stingwray

Science Museum is really good, no matter what age you are and is even better if you can get their for the last Wednesday of the month, when its adults only, lots of things going on and large quantities of booze.

Just an update. I ordered the s-JAYS and I have to say that I'm really happy with them. Obviously I don't own any of the others to be able to compare them, but they sound good to me and there is a definite addition of bass which is nice. The also isolate sound nicely, I'm now playing my iPod at 45% volume on the tube, which before using the apple ear-buds had to be set to 90%+ to be able to hear anything and forget listening to podcasts. They came with a nice load of stuff and are comfortable to wear for long periods of time, although I'm still getting used to putting things in my ears again after years of being told not to! In short, they have Stingwray's approval!

The only reason why I thought about suggesting June was that it should have good enough weather (knowing the UK that's when our heat wave will be probably!), plus it should be cheaper than July or August. But for the record I'm happy whenever!

Fine by me. Shall we work through out which month first then when in the month? Same format as before? Long(ish) weekend style. My current choice would be June. Perhaps a wiki would be best for this, wasn't one for previous meet ups?

My vote is still for London. I think Birmingham would require to much thought as what to do.

No one is doubting that 10-14 year olds are not bright, however you can be the smartest individual in the world and not care about what you are being taught and you will learn nothing. The majority will just see anything out of the ordinary as just a break from doing work and turn off. The problem is greater than educating people in the use of the internet, there are too many bad applications and systems on the internet, that no matter how savvy you are, are still going to have problems with. To improve safety on the internet these systems need changing as well. Otherwise people will be taught to be safe and still can't be. A simple analogy being that you teach children to walk on the pavement (sidewalk for our american brethren) and then you don't give them a pavement on the road to walk on, forcing them to walk on the road. This is what the internet is basically like at the moment. Support the cause for compulsory pavements on the internet!

Actually you should give all the information away apart from the password. You asking to see if people will be able to crack the password, not find out how it is encrypted. Information on the internet that is encrypted generally has what algorithm and other settings sent with it. This is so people who receive it know what to do with it. This is the case with SSL and other systems. This also leads to why cryptography algorithms that are good have their source code available, otherwise you are relying on security through obscurity, which has little benefit. The problem with your challenge is that the people with the ability to do it (knowledge and power available to them) will have better things to do with your time and aren't going to bother. If your interested in brute force attacks on algorithms then there is plenty of research on the internet which you can read.

Sounds good, but your inviting people to attack this network (even if it is from internally), you may have to deal with the VPN server being attacked and compromised allowing them to talk to the internet. Make sure you have a 1 click restore function on the network, people are going to hose it so often if its anything more than 1 click to return to a working normal state its going to be a chore to get it going again.

They won't understand it, at that age they don't care and don't comprehend privacy.

Beowulf clusters are cool and all, but hardly anyone has firstly a use for all the power (at any time or all the time) and secondly decent enough applications for it to solve their problems. If people are interested in playing with beowulfs and setting them up etc. Might I suggest using something like Amazon's web service. You can set the networks up, add machines, take the off again and play to your hearts content. You can also do something calculations and when your not using them you can turn them all off. Obviously its not the best solution for everybody, but by the sounds of things from this thread it may suit one or two of you.

Sounds interesting, a good on you for doing this. What are you going to do to stop people from using the resources your making available to them for illegal/malicious use against other people/organizations?

Wait a minute, the Core i7 is a quadcore like you say, the Plug has only one core, so your going to need at least 12 of them to be approaching anything near the performance available from a single Core i7. Given the plug CPU is ARM compliant and that as they are all individual machines your software is going to have to be heavily distributed reducing performance, your going to need near 20 of them to reach similar amounts. I think I'll stick with the Core i7 thanks. Give it eSata and I'll start considering it for a NAS. I believe the dual core Atom is providing the best performance to buck and watt at the moment. The reason why Microsoft is currently trialing them in data centers.

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$25 isn't too bad and there's a 24 hours free trial as well to play about with it. Are the Ubiqiuiti Nanostation 2 any good?

Don't worry, your only about 3 days behind everybody.

Smaller and better

PHP Dir Documentation might come in use. If you set the default path to the directory you wan them to use and prevent them from browsing backwards using ".." then all you need to do is decide you want to represent information the user. Doing a simple breadth-first search of all the directories and then printing them out in a tree to allow the user to select a radio button would be the simplest approach. Take this input plus the file and then you can write that file to that location. You might want to start separating your control logic from your view, it makes debugging and developing a hell of a lot easier.

Well if you don't care about adding numbers together etc. just using strings will be fine and you can compare them later.

Well AAAAA isn't an integer and you saying that it is an array of integers.

And your use of the internet is far more important and you don't every use social networking websites. Shut up, go back to studying and use the internet at home.

Then you'll want the power set. Check the coding challenges thread, I set a challenge to find the power set and there was a number of submissions, including my own solution.

findCombination(blocks) { if(blocks.length > 0) { foreach(block in blocks) { newcombs = findCominbation(blocks.remove(block)); foreach(comb in newcombs) { result[] = block + comb; } } return result; } else { return null; } You'll want something like this.

On a random point that someone told me to today. Create a file in a directory named '-r'. Then run 'rm *' in that directory. Interesting things happen.

I have to say I'm getting annoyed about it as well. If you MUST spam (as that is what I would consider this to be) your website on the forum, keep it in one thread and update a post, at least then its not 7 topics with no real discussion on the first page. Link in your signature is fine and people will follow it.

If your using it to go through a corporate firewall, then check your contract and the policies that you have agreed to. If your not allowed to do it and you haven't got permission, then I would stop, companies are just itching to look for excuses at the moment to get rid of people because of the economic climate. In fact, depending on where you work, you could be breaking the law by doing it. Also, you don't need to look at pr0n at work. :P