mairix is another good solution for searching them, once you've got them in local mbox/mh/maildir spools. I think back when I was converting to maildir I scripted mutt to copy them in, but it's obviously harder if you've got them in proprietary formats.
I'd guess the reliability is somewhat higher than trusting your data to a single hard drive. You can back up to DVD or another drive, but that's a pain in the butt, and still doesn't help you if your house burns down.
I get a fair amount of "legitimate" spam to an email address which I only ever had in the InterNIC database. So, there's at least one company tying addresses to emails based on domain name contacts.
One of the main features of C is interchangable int and void*. Huh? Win32 certainly made that assumption, passing pointers around in DWORDs, but there's never been any guarantee of it in the language. I happen to agree that 64 bit platforms should have made int 64 bits, but in terms of "biting the bullet", Alpha, SPARC64 and all of the other platforms mentioned elsewhere here have already gotten most of the job done for the *NIX world. If you're on Windows, there's probably more of a problem, but that has more to do with design decisions made in Win32 (and a less degree, Win64) than C.
Well, they don't sue you but they are taking steps to stop you. As far as I know, since this hack requires a new kernel it will not work on the new series 2 TiVos (ie the only ones you can buy new now) since they have "PROM lockdown" code preventing any changes from being made to the system; similarly you can't run TiVoWeb on the Series 2 either. It's possible that someone will break this in the future (it's been done for the DirecTiVos) but I wouldn't overstate the case about TiVo being "hacker friendly."
If you want to spend some money and time hacking on the Tivo you can actually install an ethernet card in it (well, the stand-alone units at least) and use some software to extract the mpeg streams onto your PC. Not sure if you can get them back in there but being able to create VCDs at least would be pretty nice. Check out 9thtee.com and avsforum.com
Speakeasy says you're not allowed to run a chat server, but they explicitly allow everything else. They do reserve the right to request you to scale back your bandwidth usage if you're hammering at your maximum 24/7 but that shouldn't effect most people, even if they want to run ftp, http etc.
While I love galeon and am starting to dread having to use anything else, it's not exactly light-weight on the resources:
user 10158 0.0 11.6 45596 29820 pts/0 S Jun25 0:13/opt/galeon/bin/galeon-bin
Still, it renders so fast and is so stable these days (and RAM is so cheap) that the memory usage seems like a small price to pay for such an excellent piece of software.
Now, I just need Ximian to release their new stuff for Solaris 7 so I can get a working mozilla install at work and get rid of Netscape...
Try galeon out - galeon.sourceforge.net. It uses the mozilla core so it's somewhat bloated, but it renders FAST, has lots of neat features (like being able to disable status bar changes by javascript) and is pretty stable. Of course, if you're not on Linux then building Mozilla can be a daunting obstacle, but Galeon might be worth it...
As for mail, mutt is king.
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Diablo II runs perfectly under Wine as well. Anyone had any success with Black&White?
Having read all of Williams and most of Jordan, Williams' "Memory Sorrow and Thorn" blows away "The Wheel of Time." It's really really good. Unfortunately, his later stuff (The "Otherland" series) doesn't measure up as well IMO.
Funny, I've just been talking to a few people about how silly fascist net admins prohibitting anything but http just causes everything to speak http...
Web proxies, due to mutual authentication concerns, generally give you a *straight* TCP connection when you go to connect via https. Therefore all you have to do is get ssh to walk the proxy. As it turns out, this is pretty easy and I've written a tool (http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/ssh-https-tunnel) to do just that. The one catch is that most web proxies will only let you connect via https to port 443 on the remote machine, so you need to be able to run sshd on that port.
The tool is written in perl. It probably wouldn't be a horrible idea to rewrite it in C, but this one works pretty well, is easy to tweak, and seems fast enough.
Clearcase is a mixed bag. I've been using it for a few years now and while I *love* what it does, it has lots of drawbacks. To begin with, it's slow as fuck. If you have any sort of sizable development team/source tree you have to throw gargantuan amounts of hardware at it to get it to run well. It's not always completely stable either, especially if you're using it on NT. The tools in Clearcase 3 on UNIX really suck in comparison to the ones on NT (I've heard this has changed in Clearcase 4 but maybe not). And of course then you've got lots of other odd problems - it's expensive, Rational support sucks horribly and Clearcase isn't exactly "cross platform." In short - I think Clearcase is a great idea with some great capabilities and a various powerful model, I just think that it could be done better.
There's some work on secure RPC and NFS for Linux and OpenBSD. Take a look at Dug Song's project list and the UMich NFSv4 project. Not sure how far these have progressed, the NFSv4 page at least seems somewhat out of date, but interested parties might still find them useful.
Do you realize how inaccurate radar guns are? How is the cop on the side of the road supposed to know that you in your subcompact 4 lanes over was the one doing 11mph over the speed limit and not that 18 wheeler going the other way? If speed kills, why are accident and death rates still dropping after the repeal of the 55mph national speed limit? (When the NHTSA estimated that it would cause 10s of thousands of more deaths) Speed tickets are simply about revenue enhancement - unfortunately, it's not the $75 speeding ticket that nails you, it's the $1000 in insurance premiums you'll pay as you work off your "violation."
