What I would like to have would be a merger of the perl and python cook books. I know my own understanding of perl exploded when I discovered the perl cookbook. I am now convinced that understanding a languages idioms is the secret to fluency.
It would be very instructive to me to be able to see how the two languages handle each other's idioms. I have my brain wrapped around perl and when I try to think in python I get frustrated cause things I think should be simple aren't. Of course the reverse would be true if I knew python better (I guess).
At present I think my python programming is too formal, like someone who just learned say french trying to speak it and saying "To The beloved person who bore me onto this earth; please to be informed that I have translocated my corpus into the domicale that lies here" instead of just saying "mom, I'm home".
Arrr...the American Heritage DICTIONARY disagrees with you me hearty. pirate:
NOUN:
1 a. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation. b. A ship used for this purpose. 2. One who preys on others; a plunderer. 3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization. 4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To attack and rob (a ship at sea). 2. To take (something) by piracy. 3. To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To act as a pirate; practice piracy.
I've been a beta tester on the prototype for this system. It works great. I've seen diskless systems before they all were NFS nighmares, could not scale and had horrible tendencies to cause rippling crashes as one computer after the next timed out on some critical disk based kernel operation it could not complete across a wedged network.
This one, brpoc, is different it is completely stable. You never get NFS wedges. Jobs launch in flash. Plus if you do reboot the whole thing is back up in seconds (literally).
Bproc is an incredibly light weight job submission system. It is so light weight and fast that it changes how you think about sumbitting jobs. Rather than designing long duration jobs and tossing them on queue, you can just run tiny short jobs if you want with no loss to overhead. It makes you re-think the whole idea of batch processing.
when the jobs run they appear in the process list of the master node. That is if you run "top" or "ps" the jobs are listed right there. In fact from the users point of view the whole system looks like just one big computer.
Well, no. Midochondial DNA do vary. There are however a reletively small number of genotypes. Some popular press discusses sorting people into one of "7 original mothers" based on midochondial differences. Thus there are differences. How much is important? Cant say. But my guess is that proportionally, your and my DNA also are at least as similar as Midochondial genotypes are.
ANyhow the basic thrust of the comment was that DNA does not have everything on it. It's not clear what it is missing or how important that is at this point in time.
Although the parent to this post is a Troll. He is unfortunately correct, but not for reasons he cites. A cell has many components that are inherited from your mother that are not contained in the DNA. THe simplest and most profound of these is your Midochondial DNA. Midochodria are organelles that live symboitically inside every cell in your body. They are your main source of energy (ATP), and the cell is the Midochodia's only source of food. Both die without each other. Midochondia have their own private DNA which is not contained in the Cell's nucleous. You get your midochondia from your mother's egg (thus you and she have gentically identical midochondrial DNA.
More speculatively, there may be other things we dont know about yet that get a free ride from mother to child. To be very speculative, certain protein sets might very well influence the exprression of your genome. That is to say different developement.
This is not an unreasonable hypothesis, despite its high degree of speculation. Your and my Genonomes are so similar it is reasonable to suppose our differences arrise in part from HOW the genese are expressed. Expression is regulated by proteins in the cell that contains the DNA. Thus implanting your genome in another cell might not produce the same phenotype individual despite the common DNA.
Albert Eisteins' brain is kept in a jor (really!). And of course anyone we could dig up out of the ground that's less than a thousand years old might possibly have a retrievable DNA sample.
Someday in the future it will be possible to clone and individual from such a CD. Admittedly a long time in the future, and then the question becomes why would anyone clone someone from the distant past? Well it sure would be interesting to clone Albert Einstein or any other person with remarkably focused traits or leadership charisma (Christopher Columbus, Geronimo, Martin Luther King, Gahndi, Gengis Kahn, Hitler). Would they have the same abilities? Possibly not, but its at least a reasonable hypothesis that maybe on average they would be exceptional individuals. Moreover since we could anticipate their latent gifts, these might be amplified.
Dont FSCKING READ IT! Its a lot more interesting that most of the Drivel here and if people keep posting itsobviously because most people have not seen it. Except for losers like you who read every post every hour every day. lighten up and go read the onion, winer boy.
ripped from the headlines on Onion.com
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation's radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music.
