There are really only two ways to handle this 1)the administrator studies the law and becomes expert on all the subtleties and precedents AND defends his legal opinions in court, 2)anything that is even remotely questionable is banned.
If I remember correctly, there is no such thing as precedence in the French Courts (even the Province of Quebec in Canada works in the same way). In other words, everything is codified. So it changes from trying to set a precedent, to following the letter of the law. If anything it becomes more or a word game, trying to find a loophole in a contact can roughly fall within the same idea.
This is a repost of sorts from a previous job related article. But it seemed to fit the purpose (altered as well to fit more into this one).
Seems that in Canada, employers are less likely to hire less experienced programmer / administrator / developer to fill a position. Also with the Y2K scare and the leap year scare many companies up here put a hiring freeze into effect (TransAlta being one I can recall) which is taking a long time letting down.
I have looked though a lot of Online job sites and receive job listings from the newspapers online. Which this I normally see the following criteria for what seems to be a junior position:
Minimum two years of experience
Knowledge of a massive amount:
Languages
Databases
Operating Systems
Ability to work in a team environment
Ability to work by ones self
Required communication skills
Willing for work for low pay
This brings up the question of applying to another city, province or country... Does this not make you look like a less promising Candidate? I mean you obviously cannot just show up for an interview (unless you can afford flying from Calgary to Toronto on a daily basis). This added to the simple fact that they would probably have to help you move seems to put any interview I have been interviewed with (over the phone) into a scare.
Our class has recently graduated from the DeVry Institute of Technology. While we all have Bachelors of science in our hands none of us has yet to be placed after three weeks of job searching.
Seems that in Canada, employers are less likely to hire less experienced programmer / administrator / developer to fill a position. Also with the Y2K scare and the leap year scare many companies up here put a hiring freeze into effect (TransAlta being one I can recall) which is taking a long time letting down.
I have looked though a lot of Online job sites and receive job listings from the newspapers online. Which this I normally see the following criteria for what seems to be a junior position:
Minimum two years of experience
Knowledge of a massive amount:
Languages
Databases
Operating Systems
Ability to work in a team environment
Ability to work by ones self
Required communication skills
Willing for work for low pay
With criteria like the above, I find it hard to even find a position I can apply for... Let alone consider applying to. Even with one-and-a-half years of technical support experience, and contract work that dealt with custom server installations and Perl programming, I get little or no responses.
So in essence it is difficult to take the advice of the article when it states that you should only apply to a Linux job (probably any job for that matter) when you meet all of the skills or have relevant experience. How can you? And what is the harm if you apply to a place with less experience? Then worst I can see happening is that they will not call you up for an Interview.
As for applying to another city, province or country... Does this not make you look like a less promising Candidate? I mean you obviously cannot just show up for an interview (unless you can afford flying from Calgary to Toronto on a daily basis). This added to the simple fact that they would probably have to help you move seems to put any interview I have been interviewed with (over the phone) into a scare.
I have role-played on chat sites, and generally was able to completely mask my identity. However, I only played one female character, which was incidentally played by my girlfriend of the time.
Thing is no one could tell us apart, except that since I had a better connection, my responses would come in earlier (so I purposely slowed down response time for that character). If you really set your mind to it, you can fool anyone.
It probably is a big deal if you are using that computer as a server. I do know that they mentioned that this bug has only revealed itself in portable computers. Yet if such a thing happened to chips found in servers...
As with most question, it all depends on what you wish to accomplish. I personally prefer OpenBSD because it is fairly secured by default. It is my favorite choice for anything server related... There are or were issues with UNIX socket connections with MySQL.
FreeBSD is most probably your preferred choice if you plan to use the system with your desktop. I had attempted at one point or the other use OpenBSD as my desktop, but had very little luck moving GNOME or KDE over to that platform and not have problems.
Since friends has a larger user base, the ports section (a nice feature of the BSD's) should make life easier to get a good desktop going. It also has more support for games et cetera.
