I guess we can all call the riser file system 'SkFS' (serial killing file system). I guess the next tine I reinstall I'll opt for ext3 for ethical reasons.
'Not only can BPL be jammed with something as simple as a CB or Amateur radio transceiver Really? I could have sworn you'd need a transmitter.'
A 'transceiver' is a combination transmitter receiver. During some BPL tests BPL signals were completely interrupted by a 5 watt signal on the 40 meter (14MHz) band.
'but a creative individual could use similar methods to monitor BPL signals. Not only do you already have to worry about any signal broadcast over the internet, but the fact that it's sent over a big long wire (as you describe) means it's even more important to use encryption. And what do you know? Any sensitive communications I perform over the internet are already encrypted, making that basically irrelevant.'
Encryption or not, interruption of your Internet service by wayward radio transmissions or power line interference caused by arcing hardware would certainly NOT be acceptable.
I remember seeing a demo of this back in the 80's. I always had a suspicion this was possible, however some people still balk at this as 'science fiction'. I can assure you it's not. It's this kind of thing that should be waking up manufactures to the perils of shitty RFI design. Spewing broad band spectrum pollution not only causes radio interference, but also opens you to security problems.
Not to go slightly off topic here, but BPL (broadband over power wires) providers ought to see this as a wakeup call. Coupling broad band ODMF signals on widely spaced wires hanging 40+ feet in the air, radiating like antennas is a HUGE security issue. Not only can BPL be jammed with something as simple as a CB or Amateur radio transceiver, but a creative individual could use similar methods to monitor BPL signals.
I love old hardware, it's nearly unbreakable. Like this Sun ULTRA 1 Creator 3D I'm using right now. 384 megs of RAM, 36 gig 10,000 rpm HD, Sun 21' monitor all running on SuSE Linux 7.3 (Sparc version).
I have not watched TV (in my home) for 10 years now, no cable, no satellite no antenna. I only use my TV as a HD monitor for my DVD player and on occasion the computer. All that money I would have paid to watch COMERCIALS has really paid (no pun intended) off in the long run. Save yourself some money and ditch the TV; you can get ALL the news you need through FREE over the air AM/FM broadcast, Shortwave and what ever Internet connection you have.
When I heard our congress critters wanted to extend day light saving time my first reaction was WTF! Why are they imposing another useless Y2K'ish problem for us to work around. I'd be happy if they would just GET RID of the fsking thing. My second thought was, what about all the time sensitive operations carried out by embedded systems and all the OS flavors out there that patches will be hard to impossible to get.
Guess I'll just have to set all the clocks manually or start using UTC. To me, DST is another useless hold over from a previous century.
I have been encoding my music CD collection in (DRM free)Ogg Vorbis for years. The audio quality is noticeably better than mp3 encoded at the same bitrate. When I give a demonstration to my friends they even say it (Ogg Vorbis) is better sounding than mp3 (most notably, the absence of compression artifacts, you know, that fluttery metallic sound in the high frequency content). It's nice to see a superior and free audio format actually making inroads to AAC, WMA and mp3.
I'm glad to see someone else outside of the HAM radio community brining this issue up. I have several CFL lamps in my house, and for the most part, do not generate any harmful radio spectrum pollution. However, there is one '100 watt' CFL lamp in my laundry room that generates enormous amounts of spectrum pollution. Personally, I think LED lighting technology will overcome CFL. It's instant on, almost no heat and doesn't contain as many harmful ingredients (like mercury). And with service lifetimes exceeding 100,000 hrs, will FAR outlive any CFL.
Arctic warming eh.. I guess we better get some one to pick up that Blob we dumped there in the 50's and contain that Thing we blew apart in the 80's before it's too late..
Run your own mail server, I had been doing this for years and my spam problem was almost non-existent. You can set your own e-mail filtering rules, it doesn't take very long till the spammer gives up when his spam bots keep getting 'REJECT' messages every time they send you something. For your average Joe twelve pack, some one like Lynksys, need to offer some sort of 'easy to use' e-mail server appliance.
