, Watermans, Cross and Schaeffers all look pretty good and feel good but the writing quality depends on lots more than that. I collect pens -- got dozens of high end one -- their worth actually rivals the dozen or so computers around my house -- but most sit in their display cases. For fountain pens the nibs and the writing paper make the greatest difference. But fountain pens are an acquired taste and not for everyone. For the others -- roller balls, ball points -- the quality depends entirely on the refill. If you're like me, I don't like a nib or pen that's too smooth or puts too much ink down so most roller balls are out of the question. Favorite pens? Zebra 301 ($5 a pack) and the Zebra mechanical pencil.
Murphy's Law is one of the pillars of the entire Open Source idea. Send your code to the world. Someone, somewhere will screw something up, often with amusing or frightful consequences. Something will go wrong.
The problem with traditional methods of testing is that these worst cases -- the outlier condition, the far-fetched and novel usage -- are not even considered let alone tested. You can make default conditions for wildcard input, but cannot test for what you cannot conceive. So Murphy's Law is actually a good thing.
You know what, dialup is not really that bad. I remember 300 baud modems, 2400 baud, 9600 kbps modems. When 14.4 came out I thought that we'd never need anything faster. But I've been on ISDN or DSL for a long time now and wouldn't go back...
But, dialup's not really that bad. Sure, if you're downloading the latest RedHat ISOs or pulling lots of MP3s it's not going to work, but for general browsing and email a good 56k modem and a large disk cache can be fine for the vast majority of folks. Some studies a while back showed that most people visit only a few sites with any regularity so cached images can really make a difference. In fact, you can listen to streaming audio and even video over a clean 56K line. Games play fine over 56K -- in fact, some sites have said that the latency may actually be lower for dialup in many circumstances (don't know how true this is).
In South Florida DSL runs from $39 to $59 a month for residential. $40 is a lot of money in this economy. If it was $25 lots more people would sign up.
1) Turn off ssh completely:/sbin/service sshd stop
2) Disable access to SSH via iptables:
vi/etc/sysconfig/iptables
comment out the -A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 --syn -j ACCEPT
restart iptables
3) Patch the package yourself (this is what I did)
Download the latest source rpm from Redhat or a mirror.
Install the source rpm.
Grab the patch from openssh.org
cd to your rpm SOURCES directory.
Extract the openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz file
Rename the resulting directory to something like orig
Extract the openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz file
cd to this new directory and apply the Openssh patch
patch -p0../patch_from_openssh.patch
cd back to your SOURCES RPM and diff the orig file with your new
file
(you can probably use the openssh patch directly but you'll need to modify the headers slightly).
Name the diff to something like openssh-3.4p1-buffer.patch
Edit the SPECS/openssh.spec file and add a new PATCH6 line referencing the openssh-3.4p1-buffer.patch.
Update the release tag to 5.
Rebuild the rpm using:
rpmbuild -ba openssh.spec
(It actually took longer to write than it did to actually perform).
Years ago I saw a ceremony for a hotel somewhere in Miami. One of the attractions was a fountain that created a virtual screen from mist. The projector then, um, projected the movie onto the mist. From the front and back it looked interesting but it wasn't 3D.
I've also seen some stuff at Disneyworld that created miniature moving holograms. They were maybe 4-5 inches high but looked pretty detailed.
Funny how times change. Six million dollars today was 1/50th of the error margin in the Enron scandal. Imagine if such technology were available today -- Bill Gates could buy himself both bionic legs, and *both* bionic arms. He could attach it to a bionic torso, leaving only his head organic.
Then the Slashdot icon would be almost correct. Bill Gates, the Borg.
Really interesting stuff there. I remember reading about the GNU "Storage" filesystem and something like that would be quite useful.
What I'd like is something like a CVS based filesystem; i.e., one that can automatically track changes to my documents/files/etc.. If I perform some upgrade and everything breaks, I could then retrieve a 'tagged' version of the OS. The same would apply to individual files; per-document versioning systems would be obsolete as the filesystem itself would take care of everything.
One of my biggest data problems is that I have about a dozen systems throughout my house. All of them have different data in different states. Yes, I use a file server and CVS to track, but it's still unwieldy, especially since there are some large files on each system that would quickly fill up about 150G.
It's funny, but some sort of P2P file sharing system -- something that's being tarred as a piracy tool -- would actually be very useful for my situation. I could run the p2p server on each machine and the client could transparently query each one for the file I require. Yup, more useful technology that may get banned.
I see. Mandrake is one of the most "free" distributions available. THey allow their full distribution to be downloaded and their update system doesn't require any subscriptions. They maintian free support lists with Mandrake employees taking part. They look for innovative ways of raising money to continue this distribution -- ways that minimally affect the users -- and suddenly they're contributing to the downfall of Linux?
Now I love Debian because it's completely free and apt-get rocks, and I get irritated when some late-comer, money grubbing corporation jumps on the Linux bandwagon to try to swing the not-insiginificant number of geek dollars, but Mandrake is one of the good guys. Their philosophy (not corporate philosophy or business model) seems genuinely to be to provide free-speech software. If they can make a little money doing so, then that's even better. And their distribution is one of the easiest to use for non-Linux gurus (I know -- I've installed it for parents and grandparents already).
When I worked as a technicion for UPS I was often called upon to visit customers at their businesses or homes. I visited this guy near Pt. Charlotte, FL (and that's another horror story in itself) who had a PC damaged during shipping. I should have known before I entered his house that it would be BAD -- there were shopping carts, old engines, tree branches all around his property. When I finally navigated through his living room into his (horrors) bedroom where the PC sat, I was already getting nauseous.
"What's wrong with it?" I asked, since there didn't seem to be any damage.
"It won't turn on," said he.
