I saw a sudden dropoff in Nimda infection attempts a while ago. It's quite obvious if you look at the graph I have here. One moment, the nimda hit count is heading straight up, the next, a sharp bend to the right as the rate of new hits drops to almost nothing...
If you want to simplify things, I strongly suggest this book.
It's basically an outline of different strategies to cut down on unnecessary expenses, and
still live life to the fullest.
Some of the strategies given might seem a little extreme (at least, if you don't compare them to this guy), but most of the suggestions are simple, make life more enjoyable, and the savings add up.
If you don't like squeak, try
Visualworks. It's a very nice commercial smalltalk that I worked with extensively when I was in grad school. I've linked to the downloadable non-commercial-development version.
Smalltalk is very addictive once you start using it. I love the flexability that multiple polymorphism (selecting a method based on the name, and the types of all of the arguments, rather than on just the name, and maybe the first argument) offers, as well as the convience of being able to work on the same image from whatever platform (sun, windows, mac) that I happened to have access to.
Why bother writing your own caching code when you can just let
your Webserver do it for you?
With Roxen's cache tag, I just threw <cache minutes=15> </cache> tags around the cpu intensive parts of
mine and let Roxen handle the rest.
I do have a cron job that parses the logs every 15 minutes, and updates the backend database. (I could have done that from the web page as well, but then my samples wouldn't be taken every 15 minutes).
I've been having fun with that myself - I have a list of everyone who hit me here. Lots are home users who probably
don't realize that they have IIS running, but there are a few sites that look like decent sized places.
It's never a mistake to grab an old SGI - Irix is slick, and if you don't want it, you can be sure that someone you know will swap you something for it.
I tried to grab this one a couple of years ago when MSU was getting rid of it. Someone beat me to it, but later that day, I got a call offering it to me, as it wouldn't fit through the door of my friend's apartment! I snapped it up, as I had plenty of room, and was working at a place where I had easy access to Irix disksets.
My theory about the new internet - the new internet will be as wildly popular as new Coke.
You might be closer than you realize - New Coke probably served it's purpose well (possibly to cover up a planned formula change from expensive sugar, to sweeter corn syrup in the origional product; or as a means of attracting massive amounts of media attention as Negativland suggested on one of the tracks of Dispepsi).
Announcing a NEW! SHINY!! network with lots of NEW! SHINY!! content would catch the eye of the overstimulated, media saturated, passive good little consumer we are all supposed to be. Get AOL or MSN on board, running your special protocal, with maybe a lone proxy allowing communication with the oldnet (Old BAD! see how slow it is? Ohhhh! Shiny Link!!!) Simplify it, and make it gradually as passive of an experience as you can.
You could always try some Pernod - it's an Absinthe substitute with a lower alcohol content, and no wormwood; but I've heard the taste is pretty close.
It does the same cool color change thing when it hits water - I used to drink Pernod and water a lot right after I turned 21. I think part of the reason was that I loved to watch the Pernod swirl into the water... --
I like the taste of the
Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version,
but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).
I never really liked the
gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than
Shark)
Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a
Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule... --
I thought it was the Millwrights union who insisted that they move anything that can't be carried under one arm, not the UAW.
Still, I find it more amusing than anything else - I just find it funny to watch someone pushing a huge cart on which is a single Sun workstation.
The thing that I am really amused by, is that apparently you need a union electrician if you want to hook a monitor to a system. I'm not sure if they have to do it, or if they just have to watch to make sure you don't plug it in wrong...
I don't remember him ever making nitro-glycerine, but I know he used to make a lot of thermite. He lost his eyebrows a few times setting off large charges in the woods somewhere.
He got the detectors from a surplus catalog - some place was selling lots of non-working electronics that had been stored out in the rain, and one of the items for sale was several cases of wrecked smoke detectors. --
Re:does he give out autographs?
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I'll ask him once the movie comes out - I remember hearing that there is one in the works. --
I was off at college when he was actually raided,
so I don't know for sure, but I don't think they threatened him with jail time, as he cooperated with them from the beginning, and told them where he had obtained everything.
I do know that he was extremely worried for a while that he would have to pay for the cleanup. --
I went to high school with him, and was in the same scout troop as him (Troop 371).
We were in the same circle of (sometimes self proclaimed) weirdos who were all obsessive about one thing or another, and hung out together.
