You'll still need a $400-$700 copy of Visual Studio even with your $1000 Qt libraries. Qt looks even worse now...until you need your code to run on Solaris,Irix,OS X, and Linux. Then your investment is quickly recouped when you can develop on one platform and deploy on 4 or 5.
Do you think you can port any non-trivial Win32 application to Unix for under $1000 ?
Suppose you do use the encryption and play against 3 other players. Now suppose all three of them are playing from the same bankroll and against you.
They already know what 15 of the cards are. A few instant messages and they all fold except for the one with the best hand.
In effect you are playing against one player with three hands, they are three times more likely to win against you. It doesn't matter which one wins as they are sharing a bankroll.
This is only required if you are playing without a dealer. If you both connect to a third party server (acting as the dealer) you wouldn't need to use this method.
Check the manpages first, they answer a lot of questions
Next check/usr/share/doc/programname or wherever your distribution stores the documentation for installed programs.
Then check the website of the program, most have at least some sort of online documentation and if you are lucky you will find a web accessible mailing list archive.
If you still have no answer try searching Usenet from Google. If you happen to run into a strange error message you should probably skip the other steps and try this one first for the quickest answer.
Then try searching the web with Google.
If you still don't have luck try the irc channel for the program you are using or distribution you are using, be sure to mention what you have learned so far when you ask your question.
Something like: I am having a problem with foobar. When I <explain what you are doing> it does this <explain symptom> I read in the man page about feature XXX but it doesn't work in my case because of YYY. I also read about using ZZZ on the FAQ but that doesn't solve my problem either. Is there anything that I am missing ?
By the time you check man pages, program website, Usenet, and Google you can solve pretty much any problem you encounter. You probably won't have to resort to IRC.
If it is external it can be moved farther away, possibly in a closet. Power can be provided by longer cables. A bit more messy perhaps, but if you want silence it would probably be worth it.
And this hash is provided by who ? If the client provides then a fake hash has to be returned, and then send the bad file.
You can never trust the client. That seems to be one of the problems with P2P. The client is also the server. If you can't trust the client then you can't trust the server.
You'll need to have some type of cryptographic signature so that certain keys can be signed and trusted. Of course then you lose anonymity because even though you can't determine who has a key easily you can determine which files have been signed by the same key. Then once you find the person who owns that key, you have a long list of copyrighed material that that person has signed.
Seems that if you could find an old piece of software that displayed some type of content with even a normal top menu to navigate between it would constitute prior art.
What about some old image viewing program that displays a list of file names and has a thumbnail preview ?
It's fairly sad that you can patent the equivalent of a book with tabs that stick out a bit from the pages.
Find a task that one child cannot do, such as (I would assume, read) This after all I believe what you are searching for, some method to tell a difference between the children, either with posession of a key or a certain fingerprint.
Get one of those rollup "indestructible" keyboards that they sell (I think tiger.com still has them)
Use a monitor to ask an easy question known to someone who could read. (What color is the sky ? , How many fingers do you have ?, etc)
Without the ability to read one could not answer the question on the keyboard and could not unlock the door.
The only downfalls that I can see are the possible costs of interfacing the software with the locking door and the computer/monitor/keyboards.
It would probably be much cheaper then a biometric system but would be a little less fault tolerant as it is homebuilt.
No, actually it's just just like buying a car that has been swapped out for a Motorcyle by a sword wielding nun who runs marathons on weekends. Then when you try to change the tire on your car, someone moderates your tire to -1 "Analogies on Slashdot rarely make sense" so it doesn't show on the default view. I say you've got the right to complain about that.
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You'll still need a $400-$700 copy of Visual Studio even with your $1000 Qt libraries. Qt looks even worse now...until you need your code to run on Solaris,Irix,OS X, and Linux. Then your investment is quickly recouped when you can develop on one platform and deploy on 4 or 5.
Do you think you can port any non-trivial Win32 application to Unix for under $1000 ?
/etc/inittab is hopefully a non executable file, it won't be brought up in the tab completion like a directory will
It does a "Feeling Lucky" search since http by itself is not a valid url. Go search on Google for http and look at the first result.
Naturally I notice a way to speed it up immediately after posting the two minute hack
.$file) { ."/" . $file; /$ARGV[1]/i) { .$file . "\n";
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my @recurse;
add($ARGV[0]);
while(@recurse) {
my $file = shift @recurse;
if (-d $file) {
add($file);
}
}
sub add {
opendir(DIR,$_[0]) or print("Can't open $_[0]\n"), return;
my $curPath = $_[0];
while(my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
if ($file ne ".." && $file ne ".") {
if (-d $curPath . "/"
push @recurse,$curPath
}
if ($file =~
print $curPath . "/"
}
}
}
}
Quick Perl hack, it doesn't search inside files, but does search filenames.
