Switch off all un-needed lights and appliances. Avoid "stand by" modes, as an appliance (TV, Computer, Hifi, etc) use almost as much power in stand-by as when it's on.
That's just plain wrong. They use some current, sure, but it's nowhere near "almost as much power in stand-by as when it's on". Get an ammeter and measure a few appliances yourself.
It also comes as quite a shock to many Americans that the Brits don't do business in quite the same way, and indeed vice-versa.:-)... but you're right. The 2 most sucessful economies in the world are.US and.JP, and they work in COMPLETELY different ways. Even questionss as trivial as "what does a contract mean" will get you diametrically oposed answers in the east and the west.
There's a longer example on the hints page, and it gives very strong hints as to where you can find the plaintext too.
The longer example also contains some punctuation. This is a bit of a clue.
The plaintext is a commercial dead tree book, but there's several web pages with (mostly the same) excepts online. The plaintext is amid most of those web pages.
The hints page also pretty much tells you how to convert via octal.
Having located the known plaintext, it's a case of picking through looking for repeated bits that make up words, snippets of words, etc etc. Having found "the" and "there", for example, you can spot "re" in other bits, and eventually break it into "th", "e", "r", etc etc. Finding "this" lets you break up "th" and "is", and so on. Eventually you can break all the patterns down to single letters.
Obviously you can start at the start, and after some of the bits of punctuation. I put "=" at each of the known "start points", then used perl regex like:
$msg =~ s/=1234/th=/g;
(In other words "if 1234 occurs at a known start-point, replace with "th" and move on the known start-point.)
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Now I've got a bit of perl that converts the long example code into the (found) plaintext. I've just got to manually transcribe the "-" and "l" from the 'orrible fuzzy images (which is apparently the worst bit:-( ), guess at which way up they're supposed to be, and run them through the same perl. If there's any unparsed letters in it, I'll have to make a good guess.
Works both ways. IT also acts exactly like you're feeding a high frequency modulated signal into a long bit of wire, IE acts exactly like you're deliberately TRANSMITTING all sorts of crap all over the radio spectrum too. Really annoys the radio amateurs, and astronomers, who are often trying to pick out a tiny important signal in amongst the spew of noise. You want to be pumping even more noise into the air?
I've been doing this for years, and in practice, it just means I get 12 copies of most spams, because they got my address from 12 different places, usually web archives of the mailing-lists.
You can't refuse mail from non-lists to mailinglists@your.domain, because then nobody can contact you saying "I saw your post on foo-list and was wondering if I could get a copy of foo-prog and if you could tell me how you made it foo bar baz".
I'd highly reccommend buying one of these - it's a great geek toy anyway, but the manual's also amusing:
Power Ball - you give me one minute, and I will give you a powerful hand.
Thank you for your kind patronage
The NanoSecond Power Ball is a kind of ball with very high rotation speeds for training the wrist strength, meant to satisfy a sense of achievement in sports.
The NanoSecond Power Ball is a new model, space-saving sports tool, which can run over 12,000 revolutions per minute (R.P.M.) as long as it is manipulated to the point. It is a highly creative and newfangled drilling tool. Try Power Ball, and you'll be amazed with its miraculous power for sure.
If you're confused, the box might help explain:
Manual mode. Transmit the rotor with your palm in a downgoing twisting application of force. For transmission. Once the ball is set into transmission, spin the ball with upgraded accelleration in a forward direction of the wrist. Try repeatedly, and you will soon learn the knack, and the pleasure will be beyond description.
The Blackbrry wireless email gadgets in NA are C/C++ based, but the European ones (and the one slashdot showed recently with the headphone) are java based, the "OS" is a J2ME VM, all the apps (including email, address book, even the phone) are java, and there's a fair movement of 3rd-party developers writing stuff for it too.
It's worth exactly ZERO, as you should know.
You can't charge for IP addresses. You can charge an admin fee for the application/assignment process, you can charge for routing them, you can charge for providing transit to them, but you can't charge for the IP addresses themselves.
