Please hardware vendors, please open source your drivers so everyone that have your hardware (purchased legally) can use your hardware on various OS like Linux, Macintosh and other OS. This will help sales of your product in other than the Microsoft Window environment. Open your environment so that others can use your hardware. End of soapbox.
I don't have any MS SQLServers here at my site so I block all sqlserver request and my firewall gets hit with thousands of sqlserver hits everyday. I think they have bots that go out an scour the network for any sqlserver regardless they exist or not. Once they find a sqlserver then they pounce on it with a vengeance.
Four of these cameras looking down on all sides of house and yards in my property. You need to know the angles and illumination of your area so you can get correct camera: http://www.scdlink.com/Details.cfm?ProdID=2317&category=0
There are some package deals that are cheaper that may work for you but I chose customize set up that worked for my needs. I tested some webcams and wireless cameras from work (which I use normally for teleconferences) but they are not up to resolution and illumination I needed. I contacted these security camera companies to try to find out what is best for the price I'm looking for and this what I got for me. I will be different for you for your environment. Yes, break-in and other thieves are up in our neighborhood so installed this last year to prevent such problems. I did caught my neighborhood kids scoping one of my cars (gee, a ugly 1981 Honda Accord, go figure) which I did copy to the police which they identified one kid on the video and they are working on the rest.
We are going down that path fast the way we are destroying our world. Global warming is one symptom of many that could cause the extinction of the human race or at least the majority of humans. Living things have can take much punishment from many environmental and genetic factors but there is point where anything will be destroyed... cockroaches included.
It is better question what caused the first "die-off" of the human race?
This is similar to what good bacteria and viruses in our bodies are doing to the bad bacteria and viruses. If the good are winning we are well and alive but if the bad are winning are sick and dying. However we need to learn the lesson from the Blue Security which they were counteract spam with their "unsubscribe" messages. Bad guys have alot up their sleeves so we need to be careful and have fall back plans before we go after these badbots.
At my previous workplace we shipped an Sun E3500 from our Canadian subsidiary with the standard approved documentation but our, US, Custom Service Agents decided to open the system to look for "Cuban cigars and other contraband" since they don't have any technical experience they just ripped the doors, boards from their lock positions and essentially destroyed the Sun E3500. When I got it I saw system when it got here and the crate that the Sun E3500 was okay but the system was trashed with the system boards left askew and front door broken. We contacted our legal and finance department what to do about this Sun E3500 and it was about 3 years later before we got some reparations for the in which the E3500 was out of production and being retired. I with such pain I learn to unlock everything and tape the equipment to they can remove the tape and so they, the US Custom Service can inspect it.
So does MS Internet Explorer fails many ISO test. MS wants to create "de facto" standards without a standards body and they have been doing that since the beginning. However standards bodies are not perfect either, remember the DVD- versus the DVD+ which we had to get either DVD- or DVD+ disk for the proper drive.
Once again the quote "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is" applies here. $399 Mac? Even for a Windows PC that is some ridiculously low price unless you build it yourself very low price parts. I didn't check if Psystar has a SSL system and how they authenticated the, if any, the credit card transactions when they where up.
For an CS major you need to have good resources like high speed & reliable computers, fast & reliable network, and good teaching personnel. Good tools and resources will enhance your education so check which school has the best resources and tools for you major. I was a double major so I did started at UC Berkeley and ended at UCLA.
It is pity that other smaller companies don't have this form of defense other than the ACLU. I hope Blue Jean wins this cases and sends a message to other corporate raiders to think before they send legal letters.
In the last two months I have seen a huge increase of spam from distributed locations around the world and I get them in bursts at irregular times. The new junk is the backscatter spam that they send to other people, existing or not, and resultant rejections if they don't existing gets bounced to us. I think that burst of spam is bots controllers telling their slaves to send out spam simultaneously thus the resulting spam burst on my system. If someone can find the most of bot controllers and then "cleans" those slave systems so there are less of them so we can have some peace. I'm not advocating killing them like the Russian Mafia: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2157244 but torture them until they relinquish the password to their system so we can find out where the slave systems are. I have no problem sending them to some gulag in some God forsaken former Communist country have them beaten the living daylights out of them.
