I've been a RedHatter for years now, but I recently decided to give Mandrake 7.2 a chance on a dual celeron machine I have. The installation went very well, but the main thing I was impressed with was the inclusion of a journaling filesystem. That's right, ReiserFS is included with Mandrake 7.2. You can create and format a partition with journaling goodness right out of the box. I loved this. I ended up needing it too, cause I had to hard reboot my box about 25 times due to a bad motherboard. Anyhow, I never lost any data, and I didn't have to wait an eternity for FSCK to do the hokey pokey after all those reboots. I'm hooked on journaling...
As another poster mentioned, I believe you would be much worse off using the bank card method, because of liability issues. With a credit card, it's pretty easy to protect yourself from fraud. If your card gets stolen or used improperly, all you are liable for is $50.00 maximum usually. However, with a bank card, there are more stipulations to the $50.00 limit, so if you were charged $7000 and you only had $100 in the bank, this could possibly put a serious hurting on your credit rating. I've enclosed some relevant laws I found on this site.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act says that you can limit your risk when your credit card is lost or stolen and that you can correct errors without damaging you credit rating.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act sets the procedure in clearing and correcting the errors on your credit record.
The Fair Credit Billing Act sets up the procedures for creditors to promptly correct the billing mistakes. It allows you to withhold payments on defective purchases and limits the risk of your lost or stolen credit cards. The law defines a billing error as any charge: -- for something you didn't buy or for a purchase made by someone not authorized to use your account; -- that is not properly identified on your bill or is for an amount different from the actual purchase price or was entered on a date different from the purchase date?
Truth In Lending limits your liability in Lost or Stolen Credit Cards. You do not have to pay for any unauthorized charges made after you
notify the card company of loss or theft of your card. So keep a list of your credit card numbers and notify card issuers immediately if your card is lost or stolen. The most you will have to pay for unauthorized charges is $50 on each card.
The Electronic Fund Transfer Act provides protection for ATM, debit or check cards. Your liability for an unauthorized withdrawal can vary:
-- Your loss is limited to $50 if you notify the financial institution within two business days after learning of loss or theft of your card or
code. -- But, you could lose as much as $500 if you do not tell the card issuer within two business days after learning of the loss or theft.
-- If you do not report an unauthorized transfer that appears on your statement within 60 days after the statement is mailed to you, you risk unlimited loss on transfers made after the 60-day period. That means you could lose all the money in your account plus your maximum overdraft line of credit. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1993)
Sounds like they've had a bad case of "If something can go wrong, it will." Anyhow, the writeup states"...its RAM corrupted every 1 or 2 days in orbit as it crosses radiation belts..." This made me curious as to the major storage medium being used in space? If RAM can be so easily corrupted, it seems that most electronic storage would be just as problematic a storage medium. Do harddrives and/or CDROM storage have this same problem? Is heavy shielding a solution for this? Just curious.
I've got 100 acres of property that I'm not doing anything with. If any of you guys wanna get together and build an "Open"-minded hardware/software/Internet facility, I'll donate the property to the cause. It's in the middle of nowhere, but it'd give us plenty of room to grow (no light pollution either, so it could double as a decent Observatory:o)
Copy protection schemes simply don't benefit the consumer; until they do, there will be no reason for consumers to support the products that contain these schemes over products that don't. We just need to make sure that consumers do have a choice.
I have about 5 linux boxes all using the Voodoo3 3000 cards. I have not had a single problem with these cards, running the latest versions of Mandrake and RedHat. I would highly recommend these as a cheap solution with good performance.
My best friend and I were successful in at least flipping Asteroids on the 2600, way back 1986 or so. That's a good enough ending for me. If you're feeling nostalgic now, you can play some really cool Nintendo games right in your Java enabled browser. You can find a link to the site here.
Interesting article. The author makes reference to "..the hydrogen that filled the Hindenburg." While it's true that this certainly couldn't have helped the situation, I have heard that the demise of the Hindenburg was actually caused by its highly flammable skin coating. Anyone have any more information regarding this?
Hydrogen filled Penguins tend to explode violently. The Linux Pimp
This article discuses some hacks that have been done that adds SDI output to the Pioneer 626D DVD player. It's really odd to think that you have something capable of exceptional video output, but it can't be utilized to its full potential.
Penguins love a good fish documentary on DVD. The Linux Pimp
I live within 10 miles of three power plants. One is coal powered, the other, natural gas, and the last one is nuclear powered. They are in the process of doing a $90 million upgrade to the closest one to my house (natural gas). It's been interesting to watch the construction process at least. It's unfortunate that there isn't a way to store electricity somehow, and this is in fact why the improvements are taking place. It'll allow them to start generating electricity in a short amount of time, whereas currently it can take nearly a whole day for the steam powered turbines to come up to speed.
