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  1. Re:Is this a veiled attempt... on Smart People Choke Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Sucks. I'm in the exact position right now, though I think I'm a lot less smarter. Anyway, there's more to a life than a career, or so I've been told.

  2. No market! on The State of Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    The common idea is that Linux users are not willing to pay for software, rather share with the community. Now, would a game distributor try this? LokiGames didn't make it either, cannot remember why, but it wasn't due to its large sales. Furthermore, ID games have always offered Linux versions of their games that work splendidly.

  3. Re:stegnography is security through obscurity on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 1

    as soon as a method for stegnography is discovered it basically looses any advantage. the only way it could work is if the number of methods would increase at a exponential or higher rate. otherwise any interested party can just brute force your data for every possible stegnoraphy method.

    No. For example, the El-Gamal signature scheme allows for subliminal messages. You never know whether it's there and if it is, it won't help you either.

  4. Re:First rule of Microsoft encryption /NSA on Zimmermann Enters Debate on Microsoft Encryption · · Score: 1
    NSA is certainly concerned about cryptography but not as you illustrate it; they do not serve the community (US only).

    the DES algorithm was never meant to made public; the original idea was to provide black-box chips only.

    NSA reduced the key length from 112 to 56 bits which is definitely not secure.

    iterations/S-box were introduced to protect against a type of attack that was not commonly known at the time, but bound to be discovered later. So, the NSA assures decryption is only feasible with the original key or a google-sized computer resort. In short, they will try and ensure that they can decrypt without a key while others may not-- insecure encryption.

  5. Never suspend improves reliability? on Not Much Happening in Hard Drives This Year · · Score: 1

    In my experience harddrives do fail often when you hdparm -S xx them (auto-suspend after xx minutes). Of course I don't access these disks too often (mostly backup). All of the disks are guaranteed to crash after 1 yrs of timeout usage. The WD Caviar disks I purchased over 10 yrs ago still work without problems, IBM disks also. Also, laptop hard drives are very vulnerable in my experience.

  6. Re:Congratulations... on Xfce 4.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    CDE is based on HP VUE environment, which I liked.
    But I also liked XV, the famous image viewer; WindowMaker is nice.

    I just use apps that work nice, a consistent look-and-feel is not THAT important; KDE/gnome offer all consistent apps that look nice, act consistent but do not appeal. In the end I only use a decent browser, a decent text-editor and a decent filemanager (or command-line) and sometimes an instant messenger.

  7. Re:How lightweight, if it requires gtk+? on Xfce 4.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    More interestingly, how can you develop kernels when linux-2.6.x.tar.bz2 takes up you whole diskspace :-) Aaaaahh.. those 2.0.18/gcc2.7.2 days

  8. Re:How lightweight is it? on Xfce 4.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    WindowMaker'll do. Or mwm of the openmotif distro.
    Those 2 I find the best WM's still around; the others feel flaky (see stability earlier).

    On my P100 I use opera. When using 16bit colors it's not a Cray, but will outperform any Duron800 with XP-SP2 :-)