I had him for a class at Iowa State and he couldn't quit staring at the cameras in the classroom long enough to actually teach anything. Terrible prof, terrible witness. He's one of those profs who latched onto computer security b/c it was the hot new thing the gov't was giving out grants for
I used to work at a consortium of universities named ACS and our workshops were pretty lame. I think it helped that the majority of the people attending the workshops new very little so they didn't realize how bad they were and I'm sure the FREE food and alcohol we provided at dinners more than helped them forget any lame-ness they experienced....
Definitely a plus b/c it let's you avoid dealing w/profile incompatibilites/conversion between the different versions of firefox and instead stores it in the directory with the portable firefox program
read a little further down, specifically message #6:
first submission (maybe the last?)
"HD TeAm" has submitted a sw only exploit for evaluation
the license is restricted distribution - but only to prevent resale / hero abuse
the HD TeAm position:
"HD TeAm has a solution prepared and authorizes it's distribution via ddb once $1,000 has been collected. We request that all proceeds be donated to the EFF so that research of this nature remains legal in the future."
"It is our position that if the community, particularly the minority with the disposable income for hd-units, is unwilling to come together & donate this token sum to a worthy organization the hack is probably better kept private"
OK, lets open the floor to discussion
i personally hope it is real because i believe once i purchase the hardware, then i should be able to do whatever i want with it.
investigated some of these last year. there are alot more available now and many models have fans attached to them and are powered off of a ps2 or usb port provided by the laptop search for "notebook cooler" on newegg and you'll turn up quite a few results and many of them have informative user reviews
broadcom would follow intel's lead and release a linux driver. while driverloader and ndiswrapper work, it would be nice to see the hardware vendor stop making crappy excuses (fcc regulations other stupid ones) about releasing a linux driver.
just because it was sent to this person doesn't mean they are the actual person who leaked it. who knows how many hands it had to pass before it was actually received by this person... from what i understand about most of these leaks it's usually a middle-man that ends up doing it or an insider source such as one of this person's assistants...
i really liked darwin's radio ( a fewyears old, but i just go to it). it had a good plot and it kept me interested from the first chapter to the end. i also thought the take on evolution was rather interesting.
i also liked art of deception by mitnick on the non-fiction front. informative and it reinforces the belief that no matter how strong your passwords are if the people that have them can be convinced to give them out.
worst book i read was distress by greg egan. it wasn't a terible book, but it was the worst one that i actually read. while the plot was interesting, near the end it just seemed (imho) to end up being egan's rant on human sexuality and emotions.
what are the reasons for choosing gnome instead of KDE? i've read some of the white papers but i haven't seen anything that says why they are choosing gnome. i think KDE is a better desktop and should be included instead (i used to be a hardcore gnome user until KDE 3 and gnome 2 came out then i switched and haven't looked back), but if it doesn't fit with their model, it doesn't fit with their model
at my university we had a "for sale" email list that if you wanted to sale stuff you subscribed to and sent emails out over, of course in doing this you subjected yourself to emails of anything else being sold, but you also had a good chance of selling your books and anything else.
so the problem at my school wasn't selling the books, but figuring out far enough in advance of the start of classes which books were going to be used for that class.
if you could find out a week before classes started, you could order your books online or find people w/the books and not be w/o them in class. professors seemed unwilling to post their syllabi on their websites a few weeks before classes started (these usually had required books in them) and the campus book store was anal and probably would have complained to the president of the university in attempts to quash any booklist puvlishing efforts had we tried
fyi, he's speaking at the Usenix Technical Conference on June 12th as the keynote speaker. he's going to talk about this new book and some other things. luckily, i'll be there =)
the article's actual title is:
"Personal Server: Has Intel Built the Handheld Killer?"
and the first sentence reads: Intel is developing wireless, pocket-sized personal server that may replace laptops and PDAs altogether.
so if it truly was designed as a server it's baard.com that is misreporting and not/. misreading. as far as replacing laptops or pdas, i say a no-go because for it to work you have to have access to a computer, which i don't typically in meetings or on airplanes. it would be a nice addition to a laptop as something i can use to easily sync my work, laptop, and desktop computers but i dont know if it will be worth the cost, which i didn't see mention of
my 2 cents...
i actually subscribe to Discover and the article is in there. It describes how it speeds up the process and makes it more efficient than other attempts at doing this by trying not to produce just petroleum, but by creating the other natural byproducts as well. the article also states that the u.s. could produce another 4 billion barrels of oil a year (we import 4.2 billion a year right now) which would help greatly reduce the cost of importing oil. also says that it would only cost $8-$10 a barrel to produce =). also the article states that with an input of 15 units of garbage, they can get an output of 100 units of petrol, and 85% efficiency, many many times better than previously achieved. i recommend going and browsing the discover article at your local bookstore as it is quite interesting
i agree. i have a RHN subscription and it is well worth it. i'm downloading all 3 disk images concurrently since each is only averaging 3kbps (hoping that it will pick up overnight). im just hoping they finish before the week is over at this point =P. thank goodness for wget's resume features for when the downloads timeout =).
