It gets better! Because the behavior of the underlying hardware in a Turing machine is considered axiomatic and unfailing, the following M:tG CR sections:
104.4b If a game that’s not using the limited range of influence option (including a two-player game) somehow enters a “loop” of mandatory actions, repeating a sequence of events with no way to stop, the game is a draw. Loops that contain an optional action don’t result in a draw. 716.1b Occasionally the game gets into a state in which a set of actions could be repeated indefinitely (thus creating a “loop”). In that case, the shortcut rules can be used to determine how many times those actions are repeated without having to actually perform them, and how the loop is broken. 716.3 Sometimes a loop can be fragmented, meaning that each player involved in the loop performs an independent action that results in the same game state being reached multiple times. If that happens, the active player (or, if the active player is not involved in the loop, the first player in turn order who is involved) must then make a different game choice so the loop does not continue.
mean that this M:tG Turing machine solves the halting problem! The consequences of the fact that, without the halting problem, a Turing machine would never have been described are left as an exercise for the reader.
It gets better! Because the behavior of the underlying hardware in a Turing machine is considered axiomatic and unfailing, the following M:tG CR sections:
104.4b If a game that’s not using the limited range of influence option (including a two-player game) somehow enters a “loop” of mandatory actions, repeating a sequence of events with no way to stop, the game is a draw. Loops that contain an optional action don’t result in a draw. 716.1b Occasionally the game gets into a state in which a set of actions could be repeated indefinitely (thus creating a “loop”). In that case, the shortcut rules can be used to determine how many times those actions are repeated without having to actually perform them, and how the loop is broken. 716.3 Sometimes a loop can be fragmented, meaning that each player involved in the loop performs an independent action that results in the same game state being reached multiple times. If that happens, the active player (or, if the active player is not involved in the loop, the first player in turn order who is involved) must then make a different game choice so the loop does not continue.
mean that this M:tG Turing machine solves the halting problem! The consequences of the fact that, without the halting problem, a Turing machine would never have been described are left as an exercise for the reader.
What is this?? Runnning it through `base64 -i -d` results in a lot of (non-printable) garbage around "ApacheTest (Testing) ". What is the rest supposed to mean?
$ base64 -id sd.txt | file - /dev/stdin: GPG key public ring $ base64 -id sd.txt | gpg - pub 1024D/ED8F1481 2008-02-19 ApacheTest (Testing) sub 1024g/BD0FBA96 2008-02-19
I concur and want to re-emphasize the most important part: definitely get involved in the community. Drupal has a very active one.
At the end of the day, remember that credentials are a foot in the door. If you have the same expertise as someone with the credential, you're equally as valuable in an organization, but you have the disadvantage of having to prove it. To reiterate: the sole disadvantage in this scenario is on the front end. Therefore, your focus needs to be on getting that first interview. The best way to do that? Involve yourself in the community at events like DrupalCon.
One other thing: we, and several other companies with which we work, are actually looking for a Drupal developer at the moment. If you or anyone else is looking for some work, drop me a line. I'm fairly sure my email address is listed on my profile, but if not, reply and let me know.
Also, while we're at it, how much were you financing on that truck? Unless it was more than the cost of the truck, you were paying exorbitant and usurious rates of interest, or you were in a less than five-year loan, I cannot fathom how you'd come to a $650 payment on $25,000 or less in principal, considering I pay less than $470 or so on an original loan amount of $25,200.
Thinking back just a year or two to a comparable situation, I was 23, with a credit score of approximately zero, in a car with a declared value of around (US)$5k (that I owned outright), and I was only paying (US)$400 or so every six months. And that was with comprehensive coverage, too.
You were paying somebody's salary at your insurance agency. You really need to find out why your premiums (premia?) were so high. You might be a victim of identity theft and need to clear your record while you still can.
A2's hardware and pricing appear a bit out-of-date. Consider BlackMesh; it's the company I work for, and we run a tight ship in a tier-4 datacenter with name-brand equipment and massive onsite technical expertise.
