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Catchalls are huge spam traps. If you end up getting a dictionary attack, every address they try is set to 'valid'. ;)

Is this a bad thing? A few friends and I have found that there are uses for having a set of addresses which only get spam...

The copy I downloaded matched the sha1sum.
I've put a copy on my own server if you want to download it from me: enigma-suite-0.73.1.tar.gz.

All, here are two batches of photos which the aforementioned individual posted and/or linked to earlier in the day, available via BitTorrent:

http://media.ofdoom.com:8080/movies/katrina1.tar.g z.torrent - 472.6MiB
http://media.ofdoom.com:8080/movies/katrina2.tar.g z.torrent - 57.4MiB

Enjoy. This is from Pathwalker and I.

All, here are two batches of photos which the aforementioned individual posted and/or linked to earlier in the day, available via BitTorrent:

http://media.ofdoom.com:8080/movies/katrina1.tar.g z.torrent - 472.6MiB
http://media.ofdoom.com:8080/movies/katrina2.tar.g z.torrent - 57.4MiB

Enjoy. This is from Pathwalker and I.

Mapper of Doom has had this for quite some time, albeit with existing data from Terraserver.

For a while now, I've been crawling the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and plotting the locations on my own little mapping site.

For an example, look here.

The biggest suprise I've had is the ammount of incorrect data in the database. Only about 25% of the entries geocode on the first pass. I've had to do "best matching" to correct misspelled street names, I've seen birth years with obviously transposed digits, and some quite amusing obvious test entries.

In addition to the sex offender data, I also map the locations of domains with dns-loc location records, sites registered with geourl.org, or my own Geographic Crawler experiment, sites on or considered for the Superfund NPL list, and any other data I can force into a format I can plot.

For a while now, I've been crawling the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and plotting the locations on my own little mapping site.

For an example, look here.

The biggest suprise I've had is the ammount of incorrect data in the database. Only about 25% of the entries geocode on the first pass. I've had to do "best matching" to correct misspelled street names, I've seen birth years with obviously transposed digits, and some quite amusing obvious test entries.

In addition to the sex offender data, I also map the locations of domains with dns-loc location records, sites registered with geourl.org, or my own Geographic Crawler experiment, sites on or considered for the Superfund NPL list, and any other data I can force into a format I can plot.

For a while now, I've been crawling the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and plotting the locations on my own little mapping site.

For an example, look here.

The biggest suprise I've had is the ammount of incorrect data in the database. Only about 25% of the entries geocode on the first pass. I've had to do "best matching" to correct misspelled street names, I've seen birth years with obviously transposed digits, and some quite amusing obvious test entries.

In addition to the sex offender data, I also map the locations of domains with dns-loc location records, sites registered with geourl.org, or my own Geographic Crawler experiment, sites on or considered for the Superfund NPL list, and any other data I can force into a format I can plot.

For a while now, I've been crawling the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and plotting the locations on my own little mapping site.

For an example, look here.

The biggest suprise I've had is the ammount of incorrect data in the database. Only about 25% of the entries geocode on the first pass. I've had to do "best matching" to correct misspelled street names, I've seen birth years with obviously transposed digits, and some quite amusing obvious test entries.

In addition to the sex offender data, I also map the locations of domains with dns-loc location records, sites registered with geourl.org, or my own Geographic Crawler experiment, sites on or considered for the Superfund NPL list, and any other data I can force into a format I can plot.

Theo "I have never run linux" should maybe do a little fact checking before he shoots his mouth off. Not only does the following set of benchmarks show that OpenBSD sucks eggs relative to Linux, but it sucks eggs relative to the other BSD's as well. Yeah, sure, it's a few months old; but it certainly shows that there is no historical basis for Theo's hubris.

http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/mirror/scale/bul k.fefe.de/scalability/

The Van Dyke Park wasn't across from the golf dome. It was across from the White Castle.
It was actually closer to the GM Tech Center than the golf domes.

Personally, I thought it was a good hotel for cons. The furniture could be quickly disassembled, and reassembled with simple tools, by getting a suite; you had a private room plus place for friends to crash, and when you got hungry at 3:00 am, Telly's was right down the street.

The new location is pretty good.
I know that area well, because the local HP training center used to be right behind the hotel.
There are decent places to get food; Although last year I remember we drove all the way to Noble Fish to get some sushi rather than eat much locally.

The Van Dyke Park wasn't across from the golf dome. It was across from the White Castle.
It was actually closer to the GM Tech Center than the golf domes.

Personally, I thought it was a good hotel for cons. The furniture could be quickly disassembled, and reassembled with simple tools, by getting a suite; you had a private room plus place for friends to crash, and when you got hungry at 3:00 am, Telly's was right down the street.

The new location is pretty good.
I know that area well, because the local HP training center used to be right behind the hotel.
There are decent places to get food; Although last year I remember we drove all the way to Noble Fish to get some sushi rather than eat much locally.

The Van Dyke Park wasn't across from the golf dome. It was across from the White Castle.
It was actually closer to the GM Tech Center than the golf domes.

Personally, I thought it was a good hotel for cons. The furniture could be quickly disassembled, and reassembled with simple tools, by getting a suite; you had a private room plus place for friends to crash, and when you got hungry at 3:00 am, Telly's was right down the street.

The new location is pretty good.
I know that area well, because the local HP training center used to be right behind the hotel.
There are decent places to get food; Although last year I remember we drove all the way to Noble Fish to get some sushi rather than eat much locally.

I think that you are close, but that this is more likely.

Terraserver.microsoft.com flagged the address as being across in the open lot across the street from my mark. But Terraserver has a bad habit of getting the wrong side of the street.

The house photos are taken from the street, and from that point of view, the garage is on the right-hand side of the house (hires0005). Also, the pictures show a house that has a flat front facade. Finally, the roof on the neighboring house to the right is a grey color.

The aerial photo of house that you picked do not match those details - the stub to the garage is on the left from the point of view of the street. That house is L-shaped, and there is a neighboring house with a very light color roof.

I spent about 20 minutes studying the aerial view of the house I flagged looking for a similar mismatch, and could not find one. The driveway is right. The road to the south does lead directly into that driveway (hires0001). Given the rest of the neighborhood, it sure makes sense that the bulk of the people coming up the road in hires0001 would turn left - that is the way in and out of the subdivision and the melted snow shows most people going left. The last picture (hires0010) shows thick trees beyond the neighbor's house, and the aerial also shows them.

The other thing going for this is that his house is a big one, and the one that I flagged happens to be one of the largest in the area if not the largest.

Is this Ralsky's house?

I know from the Tiger-2004fe dataset that the street address should be along that section of road.
From the pictures that are out there, it looks like it might be it.

It's hard to tell for sure. It might be the one to the north, which was still under construction as of 2002-04-10.

Looks like a pretty nice area, although since the wooded area behind it appears to be floodplain/swampland, I'll bet there are a lot of annoying bugs during the summer.

I have a page that redirects visitors to a randomly selected site (I use it as my start page).

Before I added a robots.txt blocking all crawlers from indexing it, I saw lots of hits from people who had been doing google searches.

At one point, it looked as if it had redirected to a movie bit torrent index when the crawler had hit it, because within a day or so I saw a few thousand people hit the page from google with search terms such as "Constantine Torrent".

• Take breaks
• Get Excercise

Looks to me to be on the edge of a courtyard.

Zooming out a bit, and overlaying the 1984 topographic map on top of the 1988 B/W USGS photo, I get this view which looks like that point used to be in a field next to the building, but when it was expanded (sometime between 1984 and 1988) that location was enclosed in a court yard.

The nearest benchmark is HV4826 which is reported as being destroyed in 1984 - probably during the expansion of the building, so I would say it happened early in that timerange.

There's something very odd about that benchmark record. Check out what it says the underground mark was.

Looks to me to be on the edge of a courtyard.

Zooming out a bit, and overlaying the 1984 topographic map on top of the 1988 B/W USGS photo, I get this view which looks like that point used to be in a field next to the building, but when it was expanded (sometime between 1984 and 1988) that location was enclosed in a court yard.

The nearest benchmark is HV4826 which is reported as being destroyed in 1984 - probably during the expansion of the building, so I would say it happened early in that timerange.

There's something very odd about that benchmark record. Check out what it says the underground mark was.

Assuming that this is the Prairie island plant, I can see why the local tribes would be upset, especially by how the reservation boundry jogs over to make room for the plant.

