How to generate all permutations of a given list of numbers.

Introduction to generating number combinations within fixed numeric boundaries.

Taking our 720 string permutations, sorting them numerically and weeding out all the duplicates.

A brute force attack is an attempt to log into a secure system by making lots of attempts in the hopes of eventual success. It’s not a sophisticated type of attack, hence the name "brute force." For example, if you have a login process that requires a username and password, there is a limit as to the possible number of username/password combinations.

I write this post from my cube-spinning phenom of a laptop, my Lenovo T61p. Owing to it’s newness, there were a few hiccups configuring SLED 10 SP1. One that caused no small annoyance was getting X working when running the Xen kernel. I tried all kinds of sax2 command line permutations to get even a basic VESA frame buffer configuration working …. all to no avail :(. Thanks to a few wikis at opensuse.org and some great pointers from some fellow geeks, I’m able to use the Nvida driver with the Xen kernel … wait for it, with XGL enabled!

Finally, the Perl script that took 8 posts to deconstruct :)

If you manage to freeze your system in such a way that even Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t work anymore, the mouse is stuck on the screen any none of the key combinations will work, don’t think of the reset button just yet.

This week, we finished up our 2009 Q1 release of the Intel driver. Most of the effort for this quarter has been to stabilize the recent work, focusing on serious bugs and testing as many combinations as we could manage.

During the SCO vs Novell trial, last year, it was determined that Novell owned the copyrights to AT&T UNIX' source code and derivatives. Darl McBride, CEO of SCO speaking at the Novell vs SCO countertrial disagrees. He "stated that SCO holds the copyrights over UNIX", and that "many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers.