A normal memory chip is actually light sensitive, in a nasty gray-scale sort of way.
So, take an old memory chip, like a 1-meg or so. Carefully split the top off of it (might take a half-dozen tries to get one with pins still intact after).
The one I saw was plugged directly into a memory card. These days you'd probably have to rig up a parallel port interface.
Then all you do is put a lens over it for focus (watch out for the sun!:) and write consistent values out (all ones or zeroes) then display what you read back in.
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Good point. I got out early, (intentionally RIF'd smartass:), and even without the security bit just some basic networking knowledge got me twice the pay immediately.
Speaking of Mail scripts, I have a bunch of old mailspools that I'd like to consolidate. The consolidation is the easy part, the hard part is sifting out all the duplicate messages that I've acquired over the years during email client/host transition periods.
Anybody know of any useful scripts/utilities for finding duplicate emails? (Preferaby for OSX of course:)
Works like this: Put the dish on a large flat padded base, tie 3 or 4 short guy wires from the disk mounting bracket to a couple of large rare-earth magnets (you can get 'em with handy mounting loops and whatnot at Edmund Scientific for a price and most surplus places for a lot less). Then, with a buddy on the inside and you hanging out the window, press the base against the glass, pull each guy-wire out as far as it will go and have your buddy put a matching magent on the inside, voila'!
This is probably hard to visualise from this post but all you're really doing is using strong magnets to clamp the dish to the window itself. If you can make your mounting base large enough and thin enough you can even do away with the guy-wires and just make a magnet sandwich.
Note: make sure the outer magnets (against the base) have a release mechanism or you will probably break the glass at some point.
Alternatively, you could pull the window (or maybe even just the screen) out of the frame and substitute a bit of plywood as a semi-permanent mounting point.
Good luck!:)
Where, then, do you suppose personhood resides? Since the brain is where *all* cognition and feeling happens, we're kind of short on other candidates, aren't we? This may or may not actually be true. There have been some interesting studies (dead-tree editions only so no links, sorry!) which show surprising correlations between various forms of psychosis and different ailments. Somewhat akin to the concepts behind accupuncture, chi, etc.
'Course we won't really know until we try it, but it's quite possible that the "person" will actually be different after the transplant at some level other than physical.
Good point!
Interestingly enough, it so happens that I used to have a toll-free number directed to my cell phone and found that I was not able to see the blocked calling party numbers until I got my bill as it is apparently a different dataset.
(Though if I'd had a PBX, with the incoming calls simply being forwarded to the cell, I probably could have...)
Back in 2001 or so...
A heck of a lot longer than that, as this "issue" isn't limited to VOIP. Ask anybody who installs/maintains standard PBX systems.
The privilege of setting your own outbound CID is simply another (business class) service and reading blocked inbound is actually your right if you have a toll-free number (because you're paying for the call).
(Dunno why cell-phones don't have the same right though, c'est la vie:).
We have a similar problem with both third party CRM apps used internally (InterAction) and vendor/client sites.
Our solution has been to do the sneaky icon switch somebody posted above and set things up so that everything defaults to FireFox but we also gave people separate appropriately labeled icons to those IE-specific sites with IE locked down so they can't go wandering off (or at least not as easily anyway).
It's a little ugly but it works and we've sent various emails to the site maintainers with some hope that they will be fixed in the near future (luckily we're not the only ones complaining:).
I'll second this.
I have a lot of clients who ship various products and I don't know a single one who uses UPS any more.
(Might explain why FedEx is doing so well!:)
Er, 4-Gigs is just enough for one of the many servers on my network. And I'm not doing video streaming or anything either. Just a lot of data access in a bunch of data warehouses by a couple hundred users. We have mesh design of Gig switches with 20/40G backbones and yes, we do Cisco gear because it's fast and reliable.
"Sic means 'thus, so, in that way', and is the same word scholars and snarky journalists use to quote a misspelled or ungrammatical passage, like Dan Quayle's 'potatoes [sic]'. The sic assures the reader that the mistake was made by the person quoted, not the quoting author or his editor."
