>>You can at least monitor cpu temperature. I wouldn't be surprised if you can monitor power usage and other things
OK, so imagine for a second that you're a bad guy intent on cracking an encrypted file or something.
If you know that the encrypter was using "CPU temprature" based encryption, and having a table of CPU's and heat output, how hard would it be to brute force crack the encryption. A range of tempratures within say 50 degrees, down to the 7th decimal place isn't really a lot of numbers for a seed.
So the Pentium 4 2.2ghz northbrige operates at a temp of between 125 -> 150 degrees. Lets plug those 2 values into our handy-dandy cracker tool as low and high seed values and have a go at looking for goodies:
1. Figure out that encryption is processor heat based. 2. Plug temprature variance for common processors into cracker tool. 3.cpu cycles(????) 4.PROFIT!!
Has anyone grepped the source tree to look for SCO copyrights or comments?
What do SCO copyrights look like? Do they say SCO? Or do they go back to ATT or Bell Labs?
Developer names? Function or variable naming conventions?
Without this stuff, how the fsck can SCO id the code? I can't believe that somone who works on the Kernel regularly hasn't posted what some of the code is. My guess is that it's because there's no way to ID it. And if this is true, SCO's got no case. IANAL, but if they can't definitively define 'stolen' code, then how to prove it's stolen?
You are incorrect in your assumption about tech knowledge as it relates to conversation about look and feel. Both subjects should be important to those who write code for a living.
Tech issues? Which ones are important here? Please speak up and share your wisdom.
Yeah, the perldocs are great. And yeah the Camel is a rehash of the perldocs. But it's nice to have a dead tree on the desk to stick bookmarks and postits in the pages, and to highlight.
I know that I'm stating the obvious, but nothing in electronic media comes close to replacing printed manuals.
>> can't live without virtual desktops... The poor man's multi-monitor setup. Barring extensions like litestep, Windows has never done this. This is a big useability feature puts linux desktops ahead of Windows.
2 ways I do this. Granted, they're add on products, but they work.
1. Hummingbird Exceed has an excellent, resizable virtual desktop. You can make it as big as you want, and just slide around to hide windows. Very nifty.
2. ATI multidesk. ATI Radeon cards come with a multi-desktop feature. The application sits in the system tray, and you right click to choose your desktop. Also very nifty.
And neither one of these is a memory hog. They both seem to run pretty efficiently.
Multiple monitors are great too. That's the reason I got the ATI card, the multi-desk was a nice suprise.
Deborah had real talent. Sure, she was singing bubblegum at the time, but I remember reading back then that she was really good in the studio, with the engineering and stuff. Also, when she was discovered, she was mixing her own demos on household equipment (tape recorders) and coming out with sound quality that rivaled cheap recording studios.
No links, sorry. This is old newspaper stuff from memory.
And these days, she's an actress. She gave up singing crap years ago and moved on to real work. She has a fantastic voice, and is currently singing Off-Broadway.
Not that I'm a fan or anything, but back in the 80's and 90's I tried to stay on top of the NYC music scene. This is why I remember her story.
>>If it really is the artists that are making the decisions in this case, the bell tolls for them...
You wouldn't say this if you were standing on the floor of Madison Square Garden last October when Rush was playing. 20,000 voices singing every verse, every word. And these are fans that waited 5 years after the last tour.
You've never heard Limelight untill you've heard it at a Rush show.:)
These guys have been around for 30 years, and they'll be around as long as they like. The fans will keep coming back.
>>After taking 6 years to record this album, including some really tough times, it's a shame to see it hamstrung by lousy production.
They didn't take 6 years to record the album. You're confusing them with Boston.
The band went on a hiatus after Neil Peart lost his daughter and wife. He needed time to get his head together and his friends and bandmates gave him that time.
Writing commenced in January 2001. Recording started spring 2001, and continued into the late summer and early fall. They were finishing recording about the time 911 happened. Post production took untill spring 2002. The album came out May 2002.
So it really took just over 1 year to make the record.
I've found that I almost always get blank stares when I start to explain to folks why they need memory, storage or processor upgrades. They especially have a hard time understanding the concept of disk space. "How can you run out of space in that big white box?"
Perhaps a class called "How Your Computer Works" would be in order. The class would have gentle, simplified explanations of all the tech "mumbo-jumbo". And how it all fits together.
People aren't stupid (well most aren't). Sometimes they're just overwhelmed by information and lingo. A guiding hand could make all the difference in the world and actually help make them computer literate.
And given the fact that he was a busy guy...probably had a head full of other things like that morning's security report, what the ambassador from Russia told him earlier in the week etc, and it's perfectly reasonable to think that he would 'trust' the spelling provided.
Hoe many times have we all let minor details slip because we're preoccupied with something else?
