I run Slackware 9.1 on a HP zd7000 laptop. ALSA works perfectly out-of-the-box, and getting the Broadcom 54g wireless working went perfectly using ndiswrapper (the Big Three for source installation, followed by installing the inf file, and then almost normal ethernet commands to get it working)
If it worked just fine with Slack, it's gotta be easier under other linucese.
Point taken. However, I think the article is an interesting look at the evolution of the industrial design, and the actual internals of the iPod, much like an article describing the hard drive evolution in Apple desktops might be interesting.
And if you are smart enough to post on slashdot then you are smart enough to know how to clean out your cookie file. You are also smart enough not to be scared of them.
Dude, pretending to know what you're talking about and knowing what you're talking about are two different things (not implying you aren't, but those who oughta be smart enough because they post on/.)
yeah... Opera also doesn't do the kerberos-based authentication my university uses for nearly *everything* all that well, either. But I like it enough to keep using it.
And what you didn't remember to add, to make this even better:
* - Not all currently recognized by UN. ** - Palmyra Atoll dollars.
Granted, the whole site is bullshit, seeing that it's a US territory, not an "Uninhabited Sovereign Territory" like it says. But I still think the marketing BS oughta be kept funny:)
In case you haven't really noticed, IBM's big thing (except for a small abbaration known as the PC *wink*) has never been PCs, but large-scale systems, like the zSeries today. And large server class systems have never been and will never be "point-and-click" easy. In addition, just about every large corporate buyer, likes support contracts. If something seriously borks, you can expect IBM to fix it ASAP. The closest analogy a support contract can be made to (for an organization with an already well-seasoned IT staff) is insurance, because when your company is loosing $10,000/hr on a borked computer, you better damn well make sure you have every resource available to keep downtime to a minimum.
Yeah, I understand the point you're getting at. I personally leave my zd7000 running 24/7 because most of the time I'm leaving it to do a render overnight or something. Most PCs in offices ought to be based on Transmeta or Via low-power CPUs anyway, seeing all they do is web surf, word process, and remote sessions.
I hope you mean that the original owner is included in the set of people who can't decrypt it.
NOTE: IF YOU MEANT THAT, OR UNDERSTOOD THE PARENT TO MEAN THAT, THEN DISREGARD THE BELOW.
MD5 is a one-way hashing alg, designed to be as unpredictible as one can get it, with about as much chance of a collision (hash(x) == hash(y)) as I have of getting a one-night stand with, say, Paris Hilton. That means, if you know md5_hash(x), you can't find x. Ever. Even if you can find some y where md5_hash(y) == md5_hash(x), you can only speculate if x == y or not (I suppose if you had infinate monkeys at infinate TI-92's, you might eventually find out).
Then how are your passwords encrypted via MD5? Easy. They're hashed, and the hash is stored. When you enter in your password to the computer, it hashes what you gave it. If md5_hash(what_I_typed) == my_hashed_password, then you're in.
Now, in the above example, remember when I said what a collision was (hash(x) == hash(y))? If an attacker finds a collision with x and y, and we're trying to safeguard x, no problem (moot anyway, because there is no way to find x given md5hash(x) to begin with). However, say your password knows the value y. Also say your password is x. If md5hash(y) == md5hash(x), then the attacker logs in to your computer, because the computer assumes no collisions (which were practically impossible until recently). And what good is keeping your password safe if the attacker can log in under his own? None. And then the intruder reset your account's password to something he knows and can remember. And now has access to all your private GPG keys, etc... This is why there was all that bru-ha-ha about it earlier.
Whew. Again, if you already knew that's how the world worked, I apologize. I honestly knew a kid who spent 2 hours trying to run "md5sum/", and when he finally got something (I don't know how, a tarball, perhaps?) he deleted everything else on his hard drive except for the sum. Yeah, I did an emergency reinstall of SuSE 8.2 that night.
Granted, this is a late reply, but as a former MS user, there's a lot that requires admin access to the computer. I've had games die on me because of it, audio workstation software, etc. A lot of vendors assume that you'll be running with "Power User" or "Administrator" privs, and they program that way, instead of a much more security-friendly matter.
Microsoft ought to be aware of this practice, and go through attempts to curtail said practice, or at least work around it. However, they've done nothing, and so many people I know need Admin privs to do daily work.
