I liked the story on saw yesterday on the BBC Sci-Tech web site (which I can't find today) which said that because Code Red goes away if you reboot, and because IIS is so much more unstable than other web servers, the spread has been slowed because of how often people have to reboot their servers anyway.
Wankels were used for early high performance Mazda automobiles. Yeah, and they ate gas and produced smog at a prodigious rate. Moller is claiming much higher power at much lower fuel flow than any engine known in the world. Has any independant lab tested Moller's miracle engine? I don't think so.
Moller has given demonstrations to everyone.
You mean like that so-called "hover test" which actually shows the thing dangling on a wire? Looks like those "yogic flying" demos, or some of the worst of the UFO film, except Moller has less credibility than either of those two groups.
Moller's been working for over 20 years on this stuff. Show me one "aircar" that he's produced that can hover under its own power, and fly with a pilot on board. So far, all he's done is make a lot of claims, shown a couple of rigged demos, and redesigned his fuselage a few times to make it look cooler but less aerodynamic.
You are comparing an efficiency (2/3 hp/lb) that was actually measured in the real world, to one of Moller's outrageous figures pulled out his ass.
Moller is a con artist of high caliber. Every time his company is running out of money, he announces some new breakthrough, but doesn't show it to anybody. I'll believe in his flying machine when it actually flies, and not a day earlier.
Actually, I don't believe that any of these personal flying machines will achieve the goal of making flying accessible to non-pilots. There are just too many factors involved in the judgement involved in being a pilot to believe they could ever be automated. And car drivers are far more prone to "get-home-itis", but rarely die from it. In a plane, you just can't pull over until the thunderstorm passes - if you're in it, you'd better have an up to date will, because it's too late to do anything except hold on and hope you don't die.
And you're one of those people who wets yourself every time somebody gets a buzzword slightly wrong. Ok, it's not DHCP, but it is a dynamic method of allocating IP addresses from a pool. Big frigging difference. "DHCP" is a way of saying the same damn thing in 4 letters instead of 9 words. Nobody cares what the internal protocol is, the net result is that you may or may not get a different IP address every time you connect. --
PPP gives you the IP to use, but where do you think their PPP deamon gets the IP to give to you? That's right, a DHCP server. Just because you're not running a DHCP client doesn't mean that your IP isn't coming from DHCP. --
That's like saying that because somebody mentions ANSI that they are talking about concrete, since they control the standards for concrete testing (as well as the thousands of other things they set standards for). ECMA is a standards body, they control lots of standards.
.NET is not just C#, but a set of protocols and services. That's the whole point of Mono, is to reimplement those protocols and services in a GPL license. They can't use any non-GPL code from Microsoft to do that, so everything will probably have to be reimplemented from scatch. If Mono doesn't use Microsoft's C# compiler, then there is nothing in the C# compiler's license that could effect Mono's viability.
Why does the summary mention C#, when the article doesn't mention it or any other programming language? Is the submitter interpolating with no basis, or did he read a different article than the one linked to? --
I guess they could keep buying new NICs but that would get really expensive.
Or they could flash a new MAC into their NIC. A lot of NICs implement that ability so that you can use them in flail-over systems - if the primary nic goes down, you change the nic on the backup one to be the same as the one that went down, and even the DHCP server doesn't see the difference.
Of course they read the questions. That's how they reject the questions I ask, which could really benefit from the combined knowledge of several thousand geeky people, and only accept questions that are laughable, like this one, or that could be answered by 30 seconds of googling.
Looking at http://www.php.net/download-logos.php, you can see the text, highlighted in red so that even a moron can't miss it: Do not just include the graphic from our servers on your page! Copy the image to your site.
Now explain to me again why you feel so hard done by? If it had been my server that was getting spammed by your link, I would have replaced it with the goatse image.
I have an mp3 which I think came from Old Man Murray, which I think is made by taking an interview with John Carmac (I think it's Carmac, anyway) and changing some of the words. In it, he's say stuff like "Just go ahead and continue doing crack" and "they've completely forgotten that the first time they tried it they were staring up at the ceiling and backing into lava" and "I had to tell some of the level designers to just go ahead and continue doing crack".
Anyway, I'm going nuts trying to figure out what he's saying where ever OMM substituted the word "crack".