OK, no problem. As a technician we were allowed to pop open the PC to check if it was simply a cable or card that came loose during shipping. No problem. I pulled out my screwdriver and started undoing the case. Soon as popped the top a bunch of massive roaches scampered out.... followed by dozens of little miniature ones. Now, I HATE ROACHES. I can play with grasshoppers, earthworms, beetles, and other critters but roaches just give me the willies. The guy just looked at them marching around as if they were some little pets. With supreme effort I put everything back together and turned on the PC. It booted! The only sickenging thing was this flick-flick noise coming from the fan. I think there's a roach still lodged in the fan to this day, its little antennae wiggling, its nasty little legs twitching back and forth. flick-flick-flick...
I can't agree that they shouldn't have ceased. _Calvin and Hobbes_ and _The Far Side_ were my two most favorite series ever and they went out on top. The worst thing I could imagine happening was some second-rate cartoonist being hired by the syndicate to continue the series because Watterson or Larson didn't have a say in the matter.
They also chose the right time to get out before their creative energies had been depleted. Though I really enjoyed _Peanuts_ as a kid, decades of really similar strips and sometimes re-used gags detracted from the nostalgia.
I wouldn't mind seeing some Pogo Possum panels though:D.
Oh, come one. Science is nothing like religion. The only people who claim so are those who do not understand science. Saying science is a religion is equivalent to saying dog grooming is a religion. Science is a process - a method of filtering out truths from nonsense. There is no "belief" about this process, no deep-rooted truths about the universe inherent in testing a hypothesis.
Maybe science is too hard for you. Not hard in the sense that the rigors of science -- the mathematics, the formulas, the process of experimentation are difficult -- but maybe the cold reality of the pure, beautiful process scares you. What if that's all there is?
Now I've had close friends die from suicides and murder and pointless accidents and late at night I've conversed with Him or Her or Them or whatever could comfort me then, but this is completely different from science.
Using the techniques published in the paper, I've been developing a method a quantum communication over great distances. The possibilities of these innovations to the original deuterium breakdown system are staggering; among these breakthroughs are advances in communication.
We all know the typical objection to unlimited data compression. One needs only to Google for "counting argument" to realize that further compression of essentially random (e.g., binary) data is impossible. Searches for better compression algorithms at best have minimal returns (1-2% reductions are considered remarkable) or at worst ineffective or outright hoaxes.
My new technology builds upon quantum duality -- influence at a distance. From first year quantum physics we know that observation of a particle can fix its state. Should a particle and anti-particle be released, we can *at a distance* fix the identity of the opposite particle merely by observation. What does this mean? Well, for one, by sending a stream of anti-particles to a remote observer then observing its opposite, we can then fix the identity of the remote particles *no matter how much distance*. This means we can instantaneously send as a stream of quantum particles. Schroedinger's and Heisenbergs body of work more than amply addresses the mechanics of this remote communication so I won't bore you with the technical details here.
How does my method overcome the inherent randomness of quantum identity? It doesn't. I rely upon a remote lookup table. The receiver will only need to be sent a key of several bits. The remote receiver can then index the key to a table of longer values. For example, a key code of 001 would correspond to a larger sequence such as 00100111. By performing a lookup on this table the receiver can then expand the key to arbitrarily large bit sequences. How are the keys transferred? Our new technology -- Extended Schroedinger Particle (ESP) -- bases itself upon the aforementioned work by Mr. Schroedinger. Of course, trade secrets and corporate lawyers prevent me from revealing the exact method.
Anyhow, please send me money so that I can continue my research. It has the potential to obviate and obsolete all current telecommunications networks.
The primary theme of the works of Stone is the difference between sexual identity and class. Sartre uses the term 'Batailleist `powerful communication'' to denote the role of the artist as writer. However, the main theme of la Tournier's[1] analysis of Lacanist obscurity is the bridge between society and sexual identity.
"Class is intrinsically impossible," says Foucault; however, according to Bailey[2] , it is not so much class that is intrinsically impossible, but rather the genre, and some would say the economy, of class. If postmaterialist deconstruction holds, we have to choose between Lacanist obscurity and the subcapitalist paradigm of context. It could be said that Lyotard uses the term 'postmaterialist deconstruction' to denote not discourse, but prediscourse.
In Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino deconstructs Batailleist `powerful communication'; in Four Rooms, however, he denies Lacanist obscurity. Therefore, Sontag promotes the use of postmaterialist deconstruction to deconstruct class divisions.
The primary theme of the works of Tarantino is a mythopoetical paradox. It could be said that Sartre suggests the use of textual subcultural theory to modify and challenge truth.
D'Erlette[3] implies that we have to choose between Lacanist obscurity and dialectic appropriation. But the paradigm, and subsequent economy, of postmaterialist deconstruction depicted in Smith's Clerks is also evident in Mallrats. 2. Lacanist obscurity and Batailleist `powerful communication'
"Sexual identity is responsible for the status quo," says Lyotard. The subject is contextualised into a postmaterialist deconstruction that includes narrativity as a totality. Therefore, any number of discourses concerning Batailleist `powerful communication' may be revealed.
The characteristic theme of Bailey's[4] critique of postmaterialist deconstruction is not, in fact, narrative, but neonarrative. Marx uses the term 'textual sublimation' to denote the paradigm, and thus the rubicon, of subsemiotic sexuality. However, several discourses concerning a self-referential reality exist.
Debord promotes the use of Batailleist `powerful communication' to deconstruct sexism. Therefore, the main theme of the works of Smith is the failure of semanticist sexual identity.
An abundance of deappropriations concerning postmaterialist deconstruction may be found. It could be said that Lyotard suggests the use of neocapitalist constructive theory to analyse society.
