Ah yes it will be able to be quite cheep, but you know companies. They will just have to come out with "Data Safe Packing Tape" then charge an arm and a leg for it.
Packing tape as a medium. Want to send some secret files to your friend back in the USSR, write them on packing tape, and use it to wrap the package. He just uses the package reader version to pull the files off the now unrolled tape, but watch out for streaching.
What I like about it is the shear audacity of it. Here is a common product tape and they go and make it into a storage media. Oh, wait it already was a type of storage media. I guess it gives new meaning to binding the bits.
Aren't databases copyrightable? If they are, breaking this encryption is illegal under the DMCA, since the information encrypted is copyrighted. If it's not, well, there's nothing to worry about.
Only if it can be shown that significant creative effort went into their making. I doubt an automatically generated list of questionable sites could qualify. The problem is the testing of this in court. That costs $$$.
Actually I want the network version. I want to be able to telnet into it, or better yet SSH in. PCI would be nice from a performance standpoint, but not needed.
I am also thinking along the same lines. Try to get better case airflow.
On my main system I use a 90mm fan infront of my hard disks. It also blows out. I really need a larger case as I've maxed out HD slots. Initialy I used cable ties to mount the fan to the HD holding bracktes. I later switched to a piece of cardboard cut to fill in the opening around the fan. I use screws to hold the cardboard to the front of the fan. The fan is now held in place by the cardboard only. When cutting the cardboard I sized it a little tight, and just jammed it in place. It provides a better air seal this way. I placed a couple of images on my web server. Fan and cardboard mounted, and fan and cardboard from back side showing harddisks behind.
I suppose given their current track record with crash landing expensive satelites and recon vehicales, they figure this is one operation they cannot screw up.
I just hope they dont miss and send it flying off into deep space.
This will be nice for both web and ftp servers. I'd also use it for DB backend machines. Any backend machine to web servers needs to be seriously locked down too. It would be great for OpenBSD to be useable in situations requiring greater processor crunching than a single CPU can provide.
I became an OpenBSD fan when I got tired of the breakins to my locked down RedHad based web server. I even had it properly placed behind a well setup firewall. As soon as I installed OpenBSD the breakins stopped. At this point I'm seriously considering using OpenBSD or FreeBSD on my main box, and the wearable I'm also making.
It may sound expensive, but really it's cheep. Especially if you use plastic conduit and junction boxes. Run lots of it. Conduit is your friend. Need to change something, just pull a new wire through. Put in extra conduits and boxes. If possible put in a network/AV box on each wall. Put the boxes in and cover them with blank wall plates if you don't put any wiring to them. When you decide to wire or rewire a room all you need to do is pull the wires through, put on the proper face plate and your set. When I get around to building my own home (hopefully soon) I will be putting in networking/AV conduits and boxes in beside every plugin. I'll run all of them back to concentrator boxes where my networking hardware and AV switches will live. If you need to find out how to layout conduit, pick up a copy of the National Electrical Code. Barnes and Nobel and Borders both handle copies of it.
I think your confusing machine names and urls (universal resource locators). ICANN only cares about domain names, machine names and IP addresses. Machine names are used so we don't have to remember the raw IP addresses. Domain names are there so one can distribute the administration of machine names to groups controling local networks. URLs are used to find specific web pages and may or may not have a machine name in them. Many do, but many more are just a path relative to the page that contains them. I strongly sugest reading the first couple of chaptes in the book "DNS and Bind" from O'Reilly's. It tells the history of system naming. For URL related documentation I recomend looking though what W3C has to say.
As for DNS needing updating: Yes it does, but then it will have to be updated before IPV6 sees wide spread use.
So, when was the last time you were at a local library?
And honestly, school and libraries do have a responsibility to at least make a half-assed attempt at adhering to local decency standards. That's why you won't find playboy mags at a library.
Most public libraries I've been to have Playboy and Penthouse. Their patrons demand it. Likely you will need to ask at the desk and hand over your library card or some other ID, but they are there. Sure some of the patrons may be offended, but the good librarians know where the majority of the contributions come from.
