I think they mean "private key generation method" or possibly "public-key cryptosystem" there... I don't think they're talking about the actual private key data. Just IMHO, of course...
I was there, but donated $20 to OCLUG and they gave me a copy... it wasn't a prize so much as an incentive to donate $15 or more (anything less than $15 (IIRC) and you didn't get the DVD).
And I think the version that/. is talking about is the "bonus" 2-DVD set, such as found here.
Bullshit. Modern wood isn't milled the same way as it used to... they now get more board feet out of a tree, but the wood is also more prone to twisting and warping (they now cut it perpedicular to the grain instead of parallel, or vice versa, I can't remember which way is which).
Having worked in construction for 8+ years, and having worked with both old wood (from renovating old homes) and new wood, I *much* prefer the old stuff... much more solid.
Must not forget Master of Orion (Microprose) and X-COM: UFO Defense (Microprose). Might as well throw in the whole Wing Commander series, too (WC1 & WC2 + their expansions, Privateer, Academy and Armada... leave WC3+ alone).
MOO, MOM, and X-COM are among my favourite games of all time... I still play all of them on a regular basis.
Good idea, and great on a small number of nodes. Unfortunately, it doesn't scale well (you can only have so many 4-port cards in a system...), not to mention being a horror to maintain (adding a new node? You have to run one cable to each old node... and hope that every other node has a free port. Otherwise you have to take every node down, add a new 4-port card, and power back up!)
Besides, I don't know the price of a 4-port NIC, but I'd imagine they're pretty pricey... considering you'd need 2 for each system in a 8-node cluster, you could probably buy a nice 24-port switch for the same cost.
This guy is talking about a new 'standard' for a cluster of arbitrary size, not some hobbyist's hack in a basement. You need to think in terms of scalability here.
For the most part, that is EXACTLY what is happening -- spammers are 'just' exploiting open relays in China and other asian countries, and working to educate the admins in Asia is a wonderful goal...
Unfortunately, it's been tried and has failed, numerous times. Email sent to admins in Asia is usually ignored (or perhaps misinterpreted?), and mailing their ISPs has no effect. When the whole 'craze' of blocking Chinese IPs started, there was a large controversy over the practice; many felt it immoral to blackhole a whole country, opting instead for education, but it was the experience of many admins that trying to educate or inform the Asian admins was a waste of time... much like trying to teach a pig to sing (It doesn't work, and annoys the pig). Hence the popularity of blacklisting Asian IPs.
Don't believe me? Try submitting some spam reports to Asian admins and their ISPs... let me know how it turns out... I warn you, however, that it's unpleasantly like bashing your head against a rough concrete wall.
IMHO, talk to a real lawyer. That way you can be sure the contract is legally binding, as well as probably closing up some legal loopholes that you might overlook yourself.
In situations where you might incur large amounts of liability, it's usually well worth the money to talk to a lawyer.
"Winamp was sued because its music was inaccessible to the deaf."
In an out-of-court settlement, Nullsoft, the makers of the popular software Winamp, agreed to code an output plugin so that music output by its program could be enjoyed by deaf persons.
The output works by translating the electrical impulses representing sound into a series of electrical shocks delivered through electrodes to the listener's skin. It is expected that this technology will be a tremendous hit with the deaf, as well as those who enjoy recreational drugs a little too much.
Agreed. I have a dual-monitor setup and love it. In fact, it sounds like my favourite configuration is remarkably similar to yours -- neither monitor is "centered" (they are each on one side of the center line), but keyboard is definitely centered. Adjust monitors until their faces are at an angle to each other (mine are actually about 20 degrees, I think) to reduce glare and the amount of needed head movement.
Then acquire a copy of your documentation in electronic form (man pages are great!). Code goes on the right monitor, documentation on the left. Go to town.
I've been using a dual-head setup for about 4 months and can't believe that I've coded for so many years without it. I can't imagine going back to a single display. Plus, having the only dual-head setup (on Linux, no less!) on my residence floor (and, as far as I've seen, the only dual-head setup period) makes me the envy of many a geek around here.:)
Now if only I could challenge the exam for my stupid Introduction to Object Oriented Programming course... Java... bleh. I'd rather be coding C/C++/assembly/Perl =)
"It's definitely possible that your teacher took up writing after she failed at acting and blamed the stupidity of other actors as the reason for her switch."
Hmm.. sounds like my Grade 11 English teacher... she'd been left at the altar TWICE, and she was exceptionally hard on all male students in the class. Not a single male student had above 80% in that course (and many of us should have had at LEAST 80%)... yet females had no problems obtaining high marks.
I think that the time in class would have been better spend had she simply given us the knowledge gained from her own lifetime: "Don't try to get married if you're an old, ugly-assed, cranky bitch."
