Connectivity is nice, but they shouldn't ditch the typewriters yet. I'm reminded of this article:
Fri Aug 16, 5:44 PM ET By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A retired general who commanded "enemy" forces in a recently concluded $250 million U.S. war game says the exercise was rigged so that it appeared to validate new war-fighting concepts it was supposed to test.
Paul Van Riper, who headed the Marine Corps Combat Development Command when he retired in 1997 as a three-star general, said he became so frustrated with undue constraints on his command of "enemy" forces that he quit the role midway through Millennium Challenge 2002, which ended Aug. 15.
His complaints were reported Friday by the Army Times, a private newspaper that covers Army issues. The Times obtained a copy of an e-mail Van Riper sent to colleagues explaining why he had quit.
"It was in actuality an exercise that was almost entirely scripted to ensure a Blue (friendly forces) `win,'" he wrote. Van Riper was in command of the Red force, meant to simulate the enemy.
Navy Capt. John Carman, chief spokesman at Joint Forces Command at Norfolk, Va., which sponsored the war game, said Friday that there is no record of Van Riper having quit his role as "enemy" commander. He said the retired general is "held in high regard" and entitled to his opinions.
"We don't agree with his conclusions," Carman said.
Van Riper, who participated as a TRW contract employee, said he was concerned that the military would implement new war-fighting concepts on the basis of what he considers to be false conclusions from the three-week exercise.
Carman said the results of the war game were being evaluated and that some concepts will require further experimentation.
Millennium Challenge 2002 was two years in the making and involved a wide range of U.S. military commands across the country linked by computer networks to simulated troops, air and sea units with 13,500 actual military personnel fighting a classified war scenario.
Van Riper said exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against the Blue, or friendly, forces, and on several occasions the Red forces were directed not to use certain weapons against Blue.
Robert Oakley, a retired ambassador who played the role of civilian leader of the Red force, told the Times that Van Riper was outthinking the Blue force. He said, for example, that in the computer simulations, Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders, negating the Blue forces' high-tech eavesdropping capabilities. When the Blue naval forces sailed into the Persian Gulf early in the experiment, Van Riper's forces surrounded the ships with small boats and planes.
Much of the Blue force's ships ended up at the bottom of the ocean. Oakley said Joint Forces Command officials had to stop the exercise and "refloat" the fleet in order to continue.
Vice Adm. Marty Mayer, the deputy commander of Joint Forces Command, defended the exercise.
"I want to disabuse anybody of any notion that somehow the books were cooked," Mayer told the Times. He said, however, that "certain things are scripted" in any large war game. "You have to execute in a certain way or you'll never be able to bring it all together," he said.
Mayer said that in some parts of the exercise Van Riper was constrained "in order to facilitate the conduct of the experiment."
Gentoo is better than Pygoscelis papua, the scientific name for the species of penguin that it is.
And yes I finally had to look it up. Before, I thought it was some lame reference to a planet in Star Wars or something. (What's with Lucas and the 'oo' words anyway? They sound stoopid!)
Have you read it? Please post a link if you have, I can't find it. What I can find are several articles with statements like these:
From http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_312763.html The men claim the FBI acted improperly by covertly stealing their passwords and using that information to gather evidence against them.
Their lawyers contend that all material obtained from the computers should be suppressed ahead of any trial.
Seattle District Judge John Coughenour rejected the motion on the grounds that "the (FBI) agents had good reason to fear that if they did not copy the data, (the) defendant's co-conspirators would destroy the evidence".
He also added privacy rights contained within the Fourth Amendment do not extend to individuals or property located outside the US.
From http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5 82&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20021005/wr_nm/tech_russianha cker_dc Russian's state security service, the FSB, lodged a complaint against the FBI earlier this year, alleging that the FBI didn't have authorization to break into a computer system in Russia and download files.
The FBI countered, and the judge agreed, that Russian law does not apply to the agents' actions.
Seems pretty clear the judge is saying that the FBI doesn't need to follow the laws of either our own country or those of any other nation in an international pursuit of 'justice'.
The CPU will still be interrupted by disk I/O IRQ's unless you use SCSI. Lots of discrete disk accesses means lots of interrupting, which is why SCSI is used nearly exclusively in server environments.
There are two things that would cause what you are noticing. One is the program actually suspending execution pending a complete read of a data set, and the other is stuttering due to the IRQ's firing for disk access. SCSI will eliminate the latter. Nothing will eliminate the former excepting caches bigger than your max data set, and then only when the cache is filled with the right data at the right time. It's probably a combination of the two that's doing it.