In terms of load-balancing, I'd agree with earlier posters that you really don't need any for 1,000 visitors a day. As you scale up, I can't recommend strongly enough the use of a hardware load balancer; we've had excellent luck with those from Kemp Technologies, which incidentally run a version of the well-known open-source load-balancing daemon ldirectord. The load balancer then automatically covers your HA needs in terms of a Web front; depending on what you have going on in the backend, a combination of NFS, DB replication, or other service-specific replication configuration, often alongside a deployment of Heartbeat, will cover your data-persistence needs.
To the OP, or anyone else, feel free to poke me via email if you'd like to discuss options any further. I'm a network engineer, not a sales guy, so prices aren't my strong suit, but we can work together to design a platform that you can then get bid on by a number of hosting providers, us included.
The #1 problem with WiFi in my area is the lack of available channels. Half the problem is the all the unsecured routers still set to SSID "linksys" and on the default channel. So, add in a feature that can connect to each visible network that has a default SSID and admin password and moves its channel to free up a channel for my use.
Related baffled query: When did "lead" become an acceptable substitute for "led"? As in, "She led me down the path of insanity, and I merrily followed."
--J
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Some of my favorite tools haven't been updated since the mid-198 0's. As a random example, the open-source command.com got its last update in 1999. Some things Just Work (tm), and X.org appears to be on that list. Yes, there will always be some bugs, but often as not on a project of this scale they are architectural, not the sort of thing that can be fixed without compromising the stability of the rest of the project.
Lastly, a hearty "/signed" to all those reminding us that, if the development is too slow, that's because we're too slow. Either the bugs that X.org still has are not widespread (fails the "with [many] eyes" predicate of ESR's famous saying), or they are very, very deep indeed.
Er... no. SSL is endpoint-to-endpoint secure, no matter who's upstream of you. How in the world would you think that this could work without the client's knowledge?
I will leave you to the math of how easy health records would be to access... 1/2,821,109,907,456 chance of getting the password with each try. I hope you type fast.
The Actiontec FiOS router actually has a built-in automatic firmware updater. At any rate, if it really bothers you, just replace the router with your own.
Yep, stick a Routerboard 133c in a Rootenna, then do the following (semicolons to defeat linkbreaks):/ip address add address=192.168.0.1/24 interface=ether1 disabled=no
The things you learned at University didn't used to have to have any relevance to practical life, or employment; It used to be acceptable to just go and learn something simply because you wanted to know about it.
Well, that's the problem--I honestly don't want to know about chemistry. Really. The amount of training I received in that particular subject while enrolled in high school suffices to guide me through life. I'd prefer not to have to cram that additional information, just so I can forget it after the exam.
Look, let's get something straight--I love out-of-area knowledge. I am a champion at any trivia oontest in which I compete. I actively solicit advice on areas outside of my chosen specialties at every opportunity. But there's a huge difference between dabbling in chemistry through instruction from a fellow student or learned and gracious professor as excited about the subject as am I, and a multi-class commitment to a disclipline in which I profess no continuing interest, as taught by faculty who got the bum job of teaching the introductory classes.
If I'm interested in Women's Studies and Computer Science, let me study that. If I'm far more intrigued by the possibilities inherent in a fusion between Art History, Business Administration, and the Ukelele, let me study those. If I dabble in a single class of Theatre while pursuing a degree in Political Science, what's it to you?
Forcing people to conform to some preconceived notion of "well-rounded" is far more limiting than that same student in a set of coursework s/he chose. That is to say, if I want to become a "worker bee", let me! When your well-rounded doctors cure cancer or your well-rounded engineers finish a flying car, let me know. Until then, I'll maintain that a more-focused doctor or a more-focused engineer could have built it, touching other disciplines only as their possibilities for enchancing his or her vision of the goal dictated that s/he do so.
