This DNS wilcarding (with http redirection to commercial sites where no match is found in b3gtelecom's "typo DB") has just been activated this month;
AFAIK it only managed to increase calls to tech support, mainly for misconfigured wifi routers showing the "wildcard" page redirection sometimes. it doesn't make the troubleshooting any easier...
(Wardriving in Paris is a pleasure, there are default-config APs everywhere!)
Well, Farewell, NXDOMAIN ! I'm afraid I will not see you for a long time (since I have no other choice for a broadband ISP...)
Just like updating iTunes (an MP3 player) shouldn't need a reboot...except iTunes did require the reboot, and ssh didn't.
in fact iTunes has a startup item called iTuneshelper, and since you upgrade its parent app, a reboot is required in order to enable it, at start-up...
I suspect the bit about sympathetic vibrations causing a bridge to collapse is mostly an urban legend, at least for modern bridges
It did happen on April the 16th 1850 in France, when a troop crossed a suspension bridge durong a storm near Angers (the Basse-Chaine bridge, over the river Maine) causing 220 soldiers to drown.
There's a good sum up of the event here (in English)
The cause is supposed to be the addition of gusts of wind causing the bridge to sway, and the troop marching steps, all giving a phenomenon of resonance.
and it even was reported in the New york Herald at the time :
I dunno what I'd do with the extra cycles from overclocking and watercooling - maybe run more rc5 packets though the box - crazy idea though.
AFAK, the first faulty part in a CPU when it's o/c'ed is the FPU, the most use part on distributed computing.
Even if the o/c'ed system seems rock solid, it might induce false calculating results. the Seti@home project team pointed this on sci.astro.seti a few weeks ago.
Don't get me wrong, I agree on the concept of o/c'ing, for games and general performance; but why don't physics labs use clusters of o/ced Athlons instead of 32CPU Alpha Global Servers ?
According to the French legislation,
Article L. 122-5 from the Intellectual Property Code (in French, sorry)
in 2nd alinea it is said that you can copy non-software intellectual property for the private use of the copist.
(and it's the same text that allows fair use, in alinea 3.)
about twenty years ago (when audio tape appeared), the definition of "the copist" was refined to be "the owner of the copying apparatus".
For instance, you can copy CD albums to run them in your car CD player, as long as you still own the CD burner.
a few years ago, when CD burners were REALLY expensive, "CD copy center" shops appeared, where you brought your cd to copy, they selled you the balnk CD, and copied it for a fee.
it was a fringe case of private copy, and the finally were shut down...
and to answer to another post, it won't be a govnernment office who will administrate the tax, it'a a small company (which already gets the taxes from analogic blank media) the SORECOP
it's due to get about 700 M FF(106 M Euro) in 2001 woth of taxes and it's been obfuscating (sp?) its accounting data since 1996.
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For what it's worth, The two french ISP are :
- The (only) cable company in Paris (and a handful of medium cities), Noos (http://www.noos.fr/ or http://www.noos.net/),
- the other is a DSL (and modem) provider, club-internet (http://www.club-internet.fr/)
This DNS wilcarding (with http redirection to commercial sites where no match is found in b3gtelecom's "typo DB") has just been activated this month;
AFAIK it only managed to increase calls to tech support, mainly for misconfigured wifi routers showing the "wildcard" page redirection sometimes. it doesn't make the troubleshooting any easier...
(Wardriving in Paris is a pleasure, there are default-config APs everywhere!)
Well, Farewell, NXDOMAIN ! I'm afraid I will not see you for a long time (since I have no other choice for a broadband ISP...)
Just like updating iTunes (an MP3 player) shouldn't need a reboot...except iTunes did require the reboot, and ssh didn't.
in fact iTunes has a startup item called iTuneshelper, and since you upgrade its parent app, a reboot is required in order to enable it, at start-up...
I suspect the bit about sympathetic vibrations causing a bridge to collapse is mostly an urban legend, at least for modern bridges
l (in English)
It did happen on April the 16th 1850 in France, when a troop crossed a suspension bridge durong a storm near Angers (the Basse-Chaine bridge, over the river Maine) causing 220 soldiers to drown.
There's a good sum up of the event here (in English)
The cause is supposed to be the addition of gusts of wind causing the bridge to sway, and the troop marching steps, all giving a phenomenon of resonance.
and it even was reported in the New york Herald at the time :
http://www.goodbyemag.com/may00/herald-deaths.htm
however, the causes are very similar to what happened to the Tacoma Narrows bridge, on nov 07 th 1940, catastrophic wind swaying.
I'm happy to share this part of my history,
Baz.
I dunno what I'd do with the extra cycles from overclocking and watercooling - maybe run more rc5 packets though the box - crazy idea though.
AFAK, the first faulty part in a CPU when it's o/c'ed is the FPU, the most use part on distributed computing.
Even if the o/c'ed system seems rock solid, it might induce false calculating results. the Seti@home project team pointed this on sci.astro.seti a few weeks ago.
Don't get me wrong, I agree on the concept of o/c'ing, for games and general performance; but why don't physics labs use clusters of o/ced Athlons instead of 32CPU Alpha Global Servers ?
(IANA French L, but I play one on Slashdot)
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According to the French legislation,
Article L. 122-5 from the Intellectual Property Code (in French, sorry)
in 2nd alinea it is said that you can copy non-software intellectual property for the private use of the copist.
(and it's the same text that allows fair use, in alinea 3.)
about twenty years ago (when audio tape appeared), the definition of "the copist" was refined to be "the owner of the copying apparatus".
For instance, you can copy CD albums to run them in your car CD player, as long as you still own the CD burner.
a few years ago, when CD burners were REALLY expensive, "CD copy center" shops appeared, where you brought your cd to copy, they selled you the balnk CD, and copied it for a fee. it was a fringe case of private copy, and the finally were shut down...
and to answer to another post, it won't be a govnernment office who will administrate the tax, it'a a small company (which already gets the taxes from analogic blank media) the SORECOP
it's due to get about 700 M FF(106 M Euro) in 2001 woth of taxes and it's been obfuscating (sp?) its accounting data since 1996.
there's a article (in French) on this here :
http://www.liberation.com/quotidien/debats/septem
Bazoungus.
(french and late at work)