Sorry for the mis-information. The person who told this too me probably shouldn't have been believed. She had no idea about drafting off semis or anything.;-)
Already commented or I would moderate this up. I would like to see the answer to this question, especially since Mac OS has been doing this for quite some time with their data/resource forking. OS X has furthered this with their.app "folders" which execute when double clicked, but expose their true contents when commanded. It's like resedit is built straight into the Finder, and thats pretty neat.
I do seem to recall the classic example of this being Solaris and or Sun tar. I forget who the offending party was, but when a tape drive would error and not report it back (physical failure of some sort of the "file system") tar would never time out, merely wait forever for the write call to be returned.
This effectivly locked the tar process, that memory, and your tape drive until reboot. It does make sense for I/O to have unkillable states, so long as there are proper timeouts, probably in the kernel, for hung I/O.
Sure you didn't have the brakes on? My VW Jetta easily passes 85-90mph going down a hill between LA and Santa Barbara on the 101 in California. I forget the name of the valley you're going into but it's pretty steep, a very fun ride.
The original Prius had a "Battery" gear, for things like coasting down hills which would give you heavier charge, but no acceleration abilities. This gear would be effectivly be Neutral, just it's below Drive, not above.
Regardless, cars are still required to have emergency brakes (One can only hope it's a hand brake for safety reasons) that is physically connected to the braking mechanism, no computer, no ABS, nothing to go wrong electronically. Ease on the hand brake and hope you got your brakes inspected recently.
Couldn't we just do something a bit akin to your microwave? Just assume some interference? Or also along the lines of the microwave, put a grounded metal "chamber" around the ram which would have holes poked in it to attempt to absorb the radio interference somewhat?
Just thinking in terms of backround noise today from TV's, cell phones, microwaves, etc today I doubt this new ram technology is going to be much of a big problem. Most technology which is really reliant upon radio waves has the sense to put a filter of sorts on the input from the antenna that is on the roof, well away from any computer based interferenece. With a properly shielded/grounded wire attached to said antenna you don't have to worry about your receiver being too close to your computer.
Go to the store to purchase a video game, you do enjoy playing a fun video game in your spare time. Hire a contract-law lawyer to advise you on such purchases and wether their contracts allow you to exercise your fair use rights.
Social engineer your way into knowing when Best Buy's franchise team, some "higher up" is going to be going through the store and stage software-opening. Go through the line with a title and demand to be able to open it and view the contract before you sign your credit card slip. Get a manager to come since the register person is likly not going to care/have a clue what you're demanding. Make sure your lawyer audibly reminds you to check the EULA inside the box.
When the manager comes and likly lets you step out of line to read the contract (or throws you out of the store...) hand it to your lawyer. Reject or edit the license as you see fit, ad infinitum. Do it audibly but not overly loud such as to cause them to eject you from the store for that reason alone.
Go to Comp USA, Gamestop, anywhere that sells games and keep it going, it might help to call some news paper friend of yours, and maybe a lawyer who owes you a favor or likes a good laugh on the weekends.
What I love, is our "company" does not have a SUS server, we do updates by hand, uphill both ways, in the snow.
My job involves doing a lot of clean installs of Windows 2000/XP after failed hard drives, etc. A lot of times I set up Windows Update when I need to go do something else, get SP4 rolling, do something else, get IE6SP1 rolling, do something else, all with minimal time staring at the updating screen itself. When I come back and things went smoothly, I've been "twice" as productive.
Now the third set of updates including all the "reccomended" ones is the big one that takes a while, so as usual, I set ~4 computers downloading the 70 megs of updates, and go to lunch. Come back to find them all stuck, 2 updates in or whatever, on that damned GDI+ screen saying that nothing has been found. I push OK and it continues on it's merry way. My "productive" lunch is shot to hell.
To make matters worse, my XP SP2 machine at home said I have vulnerabilities and to check this website out. I run the built-in ActiveX thing and it says nope only windows 2000 gets this tool, check windows update, which says theres no updates, same with office update.
To make matters worse (2.0), I had a windows 2000 machine I ran updates on, it said I had vulnerable software, but another update claimed I needed to reboot, which do you believe? Knowing Windows and seeing "based on NT technology" I rebooted. I spent 15 minutes searching microsofts website trying to get that same page back up to no avail. I found others, but not the one with the GDI+ detection toolActiveX thing.