Martinez-Frias has also published around 130 articles in scientific and technical publications (mainly specialised in Earth Sciences -- Geology, Economic Geology, Mineralium Deposita, Computer and Geoscience, Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogy, Geotimes, GeoMarine Letters, Episodes, Geological Magazine, Applied Geochemistry, Journal of Chromatography, AMBIO, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, etc.), in high profile multidisciplinary publications (Nature), high prestige international books (Springer-Verlag, Geological Society) in popular magazines, (Mundo Cientifico, Fronteras de la Ciencia y la Tecnología) and in the Scientific supplements of national newspapers (ie El Pais, El Mundo, ABC).
Martinez-Frias is the author of the book "Sulfuros y Sulfosales de Metales Nobles" and co-editor of several books, among which are; "Recursos Minerales de España" (CSIC 1478p) (Spanish Mineral Resources), "Geologia y Metalogenia en Ambientes Oceanicos. Depósitos Hidrotermales Submarinos (Geology and Metallogeny of Seafloor Hydrothermal Deposits) (IEO, 162p) and "Esto es Imposible" (Aguilar, 320p).
"The past has seen dramatic climate changes without humans having anything to do with it."
And that makes it ok for us to speed the process along? Short-term self-interest uber alles. "We can do whatever we want, let future generations fix it if there's a problem" sounds remarkably like "Fsck em all and let God sort them out."
Much of the time we have no freaking clue what the real impact of our actions will be on the environment. A little introspection and scientific investigation seems entirely justified.
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I had a similar experience with VNC. It was more a matter of showing that OSS software was somehow 'worthy' though. First on the scene at work was VNC when I mentioned it to our former net admin and he started using it. Then I wrote a webapp using OSS tools (and made sure my manager, the net admin, God and everyone else knew it), and it was a highly visible and smooth rollout. Finally, all the recent MS security issues finally made our net admin cave and he decided last week to replace our MS proxy, with IIS next on the block. Now it cascades from there, since the app I wrote is on a server by itself and is going to be switched to Linux as well. And I'm also finally in a position to use Linux as my desktop OS.
To the VNC devs who helped kick it all off for me, thank you!
A boss who wants a cluster installed with only 24 hours notice, who only has a single admin on staff, and an MS admin at that, deserves precisely what he/she gets.
It's called having principles and trying to live by them. Something most Americans are not familiar with anymore judging by the comments so far.
"The widespread practice of silencing free speech in the American system is a major problem for our country. It teaches the people that silencing others is ok, and that using that tactic is part of the spirit of 'freedom'."
Apache AND Tomcat - All Versions - 51 combined (18 Tomcat / 33 Apache )
IIS - All Versions - 102
Microsoft products DO suck.
And there's this:
"The Apache Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of new releases which include a fix to the invoker servlet. Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.1.12 Stable are available here. Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.0.5 are available here."
How long would MS have you wait before a fix? Hell, before even _telling_ you if they had their way and it wasn't uncovered by a third-party?
Still, this news item _should_ have been on the front page.;)
This was on a site somewhere that I've lost the link to, but I saved the bulk of the text:
Imagine a country where agents of the state install surveillance cameras at sporting events and scan the crowd looking for criminals and suspects.
Imagine cities where agents of the state use surveillance cameras to observe the activities of citizens and tourists under a watchful eye for suspicious goings on.
Imagine roadblocks being set up to randomly, and sometimes selectively, stop automobiles so that armed agents of the state and trained police dogs can inspect your car.
Imagine being at an airport in a country where you are questioned about where you have been and why you were there, while a dog sniffs about and an agent of the state ransacks your personal belongings, only to return them in disarray.
Imagine armed agents of the state just outside your home with high-tech surveillance equipment which monitors your every movement, listens to your conversations and observes what you are watching on TV.
Imagine a country where just being under suspicion of a crime is cause for arrest and justification for your car, home or other personal property to be confiscated by the state.
I recall learning about these types of countries in my junior high and high school civics classes. Does living in a country where you are watched and recorded by the state seem a little scary?
Is it Romania? Iran? Russia? Maybe, I can't say for certain. But, a country where these activities take place and continue to spread is America.
Does this bother you deeply? Or do you really not care because you maintain, I have nothing to hide.
When is the last time you read the Constitution? Have you read it since you got out of school? Have you read it as a mature adult? What about the Bill of Rights?
[Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.]
[Amendment V. No person....shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law..... to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.]
Are the above-mentioned activities of the state violations of the fourth and fifth amendments? Do they constitute just powers? Are these powers to which you consent because, I have nothing to hide.
The greatest enemy to our freedom is not a foreign power; we would eagerly rally and band together to defeat a common enemy. Nor is it the criminal element; they will fight for their rights tooth and nail. No, the greatest threat to our freedom is the law-abiding citizen who through quiet acquiescence consents to the usurpations of our rights because, "I have nothing to hide".
It is not the government which makes us free. It is not the law which makes people free. It is not the government which guarantees our freedom. No government can ever be trusted to do that. It is the people - who force the government through freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, the right to petition, and the ballot - who guarantee our freedom. Our government was instituted to secure your rights. It is your job to see to it our government doesn't forget why it is there.
As a youngster, I attended a church which taught me that God is always watching you. And this God was one mean, tough, angry hombre who would punish you for all eternity if you didn't play your cards right.
I can tell you that the feeling of being 'watched' is no way to live. Most of us are uncomfortable when a stranger looks at us for more than a fleeting second. Now that God and I have our relationship squared away, I don't need my government watching me. "I have nothing to hide", and so there is no just cause for me to be watched.
Demand your rights, protect your rights, watch your government at all times. Do what the constitution requires of you. You may have nothing to hide, but you have a lot to lose.
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Connectivity is nice, but they shouldn't ditch the typewriters yet. I'm reminded of this article:
Fri Aug 16, 5:44 PM ET
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A retired general who commanded "enemy" forces in a recently concluded $250 million U.S. war game says the exercise was rigged so that it appeared to validate new war-fighting concepts it was supposed to test.
Paul Van Riper, who headed the Marine Corps Combat Development Command when he retired in 1997 as a three-star general, said he became so frustrated with undue constraints on his command of "enemy" forces that he quit the role midway through Millennium Challenge 2002, which ended Aug. 15.
His complaints were reported Friday by the Army Times, a private newspaper that covers Army issues. The Times obtained a copy of an e-mail Van Riper sent to colleagues explaining why he had quit.
"It was in actuality an exercise that was almost entirely scripted to ensure a Blue (friendly forces) `win,'" he wrote. Van Riper was in command of the Red force, meant to simulate the enemy.
Navy Capt. John Carman, chief spokesman at Joint Forces Command at Norfolk, Va., which sponsored the war game, said Friday that there is no record of Van Riper having quit his role as "enemy" commander. He said the retired general is "held in high regard" and entitled to his opinions.
"We don't agree with his conclusions," Carman said.
Van Riper, who participated as a TRW contract employee, said he was concerned that the military would implement new war-fighting concepts on the basis of what he considers to be false conclusions from the three-week exercise.
Carman said the results of the war game were being evaluated and that some concepts will require further experimentation.
Millennium Challenge 2002 was two years in the making and involved a wide range of U.S. military commands across the country linked by computer networks to simulated troops, air and sea units with 13,500 actual military personnel fighting a classified war scenario.
Van Riper said exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against the Blue, or friendly, forces, and on several occasions the Red forces were directed not to use certain weapons against Blue.
Robert Oakley, a retired ambassador who played the role of civilian leader of the Red force, told the Times that Van Riper was outthinking the Blue force. He said, for example, that in the computer simulations, Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders, negating the Blue forces' high-tech eavesdropping capabilities. When the Blue naval forces sailed into the Persian Gulf early in the experiment, Van Riper's forces surrounded the ships with small boats and planes.
Much of the Blue force's ships ended up at the bottom of the ocean. Oakley said Joint Forces Command officials had to stop the exercise and "refloat" the fleet in order to continue.
Vice Adm. Marty Mayer, the deputy commander of Joint Forces Command, defended the exercise.
"I want to disabuse anybody of any notion that somehow the books were cooked," Mayer told the Times. He said, however, that "certain things are scripted" in any large war game. "You have to execute in a certain way or you'll never be able to bring it all together," he said.
Mayer said that in some parts of the exercise Van Riper was constrained "in order to facilitate the conduct of the experiment."
Not only is it the distro most geared toward programmers, a simple 'apt-get upgrade' would have done what you wanted.
Gentoo is better than Pygoscelis papua, the scientific name for the species of penguin that it is.
And yes I finally had to look it up. Before, I thought it was some lame reference to a planet in Star Wars or something. (What's with Lucas and the 'oo' words anyway? They sound stoopid!)
I don't know, seems as though this game would qualify as satire and be protected.
Here's decent description.
From looking at an ad for Deep Fritz 7, it runs under Windows and uses up to eight processors. No idea what language it is written in.
Have you read it? Please post a link if you have, I can't find it. What I can find are several articles with statements like these:
The men claim the FBI acted improperly by covertly stealing their passwords and using that information to gather evidence against them.
5 82&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20021005/wr_nm/tech_russianha cker_dc
From http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_312763.html
Their lawyers contend that all material obtained from the computers should be suppressed ahead of any trial.
Seattle District Judge John Coughenour rejected the motion on the grounds that "the (FBI) agents had good reason to fear that if they did not copy the data, (the) defendant's co-conspirators would destroy the evidence".
He also added privacy rights contained within the Fourth Amendment do not extend to individuals or property located outside the US.
From http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=
Russian's state security service, the FSB, lodged a complaint against the FBI earlier this year, alleging that the FBI didn't have authorization to break into a computer system in Russia and download files.
The FBI countered, and the judge agreed, that Russian law does not apply to the agents' actions.
Seems pretty clear the judge is saying that the FBI doesn't need to follow the laws of either our own country or those of any other nation in an international pursuit of 'justice'.
Which ones and how?
The CPU will still be interrupted by disk I/O IRQ's unless you use SCSI. Lots of discrete disk accesses means lots of interrupting, which is why SCSI is used nearly exclusively in server environments.
There are two things that would cause what you are noticing. One is the program actually suspending execution pending a complete read of a data set, and the other is stuttering due to the IRQ's firing for disk access. SCSI will eliminate the latter. Nothing will eliminate the former excepting caches bigger than your max data set, and then only when the cache is filled with the right data at the right time. It's probably a combination of the two that's doing it.
From his website:
Martinez-Frias has also published around 130 articles in scientific and technical publications (mainly specialised in Earth Sciences -- Geology, Economic Geology, Mineralium Deposita, Computer and Geoscience, Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogy, Geotimes, GeoMarine Letters, Episodes, Geological Magazine, Applied Geochemistry, Journal of Chromatography, AMBIO, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, etc.), in high profile multidisciplinary publications (Nature), high prestige international books (Springer-Verlag, Geological Society) in popular magazines, (Mundo Cientifico, Fronteras de la Ciencia y la Tecnología) and in the Scientific supplements of national newspapers (ie El Pais, El Mundo, ABC).
Martinez-Frias is the author of the book "Sulfuros y Sulfosales de Metales Nobles" and co-editor of several books, among which are; "Recursos Minerales de España" (CSIC 1478p) (Spanish Mineral Resources), "Geologia y Metalogenia en Ambientes Oceanicos. Depósitos Hidrotermales Submarinos (Geology and Metallogeny of Seafloor Hydrothermal Deposits) (IEO, 162p) and "Esto es Imposible" (Aguilar, 320p).
"The past has seen dramatic climate changes without humans having anything to do with it."
And that makes it ok for us to speed the process along? Short-term self-interest uber alles. "We can do whatever we want, let future generations fix it if there's a problem" sounds remarkably like "Fsck em all and let God sort them out."
Also, these kinds of things make me 'think it':
As Thousands of Salmon Die, Fight for River Erupts Again
Much of the time we have no freaking clue what the real impact of our actions will be on the environment. A little introspection and scientific investigation seems entirely justified.
Sure I have, but have you ever controlled a robot with your mind...ON WEED?
[super-nonobscure Half-Baked reference]
Umm, I wasn't kidding. What I said is actually happening. Upon re-reading it though, I can see how it could sound contrived. But, alas, NOT.
So, in the immortal words of Dr. Lizardo:
Laugh while you can monkey-boy!
Let me know when it can send email. ;)
I had a similar experience with VNC. It was more a matter of showing that OSS software was somehow 'worthy' though. First on the scene at work was VNC when I mentioned it to our former net admin and he started using it. Then I wrote a webapp using OSS tools (and made sure my manager, the net admin, God and everyone else knew it), and it was a highly visible and smooth rollout. Finally, all the recent MS security issues finally made our net admin cave and he decided last week to replace our MS proxy, with IIS next on the block. Now it cascades from there, since the app I wrote is on a server by itself and is going to be switched to Linux as well. And I'm also finally in a position to use Linux as my desktop OS.
