Operating System Compatibility Windows 98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP/ MAC OS 7.1 and higher/ Linux / Unix
But then for Minimum System Requirements they ask for: Windows 98, 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
Is it necessary to have an ms Windows pc in order to configure the thing? What if all you have is Macintosh or, like me, Linux? Or are they saying that Windows is the bare minimum and, of course, anything else more than meets the requirements?
I have a question for you to consider since you brought up east asia. What will happen in east asia if the West pushes automation further and faster than they do? In short order, it could be cheaper to produce goods at a fully automated factory in the US or Britain than to pay shipping costs on goods made by less efficient and somewhat more expensive impoverished human laborers? The cost of power and access to scarce resources would be the largest cost components. Eventually those less advanced nations would have to automate also, so they would end up trading raw materials for technology. Second, do you think Japan's lead in Robotics is insurmountable?
I have a question. Since we have certificates from Trust Authorities to do secure http, why can't we use those same certificates to do Secure SMTP? Since it would be a new protocol, it wouldn't need to be backwards compatible with SMTP except that the MTA might fall back to that as a last resort. Being able to verify that a message is actually being sent by acmewidgetcorp.com would certainly make it easier to separate junk from business communications. It would be much more difficult to abuse since a certificate could be revoked by the CA and there is a cost associated with obtaining them as well as the time involved.
"A Space Odyssey was the beginning of the realistic stuff."
Not sure exactly what this sentence meant, but it reminded me of something
I think I know what he meant. 2001 was the first movie I ever saw that realistically portrayed the near future based on technology that was about to come on-line and on obvious trends such as the commercialization of space. While earlier films showed space as being the domain of some sort of unitard-clad one world government paramilitary rocket jockeys, 2001 treated space travel as a routine and mundane activity requiring a stewardess to coach the regular joes who were commuting to the orbiting hotel through the safety procedures. It's been a long time but IIRC it also portrayed videophones and credit cards as commonplace and boring. Weight was provided by spinning the station not by a pseudo-scientific gravity generator. And the capabilities of HAL seem almost prophetic in retrospect. I'm sure there are many more examples if I watched the movie again. I think it strikes closer to the mark even than many movies made today. Realism is definitely one of the major distinctions of that movie.
Yeah that's exactly what happened and I did just make a link to dsp1 instead not really understanding why it happened. But later I moved stuff around on my systems and it stopped working again. It took a while to find out what was going on. It's not a major thing now that I know. I may have to check out Gentoo since so many people speak highly of it.
I had given up doing much with sound under Linux because everytime I tried something that looked interesting I would have to compile from source and it wouldn't compile because I needed some library or other. Then those libraries couldn't compile until I had installed some other library or created some device or something. It was always a huge hassle to even look at a sound program which was of dubious usefulness to me anyway. Then when I upgraded my system and loaded a newer distribution sound wouldn't work at all. Turned out there was a kernel bug that causes USB devices with sound capabilities to pre-empt the soundcard's DSP devices. I couldn't plug in my webcam (w/mic) because it that makes sound stop working on my SB card. I wonder if that bug has been fixed yet. I don't want to have to load a separate distribution just to play with cool sound apps.
The network administrators......should be fired. Why was the safety monitoring system on a nuclear power plant exposed, even indirectly, to the internet?
How did that get modded up? RTA! The worm was carried in by a contractor rather than through unprotected exposure to the internet.
The reason someone should be fired is because this system evidently either runs atop mswindows or is vulnerable to being DOS'ed by ms window machines. Not smart.
Satellite View of the Outage
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Network Blackout
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It is interesting to see how localized some of the outage was--networks in New York state right up to the Vermont border go dark while everything on the other side of the border is quiet. New York City obviously gets clobbered."
Here is a nice satellite pic comparison of the Northeast before and during the outage from
Natural Hazards
A quote:
The increasing frequency of electricity outages and outage duration are due primarily to lack of quick voltage support, leading to voltage collapse in many regions of the country and poor quality of power...
