Which actually proves nothing at all. It is only their opinion that it
cannot be done. But then if they had the equipment to do it, they
wouldn't be allowed to publish a paper on it.
Governments (including the U.S. government) have equipment far
surpassing anything publicly available (and di
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-09-06 21:12 +0200, John Hasler wrote:
Napoleon writes:
Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can
easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary
equipment, even more so on a modern drive.
Please provide evidence that anyone
John Hasler wrote:
Napoleon writes:
Overwriting with zeros (or ones) once is not at all secure. It can
easily be nearly 100% recovered by someone with the necessary
equipment, even more so on a modern drive.
Please provide evidence that anyone has ever done this on a modern
drive.
In any
John Hasler wrote:
I wrote:
If you want to destroy all the data for security purposes install and
use shred. It will take quite a while on a large disk.
Ron Johnson writes:
This really is a myth.
What is?
So, just run "dd if=/dev/urandom of=..." over it a couple of times.
man shred. T
John Hasler wrote:
The whole purpose of protection is to PREVENT you from doing what you are
trying to do. It wouldn't be much protection if this didn't work, would
it?
Google "Microsoft Word password". The "don't modify" locking is advisory
only, like PDF locking. Besides, it's from Microso
Raquel wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:00:31 +0100
Harry Rickards wrote:
Also, regarding the women wanting this thread to stop being
offensive to them, it's probably only encouraged some people. Why
not create a thread that offends/embarrases all the guys on the
list?
I wonder how long it would
lee wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:14 -0600, lee wrote:
Hi,
how do I remove a password or at least edit protected fields in a MS
word document that I'm editing with openoffice?
I'm trying to fill out a form, but some of the info
Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
I found a problem in my apache logs with attempts to view a php script
on my server. The problem appears to be related to URL decoding, as the
page itself is valid.
Apache2 says:
[Sat Jun 27 04:54:07 2009] [error] File does not exist:
/srv/web/scripting/showscript.php
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
"Douglas A. Tutty" writes:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
While you may think its terribly inefficient, it isn't really. A fancy
"wait" function is just polling an
Dale Harris wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:28:10PM -0400, Napoleon wrote:
You just don't get it, do you? There are different programming
languages because there are NEEDS for different programming languages.
There will NEVER be one programming language which meets all
requirements.
明覺 wrote:
> dynamic typing is so easy, for every object is a piece of memory, so a
> dynamic type is just a memory type.
> I believe every language has its own advantages, my solution is to
> integrate all the advantages of all the languages into one language,
> which can be called any name, not on
明覺 wrote:
> > 2009/6/23 Napoleon :
>> >>
>> >> And one more thing - you can continue to bitch in this email list, but
>> >> if you do, it won't be long before people will stop responding to
you -
>> >> for ANY post, even when you're
明覺 wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Hasler wrote:
>> 明覺 writes:
>>> yes, currently it's true, but I hope one day I will be able to take full
>>> control of my system, and modify them as i like, if I have those other
>>> language programmed softwares installed in my system, it will be
Thomas H. George wrote:
I have an old Magellan 315 GPS which I would like to connect to a laptop
with only USB ports (OLPC). Checking the Debian packages I see three -
gpsman, gpsd and gpsbabel - which can understand the NMEA ouput from the
GPS.
I would appreciate any guidance or references
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:17:33PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Plus, it's not like Ada compilers can't have extensions.
If an Ada compiler wants to have an extension and still pass the test as
a certified Ada compiler, it has to do extenstions within the frame
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote:
HI,
There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java,
Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances
use that language instead of the other.
In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better.
thanks a lot
bela
__
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:01:32PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
I burn my nightly backups to DVD's and mail them to a fictitious address
in Guam--not first class of course.. and they are diligently returned to
me 2-3 weeks later.
What a waste of peoples time and resources.
Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Napoleon wrote:
I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience
in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But
I'm trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-)
I've been having
I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience
in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But I'm
trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-)
I've been having a problem with dictionary hacker attempts on my system
(hundreds or even thousands a day
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/19/08 13:09, Nate Duehr wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like
OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer,
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:02:14AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disconnect
I don't know how long the noun usage has been around, but I remember hearing
it as a child (20 years ago), so I'd say you just need to update your
dictionary
Mag Gam wrote:
At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32
GIG of memory running Debian 4.0. We have to give these servers to a
different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10
servers into 5 servers. The new server will have 16 cores with 64 GIG
of memory
Rob Starling wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:08:48AM -0600, Bryan Bishop wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Tom Ashley wrote:
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html
...
All joking aside, this does strike me as peculiar. Not because it's
yet another
Hendrik Boom wrote:
I have friend who's interested in trying out free software. Her
immediate request is for something to replace Framemaker. It seems she's
involved in the use of Framemaker to make "books" for salesmen.
I have little more information about her application at present, but I
lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:32:24PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
Which is why is is important to correct misinformation on the list.
You got all wrong: People will start thinking you're a twat when you
try to do that ...
No, I'm not the one being called a twat. That only ha
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:01:01AM -0600, lee wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote:
also want to be able to record sound from the stereo headphones jack of my
radio and the stereo audio out from my XM radio.
The headphone connector is for h
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Friday 2008 November 28 15:28, lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote:
Is it even possible to measure a mere potential?
You mean, in principle? Of course.
It takes energy to defec
lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
Is it even possible to measure a mere potential?
Of course. That's what voltage is.
Hm, true, voltage is impossible without current fl
Ken Irving wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:10:32PM -0600, lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences
between them.
This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it.
If y
lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
Is it even possible to measure a mere potential?
Of course. That's what voltage is.
Hm, true, voltage is impossible without current flowing because of how
voltage is defined. No current <--> no v
lee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences
between them.
This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it.
If you have a multimeter that can measure voltage or current, bo
lee wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:37:26PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
But how do know that there is voltage when you cannot measure it or
otherwise make evident that there is? As far as I understand it, you
cannot do that without current flowing. You can do it for water
pressure
lee wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:11:31PM -0500, Napoleon wrote:
lee wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:06:42PM +0200, Rob de Graaf wrote:
An input which measures voltages (here the microphone input) has
infinite large impedance, hence no current will flow.
How can there be voltage (or
John Hasler wrote:
Napoleon writes:
Without getting into the more technical stuff, for correct operation
impedances need to match. Any mismatch lower performance. A small
mismatch probably won't be noticed but a larger one will.
You need an impedance match for maximum power transfe
lee wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:06:42PM +0200, Rob de Graaf wrote:
The headphone connector is for headphones, it is not for connecting
recording devices: If the voltage and/or current are too high/much,
you can damage the soundcard.
An input which measures voltages (here the microphone i
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/16/08 00:38, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:33:43 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
The most common MUAs (and all webmail) don't allow Reply-to to be set
to anything other than what the application thinks it should be.
Do you mean that MUAs don
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/10/08 05:38, Napoleon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/09/08 17:53, Napoleon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/09/08 06:58, Mark Allums wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/09/08 17:53, Napoleon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/09/08 06:58, Mark Allums wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from
the
1990s? The state of the art is still
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/09/08 06:58, Mark Allums wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from the
1990s? The state of the art is still moving pretty fast. Even for
mainframes, the shelf-life of wha
39 matches
Mail list logo