"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"
According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs.
"These radio stations are extremely popular," Rosen said. "They flagrantly string our songs together in 'uninterrupted music blocks' of up to 70 minutes in length, broadcasting nearly one CD's worth of product without a break, and they actually have the gall to allow businesses to advertise between songs. It's bad enough that they're giving away our music for free, but they're actually making a profit off this scheme."
RIAA attorney Russell Frackman said the lawsuit is intended to protect the artists.
"If this radio trend continues, it will severely damage a musician's ability to earn a living off his music," Frackman said. "[Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich stopped in the other day wondering why his last royalty check was so small, and I didn't know what to say. How do you tell a man who's devoted his whole life to his music that someone is able to just give it away for free? That pirates are taking away his right to support himself with his craft?"
For the record companies and the RIAA, one of the most disturbing aspects of the radio-station broadcasts is that anyone with a receiver and an analog tape recorder can record the music and play it back at will.
"I've heard reports that children as young as 8 tape radio broadcasts for their own personal use," Rosen said. "They listen to a channel that has a limited rotation of only the most popular songs--commonly called 'Top 40' stations--then hit the 'record' button when they hear the opening strains of the song they want. And how much are they paying for these songs? A big fat zip."
Continued Rosen: "According to our research, there is one of these Top 40 stations in every major city in the country. This has to be stopped before the music industry's entire economic infrastructure collapses."
Especially distressing to the RIAA are radio stations' "all-request hours," when listeners call in to ask radio announcers, or "disc jockeys," to play a certain song.
"What's the point of putting out a new Ja Rule or Sum 41 album if people can just call up and hear any song off the album that they want?" Frackman asked. "In some instances, these stations actually have the nerve to let the caller 'dedicate' his act of thievery to a friend or lover. Could you imagine a bank letting somebody rob its vaults and then allowing the thief to thank his girlfriend Tricia and the whole gang down at Bumpy's?"
Defenders of radio-based music distribution insist that the relatively poor sound quality of radio broadcasts negates the record companies' charges.
"Radio doesn't have the same sound quality as a CD," said Paul "Cubby" Bryant, music director of New York radio station Z100, one of the nation's largest distributors of free music and a defendant in the suit. "Real music lovers will still buy CDs. If anything, we're exposing people to music they might not otherwise hear. These record companies should be thanking us, not suing us."
Outraged by the RIAA suit, many radio listeners are threatening to boycott the record companies.
"All these companies care about is profits," said Amy Legrand, 21, an avid Jacksonville, FL, radio user who surreptitiously records up to 10 songs a day off the radio. "Top 40 radio is taking the power out of the hands of the Ahmet Erteguns of the world and bringing it back to the people of Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting. It's about time somebody finally stood up to those record-company fascists."
Fortran has some notable advantages over C. Perhaps the most latent advantage is in the realm of multi-processing. For example there are several statments that give the compiler big hints that the loop can be spread out. For example there is loop command that is like a FOR loop but specifically says the order of the loop evaluation does not matter. Other looping commands tell the computer to apply a function over an entire array at all positions specified in a map. Function declarations tell the compiler if a variable/array in the arg list will be altered by the function call. There are delberate limits on pointer type variables that forbid pointer arithmatic and allow compiler efficiencies. As a result fortran is a marvelous multi-processing language because the compiler knows how to allocate instructions safely and how to allocate memory optimally.
I've been reading the 622 page admin guide. My first impression was "622 pages!!!! that is not why I bought an apple." After reading it two things are clear. First they are very gentle so even a unix weaking can understand both the big picture and the little picture. Second, it is not a unix manual,instead it focuses on using gui tools and a fixed, thought rather broad, set of tasks (e.g.setting up LDAP, mounting a disk). It still does not teach unix. A book teaching command line unix that specialized in mac's has stillnot been written (Yes I am aware of the various attempts). My third impression is that it needs a second edition. There are a lot of incompletely explained concepts that only an experienced NeXSTstep user would understand or descriptions that dont quite match the actual gui-tools.
But it's wonderful to have a reference now.