The ETO can switch in less than 5us and carry up to 10kA. When closed it blocks up to 6kV
Hey splice its genes in with something else that lives in the cold and another that that withstands UV radiation and seed it on Mars. Assuming we don't find any native life there of course.
A valid point. The article I read was many years ago and if I recall correctly it was something like: the rubberized asphalt would cost twice as much but last 5 times as long. This article lamented that there are laws which force the contractors to take the lowest bid which meets the minimum spec so it was not possible to even experiment with the new materials here in the US. Howver it mentioned that the materials were being tried in several places in Europe with good results.
What is the IDE you are using? If you gave that up, would you be capable of writing the testing system to a CUI screen? Ncurses might be good enough for your purposes if graphics are not absolutely required. After all even a 386 makes a decent text terminal.I think that might open up your choices a bit with lower power but also smaller and lower cost embedded devices.
I read about rubber chunks in asphalt before. Supposedly it lasts longer because when water gets in the nooks and freezes it would normally bust up the surface but with rubber there it gives so pot holes don't form as easily. Another benefit is that using these types of asphalt gives us something to do with old tires that normally sit in a landfill somewhere collecting stagnant water and giving mosquitoes a place to breed. If we can lay a mile of this stuff for $325k instead of concrete or cheaper asphalt but save $2M per mile on sound barriers then that seems like a pretty hot ticket.
I nearly lost my job because I was RIGHT, and pointed out that I had correctly predicted many of the failings and problems that arose as a result of stupid decisions.
You are very insightful, and another way of looking at it is that what you were saying could have gone through the rumour mill and been heard by the executives. And they might be shocked to learn that the whole thing had been a very expensive fiasco. They were told by IT management that all those problems and complaints are to be expected in any large deployment. Once they have a scapegoat for their sagging bottom line, someone's head could roll.
Rebels like you and ramannoodle are often talented individuals, and the savvy manager can use your talents while maintaining a tight rein on you and stand on your shoulders to elevate his own position. One other thing you may have noticed is that he will toss his peons an occasional crumb of approval in private but will put you down when others are around. That is because it must look like you could fuck up a wet dream but the place would crumble without him. He will hoard information and segregate responsibilites so that no one subordinate knows how to keep the whole clockworks running smoothly. And does it seem like he comes down hardest on you? Then you probably have the most ability among your peers. The only time he wants a hardworking, smart person around capable of handling his position is if he takes his boss's job and needs someone down there to put the thumbscrews to. So if you don't mind a lifetime of stress just be quiet, sit back and enjoy the ride.
Take this little management test.
I believe that:
A. Creme always rises to the top.
B. Shit floats.
C. Weak swimmers provide some buoyancy before they drown.
If you answered A then you are a goody two shoes. You are not management material because you would not last long there. If you answered B then you are a rebel. You could make management if everyone else in your department died simultaneously in a horrible plane crash except Milton. If you answered C then you are a slime who is probably reading this while monitoring your employees web usage.
you cannot tell a difference between a black hole formed by conventional matter collapse and a black hole formed by antimatter collapse.
I was about to argue this point but I just read it again slowly and see now that it is technically correct. You can't tell the difference from the outside. However just because some form of matter passes that point which we call the event horizon doesn't mean that anything magical happens to it. I read just recently that someone, Hawking I think, proved that if you fell into a blackhole you couldn't tell when you had passed the event horizon. So just because you couldn't tell from the outside whether a blackhole is matter or anti-matter doesn't mean that there couldn't be a difference. But maybe there isn't. Maybe it all gets squeezed into a quark soup.
It's not just mass which distorts space-time and creates the appearance of gravity. Energy can do the exact same thing.
Okay this is news to me. I would like to see references for this. It has been a few years for me as well but I was taught that energy, such as a light beam, will follow the space time curvature, but does not by itself cause any curvature. If you know the name of the governing equation that relates gravitational force to electromagnetic energy density please tell me because I would be fascinated to read about it.
