I'm a Sun admin by day, and Sun has always (since at least SunOS 4.1, when I started) made provisions to do this. I'll admit that I'm rarely cutting-edge with my Linux systems, so I haven't had any panics that I wanted to track down, so I don't know if Linux does this sort of stuff for you. I'm shocked that OpenBSD doesn't.
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Well, I've got a four-year-old, so my buying habits are a bit biased. That said, everything that we own from Disney starts off with a "Coming Attractions", as do, I think, many of the other animated features we have for her. I want to say that some others do to, but I'd have to go home to check.
I saw TORN in the theaters when it came out in '82, and I still recall how for weeks afterward my geeky friends and I would say "Greetings, program!" when we saw each other on the street.
I bought the 20th anniversary edition the day it cam out, and watched it that night with my 17 year-old son and a buddy of mine. I've got a 36" screen (non-projection) TV, and normally like to watch with some lights on in the room, but I made an exception for this viewing, and it was well worth it. The TRON universe, for those out of the loop, is *black*, with the only light being provided by the inhabitants. It was visually stunning in a dark theater 20 years ago, and it was equally so in my dark living room.
As for the CGI, I was a regular attendee at SIGGRAPH in the early '80s, and I think I recall seeing some previews of the movie's special effects. Of course, as is pointed out in the "making of..." feature, this was before it was called "CGI". I was doing a far amount of computer modeling back then (which is why I was at all those SIGGRAPH's), so several other parts of the "making of..." feature resonated with me. At one point they talk about running a program to calculate a trajectory, getting a printout, and then reading it over the phone to someone on the other side of the country who was entering the numbers into a computer at their end. Speaking as someone who once or twice did something similar, that doesn't just make you appreciate the Internet, it makes you appreciate modems!
BTW, there is one complaint that I have with the "making of..." feature. There aren't any chapters! The show is divided into three sections, but there's no way to skip directly to any of them.
The review doesn't mention it, but the 2nd DVD also has a couple of deleted scenes. While just about everyone interviewed says that, in retrospect, they wish the scenes had stayed in, I have to say that I agree with the decision that was made at the time. The "love scene" doesn't add anything to the plot, and in fact undercuts the later scene where Flynn kisses Yori.
Finally, there's one other surprise on the DVD. These days, most DVD's start with a "Coming Attractions" bit that you have to skip over. This one starts with something that looks and sounds at first glance like the standard Disney previews, except that it says "Coming soon from the scret lab". What follows strongly hints that TRON 2.0 is in productions. I can hardly wait!
Just because an idea is easy to implement, don't assume that "somebody has done this before". If you know of someone that has, provide a link. Yeah, it's something that could be done on lots of other MP3 players, but apparently no one did. And at the risk of being flamed, I suspect that this idea would be patentable.
I get so irritated seeing someone refute something that I never said. I didn't say anything about IPv4, I only talked about IPv6. If you are posting a reply the the original post, then do so, please don't post a reply to me unless you are discussing something that I said.
When IPV6 is deployed, how do I prevent the machines on the inside of my firewall from being routable?When IPV6 is deployed, how do I prevent the machines on the inside of my firewall from being routable?
The answer is to use a "Site-Local" address for any device that you don't want seen outside your site. From RFC 2373:
There are two types of local-use unicast addresses defined. These are Link-Local and Site-Local. The Link-Local is for use on a single link and the Site-Local is for use in a single site. Link-Local addresses have the following format: [...]
Link-Local addresses are designed to be used for addressing on a single link for purposes such as auto-address configuration, neighbor discovery, or when no routers are present.
Routers must not forward any packets with link-local source or destination addresses to other links.
Site-Local addresses have the following format: [...]
Site-Local addresses are designed to be used for addressing inside of a site without the need for a global prefix.
Routers must not forward any packets with site-local source or destination addresses outside of the site.
(I decided to post this to help increase the comment count and get the story higher on the hof. This is a legit posting, however.)
I proposed to my first wife at the premier of
Star Trek: the Motion Picture. A large group of my geeky friends got together and bought tickets, and my then girl-friend flew to St. Louis from Columbus, Ohio, to see the movie with me. The lights dimmed, and I reached into my pocket and handed her a box of
Cracker Jacks. She opened it, pulled out the prize, and it was a diamond ring.