It's like the chinese curse "my you live in interesting times". Mac OsX has given us a wonderful set of opportunities and pitfalls. Books are sorely needed, and needed quickly. Most of all are books that point out the pit falls of assuming linux and macOSX work the same way.
Apple gave us a lot of power but has not told us how to use it. In the mean time We are encouraged not to use them until they are documented, but being geeks we cant resist poking and prodding. And assuming that because we know linux or BSD that we know Mac OSX. Then we get MAD when we get into trouble from our uniformed meddling or we discover some bit of uglyness behind the veil that we dont like exactly how apple has implemented it. Whereas before we were bilssfully unaware and untempted. It seems like all the anti-apple slashdot critiques that are at leaset slightly based on experience are along the lines of "well linux doesn't do it that way, so apple is wrong."
When I first got OS X beta, I nievely tried to set/etc/fstab and/etc/exports. Got steamin mad. Then discovered netInfo. (I vaguely knew where to look from NeXTstep) Thought that was truly wonderful and sorely needed unification of unix configuration. Blessed apple. But apple had not issued the manual. No matter, I waded in, did some cool things, and by the end of the day my computer was unbootable from one leeetle mistake. (had to re-install). Cursed Apple for not documenting this. (I had called them on the phone and they warned me not to meddle with it!) But within 6 months the NetInfo manual was indeed out along with some idiot proof gui "training wheel" tools for making changes to certain records.
My experience with OSX has been extremely positive. I make some whopper mistakes, but that was really y fault. mac unix is unix but its not LINUX and HFS+ is NOT UFS. But that does not make it worse. In fact on the whole I think its much better. But if you assume that cp and mv do the same thing they do in linux, well you will eventually get a surprise.
The POSTER does not know what he/she is talking about. This is about Transmitting messages not encrypting them on your hard disk. There is no password to steal.
when a message is transmitted it sent in a way that the message cannot be read by more than one receiver. (in theory) This means that the message cannot be eavesdropped upon. It does not mean the message containing the key is encoded.
So what is the key? the key can be a one time randomly generated bunch of numbers, never written down by the sender, and immediately discarded by the receiver. Thus no passwwords.
Alternative better solution with backup
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While I agree with the original post, some whiners wre worried about intercepting unlink too. Well a month ago there was a discussion about using "cp -al" with rsync to back up a disk. This would work here too. "cp -al/" makes a set of duplicate hard links to all your files. This is fairly space efficient though not free by any means. The bonus is that you get more in return, you have a perfect image of your hard disk at an earlier time.
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It's interesting to ask what would have happened if he had put it in the bank. Bank interests vary over time but rarely get about 5% for many years. If one is genereous and supposes he could have gotten 4% interest (time averaged) then adter 68 years he would have 287$ for every 20$ he saved. Instead his gold is worth 300$. Looks like he was smart.
INTERGRAPH OWNS THIS PATENT;wins suit againt intel
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from bloomberg news service (bloomberg.com)
Intel, Intergraph Fail in Mediation of Chip-Patent Dispute Intel Corp. said it failed to reach an agreement in a $250 million dollar patent lawsuit by computer- services company Intergraph Corp., which already was paid $300 million by the world's biggest chipmaker to resolve an earlier dispute.
some info can be found here:
http://www.intergraph.com/intel/legalpic.asp
and
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,187 0,146182,00.html
Today, Intel and intergraph anounced a break down in cour ordered mediation to resolve a quarter billion dollar patent infringement suit against the ITanium.
In July last year, Intergraph (www.intergraph.com) brought a lawsuit against INTEL alleging the basic design of the Itanium violates ateleast two patents they had held for ten years. Intergraph alleges the concept of software based instruction routining in highly parallel architechtures was developed for their C5 (aka clipper) chip.
Itanium basic design is based on a HP concept for highly parallel processing in which the order of execution on the chip can actually create race conditions for dependencies in calculations. This allows performance enhancements and simplication of handshaking harware, since basically the chip does not have to wait for the slowest operations. INstead the job of preventing race conditions falls to the compiler. The compiler must model how the processor will execute an instruction in the context of the other instructions the chip will be executing in parallel and then re-order the micro-code to prevent erroneous computations.