[BLOCKQUOTE]With IBM's investments in Power...[/BLOCKQUOTE] Aw, heck, so now my Black Lotuses and Moxes are even more expensive? I mean, diversifying a portfoilio's good and all, but collectible cards games might be stretching it a bit far....
Well, if they compromise the matrix, you're looking at two and a half bits of entropy per character, or approximately 1,000 attempts before they brute-force the password. Additionally, if someone is shoulder-surfing, they only need to pay attention to every other letter. Admittedly, choices like "u" or "e" (which utilize the same starting letter in their corresponding letter-tuple) insert a single bit of entropy, but given the choice between "team" and "tuam", I think most people wouldn't even have to brute-force it.
If someone doesn't compromise the matrix, but is able to analyse a large number of these generated passwords, he or she can come up with the complete set of codes pretty quickly, and then you're back to the 1,000 attempts or so.
In the final situation, however, someone with no knowledge of your scheme is confronted with one of your passwords and challenged to find another. In that circumstance, your scheme is indeed a good way to generate eight-character, random-looking passwords out of normal, four-character words.
Component should be Layout (spans Java and DHTML versions).
Can you coordinate between Aaron and Deltek to get Deltek to set up a test server that Aaron can use? Is there a demo server available that you can send to Aaron? Etc.
This isn't hard to push forward. If the bug bothers you, OWN IT, and get it fixed.
Somewhere in here, someone missed how much of a headache it is to backup and restore the data from these trigger-based DBMS's. Obviously, if you did a data dump in SQL, you can't just pipe it all back in as INSERTs, or things go haywire. So you're stuck with copying the DB files themselves (which usually requires a DB-specific tool if you want to do it when they're live), and I hope you didn't want to do incremental backups, and.....
That's a terrible idea, IMHO. It doesn't adapt well to any changes in security architecture, causes difficult-to-debug interactions (coder: "Why is this atoi() failing in the app? I'm logged in to the DB and ran through each step, and at that step, the value is from column 8, which is a valid integer!"), and makes it well-nigh-impossible to switch DB backends (and if you don't think the last one applies to you, think about what DB vendor you would have chosen 15 years ago).
It sounds suspiciously like there were consultants involved in your decision to do this; they probably sold you on EBSO, too, didn't they? All the consultants say is just different words for the attempt to prevent you from ever switching out from Oracle.
From someone who has been there [and is there still], Jouster
Paintball is not army recruitment, any more than Cops and Robbers is police recruitment, or holding your kid up in the air and playing "Airplane" is Air Force recruitment.
Paintball is a game designed to elicit adrenalin rushes. Put a football linesman up against the opposing team, then send him onto a speedball (tournament paintball) field. It's the same feeling--you know you're going to get hit, but you're trying to avoid it, and even if you do get hit, you'll make the other guy pay for the right to hit you.
Paintball has gotten a bad rap. Go out and play a game. I play at Skyline Paintball; I'll gladly loan you a tournament-class gun (er, sorry, political correctness setting in, "a tournament-class marker"). You'll very quickly see that anyone who plays paintball understands better than the average kid entering an Army recruiter's office that war is hell, and there are times of utter hopelessness in a battle when you have no hope of surviving and are simply awaiting the round that will seal your fate. If that's recruiting for the Army, they'd better come up with something better, quick.
I regularly make purchases with large quantities of cash. It's cheaper for them to accept (no CC fees, no risk of me disputing the charge), it's usable for more or less than you intended ("Oh, the product I was going to buy is scratched? I'll still buy it, but for $50 less."), and it's remarkably easier to get a store clerk's attention when you start riffling through a stack of a couple dozen hundred-dollar bills, for some reason.;)
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It gets better! Because the behavior of the underlying hardware in a Turing machine is considered axiomatic and unfailing, the following M:tG CR sections:
104.4b If a game that’s not using the limited range of influence option (including a two-player game) somehow enters a “loop” of mandatory actions, repeating a sequence of events with no way to stop, the game is a draw. Loops that contain an optional action don’t result in a draw.
