...it is also the deterrent to wide scale adoption by home users of linux.. because installing programs is just as difficult as installing trojans.
hmmm...Maybe the trojan writers will make it easy for us and just say, "Hey this is a cool app, add this site to your apt sources list, then apt-get update, then apt-get install mytrojan." All kidding aside, installing apps in linux is far easier then in windows, apt-get install anything_you_want will do it all for you. Windows makes you click too much and quite honestly involves too much mouse work (can't stand that damn rodent). Sure its prettier but I don't run computers cause I like pretty things. What I'm getting at is apps require a one line command to install in Linux, in order for the trojans to use the same easy install method would require quite a bit more work.That in turn with products like ClamAV which are free and responsive to new threats immediatley, would make spreading viruses/trojans/worms very hard to do considering that its free AV and you will never have to worry about the users subscribing or keeping their subscription up to date. Regards, Steve
Excellent point! I believe on the 45 second crack, the box was passwordless, even root, but privileges were disabled, and the test was to see what kind of security could be imposed on such a system. Personally this would be a great security test! Imagine a box where root had no password and was still secure! Can there be such a thing? In typical/. fashion I didn't read the article, the information here is what I've read from other slashdot posts, however reliable that may be. Regards, Steve
They said that at certain densities of bank note green the printer changes color bands noticeably. I am an amateur photographer and have recently taken pictures of some interesting fields and other natural settings just after the sun has completely set but still has the surrounding slightly lit. The green in the pictures is fairly dark but not too dark and I wonder if these new printers would print them out looking like it was day light on the grass and dusk everywhere else. The pictures turned out really nice and I intend to do some other similar ones in the future. I currently print with an HP printer, but I can't see getting another HP being a viable option once this printer breaks. A photographer would like his pictures to print as photorealistic as possible without having to worry about whether or not it will print wierd, especially when your in the middle of shooting. This is ridiculous. Regards, Steve P.S. And no, film is not a viable option, especially long term, considering that major companies like Kodak are going to stop selling film.
Please refer to this post of mine. Also my original post wasn't trying to prove anything, it was just a recommendation to the the poster I replied to that he should look into Wolfram's work before going around spreading nonsense. If you still disagree with me after reading my other post, pick up the book and read it. I never claimed to be good at arguing, I'm a mathematician. Don't take my word on it, read it for yourself. Regards, Steve
You're not a physicist, are you? That's just not true. Einstein resisted the ideas behind quantum mechanics for a long time; he couldn't accept that "God plays dice with the Universe". I'm not sure that he ever really accepted it. No I'm not a physicist and I probably should have worded that better, sorry:). Your right in that Einstein thought that there couldn't be "uncertainty principles" as such and often times came up with creative theories to try to disprove them, but it is my understanding of the subject that he played a large role in the forthcoming of quantum mechanics. He made the equations but refused to admit they were right. Many others as well worked on it so Einstein shouldn't get sole credit, but thats what I understood Einstein's involvement was . Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks, Steve
Well I would definitely recommend reading the book, but as far as insights go there are thousands. From the possibility of the universe being emulated through cellular automata, to all of physics being right but wrong and that cellular automata is the proper way to do it. He applies cellular automata to cellular growth, space time, and pretty much every area of life. He has a lot to say about generating intrinsically true randomness with cellular automata. He essentially claims that anything that ever was and will be can be explained through cellular automata. Thats a fairly broad claim, but he has the knowledge, resources, and insight to back it up. In all honesty I can't just list one insight do to the nature of how the book is interwoven, I don't have the time right now and I'd wind up citing 50 pages or so. But I do know of a forbes article, God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else that may be of interest to you and does a pretty good job of summarizing what Stephen Wolfram has been up to for the past 20 years. Regards, Steve P.S. If you still deny that my argument isn't strong enough, just reply and in a few hours when I have time I'll give you some irrefutable information. Take care.
By comparison, Wolfram is just a bored dilletante scribbling on the back of an envelope.
And you the mighty gowen have contributed so much to society. Wolfram is indeed a genius.He is up there with the likes of Stephen Hawking, just in a different field. He did build some of his work off of other people's, but that is what science is. Modern Physics was built off of Newton's work which was then in turn added to by others until it has reached its amazing point in this day and age where we can send a small robot to a crater on a planet millions of miles away. Quantum Mechanics is also commonly contributed to Albert Einstein who's work was then contributed to by others. But before Einstein there was Max Planck. The reason the human race has progressed as such is because we learn from our predecessors and build on that knowledge. Yes Wolfram used a lot of work based on others (and he cites it all), but he has also studied Cellular Automata for somewhere between 12 to 20 years.The guy is smart and I've read this entire book cover to cover and have referenced it several times. He makes insights into the field that no one has ever mentioned before. And after hearing him speak at one of his conferences in New York I have the upmost respect for him and his brilliance. If you still don't believe me, read the book, or just go to his website and browse it. Even better, try to duplicate Mathematica and see how far you get.I'm not trying to start a flame or anythign like that, but unless you are really familar with this guy then you can't really comment. I've followed his works for at least 5 years now. Regards, Steve P.S. Another guy worth checking out who is affiliated with Wolfram is Eric Weisstein who has a great website and sells an encyclopedia for mathematics, which I also own and couldn't live without:)
This post is extremely off topic and I'll prob be modded as off topic, but I'll answer you anyway, afterall knowledge is what Slashdot is all about. Yea its about 11-12 years behind release. I believe Linus started devloping Linux because he didn't see the GNU/HURD being released anytime soon. I've played with HURD and the source is absolutely beautiful, even compared to Linux. If you hack at all you should look at it. It doesn't do much and has almost 0 hardware support, but its great to start kernel dev in if you've never had the pleasure. I guess thats all there is to say about it. For anyother slashdotters that may read this and teaches, if you have your students code or want to show them some good coding, use the HURD. Regards, Steve
As El so elegantly stated, Unless you assume that the machine doing the encryption has already been compromised.
The problem is if I root your computer and thn you register to vote, I simply block your vote from leaving your computer, fabricate my own packets and send them along. you'll never know because voting methods require that they can't be traced back to you. If someone can prove that you voted for a certain candidate then people will start being paid to vote for certain candidates As long as you can't attatch a vote to a person then paying someone to vote for you is fundamentally flawed in that you can't prove anything they did.In an age where hackers store their movies and mp3s on government computers and an age where people will open up any email that says it was specially encoded in a binary format as an attatchment, I don't think its a wise idea for anyone to trust anyone that their vote was legitimate if it was sent through the internet.It doesn't matter if the network is decentralized (the internet is decentralized by the way), if I own your computer then I control what you do with it, simple as that. Regards, Steve
Your obviously ashamed of not using linux Mr. Anonymous Coward. And yes actually Slashdot is known for being a majority linux/unix news group. We don't announce every windows release, but we do announce every kernel update and FreeBSD release. We interview kernel developers and follow Linus arund the globe. We are cited in the media as being the center of discussion in the open source world, which tends to imply Linux. Slashdot was also mentioned several times in reference with MyDoom because we are known to be linux centric. Its like in the FAQ Cmdr Taco says that this website is based around America but anyone from anywhere is welcome and so are their stories.Well this website is based around Linux users but anyone using any OS is welcome here (but be prepared for "constructive" criticism like this:) ). I don't know if Taco has stats somewhere but I'm fairly certain there'd be alot more mozilla/linux then internet explorer/windows users. Regards, Steve
If your running Linux and go to their site you'll see that they have a linux version and they keep it updated:) Wonder if it has these new features. Regards, Steve
Microsoft and IBM can work out a way to make custom logic interface with...
I'm shocked that Microsoft is still doing business with IBM and haven't terminated their contract yet. Anyone know if they are contracted for an XBox 3? You may ask why I am saying that. Look at IBM's mainpage, it explains everything. Regards, Steve
P.S. In case you still missed it or refuse to click links because you run Internet Explorer:), On IBM's front page it has a "Linux Superbowl" promotion glaring at you. You can't miss it.
On their main page in the first paragraph it says,"Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64 CPU, including optional MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow instructions." Regards, Steve
I recently needed native windows support for a small project at the firm. (WINE wasn't doing it for me) and I fired up windows 98 in bochs. It was rather nice, had a 2 gig img and 128 megs RAM dedicated to it and it ran fairly smooth. Granted I could only boot it in this thing called "safe mode" or something like that. I did with it what I needed to do and then deleted the.img and.bochsrc. I never had to make any permanent changes to my computer. I must admit that Linux ( Unix in general) runs much better under bochs, but Windows was holding its own when IPS (instructions per second) was set to 5 million. I don't know if Windows was lagging as compared to Linux because of code quality or if bochs is geared towards linux more, or if that "safe mode" thing runs slower, so I'm not putting Windows down, just saying it doesn't seem to perform as well to me (Although I give Redmond an A+ for gui design). Regards, Steve
P.S.Way to go bochs team! Keep up the awesome work.