When spam is accepted but put into a special folder, only helps to perpetuate the spam problem. Flat out rejecting the spam e-mail is about the only way to effectively deal with the problem. Spammers have effectively ruined the e-mail system, aside from shooting, lynching and torturing spammers; rejecting the unwanted e-mail is about the only answer.
Microsoft can use any means to curtail the piracy of their OS, I simply don't care. I will continue to use my two (2) Windows 2000 licenses till they force me off of them. I'll just continue to use Linux as my primary OS. I only keep Windows 2000 around for a few legacy apps, Windows 2000 as far as I'm concerned was their last good OS, a major step from NT. But until I can find a 'legal' DVD player for Linux, and a good Linux version of MAME, Windows 2000 will be tucked away on a small partition just for these needs.
I live in Concrete Washington. I do have POTS coming to the house but since there is no xDSL available, what's the point of getting phone service. There is cable TV out here but there is no cable Internet service. I don't watch TV, cable is the ONLY option here besides satellite (being surrounded my mountains prevents over the air reception). I do however have a LCD HDTV but use it as a monitor for my DVD player.
Now IF money was no object I could have Verizon punch a T-1 ($200+ a month) here but the cost is way beyond unacceptable. Same for satellite, if one wants to pay $600+ for the hardware and $139+ a month for a high latency asynchronous connection.
So in the mean time I have been using my Verizon cell phone service to access the Internet. I use it to more or less pay bills on line and check my e-mail. The service is however three (3) times the speed of dial up so it's tolerable. I have bumped into several Clearwire reps at Linuxfest and suggested they try to gain a foothold in my area. But so far, I keep checking and my area is always 'no x-broadband availability in your area'.
Having a broadband connection is the ONLY thing making computers interesting anymore, and without one the machines do nothing but take up space.
By the time Verizon gets FTTH to my rural home I'll either be too old to care or dead. It's been what, more than six (6) years now; what happened to the $200 billion? Out in my area there is NO xDSL, NO Cable Internet, NO Clearwire only dial up and over priced satellite Internet service. The only way I'm connecting now is with my Verizon wireless account, a whopping 16k/bit sync.
Since my move, I haven't had any broadband service for over two (2) years. I've more or less lost all interest in computers, my Sun boxes sit idle with no Internet connection. All the time I have been mucking around with Linux have been confined to my IBM A31p laptop, and what ever connection I can get at Starbucks, work or open access point.
While I'm not entirely sure about this lawsuit, it might give automakers and our administration a good swift kick in the balls. For the past 30 years, cars have only been getting microscopically better fuel mileage. I have a 95 Saturn, it gets 35 - 38 miles per gallon on the highway (which is the bulk of my commute). Why would I buy a new car for around $8,000 - $9,000 that gets the same or worse mileage when I can have a new engine installed in my Saturn for $2,500.
If automakers want me to buy a new car in the $6,000 - $8,000 range, said vehicle needs to get 60+ miles per gallon; it's being done in other countries, why is it NOT being done here? Personally, I think most of us know the answer to that.
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So, I guess it won't be such a good idea to wear my i read your e-mail T-shirt at work anymore...
Uhhhh huh huh huh, you said Penetraion uhh huh huh yeah! Yeah! PENETRATION! Hehehehehehe hehehehehehe boinggggggggggggggg hehehehehehe
As soon as my contract is done with Verizon, they can shove their fucking phone service squarely up their ass.
I guess we can all call the riser file system 'SkFS' (serial killing file system). I guess the next tine I reinstall I'll opt for ext3 for ethical reasons.
Wow, here's someone who ACTUALLY sees the big picture. This is EXACTLY the reasoning behind ALL of our drug and DUI laws.
'Not only can BPL be jammed with something as simple as a CB or Amateur radio transceiver
Really? I could have sworn you'd need a transmitter.'
