Shamefully, the band that reached number 1 in the album charts last week in Finland, Children of Bodom, Hate Crew Death Roll, released the CD in 2 versions, one with an extra track that was "copy protected". So not everything in Finland is perfect.
How long do you think it will take for a 64bit time_t to be adopted?
Name one company you expect to be tardy releasing a 64-bit time_t. There's an obvious karma-whoring answer, but I think not even they would be so crap. (But yes, when they first released NT on the Alpha in 1993 they did have a 32-bit time_t, IIRC, despite the fact that alpha was 64-bit from the start)
None of the linuksia, *BSD, or commercial Unices (fuck trademarks) took any time at all on the old 64-bit architectures such as Sparc3, Alpha, Power, HPPA or MIPS3.
" but likely those machines wont be used for external servers "
is a bit of a red herring. To be secure a server has got to be secure against rogue internal clients too. Do you trust every X client to be able to handle rogue events from every X server? There have been some pretty shoddy X servers out there, particularly in the Windows desktop world, and I certainly wouldn't trust them.
""" Now, assume your private key is compromised. This is bad but not the end of civilisation as we know it. You can make sure the world knows not to trust that key, at which point is as if your repository had never existed """
Sign them with a date. That way you can provide a date after which your signature is to be considered invalid, but stuff signed before then is still valid. Of course, if you don't know when your key was compromised then you might have to invalidate everything.
That's only true until people take up the ew features. Crappy 16-bit code really wasn't what the 386 was designed for. When a decent OS was stuck on it, it would fly. Likewise the P4 with it's SSE2. There are many applications (graphical ones and numerically intensive ones) that with a recompile will double their speed in the P4. Don't judge the hardware when it's the software that's lagging.
Easy easy. Make the URL contain the IP address, the date, and the actual required page, all smooshed up into one obfuscated string (symmetrically AES them or something)
Only serve the requested page if it's the right IP address and date.
Worried about someone publishing the AES key so that codes can be forged? Change the key daily to something random.
When I read the story there were 2 comments. By the time I'd submitted my 3D pr0n comment there were 10 3D pron comments. Scaling up, I'd guess about 120 in total, plus/minus 5.
I hate to turn a throwaway post into something with a point, but face it - the internet has only grown in populatity due to pictures of fannies. That's God's honest truth. It shows no signs of changing.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/25730.htm l cache at http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:do_iXVtOn wcC: www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/25730.html+BBC+sit e:theregister.co.uk&hl=en&start=2&ie=UTF-8
""" The Unix guys who work for BBC Technology in Kingswood Warren, Surrey, and are responsible for making the Internet work for the Beeb's online ventures have been told today they're relocating to Maidenhead, where Streaming Media Services, bought last year by the BBC, is based. [...] This could prove a little troublesome in the short-term as Streaming Media Services is essentially a Windows shop, we understand. """
"decided that it would migrate towards" ^ past tense ^ future looking
Quite how long the migration would take, I don't know. And quite whether the Unix guys put their collective foot down and put a stop to the plan I don't know. However, I've not seen a follow-up story on the reg (but don't read it every day).
If migration takes as long as a search on theregister.co.uk then it'll probably never happen... I seem to remember the Unix guys being based in Reading, so I'm searching for "BBC Unix Reading" there, but the site just ain't responding...
I'll post more if I can find it. Maybe a plain google would do...
Until very recently the BBC web site was run primarily on Unix boxes. However, due to increased pushes towards streaming media, which were served from MS-powered boxes, teh BBC decided that it would migrate towards all MS software for its web pages. They kidly said to the Unix guys that they could still have their jobs, but would have to commute 50 miles to their new location, joining the MS guys in London. Thispissed a lot of BBC employees off. (Both the migration, and the forced commute.) So the BBC doesn't really have a pro-Unix attitude at all, it must be the individual reporter.
The Register (.co.uk) had a story on the server migration about 2-3 months ago.
YAWIAR.
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I knew that such speeds were possible, it's just hta Apple etc. seem to be quite poor at posting SPEC results. It seems like intel and dell are in competition with each other to see who can post more SPEC results each month. If they can fill the table with 10000 P4 results, then noone will be able to see that an IBM Power system's rocking the #1 spot currently. Cunning, and devious...
Don't forget the crazy suckin'-nitrogen-straight-from-the-tank overclockers in Finland too, who occasionally take the top spot for the most extreme overclocking.
YAWIAR
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That would have been my first guess too, but in a scan down www.spec.org, and a google for ``866MHz PPC'' I found _nothing_ that matched at all.
However, if you claim they exist, that's enough proof for me, as, as you say, it does make the most sense.
YAWIAR
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No need to retract, Linux isn't the most important part of the set-up at all.
I did't see anywhere where it said what processor it's using though. A 866MHz what?
