Re: SSD drives

2013-01-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:27:44 +0200 > Gilboa Davara wrote: > >> > It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i. >> ... >> > I have an ext4 filesystem on it. >> >> Semi-OT: A word of friendly warning: >> I recently bricked a 120GB

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:41 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > > If it's encrypted with a good strength cypher and keylength then what > are you worried about, they just have to return the encrypted blob to > you? I'm using luks for encryption with a fairly long key. Never the less, for 500nis it

Re: The New Coolest Hack: emscripten - an LLVM bitcode to JavaScript Compiler

2013-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Yedidyah, On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:47:58 +0200 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Emscripten has many more, much cooler, demos here: > > > https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki including ports of Python, > > > Ruby and Lua and some

Re: The New Coolest Hack: emscripten - an LLVM bitcode to JavaScript Compiler

2013-01-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Emscripten has many more, much cooler, demos here: > > https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki including ports of Python, Ruby > > and > > Lua and some graphical games. On a semi-related note, see this, if you haven't already: ht

Re: The New Coolest Hack: emscripten - an LLVM bitcode to JavaScript Compiler

2013-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:59:43 +0200 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Nevertheless, it was easier than writing an entirely new code in JavaScript > and maintaining it, and you can see the beta demo in its temporary location > here: > > * > http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/fc-solve/js-port/web

The New Coolest Hack: emscripten - an LLVM bitcode to JavaScript Compiler

2013-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, [Note to Muli: prepare the groggers]. The executive summary is that you should probably check out https://github.com/kripken/emscripten which is an LLVM bitcode to JavaScript compiler, which allows one to compile any language that has a front-end to compile to LLVM bitcode (including C, C

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Introduction to Flash Memory -- Leon Romanovsky

2013-01-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, Is anyone going by car from Jerusalem to this lecture tomorrow? And do you have room? Thanks, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/1/5 Eli Billauer : > On Monday, January 7th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Leon > Romanovsky: > > Introduction to Flash Memory > > Abstract > > In this lec

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > If someone is really concerned about NSA knowing their random seed through > Intel's hardware implementation - can't these few people add hardware RNG's > to their sources? > (one ref: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_rand