If you've already connected to a host in the past, and you know what its public key looks like, then you are protected from someone else pretending to be that host (unless somehow they had got hold of the private key as well). However there is always a first time connection - when ssh prompts you saying this host is not known but its public key signature is XXX - and for that you are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
With SSL for websites the host's public key may be signed by some authority like Verisign. But even when it isn't, don't you just click OK automatically?
2.5 minutes is good, but you still need someone to sit there and change the CDs over. Are there any CD robots which can change the disc over and start burning another? That could fill the middle ground between an ordinary CD burner and a big CD pressing plant.
You could have an automated setup that burns the latest Debian unstable every fifteen minutes...
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Can you tell me what the procedure is to have my bug report 'evaluated'? Is it that MandrakeExpert site?
I do have direct access to Bugzilla, but the last time I reported a bug there I was told off because it didn't apply to Cooker.
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My biggest problem with Mandrake is the lack of any sensible system for reporting bugs. Their Bugzilla at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ is for the unstable 'Cooker' release only. So you can report bugs for the version that's expected to be buggy, but not for the stable version! WTF?
I still use Mandrake though because it seems to have a good selection of packages and I haven't yet recovered from the trauma of trying to install Debian a few years back. The administration packages for Mandrake are totally broken, as you would expect, but I'm happy to edit config files anyway.
These desktop distros like Xandros and Lycoris sound nice: which ones of them are free software?
In this film, it is revealed that the whole of the Next Generation TV series was a dream. 'I am your father, Wesley'. Riker turns out to be an android. Then it all ends with a big song and dance number.
I mean stuff which _looks_ useful to a user seeing the search results. Information that performs the 'useful' function of getting more hits on the site (ads in themselves do not). Then you can show the users the other kind of 'useful' once they are viewing your pages.
I use Sourceforge for CVS, file releases and mailing lists. Recently we decided (at the project I run) to turn off forums altogether, they were just too damn annoying. The bug tracker might be useful, I suppose, but nobody seems to use it, they prefer to post to mailing lists and I can't really blame them. (IMHO a decent bug tracker needs to have a mail interface of some kind - but then no banner ads, urk...)
(My suggestion for the single best improvement to Sourceforge: add fsh support to the CVS servers so you can do CVS operations without making and tearing down a new ssh connection each time. (Fsh makes a single ssh connection and then keeps it open for subsequent commands). That would really speed up development over a modem, at least if like me you have an obsession with typing 'cvs -q update -Pd' every few minutes.)
They'd make _some_ money from it by selling more cards. There are many Linux users who prefer to run free software and don't like loading some dirty binary-only code to run in kernel mode. But these people are a tiny, tiny minority of the market as a whole. And many of them wouldn't want to spend big bucks on a 3d card anyway.
Maybe when Linux becomes more popular, out-of-the-box acceleration on distributions like Red Hat (which AFAIK does not include the binary-only Nvidia drivers) will become an important factor in buying decisions for more consumers. But right now the driving force in the expensive 3d card market is gaming, and games run on Windows anyway.
Okay, fair point, you can't drive between dealerships and remember the sounds in your head, and the environment in each case may be different. However I still think that listening to the output is preferable when you can do it.
The food analogy isn't quite right because food has two purposes - nutriton and enjoyment - while music is usually just for enjoyment. A better analogy is buying wine. If possible you would taste a sample of each wine and pick those you like, but in shops where this isn't possible you fall back on details like the grape variety, producer and vintage. And even when tasting you'd use these to decide what to try. But these facts and statistics are just a means to find something that tastes good, and the taste itself is the best criterion.
I think the 'law' has something to do with the number of groups that can be formed, in other words the number of subsets a set contains (which does double with each additional element). It's the stuff about 'the value of that network' which is ignorant journo generalization.
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I was eating my Whole Earth brand organic corn flakes this morning and wondering, how does this connect with the whole Jon Katz future of cyber-society thing? Maybe nothing, if you are right.
Are these really the first Linux graphics drivers for Hammer? Surely XFree86 and other graphics systems like the kernel framebuffer are already being ported?
It sounds like this is just the first Hammer release of Nvidia's proprietary, binary-only drivers for cards they won't release specs to. Useful, but hardly any more significant than some other random piece of proprietary software being ported.
Why on earth should consumers be expected to know about harmonics or transistors or any other technical detail? Surely you should just listen to the output and pick the unit that sounds best. If consumers did _that_ then amplifiers really would sell on quality, rather than on meaningless gimmicks like graphic equalizers (at the low end) or long lists of arcane facts and statistics (at the high end).