If the holding tanks are the structures south of the main building, it looks like they are using river water to help keep things cooled down. I hope I'm wrong, but even if I am, it looks like the island is only at most 10 feet or so above the river. Even if there isn't a direct channel from water used for cooling, waste materials would not have very far to travel to make it to the river.

At least it looks like they've been doing a good job of keeping everything contained - I don't see any records of spills or leaks that have been considered for the NPL in the area.

• Main shows up just under 10,000 times
• Washington shows up just under 6000 times

• Main shows up just under 10,000 times
• Washington shows up just under 6000 times

The USGS has a huge database of Streamflow data online.
You can pull tables for rivers near you, and see how often they flood.

With a bit of work, you can pull all sorts of things out of the current tiger dataset - for example, there are about 4.8 million unique street/zipcode combinations in the US.
See how many streets near where you live are unique ( two streets just down the road from me - Kentvale and Uthers - appear to be unique).

There's lots of interesting data out there, keep poking around in .gov sites, and you'll find all sorts of stuff.

The USGS has a huge database of Streamflow data online.
You can pull tables for rivers near you, and see how often they flood.

With a bit of work, you can pull all sorts of things out of the current tiger dataset - for example, there are about 4.8 million unique street/zipcode combinations in the US.
See how many streets near where you live are unique ( two streets just down the road from me - Kentvale and Uthers - appear to be unique).

There's lots of interesting data out there, keep poking around in .gov sites, and you'll find all sorts of stuff.

Interesting, I see two sites called Bohemian Grove in California.

The APFN article mentioned it was located in Sonoma, so I guess it would be this one.

It looks like the right general area - but you would think a 40 foot statue of an owl located north of a small lake would be easier to find - unless the reporter was confused about directions, and this is the owl and altar.

Interesting, I see two sites called Bohemian Grove in California.

The APFN article mentioned it was located in Sonoma, so I guess it would be this one.

It looks like the right general area - but you would think a 40 foot statue of an owl located north of a small lake would be easier to find - unless the reporter was confused about directions, and this is the owl and altar.

Interesting, I see two sites called Bohemian Grove in California.

The APFN article mentioned it was located in Sonoma, so I guess it would be this one.

It looks like the right general area - but you would think a 40 foot statue of an owl located north of a small lake would be easier to find - unless the reporter was confused about directions, and this is the owl and altar.

If you want to grab it via bittorrent, and contribute bandwidth back to other people who are downloading, I've got a torrent of a mirror set up here.

Bittorrent is probably overkill for a 5 meg site, but who cares; it helps spread the bandwidth load around...

heh - pasted the wrong link - torrent file is here...

Isn't that what bittorrent is for? The more people download, the more copies there are feeding the netowrk...

(BTW - like everyone else probably did, I saved a mirror copy in case the site goes down.
Even though the site is only 5 megs or so, I also set up a torrent here.)

This article might help!

Well, if you want one to play with, there's always TVSA3.

It's a bit hard find copies of it online, so I keep a copy of the last version I could find here, and a version that I recompiled with a modern compiler (so the program doesn't crash under windows ) here.

It's a simple little command line program, that takes as input a 16 bit wav file sampled at 11025 hz, and outputs a wav file, with beeps inserted where the stress level of the speaker was over a threshold.

It's rather slow - I keep intending to rewrite it to use a modern FFT library to see if I can get it to run in realtime, as well as port it to unix and OSX. Maybe someday I'll find time...

Well, if you want one to play with, there's always TVSA3.

It's a bit hard find copies of it online, so I keep a copy of the last version I could find here, and a version that I recompiled with a modern compiler (so the program doesn't crash under windows ) here.

It's a simple little command line program, that takes as input a 16 bit wav file sampled at 11025 hz, and outputs a wav file, with beeps inserted where the stress level of the speaker was over a threshold.

It's rather slow - I keep intending to rewrite it to use a modern FFT library to see if I can get it to run in realtime, as well as port it to unix and OSX. Maybe someday I'll find time...

So what is the Hydrogenaudio equivalent of goatse posters?

I would guess it would be people who post links to something like this.

(If you want more audio monstrosities, look in that directory - I'm testing how different codecs respond at extremely low bit rates )

I have a complete copy (graphs and all) here.

