On 06/16/2017 07:02 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
computers most botnet victims have. On the flip side, if you happen to
own such a botnet then you'd make more money renting it out or by
pushing out ransomware and hoping victims pay up than you ever could
by mining.
This isn't always the case. I c
On 03/17/2017 11:12 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
It is. But the chroot environments usually aren't all that large so
it's possible to get at least a couple in, especially if you keep an
SD card mounted permanently for data files. (You generally don't want
to put the OS there because it's slo
On 02/04/2017 12:55 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
GnuPG.
I store usernames, passwords, and site names in a 3-column,
GnuPG-encrypted text file. To recall a password for a given host, I
run a homebrew script that's more or less:
gpg -d mysecrets.gpg | grep
There is a utility called "pass" that
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:42:14 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Normally your system keeps track of memory in 4KB pages. They're
> analogous to filesystem blocks. Performance is improved when you
> can satisfy memory allocation requests with less overhead, so
> hugepages were created. A hugepage is a 2MB
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:10:07PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Some Googling about lead me to the PCI memory hole:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_hole
>
> Short version: in order to boot 32-bit operating systems the BIOS or
> EFI firmware needs to map all PCI devices to the first 4GB of
> ad
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:36:03AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> I think somebody here said ... The application requests a set of permissions
> as defined by the developer, and in order to install the app you must accept
> all those permissions, but there's an app you can install, to s
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:38:01PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I'd like a recommendation for a web site that permits me, for starters, to
> ask a question, and allows people to respond. As the q/a grows (the
> topics will be closely connected), it would be great to have additional
> support to
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:43:11AM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> We have FIOS connected to the QAM tuner in our TVs. This yields about 100
> channels: PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Weather Channel, etc. No specialty
> channels like HBO.
That is good to know. Out of curiosity, do these channels come i
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> Does anybody know if any version of GNOME, KDE, or equivalent system
> actively support such usage?
Not that I'm aware of. At work, I have to frequently login to other
machines to run simulations or benchmarks - I mostly do this via VNC,
but s
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I think a better question is, "why on earth would you want a rMBP?" Unlike
> the previous MBP incarnations this one is disposable. The RAM is soldered
> down to the board, the SSD is proprietary, and the battery packs are firmly
> cemented t
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:10 PM, MBR wrote:
> Other operating systems in existence at the time Unix was being designed
> required you to call different system calls depending on what device you
> were trying to do I/O to. And some operating systems knew about file types
> and defined the complete
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Snapshots aren't at all close to versioning. A versioning file system keeps
> (or can keep; one can usually configure how many versions to keep) every
> version of a file saved. File system snapshots get the file system state
> when the snap
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
>> I'd be happy to explain the high-level details of the architecture to
>> anyone that cares.
>
>
> So is the Northbridge effectively half on-die and half off-chip ?
Yes: slide #28 illustrates this to some extent. The "Valencia" die has
the par
> This page has some info (including a useful diagram) that explains the
> Bulldozer architecture:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-3.html
>
If you want "straight from the horse's mouth" details on the Bulldozer
architecture, please see my colleague Sean W
I started using L-Ubuntu inside Virtualbox a while ago and I really like it:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
It doesn't have much (any?) eye-candy, but it is lightweight and has
up-to-date versions of standard Ubuntu packages.
Linux Mint is a good choice too, BTW.
-Shankar
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 a
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
>> Are there any other distros that have a Slackware-like configuration
>> system (i.e. simple rc files) but with better package management?
>
> What's different about the "simple r
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Kurt Keville wrote:
> see http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401008,00.asp
>
> ... not really sure what to make of this. It looks as if there will be no
> changes to the SeaMicro product line, which was going in a direction counter
> to AMDs if I remember the pre
The lack of usable package management in Slackware is what drove me to
Debian (sometime around 2003 or 2004). I haven't tried Slackware
since, but it is odd that they still haven't addressed this issue.
Are there any other distros that have a Slackware-like configuration
system (i.e. simple rc fil
2011/8/7 Shirley Márquez Dúlcey :
>> Recent high-end Radeon and NVidia video cards tend to come with
>> DisplayPort, too.
>
> I haven't seen that; the ones I've seen come with HDMI rather than
> DisplayPort. That doesn't mean that all of them do, but if I'm spending I'd
> rather have an HDMI port.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> A coworker of mine has a Python script set up as:
> #! $PATH_TO_PYTHON/python
> ... python code
>
> It is not unusual to have commands like this. Mailman does this with
> several of its commands. The issue here is that he needs to use an
> en
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jim Gasek wrote:
> Clark Univ., I think. Does anyone have any
> info about it, go to it? Know folks in it?
> Know what they do?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Gasek
http://www.wlug.org
They meet at WPI, not Clark. I know Andy Stewart who is the founder of
the group, and I g
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