For linking and loading information, I strongly recommend John Levine's book "Linkers and Loaders". You aren't likely to find this information elsewhere. It covers both ELF and Windows PE/COFF, including dynamic linking and loading. It's a very good book.
If you don't have a test server, and you can't
use chroot for whatever reason, you could try
installing it in
User-Mode Linux. Follow the brief descriptions
link and look at "As a secure sandbox or jail".
It will allow you to see how the software interacts with
other files in a reasonable installation. It might
be easier than trying to simulate it with chroot.
Also PDF is designed to allow a single page
to be rendered without rendering *every*
preceding page. This is a must for providing
random-access to pages within large documents.
There are Postscript conventions that allow
you to do this, but some applications/printer
drivers produce non-compliant Postscript.
Microsoft Research (MSR) generally prohibit
their researchers from reading GPL'ed code.
I should think they would have an awkward
time if someone else modified their code
and distributed the modifications (under
the GPL). Would the original MSR folk
be able to read the modifications?
Ooh, I hadn't noticed before that MSR is
an anagram of RMS. Spooky...
In other words, Microsoft representatives warned, "anyone who adds or innovates under
the GPL agrees to make the resulting code, in its entirety, available for all to use... [which]
might constrain innovating stemming from taxpayer-funded software development."
Would it help the "code is speech" argument to
have tools that map between a programming language
and a natural language? This may have been done
already, in which case I'd appreciate a pointer.
The idea would be to define an injective mapping
(one-to-one function if you prefer) from a
programming language (say C) to a natural language
(say English). The mapping should have two properties:
The result of converting a program to natural
language should be an accurate, human readable
description of the code.
The mapping should be invertible, i.e., there
should be a tool to convert from natural language
representations of programs to the original
programs. Obviously the tool would only work
on a subset of natural language strings (the image
of the original mapping).
Could Kaplan have banned a natural language
description of DeCSS?
I moved from the UK to the US recently. There are a number of region-encoded DVDs that I would like to watch that will only be released in the UK (for example, UK TV programmes). The manufacturers are abusing the region-encoding system when they set it and have no intention of releasing DVDs in other regions.
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For linking and loading information, I strongly recommend John Levine's book "Linkers and Loaders". You aren't likely to find this information elsewhere. It covers both ELF and Windows PE/COFF, including dynamic linking and loading. It's a very good book.
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558604960/
When did he die? And was he really a dishwasher at DartMouth?
Let that be a lesson to the owners of xxxsucks.com sites. You should provide translations of "sucks" in Chinese, Spanish, etc.!
Is the power of math something like the power of Oxyclean?
I don't think backdoors in crypto software are a good idea either, but your comparisons could be improved:
They may not have them already, but it wouldn't take the government or cops years of effort to get into a safe or your apartment.
Is this the same CFS (by Matt Blaze)?
Does anyone know of a more recent version?
And how does it compare to TCFS?
Erm, apart from digital certificates and other infrastructure components?
There's also a BBC News article on this, and it has links to the Grid Forum and Globus.
Damn right! Also TV Gold.
It even persuaded me to cough up some money!
If you don't have a test server, and you can't use chroot for whatever reason, you could try installing it in User-Mode Linux. Follow the brief descriptions link and look at "As a secure sandbox or jail".
It will allow you to see how the software interacts with other files in a reasonable installation. It might be easier than trying to simulate it with chroot.
Why are you posting uninformed comments? It's annoying.
Try watching an MSR researcher squirming at a conference because they do not want to look at some useful GPL'ed code relating to their research.
Also PDF is designed to allow a single page
to be rendered without rendering *every*
preceding page. This is a must for providing
random-access to pages within large documents.
There are Postscript conventions that allow
you to do this, but some applications/printer
drivers produce non-compliant Postscript.
I don't believe it is bullshit but I can't
provide evidence. MSR researchers have mentioned
at conferences that they can't read GPL'ed code.
Microsoft Research (MSR) generally prohibit
their researchers from reading GPL'ed code.
I should think they would have an awkward
time if someone else modified their code
and distributed the modifications (under
the GPL). Would the original MSR folk
be able to read the modifications?
Ooh, I hadn't noticed before that MSR is
an anagram of RMS. Spooky...
Short for budgerigar.
Shouldn't the title of this story be "Digital TV Enroaches"?
Pardon my ignorance, but what's an SEV 2 TAR? A runtime error message?
> Eric is a jack of all trades, [snip]
No. Eric is a jack-ass of all trades.
In other words, Microsoft representatives warned, "anyone who adds or innovates under the GPL agrees to make the resulting code, in its entirety, available for all to use ... [which]
might constrain innovating stemming from taxpayer-funded software development."
s/innovating stemming/stealing/ surely?
Try reading the XPath TR. In contrast to the XSLT TR, it is very readable, concise, *and* precise.
Many cunning XSLT tricks depend upon a solid knowledge of the implicit coercions between types that XPath performs.
Would it help the "code is speech" argument to
have tools that map between a programming language
and a natural language? This may have been done
already, in which case I'd appreciate a pointer.
The idea would be to define an injective mapping
(one-to-one function if you prefer) from a
programming language (say C) to a natural language
(say English). The mapping should have two properties:
The result of converting a program to natural
language should be an accurate, human readable
description of the code.
The mapping should be invertible, i.e., there
should be a tool to convert from natural language
representations of programs to the original
programs. Obviously the tool would only work
on a subset of natural language strings (the image
of the original mapping).
Could Kaplan have banned a natural language
description of DeCSS?
I moved from the UK to the US recently. There are a number of region-encoded DVDs that I would like to watch that will only be released in the UK (for example, UK TV programmes). The manufacturers are abusing the region-encoding system when they set it and have no intention of releasing DVDs in other regions.