A 'transceiver' is a combination transmitter receiver. During some BPL tests BPL signals were completely interrupted by a 5 watt signal on the 40 meter (14MHz) band.
'but a creative individual could use similar methods to monitor BPL signals.
Not only do you already have to worry about any signal broadcast over the internet, but the fact that it's sent over a big long wire (as you describe) means it's even more important to use encryption. And what do you know? Any sensitive communications I perform over the internet are already encrypted, making that basically irrelevant.'
Encryption or not, interruption of your Internet service by wayward radio transmissions or power line interference caused by arcing hardware would certainly NOT be acceptable.
I remember seeing a demo of this back in the 80's. I always had a suspicion this was possible, however some people still balk at this as 'science fiction'. I can assure you it's not. It's this kind of thing that should be waking up manufactures to the perils of shitty RFI design. Spewing broad band spectrum pollution not only causes radio interference, but also opens you to security problems.
Not to go slightly off topic here, but BPL (broadband over power wires) providers ought to see this as a wakeup call. Coupling broad band ODMF signals on widely spaced wires hanging 40+ feet in the air, radiating like antennas is a HUGE security issue. Not only can BPL be jammed with something as simple as a CB or Amateur radio transceiver, but a creative individual could use similar methods to monitor BPL signals.
I love old hardware, it's nearly unbreakable. Like this Sun ULTRA 1 Creator 3D I'm using right now. 384 megs of RAM, 36 gig 10,000 rpm HD, Sun 21' monitor all running on SuSE Linux 7.3 (Sparc version).
Sorry, but I think my current Gmail's 2833 MB of storage ought to be enough for anyone.
I have not watched TV (in my home) for 10 years now, no cable, no satellite no antenna. I only use my TV as a HD monitor for my DVD player and on occasion the computer. All that money I would have paid to watch COMERCIALS has really paid (no pun intended) off in the long run. Save yourself some money and ditch the TV; you can get ALL the news you need through FREE over the air AM/FM broadcast, Shortwave and what ever Internet connection you have.
That this will be as productive as th 1.25 trillion dollar lawsuit that the RIAA has filed over allofmp3.com
Any one else remember when we had a fit when Windows liked 4 megs of RAM. Hell, I can't even go beyond 1GB of RAM on my Thinkpad A31p.
When I heard our congress critters wanted to extend day light saving time my first reaction was WTF! Why are they imposing another useless Y2K'ish problem for us to work around. I'd be happy if they would just GET RID of the fsking thing. My second thought was, what about all the time sensitive operations carried out by embedded systems and all the OS flavors out there that patches will be hard to impossible to get.
Guess I'll just have to set all the clocks manually or start using UTC. To me, DST is another useless hold over from a previous century.
I have been encoding my music CD collection in (DRM free)Ogg Vorbis for years. The audio quality is noticeably better than mp3 encoded at the same bitrate. When I give a demonstration to my friends they even say it (Ogg Vorbis) is better sounding than mp3 (most notably, the absence of compression artifacts, you know, that fluttery metallic sound in the high frequency content). It's nice to see a superior and free audio format actually making inroads to AAC, WMA and mp3.
I'm glad to see someone else outside of the HAM radio community brining this issue up. I have several CFL lamps in my house, and for the most part, do not generate any harmful radio spectrum pollution. However, there is one '100 watt' CFL lamp in my laundry room that generates enormous amounts of spectrum pollution. Personally, I think LED lighting technology will overcome CFL. It's instant on, almost no heat and doesn't contain as many harmful ingredients (like mercury). And with service lifetimes exceeding 100,000 hrs, will FAR outlive any CFL.
Arctic warming eh.. I guess we better get some one to pick up that Blob we dumped there in the 50's and contain that Thing we blew apart in the 80's before it's too late..
Maybe it will be something like this...
'The analysis team that went over the lifeboat centimeter by centimeter found no evidence if the creature you describe.'
