Source for Zuul: Ghostbusters script. (yes, never believe hollywood! Even if the writers actually read up on that stuff - cause, well, Dan Akroyd is a real freak (positive connotation intended) about the occult, religion, et al.
Seriously, thanks for the correction, but what's the source. so I can correct others as well.:)
Let's see if they sneak up on you and get big while you're ignoring them.
I too thought that Apple was just niche market, nothing but. Graphics, publishing, edu. That was it. And really, before OS X, I pretty much considered they sucked.
Of course, now they make a product that fits my niche, that of a network guy with an open source leaning.
It's really the best of both worlds. It's the shiny interface that I'd buy for someone like my father or brother and it's got that raw powerful system behind it that I can open up into even in their version of Terminal.
This is half rhetorical and half serious, but please don't take it as a personal criticism, but "How many niches will they have to fit in before they become big enough?":)
BTW, might want to get rid of that immediate link to the DVD copy crack on your site, http://brainglass.com/downloads.htm Them there RIAA, MPAA and SPA folks are monitoring this site, ya know.:)
Okay, I went away from it, came back and reread it, now I can see where it might read as something like...those companies that promote and sell machines... AND... provide their customers with the means to illegally....
As the structure of the sentence was poor, I read it as "our goal... was... to give us leverage.... AND provide their customers with the means to illegally..... "
I would suspect the sentence should have been written more like "Our goal was to give us leverage against those companies that sell machines with MAME and provide their customers with the means to illegally obtain the ROMs for those games. "
I suppose 'goal' would have to be 'goals' in order for my interpretation to really hold water, but hell, this is slashdot and since I'm buried four pages back, it's likely nobody, except David Foley, is going to end up surfing this far back.
Our goal in filing the trademark for the name M.A.M.E. was simply to give us leverage against those companies that promote and sell machines with M.A.M.E. installed on it, and more importantly, provide their customers with the means to illegally obtain the ROMs. This doesn't help our sales of our products. This doesn't help the community in general.
So, reading their 'open letter to the MAME community" posted on their website, they actually DO want the third party buyers to get 'illegal ROMs' ?
Could they decide which side of the fence they are on?
If you're gonna post an open letter, you might actually want to proofread it.
Yeah, there you go, just ask slashdot to offer a solution to a problem you haven't defined. Just what is this network for? Simple monitoring of things at low bandwidth? Sending constant video streams of the greenhouse conditions back to the office? What?
WHY a network? WHAT applications? It's entirely likely that whatever anyone here recommends won't match what you're trying to do.
Define your problem before asking for solutions to it.
In 'not a whole lot of googling' effort. Not that anyone would check a story on slashdot... That's what comments are for, to bitch about the facts....
"[Inventor C. L. Sholes, who put together the prototypes of the first commercial typewriter in a Milwaukee machine shop back in the 1860's, designed the QWERTY keyboard] using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced. The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down."
I agree. Given a truly random password a random search will be no better for finding it than a sequential one, either forward or reverse.
However, if you consider all combinations between 1 and infinity, weeding out all combinations that are only 30 characters long certainly shortens the search, regardless of randomness, since one important factor (piece of info) is now available. "My password is 30 characters long"
Hey, I'm not the one who first assumed the sequential brute force in this comment's thread.:)
But you assume that any brute force attack would work linearly, like all 1 character pw then all 2 character, then all 3's, etc etc, until we got into the 30 char length ones. If we presumed to start with, oh, say random passwords between 1 and 100 characters, without duplication, then we most certainly have cut things down much more than 1/95.
(at least that's where I was thinking when I made my original comment)
Thanks for letting us know you have a 30 character password. That'll be much easier to crack than having to deal with 1 - 29 and 31 - infinity length password.
Slashdot Mirror
Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
I've actually seen some other sources with the spelling of XUL since I saw the purported joke expansion.
:)
:)
If there are an babalonian gods reading slashdot (No, that's sumerian, right, thanks for that) please feel free to correct.
Isn't it wonderful how slash gets so OT so quickly
Source for Xul?
:)
Source for Zuul: Ghostbusters script.
(yes, never believe hollywood! Even if the writers actually read up on that stuff - cause, well, Dan Akroyd is a real freak (positive connotation intended) about the occult, religion, et al.
Seriously, thanks for the correction, but what's the source. so I can correct others as well.
Let's see if they sneak up on you and get big while you're ignoring them.
:)
:)
I too thought that Apple was just niche market, nothing but. Graphics, publishing, edu. That was it. And really, before OS X, I pretty much considered they sucked.
