Could we get some references in regard to problems with ZFS on FreeBSD with less than 4GB of RAM? Or at least, some personal experience or explanation for this statement? Preferably in regard to version 8, as arguably, anyone with problems on 7.x could "simply" upgrade.
The ZFS Tuning Guide for FreeBSD indicates, simply, that one should have at least 1GB of RAM.
The theory that was told to me by Mayans, and confirmed by several online sources, is that of severe drought, exacerbated by deforestation. It seems that most large tribes split, smaller ones formed, and perhaps some small villages existed in a relative state of anarchy. By the time the Europeans arrived, there were still (or again) some larger tribes. Of course, the Mayans still live today, both ethnically and -- to a degree -- culturally.
I can't comment for elsewhere, but in Philadelphia, we can receive Clear 4G service which is advertised to be sufficient for watching web videos. We also have Verizon FiOS available to most residences and the pricing without video or telephone service isn't too bad. Unfortunately, our over-the-air reception is terrible to the point of useless, and web video isn't sufficiently high-def or well-performing for anything more than occasional watching. Once flash is hardware accelerated and such acceleration works on my hardware, I'll consider a switch. Personally, I'd prefer to simply use over-the-air, but it just doesn't work, plus I'd still have to purchase/build an ATSC DVR.
So, what *do* I do? I subscribe to Dish Network (Echostar) for television with their high-definition, dual-tuner DVR, Verizon FiOS (25mbps/25mbps) for internet, T-Mobile with a G1 (& data plan) for mobile, and Broadvoice for the "land line". I consider the landline nad higher-tier internet packages necessary for my home business. I think I've pretty-much found the "sweet spot" in terms of hardware & sofware quality, price. Altogether, the monthly bill comes to just about $200/mo. I'm about to drop this further, however, down to $155/mo by some trickery involving the purchase of an iPad and AT&T 3G service; I'd drop the T-Mobile service, but move my (unlocked) Android phone to AT&T.
I usually use PXE for installations, especially, but not only, when dealing in an environment large enough to be affected by media costs. For times I'm in a "small environment" and PXE seems unreasonable, such as when helping a friend at his house, a single flash drive can be rewritten whenever an image is required, at a minor time expense no worse than burning a DVD, but without the size, noise, heat, weight, or scratches. As far as the costs are concerned, less than half of my flash devices have been purchased (generally when I needed something high performance for a camera or phone), the others have been swag from conferences. (As I glace woefully at my Sun Microsystems 2GB flash drive)
While food is necessary to live, breathing is also necessary. What is smoking other than tasty and pleasant, but unhealthy breathing? While we are in arms about lung disease resulting from breathing harmful air, we ignore the heart disease resulting from eating harmful food.
I'm completely for this. I see no difference between this and "Joe Camel", I hope this becomes a trend across the nation.
I was recently at a drive through, looking at the (empty) playground of a local Burger King. I thought how terrible it is that these fast food companies have tried to attract children to their unhealthy foods. Playgrounds, playful characters such as Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar, happy meals, and movies such as Mac & Me, really show how terribly affected my generation was by this advertising. I remember wanting to go to McDonalds as a child so I could see a cloud and receive a toy. I highly suspect that these companies only scaled back their tactics as a defensive tactic after seeing how the cigarette companies were treated.
Yes, we can argue that parents should be more responsible, but parents cannot shield their children completely from outside influences, while -- to a certain extent -- government can. Parents were generally not giving their children cigarettes, but Camel advertising was shown to have produced an effect on children. Fast food restaurants giving "educational field trips" to elementary schools, as I recall from my own childhood, wasn't an altruistic act of these companies, they were in it for the long-tail. Lets not get started on birthday parties... These companies have been worse than the cigarette companies, showing no shame in their actions. As far as I know, I might be wrong, Camel never gave away children's toys, provided playgrounds, gave tours as elementry-school field-trips, nor had "Joe Camel" themed birthday parties. I doubt Camel ever had a man dress up as Joe Camel, blowing balloons (or smoke rings!) at birthday parties.
While you're mourning the loss of the floppy, I'm waiting for the death of the CD/DVD. They're big, they scratch, they're not optimal for read/write. More and more of our devices are mobile and CD readers are both large and heavy.
