I wish I could find the winamp plug in that my friend used to have. It was really simple - install real player so you have the codec, then bust up into the permissions and tell real it was NEVER EVER ALLOWED TO RUN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, EVER. Then you added this plugin to winamp, and it played real files (videos, if you can dig it) in the little side window of winamp that no one uses (the minibrowser?). I've seen it work, but I think real got onto winamp and got them to remove the plugin. I don't know why, both are owned by AOL nowadays. Regardless, I haven't seen it.
Anyway, if you follow the "underground", and by underground, I mean the message boards on sites similar to doom9.org - divx.com, etc, ogg is about to explode. Support is included in winamp 2.80. I would say once the college year starts up, they're going to get extremely popular. Once the CD Burning programs support oggs the same way they do mp3s, it's going to take off. For now, I guess we use waveout in winamp to slam them into wave files. Soon (i.e. once a large number of the "underground" people have ogg codecs installed), Gordion Knot will support DVD rips with ogg files. It's right up their alley - variable bitrate and all that.
We use Thawte. I haven't seen any deceptive marketing practices from them. They have a root cert in just about every browser I've seen. Plus their certs are only $150 and $125 to renew. They also offer wildcard certs (*.netmar.com), but those are 1.) rediculously expensive, and 2.) IE doesn't deal with them well, it still gives an error message about the site not matching the name on the cert. Insert random conspiracy theory about verisign's involvemenet with Microsoft.
Basically, what you look for in an SSL cert is trust, price, and that it's in I.E. And I hate to say it, but of the people that issue certs, the only one that anyone in the general public has heard of is Verisign. (commercials - the value of trust, listed on nasdaq... Would I be proud to be listed on nasdaq nowadays?) If you're a webhosting provider, yes trust is important, and principles are important, but it's not the reason I would choose thawte over verisign, that would be price. Your customers most likely will never see who signs the cert as long as it's included in I.E. You would never want to use a cert that was included in moz, konq, galeon, netscape, but not in I.E. - You'll alienate 90% of the web.
It just so happens that I trust Thawte, and they are cheaper than Verisign. It's a good combination.
You live in Blacksburg, Va, don't you? You're of course refering to Tek Tow. The company that had over 3000 signatures on Petition Online overnight wanting to shut it down, and remember how small Blacksburg is.
One time they towed a mail truck. On sept 11, they towed people that had parked their cars at meters and lined up to give blood. They tow DD's from the bars downtown. And so forth.
I have a friend who creates a sendmail alias on his box every time he puts an email address in a form just to see who spams him. He always opts out of everything.
One time he called McAffee because he filled out a form on their site listing his email as user-mcaffee@domain.com and he started getting spam to that address. The claimed that they don't give out email addresses, and he informed him that they were the only people that had this email address, calling BS on them.
But in the end, just delete the alias if it starts getting spammed.
Not only that, but we've NEVER been at war with the Taliban, or mabey I've missed the official declaration of war passed by both houses and signed by the president.
Last war we were in was World War II, folks. We don't call it war when we bomb brown people or yellow people. Only white people get the honor of officially having war declared on them.
And you tell me this 2 weeks after i quit drinking caffine cause of the health concerns... Mabey... Whatever, I'm still going to try and keep off of the soda.
With a larger screen, losing part of it to ad's won't seem like such a horrible deal to many.
I disagree. If I'm shelling out the bucks for a huge TV, I don't care what your excuse is, I want to watch programing on it. Now you're telling me I need to buy a 32 Inch TV to get the same effect as a 19 because the rest is ad space? Screw that.
It is a horrible deal. Even with a large TV. And what about tivo?
More to the point, I associate a hacker with social engineering and ability to think on his feet, to come up with creative ways to get something accomplished, i.e. hack a network. This person would do research, find a point of entry, work his social magic, etc.
A script kiddie I more so associate with running a script (funny how that works). Someone who can't think outside of a pre-defined box, someone who waits for his betters to figure out the solution to his problem, so that he can port the solution to his situation. Innovation is the differentiating factor.