/path tar.gz
/path with tar.gz in the filename
."/" . $file; /$ARGV[1]/i) { .$file . "\n";
Use like this:
./find.pl
To find files in
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my @recurse;
add($ARGV[0]);
while(@recurse) {
my $file = shift @recurse;
if (-d $file) {
add($file);
}
}
sub add {
opendir(DIR,$_[0]) or print("Can't open $_[0]\n"), return;
my $curPath = $_[0];
while(my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
if ($file ne ".." && $file ne ".") {
push @recurse,$curPath
if ($file =~
print $curPath . "/"
}
}
}
}
Suppose you do use the encryption and play against 3 other players. Now suppose all three of them are playing from the same bankroll and against you.
They already know what 15 of the cards are. A few instant messages and they all fold except for the one with the best hand.
In effect you are playing against one player with three hands, they are three times more likely to win against you. It doesn't matter which one wins as they are sharing a bankroll.
This is only required if you are playing without a dealer. If you both connect to a third party server (acting as the dealer) you wouldn't need to use this method.
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You can install the libraries yourself. ./configure --prefix=/home/myusername/magicklibs/
Then specify the location when you compiler ImageMagick.
From FM 24-19m /24-19/Glo ss.htm
Radio Operator's Handbook
http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/f
Glossary
proword procedure word
psi per square inch
PTT push-to-talk
pwr power
qty quantity
Check the manpages first, they answer a lot of questions
/usr/share/doc/programname or wherever your distribution stores the documentation for installed programs.
Next check
Then check the website of the program, most have at least some sort of online documentation and if you are lucky you will find a web accessible mailing list archive.
If you still have no answer try searching Usenet from Google. If you happen to run into a strange error message you should probably skip the other steps and try this one first for the quickest answer.
Then try searching the web with Google.
If you still don't have luck try the irc channel for the program you are using or distribution you are using, be sure to mention what you have learned so far when you ask your question.
Something like:
I am having a problem with foobar. When I <explain what you are doing> it does this <explain symptom> I read in the man page about feature XXX but it doesn't work in my case because of YYY. I also read about using ZZZ on the FAQ but that doesn't solve my problem either. Is there anything that I am missing ?
By the time you check man pages, program website, Usenet, and Google you can solve pretty much any problem you encounter. You probably won't have to resort to IRC.
Light travels even slower at 38mphh tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/02/18/0832249_F.s
If it is external it can be moved farther away, possibly in a closet. Power can be provided by longer cables. A bit more messy perhaps, but if you want silence it would probably be worth it.
x = 21
21 + 21 + 7 = 49
49= 7^2
Where do companies get off thinking that they can be judge, jury, and executioner ?
I wonder what Visa will do when you dispute a $100 charge on your credit card.
I'm guessing that irony was intentional...hoping at least.
And this hash is provided by who ?
If the client provides then a fake hash has to be returned, and then send the bad file.
You can never trust the client. That seems to be one of the problems with P2P. The client is also the server. If you can't trust the client then you can't trust the server.
You'll need to have some type of cryptographic signature so that certain keys can be signed and trusted. Of course then you lose anonymity because even though you can't determine who has a key easily you can determine which files have been signed by the same key.
Then once you find the person who owns that key, you have a long list of copyrighed material that that person has signed.
Seems that if you could find an old piece of software that displayed some type of content with even a normal top menu to navigate between it would constitute prior art.
What about some old image viewing program that displays a list of file names and has a thumbnail preview ?
It's fairly sad that you can patent the equivalent of a book with tabs that stick out a bit from the pages.
A slightly easier way, not documented by sprint as far as I could find it to send an email to:
1112223333@messaging.sprintpcs.com
where 1112223333 = area code + phone number
It shows up as a normal SMS, readable without logging in to the shortmessage or email portion of Sprint's Vision service
I discovered this a few minutes before I started to write the script that you did.
Give credit where credit is due...
Find a task that one child cannot do, such as (I would assume, read) This after all I believe what you are searching for, some method to tell a difference between the children, either with posession of a key or a certain fingerprint.
Get one of those rollup "indestructible" keyboards that they sell (I think tiger.com still has them)
Use a monitor to ask an easy question known to someone who could read.
(What color is the sky ? , How many fingers do you have ?, etc)
Without the ability to read one could not answer the question on the keyboard and could not unlock the door.
The only downfalls that I can see are the possible costs of interfacing the software with the locking door and the computer/monitor/keyboards.
It would probably be much cheaper then a biometric system but would be a little less fault tolerant as it is homebuilt.
No, actually it's just just like buying a car that has been swapped out for a Motorcyle by a sword wielding nun who runs marathons on weekends. Then when you try to change the tire on your car, someone moderates your tire to -1 "Analogies on Slashdot rarely make sense" so it doesn't show on the default view. I say you've got the right to complain about that.
Actually I believe the term is "rubber hose" cryptanalysis
I believe you're talking about Mel. The story is in the Jargon file I believe.
Wouldn't it be possible to boot from a CD and then use some rewritable media for /home , like a floppy or zip drive if it is available ?