Accountants are the ones that "disdain ambiguity" An Engineer thrives in ambiguity as it allows him/her more freedom to design a solution to the problem.
for some statistics from where I work: (unofficial) - about 30% child sexual abuse - 30% organized crime - gangs - 20% counterfeit/extortion the rest is murder and others. At least where I work, the police know better than trying to go after someone with a few borderline pics. We would be after the guys that trade in pics that are obviously of a child (+/-10yrs old and younger). So, yes, serious crimes; and no, here we don't try to ruin peoples lives - we try to prevent the ruining of peoples lives by those sick bastards that produce this stuff and the ones that create a market for it - as well as by other crimes.
you would probably like to read Michael Ignatief's papers on terrorism and insurgency: http://store.ad-free.net/html/productc8b8.html Bassed on the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2003
He has many detractors but I find it hard to accept most of their criticism, ussualy coming from the more extreme left or right and often blind to objectivism.
Agree totally. However, and I am not claiming that this is what they encountered, some OEM create what is known as a Host Protected Area (HPA) where they can store a backup of the OS and other apps to be used for returning a hosed system to its original state.
This is set up by setting the size of the drive with the ATA command 'Set Max Address' (0xf9) to a value smaller than the physical size of the drive which is provided by the ATA command 'Read Native Max Address' (0xf8) - if you don't trust what's written on the label. After set, if done non-volatile, the physical size of the drive will be reported as the size specified. Note that this has nothing to do with partition tables; so Ghost or other similar utilities would not know that this has taken place - maybe Partition Magic but I doubt it.
I have a bunch of IBM Travelstar drives (for laptops) with potentially a lot good stuff in them; the problem is that most are locked with a hd user password (not a POP or a supervisor pwd). How could I retrieve the password or hack the locked drives?
cheers, Frank
p.s. you can email info to elfmaloney@yahoo.NOT.ca (w/o the negative word)
I agree with what you are saying, but what you describe is an optical switch not an optical router. (a switch switches circuits or light channels in this case and a router routes packets).
I read trough their website (www.chiaro.com) but wasn't clear on how they can identify the destination addresses of the packets (essential for routing) without some sort of photonic-electrical conversion. Then it won't be an all optical router, would it?;-)
don't think so. The Meridian and opt 11 run on SOS iirc (Switch Operating System, developed internally by Nortel for the DMS and then used on the PBXs and early Optical mux and transport nodes, most of these now run pSos with QNX being considered for the future)
> Also probably conserves on my short memory usage;)
maybe if you did not look at so much porn your memory and recolection of events would be much better (or was it vision that my mom was worried about? can't remember)
but KDE is still a pig. Why does it take so long to start up? yeah, yeah... enough with the upgrade advise...
You forget about physical 'tempest' requirements.
If your monitor or other device/connector is not properly shielded, someone can detect the signal, sync it and display it remotely. Therefore, the whole system has to be in a secure area; negating some of the savings mentioned in the original article.
There are some people in Ottawa, Canada, doing just that with the schools in the region with varying degrees of success. The project is organized by Milan Budimirovic at milan.budimirovic@sympatico.ca or Dave Neilcricket@storm.ca
The main problem, as stated before, is that what people think of as intuitive is generally biased by their experience or knowledge. And this reminds me of what someone said on OCLUG: "There is no such thing as an intuitive interface design, the only intuitive interface is the nipple, everthing afterwards is learned." (I forget the source...some Ottawa Hacker)
1. the year. IIRC the alegations of insider trading are for 1998 or before, not 1999. At that time the stocks were trading somewhat below their previous high; then, the quarterly results were in and the stock started its slide to about $4 CND.
2. MC has some to do with the Corel Centre but very little if anything with the Senators.
for those of us that are tech savy, videofile, younger people. It will be usefull on foggy roads, if there is wildlife ahead or drunken students (did I repeat myself?). However, it will be less usefull on busy roads and in the city where there are more things to concentrate on.
The problem is with the demographics of the buyer of these models, if you get my drift. Some of these folks may get confused by the double representation, slow right down (even more!) and perhaps causing more accidents.
