Why change your good browser to report that it's a bad browser?
Ok, don't make your browser claim that it's IE. Make it claim to be a browser called "HEY_YOU_IDIOTS_I_AM_RUNNING_K_ONQUEROR_AND_PROUD_ OF_IT" or something equally noticeable in their logs.
Another good book is The Ants Who Took Away Time by William Kotzwinkle (Doubleday, 1978). The summary from the copyright page: "A tribe of giant ants steal the Great Timepiece and cause time to stand still throughout the world." If you've got a kid who likes science and/or scifi, this is another title you may want to pick up if you notice it in a used book store.
I think I'll wait until Transparent Aluminum is an option before I buy one of these cases... I probably won't put any whales in there, but maybe a couple of goldfish.
I got a Belkin 4-port KVM (OmniView SE 4-port) at home, so I could plug in my main desktop and my firewall (a 486), both running Linux. On those occasions where I want to seriously fiddle with my firewall rulesets, bring down networking temporarily, etc. I can just flip over to the firewall's console via the KVM. I prefer to flip to the firewall via KVM rather than having yet another window open on my desktop which has a network session to the firewall, since if I screw up and accidentally bring networking down, I'm still fine working over the KVM, but I'd be out of luck if I was ssh-ing over. (Plus ssh-ing to the 486 is slow.)
And on those rare occasions where things Just Don't Work, e.g. my home network has some trouble, which happened when one of my cables went bad once, talking to the firewall's console let me see that the firewall itself was fine, I just couldn't reach it from my desktop.
Later, I added another old PC running Windows to the KVM. Again, I don't go to it terribly often. My girlfriend sometimes wants to use Windows to view some Chinese multimedia stuff, and it's easy to just hit ScrollLock-ScrollLock-Up to switch for Windows for her to do that (she does mainly use Linux, but we don't have these applications working yet in Linux).
I really like my KVM. The main disadvantages are that it wasn't cheap (I guess a few hundred for the KVM and all the cables), and also it takes up another outlet in my UPS.:-)
Naw, not even close. Here's a great one from part 1, quoting Bill Gates: "So Microsoft's commitment is to add features that customers want. If we can't add any features, then what is Windows?" (I'm sure plenty of people have answers to that one.) He continues: "Has AOL ever added any new features to their products? They have dominant market share of all their stuff. They actually added features? Unbelievable! Who are these people adding features? What's going on here?"
Awww, poor Billy, does AOL have more stuff than you? Heh, Gates is pretty funny when he's trying to be sarcastic.
The registrars saw how much money was to be made on collectibles, e.g. Pokemon, "collect all 20,000 of them!" So they figured they'd get in on the game. The more TLD's there are, the bigger the game, and the more money they can make. Just you wait, slashdot.org and slashdot.dot will just be the beginning. Soon enough, we'll also have slashdot.pikachu.
``It's less intrusive than the pop-unders. It's not creating a new window and it gives the consumer a choice. They can click it and go to the story,'' said Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Marissa Gluck.
Hey, at least she was being honest. It gives the consumers a choice.
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I would love to see Quake running on a 4.4GHz computer.
Me too. By the way, we are talking about Textmode Quake, right? (Quoting that web page: "You're a sick sonofabitch. But um, how can I try it?")
Snail mail is addressed first to the recipent, then to the address, then to the city, state, and country.
In China, addresses on letters have the City, then street, building, and the person's name comes last (with the person's name being family name then given name, of course). (And I suppose if you wanted to tell the recipient which eye to use when reading the letter, that info would come last.)
Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2 for the PC have "Sunday driving" modes (I forget what it's called -- "Cruising Mode" or something like that) where you can just drive around and explore, with no pressure. They are both very fun games; in the first one, you drive around Chicago. In the second one, they have San Francisco and London. Although this being Slashdot, I feel obligated to mention that they were released by Microsoft.
As for drunk driving, early last year I bought a "Driver's Education" program for my girlfriend, who was just learning to drive. It was OK. (I have a steering wheel for my PC, which helps.) Anyway, it does have a "drunk driving" mode, where the response of the on-screen car lags behind what you do. Even when you try to compensate for it, it's still hard.
Nah, the blinking lights on the CM-5 are pale imitations of the Intel Paragon - here you could see the dataflow between nodes visualized by the lights. Thinking Machines wanted that, but it became to complicated/costly - so they used a random algorithm instead.
No, the "random-and-pleasing" mode was just one mode of operations for the LED's. It was also possible to write code to control the LED's; people wrote banner programs to make messages scroll by on the side of the machine.
But the LED's were really handy for diagnostics. I helped install and debug a 1024-processor CM-5 at Los Alamos. The people that wrote the diagnostics suite made them do various things to the LED's. So you could stand at the end of the machine and watch the LED's. When one or a few LED's behaved differently from those around it, your eye could catch it right away. That and the diagnostics output would lead you to the processor board to swap out.
Which female agent do you mean? I haven't been able to watch the show all summer (I get SciFi at school, but know at home), but the only regular "hot babe" I know of is the Keeper, who's been there since the pilot.
There's a female agent named Alex Monroe, played by Brandy Ledford. Apparently her official web site is at www.brandyledford.com, but it's done in Flash so I wasn't able to see anything there. I did find a couple of pics of her here, although they aren't that great. While searching, I also discovered that she apparently played Dawn Masterson on Baywatch from 1999-2000. So yeah, it seems like a Seven-of-Nine like move bringing her in, but to their credit, they don't have her running around in spandex. Also, the first few episodes of the new season this summer, I don't think they specifically mentioned that she was new (unless I missed it), so I thought maybe she had been around before, but just not in the few reruns I had seen before.
As for the doc (I guess she's called the Keeper? The British woman), I don't know if I'd say she's "hot", but she is kinda cute, and quite the geekette.
I also enjoy The Invisible Man, mainly as a comedy. I usually get a few laughs per episode out of something that Fawkes and/or Hobbes say. They are hilarious when they get going. And there's just something nice about a show where the main character's main catch-phrase is "Aw, crap." But I have to admit, if it weren't for the good writing, this would seem like standard adventure shlock-TV from the 70's or something, and that's kind of what it seemed like to me the first one or two times I watched it.
They've already stooped to the "add a hot babe to the show" trick (that female agent is new, right? I only started watching recently; I caught a few reruns from last season, and have been watching this season so far), but she doesn't feel very out-of-place in the show.
You can find the optimal near/far dispersion fraction without infecting anybody with Code Red. Do some Code Red-style scanning to build up a demographic database of susceptible / immune hosts on the Net (you don't have to scan the whole net, of course). Then write a program which simulates the infection process on this database.
Yeah, I should have realized that. After all, I'm a theoretical ecologist, so I generally don't do experiments on/with real organisms, and instead use computational and mathematical models.
So actually, if I had a database of susceptible/immune hosts, as you said I could simulate invasions on that. I've also been building mathematical models of systems like this, that predict the behavior of the simulations (since the spatial simulations I use take a very long time to run).
I'd love to do this; it would be an interesting new application of the models I've been developing for plant dispersal. But I'd need someone to collaborate with, since there's no way I'll have time to write the code to build up that database of susceptible hosts. But then again, do we really want to publish the optimal dispersal strategies for the authors of future Code Red sequels? Although hopefully a majority of people will be patching their copies of IIS in the near future. And I was going to say that the optimal dispersal strategy for other exploits may be very different, but I wonder how often that's true; machines which have an unpatched IIS are probably more likely to have certain kinds of other vulnerabilities, since those are the machines where the admin isn't keeping up to date.
You're probably thinking of Civilization, which was never available for the Apple II.
Nope, I never played Civilization. Someone else pointed out I was remembering the very first Ultima. I've still got it (and my Apple) somewhere in my parents' basement, maybe one of these days I'll drag it out again.
