The manifesto cites huge speed improvements, but I don't buy it. The manifesto assumes that people use gopher using web browsers as clients, so obviously they're not expecting any improvement in speed on the client side. They point out that gopher is a minimalist system; well, you can acheive that with HTML as well by using minimal markup (e.g., HTML 1.0 with no images).
It seems that what they want is content without the fluff, and are therefore advocating a system that doesn't allow for the fluff instead of advocating using the more prevalent system and opting not to use the fluff.
If you ever watch a show that was filmed for regular TV but broadcast digitally, you'll see that you're not completely correct. Normally there is some loss in quality between what the TV station has and what they broadcast in NTSC. When they take the same source and send it out digitally, that loss in quality isn't there. I certainly see a significantly better picture with digital broadcast over analog cable for the same shows.
And of course, most new shows are in HDTV now, at least on the the major networks.
What changeover in 2006? HDTV is being broadcast now. At least here in Boston, most broadcast channels are available in HDTV. Much like in the 60s when shows were switching over to color, the same trasnition to HDTV is taking place now.
According to the article: There are at least 13 broods of 17-year cicadas, plus another five broods that emerge every 13 years. My understanding of this is that most years you'll get a 17-year cicada brood emerging. What's unusual is the size of the brood: This year, it's time for Brood X, the so-called "Big Brood," to surface.
Yeah, they only come up every 17 years, but there are many different broods on different cycles, so you get them more often than not.
My impression from the article, though, is that this particular brood is larger than most (or all?) of the others, so it will be more noticalbe than usual.
I've upgraded my MSWindows kernel. With Windows 2000, some of the service packs do replace the kernel. This can be a dangerous process if you run VMWare Workstation 3 on a dual-boot machine. Prior to version 4, VMWare wouldn't run a kernel that used ACPI. My MSWindows kernel for native boot used ACPI, so I had to download a separate kernel for use with VMWare, and now i have to be very careful about installing service packs.
One of these days I'll get around to upgrading VMWare instead.
Or just copy them to your media PC's hard drive and watch them that way.
I simply used 'dd if=/dev/dvd of=file.dvd' to copy dvds to my hard drive. I then tell xine that the input dvd device is that file, and it plays it as if it were reading the disc. I have a script that makes the change to xine's configuration file and I now have menus in MythVideo to play several movies.
And if drive space is an issue, you can strip out the menus or recompress. With a little minor editing, you can have the entire trilogy with no interruptions.
So if I live in Massachusetts, order something from Amazon, but have it delivered to my in-laws in New Jersey, who deliver it to my Uncle in Long Island for his birthday, which state is supposed to get the tax?
I used a similar service through broadpoint.com. It worked like a prepaid phone card, only you earned minutes before the call was connected by listening to ads. The big downside to it was that if you listened to enough ads to have a nice conversation and then got a busy signal, your time was wasted because the minutes wouldn't carry over to the next call.
At the end, they limited the number of free minutes per month before shutting down entirely.
Going there now, it seems to be some sort of web directory.
I wasn going to post and say the same thing. I remember reading how Arctic ice (which is floating) obviously won't alter sea levels if it melts, and there was an explanation of why Greenland ice melting wouldn't make a big difference. The big concern in one section of Antarctica.
But that isn't all exactly true, because the Earth is spinning. As ice melts at the North Pole, the Earth will become slightly less spherical, resulting in higher sea levels at the equator, and possibly making a slight difference in the need for leap seconds.
Now whether that effect is significant or not, I have no idea.
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People keep pointing out the differences in startup scripts, but in practice, I've never had a problem with it. Of course, the vast majority of packages that actually need to be run from init scripts are already included in your distribution.
I would think that the issue of distribution compatibility would be more targeted towards applications. I can understand wanting to download the latest nightly build of Mozilla or upgrading to OpenOffice.com 2.0. Neither of those have any business touching/etc.
I've never been terribly concerned about incompatible package foramts, as long as source is available. The common system is that everything managed by the package manager goes into/usr, and everything I build myself goes into/usr/local.
Once in a while I have to copy something manually into/etc/init.d, but that's about it.
Of course, it helps that for almost anything I want to install, my distribution includes it or at least includes the dependencies.
Birds obviously have great memories. Parrots and certain other species can memorize sounds perfectly (and play them back). It's no wonder that they can memorize landmarks with similar perfection.
Now this doesn't eliminate the idea that they can sense magnetic lines, giving them an ability to memorize things that we don't see, especially for flights over water.
I would have to look more closely at Ptolemy's theory to be sure, but you might be right.
With Relativity, you can pick your reference point, and we normally use the sun for the solar system. However, you could say that the sun orbits the Earth and the other planets orbit the sun. If you then look at the path of the other planets relative to the Earth, they may well be traveling in something close to what Ptolemy described.
I've long thought that Rennaisance astronmers would have gotten in a lot less trouble with the Church if they had left the Earth fixed and said that the other planets orbited the sun, which orbited the Earth--all mathematically equivalent, but politically safer.
It's mathematically-equivalent to a password. You have to demonstrate secret knowledge to get access.
Your point is valid, in that it prevents an attacker from getting access to the most common means of attack. My point is that this new layer of security is much like asking for a password (as opposed to simply obscurity, as others have suggested).
If the typical systems using knocking also blocked hosts that used a bad knock, then any script trying to find a knock would have to be patient enough to wait a good long time between attempts. Since there would be no hope of getting through with a fast series of random knock attempts, attackers wouldn't try that. And if the time is long enough (even 5 seconds), they're not going to take months before they can scan for even relatively short knocks.
Essentially, this makes the problem difficult enough that a brute force scan is not practical, so attackers wouldn't bother trying it.
Could this be implemented with IP Tables under Linux? I remember seeing a set of rules to detect a port scan; could a similar set of rules be used to unlock a port for a given remote IP number?
Of course, this won't take off unless there's also knocking support built into the clients (like ssh).
No, because you would also set it up to ignore all knocks from any computer that has attempted to connect to an invalid port number (one not in any active secret knock), at least for a good period of time.
I was thinking about implementing this a while ago; I guess it's an obvious enough idea that others have been thinking along the same lines. This is equivalent to to putting a password on access to the port.
Ideally, the implementation will only consider connection attempts originating from the same IP address.
Digital watches were really trendy when they first appeared, but when you could get one for $5, analog watches came back into fashion. At about that time, I was given a watch that was a digital watch internally, but instead of an lcd, it had motors that moved the arms. It was rather funny changing modes and watching all the hands spin to their new locations.
The real point here, though, is that form is more important than function when it comes to fashion. Hence, analog watches (and SUVs, and...).
All of us a NELUG (The New England LEGO Users Group) were hoping to see one of our own win. At the same time, we're glad he's coming back to us.
If you've been following this story and wishing that you had been able to participate, there are a number of different LEGO clubs around the country. And if you can't find a group in your area, what better time to start one! Check LUGnet and do some searching on Google--that's how I found NELUG.
I would assume that since Mars is in the same orbital plane as Earth, that the north pole on Mars points out on the same side of the orbital plane as north on Earth.
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So in theory, if I put images up on a gopher server and in my web pages used gopher:// URLs to load them, then my page would load faster?
Remeber that keep-alive is also useful for the ramp-up of the TCP flow control mechanism, not just the raw connection build-up/tear-down overhead.
Is there really any advantage to using Gopher?
The manifesto cites huge speed improvements, but I don't buy it. The manifesto assumes that people use gopher using web browsers as clients, so obviously they're not expecting any improvement in speed on the client side. They point out that gopher is a minimalist system; well, you can acheive that with HTML as well by using minimal markup (e.g., HTML 1.0 with no images).
It seems that what they want is content without the fluff, and are therefore advocating a system that doesn't allow for the fluff instead of advocating using the more prevalent system and opting not to use the fluff.
If you ever watch a show that was filmed for regular TV but broadcast digitally, you'll see that you're not completely correct. Normally there is some loss in quality between what the TV station has and what they broadcast in NTSC. When they take the same source and send it out digitally, that loss in quality isn't there. I certainly see a significantly better picture with digital broadcast over analog cable for the same shows.
And of course, most new shows are in HDTV now, at least on the the major networks.
What changeover in 2006? HDTV is being broadcast now. At least here in Boston, most broadcast channels are available in HDTV. Much like in the 60s when shows were switching over to color, the same trasnition to HDTV is taking place now.
According to the article: There are at least 13 broods of 17-year cicadas, plus another five broods that emerge every 13 years. My understanding of this is that most years you'll get a 17-year cicada brood emerging. What's unusual is the size of the brood: This year, it's time for Brood X, the so-called "Big Brood," to surface.
Yeah, they only come up every 17 years, but there are many different broods on different cycles, so you get them more often than not.
My impression from the article, though, is that this particular brood is larger than most (or all?) of the others, so it will be more noticalbe than usual.
I've upgraded my MSWindows kernel. With Windows 2000, some of the service packs do replace the kernel. This can be a dangerous process if you run VMWare Workstation 3 on a dual-boot machine. Prior to version 4, VMWare wouldn't run a kernel that used ACPI. My MSWindows kernel for native boot used ACPI, so I had to download a separate kernel for use with VMWare, and now i have to be very careful about installing service packs.
One of these days I'll get around to upgrading VMWare instead.
Or just copy them to your media PC's hard drive and watch them that way.
I simply used 'dd if=/dev/dvd of=file.dvd' to copy dvds to my hard drive. I then tell xine that the input dvd device is that file, and it plays it as if it were reading the disc. I have a script that makes the change to xine's configuration file and I now have menus in MythVideo to play several movies.
