Memory, which in this case appears to have been slightly faulty.
Anyway, my point was that OpenSSL supports an awful lot of stuff that you're not going to be able to use in a FIPS compliant system.
How is that going to be handled? Some kind of switch or a separate distribution? I know that where I work we have our own distribution of OpenSSL without any of the funky ECC stuff (because it's patented up the wazoo by Certicom and we don't want to get sued) or the really weak algorithms.
But what I do find frustrating is when the original software is very usable, has earned its spurs multiple times and as such deserves some credit. Instead people desperatly try to mimick it sometimes, even resulting in an environment which doesn't even come close to working as the original. Resulting in "yet another environment". On Linux for example you can basicly say that it has 2 TLS solutions: openssl and gnutls.
I know it's terrible isn't it? You've got FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and all the others - what a total waste of effort! Sorry, what was that? You were only complaining about there being GPL software that does the same thing as BSD software? Oh, I do apologise.
If google can get queries to span the whole web (granted highly paralizable) it seems like something could be done (given the profit) to make the blizzard servers keep working.
Yeah, because web searching is exactly like running a persistent game world with 5 million users all interacting with the game and each other in real-time.
Anyway, you should definitely write to Blizzard with your suggestions. Make sure you use the word "paralizable" in the letter so that they know to take you seriously.
Solaris 10 x86 runs better than Linux on modern laptops.
The wealth of evidence you have provided for this claim has totally convinced me. Some people say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but then they've probably never met a Solaris zealot.
...that Sun are also considering switching to Sparc for their servers. You know, if things don't work out with the Opteron they need a backup strategy.
Personally, I would like to see nVidia and/or ATI take up the cell proccessor for graphics cards.
Why the hell would Nvidia or ATI want to use the Cell as a graphics processor when even Sony aren't doing that?
The PS3 was originally going to use the Cell as the GPU as well. But the performance sucked, hence the PS3 is now using an Nvidia GPU.
Granted, I'm no expert on the subject, but since these things are built for floating point calc's, it seems very suited for the task.
Fast floating point does not guarantee fast graphics rendering. There are many other factors that have to be taken into account. In fact if you actually think about it, there are very few areas of computing where being really good in one specialised area will actually get you good performance for common tasks. It's practically a law of nature.
I hope linus says no, or comes and checks the slashdot comments to read this and then tells them no. I may even have to fire him off an email about this.
I may be completely off-base here, but do you by any chance have a massively inflated sense of your own importance?
The thing about having Cell in a game console is that it allows developers a chance to really get down and dirty with a platform, something a PC developer never really gets to do.
In exactly the same way as every previous console has. Do you think they didn't have to get down and dirty with the Emotion Engine? What's new?
It's a beautiful processor...I think it will work in games once developers figure out how utilize the architecture properly.
I think that if it really was such a beautiful design, they wouldn't be having quite so much trouble. Would you would also describe the Itanium as a beautiful processor? It is similar in a lot of ways. But you won't find people queuing up to get down and dirty with the Itanium. Not many people can write high performance assembly for the Itanium and even less are going to be able to write it for the Cell.
I think it will be best in high-performance application specific stuff... maybe replacing DSPs/FPGAs?
Its a shame that they can't include a dynamic DNS hack into the system.
Yeah, then we could have thousands of AOL users contributing. With the added reliability we'd get from all those extra servers, NTP could be used for some really critical functions. You know, nuclear power stations, missile defence systems, shit like that. I know I'd feel safer.
Which is actually worse - WMP for the Mac or Quicktime for Windows?
I've always assumed that Apple make their Windows apps deliberately bad. Is that the case, or does the free version of Quicktime suck that badly under OSX too?
As much as I prefer flash for an MP3 player over a HDD I admit that funny stuff happens to it.
I think I'm going to stick with hard drives then, as I've never had one of them do anything funny. I can't even imagine a technology that would be more reliable than good old hard drives.
I have had some camera CF cards do peculiar things. Especially if there is a power problem when they are writing.
Which is obviously an OS / filesystem issue.
Remember the mars rover was hamstrung for awhile with a flash problem.
I'm pretty sure that was an OS issue too. It just manifested in the flash getting filled up.
I doubt that Apple really wants Sun's Monolithic kernel.
I suspect from your comment that you believe that OSX uses a micro-kernel. Everything I have read on the subject suggests that the OSX kernel is not much closer to being a pure micro-kernel design than the Linux kernel is.
I don't think it'll be that hard. All we have to do is get GRUB working on the thing and I bet Windows running the ACPI Uniprocessor HAL will pick up the devices. GRUB has an EFI port, IIRC.
Yes, okay GRUB will probably work but what does that buy you? All GRUB will do is immediately hand control to the Windows boot loader and then get out of the way. At which point you are straight back to the Windows boot loader trying to run on an EFI machine. It's not like GRUB can bypass the initial querying of the BIOS that Windows will do. There's no "Stage 1.5" or "Stage 2" boot loader for Windows that GRUB can pass control to, if that's what you're thinking of.
They are doing security and hacking of some time and maybe if there are bugs on this device it could be a security problem and that would also be up their alley?
It's a handheld game console! Exactly what kind of security bugs are you expecting? I can just imagine the security advisory :
Risk: Critically high with bells on
Summary: Slashcrap Sec Labs have discovered a priviledge elevation flaw in the version of the Linux kernel distributed with the GP2X console.
Attack vector: By manufacturing a specially crafted game cartridge and persuading users to buy it (e.g by means of an e-mail or web site), a malicious attacker can gain root priviledges which could lead to the theft of the user's save games and possible disclosure of high scores.
Mitigation: A successful attack would require that the user connects their GP2X to the Internet with a publicly routable IP address. This may also require persuading the user to buy and install additional hardware, which could be accomplished through "social engineering".
About Slashcrap Sec Labs: Slashcrap is the manufacturer of the industry leading Snake Oil(TM) product, the world's premier security pacacea. By covering your GP2X in Snake Oil(TM) you will be immune to this attack and any that may be discovered in the future.
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My six year old Dell Latitude has bios settings that automagically step down the cpu voltage when the laptop is unplugged.
But it doesn't decrease the voltage while maintaining the same clock speed.
What's new about this?
See above.
...and not one single request for a link to a torrent.
Come on guys, everyone's going to think we're not interested at this rate.
Could you cite your sources?
Memory, which in this case appears to have been slightly faulty.
Anyway, my point was that OpenSSL supports an awful lot of stuff that you're not going to be able to use in a FIPS compliant system.
How is that going to be handled? Some kind of switch or a separate distribution? I know that where I work we have our own distribution of OpenSSL without any of the funky ECC stuff (because it's patented up the wazoo by Certicom and we don't want to get sued) or the really weak algorithms.
....that there is some way in which you can run OpenSSL in FIPS compliant mode then? Or is it a special FIPS distribution of OpenSSL?
Because under FIPS, the only allowable algorithms are 3DES-CBC for encryption and SHA1 for HMAC.
If you allow anything else to be used, it is not "FIPS compliant".
But what I do find frustrating is when the original software is very usable, has earned its spurs multiple times and as such deserves some credit. Instead people desperatly try to mimick it sometimes, even resulting in an environment which doesn't even come close to working as the original. Resulting in "yet another environment". On Linux for example you can basicly say that it has 2 TLS solutions: openssl and gnutls.
I know it's terrible isn't it? You've got FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and all the others - what a total waste of effort! Sorry, what was that? You were only complaining about there being GPL software that does the same thing as BSD software? Oh, I do apologise.
If google can get queries to span the whole web (granted highly paralizable) it seems like something could be done (given the profit) to make the blizzard servers keep working.
Yeah, because web searching is exactly like running a persistent game world with 5 million users all interacting with the game and each other in real-time.
Anyway, you should definitely write to Blizzard with your suggestions. Make sure you use the word "paralizable" in the letter so that they know to take you seriously.
What length ssh keys should I use? 256? 512? 1024? 2048?
Use any length you want because I promise you that nobody is going to bother trying to crack even 56bit DES key just to read your data.
If you are worried that they will, it's just because you are massively overestimating your own significance.
Honestly, nobody cares. You're just not interesting enough. Sorry to break it to you.
Solaris 10 x86 runs better than Linux on modern laptops.
The wealth of evidence you have provided for this claim has totally convinced me. Some people say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but then they've probably never met a Solaris zealot.
...that Sun are also considering switching to Sparc for their servers. You know, if things don't work out with the Opteron they need a backup strategy.
I kid, I kid....
Personally, I would like to see nVidia and/or ATI take up the cell proccessor for graphics cards.
Why the hell would Nvidia or ATI want to use the Cell as a graphics processor when even Sony aren't doing that?
The PS3 was originally going to use the Cell as the GPU as well. But the performance sucked, hence the PS3 is now using an Nvidia GPU.
Granted, I'm no expert on the subject, but since these things are built for floating point calc's, it seems very suited for the task.
Fast floating point does not guarantee fast graphics rendering. There are many other factors that have to be taken into account. In fact if you actually think about it, there are very few areas of computing where being really good in one specialised area will actually get you good performance for common tasks. It's practically a law of nature.
I hope linus says no, or comes and checks the slashdot comments to read this and then tells them no. I may even have to fire him off an email about this.
I may be completely off-base here, but do you by any chance have a massively inflated sense of your own importance?
The thing about having Cell in a game console is that it allows developers a chance to really get down and dirty with a platform, something a PC developer never really gets to do.
In exactly the same way as every previous console has. Do you think they didn't have to get down and dirty with the Emotion Engine? What's new?