NetBSD, I have yet to try... But can be very useful if you want to consolidate multiple vendor hardware onto the same software. Of course, trying all of is probably the best way to determine your preference. My C0.02$
Quote: Yet, publicly at least, Microsoft insists that its risk from private antitrust suits is exaggerated. "That litigation is something we're prepared to defend and defend aggressively, if necessary," said Tom Burt, a Microsoft lawyer.
It seems to me, that if the Microsoft defense team appointed to each and every single case that might arise are nearly as diligent and cunning as the ones employed in the DOJ trial... Then there are in serious trouble and the above statement means nothing.
Of course, it could all be a ploy by Microsoft. Since they know/hope that they can keep the DOJ off their case simple by stalling the process as best they can. And figure that by the time they get done with the DOJ they will simply get a slap on the wrist.
Instead they are going to concentrate on the Class Actions suits and hit them as hard as they can. Of course, conspiracies or devious plans can be found in anything.
A second, less noticeable, but astonishing peculiarity is the space allocation: temporary storage is allocated that deliberately overwrites the beginning of the program, smashing its initialization code to save space. The two compilers differ in the details in how they cope with this. In the earlier one, the start is found by naming a function; in the later, the start is simply taken to be 0. This indicates that the first compiler was written before we had a machine with memory mapping, so the origin of the program was not at location 0, whereas by the time of the second, we had a PDP-11 that did provide mapping.
I find that this passage is one of the more interesting comments made on the two compilers. Many of the people reading Slashdot (myself included) have probably heard in class of the days when programmers would write code in such a way as to conserve memory, and of course, be as efficient as possible.
I was once showed a board with a Motorola 6800 (if memory serves) series microprocessor on it, with a hexadecimal keypad and a led display. It had no internal clock which would of make keeping time quite a challenge to someone who is used to simply grabbing it using predefined functions.
This old code has many a use. Primarily as a teaching tool, make the students looks at the code, and give them specifics on how the compilers worked. In many ways, it's like looking at an antique car, you seem to be able to relate more to what is being taught to you... Since you have something concrete from which to apply your knowledge to.
Personally, it's hard to imagine a computer functioning without mapped memory... Being able to see that early C compilers functioned without it, to me, brings a whole new perspective to computing. My 0.02c
As I remember open source licenses such as the GPL and LGPL include a clause stating that the program does not come with any warranty or guarantees of it's operations.
Would this not protect the author from a lawsuit over the quality of the code when the GPL, LGPL or similar is attached to the source code?
And SourceXchange promptes the open source development model. So one would assume that many of the finished projects will be GPLd.
I think it's primarily based on my writing style. Recalling a quote that I once heard, it stated that one could use even the most flowery words and come out with a very insulting message.
Unfortunately, my use of third person perspective (for the most part) and passive writing probably hinder things.
Elite however, is a word that applies to the core developer that I know. He knew his stuff, designed the software for some kind of board to be used on a PC et cetera. He knew his stuff, no doubt about it.
I have noticed similar sentiments among some of the "older" gentlemen attending meetings at our LUG. They prefer the community feel of Linux over the Elitist view of many of the die hard UNIX/BSD users/developers.
Personally, I knew one (he was one of the owners of a company that employed me) of the core developers of the NetBSD distribution. He seemed nice enough, yet carried a massive grudge over OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
He hated OpenBSD for breaking off and "not keeping" up with NetBSD's development process. He also despised FreeBSD because they concentrated on the Intel platform and that is strictly for "weenies".
I definitely felt the elitist sentiment when I worked there. The fact that I used Linux seemed to make me that much less of a person, since according to them Linux is simply an insecure system riddled with holes and containing no modular/hard-coded code. Ah well tis is life.
This may also be a reason for the popularity of Linux. Who would you rather follow? Linus and a community of young, enthusiastic hackers... Or a reserved body of elite programmers?
** On a side note. FreeBSD is detected as a typo and offers Freinds as the only correct spelling on Communicator mail. Interesting I found **
There are several points to be made for both arguments. On one hand, you have a very simple to use device which allows for simply playing games or very simple games and the other a deversified system that allows for many a task to be completed.
The game console is compact, simple to use. Unfortunately it lacks the multiplayer capabilities, high resolution and possibly will not allow for the depth of a standard PC.
