If it guarantees delivery it would be much better. SNMP is udp and there is no way to know if the trap was recieved.
I've seen systems that are snmp based, where a cluster is used, and if the system has a fail-over many old traps are read again and alerted on. I think if the sending application can get an acknowledgement from the central app (netiq, netcool, compaq insight manager, tivoli, hp openview, etc) these type of false alerts would go away. When the sender can see the alert as a transaction it eliminates a lot of problems.
I keep getting errors when trying to go to this site. I can sort of browse by IP, but the site seems messed up. Maybe related to trying to log me in with a cookie. Emm Cookies...
Nanogen Issued Key Nanotechnology Patent Wednesday December 3, 8:02 am ET Newly Issued Patent Broadens Proprietary Position in Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN - News) today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 6,652,808, "Methods for the Electronic Assembly and Fabrication of Devices," ("the '808 patent") by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This patent is the parent of a series of pending patent applications that significantly broaden Nanogen's proprietary position in the nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing areas. The Company has now been issued nine patents during 2003, bringing the total number of patents issued in the U.S. to 56. [/snip]
Makes me wonder if both of these guys are missing the boat, b/c to my lamen eyes it appears that nanogen just patented something like what they are talking about...
-disclosure- I own nanogen stock, and have for more than 2 years.
by then we will be using nutrino etched transparent aluminium...
I mean, just b/c we see a boundary, doesn't mean some novel character won't think up some new scheme with a new material that will keep the dream alive......we also haven't run out of raw materials yet. Think of how a swarm or huge pack of insects run threw raw materials... They devoure a landscape then move on. We have a few more years.
THe site is barely loading, and I tend to think the readership of/. is much larger than it ever was before.
I look forward to the review of this particular slashdotting.
I also cannot believe the site is run on such a cheesy box. I have at least a couple of junked (but workable) old computers that I am actually considering giving away, and they are all better than a pentium-90 with 48 or whatever MB of RAM.
People in the U.S. (by me atleast) upgrade their pcs so often that they throw out perfectly good pcs just because they upgraded.
I have gotten 2 working pcs from the dumpster outside my apt complex in Maryland. One was a p-166 and the other a p-200, I think one is a dell the other a hp. They are crappy by todays standards on all measures but for something simple like a few webpages, etc, they would so rock.
If they (the site in the article) contact me and pay shipping, i'll give one away.
When Timothy posts an article not about bashing MS, or Promoting Linux (While baching MS), or posting an article about Game-dev, and then bashing MS and XBox.
Dreamcast? Why not make parts for the Ford Pinto.
thank you for your time. and I want my time back for the FUD/hatred that Timothy promotes.
J4 [/sarcasm]
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Heh. I used to work at a deli, and they had to go to the bank and BUY change. So, if they needed a roll of quarters, it might cost them $10.05, because they were dealing with a LOT of change.
No one likes coins... What if there was a smart card for holding and paying all non-whole dollar amounts? Voila, no coins. While this is not perfect, you WILL still need coins in the short term for some stuff, it could work well.
Hmmm. ------ 1. Create variation to someone else's crazy idea, thus forming my own crazy idea 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Were the jumpers to your hdd on? I have seen windows at some times work with drives on a chain without jumpers (say just one drive on a chain) and other times I have seen windows barf when the jumpers are not present.
Boredom? No girl friend? No money? 417 5-1/4 floppies that would otherwise be useless? A machine that was 'da bomb 20 years ago, but now makes a good paperweight.
I have a IIc and a green monitor, but I am not going somewhere to meet others with one... I mean come on, my palm pilot has more power than that thing...
MS essentially called a recall by issueing the patch. It said, send in the part and we'll fix it, but in a more modern approach. How can you sue a company that found the exploit and offered a free fix?
How can you sue? How can you let the vendor know your opinion? They claim no liability. What if the product was just the initial setup routine and an EULA, and then the app just closed. What would that be, what? I am not trying to go off on a rant here, but at what point have they met their resposibility to sell a person/company a product?
Well, they are, in the case of SQL Server, selling a feature rich product at a high price. They are not giving this stuff away... What they in effect do, is say nearly everyday:
MS: Woops, there goes another Pinto.
