Hehe, just goes to show that if you don't exercise extreamly careful key management, your encrypted messages are effectively just so much plain text. I take it the details of OTPs hadn't been sorted out by then (when were they?). I wonder why the Germans transmitted the same messages as both plain and encrypted text. Lazyness, or were they trying to transmit the keys in what they thought would be a secure manner (but winding up proving that security through obscurity doesn't work)? I guess one other possibility is the same information had to go to paries that had access to only either secure or insecure channels. Still, not exactly the brightest move from a security POV.
I know for a fact that sharing IRQs on an ISA bus does not (usually?) work well at the hardware level! I once tried to do this when I had four serial ports (two on irq 4 and two on irq 3, ie the standard settings for 4 ports) and even though my serial port driver supported shared IRQs, it did not work well: I kept losing interrupts on the second port on that line. Adittedly, it may have been bugs in my code (for those interested, have a look at serio on my web page), but as it seemed intermittent, I think it was more likely the hardware. I don't know if this was a limitation of ISA or cheap boards.
Hehe, every now and then, I wander how those guys would react to, say, a dual celeron 450 with 128M of ram, 6.4Ghd, cdrom, 3d card etc. Heck, just the cdrom disk itself would probably amaze them, let alone the shear computing power (relative to their machines) available in just one of the cpus, let alone having two of them. I wonder if a G200 can be reprogrammed to crack Enigma codes, and how quickly it would do it.
The coputing power available for less than $2k these days is just phenomenal compared to what was available at all back in the fourties. And going to the megabuck range of modern computers would seem absolutely magical to those early computing pioneers.
Yes, I laugh at the power of a VIC-20 (and the other PCs of the time), but for both reasons. I laugh at their punyness compared to now, and their might compared to the 40's. Things have come a long way in the last 50 odd years. I wonder where computing will be after another 50 years: will desktop beowulfs have been superceded by something realy wild, or will we be stuck with Windows 2050 running on an Intel Merconium (and yes, I know exactly what that word means:).
Without IRQs, the os has to sit there polling the hardware to see if it's finished: not good for performance. Rather than getting rid of IRQs, what you really want to do is increase the number of available IRQs (NOTE: I may be off track here, as well designed IRQ sharing might not be a bad thing).
As to your other points: in general, I would agree, but there are times when at least serial ports are useful (though not to the average user). The rest? What for? I rather like ethernet printers:).
I want to get this clear in my head: can even a federal court ruling be appealed in the supream court? How do the various court levels in the US work? (I'm not fully up to scratch on the judicial system in any country, for that matter:).
I suspect the previous poster converted to Alsa before the OSS drivers became modular. When I started using Alsa about 1 to 1-1/2 years ago, the OSS drivers were only just being modularised. This happened post 2.0.30odd from memory; I remeber reading Alan Cox's diary about his modular sound efforts and I was running 2.0.33 at the time. I think the developement kernels were over 2.1.100 when modular sound went in and Also has been going for a `long' time before either event.
All that said, Also is better than OSS (and compatible!:), and is slated to replace OSS in the kernel tree sometime in the not too distant future (possibly in the 2.5 tree, but I don't know).
Actualy, while at uni, my friends and I did something like that: we pooled our money (over $70AUD I think) together to get a game (Eye of the Beholder 2) and shared copies. Because I put in the extra cash (it didn't divide evenly), I got to keep the originals, which are now sitting on a cd I burned a couple of years ago. The photocopiers at that uni were probably used more for copying game manuals (for those pesky copy protection quizes) than actual school stuff. Piracy (and virii) was rampant there.
the last thing we need running on unix platforms is Microsoft software
Have you ever watched the bootup of a commercial unix? Stratus (Ascend, Lucent, whatever), FTX has this most disconcerting copyright message: something like Copyright [some yesr range, I'm not about to boot it just to find out] Microsoft.... Apearently, most commercial unixen have some xenix code in them now.
I don't know how I'll react if I ever see a Microsoft copyright during a Linux boot, probably scream. But then again, if it's in the official kernel, that means that Linus accepted the patch and the code must be of tolerable quality. In that case, I'll be impressed: good quality code out of the king of if it compiles, ship it.
And, these disks pre-date the CSS crack at the least by several months.
That only means that these people somehow had access to CSS decryption and kept quiet about it, very much like security holes in proprietary (and, less often, open) software.
The question is, now that CSS is cracked for everyone and not just an `elite' few, what's the industry going to do? I suspect thay can't actually do anything that will allow them to `win'. For good of for ill, the various `recording' companies are losing control. In the long run, it's probably a good thing.
From personal experience, `letter' size makes better airplanes than A4 with the models that I know (4 or so). I'm sure there are some paper airplane designs that are optimised for A4, but letter just seems to be better proportioned for this application. However, it's not so much the exact size, but rather the ratios 22x17 just seems to give better results than 297x210.
However, I generally prefer A4 for printouts, but that's probably because the laser printers I use all use A4 by default (and are only ever loaded with it). I also like that \2 ratio for aesthetic reasons.
Basicly, either standard has its uses. However, I absolutely detest foolscap (legal?), but that's probably do to mis-spent lunch times/after school doing `lines' as a kid (I seemed to get them a lot:).
Ob-topic: I wouldn't mind one of these calendars, in any papersize, but I don't think I can spare DM20 just now:(.
I have careta conis (sp?, bulging corneas), and though glasses help, they don't do a good enough job. I wouldn't mind if I still had to wear glasses after undergoing such surgery, so long as it resulted in the glasses actually working well. (ie the distortion caused by the cornea is corected)
Yeah, but that's only for the CBD, isn't it? Not really much good for someone living in Karori (western outskirts of Wellington for those not in the know). And you're right, cable is a little costly (~100$NZ) so Saturn's only got me for the phone, but I like thumbing my nose at Telecom (as both myself and Paradise (ISP) are Saturn customers, none of that 0867 for me:).
Back to the point, the only problem with Citylink is you can (AFAIK) only get it if you're in central Wellington. Ah well, it'll be a while yet before I attempt downloading any ISOs:).
And I still think the best place to put a data haven is on the Moon.:)
No thanks, too easy to find and nuke. A far better idea would be to have multiple automated havens orbiting the sun in random, unkown orbits (possibly shifting over time), constantly communicating with each other to keep things up to date (lots of redundancy) and to make them harder to track. Sending the data to these havens would be relatively easy: just broadcast it (with heaps of redundancy again, I don't think acks would work). The unfortunate thing is that getting data out again might be a problem.
and the bsd-style kind of file creation is to make the file creator's group match what the directories group is set to. Very nice, b/c I hate doing the find/grep/chown dance twenty times a day *muttering*.
Using the SGID bit on a directory causes all files created in that directory to have their group set to that of the directory. Not only that, but any subdirectories created in that directoryy inrehit the SGID bit. I use this all the time on Linux, Solaris and FTX (Stratus).
*gripe* I hate it when rpms that install into/usr/local reset my SGID bits and groups.
This sounds very much like some politician's speach slamming something, though I have no idea what. There's lots of big words in there but no real content. You don't explain your point of view, just pour forth a lot of emotional rhetoric.
The more I think about it (and go over your posting), the more it looks like to took somebodies speach and did a search and replace on it. If so, I guess you're trying to show that the speach can be applied to anything producing the same value (ie, none).
That's cool, but it could only work in python. That's probably one of the clearest self printing programs I've ever seen (not that I've seen that many).
Not only that, but unless GE has either avoided or abandoned NT, MS could probably bring GE (or any other company, for that matter) to its knees via a couple of well placed back doors. What can GE do? Make radioactive light bulbs?
I was into the GPL long before I got into Linux (I was using djgpp) and in the few years leading up to my taking Linux on (ooh, that curve hurt:), I was looking around for a free, open source, preferably GPL operating system to play with, all the while trying to write my own (see my web page for my embryonic results). I'd been put off FreeBSD by it not supporting my CDROM (soundblaster interface (that was in 94)) and I'll admit I'm not sure why I never tried again; hard drive space I think (it took getting a bigger hard drive (80MB doesn't cut it) before I tried Linux, and then I promptly got a 2GB drive:). If Linux had not been GPled, my workmate would not have been able to (legally) give me a copy of Red Hat (4.2), and thus the extent of my unix knowledge would be `don't do rm -rf/'. After having played with Linux for 18 months, I was offered (after initially stating an interest) a combination sysadmin/programmer role (I was previous just a programmer for the same company).
If Linux hadn't been GPLed I wouldn't be where I am today, let alone Linux:).
Considering both HURD and Linux are GPLed, I imagine that any incompatabilities between the two would be ironed out as soon as anyone cared enough. Case in point: last I heard, HURD still doesn't have a/dev/random, but it would be easy enough to port and there would be no licensing issues. The HURD / Linux copetition scene will be based more on the micro/macro kernel issue (not a trivial affair AFAIK) rather than anything else. Every now and then I consider trying out HURD (I was actually looking into it before I got into Linux), but I'm too lazy and I like Linux.
Actually, Linux does have a meaning: Linux Is Not UniX. BTW, Linus didn't name it. The guy (can't remember his name, I saw the story here on/. over a year ago) that put Linux on an ftp site in Finland did, calling it Linux, and the name stuck.
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Hmm, there seems to be two possible spellings, with the one I used not so common, at least in the US. Sorry guys, kinda spoiled the joke, I 'spose :(.
Hehe, just goes to show that if you don't exercise extreamly careful key management, your encrypted messages are effectively just so much plain text. I take it the details of OTPs hadn't been sorted out by then (when were they?). I wonder why the Germans transmitted the same messages as both plain and encrypted text. Lazyness, or were they trying to transmit the keys in what they thought would be a secure manner (but winding up proving that security through obscurity doesn't work)? I guess one other possibility is the same information had to go to paries that had access to only either secure or insecure channels. Still, not exactly the brightest move from a security POV.
