Mod up. If a free version is already easily obtainable, it might as well be obtainable from the author's site where people can find out what else he does, and potentially buy hardcopies from him, or offer him jobs or whatever.. an imperfect solution but the only obvious one.
If he offered the e-book for free, presumably his site would end up on top of the list of search results.
That might encourage a few more people to take note of his pleading and buy a hardcopy (especially if he could persuade his publisher to drop the cost of that a bit).. it might also boost his "brand" - people would find out more about him and what he does, and possibly be more interested in throwing money his way in the future.
I agree it's a tricky one, and there is no obvious perfect solution, but if people are going to get hold of the book for free anyway, it might as well be from a site he controls.
I'm right out on the edge of suburbia here - green fields on two sides - and my (admittedly pretty old) microwave kills the WiFi network nicely.
Fortunately about a year ago I got off my lazy arse and ran Cat5e for all the important machines. The Wifi is really only for visitors and for playing with toys like my eee PC..
All the activation nonsense was what finally drove me off Windows for the machines I support for family & friends. I suppose I could memorize the exact conditions for what hardware changes I'm allowed to make, and/or be more optimistic about the re-activations working and the WGA servers falling over.. but really, why should I, particularly at what seemed, last time I looked, like elevated price points? (for some reason there still seems to be a 'special' exchange rate for tech of 1 USD = 1 GBP)
Mercifully, my family aren't game players, so they are happy on Ubuntu. My brother is even quite happily typing polytonic (=ancient) Greek into Openoffice for his PhD thesis (and it hasn't yet just randomly stopped working like it did for him with XP+Office)..
This is why I like OSS. The cool kids with more time and energy than I have can invent and play with this stuff in KDE, and have a fighting chance of achieving something. In the meantime, I can stick with the relatively clean and business-like GNOME on my main machine, and run XFCE on older stuff. I'm sure there are some people out there who still aren't happy, but this sort of freedom must be getting us closer to the ideal..
Heh. I have to say, I've noticed this sort of thing in headlines over here in the UK quite a lot recently. Still, it makes for entertaining if short-lived "WTF?!!" moments over my morning coffee..
Well personally I'd make using "cyber" in any context other than "cybernetic" as illegal as using the terms "information superhighway" or "surf" ought to be;-)
Seriously though, people's perceptions tend to lag the state of reality somewhat. I think they're only just catching on to the idea of how important modern comms are to our civilization and way of life, and to some extent still perceive a separation between the "real world" (physical stuff) and the virtual one (information + comms.) This is an attack on the latter -- an attack on a city by going after its comms infrastructure.
Did nobody notice the little side bar that starts "About Microsoft Subnet Blog.. The Microsoft Subnet blog is the official blog of the Network World's Microsoft Subnet community, managed by editor Julie Bort. Microsoft Subnet is the independent voice of Microsoft customers..."
Am I paranoid or does that scream "astroturfing operation" to anybody else?
I guess it's kinda reasonable to use the term for an attack on the "cyber" domain (by going after its physical substrate) as well as for attacks that occur within that domain. Either way, it screws up people's access to comms.
Because the shorter the message, the less intelligent thought has to go into it, I guess. Just another part of the continual dumbing-down of our culture.
You know, I really never expected to be a grumpy old man at 30.. *sigh*
At one point Internet Mail 2000 looked like a nice idea. Quick summary: sender basically "publishes" the outgoing email on their server (or their ISPs server), and sends a ping to the recipient saying where it is.
This has the advantage, for spam tracking, that you have to have a valid IP address for the sender, which can easily be checked against blacklists. ISPs that detect a spam-run in progress can just drop all the spam from their server, and only recipients that have been really quick on the ball about responding to the pings will get the spam. Also, if a spam filter can make a decision based on the contents on the ping, the whole message doesn't have to be retrieved.
Looked at another way, it's basically just publishing a private blog entry and sending a notification..
I finally gave up on acidrip, because a lot of the time the a/v sync in the output seems to be substantially off. I really liked it because of its speed, but in the end I went with dvd::rip - in 1 pass cluster mode using our spare machine it actually runs a little bit faster..
Honestly, a cheap UPS might not be a bad idea. Then all this goes away (hopefully.)
For really, really critical data, -o sync, data=journal or an actual grown up database is probably the best option. Can you segregate different types of data across different partitions? Important but relatively small files on one, large audio and video on another (where you win by using extents and delayed allocation)..
There might be an argument for new e.g. Ubuntu installs to give the user the option of separate partitions, using e.g. ext3 and data=journaled for/home, and ext4 for/media/media, which could be used for storing large audio / video files (which will benefit nicely from the delayed allocation, and are less critical if they got lost on unclean shutdown.) LVM might be an idea to allow easy resizing.
Slashdot Mirror
Repeat after me:
Magtape, magtape, magtape.
(And then take it off-site.)
Experience and introspection!
Probably doesn't cut much ice with teachers and bosses, admittedly ..
Mod up. If a free version is already easily obtainable, it might as well be obtainable from the author's site where people can find out what else he does, and potentially buy hardcopies from him, or offer him jobs or whatever .. an imperfect solution but the only obvious one.
If he offered the e-book for free, presumably his site would end up on top of the list of search results.
That might encourage a few more people to take note of his pleading and buy a hardcopy (especially if he could persuade his publisher to drop the cost of that a bit) .. it might also boost his "brand" - people would find out more about him and what he does, and possibly be more interested in throwing money his way in the future.