To add to the above comment, the girlfriend said it oscillates around the line, and the only things i know that oscillate are sine and cosine functions, not being very math oriented. So I said "looks kind of like a sine function?" and she said "yeah, sort of".
That's what I'm going on, the Infallable word of Tess.
I don't have any idea. That was based on: Population overshoots a line, then dies off and dips under the line. Population grows at a rate relative to e. Population presumably falls at a rate relative to e.
That's about all I know. I'm a history student, not a math man. Math is not my forte. Any insight would be appreciated.
That's not to say technology will enable us to grow the population and our consumption indefinitely... just that defining carrying capacity in the context of humans, which have repeatedly shown their ability to essentially change the rules of the game, is not easy.
I couldn't have said it better myself. We keep changing the rules, but ultimately we can't quit the game.
How can you talk about human life so clinically? Every time that population growth tapers off, it's because human beings are starving to death.
It may sound callous, but in reality, these human beings are always being replaced. There are more people born than die everyday. Think what the world would be like if everyone lived to be 60 or 70? Think of the population explosion then. We'd really be up a creek.
To quote family guy, people need to be able to die. It's the natural order of things. It's the cycle of life and all that. Animal dies, decays, fertalizes the ground, so that more plants grow, support more animals. Didn't you see the Lion King?
Well, we could become a lot smaller than we are now, although it looks like we're getting taller and bigger instead. To live on the water, we'd need sturdy boats, capable of surviving all kinds of storms and high waves. To live underwater, we'd need technology to extract oxygen from seawater, and strong domes or other structures to stay dry in. I don't think that is impossible.
Another interesting point is that humans are no longer selectively breeding to further the species. We breed without thought to the fact that we may breed substantially less sturdy humans than we have had in the past. Medicine has artifically extended the lifespan of the human (in recent years).
Not to say that if we did away with medicine, we'd automatically live only 25 years, but our lives would be shorter. My point is that we're breeding to weed out social ineptness now.
Essentially, population level fluctuates around a line called the carrying capacity, which is the number of a type of animal an ecosystem can support.
Populations, however, do not reach the line by steadily growing in number and tapering off, treating the carrying capacity as an asymptote. Think of the line as a horizontal line on a graph, the horizontal axis representing time, the virtical representing population. Population grows with an exponential function until it overshoots the carrying capacity, then it starts to die off until it is below the capacity. The population level oscillates around this level with a logarithmic function, looking somewhat similar to a sine wave, and as time goes to infinity, the oscillations become smaller and closer to the carrying capacity.
This is a fact of nature. It happens with mice, antelope, fish, bacteria, and apes. Why would people think it wouldn't happen to humans? Sorry, creation scientists, we're animals too, and though we use different resources, we're not immune to laws of nature because of divine providence.
Some interesting things to note: The carrying capacity is not always constant, it changes, for example, over seasons. More animals die off in winter because of this function. Also, animals that take better care of their young grow the population graph somewhat slower - as it takes time to care for and train an offspring, you produce less offspring. Introduce a pair of mice to a situation where they are far below the carrying capacity of the environment, and they will reproduce extremely rapidly, overshooting the line by quite a lot.
But, anyway, the long and short of this is that one, people have been predicting this for years, since at least the 50's. It hasn't happened yet. And so what if it does? It's a fact of nature. Live goes on, or the cycle of life does. I am unconcerned.
My girlfriend is an animal science major, pre vet. We have some interesting conversations.
i consider the main feature of linux to be security, not stability. Both XP and linux are stable enough. Windows... not secure.
However, taking into account the holes in a default install of, say, redhat 7.3, linux beats windows in security. But not by the huge margin people think. Both still require updates and patches, and some knowledge of the ways that are open that people could use to connect to your computer.
A lot of our core servers are running solaris. We have a linux box for shared hosting, and one for dns, one for routing, and a couple of others, but almost all of our boxes are solaris.
We offer shared solaris hosting, but all you get is to be on a faster machine and you get front page extentions. Linux is more economical.
