I don't want this to be a flame of you or your work or kick off an anti-USA thing. I'm curious: I thought that there's an international treaty against deploying anti-personnel land mines. Am I wrong?
And as an aside, it's beyond ironic that a recommended fix for a Linux b0rkage is to dig out an ancient Win98 boot disk to save the day. I mean, how lame is THAT?
Perhaps you misunderstood me. I said that the Win98 disk restores the MBR so that Windows alone boots. It's not a fix for 'Linux b0rkage' but a way to get rid of Linux from the system: it destroy GRUB and makes the computer only start Windows. Other replies to my post tell me that more-recent versions of Windows have the same capability in their System Restore functions, but the point was to help mad.frog retrieve a usable computer without having to spend hours reinstalling Windows.
I'm sorry that Ubuntu borked you MBR. I don't believe that there is a graphical GRUB menu editor that allows you to easily change the line 'root (hdx,y)' to 'rootnoverify (hdx,y)' -- which I figure you must have been recommended to try already -- to make sure that GRUB lets Windows do its thing.
Your graphics situation may require the installation of nVidia's own graphics driver to loosen up the available resolutions. The alternative would involved using "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to enable higher resolution modes via the configure-at-installation part of Xorg.
But if you're going to forego Ubuntu, don't forget that Windows can be resuscitated with a Win98 boot disk and the "fdisk/mbr" command at its DOS prompt, and the boot disk image can be used to start up the computer from a CD if you've no floppy. If you're keen on keeping your Windows partition after that, you could usse GParted from the Ubuntu Desktop CD (boot it to Ubuntu, select GParted from System -> Administration -> Gnome Partition Editor) to delete your Ubuntu partitions and resize the NTFS or FAT32 partition that Windows uses.
I suspect that both the move to 'Managed Code', which may increase the stability and security of Windows, and the games lock-in of DirectX 10 should be acknowledged, even if my response to Vista is 'meh'.
I suspect you've misunderstood what I'd heard recommended: picking the 'n'th letter from each word in line of a song. It may be pride-before-a-fall but a near-random string of letters strikes me as immune to dictionary attacks. This fails google: stuff with this kind of lettering doesn't score well on page rank.
I was expecting that people would pick rare or unspecial lines of songs that people underrate. That's a wiser move than just taking the few lines that stick out (and padding words you don't remember with 'b' from 'blah'). Part of the security schema will involve not disclosing what source the passwords come from or what form a password takes -- a no-brainer.
I was suggesting that people learn the lyrics to a song by any artist they like, so increasing the available options. I wouldn't advise it to anyone who wasn't into music that much, and I'd definitely recommend avoiding high-rotation chart tracks.
Sure, that's fine, but what does OpenBSD actually get for that? They comply with the choices made by the hardware company, use their own time to make software for the hardware company's products which results in more sales for the company but no change in the free flow of information on hardware specification. The freedom of specifications is exactly what Mr de Raadt and OpenBSD want, so for them it's not 'good enough' for "Wacko Warner, 1 Water Tower, Warner Lot, Hollywood, California, wacko-nospam@pleasepleasepleesegetalife.org" to download specifications.
I'm not pretending to find morally-superior status, I'm stating a concern, as indicated by my criticism of the dollar-value of the wages without qualification against average income or cost of living. I know for sure that employing workers in developed nations subject to the rigours of human rights, employment protection, pensions provisions and ecological safeguards with developing workers working the earth without polluting it is beter than employing workers in developing nations at lower prices with little regard for their healthcare, their quality of life and local and global ecology. But I would support developing an economy by increasing its workforce's technological level because the economical theory says that's best for everyone. If it's only best for the rich who run the place, such as those who get richer while their minions remain poor, then that would call for a critical rethinking.
I hate the idea that the money I spend on luxuries here causes pain to the people making them. I'm not sure what the cost of living is around the Foxconn facilities, and expect that responsible, non-sensational journalism would have qualified what $27/month really means (it's qualifed below: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188324&c id=15524240 says that $50 a month is comparable to Beijing welfare rates). But that the dormitories have people sleeping 100 to a room and no visitors allowed is a concern. I would have expected that Apple, whose image and market positioning make use of a hippy-cool image, would have avoided using sweat-shoppery.
That would be an interesting idea. I believe that the encryption functions are part of their fork of the x86 instruction set, and run on their CPU's. That would add complexity to making a PCI encyption-acceleration device, but could be a profitable venture.
I'm also suspicious of its capabilities -- it seems feasible to have a large source of entropy and perhaps a hashing or XOR acceleration engine -- I doubt it has the bandwidth to read and hash at 20 Gb/s as the present marketing web pages claim Padlock is capable of doing.
