Wiretapping the network for extern traffic might be feasible, but wiretapping a switched network , including local traffic on a cablemodem network, without anyone noticing is almost impossible. You could sniff a switched network and then "fail open" it by bogus ARP floods, but people would notice (either by sniffing) or by the sudden performance loss of the network. Seems like the only sane solution here, thank god, is to physically tap the connection (like you would hotwire a phone). So it seems like these morons should thake a crash course in network-topology.
A cheap soundcard could be quite a good addition to entropy by connecting it to a simple amplifier of zener-diode noise (made in a few minutes if you have some usable parts) and passing the input through a von-neuman generator before adding it to the entropy pool. It's not perfect, and I would certainly not trust it as a standalone random number generator, but it helps.
Yeah, mobility, CAT5 is stiff as shit, atleast STP. I know as i had stp for mouse cable once (in lack of better options at the moment). Wireless is the way to go if you are going digital.
HD platters are nothing like CDs, they are made of rigid metallic material (typically aluminium, or aluminium for those of you in the states), so they are not going to have a fit due to some small microwave radiation. The power requred to destroy the data by microwave is huge.
Planar modes are horrible for 3d-stuff; doing single pixel writes in planar mode is a real pain. I don't know the gba so I don't know if it has chunkypixel modes like std. VGA mode 10 (320x200 256 as used in all of these old games), but if it does, use that.
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Age can help as well as be a hinderance. A mix of all ages and reasonable discussion would be better (as it is now). Too young: reinventing the wheel, to old: assembler is for sissies, I write binary. (To put it almost over the edge)
Common sense here seems the most productive. I'm a horrible project leader, an excellent binary programmer, as well as at creating extraordinary ideas that either won't work or never gets finished and mediocre at everything else, putting me (25) in the lead of this for instance would be insane, even if i do have years of development experience.
Tempest; may it be electromagnetic or optical is radiating around you like an anetenna all the time, you only need the know-how and equipment to get at it. You can never be too paranoid if you have sensitive stuff on your computer.
If you are totaly paranoid about dataloss use a really robust filesystem (Amiga OFS/FFS linked-list type filesystems comes to mind, where even with 90% of your disk gone you could still recover the rest, these systems are horribly slow though),or a better, faster but more expensive solution is to have minimal ram cache and have a caching raid controller with large battery-backed'up cache, like the Compaq SMART controllers.
As far as i know the reason intel dumped the 80x86 naming scheme was for trademark reasons (for some reason numbers are not trademarkable, and they probably knew they would run out of numbers quite soon anyway). One equaly probable cause is that words are easier to remember than numbers (usualy). For the Pentium III -> 4 naming change, your guess is as good as mine.
Who on earth would really bother going after card numbers (except for making a fuss)? The thing to go after is the DES key used to make real cards (cracking here is useless as most of the data is discarded, except the PIN offset). I almost got them once, but disassembling 8051 code and dragging around hardware for retrival of the key from CMOSRAM on the thing (old-time Wayne-Dresser card reader, that works offline, had keys, and strapped down so that the memory-clear security features was disabled), while on the run from the cops didn't help my effort, had to give up after a week or so.
RATFOR was the start of structured F77, but is rather obsolete now. F90 is ok (that's it) HPF (High Performance FORTRAN) is not a dream, but one of the best cross-platform opensource parallel languages I have ever seen. take a look at Adaptor
I still use the one on my Amiga 1000, as it has no other means of booting, and my A590 still needs a hair-dryer to wake up (time to repair something?).
C/C++ is not a language of choice for vector applications, hpf (High Performance FORTRAN) is, although a crockish hack on f90 it's quite usable, we really need some more vectorable languages. I have made an early atempt at a vector unit (GPL now, disregard copyright) Ganymede but that is far from completion and will never se the light of day. Still we need vector processors though.
For a good free hpf compiler check out this:
Adaptor
Crop-circles are a clearly man made form of art, if they were alien, you would not recognise the art in any form, because they must (if they exist) have a very different way of thinking about art than we do.
Well, they are transmissive, not reflective displays, so i think this might be a problem. And hope something doesn't go wrong with it, you wouldn't want to stick out glowing bright green in the dark.
They have been available for the compaq testdrive project for a couple of weeks cpu Alpha cpu model EV7 system variation Marvel/EV7 cycle frequency 800000000 BogoMIPS 2140.20 platform string Compaq AlphaServer ES80 7/800 cpus detected 2 cpus active 2
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And my alltime favorite: rep jmp cx
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
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This seems like a game belonging in the era of the System 360 as stated in the review.
Wiretapping the network for extern traffic might be feasible, but wiretapping a switched network , including local traffic on a cablemodem network, without anyone noticing is almost impossible. You could sniff a switched network and then "fail open" it by bogus ARP floods, but people would notice (either by sniffing) or by the sudden performance loss of the network. Seems like the only sane solution here, thank god, is to physically tap the connection (like you would hotwire a phone). So it seems like these morons should thake a crash course in network-topology.
