The patch works transparently, ie. no application recompilation is necessary."
Why would you ever need to recompile an application to take advantage of a kernel patch? I could see the need to recompile libraries or statically compiled applications, but it seems logical to me that a kernel patch should only require you to patch the programs that use the kernel source code: the kernel (maybe some modules too, but I don't think that's the case here).
Not trolling, just wondering aloud, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.:)
What he's actually referring to aliasing rm to 'rm -i' in root's.login or.profile, because root can delete almost anything on a system it's designed to save people who are typing too fast and thinking too little.
If you have webcams installed in the sorority house across the street, that server already is your porn server. How much porn do you need?
:)
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How Stable is WEP?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Even though you are probably the only one using your wireless router, someone clever running a program like Kismet or Ethereal can still sniff your unencrypted packets and pick out some nasty things from them.
You're definitely right about WEP not being secure, but I do think that another layer of security can't hurt (unless of course it does something weird like make your connection flaky).
If you read the review of Knoppix, she complains that it doesn't save her printer settings. I don't think that she realizes that the entire distro is on a cd, so there really isn't a good place to save the settings to.
Unless of course you have a floppy or USB drive, then AFAIK you can save your settings.
Whenever I see an April Fool's Joke on Slashdot, it reminds me of the infamous Perl/Python merger that was to be called Parrot.
If I live to be a million years old, I will never forget a friend in the dorms walking in to my room as my roommate and I were having a good laugh about the Parrot gag. He proceeded to tell us about the revolution in scripting that was going to occur by the merging of the two (I don't think he programmed in either language), and when I tried to interject a "Dude, I think it was an April Fool's Joke" he cut me off and made little motions with his hands like this:
"Perl!" (waved one hand)
"Python!" (waves other hand)
"Parrot!" (Put both hands together to indicate the merging of the two)
My roommate laughed until we cried, and the thought of it still cracks me up today.
Even more frightening is the fact that we understand the fundamental axioms of biology way less than computer science.
A good example is protein folding: given the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain, scientists don't currently have a reliable way of determining how the protein will fold in 3-dimensions.
An analogy with computer science would be scientists posessing source code to a C program, knowing that a compiler somehow turns it into a binary, but having no understanding of how the compiler works and also having very little idea of the purpose of the program.
I don't really think that nanorobots are necessarily the answer in this case. Spell checking could be done by DNA sequencing, which is currently expensive but there are efforts to develop new techniques that would make sequencing cheaper. I think that a new, cheaper sequencing technology will will be released long before DNA-synthesizing nanobots.
However, I must admit that nanobots constructing DNA would be really frickin' cool.:)
hmmmmm. I think Im going to whip out monkey island and play through that series again...
That was a little too much information about your private life for me.
I'm actually surprised that they didn't use steganography to uniquely identify each copy of the browser that they release to their individual, "select" developers. That way they could release the dogs of war on that poor soul.
On another note, it's sad to see something like this ruined by what is probably a small number of bad seeds.:)
I looked at some of the screenshots for stsf and I think that it's pretty sweet. The standard Motif font menu labels are hilarious though, the selectable fonts look awesome and the old motif fonts in the menus look terrible.
Here's some links to the screenshots of stsf running on Solaris 9:
I don't know why the E-week story says that "According to the survey, 25 percent of the respondents labeled the current crop of compilers as either 'adequate' or 'needs work'" and that "However, according to the survey, the developers also said that Linux development tools need work."
If you look at the actual data, it looks more like no more than 3.8% said that the compilers "need work." 90% rated the compilers as "adequate" or better, and 70% rated the compilers as "very good" or better.
To me, it looks like they just drew a conclusion that they wanted to draw instead of actually looking at the data.
Apparently the one language that you haven't had time to learn is English. To make your sentence correct, you should say "I have done programming in insert-languages-here."
Step1) Format and load Windows 95.
Step2) Throw some Sid Meiers Colonization on that bad boy
Step3)...
Step4) Let him play on it for 3 months. Step5) Got to step 1.
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You keep your brain in your pocket? Or is it your handbag? :)
The patch works transparently, ie. no application recompilation is necessary."
:)
Why would you ever need to recompile an application to take advantage of a kernel patch? I could see the need to recompile libraries or statically compiled applications, but it seems logical to me that a kernel patch should only require you to patch the programs that use the kernel source code: the kernel (maybe some modules too, but I don't think that's the case here).
Not trolling, just wondering aloud, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
What he's actually referring to aliasing rm to 'rm -i' in root's .login or .profile, because root can delete almost anything on a system it's designed to save people who are typing too fast and thinking too little.
Hopefully this DOS attack will 'deltree *.*' his spam operations.
