Ahh, the good ole Saturn V. It can still be revived and work in tandem with the shuttle you know. Allow the shuttle to still be used for the "glamour missions", hauling personnel back and forth from ISS, service various satellites, the fancy short-term experiments using the ESA modules. Then, the Legends come into play. Saturns lofting entire ISS modules loaded with supplies, bigger, heavier satellites than what the Ariannes can handle, mission-ready probes that can rendevous with the station for final assembly (attaching solar panels and such) and checkouts. The S-V series, up until the Arianne series, held the world's record for lofting the heaviest payload into orbit. To punctuate this, the record was set on the S-V's maiden flight!
So, my friends, you tell me that we don't need to steenking expendable rocket, and i'll show you the requirement for a DEPENDABLE heavy lifter that got the job done with extremely few failures and none that required a launch abort while in flight.
Heheh, nice one Len! Actually, i've put a IPblock in my hosts file by entering the IP address into it and referring it to loopback. (I know, it goes agianst the RFC for DNS, but it works!) I've dogfarted on gator/claria with this action and they are pretty much torqued off at me for that. Of course, i've made it rather difficult for them to get in touch with me without sending a message thru a lawyer by blocklisting their domain in our POP3, hee hee hee hee.
This way it keeps'em honest and let's them know that they are not welcome in any way, shape or form
I do not disagree, and let me reinforce the point. the 'wares take a direct path to customers systems from known sources, unlike virii. If someone goofs and winds up on a site like the article mentioned, guess what, the customer just hit a malware mine.
It's not like the lovebug bit where it spread like wildfire, at random, the 'wares are more focused and actually show a purpose behind their creation: to retrieve personal information on the user behind the keyboard.
Under Federal and State regulations, this shows Willing Intent to Commit Malice, possible violations of Wiretapping Laws,and is grounds for prosecution to the fullest extent of the Law.
You are very much welcome. There is a variety of Hosts file managers out there that do a lovely job of sorting and managing the entries in the file. It does bog down slower systems, but I consider it a fair trade to keep the goons at bay.
Oh Mod this parent up! You hit the nail on the head several times with firefox's security. It does seem to have marked improvements over IE in security, blocking 'wares from going off in your system, to barring banners from starting up, ever!
Of course I maintain a hosts file that pretty much keeps them at bay.
http://www.pelicancoast.net/~nighthawke/hosts.zi p
I wonder if someone can whip up a honeypot that'll reverse-engineer some of the malware out there, munge all the URLS down and give proof that someone is doing this on purpose.
Then maybe the state DA's will jump in and make a lesson of a malware producer or two. That is, if they are local. IF not, LART until their router is unplugged.
This 'ware business is seriously getting out of hand and MUST be dealt with, one way or another. IF we have to force these jokers to go overseas, fine, then we'll do so and isolate their domains at root DNS.
They switched the page to quicktext and posted mirrors, including one for bittorrent. Even with all of the mirrors, i'm betting that their webserver is waving a little white flag, screaming "I GIVE UP!" ^,^
One investment firm derated their stock to "junk bond" status, joining the ranks of once-mighty firms like Charter Cable. Another firm's report has labeled the company as a "prospect for a takeover, or buyout".
IMHO, if they don't do something mighty desparate here shortly, they will be permantenly mired in the red with no way out of it except for selling out, or bankruptcy.
mmm... Give me a system that'll help forge a method of either distort or generate gravity energy that would conteract a planet's own gravitational field... IE, a repulsorlift drive!
Back in those days they could (literally) kick the computers and they would come back on and amazingly, start to work right!
I still recall the Apollo 10 launch when they got hit by that massive lightning bolt that KOed their telemetery power and guidance. The EECON controller, John Aaron had a split-second decision to make when he saw the CM's telemetery go ratty. His call to flight, "Switch SDS to AUX" had 10's crew scrambling to figure out where the switch was at: "dammit, were is that switch at?" They finally found the switch and the data started to stream back to Houston, showing that the guidance system was nominal and the vehicle was on track.
Poor Ole Pete Conrad was giggling all the way into orbit after that...
The FIRST civilian with no military background was a geologist on apollo 17. I think it was Dr. Harrison Schmidt, PhD in geology and a BS from Caltech, to boot! http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.crew.ht ml
Of course, i've nary a call since I answer each and every 000-000-0000 call with a italian accent, thick and heavy, muttering something about SOBs that interrupted his afternoon tea with the Don.
Of course it never hurts to holler every once in a while at Sallie boy to get the car, cuz "we got a live one!"
here's the kicker to that juuri. There ARE clients next door to us that HAVE effing dsl from them! That is what has me so upset over that. They have it and we simply cannot for some uppityfuck reason.
Sprint We've had good luck with, just as you. Once we were moving equipment around and they called us up, advising us that our router was unreachable (@3 AM folks!). We assured them that we were moving gear around and would be bringing it back online here shortly.
Good bunch, Sprint has on their team. There's one gal thats genuine Redhead, and with a temper, to match! She'll kick ass to get the system going agian, and if you try to push any of her buttons, she'll kick yours! *ducks*
I moaned the day we shut down that T1 from Sprint for we were moving offices and we could not get Sprint where we were going to.
Here coax is out this far, but this is stretching the last mile. Unfortunately, the place i'm staying in does not have coax installed and i'm not about to gamble having the jokers come out and run coax just to see if it will work at my place.
Right now, i'm playing the waiting and provoking game, trying to catch them in a hard spot so that a offical complaint can be filed with the District Attorney, or better yet, the State AG and force sbc to show their pitiful hand. To force sbc to admit that they need to improve their infrastructure instead of slapping new services that tax the equipment to the breaking point would be so sweet to my ears.
You know as well as I do that the telcos don't want the internet, they are losing money even as we speak trying to maintain decades-old copper leading to yet even older SLCs/RTs and COs. That first demonstration to AT&T execs of the old ARPAnet says it all. He was trying to login and the router crashed. Take a guess what the suits did.. They LAUGHED in relief! They don't want to be flexable in this new world economy, to hell with them then.
We'll see this in about 5 years or so once sbc get's done with the litigation with the ILECS and CLECS regarding the so-called "free" useage of sbc's equipment. By that time, the last mile may be owned by either cable, ElectricDSL or wireless. Here in the rural areas, it maybe ten years before we even get to see the entire community sees full coverage by the CLEC, particulary how sbc is dealing with their repair crews and logistics.
They baited my company with their sales pitch, saying that DSL was available at the new office we were moving into, then a week later, the day before opening day, the tech comes in and shoots us down, saying that we were 19,753 feet from the CO.. I turned to cheater (Charter) cable and they bent some corporate rules getting us a business account forged and a line put in the next day. The reserved IP was assigned that same day, just needed to feed them the MAC address of our router to make it formal. We opened our doors a day late.
The day I trust a telco to do their job properly will be the day I die.
The weather appears to be holding for this next week's test hop, I wish ye gents the best of luck! The main driving factor will be the bloody wind tho.
A question that's been itching in the back of my mind:
I wonder if MASA is even taking the X-Prize seriously, or simply being a bobblehead, nodding and making agreeable noises, and when it's over with, goes back to their old, aincent, and dangerous trappings of the STS program and fighting for grant money?
Heh, just wait until you have to debug the software, having to load the cards into it agian and agian, until you get a worn card, then the card reader jams hard and proceeds to munch on the rest of your program. That's what we call a HARD crash!
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Yeah, i'll vouch for the concern about wLAN and their gear being protected. I did installs for a wireless operation down here in south Texas where the storms REALLY get intense. SO what we do is ground the mast itself and isolate the computer and electronics by using isolation tranformers and UPCs to isolate the systems from strikes so that if a strike does occurr, it will damage the protection gear and not the acutal systems.
YDI had built a all-in-one antenna that had the Ethernet gear and transcever all built into the antenna that gave me such concern that i had to make direct contact with the manufacture to see what sort of lightning suppression was available. So to my surprise and distress, he admitted that they had managed to get just into production a suppressor for the antenna unit. And this was for a unit that had been in production for over 2 years! Well, with that said, i simply nodded and used the time-tested method of instructing the clients to unplug whenever mum nature got ugly, or was planning to.
Since it seems that foreign ISP's are in league with organized crime, then i'd say that this is a threat to national security. Therefore, I recommend that all TLD providers remove all references of the suspect ISPs from their databases, including blocklisting their POPs and SMTPs.
It'll be a double-edged sword, I know, but in this matter, it'l hurt them more than the rest of the world. Boycott and Blacklist all *.ru and *.cn servers until this matter has been settled.
