...by the complete lack of Geico jokes! But really, am I the only one who, when reading this, immediately imagined the little Geigo gecko, and assumed I was in for a bunch of comments about Geigo?
How strict is the "No Digging" rule? I could understand not being able to dig an enormous ditch, but could you go in with an edger?
We recently had some wires run throughout our yard. It took a large circular saw (an edger would do the exact same thing), and you couldn't even tell that a hole was dug unless you were right next to it. The stuff done through the grass is barely noticable now (and I'd guess that, given a few more weeks, you'll never be able to tell).
I'd say run some Cat5 (or fiber if the runs are too long) through a hose (I'd be really hesitant to bury plain Cat5, though it might work out just fine.) I can't comment on the legality, though, but I don't see why it'd be prohibited if it's not really "digging" a big hole, but rather making a small incision...
I'm no lawyer, but there are laws against causing "malicious interference" to any radio service, particularly licensed ones, such as cellular networks. And there are pretty big fines for it, too. (I believe up to two years imprisonment is an option as well?)
Plus, if a big phone company (say, Sprint, for example) sees that you're blocking their phones, they could probably sue you, or at least lodge a complaint against the FCC.
This is a "legitimate" concern, but, as someone else pointed out -- there are other places where cell phones don't work -- subways, tunnels, under bridges... Most hospitals still prohibit cell phones. And they just deal with it.
Why not just make it well known (perhaps through signage) that "Cellular service is blocked in these premises. Those who are 'on call' are advised not to enter." The only "downside" is that on-duty paramedics, etc. won't be in the movie theater.
I don't believe legislation is the way to go -- theaters should just kick out anyone whose phone goes off. I keep my phone on vibrate most of the time, but turn it off entirely when I go to the movies -- I don't want calls. If I'm ever "on call" for something, I'll keep it on vibrate and leave to take a call. So jamming might not be the solution, but it's better than passing legislation. My "preferred solution" is to just make it well-known that if your phone rings, the theater staff can and will throw you out.
Sorry for the entire comment being fixed-width... I put my code in tags, and that didn't seem to work so well... So I changed the whole thing to code and hit submit.
BTW, 12 million repititions in 176 seconds, and nothing found... But I'm beginning to wonder... Answers very quickly get expressed as integers like "1.40025556644157e+15"... Does a reverse() of this return 51+e7...", or does Perl have the "real" number internally? My script doesn't work for long if the former is the case.
Being the insane geek I am, I quickly whipped up a Perl script that I *think* works. I tested it with an example given (87), and got 4884, which is correct.
The program will print out the number of time's it's looped (the number of numbers it's tried), and then what the number is. Every million numbers (I wanted it to be big enough that it wasn't printing out miles of crap, but small enough that I got occasional outputs to know what it was up to), it prints out the time elapsed, the number of repititions, and the current number.
Constructive criticism and whatnot is welcomed. (And yes, I know, my variable names suck...)
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In all seriousness (well, kinda)... Do penguins have ears? I have a large stuffed "Tux" sitting on my monitor, and I just checked... He does not have any. But I find this hard to believe.
while someone who illegally copies a CD will most likely get a very minor punishment.
I know I might be missing your point, but... Under laws like the DMCA, aren't some of the penalties supposedly similar to those for murder? While it would be in insane perversion of justice (but what else do you expect from the RIAA?), I believe that things like DMCA violations can land you something absurd, like 25 years in jail.
I don't remember the specifics, but I definitely remember a discussion about how the penalties for copyright infringement were sometimes actually WORSE than murder.
I see the point you're making, but I'm also not so sure that copying a CD is something that will get you "a very minor punishment."
I got "bit" by SomeoneLikesYou repeatedly. Someone (who I don't even know) sent someone a legitimate crush, and they guessed a friend's address, who guessed me and all my friends... In my idiocy, I put in a list of addresses. They all got mail. I figured it out, and had a friend with his own domain setup some test accounts. I "guessed" their addresses, and, sure enough, they got mail right away.
I quickly sent mail to RackSpace, informing them that it was sending 'fraudulent' mail, and that I was 95% sure that it was being used for nothing other than address harvesting. I also mentioned the clearly-falsified headers. All I ever received was an automated reply. And... The site is still up.
Other people have said before that RackSpace knowingly harbors a bunch of spammers. I really would have no regrets blocking the entirety of RackSpace's netblocks.
This is surprisingly brilliant for a spammer, but that only makes me more angry. However, I created an account with them, and checked "Do not send me mail" option -- and have not received mail from them since. (In addition, the account they have gets NO spam.) So, while it's likely that they're making a huge database of spam addresses, I haven't gotten spammed yet (or else my hosting company has some REALLY good spam filters that I don't about), and they even seem to take removal requests.