But I'm still hoping someone will remember, what the heck did you have to use that space shuttle for?
I was glad to see some of the individuals' top-10 lists (such as Tom Hall's) had some older Apple ][ games. And Wizardry was one of the top 50. I spent a lot of time on that one. And I don't know how much time I spent on Ultima II. (Or was it III? The one where you start out using horses and buggies, and by the end of the game technology has advanced to the point where you actually have to use a space shuttle to go out in space and do something to win the game, although I forget exactly what.)
But most of the games on their list are ones with an "epic" feel to them. What about the classics which were simple, but people spent just as much time playing? E.g. things like Miner 2049'er (the first title ported to nearly every computer and console out there at the time; I had the Apple ][+ version), Jumpman on Atari computers, and so on? Those were basically the console/computer equivalents of arcade titles such as Joust, Robotron, etc. Simple ideas, but tons of fun and you could spend endless hours on them.
One time out of eight, and entirely random IP address is generated
Four times out of eight, the lower octet of the IP address is randomized (192.168.1.X)
Three times out of eight, the lower two octets are randomized (192.168.X.Y)
This is very interesting. I've recently been studying spatial population models of dispersal, e.g. when trees release seeds, should they go a short distance or a long distance? I.e. which will make them more likely to survive, and what combination of strategies will be evolutionarily stable?
Short-distance dispersal is best on aggregated landscapes, where good habitat is likely to be nearby, although such strategies end up competing with themselves quite intensely. Long-distance dispersal is good on unclustered landscapes, where you're better off hoping to colonize a good site far away. But it turns out that mixed seem to really kick butt; they exploit local rich patches of resources, but an occasional long-distance propagule allows them to colonize far-off patches once in a great while, and also reduces intraspecific competition somewhat.
It would be really interesting seeing a few different Code Red's going with different proportions of near versus far dispersal, to see which one does best. It would tell us something about the aggregation of exploitable machines on the net. Although I suppose some people may object to such a study.
As an AC pointed out in another reply, the really clever thing to do would be to have an adaptive strategy with a bit of randomness in it (i.e. the parameters in the strategy are changing too). That way, it would eventually "find" the strategy that works best, and in fact different subpopulations could converge to different locally optimum strategies.
Space War on the Atari 2600 was a blast, great 2-player fun.
Another favorite of mine in the arcades was Space Duel, a somewhat Asteroids-like game which had a 2-player mode where the 2 ships were joined together with a rigid bar. The physics model was great fun, if one person fired their thrusters, the pair of ships could start spinning like crazy. You had to coordinate strategy with your partner. (It's been so long, I don't remember if there was a "versus" 2-player mode.)
I remember one scene in Final Fantasy 3 (6 in Japan)... [A woman's husband is off fighting in a war, when he comes back his wife is dead, and he watches as a supernatural train carries her soul away]
Hell, 99% of movies don't have anything that powerful emotionally IMHO.
This sounds a lot like part of the story in the anime movie Windaria. Very good movie, with great music. One of my favorites. (I haven't watched it in a while, but still listen to the soundtrack often.)
Eh, getting rid of spam is easy.... Buy your own domain....I have *never* gotten spam on the domain I use for my personal email, after about a year and a half.
I get spam sent to the e-mail address I used when I registered my domain. In fact, I get more spam to that address which is targetted towards webmasters, than I do on my other e-mail addresses. Very annoying. Buying a domain is just another way for you to be "visible".
Fortunately, my hosting ISP lets me set up mail forwarding, so I have a bunch of junk-mail addresses within my domain that I use when I buy stuff online, or need to be "visible" in some way, and when they start getting spammed too much, I can start forwarding them to/dev/null. However, I shouldn't really/dev/null the address I used when I registered my domain, since then I'd miss the e-mail when it's time to renew...
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Well, now I know not to watch SG-1, if the kind of person that likes it thinks the movie was good.
I've been watching the TV series just starting this season, and think it's very good, much better than Voyager or Andromeda. I finally saw the Stargate movie yesterday, and thought it was dreadfully slow and boring. The fact that I already knew a lot about their particular universe from the TV series probably made it a bit more boring, but I think even if I hadn't seen the show, that movie would have been pretty bad.
I also think Richard Dean Anderson does a much better job than Kurt Russell (although that's not saying much). RDA is downright funny when his character is being serious, but in a good way... I think the James Spader replacement actor on the show is also good. Major Carter is a cutie, and not bad as the show's resident geek.
Heck, I really like this show. But someone said the upcoming season is the last one??
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After 9 minutes, the video camera stopped working because the room all of this took place in was cooled to -50 degrees C...
Why change your good browser to report that it's a bad browser?
_ OF_IT" or something equally noticeable in their logs.
Ok, don't make your browser claim that it's IE. Make it claim to be a browser called "HEY_YOU_IDIOTS_I_AM_RUNNING_K_ONQUEROR_AND_PROUD
Another good book is The Ants Who Took Away Time by William Kotzwinkle (Doubleday, 1978). The summary from the copyright page: "A tribe of giant ants steal the Great Timepiece and cause time to stand still throughout the world." If you've got a kid who likes science and/or scifi, this is another title you may want to pick up if you notice it in a used book store.
I think I'll wait until Transparent Aluminum is an option before I buy one of these cases... I probably won't put any whales in there, but maybe a couple of goldfish.
"After Dan's page got too slashdotted to view, I ran a quick search on Google for Slashdot's next victim..."
I got a Belkin 4-port KVM (OmniView SE 4-port) at home, so I could plug in my main desktop and my firewall (a 486), both running Linux. On those occasions where I want to seriously fiddle with my firewall rulesets, bring down networking temporarily, etc. I can just flip over to the firewall's console via the KVM. I prefer to flip to the firewall via KVM rather than having yet another window open on my desktop which has a network session to the firewall, since if I screw up and accidentally bring networking down, I'm still fine working over the KVM, but I'd be out of luck if I was ssh-ing over. (Plus ssh-ing to the 486 is slow.)
:-)
And on those rare occasions where things Just Don't Work, e.g. my home network has some trouble, which happened when one of my cables went bad once, talking to the firewall's console let me see that the firewall itself was fine, I just couldn't reach it from my desktop.
Later, I added another old PC running Windows to the KVM. Again, I don't go to it terribly often. My girlfriend sometimes wants to use Windows to view some Chinese multimedia stuff, and it's easy to just hit ScrollLock-ScrollLock-Up to switch for Windows for her to do that (she does mainly use Linux, but we don't have these applications working yet in Linux).
I really like my KVM. The main disadvantages are that it wasn't cheap (I guess a few hundred for the KVM and all the cables), and also it takes up another outlet in my UPS.
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Naw, not even close. Here's a great one from part 1, quoting Bill Gates: "So Microsoft's commitment is to add features that customers want. If we can't add any features, then what is Windows?" (I'm sure plenty of people have answers to that one.) He continues: "Has AOL ever added any new features to their products? They have dominant market share of all their stuff. They actually added features? Unbelievable! Who are these people adding features? What's going on here?"
Awww, poor Billy, does AOL have more stuff than you? Heh, Gates is pretty funny when he's trying to be sarcastic.
Ask slashdot: nature or nurture? Which is more important?
The registrars saw how much money was to be made on collectibles, e.g. Pokemon, "collect all 20,000 of them!" So they figured they'd get in on the game. The more TLD's there are, the bigger the game, and the more money they can make. Just you wait, slashdot.org and slashdot.dot will just be the beginning. Soon enough, we'll also have slashdot.pikachu.
Hey, at least she was being honest. It gives the consumers a choice.