My point, and why the car analogy breaks down in favor is going easy on MS, is that MS delivers a PINTO when it comes to just about every product. To compare the level of defects in MS's products, it would be like every Ford car would have a part break, fall off, or cause Death, weekly if not daily.
Woops once, woops twice, ok, tell me every day that I need a new patch to remain "safe" is just a result of the poor design and engineering that went in to the products they shipped, and collected a fee for. If they really cared, the level fault and vulnerability in each product would be reduced by an order of magnitude or more, as would their profits due to engineering/qa costs for a _better_ product.
disclaimer: I use ms's products, and their existance helps to feed and shelter me.
I think I see your point, but in the case of telemarketers, they are CALLING ME TO SELL ME SOMETHING. This is not an employer or a friend.
Everyone has the right to block their number. If you are trying to sell me something, I have the right to acknowledge you are not forth coming with your identity and choose not to do business with you (if indeed your are a business and not Kevin Mitnick phreaking on me).
I too usually don't answer calls when the number is blocked. And I have a voicemail service. However I pay to call to get my messages and I pay on a per message basis (with the first handful included in the base fee). So if I don't answer I am still winding up paying a fee. Heck there are a lot of "businesses" that don't even want to talk to you. I get so many hangups it is not even funny. But when I check my voicemail for calls that came thru when I was not home, I often get recorded offers for, lets see:
chimney sweeping
DirectTV
Free Disney vacations
vinyl siding
Window Replacement
These companies are sending bulk voicemail (VOICE-SPAM if you ask me!)
Oh! and paying the phone company for a service to keep my number unlisted AND paying for a call-intercept service is just plain CRAZY. They sell your number. Credit card companies sell your number. Privacy should be free. I should not have to let another company profit on my identity by default. Opt-in, Opt-out? Hogwash.
Cleansing thoughts..... Think of my happy place....
Ahhh...
Never confirm more than your name, and ask for theirs first.
A person/company calling you has you at a great advantage. It could be an inmate of a prison just trying to get your credit card, and all he/she started with was probably a phone book or Internet connection... I mean come on, they almost always BLOCK their source phone number. How can you even remotely trust someone who is hiding behind an unidentified phone number, wanting to sell you something???
It is like social engineering, surely we here on/. are all aware of how that works. (Free Kevin, oh wait, nevermind) But these guys are just plain arrogant about it. Did you hear the womans voice when she was asked to repeat something? She got a real nasty tone. The social response to that is to not ask for anything to be repeated. And voila, he gets nailed with some services and charges he never really even heard, or realized he was buying.
Now what I have always wanted to do, but never have, is when the call starts and they say it may be recorded, I would say "Good, for my records and quality assurances I AM RECORDING THE CALL TOO." How do you think the would respond to that? most likely "Click."
There is a new strain of this virus in the wild now...
The slashdot editors' 'puters have almost all been infected. A source who agreed to comment on the grounds of anonyminity said: "yeah, they got Taco a while ago, but now Timothy and a few others are competing for most Dupes posted to the front page..." He went on to say: "Taco has really been hurt by this. He has admitted in private he can't tell the difference between news and news that was already reported [on his site]."
This has been confirmed by another source: "yeah, they got Taco a while ago, but now
Timothy and a few others are competing for most Dupes posted to the front page..."
He went on to say: Taco has really been hurt by this. He has
admitted in private he can't tell the difference between news and news that was
already reported [on his site].
Or just check the home page of www.slashdot.org
on at any given moment, and there is a 63% chance you will see a dupe in the
active stories, and a 79% chance there will be a dupe in the current and
older stuff links.
Taco could not be reached for comment, apparently having made a 'run for the
border'
That's called the Internet. Why mockup/simulate what already exists.
Now if the concept was slashdot-a-country-per-day that'd be cool. Monitor the effects of page availability of other sites in the country that were not specifically slashdoted, etc. Similar to what Keynote does.
Could we bump a country off the internet just for giggles? Hmmm.
I couldn't sleep so I decided to post my answer to this...
I would start by:
ME: "I assume you have a goal of moving the moutain. If that is your goal, then you should reconsider it. If the goal was assigned to you, then we need to 1) make sure it is not doable:
a) will breaking it up in to pieces and reassembling them meet the goal, even if the reconstructed mountain is slightly different?
b) do we have the resouces to say get a few million people involved in moving buckets of the moutain parts for say a couple hundred or whatever years? c) have they decided on a location to move it to, adn could that place be used for a better goal?
