As encouraged by Baen Books, don't blow a wad of money on the Honor Harrington books until you know you are going to like them. How do you know? You read them for free on my website.:)
For WinBlows users who couldn't install a spam filter on their mail server if they had a "For Dummies...' book about it, there is always SAproxy Pro from Stata Labs. For a Windows application it works pretty damn well.
"STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading manufacturers of semiconductor devices, today released details of an advanced research program that it hopes will substantially reduce the cost of generating electricity from solar power."
They are announcing a research PROGRAM, not a new technology.
OK, so leave RPC alive for local use. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to disable its listening to a port on an world accessible interface. You don't need to do that for interprocess communication.
>After logging in as administrator, go to control >panel/administrative tools/services. Look for RPC >on the list of services and choose disable.
Windows XP Processional does not allow you to disable this. The 'response' for RPC failing to start is to restart the computer.
If it is necessary for local system functionality, then fine let it run. But there should be a way to get it to stop listening to an externally accessible port.
Personally, I don't want to patch RPC, I want to disable it. Where is the option for that?
-Chris
If you can do it with silence...
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Wasn't there a recent copyright dispute where one artist had a track of silence on his CD, and was sued by the estate of another artist because they claimed copyright on a track of silence?
Since that was settled out of court, I can see where SCO would think they at least had a chance of getting a settlement over the empty lines in the kernel.
Oh, shit... I have two empty lines in this post. Should I send SCO a buck? * * -Chris
While the US Government is known to pass moronic laws, the net community has already established ways to deal with 'local' stupidity.
All we have to do is use a lesson from the early days of PGP. Should this bill be passed I expect that most of the respected P2P open source project will move off-shore where they will no longer be required to build in components that are harmful to their users.
Just one of many ways to defeat local stupidity in a global economy.
> In other words, by your NOT including a robots.txt file, you are implicitly granting them permission to cache your content.
Bullshit.
Your argument is like saying "If you leave your front door unlocked you are giving your neighbors implicit permission to loot your house."
Many website creators don't even know about archive.org, so how will they know to go read the document? You can not assume permission by the lack of existence of a robots.txt file.
Now, if archive.org only copied your site if you DID have a robots.txt file with an explicit statement allowing them to duplicate your site, then that would be a different story.
-Chris
Why worry about RFID clothing?
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Just microwave your clothed for 15 seconds before the first time you wear them.:)
> Corn is already used in some form or another in a huge proportion of foods
Tell me about it... While Nancy is used to it and knows what she can and can not buy at the store, reading ingredient lists turns my every trip to the store into a long drawn out trip as I have to verify the ingredients of everything that I buy.
Yes, it is bad that this computer has a bug that can result in over-saturation of Nitrogen. But anyone who relies on their dive computer ONLY, and doesn't do a hand table, when 'diving aggressivly' is being a fool. Would you drive straight into a building becuase your GPS says it should be a road and you are just too stubborn in your reliance on computers to believe your eyes?
Dive computers are a convenience, but they shouldn't be a replacement for using your brain and planning safe dives.
One person in this thread mentioned the safties in their insulin pump. I'm willing to bet that they still own a glucose tester and a few spare syringes, because they aren't going to put their lives in the hands of one piece of hardware.
I know that lots of people would like a copy of this CD, but running wget against my site isn't the way to do it. wget is sloppy, and there is no compression.
I have placed a zip copy of the CD on my site. Please download it if you want the whole thing:
http://honorverse.ghostwheel.com/HonorHarrington .z ip
I've had one of the Baen Books CDs available on-line for a while. My GF received it in a copy of War of Honor, and according to the license I can redistribute it electronically as long as I don't charge... Being the geek that I am, the first thing that I did was put it on-line.:)
http://honorverse.ghostwheel.com/
Enjoy!
-Chris
All because Matt Dillon was booted!
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I said it right here on slashdot; that taking away Matt Dillon's commit privs would lead to trouble!
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Because I host the entire CDs, with all the extras.
-Chris
As encouraged by Baen Books, don't blow a wad of money on the Honor Harrington books until you know you are going to like them. How do you know? You read them for free on my website. :)
http://baen.ghostwheel.com/
_IF_ you get hooked, then buy the books.
-Chris
Or you could use SAproxy, which implements Spam Assassin as a POP3 proxy and functions transparently with Eudora.
SAproxy Pro
For WinBlows users who couldn't install a spam filter on their mail server if they had a "For Dummies...' book about it, there is always SAproxy Pro from Stata Labs. For a Windows application it works pretty damn well.