Furthermore, they're not transferable, you'd have to return them to RIPE/ARIN and get them re-allocated.
Tivo WITHOUT subscription? Hmmmmmm... Depending on what you're looking for, you might be better off with a Sony SmartFile VCR.
You CAN'T pause, rewind, and resume live TV, but you CAN do a lot of other "tivo-like" things...
It records on standard VHS tapes, but you stick a special label on the tapes. A magentic/RF loop stores extra info in a chip in the label. Admittedly the label costs a little more than the tape did, but on the other hand you can buy hundreds of tapes and hundreds of labels and they're far easier to "install" than bigger hard drives.
You set the timer manually, optionally using VideoPlus+ codes - not as cool as tivo, but cheaply/freely available on various TV guides on the 'net or on dead tree.
When it records, regardless of whether the timer was set manually, using VideoPlus+, pressing the "record" button, or using the "record record record" thing to record for 30m, 1h, 1h30, etc... when it records, it checks teletext to see what programme it's recording, and makes a note of this on the SmartFile label.
Here's the cool bit... Wave a tape in front of the machine, and the RF loop checks the contents of the tape, and a list of the tape's contents is shown on screen - date, and programme name (or times if teletext was unhelpful / unavailable). Wrong tape? grab the next one in your collection and wave that. Got the right tape now? Stick it in the machine, press the "smartfile" button, choose the programme off the menu, and it'll rewind of fastforward to the right place and play away.
Don't want to keep a programme any more? press SmartFile, choose the programme, press Clear, and it won't be physically DELETED from the tape, but it'll be marked as blank space. when you're later looking for a tape with enough space to record tonight's film, you can wave tapes in front of the machine and it'll tell you the longest contiguous section of "blank" space on that tape.
OK... so it's not as cool as "tivo with subscription". You can't pause and resume live TV, you can't "buy a season pass", it won't automatically record stuff it thinks you'll like, you have to manually set the timer. You can't INSTANTLY seek to, and start playing, a programme, but it's pretty damned fast, and of course storage space is limited only by how much you want to spend on VHS tapes and SmartFile labels. SmartFile VCRs are also considerably cheaper than TiVO.
Disclaimer: TECHNICALLY I'm biassed, because I work for (a very different part of) Sony... OTOH you're probably biassed too, because Sony are members of RIAA and MPPA and they fake movie reviews:-) I'm writing this as a satisfied owner, not a Sony employee, honest!
That's ridiculous. One of my own domains sends and recieve thousands of emails a day, but has nothing "hosted on it" if you're referring to HTTP... On the other hand, one of my other domains DOES have something "hosted on it" but consume far less bandwidth because it's almost never visited.
I'm not squatting on either of them, and as far as I can tell, nobody would have any right to snatch them back off me, regardless of whether or not I have "something hosted on it".
You never found anyone better than netmind at actually monitoring web pages for you then? I've got netmind watching about 50 web pages for me, and you're right, they often take days and days to do their "daily" update. I've found spyonit.com, but that (despite their claims) doesn't seem to be as customisable, and found a few other things which can unhelpfully tell you "this page has changed" but not actually tell you the changes.
If you've found a site that can tell you when AND HOW a web page has changed, and can be taught to ignore simple date-changes, and preferably attach the page to an HTML-format email, and do it punctually, I'd appreciate knowing about it!
Great having 100Mbps to the home... but what's the point if japan's bandwidth to the rest of the world is less than 100Mbps anyway?!?!?
I s'pose if you wanted to browse nothing but japanese kiddie-pr0n all day...
Of course I'm in the wrong country to understand, but it surprises me quite how much people mistrust the NSA.
Remember that during the developement of DES, the NSA suggested some changes to some of the tables, and these changes WERE incorporated, and conspiracy theorists everywhere assumed that the NSA were using the changes as a backdoor that none of us understood.
Years later, a new type of attack was discovered ("meet-in-the-middle", I think?), and it was realised that the NSA's table-changes made DES MORE secure against this type of attack - basically it seems that the NSA knew about this attack years before the public, and deliberately PROTECTED DES against it.