However, the PC does have limitations. Ease of use is not always key in the Operating Systems we use, neither is stability. But our games are usually more complex, have more depth and allow for the multiplayer experience which is what makes games like Quake endure.
Now if we look at the way computers and consoles are in today's society. One would conclude that one or the other may win based on many a different variable. The thing about planning for the future is that the future is not a fixed point, this it changes.
Many people believe that computers will be simplified greatly. The iMac can be used as an example to this... In essence, personal computers will become "appliances" for the general populous.
Now don't get me wrong, nothing will ever convince me to use a one piece computer that matches the colours for my blender. However, not everyone needs a system that allows for diversified use, in fact many would be content to have a simple every day specialized device.
And that is where the consolidation takes place. Simply examine what consoles are... In essence they are simple appliances geared to be pleasing eye candy, and computers will in time probably degrade (as I see it) to such a point where the two products will seem indistinguishable from each other.
NOTE: This is simply a possible outcome of the future (one of an infinite amount).
It seems to me that high quality IDE's seem to be geared to a very small subset of programming languages.
While this can be a good things, as to allow you to easily prototype a working program for testing using their visual components (VisualAge, JBuiler, VisualCafe, Visual Basic et cetera). I believe that it hinders one by having to use and install multiple IDE's in order to write in different languages.
From what I have been able to determine, even as a student, is that no language is perfectly suited for each and every task. PERL is excellent report extraction and analysis, and is extensively used in CGI, JAVA makes a nice powerful GUI, C/C++ are excellent for very large scale projects and low level programming (simply my views)...
This brings me to my point. Let us assume that one is pro efficient in PERL, Java, C/C++ and Python. Now VisualAge is a nice package for Java, so we install and learn that, then we install CodeWarrior for C and C++, and then one for PERL and another for Python.
Each and every single one of these have a different look and feel. Sure, it can be associated to it's object oriented nature, but VisualAge is considerably different from any other IDE that I have seen for handling classes and methods. This seems rather odd, that I have to learn how to use multiple interfaces, simply to gain quick prototyping and a nicer looking development environment.
I would find it very nice to have a complete development environment suite. Possibly in plug-in form that would allow us to programming multiple environments using the same IDE. Sure some of them would not allow for visual prototyping (even PERL could using the CGI mod), others may not have to be compiled simply executed and debugged, yet one interface to learn and to master is much better then two plus.
I know some will mention VI and Emacs... I have nothing against them, but I highly doubt that I can sit down, and write a JDBC enabled piece of software with everything linked visually. Either way those are my views.
As far as I can tell it had. Though they tried to/. Slashdot it seems. I tried to access the page and ended up at Slashdot again. I tried Lynx, Netscape et cetera.
Apparently since Slashdot was dragging them down they did a redirect to Slashdot. It actually seemed to make Slashdot sluggish as well.
It seems that many of you have not fully understood the meaning of this question. What I was wondering, was a site where I could get all of the keys for Corporations or Organizations that I may be able to download code from.
Let's say a repository that contains the destribution keys of RedHat, Kernel.Org, Apache, Debian, SSH et cetera. That way you connect to one site and retreive them, not needing to sift though all the keys on the repository (RedHat has quite a few and non matched the one on their WebPage).
I know that there are repositories in place, and I have used them before. Heck my key is there too, but that does not deter the fact that a specialized site that is actively mantained (when a maintainer changes the key the old one gets removed) and remained secure.
Though I must admit that only a site that most people would trust could be used. For example RedHat housing the repository on their servers, and making sure that it is not tampered though various security means.
Like I said, I don't like to sift though endless keys that could possibly what I need. I would like to visite one site and get all of the destribution keys that I need.
An analogy to this would be like going to a store that specialiases in books from a specific gendre, or going to Chapters (being the main repositories of today).
This is exactly what I was looking for. A place where I can get all the needed keys. It's not that I do not trust RedHat, just that I have never been able to get their signature to load up into my keyrings (states that no key exists). So getting it off a site that has it would be an asset... Especially if I can get keys for Kernel.org, RedHat, Debain, Sendmail, SSH et cetera, in one hit.
