No (Linux) kernel patch necessary. I bought a 19-key USB numeric keypad at Fry's for about $20. The numeric keypads tend to be far cheaper than the "programmable" keypads.
It's connected to my server. I loaded the evdev module and wrote a tiny C program that simply reads events from/dev/input/event1 and writes them in a text format. I pipe that output into a shell script which runs other programs based on what keys are pressed. I have one key mapped to a program that uses the modem to forward my home phone to my cell phone, and another key mapped to unforwarding my home phone.
The slashdot forums (which have little merit) are popular because they are attached to the slashdot article feed, which is popular. The article feed is popular because it has some merit and was a first mover. Windows is popular for different reasons.
"more eyes spot more flies". But to a large degree, it's irrelevant how many users BIND has versus djbdns. The question is whether sufficiently-skilled programmers have spent a sufficient amount of time inspecting the code. BIND, being far larger than djbdns, requires a far larger amount of inspection time.
I've inspected much of the djbdns code base. Although some of the code (in dnscache) is difficult to understand, the bulk of the code (including the all of the code that deals with data from the network) clearly has no buffer overflows and does not wrongly trust external data.
"... you'll never be able to provide zone transfer capabilities." This claim is incorrect. djbdns comes with a zone transfer server (axfrdns) and a zone transfer client (axfr-get).
There are patches available for IPv6 transport support.
A data recovery service should be able to replace the connector; they'd probably just replace the whole controller board. You might also be able to get it done at other computer repair shops, or by sending it back to the manufacturer.
If a spreadsheet contains nothing but data - no formulas or macros - then clearly it's data, not software. (You could just as easily distribute it as a tab-separated file, if you forgo fancy formatting.)
Macros written in a language like VBA are clearly programs: now your spreadsheet is a mixture of data and software.
An Excel formula can also easily be considered a program: it describes a computation in a form precise and formal enough that a machine can carry out the computation.
How many formulas or macros, and of what complexity, are necessary before a spreadsheet is "software" in the eyes of the law? The courts will probably have to decide this eventually; there may be no general answer. You might have to look at the purpose of the law.
In this case, the law is that bingo software must be licensed by the MGC. Why? I don't know, but perhaps it's to ensure that the taxes are paid, or that the books are kept accurately, or that the bingo numbers are drawn fairly. Then the court will probably consider whether the spreadsheet is involved in, and automates, those activities. If so, then the spreadsheet would probably be considered software that must be licensed by the MGC.
Cliff said, "... you can't edit or execute a saved spreadsheet without it's associated application." That is irrelevant. I can't execute a Perl or Python program without the right interpreter. I can't execute Java bytecodes without a VM. I can't execute Windows programs without an implementation of the Windows API. Software often relies on the presence of other software.
The claim that Java is "basically a poor rehash of Lisp plus s[o]me syntatical sugar" could only be made by someone who has done little Lisp programming, or little Java programming, or both.
Qmail (same author as djb) has achieved significant penetration into the SMTP server market, and there have so far been no security holes found in qmail. DJB has a track record of writing secure code. The BIND authors do not.
The web site was slashdotted because we tuned it very poorly. Thanks to slashdot, we had the opportunity to discover that and fix it. If you don't think AOLserver and Tcl can scale, you're not paying attention, because AOL uses the same tools to serve 2.5 billion hits per day.
This guy's "innovations" aren't new; IPV4 SYN cookies were invented by Eric Schenk and Dan Bernstein back in 1996. Not only that, but GRC's solution (as described on that page) doesn't address MSS or even discuss TCP options. See http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html for a much better discussion of TCP cookies.
bash is better? ksh is much faster than bash, has FPATH, executes the last command of a pipeline in the current shell, and has much more powerful key-remapping functionality. Maybe zsh is better, but bash definitely ain't. (From a former ksh user who had to downgrade to bash.)
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Get a good pair of headphones (I use the Etymotic ER-4P but that is probably overkill) and this recording of a thunderstorm:
a sp ?EAN=14431028526
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.
That combination drowns out just about everything.
Use a longer cable.
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t ting/moneygetting.html
The Art of Money Getting: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneyge
The Art of Money Getting:
No (Linux) kernel patch necessary. I bought a 19-key USB numeric keypad at Fry's for about $20.
/dev/input/event1 and writes them in a text format. I pipe that output into a shell script which runs other programs based on what keys are pressed. I have one key mapped to a program that uses the modem to forward my home phone to my cell phone, and another key mapped to unforwarding my home phone.