Frequently the only viewpoint on speeding ever covered by the media is the government line provided by the NHTSA. For the other side of things take a look at the NMA.
As others have said, GPLing BSD code is mostly ok (modulo the old advertising clause). But it's mostly a moot point since "Linux stole the BSD TCP stack" is just a piece of fiction that has managed to survive all these years. The only BSD networking is actually the BSD PPP compression, the rest is a grounds-up reimplementation (for better or for worse).
Chips from the PPro onwards have support for addressing up to 64GB of memory, even tho a single process can only address 4GB. This is useful for programs like databases which can run multiple instances to split work up. The extensions are called "PAE" if you want to go browse the source code.
OK that was pretty inarticulate of me. What I'm trying to get across is that while the electoral college may make it easier to get a clear majority, it does that at the cost of making the result moderately arbitrary - in this election Gore will win the popular vote, but is going to lose the electoral vote because of Nader. The irony is that the majority of people in Florida (51%) voted for a Liberal - Gore (49%) and Nader (2%) but they've elected a conservative. Given that the electoral college has various other features which are bad IMO, the fact that it provides an arbitrary way to determine the winner of a close election seems like little comfort.
Well speculating that "no winner" is likely is kindof tough since there are no rules for what would happen without an electoral college. It's conceivable that a change like this would not necessitate a majority - and even if it did, it would likely mean that third parties could start to play a larger role to help one candidate obtain a majority. Since we don't have a parliamentary system with the executive elected by them and subject to no-confidence votes, we don't really need to worry about loose party conglomerations. As it is, the electoral college really makes many people's votes more or less valuable than others. Who bothers to campaign here in MA? Nobody because it (almost) always votes Democrat.
I'm not saying I have all the answers but IMO the college is an anachronism which mostly serves to remove a viable choice in politics asides from the Dems and Repubs
We can always hope. The electoral college is especially silly given that most states now legislate that electors vote based on how the state's populace votes. As such, it's mostly a tool to simply hide anyone but the two major parties.
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I don't know COBOL, but I do like this joke (which has been floating around much longer than this Reddit post): https://www.reddit.com/r/Progr...
mairix is another good solution for searching them, once you've got them in local mbox/mh/maildir spools. I think back when I was converting to maildir I scripted mutt to copy them in, but it's obviously harder if you've got them in proprietary formats.
I'd guess the reliability is somewhat higher than trusting your data to a single hard drive. You can back up to DVD or another drive, but that's a pain in the butt, and still doesn't help you if your house burns down.
I get a fair amount of "legitimate" spam to an email address which I only ever had in the InterNIC database. So, there's at least one company tying addresses to emails based on domain name contacts.
One of the main features of C is interchangable int and void*.
Huh? Win32 certainly made that assumption, passing pointers around in DWORDs, but there's never been any guarantee of it in the language. I happen to agree that 64 bit platforms should have made int 64 bits, but in terms of "biting the bullet", Alpha, SPARC64 and all of the other platforms mentioned elsewhere here have already gotten most of the job done for the *NIX world. If you're on Windows, there's probably more of a problem, but that has more to do with design decisions made in Win32 (and a less degree, Win64) than C.
Well, they don't sue you but they are taking steps to stop you. As far as I know, since this hack requires a new kernel it will not work on the new series 2 TiVos (ie the only ones you can buy new now) since they have "PROM lockdown" code preventing any changes from being made to the system; similarly you can't run TiVoWeb on the Series 2 either. It's possible that someone will break this in the future (it's been done for the DirecTiVos) but I wouldn't overstate the case about TiVo being "hacker friendly."
If you want to spend some money and time hacking on the Tivo you can actually install an ethernet card in it (well, the stand-alone units at least) and use some software to extract the mpeg streams onto your PC. Not sure if you can get them back in there but being able to create VCDs at least would be pretty nice. Check out 9thtee.com and avsforum.com
Speakeasy says you're not allowed to run a chat server, but they explicitly allow everything else. They do reserve the right to request you to scale back your bandwidth usage if you're hammering at your maximum 24/7 but that shouldn't effect most people, even if they want to run ftp, http etc.
While I love galeon and am starting to dread having to use anything else, it's not exactly light-weight on the resources:
/opt/galeon/bin/galeon-bin
user 10158 0.0 11.6 45596 29820 pts/0 S Jun25 0:13
Still, it renders so fast and is so stable these days (and RAM is so cheap) that the memory usage seems like a small price to pay for such an excellent piece of software.
Now, I just need Ximian to release their new stuff for Solaris 7 so I can get a working mozilla install at work and get rid of Netscape...
