Possibly because they didn't have the Earth Simulator to run this physical model on. While a physical model would be ideal, to get it simulating everything it needs to to produce a satisfactory output would require huge amounts of computer time.
Not so. At the least there would probably be a great many references to foo, probably to baz as well, that didn't turn up in other mail. The list address would be invariable - statistically, if "To:" is always followed by "foo-list@lists-r-us.org" for foo mail and never followed by that for other mail, that's pretty significant. I'd bet there would be significant differences even between two roleplaying lists (with a pretty big corpus): names of players would tend to crop up differently, there would tend to be different recurring topics leading to different statistical patterns etc. And, as I mentioned before, there would be various invariables in emails to mailing lists. Mail from randoms that you're trying to sort into arbitrary folders based on content might be a bit harder, but again although the language is the same the topics and word distributions that occur will be different.
People who have to give presentations will almost certainly want to burn a CDR of their presentation. It's so much easier to turn up with a CDR and use whatever laptop the IT monkeys provide than making sure it gets transferred from your desktop machine onto the correct laptop, and that laptop then turns up at the presentation room (or is got to you beforehand). And don't come back with "you can always get it over the network" because the presentation might be in a hotel, somewhere well away from your company's intranet.
So, yes, while CD burning isn't a must for every desktop I would have thought a decent program would be essential somewhere in an "Enterprise" OS. (Having said that, I would also think that gcombust would be fine for everyone except the art department who will probably be using macs anyway.)
I never used it on SuSE but, God, does anyone remember the abomination that was gnome 1.0.0 (on any distro?) Not particularyl relevant, but your scientific conclusion reminded me of my reaction to that particular software release:)
Mandrake is pretty close to being ambivalent about desktops - its galaxy theme tries to present a unified look in a similar way to Red Hat's bluecurve. While knoppix is KDE-only there is a counterpart, gnoppix, which is gnome-only (and although both desktops aren't installed the libraries for both are (on knoppix, at least).
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So this guy makes a database of all his passwords. That's not such a stupid idea - so long as the database itself is encrypted and you have one really good long high-entropy passphrase to unlock the database. Gringotts does something along these lines, so does the password manager in mozilla.
Er, count the quotation characters. The whole thing is a quotation, written by Tolkien. Context makes it obvious that 'she' is Galadriel referring to herself, but the author of the quotation is Tolkien.
Nope, that's what 'cleanroomed' means. They were written independently (ie the authors not having seen DeCSS code). All you can say it that DeCSS might have given them the idea.
*boggle* If you're in a position to find this hack useful you already have an NTFS partition which means you pretty much certainly have NT. Windows is already bought and paid for, dude.
Surely (from the user's point of view) having to copy.sys files onto floppies etc. is more complicated than just having the knoppix CD do everything automatically? It might be a bit tougher for the knoppix developers but that's the kind of thing they enjoy. Besides which, my current box doesn'e even have a floppy drive anymore. Not that it has NT either, but...
Who on earth would have an ntfs partition unless they were running NT (or XP)? In which case they have the DLL. It's pretty much a case of "if you need the DLL, you already have it".
In a similar way to how Linux loads reiserfs.o - from an initrd - I imagine. Though I suspect this may lead Microsoft to build Longhorn's filesystem support into the kernel rather than being a module, that way this whole hack gets stopped.
The current DVD libraries don't use DeCSS; they use a subsequent cleanroomed implementation. DVD rippers use these libraries but from the economic point of view the big problem is not stoodents ripping the odd DVD and sharing with their friends, but the mass-piracy of titles by organized crime syndicates (for which you don't need to crack the encryption, you just copy the whole disk image - so perhaps dd should be made illegal...).
I'm saying I think that when it was fixed in September it was probably fixed as a tidy-up, but not thought to present a security problem. A link to the patch has already been posted - it doesn't mention security, therefore I assume the security implications were overlooked in September. Later on some cracker discovered that there was a security problem, whether from the patch or by some other method, and wrote an exploit which he used to crack debian.org. Later on various security teams reverse-engineered the exploit and discovered how it worked. They then realised that the patch that had gone in between 2.4.22 and 2.4.23 had fixed a security implication and issued a security announcement.
