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How about instead of just trying to detect other civilizations that exist along side us, also trying to detect ones that came long before in the previous Universe. If the Universe is cyclic and there was another universe before our "big bang", one thing we could do is see if the particles around us have some kind of signature to them that would be unexpected. It may not be possible right now for us to make such signatures, but perhaps a previous civilization built large devices close to the end of the previous universe that could explode once most of the matter of the Universe was closer together and give many particles such a signature.

The only thing is, how would you determine if something has a signature to it if you have no basis for comparison. Well I guess you could assume that not all the particles had been hit so the test could be to compare some sub atomic particles of one kind with ones of the same kind, but in a different region of space.

I wrote an article about this 8 years ago. Crazy idea? Perhaps. Sometimes crazy ideas help others think in new ways.

As owner of a hosting provider myself and the talks about the DDoS and such, I can see why a hosting provider might want to rid themselves of a problem that would cause issues for other customers, but at the same time, isn't Amazon big enough? At least everyone likes to say how big they are. Where are those zealots now? Some people are realizing that corporations are in control of freedom of speech, not the government. Well that's nothing new.

Now, I find eVGA a pain in the ass to deal with, but at least they are still around.

Only as long as their capacitors last. I've had around 4 eVGA cards in different computers and all of them eventually went dead with blown out capacitors.

Here's a picture for the curious.

Good for you! I think sending a little "ping" of satisfaction would be kinda nice, better than simply another entry in your Apache log, right? (btw, if you want to promote your project, best to use the hyperlinks).

I've had projects I've enjoyed, navigated to the hell that is sourceforge site structure (really, it does suck) to get to the right forum to ask whether the project was alive, and how I could help. I got nothing but crickets.

Just yesterday, I was commenting on twitter about how the new icon sets for youtube videos are rather confusing. It took a bit of staring to figure out what these icons do. Nobody was able to guess the right answer. C_64 had the funniest answer though by saying "You can only go 8 bits forward or 8 bits to the left ?"

And many of the cheap hosting plans if not 50% of the web hosting industry these days is run by people without a clue. They are run by business people looking for a quick buck. So they just buy a turnkey solution with cpanel or whatever else. None of them read Slashdot or any security websites and most of them could care less if they are insecure. All they care about is that they look good and that they have a pretty girl on the front of their site.

Even big ones like Dreamhost have no clue and are insecure as hell. I haven't updated it in a while and I've heard that Dreamhost fixed or obfuscated their flaws, but I wrote a list of vulnerabilities that Dreamhost has at http://suso.suso.org/xulu/Web_hosting_providers_with_poor_security

I predict it will only take a day for someone to start working on a project to rewrite this in some more open source friendly language. Just because it says OpenSimulator doesn't mean it really is.

I've been waiting for this whole ordeal to happen. I consider this technology to be the next medium that everyone will use and it will supplant HTTP. It needed two requirements for it to take off though. First, an open protocol needed to be developed and second it needed to be possible to interconnect different servers together to make once cohesive environment. Well, we have the first part now, is this the second part?

Time to go write a new spreadsheet.

Consul, not sure what your e-mail address is, but I wanted to let you know that I started a page for this topic on my wiki:

http://suso.suso.org/xulu/The_oldest_computer_program_still_in_use

I thought it deserved a home and it was interesting to me too. Feel free to add to it.

Proprietary software AND hardware companies basically cannot be trusted. I've encountered countless amounts of commercial software, hardware products and services where the company states that they are very secure, but when investigating things myself, I find that its trivial to circumvent their security. You can read about some of the read about some of the poor security I've discovered recently with web hosting providers. Consumers deserve better than this and its all of our responsibilities to make all people aware of these problems. Ironically, this news program itself doesn't understand the value of open disclousure. I guess I can understand that as its human nature to want to hide things for fear of liability. But its not like they were doing something that's not so obvious that someone determined enough could figure out.

First rule of security in my book: Someone who wants something bad enough, they will be able to circumvent nearly anything in order to get it. So its a matter of how badly they want it. Since its money in question, I'd say that a variety of organizations and people want it pretty bad.

Here, use this:

http://support.suso.org/dns/saferdomainlookup.php

I wrote it a few months ago after these types of issues started coming up. I provide some transparency so that you can have confidence in trusting it. Of course, you can always use command line whois or DNS tools.

Here were my thoughts on it from 3 years ago. Several of the traffic backups I've gotten into on major interstates have not been the result of an accident but just people slowing down or changing lanes. I always wish that I could see a video from overhead.

Last month, we drove down to Florida and near Gainesville, there was a huge backup that would slow down for a while and nearly stop, then speed up, then a few miles later slow down. This was going on for like 10 miles. It turns out it was all because people on my side where slowing down to look at an accident that happened on the other side.

