Stream Ciphers also use XOR, but are much more convenient to use and could very easily be used to encrypt a hard drive. The problem is that very few stream ciphers allow you to quickly seek to an arbitrary point in the stream - so unless you just want to read the entire drive sequentially you're SOL.
The only exception I've read about is SEAL but IIRC that's still patented by IBM.
In the end it doesn't matter what card I play my games on, so why should they be shoving ads for nVidia down my throat? Because nvidia bought the ad by supplying hardware and technical assistance to the dev team. ATI do it too.
To prove that you "own" the certificate that you present, you encipher some data with that private key, which the OpenID provided then deciphers with your public key. If it's the same data that it sent you, then you own the key and you are authenticated. Thanks for the information. How does the browser interface with the security card, though - how do you pass the enciphered data from the card to the OpenID website? Won't that need a browser plug-in in addition to the card drivers?
Err, Windows Update? The Windows Catalogue lets you download all updates for a particular OS into a directory for offline installation. They aren't *that* far behind... Actually they've ruined it IMO - there's no longer an easy 'download all updates for this OS and IE combination', there's now a single-textbox search interface and the help is useless. If anyone knows how to tell the new interface "find me all updates for XP SP2" I'd love to hear:-/
The problem with Windows Catalogue downloads is that you can't (AFAICR) point Windows Update at them and tell it to apply all of these updates in one go - you need to install them one at a time and reboot lots. The Windows\SoftwareDistribution directory is all GUID based so there's no easy way (AFAIK) to drop downloaded updates in there and have them picked up automatically by Windows Update as if it had downloaded them itself.
From TFA (the Groklaw article):
We also believe that a product called MIMESweeper 1.0 from a company called Clearswift, Authentium, or Integralis anticipates several claims of the '600 patent. We have yet to locate a copy of this product and would appreciate anyone who has a copy sending it our way. Yes, Clearswift currently own MIMEsweeper although Clearswift didn't exist back then - they're a merger of several firms who had similar products.
You are assuming that this didn't already happen when the game was written in the first place. Without contacting the actual author, no one here has a clue if this is the case. Yeah, that was gEvil's point above. And the TFA author says he tried to contact the author, so maybe we will find out. But since getting this properly licensed would be more effort than finding a non-GPL replacement I'd guess this was an oversight / didn't happen.
You don't mean "commercial" because GPL-covered code is distributed for a fee and is thus already commercial code. You mean proprietary code. OK, fair enough, although *this code* wasn't distributed for a fee:-p
I was thinking of QT: Trolltech call their non-GPL product their "Commercial license".
Assuming the original author wrote the entire thing from scratch, true. But if he used any GNU material (or other GPL licensed libraries) himself, then you're right back where you started. Sure, except the quoted source sample in TFA has only one copyright, Masanao Izumo, and there's a note that it's based on public-domain code. So that's not the case here.
Sony has to cease distribution of the game. Which they already have done. Because of the way licenses work GPL gives you the choice of cease distribution or release the source. Given this isn't FSF code, there's a third way: contact the original author and negotiate a commercial licence to distribute the code. If this was going to be a problem I expect that's the cheapest solution.
I think whether you are in the love or hate camp really depends on your monitors resolution. My friends that are running the 1400 and better flat panels seem to love it, while I have found that on my 1024X768 laptop that it just sucks up too much real estate. Actually you don't lose any real estate.
Does anyone know of a way to resize the ribbon real estate without getting rid of it entirely? I wouldn't mind learning the button layout just so I can walk folks through it when I have to work with it,but I am not going to give up 25% of the screen just for a control bar. Well you can minimise it (ctrl-f1 or right-click 'Minimise the Ribbon') which leaves only the tab headers and hides the ribbon itself until you click on them or start using ribbon command key shortcuts. Don't know about scaling it.
You really don't understand this, do you? See the Linux SATA RAID FAQ. Most 'RAID controllers' you get on motherboards are actually just software RAID provided by the controller BIOS or they're RAID accelerators you offload RAID calculations but don't handle the low-level operations themselves in hardware.
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I don't think it has GCC 4.2 yet. this shows gcc 4.1. Remember that's Red Hat's GCC 4.1 branch, not stock FSF 4.1, and it has a lot of 4.2 features backported to it, e.g. OpenMP and I think recent Intel + AMD processor tuning too.
Actually Fedora are hoping to skip 4.2 altogether and use 4.3 for Fedora 9 - see this thread from the GCC mailing list.
pretty sure japan is Region 1. The same as the U.S. No, Japan's region 2 with Europe, the middle-east and South Africa. Region 1 is just the US, Canada and surrounding islands.
.NET framework libraries will be released under MS-RL. No, that'll be the *Reference* licence not the MS Reciprocal licence as here. They're framework source is intended to help you debug through framework calls only, not as a basis for your own code:
"Reference use" means use of the software within your company as a reference, in read only form, for the sole purposes of debugging your products, maintaining your products, or enhancing the interoperability of your products with the software, and specifically excludes the right to distribute the software outside of your company.
This is not really news, passport used to be open a couple of years ago when the bubble burst. No one really used it much so they closed it again. Yes and no - the API was open, yes, but the problem with casual adoption of passport was that there was a large fee to get it into production ($10,000 I think, might even have been $10,000/year).
This is essentially no-cost but (as I've posted above) it doesn't look very professional to me - I think it's more suited to blogs login than corporate app login.
If MS wants to show their code to the scripting community, they should at least make it pretty and according to the language's coding standards. But maybe that is their understanding of "pretty". Who knows. To be fair, the ASP.NET samples's style is reasonable. The others are more likely just proof-of-concepts.
The standard with the most momentum seems to be OpenID. I hope that a few years from now, I'll be using it for most of my web logins. This is solving a different problem, though - it's a lightweight SSO.
