There is only one way to find out whether or not an encryption scheme is any good: READ AND UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE CODE. As a second best, show the source code to a competent programmer whom you trust and who has some expertise in the field in question. If they won't show you the source code, the most likely reason why not is because the encryption is no good and you should walk away.
And also, you can have multiple supermarket loyalty cards in multiple names and addresses; and you can delete the Google cookie as often as you like, which severs any connection between the data they harvest and the person supplying it. But you can only have one online account per games console.
Safeway were taken over by Morrisons a couple of years ago, so it just goes to show how long it is since you last went shopping!:p
Morrisons supermarkets don't have a loyalty card scheme. They do have savings stamp machines: you buy one pound stamps and stick them on a card. At certain points there are pre-printed "extra stamps", which are only valid if all the preceding positions are occupied with real stamps; this is the bonus you get for using savings stamps. Meanwhile, Morrisons have your money in their bank account, earning interest for them and not you.
Unfortunately, that probably won't help the cause. The media will conveniently forget that that information should never have been collected in the first place, and spin it as "evil hackers steal identities", not as "company commits egregious invasion of privacy". (If you do want to steal someone's identity, BTW, you can do worse than look here for inspiration.)
As always, the best way to protect yourself is to lie through your teeth when asked for personal information and never, ever be even vaguely consistent across different requests. For instance, if you pretended to be an Albanian nun to get a NYT login, pretend to be a Portuguese sausage-maker with hobbies of sword-fighting and watch repair to get an IMDB login -- but don't mention anything ecclesiastical or Albanian.
Those people won't lose their jobs as long as they're any good at them. There will still be a market for all the same services: studios, instrument hire, production, mastering, pressing, session musicians, distribution. It's just that under the new model, instead of signing their life away to a record label, the artist will pay for the production of their record or whatever themself, using a cash loan -- which they will obtain by putting up the rights to the work as collateral. The lender then has some say over distribution conditions as long as they are owed any money. {In this respect it's just like any other major-purchase loan, such as a mortgage; the lender will want to inspect the property and may insist that certain work be carried out before they will lend any money and they may impose conditions regarding letting &c. After all, they want to be sure the property will be worth something if you default on payments. And just as no bank will lend you money to buy a house that's already falling down, it will be easier to get a CD production loan if your work is likely to sell well.} The day the loan is paid off, the artist's rights in the work revert to them in full.
Artists won't be tied to labels the way they are today. So the model will be much more flexible. It's possible that supermarkets will have their own record labels with no studios or mastering facilities, just stamping discs or offering downloads from artist-supplied masters; there would still be room for "whole package" companies, offering everything from the loan to the studio to the distribution deal, for the artist who wants to leave the hard bits up to other people. But they'll be competing with others who can make economies by not having to provide such a comprehensive service. Lenders probably will have their own preferred suppliers of production and distribution services. And by selling media at a price point that makes copying uneconomical {nearly every bookshop has a photocopier, but who the hell ever went to the trouble of photocopying e.g. a whole bestselling novel from cover to cover? With the amount the shop would make on a deal like that, they could easily afford to reimburse the publisher for the "unsold" original}, more legitimate copies will be sold.
By the time an artist has recorded and recouped on a couple or three albums, if they're any good then they should be able to record the next one without a loan. Maybe even afford to set up a foundation for helping new artists through the process. But if they get too much like the old record labels, then they will lose customers and go out of business.
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No, in Windows 95/98 you had to (1) turn off Browse Manager on all but one of the computers and (2) reboot twice after making any changes to the network. Sometimes you could make a computer appear by typing the full path to one of its shared resources..... assuming you already knew the correct path, of course.
Most troubleshooting on Windows boils down to voodoo, really; because, since you have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on, it's the best you can hope for!
If the engine has to work harder to turn the alternator, then it will produce more emissions. So maybe an alternator is emissions-critical.
Of course, you could say that if you plug something into the cigarette lighter socket, then the engine will have to work harder to turn the alternator, thus producing more emissions; so anything that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket is emissions-critical!
