It would be cool if the OS saw it as 1 huge 1.2GB drive, but that would be a hell of a hack to make it display as unified piece of media.
I've often wondered why you couldn't have a Firewire-based RAID controller that either had a seperate firewire bus for the drives, or worked directly with the drives on the same bus, to create disk arrays.
Yes, I know it's not as hi9H-pERfoRm4NC3 as a PCI/SCSI card, but those aren't as inexpensive or convenient as Firewire, either.
I think back to the mid-90s at the latest, people who got into open source/free software volunteer projects did it because they liked to code or it was an adjunct to something they were going to do anyway, or in some cases were getting paid to do (didn't Larry Wall write Perl to do reports at work?).
Nowadays, even a lot of the brighter kids are into it for the name recognition, street cred and popularity "the community". The product (as opposed to the *project*) is initially worthwhile because they're talented and they're able to impose their will on it. But when it gets too messy (volunteers won't cooperate) or too hard (difficult features, too much user support), they find the fame too fleeting to make it worthwhile and they go away.
I'm not sure all of this is bad, but it does seem that the better *projects* (and not just products) come from people who do it because sendmail/perl/samba/etc is just what they do, and therefore they're able to cope with the annoyances much better -- the work *is* the goal.
Dunno what this has to do with RBLs getting DDoS'd into oblivion, tho, since DDoS is hard to overcome if you're on fixed bandwidth or worse, metered bandwidth and the ISP won't or can't help. It's one thing for people to put their souls into a project, it's another for them to invest $$$$$/mo in it.
Sorry, there are no "good" pedophiles. Simply refraining from raping children doesn't make you a "good" pedophile, you're still deeply disturbed. You can't ever justify a sexual relationship with a child, and its certainly not healthy to engage pedophillic fantasy behavior and call it "OK" as long as no children were hurt.
I hope you recognize your mental illness and are seeking therapy to disengage from pedophilia.
I'm surprised the parent isn't +5 Insightful, since its exactly what everyone should have expected. ICANN has demonstrated time and again its dependence on Verisign and deference to corporate interests generally, and expecting them to expend much political capital to influence a corporate sponsor seems unlikely.
I'm not sure they put much time/energy into its implementation; if they had, I would have expected more A records being returned (if thats possible), or a broader load-balancing/traffic distrubution scheme than they have been using.
It sounds to me like Verisign has been one of those companies that has become "all about marketing" and hasn't any reasonable technical management or skills. If they had them, they might not have done this in the first place, or they at least would have implemented it in such a way that it worked reliably.
I had an apartment where the landlord used to come in all the time, without notice, and with dubious cause.
The last time it happened this way I had taken a day off and had just gotten back from the gun range. I heard a soft knock and a key enter the lock. When the door swung open, I was standing there with a gun in my hand asking who the guy was and what he wanted.
He mumbled something about an upgrade to the door buzzer system. I stood about 6 feet from him, gun in hand, the 5 minutes he spent in my apartment taking apart the 1920-era intercom and fishing wire from below. He said he'd be back in 10 minutes, which he was, and he installed the new unit.
After that, I never had an unannounced entry into my apartment again.
Home broadband is dirt cheap for what you get. It's subsidized by business accounts much like telephone service.
Is it? Do you have any documentation to show what the monthly actual cost of DSL is to the telephone company?
My ISP gets no subsidies for the IP portion of my DSL bill (about $34 per month), and the subsidies associated with my voice line presumably cover all the maintenance associated with the copper loop to my house, so they must be doing *something* with the $34 per month they get for supplying DSL transit.
Anyway, I don't buy it that broadband is subsidized. It may be priced relative to the oversubscription ISPs do (since many broadband connections are near zero much of the time), but that's not a subsidy.
..and pissed off your junior high shop teacher, who's told you "...a thousand times that its a screwdriver, not a fucking prybar, chisel, scraper, trowel, knife, boxcutter, punch, doorstop, icepick, or any of the other unauthorized uses you've been using it for, and I don't care of Sears/Mac/Snap-On promise to replace it no matter how it breaks."