I know for a fact that sharing IRQs on an ISA bus does not (usually?) work well at the hardware level! I once tried to do this when I had four serial ports (two on irq 4 and two on irq 3, ie the standard settings for 4 ports) and even though my serial port driver supported shared IRQs, it did not work well: I kept losing interrupts on the second port on that line. Adittedly, it may have been bugs in my code (for those interested, have a look at serio on my web page), but as it seemed intermittent, I think it was more likely the hardware. I don't know if this was a limitation of ISA or cheap boards.
The coputing power available for less than $2k these days is just phenomenal compared to what was available at all back in the fourties. And going to the megabuck range of modern computers would seem absolutely magical to those early computing pioneers.
Yes, I laugh at the power of a VIC-20 (and the other PCs of the time), but for both reasons. I laugh at their punyness compared to now, and their might compared to the 40's. Things have come a long way in the last 50 odd years. I wonder where computing will be after another 50 years: will desktop beowulfs have been superceded by something realy wild, or will we be stuck with Windows 2050 running on an Intel Merconium (and yes, I know exactly what that word means:).
As to your other points: in general, I would agree, but there are times when at least serial ports are useful (though not to the average user). The rest? What for? I rather like ethernet printers:).
I want to get this clear in my head: can even a federal court ruling be appealed in the supream court? How do the various court levels in the US work? (I'm not fully up to scratch on the judicial system in any country, for that matter:).
All that said, Also is better than OSS (and compatible!:), and is slated to replace OSS in the kernel tree sometime in the not too distant future (possibly in the 2.5 tree, but I don't know).
Actualy, while at uni, my friends and I did something like that: we pooled our money (over $70AUD I think) together to get a game (Eye of the Beholder 2) and shared copies. Because I put in the extra cash (it didn't divide evenly), I got to keep the originals, which are now sitting on a cd I burned a couple of years ago. The photocopiers at that uni were probably used more for copying game manuals (for those pesky copy protection quizes) than actual school stuff. Piracy (and virii) was rampant there.
Like all great names, Linux is actually a recursive acronym.
I don't know how I'll react if I ever see a Microsoft copyright during a Linux boot, probably scream. But then again, if it's in the official kernel, that means that Linus accepted the patch and the code must be of tolerable quality. In that case, I'll be impressed: good quality code out of the king of if it compiles, ship it.
The question is, now that CSS is cracked for everyone and not just an `elite' few, what's the industry going to do? I suspect thay can't actually do anything that will allow them to `win'. For good of for ill, the various `recording' companies are losing control. In the long run, it's probably a good thing.
However, I generally prefer A4 for printouts, but that's probably because the laser printers I use all use A4 by default (and are only ever loaded with it). I also like that \2 ratio for aesthetic reasons.
Basicly, either standard has its uses. However, I absolutely detest foolscap (legal?), but that's probably do to mis-spent lunch times/after school doing `lines' as a kid (I seemed to get them a lot:).
Ob-topic: I wouldn't mind one of these calendars, in any papersize, but I don't think I can spare DM20 just now:(.
I have careta conis (sp?, bulging corneas), and though glasses help, they don't do a good enough job. I wouldn't mind if I still had to wear glasses after undergoing such surgery, so long as it resulted in the glasses actually working well. (ie the distortion caused by the cornea is corected)
Back to the point, the only problem with Citylink is you can (AFAIK) only get it if you're in central Wellington. Ah well, it'll be a while yet before I attempt downloading any ISOs:).
they spammed slashdot. The bastards.
*gripe* I hate it when rpms that install into /usr/local reset my SGID bits and groups.
The more I think about it (and go over your posting), the more it looks like to took somebodies speach and did a search and replace on it. If so, I guess you're trying to show that the speach can be applied to anything producing the same value (ie, none).
That's cool, but it could only work in python. That's probably one of the clearest self printing programs I've ever seen (not that I've seen that many).
BOOM "What was that?" "Oh, nothing really, just GE blowing up MS"
Where as MS hitting GE would be rather quiet.
Sorry, somebody had to do it, and this seemed the appropriate place.
Fear! My beowulf cluster of aibos will hunt you down and analyse your DNA.
Not only that, but unless GE has either avoided or abandoned NT, MS could probably bring GE (or any other company, for that matter) to its knees via a couple of well placed back doors. What can GE do? Make radioactive light bulbs?
If Linux hadn't been GPLed I wouldn't be where I am today, let alone Linux:).
Considering both HURD and Linux are GPLed, I imagine that any incompatabilities between the two would be ironed out as soon as anyone cared enough. Case in point: last I heard, HURD still doesn't have a /dev/random, but it would be easy enough to port and there would be no licensing issues. The HURD / Linux copetition scene will be based more on the micro/macro kernel issue (not a trivial affair AFAIK) rather than anything else. Every now and then I consider trying out HURD (I was actually looking into it before I got into Linux), but I'm too lazy and I like Linux.
Actually, Linux does have a meaning: Linux Is Not UniX. BTW, Linus didn't name it. The guy (can't remember his name, I saw the story here on /. over a year ago) that put Linux on an ftp site in Finland did, calling it Linux, and the name stuck.