I've used TaxACT for two years now. (Just filed my taxes today.)
The '03 version (this year's) actually has a check-box -- unchecked by default -- when you specify your email address, so they did the right thing this time around.
I was getting that email as well, from when I used it for my '02 returns, but it stopped when I followed the unsubscribe link. Yes, it was a breach of netiquette for them to send it in the first place, but they did honor the unsubscribe requests.
I work for a major NAS storage company. Using the mount option "hard" is the right advice. It sounds like the submission author is using soft NFS mounts, which is a big no-no with rw mounts where you want any kind of data integrity.
Not only was it a great game -- when I worked at NASA Ames for a summer internship, my boss (who specialized in human-computer interfaces) said he believed it was the first instance of an iconic drag-and-drop interface ever written.
Of course, you had to use the joystick -- no mouse support!
but it's been completely human-run for the last two years. The touch screens are still on but they have no signal coming in; they just flicker and give you a headache as you deliver your order verbally. It's kind of sad.
That Arby's has never done too well, though, so I'm not sure its reversion to traditional methods is reflective of the technology. (Roast beef sandwiches, in yuppie California? Not exactly a recipe for success!)
Funny, today I got one of these for the first time. My first thought was, "Why didn't somebody think of this before?"
The fix for this should be either at the OS or user level. Personal firewalls are not hard to find, and inexpensive compared to the cost of net access. If ISP's start blocking every port that could be abused, sooner or later we'll ALL be turned into one-way consumers.
One of them is evident in the article: well-meaning users often do not understand what might be insecure about their server configurations, or what might need to be done to fix them.
Then they shouldn't be running mail servers. PERIOD.
The colony feature looks good, but I have not actually seen it work (though I have tried several times). I'm not sure if there is something I'm missing (ie a tech advance needed - the manual doesn't list one) or doing wrong.
Did you build a road to the colony? It needs to be connected to your capital (not just any old city).
If it's on another continent, you'll need to connect it to a city on that continent and then develop the technology which allows harbors to connect across ocean squares (Navigation, if I recall correctly).
I'll risk being modded Redundant and toss my two cents in here.
I have four IDE IBM 75GXP's; two 30GB drives (in my Win2K box) and two 45GB drives (in my Linux box).
The Linux setup is running RAID 1. I've already lost one drive -- it experienced the same horrible clicking and grinding noises previously described. Partition by partition it went offline, until finally it was completely unusable. I've replaced it and rebuilt the RAID 1 array, but just the other day I heard more click-grinds from it for a few seconds. They haven't recurred since, but I won't be surprised if they start up again.
The drives on my Windows box were originally set up in a RAID 0 configuration -- blindingly fast! However, one developed a single bad sector that must have been in a critical location of the FAT32 filesystem, because next time I booted my entire directory structure was scrambled. Even hooking a drive up to my Linux box -- a tactic that's worked wonders in the past -- didn't allow me to save any data. Now I have the same two drives set up in RAID 1. No more bad sectors so far...
I don't blame the loss of data from the Windows box on anything but my own foolish lack of backups, but these drives, in my experience, are not reliable.
The article says the resolution on the display is 4096x3840 pixels. That is exactly 20 (4 wide, 5 tall) 1024x768 displays generated by 20 Linux boxen, which is what they're using now.
They eventually plan to upgrade to a 8096x3840 pixel display (I bet that's a typo and they meant 8192x3840) -- 8 wide, 5 tall -- using, you guessed it, 40 (8*5) Linux machines.
The point of the GPL is to ensure that open-source programs remain open-source and freely modifiable.
I don't see why using it as a lever to get a company to release proprietary source code they never intended to open would do any good. That would give Microsoft plenty of fuel for their "viral GPL" argument -- "See, if you even touch this stuff you'll be forced to release the source code for your ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE!"
Sure, Vidomi screwed up. But the gracious settlement ("Just fix it and we're cool") seems a lot better for all concerned.