Uncrackable DRM isn't the point or the goal. The goal is DRM layered with enough hard encryption that it's a major pain in the ass.
It's not a question of how, but when. VHS has no encryption, but Macrovision was applied after development for content protection. CDs were a late 70s/early 80s invention, no encrytption at all, with various macrovision-style protection methods applied later. DVDs were a late 80s, early 90s invention, flawed encryption, with limited DRM via improved macrovision.
It's clear they're learning, and they'll only get better.
A bunch of people all wearing the same shirt that reads "Think Different" has a certain irony to it, and it's not the flattering kind of irony that reinforces the message or its individual elements.
But none of them turn back into desktops by inserting them into docks that are more like full-size desktops.
I suppose as usual I'm asking for the impossible; I want someone to break a motherboard in half, shove it into the laptop. When docked, it connects with the other half of the motherboard, which has half the RAM slots, PCI slots, AGP slot, and some IDE ports. I'll live with a slower laptop HDD as the C: drive, although a BIOS-level imaging application that could clone the laptop HDD onto a faster internal HDD would be nice.
Slavery is still practiced in a lot of places, it might be possible to consider that working as a slave would imply a negative wage relative to what the average wage of your occupation is, plus a negative for the lack of freedom.
I've heard of a couple of other scams involving ATMs. One took place at a mall in California(?) -- the theives put in their *own* ATM that recorded numbers and access codes, but didn't give out any cash. They then collected the ATM, retrieved the card stripe data and access codes, cloned some cards and went on a withdrawal spree.
Most recently I was at an ATM that had a FWD: FWD: FWD: -type email taped to it warning of a new scam; thieves that put a plastic sleeve into the card slot that somehow allows you to use the ATM but captures your card. They observe your access code, and when you leave, they remove the sleeve+card and then do a bunch of withdrawals (to zero) and ditch the card.
The latter scheme seemed dubious; the chain-letter like WARNING on the machine, and the insertion sensors on card slots I can't see allowing something jammed that far into them. Plus this was at a gas station deep in suburbia where hanging around the ATM would be suspicious, and where the ATM was in a corner making its use a complete screen of the keyboard.
In college (mid 80s) an ATM in the student union had its comm line (cat3, looked like a phone line) exoposed, and it was in a seldom-used corner. We thought it would have been possible to hook a PC to the line and capture a legit transaction. We'd then repeat the transaction and just replay the responses from the remote end. But I'm sure that even in the 80s the comm links were encrypted and not spoofable like this. But it was a reasonable idea.
I'd like to see some innovation in the docking station arena. The best one I ever experienced was the Apple Duo, which got the idea right -- a super compact notebook that could be docked into a functional desktop computer case.
I saw one other similar docking station in the same era, a Toshiba, but it was a piggy laptop and a lame dock. The only other docks I've seen since then are lame "port extenders", which don't give me PCI slots for expansion and don't do anything to keep the laptop's size and weight down.
When I travel, I really need a full-featured computer that can run XP/2K, supports Wifi, ethernet, a modem, USB2 and has a high-res screen and is about 2/3s the size of my Dell D600. I don't need an internal DVD/CDRW, floppy, parallel port, serial port, PC card slots or a 15" display. 1024x768 at the resolution of this Dell, the display would be much smaller, maybe 12" at most.
There are laptops that can do this, but when you get home, there's no expansion slots, you're stuck with USB for all your peripherals, and its generally not a worthwhile desktop replacement.
A good dock that was usable as a desktop would be great, particularly if there was some what to clone\sync the HDD in the laptop to a faster HDD in the dock upon redocking and bypass the laptop display for a better display in the dock.
HR departments require Word format because HR is usually the least competant department in the entire organization, full of petty personalities who got their start doing filing and typing.