One of the best I'd seen was to take first letters (or last, or second, etc.) from words in a song that you know the lyrics well. They have a decent amount of randomness and each album you buy will supply a couple of years' worth of passwords.
Writing them down in a safe location is a helpful aide-memoir. You could just have a lyrics file saved to a thumb drive or scrawled in a diary.
Quick fact-checking: the present VIA Padlock site says it can securely hash data at 20 Gb/s, in contrast to my memory telling me of VIA's pages showing a benchmark of encryption at 25 Gb/s on a CPU at around 1GHz, quadrupling the encryption capability of a P4 at 3GHz.
The rt2500 driver has been in Ubuntu since 5.10. Perhaps noone's asked them to develop a PC card edition. Careful checking indicates that the project has moved to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/. They have phpBB which mught be able to help with Linux support.
I suggest getting some hardware acceleration: the VIA EPIA boards use electrical interference in their traces to suppy entropy to a hardware encrypt/decrypt enginge that can achieve 25 Gb/s encryption. This is a 1.0GHz passively-cooled board with SATA ports, hardware MPEG2 decoding and all on a 17x17 cm^2 board.
There's a Sourceforge project for that exact card: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400, whose code is included by the Ubuntu team an worked my Ralink 2500 mini-pci straight out of the box. Unfortunately, the code support for USB'd devices is coming along rather than solid.
That sounds like the technique presently used in RDS FM radio transmissions to follow the best signal as people drive in and out of signal range. RDS is broadcast, but the principle will probably remain the same.
I suspect that Adderall, while helping control your ADHD (inattention or impulsivity?) also provides the rest of your system with the sensation of buzzing energy to keep you going. As someone without brain chemistry which makes me impulsive or inattentive and without a diagnosis of ADHD giving me stimulant medication, I can work focused, but I fight against laziness, procrastination, boredom, lack of sleep, wanting to be anywhere else, etc.
I suspect that this is another avenue where we will use technology to extend human capabilities -- what CEO wouldn't want his staff firing on all cylinders all through the work day?
Sir, I am not a lawyer, do not play one on television, am not related to one and nor have I shared a sofa, bed, vehicle, stargate or IRC channel (to my knowledge) with one. But your post makes things unclear:
The license makes things unclear. Which normally is not unacceptable for a legal document.
The double negative in the second sentence confuses the sense of the rest of the paragraph. How much time do you spend using Eclipse?:P
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I don't want this to be a flame of you or your work or kick off an anti-USA thing. I'm curious: I thought that there's an international treaty against deploying anti-personnel land mines. Am I wrong?
Perhaps you misunderstood me. I said that the Win98 disk restores the MBR so that Windows alone boots. It's not a fix for 'Linux b0rkage' but a way to get rid of Linux from the system: it destroy GRUB and makes the computer only start Windows. Other replies to my post tell me that more-recent versions of Windows have the same capability in their System Restore functions, but the point was to help mad.frog retrieve a usable computer without having to spend hours reinstalling Windows.
Thanks for the info.
I'm sorry that Ubuntu borked you MBR. I don't believe that there is a graphical GRUB menu editor that allows you to easily change the line 'root (hdx,y)' to 'rootnoverify (hdx,y)' -- which I figure you must have been recommended to try already -- to make sure that GRUB lets Windows do its thing.
/mbr" command at its DOS prompt, and the boot disk image can be used to start up the computer from a CD if you've no floppy. If you're keen on keeping your Windows partition after that, you could usse GParted from the Ubuntu Desktop CD (boot it to Ubuntu, select GParted from System -> Administration -> Gnome Partition Editor) to delete your Ubuntu partitions and resize the NTFS or FAT32 partition that Windows uses.
Your graphics situation may require the installation of nVidia's own graphics driver to loosen up the available resolutions. The alternative would involved using "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to enable higher resolution modes via the configure-at-installation part of Xorg.
But if you're going to forego Ubuntu, don't forget that Windows can be resuscitated with a Win98 boot disk and the "fdisk
Did it give the guy writing it privilege escalation to install .NET3, Vista and WinFS on your computer?
I suspect that both the move to 'Managed Code', which may increase the stability and security of Windows, and the games lock-in of DirectX 10 should be acknowledged, even if my response to Vista is 'meh'.
I suspect you've misunderstood what I'd heard recommended: picking the 'n'th letter from each word in line of a song. It may be pride-before-a-fall but a near-random string of letters strikes me as immune to dictionary attacks. This fails google: stuff with this kind of lettering doesn't score well on page rank.
I was expecting that people would pick rare or unspecial lines of songs that people underrate. That's a wiser move than just taking the few lines that stick out (and padding words you don't remember with 'b' from 'blah'). Part of the security schema will involve not disclosing what source the passwords come from or what form a password takes -- a no-brainer.