I've played the games again sometimes with Vice. But its the music that I still love. Reyn Ouwehand (who rocks) just released this video of him jammin out to Green Beret. I guess that was an arcade game too though. Still, some of the remixes are pretty good.

I tried to make one a few years back. Not quite good enough though.

I always wished that someone would do a good remake of the game Below the Root.

Maybe this is what moved them.

Cool, I'm glad there are some smart people there at Linden Labs. I've been thinking about this for a while now, that there needs to be some group for developing such a protocol. Basically, this standard would encourage people to run their own servers and that's where it would really take off. Give people ownership, and they will run with it. Now all we need are 80 core processors and gigabit wan connections to the house.

I only hope that if they are altruistic enough to see the value in doing this, that they are good enough to make it as open as it should be.

Or else it could end up like this

At the same time, the "your system is always approaching the bleeding edge" way of doing things solves one problem that I've always been bothered by with running user servers for suso.org. Eventually, the OS on the server reaches the age where it is no longer supported and updates are no longer coming out for it. This isn't always X years where X is the number of years that a distribution claims to provide package updates for. Its usually X-1. This is because you'd be foolish to use the very latest hasn't been available for more than a day version of Linux. Usually you wait for 6-12 months for it to be mature and have special packages of whatever available for it. Then you spend another month or two setting up the machine and getting it ready for production. By that time, you've already burned over a year of support time. Then you get users onto it and now you only have X-1.5 years of support. On Fedora, this means practically no time is left. Upgrading such a system to the latest version of whatever distro means taking the server down for several hours to upgrade, hope to hell that special packages you've built and configurations aren't broken and in nightmare situations, roll back because something is broken and can't be fixed.

The promise of Gentoo for me is being able to continually upgrade and never get outside of that window of support.

I actually have a new shared user system that is running Gentoo that is kinda in beta right now. This article was very useful for me because it brings up those points about stability that concern me. Its kinda an experiment.

I think I may try Debian next.

A long time ago, I started this mentod of doing this on suso.org. It caught on and now I encourage all my customers to do it:

http://www.suso.org/docs/databases/mysqlinfo.sdf
http://www.suso.org/docs/databases/saferdbpassword s.sdf

I've thought about trying to spread the word about it and even making an RFC, but I don't have the time for that.

A long time ago, I started this mentod of doing this on suso.org. It caught on and now I encourage all my customers to do it:

http://www.suso.org/docs/databases/mysqlinfo.sdf
http://www.suso.org/docs/databases/saferdbpassword s.sdf

I've thought about trying to spread the word about it and even making an RFC, but I don't have the time for that.

To make up for that, I've created a mirror:

http://suso.suso.org/attrition1.html
http://suso.suso.org/attrition2.html (Page 2)

To make up for that, I've created a mirror:

http://suso.suso.org/attrition1.html
http://suso.suso.org/attrition2.html (Page 2)

This must be why I'm so impressionable then.

Of course, what the article doesn't tell you is that they said that to him after he asked 50 times "how do I start process daemons like a web server" in the Gnome IRC channel. The whole context tells the real story and sometimes that does happen on IRC. Just like in the case of Ryan Holt and his balloons. Slashdot, stop being such a "hype" news source. Besides, you can get that kind of snobbish attitude "anywhere
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On the other hand, I think the real barrier with Linux IS the Linux snobs, but in a different way. I was just talking about this on the BLUG mailing list two weeks ago. Many of you are too wrapped up in playing with the latest transparent desktop that you forget that it is important to support companies that do start adopting Linux and providing real value. A major reason why places like Micro Center start carrying Linspire PCs, but don't train anybody on them is because they are test it to see if it will make money. When it comes down to it, companies need to make money (big surprise there). Yet, everytime someone tries to start something around Linux open source, half the community starts acting suspicious and picking apart everything that company does. Sometimes this is warranted (read SCO), but most of the time it is not. Unless you expect Communism to be adopted in the United States anytime soon, you need to backup what YOU support with your own MONEY if you want to see the economy go your way.

All of you need to stop talking the talk and start backing up your shit with rea
l action.

Well, it does help to post a question about it to "ask slashdot". I did the same thing 3 years ago with my num-utils programs. After that, I definately saw increased usage and it was added to a few Linux distributions. If you're lucky, the same will happen to you.

I think one of the biggest problems facing our society is not being willing to acknowledge when the other group is correct or when we are wrong. Everyone is too convinced that they are correct that they are blind to the other person's point of view and opinions. This is spread all across the spectrum, not just in politics. Acknowledging when someone else is correct is good for you and good for relations. The person that you are discussing with will acknowledge that you are seeing their side and can listen to what they consider to be "reason" and they are more likely to listen to your point of view. Its just like here on Slashdot. Often times I get replies to my comments from people who have a different opinion or just have some smart ass remark. I understand, people have different opinions, and they are just as human as I am.