Where I've worked, the "good" HR people were usually the spouses of high powered executives, graduates of spendy liberal arts colleges with no specific skills other than good manners and better social connections for whom HR was a hobby occupation between marriage and full-time parenting. Technical skills weren't on the menu.
"Bad" HR people are petty bureaucrats, veterans of central filing who misbelieve they wield some power over employees and try to exercise it over entry-level job candidates.
Occasionally there's an HR person who has the brains and aptitude to understand the complexities of the health plan and enough personality and effectiveness to be worthwhile.
The real career zealots become the contemporary version of slave auctioneers, pimping the unemployed and unemployable in temporary companies on comission.
When I hired an PFA, I sent a stack of resumes of potential candidates to HR, and as often as not the ones rejected by HR in the initial screening phone interview had resumes at least as good as the ones I was allowed to interview and consider hiring. The HR rejections were explained to me only in terms of personality and "cultural fit", never in terms of job experience, skills or knowledge. They may have been right some of the time, but I think it would have been better to have the personality screening done AFTER I filtered them in person based on my skills and experience based interviews.
What we need is a nice complete open-source set of libraries for writing games. Unfortunately I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon (SDL is a good framework, but it doesn't cover everything.)
Right, and what you'll get is three competing libraries with overlapping and version-mismatched dependencies, allies/enemies in various camps (Gnome/KDE, RH/Suse/Debian/BSD/GNU), proprietary closed source driver dependencies and almost no support from the actual game development industry.
About the only problem it won't have is a take on the MySQL vs. PostgresSQL debate.
If you thought misleading or incorrect credit information was hard to change, just wait until the credit people and insurance people get ahold of our "security color coding information" and start using it to alter^H^H^H^H^Hjack up our rates.
There's already been a flap in Minnesota about insurance companies using credit scores to influence auto insurance; they claim a correlation, which is probably there, but someone wisely called "bullshit" and took them to task for using criteria other than someone's actual driving record.
Further ironies abound, since those of us who don't carry a lot of debt and pay of our credit early get reduced credit scores -- and I thought responsibility was rewarded! (Yes, I'm aware that those of us that pay off early fubar the economic plans and machinations of the credit industry, since they plan to make all that interest income off of me).
But just wait until you apply for a loan and find out your interest rate is sky high or your insurance has gone through the roof because you're mistakenly labeled a "security threat". I've already read plenty of horror stories about people that couldn't fly and who spent months fighting the national insecurity apparatus trying to understand why they were considered risks and getting it changed.
I used to think that the foil hat crowd was a little off the deep end with most of their complaints about the collection of information, but now I'm starting to agree -- its gone too far, there are no controls, and its clear that Bu$h and A$hcroft have no compunction about giving this information away to their corporate allies.
Just like Scientologists... I wonder how intertwined those two "religions" are behind the scenes:)
Actually, I'm *glad* we have Mormons, Scientologists, the Church Universal & Triumphant, and all the other wacky our-way-or-the-highway groups, since the presence of more than one of them presumes that the others won't be able to take over. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mormons had a secret anti-Scientology group and vice-versa.
I'd like to see a smart backplane that allowed me to plug multiple CPUs, display cards, NICs, disk controllers, etc but arbitrarily combine them without changing cabling or dissassembling.
We used to have this weird "communications server" that had a bunch of slots where you could mount smallish motherboards; it had one keyboard/mouse/monitor, and you could switch the display among all of them. This was 8 years ago and they were all 386s (I think we had one 486-20 card), but that was just a precursor to today's blade systems which aren't as flexible as I'd like.
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That's what I assumed.
I always wanted to do that with a bunch of Jaz drives, and when they first came out a RAID-5 of 4GB would have been useful.
It would be cool if the OS saw it as 1 huge 1.2GB drive, but that would be a hell of a hack to make it display as unified piece of media.
I've often wondered why you couldn't have a Firewire-based RAID controller that either had a seperate firewire bus for the drives, or worked directly with the drives on the same bus, to create disk arrays.