Baudrillard's model of Lacanist obscurity suggests that sexual identity, somewhat paradoxically, has intrinsic meaning. Thus, the primary theme of Wilson's[5] analysis of Batailleist `powerful communication' is the difference between society and consciousness.
But couldn't this be tested just as easily by requiring more technical knowledge of radio theory on a written test? It seems to me that a little more radio theory would be a more practical requirement than having to learn a silly monkey trick like morse code.
Possibly. Looking at some example tests there's nothing that seems incredibly difficult. On the same note I found some morse code training software and can already recognize most of the alphabet within just a couple hours of practice. So yes, it is a monkey trick, but not too onerous to learn.
Hmmmm....The FCC already prohibits "corporate interests" from getting amateur licenses. How is the morse requirement related to that? By making it too hard for anyone but pasty radio geeks like us to get a license to Xmit on 6m? I don't understand your fears here.
No fears, really. As I said, I'm usually in favor on lowering entry barriers to everyone willing to explore technology. Also note that I am not (yet) a member of the radio community so take this as you will. I've been a member of the online community since 1984 or so, and remember much of how it was. Is the radio community similar to the nascent web community of the 80's? In some ways, of course it is. But it's also a lot older and at least in my perception, more of the province of hard core electronics folks. Substitute "clueless newbie" or whatever the radio word is for "AOLuser" and you'll get an idea of what I mean.
I've been thinking about getting a license for a few weeks now. Some of my friends have radios, and as the NY blackout is still in mind and hurricane season in South Florida upon us, it seems it could even be useful (and marginally justifiable as opposed to yet another dumb computer hobby of mine).
I don't know what to make of it really. As far as the Internet is concerned I am usually in favor of removing barriers to entry for all. This means that I fully support cheap PCs, free and open software, public broadband, and most initiatives that put more people on the Internet. This has its disadvantages, of course. Notably, there is a lot of spam, clueless Usenet users, etc., that would not be present if it was still the demesne of a bunch of academics. Has the value of the Internet been raised as more people join? I think so. I think that the human benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
Does the same thing apply to ham radio? I'm not certain. Unlike the Internet there's (AFAIK) limited bandwidth. In other words, my ability to connect is not seriously affected by the swarm of others. This refers to both shared bandwidth connections like cable to the legions of M$ machines sending me "Details Later" bounce messages.
It seems that what the morse code requirement provided was a non-monetary barrier to entry. In other words, if you are serious about the license you will have to study, learn the rules, then take the test. This *might* help prevent purely corporate interests from buying a license then trying in some way to exploit the community of radio operators.
In my case the Morse code requirement will not at all be a deterrent.
You're not looking. Do you really feel your demographic is being ignored just because Paul Simon isn't invited on TRL when he comes out with a new album?
That's precisely my point. Sure, Paul Simon has had some interesting post-Garfunkel work (Graceland was one of my favorites), but there's only a certain number of former 60s-era musicians that I can take.
The fact is that older listeners just aren't as likely to be affected by marketing as kids.
Not true. Detergents, wine, clothing, movies and countless other products are targeted at adults. They are as affected by marketing and product perception as any other demographic. The difference is that adults, as you say, have a sense of self image that often feeds on the need for individuality; contrast this with the typical teenager's want to "fit in" with his/her peergroup or the population at large.
Your post is actually a good example of my point. Until I did a Google search for "TRL" I didn't know what the acronym meant. So not having Paul Simon appear or not appear wouldn't make a difference at all to me. "Adult Contemporary" also illustrates my point. South Florida had a couple of those a while back. Alas, they didn't play anything "contemporary" but was more along the lines of "the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s." There were even some specialty low-wattage stations that gave the "contemporary" format a shot; however, they too resorted to some good but dated stuff like old Coltrane or Marsalis with one or two of Sting's pseudo-jazz attempts thrown in. Maybe the execs believe that we like our music like we like our food: soft, bland and easily digestible.
The thing is that this demographic is worth the marketing attempt. A savvy marketer would need to seek out our media outlets and throw a few advertising dollars there. Because these markets are smaller the advertising rates are equivalently lower than something like TRL. What does this mean? For one, it's cheaper. You could advertise new artists in many more places. These new artists could all have different sounds. Sure, the market will be smaller, but you'll have more markets to choose from. As it is, the 15-25 demo is this amorphous and fickle behemoth that's in some ways worse than the lottery. The adult market, as you said, is more loyal and more likely to continue listening to genres they enjoy.
I took a couple sociology courses back in college. One of the interesting things I got from the courses was that people enjoy feeling that they are somehow unique, even though population demographics will indicate otherwise. Sure, each person's collective interests will make them unique, but generally, people tend to follow trends and are quite easily grouped.
What's interesting is the choices that the music industry are making when it comes to marketing their product. The 15-25yr old demographic tends to have less discretionary income than the 25-40yr old group, yet the music industry churns out lots of product for the fiscally challenged group. OK, the idea may be that this group tends to buy more music and is more influenced by MTV and radio. Therein lies the problem. With everything else competing for the teen to young adult market, the slice of the pie that goes to the recording industry gets smaller and smaller.
So what to do? Hell, why not legislate some profits then. There's an apocryphal story about candle and gas light manufacturers suing to ban electric lighting and similar ones about horse-drawn buggy folks legislating some ridiculous traffic rules. Why? The new technology would make obsolete their business. But you see where that got the candle makers and buggy builders.