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Ahh, the good ole Saturn V. It can still be revived and work in tandem with the shuttle you know. Allow the shuttle to still be used for the "glamour missions", hauling personnel back and forth from ISS, service various satellites, the fancy short-term experiments using the ESA modules. Then, the Legends come into play. Saturns lofting entire ISS modules loaded with supplies, bigger, heavier satellites than what the Ariannes can handle, mission-ready probes that can rendevous with the station for final assembly (attaching solar panels and such) and checkouts. The S-V series, up until the Arianne series, held the world's record for lofting the heaviest payload into orbit. To punctuate this, the record was set on the S-V's maiden flight!
So, my friends, you tell me that we don't need to steenking expendable rocket, and i'll show you the requirement for a DEPENDABLE heavy lifter that got the job done with extremely few failures and none that required a launch abort while in flight.
Heheh, nice one Len!
Actually, i've put a IPblock in my hosts file by entering the IP address into it and referring it to loopback. (I know, it goes agianst the RFC for DNS, but it works!)
I've dogfarted on gator/claria with this action and they are pretty much torqued off at me for that. Of course, i've made it rather difficult for them to get in touch with me without sending a message thru a lawyer by blocklisting their domain in our POP3, hee hee hee hee.
This way it keeps'em honest and let's them know that they are not welcome in any way, shape or form
Go for it, just give credit where it's due.
I latched onto the core from K-lite's website, before they got hammered by sharman, then added on my own links that I found distasteful.
I do not disagree, and let me reinforce the point. the 'wares take a direct path to customers systems from known sources, unlike virii.
If someone goofs and winds up on a site like the article mentioned, guess what, the customer just hit a malware mine.
It's not like the lovebug bit where it spread like wildfire, at random, the 'wares are more focused and actually show a purpose behind their creation: to retrieve personal information on the user behind the keyboard.
Under Federal and State regulations, this shows Willing Intent to Commit Malice, possible violations of Wiretapping Laws,and is grounds for prosecution to the fullest extent of the Law.
Eeek! This guy just upstaged me! Now i'll go sulk for a week then get EVEN!
You are very much welcome. There is a variety of Hosts file managers out there that do a lovely job of sorting and managing the entries in the file. It does bog down slower systems, but I consider it a fair trade to keep the goons at bay.
Oh Mod this parent up!
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You hit the nail on the head several times with firefox's security. It does seem to have marked improvements over IE in security, blocking 'wares from going off in your system, to barring banners from starting up, ever!
Of course I maintain a hosts file that pretty much keeps them at bay.
http://www.pelicancoast.net/~nighthawke/hosts.z
I wonder if someone can whip up a honeypot that'll reverse-engineer some of the malware out there, munge all the URLS down and give proof that someone is doing this on purpose.
Then maybe the state DA's will jump in and make a lesson of a malware producer or two. That is, if they are local. IF not, LART until their router is unplugged.
This 'ware business is seriously getting out of hand and MUST be dealt with, one way or another. IF we have to force these jokers to go overseas, fine, then we'll do so and isolate their domains at root DNS.
They switched the page to quicktext and posted mirrors, including one for bittorrent.
Even with all of the mirrors, i'm betting that their webserver is waving a little white flag, screaming "I GIVE UP!" ^,^
One investment firm derated their stock to "junk bond" status, joining the ranks of once-mighty firms like Charter Cable. Another firm's report has labeled the company as a "prospect for a takeover, or buyout".
IMHO, if they don't do something mighty desparate here shortly, they will be permantenly mired in the red with no way out of it except for selling out, or bankruptcy.
EH, Wasted check, should have just sent it bill itself back to them.
mmm... Give me a system that'll help forge a method of either distort or generate gravity energy that would conteract a planet's own gravitational field... IE, a repulsorlift drive!
*facepalms* You are so right..
Back in those days they could (literally) kick the computers and they would come back on and amazingly, start to work right!
I still recall the Apollo 10 launch when they got hit by that massive lightning bolt that KOed their telemetery power and guidance. The EECON controller, John Aaron had a split-second decision to make when he saw the CM's telemetery go ratty. His call to flight, "Switch SDS to AUX" had 10's crew scrambling to figure out where the switch was at: "dammit, were is that switch at?" They finally found the switch and the data started to stream back to Houston, showing that the guidance system was nominal and the vehicle was on track.
Poor Ole Pete Conrad was giggling all the way into orbit after that...
The FIRST civilian with no military background was a geologist on apollo 17.t ml
I think it was Dr. Harrison Schmidt, PhD in geology and a BS from Caltech, to boot!
