No, the entire point of SSL is not to encrypt traffic. Its point is to guarantee secure transactions between servers and clients. And that definitely doesn't equal to encrypted traffic between a server and a client, though this property belongs to the picture, of course. But more important is that you can be sure that you really are doing business with an entity that you believe you're dealing with. That's the whole point of certificates. A 3rd party certificate authority that both client and server trust issues a certificate to a company and by verifying the name and the validity of the offered certificate client can draw her conclusions if her transaction with the company is safe or not. This the ideal world situation, of course. Not many does this because they don't have a clue. And why would they have, this isn't an easy issue to understand and that's why browsers display those nasty warnings for you if there's some problems with the certificate and that's great. But the problem is that it's the makers of the browsers that decide on behalf of the user who's a trusted 3rd party and who isn't (yes you can edit the list of trusted CAs but is Joe Schmoe aware of that?) But the biggest joke is the whole CA system in use. Can I really say the entity behind innocent-looking, accepted-by-browser certificate really is trustworthy? The certificate was aquired from some South African company with hard cash (that eventually can lead to leisure trips to space for the Netscape-and-Microsoft-loving-thanks-for-trusing-u s masterminds behind the certificate business for instance). Does that make the owner of the certificate a good guy? The total security level of a system is the security level of the weakest link belonging to the system. In the current CA model we have four weak links (client, browser, CA and servee). Who do you trust (not)? Arg, rant overflow detected, system halted.
A lot of people visit the US without being citizens, you know. The airliners have to hand over passanger records of their customers flying to the country. Lots of info to analyze and store. 2.5TB ain't that much.
WE REGRET THAT DUE TO THE COPPA LAW, CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 YEARS ARE PROHIBITED FROM CONTACTING THE CPRR MUSEUM BY E-MAIL OR OTHERWISE, AND REQUESTS FOR HOMEWORK HELP OR OTHER INFORMATION ON BEHALF OF SUCH CHILDREN MUST COME FROM THE CHILD'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN. (While we're on the subject of dumb laws, we should point out that we are unable to utilize the child safe.KIDS.US domain because by including censorship provisions in the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, Public Law No. 107-317, "to prohibit hyperlinks in the new domain that take new domain users outside of the new domain," Congress made it illegal to link, for example, to the Library of Congress or the National Archives website, etc. from any.KIDS.US website.)
Based on for example that snippet (2nd word REGRET has this link) one might conclude that it isn't that serious.
- Linux developers are incapable of developing enterprise-grade software without stealing from SCO. (80, 81)
Yes, very interesting indeed. Perhaps they should take a look at arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c file of any recent kernel:
/* * x86 SMP booting functions * * (c) 1995 Alan Cox, Building #3 <alan@redhat.com> * (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> * * Much of the core SMP work is based on previous work by Thomas Radke, to * whom a great many thanks are extended. * * Thanks to Intel for making available several different Pentium, * Pentium Pro and Pentium-II/Xeon MP machines. * Original development of Linux SMP code supported by Caldera. * * This code is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or * later.
Original development of Linux SMP code supported by Caldera. Damn those Linux hippies are outrageous people! First they steal from you and then they have the nerve to thank you. Bastards. Also repeated in an old SMP page by Alan Cox.
If you want to learn about implementing operating systems, you could follow Operating Systems Project course just started at my university. All the materials, exercises and documentation (ignore the bits about ordering handouts, needed manuals are provided in PostScript and PDF) are in English and available to anyone but you'll miss the lecturing course that takes place at the moment and which is intended to be taken at the same time (they use Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed.) and you won't get any feedback for the work you do of course. You use BUENOS (Buenos is a University Educational Nutshell Operating System). It's a small skeleton OS, developed for this course. You have a framework and development environment but during the course you'll implement the guts of the OS. Looks very interesting stuff. Unfortunately due to time constraints I couldn't take the OS project course this spring, just doing the lecturing part.
If you want something runnable on your PC, then this probably isn't what you want, though, but for learing about operating systems, it might be useful.
MACs have always represented Media Access Control id numbers, which are hard coded into ethernet devices at the factory and which are (in theory) unique.
Incorrect.
MAC is Message Authentication Code. MAC is calculated using one-way hash function and used to verify the origin of crypted messages used for example inside IP packets tunneled using IPSec.
And the list goes on:)
Yes, well, perhaps the title of the story should've been Official NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 kernel since what we've been using for months has been an unsupported hack. For most of people, including me, it has been working just fine, though, as you suggested, but before this there has been no-one to blame if didn't work. Now it's supported by NVIDIA.
