It sounds more like state legislators (who have received political donations form the cable/phone incumbent internet monopolies) want to protect the markets from stupid (unbribed) city officials who obviously don't have the intelligence (incumbent cable/phone bribes) to make wise choices for their cities. It's too late, monopolies have already been setup, this is just about the early guys protecting their turf. There's no doubt in my mind that phone/cable monopoly money is behind this bill.
Are XP users really in your market? Do they really spend any money on software or the products you advertise? Someone who is still on XP may not have a lot of discretionary funds. Of course they might be a 'crazy' like Steve Gibson.
Convert your site to python/big table and use Google App Engine. Great up time, free (besides dev time) to get started and cheap to scale. You could do java also but I like python much better.
PS: Of course there will be people who will tell you GAE is a bad idea, every solution has negatives, you never will find a perfect one. It is better to know the weaknesses than be surprised later. I've done site with LAMP and GAE, I like GAE better. The best thing about it is you spend a much higher percentage of you time on your web app code and less on hosting, provisioning, load projections, deployment, scaling issues, server config, extension updating, etc.
I remember that Apple has a dead pixel policy many years ago for the early powerbooks that also would not replace units with only a few dead pixels on the LCD displays. Some 133t individuals figured out how to patch the SCSI/HD driver with some code to fake some (more) bad pixels. Since it was in the HD driver, it ran even if you booted from a floppy. I think they called this the "warranty manager" or something witty like that.
>...repeatably (if only technically) reaching space, on a on a budget >embarrassingly smaller than NASA's.
Let's see them reach orbital velocity and then I'll be impressed by the budget difference.
It is not that I am unimpressed by the flight, but I'm not really impressed by comparing the budgets of two totally different projects with totally different goals.
Oh my, that's bad. They have turned on the fire hose of DHTML/Shockwave ad-in-the-way-of-what-you-are-trying-to-read ads. Every one has a different way to turn it off so you have to hunt around for it each time. That's sad, really sad.
... for instance, [using] mouse or keyboard timing input [as a source of entropy]...
While these physical activities may look random, their randomness cannot be proven, and they run the risk of generating poor entropy (or no entropy) if the sampled physical activity is dormant or repetitive....
Quantum Mechanism The only truly random generator is a mechanism that detects quantum behavior at the sub-atomic level. This is because randomness is inherent in the behavior of sub-atomic particles.
Has someone really proven that the apparent quantum randomness is really random?
One of the NASA guys was just talking about bounce marks in the press conf going on Mon. He said that there are two features in the images that he suspects might be bounce marks and plans on going over and checking them out. He also mentioned that after they digest the landing data, they will be able to predict how far away they should be.
>Because all of this is beamed from satellites, >you can drive across the country without ever >hearing a certain station fade away.
What a load of crap! Every time you go under a bridge/overpass/tunnel/tall bushy tree the signal fades. Yes, FM fades out in long tunnels, but not when I'm under a normal sized overpass. I drove a rental around Palo Alto and the music would cut out when there were large trees along the road that overhang. I can't believe that people pay for this "service".
>...shipment of 120 Dell Dimension GX270 desktops,...
Did you know that Ghost's license requires that you have a license for EACH machine that uses a drive that was imaged with Ghost? Even if you imaged all the drive on one machine and never installed ghost on the HDs, you still have to have a license for each machine according to
Yea, I was shocked too.
From Symantec:
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As a hacker of many TiVos, I must say that when I saw this book the first thing I thought was how fast the info would be out of date. Every time TiVo pushes a new version of the software, you have to get new hacking info from the web sites. Does this book even code the new DVD-R TiVos? I bet there was old info in this book the first day it hit the shelves. This is not good subject matter for a paper book.
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Canada needs to let the other 99.5% of Great Hockey Players in.
Just sayin'
It sounds more like state legislators (who have received political donations form the cable/phone incumbent internet monopolies) want to protect the markets from stupid (unbribed) city officials who obviously don't have the intelligence (incumbent cable/phone bribes) to make wise choices for their cities. It's too late, monopolies have already been setup, this is just about the early guys protecting their turf. There's no doubt in my mind that phone/cable monopoly money is behind this bill.