It would appear the methodology for achieving this was patented by intergraph for the C5 chip. The C5 chip project was eventually abandoned and intergraph parteneres with intel to replace the CPU in their workstations with pentiums.
We all know that intel was previously accused of stealing the ALPHA processor designs and that law suit was "settled" by intel buying out the impoverished ALPHA (dec).
This law suit is for 250 million dollars. which is about 5 % of the entire 5 billion dollar development const of the Itanium. Mediation talks have broken down so the Suit will presumable go ahead. If you are interested try a google search, there's lots of info out there as this trial has dragged on for over a year.
INTEL pays 300M$: ITANIUM PATENT FIGHT LINK here
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from bloomberg news service (bloomberg.com)
Intel, Intergraph Fail in Mediation of Chip-Patent Dispute
Intel Corp. said it failed to reach an agreement in a patent lawsuit by computer- services company Intergraph Corp., which already was paid $300 million by the world's biggest chipmaker to resolve an earlier dispute.
some info can be found here:
http://www.intergraph.com/intel/legalpic.asp
and
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,187 0,146182,00.html
Death nell? Today, Intel and intergraph anounced a break down in cour ordered mediation to resolve a quarter billion dollar patent infringement suit against the ITanium. In July last year, Intergraph (www.intergraph.com) brought a lawsuit against INTEL alleging the basic design of the Itanium violates ateleast two patents they had held for ten years. Intergraph alleges the concept of software based instruction routining in highly parallel architechtures was developed for their C5 (aka clipper) chip.
Itanium basic design is based on a HP concept for highly parallel processing in which the order of execution on the chip can actually create race conditions for dependencies in calculations. This allows performance enhancements and simplication of handshaking harware, since basically the chip does not have to wait for the slowest operations. INstead the job of preventing race conditions falls to the compiler. The compiler must model how the processor will execute an instruction in the context of the other instructions the chip will be executing in parallel and then re-order the micro-code to prevent erroneous computations.
It would appear the methodology for achieving this was patented by intergraph for the C5 chip. The C5 chip project was eventually abandoned and intergraph parteneres with intel to replace the CPU in their workstations with pentiums.
We all know that intel was previously accused of stealing the ALPHA processor designs and that law suit was "settled" by intel buying out the impoverished ALPHA (dec). This law suit is for 250 million dollars. which is about 5 % of the entire 5 billion dollar development const of the Itanium. Mediation talks have broken down so the Suit will presumable go ahead.
If you are interested try a google search, there's lots of info out there as this trial has dragged on for over a year.
Then you have a bad sys admin. The sys admin can regulate port forwarding independently of turning on or off ssh. The only reason to turn off inbound ssh, is if you dont want to allow inbound ssh, not because you are afraid or port forwarding. The original question was if someone should ask their sys admin to enable VNC ports. If they even are going to even consider that, they no doubt have ssh turned on already. And the answer they were given is, no dont ask to have vnc turned on it's not secure, instead tunnel it.
Acutally I find it works quite well with OSX. I found that VNCthing did not work wel as a client but VNC dimension did work well. The problem was the client. But I did have to do some things to make it tolerable over a very remote connection: reduce the screen size to as small as you can, reduce the VNC update rate, play with different encodings, and dont use ssh compression..
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It would be very instructive to me to be able to see how the two languages handle each other's idioms. I have my brain wrapped around perl and when I try to think in python I get frustrated cause things I think should be simple aren't. Of course the reverse would be true if I knew python better (I guess).
At present I think my python programming is too formal, like someone who just learned say french trying to speak it and saying "To The beloved person who bore me onto this earth; please to be informed that I have translocated my corpus into the domicale that lies here" instead of just saying "mom, I'm home".
NOUN:
1 a. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation. b. A ship used for this purpose. 2. One who preys on others; a plunderer. 3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization. 4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
VERB:
Inflected forms: pirated , pirating , pirates
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To attack and rob (a ship at sea). 2. To take (something) by piracy. 3. To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To act as a pirate; practice piracy.
Now we can play first person shooters using real bullets, real head butts and punches.
