I'm surprised none of the normal conspiracy theorists have pointed this out yet: This will cause everyone to use more gasoline and cause more pollution. It's not the right answer. If they can detect a speeder approaching an intersection, why not just take a photograph using the same kind of technology that currently issues citations to those who run red lights?
It was wildcat. Tradewars was a great VR game. I remember spending months playing it (since the BBS limited your play time to some number of minutes per day).
Ok, I've read all of the technical specifications of the mission. My impression is that there are just too many non-redundant systems which require extremely precise calibration for the success of the mission. It will take a miracle for this thing to succeed. Maybe it's an elaborate April Fool's joke?
Time to fill bike with fuel and open throttle, we are on best road in this area, this one lead from big egg to Chernobyl. There is no commercial gas stations in a dead zone, so tank must be full. We don't need to run out of fuel on the middle of some nuclear desert."
I couldn't help but make the KIA association while looking at the photograph of the rear motorcycle. Just imagine the risk she is taking! What would happen to her if she had a flat tire, or some other mechanical breakdown in the wrong spot?
I subscribed to LJ a few years ago and I was immediately spammed at the unique e-mail address I had created for them. The spam wasn't even remotely related to their magazine either, it was something about Oprah Winfrey. I called them and confronted them. They admitted doing it and I cancelled my subscription without ever receiving a single issue.
And it was written by Ray Bradbury as part of "The Martian Chronicles". Reading the commentary and looking at the photographs reminded me of the same story.
The numbers quoted probably reflect the popularity of Linux as a web server platform. As with any net-connected machine, the administrators must be diligent when it comes to applying the security patches. Most aren't; they seem to feel that once the thing is set up, they can just forget the OS and concentrate on content. -- read: Connection reset by beer
I've been "pad hopping" down at KSC. I've seen most of the rusty run-down and abandonded launch facilities. The only thing worth saving is the Apollo 1 memorial there. It's not available for public viewing, but that may change someday. It's a small display case with photos letters and news clippings off in one corner of the pad. The rest of the pad is as bad as most of the others. There's not much worth saving at any of them. It's just a lot of rusted metal and concrete.
I started drinking coffee when I was 12. Twenty years ago I was a Jr. engineer writing embedded firmware. I used to head to the coffee machine 3-4 times per day. Some mornings I would look at the code I wrote the afternoon before and see obvious mistakes. I was really buzzed. I started getting headaches on weekends because I never drank coffee at home. After slowly increasing my daily dosage over time, the weekend withdrawls got worse. I decided to give it up completely (a very hard thing to do considering all the foods which contain caffeine). I went cold turkey and had cold/flu symptoms for a few days. After withdrawl, I felt weak, empty, and strange. I had become so used to the caffeine buzz that I felt strange when I was sober.
A few weeks went by and I began to fall off the wagon. I could justify just one cup to myself. After all, everybody else does it and it's no big deal. This must be similar to alcoholisim. To make a long story short, I went "cold turkey" 3 times and each time, the withdrawl symtoms were worse. The last time I had cold sweats, vomiting, shakes, the whole works. That last time was awful enough to convince me to never do it again. I haven't had a cup of (caffeinated) coffee for 20 years. I never drink soft drinks. The thing I miss the most is iced tea.
My advice to you is to stop cold turkey. It will be ugly and you will remember the ugliness. It may help you to stay off the stuff.
I modded this down. The efficiency of those DC/DC ATX supplies barely approaches 80%. You can do much better with a regular (AC mains) based supply. I researched this before I set up the solar supply for my server (see http://jsl.com/solar).
The Game of Life was invented by John Conway (as you might have gathered). The game is played on a field of cells, each of which has eight neighbors (adjacent cells). A cell is either occupied (by an organism) or not. The rules for deriving a generation from the previous one are these: Death: If an occupied cell has 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 occupied neighbors, the organism dies (0, 1: of loneliness; 4 thru 8: of overcrowding). Survival: If an occupied cell has two or three neighbors, the organism survives to the next generation. Birth: If an unoccupied cell has three occupied neighbors, it becomes occupied.
Note that there's no food involved (as there is in "worms"). Also note that many more implementations of "life" exist, and have existed for much longer than "worms". This is due to the fact that it's a simpler simulation to code. I remember running life 25 years ago on CP/M platforms.
P.S. Why in the world was my original post modded down as redundant? There were no other posts, and no information in the article that made this association. -- This space for rent.
who's name is also mentioned in the article, may be the same John Conway who invented "life". Life is very similar to "worms" but is actually much simpler. It's available on just about every version of X windows as a screensaver.
I have a client who's been running the same software since 1979. They started on some un-named S-100 CP/M machine, "upgraded" to CP/M 8/16 on a CompuPro, then it was ported (from CBASIC) to QBASIC a PC XT sometime around 1985. Today they've got a networked environment (Linux/Samba/2K) but the core software is still from 1979.
