OK, I am being stupid here. We do have a better algorithm SHA-256, SHA-224, SHA-384, and SHA-512. Of course if SHA-1 was broken because of a flaw in the algorithm, these may be vulnerable too.
I have been expecting the MD5 crack for a while, it just isn't a secure hash anymore. SHA-0 was proven to be mathematically weak back in '98. There was no real need to brute force it. I highly doubt that SHA-1 was cracked, if it was, we are in trouble, is there any better hash to replace it? I figured that we would get quite a few more years out of SHA-1
What we really need is a mathematically strong hash which will let you user define its strength. For example the first byte of the hash tells the program how strong the hash is. As the strength byte increases, the mandatory execution time of the hash increases exponentially.
Really? Can you tell me the exact coordinates (in Longitude and Latitude) of the internet? What? You cant? I thought it was a place like Amsterdam (which has geographical coordinates) or Mars (which has coordinates relative to the Sun, the earth, or any other thing of your choice)
I agree that the 10000 package claim is dubious. Also, they are source based packages which are far easier to maintain than binaries, but in the end can cause more headaches. Most of the work of the maintainer is done by the user (compiling it with X compiler on Y architecture).
Just because some software is _stable_ does not imply it's _outdated_, and vica versa, of course. It might not be _bleeding_ egde, but it's still fairly current.
If you look at it out of context then X package may be perfectly stable at the latest version. The problem is that in most cases you cannot look at something out of context, you need to look at it as part of a larger system. A good example is apache with various modules. The core apache with no optional modules may run fine, but if you add mod_php, mod_perl, mod_rewrite etc in as optional binaries, added at arbitrary times, it suddenly becomes far harder to keep apache stable
Getting 8170 _binary_ packages to be stable in context (running as part of a larger, production system) on the 11 different archatectures included with woody (alpha,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,m68k,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390,sparc) is amazing. It may be a cince to get each of those 8170x11 (yes I know that there are many packages, like wine, that don't span across architectures, but this is approximate) running, but to get them running together is far harder, and the fact that Debian has this is a credit to the dev team.
Agreed, far to many people critisize the outdatedness of stable. It is outdated because it is STABLE, that may seem obvious but most people just don't get it. I have NEVER had stable break itself with bad dependancies etc. When a security update comes out I know that I can apply it without worrying about it breaking my system because of the extensive testing that goes into stable.
On my Sid systems I have to manually fix apt about once a month. It is always something stupidly easy to fix, but I don't want to have to do that on a production server
Sound has always worked perfectly for me with Debian (3 boxes, Audigy 2, Crappy integrade Ali POS (laptop), no-name POS integrated AC97 crap). One of your problems may be the use of the 2.4 kernel. I find that it is alot less likely to work (bigger chance of mistake) with the 2.4 kernel due to the lack of integrated ASLA. Give 2.6 a shot
Actually it used to be illegal in Quebec, they repealed the law about a year ago. Information on this can be found at. It looks like it is still illegal on the island of Montreal
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1089949545116_85358745/?hub=Canada
and
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/driving/right.htm
I think that getting this stuff into space would be too risky. What if something went wrong at 100 miles. It would become the most destructive dirty bomb imaginable.
I had a similar problem when I was given a computer, although it had to have a mouse also. Nevermind the fact that I was putting OpenBSD on the machine to be a dedicated web/mail server and didn't have any plans to install anything that needed a mouse
What I ended up doing was just getting a cheap mouse, coiling it up around itself, and throwing it behind the tower
At my university a few months ago we had an opening for this new ATAC building. I was working at it (I work there and take Computer Science there) and afterwords I wandered around to look at what other people were doing (our display was exceptionally boring). The computer science people were showing off thier rack mounted supercomputer by rendering a fish.
