I used to hate seeing "everyone's vulnerable" and "its only a matter of time" messages, and typically passed them off as paranoia, this, though, is scary. Apache.org got broken into as well? Damn...
I'd like to know what's broken, I wonder who else is vulnerable.
Well, I'm split here. I personally have a dual cel box that's overclocked (366 -> 500)... It's a mild overclocking, but you can notice a significant difference in some gaming and high load situations. Unfortunately, what everyone's missing here is the fact that such overclocking leads to significant computational errors. Dont believe me? From the distributed.net FAQ:
Is overclocking good to do?
Overclocking has been known to cause your machine to become more unstable, more prone to crashing, produce greater heat, and shorten the life of your processor. Furthermore, it is known to cause programs to unreliably execute code correctly, resulting in occasionally incorrect calculations. This includes the functioning of the distributed.net client.
(Remember that even one miscomputed key within a block, that happened to contain the key we are looking for, can ruin the entire project and invalidate the work of the hundreds of thousands of other participants if an entire re-check must be done.)
So, Please Rob, do not use your new water cooled system to run distributed.net blocks, all you're doing is messing things up for the rest of us.
slashdot will be long gone in 'years'... valinux will die,/. will be sold to cover costs, the new owners will fire rob/etc, and the servers will be sold.
dont believe me? how many valinux ads have you seen being run on/. lately? quite a few, right? OSDN? yep, i saw a few of those yesterday. The ad running as i type this is thinkgeek.com , which is owned by andover. Thus, I'm almost to the point of believing that nobody advertises on/. but andover/valinux, and this company is going to hell faster than even I thought.
The problem with these existing speakers, critics say, is that while they do a good job of reproducing high-frequency sounds, they often are not substantial enough to produce deep bass sounds, or play at high volume.
"Even with quite large ones, which I've got a pair of them in my living room, they need a bass reinforcement," says David Pearce, a research fellow in functional materials at the University of Birmingham in England who specializes in piezoelectric ceramics. "Hearing these sort of panel speakers individually, they always sound kind of tinny. But then you put them together with bass support and you say, 'That sounds pretty good, actually.'"
Well, it was nice until that part... No volume and no loud bass, I'll stick with what I have, thanks.
That said, I have a few comments on your analysis. For the most part, I agree. But you left out the problem that every coding sequence must have an in frame start, and an in frame stop codon. Thus, while it's POSSIBLE you could have ABCDEF, ACDEF, ABDEF, ABC, AEF, it's more likely only one or two would actually contain an in frame stop codon. It's also theoretically possible to have all in order permutations of ABCDEF: ie. BCDEF, BDEF, BCD, BCDE, CDEF, CDF, etc, but again, two codons are required to exist in the same frame, and this makes the possibility of high numbers of proteins from a single strand very unlikely. It's more likely that 2 or 3 proteins can be coded from any single strand of DNA.
do you have ANY KIND OF EVIDENCE to support your wild claims?
No? hmmm, there's a shock.
If you want to say that soviet governments occasionally (or frequently) rounded up agitators and subersives, or that it might have happened during the 1950s for a short period in this country, fine. But dont call it a habit. Unless you can prove it, dont say it. Nobody believes you except some very, very paranoid moderators.
define importance? if you were really important, everyone would already know everything about you. just because you're so damn convinced of your own importance doesnt make it true.
I dont understand what the huge issue is. I personally dont encrypt anything. I dont worry about it. I dont worry about people who know what porn sites I go to, or what news sites I read. I dont care that someone tracks what computer parts I buy online, or what my typical path of bored websurfing is. I dont have anything to hide. If the government cares what sites I look at, why is that supposed to bother me? Let them buy the data, let them skim through it. Let them realize I'm harmless and move on. If they find one valuable clue in this that someone is doing something illegal, then I feel it was money well spent. The rest of us have nothing to worry about.
Your vacuum, lawn mower, toaster, etc, are probably not issues here. What might be an issue is large appliances: refrigerators, ovens, microwaves, automobiles, and while I agree that I dont want any of them crashing (espescially the antilock brakes on my car), the others can be recovered by unplugging the power, and restarting the system.
