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I hate to derail the discussion, but you did ask for it. People don't try to make Buddha go away because Buddha never claimed to be a god. He always maintained that he was just a man. So why try to make him go away? People have issues with Christianity because they see things like the Pope saying condoms don't prevent AIDS, ministers railing against gay people, and thousands upon thousands of Christians making a mockery of marriage by getting divorced all over the place. People are just fed up with hypocrisy and such obvious hatred. And, yes, the Bible has been correct about a few things. But it's been sooo wrong on soooo many more things, it's pointless to try to use it as a source of fact, as you might as well make the truth up - you've got just as much chance of being right. And you might want to read this list of crucified saviours, some of whom are claimed to have ascended to heaven, with just as much evidence for it as for Jesus.

You can use plain text or formatted HTML to create pages (attachments are easy to add) and it's easy to organize pages into an outline or (surprise!) a course format. Moodle also lets you set up forums, wiki's and so on.

Wiki's are good, but it takes some work to organize the pages. I like to create an "index page" for ease of navigation. You can do this with wiki trails in PmWiki http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiTrails

In MoinMoin http://moinmo.in/ you can use Categories to group pages.

With Moodle and wiki's, authorized users can edit the pages, including data in tables. which can be handy.

For personal notes,you might try:Tuxcards http://www.tuxcards.de/, KeepNote http://rasm.ods.org/keepnote/(it easily handles screenshots or other images),Jreepad http://jreepad.sourceforge.net/ a plain-text-only outliner, or BasketNotePads http://basket.kde.org/. Like Tuxcards, Basket can export its contents to an HTML tree, which can be posted for others.

If you are adventurous, use a mindmap, such as FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/.

Personnaly, I never understood how talented SSH developers came to the conclusion that they needed to invent such a crappy thing : ssh-agent. And I've seen people use it, the same people who put their private keys on USB sticks to ensure that nobody will steal them, but who are not afraid of collegues having root access on their machine ...

ssh-agent is a solution to grant any process on the system full access to a means of authenticating through your private key. No comment ! There's nothing difficult in typing
a passphrase each time you connect to a remote site !

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high performance free load balancing solution - http://w.ods.org/haproxy/

http://wombat.ods.org/cgi-bin/lambert.pl?p1=Earth& p2=Mars&sd=0&tf=90

The interface is kinda rough, but the calculations use coplanar, cicular planetary orbits to find a least-energy transfer orbit using Lambert's method and Battin's (the guy who wrote the Apollo Guidence Computer) continued fraction interation. Velocities are in km/s.

Simon ;)

I have no college degree, and no high school diploma. Someone in my situation at this point in time with no work experience would have a hard time finding someone to give them a chance. There are a couple of things that either I did or that were circumstantial at the time that made it easier for me.

1. "Work Experience" - This is in quotes, because most people would not consider what I put down on my resume as work experience as work experience. I put down various side jobs that I had done in high school such as adminning various small web hosting provider boxes and shell hosts for free, or creating programming projects for myself such as ODS. Why admin someone else's boxes for free? I did it because I enjoyed it. Little did I know that it would help me a couple of years down the line to land my first job (at IBM of all places - full time job at age 16.)

2. It was a very good time to find jobs in the technology fields. This was 1999. That alone should be enough to give you an idea.

Once I had IBM on my resume (in addition to my other less accepted "Work Experience"), getting the second job (which paid twice as much) was a lot easier. It still took a little bit of searching, but it worked out. And now, I have 4 "real" jobs that I can put down on my resume. In fact, finding this last one took less than 1 week from the day I put my resume out, to the day I received an offer that I liked. That was in March of this year.

To sum up. In my experience, work experience is king. I think all a degree helps people in our field with (unless they are doing research or teaching) is to get their first, and maybe second jobs. If you can manage to snag that first job by yourself, and you have the knowledge and drive to do the job they give you, then everything else will fall into place. After the second or third job is when it really starts getting easier.

Regards,
-JD-

Enough said.

...oh! Not to mention all the programs it wants to install but hides it from you and settings it just "forgets."

During installation of Real Player, you need to pay close attention and look at every option because they try to pull a fast one on you by hiding certain settings since you need to scroll down to see them.

These kind of things are why they lose so many users.

1. Set up a free hostname (eg example.ods.org) on somewhere like ods.org
2. Configure (example.ods.org) as a virtual host, where you keep all your real contents. (Turn UseCannonicalName Off)
3. Set up per host access and error logs for (example.ods.org)
4. Leave a 0 byte index.html in the default site directory (and make sure you don't have and CGI, w3perl, etc lying around that might have an unknown vulnerability).
5. Tell all your friends to use (http://example.ods.org) instead of your IP.

Now your host access and error logs for (example.ods.org) have all the real accesses, and the default logs have all the CodeRed, Nimda, Spam Proxy attempts, ISP TOS Checker, and 5cr1p7 k1dd13z.

Then tell people what you're doing right from the very first. The person "to market" isn't the first person who gets out the product. It's the first person to start selling the product. As this gentleman points out it's likely that your business plan/idea isn't unique at all and that there are likely dozens of different people working on it even before you get started. Start selling before they do.

Yes. They call it brochureware. Take it from someone who works in advertising - don't advertise products you don't have. The practice pisses off potential customers and earns you nothing but ill will.

OK script kiddies, fire up your right click and Save As because I've got the batch file with the hacks! 0-day sploit

I run a large dynamic dns provider and have had many many abuse reports lately of people using worms like this. Generally, they will register a host with ODS that is round-robin and points to multiple IRC servers which they point their drones at. The effect with these trojans are huge and I'm surprised they're not covered more. Ones like this one have been around for a while, and are generally used (after infection) for DDoS attacks. Many of these botnets (that I have seen anyway) exceed 10,000 infected clients (in one IRC channel). They place an enormous burden on the IRC Networks (that have to accept all of these clients, a lot of the time, all at once when the command is issued to change servers) and also are fairly visible from our DNS servers (some causing about 10 queries/sec alone to the DNS servers).

The point is that I've seen these botnets around for months and months now. Almost a year at this point with almost no coverage. I believe the days of smurf attacks are numbered, this is the new way to conduct DoS attacks. They're very effective as well, having seen the attacks targeting servers of mine.

Here is a mirror of some pictures from pdrap.org.

I have a mirror up at http://ari.ods.org/columbia/

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Jus putted up another mirror here....
And I will add another one for every negative thing the mpaa does.....

You're gonna run out of places to put it before too long.

And I will add another one for every negative thing the mpaa does.....