This isn't always true. The fastest way to stop in moderate to deep snow or on sand or gravel (loose surfaces) is to lock the wheels. This is because a wedge builds up and actually stops the car very quickly.
I have encountered cars where the ABS performance is dangerous and simply unacceptable. However, I've also encountered cars where the programming was better at detecting the situations where it performed poorly and changed the behavior. Hopefully more and more newer cars will use this.
I really enjoy hiking and find that it presents an excellent way to get the whole body in good shape. Biking is another good way, plus depending on circumstances you may be able to bike to work a few days a week. Just keeping your baseline activity level high helps tremendously.
The only problem with these outdoor activities is that my activity level definitely reduces in the winter. I do some cross country skiing, which is also excellent exercise, but it frequently requires a bit more overhead as generally I need to drive to a trail first.
Shortly after forming a number of planets, the Suprnova was shut down by pressure from NPAA (New Planet Association of the Americas). However, other services such as mininova have conveniently filled the niche. A spokesman for NPAA claimed that they would continue their ruthless domination until no new planets could be formed.
Suspend2 is indeed quite mature and while I wish it was merged in the mainline patching is so easy it doesn't really matter.
These days suspend2 has been fast, reliable, and even pretty with the fbsplash stuff. I would count it among the most perfectly working things on my laptop.
Don't fall for the FUD. The government's actions in this case are to put the responsibility for preventing kids from seeing normal porn between consenting adults onto the porn sellers (even if horny teenagers click "Yes I'm 18!" which of course they will). It does not further legislate against child porn (which is already illegal).
Are you using http://search.msn.com/ or something else? I see ads on the frontpage less than 10% of the time, and it is only a single text ad... And I've performed several searches to test. I can send a screenshot if you don't believe me...
Well, Comcast for me has been excellent downstream and the latency is pretty good. Sadly, while I won't stoop as low as Verizon DSL I can't afford a better option than the comcast right now.
You're going to have a hard time getting residential GigE (which is basically what 100MB/s is) and even with that you'll never saturate it due to latency and its effects on TCP. Did you mean 100Mb/s? Even that you will have a hard time coming close to saturating it.
Verizon's FiOS comes close to offering the bandwidth a residential (house) network can reasonable use.
Unfortunately the service from Verizon and SBC tends to be crap, too.
I have Comcast -- my biggest problem is the slow upload in our region. In some regions you can pay extra to have a higher upload rate. Since I regularly transfer files from my workstation to other internet hosts I really find the 300kbps upload to be atrociously slow.
It does indeed, however generally I search Google first and if it fails me I'll try MSN, Teoma, Alltheweb, etc. In my observation, Google tends to be manipulated by malicious SEO more readily, but I think this may be due to the fact that they are such a huge, juicy target for SEO firms. The smaller, less popular engines are less likely to be targetted specifically by SEO, though generic SEO techniques still affect them.
In general, the freshness of MSN's index rivals that of Google. I think both of them tend to feature new sites more prominently, but I'm not sure exactly how much of this is my imagination.
Most major search engines offer a very clean interface these days as well, and MSN is no exception. However, MSN isn't advertising anywhere near as aggressively as Google is.
Well, I rip to flac so that would fill up a flashdrive pretty fast. But, if you use a portable music player with a hard disk you can use most of these as a USB hard drive (very convenient for making convenient sneakernet transfers when I am already at the colo!). Alternatively, if you have a DVD burner you can use that.
Being able to store files temporarily while moving them between machines is a very valuable tool. While everyone else is futzing around with USB keys I just use SCP. Plus, using unison I keep a common directory synchronized on my laptop, server, and workstation at home. This is extremely useful:) Now, if only Comcast would offer a faster file upload from home it would be even better.
Plus, because the machine is mine I don't have to be concerned about privacy. I also give accounts to friends and aquaintences, allowing them access to the same resource. And, of course, to set aside any further privacy concerns files can always been encrypted before transfer.
