Slashback: Cables, Kernels, Crackers 38
Under the sea, a strange force was brewing ... Dag Willén, Group Leader, Superconducting Technologies at Denmark's NKT Research, wrote in regards to the recent story about superconducting cables in Denmark, saying "Info in english about this project can be found at www.supercables.com. (sorry for our "one-size" web design for 600x800 px, it was limited budget and talent.)"
Thanks, Dag.
Moving pictures of moving words Recently, a kernel summit took place, and many of the top kernel developers gathered in San Jose to wear funny hats, drink, and decide (or at least debate) on further directions for development of the Linux kernel. Chris DiBona pointed out there are now videos and sound recordings available for download, and you no longer need Real (as originally announced) to enjoy seeing and hearing all these smart people at work. Hopefully, these will one day be joined by Ogg versions as well;)
Don't trust malicious scumbags is part of "trust." AltGrendel writes "SecurityPortal has an article on how Apache.com was compromised. As the Billy Joel song says 'It's a matter of trust'." As always, Kurt Seifried is lucid and informative -- and brings up good points on protecting sites no matter how careful the admins are.
As always, Kurt Seifried is lucid and informative (Score:1)
He is the epitomy of what is wrong with the open source movement.
Would someone care to explian about the hats... (Score:1)
OK, the subject of the hats has come up before on Slashdot. Would anyone care to shed a little light on the subject for those of us who have no clue what you're talking about?
Thanks in advance
Scrolling (Score:2)
Re:Kernel Conf: What's wrong with text, boy? (Score:2)
a) I would gladly have linked to text
b) transcription is a real
While the folks from the FSF were kind enough to transcribe RMS's recent talk at NYU and some others, the question of who would transcribe it is huge. Speech recognition tech may actually be *helpful* at this point, but not enough to just, say, feed this to ViaVoice and have it spit out text.
c) (OK an aside, but hey) when it comes to multi-speaker parts, where people are arguing or asking questions, sometimes there is a *lot* of info value in the tone, how the exchange goes, etc. The actual sound of the speech provides a lot of context sometimes
timothy
(you can believe that it is me, or think that it is someone pretending to be me, but I already wrote this, so I'm not logging in right now;))
Solution to your problem (Score:2)
not trusting every host on the internet (Score:4)
Re:Celebrate Your White Heritage (Score:2)
Actually, ZIPping an MP3 is a very good idea, when you consider that most corporate firewalls routinely block files with MP3 (and MPG, MOV, AVI) extensions.
And of course, even a 1% file size reduction will save precious bandwidth...
Re:supercables site (Score:2)
Width=100% tags in tables are, in my opinion, bad design as they inevitably lead to wide columns and paragraphs and thus to the visitor having to move her head from side to side to read each line of text, rather than just moving the eyes. In short, bad user interaction. Nothing quite as awful as a single column of text spread 800 pixels across the browser page.
Also, small columns are better, but they're difficult to regulate with a variable page size. Column widths should not be variable, even if your page widths are. Make your non-text items variable if you have to do it: space, padding, margins, etc.
This is all besides the fact that every frigging time you re-size a window in Netscape, the frigging thing reloads the page.
Kernel Conf: What's wrong with text, boy? (Score:4)
What about giving the option for text versions of presentations/speeches? Information density of compressed audio is woeful for speech :)
(Don't ask me who's going to transcribe it though.)
Re:not trusting every host on the internet (Score:2)
apache.org soourceforge.org (Score:1)
So disable password authentication for starters and use keys. Or OTP technology.
Re:ESR's new config manager, CML2 (Score:1)
What the author was talking about is the kernel compilation, witch is something that Joe AOL does not need to do, and quiute frankly he should not do. Kernel compilation is for high end users. It is done to fine tune the system to your needs throwing every thing you don't need out.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Re:supercables site (Score:1)
If they had limited time and budget, why didn't they design a nice simple page? Why go to all the time and trouble of reinventing the wheel (or the scrollbar) when you can make a simple design which works on all browsers?
At least they didn't use Frontpage.
dave
Re:Konqueror Users: (Score:3)
On that note, a site just went up for info on sites that don't work in Linux browsers. Check it out at http://penguinfriendly.org/ [penguinfriendly.org]. It's pretty light right now because it only just went up.