How about this wacky idea: Why doesn't the music industry start marketing and producing product for the 25-40 year old group. We long-toothed, graybearded, geriatrics would enjoy something newer than the constant stream of old Beatles, Stones, 80's era U2, and re-gurgitated 70's "classics" that bombard us. Try something new. Introduce something exotic so that we can talk about it as we quaff our Samuel Adams with our other 30-something year old friends and talk about our 401Ks. We can't exactly listen to Britney Spears or Eminem, you see. We like to feel important, still relevant, and nothing makes use more relevant than being able to "discover" some interesting sounding CD. What'll really shock you is that we have DISCRETIONARY INCOME. How about that! We can *buy* your music. Hell, we'll even pay $18 a CD to be able to be able to put it on our coffee table.
What's even more amazing is that many of these old people enjoy MUSIC. We like interesting lyrics. Some of use are even accomplished or semi-accomplished musicians and appreciate an interesting melody or a novel interpretation of a classic. Heck, even something as trite as musical virtuousity can impress us. I know this is complete anathema to your current marketing philosophy, but what can you lose?
A few things are causing problems: Florida has no state tax; they get their revenues from taxing everything else. Like the rest of the country Florida is suffering from the economic downturn (hah, more like economic plummet). In addition to just general malaise, there's also some tourism dropoffs and rising unemployment.
Several other problems: The state is very l-o-n-g. There are areas of fabulous wealth next to areas of depressing poverty. Legislators push their local agendas in Tallahassee but these may be hurtful to everyone else in the state. E.g., increased taxes on tourism industries will help the state overall but be worse for tourism dependent cities. There are lots of people entering from other states, other countries, trying to start anew or retire in Florida. There's a lot of new kids being born, lots of new cars, new buildings. (Here's an example: To lure businesses to a city, the legislators give business huge tax incentives thinking that it will provide employment. But the business bring in former employees, outsource, or provide only low-wage jobs to the community. *And* the taxes aren't being paid because of the incentives) Add to this every politician pushing their lobbyists' agendas, legislators who still think we're riding the dot-com bubble, and massive corruption (look at the Miami-Dade school board and UTD, DOT corruption, political corruption at all levels) and yeah, they'll try to tax LANs in a desperate search for any possible new revenue. (Lotto: No, we won't take money from the school system. Reality: They did. Well, they never increased any funding from earlier levels even as everything else raised.)
Which begs the question: How exactly does one tax a LAN? Do you charge a per-sale fee for any network equipment? If I use powerline ethernet, do I get charged? How about if I string some LocalTalk cables between my 68K Macs? Or setup PPP over a serial link between my two Linux boxes?
Yeah, we got the Doofus State title back from California. We're not letting go this time.
One of the appeals of science fiction, at least for me, is the speculation about what future worlds and a future earth will be. No, it doesn't have to realistic, but IMHO it should at least be believable. Sure, in a fantasy novel/movie I can suspend belief if the story is plot or character driven. The problem is that many science fiction stories depend on the science itself; when the science is horrible then the entire thing fails.
For example, in the movie _Signs_, it doesn't much matter if aliens invaded or a bunch of rabid dogs started terrorizing a town and we find that the daughter has some doggie biscuit craving thereby saving the world. In this case the mechanics are somewhat irrelevant.
In something like a based-on-life astronaut movie, it's incredibly distracting when some Aborigine tribe in Australia helps guide an astronaut down to Earth.
Since RedHat adds a bunch of patches you'll need to start with the Linus source that the RedHat kernel is based upon, then add the patches from that kernel to bring it up to the new.
It's not exactly easy.
There will be hundreds of files that change from the stock kernel to the RedHat kernel. Then there are the hundreds more that change from the stock release to the next stock release.
Your best option is to use a kernel from the RedHat beta releases then recompile it for the current. These will *usually* work, but there are no guarantees. It's pretty simple to rebuild a kernel RPM:
Many ethernet cards have a socket for a programmable chip that allows netbooting. Pretty much all you need is the address of the server from where to retrieve the rest of the software. Usually the kernel is loaded via tftp then the rest of the os is NFS mounted. I don't know if this is how the article is doing it, but the netboot stuff is pretty common and easy to configure.
Re:Goedel says benchmarks are inherently flawed.
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Of course. But then "PC" may stand for (Twin) Prime Conjecture, versus the more obvious "Personal Computer". In this case, basic statistics (prime normal variation over n-space) dictate that an attribute of a system (here, the benchmark) is an indirect orthogonal vector across the set of L-space primes. GIT, in the limited case, applies to provability of functional equivalence of natural numbers and is directly applicable to this prime normal variation. For example, in The Millenium Problems, Keith Devlin writes how Godel "proved this result by showing how to translate questions about provability to equivalent questions about computability of certain functions" (108). I'm performing something similar here -- restating the original posit in an equivalent manner to highlight the cardinal aspect of GIT.
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Umm, yeah. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem of course applies to any system, regardless of whether "system" defines a set of axiomatic rules or a bunch of PC parts. Of course, we could also say that Heisenberg Uncertainty puts any benchmark into doubt, and if we assign a number to any attribute of the system we cannot then trust other numbers. I know I'm taking some liberty with the applicability of HUT, but hey, why not. Then there's the whole Hilbert Space objections to these arbitrary transforms; without any Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we cannot trust, in the mathematical sense, the reducibility of any Eigenfunction. The Smirnov test is perhaps not ideal; maybe Bacardi-Walker would be better, or at least produce more interesting (in a completely Lanis-Morton sense) results.
No joke. September is apparently the busiest month for births. Also try this -- do either of your parents have birthdays 9 months before yours? Any other events 9 months before your birthday?
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, Watermans, Cross and Schaeffers all look pretty good and feel good but the writing quality depends on lots more than that. I collect pens -- got dozens of high end one -- their worth actually rivals the dozen or so computers around my house -- but most sit in their display cases. For fountain pens the nibs and the writing paper make the greatest difference. But fountain pens are an acquired taste and not for everyone. For the others -- roller balls, ball points -- the quality depends entirely on the refill. If you're like me, I don't like a nib or pen that's too smooth or puts too much ink down so most roller balls are out of the question. Favorite pens? Zebra 301 ($5 a pack) and the Zebra mechanical pencil.
