This is intresting, because it is a really, really stupid idea.
I recently watched a show on TV where they showed what would happen if the moon was removed. Apparently it is the moon that keeps earths rotation approximately stable. If it was removed the earth axis would be all over the place, and that would make day and night and the seasons an stuff like that go rather wierd.
Since the moon is moving farher away from the earth all the time (due to friction from the tide) there are even people who think about stealing a moon from one of the other planets when it gets too far away.
I have an idea. We should build a really big, really smart computer (maybe using a beowulf cluster?). Then we let that computer have total control of all space expeditions we send out. I think it would work very well.
You will have the same chance as everyone else, provided you live in the USA or Canada. The rest of the world will have to wait until the second phase beta.
But how about some evil-minded hacker (yes, you read it right: hacker, not cracker), who contributes for example to the kernel effort, and installs somewhere in an obscure driver a nice backdoor, and waits till a new major stable version of Linux comes out?
This would be really difficult to accomplish. If the driver is for a popular hardware there will be more coders looking at the driver and thus a bigger chance to spot the backdoor and remove it. And if the driver if for a more unusual hardware, so that nobody will notice the backdoor, then very few users will be affected.
Intel will soon (mid 2000) release their "Italium" processor. This will be a rather big reworking of the chipset. As far as I can see they have built the chip from scratch. It still has the ability to run programs for IA32, but I guess they have to in order to sell them.
It is legal to possess the tools as long as you don't use them to commit crime. The charges to Bell also include using the software to steal information.
The article mentions that most users prefer a smaller program that works, rather than a huge program with tons of cute features that is full of bugs. This is something that software developers need to keep in mind. At the beginning of a project a requirements specification is made. One should always try to follow this specification. As a programmer it is very easy to look at a part of a program and say "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if this thing would spin when you press that button!" or something similar. Most cute features are things that the user wouldn't miss if it wasn't there, and they are very likely to add new bugs to the program. It really helps to look at the program as a user, not a developer.
I wonder how many lines of code that stupid paperclip in MS Word takes, and who wanted it there, a user or a developer.
Is it true that you are a 50 year old bald man who likes to wear black boots and a wig? Or what about the rumor that you have a relationship with Bill Gates, is that true?:=)
Yes, wouldn't it be great if you could use ctrl-c to copy text from the telnet session. MS must be really stupid not to implement that.
Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that it is very useful to be able to send ctrl-c to a program you run in the session??? Nah, MS programmers are to stupid to think about that, it's probably just an accident.
The careful reader will notice the tone of sarcasm this post should have.
As far as I know, it is possible to remove all keys tested by a person from the database. this is supported by this post by nugget. In it he states:
"4. Full logs are kept showing who tested each block, when they tested it, what client version they used, and what CPU and OS were involved. While the stats database does not retain information at this level, the logfiles do and it is quite simple to "unflag" work performed by known spammer/vandal"
A logic gate is the smallest component that makes up the processor and the other logic in your computer. A simple example is the AND gate with two inputs and one output. If both inputs are 1 the output will be 1, else it will be 0. The OR gate with two inputs works so that if one or both of the inputs is 1, then the output is 1, but if both inputs are 0, the output is 0.
In order to build i.e. a processor you combine many of these gates and a few other components.
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Sorry if you feel that I shouldn't have made that post, I just did it since I myself prefer to read the translations that people provide in the comments rather than to go to Bablefish myself. Since nobody had done that yet I did it myself.
Also, about the format in my first post. Maybe someone can explain what is wrong here, it had the same HTML tags as the second post, and in preview it looked fine, but when I submitted it the tags were removed. I had to post it without preview in order for the tags to stay in place. Is there a bug in the scripts?
Same thing happening with this post, the tags dissapear when I use preview.
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Nuernberg, 6 July 1999 - the SuSE getting thing AG, one the Linux Distributoren leading world-wide, makes a substantial contribution with the SuSE labs created now for Linux development. Spatially united at several European locations or via Internet connected, the SuSE programmers get different open going of SOURCE projects.
" the group carries unloaded of short and to medium-term business targets and on a solid economical base standing, long-term and technologically important Linux projects ", describes the chairman of the board Roland Dyroff the objective of the SuSE labs. " obligated, we will place the results - naturally inkusive SOURCE code - to the principle the open SOURCE often commodity to the advancement and free use to the order. Thus we take active product responsibility for Linux. "
So far SuSE engaged itself already energetically at different projects like the Linux Kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE and ISDN4Linux. These work was now intensified and around new projects such as ALSA (Advanced Linux sound Architecture) and USB (universal Serial bus) extends.
