One problem with/tmpfs that I ran into with Mandrake 10 was with VMware. VMware makes huge files in/tmpfs which are memory mapped and once it fills the 32 bit virtual memory space you are hooped. So tmpfs is not always swappable with/tmp.
That is funny, I met a woman locally here about 10 years ago who did the same thing, except that she SAW the red oil light go on. The red light bothered her so she just kept a pack of cigarettes on the dash right in front of the red light so it wouldn't bother her anymore.
Problem fixed! Well, until her engine seized in the middle of nowhere during a long trip. She got some dumb guy to pay for fixing/replacing the engine. So I guess it didn't really matter much anyways!
Computers = Cars now, in many ways. Sales and service and usage are very similiar. Loads of crap everywhere. My own previous policy of "being the tech guy that everyone calls when their computer doesn't boot" has changed because that policy is one of the problems. Why should their behaviour change if I am always there to fix things?
Now, I just point them to the appropriate information on the web.
Well, most of the child actors that _I_ know of have had major problems. Some of which I have personally met and drank with. So yes, I am speaking of anecdotes, but I suspect that there is a real syndrome there.
I agree 100% and have had my own discussions on this very topic. This issue is of course non-trivial, but I believe that it can be done in a very effective way.
It seems that most child actors end up growing up to be crack-heads, drug-dealers, low class porn actors/actresses, and/or dead from bullets or drugs.
How did you avoid all that mess? Was it easy or hard to avoid? Was there a point in your life where you had to make a conscious choice? What would you say to other child actors to help them avoid the pitfalls of early fame?
How did you know that the phone call that you received was actually from your bank?
One time I had my accounts at CIBC, and I got a phone call from someone saying that they were from CIBC and they needed to ask me a question and to verify ME they asked me for my SIN #. I told her that I cannot give them that information to them over the phone. She put her 'manager' on the line and the manager said that this was all OK, they are CIBC.
I said 'How do I know you are really from the bank? Can you give ME proof that you are an authorized representative of CIBC over the phone? I will come to the bank in person if necessary but this is totally unacceptable.'
When financial institutions are doing this sort of crap, how can anyone blame the customer for falling for phishing scams? Sure, there are the obvious ones (non-https, wrong domain name, etc) but there are more tricky ones.
ie: *) https via unsigned ssl certificates set to plaintext mode which usually do not give any cert error/warning. Now the little SSL lock icon means nothing.
*) emails with inline gif images of the 'correct' link for a bank but link to a compromised box
*) End users are accustomed now to poorly designed database driven websites that hand out crazy URLs >1024 characters long. Many home users can't parse the complex URLs and will just look at https://information-verification.BankOfNorthAmeric a.com@1.2.3.4/cgi-bin/authorizationpage.cgi and will believe it is actually from their bank.
*) With all Microsoft Windows Machines older than WinXP SP2 being as secure as swiss cheese in a rat's nest, keyloggers in viruses are rampant. Even people working for a bank typically do not realize that these exist and just repeat 'Our system uses HTTPS secure transactions, it is not possible for anyone to compromise our system'
One time I had a weird problem with my debit card and had to talk to my bank about resetting the PIN. I was concerned that my card was one of the cards that were duplicated by the Russian Mafia here in Vancouver just a few weeks earlier.
Two of my friends were victims of this scam with privately owned bank machines placed in pubs and bars and small convenience stores that were modified to record the magnetic stripe information as well as the PIN.
The person I talked to at my bank said that it was not possible for someone to have your PIN and gain access to your account without having your card and without you telling them your PIN.
"Didn't you read the newspaper yesterday about the $5 million dollars that was stolen via fraudulent bank machines?????"
oh well i'm ranting now.
All you can do is reduce your exposure to unsafe technologies and have multiple accounts so you can reduce the maximum loss if one is compromised.
Funny, but it brings up a thought I had a while ago.
I believe that PI is just an abstract concept - PI is not a measurement - and as such has nothing to do with the properties of the universe you are in. Even if the universe is a single dimension or even if the universe's space is heavily warped. The people living in these universes would either have no use for PI or would have some sort of compensation factor.