What was interesting is that the bits that were rendered were displayed in real time. And it wasn't all synchronys. So one block would complete while the other block lagged behind a bit. It looked impressive to say the least
If you are going to use CF cards you have to make sure that you _DO NOT_ swap to it, CF, SD and company only have a finite number of writes to them. If it is an old laptop it will be swapping alot and your CF card will fry in a matter of weeks
I know of disasterous results where people have decided to swap to a memory card
Face it, an x86 port of MacOS is never going to happen. Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. Most people don't buy Macs because of thier hardware, MacOS is the selling point, the hardware is just an expensive tax that you need to pay in order to get MacOS. If they ported it to the Intel platform suddenly people could pirate MacOS and run it without paying the hardware tax.
And there is no fear to drive anyone to do anything -- no fear of getting fired or yelled at by a mean boss.
I would say that this is actually a credit to the quality of Free Software. Most open source projects won't commit quick hacks, they will wait for someone to do a proper job of it (especially the BSD's). An angry boss breathing down your neck is a very good reason to do a quick hack of the job
Yes, without even thinking I would say yes. I am a science fiction junkie, what I cannot do in actuality I do in imagination. I explore the stars through fiction at least two hours a day, every day.
When most people look at the night sky, seeing the wonders of the universe layed out before them, they see many different things, signs from above, pictures etc.
When I look at the night sky, I see a billion suns that I will never visit (except in fiction), a hundred billion planets that I will never see, or walk upon. Looking up into the night sky makes me depressed that I was born in an age without interstellar travel... then I go and read science fiction.
Yeah, I have been looking at the various platforms for the last while and have now narrowed it down to the NDP or the Green party also. They seem to address my issues (and the issues of most of the/. crowd it seems) the best.
The liberals response was laughable and more or less non-existant. They only responded to like 2 questions and didn't say much other than "we are looking into it" ask us after you elect us, by then it will be to late BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
Unfortunately the chance of the Green party actually getting a seat is pretty slim, however eventually, when people realise that thier freedoms are being taken away by things such as National ID Cards, they may change thier viewpoint.
I just installed the windows version (will install the linux version when I get home from work) nand in the installer it says that I am installing version.8. In the about dialog it says that I have version.8+.
I found it odd that the author listed Konqueror and K-Meleon as running off the Mozilla rendering engine
Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla-enabled browsers such as Konqueror and K-Meleon
then proceded to say that Safari is a non-Mozilla browser (Which it is, but it is based off the Konqueror rendering engine which he named as a Gecko browser)
Non-Mozilla browsers such as Safari and Opera ensure that the web has not yet been reduced to a two-horse race between Microsoft and Mozilla
I was a key figure in getting my schools forum server up and running, I also admined the server for 2 years, coming back about 6 months ago (after I graduated) to redo the server after the hard drive died. This of course means that as long as my old computer teacher works at my high school, I have pretty well an unlimited amount of favours.
A good example is about 4 months ago when I needed a hundred feet of Cat 5, I went to my school and tried to buy it off of him, he insisted that I take it, gave me like 10 ends, and lent me the cable crimpers.
I find that making the person think that they owe you alot is a good thing, a friend of mnine also gave me one valuble hint, don't ever say "No problem" or something along those lines when fixing computers, it undervalues your services. A much better line is "I am just glad I knew what I was doing".
I have learned plenty about the caps in camera flashes from two places, first my science fair project which tested the high endurance batteries, I opened the camera up so that I could put a larger cap on the circuit, I wound up getting shocked a few times, enough to have my legs give out (quite scary, falling and not being able to stop yourself). I also learned that caps do not fully discharge after you shock yourself once. I shocked myself, then assumed that it would be discharged, and got a lesser shock for my stupidity.
The second place that I learned about these things is at A&P (grocery store I work at), when I was a courtesy clerk (read, store bitch) I had to move the broken cameras from one bin to another, and had fun making my coworkers think I was insane by discharging the caps with a screwdriver and making all kinds of sparks.
Interestingly enough, the only thing that they save in a disposable camera is the AA batteries
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OK, I am being stupid here. We do have a better algorithm SHA-256, SHA-224, SHA-384, and SHA-512. Of course if SHA-1 was broken because of a flaw in the algorithm, these may be vulnerable too.
