I'll second this. I have no problem using 'make menuconfig', its intuitive, the help is ususally helpful, it works over a remote connection, etc. Now if we were still stuck with the 'make config' and saying Y/N over and over again, then realizing that you meant to say Y and not N three questions ago, hitting ^C, starting over, and repeating this process, then that would be an entirely different story.
Open source and money
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Larry,
Thanks for Perl and the excellent Camel Book. I've been using Perl for 7 years now and am very grateful for having such a tool at my disposal.
Now for the question. Many times people ask the question "Does open source software pay?", and I am under the assumption that it has for you with the profits from the Camel Book and the Perl Resource Kit, etc. So has OSS been profitable for you?
PS, I miss the Hmm..... and other funny comments while applying patches:)
It appears to be loacated here now:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/mike/index.html
This is an excellent piece of work. It has all of the commands and tells you which ones are vim extensions. The postscript version can be printed in book format, add 2 staples and your set.
From the jpeg homepage: http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeghomepage .htm
It mentions that the jpeg standard was a colaboration between a group of compainies and ppl. Nothing mentioned about a patent by this company. So are these people claiming to have invented the jpeg before these people standardized it?
Are they going to examine the actual packets to make sure they are valid web traffic, or do you think they would actually block all port 80 traffic??
Where I work, they already do this with a device called packetshaper (http://www.packeteer.com/products/packetshaper/). I work at a university, and the kids were killing all the bandwidth using Morpheus, etc. But blocking ports would not work, since the port numbers could simply be changed. The packetshaper device looks into the packets and looks for signatures vs port numbers.
When I was in grad school, I did a keyboard optimization project. I made my optimization based on the finger length, dexterity, etc. I also based the optimization on contralateral typing, which is going from one hand to the other. To optimize for contralteral keying, I got bunches of text, broke the words into 3 letter sequences and had a list of trigrams. I then cooked up a C program to churn all of this data which took about 12 hours to cook on a 486/66, and got an answer.
My conclusion, few people (including myself) are willing to relearn and use a nonstandard keyboard. The querty is a good keyboard (if you live in the 1800's, are right handed, and use a manual typewriter). It was intentionally made to slow people down, so that they didnt jam the keys. And, all in all, its good enough for me to type this and many other things today.
I have heard for years about people checking their user's passwords and making people changing them all the time so that noone, including the user knows the password.
But I have never heard of a system being compromised because of weak passwords (except for wargames:)
I know that default passwords have been problems, even slashdot was broken into because of this.
But is this password stuff just hype, or has anyone on slashdot actually heard of problems deriving from weak passwords.
Chapin's team fitted five rats with electrodes and power-pack backpacks. When signaled by a laptop computer, the electrodes stimulated the rodents' brains and cued them to scurry in the desired direction, then rewarded them by stimulating a pleasure center in the brain.
Pretty soon, the US Govenment will be coercing
humans to work 40+ hours a week, give the government about 25% of what they make, so that the remaining 75% of the money and time can be spent by stimulating a pleasure center in the brain.
I will not endorse the Passport for many reasons (proprietary, MS platform only, database owned by M$, etc). But I definitely do support some kind of identification on the net based upon private/public key technology preferably stored on a secure device (eg, smartcard). Can you imagine not having to remember a password ever again, or at most 1 password to unlock your smartcard.
I cannot believe that in 2002 we are still securing our networks with username/passwords written on sticky notes stuck to monitors.
It's not at all obvious -- to me at least -- that we should want AIs to feel emotions. Who
wants a warehouse full of smart bombs with hurt feelings?
I do not believe that we would want a warehouse full of smart bombs with hurt feelings any more than we would want people with hurt feelings being responsible for the deployment of such bombs. The military screens for such things through various personality and performance based tests.
However, I do believe that emotions are important to AI for one simple fact. For true AI to work, the computer must want to do something, not just react as programmed. I came upon this when I first played with an ELIZA program. I mean it could "learn" an "appropriate" response by asking what it should say if it had no prior knowledge of a topic, but the program never wanted to learn, it had no motivation. In fact, if it asked for a response, it would simply sit there waiting indefinately, whereas any living thing above a plant would go about doing something else.
Now, putting human emotions into a computer might not be the best of things, but what definetly needs to happen is some kind of feedback loop to positively and negatively reinforce the machine so that it has some kind of "desire" to change its behavior. Then, we will have true AI, and not before.
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The closest thing is:
:!emacs %
Don't people realize that passwords are not secure
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Themes.org Cracked
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I think it is getting rediculous that ppl are still using passowords as "security" for logging into machines. This is yet another example of how passwords simply do not work. Why? Because they are too easy to sniff, are reused across accounts, get found laying around in textfiles in plaintext, etc. Being that everyone uses shadow passwords nowadays (don't you?) the brute force attempts such as using crack are useless. Its much easier to get one laying around.
For example, recently at my ISP the radius.log for the terminal server was world readable and had over 100K of plaintext passwords for mishandled ppp connects. For example, I saw mine as pp:username:passwd because the 1st 'p' character got chopped during negotiations.