Digital distribution and flash media replace the necessity for the CD. Of the 3 CD/DVDs I've bought since 2005, two were Apple OS upgrades and one was a video game. The video game is now available on Steam. The OS upgrades could be easily transferred and sold on flash media, or sold online and transferred by the user either to DVD or flash media, as to their preference.
Right now, the CD/DVD format is enjoying the same obsolesce, yet pervasiveness, the floppy enjoyed circa 1999. They'll be (practically) dead soon enough...
Not sure about the USA, but there are disk manufacturers in Europe, particularly in Poland and the Czech republic. My wife kept a job with such a manufacturer for about 6 months when she and I lived in Poland briefly. Surprised that there was such an operation in Poland, I did some research, finding that many drive manufacturers operate in Europe, not in Asia. Presumably, they can better control the production quality of a device such as a hard disk, while exploiting the low-cost wages of the post-soviet states. Not that I should be surprised, many other companies do the same thing, Dell in particular is well-known for this.
You can run VoIP apps on the iPod Touch already, in theory. The problem is that the hardware and software are a bit limited. The iPod has a loud-speaker and no microphone, requiring a headset. Unfortunately, perhaps obviously, Apple does not provide the HSP profile for using a headset on the iPod, but you *can* use a wired headset. Arguably and unconfirmed, you might be able to add the missing profile via a jailbreak, which would be little different than running Android on the device anyway...
The primary things Android would offer, in regard to VoIP, would be support for the HSP profile and a wider choice of VoIP applications (especially if you can still retain the iPhone OS).
Saying "Centronics" is like saying "Molex", when there are different Centronics and Molex connectors. I mean, how would I differentiate between his printer cables and SCSI-1 cables!?! Geez!
Furthermore, why bring printers into this, when there are other things that could be connected via that parallel port cable? Sure, printers were the most common thing connected to that port, but not the *only* thing. Additionally, I never really understood why people still call parallel null-modem cables, "laplink". It is like calling diapers, "Huggies", or pacifiers, "Binkies" -- and who does that? (Hint: I don't)
It is well known that small businesses are innovators. Software patents are necessary to allow small businesses to compete with the large corporations which might otherwise copy, repackage, and sell the innovations of small businesses. There are definitely problems in the patent system, it is all too frequently abused. The negative attitude here on slashdot is, I'm afraid, a result of a successful campaign by the Free Software Foundation. I love open source software, both as a user and as a contributor, and it is unfortunate that patents do negatively affect, in many ways, the work of the free software movement. That does not, however, make patents evil, they are a necessity for the continued growth of technology and of a capitalistic economy.
In regard, again, to free software, it does seem more and more like the comparison of communism versus capitalism. Surely, there is some innovation in free software, but much of that originates from commercial entities looking to upsell other products. It is reminiscent of how the only innovation in (classic) communist countries originated from a national agenda, such as the Russian space program. However, even in the commercially supported open source software realm, many of the "good parts" are often kept under a lock and key, such as with Zimbra or SugarCRM. My point is, that without a capitalistic agenda, innovation does not happen. Innovation does not happen without a strong patent system, as inventors are motivated by money. It is not that companies and people won't invent without money, but that money stimulates and motivates in a way that pure interest, desire, and passion do not -- keeping in mind that the financial stimulation is in addition to, not in lieu of passion-based innovations!
The point? Do you work for free? What if you built a better mousetrap and began marketing it, but before you had the time to take it off the ground, a large national manufacturer began selling copies of your design? This wouldn't be protected under copyright, but would be covered under patents. This same scenario can happen with software too and small independent developers need protection, or they'll stop innovating completely, sell their businesses, and get themselves hired by large firms. Without competition, the large firms will stop innovating as well, and we'll all just twiddle our thumbs as we wait for the rest of the world to eclipse our rotting corpse of an economy.
I am far from being someone that blindly believes troops can do no wrong. I also took to the streets opposing this war before it started. However, I believe that the soldiers did the right thing here.
To the soldiers, it matters not what the situation is, but what it appears to be. There was a gathering of people unusual enough that it prompted review. Men were seen carrying items strapped to their shoulders, one man was peering around a corner with an object which looked like an RPG. The van did not have a Red Crescent, which would have given it protected status for providing medical assistance. To the vantage point of the soldiers, the van was attempting to assist the escape of enemies, thus also enemies. This plays to me as a terrible, but justifiable mistake. A soldier used his best judgment to access a threat and was wrong. It happens.
In my opinion, the only thing wrong here was the cover-up itself.
What is scary for those convicted of such crimes is that computing devices are so ubiquitous that they're being integrated into common devices such as phones and televisions. An increasing number of televisions and content provider set-top boxes allow apps for access to twitter, facebook, instant messengers, etc.
Furthermore, essential services which used to be "offline" are now, effectively, online. Landlines and television are now provided to millions over IP. For those banned from computers and internet, I imagine the growth of technology will make it impossible for them to comply with their restrictions, either forcing a change of law and/or sentencing, or shoving these people back into jail due to inescapable consequences of the moving technology landscape.
From approximately 1999 through 2002, I worked on the Quakeforge project. Amongst other things, I added some special effects, gzip file loading, and maintained ports to Irix, Solaris, and PowerPC Linux.
The greatest problem that Quake has is legacy. This is an old code base with numerous forks and a great amount of code sharing between projects. Closing the source to a Quake engine is like opening the source of a commercial Unix, you've got code from all over the place and you're not sure where it came from.
When I first heard that Darkplaces / Nexuiz was closing the source, I spent half a day reviewing their source to determine if any of my own code had been included. That search resulted in a determination that the project definitely contained my code at one point, but I could no longer recognize any offending bits. Still, I'm not entirely certain that my code has been entirely removed. The work on ports was particularly concerning to me as non-portable code can exist throughout a code base, I could potentially have a single character infringed.;-)
At the end of the day, however, I'm not really against this as long as they can account for the code and settle with the independent contributors. They have at least appeared to resolve this amicably with the contributors, unlike the ill-fated QuakeLives project which, in 2000, very clearly violated the GPL, prompting outrage within the Quake developer community and within id software itself.
Dish Network has the VIP 722 which many argue is very competitive to a TiVO. It does lack some features, but it also provides others which the TiVO doesn't offer. It is worth, at least, a consideration.
First, keep in mind that name-based virtual hosting with HTTPS is very limited. With few exceptions, you're quite restricted in your ability to host multiple SSL-encrypted sites on a single IP address. Most often, one must instead assign each SSL-encrypted virtualhost to a dedicated IP address. If every website was, today, to switch to HTTPS-only operation, and if the RIRs were to allow it, we would immediately run out of IPv4 addresses. You can argue that we should instead be using IPv6, and I might agree, but we're simply not there yet.
Secondly, performance is a major consideration for many companies. This is especially true for internet marketing & advertising efforts, for whom every millisecond matters in their ability to serve their content. Advertisers are unlikely to prefer SSL over unencrypted content. Worse, marketers are those most likely to desire poor security practices in order to gather information and track users, while also being those that provide means of financial sustainability for many sites. That is, if the marketing companies won't go for it, the companies being paid by the marketing companies won't go for it.
Thirdly, cookies and other domain-specific security measures may not be functional via HTTPS, depending on the browser's security configuration. Some browsers provide warnings or block unencrypted content sourced by encrypted pages, or originating from another domain. These security profile of the browser may be much different for SSL-protected sites than for unencrypted pages. Ultimately, this would prevent, discourage, and limit advertising efforts which (again) drive the sustainability of many sites.
Power. I pack my laptop and bring a plug adapter for my charger. Most chargers let you replace the cable which runs between the brick and the wall, but unless you plan to frequent the UK often, I suggest just buying a universal adapter. Personally, have a 6-way universal plug adapter which rotates to select the necessary male adapter for countries I visit infrequently, such as the UK, but have a plug replacement for central Europe as I visit Poland and Germany with frequency.
Wifi. I suggest that you do NOT flash your wifi adapter's firmware or modify your software. The US allows channels 1-11, while Europe allows 1-13. All this means is that there might be some channels you can't reach. If you're any place that targets international customers, it should be assumed that they'll take this into consideration, will configure on a channel between 1-11, and you'll have no problem connecting. To be honest, if I can help it, the only Wifi I use when traveling is that provided by my telephone...
