It is a common misconception that octane ratings are somehow connected to increased mileage and/or increased performance. The octane rating actually refers to how far the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder can be compressed before spontaneous (knocking) combustion occurs. Many performance-oriented engines operate a higher compression ratios, and with lower octane fuels, the compressed fuel-air mixture in the cylinder may ignite early, before the spark plug fires.
In other words, putting a higher octane fuel in your car than the compression ratio of your engine requires is a complete and utter waste of money.
There's also Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/, which is pretty but not OSS. Basic version if free, but you pay for a "pro" version if you want advanced features. I used it for a few years but switched to Miranda http://www.miranda-im.org/, which as the parent has noted is OSS, but Windows only. It is customizable to a ridiculous degree but works great right out of the box. I currently use it for AIM, ICQ, GTalk, YIM, Sametime and IRC.
I tried GAIM a couple years ago but hated the GUI too much to look at it every day. I'll take another look at it now.
It's all about the size of the screen, and the distance from which you're viewing it. On my main set, the difference between SD and HD is huge, and easily discerned by anyone who looks at it. Standard DVD looks like crap when compared to 720p/1080i HD.
I grew up in Irvine, and I married one of those cute asian girls. But I live on the other side of the Orange curtain by choice. OC is just too... sterile.
Having grown up in OC, imagine my shock when I discovered that not everywhere in LA looks like south central. I'd take Palos Verdes over Newport Beach any day of the week, and I've lived in both.
Do you honestly believe that the majority of programmers are undercompensated individuals working under oppressive conditions where their health and life are under threat? Or are you just looking with longing at the dot.com era when the need for talent was much larger than the pool available, and thinking that unions will somehow provide the answer and get you the same compensation and benefits as yesteryear? What benefits could a union possibly bring?
I use my PSP for reading eBooks frequently. It's missing some of the features you desire, most notably screen size, but actually works remarkably well. It's a bit of a pain to get it going initially, though, as Sony never intended the PSP to be used this way. Essentially you need to use some kind of exploit to trick the PSP into running custom applications (homebrew). The PSP hacking community is active and thriving with many homebrew applications that are useful, and once you've loaded a custom firmware it's easy from there.
The eBook reader I use is called Bookr. Usually I rotate the screen 90 degrees and read "vertically". I admit I still like books better, but using the PSP allows me much greater mobility for books when traveling, and it's not so irritating to the wife if I want to read and she wants to sleep. It also lets you underclock the PSP, as the reader doesn't need a very fast CPU, so battery life is very long. I don't know exactly how long, but I believe that with the backlight at the lowest setting it would last eight hours or more.
For $250 I wouldn't buy it as an eBook reader. But as a video player, eBook reader, integrated 802.11 web browser (not to mention MP3 playback and games), etc. it's a pretty good deal. Gorgeous screen, too.
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Everything they listed is public information. Sorry, tin foil hats aren't required this time.
I use multiple anti-spam methods and in combination my inbox is completely spam-free. If you don't have control of your mail server, none of this is relevant to you.
1. Greylisting. Spammers typically don't retry on failure, and greylisting insists that the originating mail server behave correctly. The downside is that a few legitimate mail servers don't behave correctly, either, so you have to determine those and exclude them manually from greylisting. I think I've had to make exceptions once or twice so far, not too bad.
2. Everything gets scanned with ClamAV next, which, as an added bonus to virus protection, actually catches some phishing emails too.
3. SpamAssassin with auto-updating SARE rulesets. The downside is that it is possible that legitimate email will get marked as spam, but I glance at the folder every now and again to make sure. So far it has been 100% accurate. Be intelligent about the rulesets you use and you shouldn't have a problem. Bayesian by itself is not very effective these days.
4. Those stock scam emails with image attachments were getting through all that, so I set up TMDA, an auto-whitelist system, with a maildrop filter to run against just those emails with image attachments. TMDA sends me a list of emails once a day that are being held in queue pending confirmation, just to make sure I don't miss anything legitimate. It now seems that SpamAssassin has gotten much better at detecting this type of spam and TMDA only catches a few per user each week.
Oh, and I also use SPF but it is not yet effective. Hopefully, some day in the future when we all have flying cars and holodecks, every legitimate mail server will use SPF and I can then safely block those that don't. Until that day, all it can really do is prevent email spoofed from a couple sources. I didn't see any reduction in the overall amount of spam when AOL implemented SPF, it just didn't pretend to be from AOL anymore. Good for them.
I've also used Smoothwall for about a year, then IPCop for another year or so, and now m0n0wall for the past couple of years. I definitely plan on trying pfSense to see how it compares. Out of the three I have used, m0n0wall is my preference. The traffic shaping actually works, the interface makes sense, and the features provided match my needs.