Besides the SuSE bundles labs Linux Know how in a so far unique pool, which enables a quite new quality to professional Linux supports. " by the SuSE labs are we able to be able to offer to enterprise customers so-called Level3-Support. This guarantees effective assistance to the customer within defined response time on SOURCE code level ", continues to explain Tilman Mueller Gerbes, Vice President SuSE getting thing AG and: " beside the SuSE partners program or own service addresses locally and the support centers form the SuSE lab the third important column of our service supply. As prominent Linux providers creates SuSE with its constant support supply the basis to establish Linux also in enterprise-critical applications. "
Nuernberg, 6 July 1999 - the SuSE getting thing AG, one the Linux Distributoren leading world-wide, makes a substantial contribution with the SuSE labs created now for Linux development. Spatially united at several European locations or via Internet connected, the SuSE programmers get different open going of SOURCE projects. " the group carries unloaded of short and to medium-term business targets and on a solid economical base standing, long-term and technologically important Linux projects ", describes the chairman of the board Roland Dyroff the objective of the SuSE labs. " obligated, we will place the results - naturally inkusive SOURCE code - to the principle the open SOURCE often commodity to the advancement and free use to the order. Thus we take active product responsibility for Linux. " So far SuSE engaged itself already energetically at different projects like the Linux Kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE and ISDN4Linux. These work was now intensified and around new projects such as ALSA (Advanced Linux sound Architecture) and USB (universal Serial bus) extends. Besides the SuSE bundles labs Linux Know how in a so far unique pool, which enables a quite new quality to professional Linux supports. " by the SuSE labs are we able to be able to offer to enterprise customers so-called Level3-Support. This guarantees effective assistance to the customer within defined response time on SOURCE code level ", continues to explain Tilman Mueller Gerbes, Vice President SuSE getting thing AG and: " beside the SuSE partners program or own service addresses locally and the support centers form the SuSE lab the third important column of our service supply. As prominent Linux providers creates SuSE with its constant support supply the basis to establish Linux also in enterprise-critical applications. "
Your thesis breaks down when Microsoft products are considered.
That is really not the same thing. The quality of Micros~1 products has not gone down, since it has never been up. People had to buy crap from Micros~1 when that was the only you could get without spending too much money. So many simply accepted the fact that the OS was supposed to crash once every hour, and didn't know it could be any other way.
Now more and more are starting to use alternative systems such as Linux, but windows will live a while longer on people buying it out of habit.
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Yep, I think it was one of Jupiter's, but I can't quite remember which one.
This is intresting, because it is a really, really stupid idea.
I recently watched a show on TV where they showed what would happen if the moon was removed. Apparently it is the moon that keeps earths rotation approximately stable. If it was removed the earth axis would be all over the place, and that would make day and night and the seasons an stuff like that go rather wierd.
Since the moon is moving farher away from the earth all the time (due to friction from the tide) there are even people who think about stealing a moon from one of the other planets when it gets too far away.
I have an idea. We should build a really big, really smart computer (maybe using a beowulf cluster?). Then we let that computer have total control of all space expeditions we send out. I think it would work very well.
Actually, they wouldn't be so hungry if they hadn't forked in the first place. So in other words, fewer forks will let the philosopher eat more often.
You will have the same chance as everyone else, provided you live in the USA or Canada. The rest of the world will have to wait until the second phase beta.
But how about some evil-minded hacker (yes, you read it right: hacker, not cracker), who contributes for example to the kernel effort, and installs somewhere in an obscure driver a nice backdoor, and waits till a new major stable version of Linux comes out?
This would be really difficult to accomplish. If the driver is for a popular hardware there will be more coders looking at the driver and thus a bigger chance to spot the backdoor and remove it. And if the driver if for a more unusual hardware, so that nobody will notice the backdoor, then very few users will be affected.
Intel will soon (mid 2000) release their "Italium" processor. This will be a rather big reworking of the chipset. As far as I can see they have built the chip from scratch. It still has the ability to run programs for IA32, but I guess they have to in order to sell them.
For more information see the Intel Itanium site.
It is legal to possess the tools as long as you don't use them to commit crime. The charges to Bell also include using the software to steal information.
Floppy.
You may download Real G2 here. And Flash player can be found here (if the link works, else search the macromedia webpage).
I really have to agree. If anyone needs to know what the latest kernel is there is a kernelnotes.org version slashbox you can add to your settings.
There are other project coming, such as the OGR project. It has nothing to do with encryption.
I think that what they say in the announcement is that the RC5-64 project wasn't affected at all. The problem is only with the CSC code.
The article mentions that most users prefer a smaller program that works, rather than a huge program with tons of cute features that is full of bugs. This is something that software developers need to keep in mind. At the beginning of a project a requirements specification is made. One should always try to follow this specification.
As a programmer it is very easy to look at a part of a program and say "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if this thing would spin when you press that button!" or something similar. Most cute features are things that the user wouldn't miss if it wasn't there, and they are very likely to add new bugs to the program.
It really helps to look at the program as a user, not a developer.
I wonder how many lines of code that stupid paperclip in MS Word takes, and who wanted it there, a user or a developer.
Is it true that you are a 50 year old bald man who likes to wear black boots and a wig? :=)
Or what about the rumor that you have a relationship with Bill Gates, is that true?
