I used complex variables to do circuit analysis when I worked on a software GPS receiver and also used Fourier transforms and vector math. In addition, I've used numerical methods to extrapolate data. But in both these cases, it wasn't computer programming that required me to use the math; rather, it was the nature of the subject area.
Daemon reminds me of Neal Stephenson at the top of his game. I just recently re-read Daemon and loved it just as much as the first time. A pulse-pounding mystery/techno-thriller with lots of actual technology thrown in. His characters use real-world hacks to attack networks and computers, like SQL injection.
Unfortunately the second book, Freedom, was a radically different type of story. And it was too removed from reality to be as exciting as Daemon.
The newer versions of Ubuntu with the Unity interface (e.g., 12.04) don't allow you to change to the theme like you've recommended -- at least not without using a separate program to change things.
I went to the best tech school that accepted me (Rensselaer). I have this piece of wisdom to pass on: choose a school that's near a beach--Miami, California, whatever. The climate should be temperate all year round.
I went into the Air Force after I graduated, and since then, only one employer was impressed by the fact that I graduated from Rensselaer.
I would, however, suggest that you try to get a technical/engineering school that meets the above requirement of beach-i-ness.
To some it may seem like this post is meant to be funny. It's not. If I could do it all over again, I would choose the best technicial university that's near a beach in a temperate zone.
Jurassic Park is a good example of a book that didn't translate that well into a movie. Several plot points were only briefly alluded to in the movie and should probably been cut completely. For example, remember the sick dinosaur and the big pile of poop that (in the movie) served only to separate the male and female scientists? In the book, the dinosaur was pregnant, and that whole episode was key to their finding out that the dinosaurs were reproducing. The references to chaos math were also done much better in the book, and didn't really add that much to the movie (in its abbreivated form).
Anyway, back to the programmer. He was a relative of the owner (son in law, IIRC). He was a brilliant programmer but had financial problems and was desperate for money. The owner knew this. So he hired him at a sub-standard rate, basically taking advantage of the programmer's problems. This explains the programmer's actions and motives much more clearly, as well as why there was no team of coders or reams of documentation. In this case, the owner was *not* "sparing no expense." And he got what he paid for.
I remember being an avid Ultraman fan when I was 5 or 6, back in the early '70s. Just recently I got the DVDs of the first season, and oh-my-god was it cheesy. Bad plot, bad effects, bad acting, etc. Essentially the science patrol would spin its wheels for 20 minutes, then Ultraman would come to the rescue for the last 10 minutes and fight the monster. I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't.
I don't think you can accomplish what you want to do. It's difficult enough to notify the company that they have a vulnerability. I've read multiple accounts of people who uncovered security issues and tried to notify the company through customer support, only to get nowhere. Then, out of frustration, they publicized the vulnerability online. That would get the company's attention, but would typically result in a lawsuit or some type of criminal prosecution. As weird as it seems, analyzing computer systems to discover security vulnerabilities is illegal under US law.
I don't know how long it stays up, but if it's more than a half-second, you may want to just hit the print screen key as fast as you can. It will save a bitmap copy of the screen to the clipboard, which you can then analyze at your leisure.
The biggest problem I had with this was when I ran WinNT (and I'm assuming it still holds for later versions). Certain programs would require administrator access to install correctly, so I'd log in as administrator to do the install. Once I was back on my non-admin account, the security permissions in the registry (for keys created by the install) didn't allow me to access those keys--and the program wouldn't run correctly.
If I recall correctly, XP has a feature whereby you can allow a program to run as a different user. So maybe this isn't a problem anymore. I finally got sick of it all and just run as an administrator.
I've written an article at SciScoop titled Facts About the Bird Flu. It discusses flu pandemics in general and the bird flu in particular. It also contains some good links for additional information. Any comments are welcome.
The GPS system has built-in overkill. At any given time there are about a dozen satellites within view, and a receiver only requires four to work correctly (okay, theoretically only three if you have a clock). So even if we were to lose some of the satellites, GPS receivers would still work.
There could be some degradation—using more than four satellites will give better accuracy. And a satellite on the horizon will give a weaker signal than one straight above, thus adding noise to the process and possibly degrading accuracy. But in general, the GPS system will still work and will give reasonable results.