Original article: I know you can already get these, but that detracts from both my geek-drive and my wallet, both of which I'd prefer to keep as full as possible.
Parent post: How much do you want to spend? Amazon has one for $1,799 [amazon.com]
+5 Informative?
More like -1 Redundant/Offtopic/Blind!
(Follow the link to Amazon and you'll see it's for the very same product that MMonkey says is not what he's looking for...)
I have moderation points and I am foregoing using them in this thread because I want to respond to this post. (And you can mod me up, down or sideways when you're done reading, my karma's been maxed for years:).
First, let me clarify that I hate MS with a passion. I have worked for them as a contractor and I have developed software which, while not in direct competition, nonetheless required negotiating licensing with them. I've been in IT for 15 years and dealt with their crap since DOS v2.x
I've also used various flavors of Unix and Linux over the years both professionally and personally and run Macs as my workstations at home now. (Linux on the servers of course:). However, my employer at this time, and many businesses which I have consulted for over the years, run Windows.
Why?
Because most businesses under 200 employees have an over-worked one-man IT dept. and one or more wierd vertical applications.
99% of the time the cost of switching is simply not worth it!
This is why you only see two classes of business switching these days:
A - very small cottage-industry types who have no IT staff at all. If the engineer doing their work for them is Linux savvy and wants to do them a favor he'll switch them (I say "favor" because it means less income for him!).
B - Large enterprises with at least a half-dozen IT people where the long-term savings of switching begins to add up to enough to cover the hassle.
Which brings me to a different point of interest; consistency and support!
Linux apps are inconsistent as hell! If I'm going to expect a dept. to make the switch I have to at least be able to give them a consistent environment and that requires spending many hours on a "model" machine changing about a zillion attributes scattered all over the place. Not to mention the hours spent troubleshooting inconsistencies between libraries and whatnot!
It's getting better, don't get me wrong. That's why I keep using it at home and play with most of the major distro's on a regular basis. But as near as I can tell it's going to be a few more years before we really see wide-spread adoption simply because it takes too much time to configure a solid environment. Time which has to be amortised over the number of machines on the network. Time which admittedly is spent swatting Microsoft bugs right now. But y'know what? It's virtually impossible to get funds in the budget to hire an extra body just so you can try out something which might save the company a few bucks in the long term.
There's only 24 hours in the day. If all of your time is spent doing your existing job it's hard to investigate new things.
Like the old saw about alligators and draining the swamp. Once the swamp is drained the alligators will go away but in the meantime it's hard to concentrate on that while they're chewing on you!:)
So once Linux is a "super-swamp-drainer" we'll start seeing alligators dropping like flies.
(I'm hoping and praying Novell will do that for us on the technical side since they damn sure can't in marketing!:)
They're not a bunch of nerds who think running war3z hax0r t004s on their WIFI cards is cool. Grow up.
Every system has vulnerabilities. The question is the cost/benefit ratio of exploiting those vulnerabilities.
E.g. Ft. Knox is not actually impregnable, but the effort and risk of penetrating it exceed the potential payoff.
In a case like this however, where millions of dollars are at stake and the safeguards much less extreme, l33t hax0r5 aren't the only people who will be at least considering the benefits of tampering.
If it can be done with a high enough certainty of anonymity (low risk) I can guarantee somebody has, or will, do it.
Just your friendly local security analyst's 2c...:)
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A normal memory chip is actually light sensitive, in a nasty gray-scale sort of way. :) and write consistent values out (all ones or zeroes) then display what you read back in.
So, take an old memory chip, like a 1-meg or so. Carefully split the top off of it (might take a half-dozen tries to get one with pins still intact after).
The one I saw was plugged directly into a memory card. These days you'd probably have to rig up a parallel port interface.
Then all you do is put a lens over it for focus (watch out for the sun!
Good point. I got out early, (intentionally RIF'd smartass :), and even without the security bit just some basic networking knowledge got me twice the pay immediately.
In the Air Force, quite a few people who deal with IT are pretty new to this stuff.
Anyone else more then a little bothered by this statement?
Bothered/insulted or bothered/worried?