I would strongly recommend using strict ssh rules such as limiting where ppl can log in from and make them use keys to login instead of passwords.
I nolonger try to make a "good password" because there is no such thing. Think about it x!YS@^xlps is just as secure as 'secret' as a password in plaintext. Just for kicks I thought about walking into a companyy sometime and going around asking ppl for their passwords, and I bet that I would get at least 1 in 15 minutes with no problem. PKI, smartcards, etc are much better than passwords, lets use them.
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Another nitpicky comment regarding the delivery...
Albert Einstein proved
Nothing in science is "proved", science is the negating of existing theories and finding support for new ones. Another pet pieve of mine is Newton's Laws. These too are theories that have been negatated by such people as Einstein and
Stephen Hawking.
a http proxy server like squid has "delay pools" that will limit bandwidth. So for your testing you could login as modem/slow or something and get a speed of a modem user.
Being that Microsoft OS's include a bunch of features that are not part of the OS (web browsers, multi media apps, etc), why does it not include a text editor that can do things like edit
UNIX formated, MAC formated, and MSDOS formatted text with support for programming languages like C#, java, C, html, xml, etc? With the advent of.NET coming this would seem to be a needed feature.
As a side note, I really like a uniform text viewing/editing so that I don't have to think about what commands are available in _this particular app_ to do basic commands that I do all day long. For example, at work I use Outlook for mail, but have to fight with the editor to do simple things. I also use DevStudio, which has a different editor (and can be kinda spawned externally to another editor). Interesting enough many people that I know use DevStudio as a _text editor_ because it has some of the above meantioned features.
Being that electric motors are superior to gasoline motors in variable speeds (eg: acceleration), and that they are simpler motors, why wouldn't they be faster than gasoline? Most gasoline motors use pistons that generate their energy roughly tangentially to the motion of the wheels, while electric motors are constantly pulled in the direction of the rotation of the wheels. Also electric motors weigh much less than gasoline motors.
I guess that the only thing that is suprising is that batteries are getting efficient enough (in terms of weight and size) to store enough energy to make the efficiencies of electric motors shine.
I'm not advocating theft in any way. In fact, I rarely lock my primary car that I drive, and the
other car that I drive does not lock on the passenger side. In fact, I used to leave the key in the ignition of my previous car or on the floor .
What I am saying and others alluded to this is that if one expects others to behave in a certain way (be dishonest, etc), yet they do nothing to curtail such behavior or even promote it, then one gets what they deserve.
I do not trust people I do not know, so I don't trust them. Comon didn't everyone's parents tell them not to talke/accept things from strangers? That phrase is there for a reason...
Btw, I'm also trapped in a Microsoft job, please help me get out!
And I don't deserve my brand new Ferrari to be
stolen from a parkinglot after leaving it in Downtown
Los Angeles for a couple of weeks unlocked and
with the keys in the ignition?
I too had the same problem when I 1st got my DVD
player. But I just went across the street and
bough a "anti-copy" thing for like 15$ and everything was fine. Let me point out that I have _NEVER_ made a vhs copy of a dvd. Why? Because VHS lacks the features of DVD (I dont own a vcr anymore, the one that I was using was integrated into the TV). These features include: 1) track selection 2) HQ picture 3) HQ sound, etc. Plus for 15 to 20 bucks I can buy the DVD if I like it that much.
Btw, Macrovision is a lame technology and it does not too much scare me that they are interested in doing something similar to audio. Macrovision is a cheesy OOB hack that a recorder must acknowledge. In a nutshell the original recording is "encoded" with this OOB data and when a hardware device picks up this data it screws with the signal to degrade the quality. The bypass units are simple filters.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll second this. I have no problem using 'make menuconfig', its intuitive, the help is ususally helpful, it works over a remote connection, etc. Now if we were still stuck with the 'make config' and saying Y/N over and over again, then realizing that you meant to say Y and not N three questions ago, hitting ^C, starting over, and repeating this process, then that would be an entirely different story.
Thanks for Perl and the excellent Camel Book. I've been using Perl for 7 years now and am very grateful for having such a tool at my disposal.
Now for the question. Many times people ask the question "Does open source software pay?", and I am under the assumption that it has for you with the profits from the Camel Book and the Perl Resource Kit, etc. So has OSS been profitable for you?
PS, I miss the Hmm..... and other funny comments while applying patches :)
This is an excellent piece of work. It has all of the commands and tells you which ones are vim extensions. The postscript version can be printed in book format, add 2 staples and your set.
From the jpeg homepage:e .htm
http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeghomepag
It mentions that the jpeg standard was a colaboration between a group of compainies and ppl. Nothing mentioned about a patent by this company. So are these people claiming to have invented the jpeg before these people standardized it?
Where I work, they already do this with a device called packetshaper (http://www.packeteer.com/products/packetshaper/). I work at a university, and the kids were killing all the bandwidth using Morpheus, etc. But blocking ports would not work, since the port numbers could simply be changed. The packetshaper device looks into the packets and looks for signatures vs port numbers.
