He's talking about root running su to become another user.
Are you sure about that? I see a clear '$' in front of the command, not a '#'.
Which un-surprisingly does not have to enter a password.
So you agree Areyoukiddingme was wrong, when he said "you $su gary and type in your password."?
The only case where you run "su gary" and type in your own password is if your password is the same as garys. In that case "You never know Gary's password." is wrong.
Like most poeple posting in this thread you seam to have assumed every one else is stupid and that only your correct.
My whole point is that LoRdTAW was correct, so that's obviously not true.
If I type "su gary", I have to type in garys password, not my own.
If I type "sudo gary" (assuming I had installed sudo), I would have to type in my own password.
The original poster (LoRdTAW) is correct, but the comment I replied to (by Areyoukiddingme) is wrong.
su is not only for root. it has a dual purpose: switch user or super user. Sometimes you might have to run a command as another user. So if you need to login as Gary you $su gary and type in Gary's password.
Yes, but not quite. If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password.
Are you talking about getYear() being years since 1900 or something else? You might want getFullYear() or getUTCFullYear().
and timezones
Javascript only does UTC and "whatever timezone the browser is using". If you need other timezones, you'll need a third party library (such as this shameless plug).
My ISP supports IPv6, my router supposedly supports IPv6 (Asus RT-N66U), I can see the router getting an IPv6 address from my ISP, I can see my PC getting an IPv6 address from my router yet when I test it out on the various "do I have IPv6" pages it's failing.
After spending a couple of hours mucking around I gave up. I'll deal with it when it matters. Hopefully it's less painful then.
Quick question: Are those IPv6 addresses in the fe80::/10 range? Is so, they're link-local.
If not, would you mind sharing them or at least their routing prefix?
If a name is a "real name", pay a one time charge by credit/debit card with the same name on it. This would put a green verified box next to the user name. The blue box will continue to be used for identities that twitter staff have verified on their own.
How much longer do you think the twitter staff is going to verify accounts on their own, if they can get people to pay instead?
If your answer to that question is longer than the time it took you to read the question, you're kidding yourself.
If a name is a nickname, pesudo-name, or a business/brand, then the user must mail a business card showing both the brand, twitter handle and name used.This would put a different color icon (maybe violet) that signifies that this has been professionally identified, and clicking on it should show the business card.
All that the latter does is verify that the twitter account is associated with the brand and not the reverse of the user verifying their name.
No. All it does is verify that the user had enough money to get one business card printed and mailed to Twitter.
Also important is: which version are you looking at? The 1.4 series (still updated) is intended for smaller/embedded installs, while the 2.x series is intended for mainstream (especially desktop) usage
It's also important to ask why they are even looking at the main gpg executable and not gpgv?
gpgv is a stripped-down version of gnupg which is only able to check signatures. It is smaller than the full-blown gnupg and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are trustworthy.
Does the program include its own PNG format algorithms, or am I missing something?
The PNGs generated by the program are simple enough to be constructed more or less one byte at a time.
Same goes for the web server: did he really write his own web server in mills.c?
No, not really. At least not a fully functional one. His "webserver" simply waits for connections, read characters one at a time until it gets an empty line (the end of the HTTP requests), sends the "200 OK" and "Refresh: 1" headers, writes the PNG data directly to the socket and closes the connection. The "webserver" doesn't care what resources you request or if you use "GET", "HEAD", "POST" or something else.
The UK isn't on Zulu time - they have daylight savings time (don't know about Portugal and W. Africa).
DST in the EU starts on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October, so for Portugal it's:
$ TZ=Europe/Lisbon date -d "Oct 27 00:59:59 UTC 2013"
Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 WEST 2013
$ TZ=Europe/Lisbon date -d "Oct 27 01:00:00 UTC 2013"
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 WET 2013
I don't know the DST rules for the various countries in West Africa, but (shameless plug) tzdata-javascript.org has a demo where you can compare the time in two different timezones.
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However, that's false binary thinking. Both are right, but they don't conceive if this eventuality being possible.
Please demonstrate a case where "If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password." is correct.
If it were correct, what's stopping anyone from becoming root on every single system they have access to? It would be a major security issue.
He's talking about root running su to become another user.
Are you sure about that? I see a clear '$' in front of the command, not a '#'.
Which un-surprisingly does not have to enter a password.
So you agree Areyoukiddingme was wrong, when he said "you $su gary and type in your password."?
The only case where you run "su gary" and type in your own password is if your password is the same as garys. In that case "You never know Gary's password." is wrong.
Like most poeple posting in this thread you seam to have assumed every one else is stupid and that only your correct.
My whole point is that LoRdTAW was correct, so that's obviously not true.
If I type "su gary", I have to type in garys password, not my own.
If I type "sudo gary" (assuming I had installed sudo), I would have to type in my own password.
The original poster (LoRdTAW) is correct, but the comment I replied to (by Areyoukiddingme) is wrong.
su is not only for root. it has a dual purpose: switch user or super user. Sometimes you might have to run a command as another user. So if you need to login as Gary you $su gary and type in Gary's password.
Yes, but not quite. If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password.
