I copied a bunch of files to a USB stick with a built-in LED and the LED wasn't flashing until I tried to unmount, when I had a 2 minute wait.
I don't need a sync option to mount which would stop the writing program from finishing the write until it hit the usb disk, but I do want persistent flush till its all gone, starting from the oldest touched block.
I've always interpreted the realm as an advisory comment for the dialog box, and used the URL of the website to indicate whether or not I want to give up a password.
Sam
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It's only "hard" because many problems are defined by the same symptoms.
Some systems are engineered to render text in html, the text is badly quoted and so if the text is really html, the html shows.
Some systems are engineered to display a subset of html (to prevent "hostility") but they badly define their subset of html, so hostile html escapes.
The problem exists because somewhere between the customer and installer there was a distinct lack of definition and somebody "didn't care" and just combined "untrusted html" with "trusted html".
There are no tools that can solve these problems, the problems are defined by "untrusted output mixed with trusted output" but those who complain are the same ones who can't be bothered to define "trusted" "untrusted" and "hostile" in terms that any tool can ever process, and only define it in terms of user perceived harmful effects.
This was the final push that moved me from windows.
Windows-XP-Home had a reduced form of file sharing compared to windows 2000; files were either "shared" or not. With the world, or nobody.
I'll you all to guess leave whether or not I used a CD-Freaks hack to get back proper file sharing, but when SP2 came out and the hack had to be slipstreamed I just moved to linux.
It was no big deal - I was moving anyway - it was just the final goodbye.
Now I only boot windows when I need to backup my windows-mobile smartphone, and once the Neo-1973 +keyboard model comes out, I'll be out of MS hair for good.
Available for nearly every smartphone/PDA device out there. The reader software is pretty much what runs on the Scoble. I mean the kindle, but without the weird physical UI.
Mobipocket also do mobi-pocket publisher (also free) so you can compress and distribute your own works.
I spend half an hour in PC World getting a replacement for a dodgy linksys router that kept crashing. They insisted I call the manufacturer to get an RMA. I refused and in the end they let me swap (which is what I wanted).
They tried to fob me off with company policy and what they "could" do but I ignored all that and kept asking for my legal rights. Don't let them distract you with anything other than your rights or directly what you want.
I told them if they thought there was nothing wrong with it that they should re-wrap it and sell it to someone else (sorry someone-else) and that most of the routers on the shelf were re-wrapped and I guessed I knew why....
The vendor can have whatever warranties and policies they see fit; they STILL need to fulfill their obligations under consumer law and will do so IF you hold them to these obligations.
Responses I have used at PC World go like this "Thats an interesting company policy that prevents you from fulfilling your obligations under consumer law"
Another tip (I've done but not at PC World) is to call up the local trading standards office while in the shop. Of course you will need to use directory service, so the shop manager will hear you and realise who you are calling. Make the phone call in a moderately loud voice, something like this:
"Is this trading standards?" "I'm in PC world right now with a laptop that I bought 5 months ago that developed a cracked hinge. They say they won't repair it because some software I installed must have cracked it, do I have to accept this decision"
etc
Realise that as well as explaining to the trading standards officer, you are narrating the situation to every customer within earshot and making the company and policy look like a rotten scam.
After that, don't even look at the manager, but use directory services to get the phone number of the store head office. Have the same style of conversation:
"I'm in your store right now... blah blah, cracked hinge, I called trading standards and they said blah blah but your manager refuses. Right now I have a bunch of customers listening to me with amazed looks on their faces. Do you want me to pass the phone to your manager or do you want me to call back Mx NAME at the trading standards office so he can tell me how to enforce the rights he says I have that PC world are ignoring?"
You contract was with Newegg and whatever they tell you, your consumer rights udner the sale of goods act exist between you and Newegg.
You or they may prefer for you to deal with the manufacturer directly, and this may be quicker for you because perhaps if you dealt with them, they would just ship them on to the manufacturer.
However do not confuse the agency fulfilling the warranty with the party that has obligations to you under consumer law.
It's only about privacy in a euphemistic way, it's about sovereignty of ones body.
If it is forbidden on "privacy" grounds, then the privacy grounds can be addressed, resolved, objection removed and then can become a requirement for work/access-to-services etc.
It should be forbidden because the majority of the population said "No" without having to give a reason.
Before I abandoned windows pretty much forever, when I booted windows I would have my linux box run as a windows service and access my linux system disk using Samba.
It probably compensates for applications or servers that don't allocate a large enough TCP buffer, whose windows-size/RTT bandwidth.