Nice to see someone managed to get that right. I was not trying to make a complete fool of myself by asking this. I have PGP at home and use it, and sure I trust those who send me their keys.
But I hate sifting though endless keys on the main keyservers in order to get a key I need. Specially when there are ambiguous names.
I fully agree with you that PGP is based on trust. But on RedHat's offical page I have never been able to get their signature to be read correctly by PGP.
So, I look at the key repository and find multiple keys (This can apply for most corporations or large organizations)... Which do I choose? They almost all look the same, and when I find one that matches, I notice subtle differences, probably based on the key not being updated.
What I was thinking as a Central Repository maintained by let's say RedHat, who carry only the most recent and used destribution keys. Hit one site get what you need and leave. That's what I was implying, since it saves you from having to sift though identical keys and makes guesses.
This is what I was trying to stress. Have a central repository maintained by Redhat, where only corporations and/or organizations could put their public destributions keys. A nice central place to get all the keys you could want, while not having to sift though a large amount of keys and having to guess.
But apparently everyone seems to beleive that I can't read a manual. Go figure.
Could someone using NetBEUI on a TCP/IP network cause severe disruptions in the network? I remember that my WindowsNT box was suddenly incapable of finding network paths, without resorting to a HOST and WINS Configuration file.
Was talking to my roomate who mentioned that I should use NetBEUI... Of course I use TCP/IP only but the problems persist, no matter what service pack I have.
At first I thought it was SAMBA. But his 98 station gives me the "unable to resolv path" error, so that took the blame off SAMBA.
The only way I can see a MP3 -> WAV -> MP3 conversion fail to remove a watermark, would be to do the following:
Add the watermark in a random position in the song. And place it at a certain frequency that a normal human would
not be able to discern.
If they can do something like this, conversion would still carry the watermark. Thus making the conversion pointless.
Then the only way to remove it would be to search for it and destroy it. I would give a good programmer a week to figure out how to that... At the most.
Slashdot Mirror
There are really only two ways to handle this 1)the administrator studies the law and becomes expert on all the subtleties and precedents AND defends his legal opinions in court, 2)anything that is even remotely questionable is banned.
If I remember correctly, there is no such thing as precedence in the French Courts (even the Province of Quebec in Canada works in the same way). In other words, everything is codified. So it changes from trying to set a precedent, to following the letter of the law. If anything it becomes more or a word game, trying to find a loophole in a contact can roughly fall within the same idea.
This is a repost of sorts from a previous job related article. But it seemed to fit the purpose (altered as well to fit more into this one).
Seems that in Canada, employers are less likely to hire less experienced programmer / administrator / developer to fill a position. Also with the Y2K scare and the leap year scare many companies up here put a hiring freeze into effect (TransAlta being one I can recall) which is taking a long time letting down.
I have looked though a lot of Online job sites and receive job listings from the newspapers online. Which this I normally see the following criteria for what seems to be a junior position:
This brings up the question of applying to another city, province or country... Does this not make you look like a less promising Candidate? I mean you obviously cannot just show up for an interview (unless you can afford flying from Calgary to Toronto on a daily basis). This added to the simple fact that they would probably have to help you move seems to put any interview I have been interviewed with (over the phone) into a scare.
Of course, perhaps it's just me.
Our class has recently graduated from the DeVry Institute of Technology. While we all have Bachelors of science in our hands none of us has yet to be placed after three weeks of job searching.
Seems that in Canada, employers are less likely to hire less experienced programmer / administrator / developer to fill a position. Also with the Y2K scare and the leap year scare many companies up here put a hiring freeze into effect (TransAlta being one I can recall) which is taking a long time letting down.
I have looked though a lot of Online job sites and receive job listings from the newspapers online. Which this I normally see the following criteria for what seems to be a junior position:
With criteria like the above, I find it hard to even find a position I can apply for... Let alone consider applying to. Even with one-and-a-half years of technical support experience, and contract work that dealt with custom server installations and Perl programming, I get little or no responses.