Whenever I saw a comments page or feedback form I told them my precise thoughts on their tool, mostly similar to what I said here.
Sorry I missed your joke:) But I must agree with your statement about immediately noticing that Apple laptops are a different breed altogether than IBM-clones. Everything seems to be in it's proper place, well organized, sturdy construction, etc. Oh and what is with the idea that 4pin firewire is useful on a laptop/workstation?
That little white light stay blinking? When I shut any of my mac laptops lids they go to sleep. This is not a reboot. I find the only reason I reboot my OS X machines anymore is when software update tells me to, and even then I push the screen back until the end of the day.
Agreed. We have had more problems with 3com layer2 managed switches than any of the Cisco stuff we bought. You get what you pay for, and Cisco was always there for us with a updated firmware, work around, *something* to get the network going again.
3com was fairly lax about the whole thing and the switches were eventually canned and Cisco green sits in their place. (The switches were purchased by managment somewhere along the line, judging by price alone)
On a side note, one of the signs of intelligent life is a sense of self preservation right? Ever notice when something is going horribly wrong on a network port, IOS cuts power to that port? Cut off the finger to save the arm...
I would bet most commercial software images were done in Photoshop, or similar. Photoshop costs what it does because they do license all the patented technologies inside the application, as well as develope their own. Have you seen the list of patents when you start Photoshop? It goes on forever, and is followed by things like PANTONE(R). None of that comes free.
If you bought photoshop, and then saved a GIF, you paid Unisys for your use of a GIF. Adobe just packages it into a pleasantly easy to use interface.
I believe ebay has some special options and terms for people buying cars and real estate off ebay. Basically it amounts to sales are not final, and escrow must come into play. If you're buying from a dealership on eBay, or someone who has sold many other cars, no big deal really.
Now, as a step dad, I would not watch my girls get dressed or anything.
However, your biological daughters are fair game?:)
However, one daughter is a "cutter", and my wife does search her every so often
I would think that is very reasonable. Most people here are talking about children who have earned their parents trust by not doing (or getting caught doing) anything wrong. They should be allowed privacy in their rooms to do as they wish. This doesn't mean they don't answer the door when it's knocked on or that the parents aren't allowed in. It does mean though that your stuff doesn't get randomly searched, especially without your knowledge. It also means that when you say you saw N movie your parents take it at that.
Not so much. I tried to order the CD from Mozilla on my FreeBSD workstation and it told me I don't have cookies enabled. The website switches from www.microsoft.com to oms.one.microsoft.com and complains about no cookies being set. Strange.
Why stop there, take an IR array and blind the nightvision. I bet it could be done with $20 investment in a box of IR LED's and a battery of sorts. Ask your girlfriend to carry a purse that you can stash it in and you are good to go. Your array needs to only last long enough for joe-nightvision to go complain to his manager that their goggles are broken. At worst they know that the "upper righthand section of this 500 person theatre is flooding us with invisible light".
You would be surprised at how no tolerance rules get thrown out the window for asthma inhalers, especially albuterol ones (fast acting). While most schools have (or had) functions in place for students to be allowed to carry their drugs with them, some do not, all pending a doctor signing the right forms.
I had a few teachers who tried to write me up for huffing and puffing into my inhaler, most failed when presented with the option of having to write me passes whenever I needed to use my inhaler, or calling an ambulance to deal with the problem. PMS drugs can be harder, but a lot of doctors will sign off on a Rx for midol "as needed" for girls to be able to keep the drug at school. Your insurance might also pick up the tab on that $10 bottle of drugs, or you can likely not pay sales tax on it.
The school district I work at used to use a non-transparent proxy system from N2H2 (Bess) which was a debian linux box that you had to pipe all of your traffic through somehow, generally by feeding proxy settings into web browsers. Now we have a RedHat linux machine which is running IFP software from N2H2 and interacts with our Cisco PIX firewall.