You can still acknowledge the other side and remain strong.

Enemies are people too.

Try http://www.suso.org./ Unlimited (within reason) disk space, your own domain name, IMAP & POP plus webmail. $15/month. I have over 2.5Gb of email up there now. No complaints.

And so can printers. (2000)

Yes, yes, I'm in the process of doing a remake this year along with some other simular songs.

Don't worry, the majority of women online are actually men in disquise.

How true this cartoon is

That's why you need a Linux command quick reference sheet:

http://www.suso.org/infosheets/

Wow, this is kinda like that auction of someone's cat looking at the auction of Eminem's house on Ebay.

Reference to what I'm talking about

Does this answer your question?

http://jar.suso.org/ (click on the brocktoon.net link at the bottom)

Although I don't agree with Brocktoon, he still has the right to his own opinion and views. I would never censor his website for that reason.

Thanks. My friend and I made that about 5 years ago. I've considered making a few more simular songs. Pehraps based on floppy and CD-ROM drives ejecting or keyboards and mouse click, etc. Maybe now I will. You might check out my other songs too:

http://suso.suso.org/aural/

Its a good thing that I can't print. [warning: experimental music made from printer noises]

For anyone who wants this fix, I made a q&d change to the folder listing code so that it truncates long folder names in the middle so that they don't run over and screw up your display. I submitted this patch to the author a month ago, but it hasn't made it into the trunk yet I guess.

http://suso.suso.org/programs/roundcube/

Roundcube is pretty neat, but it still has some bugs. The IMAP client caches everything so that it is faster on subsequent tries, but on large mailboxes it can be a real pain the first time. It makes for a good program to hack on though. Its just what I've been looking for to replace squirrelmail on suso.org.

For anyone who wants this fix, I made a q&d change to the folder listing code so that it truncates long folder names in the middle so that they don't run over and screw up your display. I submitted this patch to the author a month ago, but it hasn't made it into the trunk yet I guess.

http://suso.suso.org/programs/roundcube/

Roundcube is pretty neat, but it still has some bugs. The IMAP client caches everything so that it is faster on subsequent tries, but on large mailboxes it can be a real pain the first time. It makes for a good program to hack on though. Its just what I've been looking for to replace squirrelmail on suso.org.

Suso.org http://www.suso.org/accounts/ offers email-only or web hosting accounts that have no storage limit, in theory anyway. Sure, if you get ridiculous they will ask you to tone it down. However, I have over 2.5Gb of back emails stored there. No problems. You get POP and IMAP access, authenticated SMTP and you can register your own domain. The admin is a good guy. I don't know him personally, but he's always bailed me out when I do something stupid. I've been using them for about a year, and have only had a couple of down times that were resolved quickly. Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with these guys. I just like the service.

30 gigs? suso.org has been offering no quota email since 1997.

But we don't even really try to sell Linux boxes (just Linux support). I didn't want to delve much into the computer hardware market. But a few people just asked if we could put together a Linux system for them, so we did.

And with businesses like Suso you can actually stop by and pick up a free live CD so that you don't even have to bother downloading and burning the CD.

Obviously it will be a priority to register hotgaycock.xxx and redirect it to suso.org. Because everyone knows! Suso.org is *the* place to go for some hot gay cock.

Obviously it will be a priority to register hotgaycock.xxx and redirect it to suso.org. Because everyone knows! Suso.org is *the* place to go for some hot gay cock.

Surprising? No. Reading the results I can see that software raid is generally slower than hardware raid and that some of the SCSI drivers are not completely tweaked, probably because they can't get enough information from the manufacturer.
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Surprising? No. Reading the results I can see that software raid is generally slower than hardware raid and that some of the SCSI drivers are not completely tweaked, probably because they can't get enough information from the manufacturer.
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Last week I gave a class about Linux to 4 people who haven't used it yet. They were blown away because they didn't realize it had a desktop and all the fancy programs that Windows has. I think what really is hurting Linux is just myth. That myth is that Linux is just a text interface for servers or something like that.

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IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..

You mean like being able to eject the client's CD drive from a website.

(Actually, this might not work on IE 6.0+. Can you believe they actually fixed the problem.)

Stop using Slashdot to spam your HOT GAY COCK website.

(Hehe, I bet Yahoo's video search will now list that video as "HOT GAY COCK")

Cool, sounds like the perfect place to store Rooftop Warrior [warning, bad quality homemade ninja movie]