Oh God! The flashbacks are killing me! Back in the mid-70's I worked for Tymshare (sister company/parent/?? of Tymnet) doing load testing on a project called OnTyme (commercial email). I was hip-deep in the Tymnet protocol trying to record and then re-create realistic pseudo-user-loads from different points in the country. Massive PITA.
We have a niece in Australia who is using HideMyAss.com with Netflix and Hulu and she says it works great. Her boyfriend is German and he tested it at home before meeting her Down Under. They have proxy servers all over the place, so this doesn't just work for content on U.S. servers.
HMA is under US$7/month if you do a yearly contract. A lot easier/cheaper than setting up/maintaining your own.
That's what I did. Of course I'm 62 and my savings allow me to do this, but I have to admit that it feels good.
I remember when his mother saved him from drowing
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Remembering Sealab
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Alan Krasberg, one of the researchers connected
with Sealab, was the son of one of my mother's best friends, Tammy Krasberg.
Apparently one afternoon Alan was testing some rebreathing equipment in the family pool.
Tammy, who was reading a magazine pool-side, realized she hadn't seen any activity from him for awhile,
so she put down her magazine, dove in, hauled him to the surface and, at least according to the story
my mother told, gave him CPR. He revived and his mother went back to her magazine.
I'm tempted to believe this since Tammy was one of the most unflappable people I have ever met.
I also live in the general area (in Sebastopol) and I have watched with disgust the politics around this boondogle. This is waste water that Santa Rosa had to get rid of someplace other than the Russian River because of a federal court ruling,even though it is tertiary treated water (better than 90%+ of the crap dumped into the Mississippi). The Alexander Valley grape growers first sued to keep the pipeline from going through their valley, but then after they found out they were going to get a cut in their allocation of water from the Russian River (for unrelated reasons involving Potter Valley, the Elk River, and spawning salmon) they sued again, this time to get access to the water in the pipeline.
But what really frosts my balls is that after all this time/money/legal action, the energy produced by dumping it into the Geyers is almost completely offset by the energy required to pump the water up that big friggin' hill in the first place.
+3: Laughing at the DPRK is really the only thing you can do. Unfortunately you stop laughing when you think about what life inside the DPRK must be like. Grim does not begin to describe it.
After all the acid I did over the years you would think I would have gotten at least one, teensy little flashback. But nooooooo!
Then I went to the CHM and they almost had to carry me out on a stretcher. I went into a fugue state and got my hand slapped by a docent for touching the mouse of the Xerox Alto. It was like 30 years hadn't passed and I just knew there were people out there, waiting in the maze, peeking around the corners like cockroaches.
The card readers, ginormous disk drives, core memory, video games, etc., etc. -- it all combined to warp space and time. I had thought 2 hours would be enough (my wife was shopping)... ha! Ten hours wouldn't be enough! Go for the Super Geek package and you get the entrance fee + a really geeky black/white T-shirt with CHM spelled out in binary-ASCII (I'm wearing it as I type this).
Why has the parent comment not been modded up? It's one of the more detailed, thoughtful answers to this question I've seen. It makes me think (again) that StackOverflow's voting system is far superior to the outdated/. mod system.
Python is not a good example to make this point. Google did not start the Python project, and Python has lots of uses that have nothing to do with Google. If Google were to fold tomorrow, Python (and Guido) would survive just fine.
I briefly visited San José and San Fransisco in 2003 [...]. I phoned Xerox PARC to inquire whether they had guided tours, but they didn't...
At the suggestion of a friend from the PLATO IV project (Hi, Mike!) I visited PARC in September of 1974. Not knowing anything about it I walked up to the front desk and asked if I could have a tour. The nice lady asked where I was working and I said I had just moved to the area and didn't have a job yet. She said she would see if there was someone who had some time.
About 15 minutes later this nice guy came out and proceeded to give me about a 2.5 hour tour. I was not only amazed at the tech they had, but also at how deeply he seemed to understand all of it. It was a like a walk through Disneyland led by Walt himself. I called my friend and absolutely bubbled over about what I had seen. He asked who had shown me around and I admitted I was horrible with names, but I knew his first name was.... Alan. I also told my friend that someday I hoped to work there.
Yes, it was Alan Kay, and although I never worked at PARC, 4 years later I was working down the hill at Xerox ASD on the BravoX project with the in/famous Charles Simonyi as my manager.