The numeric keypads tend to be far cheaper than the "programmable" keypads.
It's connected to my server. I loaded the evdev module and wrote a tiny C program that simply reads events from
Baseball is fifteen minutes of action packed into three hours.
The slashdot forums (which have little merit) are popular because they are attached to the slashdot article feed, which is popular. The article feed is popular because it has some merit and was a first mover. Windows is popular for different reasons.
Slashdot is to geeks what Windows is to the general population: popular but with little merit.
Yes, it's a personal site, but it's hosted on store.yahoo.com. They can probably handle the load.
"more eyes spot more flies". But to a large degree, it's irrelevant how many users BIND has versus djbdns. The question is whether sufficiently-skilled programmers have spent a sufficient amount of time inspecting the code. BIND, being far larger than djbdns, requires a far larger amount of inspection time.
I've inspected much of the djbdns code base. Although some of the code (in dnscache) is difficult to understand, the bulk of the code (including the all of the code that deals with data from the network) clearly has no buffer overflows and does not wrongly trust external data.
"... you'll never be able to provide zone transfer capabilities." This claim is incorrect. djbdns comes with a zone transfer server (axfrdns) and a zone transfer client (axfr-get).
There are patches available for IPv6 transport support.
Step 1: Rip out nose hair with toothpick.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit.
A data recovery service should be able to replace the connector; they'd probably just replace the whole controller board. You might also be able to get it done at other computer repair shops, or by sending it back to the manufacturer.
If a spreadsheet contains nothing but data - no formulas or macros - then clearly it's data, not software. (You could just as easily distribute it as a tab-separated file, if you forgo fancy formatting.)
Macros written in a language like VBA are clearly programs: now your spreadsheet is a mixture of data and software.
An Excel formula can also easily be considered a program: it describes a computation in a form precise and formal enough that a machine can carry out the computation.
How many formulas or macros, and of what complexity, are necessary before a spreadsheet is "software" in the eyes of the law? The courts will probably have to decide this eventually; there may be no general answer. You might have to look at the purpose of the law.
In this case, the law is that bingo software must be licensed by the MGC. Why? I don't know, but perhaps it's to ensure that the taxes are paid, or that the books are kept accurately, or that the bingo numbers are drawn fairly. Then the court will probably consider whether the spreadsheet is involved in, and automates, those activities. If so, then the spreadsheet would probably be considered software that must be licensed by the MGC.
Cliff said, "... you can't edit or execute a saved spreadsheet without it's associated application." That is irrelevant. I can't execute a Perl or Python program without the right interpreter. I can't execute Java bytecodes without a VM. I can't execute Windows programs without an implementation of the Windows API. Software often relies on the presence of other software.
The claim that Java is "basically a poor rehash of Lisp plus s[o]me syntatical sugar" could only be made by someone who has done little Lisp programming, or little Java programming, or both.
I think that by "content-free" he means that everything said in the article has already been said better elsewhere. I agree with that sentiment.
You need to pull YOUR head out. One can configure a router to block all IP traffic to/from RBL-listed addresses. See http://www.pch.net/documents/tutorials/maps-rbl-bg p-cisco-config-faq.html for example.
IBM's T210, supposedly shipping in May, is 20.8 inches and 2058 x 1536, for about $6000. It's mentioned in this article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4963181-0.htm l?tag=mn_hd
No, you idiot. Mahoney.
Qmail (same author as djb) has achieved significant penetration into the SMTP server market, and there have so far been no security holes found in qmail. DJB has a track record of writing secure code. The BIND authors do not.
Use djbsdns (from the author of qmail) if you want a secure DNS server. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
The web site was slashdotted because we tuned it very poorly. Thanks to slashdot, we had the opportunity to discover that and fix it. If you don't think AOLserver and Tcl can scale, you're not paying attention, because AOL uses the same tools to serve 2.5 billion hits per day.
Wrong. If the MTA cannot reach any nameserver for your domain, it will retry the delivery later.
This guy's "innovations" aren't new; IPV4 SYN cookies were invented by Eric Schenk and Dan Bernstein back in 1996. Not only that, but GRC's solution (as described on that page) doesn't address MSS or even discuss TCP options. See http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html for a much better discussion of TCP cookies.
bash is better? ksh is much faster than bash, has FPATH, executes the last command of a pipeline in the current shell, and has much more powerful key-remapping functionality. Maybe zsh is better, but bash definitely ain't. (From a former ksh user who had to downgrade to bash.)