If a company wants me to have a pager, they pay for it. If they want me to have a cell phone, they pay for it. If they contact me off work hours, they pay for the time in minimum 1 hour increments and all travel time is charged. If they contact me durring a vacation, then that vacation day is now fully charged as a work day even if it only took one minute to handle it. All overtime (>40 hours a week) must be paid for, no comptime allowed.
I'm very tempted to make a rule where all hours spent on company related trips are charged from the time I leave my home till the time I return home, or atleast one vacation day per day away from home.
Why do I have this set of rules? It's employer abuse that caused me to set them up.
I noticed that the size of the study was small, only 67 people, and 40ish hours of gathered info. To me this means the results and reality may vary wildly. Also they don't say how they selected their study group.
Re:Device drivers are the key.
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This was what casme to my mind too. Get one of the "demo" device driver sources for NT, hack it so it starts over writing critical kernel space when it's called. That should do it. You could make it really spiff and have it randomly change data and code.
Ahh, there may be no drag in a vacum, but there isn't a vacum in space. It's only a near vaccume. The other thing is this will be operating in the solar wind bubble around Sol. It is much more dense than 1 atom per cubic meter. It's more like 3 to 7 protons per cubic centimeter average. It varries from minute to minute because of the activities of the sun.
For a current look at the density around earth, check out NASA's Spaceweather site. You can find graphs of the solar wind's speed, density, composition, and polairity at the ACE Solar Wind Observatory site. Look under ACE Plots.
They are talking about the power grid here. It opperates at a much higher voltage than your home or office does. The other problem with changing the voltage or frequency is all the infrastructure that is dependent on it. It would just be way to costly. It's cheeper to just build a few nuclear power plants and the lines to tie them into the grid.
I maintain a backup/archive server on my home network. All backups are made to it, then I put the backups on tape at my leisure. I have scripts to automate the backups. Copying from drive to drive over a 100mbps network goes quickly. I see about 2.2MBytes/sec backup rate over the network. This may not be fast enough to backup 40GBytes with out doing incrementals. One tweek I did do to make my backups go faster is set the priority level of the NFS deamons higher. On my backup archive server there is about 8.5G of archives that need to be backed up. That goes much faster. The main limiter there is the speed I can write to the backup HD. I can saturate it as I'm moving data from two SCSI disks to an IDE.
My recomendation would be to use a RAID IDE controller on the server it's self, and do a direct backup to it each night. Then write that to tape just after the backup is finished. The tape then goes to your offsite backup location. Your onsite backup is the contents on the RAID. Set it up so you switch between two or more partitions. Yesterday's backup is on partition 1. Tonights will go to partition 2. Tomarrow's backup will go to partition 1.
The closest in site is just off Lexington Ave just north of 35W on the north side of town. Go north on Lexington from the 35W interchange. Take the first right (at stoplight where the road goes from 45MPH to 55MPH). Go past the tree line and find a place to park along the next field. Very few lights in the vacinity, and most are obstructed by the trees. The other places I only know how to get to them by landmarks, etc. Generally I head out north or north west of the cities. Usually along I35, 10, or I95. 10 seams to have the best places close in. Going south puts the MPLS/St Paul light bubble on the northren horizon right where one wants to look.
I'm bummed. This one died off quickly. No show here in MPLS. The magnetic field of the storm had a southerly direction at the start, but it faded to a northerly one latter on. This turned off the display. Hopefully next time. We have a weak CME shockwave still to come, but I'm not expecting much.
This one is counter to our magnetic field. One of the reports on the original story's links points this out. I can't wait till night fall. I scouted out a few really dark fields around Minneapolis, MN where star watching is great. My plan is to plant myself at one of them with the wide field camera to catch the night skys.
The ACE Real Time Solar Wind plots jumped from around 500km/s to 800km/s just before 9AM UTC (+0000). I can't wait to see what it will look like tonight.
Actually the root name servers are some very specialized machines that cost big bucks to make and maintain. If your machine dosen't know where to get a specific domains information from it has to talk to the root domain servers to be told where to look. Sure a company or ISP can use cheep hardware to do all it's DNS work with. On the other hand these machines are handling the traffic for their region.
You missed one of the most important features of CompactFLASH. You set one of the pines on it's interface, and it now behaves as an IDE disk drive. Can you say solid state HD. FLASH memory based Type I CompactFLASH cards are available up to 192MB and Type IIs go up to 300MB (from SanDisk). IBM HD version dosen't have much on them except higher power draw and slightly faster write speed.
The problem with this is you only know somebody opened that message causing that image file to be retreived, but then that's all the confidence you from a reply. You don't know if the person really did see it.
All I think that can be done is to do the standard initial contact via email. Then followup communications after the standard hazardous materials handling vetting process is completed.