So in essence it is difficult to take the advice of the article when it states that you should only apply to a Linux job (probably any job for that matter) when you meet all of the skills or have relevant experience. How can you? And what is the harm if you apply to a place with less experience? Then worst I can see happening is that they will not call you up for an Interview.
As for applying to another city, province or country... Does this not make you look like a less promising Candidate? I mean you obviously cannot just show up for an interview (unless you can afford flying from Calgary to Toronto on a daily basis). This added to the simple fact that they would probably have to help you move seems to put any interview I have been interviewed with (over the phone) into a scare.
Of course, perhaps it's just me.
I have role-played on chat sites, and generally was able to completely mask my identity. However, I only played one female character, which was incidentally played by my girlfriend of the time.
Thing is no one could tell us apart, except that since I had a better connection, my responses would come in earlier (so I purposely slowed down response time for that character). If you really set your mind to it, you can fool anyone.
It probably is a big deal if you are using that computer as a server. I do know that they mentioned that this bug has only revealed itself in portable computers. Yet if such a thing happened to chips found in servers...
As with most question, it all depends on what you wish to accomplish. I personally prefer OpenBSD because it is fairly secured by default. It is my favorite choice for anything server related... There are or were issues with UNIX socket connections with MySQL.
FreeBSD is most probably your preferred choice if you plan to use the system with your desktop. I had attempted at one point or the other use OpenBSD as my desktop, but had very little luck moving GNOME or KDE over to that platform and not have problems.
Since friends has a larger user base, the ports section (a nice feature of the BSD's) should make life easier to get a good desktop going. It also has more support for games et cetera.
NetBSD, I have yet to try... But can be very useful if you want to consolidate multiple vendor hardware onto the same software. Of course, trying all of is probably the best way to determine your preference. My C0.02$
Quote:
Yet, publicly at least, Microsoft insists that its risk from private antitrust suits is exaggerated. "That litigation is something we're prepared to defend and defend aggressively, if necessary," said Tom Burt, a Microsoft lawyer.
It seems to me, that if the Microsoft defense team appointed to each and every single case that might arise are nearly as diligent and cunning as the ones employed in the DOJ trial... Then there are in serious trouble and the above statement means nothing.
Of course, it could all be a ploy by Microsoft. Since they know/hope that they can keep the DOJ off their case simple by stalling the process as best they can. And figure that by the time they get done with the DOJ they will simply get a slap on the wrist.
Instead they are going to concentrate on the Class Actions suits and hit them as hard as they can. Of course, conspiracies or devious plans can be found in anything.
A second, less noticeable, but astonishing peculiarity is the space allocation: temporary storage is allocated that deliberately overwrites the beginning of the program, smashing its initialization code to save space. The two compilers differ in the details in how they cope with this. In the earlier one, the start is found by naming a function; in the later, the start is simply taken to be 0. This indicates that the first compiler was written before we had a machine with memory mapping, so the origin of the program was not at location 0, whereas by the time of the second, we had a PDP-11 that did provide mapping.
I find that this passage is one of the more interesting comments made on the two compilers. Many of the people reading Slashdot (myself included) have probably heard in class of the days when programmers would write code in such a way as to conserve memory, and of course, be as efficient as possible.
I was once showed a board with a Motorola 6800 (if memory serves) series microprocessor on it, with a hexadecimal keypad and a led display. It had no internal clock which would of make keeping time quite a challenge to someone who is used to simply grabbing it using predefined functions.
This old code has many a use. Primarily as a teaching tool, make the students looks at the code, and give them specifics on how the compilers worked. In many ways, it's like looking at an antique car, you seem to be able to relate more to what is being taught to you... Since you have something concrete from which to apply your knowledge to.
Personally, it's hard to imagine a computer functioning without mapped memory... Being able to see that early C compilers functioned without it, to me, brings a whole new perspective to computing. My 0.02c
As I remember open source licenses such as the GPL and LGPL include a clause stating that the program does not come with any warranty or guarantees of it's operations.
Would this not protect the author from a lawsuit over the quality of the code when the GPL, LGPL or similar is attached to the source code?
