The TV and telephone are different, [...] you do in fact need a license to run a TV station.
Interesting factoid: all telephone use in (at least) the UK is actually licensed. Sure, it's a class license (essentially the kit is licensed by virtue of it being idiot-proof enough to allow the unwashed masses to use it safely) but it's still a license. This license can be, and sometimes is, withdrawn from individuals or groups if they're causing problems with the system.
I just stuff the kit into stackable plastic boxes, packing the more sensitive items appropriately first. I hoard packing materials rather than throw it away, so I've always got plenty of spare bubblewrap, jiffy bags and antistatic bags around.
My small boxes came from IKEA, part code 571.923.96 and the last lot I bought were 70p each. I've got some much stronger lidded boxes for heavier items (i.e. the CD-ROM drive collection) and they were five for a tenner down the car boot market. (Obviously, there's no catalogue number for stuff from the boot:)
I'm quite attached to my dead-tree collection of books and magazines. There's a nice feeling to flicking through a paper version of TPJ, whereas a load of HTML files on a website just doesn't have the same feel or utility. I can't read a website in the loo like I can with paper:)
You're a terrorist. You want to see just how much your enemy can find out about you.
You don't need to infiltrate an organisation to do this, just use the provisions of the Data Protection Act to compel them to provide you with a copy of all the data they hold on you, or pay a large fine (and still have to provide the info). The charge to you for this may not be more than £10.
I have no particular reason to believe that data collected under RIPA is exempt from the DPA.
First of all, Blade Runner's importance is obvious from the influence it has had on other more recent major Sci-Fi movies. Think about The Fifth Element (the huge cityscape with flying cars, seen it in BR) [etc]
Have you not seen a film called Metropolis? It's one of the first films ever made and (I think) the first sci-fi film made. It's in black and white with no sound, so it's not quite the CGI masterpiece modern sci-fi is:) It does however have a lot of the standard features: evil overlords, flying cars, etc, etc.
Blade Runner is a well-presented film in its own right, but in the scale of things, it's just another step in the genre. Standing on the shoulders of giants, and all that.
Last year a company called CentralNic, who operate a registry for uk.com and many other similar domains, decided to auction off all the generic names they had previously held back. The main difference is that CentralNic did it for charity, and not to line their own pocket.
./configure
make
make install
Is there anyway to uninstall it?
"make uninstall" will work in a lot of cases. With applications that use./configure, it's usually pretty easy to turn it into a Debian package that you can install from by using the debmake, devscripts and sudo packages.
Go into the directory where./configure is, and type "deb-make". Normally you want a "S"ingle Binary. This has now created a Debian build tree. Try to convert it into a package by running "debuild -rsudo". Hopefully this will spit out a.deb file in the parent directory. You can now install this by running "sudo debi". Dead easy.
To recap:
deb-make
s
debuild -rsudo
sudo debi
The package can be removed like any other package, e.g. via dselect.
.. but criticising QuickTime is like dissing Christopher Columbus. Sure, he may have called everyone 'indians', and been a complete asshole, but we wouldn't be where we are today without him.
Well, without Columbus, I would be living in England. With Columbus, I'm still living in England, but with the added benefit that we got rid of a load of people who are unable to comprehend that not everybody is the same as them;)
Seems a little too big to be a fun LAN party. You'd seriously have to do the buddy system there. At a LAN party, I woudln't trust leaving my computer for the time it takes to instal NetBus or BackOrifice.
Can't you lock the terminal? As you mention Netbus/BackOrifice, I assume you'll be running Windows for some reason. Windows 2000 certainly allows me to lock the terminal - I tap CTRL-ALT-DEL then ENTER, and it's locked. "xlock" in a shell does much the same under X.
Nor would I trust logging into anything on that network. Probably sniffers all over the place.
Run ssh, dude. I routinely use it these days for logging into remote systems. The Internet is harsh these days, and the LAN party can't be any worse.
I like 'em small, like at a friends apartment(or a party room) where you can just chill, eat food a few feet away, etc.
Well, this is the real crux of the matter. Right here, I have computers and a fast LAN already, without the risk of them being stolen. I also have cheap beer (well, the UK is cheaper than Sweden),and can have a (cheap and nice) pizza delivered in 15 minutes. Last time, I got a date out of it too:)
Buddy system. Hairy. You really aren't expected to understand this.
Heh. This is very similar to the comment in the original Unix sources. The idea was that it was completely obscure until one understood something magical that couldn't be documented, at which point it didn't need commenting. A lot of really low-level stuff can be pretty obscure and mind-bending - it's just a fact of life when dealing with such things and documenting it doesn't help.
