C'mon, everything sleeps better with a quad core;-). Seriously though, I want one... I just gave away my (really old) quad xeon, and I need something to heat my apartment in these cold Canadian winters.
Yeah, it is unfortunate that there is a need for so many different installation disk images for OpenBSD... I've had way too many useless arguments along these lines lately.
He wants to install on a VAX though. So he is much more limited with his options than i386.
Considering that the OP inquired about the lack of CD boot support for VAX, but was still using a CD, I would guess that they were not actually installing on a VAX using the CD.
BTW, if you are going to burn your own bootable i386 OpenBSD CD, you are better off using the cdrom40.fs as a 2.88MB bootable floppy image.
True, I suppose I should have said "use cdrom40.fs," but I call it a floppy image since the installation notes refer to it as: "The i386 boot and installation 2.88MB floppy image"
The extra power consumption of the PS3 over the PS2 suggests that we're not really getting much better at designing efficient systems
With the PS2 at 6.2GFlops and the PS3 at 2.18 TFLOPS you're looking at about a 350x performance increase (yeah, I know flops aren't exactly meaningful, but its the only metric I can see right now.) In order for the PS3 to be "less efficient" than the PS2 it would need to consume over 15kW!
If you don't like 'wasting' a CD for only 5MB, you can make your own install CD, it isn't that hard. There are a lot of instructions out there, and I've even done it from Windows using Nero (just use the floppy image to make a bootable CD, then add in the rest of the files from the ftp site on the disk, burn, and boot!)
This time, however, I decided to buy the release. I meant to for the past several releases, but this time I got off my ass and actually did it.
I notice errors when the show itself goes dark or low-light. Usually the most suspenseful part when a character goes into a dark room suddenly, it skips ahead a few minutes.
Your default method of commercial detection may be "blank frame detection." This is quite accurate; unless you are in Canada like me, where the commercials on American stations are replaced by Canadian commercials, and they sometimes don't put in blank frames. If you change it from "blank frame detection" you will get rid of the nasty side-effect of it flagging commercials during the show (IIRC you can do this on a per-recording-schedule basis, but I haven't tried it yet,) but you may end up just flagging other bits of your show as commercials:-(. The remote key for commercial skip may be the best method in this case, but there are other options you could try:-)
Sure, it's scary, but that is sort of a trust issue. They could also have got you to install some sort of browser extension that (unbeknownst to you) actually dumps your history and emails it back to them. Although it isn't exactly the same scenerio, it is at least as likely to happen...
On a final note: I think virtualization may help us get some of our privacy back. Imagine, one virtual machine for each of:
Activities that you need to be very private, and are normally involving trustworth sources: (i.e. Taxes/banking)
Activities that are day-to-day, and if you get a virus here, it isn't a big deal to re-image it.
Activities that you wouldn't want big brother/your mother to see;-)... and you could just start with a new image each time.
It does not have your history... but it could if it tried a brute-force attack. Neat trick, btw:-D.
The javascript is at http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/attackapi/build /lib/AttackAPI/HistoryDumper.js and it works by making an 'a' tag, then checking if it was visited or not. So it is able to see if a link has been visited before, but it can't dump your history in a normal fashion. I bet it probably isn't exactly a feature... but hardly something to be paranoid about.
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... And in less than the time it took me to write this post, I found my answer thanks to a code search engine (the way I was using those functions was doing exactly the opposite of what I wanted!)
For instance: yesterday I was trying to figure out if sigfillset() and sigaction() would allow me to catch all possible signals sent to a process... I forgot I could have used a code search utility to get examples (searching the www was getting me nowhere.)
At any rate, I just ended up using a debugger and solved my problem, but the question still lingered... and now I might actually find out the answer:-)
Hmm... people don't often use Lynx (another text-based browser) anymore, yet it still has had vulnerabilites. This is depsite the fact that it doesn't have nearly as many features as pretty much any GUI based web browser. (note: feature count is merely speculation, IANA(Lynx expert))
I didn't find any Evince vulnerabilities in my limited search, but that doesn't mean there will not be one. You will most likely remain safe from 'sploits targeted towards Adobe users by not using the Adobe PDF reader, but that should be obvious.
The bugs should be disclosed to the developers so that they can be fixed, but announcing them publicly, at least right away, would be irresponsible.
Generally, those "irresponsible" people follow the Full Disclosure Philosophy and do so because (for reasons that may or may not be valid) they do not feel they would get results otherwise.