In retrospect, this wasn't the best way to propose, because she spent the entire movie staring at the ring, and we had to go see the movie again. But, she still has the collage she made from the box, the prize wrapper, the TWA boarding pass, and a picture of the two of us.
Re:Updated story on cnet's news.com and some links
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Security Hole In SNMP
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Of the links listed above, most of them are fairly useful. The University of Waterloo link, however, is worthless. All it does is describe how someone who admits that they know nothing about SNMP turned off the SNMP daemons.
On many systems, the SNMP daemon/service can be configured such that the trap contains a so-called "trap" string, used exclusively to validate the trap. This prevents the problem outlined by fiber_halo above.
For example, on a WinNT server that isn't too far from me, I bring up the [Network] control panel, hit the [Services] tab, double-click on the [SNMP Service] line, hit the [Traps] tab, and see that teh [Community Name] is set to "trap".
Also, if I hit the [Security] tab, I see that the [Send Authentication Trap] checkbox is checked, so an invalid community string will cause a trap to be sent to the management station.
On the other hand, the [Accepted Community Names] are set to "Public", with READ-ONLY rights, and "Private", with READ-WRITE rights. Finally, [Accept SNMP Packets From Any Host] is checked, rather than [Accept SNMP Packets From These Hosts]. This means that the system is rather open, but since it is behind a firewall that blocks all SNMP traffic, it isn't too much of an issue.
Why not? Mostly because I've been around long enough to remember using ISA debug cards. In my dottering old age, the soft power switch (and MagicSys keys) slipped my mind.;-) Actually, I did realize that there were several ways to acomplish the goal. One that I didn't mention: Since the kernel is (I think) sitting in a spin loop, you could probably have it polling LPTBase+1 watching for someone to short the NOPAPER pin on the parallel port.
... the Christmas tree robot in Robert Forward's "The Flight of the Dragonfly". Dr. Hans Moravec designed it for Dr. Forward, and it has since been used in several other novels by other authors.
There seem to be a lot of comments along the lines of "Yeah, but you have to reboot to change the config, and that takes down your firewall". I see this as an opportunity, not a problem.
As the article points out, the kernel continues to run when halted, so the first part of the solution is to signal the kernel to transition out of run-level 0 in a safe way. There used to be ISA cards for debugging that had a push-button at the end of a cable; when pushed, an interrupt was triggered to invoke the debugger. I can't see any reason why the Linux kernel couldn't be patched to watch for that interrupt while halted and restart the boot process, say from the point where a boot disk is mounted. The second step would be to modify the init.d scripts affecting the IP stack to abort if the NICs are already configured.
The end result would be a firewall with a button that, when pressed, would cause the system to "wake up" and allow configuration changes to be made. When you're all done, just do another "init 0". To guard against forgetful netadmins, you may want a watchdog process that also does an "init 0" fifteen minutes after the system comes up.
I can't see any show stoppers to this idea. What do you think?
Ambiguous? No, it seemed pretty clear that the comments won't be available on-line. They apparently will be published in the Federal Register, but that's hard-copy only.
Which formats support simple batch manipulation?
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Non-MP3 Codecs?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I was going to submit this to "Ask Slashdot", but this seems like a good place to ask.
JPEG users have available to them some command line utilities that permit simple alteration of images without loss of quality, for example, rotation and flipping. Are there any similar utilities available for any of the major audio compression formats?
The reason I ask is that I have ripped a number of CDs and the volume levels vary noticibly. I like to listen to MP3s as I work, with the volume turned down far enough that I can hear the music, but any one that I'm on the phone with won't. Unfortuately, there doesn't seem to be a single setting for everything that I've ripped. While I could go back and re-rip, I'd much rather have a toolbox of useful batch utilities. Ideally, it would allow me to write, say, a Perl script that generates a histogram, checks the average and peak volume, and then tweaks a single number in the file header to force it in line with the rest of my collection.
To start with, the article and paper are discussing "anti-trains", i.e. transportation systems that are the opposite of tranporting large groups along predefined paths, but instead transport very small groups along essentially random paths, just as cars do today. But just becase cars are successful, doesn't meant that they are optimum.
