The first node knows your IP and the second node, but not the plain text. The last node knows the second-to-last node,the service you are connecting to, and the plain text unless you do some encryption on the application layer (like https).
It's not entirely unlike Mixmaster, only low latency.
What mircosoft patent claims is totally different from the way debian's apt works.
From the Abstract:
A determination is made whether the current date is on or after a date stored in a registry key on a computer. If the current date is on or after the date stored in the registry key, then ac omputer transmits a database query via the Internet to a database server. At the database server, a determination is made whether an upgrade package for the softwareprogram module component is available, such as by performing a database lookup. (emphasis mine)
First deb's and I presume rpm's use version numbers instead of dates and second with apt, the client determines which packages to update, so MS' system is different from what debian does use. --
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I'm sorry. I thought you implied that the 31337^H^H^H^H^Helite was the new natural keyboard. After rereading your post I saw I was wrong.
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The Microsoft Natural Elite (released 98 I think) is crap. They just released a new Natural that looks the same as the original, except with these stupid internet keys up top. (do these work in linux at all.. can i remap them? anyone done this?)
The Natural Pro is the one wich looks like the old Natural but what makes you think it's crap? Just because it has a few keys nobody uses anyway? (They produce a scancode on the vc but no xevent as of Xfree 3.3.6; maybe later version will include support).
I really like it since it has big modifier keys (ctrl, alt, meta) and the cursor keys are located like a reversed T and not in that stupid cross shape like the 2nd natural keyboard had.
I will only comment on two items that are simply wrong (at least _I_ think they are. Please correct me if I should have mistaken something):
The Linux SWAP file is limited to 128 MB RAM. In addition, Linux does not support many of the modern operating system features that Windows NT 4.0 has pioneered such as asynchronous I/O...
The 128 MB limit is long gone away, and IIRC ext2 is asynchronous by default.
Linux security is all-or-nothing. Administrators cannot delegate administrative privileges: a user who needs any administrative capability must be made a full administrator, which compromises best security practices. In contrast, Windows NT allows an administrator to delegate privileges at an exceptionally fine-grained level.
Someone please tell them about sudo!
They do however have a valid point on Journaling FS and fine grained kernel locks which are both in development. I won't even start talking about performance/stability and user friendlyness:) --
Emacs includes a LISP compiler which compiles LISP into some byte code to execute it faster. Have a look at those.el and.elc files on your system. -- Weasel --
but I can't copy the CD legally because SuSE has made it non-free
Oh, you can. You can copy it a thousand times if you want it. AFAIK the only thing you must not do is take YaST and make you own commercial linux distro. But I might be wrong.
I haven't used SuSE quite a while (using Debian now.) but IIRC you can choose when installing the sources wheter you want the modified or original kernel sources.
Subject: [RC5] seti@home fraud! Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 11:45:44 -0400 From: Paul Cuni
500,000 users working on 115 work units? Bob_Kanefsky (M/California) Jun 5 1999
2:28AM EDT
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that SETI@home's half million participants are currently being assigned the same 115 work units over and over again, all from three different sky locations collected on January 7 and 8. If anyone has seen any other work units recently -- especially from January 9 or later -- please speak up.
After seeing a few duplications of work units a machine at work had already processed (same headers, same content), I ran a test. I instructed my computer to repeatedly start the SETI@home client and download a work unit, but then just kill it, record the name, and start again. The result: Out of 2500 work units, the same 115 kept showing up.
Two of the 115 work units are slices of different coordinates and have the following names (as shown on the fourth line of the work_unit.txt file):
name=07ja99aa.10912.26555.213914.156 [got this one 6 times out of 2500] name=08ja99aa.16286.4081.917340.30 [got this one 4 times out of 2500]
The others are all subband slices from one location (but only 113 of them). They all say name=08ja99aa.12769.4418.68748.* where * is one of these subband numbers: 0 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 35 36 37 38 39 41 43 44 45 47 50 52 54 55 56 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 70 72 74 76 78 79 80 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 102 103 104 109 110 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 122 123 124 125 127 131 132 133 134 135 138 139 140 142 143 145 148 149 150 151 152 154 158 160 161 163
The only other data unit I've seen was one I downloaded on May 27 and then had to release the machine that was working on it.
