OP didn't mention gcc, and I'm pretty sure (s)he thought about Intels own compilers. They usually smoke GCC when it comes to optimizations... not surprisingly
Why is notepad.exe a part of the OS? Certain utilities is necessary and so popular that it would make sense to include it in the OS. Especially with RDP already included, it just doesn't make sense to not include ssh.
It still amazes me that Microsoft haven't thought of adding a ssh-client to their operatingsystems. An OS lacking a ssh-client is pretty much useless to me. When they get ssh and X11 clients, even Windows might seem like an alternative...
My local library has built a pretty good website around their somewhat dated, but excellent, electronic cardsystem. You can also renew checked out items, reserve items and do most of the stuff you can do in the actual library on their website. It's all pretty good if you ask me. Just like searchengines, you gotta learn how to use a library to you benefit before you can unleash the power of information;-)
usually the slowest part of booting a scsi-kernel is "waiting for scsi-devices to settle". Which is usually set to 15s for quite a few drivers in the kernel. Bumping that down to a resonably low number like 2-3 s (usually enough for modern devices, would skimp 10-13s of you boot-time;-)
well kexec is brought to you buy the same guys that invented ctrl+alt+del. I guess you can think of it as the next-generation of the three fingered salute;-).
DigiBeta is still in the running, however they seem to have decided to price them self out of the consumer marked. Lots of tv-stations and production companies still use DigiBeta because of their excellent quality. The other good side to the digibeta cams is the high quality optics, but that has more to do with the price you pay rather than the format the save to;-).
I don't see how this is any different from any other platforms. When software makes it mainstream most users don't talk about them with their full name. When was the last time you use Microsoft Internet Explorer in a sentance, most people just call it "the browser" or "explorer".
When I talk about reading mail, I seldom refer to the application I use, I rather say "I'm plowing through last nights mail" than saying "I'm deep inside the bowls of mutt trying to work this new magic macro".
GiMP is already mainstream, I've even had requests from both windows and mac-users where to get this magic piece of software (usually accompanied by "how much does it cost?") as they've heard about it in movie SFX magazines and so on.
Most lusers who regard their computer as black magic seldom use the right names anyway, it's usually refered to as "That grid-thing that let's me do my finances", or any writing program as "Word" even though it's notepad (or KNote/Kate whatever;-).
Especially for KDE, it's default to have the K-menu display the function of the program right beside the name, alleviate the stress of finding the right application in a world where everything as a strange new name.
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The name won't catch on unless it includes at least one recursive letter;-).
Firstly it produces executables for windows, and secondly running it through wine, with wine being slower than any naitive OS, would defeat any speedup purpose?
The problem with a fixed-rate subscription is that some people will never leave the machine, through that also occupy the machine and making the owner have to turn away potential customers that aren't interested in gaming 24/7 but just there for the thrill of a game now and then.
That's why pay as you go is great, it allows the customers to see that the clock is ticking and actually feal money leaving their pocket as they play. Fixed-rate might be good for the places where there are no "drop-in" clients, but if you want people coming through your place you need to have available consoles not crowded by drowling sweaty gaymers...;-)
This might have been a problem back in the days, but today most computers are fast enough to make flac/oggvorbis/mp3's quicker than you'll be able to transfer the.wavs to a faster computer, let alone compress them and then tranfer them back.
Most (all?) universities already have an authentication-system in place that is used on campus-computers, both for local and remote login. This can be applied to grid-computing, too. That way you can punish those who abuse resources like you already do if somebody decides to convert a couple of your loginservers into a CS/HL/Tetrinet/*-gameserver..
At my university, the charge for CPU-cycles on the high-performance clusters isn't really related to the actual cost of cycles as these are dirty-cheap today, but the cost of administration of the system. In the case of using desktop/login-machines for grid-computing this should already be covered by the "dayjob" of these computers.
Practical and theoretical is pretty much different; you can certainly have ciphers that are practically impossible to bruteforce, but seldom will you find a cipher that is theoretically impossible to bruteforce
But usually a good way to breaking a cipher is having a crib, ie. some hint to what the plaintext contains. OTOH governmentstyle ciphercrunching doesn't necessarily have all the information about which cipher and so on that most of these cryptochallenges has.
not necessarily;-) but it sure makes it more secure. In RSA the two factors only really have to be relatively prime, but having non-prime factors makes the cipher much weaker;-).
