I still have one of those 4-way CD changers somewhere. I never did manage to get your switcher applet to work but so rarely used more than one CD that I didn't care too much.
And yes, I found CnD as it was connected to "Rob's Afterstep Page".
My ID is the number is is because I waited a couple of days before registering, at first not being sure whether a login was any use for a site like Slashdot.
It was the same for Stream Of Passion, except they did the recording over the net too. (Maybe not all, I'm not sure of the details, but at least some.)
The band name came from the description of how they did the recording.
Bruce Perens wrote this back in March. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9312220011.html He basically said Tivo have nothing to worry about if they are willing to do a bit of work to implement their checking process in a different way.
Given that the text of the GPL3 has changed since he wrote this, do his points still stand true?
I would expect a few kB to be easier than a few MB to audit, otherwise your point is valid.
As for the auditing, I would take closed source but CAPS (or similar) approved[1] over open source non-CAPS. Because it _has_ been audited as part of the approval process. Of course, at this level the rubber hose hack is the best way of getting to the data.
I don't know about the TPM side of things.
Cheers
[1] By CAPS approved I'll take the 'commerical' version of a product certified for classified data use. In other words a realated product by the same company. I believe that in some cases the products are the same at the encryption level, but the differences are things like two factor auth for login and better quality key material.
With Pointsec only the MBR plus a couple of other sectors are unencrypted. There is no small partition in plain text which is what I understand dm-crypt to be. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Not knowing the exact details of the requirement, but Pointsec is FULL disk encryption. This matters.
To the original poster: I think this is one of those 'suck it and see' situations. Processors are getting faster all the time. Disks are getting faster too, especially solid state drives. So the trade offs between different performance areas are changing all the time. Eg today you might notice the crypto delays, tomorrow you might not because you essentially have a dedicated core doing disk crypto.
Last year I ran tests with Pointsec for a different situation and it was pretty good with a flash drive. Not _quite_ as good as a FDE competitor but not far off. This wasn't on a fancy new laptop with decent dual core processor either. For these tests I got a free eval copy of Pointsec. They were nice, helpful guys when I spoke with them, perhaps you could get an eval copy too.
Another alternative is a hardware solution such as Flagstone from Stonewood. Full hard drive speed and full OS compatibility.
What I'd like is a button that launches all my regular bookmarks intelligently. So I'll always get slashdot and bbc news etc but once a day I'll additionally get Userfriendly and Dilbert. Once a week I'll get lwn for example.
The concept of this product is neat. With careful design you should be able to prevent much of the signal from an access point going beyond a certain area, thus allowing you to put more APs on the same channel closer together within the building than before. The number of users that can sensibly use one AP will be the same but the number of users per m^2 that can use APs(plural) will be much higher. Bandwidth still won't get close to Ethernet but that shouldn't be the issue as the few people who really need bandwidth in a corporate environment should still be wired.
As before, proper authentication and confidentiality is the route to a secure wireless network,
This paper http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/086.pdf includes a section on openwrt and basically claims that you shouldn't trust it to provide good random numbers (and hence good network crypto security) because it doesn't have any of the standard sources of entropy (keyboard, mouse, harddrive) that linux servers have. Of course, it will likely be no worse than the standard firmware but that isn't really the point here.
Disclaimer: I used to build the pump lasers for the submarine repeaters so I know something about this. I also have a fibre optics PhD and have made more fusion splices than I care to count.
OTDR only works if there are no isolators in the path. (Gizmos which let light pass in one direction only)
In some submarine cable designs at each repeater there is a return path (ie a fibre loops back) going back the way the light came. I seem to remember this being at an out of channel wavelength (so it passes through some wavelength dependent isolators). Anyway, once you know how many repeaters you do get light back from along this return path you know more about where the break is.
I was surprised by the comment about the cable thickness for working at 2.5 miles depth. The repeater chassis I've seen are steel, coffin sized, and the walls are 21mm thick.
I also have a feeling that todays technology is the same as that of 4 or 5 years ago. There hasn't been that much investment (or new jobs) in new submarine cable tech since the dot-com crash. Maybe it's picking up again now but it will take a while to get the momentum back that we had in the R&D team 6 years ago.
I've seen these too. DVDs I've burned have been most reliably read back on the same drive that burned them. Less reliably on other drives. Even a single one that doesn't work is a pain, but I don't want to burn multiple copies or anything like that. I've not tried using dvdisaster but it does seem to fit these requirements.
In one form or another anyway. People keep asking about the _best_ way to store data for a long time (for some definition of best)
My take on this problem is that you should use the best you reasonably can today. Then in 5 years time when there is a new technology out there, move over to that for archiveing your new data AND move your old data over while you still have working hardware. I went from floppy disks to LS-120 drives. From LS-120 drives to CDs. From CDs to DVDs. I'll go from DVDs to whichever of HD or BD seems best in a couple of years (unless something else crops up). I might use hard drives instead but I'm not sure yet. The point is I don't need to decide until I need to store that much. If you're playing in the big leagues do the same with the various formats of giganto capacity tape storage etc.
Plan around the shelf-life and working life of the hardware you can get and the answer drops out.