Personally I think this should be a non-issue. In two years Microsoft is coming out with Longhorn. The "Windows" serious isn't being worked on anymore, yes its being supported, but all new innovations will be in Longhorn. In two years the Lindows name won't be mimicking anything that is current. I understand that legacy is still an issue, but MS is changing it's OS name anyway. They should take a chill pill. I do agree that Lindows shouldn't have modeled their name after Windows, but I'm just saying in two years this will mean nothing. Regards, Steve
WHAT!!!!??? Are your claiming that being compatible with other formats is unfairly allowing it to profit off of Microsoft? Compatibility is allowed and is often done in many products.If thats not your claim, then it must be that it is an office suite. Microsoft was by far not the first company to have an office suite and won't be the last one. if neither of those things were what you were implying, then please clarify. Open Office is successful because it is free, compatible, and full of features (I love that reg expr parser in the find utility) that don't exist in other suites (excluding SUN's). Even KOffice supports the OpenOffice format now because it's so popular. Regards, Steve
Not sure about the drivers or lack of focus, but it IS NOT the "layering thingie". A common misconception is that the layers slow things down. Unless your running X over a network there is no lag . Things don't become slow just because its modular and layered (unless your a bad programmer). Regards, Steve
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...it is also the deterrent to wide scale adoption by home users of linux.. because installing programs is just as difficult as installing trojans.
hmmm...Maybe the trojan writers will make it easy for us and just say, "Hey this is a cool app, add this site to your apt sources list, then apt-get update, then apt-get install mytrojan." All kidding aside, installing apps in linux is far easier then in windows, apt-get install anything_you_want will do it all for you. Windows makes you click too much and quite honestly involves too much mouse work (can't stand that damn rodent). Sure its prettier but I don't run computers cause I like pretty things. What I'm getting at is apps require a one line command to install in Linux, in order for the trojans to use the same easy install method would require quite a bit more work.That in turn with products like ClamAV which are free and responsive to new threats immediatley, would make spreading viruses/trojans/worms very hard to do considering that its free AV and you will never have to worry about the users subscribing or keeping their subscription up to date.
Regards,
Steve
Excellent point! I believe on the 45 second crack, the box was passwordless, even root, but privileges were disabled, and the test was to see what kind of security could be imposed on such a system. Personally this would be a great security test! Imagine a box where root had no password and was still secure! Can there be such a thing? In typical /. fashion I didn't read the article, the information here is what I've read from other slashdot posts, however reliable that may be.
Regards,
Steve
They said that at certain densities of bank note green the printer changes color bands noticeably. I am an amateur photographer and have recently taken pictures of some interesting fields and other natural settings just after the sun has completely set but still has the surrounding slightly lit. The green in the pictures is fairly dark but not too dark and I wonder if these new printers would print them out looking like it was day light on the grass and dusk everywhere else. The pictures turned out really nice and I intend to do some other similar ones in the future. I currently print with an HP printer, but I can't see getting another HP being a viable option once this printer breaks. A photographer would like his pictures to print as photorealistic as possible without having to worry about whether or not it will print wierd, especially when your in the middle of shooting. This is ridiculous.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. And no, film is not a viable option, especially long term, considering that major companies like Kodak are going to stop selling film.
Interesting...I had never seen that before.
Thanks,
Steve
Please refer to this post of mine. Also my original post wasn't trying to prove anything, it was just a recommendation to the the poster I replied to that he should look into Wolfram's work before going around spreading nonsense. If you still disagree with me after reading my other post, pick up the book and read it. I never claimed to be good at arguing, I'm a mathematician. Don't take my word on it, read it for yourself.