More and more companies are getting into providing Virtual Private Server business for customers who aren't quite ready for colocation or dedicated server usage, but have outgrown the basic shared hosting or have special needs. This is a good environment for people who need a web hosting environment which they can configure and customize but don't want the overhead of an added machine. Furthermore, because of the nature of server load it is efficient to put lots of customers on one massive machine.
With the rise of the dual core Opteron offerings from AMD one can have a very nice server which can support a huge number of customers. It won't replace colocation for the people who want a very personalized setup or need lots of power but cheap virtual servers will likely gain a higher market share soon.
The point isn't to run this out to the desktop, or server. Even 10gigE is a silly choice for that today. But 10+gigE is plenty useful for aggregating between links. For example, if my company has two branch offices and I need to transfer a lot of data back and forth, I might lease dark fiber and connect the two offices using 10gigE between each office's routers.
I run a dual stacked network at home using tunneled connectivity from SixXS (I live near Boston, MA, the tunnel endpoint is in NJ. This gives excellent latency performance.). With this tunneled connection came a subnet with enough IPs to last me many lifetimes. Additionally, I maintain a server with native IPv6 access including public access Jabber, NTP, and IRC. See here for more info.
IPv6 won't neccessarily get you anything you don't already have at this point, but the technology is ripe for experimenting and things work remarkably well.
I think you misunderstood! If the mail is arriving at my mailserver directly from a machine in Hotmail's address space, they're responsible. It doesn't matter wtf the message says it came from. Hotmail's abuse team doesn't seem to understand this.
I've never been joe-jobbed, but I've received enough backscatter spam from qmail, overzealous virus scanners, challenge-response antispams, and other misconfigured mail servers to be well aware that the From: header is frequently forged. In the case of 419 scams, it rarely is. And most 419 scammers need to be contacted back via email, which they frequently use hotmail accounts for. These are all live addresses - try one if you don't believe me.
BTW, joe-jobbing refers to the malicious forging of a From to discredit whoever is in it, not the sort of bounce notifications you get when somebody simply decides your email would be a good choice as a innocuous from:.
So, no, when the hotmail auto responder rejects a mail for the reasons stated above, they're not telling the truth. I'm not so daft as to submit spam which didn't come directly to me from a hotmail server to hotmail. They can't do anything about that in the first place.
But what I don't understand *at all* is why they don't install this spamfilter on the *outgoing* servers of hotmail.
Ah, but this would interfere with their customers! Honestly, I don't think MSN/Hotmail really cares about the outgoing spam. The spammers look at their ads too.
MSN/Hotmail is well known for ignoring abuse complaints. I get a huge quantity of spam originating from Hotmail's servers, mostly 419 scams. More than half the time I report it it gets sent back because "it doesn't reference a hotmail user." All mails travel through hotmail servers, if you report spam to the MSN address they actually frequently reject the mail because they run a content filter which detects it as spam! See this discussion for more info. I ended up finding an address that got me a live person once, and after some bitching they took care of one account. I ended up writing a letter to the FTC (these aren't just spam emails, they're scams) expressing my concern with the lax attitude towards the abuse of hotmail's own system.
Sorry Bill, if you want to be tough on spam, start with your own company. It doesn't seem to care about the rest of the internet. If Hotmail cleans up its act, I'll start believing your sincerity in the fight against spam.
Of course we have two tiers of highways. The selling point of toll roads is that they are faster, less clogged, and better maintained (IE, better plowing in winter).
If the red light runner was going to swerve to avoid me, it is much more likely they would serve behind than in front.. another reason why braking is a very dangerous option in this particular case. If the oncoming driver swerved behind and you brake, you're going to line up perfectly again. In fact, I can't think of many situations in which a reasonable driver would swerve in front of a car moving at high speed instead of behind. Of course, we're talking about a crazed red light runner here so perhaps all bets are off:)
You can hit someone after accelerating to get out of a situation, but not after stopping to avoid that same situation.
If you brake in that situation you become an obstacle for cars behind you as well as turning cars. In some circumstances you are home free if you brake to a stop but if you suddenly come to a stop on a busy street you are painting yourself with a target.
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This isn't always true. The fastest way to stop in moderate to deep snow or on sand or gravel (loose surfaces) is to lock the wheels. This is because a wedge builds up and actually stops the car very quickly.