In the UK, most "ordinary" cars have engines under 2 litres and petrol (gasoline) is the equivalent of US$2.00.
The patent was not struck down for obviety, but for being beyond the scope of patentability. Computer programs, business methods and mathematical processes are specifically excluded from patentability in the EU.
No, if the recorder is your property then the satellite provider are breaking the law by committing Criminal Damage to your property {it's no defence to a crime that you were acting under obligation of contract}, and the court order is invalid in the first place.
If the recorder is merely rented, then it's not necessarily criminal damage {since it is their property after all}. And although it's an indirect defence to theft that you believed the former owner was going to destroy the property {since you did not intend permanently to deprive them of it, but only to deprive them of it for as long as it would have taken for them to destroy it}, goods acquired in such a manner aren't covered by any guarantees.
At any rate, check your local Consumer Protection legislation, because this sort of thing is questionable -- in the UK, we have the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 As Amended, and in the USA there will be a combination of state and federal laws.
Although TTBOMK this was never demonstrated using cassettes, you could do that using two open-reel video recorders stood next to each other, with the tape spat out by the first {recording} one falling down loose into the space between them, eventually to be drawn into the second {playback} one. The BBC used such an arrangement often in sports programmes and similar.
Surely the reason why the Moon is considered a satellite of the Earth, rather than the Earth and Moon being considered a binary system, is because the centre of mass of the combined system is within the volume of one of the bodies {in this case, the Earth}? If the C. of M. was somewhere in the space between the two bodies, then they would constitute a binary system. Since the Earth weighs about 82 times as much as the moon, and the radius of the Earth is about 6.4 megametres, for the C. of M. to be just at the Earth's surface would require the Moon to be 82 * 6.4 = 524.8 megametres away from the Earth. {It's currently about 385Mm}. Further away would definitely make us a binary system.
Amstrad DD8900. Two recorder mechanisms, one receiver, one modulator. Watch one cassette while recording on another. Copy tape to tape. Or record from TV and satellite {via SCART, or poss. audio/video sockets in those days} at the same time. This was sometime back in the 1980s.
I think you missed some "and" signs. If you typed cat/dev/video0 >/tmp/in0.mpg then the prompt would disappear till the command finished. If, however, you had typed cat/dev/video0 >/tmp/in0.mpg & then you would get the prompt back straight away {actually, as soon as a separate process had detached itself} and could type the second command. Of course, you might just have meant to type each command in a separate terminal, in which case it would have worked.
Anyway, all of mathematics is obvious to any sufficiently-skilled mathematician. I hope this bogus patent is struck down on grounds of obviety.
Customers won't lose out. If they actually own those PVRs, or are renting them under a guarantee of service, then it's actually illegal for EchoStar to do anything to them {in one case it's Criminal Damage, for which you don't call a lawyer but a certain familiar three-digit number beginning with 9; the other Breach of Contract}. It probably would be cheaper for EchoStar to commit contempt of court. Of course, if they can bring their countersuit during the 30 days, they won't even be doing that.
All that will happen if enough people do this, is that the MPAA, RIAA and their equivalents in other countries will continue to blame their declining revenues on "piracy", and laws will be tightened up. Maybe it will become an offence to lend an original recording to someone else even if no copying takes place, or even to invite your friends around to watch a vid. Rentals will be replaced by limited-play discs, which you buy and then, instead of having to take them back to the rental store, they become unwatchable.
Meanwhile, the studios' greed will have turned every movie into a two-hour advertisement, turning away even more would-have-been viewers.
On Philips and Daewoo DVD+R/+RW recorders {for that matter, probably any that use Philips internals}, you can copy a copy-protected signal by first inputting a non-protected signal, selecting RECORD, then PAUSE; quickly switching over to the protected signal {use an actual switch box, manually unplugging and replugging is not quick enough}; and then coming out of PAUSE. The machine only seems to check for the presence of Macrovision when engaging RECORD mode, or if the video signal is interrupted for several fields in a row.
