In the not too distant future, that kind of processing power could very well be available in home PCs. [...]
Oh sure, we'll find something [to do with it], but it's difficult for us to imagine now
the Search for Extremely Trivial Iterations at home.
Four centures, thereafter, I take passage over sea
In the footsteps of McKenzie, but floating well above the scree
Watching icebergs melt before, and behind me fade away
All from the smoggiest Explorers driving in the USA
(For those who don't know what we're on about, see
original lyrics.)
Before I go into moaning, let me make it clear that
I am delighted to see trials of things that
are net yet eco{nomicly,logicly} friendly, but which
someday might be.
OK. Now the moaning. The big problem is that people are always thinking in terms of "free" energy
at the time of the electricity generation, instead of the Total Cost of Ownership, which includes the
construction of the thing. Others have pointed
this out, but I wanted to focus on the fallacy of
romanticizing electricity generation with free fuel.
The second thing is that with this, the bulk of
whatever environmental damage occurs will be largely invisible. Still it might be very limited.
Again, let me say that I am not against
this project. I hope that this sort of thing
leads to better technologies that are eco{nomically,logically} rational. We shouldn't
expect a new thing to reach that at such an early
trial. But again, I wish that people wouldn't
romantize electricy generation based on "free" fuel sources.
The SystemStarter is brilliant. Along with
the start up scripts for various daemons and so
on, you list what service it provides and what
services it needs started before you start it. The
SystemStarter works out a partial order of running
these scripts and then does as many as possible
in parallel. This gives it the fasted start up
of any Unix I've used.
While the attack will still work from inside the local network regardless of the state of the remote management function, it's really not a danger. The worst that someone could really do is DOS themselves, and wouldn't that be a shame
If, as I believe, the attack can be in the form of a
URL, then imagine email like that contained something like
Anyone spot any instructions on getting
a Unixish tftp to do whatever authentication
is necessary to update?
It's not all the urgent for me, since however
idiotic I might be, I made doubly sure when I set
the thing up that remote management was disabled.
Imagine all the "http://admin:admin@address/" attempts there'd be
otherwise.
In Autumn 2000, I wrote a
rant about this, in which I defend the general
scheme of the electoral college (winner take all per
state, small states with extra weight), but call for
Condorcet voting within the states.
Any document written with MS-Word is going to contain bits of the Word program used to create it. But not even MS would try to claim all documents written with Word as "derivative works."
I do agree that the LGPL is a much needed addition
to explicitly deal with libraries. But the intent of the GPL is still clear.
Due to the viral nature of the GPL, any software compiled using GCC could be considered a "derivative work" of the GCC, thus forcing that software to be open-source under the terms of the GPL
I find it remarkable that anyone could actually read the GPL and believe this myth.
See the GPL
FAQ which specifically addresses this question:
Can I use GPL-covered editors such as GNU Emacs to develop non-free programs? Can I use GPL-covered tools such as GCC to compile them?
Yes, because the copyright on the editors and tools does not cover the code you write. Using them does not place any restrictions, legally, on the license you use for your code.
I haven't found a statement of the rules, but many
academic projects funded by the National Science Foundation require that the data collected (or non-confidential bits of it) be made available to the academic community at large. I think that that is a correct policy of the NSF and that the analogy
holds for much of software development
I've been trying to publish a paper about exactly this
I saw the paper named on your website, but couldn't find a copy to read. Any chance you could make it publically available, or does the journal your submitting to have stupid rules?
Gotta light?, make love, and bad magic number
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On older versious of csh, the error message
to
gotta light?
was pretty good. (It was "No match").
Also earlier Unix make, (not GNU make) had a nice error response to make love. ("don't know how to make love. Stop.")
One of my favorites, as a complete newbie in 1979,
was probagly the consequence of typing ld in place of ls in some long forg The result was "bad magic number". That truly had me baffled.
I'm all too familiar with all of these distinctions.