Yes, I know it's not as hi9H-pERfoRm4NC3 as a PCI/SCSI card, but those aren't as inexpensive or convenient as Firewire, either.
Some '70s soul re-tread music.
I think back to the mid-90s at the latest, people who got into open source/free software volunteer projects did it because they liked to code or it was an adjunct to something they were going to do anyway, or in some cases were getting paid to do (didn't Larry Wall write Perl to do reports at work?).
Nowadays, even a lot of the brighter kids are into it for the name recognition, street cred and popularity "the community". The product (as opposed to the *project*) is initially worthwhile because they're talented and they're able to impose their will on it. But when it gets too messy (volunteers won't cooperate) or too hard (difficult features, too much user support), they find the fame too fleeting to make it worthwhile and they go away.
I'm not sure all of this is bad, but it does seem that the better *projects* (and not just products) come from people who do it because sendmail/perl/samba/etc is just what they do, and therefore they're able to cope with the annoyances much better -- the work *is* the goal.
Dunno what this has to do with RBLs getting DDoS'd into oblivion, tho, since DDoS is hard to overcome if you're on fixed bandwidth or worse, metered bandwidth and the ISP won't or can't help. It's one thing for people to put their souls into a project, it's another for them to invest $$$$$/mo in it.
Email is almost not worth using anymore, between the tidal wave of spam, viruses, trojans.
I've kept my personal head above water with procmail+bogofilter, but for how long?
How practical is firewalling the RPC ports from users and servers, if RPC traffic is essentially required for a lot of functionality?
Sorry, there are no "good" pedophiles. Simply refraining from raping children doesn't make you a "good" pedophile, you're still deeply disturbed. You can't ever justify a sexual relationship with a child, and its certainly not healthy to engage pedophillic fantasy behavior and call it "OK" as long as no children were hurt.
I hope you recognize your mental illness and are seeking therapy to disengage from pedophilia.
I'm surprised the parent isn't +5 Insightful, since its exactly what everyone should have expected. ICANN has demonstrated time and again its dependence on Verisign and deference to corporate interests generally, and expecting them to expend much political capital to influence a corporate sponsor seems unlikely.
I'm not sure they put much time/energy into its implementation; if they had, I would have expected more A records being returned (if thats possible), or a broader load-balancing/traffic distrubution scheme than they have been using.
It sounds to me like Verisign has been one of those companies that has become "all about marketing" and hasn't any reasonable technical management or skills. If they had them, they might not have done this in the first place, or they at least would have implemented it in such a way that it worked reliably.
Nononono!!!
You're supposed to recover the pot stash *and* the pool furniture.
I had an apartment where the landlord used to come in all the time, without notice, and with dubious cause.
The last time it happened this way I had taken a day off and had just gotten back from the gun range. I heard a soft knock and a key enter the lock. When the door swung open, I was standing there with a gun in my hand asking who the guy was and what he wanted.
He mumbled something about an upgrade to the door buzzer system. I stood about 6 feet from him, gun in hand, the 5 minutes he spent in my apartment taking apart the 1920-era intercom and fishing wire from below. He said he'd be back in 10 minutes, which he was, and he installed the new unit.
After that, I never had an unannounced entry into my apartment again.
Home broadband is dirt cheap for what you get. It's subsidized by business accounts much like telephone service.
Is it? Do you have any documentation to show what the monthly actual cost of DSL is to the telephone company?
My ISP gets no subsidies for the IP portion of my DSL bill (about $34 per month), and the subsidies associated with my voice line presumably cover all the maintenance associated with the copper loop to my house, so they must be doing *something* with the $34 per month they get for supplying DSL transit.
Anyway, I don't buy it that broadband is subsidized. It may be priced relative to the oversubscription ISPs do (since many broadband connections are near zero much of the time), but that's not a subsidy.
You know you're right, they are squandering quite a bit of brand identity.
