Sorry, but I just have to steal your signature and use it for private emails. It's just too funny. And I am foreign. So I am allowed to do so, anyway. Well... "almost allowed":)
While what you say is true, what you and the other "just switch to IPV6 already" folks seem to be missing out on is if everyone was to switch at noon tomorrow in all likelihood you would be looking at MASSIVE outages, which would go on for weeks if not months.
If that's all, I'll be fine with it.
Re:That's one heck of a "long goodbye"
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Yes, did that too. Still have the good, old Sun Type 5 keyboard and mouse.Rock solid.Shame, it's limited to sparc32 machines...
That's very interesting. I know some of the domains actually listed there from countless comment/referrer spamming attacks. There are even.cn domains listed, so I don't think there really is any government behind these DNS hijacks. But who else? Might even be related to the secunia hijacking earlier this week which was similarly mysterious.
You'll find the weirdest things in special shops targeted at the audio-esoteric community. Mostly extremely costly and completely useless. There's, however, one good reason for gold-shielded connectors: they are completely immune against oxydation and almost immune against dirt.
You bet. It's pretty much only the DAC. There are more or less three types of DACs used in anything from synthesizers over DJ-style CD-players to soundcards. They differ in quality and price and IIRC they're all manufactured by crystal. You will drastically hear the difference when performing at the club with a laptop/external audio and the DJ hands over the controls. Common professional CD decks (say "Pioneer") against whatever DAC you have. To my experience sound cards for $250 and more are mostly equivalent in loundess, presence and linearity. Cheaper ones might be OK but will almost always need more gain and some fiddling with the EQ.
Hint: Don't even think of connecting an internal audio card to even a small PA or your set will not even last two minutes.
That's more a problem of your reader of choice than a problem of the format itself. Though I prefer plain text, too there are other (free) PDF readers that will spawn fairly fast. Distributing instructions as.doc nevertheless seems to be somewhat clumsy to me.
Not really. Mentioned "conservative" parties generally don't give a fuck about privacy laws. They would just sue you if you called them Nazis. Even if they obviously were.
1. Basically, privacy laws apply to the state as well. Unfortunately priorities are at "our" war against terrorism, so "security" beats civil rights - just as everywhere else in the world.
2. You might want to have a deeper look into literature about the first world war. "Geopolitical interests" and "access to key ressources" translates as "the companies" to me. By the way, the wealthiest families in Germany still are Krupp, Flick and Thyssen - and just guess who built the punchcard machines to sort out jews, handicapped persons and "communists" from the rest of the population...
Of course there were political dumbasses like Bismarck and criminals like Hitler and his gang but without the goodwill of the capital they would not have come that far.
you don't need a special WM for that. Plain old GNOME, configured with two screens (not Xinerama and no "additional" Xsession - you'll start one session with both screens active from GDM) and a small app called xmove will do the trick moving windows from one (physical) screen to the other. I have definitely configured this a dozen times on Linux and Solaris machines with NVidia and SUN video adapters.
No, they don't. I am actually posting this from virtual desktop #2 on screen 0 on a Debian system with Nvidia's proprietary driver and no Xinerama (two independent screens, one Xsession) , while happily changing virtual desktops on screen 1. If anything changes on the inactive desktop caused by an action on the active desktop/monitor there's definitely Xinerama involved.
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The problem is that Google will kick you -or at least require you to activate cookies and pass a captcha- if you are using tor. Which means that they are actively monitoring the list of active tor nodes to keep anonymous users out. They'll probably do the same with Google Share IPs as soon as there's a significant number of them.
On my webserver, I delete the upper third of all addresses in/etc/hosts.deny every couple of weeks.
One hour later they usually are back at the bottom of the file. Maybe I should run a weekly line count and collect some stats on it.
For serious archiving there's just one reliable option: magnetic tape. A state-of-the art device will store some hundered Gigs per medium and cost up to about 1.000 â/$ used ones are available in all price ranges. You will probably need to extract samples from your long time archives for your customers as there are different standards of tape drives, if you're not only going to sell DVD or blue ray media and leave the archiving problem to them. Any institution collecting digital arts will have to find a way to cope with long-time storage anyway.
The arguments for magnetic tape are obvious:
- there are so many important data on standard tape (QIC/DDS) that these devices will definitely be available for the next few decades
- the life time of magnetic tapes is usually 25 years
- tape drives are usually connected via SCSI or USB, both standards are not likely to be abandonded in the way standards for "customer grade" hardware are and you'll always get external adapters for them
- if you stick to one of the newer and more popular tape systems, museums or arts collections that are maintaining their own archives are likely to compatible
- magnetic tapes are quite reliable. Optical media are not
So you've been keeping your mouth shut in advance for all your life, never did anything remarkeable enough to show up somewhere, living constantly in fear to piss off some imaginary HR-droid in the future. Now somebody with a similar name has done something bad, and you're worring even about that?
Who do you think is going to employ a sissy like that?
The US still are some years ahead in almost any way. In these interesting times this means they were the first to hit the actual pile of crap.
Efficient security is costly, banks are struggling, policies to screw up account holders in cases of banking fraud are much cheaper.
European banking droids are actually looting public budgets to cover their losses caused by mismanagement. What do you think they'll do next?
Improve security measures? You bet...