Slashdot Mirror
The piracy capital of the world cares about intellectual property?!?
It also comes as quite a shock to many Americans that the Brits don't do business in quite the same way, and indeed vice-versa. :-) ... but you're right. The 2 most sucessful economies in the world are .US and .JP, and they work in COMPLETELY different ways. Even questionss as trivial as "what does a contract mean" will get you diametrically oposed answers in the east and the west.
Errr... It's JAVA. Is that proprietary enough for you? Or were you taking the p1$$?
/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/webcollage - comes with xscreensaver. Written in perl, easy enough to give it new methids to find photos.
I'm a BT OpenWound-er-sorry, OpenWORLD customer. I run webcollage. Should I worry? :-)
It's an absolutely splendid message, had me ROTFL. Well worth the effort! Thanks planetary society!
The longer example also contains some punctuation. This is a bit of a clue.
The plaintext is a commercial dead tree book, but there's several web pages with (mostly the same) excepts online. The plaintext is amid most of those web pages.
The hints page also pretty much tells you how to convert via octal.
Having located the known plaintext, it's a case of picking through looking for repeated bits that make up words, snippets of words, etc etc. Having found "the" and "there", for example, you can spot "re" in other bits, and eventually break it into "th", "e", "r", etc etc. Finding "this" lets you break up "th" and "is", and so on. Eventually you can break all the patterns down to single letters.
Obviously you can start at the start, and after some of the bits of punctuation. I put "=" at each of the known "start points", then used perl regex like:
$msg =~ s/=1234/th=/g;
(In other words "if 1234 occurs at a known start-point, replace with "th" and move on the known start-point.)
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Now I've got a bit of perl that converts the long example code into the (found) plaintext. I've just got to manually transcribe the "-" and "l" from the 'orrible fuzzy images (which is apparently the worst bit :-( ), guess at which way up they're supposed to be, and run them through the same perl. If there's any unparsed letters in it, I'll have to make a good guess.
Works both ways. IT also acts exactly like you're feeding a high frequency modulated signal into a long bit of wire, IE acts exactly like you're deliberately TRANSMITTING all sorts of crap all over the radio spectrum too. Really annoys the radio amateurs, and astronomers, who are often trying to pick out a tiny important signal in amongst the spew of noise. You want to be pumping even more noise into the air?
> The current fad is in fact Bayesian filtering, sophisticated statistical analysis.
Baysian filtering IS word-counting with (not very sophisticated) statistical heuristics applied to the results.
I've been doing this for years, and in practice, it just means I get 12 copies of most spams, because they got my address from 12 different places, usually web archives of the mailing-lists.
You can't refuse mail from non-lists to mailinglists@your.domain, because then nobody can contact you saying "I saw your post on foo-list and was wondering if I could get a copy of foo-prog and if you could tell me how you made it foo bar baz".
Always used to stand for "Attack Of The Clones" :-)
I'd highly reccommend buying one of these - it's a great geek toy anyway, but the manual's also amusing:
Power Ball - you give me one minute, and I will give you a powerful hand.
Thank you for your kind patronage
The NanoSecond Power Ball is a kind of ball with very high rotation speeds for training the wrist strength, meant to satisfy a sense of achievement in sports.
The NanoSecond Power Ball is a new model, space-saving sports tool, which can run over 12,000 revolutions per minute (R.P.M.) as long as it is manipulated to the point. It is a highly creative and newfangled drilling tool. Try Power Ball, and you'll be amazed with its miraculous power for sure.
If you're confused, the box might help explain:
Manual mode. Transmit the rotor with your palm in a downgoing twisting application of force. For transmission. Once the ball is set into transmission, spin the ball with upgraded accelleration in a forward direction of the wrist. Try repeatedly, and you will soon learn the knack, and the pleasure will be beyond description.
Fantastic!
The Blackbrry wireless email gadgets in NA are C/C++ based, but the European ones (and the one slashdot showed recently with the headphone) are java based, the "OS" is a J2ME VM, all the apps (including email, address book, even the phone) are java, and there's a fair movement of 3rd-party developers writing stuff for it too.