That's a bit out of context, isn't it? And anyway, people who are hired to drive for a living can and do lose their jobs for moving violations. So the answer to your question is yes, in the context that your job involves driving.
All that being said, if I were hiring someone to drive I wouldn't care if they were a black hat.
If I were hiring someone to work on my IT systems, I would care very much and would probably take any other qualified candidate over a known black hat.
It's actually very difficult to hold and fire a gun in an effective way, much more so than any game or movie makes it out to be.
That's like saying you can learn to drive by playing video games. You'll actually learn more about the mechanics in a driving game with a game wheel and pedals than you would about shooting from a FPS. Neither one will make you very good at it in the real world without real practice, though.
If I watch Emeril cook on TV, will that make me a gourmet chef? Oh, the analogies just keep coming...
Large networking products company, about 40,000 employees running on Exchange. My mailbox is limited to 350MB. At 300MB it stops sending email. PowerPoint is very popular here and I routinely receive 20MB attachments.
Outlook Attachment Sniffer (http://www.rsbr.de/Software/OASniffer/index_eng.h tm) has saved my life. I've regained at least an hour or two each week in time spent saving attachments to disk manually. It's worth a look if you have a problem managing your mailbox size and use Exchange.
I believe what they are really talking about here is charging for DiffServ or some other kind of QoS scheme. Smith obviously doesn't have a clue, but his engineers aren't stupid. This is something that has been rolling out on private networks for some time now and I've believed for several years that this is the next evolution of the Internet. I'm always wrong about when things will happen, which is why I'm not rich. I thought this would have started around '02.
There are only two kinds of traffic on the Internet. Stuff that is important right now where retransmission is not feasable (voice, live video, gaming, etc.) and stuff that is not (web browsing, file transfers, email, etc.). The Internet was built with the second case in mind and the entire network is best-effort, i.e. we'll try like hell to get you your stuff as fast as we can, but we make no guarantees. If you go back to the roots of the Internet, this makes sense. There are some work-arounds for video, like buffering, but that doesn't work at all for voice.
This is not degrading everything else and paying a premium for other content. It just means that when important, time-sensitive data enters the network, it will take priority over other traffic. This is how real-time, quality, high-bandwidth video calls will happen. I'm talking about HDTV-level calls with high-quality sounds, not the blurry crap we have today. The answer is not "just add more bandwidth". That adds cost to everyone, whether you use the expanded service or not. Think of a world a decade from now, where your computer and television are really integrated, you purchase just-released movies off the Internet and watch them instantly, in real time on your 100" 1080p screen that you got from Best Buy for $300. How can you get there without either gobs and gobs of bandwidth that no one can afford, or some method to prioritize real time traffic so that this actually works?
Of course, their billing model is totally screwed up. Can you imagine if this catches on and you are Vonage, how many ISPs would you need to pay in order to prioritize your traffic? It's not scalable.
What will happen instead is the carriers will eventually build QoS/DiffServ peering relationships, just like they do today for all Internet data. They will bill one another for this service. They will pass these charges along to the consumer as tiered service. For example, I might pay an extra $5 a month for QoS to be enabled on my line so that I get the lowest latency connection possible for on-line gaming. I might pay another $5 for QoS for VoIP calls, or maybe $7 for both together. I will do so happily, because in return I get a Service Level Agreement that says my VoIP calls will work consistently, and when they don't I had someone to yell at who can help me or compensate me. This does not exist today, and is a huge competitive disadvantage for VoIP service providers.
Again, Smith's a moron who doesn't understand anything beyond next quarter's results, but the visionaries will get this. It's coming, there's only one way to build a billing infrastructure, and we'll all enjoy a better Internet because of it.
Previously, OS/2 was the OS of choice for ATM machines, mostly because most ATMs were attached to an IBM controller and communicated with an IBM mainframe via SNA (DLSW over IP mostly).
OS/2 is a little hard to buy these days, and the back-end connections are migrating away from SNA to TCP/IP as it's a hell of a lot easier to maintain a pure IP network. Any ATM purchased within the last several years uses Windows NT, 2000, or XP as their operating system.
In other words, you've been getting cash from a Windows box for years already. The sky isn't falling.
I too switched from Smoothwall to IPCop after an, um, interaction with Morell. Although Smoothwall is a good product, IPCop is equally good (if not better), and I've been using it without any problems for quite some time. Frankly, I'd crawl through glass in order to avoid anything with Morell's name on it.
...was at a film distribution company. The Homeland Security folks could learn a thing or two from these people.