Well probably the most simple solution would be to use channel key on the channel you're using for meetings. No need to install new software, your existing IRC server and client will do fine and no extra configuration is needed (no bots with user infos as someone suggested). Just agree upon the pass pharse using a secure method (face to face, phone, what ever) and no outsiders will be able to join our channel. More about channel key aka. mode +k
In 1996, 1997 just before the BBS scene died in my area many systems accepted MP3's. So I traded mostly TOP40 of the time. MP3's with 8.3 filenames were weird... I can't remember which album was the 1st one I downloaded but I remember listening to No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom in '96 a lot with my P120 and DosAmp. Later when I discovered the net in '97 converted to Linux (I tried with DOS at first, there was a DOS port of pppd and some weird TCP/IP stack and even a graphical WWW browser and I did manage to get it all working with my ISP but for some reason, it just wasn't enough so I went with Slackware 2.x:) and switched to mpg123 which I still mostly use, along with iTunes.
For 1000th time and this time repeat after me loudly: There is no such thing as X Windows. You probably refer to X Window System, aka. X Version 11, X11 or just plain X as described in X(7) manual page of XFree86. Thank you for learning, don't make this mistake again.
You're not limited to store MP3's. iPod also works as an external firewire hard disk. So almost empty 20GB or even 40GB iPod isn't an issue unless you seriously lack imagination.
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Actually yes there was: http://qtconsole.nl.linux.org/. Pretty amusing thing. I wonder if this wicked mind got inspiration from that joke.
I dualboot OS X and Linux (Debian in fact) on my 15" PowerBook, thank you very much. I guess NetBSD also works with this thing. If you meant non-free OS by "binary OS" (all they look pretty much binary code to me when running, har har har), there's some room to choose. Debian won't cure your need to run Adobe apps, though...
There are a ton of new companies on the DVD burner front too -- LiteOn, NEC, Mitsumi, etc. which I suspect OEM either the Sony or Pioneer drives (no, I haven't looked into it enough to know for sure)
NEC's new'n'cheap DVD-+RW is sold by themselves as model ND-1300A and at least LiteOn, which I just bought, is selling the same unit. I'm not 100% sure but I believe Plextor's next model is also just this rebranded NEC (which sounds odd to me, though).
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What if your goal is to build (relatively) inexpensive 2TB RAID array?
True, especially when they used lossy JPEG images! Unbelievable, why not PNG or TIFF?
No, the entire point of SSL is not to encrypt traffic. Its point is to guarantee secure transactions between servers and clients. And that definitely doesn't equal to encrypted traffic between a server and a client, though this property belongs to the picture, of course. But more important is that you can be sure that you really are doing business with an entity that you believe you're dealing with. That's the whole point of certificates. A 3rd party certificate authority that both client and server trust issues a certificate to a company and by verifying the name and the validity of the offered certificate client can draw her conclusions if her transaction with the company is safe or not. This the ideal world situation, of course. Not many does this because they don't have a clue. And why would they have, this isn't an easy issue to understand and that's why browsers display those nasty warnings for you if there's some problems with the certificate and that's great. But the problem is that it's the makers of the browsers that decide on behalf of the user who's a trusted 3rd party and who isn't (yes you can edit the list of trusted CAs but is Joe Schmoe aware of that?) But the biggest joke is the whole CA system in use. Can I really say the entity behind innocent-looking, accepted-by-browser certificate really is trustworthy? The certificate was aquired from some South African company with hard cash (that eventually can lead to leisure trips to space for the Netscape-and-Microsoft-loving-thanks-for-trusing-u s masterminds behind the certificate business for instance). Does that make the owner of the certificate a good guy? The total security level of a system is the security level of the weakest link belonging to the system. In the current CA model we have four weak links (client, browser, CA and servee). Who do you trust (not)? Arg, rant overflow detected, system halted.
A lot of people visit the US without being citizens, you know. The airliners have to hand over passanger records of their customers flying to the country. Lots of info to analyze and store. 2.5TB ain't that much.
When you decide, hey I don't like using loops, lets write 10,000 if statements, you aren't creating art, you're creating a bad program and ugly code.
Unless you're using perl, of course. TAMWTO.
Come one. This is Slashdot after all. Since when have missing tags been a problem around here?
Only some 600+ megabytes of stuff. Someone said there should be like 50 gigs of it. Who's right or is everyone wrong? Go figure.
Relax, please.
.KIDS.US domain because by including censorship provisions in the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, Public Law No. 107-317, "to prohibit hyperlinks in the new domain that take new domain users outside of the new domain," Congress made it illegal to link, for example, to the Library of Congress or the National Archives website, etc. from any .KIDS.US website.)