This is actually not uncommon in today's market: small bugs occur, the customer unplugs it to take it to be repaired, it gets to the repair store and suddenly there is no problem. And before you start blaming embedded winNt, realize that most embedded devices today are VxWorks, QNX Neutrino, LynxOS, pSOS or VRTX, all of which are mostly stable, but DO occasionally encounter problems.
but on a more realistic note, why are we being told now? I could understand if this was to encourage application development before it shipped, but it seems more like a way to hype up possible vaporware than to encourage development. Does anyone know how far along this project really is? If so, how's it look?
with all the recent questions about nasa's funding, do they still have the capital required to repair/relaunch the craft? and if so, will/. care enough to cover it?
The juggling one (about 10 up from the bottom) was pretty sweet, good use of java. The 'ask your site' one, next to the last on the list, seemed pretty cool, until I thought about how it was done, and realized it was far simpler, and thus less impressive, than most of the others. That notwithstanding, some of those are really pretty impressive for their size. I'd like to see who wins. (pay attention editors: make sure you let us know when the winner's been announced).
I think this is a huge step forward for the linux/*bsd/unix community. The existance of another office suite makes *nix operating environments not only usable as a desktop, but realistic as a desktop. StarOffice is a great set of programs, but it was basically alone.
What excites me the most, however, is that it's available in Debian packages. Hopefully, this will start a precedent for software developers who want their product widely used: Make it available in at least three forms: rpm/tar.gz/deb, although a FreeBSD port would also be nice. I personally think that if more companies were willing to package their software in these easy to code, easy to use packages, more people would be willing to use them, thus advancing not only the company, but the linux community in general.
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I used to hate seeing "everyone's vulnerable" and "its only a matter of time" messages, and typically passed them off as paranoia, this, though, is scary. Apache.org got broken into as well? Damn...
I'd like to know what's broken, I wonder who else is vulnerable.
Jan 18th:Apache/1.3.14 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
Mar 29th:Apache/1.3.19 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
I havent seen any apache security issues, maybe it's a convenient time to update...Interesting nonetheless.
slashdot will be long gone in 'years' ... valinux will die, /. will be sold to cover costs, the new owners will fire rob/etc, and the servers will be sold.
/. lately? quite a few, right? OSDN? yep, i saw a few of those yesterday. The ad running as i type this is thinkgeek.com , which is owned by andover. Thus, I'm almost to the point of believing that nobody advertises on /. but andover/valinux, and this company is going to hell faster than even I thought.
dont believe me? how many valinux ads have you seen being run on
ONE server went down... the THREE you speak of were clients, which of course are useless because of it.
It's released under the apache (read: bsd style) license.
pathetic trolls bother me.
Consider this:
It takes no money to encrypt an email.
It takes no money to use ssh/openssh.
It takes no money to disable cookies.
It takes no money NOT to buy something online.
It takes no money NOT to fill in forms.
Privacy is free... violating someone else's privacy is what gets expensive.
The problem with these existing speakers, critics say, is that while they do a good job of reproducing high-frequency sounds, they often are not substantial enough to produce deep bass sounds, or play at high volume.
"Even with quite large ones, which I've got a pair of them in my living room, they need a bass reinforcement," says David Pearce, a research fellow in functional materials at the University of Birmingham in England who specializes in piezoelectric ceramics. "Hearing these sort of panel speakers individually, they always sound kind of tinny. But then you put them together with bass support and you say, 'That sounds pretty good, actually.'"
Well, it was nice until that part... No volume and no loud bass, I'll stick with what I have, thanks.
First off, dont feed the trolls.
That said, I have a few comments on your analysis. For the most part, I agree. But you left out the problem that every coding sequence must have an in frame start, and an in frame stop codon. Thus, while it's POSSIBLE you could have ABCDEF, ACDEF, ABDEF, ABC, AEF, it's more likely only one or two would actually contain an in frame stop codon. It's also theoretically possible to have all in order permutations of ABCDEF: ie. BCDEF, BDEF, BCD, BCDE, CDEF, CDF, etc, but again, two codons are required to exist in the same frame, and this makes the possibility of high numbers of proteins from a single strand very unlikely. It's more likely that 2 or 3 proteins can be coded from any single strand of DNA.