My "bitch" is that it's not too understandable to the "average" user. I don't care if there's a single sentence or 120 pages -- it's *way* over my head.
For example, I have a dual Athlon system... I still wonder if that bug in agpgart or whatever has been fixed. But, as a non-kernel-hacker, I don't have a clue if it has or not.
I think a good solution would simply be an alternative site for non-kernel-hackers. Obviously, having the kernel.org changelogs be newbie-friendly (well, I'm not really a newbie -- I've been using Linux for several years; I just don't do kernel development... but I digress) would be a huge mistake.
It really has nothing to do with quantity, it has to do with comprehendability. Perhaps if there are two changelogs -- the current one, for developers; along with a second one, that provides more of a less-technical overview of who should/shouldn't upgrade, in plain English.
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inetnum: 203.62.158.0 - 203.62.159.255 netname: AUSTRALIANINTER-AU descr: Australian Internet Solutions Pty Ltd descr: Suite 3, Level 5, 277 Flinders Lane descr: Melbourne descr: VIC 3001 country: AU admin-c: DA53-AP tech-c: DA53-AP mnt-by: MAINT-AU-KALED changed: register@aunic.net 19970211 changed: aunic-transfer@apnic.net 20010525 changed: hostmaster@apnic.net 20011115 source: APNIC
Not that I'd condone it, but the ultimate hack (or crack) would be rooting the RIAA servers and using them to host a very large MP3 collection, complete with a gnutella client to share them with the world.
I've downloaded my share of things, and find that the 3 Mbps cap on my cable modem is almost always my bottleneck. So my question is fairly simple (albeit broad) -- can you describe your setup a bit, in terms of bandwidth (both what you have for an Internet connection, and how much traffic you actually use), servers, storage (I'd venture to guess it's to the tune of several terabytes?), etc.
If you *really* want to confuse people using your computer... Pluck off all the keys to clean your keyboard, and throw them back on without much thought, causing half of them to be in the wrong place. Run something like Englightenment with no icons and no start bar or anything...
People actually do surprisingly well if you sit them down in front of a computer, particularly if you have gaim and Mozilla running. At school, we have all Win2K boxes, behind a firewall blocking AOL IM. VNCed into a Linux box behind the firewall, a bunch of people wanted to use gaim to talk to their friends. They never commented on the fact that the interface looked COMPLETELY different (or the fact that the pixmap theme looked AWFUL over a low-bandwidth VNC session... The silver gradient showed up as a horrible bright-orange and black moire type thing...
Someone should really do a more formal study into how well an average Windows user does when 'required' to use a Linux box with no explanation whatsoever. (Though we'll be fair and make sure the keytops are right *grin*)
Quite a while ago, I grew sick and tired of my crappy cable modem, and learned about Cogent. Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, to have 100 Mbps at home? But then it dawned on me that, even as a geek who could probably find a way to fully utilize 100 Mbps, $1,000/month is just too much.
Then it dawned on me... I've been thinking for a bit that I want to install a wireless LAN in my neighborhood (even using 802.11a, so I get 54+ Mbps, as opposed to the usual 11), and be a sort of ISP for the neighborhood. Places like D-Link offer "Turbo" modes that can do 72 Mbps; wouldn't you pay $75/month or something for a 72 Mbps "broadband" connection? Even if you use the $3,000/month figure for an "ISP" Cogent line, I'd only need to find 40 customers at $75/month, and I'm breaking even. And I bet that the actual bandwidth usage would be VERY small; even Slashdot doesn't pull 72 Mbps sustained.
The nearest Cogent-served city is almost 100 miles away, and a lot of my neighbors are the "No thanks, I like my AOL" type, but if Cogent ever comes to town, this is something I'd very seriously consider.
And do you remember that whole incident where someone at Verisign granted some totally random guy off the street a certificate saying that he was Microsoft? It wasn't Microsoft's fault, but it does go to show a weakness in their system.
A search for "Lorm Ipsum" returns 6 results, but suggests "Lorem Ipsum" instead. That brings up "about" 38,100 results.
As I curiously searched for the meaning on this phrase, I stumbled across this explanation here. Essentially, it's an adaptation of some classic quote, but, it seems, no longer really makes any sense at all.
I've seen some really good deals at Xtremenotebooks.com. I've never bought from them, nor do I even know anyone who has, so I can't vouch for them, but they have powerful machines at pretty good prices.
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...by the complete lack of Geico jokes! But really, am I the only one who, when reading this, immediately imagined the little Geigo gecko, and assumed I was in for a bunch of comments about Geigo?
I wasn't aware of the spying. Do you happen to know the host it sends this to, which I can conveniently add to /etc/hosts?
Will they call it... a CD±RW drive?
My favorite haiku site:
http://www.smalltime.com/haiku/ (I particularly love the "Scrambled Haiku")
This site will give you,
Haiku served up randomly,
It is lots of fun.