Seems the boys and girls in the labs in Eindhoven liked their old movies, so they built in this little "cheat" that wouldn't get noticed during type-approval!
No violation of human rights is any greater or any lesser than any other violation.
The lie that, for example, a dress code is somehow less unacceptable than a colour bar, is what keeps the "big" injustices going.
Surely it is better to attempt to overturn a "small" injustice and succeed, than not even to attempt to overturn it at all because other injustices are perceived as "greater" ? In fact, even if there were such things as greater and lesser injustices, successfully overturning a "small" injustice would give us a huge psychological boost to help us attack a "great" injustice.
It's just crap in the vertical retrace interval. The VCR doesn't lose sync, but since the noise exceeds the normal signal level it causes the AGC to reduce the gain, thereby making the picture go dim. If you did not know any better, then you might suppose it to be a mere artefact from the mass-production process {since it is conspicuously absent from home recordings}. If you shorten the AGC time constant on the recording VCR {by unsoldering one capacitor} you won't get the dimming effect. You can also use an op-amp hard limiter circuit {similar to those cheesy guitar distortion pedals everyone was building in the 1980s} to clamp the spikes.
A more thorough way of defeating Macrovision is to use a 1881 sync separator, 4066 quad bilateral switch and some assorted logic ICs {or a microcontroller}. You need to discard about 30 lines from the top of each field, clamping them to no more than 0V but pulling them down to -0.3V with the line sync pulses. If you can manage to leave in the colour subcarrier burst, then so much the better.
As long as you're making fair use of material, which you have an inalienable right to do, then the use of an electronic circuit to remove this copy protection would be classified as Reasonable Force in pursuit of your Statutory Rights.
Of all the distributions I have tried, Debian and Gentoo have the best package management systems.
Debian was my first; I thought it was a little hard to get to grips with, so I flirted with Mandriva, Red Hat / Fedora Core, some other Red Hat derivative, and none of them quite cut it. I ended up going back to Debian. I've since experimented with Slackware and Gentoo. Neither of them really seemed to do anything that Debian didn't: I found Slackware a bit too stripped-down, and Gentoo more a rite-of-passage {like going out naked into the desert as a boy and returning as a man}. Maybe if I had gone straight to Gentoo from the RPM-based distros rather than via Debian, and if I hadn't urgently needed a hard drive and nicked the one with Gentoo on it, I might have stuck with it. I certainly wouldn't derecommend it; but during the time I was using it, I didn't get to see it doing anything better than Debian.
One of the problems with source tarballs is that they are {obviously} created by developers, who {obviously} have the latest versions of all the various shared libraries, fonts &c. on their systems, and the associated -devel packages {an anachronism which unfortunately persists; the first distro that ditches -devel in favour of putting all the old -devel files into the main RPM / DEB package will definitely get tried by me}. Not everybody has a "virgin" machine handy to check exactly what is necessary for installing a package, so it's easy for a developer to miss something.
If you are a developer, for goodness' sake, please attempt to install your new package on a brand new machine to make sure you specified the dependencies correctly. And if you run afoul of an unmentioned dependency, for goodness' sake, contact the developer in case they really just don't know.
But there is a common standard software installer for all GNU/Linux systems!
You open up an xterm. You type
$ tar xvzf my_new_package.tar.gz
$ cd my_new_package
$./configure
$ make
$ su You type your root password, which isn't shown on screen. The prompt changes from a dollar sign to a comment mark, and you continue
# make install You press ctrl-D and the prompt changes back to a $. You press it again and the xterm disappears. It may not be obvious from looking at it for the first time what you're supposed to do with it; but the procedure is exactly the same for every package prepared with GNU autotools.
Bear in mind that that's ten gigs of OS and applications, not just the OS. I don't know what packaging system OpenSUSE is using {just vague memories of the old SuSE being clearly Slackware or SoftLandings-derived, "disk sets" and all}: those ten gigs might or might not also include source code which gets compiled as part of the installation process.
