The problem is that it doesn't have years of orbit left. The way I heard it is that with the current grounding, there's not enough time for NASA to get a servicing mission up there.
Did you know that the ISS loses 600 feet of orbit every day?
So is the computer I'm using right now.. that's no reason to throw it out.
That's because you don't have to pay millions of dollars just to keep it from falling down.
Many years ago, the university I went to (even before I went there) was given (free as in beer) an IBM mainframe by a big insurance company who didn't need it any more. They weren't able to use simply it because they couldn't afford the support costs to just keep the thing running.
That's the thing I find funny about the whole dot-hack anime/game series. A major computer virus that attacks every operating system on the planet except one. So they standardize on it.
Which is the reverse of how things work. As long as there isn't a monoculture, it's simply too much work to make a computer virus that attacks more than one or two types of systems. FWIW, the Morris Worm was designed for two, Sun 68K and VAX/BSD I think, but one could only spread via Sendmail debug mode. I'm pretty sure that the only multi-platform worms/viruses since then have been Word macro viruses. Part of the reason is that modern exploits are mostly buffer overflows, which are very much not cross-platform, or CGI bugs, which are normally only present on web servers.
I think it's much more likely that someone will learn to hack IOS and write a router worm than for us to see a multi-architecture virus/worm again. Too bad that a side effect will be enough people learning PowerPC code to start attacking OS X systems while they're at it.
Now that I've got an HDTV tuner, I find that in the two cities I tested (San Antonio and Austin, Texas), only one major San Antonio station didn't have an HD transmitter yet, and one in Austin had a very weak HD transmitter (800 watts).
KLRU PBS in Austin runs three extra subchannels. One is always kiddie shows, but the other two often show something I'd rather watch than what's on the main channel. And I get to watch them without the annoying multipath ghosts I get on their analog channel. Last night I watched Tom Hanks' Cast Away on ABC, in widescreen with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.
I'm mostly an AM listener too. The only thing I specifically listen to FM for is Dr. Demento on Saturday mornings (yes, that's when it's on here), but I can still usually get that within two weeks from usenet binaries. Everything else is MP3, to the point where when I get a CD, I rip it, put it away, and then play it.
To me, digital FM sounds about as useful as SACD. Technically it may have better audio, but when it's used in less than perfect audio environments (automotive), all the benefits are lost. It's just not worth the extra cost. (And in the case of SACD, not being able to save the SA audio to my hard drive makes it useless.)
I paid about $80 for my first set of 64K chips for a TRS-80 Color Computer. And then they turned out to be weird chips that needed a -5 volt power supply, so I had to set one of the jumpers the "wrong" way.
Just any server running on any of the ip-blocks used by broadband providers to dole out to DSL/Cable customers
Even the ones running on fixed IPs, which tend to be a more savvy class of user, and much easier to trace, too.
Now that you mention this, I think a reject from AOL was exactly the reason I finally got around to fixing my Sendmail config to route my outgoing mail through my ISP's server. ( define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.sbcglobal.net')
) So in that sense, I guess their plan is working.
By turning all their farmers into internet addicts, the resulting famines can cause India to decay to the point where they're not as much of an outsourcing threat any more!
it's hard to prove damages if you were distributing something essentially for free and someone else comes and packages it and makes money with it
But it's not for free. What you are supposed to give in exchange for use of GPL source is your modifications to the code. And from the look of those string searches, KISS did, in fact, modify the code, if only in the name table of subtitle formats.
The first thing you have to give up if you already haven't is drinking out of 2 or 3 liter bottles. Both cans of soda and cups of coffee can be easily counted, and that lets you control how much you're getting. Just reduce every day or two.
Coffee has a lot more caffiene than soda (I think it's about 3x), so you should probably get rid of it first. Reduce by maybe half a cup every day or two until you're off of coffee (while maintaining the same number of sodas every day), then start reducing by a can of soda every day or two until you're where you want to be. Two or three cans a day is a good level.
Then just schedule your cans of soda during the day. Maybe one in the morning, one noonish, and another in the evening. Drink water the rest of the time, because you will need to replace the water that you're now not getting in coffee or soda.
Not everything, but usually anything based on a successful manga that hasn't been drawn out too long is pretty good. (too long meaning Dragonball Z, or later episodes of Inu Yasha, which I stopped watching around episode 75 or so, and now it's up to 135) Sturgeon's Law still applies, but there is some filtering before it gets to a DVD on the shelf in Best Buy. Even when downloading fansubs, there is filtering when series don't get fansubbed.
The important difference is that they're a lot more willing to not follow a formula in Japan, so you get to see more unique stuff. And they have people who can write (unlike Hollywood). And they write serial stores instead of episodic stores, so they can have more interesting stories than you can get in 22 or 45 minutes. So instead of 90% of everything being crap, it's maybe 80% or so.
I just realized that my Panasonic TU-DST52 HDTV tuner has the interlace vs progressive chroma streaking problem. One of the channels (the local Austin WB station) is apparently being broadcast in progressive, because both the main channel and the second channel (a weather radar) show evidence of the chroma being decoded to the wrong scanlines. I don't know for sure, because the tuner doesn't tell anything about the resolution of the MPEG2 stream, but I'm clearly seeing the effect shown on the page that was linked from the article.
What are you going to do with those two 200GB hard drives? Write to them once and put them in a fire-resistant safe for 2 years? What if they don't spin up 2 years later? And if you use them regularly, what happens when you find out that the data you're backing up got corrupted two weeks ago? Or even two days ago? Hard drives are great for instant backups, but not for archival backups.
