What's 'explorer'? I don't see a picture for it on my monitor. I don't see a picture of my disk, either.
See how confusing things can be when you are new to a system? New MacOS users didn't have this particular problem. (Note: I am not a mac zealot; don't even own one. Just comparing systems.)
FYI: Most 'current' desktops do provide an icon for drives (floppy, cdrom) and there is no explicit mounting needed.
Bzzt. Too bad "hashing algorithms" go from a large domain to a fixed range (i.e. the result range non-infinite), or there's no point in hashing at all...
No, it's not about recovering the original data - that's certainly impossible. Since there are an infinite number of data streams that will produce the same hash, going from the hash the one original data stream is ridiculous. Instead, it's about finding any one of the streams that produces a hash that you already know.
Think about this: many authentication systems store a hash of your password. To authenticate you, they hash what you type in each time to what they have stored, and if it matches, there is *reasonable probability* that you typed in the correct password. Now, if someone figures out a way to generate some other password that hashes to the same thing, they can log in as you. See?
What's your point? Of course the OS installation is going to ask you to set an administrator's password. Installing SP2, however, is not even close to installing an operating system from scratch. Maybe if you found an example of 'urpmi --auto-select' or 'apt-get upgrade' rebooting the machine and then asking for an administrative setting without authentication, you'd have a base for comparison.
You are kidding, right? Walking, running, and climbing stairs require much more than simply striking a cue ball with a cue, even if you include using english on the ball.
Once in college I wanted to build an mp3 player for my car. I got hold of a mini tomato motherboard, and laid out the parts on my desk - including a serial cable and infrared receiver - and booted up the machine. While it was running, the end of the serial cable with the IR receiver connected to it touched something on the motherboard, and the cable basically went up in smoke instantly. Windows had blue-screened, but after powering it off and removing the burnt serial cable, everything booted up fine.
those poor Redhat users are forced to rpm -i --force --nodeps nearly every single package they want
Honestly, if you know the least bit about RPM and Linux, you shouldn't ever need --nodeps or --force. I haven't used either flag in 3 years, and I currently maintain a few RPM-based systems, including installing security updates and upgrading the entire distribution.
So... what do you do when you install something that you decide you no longer want? What about when you want to upgrade or downgrade something? Installing from source is fine for small things, like testing out a program by using a unique --prefix to place it in its own subdirectory, but to install an entire system like that just causes more trouble than it's worth in the long run.
a) you aren't executing the script, you are executing perl
b) it's aweful hard to exploit anything that way, where as if you place an executable called 'ls' in/tmp and someone has '.' in their path, and happens to be in/tmp, they will run your script without knowing it
If you have an iTrip, it comes with one mp3 for each station you can tune it to. Why not fire up a sound editor (like Audacity) and put together the ultimate mp3 - one that plays the next station's mp3 clip each second so you can quickly figure out which station the other person is on. Just pause the mp3 when his/her radio goes silent and you are good to broadcast.
Kibitz does the same thing (it comes with expect), but it's tons easier to get a newbie into the session - when you type "kibitz ", they get a message in their console that says "type 'kibitz -number' to kibitz with ".
Extremely useful for collaboration on the command line.
With video on demand you get one shot and if you have to go to the bathroom, forget it.
I don't know about you, but I use video on demand through digital cable. Once I purchase something, I get it for 2-3 days (similar to rental) and I can pause, restart, rewind, and fast forward as much as I want.
We develop on the major unix platforms, so most tools that we use (compiler, etc) come with the OS. The legal team's biggest fit was when we started moving to Linux - since the licenses are worded in vague ways sometimes, it took a long time to have the tools approved.
Unfortunately if you are in the business of writing software, it's usually a little backwards - if you want to use something open-source, you have to go through miles of red tape in order for your legal team to be sure that you are complying with all of the licenses, etc.
And no, I'm not just talking about linking with or modifying open source software, I'm also talking about using gcc and bison - the approval for that was painful for us because both insert or provide code for your program to use indirectly.
I know this is a huge problem for the general public, but for those of us with a linux machine, do what I do and save yourself some trouble: put two network cards in the linux machine. Connect one to the internet and the other to your wireless router's normal ethernet ports (don't use the port that is supposed to be for the internet). Then, just set up your linux firewall/NAT, and you get all the benefits of wireless and a wired hub on the inside, with a linux machine doing the routing/firewalling for security from the outside. Since the router isn't on the net, no one can even touch it.
Yeah, I used to do this too. Get an email address, only use it for personal email. The problem now is that once one of the people who has your address places it in their Outlook address book, all the spyware, malware, adware, *ware on their machine has access to it. Even personal addresses get spam now, unless you only give your address to the few people you know who don't use outlook.
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What's 'explorer'? I don't see a picture for it on my monitor. I don't see a picture of my disk, either.
See how confusing things can be when you are new to a system? New MacOS users didn't have this particular problem. (Note: I am not a mac zealot; don't even own one. Just comparing systems.)
FYI: Most 'current' desktops do provide an icon for drives (floppy, cdrom) and there is no explicit mounting needed.
Possibly. I've never used it, but convertfs sounds promising.
