Have you ever tried putting a mobile phone close to a sound amplifier (e.g. stereo system or mp3 player) while a call is in progress? It will produce something like a 200-500 Hz noise, and the amplifier obviously doesn't operate in the Ghz range.
LM hashes split passwords in 8-letter chunks, and for each of them: 1) the last symbol is removed, so the chunk becomes a 7-character password 2) the password is uppercased (yeah, that's dumb) and then hashes are calculated for these chunks. BOTH the LM and NTLM (a much more secure hash) hashes are stored in the registry. So to get a typical 8-character password, you only need to guess the first 7 characters in uppercase. After that the more secure NTLM hash is used to guess the case of each character and the eighth character which is missing from LM. This means that guessing a 16-character password takes at most twice the time than for a 8-char, and not something like 40^8 times as much.
just to see how many times it would say "y". And opened the file in Gedit while it was still being written. The result? My dual-core PC with 1 gig of RAM ran so slow that the cursor stopped moving (well actually it moved, but only after a 20-second pause). A great way to DoS a server remotely!
And don't forget the Unreal and Quake/Doom engines which have Linux binaries. Actually, Linux versions of Doom 3 and UT2004 run faster than under XP on the same hardware, even though everyone keeps talking about how X.org and binary drivers are slow and buggy. Writing games and applications using cross-platform libraries is only slightly more difficult that windows-only versions. And I think that cross-platform applications are usually designed better because ugly platform-specific hacks will be discouraged.
Moving to nVidia helps because at least with nVidia, they have a legacy hardware program to support and update drivers for older hardware. AMD/ATI does not. Nvidia didn't make a Vista driver for Geforce 4 (and older versions), meaning it works in some kind of safe-mode with no 2D acceleration. Widgets are redrawn slowly, and scrolling large text or HTML pages is also slow. And WinXP drivers cause random BSODs.
Could you tell me the name of the memory management plugin? 'Cause I'm currently running Eclipse on a Celeron with 512 megs of RAM and its memory consumption is HUGE. I've added JVM parameters to the launch command but a special plugin would be much more convenient.
And did they find Windows "Longhorn" funny? Especially when the logo was some kind of bull/cow? Or for example Photoshop 6 had the codename "Venus in furs" and a crazy looking cat as the mascot. Not to mention easter eggs which are common even in commercial software. I think Ubuntu is more serious than for example these guys from HP: http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/thread/1 10484.aspx
Another thing is that if you work too fast or do too much you'll probably be given more work, and writing or debugging complex code (with threads, sockets, mutexes and classes with 1500+ lines declarations) for 8 (or even 6) hours a day drives me insane. That's why I prefer working from home - I set a goal to write a particular feature, if I do it fast enough I can play games for the rest of the day. If I'm behind schedule I may work 10+ hours a day, knowing that once I catch up I can work 4 hours a day again.
My typical workday mainly consists of the following cycle: 1) Write some code (30 seconds to 5 minutes) 2) Compile (30 seconds to 15 minutes) 3) Test (5 seconds-3 minutes) When I'm debugging something, often a minor one-line-of-code-change rebuilds half the project. And since Eclipse doesn't even allow saving files when compilation is in progress, the only thing I can do is surf the web with w3m/lynx since gcc consumes most system resources. I can't even read documentation because most of it is in huge 1MB+ HTML pages and the system load is so high that even the mouse cursor often halts. Sometimes I need a new feature or a bug fixed in a module I don't maintain or understand, and waiting for it to be fixed can often take about half a day, during which I do absolutely nothing.
Still it's better than the original DOC format. A DOC is actually a FAT12-like filesystem (called OLE) that has files and clusters. Clusters can be lost and files can be fragmented. One of the files is the document's text; it's not plaintext but rather another obscure binary format, with text chunks seperated by some kind of metadata (my brain nearly exploded when trying to understand how to separate text from the metadata and I gave up). Images, videos and embedded objects are stored as separate files in the OLE file. Instead of a simple *.zip file with an HTML-like text file they invented a completely fucked up format that gives people nightmares. The only point is making third-party compatible applications is extremely difficult, but the plan seems to have backfired because even Microsoft's own Word Mobile doesn't work well with native *.doc files (and ironically, Documents To Go for PalmOS works better with DOC than Word Mobile!)
I've seen them in shops, I just haven't assembled any AMD systems. And the boxes rarely show what the heatsink looks like, usually a huge logo and a transparent window to see the CPU.