Regards,
Steve
You're not a physicist, are you? That's just not true. Einstein resisted the ideas behind quantum mechanics for a long time; he couldn't accept that "God plays dice with the Universe". I'm not sure that he ever really accepted it. :). Your right in that Einstein thought that there couldn't be "uncertainty principles" as such and often times came up with creative theories to try to disprove them, but it is my understanding of the subject that he played a large role in the forthcoming of quantum mechanics. He made the equations but refused to admit they were right. Many others as well worked on it so Einstein shouldn't get sole credit, but thats what I understood Einstein's involvement was . Please correct me if I'm wrong.
No I'm not a physicist and I probably should have worded that better, sorry
Thanks,
Steve
Well I would definitely recommend reading the book, but as far as insights go there are thousands. From the possibility of the universe being emulated through cellular automata, to all of physics being right but wrong and that cellular automata is the proper way to do it. He applies cellular automata to cellular growth, space time, and pretty much every area of life. He has a lot to say about generating intrinsically true randomness with cellular automata. He essentially claims that anything that ever was and will be can be explained through cellular automata. Thats a fairly broad claim, but he has the knowledge, resources, and insight to back it up. In all honesty I can't just list one insight do to the nature of how the book is interwoven, I don't have the time right now and I'd wind up citing 50 pages or so. But I do know of a forbes article, God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else that may be of interest to you and does a pretty good job of summarizing what Stephen Wolfram has been up to for the past 20 years.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. If you still deny that my argument isn't strong enough, just reply and in a few hours when I have time I'll give you some irrefutable information. Take care.
By comparison, Wolfram is just a bored dilletante scribbling on the back of an envelope.
:)
And you the mighty gowen have contributed so much to society. Wolfram is indeed a genius.He is up there with the likes of Stephen Hawking, just in a different field. He did build some of his work off of other people's, but that is what science is. Modern Physics was built off of Newton's work which was then in turn added to by others until it has reached its amazing point in this day and age where we can send a small robot to a crater on a planet millions of miles away. Quantum Mechanics is also commonly contributed to Albert Einstein who's work was then contributed to by others. But before Einstein there was Max Planck. The reason the human race has progressed as such is because we learn from our predecessors and build on that knowledge. Yes Wolfram used a lot of work based on others (and he cites it all), but he has also studied Cellular Automata for somewhere between 12 to 20 years.The guy is smart and I've read this entire book cover to cover and have referenced it several times. He makes insights into the field that no one has ever mentioned before. And after hearing him speak at one of his conferences in New York I have the upmost respect for him and his brilliance. If you still don't believe me, read the book, or just go to his website and browse it. Even better, try to duplicate Mathematica and see how far you get.I'm not trying to start a flame or anythign like that, but unless you are really familar with this guy then you can't really comment. I've followed his works for at least 5 years now.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Another guy worth checking out who is affiliated with Wolfram is Eric Weisstein who has a great website and sells an encyclopedia for mathematics, which I also own and couldn't live without
This post is extremely off topic and I'll prob be modded as off topic, but I'll answer you anyway, afterall knowledge is what Slashdot is all about. Yea its about 11-12 years behind release. I believe Linus started devloping Linux because he didn't see the GNU/HURD being released anytime soon. I've played with HURD and the source is absolutely beautiful, even compared to Linux. If you hack at all you should look at it. It doesn't do much and has almost 0 hardware support, but its great to start kernel dev in if you've never had the pleasure. I guess thats all there is to say about it. For anyother slashdotters that may read this and teaches, if you have your students code or want to show them some good coding, use the HURD.
Regards,
Steve
no its not.
-Steve
XOR gates are expenisive and slow. All gates can be made from a combination of AND gates and NOT gates and life will be happier.
Regards,
Steve
As El so elegantly stated, Unless you assume that the machine doing the encryption has already been compromised.
The problem is if I root your computer and thn you register to vote, I simply block your vote from leaving your computer, fabricate my own packets and send them along. you'll never know because voting methods require that they can't be traced back to you. If someone can prove that you voted for a certain candidate then people will start being paid to vote for certain candidates As long as you can't attatch a vote to a person then paying someone to vote for you is fundamentally flawed in that you can't prove anything they did.In an age where hackers store their movies and mp3s on government computers and an age where people will open up any email that says it was specially encoded in a binary format as an attatchment, I don't think its a wise idea for anyone to trust anyone that their vote was legitimate if it was sent through the internet.It doesn't matter if the network is decentralized (the internet is decentralized by the way), if I own your computer then I control what you do with it, simple as that.