By the way, the Buddy System is a memory allocation strategy given by Donald Knuth in his book "Fundamental Algorithms". It's pretty obvious once you've seen how it works, but I'd have never thought of it independently. I would assume that understanding the code requires one to understand the algorithm first - e.g. by reading Knuth's excellent description that is unfortunately too long to stick in a comment.
Energis Squared runs the technical side of Freeserve and other ISPs. Most of their core systems are Linux based, with some Solaris and *BSD boxes in there too.
...because among many other things, I've never met a geek that looked like Angelina Jolie,
Angelina Jolie herself doesn't work with me, but at least most of the male geeks are drooling over one cute geek girl in this place. I don't believe it's part of the job description that hackers have to be fat and ugly.
and never seen a Macintosh PowerBook Duo with an Intel CPU.
Well, yeah, but at least one of the laptops appeared to be running Unix - there was a "ls -l" output, and a packet trace (from a Demon Internet dialup account at that). Blink and you miss it though, because it boots into MovieOS a second later.
Most languages make error checking very hard. In particular, C and Perl, two of the most used langs in OSS development, lack good mechanisms for sane error checking.
Although you wouldn't believe it from looking at the average Perl script (given the kind of weenies that think that because they've read the Llama, they know everything about Perl), Perl does actually have exception handling which works in a similar fasion to C++ and Java:
eval { # try block
open FOO, $file
or die "Can't open $file: $!"; # a throw
};
if($@) { # catch block
do_stuff();
}
If you prefer the names try, throw and catch rather than eval, die and $@, then there's modules on CPAN that can fake the more traditional syntax for you.
I once analysed the spam I received over the course of a month, and even this very limited data set revealed clearly that more spam is sent on weekends, with Sunday recording twice as much spam as Thursday
This is because abuse desks are typically closed at weekends, so the spammer gets to inject more of their junk before their account gets canned. You will probably observe even more spam around US national holidays (given that's where most spammers seem to be).
No, U.S. only decides for the US TLDs (.com,.net, etc.).
Funny, I always thought that these were Global Top Level Domains - hence them being managed by "X.gtld-servers.net" (X is "a" through "m"). The TLD for the US is, unsurprisingly ".us".
As is typical for other matters involving the USA, they seem to believe their jurisdiction extends outside of their borders.
So we've got Windows with loads of security holes and a bloated browser that crashes a lot. We've also got a Linux distribution with a bloated browser that crashes a lot. It seems the two seem to race to see which one gets r00ted (or 4dm1nn3d) the most often.
Hmm.
I await Red Hat's innovative new.ORG project and "innovative" licensing models coming Real Soon Now...
I had a lot of success in generating reports (invoices, actually) from our database and plugging the values into... a LaTeX document. From that you can produce printed invoices, Postscript or PDF files.
Those invoices were beautiful thanks to Donald Knuth...
It has to be said that I was using fairly advanced features to make the invoices perfect, but it still took less than a day to design all the forms. LaTeX's supertabular environment rocks and is well worth learning.
However, if uk.com is accidentally not reregistered, then there will be an awful lot of angry customers of uk.com when their domains stop working. I imagine similar services exist for other countries, de.com? fr.com? eu.com I know exists...
Perfect as Verisign just start their own "uk.com" service using the reserved word because "The domain just wasn't reregistered - your credit card was never authorised (never entered into the terminal more like) - sorry, nothing we can do"...
I used to work for CentralNic, who operate uk.com, eu.com, de.com (not fr.com, that's somebody else) and many other similar domains of the form xx.com and xx.net, and the domains were renewed for ten years. So, even if Verisign "arranged" for the domain not to be renewed, your uk.com domain is safe from that until 2010.
In the UK, the first two rules already exist, hence there is only one 1 letter domain (x.co.uk), and a few 2 letter domains (bt.co.uk, f9.co.uk) that were allocated before Nominet came in to manage the namespace.[...]
This is more or less correct, except that you can have two-character domains provided that one is a letter and the other is a digit, so f9.co.uk is still valid under the present rules. I strongly doubt that any of the 520 such combinations remain unregistered though.
What I quite like about Nominet's rules is that you have to be an ISP to have a.net.uk address, and there are strict rules as to what the user can do with it. Unfortunately, Nominet do not appear to be policing this, and there are abuses such as onetel.net.uk (which IMO should be deleted for breach of contract).
They're particularly lame if one is not even a US citizen. In any case, the $40 "rebate" if I buy another ZIP250 drive is about 20% of what the drive originally cost me, and barely worth my time claiming, since it's very likely that I can buy stuff trade cheaper than I'm likely to get from their "approved" list of stores.
Still, the "generous" offer has at least told me all I need to know about buying Iomega stuff - don't.
