I think a lot of Linux zealots tend to downplay the importance of the home directory. After all, if you're a smart user and don't run as root, all your important data is going to be in the home directory
And the nice thing about that is that it makes it dead simple to back up your system -- you know where all your datafiles are.
Duel video cards are not the same as duel-core CPUs. It is more like dare I say it a beowolf cluster. When will we see a true duel gpu card or maybe a duel core gpu?
We've seen dual-core GPUs already. What do you think a multi-pipeline GPU is?
You've never heard about "DLL Hell"? Linux software tends to be minimalist about what support libraries it installs, so you get missing dependancies. Windows software tends to install every library it needs, so you get version conflicts when an older version of a DLL overwrites a newer one. DLL conflicts usually manifest themselves in the form of older software no longer working, and is far worse to track down than missing dependancies.
The US, on the other hand, has metropolitan areas (ranging in size/density of course) dotted across much of its land mass, with vast spaces of land in between. And not nearly as much of that land is as sparsely populated as Canada's northern wilderness. It will take a lot more work to reach as much of a majority of homes.
I live in the US, in the downtown area of a metropolis of a quarter-million people. I have exactly one option for broadband: 3Mbps residential cable. If I lived in a slightly different location in the city, I might have a second option: a 768kbps T1 line. And if I lived in one of the newest or oldest parts of the city, and was very lucky, I might get a third option: 768kbps residential ADSL.
That's it. Three options, only one of which is available throughout the city. There's no option for commercial high-speed. Most of the city has no access to low-cost 256kbps ADSL. Heck, much of the city has no access to 56kbps dialup -- the best you can get is 33.6. And this is in a city of a quarter-million!
The "year" pages are pretty good for this, as are the "day" pages. Major topic pages, like "World War II", are a good way to get to those pages, since many minor articles link there.
Unlike "six degrees", wikilinks are not transitive. For example, the longest path found, from DnaC to U.S. Senate election, 1972, is 19 hops. Going the other way, from U.S. Senate election, 1972 to DnaC, is only 7 hops.
I've got a Petzel Tika headlamp, and the walk down from Sunrise to White River after dark was pure hell. The lamp didn't give off enough light to see the trail, so I had to hike two miles by touch.
For chores around the campsite, or as a frontlight for a PDA, it's perfect, but for hiking after dark, give me an incandescent that'll go though four "D" cells in a hurry.
That's easy to solve: a trial account isn't able to enter into any permanent relation with paying accounts -- you can't swear allegience, if you join a guild, you aren't counted in the membership numbers unless you convert to a paying account, etc.
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5. The world population doubles every 40 years. Eventually, we will have to either expand across other planets or enforce population control.
As somebody else pointed out, it would be too expensive to move that many people. Better to spend the same money on healthcare, food, or free condoms, for example.
Actually, we'd be better off not spending it on healthcare. Improved healthcare, especially in third-world nations, will make the population problem worse, as people live longer.
In many parts of the western US, the enforced speed limit is "Drive Safely". If you're going too fast for the condition of the road, or for the condition of your car, or for the weather, or if you're driving in an unsafe manner, the police will pull you over and ticket you based on the speed limit. They might also nail you for reckless driving. Otherwise, they'll ignore you.
If you are driving 65 in the left lane of I-90 across Washington, I'm going to pass you whatever it takes -- even if it means passing on the shoulder. For one thing, the speed limit along there is 70. For another, the speed of traffic in good weather is 90. And for a third, driving at 20 over cuts an hour off the Spokane-Seattle driving time.
There are reports that an upcoming driver release for the HD3000 will allow it to recieve unencrypted QAM (cable and satellite) signals. There are currently no plans for it to ever be able to handle encrypted QAM.
You don't actually need a very large password space; anything that approaches, say, 10^8 is fine even for high-security applications where you assume that the attacker has access to the hashed (with good salt) passwords. The key requirements are that the space be just large enough to make brute force search infeasible, or not cost-effective, and that the passwords be selected randomly, to avoid guessable passwords. Anything further is just overcomplicating the issue, in general.
10^8 is nowhere near good enough these days. If I've got access to the hashed passwords, my computer can crack a 10^8 keyspace in less than three minutes, and that's assuming the use of the slowest hash function I've benchmarked. If it's something like straight MD5, 10^8 is good for about five seconds.
Personally, I think either of the following produces perfectly adequate and fairly memorable passwords:
1. Choose a passphrase of at least ten words. It can be nearly anything. Try to make it fairly obscure, but memorable to you. I like movie quotes, with modifications. Then take the first letter (or second letter, or last letter, or whatever) of each word. Assemble those into a password.
2. Choose two words at random from a good dictionary. If they're long, shorten them in some arbitrary way that you can remember easily (something less obvious than just truncating them is good), making sure they total at least eight or nine characters. Concatenate them, and optionally throw in a numeric or punctuation character somewhere.
My method is even simpler, and more secure: 1) Choose a passphrase of at least ten words. Use the whole damn thing as a password.
The New Hampshire recount will really be the most interesting one. They used the Diebold machines
Isn't the major objection to the Diebold machines that you can't do a real recount? That the only thing you can do is run the stored ballot totals through the master counting machine?
What I found works best is a combination of Construx, Erector, and Lego: the metal beams from the Erector set provide structural strength, the Construx beams give overall shape, and the Lego bricks provide the detail work.
I purchased an Erector set about five years ago, and it was still almost all metal. A few of the panel-type pieces were plastic -- nobody's figured out transparent steel yet -- but all the "structural"-type pieces were galvanized steel.
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Opera uses the Sun JRE but not the Sun plugin.
I think a lot of Linux zealots tend to downplay the importance of the home directory. After all, if you're a smart user and don't run as root, all your important data is going to be in the home directory
And the nice thing about that is that it makes it dead simple to back up your system -- you know where all your datafiles are.
