What ever happened to just not working when a bad S/N is entered?
Or even a known-pirate S/N that the installer used because they left the legitimate number lying on a notepad on their desk at home, and need to get system at a remote site up and running now?
Back in the Windows 98 days, I found myself in the position more than once of having left the OS box with serial number at home, so I'd have to Google (well, AltaVista) for one of the popular warez versions so I could finish an install and go home. Note that I was not pirating anything; I had the legal right to install one copy of the OS, and I installed only one copy.
So now I'm visiting my mom's city on a long weekend, and helping my sister install Echelon so that she can burn copies of her vacation video. Dang, the legit serial number is sitting in my mailspool behind a ridiculously paranoid firewall 500 miles away. I know - I'll just grab a S/N from the 'net to get her system going until I get home. Oops, sorry 'bout that, sis! Hope you had backups!
Is your priority to balance the budget first and then cut taxes, or is to cut taxes followed by balancing the budget, the same way that Reagan and GWB has done?
That's a classic false dichotomy. Suppose you can define a differentiable function r(p) to represent the revenue received at a tax rate p. Now, r(0) will obviously be 0. However, it's pretty clear that r(p) will also be 0 when p reaches a certain high value. For example, if p is "10000%", then you'd be completely insane to earn a single dollar of income since you'd have to pay it back ten-fold. Now, given that you have a function with at least two zeros and at least one point above zero, there must be at least one local maximum on the graph of that function. Call the p-value of that maximum "m".
In a nutshell, Democrats believe that p is currently less than m. Republicans believe that p is greater than m. Now, you can argue back and forth all day about which if either is correct (we could be at a local minimum so that moving in either direction would be a gain), but pretty much every economist believes that you can roughly describe the relationship between taxation rate and revenue in this way.
Implying that cutting taxes to raise revenue is impossibly stupid demonstrates either an ignorance of economic theory or deliberate deception.
Boss: I just had to cut your budget by 28% to finance the new company jet. By the way, can you deploy all of our servers on IPv6 and have them penetration tested by next Tuesday?
Me: *whack*
Boss: Hey, that smarts!
Re:Not a bad start...but a couple of things on IPv
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IPv6 autoconfiguration will get you an address to get onto the net at large
Almost. I got a/64 from Hurricane Electric into my FreeBSD firewall/router. The problem is that I have three distinct subnets from that router:
My LAN
A DMZ
My WLAN
Autoconfig seems to require a/64 or larger netblock, but each of those segments necessarily has to be smaller than the/64 I was given. Even if I only used two bits to identify each local subnet, the resulting/66s would be too small for autoconfig to work.
So, I'm stuck with using DHCP6 or static configuration to assign IPv6 addresses at hope. I wish you could universally say that IPv6 autoconfiguration works, but there are some relatively common circumstances that give it fits.
If you're one of the people who posted to this thread already, then email me at my address above. I've got either 4 or 5 invitations to hand out - first come, first served.
However, their c0d3r is an off-by-one idjit and really implements the codec on field3 instead of field2. Hey, the devices are talking correctly (mean that they're both broken in the same way), so it must work, right? Ship it!
All the crypto in the world won't save you if you screw up the details. From my understanding of WEP, the crypto was OK but the overall algorithm was fundamentally weak. That's what we're hoping that WAP2 fixes.
BTW, if you think my example is contrived or unlikely, then you'd be truly amazed at how badly people manage to mess this stuff up in the real world. Read "Applied Cryptography" sometime to see how hard it is to get all of the details right.
Do these WEP fatalists also refuse to lock their cars/house doors because anyone with some skill and one easily gotten tool can open their doors?
The problem lies more with people who say "we're already using WEP, so why enforce SSH/IPSEC/VPN?" People should think of WEP as a minimal "better than nothing" layer to keep casual visitors out while the real strong encryption protects from the more advanced crackers, but that's not usually what happens.
I'd rather build the entire network to be safe with WEP disabled and then turn it on when I'm finished than have it in the back of my mind as a safety net when I'm making design decisions.
You based my credibility on how relatively long ago I created an account on a particular free non-credentialled web board? Are you nuts?
Put another way, you don't know anything about me except that I have a 4-digit UID, but you figured that was enough to make me a paragon of reliability?
To those who were tricked:
If it makes you feel better, I was going for "Funny" instead of "Informative". I mean, you have to admit that all of the clues were there. I even explicitly revealed the joke and alluded to the fact that everyone would know it as soon as the server came back online and everyone realized that the data file was a 404. Sorry if that was too much of a ride for anyone; it wasn't supposed to be.
