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  1. Re:Encrypting swap and RAM on OpenBSD 2.7 Released · · Score: 1

    I have the encrypted loopback working very nicely. I use it with reiser files systems. (a patch on a patch :o)
    I was looking for your solution for the dynamic key generation and automounting of the swap device more than anything else.
    Thanks for the reply though.

  2. Re:Didn't you miss a few w's? on Wozniak Inducted Into Inventors Hall Of Fame · · Score: 1

    Actually, back not too long ago, putting those w's would have gotten you a host not found error. Taco changed that, despite his peave againt the www thing. Notice that the hole http://slashdot.org thing doesn't work with the www in it. Say it like http:///..org :o)

    Get it yet?

  3. Re:Encrypting swap and RAM on OpenBSD 2.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Ignatius, Do you have a link to a site describing the steps and/or a patch for losetup and encrypting the swap partition with a dynamic generated key? Or is it a patched losetup as per the international patch? I am really interested in implimenting this as you described, any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

  4. Serpent in the kernel on On Choosing Encryption ... · · Score: 3

    Serpent, another strong AES candidate isn't used by any applications listed on freshmeat.

    Serpent is available in the internation version of the linux kernel, as is blowfish, IDEA and others.
    Great for loopback encrypted filesystems.
    Maybe the kernel isn't an app. but serpent is there at least.
    Try kerneli.org.

  5. Wow...I did that in '94 on Avatar Me: Photorealistic Quake Skins · · Score: 1

    ...with doom.

    I used a hand-held scanner and snanned a picture of my face.
    Then got one of those patches like the energizer bunny rabbit, but this one bent over and shot flames out it's butt.
    Then I used an editor to comine my face to all the pictures then installed the patch.
    It was a total hoot.

  6. Re:Think of what this could mean for NASA... on 'Robonaut' Designed To Perform Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    ...the two white O2 containers are picked up and reused) and in the future something that will be competley reusuable except for the fuel cos

    Those aren't O2 tanks they are solid fuel rocket boosters, most of the thrust comes from those puppies.
    Once you light those they stay lit until they are exhausted.

  7. Re:Come on! Get the basics right first... on Adaptive Optics May Enable Super-Human Vision · · Score: 2

    ...I can take the wings off a gnat with a pistol at 500 yards

    That's nothing
    I can pick the fly shit out of pepper with these here spectacles.

  8. My Brother was involved in this... on Adaptive Optics May Enable Super-Human Vision · · Score: 3

    ...actually he still is.

    It is more on the test subject side of it though.

    But still, it is quite exciting. When driving he now sees things before they happen.

  9. Re:Maybe we should ... on Will The Power Grid Fail? · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, I have a G4 at home - and it consistently runs between 75* - 82* F - a pentium can fry an egg :-P

    And here I am, wondering what to have for breakfast. :o)

  10. Re:Plan 9 on SPARC (OT) on Open Source Release Of Bell Labs' Plan 9 · · Score: 1

    You know something funny. My SPARC machine's hostname is dublin.
    I'm also an ex-evolutionist.
    Small world eh?

  11. Plan 9 on SPARC on Open Source Release Of Bell Labs' Plan 9 · · Score: 3

    The list of architectures has changed; more compilers are included and the list of kernels has changed. There is solid support for Intel x86 multiprocessors. Also, although the sources are available for other architectures, the binaries and libraries are built only for the Intel x86 architectures. Kernel source is available for x86, Mips, DEC Alpha, and Power PC architectures. Compilers also exist for AMD 29000, Motorola MC68000 and MC68020, Intel i960, and SPARC. (Unlike the the last release, no SPARC kernel exists for the current system.) The compilers and related tools have been made easier to port to Unix and Windows.

    Does this mean I can compile it on my sparc but would need a previously released Plan 9 kernel?

  12. Re:Truly a Tragic Day to be an American? Nah! on Justice Department Decides To Break Up Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I think your panties are on too tight.

  13. Re:Cryptonomicon on Stephenson On His Novel In Progress · · Score: 1

    It's just too bad that he...

    a) Can't write a sex scene well at all (yet insists on doint it).

    b) Has so much trouble with the end on his stories.