Murphy's Law is one of the pillars of the entire Open Source idea. Send your code to the world. Someone, somewhere will screw something up, often with amusing or frightful consequences. Something will go wrong.
The problem with traditional methods of testing is that these worst cases -- the outlier condition, the far-fetched and novel usage -- are not even considered let alone tested. You can make default conditions for wildcard input, but cannot test for what you cannot conceive. So Murphy's Law is actually a good thing.
You know what, dialup is not really that bad. I remember 300 baud modems, 2400 baud, 9600 kbps modems. When 14.4 came out I thought that we'd never need anything faster. But I've been on ISDN or DSL for a long time now and wouldn't go back...
But, dialup's not really that bad. Sure, if you're downloading the latest RedHat ISOs or pulling lots of MP3s it's not going to work, but for general browsing and email a good 56k modem and a large disk cache can be fine for the vast majority of folks. Some studies a while back showed that most people visit only a few sites with any regularity so cached images can really make a difference. In fact, you can listen to streaming audio and even video over a clean 56K line. Games play fine over 56K -- in fact, some sites have said that the latency may actually be lower for dialup in many circumstances (don't know how true this is).
In South Florida DSL runs from $39 to $59 a month for residential. $40 is a lot of money in this economy. If it was $25 lots more people would sign up.
A few things you can do:
/sbin/service sshd stop
/etc/sysconfig/iptables
../patch_from_openssh.patch
1) Turn off ssh completely:
2) Disable access to SSH via iptables:
vi
comment out the
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 --syn -j ACCEPT
restart iptables
3) Patch the package yourself (this is what I did)
Download the latest source rpm from Redhat or a mirror.
Install the source rpm.
Grab the patch from openssh.org
cd to your rpm SOURCES directory.
Extract the openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz file
Rename the resulting directory to something like orig
Extract the openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz file
cd to this new directory and apply the Openssh patch
patch -p0
cd back to your SOURCES RPM and diff the orig file with your new
file
(you can probably use the openssh patch directly but you'll need
to modify the headers slightly).
Name the diff to something like openssh-3.4p1-buffer.patch
Edit the SPECS/openssh.spec file and add a new PATCH6 line referencing the openssh-3.4p1-buffer.patch.
Update the release tag to 5.
Rebuild the rpm using:
rpmbuild -ba openssh.spec
(It actually took longer to write than it did to actually perform).
Years ago I saw a ceremony for a hotel somewhere in Miami. One of the attractions was a fountain that created a virtual screen from mist. The projector then, um, projected the movie onto the mist. From the front and back it looked interesting but it wasn't 3D.
I've also seen some stuff at Disneyworld that created miniature moving holograms. They were maybe 4-5 inches high but looked pretty detailed.
Bigfoot was bionic, right?
Funny how times change. Six million dollars today was 1/50th of the error margin in the Enron scandal. Imagine if such technology were available today -- Bill Gates could buy himself both bionic legs, and *both* bionic arms. He could attach it to a bionic torso, leaving only his head organic.
Then the Slashdot icon would be almost correct. Bill Gates, the Borg.
What a scary thought.
Talk about an unconquerable evil.
Really interesting stuff there. I remember reading about the GNU "Storage" filesystem and something like that would be quite useful.
What I'd like is something like a CVS based filesystem; i.e., one that can automatically track changes to my documents/files/etc.. If I perform some upgrade and everything breaks, I could then retrieve a 'tagged' version of the OS. The same would apply to individual files; per-document versioning systems would be obsolete as the filesystem itself would take care of everything.
One of my biggest data problems is that I have about a dozen systems throughout my house. All of them have different data in different states. Yes, I use a file server and CVS to track, but it's still unwieldy, especially since there are some large files on each system that would quickly fill up about 150G.
It's funny, but some sort of P2P file sharing system -- something that's being tarred as a piracy tool -- would actually be very useful for my situation. I could run the p2p server on each machine and the client could transparently query each one for the file I require. Yup, more useful technology that may get banned.
I see. Mandrake is one of the most "free" distributions available. THey allow their full distribution to be downloaded and their update system doesn't require any subscriptions. They maintian free support lists with Mandrake employees taking part. They look for innovative ways of raising money to continue this distribution -- ways that minimally affect the users -- and suddenly they're contributing to the downfall of Linux?
Now I love Debian because it's completely free and apt-get rocks, and I get irritated when some late-comer, money grubbing corporation jumps on the Linux bandwagon to try to swing the not-insiginificant number of geek dollars, but Mandrake is one of the good guys. Their philosophy (not corporate philosophy or business model) seems genuinely to be to provide free-speech software. If they can make a little money doing so, then that's even better. And their distribution is one of the easiest to use for non-Linux gurus (I know -- I've installed it for parents and grandparents already).
When I worked as a technicion for UPS I was often called upon to visit customers at their businesses or homes. I visited this guy near Pt. Charlotte, FL (and that's another horror story in itself) who had a PC damaged during shipping. I should have known before I entered his house that it would be BAD -- there were shopping carts, old engines, tree branches all around his property. When I finally navigated through his living room into his (horrors) bedroom where the PC sat, I was already getting nauseous.
"What's wrong with it?" I asked, since there didn't seem to be any damage.
"It won't turn on," said he.