I have encountered cars where the ABS performance is dangerous and simply unacceptable. However, I've also encountered cars where the programming was better at detecting the situations where it performed poorly and changed the behavior. Hopefully more and more newer cars will use this.
I really enjoy hiking and find that it presents an excellent way to get the whole body in good shape. Biking is another good way, plus depending on circumstances you may be able to bike to work a few days a week. Just keeping your baseline activity level high helps tremendously.
The only problem with these outdoor activities is that my activity level definitely reduces in the winter. I do some cross country skiing, which is also excellent exercise, but it frequently requires a bit more overhead as generally I need to drive to a trail first.
Shortly after forming a number of planets, the Suprnova was shut down by pressure from NPAA (New Planet Association of the Americas). However, other services such as mininova have conveniently filled the niche. A spokesman for NPAA claimed that they would continue their ruthless domination until no new planets could be formed.
Thanks, Nigel.
Suspend2 is indeed quite mature and while I wish it was merged in the mainline patching is so easy it doesn't really matter.
These days suspend2 has been fast, reliable, and even pretty with the fbsplash stuff. I would count it among the most perfectly working things on my laptop.
Don't fall for the FUD. The government's actions in this case are to put the responsibility for preventing kids from seeing normal porn between consenting adults onto the porn sellers (even if horny teenagers click "Yes I'm 18!" which of course they will). It does not further legislate against child porn (which is already illegal).
Azureus, one of the most popular bittorrent clients, uses SWT.
Are you using http://search.msn.com/ or something else? I see ads on the frontpage less than 10% of the time, and it is only a single text ad... And I've performed several searches to test. I can send a screenshot if you don't believe me...
I don't use adblock.. and when I search using http://search.msn.com/ I don't see /any/ ads. Ideas?
Well, Comcast for me has been excellent downstream and the latency is pretty good. Sadly, while I won't stoop as low as Verizon DSL I can't afford a better option than the comcast right now.
You're going to have a hard time getting residential GigE (which is basically what 100MB/s is) and even with that you'll never saturate it due to latency and its effects on TCP. Did you mean 100Mb/s? Even that you will have a hard time coming close to saturating it.
Verizon's FiOS comes close to offering the bandwidth a residential (house) network can reasonable use.
Unfortunately the service from Verizon and SBC tends to be crap, too.
I have Comcast -- my biggest problem is the slow upload in our region. In some regions you can pay extra to have a higher upload rate. Since I regularly transfer files from my workstation to other internet hosts I really find the 300kbps upload to be atrociously slow.
It does indeed, however generally I search Google first and if it fails me I'll try MSN, Teoma, Alltheweb, etc. In my observation, Google tends to be manipulated by malicious SEO more readily, but I think this may be due to the fact that they are such a huge, juicy target for SEO firms. The smaller, less popular engines are less likely to be targetted specifically by SEO, though generic SEO techniques still affect them.
In general, the freshness of MSN's index rivals that of Google. I think both of them tend to feature new sites more prominently, but I'm not sure exactly how much of this is my imagination.
Most major search engines offer a very clean interface these days as well, and MSN is no exception. However, MSN isn't advertising anywhere near as aggressively as Google is.
Well, I rip to flac so that would fill up a flashdrive pretty fast. But, if you use a portable music player with a hard disk you can use most of these as a USB hard drive (very convenient for making convenient sneakernet transfers when I am already at the colo!). Alternatively, if you have a DVD burner you can use that.
Plus, because the machine is mine I don't have to be concerned about privacy. I also give accounts to friends and aquaintences, allowing them access to the same resource. And, of course, to set aside any further privacy concerns files can always been encrypted before transfer.
More and more companies are getting into providing Virtual Private Server business for customers who aren't quite ready for colocation or dedicated server usage, but have outgrown the basic shared hosting or have special needs. This is a good environment for people who need a web hosting environment which they can configure and customize but don't want the overhead of an added machine. Furthermore, because of the nature of server load it is efficient to put lots of customers on one massive machine.
