Actually.. NIPR net is the unclassified portion of the DODnet... You are referring to SIPRnet which is NOT connected to any other network, and is HEAVILY encrypted (I pretty much laugh at anyone who thinks they have a chance of cracking SIPR)...
Any information we considered VITAL we do NOT put on a network where any non military personnel can access it.. We have special networks for that kind of stuff, and I can guarantee that the ability to control a TANK will NOT be on Niprnet (what we call the internet)...
All of our special networks are of course, QUITE encrypted, so good luck if you think you have a chance cracking them...
For the benefits of the nations, or it's destruction, power is power, the law of the land... Those who don't fear death will die by their own hands.. Life is no ordeal if you become unnerved... Reject the system.....
For some reason I kept thinking of that Michael Mann movie "The Insider"... Visions of Al Pacino running around yelling at the top of his lungs about some kind of conspiracy to keep Linux in the dark or something.. (Hey wait a minute, that would be kind of cool!)
I feel that bash, in all of it's perfection is bad because it doesn't natively appear on most unix platforms on an install... Korn shell, is pretty much everywhere, for every version of Unix. I know the two are pretty close on syntax (maybe even exact).. I just like knowing i can walk into a situation and start writing scripts that will work the first time around, and not having to change things around because of my lack of experience on a certain shell... (For the record, I am equally strong on the bourne, korn and c-shell, however, I prefer the korn)...
I just wish I could convert my mind into using emacs... That way I could do a "set -o emacs" instead of "set -o vi":)...
I find it rather amusing that this song could be a source of censorship, when all throughout the movie it is constantly renouncing the idea of censoring.
Trey Parker must be laughing his irreverant butt off at the whole situation... ABC -> "Yeah, could you make your song that pokes fun at the idea of censorship and remove everything offesnive so we can air it on TV?"... Oh boy...
Is it just me, or is the hypocricy in the situation just a bit too stifling ?...
I work as the lead Unix sysad for 9th Air Force, one of the neater aspects of my job is to train brand new people that have joined the military. Some of these people have never even used a computer before their technical school. Right now I am working with a young girl who had never used any type of computers before joining the Air Force. She, in the last month now knows basic Unix, basic Korn shell, regular expressions (Full), as well as a good deal of Perl.
I think more women would use and learn about computers if the people who taught them didn't do so in a condescending competitive way. (I do admit though, I am a very tough teacher, however I am fair).
Unfortunately, computers with men is taken in the same way as men tend to gloat about their 400hp engines in their cars, or their 3200db car stereo. Women (that I have worked with) don't seem to be into the ultra-competitive side, but are instantly intrigued by the logic of it...
-Dextius Alphaeus
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(Reference to page 3) The bots in quake 3 (on nightmare mode) NEVER miss.. It's an awesome challenge for anyone to even think they can beat... well, close enough to... perfection..
I'm on the first level on tier 6.. beat every level on nightmare so far.. Anyone else trying to pull this insane task off?
Hilarious joke though.. I swear I say that a hundred times while fighting Anarki or Klesk on their one on one boards...
I think you messed up the disposable worker line.. I definately agree there is some discriminations on days off when it comes to religion.
I thought it was funny how Saudi Arabia totally banned any form of celebration because it was considered to be "celebrating an infidels holiday"... I guess you can be thankfull you won't be killed for your Religion.. (I was in Saudi like 3 weeks ago, scary place I know..)
Hahahah, and to think someone in the Army makes at best 20k a year? Last time I checked, we members of the US military have done nothing but work stupid hours in the worst places in the world for next to nothing. Did you know we have people in the military that are on welfare? The ones that can't swallow their pride take a second job at Dominos to help cover the bills...
Whatever, life be may what you make of it, but God bless the ones that make those sacrifices EVERY DAY, and not just some day when there is a damn party...
In that Cray FAQ, that the NSA owns the most Super Computers (near Fort Meade) than anyone else in the world. I for one, can barely comprehend what that many machines could be doing at full capacity (to make them worth their insane cost).
Maybe, THEY have a "distributed" client, between all of their massive super computers, to review ALL of the data pouring through the internet (every day??) ?
Well, I think I'd make at least a decent Anakin, but I can't guarantee I won't screw up the romance scenes with Miss Portman at least 5 to 10 times:) (heheh)...