Their's still prior art on this from before 1992. BIND + nslookup should be a good start on it.
The patent is very detailed, and I haven't read it all, but my read on it is it's for a client-server setup where the client talks to a server, which then gets the data from a seporit service. Some of the nslookup/BIND queries are handled this way. IE: nslookup asks the local name server (BIND) to lookup something, BIND then queries another name server to retreive the information and pass it back to nslookup. Now there is another part to this. The pattent mentions the server passing user interface component data to the client. This is the only part that I can see as being "unique" in this situation. It is detailed out in very specific terms that this is part of the process pattented. I don't know directly if GET, POST and web forms predate 1992. I do belive the CERNVM "FIND" gateway may provide the needed prior art. It dates from 1991. I don't think this guy has much to stand on.
Wiring for networking is covered by the National Electical Code (NEC). Mainly for purposes of busisness instalations.
There are a few AskSlashdot's on home network wiring. Just do a search.
As for guidelines: I'd do all cable runs using conduit just as if one was going to be installing regular electrical lines in them. It's just they lead to the network hub room instead of the fuse box. This way if you need to upgrade wiring at a latter date you can pull out the old wires and string new ones. If your wondering how to run the conduits, read that section in the NEC code book. The copy I have is a '96, the '99 book is out and available from many major book stores. As for where to place boxes and conduit lines. I recommend one per wall in each room. Plastic conduit is cheep. String the wires latter if and when you need them.
Why not ducktape the lines down then cover them with a mat. I use a cord protector I salvaged from work.
People who have been in my apartment wonder why there is a carpet square between my A/V stack and coffee table. It's to cover the power and network lines. For those interested, my firewall box and web server reside in the A/V stack along with the TV, VCR and the stereo components. Maby I should start calling it my A/V/D (Audio / Video / Data) stack.
Water pipes are nothing, how about then gas lines? A friend drilled most of the way into one of them, got a real bad feeling, stopped and checked out what was slowing down the hole boring.
I didn't see anything misleading at all. The article header tells it like it is. When they added in the CyberPatrol module, it added in a security breach. Not only that, it also setup an open proxy server. That's doubly bad.
What is truly pathetic about this is it's relatively simple to get rid of many buffer overflows by selecting languages and or libraries that range limit all IO. Using calls to routines like gets() and scanf() is asking for trouble. Even though they are standard C functions, they are also not safe due to their design. They don't limit the length of the data they store into buffers. C++'s standard IO routines also contain builtin buffer overflows. This is truly pathetic because it was well known that the non range limited IO routines in C were a security flaw long before C++ was invented. So what did they do, they perpetuated the problem by continuing to not do range limiting.
Re:I disagree with his anti-corporate stance
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Corporations aren't the ones inovating. Take the very concept of the news portal. It was started by a geek with an idea. The geek setup a web page that pointed to interesting news on other sites. Others like this geek's idea of what was interesting and important. More people came and saw.
"Fan" sites are another area that predated corporations. Now you corporate sponcered ones, but in the beginning it was some person who loved "x".
Most new technologies you see on the net were started by someone in their "garage". The good ones either turned into corporations themselves or were mimiced by corporations trying to get on the bandwagon. Remember even TCP/IP and HTML were ideas outside the corporate umbrella. Major companies like CISCO and SUN had their birth outside corporate control.
There is also another side to the corporate issue. There is more than one type of corporation out there. Some corporations are actively trying to control what the consumer sees. This is so they can better control the actions of the consumer. I'd say that this is they type of corporation that Kat's is talking about. It's also not just corporations that are doing this, it's governments, special interest groups, churches, etc. Groups that want to control what you hear, think and say.
IMHO Patents on genes should only be granted if the gene or combination of genes in question was not evolved by nature/natural selection.
As far as I'm concerned mother nature holds the IP property rights to all naturally made genes and combinations of genes.
Now if you sequence out a new gene design not found in nature or take a bunch of genes and put them together in a new conbination not found in nature. That is a different story.
Last night I was at meeting at the MTHS where my friend's doughter goes. It bacame obvious that using a BBS like message board would help foster better communication between the administration, teachers and parrents. Unfortunately at this point, only half the families have computers at home. This means that it looks like the main conduit of information flow will be a paper newsletter that goes out two times a quorter. At this point I'm feeling that computers and connectivity are becomming a necessity of life if only for just the communications enhancement it provides.
PS: Anybody know of a good web based message board that is reasonably secure? It needs to be such that if the browser or computer is shut down you have to log back in. I'm sure I could hack that feature into almost any web based message board, but I'd rather not skin that cat again.
