I made a copy of a virtual machine the other day and tweaked it. It's got a lot of history even though it was created in a relatively short time. Does that make me truly awesome too? I also have another VM with many snapshots...:)
I don't know why people on both sides (noncreationists and creationists) seem to think everything is so simple when the universe keeps proving that things somehow aren't as simple as that.
It'll be funny if it turns out that it was 6 days and also infinite years (as per infinite cycle) and just depended on how you looked at it.
The shame of it all is it doesn't even need to be actual cold fusion to be an interesting phenomena worth investigating more deeply.
Because it could be a new energy storage method!
That's why I found the way "mainstream science" handled it rather disappointing.
There was a short sci-fi story where a drug was canned because one of the side effects was old women were getting pregnant. Punchline was the drug was making them more youthful.
No. It's just shows what they think of the average voter.
Their opinion could be correct. That'd be unfortunate for the USA, but hey that's the way Democracy works.
No surprise that few self-serving politicians would want a highly educated population. Don't blame them. Life would be much harder for us if chickens, sheep, pigs and cows were much smarter...
9% of the US presidents were assassinated. One of the most dangerous jobs in the world, in terms of job-related fatality rates. I don't think 9% of the US CEOs get assassinated on the job. Millions of people (US and worldwide) know the US president and hate him (whether the hate is justified or unjustified is irrelevant). Many of these people have access to lethal weapons. And people actually do still try to kill the US presidents.
The CEO of a typical large company can get what he wants done more easily than the US President. Steve Jobs didn't need Congress to pass his decisions. When you get all the responsibility for a lot of things, but not enough power to actually achieve those things, you end up with more stress.
Of course many CEOs just use their power to sack people for short term gains. But despite that, the assassination rates for CEOs don't seem to be as high.
Surgeons have it good. Taxi drivers have more stressful (and dangerous) jobs than surgeons. Their "customers" sometimes try to kill or rob them. The more sedated ones might puke all over the cab, causing even more stress. I think hookers have more dangerous jobs than taxi drivers (higher death rate).
Really? It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. About 9% of the US presidents died due to job-related issues, aka they got assassinated.
And then there's the assassination attempts. Sure a some of them were by wackos who wouldn't have succeeded. Maybe that won't worry you. But it'd worry most people.
You're in a job where millions of people hate you (sometimes/often for things you weren't even responsible for!). Many of them think of killing you. Many of them have guns.
It's only 5TB. Why dedupe? Just buy another HDD or two. How much is your time worth anyway?
You say the data is important enough that you don't want to nuke it. Wouldn't it be also true to say that the data that you've taken the trouble to copy more than once is likely to be important? So keep those dupes.
To me not being able to find stuff (including being aware of stuff in the first place) would be a bigger problem:). That would be my priority, not eliminating dupes.
well even on my 4GB laptop it sure takes a while to become usable. Hard to decide which is faster - hibernating or just rebooting and restarting stuff;).
Restarting stuff takes more human interaction so I stick to restoring from hibernation and do something else.
You could feel hot or cold for the same ambient temperature, depends on how active you've been or where you've been.
If you've been running around in the hot outdoors, you might prefer 72 while someone who has been sitting for ages might prefer 78.
A workaround is to have an electric fan somewhere so that the people who have been running around can use it for extra cooling while keeping the airconditioner at a higher temp setting. Running at 50W fan for a while is relatively cheap.
I have a UPS for the desktop. I live in a 3rd world tropical country. So it does come in useful every now and then.
FWIW, my desktop doesn't wake up from suspend properly - the networking stuff goes weird. My work laptop doesn't have such problems. However my laptop takes quite a long time to hibernate and restore from hibernate (I tend to run a lot of things... ).
Another thing to think about regarding hibernation vs suspend: if your HDD transfers at 100MB/sec and you've used up 16GB of RAM, it'll take at least 160 seconds to read 16GB from the disk (assuming no compression tech). SSDs will take about 40 seconds. Don't be surprised if it takes longer due to fragmentation and overheads.