Also, a typical Linux installation will have several applications of each type {Kontact, Evolution and Thunderbird; KBear, gFTP, the standard BSD command-line ftp client and ncftp; Konqueror and Firefox; Pine and Mutt; Noatun, Rhythmbox, XMMS amd MPG123; Kopete and Gaim; K3B and GCombust; KOffice, OpenOffice.org and AbiWord/Gnumeric; MySQL and Postgres; KDE, GNOME and Windowmaker} and, if a 64-bit processor is used, may contain a separate 32-bit environment where applications which are not 64-bit clean can run in a chroot jail with their own 32-bit shared libraries and no danger of path conflicts.
Back in the days when I used to use Windows, I would occasionally get error messages when trying to install competing software packages together {"FooPlus has detected that Bar is installed on this computer. You need to remove Bar before FooPlus can be installed. If you are quite sure that there is no Bar on this computer, select 'install anyway'."} However, this was a long time ago and may well not be valid today. Also, because Windows packages were invariably downloaded pre-compiled, they often brought their own shared libraries and runtime environments with them {under Linux, you can just compile a package against whatever shared libraries you already have}.
You obviously shouldn't trust any assembler. What you have to do is translate the assembly language instructions into binary code by looking them up in the back of the manual. That's how every game for the ZX Spectrum was written!
Some processors are easier than others {ARM is pretty obvious, with very predictable bit fields that almost shout the mnemonics out loud at you; x86 not so obvious}. But once you have a known clean system, you can write yourself a cross-assembler for another processor.
Of course, even although you now know that the binary code must correspond exactly with the source code, you still don't know that the silicon is pure. You might do better to implement the instruction set in more observable hardware. It's just on the bounds of feasibility to manufacture thermionic valves at home -- and you would only need about 30000 of them to implement the 26-bit addressed, Thumb-less ARM. Alternatively, ditch electronics altogether and build a mechanical computer. You only need to use this for long enough to verify the real processor's operation.
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There is only one way to find out whether or not an encryption scheme is any good: READ AND UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE CODE. As a second best, show the source code to a competent programmer whom you trust and who has some expertise in the field in question. If they won't show you the source code, the most likely reason why not is because the encryption is no good and you should walk away.
And also, you can have multiple supermarket loyalty cards in multiple names and addresses; and you can delete the Google cookie as often as you like, which severs any connection between the data they harvest and the person supplying it. But you can only have one online account per games console.
Safeway were taken over by Morrisons a couple of years ago, so it just goes to show how long it is since you last went shopping! :p
Morrisons supermarkets don't have a loyalty card scheme. They do have savings stamp machines: you buy one pound stamps and stick them on a card. At certain points there are pre-printed "extra stamps", which are only valid if all the preceding positions are occupied with real stamps; this is the bonus you get for using savings stamps. Meanwhile, Morrisons have your money in their bank account, earning interest for them and not you.
Unfortunately, that probably won't help the cause. The media will conveniently forget that that information should never have been collected in the first place, and spin it as "evil hackers steal identities", not as "company commits egregious invasion of privacy". (If you do want to steal someone's identity, BTW, you can do worse than look here for inspiration.)
As always, the best way to protect yourself is to lie through your teeth when asked for personal information and never, ever be even vaguely consistent across different requests. For instance, if you pretended to be an Albanian nun to get a NYT login, pretend to be a Portuguese sausage-maker with hobbies of sword-fighting and watch repair to get an IMDB login -- but don't mention anything ecclesiastical or Albanian.
Those people won't lose their jobs as long as they're any good at them. There will still be a market for all the same services: studios, instrument hire, production, mastering, pressing, session musicians, distribution. It's just that under the new model, instead of signing their life away to a record label, the artist will pay for the production of their record or whatever themself, using a cash loan -- which they will obtain by putting up the rights to the work as collateral. The lender then has some say over distribution conditions as long as they are owed any money. {In this respect it's just like any other major-purchase loan, such as a mortgage; the lender will want to inspect the property and may insist that certain work be carried out before they will lend any money and they may impose conditions regarding letting &c. After all, they want to be sure the property will be worth something if you default on payments. And just as no bank will lend you money to buy a house that's already falling down, it will be easier to get a CD production loan if your work is likely to sell well.} The day the loan is paid off, the artist's rights in the work revert to them in full.
