But Fastmail.fm allows me to use subdomain addressing. All email sent to *@username.fastmail.fm gets delivered to username@fastmail.fm.
So I give out the address "amazon@username.fastmail.fm" to amazon (just to randomly pick on someone). If I get spam at that address, I add a rule to automatically delete all email coming into that email address. Plus, I can go to amazon and tell them that I KNOW they sold me out, as I only gave out that address once. That is very worthwhile to me.
If $20/year for a quailty email account is too much for you, fastmail.fm has other options, including a $14.95 one-time fee. All info is on their page at fastmail.fm
Your mileage may vary. If you are serious about either, try them both and stick with the one you like. Me, I'm a happy fastmail customer. Although perhaps some competition may convince them to add this whitelist option.
"The Cisco ATA 186 Analog Telephone Adaptor brings traditional telephones to the networked world. It is a handset-to-Ethernet adaptor that interfaces regular analog telephones with IP-based telephony networks. The Cisco ATA 186 is installed at the subscriber's premises and supports two voice ports, each with its own independent telephone number."
> Side fact: The human eye see's colors using pigments that respond differently to different wavelengths. In the simplest model we can say that we see Red Green and Blue with spatially seperated pigments that resemble a bayer image sensor closer then the foveon's sensor.
Also, everyone's eye sees colors slightly differently. Don't believe me? Ask someone who is (partially) colorblind.
Side note: One nice thing about digital cameras with color histograms - I can finally determine what socks match the others, as I cannot see the difference between my navy blue socks and black socks. But the camera can, and it will display the color histogram (that I can more easily read).
Re:Repeat Nobel Winners
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Marie Curie has also won two Nobel Prizes (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911)
Also, the Peace Prize granted to Pauling could have just as easily gone to Einstein, as they were both very active in ensuring that mankind did not nuke himself. Both were very strong advocates of peace. However, the noble prize is not awarded posthumorously.
indeed they do seem to fail. I am not certain as to the failure rates though - I have a number of Zip, 3.5", 5.25", 8" and platter disks sitting around that also seem to have a lot of failures too. I don't know about relative rates, but I do know that if I had not backed up my old disks to CD a few months ago, everything that I did 10 years ago would have been lost forever to the bitbucket.
In the past year I have found that I need to md5sum all the files on my CDr's so that I know if one become corrupted. Also, I am planning on rebacking up all my data files onto another media format in the next couple of years, as I am already starting to see old CDr's starting to fail. (old is defined as 5 years here).
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content. For a comparison: In 1998 almost 90% of all audio media was paid for.
Yeah, This assumes that nobody ever backed up any data, noone saved their work to CD, no digital photographers kept their pictures, no videographers saved threir work to CD, and that the single use for CDrs is to pirate music. The funny thing is, this is a completely garbage statement. All this statement means is that they have no clue what CDr's are used for, and would rather spout off than figure out just how many ACTUALLY are used for music.
I would really like to see someone do a study of just how many CDrs go to data and how many go to music (pirated vs fair-use categories). When someone has some quality data on this, then tell me about music pirates. Until then, quit flapping your lips and work on your study.
Far and away most of my CDs that I burn go to my own content. We have a digital camera, and at full quality, you can fill a CD with photos in a weekend. I regularily backup up my entire system to CDrs. Neither of these has anything to do with music.
If I understand correctly, the original intention was to be just that. GNU Aol Instant Messenger. But the plug-in nature of it expanded quickly to support the other formats. Once you have a good UI and understand what makes a good IM client, the rest is a matter of figuring out the protocol. And if other GPL projects have figured out the protocol, then it is a matter of adapting it to work on your project.
From the FAQ: Q. Did you guys reverse engineer it? A. TOC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, and IRC are published protocols, so we didn't have to reverse engineer those. Oscar, ICQ, and Yahoo are not published, and were reverse engineered by other people.
The article does discuss the Progeny Graphical Installer, which is being included in the next release. The last time I used this installer was roughly a year and a half ago. I could install a progeny 1.0 system in 25 minutes flat with this installer.
Yes, the current installer stinks, and it needs much work to catch up to Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE. But to move from the progeny to potato to woody releases was as simple as changing my/etc/apt/sources.list to reflect the new base and downloading the updated packages.
However, I have not had to reinstall my primary system in a year and a half. I cannot say that for any other operating system. The stable archives work well together.