To the VNC devs who helped kick it all off for me, thank you!
Not if he is only referring to the kernel. If referring generically to Linux distributions, then yes, you're correct.
A boss who wants a cluster installed with only 24 hours notice, who only has a single admin on staff, and an MS admin at that, deserves precisely what he/she gets.
It's called having principles and trying to live by them. Something most Americans are not familiar with anymore judging by the comments so far.
"The widespread practice of silencing free speech in the American system is a major problem for our country. It teaches the people that silencing others is ok, and that using that tactic is part of the spirit of 'freedom'."
See what I mean?
"...at the porcalin alter. I hypothesise that..."
This evenings experiment is well underway I see!
And now you've left me with the mental image of morphing-pig-toilet-thing...thanks.
What BS. No moderation necessary.
;)
From Bugtraq:
Apache AND Tomcat - All Versions - 51 combined (18 Tomcat / 33 Apache )
IIS - All Versions - 102
Microsoft products DO suck.
And there's this:
"The Apache Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of new releases which include a fix to the invoker servlet.
Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.1.12 Stable are available here.
Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.0.5 are available here."
How long would MS have you wait before a fix? Hell, before even _telling_ you if they had their way and it wasn't uncovered by a third-party?
Still, this news item _should_ have been on the front page.
LEXX
And don't forget eternal salvation or TRIPLE your money back! :)
LEXX
One more for the list:
Does IE have an integrated Javascript debugger? No.
LEXX
This was on a site somewhere that I've lost the link to, but I saved the bulk of the text:
.... to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.]
Imagine a country where agents of the state install surveillance cameras at sporting events and scan the crowd looking for criminals and suspects.
Imagine cities where agents of the state use surveillance cameras to observe the activities of citizens and tourists under a watchful eye for suspicious goings on.
Imagine roadblocks being set up to randomly, and sometimes selectively, stop automobiles so that armed agents of the state and trained police dogs can inspect your car.
Imagine being at an airport in a country where you are questioned about where you have been and why you were there, while a dog sniffs about and an agent of the state ransacks your personal belongings, only to return them in disarray.
Imagine armed agents of the state just outside your home with high-tech surveillance equipment which monitors your every movement, listens to your conversations and observes what you are watching on TV.
Imagine a country where just being under suspicion of a crime is cause for arrest and justification for your car, home or other personal property to be confiscated by the state.
I recall learning about these types of countries in my junior high and high school civics classes. Does living in a country where you are watched and recorded by the state seem a little scary?
Is it Romania? Iran? Russia? Maybe, I can't say for certain. But, a country where these activities take place and continue to spread is America.
Does this bother you deeply? Or do you really not care because you maintain, I have nothing to hide.
When is the last time you read the Constitution? Have you read it since you got out of school? Have you read it as a mature adult? What about the Bill of Rights?
[Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.]
[Amendment V. No person....shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.
Are the above-mentioned activities of the state violations of the fourth and fifth amendments? Do they constitute just powers? Are these powers to which you consent because, I have nothing to hide.
The greatest enemy to our freedom is not a foreign power; we would eagerly rally and band together to defeat a common enemy. Nor is it the criminal element; they will fight for their rights tooth and nail. No, the greatest threat to our freedom is the law-abiding citizen who through quiet acquiescence consents to the usurpations of our rights because, "I have nothing to hide".
It is not the government which makes us free. It is not the law which makes people free. It is not the government which guarantees our freedom. No government can ever be trusted to do that. It is the people - who force the government through freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, the right to petition, and the ballot - who guarantee our freedom. Our government was instituted to secure your rights. It is your job to see to it our government doesn't forget why it is there.
As a youngster, I attended a church which taught me that God is always watching you. And this God was one mean, tough, angry hombre who would punish you for all eternity if you didn't play your cards right.
I can tell you that the feeling of being 'watched' is no way to live. Most of us are uncomfortable when a stranger looks at us for more than a fleeting second. Now that God and I have our relationship squared away, I don't need my government watching me. "I have nothing to hide", and so there is no just cause for me to be watched.
Demand your rights, protect your rights, watch your government at all times. Do what the constitution requires of you. You may have nothing to hide, but you have a lot to lose.
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LEXX
640 should be enough for anybody!
LEXX
"It's kind of eye-opening when you think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit on something so small as a card."
:)
Only if you don't remember cartridges!
LEXX