I think Hushmail is using some wierdo sun.* encryption library that hasn't so far been included with Apple's Java libraries. Have they fixed this? It sucks having to check my Hushmail account at work...
P.S. - In fact, it's possible to count up to 32 using just one hand (think binary), but I've never met anyone who does it intuitively.
Hi, I'm ratkins and much to the amusement of my non-geek friends I count in binary on my fingers. It's great. You can get up to 1024 over two hands.
I was taught the trick by a uni lecturer who worked it out when he was in a boring seminar and trying to count the number of times the presenter said "um".
You're not friggin' wrong! I've just come back from backpacking overseas and I wish I'd stayed (but to do that I would have needed more money).
I have a strong AIX background and I want to move into Java coding, which I've done a bit of commercially (9 months) but everyone wants people with 2 years J2EE experience and they're obviously getting them. So many redundancies late last year, and all the employers are still very conservative.
"The world doesn't owe you a living" my parents say, but screw that! I have a Comp Sci degree and 4 years industry experience. I was never told I might ever have difficulty getting a job. But here I am, a month and a half unemployed and not yet one interview. I never expected this and it's hurting me lots.
See my web page for my resume if you do happen to have something, by the way...
If a 16-yr-old girl gets ahold of a camera with tripod and timer, and proceeds to take erotic photos of herself - entirely of her own volition, without anyone else's involvement and without any intent to profit from them - and she then posts these pictures on her Web site, has she just committed a crime? If so, who is the victim? Herself?
That's a good one. You'd have to treat it like smoking or drinking laws, which make it illegal to damage yourself until you're old enough to fully appreciate the consequences.
So yeah, exploiting yourself should be illegal up until the age of 18 (or whatever age you've got to be to get wasted, vote and gamble in your jourisdiction).
As an aside, I was interested in this issue when I saw the headline on the Slashdot front page. It was one of the first things I thought of when I got a grip on the CG power of the PS2. This is not some hypothetical future question, this is a real issue now, or at least as soon as the PS2 developers get to grips with the machine's power.
I'm all for it, by the way. As long as kiddies aren't harmed in the production, go for it. It makes an interesting thought experiment with which to confront free-speech advodates who also happen to be parents, in any case.
PS: The, um, girl you mentioned with the tripod and timer camera... what's her URL?;-)
If a drug were safe and didn't cause people to be hurt it wouldn't be illegal. Look at alcohol and all the damage it does, and it _is_ legal. Just think what would happen if cocaine or heroin suddenly became legal.
You clown. Do you not see the contradiction in what you just wrote? Alcohol is an example of a drug that you claim is not safe, but is legal so therefore your argument that only unsafe drugs are illegal is disproved by yourself!
Why not make an internal serial SCSI spec with smaller cables?
It exists. It's called "SSA" (Serial Storage Architecture) and it's by IBM and it's quite neat. It is used quite extensively in RS/6000 systems and is an "open" standard. Unfortunately, about a year ago when I stopped working with RS/6000 machines, it seemed that SSA was suffering from Not Invented Here syndrome and the industry was moving to F-CAL. Oh well.
I would think that sending less information in series would be much slower than sending more in parallel.
You would think that, but it works differently in practise. Sending one bit at a time is much, much simpler, therefore you can do it a lot faster. That's the crux of it anyway. The less wires you have the less crosstalk you get, too, another reason you can run the signals faster.
What I want to know is, what's wrong with FireWire? Is it just not fast enough? What I want is PC hardware that gets rid of all these stupid legacy buses and just gives me USB for keyboards, mice, printers, floppy disks, ZIP disks and syncing PDAs, plus FireWire for hard disks, CD-/DVD-ROM drives and video. Multiples of each bus if necessary. Wouldn't that be a lot simpler/cleaner?
The beauty of fiber is that you can run distinct services at the same time, without interference (cable can too, but the available bandwidth of fiber is amazing).
s/amazing/infinite/
Yes kids, that's right, for all intents and purposes, the bandwidth of one of those little strands of glass is infinite (sources). The switching and repeating gear isn't fast enough to support that of course (yet, but Moore's Law continues to fix that).
This is another argument for municipalities to control the laying of fibre; the glass will last at least as long as the power lines, water and sewerage pipes that they have also got to lay to your home. It's only the tech at the ends that may need to change over the period of several lifetimes.
To you whacky Yanks who don't trust your governments, I still don't think you have to -- we're talking local governments here, not federal, for starters, and as for tapping the things, just end-to-end (e2e! Hey ma! I used a buzzword!) encrypt your VOIP drug deals. No problem.
Did it strike anyone else that these two stories are possibly the most important things to be posted to/. over the last few months?