Artists won't be tied to labels the way they are today. So the model will be much more flexible. It's possible that supermarkets will have their own record labels with no studios or mastering facilities, just stamping discs or offering downloads from artist-supplied masters; there would still be room for "whole package" companies, offering everything from the loan to the studio to the distribution deal, for the artist who wants to leave the hard bits up to other people. But they'll be competing with others who can make economies by not having to provide such a comprehensive service. Lenders probably will have their own preferred suppliers of production and distribution services. And by selling media at a price point that makes copying uneconomical {nearly every bookshop has a photocopier, but who the hell ever went to the trouble of photocopying e.g. a whole bestselling novel from cover to cover? With the amount the shop would make on a deal like that, they could easily afford to reimburse the publisher for the "unsold" original}, more legitimate copies will be sold.
By the time an artist has recorded and recouped on a couple or three albums, if they're any good then they should be able to record the next one without a loan. Maybe even afford to set up a foundation for helping new artists through the process. But if they get too much like the old record labels, then they will lose customers and go out of business.
No, in Windows 95/98 you had to (1) turn off Browse Manager on all but one of the computers and (2) reboot twice after making any changes to the network. Sometimes you could make a computer appear by typing the full path to one of its shared resources ..... assuming you already knew the correct path, of course.
Most troubleshooting on Windows boils down to voodoo, really; because, since you have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on, it's the best you can hope for!
If the engine has to work harder to turn the alternator, then it will produce more emissions. So maybe an alternator is emissions-critical.
Of course, you could say that if you plug something into the cigarette lighter socket, then the engine will have to work harder to turn the alternator, thus producing more emissions; so anything that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket is emissions-critical!
In the UK, most "ordinary" cars have engines under 2 litres and petrol (gasoline) is the equivalent of US$2.00.
The patent was not struck down for obviety, but for being beyond the scope of patentability. Computer programs, business methods and mathematical processes are specifically excluded from patentability in the EU.
No, if the recorder is your property then the satellite provider are breaking the law by committing Criminal Damage to your property {it's no defence to a crime that you were acting under obligation of contract}, and the court order is invalid in the first place.
If the recorder is merely rented, then it's not necessarily criminal damage {since it is their property after all}. And although it's an indirect defence to theft that you believed the former owner was going to destroy the property {since you did not intend permanently to deprive them of it, but only to deprive them of it for as long as it would have taken for them to destroy it}, goods acquired in such a manner aren't covered by any guarantees.
At any rate, check your local Consumer Protection legislation, because this sort of thing is questionable -- in the UK, we have the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 As Amended, and in the USA there will be a combination of state and federal laws.
Although TTBOMK this was never demonstrated using cassettes, you could do that using two open-reel video recorders stood next to each other, with the tape spat out by the first {recording} one falling down loose into the space between them, eventually to be drawn into the second {playback} one. The BBC used such an arrangement often in sports programmes and similar.
Surely the reason why the Moon is considered a satellite of the Earth, rather than the Earth and Moon being considered a binary system, is because the centre of mass of the combined system is within the volume of one of the bodies {in this case, the Earth}? If the C. of M. was somewhere in the space between the two bodies, then they would constitute a binary system. Since the Earth weighs about 82 times as much as the moon, and the radius of the Earth is about 6.4 megametres, for the C. of M. to be just at the Earth's surface would require the Moon to be 82 * 6.4 = 524.8 megametres away from the Earth. {It's currently about 385Mm}. Further away would definitely make us a binary system.
Amstrad DD8900. Two recorder mechanisms, one receiver, one modulator. Watch one cassette while recording on another. Copy tape to tape. Or record from TV and satellite {via SCART, or poss. audio/video sockets in those days} at the same time. This was sometime back in the 1980s.
I think you missed some "and" signs. If you typed cat /dev/video0 >/tmp/in0.mpg then the prompt would disappear till the command finished. If, however, you had typed cat /dev/video0 >/tmp/in0.mpg & then you would get the prompt back straight away {actually, as soon as a separate process had detached itself} and could type the second command. Of course, you might just have meant to type each command in a separate terminal, in which case it would have worked.
Anyway, all of mathematics is obvious to any sufficiently-skilled mathematician. I hope this bogus patent is struck down on grounds of obviety.
Customers won't lose out. If they actually own those PVRs, or are renting them under a guarantee of service, then it's actually illegal for EchoStar to do anything to them {in one case it's Criminal Damage, for which you don't call a lawyer but a certain familiar three-digit number beginning with 9; the other Breach of Contract}. It probably would be cheaper for EchoStar to commit contempt of court. Of course, if they can bring their countersuit during the 30 days, they won't even be doing that.
Yes, they do.
All that will happen if enough people do this, is that the MPAA, RIAA and their equivalents in other countries will continue to blame their declining revenues on "piracy", and laws will be tightened up. Maybe it will become an offence to lend an original recording to someone else even if no copying takes place, or even to invite your friends around to watch a vid. Rentals will be replaced by limited-play discs, which you buy and then, instead of having to take them back to the rental store, they become unwatchable.
Meanwhile, the studios' greed will have turned every movie into a two-hour advertisement, turning away even more would-have-been viewers.
On Philips and Daewoo DVD+R/+RW recorders {for that matter, probably any that use Philips internals}, you can copy a copy-protected signal by first inputting a non-protected signal, selecting RECORD, then PAUSE; quickly switching over to the protected signal {use an actual switch box, manually unplugging and replugging is not quick enough}; and then coming out of PAUSE. The machine only seems to check for the presence of Macrovision when engaging RECORD mode, or if the video signal is interrupted for several fields in a row.
Seems the boys and girls in the labs in Eindhoven liked their old movies, so they built in this little "cheat" that wouldn't get noticed during type-approval!
I don't.
No violation of human rights is any greater or any lesser than any other violation.
The lie that, for example, a dress code is somehow less unacceptable than a colour bar, is what keeps the "big" injustices going. Surely it is better to attempt to overturn a "small" injustice and succeed, than not even to attempt to overturn it at all because other injustices are perceived as "greater" ? In fact, even if there were such things as greater and lesser injustices, successfully overturning a "small" injustice would give us a huge psychological boost to help us attack a "great" injustice.
Oh, yeah. So if you're drowning, the proper course of action is to drink your way out of it?
There ought to be a word for "failing to bleed when your neighbour is cut".
It's just crap in the vertical retrace interval. The VCR doesn't lose sync, but since the noise exceeds the normal signal level it causes the AGC to reduce the gain, thereby making the picture go dim. If you did not know any better, then you might suppose it to be a mere artefact from the mass-production process {since it is conspicuously absent from home recordings}. If you shorten the AGC time constant on the recording VCR {by unsoldering one capacitor} you won't get the dimming effect. You can also use an op-amp hard limiter circuit {similar to those cheesy guitar distortion pedals everyone was building in the 1980s} to clamp the spikes.
A more thorough way of defeating Macrovision is to use a 1881 sync separator, 4066 quad bilateral switch and some assorted logic ICs {or a microcontroller}. You need to discard about 30 lines from the top of each field, clamping them to no more than 0V but pulling them down to -0.3V with the line sync pulses. If you can manage to leave in the colour subcarrier burst, then so much the better.
As long as you're making fair use of material, which you have an inalienable right to do, then the use of an electronic circuit to remove this copy protection would be classified as Reasonable Force in pursuit of your Statutory Rights.
Of all the distributions I have tried, Debian and Gentoo have the best package management systems.