Kind of ironic this comment coming from somebody with the Slashdot id of "mp3car". Last time I looked, those car MP3 players required a lot more eyes-down time than monitoring your speedo with their fancy id3 tag displays and graphical eq and all that distracting crap.
If you can't watch the road and the speedo at the same time, I suggest you take your driver's license, go the nearest police station, and say "please take this away from me, I'm too stupid to drive".
While you're at it, you might enquire about their.38 caliber "I'm too stupid to live" plan too.
And sometimes when it gets a new sat or something strange happens I might "jump" on the map as to where my location is
You need a better GPS. My Garmin GPSMAP-195 never does that and I've driven over 12,000 miles with it, and flown another couple of thousand. Do you have one of the old ones that looked at each satellite in turn rather than in parallel?
I, too, have RoadRunner and it rarely goes down for more than a few hours at a time, and that's pretty rare for even that (I once had a 184 day uptime on my router box, and I usually reboot that when the RoadRunner connection drops just to make sure it's not my fault). However I know of other people who lose their high bandwidth connections for days at a time on a fairly regular basis. Since I'm running a couple of web sites and mailing lists off my server at home, if I were in that boat I'd probably look into some sort of redundancy too.
At one British airshow, a Stealth Bomber was successfully targetted and tracked by a British missile system.
When an F-117 is not on a military mission, it's going to have its Mode C transponder on, the same as my Piper Archer. If it didn't, it couldn't participate in civillian air traffic control, since civillian radars can't even see something as unstealthy as a Cessna 172 unless conditions are right. Not participating in civillian ATC is frowned on because of the risk of running into a 747 full of nuns, which could be bad for business. So this boast was probably prime PR luserishness.
When conditions are right, however, ATC can see "wakes", which are atmospheric disturbances behind moving objects. I've had ATC point out flocks of geese that they were tracking by wakes. I bet that if they saw a 600 knot wake, they'd probably guess it was a stealth aircraft, but they'd never be able to target it.
During Desert Storm, the Iraqi radar did see wakes from the F-117s and send up aircraft with hastily attached search lights to try and find them. The problem is that a wake (and probably a track from this cell phone thing) just tells you that an aircraft is up there, but it doesn't allow you to target it. You'll know it's up there soon enough when your stuff starts exploding, so why bother?
I worked at a company where we all picked our own job titles. One guy who was as fat and out of shape as me picked "Lord of the Dance". I was "Or An Amazingly Lifelike Simulation".
A cynical friend of mine said that companies do this to look cool and with-it, but they also do it to throw off head hunters and make it harder for people to be poached by other companies. --
1) Why are so many people assuming that the person asking needed room for a laptop, when there is no mention of a laptop in the list of requirements?
2) Cargo pants? Are you nuts? Do people really like walking around with all that shit swinging around impeding their legs? Not to mention that you then have to wear nothing *but* cargo pants forever and ever? One of the things I like about my bum bag is that I just pick it up and go without having to move stuff from one pocket to another every time I change my pants.
I've got an Eagle Creek bum bag that I got at Eastern Mountain Sports, and it's pretty good. It's good room for my cell phone, my wallet, my PDA, my keys, my passports and green card, my checkbook, my blood sugar tester, my mini-maglight and my bucktool. It can be worn as a bumbag, or you can zipper away the waist band and carry it over your shoulder with an included strap (which I unfortunately lost).
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this one is the one I have.
This one is bigger, but it looks pretty good too.
If I was designing my own, I'd do something very much like what I have now, except I'd put the cell phone and the PDA in separate pockets with velcro'ed flaps so I could get them out without digging through the rest of the junk.
One disadvantage, though, is that one of my former cow orkers used to call it my "man purse".
If you can stand the shame and humiliation, go for it. It's certainly better than having all that stuff in your trouser pockets. --
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"sadly untypical security flaw".
Yeah, that still has me scratching my head.
I liked the story on saw yesterday on the BBC Sci-Tech web site (which I can't find today) which said that because Code Red goes away if you reboot, and because IIS is so much more unstable than other web servers, the spread has been slowed because of how often people have to reboot their servers anyway.
Wankels were used for early high performance Mazda automobiles.
Yeah, and they ate gas and produced smog at a prodigious rate. Moller is claiming much higher power at much lower fuel flow than any engine known in the world. Has any independant lab tested Moller's miracle engine? I don't think so.
Moller has given demonstrations to everyone.
