" computer would vastly outrage the consumer base. So long as the control on the hadware keys is left to the users I agree with this particular spin from IBM; it's just a secure smartcard system. It still CAN be extended to require encryption and trust all the way to the DVI interface but that I think would require a heck of a business infrastructure to implement, maintain and persuasion effort. And given IBM's perspective there's no interest in the user base to proceed in further HW lockdown... all WE would do is to sign on OUR terms a kernel build and that's it; once that's in place, the chip will process OUR keys in OUR best interest... and if some pigopolist wants force something down our throat their business model will fail (as it has repeatedly done). I'd go for it, just for the sake of my ssh/gpg keyring, and in the future credit card numbers... do you trust an ecommerce site asking to handle it for you?)
Whoa! How cool, next gen, never seen before! I'm reserving my copy now (nevermind it's probably a mockup)! Never mind it has already been done before... sorry folks, I can't find it in my history but a couple of days ago the developer announced Quake* GL supported on his framebuffer code here on/. Cool, everything truetyped and composited just to show off... now what IF linux devels didn't have to BEG for HW & SPECS... what IF HW companies developed production class code for linux (are they afraid it would put them in MS's contempt? *me grins*) and not on 2 years old HW... then we'll see competition... 'till then... my servers are 100% Linux and only fail when I'm bored enough to tinker with them;-)
Typical MS tactic. Whenever customers start looking some other way there comes the " Look! In 2 years time we'll do the moon!" mantra. It's called vapourware. As far as I'm concerned all Longhorn is about is a fat sidebar and some custom HTML pages embedded in some IE dll. Something Konqueror could do (and in some way already does) consistently if a vendor decided to inject some effort in it. Ah, of course gnome nautilus is just as good too. There's simply nothing MS will do in 2 years that can distract me from next month's (1 month, 1) presentation of Os X 10.3 In 2 years time I can't even think what unix desktops will have archieved...
XP ain't bad, in fact it's at least as stable as OS/2 Warp 4 ever was, with abetter interface to boot. It ain't OS X, but it's closer than most, and has better integration to the hardware than GNOME or KDE.
I'm administering a bunch of Linux terminals in a production environment. Shure, it's very few machines and I did have some trouble with it. My greatest pains came from not having a decent network filesystem supporting something like acls. Anyway, my users had some initial difficulties and rebellious attitude against linux. I think they thought: "I'm familiar to windows and don't want to spend my time getting to terms with a new interface, the cost to keep it running is upon him, let him have it!". I opposed and had it my way... now people awe at KDE 3.1 and like it's features. I'm still quarelling with some hardware (mostly wrong permissions on/dev files and driver support) but I think the thing worked mostly ok.
Only problem, a decent admin interface for network authentication management. It's a pain to struggle with LDIFs just to add an user account!
Just to DL one single song? Yeah, methinks it's cool. Just DL what YOU like and ditch the fluff (most of the cover art is just crap anyway). Like the album full? It's discounted anyway, just make shure you know the cross-over point when downloading one song after the other becomes more expensive. Remember, we're talking about jewel cases anyway not 33 vinyls (those DID justify the expense for the artwork!), you can do without the cheesy graphics discographers slip in to justify the price (kinda works though, at least for you)
I beleive M$ is big enough to survive frustrated geeks ranting against it's monopoly abuse. You're most certainly right describing IE6 as an indesputable innovation: finally the masses are bestowed the privilege of cookie monitoring! Actually per site blocking is a little more tedious than in mozilla but there you are, innovation at last! Ah, can you please illuminate me on how to do arbitrary header based filtering in outlook express? (and yes I mean List-Id: headers...) Does OE finally group threads on In-Reply-To: or does it still group on Subject: match?
Windows XP hmm, W2K used to freeze when waking up the hard disks... only one would, mouse froze, reboot; oh and a laptop in standby would wake up (lid closed) randomly... very cool when carrying in a case in the boot of a car. XP certainly did solve the problem... just a couple of BSODs though, and the SP1 slowdown-crawl detail.