If you ask me, identd is nothing more than a waste of bandwidth. Someone, please prove me wrong.
Actually, it's a (mild) security risk. From the nmap(1) man page:
As noted by Dave Goldsmith in a 1996 Bugtraq post, the ident protocol (rfc 1413) allows for the disclosure of the username that owns any process connected via TCP, even if that process didn't initiate the connection. So you can, for example, connect to the http port and then use identd to find out whether the server is running as root.
Nmap allows one to do exactly that with the -I option.
Everybody I know who's into anime (including myself) very much prefers subtitles to dubbing. My friend has a massive collection on over a hundred CD-R's; all of it is subtitled -- when he downloads a dubbed copy he just deletes it.
The studios who are releasing anime in the US on DVD are starting to get smart and include the Japanese-language soundtrack with them, so that people can choose whether they want the dubbed (English soundtrack) or subtitled version.
I hope that if this guy gets to go through with this that he at least uses some engineers with the proper training (NASA engineers that have lost their job, perhaps?)
You don't think the best engineers work for government pay in a government bureaucracy, do you? They might work for contractors like Lockheed, but I guarantee you they're not settling for civil servant wages.
If there's money, they'll be happy to follow it, just like in the IT industry.
Say you give them a list of vulnerabilities and recommend that they employ you to fix them, but being fools (or just strapped for cash), they take no action.
Six months later, an anonymous email hits every employee in the company with everybody's SSN, salary, performance reviews, etc.
Finger-pointing ensues, and the IT managers look for somebody, anybody to pin the blame on besides themselves. "Maybe it was a disgruntled ex-employee," they say -- "or maybe it was that security guy who was trying to get our business! Look, he even gave us a list of what he could do to our machines!" Wham, lawsuit and criminal charges against you!
Sure, you would know you didn't hack their site...but you'd have to prove it in court, which is expensive as hell, not to mention very hard on the reputation.
XBOX Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports monitoring and control systems, host level client/server software, and machine diagnostic tools for the die casting and plastic injection molding industries.
Maybe Microsoft could give them or one of their clients the contract to make X-Box cases...;)
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I've used TaxACT for two years now. (Just filed my taxes today.)
The '03 version (this year's) actually has a check-box -- unchecked by default -- when you specify your email address, so they did the right thing this time around.
I was getting that email as well, from when I used it for my '02 returns, but it stopped when I followed the unsubscribe link. Yes, it was a breach of netiquette for them to send it in the first place, but they did honor the unsubscribe requests.
I work for a major NAS storage company. Using the mount option "hard" is the right advice. It sounds like the submission author is using soft NFS mounts, which is a big no-no with rw mounts where you want any kind of data integrity.
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=20710339 _corner-archive.asp#85505821 c les/000/000/001/435tebxi.asp
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2067837
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/2002_09_2
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Arti
(You may have to search for "welfare" on the pages above to find the section addressing the link.)
Not only was it a great game -- when I worked at NASA Ames for a summer internship, my boss (who specialized in human-computer interfaces) said he believed it was the first instance of an iconic drag-and-drop interface ever written.
Of course, you had to use the joystick -- no mouse support!
but it's been completely human-run for the last two years. The touch screens are still on but they have no signal coming in; they just flicker and give you a headache as you deliver your order verbally. It's kind of sad.
That Arby's has never done too well, though, so I'm not sure its reversion to traditional methods is reflective of the technology. (Roast beef sandwiches, in yuppie California? Not exactly a recipe for success!)
A policeman, on duty, is an arm of the government, not a citizen.
"We the people of the United States..."
Funny, today I got one of these for the first time. My first thought was, "Why didn't somebody think of this before?"
The fix for this should be either at the OS or user level. Personal firewalls are not hard to find, and inexpensive compared to the cost of net access. If ISP's start blocking every port that could be abused, sooner or later we'll ALL be turned into one-way consumers.
Then they shouldn't be running mail servers. PERIOD.
Why does nobody ever mention Network Appliance? They're very competitive with EMC feature- and reliability-wise, and definitely kill them on price.
