zForth is an open source Forth interpreter written by Bill Zimmerly. He hosts the Forth web ring at zforth.com. This site uses the zHTTP server, a web server written entirely in zForth.
This is a list of Forth related stuff in the webring: http://www.webring.org/hub?ring=forth&li st&pag e=0
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.Z X. html See section II, paragraph 2.
Actually, she claims this as an example of the rapid pace of computer imagery development in creating life-like figures. I still had no problem determining this was CGI, though. But does she have a point? What if in 2, 5 or 10 years it is completely impossible to distinguish CGI from reality. Forget virtual child porn, hell it would be impossible to submit any video as evidence in a crime. The bank robbers could claim the cops 'doctored' the tape.
Neither am IAL, but isn't this because the original lawsuit was brought on behalf of a California woman suing over her purchase of said album?
It will take a class action lawsuit about a mess of protected CDs before we will see this. It is likely the actions of Phillips or Congress will take effect sooner.
I recommend moving away from proprietary formats altogether. This trend is only going to continue. First a very good doc prep software paackage is released but in closed source form. For years, companies use this data format to represent all their internal stuff. The vendor continues to provide support. Then a sea change occurs and the company moves off dying legacy hardware to open stuff on commodotity h/w (Linux on Intel/PPC). However, this platform is not supported by the vendor
Or perhaps the vendor closes its doors. On the other hand, if the company had its source material in XML and used standard presentation languages like XSLT, XSL:FO they wouldn't be tied to any one particular vendor or platform.
XSL:FO can be used to output to a wide variety of formats, including mif, pdf and LaTeX.
I realize this is nearly the same as suggesting it is a good idea to lock the barn door after the fact. But the advantages fo changing to this methodology outweigh the initial cost, IMO. The federal gov't had this same problem 30-40 years ago and came up with SGML as the solution then.
Thats certainly a way to do it. I should mention that DTD parsing is always available in Xerces-J 2, and you have to set it on by setting a feature, just as you do for XML Schema validation.
With XML Schema you get a richer array of data types as well as a XML syntax. I think the latter point is important because it can simplify automated schema generation as well as combining schemas in the same document.
If you think about namespaces, combining data from multiple sources requires a better way of validating each separate namespace.
I'm not entirely sure I entirely agree with you about the shift in technology being "smaller, faster, wireless, and pervasive." This is a developing market, but it will not supplant the home PC in the near future. The monolithic PC keeps adapting to new trends. MP3s started out on PCs and the 'Net but now have migrated to portable and settop/stereo components. The next thing seems to be digicams and desktop video editing. Combined with netcams and burnable DVDs there aren't many CE devices to compete with the average 2002 vintage PC.
My point is, that while this pervasive trend is emerging, the home/business PC keeps evolving in new and interesting ways usually ahead of the consumer electronic market.
As a consumer, my only chance to vote is with my wallet. So other than the CD's I already own, and the digital music on DirectTV, I wish to only support artists and companies who are not members of the RIAA.
Does anyone know of a single source of this information? The boycott-riaa.com site lists who to boycott, but I couldn't find a list of alternatives.
An ideal list would searchable and sorted by genre.
Just strummed on the banjo server and about 1/2 of the things I clicked on returned internal server errors. Hope this is not a sign of things to come later tonight.
I agree with the poster about doing a search for prior art. It appears to be too simple to not have been discovered prior to 1998. For the moment, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Going off no more than the abstract, this seems like a weak scheme to me. The Man in the Middle attack (or simple packet sniffers) might be able to compromise the password through the change. Consider that the entire security of this rests on the encryption of Hash(old) for Message(2). It further relys on physical security of the server's password hash database. (Which if its running IIS and Code Red II worms its way in, maybe not.)
The strength of the encryption algorithm (stream or block cipher) is paramount. 56 bit DES could be cracked in hours. I hope the actual implementation would use ADES or TwoFish or something. The one way hash should also be longer than 56 bits since its used as the key. I don't know how NT or 2000 generates these.
In either scenario, if the hash of the old password is compromised, then Message1 is decoded. I hope they are not planning to use this for.NET or Passport.
What I don't get is why if they are using Kerberos in 2k and ActiveDirectory, would they consider this weaker scheme.
One of the problems with Internet2 usually mentioned is the extreme bandwidth requirements. Estimates on this place the total digital capacity at around a dedicated 100 Mbps for every man woman and child on the planet by around 2010.
Of course that doesn't take into account the geographical separation of the human species and that the chromatic dispersion increases dramatically over even short distances. All 6.5B of us would have to live within a few kilometers of each other. Too crowded for my taste.
More can be found at SciAm and at a previous Slashdot story
I think this idea has some merit and is actually quite feasable. In addition to Cygwin, I'd add the packages mentioned in the post as well as some alternative GUI stuff ported to Win32. The basic problem with this is the state of free software X servers for Windows is poor at the moment. Other projects are based on recreating the POSIX primatives: Gnome Desktop on Windows. This has been discussed at/. before
Apparently, it needs a free-for non-commercial use unix library and an X server, so no real joy yet. Since the Gimp uses a non-X layer for Windows, it must be somehow possible to port other GDK based stuff to Windows.
But just the same,./ is also distracting as well as being useful. I'm sure I'd have more hours in my day, if I wasn't so addicted to this site. Whenever I get stuck on some problem, I revert to a senseless news junkie needing that next slashdot or newsforge fix.
Before./ I was happy not knowing. Now I must forever fret about Microsoft, the GPL, my privacy and my Rights Online! Not to mention whether I'm being cloned, invaded by nanobots, or threatened from ECOs in space.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone know if FF2 comes any closer to ACID2 compatibility? How does it compare to IE7?
Thanks
Dave Scott, of Microsoft is talking about this tonight at the St. Louis Unix User's group.