You wouldn't believe the Tour of the Internet I just took to see if the HBGary Aaron Barr was (somehow) the same guy who was a housemate of mine back in the 70s.
No, thank God, he's not. My guy is the one who wrote The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence back in the early 80s.
Brilliant comment... simply brilliant.
I was going to try to come up with something about a null hypothesis, but I am stunned into silence by the beauty of this.
My very first reaction was to think of Asimov's Foundation trilogy and the fact the the Galactic Library was stored as nicked quanta in a paperweight on the Librarian's desk. The Barbarians allowed him to take his personal belongings with him before they destroyed the Library Planet.
Agreed. Connections (the original, not Connections II) and a few of others (The Ascent of Man by Jacob Branowski) set the bar for what really educational TV should be like.
When our TiVo died we were a bit short on cash (think: October, 2009). So we tried streaming and... it was pretty decent. Then we looked at our $96/month DirecTv bill and thought, "Hmm.....," and canceled that sucker.
Since then 1) we've saved over $1,500, 2) we've totally fallen in love with Neflix Watch Instantly, 3) Hulu is good for the few shows we used to watch regualrly, and 4) we generally watch less TV than we used to (a Good Thing ®). It hasn't bothered us in the slightest. We have two other families who have decided that if a couple of old fogies like us (we're 61 and 65) can do this, so can they.
1. If it's on the Net then, sooner or later, it will be compromised. This is Rowell's Corollary to Fudd's First Law of Opposition. FFLoO is: If you push something hard enough it will fall over.
2. Have a complete, offsite (off-server) backup... and test it.
3. Hashing passwords only works up to a point. Use a password system that yields a different one for each system.
4. Don't keep any important information (e.g. credit card numbers) on the server if you can possibly avoid it — store it on another system that has a very narrow relationship with the net-facing system.
5. When there is a root compromise, anything encrypted on the system which can be auto-decrypted is suspect and / or assumed to be copied elsewhere along with the keys.
6. The Bad Guys® are as smart as (or smarter than) you are. And there are no extradition treaties where they live.
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... what a bunch of maroons!
Oh God! The flashbacks are killing me! Back in the mid-70's I worked for Tymshare (sister company/parent/?? of Tymnet) doing load testing on a project called OnTyme (commercial email). I was hip-deep in the Tymnet protocol trying to record and then re-create realistic pseudo-user-loads from different points in the country. Massive PITA.
We have a niece in Australia who is using HideMyAss.com with Netflix and Hulu and she says it works great. Her boyfriend is German and he tested it at home before meeting her Down Under. They have proxy servers all over the place, so this doesn't just work for content on U.S. servers.
HMA is under US$7/month if you do a yearly contract. A lot easier/cheaper than setting up/maintaining your own.
Sure do!
thirdi!peter@pyramid.com
Ah, those were the days!
That's what I did. Of course I'm 62 and my savings allow me to do this, but I have to admit that it feels good.
Alan Krasberg, one of the researchers connected with Sealab, was the son of one of my mother's best friends, Tammy Krasberg. Apparently one afternoon Alan was testing some rebreathing equipment in the family pool. Tammy, who was reading a magazine pool-side, realized she hadn't seen any activity from him for awhile, so she put down her magazine, dove in, hauled him to the surface and, at least according to the story my mother told, gave him CPR. He revived and his mother went back to her magazine.
I'm tempted to believe this since Tammy was one of the most unflappable people I have ever met.
I also live in the general area (in Sebastopol) and I have watched with disgust the politics around this boondogle. This is waste water that Santa Rosa had to get rid of someplace other than the Russian River because of a federal court ruling,even though it is tertiary treated water (better than 90%+ of the crap dumped into the Mississippi). The Alexander Valley grape growers first sued to keep the pipeline from going through their valley, but then after they found out they were going to get a cut in their allocation of water from the Russian River (for unrelated reasons involving Potter Valley, the Elk River, and spawning salmon) they sued again, this time to get access to the water in the pipeline.
But what really frosts my balls is that after all this time/money/legal action, the energy produced by dumping it into the Geyers is almost completely offset by the energy required to pump the water up that big friggin' hill in the first place.
What is even more special is the list of "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" products.
Now I have to get a towel and clean the coffee off my monitor.
+3: Laughing at the DPRK is really the only thing you can do. Unfortunately you stop laughing when you think about what life inside the DPRK must be like. Grim does not begin to describe it.
After all the acid I did over the years you would think I would have gotten at least one, teensy little flashback. But nooooooo!
Then I went to the CHM and they almost had to carry me out on a stretcher. I went into a fugue state and got my hand slapped by a docent for touching the mouse of the Xerox Alto. It was like 30 years hadn't passed and I just knew there were people out there, waiting in the maze, peeking around the corners like cockroaches.
The card readers, ginormous disk drives, core memory, video games, etc., etc. -- it all combined to warp space and time. I had thought 2 hours would be enough (my wife was shopping) ... ha! Ten hours wouldn't be enough! Go for the Super Geek package and you get the entrance fee + a really geeky black/white T-shirt with CHM spelled out in binary-ASCII (I'm wearing it as I type this).
Why has the parent comment not been modded up? It's one of the more detailed, thoughtful answers to this question I've seen. It makes me think (again) that StackOverflow's voting system is far superior to the outdated /. mod system.
Python is not a good example to make this point. Google did not start the Python project, and Python has lots of uses that have nothing to do with Google. If Google were to fold tomorrow, Python (and Guido) would survive just fine.
If humanity is to survive, we must pledge to eliminate all carbon dioxide from our atmosphere by 2030
Uhm, if we do that we will ... die. The CO2 partial pressure in your blood is what actually makes your body decide when to breathe.
I briefly visited San José and San Fransisco in 2003 [...]. I phoned Xerox PARC to inquire whether they had guided tours, but they didn't...
At the suggestion of a friend from the PLATO IV project (Hi, Mike!) I visited PARC in September of 1974. Not knowing anything about it I walked up to the front desk and asked if I could have a tour. The nice lady asked where I was working and I said I had just moved to the area and didn't have a job yet. She said she would see if there was someone who had some time.
About 15 minutes later this nice guy came out and proceeded to give me about a 2.5 hour tour. I was not only amazed at the tech they had, but also at how deeply he seemed to understand all of it. It was a like a walk through Disneyland led by Walt himself. I called my friend and absolutely bubbled over about what I had seen. He asked who had shown me around and I admitted I was horrible with names, but I knew his first name was .... Alan. I also told my friend that someday I hoped to work there.
Yes, it was Alan Kay, and although I never worked at PARC, 4 years later I was working down the hill at Xerox ASD on the BravoX project with the in/famous Charles Simonyi as my manager.
Good times.
No, thank God, he's not. My guy is the one who wrote The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence back in the early 80s.
Litigagatory?
Ouch! Looks like the famous *gatory factory is working at full speed.
In English there already exists a word for persons inclined towards litigation. It's litigious.
I think you're just being pedantagorically silly.
Brilliant comment ... simply brilliant.
I was going to try to come up with something about a null hypothesis, but I am stunned into silence by the beauty of this.
I think you fail to understand how radio waves work...
When has lack of understanding ever stopped anyone on /. from commenting on anything?
Come on modders ... that was genuine, laugh-out-loud funny.
Wow, that's not the movie I saw. I could see eating people, but shit? Nah, this sequel will never work.
My very first reaction was to think of Asimov's Foundation trilogy and the fact the the Galactic Library was stored as nicked quanta in a paperweight on the Librarian's desk. The Barbarians allowed him to take his personal belongings with him before they destroyed the Library Planet.
Agreed. Connections (the original, not Connections II) and a few of others (The Ascent of Man by Jacob Branowski) set the bar for what really educational TV should be like.
When our TiVo died we were a bit short on cash (think: October, 2009). So we tried streaming and ... it was pretty decent. Then we looked at our $96/month DirecTv bill and thought, "Hmm.....," and canceled that sucker.
Since then 1) we've saved over $1,500, 2) we've totally fallen in love with Neflix Watch Instantly, 3) Hulu is good for the few shows we used to watch regualrly, and 4) we generally watch less TV than we used to (a Good Thing ®). It hasn't bothered us in the slightest. We have two other families who have decided that if a couple of old fogies like us (we're 61 and 65) can do this, so can they.
Either Google or Apple could easily pick up EMI right now.
Are you saying that they could pick up their songs ... for a song?