If you have to take something away from this, then let it be your own willingness to have unknown "experts" prove the things you most want to be true. I'm Just Some Guy with a CompSci degree and enough math to make a halfway plausible sounding practical joke. I told you what you wanted to hear and you gobbled it up without vetting me, your source, my any means other than my Slashdot UID.
Still, I truly am sorry for anyone who got too excited about the post. I really did mean it as more of an innocent practical joke between friends than as a cruel joke on strangers.
Before the site died, I downloaded the attached text file describing the frequency drift and was playing around with it in Octave.
Folks, we're not alone any more. Once you get the data file, plot it as a function and get a best-fit polynomial approximation for (it's not terribly complex). Take the second derivative.
Now, notice that there are lots of places where the new graph will almost touch zero (coming within 4% of mean) then reverse direction, but in other places the line continues right across zero like a typical sine curve. Also note that the zero-crossings and near-zero-crossings are at almost regular intervals.
Next, assign an arbitary "zero" to those places where the graph reverses direction suddenly, and "one" to the actual roots. String those zeros and ones together.
Starting at 11.32 seconds into the signal, I got a string of 11 ones then a zero, then 13 ones and a zero, then 17 and a zero, then 19, then 23, then 29, then 31, then 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and so on until the resolution falls off at about 43.87 seconds.
You heard it here first, Slashdotters. We're not alone anymore! I'm literally trembling while I type this. WE HAVE NEIGHBORS!!!
I'm not sure what the name of the data file meant, but I guess we'll know more when their server comes back online.
He showed the cop the second time that he wasn't connecting to anywhere
Want to prove innocence to an officer any time you want? Copy this to $HOME, install Python and WxWindows, and add a launcher button (with an icon of a guy in a cloak with a red diagonal slash through it) so that you can open it in a hurry if you need to:
I don't really understand what that means, although I have a vague idea. Care to give a short explanation to save the Slashdot hordes from having to do our own research (50% of it invariably leading to a completely wrong "understanding")?
Anyways I go to the same church ward as Ralph Yarro (Chairman of the Board of SCO, and CEO of Canopy Group)
Want to have more success with new recruitment? Swing by the CompSci department at a non-Mormon college:
You: Hi! Would you like to learn about the second gospel of Jesus Christ?
Them: Argh! A cyclist in a necktie - run!
You: Did I mention that the guy from SCO goes to my church?
Them: What time should I be there?
Man, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Baptist, but even I would be willing to swing by for a little face time.
they now count "Unix licenses" in the deal since they give out a "Linux license" with every Unix purchase.
OK, so that accounts for another 3.
Seriously, is anyone rolling out OneTrueUnixware on new deployments? Frankly, I'd summarily fire anyone who suggested we use it for anything other than maintaining a legacy system.
I'm getting ready to buy Ken Burns' "The Civil War" documentary on DVD, and I'd like a reasonable method of backing it up (at $150, I won't be buying a spare copy). Right now I can pretty much do this using only Free software. Would I still be able to if it came on Blu-Ray media?
You're right - there's a lot of time-wasting stuff on TV. That doesn't mean that there's nothing worth viewing, though.
Should we send a request to Muguel & KDE leads to mandate that their developers should use 64MB PIIs as their desktop machine? It would result it usable systems on old machines and take Linux users off the hardware upgrade treadmill.
I bought a used laptop with a K6/333 and 64MB of RAM. I spent an extra $40 at CompUsa for a 128MB stick to bump it to 192MB. That little laptop runs Debian/unstable with KDE 3.3 just fine, thanks.
By what arbitrary means did you pick P2/64MB? Why not P1/32MB, or 486/4MB? The Gnome and KDE folks are developing systems that run well on machines made within the last 5 years, and given that commodity PCs aren't expected to last forever, I think that's a perfectly reasonable standard on their part.
You can keep your toy systems running with Slackware or a downscaled Gentoo system if you want to, or you can pay $100 to buy a more recent system and get to play with the current set of available software. Where's the problem?
First, note that "k3b" is one of the least-informative program names imaginable. It provides ZERO descriptive data (aside from possibly the fact that it uses KDE).
Excellent point! I'd stick with something more logical like "Roxio" if I were you.
Nah, your real problem is with the movie studios. Basically, they stopped making plots in, what, '86 or so? With the rare exception of a "Memento" here or a "Requiem For A Dream" there, you can limit your watching to only movies made prior to the late '80s without missing a single thing.
PG-13 came around about the same time as the studios simply gave up trying. It has nothing to do with making movies teen-safe, and everything to do with the tactic also commonly seen in corporate board rooms: saying to hell with the future, let's see how much junk we can shove out the door on the cheap today before our customers abandon us.