Port 80 outbound is now open completely, because any HTTP request outbound on it gets caught by the PIX, and a request is sent to the IFP server with various credentials etc, and it either OK or Deny's the page. This can be setup to use a RADIUS server for authentication of any web user, or just have a default user and let people have over rides. We are very happy with the HTTP filtering it does, however they do not yet have HTTPS/FTP filtering enabled, so our old bess proxy is still in place.
We are also somewhat happy about being able to manage our own redhat computer, as opposed to having a blackbox on campus which they monitor remotely. Lets us deal with hardware/minor software issues quickly and easily, instead of waiting for their techs to do their thing.
I see Rendezvous as AppleTalk remade. It seems to have all the features that made appletalk Hot Shit, only with a cooler name, and hopefully less problems.
Take your idea a step further, Telcos, with common carrier status, only filter what you ask and often pay them to filter. Same with ISP's. Make it a checkbox when you sign up: Would you like us to filter SPAM for FREE*? Who would say no?
A lot of people look at ISPs as "routing to the internet", wether they know it or not. They want their Hotmail and their eBay and their MSN homepage. Telephone calls are the same way, they want their wife, their husband, or their friends to pickup when they key in the address. Same thing, different protocol.
*Disclaimer on how spam filtering isn't 100% effective, etc etc.
Probably. No clue how this would work out with artificial lights for two weeks, natural sunlight for two weeks. On the other hand, people grow marijiuana indoors all the time. Can't be too hard...
Maybe I missed some point, but people grow marijuana because they have near unlimited power coming from that wall socket. The big problem is generation and storage of power. Harvesting it from the sun is OK and all, but you have to be able to harvest enough power during sunny times to last you through the frigidly cold night, and keep your plants alive. Eventually there would be a layer of greenhouse gas to aid in this edevour, but it would have to be closely monitored. Nature setup this planet with the perfect atmosphere, we are pretty new at this whole terraforming from scratch thing.
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Sorry for the mis-information. The person who told this too me probably shouldn't have been believed. She had no idea about drafting off semis or anything. ;-)
Already commented or I would moderate this up. I would like to see the answer to this question, especially since Mac OS has been doing this for quite some time with their data/resource forking. OS X has furthered this with their .app "folders" which execute when double clicked, but expose their true contents when commanded. It's like resedit is built straight into the Finder, and thats pretty neat.
I do seem to recall the classic example of this being Solaris and or Sun tar. I forget who the offending party was, but when a tape drive would error and not report it back (physical failure of some sort of the "file system") tar would never time out, merely wait forever for the write call to be returned.
This effectivly locked the tar process, that memory, and your tape drive until reboot. It does make sense for I/O to have unkillable states, so long as there are proper timeouts, probably in the kernel, for hung I/O.
Sure you didn't have the brakes on? My VW Jetta easily passes 85-90mph going down a hill between LA and Santa Barbara on the 101 in California. I forget the name of the valley you're going into but it's pretty steep, a very fun ride.
The original Prius had a "Battery" gear, for things like coasting down hills which would give you heavier charge, but no acceleration abilities. This gear would be effectivly be Neutral, just it's below Drive, not above.
Regardless, cars are still required to have emergency brakes (One can only hope it's a hand brake for safety reasons) that is physically connected to the braking mechanism, no computer, no ABS, nothing to go wrong electronically. Ease on the hand brake and hope you got your brakes inspected recently.
So, what you're saying is, this guy couldn't have some form of arthritis in his clutching knee? Tendonitis? Multiple breaks?
Think before you speak, thanks. My girlfriend drives an automatic, it boggles the mind. At least it still has a hand break.
Couldn't we just do something a bit akin to your microwave? Just assume some interference? Or also along the lines of the microwave, put a grounded metal "chamber" around the ram which would have holes poked in it to attempt to absorb the radio interference somewhat?
Just thinking in terms of backround noise today from TV's, cell phones, microwaves, etc today I doubt this new ram technology is going to be much of a big problem. Most technology which is really reliant upon radio waves has the sense to put a filter of sorts on the input from the antenna that is on the roof, well away from any computer based interferenece. With a properly shielded/grounded wire attached to said antenna you don't have to worry about your receiver being too close to your computer.
This could turn funny.
Go to the store to purchase a video game, you do enjoy playing a fun video game in your spare time. Hire a contract-law lawyer to advise you on such purchases and wether their contracts allow you to exercise your fair use rights.
