You are comparing apples to asphalt. Xgrid is a distributed job scheduler. Its performance has nothing to do with the performance of a single image of OSX running on more then 4 cores/cpus.
yes. I am not even sure it would take an overzealous DA. Not long ago there was a high school senior hockey player who stripped durring a fight as in the movie Slapshot. I wish I could find a good link. I was under the impression that he was handed a pretty stiff sentence. If this law were in place I doubt it would have taken much to put him in the registry.
Of course the biggest problem with these registries is the wide range of people put on them. At one end you have incurrable sexual predators. At the other end you have stupid people. There are people on those lists convicted of statutory rape who are now married to their elledged "victim."
Please install Ubuntu. You will probably stick with Debian, but you should give Ubuntu a try.
Install Ubuntu with the default Gnome desktop and without the Universe repository. It will give you the best feel for what Ubuntu is all about. I found the Gnome desktop to be well integrated and everything more or less just worked. (And I don't like Gnome.) If you find that you are adding multiple packages from Universe or switching to one of the other desktop environments, you are better to stick with Debian. Debian will generally have better support for those extras.
Why would you care what Ubuntu is like? Maybe you will prefer the well integrated Gnome desktop. Perhaps Ubuntu is just the thing for your parents computer.
Re:No, it's much harder than you think.
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Scheiner wrote that book. It is Secrets & Lies. This quote from the preface sums it up:
The error of Applied Cryptography is that I didn't talk at all about the context. I talked about cryptography as if it were The AnswerTM. I was pretty naïve.
It would be cool if producers were taxed for all packageing based on weight and material. Non-recyclable and hard to recycle material would cost more. The taxes need to be applied to the producers directly to force change. Consumers won't care if a product costs an extra 5 cents because it is in a plastic bubble. Producers will. Taxing the consumer for the packageing won't work. Consumers often don't have a choice, and similar garbage taxes/fees encourage illegal late night dumping.
Understand that Bristish law, and most legal systems derived from British law, often use a reasonableness test. That is, if you can convince a judge and/or jury that your actions were reasonable then you will be cleared. There is no real deffinition of reasonable other then "would the majority of the public consider the actions as reasonable." Of course the defence of "I considered my actions reasonable." is not a proper defence as "stupidity is no defence."
This idea of reasonableness is hard for technical people to understand. Technical people prefer the deterministic behaviour of ones and zeros, yes and no. But reasonableness is the law in a good chunk of the world, and it has worked remarkable well for the past few hundred years.
I did a similar thing and wrote something to the effect of "All work and designs started before ." My intention was to buy myself some time to think about it and maybe consult a lawyer. It was my first major employment and I had not expected an NDA. As it turns out no one actually read the NDA I signed, or if some one did they didn't care.
I don't think that I could come up with a list of prior work. There are easily hundreds of projects that I have started that have never been developed into a product or published. I suspect most people would have a similarly long list if they sat down and thought about it.
My current NDA states that I promise not to use any company resources, includeing research (or even overheard conversations in the hallway) to develop products. There is a general prior work clause, but no specific lists. The upshot is if I develop a product outside of work my employer will take me to court to determine ownership. On the surface this seems insane, but in reality it protects the rights of me and my employer.
your basic break and enter guys don't use these tools because rocks through windows are just as convinient. Being caught in possesion of these tools would arouse suspicion. Better to be caught with nothing.
That is a good link. Too bad you can choose the character set. I have run into the problem where the web interface on an access point did not accept, process all the characters. It took forever to debug because everything "looked" fine.
My primary system is Linux Debian/Sarge on a Pentium-M (Centrino) system.
I also have access to a Mac. The Mac mangpage for random/urandom says:
/dev/urandom is a compatibility nod to Linux. On Linux,/dev/urandom will produce lower quality output if the entropy pool drains, while /dev/random will prefer to block and wait for additional entropy to be collected. With Yarrow, this choice and distinction is not necessary, and the two devices behave identically. You may use either.
I wonder if the random and urandom behave identically on FreeBSD or the other BSDs. Something to do this weekend I guess.
Linuxu random is not random enough. (Well it probably is for this purpose:-)
Under Linux,/dev/random will block if there aren't enough bits in the entropy pool./dev/urandom will output as many bytes as requested regardless of the entropy pool. In theory/dev/urandom is vulnerable to attack.