You mean like that so-called "hover test" which actually shows the thing dangling on a wire? Looks like those "yogic flying" demos, or some of the worst of the UFO film, except Moller has less credibility than either of those two groups.
Moller's been working for over 20 years on this stuff. Show me one "aircar" that he's produced that can hover under its own power, and fly with a pilot on board. So far, all he's done is make a lot of claims, shown a couple of rigged demos, and redesigned his fuselage a few times to make it look cooler but less aerodynamic.
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You are comparing an efficiency (2/3 hp/lb) that was actually measured in the real world, to one of Moller's outrageous figures pulled out his ass.
Moller is a con artist of high caliber. Every time his company is running out of money, he announces some new breakthrough, but doesn't show it to anybody. I'll believe in his flying machine when it actually flies, and not a day earlier.
Actually, I don't believe that any of these personal flying machines will achieve the goal of making flying accessible to non-pilots. There are just too many factors involved in the judgement involved in being a pilot to believe they could ever be automated. And car drivers are far more prone to "get-home-itis", but rarely die from it. In a plane, you just can't pull over until the thunderstorm passes - if you're in it, you'd better have an up to date will, because it's too late to do anything except hold on and hope you don't die.
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And you're one of those people who wets yourself every time somebody gets a buzzword slightly wrong. Ok, it's not DHCP, but it is a dynamic method of allocating IP addresses from a pool. Big frigging difference. "DHCP" is a way of saying the same damn thing in 4 letters instead of 9 words. Nobody cares what the internal protocol is, the net result is that you may or may not get a different IP address every time you connect.
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PPP gives you the IP to use, but where do you think their PPP deamon gets the IP to give to you? That's right, a DHCP server. Just because you're not running a DHCP client doesn't mean that your IP isn't coming from DHCP.
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Put virus writers and spammers into gladiator contests. Once they've whittled down to one surviving spammer or virus writer, shoot him.
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That's like saying that because somebody mentions ANSI that they are talking about concrete, since they control the standards for concrete testing (as well as the thousands of other things they set standards for). ECMA is a standards body, they control lots of standards.
.NET is not just C#, but a set of protocols and services. That's the whole point of Mono, is to reimplement those protocols and services in a GPL license. They can't use any non-GPL code from Microsoft to do that, so everything will probably have to be reimplemented from scatch. If Mono doesn't use Microsoft's C# compiler, then there is nothing in the C# compiler's license that could effect Mono's viability.
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Why does the summary mention C#, when the article doesn't mention it or any other programming language? Is the submitter interpolating with no basis, or did he read a different article than the one linked to?
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I mean, how old is that cifer ?
Well, it's called a "Caesar Cipher" for a reason...
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I guess they could keep buying new NICs but that would get really expensive.
Or they could flash a new MAC into their NIC. A lot of NICs implement that ability so that you can use them in flail-over systems - if the primary nic goes down, you change the nic on the backup one to be the same as the one that went down, and even the DHCP server doesn't see the difference.
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Except most private pilots now-a-days buy a hand held GPS and never use an E6B except during checkrides.
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Do you guys even read the questions?
Of course they read the questions. That's how they reject the questions I ask, which could really benefit from the combined knowledge of several thousand geeky people, and only accept questions that are laughable, like this one, or that could be answered by 30 seconds of googling.
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Looking at http://www.php.net/download-logos.php, you can see the text, highlighted in red so that even a moron can't miss it: Do not just include the graphic from our servers on your page! Copy the image to your site.
Now explain to me again why you feel so hard done by? If it had been my server that was getting spammed by your link, I would have replaced it with the goatse image.
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the TiVO -> VA commute (8 miles approx.) used to take 45 minutes to an hour during rush hour.
Yeah, it takes me a while to get off my butt from in front of the TV when there's good stuff recorded on the TiVo as well.
:-)
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Frequently, those who use StarOffice receive embarrasing statements from those with whom they try to share Word-formatted files.
.doc files.
In my experience, RTF files share better between SO and Word and back again than do
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I have an mp3 which I think came from Old Man Murray, which I think is made by taking an interview with John Carmac (I think it's Carmac, anyway) and changing some of the words. In it, he's say stuff like "Just go ahead and continue doing crack" and "they've completely forgotten that the first time they tried it they were staring up at the ceiling and backing into lava" and "I had to tell some of the level designers to just go ahead and continue doing crack".
