I just know, that whenever I switch over to Windows, I am (rather unfortunately) impressed by its speed.
Apparently when you switch you are reinstalling windows, right?
Freshly installed windows with only office onboard is fast.
Try installing some more apps work with it few months and it won't be so fast anymore.
Isn't this the same old double-slit experiment, just slightly modified?
Yes and then author says that a single photon can interfere with itself. That's true but I don't see how this experiment proves that.
I were told about this phenomenon during my physics classes in high school. Theacher explained us that you can't say that particle is in exact place. You can only tell the probability of it being in that place. Whats more this probability is never equal zero so there is a slight chance that you can find that particle anyware in the universe.
There is other classically unexplained phenomenon
based on this it's called qunatum tunneling
ajr.
It did a great job at bringing all the power of Lisp with all the symplicity of HTML. All the equivalents of HTML elements were just lisp-like function calls. Something like
(text this is (font color=red size=+2 big red text))
It is natural way to write HTML generating code in Common Lisp. Powerful macros make the task very easy.
Look into Graham's book ANSI Common Lisp. There is an example of HTML generating code.
Examples from the book are available
online
and my theory that the lens stiffens and the muscles weaken through disuse might have some basis in fact.
When you look at computer screen muscles around lens are used. And when you look at far objects they rest. Ask your optimologist.
Lens stiffens with time so when you are elder (around 40) you can't see objects that are near well and you need glases for reading.
Back in the days of timesharing mainframes, that might have been significant. In this century, though, 99% of computers that people use to, say, check e-mail, are desktop machines with only one user. On such machines, user/root separation only protects the operating system and installed programs, which is possibly the least useful thing to protect since you can always just reinstall them. Important data, like the user's documents, are completely unprotected from any program that the user runs. And, again, the vast majority of viruses these days hardly care about hard drive access.
IMHO protecting operating system and installed programs _is_ important. If they are protected virus can't disable your firewall and av program, can't change firewall settings etc.
I really like to be sure that I access important data (not necessarily stored on my hdd) with tools which are not tainted.
Let me restate that, and what is in my original post. If Microsoft had used MD5 (more one way than what they used), of course, it would have a wider output, which is just a characteristic of such a function.
It really doesn't matter what hash had been used.
If you can spot the place where the hash of a password is stored you can check the value of the hash for empty password and then replace the hash in portected document.
IMHO the right way to protect document form unathorized changes is to compute the hash for document content,
encrypt the value of hash with the password and then attach such encrypted value to document.
My first computer was Timex 2048.
I still remember that code for RET was 201 (Z80) and
that RST #16 displayed a character from register A
using current stream.
But machine code encoded as ascii was used mainly in loading programs to make tinkering with them more difficult.
The popular way to put machine code into memory was using data lines.
5 REM Clear is setting RAMTOP value 10 CLEAR xxxx 20 FOR i=xxxx+1 TO yyyy 30 READ d: POKE i, d 40 NEXT i 50 DATA xx,yy,zz,...
I've also had TIMEX FDD3000.
It had 64KB of RAM and you could run CPM on it.
Anyone remembers ED-80 editor?
HISOFT DEVPAC and HISOFT-C were great tools.
Well, ask any doctor and he'll tell you it's better to cure a disease than to treat its symptoms. No virus writers means no viruses, which means no headline news virus alerts and scares.
The same doctor will tell you that elimination of all dangerous viruses and bacteria from our environment is impossible.
The best way to fight the diseases is to make our constitution stronger.
It runs fine for some months now and I can't see any reason why I should change to Linux or another *BSD (I love pf).
You can use pf with FreeBSD
pf_freebsd-1.0_7 as well as ipf and ipfw.
For me the reason for using OpenBSD for firewalls in the past was that it had
altq integrated in kernel and that time if you wanted to use altq with FreeBSD you had to apply patches for "release" kernel version. Now altq is in FreeBSD kernel too.
If you want to compete with Free Software, the only way you can truly compete is at the cost of use level.
