This is natural fallout to the very unnatural mass rush of IPOs we have had in the past couple of years. Of course there will be some consolidation. I am just glad it is AMD instead of Intel. AMD has done a great job of keeping prices low and performance high.
The actual quote is "Obviously a major malfunction"
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the moment they announce that one can take a space flight for a fee, I *will* have my name on that list, money waiting to be spent
They are going to send Dennis Tito into space for a week for $20,000,000. This article mentions that the Russians will most likely sell more trips in the future. I am with you, I am starting to save my money now, hopefully it will come down a little in price, tho:).
A related idea would be to make some sort of heat exchanger that'd simultaneously cool the cpu and warm your room. With lots of machines, that could save a lot in heating costs.
We already have such a "heat exchanger" -- it's the heatsink and fan already on your CPU. And yes, it does put out quite a bit of heat. The 7 computers in my bedroom keep it pretty toasty, way warmer than the rest of the house. The power source and hard drive contribute quite a bit to the amount of heat that comes out, but I think a significant amount of heat comes from the 9 CPUs.
Casinos are legally obligated to provide information about winnings to the IRS, provided you win over a certain amount, I believe it is $2000US. This is why you will sometimes see slot machines or other games marketed as the "IRS Special" that pay out jackpots of $1999.99.
This is because skip-tracers use telephone directories to locate people. They have nothing more than a name and a usually old address to go by. I know this because I used to be a directory assistance operator and 50% of our business was skip tracers.
PGP does you no good, because in the UK it is the law you HAVE to hand over your secret key and password to the authorities if they so desire, or face criminal penalties. Hopefully this will be struck down by the EU as a violation of human rights. Of course, in the US it is a crime to use encryption to conceal criminal activity, and there is no EU there to keep the government in check.
Yes, the FBI had a court order, but that does not mean that the judge was wise (or even following the law) by issuing this order. And then you jumped suddenly from a guy who was running a few numbers to mob bosses, terrorists, and child pornographers. Are you comparing the deplorable practice of child pornography to being a bookie? That's like saying "We should put to death all the murderers, rapists and jaywalkers." It's a totally different class of crime. You just put it in there to evoke an emotional reaction in people who read it, it's inflammatory and prejudicial. I personally don't see anything wrong with gambling, it is even legal in a few places. I think it is unwise to legislate morality. As for protecting myself from having the FBI read my shopping list, I will paraphrase a quote I have seen around here: "He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
The software actually "learns" what the monkey will do next, they say that the lag time has been cut down to 0 because the robot anticipates what the monkey will do. If this wasn't over the internet, the robot would probably do what the monkey does right before he does it.
No, it couldn't replace voting cards. because even with the extremely small "chad" there would still be some people who couldn't push the damn stylus through. Then the Elections Board would have to manually count all these microscopic hanging chads and barn door chads and pregnant chads. They would have to ship a bunch of microscopes into Palm Beach county to count the ballots. It would be an even bigger mess than we have now!
Of course IE doesn't take as long to load up, since it is integrated into the shell. This also means is is constantly consuming resources with the IE shell extensions coded into explorer. Sure, if you make a memory-resident portion of Netscape and always have it loaded Netscape will load fast as well.
I thought the exact same thing with the recent story about the pantscam. I wondered if it was someone who got ripped off by Levi Strauss or if it was someone who had shoved a camera down their pants (it turned out to be the latter).
Bush is not only smart enough to appoint people with more clue than himself to Cabinet, but that unlike Gore, he's also smart enough to realize not only when he's outcluded, but to listen to his Cabinet when he realizes he's outclued.
No wonder you are voting for Bush, your grammatical and language skills are nearly identical! Could you explain to me what "outcluded" means? Is it the opposite of included? How about outclued? Are you inventing your own words? There's nothing subliminable about it!
It is on my linux boxes tho:) A good way to see uptime on Win2k boxes is to look at the properties of the network interface, it will tell you how long the interface has been up.