"I have the Sympatico DSL, and they just upped the price and introduced 5G up/ 5G down bandwidth caps."
Hmmm... interesting. I have Sympatico DSL (though it's through the (only) local telco, not through Bell... I gather that the local telco is just licensing the Sympatico brand), and I don't have bandwidth caps at all... and I just check the ToS on my ISP's webpage and it hasn't changed.
Ouchies. Broadband in the US is *expensive*, apparently... I have a 2Mbit down/400Kbit up ADSL line here and it costs me $40 Cdn$... about $25 US$ per month.
Not only is it cheap and fast, it's VERY reliable too... I think I've had maybe 2 outages in the last year, and none that lasted more than 2 or 3 hours.
Never had any of those beers, so I can't comment. Well, I've had Alexander Keith's in draught form (also awesome beer, very high on my personal beer list), but not bottled (or canned?) yet. I'm almost scared to try -- if it's anything like Guinness, it tastes awesome draught, but horrible bottled/canned.
*So* *far*, Canadian is my favourite bottled beer (keeping in mind I've only been drinking beer for like a year and a half...). I'll have to try the ones you mentioned, though... thanks for the tips. New beer experiences are always good.:)
Hmmm... I dunno about that. Draught Guinness (fresh outta the keg) is AWESOME. My favourite beer by far (at least from the ones I've tried). However, I don't really like the canned and bottled stuff... definitely not the same taste. So I'd have to revise your statement to "nothing is more valuable than a keg of Guinness, or a few cases of Molson Canadian".:)
Yeah, I guess all those pandas and giraffes generate a lot of power... If you were talking about the World Wrestling Federation, it's now the 'WWE' or something like that... the World Wildlife Fund made them change their acronym a few months (?) back.
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"Slashdot...will be converted into hotornot2.com"
Hopefully few (if any) of the members of the current site will be allowed to post on the new one...
I think they mean "private key generation method" or possibly "public-key cryptosystem" there... I don't think they're talking about the actual private key data. Just IMHO, of course...
Did they really give those away as prizes?
/. is talking about is the "bonus" 2-DVD set, such as found here.
I was there, but donated $20 to OCLUG and they gave me a copy... it wasn't a prize so much as an incentive to donate $15 or more (anything less than $15 (IIRC) and you didn't get the DVD).
And I think the version that
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"our wood products now are much stronger/better"
Bullshit. Modern wood isn't milled the same way as it used to... they now get more board feet out of a tree, but the wood is also more prone to twisting and warping (they now cut it perpedicular to the grain instead of parallel, or vice versa, I can't remember which way is which).
Having worked in construction for 8+ years, and having worked with both old wood (from renovating old homes) and new wood, I *much* prefer the old stuff... much more solid.
- Jester
Not to mention that Canada is apparently "overseas"... ;)
Damn, that's the funniest thing I've read in a while. Kudos!
The cards you're thinking of are often called "Sheriff Cards".
:)
Apparently they have them in my old high school now. Poor kids... hacking the network was one of the more fun things about high school.
Must not forget Master of Orion (Microprose) and X-COM: UFO Defense (Microprose). Might as well throw in the whole Wing Commander series, too (WC1 & WC2 + their expansions, Privateer, Academy and Armada... leave WC3+ alone).
MOO, MOM, and X-COM are among my favourite games of all time... I still play all of them on a regular basis.
Good idea, and great on a small number of nodes. Unfortunately, it doesn't scale well (you can only have so many 4-port cards in a system...), not to mention being a horror to maintain (adding a new node? You have to run one cable to each old node... and hope that every other node has a free port. Otherwise you have to take every node down, add a new 4-port card, and power back up!)
Besides, I don't know the price of a 4-port NIC, but I'd imagine they're pretty pricey... considering you'd need 2 for each system in a 8-node cluster, you could probably buy a nice 24-port switch for the same cost.
This guy is talking about a new 'standard' for a cluster of arbitrary size, not some hobbyist's hack in a basement. You need to think in terms of scalability here.
- Jester
From the second paragraph of the article:
..."
"The new "Banryu", which means "guard-dragon" in place of "guard-dog",
So there you have it.
For the most part, that is EXACTLY what is happening -- spammers are 'just' exploiting open relays in China and other asian countries, and working to educate the admins in Asia is a wonderful goal...
Unfortunately, it's been tried and has failed, numerous times. Email sent to admins in Asia is usually ignored (or perhaps misinterpreted?), and mailing their ISPs has no effect. When the whole 'craze' of blocking Chinese IPs started, there was a large controversy over the practice; many felt it immoral to blackhole a whole country, opting instead for education, but it was the experience of many admins that trying to educate or inform the Asian admins was a waste of time... much like trying to teach a pig to sing (It doesn't work, and annoys the pig). Hence the popularity of blacklisting Asian IPs.