Anyway, I'm going nuts trying to figure out what he's saying where ever OMM substituted the word "crack".
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And if you read the interview, the interviewees seem to be acknowledging that. To paraphrase every single question in the interview:
Interviewer: It was great how Quake invented foo.
Interviewee: We made some improvements over Doom/Wolfstein that regard.
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Hah! I sold my RedHat stock at $125. Unfortunately I used the profit to buy Corel stock, so that proved I was just lucky with RedHat.
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Kind of ironic this comment coming from somebody with the Slashdot id of "mp3car". Last time I looked, those car MP3 players required a lot more eyes-down time than monitoring your speedo with their fancy id3 tag displays and graphical eq and all that distracting crap.
.38 caliber "I'm too stupid to live" plan too.
If you can't watch the road and the speedo at the same time, I suggest you take your driver's license, go the nearest police station, and say "please take this away from me, I'm too stupid to drive".
While you're at it, you might enquire about their
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And sometimes when it gets a new sat or something strange happens I might "jump" on the map as to where my location is
You need a better GPS. My Garmin GPSMAP-195 never does that and I've driven over 12,000 miles with it, and flown another couple of thousand. Do you have one of the old ones that looked at each satellite in turn rather than in parallel?
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I, too, have RoadRunner and it rarely goes down for more than a few hours at a time, and that's pretty rare for even that (I once had a 184 day uptime on my router box, and I usually reboot that when the RoadRunner connection drops just to make sure it's not my fault). However I know of other people who lose their high bandwidth connections for days at a time on a fairly regular basis. Since I'm running a couple of web sites and mailing lists off my server at home, if I were in that boat I'd probably look into some sort of redundancy too.
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At one British airshow, a Stealth Bomber was successfully targetted and tracked by a British missile system.
When an F-117 is not on a military mission, it's going to have its Mode C transponder on, the same as my Piper Archer. If it didn't, it couldn't participate in civillian air traffic control, since civillian radars can't even see something as unstealthy as a Cessna 172 unless conditions are right. Not participating in civillian ATC is frowned on because of the risk of running into a 747 full of nuns, which could be bad for business. So this boast was probably prime PR luserishness.
When conditions are right, however, ATC can see "wakes", which are atmospheric disturbances behind moving objects. I've had ATC point out flocks of geese that they were tracking by wakes. I bet that if they saw a 600 knot wake, they'd probably guess it was a stealth aircraft, but they'd never be able to target it.
During Desert Storm, the Iraqi radar did see wakes from the F-117s and send up aircraft with hastily attached search lights to try and find them. The problem is that a wake (and probably a track from this cell phone thing) just tells you that an aircraft is up there, but it doesn't allow you to target it. You'll know it's up there soon enough when your stuff starts exploding, so why bother?
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I worked at a company where we all picked our own job titles. One guy who was as fat and out of shape as me picked "Lord of the Dance". I was "Or An Amazingly Lifelike Simulation".
A cynical friend of mine said that companies do this to look cool and with-it, but they also do it to throw off head hunters and make it harder for people to be poached by other companies.
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1) Why are so many people assuming that the person asking needed room for a laptop, when there is no mention of a laptop in the list of requirements?
2) Cargo pants? Are you nuts? Do people really like walking around with all that shit swinging around impeding their legs? Not to mention that you then have to wear nothing *but* cargo pants forever and ever? One of the things I like about my bum bag is that I just pick it up and go without having to move stuff from one pocket to another every time I change my pants.
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I've got an Eagle Creek bum bag that I got at Eastern Mountain Sports, and it's pretty good. It's good room for my cell phone, my wallet, my PDA, my keys, my passports and green card, my checkbook, my blood sugar tester, my mini-maglight and my bucktool. It can be worn as a bumbag, or you can zipper away the waist band and carry it over your shoulder with an included strap (which I unfortunately lost).
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this one is the one I have.
This one is bigger, but it looks pretty good too.
If I was designing my own, I'd do something very much like what I have now, except I'd put the cell phone and the PDA in separate pockets with velcro'ed flaps so I could get them out without digging through the rest of the junk.
One disadvantage, though, is that one of my former cow orkers used to call it my "man purse".
If you can stand the shame and humiliation, go for it. It's certainly better than having all that stuff in your trouser pockets.
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