xenocide is probably better than enders game..covered most of the stuff in enders game and expanded on it. the chinese "path" stuff is totally kewl.
duh...this is off the top of my head.
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KPresenter ? or theres that slide show thing that alan cox was talking about a while back...M-something. forget its name....look at alan cox's diary (http://linux.org.uk/diary) archives..its buried deep somewhere. I'd code one if i thought it was really important to me, but since its not and i have to concentrate on more important things like sentinel i guess someone else will have to do it.
some more... irix is probably easier to admin than sun, OSF/1 (DEC Unix) is slightly more difficult than irix. OS/2 (ok..its not unix/unix-like) is a real pain to administer (more than sun)..but thats my opinion, IMHO.
duh. if linux wasnt under the GPL all of us GPL developers wouldnt release apps for it..whats the point of releasing apps for linux when i can release them GPLised under other OSes ? Simple example : when i was coding an app around 2 yrs back i used to release it under irix since the development environment was irix. i didnt *like* doing this of course since irix is a closed os. when linux came along and was gplised, i didnt have any motivation to release for irix anymore since everyone was using linux anyway, motif libraries were available via lesstif and it ran under both irix and linux (mipspro c and gcc are pretty similar with -Fwritable_strings turned on). In case anyone wonder why i didnt release under BSD : strcpy(argv[0],"httpd"); If that works, and you can see it as httpd under ps, that means your OS allows processess to rename themselves (bad! bad! bad! think trojan horse)...this is not true for sysv systems which have a sysv ps (including linux)..one look at that little excercise convinced everyone i know that BSD is full of holes..this may be the case or it may not but i trust irix (& linux) far more than most other OSes..
VPN is at both ends. if both ends are not trusted, you have no VPN. any cop could easily get his/her computer on the VPN if anyone can connect to it, thus rendering it useless.
are you on crack ? everyone has to earn a living somehow. GNU software is meant to be coded *in your free/spare time* or if you work for a company which is *involved in its development*. Re-read RMS's discourses on the subject and get a clue. Theres always going to be a difference between GNU/free and commercial software...its time you grew up.
err...the strength in PGP is *not* comparable to RC5. RC5's shorter keylength is more secure than a PGP encrypted with the same or slightly greater keylength i.e. 64bit RC5 is as strong as 1024bit PGP (check any crypto site for more explanations). Note that RC6 (successor and more stronger than RC5) 64bit takes 7 minutes to crack (read the/. stroy on the cracking machine a few days ago). RC6-128bit or RC5-128 bit or greater are supposedly less vulnerable to cracking. 64bit is dead. Any PGP keylength 4096bits is also dead.
actually you could use the thermal noise thru a resistor, a sound sample of white noise (filtered sufficiently to remove all the repeatable patterns) from your radio or any other random source. there are limitless cheap random number noise sources.
most infrared cams are not *true* infrared..they cant do much in terms of differentiating thermal spots and give temperature readings..They use the property of CCDs to see in the near infrared range (most CCDs can do this anyway) and record that (its roughly a simulation of night vision goggles)...true infrared cams cost $$$ (well over $10,000 in some cases)
err..theres always a difference between 2 frames. they arent exactly alike due to variances in light, cars passing and throwing shadows, dust settling, random static from the camera itself (its not perfect, yknow)..thats why most ppl attach a motion detector (PIR usually) to the camera..if it detects motion, start recording at full speed + capture 1 frame every minute for safety..
failsafe hardware works with failsafe software. thats why you can pull chips that fail out of a sun E10K and ask the kernel to move itself off those chips. chips do count as part of the enterprise software equation.
Actually SGI has had X on their machines for years and they're the only ones who do kick ass multimedia...not your useless PCs with an OS that gets bogged down with 1 multimedia stream or crashes every 10 seconds (doze9x what else?). X *can* and *does* do kick ass multimedia.
their stock will be boosted initially and then crash like crazy when the lawsuits invalidate the patent. not good for long term holdings..a few days, maybe. not more than that.
err..OS/2 sucks rocks. it may/may not be mission critical but its like a weird version of unix+dos hacked together by a 2 year old. OS/2 is dying anyway..if you had said AIX, your post might have actually made an impression on the rest of us.
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xenocide is probably better than enders game..covered most of the stuff in enders game and expanded on it. the chinese "path" stuff is totally kewl.
KPresenter ? or theres that slide show thing that alan cox was talking about a while back...M-something. forget its name....look at alan cox's diary (http://linux.org.uk/diary) archives..its buried deep somewhere.
I'd code one if i thought it was really important to me, but since its not and i have to concentrate on more important things like sentinel i guess someone else will have to do it.
quick, easy site setup. comes with SSL + digital certificate discounts. full packages from hp, ccvs, minivend..etc.. i like.
its perfectly stable if you kick out gnome/kde and live with the default afterstep/wm.
read/visit redhat's site. you might learn something instead of whining.
err..umm..how do you *uninstall* a tarball ? Most tarballs scatter bits of stuff all over the drive anyway. While on linux you can do : rpm -U xyz...