Debian: not for newbies. Higher learning curve than others. Worth learning if you want more control over your system.
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"There is a demand problem."
So now what? You have to legislate demand? That sounds like something out of the 1930s Soviet 5-year plans. It doesn't matter if it is a good product or you don't need it, you have to buy it because the law requires a certain level of demand.
You cannot legislate demand (not in a free society, anyways).
I know that they are trying to spin it so that "if content were available, people would buy the complementary goods", however, the goods/services are not necessarily complementary. I can rent high-quality videos from the local video store. And I can make full use of the internet without ever watching video streams or downloading videos. I don't need broadband to watch Hollywood movies.
There is no strong correlation between broadband subscriptions and consumption of Hollywood content.
If piracy is theft, why is the RIAA not prosecuting file sharers for posession of stolen property? All they need is proof a major trader holds 60GB of MP3's that he does not hold the rights for. Is it because nothing was stolen?
The Privacy Commisioner of Canada is objecting to a number of airport security developments, especially that shared airline records violate travellers' rights. Yes, that is an governement office quoted as saying "The government of Canada has no business compiling a giant database on where all of us travel, with whom we travel, how long we stay in a given place... just to have it there, in case it comes in handy to use against any one of us"
That is what a governement official (on the federal payroll) is quoted as saying. It is the privacy commisioner's job to oppose "Big Brother" schemes. That is one thing that we here is Canada have that ensure we retain more freedoms than our southern neighbours are tossing away.
While part of the government is ready to record our every move, another part is ready to stop that in the interests of citizens rights.
user receives email. Around the message is a GPG signature. "Hmm. what's that for?" the user asks of the person who sent the signature.
The PGP signer replies back "That is my PGP signature. That is your assurance that the email that you just received from me is authentic. You can trust emails that are PGP signed"
user: "How do I use this PGP? Where do I get it?"....
and thus it is introduced to the people the PGP user emails as a tool for verifying email authenticity.
"We all use Linux at home when on call at night (to some degree) to support this. I personally have FreeBSD, Solaris-x86 and Linux, but rarely leave Linux."
Because that is what the admins are most familiar with. Use the best tool for the job, and make sure that it is the tool that you are most skilled with. I don't think using FreeBSD is easier or harder than Linux. It is just than the admins are more skilled in using Linux.
when I was 6 years old, I thought that could be done by adding a bunch of mirrors to redirect light around the person wearing the cloak. Kind of like a lot of periscopes or fibre optics. There are lots of problems with this idea, namely the bulkiness of the mirrors and such, but I was 6 when I thought of it.
I guess this is my declaration of my idea. Fee free to reference this as prior art when someone tries to patent an invisibility cloack through the use of mirrors.
If someone can patent something that I thought of when I was 6, then either (a) something is wrong with the patent office, or (b) I should be filing a lot more patents.
We still use a lot of Fortran(90) for our computational work. We do a lot of chemical reaction engineering simulations - fluid dynamics, chemical kinetics, heat transfer, reactor design and transient behaviour. When a simulation runs on the order of 100 hours, you want and NEED everything to be optimized. Fortran runs much faster than C++ for our simulations.
Argueably, Fortran has a terrible user interface. Granted - it is designed to solve math problems, not make a pretty interface. Some people in our research group have developed JAVA interfaces for their code, but the differential equations are stilled solved in Fortran.
Each language has its strengths and weaknesses. Use C++ or Java for your GUI applications, and use Fortran for solving lots and lots of differential equations.
What they don't know is that the floopy disk is stored in my safety deposit box at the bank, and the actual private key is on multiple encryptedloopbackdevices. Oops. I shouldn't have said that. Now I have to bury the disk behind the barn. I shouldn't have said that either.
hot-pluggable SCSI drives do not fit in my shirt pocket. Nor do I have several hundred of them sitting around at home waiting to be used. And despite the fact that floppies are almost impossible to buy now, you cannot buy a hot-swapable SCSI drive for under a dollar (yet). They are different solutions to different problems, and both media have their own niche.
Now thoses USB keychain ROM/RAM/flash memory units, those are almost ideal for storing PGP/GPG keys. What beter place for your computer keys than on your keychain? How much simpler than that can you get for bringing new PGP/GPG users up to speed on the importance of keys and where to keep them? People already know how their house/car/mail keys work. Crypo keys are just an extension of that.
for the crypto keys, the 3.5" is king until those USB keys mature and catch on. For other uses, your USM keychain results will vary.
