This email explains the renaming of the CD.iso files, but basically the live CD now has a pretty installer, and has been renamed to 'desktop', whereas the install CD still has the old text-only installer, and is now called 'alternate', to indicate that most people won't be needing it.
While that command is fine at the moment, the "-d" means to upgrade to any available bleeding-edge version, so if you run it in a few weeks time, you'll end up with an very early, probably unbootable, version of the "Edgy Eft" release.
"Daddy, what does regret mean? Well son, the funny thing about regret is, It's better to regret something you have done, Than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, Be sure and tell her, SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!"
I forgot to say - I didn't install any flash packages from the ubuntu repositories. I just went to a web page with firefox which needed flash. Firefox told me about a missing plugin and offered a button to click to go to the macromedia site to download and install the plugin.
$ ls -l/home/chris/.mozilla/plugins/ total 2114 -rwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 856 Apr 24 19:28 flashplayer.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 2154768 Apr 24 19:28 libflashplayer.so
A shellcode is a relocatable piece of machine code used as the payload in the exploitation of a software bug which allows an unauthorised user to communicate with the computer via the operating system's command line as a result of exploiting a vulnerability in software running on the machine. Normally stored as a null terminated string, it cannot contain null characters.
Have you never seen the famous paper by Ken Thompson on how he made a version of cc which would add a back door to 'login', and also to itself? Even if you recompiled cc from clean sources using the infected version of cc, you would end up with a trojaned cc binary, and hence a trojaned login binary.
I think you are seriously misreading that graph. 20 to 30 BILLION hits per day? 4 hits per day for every person on the planet?
I don't think so.
Hint: the graph is labelled "per million" - that means you should divide by a million, not multiply by it. A reach of 20,000 per million means that 20,000 per million or 2% of Internet users visit each day.
If the king never uses any flips, the n-1 non-counters would each contribute 2k+1 to the count, so the count would reach (n-1)(2k+1) = 2nk + n - 2k - 1 which is greater than the trigger value of 2nk + n - 3k - 1.
The point is that the king can use his k flips to reduce the count by k, effectively cancelling out k of the flips made by the non-counters before the counter sees them.
This results in a final count of 2nk + n - 3k - 1, which is exactly the trigger value.
One other thing worth noting about BitTorrent is that it can 'fix' broken downloads. So put that 8GB partial download you have (you kept it, right?) when BitTorrent will see it, and BitTorrent will notice the parts that are already downloaded and just request the rest.
Well, it's stopped counting now, and is just sat there saying "Over 2125 megabytes (and counting)" which sounds a little strange.
I noticed that the storage was going up at almost exactly 42 bytes per second, which ties in quiet nicely with the earlier comments about the Infinite Improbability Drive storage.
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A problem with the GNOME version is that the screen goes black after an hour or so even if you're actively playing a game in full-screen mode.
That's why I switched back to xscreensaver.
This email explains the renaming of the CD .iso files, but basically the live CD now has a pretty installer, and has been renamed to 'desktop', whereas the install CD still has the old text-only installer, and is now called 'alternate', to indicate that most people won't be needing it.
sudo update-manager -d
While that command is fine at the moment, the "-d" means to upgrade to any available bleeding-edge version, so if you run it in a few weeks time, you'll end up with an very early, probably unbootable, version of the "Edgy Eft" release.
So just:
sudo update-manager
if you want to upgrade to 6.06 LTS.
That's "Sweat Loaf", not "Sweet Loaf".
"Daddy, what does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is,
It's better to regret something you have done,
Than to regret something you haven't done.
And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend,
Be sure and tell her, SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!"
I forgot to say - I didn't install any flash packages from the ubuntu repositories. I just went to a web page with firefox which needed flash. Firefox told me about a missing plugin and offered a button to click to go to the macromedia site to download and install the plugin.
According to firefox's about:plugins I have:
These are the files it uses:
And I want to know the name of the idiot who is responsible.
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He's called Colin:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=818037
"sudo passwd" changes root's password in ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10.
Where does this idea that you need to type "sudo passwd root" come from? I see it repeated in IRC channels and message boards, but it's just not true.
The root password in ubuntu is locked.
/etc/shadow:
/etc/shadow
Look in
sudo grep '^root'
the encrypted password for root begins with an exclamation mark, preventing any password from encrypting to this string.
Have you never seen the famous paper by Ken Thompson on how he made a version of cc which would add a back door to 'login', and also to itself? Even if you recompiled cc from clean sources using the infected version of cc, you would end up with a trojaned cc binary, and hence a trojaned login binary.
Read all about it: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
I think you are seriously misreading that graph. 20 to 30 BILLION hits per day? 4 hits per day for every person on the planet?
I don't think so.
Hint: the graph is labelled "per million" - that means you should divide by a million, not multiply by it. A reach of 20,000 per million means that 20,000 per million or 2% of Internet users visit each day.
Did you reply to the wrong post by mistake? I don't see what your point has to do with mine.
Either way, the statement of the question was quite clear about this:
maybe he will call the first prisoner in a million times before ever calling in the second prisoner twice, we just don't know
we may be certain that each prisoner will be called in ten times, or twenty times, or any number you choose.
More formally, "for all X there exists a Y such that after Y days every prisoner has been called at least X times".
there are lots of sub 4000 day solutions on the forum at the berkeley site, for example this one takes 3473 days:
B .cgi?board=riddles_hard;action=display;num=1027805 293;start=393#393
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaB
Yes it does, in the last but one paragraph:
"the prisoners were given time beforehand to come up with a strategy"
If the king never uses any flips, the n-1 non-counters would each contribute 2k+1 to the count, so the count would reach (n-1)(2k+1) = 2nk + n - 2k - 1 which is greater than the trigger value of 2nk + n - 3k - 1.
The point is that the king can use his k flips to reduce the count by k, effectively cancelling out k of the flips made by the non-counters before the counter sees them.
This results in a final count of 2nk + n - 3k - 1, which is exactly the trigger value.
It's interesting that this, the only posting with the correct answer, hasn't been modded up!
Two small typos:
you wrote
"If every counter has been in the room k+1 times,"
where you should have written
"If every non-counter has been in the room 2k+1 times,"
DROD is the best puzzle game I've played:
http://www.drod.net/
Again, it's a download, but there are both Windows and Linux versions.
One other thing worth noting about BitTorrent is that it can 'fix' broken downloads. So put that 8GB partial download you have (you kept it, right?) when BitTorrent will see it, and BitTorrent will notice the parts that are already downloaded and just request the rest.
Well, it's stopped counting now, and is just sat there saying "Over 2125 megabytes (and counting)" which sounds a little strange.
I noticed that the storage was going up at almost exactly 42 bytes per second, which ties in quiet nicely with the earlier comments about the Infinite Improbability Drive storage.
Looking at the source code, I see that it may stop rising in about 10 hours:
var CP = [
[ 1112439600000, 2050 ],
[ 1114308000000, 2125 ]
];
Those lines control how fast it rises, giving milliseconds past the epoch and megabytes of storage at 2 points in time.
The '2125' point is 3am tomorrow...
$ python -c "import time; print time.asctime(time.localtime(1114308000000/1000))"
Sun Apr 24 03:00:00 2005
But isn't he Australian?
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
0.05% (500th of a percent)
0.05% is a 20th of a percent, not a 500th.
I don't see the ad at all in Firefox because I have the 'adblock' plugin automatically hiding anything with /ads/ in the URL.
Unfortunately as a result I've been unable to read the article.
Fortunately this is slashdot where not reading the article is the norm.