Speaking of Mail scripts, I have a bunch of old mailspools that I'd like to consolidate. The consolidation is the easy part, the hard part is sifting out all the duplicate messages that I've acquired over the years during email client/host transition periods. :)
Anybody know of any useful scripts/utilities for finding duplicate emails? (Preferaby for OSX of course
Big magnets!
:)
Seriously!
Works like this:
Put the dish on a large flat padded base, tie 3 or 4 short guy wires from the disk mounting bracket to a couple of large rare-earth magnets (you can get 'em with handy mounting loops and whatnot at Edmund Scientific for a price and most surplus places for a lot less). Then, with a buddy on the inside and you hanging out the window, press the base against the glass, pull each guy-wire out as far as it will go and have your buddy put a matching magent on the inside, voila'!
This is probably hard to visualise from this post but all you're really doing is using strong magnets to clamp the dish to the window itself. If you can make your mounting base large enough and thin enough you can even do away with the guy-wires and just make a magnet sandwich.
Note: make sure the outer magnets (against the base) have a release mechanism or you will probably break the glass at some point.
Alternatively, you could pull the window (or maybe even just the screen) out of the frame and substitute a bit of plywood as a semi-permanent mounting point.
Good luck!
er...
/dev/urand > /dev/mem
Third time's the charm:
#cat
Where, then, do you suppose personhood resides? Since the brain is where *all* cognition and feeling happens, we're kind of short on other candidates, aren't we?
This may or may not actually be true. There have been some interesting studies (dead-tree editions only so no links, sorry!) which show surprising correlations between various forms of psychosis and different ailments. Somewhat akin to the concepts behind accupuncture, chi, etc.
'Course we won't really know until we try it, but it's quite possible that the "person" will actually be different after the transplant at some level other than physical.
Don't breed with this guy unless you WANT stupid children!
I'll say! This guy is a class-A moron...
Good point!
Interestingly enough, it so happens that I used to have a toll-free number directed to my cell phone and found that I was not able to see the blocked calling party numbers until I got my bill as it is apparently a different dataset.
(Though if I'd had a PBX, with the incoming calls simply being forwarded to the cell, I probably could have...)
Back in 2001 or so... :).
A heck of a lot longer than that, as this "issue" isn't limited to VOIP. Ask anybody who installs/maintains standard PBX systems.
The privilege of setting your own outbound CID is simply another (business class) service and reading blocked inbound is actually your right if you have a toll-free number (because you're paying for the call).
(Dunno why cell-phones don't have the same right though, c'est la vie
I wonder what exactly is in that encrypted section at the beginning...?
Here it is.
:(
Is that the right link? That theme doesn't look a bit like IE...
We have a similar problem with both third party CRM apps used internally (InterAction) and vendor/client sites. :).
Our solution has been to do the sneaky icon switch somebody posted above and set things up so that everything defaults to FireFox but we also gave people separate appropriately labeled icons to those IE-specific sites with IE locked down so they can't go wandering off (or at least not as easily anyway).
It's a little ugly but it works and we've sent various emails to the site maintainers with some hope that they will be fixed in the near future (luckily we're not the only ones complaining
...and the easy-bake life mix is in fact on Titan.
How is the parent Offtopic?!?
Moderators on crack again...
I'll second this. :)
I have a lot of clients who ship various products and I don't know a single one who uses UPS any more.
(Might explain why FedEx is doing so well!
target the business using the spammer to advertize
That's nice but what happens when their competitor(s) get into the act and start sending spam under their name?
Er, 4-Gigs is just enough for one of the many servers on my network. And I'm not doing video streaming or anything either. Just a lot of data access in a bunch of data warehouses by a couple hundred users. We have mesh design of Gig switches with 20/40G backbones and yes, we do Cisco gear because it's fast and reliable.
how the hell do you write chassis plural?
chassis. It's like deer. The plural is the same as the singular form.
Quite right. However, unlike "deer", the pronunciation does change; "chah-see" vs "chah-seez"
Seriously, I have no idea why, but Linksys router reliability has been godawful for me.
They overheat. Put a fan in/on/near them and they're fine.