Unless personal magnetic swipe cards catch on quickly. That may not happen, simply becuase the credit card industry may not want that kind of hardware widespread.
the great thing about a 3.5" floppy disk as a storage medium for PGP/GPG keys is that it you can control whether or not it is read or read/write by a hardware toggle. No other computer media has come close to the simplicity of the this toggle in the past 20 years. Read only access means that noone can swap your private key for another private key, or delete your keys, or secretly add their keys to your public keyring (because not everyone checks all the signatures every time they use a public key).
and you can eject it with the touch of a button (risking a corrupt fs if it is mounted rw though, but at least you can eject the floppy and take it with you when you are not siting at the computer).
disk images are great for most applications, and I used a simple image for quite some time. But the best parts about vmware are two-fold:
1) you can store multiple different images and boot them as you please
2) the little message when you shut down the virtual machine: "Commit changes to disk?". If you liked a softwrae package you installed, you just say yes. If you don't like it, say no. You don't have to update the image you made, as it just did.
Mind you, vmware and the host OS do take up system resources. In some cases, you want the guest OS to have as many resources as possible, and the disk image is the better solution. Or you are run a public computer lab and every monring the computers load the latest image from the server and boot that
3) install windows as a guest OS. Flavor to taste.
4) set the Guest OS drive to non-persistant. Set you home directory to a share form the Host OS.
5) reboot the guest OS as needed. Everytime you reboot, the system is restored from the image stored on the Host OS. Crap does not stay unless you tell it to stay.
or for slightly different purposes, install the OS and tailor it as you like it. Image partition. Reimage the drive when there is too much fluff and bloat hanging around.
that appears to be where my arguement is somewhat flakey.
However, we do not know what the future plans for backward compatibility in the kernel are. When does support for 32-bit architectures end? 5 years from now? 10? Soon there will be a time when maintaining support for 32-bit architectures is going to impede progress and development of new possibilities on 64-bit architectures. At what point does the kernel fork into 32-bit and 64-bit versions? Or does support for one of the just get dropped? When is that going to happen?
But, as seemingly one ambiguous line in a Linus post is being debated in a Slashdot article, and the article was introduced in a rather sensationalistic manner via a less-than-reputable news source, maybe we are making a mountain out of a molehill.
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But Fastmail.fm allows me to use subdomain addressing. All email sent to *@username.fastmail.fm gets delivered to username@fastmail.fm.
So I give out the address "amazon@username.fastmail.fm" to amazon (just to randomly pick on someone). If I get spam at that address, I add a rule to automatically delete all email coming into that email address. Plus, I can go to amazon and tell them that I KNOW they sold me out, as I only gave out that address once. That is very worthwhile to me.
If $20/year for a quailty email account is too much for you, fastmail.fm has other options, including a $14.95 one-time fee. All info is on their page at fastmail.fm
Your mileage may vary. If you are serious about either, try them both and stick with the one you like. Me, I'm a happy fastmail customer. Although perhaps some competition may convince them to add this whitelist option.
you mean this?
Cisco ATA 186
Quote from product literature:
"The Cisco ATA 186 Analog Telephone Adaptor brings traditional telephones to the networked world. It is a handset-to-Ethernet adaptor that interfaces regular analog telephones with IP-based telephony networks. The Cisco ATA 186 is installed at the subscriber's premises and supports two voice ports, each with its own independent telephone number."
people willing to sell you one
and the only secure method involves a woodchipper.
> Side fact: The human eye see's colors using pigments that respond differently to different wavelengths. In the simplest model we can say that we see Red Green and Blue with spatially seperated pigments that resemble a bayer image sensor closer then the foveon's sensor.
Also, everyone's eye sees colors slightly differently. Don't believe me? Ask someone who is (partially) colorblind.
Side note: One nice thing about digital cameras with color histograms - I can finally determine what socks match the others, as I cannot see the difference between my navy blue socks and black socks. But the camera can, and it will display the color histogram (that I can more easily read).
Marie Curie has also won two Nobel Prizes (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911)
Also, the Peace Prize granted to Pauling could have just as easily gone to Einstein, as they were both very active in ensuring that mankind did not nuke himself. Both were very strong advocates of peace. However, the noble prize is not awarded posthumorously.
indeed they do seem to fail. I am not certain as to the failure rates though - I have a number of Zip, 3.5", 5.25", 8" and platter disks sitting around that also seem to have a lot of failures too. I don't know about relative rates, but I do know that if I had not backed up my old disks to CD a few months ago, everything that I did 10 years ago would have been lost forever to the bitbucket.
