there are many sephardic jews who grew up in Muslim countries speaking Arabic that refer to God as "Allah". Just like Jews in english speaking countries use the word God. But for the same reason the phrase "under Allah" doesn't make sense, as you are mixing english and arabic.
It really depends on the file. The higher the bitrate of the DIVX movie, the more CPU its going to chew up. While the matrix on 1 CD might not stress the system, putting it on 2 or 3 (so one can double/triple the bitrate) will cause slower systems to choke that can play the 1 CD version fine.
and of course, higher bitrate means better quality, so the question is, what bitrate does the sigma card handle (i.e. where's its choke point)
1) you are using a patch that is not in the mainline kernel (and I'm not sure if its in any vendor kernel, as I roll my own I can't say)
2) you also know how to use memtest86 to set up the badram options correctly. Most people dont.
So yes, while linux can be more tolerant of hardware faults than windows, in general its harder on the harder than win9x. WinNT based OS's from my experience are at least just as hard on the hardware so will expose the same faults that Linux will, and sometimes more, see AGP, AMD's MP chipset on the original MP motherboards using nvidia cards or Radeons, very susceptible to crashes on 2K/XP till they worked around it, didn't have this problem in linux with my Radeon as the XFree driver wasn't as "advanced" so didn't stress the system much.
The local ACM chapter sponsers gaming events every so often where we take over one of the labs and have people play lan games. usually tournament style.
we even take pictures. here are some from a starcraft tournament we held.
Divx 5 has the capablity to make mp4s (hence the subject line). It's no wonder that the.avi didn't work, but one might have thought that the mp4 would have worked.
so I figured that I would try to see if we could get Divx 5 to work in QuickTime now, as both claim to be ISO compliant.
well, first I had to use virtual dub to remove the audio from my Shawshank rip (Divx 5's avi->mp4 convertor doesn't seem to like files with audio) then I was able to convert it to mp4. However, when "run" in quicktime it gets the timing correct, but doesn't display anything (much like audio playing) it doesn't even display a blank window of correct size like it does with avi's it doesn't know the codec for.
Same with Time Warner, same with probably every single cable company.
If you don't need a cable box to descramble it, then since the cable is hooked up into your place of residence, you get cable in its full unscrabled glory.
Time Warner even gives you the splitter.:)
Though it seems Time Warner in NYC has different "basic" packages. In Queens many many channels come in scramble free (though in messed up ordering), while in NYC one basically only gets over the air, tnt, tbs and cable access (though in a somewhat normal ordering)
Don't store the data on a machine that can get cracked.
store it on a totally seperate machine.
Basically, you'd write to the seperate machine over a defined interface such as update_customer(customer id, credit card number) pairs), and read from the machine over a defined interface such as verify_credit(customer id, amount).
this way, "important" information is never leaked, operations and data that you want to be secure are placed on a box that doesn't have to run any extra services that can possibly be cracked.
Acrobat works fine in linux. I'm currently using the plugin in galeon and it displays fine. No need to use windows.
Here's another mirror http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/fea-kn uth.pdf
Aloha Net
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This is somewhat interesting, as a lot of the research that went into what became ethernet was originally developed at the university of hawaii, as a wireless network, called Aloha http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?A loha
Bob Metcalf (of xerox parc, later founding 3com) went on and basically took the protocol's and put them on a wire (instead of wireless), and this led to what we know of ethernet today.
what 802.11 adds to ethernet (that aloha didn't have) is the request to send/clear to send protocol which prevents the "hidden sender" problem from appearing. This problem is, wireless cards only have a certian range, card "a" might want to send data to card "b", and card "c" might want to send data to card "b", but "a" and "c" can't see each other, so their can be collisions which they will never know about because they can't see the collision. (unlike in ethernet, or in aloha, where all the hosts are assumed to be able to see each other)
Copied from James Bond - Thunderball
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I believe a few people have mentioned James Bond. This was sort of covered in the thunderball movie. though that game seemed to be a sort of a mixture between battleship and risk.
SMTP supports an authentication mechanism. Normally one would think you would want this hooked up to/etc/passwd (or shadow) but that would mean the passwords would have to be sent in the clear. So one would use smtp ssl (runs on different port) or smtp-tls (runs on port 25, and uses a start-tls command to start the encrypted session).