I remember when he brought in a giger counter, and we checked the food in the east center caf to see if it was radioactive. We had a good laugh when we got a blip from the soft serve ice cream.
Later, when he started carrying around radioactive material in his pockets at school, and showing me what looked like radiation burns, I tried to not hang out with him as much, and switched seats in Anthropology so that I wasn't right next to him.
It was a weird time - I was at MSU when I got the paniced call from him saying that the EPA was currently raiding his house, and wanting to know what catalog he had ordered the smoke detectors from.
The author who did the Harper's article was working on a book late last year - he asked me a few questions about Dave. I wonder when it will come out...
If anyone has any questions about Dave, just reply to this, and I'll answer what I remember... --
Legal issues - I have been told that code I write on my own time is mine, to do with as I please, as long as I do not use company time, or resources towards it in any manner whatsoever. While I could probably get away with it, I'm not going to try. They made a concession on this point for me when they hired me, and I am not going to do anything to make them reconsider.
Access - Remember, I described my employer as "Rather Paranoid". SSH to external sites is blocked, and telnet to external sites is restricted to very few people (I know of 2); additionaly it is monitored and logged. I might be able to get away with it, if I use a ssl tunnel, and make it look like a https connection, but I think the length of the connection would send up some red flags over in IP (Information Protection). Remember also, that I mentioned that I would need a pass to get my laptop out of the building. It is the same way with net access - they don't really care what comes in, but really watch what goes out.
I am currently in a similar circumstance - I work 12 hour night
shifts helping to maintain the computers for a very large, somewhat
paranoid employer.
A good portion of the time I am there, I have
lots to do (changes happen at night, and it is the world's
largest NFS installation (or so I've heard)), but for a lot
of the nights, I just have to watch patrol/logfiles and
keep an eye on the systems.
I can't write code for my own projects, as they own everything I write when I am at work.
I can't bring in my laptop, as I don't have a pass to get it back
out of the building.(so, no games except the ones on my visor, and in xemacs)
What do I do?
Get to know the night staff - I eat my lunch at about the time
the janitors finish, so I usually sit around with them and talk for a
while. I've heard some amazing stories
Read manuals - check the tops of racks of equipment that outside
people (like EMC) maintain. Sometimes they'll leave the manuals there.
Read documentation - SGI and
Apple have lots of cool reading,
not to mention OtherPlaces.
Write throwaway code - They may own it, so just try things out.
See how fast you can get a parallel matrix multiply to go when
you spread it over all 16 or so of the processors of a nice beefy box.
Automate things - write scripts to make life easier for everyone,
and give yourself even more free time to worry about!
Read good books - I've been catching up on my reading backlog.
Check HR's web page to double check your benefits - I found a nice
discount on books from fatbrain that I had missed.
See if the zone where managers sit has better toilet paper in the
bathrooms.
And remember - if all else fails, you can always turn to math. The Unknowable and it's cool lisp based proofs made the nights just fly by this past week, and this is an old standby that has gotten me through many nights. --
When I first thought about getting my iBook, I was concerned with having only one mouse button. After a very short time I actually started to like it!
My normal hand positions when using the trackpad are roughly this.
I keep the fingers of my left hand on function, control, option, and apple; and use my right hand on the trackpad. I just use the thumb of my right hand to hit that one big button.
I really appreciate not having to make all those
little side to side finger motions in order to hit a different mouse button. I just hold down the function key I want (without any side to side movement of my left hand) and whack that big button with my thumb (no additional side to side movement of the right needed, as I can reach that big button from any position on the pad).
Good luck putting 500 gigs in a vic-20: It looks to me like the Vic 20 only had 3 address lines available for bank switching. I'd love to know how you plan to work around that.
Also, there were commercially available products to give over a meg of memory to an 800XL which just plugged into the expansion bus. Take a look
here for an example of how far an 800XL could be pushed with commercially available upgrades in 1987. Sure blows the additional 512k that your C128+1750 had out of the water... --
I think porting the application might be a little more problematic that you first realize.
They joystick ports on an atari 800xl were pretty
complex for their time. Each one had 5 binary I/O channels, and 2 8 bit DAC/ADC channels. It sounds to me from the story that the sensors they are using are dependant on the behavior of the ADCs in the atari's joystick ports. To port the system to a more modern machine, you would have to find hardware that can duplicate that function. --
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I saw a sudden dropoff in Nimda infection attempts a while ago.
