It can also be done in C, C++, Python, Perl, VB, COBOL, or a slightly extended Brainfuck. What's your point?
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You can't modify the source to give you access to a file you don't have the key for, but you can modify it to send the decrypted output to file instead of the sound card, which would give you a protection-free copy.
On Gentoo, it's exactly the same as any other distro. Debian and Gentoo both have great package management systems, but for applications that can't be packaged, they're useless.
I firmly believe that a hybrid form of apt-portage that would allow you to choose between "compile from source" and "use precompiled package" would pretty much be the ultimate software management system...
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Debian sourceforge is a site for the development of Debian packages, based on the Debian Sourceforge code, a fork of the official GPL sourceforge. It provides CVS, bug trackers, etc. It is intetended for use only by Debian developers. Users can still get packages however they want, from packages.debian.org or from apt-get.
Gforge is a separate fork of the Sourceforge code, also based on the last GPL'd version.
But the owner of the phone should have the ability to disable the GPS information from being sent (not just to the other party but to the government as well) without having to completely disable their phone.
I agree that the owners of cell phones should have the ability to disable GPS if they so choose, but the GPS in these phones is not imposed by the government, it's a technological neccessity due to how the phones operate - it is impossible to build such a phone that doesn't broadcast its location (Iridium uses a different type of satelite setup, so it's not relevant).
In any case, it's not hypocrisy - the military believes that the GPS satelite phones shouldn't be used in order to save troop's lives, while Congress believes that cell phones should have GPS, in order to save civilians lives (although there are less appealing uses also, of course). Those are two different entities making two different decisions in two different situations for two different reasons - a far cry from hypocrisy.
The difference between Seti and the xbox key is that:
a) No one knows if there's life out there or whether we can detect it, but the chances are a helluva lot better than the infinitesimal probability of cracking the xbox b) If Seti ever succeeds, not neccessarily within your lifetime but within the lifetime of the human race, it would probably completely change the lives of every living person. For the xbox key to make any difference at all, it would have to be cracked within the next ten years or so.
Now, don't let me tell you what to do with your CPU, but Seti's improbability/benefit ratio looks a lot better than the Xbox's.
Get a clue. These are not cell phones, and the GPS is not in there because of a government mandate, it's there because of technical need - so that the satillite can get a proper fx on where the phone is.
The odds of coming up with the right key during your lifetime are significantly less than the odds of gaining psychic powers after being struck by a lightning bolt thrown by a flying pig playing Duke Nukem Forever while winning every current lottery similtaneously. It would be a waste of CPU and electrical power to even begin to try. Use cycles on something at least remotely useful, like Seti@Home, Folding@Home, or even distributed.net.
it would be interesting to stop playing games, right? At this time it's hard to count good Linux games. As for *Wine*, it's not stable enough to be used in real life.
You can use the box for other purposes while still retaining the ability to play games on it. As for Wine, WineX is quite usable for games, Crossover is quite usable for standard apps, and even vanilla Wine works quite well in many cases.
glxgears is an extremely simple 3D demo, it runs at 600fps on my Athlon with no 3d accel whatsoever. A card that runs glxgears at 2000fps will run real games at much lower framerates. No, you can't visibly tell the difference between 500fps and 40000fps in glxgears, but it's a benchmark, so you don't need to.
Trolls have nothing to do with vandalizing, crapflooding, hot grits, page-widening, or defacing. Trolling is the non-destructive art of posting a comment designed to attract as many knee-jerk reactions as possible.
Yes, I know you were just joking, but seeing people mix up trolls and crapflooders is one of my major pet peeves.
Does anyone else find it offensive that the author draws a distinction between "protesters" and "patriotic" hackers? They seem to imply that protesting the war would be unpatriotic.
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EAX is an audio processor present on Audigy, Live!, and various other sound cards. It has nothing to do with OpenAL or DirectSound.
They did.