Of course, you can always manually import a root CA, but this is generally beyond the scope of Joe Six-Pack just trying to login to check his stock quotes.
Really? I'm fairly sure that if you serve your root certificate with an appropriate Content-Type, and Netscape will happily import it after confirming with the user. You can check Netscape's MIME mappings (in the preferences under "Applications") to see the handler and MIME type. I'd be rather surprised if Internet Explorer doesn't also support this.
Eek! At £1=$1.466, £1300-£1700 a day does seem rather high even for the overheated London market. The contracts I see (and decline) in London are of the order of £60/hr or £500/day. Obviously, this wildly varies depending on the particular skills required, how desperate the company is, and how good you can market yourself...
Still, you should also note that London salaries and costs aren't necessarily representative of the UK as a whole. I'm leaving London to work in Leeds, and although the salary is less, the living costs are even lower - for example, my rent/mortgage will be a tenth that of London - so I'm actually better off. However, I'm not moving for the money: Yorkshire is also a much nicer place to live in than London.
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Interesting factoid: all telephone use in (at least) the UK is actually licensed. Sure, it's a class license (essentially the kit is licensed by virtue of it being idiot-proof enough to allow the unwashed masses to use it safely) but it's still a license. This license can be, and sometimes is, withdrawn from individuals or groups if they're causing problems with the system.
My small boxes came from IKEA, part code 571.923.96 and the last lot I bought were 70p each. I've got some much stronger lidded boxes for heavier items (i.e. the CD-ROM drive collection) and they were five for a tenner down the car boot market. (Obviously, there's no catalogue number for stuff from the boot :)
Cool idea, but wouldn't it be better if you approached some beer producers instead?
We've got a dome in Greenwich that's already cost that much. Would they want to buy it off us, cheap?
I'm quite attached to my dead-tree collection of books and magazines. There's a nice feeling to flicking through a paper version of TPJ, whereas a load of HTML files on a website just doesn't have the same feel or utility. I can't read a website in the loo like I can with paper :)
A PDF version would easily get my $12 and more.
You don't need to infiltrate an organisation to do this, just use the provisions of the Data Protection Act to compel them to provide you with a copy of all the data they hold on you, or pay a large fine (and still have to provide the info). The charge to you for this may not be more than £10.
I have no particular reason to believe that data collected under RIPA is exempt from the DPA.
Have you not seen a film called Metropolis? It's one of the first films ever made and (I think) the first sci-fi film made. It's in black and white with no sound, so it's not quite the CGI masterpiece modern sci-fi is :) It does however have a lot of the standard features: evil overlords, flying cars, etc, etc.
Blade Runner is a well-presented film in its own right, but in the scale of things, it's just another step in the genre. Standing on the shoulders of giants, and all that.
Last year a company called CentralNic, who operate a registry for uk.com and many other similar domains, decided to auction off all the generic names they had previously held back. The main difference is that CentralNic did it for charity, and not to line their own pocket.
./configure
make
make install
Is there anyway to uninstall it?
"make uninstall" will work in a lot of cases. With applications that use ./configure, it's usually pretty easy to turn it into a Debian package that you can install from by using the debmake, devscripts and sudo packages.
Go into the directory where ./configure is, and type "deb-make". Normally you want a "S"ingle Binary. This has now created a Debian build tree. Try to convert it into a package by running "debuild -rsudo". Hopefully this will spit out a .deb file in the parent directory. You can now install this by running "sudo debi". Dead easy.
To recap:
deb-make
s
debuild -rsudo
sudo debi
The package can be removed like any other package, e.g. via dselect.
Well, without Columbus, I would be living in England. With Columbus, I'm still living in England, but with the added benefit that we got rid of a load of people who are unable to comprehend that not everybody is the same as them ;)
Can't you lock the terminal? As you mention Netbus/BackOrifice, I assume you'll be running Windows for some reason. Windows 2000 certainly allows me to lock the terminal - I tap CTRL-ALT-DEL then ENTER, and it's locked. "xlock" in a shell does much the same under X.
Nor would I trust logging into anything on that network. Probably sniffers all over the place.
Run ssh, dude. I routinely use it these days for logging into remote systems. The Internet is harsh these days, and the LAN party can't be any worse.
I like 'em small, like at a friends apartment(or a party room) where you can just chill, eat food a few feet away, etc.
Well, this is the real crux of the matter. Right here, I have computers and a fast LAN already, without the risk of them being stolen. I also have cheap beer (well, the UK is cheaper than Sweden),and can have a (cheap and nice) pizza delivered in 15 minutes. Last time, I got a date out of it too :)
Heh. This is very similar to the comment in the original Unix sources. The idea was that it was completely obscure until one understood something magical that couldn't be documented, at which point it didn't need commenting. A lot of really low-level stuff can be pretty obscure and mind-bending - it's just a fact of life when dealing with such things and documenting it doesn't help.