Internet. Vodaphone sells a "3G" modem with sim and 15GBP top-up included for 34.99GBP. This is enough to last you at least a week, possibly two. In the US, my carrier is T-Mobile, my phone is G1. I had T-mobile unlock my phone, I jailbroke it, and I simply bought a sim with 15GBP top-up from Vodaphone. This provided my telephone, SMS, and internet for both my phone and laptop. If you have T-Mobile or AT&T in the US, you might also be able to do this to save yourself 20GBP.
Food. Don't forget the vital step of eating. If you want to eat cheap, find sandwiches. Specifically, look for "Eat." and "Pret A Manger". The food at "Eat." is excellent, but mostly of a vegetarian, vegan, and fishy variety. Pret has a good selection of meaty deliciousness, but all selections do lean towards healthy eating. Between the healthy food, walking, and the incredible number of stairs in St Paul's cathedral, prepare to lose some weight! There are also plenty of small kiosks with sandwiches, if you're daring enough. Otherwise, be prepared to spend some serious cash on food.
Travel. You can get a weekly pass or top-up an Oyster card. Personally, I found that I was seeing a lot more of London when I had the weekly pass. Most will probably say to top-up the Oyster, and it will save you money. That is certainly true if you're using it for small one-off day trips. However, but if you're like me, you will experience more of London in less time, with less guilt with an "unlimited" pass. On the unlimited pass, I could start my morning by browsing the shops of Croydon, browse the Tate in the afternoon, have lunch in Earl's Court, jump over to a pub in the east end, and see a West End show in the evening... all without worrying about how much money I'm spending for travel.
I tether my laptop to my Android phone via wifi. The advantage is that I don't need to carry a cellular modem for my laptop, have a separate data plan, or swap sim cards (on GSM networks). The fact that someone else can use the connection is an additional bonus. I used to have a separate data plan and 3G modem, and I'd even share this connection via iptables/NAT from my Linux laptop. It worked, yes, but it is much better to just let my phone handle this now.
As for a MiFi, this is different in that you're using a special device, losing the advantage of leveraging your phone hardware, and ultimately pay more. The advantage being that you're not breaking your service agreement, have a carrier-supported solution, and you don't need to root your phone. With all of the limitations of the MiFi, it is not significantly better than using a cellular modem.
Personally, I hope that carriers start to loosen up and allow (wifi) tethering, because this really provides the best of all worlds.
The problem with using a BIOS password is that the disk could be removed from the machine. This can be solved by one or both of the following solutions:
1. JB-Weld or similar epoxy. Getting the disk out of the laptop will require destroying it, and possibly damaging the data. This doesn't make covert operations impossible, but makes it a lot harder.
2. A latch-triggered combustion mechanism. Try pulling the disk out and *poof*. Maybe this could be accomplished through a simple spring-loaded latch and some wires to the laptop battery?
You mean the parents that have been so busy blaming everyone else, that the haven't looked at themselves? The mother that told the girl to "go ahead" when she suggested killing herself?
The fact is that while this girl's story is tragic, it had very little to do with being bullied over the internet. More so, I don't see the difference in this case of how the internet would have been any different than had she been bullied at school. Even the concept of faking a crush could have been done in analogue through locker notes and similar tactics. However, how the bullying was done has very little consequence on the end result. This girl had a fight with her mother and killed herself as a result of that fight. Furthermore, this was a girl that was already undergoing counseling for suicidal tenancies, her mother had been educated in suicide awareness and as a result of her own anger, ignored the signs.
It is pretty confusing. The "free" link lists all scenes that haven't yet been "claimed" or "finished". Currently, there are no scenes that are neither. However, each scene may be claimed/finished up to three times, so you can select a scene that has only 1-2 claims against it, or if you see a "finished" scene which you feel could be done better, you can put a claim against it.
Currently, finished scenes are marked in blue and claims are marked in red. Any scene that has less than a total of three claims, finished or not (if red+blue 3), may be claimed.
A tarpit will have very limited effect against a distributed attack. Each IP many only attack once, at which point a tarpit has no value in stopping the attack.
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Could we get some references in regard to problems with ZFS on FreeBSD with less than 4GB of RAM? Or at least, some personal experience or explanation for this statement? Preferably in regard to version 8, as arguably, anyone with problems on 7.x could "simply" upgrade.
The ZFS Tuning Guide for FreeBSD indicates, simply, that one should have at least 1GB of RAM.
The theory that was told to me by Mayans, and confirmed by several online sources, is that of severe drought, exacerbated by deforestation. It seems that most large tribes split, smaller ones formed, and perhaps some small villages existed in a relative state of anarchy. By the time the Europeans arrived, there were still (or again) some larger tribes. Of course, the Mayans still live today, both ethnically and -- to a degree -- culturally.
I can't comment for elsewhere, but in Philadelphia, we can receive Clear 4G service which is advertised to be sufficient for watching web videos. We also have Verizon FiOS available to most residences and the pricing without video or telephone service isn't too bad. Unfortunately, our over-the-air reception is terrible to the point of useless, and web video isn't sufficiently high-def or well-performing for anything more than occasional watching. Once flash is hardware accelerated and such acceleration works on my hardware, I'll consider a switch. Personally, I'd prefer to simply use over-the-air, but it just doesn't work, plus I'd still have to purchase/build an ATSC DVR.
So, what *do* I do? I subscribe to Dish Network (Echostar) for television with their high-definition, dual-tuner DVR, Verizon FiOS (25mbps/25mbps) for internet, T-Mobile with a G1 (& data plan) for mobile, and Broadvoice for the "land line". I consider the landline nad higher-tier internet packages necessary for my home business. I think I've pretty-much found the "sweet spot" in terms of hardware & sofware quality, price. Altogether, the monthly bill comes to just about $200/mo. I'm about to drop this further, however, down to $155/mo by some trickery involving the purchase of an iPad and AT&T 3G service; I'd drop the T-Mobile service, but move my (unlocked) Android phone to AT&T.
I usually use PXE for installations, especially, but not only, when dealing in an environment large enough to be affected by media costs. For times I'm in a "small environment" and PXE seems unreasonable, such as when helping a friend at his house, a single flash drive can be rewritten whenever an image is required, at a minor time expense no worse than burning a DVD, but without the size, noise, heat, weight, or scratches. As far as the costs are concerned, less than half of my flash devices have been purchased (generally when I needed something high performance for a camera or phone), the others have been swag from conferences. (As I glace woefully at my Sun Microsystems 2GB flash drive)
While food is necessary to live, breathing is also necessary. What is smoking other than tasty and pleasant, but unhealthy breathing? While we are in arms about lung disease resulting from breathing harmful air, we ignore the heart disease resulting from eating harmful food.
I'm completely for this. I see no difference between this and "Joe Camel", I hope this becomes a trend across the nation.
I was recently at a drive through, looking at the (empty) playground of a local Burger King. I thought how terrible it is that these fast food companies have tried to attract children to their unhealthy foods. Playgrounds, playful characters such as Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar, happy meals, and movies such as Mac & Me, really show how terribly affected my generation was by this advertising. I remember wanting to go to McDonalds as a child so I could see a cloud and receive a toy. I highly suspect that these companies only scaled back their tactics as a defensive tactic after seeing how the cigarette companies were treated.
Yes, we can argue that parents should be more responsible, but parents cannot shield their children completely from outside influences, while -- to a certain extent -- government can. Parents were generally not giving their children cigarettes, but Camel advertising was shown to have produced an effect on children. Fast food restaurants giving "educational field trips" to elementary schools, as I recall from my own childhood, wasn't an altruistic act of these companies, they were in it for the long-tail. Lets not get started on birthday parties... These companies have been worse than the cigarette companies, showing no shame in their actions. As far as I know, I might be wrong, Camel never gave away children's toys, provided playgrounds, gave tours as elementry-school field-trips, nor had "Joe Camel" themed birthday parties. I doubt Camel ever had a man dress up as Joe Camel, blowing balloons (or smoke rings!) at birthday parties.
While you're mourning the loss of the floppy, I'm waiting for the death of the CD/DVD. They're big, they scratch, they're not optimal for read/write. More and more of our devices are mobile and CD readers are both large and heavy.
Digital distribution and flash media replace the necessity for the CD. Of the 3 CD/DVDs I've bought since 2005, two were Apple OS upgrades and one was a video game. The video game is now available on Steam. The OS upgrades could be easily transferred and sold on flash media, or sold online and transferred by the user either to DVD or flash media, as to their preference.
Right now, the CD/DVD format is enjoying the same obsolesce, yet pervasiveness, the floppy enjoyed circa 1999. They'll be (practically) dead soon enough...
Perhaps rather than 1984, Brazil is on the brink of... Brazil (1985).
Not sure about the USA, but there are disk manufacturers in Europe, particularly in Poland and the Czech republic. My wife kept a job with such a manufacturer for about 6 months when she and I lived in Poland briefly. Surprised that there was such an operation in Poland, I did some research, finding that many drive manufacturers operate in Europe, not in Asia. Presumably, they can better control the production quality of a device such as a hard disk, while exploiting the low-cost wages of the post-soviet states. Not that I should be surprised, many other companies do the same thing, Dell in particular is well-known for this.
You can run VoIP apps on the iPod Touch already, in theory. The problem is that the hardware and software are a bit limited. The iPod has a loud-speaker and no microphone, requiring a headset. Unfortunately, perhaps obviously, Apple does not provide the HSP profile for using a headset on the iPod, but you *can* use a wired headset. Arguably and unconfirmed, you might be able to add the missing profile via a jailbreak, which would be little different than running Android on the device anyway...
The primary things Android would offer, in regard to VoIP, would be support for the HSP profile and a wider choice of VoIP applications (especially if you can still retain the iPhone OS).
Saying "Centronics" is like saying "Molex", when there are different Centronics and Molex connectors. I mean, how would I differentiate between his printer cables and SCSI-1 cables!?! Geez!
Furthermore, why bring printers into this, when there are other things that could be connected via that parallel port cable? Sure, printers were the most common thing connected to that port, but not the *only* thing. Additionally, I never really understood why people still call parallel null-modem cables, "laplink". It is like calling diapers, "Huggies", or pacifiers, "Binkies" -- and who does that? (Hint: I don't)
It is well known that small businesses are innovators. Software patents are necessary to allow small businesses to compete with the large corporations which might otherwise copy, repackage, and sell the innovations of small businesses. There are definitely problems in the patent system, it is all too frequently abused. The negative attitude here on slashdot is, I'm afraid, a result of a successful campaign by the Free Software Foundation. I love open source software, both as a user and as a contributor, and it is unfortunate that patents do negatively affect, in many ways, the work of the free software movement. That does not, however, make patents evil, they are a necessity for the continued growth of technology and of a capitalistic economy.
In regard, again, to free software, it does seem more and more like the comparison of communism versus capitalism. Surely, there is some innovation in free software, but much of that originates from commercial entities looking to upsell other products. It is reminiscent of how the only innovation in (classic) communist countries originated from a national agenda, such as the Russian space program. However, even in the commercially supported open source software realm, many of the "good parts" are often kept under a lock and key, such as with Zimbra or SugarCRM. My point is, that without a capitalistic agenda, innovation does not happen. Innovation does not happen without a strong patent system, as inventors are motivated by money. It is not that companies and people won't invent without money, but that money stimulates and motivates in a way that pure interest, desire, and passion do not -- keeping in mind that the financial stimulation is in addition to, not in lieu of passion-based innovations!
The point? Do you work for free? What if you built a better mousetrap and began marketing it, but before you had the time to take it off the ground, a large national manufacturer began selling copies of your design? This wouldn't be protected under copyright, but would be covered under patents. This same scenario can happen with software too and small independent developers need protection, or they'll stop innovating completely, sell their businesses, and get themselves hired by large firms. Without competition, the large firms will stop innovating as well, and we'll all just twiddle our thumbs as we wait for the rest of the world to eclipse our rotting corpse of an economy.
I am far from being someone that blindly believes troops can do no wrong. I also took to the streets opposing this war before it started. However, I believe that the soldiers did the right thing here.
To the soldiers, it matters not what the situation is, but what it appears to be. There was a gathering of people unusual enough that it prompted review. Men were seen carrying items strapped to their shoulders, one man was peering around a corner with an object which looked like an RPG. The van did not have a Red Crescent, which would have given it protected status for providing medical assistance. To the vantage point of the soldiers, the van was attempting to assist the escape of enemies, thus also enemies. This plays to me as a terrible, but justifiable mistake. A soldier used his best judgment to access a threat and was wrong. It happens.
In my opinion, the only thing wrong here was the cover-up itself.
What is scary for those convicted of such crimes is that computing devices are so ubiquitous that they're being integrated into common devices such as phones and televisions. An increasing number of televisions and content provider set-top boxes allow apps for access to twitter, facebook, instant messengers, etc.
Furthermore, essential services which used to be "offline" are now, effectively, online. Landlines and television are now provided to millions over IP. For those banned from computers and internet, I imagine the growth of technology will make it impossible for them to comply with their restrictions, either forcing a change of law and/or sentencing, or shoving these people back into jail due to inescapable consequences of the moving technology landscape.
From approximately 1999 through 2002, I worked on the Quakeforge project. Amongst other things, I added some special effects, gzip file loading, and maintained ports to Irix, Solaris, and PowerPC Linux.
The greatest problem that Quake has is legacy. This is an old code base with numerous forks and a great amount of code sharing between projects. Closing the source to a Quake engine is like opening the source of a commercial Unix, you've got code from all over the place and you're not sure where it came from.
When I first heard that Darkplaces / Nexuiz was closing the source, I spent half a day reviewing their source to determine if any of my own code had been included. That search resulted in a determination that the project definitely contained my code at one point, but I could no longer recognize any offending bits. Still, I'm not entirely certain that my code has been entirely removed. The work on ports was particularly concerning to me as non-portable code can exist throughout a code base, I could potentially have a single character infringed. ;-)
At the end of the day, however, I'm not really against this as long as they can account for the code and settle with the independent contributors. They have at least appeared to resolve this amicably with the contributors, unlike the ill-fated QuakeLives project which, in 2000, very clearly violated the GPL, prompting outrage within the Quake developer community and within id software itself.
Dish Network has the VIP 722 which many argue is very competitive to a TiVO. It does lack some features, but it also provides others which the TiVO doesn't offer. It is worth, at least, a consideration.
Unfortunately, firefighters *starting* fires is a real problem, just this year...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479843,00.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/03/french-firefighters-admit_n_250133.html
First, keep in mind that name-based virtual hosting with HTTPS is very limited. With few exceptions, you're quite restricted in your ability to host multiple SSL-encrypted sites on a single IP address. Most often, one must instead assign each SSL-encrypted virtualhost to a dedicated IP address. If every website was, today, to switch to HTTPS-only operation, and if the RIRs were to allow it, we would immediately run out of IPv4 addresses. You can argue that we should instead be using IPv6, and I might agree, but we're simply not there yet.
Secondly, performance is a major consideration for many companies. This is especially true for internet marketing & advertising efforts, for whom every millisecond matters in their ability to serve their content. Advertisers are unlikely to prefer SSL over unencrypted content. Worse, marketers are those most likely to desire poor security practices in order to gather information and track users, while also being those that provide means of financial sustainability for many sites. That is, if the marketing companies won't go for it, the companies being paid by the marketing companies won't go for it.
Thirdly, cookies and other domain-specific security measures may not be functional via HTTPS, depending on the browser's security configuration. Some browsers provide warnings or block unencrypted content sourced by encrypted pages, or originating from another domain. These security profile of the browser may be much different for SSL-protected sites than for unencrypted pages. Ultimately, this would prevent, discourage, and limit advertising efforts which (again) drive the sustainability of many sites.
Power. I pack my laptop and bring a plug adapter for my charger. Most chargers let you replace the cable which runs between the brick and the wall, but unless you plan to frequent the UK often, I suggest just buying a universal adapter. Personally, have a 6-way universal plug adapter which rotates to select the necessary male adapter for countries I visit infrequently, such as the UK, but have a plug replacement for central Europe as I visit Poland and Germany with frequency.
Wifi. I suggest that you do NOT flash your wifi adapter's firmware or modify your software. The US allows channels 1-11, while Europe allows 1-13. All this means is that there might be some channels you can't reach. If you're any place that targets international customers, it should be assumed that they'll take this into consideration, will configure on a channel between 1-11, and you'll have no problem connecting. To be honest, if I can help it, the only Wifi I use when traveling is that provided by my telephone...
Internet. Vodaphone sells a "3G" modem with sim and 15GBP top-up included for 34.99GBP. This is enough to last you at least a week, possibly two. In the US, my carrier is T-Mobile, my phone is G1. I had T-mobile unlock my phone, I jailbroke it, and I simply bought a sim with 15GBP top-up from Vodaphone. This provided my telephone, SMS, and internet for both my phone and laptop. If you have T-Mobile or AT&T in the US, you might also be able to do this to save yourself 20GBP.
Food. Don't forget the vital step of eating. If you want to eat cheap, find sandwiches. Specifically, look for "Eat." and "Pret A Manger". The food at "Eat." is excellent, but mostly of a vegetarian, vegan, and fishy variety. Pret has a good selection of meaty deliciousness, but all selections do lean towards healthy eating. Between the healthy food, walking, and the incredible number of stairs in St Paul's cathedral, prepare to lose some weight! There are also plenty of small kiosks with sandwiches, if you're daring enough. Otherwise, be prepared to spend some serious cash on food.
Travel. You can get a weekly pass or top-up an Oyster card. Personally, I found that I was seeing a lot more of London when I had the weekly pass. Most will probably say to top-up the Oyster, and it will save you money. That is certainly true if you're using it for small one-off day trips. However, but if you're like me, you will experience more of London in less time, with less guilt with an "unlimited" pass. On the unlimited pass, I could start my morning by browsing the shops of Croydon, browse the Tate in the afternoon, have lunch in Earl's Court, jump over to a pub in the east end, and see a West End show in the evening... all without worrying about how much money I'm spending for travel.
Finally.. have fun!
I tether my laptop to my Android phone via wifi. The advantage is that I don't need to carry a cellular modem for my laptop, have a separate data plan, or swap sim cards (on GSM networks). The fact that someone else can use the connection is an additional bonus. I used to have a separate data plan and 3G modem, and I'd even share this connection via iptables/NAT from my Linux laptop. It worked, yes, but it is much better to just let my phone handle this now.
As for a MiFi, this is different in that you're using a special device, losing the advantage of leveraging your phone hardware, and ultimately pay more. The advantage being that you're not breaking your service agreement, have a carrier-supported solution, and you don't need to root your phone. With all of the limitations of the MiFi, it is not significantly better than using a cellular modem.
Personally, I hope that carriers start to loosen up and allow (wifi) tethering, because this really provides the best of all worlds.
The problem with using a BIOS password is that the disk could be removed from the machine. This can be solved by one or both of the following solutions:
1. JB-Weld or similar epoxy. Getting the disk out of the laptop will require destroying it, and possibly damaging the data. This doesn't make covert operations impossible, but makes it a lot harder.
2. A latch-triggered combustion mechanism. Try pulling the disk out and *poof*. Maybe this could be accomplished through a simple spring-loaded latch and some wires to the laptop battery?
You mean the parents that have been so busy blaming everyone else, that the haven't looked at themselves? The mother that told the girl to "go ahead" when she suggested killing herself?
The fact is that while this girl's story is tragic, it had very little to do with being bullied over the internet. More so, I don't see the difference in this case of how the internet would have been any different than had she been bullied at school. Even the concept of faking a crush could have been done in analogue through locker notes and similar tactics. However, how the bullying was done has very little consequence on the end result. This girl had a fight with her mother and killed herself as a result of that fight. Furthermore, this was a girl that was already undergoing counseling for suicidal tenancies, her mother had been educated in suicide awareness and as a result of her own anger, ignored the signs.
It is pretty confusing. The "free" link lists all scenes that haven't yet been "claimed" or "finished". Currently, there are no scenes that are neither. However, each scene may be claimed/finished up to three times, so you can select a scene that has only 1-2 claims against it, or if you see a "finished" scene which you feel could be done better, you can put a claim against it.
Currently, finished scenes are marked in blue and claims are marked in red. Any scene that has less than a total of three claims, finished or not (if red+blue 3), may be claimed.
You're right, the i7 does not support ECC. You need to instead run a Lynnfield or Bloomfield Xeon processor, which are as i7, based on Nehalem.
A tarpit will have very limited effect against a distributed attack. Each IP many only attack once, at which point a tarpit has no value in stopping the attack.