With the rise of the dual core Opteron offerings from AMD one can have a very nice server which can support a huge number of customers. It won't replace colocation for the people who want a very personalized setup or need lots of power but cheap virtual servers will likely gain a higher market share soon.
The point isn't to run this out to the desktop, or server. Even 10gigE is a silly choice for that today. But 10+gigE is plenty useful for aggregating between links. For example, if my company has two branch offices and I need to transfer a lot of data back and forth, I might lease dark fiber and connect the two offices using 10gigE between each office's routers.
I run a dual stacked network at home using tunneled connectivity from SixXS (I live near Boston, MA, the tunnel endpoint is in NJ. This gives excellent latency performance.). With this tunneled connection came a subnet with enough IPs to last me many lifetimes. Additionally, I maintain a server with native IPv6 access including public access Jabber, NTP, and IRC. See here for more info.
IPv6 won't neccessarily get you anything you don't already have at this point, but the technology is ripe for experimenting and things work remarkably well.
I think you misunderstood! If the mail is arriving at my mailserver directly from a machine in Hotmail's address space, they're responsible. It doesn't matter wtf the message says it came from. Hotmail's abuse team doesn't seem to understand this.
I've never been joe-jobbed, but I've received enough backscatter spam from qmail, overzealous virus scanners, challenge-response antispams, and other misconfigured mail servers to be well aware that the From: header is frequently forged. In the case of 419 scams, it rarely is. And most 419 scammers need to be contacted back via email, which they frequently use hotmail accounts for. These are all live addresses - try one if you don't believe me.
BTW, joe-jobbing refers to the malicious forging of a From to discredit whoever is in it, not the sort of bounce notifications you get when somebody simply decides your email would be a good choice as a innocuous from:.
So, no, when the hotmail auto responder rejects a mail for the reasons stated above, they're not telling the truth. I'm not so daft as to submit spam which didn't come directly to me from a hotmail server to hotmail. They can't do anything about that in the first place.
Your mileage will probably be pretty poor at 90mph...
But what I don't understand *at all* is why they don't install this spamfilter on the *outgoing* servers of hotmail.
Ah, but this would interfere with their customers! Honestly, I don't think MSN/Hotmail really cares about the outgoing spam. The spammers look at their ads too.
MSN/Hotmail is well known for ignoring abuse complaints. I get a huge quantity of spam originating from Hotmail's servers, mostly 419 scams. More than half the time I report it it gets sent back because "it doesn't reference a hotmail user." All mails travel through hotmail servers, if you report spam to the MSN address they actually frequently reject the mail because they run a content filter which detects it as spam! See this discussion for more info. I ended up finding an address that got me a live person once, and after some bitching they took care of one account. I ended up writing a letter to the FTC (these aren't just spam emails, they're scams) expressing my concern with the lax attitude towards the abuse of hotmail's own system.
Sorry Bill, if you want to be tough on spam, start with your own company. It doesn't seem to care about the rest of the internet. If Hotmail cleans up its act, I'll start believing your sincerity in the fight against spam.
Grub can do it too.
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Check this out: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Remote_Kernel_Upgrad
That strikes me as being so incredibly stupid. I am honestly stunned by the idiocy. I hope they don't do this with more artsy, classic films.
Is this sarcasm or not? I can't tell.
Of course we have two tiers of highways. The selling point of toll roads is that they are faster, less clogged, and better maintained (IE, better plowing in winter).
If the red light runner was going to swerve to avoid me, it is much more likely they would serve behind than in front.. another reason why braking is a very dangerous option in this particular case. If the oncoming driver swerved behind and you brake, you're going to line up perfectly again. In fact, I can't think of many situations in which a reasonable driver would swerve in front of a car moving at high speed instead of behind. Of course, we're talking about a crazed red light runner here so perhaps all bets are off :)
You can hit someone after accelerating to get out of a situation, but not after stopping to avoid that same situation.
If you brake in that situation you become an obstacle for cars behind you as well as turning cars. In some circumstances you are home free if you brake to a stop but if you suddenly come to a stop on a busy street you are painting yourself with a target.