One also can use a One Time Password (OTP) scheme. In this case, the password will be stored on the server in plaintext, and we use a challange/response system to authenticate. The server sends a challange, and then you do some cryptographic hash functions with the password and the challange to create a response, you then send the response back. The server can duplicate the steps, and if they match you are authenticated.
This way, one can setup a "smtp account" with a name like relay (not a real unix account in/etc/passwd, but in something like/etc/poppasswd) and give it a password like "opensesame" and then tell anyone who needs to use this smtp server remotly the username and password. If this info ever gets compromised and used by spammers, just change it.
I do this with qmail (with a patch for qmail-smtpd.c) and I use the same smtp server from my parents house, my apt in NYC and Columbia University (and multiple other places I have visited)
If you want people to use you as a relay from where ever you are, use smtp authentication. it doesn't have to be a real account, and using things like cram-md5 the password isn't set in the clear (or one can use smtp-tls, but that's less supported)
I do this with evolution, I know outlook and netscape support it.
I've thought about this problem a bit, but never really had to implement anything, so anything I am about to say, should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt.
One assumes that the web server is insecure, and therefore is going to store the data on another "secure" machine.
One needs to make a very specific interface that one can use for the "insecure" machine to talk to the "secure" storage machine (this is the machine that is going to do the cc verification also)
Presumably, the "secure" machine is not going to be running any services that are accesible to remote users besides whats needed for the the web server to talk to it. One can do something like only allow the machine to talk to the "insecure" webserver, but this doesn't buy you much more security, as all someone has to do is crack the "insecure" web server and you are at the same place you were before.
Getting back to the interface these programs speak. One basically needs an "input" func, and a "status" func.
Basically when one register with the site, the werb server doesn't store any information about the credit card on itself, as it immeadily connects to the "secure" machine and uses the input function to inform it about the new account.
It can then use the status function to determine that status of that account
status can be OK, or NOT_CHECKED_YET, or NOT ACCEPTED or the like. but basically something that is read only by the server.
Both of these services should be easy for the "secure" machine to check that its getting properly formed requests (i.e. is someone is trying to attack it). One can also make a script that then verifies each account each month, and since one can do this over a phoneline, you don't even need to allow any other outbound connection from this machine.
yes, a little bit more thought probably has to go into this, but this is what I came up with a while ago. feel free to criticize away.
Re:Yes you can save it.
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Yes, that's why I did the socket dump, but I haven't had time to play with it. Feel free to take a look at it and figure it out.
Socket Spy log on windows (for winsock people)
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Here's a log of winsock calls (and return data) that was issued by media player 6 on a win2k box.
It's on the long side, and includes a little bit of the video data (from b4 I killed media player, as all I wanted was how media player convinced it to download)
(slashdot is evil, can't post the code, stupid lameness filter)
find it at http://yucs.mc.yu.edu/~spotter/hello.txt
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my bad. It seems they are evil. and they ignore requests from non any media player apps. But as it is using http to stream, this should be easy enough to figure out.
I'm using a version of caim I've hacked up myself, and its based on libfaim, and it works fine. albiet its probably based on an older version of libfaim.
This is what I'm guessing is going on, when you give a "newer version #", it requests the md5sum data, but when you give an older version # (like my libfaim), it doesn't. The question is, will the new functionality still work if you identify yourself with an older version #. My guess is no (based on the windows client which tells me what functionality each user has, and probably doesn't even try to do something if it thinks it cant). Otherwise, a simple solution would be reverting the version # to an older version. too bad it probably wouldn't work.
I'm using a version of caim I've hacked together with some additional features (can't seem to contact the author to get them included) and it uses libfaim, and its working fine.
Slashdot Mirror
IIRC the law only applies in the US (or for US citizens, forget which). Outside the US, they are still copyrighted.
there are many sephardic jews who grew up in Muslim countries speaking Arabic that refer to God as "Allah". Just like Jews in english speaking countries use the word God. But for the same reason the phrase "under Allah" doesn't make sense, as you are mixing english and arabic.