I had forgotten how reading/dev/random works. Smaller block sizes with bigger counts are better. Try:
WPA with AES can keep out all but the NSA and even they will have trouble with it. The trick is to choose a strong PSK or use certificates.
For those who don't know: WPA (1/2, tkip, AES) in pre-shared key mode is vulnerable to a brute force attack. The four packet authentication sequence can be captured and brute force attacked offline. There are WPA rainbow tables based on dictionary words "in the wild." A long multi word passphrase with some numbers should be sufficient. A 63 character string of upper and lower case letters, and numbers is best. Unfortunately many access point web interfaces do not handle special characters and punctuation well.
Computers are hurt by cold. If the operating temperature is too cold the chips and other electronics will heat up and expand faster then the pcb causing solder joints to break. Google for thermal expansion.
I finished The Lost Chapters end to end in 15 hours (the console + pc "bonus" content). So you didn't miss much. I wouldn't even call it "The Finished Game." The lost chapter was just a tacked on bit to try and sucker some console players to buy it again.
Re:I thought this was a 1st person game?
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The game was not designed for 3rd perspective. It does not play well that way. I found the combat all but impossible in the 3rd person view.
Don't get too cocky. A 9v battery is enough to kill someone, even if it is unlikely. A person's heart can be stopped with as little as 20mA. The resistance of a person is almost exclusively due to the skin. Dry sky can have a resistance in the megaOhms. Skin that has been soaking in water can have a resistance of only 100s of Ohms. If a person who had been soaking their hands for a long time were to grab the terminals of a 9v battery and squeeze really hard it could be fatal. It is not likely, but it could happen.
The RIAA could not use the same rules as traffic cameras. Because a car is a big physical thing then it is likely that a car is driven by the owner, or someone who has the owner's permission. Either that or the car was stolen. Wireless is quite different. The RIAA might go for the negligent angle and claim that the user should have used WEP/WPA etc.
You are correct that the competition is really BluRay vs. HD-DVD vs. DVD. However one of the two new formats will win, because Hollywood wants to kill DVD. DVD has become too easy to copy. They also love the idea that consumers will buy all their favorite DVDs in one of the new formats.
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You are comparing apples to asphalt. Xgrid is a distributed job scheduler. Its performance has nothing to do with the performance of a single image of OSX running on more then 4 cores/cpus.
yes. I am not even sure it would take an overzealous DA. Not long ago there was a high school senior hockey player who stripped durring a fight as in the movie Slapshot. I wish I could find a good link. I was under the impression that he was handed a pretty stiff sentence. If this law were in place I doubt it would have taken much to put him in the registry.
Of course the biggest problem with these registries is the wide range of people put on them. At one end you have incurrable sexual predators. At the other end you have stupid people. There are people on those lists convicted of statutory rape who are now married to their elledged "victim."
Please install Ubuntu. You will probably stick with Debian, but you should give Ubuntu a try.
Install Ubuntu with the default Gnome desktop and without the Universe repository. It will give you the best feel for what Ubuntu is all about. I found the Gnome desktop to be well integrated and everything more or less just worked. (And I don't like Gnome.) If you find that you are adding multiple packages from Universe or switching to one of the other desktop environments, you are better to stick with Debian. Debian will generally have better support for those extras.
Why would you care what Ubuntu is like? Maybe you will prefer the well integrated Gnome desktop. Perhaps Ubuntu is just the thing for your parents computer.
Scheiner wrote that book. It is Secrets & Lies. This quote from the preface sums it up:
It would be cool if producers were taxed for all packageing based on weight and material. Non-recyclable and hard to recycle material would cost more. The taxes need to be applied to the producers directly to force change. Consumers won't care if a product costs an extra 5 cents because it is in a plastic bubble. Producers will. Taxing the consumer for the packageing won't work. Consumers often don't have a choice, and similar garbage taxes/fees encourage illegal late night dumping.
A complete faraday cage will contain RF EM waves for the same reason that it will keep EM out.
That is a good point. The submission did suggest that really long term storage was not an issue as the CDs were destroyed when no longer required.
While these hook files look like an expensive solution, it probably isn't. The cost to handle the CD is probably greater.