U.S. reactors literally cannot go Chernobyl in the event of failure.
Even Chernobyl wouldn't have gone Chernobyl if the stupid bastards running the plant hadn't disabled all the safeties and forced it into that state.
Link above is from a Google search so here's the cache link as well.
Mod parent up! None of the linked articles had pictures.
:)
(Oh wait, nobody around here RTFA anyway, right? Nevermind...
what is [sic] ??
:)
Google is yer friend...:
"Sic means 'thus, so, in that way', and is the same word scholars and snarky journalists use to quote a misspelled or ungrammatical passage, like Dan Quayle's 'potatoes [sic]'. The sic assures the reader that the mistake was made by the person quoted, not the quoting author or his editor."
P.S. Don't ask what "snarky" is.
Original article: I know you can already get these, but that detracts from both my geek-drive and my wallet, both of which I'd prefer to keep as full as possible.
Parent post: How much do you want to spend? Amazon has one for $1,799 [amazon.com]
+5 Informative?
More like -1 Redundant/Offtopic/Blind!
(Follow the link to Amazon and you'll see it's for the very same product that MMonkey says is not what he's looking for...)
I have moderation points and I am foregoing using them in this thread because I want to respond to this post. (And you can mod me up, down or sideways when you're done reading, my karma's been maxed for years :). :). :) :)
First, let me clarify that I hate MS with a passion. I have worked for them as a contractor and I have developed software which, while not in direct competition, nonetheless required negotiating licensing with them. I've been in IT for 15 years and dealt with their crap since DOS v2.x
I've also used various flavors of Unix and Linux over the years both professionally and personally and run Macs as my workstations at home now. (Linux on the servers of course
However, my employer at this time, and many businesses which I have consulted for over the years, run Windows.
Why?
Because most businesses under 200 employees have an over-worked one-man IT dept. and one or more wierd vertical applications.
99% of the time the cost of switching is simply not worth it!
This is why you only see two classes of business switching these days:
A - very small cottage-industry types who have no IT staff at all. If the engineer doing their work for them is Linux savvy and wants to do them a favor he'll switch them (I say "favor" because it means less income for him!).
B - Large enterprises with at least a half-dozen IT people where the long-term savings of switching begins to add up to enough to cover the hassle.
Which brings me to a different point of interest; consistency and support!
Linux apps are inconsistent as hell! If I'm going to expect a dept. to make the switch I have to at least be able to give them a consistent environment and that requires spending many hours on a "model" machine changing about a zillion attributes scattered all over the place. Not to mention the hours spent troubleshooting inconsistencies between libraries and whatnot!
It's getting better, don't get me wrong. That's why I keep using it at home and play with most of the major distro's on a regular basis. But as near as I can tell it's going to be a few more years before we really see wide-spread adoption simply because it takes too much time to configure a solid environment. Time which has to be amortised over the number of machines on the network. Time which admittedly is spent swatting Microsoft bugs right now. But y'know what? It's virtually impossible to get funds in the budget to hire an extra body just so you can try out something which might save the company a few bucks in the long term.
There's only 24 hours in the day. If all of your time is spent doing your existing job it's hard to investigate new things.
Like the old saw about alligators and draining the swamp. Once the swamp is drained the alligators will go away but in the meantime it's hard to concentrate on that while they're chewing on you!
So once Linux is a "super-swamp-drainer" we'll start seeing alligators dropping like flies.
(I'm hoping and praying Novell will do that for us on the technical side since they damn sure can't in marketing!
They're not a bunch of nerds who think running war3z hax0r t004s on their WIFI cards is cool. Grow up.
:)
Every system has vulnerabilities. The question is the cost/benefit ratio of exploiting those vulnerabilities.
E.g. Ft. Knox is not actually impregnable, but the effort and risk of penetrating it exceed the potential payoff.
In a case like this however, where millions of dollars are at stake and the safeguards much less extreme, l33t hax0r5 aren't the only people who will be at least considering the benefits of tampering.
If it can be done with a high enough certainty of anonymity (low risk) I can guarantee somebody has, or will, do it.
Just your friendly local security analyst's 2c...