Just to be sure I understand you right; In a hypothetical universe with only two particles forever orbiting each other, if a beam of light suddenly shone between them then they would slowly approach each other in a tighter orbit until finally they touched? Is this right? Although this makes intuitive sense I am pretty sure it contradicts what I have always been told.
Your story has got me thinking. It is suspected that gamma ray bursts may be caused by the merger of two blackholes. A large gamma ray burst is so energetic that it can emit more energy for a few milliseconds than every other radiant object in the universe combined. But what would happen if a blackhole merged with an anti-blackhole? There would still be the huge outpouring of energy because this is evidently due to effects manifested outside the event horizon. However, what happens after the matter and the anti-matter come into contact inside the event horizon? Normally the two opposing forms of matter would annihilate each other and become pure energy. But energy does not possess the property of mass, so could two equal sized holes wink out of existence in a bigbang-like explosion?
Since you are writing fiction, it doesn't really matter whether it's real at all or not. All real physics are only just theory, so anything you can dream of should be possible in your fantasies!
But if you mean a book specifically pointing out the similarities between powerful unix/linux commands and their few, watered-down, dos/windows counterparts, you probably won't find one. There just isn't a enough of a market for migrations in that direction for something like that to get published. You know what they say, 'Once you go hack, you never go back.'
Because I have paid license fees for the same music several times, (albums, 8track then cassettes, then Cd's, now going to digital) I have been pleased to see the courts uphold the common-sensical concept of time-shifting and space-shifting. My question is, have you personally ever asked a friend or relative to videotape a show for you while you were out of town and is there some fundemental difference betweeen doing that and downloading an audio only recording of music you have already paid for (sometimes over and over again.)
Well put. As you pointed out, this only forbids using the money specifically appropriated in this bill, it doesn't prevent domestic spying on Americans funded by other sources such as black box money or 'private' sources such as Reagan/Bush's secret sales of missiles to Iran right after they held Americans hostage for 444 days. But I also think it is a step in the right direction even if it is only paying lip service to Liberty. Maybe it is at least a sign that the pendulum's swing is slowing.
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They listed the device as compatible with:
Operating System Compatibility Windows 98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP/ MAC OS 7.1 and higher/ Linux / Unix
But then for Minimum System Requirements they ask for:
Windows 98, 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
Is it necessary to have an ms Windows pc in order to configure the thing? What if all you have is Macintosh or, like me, Linux? Or are they saying that Windows is the bare minimum and, of course, anything else more than meets the requirements?
I have a question for you to consider since you brought up east asia. What will happen in east asia if the West pushes automation further and faster than they do? In short order, it could be cheaper to produce goods at a fully automated factory in the US or Britain than to pay shipping costs on goods made by less efficient and somewhat more expensive impoverished human laborers? The cost of power and access to scarce resources would be the largest cost components. Eventually those less advanced nations would have to automate also, so they would end up trading raw materials for technology. Second, do you think Japan's lead in Robotics is insurmountable?
"We're on the road to Cairo" he was right but his timing was just a little off.
Sounds like you have a pretty good setup there. But is this built into the commercial email/groupware products like exchange, notes, and groupwise?
I have a question. Since we have certificates from Trust Authorities to do secure http, why can't we use those same certificates to do Secure SMTP? Since it would be a new protocol, it wouldn't need to be backwards compatible with SMTP except that the MTA might fall back to that as a last resort. Being able to verify that a message is actually being sent by acmewidgetcorp.com would certainly make it easier to separate junk from business communications. It would be much more difficult to abuse since a certificate could be revoked by the CA and there is a cost associated with obtaining them as well as the time involved.
