This is 1 major reason google should NOT go public. If you have a successful company and you're making money, and you don't need expansion capital, there's no need to go public. Unless they just want to make a quick buck, and move on to something else.
By going public, there's a good chance google will end up losing their edge, and potentially be in a position to be bought up by MS.
The Wall is an amazing movie. Not just a Rock or Drug movie. And, I think its much better when you're NOT doing drugs. Each time you watch it, you notice something completely new. (On or Off drugs)
Its actually a shame that its so associated with drugs. No one does drugs during the entire film, and its really a powerful statement about the times, accentuated with great music.
I think PBS shows it sometimes, seemingly for these very reasons.
As a side note, Live in Pompeii is a rock movie, but a very atypical (and AMAZING!) one; just as much about film and performance as about rock and Pink Floyd...
I truly hope Weird Al is eventually recognized as the creative genius that he is...
Michael Richards' debut as the spastic, stuttering janitor, Stanley Spadowski!
On a more serious note, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is the culmination of Terry Gilliam's surreal interpretations, and probably one of the most accurate film translations of a piece of (fiction?/literature?) ever...One of my favorite movies, and if you thought this movie was just about drugs, you're taking it too serioualy...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this laptop...I have been considering it for a while. It's beautiful, light, and sturdy. I've had a chance to ogle it in the store a few times, and I think it is the most compact laptop you can find without going the way of the half or quarter sized screens (a la libretto or the new sony palmtop that runs XP)
It is lighter, and thinner than equivalent Sony's, and much cheaper. Dell's recommended retail is $1599, but you can get the price down a little, and even buy refurbished for much less. I don't think you can get this much for so little anywhere else.
Yes, it does come with Microsoft tax, but I think if you wanted to, you could get it pre-installed with Linux. I seem to remember a hidden page on Dell's website that talks about getting a corporate account, and requesting custom installs of OS's, including Linux on laptops. (even though they don't offer this as an option on the regular consumer/home office links)
But, I bet you end up paying more for this in the end anyways. (especially if you just order one)
I have also been very tempted to go Apple, but they really are beasts. They're laptops, not notebooks. (although dvd-ram on the go is pretty sweet)
The Dell X200 is about the size of 2 wired magazines, and weighs almost as little (2.8 lbs).
Also, it has a 'Mini-PCI' slot, which can accomodate a wireless LAN card. (Is Mini-PCI standard now?)
I saw this thing in BIC Camera in Shinjuku this weekend. The screen is as beautiful as people say it is. I think its clearer and brigher than the screens on the new Sony Clie's. I actually couldn't even see any pixels.
One reviewer said that response seems a little slow, especially when opening applications. I have to say that I can vouch for this, at least for the few apps I tried to open (including a basic image viewer).
I am a homebrewer, and I don't really understand what part of brewing a washing machine can come into play. The english article mentions temperature control, but I can't imagine how a washing machine could do the type of temperature control needed for making beer. During the mash (early stage) you need to keep a high temperature (around 150F) for at least 4 or 5 hours. But the water can't change. Its part of what will become beer!
During fermentation of lagers (which he is probably brewing if he is German, and if he is brewing the beers linked on his page) you need to keep a constant LOW temperature (around 40F?) for weeks. Again, I don't understand how a washing machine could help accomplish this...(unless he has a 2nd container inside the wash tub, and circulates consistently cold water around it?)
The great thing about brewing beer is you don't really need any mechanical machines. Its more about temperature control and keeping everything sanitary.
Can I ask how you manage to create and manage an updated list of all the hosts that are used strictly for adverts? I tried to do this once, and quickly realized how unwieldy a process it is...
In addition to etree, check out furthurnet which is basically the P2P version of etree. Etree is a list where people advertise their (non-professional) FTP servers in order to share live music recordings. (Only legal, band sanctioned live recordings). Furthurnet is an extremely well done java based P2P client exclusively for sharing these legal, live recordings. Etree has high standards for audio quality, and supports SHN and FLAC. Furthurnet supports SHN, FLAC, and MP3.
I've got to respond to several things I've read here...First of all I would have thought the editors would hold out for a real review of the book by the famous/infamous Kevin Mitnick!
With that said, many people are saying they are 'surprised' by the fact that this book doesn't emphasize technical aspects of hacking. Have you heard nothing of this book?! It says right on the cover that this is a book about social engineering, and much of Kevin's fame was due not to his technical prowess, but the combination of tech and 'social engineering'.