Once on entering the facility, and again when I left, I had to stand on a little box, about four inches tall. A security guard then waved a wand over me and another physically patted me down. My notebook bag had all contents removed, inspected, and then put back in place. They did a pretty good job of putting everything back where it came from.
If everybody did things the way those guys did, I don't think insiders would be contributing much to the P2P networks.
I once went to the white house with my wife and mother-in-law. My mother-in-law used her Citibank Visa with her photo on it as her picture ID. We got in. This is pre-911, of course, but still makes me laugh.
Sorry, but some things should fade into antiquity, and cursive writing is one of them. Someone please explain why kids not knowing how to write cursive is a Bad Thing(tm).
I've been using TMDA (http://www.tmda.net) for well over a year now, had maybe five or six spam emails sneak through the system in that entire time. Twice a day it sends me a list of "pending" emails so I can manually release and/or whitelist a message.
Challenge/response systems DO work, and they work extremely well. I think those who have not used one should give it a try before throwing rocks.
There's no point using a touch screen remote unless you have decent macro ability, which makes up for the loss of tactile feedback from real buttons.
My Pronto turns on my TV, turns on my receiver, sets the appropriate inputs on both, turns on my DVD player & pops the tray open, and dims the lights, all in about five seconds with one screen tap. Press another button, it turns off the DVD player and switches the inputs so I can watch cable. You can't get any easier than that.
LOL, I was just at Cisco Networkers and heard that about the bathroom lines over and over.
The bottom line is I don't believe there is a gender bias at work here. Right or not, traditionally men have been more attracted to building things, whether that be buildings, roads, cars, networks or web sites. It's not about physical labor so much as loving to put things together.
Reverse caching is used to offload your web servers. What it does is cache the static components (read: graphical images) of your web site and the caching engine then serves them up to people hitting your site, rather than the web servers having to serve them up.
It's useful in scenarios where you have a large web server farm. By implementing reverse caching and lightening the load on your web server farm, you don't have to have quite so many web servers. It also has the net effect of making your web site appear to be "faster" since users will see the images more quickly from the cache than the web server.
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It is a common misconception that octane ratings are somehow connected to increased mileage and/or increased performance. The octane rating actually refers to how far the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder can be compressed before spontaneous (knocking) combustion occurs. Many performance-oriented engines operate a higher compression ratios, and with lower octane fuels, the compressed fuel-air mixture in the cylinder may ignite early, before the spark plug fires.
In other words, putting a higher octane fuel in your car than the compression ratio of your engine requires is a complete and utter waste of money.
Reference http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question90.htm.
There's also Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/, which is pretty but not OSS. Basic version if free, but you pay for a "pro" version if you want advanced features. I used it for a few years but switched to Miranda http://www.miranda-im.org/, which as the parent has noted is OSS, but Windows only. It is customizable to a ridiculous degree but works great right out of the box. I currently use it for AIM, ICQ, GTalk, YIM, Sametime and IRC.
I tried GAIM a couple years ago but hated the GUI too much to look at it every day. I'll take another look at it now.
It's all about the size of the screen, and the distance from which you're viewing it. On my main set, the difference between SD and HD is huge, and easily discerned by anyone who looks at it. Standard DVD looks like crap when compared to 720p/1080i HD.
Here ya go: http://www.pulsewan.com/voip/fx_300.htm (GSM to FXS/FXO converter).
I grew up in Irvine, and I married one of those cute asian girls. But I live on the other side of the Orange curtain by choice. OC is just too... sterile.
Having grown up in OC, imagine my shock when I discovered that not everywhere in LA looks like south central. I'd take Palos Verdes over Newport Beach any day of the week, and I've lived in both.
Do you honestly believe that the majority of programmers are undercompensated individuals working under oppressive conditions where their health and life are under threat? Or are you just looking with longing at the dot.com era when the need for talent was much larger than the pool available, and thinking that unions will somehow provide the answer and get you the same compensation and benefits as yesteryear? What benefits could a union possibly bring?
I use my PSP for reading eBooks frequently. It's missing some of the features you desire, most notably screen size, but actually works remarkably well. It's a bit of a pain to get it going initially, though, as Sony never intended the PSP to be used this way. Essentially you need to use some kind of exploit to trick the PSP into running custom applications (homebrew). The PSP hacking community is active and thriving with many homebrew applications that are useful, and once you've loaded a custom firmware it's easy from there.