Me too. By the way, we are talking about Textmode Quake, right? (Quoting that web page: "You're a sick sonofabitch. But um, how can I try it?")
In China, addresses on letters have the City, then street, building, and the person's name comes last (with the person's name being family name then given name, of course). (And I suppose if you wanted to tell the recipient which eye to use when reading the letter, that info would come last.)
Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2 for the PC have "Sunday driving" modes (I forget what it's called -- "Cruising Mode" or something like that) where you can just drive around and explore, with no pressure. They are both very fun games; in the first one, you drive around Chicago. In the second one, they have San Francisco and London. Although this being Slashdot, I feel obligated to mention that they were released by Microsoft.
As for drunk driving, early last year I bought a "Driver's Education" program for my girlfriend, who was just learning to drive. It was OK. (I have a steering wheel for my PC, which helps.) Anyway, it does have a "drunk driving" mode, where the response of the on-screen car lags behind what you do. Even when you try to compensate for it, it's still hard.
No, the "random-and-pleasing" mode was just one mode of operations for the LED's. It was also possible to write code to control the LED's; people wrote banner programs to make messages scroll by on the side of the machine.
But the LED's were really handy for diagnostics. I helped install and debug a 1024-processor CM-5 at Los Alamos. The people that wrote the diagnostics suite made them do various things to the LED's. So you could stand at the end of the machine and watch the LED's. When one or a few LED's behaved differently from those around it, your eye could catch it right away. That and the diagnostics output would lead you to the processor board to swap out.
There's a female agent named Alex Monroe, played by Brandy Ledford. Apparently her official web site is at www.brandyledford.com, but it's done in Flash so I wasn't able to see anything there. I did find a couple of pics of her here, although they aren't that great. While searching, I also discovered that she apparently played Dawn Masterson on Baywatch from 1999-2000. So yeah, it seems like a Seven-of-Nine like move bringing her in, but to their credit, they don't have her running around in spandex. Also, the first few episodes of the new season this summer, I don't think they specifically mentioned that she was new (unless I missed it), so I thought maybe she had been around before, but just not in the few reruns I had seen before.
As for the doc (I guess she's called the Keeper? The British woman), I don't know if I'd say she's "hot", but she is kinda cute, and quite the geekette.
I also enjoy The Invisible Man, mainly as a comedy. I usually get a few laughs per episode out of something that Fawkes and/or Hobbes say. They are hilarious when they get going. And there's just something nice about a show where the main character's main catch-phrase is "Aw, crap." But I have to admit, if it weren't for the good writing, this would seem like standard adventure shlock-TV from the 70's or something, and that's kind of what it seemed like to me the first one or two times I watched it.
They've already stooped to the "add a hot babe to the show" trick (that female agent is new, right? I only started watching recently; I caught a few reruns from last season, and have been watching this season so far), but she doesn't feel very out-of-place in the show.
Yeah, I should have realized that. After all, I'm a theoretical ecologist, so I generally don't do experiments on/with real organisms, and instead use computational and mathematical models.
So actually, if I had a database of susceptible/immune hosts, as you said I could simulate invasions on that. I've also been building mathematical models of systems like this, that predict the behavior of the simulations (since the spatial simulations I use take a very long time to run).
I'd love to do this; it would be an interesting new application of the models I've been developing for plant dispersal. But I'd need someone to collaborate with, since there's no way I'll have time to write the code to build up that database of susceptible hosts. But then again, do we really want to publish the optimal dispersal strategies for the authors of future Code Red sequels? Although hopefully a majority of people will be patching their copies of IIS in the near future. And I was going to say that the optimal dispersal strategy for other exploits may be very different, but I wonder how often that's true; machines which have an unpatched IIS are probably more likely to have certain kinds of other vulnerabilities, since those are the machines where the admin isn't keeping up to date.
Nope, I never played Civilization. Someone else pointed out I was remembering the very first Ultima. I've still got it (and my Apple) somewhere in my parents' basement, maybe one of these days I'll drag it out again.