OK, no problem. As a technician we were allowed to pop open the PC to check if it was simply a cable or card that came loose during shipping. No problem. I pulled out my screwdriver and started undoing the case. Soon as popped the top a bunch of massive roaches scampered out.... followed by dozens of little miniature ones. Now, I HATE ROACHES. I can play with grasshoppers, earthworms, beetles, and other critters but roaches just give me the willies. The guy just looked at them marching around as if they were some little pets. With supreme effort I put everything back together and turned on the PC. It booted! The only sickenging thing was this flick-flick noise coming from the fan. I think there's a roach still lodged in the fan to this day, its little antennae wiggling, its nasty little legs twitching back and forth. flick-flick-flick...
(true story)
I can't agree that they shouldn't have ceased. _Calvin and Hobbes_ and _The Far Side_ were my two most favorite series ever and they went out on top. The worst thing I could imagine happening was some second-rate cartoonist being hired by the syndicate to continue the series because Watterson or Larson didn't have a say in the matter.
:D.
They also chose the right time to get out before their creative energies had been depleted. Though I really enjoyed _Peanuts_ as a kid, decades of really similar strips and sometimes re-used gags detracted from the nostalgia.
I wouldn't mind seeing some Pogo Possum panels though
Or as I have often put it, science is a religion.
Oh, come one. Science is nothing like religion. The only people who claim so are those who do not understand science. Saying science is a religion is equivalent to saying dog grooming is a religion. Science is a process - a method of filtering out truths from nonsense. There is no "belief" about this process, no deep-rooted truths about the universe inherent in testing a hypothesis.
Maybe science is too hard for you. Not hard in the sense that the rigors of science -- the mathematics, the formulas, the process of experimentation are difficult -- but maybe the cold reality of the pure, beautiful process scares you. What if that's all there is?
Now I've had close friends die from suicides and murder and pointless accidents and late at night I've conversed with Him or Her or Them or whatever could comfort me then, but this is completely different from science.
Using the techniques published in the paper, I've been developing a method a quantum communication over great distances. The possibilities of these innovations to the original deuterium breakdown system are staggering; among these breakthroughs are advances in communication.
We all know the typical objection to unlimited data compression. One needs only to Google for "counting argument" to realize that further compression of essentially random (e.g., binary) data is impossible. Searches for better compression algorithms at best have minimal returns (1-2% reductions are considered remarkable) or at worst ineffective or outright hoaxes.
My new technology builds upon quantum duality -- influence at a distance. From first year quantum physics we know that observation of a particle can fix its state. Should a particle and anti-particle be released, we can *at a distance* fix the identity of the opposite particle merely by observation. What does this mean? Well, for one, by sending a stream of anti-particles to a remote observer then observing its opposite, we can then fix the identity of the remote particles *no matter how much distance*. This means we can instantaneously send as a stream of quantum particles. Schroedinger's and Heisenbergs body of work more than amply addresses the mechanics of this remote communication so I won't bore you with the technical details here.
How does my method overcome the inherent randomness of quantum identity? It doesn't. I rely upon a remote lookup table. The receiver will only need to be sent a key of several bits. The remote receiver can then index the key to a table of longer values. For example, a key code of 001 would correspond to a larger sequence such as 00100111. By performing a lookup on this table the receiver can then expand the key to arbitrarily large bit sequences. How are the keys transferred? Our new technology -- Extended Schroedinger Particle (ESP) -- bases itself upon the aforementioned work by Mr. Schroedinger. Of course, trade secrets and corporate lawyers prevent me from revealing the exact method.
Anyhow, please send me money so that I can continue my research. It has the potential to obviate and obsolete all current telecommunications networks.
KLL
Try this one:
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
Some example text:
1. Narratives of absurdity
The primary theme of the works of Stone is the difference between sexual identity and class. Sartre uses the term 'Batailleist `powerful communication'' to denote the role of the artist as writer. However, the main theme of la Tournier's[1] analysis of Lacanist obscurity is the bridge between society and sexual identity.
"Class is intrinsically impossible," says Foucault; however, according to Bailey[2] , it is not so much class that is intrinsically impossible, but rather the genre, and some would say the economy, of class. If postmaterialist deconstruction holds, we have to choose between Lacanist obscurity and the subcapitalist paradigm of context. It could be said that Lyotard uses the term 'postmaterialist deconstruction' to denote not discourse, but prediscourse.
In Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino deconstructs Batailleist `powerful communication'; in Four Rooms, however, he denies Lacanist obscurity. Therefore, Sontag promotes the use of postmaterialist deconstruction to deconstruct class divisions.
The primary theme of the works of Tarantino is a mythopoetical paradox. It could be said that Sartre suggests the use of textual subcultural theory to modify and challenge truth.
D'Erlette[3] implies that we have to choose between Lacanist obscurity and dialectic appropriation. But the paradigm, and subsequent economy, of postmaterialist deconstruction depicted in Smith's Clerks is also evident in Mallrats.
2. Lacanist obscurity and Batailleist `powerful communication'
"Sexual identity is responsible for the status quo," says Lyotard. The subject is contextualised into a postmaterialist deconstruction that includes narrativity as a totality. Therefore, any number of discourses concerning Batailleist `powerful communication' may be revealed.
The characteristic theme of Bailey's[4] critique of postmaterialist deconstruction is not, in fact, narrative, but neonarrative. Marx uses the term 'textual sublimation' to denote the paradigm, and thus the rubicon, of subsemiotic sexuality. However, several discourses concerning a self-referential reality exist.
Debord promotes the use of Batailleist `powerful communication' to deconstruct sexism. Therefore, the main theme of the works of Smith is the failure of semanticist sexual identity.
An abundance of deappropriations concerning postmaterialist deconstruction may be found. It could be said that Lyotard suggests the use of neocapitalist constructive theory to analyse society.
