[I posted this to the other VoIP thread, but it is a useful tool]
You can simulate a VoIP call and get the MOS voice quality score. So if you want to see how your Wireless setup fares, visit testyourvoip.com.
Even if you don't care about VoIP, it is a useful test of the latency and bandwidth of your connection. VoIP is pretty sensitive to late packets so this tool highlights connectivity problems.
You can simulate a VoIP call and get the MOS voice quality score. So if you want to see how your Wireless setup fares, visit testyourvoip.com.
Even if you don't care about VoIP, it is a useful test of the latency and bandwidth of your connection. VoIP is pretty sensitive to late packets so this tool highlights connectivity problems.
Well... you can jump through hoops in Perl to make something _really_ private if you want:
{
my $private_val = 4;
my $private_sub =
sub { return "whee" };
sub public_accessor {
print %$private_sub . $private_val;
} }
As long as you declare your private subs as code references and use my, then no one can call them from outside that scope. Since Perl doesn't allow you to do pointer arithmetic the values are not accessible (unlike C++) (well, unless you have so craaazy lib loaded, then people can circumvent. But hell, you can always read the raw memory too).
The crypt(1) command (not to be confused with the crypt function used for passwords) is a modified Engima. It is relatively easy to crack and there are toolkits[1] available for it. It is possible to make it more secure by compressing your plaintext thus transforming it from ASCII to binary and making it more difficult to detect a successful decryption. Spafford[2] talks about this in more detail.
The data appears to be free as in speech, but in order to get a copy of it, one has to pay the government $1500. However the data is in the public domain so once you have acquired it, you can re-release it for free (in the beer sense) or you can release it under whatever terms you want (assuming you can get someone to buy it).
So this leads to the question, if there is goverment data that people care about available, can we start a fund to buy it and then release it in the GPL. For instance I would pay $20 for a copy of the data, $10 of which might cover the copying of the CDs, labor and shipping, leaving $10 to go towards the $1500. So if I can get 150 of my closest friends to join in and collaborate then we can all buy a copy from the government and have our own copy of the 6 CDs.
Perhaps someone* should start a website with interesting goverment data links and allow people to say how much they would pay for the data, and once a certain threshold is hit (say 150% of the price to cover people who change their minds) it would mail everyone for confirmation, they could submit payment and the product could be ordered, duplicated and mailed out. If there was a surplus then a fund could be started to put the extra in so that it could cover unforseen costs or maintenance of the hardware or whatever.
*note that someone is not currently me since I don't have the time or attention to detail that this would require.
Slashdot Mirror
[I posted this to the other VoIP thread, but it is a useful tool]
You can simulate a VoIP call and get the MOS voice quality score. So if you want to see how your Wireless setup fares, visit testyourvoip.com.
Even if you don't care about VoIP, it is a useful test of the latency and bandwidth of your connection. VoIP is pretty sensitive to late packets so this tool highlights connectivity problems.
-ben
You can simulate a VoIP call and get the MOS voice quality score. So if you want to see how your Wireless setup fares, visit testyourvoip.com.
Even if you don't care about VoIP, it is a useful test of the latency and bandwidth of your connection. VoIP is pretty sensitive to late packets so this tool highlights connectivity problems.
-ben
Ah... we refer to it as GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
-ben
The NPR Jazz sit at www.nprjazz.org is a great resource. An especially good starting point at that site is the Basic Jazz Record Library.
You should also consider looking at the stuff your local library has. If they loan out CDs you can see what you like before you buy it.
-ben
Well... you can jump through hoops in Perl to make something _really_ private if you want:
{
my $private_val = 4;
my $private_sub =
sub { return "whee" };
sub public_accessor {
print %$private_sub . $private_val;
}
}
As long as you declare your private subs as code references and use my, then no one can call them from outside that scope. Since Perl doesn't allow you to do pointer arithmetic the values are not accessible (unlike C++) (well, unless you have so craaazy lib loaded, then people can circumvent. But hell, you can always read the raw memory too).
-ben
I think Katz is listing the other offences that you can get expelled for, not saying that the student actually did any of those things.
The crypt(1) command (not to be confused with the crypt function used for passwords) is a modified Engima. It is relatively easy to crack and there are toolkits[1] available for it. It is possible to make it more secure by compressing your plaintext thus transforming it from ASCII to binary and making it more difficult to detect a successful decryption. Spafford[2] talks about this in more detail.
t m
-ben
[1] Crypt Breaker's Workbench: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/cbw.html
[2] Practical Unix and Internet Security: http://secinf.net/info/misc/orelly/puis/ch06_06.h
Ummm... it _IS_ in England. In the Lake District.
Go to the Gutenberg Search page and search for title dictionary (but turn off match whole words).
The data appears to be free as in speech, but in order to get a copy of it, one has to pay the government $1500. However the data is in the public domain so once you have acquired it, you can re-release it for free (in the beer sense) or you can release it under whatever terms you want (assuming you can get someone to buy it).
So this leads to the question, if there is goverment data that people care about available, can we start a fund to buy it and then release it in the GPL. For instance I would pay $20 for a copy of the data, $10 of which might cover the copying of the CDs, labor and shipping, leaving $10 to go towards the $1500. So if I can get 150 of my closest friends to join in and collaborate then we can all buy a copy from the government and have our own copy of the 6 CDs.
Perhaps someone* should start a website with interesting goverment data links and allow people to say how much they would pay for the data, and once a certain threshold is hit (say 150% of the price to cover people who change their minds) it would mail everyone for confirmation, they could submit payment and the product could be ordered, duplicated and mailed out. If there was a surplus then a fund could be started to put the extra in so that it could cover unforseen costs or maintenance of the hardware or whatever.
*note that someone is not currently me since I don't have the time or attention to detail that this would require.
-ben