If I was stuck, behind a firewall that blocked NTP, I would look into using clockspeed to keep the time accurate without constantly resetting to an external source.
You would have to get clockspeed 3 or 4 deltas from another clock over the first few months you use it, but you might be able to borrow a laptop, sync it with a good clock, and use it as a local ntp server to obtain these few deltas to calibrate your system. (with a very short time between when the laptop was synced, and when clockspeed gets it's delta from the laptop).
"The QuickTime file format has been used as the basis of the MPEG-4 standard, developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)."
You can read it for yourself here in the docs on the structure of the QuickTime file format.
You seem to be completely missing the point of QuickTime, and why it is not just a simple wrapper format like AVI. Read up on the different atom formats in QuickTime, and you should be able to find what you have missed.
Actually, I remember that once or twice he did, when Bluto had him tied up, and all he could move was his head. He puffed his pipe into a veritable cutting torch, melted off the lid, and sucked down a load of the green stuff in one mighty movement.
I used to have a connection like that at home a couple of years ago - I was on TCI's testbed network to see how much traffic a cable modem network could handle.
No caps, same speeds up and down - the full amount the modem could handle, servers were encouraged, and they wanted us to push as many bits as we could.
When I noticed that the FreBSD user mode ppp package supports both PPP over TCP/IP and multilink, the following idea popped into my head:
Get two broadband conenctions
Get a firewall box (Fred) with three ethernet cards
Acquire 3 ip addresses (A, B, C) on a co-located box (Carl)
Hook the two ISP connections to Fred.A and Fred.B
configure Fred.A as the route for Carl.A, and Fred.B as the route for Carl.B.
Hook Fred.C to the lan
run multilink PPP over TCP/IP between Fred and Carl, with Carl.C as the assigned IP address. Use that as the default route for the LAN, with NAT to map internal IP addresses onto Carl.C.
In theory, this should give me a faster connection, that should withstand an outage of one of the two ISPs.
All I've done towards trying this out has been to get both a cable modem and a DSL connection. Right now, I have two NAT firewalls set up, and I have different boxes configured to use one or the other as the default route.
Even with a crude system like this for splitting the load over the connections, it still has been worth it to be able to run two scps at once when I have to upload a couple of hundred megs to my remote box.
The political spectrum is not an absolute measure, You view everything in relation to your own viewpoint.
It is possible for someone else to view as centrist (or even right wing) a media source that you view as far left, because your own viewpoints lie to either side of the subject are looking at.
Both of your views are correct, as you are evalulating based on your own frame of reference.
I've been fighting a battle against spam for years. I think I've hit on some basic rules that work well.
1. Whitelist everybody you know - It's the polite thing to do.
2. Different addresses for different purposes - I use several addresses at several domains, and I make heavy use of qmail's -tag syntax. All of these addresses reach the same mail account, but each address has it's own set of rules - most of the mail sent to hotgrits@yourpants.net goes right into my junk box for later checking; only the ones that get very low spamassassin scores are diverted into my main box. Conversely, some addresses have much higher thresholds, or even bypass all of the spam checks entirely (mailing lists have special aliases that go right into a folder just for them).
2.5 Give each business or website you deal with a unique address so you know who sold your info.
3. Keep machine readable e-mail addresses off of webpages. I used to just use some light cloaking which displayed either a graphic or a encoded address based on the user agent. Last night, I wrote a more advanced cloaker which always displays a graphic, and provides a web based form to send an email.
4. Spamassassin - it is a wonderful program. I use the scores it assigns for pulling low scoring mail out of a stream of crap, labeling higher scoring mail, and for the very highest diverting them to the dreaded junk box.
5. When all else fails, block. Someone was pounding random addresses on my mailserver with hundreds of messages apparently from a nonexistant domain. The number of bounces stuck in the queue was well over several hundred and rising. A few:deny entries in tcp.cdb, and the number of bouncing messages dropped to an acceptable level.
you have to expect some errors to show up from time to time, because the filesystem may change while fsck is running, and if so it will not be internally consistant.
Have you looked at Cyrus? It is probably best known as an IMAP server, but it has very nice pop3 support as well.
Cyrus stores messages in a variation of the maildir format - it maintain a database of the flags, headers, etc for the messages in a folder to speed up access.
Notable features include shared mail folders (with independent views), quotas, multiple mail partitions (with the ability to move users across partitions on the fly), duplicate email checking, and a server side filtering language (sieve).
Most of this would probably be most useful if you were using IMAP, but it should scale quite well as a POP server.
For the past few months, I've been trying to figure out where I was when I took this picture. It's been bugging me since I got back from vacation this summer.
Using this site, I was able to match it in a few minutes!
Now I just need to figure out the name of that park...
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15 minutes for a HP9000? That's nothing.
I used to work with a cluster of V class systems where each node would take over 90 minutes to boot.
Just bringing the cluster back up if it was completely shut down would take about 15 minutes from the cmruncl until all packages were up and running.