*Ducks flying tomatoes*
Curse slashdot for making me wonder "I Am Not A What?" as I skimmed over this comment . . .
:) the namespace for acronyms is really becoming overcrowded. :)
While IANAL (linguist, not lawyer
If you have webcams installed in the sorority house across the street, that server already is your porn server. How much porn do you need?
:)
Even though you are probably the only one using your wireless router, someone clever running a program like Kismet or Ethereal can still sniff your unencrypted packets and pick out some nasty things from them. You're definitely right about WEP not being secure, but I do think that another layer of security can't hurt (unless of course it does something weird like make your connection flaky).
:)
If you read the review of Knoppix, she complains that it doesn't save her printer settings. I don't think that she realizes that the entire distro is on a cd, so there really isn't a good place to save the settings to.
Unless of course you have a floppy or USB drive, then AFAIK you can save your settings.
Whenever I see an April Fool's Joke on Slashdot, it reminds me of the infamous Perl/Python merger that was to be called Parrot.
If I live to be a million years old, I will never forget a friend in the dorms walking in to my room as my roommate and I were having a good laugh about the Parrot gag. He proceeded to tell us about the revolution in scripting that was going to occur by the merging of the two (I don't think he programmed in either language), and when I tried to interject a "Dude, I think it was an April Fool's Joke" he cut me off and made little motions with his hands like this:
"Perl!" (waved one hand)
"Python!" (waves other hand)
"Parrot!" (Put both hands together to indicate the merging of the two)
My roommate laughed until we cried, and the thought of it still cracks me up today.
Even more frightening is the fact that we understand the fundamental axioms of biology way less than computer science.
A good example is protein folding: given the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain, scientists don't currently have a reliable way of determining how the protein will fold in 3-dimensions.
An analogy with computer science would be scientists posessing source code to a C program, knowing that a compiler somehow turns it into a binary, but having no understanding of how the compiler works and also having very little idea of the purpose of the program.
I don't really think that nanorobots are necessarily the answer in this case. Spell checking could be done by DNA sequencing, which is currently expensive but there are efforts to develop new techniques that would make sequencing cheaper. I think that a new, cheaper sequencing technology will will be released long before DNA-synthesizing nanobots.
:)
However, I must admit that nanobots constructing DNA would be really frickin' cool.
Does everything really run as root? What's up with that?
So they'll never have a chance of learning to write in English. (kidding)
hmmmmm. I think Im going to whip out monkey island and play through that series again... That was a little too much information about your private life for me.
Do you have a link for the story?
I'm actually surprised that they didn't use steganography to uniquely identify each copy of the browser that they release to their individual, "select" developers. That way they could release the dogs of war on that poor soul.
:)
On another note, it's sad to see something like this ruined by what is probably a small number of bad seeds.
I looked at some of the screenshots for stsf and I think that it's pretty sweet. The standard Motif font menu labels are hilarious though, the selectable fonts look awesome and the old motif fonts in the menus look terrible.
Here's some links to the screenshots of stsf running on Solaris 9:
xclock -digital -fg yellow -bgpixmap SolarisLogo.pm -fga 0.5
LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 xclock -digital -bgpixmap RicePaper.pm
Sure it would benefit the customers, but SonicBlue has an obligation to their shareholders to attempt to make some amount of money off their assets.
Replay will most likely be sold off to D&M like the rest of the company.
I don't know why the E-week story says that "According to the survey, 25 percent of the respondents labeled the current crop of compilers as either 'adequate' or 'needs work'" and that "However, according to the survey, the developers also said that Linux development tools need work."
If you look at the actual data, it looks more like no more than 3.8% said that the compilers "need work." 90% rated the compilers as "adequate" or better, and 70% rated the compilers as "very good" or better.
To me, it looks like they just drew a conclusion that they wanted to draw instead of actually looking at the data.
I done C, C++, assembly, LISP, . . .
Apparently the one language that you haven't had time to learn is English. To make your sentence correct, you should say "I have done programming in insert-languages-here."
It seems to me that somebody who actually wants to use the dump program on Linux should fix it.
On the other hand, is anyone who wants to take a dump on Linux likely to contribute good code?
Step1) Format and load Windows 95. ...
Step2) Throw some Sid Meiers Colonization on that bad boy
Step3)
Step4) Let him play on it for 3 months. Step5) Got to step 1.
Shouldn't step 3 be "profit?"
I use apt4rpm as well, and I'm wondering what "release specific rpms" you're talking about. Any specific examples?
How the heck do you get a new operating system onto a gaming console like the NES?
Are the game controller ports used as serial ports?
Do you use a specially made cartridge?
So, did you have to use the backdoor? Did they try to screw you?