Duel video cards are not the same as duel-core CPUs. It is more like dare I say it a beowolf cluster. When will we see a true duel gpu card or maybe a duel core gpu?
We've seen dual-core GPUs already. What do you think a multi-pipeline GPU is?
You've never heard about "DLL Hell"? Linux software tends to be minimalist about what support libraries it installs, so you get missing dependancies. Windows software tends to install every library it needs, so you get version conflicts when an older version of a DLL overwrites a newer one. DLL conflicts usually manifest themselves in the form of older software no longer working, and is far worse to track down than missing dependancies.
The US, on the other hand, has metropolitan areas (ranging in size/density of course) dotted across much of its land mass, with vast spaces of land in between. And not nearly as much of that land is as sparsely populated as Canada's northern wilderness. It will take a lot more work to reach as much of a majority of homes.
I live in the US, in the downtown area of a metropolis of a quarter-million people. I have exactly one option for broadband: 3Mbps residential cable. If I lived in a slightly different location in the city, I might have a second option: a 768kbps T1 line. And if I lived in one of the newest or oldest parts of the city, and was very lucky, I might get a third option: 768kbps residential ADSL.
That's it. Three options, only one of which is available throughout the city. There's no option for commercial high-speed. Most of the city has no access to low-cost 256kbps ADSL. Heck, much of the city has no access to 56kbps dialup -- the best you can get is 33.6. And this is in a city of a quarter-million!
The "year" pages are pretty good for this, as are the "day" pages. Major topic pages, like "World War II", are a good way to get to those pages, since many minor articles link there.
Unlike "six degrees", wikilinks are not transitive. For example, the longest path found, from DnaC to U.S. Senate election, 1972, is 19 hops. Going the other way, from U.S. Senate election, 1972 to DnaC, is only 7 hops.
I've got a Petzel Tika headlamp, and the walk down from Sunrise to White River after dark was pure hell. The lamp didn't give off enough light to see the trail, so I had to hike two miles by touch.
For chores around the campsite, or as a frontlight for a PDA, it's perfect, but for hiking after dark, give me an incandescent that'll go though four "D" cells in a hurry.
That's easy to solve: a trial account isn't able to enter into any permanent relation with paying accounts -- you can't swear allegience, if you join a guild, you aren't counted in the membership numbers unless you convert to a paying account, etc.
Actually, we'd be better off not spending it on healthcare. Improved healthcare, especially in third-world nations, will make the population problem worse, as people live longer.
In many parts of the western US, the enforced speed limit is "Drive Safely". If you're going too fast for the condition of the road, or for the condition of your car, or for the weather, or if you're driving in an unsafe manner, the police will pull you over and ticket you based on the speed limit. They might also nail you for reckless driving. Otherwise, they'll ignore you.
If you are driving 65 in the left lane of I-90 across Washington, I'm going to pass you whatever it takes -- even if it means passing on the shoulder. For one thing, the speed limit along there is 70. For another, the speed of traffic in good weather is 90. And for a third, driving at 20 over cuts an hour off the Spokane-Seattle driving time.
There are reports that an upcoming driver release for the HD3000 will allow it to recieve unencrypted QAM (cable and satellite) signals. There are currently no plans for it to ever be able to handle encrypted QAM.
I type 75wpm.
That's iffy. The materials a hard drive is made out of don't demagnitize until around 750C.
I've had no problems with XP SP2 -- my home box is running 98SE.
You don't actually need a very large password space; anything that approaches, say, 10^8 is fine even for high-security applications where you assume that the attacker has access to the hashed (with good salt) passwords. The key requirements are that the space be just large enough to make brute force search infeasible, or not cost-effective, and that the passwords be selected randomly, to avoid guessable passwords. Anything further is just overcomplicating the issue, in general.
10^8 is nowhere near good enough these days. If I've got access to the hashed passwords, my computer can crack a 10^8 keyspace in less than three minutes, and that's assuming the use of the slowest hash function I've benchmarked. If it's something like straight MD5, 10^8 is good for about five seconds.
Personally, I think either of the following produces perfectly adequate and fairly memorable passwords:
1. Choose a passphrase of at least ten words. It can be nearly anything. Try to make it fairly obscure, but memorable to you. I like movie quotes, with modifications. Then take the first letter (or second letter, or last letter, or whatever) of each word. Assemble those into a password.
2. Choose two words at random from a good dictionary. If they're long, shorten them in some arbitrary way that you can remember easily (something less obvious than just truncating them is good), making sure they total at least eight or nine characters. Concatenate them, and optionally throw in a numeric or punctuation character somewhere.
My method is even simpler, and more secure:
1) Choose a passphrase of at least ten words. Use the whole damn thing as a password.
I did it the other way:
install x.org
uninstall xfree
Doing it like this let me keep using the computer while X was compiling.
The New Hampshire recount will really be the most interesting one. They used the Diebold machines
Isn't the major objection to the Diebold machines that you can't do a real recount? That the only thing you can do is run the stored ballot totals through the master counting machine?
Not awkward, just butt-ugly. I think it's the shade of blue they chose for the the links.
What I found works best is a combination of Construx, Erector, and Lego: the metal beams from the Erector set provide structural strength, the Construx beams give overall shape, and the Lego bricks provide the detail work.
They're plastic these days.
I purchased an Erector set about five years ago, and it was still almost all metal. A few of the panel-type pieces were plastic -- nobody's figured out transparent steel yet -- but all the "structural"-type pieces were galvanized steel.
Actually, the reasoning behind using patterns is that it's a lot cheaper to publish in black-and-white than to publish in color.
What's impressive is that the Segway managed to go over the Roomba without tipping.