IIRC, it has also been conjectured that breaking RSA may not actually be equal to factoring...this is discussed (but not in great detail) in RSA Laboratories' Frequently Asked Questions About Today's Cryptography which is available on their website. It's a good read for anyone interested in the mathematics of cryptography.
I know you said prime number, but according to Roger Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind, the mind is a quantum computer, meaning that you could indeed factor any number (even if its not prime) in your head...Of course it might take quite a bit of practice.
Moore's Law only applies to transistor-based microprocessors, although it can be in most cases successfully applied to processing technology of any kind, but not any other technologies. If it applied for other technologies, Cringely's 19" monitor would cost $100.
Refugees for Life in a Hostile Universeby Guillermo Gonzalez, Donald Brownlee and Peter D. Ward;8Page(s) Only part of our galaxy is fit for advanced life
You can filter esp with FreeBSD? Man! If I had known when I set up my Linux server, maybe all these angry minds around me might not be crashing the server!
Then can you download a copy of Linux, write a program to modify it, and sell that modified copy provided you don't keep it yourself, then download another copy, run the program on it, and sell it? Or is there something I'm missing?
My cable modem provider graciously supplied me with a 512 kbps (slow for cable)/512 kbps (very fast for cable) upload/download connection. my suggestion is to check your speed yourself.
SE/30 isn't even 32-bit clean. It can run up to System 7.5.5 with Appearance Manager. It can't even run 7.6, and it surely can't run 8, because 8 requires an '040 or better.
I probably should have researched slightly better before I wrote...
UNIX STREAMS implementations commonly support a Berkeley Sockets API on top of STREAMS, as noted in http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1117.htm l (The Open Transport STREAMS FAQ).
The TCP/IP is very, very different on those two different OSes.
Windows, IIRC, uses sockets. Mac OS 9 uses streams (although Mac OS X uses sockets). It's very unlikely that someone stole someone else's TCP/IP code, as much as I would like to blame Microsoft for stealing code...
I alway leave my AirPort card on. One time, I was playing The Sims on a plane, with the card left on by accident. I didn't notice any sort of problems (turbulance, etc.) on the plane, and anyway, they heat things up in microwaves in planes which would cause much larger problems. Of course I turned the card off as soon as I realized it was turned on...
(For the record, you cannot leach off of 802.11b networks in the air. The distance is too great, I guess:-(
This is almost as bad as when MS rewarded people who reported PCs sold without OSes with games. But then again, watch MS offer these people Windows XP ("the most reliable Windows ever") at a 50% discount...
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Sorry to nitpick, but it would be a constitutional convention, not a continental congress.
People who want to run open source software, people who want to develop open source software, or people who want a nice UI and a UNIX backend are the kind of people who should use OS X.
Some people, such as RMS, don't believe in any closed source software. They can stay with Linux, and deal with the fact that another OS runs all the apps of theirs and more (well, not yet, but people are working as hard as they can).
I cannot check my normal usage per day as there are about 8 machines attached to my cable modem that go through a router doing IP Masquerading which doesn't even have an accessible command line.
Our ISP will not cut off our service if we go above 3GB. It costs something like $100 per additional GB.
I believe there are two levels of service:
512 down/128 up 3GB limit $35/month
512 down/512 up 3GB limit $70/month
No - NeXT/Apple never documented their nib format, so GNUstep supports both the 'gmodel' format (which stores information as text (property-lists) and can therefore be edited 'by hand') and binary archive format (which can be edited by Gorm). There IS a conversion tool that can be compiled under OPENSTEP to convert OPENSTEP nib files to GNUstep gmodel files. "
I'm not quite sure whether that conversion tool would work under Mac OS X and whether it converts Mac OS X's NIB files (probably different from the original OPENSTEP format). Also, it looks as if it is designed for source level compatibility, not binary level compatibility.
Mac-on-Linux does not implement any APIs in the UNIX environment at all; instead it provides a way to load the Mac OS ROM and boot the Mac OS while running Linux simultaneously. I'm willing to bet that GNUStep does not support NIB files, although I'm not very familiar with it.
Mac-on-Linux is like Plex86; it provides a way to run 2 OSes on a machine at the same time while not using emulation. It is not like WINE, as it does not actually implement the APIs of the OS whose applications it runs.
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IIRC, it has also been conjectured that breaking RSA may not actually be equal to factoring...this is discussed (but not in great detail) in RSA Laboratories' Frequently Asked Questions About Today's Cryptography which is available on their website. It's a good read for anyone interested in the mathematics of cryptography.
I know you said prime number, but according to Roger Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind, the mind is a quantum computer, meaning that you could indeed factor any number (even if its not prime) in your head...Of course it might take quite a bit of practice.
Moore's Law only applies to transistor-based microprocessors, although it can be in most cases successfully applied to processing technology of any kind, but not any other technologies. If it applied for other technologies, Cringely's 19" monitor would cost $100.
Going directly to the site now goes to a link to http://www.macslash.org/ but any page that's not the main page brings up an ad for free cell phones.
