They've now delayed the launch to at least the first week of July. Here's a statement from the SpaceX website:
SpaceX is taking a closer look at a potential issue identified while conducting pre-flight checkouts during yesterday's countdown. SpaceX will stand down Tuesday while our engineering teams evaluate further, which will also allow the Range to move forward with previously scheduled maintenance. We are currently targeting the first week of July and will work with the Range to confirm the next available launch opportunities.
I think it's good that they're cautious. It shows that they're being thorough rather than reckless. And I'm sure their customers who have a very expensive piece of hardware on the rocket also appreciate that too. After all, this IS rocket science.
I just checked out Ohloh for the first time. While it does look like it could be very useful, it's not really the same approach as Freecode.
I like that Ohloh actually downloads the source code of the projects that it indexes, and then allows you to search through all that source code on its site. In that respect, it does far more than Freecode ever did. (Although honestly, I'm not sure that I'd ever need to use that feature.)
But the thing that I really enjoyed about Freecode was more of the news aspect of things: keeping up with what projects were being changed, what new features were being added or what bugs were being fixed, and discovering applications that I never thought about before, simply because they appeared in the news feed. It was kind of like checking the pulse of the open source movement, and/or letting serendipity guide you into finding something cool. Ohloh really makes you dig if you want to find something, though (there's no predefined category tree that I can see, you just search by keywords), and you can't really see what projects changed today and what those changes were.
Wireshark fixed a security flaw? They'd post a brief description to Freecode. Now I know that I need to download the latest version. Somebody just released a program that teaches sorting methods through audiovisualization? I never thought about that before, but that's pretty cool, I'll check it out. That's the kind of thing that you can't currently find on Ohloh. I don't want to be notified about every single commit to every project I'm interested in; just when they release something important. When they did something important, they'd post a description of it to Freecode, and then we'd all know. It was cool. It was more about sharing, and less about searching. If that makes sense.
I hope another site can become the pulse of open source like Freecode was, and not merely just another searchable directory out there that nobody uses.
Logins disabled? Can't export followed projects!
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I regularly visit Freecode to see the new open source projects and discover updates to the projects that I'm already using. I've built up quite a library of projects that I follow on Freecode. Now it seems that they've disabled logins, so there doesn't appear to be a way to at least write down the information on all of the projects that I have followed in the past. Any chance that they'll at least temporarily enable logins again, in order to "export" followed projects, or are we just hosed?
I apologize for my mistake. Until just a few minutes ago, I was unaware that the Internet Archive agrees to RETROACTIVELY honor a robots.txt file. So once a robots.txt file restricts access to content, they voluntarily remove access to previously archived content from the archive. Here's the related item from their FAQ:
Some sites are not available because of robots.txt or other exclusions. What does that mean?
The Internet Archive follows the Oakland Archive Policy for Managing Removal Requests And Preserving Archival Integrity
The Standard for Robot Exclusion (SRE) is a means by which web site owners can instruct automated systems not to crawl their sites. Web site owners can specify files or directories that are disallowed from a crawl, and they can even create specific rules for different automated crawlers. All of this information is contained in a file called robots.txt. While robots.txt has been adopted as the universal standard for robot exclusion, compliance with robots.txt is strictly voluntary. In fact most web sites do not have a robots.txt file, and many web crawlers are not programmed to obey the instructions anyway. However, Alexa Internet, the company that crawls the web for the Internet Archive, does respect robots.txt instructions, and even does so retroactively. If a web site owner decides he / she prefers not to have a web crawler visiting his / her files and sets up robots.txt on the site, the Alexa crawlers will stop visiting those files and will make unavailable all files previously gathered from that site. This means that sometimes, while using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, you may find a site that is unavailable due to robots.txt (you will see a "robots.txt query exclusion error" message). Sometimes a web site owner will contact us directly and ask us to stop crawling or archiving a site, and we endeavor to comply with these requests. When you come accross a "blocked site error" message, that means that a siteowner has made such a request and it has been honored.
Currently there is no way to exclude only a portion of a site, or to exclude archiving a site for a particular time period only.
When a URL has been excluded at direct owner request from being archived, that exclusion is retroactive and permanent.
The post is misleading. The Conservative website now has a "robots.txt" file which is designed to prevent search engines like the Internet Archive from archiving current and future content. They did not delete previously archived content from the Internet Archive.