I have been expecting the MD5 crack for a while, it just isn't a secure hash anymore. SHA-0 was proven to be mathematically weak back in '98. There was no real need to brute force it. I highly doubt that SHA-1 was cracked, if it was, we are in trouble, is there any better hash to replace it? I figured that we would get quite a few more years out of SHA-1
What we really need is a mathematically strong hash which will let you user define its strength. For example the first byte of the hash tells the program how strong the hash is. As the strength byte increases, the mandatory execution time of the hash increases exponentially.
Really? Can you tell me the exact coordinates (in Longitude and Latitude) of the internet? What? You cant? I thought it was a place like Amsterdam (which has geographical coordinates) or Mars (which has coordinates relative to the Sun, the earth, or any other thing of your choice)
Your not alone, I havn't watched TV for longer than 10 minutes at a time in years
A well made movie is different though (usually watch those on the computer)
Did anyone _not_ see this coming? The precedent concerning distributing the deCSS had been set long before the company came into existance
I agree that the 10000 package claim is dubious. Also, they are source based packages which are far easier to maintain than binaries, but in the end can cause more headaches. Most of the work of the maintainer is done by the user (compiling it with X compiler on Y architecture).
Just because some software is _stable_ does not imply it's _outdated_, and vica versa, of course. It might not be _bleeding_ egde, but it's still fairly current.If you look at it out of context then X package may be perfectly stable at the latest version. The problem is that in most cases you cannot look at something out of context, you need to look at it as part of a larger system. A good example is apache with various modules. The core apache with no optional modules may run fine, but if you add mod_php, mod_perl, mod_rewrite etc in as optional binaries, added at arbitrary times, it suddenly becomes far harder to keep apache stable
Getting 8170 _binary_ packages to be stable in context (running as part of a larger, production system) on the 11 different archatectures included with woody (alpha,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,m68k,mips,mipsel,powerpc ,s390,sparc) is amazing. It may be a cince to get each of those 8170x11 (yes I know that there are many packages, like wine, that don't span across architectures, but this is approximate) running, but to get them running together is far harder, and the fact that Debian has this is a credit to the dev team.
Agreed, far to many people critisize the outdatedness of stable. It is outdated because it is STABLE, that may seem obvious but most people just don't get it. I have NEVER had stable break itself with bad dependancies etc. When a security update comes out I know that I can apply it without worrying about it breaking my system because of the extensive testing that goes into stable.
On my Sid systems I have to manually fix apt about once a month. It is always something stupidly easy to fix, but I don't want to have to do that on a production server
Sound has always worked perfectly for me with Debian (3 boxes, Audigy 2, Crappy integrade Ali POS (laptop), no-name POS integrated AC97 crap). One of your problems may be the use of the 2.4 kernel. I find that it is alot less likely to work (bigger chance of mistake) with the 2.4 kernel due to the lack of integrated ASLA. Give 2.6 a shot
Actually it used to be illegal in Quebec, they repealed the law about a year ago. Information on this can be found at. It looks like it is still illegal on the island of Montreal
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNe(remember to remove the spaces from the URL)
I think that getting this stuff into space would be too risky. What if something went wrong at 100 miles. It would become the most destructive dirty bomb imaginable.
It sounds like the admin is an idiot. On a decently admined system /usr/local/bin should not be world writeable, you are just asking for trouble.
I had a similar problem when I was given a computer, although it had to have a mouse also. Nevermind the fact that I was putting OpenBSD on the machine to be a dedicated web/mail server and didn't have any plans to install anything that needed a mouse
What I ended up doing was just getting a cheap mouse, coiling it up around itself, and throwing it behind the tower
Unless (as in the case with Firefox) you explicitly tell it to do slightly more
With IE its the opposite, it is more than a browser unless you explicitly castrate its overzealous (and insecure) functionality
At my university a few months ago we had an opening for this new ATAC building. I was working at it (I work there and take Computer Science there) and afterwords I wandered around to look at what other people were doing (our display was exceptionally boring). The computer science people were showing off thier rack mounted supercomputer by rendering a fish.