Not sure exactly what this sentence meant, but it reminded me of something
I think I know what he meant. 2001 was the first movie I ever saw that realistically portrayed the near future based on technology that was about to come on-line and on obvious trends such as the commercialization of space. While earlier films showed space as being the domain of some sort of unitard-clad one world government paramilitary rocket jockeys, 2001 treated space travel as a routine and mundane activity requiring a stewardess to coach the regular joes who were commuting to the orbiting hotel through the safety procedures. It's been a long time but IIRC it also portrayed videophones and credit cards as commonplace and boring. Weight was provided by spinning the station not by a pseudo-scientific gravity generator. And the capabilities of HAL seem almost prophetic in retrospect. I'm sure there are many more examples if I watched the movie again. I think it strikes closer to the mark even than many movies made today. Realism is definitely one of the major distinctions of that movie.
Yeah that's exactly what happened and I did just make a link to dsp1 instead not really understanding why it happened. But later I moved stuff around on my systems and it stopped working again. It took a while to find out what was going on. It's not a major thing now that I know. I may have to check out Gentoo since so many people speak highly of it.
I had given up doing much with sound under Linux because everytime I tried something that looked interesting I would have to compile from source and it wouldn't compile because I needed some library or other. Then those libraries couldn't compile until I had installed some other library or created some device or something. It was always a huge hassle to even look at a sound program which was of dubious usefulness to me anyway. Then when I upgraded my system and loaded a newer distribution sound wouldn't work at all. Turned out there was a kernel bug that causes USB devices with sound capabilities to pre-empt the soundcard's DSP devices. I couldn't plug in my webcam (w/mic) because it that makes sound stop working on my SB card. I wonder if that bug has been fixed yet. I don't want to have to load a separate distribution just to play with cool sound apps.
How did that get modded up? RTA! The worm was carried in by a contractor rather than through unprotected exposure to the internet.
The reason someone should be fired is because this system evidently either runs atop mswindows or is vulnerable to being DOS'ed by ms window machines. Not smart.
Here is a nice satellite pic comparison of the Northeast before and during the outage from Natural Hazards
A quote: The increasing frequency of electricity outages and outage duration are due primarily to lack of quick voltage support, leading to voltage collapse in many regions of the country and poor quality of power...
The ETO can switch in less than 5us and carry up to 10kA. When closed it blocks up to 6kV
Hey splice its genes in with something else that lives in the cold and another that that withstands UV radiation and seed it on Mars. Assuming we don't find any native life there of course.
Vulcanization of the rubber cross-links the polymers which means that it will not melt anymore. If you raise the temperature enough it will only burn.
A valid point. The article I read was many years ago and if I recall correctly it was something like: the rubberized asphalt would cost twice as much but last 5 times as long. This article lamented that there are laws which force the contractors to take the lowest bid which meets the minimum spec so it was not possible to even experiment with the new materials here in the US. Howver it mentioned that the materials were being tried in several places in Europe with good results.
What is the IDE you are using? If you gave that up, would you be capable of writing the testing system to a CUI screen? Ncurses might be good enough for your purposes if graphics are not absolutely required. After all even a 386 makes a decent text terminal.I think that might open up your choices a bit with lower power but also smaller and lower cost embedded devices.
I read about rubber chunks in asphalt before. Supposedly it lasts longer because when water gets in the nooks and freezes it would normally bust up the surface but with rubber there it gives so pot holes don't form as easily. Another benefit is that using these types of asphalt gives us something to do with old tires that normally sit in a landfill somewhere collecting stagnant water and giving mosquitoes a place to breed. If we can lay a mile of this stuff for $325k instead of concrete or cheaper asphalt but save $2M per mile on sound barriers then that seems like a pretty hot ticket.
You are very insightful, and another way of looking at it is that what you were saying could have gone through the rumour mill and been heard by the executives. And they might be shocked to learn that the whole thing had been a very expensive fiasco. They were told by IT management that all those problems and complaints are to be expected in any large deployment. Once they have a scapegoat for their sagging bottom line, someone's head could roll.