Duals
Oh really. try it sometime! You'll find out why people dont do it! It's very hard to build a scalable diskless system
This one, brpoc, is different it is completely stable. You never get NFS wedges. Jobs launch in flash. Plus if you do reboot the whole thing is back up in seconds (literally).
Bproc is an incredibly light weight job submission system. It is so light weight and fast that it changes how you think about sumbitting jobs. Rather than designing long duration jobs and tossing them on queue, you can just run tiny short jobs if you want with no loss to overhead. It makes you re-think the whole idea of batch processing.
when the jobs run they appear in the process list of the master node. That is if you run "top" or "ps" the jobs are listed right there. In fact from the users point of view the whole system looks like just one big computer.
ANyhow the basic thrust of the comment was that DNA does not have everything on it. It's not clear what it is missing or how important that is at this point in time.
More speculatively, there may be other things we dont know about yet that get a free ride from mother to child. To be very speculative, certain protein sets might very well influence the exprression of your genome. That is to say different developement.
This is not an unreasonable hypothesis, despite its high degree of speculation. Your and my Genonomes are so similar it is reasonable to suppose our differences arrise in part from HOW the genese are expressed. Expression is regulated by proteins in the cell that contains the DNA. Thus implanting your genome in another cell might not produce the same phenotype individual despite the common DNA.
Albert Eisteins' brain is kept in a jor (really!). And of course anyone we could dig up out of the ground that's less than a thousand years old might possibly have a retrievable DNA sample.
If my enemy attacks my enemy, I laugh. Maybe 2600 rigged this collision.
Dont FSCKING READ IT! Its a lot more interesting that most of the Drivel here and if people keep posting itsobviously because most people have not seen it. Except for losers like you who read every post every hour every day. lighten up and go read the onion, winer boy.
"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"
According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs.
"These radio stations are extremely popular," Rosen said. "They flagrantly string our songs together in 'uninterrupted music blocks' of up to 70 minutes in length, broadcasting nearly one CD's worth of product without a break, and they actually have the gall to allow businesses to advertise between songs. It's bad enough that they're giving away our music for free, but they're actually making a profit off this scheme."
RIAA attorney Russell Frackman said the lawsuit is intended to protect the artists. "If this radio trend continues, it will severely damage a musician's ability to earn a living off his music," Frackman said. "[Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich stopped in the other day wondering why his last royalty check was so small, and I didn't know what to say. How do you tell a man who's devoted his whole life to his music that someone is able to just give it away for free? That pirates are taking away his right to support himself with his craft?"
For the record companies and the RIAA, one of the most disturbing aspects of the radio-station broadcasts is that anyone with a receiver and an analog tape recorder can record the music and play it back at will. "I've heard reports that children as young as 8 tape radio broadcasts for their own personal use," Rosen said. "They listen to a channel that has a limited rotation of only the most popular songs--commonly called 'Top 40' stations--then hit the 'record' button when they hear the opening strains of the song they want. And how much are they paying for these songs? A big fat zip."
Continued Rosen: "According to our research, there is one of these Top 40 stations in every major city in the country. This has to be stopped before the music industry's entire economic infrastructure collapses."
Especially distressing to the RIAA are radio stations' "all-request hours," when listeners call in to ask radio announcers, or "disc jockeys," to play a certain song.
"What's the point of putting out a new Ja Rule or Sum 41 album if people can just call up and hear any song off the album that they want?" Frackman asked. "In some instances, these stations actually have the nerve to let the caller 'dedicate' his act of thievery to a friend or lover. Could you imagine a bank letting somebody rob its vaults and then allowing the thief to thank his girlfriend Tricia and the whole gang down at Bumpy's?" Defenders of radio-based music distribution insist that the relatively poor sound quality of radio broadcasts negates the record companies' charges.
"Radio doesn't have the same sound quality as a CD," said Paul "Cubby" Bryant, music director of New York radio station Z100, one of the nation's largest distributors of free music and a defendant in the suit. "Real music lovers will still buy CDs. If anything, we're exposing people to music they might not otherwise hear. These record companies should be thanking us, not suing us." Outraged by the RIAA suit, many radio listeners are threatening to boycott the record companies.