How strict is the "No Digging" rule? I could understand not being able to dig an enormous ditch, but could you go in with an edger?
We recently had some wires run throughout our yard. It took a large circular saw (an edger would do the exact same thing), and you couldn't even tell that a hole was dug unless you were right next to it. The stuff done through the grass is barely noticable now (and I'd guess that, given a few more weeks, you'll never be able to tell).
I'd say run some Cat5 (or fiber if the runs are too long) through a hose (I'd be really hesitant to bury plain Cat5, though it might work out just fine.) I can't comment on the legality, though, but I don't see why it'd be prohibited if it's not really "digging" a big hole, but rather making a small incision...
Heh, I was wondering who the heck would name a book "The Code Boob," and what exactly it might contain.
Plus, if a big phone company (say, Sprint, for example) sees that you're blocking their phones, they could probably sue you, or at least lodge a complaint against the FCC.
Why not just make it well known (perhaps through signage) that "Cellular service is blocked in these premises. Those who are 'on call' are advised not to enter." The only "downside" is that on-duty paramedics, etc. won't be in the movie theater.
I don't believe legislation is the way to go -- theaters should just kick out anyone whose phone goes off. I keep my phone on vibrate most of the time, but turn it off entirely when I go to the movies -- I don't want calls. If I'm ever "on call" for something, I'll keep it on vibrate and leave to take a call. So jamming might not be the solution, but it's better than passing legislation. My "preferred solution" is to just make it well-known that if your phone rings, the theater staff can and will throw you out.
Now that I think of it, I'm not sure what's with either, but it seems to work for smaller numbers at least.
I hate when I write code, and then later don't understand why something works... Thanks for your comments, though.
Sorry for the entire comment being fixed-width... I put my code in tags, and that didn't seem to work so well... So I changed the whole thing to code and hit submit. BTW, 12 million repititions in 176 seconds, and nothing found... But I'm beginning to wonder... Answers very quickly get expressed as integers like "1.40025556644157e+15"... Does a reverse() of this return 51+e7...", or does Perl have the "real" number internally? My script doesn't work for long if the former is the case.
Being the insane geek I am, I quickly whipped up a Perl script that I *think* works. I tested it with an example given (87), and got 4884, which is correct.
The program will print out the number of time's it's looped (the number of numbers it's tried), and then what the number is. Every million numbers (I wanted it to be big enough that it wasn't printing out miles of crap, but small enough that I got occasional outputs to know what it was up to), it prints out the time elapsed, the number of repititions, and the current number.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$in = $ARGV[0];
for ($x = 1; $x <= $in; $x++) {
$reverse = reverse($in);
$in = ($in + $reverse);
$back = reverse($in);
if ($in == $back) {
print "$x\t$in\n";
exit;
}
if ($x % 1_000_000 == 0) {
$time = (time - $^T);
print "\tat $x... $time sec elapsed... $in\n";
}
}
# the end...
Constructive criticism and whatnot is welcomed. (And yes, I know, my variable names suck...)
In all seriousness (well, kinda)... Do penguins have ears? I have a large stuffed "Tux" sitting on my monitor, and I just checked... He does not have any. But I find this hard to believe.
while someone who illegally copies a CD will most likely get a very minor punishment.
I know I might be missing your point, but... Under laws like the DMCA, aren't some of the penalties supposedly similar to those for murder? While it would be in insane perversion of justice (but what else do you expect from the RIAA?), I believe that things like DMCA violations can land you something absurd, like 25 years in jail.
I don't remember the specifics, but I definitely remember a discussion about how the penalties for copyright infringement were sometimes actually WORSE than murder.
I see the point you're making, but I'm also not so sure that copying a CD is something that will get you "a very minor punishment."
...is in bed with RackSpace?
I got "bit" by SomeoneLikesYou repeatedly. Someone (who I don't even know) sent someone a legitimate crush, and they guessed a friend's address, who guessed me and all my friends... In my idiocy, I put in a list of addresses. They all got mail. I figured it out, and had a friend with his own domain setup some test accounts. I "guessed" their addresses, and, sure enough, they got mail right away.
I quickly sent mail to RackSpace, informing them that it was sending 'fraudulent' mail, and that I was 95% sure that it was being used for nothing other than address harvesting. I also mentioned the clearly-falsified headers. All I ever received was an automated reply. And... The site is still up.
Other people have said before that RackSpace knowingly harbors a bunch of spammers. I really would have no regrets blocking the entirety of RackSpace's netblocks.
This is surprisingly brilliant for a spammer, but that only makes me more angry. However, I created an account with them, and checked "Do not send me mail" option -- and have not received mail from them since. (In addition, the account they have gets NO spam.) So, while it's likely that they're making a huge database of spam addresses, I haven't gotten spammed yet (or else my hosting company has some REALLY good spam filters that I don't about), and they even seem to take removal requests.