Baudrillard's model of Lacanist obscurity suggests that sexual identity, somewhat paradoxically, has intrinsic meaning. Thus, the primary theme of Wilson's[5] analysis of Batailleist `powerful communication' is the difference between society and consciousness.
But couldn't this be tested just as easily by requiring more technical knowledge of radio theory on a written test? It seems to me that a little more radio theory would be a more practical requirement than having to learn a silly monkey trick like morse code.
Possibly. Looking at some example tests there's nothing that seems incredibly difficult. On the same note I found some morse code training software and can already recognize most of the alphabet within just a couple hours of practice. So yes, it is a monkey trick, but not too onerous to learn.
Hmmmm....The FCC already prohibits "corporate interests" from getting amateur licenses. How is the morse requirement related to that? By making it too hard for anyone but pasty radio geeks like us to get a license to Xmit on 6m? I don't understand your fears here.
No fears, really. As I said, I'm usually in favor on lowering entry barriers to everyone willing to explore technology. Also note that I am not (yet) a member of the radio community so take this as you will. I've been a member of the online community since 1984 or so, and remember much of how it was. Is the radio community similar to the nascent web community of the 80's? In some ways, of course it is. But it's also a lot older and at least in my perception, more of the province of hard core electronics folks. Substitute "clueless newbie" or whatever the radio word is for "AOLuser" and you'll get an idea of what I mean.
I've been thinking about getting a license for a few weeks now. Some of my friends have radios, and as the NY blackout is still in mind and hurricane season in South Florida upon us, it seems it could even be useful (and marginally justifiable as opposed to yet another dumb computer hobby of mine).
I don't know what to make of it really. As far as the Internet is concerned I am usually in favor of removing barriers to entry for all. This means that I fully support cheap PCs, free and open software, public broadband, and most initiatives that put more people on the Internet. This has its disadvantages, of course. Notably, there is a lot of spam, clueless Usenet users, etc., that would not be present if it was still the demesne of a bunch of academics. Has the value of the Internet been raised as more people join? I think so. I think that the human benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
Does the same thing apply to ham radio? I'm not certain. Unlike the Internet there's (AFAIK) limited bandwidth. In other words, my ability to connect is not seriously affected by the swarm of others. This refers to both shared bandwidth connections like cable to the legions of M$ machines sending me "Details Later" bounce messages.
It seems that what the morse code requirement provided was a non-monetary barrier to entry. In other words, if you are serious about the license you will have to study, learn the rules, then take the test. This *might* help prevent purely corporate interests from buying a license then trying in some way to exploit the community of radio operators.
In my case the Morse code requirement will not at all be a deterrent.
You're not looking. Do you really feel your demographic is being ignored just because Paul Simon isn't invited on TRL when he comes out with a new album?
That's precisely my point. Sure, Paul Simon has had some interesting post-Garfunkel work (Graceland was one of my favorites), but there's only a certain number of former 60s-era musicians that I can take.
The fact is that older listeners just aren't as likely to be affected by marketing as kids.
Not true. Detergents, wine, clothing, movies and countless other products are targeted at adults. They are as affected by marketing and product perception as any other demographic. The difference is that adults, as you say, have a sense of self image that often feeds on the need for individuality; contrast this with the typical teenager's want to "fit in" with his/her peergroup or the population at large.
Your post is actually a good example of my point. Until I did a Google search for "TRL" I didn't know what the acronym meant. So not having Paul Simon appear or not appear wouldn't make a difference at all to me. "Adult Contemporary" also illustrates my point. South Florida had a couple of those a while back. Alas, they didn't play anything "contemporary" but was more along the lines of "the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s." There were even some specialty low-wattage stations that gave the "contemporary" format a shot; however, they too resorted to some good but dated stuff like old Coltrane or Marsalis with one or two of Sting's pseudo-jazz attempts thrown in. Maybe the execs believe that we like our music like we like our food: soft, bland and easily digestible.
The thing is that this demographic is worth the marketing attempt. A savvy marketer would need to seek out our media outlets and throw a few advertising dollars there. Because these markets are smaller the advertising rates are equivalently lower than something like TRL. What does this mean? For one, it's cheaper. You could advertise new artists in many more places. These new artists could all have different sounds. Sure, the market will be smaller, but you'll have more markets to choose from. As it is, the 15-25 demo is this amorphous and fickle behemoth that's in some ways worse than the lottery. The adult market, as you said, is more loyal and more likely to continue listening to genres they enjoy.
I took a couple sociology courses back in college. One of the interesting things I got from the courses was that people enjoy feeling that they are somehow unique, even though population demographics will indicate otherwise. Sure, each person's collective interests will make them unique, but generally, people tend to follow trends and are quite easily grouped.
What's interesting is the choices that the music industry are making when it comes to marketing their product. The 15-25yr old demographic tends to have less discretionary income than the 25-40yr old group, yet the music industry churns out lots of product for the fiscally challenged group. OK, the idea may be that this group tends to buy more music and is more influenced by MTV and radio. Therein lies the problem. With everything else competing for the teen to young adult market, the slice of the pie that goes to the recording industry gets smaller and smaller.
So what to do? Hell, why not legislate some profits then. There's an apocryphal story about candle and gas light manufacturers suing to ban electric lighting and similar ones about horse-drawn buggy folks legislating some ridiculous traffic rules. Why? The new technology would make obsolete their business. But you see where that got the candle makers and buggy builders.