..and pissed off your junior high shop teacher, who's told you "...a thousand times that its a screwdriver, not a fucking prybar, chisel, scraper, trowel, knife, boxcutter, punch, doorstop, icepick, or any of the other unauthorized uses you've been using it for, and I don't care of Sears/Mac/Snap-On promise to replace it no matter how it breaks."
Uncrackable DRM isn't the point or the goal. The goal is DRM layered with enough hard encryption that it's a major pain in the ass.
It's not a question of how, but when. VHS has no encryption, but Macrovision was applied after development for content protection. CDs were a late 70s/early 80s invention, no encrytption at all, with various macrovision-style protection methods applied later. DVDs were a late 80s, early 90s invention, flawed encryption, with limited DRM via improved macrovision.
It's clear they're learning, and they'll only get better.
A bunch of people all wearing the same shirt that reads "Think Different" has a certain irony to it, and it's not the flattering kind of irony that reinforces the message or its individual elements.
But none of them turn back into desktops by inserting them into docks that are more like full-size desktops.
I suppose as usual I'm asking for the impossible; I want someone to break a motherboard in half, shove it into the laptop. When docked, it connects with the other half of the motherboard, which has half the RAM slots, PCI slots, AGP slot, and some IDE ports. I'll live with a slower laptop HDD as the C: drive, although a BIOS-level imaging application that could clone the laptop HDD onto a faster internal HDD would be nice.
Slavery is still practiced in a lot of places, it might be possible to consider that working as a slave would imply a negative wage relative to what the average wage of your occupation is, plus a negative for the lack of freedom.
I've heard of a couple of other scams involving ATMs. One took place at a mall in California(?) -- the theives put in their *own* ATM that recorded numbers and access codes, but didn't give out any cash. They then collected the ATM, retrieved the card stripe data and access codes, cloned some cards and went on a withdrawal spree.
Most recently I was at an ATM that had a FWD: FWD: FWD: -type email taped to it warning of a new scam; thieves that put a plastic sleeve into the card slot that somehow allows you to use the ATM but captures your card. They observe your access code, and when you leave, they remove the sleeve+card and then do a bunch of withdrawals (to zero) and ditch the card.
The latter scheme seemed dubious; the chain-letter like WARNING on the machine, and the insertion sensors on card slots I can't see allowing something jammed that far into them. Plus this was at a gas station deep in suburbia where hanging around the ATM would be suspicious, and where the ATM was in a corner making its use a complete screen of the keyboard.
In college (mid 80s) an ATM in the student union had its comm line (cat3, looked like a phone line) exoposed, and it was in a seldom-used corner. We thought it would have been possible to hook a PC to the line and capture a legit transaction. We'd then repeat the transaction and just replay the responses from the remote end. But I'm sure that even in the 80s the comm links were encrypted and not spoofable like this. But it was a reasonable idea.
I'd like to see some innovation in the docking station arena. The best one I ever experienced was the Apple Duo, which got the idea right -- a super compact notebook that could be docked into a functional desktop computer case.
I saw one other similar docking station in the same era, a Toshiba, but it was a piggy laptop and a lame dock. The only other docks I've seen since then are lame "port extenders", which don't give me PCI slots for expansion and don't do anything to keep the laptop's size and weight down.
When I travel, I really need a full-featured computer that can run XP/2K, supports Wifi, ethernet, a modem, USB2 and has a high-res screen and is about 2/3s the size of my Dell D600. I don't need an internal DVD/CDRW, floppy, parallel port, serial port, PC card slots or a 15" display. 1024x768 at the resolution of this Dell, the display would be much smaller, maybe 12" at most.
There are laptops that can do this, but when you get home, there's no expansion slots, you're stuck with USB for all your peripherals, and its generally not a worthwhile desktop replacement.
A good dock that was usable as a desktop would be great, particularly if there was some what to clone\sync the HDD in the laptop to a faster HDD in the dock upon redocking and bypass the laptop display for a better display in the dock.