Can XP authenticate over LDAP, NIS or NetInfo? No? Uh strange, that Os X stuff thingie from Apple does! Must be their system is so innovatively unsurpassed that since it's introduction (NT4) there's still no competition...
Ah, did M$ fix those "quirks" in it's IPsec that made it a useless nightmare with FreeBSD and Linux?
Primates aren't all the same crop. I'm not shure why they chose sulawesi crested macaques but I'd like to see how bonobo would have performed. Their behaviour is often described as particularly elaborate and are able to learn languages and make use of tools. Especially intriguing is that they require a lot of parental care before becoming independent individuals. Similarly to humans, these primates require long training to have a successful adult life and therefore maintain 'infant' traits for quite a time much like us, naked apes.
Network/Library/ and/Network/Applications on Os X in/usr/local/bin and/usr/local/lib/ (actually just export the whole/usr/local/ and have a coffee!) are the same cool solution to windoze mass deployment... ya know, there's something called NFS...;)
before they patent it... in a discussion on a KDE list I proposed to reframe an SSLd connection in red. I don't think it made it to Konqueror but shure as hell it did get into kcontrol.
Yup, some people CAN change. Fact is, most crimes are commited by repeat offenders. Most people DON'T change, and have fun applying for the CIA job with your supposedly-erased-due-to-it-being-7-years-old criminal record.
It depends on what they need... in Italy we're about to muffle up a cute little scandal on nazifascist criminals that surfaced in the past year. Appears that the secret services of USA and GB politely brushed the accusations aside in order to hire them as agents in the nascent Cold War. Opportunity and timing is all you need...
I'm not shure but the drift issue can be minimized using differently coated sensor arrays. A SW then crosses out the signals from multiple sensitivity and drift.
Well, it all depends on how distributed are the perception areas in the nervous system. That the body is parted from it's control center and thus doesn't react says nothing on what's going on within the now isolated network; does it react to asphixia? What do the autonomic centers controlling oxigenation report to the upper layers? Does the brain panic as it realizes that it's signals aren't feeding back? Does the spine report pain for it's recision or report the data black out? I think the process should be top-down: knock out perception first. In any case I'm a carnivore after all, and my instinct still lessens the remorse for killing another species as long as it's not gratuituos.
I had some workalikes too!;-) I took some semi-dead oldish PC, told their GDM managed XServers to query the Application server and stuck a heap of ram on the one and only decent machine I had available serving the various XSessions. Shure, I had no crypto but, alas, behind a firewall I had little to worry and no intention to fiddle with ssh. Now BillyG takes us to the remarkably innovative world of remote XSessions, wow! Time to start saving to pick up one of these toys; hopefully the masses will craze for them, the prices will drop and us geeks can finally start playing with remoted X around the household without overhauling nasty old PCs... does GCC compile to Crusoe's native code? (if there is such a thing)
Once, after watching some gruesome footage from some anti-vivisectionist group I was quite shocked. After some navigation I'm more-or-less convinced that the rodents die a gentle death, drifting to unconciousness before passing away. Many people die in their sleep and I don't think they suffer as long as they're not aware of what's coming (that's why I think capital punishment is inhumane... it's a torture)
After being modded to troll I did a little bit of reserach and found that LEDs are biased to ~3 V. Weird I thought, but then it has to be > than E_g for a visible wavelenght _and_ flood the bands a little bit to get some intensity. So given the V from a pair of AAA batteries there isn't much drop to get a good I going unless you use a small R and anyway LEDS should be I controlled anyway... hmm, guess a cheap'n cheerful solution would be a saturated FET... textbooks say they drop around 0.2 V which gives ~ 1 mW lost in the FET. I still think a CM would be better... as the battery V goes down a CM would still deliver a close to good bias. Anyone care to comment?
I wonder if this is a voluntary absurdity; the first thing I though when I noticed it is the 'calories to agricultural resource' ratio of beef... for the same amount of estate and water vegetable carbohydrates and proteins are much cheaper to produce. In the real world we're kind of doing the same thing as Matrix's machines.