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Sorry, but I just have to steal your signature and use it for private emails. It's just too funny. And I am foreign. So I am allowed to do so, anyway. Well... "almost allowed" :)
While what you say is true, what you and the other "just switch to IPV6 already" folks seem to be missing out on is if everyone was to switch at noon tomorrow in all likelihood you would be looking at MASSIVE outages, which would go on for weeks if not months.
If that's all, I'll be fine with it.
Yes, did that too. Still have the good, old Sun Type 5 keyboard and mouse.Rock solid.Shame, it's limited to sparc32 machines...
Yes... But it's "industry leading" all over now!
That's very interesting. I know some of the domains actually listed there from countless comment/referrer spamming attacks. There are even .cn domains listed, so I don't think there really is any government behind these DNS hijacks. But who else? Might even be related to the secunia hijacking earlier this week which was similarly mysterious.
You'll find the weirdest things in special shops targeted at the audio-esoteric community. Mostly extremely costly and completely useless. There's, however, one good reason for gold-shielded connectors: they are completely immune against oxydation and almost immune against dirt.
You bet. It's pretty much only the DAC. There are more or less three types of DACs used in anything from synthesizers over DJ-style CD-players to soundcards. They differ in quality and price and IIRC they're all manufactured by crystal. You will drastically hear the difference when performing at the club with a laptop/external audio and the DJ hands over the controls. Common professional CD decks (say "Pioneer") against whatever DAC you have. To my experience sound cards for $250 and more are mostly equivalent in loundess, presence and linearity. Cheaper ones might be OK but will almost always need more gain and some fiddling with the EQ. Hint: Don't even think of connecting an internal audio card to even a small PA or your set will not even last two minutes.
That's more a problem of your reader of choice than a problem of the format itself. Though I prefer plain text, too there are other (free) PDF readers that will spawn fairly fast. Distributing instructions as .doc nevertheless seems to be somewhat clumsy to me.
OBEY! SUBMIT! CONSUME!
Not really. Mentioned "conservative" parties generally don't give a fuck about privacy laws. They would just sue you if you called them Nazis. Even if they obviously were.
1. Basically, privacy laws apply to the state as well. Unfortunately priorities are at "our" war against terrorism, so "security" beats civil rights - just as everywhere else in the world. 2. You might want to have a deeper look into literature about the first world war. "Geopolitical interests" and "access to key ressources" translates as "the companies" to me. By the way, the wealthiest families in Germany still are Krupp, Flick and Thyssen - and just guess who built the punchcard machines to sort out jews, handicapped persons and "communists" from the rest of the population... Of course there were political dumbasses like Bismarck and criminals like Hitler and his gang but without the goodwill of the capital they would not have come that far.
Mom? You're here? And you've got five fake accounts?!
Yeah. Let's kill him!
you don't need a special WM for that. Plain old GNOME, configured with two screens (not Xinerama and no "additional" Xsession - you'll start one session with both screens active from GDM) and a small app called xmove will do the trick moving windows from one (physical) screen to the other. I have definitely configured this a dozen times on Linux and Solaris machines with NVidia and SUN video adapters.
No, they don't. I am actually posting this from virtual desktop #2 on screen 0 on a Debian system with Nvidia's proprietary driver and no Xinerama (two independent screens, one Xsession) , while happily changing virtual desktops on screen 1. If anything changes on the inactive desktop caused by an action on the active desktop/monitor there's definitely Xinerama involved.
The problem is that Google will kick you -or at least require you to activate cookies and pass a captcha- if you are using tor. Which means that they are actively monitoring the list of active tor nodes to keep anonymous users out. They'll probably do the same with Google Share IPs as soon as there's a significant number of them.
On my webserver, I delete the upper third of all addresses in /etc/hosts.deny every couple of weeks.
One hour later they usually are back at the bottom of the file. Maybe I should run a weekly line count and collect some stats on it.
For serious archiving there's just one reliable option: magnetic tape. A state-of-the art device will store some hundered Gigs per medium and cost up to about 1.000 â/$ used ones are available in all price ranges. You will probably need to extract samples from your long time archives for your customers as there are different standards of tape drives, if you're not only going to sell DVD or blue ray media and leave the archiving problem to them. Any institution collecting digital arts will have to find a way to cope with long-time storage anyway. The arguments for magnetic tape are obvious: - there are so many important data on standard tape (QIC/DDS) that these devices will definitely be available for the next few decades - the life time of magnetic tapes is usually 25 years - tape drives are usually connected via SCSI or USB, both standards are not likely to be abandonded in the way standards for "customer grade" hardware are and you'll always get external adapters for them - if you stick to one of the newer and more popular tape systems, museums or arts collections that are maintaining their own archives are likely to compatible - magnetic tapes are quite reliable. Optical media are not
to put things in the right order again.
So you've been keeping your mouth shut in advance for all your life, never did anything remarkeable enough to show up somewhere, living constantly in fear to piss off some imaginary HR-droid in the future. Now somebody with a similar name has done something bad, and you're worring even about that? Who do you think is going to employ a sissy like that?
The US still are some years ahead in almost any way. In these interesting times this means they were the first to hit the actual pile of crap. Efficient security is costly, banks are struggling, policies to screw up account holders in cases of banking fraud are much cheaper. European banking droids are actually looting public budgets to cover their losses caused by mismanagement. What do you think they'll do next? Improve security measures? You bet...