Re:Hands up.. (Score:1)
Hands up.. (Score:2)
*anck* wrong (Score:2)
Re:Would someone care to explian about the hats... (Score:1)
HARRY
Er... people aren't wearing enough.
CHAIRMAN
Is this true?
EDMUND
Certainly. Hat sales have increased, but not *pari passu... as our research -
BERT
When you say 'enough', enough for what purpose...?
GUNTHER
Can I ask with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted... has anyone noticed that building there before?
so as you can see, hats are very important here..... or something....
supercables site (Score:2)
Been there done that... (Score:1)
Heard his face exploded, or something.
Re:Superconducting Cables (Score:2)
Silicon becomes unusable as a semiconductor much hotter than copper or aluminum superconduct.
But, What about a superconductor as a substrate?
In all the Niven stuff a current superconductor is a heat superconductor; Wouldn't that make overclocking easy!
A room temperature superconductor doesn't exist, but when it does, you could have a heat sink with a zero temperature coefficient. All heat would get dumped to the cooling source with no losses.
You forgot meat! (Score:1)
Some hats are made out of meat [designboom.com]!
NOTE: That's a rip-off site. The original site (www.hatsofmeat.com) seems to have died... Bummer
Re:Solution to your problem (Score:2)
True, but at that point you're talking about a physical object someone has to get access too. Your palm is now a "key", and have to keep track of it like you would your car keys.
For the truly paranoid, I suppose you could write a Palm app that did both. That is, it generated a pseudo-random password ORed with some encryped code derived from a password you had to enter every time. Thieves who stole your Palm wouldn't be able to access your server without the password. (They'd just have your $300 Palm)
Re:Hands up.. (Score:1)
I'm intrigued... you can't trust boxes you know nothing about... what's the alternative then?
Fun typo on the site... (Score:2)
Re:Konqueror Users: (Score:3)
I'm not sure why you would want to send every browser except netscape 4.x into an in infinite redirect loop, and I'm not sure why IE doesn't fall for it, but it sure is some strange programming.
Re:Scrolling (Score:1)
appears to be a case of implementing something for its own sake, not because it is needed, apropriate or even moderately useful.
now, if I could just figure out how it works... boy would that wow them at the office tomorrow!
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Re:Scrolling (Score:1)
The Dynamic Duo [dansteinman.com]
one example they show would/might be actually practical. There they have a much smaller layer region that is scrollable. I might actually want to use something like this on a project I'm doing at work.
Implementing this as they do on the supercables site is pretty useless (scrolling a long pane of images and text from top to bottom of the page), but I can see where this might come in useful if you wanted to display a long-ish list of info in a small region on a page and not try to deal with frames to do it.
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ESR's new config manager, CML2 (Score:1)
I've been examining the existing kernel configuration system, and I have about concluded that the best favor we could do everybody involved with it is to take it out behind the barn and shoot it through the head.
Good to see someone's really doing something about making Linux easier to get going. Until the setup process involves sticking a CD in the machine and answering a few easy questions, getting Linux on the desktop will be too difficult for Joe Aol. So it's either a nice install process, or have it bundled with the machine.
Which is easier to achieve?
StuP
Apache.ORG -- not Apache.COM, silly! (Score:1)
What? Noone else noticed? It's Apache.org, that had troubles. Apache.com is a site building custom computers...
The Apache article --------- (Score:3)
That's true anywhere in life.
Re:Konqueror Users: (Score:1)
Superconducting Cables (Score:2)
That way, you would have no slow down or loss of energy.
But it would require Liquic N2 to keep it cool, but you could do that with pressure.
That would be cool, a pressurized Mobo
Re:Konqueror Users: (Score:1)
Re:Superconducting Cables (Score:2)
Re:Solution to your problem (Score:1)
Konqueror Users: (Score:4)
Not sure about other browsers.
Re:Would someone care to explian about the hats... (Score:3)
Hats are a sort of head covering, often made of felt, cloth, or straw (though other materials are not unheard of). While they have some use as protection from rain or sun, they are more generally a social symbol. Many cultures place significance on their shape or ornamentation.
Sorry, I couldn't resist
--MarkusQ