They aren't geek friendly. They use CDMA and don't have any phones with a bluetooth interface. Also, they switched "myvzw" to a microsoft platform last year. Just try to browse it on a SPARC; They only support IE.
By doing this, Verisign is showing preferential treatment to themselves as a registrar. The other registrars for.COM/.NET domains are left at a disadvantage. Take this scenario: Someone wants a domain and types it into a browser to see if it exists. They get SiteFinder which tells them it doesn't. There's a convienent link there to register the domain THROUGH VERISIGN.
Photovoltaic cells are priced in cost per watt. For example, I just bought fourteen 80 watt panels for something like $3.53/watt (Just under $4K). Assuming I get the full rated power from the panels for 8 hours, I've just paid $2,240 per kilowatt hour. Fortunately I'll be running these panels for at least the length of the warranty (20 years). At that time, given the above assumptions I will have paid just over $0.30 per KWH. Unfortunately, the weather here isn't always perfect, and the load/batteries don't always use the full capacity of the panels.
I thought about this shortly after the disaster and have never heard any mention of it elsewhere: I read somewhere that Columbia was "out of range" of the International Space Station so it would not have been possible to use it to save them. Assuming the imaging had been done, and the wing flaw identified in time to consider alternatives, wouldn't it have been possible to de-orbit ISS to a level within reach of a rendezvous? Sure, it woul have cost lots of money later to send up more fuel to boost ISS back up, but money is cheaper than human lives.
1: Morse code is the simplest form of modulation that can convey intelligence. You don't need much in the way of circuitry to build a C.W. (continuous wave) transmitter. Ham radio is all about experimentation, do-it-yourself projects, and good will. The easiest way to get on the air is to build a C.W. transmitter.
2. Morse is still used extensively. Tune around the H.F. CW bands and you'll always hear lots of QSOs going on.
3. In addition to being a simple form of modulation, Morse is also very good at moving data through low SNR (signal to noise ratio) conditions. It's much easier to discern whether or not there is a C.W. tone present than to try to understand spoken language. Note: There are other digital modes which add FEC (forward error correction) and these are actually even more robust than Morse; but you can't do them without additional equipment. Morse communication can be accomplished without a computer.
"Yahoo does not need super-secure systems, so they have no need for a security consultant. In my opinion, the guy only wanted publicity."
Yahoo *DOES* need super secure systems. They are running many different kinds of commerce and all depend upon good security. Some examples; Auctions, Retail Partners, Personal Finance (e.g. Money Manager). These all need the highest levels of computer security.
Traditional telephone service has strict privacy regulations and lots of other (strange) rules such as the prohibition of the use of encryption devices. Nobody can legally listen to a plain old telephone service (POTS) call without a court order.
Voice Over IP (VoIP) uses the Internet as the common carrier. There are no such privacy rules on the internet. Anyone can legally monitor anyone's Internet traffic (including VoIP phone calls).
If MN wants to claim that VoIP service should be similarly regulated, then VoIP should be granted the same protection under the law that POTS has.
The U.S. Postal Service hasn't even been able to effectively compete or even match the performance of any of the private carriers (UPS, FedEx, Airborne). Just yesterday I received a "Priority Mail" package. It took 7 days to travel 2000 miles. I live in a major suburb of Los Angeles so it's not like they had to go out of their way. The tracking number had *NEVER* been scanned. If you check the status on the USPS.COM web site, even now it still says they are waiting to receive the package for shipment! There's no record of shipment or delivery.
Well, it's not an easy thing to set up. There are links from the spamassassin.org web page to the many different ways to use it. One of them points to the spamassassin milter page: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/spamass-milt/
Unfortunately there isn't much there in the way of installation instructions. I think the developers of SpamAssassin are planning to release a commercial version soon (which I would gladly buy to support them and their efforts.) Perhaps the commercial version will be easier to install.
A brief summary of what needs to be done: Install SpamAssassin and (optionally) razor. Install the perl module Sendmail::Milter (You'll need a version of perl that supports threads like 5.6 or later. If you don't have one, install it first.) Add a few lines to your sendmail.mc file: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`myspamfilter', `S=local:/var/run/mperl.sock, F=T, T=S:1m;R:1m')dnl Use m4 to make a new sendmail.cf file. Create the proper configuration files for spamd and spamass-milter per the documentation. Restart sendmail and start the daemonized version of SpamAssasin (spamd). Start spamass-milter.
Sit back and watch the spam bounce off your server.
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I'm surprised none of the normal conspiracy theorists have pointed this out yet: This will cause everyone to use more gasoline and cause more pollution. It's not the right answer. If they can detect a speeder approaching an intersection, why not just take a photograph using the same kind of technology that currently issues citations to those who run red lights?