How about this wacky idea: Why doesn't the music industry start marketing and producing product for the 25-40 year old group. We long-toothed, graybearded, geriatrics would enjoy something newer than the constant stream of old Beatles, Stones, 80's era U2, and re-gurgitated 70's "classics" that bombard us. Try something new. Introduce something exotic so that we can talk about it as we quaff our Samuel Adams with our other 30-something year old friends and talk about our 401Ks. We can't exactly listen to Britney Spears or Eminem, you see. We like to feel important, still relevant, and nothing makes use more relevant than being able to "discover" some interesting sounding CD. What'll really shock you is that we have DISCRETIONARY INCOME. How about that! We can *buy* your music. Hell, we'll even pay $18 a CD to be able to be able to put it on our coffee table.
What's even more amazing is that many of these old people enjoy MUSIC. We like interesting lyrics. Some of use are even accomplished or semi-accomplished musicians and appreciate an interesting melody or a novel interpretation of a classic. Heck, even something as trite as musical virtuousity can impress us. I know this is complete anathema to your current marketing philosophy, but what can you lose?
A few things are causing problems: Florida has no state tax; they get their revenues from taxing everything else. Like the rest of the country Florida is suffering from the economic downturn (hah, more like economic plummet). In addition to just general malaise, there's also some tourism dropoffs and rising unemployment.
Several other problems: The state is very l-o-n-g. There are areas of fabulous wealth next to areas of depressing poverty. Legislators push their local agendas in Tallahassee but these may be hurtful to everyone else in the state. E.g., increased taxes on tourism industries will help the state overall but be worse for tourism dependent cities. There are lots of people entering from other states, other countries, trying to start anew or retire in Florida. There's a lot of new kids being born, lots of new cars, new buildings. (Here's an example: To lure businesses to a city, the legislators give business huge tax incentives thinking that it will provide employment. But the business bring in former employees, outsource, or provide only low-wage jobs to the community. *And* the taxes aren't being paid because of the incentives) Add to this every politician pushing their lobbyists' agendas, legislators who still think we're riding the dot-com bubble, and massive corruption (look at the Miami-Dade school board and UTD, DOT corruption, political corruption at all levels) and yeah, they'll try to tax LANs in a desperate search for any possible new revenue. (Lotto: No, we won't take money from the school system. Reality: They did. Well, they never increased any funding from earlier levels even as everything else raised.)
Which begs the question: How exactly does one tax a LAN? Do you charge a per-sale fee for any network equipment? If I use powerline ethernet, do I get charged? How about if I string some LocalTalk cables between my 68K Macs? Or setup PPP over a serial link between my two Linux boxes?
Yeah, we got the Doofus State title back from California. We're not letting go this time.
One of the appeals of science fiction, at least for me, is the speculation about what future worlds and a future earth will be. No, it doesn't have to realistic, but IMHO it should at least be believable. Sure, in a fantasy novel/movie I can suspend belief if the story is plot or character driven. The problem is that many science fiction stories depend on the science itself; when the science is horrible then the entire thing fails.
For example, in the movie _Signs_, it doesn't much matter if aliens invaded or a bunch of rabid dogs started terrorizing a town and we find that the daughter has some doggie biscuit craving thereby saving the world. In this case the mechanics are somewhat irrelevant.
In something like a based-on-life astronaut movie, it's incredibly distracting when some Aborigine tribe in Australia helps guide an astronaut down to Earth.
Since RedHat adds a bunch of patches you'll need to start with the Linus source that the RedHat kernel is based upon, then add the patches from that kernel to bring it up to the new.
It's not exactly easy.
There will be hundreds of files that change from the stock kernel to the RedHat kernel. Then there are the hundreds more that change from the stock release to the next stock release.
Your best option is to use a kernel from the RedHat beta releases then recompile it for the current. These will *usually* work, but there are no guarantees. It's pretty simple to rebuild a kernel RPM:
rpmbuild --rebuild --target=athlon kernel-2.4.22-20.9.src.rpm
Many ethernet cards have a socket for a programmable chip that allows netbooting. Pretty much all you need is the address of the server from where to retrieve the rest of the software. Usually the kernel is loaded via tftp then the rest of the os is NFS mounted. I don't know if this is how the article is doing it, but the netboot stuff is pretty common and easy to configure.
Of course. But then "PC" may stand for (Twin) Prime Conjecture, versus the more obvious "Personal Computer". In this case, basic statistics (prime normal variation over n-space) dictate that an attribute of a system (here, the benchmark) is an indirect orthogonal vector across the set of L-space primes. GIT, in the limited case, applies to provability of functional equivalence of natural numbers and is directly applicable to this prime normal variation. For example, in The Millenium Problems, Keith Devlin writes how Godel "proved this result by showing how to translate questions about provability to equivalent questions about computability of certain functions" (108). I'm performing something similar here -- restating the original posit in an equivalent manner to highlight the cardinal aspect of GIT.
Umm, yeah. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem of course applies to any system, regardless of whether "system" defines a set of axiomatic rules or a bunch of PC parts. Of course, we could also say that Heisenberg Uncertainty puts any benchmark into doubt, and if we assign a number to any attribute of the system we cannot then trust other numbers. I know I'm taking some liberty with the applicability of HUT, but hey, why not. Then there's the whole Hilbert Space objections to these arbitrary transforms; without any Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we cannot trust, in the mathematical sense, the reducibility of any Eigenfunction. The Smirnov test is perhaps not ideal; maybe Bacardi-Walker would be better, or at least produce more interesting (in a completely Lanis-Morton sense) results.
No names in control flow, just GOTO 100 and GOSUB 9000. No parameters for subroutines.
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In some of the later ones you could GOTO a variable name. This led to some really interesting code such as:
10 LET L1=100
20 PRINT "ENTER NUMBER:"
30 READ A
40 GOTO 100 + (A * 10)
100 (blah blah blah)
105 GOTO 200
110 (blah blah blah)
No joke. September is apparently the busiest month for births. Also try this -- do either of your parents have birthdays 9 months before yours? Any other events 9 months before your birthday?