    I really like his books though. But they all end really poorly. Except maybe for DiamondAge. I'm having trouble remembering the ending of that one.

  14. Re:D'oh! on Mandrake 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Wow sparky,

    That's quite something. Are you posting from the future? 2.7 WILL be released on the 15th of June. So how could you have done this? Me thinks you are a little full of it.

  15. Re:Reiser should be great. on BeOpen Interview with Hans Reiser of ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about with four partition limit? Try using an extended partition, and trowing the other partitions in there.

    The computer I am using now has 9 partions on hda. I have reiserfs on 2 of these partitions, works great. I think that lilo can boot of a reiserfs if you make /boot -notail. BUT you have to move the files away and copy them back, so the -notail takes on those files.

    Check-out the reiserfs faq for an explanation.

  16. Wow! on Heterogenous Multiprocessor Chip Runs Tao/Elate · · Score: 1

    An interesting snippet: "Up to eight processor engines can be added to one MISC device, for performance of 200 to 900 million operations per second. They can include any general-purpose RISC processor, DSPs, SIMD engines, vector processors, graphics processors or customized logic

    Clearly I'm behind the times with my new 80386 16Mhz 2MB RAM machine.
    Yes?

  17. Hey there sonny... on The "New" Amiga Finally Releases Something · · Score: 2

    Yes, at only $99, you too can be a new Amiga Developer.

    How much is it to be an old one?

  18. A Haiku for you. on Bladeenc Under Patent Attack · · Score: 1

    5-7-5 is cool
    We love to read his Haikus
    Please keep them coming

  19. Re:Linux DVD - will be a while for me. on Linux DVD hardware support From SiS · · Score: 1

    Please forgiv all the typos.

    Thes punch-cards are a bitch to work with.

  20. Linux DVD - will be a while for me. on Linux DVD hardware support From SiS · · Score: 1

    DVD !!! Whoa !!!

    I'm still looking forward to a 2X CR-ROM.

    Luckily for me the way I lag in the hardware department, this thing will all be sorted out my the time I'm in the market for on of these jobbies.

  21. Re:Forget it man... on Answers About The New NOAA Massive Linux Cluster · · Score: 1

    This may help.

    There are three easy to follow (with a little time for practise) rules for dealing with a woman whom you're involved with.

    1)When they tell you there problems just listen, don't solve it for them. Women, in general, aren't looking for solutions to their problems. They 'just wanna be heard'.

    2)If they insist on being 'right', just let them. You can't win this one. Better to be 'happy' then 'right' anyways.

    3)Always remeber the first 2 rules in the context of this simple fact -- "Women and reality have, at best, a passing acquaintance"

    Goog luck!

  22. When to draw the line on A Matter Of Trust? · · Score: 2

    I'm wondering how much information a company really needs before they can do business with someone and what kind of information a person can legitimately withhold

    If they ever start asking you to send urine/semen/fecal samples who know forcertain that the line should be drawn.

  23. Re:Umm.... No. on New Mice from Apple - Without Buttons? · · Score: 1

    Yeah there partna,

    I think he maya been talking 'bout my F-10 pickup truck.
    It's a '73 Ford and the throttle is right stuck to the floor, I think it's rusted there.

    But I don't care much, it still does me fine.

    Hope that helps ya discussion.

  24. Re:Can I keep him, huh, huh? on World's Biggest Dinosaur Constructed · · Score: 1

    Yeah I think you ought to sleep well. You sound pretty tired there chippy. :)

  25. Re:How it works on 18-Inch 3D LCD Screens · · Score: 1

    You can actually try this effect on your own monitors. Just open 2 copies of any picture, and put them next to each other. Now, look at the pictures thru the monitor, as if they were far away. Eventually, you will be able to merge the 2 pictures together, while everything else goes a bit blurry. When that happens, you are looking at one picture thru each eye. You should be able to get a slightly 3d effect depending on what kind of picture you chose.

    Okay I tried that but it didn't seem to work as you described.
    I just got dizzy and started hearing a weird sound.
    It was almost like the picture was trying to talk to me.
    Strange eh?
    I felt like I was in one of OSM's fantasies.

    I think I'm going to be sick now.