Chips at that speed include PIII and Alpha 21264, but not as far as I know a Power or PPC speed (or HPPA, MIPS, or Sparc).
I know Alphas are popular in render-farms, but have gone 'out of fashion' now. Are IBM _embarassed_ by their choice of processor?
All I learned from the reply is, assuming the replier uses KDE, that KDE seems to make you disfunctional, give you a hair-trigger, and Tourette's syndrome.
I refuse to believe that's actually the correct answer to my original question, as they don't address utilisation of RAM.
Yes, but in theory, since late 1999, the cynical domain name resellers have been able to register every dictionary word, every place name, and many other common patterns too, for $6 apiece, and then tried to sell them on.
The ones we're seeing expiring aren't necessarily _end user_ registrations, but are probably the domain name prospecters/squatters.
For example, when I looked there yesterday, I think I noticed that lovenevada.com, lovekansas.com, loveoregon.com, lovealaska.com, lovehawaii.com, etc. all expired on _exactly_ the same date.
I would claim - without proof - that these were registered en bloc at $6 apiece net, and not registered at $70 apiece.
There's a supplier-wholesaler-retailer chain in domain names, just as there is with cornflakes, you know.
Slashdot Mirror
Email needs to be directed around as well as web content. There's more to the internet and DNS lookups than the web and port 80.
YAW
It's now 02/02/2003 13:20:02 GMT
Slashdot.
Olds for Nerds. Stuff that mattered last week.
YAW.
Shamefully, the band that reached number 1 in the album charts last week in Finland, Children of Bodom, Hate Crew Death Roll, released the CD in 2 versions, one with an extra track that was "copy protected".
So not everything in Finland is perfect.
YAW.
My phone number begins 00358 40 573 .... ...
My address begins Ristiaallokonkatu . .
(Props to fellow Espoo-ites, and Helsinki-ites.)
I can't move _to_ Finland, I can only move _within_ Finland.
Get with the program, Europe, Finland is the only place to be! I realised that in 1993.
Like sweeze implies - don't just do the blabbing, act on it!
YAW (UK-born, and glad to be gone)
/tmp$ cat > crap.c /tmp$ gcc crap.c /tmp$ ./a.out
#include <time.h>
int main()
{
printf("%d",sizeof(time_t));
}
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How long do you think it will take for a 64bit time_t to be adopted?
Name one company you expect to be tardy releasing a 64-bit time_t. There's an obvious karma-whoring answer, but I think not even they would be so crap. (But yes, when they first released NT on the Alpha in 1993 they did have a 32-bit time_t, IIRC, despite the fact that alpha was 64-bit from the start)
None of the linuksia, *BSD, or commercial Unices (fuck trademarks) took any time at all on the old 64-bit architectures such as Sparc3, Alpha, Power, HPPA or MIPS3.
YAW.
Hey! I'm an AMD fan boy, and I'd have given this guy +1.
I don't care about guesses (that's all they are), I care about here and now.
Having said that, the announcements might drive the legacy processor prices down, which is good for 'ain't got a dime to my name' types like me.
YAW
"
but likely those machines wont be used for external servers
"
is a bit of a red herring. To be secure a server has got to be secure against rogue internal clients too. Do you trust every X client to be able to handle rogue events from every X server? There have been some pretty shoddy X servers out there, particularly in the Windows desktop world, and I certainly wouldn't trust them.
YAW
I'm sure someone's already trademaked 'PC Eye', else that would work quite well.
YAW.
"""
Now, assume your private key is compromised. This is bad but not the end of civilisation as we know it. You can make sure the world knows not to trust that key, at which point is as if your repository had never existed
"""
Sign them with a date. That way you can provide a date after which your signature is to be considered invalid, but stuff signed before then is still valid. Of course, if you don't know when your key was compromised then you might have to invalidate everything.
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You're All Wrong
That's only true until people take up the ew features. Crappy 16-bit code really wasn't what the 386 was designed for. When a decent OS was stuck on it, it would fly. Likewise the P4 with it's SSE2. There are many applications (graphical ones and numerically intensive ones) that with a recompile will double their speed in the P4.
Don't judge the hardware when it's the software that's lagging.
Wrong.
The K-6 was one of the worst processors to ever hit the market. I had a P166 that outperformed my K6-350.
The 486 equivalents were basically eqivalent to Intel, but the next generation was a step backwards.
Easy easy.
Make the URL contain the IP address, the date, and the actual required page, all smooshed up into one obfuscated string (symmetrically AES them or something)
Only serve the requested page if it's the right IP address and date.
Worried about someone publishing the AES key so that codes can be forged? Change the key daily to something random.
I might try this on my site just for a laugh.
--
He's right, but the rest of you are all wrong,
When I read the story there were 2 comments. By the time I'd submitted my 3D pr0n comment there were 10 3D pron comments. Scaling up, I'd guess about 120 in total, plus/minus 5.
