You agree not to attempt to, or assist another person to, circumvent, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise tamper with any of the security components...
Which renders most of the comments here illegal, at least if they're from iTunes users...
I therefore suggest that we nip this term in the bud before those who don't know any better get the wrong idea and start to think that OS X has serious stability problems.
Open the terminal. Type "mkfifo ~/Desktop/pipe"; that should make a named pipe, named pipe (heh), and put it on the desktop. For some reason, it will look like a server-alias icon.
Now right (or control)-click it. Oops, scratch that. When you're done force-relauching the Finder, bring up Process Viewer and sort descending by either CPU or memory usage. Go back to the Finder and click the pipe. Hit command-delete or drag it to the trash. Watch the Finder's memory and CPU usage. Force-relaunch it again.
Remove the pipe with rm.
Now can you see why people complain about stability? I mean, it's not the OS itself, but the Finder has some serious stability problems. The named pipe problem is just one of many. I hope they completely rewrite it in Panther. Preferably multithreaded, in Cocoa. It is a major step down from OS 9.
Seriously, tough, there could be some problems with this. Specifically, warm water doesn't hold as much O_2... you'd need tropical fish, and even that would be a stretch.
Sorry to ruin your joke, but as/dev/urandom uses the Yarrow PRNG, it is possible to construct a "resume" which could not possibly have come from it. This is, IMHO, a weakness of the PRNG. It cannot, for instance, output 100 spaces in a row (exactly how many it can output depends on the implementation).
Heh. Amusing joke. Problem with your first idea though. Part of the point of my stupid joke was that you have no idea what's going on afterwards, as it removes itself. Yours doesn't, and they check the username, and...
Another amusing joke is to perl -e "open FOO, '> foo'; seek FOO, 2009743546,0; print FOO 1;" DO NOT TRY THIS ON AN HFS/HFS+ VOLUME, it only works on a UNIX volume. It makes a file which appears to be huge, but isn't (it takes up a dozen k or so on disk, due to UNIX sparse-file support). It also plays havoc with backup scripts.
Right. That's why it's not gonna happen anytime soon. But the main point of mentioning fiber, is that it's hard to compete with the internet if it has fiber, and you have some chain of thousands of WI-FI connections. Imagine the ping time and the data rates to go further than a few miles.
As long as he's not obsessed with 802.11x, this is great! For the longer stretches, he should use IR lasers or something that can really throw the bits around.
Fair enough. Although fiber throws the bits around better.
If he can succeed, the long-term implications are fantastic. Internet will become too cheap to meter. Inexpensive laser and other types of LOS relays will join windmills and silos as familiar rural landmarks. AOL and Time-Warner can eat all of America's shorts. There is nothing to say the same economic forces that may eventually make proprietary software obsolete can't make proprietary networks obsolete too.
Yeah. And if everyone laid fiber to their neighbor's houses and got routers for it, the same thing could happen. That'd be really cool, too, and probably about as cheap. But it's not gonna happen anytime soon.
The hard part about free wireless has always been the "upstream". If this guy can get a viable continent spanning link, it may go down in history just like the link between... what was it... Duke and UNC? You know, the one that started the internet in the first place. Let's see... we have internet, internet 2, and now internet 3. I can't wait. I think Internet 3 could eventually replace internet 1 and make internet 2 jelous.
There's a ping-time issue. The cost of receiving and retransmitting those packets is non-trivial, both in time and in energy, especially if you use WEP. Count on pinging across the network to take minutes. Like I said, laying fiber would be much cooler for free internet. But it's just as not-gonna-happen.
15 seconds is bullshit though. You just have to hold it up to the light. I clocked it at 4 seconds to carefully verify both the security thread and the watermark portrait on a current $20 bill.
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...and if Microsoft doesn't want to give their new API's out to Netscape, so be it...
You agree not to attempt to, or assist another person to, circumvent, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise tamper with any of the security components...
Which renders most of the comments here illegal, at least if they're from iTunes users...
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
I therefore suggest that we nip this term in the bud before those who don't know any better get the wrong idea and start to think that OS X has serious stability problems.
Open the terminal. Type "mkfifo ~/Desktop/pipe"; that should make a named pipe, named pipe (heh), and put it on the desktop. For some reason, it will look like a server-alias icon.
Now right (or control)-click it. Oops, scratch that. When you're done force-relauching the Finder, bring up Process Viewer and sort descending by either CPU or memory usage. Go back to the Finder and click the pipe. Hit command-delete or drag it to the trash. Watch the Finder's memory and CPU usage. Force-relaunch it again.