Not only in processing power, but also in keylength. A typical RSA key would be 512-1024bits to be considered secure, an equivalent ECC key would be 140-200 bits. Which leads to smaller circuts and inturn cheaper implementations.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is a much younger branch of mathematics and cryptography than plain old factor-based ciphers like RSA and friends.
That's probably why it isn't as well known and well deployed as factor-based encryption. The number of implementations is also much smaller. Be aware however that NSA NSA Turns to commercial software for crypto chose ECC as (one of) the way(s) to go for the future not long ago...
It proves that it is possible with commodity hardware (and a lot of time) to break ciphers that are regarded as pretty strong.
This ofcourse is nothing to what one can imagine that national agencies have at their disposal. If a gang of internetusers can break a cipher (brute forcing it) using spare cpu-cycles, imagine what a dedicated cluster of highend computers using an algorithm more efficient than bruteforcing it would be.
> Despite the cliche of fighting a war on two fronts
The biggest reason this cliche doesn't really hold water is because Linux isn't really fighting in the same sence of the word as Microsoft, Sun, SCO (not flamebait) and other OS-makers are. Linux, or rather the development of it, isn't based on sales and income. Linux development will (and does) go on without having to produce financial profits and results.
Sun for example wouldn't be able to produce an OS that nobody use. It just wouldn't go down well with shareholders, and would frankly be a right out stupid idea businesswise. Linux on the otherhand isn't dependand on one single company or entity. It's made by the people for the people. So it hasn't got anything to loose, and we all know that those who can make the ultimate sacrifice usually wins the battle, if not the war.
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OP didn't mention gcc, and I'm pretty sure (s)he thought about Intels own compilers. They usually smoke GCC when it comes to optimizations... not surprisingly
Why is notepad.exe a part of the OS?
Certain utilities is necessary and so popular that it would make sense to include it in the OS. Especially with RDP already included, it just doesn't make sense to not include ssh.
It still amazes me that Microsoft haven't thought of adding a ssh-client to their operatingsystems. An OS lacking a ssh-client is pretty much useless to me.
When they get ssh and X11 clients, even Windows might seem like an alternative...
This case is a perfect example of why software patents is a bad thing!
There's simply nothing else to say about this case.
My local library has built a pretty good website around their somewhat dated, but excellent, electronic cardsystem. You can also renew checked out items, reserve items and do most of the stuff you can do in the actual library on their website. ;-)
It's all pretty good if you ask me.
Just like searchengines, you gotta learn how to use a library to you benefit before you can unleash the power of information
usually the slowest part of booting a scsi-kernel is "waiting for scsi-devices to settle". Which is usually set to 15s for quite a few drivers in the kernel. Bumping that down to a resonably low number like 2-3 s (usually enough for modern devices, would skimp 10-13s of you boot-time ;-)
how many services do you actually need on a workstation?
well kexec is brought to you buy the same guys that invented ctrl+alt+del. I guess you can think of it as the next-generation of the three fingered salute ;-).
DigiBeta is still in the running, however they seem to have decided to price them self out of the consumer marked. Lots of tv-stations and production companies still use DigiBeta because of their excellent quality. ;-).
The other good side to the digibeta cams is the high quality optics, but that has more to do with the price you pay rather than the format the save to
I don't see how this is any different from any other platforms. When software makes it mainstream most users don't talk about them with their full name.
;-).
When was the last time you use Microsoft Internet Explorer in a sentance, most people just call it "the browser" or "explorer".
When I talk about reading mail, I seldom refer to the application I use, I rather say "I'm plowing through last nights mail" than saying "I'm deep inside the bowls of mutt trying to work this new magic macro".
GiMP is already mainstream, I've even had requests from both windows and mac-users where to get this magic piece of software (usually accompanied by "how much does it cost?") as they've heard about it in movie SFX magazines and so on.