I've been looking at a couple of different techniques over the past year or so. They are closely tied into the Roxen Webserver, and probably won't work with Caudium, or any other webserver.

The first technique I used (described here) was a simple RXML macro, that defined a tag called <cloak>. It would check to see if the client was on a list of known robots. If the client was a robot, a graphic version of the email address would be returned. If the client looked like a normal browser, then the address would be entity encoded, and returned as a mailto link.

Shortly after I set that up, I realized that entity encoding was pretty much useless - that if a web browser can figure out the address, so can a spam bot.

My second attempt appears to be working well. I wrote a Roxen module called mailcloak which takes addresses, and replaces them with a graphic link to a dynamically generated form to send an email to that address.

As an example, the code <mailcloak> maileater@ofdoom.com</mailcloak> would be replaced with a graphical version of the address maileater@ofdoom.com and a link to this page.

It also has support for finding and cloaking bare addresses in pages, and I'll probably add support for rewriting mailto tags sometime in the next few weeks.

I've been looking at a couple of different techniques over the past year or so. They are closely tied into the Roxen Webserver, and probably won't work with Caudium, or any other webserver.

The first technique I used (described here) was a simple RXML macro, that defined a tag called <cloak>. It would check to see if the client was on a list of known robots. If the client was a robot, a graphic version of the email address would be returned. If the client looked like a normal browser, then the address would be entity encoded, and returned as a mailto link.

Shortly after I set that up, I realized that entity encoding was pretty much useless - that if a web browser can figure out the address, so can a spam bot.

My second attempt appears to be working well. I wrote a Roxen module called mailcloak which takes addresses, and replaces them with a graphic link to a dynamically generated form to send an email to that address.

As an example, the code <mailcloak> maileater@ofdoom.com</mailcloak> would be replaced with a graphical version of the address maileater@ofdoom.com and a link to this page.

It also has support for finding and cloaking bare addresses in pages, and I'll probably add support for rewriting mailto tags sometime in the next few weeks.

I've been looking at a couple of different techniques over the past year or so. They are closely tied into the Roxen Webserver, and probably won't work with Caudium, or any other webserver.

The first technique I used (described here) was a simple RXML macro, that defined a tag called <cloak>. It would check to see if the client was on a list of known robots. If the client was a robot, a graphic version of the email address would be returned. If the client looked like a normal browser, then the address would be entity encoded, and returned as a mailto link.

Shortly after I set that up, I realized that entity encoding was pretty much useless - that if a web browser can figure out the address, so can a spam bot.

My second attempt appears to be working well. I wrote a Roxen module called mailcloak which takes addresses, and replaces them with a graphic link to a dynamically generated form to send an email to that address.

As an example, the code <mailcloak> maileater@ofdoom.com</mailcloak> would be replaced with a graphical version of the address maileater@ofdoom.com and a link to this page.

It also has support for finding and cloaking bare addresses in pages, and I'll probably add support for rewriting mailto tags sometime in the next few weeks.

And exactly how can you hear a .zip or .jpg file ?

Actually, back in 1994 or so, I was playing around with running sound through a jpeg compressor to hear what it would sound like.

I would take an 8 bit .wav file, figure out dimensions that were needed to hold the whole file, and import it info piclab as a raw grayscale file.
I'd then run it through cjpeg and back out at different compression levels to hear what it sounded like.
As I recall, the distortion was rather cool - pre and post echos with a delay determined by the row width.

It wasn't anything i would use for music, or anything i wanted to keep at a high quality, but it was fun to play with!

here - salvaged from my archives - is one of those jpeg files.
The date stamp is June 14, 1994 so I think it's one of the first ones I tried.

This new sequel looks pretty good - I like the updated graphics.

However, if you want an experience which is more true to the original game, you should check out Indenture - an old DOS game that is an expanded re-creation of Adventure, done in the same style.

It also has a better easter egg than the new joystick based multi-games...

Ok - when you look at the page, you want to find the EMBED tag that holds the movie, so try the following command:
curl http://www.apple.com/trailers/columbia/charliesang elsfullthrottle/large_trailer.html | grep EMBED
Looking at the embed tag, you will see that it references two quick time movies, one as a SRC argument, and one as a HREF argument. If both are given, you want the HREF, otherwise, you want the SRC.
here is the link from the HREF option. It is the reference file for the movie.

