Once again, RTFA! On VIA hardware, PadLockSL uses hardware to produce random numbers and do other things. This is faster than doing it in software, like one normally would!
Read the link I posted in the original article under "security hardware". PadLockSL uses VIA security hardware to work faster. I had an article about this but have lost it, which compared a VIA C3 1 GHz using this software could generate a key in under 14 seconds or something, where it would take a dual Xeon 2.4 GHz around twice the time. If someone knows what article I'm talking about please post a link.
VIA hasn't posted their reasons for pulling the code. If that is indeed the reason, I will remove my copy. If everyone thinks that there is proprietary code/licensing problems with WASTE, why is the sourceforge page still up? Why hasn't AOL sent them C&D letters? VIA based PadLockSL on WASTE, which as far as I can see, is a legitimate project, it's been there for months and the whole world has known about it. Granted, little work has been done on it, possibly because of licensing fears like this.
I see this possibility, but if it does, I will just pull the code down. Part of the reason of posting it to Slashdot was to ensure that I wasn't the only one with a copy.:)
Yes, I saw this, but I don't think I'm doing a bad thing necessarily...if this is legit code, and a legit usage of the GPL, etc., then why are Nullsoft/others making such a big deal out of it? Open source projects get forked all the time, though VIA didn't exactly give WASTE proper credit, they did release it under the GPL. Many companies would just claim it was theirs entirely, and not release the code at all. If this is a legit usage of the GPL, and VIA don't want to support the community, the community can pick up the source code and use it however they can. That is (in my mind) how the Free Software world works, that's the whole point of releasing source code in the first place. PadLockSL is, as far as I can see, a legitimate derivative work as described under the GPL. Can anyone prove me wrong?
i have been trying to get my friends to use this for years. many of the clients are only half-implementations of all the features jabber has, and some of them just downright suck. for instance many of the clients don't have encrypted mode. what i mean is we need something simple that everyone can use, or something that attaches to regular old aim so the illiterates can use it.
What about for the parent and child who would rather IM while around the house. Doesn't prolonged exposure to this make the child more unwilling to talk to his/her parent face-to-face about sex/drugs/abuse?? I know I tried my damnedest to remain an reclusive troll around my house, but thankfully my parents were active in my life and always asked questions. Hindsight being what it is, I'm glad we came to a good balance between privacy and parenting! That sort of thing requires you to LOOK at your parents and FACE your problems/fears.. not hitting "Block" or "Exit".
I think instant messaging actually helps in situations like these. It is easier to be open with people when using text messaging of some sort because people have more of a chance to think about their response and there is no pressure to answer immediately or look people in the eye. While I agree that eye contact is important and should not be avoided altogether, text messaging of some sort can be useful for certain conversations where one party can avoid some potential emarrassment. It's just that text is so much less threatening than spoken converation...
Now is only there was a global, cross-platform way of doing secure instant messaging, it would be really useful. Right now there's no real security in instant messaging and anyone can sniff your conversations; who knows, AOL probably logs them all.
...when is the last time you received a FAX offer to enlarge your penis?
Actually, a couple of years ago I used to work for a branch of Kinko's copies. Amongst many other services, Kinko's allows customers to send faxes for a fee. They also offer a lesser-known service to receive faxes for people, also at a fee, and it falls upon the employees to collect and sort incoming faxes and file them under recipients' name for later pickup. Once I actually did get a fax claiming that they could enlarge my penis, but more often than that we got 411 scam faxes. A lot of local businesses sent us advertisements, and some of them were very nice, crisp digital faxes from computers. I thought at the time that it must be a very organized affair...
I have also heard good reports on the WinTV. I personally use a card which is not made by Hauppage but is similar - the Prolink PV878P+. This card has good Linux support through the v4l drivers since it uses the bt878 chipset. It tunes both cable TV and FM radio, has an analog S-video input, and it changes channels quickly amongst other things. It also comes with a good remote, although I don't believe there's any Linux support for that yet. Best part is, you can pick one up at newegg.com for under $40.
My other advice is this - don't go for an ATI all-in-wonder, an NVIDIA personal cinema card, or a 3dfx card with a TV tuner. I have had several of these combo video card/tuners and they all have some relatively large flaw in Windows, not to mention virtually nonexistant Linux support.
All three of those cards typically suffer from poor drivers - for instance, the only drivers available for the 3dfx Voodoo3 3500TV are for win9x only. Even then, if you want to output to a TV you can't output to a monitor at the same time. For the first generation NVIDIA personal cinema cards (based on a GeForce2 MX400), the newest NVIDIA drivers don't work. You have to use the super-old v21.xx detonator drivers and v16.xx wdm drivers that come on the CD. At best you lose certain features with these old drivers, and they may not be as efficient as the newer ones. At worst they will abruptly reboot your computer with a "hardware error" message - not pretty!