The problem is that handguns are more difficult to use by the untrained. I know someone who bought a handgun, and never even touched it. She just keeps it loaded and insecured by her bed at night. I doubt she could hit a barn door with it if she put the muzzle right against it. Just like everyone else, for every person that knows how to do something right, there are two that only think they know it, and five who have no clue at all. I don't fear people like yourself with handguns, you prolly fire better than most police. It's people like that woman I know
The idea is that it runs Linux, and therefore doesn't need software porting. Any app that can support parallelizing by making new processes (make -j, for example) is all ready to rumble. As any MOSIX fan (such as myself) will tell you, all you need to do is "fork() and forget." A load-balancing system such as OpenMOSIX will make it all that more buttery smooth as processes migrate to less-used nodes in the cluster.
Example: I'm an architecture student, and I do a lot of computer renderings for class. One presentation I produced required 4 high-quality raytraced CG images from my CAD drawings. After about 2 hours of work adding surfaces, textures, etc., I spent the next 10 hours rendering those 4 images on a 2.8 GHz Xeon workstation. If I had to make a complete book on it, it'd have taken me a week. I would have killed for a cluster @ that point. Then again, that glass spiral staircase prolly inflated times by a decent margin...
When was the last time you put an ID3 tag on an analog cassette? These days, recording music into MP3 and tagging it is not only easy, but the only way to manage what one's listening to.
And how does the fact that the end format is an MP3 versus analog tape affect the fact that someone is recording audio to listen to later?
From my experience working tech support, the Run box is the best feature in Windows. No clicking on things that seem similar (with what counts as seeming similar being open to interpretation). Most people seem better at typing exactly what ought to be typed then clicking.
Also, remember that many help things from MS are designed for help desks to read over the phone, with coaching. Most grandmas I know aren't afraid to call tech support first, RTFM second.
A script kiddie I know once told me that if they have unsecure anon FTP, a public-accessible NFS share, etc. on an internet-connected machine, then they deserve to get hit. Online ethics only matter amongst those who care about it to begin with.
Say, what about creating an association of system admins to cover each other's backs in regards to hacking? Such as shared blacklists, letting each other know if one of the member's machines was zombified, etc. Just an idea.
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I run Slackware 9.1 on a HP zd7000 laptop. ALSA works perfectly out-of-the-box, and getting the Broadcom 54g wireless working went perfectly using ndiswrapper (the Big Three for source installation, followed by installing the inf file, and then almost normal ethernet commands to get it working) If it worked just fine with Slack, it's gotta be easier under other linucese.
It's slow, but still running, even with hosting an image-based site. W00t.
Ah well. I don't own, nor ever have touched an iPod, so I didn't even know about the scrollwheel. And live life on the edge! Get modded off topic!
More than just analog controls, analog synths themselves are making a comeback.
Point taken. However, I think the article is an interesting look at the evolution of the industrial design, and the actual internals of the iPod, much like an article describing the hard drive evolution in Apple desktops might be interesting.
Why should Apple make their own touchpad? Synaptics has much much more experience in the matter. "Let the pros handle it", so to speak.
Dude, pretending to know what you're talking about and knowing what you're talking about are two different things (not implying you aren't, but those who oughta be smart enough because they post on /.)
yeah... Opera also doesn't do the kerberos-based authentication my university uses for nearly *everything* all that well, either. But I like it enough to keep using it.
And what you didn't remember to add, to make this even better:
Granted, the whole site is bullshit, seeing that it's a US territory, not an "Uninhabited Sovereign Territory" like it says. But I still think the marketing BS oughta be kept funny :)
Which would make an IBM-style "We'll bend over backwards to help you with your problem" support contract even more lucrative, right?
In case you haven't really noticed, IBM's big thing (except for a small abbaration known as the PC *wink*) has never been PCs, but large-scale systems, like the zSeries today. And large server class systems have never been and will never be "point-and-click" easy. In addition, just about every large corporate buyer, likes support contracts. If something seriously borks, you can expect IBM to fix it ASAP. The closest analogy a support contract can be made to (for an organization with an already well-seasoned IT staff) is insurance, because when your company is loosing $10,000/hr on a borked computer, you better damn well make sure you have every resource available to keep downtime to a minimum.
Better yet, does it work on systems that don't use complex pre-compiled binary packages (Slackware, for example)
Well, download F@H and give it a purpose!
Yeah, I understand the point you're getting at. I personally leave my zd7000 running 24/7 because most of the time I'm leaving it to do a render overnight or something. Most PCs in offices ought to be based on Transmeta or Via low-power CPUs anyway, seeing all they do is web surf, word process, and remote sessions.
I hope you mean that the original owner is included in the set of people who can't decrypt it.
NOTE: IF YOU MEANT THAT, OR UNDERSTOOD THE PARENT TO MEAN THAT, THEN DISREGARD THE BELOW.
