That's/dev/urandom./dev/random is seeded by random events like key presses, mouse movements, disk and network events. My motherboard has also a random number generator supported by Linux, which I suppose is used for/dev/random.
Well, I have created a OTP chat, actually, in VB. I'm thinking of putting a sourceforge page for it, and if there's interest, make a Linux version too.
I've also used it the way it's meant to be (burned 32MB of/dev/random on CD and sent it to a person in another country). We used it to talk a little, too.
If anybody is interested in such a thing please reply to this message, and I will release it in a few days.
The prototype made by Lovley and Chaudhuri cranks out only a tiny amount of current -- enough to run a calculator or Christmas tree lights.
A calculator uses really tiny amounts of current compared to Christmas tree lights. My calculator hasn't had a battery charge in years, and my watch has a calculator in it too. Christmas lights got to use hunderds of times more power in comparison.
Because motion blur requires quite a lot of CPU time, that's why.
Motion blur is a natural effect on film, but on a computer it'd have to be specifically computed, which would only make things worse. If you only get 30 fps already, and motion blur slows it down to 10, then it's going to be too slow for the motion blur to be of much use.
(LART) Something large, heavy and painful, used to
respond appropriately to particularly annoying lusers.
The alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ recommends the following
LARTs. A 2x4 works fine, but a real professional needs
something a little more effective. Unfortunately, this is a
very personal thing, and no consensus has yet been reached on
the group. Everything from a simple, 7.65mm Walther (for the
Bond fans only, it's not a very good gun) to a 155mm with
depleted Uranium rounds has been suggested, some even going
for exotic things like Thermite, nukes or flamethrowers. For
further info, look at the rec.guns home page.
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What do you mean by "physically stored"? It's also physically stored on my hard disk. And the BIOS isn't very different from the CompactFlash card I use to carry PuTTY and other things around.
Maybe you mean that not being visible as a disk drive gives it some protection, but that's not that big of an advantage. I mean, under DOS, CD-ROMs and Flash drives aren't visible without a driver either, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
What do you mean by "hardware level"? A hard disk is hardware. A CPU is software. The code in the BIOS is software that gets executed exactly in the same way as any other program. It's just stored on a flash chip instead of a disk drive.
Of course not, microwaves are very simple devices that just do one thing. It's not a fair comparison. Windows and Linux both do lots of things. Switching from Windows to say, OS/2 would have some complications as well.
I'd say it's closer to compare it to a switch from a SUV to a motorcycle. Both are vehicles that you can use to get to the same place, but they're driven differently, and have their own specific advantages and inconveniences. While a motorcycle is probably harder to use (never used one), it's smaller and you can pass between cars stuck in a traffic jam.
I'm tired of seeing all this "Linux needs only one GUI" stuff. It's *never* going to happen, and for a very simple reason. Linux is not a company. Microsoft has just one GUI because it's a single entity that can control Windows perfect. Not so with Linux. Linux is a community where everybody does whatever s/he wants, and the best programs become common and the bad ones are forgotten.
I mean, we haven't even managed to standarize on a single temperature unit, a single currency or heck, on a single way of measuring distances and people think that just because they whine about how we need a single GUI that somehow thousands of developers are going to think "Of course! Why didn't I think that my WM is completely unnecesary? I should work on KDE instead".
Besides, there's not a single good WM for Linux. On a small computer I'd use IceWM or Enlightenment. KDE 3 is not going to run on a P133. On my desktop I use KDE. I don't like Gnome. Surely there are plenty people that will only run Gnome and nothing else. Trying to convince people to switch to one WM (which one?) is futile.
Easy, make it as noisy as you want. Put it in the control room. Don't bother with any long cables excepting the network one. Place the cheapest computer you can in the room to work as a terminal, say, a P166 MMX can be used with a big heatsink with no fan. Get a fanless power supply.
Now, probably the biggest problem will be finding a silent hard disk. You'll have to spend some money on that. Buy a solid state disk of maybe 256MB. 128MB might work too for Windows. If you can use Linux, you could fit it into a 64MB or maybe even 32MB one. For Terminal Server, Linux has rdesktop.
As an additional advantage it will be very reliable with absolutely no moving parts in it, as long as you don't get a CPU you can't keep cool with just a heatsink. Playing sound can probably be solved by just running long audio cables.
One thing, for a slow PC, don't use a Realtek card. Try get something decent, like a 3com one, that might make a difference depending on how much data has to go through the network.
This is either a troll or *really* misguided, but I'm bored, so what the heck...
1) They can't. Windows has to be usable by everybody. The ease of use directly conflicts with such things as security. Sure, Windows could have a really strict permissions system by default, try to get people to use a normal user instead of using Administrator all the time... but then your grandma wouldn't get why "cake" is not a valid password.