It's quite obvious if you look at the graph I have here.
One moment, the nimda hit count is heading straight up, the next, a sharp bend to the right as the rate of new hits drops to almost nothing...
If you want to simplify things, I strongly suggest this book.
It's basically an outline of different strategies to cut down on unnecessary expenses, and still live life to the fullest.
Some of the strategies given might seem a little extreme (at least, if you don't compare them to this guy), but most of the suggestions are simple, make life more enjoyable, and the savings add up.
I think they started rather earlier than that...
If you don't like squeak, try Visualworks. It's a very nice commercial smalltalk that I worked with extensively when I was in grad school.
I've linked to the downloadable non-commercial-development version.
Smalltalk is very addictive once you start using it. I love the flexability that multiple polymorphism (selecting a method based on the name, and the types of all of the arguments, rather than on just the name, and maybe the first argument) offers, as well as the convience of being able to work on the same image from whatever platform (sun, windows, mac) that I happened to have access to.
Why bother writing your own caching code when you can just let your Webserver do it for you?
With Roxen's cache tag, I just threw <cache minutes=15> </cache> tags around the cpu intensive parts of mine and let Roxen handle the rest.
I do have a cron job that parses the logs every 15 minutes, and updates the backend database. (I could have done that from the web page as well, but then my samples wouldn't be taken every 15 minutes).
I've been having fun with that myself - I have a list of everyone who hit me here.
Lots are home users who probably don't realize that they have IIS running, but there are a few sites that look like decent sized places.
Not too many attacks where I am - so far this month I've seen the old worm 91 times, and the new worm only 13 times.
I'm making a nice graph of the infection attempts over time Here. It Should be fun to see how long it takes for version 2 to pass version 1.
It's never a mistake to grab an old SGI - Irix is slick, and if you don't want it, you can be sure that someone you know will swap you something for it.
I tried to grab this one a couple of years ago when MSU was getting rid of it.
Someone beat me to it, but later that day, I got a call offering it to me, as it wouldn't fit through the door of my friend's apartment!
I snapped it up, as I had plenty of room, and was working at a place where I had easy access to Irix disksets.
My theory about the new internet - the new internet will be as wildly popular as new Coke.
You might be closer than you realize - New Coke probably served it's purpose well (possibly to cover up a planned formula change from expensive sugar, to sweeter corn syrup in the origional product; or as a means of attracting massive amounts of media attention as Negativland suggested on one of the tracks of Dispepsi).
Announcing a NEW! SHINY!! network with lots of NEW! SHINY!! content would catch the eye of the overstimulated, media saturated, passive good little consumer we are all supposed to be. Get AOL or MSN on board, running your special protocal, with maybe a lone proxy allowing communication with the oldnet (Old BAD! see how slow it is? Ohhhh! Shiny Link!!!) Simplify it, and make it gradually as passive of an experience as you can.
That's how you kill off the old net...
You could always try some Pernod - it's an Absinthe substitute with a lower alcohol content, and no wormwood; but I've heard the taste is pretty close.
It does the same cool color change thing when it hits water - I used to drink Pernod and water a lot right after I turned 21. I think part of the reason was that I loved to watch the Pernod swirl into the water...
--
Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.
I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).
I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)
Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
--
Yep the cube can run gigabit - gigabit ethernet has been standard on all desktop macs for over a year now.
--
I thought it was the Millwrights union who insisted that they move anything that can't be carried under one arm, not the UAW.
Still, I find it more amusing than anything else - I just find it funny to watch someone pushing a huge cart on which is a single Sun workstation.
The thing that I am really amused by, is that apparently you need a union electrician if you want to hook a monitor to a system. I'm not sure if they have to do it, or if they just have to watch to make sure you don't plug it in wrong...
-Pathwalker (over at the TPC)
--
I don't remember him ever making nitro-glycerine, but I know he used to make a lot of thermite. He lost his eyebrows a few times setting off large charges in the woods somewhere.
He got the detectors from a surplus catalog - some place was selling lots of non-working electronics that had been stored out in the rain, and one of the items for sale was several cases of wrecked smoke detectors.
--
I'll ask him once the movie comes out - I remember hearing that there is one in the works.
--
I was off at college when he was actually raided, so I don't know for sure, but I don't think they threatened him with jail time, as he cooperated with them from the beginning, and told them where he had obtained everything.
I do know that he was extremely worried for a while that he would have to pay for the cleanup.
