It is technically possible. You load a small microkernel into memory, which then loads the kernel. When you want to upgrade your kernel you just tell the microkernel to pretty much load the new kernel, no different then when your OS closes one app and opens a new one. Technically you never reboot, although I do believe it sets back your uptime, as well as all applications and services must be restarted. So it is kind of like reboot, but technically not. I believe their is alos a way to do this using User Mode Linux (UML). Pretty much lock down your main kernel, and use UML for everything, when you wanna upgrade, just upgrade UML. (note: I've never used UML so have no idea what that entails). You could achieve similar situations with with vmwar, etc.. not the best performance, but it is possible. And your thinking, "Well what about the 'real' kernel, that still will never get upgraded", and my answer to that is, simply lock it down so it can't do just about anything (yes this is possible). Regards, Steve
If I interpreted what you said correctly, you don't believe in evolution. Now I am a pretty faithful christian and there are plenty of ways that religion and evolution can co-exist. One of the more profound theories is that God in his infinite wisdom knew that,starting with the big bang, setting particles up in the formation that he did would lead to our development. I.E. God set up the universe right before the big bang, he knew exactly how everything would turn out fom that point on. But slashdot is not about religion so I'll stop that. On to the science, evolution is clearly very viable, and most likely the correct theory. I mean its hardly even debated anymore amongst real scientists simply because it is the correct theory. If evolution didn't exist then sex would be non existant. When you were concieved by your parents, 23 chromosomes came from your dad and 23 chromosomes came from your mom. The idea is to take bits and pieces from two successful organisms(your parents), combine them, maybe throw a mutation in here or there, and hope the result is better then the parties involved in its production. If the resulting organism has a fatal flaw, or a mutation made it worse then better, well then it most likely dies or at least will not reproduce and spread that particular problem further (obviously exceptions apply, as with all things). If the new organism is created with equal qualities or better, then it will go on to produce. The exchange of DNA from two unrelated organisms(but still within the same species) is very important, thats why your supposed to mate outside the family. Your birth was the perfect example of evolution. If evolution didn't exist then noone would be born with deformities, and noone would be born with better characteristics. Evolution is responsible for even little things like some people having "hitchhiker's thumbs" or ear lobes attatched or detatched. The reason why you don't see more drastic changes from one generation to the next is simply because about 90% of all mutations are neutral. Thats why it took billions of years for us to evolve to our current form. Denying evolution is denying your very birth. And all this was proven without even getting into the historical evidence that has been found. Please don't close your eyes just because a book tells you to. Regards, Steve
Neil is wrong. If 90% of a source is crap but happens to be correct about 10% of its content, then clearly that source is a bad place to look for information about that remaining 10%. There is clearly a better place to look for information on that content.
If Apache and MySql is anything to judge by then yes its just Microsoft writing bad code. They have 1/4 the market Apache has, but most, if not all, worms are directed towards MS servers. Regards, Steve
No, quantum encryption in its current implementations can not be routed. This is why it is not as common as it could be. If anything even sees the transmission, as in any external force that in some way, shape, or form can affect the photons polarization (just about anything will do this), the entire tranmission is made void, at that point you can only verify that the line has been tampered with. As a result of that, there is no way to remotely verify what is legit and what isn't. You must start over. Technically a router could act like a man in the middle but then thats one more machine you must trust and there is no way to directly verify from Alice what she said, but rather you only receive verification through a "3rd party". This doesn't sound so bad until you realize that its useless in any network scenario that is available to public use. Right now if the Feds want to tap you, they go to your ISP, if the internet was quantumly encrypted and routed as you propose, the feds will still just go to the ISP and tap the box. What I'm getting at is that by throwing in a middle man, it kind of ruins the whole point. Now your thinking, "Well, if the connection has to be point to point, then why don't they just use ethernet". Basically because I can splice a Cat5 cable and listen in without you ever knowing, but if you even accidentally bump the fiber optic cable for quantum encryption, you will set off bells and whistles. The light used in the encryption is so sensitive that it can't even be amplified (although rumor has it that some company is making progress in that regards). Becuase it can't be amplified, tis range isn't very long. Hope this clears things up. Regards, Steve