> I'd imagine after that sentence that you wear contact lenses. Nope. My eyesight is pretty good. Better than 20/20 last time it was tested (which was after my PhD).
I could be completely wrong but I think the effect is because we don't have many blue cones in our retinas so we can't easily spacially resolve points of blue light, hence blue LEDs look a little fuzzy but other colours look like points. Blue light is detected a little by the green cones so we don't have too much of a problem with blue itself, but as you go further towards the UV only the blue cones can detect the light, hence violet points of light from these LEDs look more fuzzy still.
I forgot to mention, Shuji also had some UV diodes (and lasers) which he shone onto a flouresing[sp?] card.
I did a PhD at Strathclyde Uni in Glasgow, Scotland[1]
Shuji gave a coloquia lecture there once, must have been 1998 or 1999. It was just amazing. Given that I was in the photonics department, everyone knew what a bright LED was supposed to look like. Shuji came in, told us about the science in a 'doh, it was so obvious now you tell me' kind of way, then he showed us the toys. The LEDs he connected up to his little pen sized battery unit and shone into the audience. Blues, Greens, Violets[2], Whites etc. They were really bright. Then he connected up the laser diodes. He shone those onto a piece of white card he held[3] and F**k me but they were bright.
[1] The bit to the north of England. [2] The kind of colour you can't really focus on, really weird, hard to describe. [3] We only have mortal retinas after all.
I was at a concert in January. Afterwards there was a meet-n-greet with the band. When I handed the CD insert of one of his albums to the guy, while standing there with 3 t-shirts I'd just bought, I made a point to tell him that I wouldn't have bought the CD and wouldn't have been here tonight at the concert, if I hadn't downloaded his music first.
Do Macs not have scrollbars or something? They did last time I saw them?
No, what she needs is that mythical Movie-OS. You know, the one where nothing goes off screen and emails are sent in a giant animated swooshing envelope.
Slashdot Mirror
Illiad answered this nicely.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070716
They were apparently the first band to tour with this kit. I saw them back in January. My, the guitar was a sweet matt silver colour.
The announcement on the Therion site is here:
http://www.megatherion.com/News/Kliffoth/33.xhtml
Pictures of Christofer Johnsson's guitar with this tech are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjforster/370188703/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjforster/370187179/
I still have one of those 4-way CD changers somewhere. I never did manage to get your switcher applet to work but so rarely used more than one CD that I didn't care too much.
And yes, I found CnD as it was connected to "Rob's Afterstep Page".
My ID is the number is is because I waited a couple of days before registering, at first not being sure whether a login was any use for a site like Slashdot.
It was the same for Stream Of Passion, except they did the recording over the net too. (Maybe not all, I'm not sure of the details, but at least some.)
The band name came from the description of how they did the recording.
Bruce Perens wrote this back in March.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9312220011.html
He basically said Tivo have nothing to worry about if they are willing to do a bit of work to implement their checking process in a different way.
Given that the text of the GPL3 has changed since he wrote this, do his points still stand true?
There was the very heavy thrash cover of Ghostbusters by a band called Xentrix [sp].
Yes. My first thoughts were "NTSFO ITOWTBS".
The full version of the original begins "I say we take off and..", you can work out the rest.
I would expect a few kB to be easier than a few MB to audit, otherwise your point is valid.
As for the auditing, I would take closed source but CAPS (or similar) approved[1] over open source non-CAPS. Because it _has_ been audited as part of the approval process. Of course, at this level the rubber hose hack is the best way of getting to the data.
I don't know about the TPM side of things.
Cheers
[1] By CAPS approved I'll take the 'commerical' version of a product certified for classified data use. In other words a realated product by the same company. I believe that in some cases the products are the same at the encryption level, but the differences are things like two factor auth for login and better quality key material.
In cryptographic terms it is plain text.
With Pointsec only the MBR plus a couple of other sectors are unencrypted. There is no small partition in plain text which is what I understand dm-crypt to be. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Not knowing the exact details of the requirement, but Pointsec is FULL disk encryption. This matters.
To the original poster:
I think this is one of those 'suck it and see' situations. Processors are getting faster all the time. Disks are getting faster too, especially solid state drives. So the trade offs between different performance areas are changing all the time. Eg today you might notice the crypto delays, tomorrow you might not because you essentially have a dedicated core doing disk crypto.
Last year I ran tests with Pointsec for a different situation and it was pretty good with a flash drive. Not _quite_ as good as a FDE competitor but not far off. This wasn't on a fancy new laptop with decent dual core processor either. For these tests I got a free eval copy of Pointsec. They were nice, helpful guys when I spoke with them, perhaps you could get an eval copy too.
Another alternative is a hardware solution such as Flagstone from Stonewood. Full hard drive speed and full OS compatibility.
What I'd like is a button that launches all my regular bookmarks intelligently.
So I'll always get slashdot and bbc news etc but once a day I'll additionally get Userfriendly and Dilbert. Once a week I'll get lwn for example.
Does this exist as a 'fox extension?