Remove the pipe with rm.
Now can you see why people complain about stability? I mean, it's not the OS itself, but the Finder has some serious stability problems. The named pipe problem is just one of many. I hope they completely rewrite it in Panther. Preferably multithreaded, in Cocoa. It is a major step down from OS 9.
heh. and add a water-cooling system.
Seriously, tough, there could be some problems with this. Specifically, warm water doesn't hold as much O_2... you'd need tropical fish, and even that would be a stretch.
Sorry to ruin your joke, but as /dev/urandom uses the Yarrow PRNG, it is possible to construct a "resume" which could not possibly have come from it. This is, IMHO, a weakness of the PRNG. It cannot, for instance, output 100 spaces in a row (exactly how many it can output depends on the implementation).
Only if you log the **AA
Someone spilled McDonalds coffee on herself and got burned. So she sued McDonalds for not having a "Caution, contents are HOT" warning on the cups.
Heh. Amusing joke. Problem with your first idea though. Part of the point of my stupid joke was that you have no idea what's going on afterwards, as it removes itself. Yours doesn't, and they check the username, and...
Another amusing joke is to
perl -e "open FOO, '> foo'; seek FOO, 2009743546,0; print FOO 1;"
DO NOT TRY THIS ON AN HFS/HFS+ VOLUME, it only works on a UNIX volume. It makes a file which appears to be huge, but isn't (it takes up a dozen k or so on disk, due to UNIX sparse-file support). It also plays havoc with backup scripts.
OTOH, you could program it to compile but not install the new software.
Then it's 10 seconds to "make install."
Now that's what I call efficient.
--Mike
"Konspire"? Speaking of lawsuits . . . Might want to give some thought to the product name here, guys. Image, image, image.
:-)
Yeah, creative naming really hurt the image of iSwipe
Which is a really weird one to use since most people have never seen an Olympic sized swimming pool except on TV.
When's the last time you saw a Volkswagon?
Yes.
It has been relegated to the ranks of secretary machines.
Length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool
That would be volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Get your units straight
Exactly. And have you noticed that MS removed the twin towers from the flight sim? I wonder why? :-/
(yeah, yeah, I know it's really because they keep the terrain up-to-date...)
Excellent. Thanks. I'd never seen one for less than $50.
(although, the $50 ones come with warrantees and you can pick the shape and color)
--Mike
A 128mb keychain is like $30.
Where? I don't believe you.
You could probably build a Kerberos version =)
On the other hand, Erdos was crazy and on speed.
:-)
Hm. Maybe it's time to legalize speed
Does your name have anything to do with the INIT 1984 virus?
Just wondering
Come on. you'd have to be pretty anti-religious not to at least recognize them as a .org
Right. That's why it's not gonna happen anytime soon. But the main point of mentioning fiber, is that it's hard to compete with the internet if it has fiber, and you have some chain of thousands of WI-FI connections. Imagine the ping time and the data rates to go further than a few miles.
As long as he's not obsessed with 802.11x, this is great! For the longer stretches, he should use IR lasers or something that can really throw the bits around.
Fair enough. Although fiber throws the bits around better.
If he can succeed, the long-term implications are fantastic. Internet will become too cheap to meter. Inexpensive laser and other types of LOS relays will join windmills and silos as familiar rural landmarks. AOL and Time-Warner can eat all of America's shorts. There is nothing to say the same economic forces that may eventually make proprietary software obsolete can't make proprietary networks obsolete too.
Yeah. And if everyone laid fiber to their neighbor's houses and got routers for it, the same thing could happen. That'd be really cool, too, and probably about as cheap. But it's not gonna happen anytime soon.
The hard part about free wireless has always been the "upstream". If this guy can get a viable continent spanning link, it may go down in history just like the link between... what was it... Duke and UNC? You know, the one that started the internet in the first place. Let's see... we have internet, internet 2, and now internet 3. I can't wait. I think Internet 3 could eventually replace internet 1 and make internet 2 jelous.
There's a ping-time issue. The cost of receiving and retransmitting those packets is non-trivial, both in time and in energy, especially if you use WEP. Count on pinging across the network to take minutes. Like I said, laying fiber would be much cooler for free internet. But it's just as not-gonna-happen.
15 seconds is bullshit though. You just have to hold it up to the light. I clocked it at 4 seconds to carefully verify both the security thread and the watermark portrait on a current $20 bill.
Yeah, they have a policy like that at Harvard too.
They have absolutely no intention of enforcing it though, unless they receive nastygrams from the (RI|MP)AA.
It's not like they're gonna bother scanning port 1214...