Whoops! I guess the link worked for me in the comment preview because my browser cached it... but apparently the server looks for slashdot traffic and redirects it to coral cache. Two solutions: First, since the URL got mangled somewhere when the caching happened here is the real cache link: http://cowifi.personalwireless.org.nyud.net:8080/s howthread.php?t=11 (note: it missed the showthread.php, actualy it missed the slash after 8080 but that isn't too important anymore.) The second solution is to just take the link and copy it directly into a new window so it doesn't see you are coming from Slashdot. Here is the link again: http://cowifi.personalwireless.org/showthread.php? t=11
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That only holds true if all threads are blocked on I/O. If one thread in a process is blocked, the rest are free to run.
C'mon, everything sleeps better with a quad core ;-). Seriously though, I want one... I just gave away my (really old) quad xeon, and I need something to heat my apartment in these cold Canadian winters.
I call it a floppy image too. (???)
Yeah, it is unfortunate that there is a need for so many different installation disk images for OpenBSD... I've had way too many useless arguments along these lines lately.
He wants to install on a VAX though. So he is much more limited with his options than i386.
Considering that the OP inquired about the lack of CD boot support for VAX, but was still using a CD, I would guess that they were not actually installing on a VAX using the CD.
BTW, if you are going to burn your own bootable i386 OpenBSD CD, you are better off using the cdrom40.fs as a 2.88MB bootable floppy image.
True, I suppose I should have said "use cdrom40.fs," but I call it a floppy image since the installation notes refer to it as: "The i386 boot and installation 2.88MB floppy image"
Games may not use it, but I'm sure somebody will.
If you don't like 'wasting' a CD for only 5MB, you can make your own install CD, it isn't that hard. There are a lot of instructions out there, and I've even done it from Windows using Nero (just use the floppy image to make a bootable CD, then add in the rest of the files from the ftp site on the disk, burn, and boot!)
This time, however, I decided to buy the release. I meant to for the past several releases, but this time I got off my ass and actually did it.
That's a funny typo. I herby proclaim that the past tense of RSS feed is now RSS fed.
Sure, it's scary, but that is sort of a trust issue. They could also have got you to install some sort of browser extension that (unbeknownst to you) actually dumps your history and emails it back to them. Although it isn't exactly the same scenerio, it is at least as likely to happen...
On a final note: I think virtualization may help us get some of our privacy back. Imagine, one virtual machine for each of:
Could you check if this one still crashes FF 2.0? http://mcarlson.ca/index.php?page=nothing (hit button[0] about 20 or so times)
It does not have your history... but it could if it tried a brute-force attack. Neat trick, btw :-D.
The javascript is at http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/attackapi/build /lib/AttackAPI/HistoryDumper.js and it works by making an 'a' tag, then checking if it was visited or not. So it is able to see if a link has been visited before, but it can't dump your history in a normal fashion. I bet it probably isn't exactly a feature... but hardly something to be paranoid about.
... to the Keanu Reeves.
Yet people steal electricity all the time... and they don't even have to load it up on a truck first!
With that said, your question was semi-loaded; at least, the mods seem to have thought so.
What, like reStructuredText? Examples here
... And in less than the time it took me to write this post, I found my answer thanks to a code search engine (the way I was using those functions was doing exactly the opposite of what I wanted!)
For instance: yesterday I was trying to figure out if sigfillset() and sigaction() would allow me to catch all possible signals sent to a process... I forgot I could have used a code search utility to get examples (searching the www was getting me nowhere.)
At any rate, I just ended up using a debugger and solved my problem, but the question still lingered... and now I might actually find out the answer :-)
Hmm... people don't often use Lynx (another text-based browser) anymore, yet it still has had vulnerabilites. This is depsite the fact that it doesn't have nearly as many features as pretty much any GUI based web browser. (note: feature count is merely speculation, IANA(Lynx expert))
Not necessarily.
Some gPDF vulnerabilities.
I didn't find any Evince vulnerabilities in my limited search, but that doesn't mean there will not be one. You will most likely remain safe from 'sploits targeted towards Adobe users by not using the Adobe PDF reader, but that should be obvious.
At least you have french and english zeros. :-D
You had binary? We had to get about with only zeros, and some days we didn't even have those!
Generally, those "irresponsible" people follow the Full Disclosure Philosophy and do so because (for reasons that may or may not be valid) they do not feel they would get results otherwise.
Whoops! I guess the link worked for me in the comment preview because my browser cached it... but apparently the server looks for slashdot traffic and redirects it to coral cache. Two solutions: First, since the URL got mangled somewhere when the caching happened here is the real cache link: http://cowifi.personalwireless.org.nyud.net:8080/s howthread.php?t=11 (note: it missed the showthread.php, actualy it missed the slash after 8080 but that isn't too important anymore.) The second solution is to just take the link and copy it directly into a new window so it doesn't see you are coming from Slashdot. Here is the link again: http://cowifi.personalwireless.org/showthread.php? t=11