And SourceXchange promptes the open source development model. So one would assume that many of the finished projects will be GPLd.
I think it's primarily based on my writing style. Recalling a quote that I once heard, it stated that one could use even the most flowery words and come out with a very insulting message.
Unfortunately, my use of third person perspective (for the most part) and passive writing probably hinder things.
Elite however, is a word that applies to the core developer that I know. He knew his stuff, designed the software for some kind of board to be used on a PC et cetera. He knew his stuff, no doubt about it.
I have noticed similar sentiments among some of the "older" gentlemen attending meetings at our LUG. They prefer the community feel of Linux over the Elitist view of many of the die hard UNIX/BSD users/developers.
Personally, I knew one (he was one of the owners of a company that employed me) of the core developers of the NetBSD distribution. He seemed nice enough, yet carried a massive grudge over OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
He hated OpenBSD for breaking off and "not keeping" up with NetBSD's development process. He also despised FreeBSD because they concentrated on the Intel platform and that is strictly for "weenies".
I definitely felt the elitist sentiment when I worked there. The fact that I used Linux seemed to make me that much less of a person, since according to them Linux is simply an insecure system riddled with holes and containing no modular/hard-coded code. Ah well tis is life.
This may also be a reason for the popularity of Linux. Who would you rather follow? Linus and a community of young, enthusiastic hackers... Or a reserved body of elite programmers?
** On a side note. FreeBSD is detected as a typo and offers Freinds as the only correct spelling on Communicator mail. Interesting I found **
There are several points to be made for both arguments. On one hand, you have a very simple to use device which allows for simply playing games or very simple games and the other a deversified system that allows for many a task to be completed.
The game console is compact, simple to use. Unfortunately it lacks the multiplayer capabilities, high resolution and possibly will not allow for the depth of a standard PC.
However, the PC does have limitations. Ease of use is not always key in the Operating Systems we use, neither is stability. But our games are usually more complex, have more depth and allow for the multiplayer experience which is what makes games like Quake endure.
Now if we look at the way computers and consoles are in today's society. One would conclude that one or the other may win based on many a different variable. The thing about planning for the future is that the future is not a fixed point, this it changes.
Many people believe that computers will be simplified greatly. The iMac can be used as an example to this... In essence, personal computers will become "appliances" for the general populous.
Now don't get me wrong, nothing will ever convince me to use a one piece computer that matches the colours for my blender. However, not everyone needs a system that allows for diversified use, in fact many would be content to have a simple every day specialized device.
And that is where the consolidation takes place. Simply examine what consoles are... In essence they are simple appliances geared to be pleasing eye candy, and computers will in time probably degrade (as I see it) to such a point where the two products will seem indistinguishable from each other.
NOTE: This is simply a possible outcome of the future (one of an infinite amount).
It seems to me that high quality IDE's seem to be geared to a very small subset of programming languages.
While this can be a good things, as to allow you to easily prototype a working program for testing using their visual components (VisualAge, JBuiler, VisualCafe, Visual Basic et cetera). I believe that it hinders one by having to use and install multiple IDE's in order to write in different languages.
From what I have been able to determine, even as a student, is that no language is perfectly suited for each and every task. PERL is excellent report extraction and analysis, and is extensively used in CGI, JAVA makes a nice powerful GUI, C/C++ are excellent for very large scale projects and low level programming (simply my views)...
This brings me to my point. Let us assume that one is pro efficient in PERL, Java, C/C++ and Python. Now VisualAge is a nice package for Java, so we install and learn that, then we install CodeWarrior for C and C++, and then one for PERL and another for Python.
Each and every single one of these have a different look and feel. Sure, it can be associated to it's object oriented nature, but VisualAge is considerably different from any other IDE that I have seen for handling classes and methods. This seems rather odd, that I have to learn how to use multiple interfaces, simply to gain quick prototyping and a nicer looking development environment.
I would find it very nice to have a complete development environment suite. Possibly in plug-in form that would allow us to programming multiple environments using the same IDE. Sure some of them would not allow for visual prototyping (even PERL could using the CGI mod), others may not have to be compiled simply executed and debugged, yet one interface to learn and to master is much better then two plus.