It was wildcat. Tradewars was a great VR game. I remember spending months playing it (since the BBS limited your play time to some number of minutes per day).
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This space for rent
Ok, I've read all of the technical specifications of the mission. My impression is that there are just too many non-redundant systems which require extremely precise calibration for the success of the mission. It will take a miracle for this thing to succeed. Maybe it's an elaborate April Fool's joke?
"road on Chernobyl
Time to fill bike with fuel and open throttle, we are on best road in this area, this one lead from big egg to Chernobyl. There is no commercial gas stations in a dead zone, so tank must be full. We don't need to run out of fuel on the middle of some nuclear desert."
I couldn't help but make the KIA association while looking at the photograph of the rear motorcycle. Just imagine the risk she is taking! What would happen to her if she had a flat tire, or some other mechanical breakdown in the wrong spot?
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This space for rent
I subscribed to LJ a few years ago and I was immediately spammed at the unique e-mail address I had created for them. The spam wasn't even remotely related to their magazine either, it was something about Oprah Winfrey. I called them and confronted them. They admitted doing it and I cancelled my subscription without ever receiving a single issue.
Are you sure you're not confusing UFO with "Space 1999"?
And it was written by Ray Bradbury as part of "The Martian Chronicles". Reading the commentary and looking at the photographs reminded me of the same story.
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The numbers quoted probably reflect the popularity of Linux as a web server platform. As with any net-connected machine, the administrators must be diligent when it comes to applying the security patches. Most aren't; they seem to feel that once the thing is set up, they can just forget the OS and concentrate on content.
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read: Connection reset by beer
I've been "pad hopping" down at KSC. I've seen most of the rusty run-down and abandonded launch facilities. The only thing worth saving is the Apollo 1 memorial there. It's not available for public viewing, but that may change someday. It's a small display case with photos letters and news clippings off in one corner of the pad. The rest of the pad is as bad as most of the others. There's not much worth saving at any of them. It's just a lot of rusted metal and concrete.
I started drinking coffee when I was 12. Twenty years ago I was a Jr. engineer writing embedded firmware. I used to head to the coffee machine 3-4 times per day. Some mornings I would look at the code I wrote the afternoon before and see obvious mistakes. I was really buzzed. I started getting headaches on weekends because I never drank coffee at home. After slowly increasing my daily dosage over time, the weekend withdrawls got worse. I decided to give it up completely (a very hard thing to do considering all the foods which contain caffeine). I went cold turkey and had cold/flu symptoms for a few days. After withdrawl, I felt weak, empty, and strange. I had become so used to the caffeine buzz that I felt strange when I was sober.
A few weeks went by and I began to fall off the wagon. I could justify just one cup to myself. After all, everybody else does it and it's no big deal. This must be similar to alcoholisim. To make a long story short, I went "cold turkey" 3 times and each time, the withdrawl symtoms were worse. The last time I had cold sweats, vomiting, shakes, the whole works. That last time was awful enough to convince me to never do it again. I haven't had a cup of (caffeinated) coffee for 20 years. I never drink soft drinks. The thing I miss the most is iced tea.
My advice to you is to stop cold turkey. It will be ugly and you will remember the ugliness. It may help you to stay off the stuff.
Good Luck.
I modded this down. The efficiency of those DC/DC ATX supplies barely approaches 80%. You can do much better with a regular (AC mains) based supply. I researched this before I set up the solar supply for my server (see http://jsl.com/solar).
The Game of Life was invented by John Conway (as you might have gathered). The game is played on a field of cells, each of which has eight neighbors (adjacent cells). A cell is either occupied (by an organism) or not. The rules for deriving a generation from the previous one are these:
Death: If an occupied cell has 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 occupied neighbors, the organism dies (0, 1: of loneliness; 4 thru 8: of overcrowding).
Survival: If an occupied cell has two or three neighbors, the organism survives to the next generation.
Birth: If an unoccupied cell has three occupied neighbors, it becomes occupied.
Note that there's no food involved (as there is in "worms"). Also note that many more implementations of "life" exist, and have existed for much longer than "worms". This is due to the fact that it's a simpler simulation to code. I remember running life 25 years ago on CP/M platforms.
P.S. Why in the world was my original post modded down as redundant? There were no other posts, and no information in the article that made this association.
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This space for rent.
who's name is also mentioned in the article, may be the same John Conway who invented "life". Life is very similar to "worms" but is actually much simpler. It's available on just about every version of X windows as a screensaver.
I have a client who's been running the same software since 1979. They started on some un-named S-100 CP/M machine, "upgraded" to CP/M 8/16 on a CompuPro, then it was ported (from CBASIC) to QBASIC a PC XT sometime around 1985. Today they've got a networked environment (Linux/Samba/2K) but the core software is still from 1979.