Indeed, I have the extreme misfortunate of being
familiar with immigration procedures in
three countries. I conflated the two (green card and immigration visa) to simplify presentation. There are other shortcuts and omission from my anecdote as well (e.g., I was vague about whether previous travel to the US was on a B-1 or B-2 or other status). The point, however -- that there can be two rules, each which make some sense on their own, but can lead to a Catch-22 in combination in some cases -- remains.
At least one INS site, they, for presentation purposes, also conflate Immigration visas with Permanent Residence status.
By the way, as long as we are in pedant mode, it is misleading to call a green card (conditional or permanent)
"basically a right to work status". It involves other rights, and is seen as a step toward naturalization. The imfamous H visa is more
appropriately called a work permit.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained
by incompetence.
Yes, this is paradoxical. Yes it is stupid, yes it (initially) puts him an (even more) difficult position. But it isn't some plan. It's just normal
visa issuing stupidity.
By way of anecdote. My wife ended up in a similarly nasty situation. Before we were married
she could travel from her native Hungary to
the US on visitor visa without a problem. But
once we were married, the US embassy is Budapest
was reluctant to give a visitor's visa to the wife
of a US citizen since she could easy not return.
The advised us for her to get a green card.
But also, quite reasonably, the green card (immigration visa) is for people who actually immigrate to the US. That is, you should really reside in the US if you have an immigration visa.
So two rules, each of which make some sort of sense (though not a whole lot) interact to put us
in a nasty situation.
This is clearly what is going on here. The US Embassy doesn't issue visas for people with criminal records (a rule that makes sense). Sklyorov is required (or at least requested) to
testify.
Now judges aren't stupid. If the visa problem can't be fixed, the judge will take that into account. And there's good news. It further paints Sklyorov as an innocent victim, serving to
further ridicule the system that got him jailed in the first place.
As a final note, having lived in a soviet block country and elsewhere in Europe. I can say that
the US is by far the most bureaucratic country on the planet.
Anyone remember the Republican primary in California, when a desparate Bill Jones (not Bill Simon), the Secretary of State, spammed via Korean
schools. At first I thought this was a frame up of the Jones campaign and offered to help them track down the spammer.
But it really was from Jones campaign, and the campaign website, advertised by the spam, got cut off by the hosting company in the last days of the campaign.
OK, mod this redundent. I've got little to add
to what others have said, but if a hand count matters here, I'll add my voice too.
I recently inherited a G4 and have installed Jaguar (10.2, now 10.2.1) on it. So, I'll make just a few points.
I don't have to worry about rebuilding my kernel everytime I add some device that I didn't
anticipate the last time I rebuilt my kernel.
The UI is a bit tough to get used to (I know
I could put in a more familiar WM, but I want to give this a change), but it is very very nice
in many respects. But it ain't X, and I've got lots of old habits.
fink is a must (as others have already pointed out). People are busy porting and packaging the stuff that I know and use to OS X. Fink is how to manage it.
Administration can be a problem if you don't know what controls what. For example, some files in/etc really should only be edited by using the
System Preferences GUI, while others can be modified by vi. Learning which is which takes some poking around. But this is true of any distro which provides high level tools for adminstration.
Basically everything works. I don't have to fiddle with things to make the system usable.
My Linux system still remains my primary system for many things, put that is shifting function by function. (The single biggest limit is that I don't have proper air conditioning in the room where most of my boxes sit and I don't like leaving the G4 running all the time, until the weather cools down here.)
Re:How does it sound.?
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There is an MP3
on the site. And it sounds like the worst harpsicord I've ever heard. But when an hippopotumus flies, you don't criticize the lack of grace.
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the Search for Extremely Trivial Iterations at home.
Well, considering who's building it and running it, it's reasonable to guess that some form of doom will be simulated on it.
Surely Leibniz should be considered an initial suspect.
Science is about the quality of the argument and evidence for a particular hypothesis. Being right for the wrong reasons counts for very little.
OK. Now the moaning. The big problem is that people are always thinking in terms of "free" energy at the time of the electricity generation, instead of the Total Cost of Ownership, which includes the construction of the thing. Others have pointed this out, but I wanted to focus on the fallacy of romanticizing electricity generation with free fuel.