Near the bottom center of the photo it looks like a big white drainage pipe. It seems that Barbara is dumping some sort of wastewater on the beach (note the healty looking greenery beneath the pipe). I wonder if that pipe is legal. Should she be dumping water like that?
One of the goals of this website is to protect the CA. coastline. Looks like they have something here that might be worth investigating.
You're missing the point. Probably because your anger and hostility confuses you. My logic isn't stupid, I don't think you're putting the pieces together properly.
No matter, your lack of perception isn't my problem. Have a nice life.
not really bitching. just telling a story about another faceless corporate entity. it's called sharing experiences. i thought someone might like it. guess you didn't. whatever.
There's a guy who's been flying around the Oregon and California coastlines taking aerial shots and putting them on his website. It's actually quite nice. He has documented the entire California coast except for the restricted area around an Air Force base.
Goregeous photos.
And one can tell that he's put a lot of hard work into his project.
Here's the problem. Barbara's got her panties in a bunch because this guy's photos show exactly how to get to her secluded beachfront mansion. So she's trying to sue him for invasion of privacy or some such BS.
She seems to not know that any deranged fan who has her address could get directions to her house from Mapquest. Who knows, if she realized this, she'd probably sue them too.
Slashdot Mirror
"You want to have sex with an AT-AT"
"I want to have sex with an AT-AT"
"It's a big hunk of metal that never goes soft"
"It's a big hunk of metal that never goes soft"
"Now go sit on that blaster turret"
"I'm gonna sit on that blaster turret"
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Jesus H. Christ, someone out there has WAY too much time on their hands.
Keep your turrets de-scaled? WTF kind of demented person has time to spend thinking up crap like that?
Move along nothing to see here.
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Which number 2/1/12? (Feb 1 1912)
/. old-timer! :)
Welcome to
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>>You can at least monitor cpu temperature. I wouldn't be surprised if you can monitor power usage and other things
OK, so imagine for a second that you're a bad guy intent on cracking an encrypted file or something.
If you know that the encrypter was using "CPU temprature" based encryption, and having a table of CPU's and heat output, how hard would it be to brute force crack the encryption. A range of tempratures within say 50 degrees, down to the 7th decimal place isn't really a lot of numbers for a seed.
So the Pentium 4 2.2ghz northbrige operates at a temp of between 125 -> 150 degrees. Lets plug those 2 values into our handy-dandy cracker tool as low and high seed values and have a go at looking for goodies:
1. Figure out that encryption is processor heat based.
2. Plug temprature variance for common processors into cracker tool.
3.cpu cycles(????)
4.PROFIT!!
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How about 503?
Myself, I like 2112.
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>>Yep... I've heard there is nothing sexier than a man in his underwear illuminated only by the green glow of the monitor...
You mean like this guy?
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Has anyone grepped the source tree to look for SCO copyrights or comments?
What do SCO copyrights look like? Do they say SCO? Or do they go back to ATT or Bell Labs?
Developer names? Function or variable naming conventions?
Without this stuff, how the fsck can SCO id the code? I can't believe that somone who works on the Kernel regularly hasn't posted what some of the code is. My guess is that it's because there's no way to ID it. And if this is true, SCO's got no case. IANAL, but if they can't definitively define 'stolen' code, then how to prove it's stolen?
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So when I'm done learning Klingon, I can tacle LOTR languages. Awesome!
Who needs to spend their time learning Japanese when there are so many fictional languages available?
So when will Java and Unicode start supporting this stuff? Next time I add a couple of languages to my application, I want to get these in there.
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>>The C syntax is horrible
Oh, and what's better? Java? C#? C++? COBOL?
You are incorrect in your assumption about tech knowledge as it relates to conversation about look and feel. Both subjects should be important to those who write code for a living.
Tech issues? Which ones are important here? Please speak up and share your wisdom.
wbs.
Yeah, the perldocs are great. And yeah the Camel is a rehash of the perldocs. But it's nice to have a dead tree on the desk to stick bookmarks and postits in the pages, and to highlight.
I know that I'm stating the obvious, but nothing in electronic media comes close to replacing printed manuals.
Myself, I write Perl code to look as much like C as possible.
Then if there's something Perl-like that's more efficient, or that can't be done with C-like syntax, I comment it up.
So it IS possible to write readable Perl. You just have to think about doing it WHILE you're coding.
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>>7. Get sued for IP theft
Get sued by who? That's the question eh?
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>> can't live without virtual desktops... The poor man's multi-monitor setup. Barring extensions like litestep, Windows has never done this. This is a big useability feature puts linux desktops ahead of Windows.
2 ways I do this. Granted, they're add on products, but they work.
1. Hummingbird Exceed has an excellent, resizable virtual desktop. You can make it as big as you want, and just slide around to hide windows. Very nifty.