Companies have been going belly-up for quite a while, the media is just figuring it out now because of the downturn in the stock market. You should have been looking at prospective employers with a discerning eye ever since the startup boom happened. I have seen more flawed business models in the last 3 years than I have seen in the rest of my life. I realize that the stock options and environment can be exciting, but most companies (I believe something like 8 out of 10 IPOs) will have their stock price settle below their IPO asking price. Stock options don't look so attractive then. When you are searching for a job, of course you should evaluate the company's chance of being a success. I think it should be a large part of your final employment decision.
It is a very good thing that Python development is moving to another company. BeOpen wanted to take total control of the language and release it under a different license. Hopefully Digital Creations will be more open-minded on this matter (the article indicates they will be). Python is a valuable resource to the community and I would hate to see it drop by the wayside because of money-minded corporations.
Not for long. They sent a letter to UPN that they wanted to limit the amount of "urban and ethnic" programming to 2 hours a week. UPN naturally told them to go screw themselves. They will probably just pick up another affiliate in that area.
Sunrpc is remote procedure call, which is a VERY DANGEROUS service to leave open. It is used primarily for NFS(Network Failure^H^H^H^H^H^H^ile System)and NIS(Network Information System), which is basically the same as windows file shares. Usually you don't have NFS mounts available by default, but on some systems you might. Yes you should learn about IP chains. Here is a great site that will custom-build you a firewall on the fly. Firewall Forensics is also a great page to find out what port scans are looking for. Be careful, I see quite a few scans for RPC in my logs, if you leave it open, you will be comprimised sooner or later.
If you can't differentiate between a ping request and a portscan, maybe you need to read up a little on TCP/IP. Here is a great place to start: The firewall forensics page It is chock-full of commonly scanned ports (and tasty goodness!).
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This is natural fallout to the very unnatural mass rush of IPOs we have had in the past couple of years. Of course there will be some consolidation. I am just glad it is AMD instead of Intel. AMD has done a great job of keeping prices low and performance high.
Enigma
The actual quote is "Obviously a major malfunction"
Enigma
the moment they announce that one can take a space flight for a fee, I *will* have my name on that list, money waiting to be spent
:).
They are going to send Dennis Tito into space for a week for $20,000,000. This article mentions that the Russians will most likely sell more trips in the future. I am with you, I am starting to save my money now, hopefully it will come down a little in price, tho
Enigma
A related idea would be to make some sort of heat exchanger that'd simultaneously cool the cpu and warm your room. With lots of machines, that could save a lot in heating costs.
We already have such a "heat exchanger" -- it's the heatsink and fan already on your CPU. And yes, it does put out quite a bit of heat. The 7 computers in my bedroom keep it pretty toasty, way warmer than the rest of the house. The power source and hard drive contribute quite a bit to the amount of heat that comes out, but I think a significant amount of heat comes from the 9 CPUs.
Enigma
Casinos are legally obligated to provide information about winnings to the IRS, provided you win over a certain amount, I believe it is $2000US. This is why you will sometimes see slot machines or other games marketed as the "IRS Special" that pay out jackpots of $1999.99.
Enigma
This is because skip-tracers use telephone directories to locate people. They have nothing more than a name and a usually old address to go by. I know this because I used to be a directory assistance operator and 50% of our business was skip tracers.
Enigma
Yes, there are ways around it (PGP
PGP does you no good, because in the UK it is the law you HAVE to hand over your secret key and password to the authorities if they so desire, or face criminal penalties. Hopefully this will be struck down by the EU as a violation of human rights. Of course, in the US it is a crime to use encryption to conceal criminal activity, and there is no EU there to keep the government in check.
Enigma
The ice at the poles of Mars is not frozen water, it is frozen CO2--dry ice.
Enigma
Yes, the FBI had a court order, but that does not mean that the judge was wise (or even following the law) by issuing this order. And then you jumped suddenly from a guy who was running a few numbers to mob bosses, terrorists, and child pornographers. Are you comparing the deplorable practice of child pornography to being a bookie? That's like saying "We should put to death all the murderers, rapists and jaywalkers." It's a totally different class of crime. You just put it in there to evoke an emotional reaction in people who read it, it's inflammatory and prejudicial. I personally don't see anything wrong with gambling, it is even legal in a few places. I think it is unwise to legislate morality. As for protecting myself from having the FBI read my shopping list, I will paraphrase a quote I have seen around here: "He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
Enigma
The software actually "learns" what the monkey will do next, they say that the lag time has been cut down to 0 because the robot anticipates what the monkey will do. If this wasn't over the internet, the robot would probably do what the monkey does right before he does it.