I know some will mention VI and Emacs... I have nothing against them, but I highly doubt that I can sit down, and write a JDBC enabled piece of software with everything linked visually. Either way those are my views.
Actually if I remember correctly from what I have read SSL uses a 128bit symmetric encryption algorithm, such as Idea, 3DES et cetera.
d erek/certify/secret-key.protection.html
This is diffrent from the asymmetric encryption methods used for PGP, and their strenght is measured differently as well.
A good page to get very basic knowledge on this... Which is incidently where I got this from can be found at the following site.
http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~sen
As far as I can tell it had. Though they tried to /. Slashdot it seems. I tried to access the page and ended up at Slashdot again. I tried Lynx, Netscape et cetera.
Apparently since Slashdot was dragging them down they did a redirect to Slashdot. It actually seemed to make Slashdot sluggish as well.
It seems that many of you have not fully understood the meaning of this question. What I was wondering, was a site where I could get all of the keys for Corporations or Organizations that I may be able to download code from.
Let's say a repository that contains the destribution keys of RedHat, Kernel.Org, Apache, Debian, SSH et cetera. That way you connect to one site and retreive them, not needing to sift though all the keys on the repository (RedHat has quite a few and non matched the one on their WebPage).
I know that there are repositories in place, and I have used them before. Heck my key is there too, but that does not deter the fact that a specialized site that is actively mantained (when a maintainer changes the key the old one gets removed) and remained secure.
Though I must admit that only a site that most people would trust could be used. For example RedHat housing the repository on their servers, and making sure that it is not tampered though various security means.
Like I said, I don't like to sift though endless keys that could possibly what I need. I would like to visite one site and get all of the destribution keys that I need.
An analogy to this would be like going to a store that specialiases in books from a specific gendre, or going to Chapters (being the main repositories of today).
This is exactly what I was looking for. A place where I can get all the needed keys. It's not that I do not trust RedHat, just that I have never been able to get their signature to load up into my keyrings (states that no key exists). So getting it off a site that has it would be an asset... Especially if I can get keys for Kernel.org, RedHat, Debain, Sendmail, SSH et cetera, in one hit.
Nice to see someone managed to get that right. I was not trying to make a complete fool of myself by asking this. I have PGP at home and use it, and sure I trust those who send me their keys.
But I hate sifting though endless keys on the main keyservers in order to get a key I need. Specially when there are ambiguous names.
I fully agree with you that PGP is based on trust. But on RedHat's offical page I have never been able to get their signature to be read correctly by PGP.
So, I look at the key repository and find multiple keys (This can apply for most corporations or large organizations)... Which do I choose? They almost all look the same, and when I find one that matches, I notice subtle differences, probably based on the key not being updated.
What I was thinking as a Central Repository maintained by let's say RedHat, who carry only the most recent and used destribution keys. Hit one site get what you need and leave. That's what I was implying, since it saves you from having to sift though identical keys and makes guesses.
This is what I was trying to stress. Have a central repository maintained by Redhat, where only corporations and/or organizations could put their public destributions keys. A nice central place to get all the keys you could want, while not having to sift though a large amount of keys and having to guess.
But apparently everyone seems to beleive that I can't read a manual. Go figure.
Could someone using NetBEUI on a TCP/IP network cause severe disruptions in the network? I remember that my WindowsNT box was suddenly incapable of finding network paths, without resorting to a HOST and WINS Configuration file.
Was talking to my roomate who mentioned that I should use NetBEUI... Of course I use TCP/IP only but the problems persist, no matter what service pack I have.
At first I thought it was SAMBA. But his 98 station gives me the "unable to resolv path" error, so that took the blame off SAMBA.
The only way I can see a MP3 -> WAV -> MP3 conversion fail to remove a watermark, would be to do the following:
If they can do something like this, conversion would still carry the watermark. Thus making the conversion pointless.
Then the only way to remove it would be to search for it and destroy it. I would give a good programmer a week to figure out how to that... At the most.