I hate to turn a throwaway post into something with a point, but face it - the internet has only grown in populatity due to pictures of fannies. That's God's honest truth. It shows no signs of changing.
YAWIAR.
Look on the bright side ... ... 3D pr0n.
YAWIAR.
I should've gone straight to google...
m ln wcC: www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/25730.html+BBC+sit e:theregister.co.uk&hl=en&start=2&ie=UTF-8
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/25730.ht
cache at
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:do_iXVtO
"""
The Unix guys who work for BBC Technology in Kingswood Warren, Surrey, and are responsible for making the Internet work for the Beeb's online ventures have been told today they're relocating to Maidenhead, where Streaming Media Services, bought last year by the BBC, is based.
[...]
This could prove a little troublesome in the short-term as Streaming Media Services is essentially a Windows shop, we understand.
"""
Not Reading, oops, crap memory.
YAWIAR.
"decided that it would migrate towards"
^ past tense ^ future looking
Quite how long the migration would take, I don't know. And quite whether the Unix guys put their collective foot down and put a stop to the plan I don't know. However, I've not seen a follow-up story on the reg (but don't read it every day).
If migration takes as long as a search on theregister.co.uk then it'll probably never happen... I seem to remember the Unix guys being based in Reading, so I'm searching for "BBC Unix Reading" there, but the site just ain't responding...
I'll post more if I can find it. Maybe a plain google would do...
YAWIAR.
"maybe guy uses linux or BBC uses Linux"
Until very recently the BBC web site was run primarily on Unix boxes. However, due to increased pushes towards streaming media, which were served from MS-powered boxes, teh BBC decided that it would migrate towards all MS software for its web pages. They kidly said to the Unix guys that they could still have their jobs, but would have to commute 50 miles to their new location, joining the MS guys in London. Thispissed a lot of BBC employees off. (Both the migration, and the forced commute.) So the BBC doesn't really have a pro-Unix attitude at all, it must be the individual reporter.
The Register (.co.uk) had a story on the server migration about 2-3 months ago.
YAWIAR.
I knew that such speeds were possible, it's just hta Apple etc. seem to be quite poor at posting SPEC results. It seems like intel and dell are in competition with each other to see who can post more SPEC results each month. If they can fill the table with 10000 P4 results, then noone will be able to see that an IBM Power system's rocking the #1 spot currently.
Cunning, and devious...
Anyway, thanks for the heads-up PPC-wise.
YAWIAR.
Don't forget the crazy suckin'-nitrogen-straight-from-the-tank overclockers in Finland too, who occasionally take the top spot for the most extreme overclocking.
YAWIAR
That would have been my first guess too, but in a scan down www.spec.org, and a google for ``866MHz PPC'' I found _nothing_ that matched at all.
However, if you claim they exist, that's enough proof for me, as, as you say, it does make the most sense.
YAWIAR
No need to retract, Linux isn't the most important part of the set-up at all.
I did't see anywhere where it said what processor it's using though. A 866MHz what?
Chips at that speed include PIII and Alpha 21264, but not as far as I know a Power or PPC speed (or HPPA, MIPS, or Sparc).
I know Alphas are popular in render-farms, but have gone 'out of fashion' now. Are IBM _embarassed_ by their choice of processor?
YAWIAR.
All I learned from the reply is, assuming the replier uses KDE, that KDE seems to make you disfunctional, give you a hair-trigger, and Tourette's syndrome.
I refuse to believe that's actually the correct answer to my original question, as they don't address utilisation of RAM.
YAWIAR.
So it swears a lot, then?
Thank you for your useful contribution to this discussion. Take of your pathetic AC mask next time, child.
YAWIAR
This may sound a silly question, I ask it genuinely.
{{{
16 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE
}}}
!!!!
Does it really take 96MB to have KDE up and running? WHY?
My Linux setup has 48MB RAM, and I run the much maligned bloatware _emacs_ in X, and I can happily edit 10MB text files without hitting swap.
What does KDE do with that extra 48M that I'm not doing without it?
YAWIAR.
Yes, but in theory, since late 1999, the cynical domain name resellers have been able to register every dictionary word, every place name, and many other common patterns too, for $6 apiece, and then tried to sell them on.
The ones we're seeing expiring aren't necessarily _end user_ registrations, but are probably the domain name prospecters/squatters.
For example, when I looked there yesterday, I think I noticed that
lovenevada.com, lovekansas.com, loveoregon.com, lovealaska.com, lovehawaii.com, etc. all expired on _exactly_ the same date.
I would claim - without proof - that these were registered en bloc at $6 apiece net, and not registered at $70 apiece.
There's a supplier-wholesaler-retailer chain in domain names, just as there is with cornflakes, you know.
YAWIAR