But despite being awful tag-soup, pages created by Frontpage usually render correctly in Firefox. Most people deisning pages in it don't know enough about HTML/JavaScript to create anything that's incompatible.
That's the first problem with FTL that comes to mind for many people, but I don't think it's the most important. The biggest problem in my mind is that paths which are faster than light in one reference frame are all backwards in time in some other reference frame.
Can you please provide an example of this? I'm having trouble coming up with a reference frame in which FTL travel appears to be moving backwards in time (taking into account the travel time of light from the points involved to the reference point).
Hear, hear. I'm a "self taught" typist as well -- and blew the pants off anyone in my typing class WPM-wise, despite ignoring the 'proper' technique and doing my own thing.
My hands generally float around the keyboard in order to position the most fingers near the letters I'm using at the time -- for example at the moment I've got my left pinky on shift, and the next three fingers on s, e, and f, and thumb on space. But when I went back to insert the word 'moment', that shifted to w, e, t, and the pinky on a. But then I'll also do weird stuff like rest my right hand on m, l, p with the pinky on enter (sometimes, again it varies a lot).
Anyway, it doesn't sound very organized, but works for me and I've never had any sort of soreness or strain despite years of typing this way. I think it helps that the motions and angles are varied and not as repetitive as the 'home-row' method.
I also switch between a split keyboard at work (MS office something, I just grabbed it for the built in USB hub) and a standard (Logitech internet something) at home. Many people tell me that would drive them crazy, but I really don't think it's as hard to adjust as they think -- I barely even notice.
Here's one for you -- typing the word 'barely' above, I used left index on b, left pinky on a, left middle on r, left ring on e, right index on l, and *left* index on y. I tried re-typing it using the fingers you're "supposed" to (index on r, middle on e) without moving my hands and it felt cramped and unnatural...
Towards the end of the movie, Bail Organa tells his a worker to wipe R2D2 and C-3P0's memory banks?
No, he just tells Captain Antilles to "wipe the protocol droid's mind". C-3P0 laments and R2 'laughs' at him. Which is kind of odd really, what logical reason is there to wipe one of them but not the other?
Also, maybe the station itself didn't take that long to build (say, 3-6 years to finish it completely). What if the big delay before revealing the first one was R&D of the superlaser? Without its primary planet-killing weapon, the Death Star is just an oversized, inefficient resource-sucking TIE carrier.
Not picking on you in particular cHiphead, just happened to be a convenient place to post.
IPv6 = everybody gets their own ip address, walk up to a computer, swipe your worldID card, it switches to your personal ip.
Except it doesn't work like that. IPv6 uses a hierarchical routing model, much stricter even than IPv4 classful routing.
The IPv6 address you get assigned (each customer is supposed to get their own/48 subnet, we'll see) comes out of your ISPs pool, which is probably a/32 or something. The really big carriers (i.e. backbone) get/24s, and they allocate smaller subnets to smaller ISPs. The big carriers get their subnets assigned out of a pool, but of the remaining 24 bits, the first 3 specify the address type and the last 8 are reserved. That leaves 13 bits, so there can be a maximum of 8192 "big" carriers (called TLAs).
Now, unlike the current internet, ONLY TLA's exchange routing information with each other. Every single address withing a TLA's block MUST be routable from one of its peering points. Routing between the TLA blocks may only happen at those top-level points. Small netblocks are no longer portable, so when you change ISPs, you get new addresses. No exceptions -- doesn't matter how many you have. That also means if you want to have a redundant connection for your server (multiple ISPs), it has to have multiple IP addresses too. No more BGP tricks.
So you can't assign an IPv6 address to a person, as every terminal they use has to have a different address by definition of IPv6.
The other common misconception is that IPv6 has more addresses (2^128) than particules in the known universe. This isn't really true as the lower 64 bits are not routable. They're usually automatically derived from the 48-bit MAC address, but can be statically assigned if so desired. Even if you did statically assign them, all (2^64)-2 of them would have to be on the same (flat) subnet, which would be one huge honkin LAN.
