... but there is some kind of value (for which I cannot find a word) that exists in things made by the truly skilled... by the wizards, the gurus, the master craftsmen.
OTOH, the spoilers could involve the numerous plots inserted into the movies that did not exist in the book, such as the horse-kissing part, Aragorn going over the cliff, Arwen, the elves at the Hornburg, etc., etc.
While a lot of the embellishments were purely to adapt the book to movie form, a lot more (including a lot of the Arwen storyline, if you grant Jackson a little artistic license) are actually taken from the Appendices.
I was surprised to see how much tied together from those "broken" parts having just re-read the appendices another time.
If I used the user@hostname form I could certainly use the ^user1^user2 syntax but I've already doubled my keystrokes.
I must say, though, that intermixing ssh with scp makes the more universal @ format more appealing, since scp uses -l for rate limiting, not for login id.
The parent post refers (in part) specifically to file system bugs. Just booting into a different kernel with the boot loader does nothing to protect your disk against corruption if the fs goes haywire.
Something like user-mode-linux may be better suited than running an unstable kernel on live partitions... having your old kernel binary around is no solace if your new, experimental one just hosed your disk.
> Why do website designers trust users to enter their phone number or credit card numbers, but not to enter dates (forcing them instead to select from month and year dropdowns)?
Given the latest spate of SSN and credit card theft, I'm sure soon enough we'll have a drop down box for those fields too.
What's even more interesting is that Kodak is finally shipping their 14n (full frame dSLR). Teeny tiny P&S isn't where all the cool stuff takes place, you know...
I have used Trinux a fair amount, though it appears to be showing signs of semi-abandonment (for example, I'm sure they used to have the trinux.(some tld) domain as an alias for the SF pages).
Disk rescues are easy. Also used it to build a temporary web-server (with "down for maintenance" splash pages) that entirely fit on a floppy that we used while moving servers from one location to the other. Unplug server, leave a no-name x86 box behind with a floppy to hold the IP address until the real webserver was settled in at it's new home.
> That's how cybersquatters can afford to snatch up tens of thousands of domain names the moment they expire. The cybersquatters aren't paying $35 to another registrar for each name; they're just putting out a couple of thousand bucks to become registrars themselves then they get to snap up as many newly-expired domain names as they want, for free.
That's not true. Anyone can become a registrar but what it gives them is massive bulk-discounts - they don't get to register domains for no cost.
Last I checked, it's more than a couple of thousand dollars - think tens of thousands - which is why the OpenSRS reseller scheme is so appealing (you can get started for as little as $250).
If you just tried that (like me) and didn't realize your cursor *HAD* disappeared until you moved it out of your browser window, try this:
$ xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
ah. much better.
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> Atlantis could have launched in a week. They would have to eliminate a lot of normal testing, but better to play the odds that nothing serious would turn up, when you know something serious will happen if you don't.
To paraphase the movie "Contact", why risk one crew when you can risk two for twice the price?
> Once the humans are off the shuttle we don't worry about if it survives re-entry or not.
Once the humans are off, I don't believe it has the capability to land.
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> The point is, even if they positively knew that it was a problem, knowing and then reentering and dying isn't any different from not knowing and then reentering and dying.
That's not true. When Atlantis suffered insulation damage it delayed reentry until nighttime, and spent time beforehand with the damaged wing facing away from the Sun to allow it to cool off. It may have (either it did, or this was proposed as a possibility for Columbia had this been known) also come in at a different angle such that the known good wing took a majority of the reentry heat.
> Granted, this sort of attack can't be very easy unless he has total control of a router in between you and the server... or he can spoof a DNS reply and thus entice you open your connection to his MITM station in the first place.
The benefit? You get laptops with full knowledge of exactly what does and what doesn't work under linux.
The catch? You pay the same (or more) as you would in the high street and don't get the shiny Windows CD.
Frankly... I say you just buy the machine you want. Don't want windows? Throw the disc out... you want a computer right? Don't turn everything into a political statement.
Anoymous, download-only FTP is not too high of a risk. You do run into firewall problems - depending on your server firewall and your clients' firewall you may block both passive and active ftp connections. For download-only you can minimize exploits by keeping up to date on a reputable server (kernel.org uses proftpd which, although it's had some oopsies, is otherwise highly regarded).
Certainly HTTP is a lot easier for the majority of people to handle.
You might look at something like djb's publicfile which makes a given directory available over both http and ftp in a secure fashion.
FTP uploads? Avoid if at all possible. ANONYMOUS FTP downloads.... if you want to you can offer it in addition.
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Find me a USB key that holds 40GB for under $200 and we'll talk.
:-)
How big is your keyring?
This would be the fifth plane they have launched, read the website:
It's the second one launched this year. TAMs 1 through 3 were launched last August.
It's fixed, if anyone else was interested...
I took a look at the new port pkg_install ...
The file pkg_install-20030714.tar.bz2 that is referenced cannot be found on any of the freebsd FTP servers.
Ho hum.
The reason is that gzip and zip do different things.
gzip compresses *a* file.
zip compresses *a set of* files.
Having the tar + gzip step (or the tar + bzip2) is just one too many levels of complexity for the point and click world.
Canon recently (as in the last couple of weeks) announced their G5 digital camera ... this is the followup to the G1, G2 and G3.
... I find it doubtful that after that, Apple will now come out with the G5 themselves.