Vanluen
Cool, polar ice gone within my lifetime. Assuming I live to the ripe old age of 84 that is.
Run your own mail server, I had been doing this for years and my spam problem was almost non-existent. You can set your own e-mail filtering rules, it doesn't take very long till the spammer gives up when his spam bots keep getting 'REJECT' messages every time they send you something. For your average Joe twelve pack, some one like Lynksys, need to offer some sort of 'easy to use' e-mail server appliance.
When spam is accepted but put into a special folder, only helps to perpetuate the spam problem. Flat out rejecting the spam e-mail is about the only way to effectively deal with the problem. Spammers have effectively ruined the e-mail system, aside from shooting, lynching and torturing spammers; rejecting the unwanted e-mail is about the only answer.
Did anyone else read this as.. 'Microsoft's Guidelines for Customer Piracy'
Microsoft can use any means to curtail the piracy of their OS, I simply don't care. I will continue to use my two (2) Windows 2000 licenses till they force me off of them. I'll just continue to use Linux as my primary OS. I only keep Windows 2000 around for a few legacy apps, Windows 2000 as far as I'm concerned was their last good OS, a major step from NT. But until I can find a 'legal' DVD player for Linux, and a good Linux version of MAME, Windows 2000 will be tucked away on a small partition just for these needs.
I live in Concrete Washington. I do have POTS coming to the house but since there is no xDSL available, what's the point of getting phone service. There is cable TV out here but there is no cable Internet service. I don't watch TV, cable is the ONLY option here besides satellite (being surrounded my mountains prevents over the air reception). I do however have a LCD HDTV but use it as a monitor for my DVD player.
Now IF money was no object I could have Verizon punch a T-1 ($200+ a month) here but the cost is way beyond unacceptable. Same for satellite, if one wants to pay $600+ for the hardware and $139+ a month for a high latency asynchronous connection.
So in the mean time I have been using my Verizon cell phone service to access the Internet. I use it to more or less pay bills on line and check my e-mail. The service is however three (3) times the speed of dial up so it's tolerable. I have bumped into several Clearwire reps at Linuxfest and suggested they try to gain a foothold in my area. But so far, I keep checking and my area is always 'no x-broadband availability in your area'.
Having a broadband connection is the ONLY thing making computers interesting anymore, and without one the machines do nothing but take up space.
By the time Verizon gets FTTH to my rural home I'll either be too old to care or dead. It's been what, more than six (6) years now; what happened to the $200 billion? Out in my area there is NO xDSL, NO Cable Internet, NO Clearwire only dial up and over priced satellite Internet service. The only way I'm connecting now is with my Verizon wireless account, a whopping 16k/bit sync.
Since my move, I haven't had any broadband service for over two (2) years. I've more or less lost all interest in computers, my Sun boxes sit idle with no Internet connection. All the time I have been mucking around with Linux have been confined to my IBM A31p laptop, and what ever connection I can get at Starbucks, work or open access point.
We all know that we are just trying to ignore the real issue here. Lets see where we stand:
1. Oil is in short supply
Bullshit! Oil is NOT in short supply, only production.
2. Oil comes from dead Dinosaurs.
Bullshit! Oil does NOT come from dead dinosaurs, it distills and pools up from the hodge podge of magma below our feet.
While I'm not entirely sure about this lawsuit, it might give automakers and our administration a good swift kick in the balls. For the past 30 years, cars have only been getting microscopically better fuel mileage. I have a 95 Saturn, it gets 35 - 38 miles per gallon on the highway (which is the bulk of my commute). Why would I buy a new car for around $8,000 - $9,000 that gets the same or worse mileage when I can have a new engine installed in my Saturn for $2,500.
If automakers want me to buy a new car in the $6,000 - $8,000 range, said vehicle needs to get 60+ miles per gallon; it's being done in other countries, why is it NOT being done here? Personally, I think most of us know the answer to that.