Of course, now they make a product that fits my niche, that of a network guy with an open source leaning.
It's really the best of both worlds. It's the shiny interface that I'd buy for someone like my father or brother and it's got that raw powerful system behind it that I can open up into even in their version of Terminal.
This is half rhetorical and half serious, but please don't take it as a personal criticism, but "How many niches will they have to fit in before they become big enough?"
BTW, might want to get rid of that immediate link to the DVD copy crack on your site, http://brainglass.com/downloads.htm Them there RIAA, MPAA and SPA folks are monitoring this site, ya know.
Thanks for posting that. One of the biggest complaints I hear from the UNIX/Linux die hards is key binding issues. Glad it is so trivially fixed.
Pssssst.... they matter now. :)
Gah, rabbit, Steely Dan, mind... melting...
:)
Gah...
Combine with some comment about geeks and sex or lack thereof... everyone make your own comment..
(nice nick though)
Made with real giraffes? :)
Or perhaps that was graphite.
Okay, I went away from it, came back and reread it, now I can see where it might read as something like ...those companies that promote and sell machines... AND... provide their customers with the means to illegally....
As the structure of the sentence was poor, I read it as "our goal... was... to give us leverage.... AND provide their customers with the means to illegally..... "
I would suspect the sentence should have been written more like "Our goal was to give us leverage against those companies that sell machines with MAME and provide their customers with the means to illegally obtain the ROMs for those games. "
I suppose 'goal' would have to be 'goals' in order for my interpretation to really hold water, but hell, this is slashdot and since I'm buried four pages back, it's likely nobody, except David Foley, is going to end up surfing this far back.
Our goal in filing the trademark for the name M.A.M.E. was simply to give us leverage against those companies that promote and sell machines with M.A.M.E. installed on it, and more importantly, provide their customers with the means to illegally obtain the ROMs. This doesn't help our sales of our products. This doesn't help the community in general.
So, reading their 'open letter to the MAME community" posted on their website, they actually DO want the third party buyers to get 'illegal ROMs' ?
Could they decide which side of the fence they are on?
If you're gonna post an open letter, you might actually want to proofread it.
"No you idiot, we said CISCO! CISCO! Now get rid of that fscking mirrored ball! " :)
Now THAT was witty. Woo! Scorching.
Yeah, there you go, just ask slashdot to offer a solution to a problem you haven't defined. Just what is this network for? Simple monitoring of things at low bandwidth? Sending constant video streams of the greenhouse conditions back to the office? What?
WHY a network? WHAT applications? It's entirely likely that whatever anyone here recommends won't match what you're trying to do.
Define your problem before asking for solutions to it.
Good luck
base, not bases.
Thanks
You may reapply for your geek badge in one week. (:
"You have no chance to survive, make your time. "
oh yeah, well my password is 'passw0rd' - so there!
http://ifaq.wap.org/computers/unixpoetry.html
Almost... it's poetry, at least.
In 'not a whole lot of googling' effort. Not that anyone would check a story on slashdot... That's what comments are for, to bitch about the facts....
"[Inventor C. L. Sholes, who put together the prototypes of the first commercial typewriter in a Milwaukee machine shop back in the 1860's, designed the QWERTY keyboard] using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced. The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down."
I agree. Given a truly random password a random search will be no better for finding it than a sequential one, either forward or reverse.
:)
However, if you consider all combinations between 1 and infinity, weeding out all combinations that are only 30 characters long certainly shortens the search, regardless of randomness, since one important factor (piece of info) is now available. "My password is 30 characters long"
Hey, I'm not the one who first assumed the sequential brute force in this comment's thread.
But you assume that any brute force attack would work linearly, like all 1 character pw then all 2 character, then all 3's, etc etc, until we got into the 30 char length ones. If we presumed to start with, oh, say random passwords between 1 and 100 characters, without duplication, then we most certainly have cut things down much more than 1/95.
(at least that's where I was thinking when I made my original comment)
Hey - you haven't turned into a smouldering pile of ruin! Thanks for mirroring :)
Thanks for letting us know you have a 30 character password. That'll be much easier to crack than having to deal with 1 - 29 and 31 - infinity length password.
That's 'enemy combatant'.
Funny, now I'm hearing all about this movie. A friend of mine has become a PA on the set this past week. :)
It is spelled that way if you have only a thlight lithp, as oppothed to a thevere one.
Download this.
At least it'll make you feel a little better.