The eBook reader I use is called Bookr. Usually I rotate the screen 90 degrees and read "vertically". I admit I still like books better, but using the PSP allows me much greater mobility for books when traveling, and it's not so irritating to the wife if I want to read and she wants to sleep. It also lets you underclock the PSP, as the reader doesn't need a very fast CPU, so battery life is very long. I don't know exactly how long, but I believe that with the backlight at the lowest setting it would last eight hours or more.
For $250 I wouldn't buy it as an eBook reader. But as a video player, eBook reader, integrated 802.11 web browser (not to mention MP3 playback and games), etc. it's a pretty good deal. Gorgeous screen, too.
Everything they listed is public information. Sorry, tin foil hats aren't required this time.
I use multiple anti-spam methods and in combination my inbox is completely spam-free. If you don't have control of your mail server, none of this is relevant to you.
1. Greylisting. Spammers typically don't retry on failure, and greylisting insists that the originating mail server behave correctly. The downside is that a few legitimate mail servers don't behave correctly, either, so you have to determine those and exclude them manually from greylisting. I think I've had to make exceptions once or twice so far, not too bad.
2. Everything gets scanned with ClamAV next, which, as an added bonus to virus protection, actually catches some phishing emails too.
3. SpamAssassin with auto-updating SARE rulesets. The downside is that it is possible that legitimate email will get marked as spam, but I glance at the folder every now and again to make sure. So far it has been 100% accurate. Be intelligent about the rulesets you use and you shouldn't have a problem. Bayesian by itself is not very effective these days.
4. Those stock scam emails with image attachments were getting through all that, so I set up TMDA, an auto-whitelist system, with a maildrop filter to run against just those emails with image attachments. TMDA sends me a list of emails once a day that are being held in queue pending confirmation, just to make sure I don't miss anything legitimate. It now seems that SpamAssassin has gotten much better at detecting this type of spam and TMDA only catches a few per user each week.
Oh, and I also use SPF but it is not yet effective. Hopefully, some day in the future when we all have flying cars and holodecks, every legitimate mail server will use SPF and I can then safely block those that don't. Until that day, all it can really do is prevent email spoofed from a couple sources. I didn't see any reduction in the overall amount of spam when AOL implemented SPF, it just didn't pretend to be from AOL anymore. Good for them.
Just to be clear, those requirements are for several different flavors of the product.
128MB of RAM, plus
128MB CF card
OR
2GB hard drive
OR
A CD-ROM and a USB stick
Personally I have no trouble coming up with a system with 128MB of RAM, a CD-ROM drive, and 32MB USB flash sticks are practically a throw-away item.
No hard drive is required in this configuration.
I've also used Smoothwall for about a year, then IPCop for another year or so, and now m0n0wall for the past couple of years. I definitely plan on trying pfSense to see how it compares. Out of the three I have used, m0n0wall is my preference. The traffic shaping actually works, the interface makes sense, and the features provided match my needs.
That's a bit out of context, isn't it? And anyway, people who are hired to drive for a living can and do lose their jobs for moving violations. So the answer to your question is yes, in the context that your job involves driving.
All that being said, if I were hiring someone to drive I wouldn't care if they were a black hat.
If I were hiring someone to work on my IT systems, I would care very much and would probably take any other qualified candidate over a known black hat.
It's actually very difficult to hold and fire a gun in an effective way, much more so than any game or movie makes it out to be.
That's like saying you can learn to drive by playing video games. You'll actually learn more about the mechanics in a driving game with a game wheel and pedals than you would about shooting from a FPS. Neither one will make you very good at it in the real world without real practice, though.
If I watch Emeril cook on TV, will that make me a gourmet chef? Oh, the analogies just keep coming...
Torrent is available and seeding.
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3504780
Single torrent containing all the individiual zip files as downloaded today.
Large networking products company, about 40,000 employees running on Exchange. My mailbox is limited to 350MB. At 300MB it stops sending email. PowerPoint is very popular here and I routinely receive 20MB attachments. Outlook Attachment Sniffer (http://www.rsbr.de/Software/OASniffer/index_eng.h tm) has saved my life. I've regained at least an hour or two each week in time spent saving attachments to disk manually. It's worth a look if you have a problem managing your mailbox size and use Exchange.
I believe what they are really talking about here is charging for DiffServ or some other kind of QoS scheme. Smith obviously doesn't have a clue, but his engineers aren't stupid. This is something that has been rolling out on private networks for some time now and I've believed for several years that this is the next evolution of the Internet. I'm always wrong about when things will happen, which is why I'm not rich. I thought this would have started around '02.