(i.e. The system needs to keep a buffer of all transmitted data until it is acknowledged)
I guess it behaves as a tcp proxy, the RTT between the sending server and the applicance (on the same LAN) is small, so whatever buffer size is allocated by the server is enough.
SRAM is not power hungry, it is very VERY low power, but bulky (and expensive) because of the number of transistors required to make a cell (6 in your diagram).
SRAM is based on FET which have exceedingly low leakage current, SRAM do not use resistors, and noticable current does not flow except during a switchover.
DRAM is smaller, simpler and power hungry BECAUSE of all the refresh's required.
The main benefit of the house of Lords, is that (unlike elected politicians) they don't have to look first to their own re-election and pocket-lining, because there is no special incentive for them.
Instead they can just do a decent job, and keep the lease-my-soul politicians honest.
15 second TTL for your mail handler DNS should handle failover quite nicely; you only need once mailserver in-house and N DSL lines.
As has been said, iptables and masquerading to fix the outgoing route is the simplest solution, and update your zone file to point to a working route for your email server.
The cost of coping with N incompetent suppliers could well be high, and beware if they use the same "wholsesale" provider for the underlying service.
We have 2 DSL lines from the same suppler that had some outage recently, but 1 line had more outage than the other.
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I copied a bunch of files to a USB stick with a built-in LED and the LED wasn't flashing until I tried to unmount, when I had a 2 minute wait.
I don't need a sync option to mount which would stop the writing program from finishing the write until it hit the usb disk, but I do want persistent flush till its all gone, starting from the oldest touched block.
Sam
Who pays attention to realm, anyway?
I've always interpreted the realm as an advisory comment for the dialog box, and used the URL of the website to indicate whether or not I want to give up a password.
Sam
It's only "hard" because many problems are defined by the same symptoms.
Some systems are engineered to render text in html, the text is badly quoted and so if the text is really html, the html shows.
Some systems are engineered to display a subset of html (to prevent "hostility") but they badly define their subset of html, so hostile html escapes.
The problem exists because somewhere between the customer and installer there was a distinct lack of definition and somebody "didn't care" and just combined "untrusted html" with "trusted html".
There are no tools that can solve these problems, the problems are defined by "untrusted output mixed with trusted output" but those who complain are the same ones who can't be bothered to define "trusted" "untrusted" and "hostile" in terms that any tool can ever process, and only define it in terms of user perceived harmful effects.
Sam
This was the final push that moved me from windows.
Windows-XP-Home had a reduced form of file sharing compared to windows 2000; files were either "shared" or not. With the world, or nobody.
I'll you all to guess leave whether or not I used a CD-Freaks hack to get back proper file sharing, but when SP2 came out and the hack had to be slipstreamed I just moved to linux.
It was no big deal - I was moving anyway - it was just the final goodbye.
Now I only boot windows when I need to backup my windows-mobile smartphone, and once the Neo-1973 +keyboard model comes out, I'll be out of MS hair for good.
Sam
If you want to try out the software and ebooks use Amazons Mobi-Pocket reader:
http://www.mobipocket.com/
Available for nearly every smartphone/PDA device out there.
The reader software is pretty much what runs on the Scoble. I mean the kindle, but without the weird physical UI.
Mobipocket also do mobi-pocket publisher (also free) so you can compress and distribute your own works.
Sam
compilation also produces a distributable derived work which looking at doesn't do.
You've never moved house, have you?
A real hacker wouldn't call a few hours coding instead of moving house (emigrating!) (vias forms) and finding a new job "too much work".
It's a software solution, it's nice. It codes around bad laws.
Sam
Good points;
I was figuring on getting round the "don't tell anyone" requirement, I didn't make this clear.
Sam
If you've been arrested over your key, no-one can trust that it is not compromised.
Sam
Have an off-shore cron job to revoke your keys if you don't touch them often enough.
When you are asked for the keys, refuse until you are arrested and unable to save the keys from being revoked.
The revocation is the trigger that you have been asked.
Sam
I spend half an hour in PC World getting a replacement for a dodgy linksys router that kept crashing.
They insisted I call the manufacturer to get an RMA. I refused and in the end they let me swap (which is what I wanted).
They tried to fob me off with company policy and what they "could" do but I ignored all that and kept asking for my legal rights. Don't let them distract you with anything other than your rights or directly what you want.
I told them if they thought there was nothing wrong with it that they should re-wrap it and sell it to someone else (sorry someone-else) and that most of the routers on the shelf were re-wrapped and I guessed I knew why....
Sam
The vendor can have whatever warranties and policies they see fit; they STILL need to fulfill their obligations under consumer law and will do so IF you hold them to these obligations.
Responses I have used at PC World go like this "Thats an interesting company policy that prevents you from fulfilling your obligations under consumer law"
Another tip (I've done but not at PC World) is to call up the local trading standards office while in the shop. Of course you will need to use directory service, so the shop manager will hear you and realise who you are calling. Make the phone call in a moderately loud voice, something like this:
"Is this trading standards?"
"I'm in PC world right now with a laptop that I bought 5 months ago that developed a cracked hinge. They say they won't repair it because some software I installed must have cracked it, do I have to accept this decision"
etc
Realise that as well as explaining to the trading standards officer, you are narrating the situation to every customer within earshot and making the company and policy look like a rotten scam.
After that, don't even look at the manager, but use directory services to get the phone number of the store head office.
Have the same style of conversation:
"I'm in your store right now... blah blah, cracked hinge, I called trading standards and they said blah blah but your manager refuses. Right now I have a bunch of customers listening to me with amazed looks on their faces. Do you want me to pass the phone to your manager or do you want me to call back Mx NAME at the trading standards office so he can tell me how to enforce the rights he says I have that PC world are ignoring?"
etc
Sam
You contract was with Newegg and whatever they tell you, your consumer rights udner the sale of goods act exist between you and Newegg.
You or they may prefer for you to deal with the manufacturer directly, and this may be quicker for you because perhaps if you dealt with them, they would just ship them on to the manufacturer.
However do not confuse the agency fulfilling the warranty with the party that has obligations to you under consumer law.
Sam
"Invasion of privacy" is misleading.
It's only about privacy in a euphemistic way, it's about sovereignty of ones body.
If it is forbidden on "privacy" grounds, then the privacy grounds can be addressed, resolved, objection removed and then can become a requirement for work/access-to-services etc.
It should be forbidden because the majority of the population said "No" without having to give a reason.
Sam
Before I abandoned windows pretty much forever, when I booted windows I would have my linux box run as a windows service and access my linux system disk using Samba.
It wasn't fast but ti was compatible.
Sam
It probably compensates for applications or servers that don't allocate a large enough TCP buffer, whose windows-size/RTT bandwidth.
(i.e. The system needs to keep a buffer of all transmitted data until it is acknowledged)
I guess it behaves as a tcp proxy, the RTT between the sending server and the applicance (on the same LAN) is small, so whatever buffer size is allocated by the server is enough.
Sam
I did it with a simple bash script and a modem.
http://www.liddicott.com/~sam/?p=26
Sam
SRAM is not power hungry, it is very VERY low power, but bulky (and expensive) because of the number of transistors required to make a cell (6 in your diagram).
SRAM is based on FET which have exceedingly low leakage current, SRAM do not use resistors, and noticable current does not flow except during a switchover.
DRAM is smaller, simpler and power hungry BECAUSE of all the refresh's required.
Sam
window media player codecs have a simple API.
Most of the windows codecs have been hacked to run on 32bit x86 linux.
A few have been recoded.
Sam
You are also correct.
SEQL (Standard English Query Language), pronounced sequel, was a pre-cursor to SQL.
Everyone who calls SQL sequel is showing their youth.
Everyone who insists that it should be called sequel is showing their ignorance.
Sam
I prefer joker.
.uk domains too, I keep pushing them, but no luck yet.
I wish they'd do
Sam
The main benefit of the house of Lords, is that (unlike elected politicians) they don't have to look first to their own re-election and pocket-lining, because there is no special incentive for them.
Instead they can just do a decent job, and keep the lease-my-soul politicians honest.
Sam
CLX was kack. So I guess QT on windows was kack.
If only they used the wxWidgets wrappers, they would have platform native widgets underneath.
Lazarus is to me what Delphi used to be.
Sam
packages are the answer to the problems of a monolithic code base.
Sam
The cost of that voodoo is a skill cost.
15 second TTL for your mail handler DNS should handle failover quite nicely; you only need once mailserver in-house and N DSL lines.
As has been said, iptables and masquerading to fix the outgoing route is the simplest solution, and update your zone file to point to a working route for your email server.
The cost of coping with N incompetent suppliers could well be high, and beware if they use the same "wholsesale" provider for the underlying service.
We have 2 DSL lines from the same suppler that had some outage recently, but 1 line had more outage than the other.
Sam