I don't want to argue which are better or whatnot, however just want to chime in on your post. Although I do want to say I want to see LED Lights come down in price.
They don't last ANYWHERE near the reports say they will.
All of the light bulbs I have are CFL bulbs (with the exception of one outdoor light. I live in Sask., Canada - CFL's don't like -40C Winters). I've moved them between 3 apartments in the last 7 years and they are still working strong. Some are Noma brand and some are Sylvania. Although I have noticed the Noma ones have dimmed slightly.
They certainly can last quite a while.. Only time will tell how long, exactly.
A 32 character string (ex: the HEX output of a MD5 hash) is regarded as 32 characters when you're passing it as if it were a password. Thus it is reading each character individually. That is thirty-two 8-bit characters. 32 * 8 = 128bits.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between feeding a HEX-encoded string as a password vs using a binary string encoded in HEX.
Yes, it is. But what I said was I have seen in the wild that some people just run a password through md5 (most cases the HEX encoded string is what is referred to as 'md5'). 16bits encoded in hex is 32 characters (256bits).
This news comes on the heels of some of the larger Mobile carriers recently launching their GSM (most 3.5G) networks.
Before very recently there was only one company in the entire country that utilized GSM and that was Rogers. Every other company was CDMA. There were a few other company names that used GSM, but they simply bought/rented bandwidth off of Rogers towers. The largest of which was Fido, however they were eventually bought up by Rogers.
This sounds like a good thing to me and I hope it goes through. It probably wont because Telco's here have a lot of power just like they do in the USA.
My provider is set to launch their GSM network in a few weeks and I'm pretty excited.
Texans don't read their schoolbooks, they just keep them in big "depositories" hidden away on upper floors of buildings.
From what I've heard (I do not live in the USA), everything is bigger in Texas... including the people. That trek up the stairs is just too much work, I guess.
Not sure where you live in Canada... I live in Saskatchewan. The provincial gov't owned Sasktel does not impose any caps that I am aware of (well, at least they don't enforce them, if they do define them in the ToS).
I would consider myself a heavy internet user in the sense that I download a lot (various sources, and mostly legal). I used to run a web server for development and testing but now rent a very cheap VPS after my hardware died. My wife watches and listens to streaming media daily while I'm at work (she's on maternity leave at the moment).
For those wondering, that regex is used as a simple verification if a credit card number is entered according to the various numbering schemes used by major credit card companies.
So, essentially the parent is pointing out that it could be used to find unencrypted credit card numbers on stored on the hard drives of those controlled by OpenDLP.
I was in the same situation... WRT45GL just wasn't cutting it anymore.
So I bought a small ITX board that supports PCI-E, at least 1GB of RAM, a dual-interface PCI-E network card, a case that could house it and a good gigabit switch. I currently run pfSense 1.2.3 off a 1GB USB flash drive.
I deal only with wired clients in my network so this doesn't address the Wifi portion of the question.
I'm not listing any hardware because it changes all too often.
This is the expensive route to go but I felt it was worth it for my needs.
More than likely you won't need the PCI-E dual-interface network card and an onboard dual-nic ITX board would suffice. I just happened to have mine from a previous project.
I built mine before the Intel Atom craze hit the streets. I don't know if they are powerful enough from experience although I'm sure you'd be fine.
I've always been very fond of virtual desktops, instead. A simple solution that comes at no price, depending on your operating system.
I have 8 of them setup on my main workstation with XFCE (running Gentoo Linux). I generally use 3-4 but it does spill in to all virtual desktops every so often.
Under XFCE (unsure of other window managers), there is an option to have the screen "roll over" to the next when the mouse reaches the edge of the screen. There is also an option to set a resistance to limit the amount of accidental virtual desktop switching. You can drag windows around across virtual desktops, as well... you can even set a different resistance setting for dragging windows.
From what I know Mac OS X 10.5 has Spaces. I don't know how limiting they are or how they work, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
Your experience differs from mine. It always will. I like what I like and you can't change that. Making an ordered bullet list of things doesn't make me want to change my ways, either.
I don't compose music. I listen to it via MPD with key-combo's set to change the song, seek, set random, etc. etc. I don't edit photos, only to resize/scale them to fit my digital picture frame better, which I do via batch command line. I run it once on a directory and it does all the photo's in one run. Try doing that in pure GUI in GIMP (not using script-fu or python-fu). I do layout pages as I develop websites/web applications/software in my spare time. I write that all in code to form the visual-goodness. I don't use a WYSIWYG to build it. I rarely use anything like OpenOffice or AbiWord (although I have both installed). I do not edit video. I do transcode it from time to time when I rip movies for playing on my Media Center (which also runs Gentoo).. of which I have a set of tools written in bash that do that all for me.
Augh. I borked that link pretty bad. Should have been as so:
I use Gentoo Linux every day. I use the tools provided in portage daily to do the computer-y things I like to do. I use XFCE for my desktop environment, Firefox (mostly) for web browsing, various text editors, etc. etc... but my favorite tool is the command line. I can do so many more things in a lot less time at the command line than with a GUI - even web browsing (love links).
Anyone notice Linux share the same syntax of UNIX?
Yup.
Do you know how old UNIX is?
Yup. Developed in 1969; making it 41 years old. Linux was developed in 1991.. Linux today is a far cry from Linux back then.
To start Linux even old people like me need to know some history of XENIX, UNIX, SCO, NFS... some of those things remain unformatted text base, console type (not VT100). GUI is good, but the back is still those things, that why Mac OSX hide them all. Linux need to clean up those history and simplified those things.
I don't know if you are referring to using a Linux distro or programming on the Linux kernel.
I was born in 1988; 21 years of age. I've been using Linux since 2001 or so.
My fiancee also uses Gentoo Linux, as I got fed up with supporting WinXP and all the junk that accumulated on it. She's been using it fine for the past few years, running a very similar setup to mine. We are the same age.
I don't do any kernel programming, however I do various application- and web-level programming. Never anything past user-space... and that is simply because that is where my interests lay... I've always been more into building programs that do stuff for me, rather than kernel programming / hardware interfacing (at the kernel level).
Where I live (Saskatchewan, Canada) it's illegal to talk, text, e-mail or browse the web while driving. Getting caught results in a $260 ticket and 4 demerits off your drivers license (which also increases your insurance).
I drive for a living at the moment (90% highway). Generally anywhere from 8-16 hours a day. There are days I find myself picking up my phone to check the time simply to distract myself or 'wake' myself up, even though there is a clock in the dash I can see in plain sight. I'm not/really/ checking the time, I'm trying to get some kind of spark going in my brain.
The ban is retarded. I can read a text generally in less than 2 seconds (140 characters is really easy to read quickly) and send a response without looking at my phone. There is the odd time I spell something wrong but it's usually to my wife or my boss, and they can figure it out or say "WTF does '(enter wrong word here)' mean?" and I'll correct myself. I don't find that texting is distracting at all.
I don't talk on the phone or text while I'm in the(/a) city. There are too many cars and too many obstacles (stop signs), constantly slowing down and speeding up, cars pulling out or parking spots, etc. etc. On the highway, however, there are days I see very few vehicles out on the road (I work in a lot of rural areas). Literally less than 30 cars (outside of towns/cities) a day in a 10-12 or 14-16 hour day. 30 other cars. The chance of me somehow not realizing they are there is next to impossible... driving around with no-one in sight for hours on end can make you feel alone. Talking on the phone helps that significantly. Hell, even texting helps. It makes me feel like more than just another drone performing a pre-programmed task that. I feel that quite often when I'm hours away from my home and family. Even a simple "how is your day going?" from my wife can birghten me up and put me in a much better mood.
I don't know how these veteran truckers do it for 20, 30, or even 40+ years. I've been doing it for 2 years and am already figuring out my exit plan.
I really hope you are joking... I am Canadian and looked for months tryin to find a good reliable VPS host with reasonable rates. Our bandwidth is really expensive here, apparently. I opted for a VPS in Dallas, TX. 80GB storage, 80GB transfer, 1GB RAM (2GB burst), great speeds for about $30 USD a month. Won't mention the name cause I'm not advertising for them just saying our bandwidth prices up here just suck. Same vps here would be over double what I'm paying.
I write all of my code. I re-use a lot of code I write in virtually every project I've ever worked on.
Sometimes I only need one very simple part of that code (eg: session management). I should (and I do) only need to include one file. That's it. One file.
I am disgusted with PEAR. Zend does not appeal to me and at a first glance this SolarPHP looks horrible. Just peeking at the index.php file it does not look nice. And they don't appear to close half of their.php files with '?>'. Why is that?
That's a man-in-the-middle attack. While I'm not fond of them, chip cards will effectively remove the skimming problem (when it's fully adopted, anyway).
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I'm running an AMD X2 5200+ w/ 4GB DDR2 RAM (OCZ Platinum I think)
Perhaps its time to start looking at an upgrade...
I don't want to argue which are better or whatnot, however just want to chime in on your post. Although I do want to say I want to see LED Lights come down in price.
They don't last ANYWHERE near the reports say they will.
All of the light bulbs I have are CFL bulbs (with the exception of one outdoor light. I live in Sask., Canada - CFL's don't like -40C Winters). I've moved them between 3 apartments in the last 7 years and they are still working strong. Some are Noma brand and some are Sylvania. Although I have noticed the Noma ones have dimmed slightly.
They certainly can last quite a while.. Only time will tell how long, exactly.
There are a couple in development although I wouldn't use in a production environment just yet:
1) SDFS - http://code.google.com/p/opendedup/
2) LessFS - http://www.lessfs.com/
I think they are both based on FUSE but I'm not entirely sure, I haven't delved that deep into them I was just poking around one random night.
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My brain hurts from trying to read that.
Use Addblock Plus
I was not aware there was a version of Adblock Plus for those of us with A.D.D.!
Spaghetti cat!
A 32 character string (ex: the HEX output of a MD5 hash) is regarded as 32 characters when you're passing it as if it were a password. Thus it is reading each character individually. That is thirty-two 8-bit characters. 32 * 8 = 128bits.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between feeding a HEX-encoded string as a password vs using a binary string encoded in HEX.
MD5 is 128-bit.
Yes, it is. But what I said was I have seen in the wild that some people just run a password through md5 (most cases the HEX encoded string is what is referred to as 'md5'). 16bits encoded in hex is 32 characters (256bits).
Sorry for the confusion, I should have clarified.
256-bit == 32 characters. Depending on encoding, anyway. (8bits == 1 byte. 1 byte is generally one character.)
MD5-ing a password/phrase is a way (amongst others) of producing a 256-bit encryption key.
I wouldn't recommend it but I see it out there enough to know that's what some people do.
This news comes on the heels of some of the larger Mobile carriers recently launching their GSM (most 3.5G) networks.
Before very recently there was only one company in the entire country that utilized GSM and that was Rogers. Every other company was CDMA. There were a few other company names that used GSM, but they simply bought/rented bandwidth off of Rogers towers. The largest of which was Fido, however they were eventually bought up by Rogers.
This sounds like a good thing to me and I hope it goes through. It probably wont because Telco's here have a lot of power just like they do in the USA.
My provider is set to launch their GSM network in a few weeks and I'm pretty excited.
Texans don't read their schoolbooks, they just keep them in big "depositories" hidden away on upper floors of buildings.
From what I've heard (I do not live in the USA), everything is bigger in Texas... including the people. That trek up the stairs is just too much work, I guess.
Not sure where you live in Canada...
I live in Saskatchewan. The provincial gov't owned Sasktel does not impose any caps that I am aware of (well, at least they don't enforce them, if they do define them in the ToS).
I would consider myself a heavy internet user in the sense that I download a lot (various sources, and mostly legal). I used to run a web server for development and testing but now rent a very cheap VPS after my hardware died. My wife watches and listens to streaming media daily while I'm at work (she's on maternity leave at the moment).
For those wondering, that regex is used as a simple verification if a credit card number is entered according to the various numbering schemes used by major credit card companies.
So, essentially the parent is pointing out that it could be used to find unencrypted credit card numbers on stored on the hard drives of those controlled by OpenDLP.
You know how you can 'find' your desktop in windows with that 'windows-d' thing?
*tries pressing WinKey+d* Nothing. No I do not. As I mentioned in my last comment, I use XFCE.
I wonder if Slashdot (and virtually every other news site that relayed the news) could be considered an accessory to the crime.
Just a thought... IANAL and I'm not from the USA.
I was in the same situation... WRT45GL just wasn't cutting it anymore.
So I bought a small ITX board that supports PCI-E, at least 1GB of RAM, a dual-interface PCI-E network card, a case that could house it and a good gigabit switch. I currently run pfSense 1.2.3 off a 1GB USB flash drive.
I deal only with wired clients in my network so this doesn't address the Wifi portion of the question.
I'm not listing any hardware because it changes all too often.
This is the expensive route to go but I felt it was worth it for my needs.
More than likely you won't need the PCI-E dual-interface network card and an onboard dual-nic ITX board would suffice. I just happened to have mine from a previous project.
I built mine before the Intel Atom craze hit the streets. I don't know if they are powerful enough from experience although I'm sure you'd be fine.
As always with hardware and networking, YMMV.
I've always been very fond of virtual desktops, instead. A simple solution that comes at no price, depending on your operating system.
I have 8 of them setup on my main workstation with XFCE (running Gentoo Linux). I generally use 3-4 but it does spill in to all virtual desktops every so often.
Under XFCE (unsure of other window managers), there is an option to have the screen "roll over" to the next when the mouse reaches the edge of the screen. There is also an option to set a resistance to limit the amount of accidental virtual desktop switching. You can drag windows around across virtual desktops, as well... you can even set a different resistance setting for dragging windows.
From what I know Mac OS X 10.5 has Spaces. I don't know how limiting they are or how they work, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
Your experience differs from mine. It always will. I like what I like and you can't change that. Making an ordered bullet list of things doesn't make me want to change my ways, either.
I don't compose music. I listen to it via MPD with key-combo's set to change the song, seek, set random, etc. etc.
I don't edit photos, only to resize/scale them to fit my digital picture frame better, which I do via batch command line. I run it once on a directory and it does all the photo's in one run. Try doing that in pure GUI in GIMP (not using script-fu or python-fu).
I do layout pages as I develop websites/web applications/software in my spare time. I write that all in code to form the visual-goodness. I don't use a WYSIWYG to build it. I rarely use anything like OpenOffice or AbiWord (although I have both installed).
I do not edit video. I do transcode it from time to time when I rip movies for playing on my Media Center (which also runs Gentoo).. of which I have a set of tools written in bash that do that all for me.
Augh. I borked that link pretty bad. Should have been as so:
I use Gentoo Linux every day. I use the tools provided in portage daily to do the computer-y things I like to do. I use XFCE for my desktop environment, Firefox (mostly) for web browsing, various text editors, etc. etc... but my favorite tool is the command line. I can do so many more things in a lot less time at the command line than with a GUI - even web browsing (love links).
Anyone notice Linux share the same syntax of UNIX?
Yup.
Do you know how old UNIX is?
Yup. Developed in 1969; making it 41 years old. Linux was developed in 1991.. Linux today is a far cry from Linux back then.
To start Linux even old people like me need to know some history of XENIX, UNIX, SCO, NFS ... some of those things remain unformatted text base, console type (not VT100). GUI is good, but the back is still those things, that why Mac OSX hide them all. Linux need to clean up those history and simplified those things.