There are only two kinds of traffic on the Internet. Stuff that is important right now where retransmission is not feasable (voice, live video, gaming, etc.) and stuff that is not (web browsing, file transfers, email, etc.). The Internet was built with the second case in mind and the entire network is best-effort, i.e. we'll try like hell to get you your stuff as fast as we can, but we make no guarantees. If you go back to the roots of the Internet, this makes sense. There are some work-arounds for video, like buffering, but that doesn't work at all for voice.
This is not degrading everything else and paying a premium for other content. It just means that when important, time-sensitive data enters the network, it will take priority over other traffic. This is how real-time, quality, high-bandwidth video calls will happen. I'm talking about HDTV-level calls with high-quality sounds, not the blurry crap we have today. The answer is not "just add more bandwidth". That adds cost to everyone, whether you use the expanded service or not. Think of a world a decade from now, where your computer and television are really integrated, you purchase just-released movies off the Internet and watch them instantly, in real time on your 100" 1080p screen that you got from Best Buy for $300. How can you get there without either gobs and gobs of bandwidth that no one can afford, or some method to prioritize real time traffic so that this actually works?
Of course, their billing model is totally screwed up. Can you imagine if this catches on and you are Vonage, how many ISPs would you need to pay in order to prioritize your traffic? It's not scalable.
What will happen instead is the carriers will eventually build QoS/DiffServ peering relationships, just like they do today for all Internet data. They will bill one another for this service. They will pass these charges along to the consumer as tiered service. For example, I might pay an extra $5 a month for QoS to be enabled on my line so that I get the lowest latency connection possible for on-line gaming. I might pay another $5 for QoS for VoIP calls, or maybe $7 for both together. I will do so happily, because in return I get a Service Level Agreement that says my VoIP calls will work consistently, and when they don't I had someone to yell at who can help me or compensate me. This does not exist today, and is a huge competitive disadvantage for VoIP service providers.
Again, Smith's a moron who doesn't understand anything beyond next quarter's results, but the visionaries will get this. It's coming, there's only one way to build a billing infrastructure, and we'll all enjoy a better Internet because of it.
Previously, OS/2 was the OS of choice for ATM machines, mostly because most ATMs were attached to an IBM controller and communicated with an IBM mainframe via SNA (DLSW over IP mostly).
OS/2 is a little hard to buy these days, and the back-end connections are migrating away from SNA to TCP/IP as it's a hell of a lot easier to maintain a pure IP network. Any ATM purchased within the last several years uses Windows NT, 2000, or XP as their operating system.
In other words, you've been getting cash from a Windows box for years already. The sky isn't falling.
I too switched from Smoothwall to IPCop after an, um, interaction with Morell. Although Smoothwall is a good product, IPCop is equally good (if not better), and I've been using it without any problems for quite some time. Frankly, I'd crawl through glass in order to avoid anything with Morell's name on it.
...was at a film distribution company. The Homeland Security folks could learn a thing or two from these people.
Once on entering the facility, and again when I left, I had to stand on a little box, about four inches tall. A security guard then waved a wand over me and another physically patted me down. My notebook bag had all contents removed, inspected, and then put back in place. They did a pretty good job of putting everything back where it came from.
If everybody did things the way those guys did, I don't think insiders would be contributing much to the P2P networks.
I once went to the white house with my wife and mother-in-law. My mother-in-law used her Citibank Visa with her photo on it as her picture ID. We got in. This is pre-911, of course, but still makes me laugh.
Sorry, but some things should fade into antiquity, and cursive writing is one of them. Someone please explain why kids not knowing how to write cursive is a Bad Thing(tm).
I've been using TMDA (http://www.tmda.net) for well over a year now, had maybe five or six spam emails sneak through the system in that entire time. Twice a day it sends me a list of "pending" emails so I can manually release and/or whitelist a message.
Challenge/response systems DO work, and they work extremely well. I think those who have not used one should give it a try before throwing rocks.
There's no point using a touch screen remote unless you have decent macro ability, which makes up for the loss of tactile feedback from real buttons.
My Pronto turns on my TV, turns on my receiver, sets the appropriate inputs on both, turns on my DVD player & pops the tray open, and dims the lights, all in about five seconds with one screen tap. Press another button, it turns off the DVD player and switches the inputs so I can watch cable. You can't get any easier than that.
The bottom line is I don't believe there is a gender bias at work here. Right or not, traditionally men have been more attracted to building things, whether that be buildings, roads, cars, networks or web sites. It's not about physical labor so much as loving to put things together.
And oh yeah, we love to blow things up too. ;-)
It's useful in scenarios where you have a large web server farm. By implementing reverse caching and lightening the load on your web server farm, you don't have to have quite so many web servers. It also has the net effect of making your web site appear to be "faster" since users will see the images more quickly from the cache than the web server.