It really depends on the file. The higher the bitrate of the DIVX movie, the more CPU its going to chew up. While the matrix on 1 CD might not stress the system, putting it on 2 or 3 (so one can double/triple the bitrate) will cause slower systems to choke that can play the 1 CD version fine.
and of course, higher bitrate means better quality, so the question is, what bitrate does the sigma card handle (i.e. where's its choke point)
there are 2 things to note about this.
1) you are using a patch that is not in the mainline kernel (and I'm not sure if its in any vendor kernel, as I roll my own I can't say)
2) you also know how to use memtest86 to set up the badram options correctly. Most people dont.
So yes, while linux can be more tolerant of hardware faults than windows, in general its harder on the harder than win9x. WinNT based OS's from my experience are at least just as hard on the hardware so will expose the same faults that Linux will, and sometimes more, see AGP, AMD's MP chipset on the original MP motherboards using nvidia cards or Radeons, very susceptible to crashes on 2K/XP till they worked around it, didn't have this problem in linux with my Radeon as the XFree driver wasn't as "advanced" so didn't stress the system much.
http://www.terapin-mine.com/terapin/index.htm
or at least the CS dept.
S C- fa01/
The local ACM chapter sponsers gaming events every so often where we take over one of the labs and have people play lan games. usually tournament style.
we even take pictures. here are some from a starcraft tournament we held.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/acm/pictures/gaming-
Divx 5 has the capablity to make mp4s (hence the subject line). It's no wonder that the .avi didn't work, but one might have thought that the mp4 would have worked.
so I figured that I would try to see if we could get Divx 5 to work in QuickTime now, as both claim to be ISO compliant.
well, first I had to use virtual dub to remove the audio from my Shawshank rip (Divx 5's avi->mp4 convertor doesn't seem to like files with audio) then I was able to convert it to mp4. However, when "run" in quicktime it gets the timing correct, but doesn't display anything (much like audio playing) it doesn't even display a blank window of correct size like it does with avi's it doesn't know the codec for.
oh well.
Same with Time Warner, same with probably every single cable company.
:)
If you don't need a cable box to descramble it, then since the cable is hooked up into your place of residence, you get cable in its full unscrabled glory.
Time Warner even gives you the splitter.
Though it seems Time Warner in NYC has different "basic" packages. In Queens many many channels come in scramble free (though in messed up ordering), while in NYC one basically only gets over the air, tnt, tbs and cable access (though in a somewhat normal ordering)
Don't store the data on a machine that can get cracked.
store it on a totally seperate machine.
Basically, you'd write to the seperate machine over a defined interface such as update_customer(customer id, credit card number) pairs), and read from the machine over a defined interface such as verify_credit(customer id, amount).
this way, "important" information is never leaked, operations and data that you want to be secure are placed on a box that doesn't have to run any extra services that can possibly be cracked.
Acrobat works fine in linux. I'm currently using the plugin in galeon and it displays fine. No need to use windows.
n uth.pdf
Here's another mirror
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/fea-k
This is somewhat interesting, as a lot of the research that went into what became ethernet was originally developed at the university of hawaii, as a wireless network, called Aloha http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?A loha
Bob Metcalf (of xerox parc, later founding 3com) went on and basically took the protocol's and put them on a wire (instead of wireless), and this led to what we know of ethernet today.
what 802.11 adds to ethernet (that aloha didn't have) is the request to send/clear to send protocol which prevents the "hidden sender" problem from appearing. This problem is, wireless cards only have a certian range, card "a" might want to send data to card "b", and card "c" might want to send data to card "b", but "a" and "c" can't see each other, so their can be collisions which they will never know about because they can't see the collision. (unlike in ethernet, or in aloha, where all the hosts are assumed to be able to see each other)
I believe a few people have mentioned James Bond. This was sort of covered in the thunderball movie. though that game seemed to be a sort of a mixture between battleship and risk.
A little bit more explanation.
/etc/passwd (or shadow) but that would mean the passwords would have to be sent in the clear. So one would use smtp ssl (runs on different port) or smtp-tls (runs on port 25, and uses a start-tls command to start the encrypted session).
/etc/passwd, but in something like /etc/poppasswd) and give it a password like "opensesame" and then tell anyone who needs to use this smtp server remotly the username and password. If this info ever gets compromised and used by spammers, just change it.