On another note, I've read some comments here that need clarification. With thermal/ir you can acctually see pretty good, depending on the quality of the system. I am ex-military and I have used pretty much the range of whats out there. The older models are pretty crappy, the new ones are very good. But you still can't see through a concrete wall in any sort of real-time form. The metal on most cars will difuse the heat from the passengers unless they are right against the metal.
As for driving without headllights, it will be pretty dangerous unless you add an ir lamp/source; then, you will illuminate all the objects in front and be able to see them.
It seems to be awsome technology, but, for now, it will not aleviate our usual complaints: latency and our local bandwidth. This will benefit the carriers, those companies like Qwest, etc. wich have massive fiber deployments and only the largests ISPs. From the relese, it mentions that it will route lambdas, or wavelengths, but not what interfaces it will have (oc3, oc12...oc192, fddi, etc) or wether it will do ip routing. It will probably only accept > oc48. The bottleneck will be moved more and more towards the edge, but the latency is not addressed (for a single ip packet); therefore, without QOS rules and such, high quality interactive video and voice for the normal user are still far away.
cheers, Frank
PS. did you guys hear about Nortel and Intel partnering on Open ip and IX ?
My paycheque, and those of most readers here depends on that. Stop pushing flashy, kewl, electronic gadgets and software to people that do not need it and most of us would end up on pogy ( canadian for unemployment insurance )
I am no expert either, but look at this; if the plants are still able to produce pollen but not developing a seed, this pollen can be taken by wind or insects to the neighboring fields (has happended with Monsanto, several pending lawsuits...), owned by your average farmer that uses his own seeds. His future crops will be ruined.
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no, you dolt, it's not the plastic that's explosive; its what they dope it with.
Accountants are the ones that "disdain ambiguity"
An Engineer thrives in ambiguity as it allows him/her more freedom to design a solution to the problem.
I guess it depends on jurisdiction.
Here in Canada is not that bad.
for some statistics from where I work: (unofficial)
- about 30% child sexual abuse
- 30% organized crime - gangs
- 20% counterfeit/extortion
the rest is murder and others.
At least where I work, the police know better than trying to go after someone with a few borderline pics. We would be after the guys that trade in pics that are obviously of a child (+/-10yrs old and younger). So, yes, serious crimes; and no, here we don't try to ruin peoples lives - we try to prevent the ruining of peoples lives by those sick bastards that produce this stuff and the ones that create a market for it - as well as by other crimes.
cheers
good thing I kept reading... I first thought that you were talking about Sado-Masochist Peons since you did not have any Next Of Kin left to give...
Heh, there's lots of missing links here in canada - calling each other hosers and swilling cheap beer, eh.
how do you interpret the occasional hanging chad?
is it the Florida system?
when are you going to upgrade to to a modern electronic system?
you would probably like to read Michael Ignatief's papers on terrorism and insurgency: http://store.ad-free.net/html/productc8b8.html
Bassed on the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2003
He has many detractors but I find it hard to accept most of their criticism, ussualy coming from the more extreme left or right and often blind to objectivism.
Agree totally.
However, and I am not claiming that this is what they encountered, some OEM create what is known as a Host Protected Area (HPA) where they can store a backup of the OS and other apps to be used for returning a hosed system to its original state.
This is set up by setting the size of the drive with the ATA command 'Set Max Address' (0xf9) to a value smaller than the physical size of the drive which is provided by the ATA command 'Read Native Max Address' (0xf8) - if you don't trust what's written on the label. After set, if done non-volatile, the physical size of the drive will be reported as the size specified.
Note that this has nothing to do with partition tables; so Ghost or other similar utilities would not know that this has taken place - maybe Partition Magic but I doubt it.
I have a bunch of IBM Travelstar drives (for laptops) with potentially a lot good stuff in them; the problem is that most are locked with a hd user password (not a POP or a supervisor pwd). How could I retrieve the password or hack the locked drives?
cheers,
Frank
p.s. you can email info to elfmaloney@yahoo.NOT.ca
(w/o the negative word)
I agree with what you are saying, but what you describe is an optical switch not an optical router.
;-)
(a switch switches circuits or light channels in this case and a router routes packets).