With that said, I believe Kevin is a very intelligent person. I have heard him speak, and he is very well spoken, and organized. It is no wonder he was so successful at manipulating people in order to gain information he sought. I have to say that, although it takes an intelligent person to do this, I can't help thinking that 'social engineer' is only one way to interpret a malicious liar. Especially since he admittedly did most of his hacking 'for fun!'. When James Bond does it, its admirable, as it usually saves the world. In Kevin's case, he did it for the thrill of it (a hallmark of true hackers) and to see if he could get away with it. Something pathalogical about that...(although I don't doubt his self-proclaimed reform from 'the life' and new interest in helping people avoid being exploited by people like himself...)
Some people are also saying here that they believe he is a criminal, and deserved to be in jail. Kevin himself doesn't deny that he broke the law, but the reason the hacker community rallied around his cause is that he was denied a bail hearing for years, denied many of his legal rights, and generally kept in legal limbo (and thus in jail) for many years. This, despite the fact that his actual crimes were pretty insignificant (although obviously punishable). This is pre 9/11, and he was basically intentionally 'lost in the system' and denied his rights because people in power feared him, and what they assumed he was capable of.
Read the first chapter of the book, linked somewhere above, and also check out "Freedom Downtime", the documentary done by 2600.
Under no circumstances should you eat more than a few Pringles at a time! After eating a canful I was positively sick, to the point that all antenna construction was halted for two days!
Sounds like he got the Olestra version...(although even the regular pringles are pretty damn greasy)
I don't know why, but it's embarassing to me to think that this headline will stay up, UN-ALTERED all day on the front page of slashdot. Can't the put an 'oops' at the end, as they usually do with dupes? This is much more serious than a dupe (as in duplicate; not being duped, which is what everyone who reads this will be)...It's embarassing.
Never take those 'top 100' 'top 10' whatever reviewers seriously...They're always suspect, and always positive. Other than that, all the reviews I've done have been posted on Amazon within a few weeks, so I know that the majority of reviews are by Joe Schmoe like me.
I personally love amazon reviews, and have made many purchasing decisions based on them. I don't think I would have bought half the stuff at Amazon I have, if it weren't for their 'real' customer reviews...
I'm a BIG believer in tech books...I'm only 4 years out of school (non-technical), and working as a completely self-taught network engineer, using Unix/Linux regularly, and starting to get into C and Perl...
"The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan (of K&R) and Pike, is a great intro to Unix. The book gets very complicated very quickly, but the first 2.5 chapters are VERY basic, and give you a great foundation in how unix, the filesystem, and the shell works...Get it used and cheap on Ebay.
I started with "Learning Red Hat Linux" (O'Reilly) which may be outdated now, and of course "Running Linux" (O'Reilly) which is a great intro and resource.
After you've got the basics down, I highly recommend doing LFS, or Gentoo (or both), as they hold your hand every step of the way, and even if you only understand 10% of what you've just done, it is guaranteed to fill in some conceptual knowledge gaps that don't get filled by reading a book, or even just screwing around on your own...
great review; simple protocol
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We use VRRP in access routers we deploy, and it is pretty smart. It is especially useful in the case of hardware, or specifically interface failure. If used with some sort of tracking, it is very useful, and faster and simpler than some routing protocols.
While it is simple, the way it works can make troubleshooting complicated. Specifically, it 'breaks' the traditional way IP and Ethernet addresses relate to each other. By responding to ARP's for more than 1 IP address, and by receiving and routing traffic destined for more than 1 MAC address, it breaks certain assumptions you would make when troubleshooting a problem at the ethernet level.
This could be very misleading behavior, if you didn't know to expect it...Not like a routing protocol where you can see the effect it has on routing information.
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When you configure VRRPmc, you monitor the other interfaces in use for VRRP. If one of those other interfaces goes down, you decrement your VRRP priority value by a pre-defined delta value, which if you've calculated correctly, will cause the primary unit to begin advertising VRRP priorities that are lower than what the secondary unit is advertising, thereby causing the virtual ips/macs to shoot over to the secondary unit, rather than just the i/f that failed. On the wire, it still looks like good old VRRP. I'd like to see either the monitored circuits method, or something similar implemented in the mainstream VRRP protocol.
The Nortel solution uses something called 'critical interface' which is not necessarily an ethernet interface. You associate a 'critical interface' with the interface you are running VRRP on. When that 'critical interface' goes down, it causes VRRP to give up the master status on that device, thereby yielding to the other VRRP peer...