His talk is entitled:
"Running UNIX Applications on Microsoft Operating Systems
by Dave Scott, Microsoft"
Here is the web site http://www.sluug.org
There is a location link on the main page. Starts at 6:30 or 7:00.
Ed
Wow. I did this (about:plugins) and it showed Microsoft DRM. I never remember agreeing to this. Anybody have a clue what it is.
k /2002-Nov ember/003771.html
Found this on Google:
http://www.xenoclast.org/free-sklyarov-u
I asked BillZ for the URL, here it is:
http://www.zimmerly.com/wbz/zforth.tar.gz
zForth is an open source Forth interpreter written by Bill Zimmerly. He hosts the Forth web ring at zforth.com. This site uses the zHTTP server, a web server written entirely in zForth.
i st&pag e=0
This is a list of Forth related stuff in the webring:
http://www.webring.org/hub?ring=forth&l
Wonder if she is an avid reader of /. as well?
Z X. html
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.
See section II, paragraph 2.
Actually, she claims this as an example of the rapid pace of computer imagery development in creating life-like figures. I still had no problem determining this was CGI, though. But does she have a point? What if in 2, 5 or 10 years it is completely impossible to distinguish CGI from reality. Forget virtual child porn, hell it would be impossible to submit any video as evidence in a crime. The bank robbers could claim the cops 'doctored' the tape.
Neither am IAL, but isn't this because the original lawsuit was brought on behalf of a California woman suing over her purchase of said album?
It will take a class action lawsuit about a mess of protected CDs before we will see this. It is likely the actions of Phillips or Congress will take effect sooner.
Or maybe "was." :>
I recommend moving away from proprietary formats altogether. This trend is only going to continue. First a very good doc prep software paackage is released but in closed source form. For years, companies use this data format to represent all their internal stuff. The vendor continues to provide support. Then a sea change occurs and the company moves off dying legacy hardware to open stuff on commodotity h/w (Linux on Intel/PPC). However, this platform is not supported by the vendor
Or perhaps the vendor closes its doors. On the other hand, if the company had its source material in XML and used standard presentation languages like XSLT, XSL:FO they wouldn't be tied to any one particular vendor or platform.
XSL:FO can be used to output to a wide variety of formats, including mif, pdf and LaTeX.
I realize this is nearly the same as suggesting it is a good idea to lock the barn door after the fact. But the advantages fo changing to this methodology outweigh the initial cost, IMO. The federal gov't had this same problem 30-40 years ago and came up with SGML as the solution then.
Thats certainly a way to do it. I should mention that DTD parsing is always available in Xerces-J 2, and you have to set it on by setting a feature, just as you do for XML Schema validation.
With XML Schema you get a richer array of data types as well as a XML syntax. I think the latter point is important because it can simplify automated schema generation as well as combining schemas in the same document.
If you think about namespaces, combining data from multiple sources requires a better way of validating each separate namespace.
My point is, that while this pervasive trend is emerging, the home/business PC keeps evolving in new and interesting ways usually ahead of the consumer electronic market.
Damn, I had mod points yesterday, but not today. I wanted to mod you to 5 funny.
Seriously, we need a babelfish-like de-crapifier.
Rob,
/. users clamor for this? What prompted this latest change?
Did lots of
I really think this will eventually make the forum an exclusive clique, even more than it is now with the karma system.
It states in the specs page the machine's OS is Linux but state many times it can play Window Media files and streaming. Are they using Wine?
Just wondering.
I can't believe M$ missed this fact. The octave only goes to G# then starts over again at A. Whats next, snide jokes about K-flat?
If we could only find out what _it_ is.
theITquestion.com
Does anyone know of a single source of this information? The boycott-riaa.com site lists who to boycott, but I couldn't find a list of alternatives.
An ideal list would searchable and sorted by genre.
Just strummed on the banjo server and about 1/2 of the things I clicked on returned internal server errors. Hope this is not a sign of things to come later tonight.
Going off no more than the abstract, this seems like a weak scheme to me. The Man in the Middle attack (or simple packet sniffers) might be able to compromise the password through the change. Consider that the entire security of this rests on the encryption of Hash(old) for Message(2). It further relys on physical security of the server's password hash database. (Which if its running IIS and Code Red II worms its way in, maybe not.)
The strength of the encryption algorithm (stream or block cipher) is paramount. 56 bit DES could be cracked in hours. I hope the actual implementation would use ADES or TwoFish or something. The one way hash should also be longer than 56 bits since its used as the key. I don't know how NT or 2000 generates these.
In either scenario, if the hash of the old password is compromised, then Message1 is decoded. I hope they are not planning to use this for .NET or Passport.
What I don't get is why if they are using Kerberos in 2k and ActiveDirectory, would they consider this weaker scheme.
Of course that doesn't take into account the geographical separation of the human species and that the chromatic dispersion increases dramatically over even short distances. All 6.5B of us would have to live within a few kilometers of each other. Too crowded for my taste. More can be found at SciAm and at a previous Slashdot story
Apparently, it needs a free-for non-commercial use unix library and an X server, so no real joy yet. Since the Gimp uses a non-X layer for Windows, it must be somehow possible to port other GDK based stuff to Windows.
Before ./ I was happy not knowing. Now I must forever fret about Microsoft, the GPL, my privacy and my Rights Online! Not to mention whether I'm being cloned, invaded by nanobots, or threatened from ECOs in space.
Imagine California's Energy crisis if the dot.coms used 601's for web servers!
It runs every hour and says Python rules 18.1 over Perl's meager 4.9. Ironic, but at least they are honest.
It also says VB sucks. Which is no surprise. Unscientific surveys have shown a decline in VB jobs and usage with a rise in Java.