716.1b Occasionally the game gets into a state in which a set of actions could be repeated indefinitely (thus creating a “loop”). In that case, the shortcut rules can be used to determine how many times those actions are repeated without having to actually perform them, and how the loop is broken.
716.3 Sometimes a loop can be fragmented, meaning that each player involved in the loop performs an independent action that results in the same game state being reached multiple times. If that happens, the active player (or, if the active player is not involved in the loop, the first player in turn order who is involved) must then make a different game choice so the loop does not continue.
mean that this M:tG Turing machine solves the halting problem! The consequences of the fact that, without the halting problem, a Turing machine would never have been described are left as an exercise for the reader.
It gets better! Because the behavior of the underlying hardware in a Turing machine is considered axiomatic and unfailing, the following M:tG CR sections:
104.4b If a game that’s not using the limited range of influence option (including a two-player game) somehow enters a “loop” of mandatory actions, repeating a sequence of events with no way to stop, the game is a draw. Loops that contain an optional action don’t result in a draw.
716.1b Occasionally the game gets into a state in which a set of actions could be repeated indefinitely (thus creating a “loop”). In that case, the shortcut rules can be used to determine how many times those actions are repeated without having to actually perform them, and how the loop is broken.
716.3 Sometimes a loop can be fragmented, meaning that each player involved in the loop performs an independent action that results in the same game state being reached multiple times. If that happens, the active player (or, if the active player is not involved in the loop, the first player in turn order who is involved) must then make a different game choice so the loop does not continue.
mean that this M:tG Turing machine solves the halting problem! The consequences of the fact that, without the halting problem, a Turing machine would never have been described are left as an exercise for the reader.
What is this??
Runnning it through `base64 -i -d` results in a lot of (non-printable) garbage around "ApacheTest (Testing) ".
What is the rest supposed to mean?
$ base64 -id sd.txt | file -
$ base64 -id sd.txt | gpg -
pub 1024D/ED8F1481 2008-02-19 ApacheTest (Testing)
sub 1024g/BD0FBA96 2008-02-19
I concur and want to re-emphasize the most important part: definitely get involved in the community. Drupal has a very active one.
At the end of the day, remember that credentials are a foot in the door. If you have the same expertise as someone with the credential, you're equally as valuable in an organization, but you have the disadvantage of having to prove it. To reiterate: the sole disadvantage in this scenario is on the front end. Therefore, your focus needs to be on getting that first interview. The best way to do that? Involve yourself in the community at events like DrupalCon.
One other thing: we, and several other companies with which we work, are actually looking for a Drupal developer at the moment. If you or anyone else is looking for some work, drop me a line. I'm fairly sure my email address is listed on my profile, but if not, reply and let me know.
--J
Two-factor authentication disables replay attacks (after, typically, several minutes). It doesn't disable MitM attacks.
Also, while we're at it, how much were you financing on that truck? Unless it was more than the cost of the truck, you were paying exorbitant and usurious rates of interest, or you were in a less than five-year loan, I cannot fathom how you'd come to a $650 payment on $25,000 or less in principal, considering I pay less than $470 or so on an original loan amount of $25,200.
--J
Thinking back just a year or two to a comparable situation, I was 23, with a credit score of approximately zero, in a car with a declared value of around (US)$5k (that I owned outright), and I was only paying (US)$400 or so every six months. And that was with comprehensive coverage, too.
You were paying somebody's salary at your insurance agency. You really need to find out why your premiums (premia?) were so high. You might be a victim of identity theft and need to clear your record while you still can.
--J
A2's hardware and pricing appear a bit out-of-date. Consider BlackMesh; it's the company I work for, and we run a tight ship in a tier-4 datacenter with name-brand equipment and massive onsite technical expertise.