Most lusers who regard their computer as black magic seldom use the right names anyway, it's usually refered to as "That grid-thing that let's me do my finances", or any writing program as "Word" even though it's notepad (or KNote/Kate whatever
Especially for KDE, it's default to have the K-menu display the function of the program right beside the name, alleviate the stress of finding the right application in a world where everything as a strange new name.
The name won't catch on unless it includes at least one recursive letter ;-).
However the easterbunny isn't a christian thing. It's more to do with jesus and how he got up again ;-)
Firstly it produces executables for windows, and secondly running it through wine, with wine being slower than any naitive OS, would defeat any speedup purpose?
The problem with a fixed-rate subscription is that some people will never leave the machine, through that also occupy the machine and making the owner have to turn away potential customers that aren't interested in gaming 24/7 but just there for the thrill of a game now and then.
;-)
That's why pay as you go is great, it allows the customers to see that the clock is ticking and actually feal money leaving their pocket as they play. Fixed-rate might be good for the places where there are no "drop-in" clients, but if you want people coming through your place you need to have available consoles not crowded by drowling sweaty gaymers...
I guess you didn't read the part of the link that said if you UID logged more than 24 cpu-hours in one 24h period; your account would be suspended.
This might have been a problem back in the days, but today most computers are fast enough to make flac/oggvorbis/mp3's quicker than you'll be able to transfer the .wavs to a faster computer, let alone compress them and then tranfer them back.
Most (all?) universities already have an authentication-system in place that is used on campus-computers, both for local and remote login. This can be applied to grid-computing, too. That way you can punish those who abuse resources like you already do if somebody decides to convert a couple of your loginservers into a CS/HL/Tetrinet/*-gameserver..
At my university, the charge for CPU-cycles on the high-performance clusters isn't really related to the actual cost of cycles as these are dirty-cheap today, but the cost of administration of the system. In the case of using desktop/login-machines for grid-computing this should already be covered by the "dayjob" of these computers.
Practical and theoretical is pretty much different; you can certainly have ciphers that are practically impossible to bruteforce, but seldom will you find a cipher that is theoretically impossible to bruteforce
But usually a good way to breaking a cipher is having a crib, ie. some hint to what the plaintext contains.
OTOH governmentstyle ciphercrunching doesn't necessarily have all the information about which cipher and so on that most of these cryptochallenges has.
not necessarily ;-) but it sure makes it more secure. In RSA the two factors only really have to be relatively prime, but having non-prime factors makes the cipher much weaker ;-).
Not only in processing power, but also in keylength. A typical RSA key would be 512-1024bits to be considered secure, an equivalent ECC key would be 140-200 bits. Which leads to smaller circuts and inturn cheaper implementations.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is a much younger branch of mathematics and cryptography than plain old factor-based ciphers like RSA and friends.
That's probably why it isn't as well known and well deployed as factor-based encryption. The number of implementations is also much smaller.
Be aware however that NSA NSA Turns to commercial software for crypto chose ECC as (one of) the way(s) to go for the future not long ago...
It proves that it is possible with commodity hardware (and a lot of time) to break ciphers that are regarded as pretty strong.
This ofcourse is nothing to what one can imagine that national agencies have at their disposal. If a gang of internetusers can break a cipher (brute forcing it) using spare cpu-cycles, imagine what a dedicated cluster of highend computers using an algorithm more efficient than bruteforcing it would be.
yes please post a step-by-step instruction on how to r00t your local solaris-box on the front page of slashdot.
There is a reason why most security-teams allow vendors to fix stuff before going full-disclosure...
The gutenberg project of music does exist, it's called The Mutopia Project and it's available from http://www.mutopiaproject.org.
> Despite the cliche of fighting a war on two fronts
The biggest reason this cliche doesn't really hold water is because Linux isn't really fighting in the same sence of the word as Microsoft, Sun, SCO (not flamebait) and other OS-makers are.
Linux, or rather the development of it, isn't based on sales and income. Linux development will (and does) go on without having to produce financial profits and results.
Sun for example wouldn't be able to produce an OS that nobody use. It just wouldn't go down well with shareholders, and would frankly be a right out stupid idea businesswise.
Linux on the otherhand isn't dependand on one single company or entity. It's made by the people for the people. So it hasn't got anything to loose, and we all know that those who can make the ultimate sacrifice usually wins the battle, if not the war.