The concept of this product is neat. With careful design you should be able to prevent much of the signal from an access point going beyond a certain area, thus allowing you to put more APs on the same channel closer together within the building than before. The number of users that can sensibly use one AP will be the same but the number of users per m^2 that can use APs(plural) will be much higher. Bandwidth still won't get close to Ethernet but that shouldn't be the issue as the few people who really need bandwidth in a corporate environment should still be wired.
As before, proper authentication and confidentiality is the route to a secure wireless network,
This paper
http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/086.pdf
includes a section on openwrt and basically claims that you shouldn't trust it to provide good random numbers (and hence good network crypto security) because it doesn't have any of the standard sources of entropy (keyboard, mouse, harddrive) that linux servers have. Of course, it will likely be no worse than the standard firmware but that isn't really the point here.
Disclaimer: I used to build the pump lasers for the submarine repeaters so I know something about this. I also have a fibre optics PhD and have made more fusion splices than I care to count.
OTDR only works if there are no isolators in the path. (Gizmos which let light pass in one direction only)
In some submarine cable designs at each repeater there is a return path (ie a fibre loops back) going back the way the light came. I seem to remember this being at an out of channel wavelength (so it passes through some wavelength dependent isolators). Anyway, once you know how many repeaters you do get light back from along this return path you know more about where the break is.
I was surprised by the comment about the cable thickness for working at 2.5 miles depth. The repeater chassis I've seen are steel, coffin sized, and the walls are 21mm thick.
I also have a feeling that todays technology is the same as that of 4 or 5 years ago. There hasn't been that much investment (or new jobs) in new submarine cable tech since the dot-com crash. Maybe it's picking up again now but it will take a while to get the momentum back that we had in the R&D team 6 years ago.
Fedora still has a mini-cd iso you can boot from to do a network install. boot.iso is 7.9MB (in FC6), bigger than a floppy but hardly bloated.
I've seen these too. DVDs I've burned have been most reliably read back on the same drive that burned them. Less reliably on other drives. Even a single one that doesn't work is a pain, but I don't want to burn multiple copies or anything like that.
I've not tried using dvdisaster but it does seem to fit these requirements.
In one form or another anyway. People keep asking about the _best_ way to store data for a long time (for some definition of best)
My take on this problem is that you should use the best you reasonably can today. Then in 5 years time when there is a new technology out there, move over to that for archiveing your new data AND move your old data over while you still have working hardware.
I went from floppy disks to LS-120 drives. From LS-120 drives to CDs. From CDs to DVDs. I'll go from DVDs to whichever of HD or BD seems best in a couple of years (unless something else crops up). I might use hard drives instead but I'm not sure yet. The point is I don't need to decide until I need to store that much.
If you're playing in the big leagues do the same with the various formats of giganto capacity tape storage etc.
Plan around the shelf-life and working life of the hardware you can get and the answer drops out.
Not to me. I really like Birds Of Pray. V was the disappointment to me.
Saw them this summer on tour. Fantastic.
> even Windows can now have 4 desktops
Until you try to swap desktops and find that all the toolbars disappear from excel
> I'd imagine after that sentence that you wear contact lenses.
Nope. My eyesight is pretty good. Better than 20/20 last time it was tested (which was after my PhD).
I could be completely wrong but I think the effect is because we don't have many blue cones in our retinas so we can't easily spacially resolve points of blue light, hence blue LEDs look a little fuzzy but other colours look like points. Blue light is detected a little by the green cones so we don't have too much of a problem with blue itself, but as you go further towards the UV only the blue cones can detect the light, hence violet points of light from these LEDs look more fuzzy still.
I forgot to mention, Shuji also had some UV diodes (and lasers) which he shone onto a flouresing[sp?] card.
I did a PhD at Strathclyde Uni in Glasgow, Scotland[1]
Shuji gave a coloquia lecture there once, must have been 1998 or 1999. It was just amazing. Given that I was in the photonics department, everyone knew what a bright LED was supposed to look like. Shuji came in, told us about the science in a 'doh, it was so obvious now you tell me' kind of way, then he showed us the toys.
The LEDs he connected up to his little pen sized battery unit and shone into the audience. Blues, Greens, Violets[2], Whites etc. They were really bright.
Then he connected up the laser diodes. He shone those onto a piece of white card he held[3] and F**k me but they were bright.
[1] The bit to the north of England.
[2] The kind of colour you can't really focus on, really weird, hard to describe.
[3] We only have mortal retinas after all.
I was at a concert in January. Afterwards there was a meet-n-greet with the band. When I handed the CD insert of one of his albums to the guy, while standing there with 3 t-shirts I'd just bought, I made a point to tell him that I wouldn't have bought the CD and wouldn't have been here tonight at the concert, if I hadn't downloaded his music first.
His response?
"Good!"
Do Macs not have scrollbars or something? They did last time I saw them?
No, what she needs is that mythical Movie-OS. You know, the one where nothing goes off screen and emails are sent in a giant animated swooshing envelope.
The fuss about ogg, for those of us who care, is gapless playback.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback
http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/
That is why I own an iriver h340 and why I owned it for less than 30 minutes before loading the gapless capable rockbox firmware on.
The key point is that only the ultra-geek niche market cares, or even understands enough to care.