I read trough their website (www.chiaro.com) but wasn't clear on how they can identify the destination addresses of the packets (essential for routing) without some sort of photonic-electrical conversion. Then it won't be an all optical router, would it?
cheers,
Frank
to say
All your blog are belong to us
?
don't think so. The Meridian and opt 11 run on SOS iirc (Switch Operating System, developed internally by Nortel for the DMS and then used on the PBXs and early Optical mux and transport nodes, most of these now run pSos with QNX being considered for the future)
cheers,
Frank
> Also probably conserves on my short memory usage ;)
maybe if you did not look at so much porn your memory and recolection of events would be much better (or was it vision that my mom was worried about? can't remember)
but KDE is still a pig. Why does it take so long to start up?
yeah, yeah... enough with the upgrade advise...
Well, now you could really go blind by looking at too much pr0n...
You forget about physical 'tempest' requirements.
If your monitor or other device/connector is not properly shielded, someone can detect the signal, sync it and display it remotely. Therefore, the whole system has to be in a secure area; negating some of the savings mentioned in the original article.
So, I can get back orifice on the windows machine and, thus, have acces to the linux machines from my l33t boxen ;) ?
There are some people in Ottawa, Canada, doing just that with the schools in the region with varying degrees of success. The project is organized by Milan Budimirovic at milan.budimirovic@sympatico.ca or Dave Neil cricket@storm.ca
More info can be obtained from OCLUG: Ottawa Carleton Linux Users Group
cheers,
El Malo
The main problem, as stated before, is that what people think of as intuitive is generally biased by their experience or knowledge. And this reminds me of what someone said on OCLUG: "There is no such thing as an intuitive interface design, the only intuitive interface is the nipple, everthing afterwards is learned."
(I forget the source...some Ottawa Hacker)
cheers,
Frank
1. the year. IIRC the alegations of insider trading are for 1998 or before, not 1999. At that time the stocks were trading somewhat below their previous high; then, the quarterly results were in and the stock started its slide to about $4 CND.
2. MC has some to do with the Corel Centre but very little if anything with the Senators.
just my $2.0E^-2, CDN at that
cheers,
Frank
for those of us that are tech savy, videofile, younger people. It will be usefull on foggy roads, if there is wildlife ahead or drunken students (did I repeat myself?). However, it will be less usefull on busy roads and in the city where there are more things to concentrate on.
The problem is with the demographics of the buyer of these models, if you get my drift. Some of these folks may get confused by the double representation, slow right down (even more!) and perhaps causing more accidents.
On another note, I've read some comments here that need clarification. With thermal/ir you can acctually see pretty good, depending on the quality of the system. I am ex-military and I have used pretty much the range of whats out there. The older models are pretty crappy, the new ones are very good. But you still can't see through a concrete wall in any sort of real-time form. The metal on most cars will difuse the heat from the passengers unless they are right against the metal.
As for driving without headllights, it will be pretty dangerous unless you add an ir lamp/source; then, you will illuminate all the objects in front and be able to see them.
It seems to be awsome technology, but, for now, it will not aleviate our usual complaints: latency and our local bandwidth.
This will benefit the carriers, those companies like Qwest, etc. wich have massive fiber deployments and only the largests ISPs.
From the relese, it mentions that it will route lambdas, or wavelengths, but not what interfaces it will have (oc3, oc12...oc192, fddi, etc) or wether it will do ip routing. It will probably only accept > oc48. The bottleneck will be moved more and more towards the edge, but the latency is not addressed (for a single ip packet); therefore,
without QOS rules and such, high quality interactive video and voice for the normal user are still far away.
cheers,
Frank
PS. did you guys hear about Nortel and Intel partnering on Open ip and IX ?
somobody moderate this AC up. he's got a good point on the development of connectedness.
cheers, Frank
My paycheque, and those of most readers here depends on that. Stop pushing flashy, kewl, electronic gadgets and software to people that do not need it and most of us would end up on pogy ( canadian for unemployment insurance )
cheers, Frank
I am no expert either, but look at this; if the plants are still able to produce pollen but not developing a seed, this pollen can be taken by wind or insects to the neighboring fields (has happended with Monsanto, several pending lawsuits...), owned by your average farmer that uses his own seeds. His future crops will be ruined.
cheers,
Frank