It's a beautiful processor...I think it will work in games once developers figure out how utilize the architecture properly.
I think that if it really was such a beautiful design, they wouldn't be having quite so much trouble. Would you would also describe the Itanium as a beautiful processor? It is similar in a lot of ways. But you won't find people queuing up to get down and dirty with the Itanium. Not many people can write high performance assembly for the Itanium and even less are going to be able to write it for the Cell.
I think it will be best in high-performance application specific stuff... maybe replacing DSPs/FPGAs?
How many games do you know of that run on DSPs?
Its a shame that they can't include a dynamic DNS hack into the system.
Yeah, then we could have thousands of AOL users contributing. With the added reliability we'd get from all those extra servers, NTP could be used for some really critical functions. You know, nuclear power stations, missile defence systems, shit like that. I know I'd feel safer.
Which is actually worse - WMP for the Mac or Quicktime for Windows?
I've always assumed that Apple make their Windows apps deliberately bad. Is that the case, or does the free version of Quicktime suck that badly under OSX too?
Microsoft really needs to stop offering my fellow Apple geeks and I stuff. We don't want it. We don't need it. We don't buy it. Period.
Dear Phariom,
Thank you for sharing your views with us. We have taken them onboard and will be cancelling Virtual PC for the Mac immediately.
Thanks again,
Microsoft
As much as I prefer flash for an MP3 player over a HDD I admit that funny stuff happens to it.
I think I'm going to stick with hard drives then, as I've never had one of them do anything funny. I can't even imagine a technology that would be more reliable than good old hard drives.
I have had some camera CF cards do peculiar things. Especially if there is a power problem when they are writing.
Which is obviously an OS / filesystem issue.
Remember the mars rover was hamstrung for awhile with a flash problem.
I'm pretty sure that was an OS issue too. It just manifested in the flash getting filled up.
I doubt that Apple really wants Sun's Monolithic kernel.
I suspect from your comment that you believe that OSX uses a micro-kernel. Everything I have read on the subject suggests that the OSX kernel is not much closer to being a pure micro-kernel design than the Linux kernel is.
I don't think it'll be that hard. All we have to do is get GRUB working on the thing and I bet Windows running the ACPI Uniprocessor HAL will pick up the devices. GRUB has an EFI port, IIRC.
Yes, okay GRUB will probably work but what does that buy you? All GRUB will do is immediately hand control to the Windows boot loader and then get out of the way. At which point you are straight back to the Windows boot loader trying to run on an EFI machine. It's not like GRUB can bypass the initial querying of the BIOS that Windows will do. There's no "Stage 1.5" or "Stage 2" boot loader for Windows that GRUB can pass control to, if that's what you're thinking of.
They are doing security and hacking of some time and maybe if there are bugs on this device it could be a security problem and that would also be up their alley?
It's a handheld game console! Exactly what kind of security bugs are you expecting? I can just imagine the security advisory :
Risk: Critically high with bells on
Summary: Slashcrap Sec Labs have discovered a priviledge elevation flaw in the version of the Linux kernel distributed with the GP2X console.
Attack vector: By manufacturing a specially crafted game cartridge and persuading users to buy it (e.g by means of an e-mail or web site), a malicious attacker can gain root priviledges which could lead to the theft of the user's save games and possible disclosure of high scores.
Mitigation: A successful attack would require that the user connects their GP2X to the Internet with a publicly routable IP address. This may also require persuading the user to buy and install additional hardware, which could be accomplished through "social engineering".
About Slashcrap Sec Labs: Slashcrap is the manufacturer of the industry leading Snake Oil(TM) product, the world's premier security pacacea. By covering your GP2X in Snake Oil(TM) you will be immune to this attack and any that may be discovered in the future.
You should give esound a try.
Or you could try repeatedly slamming your testicles in the refrigerator door, which is a great deal more rewarding and results in less long term pain.
There is no ext2/ext3 support for 10.4. It only exists for earlier versions.
Why would you need to access Linux files when your Mac is so pretty?
Isn't it just like spitting in Steve Job's eye?
I should point out that the above is a joke before I get hundreds of Mac owners agreeing with me.
Any word on how much work they put into protecting it from running home-brew software?
At a guess, I would say vastly more than they put in to actually making it a good product.
The unfortunate Internet has only one peer when it comes to obfuscation due to an inundation of excessive punditry, and that peer is religion.
Translation - I've got nothing very interesting to say, but just look at the words I'm saying it with!!! Ain't I hip?
I'd be more scathing if it weren't for a nagging suspicion that the author is just taking the piss.
...because otherwise you're admitting that you don't get the joke :)
"If you print the linux kernel, it sounds like angels crying."
s'funny. sounds more like flying furniture to me
That's a coincidence - my boss also threw a chair at me when I printed out the Linux kernel source on his printer.