Does anyone else other than me seem to think that "Power Tools" is an ill-suited title for a book that sounds more like an introductory book, then one detailing tools for a "Power User"?
Please for the love of god, don't set this up as a windows share. It is bad enough that we have people accidently printing email on our HP5000 4' plotters. No, you can print your email on wood!.
I suspect God may have had one of these for the tablets for Moses...
Yes, we have upgraded our sled dogs and pigeons to carry the packets much faster now... Honestly, why shouldn't our internet connections be fast. Trust me, we have moved past 2400Baud modems.
The courts decide what laws are just or not. The problem is that people would like to empower themselves this right. I can't go to court and fight a speeding ticket because I didn't think the speed limit matched the speed I thought the road is capable of and expect to win.
Kinda makes you yearn for thin clients again... Make a few changes that affect all users. It seems to be something that would start making some sense again, with the number of times that systems are affected in a coporate environment, a more centralized server system does have its advantages. It would be interesting if this frequent patch cycle is affecting how people deploy large scale systems.
Um, RedHat does. If you sign up as part of the RedHat network you can sign up for email alerts. It is specific to your machine, and also to the packages that you have installed.
Or, you can click on the pulsing red ! and get updates when they become available.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the companies fully. While it may seem like the act of the "big, bad multinational", share some of the blame on consumers. Why? I think for the most part consumers care about cost. For a large part, the cheaper the better.
Take any market that has mom and pop operations -- Grocery stores, video stores, equipment stores. Now introduce a company that has the ability to chop prices because of their scale. Look at what happens when Wal-Mart, Superstore (Canadian), Home Depot, BlockBuster, Costco (...) enter into the market. People flock to them in droves. Sure there are people who may have some sense of loyalty or a need of special service, but it closed a lot of businesses down. People will compain about losing the small market stores, but they don't frequent them enough to make any difference!
So, as a business, knowing some of the consumer trends, do you hold out for loyalty due to your policies, or if you are in a survival mode, do you do what you can to remain viable.
Why don't we have the future tht we are all shown at Worlds Fairs, and other trade shows? Too Damn Expensive!
First off, companies have to invest in and develop such shiny stuff, and then the public has to lay down their hard earned cash. That is the biggest reason we don't all have jetpacks and personal helicopters.
On the upside, a lot of these fantastic visions do come to some level of fruition. When car companies make concept cars, some features may trickle down into production cars.
As a public, I don't think we typically want to change how we live drastically. Few people want to embrace something like the Kyoto accord to reduce pollution because it hits them in the wallet.
A lot of Dot.Bombs went this way because they were counting on investors and the public to embrace new technology because it was COOL and drastically would change how we manage our lives. Didn't work.
Been there done that, played the card games... There is no chance of cheating, since the card is verified just like any other lottery card. The key determines how the games plays and shows you what you win (or not win). Even if you don't enter the correct key while playing the game and win the 25k on your computer, you are never going to collect it...
A few interesting points from this article. One is that a number of impacts helped in creating some of the earths key resources. As evidenced by Canada's nickel deposits around the Sudbury impact crater, and Mexico's oil deposits around the Chicxlub impact.
In addition, the major impacts may not have contributed that much to mass extinctions. While there may have been a momentary spike in extinctions, the vast majority of extinctions were not related to a major event.
It is difficult for us to fully understand the effect of asteroid and comet impact on the earth, as we are so dynamic that much evidence gets lost..
I expect that the rate of return for simply leasing out lines is not significant enough to depend on it. Raise those prices, and it will be passed onto the consumer, making it less attractive. Infrastructure is a huge outlay, and most attactive when put together with your own subscriber base.
Ok, Ok. I forgot the smiley.:-) I honestly am quite impressed with Sun. While being a Linux fan, I appreciate the diversity of options. Visibility of powerful, stable Unix options enhances the position of Unix for other applications.
If you want to see something of interest that does this check out Houston Live Traffic They use toll-booth transponders with sensors every 1-5 miles. This then gives them a live map of average traffic flow. They also have web cams at various spots. Overall this is an excellent demonstration of this kind of technology.
This would be the case if only cars went passed an particular intersection. In real life, you would have both the sensor, and then a study where people actually do a car count to determine a reasonable ratio for car / truck traffic. Think about it. The sensor is only measuring axle passages. Cars may have two, but trucks can have anywhere from 3 axles up.
If you ever wonder why there are a number of cars sitting on the grass around intersections or interchanges that is what they are doing.
It would be a lot more fun to sit at the sensor and go back and forward...
My personal favorite is NetHack.. Is that a dog? Of course the realism suffers a little bit, the wands zapping across your screen is still satisifying.
How about we all go back to the twisty passages, all alike?