Give PG-13 a break. If anything, it let studios add the occasional adult element to otherwise-PG movies while still allowing the chilluns to see them. Yes, current movies suck, but that has nothing to do with revamping the ratings system.
modern Unix-like operating systems, such as *BSD, Linux and Solaris, by default create user's home directories with permissions user: read/write, group: no permissions at all, world: no permissions at all, and no special ACLs.
Yeah? On my Debian/unstable desktop machine built earlier this year, new home directories are created with "drwxr-xr-x". Same with our FreeBSD 5.2 server, and the last account was created on July 16 of this year with those permissions.
Some systems may work your way, but several widely used Free Unixes have default user permission schemes that are radically different from what you're describing.
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Or even a known-pirate S/N that the installer used because they left the legitimate number lying on a notepad on their desk at home, and need to get system at a remote site up and running now?
Back in the Windows 98 days, I found myself in the position more than once of having left the OS box with serial number at home, so I'd have to Google (well, AltaVista) for one of the popular warez versions so I could finish an install and go home. Note that I was not pirating anything; I had the legal right to install one copy of the OS, and I installed only one copy.
So now I'm visiting my mom's city on a long weekend, and helping my sister install Echelon so that she can burn copies of her vacation video. Dang, the legit serial number is sitting in my mailspool behind a ridiculously paranoid firewall 500 miles away. I know - I'll just grab a S/N from the 'net to get her system going until I get home. Oops, sorry 'bout that, sis! Hope you had backups!
That's a classic false dichotomy. Suppose you can define a differentiable function r(p) to represent the revenue received at a tax rate p. Now, r(0) will obviously be 0. However, it's pretty clear that r(p) will also be 0 when p reaches a certain high value. For example, if p is "10000%", then you'd be completely insane to earn a single dollar of income since you'd have to pay it back ten-fold. Now, given that you have a function with at least two zeros and at least one point above zero, there must be at least one local maximum on the graph of that function. Call the p-value of that maximum "m".
In a nutshell, Democrats believe that p is currently less than m. Republicans believe that p is greater than m. Now, you can argue back and forth all day about which if either is correct (we could be at a local minimum so that moving in either direction would be a gain), but pretty much every economist believes that you can roughly describe the relationship between taxation rate and revenue in this way.
Implying that cutting taxes to raise revenue is impossibly stupid demonstrates either an ignorance of economic theory or deliberate deception.
But would that eliminate RSI or just relocate it? Do you really want to be the first in your cube farm with carpal tongue?
It was a joke. Smile. :)
...says UID 200914 to UID 3872. Bruce isn't exactly the new guy around here (well, to most of you ;-) ).
Boss: I just had to cut your budget by 28% to finance the new company jet. By the way, can you deploy all of our servers on IPv6 and have them penetration tested by next Tuesday?
Me: *whack*
Boss: Hey, that smarts!
Almost. I got a /64 from Hurricane Electric into my FreeBSD firewall/router. The problem is that I have three distinct subnets from that router:
- My LAN
- A DMZ
- My WLAN
Autoconfig seems to require aSo, I'm stuck with using DHCP6 or static configuration to assign IPv6 addresses at hope. I wish you could universally say that IPv6 autoconfiguration works, but there are some relatively common circumstances that give it fits.
No hard feelings, eh?
Responding to you directly, since my original post is now -1 and noone will ever find my reply: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120268 &threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=160&mode=thread&pid =10135597#10137987
Suppose that a frame looked like this:
Now, suppose a chipset is specced to implement:
However, their c0d3r is an off-by-one idjit and really implements the codec on field3 instead of field2. Hey, the devices are talking correctly (mean that they're both broken in the same way), so it must work, right? Ship it!
All the crypto in the world won't save you if you screw up the details. From my understanding of WEP, the crypto was OK but the overall algorithm was fundamentally weak. That's what we're hoping that WAP2 fixes.
BTW, if you think my example is contrived or unlikely, then you'd be truly amazed at how badly people manage to mess this stuff up in the real world. Read "Applied Cryptography" sometime to see how hard it is to get all of the details right.
The problem lies more with people who say "we're already using WEP, so why enforce SSH/IPSEC/VPN?" People should think of WEP as a minimal "better than nothing" layer to keep casual visitors out while the real strong encryption protects from the more advanced crackers, but that's not usually what happens.
I'd rather build the entire network to be safe with WEP disabled and then turn it on when I'm finished than have it in the back of my mind as a safety net when I'm making design decisions.
The problem isn't in finding an ansible, but with carrying half of it to them so that you can speak to them through the other half.
You based my credibility on how relatively long ago I created an account on a particular free non-credentialled web board? Are you nuts?
Put another way, you don't know anything about me except that I have a 4-digit UID, but you figured that was enough to make me a paragon of reliability?