Are XP users really in your market? Do they really spend any money on software or the products you advertise? Someone who is still on XP may not have a lot of discretionary funds. Of course they might be a 'crazy' like Steve Gibson.
Convert your site to python/big table and use Google App Engine. Great up time, free (besides dev time) to get started and cheap to scale. You could do java also but I like python much better.
PS: Of course there will be people who will tell you GAE is a bad idea, every solution has negatives, you never will find a perfect one. It is better to know the weaknesses than be surprised later. I've done site with LAMP and GAE, I like GAE better. The best thing about it is you spend a much higher percentage of you time on your web app code and less on hosting, provisioning, load projections, deployment, scaling issues, server config, extension updating, etc.
>the Apollo program in the 60s used drafting boards, adding machines,
>rotary phones, and liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engines.
83% of the thrust of the Saturn V was generated by burning kerosene. Stages 2 and 3 which used H2 and O2 only generated the other 17%.
The first and second stategs of the Soyuz also burn kerosene.
-Mike
How does anyone know where the 22-year magnetic cycle begins and ends? Is there a party in Times Square?
-Mike
I remember that Apple has a dead pixel policy many years ago for the early powerbooks that also would not replace units with only a few dead pixels on the LCD displays. Some 133t individuals figured out how to patch the SCSI/HD driver with some code to fake some (more) bad pixels. Since it was in the HD driver, it ran even if you booted from a floppy. I think they called this the "warranty manager" or something witty like that.
Dell?
Apple?
Sony?
ViewSonic?
HP?
etc.?
-Mike
No, they go to professional counterfeiter's printer stores. You have to have a tax id to even get in!
-Mike
>...repeatably (if only technically) reaching space, on a on a budget
>embarrassingly smaller than NASA's.
Let's see them reach orbital velocity and then I'll be impressed by the budget difference.
It is not that I am unimpressed by the flight, but I'm not really impressed by comparing the budgets of two totally different projects with totally different goals.
Oh my, that's bad. They have turned on the fire hose of DHTML/Shockwave ad-in-the-way-of-what-you-are-trying-to-read ads. Every one has a different way to turn it off so you have to hunt around for it each time. That's sad, really sad.
-Mike
Yea, and all those Microsoft security bugs are a hugely successful jobs program for sysadmins.
Maybe someone should tell Bill that bugs in Microsoft software makes the world economy less efficient and that costs lots of jobs.
-Mike
goto@hell.com
or
spam2@hell.com
-Mike
I just threw away my 6800 assembler book!
-Mike
Has someone really proven that the apparent quantum randomness is really random?
-Mike
-Mike
Can't they just print one photo for the whole lower 48 states? Did they say everyone's house would have its own pixel(s)?
We should teleport all our nasty green house gases to Mars, it would warm the place up!
Earth First... we'll mine the other planets later.
-Mike
Hasn't the UK arm of the RIAA sued your pants off yet? The music on the video sounds familiar.
One of the NASA guys was just talking about bounce marks in the press conf going on Mon. He said that there are two features in the images that he suspects might be bounce marks and plans on going over and checking them out. He also mentioned that after they digest the landing data, they will be able to predict how far away they should be.
>Because all of this is beamed from satellites,
>you can drive across the country without ever
>hearing a certain station fade away.
What a load of crap! Every time you go under a bridge/overpass/tunnel/tall bushy tree the signal fades. Yes, FM fades out in long tunnels, but not when I'm under a normal sized overpass. I drove a rental around Palo Alto and the music would cut out when there were large trees along the road that overhang. I can't believe that people pay for this "service".
Did you know that Ghost's license requires that you have a license for EACH machine that uses a drive that was imaged with Ghost? Even if you imaged all the drive on one machine and never installed ghost on the HDs, you still have to have a license for each machine according to
Yea, I was shocked too.
From Symantec:
As a hacker of many TiVos, I must say that when I saw this book the first thing I thought was how fast the info would be out of date. Every time TiVo pushes a new version of the software, you have to get new hacking info from the web sites. Does this book even code the new DVD-R TiVos? I bet there was old info in this book the first day it hit the shelves. This is not good subject matter for a paper book.
-Mike
Let's rig the election so that The Star Wars Kid is elected president!
-Mike
Java Settlers of Catan
http://settlers.cs.northwestern.edu/
The robots are able to build roads and cities!
-Mike