Why no G4? Because, apparantly, Apple had discussions and pursuaded them to skip "G4".
So
The word you're looking for is elegance.
OTOH, the spoilers could involve the numerous plots inserted into the movies that did not exist in the book, such as the horse-kissing part, Aragorn going over the cliff, Arwen, the elves at the Hornburg, etc., etc.
While a lot of the embellishments were purely to adapt the book to movie form, a lot more (including a lot of the Arwen storyline, if you grant Jackson a little artistic license) are actually taken from the Appendices.
I was surprised to see how much tied together from those "broken" parts having just re-read the appendices another time.
Even though I rather suspect your question is rhetorical in nature I'll answer it.
For me, I log into multiple hosts under several different accounts (one userid per role, per application, whatever).
To make best use of command line history it's far more effective to:
1) ssh hostname -l user1
2) up-cursor ctrl-w user2
3) lather, rinse, repeat.
If I used the user@hostname form I could certainly use the ^user1^user2 syntax but I've already doubled my keystrokes.
I must say, though, that intermixing ssh with scp makes the more universal @ format more appealing, since scp uses -l for rate limiting, not for login id.
The parent post refers (in part) specifically to file system bugs. Just booting into a different kernel with the boot loader does nothing to protect your disk against corruption if the fs goes haywire.
Something like user-mode-linux may be better suited than running an unstable kernel on live partitions... having your old kernel binary around is no solace if your new, experimental one just hosed your disk.
I'm getting more and more of these :-(
I tried calling the operator to report it once, but they bounced me around three different people who didn't give a damn and hung up.
> Why do website designers trust users to enter their phone number or credit card numbers, but not to enter dates (forcing them instead to select from month and year dropdowns)?
Given the latest spate of SSN and credit card theft, I'm sure soon enough we'll have a drop down box for those fields too.
But it kept melting at room temperture...
... but I kept eating it.at room temperature.
I invented the Oreo Display
What's even more interesting is that Kodak is finally shipping their 14n (full frame dSLR). Teeny tiny P&S isn't where all the cool stuff takes place, you know ...
I have used Trinux a fair amount, though it appears to be showing signs of semi-abandonment (for example, I'm sure they used to have the trinux.(some tld) domain as an alias for the SF pages).
Disk rescues are easy. Also used it to build a temporary web-server (with "down for maintenance" splash pages) that entirely fit on a floppy that we used while moving servers from one location to the other. Unplug server, leave a no-name x86 box behind with a floppy to hold the IP address until the real webserver was settled in at it's new home.
Gee ... you think he'd at least be able to SPELL B-S-D.
(it's funny, laugh!).
> That's how cybersquatters can afford to snatch up tens of thousands of domain names the moment they expire. The cybersquatters aren't paying $35 to another registrar for each name; they're just putting out a couple of thousand bucks to become registrars themselves then they get to snap up as many newly-expired domain names as they want, for free.
That's not true. Anyone can become a registrar but what it gives them is massive bulk-discounts - they don't get to register domains for no cost.
Last I checked, it's more than a couple of thousand dollars - think tens of thousands - which is why the OpenSRS reseller scheme is so appealing (you can get started for as little as $250).
If you just tried that (like me) and didn't realize your cursor *HAD* disappeared until you moved it out of your browser window, try this:
$ xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
ah. much better.
> Atlantis could have launched in a week. They would have to eliminate a lot of normal testing, but better to play the odds that nothing serious would turn up, when you know something serious will happen if you don't.
To paraphase the movie "Contact", why risk one crew when you can risk two for twice the price?
> Once the humans are off the shuttle we don't worry about if it survives re-entry or not.
Once the humans are off, I don't believe it has the capability to land.
> The point is, even if they positively knew that it was a problem, knowing and then reentering and dying isn't any different from not knowing and then reentering and dying.
That's not true. When Atlantis suffered insulation damage it delayed reentry until nighttime, and spent time beforehand with the damaged wing facing away from the Sun to allow it to cool off. It may have (either it did, or this was proposed as a possibility for Columbia had this been known) also come in at a different angle such that the known good wing took a majority of the reentry heat.
Damned URL breakage.
Rain Connect
http://www.rainfinity.com/products/rainconnect.htm l
/24 determined we had already implemented what they could offer.
We evaluated their software, but since we have a
> Granted, this sort of attack can't be very easy unless he has total control of a router in between you and the server ... or he can spoof a DNS reply and thus entice you open your connection to his MITM station in the first place.
http://emperorlinux.com/
... I say you just buy the machine you want. Don't want windows? Throw the disc out ... you want a computer right? Don't turn everything into a political statement.
The benefit? You get laptops with full knowledge of exactly what does and what doesn't work under linux.
The catch? You pay the same (or more) as you would in the high street and don't get the shiny Windows CD.
Frankly
Anoymous, download-only FTP is not too high of a risk. You do run into firewall problems - depending on your server firewall and your clients' firewall you may block both passive and active ftp connections. For download-only you can minimize exploits by keeping up to date on a reputable server (kernel.org uses proftpd which, although it's had some oopsies, is otherwise highly regarded).
.... if you want to you can offer it in addition.
Certainly HTTP is a lot easier for the majority of people to handle.
You might look at something like djb's publicfile which makes a given directory available over both http and ftp in a secure fashion.
FTP uploads? Avoid if at all possible. ANONYMOUS FTP downloads
$0.02.