As an Australian I can tell you this is categorically untrue.
Each state or territory in Australia has its own state-based police force. Each force has its own policy on high speed chases.
In New South Wales (where I live) the NSW Police Force allows officers to pursue vehicles in certain circumstances. Individual officers are supposed to continuously evaluate the situation and call off any pursuit should it become too dangerous to the public. From what one reads in the papers this occurs from time to time. However, every few years or so innocent people are killed in accidents which occur during high speed police pursuits. These accidents are almost always caused by the fleeing vehicle.
A lot of suggestions I'm seeing are not suitable for anyone shooting RAW, even if only irregularly. Sites like Flickr do not exist to provide disaster recovery for your photography archive and treating them as such will only end in tears.
My photography archive is approximately 100GB in size. I keep it safe in the following way:
Primary datastore lives on PC.
Sync primary datastore to second HDD internal to PC whenever changes are made. I use Beyond Compare for this.
Sync primary datastore to external HDD whenever changes are made. Beyond Compare again.
Burn to blu-ray once I hit my bucket size of ~24GB[1]
Backblaze online backup for offsite disaster recovery. Costs $5/month or less if you sign up for a year.
1. If you care at all about keeping the fruits of your photography labours safe, I cannot recommend highly enough Peter Krogh's "Digital Asset Management for Photographers, 2e". The bucket concept is from there. See http://www.thedambook.com/
Late last year I was involved in a motorcycle accident and came very close to death. Over the past six months while recovering I've drawn inspiration from a few different sources however the two primary ones have been Man vs Wild (Bear Grylls broke his back at 21 and joined the SAS two years later) and Randy's book. The way Randy approached his diagnosis and how he has tried to live his life since have been great and continued sources of succour and motivation for me as I continue on the path back to 'normal' life.
I really hoped Randy would beat this thing. Given his outlook I thought he had a good chance.
Rest in peace Randy. May your family and friends think of you fondly and often.
World of Warcraft distributes patches via a customised BitTorrent client.
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And we ask: can your system's integrity be that easily sold?
Oh fer $*#@ sake...
Look, if you're running closed-source 3rd-party binaries you've already compromised your system integrity. Just because they're from a (currently) reputable company doesn't mean the danger is in any way less than running (say) Bonzi Buddy.
Heck, it's the same even if you're running totally Open Source software! Unless _you personally_ have gone through every.c and.h file to verify the code, that latest version of BitchX you just installed (or even the latest source-based security patch!) has potentially compromised your system integrity.
At the end of the day we live in the real world. Cliché's aside this means a level of trust _must_ exist between the end user and the software vendor. Even the most rabid OpenBSD security nuts (not that that's a bad thing) implicitly trust the OpenBSD developers in choosing to run their code.
Steam is a different issue; it has nothing to do with "system integrity". Steam is useful from two perspectives:
It reduces sofware piracy (online check and all)...
It allows pre-loads and _instant purchase_ without the user ever having to leave their computer.
While many of us may not be happy with the first feature (reference MS Windows activation), Valve clearly are. And dodgy contract dealings/lawsuits aside, I don't think anyone would argue the worth of being able to do instant purchase/play of new games.
At the last SAGE-AU conference in Brisbane we had J.D. Frazer ("Illiad") as guest of honor.
At dinner J.D. spoke of the difficulties he faced in the early years attempting to make a living from comics - the insanely difficult process of being "sydicated" into newspapers, working out a revenue model for a web-based comic when he realised syndication was too restrictive, and generally attempting to make a living doing something he loved.
With PA and UF being roughly as popular as each other these days and thus (hopefully!) both providing decent incomes, I'd like to hear how you guys coped with "the early years" and how you faced some of what seem to be the common difficulties such as the syndication process, creating a viable revenue model and dealing with early set backs.
The submitter had me all excited there for a minute or so, but unfortunately the "encyclopedia search" he mentions is simply searching the wikipedia.org site. Now don't get me wrong; there's absolutely nothing wrong with wikipedia, however it's already a web resource. You've been able to "encyclopedia search" Wikipedia for AGES by appending "site:wikipedia.org" into a google query.
Now if they'd done some sort of deal with Britanica to gain search access to its online library, THAT would be a resource worth posting to/. about.
Bah.