Where are *those* innovations?
HR departments require Word format because HR is usually the least competant department in the entire organization, full of petty personalities who got their start doing filing and typing.
Where I've worked, the "good" HR people were usually the spouses of high powered executives, graduates of spendy liberal arts colleges with no specific skills other than good manners and better social connections for whom HR was a hobby occupation between marriage and full-time parenting. Technical skills weren't on the menu.
"Bad" HR people are petty bureaucrats, veterans of central filing who misbelieve they wield some power over employees and try to exercise it over entry-level job candidates.
Occasionally there's an HR person who has the brains and aptitude to understand the complexities of the health plan and enough personality and effectiveness to be worthwhile.
The real career zealots become the contemporary version of slave auctioneers, pimping the unemployed and unemployable in temporary companies on comission.
When I hired an PFA, I sent a stack of resumes of potential candidates to HR, and as often as not the ones rejected by HR in the initial screening phone interview had resumes at least as good as the ones I was allowed to interview and consider hiring. The HR rejections were explained to me only in terms of personality and "cultural fit", never in terms of job experience, skills or knowledge. They may have been right some of the time, but I think it would have been better to have the personality screening done AFTER I filtered them in person based on my skills and experience based interviews.
Its a new mail-worm. I've gotten it delivered in both dumbass-execute-the-patch and mime-exploit flavors.
NAI has new defs that cover it now, and I assume all other others do too.
What we need is a nice complete open-source set of libraries for writing games. Unfortunately I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon (SDL is a good framework, but it doesn't cover everything.)
Right, and what you'll get is three competing libraries with overlapping and version-mismatched dependencies, allies/enemies in various camps (Gnome/KDE, RH/Suse/Debian/BSD/GNU), proprietary closed source driver dependencies and almost no support from the actual game development industry.
About the only problem it won't have is a take on the MySQL vs. PostgresSQL debate.
If you thought misleading or incorrect credit information was hard to change, just wait until the credit people and insurance people get ahold of our "security color coding information" and start using it to alter^H^H^H^H^Hjack up our rates.
There's already been a flap in Minnesota about insurance companies using credit scores to influence auto insurance; they claim a correlation, which is probably there, but someone wisely called "bullshit" and took them to task for using criteria other than someone's actual driving record.
Further ironies abound, since those of us who don't carry a lot of debt and pay of our credit early get reduced credit scores -- and I thought responsibility was rewarded! (Yes, I'm aware that those of us that pay off early fubar the economic plans and machinations of the credit industry, since they plan to make all that interest income off of me).
But just wait until you apply for a loan and find out your interest rate is sky high or your insurance has gone through the roof because you're mistakenly labeled a "security threat". I've already read plenty of horror stories about people that couldn't fly and who spent months fighting the national insecurity apparatus trying to understand why they were considered risks and getting it changed.
I used to think that the foil hat crowd was a little off the deep end with most of their complaints about the collection of information, but now I'm starting to agree -- its gone too far, there are no controls, and its clear that Bu$h and A$hcroft have no compunction about giving this information away to their corporate allies.
Just like Scientologists... I wonder how intertwined those two "religions" are behind the scenes :)
Actually, I'm *glad* we have Mormons, Scientologists, the Church Universal & Triumphant, and all the other wacky our-way-or-the-highway groups, since the presence of more than one of them presumes that the others won't be able to take over. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mormons had a secret anti-Scientology group and vice-versa.
I'd like to see a smart backplane that allowed me to plug multiple CPUs, display cards, NICs, disk controllers, etc but arbitrarily combine them without changing cabling or dissassembling.
We used to have this weird "communications server" that had a bunch of slots where you could mount smallish motherboards; it had one keyboard/mouse/monitor, and you could switch the display among all of them. This was 8 years ago and they were all 386s (I think we had one 486-20 card), but that was just a precursor to today's blade systems which aren't as flexible as I'd like.