I note that there is a DNS entry for ntp1.dlink.com at 64.7.210.145
I wonder what DLink's reaction would be if a large number of people
were to add that to their ntp.conf?
$ ntpq -pn 64.7.210.145 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
+216.218.192.202.GPS. 1 u 153 1024 377 22.289 -0.907 26.128 -216.218.254.202.CDMA. 1 u 292 1024 377 32.414 -8.833 0.149 *207.200.81.113.ACTS. 1 u 83 1024 377 17.305 1.243 0.794 -69.25.96.13.ACTS. 1 u 798 1024 377 17.803 -7.099 0.015 66.150.161.133.INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 66.150.161.141.INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 66.150.161.133.INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 +128.9.176.30.GPS. 1 u 1457 1024 376 42.260 1.299 0.659
202.192.218.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer clock.fmt.he.net. 202.254.218.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer clock.sjc.he.net. 113.81.200.207.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer nist1.aol-ca.truetime.com. 13.96.25.69.in-addr.ar pa domain name pointer nist1.symmetricom.com. 133.161.150.66.in-addr.arp a domain name pointer redirectf.dnsix.com. Host 141.161.150.66.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) 133.161.150.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer redirectf.dnsix.com. 30.176.9.128.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer timekeeper.isi.edu.
(I can't find anyway to stop slashcode from reformatting the spaces in the
above text)
I thought I'd read about this before - a long time ago.
A quick google for "British Rail" "Flying Saucer" turns up
several references, including this
New Scientist article from 26 July 1997.
It's a bit of a late reply I'm afraid - I had a busy afternoon and was then over at the
Astronomy Centre getting good views of Saturn and M42, but it seems that the
reason that the Washington Post was asking me to register was something to do with my
Privoxy settings - possibly "hide-user-agent".
The Register article dates back to March last year.
The "BBC Charter Review" consultation closed in May 2005.
The consultation was far wider reaching than the methods of
funding, never mind proposed taxes on computers.
The changes to the license fee will not be needed until 2017.
Who would dare to predict what a "computer" will look like in 10 years time?
132. We recommend that the system of funding the BBC until 2017 should
be through a licence fee. We support the Government's decision to conduct
an interim review of methods of funding but this should not be conducted
until after the completion of analogue switch-off.
The Government welcomes the Committee's support for the licence fee.
It is currently conducting a detailed review to establish the future
level of the licence fee. Since technology is advancing rapidly,
there will be a further review of methods of funding during
the lifetime of the next Charter.
As stated in the Green Paper, this review is currently envisaged
to take place towards the end of switchover to ensure that there
is adequate time for planning and implementation should it be
decided that changes are desirable. The Government will consider
the Committee's recommendation that this review should await
completion of digital switchover. It is worth noting that there
have also been arguments that the review should happen earlier
during the switchover process. The Green Paper makes clear,
in any case, that the Government will retain the flexibility
to alter this timing if the need arises.
Also remember this - I once had to take a foreign friend (an American living
in Switzerland) who was visiting me to the Accident and Emergency
department of the local hospital. All they asked for was her name and my name and
address: they never asked for any payment. It's just as strange for someone
in the UK to hear that you might be asked to pay in advance for emergency
hospital treatment as for an American to hear that you need to pay a tax
on televisions.
Since 1992, UK "coppers" have been made out of
Copper plated steel, rather than bronze.
There are several interesting links between the Royal Mint and
Neal Stephenson's
(
Slashdot Interview)
Baroque Cycle, including references to Hooke and Newton, to whom the quotation "standing on the shoulders of giants", which is engraved around the edge of £2 coins, is ascribed.
The
Trial of the Pyx, which forms part of the plot, exists, and has been carried out ever since 1282.
As seen on Saturday over on RootPrompt,
Inventgeek is running an article
The Poor Man's RAID array, written by Jared Bouck.
It's built out of SCSI drives and a RAID controller card.