If he needs two hands and a foot that must be at least 11 bits - I can't believe there have been 2048 exploitable holes in the OpenBSD kernel in the last few weeks. Oh, you mean 15? That can be counted on 4 fingers.
You also appear to refuse to believe that "he" has been in standard use to refer to a hypothetical person of unknown gender in English for centuries. Usage of 'he/she' makes for ugly content, labours the point that the writer is trying to be politically correct to the point of fatheadedness and generally detracts from the readability of a piece of writing. And the day you find a really hot, Debian-using, password-sniffing, root-exploiting geek girl is the day I book a ticket on PigAir flight 001. (She'd use gentoo:-))
This had been rumoured for several days before the actual announcement was made. I'm guessing it was found and corrected, as a bug, but not thought to be exploitable, therefore no security announcement[0]. Later on, when debian.org got cracked, someone put two and two together and made the security announcement. I must admit, it seemed fairly weird to me for a long time, and I thought up a few lovely conspiracy theories, but in the end I think the simple oversight scenario is the most likely.
[0] After all, plenty of bugs get fixed in the kernel without being specially announced. If it was subtle someone probably just overlooked the fact that this particular bug was more problematic than any of the others fixed in that patch.
Why should the origin of hydrocarbons affect whether we are likely to run out of them? Just because they originated in outer space doesn't mean they are necessarily abundant.
That's basically pay-to-view though. And given how resentful many Americans are of federal taxes I can see lynchings happen the day the USG tries to impose a license fee. Having said that, I think the BBC is an excellent thing (in a British context).
Personally, I've always found ads a good time to make a cup of tea, or have a piss, or just knock off the sound and talk. I reckon I skip a lot more than 9.6% of them in this way.
Having said that, there have been some classic ads: the "surfer" Guinness ad is a personal favourite.
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Possibly because they didn't have the Earth Simulator to run this physical model on. While a physical model would be ideal, to get it simulating everything it needs to to produce a satisfactory output would require huge amounts of computer time.
Or, for speakers attached to a linux box: 120 BogoWatts, 60 Watts PMPO, 0.5 Watts RMS :-)
Not so. At the least there would probably be a great many references to foo, probably to baz as well, that didn't turn up in other mail. The list address would be invariable - statistically, if "To:" is always followed by "foo-list@lists-r-us.org" for foo mail and never followed by that for other mail, that's pretty significant. I'd bet there would be significant differences even between two roleplaying lists (with a pretty big corpus): names of players would tend to crop up differently, there would tend to be different recurring topics leading to different statistical patterns etc. And, as I mentioned before, there would be various invariables in emails to mailing lists.
Mail from randoms that you're trying to sort into arbitrary folders based on content might be a bit harder, but again although the language is the same the topics and word distributions that occur will be different.
Well, yes. But according to the article it's "dull" :-/
People who have to give presentations will almost certainly want to burn a CDR of their presentation. It's so much easier to turn up with a CDR and use whatever laptop the IT monkeys provide than making sure it gets transferred from your desktop machine onto the correct laptop, and that laptop then turns up at the presentation room (or is got to you beforehand). And don't come back with "you can always get it over the network" because the presentation might be in a hotel, somewhere well away from your company's intranet.
So, yes, while CD burning isn't a must for every desktop I would have thought a decent program would be essential somewhere in an "Enterprise" OS. (Having said that, I would also think that gcombust would be fine for everyone except the art department who will probably be using macs anyway.)
I never used it on SuSE but, God, does anyone remember the abomination that was gnome 1.0.0 (on any distro?) :)
Not particularyl relevant, but your scientific conclusion reminded me of my reaction to that particular software release
What's so wrong with left-button highlights, middle-button pastes?
Mandrake is pretty close to being ambivalent about desktops - its galaxy theme tries to present a unified look in a similar way to Red Hat's bluecurve. While knoppix is KDE-only there is a counterpart, gnoppix, which is gnome-only (and although both desktops aren't installed the libraries for both are (on knoppix, at least).