Wrong. No need to have the password saved any where in any form. If your using a symmetric key algorithm, then the person just needs to memorize the password to decrypt the contents (and whatever that may involve). If you want to do some form of authentication with the password use MD5 or SHA-1(maybe 256). The password, *if* in some form must be saved on the drive(i.e. md5 or sha) the method of putting it on there should not be reversible. This is basic computer science, I mean what were these people thinking. Regards, Steve
This is obviously a troll, just giving a heads up to anyone who may be confused. Just ignore it, I feel its my duty as the grandparent poster to inform you guys of this. Regards, Steve
Go for it. Real has really made some serious changes. I'm in bed with them again and loving it, and have been for a few months. This is after nearly 5 years of not even looking at their software. Now a days, their software is really really nice and polished (both in features and appearance), I use it as my main media player now, regardless of the platform I'm on. Regards, Steve
Real Player 10 is really nice on Linux. I am pretty impressed by it. I mean, it has completely changed my view on Real. It just does what its supposed to and nothing else (and it supports ogg and theora, a big plus in my book). Has anyone had any issues with it? I seriously cannot find any major flaw with it. Regards, Steve
In other words, Fedora? Don't get me wrong, I use Debian all the time, and its about time they did this considering their big claim to fame and their role in the community. All I'm saying is that it was done before. Regards, Steve
You are awesome. He always has something cool to say. I would recommend anyone to read blogs.redhat.com daily and see whats going on over at redhat. In particular, you can read Havoc's log and other cool stuff here. My favorite is his editorial on "Why free software maintainers are so stuborn". Regards, Steve
This is like a dream come true. I need voice recognition capabilities for a number of applications and I was just making plans to try out some of the code from CMU's speech project. It looks like it should work well, but I haven't heard much about it so I'm skeptical about its accuracy. Now I'll have another choice and I won't feel like I'm locked into just one, arguably immature, choice for my apps. Regards, Steve
I second this, get a dog, maybe two. If she parks her car inside of a fenced area then just have the dogs rome around in the fenced area at night. Or have one in the house and one outside. They are great to have around, tons of fun, and 24/7 security. Just pet them now and then, give them food, and they are happy. Regards, Steve
Seems to me.NET is a good idea, so good in fact it's ripped off by Mono. A solid intelligable foundation library of objects, inter language, cross platform compatability. C# is a very enjoyable language to work in for some of us (personal preference). There's always the/.'ers with monkeys on their backs that insist its one huge elaborate Microsoft bait and switch to lock everyone into the Microsoft Evil Empire, but it seems to me theres a ton of positives as well, ECMA standardization, dozens of.NET capable languages now, and the MONO project is a great thing (that is a direct result, like it or not, of.NET being born). So whats with all this "oh nos, its Microsoft, so I shall not dirty my hands of complimenting it! Must bash in every post ever!".
You ever use Java? Many more libraries and they are more feature filled and flexible, also its faster. C# is not technically cross platform, it only is because the OSS world is making it so. That'd be like saying a Win32 executable is cross platform compatible because of Wine. Regards, Steve
Hmm.... what OS? On my Fedora core 2 system its barely using anything, I mean along with a Tomcat and Apache server running, and a few other things, my laptop isn't getting past 35.7% use in userland. Regardless, that is a damn clear stream, I've never seen a stream like that, especially while slashdot is pounding away. I mean something that clear with only a 35KB stream, its nuts. I am really impressed. Oh and as a side note, keep an eye out for the new Java VM to be released by Sun, I'm running the beta (although my applet plugin is still 1.4.2) and there are many significant improvments thus far. Its stable enough already that I'm using it to develop on. Regards, Steve
Yea, the grandparent post was exaggerating alot. ATRpms was just being extremely detailed. Everything he said could have been stated in, "Run 'yum install mythtv-suite' and install any drivers you may not have". Regards, Steve
Who moderated the parent as a troll? Yum or Apt is what everyone I know uses. They just take care of the ".so hell" that once plagued us all. Does anyone seriously not use a package manager now a days? I do install from tar balls and source a bit, but the typicall user doesn't need to, and even when I do, I haven't experienced ".so hell" in years. I actually forgot about it until this artical. Somehow it magically disappeared for me. Anyone else care to comment? Regards, Steve
But this is could be very bad for us. They essentially patented using hashes for file identification. This is used everywhere, if they win we lose, and if they lose we lose, nothing to be happy about here. I mean rsync heavily relies on hashes, as well as a number of other applications. Regards, Steve