On to the main point: I have to side with the anti-sensorship advocates, but I can also understand the need to cover one's ass too. I think it's a shame that people try to make other take the blame for the consequences of their inaction. These days many parents don't teach their kids the morals they want them to adhere to. It may be they don't take the time, or they don't know how. Either way the parents are at fault. The morals a child learns are the ones tought to the child. Now if you want a specific set to be tought to your child, why are't you doing it yourself, and doing it early in their life? If you don't teach your child the morals you want your child to learn, don't come crying to me or anybody else when your child shows up with a different set than what you wanted.
As a side note: This is only from personal experience and conjecture and no scientific research of my own. Most of the people I've known that were provided "explanations as to why X is so" by their parents grew up to be quite similar to their parents. Most of those that were tought with "X is so without explanations as to why" ended up rebelling against their parrents. Children need to be tought the why as well as the base fact. This may mean you need to do some research, but in the end it's worth it. Both you and your child will learn from it. Not filling in the explanation just gives the next one to come along the ability to set X to their value. If you give a child a fact but no explanation, the child files it away. Then another person gives the child fact with explanation that contradicts your fact. The child will look at the two facts, weigh the data and likely choose the one with the explanation to settle on. This is because the child has data to support it. It may not be right, the data could be quite faulty, but there is data there to support it. This is rather simplified, but it gets the base point across. If you want a child to belive something, base it in verifyable facts. Do it any other way and you likely will loose. The cards are stacked against you.
Tuning a distro for a specific machine is what needs to be done. Start from one of the main distributions then tune it to your hardware offering. When you ship a Linux/*BSD distro with your system, ship a tuned version for the hardware shipped. Making a new distro is way overkill. It may even be counter productive.
The environmental factors are acting all through out the identical twins life time to make their DNA different. They're know as viruses. Other mutagens will also cause even more differences over time.
Then there is the testing method. The electrophersis gell tests used have rather poor repeatability. Sure some things can be done to help make them better. I wouldn't accept a match when the samples are done on two different machines in different labs. Having two different gel suppliers also makes a huge difference. The test is really only telling you the length of strands between markers where the chemicals split the strands into segments.
As a quick guess. I expect to see them come out at about 3-5X the chip price till one gets over 10,000+/Month volume productions. The prices will drop to about 2X. Companies need their profit.
It's gotten up to 265MBytes of memory and is swapping like crazy. I still have over 330M swap free. I wonder if it is properly freeing memory. Most systems I know of would have run out of memory long ago.
You CAN however do quite a lot to prevent being a source, or at least an untraceable source - you should take great care that no network traffic leaces your network whith bad (=not your own) source address. If this simple precaution was in more widespread use, tracking this stuff would be much easier
This is only a start. You must also secure your hole bnetwork against intrusion. It's difficult, especially with the lack of quality of Windows. In my mind OpenBSD has gone the farthest with out of the box security. Even then it's possible an exploit may be found.
Using firewalls helps with security, but they still aren't fool proof. Systems behind them can still be compromized, but it's more difficult. My rule I setup systems with is if it must be accessable from the internet, then only those ports that need internet access are routed to it and from it by a seporit firewall system. Any other system must reside behind a NAT or masqurading firewall. This general rule helps alot with securing a site.
Unfortunatly this is only the tip of the iceburg. many other things need to be done. We maby should have an Ask Slashdot on securing systems and networks. Possibly one on each of the major OSes and on networks in general.
Take a look at whe Steve Mann has been doing with video, etc with his wearables. Context sensitive as in the real world input being used to tell the wearable what to display. One use is when he gets to the market, the computer recognizes the market, and displays a list of items to be bought. Another use is in face recognition. This is one that I would love. I'm horrible with peoples faces. I can remember the face and the name, but I just can't seam to link the two together till I seen the pers a large number of times.
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Ah yes it will be able to be quite cheep, but you know companies. They will just have to come out with "Data Safe Packing Tape" then charge an arm and a leg for it.
Packing tape as a medium. Want to send some secret files to your friend back in the USSR, write them on packing tape, and use it to wrap the package. He just uses the package reader version to pull the files off the now unrolled tape, but watch out for streaching.