I doubt there is any *real* need from people to have this distro a week ahead of time, but i also see the point of people being angry over redhat not offering it to everyone at the same time. redhat is trying to bolster its revenue by adding another feature to its redhat network service, (which is very good btw). rhn subscribers get priority download access to packages, so redhat thought, why not also to new versions of redhat im thinking. i know if i didn't have rhn, that i'd be desperately wanting this because ive been waiting 6 months (ehich i hope isn't their new release schedule) since the last release and partly because i couldn't have it =P. i hope some that download it through BitTorrent or other means before it is officially released do choose at some point to either buy the distro or buy into RHN to help support RedHat. the priority downloads are a must if you are running servers that are accessible outside a private network because the packages are available sooner through rhn than they tend to be through other things like ximian's red carpet.
ive been running on a soyo k7v-dragon+ for over a month now and have had no problems with it whatsoever. i'm dual-booting between win2k and redhat 7.2. havent installed any BSDs on it so i dont know about any potential problems with that. could it just be the p4-series of these boards having problems? when i was messing w/onboard sound and searching around on newsgroups, i didn't see many posts related to actual problems w/the board such as bad slots, ps/2 ports, etc, although i could have easily missed these. if you haven;t already, i would recommend searching through google groups to try to find a solution or see if there are other people w/the same issues and check w/them to see if they have been able to resolve the issue
from my personal experience: probably not (even though i did). i go to a small private university with maybe 20 total CS majors and MAYBE 3 or 4 actually have ever run *nix or are interested in learning more about *nix. the others seem content running various windows (most i know run WinME). all of our labs on campus are moving to os x and win xp in the next year or so and there are only 3 total *nix boxes that students can sit down and log in at. as far as professors go, none of ours have enough experience with or know enough about anything but windows (and most not too much about that) to teach anything but windows related things. so, at my university i feel its more of a lack of exposure to anything but microsoft that makes the students not think about switching. if students were exposed to more than windows and windows software, im sure a few would switch but too many are content with what they view as easiest.
kazaa along w/morpheus are the two major causes of bandwidth problems at my university, sad to sat but either one or both of these programs getting shut down will do wonders for my university's network... btw, wondering how many people are running either of these progs on your network? run a scan on port 1214, you wouldn't believe some of the things people download... looking at all of the things people at my univ. have downloaded, i have seen few if any legal things downloaded so i do feel that there is cause for kazaa to be sued
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I had him for a class at Iowa State and he couldn't quit staring at the cameras in the classroom long enough to actually teach anything. Terrible prof, terrible witness. He's one of those profs who latched onto computer security b/c it was the hot new thing the gov't was giving out grants for
I used to work at a consortium of universities named ACS and our workshops were pretty lame. I think it helped that the majority of the people attending the workshops new very little so they didn't realize how bad they were and I'm sure the FREE food and alcohol we provided at dinners more than helped them forget any lame-ness they experienced....
There's a "portable" version available here:
http://www.cybernetnews.com/?p=411
Definitely a plus b/c it let's you avoid dealing w/profile incompatibilites/conversion between the different versions of firefox and instead stores it in the directory with the portable firefox program
the Phantom will contain one of these when it comes out...
note that not all of the mirrors are updated yet
0 6271435/ p se/R-3.1-200506271435/ 1 -200506271435/ 0 506271435/ 3 .1-200506271435/ d rops/R-3.1-200506271435/ l ipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/ p se/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/ s /R-3.1-200506271435/ R -3.1-200506271435/ p se/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/softeng/eclipse/R-3.1-2005
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ecli
http://eclipse.gabriel.co.hu/downloads/drops/R-3.
http://www.eclipse.ps.pl/downloads/drops/R-3.1-20
http://mirrors.bevc.net/eclipse/download/drops/R-
http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/eclipse/downloads/
http://mirrors.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/eclipse.org/ec
http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/appl/eclipse/ecli
http://mirror.reachable.ca/eclipse/downloads/drop
http://mirror.calvin.edu/eclipse/downloads/drops/
http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/mirrorsites/eclipse/ecli
investigated some of these last year. there are alot more available now and many models have fans attached to them and are powered off of a ps2 or usb port provided by the laptop
search for "notebook cooler" on newegg and you'll turn up quite a few results and many of them have informative user reviews
broadcom would follow intel's lead and release a linux driver. while driverloader and ndiswrapper work, it would be nice to see the hardware vendor stop making crappy excuses (fcc regulations other stupid ones) about releasing a linux driver.
just because it was sent to this person doesn't mean they are the actual person who leaked it. who knows how many hands it had to pass before it was actually received by this person... from what i understand about most of these leaks it's usually a middle-man that ends up doing it or an insider source such as one of this person's assistants...
i really liked darwin's radio ( a fewyears old, but i just go to it). it had a good plot and it kept me interested from the first chapter to the end. i also thought the take on evolution was rather interesting.
i also liked art of deception by mitnick on the non-fiction front. informative and it reinforces the belief that no matter how strong your passwords are if the people that have them can be convinced to give them out.
worst book i read was distress by greg egan. it wasn't a terible book, but it was the worst one that i actually read. while the plot was interesting, near the end it just seemed (imho) to end up being egan's rant on human sexuality and emotions.