In the past year I have found that I need to md5sum all the files on my CDr's so that I know if one become corrupted. Also, I am planning on rebacking up all my data files onto another media format in the next couple of years, as I am already starting to see old CDr's starting to fail. (old is defined as 5 years here).
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content. For a comparison: In 1998 almost 90% of all audio media was paid for.
Yeah, This assumes that nobody ever backed up any data, noone saved their work to CD, no digital photographers kept their pictures, no videographers saved threir work to CD, and that the single use for CDrs is to pirate music. The funny thing is, this is a completely garbage statement. All this statement means is that they have no clue what CDr's are used for, and would rather spout off than figure out just how many ACTUALLY are used for music.
I would really like to see someone do a study of just how many CDrs go to data and how many go to music (pirated vs fair-use categories). When someone has some quality data on this, then tell me about music pirates. Until then, quit flapping your lips and work on your study.
Far and away most of my CDs that I burn go to my own content. We have a digital camera, and at full quality, you can fill a CD with photos in a weekend. I regularily backup up my entire system to CDrs. Neither of these has anything to do with music.
If I understand correctly, the original intention was to be just that. GNU Aol Instant Messenger. But the plug-in nature of it expanded quickly to support the other formats. Once you have a good UI and understand what makes a good IM client, the rest is a matter of figuring out the protocol. And if other GPL projects have figured out the protocol, then it is a matter of adapting it to work on your project.
From the FAQ:
Q.
Did you guys reverse engineer it?
A.
TOC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, and IRC are published protocols, so we didn't have to reverse engineer those. Oscar, ICQ, and Yahoo are not published, and were reverse engineered by other people.
don't forget that GAIM has an alpha version that does run on windows.
And it has plugins for all the following protocols:
* TOC
* Oscar
* Yahoo!
* ICQ
* MSN
* IRC
* Jabber
* Napster
* Zephyr
The article does discuss the Progeny Graphical Installer, which is being included in the next release. The last time I used this installer was roughly a year and a half ago. I could install a progeny 1.0 system in 25 minutes flat with this installer.
/etc/apt/sources.list to reflect the new base and downloading the updated packages.
Yes, the current installer stinks, and it needs much work to catch up to Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE. But to move from the progeny to potato to woody releases was as simple as changing my
However, I have not had to reinstall my primary system in a year and a half. I cannot say that for any other operating system. The stable archives work well together.
Debian: not for newbies. Higher learning curve than others. Worth learning if you want more control over your system.
"There is a demand problem."
So now what? You have to legislate demand? That sounds like something out of the 1930s Soviet 5-year plans. It doesn't matter if it is a good product or you don't need it, you have to buy it because the law requires a certain level of demand.
You cannot legislate demand (not in a free society, anyways).
I know that they are trying to spin it so that "if content were available, people would buy the complementary goods", however, the goods/services are not necessarily complementary. I can rent high-quality videos from the local video store. And I can make full use of the internet without ever watching video streams or downloading videos. I don't need broadband to watch Hollywood movies.
There is no strong correlation between broadband subscriptions and consumption of Hollywood content.
If piracy is theft, why is the RIAA not prosecuting file sharers for posession of stolen property? All they need is proof a major trader holds 60GB of MP3's that he does not hold the rights for. Is it because nothing was stolen?
The Privacy Commisioner of Canada is objecting to a number of airport security developments, especially that shared airline records violate travellers' rights. Yes, that is an governement office quoted as saying "The government of Canada has no business compiling a giant database on where all of us travel, with whom we travel, how long we stay in a given place ... just to have it there, in case it comes in handy to use against any one of us"
That is what a governement official (on the federal payroll) is quoted as saying. It is the privacy commisioner's job to oppose "Big Brother" schemes. That is one thing that we here is Canada have that ensure we retain more freedoms than our southern neighbours are tossing away.
While part of the government is ready to record our every move, another part is ready to stop that in the interests of citizens rights.
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location: a non-descript office
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user receives email. Around the message is a GPG signature. "Hmm. what's that for?" the user asks of the person who sent the signature.
The PGP signer replies back "That is my PGP signature. That is your assurance that the email that you just received from me is authentic. You can trust emails that are PGP signed"
user: "How do I use this PGP? Where do I get it?"
and thus it is introduced to the people the PGP user emails as a tool for verifying email authenticity.