Rebels like you and ramannoodle are often talented individuals, and the savvy manager can use your talents while maintaining a tight rein on you and stand on your shoulders to elevate his own position. One other thing you may have noticed is that he will toss his peons an occasional crumb of approval in private but will put you down when others are around. That is because it must look like you could fuck up a wet dream but the place would crumble without him. He will hoard information and segregate responsibilites so that no one subordinate knows how to keep the whole clockworks running smoothly. And does it seem like he comes down hardest on you? Then you probably have the most ability among your peers. The only time he wants a hardworking, smart person around capable of handling his position is if he takes his boss's job and needs someone down there to put the thumbscrews to. So if you don't mind a lifetime of stress just be quiet, sit back and enjoy the ride.
Take this little management test.
I believe that:
A. Creme always rises to the top.
B. Shit floats.
C. Weak swimmers provide some buoyancy before they drown.
If you answered A then you are a goody two shoes. You are not management material because you would not last long there. If you answered B then you are a rebel. You could make management if everyone else in your department died simultaneously in a horrible plane crash except Milton. If you answered C then you are a slime who is probably reading this while monitoring your employees web usage.
I was about to argue this point but I just read it again slowly and see now that it is technically correct. You can't tell the difference from the outside. However just because some form of matter passes that point which we call the event horizon doesn't mean that anything magical happens to it. I read just recently that someone, Hawking I think, proved that if you fell into a blackhole you couldn't tell when you had passed the event horizon. So just because you couldn't tell from the outside whether a blackhole is matter or anti-matter doesn't mean that there couldn't be a difference. But maybe there isn't. Maybe it all gets squeezed into a quark soup.
It's not just mass which distorts space-time and creates the appearance of gravity. Energy can do the exact same thing.
Okay this is news to me. I would like to see references for this. It has been a few years for me as well but I was taught that energy, such as a light beam, will follow the space time curvature, but does not by itself cause any curvature. If you know the name of the governing equation that relates gravitational force to electromagnetic energy density please tell me because I would be fascinated to read about it.
Just to be sure I understand you right; In a hypothetical universe with only two particles forever orbiting each other, if a beam of light suddenly shone between them then they would slowly approach each other in a tighter orbit until finally they touched? Is this right? Although this makes intuitive sense I am pretty sure it contradicts what I have always been told.
Your story has got me thinking. It is suspected that gamma ray bursts may be caused by the merger of two blackholes. A large gamma ray burst is so energetic that it can emit more energy for a few milliseconds than every other radiant object in the universe combined. But what would happen if a blackhole merged with an anti-blackhole? There would still be the huge outpouring of energy because this is evidently due to effects manifested outside the event horizon. However, what happens after the matter and the anti-matter come into contact inside the event horizon? Normally the two opposing forms of matter would annihilate each other and become pure energy. But energy does not possess the property of mass, so could two equal sized holes wink out of existence in a bigbang-like explosion?
You're Dubya's speech writer, aren't you???
The only "dummies" book with a redundant title.
But if you mean a book specifically pointing out the similarities between powerful unix/linux commands and their few, watered-down, dos/windows counterparts, you probably won't find one. There just isn't a enough of a market for migrations in that direction for something like that to get published. You know what they say, 'Once you go hack, you never go back.'
A vote that actually reflects public opinion? Hard to believe. What's it got, a 25% Congressional payhike rider?
Because I have paid license fees for the same music several times, (albums, 8track then cassettes, then Cd's, now going to digital) I have been pleased to see the courts uphold the common-sensical concept of time-shifting and space-shifting. My question is, have you personally ever asked a friend or relative to videotape a show for you while you were out of town and is there some fundemental difference betweeen doing that and downloading an audio only recording of music you have already paid for (sometimes over and over again.)
If they were really optimists they would use hydrogen instead of helium.
Well put. As you pointed out, this only forbids using the money specifically appropriated in this bill, it doesn't prevent domestic spying on Americans funded by other sources such as black box money or 'private' sources such as Reagan/Bush's secret sales of missiles to Iran right after they held Americans hostage for 444 days. But I also think it is a step in the right direction even if it is only paying lip service to Liberty. Maybe it is at least a sign that the pendulum's swing is slowing.