Regards,
Steve
Your obviously ashamed of not using linux Mr. Anonymous Coward. And yes actually Slashdot is known for being a majority linux/unix news group. We don't announce every windows release, but we do announce every kernel update and FreeBSD release. We interview kernel developers and follow Linus arund the globe. We are cited in the media as being the center of discussion in the open source world, which tends to imply Linux. Slashdot was also mentioned several times in reference with MyDoom because we are known to be linux centric. Its like in the FAQ Cmdr Taco says that this website is based around America but anyone from anywhere is welcome and so are their stories.Well this website is based around Linux users but anyone using any OS is welcome here (but be prepared for "constructive" criticism like this :) ). I don't know if Taco has stats somewhere but I'm fairly certain there'd be alot more mozilla/linux then internet explorer/windows users.
Regards,
Steve
If your running Linux and go to their site you'll see that they have a linux version and they keep it updated:) Wonder if it has these new features.
Regards,
Steve
Do you have ANY doubt whatsoever that MyDoom was perpetrated by pissed Linux users?
Yes.
-Steve
Microsoft and IBM can work out a way to make custom logic interface with...
:), On IBM's front page it has a "Linux Superbowl" promotion glaring at you. You can't miss it.
I'm shocked that Microsoft is still doing business with IBM and haven't terminated their contract yet. Anyone know if they are contracted for an XBox 3? You may ask why I am saying that. Look at IBM's mainpage, it explains everything.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. In case you still missed it or refuse to click links because you run Internet Explorer
Yes they coexist, along with SUSE and Linare. See for yourself. Check the left side column for SUSE and Linare.
Regards,
Steve
Look at the third picture on the site.
" Owned by Joseph Cheek"
Damn not even on the market yet and already 0vvn3d. This Joseph Cheek guy is 1337.
-Steve
On their main page in the first paragraph it says ,"Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64 CPU, including optional MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow instructions."
Regards,
Steve
It can emulate AMD's 64 bit processor just fine.
Regards,
Steve
I recently needed native windows support for a small project at the firm. (WINE wasn't doing it for me) and I fired up windows 98 in bochs. It was rather nice, had a 2 gig img and 128 megs RAM dedicated to it and it ran fairly smooth. Granted I could only boot it in this thing called "safe mode" or something like that. I did with it what I needed to do and then deleted the .img and .bochsrc. I never had to make any permanent changes to my computer. I must admit that Linux ( Unix in general) runs much better under bochs, but Windows was holding its own when IPS (instructions per second) was set to 5 million. I don't know if Windows was lagging as compared to Linux because of code quality or if bochs is geared towards linux more, or if that "safe mode" thing runs slower, so I'm not putting Windows down, just saying it doesn't seem to perform as well to me (Although I give Redmond an A+ for gui design).
Regards,
Steve
P.S.Way to go bochs team! Keep up the awesome work.
"If XFree86 doesn't back out, it could spell doom for the project as a whole,..."
Hmmm...do I smell Xouvert? or perhaps freedesktop ?
Regards,
Steve
Personally I think this should be a non-issue. In two years Microsoft is coming out with Longhorn. The "Windows" serious isn't being worked on anymore, yes its being supported, but all new innovations will be in Longhorn. In two years the Lindows name won't be mimicking anything that is current. I understand that legacy is still an issue, but MS is changing it's OS name anyway. They should take a chill pill. I do agree that Lindows shouldn't have modeled their name after Windows, but I'm just saying in two years this will mean nothing.
Regards,
Steve
WHAT!!!!??? Are your claiming that being compatible with other formats is unfairly allowing it to profit off of Microsoft? Compatibility is allowed and is often done in many products.If thats not your claim, then it must be that it is an office suite. Microsoft was by far not the first company to have an office suite and won't be the last one. if neither of those things were what you were implying, then please clarify. Open Office is successful because it is free, compatible, and full of features (I love that reg expr parser in the find utility) that don't exist in other suites (excluding SUN's). Even KOffice supports the OpenOffice format now because it's so popular.
Regards,
Steve
Not sure about the drivers or lack of focus, but it IS NOT the "layering thingie". A common misconception is that the layers slow things down. Unless your running X over a network there is no lag . Things don't become slow just because its modular and layered (unless your a bad programmer).
Regards,
Steve