You can pick up VHS tapes of The Young Ones for $2.88 (Canadian) in Wal-Mart. I've seen two 3-epoisode tapes so far. That's half the series for $5.76 + tax.
You're right, it is no use to the average user in most circumstances. Just wait for your distro to issue an update and use their kernel. It will have been tested, and will have distro-specific patches applied.
Sometimes, however, you might want a fix that your distro vendor is not offering, and you might want to compile the kernel yourself. Some of the weenies here like to see code compiling (regardless if they can actually write code) and they enjoy things like installing gentoo and compiling kernels, but for most of us it's a pain in the ass.
They weren't always like that. The earliest Powermac G4s, from 1999, had internal firewire ports to replace the SCSI ports that higher-end Macs had before that. AFAIR you could get internal native firewire drives for a while.
If you don't know what strcmp returns (<0 for alphabetically lower, 0 for equal, >0 for alphabetically higher) then you really shouldn't be reading C code.
Supposedly, "weblog" originally came to be applied to online discussion sites like Drudge imitators because these people would obsessively tail or otherwise monitor their logfiles in real time and watch the hits come.
That's a creative theory. But I'm sure the term has a much simpler origin than you think. Blog = Web log. A log is a chronological records of things that happened, or in a sense, another word for a journal. Even though many blogs today aren't journals at all, they're still (usually) in a journal format, with a date and author on each posting.
If.15 is the average, that means 50% of the drivers are intoxicated below that BAC..08 is not too low if it's one standard deviation below the average.
What's scary to foreign businesses is that they lose everything they've invested in the small country. Land and industry become the property of the people/new communist government.
I'm refuting the part where you said 'The idea that the government can accomplish any good by spending money on a nebulous problem like "hunger" is foolish at best.'. I pointed out that spending money on hunger in a developing nation like Brazil isn't foolish, it's necessary step to get the poor to participate in the economy.
People can't go to work when there's no roads or electricity, so the government invests in infrastructure. Similarly, people need to be fed and educated or they won't produce anything. I'm not talking about removing the incentive to work, just providing subsistence-level aid. They want to give people a head start instead of letting them die.
Once the country has enough momentum to create a middle class, the people might vote in your libertarian fantasy, or they might not. Besides, the US spends more feeding its own people than any other western nation. Why not direct your criticism at your own country.
No. Did you read what I wrote? I said the attacker could get root.
That means they could setup a warez server, launch other attacks, create a spam relay or any number of other things. It's disastrous even if your data isn't at risk.
'User' doesn't mean a logged-in human. It could also be, for example, the www or nobody or apache user that your webserver runs as. Combine an exploit that gets you rights as the webserver user with this exploit, and you have root.
Wow, I'm glad you don't work for a financial institution. "Hey, I'm connecting to citibank.com, so the server on the other end must be the right one! I don't need this "certificate signing" shit".
This is a solved problem with SSL. Digital signing just removes encryption from the picture to speed things up.
If I can send you a bogus file, I can send you a MD5 sum that matches that file. MD5 sums aren't provided for security, they're there so you can make sure you have the whole download.
MD5 sums are not signatures. MD5 is a hash algorithm. Even if you compare that your binary has the same MD5 as the one in the text file, how do you know you can trust the text file?
mozilla.org would need to provide the MD5SUMS file over HTTPS. The reason you could trust you're getting the file from mozilla.org is that mozilla.org's certificate would be signed by a CA, in exactly the same manner as a binary signed with authenticode.
But your browser can't trust that you're connecting to your bank without consulting the Verisign public key (certificate) that your vendor (Debian, in case I was wondering) bundled with the browser you installed from the CD. So yes, the Verisign CA does mean a damn thing.
Frankly you don't understand Verisign's role. The end of the certificate chain has to lead to one of the public keys you already have on your system. Every SSL-aware broser comes with Verisign's (and probably Thawte's) public key.
In this case Verisign's not telling you if a binary is "good" or not, it's telling you that they issued a certificate to company X (which you can verify because Verisign signed it and you have their public key), and that the binary is exactly the one company X wants to send you (because company X signed it).
The binary could well delete all your files and blow up your hard drive, but since it was signed and verified you know that: 1. Nobody meddled with the binary on its way to you over the network 2. It was created by company X
I found that 1280x1024x72 Hz was less blurry, and brighter, than 75 Hz on my Intergraph 21" monitor. Vertical lines in particular had better definition. Of course, the refresh flash might be more noticeable, but you can mitigate that: - Use incandescent light in the room - Plug your computer and monitor into the same outlet - Eliminate sources of interference such as fans, appliances with cheap motors (vaccuums, microwaves, mixers, etc.) and other monitors
Given that the u in buried and the a in panel are short vowels, it makes sense to double the next consonant if you're not very good at remembering spelling. Consider planed vs. planned, or mate vs. matte, or bated vs. batted.
Your max bandwidth, speed downloading torrents or penis size aside, the parent poster is talking about the speed of your connection to slashdot, which could be slow or have high latency depending on load and your location.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's like that in Toronto too.
Since always. "Entroducing..." was classic.
Vaguely OT, but wasn't there a DJ Shadow song in one of those old Scrotum the Puppy cartoons on Newgrounds?