I belive that the algebra/math behind the concept of PI (and 'e', etc.. ) is a constant across multiverses.
Vice President Dick Cheney was a vocal critic of trade embargoes while he headed Halliburton, a Houston-based oil services conglomerate, from 1995 to 2000. Under Mr. Cheney, Halliburton expanded its trade with Iran through an offshore subsidiary. That arrangement is being investigated by a federal grand jury.
Nineteen executives or directors of companies fined by OFAC for dealing with state sponsors of terrorism were top campaign fund-raisers for Mr. Bush.
Federal authorities also are investigating whether Halliburton broke the law by using a subsidiary to do business in Iran and whether it was involved in an alleged $180 million bribery scheme in Nigeria. The company admitted in 2003 that it improperly paid $2.4 million to a Nigerian tax official.
So, in reality, Haliburton may have been trading with the "axis of evil" Just like Prescott Bush did!
I started with Borland back in the Turbo Pascal days. I did a ton and a half of work with Borland C++ V3 (with a ton of books!), and then Delphi and C++ Builder after that. Quality of their products has steadily declined. I believe that the 'top gun' at Borland was hired away by Microsoft. Everything has been buggy and problematic since.
One thing that I REALLY liked about Borland back then was their software license. Basically it said that you had the right to 'Use this software as you would a book'. Meaning that you are allowed to install it on multiple computers as long as only one person would be using it at a time - and it could be different people as well.
I lamented the loss of Borland's products 2 years ago. Now, mingw32 and the old trusty standby vc++6 are my windows tools of choice.
As a previous poster said: that is the problem with closed source applications. Sometimes you get burned like this. I was burned before when Borland C++ Builder upgrades didn't load old projects properly and other closed source widget libraries become incompatible.
I get so many 'Bounced Messages' containing spam and viruses every day that I automatically delete all bounces anyways. There is, in effect, no real disadvantage to just filtering them all out because SMTP/POP3/IMAP is unreliable anyways - not by design, but in reality.
You are not guaranteed to get a delivery error message emailed back to you for each and every delivery error anyways, so you may as well not ever expect one.
Oliver is a Luddite! What is he doing here? Burn him!!!
haha seriously, I agree with you, but unfortunately most people don't understand and will just accept the potential privacy and security problems and will probably not even use the fancy web-enabled features of their toaster after a few days.
A bigger problem for people will be the inherent un-future-proof in most of this stuff. Your web-enabled appliances will need security and bug fix updates and most people will apply them as often as they apply their updates to windows.
I'm running SUSE 9.1 on a P4, VMWare works fine and I use it all the time to run win2000, mandrake 10, debian, and whiteboxlinux all at once. Maybe VMWare needs to update their drivers for AMD64?
Of course even WITH patent protection, the 'Big Company' will easily crush you with lawyers fees if you even try to defend your patent. Once you go bankrupt, they will buy out your company with patent for cheap!
Great! Then I can get you "capital-punished" if I can hack in, change your SPF record, send spam that looks like it is from you. What other proof would be necessary?
As much as I love not running MS software, the real problem is that they had insufficient backup systems in place. All systems die/fail/break/rust or whatever eventually, and all critical systems must have some sort of failover ability.
By 'Not trustable', I mean that when Borland had an MSN page showing their products and potential customers either emailed or registered with Borland, Microsoft was sniffing the data and sending automatic 'Competitive upgrade deals' to the potential customers.
And also just to clarify that Adaware is NOT available at http://www.adaware.com/
http://www.adaware.com/ is actually a Ada software site who is taking advantage of their name to sell spyassasin. Kind of underhanded as it doesn't SAY it is spyassasin.
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Which tags programs works with c++ effectively? Is even a subset of what sourcenav indexes available?
If there is one, I'd love to see it.
--jeff++
One problem with /tmpfs that I ran into with Mandrake 10 was with VMware. VMware makes huge files in /tmpfs which are memory mapped and once it fills the 32 bit virtual memory space you are hooped. So tmpfs is not always swappable with /tmp.