The drivers (alsa, OSS, or Creative's own) for the Audigy don't support EAX processing or easy configuration of surround output.
It can also be done in C, C++, Python, Perl, VB, COBOL, or a slightly extended Brainfuck. What's your point?
You can't modify the source to give you access to a file you don't have the key for, but you can modify it to send the decrypted output to file instead of the sound card, which would give you a protection-free copy.
It would take far less effort to apply the patch (available in bugzilla) to fix it than to wrestle with Konq.
Debian's archives have 20000 packages each for 12 architectures, and they seem to have found plenty of mirrors.
On Gentoo, it's exactly the same as any other distro. Debian and Gentoo both have great package management systems, but for applications that can't be packaged, they're useless.
apt-get build-dep packagename
apt-get -b source packagename
However, if you can consistantly reproduce this, report it to Bugzilla, where it has a far better chance of getting fixed than on Slashdot.
Only if you explicitly enable it.
For most web sites Mozilla renders as fast or faster then IE.
In some cases that's true, in others it's not. Don't call people liars because they're describing a scenario which you know nothing about.
no popups, tabs, gestures, better customization, skins, bookmarklets
Netscape 7 has or is capable of supporting all of those features.
You should be, then.
Gforge is a separate fork of the Sourceforge code, also based on the last GPL'd version.
I agree that the owners of cell phones should have the ability to disable GPS if they so choose, but the GPS in these phones is not imposed by the government, it's a technological neccessity due to how the phones operate - it is impossible to build such a phone that doesn't broadcast its location (Iridium uses a different type of satelite setup, so it's not relevant).
In any case, it's not hypocrisy - the military believes that the GPS satelite phones shouldn't be used in order to save troop's lives, while Congress believes that cell phones should have GPS, in order to save civilians lives (although there are less appealing uses also, of course). Those are two different entities making two different decisions in two different situations for two different reasons - a far cry from hypocrisy.
a) No one knows if there's life out there or whether we can detect it, but the chances are a helluva lot better than the infinitesimal probability of cracking the xbox
b) If Seti ever succeeds, not neccessarily within your lifetime but within the lifetime of the human race, it would probably completely change the lives of every living person. For the xbox key to make any difference at all, it would have to be cracked within the next ten years or so.
Now, don't let me tell you what to do with your CPU, but Seti's improbability/benefit ratio looks a lot better than the Xbox's.
Get a clue. These are not cell phones, and the GPS is not in there because of a government mandate, it's there because of technical need - so that the satillite can get a proper fx on where the phone is.
The odds of coming up with the right key during your lifetime are significantly less than the odds of gaining psychic powers after being struck by a lightning bolt thrown by a flying pig playing Duke Nukem Forever while winning every current lottery similtaneously. It would be a waste of CPU and electrical power to even begin to try. Use cycles on something at least remotely useful, like Seti@Home, Folding@Home, or even distributed.net.
If you took every Xbox that ever has existed or will exist and set them working 24/7, it would take trillions of years to find the key.
You can use the box for other purposes while still retaining the ability to play games on it. As for Wine, WineX is quite usable for games, Crossover is quite usable for standard apps, and even vanilla Wine works quite well in many cases.
glxgears is an extremely simple 3D demo, it runs at 600fps on my Athlon with no 3d accel whatsoever. A card that runs glxgears at 2000fps will run real games at much lower framerates. No, you can't visibly tell the difference between 500fps and 40000fps in glxgears, but it's a benchmark, so you don't need to.
Yes, but it's not a perpetual motion machine, because it does no work.
Buy some fucking rechargable AA's, you coward.
Fresco/Berlin/whatever have been releasing early, buggy versions for 10 years now.
Yes, I know you were just joking, but seeing people mix up trolls and crapflooders is one of my major pet peeves.
Does anyone else find it offensive that the author draws a distinction between "protesters" and "patriotic" hackers? They seem to imply that protesting the war would be unpatriotic.