Yes, wouldn't it be great if you could use ctrl-c to copy text from the telnet session. MS must be really stupid not to implement that.
Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that it is very useful to be able to send ctrl-c to a program you run in the session??? Nah, MS programmers are to stupid to think about that, it's probably just an accident.
The careful reader will notice the tone of sarcasm this post should have.
...the difference is, that hot place you are talking about is the daemons natural habitat.
A question: What money?!?! Did you pay any money at all to Linus?
As far as I know, it is possible to remove all keys tested by a person from the database. this is supported by this post by nugget. In it he states:
"4. Full logs are kept showing who tested each block, when they tested it, what client version they used, and what CPU and OS were involved. While the stats database does not retain information at this level, the logfiles do and it is quite simple to "unflag" work performed by known spammer/vandal"
So what you want is something like Kernel Newsflash?
A logic gate is the smallest component that makes up the processor and the other logic in your computer.
A simple example is the AND gate with two inputs and one output. If both inputs are 1 the output will be 1, else it will be 0. The OR gate with two inputs works so that if one or both of the inputs is 1, then the output is 1, but if both inputs are 0, the output is 0.
In order to build i.e. a processor you combine many of these gates and a few other components.
Sorry if you feel that I shouldn't have made that post, I just did it since I myself prefer to read the translations that people provide in the comments rather than to go to Bablefish myself. Since nobody had done that yet I did it myself.
Also, about the format in my first post. Maybe someone can explain what is wrong here, it had the same HTML tags as the second post, and in preview it looked fine, but when I submitted it the tags were removed. I had to post it without preview in order for the tags to stay in place. Is there a bug in the scripts?
Same thing happening with this post, the tags dissapear when I use preview.
Nuernberg, 6 July 1999 - the SuSE getting thing AG, one the Linux Distributoren leading world-wide, makes a substantial contribution with the SuSE labs created now for Linux development. Spatially united at several European locations or via Internet connected, the SuSE programmers get different open going of SOURCE projects.
" the group carries unloaded of short and to medium-term business targets and on a solid economical base standing, long-term and technologically important Linux projects ", describes the chairman of the board Roland Dyroff the objective of the SuSE labs. " obligated, we will place the results - naturally inkusive SOURCE code - to the principle the open SOURCE often commodity to the advancement and free use to the order. Thus we take active product responsibility for Linux. "
So far SuSE engaged itself already energetically at different projects like the Linux Kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE and ISDN4Linux. These work was now intensified and around new projects such as ALSA (Advanced Linux sound Architecture) and USB (universal Serial bus) extends.
Besides the SuSE bundles labs Linux Know how in a so far unique pool, which enables a quite new quality to professional Linux supports. " by the SuSE labs are we able to be able to offer to enterprise customers so-called Level3-Support. This guarantees effective assistance to the customer within defined response time on SOURCE code level ", continues to explain Tilman Mueller Gerbes, Vice President SuSE getting thing AG and: " beside the SuSE partners program or own service addresses locally and the support centers form the SuSE lab the third important column of our service supply. As prominent Linux providers creates SuSE with its constant support supply the basis to establish Linux also in enterprise-critical applications. "
Nuernberg, 6 July 1999 - the SuSE getting thing AG, one the Linux Distributoren leading world-wide, makes a substantial contribution with the SuSE labs created now for Linux development. Spatially united at several European locations or via Internet connected, the SuSE programmers get different open going of SOURCE projects. " the group carries unloaded of short and to medium-term business targets and on a solid economical base standing, long-term and technologically important Linux projects ", describes the chairman of the board Roland Dyroff the objective of the SuSE labs. " obligated, we will place the results - naturally inkusive SOURCE code - to the principle the open SOURCE often commodity to the advancement and free use to the order. Thus we take active product responsibility for Linux. " So far SuSE engaged itself already energetically at different projects like the Linux Kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE and ISDN4Linux. These work was now intensified and around new projects such as ALSA (Advanced Linux sound Architecture) and USB (universal Serial bus) extends. Besides the SuSE bundles labs Linux Know how in a so far unique pool, which enables a quite new quality to professional Linux supports. " by the SuSE labs are we able to be able to offer to enterprise customers so-called Level3-Support. This guarantees effective assistance to the customer within defined response time on SOURCE code level ", continues to explain Tilman Mueller Gerbes, Vice President SuSE getting thing AG and: " beside the SuSE partners program or own service addresses locally and the support centers form the SuSE lab the third important column of our service supply. As prominent Linux providers creates SuSE with its constant support supply the basis to establish Linux also in enterprise-critical applications. "
Your thesis breaks down when Microsoft products are considered.
That is really not the same thing. The quality of Micros~1 products has not gone down, since it has never been up. People had to buy crap from Micros~1 when that was the only you could get without spending too much money. So many simply accepted the fact that the OS was supposed to crash once every hour, and didn't know it could be any other way.
Now more and more are starting to use alternative systems such as Linux, but windows will live a while longer on people buying it out of habit.