I think you might want to read and write directly from or to/dev/sdX for the whole disk number X or to/dev/sdXi for the i-th partition on disk X. I'm not 100% shure though, what happens with boot sectors, boot loaders, partition tables and such...
of course this way you can only work with bytes instead of bits, but that's just a mathematical problem, you can solve this with some bit-shifting.
well, then why did the image go b/w every time I set the clock to the actual date and back to color when I set the clock back (went through 3 iterations of this iirc)
I actually found such a timer once in a philips (iirc) video recorder... The thing would only play black and white after a certain date. resetting the clock solved the problem...
There, I just pulled the above code out of my ass, and it's so damn simple! I don't claim any copyrights to this! Go ahead, copy 'n paste it into any of your products as you like (also commercial and closed source, I don't even want a mention!), if that is really to hard for you, you lame ass tinkerers!
I developed one of the good implementations in school... god, Microsoft is such a pile of tinkerers! Is there anything they can get right, that a highschool student could not? No, I don't mean marketing, bribing politicians and blocking competition! They exist for 35 years and - heck - they still have problems with leap years!
sometimes I get the impression that they are trying the "a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters" approach...
yeah - right - you might not be able to fool this DRM system, but you might be able to kick it out completely, using a disassembler and assembler skill...
"Computers and Intractability" is more like a list of problem-reductions among NP-complete problems + references.
If you want to write "Problem XYZ is NP-complete", it is a good book to quote, but it's not at all a book, that teaches you anything...
nontechnical hiring managers tend to look at resumes with an eye for youth, under the "more bang for the buck" theory. Cheaper young 'uns will work longer hours and produce more code.
I saw an interview once with an ex-MS employee who said that MS (at least back in the days) preferred to hire kids directly coming from school... you remember that myth of "whiz kids"? That's what they were looking for...
Well I would have been considered a whiz kid and now that I finished my computer science major I can tell you: without a university degree in computer science - even as a whiz kid - you are a tinkerer and you know nothing about what you're doing.
Today I am embarrassed by the source codes I wrote in school, that got me straight A's!
I even may have produced more code - because back then I didn't know enough and hence didn't think enough about what I did and wasted hours of programming things, that could have been done with far less code... and better performance... and less memory consumption... and more reliability... and more portability...
This is how I hunted copycats in my tutorial groups:
I wrote a little program that removes comments. If you are serious, you might also rename variables and functions so they are uniformly (that's not SO bad, if you use lex & yacc)... then run a diff on all pairs of codes (no, use a BASH script!), that ignores whitespace differences (-b -B) and pipe the result through wc -l to count how many lines diff wrote.
pairs that have a small number are suspicious and should be compared manually.
pairs that have a 0 are pretty much guaranteed to be copies...
well, you just left the comparable parts of the analogy... to get back into the comparable parts: say feed, vaccine etc. costs less than 1 egg a day AND the difference is more than
price of a chicken / days it has left to live
I've read from several hundred big companies, governments and governmental institutions who reported that the savings of switching to FOSS quickly exceeded the initial costs...
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just a second.... *hack*hack*haaaaaaack*... there, I changed it to the space bar for you...
of course this way you can only work with bytes instead of bits, but that's just a mathematical problem, you can solve this with some bit-shifting.
or something like that...
or windows... (yes, that logically means not using your computer, but that is what I wanted to express...)
well, then why did the image go b/w every time I set the clock to the actual date and back to color when I set the clock back (went through 3 iterations of this iirc)
I actually found such a timer once in a philips (iirc) video recorder... The thing would only play black and white after a certain date. resetting the clock solved the problem...
There, I just pulled the above code out of my ass, and it's so damn simple! I don't claim any copyrights to this! Go ahead, copy 'n paste it into any of your products as you like (also commercial and closed source, I don't even want a mention!), if that is really to hard for you, you lame ass tinkerers!
I developed one of the good implementations in school... god, Microsoft is such a pile of tinkerers! Is there anything they can get right, that a highschool student could not? No, I don't mean marketing, bribing politicians and blocking competition! They exist for 35 years and - heck - they still have problems with leap years!
sometimes I get the impression that they are trying the "a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters" approach...
That actually has been done... http://www.bit-tech.net/custompc/news/605172/asrock-instant-boot-loads-windows-in-four-seconds.html
yeah - right - you might not be able to fool this DRM system, but you might be able to kick it out completely, using a disassembler and assembler skill...
That's so oldnews! The Lobbies have long set sights on P2P Programs!
regularly produce this magnitude of algorithm speedup...
Do you remember the "insert coin" messages in console games, back in the days?
if 3,727 attemts took them 2 days, you bet it was manual... a little BASH oneliner would make 3,727 attempts in 1 hour
no automated program would need 46 seconds per request...
then why do insurances deny payment, when something is stolen from your unlocked home?
FINALLY we can have CGI-quality in computer games!
It was such a pain, when computers couldn't achieve the quality of COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGES
what's with real-life shrink-ray, freeze-gun and devastator? or at least jetpack or holoduke!? what are they waiting for to develop these? christmas?
Some UO fans, that I know, went to "dark ages of camelot" after UO servers became to empty...
"Computers and Intractability" is more like a list of problem-reductions among NP-complete problems + references.
If you want to write "Problem XYZ is NP-complete", it is a good book to quote, but it's not at all a book, that teaches you anything...
Read RFC 821 (SMTP)! E-Mail has no validation of the source either...
Your E-Mail Program just has to pretend to be an SMTP server itself
I saw an interview once with an ex-MS employee who said that MS (at least back in the days) preferred to hire kids directly coming from school... you remember that myth of "whiz kids"? That's what they were looking for...
Well I would have been considered a whiz kid and now that I finished my computer science major I can tell you: without a university degree in computer science - even as a whiz kid - you are a tinkerer and you know nothing about what you're doing.
Today I am embarrassed by the source codes I wrote in school, that got me straight A's!
I even may have produced more code - because back then I didn't know enough and hence didn't think enough about what I did and wasted hours of programming things, that could have been done with far less code... and better performance... and less memory consumption... and more reliability... and more portability...
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/714-The-Chronicles-of-Riddick-Assault-on-Dark-Athena
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This is how I hunted copycats in my tutorial groups:
I wrote a little program that removes comments. If you are serious, you might also rename variables and functions so they are uniformly (that's not SO bad, if you use lex & yacc)... then run a diff on all pairs of codes (no, use a BASH script!), that ignores whitespace differences (-b -B) and pipe the result through wc -l to count how many lines diff wrote.
pairs that have a small number are suspicious and should be compared manually.
pairs that have a 0 are pretty much guaranteed to be copies...
IT'S MONTY'S FAULT!
I've read from several hundred big companies, governments and governmental institutions who reported that the savings of switching to FOSS quickly exceeded the initial costs...