Please don't speak unless you know what's going on. Red Hat askes them to remove thier name because it was genuinely confusing corporate customers. RHEL engineers actually actively participate in CentOS and Red Hat is completely fine and even encourages that. Red Hat isn't bullying anyone, Mandrake's base is from Red Hat but Mandrake removed all mention of Red Hat as to avoid confusion, that's all Red Hat is asking. Red Hat does a ton of stuff for the community, be grateful. Regards, Steve
There are plenty of potential screenshots worth seeing, however the screenshots on the site are ridiculously bad and unimportant. I'd recommend actually using RHEL, CentOS, or WBEL if your interested in what really goes on. There are many config utils and other system management stuff that they didn't even begin to look at. Regards, Steve
CentOS has been recommened on the RHEL mailing list by RHEL engineers if you can't afford RHEL. Some RHEL engineers are even involved with CentOS. Regards, Steve
Enterprise systems need to meet a certain criteria. Not many distributions meet this criteria except for Red Hat and Novell. This is based off of the common criteria I've seen set forth by most Fortune 500 companies. In the end it is really up to the admin but Ubuntu is not enterprise ready, nor are a slew of others. Debian used to be and still might meet the criteria, but in all honesty their stable version is getting too far behind and with the recent political issues in the project, its future is too uncertain for a business. I tested debian testing and unstable about 3 months ago because alot claim that those are good enough and are stable, I set up a cron job to install all updates daily (I have a similar set up on red hat) and within a month and one week both debian installations broke more then once (even if it was minor a few times, it wasn't acceptable). Don't get me wrong, other distros are nice for small businesses and home use, but certainly not enterprise. Regards, Steve
RHEL have recommended CentOS in the mailing list if you need an enterpise system and you or your company can't afford $345 a year. I guess that says alot about it. Some red hat engineers have even helped the CentOS project out. Regards, Steve
I think it is just the general slashdot mentality. Slashdot group think leads to alot of wierd assumptions. One being that money==bad, but money made linux mainstream and continues to foster more of it's development then any other means. Without distributions making money off of linux, it's development would slow down quite a bit. People don't realize all that companies like Red Hat do for the community, maybe if they grepd a few major projects they'd see. Anyway... I would never suggest that what slashdot's users think is actually how reality works and this applies to many things. One major area being with GUIs. Most notably, alot of slashdotters disagreed with Gnome's switch to the spatial model. The thing is, companies like Red Hat (probably Novell too) do HIG studies with actual users and implement what they find is needed or wanted. Developers don't realize that only about 5% of their needs overlap with regular users in GUIs. Everyone screams and shouts that they want linux to be mainstream and to have all this greatness, but then they scream and shout when money is involved and changes are made that benefit 95% of people rather then their 5% needs. Its just a wierd kind of paradox here, I've learned to live with it over the years. Regards, Steve
Ugh... ignore the above post, it is accurate if you replace White Box with CentOS. It may still be accurate for White Box, but I only know for CentOS. It was my understanding that one project took over for the other (so White Box == CentOS or so I thought), but apparently they are still both up and running, go figure. Regards, Steve
It is important to note that Red Hat eningeers have actually helped put White Box out. People here are going to yell and complain about how Red Hat made White Box remove any mention of Red Hat and they are probably also going to suggest that you dont need RHEL anymore. I'm just clarifying that Red Hat isn't out to crush White Box, but corporate customers really were confused. If you want or need support (as most companies and enterprises need) go with RHEL, if you don't need support then go with White Box, its pretty decent and some of the same engineers involved with RHEL have helped with White Box. Personally, Red Hat does a hell of alot for the community in everything from the kernel to the gui so $345 a year isn't bad if your company can afford it and you'll be supporting the community. The only place Red Hat has ever screwed up was due to a marketing mistake, so let's be nice...if that's the worst they ever do then we'll be pretty well off imho. Regards, Steve