Step 2: Buy up land surrounding wireless access point and rent it to shops (and maybe the occasional business that doesn't want to build its own network infrastructure).
But that requires too much investment and probably isn't a good use of capital, unless you wanted to get into the land business anyway.
If it's $1300 per year, why can't I use my own PC to earn some money instead of this lame SETI@Home stuff that doesn't pay anything?
I think 15 cents per hour is way too high. If there were really demand at such a high price you could become a millionaire just by purchasing PCs and a network connection. One cent per hour of computing time might be a reasonable market rate, once lots of people with large networks of PCs get involved. At that price I might buy some computing time myself when I had a big set of jobs to run (like some very CPU-intensive modifications to zlib I'm playing with), and at other times sell.
Despite flexible language usage he does have a point: current Athlon chips compare favourably with their Intel equivalent. Certainly any given Athlon is a lot faster than the P4 you could buy for the same price. Maybe if Intel pushes ahead with higher and higher P4 clock speeds, AMD will return to the position of being the slower, cheaper alternative - but right now it's competitive both in price and in performance, at least at the non-insane-cutting-edge-early-adopter-price-gougin g end of the market.
So 2.4.20 is a 'bleeding-edge' kernel? Ext3 is a 'cutting-edge' feature?
Are you saying that users should refrain from upgrading to newer releases even when those have been explicitly tagged as 'stable'? Where do you draw the line?
I do think there is some truth in the argument that you shouldn't upgrade the kernel even from a stable series. Wait for your vendor to release an updated kernel package, if they judge it necessary. And maybe don't upgrade even then.
But it is unfair in this case to criticize users for installing what they thought was a stable, tested, reliable kernel version. Ah well, mistakes happen.
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If you've already connected to a host in the past, and you know what its public key looks like, then you are protected from someone else pretending to be that host (unless somehow they had got hold of the private key as well). However there is always a first time connection - when ssh prompts you saying this host is not known but its public key signature is XXX - and for that you are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
With SSL for websites the host's public key may be signed by some authority like Verisign. But even when it isn't, don't you just click OK automatically?
2.5 minutes is good, but you still need someone to sit there and change the CDs over. Are there any CD robots which can change the disc over and start burning another? That could fill the middle ground between an ordinary CD burner and a big CD pressing plant.
You could have an automated setup that burns the latest Debian unstable every fifteen minutes...
Can you tell me what the procedure is to have my bug report 'evaluated'? Is it that MandrakeExpert site?
I do have direct access to Bugzilla, but the last time I reported a bug there I was told off because it didn't apply to Cooker.
My biggest problem with Mandrake is the lack of any sensible system for reporting bugs. Their Bugzilla at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ is for the unstable 'Cooker' release only. So you can report bugs for the version that's expected to be buggy, but not for the stable version! WTF?
I still use Mandrake though because it seems to have a good selection of packages and I haven't yet recovered from the trauma of trying to install Debian a few years back. The administration packages for Mandrake are totally broken, as you would expect, but I'm happy to edit config files anyway.
These desktop distros like Xandros and Lycoris sound nice: which ones of them are free software?
In this film, it is revealed that the whole of the Next Generation TV series was a dream. 'I am your father, Wesley'. Riker turns out to be an android. Then it all ends with a big song and dance number.
I mean stuff which _looks_ useful to a user seeing the search results. Information that performs the 'useful' function of getting more hits on the site (ads in themselves do not). Then you can show the users the other kind of 'useful' once they are viewing your pages.
The 'going forward'-ometer registers a worryingly high reading on this article. Don't employ this man.
Heh, perhaps the Google slideshow will encourage sites to put useful information at the top of pages rather than junk.
You can announce a release on Sourceforge and Freshmeat simultaneously? How?
I use Sourceforge for CVS, file releases and mailing lists. Recently we decided (at the project I run) to turn off forums altogether, they were just too damn annoying. The bug tracker might be useful, I suppose, but nobody seems to use it, they prefer to post to mailing lists and I can't really blame them. (IMHO a decent bug tracker needs to have a mail interface of some kind - but then no banner ads, urk...)
(My suggestion for the single best improvement to Sourceforge: add fsh support to the CVS servers so you can do CVS operations without making and tearing down a new ssh connection each time. (Fsh makes a single ssh connection and then keeps it open for subsequent commands). That would really speed up development over a modem, at least if like me you have an obsession with typing 'cvs -q update -Pd' every few minutes.)