If Linux distros could offer a consistent config file format (Pick one. Seriously.), some form of config inheritance (eg load/etc/defaults/[someconfig], then/home/username/.config/[someconfig], then/etc/overrides/[someconfig]) and lockdown (think KDE's kiosk), that would help a lot. Yes, I understand that this is almost impossible given the nature of Linux distros as assemblies of independenly developed software, but nonetheless this would be awfully nice.
"Your UNIX email server isn't sending SMTP compliant email"
Microsoft Professional Support Services, on why certain email from Postfix --> Exchange was not appearing in user inboxes. This despite clear logs showing receipt of email at Exchange, processing and final delivery to InformationStore.
At least I'm pretty sure it is. "Net Slaves" by Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin chronicles some of the many people who were burned by the Internet and technological boom days - you remember, back when it was the best thing since sliced bread, everyone wanted a part of it and HTML "programmers" could earn $US85/hour?
Basically it's divided into chapters based on sterotype - Garbagemen (support techs, low-level coders etc), Cops & Streetwalks, Social Workers (think AOL chatroom moderaters, online chat hosts etc), Fry Cooks (overworked project managers), Priests & Madmen ("cyber-pundits" - basically anyone with half a grip on The Internet and the ability to overmarket their ideas) and lots more.
One of the stories told is about SoHo Nights - the Web's first online soap. It's mainly centered around a guy called Kellner, who together with Mira (fake names, naturally) first came up with and marketted the concept to Mira's company.
Essentially Kellner had the idea, didn't think it was a good one, but was talked into it by Mira, who recked she could sell it as an idea to her company.
At the end of it all Kellner is basically broke and berefit of any credit for the idea or the work he put into it. Mira, whose only contribution was marketing hype needed to sell the idea to her company, sold it as her OWN idea (along with another person at the same company by the name of Jullian). Kellner was left several thousand dollars out of pocket, the promised contract had not materialised (and why would it - the financing company thought it was all Mira's idea) and worst of all his BEST idea, much more successful than SoHo Nights (though it did eventually fail), was stolen from his laptop by yet another woman, put up to the deed by Mira and Jullian.
From the epilogue:
"Kellner never received another check from DBLY and was thrown out of his loft at the end of September. His American Express account terminated, Kellner's debt was referred to a collection agent. SoHo Nights survived as a ghost of a site until December of 1996, when Kellner's ISP took it down for nonpayment. Kellner now lives in Flushing, Queens, with his parents, who contantly nag him to "get a decent job and get married". Kellner has given up on beocming a Web entrepreneur, although he still gets the itch occasionally when he's not trying to get back into the video production business. As for Kellner's former partners, they all lost their jobs in late 1997 whne DBLY Interactive cancelled The Webmaster [the Great Idea stolen from Kellner's laptop]. Despite the fanfare and more than $300k in development money from Fox, the site failed to attract more than 30000 page veiews a day. This was a turn of events which thrilled Kellner to no end, although the whole experience of having his ideas stolen till left him with a queasy feeling, like he had been ambushed by a gang of mental succubae."
I picked up Net Slaves for about $AU2 in a second hand book store. It's not the greatest book in the world but it certainly does have some interesting accounts of various people who were fucked over by the technology craze of the late 90's. It even has the sad luck story of Ken Hamidi (Ken Hussein in the book) and how he came to found FACEIntel.
"If you're cro-magnum man and want to put together your own Linux distribution for help in herding dinosaurs, calculating rock throw trajectories and increasing your rate of evolution by 5000%, LFS is for you. Keeping in mind of course that getting it wrong will probably mean extinction for your entire species."
Cisco is positively benign when it comes to updating vulnerable products.
The worst company I've personally had experience with is ISS and its network security offerings (BlackICE, RealSecure etc).
Over the past few months there has been, from memory, two problems affecting ISS' BlackICE firewall family (there's more than one type of BICE). In both cases authors of the bugtraq posts originally outing these vulns stated that "patches are available" and could be downloaded from [location]. On going to said location however, all that was available from ISS was newever versions of the entire program, NOT patches. And here's the kicker - to install these newer versions and thus protect against inevitable exploit, your CD key (and thus account) had to be less than 12 months old! If you purchased your copy of BICE more than 12 months prior, you were Shit Outta Luck.
Cisco may be annoying to deal with on occasion, but at least they're not engaged in extortion by forcing customers to pay for critical updates, the sole purpose of which is to FIX CRITICAL FLAWS IN THE ORIGINAL PRODUCT! (who me angry?)