However, the fundemental design is worse:-/ What's wrong with the design? It's very paranoid - *only* hands out a unique ID, and they're unique per site logged into.
The only real problems I see are that the user experience doesn't look professional ("Windows Live is not affiliated with FooBarCorp and will share with it only an anonymous ID. Learn more. For additional protection, you may use an Information Card.") and, OK, it's a centralised target for phishing. (But so's any SSO.) Was that what you meant, or did you have other concerns?
Does this mean they've given up on CardSpace, which is built into Vista right now? I thought it was a much better solution to the need for single sign-on. Check out thechannel9 video. If you try the login link in the sample - which redirects you back to 'localhost' when you've signed in - it says:
Windows Live is not affiliated with localhost and will share with it only an anonymous ID. Learn more. For additional protection, you may use an Information Card.
(a.k.a. Cardspace)
AFAICT from the docs and the code they've just released, there's no way for a third party to get any information about you from Live (e.g. email, name) even if you want to give it to them to speed up sign-up for example. Cardspace does allow that, configurable by the user, and so is the better solution for both you and the third party sites anyway. In fact the login page doesn't look very professional to me - the sort of thing you'd use on your blog maybe but not on your ecommerce site.
Does anyone use RAR outside of the copyright infringement scene? Yep, I do. It's widely accepted, better than zip and better than.tar.gz or.tar.bz2 because it orders the files more intelligently than tar before trying to compress them. tar.rz goes some way to address that but you have to do it in two steps because rzip doesn't pipe..tar.rz compression is about equivalent for large numbers of small files but rzip will often beat rar single large files.
The killer feature back in the day was the first good implementation of disk splitting. But the compression still stands up now.
On my 'if I ever get free time' list is to implement rar's file ordering in GNU tar to see if that helps gzip and bzip2 catch up RAR's compression ratio. But I've no idea if/when I'll ever get around to that.
Directions between arbitrary points: Right-click anywhere to select the From and To points to find directions. Google Maps requires that I type in addresses. Problem is that I don't know the address of Paradise point at Mt. Rainier National Park, and Google Maps can't seem to find it.
No, Google Maps can also do to-and-from using lat/long coordinates. Sure, there's no easy way to read coordinates out of the interface - AFAICR the best you can do is centre the map on your point and then read them from the 'link to this map' URL - but it's not insurmountable.
I pay £29.99 for Eclipse's most premium home service.
My only niggle with Eclipse is that every once in a while they make their accounts better and cheaper and don't tell you about it until you stumble across it and ask to pay less:-)
Sounds like you're already on their latest accounts though.
Plus, it runs inside the old cmd.exe - this means we're still stuck in a non-Unicode world. Good luck trying to run some quick database queries in non-ascii!
Jeffrey Snover, chief architect, acknowledges this on the old blog
We all share your frustration with the existing console. Remember that MSH.EXE is just our implementation of a UI for MONAD and that other people can provide them as well. I refer you to Karl Prosser's http://www.karlprosser.com/coder/?cat=8 for a very cool UI.
Jeffrey Snover
(the old blog's articles have been copied to the new PowerShell blog but the comments haven't.)
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The only exception I've read about is SEAL but IIRC that's still patented by IBM.
Ah, I missed that, sorry - thanks.
The problem with Windows Catalogue downloads is that you can't (AFAICR) point Windows Update at them and tell it to apply all of these updates in one go - you need to install them one at a time and reboot lots. The Windows\SoftwareDistribution directory is all GUID based so there's no easy way (AFAIK) to drop downloaded updates in there and have them picked up automatically by Windows Update as if it had downloaded them itself.
They're not hard to find. Why not just ask them?
I was thinking of QT: Trolltech call their non-GPL product their "Commercial license".
You really don't understand this, do you? See the Linux SATA RAID FAQ. Most 'RAID controllers' you get on motherboards are actually just software RAID provided by the controller BIOS or they're RAID accelerators you offload RAID calculations but don't handle the low-level operations themselves in hardware.
Actually Fedora are hoping to skip 4.2 altogether and use 4.3 for Fedora 9 - see this thread from the GCC mailing list.
.NET framework libraries will be released under MS-RL. No, that'll be the *Reference* licence not the MS Reciprocal licence as here. They're framework source is intended to help you debug through framework calls only, not as a basis for your own code:This is essentially no-cost but (as I've posted above) it doesn't look very professional to me - I think it's more suited to blogs login than corporate app login.
Microsoft are collaborating with OpenID on support for Information Cards (a.k.a. Cardspace).
The only real problems I see are that the user experience doesn't look professional ("Windows Live is not affiliated with FooBarCorp and will share with it only an anonymous ID. Learn more. For additional protection, you may use an Information Card.") and, OK, it's a centralised target for phishing. (But so's any SSO.) Was that what you meant, or did you have other concerns?
AFAICT from the docs and the code they've just released, there's no way for a third party to get any information about you from Live (e.g. email, name) even if you want to give it to them to speed up sign-up for example. Cardspace does allow that, configurable by the user, and so is the better solution for both you and the third party sites anyway. In fact the login page doesn't look very professional to me - the sort of thing you'd use on your blog maybe but not on your ecommerce site.
The killer feature back in the day was the first good implementation of disk splitting. But the compression still stands up now.
On my 'if I ever get free time' list is to implement rar's file ordering in GNU tar to see if that helps gzip and bzip2 catch up RAR's compression ratio. But I've no idea if/when I'll ever get around to that.
-- paid-up RAR user since 1996.
Sounds like you're already on their latest accounts though.
Jeffrey Snover, chief architect, acknowledges this on the old blog (the old blog's articles have been copied to the new PowerShell blog but the comments haven't.)