MD5 is a one-way hashing alg, designed to be as unpredictible as one can get it, with about as much chance of a collision (hash(x) == hash(y)) as I have of getting a one-night stand with, say, Paris Hilton. That means, if you know md5_hash(x), you can't find x. Ever. Even if you can find some y where md5_hash(y) == md5_hash(x), you can only speculate if x == y or not (I suppose if you had infinate monkeys at infinate TI-92's, you might eventually find out).
Then how are your passwords encrypted via MD5? Easy. They're hashed, and the hash is stored. When you enter in your password to the computer, it hashes what you gave it. If md5_hash(what_I_typed) == my_hashed_password, then you're in.
Now, in the above example, remember when I said what a collision was (hash(x) == hash(y))? If an attacker finds a collision with x and y, and we're trying to safeguard x, no problem (moot anyway, because there is no way to find x given md5hash(x) to begin with). However, say your password knows the value y. Also say your password is x. If md5hash(y) == md5hash(x), then the attacker logs in to your computer, because the computer assumes no collisions (which were practically impossible until recently). And what good is keeping your password safe if the attacker can log in under his own? None. And then the intruder reset your account's password to something he knows and can remember. And now has access to all your private GPG keys, etc... This is why there was all that bru-ha-ha about it earlier.
Whew. Again, if you already knew that's how the world worked, I apologize. I honestly knew a kid who spent 2 hours trying to run "md5sum /", and when he finally got something (I don't know how, a tarball, perhaps?) he deleted everything else on his hard drive except for the sum. Yeah, I did an emergency reinstall of SuSE 8.2 that night.
Granted, this is a late reply, but as a former MS user, there's a lot that requires admin access to the computer. I've had games die on me because of it, audio workstation software, etc. A lot of vendors assume that you'll be running with "Power User" or "Administrator" privs, and they program that way, instead of a much more security-friendly matter.
Microsoft ought to be aware of this practice, and go through attempts to curtail said practice, or at least work around it. However, they've done nothing, and so many people I know need Admin privs to do daily work.
The problem is that handguns are more difficult to use by the untrained. I know someone who bought a handgun, and never even touched it. She just keeps it loaded and insecured by her bed at night. I doubt she could hit a barn door with it if she put the muzzle right against it. Just like everyone else, for every person that knows how to do something right, there are two that only think they know it, and five who have no clue at all. I don't fear people like yourself with handguns, you prolly fire better than most police. It's people like that woman I know
Best. Post. Ever.
The idea is that it runs Linux, and therefore doesn't need software porting. Any app that can support parallelizing by making new processes (make -j, for example) is all ready to rumble. As any MOSIX fan (such as myself) will tell you, all you need to do is "fork() and forget." A load-balancing system such as OpenMOSIX will make it all that more buttery smooth as processes migrate to less-used nodes in the cluster.
Example: I'm an architecture student, and I do a lot of computer renderings for class. One presentation I produced required 4 high-quality raytraced CG images from my CAD drawings. After about 2 hours of work adding surfaces, textures, etc., I spent the next 10 hours rendering those 4 images on a 2.8 GHz Xeon workstation. If I had to make a complete book on it, it'd have taken me a week. I would have killed for a cluster @ that point. Then again, that glass spiral staircase prolly inflated times by a decent margin...
Not posting this as troll, flamebait, or anything other than a matter of engineering: could you do better?
When was the last time you put an ID3 tag on an analog cassette? These days, recording music into MP3 and tagging it is not only easy, but the only way to manage what one's listening to. And how does the fact that the end format is an MP3 versus analog tape affect the fact that someone is recording audio to listen to later?
And the XBox 2 once released, IIRC.
From my experience working tech support, the Run box is the best feature in Windows. No clicking on things that seem similar (with what counts as seeming similar being open to interpretation). Most people seem better at typing exactly what ought to be typed then clicking.
Also, remember that many help things from MS are designed for help desks to read over the phone, with coaching. Most grandmas I know aren't afraid to call tech support first, RTFM second.
My mother used to work for a small computer store, and would take basic tech support calls. Your day came in 1993.
I've just gotten into the whole admin "thing", so there's tonnes I still don't know about. Thanks.
A script kiddie I know once told me that if they have unsecure anon FTP, a public-accessible NFS share, etc. on an internet-connected machine, then they deserve to get hit. Online ethics only matter amongst those who care about it to begin with.
Say, what about creating an association of system admins to cover each other's backs in regards to hacking? Such as shared blacklists, letting each other know if one of the member's machines was zombified, etc. Just an idea.