The first time I ran across ISS' shabby treatment of its customers I dropped them for a different vendor. The second time around Witty hits, and you have no idea just how greatful I am I dropped ISS and their shady business practices in the first instance.
You need to realise that Novell's product is not a Linux distro - that was never their reasoning behind the purchase of SuSE. Rather Novell purchased SuSE to give them a strong, established Linux distro on which to base their directory service offering.
Prior to purchasing SuSE, Novell evaulated its position in the market. What they found was that while they had a kick-ass directory service product, they were being kicked in the pants when it came to new deployments - primarily by MS Windows and Active Directory.
Rather then attempt to re-build and re-position the NetWare brand among IT decision makers, Novell realised they could do much better by taking an existing base Operating System with widespread appeal, and integrating NDS with that.
Essentially Novell's cut NetWare* and tied its future to NDS on Linux.
Enter Linux. It had everything Novell needed: stability; maturity; widespread developer support; GPL (why write a new base when you can modify an existing one?); a wicked reputation among IT techs and, best of all, an increasingly bright future with the potential to topple all challengers.
Announcing NDS on Linux and then subsequently purchasing a well established Linux distro was, not to put to fine a point on it, absolute genious. NDS gets the best possible base, loss of market share to Active Directory is significantly slowed or halted (and eventually reversed if all goes to plan) and Novell regains the reputation it had among techs back in the days when MS' best offering was WfW.
GPLing YaST isn't a loss for Novell, it's a gain for Linux. Which makes it a gain for the base OS Novell will see increasing use of NDS on. Which makes it a win for Novell.
*Yes, Novell will continue to support and even offer NetWare-based NDS installations. But the fact remains that if all goes to plan, Novell will see its new business increasingly tied to NDS+Linux rather than the old bundle of NDS+NetWare
The pits are burned into substrata, not the reflective coating. Reflective coating is there to, as the name implies, reflect the laster back towards the drive so it may be read. Pits and lands alter the beam such that the reader detects the difference and thus you get your 1 and 0 signals.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before?
Exodus Communication circa 2000*: "It is possible that we may never achieve profitability on a quarterly or an annual basis."
Exodus Communications history:
* See https://www.sec.gov/Archives/e...
As an Australian I can tell you this is categorically untrue. Each state or territory in Australia has its own state-based police force. Each force has its own policy on high speed chases. In New South Wales (where I live) the NSW Police Force allows officers to pursue vehicles in certain circumstances. Individual officers are supposed to continuously evaluate the situation and call off any pursuit should it become too dangerous to the public. From what one reads in the papers this occurs from time to time. However, every few years or so innocent people are killed in accidents which occur during high speed police pursuits. These accidents are almost always caused by the fleeing vehicle.
My photography archive is approximately 100GB in size. I keep it safe in the following way:
1. If you care at all about keeping the fruits of your photography labours safe, I cannot recommend highly enough Peter Krogh's "Digital Asset Management for Photographers, 2e". The bucket concept is from there. See http://www.thedambook.com/
Late last year I was involved in a motorcycle accident and came very close to death. Over the past six months while recovering I've drawn inspiration from a few different sources however the two primary ones have been Man vs Wild (Bear Grylls broke his back at 21 and joined the SAS two years later) and Randy's book. The way Randy approached his diagnosis and how he has tried to live his life since have been great and continued sources of succour and motivation for me as I continue on the path back to 'normal' life.
I really hoped Randy would beat this thing. Given his outlook I thought he had a good chance.
Rest in peace Randy. May your family and friends think of you fondly and often.
Read http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/jpg-follies.shtml and be enlightened.
Sword of the Samurai - Abandonware but not on the-underdogs.org. 15 minutes with Google should find you a copy.
Actually the namespace is 5.X (and thus Sol10 is 5.10)
2.x finished when Sun relegated "SunOS" to technical use and came out with the "Solaris" monkier for marketing purposes.
World of Warcraft distributes patches via a customised BitTorrent client.
And we ask: can your system's integrity be that easily sold?
Oh fer $*#@ sake...
Look, if you're running closed-source 3rd-party binaries you've already compromised your system integrity. Just because they're from a (currently) reputable company doesn't mean the danger is in any way less than running (say) Bonzi Buddy.
Heck, it's the same even if you're running totally Open Source software! Unless _you personally_ have gone through every
At the end of the day we live in the real world. Cliché's aside this means a level of trust _must_ exist between the end user and the software vendor. Even the most rabid OpenBSD security nuts (not that that's a bad thing) implicitly trust the OpenBSD developers in choosing to run their code.