From my experience windows workstations need much more work from "user support" guys than those running linux. In both cases you need a hacker to install and configure software. Allowing people to work on computers with default windows installation is asking for trouble.
Properly configured linux box is much more idiot proof than windows one.
> 9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
Wrong. FreeBSD has an extensive Linux binary compatability system that allows most Linux binaries to run just fine. Word is, sometimes even faster.
Some time ago I had 1GHz Athlon 256MB with ATA100 drive as my workstation.
I put linux on it. Everything was ok, up to the time
I had to untar some big files 200GB+.
Starting single tar -zxf filename
nearly made my computer not responding (even mouse cursor moved in jumps). First I thought the reason was that I have 2.2.x kernel so I switched to 2.4.x. It didn't help.
Finally I put FreeBSD on this box and from that time unpacking archives with tar was no longer a problem.
I think that "OS progression" is not connected with using any particular computer model in the past. It doesn't matter if you worked on ZX Spectrum, 8 bit Atari, Amstrad, Commodore C64 or 128. Using any of this computers those days to something more than playing games needed some hacking skills. People very often wrote simple apps for their personal use. And for more sophisticated apps they had to learn and use assembly language. The first two languages I've learnt were ZX Spectrum's dialect of Basic and Z80 assembly language.
It's hard to expect from users with experience from that times that now they will want to use software which don't give them full control over it's operations.
My "OS progression" was:
Timex 2048 -> CP/M -> DOS -> Linux -> *BSD
Now I'm considering buying Mac with OS X.
I use WMX. It has virtual desktops you can switch using mouse wheel or keyboard. It also lets you switch beetween windows in very convenient way (one keystroke or pressing mouse right button).
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I just know, that whenever I switch over to Windows, I am (rather unfortunately) impressed by its speed.
Apparently when you switch you are reinstalling windows, right? Freshly installed windows with only office onboard is fast. Try installing some more apps work with it few months and it won't be so fast anymore.
Basically, I'm a firm believer in the right tool for the right job.
Sure. The right tool for the job is most important.
I am/was waiting for ability to encrypt stored passwords with master password.
Is this feature present in 0.9?
Isn't this the same old double-slit experiment, just slightly modified?
Yes and then author says that a single photon can interfere with itself. That's true but I don't see how this experiment proves that.
I were told about this phenomenon during my physics classes in high school. Theacher explained us that you can't say that particle is in exact place. You can only tell the probability of it being in that place. Whats more this probability is never equal zero so there is a slight chance that you can find that particle anyware in the universe.
There is other classically unexplained phenomenon based on this it's called qunatum tunneling
ajr.
It's sad that they wasted their time.
Prefix notation and RPN are two different things.
Lisp example should look like this:
(defun mod_up (funny)
(+ funny 1))
Lisp _does not_ use RPN.
It is natural way to write HTML generating code in Common Lisp. Powerful macros make the task very easy.
Look into Graham's book ANSI Common Lisp. There is an example of HTML generating code.
Examples from the book are available online
Why would you need an open source Java?
To be able to port it to platforms that are not supported (like *BSD for example).
The best customer/consumer is reach stupid tasteless and easy amusable one. Sad but true.
Geeks are not good customers.
and my theory that the lens stiffens and the muscles weaken through disuse might have some basis in fact.
When you look at computer screen muscles around lens are used.
And when you look at far objects they rest. Ask your optimologist.
Lens stiffens with time so when you are elder (around 40) you can't see objects that are near well and you need glases for reading.
I was shocked how annoying was to install Debian Linux compared to installing FreeBSD.
The machinist we use at work to make our metalwork will make you anything that can be machined. It might be expensive, but it's eminently possible.
That's true. Somebody please mod parent up.
ajr.
Back in the days of timesharing mainframes, that might have been significant. In this century, though, 99% of computers that people use to, say, check e-mail, are desktop machines with only one user. On such machines, user/root separation only protects the operating system and installed programs, which is possibly the least useful thing to protect since you can always just reinstall them. Important data, like the user's documents, are completely unprotected from any program that the user runs. And, again, the vast majority of viruses these days hardly care about hard drive access.
