So if you think you can block off a busy route just to search for treasure, I'll tell you about the gold bar I saw someone drop into the concrete being poured for the New York Thruway.
so is GPG. If the government really wants to get you, they'll surround you with Tempest vans, put a key sniffer in your keyboard, grab all your traffic through your ISP and monitor your phone calls. Uncrackable files don't mean much when traffic analysis shows email to the Cali cartel and cyber-cafe's in Pakistan.
But, just like the NRA sorts, who cling to the illusion that their pre-ban AR-15 will protect them against the black helicopters, PGP users delude themselves into thinking they're making a heroic stand for freedom, when in reality, no one cares about their encrypted plans to sleep in line for the Two Towers premiere.
If you're just using a Primary Domain Controller, that could be your problem. I'd recommend adding a backup PDC, as well as a Tertiary Domain Controller, and add an X.25 backup network layer to give you hot-swappability and real-time rollover capabilities.
this. These were originally developed for helicopter sims, when you're flying a 10 ton bird 10 meters off the earth at 200 knots, depth perception becomes very important.
Of course, now they cost a lot less than $10,000 a pair.
The funny part is just how many anti-globalization peaceniks who hate the militray would just cream their Guatamalen pants to play with these, I guess military stuff is bad, unless you find it entertaining.
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So the Fanwing is especially suited for inner city applications? I'm guessing it's all chromed up and has a CD player that goes boom boom boom boom da boom.
and if anything catches the zietgest of our time, it's a purer form or UNIX developed by Americans, for Americans. Perhaps the FreeBSD team can put together their own boot CD with these utilities, and restrict the iso download to only American Ip addresses (which will no doubt annoy the crazy Dutchman De Raadt, be he's close enough to America to have a henchmen drive down from Vancouver to get it).
I've often heard that hackers who can physically infiltrate a site will use a linux kernel and NT reg ed to hack an NT box, resetting the admin password. Does Knoppix have this, and do you think it's a dangerous addition, making Linux seem even more hacker friendly than it is?
Thanks Micheal, you're gonna /.
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the internet. Don't every one go J.ROOT-NET.NET now.
Well, I'm waiting for a downloadable iso
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to avoid confronting the crux of an argument. So PhysicsGenius made a mistake on a publication date, does that in anyway invalidate his thesis about this book?
A few days ago I wrote about the racist history of the EU, how they feel free to levy punitive fines against Nintendo, because it's a Japanese company with no shared cultural history with Europe, while they give a pass to American multinationals. I made a minor mistake in calling Nokia a Japanese company (disclaimer, I hate cell phones, and don't even own one, so why would I know that Nokia is Finnish, not Japanese. Toyotoa, Kawasaki, Nokia, Ninja, you can see the confusion).
Just about every reply focused on my minor mistake, without even attempting to refute my charges of EUian racism. Racism in the EU is so ingrained, so much a part of the Continental cultural ethos that's it's taken for granted and unquestioned. How I wish a few Algerian ghetto dwellers in Paris, or oppresed Turkish guest workers in Berlin had internet accesss.
So, yes, PhysicsGenius' argument is right in thrust, if having one incorrect fact. The whole Dune story is done, stick a fork in it.
Let's face it, Joe Sixpack Computer User isn't going out and buying new hard drives and upgrading their Dell, most of them are too afraid to open their case, let alone disconnect IDE cables, power lines and swap drives in and out. So, Joe's drive sit in their case, with specially engineered airflow and ventilation to keep the drives cool enough to last until King Billy decides to launch a new version of Windows and make Joe and Jane upgrade. So, there's little chance of the hard drive failing within the MS-driven three year upgrade cycle.
The people going out and buying those new hard drives tend to be overclockers, film traders and other sketchy folks, who either are compensating for a lack of sexual experience or equipment by having more gigs than Joe Sixpack, or are filling up their hard drives with illegally downloaded movies. They take these new hard drives, stick them in an overcrowded case with inadequate cooling, and then act surprised when they die in a few years. (Professionals use SCSI, of course, and still get the long warranty).
It's simple thermodynamics folks. If your generic white box case is engineered with an airflow to remove 700 BTUs/hour, and you stick a P4 or Athlon in, extra RAM and more hard drives, you're trying to remove 1400 BTUs, twice as much as your case was designed for. The only way to get rid of those is an external, water cooled radiator. Most overclockers don't do this, and fry components.
There is a bright side to this, DRM. Once DRM is in place in hard drives and CPUs, overclocking and upgrading hard drives won't be as common, and we can get back to 3 year warranties.
Goodness knows that Macs command a premium on their hardware, but that's because all their official Apple Hardware has been thoroughly tested and debugged against the various OSii. King Jobs rules a stern and strict kingdom, but at least you get stability.
In contrast, if you start sticking commodity PC hardware in their with poorly tested drivers, yeah, you may save a few bucks, but you lose a lot of stability, your TiBook may no longer be capable of multiday uptimes.