Enigma
HUH? The bookmarks are just a HTML file, you can edit it all you would like. I haven't had the Netscape default bookmarks since day 1.
Enigma
No, it couldn't replace voting cards. because even with the extremely small "chad" there would still be some people who couldn't push the damn stylus through. Then the Elections Board would have to manually count all these microscopic hanging chads and barn door chads and pregnant chads. They would have to ship a bunch of microscopes into Palm Beach county to count the ballots. It would be an even bigger mess than we have now!
Enigma
Of course IE doesn't take as long to load up, since it is integrated into the shell. This also means is is constantly consuming resources with the IE shell extensions coded into explorer. Sure, if you make a memory-resident portion of Netscape and always have it loaded Netscape will load fast as well.
Enigma
If Utah wanted to say "We do not want abortion on demand in our state!", the people have NO power to pass such a law.
Utah did pass such a law. It was struck down, not because of the Federal Government, but because it was in violation of the Utah Constitution
Enigma
I thought the exact same thing with the recent story about the pantscam. I wondered if it was someone who got ripped off by Levi Strauss or if it was someone who had shoved a camera down their pants (it turned out to be the latter).
Enigma
No wonder you are voting for Bush, your grammatical and language skills are nearly identical! Could you explain to me what "outcluded" means? Is it the opposite of included? How about outclued? Are you inventing your own words? There's nothing subliminable about it!
Enigma
It is on my linux boxes tho :) A good way to see uptime on Win2k boxes is to look at the properties of the network interface, it will tell you how long the interface has been up.
Enigma
Do that a few times and, congratulations, you are a heroine (today's cheapest addictive drug) addict.
:)
I am a heroine addict. I just love a good female protagonist
Enigma
Companies have been going belly-up for quite a while, the media is just figuring it out now because of the downturn in the stock market. You should have been looking at prospective employers with a discerning eye ever since the startup boom happened. I have seen more flawed business models in the last 3 years than I have seen in the rest of my life. I realize that the stock options and environment can be exciting, but most companies (I believe something like 8 out of 10 IPOs) will have their stock price settle below their IPO asking price. Stock options don't look so attractive then. When you are searching for a job, of course you should evaluate the company's chance of being a success. I think it should be a large part of your final employment decision.
Enigma
It is a very good thing that Python development is moving to another company. BeOpen wanted to take total control of the language and release it under a different license. Hopefully Digital Creations will be more open-minded on this matter (the article indicates they will be). Python is a valuable resource to the community and I would hate to see it drop by the wayside because of money-minded corporations.
Enigma
Not for long. They sent a letter to UPN that they wanted to limit the amount of "urban and ethnic" programming to 2 hours a week. UPN naturally told them to go screw themselves. They will probably just pick up another affiliate in that area.
Enigma
udder - Thing hanging under cow :)
Enigma
Sunrpc is remote procedure call, which is a VERY DANGEROUS service to leave open. It is used primarily for NFS(Network Failure^H^H^H^H^H^H^ile System)and NIS(Network Information System), which is basically the same as windows file shares. Usually you don't have NFS mounts available by default, but on some systems you might. Yes you should learn about IP chains. Here is a great site that will custom-build you a firewall on the fly. Firewall Forensics is also a great page to find out what port scans are looking for. Be careful, I see quite a few scans for RPC in my logs, if you leave it open, you will be comprimised sooner or later.
Enigma
Actually, there have been some news reports about AT&T breaking up into 4 different companies. Maybe they are just gearing up for the future :)
Enigma
If you can't differentiate between a ping request and a portscan, maybe you need to read up a little on TCP/IP. Here is a great place to start: The firewall forensics page It is chock-full of commonly scanned ports (and tasty goodness!).
Enigma