You'd think he would have compressed the jpeg a little better. An image like that shouldn't be 217k. With a "normal" jpeg compression algorithm the file is brought down to 65k with no loss in quality. Especially with the amazing 10BaseT and 2400 baud modem technology available in 1992! - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
There is a more in-depth article about this at the Boston Globe. First ChoicePoint now this? How long until a major government database like one from the IRS gets hacked and information on almost every US citizen is available? Scary thought. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
You can code in a way that is both easy to understand and efficient. That's what//comments are for. Then again enough comments and the code becomes pretty murky. My favorite code editor (little windows program called pcGRASP) has a button that will hide/show all code comments. Very useful when trying to see just the beef through a mountain of comments. --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I wonder what operating system the central Nasdaq transaction computers run. If it's Linux SCO can try to pull all sorts of conspiracy theories in the courts. But it's probably more like an old UNIX or BSD. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Seems like a blink of the eye since 1.0. They removed default compatibility for international domain names. I wonder how much of an impact this will have on foreign adoption of Firefox over IE. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I hope the government reads the fine print on his contract before hiring him. Asshole probably wrote the EULA's for Gator. --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
No not The Onion, Salon. Which isn't much better. And I guess it's true as CNET has picked up the story too. He is apparently a Law Professor and teaches a class on The Regulation of Advertising. My question is how can somebody such as himself be associated with a company like Gator that tries their best to trick consumers? - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
This would make sense as it would fit in with their "digital hub" philosophy. My only question is how would they integrate it with their existing product line? iPodTV anyone? --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Seth's proposed improvements over the current X11/Xorg server sound very nice, but what about the core speed issue in X. X has come leaps and bounds over the past 5 years or so but still "feels" extremely sluggish compared to a similarly equipped Windows XP machine. I know it's comparing apples to oranges since X is network-based but still... Anyone have any ideas if he plans to address performace as well? - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I'm glad that you're a big boy and can handle your computer all by yourself. However, that fact that you're reading Slashdot means you're in the great minority. We blackhole very little traffic. Hell, we don't even block any TCP ports! However if there's a class C out there that does nothing but spam/advertise/distribute spyware we're going to block it. Nothing serious, just a puny little block on 253 hosts. If you were one of our customers you could always ask us to add you to the allow-all access list. But you use AOL or Verizon DSL or comcast cable now don't you. Good luck getting them to unblock port 80 even though CodeRed/Nimda has long passed. www.patriot.net --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I work at an ISP. If all these domains point to the same class C or something I'll just block it at the router if it's purely advertising junk. Anyone know details? Thanks. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Here's the press release on a different site: http://press.arrivenet.com/aut/article.php/584418. html Feel free to rip this server a new asshole as well. Slashdot better not be teasing me with vaporware again! I get angry when teased! -- Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Good luck. Maybe you've been nice but someone with that much karma definitely been naughty. If he can see you when you're sleeping he can sure as hell see you when you're killing kittens
The bells are trying to do away with CLECs completely and be the only ISP to provide data over the lines. My employer is part of a national effort to get this changed and has helped establish an advocacy group to make congress tell them to open up the fiber! For more information visit the Washington Bureau for ISP Advocacy
I recently bought a Mitsubishi Eclipse which fits this description perfectly. It has a very strong iron block, factory turbo setup, and an all-wheel-drive model. The 1990-1999 Eclipse's are referred to as DSM's (Diamond Star Motors). Diamond Star Motors is(was) a partnership between Mitsubishi, Eagle (Chrysler), and Plymouth. The Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser (90-94 only) are all the exact same car with very subtle external "branding differences." Many of these cars are available today for less than $5000, and up to 100hp can be added for as little as $1000. Sure beats modding a civic!
I can't personally vouch for them but they've been advertised on WTOP here in washington dc for a couple years now and I know someone that uses one for his entire office building. Site is a little thin on details, and I doubt they do installs outside the wash dc area, but you could probably order one. Oh yeah, the link. http://www.bannerbackup.com/
T-Mobile won't let you "piggyback" multiple $2.99/300 SMS packages. And the 300 SMS's is a ripoff. It used to be $2.99 for 500.
I'm grandfathered in on an old unlimited WAP/unlimitied SMS package for $5/month thank god. Their prices for minutes keep going down but they keep rising on extra features.
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You'd think he would have compressed the jpeg a little better. An image like that shouldn't be 217k. With a "normal" jpeg compression algorithm the file is brought down to 65k with no loss in quality. Especially with the amazing 10BaseT and 2400 baud modem technology available in 1992!
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
There is a more in-depth article about this at the Boston Globe.
First ChoicePoint now this? How long until a major government database like one from the IRS gets hacked and information on almost every US citizen is available? Scary thought.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
You can code in a way that is both easy to understand and efficient. That's what //comments are for.
Then again enough comments and the code becomes pretty murky.
My favorite code editor (little windows program called pcGRASP) has a button that will hide/show all code comments. Very useful when trying to see just the beef through a mountain of comments.
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I wonder what operating system the central Nasdaq transaction computers run. If it's Linux SCO can try to pull all sorts of conspiracy theories in the courts. But it's probably more like an old UNIX or BSD.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Seems like a blink of the eye since 1.0.
