cnvogel

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by cnvogel 16y ago
Sorry to correct you, but that single atomic wristwatch is totally inadequate to reliably detect the effects predicted by general relativity. You'd better use at least three (and compare their readings with the home-based hydrogen maser) fo
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by cnvogel 16y ago
If you are into real data analysis on the unix-commandline, including ASCII histograms... and are not afraid of 70s-style forgran programming, you should have a look at PAW; the physics analysis workstation. library/program site: http://ce
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Interestingly the method of mitigation, which is mounting user-accessible filesystems nosuid, has become less and less common over the years. When dinosaurs still roamed the earth, it used to be that all unix installs used separate /, /var,
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Just recently a story was published in Germany where they evaded their responsibilities as a bank by clever shifting of responsibilties between eBay, PayPal and the credit-card issuer. So in case of a TV shipped to a identity thief chargeba
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by cnvogel 16y ago
I also used Windowmaker for a really long time, but stopped when a few years ago it was incompatible with a few of the applications I use (e.g. gaim (now pidgin) would crash very often, and some more annoyances I forgot about). I especially
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by cnvogel 16y ago
In Germany the regulation to get money for maternity/paternity leave is such that the state pays 2/3 of the regular income for 12 months. (12 months if only father or mother take the offer, or 14 months if both parents choose to, so e.g. th
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by cnvogel 16y ago
Further information about how and what to trigger things with the Magic-Sysrq-Key is documented in $KERNEL/Documentation/sysrq.txt, which you can access for example in Linus' GIT tree at... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I've used Atmel AVR Classic, Mega and Tiny for quite a few projects using the gnu toolchain. The free compiler is quite good and programming cables can be made very cheap. To get more programming or debugging features you need a decent on
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by cnvogel 17y ago
The current SSL security model assumes that certification authorities are thorough with the checks they perform on people applying for certificates, so that I -as an example- cannot pose as your bank and obtain your credentials by fraud. Fu
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I like the idea, it's a rather elegant solution. Currently the standard and ugly ways seems to be to either invent your own variation of USB connectors (with extra pins, e.g. USB +19V DC for the external DVD on the Dell Notebook I'm typing
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I've used xfsdump/xfsrestore on Linux and xfs-filesystems (obviously) in the past. Very nice stuff, I second the recommendation. Of course it only provides for the raw data-transfer task so one has to think about the scheduling and planning
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by cnvogel 17y ago
While it might be known to some since a decade, you don't have to resort to your l33t haxor skillz at all to learn about these user-interface languages. They can be chosen on the usual search-options preferences page at http://www.google.d
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by cnvogel 17y ago
Some mobile phones will not charge their batteries from the USB port of you don't have special software installed on the PC to activate that function. The motivation is that you might not want to charge from USB all the time, especially if
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by cnvogel 17y ago
But, most important, Q10 has sound. click, click, click, click, katching
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by cnvogel 17y ago
While those are a basic requirement for sure, in my opinion it's much more important to be able to recognize the links between the many different interfaces any sufficiently complicated device (here: PS3 or iPhone) has (both in software and
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by cnvogel 17y ago
The USRP doesn't do any AM, FM,... It's only a very fast ADC/DAC. Some of the additional modules have up-/downmix capability, though.
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by cnvogel 17y ago
There are currently (to my knowledge) two working open-source/free-software implementations of the GSM stack. OpenBTS ( http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ ) puts everything, beginning at the modulation/demodulation of the radio-frequency, into
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by cnvogel 17y ago
The summary of the talk given on the 26'th Chaos Communication Congress can be found on the 26c3 wiki, it includes a link to the slides: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3654.en.h... Video recordings can be found on: ht
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I think one of the major problems of "user-friendly" linux distributions/desktops nowadays is, that they try to make almost everything work automatically and without providing sufficient tweaking tools for the case where the automatic thing
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by cnvogel 17y ago
> On Linux, though, they have the most > brilliant intuitive way of doing this Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it ;-). I have had Compose keys, even labeled as such, on my keyboards since the dark ages. Get a Sun T
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I own a older version of "das Keyboard" which is actually a Cherry-G80 OEM (which I also own, and a unnamed clicky DEC Alpha Workstation PS/2 keyboard). They all give great feedback and I prefer them for typing larger amounts of text. Of co
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I've experienced the flickering screen problem which is caused by a rapidly restarting X server (on nvidia-chipset graphics). In earlier releases gdm seemed to throttle this after 5 attempts and present a text-mode dialog. By default now al
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by cnvogel 17y ago
One possible solution to the problem is to use dynamically generated throw-away email-addresses. You can also encode some kind of signature. Then just hide the monstrously huge address behind a pretty "Please Email me" Link: mailto:chris-hH
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by cnvogel 17y ago
I hate to sound overly pessimistic, and I really appreciate the nice idea of having a more intelligent binary format. But I really cannot see the point of having "fat" binaries. Programs under Linux (and other unixy operating systems) alrea
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by cnvogel 17y ago
His contrived example of "atomically creating a file" is kind of strange. If you would want to see which of several processes wins at creating a file, just use if(-1 != (fd=open("filename",0666,O_CREAT|O_EXCL)){ .. } which is guaranteed to
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by cnvogel 17y ago
The physical data interface of USB is simpler (only two signalling wires, D+, D- instead of the two differential pairs for firewire). Supply of power to the devices is simpler (+5V instead of >20V with firewire, which needs an additiona
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by cnvogel 17y ago
Very good coverage of the thorium fuel cycle and associated reactor technology is to be found at http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/ . Thorium is abundant and, moreover, can be used more efficiently than uranium.
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by cnvogel 17y ago
Usually it's port 9100. Bash (and for sure also tcsh or zsh, not to start any flamewar) has a nice builtin tcp-socket interface by redirecting to the "pseudo" tcp device, so you don't even need nc for it on most current unices. cat file.ps
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by cnvogel 17y ago
The keys have been removed from the linked sites because of a DMCA notice. They can be found on wikileaks, though.
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by cnvogel 17y ago
Those corrections are not actually essential for GPS to function. In first order it's only the satellites clocks that have to be run at a slightly elevated frequency (or is it the other way round? Don't know). The actual GPS receivers don't

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