I've lived in Tokyo for over a year now. I've taken the shinkansen (bullet trains) and see them pass through Tokyo station everyday. Neither of these allows you to actually SEE a bullet train up close at full speed. The first time I did (a few weeks ago) it was an amazingly moving experience.
The key is to be at a station in the MIDDLE of the line. Taking the train from Tokyo to Osaka (of some other big city) you will never see the trains at full speed. We took the Nasuno to Nasu Shiobara. This is a major shinkansen stop, but not the end of the line. While standing on the platform, trains will pass by on the center tracks at full speed!
We were waiting for the next train to Tokyo, and had luckily gone up to the platform about 20 minutes early. We saw two shinkansen pass us at full speed, going in opposite directions one after another. It was truly amazing...When you look down the track, its absolutely amazing how far away they are only seconds later. It was a very powerful experience I will never forget.
If you travel outside the cities in Japan, I highly recommend taking advantage of this. And, while you can see the trains in the middle of the country passing this way, I doubt you can get as close as you can when on the platform. Much of the tracks are raised high above the ground for long stretches. This station was in the middle of nowhere, but the platform is raised at least 4-5 stories off the ground...(as is the track for as far as I could see in either direction...)
I saw an interview with the author of this book called IBM and the Holocaust. It strongly ties the capability of systematically killing the Jews to the abilities of the Hollerith machine (run on punch cards) which IBM specifically customized for the purpose of organizing and sorting people.
WWII, I feel, had a lot to do with the very fast development of production, and technology in general at the time. The author, Edwin Black, says the scale at which the holocaust took place would not have been possible without the help of IBM's machines, and their engineers.
This is really not much different, in my opinion. Cisco is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ, which is a US based stock market. The shareholders (mostly US citizens) should be ultimately responsible, not only for ensuring profits, but also be held responsible for any misdeeds the company commits...
As another poster puts it; its one thing if they are buying the equipment off the shelf and using it for censorship. It is quite another if the companies are tailoring their products to these requirements in anticipation or in response to demand...
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This is 1 major reason google should NOT go public. If you have a successful company and you're making money, and you don't need expansion capital, there's no need to go public. Unless they just want to make a quick buck, and move on to something else.
By going public, there's a good chance google will end up losing their edge, and potentially be in a position to be bought up by MS.
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
Thats Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy, no?
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The Wall is an amazing movie. Not just a Rock or Drug movie. And, I think its much better when you're NOT doing drugs. Each time you watch it, you notice something completely new. (On or Off drugs)
Its actually a shame that its so associated with drugs. No one does drugs during the entire film, and its really a powerful statement about the times, accentuated with great music.
I think PBS shows it sometimes, seemingly for these very reasons.
As a side note, Live in Pompeii is a rock movie, but a very atypical (and AMAZING!) one; just as much about film and performance as about rock and Pink Floyd...
I truly hope Weird Al is eventually recognized as the creative genius that he is...
Michael Richards' debut as the spastic, stuttering janitor, Stanley Spadowski!
On a more serious note, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is the culmination of Terry Gilliam's surreal interpretations, and probably one of the most accurate film translations of a piece of (fiction?/literature?) ever...One of my favorite movies, and if you thought this movie was just about drugs, you're taking it too serioualy...
Oh yeah!? What did it save you? ($'s) I may have to think more seriously about getting one...Do all your devices work fine?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this laptop...I have been considering it for a while. It's beautiful, light, and sturdy. I've had a chance to ogle it in the store a few times, and I think it is the most compact laptop you can find without going the way of the half or quarter sized screens (a la libretto or the new sony palmtop that runs XP)
It is lighter, and thinner than equivalent Sony's, and much cheaper. Dell's recommended retail is $1599, but you can get the price down a little, and even buy refurbished for much less. I don't think you can get this much for so little anywhere else.
Yes, it does come with Microsoft tax, but I think if you wanted to, you could get it pre-installed with Linux. I seem to remember a hidden page on Dell's website that talks about getting a corporate account, and requesting custom installs of OS's, including Linux on laptops. (even though they don't offer this as an option on the regular consumer/home office links)
But, I bet you end up paying more for this in the end anyways. (especially if you just order one)
I have also been very tempted to go Apple, but they really are beasts. They're laptops, not notebooks. (although dvd-ram on the go is pretty sweet)
The Dell X200 is about the size of 2 wired magazines, and weighs almost as little (2.8 lbs).
Also, it has a 'Mini-PCI' slot, which can accomodate a wireless LAN card. (Is Mini-PCI standard now?)