Debian was my first; I thought it was a little hard to get to grips with, so I flirted with Mandriva, Red Hat / Fedora Core, some other Red Hat derivative, and none of them quite cut it. I ended up going back to Debian. I've since experimented with Slackware and Gentoo. Neither of them really seemed to do anything that Debian didn't: I found Slackware a bit too stripped-down, and Gentoo more a rite-of-passage {like going out naked into the desert as a boy and returning as a man}. Maybe if I had gone straight to Gentoo from the RPM-based distros rather than via Debian, and if I hadn't urgently needed a hard drive and nicked the one with Gentoo on it, I might have stuck with it. I certainly wouldn't derecommend it; but during the time I was using it, I didn't get to see it doing anything better than Debian.
One of the problems with source tarballs is that they are {obviously} created by developers, who {obviously} have the latest versions of all the various shared libraries, fonts &c. on their systems, and the associated -devel packages {an anachronism which unfortunately persists; the first distro that ditches -devel in favour of putting all the old -devel files into the main RPM / DEB package will definitely get tried by me}. Not everybody has a "virgin" machine handy to check exactly what is necessary for installing a package, so it's easy for a developer to miss something.
If you are a developer, for goodness' sake, please attempt to install your new package on a brand new machine to make sure you specified the dependencies correctly. And if you run afoul of an unmentioned dependency, for goodness' sake, contact the developer in case they really just don't know.
But there is a common standard software installer for all GNU/Linux systems!
./configure
You open up an xterm. You type
$ tar xvzf my_new_package.tar.gz
$ cd my_new_package
$
$ make
$ su
You type your root password, which isn't shown on screen. The prompt changes from a dollar sign to a comment mark, and you continue
# make install
You press ctrl-D and the prompt changes back to a $. You press it again and the xterm disappears. It may not be obvious from looking at it for the first time what you're supposed to do with it; but the procedure is exactly the same for every package prepared with GNU autotools.
Bear in mind that that's ten gigs of OS and applications, not just the OS. I don't know what packaging system OpenSUSE is using {just vague memories of the old SuSE being clearly Slackware or SoftLandings-derived, "disk sets" and all}: those ten gigs might or might not also include source code which gets compiled as part of the installation process.
Also, a typical Linux installation will have several applications of each type {Kontact, Evolution and Thunderbird; KBear, gFTP, the standard BSD command-line ftp client and ncftp; Konqueror and Firefox; Pine and Mutt; Noatun, Rhythmbox, XMMS amd MPG123; Kopete and Gaim; K3B and GCombust; KOffice, OpenOffice.org and AbiWord/Gnumeric; MySQL and Postgres; KDE, GNOME and Windowmaker} and, if a 64-bit processor is used, may contain a separate 32-bit environment where applications which are not 64-bit clean can run in a chroot jail with their own 32-bit shared libraries and no danger of path conflicts.
Back in the days when I used to use Windows, I would occasionally get error messages when trying to install competing software packages together {"FooPlus has detected that Bar is installed on this computer. You need to remove Bar before FooPlus can be installed. If you are quite sure that there is no Bar on this computer, select 'install anyway'."} However, this was a long time ago and may well not be valid today. Also, because Windows packages were invariably downloaded pre-compiled, they often brought their own shared libraries and runtime environments with them {under Linux, you can just compile a package against whatever shared libraries you already have}.
You obviously shouldn't trust any assembler. What you have to do is translate the assembly language instructions into binary code by looking them up in the back of the manual. That's how every game for the ZX Spectrum was written!
Some processors are easier than others {ARM is pretty obvious, with very predictable bit fields that almost shout the mnemonics out loud at you; x86 not so obvious}. But once you have a known clean system, you can write yourself a cross-assembler for another processor.
Of course, even although you now know that the binary code must correspond exactly with the source code, you still don't know that the silicon is pure. You might do better to implement the instruction set in more observable hardware. It's just on the bounds of feasibility to manufacture thermionic valves at home -- and you would only need about 30000 of them to implement the 26-bit addressed, Thumb-less ARM. Alternatively, ditch electronics altogether and build a mechanical computer. You only need to use this for long enough to verify the real processor's operation.