Disclaimers: 1.) Not my work, I don't claim any of it. 2.) I didn't get the.DAT files. 3.) I know it's not slashdotted yet, just preparing/ karma whoring. 4.) If it does get slashdotted, and everyone starts testing my load balancing, why not sign up for hosting at the same time? We're running a no setup fee promotion at the moment.
~Will
P.S. became friends with the:%s/JPG/jpg command - when I saved the images, the file extentions converted themselves to lowercase. God bless vi.
Ozma = Weezer. Although it doesn't get much worse than the last album. Pinkerton was a bucket of glorious pop, one of the best albums ever, but the "green" album was sub-par, and this latest foray is worse. And Ozma seems to be trying to copy weezer, always has been. Emo-pop-punk. But I think Ozma is better than weezer lately.
I always thought the Get Up Kids were sub-par. If you like them, you'd LOVE Reggie and the Full Effect. Reggie is incredible, it's what the Get UP Kids should have been.
I went to the yahoo outloud tour of weezer, (...goes to look at ticket) March 1, 2001, in Charlotte. I got lost trying to find the freakin venue, so I missed ozma, and only saw 1/2 of the get up kids. I wanted to see Ozma, but the Get Up Kids did well. Weezer, though, is incredible live. Whatever they do on albums, their live shows are technically perfect.
Ah, well, back to Reel Big Fish's new CHEER UP! album. It grows on you, belive me. Also, check out Millencollin - Home from Home.
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I wish I could find the winamp plug in that my friend used to have. It was really simple - install real player so you have the codec, then bust up into the permissions and tell real it was NEVER EVER ALLOWED TO RUN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, EVER. Then you added this plugin to winamp, and it played real files (videos, if you can dig it) in the little side window of winamp that no one uses (the minibrowser?). I've seen it work, but I think real got onto winamp and got them to remove the plugin. I don't know why, both are owned by AOL nowadays. Regardless, I haven't seen it.
Anyway, if you follow the "underground", and by underground, I mean the message boards on sites similar to doom9.org - divx.com, etc, ogg is about to explode. Support is included in winamp 2.80. I would say once the college year starts up, they're going to get extremely popular. Once the CD Burning programs support oggs the same way they do mp3s, it's going to take off. For now, I guess we use waveout in winamp to slam them into wave files. Soon (i.e. once a large number of the "underground" people have ogg codecs installed), Gordion Knot will support DVD rips with ogg files. It's right up their alley - variable bitrate and all that.
~Will
We use Thawte. I haven't seen any deceptive marketing practices from them. They have a root cert in just about every browser I've seen. Plus their certs are only $150 and $125 to renew. They also offer wildcard certs (*.netmar.com), but those are 1.) rediculously expensive, and 2.) IE doesn't deal with them well, it still gives an error message about the site not matching the name on the cert. Insert random conspiracy theory about verisign's involvemenet with Microsoft.
Basically, what you look for in an SSL cert is trust, price, and that it's in I.E. And I hate to say it, but of the people that issue certs, the only one that anyone in the general public has heard of is Verisign. (commercials - the value of trust, listed on nasdaq... Would I be proud to be listed on nasdaq nowadays?) If you're a webhosting provider, yes trust is important, and principles are important, but it's not the reason I would choose thawte over verisign, that would be price. Your customers most likely will never see who signs the cert as long as it's included in I.E. You would never want to use a cert that was included in moz, konq, galeon, netscape, but not in I.E. - You'll alienate 90% of the web.
It just so happens that I trust Thawte, and they are cheaper than Verisign. It's a good combination.
~Will
..other than one particular tow-truck company...
You live in Blacksburg, Va, don't you? You're of course refering to Tek Tow. The company that had over 3000 signatures on Petition Online overnight wanting to shut it down, and remember how small Blacksburg is.
One time they towed a mail truck. On sept 11, they towed people that had parked their cars at meters and lined up to give blood. They tow DD's from the bars downtown. And so forth.
~Will
I have a friend who creates a sendmail alias on his box every time he puts an email address in a form just to see who spams him. He always opts out of everything.
One time he called McAffee because he filled out a form on their site listing his email as user-mcaffee@domain.com and he started getting spam to that address. The claimed that they don't give out email addresses, and he informed him that they were the only people that had this email address, calling BS on them.
But in the end, just delete the alias if it starts getting spammed.
~Will
...it'll probably be 1 count for every...
I don't know if the DoJ computers can handle anything over MAXINT number of counts of a crime...
~Will
Attention MPAA.
Usenet does not exist.
Nothing more to see here.
Move along.
~Will
The US were never at war with the Taleban
Not only that, but we've NEVER been at war with the Taliban, or mabey I've missed the official declaration of war passed by both houses and signed by the president.
Last war we were in was World War II, folks. We don't call it war when we bomb brown people or yellow people. Only white people get the honor of officially having war declared on them.
~Will
And you tell me this 2 weeks after i quit drinking caffine cause of the health concerns... Mabey ... Whatever, I'm still going to try and keep off of the soda.
~Will
With a larger screen, losing part of it to ad's won't seem like such a horrible deal to many.
I disagree. If I'm shelling out the bucks for a huge TV, I don't care what your excuse is, I want to watch programing on it. Now you're telling me I need to buy a 32 Inch TV to get the same effect as a 19 because the rest is ad space? Screw that.
It is a horrible deal. Even with a large TV. And what about tivo?
~Will
I disagree with your disagreement.
More to the point, I associate a hacker with social engineering and ability to think on his feet, to come up with creative ways to get something accomplished, i.e. hack a network. This person would do research, find a point of entry, work his social magic, etc.
A script kiddie I more so associate with running a script (funny how that works). Someone who can't think outside of a pre-defined box, someone who waits for his betters to figure out the solution to his problem, so that he can port the solution to his situation. Innovation is the differentiating factor.
~Will
To add to the above comment, the girlfriend said it oscillates around the line, and the only things i know that oscillate are sine and cosine functions, not being very math oriented.
So I said "looks kind of like a sine function?" and she said "yeah, sort of".
That's what I'm going on, the Infallable word of Tess.
~Will
I don't have any idea.
That was based on:
Population overshoots a line, then dies off and dips under the line.
Population grows at a rate relative to e.
Population presumably falls at a rate relative to e.
That's about all I know. I'm a history student, not a math man. Math is not my forte. Any insight would be appreciated.
~Will
We are not immune to the laws of nature, but we are certainly immune to simplistic supply-and-demand curves.
Exactly. We keep changing the rules, but ultimately we can't get out of the game.
Which I guess is a repost, but if people only read replys, then there you have it.
~Will
That's not to say technology will enable us to grow the population and our consumption indefinitely... just that defining carrying capacity in the context of humans, which have repeatedly shown their ability to essentially change the rules of the game, is not easy.
I couldn't have said it better myself. We keep changing the rules, but ultimately we can't quit the game.
~Will
How can you talk about human life so clinically? Every time that population growth tapers off, it's because human beings are starving to death.
It may sound callous, but in reality, these human beings are always being replaced. There are more people born than die everyday. Think what the world would be like if everyone lived to be 60 or 70? Think of the population explosion then. We'd really be up a creek.
To quote family guy, people need to be able to die. It's the natural order of things. It's the cycle of life and all that. Animal dies, decays, fertalizes the ground, so that more plants grow, support more animals. Didn't you see the Lion King?
~Will
Well, we could become a lot smaller than we are now, although it looks like we're getting taller and bigger instead. To live on the water, we'd need sturdy boats, capable of surviving all kinds of storms and high waves. To live underwater, we'd need technology to extract oxygen from seawater, and strong domes or other structures to stay dry in. I don't think that is impossible.
Another interesting point is that humans are no longer selectively breeding to further the species. We breed without thought to the fact that we may breed substantially less sturdy humans than we have had in the past. Medicine has artifically extended the lifespan of the human (in recent years).
Not to say that if we did away with medicine, we'd automatically live only 25 years, but our lives would be shorter. My point is that we're breeding to weed out social ineptness now.
~Will
Essentially, population level fluctuates around a line called the carrying capacity, which is the number of a type of animal an ecosystem can support.
Populations, however, do not reach the line by steadily growing in number and tapering off, treating the carrying capacity as an asymptote. Think of the line as a horizontal line on a graph, the horizontal axis representing time, the virtical representing population. Population grows with an exponential function until it overshoots the carrying capacity, then it starts to die off until it is below the capacity. The population level oscillates around this level with a logarithmic function, looking somewhat similar to a sine wave, and as time goes to infinity, the oscillations become smaller and closer to the carrying capacity.
This is a fact of nature. It happens with mice, antelope, fish, bacteria, and apes. Why would people think it wouldn't happen to humans? Sorry, creation scientists, we're animals too, and though we use different resources, we're not immune to laws of nature because of divine providence.
Some interesting things to note: The carrying capacity is not always constant, it changes, for example, over seasons. More animals die off in winter because of this function.
Also, animals that take better care of their young grow the population graph somewhat slower - as it takes time to care for and train an offspring, you produce less offspring. Introduce a pair of mice to a situation where they are far below the carrying capacity of the environment, and they will reproduce extremely rapidly, overshooting the line by quite a lot.
But, anyway, the long and short of this is that one, people have been predicting this for years, since at least the 50's. It hasn't happened yet. And so what if it does? It's a fact of nature. Live goes on, or the cycle of life does. I am unconcerned.
My girlfriend is an animal science major, pre vet. We have some interesting conversations.
~Will
Yeah, basically the courts told them to get the F out.
~Will
i consider the main feature of linux to be security, not stability. Both XP and linux are stable enough. Windows... not secure.
However, taking into account the holes in a default install of, say, redhat 7.3, linux beats windows in security. But not by the huge margin people think. Both still require updates and patches, and some knowledge of the ways that are open that people could use to connect to your computer.
~Will
A lot of our core servers are running solaris. We have a linux box for shared hosting, and one for dns, one for routing, and a couple of others, but almost all of our boxes are solaris.
We offer shared solaris hosting, but all you get is to be on a faster machine and you get front page extentions. Linux is more economical.
~will
eh...
It grabs files i don't need if i do a site-suck.
Whatever, my method worked OK, and now I have them saved on my home computer under my random pictures saved for posterity directory.
~Will
Mirror site up.
www.netmar.com/~will/lego
Disclaimers:
1.) Not my work, I don't claim any of it.
2.) I didn't get the
3.) I know it's not slashdotted yet, just preparing/ karma whoring.
4.) If it does get slashdotted, and everyone starts testing my load balancing, why not sign up for hosting at the same time? We're running a no setup fee promotion at the moment.
~Will
P.S. became friends with the
I remember playing this on my TI-85 calculator...
I found a TI-86 version here.
~Will
Ozma = Weezer. Although it doesn't get much worse than the last album. Pinkerton was a bucket of glorious pop, one of the best albums ever, but the "green" album was sub-par, and this latest foray is worse. And Ozma seems to be trying to copy weezer, always has been. Emo-pop-punk. But I think Ozma is better than weezer lately.
I always thought the Get Up Kids were sub-par. If you like them, you'd LOVE Reggie and the Full Effect. Reggie is incredible, it's what the Get UP Kids should have been.
I went to the yahoo outloud tour of weezer, (...goes to look at ticket) March 1, 2001, in Charlotte. I got lost trying to find the freakin venue, so I missed ozma, and only saw 1/2 of the get up kids. I wanted to see Ozma, but the Get Up Kids did well. Weezer, though, is incredible live. Whatever they do on albums, their live shows are technically perfect.
Ah, well, back to Reel Big Fish's new CHEER UP! album. It grows on you, belive me. Also, check out Millencollin - Home from Home.
~Will
I don't recall the phrase "I pledge allegiance to the United States government" being anywhere in the pledge.
I pledge allegiance to the flag
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation, under bush, blah blah...
~Will