You won't need to wait those 40-160 seconds if you're waking up from suspend. Nonvolatile ram can reduce/eliminate the need for hibernation.
Solution: use a different browser running as a different user for banking. Or run it in a VM. Then make sure Java does not work on the browsers you use for other stuff.
In fact you should do this for your banking stuff even if your bank doesn't require Java. Keep a separate banking browser+user account or VM for that.
I think it's just going through your entire timeline. If you've deleted a lot of it it won't get as much. Anyone can confirm it?
Does wolfram store the info or does their access to your account info persist? If they do just imagine if hackers hack wolfram and get all the info.
Why are people here so willing to let yet another party datamine their FB data for FREE? Yes FB has all the data, but at least they'll charge others for it, and I doubt they'd share it all with Google or Microsoft or Yahoo.
Just tell your clients to run the older distro, or else recompile your code for a modern distro. Or you know, you could make your code open source, and reap the benefits of community support.
No. You just ignore Linux and sell to people who use Windows. Where stuff (including malware;) ) can work fine for more than a decade with no recompilation.
From what I see it's easier to have portable _desktop_ apps (from usb etc) for Windows than for Linux. For linux the "solution" seems to be reboot the computer and enable usb boot. Portable server apps aka scripts are fine on Linux.
Only if you have a thermometer that records the maximum temperature, AND still works properly at those temperatures. Easier and cheaper to use a candle.
If you open the trunk or passenger compartment to read the temperature it will affect the test.
You could of course assume the temperature is max by a particular point and then take the reading then. Up to you.
It does depend on where the thermostat is. If it's in the airconditioner itself and not in the room, the airconditioner could switch from cooling at max once the temperatures around it becomes cooler even if the rest of the room isn't cool enough yet.
If you want to test it out to be safe, put a candle (melts at about 60-70 C, beeswax melts at a lower point) at an angle in a container in the boot and in the compartment. If it melts or bends after the whole day that means it's probably too hot.
As long as you outrun 20,000 or more neighbours the bear never cares about you.
If one day everyone puts ssh ports on random spots, then to outrun them you might use port knocking or similar (there are many other ways of having your firewall know/figure your new IP - looking it up on dyndns, receiving an email, or even seeing a "signed" packet (message includes your new IP, time and random salt) ).
But meanwhile you don't need to since most of the bears out there have enough to chomp on. If one day a bear picks on you specifically, you know it might be serious (personal or something).
Yeah. The greater the range the greater the convenience. For you and your neighbours... I've seen TVs (50-100W?) powered by these sort of things so you might notice it in your electric bill especially if you have more than one.
The other problem is getting people to pay for the power they use. Imagine if you live in an apartment and your neighbour's devices end up being charged by your charge points (and thus you end up paying more). The neighbour might not even know that he's getting the power from your point instead of his.
Perhaps it won't be enough power that it would increase your power bills by much- what's tens of watts between neighbours etc? So people might not care that much.
Most kiddes out there seemingly don't know about more sophisticated scripts that can identify services on non default ports.
I doubt they care, there are enough exploitable targets. The automated scripts scan _many_ IPs for a few ports. Having them scan more ports would take longer and slow the spread.
Despite what many say, there is some security through obscurity. It's a case of only having to outrun your neighbour and not the bear.
The other advantage is if you use an obscure port, if someone does try it and brute force etc, you can consider it more seriously - someone might actually be trying to hack you specifically.
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I made a copy of a virtual machine the other day and tweaked it. It's got a lot of history even though it was created in a relatively short time. Does that make me truly awesome too? I also have another VM with many snapshots... :)
I don't know why people on both sides (noncreationists and creationists) seem to think everything is so simple when the universe keeps proving that things somehow aren't as simple as that.
It'll be funny if it turns out that it was 6 days and also infinite years (as per infinite cycle) and just depended on how you looked at it.
Or even more interesting than that...
The first thought that crosses too many researchers minds is: "Will this get me more $$$$$?"
And that's why there's lots of fake, crap, useless and redundant research out there.
But scientists and their families have to eat. This is one way for them to achieve that I guess.