"All these companies care about is profits," said Amy Legrand, 21, an avid Jacksonville, FL, radio user who surreptitiously records up to 10 songs a day off the radio. "Top 40 radio is taking the power out of the hands of the Ahmet Erteguns of the world and bringing it back to the people of Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting. It's about time somebody finally stood up to those record-company fascists."
Fortran has some notable advantages over C. Perhaps the most latent advantage is in the realm of multi-processing. For example there are several statments that give the compiler big hints that the loop can be spread out. For example there is loop command that is like a FOR loop but specifically says the order of the loop evaluation does not matter. Other looping commands tell the computer to apply a function over an entire array at all positions specified in a map. Function declarations tell the compiler if a variable/array in the arg list will be altered by the function call. There are delberate limits on pointer type variables that forbid pointer arithmatic and allow compiler efficiencies. As a result fortran is a marvelous multi-processing language because the compiler knows how to allocate instructions safely and how to allocate memory optimally.
I've been reading the 622 page admin guide. My first impression was "622 pages!!!! that is not why I bought an apple." After reading it two things are clear. First they are very gentle so even a unix weaking can understand both the big picture and the little picture. Second, it is not a unix manual,instead it focuses on using gui tools and a fixed, thought rather broad, set of tasks (e.g.setting up LDAP, mounting a disk). It still does not teach unix. A book teaching command line unix that specialized in mac's has stillnot been written (Yes I am aware of the various attempts). My third impression is that it needs a second edition. There are a lot of incompletely explained concepts that only an experienced NeXSTstep user would understand or descriptions that dont quite match the actual gui-tools. But it's wonderful to have a reference now.
Apple gave us a lot of power but has not told us how to use it. In the mean time We are encouraged not to use them until they are documented, but being geeks we cant resist poking and prodding. And assuming that because we know linux or BSD that we know Mac OSX. Then we get MAD when we get into trouble from our uniformed meddling or we discover some bit of uglyness behind the veil that we dont like exactly how apple has implemented it. Whereas before we were bilssfully unaware and untempted. It seems like all the anti-apple slashdot critiques that are at leaset slightly based on experience are along the lines of "well linux doesn't do it that way, so apple is wrong."
When I first got OS X beta, I nievely tried to set /etc/fstab and /etc/exports. Got steamin mad. Then discovered netInfo. (I vaguely knew where to look from NeXTstep) Thought that was truly wonderful and sorely needed unification of unix configuration. Blessed apple. But apple had not issued the manual. No matter, I waded in, did some cool things, and by the end of the day my computer was unbootable from one leeetle mistake. (had to re-install). Cursed Apple for not documenting this. (I had called them on the phone and they warned me not to meddle with it!) But within 6 months the NetInfo manual was indeed out along with some idiot proof gui "training wheel" tools for making changes to certain records.
My experience with OSX has been extremely positive. I make some whopper mistakes, but that was really y fault. mac unix is unix but its not LINUX and HFS+ is NOT UFS. But that does not make it worse. In fact on the whole I think its much better. But if you assume that cp and mv do the same thing they do in linux, well you will eventually get a surprise.
when a message is transmitted it sent in a way that the message cannot be read by more than one receiver. (in theory) This means that the message cannot be eavesdropped upon. It does not mean the message containing the key is encoded.
So what is the key? the key can be a one time randomly generated bunch of numbers, never written down by the sender, and immediately discarded by the receiver. Thus no passwwords.
While I agree with the original post, some whiners wre worried about intercepting unlink too. Well a month ago there was a discussion about using "cp -al" with rsync to back up a disk. This would work here too. "cp -al /" makes a set of duplicate hard links to all your files. This is fairly space efficient though not free by any means. The bonus is that you get more in return, you have a perfect image of your hard disk at an earlier time.
It's interesting to ask what would have happened if he had put it in the bank. Bank interests vary over time but rarely get about 5% for many years. If one is genereous and supposes he could have gotten 4% interest (time averaged) then adter 68 years he would have 287$ for every 20$ he saved. Instead his gold is worth 300$. Looks like he was smart.