So that really only leaves 2^64 routable networks, each of which MAY have a lot of machines but in practice probably won't have more than 100-200 max, and probably averaging much lower than that. If you take into account that the specification calls for each customer to be given their own 48-bit subnet (giving them 16 bits worth to route internally if they so desire), there isn't just a whole lot more room then IPv4 because so much is forced to sit unused. It is considerably more to work with yes, but not astronomically like many people seem to think.
Ok, sorry for the rant, but just trying to make sure reasonably accurate information gets posted somewhere:)
FreeBSD 5.x has an option that can be set that, on boot, sets up the swap partition with a random encryption key that is kept only in memory and discarded on powerdown.
It's great for laptops since swap is the primary place on disk where passwords in memory can get accidentally written to. The only downside is that leaving it suspended is a security risk so it's best to power it down when it will be unattended.
Be very careful with EFS if those are files that you care about. If the machine isn't on a domain, there are several events that can cause you to lose your key permanently. One of them is having the user account password reset from the admin account. Changes to the user profile can do it too. Make sure to have backups and be very careful around your registry hive.
On a domain on the other hand, a domain admin can set up key escrow, so EFS doesn't really provide any security there unless you are the only domain admin or you trust everyone who is with all the data you encrypt.
I actually ran across one the other day. One of our accountants was asking me a question about some corporate access Bank of America site. I noticed when she was logging in that it was authenticating with a client certificate.
Kind of freaked me out -- I knew it was possible but had never actually seen a site that used it.
Some browsers are, by popular demand, staring to be able to override this and put control back in the hands of the user.
I know there's a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that disables that "feature". Wouldn't surprise me if there was an IE plugin somewhere that did it too.
Once finished move the temp file in place of the old file. The time it takes to move the file is extremely quick and should(under most circumstances) keep the blank/half webpages from showing up.
And on a UNIX server, replacing a file in this manner is an atomic operation, so no one should ever end up with a broken page due to a race condition.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention, I also repackaged GIMP (I did GTK separately as a merge module but so far nothing else uses it), TightVNC, VLC, and PDFCreator.
PDFCreator was the worst of the bunch since I'm morally opposed to just wrapping installers and want a real MSI. I ended up having to write a custom DLL to install the printer driver as the MSI format doesn't include any provisions for that.
I repackage Firefox into an msi for group policy deployment. I used to use Winstall LE that came with Win2k server, but eventually I learned enough about how msi works to be dissatisfied with that (it often gets lots of unrelated registry changes since so much background crap always happens in windows). Now I just build them by hand.
MakeMSI is a good tool for rolling your own, though it's best if you have some knowledge of how the tables work. Often I'll use Orca to tweak/double check things.
Firefox was a bit of a pain to package the first time because of all the subdirs, but it's really light on the registry keys and for updates it's mostly a matter of just dropping in the new files.
Hmmm, now that I read your post I'm thinking about trying to do that with an IE-only web app that I have to use at work. So far I've been running it in Avant Browser (for the tabs) on a spare desktop next to my FreeBSD workstation.
Do you have any general insights or tips about how to go about it? For example, if the pages have invalid javascript or use vbscript is there a way to replace that? I was under the impression that greasemonkey just let you run scripts automatically, which means that the page would have to have a (mostly) valid DOM tree to begin with.
Then CSPAN won't be allowed to broadcast senate sessions- wouldn't want terrorists to know when senators are in session. The list goes on and on and on.
"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away."
"That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?"
"The regional governors now have direct control over territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station."
I'll spare you the lame rewriting to mirror current players.
Slashdot Mirror
Or if the list server does the right thing and uses MAIL FROM: its own domain (i.e. a bounce catcher or list owner).
I check SPF at my mail server and have absolutely zero problems with the various FreeBSD lists that I'm subscribed to.
But despite being awful tag-soup, pages created by Frontpage usually render correctly in Firefox. Most people deisning pages in it don't know enough about HTML/JavaScript to create anything that's incompatible.
That's the first problem with FTL that comes to mind for many people, but I don't think it's the most important. The biggest problem in my mind is that paths which are faster than light in one reference frame are all backwards in time in some other reference frame.
Can you please provide an example of this? I'm having trouble coming up with a reference frame in which FTL travel appears to be moving backwards in time (taking into account the travel time of light from the points involved to the reference point).
