Better yet you can dump the smaller dd created image into a larger partition, then use ext2resize to adjust the inodes to better use the full partition size.
So, why couldn't I run and develop my XBox games on my PC? Wasn't that the hype - port PC games to XBox in no time?
You're confusing a one-to-many relationship with a one-to-one relationship. In a "closed box" system like the Xbox there is only one possible graphcis device, one prossible sound device, one possible controller interface, etc. The code is targeted specifically for those exact devices and optimized heavily. Even the BIOS presents things to software differently from the standard AT BIOS. To run on a PC you would need to intercept requests, say to a specific IO address, then depending on which graphics hardware or sound hardware is being used, redirect and possibly reconfigure the request. This would need to be handled by virtualization of some hardware. The raw code for, say calculating artificial intelligence, however, could run natively.
With the NGage the hardware is supposedly not as highly specialized (aside from the input controller layout and large screen), making it work well on many systems.
The news item linked in the post doesn't mention whether it is a GSM or CDMA phone, or available as both. Anyone know? LG makes phones for both technologies.
"As evidenced by Virginia Tech's cluster, the combination of industry standard servers, Linux, and InfiniBand creates a new standard in clustering and is changing the way computer power is deployed."
How many out there have domains registered with Network Solutions? I think it is time to move them elsewhere.
In releated news, I just received the following email. Note that Verisign had mentioned Network Solutions was a money pit on their SEC filings.
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Dear Valued Network Solutions(R) Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Please be assured that Network Solutions continues to be committed to providing superior products and customer service to our more than 4 million customers. You have seen evidence of this commitment in the numerous enhancements we have introduced over the last 18 months. This commitment remains strong today in our 600 employees, each focused on providing you with a superior customer experience.
The very fact that people are willing to go through the hassle, and in this case direct expense to change their number to escape bad service or excessive price increases shows that number portability is needed. For every customer who pays to change or has to give all their contacts a new number there are several who would love to change if they didn't have this hassle and expense.
Not really. If the ISP wants to be constructive and wishes to stop being targeted by this type of spammer, all they have to do is monitor the hacked machine a little while to determine where the sockets are being forwarded. After a few seconds, they can shut down the site. Until the spammer can get on a new site with new DNS entries, the spamvertised site will be dark. Best of all, they still have to host their domain on some DNS server unless they want to risk advertising an IP address. I have received increasingly positive responses from ISPs hosting the DNS zones for spamvertized domains. If they can't shut the site down, shutting the domain down is more effective anyway.
The do-not-spam registry will not work primarily because A. spammers are already breaking the law to spam, and B. it's easy to set up an offshore spam factory outside the US to send spams.
If the do not spam registery, as proposed by at least some lawmakers, penalizes the beneficiaries of the spam, then the true source will still be subject to the regulations. Sure, some offshore businesses will continue to spam, and some big guys may move off shore, but it really will nullify many of the cost advantages of spam. Few people are going to refinance their mortgage with some stranger in Costa Rica (then again, I never thought people would do that with a stranger who randomly spammed them either).
not to mention a do-not-spam registry is stupid in the sole fact that it gives spammers a huge list of millions of VALID email addresses - doing their job FOR them
This is the hard part. How can you make it a crime to traffic or abuse a list of email addresses? I don't think it would hold up well in court. If it did, the validity of the lists would be come problematic - how do you prove the citizenship or residency of someone just by an email address? This is where it completely falls apart. If there were a DNS (do not spam) list, I think I would first sign up with a fresh new email address, say dnc@mydomain.com, just to see how it worked. I'd be surprised if it did not result in more spam.
And, yes, small business owners can often use the business as their personal checking account.
Caveat: They must be careful with the bookeeping, lest they be subjected to an IRS audit. They could be accused of money laundering or tax evasion if they can't justify - and document - repairing the daughter's car as a business need. If they take the $28,000 as profit (and therefore pay taxes on it) then it is up to them what they do with it.
These cases are different from just a single occurrence of spam appearing to be from someone else's domain. These are cases where the spammer repetedly used the victim's domain for the from address and possibly the unsubscribe address. A few of these are mostly harmless. When it escalates to a widespread mailing or multiple mailings, all using the domain, it becomes damaging. This is especially true if the victim is a small business (with limited time, bandwidth and/or server space) or is heavily dependent on brand image related to the email address or domain name. In many cases spammers do this to be malicious - someone complained from that domain or email address, so they relentlessly use that domain or email address. If your business depenend on it, yes, it well worth the fight.
