Thanks for the link, Derrick. I've been seeing this story on linuxtoday.com,
but decided I didn't want to know. I'm glad I'm reading it now, though.
I can always count on you guys to send me (the list) really important stuff
about linux, and to tell me what's really important, too.
Russell
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"I don't care if you're going nowhere,
Just take good care of the world."
-- Depeche Mode
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>From: Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com>
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] Linux VM problems (and I'm so cool)
>Date: Tue, Oct 30, 2001, 12:37 PM
>
>
> I've been harping on the 2.4 kernel's VM problems for some time now.
> (Even to the extent of bending Maddog's ear at Chilis after the last CTS
> Expo about some of the problems I'd been having.)
>
> Slashdot pointed to a nice article on Byte magazine outlining some of
> the problems:
>
> http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20011024s0002/1029_moshe.html
>
> Of course even better are the names in the commentary in the source code
> about halfway down the page used to bring a Linux 2.4 box dragging to a
> halt... :)
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
>>>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.anti-dmca.org/
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5537/2028
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