In terms of load-balancing, I'd agree with earlier posters that you really don't need any for 1,000 visitors a day. As you scale up, I can't recommend strongly enough the use of a hardware load balancer; we've had excellent luck with those from Kemp Technologies, which incidentally run a version of the well-known open-source load-balancing daemon ldirectord. The load balancer then automatically covers your HA needs in terms of a Web front; depending on what you have going on in the backend, a combination of NFS, DB replication, or other service-specific replication configuration, often alongside a deployment of Heartbeat, will cover your data-persistence needs.
To the OP, or anyone else, feel free to poke me via email if you'd like to discuss options any further. I'm a network engineer, not a sales guy, so prices aren't my strong suit, but we can work together to design a platform that you can then get bid on by a number of hosting providers, us included.
--J
The #1 problem with WiFi in my area is the lack of available channels. Half the problem is the all the unsecured routers still set to SSID "linksys" and on the default channel. So, add in a feature that can connect to each visible network that has a default SSID and admin password and moves its channel to free up a channel for my use.
Its behavior past that point is dependent on the cosmological constant.
--J
Well, because "otherwise", you wouldn't know when to "mark" the "sarcastic" parts, perhaps with "air quotes".
c.f. "Lay-zer".
Related baffled query: When did "lead" become an acceptable substitute for "led"? As in, "She led me down the path of insanity, and I merrily followed."
--J
Some of my favorite tools haven't been updated since the mid-198 0's. As a random example, the open-source command.com got its last update in 1999. Some things Just Work (tm), and X.org appears to be on that list. Yes, there will always be some bugs, but often as not on a project of this scale they are architectural, not the sort of thing that can be fixed without compromising the stability of the rest of the project.
Lastly, a hearty "/signed" to all those reminding us that, if the development is too slow, that's because we're too slow. Either the bugs that X.org still has are not widespread (fails the "with [many] eyes" predicate of ESR's famous saying), or they are very, very deep indeed.
--J
Er... no. SSL is endpoint-to-endpoint secure, no matter who's upstream of you. How in the world would you think that this could work without the client's knowledge?
The Actiontec FiOS router actually has a built-in automatic firmware updater. At any rate, if it really bothers you, just replace the router with your own.
--J
Yep, stick a Routerboard 133c in a Rootenna, then do the following (semicolons to defeat linkbreaks): /ip address add address=192.168.0.1/24 interface=ether1 disabled=no
/ip firewall nat add chain=srcnat src-address=192.168.0.0/24 action=masquerade
/ip dhcp-client add interface=wlan1 add-default-route=yes use-peer-dns=yes disabled=no
/interface wireless set wlan1 ssid= disabled=no
/ip dhcp-server setup (set it up for ether1)
;
;
;
;
All done. $150.
--J
Downmod the parent. No petitions have been deleted, GM's don't even have the CAPABILITY to delete petitions. Read more at these links:i c&threadID=527435
http://myeve.eve-online.com/mb/news.asp?nid=1466
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=top
Well, that's the problem--I honestly don't want to know about chemistry. Really. The amount of training I received in that particular subject while enrolled in high school suffices to guide me through life. I'd prefer not to have to cram that additional information, just so I can forget it after the exam.
Look, let's get something straight--I love out-of-area knowledge. I am a champion at any trivia oontest in which I compete. I actively solicit advice on areas outside of my chosen specialties at every opportunity. But there's a huge difference between dabbling in chemistry through instruction from a fellow student or learned and gracious professor as excited about the subject as am I, and a multi-class commitment to a disclipline in which I profess no continuing interest, as taught by faculty who got the bum job of teaching the introductory classes.
If I'm interested in Women's Studies and Computer Science, let me study that. If I'm far more intrigued by the possibilities inherent in a fusion between Art History, Business Administration, and the Ukelele, let me study those. If I dabble in a single class of Theatre while pursuing a degree in Political Science, what's it to you?
Forcing people to conform to some preconceived notion of "well-rounded" is far more limiting than that same student in a set of coursework s/he chose. That is to say, if I want to become a "worker bee", let me! When your well-rounded doctors cure cancer or your well-rounded engineers finish a flying car, let me know. Until then, I'll maintain that a more-focused doctor or a more-focused engineer could have built it, touching other disciplines only as their possibilities for enchancing his or her vision of the goal dictated that s/he do so.
