I would hope that parts of the university that use the i-cards for cash use more fields on the card. I have not swiped an i-card (a regular credit card reader should suffice). But SC uses only the number printed in the card. I was not added in their first import of people with access. While in the TSG office someone looked at my card and typed in the 16 digit number and my name into a computer and then granted me access to certain rooms. I suspect SC does not get updates when someone is issued a new card.
I agree that this building and its "Grand Opening" has been (over) hyped. I would like to know who choose things like the big blue screen on the construction site fance facing SC and flowers at something this morning for suits. Who gave them such a large budget they can splurge on such silly cosmetic things when the university can't pay to maintain all their buildings?
Sorry your demo is hyped up with buzzwords. I'm quite happy with ours in 2109. We never felt any pressure to change anything with our project. But it is an application of wireless sensor networks so I guess it cames with buzzwords for free.
They better not have toilet paper allotments. One of the first things I noticed when I moved into this fancy expensive building is that they picked the cheapest toilet paper available. The toilet paper does vary from building to building (according to a friend who used to work in the Facilities and Services? dept) around UIUC but SC is all the way at the low end.
Your claim of needed physical access is not true. I work in Siebel. Like most people there I use my i-card for access to locked doors. This card contains a magnetic strip just like a credit card. We have been provided with necklaces for holding our i-card so it is easy to swipe. The entire number encoded on the magnetic strip needed by the building is printed in clear text on the front of the card (I watched them type the number into the door security system). All one needs is a very high resolution picture of someone who is wearing their card front-away-from-body and you could make a copy of their card.
NO! Just because a server forwards a message does not mean it is an open relay. I have an address at uiuc.edu which is forwarded to my personal machine with SMTP. If I run TarProxy on my machine the uiuc.edu mail host will be slowed down when it forwards spam it accepted for my uiuc.edu address. More significantly, all my forwarded mail from uiuc.edu will be slowed down.
A reasonable solution would be configuring TarProxy to never slow down certain mail hosts, which you trust. A system with many unaware users who forward mail may not have such an easy solution. Perhaps a host should only be slowed down if most messages it sends is spam.
Have you been to Whistler Blackcomb ski resort? It is a 5 hour drive from Redmond and a lot of Microserfs visit it. Sitting in the valley between the two mountains is a bar named Longhorn.
Longhorn is the bar which must be crossed to get from Whistler (Windows XP) to Blackcomb (the next big release)
> In fact, this isn't popularly known, but on
> the RTM date for WinXP there was a ship
> stopping bug related to upgrade isntallations.
> Upgrading 98SE would delete everything in the My
> Docs directory.
I don't think so. I was there, on the 3rd floor of building 26, reading the warteam DL, as the final build was burnt. There wasn't any sort last minute panic over a bug. The release seemed fairly smooth from my seat.
Why do you need to talk to Balmer, Allchin, Mundie, etc? You're just activating the damn OS for crying out loud! They might by crazy, maybe dead wrong, but they don't want to ship crap and they'll tell you that.
Not true if you change hardware that much. You have 14 days to activate XP. So change more than 3 parts of hardware a bit more than twice a month and you are set.
I don't think so. She's been reading slashdot for a long time and user id 255255 was created within the past few day or two.
Also, she is more than creative enough to create a better handle than "The real Anne Marie."
Sure, they are still doing development but it works and they have loads of music. Plus they try to match you with machines in the same domain which is really sweet for people at universities.
A node can only find the details of nodes topologicly close to it. Every other node in the network is masked by the surrounding nodes.
As searches and data replys move through the network nodes may randomly rewrite the source to hide the original data source from the node that made the request.
No provisions have or will be made to remove the anonymity of posters or requesters. My best advice is to avoid trojans.
If you unwittingly let your/etc/passwd file (you do use shadowed passwords don't you?) get into freenet and people decide they want to request it there is nothing you, the government or even the freenet developers can do. That's why we love freenet:-)
Data only propogates through the network if there is demand for it. You could insert ads for your porn site, but unless people made requests for it the data will just drop out.
You could artifically keep it longer by requesting the data yourself, but since you can't generate a list of most freenet nodes you can only force the data to stay in the part of the network you have access to. Also, the network will drop your data when you stop dedicating your resources to requesting it.
It is hard to find similarities between Everything and Freenet!
Everything was created to organise information and find previously unthought of connections between ideas. Freenet lacks any fixed structure. It's goal is to ease distribution of, most likely, unrelated data.
Java was chosen for it's obvious strengths: cross-platform support, OO, threading, etc.
Java is just being used in this first test implementation of the freenet node. The Freenet network protocol is (somewhat) documented and anyone is free to write a server in another language. Freenet will release client libraries with an API in many languages once the protocol stabilizes.
The offical Freenet server, which you may download from http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ will never share your file system, so you can avoid trojans by downloading this open source implementation of the server. Your node will only contain data which has been explicitly inserted into it's data store using the Freenet network protocol.
The possibility of rouge nodes certainly exists and could cause a problem. Hopefully most (>90%) nodes will honestly store and return data as expected.
audiogalaxy has a cool client which does bascially the same things as Napster. Their service is small enough that it hasn't been banned yet. Also note that they are still in beta and searches can take awhile at peak times.
It is my understanding that "they" left because d.net wanted to spend its resources working on more projects such as the ogr and the highly inticpated "v3" was taking too long to finish properly.
Now d.net is continuing to develop their clients that support more and more projects in a more modular way and "they" want off implement the beautiful Cosm, starting from scratch.
What we really need is a general system that can be used to work on all these projects. That way someone could just release a mars_searcher plugin and everyone's distributed client could (optionally without interaction) download and start working on the problem. Then when mars_searcher is not relevant they can switch back to SETI, d.net, or similar long term projects.