Social engineer your way into knowing when Best Buy's franchise team, some "higher up" is going to be going through the store and stage software-opening. Go through the line with a title and demand to be able to open it and view the contract before you sign your credit card slip. Get a manager to come since the register person is likly not going to care/have a clue what you're demanding. Make sure your lawyer audibly reminds you to check the EULA inside the box.
When the manager comes and likly lets you step out of line to read the contract (or throws you out of the store...) hand it to your lawyer. Reject or edit the license as you see fit, ad infinitum. Do it audibly but not overly loud such as to cause them to eject you from the store for that reason alone.
Go to Comp USA, Gamestop, anywhere that sells games and keep it going, it might help to call some news paper friend of yours, and maybe a lawyer who owes you a favor or likes a good laugh on the weekends.
What I love, is our "company" does not have a SUS server, we do updates by hand, uphill both ways, in the snow.
My job involves doing a lot of clean installs of Windows 2000/XP after failed hard drives, etc. A lot of times I set up Windows Update when I need to go do something else, get SP4 rolling, do something else, get IE6SP1 rolling, do something else, all with minimal time staring at the updating screen itself. When I come back and things went smoothly, I've been "twice" as productive.
Now the third set of updates including all the "reccomended" ones is the big one that takes a while, so as usual, I set ~4 computers downloading the 70 megs of updates, and go to lunch. Come back to find them all stuck, 2 updates in or whatever, on that damned GDI+ screen saying that nothing has been found. I push OK and it continues on it's merry way. My "productive" lunch is shot to hell.
To make matters worse, my XP SP2 machine at home said I have vulnerabilities and to check this website out. I run the built-in ActiveX thing and it says nope only windows 2000 gets this tool, check windows update, which says theres no updates, same with office update.
To make matters worse (2.0), I had a windows 2000 machine I ran updates on, it said I had vulnerable software, but another update claimed I needed to reboot, which do you believe? Knowing Windows and seeing "based on NT technology" I rebooted. I spent 15 minutes searching microsofts website trying to get that same page back up to no avail. I found others, but not the one with the GDI+ detection toolActiveX thing.
Whenever I saw a comments page or feedback form I told them my precise thoughts on their tool, mostly similar to what I said here.
Sorry I missed your joke :) But I must agree with your statement about immediately noticing that Apple laptops are a different breed altogether than IBM-clones. Everything seems to be in it's proper place, well organized, sturdy construction, etc. Oh and what is with the idea that 4pin firewire is useful on a laptop/workstation?
That little white light stay blinking? When I shut any of my mac laptops lids they go to sleep. This is not a reboot. I find the only reason I reboot my OS X machines anymore is when software update tells me to, and even then I push the screen back until the end of the day.
Agreed. We have had more problems with 3com layer2 managed switches than any of the Cisco stuff we bought. You get what you pay for, and Cisco was always there for us with a updated firmware, work around, *something* to get the network going again.
3com was fairly lax about the whole thing and the switches were eventually canned and Cisco green sits in their place. (The switches were purchased by managment somewhere along the line, judging by price alone)
On a side note, one of the signs of intelligent life is a sense of self preservation right? Ever notice when something is going horribly wrong on a network port, IOS cuts power to that port? Cut off the finger to save the arm...
So where did he get the nickname "Blood-bath"?
I would bet most commercial software images were done in Photoshop, or similar. Photoshop costs what it does because they do license all the patented technologies inside the application, as well as develope their own. Have you seen the list of patents when you start Photoshop? It goes on forever, and is followed by things like PANTONE(R). None of that comes free.
If you bought photoshop, and then saved a GIF, you paid Unisys for your use of a GIF. Adobe just packages it into a pleasantly easy to use interface.
I believe ebay has some special options and terms for people buying cars and real estate off ebay. Basically it amounts to sales are not final, and escrow must come into play. If you're buying from a dealership on eBay, or someone who has sold many other cars, no big deal really.
Now, as a step dad, I would not watch my girls get dressed or anything.
:)
However, your biological daughters are fair game?
