Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 1 May 2012, stan wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:36:25 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: If, as you say, "the defense against the attack was 10 to 20 years out there" then by Boolean logic Fedora *cannot* be "already immune". I think you should continue to worry. :-) :-) Thanks. :-) I'll

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:36:25 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > If, as you say, "the defense against the attack was 10 to 20 years > out there" then by Boolean logic Fedora *cannot* be "already immune". > > I think you should continue to worry. :-) :-) > Thanks. :-) I'll put this on the list right

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/02/2012 09:29 AM, stan wrote: > I interpreted that as meaning the defense against the attack was 10 to > 20 years out there. The attack has already been demonstrated, from the > sound of the article (I did go read the first link, which described > attacks targeting cloud servers at least som

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:04:27 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > "Smart cautions, however, that the work of Goldwasser and her > colleagues is unlikely to yield practical applications in the near > future. “In security, and especially cryptography, it takes a long > time to go from an academic idea to some

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/02/2012 08:59 AM, stan wrote: > http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/thwarting-eavesdropping-data.html > > The above is a link to an article on a security threat called side > channel attack. I don't completely understand how it can work, as the > description is somewhat vague. But obviously some

OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread stan
http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/thwarting-eavesdropping-data.html The above is a link to an article on a security threat called side channel attack. I don't completely understand how it can work, as the description is somewhat vague. But obviously some very intelligent people can understand it, a

Nice eureka with Skype

2012-05-01 Thread Fedora User
I just installed Skype. I am profoundly surprised and elated that Pulse works with one of my bluetooth headsets. All I have done, so far, is the test call but so far so good. Oh x64 requires some 32 bit libraries to run Skype: libXScrnSaver, qt and qt-x11 (along with their dependencies). -- users

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-01 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/01/2012 12:20 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> Spherical Cow > > Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun > form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme. A screen saver is required! -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun > pair. Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 13:20:14 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Spherical Cow Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme. Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun pair. -

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> Spherical Cow Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-01 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 06:51 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > The name for Fedora 18, the follow-up to Beefy Miracle, > is: Spherical Cow LOL! I can't wait to see the artwork. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignor

Re: lost ability to play .wav files after recent updates

2012-05-01 Thread dave perry
On 05/01/2012 06:00 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: dave perry wrote: For the last week, I get the following error message in either MoviePlayer or Rhythmbox when I try to play .wav files. The following plugins are required: * GStreamer element ffmpegcolorspace * GStreamer element audioresample

xfs on nfs, directory listing.

2012-05-01 Thread gary artim
wondering if anyone has tried xfs filesystem under nfs and found that ls, dir, ll, etc commands get starved (sometime 20..30 seconds) when the nic is saturated with data. Maybe I'm answering my question within the question, but worried that a loaded nfs could make ls very slow to respond, any sugge