But seriously, I hope Mr. Lucas picks the best actor possible, EP1 was a dissapointment to me, I hope EP2 won't be... worse.
I had this exact same problem roughly a year ago. I solved this by using my PC (running windows 98) and a combination of VNC, and SuperX from Frontier technologies.
Super X is a sweet X server that allows logins via XDMCP. I have no problems utilizing my SGI, Sparc's, or my HP9000's with this interface. Those machines running NT are easily remedied by VNC (I log them via "auto admin login" on bootup).
Check out SuperX, if you seriously don't want to invest on an expensive switch, (that WILL incur signal degredation from the computer to the screen, it IS inevitable).
This was released a few weeks ago or so, the thing about it that makes it so cool is the fact you can create specific task based roles. Roles are great because of the limitations they let you past with groups.
I would hope that more people gave this excellent oppurtunity to test it out a chance in their environments.
(Been doing Sybase administration for almost 4 years now, I have never worked with a more extensible, reliable and powerfull system...)
IPv4's maximum number of ip's is roughly around 4.2 billion, unfortunately, the world's population is just over six billion. The largets problem with assigning an IP with a person, is the fact that, that would require everyone their network everywhere they went. I don't even want to think of the unimaginable routing tables constantly re-inventing themselves everytime you went from work to home:)
IPv6 has a theoretical limit around 10 to the 38th power. I'm going to go on my own and say that that should cover the entire population of the world and ALL of their gadgets without any serious problems. An interesting thought though, to have a class "X" domain (wayyyy down there) and then giving your kids a subnetted class "y":)...
Or maybe we should just use our social security numbers, like we do already.. Line that up against your mothers Maiden name, your name, and maybe a password they could send you in the mail or something, AND encrypt the entire thing at 128 bit).
I don't know what everything else thinks about them, and the rest of the "PDA revolution", but I don't know if I could operate as efficiently without mine. Yeah, so it's only a 3x, and it doesn't play mp3's or play videos. Knowing a phone number to someone you can barely remember is awesome, (and having it with you on the road).
My only wish is that someone would write a quick program to fix avant go for Slashdot... (Mine always looks really bad, even in "light" mode.) [HINT HINT]...:)
I can remember going to planetquake, and reading what John Carmack said his next project will be (a talk given at a lan party in texas). Many people started chanting Doom 2000, while others were chanting for a remake of Wolf 3D. I guess news like this will lead me to believe we will either see "Trinity" , or Doom 2k. (Pure speculation, at this point, this news just points me to that conclusion, that's all)...
Personally, I can't wait to see Quake 3: Arena with actual bots...
Remember BEFORE 3dfx and stb combined? There were like 15 different versions of the voodoo 2. Now we only have 4 different versions of the voodoo 3, all made from one company, and price locked by one company. Sure the prices drove competition to the point where it took Canopus to Japan, who cares, that's good business for the consumer. (I do like Canopus's hardware though, but they always seem to be the last out of the gate too)
The fact that there has been no real cross technology mergers in my opinion is irrelevant. My point was there were companies like Diamond, Creative and STB that released cards from MULTIPLE companies. Now that alignment is within companies is occuring, I believe we will see less good deals than ever.
True, development time is moving faster. But not at the same pace it has. The GeForce 256 isn't THAT much faster than the v3, (32 bit notwithstanding). I remember the jump from a single voodoo 2, to the voodoo 3 3000, that was a leap.
As for Matrox and ATI, they have never been in the game. I own the rage fury, it sucked, it never got an x-server until I replaced it with my voodoo 3. Matrox took an entire release of another card before they got their open gl ICD out. (Dual head is amazing though, and the linux support is great too). But for 3d? Nahh..
Closing your doors because of a lack of funding is one thing. But doing it with the intent of not honoring service agreements / warrantee's is another. I read earlier that this was a problem with people that had ordered cards from hercules (see Maximum PC November). Will Guillemot take on the problems left by Hercules?
Sidenote: It's a good thing that Nvidia continues to push out the awesome chipsets it does, with S3 gobbling Diamond, and 3DFX taking over STB, the field of competition is dwindling fast. The only thing when that happens is weaker technology, at a slower pace, at higher prices...