I like the interface the way it is. I use both photoshop and the gimp and there are mant features that both do equally well, but both also have some things that make them better then the other. IMHO, Gimp wins once you figure it out. Higher learning curve == more usability and features (in this case). Photoshop is awesome, but anyone who mocks the Gimp hasn't used it extensively or for anything serious. Regards, Steve
As pompous as you are I hope noone ever gives you a job. I would hate to have you as a manager. Oh yea, learn to keep your mouth shut too, what kind of manager goes and tells the world about the interview process he had? It shows you are a very self contained person and like to boast yourself (definitly not manager material). Regards, Steve
Nothing was ignorant about my post, perhaps you meant to say that you simply disagreed with it. I assume you also meant to say that I shouldn't have generalized "we", but I'm pretty certain it was clear that "we" consisted of those in the same mind set as me, not necessarily "we" as in "we the people". Regardless, the fact remains that you managed to bring this thread down to a whole new level by randomly and senselessly using vulgarities. It says quite a bit about your personality and your own ignorance which you seem too self contained too realize. Here I am simply countering a man's argument with my own oppinion and you verbally assualt me for using my constituationl rights. It is a good thing that we live in a country that lets us say what we have without having to worry about any kind of government discipline. Regards, Steve
Wow your making out all these issues to be so much more then they are. As a typical citizen my life hasn't changed one bit as far as politics go for at least two decades. The changes being made in law rarely affect many people. Regardless, the situation is anything but hopeless and there are still alot of good folks in Washington that do indeed fight for our rights, you just rarely see it reported on slashdot.
Your view on America seems to come from all those crazy extremist magazines that hate everything America. If you look at the whole picture, the situation is pretty good. Sure George Bush isn't the best, but America's core principles are pretty impenetrable and it would take a hell of alot more then GWB to bring it crumbling down. Personally, I think in 4 years Hilary Clinton will be president... but thats off topic.
If you have ever studied history you'll see things like the current state of America fluctuate very much like a sine wave. Every couple decades we more or less dig ourselves into a little hole, then somehow we always rebound whether its from a kick ass president or because of some global scale war where we go in and save the place. The fact that your not willing to stick around long enough to see America do this again implies that you scare easily and your weak. At the first sign of trouble you run, but I doubt you can seriosuly say your life has actually been impacted by any recent legislation. For this, I hope you love NZ, I know a few folks there, its a nice place. Please don't ever step foot in this country again , if your not man (or woman) enough to stay when it gets tough we don't want you in 20 years when everything is bright and shiny again. (This isn't a flame) Regards, Steve
You obviously haven't checked out their prices, nor compared then to novell's nor looked into the cost of supporting software with live people rather then just tossing a manual at them. Regards, Steve
You're damn right. Who else is better suited for open source than the guys who are involved with it more then any other entity and are largely responsible for its mainstream use today. Check the kernel changelogs, or Gnome (Red Hat also hosts their website), GCC, a ton of work for GCJ, lots of work on many of the Apache projects, and many other very important projects in OSS from the lowest level things to stuff every day users use. Red Hat contributes far more code then any one else to those plus many many more projects. Red Hat as a policy open sources everything it has and allows all patents to be used by open source projects. So far the only mistake Red Hat made was a marketing mistake and who can blame them? They are getting bigger and must learn from things like they did.
They never once started abusing the community like many companies that just repackage many open source projects together and maybe add a little custom utility to manage some things. Red Hat is an integral part to the OSS movement so people should really stop bad mouthing them. Red Hat puts food on the table for the best of the best enginneers in OSS (excluding some which OSDL covers). Oh yea and not to mention, many of those 24 hour security responses that the OSS world is famous for come from Red Hat. I'm sick of people talking down on them on slashdot, its ridiculous the FUD some are spreading. Thank god alot of people realize that it is just FUD and nothing more. Regards, Steve
P.S. This post is directed at the/. community at large, not necessarily just the parent.
I'm not even sure its worth reviewing... from the design intro it more or less stated that you give it a 128 bit key and it spits out 128 bits of ciphertext. In my book that is a one time pad and it won't be any more secure then using xor (in fact not using xor could make it significantly less secure). Now I'm assuming this isnt a one time pad so I'm also assuming the same key will be used many times considering it may act as a wireless key similar to WEP keys right now. Now I don't know about you but reusing a key every 16 bytes for transmitting large amounts of data just smells of trouble. Granted with an ideal algorithm it wouldn't matter, I have yet to see one sufficiently implemented on such a large scale. Yes in theory they do exist, but knowing the cipher text, and having a high probability of what was encrypted (assume some protocol like http), over a couple million packets I can't see this holding out any better then WEP. Granted none of what I'm saying is backed up by math, this is just what I've observed over the years. Come on folks, its 2005... time to implement rotating keys in an easy to use way... even my garage door uses one (granted that still wouldn't solve *all* of the problems). I'll stick with the NSA, they've ironically gained my trust. Regards, Steve
Fedora can play most(all?) of these formats and there is not a single non-free piece of software on it. Hell they won't even let mp3's play because of the non-freeness. Regards, Steve
This decision affects the nation, thus it should be in the highest courts. The Terry Schiavo case (god bless her soul) has already been decided by 17 judges... its getting ridiculous. Personally, I feel that unless a person specifies in writing that they don't want to be kept alive, assume the will to live and keep them alive as long as possible. But it doesn't matter what I think... I used to think that only big corporations could manipulate the courts, Terry Schiavo's parents have manipulated and abused the court system to no end. I would like to see Terry live, but obviously there is something in the husband's argument that is making sense to alot of judges. I don't know both sides of the story and something tells me its a little more in depth the "the husband wants her dead for reason X". Anyway... I digress, the point is that Terry Schiavo affects one person, not a nation, if you write in a living will that you wish to not be given artificial life support then your request will be honored. This won't set precedent for anything other then that families will disagree, it didn't belong in the court system to begin with (but don't even get me started on baseball...). Regards, Steve
OpenBSD only makes sense in certain situations that involve servers. These people won't be hosting anything so there should be no ports accepting requests anyway. Linux provides vastly better hardware support, it is easier to use, and more software is targeted towards it allowing more choice in the end (all of those but the hardware point are arguable of course). Open BSD doesn't make sense for all things secure, it only makes sense for servers, and even then only in special circumstnaces because of the restrictions set by the default install. I often find OpenBSD to be overkill, any sysadmin worth the shoes on his feet should be able to secure a linux box to an arguably equal level of security if need be, using one method or another. Knoppix is also very snappy, OpenBSD isn't exactly a speed daemon;) Regards, Steve
I must apoligize for starting this thread (I'm the grand grand grand grand... parent)... but thank you for continuously destroying the troll's arguments. I try not to bite troll bait to often, but you did a good job of shutting him up:) Thanks. Regards, Steve
Always install using the distrbution's preferred method of installtion and you'll be fine. With rpm's its very easy to set up menu's etc... In fact, I can't remember the last time a program with a gui wasn't added to my start menu in fedora (without any user interaction).In fedora just use yum and everything is taken care of. Regardless, its not hard to have a program pop up in a menu, netbeans, java, eclipse (iirc), Enemy Territory, are all programs off the top of my head that have always installed flawlessly and added shortcuts despite using custom installers. Don't blame something on the software when in reality its your ignorance. Regardless, just because you're familiar with window's file structure and not linux's doesn't mean it is worse, it just means you don't understand it. I'd be lost as hell in window's file system. In *nix I know where all my binaries are, where all my system binaries are, and where all my conf files are without any problems. Any custom settings per user, I know right where they are too. Regards, Steve