Basically, the robots.txt convention is based on politeness. It merely lists directories and files which "honest" search engines agree to not search through. There's nothing actually stopping anyone from ignoring these requests and searching those "disallowed" directories anyway.
If you read the article carefully, you will find that the wacky statements about the LAN disappearing came from Robert Whiteley, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., not Bob Metcalfe. The article's writer, Lamont Wood, pieced his story together from many sources. So, as you have stated, it is instead Mr. Whiteley who has "lost it".
You are correct that the article seems to confuse "wireless" with "WAN" and erroneously uses the phrases interchangeably.
A WAN connection by itself will never be more secure than a LAN hooked to a WAN, and a wireless connection will never be more reliable than a wired connection, all things being equal.
Pollocks! It's obvious that the land stability issue is simply a red herring. Salmon should investigate this company quickly before the FTC gets crabby. If a company like this was your sole investment, your portfolio would flounder in no time. My cod, the seas can get a little roughy after all. I've haddock with these crappie ideas. Carp, what if a school chum fell for this idea hook, line, and sinker? You don't have to be a brain sturgeon to see this is bad news. From my perch above the bay, this plan is a real croaker, and the seas are anything but clam. Holy mackerel, this doesn't warm the cockles of my heart. I hope they mullet over before trouting out this idea. It'll take a bit of mussel to defend against pirates, too, and given that the average sysadmin is a bit of a shrimp, the pirates will conch them on the head from dawn 'til cusk!
Welk, I eel better now. Whiting is very therapeutic, they say.
The quoted statement is misleading. The flashlights were emblazoned with pot leaf logos, and the book was also about marijuana, so it's not like they were concerned with the number of flashlights he had, but what was on the flashlights. He also stated to them that he was "self-employed", which isn't bad in and of itself, but when combined with his apparent fascination with drugs they would have been foolish not to have tagged him as a possible drug dealer. He's just lucky that they didn't do a body cavity search.
Given his blatant interest in illegal substances, do you really think that the security personnel should have looked the other way? If you know your stuff is going to be searched by security, maybe you should leave your bong at home. Isn't that just common sense?
If he had a copy of "Terrorist Magazine Quarterly" in his bag with a big picture of Bin Laden on the cover, should security ignore that just because it is published material? It seems that people are crying "that's not fair" just because security logged information on his book, as if books are off-limits to investigators or something. That's just silly.
The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade...
I never pictured whales as having necks, or shoulder blades for that matter. They've always appeared to me to be one big body, with the head being at the front of the body. I usually associate shoulders with arms or legs as well, and since the whale doesn't have any arms or legs, I wouldn't know where the shoulder on a whale is.
It's obviously a big-endian/little-endian conversion problem. The article was probably written on a PowerPC machine, while you are reading it on an x86 machine.:-)
For tea, I think you mean the Wiener process, at least if you're talking about drinking it first.:-)
Brownian motion and the Wiener process, they sound like euphemisms for restroom activity: "For the sake of your roommates, please activate the ventilation fan before initiating Brownian motion. Thank you.", and "Please don't forget to lift the seat for the Wiener process."
Seriously, it's already possible to get energy from human waste products, as shown by these resourceful people in Kenya. No piezoelectric generators needed!
What's the difference between Windows XP's "Prefetch" and Vista's "SuperFetch"? Is it just more aggressive? XP also put applications and data in memory, saving copies in the C:\WINNT\Prefetch folder so that they would even load back up on the next machine boot, thus supposedly saving time when launching frequently-used applications. I have two problems with it, though:
On machines with little memory, pre-loading programs that a user MIGHT use actually slows the computer down considerably!
If a computer gets infected with spyware/adware, Windows dutifully puts the infection in the Prefetch folder as well, so that it will be preloaded on system boot. I've had trouble with some versions of spyware removal tools removing the infected.exe, but not removing the corresponding file in the Prefetch folder. It's usually safest to just clean out the whole folder when that happens... but the average home user doesn't even know that it's there.
For Windows XP, run RegEdit and change the value of \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher from "3" to "0" to turn off Prefetch altogether. Then, you can delete all the files in the C:\WINNT\Prefetch folder, reboot, and enjoy a faster running computer. If you have enough memory, and you find that the Prefetcher actually helps, just change that registry key back to a "3" and reboot.