Lol, same thing happened to me. I can type fast just fine as long as I know how to spell what I'm typing :)
:D
Was averaging 100 something until that word, I think I ended up with about 95 gross that got adjusted down to 90 because I had still mistyped it
Hear, hear. I'm a "self taught" typist as well -- and blew the pants off anyone in my typing class WPM-wise, despite ignoring the 'proper' technique and doing my own thing.
My hands generally float around the keyboard in order to position the most fingers near the letters I'm using at the time -- for example at the moment I've got my left pinky on shift, and the next three fingers on s, e, and f, and thumb on space. But when I went back to insert the word 'moment', that shifted to w, e, t, and the pinky on a. But then I'll also do weird stuff like rest my right hand on m, l, p with the pinky on enter (sometimes, again it varies a lot).
Anyway, it doesn't sound very organized, but works for me and I've never had any sort of soreness or strain despite years of typing this way. I think it helps that the motions and angles are varied and not as repetitive as the 'home-row' method.
I also switch between a split keyboard at work (MS office something, I just grabbed it for the built in USB hub) and a standard (Logitech internet something) at home. Many people tell me that would drive them crazy, but I really don't think it's as hard to adjust as they think -- I barely even notice.
Here's one for you -- typing the word 'barely' above, I used left index on b, left pinky on a, left middle on r, left ring on e, right index on l, and *left* index on y. I tried re-typing it using the fingers you're "supposed" to (index on r, middle on e) without moving my hands and it felt cramped and unnatural...
Towards the end of the movie, Bail Organa tells his a worker to wipe R2D2 and C-3P0's memory banks?
No, he just tells Captain Antilles to "wipe the protocol droid's mind". C-3P0 laments and R2 'laughs' at him. Which is kind of odd really, what logical reason is there to wipe one of them but not the other?
Also, maybe the station itself didn't take that long to build (say, 3-6 years to finish it completely). What if the big delay before revealing the first one was R&D of the superlaser? Without its primary planet-killing weapon, the Death Star is just an oversized, inefficient resource-sucking TIE carrier.
Not picking on you in particular cHiphead, just happened to be a convenient place to post.
/48 subnet, we'll see) comes out of your ISPs pool, which is probably a /32 or something. The really big carriers (i.e. backbone) get /24s, and they allocate smaller subnets to smaller ISPs. The big carriers get their subnets assigned out of a pool, but of the remaining 24 bits, the first 3 specify the address type and the last 8 are reserved. That leaves 13 bits, so there can be a maximum of 8192 "big" carriers (called TLAs).
:)
IPv6 = everybody gets their own ip address, walk up to a computer, swipe your worldID card, it switches to your personal ip.
Except it doesn't work like that. IPv6 uses a hierarchical routing model, much stricter even than IPv4 classful routing.
The IPv6 address you get assigned (each customer is supposed to get their own
Now, unlike the current internet, ONLY TLA's exchange routing information with each other. Every single address withing a TLA's block MUST be routable from one of its peering points. Routing between the TLA blocks may only happen at those top-level points. Small netblocks are no longer portable, so when you change ISPs, you get new addresses. No exceptions -- doesn't matter how many you have. That also means if you want to have a redundant connection for your server (multiple ISPs), it has to have multiple IP addresses too. No more BGP tricks.
So you can't assign an IPv6 address to a person, as every terminal they use has to have a different address by definition of IPv6.
The other common misconception is that IPv6 has more addresses (2^128) than particules in the known universe. This isn't really true as the lower 64 bits are not routable. They're usually automatically derived from the 48-bit MAC address, but can be statically assigned if so desired. Even if you did statically assign them, all (2^64)-2 of them would have to be on the same (flat) subnet, which would be one huge honkin LAN.
So that really only leaves 2^64 routable networks, each of which MAY have a lot of machines but in practice probably won't have more than 100-200 max, and probably averaging much lower than that. If you take into account that the specification calls for each customer to be given their own 48-bit subnet (giving them 16 bits worth to route internally if they so desire), there isn't just a whole lot more room then IPv4 because so much is forced to sit unused. It is considerably more to work with yes, but not astronomically like many people seem to think.
