each key is 128 bits long...
assuming there is a worldwide market penetration of 1%
that's 6*10^9*.01*128=7.68*10^9 bits that is almost a gig of data to hold the keys alone(that is 600 million players)
we have cracked the encryption scheme itself, so it would make no sense to disable any one of them because it takes just seconds to switch off to any other.
In a sense you could say we have cracked all the keys
Linux itself is not a platform(it is just a kernel after all), but when most people talk about Linux they mean a platform based on Linux(or in other words a distro). Fedora is a really nice operating system, so is RHEL, Mandriva, Linspire, SUSE, and others.
When a Gentoo system is set up correctly, it is so easy to keep. I can't imagine anyone who sets up a Gentoo distro, correctly, ever switching to another operating system.
This guy doesn't understand the mentality behind open source. If he has any experience, it was a failed attempt at setting up his own system (something that with some distros is actually hard to do: try simplymepis or knoppix; and those two are actually designed not to take over the desktop). The basis for opens source in general is: if something can work better, we will change it to make it better.
Linux may not destroy Windows but it definatly has the potential to lower the Windows marketshare down to about where OS 9 was. There will always be diehard Windows fans(just like there are mac fanatics) but the average Windows user just wants a computer that works to let them type, browse the web, check email, and some of them want to talk to other people. I have met people who actually don't know what Windows is. They turn on their computers and expect them to work.
Eventually what will(should) happen is that operating systems become so interchangable that many people don't know or care what OS they are running. Using a computer will just be second nature. The way it is used is just an extention of how the user thinks. Linux has the potential to become this system, and Windows(in its current and proposed future form) doesn't. Windows is the system that is doomed.
There are several definitions for the number one:
A single entity
The standard distance between consecutive integers
The number of different empty subsets in any set
The multiplicative identity element
There are quite a few others as well.
Mathematics is the only precice language, any language that attempts to describe it can only be less precise.
I think this is exactly what is happenning. Microsoft owns the office suite arena. As of right now they have nothing to really worry about in any of the other office suites. The only thing that they have to think about is all the users of older versions of MS Office.
If they can get away with opening their document and getting some of the OSS people to think that it is a setup that they are going to use at some point in the future then the better for them.
One of the bonuses for them is that they already have this document format implemented. So they have a head start on what they expect to be the de facto standard.
This move might even be the best way for Microsoft to compete with open source. That is they must keep ahead of open source. They create something new, release it, then open up the format (which would be reverse engineered if they didn't; it also looks good that they are playing along with OSS), and as soon as competeders catch up they release something new again. As long as whatever they release is better than the one before it then not only do they generate profits but they remain a step ahead of everyone else.
I bet they are expecting the open source community to do some innovation as well. With their format open and based on xml there should soon start appearing multiple xsl methods of generating xhtml from the word documents. Their licence might even be compatable enough that they could use the best of these xsl documents to make word save html files. The best part of this for them is that innovation done by the open source community is free innovation for microsoft. Meanwhile innovation by microsoft takes time and energy for the open source community to decipher.
But Firefox taught people that you could replace pieces of the Windows desktop with open source software. That was a crack in the seamless facade. You guys were the experts at demonetizing whole sectors of the industry to protect the OS. But how were you going to do that against products that were free? I can't deny that I found a certain poetry in that dilemma.
Imagine what happens to office if this is what firefox teaches about microsoft products.
Myself, I thought I was making some pretty outrageous demands. I was stunned when you agreed to accept the General Public License mandating that everything you added at the level of the new operating system would remain open. But you've been true to your side of the bargain, and you've won my respect. You never made me alter my goal, which was world domination for Linux. I'll never forget your line: "Come on, Linus, infect the mothership." I still believe that was the best recruiting pitch ever uttered. We both took a lot of criticism from our partisans, but look what we've accomplished. The world is using software that doesn't suck! I hope you don't think I'm being arrogant, Bill, when I suggest that some of the glory has rubbed off on you.
If there is another hole in firefox that you could use to run javascript with sufficient privliges(the same privs that you have when you run a chrome:// url) and you could delete files from javascript.
I have done it sometimes, it isn't really all that bad; for seven days:
wake up at 8:00
shower 8-8:30
breakfast 8:30-9
work 9-12
lunch 12-1
work 1-6
dinner 6-7
work 7-2
that is 15 hours per day of work, now subtract 3 and a half hours for breaks/unproductive time throughout the day for seven days straight = 80.5 hours
As long as you aren't working on just one thing for those 80 hours it isn't so bad. If you didn't want to count classes as work just take away the 3.5 hours of break away and replace them with classes. Taking 18 credits you can still have the break time on the weekends.
but how is this any different from when 2.4 forked off of the 2.3 dev tree, or when 2.2 forked off of it's dev tree, or when 2.6 forked off the 2.5 tree
The way I see it is that they are forking 2.7 off the 2.6 tree possibly feature freezing 2.6 to allow new developments on the 2.7 tree hereby creating another "development" kernel.