What I like about it is the shear audacity of it. Here is a common product tape and they go and make it into a storage media. Oh, wait it already was a type of storage media. I guess it gives new meaning to binding the bits.
Only if it can be shown that significant creative effort went into their making. I doubt an automatically generated list of questionable sites could qualify. The problem is the testing of this in court. That costs $$$.
This is what proxy servers are for... :)
I once didn't like the idea of using proxy servers between me and the web but they do have their uses.
Why do people mistake Windows for an Operating System?
They listen to the marketing hype and belive it, and they don't know the distinctions involved.
Actually I want the network version. I want to be able to telnet into it, or better yet SSH in. PCI would be nice from a performance standpoint, but not needed.
I am also thinking along the same lines. Try to get better case airflow.
On my main system I use a 90mm fan infront of my hard disks. It also blows out. I really need a larger case as I've maxed out HD slots. Initialy I used cable ties to mount the fan to the HD holding bracktes. I later switched to a piece of cardboard cut to fill in the opening around the fan. I use screws to hold the cardboard to the front of the fan. The fan is now held in place by the cardboard only. When cutting the cardboard I sized it a little tight, and just jammed it in place. It provides a better air seal this way. I placed a couple of images on my web server. Fan and cardboard mounted, and fan and cardboard from back side showing harddisks behind.
Unfortunatly it isn't the ton of metal and silicon they are worried about. It's the micro gram of flesh along for the ride.
I suppose given their current track record with crash landing expensive satelites and recon vehicales, they figure this is one operation they cannot screw up.
I just hope they dont miss and send it flying off into deep space.
Murphy will intervene...
Reminds me of PicoBSD which is bassed off of FreeBSD.
This will be nice for both web and ftp servers. I'd also use it for DB backend machines. Any backend machine to web servers needs to be seriously locked down too. It would be great for OpenBSD to be useable in situations requiring greater processor crunching than a single CPU can provide.
I became an OpenBSD fan when I got tired of the breakins to my locked down RedHad based web server. I even had it properly placed behind a well setup firewall. As soon as I installed OpenBSD the breakins stopped. At this point I'm seriously considering using OpenBSD or FreeBSD on my main box, and the wearable I'm also making.
It may sound expensive, but really it's cheep. Especially if you use plastic conduit and junction boxes. Run lots of it. Conduit is your friend. Need to change something, just pull a new wire through. Put in extra conduits and boxes. If possible put in a network/AV box on each wall. Put the boxes in and cover them with blank wall plates if you don't put any wiring to them. When you decide to wire or rewire a room all you need to do is pull the wires through, put on the proper face plate and your set. When I get around to building my own home (hopefully soon) I will be putting in networking/AV conduits and boxes in beside every plugin. I'll run all of them back to concentrator boxes where my networking hardware and AV switches will live. If you need to find out how to layout conduit, pick up a copy of the National Electrical Code. Barnes and Nobel and Borders both handle copies of it.
I think your confusing machine names and urls (universal resource locators). ICANN only cares about domain names, machine names and IP addresses. Machine names are used so we don't have to remember the raw IP addresses. Domain names are there so one can distribute the administration of machine names to groups controling local networks. URLs are used to find specific web pages and may or may not have a machine name in them. Many do, but many more are just a path relative to the page that contains them. I strongly sugest reading the first couple of chaptes in the book "DNS and Bind" from O'Reilly's. It tells the history of system naming. For URL related documentation I recomend looking though what W3C has to say.
As for DNS needing updating: Yes it does, but then it will have to be updated before IPV6 sees wide spread use.
There seams to be 9 at large members on the board who would be elected byt the atlarge membership.
So, when was the last time you were at a local library?
And honestly, school and libraries do have a responsibility to at least make a half-assed attempt at adhering to local decency standards. That's why you won't find playboy mags at a library.
Most public libraries I've been to have Playboy and Penthouse. Their patrons demand it. Likely you will need to ask at the desk and hand over your library card or some other ID, but they are there. Sure some of the patrons may be offended, but the good librarians know where the majority of the contributions come from.