WE REGRET THAT DUE TO THE COPPA LAW, CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 YEARS ARE PROHIBITED FROM CONTACTING THE CPRR MUSEUM BY E-MAIL OR OTHERWISE, AND REQUESTS FOR HOMEWORK HELP OR OTHER INFORMATION ON BEHALF OF SUCH CHILDREN MUST COME FROM THE CHILD'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN. (While we're on the subject of dumb laws, we should point out that we are unable to utilize the child safe
Based on for example that snippet (2nd word REGRET has this link) one might conclude that it isn't that serious.
Yes, very interesting indeed. Perhaps they should take a look at arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c file of any recent kernel:
Original development of Linux SMP code supported by Caldera. Damn those Linux hippies are outrageous people! First they steal from you and then they have the nerve to thank you. Bastards. Also repeated in an old SMP page by Alan Cox.
If you want to learn about implementing operating systems, you could follow Operating Systems Project course just started at my university. All the materials, exercises and documentation (ignore the bits about ordering handouts, needed manuals are provided in PostScript and PDF) are in English and available to anyone but you'll miss the lecturing course that takes place at the moment and which is intended to be taken at the same time (they use Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed.) and you won't get any feedback for the work you do of course. You use BUENOS (Buenos is a University Educational Nutshell Operating System). It's a small skeleton OS, developed for this course. You have a framework and development environment but during the course you'll implement the guts of the OS. Looks very interesting stuff. Unfortunately due to time constraints I couldn't take the OS project course this spring, just doing the lecturing part.
If you want something runnable on your PC, then this probably isn't what you want, though, but for learing about operating systems, it might be useful.
MACs have always represented Media Access Control id numbers, which are hard coded into ethernet devices at the factory and which are (in theory) unique.
:)
Incorrect.
MAC is Message Authentication Code. MAC is calculated using one-way hash function and used to verify the origin of crypted messages used for example inside IP packets tunneled using IPSec.
And the list goes on
There's no such thing as X Windows. It's X Window System. Or X. Or X Version 11. Or X11. Manual page X(1) for reference.Oh please try to get it.
Yes, well, perhaps the title of the story should've been Official NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 kernel since what we've been using for months has been an unsupported hack. For most of people, including me, it has been working just fine, though, as you suggested, but before this there has been no-one to blame if didn't work. Now it's supported by NVIDIA.
Well probably the most simple solution would be to use channel key on the channel you're using for meetings. No need to install new software, your existing IRC server and client will do fine and no extra configuration is needed (no bots with user infos as someone suggested). Just agree upon the pass pharse using a secure method (face to face, phone, what ever) and no outsiders will be able to join our channel. More about channel key aka. mode +k
In 1996, 1997 just before the BBS scene died in my area many systems accepted MP3's. So I traded mostly TOP40 of the time. MP3's with 8.3 filenames were weird... I can't remember which album was the 1st one I downloaded but I remember listening to No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom in '96 a lot with my P120 and DosAmp. Later when I discovered the net in '97 converted to Linux (I tried with DOS at first, there was a DOS port of pppd and some weird TCP/IP stack and even a graphical WWW browser and I did manage to get it all working with my ISP but for some reason, it just wasn't enough so I went with Slackware 2.x :) and switched to mpg123 which I still mostly use, along with iTunes.
For 1000th time and this time repeat after me loudly: There is no such thing as X Windows. You probably refer to X Window System, aka. X Version 11, X11 or just plain X as described in X(7) manual page of XFree86. Thank you for learning, don't make this mistake again.
They're not using the same or even similar codebase. Windows and Mac versions of IE are different, architected by two distinct teams.
It'a called stable kernel series, you know. It's supposed to be stable. That's why they don't want to cripple the official tree it with (sometimes) broken stuff such as the pre-emptive patch.
And something even sweeter. Knoppix is also based on Debian.
You're not limited to store MP3's. iPod also works as an external firewire hard disk. So almost empty 20GB or even 40GB iPod isn't an issue unless you seriously lack imagination.
Actually yes there was: http://qtconsole.nl.linux.org/. Pretty amusing thing. I wonder if this wicked mind got inspiration from that joke.
I dualboot OS X and Linux (Debian in fact) on my 15" PowerBook, thank you very much. I guess NetBSD also works with this thing. If you meant non-free OS by "binary OS" (all they look pretty much binary code to me when running, har har har), there's some room to choose. Debian won't cure your need to run Adobe apps, though...
There are a ton of new companies on the DVD burner front too -- LiteOn, NEC, Mitsumi, etc. which I suspect OEM either the Sony or Pioneer drives (no, I haven't looked into it enough to know for sure)
NEC's new'n'cheap DVD-+RW is sold by themselves as model ND-1300A and at least LiteOn, which I just bought, is selling the same unit. I'm not 100% sure but I believe Plextor's next model is also just this rebranded NEC (which sounds odd to me, though).
28 more days and you can read almost the same article again: Debian is 10 years old on August 16th