> The Ubuntu forums software was compromised by an external attacker. As a result, the attacker has gained access to read your username, email address and an encrypted copy of your password from the forum database.
At our company, we have a rule: each one of us has to buy the croissants once in a while for everybody.
Now we'd like to be a little more regular about this. And last friday, both of us bought the croissants, and some almost went to the bin because there were too many. Hopefully, I sacrificed ...
its binary , hashmark no hashmark, But insecure, suppose randy , the office leech , the guy who you can blame for your yogert missing, keeps adding checkmarks by his name. It would need an encryption system. A plastic overlay with Holes in only specific areas, the encryption overlay is then used to make the marks, any marks that dont line up, you know you have been Hacked.
@JourneymanGeek in the US after you get info (even Old stuff) via the "Freedom of Information Act" anything important to them is blacked out. A really prime contraversial document will read like . The ---- and ---- was without ------ and then ---- agents who -----.
the rest of the document falls under "National security issues" not republic civillian oversite.
there are a few youtubes where some freedom fighting individual will use the FOIA to gain access to most simple unclassified documents at a local level. (testing freedom) It takes them days of rejections, refusals based on lies, and a lot of whining and protesting on their part. I would think the number of lies and forcability of the rejection would be many times higher at the NSA. A person would have to be pretty dedicated or totally fed-up to even pursue the issue.
Well, yes, you'd be warped in the head to define a method to behave incongruously to its name. If you had IAlertService.GetAssistance() though, it's behaviour could be to flash a light, sound an alarm, or poke in the eye with a stick. — Scott LanghamNov 4 '08 at 0:05
I think this might be the weirdest thing I've ever seen a computer do. It's a Windows 7 SP1 machine. When I position the arrow in the middle portion of the screen, nothing I do with the mouse, except moving, has any effect. It means that if a small dialog box pops up, in the middle of the screen,...
Take five chimpanzees. Put them in a big cage. Suspend some bananas from the roof of the cage. Provide the chimpanzees with a stepladder. BUT also add a proximity detector to the bananas, so that when a chimp goes near the banana, water hoses are triggered and the whole cage is thoroughly soaked....
Is there any evidence that this is indeed the reason? E.g. has anyone actually asked someone who designed a system with a max password length why they did it that way? — LarsHMar 31 at 1:56
@MichaelFrank intercept the keyboard , when it is an activated window, block mouse input from reaching behind the hidden (but exisiting) windows on top. in the area that the window resided.
@MichaelFrank I dont know programming or what is possible. but i have seen most stubborn requestors, that wont move (grrr) And ones that can be sort of locked to top. and ones that large parts of them (never all) were transparent.
I have made hidden 1pix windows with utility programs, and they would act just like all 3 of us were saying.
@Bob say we had a program that used its own skin for the requester (a resource) and that resource was missing, would it be possible that a legit program ends up like that? just some sort of fixable fail
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
That scene from 2001: A space odyssey is a good example for why this can be a dangerous practice.
Beware of anthropomorphising a computer to the point where the user starts ascribing malice to it. Error messages need to be non-personal to avoid the ...
@Bob doesnt to me either, but that is because he suspects something he has seen over and again. if that was taken out of the puzzel, i might think possible prank. if he said he is in college dorm, and roommate is doing computer 101, they got every prank in the world going there :-)
I use a c(something) programmed runinvis, it dissapears everything like a virus. I keep it to myself , some things shouldnt be releaced into the wild :-)
Windows 7 has suddenly decided that when i hit fullscreen, fullscreen refers to only part of the screen (and aerosnap works the same way), and while i can pull windows into the unused bit, i can't have proper full screen (here's a video of what i'm experiencing). While i suspect rebooting will fi...
@Paul Wasnt the "rule" to not migrate crap :-) i dont know if it is crap, but he could at least give some background or idea of what the chip is he is trying to interface. gee its not like it is a cyborg sexmachine chip or anything :-)
@MichaelFrank lol, whats a kettle. coffeemaker obsoleted them 20 years ago
guys, puu.sh/3KkO3.jpg what happens in letter h.) what happens if process 4 leaves? thus it create a new partition (so there will be 8M free partition), or will it join the 6M free space??
@vvavepacket Surely a-g show what happens. Nothing happens, except the space is freed. Nothing is relocated. The real question is what happens if process 4 stays, and an 8MB process wants to start.
@vvavepacket Aaah. I see. Well, we can't tell because the behaviour isn't in the previous steps, but logically if the process that occupies the partition is gone, then the partition is gone too, and you have contiguous space free. Otherwise, you'd end up with ever diminishing partitions.
@MichaelFrank then its like the Costco problem. warehouse+ of products , hundreds of people stuck at the check-Out line , because although they could sell them tons of stuff, they wouldnt take thier money fast enough.
i am pretty sure comcast cable here is still using cache for at least some things
when they first started doing it, people reported a lot of problems, stuff not updated, or updating, people couldnt change thier own web pages and see it , etc. they must have a lot of it worked out now.
I have a dual SIM mt6589 based Android 4.2.1 phone, and I have no idea where the apps are getting installed.
My phone has an Internal SD card(built in), An External SD card and something called Phone Storage(/data ??)
Anyway the apps are supposed to be saved to my External SD but they get saved...