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.crew.h
Of course, i've nary a call since I answer each and every 000-000-0000 call with a italian accent, thick and heavy, muttering something about SOBs that interrupted his afternoon tea with the Don.
Of course it never hurts to holler every once in a while at Sallie boy to get the car, cuz "we got a live one!"
here's the kicker to that juuri. There ARE clients next door to us that HAVE effing dsl from them! That is what has me so upset over that. They have it and we simply cannot for some uppityfuck reason.
Sprint We've had good luck with, just as you. Once we were moving equipment around and they called us up, advising us that our router was unreachable (@3 AM folks!). We assured them that we were moving gear around and would be bringing it back online here shortly.
Good bunch, Sprint has on their team. There's one gal thats genuine Redhead, and with a temper, to match! She'll kick ass to get the system going agian, and if you try to push any of her buttons, she'll kick yours! *ducks*
I moaned the day we shut down that T1 from Sprint for we were moving offices and we could not get Sprint where we were going to.
Here coax is out this far, but this is stretching the last mile. Unfortunately, the place i'm staying in does not have coax installed and i'm not about to gamble having the jokers come out and run coax just to see if it will work at my place.
Right now, i'm playing the waiting and provoking game, trying to catch them in a hard spot so that a offical complaint can be filed with the District Attorney, or better yet, the State AG and force sbc to show their pitiful hand. To force sbc to admit that they need to improve their infrastructure instead of slapping new services that tax the equipment to the breaking point would be so sweet to my ears.
You know as well as I do that the telcos don't want the internet, they are losing money even as we speak trying to maintain decades-old copper leading to yet even older SLCs/RTs and COs.
That first demonstration to AT&T execs of the old ARPAnet says it all. He was trying to login and the router crashed. Take a guess what the suits did.. They LAUGHED in relief! They don't want to be flexable in this new world economy, to hell with them then.
We'll see this in about 5 years or so once sbc get's done with the litigation with the ILECS and CLECS regarding the so-called "free" useage of sbc's equipment. By that time, the last mile may be owned by either cable, ElectricDSL or wireless. Here in the rural areas, it maybe ten years before we even get to see the entire community sees full coverage by the CLEC, particulary how sbc is dealing with their repair crews and logistics.
They baited my company with their sales pitch, saying that DSL was available at the new office we were moving into, then a week later, the day before opening day, the tech comes in and shoots us down, saying that we were 19,753 feet from the CO.. I turned to cheater (Charter) cable and they bent some corporate rules getting us a business account forged and a line put in the next day. The reserved IP was assigned that same day, just needed to feed them the MAC address of our router to make it formal. We opened our doors a day late.
The day I trust a telco to do their job properly will be the day I die.
The weather appears to be holding for this next week's test hop, I wish ye gents the best of luck!
The main driving factor will be the bloody wind tho.
A question that's been itching in the back of my mind:
I wonder if MASA is even taking the X-Prize seriously, or simply being a bobblehead, nodding and making agreeable noises, and when it's over with, goes back to their old, aincent, and dangerous trappings of the STS program and fighting for grant money?
Heh, just wait until you have to debug the software, having to load the cards into it agian and agian, until you get a worn card, then the card reader jams hard and proceeds to munch on the rest of your program. That's what we call a HARD crash!
Yeah, i'll vouch for the concern about wLAN and their gear being protected. I did installs for a wireless operation down here in south Texas where the storms REALLY get intense. SO what we do is ground the mast itself and isolate the computer and electronics by using isolation tranformers and UPCs to isolate the systems from strikes so that if a strike does occurr, it will damage the protection gear and not the acutal systems.
YDI had built a all-in-one antenna that had the Ethernet gear and transcever all built into the antenna that gave me such concern that i had to make direct contact with the manufacture to see what sort of lightning suppression was available. So to my surprise and distress, he admitted that they had managed to get just into production a suppressor for the antenna unit. And this was for a unit that had been in production for over 2 years!
Well, with that said, i simply nodded and used the time-tested method of instructing the clients to unplug whenever mum nature got ugly, or was planning to.
Since it seems that foreign ISP's are in league with organized crime, then i'd say that this is a threat to national security. Therefore, I recommend that all TLD providers remove all references of the suspect ISPs from their databases, including blocklisting their POPs and SMTPs.
It'll be a double-edged sword, I know, but in this matter, it'l hurt them more than the rest of the world. Boycott and Blacklist all *.ru and *.cn servers until this matter has been settled.