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irix is probably easier to admin than sun, OSF/1 (DEC Unix) is slightly more difficult than irix.
OS/2 (ok..its not unix/unix-like) is a real pain to administer (more than sun)..but thats my opinion, IMHO.
duh. if linux wasnt under the GPL all of us GPL developers wouldnt release apps for it..whats the point of releasing apps for linux when i can release them GPLised under other OSes ? Simple example : when i was coding an app around 2 yrs back i used to release it under irix since the development environment was irix. i didnt *like* doing this of course since irix is a closed os. when linux came along and was gplised, i didnt have any motivation to release for irix anymore since everyone was using linux anyway, motif libraries were available via lesstif and it ran under both irix and linux (mipspro c and gcc are pretty similar with -Fwritable_strings turned on). In case anyone wonder why i didnt release under BSD : strcpy(argv[0],"httpd"); If that works, and you can see it as httpd under ps, that means your OS allows processess to rename themselves (bad! bad! bad! think trojan horse)...this is not true for sysv systems which have a sysv ps (including linux)..one look at that little excercise convinced everyone i know that BSD is full of holes..this may be the case or it may not but i trust irix (& linux) far more than most other OSes..
VPN is at both ends. if both ends are not trusted, you have no VPN. any cop could easily get his/her computer on the VPN if anyone can connect to it, thus rendering it useless.
are you on crack ? everyone has to earn a living somehow. GNU software is meant to be coded *in your free/spare time* or if you work for a company which is *involved in its development*. Re-read RMS's discourses on the subject and get a clue. Theres always going to be a difference between GNU/free and commercial software...its time you grew up.
err...the strength in PGP is *not* comparable to RC5. RC5's shorter keylength is more secure than a PGP encrypted with the same or slightly greater keylength i.e. 64bit RC5 is as strong as 1024bit PGP (check any crypto site for more explanations). Note that RC6 (successor and more stronger than RC5) 64bit takes 7 minutes to crack (read the /. stroy on the cracking machine a few days ago). RC6-128bit or RC5-128 bit or greater are supposedly less vulnerable to cracking. 64bit is dead. Any PGP keylength 4096bits is also dead.
actually you could use the thermal noise thru a resistor, a sound sample of white noise (filtered sufficiently to remove all the repeatable patterns) from your radio or any other random source. there are limitless cheap random number noise sources.
these arent true infrared. they use the CCD property of being able to see in the near infrared range...hence their cheap cost.
most infrared cams are not *true* infrared..they cant do much in terms of differentiating thermal spots and give temperature readings..They use the property of CCDs to see in the near infrared range (most CCDs can do this anyway) and record that (its roughly a simulation of night vision goggles)...true infrared cams cost $$$ (well over $10,000 in some cases)
err..theres always a difference between 2 frames. they arent exactly alike due to variances in light, cars passing and throwing shadows, dust settling, random static from the camera itself (its not perfect, yknow)..thats why most ppl attach a motion detector (PIR usually) to the camera..if it detects motion, start recording at full speed + capture 1 frame every minute for safety..
they both suck. all companies suck. at this point AMD sucks less. i vote for AMD.
failsafe hardware works with failsafe software. thats why you can pull chips that fail out of a sun E10K and ask the kernel to move itself off those chips. chips do count as part of the enterprise software equation.
and what exactly is the RMS "virus" ? The ability to share code. This is a good thing IMHO..whether you call it virus or not is immaterial.
yay RMS !! Actually i release all my software under the GPL only cause i trust RMS. and a *lot* of other developers do.
Actually SGI has had X on their machines for years and they're the only ones who do kick ass multimedia...not your useless PCs with an OS that gets bogged down with 1 multimedia stream or crashes every 10 seconds (doze9x what else?). X *can* and *does* do kick ass multimedia.
err..wasnt BO2K meant for winNT machines and *not* win95 machines ?
their stock will be boosted initially and then crash like crazy when the lawsuits invalidate the patent. not good for long term holdings..a few days, maybe. not more than that.
just do what i do. Post up J's version to your site, putting it something like this :
Program name , Version , Author , Download , Comments
P 2.0b You XXXXX Whatever
P 1.2b(j) J XXXXX Modfified by j (j@j.com)
Let ppl download whatever they want and leave it at that. Thats what i do..and i never have a problem.
err..OS/2 sucks rocks. it may/may not be mission critical but its like a weird version of unix+dos hacked together by a 2 year old. OS/2 is dying anyway..if you had said AIX, your post might have actually made an impression on the rest of us.
and SGI has a higher bandwidth bus i believe.