Yes, yes yes... If you've actually read the article(s) (yeah, shocking idea, I know), you would have known that the attacker need to create BOTH sets of data that share the hash.
So, the creator of the torrent could probably make some corrupt blocks to it... But you might see a tiny flaw in the logic there;)
The mods that modded this insightsful should be modded either +1 funny, or -1 clueless..
It's, as original poster said in reply, code for making collisions (two files having same hash. NOTE: That means attacker can create both datas, not that attacker can find one set of data and then make a collision on that), not (for example) crack md5'ed passwords.
The salt advice would however help against rainbow table type attacks.
Lets for example say someone put up a webserver and put some seriously illegal stuff on it (childporn? nasty comments about george bush?).. Who gets to shoot it down?
I am often experimenting with different crypto, and have some old encrypted files/containers I have no idea about the password for. What's the police to do then? Hold me for 2 years while they crack the password and saves my 2-3 mp3 files and a linux iso I copied over to test speed / usability?
And why I havent deleted them.. Well, got lots of free space, they're not in my way, and who knows? I might even remember the password someday.
Just a couple of days ago I was talking to a senior IT person explaining the advantages of a particular web server configuration. I went to demonstrate something on a terminal monitor, and the guy started laughing said "What, it doesn't have a Windows interface? And you're trying to tell me that this is advanced server technology? We're not going to use primitive Unix systems here. We're a state of the art Microsoft shop. You've got to admire Bill Gates, haven't you? You Unix guys crack me up..." and carried on like that for about half an hour. I didn't say anything and decided to just forget ever talking to this guy again.
Next time you see him, please take a postit note, write with big letters "-1, Troll", and staple it to his head:)
why the hell is everyone using it? Because its the easiest and best OS out there? no, not in my case. Its one simple reason. Games. For normal use I have an extra linux install, and go through boring rebooting to run linux rather than working in windows.
Why? Dunno exactly. I feel more comfortable in linux, have more tools to work with, and I *trust* my linux install to do exactly what I want, and always just work. No spyware, no slowdown, no random OS kamikaze you have to sort out, no random settings change.. It's there for me, always, ready to do what I want and nothing more. And that's more than I can say about windows.
I personally prefer apt, since it's the system I know the most and have had the least problems with, and yum was a dog earlier (fedora core 1 & 2), but have heard that it's been improved a lot lately.
Generally, every distro have its standard way, some borrow from others (mostly apt), and some make their own. (fedora have yum, mandriva urpm, gentoo emerge, arch have pacman IIRC..) Just read up on your distro of choice and find out what package manager it use, and learn it.
Check http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for a list of packages avaliable for the debian distribution. Unstable had over 14.000 packages (including meta-packages and differently compiled versions of same program) last time I checked.
Ok, this is always a big problem for former windows users. Mostly because they do it all wrong.
Their usual response is "Well, find the software on internet, download (after guessing format), try to install.." WHAM - wrong.
Use Distro's Package Manager. This is a hard part for windowsers. I dunno why. Maybe because they're too set in the windows way, or maybe because they can't understand that you use a local application to install programs from a remote location (in this case, the internet). Or maybe they think that's for "toy uses", for total idiots to drool through, and only have 2-3 good programs. Well..
I've used linux for several years, and are comfortable doing installs from source and all that, and on my current linux install I got 3 things that aint in the package manager. That's Java (the linux equivalent of a zip file (with eula..) that you have to copy to the right places and symlink, Azureus (unzip, click, it runs), and Opera. Comes in deb format. Download, install with dpkg -i (and maybe apt-get install the qt3 dep if not already installed). And believe me, my start menu is 5x as large as my windows install (way too easy installing apps = infinity+1 apps installed).
The fun part is, people like grandparent seem to put their fingers in their ears and scream "LALALA IM NOT LISTENING" when someone point this out to them. It's almost like they have a bias or something. Strange, no?
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I seem to recall something with the first 2.6 kernel(s), where that bug was still present, and the timer was 10x as fast (1000mhz instead of 100mhz), which lead to 49,7 days uptime wrap.
Disclaimer: it's a good chance I'm remembering wrong and I'm too lazy to google it right now.
Most people just criticise the color of the default theme, or Debian ABI compatibilty or the stupid controversy regarding the codenames. These are all ignorant arguments IMHO. No one rants this much about Linspire, or Xandros..
I think that when people complain about things like that it just shows how good Ubuntu really is:)
I intentionally only listed up open source projects there.
They're very standard driven (being able to talk to other people's programs = good, as opposed to many commersial systems), and, really, open source programs should be.. well, the baseline to measure other programs. Let people have that, and then pay for a better system if that one doesnt satisfy your need.
Furthermore, they're less competetive. They're (well, almost all of them at least) non-profit, for gods sake!
Oh, and of unfair competition. If you, as a software company, cant produce programs good enough to compete against something people toss together in their spare time, and give away for free? Slightly exaggerated, I know. But the principle is there. If you can't compete against that, you're doing something wrong.
Think of it a bit like expensive Nike-brand clothes VS something you find in the discount bin at the supermarket. Both will do the job, but if you want to spend money on a Nike, you're welcome.