Understand that Bristish law, and most legal systems derived from British law, often use a reasonableness test. That is, if you can convince a judge and/or jury that your actions were reasonable then you will be cleared. There is no real deffinition of reasonable other then "would the majority of the public consider the actions as reasonable." Of course the defence of "I considered my actions reasonable." is not a proper defence as "stupidity is no defence."
This idea of reasonableness is hard for technical people to understand. Technical people prefer the deterministic behaviour of ones and zeros, yes and no. But reasonableness is the law in a good chunk of the world, and it has worked remarkable well for the past few hundred years.
I did a similar thing and wrote something to the effect of "All work and designs started before ." My intention was to buy myself some time to think about it and maybe consult a lawyer. It was my first major employment and I had not expected an NDA. As it turns out no one actually read the NDA I signed, or if some one did they didn't care.
I don't think that I could come up with a list of prior work. There are easily hundreds of projects that I have started that have never been developed into a product or published. I suspect most people would have a similarly long list if they sat down and thought about it.
My current NDA states that I promise not to use any company resources, includeing research (or even overheard conversations in the hallway) to develop products. There is a general prior work clause, but no specific lists. The upshot is if I develop a product outside of work my employer will take me to court to determine ownership. On the surface this seems insane, but in reality it protects the rights of me and my employer.
your basic break and enter guys don't use these tools because rocks through windows are just as convinient. Being caught in possesion of these tools would arouse suspicion. Better to be caught with nothing.
That is a good link. Too bad you can choose the character set. I have run into the problem where the web interface on an access point did not accept, process all the characters. It took forever to debug because everything "looked" fine.
I also have access to a Mac. The Mac mangpage for random/urandom says:I wonder if the random and urandom behave identically on FreeBSD or the other BSDs. Something to do this weekend I guess.
Under Linux,
I had forgotten how reading
For those who don't know: WPA (1/2, tkip, AES) in pre-shared key mode is vulnerable to a brute force attack. The four packet authentication sequence can be captured and brute force attacked offline. There are WPA rainbow tables based on dictionary words "in the wild." A long multi word passphrase with some numbers should be sufficient. A 63 character string of upper and lower case letters, and numbers is best. Unfortunately many access point web interfaces do not handle special characters and punctuation well.
You can generate a longer psk with:it is a pain in the ass to manage though.
Computers are hurt by cold. If the operating temperature is too cold the chips and other electronics will heat up and expand faster then the pcb causing solder joints to break. Google for thermal expansion.
I finished The Lost Chapters end to end in 15 hours (the console + pc "bonus" content). So you didn't miss much. I wouldn't even call it "The Finished Game." The lost chapter was just a tacked on bit to try and sucker some console players to buy it again.
The game was not designed for 3rd perspective. It does not play well that way. I found the combat all but impossible in the 3rd person view.
So how exactly does the GPS receiver get the Google maps data?
MITRE is a gov't contractor. Only in bizzaro world does this make them a front for the CIA.
Probably the best use for AC in a home would be to generate heat ie ovens and hot water heaters.
DC can be used for heat just as well as AC. The best use for AC (in the home) is electric motors.
Don't get too cocky. A 9v battery is enough to kill someone, even if it is unlikely. A person's heart can be stopped with as little as 20mA. The resistance of a person is almost exclusively due to the skin. Dry sky can have a resistance in the megaOhms. Skin that has been soaking in water can have a resistance of only 100s of Ohms. If a person who had been soaking their hands for a long time were to grab the terminals of a 9v battery and squeeze really hard it could be fatal. It is not likely, but it could happen.
The RIAA could not use the same rules as traffic cameras. Because a car is a big physical thing then it is likely that a car is driven by the owner, or someone who has the owner's permission. Either that or the car was stolen. Wireless is quite different. The RIAA might go for the negligent angle and claim that the user should have used WEP/WPA etc.
Crazy bosses make work really hard.
But it can also make the job really interesting. Think of the stories you will have.
You are correct that the competition is really BluRay vs. HD-DVD vs. DVD. However one of the two new formats will win, because Hollywood wants to kill DVD. DVD has become too easy to copy. They also love the idea that consumers will buy all their favorite DVDs in one of the new formats.