Nope - that was Acrobat Distiller. You don't want to see how badly the copy I made using ps2pdf turned out.
If you look inside the.ps file, the fonts are labeled %DVIPSBitmapFont: Fa cmsy10 10 2 - showing that they are the 600 DPI bitmap version of 10 point Computer Modern.
Acrobat distiller did what it could - it left all of the detail in the fonts. If you view the PDF file at 600 DPI or print it you can verify this for yourself.
The problem is, the bitmap fonts are designed to display at one resolution - 600 dpi. While they print well, they scale down very poorly.
I've been trying to replace the bitmap font with a vector version and reconvert, but I haven't had much luck so far.
here is a PDF version for those people stuck on systems with only an acrobat viewer.
It looks like he used a bitmap font, so the conversion looks a little ugly, but it is readable. I'll try to replace it with a better conversion in a half hour or so, as soon as I match the font he used.
I've been working at a couple of GM sites (TPC-C and MidLux) for close to two years now, driving a 10 year old Ford to work every day. I have never had it keyed, or found any damage done while it was parked in the lot. People are a lot more tolerant than you might think.
I do have a friend who works at the Chrysler HQ, and apparently all non-Chrysler vehicles have to be parked in a special lot where they won't be seen. AFAIK, GM has no such policy.
This only works if you actually get a person who can put you on a no call list - most of the telemarketing calls I've been getting lately have been completely automated.
You pick up the phone, and the computer that called you plays a recorded advertisement at you. If you hang up before the recording finishes, it keeps calling back until you let the whole thing play.
I guess it's time to dig into the export format, and see what happens if I create an event that spans days manually, and try to import it...
Oh well - it still truncates the events at midnight. The info for the event shows it extending to the correct time/date, but it is treated as if it ends at midnight, and the published version just extends a little too far down the page...
Arrrgh - not only did they leave out the feature I've been wishing for in a scheduling program, it looks like they almost put it in, but decided not to at the last minute.
I work nights, and I would kill for a program that would let me create events that, for example, start at 6:00 pm on one day, and end at 6:00 am on the next, without having to resort to the ugly hack of splitting the event into chunks, so it avoids that unbreakable midnight barrier.
I was excited when I saw the date box by the ending time when I created an event, but my hopes were dashed, when that box only became active for all day events...
I guess it's time to dig into the export format, and see what happens if I create an event that spans days manually, and try to import it...
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If I was stuck, behind a firewall that blocked NTP, I would look into using clockspeed to keep the time accurate without constantly resetting to an external source.
You would have to get clockspeed 3 or 4 deltas from another clock over the first few months you use it, but you might be able to borrow a laptop, sync it with a good clock, and use it as a local ntp server to obtain these few deltas to calibrate your system. (with a very short time between when the laptop was synced, and when clockspeed gets it's delta from the laptop).
You can read it for yourself here in the docs on the structure of the QuickTime file format.
You seem to be completely missing the point of QuickTime, and why it is not just a simple wrapper format like AVI. Read up on the different atom formats in QuickTime, and you should be able to find what you have missed.
Besides, he doesnt suck it through a pipe.
Actually, I remember that once or twice he did, when Bluto had him tied up, and all he could move was his head. He puffed his pipe into a veritable cutting torch, melted off the lid, and sucked down a load of the green stuff in one mighty movement.
Yep - seems to be down now.
If you want the binary, you can grab it from my box here - I didn't save any of the web pages.
there's no such thing as braille computer monitors
Actually they're pretty common - here is an example of what they look like.
I also know that many visually impaired people use Emacs Speak (which supports Aural Style Sheets for web browsing)
There are a lot more blind people on the internet than you think...
I used to have a connection like that at home a couple of years ago - I was on TCI's testbed network to see how much traffic a cable modem network could handle.
No caps, same speeds up and down - the full amount the modem could handle, servers were encouraged, and they wanted us to push as many bits as we could.
I miss that - too bad I had to move...
In theory, this should give me a faster connection, that should withstand an outage of one of the two ISPs.
All I've done towards trying this out has been to get both a cable modem and a DSL connection. Right now, I have two NAT firewalls set up, and I have different boxes configured to use one or the other as the default route.
Even with a crude system like this for splitting the load over the connections, it still has been worth it to be able to run two scps at once when I have to upload a couple of hundred megs to my remote box.
Now that spam is so collectable, someone should start a service to let people trade it?
What will someone give me for my rare "Help fund the freedom fighters in Chechnya!" complete with numbered bank accounts to send donations to?
You appear to be missing one concept:
The political spectrum is not an absolute measure, You view everything in relation to your own viewpoint.
It is possible for someone else to view as centrist (or even right wing) a media source that you view as far left, because your own viewpoints lie to either side of the subject are looking at.
Both of your views are correct, as you are evalulating based on your own frame of reference.
I've been fighting a battle against spam for years. I think I've hit on some basic rules that work well.
:deny entries in tcp.cdb, and the number of bouncing messages dropped to an acceptable level.