They removed default compatibility for international domain names. I wonder how much of an impact this will have on foreign adoption of Firefox over IE.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I hope the government reads the fine print on his contract before hiring him.
Asshole probably wrote the EULA's for Gator.
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
No not The Onion, Salon. Which isn't much better.
And I guess it's true as CNET has picked up the story too.
He is apparently a Law Professor and teaches a class on The Regulation of Advertising.
My question is how can somebody such as himself be associated with a company like Gator that tries their best to trick consumers?
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
This would make sense as it would fit in with their "digital hub" philosophy. My only question is how would they integrate it with their existing product line?
iPodTV anyone?
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Seth's proposed improvements over the current X11/Xorg server sound very nice, but what about the core speed issue in X. X has come leaps and bounds over the past 5 years or so but still "feels" extremely sluggish compared to a similarly equipped Windows XP machine. I know it's comparing apples to oranges since X is network-based but still...
Anyone have any ideas if he plans to address performace as well?
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Thank you very much, but next time please try to get the link right. :)
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
- Cary
--Fairfax Undergroud: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I'm glad that you're a big boy and can handle your computer all by yourself. However, that fact that you're reading Slashdot means you're in the great minority. We blackhole very little traffic. Hell, we don't even block any TCP ports! However if there's a class C out there that does nothing but spam/advertise/distribute spyware we're going to block it. Nothing serious, just a puny little block on 253 hosts. If you were one of our customers you could always ask us to add you to the allow-all access list. But you use AOL or Verizon DSL or comcast cable now don't you. Good luck getting them to unblock port 80 even though CodeRed/Nimda has long passed. www.patriot.net
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I work at an ISP. If all these domains point to the same class C or something I'll just block it at the router if it's purely advertising junk.
Anyone know details? Thanks.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Here's the press release on a different site:. html
http://press.arrivenet.com/aut/article.php/584418
Feel free to rip this server a new asshole as well.
Slashdot better not be teasing me with vaporware again! I get angry when teased!
--
Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Good luck. Maybe you've been nice but someone with that much karma definitely been naughty. If he can see you when you're sleeping he can sure as hell see you when you're killing kittens
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
There are checks against this type of thing. An advocacy group like EFF shouldn't even have to get involved.
Frivilous lawsuit damages anyone?
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
automagic -1 for first post?
or just damn quick mods...
i thought it was half funny
maybe Score:2, Funny
and yes i suck for replying to myself.
sorry, just proud of my first first post
(if first first is valid english)
all my SMS's are belong to him
Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
The bells are trying to do away with CLECs completely and be the only ISP to provide data over the lines. My employer is part of a national effort to get this changed and has helped establish an advocacy group to make congress tell them to open up the fiber! For more information visit the Washington Bureau for ISP Advocacy
- Cary
I use passwords that I do not consciously remember, but manage to do it very easily.
Instead of basing a password on a word, I base passwords on keyboard finger patterns.
For example, one of my passwords might be "pqlsnv" or maybe "ju7ft6la"
Open notepad and type one of them out. Go on, try it.
Note the alternating finger pattern.
You can create very complex passwords with this method that are virtually impervious to dictionary based password crackers.
Definitely a novelty in having a password that my fingers know by heart but my mouth couldn't recite if my life depended on it.
- Cary
Tell the FCC you demand broadband choice!"
Fairfax Underground, where Fairfax County comes out to play
I recently bought a Mitsubishi Eclipse which fits this description perfectly. It has a very strong iron block, factory turbo setup, and an all-wheel-drive model. The 1990-1999 Eclipse's are referred to as DSM's (Diamond Star Motors). Diamond Star Motors is(was) a partnership between Mitsubishi, Eagle (Chrysler), and Plymouth. The Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser (90-94 only) are all the exact same car with very subtle external "branding differences." Many of these cars are available today for less than $5000, and up to 100hp can be added for as little as $1000. Sure beats modding a civic!
For more information the forums on dsmtuners.com and dsmtalk.com are an invaluable reference.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I can't personally vouch for them but they've been advertised on WTOP here in washington dc for a couple years now and I know someone that uses one for his entire office building.
Site is a little thin on details, and I doubt they do installs outside the wash dc area, but you could probably order one.
Oh yeah, the link. http://www.bannerbackup.com/
Easy with a little sed and awk :)
Old story I know but maybe you'll click your profile and see you have a reply.
- Cary
Absolute vs relative links.
i ve link: /images/pic.gif
An example of an absolute link is: http://www.some.damn.server/images/pic.gif
Relat
And no wget -m did not re-write those absolute links automatically, I had to manually do it.
Perhaps there is some easier way that I do not know?
(somehow using wget?)
. html
wget -m (mirror)
like this: http://patriot.net/~cary/www.physorg.com/news1524
hell of a lot more bandwidth than your poor ADSL line. enjoy.
- Cary
-- Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
T-Mobile won't let you "piggyback" multiple $2.99/300 SMS packages. And the 300 SMS's is a ripoff. It used to be $2.99 for 500.
I'm grandfathered in on an old unlimited WAP/unlimitied SMS package for $5/month thank god. Their prices for minutes keep going down but they keep rising on extra features.