When IE came out it was the death of Netscape. Linux didn't even have a TCPIP stack and couldn't actually go on the Internet.
Lay off the crack pipe... In pre-95 days, Windows 3.x users had to resort to third-party shareware utilities to access TCP-IP (remember Trumpet Winsock?). Linux was already network-capable. Granted, this is pre-Netscape days, and things were not as pretty (think Pine/gopher/textmode ftp), but whatever. TCP-IP made the transition to Windows, not the reverse. Windows 3.x and even 95 came by default without TC-PIP.
Damn, the trackerless feature of Azureus 2.3.x is working wonders with this one. No contact w/ the server whatsoever and the torrent is capping my 1meg DSL...
From a fellow Brazilian, Mac Minis are bound to change that - sure, R$2,890 is not exactly cheap for a compy sans keyboard/video/mouse, but with the financing options, the Mini could stuff my socks at Christmas.
(For the non-Wall-Street type guys - R$2,890 ~ US$1,100 - RIDICULOUSLY overpriced, but anyway)
Q: How hard would it be to find collisions in SHA-1?
A: The reported attacks require an estimated work factor of 2^69 (approximately 590 billion billion) hash computations. While this is well beyond what is currently feasible using a normal computer, this is potentially feasible for attackers who have specialized hardware. For example, with 10,000 custom ASICs that can each perform 2 billion hash operations per second, the attack would take about one year. Computing improvements predicted by Moore 's Law will make the attack more practical over time, e.g. making it possible for a wide-spread Internet virus to use compromised computers to mount such attacks as well. Once a collision has been found, additional collisions can be found trivially by concatenating data to the matching messages.
Having used Ubuntu for a short time, I can assure you - Gnome takes a little bit of getting used to, and I can say for sure that while Ubuntu does provide users with the best gnome experience available (as parent states), Gnome 2.10 introduced a few more quirks - like, NO way to edit Application menus (nautilus:///applications does not work anymore). Also I had A LOT of trouble getting nvsound to compile and work with gstreamer. Gnome 2.10 is NOWHERE near ready for primetime. KDE 3.4 is way more polished, and the lipstick theme looks gorgeous. And sound works fine (nForce2 chipset)
Installing KDE in Ubuntu 5.04 "hoary" is nothing more than a simple sudo apt-get kubuntu-desktop (and lots of downloading). I have made the switch, and I am not going back.
00:00:00 just marks the start of the detonation scheme. There is a slight lag that varies according to type of wiring and trigger.
I don't know you, but if I have to sustain a blast that decays with a quadratic formula, I still would prefer to get roasted at distance+n, where n equals the distance travelled by my ass on fire.
I am trying to resist the urge to post "just fscking use Adblock" here, but anyway...
It works. Really. For flash nasties there's a semi-transparent "Adblock" tab, insta-blocked. For scripts you may have a little more trouble, but since most of the pop-up/ad bullies tend to serve the javascript via a separate address (see intellitxt.com), just add the blocking rule manually (ie, click the Adblock statusbar item, sort by Category and block whatever scripts you find), and reload the page. - sometimes require trial and error, but anyway.
It is, indeed, better to try and avoid the software monoculture and currency evasion (SOME of the money has got to go to Microsoft/Oracle/Adobe/whatever), use and promote free software alternatives as Linux/MySQL/Ghostscript/whatever and keep the money flowing INSIDE the country and boosting the economy as a result.
It usually isn't if you are at home, but businesses do have to pay for their licenses, or they may be charged with tax evasion, and that is a serious offence even here in Brazil.
That being said, I have some expericence in setting up networks for my former college (federal institution, here the best colleges are the public ones, usually) and they *really* don't give a flying shit about using warezed copies of Windows in their labs, and no one ever has complained/charged/arrested/whatever.
I beg to differ... Try BitSpirit. It's somewhat bloated, but behaves nicely, minimizes to systray and gives you a minibar widget to monitor your dl's and even has a "market" option so you can get what other peers are getting too...
The other thing that we have in the US of A is a long history of watching foolish businesses go OUT of business. That's the miracle of capitalism! Sounds like Brazil already gets it (in terms of businesses providing these services), but I'd rather that we talk in terms of the companies involved getting it or not, not the country.
Nicely put. Brazil's economy is far more challenging than US' - competition tend to be more fierce around here, and those who "don't get it" actually don't get any. I could rant a lot about culture, openness (is that even a word?) but that's it. Money is scarce, and the few(er) wealthy customers tend to spend their with places that treat them well, and not give them strange looks if they are just charging their already-overpriced cell phones at their facilities - not that any of this applies to airports, but anyway.
Good call. I don't know how's stuff in Yankeeville, but here in Brazil it's commonplace in airports, for example, to have tables with lots of electrical outlets specifically for the purpose of charging cellphones and laptops for on-the-go users. No charge. And it's not even inside a coffeehouse or whatever, it's clearly marked at the waiting room.
I guess courtesy is out of order at the good ol' US of A.
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Troll, but informative.
And let's see... Can I play a DVD on Linux legally yet?
Yes, you can.
That Apple, they think of everything. Now I'm going to go back to waiting for my Dalmation iPod nano tube.
It's called a Dogcow. Moof.
When IE came out it was the death of Netscape. Linux didn't even have a TCPIP stack and couldn't actually go on the Internet.