Jouster
[BLOCKQUOTE]With IBM's investments in Power...[/BLOCKQUOTE]
Aw, heck, so now my Black Lotuses and Moxes are even more expensive? I mean, diversifying a portfoilio's good and all, but collectible cards games might be stretching it a bit far....
Jouster
Well, if they compromise the matrix, you're looking at two and a half bits of entropy per character, or approximately 1,000 attempts before they brute-force the password. Additionally, if someone is shoulder-surfing, they only need to pay attention to every other letter. Admittedly, choices like "u" or "e" (which utilize the same starting letter in their corresponding letter-tuple) insert a single bit of entropy, but given the choice between "team" and "tuam", I think most people wouldn't even have to brute-force it.
If someone doesn't compromise the matrix, but is able to analyse a large number of these generated passwords, he or she can come up with the complete set of codes pretty quickly, and then you're back to the 1,000 attempts or so.
In the final situation, however, someone with no knowledge of your scheme is confronted with one of your passwords and challenged to find another. In that circumstance, your scheme is indeed a good way to generate eight-character, random- looking passwords out of normal, four-character words.
Jouster
Component should be Layout (spans Java and DHTML versions).
Can you coordinate between Aaron and Deltek to get Deltek to set up a test server that Aaron can use? Is there a demo server available that you can send to Aaron? Etc.
This isn't hard to push forward. If the bug bothers you, OWN IT, and get it fixed.
Jouster
Somewhere in here, someone missed how much of a headache it is to backup and restore the data from these trigger-based DBMS's. Obviously, if you did a data dump in SQL, you can't just pipe it all back in as INSERTs, or things go haywire. So you're stuck with copying the DB files themselves (which usually requires a DB-specific tool if you want to do it when they're live), and I hope you didn't want to do incremental backups, and.....
Jouster
That's a terrible idea, IMHO. It doesn't adapt well to any changes in security architecture, causes difficult-to-debug interactions (coder: "Why is this atoi() failing in the app? I'm logged in to the DB and ran through each step, and at that step, the value is from column 8, which is a valid integer!"), and makes it well-nigh-impossible to switch DB backends (and if you don't think the last one applies to you, think about what DB vendor you would have chosen 15 years ago).
It sounds suspiciously like there were consultants involved in your decision to do this; they probably sold you on EBSO, too, didn't they? All the consultants say is just different words for the attempt to prevent you from ever switching out from Oracle.
From someone who has been there [and is there still],
Jouster
Paintball is not army recruitment, any more than Cops and Robbers is police recruitment, or holding your kid up in the air and playing "Airplane" is Air Force recruitment.
Paintball is a game designed to elicit adrenalin rushes. Put a football linesman up against the opposing team, then send him onto a speedball (tournament paintball) field. It's the same feeling--you know you're going to get hit, but you're trying to avoid it, and even if you do get hit, you'll make the other guy pay for the right to hit you.
Paintball has gotten a bad rap. Go out and play a game. I play at Skyline Paintball; I'll gladly loan you a tournament-class gun (er, sorry, political correctness setting in, "a tournament-class marker"). You'll very quickly see that anyone who plays paintball understands better than the average kid entering an Army recruiter's office that war is hell, and there are times of utter hopelessness in a battle when you have no hope of surviving and are simply awaiting the round that will seal your fate. If that's recruiting for the Army, they'd better come up with something better, quick.
Jouster
I regularly make purchases with large quantities of cash. It's cheaper for them to accept (no CC fees, no risk of me disputing the charge), it's usable for more or less than you intended ("Oh, the product I was going to buy is scratched? I'll still buy it, but for $50 less."), and it's remarkably easier to get a store clerk's attention when you start riffling through a stack of a couple dozen hundred-dollar bills, for some reason. ;)
Jouster