You're talking about sudo, not su.
mv *.* /dev/null
With only one matching file, you'll get:
mv: inter-device move failed: `foo.bar' to `/dev/null'; unable to remove target: Permission denied
If you got more than one file matching that pattern, you'll get:
mv: target `/dev/null' is not a directory
But thanks for playing...
The way javascript does dates
Are you talking about getYear() being years since 1900 or something else? You might want getFullYear() or getUTCFullYear().
and timezones
Javascript only does UTC and "whatever timezone the browser is using". If you need other timezones, you'll need a third party library (such as this shameless plug).
I did a who-is lookup because what the ^shift-numbers^ does .IM stand for?
Isle of Man
Why would a label made in 2500BCE be written in English?
Slashdot (still) doesn't support Unicode so clearly the text was translated to something that could be written using ASCII.
The real text is something like "bird bird man-walking-to-the-right eye feather hand ..."
My ISP supports IPv6, my router supposedly supports IPv6 (Asus RT-N66U), I can see the router getting an IPv6 address from my ISP, I can see my PC getting an IPv6 address from my router yet when I test it out on the various "do I have IPv6" pages it's failing.
After spending a couple of hours mucking around I gave up. I'll deal with it when it matters. Hopefully it's less painful then.
Quick question: Are those IPv6 addresses in the fe80::/10 range? Is so, they're link-local.
If not, would you mind sharing them or at least their routing prefix?
... there has to be a better way: but what is it?
The first step would be for the job application site to ask their users and listen to the comments about the site.
You know, just like Dice listens to all our comments about beta...
I don't do PHP, but wouldn't $n = unpack("C*", fread($f, 8)); make $n an array of size 8, from $n[0] to $n[7]?
If so, isn't there a bug in the next line, $so[7] = sprintf("%c", $n[8]);?
Why did Betamax, the superior video cassette tape format, lose to beta?
Uh! I know this one! Because "Fuck Beta"?
images woulda been bitmap and not vector so wouldn't exactly move up to png
Why not?
The images would most likely be in IFF ILBM format. ilbmtoppm can convert those without any problems.
If you want a png, just add a little pnmtopng and you're done.
Without looking, what is your static IPv6 address? ;)
its all ready is open sourced and that is what the soylent news guys did but the community didn't fallow.
Yes, SlashCode is open source, but the latest public release is 5 years old and not at all what's running on slashdot now.
It would be very nice, if Dice would release a newer version of the code, not only for SoylentNews, but also for the Japanese slashdot.jp and the Spanish barrapunto.com, both of them are still using the old version.
If a name is a "real name", pay a one time charge by credit/debit card with the same name on it. This would put a green verified box next to the user name. The blue box will continue to be used for identities that twitter staff have verified on their own.
How much longer do you think the twitter staff is going to verify accounts on their own, if they can get people to pay instead?
If your answer to that question is longer than the time it took you to read the question, you're kidding yourself.
If a name is a nickname, pesudo-name, or a business/brand, then the user must mail a business card showing both the brand, twitter handle and name used.This would put a different color icon (maybe violet) that signifies that this has been professionally identified, and clicking on it should show the business card.
All that the latter does is verify that the twitter account is associated with the brand and not the reverse of the user verifying their name.
No. All it does is verify that the user had enough money to get one business card printed and mailed to Twitter.
A trig question to get an account? Why, that's not elitist and off-putting at all.
The question I got was VERY easy. Any decent spambot would have been able to answer it...
Don't forget pipedot.
Also important is: which version are you looking at? The 1.4 series (still updated) is intended for smaller/embedded installs, while the 2.x series is intended for mainstream (especially desktop) usage
It's also important to ask why they are even looking at the main gpg executable and not gpgv?
gpgv is a stripped-down version of gnupg which is only able to check signatures. It is smaller than the full-blown gnupg and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are trustworthy.
I fail to see why a BIOS would use the kernel of a general-purpose operating system.
Nevertheless that is what coreboot does. It used to be known as LinuxBIOS.
sudo make me a sandwich
As my signature says: make it yourself
sudo mod parent up
Anonymous Coward is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Does the program include its own PNG format algorithms, or am I missing something?
The PNGs generated by the program are simple enough to be constructed more or less one byte at a time.
Same goes for the web server: did he really write his own web server in mills.c?
No, not really. At least not a fully functional one. His "webserver" simply waits for connections, read characters one at a time until it gets an empty line (the end of the HTTP requests), sends the "200 OK" and "Refresh: 1" headers, writes the PNG data directly to the socket and closes the connection. The "webserver" doesn't care what resources you request or if you use "GET", "HEAD", "POST" or something else.
You are in a narrow passageway. To the North is a narrow passageway, to the East is a large hall. There are Tourists here.
- Hit Tourist with brochure
You've been eaten by a grue.
FTFY!
The UK isn't on Zulu time - they have daylight savings time (don't know about Portugal and W. Africa).
DST in the EU starts on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October, so for Portugal it's:
$ TZ=Europe/Lisbon date -d "Oct 27 00:59:59 UTC 2013"
Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 WEST 2013
$ TZ=Europe/Lisbon date -d "Oct 27 01:00:00 UTC 2013"
Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 WET 2013
I don't know the DST rules for the various countries in West Africa, but (shameless plug) tzdata-javascript.org has a demo where you can compare the time in two different timezones.