Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com 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:

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 e...@billauer.co.il: On Monday, January 7th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Leon Romanovsky: Introduction to Flash Memory Abstract

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,

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 shlo...@shlomifish.org 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: *

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:

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 linux...@didi.bardavid.org 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

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:41 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il 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

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:27:44 +0200 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com 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