If you check some of these researchers they are also Medical Doctors with authority to prescribe. Some of them take liberty to self-medicate, violating DEA rules. Most sensible researchers know the consequences of most of these drugs and the effect they have on them so it is strange for them to take such a gamble just for a few more "performance points". The bad consequences are high for most performance enhancing drugs like cancer, behavior problems,mis-developed body structures (ie large muscules but bones haven't developed to compensate) and other issues. However some researchers think of themselves "immune" to bad consequences and gamble with their lives. There is no such thing as an "prefect" drug that has no side effects and doctors and pharmacist prescribe drugs understanding these and hopefully that the good outdoes the bad in their prescription.
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It is more dangerous to prosecute the innocent. I believe in protecting children and victims but it more travesty of justice to harm innocent. The real purpose of the US justice system was remedy issues that the founding father of US saw in the British legal system. The 5th to 8th Amendments of US Constitution were created to prevent, but not stop (Read The Patriot Act), this abuse of legal system on the innocent. In short this created the statement "Innocent until proven guilty". I read BBC news often and I see dangerous precedents of prosecution of people without proper burden of proof in UK and I see that in UK appears have the mentality of "Protection from terrorism at all cost" but casting such a wide net will always get a fair amount of by-catch and framing of so-called "enemies" by people who have minor disagreement withe government will be prosecuted for no good reason.
Gee, if I didn't know any better this is one of those "Create the problem so I can save you from that that problem" thing. I forgot the psychological term for this but this is exactly what this is. Create a bunch rootkits and other malware and then ask Sony to "solve" it. They have have the nerve to ask money for this. I call this ransom ware, pay company to get the malware on your system and pay to get the same company to remove it.
Or a centerfold of a men's magazine in front of the camera. Comcast is getting scary with their methods. I wonder if they hired old KGB, Gestapo or other dictator agents for this?
Their f*@!&ing session on those daisy fields. Just like in those fantasy porn movies. It is pity that companies need to resort this childish methods of negotiating and we are always the victim of these tactics.
Ah, back to the sounds of Randy "Duke" Cunningham. It is a pity that all people that do this aren't in the same place as Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Comcast is doing a "catch me if your can" thing with the FCC and what essentially Comcast is doing is daring FCC to do anything about it. The laws are there but how much "teeth" is in those laws to force companies like Comcast to do something.
I have both Norton AV and Clamav running on Mac systems. There are only a few pieces of malware for Macs (non-potent) now but since we have share files and data between other OS we need to scan files that we get from them which can be infected even they won't really affect the Mac. If you have virtualization programs like Parallels or VMware and have Windows, an piece of malware can infect the virtual OS. Remember the recently VMware announced an vulnerability in VMware where the guest OS can affect host OS. http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html The worst stuff from email with sends all of us junk that hopefully that the mail server will filter out most malware but your system will need to filter any leakers that pass through the mail server. We have been under the radar of most of the malware writers but as Mac gets more popular we will get a dose of Windows malware pain sooner or later.
Blue fur, wiggly eyes and speaks broken English this is my type monster. I'm doing my igNobel experiment on how many cookies I have to eat before I get to that state. Current status: Two boxes of cookies per week and all I'm getting is pot belly. No blue fur, wiggly eyes and or broken English (unless beer with those cookies).
This is a great antenna especially with the new digital TV and upper channels will be auctioned off. If you look at the gain of the antenna the upper channels don't have as good of gain as the lower channels.
When the platform is used well beyond its intended purpose. Take for example FORTRAN programming language I see as whipping boy here. FORTRAN is great for people who are doing mathematics and other math based computation but not for other purposes. We still use FORTRAN for physics applications and yes, we still can use it with the internet as part of the application for the web. However there is a limit to this especially if you are in a production environment. If an platform is no longer supported my anyone, 3rd party or open source (ie OpenVMS), then you should abandon that platform and migrate to another platform. If you use that platform for fun and backup the data to another system then you can use as long it works. I have a 10 year old Apple PowerBook 1400CS that runs only Apple Mac OS 8.1 that I only use as an digital picture frame and it still works.
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Please hardware vendors, please open source your drivers so everyone that have your hardware (purchased legally) can use your hardware on various OS like Linux, Macintosh and other OS.
This will help sales of your product in other than the Microsoft Window environment. Open your environment so that others can use your hardware.
End of soapbox.
I don't have any MS SQLServers here at my site so I block all sqlserver request and my firewall gets hit with thousands of sqlserver hits everyday. I think they have bots that go out an scour the network for any sqlserver regardless they exist or not. Once they find a sqlserver then they pounce on it with a vengeance.