Hopefully it will combine the convenient small size of MiniITX with the power of normal ATX processors. Some time ago I was interested in using something along the lines of a MiniITX board to build my own in-car computer, but the performance of the processors was decidedly anemic. Apparently the clock speeds have improved somewhat since then, but are still nowhere close to the speeds available on a full-sized desktop.
I know there are tradeoffs when shrinking the size of systems down, but it would be really nice to have my cake and eat it, too.:-)
Maybe one of the first posts will be from the dissident Canadian community who has been bugging Canadian coins! We'll at last know whether American defense contractors prefer Snickers or Twix!:-)
I hope that the posted documents aren't user-editable like on Wikipedia, otherwise they'll quickly be spammed out of credibility.
Paying $8000 for each exploitable security flaw in Microsoft products is a quick way to put a company into bankruptcy! I noticed that the bounty only applies to the first six submissions, though, so VeriSign is only out $48000.
Who else here thinks that VeriSign will then turn around and sell the winning entries to the black market for $50000 each? hehe
Perhaps the universe uses a Dyson vacuum, so there are no filters to replace! Then, perhaps, would a Dyson sphere simply be a huge dust bunny formed by centrifugal particle separation?:-)
Yes, their course selection has grown considerably since OpenCourseWare was first introduced. I was very anxious to check it out when it was first released years back, but at that time the courses available were limited, and some seemed to refer to materials which weren't available to those outside MIT. I'm looking forward to trying it again now that it has expanded.
As far as the exams go, I wonder if they post actual past exams, then change them so that future students can't cheat? I would guess that a prestigious school like MIT probably wouldn't reuse exams anyway for just such a reason... but I've never attended there, so I'll leave that answer to others that have.
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75GB of "unlimited" data? Verizon must have gone to the Anchorman School of Marketing!
Better yet, imagine a Beowulf cluster of wolves!
(The Wulfings were a powerful clan in Beowulf, and Wulfings means the "wolf clan".)
They've now delayed the launch to at least the first week of July. Here's a statement from the SpaceX website:
SpaceX is taking a closer look at a potential issue identified while conducting pre-flight checkouts during yesterday's countdown. SpaceX will stand down Tuesday while our engineering teams evaluate further, which will also allow the Range to move forward with previously scheduled maintenance. We are currently targeting the first week of July and will work with the Range to confirm the next available launch opportunities.
I think it's good that they're cautious. It shows that they're being thorough rather than reckless. And I'm sure their customers who have a very expensive piece of hardware on the rocket also appreciate that too. After all, this IS rocket science.
I just checked out Ohloh for the first time. While it does look like it could be very useful, it's not really the same approach as Freecode.
I like that Ohloh actually downloads the source code of the projects that it indexes, and then allows you to search through all that source code on its site. In that respect, it does far more than Freecode ever did. (Although honestly, I'm not sure that I'd ever need to use that feature.)
But the thing that I really enjoyed about Freecode was more of the news aspect of things: keeping up with what projects were being changed, what new features were being added or what bugs were being fixed, and discovering applications that I never thought about before, simply because they appeared in the news feed. It was kind of like checking the pulse of the open source movement, and/or letting serendipity guide you into finding something cool. Ohloh really makes you dig if you want to find something, though (there's no predefined category tree that I can see, you just search by keywords), and you can't really see what projects changed today and what those changes were.
Wireshark fixed a security flaw? They'd post a brief description to Freecode. Now I know that I need to download the latest version. Somebody just released a program that teaches sorting methods through audiovisualization? I never thought about that before, but that's pretty cool, I'll check it out. That's the kind of thing that you can't currently find on Ohloh. I don't want to be notified about every single commit to every project I'm interested in; just when they release something important. When they did something important, they'd post a description of it to Freecode, and then we'd all know. It was cool. It was more about sharing, and less about searching. If that makes sense.
I hope another site can become the pulse of open source like Freecode was, and not merely just another searchable directory out there that nobody uses.
I regularly visit Freecode to see the new open source projects and discover updates to the projects that I'm already using. I've built up quite a library of projects that I follow on Freecode. Now it seems that they've disabled logins, so there doesn't appear to be a way to at least write down the information on all of the projects that I have followed in the past. Any chance that they'll at least temporarily enable logins again, in order to "export" followed projects, or are we just hosed?