@Bob argg, I want to get usb3 badly , and I see so many people having problems with it. now you showing me a USB3 that got negotiated to 1.1 augggg :-)
I have installed a few Android applications both with the adb install MyApplication.apk command and via a webserver (like an alternative to Android Market).
But where in the Android file system on my phone is the MyApplication.apk file placed? Are applications installed with adb install not plac...
Do they put a lot of (lets call them) lesser programs locked down, on android cell phones still that you have to root it if you want to remove it?
Because when choosing a phone, One of the reasons i am leaning towards getting a China generic phone, is less branded locked in stuff, and more freedom.
My cell phone service is with ATT, they use the SIM card.
so I can have thier phone, or a so called unlocked anything that takes a sim
@Gowtham and being off contract, does that make them any less or more likely to have branded apps, and Junk that the phone company gets paid to lock into the phone?
@Psycogeek Make sure sources are available before getting a china phone, mediatek does not release sources and there is no android source available for mt6589
@Gowtham what ammount of internal flash memory did you get in yours? If you were out in Full sunlight , and do not block the sun, can you see a little, or not even enough to dial?
I restart, evade the imps, get to the wall. Check the HPs do see if I take damage. (And discover I have been teleported back to the beginningof the screen and that I am dead already)
I notice a trend here.
I think I need a slower computer to play the game on.
multiple cores can only be used by programs specifically designed to use them
the operating system could decide to run different programs on different cores, but you cannot run a single program on more cores than it's designed to.
multithreading applications isn't easy. you can't just say "run on 4 cores!"
A simple analogy would be sharing a task over four employees. Sometimes you can give each part of the work and things will get done 4 times faster. However if the job is 'drive from A to B' then you will not gain any speed by putting four people in the car. ONly one can drive and steer.
Or maybe more accurate, painting a room. You can have several people tear the old wall paper from a room... assuming they all fit in the room, assuming there are tools for all of them. Making sure they do not bump into each other. And with enough walls (paralele part) all can paint a part on their own.
@Hennes that is what i figured. but now that bob brought up that no single threaded app splits itself across the cores. . . I have always had a hard time explaining, that 4 cores being "applied" by a program does not make it multithreaded, and that 25% usage on each, is not good utalisation of the cores, and not an app that doesnt need cpu.
@Hennes to me a program that pushes 4 cores to 25% is (eerrrrrr) running at 100%, it is using the full capability OF one core. Again, poor explaination. But it is doing that on 4 cores.
see, When duels and quads first came out, people would misinterpret , only using 25%, the program is not "cpu bound" speeding up the processor would not help it. WHEN, stuck with single threaded, that is Exactally what it does need. not more cores but more speed.
It probably is running flat out on one core. It could run part of the time on different cores, but today's scheduling algorithmes and turbo boots make it more efficient (and thus more likely if you have a good scheduler) to run it on one core.
@Hennes is the "processor scheduling" handled by the OS? I remember MS saying they improved that with win7, although in neither single threaded, or multi-threaded did i notice any actual changes in behavior, or real difference in speed.
@Hennes take this 25% thing on 4. the processor scheduler is it "splitting the workload" across the 4 cores, of a single threaded app. and/or the single threaded apps work is comming in easily split chunks?
but you almost decribed multithreaded. cause if i give it to 4 people, they could potentially read it at 100% each :-)
@Hennes I have tested a few times, affinity, stuffing the program on one core, with little else to conflict with it, and the dude passing out the books and retrieving the results is doing a good job of stuffing it back together :-)
if the task cannot be parallelised, chucking it on multiple threads (with each thread waiting on another one to finish its part) at best will do nothing.
worse, it can waste time
worst case, it'll end up in a deadlock and never complete (that's when a is waiting on b which is waiting on a, which can never complete)
@Hennes and wasting time passing it around
you waste programmer time and execution time by multithreading needlessly
@Hennes 25% without a view of individual cores more often means an average of 25%. the vast majority of the time, that means 100% on one core and 0% on the other three.
When going from one CPU (in ye days of your when one CPU had one core) going from single to dual sockets gave you about 80% performance gain. (Or 20% loss from doubling)
@Gowtham So you found firmware? I have seen before where china phone users pointed to some odd site for specific firmware. it was not very well described.
@Gowtham XDA , has always looked like programmers location, not idiot trying to get rid of some stupid icon , or other dumb OCD stuff that drives me up the wall
@MichaelFrank I was asking gowtham, how to get all that support , and updates, and forum for a "generic" type china phone.
That was one sweet thing about the nokia, via Att branded. it could update through the carrier. Of course i waited 2 years and it never did, and finnaly had to get it online :-)
Getting a good branded phone is like buying a Dell, they are always there for you . . . but who cares :-)
At our company, we have a rule: each one of us has to buy the croissants once in a while for everybody.
Now we'd like to be a little more regular about this. And last friday, both of us bought the croissants, and some almost went to the bin because there were too many. Hopefully, I sacrificed ...
I have a dual SIM mt6589 based Android 4.2.1 phone, and I have no idea where the apps are getting installed.
My phone has an Internal SD card(built in), An External SD card and something called Phone Storage(/data ??)
Anyway the apps are supposed to be saved to my External SD but they get saved...