They aren't geek friendly. They use CDMA and don't have any phones with a bluetooth interface. Also, they switched "myvzw" to a microsoft platform last year. Just try to browse it on a SPARC; They only support IE.
By doing this, Verisign is showing preferential treatment to themselves as a registrar. The other registrars for .COM/.NET domains are left at a disadvantage. Take this scenario: Someone wants a domain and types it into a browser to see if it exists. They get SiteFinder which tells them it doesn't. There's a convienent link there to register the domain THROUGH VERISIGN.
Photovoltaic cells are priced in cost per watt. For example, I just bought fourteen 80 watt panels for something like $3.53/watt (Just under $4K). Assuming I get the full rated power from the panels for 8 hours, I've just paid $2,240 per kilowatt hour. Fortunately I'll be running these panels for at least the length of the warranty (20 years). At that time, given the above assumptions I will have paid just over $0.30 per KWH. Unfortunately, the weather here isn't always perfect, and the load/batteries don't always use the full capacity of the panels.
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http://jsl.com/solar
Is the answer 42? (Remember Deep Thought?)
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How many new Linux installations were done to replace a Windows one? I'll bet it's more than 5%.
I thought about this shortly after the disaster and have never heard any mention of it elsewhere: I read somewhere that Columbia was "out of range" of the International Space Station so it would not have been possible to use it to save them.
Assuming the imaging had been done, and the wing flaw identified in time to consider alternatives, wouldn't it have been possible to de-orbit ISS to a level within reach of a rendezvous? Sure, it woul have cost lots of money later to send up more fuel to boost ISS back up, but money is cheaper than human lives.
1: Morse code is the simplest form of modulation that can convey intelligence. You don't need much in the way of circuitry to build a C.W. (continuous wave) transmitter. Ham radio is all about experimentation, do-it-yourself projects, and good will. The easiest way to get on the air is to build a C.W. transmitter.
2. Morse is still used extensively. Tune around the H.F. CW bands and you'll always hear lots of QSOs going on.
3. In addition to being a simple form of modulation, Morse is also very good at moving data through low SNR (signal to noise ratio) conditions. It's much easier to discern whether or not there is a C.W. tone present than to try to understand spoken language. Note: There are other digital modes which add FEC (forward error correction) and these are actually even more robust than Morse; but you can't do them without additional equipment. Morse communication can be accomplished without a computer.
"Yahoo does not need super-secure systems, so they have no need for a security consultant. In my opinion, the guy only wanted publicity."
Yahoo *DOES* need super secure systems. They are running many different kinds of commerce and all depend upon good security. Some examples; Auctions, Retail Partners, Personal Finance (e.g. Money Manager). These all need the highest levels of computer security.
Traditional telephone service has strict privacy regulations and lots of other (strange) rules such as the prohibition of the use of encryption devices. Nobody can legally listen to a plain old telephone service (POTS) call without a court order.
Voice Over IP (VoIP) uses the Internet as the common carrier. There are no such privacy rules on the internet. Anyone can legally monitor anyone's Internet traffic (including VoIP phone calls).
If MN wants to claim that VoIP service should be similarly regulated, then VoIP should be granted the same protection under the law that POTS has.
The U.S. Postal Service hasn't even been able to effectively compete or even match the performance of any of the private carriers (UPS, FedEx, Airborne). Just yesterday I received a "Priority Mail" package. It took 7 days to travel 2000 miles. I live in a major suburb of Los Angeles so it's not like they had to go out of their way. The tracking number had *NEVER* been scanned. If you check the status on the USPS.COM web site, even now it still says they are waiting to receive the package for shipment! There's no record of shipment or delivery.
They suck.
Well, it's not an easy thing to set up. There are links from the spamassassin.org web page to the many different ways to use it. One of them points to the spamassassin milter page: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/spamass-milt/
.mc file:
Unfortunately there isn't much there in the way of installation instructions. I think the developers of SpamAssassin are planning to release a commercial version soon (which I would gladly buy to support them and their efforts.) Perhaps the commercial version will be easier to install.
A brief summary of what needs to be done:
Install SpamAssassin and (optionally) razor.
Install the perl module Sendmail::Milter
(You'll need a version of perl that supports threads like 5.6 or later. If you don't have one, install it first.)
Add a few lines to your sendmail
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`myspamfilter', `S=local:/var/run/mperl.sock, F=T, T=S:1m;R:1m')dnl
Use m4 to make a new sendmail.cf file.
Create the proper configuration files for spamd and spamass-milter per the documentation.
Restart sendmail and start the daemonized version of SpamAssasin (spamd).
Start spamass-milter.
Sit back and watch the spam bounce off your server.