SAproxy Pro
-Chris
Hmmm... No updates in their compnay news section since 2002. Not much to watch lately...
"STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading manufacturers of semiconductor devices, today released details of an advanced research program that it hopes will substantially reduce the cost of generating electricity from solar power."
They are announcing a research PROGRAM, not a new technology.
Sheesh...
On my system, all changeable settings for RPC are greyed out and do not respond to mouse clicks. I can't even stop it temporarily.
Yes, I am logged in as administrator.
-Chris
OK, so leave RPC alive for local use. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to disable its listening to a port on an world accessible interface. You don't need to do that for interprocess communication.
-Chris
>After logging in as administrator, go to control
>panel/administrative tools/services. Look for RPC
>on the list of services and choose disable.
Windows XP Processional does not allow you to disable this. The 'response' for RPC failing to start is to restart the computer.
If it is necessary for local system functionality, then fine let it run. But there should be a way to get it to stop listening to an externally accessible port.
-Chris
Personally, I don't want to patch RPC, I want to disable it. Where is the option for that?
-Chris
Wasn't there a recent copyright dispute where one artist had a track of silence on his CD, and was sued by the estate of another artist because they claimed copyright on a track of silence?
Since that was settled out of court, I can see where SCO would think they at least had a chance of getting a settlement over the empty lines in the kernel.
Oh, shit... I have two empty lines in this post. Should I send SCO a buck?
*
*
-Chris
While the US Government is known to pass moronic laws, the net community has already established ways to deal with 'local' stupidity.
All we have to do is use a lesson from the early days of PGP. Should this bill be passed I expect that most of the respected P2P open source project will move off-shore where they will no longer be required to build in components that are harmful to their users.
Just one of many ways to defeat local stupidity in a global economy.
-Chris
>It doesn't count the people that have given up, or
>have turned to the black/gray market for a living.
Or whose benefits have run out.
-Chris
The Sounds of Apple Tech Support
http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/businesslike/Appl eTechSupport/
> In other words, by your NOT including a robots.txt file, you are implicitly granting them permission to cache your content.
Bullshit.
Your argument is like saying "If you leave your front door unlocked you are giving your neighbors implicit permission to loot your house."
Many website creators don't even know about archive.org, so how will they know to go read the document? You can not assume permission by the lack of existence of a robots.txt file.
Now, if archive.org only copied your site if you DID have a robots.txt file with an explicit statement allowing them to duplicate your site, then that would be a different story.
-Chris
Just microwave your clothed for 15 seconds before the first time you wear them. :)
-Chris
> Corn is already used in some form or another in a huge proportion of foods
Tell me about it... While Nancy is used to it and knows what she can and can not buy at the store, reading ingredient lists turns my every trip to the store into a long drawn out trip as I have to verify the ingredients of everything that I buy.
-Chris
Edit one word and mangle the phrasing...
"If she ate deli food"...
My GF is allergic to corn and corn products. If she was ate deli food that was packaged in this it could cause a severe allergic reaction.
Are these things marked as a corn product?
-Chris
Yes, it is bad that this computer has a bug that can result in over-saturation of Nitrogen. But anyone who relies on their dive computer ONLY, and doesn't do a hand table, when 'diving aggressivly' is being a fool. Would you drive straight into a building becuase your GPS says it should be a road and you are just too stubborn in your reliance on computers to believe your eyes?
Dive computers are a convenience, but they shouldn't be a replacement for using your brain and planning safe dives.
One person in this thread mentioned the safties in their insulin pump. I'm willing to bet that they still own a glucose tester and a few spare syringes, because they aren't going to put their lives in the hands of one piece of hardware.
-Chris
I know that lots of people would like a copy of this CD, but running wget against my site isn't the way to do it. wget is sloppy, and there is no compression.
n .z ip
I have placed a zip copy of the CD on my site. Please download it if you want the whole thing:
http://honorverse.ghostwheel.com/HonorHarringto
Cheers!
-Chris
Rashkae says...
> Your missing lots of books that were on the CD but
> not included in the index.
No, they are there. You just didn't click on the "Friends of Honor" link in the menu on the right side:
http://honorverse.ghostwheel.com/friends.htm
-Chris
I've had one of the Baen Books CDs available on-line for a while. My GF received it in a copy of War of Honor, and according to the license I can redistribute it electronically as long as I don't charge... Being the geek that I am, the first thing that I did was put it on-line. :)
http://honorverse.ghostwheel.com/
Enjoy!
-Chris
I said it right here on slashdot; that taking away Matt Dillon's commit privs would lead to trouble!
-Chris