Take a diagram like this and add another line of FF on the outputs to mask the output while shifting... (say, DTR will shut them keep/thru, RTS to strobe... use CTS on a dead FF or buffer to sync for propagation delays) Heh, can you buy FF sticks anymore? it would be fun to play with...
Shame that the original pre-slammer fix was so fsckd-up that even M$ sysadmins failed to patch. It's ok to fiddle in a Lab but many probably couldn't afford to risk trashing live production servers with the original Microsoft patch (should be... this) or neither shut down the firewalls to their database ports. Later on, actually post facto, M$ did refactor their stuff but the damage had already been done.
There's always ZDNet. if you don't like/. Even better you could enjoy Thurrott's exciting Supersite. You know, the internet is full of sites... hudreds of thousands... sick of one... vote with your feet (or mouse).
I dwell/. and like it *because* it's a souped up interblog... and *I* love M$ bashing, bought a Mac and like to hear *biased* news and for once feel like someone who digs Britney Spears entering a media store;-)
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Funny, when I was a newb people explained me IBM used to be a big & bad dinosaur. Now the bazaar is hugging round the cathedral's walls, sheltering under it's aisles. Looks good for now... but be cautious, the prelate's benevolent eye could turn to Inquisition.
capitalization isn't bad per se. It becomes so when it's all caps. I did use capitalization for acronyms and emphasis. Do you wish me to write "I" in lower case? I did use some terms in CAPS to stress the polemic tone of the phrase they belong to; whining for capitaliation sounds very 'leet and '90s usenet guru, newbs are usually impressed, I am not.
Oh well, Palladium is just nukes in one superpower's hand. Spreading the 'nukes' across different platforms will enforce a balance of power stalling unilateral strikes. I can only see trouble in the divide between different abilities provided by CA signed keys: cheap or free consumer keys Vs. developer keys (like domain wide SSL keys versus single host keys). This technology will become part of the platforms, we'd better start concentrating on the social model implememted in this technology rather that complain about it's conception.
... let's just, for a moment, cast aside paranoid suspicion (and I'm a paranoid & suspicious chap!). IFF these papers are correct TCPA is an encrypted storage location with some extra logic. In this location the user can store ~/.ssh/*.key and make shure the application interacting with the logic isn't sniffing the un-encrypted stream to some remote location. This NEEDS to be embedded in the BIOS to prevent kernel backdooring and simply embeds chain of trust throughout the hardware. I'd like to see this chip bussed to a smartcard to authenticate private root keys to a hashed ssh-agent binary (whether roaming on different PCs or on my own WS...)
I'm also shure that MediaPlayer 10 will be DRMd to the marrow but take note that in the past ridiculously encumbered online music services went titsup in no time while more reasonable services (Apple) seem to strke a balance.
In the past ID tracking such as the PentiumIII ID were dealt with properly so I don't think abuses would be tolerated. People always enjoys the empowering thought of having the option to take a free ride and imposing a "police" computer would vastly outrage the consumer base.
So long as the control on the hadware keys is left to the users I agree with this particular spin from IBM; it's just a secure smartcard system.
It still CAN be extended to require encryption and trust all the way to the DVI interface but that I think would require a heck of a business infrastructure to implement, maintain and persuasion effort.
And given IBM's perspective there's no interest in the user base to proceed in further HW lockdown... all WE would do is to sign on OUR terms a kernel build and that's it; once that's in place, the chip will process OUR keys in OUR best interest... and if some pigopolist wants force something down our throat their business model will fail (as it has repeatedly done).
I'd go for it, just for the sake of my ssh/gpg keyring, and in the future credit card numbers... do you trust an ecommerce site asking to handle it for you?)
Looks awful on Safari too! The text overflows and overlaps the footer and the headline too jumbles the beginning of the second column... lousy
Whoa! How cool, next gen, never seen before! I'm reserving my copy now (nevermind it's probably a mockup)! /. Cool, everything truetyped and composited just to show off... now what IF linux devels didn't have to BEG for HW & SPECS... what IF HW companies developed production class code for linux (are they afraid it would put them in MS's contempt? *me grins*) and not on 2 years old HW... then we'll see competition... 'till then... my servers are 100% Linux and only fail when I'm bored enough to tinker with them ;-)
Never mind it has already been done before... sorry folks, I can't find it in my history but a couple of days ago the developer announced Quake* GL supported on his framebuffer code here on
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Ethernet NICs on Apple computers are self-crossing...