On a more somber note, there are sirens all around the area where I live that are used to indicate a problem at the nuclear plant. Problem is, if I ever do hear the sirens, I guess it'll probably only give me enough time to realize I will be dying soon. I'll probably be able to sue for lots more money if I die though:o)
This was a great interesting piece, I wish more people would embrace the easy to use encryption technologies that are readily available today. In fact, I just posted a quick and easy to follow tutorial on The Linux Pimp which shows you, step by step, how to encrypt your Linux POP3 servers. It's very easy to do.
Subject: Your Christmas Present 28181
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:44:31 -0500
From: cindy697319@777.net.cn
To: Undisclosed.Recipients@mydomain.com
You have seen it on TV! Hard Copy, Howard Stern, Extra, Inside Edition, Etc...
You have heard about it from friends!
Now go and see for yourself!
Click http://1082394634/hardcore_celeb/index.html
The site they don't want you to see.
The site that they want shut down, but the first amendment protects us!
Click http://1082394634/hardcore_celeb/index.html
If link does not work, cut and paste in your browsers window.
remove 98572kelly@ucs.com.tw
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I wonder if they had any idea what they were starting.
Penguins love fish, but hate SPAM. The Linux Pimp
While the above article deals more with censorship than with SPAM, per se, I find it interesting that even though there are already many federal and state laws dealing with unsolicited email you rarely hear of spammers being prosecuted. You would think that either the government or individuals would pursue this. What's the reasoning for this? I've never tried it, but are spammers really that hard to trace down?
I most certainly am not a karma whore. I'm just trying to relay a little historic information to my fellow Slashdot readers. Is that so wrong?
Speaking of Karma, did you know that the entymology of the word karma is Sanskrit. Not only that, but the word itself only dates back to 1827. The word whore, as you can imagine, dates back much earlier than that, however.
The full title of the game is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization formed in the American colonies to protest the Stamp Act of 1765. They were organized by merchants, businessmen, lawyers, journalists, and others most affected by the act.
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British Parliament requiring publications and legal documents in the American colonies to bear a tax stamp. The act was vehemently denounced, and organizations formed to resist it. The Stamp Act Congress, Oct. 1765, adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which declared the tax unconstitutional because the colonists were not represented in Parliament. The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766.
A guy I work with here has been trying to grab a defunct domain from NSI for many, many months. They will not release it. I will notify him immediately, as I'm sure he'll be interested in participating.
Being a Systems Administrator myself, this books sounds perfect. I currently own Learning Perl, Perl Cookbook, Advanced Perl Programming, as well as Learning Perl/Tk. While all of these O'Reilly books are pretty good, they lack the programming focus that I think this book should fill nicely.
...thrown off a five-story building, submerged for hours, run-over by an 18-wheel truck, beaten with a hammer, used as a hockey puck, thrown across a room and stepped on countless times. The mouse may survive, but what about the user?
You can find a link to the 1999 SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) salary survey right here. You can give them an email address to receive the survey (.pdf) by mail. If you don't want to give them an email address, I've posted a copy on The Linux Pimp, which you can view right here.
I was the Systems Admin for a special effects company in Los Angeles for the past 5 years or so, and I used to back up the sessions from the Silicon Graphics Onyx Infinite Reality they had onto tape all the time. The software they used, (Discreet Logic Flame) could back up to a number of tape formats, including D1 and Digital Betacam. I would also backup the filesystem to a Sony DTF machine. This machine used a variation of the Digibeta format to store the data to tape. The DTF drive actually used the same transport as the Digibeta VTR, so it was pretty reliable. The specs said it could do about 12MB/sec sustained transfer, I never could get it to go that fast, but it was much faster than any other tape device I've used.
Anyone wanna hire me, I'm very bored at my present job. The Linux Pimp
Actually, that should be you're a f@#$ing idiot, not your a f@#$ing idiot.
I must admit that I was quite surprised by the reaction my comments garnered. I didn't mean to infer that the transitor was a bad thing or a stupid invention. I think it's great that companies are continually improving products and making processors faster and smaller. I was simply pointing out the fact that the computer industry seems to sustain itself on evolutionary advances, not revolutionary advances. I consider the invention of the transistor to be a revolutionary breakthrough, I guess I'm just suprised that, to my knowledge, the computer industry hasn't embraced a wider array of research.
