Actually I was trying to cool the heatsink off fast and for that I need to switch on the computer to power the fan, but I did not want the CPU to also have power therefore I removed it from its socket. (The CPU surface itself wasn't actually hot - only warm)
After cooling everything down and reinstalling it worked again. I'm writing this with that very same K6 and it works flawlessly.
Or try touching the heatsink on an AMD K6-233 when the fan got blocked and the computer ran without for half an hour. Especially, try to unmount that thing when you've noticed that to get the CPU some fresh air (hint: heatsinks are hard to unmount bastards and now try without touching it...ouch:-)
Maybe you should read some of the infos on www.gnu.org.
Hint: it's not what someone pays for something to be programmed, but what you can do with the resulting sources.
Free software does not mean that programmers are slaves. They are also free, and if they don't program what you want/need, you can try to motivate them to program that for you.
FreeBSD/OpenBSD are explicitly mentioned as ports with no comment about unavailable RNGs, and from what I've heard about these they have crypto in the kernel.
Sure, GPG needs its own RNG. Someone will have to write one. Anyone?
It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for PGP (identical command line switches for the basic operations) and to be compatible to PGP5 upwards (PGP2 is not difficult because of RSA and IDEA being patented and therefore not implemented in GPG).
Resignation is not the way to face that. Crackers are not hackers. The unaware public may use the term hacker for crackers, but thats no reason for doing that too or not pointing out the difference.
After all, the term cracker is IMHO recognizable enough to be understood by the public, so theres no reason not to use it where appropriate.
So whats this? ST night with only four movies? Either show Insurrection alone or show em all. *Thats* what I call ST nights! (Then again, the 8-movies-in-a-row was already a bit more than a night.)
First, if it takes advantage of MMX, then it will also take advantage of the K6 MMX, which is cloned from Intel.
Second, the FPU is irrelevant for encryption. Encryption has to be exact, and floating point numbers are exact only up to a certain precision. Encryption software frequently uses bignums, which are integer but can be very long.
Probably the program makes use of the FPU for some optimization, but that's a)unlikely (at least I can't think of useful application of the FPU in encryption) and b)wouldn't be a hard impact on the performance as encryption is integer based.
Anyone hit me if I'm wrong. But, please, not too hard.
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Actually I was trying to cool the heatsink off fast and for that I need to switch on the computer to power the fan, but I did not want the CPU to also have power therefore I removed it from its socket. (The CPU surface itself wasn't actually hot - only warm)
After cooling everything down and reinstalling it worked again. I'm writing this with that very same K6 and it works flawlessly.
Or try touching the heatsink on an AMD K6-233 when the fan got blocked and the computer ran without for half an hour. Especially, try to unmount that thing when you've noticed that to get the CPU some fresh air (hint: heatsinks are hard to unmount bastards and now try without touching it...ouch :-)
Maybe you should read some of the infos on www.gnu.org.
Hint: it's not what someone pays for something to be programmed, but what you can do with the resulting sources.
Free software does not mean that programmers are slaves. They are also free, and if they don't program what you want/need, you can try to motivate them to program that for you.
Also, this is nothing new. Happens all the time.
umm, kill the "not" in "not difficult" in my above response. Changed wording and missed that.
Hey, it's just a beta.
FreeBSD/OpenBSD are explicitly mentioned as ports with no comment about unavailable RNGs, and from what I've heard about these they have crypto in the kernel.
Sure, GPG needs its own RNG. Someone will have to write one. Anyone?
It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for PGP (identical command line switches for the basic operations) and to be compatible to PGP5 upwards (PGP2 is not difficult because of RSA and IDEA being patented and therefore not implemented in GPG).
It's not when he meant one time pads. And OTPs are secure.
Resignation is not the way to face that. Crackers are not hackers. The unaware public may use the term hacker for crackers, but thats no reason for doing that too or not pointing out the difference.
After all, the term cracker is IMHO recognizable enough to be understood by the public, so theres no reason not to use it where appropriate.
Iraq doesnt have any Internet connection. They have some internal networks crackers can probably dial in, but none connected to the Internet.
So whats this? ST night with only four movies? Either show Insurrection alone or show em all. *Thats* what I call ST nights! (Then again, the 8-movies-in-a-row was already a bit more than a night.)
Hmm, but you could just as well take the parts up to a station in Earth orbit and assemble them there. It's zero g in orbit just as well as in a L1.
Forgot to take your pills again, huh?
Probably you are confusing the cost of a single B-2 with the cost of actually developing the B-2.
I don't know the numbers so I can't tell.
First, if it takes advantage of MMX, then it will also take advantage of the K6 MMX, which is cloned from Intel.
Second, the FPU is irrelevant for encryption. Encryption has to be exact, and floating point numbers are exact only up to a certain precision. Encryption software frequently uses bignums, which are integer but can be very long.
Probably the program makes use of the FPU for some optimization, but that's a)unlikely (at least I can't think of useful application of the FPU in encryption) and b)wouldn't be a hard impact on the performance as encryption is integer based.
Anyone hit me if I'm wrong. But, please, not too hard.