what are the reasons for choosing gnome instead of KDE? i've read some of the white papers but i haven't seen anything that says why they are choosing gnome. i think KDE is a better desktop and should be included instead (i used to be a hardcore gnome user until KDE 3 and gnome 2 came out then i switched and haven't looked back), but if it doesn't fit with their model, it doesn't fit with their model
at my university we had a "for sale" email list that if you wanted to sale stuff you subscribed to and sent emails out over, of course in doing this you subjected yourself to emails of anything else being sold, but you also had a good chance of selling your books and anything else.
so the problem at my school wasn't selling the books, but figuring out far enough in advance of the start of classes which books were going to be used for that class.
if you could find out a week before classes started, you could order your books online or find people w/the books and not be w/o them in class. professors seemed unwilling to post their syllabi on their websites a few weeks before classes started (these usually had required books in them) and the campus book store was anal and probably would have complained to the president of the university in attempts to quash any booklist puvlishing efforts had we tried
i enjoy working out/playing basketball cause it keeps me in shape and can help w/ my other favorite hobby: girls =)
fyi, he's speaking at the Usenix Technical Conference on June 12th as the keynote speaker. he's going to talk about this new book and some other things. luckily, i'll be there =)
the article's actual title is : /. misreading. as far as replacing laptops or pdas, i say a no-go because for it to work you have to have access to a computer, which i don't typically in meetings or on airplanes. it would be a nice addition to a laptop as something i can use to easily sync my work, laptop, and desktop computers but i dont know if it will be worth the cost, which i didn't see mention of
my 2 cents...
"Personal Server: Has Intel Built the Handheld Killer?"
and the first sentence reads:
Intel is developing wireless, pocket-sized personal server that may replace laptops and PDAs altogether.
so if it truly was designed as a server it's baard.com that is misreporting and not
i actually subscribe to Discover and the article is in there. It describes how it speeds up the process and makes it more efficient than other attempts at doing this by trying not to produce just petroleum, but by creating the other natural byproducts as well. the article also states that the u.s. could produce another 4 billion barrels of oil a year (we import 4.2 billion a year right now) which would help greatly reduce the cost of importing oil. also says that it would only cost $8-$10 a barrel to produce =). also the article states that with an input of 15 units of garbage, they can get an output of 100 units of petrol, and 85% efficiency, many many times better than previously achieved. i recommend going and browsing the discover article at your local bookstore as it is quite interesting
i agree. i have a RHN subscription and it is well worth it. i'm downloading all 3 disk images concurrently since each is only averaging 3kbps (hoping that it will pick up overnight). im just hoping they finish before the week is over at this point =P. thank goodness for wget's resume features for when the downloads timeout =).
I doubt there is any *real* need from people to have this distro a week ahead of time, but i also see the point of people being angry over redhat not offering it to everyone at the same time. redhat is trying to bolster its revenue by adding another feature to its redhat network service, (which is very good btw). rhn subscribers get priority download access to packages, so redhat thought, why not also to new versions of redhat im thinking. i know if i didn't have rhn, that i'd be desperately wanting this because ive been waiting 6 months (ehich i hope isn't their new release schedule) since the last release and partly because i couldn't have it =P. i hope some that download it through BitTorrent or other means before it is officially released do choose at some point to either buy the distro or buy into RHN to help support RedHat. the priority downloads are a must if you are running servers that are accessible outside a private network because the packages are available sooner through rhn than they tend to be through other things like ximian's red carpet.
guess microsoft got their days mixed up =P
ive been running on a soyo k7v-dragon+ for over a month now and have had no problems with it whatsoever. i'm dual-booting between win2k and redhat 7.2. havent installed any BSDs on it so i dont know about any potential problems with that. could it just be the p4-series of these boards having problems? when i was messing w/onboard sound and searching around on newsgroups, i didn't see many posts related to actual problems w/the board such as bad slots, ps/2 ports, etc, although i could have easily missed these. if you haven;t already, i would recommend searching through google groups to try to find a solution or see if there are other people w/the same issues and check w/them to see if they have been able to resolve the issue
from my personal experience: probably not (even though i did). i go to a small private university with maybe 20 total CS majors and MAYBE 3 or 4 actually have ever run *nix or are interested in learning more about *nix. the others seem content running various windows (most i know run WinME). all of our labs on campus are moving to os x and win xp in the next year or so and there are only 3 total *nix boxes that students can sit down and log in at. as far as professors go, none of ours have enough experience with or know enough about anything but windows (and most not too much about that) to teach anything but windows related things. so, at my university i feel its more of a lack of exposure to anything but microsoft that makes the students not think about switching. if students were exposed to more than windows and windows software, im sure a few would switch but too many are content with what they view as easiest.
kazaa along w/morpheus are the two major causes of bandwidth problems at my university, sad to sat but either one or both of these programs getting shut down will do wonders for my university's network... btw, wondering how many people are running either of these progs on your network? run a scan on port 1214, you wouldn't believe some of the things people download... looking at all of the things people at my univ. have downloaded, i have seen few if any legal things downloaded so i do feel that there is cause for kazaa to be sued