The appliances that the company I work for ships use dual SATA drives,
the Linux MD driver and LVM2 though. I still haven't worked out whether
that rumours that SCSI drivers are better built and have a greater MTBF
are true - they certainly cost a lot more for smaller capacities.
What self-respecting geek doesn't get the warm fuzzies at the mere mention of the RAID. With the rising GB to Dollar ratio, we felt it was a good time to feature a project that takes Pure Geekieness(TM) and mixes in a good helping of do it your self. Where else are you going to store all those MP3s (legally obtained, of course)? On a single 200 GB Drive? Or a RAID 5 Array? Take you pick, I know where I will be storing mine.
As seen on Saturday over on RootPrompt,
Inventgeek is running an article
The Poor Man's RAID array, written by Jared Bouck.
It's built out of SCSI drives and a RAID controller card.
The appliances that the company I work for ships use dual SATA drives,
the Linux MD driver and LVM2 though. I still haven't worked out whether
that rumours that SCSI drivers are better built and have a greated MTBF
are true - they certainly cost a lot more for smaller capacities.
What self-respecting geek doesn't get the warm fuzzies at the mere mention of the RAID. With the rising GB to Dollar ratio, we felt it was a good time to feature a project that takes Pure Geekieness(TM) and mixes in a good helping of do it your self. Where else are you going to store all those MP3s (legally obtained, of course)? On a single 200 GB Drive? Or a RAID 5 Array? Take you pick, I know where I will be storing mine.
Brian Krebs is clearly either extremely stupid, or has an axe to grind.
If you look at the
Cert Cyber Security Bulletin 2005 Summary, you can see that
many of the lines in it end in "(Updated)"
A simple count of lines gives the results that Brian quotes, however
there are far more "(Updated)" entries in the Unix/ Linux Operating Systems
section. Removing these lines gives the following
results:
including excluding
"(Updated)" "(Updated)"
Windows 813 671
U/L 2328 891
Multiple 2057 1512
(sorry about the spacing - can't find any way of doing it)
greatly reducing the proportion of Unix/Linux vulnerabilities
There are two others mentioned, one of which contains the word
"Orangutang", which is also mentioned in the Times article.
Interestingly,
this directory listing implies that the BENCHMARK file, which contains
the above solution, was created no later than November 1999.
Sorry - but I can't stop the ecode tage from inserting spaces into
the text.
In 1973, a Greek scientist, Dr. Ioannis Sakkas performed the same
experiment. There is a discussion at this web site, and a link
to
this one.
It's in Spanish, but it does have a photograph of about 40 of the 70 man-sized
mirrors they used. He managed to ignite a tarred wooden boat in about 3 minutes.
I am now seeing "Forbidden" when trying to access the original MIT web page, however Google claims there is mention of the Sakkis experiment on
this one
(also forbidden).
Wolfgang Pauli's comment on one scientific paper
shows that there are worse things in science than
just being incorrect. Science is always
falsifiable.
Works fine for me:
(some munging to remove "junk" characters to get past lameness filter)
$ mplayer http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocont rolledhuman.rm MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.3 C 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4/Athlon MP/XP Palomino Family: 6, Stepping: 2 Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
77 audio & 188 video codecs Failed to open/dev/misc/rtc: Permission denied it should be readable by the user. Can't open menu config file:/home/alan/.mplayer/menu.conf Menu inited:/etc/mplayer/menu.conf Playing http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocont rolledhuman.rm. Resolving images.forbes.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server images.forbes.com[12.120.81.15]:80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes Connected to server: images.forbes.com Cache fill: 15.00% (49152 bytes) REAL file format detected. ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 26995 0x6973 Channels: 1 Samplerate: 16000 avg byte/sec: 16000 Block align: 320 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 10 Unknown extra header dump: 0 0 6 0 3 0 40 1 0 0
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/win32/drv3.so.6.0' Selected video codec: [rv30] vfm:realvid (Linux RealPlayer 8 RV30 decoder)
Checking audio filter chain for 16000Hz/1ch/16bit -> 16000Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 1 ch, 16000 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 16000Hz 1ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) AO: [oss] 16000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 16000Hz/1ch/16bit -> 16000Hz/2ch/16bit... Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar I420) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 24-bit special converter VO: [gl2] 320x240 => 320x240 BGR 24-bit [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!) [gl2] antialiasing off [gl2] bilinear linear A: 1.3 V: 1.3 A-V: 0.010 ct: 0.058 21/ 21 15% 7% 0.5% 0 0 18% Exiting... (Quit)
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder what DLink's reaction would be if a large number of people were to add that to their ntp.conf?