What was interesting is that the bits that were rendered were displayed in real time. And it wasn't all synchronys. So one block would complete while the other block lagged behind a bit. It looked impressive to say the least
If you are going to use CF cards you have to make sure that you _DO NOT_ swap to it, CF, SD and company only have a finite number of writes to them. If it is an old laptop it will be swapping alot and your CF card will fry in a matter of weeks
I know of disasterous results where people have decided to swap to a memory card
Thank you, this is great, you have just made my day. One of the most humerous things I have seen in a while. :)
Face it, an x86 port of MacOS is never going to happen. Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. Most people don't buy Macs because of thier hardware, MacOS is the selling point, the hardware is just an expensive tax that you need to pay in order to get MacOS. If they ported it to the Intel platform suddenly people could pirate MacOS and run it without paying the hardware tax.
Apples bottom line wouldn't look very attractive
I would say that this is actually a credit to the quality of Free Software. Most open source projects won't commit quick hacks, they will wait for someone to do a proper job of it (especially the BSD's). An angry boss breathing down your neck is a very good reason to do a quick hack of the job
Yes, without even thinking I would say yes. I am a science fiction junkie, what I cannot do in actuality I do in imagination. I explore the stars through fiction at least two hours a day, every day.
... then I go and read science fiction.
When most people look at the night sky, seeing the wonders of the universe layed out before them, they see many different things, signs from above, pictures etc.
When I look at the night sky, I see a billion suns that I will never visit (except in fiction), a hundred billion planets that I will never see, or walk upon. Looking up into the night sky makes me depressed that I was born in an age without interstellar travel
Do you really want to know what it is like to be probed every time a script kiddie with Nmap is bored?
Happy Tuesday! (relativly inside joke)
Yeah, I have been looking at the various platforms for the last while and have now narrowed it down to the NDP or the Green party also. They seem to address my issues (and the issues of most of the /. crowd it seems) the best.
The liberals response was laughable and more or less non-existant. They only responded to like 2 questions and didn't say much other than "we are looking into it" ask us after you elect us, by then it will be to late BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
Unfortunately the chance of the Green party actually getting a seat is pretty slim, however eventually, when people realise that thier freedoms are being taken away by things such as National ID Cards, they may change thier viewpoint.
I just installed the windows version (will install the linux version when I get home from work) nand in the installer it says that I am installing version .8. In the about dialog it says that I have version .8+.
I found it odd that the author listed Konqueror and K-Meleon as running off the Mozilla rendering engine
Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla-enabled browsers such as Konqueror and K-Meleon
then proceded to say that Safari is a non-Mozilla browser (Which it is, but it is based off the Konqueror rendering engine which he named as a Gecko browser)
Non-Mozilla browsers such as Safari and Opera ensure that the web has not yet been reduced to a two-horse race between Microsoft and Mozilla
I was a key figure in getting my schools forum server up and running, I also admined the server for 2 years, coming back about 6 months ago (after I graduated) to redo the server after the hard drive died. This of course means that as long as my old computer teacher works at my high school, I have pretty well an unlimited amount of favours.
A good example is about 4 months ago when I needed a hundred feet of Cat 5, I went to my school and tried to buy it off of him, he insisted that I take it, gave me like 10 ends, and lent me the cable crimpers.
I find that making the person think that they owe you alot is a good thing, a friend of mnine also gave me one valuble hint, don't ever say "No problem" or something along those lines when fixing computers, it undervalues your services. A much better line is "I am just glad I knew what I was doing".
I have learned plenty about the caps in camera flashes from two places, first my science fair project which tested the high endurance batteries, I opened the camera up so that I could put a larger cap on the circuit, I wound up getting shocked a few times, enough to have my legs give out (quite scary, falling and not being able to stop yourself). I also learned that caps do not fully discharge after you shock yourself once. I shocked myself, then assumed that it would be discharged, and got a lesser shock for my stupidity.
The second place that I learned about these things is at A&P (grocery store I work at), when I was a courtesy clerk (read, store bitch) I had to move the broken cameras from one bin to another, and had fun making my coworkers think I was insane by discharging the caps with a screwdriver and making all kinds of sparks.
Interestingly enough, the only thing that they save in a disposable camera is the AA batteries