To those who were tricked:
If it makes you feel better, I was going for "Funny" instead of "Informative". I mean, you have to admit that all of the clues were there. I even explicitly revealed the joke and alluded to the fact that everyone would know it as soon as the server came back online and everyone realized that the data file was a 404. Sorry if that was too much of a ride for anyone; it wasn't supposed to be.
If you have to take something away from this, then let it be your own willingness to have unknown "experts" prove the things you most want to be true. I'm Just Some Guy with a CompSci degree and enough math to make a halfway plausible sounding practical joke. I told you what you wanted to hear and you gobbled it up without vetting me, your source, my any means other than my Slashdot UID.
Still, I truly am sorry for anyone who got too excited about the post. I really did mean it as more of an innocent practical joke between friends than as a cruel joke on strangers.
Take care,
JSG
Folks, we're not alone any more. Once you get the data file, plot it as a function and get a best-fit polynomial approximation for (it's not terribly complex). Take the second derivative.
Now, notice that there are lots of places where the new graph will almost touch zero (coming within 4% of mean) then reverse direction, but in other places the line continues right across zero like a typical sine curve. Also note that the zero-crossings and near-zero-crossings are at almost regular intervals.
Next, assign an arbitary "zero" to those places where the graph reverses direction suddenly, and "one" to the actual roots. String those zeros and ones together.
Starting at 11.32 seconds into the signal, I got a string of 11 ones then a zero, then 13 ones and a zero, then 17 and a zero, then 19, then 23, then 29, then 31, then 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and so on until the resolution falls off at about 43.87 seconds.
You heard it here first, Slashdotters. We're not alone anymore! I'm literally trembling while I type this. WE HAVE NEIGHBORS!!!
I'm not sure what the name of the data file meant, but I guess we'll know more when their server comes back online.
Want to prove innocence to an officer any time you want? Copy this to $HOME, install Python and WxWindows, and add a launcher button (with an icon of a guy in a cloak with a red diagonal slash through it) so that you can open it in a hurry if you need to:
(Numbers indicate the indention level - thanks, Slashcode, for making it impossible to post Python code!)If his policeman was dumb enough to believe the evidence he offered, then he'd certainly be dumb enough to believe my police-friendly application.
Anonymously, of course.</plug>
I don't really understand what that means, although I have a vague idea. Care to give a short explanation to save the Slashdot hordes from having to do our own research (50% of it invariably leading to a completely wrong "understanding")?
Want to have more success with new recruitment? Swing by the CompSci department at a non-Mormon college:
You: Hi! Would you like to learn about the second gospel of Jesus Christ?
Them: Argh! A cyclist in a necktie - run!
You: Did I mention that the guy from SCO goes to my church?
Them: What time should I be there?
Man, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Baptist, but even I would be willing to swing by for a little face time.
OK, so that accounts for another 3.
Seriously, is anyone rolling out OneTrueUnixware on new deployments? Frankly, I'd summarily fire anyone who suggested we use it for anything other than maintaining a legacy system.
You're right - there's a lot of time-wasting stuff on TV. That doesn't mean that there's nothing worth viewing, though.
Also note that the initial login takes a bit, but once in, opening Konqueror or Kontact or Konsole or K* is pretty snappy.
I bought a used laptop with a K6/333 and 64MB of RAM. I spent an extra $40 at CompUsa for a 128MB stick to bump it to 192MB. That little laptop runs Debian/unstable with KDE 3.3 just fine, thanks.
By what arbitrary means did you pick P2/64MB? Why not P1/32MB, or 486/4MB? The Gnome and KDE folks are developing systems that run well on machines made within the last 5 years, and given that commodity PCs aren't expected to last forever, I think that's a perfectly reasonable standard on their part.
You can keep your toy systems running with Slackware or a downscaled Gentoo system if you want to, or you can pay $100 to buy a more recent system and get to play with the current set of available software. Where's the problem?
Excellent point! I'd stick with something more logical like "Roxio" if I were you.
PG-13 came around about the same time as the studios simply gave up trying. It has nothing to do with making movies teen-safe, and everything to do with the tactic also commonly seen in corporate board rooms: saying to hell with the future, let's see how much junk we can shove out the door on the cheap today before our customers abandon us.
Give PG-13 a break. If anything, it let studios add the occasional adult element to otherwise-PG movies while still allowing the chilluns to see them. Yes, current movies suck, but that has nothing to do with revamping the ratings system.
Yeah? On my Debian/unstable desktop machine built earlier this year, new home directories are created with "drwxr-xr-x". Same with our FreeBSD 5.2 server, and the last account was created on July 16 of this year with those permissions.
Some systems may work your way, but several widely used Free Unixes have default user permission schemes that are radically different from what you're describing.