And if drive space is an issue, you can strip out the menus or recompress. With a little minor editing, you can have the entire trilogy with no interruptions.
So if I live in Massachusetts, order something from Amazon, but have it delivered to my in-laws in New Jersey, who deliver it to my Uncle in Long Island for his birthday, which state is supposed to get the tax?
I used a similar service through broadpoint.com. It worked like a prepaid phone card, only you earned minutes before the call was connected by listening to ads. The big downside to it was that if you listened to enough ads to have a nice conversation and then got a busy signal, your time was wasted because the minutes wouldn't carry over to the next call.
At the end, they limited the number of free minutes per month before shutting down entirely.
Going there now, it seems to be some sort of web directory.
Painting one side won't work. Once you start to get any impact in the motion, it will cause it to spin.
I wasn going to post and say the same thing. I remember reading how Arctic ice (which is floating) obviously won't alter sea levels if it melts, and there was an explanation of why Greenland ice melting wouldn't make a big difference. The big concern in one section of Antarctica.
But that isn't all exactly true, because the Earth is spinning. As ice melts at the North Pole, the Earth will become slightly less spherical, resulting in higher sea levels at the equator, and possibly making a slight difference in the need for leap seconds.
Now whether that effect is significant or not, I have no idea.
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People keep pointing out the differences in startup scripts, but in practice, I've never had a problem with it. Of course, the vast majority of packages that actually need to be run from init scripts are already included in your distribution.
/etc.
I would think that the issue of distribution compatibility would be more targeted towards applications. I can understand wanting to download the latest nightly build of Mozilla or upgrading to OpenOffice.com 2.0. Neither of those have any business touching
I've never been terribly concerned about incompatible package foramts, as long as source is available. The common system is that everything managed by the package manager goes into /usr, and everything I build myself goes into /usr/local.
/etc/init.d, but that's about it.
Once in a while I have to copy something manually into
Of course, it helps that for almost anything I want to install, my distribution includes it or at least includes the dependencies.
Birds obviously have great memories. Parrots and certain other species can memorize sounds perfectly (and play them back). It's no wonder that they can memorize landmarks with similar perfection.
Now this doesn't eliminate the idea that they can sense magnetic lines, giving them an ability to memorize things that we don't see, especially for flights over water.
I would have to look more closely at Ptolemy's theory to be sure, but you might be right.
With Relativity, you can pick your reference point, and we normally use the sun for the solar system. However, you could say that the sun orbits the Earth and the other planets orbit the sun. If you then look at the path of the other planets relative to the Earth, they may well be traveling in something close to what Ptolemy described.
I've long thought that Rennaisance astronmers would have gotten in a lot less trouble with the Church if they had left the Earth fixed and said that the other planets orbited the sun, which orbited the Earth--all mathematically equivalent, but politically safer.
It's mathematically-equivalent to a password. You have to demonstrate secret knowledge to get access.
Your point is valid, in that it prevents an attacker from getting access to the most common means of attack. My point is that this new layer of security is much like asking for a password (as opposed to simply obscurity, as others have suggested).
If the typical systems using knocking also blocked hosts that used a bad knock, then any script trying to find a knock would have to be patient enough to wait a good long time between attempts. Since there would be no hope of getting through with a fast series of random knock attempts, attackers wouldn't try that. And if the time is long enough (even 5 seconds), they're not going to take months before they can scan for even relatively short knocks.
Essentially, this makes the problem difficult enough that a brute force scan is not practical, so attackers wouldn't bother trying it.
Could this be implemented with IP Tables under Linux? I remember seeing a set of rules to detect a port scan; could a similar set of rules be used to unlock a port for a given remote IP number?
Of course, this won't take off unless there's also knocking support built into the clients (like ssh).
No, because you would also set it up to ignore all knocks from any computer that has attempted to connect to an invalid port number (one not in any active secret knock), at least for a good period of time.
I was thinking about implementing this a while ago; I guess it's an obvious enough idea that others have been thinking along the same lines. This is equivalent to to putting a password on access to the port.
Ideally, the implementation will only consider connection attempts originating from the same IP address.
Digital watches were really trendy when they first appeared, but when you could get one for $5, analog watches came back into fashion. At about that time, I was given a watch that was a digital watch internally, but instead of an lcd, it had motors that moved the arms. It was rather funny changing modes and watching all the hands spin to their new locations.
The real point here, though, is that form is more important than function when it comes to fashion. Hence, analog watches (and SUVs, and...).
If you've been following this story and wishing that you had been able to participate, there are a number of different LEGO clubs around the country. And if you can't find a group in your area, what better time to start one! Check LUGnet and do some searching on Google--that's how I found NELUG.
I would assume that since Mars is in the same orbital plane as Earth, that the north pole on Mars points out on the same side of the orbital plane as north on Earth.