I would like to pay the piper. Unfortunately, I am paying the piper's trained monkey who caries the hat around and "skims" off his share.
"We all use Linux at home when on call at night (to some degree) to support this. I personally have FreeBSD, Solaris-x86 and Linux, but rarely leave Linux."
Because that is what the admins are most familiar with. Use the best tool for the job, and make sure that it is the tool that you are most skilled with. I don't think using FreeBSD is easier or harder than Linux. It is just than the admins are more skilled in using Linux.
new software has new features. New features have not been tested in the wild. New features have their own security issues.
Old features may be more secure on more recent software, but most new software has new features as well. It is a continuous cycle:
1. write software
2. release version 2, with new features and fixes for old problems
3. release version 3, with new features, and fixes for problems in versions 1 and 2...
when I was 6 years old, I thought that could be done by adding a bunch of mirrors to redirect light around the person wearing the cloak. Kind of like a lot of periscopes or fibre optics. There are lots of problems with this idea, namely the bulkiness of the mirrors and such, but I was 6 when I thought of it.
I guess this is my declaration of my idea. Fee free to reference this as prior art when someone tries to patent an invisibility cloack through the use of mirrors.
If someone can patent something that I thought of when I was 6, then either (a) something is wrong with the patent office, or (b) I should be filing a lot more patents.
Argueably, Fortran has a terrible user interface. Granted - it is designed to solve math problems, not make a pretty interface. Some people in our research group have developed JAVA interfaces for their code, but the differential equations are stilled solved in Fortran.
Each language has its strengths and weaknesses. Use C++ or Java for your GUI applications, and use Fortran for solving lots and lots of differential equations.
What they don't know is that the floopy disk is stored in my safety deposit box at the bank, and the actual private key is on multiple encrypted loopback devices. Oops. I shouldn't have said that. Now I have to bury the disk behind the barn. I shouldn't have said that either.
Now thoses USB keychain ROM/RAM/flash memory units, those are almost ideal for storing PGP/GPG keys. What beter place for your computer keys than on your keychain? How much simpler than that can you get for bringing new PGP/GPG users up to speed on the importance of keys and where to keep them? People already know how their house/car/mail keys work. Crypo keys are just an extension of that.
for the crypto keys, the 3.5" is king until those USB keys mature and catch on. For other uses, your USM keychain results will vary.
Unless personal magnetic swipe cards catch on quickly. That may not happen, simply becuase the credit card industry may not want that kind of hardware widespread.
and you can eject it with the touch of a button (risking a corrupt fs if it is mounted rw though, but at least you can eject the floppy and take it with you when you are not siting at the computer).
disk images are great for most applications, and I used a simple image for quite some time. But the best parts about vmware are two-fold:
1) you can store multiple different images and boot them as you please
2) the little message when you shut down the virtual machine: "Commit changes to disk?". If you liked a softwrae package you installed, you just say yes. If you don't like it, say no. You don't have to update the image you made, as it just did.
Mind you, vmware and the host OS do take up system resources. In some cases, you want the guest OS to have as many resources as possible, and the disk image is the better solution. Or you are run a public computer lab and every monring the computers load the latest image from the server and boot that
You can get a windows install to never decay:
1) install favorite OS as the host system.
2) install VMWare
3) install windows as a guest OS. Flavor to taste.
4) set the Guest OS drive to non-persistant. Set you home directory to a share form the Host OS.
5) reboot the guest OS as needed. Everytime you reboot, the system is restored from the image stored on the Host OS. Crap does not stay unless you tell it to stay.
or for slightly different purposes, install the OS and tailor it as you like it. Image partition. Reimage the drive when there is too much fluff and bloat hanging around.
that appears to be where my arguement is somewhat flakey.
However, we do not know what the future plans for backward compatibility in the kernel are. When does support for 32-bit architectures end? 5 years from now? 10? Soon there will be a time when maintaining support for 32-bit architectures is going to impede progress and development of new possibilities on 64-bit architectures. At what point does the kernel fork into 32-bit and 64-bit versions? Or does support for one of the just get dropped? When is that going to happen?
But, as seemingly one ambiguous line in a Linus post is being debated in a Slashdot article, and the article was introduced in a rather sensationalistic manner via a less-than-reputable news source, maybe we are making a mountain out of a molehill.