Here's a little experiment, go to any Mac forum and read up on hardware/software bugs, you'll find that 70% of them have been due to poorly designed third party software. Jobs may be greedy, but he also wants you have to the best, most reliable software out there.
One of the main reasons I haven't switched from the despotic Linux family with it's Nazi-esque SysV init scripts is the presence of awesome journaling capability, knowing that I can pull out the power cords on my SCSI disks and reconstruct data on the fly gives me a lot of peace of mind.
But, having cut my eye teeth on SunOS 4.1.3, I still have a hankering for the old rc files, and the general Berkeleyness of the BSDs. Will Apple be good enough to help roll a decent journaling file system back into the BDSs, so I can return to my blissfil Berkely rc days, and not worry about the cleaning lady pulling out my RAID power outlet to use the vacuum cleaner?
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and what kind of computer gear do you and Fagen have at home?
I think that's the point that you're tying to make, right? If your typical weblog owner would just run on Oracle and Win2k Pro, we could expect longer uptimes and better response?
The tech world was shattered today by the news that two members of the open source weblog Slashdot hooked up at a slashdot.meetup.com meeting.
Anonymously speaking, the female slashddotter was surprised that the two had so much in common "He likes anime, and thought I looked so good in my Sailor Moon cosplay, I was charmed. I was so charmed, he charmed me out of that suit later that night, giggle".
The male slashdotter commented "Well, I was 23 and a virgin, and spending the night recompiling RedHat 8.0 did not appeal to me. I was sure about *****, she was a little chunky, but when I saw that she came out of the ladies room, and not the mens, I knew she was a real women. I think we'll have sex again."
Space elevators need to be located very near the equator, and if you look at all the countries near the eqautor, they're rife with anti-Americanism. If you think Bush will let haters of American gain the high ground, forget it.
My predictions is we'll see a coup in a convenient third world country on the equator, like Venezuala or India, with the installation of a pro-American government before we biuld a space elevator.
and then Special Forces can go get all the Netherlandish developers as accessories to terrorism. Yeah baby, nothing like a GPS-18 being laser guided onto a tent in Netherlandia to teach some lessons.
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experience, they'll be making half of what an MCSE makes!
It all evens out!
cuz I'd sue for full possession of their source code, and then become a Linux millionaire!
I'm holding out for a liquid sodium cooled computer, just like valves on decent cars.
or at least they have jurisdiction over them.
So if you think you can block off a busy route just to search for treasure, I'll tell you about the gold bar I saw someone drop into the concrete being poured for the New York Thruway.
and the utilities and credit card companies get pissed if you staple the check to the bill.
Christmas time and ebaying are about the only time of year I mail non-bill stuff.
so is GPG. If the government really wants to get you, they'll surround you with Tempest vans, put a key sniffer in your keyboard, grab all your traffic through your ISP and monitor your phone calls. Uncrackable files don't mean much when traffic analysis shows email to the Cali cartel and cyber-cafe's in Pakistan.
But, just like the NRA sorts, who cling to the illusion that their pre-ban AR-15 will protect them against the black helicopters, PGP users delude themselves into thinking they're making a heroic stand for freedom, when in reality, no one cares about their encrypted plans to sleep in line for the Two Towers premiere.
If you're just using a Primary Domain Controller, that could be your problem. I'd recommend adding a backup PDC, as well as a Tertiary Domain Controller, and add an X.25 backup network layer to give you hot-swappability and real-time rollover capabilities.
too often you'll run into strange glitches like this.
It takes me a bit more time to manually edit all my routing tables on my Ciscos and Suns, but I feel the homemade touch makes up for the extra time.
this. These were originally developed for helicopter sims, when you're flying a 10 ton bird 10 meters off the earth at 200 knots, depth perception becomes very important.
Of course, now they cost a lot less than $10,000 a pair.
The funny part is just how many anti-globalization peaceniks who hate the militray would just cream their Guatamalen pants to play with these, I guess military stuff is bad, unless you find it entertaining.
So the Fanwing is especially suited for inner city applications? I'm guessing it's all chromed up and has a CD player that goes boom boom boom boom da boom.
and if anything catches the zietgest of our time, it's a purer form or UNIX developed by Americans, for Americans. Perhaps the FreeBSD team can put together their own boot CD with these utilities, and restrict the iso download to only American Ip addresses (which will no doubt annoy the crazy Dutchman De Raadt, be he's close enough to America to have a henchmen drive down from Vancouver to get it).
I've often heard that hackers who can physically infiltrate a site will use a linux kernel and NT reg ed to hack an NT box, resetting the admin password. Does Knoppix have this, and do you think it's a dangerous addition, making Linux seem even more hacker friendly than it is?
the internet. Don't every one go J.ROOT-NET.NET now.
and I think I'm going to be waiting a long time.
to avoid confronting the crux of an argument. So PhysicsGenius made a mistake on a publication date, does that in anyway invalidate his thesis about this book?