I apologize for my mistake. Until just a few minutes ago, I was unaware that the Internet Archive agrees to RETROACTIVELY honor a robots.txt file. So once a robots.txt file restricts access to content, they voluntarily remove access to previously archived content from the archive. Here's the related item from their FAQ:
Some sites are not available because of robots.txt or other exclusions. What does that mean?
The Internet Archive follows the Oakland Archive Policy for Managing Removal Requests And Preserving Archival Integrity
The Standard for Robot Exclusion (SRE) is a means by which web site owners can instruct automated systems not to crawl their sites. Web site owners can specify files or directories that are disallowed from a crawl, and they can even create specific rules for different automated crawlers. All of this information is contained in a file called robots.txt. While robots.txt has been adopted as the universal standard for robot exclusion, compliance with robots.txt is strictly voluntary. In fact most web sites do not have a robots.txt file, and many web crawlers are not programmed to obey the instructions anyway. However, Alexa Internet, the company that crawls the web for the Internet Archive, does respect robots.txt instructions, and even does so retroactively. If a web site owner decides he / she prefers not to have a web crawler visiting his / her files and sets up robots.txt on the site, the Alexa crawlers will stop visiting those files and will make unavailable all files previously gathered from that site. This means that sometimes, while using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, you may find a site that is unavailable due to robots.txt (you will see a "robots.txt query exclusion error" message). Sometimes a web site owner will contact us directly and ask us to stop crawling or archiving a site, and we endeavor to comply with these requests. When you come accross a "blocked site error" message, that means that a siteowner has made such a request and it has been honored.
Currently there is no way to exclude only a portion of a site, or to exclude archiving a site for a particular time period only.
When a URL has been excluded at direct owner request from being archived, that exclusion is retroactive and permanent.
The post is misleading. The Conservative website now has a "robots.txt" file which is designed to prevent search engines like the Internet Archive from archiving current and future content. They did not delete previously archived content from the Internet Archive.
Basically, the robots.txt convention is based on politeness. It merely lists directories and files which "honest" search engines agree to not search through. There's nothing actually stopping anyone from ignoring these requests and searching those "disallowed" directories anyway.
It's long past time to face facts: the Earth is getting hotter, and to deny it is an exercise in fantasy.
I much prefer fantasy exercise over actual exercise!
(Monty Python mode ON)
So, if 4GB weighs the same as a virus, it's therefore...
...a virus! BURN!! BUUUURN IT!
(Monty Python mode OFF)
If you read the article carefully, you will find that the wacky statements about the LAN disappearing came from Robert Whiteley, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., not Bob Metcalfe. The article's writer, Lamont Wood, pieced his story together from many sources. So, as you have stated, it is instead Mr. Whiteley who has "lost it".
You are correct that the article seems to confuse "wireless" with "WAN" and erroneously uses the phrases interchangeably.
A WAN connection by itself will never be more secure than a LAN hooked to a WAN, and a wireless connection will never be more reliable than a wired connection, all things being equal.
Pollocks! It's obvious that the land stability issue is simply a red herring. Salmon should investigate this company quickly before the FTC gets crabby. If a company like this was your sole investment, your portfolio would flounder in no time. My cod, the seas can get a little roughy after all. I've haddock with these crappie ideas. Carp, what if a school chum fell for this idea hook, line, and sinker? You don't have to be a brain sturgeon to see this is bad news. From my perch above the bay, this plan is a real croaker, and the seas are anything but clam. Holy mackerel, this doesn't warm the cockles of my heart. I hope they mullet over before trouting out this idea. It'll take a bit of mussel to defend against pirates, too, and given that the average sysadmin is a bit of a shrimp, the pirates will conch them on the head from dawn 'til cusk!
Welk, I eel better now. Whiting is very therapeutic, they say.
The quoted statement is misleading. The flashlights were emblazoned with pot leaf logos, and the book was also about marijuana, so it's not like they were concerned with the number of flashlights he had, but what was on the flashlights. He also stated to them that he was "self-employed", which isn't bad in and of itself, but when combined with his apparent fascination with drugs they would have been foolish not to have tagged him as a possible drug dealer. He's just lucky that they didn't do a body cavity search.