Cars have a number of problems, the most important being that they are very inefficient. I live in St. Louis, close to a light rail station. A few years ago, I worked downtown. For about a year, I didn't own a car at all. I took the light rail to and from work and rented a car every other weekend or so. For less than car payments, I could have exactly the vehicle I needed, when I needed it. Some weekends, I'd rent a small car. If I had a hot date, I'd rent a big car. If I needed to haul something, I'd rent a minivan.
Since then I've changed jobs. I now own an $8,000 sub-compact that I use less than a hour a day Monday thru Friday to drive to and from work. If I need to haul something, I have to either rent a mini-van or borrow a friend's truck. I'm now married, so I don't have to worry about impressing my dates anymore, but a big car would be occasionally be handy when the in-laws are in town. In other words, I miss the "good old days" and would love to use the system described.
And I think the oversight committee might have a problem with
"Proposal 1A: Drop support for any PC that's capable of booting a non-MS OS."
But would the oversight committee have a problem with this? "Phoenix Technologies and American Megatrends announced today that to help prevent the spread of boot-sector viruses, all PCs and servers using their BIOSs will henceforth only load verified boot-blocks."
The BIOS would initially be able to verify boot-blocks signed by a small number of companies, such as all the for-profits UNIX vendors, but Linux, et al, would be shut out. (We've already seen efforts in various standard committees to shut out Open Source OSes by only accepting input from for-profit corporations.) Over time, the other signatures could be dropped, as various entities got out of the OS business. Compaq is slowly dropping support for all the DEC operating systems, HP is so close to NT that I could see HPUX going away, and SGI is always on the ropes. In just a few years, you could see PCs only accepting boot-blocks from MS and IBM.
The film's principle actors may be returning to New Zealand in May and June for any necessary reshoots. There's no word yet on what parts might be added or modified.
JRRT divided each volume of the trilody into two "books". These seem like natural places to split the movies into two parts, for TV broadcast over two nights, or for fitting the movies onto DVDs along with a lot of special features.
BTW, I don't know if it's technically possible with DVDs, but I'd like to see some system wherein you can watch the movie either with or without the added scenes.
It's Solutia, not Monsanto, who's at fault
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A quick history lesson. In 1997, the original company (that was named Monsanto), spun off its chemicals business as Solutia to focus on "life sciences". Among other things, Solutia got the PCB-polluting factory, plus the lion's share of those executives who were around when the decisions were made. It's Solutia that has all the legal and financial responsibilites for the dumping, and don't worry about them being some sort of "shell" company, they have assets of several billion dollars.
Fast forward a few years to 2000, and Monsanto was merged into Pharmacia and ceased to exist as a seperate company. The new company decided that it wanted to be just a pharmaceutical company, so it spun off a big piece of itself and named the new company Monsanto, because of the "proud heritage" of the original name.
This is obviously not such a good idea in retrospect, as the new company, which has nothing to do with PCBs, is now getting a big black eye in the media. However, if you check the markets, it's Solutia whose stock price has plummeted, which indicates that the big investors, at least, know which is which.
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Sorry, I'm too {bu,la}zy to make those links to the actual articles.I don't know why I typed "OpenBSD", I knew it was "FreeBSD", I guess that my fingers were typing ahead of my brain. Sorry if I offended anyone.
I'm a Sun admin by day, and Sun has always (since at least SunOS 4.1, when I started) made provisions to do this. I'll admit that I'm rarely cutting-edge with my Linux systems, so I haven't had any panics that I wanted to track down, so I don't know if Linux does this sort of stuff for you. I'm shocked that OpenBSD doesn't.
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Well, I've got a four-year-old, so my buying habits are a bit biased. That said, everything that we own from Disney starts off with a "Coming Attractions", as do, I think, many of the other animated features we have for her. I want to say that some others do to, but I'd have to go home to check.
I bought the 20th anniversary edition the day it cam out, and watched it that night with my 17 year-old son and a buddy of mine. I've got a 36" screen (non-projection) TV, and normally like to watch with some lights on in the room, but I made an exception for this viewing, and it was well worth it. The TRON universe, for those out of the loop, is *black*, with the only light being provided by the inhabitants. It was visually stunning in a dark theater 20 years ago, and it was equally so in my dark living room.
As for the CGI, I was a regular attendee at SIGGRAPH in the early '80s, and I think I recall seeing some previews of the movie's special effects. Of course, as is pointed out in the "making of ..." feature, this was before it was called "CGI". I was doing a far amount of computer modeling back then (which is why I was at all those SIGGRAPH's), so several other parts of the "making of ..." feature resonated with me. At one point they talk about running a program to calculate a trajectory, getting a printout, and then reading it over the phone to someone on the other side of the country who was entering the numbers into a computer at their end. Speaking as someone who once or twice did something similar, that doesn't just make you appreciate the Internet, it makes you appreciate modems!
BTW, there is one complaint that I have with the "making of ..." feature. There aren't any chapters! The show is divided into three sections, but there's no way to skip directly to any of them.
The review doesn't mention it, but the 2nd DVD also has a couple of deleted scenes. While just about everyone interviewed says that, in retrospect, they wish the scenes had stayed in, I have to say that I agree with the decision that was made at the time. The "love scene" doesn't add anything to the plot, and in fact undercuts the later scene where Flynn kisses Yori.
Finally, there's one other surprise on the DVD. These days, most DVD's start with a "Coming Attractions" bit that you have to skip over. This one starts with something that looks and sounds at first glance like the standard Disney previews, except that it says "Coming soon from the scret lab". What follows strongly hints that TRON 2.0 is in productions. I can hardly wait!
This is TRON, for gawd's sake. It's a slam-dunk 10 on the geekiness scale.
Just because an idea is easy to implement, don't assume that "somebody has done this before". If you know of someone that has, provide a link. Yeah, it's something that could be done on lots of other MP3 players, but apparently no one did. And at the risk of being flamed, I suspect that this idea would be patentable.
I get so irritated seeing someone refute something that I never said. I didn't say anything about IPv4, I only talked about IPv6. If you are posting a reply the the original post, then do so, please don't post a reply to me unless you are discussing something that I said.
The answer is to use a "Site-Local" address for any device that you don't want seen outside your site. From RFC 2373:
I proposed to my first wife at the premier of Star Trek: the Motion Picture. A large group of my geeky friends got together and bought tickets, and my then girl-friend flew to St. Louis from Columbus, Ohio, to see the movie with me. The lights dimmed, and I reached into my pocket and handed her a box of Cracker Jacks. She opened it, pulled out the prize, and it was a diamond ring.
In retrospect, this wasn't the best way to propose, because she spent the entire movie staring at the ring, and we had to go see the movie again. But, she still has the collage she made from the box, the prize wrapper, the TWA boarding pass, and a picture of the two of us.
Of the links listed above, most of them are fairly useful. The University of Waterloo link, however, is worthless. All it does is describe how someone who admits that they know nothing about SNMP turned off the SNMP daemons.
For example, on a WinNT server that isn't too far from me, I bring up the [Network] control panel, hit the [Services] tab, double-click on the [SNMP Service] line, hit the [Traps] tab, and see that teh [Community Name] is set to "trap". Also, if I hit the [Security] tab, I see that the [Send Authentication Trap] checkbox is checked, so an invalid community string will cause a trap to be sent to the management station.
On the other hand, the [Accepted Community Names] are set to "Public", with READ-ONLY rights, and "Private", with READ-WRITE rights. Finally, [Accept SNMP Packets From Any Host] is checked, rather than [Accept SNMP Packets From These Hosts]. This means that the system is rather open, but since it is behind a firewall that blocks all SNMP traffic, it isn't too much of an issue.
(Note: This is a joke. Please moderate as "Funny".)
Why not? Mostly because I've been around long enough to remember using ISA debug cards. In my dottering old age, the soft power switch (and MagicSys keys) slipped my mind. ;-) Actually, I did realize that there were several ways to acomplish the goal. One that I didn't mention: Since the kernel is (I think) sitting in a spin loop, you could probably have it polling LPTBase+1 watching for someone to short the NOPAPER pin on the parallel port.