The second thing is that with this, the bulk of whatever environmental damage occurs will be largely invisible. Still it might be very limited.
Again, let me say that I am not against this project. I hope that this sort of thing leads to better technologies that are eco{nomically,logically} rational. We shouldn't expect a new thing to reach that at such an early trial. But again, I wish that people wouldn't romantize electricy generation based on "free" fuel sources.
The SystemStarter is brilliant. Along with the start up scripts for various daemons and so on, you list what service it provides and what services it needs started before you start it. The SystemStarter works out a partial order of running these scripts and then does as many as possible in parallel. This gives it the fasted start up of any Unix I've used.
tftp address of router
tftp> mode binary
tftp> put code.bin
tftp> quit
After you're done, reset your password.
Obvious once someone else points it out.
<a href="linksysCrasher">http://innocuous.site/</a> ;
(I typed that in correctly, but sd seems to add a space before the last semi-colon)
Some like that could fool people into DOSing themselves.
It's not all the urgent for me, since however idiotic I might be, I made doubly sure when I set the thing up that remote management was disabled. Imagine all the "http://admin:admin@address/" attempts there'd be otherwise.
In Autumn 2000, I wrote a rant about this, in which I defend the general scheme of the electoral college (winner take all per state, small states with extra weight), but call for Condorcet voting within the states.
OK. I'll bite on your trolling attempt.
Lets see, that was a 200 page document with several figures at 1.44Mb. I'd be curious to know what how big an MS-Word file it would be.
Anyway, I've got a rant about MS-Word for document exchange.
I do agree that the LGPL is a much needed addition to explicitly deal with libraries. But the intent of the GPL is still clear.
I haven't found a statement of the rules, but many academic projects funded by the National Science Foundation require that the data collected (or non-confidential bits of it) be made available to the academic community at large. I think that that is a correct policy of the NSF and that the analogy holds for much of software development
vote-smart is another good source of information about politicians, among the others that people have already mentioned in this thread.
gotta light?
was pretty good. (It was "No match").
Also earlier Unix make, (not GNU make) had a nice error response to make love. ("don't know how to make love. Stop.")
One of my favorites, as a complete newbie in 1979, was probagly the consequence of typing ld in place of ls in some long forg The result was "bad magic number". That truly had me baffled.
I'm old enough to remember when the four color conjecture became the four color theorem, and some of the contraversy about the proof.
At least one INS site, they, for presentation purposes, also conflate Immigration visas with Permanent Residence status.
By the way, as long as we are in pedant mode, it is misleading to call a green card (conditional or permanent) "basically a right to work status". It involves other rights, and is seen as a step toward naturalization. The imfamous H visa is more appropriately called a work permit.
But it really was from Jones campaign, and the campaign website, advertised by the spam, got cut off by the hosting company in the last days of the campaign.
A write-up of the incident is on wired.
I recently inherited a G4 and have installed Jaguar (10.2, now 10.2.1) on it. So, I'll make just a few points.
- I don't have to worry about rebuilding my kernel everytime I add some device that I didn't
anticipate the last time I rebuilt my kernel.
- The UI is a bit tough to get used to (I know
I could put in a more familiar WM, but I want to give this a change), but it is very very nice
in many respects. But it ain't X, and I've got lots of old habits.
- fink is a must (as others have already pointed out). People are busy porting and packaging the stuff that I know and use to OS X. Fink is how to manage it.
- Administration can be a problem if you don't know what controls what. For example, some files in
/etc really should only be edited by using the
System Preferences GUI, while others can be modified by vi. Learning which is which takes some poking around. But this is true of any distro which provides high level tools for adminstration.
- Basically everything works. I don't have to fiddle with things to make the system usable.
My Linux system still remains my primary system for many things, put that is shifting function by function. (The single biggest limit is that I don't have proper air conditioning in the room where most of my boxes sit and I don't like leaving the G4 running all the time, until the weather cools down here.)There is an MP3 on the site. And it sounds like the worst harpsicord I've ever heard. But when an hippopotumus flies, you don't criticize the lack of grace.