I have this setup at home now:
Four of these cameras looking down on all sides of house and yards in my property. You need to know the angles and illumination of your area so you can get correct camera:
http://www.scdlink.com/Details.cfm?ProdID=2317&category=0
They are linked to 4 channel DVR:
http://www.scdlink.com/Details.cfm?ProdID=2961&category=16
There are some package deals that are cheaper that may work for you but I chose customize set up that worked for my needs.
I tested some webcams and wireless cameras from work (which I use normally for teleconferences) but they are not up to resolution and illumination I needed.
I contacted these security camera companies to try to find out what is best for the price I'm looking for and this what I got for me. I will be different for you for your environment.
Yes, break-in and other thieves are up in our neighborhood so installed this last year to prevent such problems. I did caught my neighborhood kids scoping one of my cars (gee, a ugly 1981 Honda Accord, go figure) which I did copy to the police which they identified one kid on the video and they are working on the rest.
We are going down that path fast the way we are destroying our world. Global warming is one symptom of many that could cause the extinction of the human race or at least the majority of humans. Living things have can take much punishment from many environmental and genetic factors but there is point where anything will be destroyed... cockroaches included.
It is better question what caused the first "die-off" of the human race?
This is similar to what good bacteria and viruses in our bodies are doing to the bad bacteria and viruses. If the good are winning we are well and alive but if the bad are winning are sick and dying.
However we need to learn the lesson from the Blue Security which they were counteract spam with their "unsubscribe" messages. Bad guys have alot up their sleeves so we need to be careful and have fall back plans before we go after these badbots.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11392
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog
At my previous workplace we shipped an Sun E3500 from our Canadian subsidiary with the standard approved documentation but our, US, Custom Service Agents decided to open the system to look for "Cuban cigars and other contraband" since they don't have any technical experience they just ripped the doors, boards from their lock positions and essentially destroyed the Sun E3500. When I got it I saw system when it got here and the crate that the Sun E3500 was okay but the system was trashed with the system boards left askew and front door broken. We contacted our legal and finance department what to do about this Sun E3500 and it was about 3 years later before we got some reparations for the in which the E3500 was out of production and being retired.
I with such pain I learn to unlock everything and tape the equipment to they can remove the tape and so they, the US Custom Service can inspect it.
So does MS Internet Explorer fails many ISO test. MS wants to create "de facto" standards without a standards body and they have been doing that since the beginning.
However standards bodies are not perfect either, remember the DVD- versus the DVD+ which we had to get either DVD- or DVD+ disk for the proper drive.
I noticed that several movies I went to that there are so many "products placements" on them they begin to look like product demos.
Once again the quote "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is" applies here.
$399 Mac? Even for a Windows PC that is some ridiculously low price unless you build it yourself very low price parts.
I didn't check if Psystar has a SSL system and how they authenticated the, if any, the credit card transactions when they where up.
For an CS major you need to have good resources like high speed & reliable computers, fast & reliable network, and good teaching personnel. Good tools and resources will enhance your education so check which school has the best resources and tools for you major. I was a double major so I did started at UC Berkeley and ended at UCLA.
It is pity that other smaller companies don't have this form of defense other than the ACLU. I hope Blue Jean wins this cases and sends a message to other corporate raiders to think before they send legal letters.
In the last two months I have seen a huge increase of spam from distributed locations around the world and I get them in bursts at irregular times. The new junk is the backscatter spam that they send to other people, existing or not, and resultant rejections if they don't existing gets bounced to us. I think that burst of spam is bots controllers telling their slaves to send out spam simultaneously thus the resulting spam burst on my system.
If someone can find the most of bot controllers and then "cleans" those slave systems so there are less of them so we can have some peace. I'm not advocating killing them like the Russian Mafia:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2157244
but torture them until they relinquish the password to their system so we can find out where the slave systems are. I have no problem sending them to some gulag in some God forsaken former Communist country have them beaten the living daylights out of them.
If you check some of these researchers they are also Medical Doctors with authority to prescribe. Some of them take liberty to self-medicate, violating DEA rules. ,mis-developed body structures (ie large muscules but bones haven't developed to compensate) and other issues. However some researchers think of themselves "immune" to bad consequences and gamble with their lives. There is no such thing as an "prefect" drug that has no side effects and doctors and pharmacist prescribe drugs understanding these and hopefully that the good outdoes the bad in their prescription.