--jeff++
--jeff++
Problem fixed! Well, until her engine seized in the middle of nowhere during a long trip. She got some dumb guy to pay for fixing/replacing the engine. So I guess it didn't really matter much anyways!
Computers = Cars now, in many ways. Sales and service and usage are very similiar. Loads of crap everywhere. My own previous policy of "being the tech guy that everyone calls when their computer doesn't boot" has changed because that policy is one of the problems. Why should their behaviour change if I am always there to fix things?
Now, I just point them to the appropriate information on the web.
--jeff++
Also see the history of modifications of the presspass/trial directory
--jeff++
In Canada currently it is legal to allow anyone your music/video collection to make duplicates of. It is not legal to duplicate and distribute.
So the grandparent post is relevant - Until we're all living in Amerika, your country's laws determine what people do or do not have the right to.
--jeff++
That brings up a question then. What if you are an artist and you turn your house into a work of art?
Then you die, with no heirs - does that mean that because of the copyright on your art that no one else can take ownership of the house?
Are there any other ways that this new copyright law can be used in other ways that the government has intended?
--jeff++
Well, most of the child actors that _I_ know of have had major problems. Some of which I have personally met and drank with. So yes, I am speaking of anecdotes, but I suspect that there is a real syndrome there.
--jeff++
I agree 100% and have had my own discussions on this very topic. This issue is of course non-trivial, but I believe that it can be done in a very effective way.
--jeff++
It seems that most child actors end up growing up to be crack-heads, drug-dealers, low class porn actors/actresses, and/or dead from bullets or drugs.
How did you avoid all that mess? Was it easy or hard to avoid? Was there a point in your life where you had to make a conscious choice? What would you say to other child actors to help them avoid the pitfalls of early fame?
--jeff++
How did you know that the phone call that you received was actually from your bank?
c a.com@1.2.3.4/cgi-bin/authorizationpage.cgi and will believe it is actually from their bank.
One time I had my accounts at CIBC, and I got a phone call from someone saying that they were from CIBC and they needed to ask me a question and to verify ME they asked me for my SIN #. I told her that I cannot give them that information to them over the phone. She put her 'manager' on the line and the manager said that this was all OK, they are CIBC.
I said 'How do I know you are really from the bank? Can you give ME proof that you are an authorized representative of CIBC over the phone? I will come to the bank in person if necessary but this is totally unacceptable.'
When financial institutions are doing this sort of crap, how can anyone blame the customer for falling for phishing scams? Sure, there are the obvious ones (non-https, wrong domain name, etc) but there are more tricky ones.
ie:
*) https via unsigned ssl certificates set to plaintext mode which usually do not give any cert error/warning. Now the little SSL lock icon means nothing.
*) emails with inline gif images of the 'correct' link for a bank but link to a compromised box
*) End users are accustomed now to poorly designed database driven websites that hand out crazy URLs >1024 characters long. Many home users can't parse the complex URLs and will just look at https://information-verification.BankOfNorthAmeri
*) With all Microsoft Windows Machines older than WinXP SP2 being as secure as swiss cheese in a rat's nest, keyloggers in viruses are rampant. Even people working for a bank typically do not realize that these exist and just repeat 'Our system uses HTTPS secure transactions, it is not possible for anyone to compromise our system'
One time I had a weird problem with my debit card and had to talk to my bank about resetting the PIN. I was concerned that my card was one of the cards that were duplicated by the Russian Mafia here in Vancouver just a few weeks earlier.
Two of my friends were victims of this scam with privately owned bank machines placed in pubs and bars and small convenience stores that were modified to record the magnetic stripe information as well as the PIN.
The person I talked to at my bank said that it was not possible for someone to have your PIN and gain access to your account without having your card and without you telling them your PIN.
"Didn't you read the newspaper yesterday about the $5 million dollars that was stolen via fraudulent bank machines?????"
oh well i'm ranting now.
All you can do is reduce your exposure to unsafe technologies and have multiple accounts so you can reduce the maximum loss if one is compromised.
--jeff++
Funny, but it brings up a thought I had a while ago.