--
Still in the navy. I just ICQed some friends, and apparently he is getting out sometime this summer.
I think he plans on going to college when he gets out.
--
I went to high school with him, and was in the same scout troop as him (Troop 371).
We were in the same circle of (sometimes self proclaimed) weirdos who were all obsessive about one thing or another, and hung out together.
I remember when he brought in a giger counter, and we checked the food in the east center caf to see if it was radioactive. We had a good laugh when we got a blip from the soft serve ice cream.
Later, when he started carrying around radioactive material in his pockets at school, and showing me what looked like radiation burns, I tried to not hang out with him as much, and switched seats in Anthropology so that I wasn't right next to him.
It was a weird time - I was at MSU when I got the paniced call from him saying that the EPA was currently raiding his house, and wanting to know what catalog he had ordered the smoke detectors from.
The author who did the Harper's article was working on a book late last year - he asked me a few questions about Dave. I wonder when it will come out...
If anyone has any questions about Dave, just reply to this, and I'll answer what I remember...
--
--
A good portion of the time I am there, I have lots to do (changes happen at night, and it is the world's largest NFS installation (or so I've heard)), but for a lot of the nights, I just have to watch patrol/logfiles and keep an eye on the systems.
I can't write code for my own projects, as they own everything I write when I am at work.
I can't bring in my laptop, as I don't have a pass to get it back out of the building.(so, no games except the ones on my visor, and in xemacs)
What do I do?
- Get to know the night staff - I eat my lunch at about the time
the janitors finish, so I usually sit around with them and talk for a
while. I've heard some amazing stories
- Read manuals - check the tops of racks of equipment that outside
people (like EMC) maintain. Sometimes they'll leave the manuals there.
- Read documentation - SGI and
Apple have lots of cool reading,
not to mention Other
Places.
- Write throwaway code - They may own it, so just try things out.
See how fast you can get a parallel matrix multiply to go when
you spread it over all 16 or so of the processors of a nice beefy box.
- Automate things - write scripts to make life easier for everyone,
and give yourself even more free time to worry about!
- Read good books - I've been catching up on my reading backlog.
- Check HR's web page to double check your benefits - I found a nice
discount on books from fatbrain that I had missed.
- See if the zone where managers sit has better toilet paper in the
bathrooms.
And remember - if all else fails, you can always turn to math. The Unknowable and it's cool lisp based proofs made the nights just fly by this past week, and this is an old standby that has gotten me through many nights.--
Actually, pkg_version -c will tell you exactly what needs to be done to upgrade a port.
/usr/ports/news/slrn
Here's an example from my system...
pathwalker% pkg_version -c
#
# slrn
# needs updating (index has 0.9.6.3)
#
cd
make && pkg_delete -f slrn-0.9.6.2
make install
--
When I first thought about getting my iBook, I was concerned with having only one mouse button. After a very short time I actually started to like it!
:-)
My normal hand positions when using the trackpad are roughly this.
I keep the fingers of my left hand on function, control, option, and apple; and use my right hand on the trackpad. I just use the thumb of my right hand to hit that one big button.
I really appreciate not having to make all those little side to side finger motions in order to hit a different mouse button. I just hold down the function key I want (without any side to side movement of my left hand) and whack that big button with my thumb (no additional side to side movement of the right needed, as I can reach that big button from any position on the pad).
Now that I'm used to it, it's great
--
Good luck putting 500 gigs in a vic-20: It looks to me like the Vic 20 only had 3 address lines available for bank switching. I'd love to know how you plan to work around that.
Also, there were commercially available products to give over a meg of memory to an 800XL which just plugged into the expansion bus. Take a look here for an example of how far an 800XL could be pushed with commercially available upgrades in 1987. Sure blows the additional 512k that your C128+1750 had out of the water...
--
Actually, the 800XL could be boosted to at least 512K of ram.
I remember seeing an ad for a 4 meg upgrade a couple of years ago, but I can't find any trace of it on the web.
--
I think porting the application might be a little more problematic that you first realize.
They joystick ports on an atari 800xl were pretty complex for their time. Each one had 5 binary I/O channels, and 2 8 bit DAC/ADC channels.
It sounds to me from the story that the sensors they are using are dependant on the behavior of the ADCs in the atari's joystick ports. To port the system to a more modern machine, you would have to find hardware that can duplicate that function.
--