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If a company wants me to have a pager, they pay for it. If they want me to have a cell phone, they pay for it. If they contact me off work hours, they pay for the time in minimum 1 hour increments and all travel time is charged. If they contact me durring a vacation, then that vacation day is now fully charged as a work day even if it only took one minute to handle it. All overtime (>40 hours a week) must be paid for, no comptime allowed.
I'm very tempted to make a rule where all hours spent on company related trips are charged from the time I leave my home till the time I return home, or atleast one vacation day per day away from home.
Why do I have this set of rules? It's employer abuse that caused me to set them up.
I noticed that the size of the study was small, only 67 people, and 40ish hours of gathered info. To me this means the results and reality may vary wildly. Also they don't say how they selected their study group.
This was what casme to my mind too. Get one of the "demo" device driver sources for NT, hack it so it starts over writing critical kernel space when it's called. That should do it. You could make it really spiff and have it randomly change data and code.
Yeh, like the tanks get cooked by the exhaust, and also there is all the turbulence behind the engines.
Actually I bet his face would be puffy blue instead.
For a current look at the density around earth, check out NASA's Spaceweather site. You can find graphs of the solar wind's speed, density, composition, and polairity at the ACE Solar Wind Observatory site. Look under ACE Plots.
They are talking about the power grid here. It opperates at a much higher voltage than your home or office does. The other problem with changing the voltage or frequency is all the infrastructure that is dependent on it. It would just be way to costly. It's cheeper to just build a few nuclear power plants and the lines to tie them into the grid.
Actually the DNA in Identicle twins starts diverging rather early on. Viruses are the main culprit.
I would take a look over at Security Focus for further ideas on what to include. I also maintain a listing of security sites I feel are worth while.
I maintain a backup/archive server on my home network. All backups are made to it, then I put the backups on tape at my leisure. I have scripts to automate the backups. Copying from drive to drive over a 100mbps network goes quickly. I see about 2.2MBytes/sec backup rate over the network. This may not be fast enough to backup 40GBytes with out doing incrementals. One tweek I did do to make my backups go faster is set the priority level of the NFS deamons higher. On my backup archive server there is about 8.5G of archives that need to be backed up. That goes much faster. The main limiter there is the speed I can write to the backup HD. I can saturate it as I'm moving data from two SCSI disks to an IDE.
My recomendation would be to use a RAID IDE controller on the server it's self, and do a direct backup to it each night. Then write that to tape just after the backup is finished. The tape then goes to your offsite backup location. Your onsite backup is the contents on the RAID. Set it up so you switch between two or more partitions. Yesterday's backup is on partition 1. Tonights will go to partition 2. Tomarrow's backup will go to partition 1.
The closest in site is just off Lexington Ave just north of 35W on the north side of town. Go north on Lexington from the 35W interchange. Take the first right (at stoplight where the road goes from 45MPH to 55MPH). Go past the tree line and find a place to park along the next field. Very few lights in the vacinity, and most are obstructed by the trees. The other places I only know how to get to them by landmarks, etc. Generally I head out north or north west of the cities. Usually along I35, 10, or I95. 10 seams to have the best places close in. Going south puts the MPLS/St Paul light bubble on the northren horizon right where one wants to look.
I'm bummed. This one died off quickly. No show here in MPLS. The magnetic field of the storm had a southerly direction at the start, but it faded to a northerly one latter on. This turned off the display. Hopefully next time. We have a weak CME shockwave still to come, but I'm not expecting much.
This one is counter to our magnetic field. One of the reports on the original story's links points this out. I can't wait till night fall. I scouted out a few really dark fields around Minneapolis, MN where star watching is great. My plan is to plant myself at one of them with the wide field camera to catch the night skys.
The ACE Real Time Solar Wind plots jumped from around 500km/s to 800km/s just before 9AM UTC (+0000). I can't wait to see what it will look like tonight.
Actually the root name servers are some very specialized machines that cost big bucks to make and maintain. If your machine dosen't know where to get a specific domains information from it has to talk to the root domain servers to be told where to look. Sure a company or ISP can use cheep hardware to do all it's DNS work with. On the other hand these machines are handling the traffic for their region.
You missed one of the most important features of CompactFLASH. You set one of the pines on it's interface, and it now behaves as an IDE disk drive. Can you say solid state HD. FLASH memory based Type I CompactFLASH cards are available up to 192MB and Type IIs go up to 300MB (from SanDisk). IBM HD version dosen't have much on them except higher power draw and slightly faster write speed.
The problem with this is you only know somebody opened that message causing that image file to be retreived, but then that's all the confidence you from a reply. You don't know if the person really did see it.
All I think that can be done is to do the standard initial contact via email. Then followup communications after the standard hazardous materials handling vetting process is completed.
Their's still prior art on this from before 1992. BIND + nslookup should be a good start on it.
