(even the BSD guy who still complains that he can't do a 'ps -ef' in Linux)
My good friend Wes taught me that you can set the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS environment variable in Linux to allow ps-ef. Here's a quick snippet of the Linux ps man page:
Set the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS environment variable to force BSD syntax even when options are preceeded by a dash.
I was in Dublin a couple years back, and saw bilingual (English and Irish) on major roadsigns. Aren't "Irish" and "Gaelic" different names for the same language?
It was a defunct ISP that had a product called "Internet Explorer" one year before Microsoft released IE. In actual fact, Microsoft didn't win -- they lost, and had to pay the founder of the ISP (I think) $$$$$$.
In a car, a downed power line, a bolt of lightning, immersion, and many accident situations that will flip the car off its rubber tires that ground it could expose the parts to electricity, making them solid/liquid when they should not be.
Since when did pieces of rubber conduct electricity?! Car tires INSULATE the car. Plus, asphalt doesn't conduct electricity either.
That's why when a live power line falls on your car, it doesn't melt, since the electricity isn't flowing through it (since it's INSULATED from ground).
Well, a little too much information perhaps... but a few quick notes:
- You seem to have an excellent head on your shoulders, therefore I assumed your comment about the Volvo thing was sarcastic -- no, it was actually dripping with sarcasm. Yeah, I picked up on that pretty quick.
- You have my heartfelt "Ow!" and condolences on the accident.
What's visible via analog outputs or camcorder viewfinder?
While a compatible DV VCR or camcorder is connected to the HDVR-100's firewire port, a special signal is visible on the viewfinder or the analog outputs of the VCR. This signal is not the actual high definition image. Instead it appears as a continuosly updating mosaic of color. At times the pattern almost takes on a discernable shape, but it is usually random and unlike anything usually seen. This special signal allows the user to verify that the DV VCR is properly connected and ready for recording, and to verify that the HDTV signal is actually being recorded. The HDTV audio and video are only available on the outputs of the DTC100. The special signal the camcorder dislays is to verify proper connections only.
So basically it's not DV-format video and therefore results in digital garbage on the viewfinder -- but according to them, it's a "special signal" they designed into the product to let you know you have their "Special Box" connected properly.
Don't you mean "Zut alors! Empêché encore!"? (However, if you want to pass as a fro^H^H^HQuebecer, you'll need to say "Tabargnac! Let maudits Anglophones!" Don't dare diss French in Quebec, or you'll have hot grit^H^H^H^Hpoutine poured down your pants.
Go out there and try selling a soft drink in a wasp waisted bottle shpae and see how long you last before Coca-Cola is serving you papers.
Incidentally, read the fine print on a plastic 600mL bottle of Coca-Cola and you'll discover the bottle shape itself is a registered trademark of Coca-Cola. I think that's what you're referring to.
I'm not worried about fraudsters, it's the merchant themselves that are really dangerous.
Merchants are held to a very strict contract with the credit card company called the Merchant Agreement. It states exactly what can and can't be done. For example, merchants cannot favor the use of one card over the other ("We'll take Amex, but we prefer Visa."). They also can't apply a surcharge when you pay by credit card. (Merchants have gotten around this by calling things "already cash discounted; add 2% for credit card payment".)
"Mr. DiCarlo, you did not just buy a loaf of bread, you entered a contract in which we will supply you daily with three loafs of bread for a minimum contract length of 2 years and in which the initial discount of 80% expires after the 3rd delivery."
Show me my non-forged signature on something that says that and you can have my money because I was a dipshit for not reading the fine print. A bank will also expect a copy of that.
It all comes down to precisely two items: the signature and the card imprint. If you, as a merchant, don't have the person's signature on a slip clearly outlining what they're authorizing by signing it, or alternately a credit card imprint to prove the card was physically there, then you have no basis to defend against a chargeback, period.
You will then say that the credit card company will intervene? Yes, they will negotiate with this particular vendor, especially if he's big enough, and in exchange for a higher commission rate on the transaction, they will prevent their customers from successfully initiating charge-backs.
There are laws protecting consumers that prevent this. Notwithstanding that, if your bank will stab you in the back over a transaction, you can take your interest payments (and merchants' discount fees on every transaction you do) elsewhere. My bank doesn't do that kind of shit. (I know from experience, as stated in my post.) Also, they'd make more money off you legitimately than by screwing you over once (because that's all it'll take to lose your business forever).
I would imagine some software uses what's above in its assumptions, thus changing these to make more free numbers may break such software currently in use in terminals and whatnot. Visa-affiliated banks recently changed from the standard 13-digit numbers to 16-digit numbers because the 13-digit pool was exhausted.
Three, it's more trouble than it's worth, considering you are only legally responsible for the first $50 of unauthorized charges to your card, and most banks won't even hold you to that. I've had merchants double-bill me (and once some totally unauthorized charge from Denmark showed up), and Royal Bank instantly credited my account for the full amount and mailed me a form to sign and return stating that the charge in question was unauthorized. In every instance, the whole process took less than 5 minutes of my time and was totally painless.
Essentially, the banks themselves are the only ones left holding the bag when fraudulent use occurs. As a result, they either hold the money back from the merchant's future payments or write it off. Joe Consumer (you and I) aren't liable for it, and generally aren't affected by it. Worst case, if the abuse on your particular card keeps up, they might cancel your card and send you a new one with a different number. Big deal.
Suggesting that this is a good time to be speeding doesn't.
Do you mean it isn't a good time to be going 120mph? If so, I agree. If you mean it isn't a good time to be going above the posted 40mph limit (which these devices would prohibit), you need to get some reality smacked into you.
...my wife just went into labor, and we live in the countryside. Do we wait 30 minutes for an ambulance plus another 30 minutes to the hospital, or do I put her in the car and boogey it?
...my elderly father is having chest pains and thinks it's a heart attack. It's well known that every minute counts in cardiac arrest cases. The hospital is less than 16km/10mi from here; do I call an ambulance, or get him in the car?
...my friend has drank way too much, has passed out, and is showing signs of serious alcohol poisoning. Do I call an ambulance, or get him in the car?
I have a copy of this book, and strongly recommend every driver to borrow or buy a copy and read it cover-to-cover. It's a promising insight into what may be the future, if the right decisions are made. As far as I'm concerned, speed-limited cars are a huge leap in the wrong direction.
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Jesus, you must be a fun guy to work with.
I know him, and he is.
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(even the BSD guy who still complains that he can't do a 'ps -ef' in Linux)
My good friend Wes taught me that you can set the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS environment variable in Linux to allow ps-ef. Here's a quick snippet of the Linux ps man page:
Set the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS environment variable to force BSD syntax even when options are preceeded by a dash.
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"It will probably take another three years to build a [truly enterprise-ready] Linux kernel."
But by then 2.6 will almost be ready for release! That'll be a tough act for Caldera to follow...
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Doncha hate when you pump out all that text, only to end up with +3?
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IN other words, the school district only suppors students constitutional freedoms when they conform to the political agenda of the administrators.
I am a moderator, but I will forgo moderating in this thread to post this.
I couldn't have said it better myself. The school board's administration needs a visit from some ACLU suits, methinks...
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I was in Dublin a couple years back, and saw bilingual (English and Irish) on major roadsigns. Aren't "Irish" and "Gaelic" different names for the same language?
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Mar chir mheala tha briathra taitneach milis do n'anum, agus n'an slaointe do na cnamhan.
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Gaelic or Welsh. My money's on Gaelic, though. Care to translate?
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Oh my. I'll take a dozen^H^H^H^H^Hhundred...
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It was a defunct ISP that had a product called "Internet Explorer" one year before Microsoft released IE. In actual fact, Microsoft didn't win -- they lost, and had to pay the founder of the ISP (I think) $$$$$$.
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In a car, a downed power line, a bolt of lightning, immersion, and many accident situations that will flip the car off its rubber tires that ground it could expose the parts to electricity, making them solid/liquid when they should not be.
Since when did pieces of rubber conduct electricity?! Car tires INSULATE the car. Plus, asphalt doesn't conduct electricity either.
That's why when a live power line falls on your car, it doesn't melt, since the electricity isn't flowing through it (since it's INSULATED from ground).
Imagine that.
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Hmm.
Well, a little too much information perhaps... but a few quick notes:
- You seem to have an excellent head on your shoulders, therefore I assumed your comment about the Volvo thing was sarcastic -- no, it was actually dripping with sarcasm. Yeah, I picked up on that pretty quick.
- You have my heartfelt "Ow!" and condolences on the accident.
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Eunuchs? I honestly didn't see it until you pointed it out. Cute.
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While a compatible DV VCR or camcorder is connected to the HDVR-100's firewire port, a special signal is visible on the viewfinder or the analog outputs of the VCR. This signal is not the actual high definition image. Instead it appears as a continuosly updating mosaic of color. At times the pattern almost takes on a discernable shape, but it is usually random and unlike anything usually seen. This special signal allows the user to verify that the DV VCR is properly connected and ready for recording, and to verify that the HDTV signal is actually being recorded. The HDTV audio and video are only available on the outputs of the DTC100. The special signal the camcorder dislays is to verify proper connections only.
So basically it's not DV-format video and therefore results in digital garbage on the viewfinder -- but according to them, it's a "special signal" they designed into the product to let you know you have their "Special Box" connected properly.
*sigh* Gotta love the marketroids...
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And what, pray tell, does circumcision have to do with UNIX?!
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The most interesting thing about the XFL is the babes on the field and on the sidelines, not the helmetcam.
What the hell are you talking about, man? What about the guy on the Playboy Channel with the helmetcam? That's the whole premise of the show!
Hah... "not the helmetcam" my as^H^Hfoot.
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Curses! Foiled again!
Don't you mean "Zut alors! Empêché encore!"? (However, if you want to pass as a fro^H^H^HQuebecer, you'll need to say "Tabargnac! Let maudits Anglophones!" Don't dare diss French in Quebec, or you'll have hot grit^H^H^H^Hpoutine poured down your pants.
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Go out there and try selling a soft drink in a wasp waisted bottle shpae and see how long you last before Coca-Cola is serving you papers.
Incidentally, read the fine print on a plastic 600mL bottle of Coca-Cola and you'll discover the bottle shape itself is a registered trademark of Coca-Cola. I think that's what you're referring to.
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I'm not worried about fraudsters, it's the merchant themselves that are really dangerous.
Merchants are held to a very strict contract with the credit card company called the Merchant Agreement. It states exactly what can and can't be done. For example, merchants cannot favor the use of one card over the other ("We'll take Amex, but we prefer Visa."). They also can't apply a surcharge when you pay by credit card. (Merchants have gotten around this by calling things "already cash discounted; add 2% for credit card payment".)
"Mr. DiCarlo, you did not just buy a loaf of bread, you entered a contract in which we will supply you daily with three loafs of bread for a minimum contract length of 2 years and in which the initial discount of 80% expires after the 3rd delivery."
Show me my non-forged signature on something that says that and you can have my money because I was a dipshit for not reading the fine print. A bank will also expect a copy of that.
It all comes down to precisely two items: the signature and the card imprint. If you, as a merchant, don't have the person's signature on a slip clearly outlining what they're authorizing by signing it, or alternately a credit card imprint to prove the card was physically there, then you have no basis to defend against a chargeback, period.
You will then say that the credit card company will intervene? Yes, they will negotiate with this particular vendor, especially if he's big enough, and in exchange for a higher commission rate on the transaction, they will prevent their customers from successfully initiating charge-backs.
There are laws protecting consumers that prevent this. Notwithstanding that, if your bank will stab you in the back over a transaction, you can take your interest payments (and merchants' discount fees on every transaction you do) elsewhere. My bank doesn't do that kind of shit. (I know from experience, as stated in my post.) Also, they'd make more money off you legitimately than by screwing you over once (because that's all it'll take to lose your business forever).
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One, it's a pain in the ass to go to the bank every time you want a fresh number.
Two, there are only so many numbers available in the 16-digit LUHN-verified pool currently in existence. There are even further restrictions:
- Based on the first digit:
- 2=Vendor
- 3=Amex [Discover too?]
- 4=Visa
- 5=MC
- 6=Store/Other [Discover too?]
- Based on the first 4 or 6 digits, ie:
- 4510=Royal Bank Visa
- 4512=Royal Bank Gold/Platinum Visa
- 4512 12xx=Royal Bank Gold/Platinum Visa from Central Card Center area
- etc...
- 4480=Security First Network Bank
I would imagine some software uses what's above in its assumptions, thus changing these to make more free numbers may break such software currently in use in terminals and whatnot. Visa-affiliated banks recently changed from the standard 13-digit numbers to 16-digit numbers because the 13-digit pool was exhausted.Three, it's more trouble than it's worth, considering you are only legally responsible for the first $50 of unauthorized charges to your card, and most banks won't even hold you to that. I've had merchants double-bill me (and once some totally unauthorized charge from Denmark showed up), and Royal Bank instantly credited my account for the full amount and mailed me a form to sign and return stating that the charge in question was unauthorized. In every instance, the whole process took less than 5 minutes of my time and was totally painless.
Essentially, the banks themselves are the only ones left holding the bag when fraudulent use occurs. As a result, they either hold the money back from the merchant's future payments or write it off. Joe Consumer (you and I) aren't liable for it, and generally aren't affected by it. Worst case, if the abuse on your particular card keeps up, they might cancel your card and send you a new one with a different number. Big deal.
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from the knowing-how-secure-your-merchant's-data-is-too-lon g-to-fit dept.
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Suggesting that this is a good time to be speeding doesn't.
Do you mean it isn't a good time to be going 120mph? If so, I agree. If you mean it isn't a good time to be going above the posted 40mph limit (which these devices would prohibit), you need to get some reality smacked into you.
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...my wife just went into labor, and we live in the countryside. Do we wait 30 minutes for an ambulance plus another 30 minutes to the hospital, or do I put her in the car and boogey it?
...my elderly father is having chest pains and thinks it's a heart attack. It's well known that every minute counts in cardiac arrest cases. The hospital is less than 16km/10mi from here; do I call an ambulance, or get him in the car?
...my friend has drank way too much, has passed out, and is showing signs of serious alcohol poisoning. Do I call an ambulance, or get him in the car?
I have a copy of this book, and strongly recommend every driver to borrow or buy a copy and read it cover-to-cover. It's a promising insight into what may be the future, if the right decisions are made. As far as I'm concerned, speed-limited cars are a huge leap in the wrong direction.
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tarred and gzipped
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I sit corrected.
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It's a distro aimed at servers. Servers that like lpd, ftpd, and r-services perhaps.
Any admin that installs a server and leaves the r-services enabled (with extremely few specific exceptions) should be tarred and feathered.
This takes care of both rcp and rlogin quite nicely. There's really no reason not to use it instead of the old, horribly insecure r-services.
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Hey, Marc! Can you say "obsession"? I knew you could!
Honestly, brother... I love Linux too (I administer Linux boxen), but isn't that perhaps a tad too much lovin'?
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