Try galeon out - galeon.sourceforge.net. It uses the mozilla core so it's somewhat bloated, but it renders FAST, has lots of neat features (like being able to disable status bar changes by javascript) and is pretty stable. Of course, if you're not on Linux then building Mozilla can be a daunting obstacle, but Galeon might be worth it... As for mail, mutt is king.
Diablo II runs perfectly under Wine as well. Anyone had any success with Black&White?
Having read all of Williams and most of Jordan, Williams' "Memory Sorrow and Thorn" blows away "The Wheel of Time." It's really really good. Unfortunately, his later stuff (The "Otherland" series) doesn't measure up as well IMO.
Funny, I've just been talking to a few people about how silly fascist net admins prohibitting anything but http just causes everything to speak http...) to do just that. The one catch is that most web proxies will only let you connect via https to port 443 on the remote machine, so you need to be able to run sshd on that port.
Web proxies, due to mutual authentication concerns, generally give you a *straight* TCP connection when you go to connect via https. Therefore all you have to do is get ssh to walk the proxy. As it turns out, this is pretty easy and I've written a tool (http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/ssh-https-tunnel
The tool is written in perl. It probably wouldn't be a horrible idea to rewrite it in C, but this one works pretty well, is easy to tweak, and seems fast enough.
Clearcase is a mixed bag. I've been using it for a few years now and while I *love* what it does, it has lots of drawbacks. To begin with, it's slow as fuck. If you have any sort of sizable development team/source tree you have to throw gargantuan amounts of hardware at it to get it to run well. It's not always completely stable either, especially if you're using it on NT. The tools in Clearcase 3 on UNIX really suck in comparison to the ones on NT (I've heard this has changed in Clearcase 4 but maybe not). And of course then you've got lots of other odd problems - it's expensive, Rational support sucks horribly and Clearcase isn't exactly "cross platform." In short - I think Clearcase is a great idea with some great capabilities and a various powerful model, I just think that it could be done better.
There's some work on secure RPC and NFS for Linux and OpenBSD. Take a look at Dug Song's project list and the UMich NFSv4 project. Not sure how far these have progressed, the NFSv4 page at least seems somewhat out of date, but interested parties might still find them useful.
Speaking as someone who's used Intel's compiler on Windows, I definitely wouldn't expect it to be any better than gcc.
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Do you realize how inaccurate radar guns are? How is the cop on the side of the road supposed to know that you in your subcompact 4 lanes over was the one doing 11mph over the speed limit and not that 18 wheeler going the other way? If speed kills, why are accident and death rates still dropping after the repeal of the 55mph national speed limit? (When the NHTSA estimated that it would cause 10s of thousands of more deaths) Speed tickets are simply about revenue enhancement - unfortunately, it's not the $75 speeding ticket that nails you, it's the $1000 in insurance premiums you'll pay as you work off your "violation." Frequently the only viewpoint on speeding ever covered by the media is the government line provided by the NHTSA. For the other side of things take a look at the NMA.
Amen. Anyone who doubts this should go rent the "THX Certified" Highlander DVD. Crap video, crap audio. And "THX Certified" VHS tapes? Sigh...
As others have said, GPLing BSD code is mostly ok (modulo the old advertising clause). But it's mostly a moot point since "Linux stole the BSD TCP stack" is just a piece of fiction that has managed to survive all these years. The only BSD networking is actually the BSD PPP compression, the rest is a grounds-up reimplementation (for better or for worse).
Chips from the PPro onwards have support for addressing up to 64GB of memory, even tho a single process can only address 4GB. This is useful for programs like databases which can run multiple instances to split work up. The extensions are called "PAE" if you want to go browse the source code.
OK that was pretty inarticulate of me. What I'm trying to get across is that while the electoral college may make it easier to get a clear majority, it does that at the cost of making the result moderately arbitrary - in this election Gore will win the popular vote, but is going to lose the electoral vote because of Nader. The irony is that the majority of people in Florida (51%) voted for a Liberal - Gore (49%) and Nader (2%) but they've elected a conservative. Given that the electoral college has various other features which are bad IMO, the fact that it provides an arbitrary way to determine the winner of a close election seems like little comfort.
"most" was an overstatement but the sentiment is correct: 24 states require that the elector vote as they were elected.
Well speculating that "no winner" is likely is kindof tough since there are no rules for what would happen without an electoral college. It's conceivable that a change like this would not necessitate a majority - and even if it did, it would likely mean that third parties could start to play a larger role to help one candidate obtain a majority. Since we don't have a parliamentary system with the executive elected by them and subject to no-confidence votes, we don't really need to worry about loose party conglomerations. As it is, the electoral college really makes many people's votes more or less valuable than others. Who bothers to campaign here in MA? Nobody because it (almost) always votes Democrat.
I'm not saying I have all the answers but IMO the college is an anachronism which mostly serves to remove a viable choice in politics asides from the Dems and Repubs
We can always hope. The electoral college is especially silly given that most states now legislate that electors vote based on how the state's populace votes. As such, it's mostly a tool to simply hide anyone but the two major parties.