Don't believe me? Try submitting some spam reports to Asian admins and their ISPs... let me know how it turns out... I warn you, however, that it's unpleasantly like bashing your head against a rough concrete wall.
IMHO, talk to a real lawyer. That way you can be sure the contract is legally binding, as well as probably closing up some legal loopholes that you might overlook yourself.
In situations where you might incur large amounts of liability, it's usually well worth the money to talk to a lawyer.
As it was intended to be. Proves my point, I guess. ;)
"Is there a definitive answer to this?"
Buddy... this is SLASHDOT.
"Winamp was sued because its music was inaccessible to the deaf."
In an out-of-court settlement, Nullsoft, the makers of the popular software Winamp, agreed to code an output plugin so that music output by its program could be enjoyed by deaf persons.
The output works by translating the electrical impulses representing sound into a series of electrical shocks delivered through electrodes to the listener's skin. It is expected that this technology will be a tremendous hit with the deaf, as well as those who enjoy recreational drugs a little too much.
Agreed. I have a dual-monitor setup and love it. In fact, it sounds like my favourite configuration is remarkably similar to yours -- neither monitor is "centered" (they are each on one side of the center line), but keyboard is definitely centered. Adjust monitors until their faces are at an angle to each other (mine are actually about 20 degrees, I think) to reduce glare and the amount of needed head movement.
:)
Then acquire a copy of your documentation in electronic form (man pages are great!). Code goes on the right monitor, documentation on the left. Go to town.
I've been using a dual-head setup for about 4 months and can't believe that I've coded for so many years without it. I can't imagine going back to a single display. Plus, having the only dual-head setup (on Linux, no less!) on my residence floor (and, as far as I've seen, the only dual-head setup period) makes me the envy of many a geek around here.
Now if only I could challenge the exam for my stupid Introduction to Object Oriented Programming course... Java... bleh. I'd rather be coding C/C++/assembly/Perl =)
"It's definitely possible that your teacher took up writing after she failed at acting and blamed the stupidity of other actors as the reason for her switch."
Hmm.. sounds like my Grade 11 English teacher... she'd been left at the altar TWICE, and she was exceptionally hard on all male students in the class. Not a single male student had above 80% in that course (and many of us should have had at LEAST 80%)... yet females had no problems obtaining high marks.
I think that the time in class would have been better spend had she simply given us the knowledge gained from her own lifetime: "Don't try to get married if you're an old, ugly-assed, cranky bitch."
To all the HHGttG buffs... wouldn't this remind you of the "Second Officer" (IIRC) of the Golgafrinchans? :)
- Jester
"chocolate covered expresso beans"
:)
Lisa: Dad, it's spelled 'espresso' and pronounced 'ess-press-so'.
Homer: No, honey... it's "expresso".
Lisa: Uh, dad...
Homer: Just let daddy order his expresso from that nice man, Lisa. Uh, gimme an expresso.
*LART*
Homer: Owww! What did I say?
- Jester
"I have the Sympatico DSL, and they just upped the price and introduced 5G up/ 5G down bandwidth caps."
Hmmm... interesting. I have Sympatico DSL (though it's through the (only) local telco, not through Bell... I gather that the local telco is just licensing the Sympatico brand), and I don't have bandwidth caps at all... and I just check the ToS on my ISP's webpage and it hasn't changed.
"500kbit cable for $50/month"
Ouchies. Broadband in the US is *expensive*, apparently... I have a 2Mbit down/400Kbit up ADSL line here and it costs me $40 Cdn$... about $25 US$ per month.
Not only is it cheap and fast, it's VERY reliable too... I think I've had maybe 2 outages in the last year, and none that lasted more than 2 or 3 hours.
- Jester
Never had any of those beers, so I can't comment. Well, I've had Alexander Keith's in draught form (also awesome beer, very high on my personal beer list), but not bottled (or canned?) yet. I'm almost scared to try -- if it's anything like Guinness, it tastes awesome draught, but horrible bottled/canned.
:)
*So* *far*, Canadian is my favourite bottled beer (keeping in mind I've only been drinking beer for like a year and a half...). I'll have to try the ones you mentioned, though... thanks for the tips. New beer experiences are always good.
- Jester
Hmmm... I dunno about that. Draught Guinness (fresh outta the keg) is AWESOME. My favourite beer by far (at least from the ones I've tried). However, I don't really like the canned and bottled stuff... definitely not the same taste. So I'd have to revise your statement to "nothing is more valuable than a keg of Guinness, or a few cases of Molson Canadian". :)
"I co-locate about 20 Sun servers with the WWF!"
Yeah, I guess all those pandas and giraffes generate a lot of power...
If you were talking about the World Wrestling Federation, it's now the 'WWE' or something like that... the World Wildlife Fund made them change their acronym a few months (?) back.
- Jester