I agree it's a tricky one, and there is no obvious perfect solution, but if people are going to get hold of the book for free anyway, it might as well be from a site he controls.
Please tag "noshitsherlock" ..
I'm right out on the edge of suburbia here - green fields on two sides - and my (admittedly pretty old) microwave kills the WiFi network nicely.
Fortunately about a year ago I got off my lazy arse and ran Cat5e for all the important machines. The Wifi is really only for visitors and for playing with toys like my eee PC ..
"Me too."
All the activation nonsense was what finally drove me off Windows for the machines I support for family & friends. I suppose I could memorize the exact conditions for what hardware changes I'm allowed to make, and/or be more optimistic about the re-activations working and the WGA servers falling over .. but really, why should I, particularly at what seemed, last time I looked, like elevated price points? (for some reason there still seems to be a 'special' exchange rate for tech of 1 USD = 1 GBP)
Mercifully, my family aren't game players, so they are happy on Ubuntu. My brother is even quite happily typing polytonic (=ancient) Greek into Openoffice for his PhD thesis (and it hasn't yet just randomly stopped working like it did for him with XP+Office) ..
Ouch .. that was a bit below the belt ;-)
This is why I like OSS. The cool kids with more time and energy than I have can invent and play with this stuff in KDE, and have a fighting chance of achieving something. In the meantime, I can stick with the relatively clean and business-like GNOME on my main machine, and run XFCE on older stuff. I'm sure there are some people out there who still aren't happy, but this sort of freedom must be getting us closer to the ideal ..
Heh. I have to say, I've noticed this sort of thing in headlines over here in the UK quite a lot recently. Still, it makes for entertaining if short-lived "WTF?!!" moments over my morning coffee ..
Well personally I'd make using "cyber" in any context other than "cybernetic" as illegal as using the terms "information superhighway" or "surf" ought to be ;-)
Seriously though, people's perceptions tend to lag the state of reality somewhat. I think they're only just catching on to the idea of how important modern comms are to our civilization and way of life, and to some extent still perceive a separation between the "real world" (physical stuff) and the virtual one (information + comms.) This is an attack on the latter -- an attack on a city by going after its comms infrastructure.
Did nobody notice the little side bar that starts "About Microsoft Subnet Blog .. The Microsoft Subnet blog is the official blog of the Network World's Microsoft Subnet community, managed by editor Julie Bort. Microsoft Subnet is the independent voice of Microsoft customers ..."
Am I paranoid or does that scream "astroturfing operation" to anybody else?
I guess it's kinda reasonable to use the term for an attack on the "cyber" domain (by going after its physical substrate) as well as for attacks that occur within that domain. Either way, it screws up people's access to comms.
If not, the DHT is your friend (though we could do with some redundancy regarding bootstrapping.)
Mininova + DHT (are they blocking the trackers yet?)
There other good reasons not to burn (some) fossil fuels, even if we deal with the carbon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Environmental_effects
Plus, of course, the fact that they will eventually run out.
Having said that, given the current state of progress on taming CO2 emissions, it would be reassuring to know there was a geohack available ..
Because the shorter the message, the less intelligent thought has to go into it, I guess. Just another part of the continual dumbing-down of our culture.
You know, I really never expected to be a grumpy old man at 30 .. *sigh*
At one point Internet Mail 2000 looked like a nice idea. Quick summary: sender basically "publishes" the outgoing email on their server (or their ISPs server), and sends a ping to the recipient saying where it is.
This has the advantage, for spam tracking, that you have to have a valid IP address for the sender, which can easily be checked against blacklists. ISPs that detect a spam-run in progress can just drop all the spam from their server, and only recipients that have been really quick on the ball about responding to the pings will get the spam. Also, if a spam filter can make a decision based on the contents on the ping, the whole message doesn't have to be retrieved.
Looked at another way, it's basically just publishing a private blog entry and sending a notification ..
More promising is some sort of system built on zsync - there are some ideas here.
Just installed it, there's an option in /etc/apt-p2p.conf to limit the upload bandwidth. I haven't tested it yet, however ..
I finally gave up on acidrip, because a lot of the time the a/v sync in the output seems to be substantially off. I really liked it because of its speed, but in the end I went with dvd::rip - in 1 pass cluster mode using our spare machine it actually runs a little bit faster..
New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer (01 October 2008)
Honestly, a cheap UPS might not be a bad idea. Then all this goes away (hopefully.)
For really, really critical data, -o sync, data=journal or an actual grown up database is probably the best option. Can you segregate different types of data across different partitions? Important but relatively small files on one, large audio and video on another (where you win by using extents and delayed allocation) ..
I think the stock answers here are still appropriate:
If you want a database, you know to where to get one.
If you want orthogonal persistence, you know where to get it.
There might be an argument for new e.g. Ubuntu installs to give the user the option of separate partitions, using e.g. ext3 and data=journaled for /home, and ext4 for /media/media, which could be used for storing large audio / video files (which will benefit nicely from the delayed allocation, and are less critical if they got lost on unclean shutdown.) LVM might be an idea to allow easy resizing.
I'm pretty sure FFS did this back in the days before journalled filesystems, so "the people who did this" probably did it decades ago.
Ext2/3 just inherited the behaviour.