OK, enough of these wise-guy posts saying "I've cancelled spammer's ISP accounts before too" and "he could have just used SpamCop." First of all, if you are at all familiar with spam operations, you would know that spammers do not use mail servers hosted on their own network 95% of the time. Second, if you RTFA, you would see that was exactly the case. The article clearly states that he "painstakingly worked his way through a half-dozen hijacked servers."
These were likely servers that had been compromised or accidentaly misconfigued and turned in to open proxies. Spammers use dozens of these per mailing. However, they have to send the spam to these hijacked servers from somewhere. Much of the time these are home users on cable modems or DSL, so this isn't always easy. There is no trace of the actual origin in the headers, just the proxy or relay. The ISP shuts down their connection and the spammer moves on. The hijacked server often has no record of the actual origin of the mail, or upon being cleaned, the records are cleaned. In this case, the victim was able to find where the proxies were getting the original messages from. This isn't as simple as submitting to SpamCop.
Better yet, CD Player PCM digital out to PC PCM digital in. If it plays in audio CD players, this shouldn't be a problem as long as your soundcard or motherboard has digital input and the CD player digital out.
According to El Reg, Prescott really will keep you warm at night. 100W power dissipation... mmmmms:)
An Easy Bake Oven uses a 100W incadescent light bulb as the heating element. So with a heatsink and a fan, does that make a case with Prescott Inside an Easy Bake Convection Oven?
I'm pretty sure that's why they still put windows in front of the aircraft.... Unless it's just for pretty pictures and making the workplace more enjoyable.
As in the quote, I was referring to ILS approaches. These are seldom used as a primary source of information, if at all, to aid approach in high visibility, but are relied upon heavily in low visibility scenarios or in rugged terrain where the runways are not always visible until the last portion of approach. In the Cali, Colombia accident I linked to, visibility was poor, the terrain rugged and the sun was well below the horizon. In the Guam accident, the terrain was rugged so the runway is obscured during much of the approach. Before ILS, flights seldom landed after dark, and when they did, they never landed in poor visibility. Now, as long as the runways are visible from ground level (to prevent tarmac accidents), properly equipped aircraft can land regardless of visibility.
If we design our aircraft so poorly as to not have any manual controls, then some re-evaluation needs to occur.
Exactly. The problem however, is when pilots (or air controllers) rely on instruments they believe to be accurate and have no way of knowing whether this is true. In some instrument landing system (ILS) landings, it is virtually impossible to land without the instruments or verify all the parameters. More often, this only makes it hard to recover from another mistake such as leaving air brakes on or verifying that the ground aid is working. Pilots have well defined procedures for preventing these mistakes and for recovering from them as well. Yet the danger of faith in an inaccurate instrument can lead the crew to feel nothing is wrong until it is too late.
I wish more cities were biker friendly. This goes from bike lanes to bike racks to showers at work to biker-friendly driver attitudes. Of course part of the problem is just the fact that most people live so far from work. I'd commute to work by bike if I lived 5 or fewer miles from the office and the weather were more predictable here. I certainly wouldn't commute to work by bike most of the summer without showers available and most of the winter when it's either dangerously cold or rainy or both. Plus, drivers in my city are horrible at watching for bikers.
The 2004 VW Golf V is due to be released soon in the U.S. This new model has a 2.0L TDI option. The previous diesel was 1.9L. This increases the already great torque and the SAE horsepower should be around 125hp (103kW by European method, SAE figures have not been released yet) from the 90hp of the older engine. It is unlikely this performance increase comes at a great cost to fuel economy. You'll likely get a much longer life out of a deisel than a hybrid powertrain (including batteries).
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Better yet you can dump the smaller dd created image into a larger partition, then use ext2resize to adjust the inodes to better use the full partition size.
So, why couldn't I run and develop my XBox games on my PC? Wasn't that the hype - port PC games to XBox in no time?
You're confusing a one-to-many relationship with a one-to-one relationship. In a "closed box" system like the Xbox there is only one possible graphcis device, one prossible sound device, one possible controller interface, etc. The code is targeted specifically for those exact devices and optimized heavily. Even the BIOS presents things to software differently from the standard AT BIOS. To run on a PC you would need to intercept requests, say to a specific IO address, then depending on which graphics hardware or sound hardware is being used, redirect and possibly reconfigure the request. This would need to be handled by virtualization of some hardware. The raw code for, say calculating artificial intelligence, however, could run natively.
