While I guess it's a step in the right direction, reading this part just drives me nuts:
"The company also promised that it will investigate every substantive claim of innocence it receives. If purchasers provide sufficient evidence demonstrating that they did not use their devices for signal theft, DirecTV will dismiss their cases."
Oh, now I have to provide "sufficient evidence" that I'm not guilty? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on their side?
Basically, the bully is going to try to be a little nicer.
By cat to/dev/null you're just trying to "preload" the cache so it's faster when you load the program.
No matter what you have to read from the disk at one point.
Have you tried the ramdrive thing? Is it faster than not using it (counting the loading time)?
I'm curious as to how much of a real difference it makes.
Perhaps copying the entire app to a ram drive reads from the disk more efficiently than when the OS loads the program with all its files. So you save some time there. If that were the case it would be interesting if the same disk optimiziations done during boot time could be done for program launches. That is, the system keeps track of how the disk is accessed during a program launch, and optimizes the reads next time.
You still have to read them once from the disk. So while it may start in less than 3 seconds, you're not counting the time it took to put it in the ram drive. (reminds me of how IE does the same thing in Windows).
After you've loaded it, now you've got 2 copies of Open Office/Gnome in RAM. That's a lot of wasted ram that could be used for something else. In fact, since you have less available ram, it's quite possible that parts of Open Office/Gnome get swapped out more than they would if you didn't have the RAM drive. In that case, you've just made your overall performance worse.
Your login/password is sent to an "https" address. It is being sent encrypted. Look at the source and see for yourself.
You can't really go by what you see in the URL because that is the address you're looking at, not the address that the form data is posted to.
Most browsers will warn you when you try to send something that's not secure. Most likely you've disabled that warning, as almost everyone does. If you turn it back on, you will notice that the browser won't warn you when you try to login because it is encrypted.
I would say the opposite, regulare phone service is very unsecure. Tapping your phone line is very easy if you know what you're doing. There are various places between the CO and your phone which can serve as easy locations to tap your line. For example if we lived in the same apartment building and your apartment was directly above mine. Your phone line may actually be running through my unit. It doesn't get any easier than that to tap it.
I've never used VoIP, but I would think that if you and I decided to have a VoIP conversation we could easilly encrypt the communications from each others computers (i.e. IPSec, or some encrypted tunnel if the application won't support it). Our IP traffic will not only be much more difficult to tap than POTS, but even if it is tapped it then becomes very difficult if not impossible to break the encryption.
I think the protocol that let you upload & download at the same time was bimodem. It also let you chat with the sysop while the file transfers where going.
I would think FTP is slower since with FTP you have to login and build the data connection before the transfer begins. With HTTP it's a simple GET request.
As far as the actual data being sent, I believe that the file is sent the same way with both protocols. (just send the data via a TCP connection). I could be wrong though.
Moore's law really has nothing to do with speed even though people think it does.
"More than 25 years ago, when Intel was developing the first microprocessor, company cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double approximately every 18 months. To date, Moore's law has proven remarkably accurate. "
From : http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/ mooreslaw.html
Each time I see another story about this I can't believe it.
The whole idea that an operating system (Windows) is dependent on an application (Internet Explorer) is a complete joke. I can't believe they have spent so much time and money arguing about this.
Thats pretty cool. He just has to figure out a way to "direct" the bots. The dialog should flow slowly for somethings and fast for other things ( like arguments ), so he should have delays between lines. Perhaps even have the bots enter / leave the channel at certain times, and even kick themselves out of the channel when they are fighting.
You know you've been on IRC way to long when your thinking about Shakespeare on IRC:)
The thing with "l33t speak" is that it isn't really hard to modify your password cracker to convert the words in your word lists to "l33t speak" and try.
Actually, you probobly don't even have to modify your password cracker, just convert your word lists to l33t speak (i.e. 'a' becomes 4, 's' becoms 5,... )
I think the idea to use more characters than just 'a-z' is a good one, try to use characters from 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '!@#$%^&*()', and even the characters with accents. But, try not to make it predictable like "l33t speak".
btw, your example "MyP455w0rdR0X0r5" might not be to bad since "R0X0r5" might not be a word in a word list, but "my" and "password" probobly would be in the list. Then again, I'm no expert in cracking passwords or "l33t speak" so maybe someone else would have it in their list.
Has anyone seen the ads that come up in the middle of the page you are trying to view? I believe it's an image in another layer that they put on top of the page for n seconds and then it fades away.
I think those only work on IE since I haven't seen it happen on Netscape or Mozilla yet.
With the popups, sounds, flashing banners, and these images I'm really missing gopher:)
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I just upgraded from 9.0 without uninstalling.
It worked fine. However it's only been like 3 minutes since i've been using 9.1.
While I guess it's a step in the right direction, reading this part just drives me nuts:
"The company also promised that it will investigate every substantive claim of innocence it receives. If purchasers provide sufficient evidence demonstrating that they did not use their devices for signal theft, DirecTV will dismiss their cases."
Oh, now I have to provide "sufficient evidence" that I'm not guilty? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on their side?
Basically, the bully is going to try to be a little nicer.
Ahh, thanks.
We all know Al Gore invented the 1st computer.
By cat to /dev/null you're just trying to "preload" the cache so it's faster when you load the program.
No matter what you have to read from the disk at one point.
Have you tried the ramdrive thing? Is it faster than not using it (counting the loading time)?
I'm curious as to how much of a real difference it makes.
Perhaps copying the entire app to a ram drive reads from the disk more efficiently than when the OS loads the program with all its files. So you save some time there. If that were the case it would be interesting if the same disk optimiziations done during boot time could be done for program launches. That is, the system keeps track of how the disk is accessed during a program launch, and optimizes the reads next time.
