Sure it is used by a lot of people... However it doesn't mean that you need a million eyes looking at it. OpenSSL while necessary, isn't a big program.
Almost every Unix/Linux command line user uses the cat command. How many people do you think you will need to review that?
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Makes me think if you have browsed the source code of any UNIX program?
Actually the MOTD of that FTP server ftp.mozilla.org tells that the alternative is the FTP server releases.mozilla.org. However, right now I seem not to be able to connect to the latter.
The full MOTD just for reference:
230-
230- ftp.mozilla.org / archive.mozilla.org - files are in/pub/mozilla.org
230-
230- Notice: This server is the only place to obtain nightly builds and needs to
230- remain available to developers and testers. High bandwidth servers that
230- contain the public release files are available at ftp://releases.mozilla.org/
230- If you need to link to a public release, please link to the release server,
230- not here. Thanks!
230-
230- Attempts to download high traffic release files from this server will get a
230- "550 Permission denied." response.
I don't expect there to be any new games in the Half-Life franchise anymore. They already tried making HL2EP3 but ditched the project. The leaked screenshots from their project tracker showed a Half-Life 3 stub with no development activity surrounding it. At that time their most efforts were clearly in creating the Source 2 engine (with massive development effort) and a new Left 4 Dead game to go with it. Meanwhile, time has passed and already a decade has elapsed since the initial release of Half-Life 2.
Of course Valve probably wants to keep the Half-Life hype going and dream alive as long as possible, to maximize people's interest in the company.
"With brain control, flying, in itself, could become easier," Fricke said. "This would reduce the workload of pilots and thereby increase safety. In addition, pilots would have more freedom of movement to manage other manual tasks in the cockpit."
How would it increase safety? Seems that you are replacing reliable manual control (often combined with autopilot) with something really finicky which requires your mind to be extremely concentrated solely on the flying task.
Yes, a lot of CCFL inverters run at the kilohertz range, but a frequency of 120Hz (desktop) and 175Hz (laptop) has also been often used.
Most LED desktop displays run at 180Hz or 240Hz. Benq and Dell have some models which do not have PWM dimming.
Laptops smaller than 15.6" generally have a LED LCD with frequency 220Hz. 15.6" laptops and higher have high-frequency signal (20kHz or no PWM).
Laptops with Intel HD Graphics have a backlight register which allows the user to set a new frequency. Many LED laptops do not have the inverter to govern the frequency but it is set by the video BIOS.
Correct. But there is a downside. In order to use BitLocker without one, you will require using a USB drive for unlocking the system. A big security risk with using that method in a company environment would be how many simply leave the key in the computer. That would be like leaving the key to your house in the keyhole on the outside of your house. If you have to go that route, you can also add a password with the USB drive to unlock.
Source: Experience
That is true for Windows 7, but Windows 8 does not need an USB key. I have tested this personally.
There was 2 years to the previous version, so it seems that the TrueCrypt project wasn't very active anyway. Maybe they thought that the discontinuation of Windows XP was a good moment to finally officially shut down operations.
An Estonian website seems to hold the source, but of course you would have to verify that it has not been tampered with. Sadly, the older 7.1a version (which I'm assuming does not have the features removed as is being claimed) seems to not be available at the project's SourceForge source code folder.
The ITWorld article also claims that OS X Tiger had 86 million lines of code (they are referencing to an Engadget article). However, that's hard to believe. Has that number actually been 8.6 million, for example?
You know, I'd like to think there was a time when the majority of Slashdot users could cheerfully take on writing modules for the Linux kernel or *gasp* just code in C.
I suggest that most people here are just consumers. They try various distros and use open source code that has been readily made available for them. They rarely look at the code or even make the smallest modifications. Not to even talk about something like writing kernel modules from scratch. On the other hand, I believe that the UNIX command line skills of people here are generally quite good, and thus they can drill quite deep in user space administration, configuration, automation and proper bug reporting.
I got the opportunity to test drive a self-driving car, but the vehicle was hijacked on the route and a weird new direction programmed in. I ended up in a shipping container which was transported to a warehouse in the middle of the ocean, and at the destination the place was populated with automated forklift trucks. Whew.
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Sure it is used by a lot of people... However it doesn't mean that you need a million eyes looking at it. OpenSSL while necessary, isn't a big program.
Almost every Unix/Linux command line user uses the cat command. How many people do you think you will need to review that?
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Makes me think if you have browsed the source code of any UNIX program?
Ahaa! Good catch.
Actually the MOTD of that FTP server ftp.mozilla.org tells that the alternative is the FTP server releases.mozilla.org. However, right now I seem not to be able to connect to the latter.