In 1955, there were no space rockets at all. Sputnik was not even launched until 1957, and the US had to struggle for years to catch up. I think the submitter may be exaggerating a bit when he says the technology is 50 years old.
You can configure the SP2 firewall to open the ports used by p2p programs, thus improving speed. BitTorrent, for example, will slow down dramatically if you are behind a firewall or are using NAT. If you are only using a firewall, free up TCP ports 6881-6999 for BitTorrent, and you will see an improvement. (The only problem, and I wonder who was the genius that designed it, is that you must specify each port individually instead of giving a range.) If you also have NAT, then you will need to give your computer a static IP address and also configure your router to perform IP forwarding. Note that this will preclude any other computer on the network from using those ports. There are more details here.
To configure the Windows Firewall ports, go to Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Exceptions.
It should be noted that results presented in this paper represent continuous exposure to direct light and extreme temperature/humidity levels. The error rates are not representative of discs stored in typical, normal or ideal storage conditions.
Do not be mislead by the numbers presented--they have little relevance to how CD-Rs are typically stored.
From one of the articles: "In binoculars, look for an object that is fuzzy compared with the much more distant stars."
This doesn't really meet my definition of "naked eye." I guess I was expecting something like the Hale-Bopp comet which was easily visible to the unaided, naked eye. This one appears to be much farther away.
Would that have been the 'PDP RPC server' by any chance? I had the same issue with a Compaq-branded Lexmark printer. It took a bit of google searching just to find out it was from Lexmark and that 'PDP' stands for 'Print Driver Plus'.
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I used complex variables to do circuit analysis when I worked on a software GPS receiver and also used Fourier transforms and vector math. In addition, I've used numerical methods to extrapolate data. But in both these cases, it wasn't computer programming that required me to use the math; rather, it was the nature of the subject area.
Daemon reminds me of Neal Stephenson at the top of his game. I just recently re-read Daemon and loved it just as much as the first time. A pulse-pounding mystery/techno-thriller with lots of actual technology thrown in. His characters use real-world hacks to attack networks and computers, like SQL injection.
Unfortunately the second book, Freedom, was a radically different type of story. And it was too removed from reality to be as exciting as Daemon.
The newer versions of Ubuntu with the Unity interface (e.g., 12.04) don't allow you to change to the theme like you've recommended -- at least not without using a separate program to change things.
What a neat way to propose. I can see it now... "Honey, let's see what's on the HAM radio tonight. Oh! Listen to this, it's for you."
The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you, by Lillian R. Lieber.
This book explains non-Euclidean geometry, along with other math, in a way that just makes sense. It has a recommendation from Albert Einstein.
I went to the best tech school that accepted me (Rensselaer). I have this piece of wisdom to pass on: choose a school that's near a beach--Miami, California, whatever. The climate should be temperate all year round.
I went into the Air Force after I graduated, and since then, only one employer was impressed by the fact that I graduated from Rensselaer.
I would, however, suggest that you try to get a technical/engineering school that meets the above requirement of beach-i-ness.
To some it may seem like this post is meant to be funny. It's not. If I could do it all over again, I would choose the best technicial university that's near a beach in a temperate zone.
Jurassic Park is a good example of a book that didn't translate that well into a movie. Several plot points were only briefly alluded to in the movie and should probably been cut completely. For example, remember the sick dinosaur and the big pile of poop that (in the movie) served only to separate the male and female scientists? In the book, the dinosaur was pregnant, and that whole episode was key to their finding out that the dinosaurs were reproducing. The references to chaos math were also done much better in the book, and didn't really add that much to the movie (in its abbreivated form).
Anyway, back to the programmer. He was a relative of the owner (son in law, IIRC). He was a brilliant programmer but had financial problems and was desperate for money. The owner knew this. So he hired him at a sub-standard rate, basically taking advantage of the programmer's problems. This explains the programmer's actions and motives much more clearly, as well as why there was no team of coders or reams of documentation. In this case, the owner was *not* "sparing no expense." And he got what he paid for.