Athlon 's current FSB = 200mhz (to be raised to 266 once a chipset is created to support DDR)
RAMBUS 's capable FSB speed = 400mhz ? (there is a less powerfull version that will not allow 133mhz fsb speeds, which I don't understand)
Intel's current mobo FSB = 133mhz Athlon's current mobo FSB = 200mhz (on the CPU bus, but can take full advantate of the 133mhz memory)
The big problem right now for AMD is the fact that Intel has their L2 cache integrated on the die, and will allow their processors to ramp up in speed without the degredation of L2 speed (which will occur with the athlon).
AMD needs to get on die L2 soon, the 1/2, 1/3 divider for processor memory is really bad news. The fact is, that without the "celeron" tested technology, the new coppermine processors wouldn't be near as fast as they AREN'T..
I own a p3-550 right now, I will not buy anything, until the hardware manufacturers get over this little war over memory (and those poor people in Taiwan get their country back in %100 order).
One last note... Asus not releasing Athlon mobo's.. what the heck more does the justice department need to nail intel with unfair business practices? This is ridiculous, AMD is being forced farther into the red because nobody is willing to step up to intel?!
What a sorry state of affairs we are in right now...
I totally agree. The amount of information she provided gave me a great insight on how a grandmaster thinks. Irina Krush has shown (to me at least) that she understands how to take her ability to another level (by translating it to someone who ISN'T a chess professional).
Garry Kasparov better be wary, she is only getting stronger..
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Actually.. NIPR net is the unclassified portion of the DODnet... You are referring to SIPRnet which is NOT connected to any other network, and is HEAVILY encrypted (I pretty much laugh at anyone who thinks they have a chance of cracking SIPR)...
-Dextius Alphaeus
Any information we considered VITAL we do NOT put on a network where any non military personnel can access it.. We have special networks for that kind of stuff, and I can guarantee that the ability to control a TANK will NOT be on Niprnet (what we call the internet)...
All of our special networks are of course, QUITE encrypted, so good luck if you think you have a chance cracking them...
-Dextius Alphaeus
For the benefits of the nations, or it's destruction, power is power, the law of the land... Those who don't fear death will die by their own hands.. Life is no ordeal if you become unnerved... Reject the system.. ...
Peace or Annihilation, it's your choice...
For some reason I kept thinking of that Michael Mann movie "The Insider" ... Visions of Al Pacino running around yelling at the top of his lungs about some kind of conspiracy to keep Linux in the dark or something.. (Hey wait a minute, that would be kind of cool!)
-Dextius Alphaeus
I fed that page Perl about a hundred times hoping to get "Pathologically eclectic rubish lister.." ... I didn't come anywhere close... :)
-Ryan Dietrich
I feel that bash, in all of it's perfection is bad because it doesn't natively appear on most unix platforms on an install... Korn shell, is pretty much everywhere, for every version of Unix. I know the two are pretty close on syntax (maybe even exact) .. I just like knowing i can walk into a situation and start writing scripts that will work the first time around, and not having to change things around because of my lack of experience on a certain shell... (For the record, I am equally strong on the bourne, korn and c-shell, however, I prefer the korn)...
... That way I could do a "set -o emacs" instead of "set -o vi" :) ...
I just wish I could convert my mind into using emacs
Thank you AT&T, I will appreciate this..
-Dextius Alphaeus
That would mean that you probably couldn't read half of the posts placed here on Slashdot
We won't even start on poor Mr. Katz...
-Dextius Alphaeus
I find it rather amusing that this song could be a source of censorship, when all throughout the movie it is constantly renouncing the idea of censoring.
... Oh boy...
...
Trey Parker must be laughing his irreverant butt off at the whole situation... ABC -> "Yeah, could you make your song that pokes fun at the idea of censorship and remove everything offesnive so we can air it on TV?"
Is it just me, or is the hypocricy in the situation just a bit too stifling ?
-Dextius Alphaeus
I work as the lead Unix sysad for 9th Air Force, one of the neater aspects of my job is to train brand new people that have joined the military. Some of these people have never even used a computer before their technical school. Right now I am working with a young girl who had never used any type of computers before joining the Air Force. She, in the last month now knows basic Unix, basic Korn shell, regular expressions (Full), as well as a good deal of Perl.