2. ATI multidesk. ATI Radeon cards come with a multi-desktop feature. The application sits in the system tray, and you right click to choose your desktop. Also very nifty.
And neither one of these is a memory hog. They both seem to run pretty efficiently.
Multiple monitors are great too. That's the reason I got the ATI card, the multi-desk was a nice suprise.
wbs.
>>Debbie Gibson
Deborah had real talent. Sure, she was singing bubblegum at the time, but I remember reading back then that she was really good in the studio, with the engineering and stuff. Also, when she was discovered, she was mixing her own demos on household equipment (tape recorders) and coming out with sound quality that rivaled cheap recording studios.
No links, sorry. This is old newspaper stuff from memory.
And these days, she's an actress. She gave up singing crap years ago and moved on to real work. She has a fantastic voice, and is currently singing Off-Broadway.
Not that I'm a fan or anything, but back in the 80's and 90's I tried to stay on top of the NYC music scene. This is why I remember her story.
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>>Not to me but I really didn't like the drug reference
What's wrong with inecting one's self with a little knowledge?
I don't think the image really denotes bad drug usage?
Needles themselves aren't bad. Maybe a doctor is giving a guy a vitamin injection..... Think good things and the design is actually kind of cool.
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>>If it really is the artists that are making the decisions in this case, the bell tolls for them...
:)
You wouldn't say this if you were standing on the floor of Madison Square Garden last October when Rush was playing. 20,000 voices singing every verse, every word. And these are fans that waited 5 years after the last tour.
You've never heard Limelight untill you've heard it at a Rush show.
These guys have been around for 30 years, and they'll be around as long as they like. The fans will keep coming back.
wbs.
>>I wonder what this guy's home computer looks like.
Neil doesn't like computers too much. He thinks that after spending 15 minutes in front of a computer it's time to take a long walk.
This is paraphrased from a Prodigy chat he was part of in 1993.
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>>After taking 6 years to record this album, including some really tough times, it's a shame to see it hamstrung by lousy production.
They didn't take 6 years to record the album. You're confusing them with Boston.
The band went on a hiatus after Neil Peart lost his daughter and wife. He needed time to get his head together and his friends and bandmates gave him that time.
Writing commenced in January 2001. Recording started spring 2001, and continued into the late summer and early fall. They were finishing recording about the time 911 happened. Post production took untill spring 2002. The album came out May 2002.
So it really took just over 1 year to make the record.
wbs.
I've found that I almost always get blank stares when I start to explain to folks why they need memory, storage or processor upgrades. They especially have a hard time understanding the concept of disk space. "How can you run out of space in that big white box?"
Perhaps a class called "How Your Computer Works" would be in order. The class would have gentle, simplified explanations of all the tech "mumbo-jumbo". And how it all fits together.
People aren't stupid (well most aren't). Sometimes they're just overwhelmed by information and lingo. A guiding hand could make all the difference in the world and actually help make them computer literate.
wbs.
>>Intro. to Windows
>>Intro to Macs
Of course there should also be Intro to LINUX or intro to Lindows.
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And given the fact that he was a busy guy...probably had a head full of other things like that morning's security report, what the ambassador from Russia told him earlier in the week etc, and it's perfectly reasonable to think that he would 'trust' the spelling provided.
Hoe many times have we all let minor details slip because we're preoccupied with something else?
Cut the guy a break already.
http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.c gi?image=3850&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=0
Near the bottom center of the photo it looks like a big white drainage pipe. It seems that Barbara is dumping some sort of wastewater on the beach (note the healty looking greenery beneath the pipe). I wonder if that pipe is legal. Should she be dumping water like that?
One of the goals of this website is to protect the CA. coastline. Looks like they have something here that might be worth investigating.
wbs.
>>See the blatant stupidity of that argument?
You're missing the point. Probably because your anger and hostility confuses you. My logic isn't stupid, I don't think you're putting the pieces together properly.
No matter, your lack of perception isn't my problem. Have a nice life.
wbs.
not really bitching. just telling a story about another faceless corporate entity. it's called sharing experiences. i thought someone might like it. guess you didn't. whatever.
wbs.
There's a guy who's been flying around the Oregon and California coastlines taking aerial shots and putting them on his website. It's actually quite nice. He has documented the entire California coast except for the restricted area around an Air Force base.
Goregeous photos.
And one can tell that he's put a lot of hard work into his project.
Here's the problem. Barbara's got her panties in a bunch because this guy's photos show exactly how to get to her secluded beachfront mansion. So she's trying to sue him for invasion of privacy or some such BS.
She seems to not know that any deranged fan who has her address could get directions to her house from Mapquest. Who knows, if she realized this, she'd probably sue them too.
Sorry, I don't have the project's URL handy.
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