Except in this case the location cached before the collision would be something like "1 World Trade Center, NE corner, floor 45 through 55". (GPS's vertical accuracy is much worse than it's horizontal accuracy.) Now add the fact that the nearest cell tower was on the roof, and it went offline immediately after the collision. Now add the fact that floors 45 through 55 are now laying in a pile with the other 100 floors. That cached position will likely be hundreds of feet from where the phone ended up - and that's assuming the person and phone ended up in the same place.
I'm not saying that GPS in cells phones is or isn't a good idea. All I'm saying is that it wouldn't be likely to have helped locate anyone in this case. The only way to find and rescue the people with those cell phones is to trianglate the signals from the phones.
Actually, it would be nearly useless in this case. GPS signals are very, very weak and can blocked by as little as a sheet of aluminum foil or a few millimeters of water. A GPS receiver under all those tons of concrete and steel would never be able to aquire and track.
Or, it could be 4) other security measures. The wireless netrwork here does not use link-level (WEP) encryption becuase it has been shown to be fundamentally broken many, many times. Instead, in order to get out of the wireless network you have to establish a VPN tunnel. And that kind of setup wouldn't be apparent to someone just scanning for networks.
Why even bother with registers at all? Hardware CPU's use registers as because they are bits of faster memory, but that isn't necessary in a pure virtual machine. Unless you're trying to model a real CPU, why screw up the acrchitecture with unnecessary registers. Just have it do everything on the stack. In an all software VM, regsiters buy you nothing but unneeded compiler complexity.
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What do the packages have to do with anything? In Postgres the number of connections is controlled by a config file. What this really means is that they didn't tune their database server. (Or at least didn't tune it for the slashdot-effect.)
If I'm getting this right, if you just get root.exe all you'll get is a prompt that you can't do anything with. Try doing a get with arguments, like "GET/scripts/root.exe?dir".
There have been at least 2 LEO satellite data systems proposed that I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more. The idea is that you don't have to track anything. They basically carpet-bomb the lower orbits with satellites (one system, Teledesic I think, would have a constellation of 900+ satellites) so that there is always at least 2 visible to the you. Then as one bird sets, you get handed off to one of the others.
I declare this contest pointless. I further declare that, by definition, Jim Theis' The Eye of Argon wins all bad writing contests from here on out. Period. Even ones that are only supposed to judge an opening sentence. End of Discussion.
Secret message to MST3K fans: Do not under any circumstances read the link above. Read
this one instead. Friends don't let friends read this thing without Mike and the bots.
P.S.: I wonder how many Merkins will understand any of this?
I guess you'd be suprised, then. We certainly had a version Elite over here, too. My memories of seventh grade consist mostly of me trying to avoid pirates and figure out where I was going to sell 10 'tonnes' of radioactives.
The version I had was for the Commodore 64. In the research I've done since then, I found out that there were about a dozen versions of the Elite for various platforms. I still play it in VICE every once in a while.
Yes, and watch the average Windows user's head explode while you explain to him that he can't get onto IRC or Yahoo Chat because his digital X.509 certificate isn't valid or is missing.
And that would be bad because? Help me out here, I must be missing something...
Presumably you would have an access device (an analogue to the Cable and DSL modems) that would plug directly into the wall between the outlet and your UPS (or probably into any other spare outlet in the house) which would pull off the data stream and present it to the computer by other means, like ethernet or USB.
I find it difficult to believe that Titan would be that drastically affected by Jupiter's magnetic field, being that Titan is a moon of Saturn and all...
Yabbut - what if you already have a bunch of perfectly good high quality 500W+ 100% ATX-compliant power supplies. Tyan has not yet, to my knowledge provided an sufficent explanation of the non-standard connectors on the board. Given that the PS they have been supplying to reviewers are in the low 400W range, and that 600W and larger standard ATX PSs are available, I have a hard time believing that delivering more power to the board is the reason.
Authenticating users against AD with pam_krb5 works fine. Just list the DNS names of your Win2k domain controllers in the config file just as if they were normal Kerberos servers, and use the AD domain as the Kerberos realm.
When I did this, I still had local passwd and group files. But it should be possible to move that stuff into AD. You would have to modify the AD schema to include that info in the directory (that's not a task for the faint of heart). Once you do that, though, it's pretty easy to query AD from Linux.
Remember though, that long distance fiber optic cables are power cables. All those repeaters along the way need power, and that is usually supplied with one or more 10,000 volt conductors in the same jacket as the fiber.
The problem with useing a dog for this is that dogs don't find any smell disgusting. You really need a human nose and human brain to do this particular kind of work.
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Actually, I think you mean that MS can deny you support, wipe your hard drive, then charge you 5 bucks for the privilege.
I don't know what's more disturbing - that Google did that or that I can read it.