2) come up with a good set of reasons for why the goal should be scrapped and present these reasons to the goal-assigner.
If the goal was decided on by the person you are speaking to, then maybe you are screwed, or maybe they are Egyptian or something, and are just recruiting for a noble task, and plan on it taking forever, and are getting paid by the hour, or are getting based on the number of man hours it takes, and more is better.
We have some capabilities in some of our equipment that will allow you to take all the traffic that goes across an interface and send it to another interface. Right now that is used in some cases as a lawful interception technology.
When we first started talking, some engineers said, "Let's turn this on and use that." I said, "Heavens no, if we can narrow the range of information, let's do it."
CISCO Port SPAN. This is what he is refering to. They can currently trap all the packets. This new technology will allow them to select a smaller subset of packets to capture...
This is still scary stuff, and will lead to other new encrypted VOIP stuff that is not built around Cisco hardware, but sending packets themselves, encrypted...
HL was a cool game in MHO, but it was never as cool as Quake or Quake 2. The bigges thing HL has going for it is the modding.
I play Dayofdefeat (DoD) for about an average of 3 or 4 hours a day! Yeah i have no life, but who here on/. that reads more than the headlines can not say the same?
DoD is such a cool mod, I'd buy a new version of the Engine just in the hopes that it might happen again.
Plus DoD is being picked up by Valve and Activision as an official MOD, so it is will be given the support of the likes of CS...!!!
(dod_avalanche, look for "[dgx] Fist", I'll kill ya later.)
Slashdot Mirror
If it guarantees delivery it would be much better. SNMP is udp and there is no way to know if the trap was recieved.
I've seen systems that are snmp based, where a cluster is used, and if the system has a fail-over many old traps are read again and alerted on. I think if the sending application can get an acknowledgement from the central app (netiq, netcool, compaq insight manager, tivoli, hp openview, etc) these type of false alerts would go away. When the sender can see the alert as a transaction it eliminates a lot of problems.
-Joe4
I keep getting errors when trying to go to this site. I can sort of browse by IP, but the site seems messed up. Maybe related to trying to log me in with a cookie. Emm Cookies...
-Joe^4
Drink Lots 'O Beer. :)
http://web.archive.org/web/20020802085307/www.colu mbusgaming.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN - News) today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 6,652,808, "Methods for the Electronic Assembly and Fabrication of Devices," ("the '808 patent") by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This patent is the parent of a series of pending patent applications that significantly broaden Nanogen's proprietary position in the nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing areas. The Company has now been issued nine patents during 2003, bringing the total number of patents issued in the U.S. to 56.
[snip]
Nanogen Issued Key Nanotechnology Patent
Wednesday December 3, 8:02 am ET
Newly Issued Patent Broadens Proprietary Position in Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3
[/snip]
Makes me wonder if both of these guys are missing the boat, b/c to my lamen eyes it appears that nanogen just patented something like what they are talking about...
-disclosure- I own nanogen stock, and have for more than 2 years.
-Joejoejoejoe
by then we will be using nutrino etched transparent aluminium...
...we also haven't run out of raw materials yet. Think of how a swarm or huge pack of insects run threw raw materials... They devoure a landscape then move on. We have a few more years.
I mean, just b/c we see a boundary, doesn't mean some novel character won't think up some new scheme with a new material that will keep the dream alive...
THe site is barely loading, and I tend to think the readership of /. is much larger than it ever was before.
I look forward to the review of this particular slashdotting.
I also cannot believe the site is run on such a cheesy box. I have at least a couple of junked (but workable) old computers that I am actually considering giving away, and they are all better than a pentium-90 with 48 or whatever MB of RAM.
People in the U.S. (by me atleast) upgrade their pcs so often that they throw out perfectly good pcs just because they upgraded.
I have gotten 2 working pcs from the dumpster outside my apt complex in Maryland. One was a p-166 and the other a p-200, I think one is a dell the other a hp. They are crappy by todays standards on all measures but for something simple like a few webpages, etc, they would so rock.
If they (the site in the article) contact me and pay shipping, i'll give one away.