With the NGage the hardware is supposedly not as highly specialized (aside from the input controller layout and large screen), making it work well on many systems.
"I DO wanna express myself and i don't need an X37 flare to do it! There! Hows that! This is me expressing myself!"
What are you going to use to power your electrolysis process?
Tiny, tiny water batteries.
I wonder how many fish in the catelogue will be extinct within ten years.
The next part of the study will be to determine the flavor, texture, and of course fat content of each of the fish.
You could use manchester encoding to change it to base 3 from pulses.
3 states:
No change in signal(low or high), signal moves to high, signal moves to low.
Thanks for the insight.
Wow, I'd love to have CDMA 1x-DO to replace all of my land line needs.
The news item linked in the post doesn't mention whether it is a GSM or CDMA phone, or available as both. Anyone know? LG makes phones for both technologies.
Too bad you can't bring the phone in most gyms with that camera if you have a P900.
From the press release itself:
"As evidenced by Virginia Tech's cluster, the combination of industry standard servers, Linux, and InfiniBand creates a new standard in clustering and is changing the way computer power is deployed."
How many out there have domains registered with Network Solutions? I think it is time to move them elsewhere.
In releated news, I just received the following email. Note that Verisign had mentioned Network Solutions was a money pit on their SEC filings.
---
Dear Valued Network Solutions(R) Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Please be assured that Network Solutions continues to be committed to providing superior products and customer service to our more than 4 million customers. You have seen evidence of this commitment in the numerous enhancements we have introduced over the last 18 months. This commitment remains strong today in our
600 employees, each focused on providing you with a superior customer experience.
I told you Macs were cheaper!
Seriously, though: How?
The base price for a Dell Power Edge 1750 is $3,913 (with two processors). That is with a pair of 2.4GHz Xeons (533MHz FSB) with 512MB 266MHz DDR RAM.
A base Apple PowerMac G5 with Dual 2GHz processors (1GHz FSB) and 512MB 400MHz 128bit DDR is $2,999.
Yes, MacOS X is 32 bit.
Fortunately the VT cluster is using Linux on the G5s.
The very fact that people are willing to go through the hassle, and in this case direct expense to change their number to escape bad service or excessive price increases shows that number portability is needed. For every customer who pays to change or has to give all their contacts a new number there are several who would love to change if they didn't have this hassle and expense.
Not really. If the ISP wants to be constructive and wishes to stop being targeted by this type of spammer, all they have to do is monitor the hacked machine a little while to determine where the sockets are being forwarded. After a few seconds, they can shut down the site. Until the spammer can get on a new site with new DNS entries, the spamvertised site will be dark. Best of all, they still have to host their domain on some DNS server unless they want to risk advertising an IP address. I have received increasingly positive responses from ISPs hosting the DNS zones for spamvertized domains. If they can't shut the site down, shutting the domain down is more effective anyway.
The do-not-spam registry will not work primarily because A. spammers are already breaking the law to spam, and B. it's easy to set up an offshore spam factory outside the US to send spams.
If the do not spam registery, as proposed by at least some lawmakers, penalizes the beneficiaries of the spam, then the true source will still be subject to the regulations. Sure, some offshore businesses will continue to spam, and some big guys may move off shore, but it really will nullify many of the cost advantages of spam. Few people are going to refinance their mortgage with some stranger in Costa Rica (then again, I never thought people would do that with a stranger who randomly spammed them either).
not to mention a do-not-spam registry is stupid in the sole fact that it gives spammers a huge list of millions of VALID email addresses - doing their job FOR them
This is the hard part. How can you make it a crime to traffic or abuse a list of email addresses? I don't think it would hold up well in court. If it did, the validity of the lists would be come problematic - how do you prove the citizenship or residency of someone just by an email address? This is where it completely falls apart. If there were a DNS (do not spam) list, I think I would first sign up with a fresh new email address, say dnc@mydomain.com, just to see how it worked. I'd be surprised if it did not result in more spam.
And, yes, small business owners can often use the business as their personal checking account.