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each key is 128 bits long...
assuming there is a worldwide market penetration of 1%
that's 6*10^9*.01*128=7.68*10^9 bits that is almost a gig of data to hold the keys alone(that is 600 million players)
that would just take way too long
encrypt with half the keyspace while decrypting with the other half
In a sense you could say we have cracked all the keys
When a Gentoo system is set up correctly, it is so easy to keep. I can't imagine anyone who sets up a Gentoo distro, correctly, ever switching to another operating system.
This guy doesn't understand the mentality behind open source. If he has any experience, it was a failed attempt at setting up his own system (something that with some distros is actually hard to do: try simplymepis or knoppix; and those two are actually designed not to take over the desktop). The basis for opens source in general is: if something can work better, we will change it to make it better.
Linux may not destroy Windows but it definatly has the potential to lower the Windows marketshare down to about where OS 9 was. There will always be diehard Windows fans(just like there are mac fanatics) but the average Windows user just wants a computer that works to let them type, browse the web, check email, and some of them want to talk to other people. I have met people who actually don't know what Windows is. They turn on their computers and expect them to work.
Eventually what will(should) happen is that operating systems become so interchangable that many people don't know or care what OS they are running. Using a computer will just be second nature. The way it is used is just an extention of how the user thinks. Linux has the potential to become this system, and Windows(in its current and proposed future form) doesn't. Windows is the system that is doomed.
try snico at http://www.snidesoft.com it is freeware
A single entity
The standard distance between consecutive integers
The number of different empty subsets in any set
The multiplicative identity element
There are quite a few others as well.
Mathematics is the only precice language, any language that attempts to describe it can only be less precise.
This was the best thing I've read here all day
Under default controls, xpi aren't able to be installed by any site
ouch! What is so wrong with trillian's interface. I would say it is one of my favorite programs.
But for those who are in developed countries a 100 dollar pc that gets donated to a third world country could be a good tax write off.
I think this is exactly what is happenning. Microsoft owns the office suite arena. As of right now they have nothing to really worry about in any of the other office suites. The only thing that they have to think about is all the users of older versions of MS Office.
If they can get away with opening their document and getting some of the OSS people to think that it is a setup that they are going to use at some point in the future then the better for them.
One of the bonuses for them is that they already have this document format implemented. So they have a head start on what they expect to be the de facto standard.
This move might even be the best way for Microsoft to compete with open source. That is they must keep ahead of open source. They create something new, release it, then open up the format (which would be reverse engineered if they didn't; it also looks good that they are playing along with OSS), and as soon as competeders catch up they release something new again. As long as whatever they release is better than the one before it then not only do they generate profits but they remain a step ahead of everyone else.
I bet they are expecting the open source community to do some innovation as well. With their format open and based on xml there should soon start appearing multiple xsl methods of generating xhtml from the word documents. Their licence might even be compatable enough that they could use the best of these xsl documents to make word save html files. The best part of this for them is that innovation done by the open source community is free innovation for microsoft. Meanwhile innovation by microsoft takes time and energy for the open source community to decipher.
He's not branding everyone as stupid, just the ones that should know better.
Imagine what happens to office if this is what firefox teaches about microsoft products.
Myself, I thought I was making some pretty outrageous demands. I was stunned when you agreed to accept the General Public License mandating that everything you added at the level of the new operating system would remain open. But you've been true to your side of the bargain, and you've won my respect. You never made me alter my goal, which was world domination for Linux. I'll never forget your line: "Come on, Linus, infect the mothership." I still believe that was the best recruiting pitch ever uttered. We both took a lot of criticism from our partisans, but look what we've accomplished. The world is using software that doesn't suck! I hope you don't think I'm being arrogant, Bill, when I suggest that some of the glory has rubbed off on you.
This is a little out of line though.
sorry, I dont get it.
http://jslib.mozdev.org/
If there is another hole in firefox that you could use to run javascript with sufficient privliges(the same privs that you have when you run a chrome:// url) and you could delete files from javascript.
wake up at 8:00
shower 8-8:30
breakfast 8:30-9
work 9-12
lunch 12-1
work 1-6
dinner 6-7
work 7-2
that is 15 hours per day of work, now subtract 3 and a half hours for breaks/unproductive time throughout the day for seven days straight = 80.5 hours
As long as you aren't working on just one thing for those 80 hours it isn't so bad. If you didn't want to count classes as work just take away the 3.5 hours of break away and replace them with classes. Taking 18 credits you can still have the break time on the weekends.
but how is this any different from when 2.4 forked off of the 2.3 dev tree, or when 2.2 forked off of it's dev tree, or when 2.6 forked off the 2.5 tree The way I see it is that they are forking 2.7 off the 2.6 tree possibly feature freezing 2.6 to allow new developments on the 2.7 tree hereby creating another "development" kernel.
ooh, I like them!
This is very similar or the same as the eyewear that Lance Armstrong wore this year in the tour de France. His was only 128MB though.
go search for and install yzShadow
doesn't os x come with perl?