Will there be a more in depth search of the records? It seems to me that 17 records is not a lot for a major site. The address look perfectly legit - They happen to be some of the addresses I give for online forms:-)
I think the real question now is does Verisign drop the domains that don't have legit info to satisfy this complaint. It is a good resource for tracking down abusers and other complaints. I have used it a number of times to track down contact info of providers of people who have attempted to crack my system...
IT is not the panacea of all things. Do you need a faster computer/network/sound card when you are a researcher... With the market pressures on companies, they need to invest the money in that which makes money. The money needs to be spent on the people doing the work rather on making sure the people who send email have the latest P4.
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Maybe it is just me, but I think the poster is a little bit confused. It is not that animation is being used in encryption, but rather he was inspired by the crowd scene in Hunchback, where the characters movements were essential being controlled by random numbers to create a lively and chaotic look to it.
The article then states that the thought was to use random data in an encryption algorythm to make it unbreakable. So I don't think that we will be seeing messages passed around the the next Disney flick...
I think it would make more sense if such a hardware crypto device would be viewed as such -- a device. The computer is not "self aware", If you were to install another OS on it, and it didn't have a driver for it then you won't be able to take advantage of the device. Just as if you have a video card that supports 3D acceleration but you don't have the proper driver. You can still view stuff but can't take advantage of the extra functions.
If you are using SpamAssassin, your minimum threshold could be above what a postive razor check would contribute. This may sound stupid, but spam tends to look like spam. On a lot of the spam I get the scores do not tend to be right near my cut off, but can be substantially higher. So even if your a real email is sent by accident or on purpose to razor, it may still not be enough to trigger spamassassin by itself.
I don't auto send to razor, I sen to a seperate folder, quickly scan them for any false hits, then I will batch it up to send to razor. That prevents me from that problem, and it doesn't add on that much time to my email processing.
It is interesting, on some of the printers I have seen it says it includes a starter cartridge to be replaced by a full one.
So they have starter cartridges with a few drops, and standard ones which are only 50% full...
I worked retail for a little while, and I was floored by the number of people who were replacing their printers, because they didn't want to shell out for ink cartridges. The fact that you didn't get full cartridges didn't seem to phase them...
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Wow, is it just me or was that just a lot of fluff!
If you consider some of his topics and questions that he introduces, there is no resolution. While trying to detail what hacktivism is, he makes one statement about it being about creating, rather then destroying, but on the other hand he says that people should be writing disruptive code. Also in the same vein, while talking about writing disruptive code and what should be made, there is a big Closed source bad/open source good (except when you want to hide something malicious). P2P turns into H2H, why napster shut down.. blah, blah, blah.
While I applaud the use of key phrases and liberal use of rhetoric, I walked (or clicked) away with the sense that I wa no more enlightened...
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Does anyone else other than me seem to think that "Power Tools" is an ill-suited title for a book that sounds more like an introductory book, then one detailing tools for a "Power User"?
I suspect God may have had one of these for the tablets for Moses...
Yes, we have upgraded our sled dogs and pigeons to carry the packets much faster now... Honestly, why shouldn't our internet connections be fast. Trust me, we have moved past 2400Baud modems.
The courts decide what laws are just or not. The problem is that people would like to empower themselves this right. I can't go to court and fight a speeding ticket because I didn't think the speed limit matched the speed I thought the road is capable of and expect to win.
Ah, X-servers :-)
Or, you can click on the pulsing red ! and get updates when they become available.
Take any market that has mom and pop operations -- Grocery stores, video stores, equipment stores. Now introduce a company that has the ability to chop prices because of their scale. Look at what happens when Wal-Mart, Superstore (Canadian), Home Depot, BlockBuster, Costco (...) enter into the market. People flock to them in droves. Sure there are people who may have some sense of loyalty or a need of special service, but it closed a lot of businesses down. People will compain about losing the small market stores, but they don't frequent them enough to make any difference!
So, as a business, knowing some of the consumer trends, do you hold out for loyalty due to your policies, or if you are in a survival mode, do you do what you can to remain viable.
First off, companies have to invest in and develop such shiny stuff, and then the public has to lay down their hard earned cash. That is the biggest reason we don't all have jetpacks and personal helicopters.
On the upside, a lot of these fantastic visions do come to some level of fruition. When car companies make concept cars, some features may trickle down into production cars.
As a public, I don't think we typically want to change how we live drastically. Few people want to embrace something like the Kyoto accord to reduce pollution because it hits them in the wallet.
A lot of Dot.Bombs went this way because they were counting on investors and the public to embrace new technology because it was COOL and drastically would change how we manage our lives. Didn't work.
Been there done that, played the card games... There is no chance of cheating, since the card is verified just like any other lottery card. The key determines how the games plays and shows you what you win (or not win). Even if you don't enter the correct key while playing the game and win the 25k on your computer, you are never going to collect it...