Steam is a different issue; it has nothing to do with "system integrity". Steam is useful from two perspectives:
- It reduces sofware piracy (online check and all)...
- It allows pre-loads and _instant purchase_ without the user ever having to leave their computer.
While many of us may not be happy with the first feature (reference MS Windows activation), Valve clearly are. And dodgy contract dealings/lawsuits aside, I don't think anyone would argue the worth of being able to do instant purchase/play of new games.Guys,
At the last SAGE-AU conference in Brisbane we had J.D. Frazer ("Illiad") as guest of honor.
At dinner J.D. spoke of the difficulties he faced in the early years attempting to make a living from comics - the insanely difficult process of being "sydicated" into newspapers, working out a revenue model for a web-based comic when he realised syndication was too restrictive, and generally attempting to make a living doing something he loved.
With PA and UF being roughly as popular as each other these days and thus (hopefully!) both providing decent incomes, I'd like to hear how you guys coped with "the early years" and how you faced some of what seem to be the common difficulties such as the syndication process, creating a viable revenue model and dealing with early set backs.
The submitter had me all excited there for a minute or so, but unfortunately the "encyclopedia search" he mentions is simply searching the wikipedia.org site. Now don't get me wrong; there's absolutely nothing wrong with wikipedia, however it's already a web resource. You've been able to "encyclopedia search" Wikipedia for AGES by appending "site:wikipedia.org" into a google query.
/. about.
Bah.
Now if they'd done some sort of deal with Britanica to gain search access to its online library, THAT would be a resource worth posting to
If Linux distros could offer a consistent config file format (Pick one. Seriously.), some form of config inheritance (eg load /etc/defaults/[someconfig], then /home/username/.config/[someconfig], then /etc/overrides/[someconfig]) and lockdown (think KDE's kiosk), that would help a lot. Yes, I understand that this is almost impossible given the nature of Linux distros as assemblies of independenly developed software, but nonetheless this would be awfully nice.
cfengine
LSB
boom-tish!
But... what about Sendmail?
TV news tonight said they could expect around $10,000 (Australian - I'm in .au) if they wanted to sell it.
As an aside, apparently the lady of the house and her child only left the room in question a few minutes before the event.
Here, have this whole bedroom set. Sure to calm you down some...
"Your UNIX email server isn't sending SMTP compliant email"
Microsoft Professional Support Services, on why certain email from Postfix --> Exchange was not appearing in user inboxes. This despite clear logs showing receipt of email at Exchange, processing and final delivery to InformationStore.
At least I'm pretty sure it is. "Net Slaves" by Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin chronicles some of the many people who were burned by the Internet and technological boom days - you remember, back when it was the best thing since sliced bread, everyone wanted a part of it and HTML "programmers" could earn $US85/hour?
Basically it's divided into chapters based on sterotype - Garbagemen (support techs, low-level coders etc), Cops & Streetwalks, Social Workers (think AOL chatroom moderaters, online chat hosts etc), Fry Cooks (overworked project managers), Priests & Madmen ("cyber-pundits" - basically anyone with half a grip on The Internet and the ability to overmarket their ideas) and lots more.
One of the stories told is about SoHo Nights - the Web's first online soap. It's mainly centered around a guy called Kellner, who together with Mira (fake names, naturally) first came up with and marketted the concept to Mira's company.
Essentially Kellner had the idea, didn't think it was a good one, but was talked into it by Mira, who recked she could sell it as an idea to her company.
At the end of it all Kellner is basically broke and berefit of any credit for the idea or the work he put into it. Mira, whose only contribution was marketing hype needed to sell the idea to her company, sold it as her OWN idea (along with another person at the same company by the name of Jullian). Kellner was left several thousand dollars out of pocket, the promised contract had not materialised (and why would it - the financing company thought it was all Mira's idea) and worst of all his BEST idea, much more successful than SoHo Nights (though it did eventually fail), was stolen from his laptop by yet another woman, put up to the deed by Mira and Jullian.