Lay off the crack pipe... In pre-95 days, Windows 3.x users had to resort to third-party shareware utilities to access TCP-IP (remember Trumpet Winsock?). Linux was already network-capable. Granted, this is pre-Netscape days, and things were not as pretty (think Pine/gopher/textmode ftp), but whatever. TCP-IP made the transition to Windows, not the reverse. Windows 3.x and even 95 came by default without TC-PIP.
Damn, the trackerless feature of Azureus 2.3.x is working wonders with this one. No contact w/ the server whatsoever and the torrent is capping my 1meg DSL...
I got a few "foes" here b'cause of my sig...
Sigh.
From a fellow Brazilian, Mac Minis are bound to change that - sure, R$2,890 is not exactly cheap for a compy sans keyboard/video/mouse, but with the financing options, the Mini could stuff my socks at Christmas.
(For the non-Wall-Street type guys - R$2,890 ~ US$1,100 - RIDICULOUSLY overpriced, but anyway)
I don't mean to stand up for the troll, but if he wrote "Windows is malware" instead, he would get a +5, Funny by now.
Well, looks like he gotta learn to pick his fights, and go with the flow...
/search porn
/Look session started <fileName>porn</fileName>
Look completed 0
Look session stoped
Try 115.322 as of right now, and steadily climbing.
Slashdot crowd is hiting it full force!
10,000 custom ASICs > 512 80486's
Having used Ubuntu for a short time, I can assure you - Gnome takes a little bit of getting used to, and I can say for sure that while Ubuntu does provide users with the best gnome experience available (as parent states), Gnome 2.10 introduced a few more quirks - like, NO way to edit Application menus (nautilus:///applications does not work anymore). Also I had A LOT of trouble getting nvsound to compile and work with gstreamer. Gnome 2.10 is NOWHERE near ready for primetime. KDE 3.4 is way more polished, and the lipstick theme looks gorgeous. And sound works fine (nForce2 chipset)
Installing KDE in Ubuntu 5.04 "hoary" is nothing more than a simple sudo apt-get kubuntu-desktop (and lots of downloading). I have made the switch, and I am not going back.
00:00:00 just marks the start of the detonation scheme. There is a slight lag that varies according to type of wiring and trigger.
I don't know you, but if I have to sustain a blast that decays with a quadratic formula, I still would prefer to get roasted at distance+n, where n equals the distance travelled by my ass on fire.
Yep. The turntables were turned.
I am trying to resist the urge to post "just fscking use Adblock" here, but anyway...
It works. Really. For flash nasties there's a semi-transparent "Adblock" tab, insta-blocked. For scripts you may have a little more trouble, but since most of the pop-up/ad bullies tend to serve the javascript via a separate address (see intellitxt.com), just add the blocking rule manually (ie, click the Adblock statusbar item, sort by Category and block whatever scripts you find), and reload the page. - sometimes require trial and error, but anyway.
I believe you weren't formally introduced to Gmail.
Javascript can be a good thing.
Finally, someone that gets it.
It is, indeed, better to try and avoid the software monoculture and currency evasion (SOME of the money has got to go to Microsoft/Oracle/Adobe/whatever), use and promote free software alternatives as Linux/MySQL/Ghostscript/whatever and keep the money flowing INSIDE the country and boosting the economy as a result.
It usually isn't if you are at home, but businesses do have to pay for their licenses, or they may be charged with tax evasion, and that is a serious offence even here in Brazil.
That being said, I have some expericence in setting up networks for my former college (federal institution, here the best colleges are the public ones, usually) and they *really* don't give a flying shit about using warezed copies of Windows in their labs, and no one ever has complained/charged/arrested/whatever.
Oh come on. Not many people have enough photos and MP3s to fill even 10GB nevermind 120GB or 160GB
I believe you forgot the pr0n factor...
I beg to differ... Try BitSpirit. It's somewhat bloated, but behaves nicely, minimizes to systray and gives you a minibar widget to monitor your dl's and even has a "market" option so you can get what other peers are getting too...
Oh, it's a Chinese project but the website is multilingual http://www.lanspirit.com/
The other thing that we have in the US of A is a long history of watching foolish businesses go OUT of business. That's the miracle of capitalism! Sounds like Brazil already gets it (in terms of businesses providing these services), but I'd rather that we talk in terms of the companies involved getting it or not, not the country. Nicely put. Brazil's economy is far more challenging than US' - competition tend to be more fierce around here, and those who "don't get it" actually don't get any. I could rant a lot about culture, openness (is that even a word?) but that's it. Money is scarce, and the few(er) wealthy customers tend to spend their with places that treat them well, and not give them strange looks if they are just charging their already-overpriced cell phones at their facilities - not that any of this applies to airports, but anyway.
Good call. I don't know how's stuff in Yankeeville, but here in Brazil it's commonplace in airports, for example, to have tables with lots of electrical outlets specifically for the purpose of charging cellphones and laptops for on-the-go users. No charge. And it's not even inside a coffeehouse or whatever, it's clearly marked at the waiting room.
I guess courtesy is out of order at the good ol' US of A.
(and no, this is not a troll, more a rant...)
and anonymous remote file deleting...
Megadriver is a brazilian heavy metal band devoted to videogame music.
Some of their best work are the renditions of SF2's Ryu stage music and the unbelievable Alex Kidd in Miracle World (SMS) theme.
You can download their work for free, but please be gentle with the /.'ing.
More like, Robocop 1.
/has seen too many 80s movies