I hope the SETI@home project will fix this problem soon, or at least acknowledge it and promise that they're working on it.
P.S. Kris, you may be right about the cause, but I doubt it. Web browser clients may be configured to use caching proxies, but there's no reason that the SETI@home client/server connection would be built only anything that complicated when a direct connection is easier to do. But not having seen the implementation, anything is possible.
Another reason for bad grammer may be that English is not the author's native language.
This might not be the case in this example it is often the case in comments posted here on slashdot. (just a guess)
English speaking people often forget to think about this. --
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..ladies and gentleman. I've seen their screenshots and they're great if one is used to gui installation tools.
Most important for "us" they still allow what they call advanced or pro mode during install.
What we might find a bit disturbing is the fact that they include only KDE (from what I read) and don't let the user choose between different wm/de but for the beginner this can be a great advantage.
What I dislike is the fact that they do not ship most of the sources with their CD(s?) they can however be obtained on cd for a small fee or downloaded from their ftp.
Slashdot Mirror
The first node knows your IP and the second node, but not the plain text. The last node knows the second-to-last node,the service you are connecting to, and the plain text unless you do some encryption on the application layer (like https).
It's not entirely unlike Mixmaster, only low latency.
http://keyserver.noreply.org/~weasel/PGP%20Keyserv er%20Schema/
http://www.debi an.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-0005/threads.ht ml
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From the Abstract:
A determination is made whether the current date is on or after a date stored in a registry key on a computer. If the current date is on or after the date stored in the registry key, then ac omputer transmits a database query via the Internet to a database server. At the database server, a determination is made whether an upgrade package for the softwareprogram module component is available, such as by performing a database lookup. (emphasis mine)
First deb's and I presume rpm's use version numbers instead of dates and second with apt, the client determines which packages to update, so MS' system is different from what debian does use.
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dude how about
/usr/games
alias rot13='tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M'
if you can't find it in
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Simply remap your keyboard layout to Dvorak. Nobody will never find out what you're typing :)
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I'm sorry. I thought you implied that the 31337^H^H^H^H^Helite was the new natural keyboard. After rereading your post I saw I was wrong.
cu
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The Microsoft Natural Elite (released 98 I think) is crap. They just released a new Natural that looks the same as the original, except with these stupid internet keys up top. (do these work in linux at all.. can i remap them? anyone done this?)
The Natural Pro is the one wich looks like the old Natural but what makes you think it's crap? Just because it has a few keys nobody uses anyway? (They produce a scancode on the vc but no xevent as of Xfree 3.3.6; maybe later version will include support).
I really like it since it has big modifier keys (ctrl, alt, meta) and the cursor keys are located like a reversed T and not in that stupid cross shape like the 2nd natural keyboard had.
FYI
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And I'll also moderate all those who post comments like:
Moderators!!
Moderate this up! It's interesting....
down, since those posts are way off topic (as is this one btw).
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"I think there's a world market for about five computers."
-- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
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so I'll just make a test :)
:)
hope nobody cares
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I experienced the same stuff. (also the one with the replying-to block lacking the text)
I assume you already filed the bug report?
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One of the other things is 'Name a tool and a color'. Most people answer 'hammer and red'.
But by far more interesting is the fact that it seems to be indepenent of the language you do this test in. At least it works in German too.
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The Linux SWAP file is limited to 128 MB RAM. In addition, Linux does not support many of the modern operating system features that Windows NT 4.0 has pioneered such as asynchronous I/O...
The 128 MB limit is long gone away, and IIRC ext2 is asynchronous by default.
Linux security is all-or-nothing. Administrators cannot delegate administrative privileges: a user who needs any administrative capability must be made a full administrator, which compromises best security practices. In contrast, Windows NT allows an administrator to delegate privileges at an exceptionally fine-grained level.