Considering that the first transistor was created in late 1947, I guess we've come along way. But have we? Really the only thing we've been able to do is decrease the size of the transistor, so we are able to pack more into the same amount of space. This may be an issue for laptops, and PDA's, but I'm not really all that concerned about the size of the PC sitting under my desk. I think it's about time for a major computing breakthrough, something that really catapults computing into a new era, not unlike the invention of the transistor itself.
I've never used their services, and I don't own stock or anything, but I saw recently that a company called Brightmail offers services to ISP's and Corporations to severely limit the amount of SPAM that gets trafficed through email servers. You can find out more about their anti-SPAM services here. One of the things they do, is to actually to to attract SPAM, by using a type of "honeypot" system. You can find out the specifics of that on this page.
Different sound for every hit on the server? Makes me wish I was a Sytems Administrator at one of them "adult" web-hosting companies. My server room never sounded so good!
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Penguins keep very good journals. The Linux Pimp
Penguins with perfect credit ratings. The Linux Pimp
Penguins have lots of non-volatile RAM. The Linux Pimp
Copy protection schemes simply don't benefit the consumer; until they do, there will be no reason for consumers to support the products that contain these schemes over products that don't. We just need to make sure that consumers do have a choice.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
Penguins mothers are never bored. The Linux Pimp
Penguins love Dig-Dug. The Linux Pimp
Hydrogen filled Penguins tend to explode violently. The Linux Pimp
been done that adds SDI output to the Pioneer 626D DVD player.
It's really odd to think that you have something capable
of exceptional video output, but it can't be utilized to its full potential.
Penguins love a good fish documentary on DVD. The Linux Pimp
On a more somber note, there are sirens all around the area where I live that are used to indicate a problem at the nuclear plant. Problem is, if I ever do hear the sirens, I guess it'll probably only give me enough time to realize I will be dying soon. I'll probably be able to sue for lots more money if I die though :o)
Penguins hate radiation exposure. The Linux Pimp
I wish more people would embrace the easy
to use encryption technologies that are readily
available today. In fact, I just posted a quick
and easy to follow tutorial on The Linux Pimp
which shows you, step by step, how to
encrypt your Linux POP3 servers.
It's very easy to do.
Penguins love encryption. The Linux Pimp
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:44:31 -0500
From: cindy697319@777.net.cn
To: Undisclosed.Recipients@mydomain.com
You have seen it on TV! Hard Copy, Howard Stern, Extra, Inside Edition, Etc...
You have heard about it from friends!
Now go and see for yourself!
Click http://1082394634/hardcore_celeb/index.html
The site they don't want you to see.
The site that they want shut down, but the first amendment protects us!
Click http://1082394634/hardcore_celeb/index.html
If link does not work, cut and paste in your browsers window.
remove 98572kelly@ucs.com.tw
-
I wonder if they had any idea what they were starting.
Penguins love fish, but hate SPAM. The Linux Pimp
We hate spam. The Linux Pimp
Speaking of Karma, did you know that the entymology of the word karma is Sanskrit. Not only that, but the word itself only dates back to 1827. The word whore, as you can imagine, dates back much earlier than that, however.
The yin and yang of Penguins. The Linux Pimp
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British Parliament requiring publications and legal documents in the American colonies to bear a tax stamp. The act was vehemently denounced, and organizations formed to resist it. The Stamp Act Congress, Oct. 1765, adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which declared the tax unconstitutional because the colonists were not represented in Parliament. The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766.
Penguins love history too. The Linux Pimp
More fun than eating raw salmon. The Linux Pimp
Penguins postulate Perl programming. The Linux Pimp
The mouse may survive, but what about the user?
Penguins love mice. The Linux Pimp
You can find a link to the 1999 SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) salary survey right here. You can give them an email address to receive the survey (.pdf) by mail. If you don't want to give them an email address, I've posted a copy on The Linux Pimp, which you can view right here.
Anyone wanna hire me, I'm very bored at my present job. The Linux Pimp
Sourcecode, and general info can be found
on his personal page, located right here.
Penguins love to play games. The Linux Pimp
I must admit that I was quite surprised by the reaction my comments garnered. I didn't mean to infer that the transitor was a bad thing or a stupid invention. I think it's great that companies are continually improving products and making processors faster and smaller. I was simply pointing out the fact that the computer industry seems to sustain itself on evolutionary advances, not revolutionary advances. I consider the invention of the transistor to be a revolutionary breakthrough, I guess I'm just suprised that, to my knowledge, the computer industry hasn't embraced a wider array of research.
Mechanical penguins love transistors. The Linux Pimp
Penguins don't always have to play nice. The Linux Pimp
Makes me wish I was a Sytems Administrator
at one of them "adult" web-hosting companies.
My server room never sounded so good!
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
It already is.
Penguins need privacy too. The Linux Pimp