Along those lines, the NCSA at the Univ. of Illinois (Urbana) has had one for some time (note the Dec. 1997 "last updated"). I have actually had the opportunity to go into the CAVE. You wear special glasses and the experience is awesome. I would suggest that if you can get a tour in one, do so!
BTW, the link above has some user manuals as well as some descriptions about how the whole thing works.
There was a good manual on technical writing (which I have since lost) that pointed out when you have to bend the grammar rules to avoid this sort of thing. Their example was 'To delete a line in command mode, type dd.' dd will delete the line, but dd. will delete two lines! Quotes are also supposed to include a trailing period. But in the case of literal commands, quotes are just to include the command and ignore all other grammatical rules.
You know, I used to think that too. Until recently, I couldn't find a Dell laptop with Linux on it.
The trick, however, is not to look at their home / home office section, but rather their Small Office section. There you can find the Inspiron 7500 laptop with your choice of Windows or Linux. Only the 7500, and the default price is $3952, but you can knock that down to $3744 by removing those extraneous options like external keyboard and changing the warranty to 3 year next day on site. You can even drop it more by removing the ethernet and modem.
Along these lines, does anyone know a good company that makes well-done Linux laptops? The later VAIO's are good, and VA used to make some fine laptops (I'm only sorry I didn't get one then). Is there anyone else that does them right? Or is there any WinLaptop that out of the box will be nearly fully Linux supported yet has all the standard goodies (15" screen, built-in modem, etc)?
> How many of us actually read the source code for all the software that we run??
There is a mailing list devoted already to this: it's called the Security-Audit list. Its goal is to look at all the open source software's source so you don't have to, and look for this sort of thing. The FAQ is at http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~security/ and instructions for joining/sending is there.
The Sync seems to be slashdotted... is there anywhere you guys can set up a mirror server? Is The Sync accepting applications for mirror servers? Help! I need my GIS!
This would be cool if you could use a CD-RW to play your MP3's from. Then I could just add and subtract my MP3s without having to burn a full CD every time I want to change my playlist. I can't tell from the specs, though, if this is possible.
Also, I know the Rio has problems with 128 kbps MP3's, and you need to make them 96 kbps... does this have that same limitation?
It's sort of ironic you chose nuclear secrets for this sort of discussion, because this ties into national news as well. (National news? The big blue room? Aieee!)
There was an incident at Los Alamos labs where a person had access to nuclear secrets in an encrypted channel, and then copied them to an unencrypted channel and send them to China. When you look at it, it's what you're talking about - "secrets" that should not be exported from the US (crypto or nuke) being sent to another country for development of a "program" there. That's what this boils down to. And in the case of nukes, people have resigned and others may be indicted and convicted of espionage.
On the other hand, I can't help but wonder if anyone working on SSH or the like is in the United States, and if that violates any laws...
"Amends the Federal criminal code to extend the prohibition against the unauthorized interception of communications to specified types of electronic communications. Prohibits unauthorized access to an electronic communications system in order to obtain or alter information contained in such system."
The thing to note, though, is that it's unauthorized interception and unauthorized access. Since they own the server, they authorize themselves to access the information on the system, and hence, it's legal for them to do.
In regards to your second question: did you look at the results of the last poll? 62 / 22941 people are 10 and under. And 1536 people are 11-17. Bottom line, if 94% of the/. readership is old enough to view it, and it's (marginally) funny, then Rob has every right to post it. Besides, any parent who doesn't watch their young kids on the 'net is asking for trouble.
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The "What Do You Think" gag is still there: WDYT: Too Sexy Too Soon? (this week's)
And yes, there is a Systems Analyist in the group.
March 3-4, 2000, actually. The EOH page is here.
Along those lines, the NCSA at the Univ. of Illinois (Urbana) has had one for some time (note the Dec. 1997 "last updated"). I have actually had the opportunity to go into the CAVE. You wear special glasses and the experience is awesome. I would suggest that if you can get a tour in one, do so!
BTW, the link above has some user manuals as well as some descriptions about how the whole thing works.
No, that actually deletes 10 lines. :-)
There was a good manual on technical writing (which I have since lost) that pointed out when you have to bend the grammar rules to avoid this sort of thing. Their example was 'To delete a line in command mode, type dd.' dd will delete the line, but dd. will delete two lines! Quotes are also supposed to include a trailing period. But in the case of literal commands, quotes are just to include the command and ignore all other grammatical rules.
You know, I used to think that too. Until recently, I couldn't find a Dell laptop with Linux on it.
The trick, however, is not to look at their home / home office section, but rather their Small Office section. There you can find the Inspiron 7500 laptop with your choice of Windows or Linux. Only the 7500, and the default price is $3952, but you can knock that down to $3744 by removing those extraneous options like external keyboard and changing the warranty to 3 year next day on site. You can even drop it more by removing the ethernet and modem.
Along these lines, does anyone know a good company that makes well-done Linux laptops? The later VAIO's are good, and VA used to make some fine laptops (I'm only sorry I didn't get one then). Is there anyone else that does them right? Or is there any WinLaptop that out of the box will be nearly fully Linux supported yet has all the standard goodies (15" screen, built-in modem, etc)?
There is a mailing list devoted already to this: it's called the Security-Audit list. Its goal is to look at all the open source software's source so you don't have to, and look for this sort of thing. The FAQ is at http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~security/ and instructions for joining/sending is there.
The Sync seems to be slashdotted... is there anywhere you guys can set up a mirror server? Is The Sync accepting applications for mirror servers? Help! I need my GIS!
This would be cool if you could use a CD-RW to play your MP3's from. Then I could just add and subtract my MP3s without having to burn a full CD every time I want to change my playlist. I can't tell from the specs, though, if this is possible.
Also, I know the Rio has problems with 128 kbps MP3's, and you need to make them 96 kbps... does this have that same limitation?
It's sort of ironic you chose nuclear secrets for this sort of discussion, because this ties into national news as well. (National news? The big blue room? Aieee!)
There was an incident at Los Alamos labs where a person had access to nuclear secrets in an encrypted channel, and then copied them to an unencrypted channel and send them to China. When you look at it, it's what you're talking about - "secrets" that should not be exported from the US (crypto or nuke) being sent to another country for development of a "program" there. That's what this boils down to. And in the case of nukes, people have resigned and others may be indicted and convicted of espionage.
On the other hand, I can't help but wonder if anyone working on SSH or the like is in the United States, and if that violates any laws...
"Amends the Federal criminal code to extend the prohibition against the unauthorized interception of communications to specified types of electronic communications. Prohibits unauthorized access to an electronic communications system in order to obtain or alter information contained in such system."
The thing to note, though, is that it's unauthorized interception and unauthorized access. Since they own the server, they authorize themselves to access the information on the system, and hence, it's legal for them to do.
In regards to your second question: did you look at the results of the last poll? 62 / 22941 people are 10 and under. And 1536 people are 11-17. Bottom line, if 94% of the /. readership is old enough to view it, and it's (marginally) funny, then Rob has every right to post it. Besides, any parent who doesn't watch their young kids on the 'net is asking for trouble.