You can pick up VHS tapes of The Young Ones for $2.88 (Canadian) in Wal-Mart. I've seen two 3-epoisode tapes so far. That's half the series for $5.76 + tax.
You're right, it is no use to the average user in most circumstances. Just wait for your distro to issue an update and use their kernel. It will have been tested, and will have distro-specific patches applied.
Sometimes, however, you might want a fix that your distro vendor is not offering, and you might want to compile the kernel yourself. Some of the weenies here like to see code compiling (regardless if they can actually write code) and they enjoy things like installing gentoo and compiling kernels, but for most of us it's a pain in the ass.
They weren't always like that. The earliest Powermac G4s, from 1999, had internal firewire ports to replace the SCSI ports that higher-end Macs had before that. AFAIR you could get internal native firewire drives for a while.
If you don't know what strcmp returns (<0 for alphabetically lower, 0 for equal, >0 for alphabetically higher) then you really shouldn't be reading C code.
Thank you. Great post.
That's a creative theory. But I'm sure the term has a much simpler origin than you think. Blog = Web log. A log is a chronological records of things that happened, or in a sense, another word for a journal. Even though many blogs today aren't journals at all, they're still (usually) in a journal format, with a date and author on each posting.
If .15 is the average, that means 50% of the drivers are intoxicated below that BAC. .08 is not too low if it's one standard deviation below the average.
What's scary to foreign businesses is that they lose everything they've invested in the small country. Land and industry become the property of the people/new communist government.
Or Chile. A recent event you may remember happened on the anniversary of the US-sponsored coup.
I'm refuting the part where you said 'The idea that the government can accomplish any good by spending money on a nebulous problem like "hunger" is foolish at best.'. I pointed out that spending money on hunger in a developing nation like Brazil isn't foolish, it's necessary step to get the poor to participate in the economy.
People can't go to work when there's no roads or electricity, so the government invests in infrastructure. Similarly, people need to be fed and educated or they won't produce anything. I'm not talking about removing the incentive to work, just providing subsistence-level aid. They want to give people a head start instead of letting them die.
Once the country has enough momentum to create a middle class, the people might vote in your libertarian fantasy, or they might not. Besides, the US spends more feeding its own people than any other western nation. Why not direct your criticism at your own country.
No. Did you read what I wrote? I said the attacker could get root.
That means they could setup a warez server, launch other attacks, create a spam relay or any number of other things. It's disastrous even if your data isn't at risk.
'User' doesn't mean a logged-in human. It could also be, for example, the www or nobody or apache user that your webserver runs as. Combine an exploit that gets you rights as the webserver user with this exploit, and you have root.
Wow, I'm glad you don't work for a financial institution. "Hey, I'm connecting to citibank.com, so the server on the other end must be the right one! I don't need this "certificate signing" shit".
This is a solved problem with SSL. Digital signing just removes encryption from the picture to speed things up.
If I can send you a bogus file, I can send you a MD5 sum that matches that file. MD5 sums aren't provided for security, they're there so you can make sure you have the whole download.
MD5 sums are not signatures. MD5 is a hash algorithm. Even if you compare that your binary has the same MD5 as the one in the text file, how do you know you can trust the text file?
mozilla.org would need to provide the MD5SUMS file over HTTPS. The reason you could trust you're getting the file from mozilla.org is that mozilla.org's certificate would be signed by a CA, in exactly the same manner as a binary signed with authenticode.
But your browser can't trust that you're connecting to your bank without consulting the Verisign public key (certificate) that your vendor (Debian, in case I was wondering) bundled with the browser you installed from the CD.
So yes, the Verisign CA does mean a damn thing.
Frankly you don't understand Verisign's role. The end of the certificate chain has to lead to one of the public keys you already have on your system. Every SSL-aware broser comes with Verisign's (and probably Thawte's) public key.
In this case Verisign's not telling you if a binary is "good" or not, it's telling you that they issued a certificate to company X (which you can verify because Verisign signed it and you have their public key), and that the binary is exactly the one company X wants to send you (because company X signed it).
The binary could well delete all your files and blow up your hard drive, but since it was signed and verified you know that:
1. Nobody meddled with the binary on its way to you over the network
2. It was created by company X
Exactly. If TV was the only application for this, why not just put a TV antenna and tuner on the phone. The technology is out there, and it's cheap.
I found that 1280x1024x72 Hz was less blurry, and brighter, than 75 Hz on my Intergraph 21" monitor. Vertical lines in particular had better definition. Of course, the refresh flash might be more noticeable, but you can mitigate that:
- Use incandescent light in the room
- Plug your computer and monitor into the same outlet
- Eliminate sources of interference such as fans, appliances with cheap motors (vaccuums, microwaves, mixers, etc.) and other monitors
There is a MagLev in Shanghai carrying passengers though: http://www.gluckman.com/Maglev.html
Given that the u in buried and the a in panel are short vowels, it makes sense to double the next consonant if you're not very good at remembering spelling. Consider planed vs. planned, or mate vs. matte, or bated vs. batted.
Also, S and D are close on the keyboard.
Above posters:
Your max bandwidth, speed downloading torrents or penis size aside, the parent poster is talking about the speed of your connection to slashdot, which could be slow or have high latency depending on load and your location.
Take off, hoser.