-Joejoejoejoe
need i say more?
thanks,
Joejoejoejoe
Does that sig mean your are a sperm doner?
haha
How much you want for that PHAT NIC?
Where you born on the Internet?
Dozer is that you?
I'd easily pay $20.02
-JoeJoeJoeJoe (J4)
p.s. Seriously, how much do you want????
When Timothy posts an article not about bashing MS, or Promoting Linux (While baching MS), or posting an article about Game-dev, and then bashing MS and XBox.
Dreamcast? Why not make parts for the Ford Pinto.
thank you for your time. and I want my time back for the FUD/hatred that Timothy promotes.
J4
[/sarcasm]
Heh. I used to work at a deli, and they had to go to the bank and BUY change. So, if they needed a roll of quarters, it might cost them $10.05, because they were dealing with a LOT of change.
No one likes coins... What if there was a smart card for holding and paying all non-whole dollar amounts? Voila, no coins. While this is not perfect, you WILL still need coins in the short term for some stuff, it could work well.
Hmmm.
------
1. Create variation to someone else's crazy idea, thus forming my own crazy idea
2. ???
3. Profit!
Can someone please point me to where (on tv, or online) this will be?
And WHEN will it be on?
I looked over the linked pages briefly and cannot find it.
thank you.
Were the jumpers to your hdd on? I have seen windows at some times work with drives on a chain without jumpers (say just one drive on a chain) and other times I have seen windows barf when the jumpers are not present.
Check the jumpers.
-J4
Boredom?
No girl friend?
No money?
417 5-1/4 floppies that would otherwise be useless?
A machine that was 'da bomb 20 years ago, but now makes a good paperweight.
I have a IIc and a green monitor, but I am not going somewhere to meet others with one... I mean come on, my palm pilot has more power than that thing...
How can you sue? How can you let the vendor know your opinion? They claim no liability. What if the product was just the initial setup routine and an EULA, and then the app just closed. What would that be, what? I am not trying to go off on a rant here, but at what point have they met their resposibility to sell a person/company a product?
Well, they are, in the case of SQL Server, selling a feature rich product at a high price. They are not giving this stuff away... What they in effect do, is say nearly everyday:
My point, and why the car analogy breaks down in favor is going easy on MS, is that MS delivers a PINTO when it comes to just about every product. To compare the level of defects in MS's products, it would be like every Ford car would have a part break, fall off, or cause Death, weekly if not daily.
Woops once, woops twice, ok, tell me every day that I need a new patch to remain "safe" is just a result of the poor design and engineering that went in to the products they shipped, and collected a fee for. If they really cared, the level fault and vulnerability in each product would be reduced by an order of magnitude or more, as would their profits due to engineering/qa costs for a _better_ product.
disclaimer: I use ms's products, and their existance helps to feed and shelter me.
I think there is a code for this.
Check this page: star codes for some info...
[snip] *77 Anonymous Call Rejection
*87 Cancel Anonymous Call Rejection [/snip]
Everyone has the right to block their number. If you are trying to sell me something, I have the right to acknowledge you are not forth coming with your identity and choose not to do business with you (if indeed your are a business and not Kevin Mitnick phreaking on me).
I too usually don't answer calls when the number is blocked. And I have a voicemail service. However I pay to call to get my messages and I pay on a per message basis (with the first handful included in the base fee). So if I don't answer I am still winding up paying a fee. Heck there are a lot of "businesses" that don't even want to talk to you. I get so many hangups it is not even funny. But when I check my voicemail for calls that came thru when I was not home, I often get recorded offers for, lets see:
chimney sweeping
DirectTV
Free Disney vacations
vinyl siding
Window Replacement
These companies are sending bulk voicemail (VOICE-SPAM if you ask me!)
Oh! and paying the phone company for a service to keep my number unlisted AND paying for a call-intercept service is just plain CRAZY. They sell your number. Credit card companies sell your number. Privacy should be free. I should not have to let another company profit on my identity by default. Opt-in, Opt-out? Hogwash.
Cleansing thoughts.....
Think of my happy place....
Ahhh...
NEVER BUY ANYTHING.