(I can't find anyway to stop slashcode from reformatting the spaces in the above text)
There are other possible earlier ones as well.
Plagiarised without attribution from:l .3.178798.34
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joe
It's a bit of a late reply I'm afraid - I had a busy afternoon and was then over at the Astronomy Centre getting good views of Saturn and M42, but it seems that the reason that the Washington Post was asking me to register was something to do with my Privoxy settings - possibly "hide-user-agent".
Google news
The "BBC Charter Review" consultation closed in May 2005. The consultation was far wider reaching than the methods of funding, never mind proposed taxes on computers.
The changes to the license fee will not be needed until 2017.
Who would dare to predict what a "computer" will look like in 10 years time?
The up-to-date news is the Government Response to the Lords Committee Report on Charter Review, published on the 31 January 2006.
This document states:
Also remember this - I once had to take a foreign friend (an American living in Switzerland) who was visiting me to the Accident and Emergency department of the local hospital. All they asked for was her name and my name and address: they never asked for any payment. It's just as strange for someone in the UK to hear that you might be asked to pay in advance for emergency hospital treatment as for an American to hear that you need to pay a tax on televisions.
There are several interesting links between the Royal Mint and Neal Stephenson's ( Slashdot Interview) Baroque Cycle , including references to Hooke and Newton, to whom the quotation "standing on the shoulders of giants", which is engraved around the edge of £2 coins, is ascribed. The Trial of the Pyx, which forms part of the plot, exists, and has been carried out ever since 1282.
Oops, sorry - posted to the wrong story.
http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theorie_rau
Including Jochem Hauser and Walter Droscher's paper (PDF) that won the AIAA prize: Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device AIAA 2004-3700m fahrt/guidelinesforaspacepropulsiondeveiceaiaa2004 -3700.pdf
http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theorie_rau
The web site referenced at the end of the dead tree edition of the New Scientist article: http://www.heim-theory.com/
including excluding
"(Updated)" "(Updated)"
Windows 813 671
U/L 2328 891
Multiple 2057 1512
(sorry about the spacing - can't find any way of doing it)
greatly reducing the proportion of Unix/Linux vulnerabilities
There are two others mentioned, one of which contains the word "Orangutang", which is also mentioned in the Times article. Interestingly, this directory listing implies that the BENCHMARK file, which contains the above solution, was created no later than November 1999. Sorry - but I can't stop the ecode tage from inserting spaces into the text.
Complete with a photo of His Noodly Holiness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Universe_mod el
http://www.catholicism.org/ibank.barclays.co.uk/ol b/p/LoginMember.do/index.htm
It's in Spanish, but it does have a photograph of about 40 of the 70 man-sized mirrors they used. He managed to ignite a tarred wooden boat in about 3 minutes.
I am now seeing "Forbidden" when trying to access the original MIT web page, however Google claims there is mention of the Sakkis experiment on this one (also forbidden).
I treat anyone whose web site is a sub-domain of uk.com with the same contempt as I do .biz and .info.
This is a particularly clueless article, and TheReg ought to have known better than to publish it.
Wolfgang Pauli's comment on one scientific paper shows that there are worse things in science than just being incorrect. Science is always falsifiable.
(some munging to remove "junk" characters to get past lameness filter)
But you'll need to take out the space that the slashcode put into the URL. Can't find any way around it.
mplayer http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocon