I have looked into this because of comments like, "Is your daughter ADHD?" She is 6, and very active. Since she is able to concentrate quite well when she wants to (working on a drawing, listening to a Paddington Bear story), I don't see any problem other than a 6 year old not being quiet and subdued enough. Faugh.
My research indicates that there are real problems like ADD and ADHD, but they are *way* overdiagnosed. One study estimated that 2% of the school age population actually have ADD/ADHD, versus 25% receiving treatment.
I would also like to point out that a lady at my church works with (real) ADD/ADHD kids. She says that caffeine with no sugar works as well as the expensive drugs in many cases. I would encourange the original poster to try unsweetened tea, black coffee, or whatever she will drink without real or artificial sweeteners (which often have mental side effects).
What prevents a spammer from simply reusing properly signed headers with a spam body? Does the signature cover the message content? If so, how is it an improvement over simply signing your email?
I have found the answer to this. The signature does cover the entire message. It is different from end user signing because it is done by the MTA. So even if none of the users at Yahoo bother signing their email, at least we can detect forged mail claiming to be from Yahoo servers.
End user signing authenticates mail as being from a private key holder, regardless of which mail servers it originates with. The two types of signatures are complementary.
PuTTY stores its configs in the registry. We provide clients with a script and registry dump on diskette to load the PuTTY config for this setup which the user can click to execute. Yes, it would be painful to talk a "point and drool" user through doing the setup with the GUI. But it is easy enough to capture the config in an easily loaded format.
By the way, "point and drool" is not accurate. Our clients are generally very intelligent people whose interests and skill sets do not include computers. But sometimes the computer is a useful tool. That is why they hire us. (There are one or two exceptions to the "intelligent" part, but I won't mention those. We charge them more.)
Remember, in the Open Source economy we all claim to be working toward, service (whether tech support or custom programming) is what will be paid for. When there is no vendor lock-in, is a customer going to prefer paying someone who refers to them as "point and drool", or someone who respectfully takes care of computer stuff for them as much as possible so they can spend their time on their own interests and talents?
Were it only that simple -- my fiancee', who has an account in my domain, uses Cox High-Speed Internet to access the internet. Cox blocks all outgoing SMTP connections to servers other than its own. Her situation prevents me from setting up SPF records for my domain.
I myself am on Cox HSI. To send mail from my business domain, I simply use SSH. For Windows, use PuTTY, and set up a tunnel from port 25 to your sendmail server. Then she just sets her outgoing mail server to 'localhost'. We have configured many of our clients use PuTTY this way to send email through their company servers from a remote laptop. In many ways, it is better than SMTP-AUTH because the connection is encrypted (although the mail is unencrypted anyway when it leaves the company server, it protects internal mail to other employees within the company).
This is a pretty secure solution provided the user can hang on to his/her laptop and can control their urge to download and run Windows executables or use Outlook. Unfortunately, even CIA directors have trouble meeting these qualifications.
If the traveller is using webmail, it works fine. Otherwise, the traveller needs to use SMTP AUTH to relay outgoing mail through his home base.
Furthermore, mail receivers need not check all purported from addresses. This is just one tool in the toolbox. As I understand it, Yahoo's idea addresses the problem of mail claiming to be from jane_austin@yahoo.com, when it fact it is from a spam criminal (I believe falsifying mail headers is a crime in many places these days). If Yahoo, hotmail, and aol could be validated this way, it would help a lot.
I have gotten emails from people threatening me with bodily harm because they believe I sent them spam. (When they include the message in question, it is obvious from the headers that it never went near the US, much less through any of my machines.) Some spam scum in Asia is using my email as the from address to spam victims in Europe. So I would be interested in signing my emails, if some of the spam victims would check it.
What prevents a spammer from simply reusing properly signed headers with a spam body? Does the signature cover the message content? If so, how is it an improvement over simply signing your email?
This is how my Dad got started with Linux. There was a commercial (I think) product called lin4win that built linux filesystems in large FAT32 files, and installed a boot loader (if you didn't already have a multi-boot loader like system commander) that gave you the choice of booting Linux or Windows (or just made a boot diskette).
When booting Linux, it mounted the FAT32 fs, then mounted the root, swap, etc as loop filesystems. Slower than a real partition, but very cool and very safe for someone who didn't want to risk destroying his Windows setup.
Since Windows constantly crashed (ME - one of the worst versions), when he got a new disk, he was confident enough to install RedHat directly, and bought Win4Lin (a virtual machine with custom Windows drivers to avoid emulating the hardware - much faster than VM ware for supported Windows versions). ME still crashes inside Win4Lin, but rebooting is much faster (win4lin keeps a ram image of mostly booted Windows) and all the Linux applications stay up!
The LIN4WIN approach was very good - but is hampered now by MS use of the ever changing and undocumented NTFS.
It helps to use words others can understand.
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I had second hand knowledge of a man who invented a "zero bandwidth transmitter". He had a working prototype, and could demonstrate voice transmission while meeting FCC standards for "no detectable radio interference". I was also treated to an explanation of how it worked. It was an early implementation of what we now call a "spread spectrum" transmitter.
His patent applications were rejected because a "zero bandwidth transmitter" is a contradiction in terms. (Just like perpetual motion machines are automatically rejected. I wish they were as tough on stupid software patents.) He was angry and bitter. The Patent examiners were obviously ignorant blockheads because he had a working prototype!
Here was a smart inventor whose contributions were stymied because of a refusual to communicate in a way his listeners could understand.
Sometimes it's the way you say it.
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The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus's ideas. Copernicus himself didn't. In fact, Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. But by Galileo's time the church was in the throes of the Counter-Reformation and was much more worried about unorthodox ideas.
Having read many biographies of Galileo, I have to disagree slightly. It was not what he said so much as the way he said it. Galileo had the support of Pope Urban - who himself saw the moons of Jupiter through Galileos telescope (something the reigning Aristoteleans thought impossible). The Pope even arranged to publish Galileo's work at Church expense. However, he repeatedly cautioned Galileo (on 6 personal visits!) not to antagonize the establishment. The Pope suggested that Galileo present the heliocentric solarsystem model as a conceptual tool, helpful for calculating orbits, and not necessarily the way things really are. He advised reporting observations such as moons of Jupiter, but to carefully avoid rubbing his opponents faces in it. (Similarly for mountains on the moon and other observations at odds with the standard model.)
Did Galileo listen to this sage political advice? Not a bit. He represented his opponents as simpletons (through a rather transparent dialog where the Simplicio character obviously represented the Aristoteleans and the intelligent character represented Galileo). The Pope rushed back with a "What do you think you're doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?", but Galileo still didn't listen - perhaps feeling that he was immune from the wrath of his opponents because of the favour of the Pope. He continued to attack his opponents as ignorant fools.
Finally, he was tried for heresy. Fortunately, the Pope convinced him to say what the Aristoteleans wanted to hear, "No the earth doesn't move." This was a wise move. Because inconvenient things like mountains on the moon and moons around Jupiter screamed loudly that the Aristoteleans were wrong - without Galileo's ad hominem ranting. The Pope also issued a ban on Galileo's works - which I personally think was also a sly move since this made them hugely popular on the black market.
Homosexual behaviour is far more harmful to personal health than smoking, taking 30 years off your life as opposed to 7, with attending expensive health care.
And to offend the other side: promiscuous hetersexual behaviour is probably equally harmful, but there is such a huge double standard in societal acceptance, and it is so wide spread, that stats seem to be hard to come by. I do know that there are many nasty STDs already rampant, and AIDS for promiscuous heterosexuals is not far away.
The average consumer doesn't want to administer Linux, the want to administer something along the lines of a Cobalt server (or easier).
Such a server is just as valuable with source code available. The target market you described is not going to download the source and build their own from an ITX case. In fact, if it does what I need for a reasonable price with open source, I'm not going to either. I've got too many projects going already.
The business problem with opening the source is that a competitor could offer a slightly cheaper box with the same software. This is unfair for the company developing the software/integration scripts. For this kind of situtation, I think delaying release of the source is appropriate. It seems to work for OpenGL (where last years features are open source).
If the software is almost all open source to begin with, then the companies are competing on hardware features/sexiness/reliability - go to it!
I was addicted to caffeinated soda. I became concerned about the health problems of the excess sugar more so than the caffeine. But I had a headache before my first soda, and would drift off to sleep if I didn't keep drinking them. I stacked the empty cans in my office to keep track of my consumption.
I managed to cut down to 4 Cokes/DrPepper per day. This was still too much. I can't stand coffee (except iced with sugar and icecream), so after a year of this, I decided to cultivate a taste for tea . This was before all the hype about how good for you tea is supposed to be.
Initially, I made orange pekoe/black tea with 1 bag in 12 oz water - and 4 teaspoons sugar. Hey, that's a lot less than 11 tsp that come in a 12 oz Coke. Then I cut that to 2 teaspoons. I drank as many teas as I needed to stay alert. This was way better than with coke because of the decreased sugar (and no thank you on those fake sweeteners). Then I switched to green tea because a web site said that according to Chinese tradition it was superior to black tea for "scholars" - which I assume applies to programming - and has somewhat less caffein than black so as to produce "tea mind".
The green tea has a very different taste that made is much easier for me to eliminate the sugar entirely. I was now feeling much healthier. A few times, I fell off the bandwagon and got a Coke. It was calling to me - so cold and bubbly and sweet. But now, I would feel puke sick about 20 minutes after drinking a 12 oz Coke. Of course, I knew the sick feeling would go away as soon as I drank another one - but I knew better than that. I just endured the sick feeling - mentally reinforcing the association of the pain with its cause - that can of Coke.
During that time, my co-worker was kicking the cigarette habit (and is still free). I'm sure that's much harder, but we commiserated and checked on each others progress. After a year, the yearning for a Coke began to diminish to where it didn't interrupt my work any more.
The final step was to introduce decaf (CO2 process) green tea, and cut down to only 1 caffeinated tea in the morning. At this level (about 40 mg), there were no withdrawal symptoms on the weekend. I didn't want to eliminate caffeine entirely, because there are some studies showing that moderate levels protect from some brain disorders such as parkinsons.
Final data point. I recently upped caffeine intake to 2 teas per day (about 80 mg). This produces a very mild withdrawal on weekends.
Oh, and one last thing. Coke sounds like a villain in my story - but the sugar and caffeine are much less of a problem when consumed during vigorous exercise (you know, like in the commercials). And pressing keys doesn't count. According to the tea website Chinese tradition recommends black tea with its higher caffeine content for "labourers".
We install lots of IDE systems with mirroring. This limits you to one drive per port anyway - and with cheap IDE drives, you really ought to be using some sort of RAID.
I agree with you, though, that 4 SATA ports is an absolute bare minimum (2 mirrored disks, CD, tape), and a decent system will have a least 8 ports. Presumably more ports can be added with PCI cards.
I was surprised to find this to be true for me as well. I got a few spams (as in unsolicited commercial email) that slipped through my bayesian filter because they were, well, different. They are "newsletters" from ZATZ.com: "Computing Unplugged" and "Connected Photographer". I suspect they got my email when I bought my digital camera.
I took a peek at the spam, and surprise, surprise, it was an interesting read. Very similar to a trade magazine. So I didn't mark it as spam, and it continues to be delivered. If more spammers went to the trouble to actually create worthwhile content, I don't think it would be a big problem. Creating real content costs money, and therefore the company is not going to intentionally waste their efforts.
One nice thing about this spam is that each subject is prefixed with the newsletter title, e.g. "Computing Unplugged", so if all spammers did this it would be easy to admit only subjects I was interested in. Too bad SMTP doesn't include a "category" field in the envelope so that this type of message could be screened before downloading the whole thing.
I still would not buy anything directly from the email, but I could be induced to look at a web site.
Our OpenFirmware systems always brought up a GUI by default (Motorola and Bull PowerPC systems). I had to dig through lots of manuals to find the secret codes to get to the commandline interface.
Once there, the Forth system is cool. I wish you could allocate a small partition with a simple filesystem where OF could store your user written diagnostic verbs.
I read about a Swedish hybrid a few years ago, and have been patiently waiting for something like it to appear in the States. It had a motor for each wheel, and a turbine powered generator to produce electricity (mediated by a battery pack).
The neat thing about the turbine was that it could burn a wide variety of liquid fuels with no modification: gin, diesel, gasoline, kerosene, methyl alchohol. The fuel didn't have to be especially pure.
Fuel cells are nice, but each type of fuel cell burns only one kind of fuel - which must be very pure to avoid ruining the fuel cell. I want a fuel cell for my laptop, but not my car.
The other nice thing about turbines is that Batman had one...
Sorry, my client called it an "invoice", but it was one of the dubious letters. Sorry to get everyone so excited. Since my client called it an "invoice", it was a highly misleading letter. So those letters are evidence when we get to the criminal trial.
Maybe not management, but my client got an invoice from SCO for their RedHat Linux installation. They called me (their consultant) and asked me what to do with it. I told them to ignore it and keep it for evidence in case it's needed when it's time to send Darl and friends to the slammer. He was surprised at this answer at first, but pointing him to the IBM and RedHat countersuits was very reassuring. Thanks, IBM and RedHat!
How could you skew it? If you add or remove votes, you will be caught out by the total; if you change votes you will (eventually) be caught by the people who cast them; if you lie about the total you will be caught by anyone who independently counts them. So, how are you going to cheat?
Simple. The software invents the detail data when downloaded by independent counters. Voters don't bother to verify their votes against the independent counters.
I looked up the Washington Times Article. (Sorry, register and pay for full text). It seems there was a power failure (what? no UPS for an election, plus no paper trail???), so Windows had an excuse. Apparently, the Republicans rolled over since "the disputed machines woiuldn't change the outcome of the election". Personally, I don't believe there is a conspiracy of any sort. Based on my conversation with the supervisors, I think stupidity and ignorance of computers adequately explains things.
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GOP challenges touch screens
The newly elected chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat, started his new job yesterday, despite a challenge from Republican leaders about votes cast Tuesday in nine precincts.The roughly 200 votes - cast on new touch-screen machines that lost power for about 30 minutes - most likely will not change the outcome of countywide races.However, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Dennis J. Smith ordered Republican and county election...
that this is an issue I can be in full agreement with my left wing friends about. The only disagreement is over whether a left wing or right wing conspiracy is behind the shenanigans.
Since most of the post have been pointing out that Diebold made Republican contributions, let me balance that with what happened here in Virginia. Several voting machines "hung" (they run Windows, what do you expect). Despite the fact that it is explicitly illegal to remove voting machines from the polling place during the election, the hung machines were taken to the vendors shop. Since there was no audit trail, all the votes in those machines would be lost other wise. At the shop, the machines were "reset" while supposedly preserving the vote totals. Yeah right. Since the Democrats won, the Repulicans are filing suit over these voting irregularities.
What really made me mad was the attitude of the election supervisors I talked to months before the election. I explained the problem with voting machines with no audit trail, and trade secret software (they were proudly displaying the new machines at a fair). They explained how my fears were based on ignorance and fear of change. These machines were *computerized*, and therefore had to be better than the old way. They didn't see what good a paper trail would do, since they could print out the totals at any time. What if the machine malfunctions, or the secret code counts every third Dem vote as Rep (or vice versa)? "What are you, some kind of conspiracy nut? These machines are *computerized*. Computers are unbiased and don't make those kind of human errors." Sigh.
I have never bought (or pirated) any RIAA products since the advent of the CD. I buy music from real musicians. I realize that many real musicians are enslaved by the RIAA, and I am sorry for them. Britney Spears is not a real musician.
I like to record my own music also, and the though of paying the RIAA for the privilege of doing so is galling. I am glad it hasn't come to that in the US yet. It is bad enough that I have to pay the RIAA everytime my wife uses a tape recorder to record notes to herself. I'll have to get her one of those gadgets that record to digital memory. (But tape recorders are dirt cheap.)
Why do you Canadians put up with taxes levied by corporations? Oh wait . . .
Is almost every living thing "Very Dangerous" then?
Absolutely. Nerve gas is deadly, but only until it gets diluted and/or degraded. If we stop making it, it will go away on its own. Ebola, sars, HIV, TB, etc. etc. will never go away. (No, smallpox has not gone away. It is still waiting around in vials waiting for another heyday.)
In between are things that don't reproduce but are persistent. Plutonium and other heavy metals, PCBs, etc. Here the problem is that they accumulate. But if we stopped throwing them around, they would eventually after a long time go away.
Zebra mussels seem like harmless mollusks. However, when accidentally released in foreign waters, they have become a plague that wipes out all native mussels.
Kudzu seemed like a good idea at the time.
A mediteranean seaweed is rapidly destroying vast regions of more diverse species.
Have you forgotten the mediteranean fruit fly? Need I go on?
Living things are very powerful. Using/playing with them requires extra care - even more so than fire (which also "reproduces" as long as there is fuel in the immediate vicinity).
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My research indicates that there are real problems like ADD and ADHD, but they are *way* overdiagnosed. One study estimated that 2% of the school age population actually have ADD/ADHD, versus 25% receiving treatment.
I would also like to point out that a lady at my church works with (real) ADD/ADHD kids. She says that caffeine with no sugar works as well as the expensive drugs in many cases. I would encourange the original poster to try unsweetened tea, black coffee, or whatever she will drink without real or artificial sweeteners (which often have mental side effects).
I have found the answer to this. The signature does cover the entire message. It is different from end user signing because it is done by the MTA. So even if none of the users at Yahoo bother signing their email, at least we can detect forged mail claiming to be from Yahoo servers.
End user signing authenticates mail as being from a private key holder, regardless of which mail servers it originates with. The two types of signatures are complementary.
By the way, "point and drool" is not accurate. Our clients are generally very intelligent people whose interests and skill sets do not include computers. But sometimes the computer is a useful tool. That is why they hire us. (There are one or two exceptions to the "intelligent" part, but I won't mention those. We charge them more.)
Remember, in the Open Source economy we all claim to be working toward, service (whether tech support or custom programming) is what will be paid for. When there is no vendor lock-in, is a customer going to prefer paying someone who refers to them as "point and drool", or someone who respectfully takes care of computer stuff for them as much as possible so they can spend their time on their own interests and talents?
I myself am on Cox HSI. To send mail from my business domain, I simply use SSH. For Windows, use PuTTY, and set up a tunnel from port 25 to your sendmail server. Then she just sets her outgoing mail server to 'localhost'. We have configured many of our clients use PuTTY this way to send email through their company servers from a remote laptop. In many ways, it is better than SMTP-AUTH because the connection is encrypted (although the mail is unencrypted anyway when it leaves the company server, it protects internal mail to other employees within the company).
This is a pretty secure solution provided the user can hang on to his/her laptop and can control their urge to download and run Windows executables or use Outlook. Unfortunately, even CIA directors have trouble meeting these qualifications.
Furthermore, mail receivers need not check all purported from addresses. This is just one tool in the toolbox. As I understand it, Yahoo's idea addresses the problem of mail claiming to be from jane_austin@yahoo.com, when it fact it is from a spam criminal (I believe falsifying mail headers is a crime in many places these days). If Yahoo, hotmail, and aol could be validated this way, it would help a lot.
I have gotten emails from people threatening me with bodily harm because they believe I sent them spam. (When they include the message in question, it is obvious from the headers that it never went near the US, much less through any of my machines.) Some spam scum in Asia is using my email as the from address to spam victims in Europe. So I would be interested in signing my emails, if some of the spam victims would check it.
What prevents a spammer from simply reusing properly signed headers with a spam body? Does the signature cover the message content? If so, how is it an improvement over simply signing your email?
When booting Linux, it mounted the FAT32 fs, then mounted the root, swap, etc as loop filesystems. Slower than a real partition, but very cool and very safe for someone who didn't want to risk destroying his Windows setup.
Since Windows constantly crashed (ME - one of the worst versions), when he got a new disk, he was confident enough to install RedHat directly, and bought Win4Lin (a virtual machine with custom Windows drivers to avoid emulating the hardware - much faster than VM ware for supported Windows versions). ME still crashes inside Win4Lin, but rebooting is much faster (win4lin keeps a ram image of mostly booted Windows) and all the Linux applications stay up!
The LIN4WIN approach was very good - but is hampered now by MS use of the ever changing and undocumented NTFS.
His patent applications were rejected because a "zero bandwidth transmitter" is a contradiction in terms. (Just like perpetual motion machines are automatically rejected. I wish they were as tough on stupid software patents.) He was angry and bitter. The Patent examiners were obviously ignorant blockheads because he had a working prototype!
Here was a smart inventor whose contributions were stymied because of a refusual to communicate in a way his listeners could understand.
Did Galileo listen to this sage political advice? Not a bit. He represented his opponents as simpletons (through a rather transparent dialog where the Simplicio character obviously represented the Aristoteleans and the intelligent character represented Galileo). The Pope rushed back with a "What do you think you're doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?", but Galileo still didn't listen - perhaps feeling that he was immune from the wrath of his opponents because of the favour of the Pope. He continued to attack his opponents as ignorant fools.
Finally, he was tried for heresy. Fortunately, the Pope convinced him to say what the Aristoteleans wanted to hear, "No the earth doesn't move." This was a wise move. Because inconvenient things like mountains on the moon and moons around Jupiter screamed loudly that the Aristoteleans were wrong - without Galileo's ad hominem ranting. The Pope also issued a ban on Galileo's works - which I personally think was also a sly move since this made them hugely popular on the black market.
And to offend the other side: promiscuous hetersexual behaviour is probably equally harmful, but there is such a huge double standard in societal acceptance, and it is so wide spread, that stats seem to be hard to come by. I do know that there are many nasty STDs already rampant, and AIDS for promiscuous heterosexuals is not far away.
Such a server is just as valuable with source code available. The target market you described is not going to download the source and build their own from an ITX case. In fact, if it does what I need for a reasonable price with open source, I'm not going to either. I've got too many projects going already.
The business problem with opening the source is that a competitor could offer a slightly cheaper box with the same software. This is unfair for the company developing the software/integration scripts. For this kind of situtation, I think delaying release of the source is appropriate. It seems to work for OpenGL (where last years features are open source).
If the software is almost all open source to begin with, then the companies are competing on hardware features/sexiness/reliability - go to it!
I managed to cut down to 4 Cokes/DrPepper per day. This was still too much. I can't stand coffee (except iced with sugar and icecream), so after a year of this, I decided to cultivate a taste for tea . This was before all the hype about how good for you tea is supposed to be.
Initially, I made orange pekoe/black tea with 1 bag in 12 oz water - and 4 teaspoons sugar. Hey, that's a lot less than 11 tsp that come in a 12 oz Coke. Then I cut that to 2 teaspoons. I drank as many teas as I needed to stay alert. This was way better than with coke because of the decreased sugar (and no thank you on those fake sweeteners). Then I switched to green tea because a web site said that according to Chinese tradition it was superior to black tea for "scholars" - which I assume applies to programming - and has somewhat less caffein than black so as to produce "tea mind".
The green tea has a very different taste that made is much easier for me to eliminate the sugar entirely. I was now feeling much healthier. A few times, I fell off the bandwagon and got a Coke. It was calling to me - so cold and bubbly and sweet. But now, I would feel puke sick about 20 minutes after drinking a 12 oz Coke. Of course, I knew the sick feeling would go away as soon as I drank another one - but I knew better than that. I just endured the sick feeling - mentally reinforcing the association of the pain with its cause - that can of Coke.
During that time, my co-worker was kicking the cigarette habit (and is still free). I'm sure that's much harder, but we commiserated and checked on each others progress. After a year, the yearning for a Coke began to diminish to where it didn't interrupt my work any more.
The final step was to introduce decaf (CO2 process) green tea, and cut down to only 1 caffeinated tea in the morning. At this level (about 40 mg), there were no withdrawal symptoms on the weekend. I didn't want to eliminate caffeine entirely, because there are some studies showing that moderate levels protect from some brain disorders such as parkinsons.
Final data point. I recently upped caffeine intake to 2 teas per day (about 80 mg). This produces a very mild withdrawal on weekends.
Oh, and one last thing. Coke sounds like a villain in my story - but the sugar and caffeine are much less of a problem when consumed during vigorous exercise (you know, like in the commercials). And pressing keys doesn't count. According to the tea website Chinese tradition recommends black tea with its higher caffeine content for "labourers".
Thanks for letting me share.
I agree with you, though, that 4 SATA ports is an absolute bare minimum (2 mirrored disks, CD, tape), and a decent system will have a least 8 ports. Presumably more ports can be added with PCI cards.
I guess that leaves out solar. What'cha gon'na do when the sun fizzles?
I took a peek at the spam, and surprise, surprise, it was an interesting read. Very similar to a trade magazine. So I didn't mark it as spam, and it continues to be delivered. If more spammers went to the trouble to actually create worthwhile content, I don't think it would be a big problem. Creating real content costs money, and therefore the company is not going to intentionally waste their efforts.
One nice thing about this spam is that each subject is prefixed with the newsletter title, e.g. "Computing Unplugged", so if all spammers did this it would be easy to admit only subjects I was interested in. Too bad SMTP doesn't include a "category" field in the envelope so that this type of message could be screened before downloading the whole thing.
I still would not buy anything directly from the email, but I could be induced to look at a web site.
Still not found in RedHat sources for 2.4.20. There is no file named ip_vs.h either. Is this code something that appeared after 2.4.20? Say in 2.4.23?
Once there, the Forth system is cool. I wish you could allocate a small partition with a simple filesystem where OF could store your user written diagnostic verbs.
I grepped all files in the RedHat 2.4.20-19.7 kernel sources for 'ip_vs_state', and didn't find any matches.
The neat thing about the turbine was that it could burn a wide variety of liquid fuels with no modification: gin, diesel, gasoline, kerosene, methyl alchohol. The fuel didn't have to be especially pure.
Fuel cells are nice, but each type of fuel cell burns only one kind of fuel - which must be very pure to avoid ruining the fuel cell. I want a fuel cell for my laptop, but not my car.
The other nice thing about turbines is that Batman had one...
Sorry, my client called it an "invoice", but it was one of the dubious letters. Sorry to get everyone so excited. Since my client called it an "invoice", it was a highly misleading letter. So those letters are evidence when we get to the criminal trial.
Maybe not management, but my client got an invoice from SCO for their RedHat Linux installation. They called me (their consultant) and asked me what to do with it. I told them to ignore it and keep it for evidence in case it's needed when it's time to send Darl and friends to the slammer. He was surprised at this answer at first, but pointing him to the IBM and RedHat countersuits was very reassuring. Thanks, IBM and RedHat!
Simple. The software invents the detail data when downloaded by independent counters. Voters don't bother to verify their votes against the independent counters.
Since most of the post have been pointing out that Diebold made Republican contributions, let me balance that with what happened here in Virginia. Several voting machines "hung" (they run Windows, what do you expect). Despite the fact that it is explicitly illegal to remove voting machines from the polling place during the election, the hung machines were taken to the vendors shop. Since there was no audit trail, all the votes in those machines would be lost other wise. At the shop, the machines were "reset" while supposedly preserving the vote totals. Yeah right. Since the Democrats won, the Repulicans are filing suit over these voting irregularities.
What really made me mad was the attitude of the election supervisors I talked to months before the election. I explained the problem with voting machines with no audit trail, and trade secret software (they were proudly displaying the new machines at a fair). They explained how my fears were based on ignorance and fear of change. These machines were *computerized*, and therefore had to be better than the old way. They didn't see what good a paper trail would do, since they could print out the totals at any time. What if the machine malfunctions, or the secret code counts every third Dem vote as Rep (or vice versa)? "What are you, some kind of conspiracy nut? These machines are *computerized*. Computers are unbiased and don't make those kind of human errors." Sigh.
I like to record my own music also, and the though of paying the RIAA for the privilege of doing so is galling. I am glad it hasn't come to that in the US yet. It is bad enough that I have to pay the RIAA everytime my wife uses a tape recorder to record notes to herself. I'll have to get her one of those gadgets that record to digital memory. (But tape recorders are dirt cheap.)
Why do you Canadians put up with taxes levied by corporations? Oh wait . . .
Absolutely. Nerve gas is deadly, but only until it gets diluted and/or degraded. If we stop making it, it will go away on its own. Ebola, sars, HIV, TB, etc. etc. will never go away. (No, smallpox has not gone away. It is still waiting around in vials waiting for another heyday.)
In between are things that don't reproduce but are persistent. Plutonium and other heavy metals, PCBs, etc. Here the problem is that they accumulate. But if we stopped throwing them around, they would eventually after a long time go away.
Zebra mussels seem like harmless mollusks. However, when accidentally released in foreign waters, they have become a plague that wipes out all native mussels.
Kudzu seemed like a good idea at the time.
A mediteranean seaweed is rapidly destroying vast regions of more diverse species.
Have you forgotten the mediteranean fruit fly? Need I go on?
Living things are very powerful. Using/playing with them requires extra care - even more so than fire (which also "reproduces" as long as there is fuel in the immediate vicinity).