The shame of it all is it doesn't even need to be actual cold fusion to be an interesting phenomena worth investigating more deeply.
Because it could be a new energy storage method!
That's why I found the way "mainstream science" handled it rather disappointing.
There was a short sci-fi story where a drug was canned because one of the side effects was old women were getting pregnant. Punchline was the drug was making them more youthful.
No. It's just shows what they think of the average voter.
Their opinion could be correct. That'd be unfortunate for the USA, but hey that's the way Democracy works.
No surprise that few self-serving politicians would want a highly educated population. Don't blame them. Life would be much harder for us if chickens, sheep, pigs and cows were much smarter...
9% of the US presidents were assassinated. One of the most dangerous jobs in the world, in terms of job-related fatality rates. I don't think 9% of the US CEOs get assassinated on the job. Millions of people (US and worldwide) know the US president and hate him (whether the hate is justified or unjustified is irrelevant). Many of these people have access to lethal weapons. And people actually do still try to kill the US presidents.
The CEO of a typical large company can get what he wants done more easily than the US President. Steve Jobs didn't need Congress to pass his decisions. When you get all the responsibility for a lot of things, but not enough power to actually achieve those things, you end up with more stress.
Of course many CEOs just use their power to sack people for short term gains. But despite that, the assassination rates for CEOs don't seem to be as high.
Surgeons have it good. Taxi drivers have more stressful (and dangerous) jobs than surgeons. Their "customers" sometimes try to kill or rob them. The more sedated ones might puke all over the cab, causing even more stress. I think hookers have more dangerous jobs than taxi drivers (higher death rate).
Really? It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. About 9% of the US presidents died due to job-related issues, aka they got assassinated.
And then there's the assassination attempts. Sure a some of them were by wackos who wouldn't have succeeded. Maybe that won't worry you. But it'd worry most people.
You're in a job where millions of people hate you (sometimes/often for things you weren't even responsible for!). Many of them think of killing you. Many of them have guns.
It's only 5TB. Why dedupe? Just buy another HDD or two. How much is your time worth anyway?
:). That would be my priority, not eliminating dupes.
You say the data is important enough that you don't want to nuke it. Wouldn't it be also true to say that the data that you've taken the trouble to copy more than once is likely to be important? So keep those dupes.
To me not being able to find stuff (including being aware of stuff in the first place) would be a bigger problem
well even on my 4GB laptop it sure takes a while to become usable. Hard to decide which is faster - hibernating or just rebooting and restarting stuff ;).
Restarting stuff takes more human interaction so I stick to restoring from hibernation and do something else.
You could feel hot or cold for the same ambient temperature, depends on how active you've been or where you've been.
If you've been running around in the hot outdoors, you might prefer 72 while someone who has been sitting for ages might prefer 78.
A workaround is to have an electric fan somewhere so that the people who have been running around can use it for extra cooling while keeping the airconditioner at a higher temp setting. Running at 50W fan for a while is relatively cheap.
It's called a RAT scan. Y'know like CAT scan?
I have a UPS for the desktop. I live in a 3rd world tropical country. So it does come in useful every now and then.
FWIW, my desktop doesn't wake up from suspend properly - the networking stuff goes weird. My work laptop doesn't have such problems. However my laptop takes quite a long time to hibernate and restore from hibernate (I tend to run a lot of things... ).
Another thing to think about regarding hibernation vs suspend: if your HDD transfers at 100MB/sec and you've used up 16GB of RAM, it'll take at least 160 seconds to read 16GB from the disk (assuming no compression tech). SSDs will take about 40 seconds. Don't be surprised if it takes longer due to fragmentation and overheads.
You won't need to wait those 40-160 seconds if you're waking up from suspend. Nonvolatile ram can reduce/eliminate the need for hibernation.
Solution: use a different browser running as a different user for banking. Or run it in a VM. Then make sure Java does not work on the browsers you use for other stuff.
In fact you should do this for your banking stuff even if your bank doesn't require Java. Keep a separate banking browser+user account or VM for that.