Just like they couldn't anticipate the Slashdotting they were about to receive...
I was all excited, I was going to work on a new project Seti@home, meet Asteroid@home...
A few interesting points from this article. One is that a number of impacts helped in creating some of the earths key resources. As evidenced by Canada's nickel deposits around the Sudbury impact crater, and Mexico's oil deposits around the Chicxlub impact.
In addition, the major impacts may not have contributed that much to mass extinctions. While there may have been a momentary spike in extinctions, the vast majority of extinctions were not related to a major event.
It is difficult for us to fully understand the effect of asteroid and comet impact on the earth, as we are so dynamic that much evidence gets lost..
I expect that the rate of return for simply leasing out lines is not significant enough to depend on it. Raise those prices, and it will be passed onto the consumer, making it less attractive. Infrastructure is a huge outlay, and most attactive when put together with your own subscriber base.
Ok, Ok. I forgot the smiley. :-) I honestly am quite impressed with Sun. While being a Linux fan, I appreciate the diversity of options. Visibility of powerful, stable Unix options enhances the position of Unix for other applications.
If you want to see something of interest that does this check out Houston Live Traffic They use toll-booth transponders with sensors every 1-5 miles. This then gives them a live map of average traffic flow. They also have web cams at various spots.
Overall this is an excellent demonstration of this kind of technology.
This would be the case if only cars went passed an particular intersection. In real life, you would have both the sensor, and then a study where people actually do a car count to determine a reasonable ratio for car / truck traffic. Think about it. The sensor is only measuring axle passages. Cars may have two, but trucks can have anywhere from 3 axles up.
If you ever wonder why there are a number of cars sitting on the grass around intersections or interchanges that is what they are doing.
It would be a lot more fun to sit at the sensor and go back and forward...
My personal favorite is NetHack.. Is that a dog? Of course the realism suffers a little bit, the wands zapping across your screen is still satisifying.
How about we all go back to the twisty passages, all alike?
Will there be a more in depth search of the records? It seems to me that 17 records is not a lot for a major site. The address look perfectly legit - They happen to be some of the addresses I give for online forms :-)
I think the real question now is does Verisign drop the domains that don't have legit info to satisfy this complaint. It is a good resource for tracking down abusers and other complaints. I have used it a number of times to track down contact info of providers of people who have attempted to crack my system...
Chalk up another excuse not to mow the lawn. It is currently being DOS'ed...
IT is not the panacea of all things. Do you need a faster computer/network/sound card when you are a researcher... With the market pressures on companies, they need to invest the money in that which makes money. The money needs to be spent on the people doing the work rather on making sure the people who send email have the latest P4.
Maybe it is just me, but I think the poster is a little bit confused. It is not that animation is being used in encryption, but rather he was inspired by the crowd scene in Hunchback, where the characters movements were essential being controlled by random numbers to create a lively and chaotic look to it.
The article then states that the thought was to use random data in an encryption algorythm to make it unbreakable. So I don't think that we will be seeing messages passed around the the next Disney flick...
I think it would make more sense if such a hardware crypto device would be viewed as such -- a device. The computer is not "self aware", If you were to install another OS on it, and it didn't have a driver for it then you won't be able to take advantage of the device. Just as if you have a video card that supports 3D acceleration but you don't have the proper driver. You can still view stuff but can't take advantage of the extra functions.
If you are using SpamAssassin, your minimum threshold could be above what a postive razor check would contribute. This may sound stupid, but spam tends to look like spam. On a lot of the spam I get the scores do not tend to be right near my cut off, but can be substantially higher. So even if your a real email is sent by accident or on purpose to razor, it may still not be enough to trigger spamassassin by itself.
I don't auto send to razor, I sen to a seperate folder, quickly scan them for any false hits, then I will batch it up to send to razor. That prevents me from that problem, and it doesn't add on that much time to my email processing.
It is interesting, on some of the printers I have seen it says it includes a starter cartridge to be replaced by a full one.
So they have starter cartridges with a few drops, and standard ones which are only 50% full...
I worked retail for a little while, and I was floored by the number of people who were replacing their printers, because they didn't want to shell out for ink cartridges. The fact that you didn't get full cartridges didn't seem to phase them...
Wow, is it just me or was that just a lot of fluff!
If you consider some of his topics and questions that he introduces, there is no resolution. While trying to detail what hacktivism is, he makes one statement about it being about creating, rather then destroying, but on the other hand he says that people should be writing disruptive code. Also in the same vein, while talking about writing disruptive code and what should be made, there is a big Closed source bad/open source good (except when you want to hide something malicious). P2P turns into H2H, why napster shut down.. blah, blah, blah.
While I applaud the use of key phrases and liberal use of rhetoric, I walked (or clicked) away with the sense that I wa no more enlightened...