Its a bit late, and I'm tired. Hope it's not too big a mess:-)
I read books on my Zaurus (using QTReader) and it works great! In fact, I'm starting to prefer it to reading a paper book.
You dont need a reading light, its smaller than a normal book, its easier (and less straining) to hold when you get used to it, and it always remember where you were last time. Plus I have almost as many books in there as my whole paper library, easily avaliable.
1. You can't change ports. Well, I have a range of ports to use on this machine, but I can't use those.. Also, I dont think they use UPnP, that might have helped a bit with this.
2. Can't set upload speed. Which means upload goes voom, and the adsl connection goes boom. Cant play, cant stream, can barely surf web. So you kill it the second its finished. I seem to recall bittornado having automatic upload adjustment, based on ping time to external servers. Having something like that would solve quite a big bit of the problem, I think.
If it havent been for those two problems, who knows.. It might even work.
Blackadder : Crisis Baldrick, Crisis! No marriage, no money, more bills! For the first time in my life I've decided to follow a suggestion of yours. Saddle Prince George's horse. Baldrick : Oh sir, you're not going to become a highwayman, are you? Blackadder : No I'm auditioning for the part of Arnold the bat in Sheridon's new comedy. Baldrick : Oh that's alright then. Blackadder : Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is? Baldrick : Yeah! It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
Basically it works as a proxy that do the "crawling" on pages as you visit them. It's still far from a really usable system, but otoh its still in beta and very few seem to know of it.
Personally I recommend One Piece (hilarious characters there) FullMetal Alchemist (good action, and also a bit deeper story) Berserk (Violence for teh win) Elfen Lied (pretty fucked up at times, A LOT of violence and some perv moments)
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Yes, yes yes...
;)
If you've actually read the article(s) (yeah, shocking idea, I know), you would have known that the attacker need to create BOTH sets of data that share the hash.
So, the creator of the torrent could probably make some corrupt blocks to it... But you might see a tiny flaw in the logic there
The mods that modded this insightsful should be modded either +1 funny, or -1 clueless..
It's, as original poster said in reply, code for making collisions (two files having same hash. NOTE: That means attacker can create both datas, not that attacker can find one set of data and then make a collision on that), not (for example) crack md5'ed passwords.
The salt advice would however help against rainbow table type attacks.
What laws will this satelite be bound to?
Lets for example say someone put up a webserver and put some seriously illegal stuff on it (childporn? nasty comments about george bush?).. Who gets to shoot it down?
One thing... What if you dont remember the key?
I am often experimenting with different crypto, and have some old encrypted files/containers I have no idea about the password for. What's the police to do then? Hold me for 2 years while they crack the password and saves my 2-3 mp3 files and a linux iso I copied over to test speed / usability?
And why I havent deleted them.. Well, got lots of free space, they're not in my way, and who knows? I might even remember the password someday.
Thanks a lot! Last time I tried emacs I had to kill it from another terminal :)
Same here.
Anyone got link to review/screenshots?
What I don't like doing is handing over 25.99 for a cd, and having 23.99 go to a label, .50 to a another schmuck, and then .50 to the musician.
Take a look at http://magnatune.com/ - lots of good artists there. And if you buy a cd, half of the cash goes directly to the artist.
http://magnatune.com/info/why is also an interesting read.
My personal favorites there are AntiGuru and Cargo Cult (And, IMHO, Dufay Collective also have a few good tunes, but that's a bit more special)
Just a couple of days ago I was talking to a senior IT person explaining the advantages of a particular web server configuration. I went to demonstrate something on a terminal monitor, and the guy started laughing said "What, it doesn't have a Windows interface? And you're trying to tell me that this is advanced server technology? We're not going to use primitive Unix systems here. We're a state of the art Microsoft shop. You've got to admire Bill Gates, haven't you? You Unix guys crack me up..." and carried on like that for about half an hour. I didn't say anything and decided to just forget ever talking to this guy again.
:)
Next time you see him, please take a postit note, write with big letters "-1, Troll", and staple it to his head
But the important question is: Do we have the right to arm bears?
why the hell is everyone using it? Because its the easiest and best OS out there? no, not in my case. Its one simple reason. Games. For normal use I have an extra linux install, and go through boring rebooting to run linux rather than working in windows.
Why? Dunno exactly. I feel more comfortable in linux, have more tools to work with, and I *trust* my linux install to do exactly what I want, and always just work. No spyware, no slowdown, no random OS kamikaze you have to sort out, no random settings change.. It's there for me, always, ready to do what I want and nothing more. And that's more than I can say about windows.
I personally prefer apt, since it's the system I know the most and have had the least problems with, and yum was a dog earlier (fedora core 1 & 2), but have heard that it's been improved a lot lately.
Generally, every distro have its standard way, some borrow from others (mostly apt), and some make their own. (fedora have yum, mandriva urpm, gentoo emerge, arch have pacman IIRC..) Just read up on your distro of choice and find out what package manager it use, and learn it.