IMHO protecting operating system and installed programs _is_ important. If they are protected virus can't disable your firewall and av program, can't change firewall settings etc.
I really like to be sure that I access important data (not necessarily stored on my hdd) with tools which are not tainted.
ajr.
Remember what Bruce sez, if you can read it, you can write it.
You can attach encrypted checksum to it. To change document someone would have to know your password to encrypt new checksum.
Let me restate that, and what is in my original post. If Microsoft had used MD5 (more one way than what they used), of course, it would have a wider output, which is just a characteristic of such a function.
It really doesn't matter what hash had been used. If you can spot the place where the hash of a password is stored you can check the value of the hash for empty password and then replace the hash in portected document.
IMHO the right way to protect document form unathorized changes is to compute the hash for document content, encrypt the value of hash with the password and then attach such encrypted value to document.
The popular way to put machine code into memory was using data lines.
I've also had TIMEX FDD3000. It had 64KB of RAM and you could run CPM on it.
Anyone remembers ED-80 editor?
HISOFT DEVPAC and HISOFT-C were great tools.
I don't think this post is funny. Lisp is still considered the best tool for very complex tasks.
Maxima
Sure... You would feel safe until a new disease strikes and when it does you could be one of those shipped off to an island.
Well, ask any doctor and he'll tell you it's better to cure a disease than to treat its symptoms. No virus writers means no viruses, which means no headline news virus alerts and scares.
The same doctor will tell you that elimination of all dangerous viruses and bacteria from our environment is impossible.
The best way to fight the diseases is to make our constitution stronger.
The same with software.
It runs fine for some months now and I can't see any reason why I should change to Linux or another *BSD (I love pf).
You can use pf with FreeBSD pf_freebsd-1.0_7 as well as ipf and ipfw. For me the reason for using OpenBSD for firewalls in the past was that it had altq integrated in kernel and that time if you wanted to use altq with FreeBSD you had to apply patches for "release" kernel version. Now altq is in FreeBSD kernel too.
Now how much eletricity does it use? How much heat does it generate? These are all things related to size.
This is optical chip and relation between size, power consumption and heat generated will be different than in traditional chips.
If you want to compete with Free Software, the only way you can truly compete is at the cost of use level.
From my experience windows workstations need much more work from "user support" guys than those running linux. In both cases you need a hacker to install and configure software. Allowing people to work on computers with default windows installation is asking for trouble. Properly configured linux box is much more idiot proof than windows one.
> 9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux. Wrong. FreeBSD has an extensive Linux binary compatability system that allows most Linux binaries to run just fine. Word is, sometimes even faster.
Some time ago I had 1GHz Athlon 256MB with ATA100 drive as my workstation. I put linux on it. Everything was ok, up to the time I had to untar some big files 200GB+. Starting single tar -zxf filename nearly made my computer not responding (even mouse cursor moved in jumps). First I thought the reason was that I have 2.2.x kernel so I switched to 2.4.x. It didn't help. Finally I put FreeBSD on this box and from that time unpacking archives with tar was no longer a problem.
I think that "OS progression" is not connected with using any particular computer model in the past. It doesn't matter if you worked on ZX Spectrum, 8 bit Atari, Amstrad, Commodore C64 or 128. Using any of this computers those days to something more than playing games needed some hacking skills. People very often wrote simple apps for their personal use. And for more sophisticated apps they had to learn and use assembly language. The first two languages I've learnt were ZX Spectrum's dialect of Basic and Z80 assembly language. It's hard to expect from users with experience from that times that now they will want to use software which don't give them full control over it's operations.
My "OS progression" was:
Timex 2048 -> CP/M -> DOS -> Linux -> *BSD
Now I'm considering buying Mac with OS X.
ajr.
I use WMX. It has virtual desktops you can switch using mouse wheel or keyboard. It also lets you switch beetween windows in very convenient way (one keystroke or pressing mouse right button).