Tried using S/MIME? Requires the recipient use a client which supports it if they want to verify or decrypt a message, however it doesn't clog your content with armor spam. It's actually quite interesting going back through emails to find how often it's been used but hasn't been noticed.
Despite having various servers for large areas of the operating system it can't really be called a microkernel. A microkernel will have (as close as possible) to the bare minimum of functionality to get and keep a machine running safely; see L4, etc. As another poster commented, BeOS included drivers, filesystems, and even started moving networking _into_ kernel land (with the BONE system which was released in a final form). A modular kernel, yes. A microkernel, no.
My parents-in-law are (last I hear) on a 400MiB monthly plan through Telstra (aka BigPong). Last time I installed OpenOffice on my machine I downloaded over 120MiB of data. So, you're essentially limited to downloading large files through the BigPond mirrors or using a substantial fraction of your quota. If it was any other ISP I dont think there would be much of a fuss at all.
From a pure Computer Sciency standpoint, remember that no code is ever completely bug-free...its mathematically impossible. Testing does not prove the absence of bugs, it only proves the presence of successful use/test cases.
Should checkout formal methods, mathematical tools and processes for designing, building and verifying software and hardware systems. Currently it's only really feasible for small, critical systems but I'm betting it'll grow (I should really keep an eye on the L4.Verified project). Of course with all this you're still at the mercy of your specification, get that wrong and you're back to square one...
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
Though the site itself has gotten a lot more commercial than it once was the DNS report tool gives some nifty info. Other than that you'll be wanting to investigate `dig' (IIRC) and trying some various interesting commands.
"If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience. Please go on about your business and accept my apologies for this distraction."
---Bob Zinbinski, author of TTYQuake
Regardless of whether the IT sector is _technically_ in the wrong it's commonly accepted that in this area we work with powers of two. The fact that people have to explicitly explain this fact shows that everyone expects it to be that way. The HDD manufacturers damn well know this and fairly blantantly use measurements which would commonly be interpreted more favourably.
Bugger having senators in that case. Nation wide polls through all mobile phones, cut out the middle man, give every single person a chance. Could even use the message charges for something vaguely useful...
The reason ACCESS have gone slightly more public with this right now is due to Bernd's comments regarding open sourcing parts of Zeta. Previously ACCESS did not believe it was worthwhile spending time and money going after a project which probably didnt make that much money in the first place and was based on a property they clearly have no interest in.
Magnussoft appear to have only just heard this public statement and decided it wasn't worth the risk to distribute something they might not have rights over. The key is that Magnussoft wasn't the distributor until halfway through last year when Bernd's company 'yellowTab' became insolvent.
Perhaps scientists are more likely to have thought about their position on religion a lot more than the general population who, in my experience, are likely to artificial inflate the percentage of believers through a simple 'Sure, I believe in God. Whatever.' style answer.
Well, I can't get you Office, but pretty much any of the OSs or development suites are given out for free at my uni as part of the 'Academic Alliance' package. Hell, they even have the ISOs up internally and give out serials on request...
Depending on the NSA's reaction, it might be possible to know whether or not this break was anticipated.
However, the NSA has been caught out before with regards to how developed they are and hence would most likely take care to avoid leaking information through this side channel. If I were them I know I'd be putting on a public technology face which is relatively benign.
Most of the people who pirated XP would never have paid for it, so it is not a lost sale.
While I agree with that statement regarding music I have to disagree regarding operating systems. Short of Windows the average user has really only two alternatives: OS X or Linux. People aren't going to be buying OS X simply because Windows costs a lot, and I would postulate that very few people would be choosing Linux simply because of the cost (Amongst nerds, yes. General population, no).
[...]the bad part is also that if you have a crash on your hands (just turn of your computer right now. No, not a shutdown but keep the powerbutton pressed untill it goes "poof") and reboot chances are very high that you just lost valuable data.
Dude, that's the case with everything, it's an inherent risk with caching. Journaling is not, as you implied, designed to fix this problem. Journaling ensures that the system can be rapidly recovered to a known good state. What you're looking for is some sort of flushing interval, and while I'm not up on the specifics of ReiserFS I'm sure it's a configurable parameter.
Similar for me. Just switched over a few days ago as I was sick of spending hours recompiling libraries, dependencies and other assorted programming bits after the inevitable rot of the operating system. Now I just click on a library I want, wait 10 minutes and away I go. No fuss.
This question has been asked so many times that the parent has to be a troll if they knew enough to ask.
YellowTab have refused to comment on any questions in this area, as have Palm. YellowTab have stated they arent using illegal code in a rather roundabout manner.
And lastly, asking in the YellowTab forums is likely to get you a firm kick in the backside. It'll just look like a rather uninventive troll.
I havent booted BeOS for a month or two now, but IIRC everything had the same style posix permissions as every other *nix you've layed your hands on. Only difference was that there was only ever one user (named 'Baron'). I think most of it is just waiting for someone to write the backend.
Problem with hash algorithms is we've really only got SHA left at the moment and that's even gradually starting to come down. Other than that the only algorithm I can think of is RIPEMD160 or WHIRLPOOL and I'm not sure how many people are willing to bet their security on them.
DES encrpyt the password using the user's unique system identifier
Obvious problems that come to mind are: MD4 being well and truly broken, system identifiers for certain accounts (Eg, administrator) are constants and you can generally ask servers to use previous versions of the system for backwards compatibility.
IIRC, NTLMv2 uses an HMAC-MD5 which is relatively secure from an analytical attack viewpoint. Still massively bruteforceable if you've got a weak password.
This (and other little bits I've seen) leads me to wild speculation that the SAM can store multiple different password hash types, but someone else can probably tell you with more authority.