I saw this thing in BIC Camera in Shinjuku this weekend. The screen is as beautiful as people say it is. I think its clearer and brigher than the screens on the new Sony Clie's. I actually couldn't even see any pixels.
One reviewer said that response seems a little slow, especially when opening applications. I have to say that I can vouch for this, at least for the few apps I tried to open (including a basic image viewer).
I am a homebrewer, and I don't really understand what part of brewing a washing machine can come into play. The english article mentions temperature control, but I can't imagine how a washing machine could do the type of temperature control needed for making beer. During the mash (early stage) you need to keep a high temperature (around 150F) for at least 4 or 5 hours. But the water can't change. Its part of what will become beer!
During fermentation of lagers (which he is probably brewing if he is German, and if he is brewing the beers linked on his page) you need to keep a constant LOW temperature (around 40F?) for weeks. Again, I don't understand how a washing machine could help accomplish this...(unless he has a 2nd container inside the wash tub, and circulates consistently cold water around it?)
The great thing about brewing beer is you don't really need any mechanical machines. Its more about temperature control and keeping everything sanitary.
"...taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera..."
"...but it showed up clear and bright on the film when I developed it..."
Huh?
Maybe thats why he has orange and electrical looking streaks on the images.
Can I ask how you manage to create and manage an updated list of all the hosts that are used strictly for adverts? I tried to do this once, and quickly realized how unwieldy a process it is...
In addition to etree, check out furthurnet which is basically the P2P version of etree. Etree is a list where people advertise their (non-professional) FTP servers in order to share live music recordings. (Only legal, band sanctioned live recordings). Furthurnet is an extremely well done java based P2P client exclusively for sharing these legal, live recordings. Etree has high standards for audio quality, and supports SHN and FLAC. Furthurnet supports SHN, FLAC, and MP3.
The fact that this surprises me makes me feel really stupid...
I've got to respond to several things I've read here...First of all I would have thought the editors would hold out for a real review of the book by the famous/infamous Kevin Mitnick!
With that said, many people are saying they are 'surprised' by the fact that this book doesn't emphasize technical aspects of hacking. Have you heard nothing of this book?! It says right on the cover that this is a book about social engineering, and much of Kevin's fame was due not to his technical prowess, but the combination of tech and 'social engineering'.
With that said, I believe Kevin is a very intelligent person. I have heard him speak, and he is very well spoken, and organized. It is no wonder he was so successful at manipulating people in order to gain information he sought. I have to say that, although it takes an intelligent person to do this, I can't help thinking that 'social engineer' is only one way to interpret a malicious liar. Especially since he admittedly did most of his hacking 'for fun!'. When James Bond does it, its admirable, as it usually saves the world. In Kevin's case, he did it for the thrill of it (a hallmark of true hackers) and to see if he could get away with it. Something pathalogical about that...(although I don't doubt his self-proclaimed reform from 'the life' and new interest in helping people avoid being exploited by people like himself...)
Some people are also saying here that they believe he is a criminal, and deserved to be in jail. Kevin himself doesn't deny that he broke the law, but the reason the hacker community rallied around his cause is that he was denied a bail hearing for years, denied many of his legal rights, and generally kept in legal limbo (and thus in jail) for many years. This, despite the fact that his actual crimes were pretty insignificant (although obviously punishable). This is pre 9/11, and he was basically intentionally 'lost in the system' and denied his rights because people in power feared him, and what they assumed he was capable of.
Read the first chapter of the book, linked somewhere above, and also check out "Freedom Downtime", the documentary done by 2600.
Under no circumstances should you eat more than a few Pringles at a time! After eating a canful I was positively sick, to the point that all antenna construction was halted for two days!
Sounds like he got the Olestra version...(although even the regular pringles are pretty damn greasy)
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I don't know why, but it's embarassing to me to think that this headline will stay up, UN-ALTERED all day on the front page of slashdot. Can't the put an 'oops' at the end, as they usually do with dupes? This is much more serious than a dupe (as in duplicate; not being duped, which is what everyone who reads this will be)...It's embarassing.
I thought that this guy, Gustave Whitehead, made a test run 2 years before the Wright Brothers, in Bridgeport, Connecticut (where I was born)...
Never take those 'top 100' 'top 10' whatever reviewers seriously...They're always suspect, and always positive. Other than that, all the reviews I've done have been posted on Amazon within a few weeks, so I know that the majority of reviews are by Joe Schmoe like me.