Firefox has had this for a while. Anyone running firefox (I'm running 0.9.3) type "New York Times" in the url bar and hit enter, it puts you at www.nytimes.com. It just takes you to the I'm Feeling lucky link, but it comes in handy. Regards, Steve
Man I hate trolls. No I don't have a browser hijacking trojan/virus. You are just a troll trying to convince more folks to click the link. Regards, Steve
What an asshole. What happened to America on 9/11 was horrible, and what happened to Russia was equally as horrible, especially considering that the terrorists took over a school. Make fun of our policy here in the US as much as you want, but what happend to Russia recently should not have been mentioned, show some respect. My condolences go out to the Russians. Its a shame these problems didn't end with us. Regards, Steve
Its tub girl, or some girl with shit all over her, I closed it too quick to get a good look. DomainSite.com is giving away any *.info domain for free, and up to 25 of them. I did grab one myself just for the hell of it, but be very wary of those links for the next couple months or so. Regards, Steve
I ended my comment with stating that it was the centralized repositories that fixed all that. Try using portage without a central repository and see what happens. Not trying to start a flame, but I just think what I wrote was misread or misunderstood. Regards, Steve
Wow you missed the clue train about 2 years ago, relax I'm kidding. Apt has been out forever for rpm based distros, not sure how it is on SuSE, but I use it all the time on Fedora. Also, rpm based distros have a pretty graphical utility known as Red Carpet. It does everything the commandline tools do, but in a "prettier" way. There never was anything hard about RPM distros, I mean the hardest it ever got was d/ling the rpm and typing "rpm -i ". Dependency hell sometimes occured but thats true for any packaging system, including dpkg. Its the centralized repositories that fixed all that. Regards, Steve
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It is technically possible. You load a small microkernel into memory, which then loads the kernel. When you want to upgrade your kernel you just tell the microkernel to pretty much load the new kernel, no different then when your OS closes one app and opens a new one. Technically you never reboot, although I do believe it sets back your uptime, as well as all applications and services must be restarted. So it is kind of like reboot, but technically not. I believe their is alos a way to do this using User Mode Linux (UML). Pretty much lock down your main kernel, and use UML for everything, when you wanna upgrade, just upgrade UML. (note: I've never used UML so have no idea what that entails). You could achieve similar situations with with vmwar, etc.. not the best performance, but it is possible. And your thinking, "Well what about the 'real' kernel, that still will never get upgraded", and my answer to that is, simply lock it down so it can't do just about anything (yes this is possible).
Regards,
Steve
If I interpreted what you said correctly, you don't believe in evolution. Now I am a pretty faithful christian and there are plenty of ways that religion and evolution can co-exist. One of the more profound theories is that God in his infinite wisdom knew that ,starting with the big bang, setting particles up in the formation that he did would lead to our development. I.E. God set up the universe right before the big bang, he knew exactly how everything would turn out fom that point on. But slashdot is not about religion so I'll stop that. On to the science, evolution is clearly very viable, and most likely the correct theory. I mean its hardly even debated anymore amongst real scientists simply because it is the correct theory. If evolution didn't exist then sex would be non existant. When you were concieved by your parents, 23 chromosomes came from your dad and 23 chromosomes came from your mom. The idea is to take bits and pieces from two successful organisms(your parents), combine them, maybe throw a mutation in here or there, and hope the result is better then the parties involved in its production. If the resulting organism has a fatal flaw, or a mutation made it worse then better, well then it most likely dies or at least will not reproduce and spread that particular problem further (obviously exceptions apply, as with all things). If the new organism is created with equal qualities or better, then it will go on to produce. The exchange of DNA from two unrelated organisms(but still within the same species) is very important, thats why your supposed to mate outside the family. Your birth was the perfect example of evolution. If evolution didn't exist then noone would be born with deformities, and noone would be born with better characteristics. Evolution is responsible for even little things like some people having "hitchhiker's thumbs" or ear lobes attatched or detatched. The reason why you don't see more drastic changes from one generation to the next is simply because about 90% of all mutations are neutral. Thats why it took billions of years for us to evolve to our current form. Denying evolution is denying your very birth. And all this was proven without even getting into the historical evidence that has been found. Please don't close your eyes just because a book tells you to.
Regards,
Steve
Neil is wrong. If 90% of a source is crap but happens to be correct about 10% of its content, then clearly that source is a bad place to look for information about that remaining 10%. There is clearly a better place to look for information on that content.
:-)
Kinda like slashdot?
If Apache and MySql is anything to judge by then yes its just Microsoft writing bad code. They have 1/4 the market Apache has, but most, if not all, worms are directed towards MS servers.
Regards,
Steve
No, quantum encryption in its current implementations can not be routed. This is why it is not as common as it could be. If anything even sees the transmission, as in any external force that in some way, shape, or form can affect the photons polarization (just about anything will do this), the entire tranmission is made void, at that point you can only verify that the line has been tampered with. As a result of that, there is no way to remotely verify what is legit and what isn't. You must start over. Technically a router could act like a man in the middle but then thats one more machine you must trust and there is no way to directly verify from Alice what she said, but rather you only receive verification through a "3rd party". This doesn't sound so bad until you realize that its useless in any network scenario that is available to public use. Right now if the Feds want to tap you, they go to your ISP, if the internet was quantumly encrypted and routed as you propose, the feds will still just go to the ISP and tap the box. What I'm getting at is that by throwing in a middle man, it kind of ruins the whole point. Now your thinking, "Well, if the connection has to be point to point, then why don't they just use ethernet". Basically because I can splice a Cat5 cable and listen in without you ever knowing, but if you even accidentally bump the fiber optic cable for quantum encryption, you will set off bells and whistles. The light used in the encryption is so sensitive that it can't even be amplified (although rumor has it that some company is making progress in that regards). Becuase it can't be amplified, tis range isn't very long. Hope this clears things up.
Regards,
Steve
Wrong. No need to have the password saved any where in any form. If your using a symmetric key algorithm, then the person just needs to memorize the password to decrypt the contents (and whatever that may involve). If you want to do some form of authentication with the password use MD5 or SHA-1(maybe 256). The password, *if* in some form must be saved on the drive(i.e. md5 or sha) the method of putting it on there should not be reversible. This is basic computer science, I mean what were these people thinking.
Regards,
Steve
This is obviously a troll, just giving a heads up to anyone who may be confused. Just ignore it, I feel its my duty as the grandparent poster to inform you guys of this.
Regards,
Steve
Go for it. Real has really made some serious changes. I'm in bed with them again and loving it, and have been for a few months. This is after nearly 5 years of not even looking at their software. Now a days, their software is really really nice and polished (both in features and appearance), I use it as my main media player now, regardless of the platform I'm on.
Regards,
Steve
Real Player 10 is really nice on Linux. I am pretty impressed by it. I mean, it has completely changed my view on Real. It just does what its supposed to and nothing else (and it supports ogg and theora, a big plus in my book). Has anyone had any issues with it? I seriously cannot find any major flaw with it.
Regards,
Steve
In other words, Fedora? Don't get me wrong, I use Debian all the time, and its about time they did this considering their big claim to fame and their role in the community. All I'm saying is that it was done before.
Regards,
Steve
You are awesome. He always has something cool to say. I would recommend anyone to read blogs.redhat.com daily and see whats going on over at redhat. In particular, you can read Havoc's log and other cool stuff here. My favorite is his editorial on "Why free software maintainers are so stuborn".
Regards,
Steve
Well why don't you find out what all the fuss is about and hop on the torrent.
Regards,
Steve
This is like a dream come true. I need voice recognition capabilities for a number of applications and I was just making plans to try out some of the code from CMU's speech project. It looks like it should work well, but I haven't heard much about it so I'm skeptical about its accuracy. Now I'll have another choice and I won't feel like I'm locked into just one, arguably immature, choice for my apps.
Regards,
Steve
I second this, get a dog, maybe two. If she parks her car inside of a fenced area then just have the dogs rome around in the fenced area at night. Or have one in the house and one outside. They are great to have around, tons of fun, and 24/7 security. Just pet them now and then, give them food, and they are happy.
Regards,
Steve
Seems to me .NET is a good idea, so good in fact it's ripped off by Mono. A solid intelligable foundation library of objects, inter language, cross platform compatability. C# is a very enjoyable language to work in for some of us (personal preference). There's always the /.'ers with monkeys on their backs that insist its one huge elaborate Microsoft bait and switch to lock everyone into the Microsoft Evil Empire, but it seems to me theres a ton of positives as well, ECMA standardization, dozens of .NET capable languages now, and the MONO project is a great thing (that is a direct result, like it or not, of .NET being born). So whats with all this "oh nos, its Microsoft, so I shall not dirty my hands of complimenting it! Must bash in every post ever!".
You ever use Java? Many more libraries and they are more feature filled and flexible, also its faster. C# is not technically cross platform, it only is because the OSS world is making it so. That'd be like saying a Win32 executable is cross platform compatible because of Wine.
Regards,
Steve
Hmm.... what OS? On my Fedora core 2 system its barely using anything, I mean along with a Tomcat and Apache server running, and a few other things, my laptop isn't getting past 35.7% use in userland. Regardless, that is a damn clear stream, I've never seen a stream like that, especially while slashdot is pounding away. I mean something that clear with only a 35KB stream, its nuts. I am really impressed. Oh and as a side note, keep an eye out for the new Java VM to be released by Sun, I'm running the beta (although my applet plugin is still 1.4.2) and there are many significant improvments thus far. Its stable enough already that I'm using it to develop on.
Regards,
Steve
Yea, the grandparent post was exaggerating alot. ATRpms was just being extremely detailed. Everything he said could have been stated in, "Run 'yum install mythtv-suite' and install any drivers you may not have".
Regards,
Steve
Who moderated the parent as a troll? Yum or Apt is what everyone I know uses. They just take care of the ".so hell" that once plagued us all. Does anyone seriously not use a package manager now a days? I do install from tar balls and source a bit, but the typicall user doesn't need to, and even when I do, I haven't experienced ".so hell" in years. I actually forgot about it until this artical. Somehow it magically disappeared for me. Anyone else care to comment?
Regards,
Steve
But this is could be very bad for us. They essentially patented using hashes for file identification. This is used everywhere, if they win we lose, and if they lose we lose, nothing to be happy about here. I mean rsync heavily relies on hashes, as well as a number of other applications.
Regards,
Steve
Firefox has had this for a while. Anyone running firefox (I'm running 0.9.3) type "New York Times" in the url bar and hit enter, it puts you at www.nytimes.com. It just takes you to the I'm Feeling lucky link, but it comes in handy.
Regards,
Steve
Man I hate trolls. No I don't have a browser hijacking trojan/virus. You are just a troll trying to convince more folks to click the link.
Regards,
Steve
What an asshole. What happened to America on 9/11 was horrible, and what happened to Russia was equally as horrible, especially considering that the terrorists took over a school. Make fun of our policy here in the US as much as you want, but what happend to Russia recently should not have been mentioned, show some respect. My condolences go out to the Russians. Its a shame these problems didn't end with us.
Regards,
Steve
Its tub girl, or some girl with shit all over her, I closed it too quick to get a good look. DomainSite.com is giving away any *.info domain for free, and up to 25 of them. I did grab one myself just for the hell of it, but be very wary of those links for the next couple months or so.
Regards,
Steve
I ended my comment with stating that it was the centralized repositories that fixed all that. Try using portage without a central repository and see what happens. Not trying to start a flame, but I just think what I wrote was misread or misunderstood.
Regards,
Steve
Wow you missed the clue train about 2 years ago, relax I'm kidding. Apt has been out forever for rpm based distros, not sure how it is on SuSE, but I use it all the time on Fedora. Also, rpm based distros have a pretty graphical utility known as Red Carpet. It does everything the commandline tools do, but in a "prettier" way. There never was anything hard about RPM distros, I mean the hardest it ever got was d/ling the rpm and typing "rpm -i ". Dependency hell sometimes occured but thats true for any packaging system, including dpkg. Its the centralized repositories that fixed all that.
Regards,
Steve