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by tsuraan 16y ago
What is the analogous mistake you'd make in CTR? The problem here was setting the IV to the last block of the previous stream, right? Would the analog to CTR be continuing to count in the same sequence? Also, I know this isn't the best f
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by tsuraan 16y ago
CBC is a way ("the" way, really) to take something like AES that works in 128-bit blocks and apply it across an arbitrarily long stream of data. Is CTR mode considered insecure, or is it just not appropriate here?
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Link to the original source, for those who want an updating total: http://www.humblebundle.com/ .
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by tsuraan 16y ago
You also can do it in java: http://www.fordevs.com/2008/11/reflection-is-mechanism-by-wh... . As a python programmer who never uses "private" variables (I use a single underscore to indicate fields that shouldn't be used), I'm a bit to
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Just some clarifications so that newbies don't get scared away from erlang :) Erlang is a functional programming language without so much as a single iteration construct; if you want a loop, you have to use recursion. To keep it from soun
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by tsuraan 16y ago
For the past few years, I've been using a Sony Z590. My major concerns with a laptop are battery life, portability, and screen real estate. For the Z590, I get 8-10 hours of battery life (8 with wifi on, 10 on a plane). The machine is a
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Will patents help you against Microsoft? Does your four person startup really have the resources to take on a major legal team? From the patents question in the interview at http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101007/full/news.2010.525.ht...
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by tsuraan 16y ago
I believe netflix PC streaming requires silverlight, but I know their general site doesn't. The silverlight requirement for streaming probably isn't something people usually even notice, since they also stream to roku, xbox, ps3, and a ton
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by tsuraan 16y ago
I'm not sure about that 45 degree guy, but for turning your cube so that you face out, that's sort of natural. For some people (me...) sitting with your back to a door or an area where people are generally walking is really uncomfortable.
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Here's the emotiv thread on it: http://emotiv.com/forum/forum15/topic879/ . Sounds like it may be a pyrrhic victory...
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by tsuraan 16y ago
How can you call bullshit on the notion of people paying when they can pirate instead? Everybody's aware of file sharing at this point, and nearly everybody has internet access. Somehow, the content control industry keeps getting money, m
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by tsuraan 16y ago
AMD died to me when they bought ATI and continued to refuse to provide decent Linux drivers. Now I don't consider either brand as even existing, and spend my money accordingly. I ran nVidia for about 12 years (since I built my first PC in
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by tsuraan 16y ago
The open ATI drivers really are improving. From my own experience, my home desktop with an nVidia 8800GTS can run for about a week before the display starts getting crazy amounts of corruption, and KDE grinds to a halt. My work machine, w
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Probably not: http://www.usa.denon.com/productdetails/3429.asp
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by tsuraan 16y ago
High performance isn't just about getting stuff done faster, it can also be thought of as getting the same amount done in less CPU time. When I'm running on batteries, my laptop's CPUs are running at 800MHz, and I get about 8-10 hours of b
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by tsuraan 16y ago
I've been using clojure for a while now (nothing huge LOC-wise, but it's a pretty significant part a large system). I use vim, and haven't had any troubles. The clojure REPL doesn't seem to have readline support, but it works fine with th
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by tsuraan 16y ago
For reading technical PDFs, the DX (still $489, sadly) is really the best choice. I'm currently in the process of reading a few different technical PDFs, and they all look great and are perfectly legible. I haven't had any trouble with eq
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Kindle's DRM is about as much a hindrance as DVD-CSS; there's a package called mobiDeDRM, to which you can feed a book from your kindle and your kindle's serial number, and it strips the DRM. The file is still an annoying ebook format, but
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by tsuraan 16y ago
For the downraters: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html . The parent comment isn't a troll, it's just a (slightly obscure?) joke.
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by tsuraan 16y ago
The cool thing here is that, although they don't have the posix layer done yet, they do have all the pooling stuff working. That gives you scrubbing, snapshots, RAID-Z{,2,3}, etc. In their example page ( http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/
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by tsuraan 16y ago
That's a pretty absurd statement. Are Nokia and Novell massive competing companies? KDE seems to be doing pretty well. There are also plenty of small successful open projects like battle for wesnoth or the innumerable open libraries that
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by tsuraan 16y ago
The really amusing thing is that (at least on my machine) it's pv that's the bottleneck there; I have it using 101% cpu, anyhow. pv will give me 9.7GB/s, whereas dd will give me 13.3GB/s (also at 100% cpu). I wonder if anything's faster t
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by tsuraan 16y ago
> how many open source projects do oracle supports? none!!! Not a fan of oracle, but http://oss.oracle.com/ isn't entirely empty. Btrfs and OCFS2 certainly come to mind as interesting oracle projects.
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by tsuraan 16y ago
As somebody who dreads scribd links (I won't install flash), this really looks like a good step forward. PDFs are still better viewed in okular, but I could see this being useful for viewing MS formats. Really slick interface, too.
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Except for the resolution (which is 1024x600 for that one as well). I don't know how you can claim "Full High Definition Multimedia" without offering even a 720p screen.
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Webkit is open-source because the people who wrote it (KDE devs) put it under the LGPL. Apple was playing catch-up, and used the best code base they could to get started. They aren't philanthropists, they are just (grudgingly) abiding by
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I think he's referrring to the old Lisp Machines, which were in direct competition with the UNIX machines for a while. I recall reading some old rant about the new-fangled UNIX machines by a die-hard Lisp machine hacker a long time ago (ca
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by tsuraan 17y ago
By pointing, do you mean the soles of your shoes were facing them, or were the feet pointed in the direction of the men in the normal use of the word pointing? If it was the normal use of pointing, how do you avoid having your feet pointin
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by tsuraan 17y ago
That's a bizarre statement; MS wrote XP, and it wrote IE6. Why would MS supporting or failing to support its own software have any relation on third parties supporting MS's software?
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by tsuraan 17y ago
No, the people who were disappointed by GL3 mostly wanted the early ideas of an object model to replace the bind-and-set model that OpenGL has been using. GL3 did introduce some extensions for direct state access (DSA), which is a decent c

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