Intel Corp. said it failed to reach an agreement in a $250 million dollar patent lawsuit by computer- services company Intergraph Corp., which already was paid $300 million by the world's biggest chipmaker to resolve an earlier dispute.
some info can be found here:7 0,146182,00.html
http://www.intergraph.com/intel/legalpic.asp
and
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,18
Today, Intel and intergraph anounced a break down in cour ordered mediation to resolve a quarter billion dollar patent infringement suit against the ITanium.
In July last year, Intergraph (www.intergraph.com) brought a lawsuit against INTEL alleging the basic design of the Itanium violates ateleast two patents they had held for ten years. Intergraph alleges the concept of software based instruction routining in highly parallel architechtures was developed for their C5 (aka clipper) chip.
Itanium basic design is based on a HP concept for highly parallel processing in which the order of execution on the chip can actually create race conditions for dependencies in calculations. This allows performance enhancements and simplication of handshaking harware, since basically the chip does not have to wait for the slowest operations. INstead the job of preventing race conditions falls to the compiler. The compiler must model how the processor will execute an instruction in the context of the other instructions the chip will be executing in parallel and then re-order the micro-code to prevent erroneous computations.
It would appear the methodology for achieving this was patented by intergraph for the C5 chip. The C5 chip project was eventually abandoned and intergraph parteneres with intel to replace the CPU in their workstations with pentiums.
We all know that intel was previously accused of stealing the ALPHA processor designs and that law suit was "settled" by intel buying out the impoverished ALPHA (dec).
This law suit is for 250 million dollars. which is about 5 % of the entire 5 billion dollar development const of the Itanium. Mediation talks have broken down so the Suit will presumable go ahead. If you are interested try a google search, there's lots of info out there as this trial has dragged on for over a year.
Intel, Intergraph Fail in Mediation of Chip-Patent Dispute Intel Corp. said it failed to reach an agreement in a patent lawsuit by computer- services company Intergraph Corp., which already was paid $300 million by the world's biggest chipmaker to resolve an earlier dispute.
some info can be found here:7 0,146182,00.html
http://www.intergraph.com/intel/legalpic.asp
and
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,18
In July last year, Intergraph (www.intergraph.com) brought a lawsuit against INTEL alleging the basic design of the Itanium violates ateleast two patents they had held for ten years. Intergraph alleges the concept of software based instruction routining in highly parallel architechtures was developed for their C5 (aka clipper) chip.
Itanium basic design is based on a HP concept for highly parallel processing in which the order of execution on the chip can actually create race conditions for dependencies in calculations. This allows performance enhancements and simplication of handshaking harware, since basically the chip does not have to wait for the slowest operations. INstead the job of preventing race conditions falls to the compiler. The compiler must model how the processor will execute an instruction in the context of the other instructions the chip will be executing in parallel and then re-order the micro-code to prevent erroneous computations.
It would appear the methodology for achieving this was patented by intergraph for the C5 chip. The C5 chip project was eventually abandoned and intergraph parteneres with intel to replace the CPU in their workstations with pentiums.
We all know that intel was previously accused of stealing the ALPHA processor designs and that law suit was "settled" by intel buying out the impoverished ALPHA (dec). This law suit is for 250 million dollars. which is about 5 % of the entire 5 billion dollar development const of the Itanium. Mediation talks have broken down so the Suit will presumable go ahead. If you are interested try a google search, there's lots of info out there as this trial has dragged on for over a year.
the above post is obsolete. the bug is fixed in newer versions.
Then you have a bad sys admin. The sys admin can regulate port forwarding independently of turning on or off ssh. The only reason to turn off inbound ssh, is if you dont want to allow inbound ssh, not because you are afraid or port forwarding. The original question was if someone should ask their sys admin to enable VNC ports. If they even are going to even consider that, they no doubt have ssh turned on already. And the answer they were given is, no dont ask to have vnc turned on it's not secure, instead tunnel it.
Acutally I find it works quite well with OSX. I found that VNCthing did not work wel as a client but VNC dimension did work well. The problem was the client. But I did have to do some things to make it tolerable over a very remote connection: reduce the screen size to as small as you can, reduce the VNC update rate, play with different encodings, and dont use ssh compression..