In one stroke they cover all of the perennial Slashdot themes: technology and good software engineering, freedom versus corporate control, government intervention, censorship (no hot grits though:-).
These people are deciding who gets to "own" the information delivery system that will be more crucial than most people can imagine right now. It is incredibly important that we get it right the first time. The infinite wisdom of the designers of TCP/IP is now showing in that the network has scaled infeasibly well over thirty years later. There are ignorant, greedy people out there who want to fundamentally screw this up so they can make money out of it.
Thank you to the original author by the way, for the excellent summary of the proceedings.
For what it's worth, I'm all for Stockholm's model. IMHO bandwith is an infrastructure thing and like roads, sewers and electricity, should be provided and maintained by the state -- as by its nature it's most efficient to do these things in a monopoly fashion. I'd prefer to have shit broadband due to an incompetent local council than because an Evil Corporation had me by the balls.
Actually, no they're not. I travelled through Singappore (from Australia) on my way here, and all the Singapporean guys I met on a dive trip there were so jealous of what I was doing.
Because of their compulsory national service, they can't leave the country for more than 3 months at a time!
Don't kid yourself about Singappore being a "clean city" either. Wander around "Little India". It's as shabby, run-down, foetid and *interesting* as any other South-East Asian city. Plenty of prostitues, brothels and dodgy guys selling pirate hard-core porno VCDs in back alleys.
In Australia there's an alcoholic drink called "SubZero" -- it's a kind of a fizzy, sweet, citrus-y lollywater usually used for getting sixteen year old girls rather drunk.
I was rather surprised to see a headline indicating that SubZero was the latest weapon in the overclocker's arsenal:-).
Just to make sure we're all talking about the same thing here, I'm referring to IBM's jfs, which is part of AIX. I've been using AIX for the last 3 years or thereabouts, mostly AIX version 4 onward. I've got to say that some of your criticisms are unjust. Firstly, yes, the jfs only journals the structure of the filesystem, not the data, but what do you want for a 4Mb journal log?
Secondly, I have never had any corrupt data on a JFS volume. It's quite neat to be able to hit the power at any given time and not frag the machine. The AIX LVM also is an absolute lifesaver. Yes, it's complex to understand initially (the LVM takes about a day for me to teach in IBM's sysadmin course) but once you know what you're doing it makes life sooo much simpler. Run out of space? Just extend the filesystem. Run out of disk? No problem, just add another one to the volume group (while the machine's still on if you've got hot-swap SSA or SCSI).
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I think Hushmail is using some wierdo sun.* encryption library that hasn't so far been included with Apple's Java libraries. Have they fixed this? It sucks having to check my Hushmail account at work...
Leftfield's "Leftism" is a defining work in the canon of modern dance music.
Hi, I'm ratkins and much to the amusement of my non-geek friends I count in binary on my fingers. It's great. You can get up to 1024 over two hands.
I was taught the trick by a uni lecturer who worked it out when he was in a boring seminar and trying to count the number of times the presenter said "um".
You inherited the English language too, and look what you did to that.
Q: What's the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman?
A: The used car salesman knows when he is lying.
... And the used car salesman can probably drive.
You're not friggin' wrong! I've just come back from backpacking overseas and I wish I'd stayed (but to do that I would have needed more money).
I have a strong AIX background and I want to move into Java coding, which I've done a bit of commercially (9 months) but everyone wants people with 2 years J2EE experience and they're obviously getting them. So many redundancies late last year, and all the employers are still very conservative.
"The world doesn't owe you a living" my parents say, but screw that! I have a Comp Sci degree and 4 years industry experience. I was never told I might ever have difficulty getting a job. But here I am, a month and a half unemployed and not yet one interview. I never expected this and it's hurting me lots.
See my web page for my resume if you do happen to have something, by the way...
That's a good one. You'd have to treat it like smoking or drinking laws, which make it illegal to damage yourself until you're old enough to fully appreciate the consequences.
So yeah, exploiting yourself should be illegal up until the age of 18 (or whatever age you've got to be to get wasted, vote and gamble in your jourisdiction).
As an aside, I was interested in this issue when I saw the headline on the Slashdot front page. It was one of the first things I thought of when I got a grip on the CG power of the PS2. This is not some hypothetical future question, this is a real issue now, or at least as soon as the PS2 developers get to grips with the machine's power.
I'm all for it, by the way. As long as kiddies aren't harmed in the production, go for it. It makes an interesting thought experiment with which to confront free-speech advodates who also happen to be parents, in any case.
PS: The, um, girl you mentioned with the tripod and timer camera... what's her URL? ;-)
Cheers, Robert.
You clown. Do you not see the contradiction in what you just wrote? Alcohol is an example of a drug that you claim is not safe, but is legal so therefore your argument that only unsafe drugs are illegal is disproved by yourself!