Someone please tell them about sudo!
They do however have a valid point on Journaling FS and fine grained kernel locks which are both in development. I won't even start talking about performance/stability and user friendlyness :)
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Hey, what are you saying here?!
I set up a mail server this summer and _I_ _think_ it's pretty secure.
Oh, never mind.
Debian all the way!
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Anyway, I made them myself:
http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/kde
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Sorry if this might be old stuff but I haven't seen patches against 1.1.1 anywhere.
Or would they be larger than 1.1.2?
Thanks in advance.
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Emacs includes a LISP compiler which compiles LISP into some byte code to execute it faster. Have a look at those .el and .elc files on your system.
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Weasel
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but I can't copy the CD legally because SuSE has made it non-free
Oh, you can. You can copy it a thousand times if you want it. AFAIK the only thing you must not do is take YaST and make you own commercial linux distro. But I might be wrong.
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I haven't used SuSE quite a while (using Debian now.) but IIRC you can choose when installing the sources wheter you want the modified or original kernel sources.
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Yes but if you're interested in the original site you cannot just point your browser to index.html.old.
Not a real problem though.
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Unfortunatly the server reports Content-type text/plain instead of text/html.
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Subject: [RC5] seti@home fraud!
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 11:45:44 -0400
From: Paul Cuni
500,000 users working on 115
work units?
Bob_Kanefsky
(M/California)
Jun
5 1999
2:28AM EDT
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that SETI@home's half million
participants are currently being
assigned the same 115 work units over and over again, all from three
different sky locations collected
on January 7 and 8. If anyone has seen any other work units recently --
especially from January 9 or
later -- please speak up.
After seeing a few duplications of work units a machine at work had
already processed (same headers,
same content), I ran a test. I instructed my computer to repeatedly
start the SETI@home client and
download a work unit, but then just kill it, record the name, and start
again. The result: Out of 2500
work units, the same 115 kept showing up.
Two of the 115 work units are slices of different coordinates and have
the following names (as shown
on the fourth line of the work_unit.txt file):
name=07ja99aa.10912.26555.213914.156 [got this one 6 times out of 2500]
name=08ja99aa.16286.4081.917340.30 [got this one 4 times out of 2500]
The others are all subband slices from one location (but only 113 of them).
They all say
name=08ja99aa.12769.4418.68748.*
where * is one of these subband numbers:
0 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 31
32 33 35 36 37 38 39 41 43 44
45 47 50 52 54 55 56 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 70 72 74 76 78 79 80 85 86 87
88 89 90 91 92 94 95 96 97
98 99 100 102 103 104 109 110 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 122 123
124 125 127 131 132 133 134
135 138 139 140 142 143 145 148 149 150 151 152 154 158 160 161 163
The only other data unit I've seen was one I downloaded on May 27 and
then had to release the
machine that was working on it.
I hope the SETI@home project will fix this problem soon, or at least
acknowledge it and promise that
they're working on it.
P.S. Kris, you may be right about the cause, but I doubt it. Web browser
clients may be configured to
use caching proxies, but there's no reason that the SETI@home
client/server connection would be built
only anything that complicated when a direct connection is easier to do.
But not having seen the
implementation, anything is possible.
END OF MAIL
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Another reason for bad grammer may be that English is not the author's native language.
This might not be the case in this example it is often the case in comments posted here on slashdot. (just a guess)
English speaking people often forget to think about this.
--
..ladies and gentleman. I've seen their screenshots and they're great if one is used to gui installation tools.
Most important for "us" they still allow what they call advanced or pro mode during install.
What we might find a bit disturbing is the fact that they include only KDE (from what I read) and don't let the user choose between different wm/de but for the beginner this can be a great advantage.
What I dislike is the fact that they do not ship most of the sources with their CD(s?) they can however be obtained on cd for a small fee or downloaded from their ftp.
cu
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