I think it's just going through your entire timeline. If you've deleted a lot of it it won't get as much. Anyone can confirm it?
Does wolfram store the info or does their access to your account info persist? If they do just imagine if hackers hack wolfram and get all the info.
Why are people here so willing to let yet another party datamine their FB data for FREE? Yes FB has all the data, but at least they'll charge others for it, and I doubt they'd share it all with Google or Microsoft or Yahoo.
Just tell your clients to run the older distro, or else recompile your code for a modern distro. Or you know, you could make your code open source, and reap the benefits of community support.
No. You just ignore Linux and sell to people who use Windows. Where stuff (including malware ;) ) can work fine for more than a decade with no recompilation.
From what I see it's easier to have portable _desktop_ apps (from usb etc) for Windows than for Linux. For linux the "solution" seems to be reboot the computer and enable usb boot. Portable server apps aka scripts are fine on Linux.
Only if you have a thermometer that records the maximum temperature, AND still works properly at those temperatures. Easier and cheaper to use a candle.
If you open the trunk or passenger compartment to read the temperature it will affect the test.
You could of course assume the temperature is max by a particular point and then take the reading then. Up to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_(automobile)
It does depend on where the thermostat is. If it's in the airconditioner itself and not in the room, the airconditioner could switch from cooling at max once the temperatures around it becomes cooler even if the rest of the room isn't cool enough yet.
Try put the stuff in the boot. There's no "green house" effect in the boot. It will get hotter than ambient, but it won't get as hot as in the passenger compartment: http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~fowkes/SunFowkes/hotcarsels091209.pdf
If you want to test it out to be safe, put a candle (melts at about 60-70 C, beeswax melts at a lower point) at an angle in a container in the boot and in the compartment. If it melts or bends after the whole day that means it's probably too hot.
ORLY? I use perl and python on Windows and they work fine. Perl has been working fine on Windows way before Powershell came out.
There's no need to install perl/python on the target systems - you can make a standalone executable.
Maybe one day I'll need to do stuff that powershell does that perl doesn't (all that fancy OO piping stuff perhaps). Meanwhile I don't.
As long as you outrun 20,000 or more neighbours the bear never cares about you.
If one day everyone puts ssh ports on random spots, then to outrun them you might use port knocking or similar (there are many other ways of having your firewall know/figure your new IP - looking it up on dyndns, receiving an email, or even seeing a "signed" packet (message includes your new IP, time and random salt) ).
But meanwhile you don't need to since most of the bears out there have enough to chomp on. If one day a bear picks on you specifically, you know it might be serious (personal or something).
Yeah. The greater the range the greater the convenience. For you and your neighbours... I've seen TVs (50-100W?) powered by these sort of things so you might notice it in your electric bill especially if you have more than one.
The other problem is getting people to pay for the power they use. Imagine if you live in an apartment and your neighbour's devices end up being charged by your charge points (and thus you end up paying more). The neighbour might not even know that he's getting the power from your point instead of his.
Perhaps it won't be enough power that it would increase your power bills by much- what's tens of watts between neighbours etc? So people might not care that much.
Most kiddes out there seemingly don't know about more sophisticated scripts that can identify services on non default ports.
I doubt they care, there are enough exploitable targets. The automated scripts scan _many_ IPs for a few ports. Having them scan more ports would take longer and slow the spread.
Despite what many say, there is some security through obscurity. It's a case of only having to outrun your neighbour and not the bear.
The other advantage is if you use an obscure port, if someone does try it and brute force etc, you can consider it more seriously - someone might actually be trying to hack you specifically.
Yeah, it's already hard enough to find a good phone/internet package, what are the odds of finding an "out of this world" package?
I suggested something like that 10 years ago: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002May/0021.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/mozilla-security@mozilla.org/msg01448.html
But hardly anyone was interested. If implemented it could have prevented the Hotmail, MySpace, yahoo and many other XSS worms.
There's Content Security Policy now:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/CSP/Introducing_Content_Security_Policy
As far as I see security is not a priority for the browser and W3C bunch.