By the way, the Buddy System is a memory allocation strategy given by Donald Knuth in his book "Fundamental Algorithms". It's pretty obvious once you've seen how it works, but I'd have never thought of it independently. I would assume that understanding the code requires one to understand the algorithm first - e.g. by reading Knuth's excellent description that is unfortunately too long to stick in a comment.
Energis Squared runs the technical side of Freeserve and other ISPs. Most of their core systems are Linux based, with some Solaris and *BSD boxes in there too.
Angelina Jolie herself doesn't work with me, but at least most of the male geeks are drooling over one cute geek girl in this place. I don't believe it's part of the job description that hackers have to be fat and ugly.
and never seen a Macintosh PowerBook Duo with an Intel CPU.
Well, yeah, but at least one of the laptops appeared to be running Unix - there was a "ls -l" output, and a packet trace (from a Demon Internet dialup account at that). Blink and you miss it though, because it boots into MovieOS a second later.
Most languages make error checking very hard. In particular, C and Perl, two of the most used langs in OSS development, lack good mechanisms for sane error checking.
Although you wouldn't believe it from looking at the average Perl script (given the kind of weenies that think that because they've read the Llama, they know everything about Perl), Perl does actually have exception handling which works in a similar fasion to C++ and Java:
eval { # try blockopen FOO, $file
or die "Can't open $file: $!"; # a throw
};
if($@) { # catch block
do_stuff();
}
If you prefer the names try, throw and catch rather than eval, die and $@, then there's modules on CPAN that can fake the more traditional syntax for you.
This is because abuse desks are typically closed at weekends, so the spammer gets to inject more of their junk before their account gets canned. You will probably observe even more spam around US national holidays (given that's where most spammers seem to be).
Funny, I always thought that these were Global Top Level Domains - hence them being managed by "X.gtld-servers.net" (X is "a" through "m"). The TLD for the US is, unsurprisingly ".us". As is typical for other matters involving the USA, they seem to believe their jurisdiction extends outside of their borders.
Hmm.
I await Red Hat's innovative new .ORG project and "innovative" licensing models coming Real Soon Now...
Those invoices were beautiful thanks to Donald Knuth...
It has to be said that I was using fairly advanced features to make the invoices perfect, but it still took less than a day to design all the forms. LaTeX's supertabular environment rocks and is well worth learning.
Perfect as Verisign just start their own "uk.com" service using the reserved word because "The domain just wasn't reregistered - your credit card was never authorised (never entered into the terminal more like) - sorry, nothing we can do"...
I used to work for CentralNic, who operate uk.com, eu.com, de.com (not fr.com, that's somebody else) and many other similar domains of the form xx.com and xx.net, and the domains were renewed for ten years. So, even if Verisign "arranged" for the domain not to be renewed, your uk.com domain is safe from that until 2010.
In the UK, the first two rules already exist, hence there is only one 1 letter domain (x.co.uk), and a few 2 letter domains (bt.co.uk, f9.co.uk) that were allocated before Nominet came in to manage the namespace.[...]
This is more or less correct, except that you can have two-character domains provided that one is a letter and the other is a digit, so f9.co.uk is still valid under the present rules. I strongly doubt that any of the 520 such combinations remain unregistered though.
What I quite like about Nominet's rules is that you have to be an ISP to have a .net.uk address, and there are strict rules as to what the user can do with it. Unfortunately, Nominet do not appear to be policing this, and there are abuses such as onetel.net.uk (which IMO should be deleted for breach of contract).
Still, the "generous" offer has at least told me all I need to know about buying Iomega stuff - don't.
Really? I'm fairly sure that if you serve your root certificate with an appropriate Content-Type, and Netscape will happily import it after confirming with the user. You can check Netscape's MIME mappings (in the preferences under "Applications") to see the handler and MIME type. I'd be rather surprised if Internet Explorer doesn't also support this.
Eek! At £1=$1.466, £1300-£1700 a day does seem rather high even for the overheated London market. The contracts I see (and decline) in London are of the order of £60/hr or £500/day. Obviously, this wildly varies depending on the particular skills required, how desperate the company is, and how good you can market yourself...
Still, you should also note that London salaries and costs aren't necessarily representative of the UK as a whole. I'm leaving London to work in Leeds, and although the salary is less, the living costs are even lower - for example, my rent/mortgage will be a tenth that of London - so I'm actually better off. However, I'm not moving for the money: Yorkshire is also a much nicer place to live in than London.