/. are all aware of how that works. (Free Kevin, oh wait, nevermind) But these guys are just plain arrogant about it. Did you hear the womans voice when she was asked to repeat something? She got a real nasty tone. The social response to that is to not ask for anything to be repeated. And voila, he gets nailed with some services and charges he never really even heard, or realized he was buying.
Never confirm more than your name, and ask for theirs first.
A person/company calling you has you at a great advantage. It could be an inmate of a prison just trying to get your credit card, and all he/she started with was probably a phone book or Internet connection... I mean come on, they almost always BLOCK their source phone number. How can you even remotely trust someone who is hiding behind an unidentified phone number, wanting to sell you something???
It is like social engineering, surely we here on
Now what I have always wanted to do, but never have, is when the call starts and they say it may be recorded, I would say "Good, for my records and quality assurances I AM RECORDING THE CALL TOO." How do you think the would respond to that? most likely "Click."
The slashdot editors' 'puters have almost all been infected. A source who agreed to comment on the grounds of anonyminity said: "yeah, they got Taco a while ago, but now Timothy and a few others are competing for most Dupes posted to the front page..." He went on to say: "Taco has really been hurt by this. He has admitted in private he can't tell the difference between news and news that was already reported [on his site]."
This has been confirmed by another source: "yeah, they got Taco a while ago, but now Timothy and a few others are competing for most Dupes posted to the front page..." He went on to say: Taco has really been hurt by this. He has admitted in private he can't tell the difference between news and news that was already reported [on his site].
For proof, please reference these links: Catching up with Wine,World of Ends Public Draft, TarProxy Creates Tar Pit... For Spammers , Toms Hardware Reviews 65 CPU's, Past & Present , Linux on the iPod , Why VHS Was Better Than Betamax , Environmental Impact of the Ubiquitous Microchip , Toner Cartridges new DMCA victim , Ogg Vorbis in Quicktime 6.0.2 , Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods , When Personalization Runs Amuck , Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles , Ogg Vorbis For Hardware Makers , When Spun Really Fast, CDs Explode.
Or just check this site: SlashDupes.com
Or just check the home page of www.slashdot.org on at any given moment, and there is a 63% chance you will see a dupe in the active stories, and a 79% chance there will be a dupe in the current and older stuff links.
Taco could not be reached for comment, apparently having made a 'run for the border'
That's called the Internet. Why mockup/simulate what already exists.
Now if the concept was slashdot-a-country-per-day that'd be cool. Monitor the effects of page availability of other sites in the country that were not specifically slashdoted, etc. Similar to what Keynote does.
Could we bump a country off the internet just for giggles? Hmmm.
ME: "I assume you have a goal of moving the moutain. If that is your goal, then you should reconsider it. If the goal was assigned to you, then we need to
1) make sure it is not doable:
2) come up with a good set of reasons for why the goal should be scrapped and present these reasons to the goal-assigner.
If the goal was decided on by the person you are speaking to, then maybe you are screwed, or maybe they are Egyptian or something, and are just recruiting for a noble task, and plan on it taking forever, and are getting paid by the hour, or are getting based on the number of man hours it takes, and more is better.
We have some capabilities in some of our equipment that will allow you to take all the traffic that goes across an interface and send it to another interface. Right now that is used in some cases as a lawful interception technology.
When we first started talking, some engineers said, "Let's turn this on and use that." I said, "Heavens no, if we can narrow the range of information, let's do it."
CISCO Port SPAN. This is what he is refering to. They can currently trap all the packets. This new technology will allow them to select a smaller subset of packets to capture...
This is still scary stuff, and will lead to other new encrypted VOIP stuff that is not built around Cisco hardware, but sending packets themselves, encrypted...
Rock on dude.
Thank slashcode for the "friend modifier"
-Joejoejoejoe
HL was a cool game in MHO, but it was never as cool as Quake or Quake 2. The bigges thing HL has going for it is the modding.
/. that reads more than the headlines can not say the same?
I play Dayofdefeat (DoD) for about an average of 3 or 4 hours a day! Yeah i have no life, but who here on
DoD is such a cool mod, I'd buy a new version of the Engine just in the hopes that it might happen again.
Plus DoD is being picked up by Valve and Activision as an official MOD, so it is will be given the support of the likes of CS...!!!
(dod_avalanche, look for "[dgx] Fist", I'll kill ya later.)