BeOS isnt a realtime operating system, that is it doesnt make any hard gaurantees about whether something will occur at a given time. That said it does go to some length to schedule time critical processes appropriately hence where it got its reputation for responsiveness; Used some weird voodoo magic in the scheduler I guess...
Frameworks that abstract out the underlying implementation details will pop up soon enough. The real question is whether or not Sony is going to provide a good SDK to get new developers started.
The PS3 requires that the developer is quite aware of the architecture. My bet is that if you stall more than a couple of the CPUs then you're pretty much boned. More sane techniques of having 2 or 3 threads that a lot of developers use at the moment just wont work with the piddling amount of processing power the individual cell CPUs have. It's algorithmic improvements over API calls.
Ummm, IIRC this is a kind of follow on from a few weeks back. However, back then the general consensus was that Jeremy Malcolm was a money grabbing, scientologist nutter. Why has everyone started taking this seriously now that RMS has weighed into it. I _still_ havent heard anything even paraphrased as coming from Linus himself...
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What a lot of people seem to be missing is that in Australia, the location of Dan, it's almost universally charged by the megabyte.
You mean something like this?
Tried using S/MIME? Requires the recipient use a client which supports it if they want to verify or decrypt a message, however it doesn't clog your content with armor spam. It's actually quite interesting going back through emails to find how often it's been used but hasn't been noticed.
Despite having various servers for large areas of the operating system it can't really be called a microkernel. A microkernel will have (as close as possible) to the bare minimum of functionality to get and keep a machine running safely; see L4, etc. As another poster commented, BeOS included drivers, filesystems, and even started moving networking _into_ kernel land (with the BONE system which was released in a final form). A modular kernel, yes. A microkernel, no.
My parents-in-law are (last I hear) on a 400MiB monthly plan through Telstra (aka BigPong). Last time I installed OpenOffice on my machine I downloaded over 120MiB of data. So, you're essentially limited to downloading large files through the BigPond mirrors or using a substantial fraction of your quota. If it was any other ISP I dont think there would be much of a fuss at all.
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
Though the site itself has gotten a lot more commercial than it once was the DNS report tool gives some nifty info. Other than that you'll be wanting to investigate `dig' (IIRC) and trying some various interesting commands.
"If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience. Please go on about your business and accept my apologies for this distraction."
---Bob Zinbinski, author of TTYQuake
Regardless of whether the IT sector is _technically_ in the wrong it's commonly accepted that in this area we work with powers of two. The fact that people have to explicitly explain this fact shows that everyone expects it to be that way. The HDD manufacturers damn well know this and fairly blantantly use measurements which would commonly be interpreted more favourably.
Bugger having senators in that case. Nation wide polls through all mobile phones, cut out the middle man, give every single person a chance. Could even use the message charges for something vaguely useful...
The reason ACCESS have gone slightly more public with this right now is due to Bernd's comments regarding open sourcing parts of Zeta. Previously ACCESS did not believe it was worthwhile spending time and money going after a project which probably didnt make that much money in the first place and was based on a property they clearly have no interest in. Magnussoft appear to have only just heard this public statement and decided it wasn't worth the risk to distribute something they might not have rights over. The key is that Magnussoft wasn't the distributor until halfway through last year when Bernd's company 'yellowTab' became insolvent.
Perhaps scientists are more likely to have thought about their position on religion a lot more than the general population who, in my experience, are likely to artificial inflate the percentage of believers through a simple 'Sure, I believe in God. Whatever.' style answer.
Well, I can't get you Office, but pretty much any of the OSs or development suites are given out for free at my uni as part of the 'Academic Alliance' package. Hell, they even have the ISOs up internally and give out serials on request...
However, the NSA has been caught out before with regards to how developed they are and hence would most likely take care to avoid leaking information through this side channel. If I were them I know I'd be putting on a public technology face which is relatively benign.
Similar for me. Just switched over a few days ago as I was sick of spending hours recompiling libraries, dependencies and other assorted programming bits after the inevitable rot of the operating system. Now I just click on a library I want, wait 10 minutes and away I go. No fuss.
YellowTab have refused to comment on any questions in this area, as have Palm. YellowTab have stated they arent using illegal code in a rather roundabout manner.
And lastly, asking in the YellowTab forums is likely to get you a firm kick in the backside. It'll just look like a rather uninventive troll.
I havent booted BeOS for a month or two now, but IIRC everything had the same style posix permissions as every other *nix you've layed your hands on. Only difference was that there was only ever one user (named 'Baron'). I think most of it is just waiting for someone to write the backend.
Problem with hash algorithms is we've really only got SHA left at the moment and that's even gradually starting to come down. Other than that the only algorithm I can think of is RIPEMD160 or WHIRLPOOL and I'm not sure how many people are willing to bet their security on them.
Obvious problems that come to mind are: MD4 being well and truly broken, system identifiers for certain accounts (Eg, administrator) are constants and you can generally ask servers to use previous versions of the system for backwards compatibility.
IIRC, NTLMv2 uses an HMAC-MD5 which is relatively secure from an analytical attack viewpoint. Still massively bruteforceable if you've got a weak password.
This (and other little bits I've seen) leads me to wild speculation that the SAM can store multiple different password hash types, but someone else can probably tell you with more authority.
And yes, I'm a huge BeOS fan :)
Ummm, IIRC this is a kind of follow on from a few weeks back. However, back then the general consensus was that Jeremy Malcolm was a money grabbing, scientologist nutter. Why has everyone started taking this seriously now that RMS has weighed into it. I _still_ havent heard anything even paraphrased as coming from Linus himself ...