1. Whitelist everybody you know - It's the polite thing to do.
2. Different addresses for different purposes - I use several addresses at several domains, and I make heavy use of qmail's -tag syntax. All of these addresses reach the same mail account, but each address has it's own set of rules - most of the mail sent to hotgrits@yourpants.net goes right into my junk box for later checking; only the ones that get very low spamassassin scores are diverted into my main box. Conversely, some addresses have much higher thresholds, or even bypass all of the spam checks entirely (mailing lists have special aliases that go right into a folder just for them).
2.5 Give each business or website you deal with a unique address so you know who sold your info.
3. Keep machine readable e-mail addresses off of webpages. I used to just use some light cloaking which displayed either a graphic or a encoded address based on the user agent. Last night, I wrote a more advanced cloaker which always displays a graphic, and provides a web based form to send an email.
4. Spamassassin - it is a wonderful program. I use the scores it assigns for pulling low scoring mail out of a stream of crap, labeling higher scoring mail, and for the very highest diverting them to the dreaded junk box.
5. When all else fails, block. Someone was pounding random addresses on my mailserver with hundreds of messages apparently from a nonexistant domain. The number of bounces stuck in the queue was well over several hundred and rising. A few
NOTE: Cloudmark is Razor which can be used standalone or as a part of Spamassassin.
you have to expect some errors to show up from time to time, because the filesystem may change while fsck is running, and if so it will not be internally consistant.
Have you looked at Cyrus? It is probably best known as an IMAP server, but it has very nice pop3 support as well.
Cyrus stores messages in a variation of the maildir format - it maintain a database of the flags, headers, etc for the messages in a folder to speed up access.
Notable features include shared mail folders (with independent views), quotas, multiple mail partitions (with the ability to move users across partitions on the fly), duplicate email checking, and a server side filtering language (sieve).
Most of this would probably be most useful if you were using IMAP, but it should scale quite well as a POP server.
For the past few months, I've been trying to figure out where I was when I took this picture.
It's been bugging me since I got back from vacation this summer.
Using this site, I was able to match it in a few minutes!
Now I just need to figure out the name of that park...
15 minutes for a HP9000? That's nothing.
I used to work with a cluster of V class systems where each node would take over 90 minutes to boot.
Just bringing the cluster back up if it was completely shut down would take about 15 minutes from the cmruncl until all packages were up and running.
Nope - that was Acrobat Distiller.
.ps file, the fonts are labeled %DVIPSBitmapFont: Fa cmsy10 10 2 - showing that they are the 600 DPI bitmap version of 10 point Computer Modern.
You don't want to see how badly the copy I made using ps2pdf turned out.
If you look inside the
Acrobat distiller did what it could - it left all of the detail in the fonts. If you view the PDF file at 600 DPI or print it you can verify this for yourself.
The problem is, the bitmap fonts are designed to display at one resolution - 600 dpi. While they print well, they scale down very poorly.
I've been trying to replace the bitmap font with a vector version and reconvert, but I haven't had much luck so far.
here is a PDF version for those people stuck on systems with only an acrobat viewer.
It looks like he used a bitmap font, so the conversion looks a little ugly, but it is readable. I'll try to replace it with a better conversion in a half hour or so, as soon as I match the font he used.
I've been working at a couple of GM sites (TPC-C and MidLux) for close to two years now, driving a 10 year old Ford to work every day. I have never had it keyed, or found any damage done while it was parked in the lot. People are a lot more tolerant than you might think.
I do have a friend who works at the Chrysler HQ, and apparently all non-Chrysler vehicles have to be parked in a special lot where they won't be seen. AFAIK, GM has no such policy.
Potassium Permanganate?
It's dark purple, and is rather impressive when mixed with glycerin...
This only works if you actually get a person who can put you on a no call list - most of the telemarketing calls I've been getting lately have been completely automated.
You pick up the phone, and the computer that called you plays a recorded advertisement at you. If you hang up before the recording finishes, it keeps calling back until you let the whole thing play.
I thought that they were working on movies instead.
After all, chimps have been writing books, and coding for a long time. They need to move on to something new...
Where does one have to go to find normal people?
Outside.
No need for sharp impacts, just a quick twist after warming the drive back up has worked for me many times.
I guess it's time to dig into the export format, and see what happens if I create an event that spans days manually, and try to import it...
Oh well - it still truncates the events at midnight. The info for the event shows it extending to the correct time/date, but it is treated as if it ends at midnight, and the published version just extends a little too far down the page...
Arrrgh - not only did they leave out the feature I've been wishing for in a scheduling program, it looks like they almost put it in, but decided not to at the last minute.
I work nights, and I would kill for a program that would let me create events that, for example, start at 6:00 pm on one day, and end at 6:00 am on the next, without having to resort to the ugly hack of splitting the event into chunks, so it avoids that unbreakable midnight barrier.
I was excited when I saw the date box by the ending time when I created an event, but my hopes were dashed, when that box only became active for all day events...
I guess it's time to dig into the export format, and see what happens if I create an event that spans days manually, and try to import it...