A few days ago I wrote about the racist history of the EU, how they feel free to levy punitive fines against Nintendo, because it's a Japanese company with no shared cultural history with Europe, while they give a pass to American multinationals. I made a minor mistake in calling Nokia a Japanese company (disclaimer, I hate cell phones, and don't even own one, so why would I know that Nokia is Finnish, not Japanese. Toyotoa, Kawasaki, Nokia, Ninja, you can see the confusion).
Just about every reply focused on my minor mistake, without even attempting to refute my charges of EUian racism. Racism in the EU is so ingrained, so much a part of the Continental cultural ethos that's it's taken for granted and unquestioned. How I wish a few Algerian ghetto dwellers in Paris, or oppresed Turkish guest workers in Berlin had internet accesss.
So, yes, PhysicsGenius' argument is right in thrust, if having one incorrect fact. The whole Dune story is done, stick a fork in it.
Let's face it, Joe Sixpack Computer User isn't going out and buying new hard drives and upgrading their Dell, most of them are too afraid to open their case, let alone disconnect IDE cables, power lines and swap drives in and out. So, Joe's drive sit in their case, with specially engineered airflow and ventilation to keep the drives cool enough to last until King Billy decides to launch a new version of Windows and make Joe and Jane upgrade. So, there's little chance of the hard drive failing within the MS-driven three year upgrade cycle.
The people going out and buying those new hard drives tend to be overclockers, film traders and other sketchy folks, who either are compensating for a lack of sexual experience or equipment by having more gigs than Joe Sixpack, or are filling up their hard drives with illegally downloaded movies. They take these new hard drives, stick them in an overcrowded case with inadequate cooling, and then act surprised when they die in a few years. (Professionals use SCSI, of course, and still get the long warranty).
It's simple thermodynamics folks. If your generic white box case is engineered with an airflow to remove 700 BTUs/hour, and you stick a P4 or Athlon in, extra RAM and more hard drives, you're trying to remove 1400 BTUs, twice as much as your case was designed for. The only way to get rid of those is an external, water cooled radiator. Most overclockers don't do this, and fry components.
There is a bright side to this, DRM. Once DRM is in place in hard drives and CPUs, overclocking and upgrading hard drives won't be as common, and we can get back to 3 year warranties.
Goodness knows that Macs command a premium on their hardware, but that's because all their official Apple Hardware has been thoroughly tested and debugged against the various OSii. King Jobs rules a stern and strict kingdom, but at least you get stability.
In contrast, if you start sticking commodity PC hardware in their with poorly tested drivers, yeah, you may save a few bucks, but you lose a lot of stability, your TiBook may no longer be capable of multiday uptimes.
Here's a little experiment, go to any Mac forum and read up on hardware/software bugs, you'll find that 70% of them have been due to poorly designed third party software. Jobs may be greedy, but he also wants you have to the best, most reliable software out there.
One of the main reasons I haven't switched from the despotic Linux family with it's Nazi-esque SysV init scripts is the presence of awesome journaling capability, knowing that I can pull out the power cords on my SCSI disks and reconstruct data on the fly gives me a lot of peace of mind.
But, having cut my eye teeth on SunOS 4.1.3, I still have a hankering for the old rc files, and the general Berkeleyness of the BSDs. Will Apple be good enough to help roll a decent journaling file system back into the BDSs, so I can return to my blissfil Berkely rc days, and not worry about the cleaning lady pulling out my RAID power outlet to use the vacuum cleaner?
You've written code that's used by millions of people, just about anyone who's ever networked a Linux box has used your driver. Yet, you're not rich. Would you like to see Linux people chip in a few bucks out of gratitude?
and what kind of computer gear do you and Fagen have at home?
I think that's the point that you're tying to make, right? If your typical weblog owner would just run on Oracle and Win2k Pro, we could expect longer uptimes and better response?
for breach on contract, when one after another, popular weblogs that offer subscriptions go down due to scaling problems or cashflow problems.
The tech world was shattered today by the news that two members of the open source weblog Slashdot hooked up at a slashdot.meetup.com meeting.
Anonymously speaking, the female slashddotter was surprised that the two had so much in common "He likes anime, and thought I looked so good in my Sailor Moon cosplay, I was charmed. I was so charmed, he charmed me out of that suit later that night, giggle".
The male slashdotter commented "Well, I was 23 and a virgin, and spending the night recompiling RedHat 8.0 did not appeal to me. I was sure about *****, she was a little chunky, but when I saw that she came out of the ladies room, and not the mens, I knew she was a real women. I think we'll have sex again."
in foreign affairs.
Space elevators need to be located very near the equator, and if you look at all the countries near the eqautor, they're rife with anti-Americanism. If you think Bush will let haters of American gain the high ground, forget it.
My predictions is we'll see a coup in a convenient third world country on the equator, like Venezuala or India, with the installation of a pro-American government before we biuld a space elevator.
and then Special Forces can go get all the Netherlandish developers as accessories to terrorism. Yeah baby, nothing like a GPS-18 being laser guided onto a tent in Netherlandia to teach some lessons.