Most sensible researchers know the consequences of most of these drugs and the effect they have on them so it is strange for them to take such a gamble just for a few more "performance points". The bad consequences are high for most performance enhancing drugs like cancer, behavior problems
Of all the tanks of WWII why not a US Sherman tank.
Sherman tank does have so many curves so it would make a pain to duplicate neatly:
http://www.military-collections.com/Planes%20of%20Fame%20photos/ShermanTank.jpg
Panzer does have more flat areas so it would be easier to make:
http://www.worldwar2aces.com/tiger-tank/tiger-tank-images/tiger-tank-25.jpg
However someone else beat him to building a drivable tank (sans the shooter) for his son last year:
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/04/driveable_scale.html
And this smaller verison of a Panzer in the UK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_page_id=1965&in_article_id=485191
I built a 1:32 scale model tank in 1980 that shot BB's. Much fun when in high school and college.
It is more dangerous to prosecute the innocent. I believe in protecting children and victims but it more travesty of justice to harm innocent.
The real purpose of the US justice system was remedy issues that the founding father of US saw in the British legal system. The 5th to 8th Amendments of US Constitution were created to prevent, but not stop (Read The Patriot Act), this abuse of legal system on the innocent. In short this created the statement "Innocent until proven guilty".
I read BBC news often and I see dangerous precedents of prosecution of people without proper burden of proof in UK and I see that in UK appears have the mentality of "Protection from terrorism at all cost" but casting such a wide net will always get a fair amount of by-catch and framing of so-called "enemies" by people who have minor disagreement withe government will be prosecuted for no good reason.
Well tomorrow is April 1 so when is a better than a Joke rater introduced on March 31. I wonder how will all of the pranks rate on April 2?
I wonder about "uraasshole.com", "cantyouread.com" or "wtf.com".
Gee, if I didn't know any better this is one of those "Create the problem so I can save you from that that problem" thing. I forgot the psychological term for this but this is exactly what this is.
Create a bunch rootkits and other malware and then ask Sony to "solve" it. They have have the nerve to ask money for this.
I call this ransom ware, pay company to get the malware on your system and pay to get the same company to remove it.
Or a centerfold of a men's magazine in front of the camera.
Comcast is getting scary with their methods. I wonder if they hired old KGB, Gestapo or other dictator agents for this?
Their f*@!&ing session on those daisy fields. Just like in those fantasy porn movies.
It is pity that companies need to resort this childish methods of negotiating and we are always the victim of these tactics.
Ah, back to the sounds of Randy "Duke" Cunningham. It is a pity that all people that do this aren't in the same place as Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
Comcast is doing a "catch me if your can" thing with the FCC and what essentially Comcast is doing is daring FCC to do anything about it. The laws are there but how much "teeth" is in those laws to force companies like Comcast to do something.
I have both Norton AV and Clamav running on Mac systems. There are only a few pieces of malware for Macs (non-potent) now but since we have share files and data between other OS we need to scan files that we get from them which can be infected even they won't really affect the Mac. If you have virtualization programs like Parallels or VMware and have Windows, an piece of malware can infect the virtual OS. Remember the recently VMware announced an vulnerability in VMware where the guest OS can affect host OS.
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html
The worst stuff from email with sends all of us junk that hopefully that the mail server will filter out most malware but your system will need to filter any leakers that pass through the mail server.
We have been under the radar of most of the malware writers but as Mac gets more popular we will get a dose of Windows malware pain sooner or later.
Blue fur, wiggly eyes and speaks broken English this is my type monster.
I'm doing my igNobel experiment on how many cookies I have to eat before I get to that state.
Current status: Two boxes of cookies per week and all I'm getting is pot belly. No blue fur, wiggly eyes and or broken English (unless beer with those cookies).
This is a great antenna especially with the new digital TV and upper channels will be auctioned off. If you look at the gain of the antenna the upper channels don't have as good of gain as the lower channels.
When the platform is used well beyond its intended purpose.
Take for example FORTRAN programming language I see as whipping boy here. FORTRAN is great for people who are doing mathematics and other math based computation but not for other purposes. We still use FORTRAN for physics applications and yes, we still can use it with the internet as part of the application for the web.
However there is a limit to this especially if you are in a production environment. If an platform is no longer supported my anyone, 3rd party or open source (ie OpenVMS), then you should abandon that platform and migrate to another platform. If you use that platform for fun and backup the data to another system then you can use as long it works. I have a 10 year old Apple PowerBook 1400CS that runs only Apple Mac OS 8.1 that I only use as an digital picture frame and it still works.