From the epilogue:
"Kellner never received another check from DBLY and was thrown out of his loft at the end of September. His American Express account terminated, Kellner's debt was referred to a collection agent. SoHo Nights survived as a ghost of a site until December of 1996, when Kellner's ISP took it down for nonpayment. Kellner now lives in Flushing, Queens, with his parents, who contantly nag him to "get a decent job and get married". Kellner has given up on beocming a Web entrepreneur, although he still gets the itch occasionally when he's not trying to get back into the video production business. As for Kellner's former partners, they all lost their jobs in late 1997 whne DBLY Interactive cancelled The Webmaster [the Great Idea stolen from Kellner's laptop]. Despite the fanfare and more than $300k in development money from Fox, the site failed to attract more than 30000 page veiews a day. This was a turn of events which thrilled Kellner to no end, although the whole experience of having his ideas stolen till left him with a queasy feeling, like he had been ambushed by a gang of mental succubae."
I picked up Net Slaves for about $AU2 in a second hand book store. It's not the greatest book in the world but it certainly does have some interesting accounts of various people who were fucked over by the technology craze of the late 90's. It even has the sad luck story of Ken Hamidi (Ken Hussein in the book) and how he came to found FACEIntel.
So what does that make LFS?
"If you're cro-magnum man and want to put together your own Linux distribution for help in herding dinosaurs, calculating rock throw trajectories and increasing your rate of evolution by 5000%, LFS is for you. Keeping in mind of course that getting it wrong will probably mean extinction for your entire species."
Hmmm, I like...
More funny than the parent comment is the fact some loony mod gave it a +1 Interesting. Aliens? wIj joH'a' neH Daq Internet
Cisco is positively benign when it comes to updating vulnerable products.
The worst company I've personally had experience with is ISS and its network security offerings (BlackICE, RealSecure etc).
Over the past few months there has been, from memory, two problems affecting ISS' BlackICE firewall family (there's more than one type of BICE). In both cases authors of the bugtraq posts originally outing these vulns stated that "patches are available" and could be downloaded from [location]. On going to said location however, all that was available from ISS was newever versions of the entire program, NOT patches. And here's the kicker - to install these newer versions and thus protect against inevitable exploit, your CD key (and thus account) had to be less than 12 months old! If you purchased your copy of BICE more than 12 months prior, you were Shit Outta Luck.
Cisco may be annoying to deal with on occasion, but at least they're not engaged in extortion by forcing customers to pay for critical updates, the sole purpose of which is to FIX CRITICAL FLAWS IN THE ORIGINAL PRODUCT! (who me angry?)
The first time I ran across ISS' shabby treatment of its customers I dropped them for a different vendor. The second time around Witty hits, and you have no idea just how greatful I am I dropped ISS and their shady business practices in the first instance.
How fast is it?
:)
No, not at all.
You need to realise that Novell's product is not a Linux distro - that was never their reasoning behind the purchase of SuSE. Rather Novell purchased SuSE to give them a strong, established Linux distro on which to base their directory service offering.
Prior to purchasing SuSE, Novell evaulated its position in the market. What they found was that while they had a kick-ass directory service product, they were being kicked in the pants when it came to new deployments - primarily by MS Windows and Active Directory.
Rather then attempt to re-build and re-position the NetWare brand among IT decision makers, Novell realised they could do much better by taking an existing base Operating System with widespread appeal, and integrating NDS with that.
Essentially Novell's cut NetWare* and tied its future to NDS on Linux.
Enter Linux. It had everything Novell needed: stability; maturity; widespread developer support; GPL (why write a new base when you can modify an existing one?); a wicked reputation among IT techs and, best of all, an increasingly bright future with the potential to topple all challengers.
Announcing NDS on Linux and then subsequently purchasing a well established Linux distro was, not to put to fine a point on it, absolute genious. NDS gets the best possible base, loss of market share to Active Directory is significantly slowed or halted (and eventually reversed if all goes to plan) and Novell regains the reputation it had among techs back in the days when MS' best offering was WfW.
GPLing YaST isn't a loss for Novell, it's a gain for Linux. Which makes it a gain for the base OS Novell will see increasing use of NDS on. Which makes it a win for Novell.
*Yes, Novell will continue to support and even offer NetWare-based NDS installations. But the fact remains that if all goes to plan, Novell will see its new business increasingly tied to NDS+Linux rather than the old bundle of NDS+NetWare
The pits are burned into substrata, not the reflective coating. Reflective coating is there to, as the name implies, reflect the laster back towards the drive so it may be read. Pits and lands alter the beam such that the reader detects the difference and thus you get your 1 and 0 signals.
Unfortunately for them, Archive.org doesn't really care for corporate PR
The Evidence
Beautiful