Just some thoughts...
You still have to read them once from the disk. So while it may start in less than 3 seconds, you're not counting the time it took to put it in the ram drive. (reminds me of how IE does the same thing in Windows).
After you've loaded it, now you've got 2 copies of Open Office/Gnome in RAM. That's a lot of wasted ram that could be used for something else. In fact, since you have less available ram, it's quite possible that parts of Open Office/Gnome get swapped out more than they would if you didn't have the RAM drive. In that case, you've just made your overall performance worse.
Your login/password is sent to an "https" address. It is being sent encrypted. Look at the source and see for yourself.
You can't really go by what you see in the URL because that is the address you're looking at, not the address that the form data is posted to.
Most browsers will warn you when you try to send something that's not secure. Most likely you've disabled that warning, as almost everyone does. If you turn it back on, you will notice that the browser won't warn you when you try to login because it is encrypted.
I would say the opposite, regulare phone service is very unsecure. Tapping your phone line is very easy if you know what you're doing. There are various places between the CO and your phone which can serve as easy locations to tap your line. For example if we lived in the same apartment building and your apartment was directly above mine. Your phone line may actually be running through my unit. It doesn't get any easier than that to tap it.
I've never used VoIP, but I would think that if you and I decided to have a VoIP conversation we could easilly encrypt the communications from each others computers (i.e. IPSec, or some encrypted tunnel if the application won't support it). Our IP traffic will not only be much more difficult to tap than POTS, but even if it is tapped it then becomes very difficult if not impossible to break the encryption.
Looks like you picked the wrong week to quit drinking coffee eh? :)
Fix your code man!
:)
if (karma=='excellent') printf("Karma: excellent");
else printf("%s", sig());
"karma=='excellent'" what is that?
karma is stored as a number obviously, and let's say that karma > 40 is considered excellent. So, your code should be:
if (karma > 40) printf("Karma: excellent");
else printf("%s", sig());
now, why use printf for just printing 1 string.
I would change that to this:
if (karma > 40) puts("Karma: excellent");
else puts(sig());
--
but, maybe you want to make it smaller, try this:
puts( (karma > 40) ? "Karma: excellent" : sig() );
--
Now, that's a sig!
I ran a file share app, someone "hacked" my computer and put those .mp3's there. It wasn't me. ;)
;)
Anybody mirror the site yet?
Not only is that an excellent compression scheme. It is also an excellent encryption scheme.
:)
You really should consider getting a patent.
I think the protocol that let you upload & download at the same time was bimodem. It also let you chat with the sysop while the file transfers where going.
It was released on December 7, 1988.
Here's a link to textfiles.com timeline
"HTTP is slower and less reliable than FTP"
I would think FTP is slower since with FTP you have to login and build the data connection before the transfer begins. With HTTP it's a simple GET request.
As far as the actual data being sent, I believe that the file is sent the same way with both protocols. (just send the data via a TCP connection). I could be wrong though.
Moore's law really has nothing to do with speed even though people think it does.
/ mooreslaw.html
"More than 25 years ago, when Intel was developing the first microprocessor, company cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double approximately every 18 months. To date, Moore's law has proven remarkably accurate. "
From : http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms
Each time I see another story about this I can't believe it.
The whole idea that an operating system (Windows) is dependent on an application (Internet Explorer) is a complete joke. I can't believe they have spent so much time and money arguing about this.
"Maybe two months ago, my laptop's win2k partition started getting scuzzy"
Hey, your drive is either SCSI or not, it doesn't change.
:)
"I have written an online book at http://superiching.com Teaching people how to communicate with God using I-Ching. "
Great, now God's going to get slashdotted.
"PS: I used to run Exchange -- so if you think I am not tracking this message, think again. Don't forward it! "
That line would be enough motivation for me to leak that msg.
Thats pretty cool. He just has to figure out a way to "direct" the bots. The dialog should flow slowly for somethings and fast for other things ( like arguments ), so he should have delays between lines. Perhaps even have the bots enter / leave the channel at certain times, and even kick themselves out of the channel when they are fighting.
You know you've been on IRC way to long when your thinking about Shakespeare on IRC
The thing with "l33t speak" is that it isn't really hard to modify your password cracker to convert the words in your word lists to "l33t speak" and try.
... )
Actually, you probobly don't even have to modify your password cracker, just convert your word lists to l33t speak (i.e. 'a' becomes 4, 's' becoms 5,
I think the idea to use more characters than just 'a-z' is a good one, try to use characters from 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '!@#$%^&*()', and even the characters with accents. But, try not to make it predictable like "l33t speak".
btw, your example "MyP455w0rdR0X0r5" might not be to bad since "R0X0r5" might not be a word in a word list, but "my" and "password" probobly would be in the list. Then again, I'm no expert in cracking passwords or "l33t speak" so maybe someone else would have it in their list.
This reminds me of the movie "Coming To America"
They're Mac Donalds; I'm Mic Dowell's.
They've got the Golden Arches; We've got the Golden Arcs.
They got the Big Mac; We got the Big Mic.
We both have 2 all beef pattties, special sauce, but they have a sesame seed bun. Our buns have no seeds.
This reminds me of Ace Ventura. In the beginning, he is delivering a box & throwing it around. I think he even kicks it around.
Has anyone seen the ads that come up in the middle of the page you are trying to view? I believe it's an image in another layer that they put on top of the page for n seconds and then it fades away.
I think those only work on IE since I haven't seen it happen on Netscape or Mozilla yet.
With the popups, sounds, flashing banners, and these images I'm really missing gopher
I think some ISP's do this to keep people from spamming (abusing open relays on other networks?). Anyway, why not just use the ISP's SMTP server?
Of course that guys software stinks, he's using Visual Basic. ( Check the code sample )