Well, at least software to render HTML was open source and portable (or soon ported) all over the place. My OS of choice is FreeBSD, and for flash, I've been SOL for years..
If he knew anything about Unix nomenclature, that'd be a dot(1) release.
Heck no.
(I don't, I'm still confused when people refer to man(6) or what-not. Can anyone help me out, I couldn't find a wikipedia page or FAQ on the numbers in parenthesis anywhere.)
It comes from the fact that the manpages have headings that look like e.g.:
LS(1) manual LS(1)
So ENTRYNAME(MANUALSECTION).
So essentially the thing(2) notation simply indicates in which section of the (now electronic) manual the thing is. For instance, commands are section 1, system calls section 2, library functions section 3, kernel interfaces section 4, file formats section 5, and so on.
It is mostly used to indicate that we're talking about manpages, so e.g. "see open(2) for details" indicates "open's manpage." More verbose usages such as "see the manpage for open(2)" are also seen.
This overlaps with a second usage, which makes more sense to me but is less common: to use the manpage notation to indicate which type of thing you're talking about. For instance, there is a command 'printf' and a library function 'printf,' so saying 'use printf(1)' or 'use printf(3)' to disambiguate the two is a convenient use of the 'manpage notation.'
But mostly people mean it as a shorthand for 'the manpage.'
Being that IPv6 has been around for over a decade, meaning most legacy hardware has been replaced by then that used IPv4 only as well many systems even ones older then 10 years old that support TCP/IP are often new enough to get a software patch for IPv6 and what is left are so old and legacy that they are not available on the internet or [..]
Hi. Some of us don't like reading 96-word rambling sentences. Thanks.
Indeed, there are rather more depth cues than 'just' stereo - that only works at short range. Other cues are what happens in time, which is why this 'desktop VR' hack works so well:
I haven't seen it IRL myself yet, but I sure would like to play with it. And I think that once stereo kicks in (at shorter range), it won't work anymore because you can _see_ the screen is flat.
This only applies when you're talking about binomial distributions (ie: Either Yes/No, On/Off, Orgasm/No Orgasm). Huh, do you know what a binomial distribution is? Either you don't or I don't.
It's not a matter of realistic, but a matter of physics that there's a finite number of computations that can be done in the remaining lifetime of the universe, and it's easy to make a key large enough the keyspace can't be searched in it.
If you're saying that 'enough brute force' doesn't have to fit in the space and time we have in this universe, then fine.
Slashdot Mirror
someone says something snide about video games every day.
(emphasis mine)
I wish.
also, principal, not principle.
Well, at least software to render HTML was open source and portable (or soon ported) all over the place. My OS of choice is FreeBSD, and for flash, I've been SOL for years..
OS X is based on a microkernel
Not meaningfully. The OS X kernel is a monolithic kernel.
Bad driver != bad hardware
If he knew anything about Unix nomenclature, that'd be a dot(1) release.
Heck no.
(I don't, I'm still confused when people refer to man(6) or what-not. Can anyone help me out, I couldn't find a wikipedia page or FAQ on the numbers in parenthesis anywhere.)
It comes from the fact that the manpages have headings that look like e.g.:
LS(1) manual LS(1)
So ENTRYNAME(MANUALSECTION).
So essentially the thing(2) notation simply indicates in which section of the (now electronic) manual the thing is. For instance, commands are section 1, system calls section 2, library functions section 3, kernel interfaces section 4, file formats section 5, and so on.
It is mostly used to indicate that we're talking about manpages, so e.g. "see open(2) for details" indicates "open's manpage." More verbose usages such as "see the manpage for open(2)" are also seen.
This overlaps with a second usage, which makes more sense to me but is less common: to use the manpage notation to indicate which type of thing you're talking about. For instance, there is a command 'printf' and a library function 'printf,' so saying 'use printf(1)' or 'use printf(3)' to disambiguate the two is a convenient use of the 'manpage notation.'
But mostly people mean it as a shorthand for 'the manpage.'
pcie isn't a bus, but is point-to-point.
Shut up, you fuck.
Bah, a Redundant moderation and a trollish reply? I wonder what I did to deserve that that day.
Yes
[..]
So, are you trolling, or just utterly unqualified to have this conversation
+1, Right
-1, Arrogant
I will not, however, wear goofy glasses (especially because i wear prescription eyewear as it is)
Nah that's dumb.
just so jon stewart pops out at me.
.. omg that would be great ;)
Aaargghhh... MBA-speak has invaded my last bastion, Slashdot.
Seconded. Irked me too. Although "going forward" would have been a more direct hit.
I have other 'favourites' but it hurts to recall them (and type them).
I've tagged the article bikeshed. It's one of those subjects everyone can have an opinion of that matters little. IMHO.
It's called a dead man's switch and is implemented in rail locomotives, for example.
Dead man's switch for humans, watchdog timer for computers. TFA mentions the phoenix watchdog going off every 64 seconds.
My mother says 'moxilla' and 'moxarella'. argh.
Also, principles aren't things to be engineered :)
Being that IPv6 has been around for over a decade, meaning most legacy hardware has been replaced by then that used IPv4 only as well many systems even ones older then 10 years old that support TCP/IP are often new enough to get a software patch for IPv6 and what is left are so old and legacy that they are not available on the internet or [..]
Hi. Some of us don't like reading 96-word rambling sentences. Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
I haven't seen it IRL myself yet, but I sure would like to play with it. And I think that once stereo kicks in (at shorter range), it won't work anymore because you can _see_ the screen is flat.
And this would have been a good thing as that bad bad gene mutation would have been removed from the gene pool.
This is one part wrong, two parts asshole.
woo!
It's not a matter of realistic, but a matter of physics that there's a finite number of computations that can be done in the remaining lifetime of the universe, and it's easy to make a key large enough the keyspace can't be searched in it. If you're saying that 'enough brute force' doesn't have to fit in the space and time we have in this universe, then fine.
What?
An extra bit does double the keyspace.
No.
Yes, only getpid(). Idiotic.