Ok, sorry for the rant, but just trying to make sure reasonably accurate information gets posted somewhere
Sure, just put
gbde_swap_enable="YES"
into your /etc/rc.conf. Then in your /etc/fstab, stick a .bde at the end of the swap devices you want to encrypt. For example, if you have
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
change it to
/dev/ad0s1b.bde none swap sw 0 0
-pagefile
FreeBSD 5.x has an option that can be set that, on boot, sets up the swap partition with a random encryption key that is kept only in memory and discarded on powerdown.
It's great for laptops since swap is the primary place on disk where passwords in memory can get accidentally written to. The only downside is that leaving it suspended is a security risk so it's best to power it down when it will be unattended.
Be very careful with EFS if those are files that you care about. If the machine isn't on a domain, there are several events that can cause you to lose your key permanently. One of them is having the user account password reset from the admin account. Changes to the user profile can do it too. Make sure to have backups and be very careful around your registry hive.
On a domain on the other hand, a domain admin can set up key escrow, so EFS doesn't really provide any security there unless you are the only domain admin or you trust everyone who is with all the data you encrypt.
Radio Shack seems to have stopped doing this recently.
Used to, I would give them the number and address of another Radio Shack across town (and use the manager of that store's name).
What's worse is that most of the IT related stuff is in section 404 of the Sabranes-Oxley act.
No, I'm not making this up.
Oh, the humanity!
I actually ran across one the other day. One of our accountants was asking me a question about some corporate access Bank of America site. I noticed when she was logging in that it was authenticating with a client certificate.
Kind of freaked me out -- I knew it was possible but had never actually seen a site that used it.
Some browsers are, by popular demand, staring to be able to override this and put control back in the hands of the user.
I know there's a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that disables that "feature". Wouldn't surprise me if there was an IE plugin somewhere that did it too.
Once finished move the temp file in place of the old file. The time it takes to move the file is extremely quick and should(under most circumstances) keep the blank/half webpages from showing up.
And on a UNIX server, replacing a file in this manner is an atomic operation, so no one should ever end up with a broken page due to a race condition.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention, I also repackaged GIMP (I did GTK separately as a merge module but so far nothing else uses it), TightVNC, VLC, and PDFCreator.
PDFCreator was the worst of the bunch since I'm morally opposed to just wrapping installers and want a real MSI. I ended up having to write a custom DLL to install the printer driver as the MSI format doesn't include any provisions for that.
I repackage Firefox into an msi for group policy deployment. I used to use Winstall LE that came with Win2k server, but eventually I learned enough about how msi works to be dissatisfied with that (it often gets lots of unrelated registry changes since so much background crap always happens in windows). Now I just build them by hand.
MakeMSI is a good tool for rolling your own, though it's best if you have some knowledge of how the tables work. Often I'll use Orca to tweak/double check things.
Firefox was a bit of a pain to package the first time because of all the subdirs, but it's really light on the registry keys and for updates it's mostly a matter of just dropping in the new files.
Hmmm, now that I read your post I'm thinking about trying to do that with an IE-only web app that I have to use at work. So far I've been running it in Avant Browser (for the tabs) on a spare desktop next to my FreeBSD workstation.
Do you have any general insights or tips about how to go about it? For example, if the pages have invalid javascript or use vbscript is there a way to replace that? I was under the impression that greasemonkey just let you run scripts automatically, which means that the page would have to have a (mostly) valid DOM tree to begin with.
Does that mean we'll eventually start seeing 'newbus sucks' trolls? ;-)
As I side note, I was able to use the 'Zap' series of bookmarklets to uncolumnify and properly wrap the text.
Um, hey dude, your site doesn't work.
I went there and clicking on 'disable greasemonkey' just loops back to the main page... Probably because I said no to accepting a cookie.
Maybe I need to use greasemoneky to fix it.
I'll spare you the lame rewriting to mirror current players.
Just out of curiosity, is Amaya one of them?
I've got one of 1.0.4 if you want it.
Message me if you're interested.
Aha! You're the FreeBSD-Update guy. ...and porting makefs too. Heh, I use that in my soekris build scripts ;)