And now the good news: This project exists and is in the works. It is real and called goes by the name of "Cosm". Check it out.
They don't have a client yet, but there is a CVS server with code that is being developed as you read this.
The "under one watt" was referring to typical usage. You might always listen to mp3's while on your computer but most people do less power intesive tasks such as browsing the web, working on spreadsheets, etc.
This chip saves power by slowing down when not actually doing any computations. For example spreadsheet programs spend most of their time waiting for user input.
distributed.net claims that these idle cycles are wasted by most people but soon you will be able to buy a CPU which will just slow to a crawl when it doesn't have any work to do.
d.net was going to make v3 this beautiful general distributed computing client but they decided they could not wait for cosmo to be completed. See another comment I made.
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I would hope that parts of the university that use the i-cards for cash use more fields on the card. I have not swiped an i-card (a regular credit card reader should suffice). But SC uses only the number printed in the card. I was not added in their first import of people with access. While in the TSG office someone looked at my card and typed in the 16 digit number and my name into a computer and then granted me access to certain rooms. I suspect SC does not get updates when someone is issued a new card.
Sorry your demo is hyped up with buzzwords. I'm quite happy with ours in 2109. We never felt any pressure to change anything with our project. But it is an application of wireless sensor networks so I guess it cames with buzzwords for free.
They better not have toilet paper allotments. One of the first things I noticed when I moved into this fancy expensive building is that they picked the cheapest toilet paper available. The toilet paper does vary from building to building (according to a friend who used to work in the Facilities and Services? dept) around UIUC but SC is all the way at the low end.
Your claim of needed physical access is not true. I work in Siebel. Like most people there I use my i-card for access to locked doors. This card contains a magnetic strip just like a credit card. We have been provided with necklaces for holding our i-card so it is easy to swipe. The entire number encoded on the magnetic strip needed by the building is printed in clear text on the front of the card (I watched them type the number into the door security system). All one needs is a very high resolution picture of someone who is wearing their card front-away-from-body and you could make a copy of their card.
NO! Just because a server forwards a message does not mean it is an open relay. I have an address at uiuc.edu which is forwarded to my personal machine with SMTP. If I run TarProxy on my machine the uiuc.edu mail host will be slowed down when it forwards spam it accepted for my uiuc.edu address. More significantly, all my forwarded mail from uiuc.edu will be slowed down.
A reasonable solution would be configuring TarProxy to never slow down certain mail hosts, which you trust. A system with many unaware users who forward mail may not have such an easy solution. Perhaps a host should only be slowed down if most messages it sends is spam.
Longhorn is the bar which must be crossed to get from Whistler (Windows XP) to Blackcomb (the next big release)
> the RTM date for WinXP there was a ship
> stopping bug related to upgrade isntallations.
> Upgrading 98SE would delete everything in the My
> Docs directory.
I don't think so. I was there, on the 3rd floor of building 26, reading the warteam DL, as the final build was burnt. There wasn't any sort last minute panic over a bug. The release seemed fairly smooth from my seat.
Why do you need to talk to Balmer, Allchin, Mundie, etc? You're just activating the damn OS for crying out loud! They might by crazy, maybe dead wrong, but they don't want to ship crap and they'll tell you that.
Not true if you change hardware that much. You have 14 days to activate XP. So change more than 3 parts of hardware a bit more than twice a month and you are set.
My only guess is that the PCL is the largest library at the biggest university in the USA.
Sorry.
Also, she is more than creative enough to create a better handle than "The real Anne Marie."
I can't believe I even responded to this post.
VeriSign will assure you that the server you are securely connected to is who you think it is.
While it is possible and common for a http cache/proxy to "grab" all http connections without a normal user noticing, certificates prevent anyone anyone fiddling with a https connection without the browser warning the user.
Try the older interface or the new snazzy javascript interface.
As searches and data replys move through the network nodes may randomly rewrite the source to hide the original data source from the node that made the request.
If you unwittingly let your /etc/passwd file (you do use shadowed passwords don't you?) get into freenet and people decide they want to request it there is nothing you, the government or even the freenet developers can do. That's why we love freenet :-)
You could artifically keep it longer by requesting the data yourself, but since you can't generate a list of most freenet nodes you can only force the data to stay in the part of the network you have access to. Also, the network will drop your data when you stop dedicating your resources to requesting it.
Everything was created to organise information and find previously unthought of connections between ideas.
Freenet lacks any fixed structure. It's goal is to ease distribution of, most likely, unrelated data.
Java is just being used in this first test implementation of the freenet node. The Freenet network protocol is (somewhat) documented and anyone is free to write a server in another language. Freenet will release client libraries with an API in many languages once the protocol stabilizes.
The possibility of rouge nodes certainly exists and could cause a problem. Hopefully most (>90%) nodes will honestly store and return data as expected.
audiogalaxy has a cool client which does bascially the same things as Napster. Their service is small enough that it hasn't been banned yet.
Also note that they are still in beta and searches can take awhile at peak times.
Now d.net is continuing to develop their clients that support more and more projects in a more modular way and "they" want off implement the beautiful Cosm, starting from scratch.
And now the good news: This project exists and is in the works. It is real and called goes by the name of "Cosm". Check it out.
They don't have a client yet, but there is a CVS server with code that is being developed as you read this.
This chip saves power by slowing down when not actually doing any computations. For example spreadsheet programs spend most of their time waiting for user input.
distributed.net claims that these idle cycles are wasted by most people but soon you will be able to buy a CPU which will just slow to a crawl when it doesn't have any work to do.
d.net was going to make v3 this beautiful general distributed computing client but they decided they could not wait for cosmo to be completed. See another comment I made.