I found triple 7s' post rather eloquent in certain places. Come on, its a well-known fact that 90% of all computer users have shaken their stick at least once, but more often at regular intervals.
Wouldn't mesh be a slightly, ahem, wildly inaccurate description of the Linux Wi-Fi router which is featured in this Slashvertisement? Wi-Fi access points have limited range in the form of a spherical sphere, causing some but not complete overlap of all cells with all cells. I concede this Linux router should be referred to as a "Linux Wi-Fi Cell Topology Router", conforming with the conventional toplogy standards. My Linksys wired router is already labelled as topology: star, why should wireless be any indifferent to the canonical forms?
Glad you mentioned that. Halloween is an interesting holiday, a mix-mash of cultural ideas from All Saint's Day and pegan rituals. Pegans believed this day had the highest amount of reality-to-spiritial connection, so they put out their fires and dressed in ghoulish dark clothing to blend in with the dead. Additionally, monks went house-to-house asking for a small amount of food to pray for the members of the giving household. These where termed soulcakes. Learn something new every day eh?
I'd hardly call pf mature. Hell, its only been in the CVS for less than a month. I commend OpenBSD as much as the next guy, but if Theo isn't careful he is going to end up with another root exploit in the default install.
I don't run a bank, or work at a bank, or illictly access a bank, but I find it very repressive to have a hoard (whored) of Slashdotters complaining about how their special browser doesn't work with other people's sites. Since when does the minority dictate how those who must target the majority do business? They have to aim somewhere; NS and IE are nowhere near close to the Internet standards; each have their differing ECMA/Javascript properties, documents, and accessors--you can't "code for the" standards without losing ridiclous amounts of functionality our customers demand.
If you show me how to make ANDs from XORs, I'd be impressed. Here are my findings, breakthroughs highlighted in bold:
0 xor A=A
1 xor A=not A
A xor A=1
not (A xor B) = A xnor B
0 xnor A=not A
1 xnor A=A
A xnor A=0
That's all you can create from XOR. The unary NOT, unary buffer, and the useless unary constant functions--to my knowledge.
I vaguely remember "proving" only NOR and NAND are universal gates in my childhood, but that has long since passed. What am I missing, perhaps an equation involving an XOR with NOT on one side, or usage of the oddball binary inhibitation and implication gates?
I remember of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, where when L.P.Waterhouse was walking amongst the beach at sundown, in a starlit avenue, and he drew lines in the sand. This was inspiration for barcodes, but that's beside the point. The point is Stephenson had the narrator narrate L.P.Waterhouse notice how the ocean is a Turing machine, it interacts with the sand, due to certain mathematical fluidity properties, to leave an indentation of predictable properties.
I've considered water-based computation long ago, but hats off to this student for logic design and implementation. My idea was to have water push open another wate gate, much like a flow-controlled valve, allowing for a water-based transistor. Combine this with other transistors, and you can build virtually any gate--I take that back, any gate you want. XOR and AND are good choices, as with a XOR a you can get NOT, to make a NAND, and as we all know NAND is the Univesal Binary Gate.
Thank you for this information.. I have barely dabbled with DNS, its a complicated field. Damn BIND.:) djbdns's design of splitting authoritive servers and recursive resolvers into two separate programs seems to be the best solution.
Most people are only familiar with the x86 line, and to a lesser extent the PowerPC, and a much, much lesser extent the Alpha and UltraSPARC.
Alright, you got me here. I hope I'm not too late in responding, but I am genuinely interested in the Alpha processor. So much I signed up for a free account on the Super Dimensional Fortress 64-bit non-profit public access supercomputing center. They run NetBSD (no Linux weenies there, hehehe). I've had a difficult time finding beginner tutorials, I got the official specs from ftp.digital.com (still up after all these years+acqusitions:), but I'm looking for a kinder, gentler introduction. Google returned some semi-useful docs, but if you could recommend some authoritive recommended sources I would be eternally grateful.
Heck, with rules like that I'd be deploying my 802.11b with full-scale WET11 wireless bridges and microwave amplifiers all around my town. Conserve bandwidth? I'll create bandwidth.
I can't imagine how I could be possibly laid any more, you see, there's this girl you might have heard of...first name Mary, lastname Jane. She has cushion for the pushin' like you wouldn't believe. And don't even get me started on her DSLs, especially when she does it laying on her back...mmm...hell yeah.....(I added some extra periods because you forgot yours, your girlfriend probably did too.)
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I found triple 7s' post rather eloquent in certain places. Come on, its a well-known fact that 90% of all computer users have shaken their stick at least once, but more often at regular intervals.
Wouldn't mesh be a slightly, ahem, wildly inaccurate description of the Linux Wi-Fi router which is featured in this Slashvertisement? Wi-Fi access points have limited range in the form of a spherical sphere, causing some but not complete overlap of all cells with all cells. I concede this Linux router should be referred to as a "Linux Wi-Fi Cell Topology Router", conforming with the conventional toplogy standards. My Linksys wired router is already labelled as topology: star, why should wireless be any indifferent to the canonical forms?
Finally, someone with a sense of humor.
True; but unlike yours, my comment was (and still is!) independent from time. Timeless!
Glad you mentioned that. Halloween is an interesting holiday, a mix-mash of cultural ideas from All Saint's Day and pegan rituals. Pegans believed this day had the highest amount of reality-to-spiritial connection, so they put out their fires and dressed in ghoulish dark clothing to blend in with the dead. Additionally, monks went house-to-house asking for a small amount of food to pray for the members of the giving household. These where termed soulcakes. Learn something new every day eh?
Am I the only one who thinks its premature for a news site to put out news before it becomes news? What's next, Halloween Due Tomorrow on the 30th?
I have too much (note I said much, not many) karma at the moment, and would like to burn some. Let it burn, baby burn!
Sir, you might want to re-read the title of your comment again. "Don't make me laugh" has a subtle Freudian slip.
...who can moderate this post down (or up, whichever you prefer) the quickest? Moderators, start your engines!
I'd hardly call pf mature. Hell, its only been in the CVS for less than a month. I commend OpenBSD as much as the next guy, but if Theo isn't careful he is going to end up with another root exploit in the default install.
Anyone have a mirror?
280 servers in a rack?! is that why they call it open whordware?
What, you mean like Open Hardware?
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In other words: raise taxes.
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Bush's Argument: Raise children, not taxes
That's all you can create from XOR. The unary NOT, unary buffer, and the useless unary constant functions--to my knowledge.
I vaguely remember "proving" only NOR and NAND are universal gates in my childhood, but that has long since passed. What am I missing, perhaps an equation involving an XOR with NOT on one side, or usage of the oddball binary inhibitation and implication gates?
I've considered water-based computation long ago, but hats off to this student for logic design and implementation. My idea was to have water push open another wate gate, much like a flow-controlled valve, allowing for a water-based transistor. Combine this with other transistors, and you can build virtually any gate--I take that back, any gate you want. XOR and AND are good choices, as with a XOR a you can get NOT, to make a NAND, and as we all know NAND is the Univesal Binary Gate.
Thanks.
ROTFL! Now I gotta listen to some Afroman.
Thank you for this information.. I have barely dabbled with DNS, its a complicated field. Damn BIND. :) djbdns's design of splitting authoritive servers and recursive resolvers into two separate programs seems to be the best solution.
Alright, you got me here. I hope I'm not too late in responding, but I am genuinely interested in the Alpha processor. So much I signed up for a free account on the Super Dimensional Fortress 64-bit non-profit public access supercomputing center. They run NetBSD (no Linux weenies there, hehehe). I've had a difficult time finding beginner tutorials, I got the official specs from ftp.digital.com (still up after all these years+acqusitions:), but I'm looking for a kinder, gentler introduction. Google returned some semi-useful docs, but if you could recommend some authoritive recommended sources I would be eternally grateful.
Heck, with rules like that I'd be deploying my 802.11b with full-scale WET11 wireless bridges and microwave amplifiers all around my town. Conserve bandwidth? I'll create bandwidth.
If you bought it, a truck brought it.
I can't imagine how I could be possibly laid any more, you see, there's this girl you might have heard of...first name Mary, lastname Jane. She has cushion for the pushin' like you wouldn't believe. And don't even get me started on her DSLs, especially when she does it laying on her back...mmm...hell yeah.....(I added some extra periods because you forgot yours, your girlfriend probably did too.)