The full MOTD just for reference:
/pub/mozilla.org
230-
230- ftp.mozilla.org / archive.mozilla.org - files are in
230-
230- Notice: This server is the only place to obtain nightly builds and needs to
230- remain available to developers and testers. High bandwidth servers that
230- contain the public release files are available at ftp://releases.mozilla.org/
230- If you need to link to a public release, please link to the release server,
230- not here. Thanks!
230-
230- Attempts to download high traffic release files from this server will get a
230- "550 Permission denied." response.
IE has been my last choice in a browser for well over a decade because almost anything else works better.
Have you tried IE in the last few years?
Thanks.
Can you summarize?
It'll still beat Half-Life 2 Ep3 to the market...
I don't expect there to be any new games in the Half-Life franchise anymore. They already tried making HL2EP3 but ditched the project. The leaked screenshots from their project tracker showed a Half-Life 3 stub with no development activity surrounding it. At that time their most efforts were clearly in creating the Source 2 engine (with massive development effort) and a new Left 4 Dead game to go with it. Meanwhile, time has passed and already a decade has elapsed since the initial release of Half-Life 2.
Of course Valve probably wants to keep the Half-Life hype going and dream alive as long as possible, to maximize people's interest in the company.
"With brain control, flying, in itself, could become easier," Fricke said. "This would reduce the workload of pilots and thereby increase safety. In addition, pilots would have more freedom of movement to manage other manual tasks in the cockpit."
How would it increase safety? Seems that you are replacing reliable manual control (often combined with autopilot) with something really finicky which requires your mind to be extremely concentrated solely on the flying task.
Yes, a lot of CCFL inverters run at the kilohertz range, but a frequency of 120Hz (desktop) and 175Hz (laptop) has also been often used.
Most LED desktop displays run at 180Hz or 240Hz. Benq and Dell have some models which do not have PWM dimming.
Laptops smaller than 15.6" generally have a LED LCD with frequency 220Hz. 15.6" laptops and higher have high-frequency signal (20kHz or no PWM).
Laptops with Intel HD Graphics have a backlight register which allows the user to set a new frequency. Many LED laptops do not have the inverter to govern the frequency but it is set by the video BIOS.
It's only a diff of the new fishy 7.2 changes. You can grab the source on the archlinux FTP though.
Of course you can. Many Linux distros still host the source in their source repositories. But the GGP wanted the Windows version source.
Correct. But there is a downside. In order to use BitLocker without one, you will require using a USB drive for unlocking the system. A big security risk with using that method in a company environment would be how many simply leave the key in the computer. That would be like leaving the key to your house in the keyhole on the outside of your house. If you have to go that route, you can also add a password with the USB drive to unlock.
Source: Experience
That is true for Windows 7, but Windows 8 does not need an USB key. I have tested this personally.
Interesting if true. What key? The executable signing key?
Or they were smoked out by NSA, because TrueCrypt encryption was "too good", and Microsoft's BitLocker has an NSA backdoor.
There was 2 years to the previous version, so it seems that the TrueCrypt project wasn't very active anyway. Maybe they thought that the discontinuation of Windows XP was a good moment to finally officially shut down operations.
Correction: I mean without one.
BitLocker can be used with a TPM chip.
An Estonian website seems to hold the source, but of course you would have to verify that it has not been tampered with. Sadly, the older 7.1a version (which I'm assuming does not have the features removed as is being claimed) seems to not be available at the project's SourceForge source code folder.
The ITWorld article also claims that OS X Tiger had 86 million lines of code (they are referencing to an Engadget article). However, that's hard to believe. Has that number actually been 8.6 million, for example?
How large are your codebases then?
Interesting. I have never had that smooth experience. Which hardware, distro and desktop environment are you using with Linux?
You know, I'd like to think there was a time when the majority of Slashdot users could cheerfully take on writing modules for the Linux kernel or *gasp* just code in C.
I suggest that most people here are just consumers. They try various distros and use open source code that has been readily made available for them. They rarely look at the code or even make the smallest modifications. Not to even talk about something like writing kernel modules from scratch. On the other hand, I believe that the UNIX command line skills of people here are generally quite good, and thus they can drill quite deep in user space administration, configuration, automation and proper bug reporting.
So it has come to this.
I don't want to. You do it. sudo you do it.
Exactly. Why would I do anything when we have the open source community that will do it for me?
I got the opportunity to test drive a self-driving car, but the vehicle was hijacked on the route and a weird new direction programmed in. I ended up in a shipping container which was transported to a warehouse in the middle of the ocean, and at the destination the place was populated with automated forklift trucks. Whew.