2) They can't kill it. Many people like myself dislike MS not only because of their crappy software, but because of their monopolistic practices. MS would have to release something decent AND to start competing fairly for me to like it. What are the chances of them doing that?
Windows based on Linux won't happen. MS needs backwards compatibility. Isn't the lack of availability of Office and other programs one of the things that makes moving to Linux so complicated? Now MS is in a really bad situation, if they make an incompatible Windows version, the inconvenience caused by the new Windows version will be almost the same as by Linux. And since Linux is free, has a better security history, and isn't made by a company that uses shady tactics it would surely win, or at least get a big piece of the market share.
Exactly. I meant that according to the instructions on the site, the label was attached to the side the data is read from, not to the label, which is what I wanted to protect.
If I understand correctly, that film is made for the data side. I was meaning the label side, since there's no coating on that side and scratching it would be much worse than scratching the data side.
I also suppose that this makes the CD more vulnerable to chemicals and degradation, so the idea was to cover it with something to see if it helps.
Perhaps those unprotected CDs can be protected somehow? For example, if I covered the unprotected side with a thin layer of lacquer or some other coating, would it help the CD remain readable for a longer time?
I'm feeling curious if other people tried something like this and what their results were.
100% of My job is online 100% of My school is online 100% of My friends are online 100% of My hobbies are online
Now, I agree that his situation sucks. But when practically all your own life depends on an internet connection, how come you don't have some safeguards in place, like a second connection, even if it's a modem one?
My work isn't online, but here I have 4 computers, an UPS, and another one that I'll buy because I'm running out of capacity. I can also dig out my old modem if I ever need. If you depend so much on something, you have to take some care and make sure that you won't lose money while you look for some place that still sells AT supplies, or something like that.
CPU power wouldn't be a problem. Just use povray for rendering. Then make a distributed.net-like program that fetches images and textures and renders. If somebody made a program like this, I'd be glad to contribute with my dual Athlon. Rendering is very paralellizable, and given enough volunteers gathering more power than a render farm used by Hollywood sounds quite possible.
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That's /dev/urandom. /dev/random is seeded by random events like key presses, mouse movements, disk and network events. My motherboard has also a random number generator supported by Linux, which I suppose is used for /dev/random.
Well, I have created a OTP chat, actually, in VB. I'm thinking of putting a sourceforge page for it, and if there's interest, make a Linux version too.
/dev/random on CD and sent it to a person in another country). We used it to talk a little, too.
I've also used it the way it's meant to be (burned 32MB of
If anybody is interested in such a thing please reply to this message, and I will release it in a few days.
A calculator uses really tiny amounts of current compared to Christmas tree lights. My calculator hasn't had a battery charge in years, and my watch has a calculator in it too. Christmas lights got to use hunderds of times more power in comparison.
Because motion blur requires quite a lot of CPU time, that's why.
Motion blur is a natural effect on film, but on a computer it'd have to be specifically computed, which would only make things worse. If you only get 30 fps already, and motion blur slows it down to 10, then it's going to be too slow for the motion blur to be of much use.
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(LART) Something large, heavy and painful, used to
respond appropriately to particularly annoying lusers.
The alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ recommends the following
LARTs. A 2x4 works fine, but a real professional needs
something a little more effective. Unfortunately, this is a
very personal thing, and no consensus has yet been reached on
the group. Everything from a simple, 7.65mm Walther (for the
Bond fans only, it's not a very good gun) to a 155mm with
depleted Uranium rounds has been suggested, some even going
for exotic things like Thermite, nukes or flamethrowers. For
further info, look at the rec.guns home page.
alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ
(http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/~ingvar/asr/overview.ht
What do you mean by "physically stored"? It's also physically stored on my hard disk. And the BIOS isn't very different from the CompactFlash card I use to carry PuTTY and other things around.
Maybe you mean that not being visible as a disk drive gives it some protection, but that's not that big of an advantage. I mean, under DOS, CD-ROMs and Flash drives aren't visible without a driver either, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Brain fart, guess I should get some sleep.
What do you mean by "hardware level"? A hard disk is hardware. A CPU is software. The code in the BIOS is software that gets executed exactly in the same way as any other program. It's just stored on a flash chip instead of a disk drive.
Raid 0 decreases reliability though. Now RAID 1 + 0 is fast, and very safe.
Of course not, microwaves are very simple devices that just do one thing. It's not a fair comparison. Windows and Linux both do lots of things. Switching from Windows to say, OS/2 would have some complications as well.
I'd say it's closer to compare it to a switch from a SUV to a motorcycle. Both are vehicles that you can use to get to the same place, but they're driven differently, and have their own specific advantages and inconveniences. While a motorcycle is probably harder to use (never used one), it's smaller and you can pass between cars stuck in a traffic jam.