Typical MS tactic. Whenever customers start looking some other way there comes the " Look! In 2 years time we'll do the moon!" mantra. It's called vapourware. As far as I'm concerned all Longhorn is about is a fat sidebar and some custom HTML pages embedded in some IE dll. Something Konqueror could do (and in some way already does) consistently if a vendor decided to inject some effort in it. Ah, of course gnome nautilus is just as good too. There's simply nothing MS will do in 2 years that can distract me from next month's (1 month, 1) presentation of Os X 10.3
In 2 years time I can't even think what unix desktops will have archieved...
XP ain't bad, in fact it's at least as stable as OS/2 Warp 4 ever was, with abetter interface to boot. It ain't OS X, but it's closer than most, and has better integration to the hardware than GNOME or KDE.
/dev files and driver support) but I think the thing worked mostly ok.
I'm administering a bunch of Linux terminals in a production environment. Shure, it's very few machines and I did have some trouble with it. My greatest pains came from not having a decent network filesystem supporting something like acls. Anyway, my users had some initial difficulties and rebellious attitude against linux. I think they thought: "I'm familiar to windows and don't want to spend my time getting to terms with a new interface, the cost to keep it running is upon him, let him have it!". I opposed and had it my way... now people awe at KDE 3.1 and like it's features. I'm still quarelling with some hardware (mostly wrong permissions on
Only problem, a decent admin interface for network authentication management. It's a pain to struggle with LDIFs just to add an user account!
Just to DL one single song? Yeah, methinks it's cool. Just DL what YOU like and ditch the fluff (most of the cover art is just crap anyway). Like the album full? It's discounted anyway, just make shure you know the cross-over point when downloading one song after the other becomes more expensive. Remember, we're talking about jewel cases anyway not 33 vinyls (those DID justify the expense for the artwork!), you can do without the cheesy graphics discographers slip in to justify the price (kinda works though, at least for you)
I beleive M$ is big enough to survive frustrated geeks ranting against it's monopoly abuse. You're most certainly right describing IE6 as an indesputable innovation: finally the masses are bestowed the privilege of cookie monitoring! Actually per site blocking is a little more tedious than in mozilla but there you are, innovation at last! Ah, can you please illuminate me on how to do arbitrary header based filtering in outlook express? (and yes I mean List-Id: headers...) Does OE finally group threads on In-Reply-To: or does it still group on Subject: match?
Windows XP hmm, W2K used to freeze when waking up the hard disks... only one would, mouse froze, reboot; oh and a laptop in standby would wake up (lid closed) randomly... very cool when carrying in a case in the boot of a car. XP certainly did solve the problem... just a couple of BSODs though, and the SP1 slowdown-crawl detail.
Can XP authenticate over LDAP, NIS or NetInfo? No? Uh strange, that Os X stuff thingie from Apple does! Must be their system is so innovatively unsurpassed that since it's introduction (NT4) there's still no competition...
Ah, did M$ fix those "quirks" in it's IPsec that made it a useless nightmare with FreeBSD and Linux?
Didn't eh? Oh, I'm surprised...
Primates aren't all the same crop. I'm not shure why they chose sulawesi crested macaques but I'd like to see how bonobo would have performed. Their behaviour is often described as particularly elaborate and are able to learn languages and make use of tools. Especially intriguing is that they require a lot of parental care before becoming independent individuals. Similarly to humans, these primates require long training to have a successful adult life and therefore maintain 'infant' traits for quite a time much like us, naked apes.
Network/Library/ and /Network/Applications on Os X in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/ (actually just export the whole /usr/local/ and have a coffee!) are the same cool solution to windoze mass deployment... ya know, there's something called NFS... ;)
before they patent it... in a discussion on a KDE list I proposed to reframe an SSLd connection in red. I don't think it made it to Konqueror but shure as hell it did get into kcontrol.