I remember being an avid Ultraman fan when I was 5 or 6, back in the early '70s. Just recently I got the DVDs of the first season, and oh-my-god was it cheesy. Bad plot, bad effects, bad acting, etc. Essentially the science patrol would spin its wheels for 20 minutes, then Ultraman would come to the rescue for the last 10 minutes and fight the monster. I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't.
Am I the only one here who didn't know what this acronym meant?
(Acronym decryption courtesy of Acronym Finder.)
I don't think you can accomplish what you want to do. It's difficult enough to notify the company that they have a vulnerability. I've read multiple accounts of people who uncovered security issues and tried to notify the company through customer support, only to get nowhere. Then, out of frustration, they publicized the vulnerability online. That would get the company's attention, but would typically result in a lawsuit or some type of criminal prosecution. As weird as it seems, analyzing computer systems to discover security vulnerabilities is illegal under US law.
I don't know how long it stays up, but if it's more than a half-second, you may want to just hit the print screen key as fast as you can. It will save a bitmap copy of the screen to the clipboard, which you can then analyze at your leisure.
The biggest problem I had with this was when I ran WinNT (and I'm assuming it still holds for later versions). Certain programs would require administrator access to install correctly, so I'd log in as administrator to do the install. Once I was back on my non-admin account, the security permissions in the registry (for keys created by the install) didn't allow me to access those keys--and the program wouldn't run correctly.
If I recall correctly, XP has a feature whereby you can allow a program to run as a different user. So maybe this isn't a problem anymore. I finally got sick of it all and just run as an administrator.
I can't wait until some enterprising hacker duplicates the signal to release the fasteners, and does it in mid-flight. Talk about chaos...
I'd really like to know.
I've written an article at SciScoop titled Facts About the Bird Flu. It discusses flu pandemics in general and the bird flu in particular. It also contains some good links for additional information. Any comments are welcome.
The above links are incorrect—the "&cid=" part should be removed. As a service, here they are as clickable links:
www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/26/canon_fuelcell/
www.itworld.com/Comp/1774/051026canonfuelcell/
This article gives the ongoing status of the H5N1 bird flu and includes a short primer on flu pandemics. Disclaimer: I'm the author.
The GPS system has built-in overkill. At any given time there are about a dozen satellites within view, and a receiver only requires four to work correctly (okay, theoretically only three if you have a clock). So even if we were to lose some of the satellites, GPS receivers would still work.
There could be some degradation—using more than four satellites will give better accuracy. And a satellite on the horizon will give a weaker signal than one straight above, thus adding noise to the process and possibly degrading accuracy. But in general, the GPS system will still work and will give reasonable results.
In 1955, there were no space rockets at all. Sputnik was not even launched until 1957, and the US had to struggle for years to catch up. I think the submitter may be exaggerating a bit when he says the technology is 50 years old.
You can configure the SP2 firewall to open the ports used by p2p programs, thus improving speed. BitTorrent, for example, will slow down dramatically if you are behind a firewall or are using NAT. If you are only using a firewall, free up TCP ports 6881-6999 for BitTorrent, and you will see an improvement. (The only problem, and I wonder who was the genius that designed it, is that you must specify each port individually instead of giving a range.) If you also have NAT, then you will need to give your computer a static IP address and also configure your router to perform IP forwarding. Note that this will preclude any other computer on the network from using those ports. There are more details here.
To configure the Windows Firewall ports, go to Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Exceptions.
From the article:
Do not be mislead by the numbers presented--they have little relevance to how CD-Rs are typically stored.
From one of the articles: "In binoculars, look for an object that is fuzzy compared with the much more distant stars."
This doesn't really meet my definition of "naked eye." I guess I was expecting something like the Hale-Bopp comet which was easily visible to the unaided, naked eye. This one appears to be much farther away.
I deserved that and wish to apologize for the tone of my post. Should have omitted that last sentence.
- "Another possibility is that people born with smaller numbers of neurons are predisposed to suffering chronic pain."
Perhaps we should have fully read the article before ranting?Would that have been the 'PDP RPC server' by any chance? I had the same issue with a Compaq-branded Lexmark printer. It took a bit of google searching just to find out it was from Lexmark and that 'PDP' stands for 'Print Driver Plus'.