It's worth exactly ZERO, as you should know. You can't charge for IP addresses. You can charge an admin fee for the application/assignment process, you can charge for routing them, you can charge for providing transit to them, but you can't charge for the IP addresses themselves. Furthermore, they're not transferable, you'd have to return them to RIPE/ARIN and get them re-allocated.
For what it's worth, Terry Pratchett hates his books being labelled "Fantasy".
You CAN'T pause, rewind, and resume live TV, but you CAN do a lot of other "tivo-like" things...
It records on standard VHS tapes, but you stick a special label on the tapes. A magentic/RF loop stores extra info in a chip in the label. Admittedly the label costs a little more than the tape did, but on the other hand you can buy hundreds of tapes and hundreds of labels and they're far easier to "install" than bigger hard drives.
You set the timer manually, optionally using VideoPlus+ codes - not as cool as tivo, but cheaply/freely available on various TV guides on the 'net or on dead tree.
When it records, regardless of whether the timer was set manually, using VideoPlus+, pressing the "record" button, or using the "record record record" thing to record for 30m, 1h, 1h30, etc... when it records, it checks teletext to see what programme it's recording, and makes a note of this on the SmartFile label.
Here's the cool bit... Wave a tape in front of the machine, and the RF loop checks the contents of the tape, and a list of the tape's contents is shown on screen - date, and programme name (or times if teletext was unhelpful / unavailable). Wrong tape? grab the next one in your collection and wave that. Got the right tape now? Stick it in the machine, press the "smartfile" button, choose the programme off the menu, and it'll rewind of fastforward to the right place and play away.
Don't want to keep a programme any more? press SmartFile, choose the programme, press Clear, and it won't be physically DELETED from the tape, but it'll be marked as blank space. when you're later looking for a tape with enough space to record tonight's film, you can wave tapes in front of the machine and it'll tell you the longest contiguous section of "blank" space on that tape.
OK... so it's not as cool as "tivo with subscription". You can't pause and resume live TV, you can't "buy a season pass", it won't automatically record stuff it thinks you'll like, you have to manually set the timer. You can't INSTANTLY seek to, and start playing, a programme, but it's pretty damned fast, and of course storage space is limited only by how much you want to spend on VHS tapes and SmartFile labels. SmartFile VCRs are also considerably cheaper than TiVO.
Disclaimer: TECHNICALLY I'm biassed, because I work for (a very different part of) Sony... OTOH you're probably biassed too, because Sony are members of RIAA and MPPA and they fake movie reviews :-) I'm writing this as a satisfied owner, not a Sony employee, honest!
Fantastic way to straighten your spine, reset any popped discs, and relieve back pain.
NewOS vs GNU/NewOS
That's ridiculous. One of my own domains sends and recieve thousands of emails a day, but has nothing "hosted on it" if you're referring to HTTP... On the other hand, one of my other domains DOES have something "hosted on it" but consume far less bandwidth because it's almost never visited.
I'm not squatting on either of them, and as far as I can tell, nobody would have any right to snatch them back off me, regardless of whether or not I have "something hosted on it".
If you've found a site that can tell you when AND HOW a web page has changed, and can be taught to ignore simple date-changes, and preferably attach the page to an HTML-format email, and do it punctually, I'd appreciate knowing about it!
Great having 100Mbps to the home... but what's the point if japan's bandwidth to the rest of the world is less than 100Mbps anyway?!?!? I s'pose if you wanted to browse nothing but japanese kiddie-pr0n all day...
Remember that during the developement of DES, the NSA suggested some changes to some of the tables, and these changes WERE incorporated, and conspiracy theorists everywhere assumed that the NSA were using the changes as a backdoor that none of us understood.
Years later, a new type of attack was discovered ("meet-in-the-middle", I think?), and it was realised that the NSA's table-changes made DES MORE secure against this type of attack - basically it seems that the NSA knew about this attack years before the public, and deliberately PROTECTED DES against it.