... the Christmas tree robot in Robert Forward's "The Flight of the Dragonfly". Dr. Hans Moravec designed it for Dr. Forward, and it has since been used in several other novels by other authors.
As the article points out, the kernel continues to run when halted, so the first part of the solution is to signal the kernel to transition out of run-level 0 in a safe way. There used to be ISA cards for debugging that had a push-button at the end of a cable; when pushed, an interrupt was triggered to invoke the debugger. I can't see any reason why the Linux kernel couldn't be patched to watch for that interrupt while halted and restart the boot process, say from the point where a boot disk is mounted. The second step would be to modify the init.d scripts affecting the IP stack to abort if the NICs are already configured.
The end result would be a firewall with a button that, when pressed, would cause the system to "wake up" and allow configuration changes to be made. When you're all done, just do another "init 0". To guard against forgetful netadmins, you may want a watchdog process that also does an "init 0" fifteen minutes after the system comes up.
I can't see any show stoppers to this idea. What do you think?
Ambiguous? No, it seemed pretty clear that the comments won't be available on-line. They apparently will be published in the Federal Register, but that's hard-copy only.
I've always wanted Dillinger's desk from TRON.
JPEG users have available to them some command line utilities that permit simple alteration of images without loss of quality, for example, rotation and flipping. Are there any similar utilities available for any of the major audio compression formats?
The reason I ask is that I have ripped a number of CDs and the volume levels vary noticibly. I like to listen to MP3s as I work, with the volume turned down far enough that I can hear the music, but any one that I'm on the phone with won't. Unfortuately, there doesn't seem to be a single setting for everything that I've ripped. While I could go back and re-rip, I'd much rather have a toolbox of useful batch utilities. Ideally, it would allow me to write, say, a Perl script that generates a histogram, checks the average and peak volume, and then tweaks a single number in the file header to force it in line with the rest of my collection.
Is this sort of thing possible?
To start with, the article and paper are discussing "anti-trains", i.e. transportation systems that are the opposite of tranporting large groups along predefined paths, but instead transport very small groups along essentially random paths, just as cars do today. But just becase cars are successful, doesn't meant that they are optimum.
Cars have a number of problems, the most important being that they are very inefficient. I live in St. Louis, close to a light rail station. A few years ago, I worked downtown. For about a year, I didn't own a car at all. I took the light rail to and from work and rented a car every other weekend or so. For less than car payments, I could have exactly the vehicle I needed, when I needed it. Some weekends, I'd rent a small car. If I had a hot date, I'd rent a big car. If I needed to haul something, I'd rent a minivan.
Since then I've changed jobs. I now own an $8,000 sub-compact that I use less than a hour a day Monday thru Friday to drive to and from work. If I need to haul something, I have to either rent a mini-van or borrow a friend's truck. I'm now married, so I don't have to worry about impressing my dates anymore, but a big car would be occasionally be handy when the in-laws are in town. In other words, I miss the "good old days" and would love to use the system described.
The BIOS would initially be able to verify boot-blocks signed by a small number of companies, such as all the for-profits UNIX vendors, but Linux, et al, would be shut out. (We've already seen efforts in various standard committees to shut out Open Source OSes by only accepting input from for-profit corporations.) Over time, the other signatures could be dropped, as various entities got out of the OS business. Compaq is slowly dropping support for all the DEC operating systems, HP is so close to NT that I could see HPUX going away, and SGI is always on the ropes. In just a few years, you could see PCs only accepting boot-blocks from MS and IBM.
BTW, I don't know if it's technically possible with DVDs, but I'd like to see some system wherein you can watch the movie either with or without the added scenes.
Fast forward a few years to 2000, and Monsanto was merged into Pharmacia and ceased to exist as a seperate company. The new company decided that it wanted to be just a pharmaceutical company, so it spun off a big piece of itself and named the new company Monsanto, because of the "proud heritage" of the original name.
This is obviously not such a good idea in retrospect, as the new company, which has nothing to do with PCBs, is now getting a big black eye in the media. However, if you check the markets, it's Solutia whose stock price has plummeted, which indicates that the big investors, at least, know which is which.