I dunno about you, but I'd rather run buggy code for which I have source than less buggy but binary-only programs. That's why I run Linux!
They'd make _some_ money from it by selling more cards. There are many Linux users who prefer to run free software and don't like loading some dirty binary-only code to run in kernel mode. But these people are a tiny, tiny minority of the market as a whole. And many of them wouldn't want to spend big bucks on a 3d card anyway.
Maybe when Linux becomes more popular, out-of-the-box acceleration on distributions like Red Hat (which AFAIK does not include the binary-only Nvidia drivers) will become an important factor in buying decisions for more consumers. But right now the driving force in the expensive 3d card market is gaming, and games run on Windows anyway.
Okay, fair point, you can't drive between dealerships and remember the sounds in your head, and the environment in each case may be different. However I still think that listening to the output is preferable when you can do it.
The food analogy isn't quite right because food has two purposes - nutriton and enjoyment - while music is usually just for enjoyment. A better analogy is buying wine. If possible you would taste a sample of each wine and pick those you like, but in shops where this isn't possible you fall back on details like the grape variety, producer and vintage. And even when tasting you'd use these to decide what to try. But these facts and statistics are just a means to find something that tastes good, and the taste itself is the best criterion.
That's what I'm querying. Is it the first publicly available Hammer graphics driver? There are no XFree86 ports or anything like that at present?
(If there is currently no port of XFree86, it'd be interesting to know how Nvidia's drivers work.)
I think the 'law' has something to do with the number of groups that can be formed, in other words the number of subsets a set contains (which does double with each additional element). It's the stuff about 'the value of that network' which is ignorant journo generalization.
I was eating my Whole Earth brand organic corn flakes this morning and wondering, how does this connect with the whole Jon Katz future of cyber-society thing? Maybe nothing, if you are right.
Are these really the first Linux graphics drivers for Hammer? Surely XFree86 and other graphics systems like the kernel framebuffer are already being ported?
It sounds like this is just the first Hammer release of Nvidia's proprietary, binary-only drivers for cards they won't release specs to. Useful, but hardly any more significant than some other random piece of proprietary software being ported.
Why on earth should consumers be expected to know about harmonics or transistors or any other technical detail? Surely you should just listen to the output and pick the unit that sounds best. If consumers did _that_ then amplifiers really would sell on quality, rather than on meaningless gimmicks like graphic equalizers (at the low end) or long lists of arcane facts and statistics (at the high end).
300kHz may not sound like much, but with overclocking and a decent watercooling setup you could crank it as high as 334kHz!
Apparently the last time they launched an all new OS + hardware combination it was like, Be Be Be Be Be.
Step 2: Buy up land surrounding wireless access point and rent it to shops (and maybe the occasional business that doesn't want to build its own network infrastructure).
But that requires too much investment and probably isn't a good use of capital, unless you wanted to get into the land business anyway.
You'd think that the more energetic Slashdot trolls would have turned the pictures into ASCII art by now (hopefully without too many modifications).
If it's $1300 per year, why can't I use my own PC to earn some money instead of this lame SETI@Home stuff that doesn't pay anything?
I think 15 cents per hour is way too high. If there were really demand at such a high price you could become a millionaire just by purchasing PCs and a network connection. One cent per hour of computing time might be a reasonable market rate, once lots of people with large networks of PCs get involved. At that price I might buy some computing time myself when I had a big set of jobs to run (like some very CPU-intensive modifications to zlib I'm playing with), and at other times sell.
Despite flexible language usage he does have a point: current Athlon chips compare favourably with their Intel equivalent. Certainly any given Athlon is a lot faster than the P4 you could buy for the same price. Maybe if Intel pushes ahead with higher and higher P4 clock speeds, AMD will return to the position of being the slower, cheaper alternative - but right now it's competitive both in price and in performance, at least at the non-insane-cutting-edge-early-adopter-price-gougin g end of the market.
So 2.4.20 is a 'bleeding-edge' kernel? Ext3 is a 'cutting-edge' feature?
Are you saying that users should refrain from upgrading to newer releases even when those have been explicitly tagged as 'stable'? Where do you draw the line?
I do think there is some truth in the argument that you shouldn't upgrade the kernel even from a stable series. Wait for your vendor to release an updated kernel package, if they judge it necessary. And maybe don't upgrade even then.
But it is unfair in this case to criticize users for installing what they thought was a stable, tested, reliable kernel version. Ah well, mistakes happen.