So this guy makes a database of all his passwords. That's not such a stupid idea - so long as the database itself is encrypted and you have one really good long high-entropy passphrase to unlock the database. Gringotts does something along these lines, so does the password manager in mozilla.
Er, count the quotation characters. The whole thing is a quotation, written by Tolkien. Context makes it obvious that 'she' is Galadriel referring to herself, but the author of the quotation is Tolkien.
Nope, that's what 'cleanroomed' means. They were written independently (ie the authors not having seen DeCSS code). All you can say it that DeCSS might have given them the idea.
*boggle* If you're in a position to find this hack useful you already have an NTFS partition which means you pretty much certainly have NT. Windows is already bought and paid for, dude.
Illegal if you have software patents, maybe, but that doesn't mean everywhere.
Surely (from the user's point of view) having to copy .sys files onto floppies etc. is more complicated than just having the knoppix CD do everything automatically? It might be a bit tougher for the knoppix developers but that's the kind of thing they enjoy.
Besides which, my current box doesn'e even have a floppy drive anymore. Not that it has NT either, but...
Who on earth would have an ntfs partition unless they were running NT (or XP)? In which case they have the DLL. It's pretty much a case of "if you need the DLL, you already have it".
In a similar way to how Linux loads reiserfs.o - from an initrd - I imagine. Though I suspect this may lead Microsoft to build Longhorn's filesystem support into the kernel rather than being a module, that way this whole hack gets stopped.
The current DVD libraries don't use DeCSS; they use a subsequent cleanroomed implementation. DVD rippers use these libraries but from the economic point of view the big problem is not stoodents ripping the odd DVD and sharing with their friends, but the mass-piracy of titles by organized crime syndicates (for which you don't need to crack the encryption, you just copy the whole disk image - so perhaps dd should be made illegal...).
I'm saying I think that when it was fixed in September it was probably fixed as a tidy-up, but not thought to present a security problem. A link to the patch has already been posted - it doesn't mention security, therefore I assume the security implications were overlooked in September.
Later on some cracker discovered that there was a security problem, whether from the patch or by some other method, and wrote an exploit which he used to crack debian.org.
Later on various security teams reverse-engineered the exploit and discovered how it worked. They then realised that the patch that had gone in between 2.4.22 and 2.4.23 had fixed a security implication and issued a security announcement.
Nothing malicious here, move along.
If he needs two hands and a foot that must be at least 11 bits - I can't believe there have been 2048 exploitable holes in the OpenBSD kernel in the last few weeks. Oh, you mean 15? That can be counted on 4 fingers.
You also appear to refuse to believe that "he" has been in standard use to refer to a hypothetical person of unknown gender in English for centuries. Usage of 'he/she' makes for ugly content, labours the point that the writer is trying to be politically correct to the point of fatheadedness and generally detracts from the readability of a piece of writing. :-))
And the day you find a really hot, Debian-using, password-sniffing, root-exploiting geek girl is the day I book a ticket on PigAir flight 001. (She'd use gentoo
This had been rumoured for several days before the actual announcement was made.
I'm guessing it was found and corrected, as a bug, but not thought to be exploitable, therefore no security announcement[0]. Later on, when debian.org got cracked, someone put two and two together and made the security announcement. I must admit, it seemed fairly weird to me for a long time, and I thought up a few lovely conspiracy theories, but in the end I think the simple oversight scenario is the most likely.
[0] After all, plenty of bugs get fixed in the kernel without being specially announced. If it was subtle someone probably just overlooked the fact that this particular bug was more problematic than any of the others fixed in that patch.
Why should the origin of hydrocarbons affect whether we are likely to run out of them? Just because they originated in outer space doesn't mean they are necessarily abundant.
That's basically pay-to-view though. And given how resentful many Americans are of federal taxes I can see lynchings happen the day the USG tries to impose a license fee.
Having said that, I think the BBC is an excellent thing (in a British context).
Personally, I've always found ads a good time to make a cup of tea, or have a piss, or just knock off the sound and talk. I reckon I skip a lot more than 9.6% of them in this way. Having said that, there have been some classic ads: the "surfer" Guinness ad is a personal favourite.
Not to mention at least twenty films covering the Silmarillion :-)