For example, I have a dual Athlon system... I still wonder if that bug in agpgart or whatever has been fixed. But, as a non-kernel-hacker, I don't have a clue if it has or not.
I think a good solution would simply be an alternative site for non-kernel-hackers. Obviously, having the kernel.org changelogs be newbie-friendly (well, I'm not really a newbie -- I've been using Linux for several years; I just don't do kernel development... but I digress) would be a huge mistake.
It really has nothing to do with quantity, it has to do with comprehendability. Perhaps if there are two changelogs -- the current one, for developers; along with a second one, that provides more of a less-technical overview of who should/shouldn't upgrade, in plain English.
$ hostinfo -n 203.62.158.32
snsonline.net
$ whois 203.62.158.32
% How to use the APNIC Whois Database www.apnic.net/db/
% Upgrade to Whois v3 on 20 August 2002 www.apnic.net/whois-v3
% Whois data copyright terms www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 203.62.158.0 - 203.62.159.255
netname: AUSTRALIANINTER-AU
descr: Australian Internet Solutions Pty Ltd
descr: Suite 3, Level 5, 277 Flinders Lane
descr: Melbourne
descr: VIC 3001
country: AU
admin-c: DA53-AP
tech-c: DA53-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-AU-KALED
changed: register@aunic.net 19970211
changed: aunic-transfer@apnic.net 20010525
changed: hostmaster@apnic.net 20011115
source: APNIC
person: Domain Administrator
address: Level 4,
address: 180 Bourke St,
address: Melbourne, 3000.
country: AU
phone: +61-3-9650-5566
fax-no: +61-3-9639-1897
e-mail: kaled@dalek.ains.net.au
nic-hdl: DA53-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-NEW
changed: kaled@dalek.ains.net.au 20010619
source: APNIC
I've apparently triggered the lameness filter with this... BTW, I can ping this host, so it's still up. However:
$ telnet 203.62.158.32 6667
Trying 203.62.158.32...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Looks like they closed that port?
Not that I'd condone it, but the ultimate hack (or crack) would be rooting the RIAA servers and using them to host a very large MP3 collection, complete with a gnutella client to share them with the world.
So that explains all those trolls! It's actually the RIAA!
I've downloaded my share of things, and find that the 3 Mbps cap on my cable modem is almost always my bottleneck. So my question is fairly simple (albeit broad) -- can you describe your setup a bit, in terms of bandwidth (both what you have for an Internet connection, and how much traffic you actually use), servers, storage (I'd venture to guess it's to the tune of several terabytes?), etc.
Heh, I'm not sure... I usually try to get people as far away from AOL as possible. :-D
People actually do surprisingly well if you sit them down in front of a computer, particularly if you have gaim and Mozilla running. At school, we have all Win2K boxes, behind a firewall blocking AOL IM. VNCed into a Linux box behind the firewall, a bunch of people wanted to use gaim to talk to their friends. They never commented on the fact that the interface looked COMPLETELY different (or the fact that the pixmap theme looked AWFUL over a low-bandwidth VNC session... The silver gradient showed up as a horrible bright-orange and black moire type thing...
Someone should really do a more formal study into how well an average Windows user does when 'required' to use a Linux box with no explanation whatsoever. (Though we'll be fair and make sure the keytops are right *grin*)
Then it dawned on me... I've been thinking for a bit that I want to install a wireless LAN in my neighborhood (even using 802.11a, so I get 54+ Mbps, as opposed to the usual 11), and be a sort of ISP for the neighborhood. Places like D-Link offer "Turbo" modes that can do 72 Mbps; wouldn't you pay $75/month or something for a 72 Mbps "broadband" connection? Even if you use the $3,000/month figure for an "ISP" Cogent line, I'd only need to find 40 customers at $75/month, and I'm breaking even. And I bet that the actual bandwidth usage would be VERY small; even Slashdot doesn't pull 72 Mbps sustained.
The nearest Cogent-served city is almost 100 miles away, and a lot of my neighbors are the "No thanks, I like my AOL" type, but if Cogent ever comes to town, this is something I'd very seriously consider.
And do you remember that whole incident where someone at Verisign granted some totally random guy off the street a certificate saying that he was Microsoft? It wasn't Microsoft's fault, but it does go to show a weakness in their system.
A search for "Lorm Ipsum" returns 6 results, but suggests "Lorem Ipsum" instead. That brings up "about" 38,100 results.
As I curiously searched for the meaning on this phrase, I stumbled across this explanation here. Essentially, it's an adaptation of some classic quote, but, it seems, no longer really makes any sense at all.
(Can anyone comment on the quality?)