However, one daughter is a "cutter", and my wife does search her every so often
I would think that is very reasonable. Most people here are talking about children who have earned their parents trust by not doing (or getting caught doing) anything wrong. They should be allowed privacy in their rooms to do as they wish. This doesn't mean they don't answer the door when it's knocked on or that the parents aren't allowed in. It does mean though that your stuff doesn't get randomly searched, especially without your knowledge. It also means that when you say you saw N movie your parents take it at that.
I mainly wanted it as a way to stick it to the man, $1 at a time. :) I will put it with my Y2K bug-fix CD.
:P
And why send out 5.2.1 cds? Aren't you CVSup'd to -CURRENT?
Not so much. I tried to order the CD from Mozilla on my FreeBSD workstation and it told me I don't have cookies enabled. The website switches from www.microsoft.com to oms.one.microsoft.com and complains about no cookies being set. Strange.
Why stop there, take an IR array and blind the nightvision. I bet it could be done with $20 investment in a box of IR LED's and a battery of sorts. Ask your girlfriend to carry a purse that you can stash it in and you are good to go. Your array needs to only last long enough for joe-nightvision to go complain to his manager that their goggles are broken. At worst they know that the "upper righthand section of this 500 person theatre is flooding us with invisible light".
You would be surprised at how no tolerance rules get thrown out the window for asthma inhalers, especially albuterol ones (fast acting). While most schools have (or had) functions in place for students to be allowed to carry their drugs with them, some do not, all pending a doctor signing the right forms.
I had a few teachers who tried to write me up for huffing and puffing into my inhaler, most failed when presented with the option of having to write me passes whenever I needed to use my inhaler, or calling an ambulance to deal with the problem. PMS drugs can be harder, but a lot of doctors will sign off on a Rx for midol "as needed" for girls to be able to keep the drug at school. Your insurance might also pick up the tab on that $10 bottle of drugs, or you can likely not pay sales tax on it.
The school district I work at used to use a non-transparent proxy system from N2H2 (Bess) which was a debian linux box that you had to pipe all of your traffic through somehow, generally by feeding proxy settings into web browsers. Now we have a RedHat linux machine which is running IFP software from N2H2 and interacts with our Cisco PIX firewall.
Port 80 outbound is now open completely, because any HTTP request outbound on it gets caught by the PIX, and a request is sent to the IFP server with various credentials etc, and it either OK or Deny's the page. This can be setup to use a RADIUS server for authentication of any web user, or just have a default user and let people have over rides. We are very happy with the HTTP filtering it does, however they do not yet have HTTPS/FTP filtering enabled, so our old bess proxy is still in place.
We are also somewhat happy about being able to manage our own redhat computer, as opposed to having a blackbox on campus which they monitor remotely. Lets us deal with hardware/minor software issues quickly and easily, instead of waiting for their techs to do their thing.
I searched for google and look what I got:
q =g oogle&FORM=SMCRT
http://techpreview.search.msn.com/results.aspx?
Search ErrorMSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
Please try again in a few minutes.
EID: f:618926422 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b13
I see Rendezvous as AppleTalk remade. It seems to have all the features that made appletalk Hot Shit, only with a cooler name, and hopefully less problems.
Take your idea a step further, Telcos, with common carrier status, only filter what you ask and often pay them to filter. Same with ISP's. Make it a checkbox when you sign up: Would you like us to filter SPAM for FREE*? Who would say no?
A lot of people look at ISPs as "routing to the internet", wether they know it or not. They want their Hotmail and their eBay and their MSN homepage. Telephone calls are the same way, they want their wife, their husband, or their friends to pickup when they key in the address. Same thing, different protocol.
*Disclaimer on how spam filtering isn't 100% effective, etc etc.
Probably. No clue how this would work out with artificial lights for two weeks, natural sunlight for two weeks. On the other hand, people grow marijiuana indoors all the time. Can't be too hard...
Maybe I missed some point, but people grow marijuana because they have near unlimited power coming from that wall socket. The big problem is generation and storage of power. Harvesting it from the sun is OK and all, but you have to be able to harvest enough power during sunny times to last you through the frigidly cold night, and keep your plants alive. Eventually there would be a layer of greenhouse gas to aid in this edevour, but it would have to be closely monitored. Nature setup this planet with the perfect atmosphere, we are pretty new at this whole terraforming from scratch thing.