Actually, many people think that freon was banned because DuPont's patent was about to expire.
134a, the very-widely-used replacement chemical, is also a DuPont chemical -- and the pantent is much newer!
Did you build a road to the colony? It needs to be connected to your capital (not just any old city).
If it's on another continent, you'll need to connect it to a city on that continent and then develop the technology which allows harbors to connect across ocean squares (Navigation, if I recall correctly).
Given the choice between allowing a population to be "immoral" versus oppressing said population, do you not think we should choose the former?
Of course, this is a gross simplification of the issues, but the question is important.
And they'll probably be nearly as reliable and have nearly as little downtime as most of the commercial "enterprise storage" out there.
People buy expensive storage so they can call somebody else when it breaks. Uptime is just a numbers game to make the marketroids happy.
I have four IDE IBM 75GXP's; two 30GB drives (in my Win2K box) and two 45GB drives (in my Linux box).
The Linux setup is running RAID 1. I've already lost one drive -- it experienced the same horrible clicking and grinding noises previously described. Partition by partition it went offline, until finally it was completely unusable. I've replaced it and rebuilt the RAID 1 array, but just the other day I heard more click-grinds from it for a few seconds. They haven't recurred since, but I won't be surprised if they start up again.
The drives on my Windows box were originally set up in a RAID 0 configuration -- blindingly fast! However, one developed a single bad sector that must have been in a critical location of the FAT32 filesystem, because next time I booted my entire directory structure was scrambled. Even hooking a drive up to my Linux box -- a tactic that's worked wonders in the past -- didn't allow me to save any data. Now I have the same two drives set up in RAID 1. No more bad sectors so far...
I don't blame the loss of data from the Windows box on anything but my own foolish lack of backups, but these drives, in my experience, are not reliable.
They eventually plan to upgrade to a 8096x3840 pixel display (I bet that's a typo and they meant 8192x3840) -- 8 wide, 5 tall -- using, you guessed it, 40 (8*5) Linux machines.
That would be a good thing, no?
I don't see why using it as a lever to get a company to release proprietary source code they never intended to open would do any good. That would give Microsoft plenty of fuel for their "viral GPL" argument -- "See, if you even touch this stuff you'll be forced to release the source code for your ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE!"
Sure, Vidomi screwed up. But the gracious settlement ("Just fix it and we're cool") seems a lot better for all concerned.
Actually, it's a (mild) security risk. From the nmap(1) man page:
Nmap allows one to do exactly that with the -I option.
The studios who are releasing anime in the US on DVD are starting to get smart and include the Japanese-language soundtrack with them, so that people can choose whether they want the dubbed (English soundtrack) or subtitled version.
You don't think the best engineers work for government pay in a government bureaucracy, do you? They might work for contractors like Lockheed, but I guarantee you they're not settling for civil servant wages.
If there's money, they'll be happy to follow it, just like in the IT industry.
Say you give them a list of vulnerabilities and recommend that they employ you to fix them, but being fools (or just strapped for cash), they take no action. Six months later, an anonymous email hits every employee in the company with everybody's SSN, salary, performance reviews, etc. Finger-pointing ensues, and the IT managers look for somebody, anybody to pin the blame on besides themselves. "Maybe it was a disgruntled ex-employee," they say -- "or maybe it was that security guy who was trying to get our business! Look, he even gave us a list of what he could do to our machines!" Wham, lawsuit and criminal charges against you! Sure, you would know you didn't hack their site...but you'd have to prove it in court, which is expensive as hell, not to mention very hard on the reputation.
XBOX Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports monitoring and control systems, host level client/server software, and machine diagnostic tools for the die casting and plastic injection molding industries.
Maybe Microsoft could give them or one of their clients the contract to make X-Box cases...;)
Using Raid 3 or 5 you lose one disk in a rank for parity, raid 6 (used by Network Appliances) Network Appliance machines use RAID-4, not RAID-6.