After two years of selling it, they let a little publicity scare them...
do you have ANY KIND OF EVIDENCE to support your wild claims?
No? hmmm, there's a shock.
If you want to say that soviet governments occasionally (or frequently) rounded up agitators and subersives, or that it might have happened during the 1950s for a short period in this country, fine. But dont call it a habit. Unless you can prove it, dont say it. Nobody believes you except some very, very paranoid moderators.
define importance? if you were really important, everyone would already know everything about you. just because you're so damn convinced of your own importance doesnt make it true.
heh... go ask egghead for them :)
I dont understand what the huge issue is. I personally dont encrypt anything. I dont worry about it. I dont worry about people who know what porn sites I go to, or what news sites I read. I dont care that someone tracks what computer parts I buy online, or what my typical path of bored websurfing is. I dont have anything to hide. If the government cares what sites I look at, why is that supposed to bother me? Let them buy the data, let them skim through it. Let them realize I'm harmless and move on. If they find one valuable clue in this that someone is doing something illegal, then I feel it was money well spent. The rest of us have nothing to worry about.
Your vacuum, lawn mower, toaster, etc, are probably not issues here. What might be an issue is large appliances: refrigerators, ovens, microwaves, automobiles, and while I agree that I dont want any of them crashing (espescially the antilock brakes on my car), the others can be recovered by unplugging the power, and restarting the system.
This is actually not uncommon in today's market: small bugs occur, the customer unplugs it to take it to be repaired, it gets to the repair store and suddenly there is no problem. And before you start blaming embedded winNt, realize that most embedded devices today are VxWorks, QNX Neutrino, LynxOS, pSOS or VRTX, all of which are mostly stable, but DO occasionally encounter problems.
no its not... http://www.trolltech.com/products/purchase/pricing .html
but on a more realistic note, why are we being told now? I could understand if this was to encourage application development before it shipped, but it seems more like a way to hype up possible vaporware than to encourage development. Does anyone know how far along this project really is? If so, how's it look?
my keyboard at my desk, i'd plan on ssh'ing into it
with all the recent questions about nasa's funding, do they still have the capital required to repair/relaunch the craft? and if so, will /. care enough to cover it?
p3 733 = $117.
64 MB pc100 SDRAM = $15.
DVD drive = $40.
Total:$172
Now, lets add some accessories:
10GB IDE harddrive = $63
10/100 NIC = $5
motherboard/fan/cpu combo = $173 (subtract the price of the processor above)
Mini- Mid-tower case = $8
New total:$304 for everything but the case.
No coding required, do a fresh install of your favorite (FreeBSD) Linux distro, and you're good to go for the same price... I like my way better.
he also said it was linux that was ported to the dreamcast... last it recalled, it was NetBSD
The juggling one (about 10 up from the bottom) was pretty sweet, good use of java. The 'ask your site' one, next to the last on the list, seemed pretty cool, until I thought about how it was done, and realized it was far simpler, and thus less impressive, than most of the others. That notwithstanding, some of those are really pretty impressive for their size. I'd like to see who wins. (pay attention editors: make sure you let us know when the winner's been announced).
you're an engineer, arent you? work for nasa, maybe?
I think this is a huge step forward for the linux/*bsd/unix community. The existance of another office suite makes *nix operating environments not only usable as a desktop, but realistic as a desktop. StarOffice is a great set of programs, but it was basically alone.
What excites me the most, however, is that it's available in Debian packages. Hopefully, this will start a precedent for software developers who want their product widely used: Make it available in at least three forms: rpm/tar.gz/deb, although a FreeBSD port would also be nice. I personally think that if more companies were willing to package their software in these easy to code, easy to use packages, more people would be willing to use them, thus advancing not only the company, but the linux community in general.
yes... any sex outside of marriage is biblical adultry..