Quit yer bitching. You've never seen hardcore math. Are you taking "proofs" calculus or "problems" calculus?
The fact is, CS majors don't get much math at most universities. If you want to see math (in engineering) go to the mechanical engineering or EE departments. Then complain about your HS calculus.:-)
Here at Cal the CS classes aren't "pretty darn boring." Even the intro 61 series is interesting. I got to learn computer architecture from Dave Patterson who created the mips core. It was pretty cool being able to ask "why did you implement this feature?"
I've never used a PPC machine so I'm probably wrong, but can't you say something like mem=256M on the boot line? It's probably documented in the PPC lilo equivalent.
I found some more up-to-date info at http://www.ucop.edu/irc/projects/CRGN/
It appears that ucsb has an atm oc12 (622mb, I think) to univ. of southern california. USC is on a dual oc12 sonet ring with isi, ucla, jpl, caltech, ucr, uci, and csu west. Isi and caltech appear to have links to the outside world from the ring. Sdsc/ucsd has a oc12 to the ring and another oc12 to vbns. So traffic could flow from ucsb to usc and then out to the oudside world via sdsc/vbns or peering on the sonet ring.
It's odd that they didn't get us (Berkeley). We are on a dual oc12 with ucop, ucsf, and stanfurd. We have on campus peering with exodus (I think). Also, UCSF peers with cable & wireless in SF. We probably got a lot of the traffic from the stanfurd site (via the sonet ring).
Maybe the fbi (or you) can setup a sniffer and try to find the source of the COMMAND packets. You know, the ones that tell the daemon to dos www.blah.com. Of course the source address would be spoofed, but then you can write a detector for the command packets. And then a detector for the command-command packets, etc.
Why would I want to go back to a 17 inch monitor? Like most programmers, most of my work is with text. I can fit 9 (legible) standard 80x24 xterms on my crt without overlapping. How will this new tecch improve my workstation? I'd much rather see larger displays than finer displays.
I have a little script that shows me every stray syn packet and udp packet that hits my firewall. My morning routine is wake up, brush teeth, send email to the dozen sites that have probed me. If the probe touches several ports and the source is in the us I'll usually make a phone call.
I've been seeing a lot of scans to tcp port 3128 lately. Does anybody know what this may be?
10% of my traffic comes from.edu, the rest from japanese dialup pools. I hate the japanese scans, it's always a bitch to track down the appropriate email address 'cause I don't speak japanese.
I really haven't given religion much thought, in much the same sense that I haven't given the textile industry much thought. I don't believe in God, but if He flew down from heaven and smacked me I probably would. If a three headed chimp smacked me, I'd believe in him. Until I'm presented with convincing evidence I'll probably continue not caring.
Don't even bother with the huffman. Pipe the quantized bits straight to gzip or bzip2. Bzip2 is better than the standard huffman encoding anyway. I'm assuming one doesn't care about compatability.
How about "smallest reimplementation of a bloated standard?" For instance, you can write a lossy image compressor and decompressor that behaves exactly like jpeg in about 300 lines of C. Sure, it won't have quite as many nifty options, but it will be understandable and small. Mp3 probably will take 500 lines.
BTW, these numbers are completely realistic if you use gzip to do the final lossless compression.
One significant difference is that obfuscated programs can actually do nifty things. Poetry is generally to restrictive to write anything useful.
Also, I think you don't understand the nature of true obfuscation. A truly obfuscated program cannot be translated into code that the average programmer can understand. Ever. Good examples are compression programs, 3d graphics, and simulations. Go read the source to an mp3 codec and ask yourself, "Do I have any idea what the tonality function does?" Even after reading that function 10 times you probably won't.
Understanding a truly obfuscated program will probably require the purchasing of several textbooks.
"The computer industry is dominated...mainly those with a background in computers."
No shit. What do you expect? Let the publishers hire the writers and let the magazines employ the graphic artists.
As far as everyone being white males, that is not true, at least at Cal. Asians are grossly overrepresented in my CS courses. They (we?) make up something like 60% of the CS majors. Maybe 70%.
I encourage the gov't to act in my favor and speak out against it when it doesn't. What's wrong with that? The gov't does do good things from time to time, but when it gets too big it starts creating laws just for the sake of creating them. It's the same sort of problem you get when bored cops start hassling kids because there's no real crime around*.
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I'm not sure if I represent the rest of the geek community, but I've never had a pecious job. I've had fun jobs, important jobs, and boring jobs, but no precious jobs. Just like I've never had a precious pair of shoes.
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Ryan
Quit yer bitching. You've never seen hardcore math. Are you taking "proofs" calculus or "problems" calculus?
:-)
The fact is, CS majors don't get much math at most universities. If you want to see math (in engineering) go to the mechanical engineering or EE departments. Then complain about your HS calculus.
Ryan
RIAA doesn't quadruple the price of cheapbytes cds.
Here at Cal the CS classes aren't "pretty darn boring." Even the intro 61 series is interesting. I got to learn computer architecture from Dave Patterson who created the mips core. It was pretty cool being able to ask "why did you implement this feature?"
Ryan
I've never used a PPC machine so I'm probably wrong, but can't you say something like mem=256M on the boot line? It's probably documented in the PPC lilo equivalent.