Except in this case the location cached before the collision would be something like "1 World Trade Center, NE corner, floor 45 through 55". (GPS's vertical accuracy is much worse than it's horizontal accuracy.) Now add the fact that the nearest cell tower was on the roof, and it went offline immediately after the collision. Now add the fact that floors 45 through 55 are now laying in a pile with the other 100 floors. That cached position will likely be hundreds of feet from where the phone ended up - and that's assuming the person and phone ended up in the same place.
I'm not saying that GPS in cells phones is or isn't a good idea. All I'm saying is that it wouldn't be likely to have helped locate anyone in this case. The only way to find and rescue the people with those cell phones is to trianglate the signals from the phones.
Actually, it would be nearly useless in this case. GPS signals are very, very weak and can blocked by as little as a sheet of aluminum foil or a few millimeters of water. A GPS receiver under all those tons of concrete and steel would never be able to aquire and track.
Or, it could be 4) other security measures. The wireless netrwork here does not use link-level (WEP) encryption becuase it has been shown to be fundamentally broken many, many times. Instead, in order to get out of the wireless network you have to establish a VPN tunnel. And that kind of setup wouldn't be apparent to someone just scanning for networks.
Why even bother with registers at all? Hardware CPU's use registers as because they are bits of faster memory, but that isn't necessary in a pure virtual machine. Unless you're trying to model a real CPU, why screw up the acrchitecture with unnecessary registers. Just have it do everything on the stack. In an all software VM, regsiters buy you nothing but unneeded compiler complexity.
Sometimes a trebuchet is just a trebuchet...
What do the packages have to do with anything? In Postgres the number of connections is controlled by a config file. What this really means is that they didn't tune their database server. (Or at least didn't tune it for the slashdot-effect.)
If I'm getting this right, if you just get root.exe all you'll get is a prompt that you can't do anything with. Try doing a get with arguments, like "GET /scripts/root.exe?dir".
I wonder how many of the authors in the Sci Fi/Fantasy section wish there was only Fiction section.
There have been at least 2 LEO satellite data systems proposed that I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more. The idea is that you don't have to track anything. They basically carpet-bomb the lower orbits with satellites (one system, Teledesic I think, would have a constellation of 900+ satellites) so that there is always at least 2 visible to the you. Then as one bird sets, you get handed off to one of the others.
I declare this contest pointless. I further declare that, by definition, Jim Theis' The Eye of Argon wins all bad writing contests from here on out. Period. Even ones that are only supposed to judge an opening sentence. End of Discussion.
Secret message to MST3K fans: Do not under any circumstances read the link above. Read this one instead. Friends don't let friends read this thing without Mike and the bots.
I guess you'd be suprised, then. We certainly had a version Elite over here, too. My memories of seventh grade consist mostly of me trying to avoid pirates and figure out where I was going to sell 10 'tonnes' of radioactives.
The version I had was for the Commodore 64. In the research I've done since then, I found out that there were about a dozen versions of the Elite for various platforms. I still play it in VICE every once in a while.
And that would be bad because? Help me out here, I must be missing something...
Presumably you would have an access device (an analogue to the Cable and DSL modems) that would plug directly into the wall between the outlet and your UPS (or probably into any other spare outlet in the house) which would pull off the data stream and present it to the computer by other means, like ethernet or USB.
I know these words... They appear to be English... Yet when strung together like that their meaning eludes me...
Actually, in the scripts it is denoted as "(annoyed grunt)".
I find it difficult to believe that Titan would be that drastically affected by Jupiter's magnetic field, being that Titan is a moon of Saturn and all...
Umm.. You do realize that Sony plans on releasing a Linux developer kit for the PS2, right? The original story was here.
Yabbut - what if you already have a bunch of perfectly good high quality 500W+ 100% ATX-compliant power supplies. Tyan has not yet, to my knowledge provided an sufficent explanation of the non-standard connectors on the board. Given that the PS they have been supplying to reviewers are in the low 400W range, and that 600W and larger standard ATX PSs are available, I have a hard time believing that delivering more power to the board is the reason.
Sorry... Just saw "Wargames" again recently.
Unfortunately, it will probably be Jon Katz.
Done at least half of that...
Authenticating users against AD with pam_krb5 works fine. Just list the DNS names of your Win2k domain controllers in the config file just as if they were normal Kerberos servers, and use the AD domain as the Kerberos realm.
When I did this, I still had local passwd and group files. But it should be possible to move that stuff into AD. You would have to modify the AD schema to include that info in the directory (that's not a task for the faint of heart). Once you do that, though, it's pretty easy to query AD from Linux.
Remember though, that long distance fiber optic cables are power cables. All those repeaters along the way need power, and that is usually supplied with one or more 10,000 volt conductors in the same jacket as the fiber.
The problem with useing a dog for this is that dogs don't find any smell disgusting. You really need a human nose and human brain to do this particular kind of work.