Given his blatant interest in illegal substances, do you really think that the security personnel should have looked the other way? If you know your stuff is going to be searched by security, maybe you should leave your bong at home. Isn't that just common sense?
If he had a copy of "Terrorist Magazine Quarterly" in his bag with a big picture of Bin Laden on the cover, should security ignore that just because it is published material? It seems that people are crying "that's not fair" just because security logged information on his book, as if books are off-limits to investigators or something. That's just silly.
I never pictured whales as having necks, or shoulder blades for that matter. They've always appeared to me to be one big body, with the head being at the front of the body. I usually associate shoulders with arms or legs as well, and since the whale doesn't have any arms or legs, I wouldn't know where the shoulder on a whale is.
Vegetarians prefer new soy Soylent Green! All of the taste, none of the people!
It's obviously a big-endian/little-endian conversion problem. The article was probably written on a PowerPC machine, while you are reading it on an x86 machine. :-)
For tea, I think you mean the Wiener process, at least if you're talking about drinking it first. :-)
Brownian motion and the Wiener process, they sound like euphemisms for restroom activity: "For the sake of your roommates, please activate the ventilation fan before initiating Brownian motion. Thank you.", and "Please don't forget to lift the seat for the Wiener process."
Seriously, it's already possible to get energy from human waste products, as shown by these resourceful people in Kenya. No piezoelectric generators needed!
What's the difference between Windows XP's "Prefetch" and Vista's "SuperFetch"? Is it just more aggressive? XP also put applications and data in memory, saving copies in the C:\WINNT\Prefetch folder so that they would even load back up on the next machine boot, thus supposedly saving time when launching frequently-used applications. I have two problems with it, though:
For Windows XP, run RegEdit and change the value of \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher from "3" to "0" to turn off Prefetch altogether. Then, you can delete all the files in the C:\WINNT\Prefetch folder, reboot, and enjoy a faster running computer. If you have enough memory, and you find that the Prefetcher actually helps, just change that registry key back to a "3" and reboot.
I don't know about you, but it disturbs me to see the words toilet and running internally in the same sentence!
I can hear the jokes now:
Where's Bob? Oh, he Ada too many Korn shells and now he's very Pro-Log. He's behind in his work, though, because the testing platform is backed up.
In Soviet Russia, the toilet tests YOU!
Hopefully it will combine the convenient small size of MiniITX with the power of normal ATX processors. Some time ago I was interested in using something along the lines of a MiniITX board to build my own in-car computer, but the performance of the processors was decidedly anemic. Apparently the clock speeds have improved somewhat since then, but are still nowhere close to the speeds available on a full-sized desktop.
:-)
I know there are tradeoffs when shrinking the size of systems down, but it would be really nice to have my cake and eat it, too.
Well, they can make a quick run to OfficeMax and buy the Any key (along with a "Panic" button and an "Eject" button, which could also prove useful).
Maybe one of the first posts will be from the dissident Canadian community who has been bugging Canadian coins! We'll at last know whether American defense contractors prefer Snickers or Twix! :-)
I hope that the posted documents aren't user-editable like on Wikipedia, otherwise they'll quickly be spammed out of credibility.
Paying $8000 for each exploitable security flaw in Microsoft products is a quick way to put a company into bankruptcy! I noticed that the bounty only applies to the first six submissions, though, so VeriSign is only out $48000.
Who else here thinks that VeriSign will then turn around and sell the winning entries to the black market for $50000 each? hehe
So, in the spirit of this article, could I pay your royalties, then sue you because your process gave me skin cancer? :-)
Perhaps the universe uses a Dyson vacuum, so there are no filters to replace! Then, perhaps, would a Dyson sphere simply be a huge dust bunny formed by centrifugal particle separation? :-)
Yes, their course selection has grown considerably since OpenCourseWare was first introduced. I was very anxious to check it out when it was first released years back, but at that time the courses available were limited, and some seemed to refer to materials which weren't available to those outside MIT. I'm looking forward to trying it again now that it has expanded.
As far as the exams go, I wonder if they post actual past exams, then change them so that future students can't cheat? I would guess that a prestigious school like MIT probably wouldn't reuse exams anyway for just such a reason... but I've never attended there, so I'll leave that answer to others that have.