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I personaly have a winex subscription and run debian. They have debian packages and I don't mind having to download and install them manualy. Helping to pay for development and being able to use my votes to make an impact into what they are wokring on next is good. I enjoy playing JKII under linux and am going to install SOF II shortly. If they could just get dungeon siege working i won't have to boot to windows until the next good game is released and only until Transgaming fixes winex to support it.
In my group of game playing fans the shortening of Total Annihilation (one of the best strategy games of all time) To just T.A. causes much confusion among ppl not in the know or with sick minds... Imagine a friend on mines confusion when he makes a comment about T.A. to have his Girl friend hit him. beavis and buthead
hehehehe hehehe You said TA hehehe hehe hehehehe /beavis and buthead
Norristown Area Debian Society An alternative for those in the philly area that didn't want to make the hike all the way to philly. Yes I'm responsible for the name... Although I got my current job through it.
At the very least more ppl will get into programming starting projects way over their heads. In 92 I decided i wanted to do a mud... Tackling a major rewrite of a mud was a bit much for my programming skills at the time but after reading through all the code (could tell you what a function did and where it was at the time) I ended up doing many minor improvements. I never did do even a quarter of what I intended but It gave me the push to polish my skills. After the projects die I'm sure the surviving ones will be able to canibalize the remaining ones for usefull code... all that work won't be for absolutely nothing. The best way to learn to program is to work on something your passionate on.
I neglected to read this article until this morning. I just thought it was confirmation that one was completed. I was surprised no SlashDot readers were familiar with at least the concept or remember reading it on slashdot before (search using the word twinkle). I originally read about it in an article from the Volume 155, Number 23 (June 5, 1999) issue of Science News. There is a paper Written by Adi Shamir from the Weizmann Institute of Science (which is in Israel) about the device. I wrote an e-mail to Adi Shamir but I haven't gotten a response. Here Is the Abstract of the paper for those that don't want to dl the paper.
Abstract The current record in factoring large RSA keys is the factorization of a 465 bit (140 digit) number achieved in February 1999 by running the Number Field Sieve on hundreds of workstations for several months. This paper describes a novel factoring technique which is several orders of magnitude more efficient. It is based on a very simple and held optoelectronic device which can analyse 100,000,000 large integers, and determine in less than 10 milliseconds which ones factor completely over a prime base consisting of the first 200,000 prime numbers. The new technique can increase the size of factorable numbers by 100 to 200 bits, and in particular can make 512 bit RSA keys (which protect 95% of today's E-commerce on the Internet) very vulnerable
I neglected to read the original article. I just thought it was confirmation that one was completed. I was surprised no SlashDot readers were familiar with at least the concept or remember reading it on slashdot before (search using the word twinkle). I originally read about it in an article from the Volume 155, Number 23 (June 5, 1999) issue of Science News. There is a paper Written by Adi Shamir from the Weizmann Institute of Science (which is in Israel) about the device. I wrote an e-mail to Adi Shamir but I haven't gotten a response. Here Is the Abstract of the paper for those that don't want to dl the paper.
Abstract The current record in factoring large RSA keys is the factorization of a 465 bit (140 digit) number achieved in February 1999 by running the Number Field Sieve on hundreds of workstations for several months. This paper describes a novel factoring technique which is several orders of magnitude more efficient. It is based on a very simple and held optoelectronic device which can analyse 100,000,000 large integers, and determine in less than 10 milliseconds which ones factor completely over a prime base consisting of the first 200,000 prime numbers. The new technique can increase the size of factorable numbers by 100 to 200 bits, and in particular can make 512 bit RSA keys (which protect 95% of today's E-commerce on the Internet) very vulnerable
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I personaly have a winex subscription and run debian. They have debian packages and I don't mind having to download and install them manualy. Helping to pay for development and being able to use my votes to make an impact into what they are wokring on next is good. I enjoy playing JKII under linux and am going to install SOF II shortly. If they could just get dungeon siege working i won't have to boot to windows until the next good game is released and only until Transgaming fixes winex to support it.
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Can't forget Jay and Silent bob...
I am the clit master....
Does anyone remember what it stands for?
In my group of game playing fans the shortening of Total Annihilation (one of the best strategy games of all time) To just T.A. causes much confusion among ppl not in the know or with sick minds... Imagine a friend on mines confusion when he makes a comment about T.A. to have his Girl friend hit him.
beavis and buthead
hehehehe hehehe You said TA hehehe hehe hehehehe
/beavis and buthead
hmmm... too early to post sanely...
For those that don't want to drive to Philly for PLUG (Philladelphia Linux Users Group)
Norristown Area Debian Society
An alternative for those in the philly area that didn't want to make the hike all the way to philly. Yes I'm responsible for the name... Although I got my current job through it.
At the very least more ppl will get into programming starting projects way over their heads. In 92 I decided i wanted to do a mud... Tackling a major rewrite of a mud was a bit much for my programming skills at the time but after reading through all the code (could tell you what a function did and where it was at the time) I ended up doing many minor improvements. I never did do even a quarter of what I intended but It gave me the push to polish my skills. After the projects die I'm sure the surviving ones will be able to canibalize the remaining ones for usefull code... all that work won't be for absolutely nothing. The best way to learn to program is to work on something your passionate on.
I neglected to read this article until this morning. I just thought it was confirmation that one was completed. I was surprised no SlashDot readers were familiar with at least the concept or remember reading it on slashdot before (search using the word twinkle). I originally read about it in an article from the Volume 155, Number 23 (June 5, 1999) issue of Science News. There is a paper Written by Adi Shamir from the Weizmann Institute of Science (which is in Israel) about the device. I wrote an e-mail to Adi Shamir but I haven't gotten a response. Here Is the Abstract of the paper for those that don't want to dl the paper.
Abstract The current record in factoring large RSA keys is the factorization of a 465 bit (140 digit) number achieved in February 1999 by running the Number Field Sieve on hundreds of workstations for several months. This paper describes a novel factoring technique which is several orders of magnitude more efficient. It is based on a very simple and held optoelectronic device which can analyse 100,000,000 large integers, and determine in less than 10 milliseconds which ones factor completely over a prime base consisting of the first 200,000 prime numbers. The new technique can increase the size of factorable numbers by 100 to 200 bits, and in particular can make 512 bit RSA keys (which protect 95% of today's E-commerce on the Internet) very vulnerable
I neglected to read the original article. I just thought it was confirmation that one was completed. I was surprised no SlashDot readers were familiar with at least the concept or remember reading it on slashdot before (search using the word twinkle). I originally read about it in an article from the Volume 155, Number 23 (June 5, 1999) issue of Science News. There is a paper Written by Adi Shamir from the Weizmann Institute of Science (which is in Israel) about the device. I wrote an e-mail to Adi Shamir but I haven't gotten a response. Here Is the Abstract of the paper for those that don't want to dl the paper.
Abstract The current record in factoring large RSA keys is the factorization of a 465 bit (140 digit) number achieved in February 1999 by running the Number Field Sieve on hundreds of workstations for several months. This paper describes a novel factoring technique which is several orders of magnitude more efficient. It is based on a very simple and held optoelectronic device which can analyse 100,000,000 large integers, and determine in less than 10 milliseconds which ones factor completely over a prime base consisting of the first 200,000 prime numbers. The new technique can increase the size of factorable numbers by 100 to 200 bits, and in particular can make 512 bit RSA keys (which protect 95% of today's E-commerce on the Internet) very vulnerable