Caveat: They must be careful with the bookeeping, lest they be subjected to an IRS audit. They could be accused of money laundering or tax evasion if they can't justify - and document - repairing the daughter's car as a business need. If they take the $28,000 as profit (and therefore pay taxes on it) then it is up to them what they do with it.
These cases are different from just a single occurrence of spam appearing to be from someone else's domain. These are cases where the spammer repetedly used the victim's domain for the from address and possibly the unsubscribe address. A few of these are mostly harmless. When it escalates to a widespread mailing or multiple mailings, all using the domain, it becomes damaging. This is especially true if the victim is a small business (with limited time, bandwidth and/or server space) or is heavily dependent on brand image related to the email address or domain name. In many cases spammers do this to be malicious - someone complained from that domain or email address, so they relentlessly use that domain or email address. If your business depenend on it, yes, it well worth the fight.
OK, enough of these wise-guy posts saying "I've cancelled spammer's ISP accounts before too" and "he could have just used SpamCop." First of all, if you are at all familiar with spam operations, you would know that spammers do not use mail servers hosted on their own network 95% of the time. Second, if you RTFA, you would see that was exactly the case. The article clearly states that he "painstakingly worked his way through a half-dozen hijacked servers."
These were likely servers that had been compromised or accidentaly misconfigued and turned in to open proxies. Spammers use dozens of these per mailing. However, they have to send the spam to these hijacked servers from somewhere. Much of the time these are home users on cable modems or DSL, so this isn't always easy. There is no trace of the actual origin in the headers, just the proxy or relay. The ISP shuts down their connection and the spammer moves on. The hijacked server often has no record of the actual origin of the mail, or upon being cleaned, the records are cleaned. In this case, the victim was able to find where the proxies were getting the original messages from. This isn't as simple as submitting to SpamCop.
Better yet, CD Player PCM digital out to PC PCM digital in. If it plays in audio CD players, this shouldn't be a problem as long as your soundcard or motherboard has digital input and the CD player digital out.
According to El Reg, Prescott really will keep you warm at night. 100W power dissipation... mmmmms :)
An Easy Bake Oven uses a 100W incadescent light bulb as the heating element. So with a heatsink and a fan, does that make a case with Prescott Inside an Easy Bake Convection Oven?
I'm pretty sure that's why they still put windows in front of the aircraft.... Unless it's just for pretty pictures and making the workplace more enjoyable.
As in the quote, I was referring to ILS approaches. These are seldom used as a primary source of information, if at all, to aid approach in high visibility, but are relied upon heavily in low visibility scenarios or in rugged terrain where the runways are not always visible until the last portion of approach. In the Cali, Colombia accident I linked to, visibility was poor, the terrain rugged and the sun was well below the horizon. In the Guam accident, the terrain was rugged so the runway is obscured during much of the approach. Before ILS, flights seldom landed after dark, and when they did, they never landed in poor visibility. Now, as long as the runways are visible from ground level (to prevent tarmac accidents), properly equipped aircraft can land regardless of visibility.
If we design our aircraft so poorly as to not have any manual controls, then some re-evaluation needs to occur.
Exactly. The problem however, is when pilots (or air controllers) rely on instruments they believe to be accurate and have no way of knowing whether this is true. In some instrument landing system (ILS) landings, it is virtually impossible to land without the instruments or verify all the parameters. More often, this only makes it hard to recover from another mistake such as leaving air brakes on or verifying that the ground aid is working. Pilots have well defined procedures for preventing these mistakes and for recovering from them as well. Yet the danger of faith in an inaccurate instrument can lead the crew to feel nothing is wrong until it is too late.
I wish more cities were biker friendly. This goes from bike lanes to bike racks to showers at work to biker-friendly driver attitudes. Of course part of the problem is just the fact that most people live so far from work. I'd commute to work by bike if I lived 5 or fewer miles from the office and the weather were more predictable here. I certainly wouldn't commute to work by bike most of the summer without showers available and most of the winter when it's either dangerously cold or rainy or both. Plus, drivers in my city are horrible at watching for bikers.
The 2004 VW Golf V is due to be released soon in the U.S. This new model has a 2.0L TDI option. The previous diesel was 1.9L. This increases the already great torque and the SAE horsepower should be around 125hp (103kW by European method, SAE figures have not been released yet) from the 90hp of the older engine. It is unlikely this performance increase comes at a great cost to fuel economy. You'll likely get a much longer life out of a deisel than a hybrid powertrain (including batteries).