My conclusion, few people (including myself) are willing to relearn and use a nonstandard keyboard. The querty is a good keyboard (if you live in the 1800's, are right handed, and use a manual typewriter). It was intentionally made to slow people down, so that they didnt jam the keys. And, all in all, its good enough for me to type this and many other things today.
Anyway, this sounds something like what the people at etree do. However, the people there care a little more about music than your average joe.
Digital UNIX either (Dunno about True64). Got burned doing this while working from home, and found myself driving in to work shortly there after :)
But I have never heard of a system being compromised because of weak passwords (except for wargames :)
I know that default passwords have been problems, even slashdot was broken into because of this. But is this password stuff just hype, or has anyone on slashdot actually heard of problems deriving from weak passwords.
Pretty soon, the US Govenment will be coercing humans to work 40+ hours a week, give the government about 25% of what they make, so that the remaining 75% of the money and time can be spent by stimulating a pleasure center in the brain.
I guess you haven't ever tried to give the slashdot url to someone verbally, especially back in the day when there wasn't a www.slashdot.org.
Me: go to httpcolonslashslashslashdotdotorg
Other: huh?
I cannot believe that in 2002 we are still securing our networks with username/passwords written on sticky notes stuck to monitors.
I do not believe that we would want a warehouse full of smart bombs with hurt feelings any more than we would want people with hurt feelings being responsible for the deployment of such bombs. The military screens for such things through various personality and performance based tests.
However, I do believe that emotions are important to AI for one simple fact. For true AI to work, the computer must want to do something, not just react as programmed. I came upon this when I first played with an ELIZA program. I mean it could "learn" an "appropriate" response by asking what it should say if it had no prior knowledge of a topic, but the program never wanted to learn, it had no motivation. In fact, if it asked for a response, it would simply sit there waiting indefinately, whereas any living thing above a plant would go about doing something else.
Now, putting human emotions into a computer might not be the best of things, but what definetly needs to happen is some kind of feedback loop to positively and negatively reinforce the machine so that it has some kind of "desire" to change its behavior. Then, we will have true AI, and not before.
I think it is getting rediculous that ppl are still using passowords as "security" for logging into machines. This is yet another example of how passwords simply do not work. Why? Because they are too easy to sniff, are reused across accounts, get found laying around in textfiles in plaintext, etc. Being that everyone uses shadow passwords nowadays (don't you?) the brute force attempts such as using crack are useless. Its much easier to get one laying around.
For example, recently at my ISP the radius.log for the terminal server was world readable and had over 100K of plaintext passwords for mishandled ppp connects. For example, I saw mine as pp:username:passwd because the 1st 'p' character got chopped during negotiations.
I would strongly recommend using strict ssh rules such as limiting where ppl can log in from and make them use keys to login instead of passwords.
I nolonger try to make a "good password" because there is no such thing. Think about it x!YS@^xlps is just as secure as 'secret' as a password in plaintext. Just for kicks I thought about walking into a companyy sometime and going around asking ppl for their passwords, and I bet that I would get at least 1 in 15 minutes with no problem. PKI, smartcards, etc are much better than passwords, lets use them.
Albert Einstein proved
Nothing in science is "proved", science is the negating of existing theories and finding support for new ones. Another pet pieve of mine is Newton's Laws. These too are theories that have been negatated by such people as Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
a http proxy server like squid has "delay pools" that will limit bandwidth. So for your testing you could login as modem/slow or something and get a speed of a modem user.
There is a programming language called Perl which stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Give it a try...
careful how you use the word "embrace" :)
As a side note, I really like a uniform text viewing/editing so that I don't have to think about what commands are available in _this particular app_ to do basic commands that I do all day long. For example, at work I use Outlook for mail, but have to fight with the editor to do simple things. I also use DevStudio, which has a different editor (and can be kinda spawned externally to another editor). Interesting enough many people that I know use DevStudio as a _text editor_ because it has some of the above meantioned features.
This would be a non-issue if CRLs or something better could realtime authentication of certs.
I guess that the only thing that is suprising is that batteries are getting efficient enough (in terms of weight and size) to store enough energy to make the efficiencies of electric motors shine.
What I am saying and others alluded to this is that if one expects others to behave in a certain way (be dishonest, etc), yet they do nothing to curtail such behavior or even promote it, then one gets what they deserve.
I do not trust people I do not know, so I don't trust them. Comon didn't everyone's parents tell them not to talke/accept things from strangers? That phrase is there for a reason...
Btw, I'm also trapped in a Microsoft job, please help me get out!
And I don't deserve my brand new Ferrari to be stolen from a parkinglot after leaving it in Downtown Los Angeles for a couple of weeks unlocked and with the keys in the ignition?
Btw, Macrovision is a lame technology and it does not too much scare me that they are interested in doing something similar to audio. Macrovision is a cheesy OOB hack that a recorder must acknowledge. In a nutshell the original recording is "encoded" with this OOB data and when a hardware device picks up this data it screws with the signal to degrade the quality. The bypass units are simple filters.