A cheap soundcard could be quite a good addition to entropy by connecting it to a simple amplifier of zener-diode noise (made in a few minutes if you have some usable parts) and passing the input through a von-neuman generator before adding it to the entropy pool. It's not perfect, and I would certainly not trust it as a standalone random number generator, but it helps.
Yeah, mobility, CAT5 is stiff as shit, atleast STP. I know as i had stp for mouse cable once (in lack of better options at the moment). Wireless is the way to go if you are going digital.
Ever heard about phantom power? That's been around for as long as capacitive mics (since the 70s atleast).
HD platters are nothing like CDs, they are made of rigid metallic material (typically aluminium, or aluminium for those of you in the states), so they are not going to have a fit due to some small microwave radiation. The power requred to destroy the data by microwave is huge.
Planar modes are horrible for 3d-stuff; doing single pixel writes in planar mode is a real pain. I don't know the gba so I don't know if it has chunkypixel modes like std. VGA mode 10 (320x200 256 as used in all of these old games), but if it does, use that. .
What good is a write-only partition? Reminds me of Signetics write-only-memory in `72.
Nah, nothing is ever going to be mightier than the monsters from ID.( Forbidden Planet)
Age can help as well as be a hinderance. A mix of all ages and reasonable discussion would be better (as it is now). Too young: reinventing the wheel, to old: assembler is for sissies, I write binary. (To put it almost over the edge) Common sense here seems the most productive. I'm a horrible project leader, an excellent binary programmer, as well as at creating extraordinary ideas that either won't work or never gets finished and mediocre at everything else, putting me (25) in the lead of this for instance would be insane, even if i do have years of development experience.
Tempest; may it be electromagnetic or optical is radiating around you like an anetenna all the time, you only need the know-how and equipment to get at it. You can never be too paranoid if you have sensitive stuff on your computer.
I have a good idea but... If you only want "Americas best and bravest", guess it's not for you..
If you are totaly paranoid about dataloss use a really robust filesystem (Amiga OFS/FFS linked-list type filesystems comes to mind, where even with 90% of your disk gone you could still recover the rest, these systems are horribly slow though),or a better, faster but more expensive solution is to have minimal ram cache and have a caching raid controller with large battery-backed'up cache, like the Compaq SMART controllers.
As far as i know the reason intel dumped the 80x86 naming scheme was for trademark reasons (for some reason numbers are not trademarkable, and they probably knew they would run out of numbers quite soon anyway). One equaly probable cause is that words are easier to remember than numbers (usualy). For the Pentium III -> 4 naming change, your guess is as good as mine.
Who on earth would really bother going after card numbers (except for making a fuss)? The thing to go after is the DES key used to make real cards (cracking here is useless as most of the data is discarded, except the PIN offset). I almost got them once, but disassembling 8051 code and dragging around hardware for retrival of the key from CMOSRAM on the thing (old-time Wayne-Dresser card reader, that works offline, had keys, and strapped down so that the memory-clear security features was disabled), while on the run from the cops didn't help my effort, had to give up after a week or so.
RATFOR was the start of structured F77, but is rather obsolete now.
F90 is ok (that's it)
HPF (High Performance FORTRAN) is not a dream, but one of the best cross-platform opensource parallel languages I have ever seen.
take a look at Adaptor
I still use the one on my Amiga 1000, as it has no other means of booting, and my A590 still needs a hair-dryer to wake up (time to repair something?).
C/C++ is not a language of choice for vector applications, hpf (High Performance FORTRAN) is, although a crockish hack on f90 it's quite usable, we really need some more vectorable languages. I have made an early atempt at a vector unit (GPL now, disregard copyright) Ganymede but that is far from completion and will never se the light of day. Still we need vector processors though. For a good free hpf compiler check out this: Adaptor
There shouldn't be much of a problem doing this under any X environment, as Xevents of any kind are not hard to generate.
Crop-circles are a clearly man made form of art, if they were alien, you would not recognise the art in any form, because they must (if they exist) have a very different way of thinking about art than we do.
Well, they are transmissive, not reflective displays, so i think this might be a problem. And hope something doesn't go wrong with it, you wouldn't want to stick out glowing bright green in the dark.
Antialiasing, hah, I have old unfocused monitors, they do it in hardware :)
They have been available for the compaq testdrive project for a couple of weeks
cpu Alpha
cpu model EV7
system variation Marvel/EV7
cycle frequency 800000000
BogoMIPS 2140.20
platform string Compaq AlphaServer ES80 7/800
cpus detected 2
cpus active 2
This has been restructured a bit to pass through the junk filter as well as condense it to the most important info.