I run Fedora Core (from 2, now at 5) at home. What is this 'RPM Hell' you're talking about?
I was suggesting that people learn the lyrics to a song by any artist they like, so increasing the available options. I wouldn't advise it to anyone who wasn't into music that much, and I'd definitely recommend avoiding high-rotation chart tracks.
Also, "Sides-stepping implementation bugs in XEmacs' Vi mode" should rile the Vi and GNU Emacs and XEmacs crowds...
Moderated 'Funny' rather than 'Insightful' or 'the Sad, Sad State of the Interweb'?
Sure, that's fine, but what does OpenBSD actually get for that? They comply with the choices made by the hardware company, use their own time to make software for the hardware company's products which results in more sales for the company but no change in the free flow of information on hardware specification. The freedom of specifications is exactly what Mr de Raadt and OpenBSD want, so for them it's not 'good enough' for "Wacko Warner, 1 Water Tower, Warner Lot, Hollywood, California, wacko-nospam@pleasepleasepleesegetalife.org" to download specifications.
I'm not pretending to find morally-superior status, I'm stating a concern, as indicated by my criticism of the dollar-value of the wages without qualification against average income or cost of living. I know for sure that employing workers in developed nations subject to the rigours of human rights, employment protection, pensions provisions and ecological safeguards with developing workers working the earth without polluting it is beter than employing workers in developing nations at lower prices with little regard for their healthcare, their quality of life and local and global ecology. But I would support developing an economy by increasing its workforce's technological level because the economical theory says that's best for everyone. If it's only best for the rich who run the place, such as those who get richer while their minions remain poor, then that would call for a critical rethinking.
I hate the idea that the money I spend on luxuries here causes pain to the people making them. I'm not sure what the cost of living is around the Foxconn facilities, and expect that responsible, non-sensational journalism would have qualified what $27/month really means (it's qualifed below: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188324&c id=15524240 says that $50 a month is comparable to Beijing welfare rates). But that the dormitories have people sleeping 100 to a room and no visitors allowed is a concern. I would have expected that Apple, whose image and market positioning make use of a hippy-cool image, would have avoided using sweat-shoppery.
That would be an interesting idea. I believe that the encryption functions are part of their fork of the x86 instruction set, and run on their CPU's. That would add complexity to making a PCI encyption-acceleration device, but could be a profitable venture.
I'm also suspicious of its capabilities -- it seems feasible to have a large source of entropy and perhaps a hashing or XOR acceleration engine -- I doubt it has the bandwidth to read and hash at 20 Gb/s as the present marketing web pages claim Padlock is capable of doing.
One of the best I'd seen was to take first letters (or last, or second, etc.) from words in a song that you know the lyrics well. They have a decent amount of randomness and each album you buy will supply a couple of years' worth of passwords.
Writing them down in a safe location is a helpful aide-memoir. You could just have a lyrics file saved to a thumb drive or scrawled in a diary.
Quick fact-checking: the present VIA Padlock site says it can securely hash data at 20 Gb/s, in contrast to my memory telling me of VIA's pages showing a benchmark of encryption at 25 Gb/s on a CPU at around 1GHz, quadrupling the encryption capability of a P4 at 3GHz.
The rt2500 driver has been in Ubuntu since 5.10. Perhaps noone's asked them to develop a PC card edition. Careful checking indicates that the project has moved to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/. They have phpBB which mught be able to help with Linux support.
I suggest getting some hardware acceleration: the VIA EPIA boards use electrical interference in their traces to suppy entropy to a hardware encrypt/decrypt enginge that can achieve 25 Gb/s encryption. This is a 1.0GHz passively-cooled board with SATA ports, hardware MPEG2 decoding and all on a 17x17 cm^2 board.
There's a Sourceforge project for that exact card: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400, whose code is included by the Ubuntu team an worked my Ralink 2500 mini-pci straight out of the box. Unfortunately, the code support for USB'd devices is coming along rather than solid.
That sounds like the technique presently used in RDS FM radio transmissions to follow the best signal as people drive in and out of signal range. RDS is broadcast, but the principle will probably remain the same.
I suspect that Adderall, while helping control your ADHD (inattention or impulsivity?) also provides the rest of your system with the sensation of buzzing energy to keep you going. As someone without brain chemistry which makes me impulsive or inattentive and without a diagnosis of ADHD giving me stimulant medication, I can work focused, but I fight against laziness, procrastination, boredom, lack of sleep, wanting to be anywhere else, etc.
I suspect that this is another avenue where we will use technology to extend human capabilities -- what CEO wouldn't want his staff firing on all cylinders all through the work day?
Well, you've got that kind of money to thow on a Playstation 3 don't y... ...oh.