;-)
I believe that PI is just an abstract concept - PI is not a measurement - and as such has nothing to do with the properties of the universe you are in. Even if the universe is a single dimension or even if the universe's space is heavily warped. The people living in these universes would either have no use for PI or would have some sort of compensation factor.
I belive that the algebra/math behind the concept of PI (and 'e', etc.. ) is a constant across multiverses.
Therefore I believe pure math = God.
--jeff++
Look at the facts:
Also:
So, in reality, Haliburton may have been trading with the "axis of evil" Just like Prescott Bush did!
--jeff
I started with Borland back in the Turbo Pascal days. I did a ton and a half of work with Borland C++ V3 (with a ton of books!), and then Delphi and C++ Builder after that. Quality of their products has steadily declined. I believe that the 'top gun' at Borland was hired away by Microsoft. Everything has been buggy and problematic since.
One thing that I REALLY liked about Borland back then was their software license. Basically it said that you had the right to 'Use this software as you would a book'. Meaning that you are allowed to install it on multiple computers as long as only one person would be using it at a time - and it could be different people as well.
I lamented the loss of Borland's products 2 years ago. Now, mingw32 and the old trusty standby vc++6 are my windows tools of choice.
As a previous poster said: that is the problem with closed source applications. Sometimes you get burned like this. I was burned before when Borland C++ Builder upgrades didn't load old projects properly and other closed source widget libraries become incompatible.
--jeff++
When did you last check that CDDA is a compressed, lossy, digital format???! What compression do you think CDDA has?
Unless you are referring to 16 bit audio, 44.1 khz as 'compressed' and 'lossy'? Maybe compared to 24 bit/96 Khz?
--jeff++
I get so many 'Bounced Messages' containing spam and viruses every day that I automatically delete all bounces anyways. There is, in effect, no real disadvantage to just filtering them all out because SMTP/POP3/IMAP is unreliable anyways - not by design, but in reality.
You are not guaranteed to get a delivery error message emailed back to you for each and every delivery error anyways, so you may as well not ever expect one.
--jeff++
Oliver is a Luddite! What is he doing here? Burn him!!!
haha seriously, I agree with you, but unfortunately most people don't understand and will just accept the potential privacy and security problems and will probably not even use the fancy web-enabled features of their toaster after a few days.
A bigger problem for people will be the inherent un-future-proof in most of this stuff. Your web-enabled appliances will need security and bug fix updates and most people will apply them as often as they apply their updates to windows.
--jeff++
--jeff++
I'm running SUSE 9.1 on a P4, VMWare works fine and I use it all the time to run win2000, mandrake 10, debian, and whiteboxlinux all at once. Maybe VMWare needs to update their drivers for AMD64?
--jeff++
Of course even WITH patent protection, the 'Big Company' will easily crush you with lawyers fees if you even try to defend your patent. Once you go bankrupt, they will buy out your company with patent for cheap!
--jeff++
Great! Then I can get you "capital-punished" if I can hack in, change your SPF record, send spam that looks like it is from you. What other proof would be necessary?
--jeff++
As much as I love not running MS software, the real problem is that they had insufficient backup systems in place. All systems die/fail/break/rust or whatever eventually, and all critical systems must have some sort of failover ability.
--jeff++
By 'Not trustable', I mean that when Borland had an MSN page showing their products and potential customers either emailed or registered with Borland, Microsoft was sniffing the data and sending automatic 'Competitive upgrade deals' to the potential customers.
--jeff++
And also just to clarify that Adaware is NOT available at http://www.adaware.com/
http://www.adaware.com/ is actually a Ada software site who is taking advantage of their name to sell spyassasin. Kind of underhanded as it doesn't SAY it is spyassasin.
--jeff++
If the sound card has better than 96db S/N ratio then it is probably fine for doing analog transfers of cd audio.
--jeff++
No, I mean that the capability of the analog quality of the card is much greater than the digital quality of CD audio.
Therefore, looping though analog cables will not make the music sound worse.
If you were using a 16 bit D/A, then the analog transfer WOULD degrade the signal. But not with 24 bit D/A/D
--jeff++