Yup, some people CAN change. Fact is, most crimes are commited by repeat offenders. Most people DON'T change, and have fun applying for the CIA job with your supposedly-erased-due-to-it-being-7-years-old criminal record.
It depends on what they need... in Italy we're about to muffle up a cute little scandal on nazifascist criminals that surfaced in the past year. Appears that the secret services of USA and GB politely brushed the accusations aside in order to hire them as agents in the nascent Cold War. Opportunity and timing is all you need...
I'm not shure but the drift issue can be minimized using differently coated sensor arrays. A SW then crosses out the signals from multiple sensitivity and drift.
first off, i f-ing hate the slashdot games section color scheme.
So do I. Slashdot editors, get rid of it! Please!!!
Well, it all depends on how distributed are the perception areas in the nervous system. That the body is parted from it's control center and thus doesn't react says nothing on what's going on within the now isolated network; does it react to asphixia? What do the autonomic centers controlling oxigenation report to the upper layers? Does the brain panic as it realizes that it's signals aren't feeding back? Does the spine report pain for it's recision or report the data black out? I think the process should be top-down: knock out perception first. In any case I'm a carnivore after all, and my instinct still lessens the remorse for killing another species as long as it's not gratuituos.
I had some workalikes too! ;-) I took some semi-dead oldish PC, told their GDM managed XServers to query the Application server and stuck a heap of ram on the one and only decent machine I had available serving the various XSessions. Shure, I had no crypto but, alas, behind a firewall I had little to worry and no intention to fiddle with ssh. Now BillyG takes us to the remarkably innovative world of remote XSessions, wow! Time to start saving to pick up one of these toys; hopefully the masses will craze for them, the prices will drop and us geeks can finally start playing with remoted X around the household without overhauling nasty old PCs... does GCC compile to Crusoe's native code? (if there is such a thing)
Once, after watching some gruesome footage from some anti-vivisectionist group I was quite shocked. After some navigation I'm more-or-less convinced that the rodents die a gentle death, drifting to unconciousness before passing away. Many people die in their sleep and I don't think they suffer as long as they're not aware of what's coming (that's why I think capital punishment is inhumane... it's a torture)
After being modded to troll I did a little bit of reserach and found that LEDs are biased to ~3 V. Weird I thought, but then it has to be > than E_g for a visible wavelenght _and_ flood the bands a little bit to get some intensity. So given the V from a pair of AAA batteries there isn't much drop to get a good I going unless you use a small R and anyway LEDS should be I controlled anyway... hmm, guess a cheap'n cheerful solution would be a saturated FET... textbooks say they drop around 0.2 V which gives ~ 1 mW lost in the FET. I still think a CM would be better... as the battery V goes down a CM would still deliver a close to good bias.
Anyone care to comment?
I wonder if this is a voluntary absurdity; the first thing I though when I noticed it is the 'calories to agricultural resource' ratio of beef... for the same amount of estate and water vegetable carbohydrates and proteins are much cheaper to produce. In the real world we're kind of doing the same thing as Matrix's machines.
Take a diagram like this and add another line of FF on the outputs to mask the output while shifting... (say, DTR will shut them keep/thru, RTS to strobe... use CTS on a dead FF or buffer to sync for propagation delays) Heh, can you buy FF sticks anymore? it would be fun to play with...
Shame that the original pre-slammer fix was so fsckd-up that even M$ sysadmins failed to patch. It's ok to fiddle in a Lab but many probably couldn't afford to risk trashing live production servers with the original Microsoft patch (should be... this) or neither shut down the firewalls to their database ports. Later on, actually post facto, M$ did refactor their stuff but the damage had already been done.
There's always ZDNet. if you don't like /. Even better you could enjoy Thurrott's exciting Supersite. You know, the internet is full of sites... hudreds of thousands... sick of one... vote with your feet (or mouse). /. and like it *because* it's a souped up interblog... and *I* love M$ bashing, bought a Mac and like to hear *biased* news and for once feel like someone who digs Britney Spears entering a media store ;-)
I dwell