SMTP supports an authentication mechanism. Normally one would think you would want this hooked up to
One also can use a One Time Password (OTP) scheme. In this case, the password will be stored on the server in plaintext, and we use a challange/response system to authenticate. The server sends a challange, and then you do some cryptographic hash functions with the password and the challange to create a response, you then send the response back. The server can duplicate the steps, and if they match you are authenticated.
This way, one can setup a "smtp account" with a name like relay (not a real unix account in
I do this with qmail (with a patch for qmail-smtpd.c) and I use the same smtp server from my parents house, my apt in NYC and Columbia University (and multiple other places I have visited)
If you want people to use you as a relay from where ever you are, use smtp authentication. it doesn't have to be a real account, and using things like cram-md5 the password isn't set in the clear (or one can use smtp-tls, but that's less supported)
I do this with evolution, I know outlook and netscape support it.
I'm sure whoever modded this comment flamebait, was really thinking "flame broiled" bait :)
this supposdly "non vaporware" still isn't downloadable from the peekabooty website.
Just because people have seen it run, doesn't make it non vaporware, it has to be distributed.
So where's the Beef? ([lame joke]or should that be dead cow?[/lame joke])
for those of you who are going to be in new york for linuxworld, miguel is going to be giving at a talk at Columbia University this Wed.
see http://acm.cs.columbia.edu for more info
I've thought about this problem a bit, but never really had to implement anything, so anything I am about to say, should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt.
One assumes that the web server is insecure, and therefore is going to store the data on another "secure" machine.
One needs to make a very specific interface that one can use for the "insecure" machine to talk to the "secure" storage machine (this is the machine that is going to do the cc verification also)
Presumably, the "secure" machine is not going to be running any services that are accesible to remote users besides whats needed for the the web server to talk to it. One can do something like only allow the machine to talk to the "insecure" webserver, but this doesn't buy you much more security, as all someone has to do is crack the "insecure" web server and you are at the same place you were before.
Getting back to the interface these programs speak. One basically needs an "input" func, and a "status" func.
Basically when one register with the site, the werb server doesn't store any information about the credit card on itself, as it immeadily connects to the "secure" machine and uses the input function to inform it about the new account.
It can then use the status function to determine that status of that account
status can be OK, or NOT_CHECKED_YET, or NOT ACCEPTED or the like. but basically something that is read only by the server.
Both of these services should be easy for the "secure" machine to check that its getting properly formed requests (i.e. is someone is trying to attack it). One can also make a script that then verifies each account each month, and since one can do this over a phoneline, you don't even need to allow any other outbound connection from this machine.
yes, a little bit more thought probably has to go into this, but this is what I came up with a while ago. feel free to criticize away.
Yes, that's why I did the socket dump, but I haven't had time to play with it. Feel free to take a look at it and figure it out.
Here's a log of winsock calls (and return data) that was issued by media player 6 on a win2k box.
It's on the long side, and includes a little bit of the video data (from b4 I killed media player, as all I wanted was how media player convinced it to download)
(slashdot is evil, can't post the code, stupid lameness filter)
find it at http://yucs.mc.yu.edu/~spotter/hello.txt
my bad. It seems they are evil. and they ignore requests from non any media player apps. But as it is using http to stream, this should be easy enough to figure out.
yes it can only play in windows, but download the asx file, open it in notepad, and what do you see
. as f
http://cobb.stanford.edu/ee380/010404-ee380-100
easy enough to save.
I'm using a version of caim I've hacked up myself, and its based on libfaim, and it works fine. albiet its probably based on an older version of libfaim.
This is what I'm guessing is going on, when you give a "newer version #", it requests the md5sum data, but when you give an older version # (like my libfaim), it doesn't. The question is, will the new functionality still work if you identify yourself with an older version #. My guess is no (based on the windows client which tells me what functionality each user has, and probably doesn't even try to do something if it thinks it cant). Otherwise, a simple solution would be reverting the version # to an older version. too bad it probably wouldn't work.
I'm using a version of caim I've hacked together with some additional features (can't seem to contact the author to get them included) and it uses libfaim, and its working fine.