I think the only point in buying a retail box is that you get a fairly decent heatsink (oh, and a case sticker). I find Intel's heatsinks definitely worth the $15 difference between the OEM version and the retail, they're as good as Thermaltake and actually produce less noise and are easier to install. Unfortunately I've never seen a boxed AMD CPU:-(
If you live in the UK and own a television you have to pay a special tax, some part of which goes to the BBC. So most people DO pay for BBC programs and have the right to actually watch them on a non-windows computer.
I'm not trying to troll, but I think GNU doesn't release as many code as it used to. For example, Emacs 22 was promised to be released somewhere in 2005 and it went out of beta only in 2007. Meaning that the stable version dumped GTK1.x (the one without font antialiasing) mere months ago. Or GNU Bison, which can produce C and C++ code, but the C++ version is unable to grow the symbol stack because the C++ new/delete operators don't play nice with C realloc. The developers promised to fix this "hopefully some time in the future". And forks (non-GNU), like bison++ don't even support GLR parsing (which is much more powerful than LALR). I don't understand this - someone bothered to port a language parser to C++ and yet was unable to write an array resizing function? Even a slow, crappy version would be better than bison simply failing with a "memory exhausted" error.
I think Russian providers offer the same level of technology as the US. But 1) phones and carriers are independent, meaning it's possible to buy a $5 contract without a phone and purchase the phone later anywhere 2) it's a lot cheaper. My current plan is 0.03-0.18 dollars a minute, sending an SMS is about 6 cents, incoming calls and messages are free. And there's no monthly payment. GPRS/EDGE is about 18 cents per megabyte. But unfortunately there aren't any plans with unlimited data or SMS messages.
A lot of motherboards don't have their SATA drivers included in Windows XP, meaning you have to provide a floppy in order to install the OS. And serial is great for hacking since it's relatively simple, cheap and popular. For example I have a brand-new Gigabit Ethernet switch with a serial port to control it.
I knew a guy who wanted to be running Linux on his HP iPAQ. After a failed ROM update process, he returned the PDA, saying something like "it won't boot anymore". HP replaced everything (including the screen!) inside the PDA for free and didn't complain. Well, he wanted to install Linux again and the story repeated. In the end he bricked his ipaq (with a failing ROM upgrade) every time the screen got scratched.
VIA were the guys who made the first DDR-compatible Pentium 4 chipset, forcing Intel to do the same. Otherwise we'd still be using insanely expensive Rambus memory.
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It's not Macromedia, it's Macrovision.
Have you ever tried putting a mobile phone close to a sound amplifier (e.g. stereo system or mp3 player) while a call is in progress? It will produce something like a 200-500 Hz noise, and the amplifier obviously doesn't operate in the Ghz range.
LM hashes split passwords in 8-letter chunks, and for each of them:
1) the last symbol is removed, so the chunk becomes a 7-character password
2) the password is uppercased (yeah, that's dumb)
and then hashes are calculated for these chunks.
BOTH the LM and NTLM (a much more secure hash) hashes are stored in the registry.
So to get a typical 8-character password, you only need to guess the first 7 characters in uppercase.
After that the more secure NTLM hash is used to guess the case of each character and the eighth character which is missing from LM.
This means that guessing a 16-character password takes at most twice the time than for a 8-char, and not something like 40^8 times as much.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash
Not much different from Microsoft's case studies in their "get the facts" or "compare" campaigns.
And don't forget the Unreal and Quake/Doom engines which have Linux binaries. Actually, Linux versions of Doom 3 and UT2004 run faster than under XP on the same hardware, even though everyone keeps talking about how X.org and binary drivers are slow and buggy.
Writing games and applications using cross-platform libraries is only slightly more difficult that windows-only versions. And I think that cross-platform applications are usually designed better because ugly platform-specific hacks will be discouraged.
Could you tell me the name of the memory management plugin? 'Cause I'm currently running Eclipse on a Celeron with 512 megs of RAM and its memory consumption is HUGE. I've added JVM parameters to the launch command but a special plugin would be much more convenient.
And did they find Windows "Longhorn" funny? Especially when the logo was some kind of bull/cow? Or for example Photoshop 6 had the codename "Venus in furs" and a crazy looking cat as the mascot. Not to mention easter eggs which are common even in commercial software.1 10484.aspx
I think Ubuntu is more serious than for example these guys from HP: http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/thread/
Another thing is that if you work too fast or do too much you'll probably be given more work, and writing or debugging complex code (with threads, sockets, mutexes and classes with 1500+ lines declarations) for 8 (or even 6) hours a day drives me insane. That's why I prefer working from home - I set a goal to write a particular feature, if I do it fast enough I can play games for the rest of the day. If I'm behind schedule I may work 10+ hours a day, knowing that once I catch up I can work 4 hours a day again.