An what really sucks is that if you click a story title on the macslash slashbox, it brings up that free cell phone ad.
Reportedly, former FBI director Louis Freeh didn't use email, and as a result the computers weren't upgrade.
IIRC I heard it on CNN.
In the October 2001 Scientific American:
Refugees for Life in a Hostile Universeby Guillermo Gonzalez, Donald Brownlee and Peter D. Ward;8Page(s)
Only part of our galaxy is fit for advanced life
You can filter esp with FreeBSD? Man! If I had known when I set up my Linux server, maybe all these angry minds around me might not be crashing the server!
I don't log in as root. However, once I still made a fatal mistake:
/Applications\ \(Mac\ OS\ 9\)", I typed it "sudo rm -rf /Applications". Oops.
Rather than typing "sudo rm -rf
Good thing I caught it in time....
Then can you download a copy of Linux, write a program to modify it, and sell that modified copy provided you don't keep it yourself, then download another copy, run the program on it, and sell it? Or is there something I'm missing?
My cable modem provider graciously supplied me with a 512 kbps (slow for cable)/512 kbps (very fast for cable) upload/download connection. my suggestion is to check your speed yourself.
SE/30 isn't even 32-bit clean. It can run up to System 7.5.5 with Appearance Manager. It can't even run 7.6, and it surely can't run 8, because 8 requires an '040 or better.
Perhaps I should switch all the proprietary BSD boxes I have sitting around to a more open OS like Linux...
I probably should have researched slightly better before I wrote...
m l (The Open Transport STREAMS FAQ).
UNIX STREAMS implementations commonly support a Berkeley Sockets API on top of STREAMS, as noted in http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1117.ht
The Mac OS does not.
The TCP/IP is very, very different on those two different OSes.
Windows, IIRC, uses sockets. Mac OS 9 uses streams (although Mac OS X uses sockets). It's very unlikely that someone stole someone else's TCP/IP code, as much as I would like to blame Microsoft for stealing code...
I alway leave my AirPort card on. One time, I was playing The Sims on a plane, with the card left on by accident. I didn't notice any sort of problems (turbulance, etc.) on the plane, and anyway, they heat things up in microwaves in planes which would cause much larger problems. Of course I turned the card off as soon as I realized it was turned on...
:-(
(For the record, you cannot leach off of 802.11b networks in the air. The distance is too great, I guess
Works fine with the viewer embedded into OS X (opens in Preview).
Those are available at amazon at the following URLs:
ISBN 0919845622 (The Bachelor's Guide: To Ward Off Starvation)
ISBN 0962845302 (No More Mac and Cheese: A Bachelor's Guide to Cooking with Ease)
Does this mean that the Ericsson 3G phone I won (T60c) that was supposed to be shipping in 3Q 2001 will actually be released soon?
Disgusting. Simply disgusting.
This is almost as bad as when MS rewarded people who reported PCs sold without OSes with games. But then again, watch MS offer these people Windows XP ("the most reliable Windows ever") at a 50% discount...
Sorry to nitpick, but it would be a constitutional convention, not a continental congress.
Why couldn't the owner of this thing put Linux m68k on it and run some high-performance web server...no wait, Linux requires 2MB of RAM minimum...
People who want to run open source software, people who want to develop open source software, or people who want a nice UI and a UNIX backend are the kind of people who should use OS X.
Some people, such as RMS, don't believe in any closed source software. They can stay with Linux, and deal with the fact that another OS runs all the apps of theirs and more (well, not yet, but people are working as hard as they can).
I cannot check my normal usage per day as there are about 8 machines attached to my cable modem that go through a router doing IP Masquerading which doesn't even have an accessible command line.
Our ISP will not cut off our service if we go above 3GB. It costs something like $100 per additional GB.
I believe there are two levels of service:
512 down/128 up 3GB limit $35/month
512 down/512 up 3GB limit $70/month
I just read the FAQ:
"Can I use my original NIB files?
No - NeXT/Apple never documented their nib format, so GNUstep supports both the 'gmodel' format (which stores information as text (property-lists) and can therefore be edited 'by hand') and binary archive format (which can be edited by Gorm). There IS a conversion tool that can be compiled under OPENSTEP to convert OPENSTEP nib files to GNUstep gmodel files. "
I'm not quite sure whether that conversion tool would work under Mac OS X and whether it converts Mac OS X's NIB files (probably different from the original OPENSTEP format). Also, it looks as if it is designed for source level compatibility, not binary level compatibility.
Mac-on-Linux does not implement any APIs in the UNIX environment at all; instead it provides a way to load the Mac OS ROM and boot the Mac OS while running Linux simultaneously. I'm willing to bet that GNUStep does not support NIB files, although I'm not very familiar with it.
Mac-on-Linux is like Plex86; it provides a way to run 2 OSes on a machine at the same time while not using emulation. It is not like WINE, as it does not actually implement the APIs of the OS whose applications it runs.