Check http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for a list of packages avaliable for the debian distribution. Unstable had over 14.000 packages (including meta-packages and differently compiled versions of same program) last time I checked.
Ok, this is always a big problem for former windows users. Mostly because they do it all wrong.
Their usual response is "Well, find the software on internet, download (after guessing format), try to install.." WHAM - wrong.
Use Distro's Package Manager. This is a hard part for windowsers. I dunno why. Maybe because they're too set in the windows way, or maybe because they can't understand that you use a local application to install programs from a remote location (in this case, the internet). Or maybe they think that's for "toy uses", for total idiots to drool through, and only have 2-3 good programs. Well..
I've used linux for several years, and are comfortable doing installs from source and all that, and on my current linux install I got 3 things that aint in the package manager. That's Java (the linux equivalent of a zip file (with eula..) that you have to copy to the right places and symlink, Azureus (unzip, click, it runs), and Opera. Comes in deb format. Download, install with dpkg -i (and maybe apt-get install the qt3 dep if not already installed). And believe me, my start menu is 5x as large as my windows install (way too easy installing apps = infinity+1 apps installed).
The fun part is, people like grandparent seem to put their fingers in their ears and scream "LALALA IM NOT LISTENING" when someone point this out to them. It's almost like they have a bias or something. Strange, no?
I seem to recall something with the first 2.6 kernel(s), where that bug was still present, and the timer was 10x as fast (1000mhz instead of 100mhz), which lead to 49,7 days uptime wrap.
Disclaimer: it's a good chance I'm remembering wrong and I'm too lazy to google it right now.
Most people just criticise the color of the default theme, or Debian ABI compatibilty or the stupid controversy regarding the codenames. These are all ignorant arguments IMHO. No one rants this much about Linspire, or Xandros..
:)
I think that when people complain about things like that it just shows how good Ubuntu really is
I can't complain. 150 kb/s on that, and together with 2 other torrents I'm downloading, it's close to maxing my line.
:-)
13 minutes left on download. Lets just hope the movie is good
I intentionally only listed up open source projects there.
.. well, the baseline to measure other programs. Let people have that, and then pay for a better system if that one doesnt satisfy your need.
:-)
They're very standard driven (being able to talk to other people's programs = good, as opposed to many commersial systems), and, really, open source programs should be
Furthermore, they're less competetive. They're (well, almost all of them at least) non-profit, for gods sake!
Oh, and of unfair competition. If you, as a software company, cant produce programs good enough to compete against something people toss together in their spare time, and give away for free? Slightly exaggerated, I know. But the principle is there. If you can't compete against that, you're doing something wrong.
Think of it a bit like expensive Nike-brand clothes VS something you find in the discount bin at the supermarket. Both will do the job, but if you want to spend money on a Nike, you're welcome.
Its a bit late, and I'm tired. Hope it's not too big a mess
I wonder when M$ or others will accuse SuSE or RH of trying to stiffle the competition by bundling apps with the OS.
Microsoft bundles/promotes their own software.
I think fewer people would have a problem with it if Microsoft bundled for example OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC and Gimp.
I read books on my Zaurus (using QTReader) and it works great! In fact, I'm starting to prefer it to reading a paper book.
You dont need a reading light, its smaller than a normal book, its easier (and less straining) to hold when you get used to it, and it always remember where you were last time.
Plus I have almost as many books in there as my whole paper library, easily avaliable.
My main problems with it is:
1. You can't change ports. Well, I have a range of ports to use on this machine, but I can't use those.. Also, I dont think they use UPnP, that might have helped a bit with this.
2. Can't set upload speed. Which means upload goes voom, and the adsl connection goes boom. Cant play, cant stream, can barely surf web. So you kill it the second its finished.
I seem to recall bittornado having automatic upload adjustment, based on ping time to external servers. Having something like that would solve quite a big bit of the problem, I think.
If it havent been for those two problems, who knows.. It might even work.
Blackadder : Crisis Baldrick, Crisis! No marriage, no money, more bills! For the first time in my life I've decided to follow a suggestion of yours. Saddle Prince George's horse.
Baldrick : Oh sir, you're not going to become a highwayman, are you?
Blackadder : No I'm auditioning for the part of Arnold the bat in Sheridon's new comedy.
Baldrick : Oh that's alright then.
Blackadder : Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick : Yeah! It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
Well, we do have YaCy. http://www.yacy.net/yacy/
Basically it works as a proxy that do the "crawling" on pages as you visit them. It's still far from a really usable system, but otoh its still in beta and very few seem to know of it.
Ah, great stuff!
This is one of those times when even a +5 feels too low.
How can you NOT mention the music from .hack//SIGN? Especially the songs made by Emily Bindiger?
Animenfo is my favorite place to find out what to watch. Especially the top list ati me :-)
http://www.animenfo.com/statistic/top.php?type=an
is useful
Personally I recommend
One Piece (hilarious characters there)
FullMetal Alchemist (good action, and also a bit deeper story)
Berserk (Violence for teh win)
Elfen Lied (pretty fucked up at times, A LOT of violence and some perv moments)
Gnome is bleeding away resources that could go to KDE.
A wise man once said: Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!