...on my site. i was covering msn im spam, which is easy for spammers because they already have my hotmail address. i also hadn't given it the clever (yet somewhat awkward) moniker 'spim'. i didn't mention that all i had to do to stop getting it was to only accept messages from msn users on my buddy list, a measure that could possibly prevent me from getting messages from real users not already on my list whom i might actually want to talk to.
is it just me or do all the images seem to not be on the server? if i try to open one i get a 404. only the text on/. is dispalyed on the page. strange!
is so redneck! I live in South Carolina and I can't stand that 'word'.
You don't have to replace it with "youse guys" either - most people miss the fact that the word "you" is perfectly acceptable as a 3rd person plural pronoun.
Another thing that annoys me is that here, the plurality of coins is irrelevent. No matter how many cents are involved in a given conversation, they always come out singular. For example:
"Hey, any o' y'all got twenny-fi' cent I can borra?"
The rapper 50 cent really got the inspiration for his name from my friend Cletus.
obviously this is just another way to generate revenue for verisign. perhaps they are kinda hurting lately, and need to modify their business model a bit. the worst part is that they don't really seem to be thinking about the implications...
I thought I had heard of GrokLaw before, but the article linked to was GrepLaw. Oh well. I suppose I'm just picking nits here anyway...thanks for clearing that up.
i don't know what everyone else thinks but i worked in a print shop for quite some time, and people brought us all sorts of files all the time. we used photoshop and other adobe products commonly, such as pagemaker...it was considered stupid to print from photoshop. adobe knows this, they expect you to put it in some sort of layout software (they'd prefer you use pagemaker or something of course) and then print it. if you try printing raw graphics like that you will be in for a surprise, which is it doesn't look like you want it to. even if you have really good printer drivers you will want it to be centered better, or scaled differently, or perhaps cropped. anyway so i'm not surprised the gimp's printing controls aren't very good, they almost shouldn't be.
and to all of you bitching about the gimp, so what if the interface is a little different? i really like the ability to have all my menus next to my mouse! it's just a lot less mousing. my mouse travels miles every day as it is, and this interface "flaw" as you all call it saves me a lot of mousing and gets my photos edited quicker. otherwise, the rest of the interface is almost exactly like photoshop. if you can't figure it out then you're just plain not cut out for photo editing, don't blame it on the gimp. it's great software and beer free to boot.
ok, so i haven't seen the article. but this just goes to show that although running windows apps under linux using wine may be useful, what we are really wanting to do here is stop using that stuff anyway, by writing apps to replace them. isn't that why most of us run linux anyway, because we can't stand the alternative?
Slashdot Mirror
Once again, RTFA! On VIA hardware, PadLockSL uses hardware to produce random numbers and do other things. This is faster than doing it in software, like one normally would!
Read the link I posted in the original article under "security hardware". PadLockSL uses VIA security hardware to work faster. I had an article about this but have lost it, which compared a VIA C3 1 GHz using this software could generate a key in under 14 seconds or something, where it would take a dual Xeon 2.4 GHz around twice the time. If someone knows what article I'm talking about please post a link.
VIA hasn't posted their reasons for pulling the code. If that is indeed the reason, I will remove my copy. If everyone thinks that there is proprietary code/licensing problems with WASTE, why is the sourceforge page still up? Why hasn't AOL sent them C&D letters? VIA based PadLockSL on WASTE, which as far as I can see, is a legitimate project, it's been there for months and the whole world has known about it. Granted, little work has been done on it, possibly because of licensing fears like this.
I see this possibility, but if it does, I will just pull the code down. Part of the reason of posting it to Slashdot was to ensure that I wasn't the only one with a copy. :)
Yes, I saw this, but I don't think I'm doing a bad thing necessarily...if this is legit code, and a legit usage of the GPL, etc., then why are Nullsoft/others making such a big deal out of it? Open source projects get forked all the time, though VIA didn't exactly give WASTE proper credit, they did release it under the GPL. Many companies would just claim it was theirs entirely, and not release the code at all. If this is a legit usage of the GPL, and VIA don't want to support the community, the community can pick up the source code and use it however they can. That is (in my mind) how the Free Software world works, that's the whole point of releasing source code in the first place. PadLockSL is, as far as I can see, a legitimate derivative work as described under the GPL. Can anyone prove me wrong?
Heh yeah, goodbye bandwidth. Be nice folks, it's running off DSL...
seems like i saw a blue's clues with that. "come on, shape searchers! let's find the first clue."
i have been trying to get my friends to use this for years. many of the clients are only half-implementations of all the features jabber has, and some of them just downright suck. for instance many of the clients don't have encrypted mode. what i mean is we need something simple that everyone can use, or something that attaches to regular old aim so the illiterates can use it.
I think instant messaging actually helps in situations like these. It is easier to be open with people when using text messaging of some sort because people have more of a chance to think about their response and there is no pressure to answer immediately or look people in the eye. While I agree that eye contact is important and should not be avoided altogether, text messaging of some sort can be useful for certain conversations where one party can avoid some potential emarrassment. It's just that text is so much less threatening than spoken converation...
Now is only there was a global, cross-platform way of doing secure instant messaging, it would be really useful. Right now there's no real security in instant messaging and anyone can sniff your conversations; who knows, AOL probably logs them all.