I think more women would use and learn about computers if the people who taught them didn't do so in a condescending competitive way. (I do admit though, I am a very tough teacher, however I am fair).
Unfortunately, computers with men is taken in the same way as men tend to gloat about their 400hp engines in their cars, or their 3200db car stereo. Women (that I have worked with) don't seem to be into the ultra-competitive side, but are instantly intrigued by the logic of it...
-Dextius Alphaeus
(Reference to page 3) The bots in quake 3 (on nightmare mode) NEVER miss.. It's an awesome challenge for anyone to even think they can beat ... well, close enough to ... perfection..
I'm on the first level on tier 6.. beat every level on nightmare so far.. Anyone else trying to pull this insane task off?
Hilarious joke though.. I swear I say that a hundred times while fighting Anarki or Klesk on their one on one boards...
-Dextius Alphaeus
I think you messed up the disposable worker line..
... I guess you can be thankfull you won't be killed for your Religion.. (I was in Saudi like 3 weeks ago, scary place I know..)
I definately agree there is some discriminations on days off when it comes to religion.
I thought it was funny how Saudi Arabia totally banned any form of celebration because it was considered to be "celebrating an infidels holiday"
I am Jacks despair...
-Dextius Alphaeus
Hahahah, and to think someone in the Army makes at best 20k a year? Last time I checked, we members of the US military have done nothing but work stupid hours in the worst places in the world for next to nothing. Did you know we have people in the military that are on welfare? The ones that can't swallow their pride take a second job at Dominos to help cover the bills...
Whatever, life be may what you make of it, but God bless the ones that make those sacrifices EVERY DAY, and not just some day when there is a damn party...
-Dextius Alphaeus
What a nice last thought, hearing Rob's voice before the world is blown to bits.. (or something)...
Happy New Year everyone, I hope everyone has a safe and very enjoyable time tonight...
-D.Alphaeus
In that Cray FAQ, that the NSA owns the most Super Computers (near Fort Meade) than anyone else in the world. I for one, can barely comprehend what that many machines could be doing at full capacity (to make them worth their insane cost).
Maybe, THEY have a "distributed" client, between all of their massive super computers, to review ALL of the data pouring through the internet (every day??) ?
Scary thought...
-Dextius Alphaeus
Well, I think I'd make at least a decent Anakin, but I can't guarantee I won't screw up the romance scenes with Miss Portman at least 5 to 10 times :) (heheh)...
... worse.
But seriously, I hope Mr. Lucas picks the best actor possible, EP1 was a dissapointment to me, I hope EP2 won't be
-Dextius Alphaeus
I had this exact same problem roughly a year ago. I solved this by using my PC (running windows 98) and a combination of VNC, and SuperX from Frontier technologies.
Super X is a sweet X server that allows logins via XDMCP. I have no problems utilizing my SGI, Sparc's, or my HP9000's with this interface. Those machines running NT are easily remedied by VNC (I log them via "auto admin login" on bootup).
Check out SuperX, if you seriously don't want to invest on an expensive switch, (that WILL incur signal degredation from the computer to the screen, it IS inevitable).
www.frontiertech.com
-Dextius Alphaeus
This was released a few weeks ago or so, the thing about it that makes it so cool is the fact you can create specific task based roles. Roles are great because of the limitations they let you past with groups.
I would hope that more people gave this excellent oppurtunity to test it out a chance in their environments.
(Been doing Sybase administration for almost 4 years now, I have never worked with a more extensible, reliable and powerfull system...)
-Dextius Alphaeus
IPv4's maximum number of ip's is roughly around 4.2 billion, unfortunately, the world's population is just over six billion. The largets problem with assigning an IP with a person, is the fact that, that would require everyone their network everywhere they went. I don't even want to think of the unimaginable routing tables constantly re-inventing themselves everytime you went from work to home :)
:)...
IPv6 has a theoretical limit around 10 to the 38th power. I'm going to go on my own and say that that should cover the entire population of the world and ALL of their gadgets without any serious problems. An interesting thought though, to have a class "X" domain (wayyyy down there) and then giving your kids a subnetted class "y"
Or maybe we should just use our social security numbers, like we do already.. Line that up against your mothers Maiden name, your name, and maybe a password they could send you in the mail or something, AND encrypt the entire thing at 128 bit).