The patent is very detailed, and I haven't read it all, but my read on it is it's for a client-server setup where the client talks to a server, which then gets the data from a seporit service. Some of the nslookup/BIND queries are handled this way. IE: nslookup asks the local name server (BIND) to lookup something, BIND then queries another name server to retreive the information and pass it back to nslookup. Now there is another part to this. The pattent mentions the server passing user interface component data to the client. This is the only part that I can see as being "unique" in this situation. It is detailed out in very specific terms that this is part of the process pattented. I don't know directly if GET, POST and web forms predate 1992. I do belive the CERNVM "FIND" gateway may provide the needed prior art. It dates from 1991. I don't think this guy has much to stand on.
Refference History of the WWW at W3.org.
Wiring for networking is covered by the National Electical Code (NEC). Mainly for purposes of busisness instalations.
There are a few AskSlashdot's on home network wiring. Just do a search.
As for guidelines: I'd do all cable runs using conduit just as if one was going to be installing regular electrical lines in them. It's just they lead to the network hub room instead of the fuse box. This way if you need to upgrade wiring at a latter date you can pull out the old wires and string new ones. If your wondering how to run the conduits, read that section in the NEC code book. The copy I have is a '96, the '99 book is out and available from many major book stores. As for where to place boxes and conduit lines. I recommend one per wall in each room. Plastic conduit is cheep. String the wires latter if and when you need them.
Why not ducktape the lines down then cover them with a mat. I use a cord protector I salvaged from work.
People who have been in my apartment wonder why there is a carpet square between my A/V stack and coffee table. It's to cover the power and network lines. For those interested, my firewall box and web server reside in the A/V stack along with the TV, VCR and the stereo components. Maby I should start calling it my A/V/D (Audio / Video / Data) stack.
Water pipes are nothing, how about then gas lines? A friend drilled most of the way into one of them, got a real bad feeling, stopped and checked out what was slowing down the hole boring.
I didn't see anything misleading at all. The article header tells it like it is. When they added in the CyberPatrol module, it added in a security breach. Not only that, it also setup an open proxy server. That's doubly bad.
What is truly pathetic about this is it's relatively simple to get rid of many buffer overflows by selecting languages and or libraries that range limit all IO. Using calls to routines like gets() and scanf() is asking for trouble. Even though they are standard C functions, they are also not safe due to their design. They don't limit the length of the data they store into buffers. C++'s standard IO routines also contain builtin buffer overflows. This is truly pathetic because it was well known that the non range limited IO routines in C were a security flaw long before C++ was invented. So what did they do, they perpetuated the problem by continuing to not do range limiting.
Corporations aren't the ones inovating. Take the very concept of the news portal. It was started by a geek with an idea. The geek setup a web page that pointed to interesting news on other sites. Others like this geek's idea of what was interesting and important. More people came and saw.
"Fan" sites are another area that predated corporations. Now you corporate sponcered ones, but in the beginning it was some person who loved "x".
Most new technologies you see on the net were started by someone in their "garage". The good ones either turned into corporations themselves or were mimiced by corporations trying to get on the bandwagon. Remember even TCP/IP and HTML were ideas outside the corporate umbrella. Major companies like CISCO and SUN had their birth outside corporate control.
There is also another side to the corporate issue. There is more than one type of corporation out there. Some corporations are actively trying to control what the consumer sees. This is so they can better control the actions of the consumer. I'd say that this is they type of corporation that Kat's is talking about. It's also not just corporations that are doing this, it's governments, special interest groups, churches, etc. Groups that want to control what you hear, think and say.
You ever seen the AARP (American Association of Retired People) screaming chants in the streets?
No, but I have seen them organize letter writing campaigns to congress.
Want something to change? Speak up. Write your congress man. If you remain silent, we can only infer you are happy as a clam.
IMHO Patents on genes should only be granted if the gene or combination of genes in question was not evolved by nature/natural selection.
As far as I'm concerned mother nature holds the IP property rights to all naturally made genes and combinations of genes.
Now if you sequence out a new gene design not found in nature or take a bunch of genes and put them together in a new conbination not found in nature. That is a different story.
Last night I was at meeting at the MTHS where my friend's doughter goes. It bacame obvious that using a BBS like message board would help foster better communication between the administration, teachers and parrents. Unfortunately at this point, only half the families have computers at home. This means that it looks like the main conduit of information flow will be a paper newsletter that goes out two times a quorter. At this point I'm feeling that computers and connectivity are becomming a necessity of life if only for just the communications enhancement it provides.
PS: Anybody know of a good web based message board that is reasonably secure? It needs to be such that if the browser or computer is shut down you have to log back in. I'm sure I could hack that feature into almost any web based message board, but I'd rather not skin that cat again.