Now, download it and run strings on it. You will see several instances of "url" on one line, and a url on the next line. These are the movies that the reference movie points to. Almost always, the first several will be to inform users that they have too old of a version of quick time (they usually have a quicktime version embedded in the name. ) skip over them.

at the end of the file, you will see this: ca2_fullthrottle-tlr_m480.mov - that is the relative path to the real movie file.

Take the URL for the reference file, and replace ca2_fullthrottle-tlr_481.mov with ca2_fullthrottle-tlr_m480.mov, and you will have this - the url for the actual movie data file.

This technique should work, even if Apple changes their convention of just adding a m before the size of the movie, to indicate the real file.

This also only works if the movie is being served over http. If it is over rtsp, you will need some extra tools.

I hope this helps. If you get confused, here is a decompiled version of the reference file, so that you can see in plain text what all of the embedded urls are for.

As an afterthought, if anyone wants to see the decompiled version of the reference file (to see what it checks for and what it does) I've put a decompiled version here.

Basically, it checks for old versions of QuickTime (anything before 5.0.2) and redirects them to a page telling them that they need to upgrade. Versions 5.02 and later are allowed through to the movie.

I'm playing around with bittorrent.

As a test, I put the PDF file of the review of the hardware RNG up here (The summary is here).

If you have bittorrent installed, feel free to try to download from me.

I'm playing around with bittorrent.

As a test, I put the PDF file of the review of the hardware RNG up here (The summary is here).

If you have bittorrent installed, feel free to try to download from me.

Check the archives of Apple's QTVR Mailing List - this question comes up all the time, and the pros and cons of every existing image stitching program for every operating system have been discussed at great depth many times.

You might want to try Pano Tools if you can track down a copy, I've heard good things about them, but I think there was a problem with iPix claiming they infringed on a patent related to unwrapping spherical images.

Personally, I use Vr Worx 2.1 for stitching together panoramas, and making simple QTVR scenes. I've been very happy with it. It does only run under OSX, so it may not be suitable for your needs.

Eat Food - Well, you can't download a hot dog, but you can find things to make eating more pleasant or order food online.

Breathe Air - You could suck down the power supply exhaust, but that doesn't really count. You can however check to see if you can breathe when you go outside.

Sex - Technology has not advanced that far yet, but I've had good luck meeting new people online, then meeting up with them in person.

Ride a bicycle - Buy parts, plan routes, get maps, etc..

Walk through the woods - here you go - it's a QTVR I made a couple of years ago of a walk along a creek to the river it joins up with. All kidding aside, this one probably can have the most computer involvement. After all, you want to get topographic maps somewhere, and maybe check out an overhead view of the area you plan on walking through, not to mention sharing details of where you went with friends.

Eat Food - Well, you can't download a hot dog, but you can find things to make eating more pleasant or order food online.

Breathe Air - You could suck down the power supply exhaust, but that doesn't really count. You can however check to see if you can breathe when you go outside.

Sex - Technology has not advanced that far yet, but I've had good luck meeting new people online, then meeting up with them in person.

Ride a bicycle - Buy parts, plan routes, get maps, etc..

Walk through the woods - here you go - it's a QTVR I made a couple of years ago of a walk along a creek to the river it joins up with. All kidding aside, this one probably can have the most computer involvement. After all, you want to get topographic maps somewhere, and maybe check out an overhead view of the area you plan on walking through, not to mention sharing details of where you went with friends.

Slabs rock! I love those grayscale monitors. They are perfect for reading lots of text with no eyestrain.

My Slab used to be my main workstation for years, until I finally was able to afford a decent PC monitor, and needed the deskspace. Then it became the living room email terminal for a year or two, until I got a laptop.

Right now it is sitting on a desk in the corner of the room. I should really fire it up again.

here is a picture of the HD test running on a 20 gig iPod.

I would provide more pics, but the test is taking a while to run...

Personally, I would do neither - resizing images for display should be the webserver's job.

With Roxen, I just throw a bunch of pictures into a Directory and the webserver generates the thumbnails as needed, caching them in a database after they are generated.

The only scripting was adding option='thumbnail' and &_.thumbnail; to the directory template.