we were thinking of buying very fine iron spheres (goodfellow has some) and making this stuff. But we ran into problems with the numbers for the magnetic field strengths.
Anyone know how many turns of a coil runnig at 1Amp you'd need to make a 1cm by 1cm crosssection of this sort of stuff remain rigid against a newton of shear?
Looking at Spec95, was anyone else surprised by the fact that a P5-100 hit 3.05 Int, and 2.07/2.72 FP, whereas a K7-1000 ran at 42.9 int and 29,4 FP? Thats about 14x improvement from a 10x clkock speed gain.
Given that the K7 is 9-way superscalar, you worry about compiler quality.
If business used ethics, we might have a chance of seeing out this century.
Personally, we run all our stuff, business and domestic, on Debian. What other OS has next-day bugfixes, and an fully-documented policy? Let alone a sane installation procedure.
>While there is a certain rah-rah for technology aspect to this story, we must not forget the issues of corporate power involved here. Personally, I'm ok with the UK government doing whatever it needs to reduce crime.
I somehow don't think tony will ever act to control crime in this country.
Fear puts authoritarian governments in control
Thugs fund political campaigns
Most of the crime in this country is poverty-related, and you need a poor underclass to keep the slaves^W workers insecure and working
Most of the rest of the crime is corporate, and you know how many prosecutions the Serious Fraud Office launches each year
The RIP act is a simple means of ensuring the state gains as much power over its citizens as it can, a traditional act of authoritarian regimes.
Still, I think I feel an auto-msn-jammer coming on. Plug into a public-access MSN terminal, and flood MSN servers with email-sniffer-keywords to keep the RIP machinery busy. Two birds with one small device...
Kids! Try this outside, away from cameras!
> How would you transport a decentralized login system?
Well, an old hacker I know provides his friends with a line for their/etc/passwd (and/or/etc/shadow). Then he can login to any machine this particular "meme" has spread to (using his standard remote login password, or whatever he chose to mail you), which, since he's some f'in Un*x guru, is hugely useful.
So, take this to the logical conclusion:
generate a cryptic password
one-way hash it using the appropriate key and seed for the server system it will be stored on
enter it in the https-secured
make account
page
use any distribution mechanism to pass these entries between machines in the network.
Security techniques then become:
make the one-way hash a good one!
provide the seed on a per-account basis
separate seed transport, user-id transport, and hashed-password transport into separate transactions
make the seed-generation very random
on password change, use a new seed.
Shouldn't be that hard to do, and it's a damn sight better than NIS.
If I see "do_ypcall:..." appear on a console again, I wll break
EVERY COMPUTER IN THE WORLD. And no jury will ever convict.
> 27mm x 27mm PBGA IC package
You know, I was just about to fall rabidly in love with this chip, having read the spec, until I noticed this.
You can't hand-solder BGA's
And even if you tried, you'd need an X-Ray machine to check the work
Still, if you've got the budget to do the soldering I think this makes a perfect beowulf^Wscalable network storage node: 4 EIDE ports leaves 4 fat (6.25Mb) serial ports for intra-cluster communications and that fast ethernet port for serving the data outwards.
Actually, those serial ports make it looks a very small amount like a transputer or the 21364 Alpha chip; at $75 a chip and 100 MHz, more like the transputer I suppose. Now, imagine using the serial links to do fault-tolerant distributed lock management and request forwarding, and the EIDE for snoopy-NAS. (You can't do disk-mirroring on one node, so don't ask to. You have to do mirroring across the network.) 4*$100 40GB drives, $75 CPU, $50 512MB ram, $50 PCB, $50 power. $625 for a 160GB storage block.
Now, that would make an interesting cluster-app.
fx:reads website.
fx:jaw drops
Looks like someone already thought of that.
Respect for the development board; it's got screw terminals. Now to justify this from the development budget...
> The possibility of thinking machines or artificial intelligence does not scare me;
Remember: we're more likely to get intelligent machines than intelligent humans.
> The possibility that artificially intelligent machines may not read 'I Robot' does.
Any robot reading Asimov will do whatever its equivalent of pissing itself laughing is.
>The cameras are in public places so its not really an invasion of privacy, and unless you're breaking the law, they're not going to be interested in you.
When there is a permanently-archived webcam in every place people gather, to prevent any secrets from being kept, then we will be safe.
We don't care if they are interested in usl we are interested in them, and we have the right to know, because it is necessary for our survival.
All together now:
NO MORE SECRETS
NO MORE SECRECY
NO MORE LIES
NO MORE SARCASM
NO MORE POPES
the people who say only an organisation coincidentally like theirs can do it
the people who say only an organisation run by a government can do it
Usually, most of these people are wrong.
But they do serve to put people off doing it.
Space travel is too important to leave to chance. The more of us try it, the more likely it is that some of us will succeed at it.
So it might be dangerous? Big f'ing deal. In the country I live in, 10 people are killed by cars every day. Three guys in a rocket looks much more useful than that.
Last surplus catalog I stared at had PS/2 socket lights for laptop use in the dark.
My mobile lights up the keys in the evening.