Actually, a couple of years ago I used to work for a branch of Kinko's copies. Amongst many other services, Kinko's allows customers to send faxes for a fee. They also offer a lesser-known service to receive faxes for people, also at a fee, and it falls upon the employees to collect and sort incoming faxes and file them under recipients' name for later pickup. Once I actually did get a fax claiming that they could enlarge my penis, but more often than that we got 411 scam faxes. A lot of local businesses sent us advertisements, and some of them were very nice, crisp digital faxes from computers. I thought at the time that it must be a very organized affair...
I have also heard good reports on the WinTV. I personally use a card which is not made by Hauppage but is similar - the Prolink PV878P+. This card has good Linux support through the v4l drivers since it uses the bt878 chipset. It tunes both cable TV and FM radio, has an analog S-video input, and it changes channels quickly amongst other things. It also comes with a good remote, although I don't believe there's any Linux support for that yet. Best part is, you can pick one up at newegg.com for under $40.
My other advice is this - don't go for an ATI all-in-wonder, an NVIDIA personal cinema card, or a 3dfx card with a TV tuner. I have had several of these combo video card/tuners and they all have some relatively large flaw in Windows, not to mention virtually nonexistant Linux support.
All three of those cards typically suffer from poor drivers - for instance, the only drivers available for the 3dfx Voodoo3 3500TV are for win9x only. Even then, if you want to output to a TV you can't output to a monitor at the same time. For the first generation NVIDIA personal cinema cards (based on a GeForce2 MX400), the newest NVIDIA drivers don't work. You have to use the super-old v21.xx detonator drivers and v16.xx wdm drivers that come on the CD. At best you lose certain features with these old drivers, and they may not be as efficient as the newer ones. At worst they will abruptly reboot your computer with a "hardware error" message - not pretty!
...on my site. i was covering msn im spam, which is easy for spammers because they already have my hotmail address. i also hadn't given it the clever (yet somewhat awkward) moniker 'spim'. i didn't mention that all i had to do to stop getting it was to only accept messages from msn users on my buddy list, a measure that could possibly prevent me from getting messages from real users not already on my list whom i might actually want to talk to.
is it just me or do all the images seem to not be on the server? if i try to open one i get a 404. only the text on /. is dispalyed on the page. strange!
i got the silver version of the free pen from newegg, a pricewatch-advertising computer parts-selling website.
is so redneck! I live in South Carolina and I can't stand that 'word'.
You don't have to replace it with "youse guys" either - most people miss the fact that the word "you" is perfectly acceptable as a 3rd person plural pronoun.
Another thing that annoys me is that here, the plurality of coins is irrelevent. No matter how many cents are involved in a given conversation, they always come out singular. For example:
"Hey, any o' y'all got twenny-fi' cent I can borra?"
The rapper 50 cent really got the inspiration for his name from my friend Cletus.
obviously this is just another way to generate revenue for verisign. perhaps they are kinda hurting lately, and need to modify their business model a bit. the worst part is that they don't really seem to be thinking about the implications...
I thought I had heard of GrokLaw before, but the article linked to was GrepLaw. Oh well. I suppose I'm just picking nits here anyway...thanks for clearing that up.
sqrville
Well which one is it? The editors don't seem able to decide. If I'm not mistaken it's GrepLaw...but I could be wrong.
http://sqrville.org
i don't know what everyone else thinks but i worked in a print shop for quite some time, and people brought us all sorts of files all the time. we used photoshop and other adobe products commonly, such as pagemaker...it was considered stupid to print from photoshop. adobe knows this, they expect you to put it in some sort of layout software (they'd prefer you use pagemaker or something of course) and then print it. if you try printing raw graphics like that you will be in for a surprise, which is it doesn't look like you want it to. even if you have really good printer drivers you will want it to be centered better, or scaled differently, or perhaps cropped. anyway so i'm not surprised the gimp's printing controls aren't very good, they almost shouldn't be.
and to all of you bitching about the gimp, so what if the interface is a little different? i really like the ability to have all my menus next to my mouse! it's just a lot less mousing. my mouse travels miles every day as it is, and this interface "flaw" as you all call it saves me a lot of mousing and gets my photos edited quicker. otherwise, the rest of the interface is almost exactly like photoshop. if you can't figure it out then you're just plain not cut out for photo editing, don't blame it on the gimp. it's great software and beer free to boot.
ok, so i haven't seen the article. but this just goes to show that although running windows apps under linux using wine may be useful, what we are really wanting to do here is stop using that stuff anyway, by writing apps to replace them. isn't that why most of us run linux anyway, because we can't stand the alternative?
chris
try opera...it whips both netscape and ie into finely mashed browser potatoes.
it's not like these things haven't been around for a while. check pricewatch. i got someone a refurb toshiba dvd-ram in february 2001 for $200.
chris
there are many different formats of dvd recordable/rewritable formats: dvd-rw, dvd-r, dvd+rw, dvd-ram...
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/video/dvd/
chris