The choice of backup media is entirely dependent on what you're backing up, how much there is to back up, and how badly it will hurt if you don't have a backup from a few months ago.
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Ah, that would be the NSA encryption kicking in. Actually, there was one decipherable message: "I'm sorry, JPL, I can't do that."
The problem is that it doesn't have years of orbit left. The way I heard it is that with the current grounding, there's not enough time for NASA to get a servicing mission up there.
Did you know that the ISS loses 600 feet of orbit every day?
That's because you don't have to pay millions of dollars just to keep it from falling down.
Many years ago, the university I went to (even before I went there) was given (free as in beer) an IBM mainframe by a big insurance company who didn't need it any more. They weren't able to use simply it because they couldn't afford the support costs to just keep the thing running.
Oops, sorry, your DVR got wiped by the Digital Pearl Harbor virus. I sure hope your 9mm isn't digitially controlled!
Then let's all say bye-bye to emacs. (After all, vi is the One True Editor!)
'Sploit Different.
I believe the word you are looking for is "Knoppix".
Which is the reverse of how things work. As long as there isn't a monoculture, it's simply too much work to make a computer virus that attacks more than one or two types of systems. FWIW, the Morris Worm was designed for two, Sun 68K and VAX/BSD I think, but one could only spread via Sendmail debug mode. I'm pretty sure that the only multi-platform worms/viruses since then have been Word macro viruses. Part of the reason is that modern exploits are mostly buffer overflows, which are very much not cross-platform, or CGI bugs, which are normally only present on web servers.
I think it's much more likely that someone will learn to hack IOS and write a router worm than for us to see a multi-architecture virus/worm again. Too bad that a side effect will be enough people learning PowerPC code to start attacking OS X systems while they're at it.
Have you run Software Update lately? The current version is 4.2 (72).
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...and all the people still running Windows 98.
KLRU PBS in Austin runs three extra subchannels. One is always kiddie shows, but the other two often show something I'd rather watch than what's on the main channel. And I get to watch them without the annoying multipath ghosts I get on their analog channel. Last night I watched Tom Hanks' Cast Away on ABC, in widescreen with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.
I'm mostly an AM listener too. The only thing I specifically listen to FM for is Dr. Demento on Saturday mornings (yes, that's when it's on here), but I can still usually get that within two weeks from usenet binaries. Everything else is MP3, to the point where when I get a CD, I rip it, put it away, and then play it.
To me, digital FM sounds about as useful as SACD. Technically it may have better audio, but when it's used in less than perfect audio environments (automotive), all the benefits are lost. It's just not worth the extra cost. (And in the case of SACD, not being able to save the SA audio to my hard drive makes it useless.)
I paid about $80 for my first set of 64K chips for a TRS-80 Color Computer. And then they turned out to be weird chips that needed a -5 volt power supply, so I had to set one of the jumpers the "wrong" way.
Even the ones running on fixed IPs, which tend to be a more savvy class of user, and much easier to trace, too.
Now that you mention this, I think a reject from AOL was exactly the reason I finally got around to fixing my Sendmail config to route my outgoing mail through my ISP's server. ( define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.sbcglobal.net') ) So in that sense, I guess their plan is working.
By turning all their farmers into internet addicts, the resulting famines can cause India to decay to the point where they're not as much of an outsourcing threat any more!
But it's not for free. What you are supposed to give in exchange for use of GPL source is your modifications to the code. And from the look of those string searches, KISS did, in fact, modify the code, if only in the name table of subtitle formats.
Coffee has a lot more caffiene than soda (I think it's about 3x), so you should probably get rid of it first. Reduce by maybe half a cup every day or two until you're off of coffee (while maintaining the same number of sodas every day), then start reducing by a can of soda every day or two until you're where you want to be. Two or three cans a day is a good level.
Then just schedule your cans of soda during the day. Maybe one in the morning, one noonish, and another in the evening. Drink water the rest of the time, because you will need to replace the water that you're now not getting in coffee or soda.
They're "venting with flame". (Kudos for the link to the site go to Steve Cowan)
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Some of us care more about a good story than a high frame rate or perfect lip sync.
Not everything, but usually anything based on a successful manga that hasn't been drawn out too long is pretty good. (too long meaning Dragonball Z, or later episodes of Inu Yasha, which I stopped watching around episode 75 or so, and now it's up to 135) Sturgeon's Law still applies, but there is some filtering before it gets to a DVD on the shelf in Best Buy. Even when downloading fansubs, there is filtering when series don't get fansubbed.
The important difference is that they're a lot more willing to not follow a formula in Japan, so you get to see more unique stuff. And they have people who can write (unlike Hollywood). And they write serial stores instead of episodic stores, so they can have more interesting stories than you can get in 22 or 45 minutes. So instead of 90% of everything being crap, it's maybe 80% or so.
...when we can replace upper level management with small shell scripts.
I just realized that my Panasonic TU-DST52 HDTV tuner has the interlace vs progressive chroma streaking problem. One of the channels (the local Austin WB station) is apparently being broadcast in progressive, because both the main channel and the second channel (a weather radar) show evidence of the chroma being decoded to the wrong scanlines. I don't know for sure, because the tuner doesn't tell anything about the resolution of the MPEG2 stream, but I'm clearly seeing the effect shown on the page that was linked from the article.
Is it in coulor now?
Not just any lop of poo. It's a Toriyama lop of poo.
The choice of backup media is entirely dependent on what you're backing up, how much there is to back up, and how badly it will hurt if you don't have a backup from a few months ago.