I WANT MY FINGERS TO GLOW (but only when I say so) and the currently-available techniques for soing so mostly involve running wires under my fingernails, which hurts.
Please can someone whip up a batch of retrovirus to stick some switchable glowing into my fingers? Pretty please? I promise to wave my fingers around humourously in dark rooms full of stoners if you do?
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone know how many turns of a coil runnig at 1Amp you'd need to make a 1cm by 1cm crosssection of this sort of stuff remain rigid against a newton of shear?
Mosis? Should be only a few 10's of K to get a batch of your favourite CPU whipped up.
Halal says: Linux is santa and must be deployed.
Oh, and why you post anonymously?
> grok perl,
Man, there are people here that know that s/// is from sed, not perl.
And they well know who Stallman is.
Given that the K7 is 9-way superscalar, you worry about compiler quality.
On debian-devel, from difficult "i hosed a machine" to "use this two-liner" response, 4 hours.
What more could you ask for?
Personally, we run all our stuff, business and domestic, on Debian. What other OS has next-day bugfixes, and an fully-documented policy? Let alone a sane installation procedure.
I somehow don't think tony will ever act to control crime in this country.
The RIP act is a simple means of ensuring the state gains as much power over its citizens as it can, a traditional act of authoritarian regimes.
Still, I think I feel an auto-msn-jammer coming on. Plug into a public-access MSN terminal, and flood MSN servers with email-sniffer-keywords to keep the RIP machinery busy. Two birds with one small device... Kids! Try this outside, away from cameras!
All right then
this horrifies me. The last people that should be given media-access-control over a public access internet point are Microsoft.
And I mean that last
Even after the politicians.
Bleargh.
Well, an old hacker I know provides his friends with a line for their /etc/passwd (and/or /etc/shadow). Then he can login to any machine this particular "meme" has spread to (using his standard remote login password, or whatever he chose to mail you), which, since he's some f'in Un*x guru, is hugely useful.
So, take this to the logical conclusion:
- make account
pageSecurity techniques then become:
Shouldn't be that hard to do, and it's a damn sight better than NIS.
Probably time to go stare at kerberos again.You know, I was just about to fall rabidly in love with this chip, having read the spec, until I noticed this.
-
You can't hand-solder BGA's
- And even if you tried, you'd need an X-Ray machine to check the work
Still, if you've got the budget to do the soldering I think this makes a perfect beowulf^Wscalable network storage node: 4 EIDE ports leaves 4 fat (6.25Mb) serial ports for intra-cluster communications and that fast ethernet port for serving the data outwards.Actually, those serial ports make it looks a very small amount like a transputer or the 21364 Alpha chip; at $75 a chip and 100 MHz, more like the transputer I suppose. Now, imagine using the serial links to do fault-tolerant distributed lock management and request forwarding, and the EIDE for snoopy-NAS. (You can't do disk-mirroring on one node, so don't ask to. You have to do mirroring across the network.) 4*$100 40GB drives, $75 CPU, $50 512MB ram, $50 PCB, $50 power. $625 for a 160GB storage block.
Now, that would make an interesting cluster-app.
fx:reads website.
fx:jaw drops
Looks like someone already thought of that.
Respect for the development board; it's got screw terminals. Now to justify this from the development budget ...
>Taliban's own Radio Shariat) is banned
Did anyone else read this as Radio Shack?
Gave me the wooblies. Suddenly the late C20 became a lot more ... clear ...
Not that it'll do you much good: access protection to a secure box is as important as securing the box itself
> The possibility of thinking machines or artificial intelligence does not scare me;
Remember: we're more likely to get intelligent machines than intelligent humans.
> The possibility that artificially intelligent machines may not read 'I Robot' does.
Any robot reading Asimov will do whatever its equivalent of pissing itself laughing is.
When there is a permanently-archived webcam in every place people gather, to prevent any secrets from being kept, then we will be safe.
We don't care if they are interested in usl we are interested in them, and we have the right to know, because it is necessary for our survival.
All together now:
NO MORE SECRETS
NO MORE SECRECY
NO MORE LIES
NO MORE SARCASM
NO MORE POPES
36 hours with an IBM thinkpad 755C: and my groin never felt toastier :>
If you want to feel safe, act to prevent nuclear, bacteriological and chemical warfare; or just plain political thuggery.
Prevent; not oppose.
- the people who say it can't be done
- the people who say you can't do it
- the people who say only an organisation coincidentally like theirs can do it
- the people who say only an organisation run by a government can do it
Usually, most of these people are wrong.But they do serve to put people off doing it.
Space travel is too important to leave to chance. The more of us try it, the more likely it is that some of us will succeed at it.
So it might be dangerous? Big f'ing deal. In the country I live in, 10 people are killed by cars every day. Three guys in a rocket looks much more useful than that.
Go on, try doing something interesting today!
My mobile lights up the keys in the evening.
I WANT MY FINGERS TO GLOW (but only when I say so) and the currently-available techniques for soing so mostly involve running wires under my fingernails, which hurts.
Please can someone whip up a batch of retrovirus to stick some switchable glowing into my fingers? Pretty please? I promise to wave my fingers around humourously in dark rooms full of stoners if you do?