Yeah, that's why all microwaves have the same interface, and all cars use the same type of engine and have the wheel on the same side.
There are multiple interfaces to pretty much everything.
I'm tired of seeing all this "Linux needs only one GUI" stuff. It's *never* going to happen, and for a very simple reason. Linux is not a company. Microsoft has just one GUI because it's a single entity that can control Windows perfect. Not so with Linux. Linux is a community where everybody does whatever s/he wants, and the best programs become common and the bad ones are forgotten.
I mean, we haven't even managed to standarize on a single temperature unit, a single currency or heck, on a single way of measuring distances and people think that just because they whine about how we need a single GUI that somehow thousands of developers are going to think "Of course! Why didn't I think that my WM is completely unnecesary? I should work on KDE instead".
Besides, there's not a single good WM for Linux. On a small computer I'd use IceWM or Enlightenment. KDE 3 is not going to run on a P133. On my desktop I use KDE. I don't like Gnome. Surely there are plenty people that will only run Gnome and nothing else. Trying to convince people to switch to one WM (which one?) is futile.
Where did you get the 5 times number?
Well, I could. My desktop is a dual Athlon with PCI-X. That's 532MB/s of bandwidth on the PCI bus. Should be enough for more than two 1 Gbps cards.
Install gpm, then you get copy and paste just like in pretty much any terminal emulator.
The link says "AOL inks NFL broadcast deal". No mention of SCO anywhere.
Easy, make it as noisy as you want. Put it in the control room. Don't bother with any long cables excepting the network one. Place the cheapest computer you can in the room to work as a terminal, say, a P166 MMX can be used with a big heatsink with no fan. Get a fanless power supply.
Now, probably the biggest problem will be finding a silent hard disk. You'll have to spend some money on that. Buy a solid state disk of maybe 256MB. 128MB might work too for Windows. If you can use Linux, you could fit it into a 64MB or maybe even 32MB one. For Terminal Server, Linux has rdesktop.
As an additional advantage it will be very reliable with absolutely no moving parts in it, as long as you don't get a CPU you can't keep cool with just a heatsink. Playing sound can probably be solved by just running long audio cables.
One thing, for a slow PC, don't use a Realtek card. Try get something decent, like a 3com one, that might make a difference depending on how much data has to go through the network.
It's used for encrypted filesystems (used through loopback) and swap
This is either a troll or *really* misguided, but I'm bored, so what the heck...
1) They can't. Windows has to be usable by everybody. The ease of use directly conflicts with such things as security. Sure, Windows could have a really strict permissions system by default, try to get people to use a normal user instead of using Administrator all the time... but then your grandma wouldn't get why "cake" is not a valid password.
2) They can't kill it. Many people like myself dislike MS not only because of their crappy software, but because of their monopolistic practices. MS would have to release something decent AND to start competing fairly for me to like it. What are the chances of them doing that?
Windows based on Linux won't happen. MS needs backwards compatibility. Isn't the lack of availability of Office and other programs one of the things that makes moving to Linux so complicated? Now MS is in a really bad situation, if they make an incompatible Windows version, the inconvenience caused by the new Windows version will be almost the same as by Linux. And since Linux is free, has a better security history, and isn't made by a company that uses shady tactics it would surely win, or at least get a big piece of the market share.
Exactly. I meant that according to the instructions on the site, the label was attached to the side the data is read from, not to the label, which is what I wanted to protect.
If I understand correctly, that film is made for the data side. I was meaning the label side, since there's no coating on that side and scratching it would be much worse than scratching the data side.
I also suppose that this makes the CD more vulnerable to chemicals and degradation, so the idea was to cover it with something to see if it helps.
Perhaps those unprotected CDs can be protected somehow? For example, if I covered the unprotected side with a thin layer of lacquer or some other coating, would it help the CD remain readable for a longer time?
I'm feeling curious if other people tried something like this and what their results were.
Now, I agree that his situation sucks. But when practically all your own life depends on an internet connection, how come you don't have some safeguards in place, like a second connection, even if it's a modem one?
My work isn't online, but here I have 4 computers, an UPS, and another one that I'll buy because I'm running out of capacity. I can also dig out my old modem if I ever need. If you depend so much on something, you have to take some care and make sure that you won't lose money while you look for some place that still sells AT supplies, or something like that.
What software lock-in? For the most part, Linux is compatible with BSD. FreeBSD even seems to be compatible with Linux kernel calls.
CPU power wouldn't be a problem. Just use povray for rendering. Then make a distributed.net-like program that fetches images and textures and renders. If somebody made a program like this, I'd be glad to contribute with my dual Athlon. Rendering is very paralellizable, and given enough volunteers gathering more power than a render farm used by Hollywood sounds quite possible.