But I'm still hoping someone will remember, what the heck did you have to use that space shuttle for?
I was glad to see some of the individuals' top-10 lists (such as Tom Hall's) had some older Apple ][ games. And Wizardry was one of the top 50. I spent a lot of time on that one. And I don't know how much time I spent on Ultima II. (Or was it III? The one where you start out using horses and buggies, and by the end of the game technology has advanced to the point where you actually have to use a space shuttle to go out in space and do something to win the game, although I forget exactly what.)
But most of the games on their list are ones with an "epic" feel to them. What about the classics which were simple, but people spent just as much time playing? E.g. things like Miner 2049'er (the first title ported to nearly every computer and console out there at the time; I had the Apple ][+ version), Jumpman on Atari computers, and so on? Those were basically the console/computer equivalents of arcade titles such as Joust, Robotron, etc. Simple ideas, but tons of fun and you could spend endless hours on them.
This is very interesting. I've recently been studying spatial population models of dispersal, e.g. when trees release seeds, should they go a short distance or a long distance? I.e. which will make them more likely to survive, and what combination of strategies will be evolutionarily stable?
Short-distance dispersal is best on aggregated landscapes, where good habitat is likely to be nearby, although such strategies end up competing with themselves quite intensely. Long-distance dispersal is good on unclustered landscapes, where you're better off hoping to colonize a good site far away. But it turns out that mixed seem to really kick butt; they exploit local rich patches of resources, but an occasional long-distance propagule allows them to colonize far-off patches once in a great while, and also reduces intraspecific competition somewhat.
It would be really interesting seeing a few different Code Red's going with different proportions of near versus far dispersal, to see which one does best. It would tell us something about the aggregation of exploitable machines on the net. Although I suppose some people may object to such a study.
As an AC pointed out in another reply, the really clever thing to do would be to have an adaptive strategy with a bit of randomness in it (i.e. the parameters in the strategy are changing too). That way, it would eventually "find" the strategy that works best, and in fact different subpopulations could converge to different locally optimum strategies.
You mispell the word "the" twice in 32 words -- and not once correctly!
You mean as opposed to misspelling "the" correctly?
Space War on the Atari 2600 was a blast, great 2-player fun.
Another favorite of mine in the arcades was Space Duel, a somewhat Asteroids-like game which had a 2-player mode where the 2 ships were joined together with a rigid bar. The physics model was great fun, if one person fired their thrusters, the pair of ships could start spinning like crazy. You had to coordinate strategy with your partner. (It's been so long, I don't remember if there was a "versus" 2-player mode.)
I get spam sent to the e-mail address I used when I registered my domain. In fact, I get more spam to that address which is targetted towards webmasters, than I do on my other e-mail addresses. Very annoying. Buying a domain is just another way for you to be "visible".
Fortunately, my hosting ISP lets me set up mail forwarding, so I have a bunch of junk-mail addresses within my domain that I use when I buy stuff online, or need to be "visible" in some way, and when they start getting spammed too much, I can start forwarding them to /dev/null. However, I shouldn't really /dev/null the address I used when I registered my domain, since then I'd miss the e-mail when it's time to renew...
Well, now I know not to watch SG-1, if the kind of person that likes it thinks the movie was good.
I've been watching the TV series just starting this season, and think it's very good, much better than Voyager or Andromeda. I finally saw the Stargate movie yesterday, and thought it was dreadfully slow and boring. The fact that I already knew a lot about their particular universe from the TV series probably made it a bit more boring, but I think even if I hadn't seen the show, that movie would have been pretty bad.
I also think Richard Dean Anderson does a much better job than Kurt Russell (although that's not saying much). RDA is downright funny when his character is being serious, but in a good way... I think the James Spader replacement actor on the show is also good. Major Carter is a cutie, and not bad as the show's resident geek.
Heck, I really like this show. But someone said the upcoming season is the last one??