On to the main point: I have to side with the anti-sensorship advocates, but I can also understand the need to cover one's ass too. I think it's a shame that people try to make other take the blame for the consequences of their inaction. These days many parents don't teach their kids the morals they want them to adhere to. It may be they don't take the time, or they don't know how. Either way the parents are at fault. The morals a child learns are the ones tought to the child. Now if you want a specific set to be tought to your child, why are't you doing it yourself, and doing it early in their life? If you don't teach your child the morals you want your child to learn, don't come crying to me or anybody else when your child shows up with a different set than what you wanted.
As a side note: This is only from personal experience and conjecture and no scientific research of my own. Most of the people I've known that were provided "explanations as to why X is so" by their parents grew up to be quite similar to their parents. Most of those that were tought with "X is so without explanations as to why" ended up rebelling against their parrents. Children need to be tought the why as well as the base fact. This may mean you need to do some research, but in the end it's worth it. Both you and your child will learn from it. Not filling in the explanation just gives the next one to come along the ability to set X to their value. If you give a child a fact but no explanation, the child files it away. Then another person gives the child fact with explanation that contradicts your fact. The child will look at the two facts, weigh the data and likely choose the one with the explanation to settle on. This is because the child has data to support it. It may not be right, the data could be quite faulty, but there is data there to support it. This is rather simplified, but it gets the base point across. If you want a child to belive something, base it in verifyable facts. Do it any other way and you likely will loose. The cards are stacked against you.
Tuning a distro for a specific machine is what needs to be done. Start from one of the main distributions then tune it to your hardware offering. When you ship a Linux/*BSD distro with your system, ship a tuned version for the hardware shipped. Making a new distro is way overkill. It may even be counter productive.
The environmental factors are acting all through out the identical twins life time to make their DNA different. They're know as viruses. Other mutagens will also cause even more differences over time.
Then there is the testing method. The electrophersis gell tests used have rather poor repeatability. Sure some things can be done to help make them better. I wouldn't accept a match when the samples are done on two different machines in different labs. Having two different gel suppliers also makes a huge difference. The test is really only telling you the length of strands between markers where the chemicals split the strands into segments.
MEMS (Micro Eletromechanical Systems).
I belive this is the project you are looking for: 10 Gbyte Personal Multimedia MEMS ROM Data Storage Card.
There is a fun index of projects here.
As a quick guess. I expect to see them come out at about 3-5X the chip price till one gets over 10,000+/Month volume productions. The prices will drop to about 2X. Companies need their profit.
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Looks like they didn't like the load.
It topped out at 291M Bytes of ram used on my system, and took a little over 1 hour to run. It also didn't do any network traffic.
It's gotten up to 265MBytes of memory and is swapping like crazy. I still have over 330M swap free. I wonder if it is properly freeing memory. Most systems I know of would have run out of memory long ago.
You CAN however do quite a lot to prevent being a source, or at least an untraceable source - you should take great care that no network traffic leaces your network whith bad (=not your own) source address. If this simple precaution was in more widespread use, tracking this stuff would be much easier
This is only a start. You must also secure your hole bnetwork against intrusion. It's difficult, especially with the lack of quality of Windows. In my mind OpenBSD has gone the farthest with out of the box security. Even then it's possible an exploit may be found.
Using firewalls helps with security, but they still aren't fool proof. Systems behind them can still be compromized, but it's more difficult. My rule I setup systems with is if it must be accessable from the internet, then only those ports that need internet access are routed to it and from it by a seporit firewall system. Any other system must reside behind a NAT or masqurading firewall. This general rule helps alot with securing a site.
Unfortunatly this is only the tip of the iceburg. many other things need to be done. We maby should have an Ask Slashdot on securing systems and networks. Possibly one on each of the major OSes and on networks in general.
Take a look at whe Steve Mann has been doing with video, etc with his wearables. Context sensitive as in the real world input being used to tell the wearable what to display. One use is when he gets to the market, the computer recognizes the market, and displays a list of items to be bought. Another use is in face recognition. This is one that I would love. I'm horrible with peoples faces. I can remember the face and the name, but I just can't seam to link the two together till I seen the pers a large number of times.
I think you need to check false assumptions here. Remember it's trying to get rid of waste heat.