-Dextius Alphaeus
I don't know what everything else thinks about them, and the rest of the "PDA revolution", but I don't know if I could operate as efficiently without mine. Yeah, so it's only a 3x, and it doesn't play mp3's or play videos. Knowing a phone number to someone you can barely remember is awesome, (and having it with you on the road).
:)
My only wish is that someone would write a quick program to fix avant go for Slashdot... (Mine always looks really bad, even in "light" mode.) [HINT HINT]...
-Dextius Alphaeus
I can remember going to planetquake, and reading what John Carmack said his next project will be (a talk given at a lan party in texas). Many people started chanting Doom 2000, while others were chanting for a remake of Wolf 3D. I guess news like this will lead me to believe we will either see "Trinity" , or Doom 2k. (Pure speculation, at this point, this news just points me to that conclusion, that's all)...
Personally, I can't wait to see Quake 3: Arena with actual bots...
Remember BEFORE 3dfx and stb combined? There were like 15 different versions of the voodoo 2. Now we only have 4 different versions of the voodoo 3, all made from one company, and price locked by one company. Sure the prices drove competition to the point where it took Canopus to Japan, who cares, that's good business for the consumer. (I do like Canopus's hardware though, but they always seem to be the last out of the gate too)
The fact that there has been no real cross technology mergers in my opinion is irrelevant. My point was there were companies like Diamond, Creative and STB that released cards from MULTIPLE companies. Now that alignment is within companies is occuring, I believe we will see less good deals than ever.
True, development time is moving faster. But not at the same pace it has. The GeForce 256 isn't THAT much faster than the v3, (32 bit notwithstanding). I remember the jump from a single voodoo 2, to the voodoo 3 3000, that was a leap.
As for Matrox and ATI, they have never been in the game. I own the rage fury, it sucked, it never got an x-server until I replaced it with my voodoo 3. Matrox took an entire release of another card before they got their open gl ICD out. (Dual head is amazing though, and the linux support is great too). But for 3d? Nahh..
-Dextius Alphaeus
Closing your doors because of a lack of funding is one thing. But doing it with the intent of not honoring service agreements / warrantee's is another. I read earlier that this was a problem with people that had ordered cards from hercules (see Maximum PC November). Will Guillemot take on the problems left by Hercules?
Sidenote: It's a good thing that Nvidia continues to push out the awesome chipsets it does, with S3 gobbling Diamond, and 3DFX taking over STB, the field of competition is dwindling fast. The only thing when that happens is weaker technology, at a slower pace, at higher prices...
-Dextius Alphaeus
DDR-SDRAM 's capable FSB speed = 266mhz
Athlon 's current FSB = 200mhz (to be raised to 266 once a chipset is created to support DDR)
RAMBUS 's capable FSB speed = 400mhz ? (there is a less powerfull version that will not allow 133mhz fsb speeds, which I don't understand)
Intel's current mobo FSB = 133mhz
Athlon's current mobo FSB = 200mhz (on the CPU bus, but can take full advantate of the 133mhz memory)
The big problem right now for AMD is the fact that Intel has their L2 cache integrated on the die, and will allow their processors to ramp up in speed without the degredation of L2 speed (which will occur with the athlon).
AMD needs to get on die L2 soon, the 1/2, 1/3 divider for processor memory is really bad news. The fact is, that without the "celeron" tested technology, the new coppermine processors wouldn't be near as fast as they AREN'T..
I own a p3-550 right now, I will not buy anything, until the hardware manufacturers get over this little war over memory (and those poor people in Taiwan get their country back in %100 order).
One last note... Asus not releasing Athlon mobo's.. what the heck more does the justice department need to nail intel with unfair business practices? This is ridiculous, AMD is being forced farther into the red because nobody is willing to step up to intel?!
What a sorry state of affairs we are in right now...
-Dextius Alphaeus
I totally agree. The amount of information she provided gave me a great insight on how a grandmaster thinks. Irina Krush has shown (to me at least) that she understands how to take her ability to another level (by translating it to someone who ISN'T a chess professional).
Garry Kasparov better be wary, she is only getting stronger..
-Dextius Alphaeus
I guess only the people who listen to them would really understand... Oh well.. -D.Alphaeus