Yeah. Sure. Lots of people, myself included, use the Gimp to create quality images. To say that the Gimp doesn't "remotely compete" is ridiculous.
I personally do not make use of Photoshop's higher-end capabilities, such as the prepress capabilities. But, for what I do (mostly creating graphics for web pages), the Gimp works just as well, or better than, Photoshop does.
I guess there is one area where the Gimp doesn't even remotely compete with Photoshop - price. The full version Photoshop, last time I checked, sold for well over $500. While the Gimp may not be able to do everything Photoshop can, it's available to anyone since it's free software. There's no "Limited Edition" of the Gimp - the one, full version is an excellent value at a price of absolutely nothing.
A service? On 9x? I didn't think that was even possible..
But even when regedit is disable with poledit, you can run poledit and remove the regedit restriction - even though poledit is a registry editing tool - it's not restricted. Very foolish on MS' part - anyone who wants to get around the restriction could just put poledit on an ftp server and then download and run it on the restricted workstation (or bring it in on floppy, or CD..)
But if you're stuck using Win9x, permissions don't exist and users are free to trash computers and install all sorts of crap (which is why a very thorough Acceptable Use Policy is important). I'd be much happier if we could be running NT instead of 9x, but it would be an expensive project (licenses, time to install, instructing users).
At my school, I'm a student tech in the lab - unfortunately, the admins won't log in with ordinary accounts because they're doing admin stuff so often (of course, if Windows had an equivalent to "su", logging in normally as an admin wouldn't be neccessary).
On reinstalling of software: buy the same model of computer (or only a few different models) on use Ghost to store images of the hard drives on a server. Then, you can use network boot disks with Ghost to restore the computers back to a clean state anytime someone screws them up (or, in the case of our school, the administrator infects them all with iloveyou).
FTP URL semantics? What are you talking about? I don't know how it works, but many FTP clients are able to resume downloading a file if the transfer is interrupted and it works perfectly.
Actually, you wouldn't have to encrypt on-demand, you could encrypt thousands of files ahead of time, but that *might* take a little more storage space.
Let's assume, for the sake of argumwnt, the a one-time pad is indeed unbreakable. Even if it is, how would it be of any use in this situation? If this method was used, that would require the encrypting of the file every single time someone wanted to download it. Doesn't sound too practical, does it?
Also, the key must be sent to the user (or the viewer program). Obviously, it could be sniffed and then distributed along with the file it unlocks.
With regard to ssh, it can start shipping in distributions when encryption export regulations change. Currently though, Mandrake has an option to download encryption stuff during install.
Why are you surprised that it's hard to find any numbers? It's not like webservers, or even web browsers, where you can query the server or look at log files. Emails pretty much go straight from user-to-user. AFAIK, mail servers don't bother logging X-Mailer headers. Really, the only way to find out what clients are in use is to actually ask people in a survey, which probably wouldn't cover too many users.
that little file that is the representation of your retina.
Not really. The key in a file that represents your retina scan is not necessarily anything more than useless. Let me explain: Take, for example, the way passwords (non-shadow) work in Linux (probably other systems as well, but I only know this for sure). When a user first sets their password, the string is run through crypt() (note that this is a one-way function - the original password cannot be derived from the cyrpt()ed text) and save in a file. Then, when the user logs in, the login program runs the supplied string through crypt() and compares the result to see if it matches what's stored in the file. If it matches, that means the user entered the same string as was used to set the password.
Now, to apply this to retina scanning, the scans would probably be converted to some sort of identifying number (or possibly just a bitmap image), which would then be one-way encrypted. The same procedure outlined before would be used to see if the same retina was being scanned.
You can see, then, that it is possible to store a representation of the password that is not compromising if stolen (it can make brute-forcing easier, but it does not give away the actual password).
It is trie that the signals from the scanner to the computer could be caputured, but remember that this would be the same as capturing the signals from a keyboard to a computer.
That won't work. You can set up all the rootservers you want, but it won't matter. Most admins of DNS servers (for ISPs and the like) have their servers set up to query the 'official' rootservers ([a-j].root-servers.net, I believe). How are you going to get the admins to add your rootserver to their list of rootservers to query? Unless the admins of DNS servers cooperate, no one else will be able to see your domain.
For some sites, you'll be able to do that, but there are a *lot* of virtual hosts that only respond to the name. If use an IP only, the web server won't know which of the sites it hosts you want. You can't blow off DNS that easily..
"For him, it was just a tit-for-tat thing. Everything he has done up to this point was in retaliation for what other kids did, stuff that was just as vulgar and just as hurtful."
Even if others do something wrong, you still shouldn't do it. That just makes you as bad as them.
The drawback to text is that it looks ugly and that you'll have a hard time supporting all of [Windows, Mac, Unix]. Windows uses CRLF for line breaks, Mac uses CR, and Unix uses LF. On the plus side, text converters for these forms are abundant, and producing the text in the first place is fairly easy ("save as text" usually works adequately).
Hard? Just start with one file, and use sed to convert whatever linebreaks the file has into the correct format. Then, put the various files into clearly labeled directories if distributing via CD ("Mac", "Windows", "Linux"). Or if making the files available to download, make seperate links "For Mac", "For Windows", "For Linux".
Yes, this isn't exactly optimal, but what else can you do when platforms aren't compatible?
I'm quite aware that you couldn't do hardware accelerated rendering over the network, but a software rendered game of Quake II should still be possible, right?
Imagine your swap partition running at the same speed as your RAM. That'd be pretty spiffy.
It would also be kind of silly. If you had a device that was as fast as RAM, it should be addressed like RAM, not swap. The point of swap is to be a storage area for programs that don't currently fit into memory because others are loaded. So instead, the OUM should be used by the system the same way as normal RAM, instead of as swap.
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Yeah. Sure. Lots of people, myself included, use the Gimp to create quality images. To say that the Gimp doesn't "remotely compete" is ridiculous.
I personally do not make use of Photoshop's higher-end capabilities, such as the prepress capabilities. But, for what I do (mostly creating graphics for web pages), the Gimp works just as well, or better than, Photoshop does.
I guess there is one area where the Gimp doesn't even remotely compete with Photoshop - price. The full version Photoshop, last time I checked, sold for well over $500. While the Gimp may not be able to do everything Photoshop can, it's available to anyone since it's free software. There's no "Limited Edition" of the Gimp - the one, full version is an excellent value at a price of absolutely nothing.
I think they'd probably notice a missing satellite without being told so.
But even when regedit is disable with poledit, you can run poledit and remove the regedit restriction - even though poledit is a registry editing tool - it's not restricted. Very foolish on MS' part - anyone who wants to get around the restriction could just put poledit on an ftp server and then download and run it on the restricted workstation (or bring it in on floppy, or CD..)
At my school, I'm a student tech in the lab - unfortunately, the admins won't log in with ordinary accounts because they're doing admin stuff so often (of course, if Windows had an equivalent to "su", logging in normally as an admin wouldn't be neccessary).
On reinstalling of software: buy the same model of computer (or only a few different models) on use Ghost to store images of the hard drives on a server. Then, you can use network boot disks with Ghost to restore the computers back to a clean state anytime someone screws them up (or, in the case of our school, the administrator infects them all with iloveyou).
FTP URL semantics? What are you talking about? I don't know how it works, but many FTP clients are able to resume downloading a file if the transfer is interrupted and it works perfectly.
Actually, you wouldn't have to encrypt on-demand, you could encrypt thousands of files ahead of time, but that *might* take a little more storage space.
Also, the key must be sent to the user (or the viewer program). Obviously, it could be sniffed and then distributed along with the file it unlocks.
Nothing's perfect.
That actually isn't too far off - that's how NT4 licensing works!
With regard to ssh, it can start shipping in distributions when encryption export regulations change. Currently though, Mandrake has an option to download encryption stuff during install.
Why are you surprised that it's hard to find any numbers? It's not like webservers, or even web browsers, where you can query the server or look at log files. Emails pretty much go straight from user-to-user. AFAIK, mail servers don't bother logging X-Mailer headers. Really, the only way to find out what clients are in use is to actually ask people in a survey, which probably wouldn't cover too many users.
Possibly you're thinking of the secret Wolfenstein3D level in Doom 2 that has a "hanged" CmdrKeen at the end?
Not really. The key in a file that represents your retina scan is not necessarily anything more than useless. Let me explain: Take, for example, the way passwords (non-shadow) work in Linux (probably other systems as well, but I only know this for sure). When a user first sets their password, the string is run through crypt() (note that this is a one-way function - the original password cannot be derived from the cyrpt()ed text) and save in a file. Then, when the user logs in, the login program runs the supplied string through crypt() and compares the result to see if it matches what's stored in the file. If it matches, that means the user entered the same string as was used to set the password.
Now, to apply this to retina scanning, the scans would probably be converted to some sort of identifying number (or possibly just a bitmap image), which would then be one-way encrypted. The same procedure outlined before would be used to see if the same retina was being scanned.
You can see, then, that it is possible to store a representation of the password that is not compromising if stolen (it can make brute-forcing easier, but it does not give away the actual password).
It is trie that the signals from the scanner to the computer could be caputured, but remember that this would be the same as capturing the signals from a keyboard to a computer.
Try www.nicolet.com. I didn't see anything right off, but I wasn't looking very hard (or you could try emailing them).
Well, the limit in Linux has gone away, but DOS never did away with the 640K conventional memory limit.
You might want to try to find an IBM WorkPad
That won't work. You can set up all the rootservers you want, but it won't matter. Most admins of DNS servers (for ISPs and the like) have their servers set up to query the 'official' rootservers ([a-j].root-servers.net, I believe). How are you going to get the admins to add your rootserver to their list of rootservers to query? Unless the admins of DNS servers cooperate, no one else will be able to see your domain.
Go Google for "AlterNic" - it's been done, it's just not very well known
For some sites, you'll be able to do that, but there are a *lot* of virtual hosts that only respond to the name. If use an IP only, the web server won't know which of the sites it hosts you want. You can't blow off DNS that easily..
Let's bring back hangings!
Even if others do something wrong, you still shouldn't do it. That just makes you as bad as them.
Hard? Just start with one file, and use sed to convert whatever linebreaks the file has into the correct format. Then, put the various files into clearly labeled directories if distributing via CD ("Mac", "Windows", "Linux"). Or if making the files available to download, make seperate links "For Mac", "For Windows", "For Linux".
Yes, this isn't exactly optimal, but what else can you do when platforms aren't compatible?
I'm quite aware that you couldn't do hardware accelerated rendering over the network, but a software rendered game of Quake II should still be possible, right?
It would also be kind of silly. If you had a device that was as fast as RAM, it should be addressed like RAM, not swap. The point of swap is to be a storage area for programs that don't currently fit into memory because others are loaded. So instead, the OUM should be used by the system the same way as normal RAM, instead of as swap.
No, but you wouldn't want to spend too much time near high-power antennas. Especially microwave antennas.