Bzzt. Too bad "hashing algorithms" go from a large domain to a fixed range (i.e. the result range non-infinite), or there's no point in hashing at all...
A choice of 4 mp3's
I know zero-based indexing confuses most people, but you could at least count all 5 songs...
No, it's not about recovering the original data - that's certainly impossible. Since there are an infinite number of data streams that will produce the same hash, going from the hash the one original data stream is ridiculous. Instead, it's about finding any one of the streams that produces a hash that you already know.
Think about this: many authentication systems store a hash of your password. To authenticate you, they hash what you type in each time to what they have stored, and if it matches, there is *reasonable probability* that you typed in the correct password. Now, if someone figures out a way to generate some other password that hashes to the same thing, they can log in as you. See?
What's your point? Of course the OS installation is going to ask you to set an administrator's password. Installing SP2, however, is not even close to installing an operating system from scratch. Maybe if you found an example of 'urpmi --auto-select' or 'apt-get upgrade' rebooting the machine and then asking for an administrative setting without authentication, you'd have a base for comparison.
You are kidding, right? Walking, running, and climbing stairs require much more than simply striking a cue ball with a cue, even if you include using english on the ball.
But you misspelled "misspell" :)
Actually, that's the link you are sent to when you use the google search field in the FireFox toolbar.
Once in college I wanted to build an mp3 player for my car. I got hold of a mini tomato motherboard, and laid out the parts on my desk - including a serial cable and infrared receiver - and booted up the machine. While it was running, the end of the serial cable with the IR receiver connected to it touched something on the motherboard, and the cable basically went up in smoke instantly. Windows had blue-screened, but after powering it off and removing the burnt serial cable, everything booted up fine.
Ahh, the good ol' days.
who will follow the spec to the letter (even if it is mispelled)
:)
It happens to the best of us
those poor Redhat users are forced to rpm -i --force --nodeps nearly every single package they want
Honestly, if you know the least bit about RPM and Linux, you shouldn't ever need --nodeps or --force. I haven't used either flag in 3 years, and I currently maintain a few RPM-based systems, including installing security updates and upgrading the entire distribution.
Stop spreading FUD.
So... what do you do when you install something that you decide you no longer want? What about when you want to upgrade or downgrade something? Installing from source is fine for small things, like testing out a program by using a unique --prefix to place it in its own subdirectory, but to install an entire system like that just causes more trouble than it's worth in the long run.
Except:
/tmp and someone has '.' in their path, and happens to be in /tmp, they will run your script without knowing it
a) you aren't executing the script, you are executing perl
b) it's aweful hard to exploit anything that way, where as if you place an executable called 'ls' in
If you have an iTrip, it comes with one mp3 for each station you can tune it to. Why not fire up a sound editor (like Audacity) and put together the ultimate mp3 - one that plays the next station's mp3 clip each second so you can quickly figure out which station the other person is on. Just pause the mp3 when his/her radio goes silent and you are good to broadcast.
Stupid preview.
Should be "kibitz <username>" and "type 'kibitz -number' to kibitz with <username>".
Kibitz does the same thing (it comes with expect), but it's tons easier to get a newbie into the session - when you type "kibitz ", they get a message in their console that says "type 'kibitz -number' to kibitz with ".
Extremely useful for collaboration on the command line.
With video on demand you get one shot and if you have to go to the bathroom, forget it.
I don't know about you, but I use video on demand through digital cable. Once I purchase something, I get it for 2-3 days (similar to rental) and I can pause, restart, rewind, and fast forward as much as I want.
We develop on the major unix platforms, so most tools that we use (compiler, etc) come with the OS. The legal team's biggest fit was when we started moving to Linux - since the licenses are worded in vague ways sometimes, it took a long time to have the tools approved.
And not to mention Java apps, but that's a problem on anything but MacOSX.
Unless you use SWT, but then again, that's not pure Java...
Unfortunately if you are in the business of writing software, it's usually a little backwards - if you want to use something open-source, you have to go through miles of red tape in order for your legal team to be sure that you are complying with all of the licenses, etc.
And no, I'm not just talking about linking with or modifying open source software, I'm also talking about using gcc and bison - the approval for that was painful for us because both insert or provide code for your program to use indirectly.
There are two that I know of:
Hymn (previously PlayFair)
DeDRMS
Searching google should help with links.
I know this is a huge problem for the general public, but for those of us with a linux machine, do what I do and save yourself some trouble: put two network cards in the linux machine. Connect one to the internet and the other to your wireless router's normal ethernet ports (don't use the port that is supposed to be for the internet). Then, just set up your linux firewall/NAT, and you get all the benefits of wireless and a wired hub on the inside, with a linux machine doing the routing/firewalling for security from the outside. Since the router isn't on the net, no one can even touch it.
Yeah, I used to do this too. Get an email address, only use it for personal email. The problem now is that once one of the people who has your address places it in their Outlook address book, all the spyware, malware, adware, *ware on their machine has access to it. Even personal addresses get spam now, unless you only give your address to the few people you know who don't use outlook.
and go back to their tried and true anal ra... business model
I think you meant "anal rape^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbusiness model". Try changing your TERM environment variable; it may be set incorrectly.