I don't know if you are referring to using a Linux distro or programming on the Linux kernel.
I use Gentoo Linux every day. I use the tools provided in portage daily to do the computer-y things I like to do. I use XFCE for my desktop environment, Firefox (mostly) for web browsing, various text editors, etc. etc... but my favorite tool is the command line. I can do so many more things in a lot less time at the command line than with a GUI - even web browsing (love links).
I was born in 1988; 21 years of age. I've been using Linux since 2001 or so.
My fiancee also uses Gentoo Linux, as I got fed up with supporting WinXP and all the junk that accumulated on it. She's been using it fine for the past few years, running a very similar setup to mine. We are the same age.
I don't do any kernel programming, however I do various application- and web-level programming. Never anything past user-space... and that is simply because that is where my interests lay... I've always been more into building programs that do stuff for me, rather than kernel programming / hardware interfacing (at the kernel level).
I am of the same mind.
Where I live (Saskatchewan, Canada) it's illegal to talk, text, e-mail or browse the web while driving. Getting caught results in a $260 ticket and 4 demerits off your drivers license (which also increases your insurance).
I drive for a living at the moment (90% highway). Generally anywhere from 8-16 hours a day. There are days I find myself picking up my phone to check the time simply to distract myself or 'wake' myself up, even though there is a clock in the dash I can see in plain sight. I'm not /really/ checking the time, I'm trying to get some kind of spark going in my brain.
The ban is retarded. I can read a text generally in less than 2 seconds (140 characters is really easy to read quickly) and send a response without looking at my phone. There is the odd time I spell something wrong but it's usually to my wife or my boss, and they can figure it out or say "WTF does '(enter wrong word here)' mean?" and I'll correct myself. I don't find that texting is distracting at all.
I don't talk on the phone or text while I'm in the(/a) city. There are too many cars and too many obstacles (stop signs), constantly slowing down and speeding up, cars pulling out or parking spots, etc. etc. On the highway, however, there are days I see very few vehicles out on the road (I work in a lot of rural areas). Literally less than 30 cars (outside of towns/cities) a day in a 10-12 or 14-16 hour day. 30 other cars. The chance of me somehow not realizing they are there is next to impossible... driving around with no-one in sight for hours on end can make you feel alone. Talking on the phone helps that significantly. Hell, even texting helps. It makes me feel like more than just another drone performing a pre-programmed task that. I feel that quite often when I'm hours away from my home and family. Even a simple "how is your day going?" from my wife can birghten me up and put me in a much better mood.
I don't know how these veteran truckers do it for 20, 30, or even 40+ years. I've been doing it for 2 years and am already figuring out my exit plan.
SSH uses very little bandwidth (although I suppose you could pipe virtually anything through it if you wanted).
[disclaimer]This is supposed to be a light-hearted post. Please no flames.[/disclaimer]
I really hope you are joking... I am Canadian and looked for months tryin to find a good reliable VPS host with reasonable rates. Our bandwidth is really expensive here, apparently. I opted for a VPS in Dallas, TX. 80GB storage, 80GB transfer, 1GB RAM (2GB burst), great speeds for about $30 USD a month. Won't mention the name cause I'm not advertising for them just saying our bandwidth prices up here just suck. Same vps here would be over double what I'm paying.
Well there goes Richard and Sal's day jobs...
(if anyone get's the reference, sturdy Bababooey to you all!)
I am in complete agreement with you.
I write all of my code. I re-use a lot of code I write in virtually every project I've ever worked on.
Sometimes I only need one very simple part of that code (eg: session management). I should (and I do) only need to include one file. That's it. One file.
I am disgusted with PEAR. Zend does not appeal to me and at a first glance this SolarPHP looks horrible. Just peeking at the index.php file it does not look nice. And they don't appear to close half of their .php files with '?>'. Why is that?
That's a man-in-the-middle attack. While I'm not fond of them, chip cards will effectively remove the skimming problem (when it's fully adopted, anyway).
MITM attacks will always be an issue.