Instead of trying to run both a high-power low-frequency signal and a low-power high-frequency signal through the same cables (duh), use the power lines as a messenger wire for an all-dialectric fiber optic cable. There's even a company which has a machine that rides along the power line and wraps fiber optic cable around the power line. -russ
128-bit symmetric-key crypto is quite secure. The problem is distributing the key. The 128-bit key is encrypted using the public key, which may be up to 4096 bits. It can then only be decrypted using the private key, and thence the message decoded. -russ
I see that GPG runs under the Free Software Foundation's distribution of Linux, alternately called "Debian" or "GNU/Linux". Does it also support other Linux distributions? -russ
Sun has been said to have Open Sourced StarOffice. They haven't. It's still not Open Source. That's fine, as you point out, but it's not Open Source. -russ
Ahhhh, I get it now. I was just having a stupid attack. No, by "define the problem away" I meant that they were trying to change the definition of fragmentation by claiming that it's not fragmentation if the goals of the project are incompatible.
Sorry, but "fragmentation with a reason" is still "fragmentation" with a reason. -russ
Yes, they put extra patches in, but they *re*-put extra patches in. Every kernel release starts from something Linus releases, not something Redhat releases. -russ
Given that Linus Torvalds (salute when you say that name) probably has more seats than all other Unices combined, it's fair to say that Linus reinvented Unix(tm). -russ
Do you understand the difference between a symbol and a thing? Microsoft is the symbol, and proprietary software is the thing. It's like the difference between an integer, and a pointer to an integer. A pointer to an integer is not an integer. You have to dereference the pointer to get the integer. You have to dereference Microsoft to get to proprietary software. Get it? -russ
Go ahead, define the problem away. Do you think we'll believe you? BSDI is commercial. Fine, so is Redhat, but Redhat still sells Linux. FreeBSD runs on PC's. Fine, so does NetBSD and OpenBSD. OpenBSD is secure -- does that mean FreeBSD and NetBSD don't care about security? -russ
I'm not a mornon! I'm not! -russ p.s. if you don't understand that beginning from the same code base and producing a different operating system is the *definition* of "fragmentation", there is no hope for you.
I had one of these for a while. I was using aironet cards, going through Ethernet to a DOS router through the air to another DOS router to a dual-T1. I would get a consistent 12ms to the dual-T1 router. That's low enough to turn even me into an LPB. -russ
If this is true, then Sun is probably going to put it under their SCSL. If they do that, it won't be open source, since SCSL puts limitations on redistribution. -russ
What I like most about it is that Linus is the revenge of the nerds writ large. If I had only known, I would have told the people who made fun of me because I was a geek, "But when I grow up, I'll be wealthy. And you'll work in the butcher department of the supermarket all your life." -russ
Theo threatened to mailbomb me because I tried to respond personally to a Usenet posting of his. I was just so shocked that the leader of OpenBSD would be so childish. -russ
Actually, Linus said that you can call it GNU/Linux if you want. I don't know where you got that "the official name of Linux is GNU/Linux" crap. Give me a URL or retract it. -russ
Apparently SGI is not "dropping" IRIX, nor are they spinning off a subsidiary. They do, however, feel that "from an applications standpoint[,] Linux is the right answer". -russ
It doesn't differ in any substantial way. I'm sure that any bug fixes are offered back to Linus and Alan. What's more, if those bugs are not fixed, whether using the Redhat patch or another, then Redhat re-fixes the official kernel. Pointedly, they do not maintain their own kernel. -russ
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Instead of trying to run both a high-power low-frequency signal and a low-power high-frequency signal through the same cables (duh), use the power lines as a messenger wire for an all-dialectric fiber optic cable. There's even a company which has a machine that rides along the power line and wraps fiber optic cable around the power line.
-russ
128-bit symmetric-key crypto is quite secure. The problem is distributing the key. The 128-bit key is encrypted using the public key, which may be up to 4096 bits. It can then only be decrypted using the private key, and thence the message decoded.
-russ
I see that GPG runs under the Free Software Foundation's distribution of Linux, alternately called "Debian" or "GNU/Linux". Does it also support other Linux distributions?
-russ
Open Source still means the OSD, even though it's not a trademark like "OSI Certified".
-russ
Sun has been said to have Open Sourced StarOffice. They haven't. It's still not Open Source. That's fine, as you point out, but it's not Open Source.
-russ
Ahhhh, I get it now. I was just having a stupid attack. No, by "define the problem away" I meant that they were trying to change the definition of fragmentation by claiming that it's not fragmentation if the goals of the project are incompatible.
Sorry, but "fragmentation with a reason" is still "fragmentation" with a reason.
-russ
Nope. I'm stupid. You'll have to point them out to me.
-russ
Yes, they put extra patches in, but they *re*-put extra patches in. Every kernel release starts from something Linus releases, not something Redhat releases.
-russ
There is no hope for you. From one comes four -- that's fragmentation.
-russ
Given that Linus Torvalds (salute when you say that name) probably has more seats than all other Unices combined, it's fair to say that Linus reinvented Unix(tm).
-russ
Do you understand the difference between a symbol and a thing? Microsoft is the symbol, and proprietary software is the thing. It's like the difference between an integer, and a pointer to an integer. A pointer to an integer is not an integer. You have to dereference the pointer to get the integer. You have to dereference Microsoft to get to proprietary software. Get it?
-russ
Go ahead, define the problem away. Do you think we'll believe you? BSDI is commercial. Fine, so is Redhat, but Redhat still sells Linux. FreeBSD runs on PC's. Fine, so does NetBSD and OpenBSD. OpenBSD is secure -- does that mean FreeBSD and NetBSD don't care about security?
-russ
I'm not a mornon! I'm not!
-russ
p.s. if you don't understand that beginning from the same code base and producing a different operating system is the *definition* of "fragmentation", there is no hope for you.
Quote me out of context again, and I launch rockets.
-russ
Oops, sorry, nobody said "even-handed". BTW: Linux users don't hate Microsoft. They hate proprietary software.
-russ
I had one of these for a while. I was using aironet cards, going through Ethernet to a DOS router through the air to another DOS router to a dual-T1. I would get a consistent 12ms to the dual-T1 router. That's low enough to turn even me into an LPB.
-russ
If this is true, then Sun is probably going to put it under their SCSL. If they do that, it won't be open source, since SCSL puts limitations on redistribution.
-russ
What I like most about it is that Linus is the revenge of the nerds writ large. If I had only known, I would have told the people who made fun of me because I was a geek, "But when I grow up, I'll be wealthy. And you'll work in the butcher department of the supermarket all your life."
-russ
Theo threatened to mailbomb me because I tried to respond personally to a Usenet posting of his. I was just so shocked that the leader of OpenBSD would be so childish.
-russ
That it hasn't is a good reason to wonder if Xanadu does indeed solve problems for real live people.
-russ
I can't see what problem it solves.
-russ
pr0n!
-russ
Actually, Linus said that you can call it GNU/Linux if you want. I don't know where you got that "the official name of Linux is GNU/Linux" crap. Give me a URL or retract it.
-russ
Apparently SGI is not "dropping" IRIX, nor are they spinning off a subsidiary. They do, however, feel that "from an applications standpoint[,] Linux is the right answer".
-russ
It doesn't differ in any substantial way. I'm sure that any bug fixes are offered back to Linus and Alan. What's more, if those bugs are not fixed, whether using the Redhat patch or another, then Redhat re-fixes the official kernel. Pointedly, they do not maintain their own kernel.
-russ