Are you suggesting that linux ought to have a marketing arm that mirrors microsoft? Think again, Morgaine.
Ryan
A case would probably triple the price of a CD.
I found some more up-to-date info at http://www.ucop.edu/irc/projects/CRGN/
It appears that ucsb has an atm oc12 (622mb, I think) to univ. of southern california. USC is on a dual oc12 sonet ring with isi, ucla, jpl, caltech, ucr, uci, and csu west. Isi and caltech appear to have links to the outside world from the ring. Sdsc/ucsd has a oc12 to the ring and another oc12 to vbns. So traffic could flow from ucsb to usc and then out to the oudside world via sdsc/vbns or peering on the sonet ring.
It's odd that they didn't get us (Berkeley). We are on a dual oc12 with ucop, ucsf, and stanfurd. We have on campus peering with exodus (I think). Also, UCSF peers with cable & wireless in SF. We probably got a lot of the traffic from the stanfurd site (via the sonet ring).
Ryan (this post has no misspellings)
Think you're young? I don't own any (music) CDs.
Ryan
mb is megabits/second.
OC3 CalRen-2 Sounth (vbns), 155mb
ATM to UCnet, 155mb
DS3 to Irvine, 45mb
Maps from
www.vbns.net MSF high speed backbone
www.ucnet.net Univ. California backbone
Ryan Salsbury
Maybe the fbi (or you) can setup a sniffer and try to find the source of the COMMAND packets. You know, the ones that tell the daemon to dos www.blah.com. Of course the source address would be spoofed, but then you can write a detector for the command packets. And then a detector for the command-command packets, etc.
Ryan Salsbury
Why would I want to go back to a 17 inch monitor? Like most programmers, most of my work is with text. I can fit 9 (legible) standard 80x24 xterms on my crt without overlapping. How will this new tecch improve my workstation? I'd much rather see larger displays than finer displays.
Ryan Salsbury
I have a little script that shows me every stray syn packet and udp packet that hits my firewall. My morning routine is wake up, brush teeth, send email to the dozen sites that have probed me. If the probe touches several ports and the source is in the us I'll usually make a phone call.
.edu, the rest from japanese dialup pools. I hate the japanese scans, it's always a bitch to track down the appropriate email address 'cause I don't speak japanese.
I've been seeing a lot of scans to tcp port 3128 lately. Does anybody know what this may be?
10% of my traffic comes from
Ryan Salsbury
It wasn't a dos attack. It was really a win98 attack but the user hit ESC during boot, causing the pretty graphic to disappear.
I'm an agnostic, I think.
I really haven't given religion much thought, in much the same sense that I haven't given the textile industry much thought. I don't believe in God, but if He flew down from heaven and smacked me I probably would. If a three headed chimp smacked me, I'd believe in him. Until I'm presented with convincing evidence I'll probably continue not caring.
Ryan
Hmmm. Why not refresh it like dram?. Assuming you could refresh it reasonably fast and your computer doesn't crash.
Ryan
OK. But both is better!
Ryan
Don't even bother with the huffman. Pipe the quantized bits straight to gzip or bzip2. Bzip2 is better than the standard huffman encoding anyway. I'm assuming one doesn't care about compatability.
Ryan
How about "smallest reimplementation of a bloated standard?" For instance, you can write a lossy image compressor and decompressor that behaves exactly like jpeg in about 300 lines of C. Sure, it won't have quite as many nifty options, but it will be understandable and small. Mp3 probably will take 500 lines.
BTW, these numbers are completely realistic if you use gzip to do the final lossless compression.
Ryan
One significant difference is that obfuscated programs can actually do nifty things. Poetry is generally to restrictive to write anything useful.
Also, I think you don't understand the nature of true obfuscation. A truly obfuscated program cannot be translated into code that the average programmer can understand. Ever. Good examples are compression programs, 3d graphics, and simulations. Go read the source to an mp3 codec and ask yourself, "Do I have any idea what the tonality function does?" Even after reading that function 10 times you probably won't.
Understanding a truly obfuscated program will probably require the purchasing of several textbooks.
Ryan
"The computer industry is dominated...mainly those with a background in computers."
No shit. What do you expect? Let the publishers hire the writers and let the magazines employ the graphic artists.
As far as everyone being white males, that is not true, at least at Cal. Asians are grossly overrepresented in my CS courses. They (we?) make up something like 60% of the CS majors. Maybe 70%.
Ryan Salsbury
What's the quadruple-shift-click combo that disables the SDMI stuff? We know it exists.
Ryan
I encourage the gov't to act in my favor and speak out against it when it doesn't. What's wrong with that? The gov't does do good things from time to time, but when it gets too big it starts creating laws just for the sake of creating them. It's the same sort of problem you get when bored cops start hassling kids because there's no real crime around*.
Ryan Salsbury
* Fuck you, badge #51
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1. an earlier occurence of something similar
2 a. something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind [a verdict that had no precedent]
b. the convention established by such a precedent or by long practice
3. a person or thing that serves as a model
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Ryan Salsbury
> their precious jobs
I'm not sure if I represent the rest of the geek community, but I've never had a pecious job. I've had fun jobs, important jobs, and boring jobs, but no precious jobs. Just like I've never had a precious pair of shoes.