I personally love amazon reviews, and have made many purchasing decisions based on them. I don't think I would have bought half the stuff at Amazon I have, if it weren't for their 'real' customer reviews...
I'm a BIG believer in tech books...I'm only 4 years out of school (non-technical), and working as a completely self-taught network engineer, using Unix/Linux regularly, and starting to get into C and Perl...
"The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan (of K&R) and Pike, is a great intro to Unix. The book gets very complicated very quickly, but the first 2.5 chapters are VERY basic, and give you a great foundation in how unix, the filesystem, and the shell works...Get it used and cheap on Ebay.
I started with "Learning Red Hat Linux" (O'Reilly) which may be outdated now, and of course "Running Linux" (O'Reilly) which is a great intro and resource.
After you've got the basics down, I highly recommend doing LFS, or Gentoo (or both), as they hold your hand every step of the way, and even if you only understand 10% of what you've just done, it is guaranteed to fill in some conceptual knowledge gaps that don't get filled by reading a book, or even just screwing around on your own...
We use VRRP in access routers we deploy, and it is pretty smart. It is especially useful in the case of hardware, or specifically interface failure. If used with some sort of tracking, it is very useful, and faster and simpler than some routing protocols.
While it is simple, the way it works can make troubleshooting complicated. Specifically, it 'breaks' the traditional way IP and Ethernet addresses relate to each other. By responding to ARP's for more than 1 IP address, and by receiving and routing traffic destined for more than 1 MAC address, it breaks certain assumptions you would make when troubleshooting a problem at the ethernet level.
This could be very misleading behavior, if you didn't know to expect it...Not like a routing protocol where you can see the effect it has on routing information.
When you configure VRRPmc, you monitor the other interfaces in use for VRRP. If one of those other interfaces goes down, you decrement your VRRP priority value by a pre-defined delta value, which if you've calculated correctly, will cause the primary unit to begin advertising VRRP priorities that are lower than what the secondary unit is advertising, thereby causing the virtual ips/macs to shoot over to the secondary unit, rather than just the i/f that failed. On the wire, it still looks like good old VRRP. I'd like to see either the monitored circuits method, or something similar implemented in the mainstream VRRP protocol.
The Nortel solution uses something called 'critical interface' which is not necessarily an ethernet interface. You associate a 'critical interface' with the interface you are running VRRP on. When that 'critical interface' goes down, it causes VRRP to give up the master status on that device, thereby yielding to the other VRRP peer...
I think this is what you mean.
I've lived in Tokyo for over a year now. I've taken the shinkansen (bullet trains) and see them pass through Tokyo station everyday. Neither of these allows you to actually SEE a bullet train up close at full speed. The first time I did (a few weeks ago) it was an amazingly moving experience.
The key is to be at a station in the MIDDLE of the line. Taking the train from Tokyo to Osaka (of some other big city) you will never see the trains at full speed. We took the Nasuno to Nasu Shiobara. This is a major shinkansen stop, but not the end of the line. While standing on the platform, trains will pass by on the center tracks at full speed!
We were waiting for the next train to Tokyo, and had luckily gone up to the platform about 20 minutes early. We saw two shinkansen pass us at full speed, going in opposite directions one after another. It was truly amazing...When you look down the track, its absolutely amazing how far away they are only seconds later. It was a very powerful experience I will never forget.
If you travel outside the cities in Japan, I highly recommend taking advantage of this. And, while you can see the trains in the middle of the country passing this way, I doubt you can get as close as you can when on the platform. Much of the tracks are raised high above the ground for long stretches. This station was in the middle of nowhere, but the platform is raised at least 4-5 stories off the ground...(as is the track for as far as I could see in either direction...)
I saw an interview with the author of this book called IBM and the Holocaust. It strongly ties the capability of systematically killing the Jews to the abilities of the Hollerith machine (run on punch cards) which IBM specifically customized for the purpose of organizing and sorting people.
WWII, I feel, had a lot to do with the very fast development of production, and technology in general at the time. The author, Edwin Black, says the scale at which the holocaust took place would not have been possible without the help of IBM's machines, and their engineers.
This is really not much different, in my opinion. Cisco is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ, which is a US based stock market. The shareholders (mostly US citizens) should be ultimately responsible, not only for ensuring profits, but also be held responsible for any misdeeds the company commits...
As another poster puts it; its one thing if they are buying the equipment off the shelf and using it for censorship. It is quite another if the companies are tailoring their products to these requirements in anticipation or in response to demand...