Heh...I've used both FC3 and Ubuntu pretty extensively, trust me just stick with FC3. It is more stable and solid to me. Always works and has nice config utilities. In short, FC3 is just easier while leaving a ton of power in the user's hands. Regards, Steve P.S. Apparently a lot agree with me, Fedora has grown 122% in the server arena over 6 months, many times higher then any other distro. Regards, Steve
Hardware DRM is already implemented in game consoles and is already defeated with mod chips. Treacherous Computing will simply open up a new market of mass mod chip production. Could you imagine being sold a car and not allowed to open the hood? You could never find out what you car is really running with just like with "Trusted Computing" software can be installed and ran at a level you can't see and this software can easily call home and you'd never be able to know (unless you were tracking packets over the lan) and you'd never be able to stop it. I just hope that this brings about a new generation of home brew mods and hacks. In a way its kind of fun, kind of like a little war without all the blood and death. The only bad part will be if they start throwing folks in jail, so lets fight this while we can. Regards, Steve
What?! Just because something is turing complete doesn't mean you can't parse it. Perl's enhanced regular expressions *are* turing complete, as is perl and perl is parsed. The only thing you can't determine from a turing complete program is if it will ever halt, thus the halting problem. The halting problem also only applies to special cases (granted its an infinite number), but in many programs of turing complete languages you *can* determine if it will ever stop. The halting problem simply states that for any turing complete language, it is possible to produce a program that can not be determined to halt or not, it doesn't say that every turing complete program can't be decided. Regards, Steve
The original regular expressions were very very close to turing complete and today with enhanced regular expressions, they *are* turing complete. Regards, Steve
Are you stupid? He mentioned Gauss at the end of his comment. Gauss devised that method reportedly in the 2nd grade. The are plenty of summations for all kinds of series. He was just saying that its possible that rather then devising interesting things like ((N)(N+1))/2 = sum(range(N)) that students would just type in the right hand side of the equation instead of figuring out the sum's equation and in essence bringing a linear time problem to a constant time problem. Regards, Steve
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Please don't speak unless you know what's going on. Red Hat askes them to remove thier name because it was genuinely confusing corporate customers. RHEL engineers actually actively participate in CentOS and Red Hat is completely fine and even encourages that. Red Hat isn't bullying anyone, Mandrake's base is from Red Hat but Mandrake removed all mention of Red Hat as to avoid confusion, that's all Red Hat is asking. Red Hat does a ton of stuff for the community, be grateful.
Regards,
Steve
There are plenty of potential screenshots worth seeing, however the screenshots on the site are ridiculously bad and unimportant. I'd recommend actually using RHEL, CentOS, or WBEL if your interested in what really goes on. There are many config utils and other system management stuff that they didn't even begin to look at.
Regards,
Steve
CentOS has been recommened on the RHEL mailing list by RHEL engineers if you can't afford RHEL. Some RHEL engineers are even involved with CentOS.
Regards,
Steve
Enterprise systems need to meet a certain criteria. Not many distributions meet this criteria except for Red Hat and Novell. This is based off of the common criteria I've seen set forth by most Fortune 500 companies. In the end it is really up to the admin but Ubuntu is not enterprise ready, nor are a slew of others. Debian used to be and still might meet the criteria, but in all honesty their stable version is getting too far behind and with the recent political issues in the project, its future is too uncertain for a business. I tested debian testing and unstable about 3 months ago because alot claim that those are good enough and are stable, I set up a cron job to install all updates daily (I have a similar set up on red hat) and within a month and one week both debian installations broke more then once (even if it was minor a few times, it wasn't acceptable). Don't get me wrong, other distros are nice for small businesses and home use, but certainly not enterprise.
Regards,
Steve
RHEL have recommended CentOS in the mailing list if you need an enterpise system and you or your company can't afford $345 a year. I guess that says alot about it. Some red hat engineers have even helped the CentOS project out.
Regards,
Steve
I think it is just the general slashdot mentality. Slashdot group think leads to alot of wierd assumptions. One being that money==bad, but money made linux mainstream and continues to foster more of it's development then any other means. Without distributions making money off of linux, it's development would slow down quite a bit. People don't realize all that companies like Red Hat do for the community, maybe if they grepd a few major projects they'd see. Anyway... I would never suggest that what slashdot's users think is actually how reality works and this applies to many things. One major area being with GUIs. Most notably, alot of slashdotters disagreed with Gnome's switch to the spatial model. The thing is, companies like Red Hat (probably Novell too) do HIG studies with actual users and implement what they find is needed or wanted. Developers don't realize that only about 5% of their needs overlap with regular users in GUIs. Everyone screams and shouts that they want linux to be mainstream and to have all this greatness, but then they scream and shout when money is involved and changes are made that benefit 95% of people rather then their 5% needs. Its just a wierd kind of paradox here, I've learned to live with it over the years.
Regards,
Steve
Ugh... ignore the above post, it is accurate if you replace White Box with CentOS. It may still be accurate for White Box, but I only know for CentOS. It was my understanding that one project took over for the other (so White Box == CentOS or so I thought), but apparently they are still both up and running, go figure.
Regards,
Steve
It is important to note that Red Hat eningeers have actually helped put White Box out. People here are going to yell and complain about how Red Hat made White Box remove any mention of Red Hat and they are probably also going to suggest that you dont need RHEL anymore. I'm just clarifying that Red Hat isn't out to crush White Box, but corporate customers really were confused. If you want or need support (as most companies and enterprises need) go with RHEL, if you don't need support then go with White Box, its pretty decent and some of the same engineers involved with RHEL have helped with White Box. Personally, Red Hat does a hell of alot for the community in everything from the kernel to the gui so $345 a year isn't bad if your company can afford it and you'll be supporting the community. The only place Red Hat has ever screwed up was due to a marketing mistake, so let's be nice...if that's the worst they ever do then we'll be pretty well off imho.
Regards,
Steve
I like the interface the way it is. I use both photoshop and the gimp and there are mant features that both do equally well, but both also have some things that make them better then the other. IMHO, Gimp wins once you figure it out. Higher learning curve == more usability and features (in this case). Photoshop is awesome, but anyone who mocks the Gimp hasn't used it extensively or for anything serious.
Regards,
Steve
As pompous as you are I hope noone ever gives you a job. I would hate to have you as a manager. Oh yea, learn to keep your mouth shut too, what kind of manager goes and tells the world about the interview process he had? It shows you are a very self contained person and like to boast yourself (definitly not manager material).
Regards,
Steve
Nothing was ignorant about my post, perhaps you meant to say that you simply disagreed with it. I assume you also meant to say that I shouldn't have generalized "we", but I'm pretty certain it was clear that "we" consisted of those in the same mind set as me, not necessarily "we" as in "we the people". Regardless, the fact remains that you managed to bring this thread down to a whole new level by randomly and senselessly using vulgarities. It says quite a bit about your personality and your own ignorance which you seem too self contained too realize. Here I am simply countering a man's argument with my own oppinion and you verbally assualt me for using my constituationl rights. It is a good thing that we live in a country that lets us say what we have without having to worry about any kind of government discipline.
Regards,
Steve
Wow your making out all these issues to be so much more then they are. As a typical citizen my life hasn't changed one bit as far as politics go for at least two decades. The changes being made in law rarely affect many people. Regardless, the situation is anything but hopeless and there are still alot of good folks in Washington that do indeed fight for our rights, you just rarely see it reported on slashdot.
Your view on America seems to come from all those crazy extremist magazines that hate everything America. If you look at the whole picture, the situation is pretty good. Sure George Bush isn't the best, but America's core principles are pretty impenetrable and it would take a hell of alot more then GWB to bring it crumbling down. Personally, I think in 4 years Hilary Clinton will be president... but thats off topic.
If you have ever studied history you'll see things like the current state of America fluctuate very much like a sine wave. Every couple decades we more or less dig ourselves into a little hole, then somehow we always rebound whether its from a kick ass president or because of some global scale war where we go in and save the place. The fact that your not willing to stick around long enough to see America do this again implies that you scare easily and your weak. At the first sign of trouble you run, but I doubt you can seriosuly say your life has actually been impacted by any recent legislation. For this, I hope you love NZ, I know a few folks there, its a nice place. Please don't ever step foot in this country again , if your not man (or woman) enough to stay when it gets tough we don't want you in 20 years when everything is bright and shiny again. (This isn't a flame)
Regards,
Steve
You obviously haven't checked out their prices, nor compared then to novell's nor looked into the cost of supporting software with live people rather then just tossing a manual at them.
Regards,
Steve
You're damn right. Who else is better suited for open source than the guys who are involved with it more then any other entity and are largely responsible for its mainstream use today. Check the kernel changelogs, or Gnome (Red Hat also hosts their website), GCC, a ton of work for GCJ, lots of work on many of the Apache projects, and many other very important projects in OSS from the lowest level things to stuff every day users use. Red Hat contributes far more code then any one else to those plus many many more projects. Red Hat as a policy open sources everything it has and allows all patents to be used by open source projects. So far the only mistake Red Hat made was a marketing mistake and who can blame them? They are getting bigger and must learn from things like they did.
/. community at large, not necessarily just the parent.
They never once started abusing the community like many companies that just repackage many open source projects together and maybe add a little custom utility to manage some things. Red Hat is an integral part to the OSS movement so people should really stop bad mouthing them. Red Hat puts food on the table for the best of the best enginneers in OSS (excluding some which OSDL covers). Oh yea and not to mention, many of those 24 hour security responses that the OSS world is famous for come from Red Hat. I'm sick of people talking down on them on slashdot, its ridiculous the FUD some are spreading. Thank god alot of people realize that it is just FUD and nothing more.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. This post is directed at the
I'm not even sure its worth reviewing... from the design intro it more or less stated that you give it a 128 bit key and it spits out 128 bits of ciphertext. In my book that is a one time pad and it won't be any more secure then using xor (in fact not using xor could make it significantly less secure). Now I'm assuming this isnt a one time pad so I'm also assuming the same key will be used many times considering it may act as a wireless key similar to WEP keys right now. Now I don't know about you but reusing a key every 16 bytes for transmitting large amounts of data just smells of trouble. Granted with an ideal algorithm it wouldn't matter, I have yet to see one sufficiently implemented on such a large scale. Yes in theory they do exist, but knowing the cipher text, and having a high probability of what was encrypted (assume some protocol like http), over a couple million packets I can't see this holding out any better then WEP. Granted none of what I'm saying is backed up by math, this is just what I've observed over the years. Come on folks, its 2005... time to implement rotating keys in an easy to use way... even my garage door uses one (granted that still wouldn't solve *all* of the problems). I'll stick with the NSA, they've ironically gained my trust.
Regards,
Steve
Fedora can play most(all?) of these formats and there is not a single non-free piece of software on it. Hell they won't even let mp3's play because of the non-freeness.
Regards,
Steve
This decision affects the nation, thus it should be in the highest courts. The Terry Schiavo case (god bless her soul) has already been decided by 17 judges... its getting ridiculous. Personally, I feel that unless a person specifies in writing that they don't want to be kept alive, assume the will to live and keep them alive as long as possible. But it doesn't matter what I think... I used to think that only big corporations could manipulate the courts, Terry Schiavo's parents have manipulated and abused the court system to no end. I would like to see Terry live, but obviously there is something in the husband's argument that is making sense to alot of judges. I don't know both sides of the story and something tells me its a little more in depth the "the husband wants her dead for reason X". Anyway... I digress, the point is that Terry Schiavo affects one person, not a nation, if you write in a living will that you wish to not be given artificial life support then your request will be honored. This won't set precedent for anything other then that families will disagree, it didn't belong in the court system to begin with (but don't even get me started on baseball...).
Regards,
Steve
OpenBSD only makes sense in certain situations that involve servers. These people won't be hosting anything so there should be no ports accepting requests anyway. Linux provides vastly better hardware support, it is easier to use, and more software is targeted towards it allowing more choice in the end (all of those but the hardware point are arguable of course). Open BSD doesn't make sense for all things secure, it only makes sense for servers, and even then only in special circumstnaces because of the restrictions set by the default install. I often find OpenBSD to be overkill, any sysadmin worth the shoes on his feet should be able to secure a linux box to an arguably equal level of security if need be, using one method or another. Knoppix is also very snappy, OpenBSD isn't exactly a speed daemon ;)
Regards,
Steve
I must apoligize for starting this thread (I'm the grand grand grand grand... parent) ... but thank you for continuously destroying the troll's arguments. I try not to bite troll bait to often, but you did a good job of shutting him up :) Thanks.
Regards,
Steve
Always install using the distrbution's preferred method of installtion and you'll be fine. With rpm's its very easy to set up menu's etc... In fact, I can't remember the last time a program with a gui wasn't added to my start menu in fedora (without any user interaction).In fedora just use yum and everything is taken care of. Regardless, its not hard to have a program pop up in a menu, netbeans, java, eclipse (iirc), Enemy Territory, are all programs off the top of my head that have always installed flawlessly and added shortcuts despite using custom installers. Don't blame something on the software when in reality its your ignorance. Regardless, just because you're familiar with window's file structure and not linux's doesn't mean it is worse, it just means you don't understand it. I'd be lost as hell in window's file system. In *nix I know where all my binaries are, where all my system binaries are, and where all my conf files are without any problems. Any custom settings per user, I know right where they are too.
Regards,
Steve
Heh...I've used both FC3 and Ubuntu pretty extensively, trust me just stick with FC3. It is more stable and solid to me. Always works and has nice config utilities. In short, FC3 is just easier while leaving a ton of power in the user's hands.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Apparently a lot agree with me, Fedora has grown 122% in the server arena over 6 months, many times higher then any other distro.
Regards,
Steve
Hardware DRM is already implemented in game consoles and is already defeated with mod chips. Treacherous Computing will simply open up a new market of mass mod chip production. Could you imagine being sold a car and not allowed to open the hood? You could never find out what you car is really running with just like with "Trusted Computing" software can be installed and ran at a level you can't see and this software can easily call home and you'd never be able to know (unless you were tracking packets over the lan) and you'd never be able to stop it. I just hope that this brings about a new generation of home brew mods and hacks. In a way its kind of fun, kind of like a little war without all the blood and death. The only bad part will be if they start throwing folks in jail, so lets fight this while we can.
Regards,
Steve
What?! Just because something is turing complete doesn't mean you can't parse it. Perl's enhanced regular expressions *are* turing complete, as is perl and perl is parsed. The only thing you can't determine from a turing complete program is if it will ever halt, thus the halting problem. The halting problem also only applies to special cases (granted its an infinite number), but in many programs of turing complete languages you *can* determine if it will ever stop. The halting problem simply states that for any turing complete language, it is possible to produce a program that can not be determined to halt or not, it doesn't say that every turing complete program can't be decided.
Regards,
Steve
The original regular expressions were very very close to turing complete and today with enhanced regular expressions, they *are* turing complete.
Regards,
Steve
Are you stupid? He mentioned Gauss at the end of his comment. Gauss devised that method reportedly in the 2nd grade. The are plenty of summations for all kinds of series. He was just saying that its possible that rather then devising interesting things like ((N)(N+1))/2 = sum(range(N)) that students would just type in the right hand side of the equation instead of figuring out the sum's equation and in essence bringing a linear time problem to a constant time problem.
Regards,
Steve