But this is all off topic.
Cheers, Robert.
It exists. It's called "SSA" (Serial Storage Architecture) and it's by IBM and it's quite neat. It is used quite extensively in RS/6000 systems and is an "open" standard. Unfortunately, about a year ago when I stopped working with RS/6000 machines, it seemed that SSA was suffering from Not Invented Here syndrome and the industry was moving to F-CAL. Oh well.
Cheers, Robert.
You would think that, but it works differently in practise. Sending one bit at a time is much, much simpler, therefore you can do it a lot faster. That's the crux of it anyway. The less wires you have the less crosstalk you get, too, another reason you can run the signals faster.
What I want to know is, what's wrong with FireWire? Is it just not fast enough? What I want is PC hardware that gets rid of all these stupid legacy buses and just gives me USB for keyboards, mice, printers, floppy disks, ZIP disks and syncing PDAs, plus FireWire for hard disks, CD-/DVD-ROM drives and video. Multiples of each bus if necessary. Wouldn't that be a lot simpler/cleaner?
Cheers, Robert.
Funny that, as AmigaBASIC was written by Microsoft.
but it served much the same purpose as Perl does on a modern Linux box -- a general-purpose scripting and system-automation tool.ITYM "AREXX". HTH. HAND.
Cheers, Robert.
You mean like "mediaglyphs" in The Diamond Age?
Cheers, Robert.
The beauty of fiber is that you can run distinct services at the same time, without interference (cable can too, but the available bandwidth of fiber is amazing).
s/amazing/infinite/
Yes kids, that's right, for all intents and purposes, the bandwidth of one of those little strands of glass is infinite (sources). The switching and repeating gear isn't fast enough to support that of course (yet, but Moore's Law continues to fix that).
This is another argument for municipalities to control the laying of fibre; the glass will last at least as long as the power lines, water and sewerage pipes that they have also got to lay to your home. It's only the tech at the ends that may need to change over the period of several lifetimes.
To you whacky Yanks who don't trust your governments, I still don't think you have to -- we're talking local governments here, not federal, for starters, and as for tapping the things, just end-to-end (e2e! Hey ma! I used a buzzword!) encrypt your VOIP drug deals. No problem.
Cheers, Robert.
Did it strike anyone else that these two stories are possibly the most important things to be posted to /. over the last few months?
:-).
In one stroke they cover all of the perennial Slashdot themes: technology and good software engineering, freedom versus corporate control, government intervention, censorship (no hot grits though
These people are deciding who gets to "own" the information delivery system that will be more crucial than most people can imagine right now. It is incredibly important that we get it right the first time. The infinite wisdom of the designers of TCP/IP is now showing in that the network has scaled infeasibly well over thirty years later. There are ignorant, greedy people out there who want to fundamentally screw this up so they can make money out of it.
Thank you to the original author by the way, for the excellent summary of the proceedings.
For what it's worth, I'm all for Stockholm's model. IMHO bandwith is an infrastructure thing and like roads, sewers and electricity, should be provided and maintained by the state -- as by its nature it's most efficient to do these things in a monopoly fashion. I'd prefer to have shit broadband due to an incompetent local council than because an Evil Corporation had me by the balls.
Cheers, Robert.
It's the wrong trousers, Grommit! And they've gone wrong!
> THey are all free to leave the country.
Actually, no they're not. I travelled through Singappore (from Australia) on my way here, and all the Singapporean guys I met on a dive trip there were so jealous of what I was doing.
Because of their compulsory national service, they can't leave the country for more than 3 months at a time!
Don't kid yourself about Singappore being a "clean city" either. Wander around "Little India". It's as shabby, run-down, foetid and *interesting* as any other South-East Asian city. Plenty of prostitues, brothels and dodgy guys selling pirate hard-core porno VCDs in back alleys.
Cheers, Robert.
In Australia there's an alcoholic drink called "SubZero" -- it's a kind of a fizzy, sweet, citrus-y lollywater usually used for getting sixteen year old girls rather drunk.
:-).
I was rather surprised to see a headline indicating that SubZero was the latest weapon in the overclocker's arsenal
Secondly, I have never had any corrupt data on a JFS volume. It's quite neat to be able to hit the power at any given time and not frag the machine. The AIX LVM also is an absolute lifesaver. Yes, it's complex to understand initially (the LVM takes about a day for me to teach in IBM's sysadmin course) but once you know what you're doing it makes life sooo much simpler. Run out of space? Just extend the filesystem. Run out of disk? No problem, just add another one to the volume group (while the machine's still on if you've got hot-swap SSA or SCSI).
I really couldn't live without it.