My typical workday mainly consists of the following cycle:
1) Write some code (30 seconds to 5 minutes)
2) Compile (30 seconds to 15 minutes)
3) Test (5 seconds-3 minutes)
When I'm debugging something, often a minor one-line-of-code-change rebuilds half the project. And since Eclipse doesn't even allow saving files when compilation is in progress, the only thing I can do is surf the web with w3m/lynx since gcc consumes most system resources. I can't even read documentation because most of it is in huge 1MB+ HTML pages and the system load is so high that even the mouse cursor often halts.
Sometimes I need a new feature or a bug fixed in a module I don't maintain or understand, and waiting for it to be fixed can often take about half a day, during which I do absolutely nothing.
Still it's better than the original DOC format.
A DOC is actually a FAT12-like filesystem (called OLE) that has files and clusters. Clusters can be lost and files can be fragmented. One of the files is the document's text; it's not plaintext but rather another obscure binary format, with text chunks seperated by some kind of metadata (my brain nearly exploded when trying to understand how to separate text from the metadata and I gave up). Images, videos and embedded objects are stored as separate files in the OLE file.
Instead of a simple *.zip file with an HTML-like text file they invented a completely fucked up format that gives people nightmares. The only point is making third-party compatible applications is extremely difficult, but the plan seems to have backfired because even Microsoft's own Word Mobile doesn't work well with native *.doc files (and ironically, Documents To Go for PalmOS works better with DOC than Word Mobile!)
Mplayer can show videos in ASCII!
If you hate using the mouse you should browse with lynx or w3m ;-)
* urge, a strong desire
o Sucking urge
I've seen them in shops, I just haven't assembled any AMD systems. And the boxes rarely show what the heatsink looks like, usually a huge logo and a transparent window to see the CPU.
I think the only point in buying a retail box is that you get a fairly decent heatsink (oh, and a case sticker). I find Intel's heatsinks definitely worth the $15 difference between the OEM version and the retail, they're as good as Thermaltake and actually produce less noise and are easier to install. Unfortunately I've never seen a boxed AMD CPU :-(
My guess is that it's either MIDI or something algorithmically-generated (e.g. looping samples need to be stored only once).
If you live in the UK and own a television you have to pay a special tax, some part of which goes to the BBC. So most people DO pay for BBC programs and have the right to actually watch them on a non-windows computer.
I'm not trying to troll, but I think GNU doesn't release as many code as it used to. For example, Emacs 22 was promised to be released somewhere in 2005 and it went out of beta only in 2007. Meaning that the stable version dumped GTK1.x (the one without font antialiasing) mere months ago.
Or GNU Bison, which can produce C and C++ code, but the C++ version is unable to grow the symbol stack because the C++ new/delete operators don't play nice with C realloc. The developers promised to fix this "hopefully some time in the future". And forks (non-GNU), like bison++ don't even support GLR parsing (which is much more powerful than LALR). I don't understand this - someone bothered to port a language parser to C++ and yet was unable to write an array resizing function? Even a slow, crappy version would be better than bison simply failing with a "memory exhausted" error.
I think Russian providers offer the same level of technology as the US. But
1) phones and carriers are independent, meaning it's possible to buy a $5 contract without a phone and purchase the phone later anywhere
2) it's a lot cheaper. My current plan is 0.03-0.18 dollars a minute, sending an SMS is about 6 cents, incoming calls and messages are free. And there's no monthly payment. GPRS/EDGE is about 18 cents per megabyte. But unfortunately there aren't any plans with unlimited data or SMS messages.
Since the first harddrives used a SATA-to-IDE converting chip, I think finding a standalone converter won't be too hard.
A lot of motherboards don't have their SATA drivers included in Windows XP, meaning you have to provide a floppy in order to install the OS. And serial is great for hacking since it's relatively simple, cheap and popular. For example I have a brand-new Gigabit Ethernet switch with a serial port to control it.
I knew a guy who wanted to be running Linux on his HP iPAQ. After a failed ROM update process, he returned the PDA, saying something like "it won't boot anymore". HP replaced everything (including the screen!) inside the PDA for free and didn't complain. Well, he wanted to install Linux again and the story repeated. In the end he bricked his ipaq (with a failing ROM upgrade) every time the screen got scratched.
VIA were the guys who made the first DDR-compatible Pentium 4 chipset, forcing Intel to do the same. Otherwise we'd still be using insanely expensive Rambus memory.